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Arrest made in murder at nightclub He had a single gunshot wound to Gwinnett County police his chest. have arrested a Lithonia Deman in connection with the tectives murder of a 19-year-old at believe Christopher a Norcross nightclub early Riley was Parker shot in the Sunday morning. parking lot of Midnight Blu Christopher Parker, 42, has been accused of felony Cafe and driven to the Shell station. There were mulmurder, aggravated assault tiple shooters, according to and being a felon in posGwinnett County police. session of a firearm. He “We are asking anyone was booked into Gwinnett County jail Tuesday at 7:35 at the location that night to come forward with informap.m. tion about what they saw,” Parker is accused of the Cpl. Deon Washington said. shooting that Gwinnett If anyone has any inforpolice responded to at about 1 a.m. at Midnight Blu Cafe mation to share in this case, contact GCPD detectives at located at 5050 Jimmy 770-513-5300. To remain Carter Blvd. There, police anonymous, tipsters should found a woman who had contact Crime Stoppers at been shot in the leg. She was taken to Gwinnett Med- 404-577-TIPS (8477) or ical Center with injuries that visit www.crimestoppersatlanta.org. You can also weren’t life-threatening. text your tip to “Crimes” Several minutes later, (274637). Crime Stoppers police were called to a tipsters can receive up to Shell gas station at 5535 $2,000 for information leadJimmy Carter Blvd. where they found Domiquo Riley, ing to an arrest and indictment in this case.

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This site plan shows the expected layout of Lawrenceville’s $200 million, 32-acre South Lawn project that will connect the Lawrenceville Lawn with City Hall and the town’s police headquarters. The yellow areas will be ground floor retail with multi-family residential above it. The tan areas will be multi-family, the red area will be age-targeted multi-family space, and the purple spaces will be single-family units.

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BY CURT YEOMANS

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Lawrenceville officials have announced plans for a $200 million, 32-acre mixed-use urban development that is expected to be the largest redevelopment project in the county.

The plans, known as The South Lawn project, will connect the Lawrenceville Lawn with City Hall and the town’s police headquarters by adding more than 600 residential units and 15,000 square feet of retail space. Once it is completed, there will be a comprehensive walking environment stretching from Scenic Highway to the Lawrenceville Square.

“The city’s vision is to realize the potential that exists for a walkable urban environment from Gwinnett’s government facilities to City Hall, from the square to the police station and everything in between,” City Manager Chuck Warbington said in a statement.

The project builds off of last week’s announcement that the city will preserve the original 12-room Hooper-Renwick School, which served as the county’s AfricanAmerican school before desegregation, as a civic space. The county will also build a

building a SOUTH LAWN

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Lawrenceville officials announce mixed-use project for downtown area

After years of planning, Lawrenceville is moving closer to construction of a college corridor

Officials: School assignment was inappropriate Shiloh Middle students were asked to draw Nazi mascot before World War II. The pupils had to incorporate information they had learned in their hisJamie Brown was tory lessons about Adolf caught off guard Monday Hitler and the Nazis into night when he saw his son their drawings. drawing a picture of Adolf But to Brown, the asHitler as part of an assign- signment went too far, ment for his social studies and he was in shock when he saw his son working class at Shiloh Middle on it.

School.

“A mascot is designed The assignment — to celebrate something,” which Gwinnett County Brown said. “These are schools officials have people who are responsicalled inappropriate — ble for the mass murder of required sixth-grade students to draw a mascot millions of people. We’re going to create a mascot for the Nazi Party. They for that?” had to pretend they lived Gwinnett County in Nazi Germany in 1935 Public Schools officials and were tasked with creating a mascot the Nazi See TEACHER, Page 5A Party could use at rallies

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Elisha Winn Fair offering look into Gwinnett’s early days

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Gwinnett County residents will have a chance to learn how the county’s early residents made due on a daily basis this weekend.

The Gwinnett Historical Society will hold its annual two-day fundraiser, the Elisha Winn Fair, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Elisha Winn House, 908 Dacula Road in Dacula. This year will mark the 39th annual fair.

The event is the historical society’s main fundraiser. It will include a quilt show, a live cotton patch, a raffle, about 40 vendors and demonstrators, food, live music, and tours of the Winn House and other buildings on the property.

“It’s a historical picture of early life in the 1800s, and later from that century,” historical society Co-President Betty Warbington said. “We have the one-room schoolhouse, which was actually built in 1875, that we’ve moved in so kids can see what a oneroom school house was like. We’ve got an early jail and folks can’t believe what a jail used to be.

“Then we’ve got the blacksmith shop, a working blacksmith shop.”

At 205 years old, the Elisha Winn House is believed to be the oldest existing building in Gwinnett County, predating the

What: 39th annual Elisha Winn Fair When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday Where: Elisha Winn House, 908 Dacula Road in Dacula Admission: $3 for anyone 13 and older; free for veterans, kids and participants of the Gwinnett Historical Society Fun Run held earlier in the morning More Information: www.gwinnetths.org

Quilt raffle tickets already selling quickly As part of the quilt show, one quilt made by Candy Hardy will be raffled off at the fair. Warbington said the quilt will be on display throughout the weekend, but ticket sales are already brisk.

“We’ve already sold over 1,000 tickets,” she said.

Tickets for the raffle cost $1 and will be sold in the entrance area.

Fun Run participants get free admission to fair Admission is $3 per perherbs, spices and flowers son over 12 during the fair, will also be on view at the but children under 12 will house during the event. be admitted for free. Parking will also be available for Musical lineup largely free. features country Anyone who runs in the and bluegrass Civil War reenactor Debbi Palmer shows attendees at a previous Elisha Winn Fair the The music scheduled will first-ever Gwinnett Historical small foil black-powder wrapper used in her group’s cannon. This year’s fair will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Elisha Winn House in Dacula. (File Photo) Society Fun Run at 8 a.m. run from noon to 5 p.m.

Saturday at Little Mulberry each day of the fair, and county’s creation by six barn, the Elisha Winn “It’s an old-fashioned Warbington said bluegrass Park will be admitted to the years. Early planning for fair for free. Registration House and the one-room way of making lace,” and country music will the establishment of the school will be open for Warbington said. “There is make up most of the music for the 1-mile fun run/walk county happened in the and 5K race costs $20 for tours, Warbington said. a society that these ladies that will be performed house, and it served as the individuals, $30 for a group “It’s such a unique event belong to and they’re com- throughout the weekend. site of Gwinnett’s first elec- because you’re learning of up to four people and $5 ing to demonstrate how to The Skillett Lickers tion as well as Gwinnett’s for senior citizens. about history,” she said. make this bobbin lace. It’s Band and Dacula native original Inferior Court, Veterans and children “It’s not like you just go to beautiful.” and former “American according to the Gwinnett under 12 can participate for a paved area and see some Attendees will also get Idol” contestant Josiah Historical Society. free. vendors.” to see War of 1812 re-enSiska will perform both The society said early Anyone who wants to regactors from the Fort Daniel days. sessions of Gwinnett’s ister for the race can do so at Various demonstrations, Foundation give musket Other performers on Superior Court were also re-enactors expected shooting demonstrations Saturday will include Sean the event or visit the Gwinheld in a barn at the house. at the fair throughout the weekend as Austin, Austin Poff and the nett Historical Society office at the Gwinnett County HisWinn served as Inferior Warbington said atwell.

R&B Revue. Additional Court judge in 1820, and tendees will see a variety Blacksmith Doc Watson performers on Sunday will torical Courthouse, 185 W. Crogan St. in Lawrenceville, later served as the state of different skills, includwill also give demonstrainclude Poole Mountain between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. senator and representative. ing weaving, pottery and tions with help from parBlue Grass Boys, River’s today. Registration forms The original county bobbin lace demonstrations ticipants in an apprenticeEdge Blue Grass and the jail was also located at around the property during ship program based out of mother and daughter Alex- can be found at www.gwinnetths.org/funrun.html. the house. A similar jail the fair. The bobbin lace the Elisha Winn House and ander Duet.

Little Mulberry Park is building now stands on the demonstration will be a the Fort Daniel archaeo“The music lineup for property. new addition for this year’s logical site. this year is fantastic,” War- located at 3855 Fence Road in Auburn.

The jail, a historical event.

A “period garden” with bington said.

Free storm debris removal deadline nears Unincorporated Gwinnett residents must request pickup by Oct. 16

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Residents of unincorporated Gwinnett County have a little over one week left to request free curbside removal of debris from Tropical Storm Irma.

County officials announced the deadline to request free debris removal bris from homes on county live on streets maintained will be Oct. 16. The county and state maintained roads. by one of Gwinnett’s 16 That means people who is offering to remove decities are not eligible for

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Anyone who wants the service should contact the county’s Department of Transportation at dotservicerequest@gwinnettcounty.com or 770822-7400.

There are several requirements for how debris should be left at the curb for pickup, including: • Tree limbs and branches should be cut and stacked behind the curb in the right of way.

County officials said no debris should be stacked in the street because rainfall could wash some of it into drainage inlets where they could cause clogs in the stormwater system.

• Limbs and branches should not be stacked next to fire hydrants, utility boxes or utility poles.

• Tree limbs and branches should not be mixed with roofing tiles, fencing or any other items damaged during the storm.

• Limbs and branches should be trimmed into pieces that are less than 4 feet in length.

• Downed trees should be cut up into small pieces and stacked neatly near curbs.

• Each piece of a cut up tree should weigh less than 50 pounds.

• Debris in plastic bags will not be collected, but items placed in paper or lawn bags will be.

• Professional companies that are hired to cut up debris should haul the debris away with them to minimize the amount placed on right or ways.

Mario Burton

Anasthasie LiberisteOsirus

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3 locals make Georgia Trend’s 40 Under 40 list nity. He is also a program manager for Lost-nFound Youth in Atlanta and executive director of Three Gwinnett County Grandma’s Hands Interresidents have been recnational in Colorado. ognized by Georgia Trend Meanwhile, Liberistemagazine as being some Osirus is the associate director for the University of the top young profesof Notre Dame Alliance sionals in Georgia. for The Catholic magazine Educarecently tion released its Haiti 40 Under program, 40 List in where its October she edition. teaches The anHaitian nual list teachers recognizes so they Georgians can help under 40 in students the areas of read and business, write. government and poliYaqoob is a policy ditics, nonprofits, science, health care and education. rector with Asian-Americans Advancing Justice The magazine’s readAtlanta, where she works ers nominate people for with people on citizeninclusion on the list, and ship, voting and running Georgia Trend’s editors for office. Before she choose the final list each joined the organization, year. she founded the Georgia Gwinnett residents on Muslin Voter Project, the list include Norcross which was designed to resident Mario Burton, engage Georgia’s Muslim 32; Lawrenceville resident Anasthasie Liberiste- community during the 2016 elections.

Osirus, 35; and Duluth On top of that work, resident Aisha Yaqoob, Georgia Trend cited 23.

Last month, Burton was Yaqoob’s volunteer work named executive director with Project Hope Atlanta and the Atlanta March of Free2Be, an Alabama for Social Justice and organization that works with the LGBTQ commu- Women.

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Relay For Life holding event to make up for rainout

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Suspect sought in car break-in at aquatic center

By Cailin O’Brien

About five months after storms canceled the world’s largest Relay For Life event, organizers will hold a re-do.

“The community deserves a re-do. They really do,” said Roxanne Tigue, the senior community development manager in Gwinnett’s Relay For Life office. “This community deserves another chance to celebrate our survivors.”

Gwinnett Relay For Life’s Relay Re-Do will take place at the Infinite Energy Forum from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 16. Tigue said the event will also serve as a kickoff for Gwinnett Relay’s 2018 season — its 25th anniversary.

“We officially kick off in January, but everybody is getting involved early to get ready for the new season,” Tigue said.

The Gwinnett Relay For Life event in May was the first in 24 years to be canceled. Rain hit the fairgrounds that day at about 6 p.m. By 7 p.m., thunderstorms had forced the world’s biggest Relay event to be canceled.

More than 6,000 people packed up and left the fairgrounds disappointed.

“It takes a year of work, a week to set up the fairgrounds and a week to clean up (to plan Gwinnett’s Relay For Life event),” Tigue said. “When the decision was made that we had to cancel the event, those volunteers literally sat down and cried. They had worked so, so hard.”

The event was canceled before the Survivor Lap or the Purple Glove Dance, two events meant to honor cancer survivors.

Tigue said she thought of one older man in particular who had called her office again and again in the weeks leading up to May’s event just to be sure that he could walk in the Survivor Lap for the first time.

That man will finally be able to take that lap at the Relay Re-do, when survivors will march into the Grand Ballroom.

“They’re going to make two laps around the

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Gwinnett County police are looking for a man who stole a credit card from a car in Stone Mountain and used it at a Walmart in Norcross about two weeks ago.

At about 7 p.m. Sept.

18, a white man with brown hair and a tattoo on his left arm arrived at the Mountain Park Aquatic Center at 1063 Rockbridge Road in Stone Mountain, according to a Gwinnett County police media release. He walked into the building and left it about three minutes later. He was driving a silver, 4-door passenger car.

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. 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.

Later, the suspect reportedly used the victim’s credit card at the Walmart at 4095 Jimmy Carter Blvd. in Norcross.

If anyone has information to share in this case, contact GCPD detectives at 770-513-5300.

To remain anonymous, tipsters should contact Crime Stoppers at 404577-TIPS (8477) or visit www.crimestoppersatlanta.org. Tips can be texted to “Crimes” (274637).

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

Above, Morgan Stokes’ umbrella fails her as she makes her way to the gwinnett County fairgrounds Pavilion during May’s rainedout Relay for Life event. At right, gwinnett Relay for Life event leadership member Jason Jeffries tries to stay dry as rain moves through the fairgrounds in May. (Photos: Anthony Stalcup)

Grand Ballroom with everybody cheering,” Tigue said.

Then, they’ll be given a front-row seat to the Purple Glove Dance.

Relay Re-Do will also feature a tour of the Reflection Gallery and a celebration of 2017’s top teams and sponsors.

Then, participants will get an introduction into Relay’s 2018 season.

if you go What: Gwinnett Relay For Life’s Relay Re-Do When: 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 16 Where: Infinite Energy Forum, Duluth Registration: visit http://bit.ly/2xhRAsr

Tigue said more than 300 people have signed up for the event as of

Wednesday afternoon.

“We’re just trying to wrap it up in the most positive way that we can because this community deserves it,” she said.

“Let’s start over and celebrate 25 years of Gwinnett Relay.”

Registration is not required for this free event, but participants can register at http://bit. ly/2xhRAsr.

GWINNETT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Projects Constructed with Special Sales Tax Proceeds Year ended June 30, 2017

2012 Sales Tax - Authorized Projects Instructional Material

Original

Current

Expenditures

Estimated

Estimated

Prior

Current

Cost*

Cost**

Years

Year

Total

63,500,000.00

95,154,632.00

51,944,310.77

New Facility Construction

215,169,347.00

232,539,521.00

227,701,630.90

Facility Additions / Renovations

117,011,914.00

74,356,192.00

73,416,519.78

918,728.42

74,335,248.20

5,998,800.00

15,952,381.00

13,408,070.28

2,293,069.36

15,701,139.64

156,285,384.00

180,636,486.00

147,458,719.50 31,873,765.92 179,332,485.42

158,272,513.00

183,188,294.00

179,521,149.53

716,237,958.00

781,827,506.00

693,450,400.76 42,789,454.53 736,239,855.29

Transportation Lease / Purchase; Debt Service Payments Technology - System wide improvements

Total

5,892,797.73

57,837,108.50

582,435.38 228,284,066.28

1,228,657.72 180,749,807.25

In compliance with O.C.G.A. 48-8-122 Notes: *“Original Estimated Cost” projected funding included:

**“Current Estimated Cost” projected funding included:

Sales Tax Collections

Sales Tax Collections

$

708,237,958

8,000,000

Interest Income

$

1,742,590

$ 716,237,958

SPLOST Bond Premium Proceeds

$

33,656,560

State Capital Outlay Funding

$

19,225,398

SPLOST Bond Refinancing Savings

$

18,965,000

$

781,827,506

Interest Income

512016-1

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$ 708,237,958 $

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gwinnett County police are looking for this man in connection with a car break-in at Mountain Park Aquatic Center at 1063 Rockbridge Road in Stone Mountain. (Photo: gwinnett County Police Department)

Kemp: ‘I’m ready to fight’ lawsuit over redistricting

By Curt yeOmans

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Secretary of State Brian Kemp pushed back Wednesday against a federal lawsuit filed this week by a group led by former U.S. Brian Kemp Attorney General Eric Holder challenging the boundaries for state Rep. Joyce Chandler’s House district.

The suit was filed by the National Redistricting Foundation against Kemp, in his role as the state’s top elections official, in U.S. District Court Tuesday.

In a statement released

by Kemp’s gubernatorial campaign, the secretary of state pointed to past battles his office had with the U.S. Department of Justice while Barack Obama was president. Holder was Obama’s first attorney general.

“I took on the Obama Justice Department twice — and won — to implement our common sense Voter ID and citizenship check laws,” Kemp said in a statement released by his gubernatorial campaign.

“I’m ready to fight for hard-

“

I’m ready to fight for hardworking Georgians again as Eric Holder and his team of liberal lawyers attempt to turn Georgia ‘blue’ through the court system.”

— Brian Kemp, Georgia Secretary of State

working Georgians again as Eric Holder and his team of liberal lawyers attempt to turn Georgia ‘blue’ through the court system.”

The suit targets redistricting done in 2015 for Chandler’s district, as well as the district represented by state Rep. Brian Strickland, RMcDonough, arguing they were redrawn by Republican lawmakers to dilute African-American voting strength and keep Chandler and Strickland in office.

Chandler and Strickland are both white Republicans.

Months before the lines were redrawn, Chandler had won a narrow reelection over a Democratic challenger in the 2014 general election. Her margin of victory in the 2016 general election was narrower, however, and a recount was needed to confirm her victory over her Democratic opponent in that race.

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Not all ailments are fixed with pills Dear Dr. roaCh: I love my doctor. He is very caring. But why do doctors feel they must always give you a prescription if you visit? When I go to see my doctor, it is because something in my body isn’t right and I want to know what it is. If he has a diagnosis and has medicine to “cure” me, fine. If he doesn’t know, that’s OK; I’ll deal with the pain or discomfort on my own terms. In my opinion, people take way too many unnecessary drugs because our doctors feel the need to help, even when they can’t.

Why take a painkiller with 10 pages of warnings when a simple tried-and-true aspirin will do?

— S.W. ansWer: I ask myself that question, too, and I don’t have a good answer. Many physicians want to validate their patients’ concerns by prescribing a medication. It’s certainly clear that we want to help, and want to feel that we are adding value.

However, I agree with you that writing a prescription might be not only unnecessary, but harmful (antibiotics and pain medicines probably are the worst offenders, but any drug has the potential for harm, even aspirin).

There have been many times when I’ve seen a patient and don’t know exactly what is causing the symptoms. I am comfortable enough to tell my patients that I don’t know, but that it doesn’t sound serious, and that they should come back if the symptom doesn’t go away on its own. Sometimes clinical syndromes take time to develop, and a repeat exam and history are necessary. However, the physician must be looking for early presentation of potentially serious conditions and stand ready to order tests to evaluate persistent symptoms.

Dear Dr. roaCh: I want to thank you for your response to the question of essential oils. I had been using tea tree oil on my toenails (and getting it on my skin) for some time.

I then started using an oil blend containing lavender on my skin (wrists/neck) and inhaling it, thinking it was “safe.” After several weeks, I noticed some tenderness and aching in my breasts.

My concern now becomes: How many women with an estrogen receptorpositive breast cancer (or at risk for one) unknowingly use these oils and may be harmed by them?

Please share my experience with your readers so that more people may know the truth.

— Anon. ansWer: Many people have been asking me about this after my recent column.

It is true that lavender oil has estrogenlike activity. It is readily absorbed through the skin, and the fact that it can cause breast development in boys proves its biological effect. Therefore, I would recommend against its use on the skin in women with a history of estrogen-sensitive tumors like ER-positive breast cancer. I suspect the risk is low; however, the risk isn’t zero, and reducing risk is prudent. The use of lavender as aromatherapy still should be fine.

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1927, “The Jazz Singer,” the first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue, premiered in New York City.

In 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on Yom Kippur.

In 1981, Egyptian president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

In 2000, Serbian and Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic, who had been indicted by the United Nations in 1999 for crimes against humanity, resigned.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Jenny Lind (1820-1887), opera singer; George Westinghouse (1846-1914), engineer/ inventor; Le Corbusier (1887-1965), architect; Helen Wills Moody (19051998), tennis player; Carole Lombard (1908-1942), actress; Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002), explorer; Leslie Moonves

(1949- ), TV executive; Tony Dungy (1955- ), football coach; Elisabeth Shue (1963- ), actress; Ioan Gruffudd (1973- ), actor; Jeremy Sisto (1974- ), actor; Ricky Hatton (1978- ), boxer; Olivia Thirlby (1986- ), actress.

TODAY’S FACT: George Westinghouse formed more than 60 companies to market his inventions, which were collectively estimated to have been worth $120 million in 1900.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1926, Babe Ruth hit three home runs in Game 4 of the World Series, setting a record that still stands and leading the New York Yankees to a 10-5 win over the St. Louis Cardinals.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” — Le Corbusier

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Big box shopper has a very bad day Dear amy: I just got back from shopping at a big box store. This was after a long week of work, so I was already tired.

In the store, people were pushing the too-big carts around, banging their carts off of each other, and all the while talking loudly on their cellphones.

There were long lines at the checkout, and there was a price issue with one of my items.

When I finally went to my car, I found the car next to me had pulled in so close to my car that I hardly had any room to get into my car and unload my groceries.

In frustration, I banged open my door, leaving a nick in the side of their car.

I feel terribly that I did that and wonder if it was a sign of my stress and impatience, or was this a character flaw, and perhaps I’m really not the nice person people think I am?

— Wondering Dear WonDering: Surely you have noticed how sometimes in busy parking lots, one person parking off kilter can throw off the whole line, as people compensate — and perhaps overcompensate — as they pull into a space.

Human nature runs on a similar dynamic. You were having a bad day, so you deliberately gave someone else a bad day.

And the person with the

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Amy Dickinson damaged car might have gone home and given his kids a bad day.

I think you probably ARE the nice person others think you are. And yes, you are also flawed, just like the rest of us.

Make this right by giving yourself — and everybody within a 5-mile radius — a big break.

Every person out there has a story, even those playing bumper cars at the big box store. Take a breath. Be gentle. And the next time you are having a great day, spread that around.

Dear amy: I recently cut off ties from my emotionally abusive father. I have no regrets.

Unfortunately, now my grandparents are giving me the cold shoulder.

My dad spends every weekend with them and relies heavily on them.

My grandma still does his laundry and they help him financially.

It really hurts that they would cut my children and me out of their lives, just because I don’t have a relationship with him.

My father allowed my

stepmother to belittle me.

After she divorced him, he got all the sympathy, and I got nothing — not even an apology.

Without a mother actively in my life, my grandmother was a mother to me.

On my birthday a few weeks ago, I received a card signed curtly from my grandparents. This was very unusual. I believe I’m being kicked out of the family.

I want to approach my grandmother, but she doesn’t do well with expressing emotion, and I do not see being able to explain my side of things without making her uncomfortable.

Am I supposed to accept that my family will never love me?

— Left in the Dust Dear Left: You view this cold shoulder from your grandmother as evidence that you are not being loved. I hope you can see the distinction between not feeling loved and not being loved.

You have already noted that she is completely entwined with your father.

Given her limitations and the level of her enabling of her adult son, imagine — what choice does she have?

Your family seems to operate on a wavelength where much is implied, but little is verbally expressed. You might be able to shift this dynamic by expressing yourself,

judiciously, honestly and with emotion.

Because relationships in your family are so epically challenged right now, you should be brave enough to reach out to your grandmother, and ask for her patience and attention.

Understand that she is loyal to her son. Don’t ask her to advocate for you.

Tell her that you miss her and that you hope you and the kids will be able to spend time with her.

Tell her, “I know that things are rough right now with Dad and me, but I hope we can stay close to you while I try to work on things.”

Dear amy: More response to “Non-Hugger.”

I am an enthusiastic hugger, and I was in my early 20s and had literally knocked someone down before I learned to back off and ask permission before hugging someone.

But I did learn, and I have had people thank me for asking before diving at them with open arms.

— Christina Dear Christina: Well done.

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Your aim should be to stabilize your life and secure your future, not to jump from one thing to another. Do your best to understand the needs of others and to express what’s most important to you in return. Compromise and work as a team player.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — A steady pace will get you where you want to go. If you are erratic or impulsive, you will make mistakes that will set you back. Let wisdom and experience guide you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Walk away from unpredictable situations. Protect your reputation and position.

Refuse to let anyone coerce you into making an impulsive move. Know your bottom line before negotiating.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — You’ll crave excitement and social activities. Your enthusiasm will give others a boost, and your popularity will result in new opportunities and friendships. Ulterior motives should be reflected upon and excessive behavior curbed.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Avoid temptation. Refuse to get caught up in someone else’s dream or dilemma.

Stay focused on what’s important to you, and be reluctant to make a sudden change or hasty decision.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — A smart move will result in an unexpected reward that will change your life. An open mind and an inventive idea will give you a chance to explore new avenues.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — You’ll be tempted to make a hasty decision or financial choice that could have serious consequences.

Think before you act, and refuse to let your emotions push you to take a risk.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’ll find it difficult to say no to temptation. Unexpected changes will catch you flat-footed. A business trip or meeting looks promising. Moderation is in your best interest.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Temptation will lead to bad habits and difficulty living up to your responsibilities and promises. Avoid emotional situations that could affect your position, status or reputation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Keep your emotions out of the equation if you are faced with changes that you aren’t certain about. Making a snap decision will lead to greater uncertainty and regret.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — Refuse to let anyone take advantage of you. Opt out of any situation that would require you to do all the work. Avoid excessive behavior and hasty decisions.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A change will be in your best interest. A proposition will require you to revive a skill or knowledge you haven’t used in a while. Your experience will give you an edge.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Temptation will be your downfall. Don’t overspend, overreact or get involved in indulgent behavior. Moderation and common sense will save you from financial and emotional loss.

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Old German nutcrackers, above left, an old German clock, above middle, and a German nativity scene, above right, will be on sale at the Clock Gallery in Duluth on Saturday for its German Day celebration. The event will include fresh apple strudel, hot cider and sales on German products. (Special Photos)

Strudel, cider & shopping

Clock Gallery celebrating German Day with event on Saturday

By Curt yeomans

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Gwinnett County residents can get their fix of German shopping in Duluth this weekend.

The Clock Gallery will host German Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The gallery will serve fresh apple strudel from Kurt’s Bistro, as well as hot cider,

and offer 10 percent off all German items and $100 off the price of grandfather clocks.

German Day celebrates the beginning of the Clock Gallery’s holiday season and there will be shipments from Erzgebirge, Germany.

Some of the items available for sale include 1920s German grandfather clocks, 1800s hand-

carved Black Forest nutcrackers, German incense smokers and cones, bobblehead nesting dolls, candle arches, antique and new German wall clocks, matryoshka or babushka nesting dolls, vintage German dolls, smoker huts and cabins, and candle pyramids.

The Clock Gallery is located at 2845 Buford Highway in Duluth.

IF YOU GO What: German Day at the Clock Gallery When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday Where: 2845 Buford Highway in Duluth More Information: www. facebook.com/Clock-GalleryThe-German-Side-of-the-Family-1720924878135648/

Project •From Page 1A new Lawrenceville library branch as an add-on to the Hooper-Renwick building.

Together, they bring the total area of redevelopment up to 37 acres.

City officials submitted the plans for the project to the Atlanta Regional Commission, so its staff can conduct a regional impact study on it. The city also plans to hold a rezoning hearing on the project during its December City Council meeting.

A groundbreaking is expected to take place in the spring, after the Public Works Department moves from the site to a new location on Pike Street.

“Our desire is to reflect the diversity of our community with this development, infuse our core with new residential and complimenting retail and transform the heart of Gwinnett into a melting pot for the arts, education and living unlike any other community has witnessed,” Warbington said.

“And we are doing just that, thanks to the leadership of our City Council, the commitment of our partners and businesses and the dedication of our staff to seeing this vision through.”

From left, George Berkow Inc. namesake George Berkow, Lawrenceville City Manager Chuck Warbington and Novare Group founder Jim Borders stand at the edge of the Lawrenceville Lawn. The city is working with Novare Group and George Berkow Inc. on a $200 million, 32-acre South Lawn project that will connect the Lawrenceville Lawn with City Hall and the town’s police headquarters. (Special Photo)

The city is working with George Berkow Inc. and the Novare Group on the project. In addition to the walkable environment, officials said the housing styles available in the new development will range from single-family detached cluster homes and an age-targeted facility to urban-style three- and four-story apartments and townhomes.

“We have been working for several months with

George Berkow and the city of Lawrenceville on the multifamily village component of the city’s vision,” Novare Group founder Jim Borders said. “The member of our team responsible for this development executed similar developments in Roswell and Johns Creek, and we have taken the best of those concepts and incorporated them into the fabric of the Lawrenceville town center development.

We are excited to be a part of this transformational project.”

George Berkow Inc.’s George Berkow said, “Our team is pleased to be working with the City of Lawrenceville on its vision to bring a Class A mixed-use residential development to the heart of downtown, and we believe that this project will be a catalyst to spark renewed interest for infill living in Lawrenceville.”

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don’t appear to have been pleased about it either. District spokeswoman Sloan Roach said the assignment wasn’t an approved part of the curriculum for that time period, and a personnel investigation is ongoing into the use of the assignment.

Officials at the school are addressing it with the teacher, Roach said.

“As outlined in the Georgia Standards of Excellence curriculum for sixth grade social studies, students study the conflict and change in Europe, including the aftermath of World War I, the rise of communism as a result of the Russian Revolution, the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of Nazism and worldwide depression,” Roach said.

“In studying this time period, they learn about Nazism, the use of propaganda and events which A Shiloh Middle School teacher issued this assignment resulted in the Holocaust. to students, asking them to draw a Nazi Party mascot This assignment is not a incorporating things they learned in class about Adolf part of the approved mateHitler and the Nazis. (Special Photo) rials provided by our Social

Studies department and is not appropriate.”

Brown said he is concerned that the teacher handed out an assignment that the district had not signed off on, and he doesn’t think the teacher should remain in the classroom. The father also wants to know if the teacher handed out this assignment to students in previous years as well.

“It’s kind of disturbing that we’ll have a teacher going over this type of thing in the classroom, when it’s unapproved, and yet you’re still going to grade these students based upon unapproved documentation and an unapproved lecture,” he said.

Despite the incident with the assignment, Brown said he still supports Gwinnett County Public Schools and Shiloh Middle School.

“It’s just a poor decision by this teacher, but I don’t think it reflects poorly on Gwinnett County Public Schools or Shiloh Middle School,” he said.

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White House now demands blind respect WASHINGTON — Do President Trump’s Cabinet members have to call him “Dear Leader” when graced by his august presence?

Must they enter the Oval Office on bended knee?

Do they weep with joy when he reaches out a delicate hand and pats their bowed heads?

One of the most appalling aspects of the Trump presidency is the sycophancy he requires of the officials who serve him. Trump demands not just loyalty but flattery.

Eugene He insists that his Robinson courtiers treat his pronouncements, however absurd or offensive, as infallible holy writ. Members of his Cabinet have made a humiliating bargain: Humor him, suck up to him, and maybe — just maybe — he will leave you alone and let you make policy.

Or maybe not. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been working as best he knows how to address the issue of North Korea’s nuclear program through diplomacy. Trump undercut him with a tweet, saying Tillerson was “wasting his time.”

If Trump actually believes there is a viable military solution to the North Korea problem, he’s even crazier and more dangerous than I thought. More likely, in my view, is that Trump is annoyed at Tillerson for being insufficiently servile. I doubt the president has forgotten or forgiven Tillerson’s reaction to Trump’s deeply offensive “many sides” analysis of Charlottesville. “The president speaks for himself,” Tillerson coldly said.

And Trump clearly went ballistic Wednesday at the NBC News report that Tillerson, during a meeting with defense officials, had referred to him as a “moron.” The president loosed a flurry of tweets claiming the whole thing was “fake news,” culminating in a demand Thursday for a congressional investigation of news outlets whose reporting he does not like.

This is happening in the United States of America.

Tillerson is no diplomatic genius, but he is no flunky, either. He occupies an office established by the Constitution and once held by Thomas Jefferson. It was painful to see him have to call a news conference — which he never does — to deny that he actually called the president a moron. Except that he didn’t deny it. He later sent out a spokeswoman to say “the secretary does not use that type of language.”

Tillerson pushed back hard against the suggestion that he had considered resigning and been talked out of it by Vice President Mike Pence.

But widespread news reports tell a different story. Tillerson, whom Trump is said to sometimes deride as “Mr. Exxon,” never would have become chief executive of one of the biggest corporations in the world if he had valued blind loyalty over principled expertise in his subordinates. His business-world methodology has not translated well to government, but he approaches his duties in a sober and responsible way.

Trump does not. Retiring Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, encouraged Tillerson to stay on because he, Defense Secretary James Mattis and White House chief of staff John Kelly “are those people that help separate our country from chaos.” Corker said he hoped the secretary of state would be more “supported” in his diplomatic efforts. Fat chance.

It’s hard to imagine Tillerson being willing to take much more of this, but other Cabinet members have made their peace with the Sun King’s demand for unctuous deference. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin looked as if he were in physical pain as he went on the Sunday shows and defended Trump’s demand for NFL players who kneel during the national anthem to be fired.

Chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, who almost quit after Charlottesville, told reporters he stayed on for the “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to enact sweeping tax reform. Maybe the recently departed Tom Price stuck around so long at Health and Human Services for all the sweet travel perks.

What these officials don’t seem to fully grasp is that their policy initiatives can be undercut by the president at any time, and probably will be.

Look at budget director Mick Mulvaney, who has big ideas about shrinking government and the deficit. He didn’t anticipate having to wipe away Puerto Rico’s debt, which Trump offhandedly promised to do.

Someday we may look back and thank these officials for standing between our nation and the abyss. For now, I suppose they will continue telling Trump how strong he is, how wise, how special. Why, did you see him tossing those rolls of paper towels in Puerto Rico? Magnificent!

The ungrateful NBA star Steph Curry, who still is not invited to the White House, can only dream of such form!

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

Nothing quite like a harvest moon The harvest moon is nothing more than a full moon which appears nearest the start of fall. According to a modicum of research, the harvest moon coincides with the September full moon although it can fall in early October which is the case this year.

The harvest moon rose on Thursday at 2:40 p.m.

You may ask, and I wasn’t sure until I took to the internet, why is it called the harvest moon? The answer has such emotional capital for those of us who have special affection for the fall season.

Years ago when life was simpler, when technology, poor manners, common courtesy and selfishness had not compromised our lives, the harvest moon brought about bright moonlight early in the evening and assisted farmers in harvesting their crops.

The days were getting shorter and it was important to “get the hay in the barn.”

Among the many songs to hold dear is “Harvest Moon,” the most golden of the golden oldies, which warms your heart even if you hear it in the dead of winter. Its resonating lyrics have stood the test of time, the song having a connection all the way back to

Loran Smith the Ziegfeld Follies — real music, if you know what I mean. Those were the days of melody and romanticism as opposed to the noise, yelling and screaming which we so often hear today.

“Harvest Moon,” has been recorded by many legends of entertainment including Kate Smith, Laurel and Hardy, Vaughn Monroe, the Four Aces, Mitch Miller and Rosemary Clooney. Kate Smith singing “Harvest Moon” made you feel that you should stand at attention and bow in reverence at its conclusion.

While I haven’t committed it to memory, I often look up the lyrics in my computer this time of the year, just to bring them to life: “Oh, Shine on, shine on harvest moon, up in the sky;

“I ain’t had no lovin’ since April, January, June or July.

“Snow time, ain’t no time to stay outdoors and spoon; “So shine on, shine on, harvest moon, for me and my gal.”

When you hear “Harvest Moon” during the harvest season, you usually are visually swooning to displays of hay bales, corn stalks and pumpkins and know that when the harvest moon comes up, there soon will be a fire in a wood burning fire place.

Fall is the best time of the year with all of the aforementioned charming and inspiring us. We know that following the appearance of the harvest moon, that fall color will soon give us further emotional sway and affection for the outdoors and nature.

There have been many times when it was possible to leave after a Georgia home game on Saturday afternoon, catch a flight to Albany, New York and drive to Manchester, New Hampshire, to emotionally invest in New England color which knows no bounds when it comes to finding adjectives to describe the scene and setting.

Pancakes and maple syrup. The Vermont Coun-

try Store. The Battenkill River and a rainbow trout moving about carefree and slothfully, cocksure that no angler can get the best of him. The New England experience is awe inspiring, but there is much compliment to be tossed about for October in our own state.

Fall in North Georgia is festival time —from apples, to sorghum, to moonshine. Oktoberfest in Helen practically lasts all fall, but the best the northern half of our state has to offer is the Chattahoochee and an opportunity to trout fish, while the turning of the leaves takes first prize with your emotions.

Most places, rightly so, are catch and release rivers and creeks, but I have been able, in times past, to catch a nice rainbow with autumn leaves falling about — then fillet the trout for the grill to be followed by dinner and a nice bottle of wine while the host played “Harvest Moon” on the tape deck. That is ultimate fall fulfillment.

Is there some way we can make October last for at least 60 days?

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

to the editor Columnist on ‘wrong side of history’ with stance on NFL

to Martin Luther King Jr.: “However, we are now confronted by a series of demonstrations by some of our Negro citizens, directed and led in part by outsiders.

My response to Rob But we are convinced that Jenkins (“An open letter to these demonstrations are NFL players,” Oct. 1, 2C): unwise and untimely.”

I read and re-read your Sports is not the place piece on the current NFL for politics? Why spend protests. It’s a representaso much time praising the tion of a rather unfortunate actions of Branch Rickey world view. There is not and Jackie Robinson? Why much that can be said about does the world use sports your opinion on the proas a diplomatic tool every tests. It falls neatly in line four years? Using clear, with talking points hashed understated words, I want to and re-hashed on Fox News explain to you what’s going and other conservative on so you can understand outlets. why the NFL went from less In fact, you wrote a previ- than 20 players kneeling to ous piece that practically an entire sport kneeling: captures the essential tone When the president easily and ideology behind this calls a black football player one. Your arguments are who kneels to protest police flat, tired and reminiscent brutality a son of a b—— of those on the wrong side but cannot bring himself to of history. Frankly, your condemn white supremastatement reeks of the letter cists waving a Nazi flag, we from Alabama clergymen have an issue.

mittee. He also served as a And it isn’t the athletes.

— Robert Baker federal prosecutor in the U.S. Flowery Branch Attorney’s Office in Atlanta for six years.

Mr. Pak’s acceptance of this new position is evidence of his continued dedication to serving the public and the justice system. His fellow members of the State Bar of Georgia wish him well in this On behalf of the State new capacity of leadership.

Bar of Georgia, I would — Brian D. “Buck” like to express congratulaRogers tions to Byung J. “Bjay” Pak President, of Chalmers Pak Burch & State Bar Adams LLC in Atlanta on his of Georgia nomination by President Donald Trump and confirmation by the U.S. Senate to serve as the new U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.

Mr. Pak will benefit from his 19 years of experience If people took as much in the legal profession and time on two knees praying his distinguished tenure as a member of the Georgia House as they do one one knee protesting, we would all be of Representatives, serving better off. a Gwinnett County district, and as vice chair of the House — D.W. Pyles Judiciary Non-Civil ComLoganville

Pak confirmation shows continued dedication to serving public

More time in prayer is better than protesting

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world&nation world Green Berets killed during ambush in Niger Three U.S. Green Berets were killed and two others were wounded in southwest Niger near the Mali-Niger border when a joint U.S.Nigerien patrol was attacked Wednesday, U.S. officials told CNN. A U.S. official told CNN that initial indications are the Green Berets were ambushed by up to 50 fighters who are thought to be affiliated with ISIS. U.S. Africa Command, which oversees military operations in Africa, issued a statement Thursday saying the two wounded U.S. service members were “evacuated in stable condition to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.”

Officials told CNN that French military Super Puma helicopters evacuated the wounded Americans along with those killed in action while also providing covering fire.

Iraqi forces say they recaptured Hawija city center Iraqi forces said Thursday they had retaken the city center of Hawija, one of the last major ISIS strongholds in Iraq.

It was not immediately clear how much of Hawija remained under ISIS control. Operations were continuing, Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Rasheed Yarallah, commander of the Iraqi Joint Forces, said in a statement.

“Our Iraqi partners fought bravely and professionally against a brutal and determined enemy, safeguarding innocent civilians throughout the entire campaign,” Lt. Gen. Paul E. Funk II, commanding general of the Combined Joint Task Force — Operation Inherent Resolve — said in a statement Thursday.

“Today’s victory demonstrates we are stronger together, and this Coalition remains committed to supporting our partners in the tough fight ahead as we continue our mission to defeat ISIS,” he said.

Spanish court blocks Catalan Parliament’s independence Spain’s highest court has suspended a meeting of Catalonia’s regional parliament planned for Monday in an apparent attempt to prevent Catalan President Carles Puigdemont’s expected declaration of independence.

The Constitutional Court said Thursday it had issued the suspension decision following a request from the Catalan Socialist Party.

The parliamentary session was to have been Puigdemont’s first opportunity to make a formal declaration of independence under a Catalan referendum law that the Constitutional Court had previously ruled illegal.

Asked by CNN about the court’s decision, the Catalan government responded: “We will see.”

— From wire reports

Las Vegas shooting

More explosives found during investigation

By Holly Yan, Faith Karimi and Darran Simon

Caution tape line the doors of the gunman’s suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

Fifty-eight people were killed and 515 others injured after a gunman opened fire on Oct. 1 at night during a country music festival across the street from the resort. (Photo: Bild Exclusive/Polaris via CNN)

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Chilling new clues suggest the man behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history planned to inflict even more carnage.

Stephen Paddock didn’t just have 23 weapons in his Mandalay Bay hotel suite, which he turned into a sniper’s nest to kill 58 Las Vegas concertgoers.

He also had more than 50 pounds of explosives and 1,600 rounds of ammunition in his car in the hotel parking lot, police said.

Investigators now believe Paddock intended to survive the massacre, Las Vegas police Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said Wednesday.

“He was doing everything possible to see how he could escape,” Lombardo said, declining to detail specifics.

But what motivated Paddock to kill dozens of strangers — and where he planned to strike next — remains a mystery.

Of the explosives found in Paddock’s car, authorities first found several pounds of ammonium nitrate, Lombardo said.

He said a later search of cases found in the car revealed 50 pounds of Tannerite — a brand-name product that’s marketed as explosive rifle targets.

The cache of explosives in Paddock’s car could indicate plans for a car bomb, CNN law enforcement analyst Art Roderick said.

“Those explosives, that’s

the scary part. What was he going to do with those? I mean, you don’t just acquire them and leave them in your vehicle and not have a plan for them,” said Roderick, former assistant director of the U.S. Marshals Service.

“The Tannerite could have set off the ammonium nitrate,” Roderick said.

“So was he using that as a vehicle-borne explosive device?”

It’s possible no one will ever learn Paddock’s plan for the explosives. The gunman killed himself before police breached his hotel room door.

New evidence shows Paddock fired his first shots into the Route 91 Harvest music festival at 10:05 p.m. Sunday — three minutes earlier than what police previously reported, Lombardo said.

For 10 minutes, Paddock sprayed hundreds of bullets into the crowd about a quarter mile away. The shots pummeled the gathering of 22,000 people with devastating speed, due to the help of bump-fire stocks — legal accessories that make weapons

fire similarly to an automatic rifle.

As the indiscriminate killings continued, police said, cameras were positioned inside and outside Paddock’s hotel suite and in the door’s peep hole.

A security guard approached the 32nd-floor suite and was shot in the leg by Paddock. The 64-year-old gunman fired “well over 200 rounds” into the hallway, Lombardo said.

“It’s amazing that security guard didn’t sustain additional injury,” the sheriff said.

At 10:15 p.m., Paddock fired his last shots, police said. Three minutes later, the wounded security guard told Las Vegas police he’d been shot and directed officers to the gunman’s room.

More than an hour later, at 11:20 p.m., police first breached Paddock’s suite and found his body on the ground. Seven minutes later, officers gained access to a second room of the suite.

No one else was found, and police declared the suspect “down.”

nation

By Ryan Haarer CNN

The Sunday night massacre happened under unprecedented circumstances. The venue itself was secure but the shooter never entered the venue perimeter — he fired from far away and 32 floors above the crowd with plenty of firepower.

“Usually there is someone else you can assign some blame to, not Sunday night,” said attorney Steven Adelman, who focuses on event security. “Nobody plans for an emergency that has literally never happened before.”

Measures were in place to make the venue itself secure. But event organizers couldn’t prepare for a threat outside of their space, a threat they couldn’t have known about.

“That’s the problem with this incident: There isn’t much of a lesson here,” said Adelman, who blames one factor and one factor only.

“There is a third party here: it is the guy with the guns. So the question I would ask here is, how does a guy turn into a shooter? There’s the teachable moment from Sunday night” Adelman said.

committee staff, but Democratic lawmakers have called on Grassley to schedule a public hearing so they can question him about the meeting and what the president knew about it.

GOP rep. sure Congress will make decision on bump stocks Congressman Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said he’s confident Congress will act to ban bump-fire stocks — but he thinks that a ruling by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives could take care of the problem more quickly.

After 59 people died in the Las Vegas massacre, the worst shooting in modern US.. history, Kinzinger and two other Republicans wrote a letter to the ATF urging them to review their ruling on bump-fire stocks.

Kinzinger’s remarks come as other Congressional Republicans have also shown a willingness to consider legislation on bump-fire stocks, marking a departure from a history of resistance to gun control measures.

In an interview with MSNBC on Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said “clearly that’s something we need to look into.”

“Look, I didn’t even know what they were until this week, and I’m an avid sportsman. … So I think we’re quickly coming up to speed with what this is.

Fully automatic weapons have been banned for a long time. Apparently this allows you to take a semiautomatic and turn it into a fully automatic, so clearly that’s something we need to look into,” he said.

Vegas shooting occurred under unprecedented circumstances

Justice Dept. says it’s too early to challenge military transgender ban House Speaker Paul Ryan signaled openness Thursday to looking into bump-fire stocks, devices that allows semi-automatic weapons into firing at a rapidly increased rate, similar to an automatic firearm. (Special Photo: CNN)

Trump continues his attack on the free press President Trump’s disregard for a free press just reached a new low: He’s urging the Senate Intelligence Committee to investigate American news outlets for publishing “fake” stories.

The president wrote Thursday morning, “Why Isn’t the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR country to see why so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!” More to the point, the intelligence committee is busy investigating Russian interference in last year’s presidential election. The Republican and Democratic co-chairs held a press conference Wednesday to update the public. The investigation has “expanded,” they said, and will continue for several more months.

But Trump has repeatedly rejected the bipartisan alarm bells about Russian meddling.

At least once a month, he tells his supporters that “Russia” is a “hoax.”

Trump Jr. to have public hearing Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley signaled Thursday that Donald Trump Jr. will ultimately have to testify publicly before his panel, something Democrats have been demanding for weeks.

Grassley and the committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, are moving closer to reaching an agreement on a range of actions as part of their committee’s investigation into Russia interference into last year’s election as well as any administration interference with the FBI. Donald Trump Jr. has come under scrutiny from multiple committees on Capitol Hill because of the June 2016 meeting when he — along with the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — met with Russian operatives after the younger Trump was promised dirt on the Clinton campaign.

He interviewed in private last month with Senate judiciary

Justice Department lawyers shortly before midnight Wednesday asked a federal judge to dismiss a challenge to President Donald Trump’s proposed transgender military ban, calling the challenge “premature several times over” because the policy has yet to go into effect.

This is the first time the Trump administration has responded to legal challenges that were triggered this summer when the president tweeted that “the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military.”

Although administration lawyers argued primarily that the challenge was premature because the Pentagon is currently studying how to implement the president’s directive, they also said that “federal courts owe the utmost deference to the political branches in the field of national defense and military affairs, both because the Constitution commits military decisions exclusively to those branches and because courts have less competence to second-guess military decision making.”

— From wire reports

people Ivana Trump declines offer for ambassadorship

President Donald Trump’s ex-wife, Ivana Trump, said Thursday she was offered the opportunity to be ambassador to her native Czech Republic, but turned it down to preserve her “perfect life.”

“I was just offered to be the American ambassador to Czech Republic — and Donald told me. He said, ‘Ivana, if you want it, I give it to you,’” Trump, 68, said in a new interview with “CBS Sunday Morning.” “But I like my freedom. I like to do what I want to do, go wherever I want to go with whomever I want to go. And I can afford my lifestyle.

OK, why would I go and say bye-bye to Miami in the winter, bye-bye to SaintTropez in the summer and bye-bye to spring and fall in New York? I have a perfect life.”

FedEx and UPS shares fall after Amazon revealed delivery concept Amazon has disrupted the retail industry. Does it have its sights set on shipping, too?

Shares of FedEx and UPS both fell Thursday after Bloomberg reported that Amazon is considering its own delivery service.

For its part, Amazon said it’s not looking to replace its current shipping relationships anytime soon.

“We are using the same carrier partners to offer this program that we’ve used for years, including UPS, USPS and FedEx,” Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Cheeseman said in an email to CNNMoney about the Bloomberg report.

UPS spokesman Steve Gaut told CNNMoney in an email that “Amazon is a valued UPS customer” and that UPS plans to continue to support it “with industryleading ecommerce solutions and (that we) expect to expand these relationships further in the future.”

Netflix is quietly raising its prices

Netflix is squeezing a bit more out of its customers.

The company is raising the prices on its standard and premium streaming subscription services.

The standard service, which allows customers to stream shows and movies in HD on up to two screens at once, is now priced at $10.99 monthly, up from $9.99.

The premium service, which provides viewing on up to four screens (plus ultra HD content access), is $13.99, up from $11.99.

The basic service, which enables Netflix streaming on once screen and doesn’t allow for HD or ultra HD viewing, will remain at $7.99.

But the price change, first reported by Mashable, won’t impact existing members yet. According to a Netflix spokesperson, the update will roll out to subscribers in the upcoming weeks.

Netflix will give users 30 days notice before the price update becomes effective, depending on their billing cycle.

Members will be notified of the change, starting Oct. 19.

— From wire reports

Most Republicans, Democrats have few or no friends in other party

By Ryan Struyk CNN

Here’s a key stat that shows just how much of an echo chamber many Americans are living in.

A new survey from the Pew Research Center released Thursday shows a majority of both Republicans and Democrats say they have “just a few” or no friends in the opposing party.

Almost 2 in 3 Democrats (64

Only 14 percent of Republicans said they have “a lot” of friends who are Democrats, and only 9 percent percent) and more than half of Reof Democrats said they have “a lot” publicans (55 percent) say they have of friends who are Republicans. “just a few” or “none” close friends Similarly, a majority of people who are Republicans or Democrats, in both parties — 57 percent of respectively.

Republicans and even more, 67 per“Republicans and Democrats cent of Democrats — said they have both say their friend networks and “a lot” of friends in their own party. predominantly made up of people It’s also worth noting that Repubwho are like-minded politically,” the licans and Democrats have just as report said. few friends who are independents as

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friends in the opposing party.

Partisans are also more likely to say the news they get from family and friends online represents just one side. Roughly 2 in 5 conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats say they only get onesided digital news, according to a separate Pew Research study from last January.

And while the two parties have a history of dislike for each other, the new data shows now they don’t like

each other even more.

The number of Democrats and Republicans who saw the opposing party as “very unfavorable” has more than doubled from 16 percent and 17 percent, respectively, in 1994, to a broader 44 percent and 45 percent today, the survey found.

Now a broad 4 in 5 in both parties see the opposing party unfavorably, highlighting even greater animosity between America’s two major political parties.

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police he’d seen his father fire three shots A Lawrenceville man acat his mothcused of killing his wife by er before he shooting her 13 times when ran away Sheldon she threatened to leave him in to make a John Soyer November 2015 is expected 911 call. He to go to trial next week. cried over and over that his faSheldon Soyer, 45, told ther had just shot his mother, police he lost control on Pendergrass said.

Nov. 16, 2015, when his wife Soyer fled the scene. of about 20 years, Vanessa Georgia Gwinnett College, Regina Soyer, 47, threatened which is close by the Hillcrest to leave him and take their apartment complex, went on 13-year-old son with her, lockdown and then closed according to testimony at early as police looked for the the time from Lawrencevmurder suspect. ille police detective Scott The next day just before 8 Pendergrass. She’d reportedly a.m., Soyer’s brother called become frustrated because her Lawrenceville police to tell husband kept accusing her of them Soyer was ready to surtalking to somebody behind render. He was waiting inside his back. a convenience store at the Soyer shot at his wife at intersection of Old Norcross least 13 times in their Greens Road and Sugarloaf Parkway. at Hillcrest apartments on Soyer was taken into cusHillcrest Green Drive across tody without incident. from a Walmart.

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Mall of Georgia to host mallwide job fair The Mall of Georgia will host a job fair next week, featuring opportunities with more than 20 retailers mallwide.

From 1 to 6 p.m. Oct. 12, attendees are welcome to the Mall of Georgia’s Von Maur Court to learn about job opportunities at Macy’s, JCPenney, Belk, Altar’d State, Allied Universal, Sunglass Hut, Buckle, American Eagle, Yankee Candle, Crazy 8, Sephora and Simon Guest Services.

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of Cumming, GA passed away on Tuesday, October 3, 2017. Mr. Smith is Mrs. Elsie Nash, age 77, John William Hasenauer, survived by his wife of of Bethlehem, Georgia age 58, of Nicholson GA, fifty-six years, Mary Ann who passed away on Tues- Martin Smith, Cumming, died October 3, 2017. day October 3, 2017.

BUFORD GA; son, Jerry L. Smith, BUFORD Duluth, GA; sister, Ann Bradley Best Marie Kennedy, Abilene, Jo Anne Koenig Bradley M. Best, age TX; brother, Joe and Betty Mrs. Jo Anne Koenig, age Smith, Massillon, OH; 72, of Buford, GA passed 78, of Buford passed away sisters-in-law, Barbara away on October 5, Tuesday, October 3, 2017. and Joe Hampton, Princ2017. Arrangements By: Junior E. Flanigan of eton, WV, Judy and Paul LILBURN Flanigan Funeral Home McCoy, Bowie, MD; Lloyd Leadingham and Crematory, Buford, brothers-in-law, James M. GA (770) 932-1133.

Lloyd Reed Leadingham, and Jane Martin, Blueage 77, of Lilburn, GA, field, WV, William D. and passed away on October Caroline Martin, Dallas, 1, 2017. Tom M. Wages TX; and several nieces, Funeral Service, LLC, “A nephews and cousins. Mr. LAWRENCEVILLE Family Company”, SnellSmith was born in MorPatricia Booher ville Chapel 770-979-3200 gantown, WV on August has been entrusted with 21, 1939. He was a 1959 Patricia Ann Booher, the arrangements. graduate of St. Francis age 63 of Lawrenceville, High School in MorganGA passed away October town, WV. He retired as 4, 2017. Wages & Sons Tradeshow and ConvenGwinnett Chapel 1031 tion Manager for Freeman Lawrenceville HighLAWRENCEVILLE Decorating Company and way, Lawrenceville GA, he was director of DrayMiriam Liu 30046 770-277-4550. age. He attended Sugar Miriam Elizabeth Liu, Hill Church in Sugar Hill, age 19 of Lawrenceville, GA and was a member GA passed away Sepof the Adult Sunday tember 24, 2017. Wages School Class with teacher LILBURN & Sons Gwinnett ChaTom Moreland. Funeral pel 1031 Lawrenceville Hazel Etris services will be held on Highway, Lawrenceville Sunday, October 8, 2017 Hazel Picklesimer Etris, GA, 30046 770-277-4550. at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel age 89, of Lilburn, GA, of Flanigan Funeral Home passed away on October with Rev. Neil Strong 2, 2017. Tom M. Wages officiating. The family Funeral Service, LLC, “A will receive friends at the Family Company”, SnellDACULA funeral home the day of ville Chapel 770-979-3200 the service from 2:00 Douglas Moore has been entrusted with p.m. until time of service the arrangements.

Douglas Carson Moore, at 3:30 p.m. In lieu of age 81, of Dacula, GA flowers, donations may be passed away on October made to Sugar Hill Baptist 3, 2017. Arrangements Church, 5091 Nelson By: Junior E. Flanigan of WINDER Brogdon Blvd., Sugar Flanigan Funeral Home Hill, GA 30518 in memory Janet Evans and Crematory, Buford, of George Smith.

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her husband stood up on their couch and “got in her face,” according to Kenck’s testimony. She said that’s when she got her handgun out of her purse and shot him.

But Kenck said medical examiner’s findings showed that Cory Smith was sitting down when he was shot.

Next week, a jury will decide whether Smith is guilty of charges related to her husband’s death, including aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and two counts of murder.

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Winfield Realty Group hires new agent Winfield Realty Group of Suwanee recently hired a new real estate agent.

Dawn M. Thomas, an Atlanta native, has been in the metro Atlanta real estate industry since 2012. She’s also worked in the Real Estate Owned and Foreclosures field and as a paralegal.

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porary protective order against the man. The order alleged that he had sexually assaulted and beaten her.

At the same time, Smith had filed for divorce.

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“She quickly discovered she had a passion to assist others with the dream of home ownership,” according to the release. “Her strong ability to listen to the needs of those speaking is one of her greatest strength.”

Dawn uses her communication and negotiating skills on her client’s behalf.

For more information, visit www. winfieldrealtygroup.com or contact our office at 678-430-3600.

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Richard VanDeusen Richard E. VanDeusen born September 19, 1931 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, went home to be with the Lord on September 30, 2017 where he resided in Lilburn, GA. He was preceded in death by his parents Albert VanDeusen and Marvel Hall Forbes, brothers; Robert VanDeusen and Kenneth VanDeusen, sisters; Donna Johnson, Kate Fosse, and Ruth Dodd, and nephew; Kenny VanDeusen, and wife Helen.

He is survived by his wife Ann VanDeusen, children; Deborah Aurelio (Kevin), Dale VanDeusen (Pam), Laurie Lightner, Betty Held (John), Dean VanDeusen (Kimberly), Becky Hart (Jerry), eighteen grandchildren, and twenty-one great grandchildren. Richard also leaves to cherish his memory, Doug and Kathy Lyle, Kathy and Mike Hunter, Richard Lyle, Ronnie Lyle, Les and Trish Lyle, and David Lyle, and their families whom all considered him a father figure, giving him and additional nine grandchildren, and eight great grandchildren, brothers; George VanDeusen and Loren Forbes, sisters; Ann Johnson, Shirley Husted (Roger), Cheryl Hilke, and many nieces, nephews, and friends.

Richard worked at Unocal for forty years.

He enjoyed many years of retirement by singing with Sunshine Express, taking trips to visit friends and family and exploring parts of the country that he found fascinating and always loved a good laugh.

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William “Bill” Lewis Warner, 90, of Grayson, GA died peacefully at home on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, surrounded by family members. He was born October 1, 1927, in St. Louis, MO. He served as a private in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Germany. After his military service, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis where he was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity. He then moved to Atlanta and spent most of his career at the KliklokWoodman Company in Decatur, GA where he designed and built food packaging machinery.

In 1957, he married Nelda E. Carter of Odum, GA and was blessed throughout his life with many wonderful friends and family whom he loved. After retirement, Bill became an expert in geneology, researching his & Nelda’s families.

He also enjoyed spending many hours writing. He was an active member of First Baptist of Grayson serving the church in various positions.

Bill was preceded in death by his parents, Marjory Lucile Sherer Warner and Edwin Morton Warner. He is survived by his beloved wife of 60 years, Nelda Carter Warner; his children, Mark & Rhonda Warner of Suwanee, GA and Heidi & Dan Whiteh

head of Lincolnton, GA; granddaughter Meagan Whitehead of Decatur, GA; grandsons Charles & Abigail Warner & their daughter, Samantha, of Orlando, FL and Will & Amy Warner & their son, Liam, of Dacula, GA; and many cousins, nieces and nephews. Bill was blessed with the loyal and loving attention of wonderful caregivers.

Visitation will be held from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 5th, and 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 6th, at Tom M. Wages Lawrenceville Chapel, 120 Scenic Hwy. in Lawrenceville, followed by the Funeral Service at 2:00 p.m. on Oct. 6th.

Burial will be at Chestnut Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Grayson. For those wishing to make a donation in Bill’s memory, we are suggesting either CurePSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy is the condition related to Parkinson’s with which Bill was afflicted), or Samaritan’s Purse. Donation envelopes will be available at the funeral home or you can learn more about their projects and purposes and make your donation online at www.psp.org or www. samaritanspurse.org/ourministry/donate-online. .

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A Buford woman who said her estranged husband abused her throughout their relationship will be tried for his murder next week.

Olivia Annette Smith, 38, told Gwinnett County police that Cory Don Smith, 34, had threatened her physically before she shot him in their Preston Hills at Mill Creek apartment complex April 2, 2015. Officers found Smith’s husband dead on their couch at around 9

p.m. He had one gunshot wound in his thigh and two in his head.

Olivia Smith GCPD homicide Detective Matthew Kenck said during a preliminary hearing at the time that police didn’t believe evidence at the scene backed up Smith’s story.

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Everett’s Music Barn on Stonecypher Road is a historic bluegrass music venue that opened in 1971, after it was built with material donated from a Norcross apartment complex.

The barn opened as one way to console family members following the death of Jerry Everett, a police officer killed in the line of duty in 1964. (Photo: Brendan Sullivan)

met there back to “jam,” but could only do so with What: Everett’s Music their mother’s permission.

Barn Fall Festival and “Mama Everett” stipulated Fundraiser they could only jam in the Where: Everett’s old barn if there was “no Music Barn at 4055 foolishness and no drinkStonecypher Road in ing,” according to the Suwanee historic barn’s website.

When: Noon to 9 p.m.

Oct. 7 About 53 years later, the Cost: The event is free, Everett’s Historic Music but the Everetts ask for Barn remains a wholesome donations space where musicians can perform and practice their music. The barn hosts perIn the following years, formances every Saturday the Everett family would night and the adjoining gather in the barn to rehouse is almost always member Jerry Everett and open for jam sessions. to take comfort in the music The rules haven’t they played together. Ever- changed — there’s no foolett’s uncles, Randall Everett ishness and no drinking in and Roger Everett, and his this venue. father, Leroy Everett, would “We have a large youth eventually form a band. following because it’s such “So the place was actua safe place to come,” Evally founded on hardship erett said. “Parents let their and sorrow,” Everett said.

10-year-old that plays banjo Randall and Roger or guitar come here because also began to spend time it’s the safest place around.” at the local radio station, Musicians of all ages WDYX in Buford. They are invited to “jam” at the wanted to bring artists they historic music barn during

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Musicians take time out to jam at the Everett’s Music Barn. Artists are invited to bring their instruments to the barn’s fall festival on Saturday. (Photo: Tommy Everett)

its fall festival on Saturday.

Everett said he expects “jam sessions” to spring up all over the barn’s grounds and in each room of the

adjoining house.

He said it’s just one more reason to experience the Everett’s Music Barn this weekend.

“Enjoy the rich history and the heritage,” Everett said. “You can see when you arrive on the property: It is a music place.”

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Tommy Everett is dedicated to his family’s musical namesake in Suwanee — the Everett’s Music Barn.

“It’s just our family heritage,” Everett said. “We’re just trying to keep something going the same way for so many years without changing it.”

The public can help Everett keep the old country music venue going by attending the barn’s Fall Festival and Fundraiser from noon until 9 p.m. on Saturday. A total of 10 different bands will play each hour throughout the day. In between the performances, participants will be able to enjoy raffle drawings and silent auctions.

The Everett family will whip up BBQ hamburger and hot dog plates for guests.

The event and the food are free. Everett just asks that participants make a donation toward the historic music barn.

“All the proceeds go to support the barn and to keep it going,” he said. “We’re a nonprofit venue. We rely on donations for support.”

The Everett barn became a place associated with music in the years following April 1964, when Jerry Everett, a Gwinnett County police officer, was killed in the line of duty. He was one of three officers who were investigating a call near Norcross that day. All three were handcuffed and killed with their own weapons.

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KICKOFF EDITION THE RUNDOWN A quick look at this weekend’s high school football in the Gwinnett area: TODAY’S GAMES 7:30 p.m.

• Brookwood at Meadowcreek • Buford at Johnson-Gainesville • Collins Hill at Duluth • Commerce at Providence • Dacula at Apalachee • Discovery at Mill Creek • East Hall at GAC • Grayson at Shiloh • Hebron at Athens Academy • Lakeside-DeKalb at Parkview • Peachtree Ridge at Mountain View • Wesleyan at Mt. Vernon • Winder-Barrow at Lanier 8 p.m.

• Berkmar at Central Gwinnett SATURDAY’S GAME 7:30 p.m.

• Archer at Newton

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Straight quarters Berkmar has gone scoreless against tonight’s opponent, Central Gwinnett, dating back to a fourth-quarter score in 2014 FANS CHOICE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Each week during the football season, the Daily Post will nominate four players for its Fans Choice Player of the Week. Online voting at www. gwinnettprepsports.com will begin by Monday morning and will end Thursdays at noon. This week’s winner is: Name: Josh Downs School: North Gwinnett Position: Wide receiver Class: Sophomore Highlights: Caught six passes for 154 yards and a TD in a 35-21 victory over Mill Creek Coach Bill Stewart’s take: “Josh Downs is an exceptional athlete with great instinct. He is a very hard worker at practice and it shows on the field.”

Results: Downs won an online competition with Collins Hill’s Najji Germana, Mountain View’s Blake Carroll and Central Gwinnett’s Skylar Adams this week.

FLASHBACK On this week in 2010, Grayson scores all of its points in the second quarter and hangs on for a 16-10 win over Dacula. Nick Schuessler throws for one TD and rushes for another, while Dexter Walker scores Dacula’s lone TD. … Two TD passes by Taylor Heinicke in the second quarter and a defense that forces three turnovers helps Collins Hill to a 14-10 win over rival Peachtree Ridge. … Archer notches its first Region 8-AAAAA victory in program history, 17-14 over Shiloh, thanks to a 45-yard TD run by quarterback Jarvis Holley in the fourth quarter.

Holley also accounts for the Tigers’ other score on a 15yard TD pass to Kris Hurley. … Tyler Cierski rushes for three scores, Brandon Hayman catches two TD passes from John Russ and Mill Creek routs Meadowcreek 47-0. … C.J. Uzomah accounts for two TDs and North Gwinnett backs up its new No. 1 state ranking with a 38-0 win over Norcross. …

Andrew Frerking completes 13 of 18 passes for 222 yards and four TDs, adding a fifth TD on a run, in Wesleyan’s 49-6 win over King’s Ridge.

RUNNING WILD Mustangs, Broncos headed toward unexpected region race

By David Friedlander

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It’s not a surprise to most observers that the Region 7-AAAAAAA football standings have become somewhat of a horse race.

What is a surprise, however, is one of the two thoroughbreds that has bolted out to the front of the pack as the 2017 regular season approaches the far turn and prepares to head down the home stretch.

Indeed, few observers would have guessed that Meadowcreek (6-0, 2-0) would’ve gotten out of the gate so quickly.

Yet the Mustangs have a real opportunity to put

BROOKWOOD AT MEADOWCREEK BROOKWOOD BRONCOS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Philip Jones Record: 3-2, 1-0 Last week: Had a bye MEADOWCREEK MUSTANGS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Jason Carrera Record: 6-0, 2-0 Last week: Beat Berkmar 48-7 Last meeting: Brookwood

some distance between themselves and the rest of the field when Brookwood (3-2, 1-0) invades Meadowcreek Community Stadium on Friday.

Given the heights they’ve reached — the best start in school history and

won 54-0 last year Location: Meadowcreek High School Series history: 2016 — Brookwood 54, Meadowcreek 0 2009 — Brookwood 64, Meadowcreek 14 2008 — Brookwood 48, Meadowcreek 7 2007 — Brookwood 74,

having guaranteed their first winning season since 1990 — it’s natural to wonder just how the Mustangs will handle being in a position the program hasn’t dealt with in more than a quarter century.

While coach Jason Car-

Meadowcreek 22 2006 — Brookwood 58, Meadowcreek 3 2005 — Brookwood 60, Meadowcreek 0 2004 — Brookwood 38, Meadowcreek 7 1999 — Brookwood 44, Meadowcreek 0 1998 — Brookwood 45, Meadowcreek 9 1997 — Brookwood 42, Meadowcreek 0

rera acknowledges that challenge, his approach to dealing with it bears a strong resemblance to the one he’s used in helping his team to its historic start.

“We’re going to do exactly what got us here

— (just go) week-to-week, (emphasize) brotherhood,” Carrera said. “Definitely being 6-0 has made (this season) different. We’re walking into (today) with a confidence we wouldn’t have otherwise had. But we’re not going to be overconfident. We’ve looked (the all-time series with Brookwood) up. (The all-time scoring margin) is something like 1,000 to 52. But every day, we talk about the duties and jobs they all have to do. We emphasize the strengths they have.”

Actually, Carrera is a little off. The aggregate score in the 13 games of the all-time series with Brookwood — all of them See UNEXPECTED, Page 4B

Lanier hosts unbeaten No. 9 Bulldoggs

By Will Hammock

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An off week afforded Lanier’s football team a break after a grueling, non-region schedule, but its Region 8-AAAAAA opener tonight won’t offer any sort of reprieve.

The Longhorns face a stern test immediately against unbeaten and ninth-ranked Winder-Barrow, which got its region schedule going with a 5614 rout of rival Apalachee last Friday. A victory over Lanier would be the Bulldoggs’ seventh of the season, a considerable feat for a program that hasn’t won that many since going 8-3 in 2003.

“Obviously, they’re 6-0 and they’ve kind of been building this over the last few years since (head coach) Heath (Webb) has been there,” Lanier head

Lanier’s Kevonte Polk (26) tries to turn the corner before South Gwinnett defender Chabarri Thomas (26) tackles him in Friday’s game. (Photo: Craig Cappy)

coach Korey Mobbs said.

“Of course, they’ve been really good the last three years we’ve played them, too. It’s been a battle. I

expect it to be a battle (tonight), too. They’ve got a lot of momentum, a lot of positive momentum for their program. I hope we’re

up for the challenge.”

Webb, whose coaching journey briefly took him through Gwinnett as a Peachtree Ridge assis-

tant, has fared well since becoming Winder-Barrow’s head coach in 2014. He took over a program that won two or fewer games the previous six seasons, then went 6-5, 6-5 and 5-6 his first three seasons, reaching the postseason every year.

A big difference this year is the Bulldoggs’ success in non-region games.

They have a a trio of blowout wins (Walnut Grove, Northview and Apalachee), but also have pulled out three close victories (35-28 over Clarke Central, 17-14 over Loganville and 17-14 over North Oconee).

Quarterback Brock Landis triggers a high-powered Winder-Barrow offense, both with his arm (1,038 passing yards) and his legs (340 rushing yards). He has accounted for 15 touchdowns. “(Landis) has got a

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Getting To Know ... Russ Triaga While it doesn’t seem that long, it’s been almost a decade since Russ Triaga returned to Gwinnett County high school basketball as an assistant coach with Dacula’s boys program after head coaching stints at Oconee County and Chestatee, and five years since he took over as the Falcons’ head coach.

With season No. 6 rapidly approaching, the 50-yearold Athol Springs, N.Y., native recently spoke to staff writer David Friedlander not only about the past of high school basketball, but also its future, especially how it may or may not be affected by the recent FBI investigation into potential bribery between apparel companies and college and AAU programs. Note: This interview was conducted about a week and a half ago, so the time element may not reflect more recent developments in the case.

DF: Seems like only yesterday you were just coming back to Gwinnett County.

RT: It’s been nine years.

This is my sixth year as head coach.

DF: I guess time really does fly when you’re having fun.

RT: (Laughs) Yeah. Getting old, though.

DF: As someone who just joined the halfcentury club myself, that makes two of us. Anyway, how different does the program feel for your now five years down the road?

RT: I guess when you’re in the middle of it, that’s kind of hard to quantify.

We’re definitely more established. (With) the expectations that we have, I think people definitely look at us in a different light as far as what we’re capable of. I think we’re like 97-45 in my five years, which is a pretty good number. We’re proud of that from an expectation point of view, and in-house expectations, too.

DF: I guess those expectations only grow considering what you’ve got coming back from a good team last year, plus what you’ve got coming in.

RT: Yeah. That’s OK, though. If you want to compete at that level — anybody who wants to compete really embraces that opportunity. It’s OK to have a little pressure. It’s never a bad thing, honestly.

I don’t look at it as a bad thing, anyway.

DF: Now, about the time you came back to Gwinnett, you were also finishing up your doctorate in education admin-

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for quite a while. I think when the FBI gets involved in something, there’s obviously some urgency about it. But another way I also wonder about is — and I’m trying to choose my words (carefully) — why is the FBI involved and the NCAA is not mentioned?

Where is the NCAA at this time? Where is this leadership that we hear about? If you’ve seen it before, the NCAA rule book is bigger than a phone book, and these coaches are asked to know these rules inside Dacula head coach Russ Triaga argues a call during the and out. In a lot of ways, second half of a Class AAAAAA second-round playoff it’s a little unfair to them game at Dacula High School. (File Photo) that you say, ‘Here’s this book. You’ve got to take a test. You’ve got to have there’s no question. But I istration. Did you think never have ever told any of it all memorized.’ But at you’d still be coaching five years down the road? my kids what AAU team to the same time, some of Or is the better question, play for, or who to play for these coaches are paid a did you think you’d be in or not to play for. I just try lot of money. Let’s not to guide them and let them kid ourselves. Maybe not administration by now? know the experiences I’ve the smaller schools, but RT: My goals throughhad with some people, and schools that were menout my whole coaching tioned yesterday, those career, whether it was at 18 I’ve been very comfortassistant coaches probably years old in my first coach- able with the choices my players have made and the make two, three hundred ing job or 50 years old in grand a year. Those guys this coaching job, my goal guys they’ve played for. that were mentioned, Coaches are no different is just to be happy. I want from everybody else. They maybe more. I think there’s to enjoy what I’m doing a responsibility that goes either make it and do real every day. I want to enjoy along with it. well based on who they being around the people are, or eventually they I’m around every day.

DF: I guess when you And I certainly am that (at get exposed for who they Dacula). I enjoy coming to aren’t, and the next person see something like that work here. I think I’ve got comes along. I think by an come out, it kind of make a great administrative team large, as the kids get older you glad you stayed on the high school level, eh?

— and I’m talking about to work for. Our peers are RT: Well you know, I just fun to be around every dealing with high school had my time in college a kids — some of the AAU day. My players are never long, long time ago (as coaches are not nearly as disappointing when it an assistant under Lefty comes to things like effort, bad as people make them out to be. More times than Driesell at James Madison whether they care or not.

University). It certainly not, their hearts are in the They make mistakes just like every other player at wasn’t like this. To be a right place. More times this age does, but I’m just high school coach, you’ve than not, they’re working in a very — I don’t want got to want to coach in really hard for the kids’ to say comfortable because benefit. There are some out high school. You’ve got to that suggests apathy, but there that, of course, are all want to be around and deal with some of the things, I have a real acute awareabout themselves, but by ness of I’m in a very good and large, they’re just hard- because some of the things place, and I appreciate it. working people who want we deal with are not things that college coaches deal I try to let those around to do what they can do to with because we simply me know how much I do help kids. I think someappreciate it by the way I times they get mislabeled, don’t have the control over the kids they do. But at treat people and the way or somebody picks out the same time, you’re kind I do things and the way I one specific thing they’ve of doing it for a bigger handle my players. That’s seen them do. So it’s kind purpose. I want a lot more really the only way I know of tough. I probably have than basketball from these how to do it. It’s not what a list of about four or five kids. I want them go to you say, but what you do. guys I really, really like college and graduate from and I really, really trust, college. Even kids who DF: Having been and I probably have a list don’t play college basketinvolved in basketball so of about four or five guys ball, I still want them to many years, you’ve seen that I really try to stay a lot that has affected away from. But that’s only go to college and graduate it in the positive and a service to my players and from college. I want them to understand the impornegative. Now, there’s their families. tance of education and the whole FBI investigaresponsibility and integrity tion involving Adidas DF: Obviously, it’s and character, all those and several coaches and very early in the FBI’s things that are really, really administrators from col- investigation. We don’t important to me. Those lege and AAU programs. know exactly how that’s that do that, and I’ll go From your perspective all going to shake out or — because I know you everyone who is going to back to the guys I coached don’t often deal directly be involved from all this. 20 years ago, and I still hope for those things from with the AAU programs, But do you get a sense but the kids do — how do this will lead to some sort them. I think I’m doing OK because I hear from you assess what’s going of reform, whether it’s many, many people that on? How difficult has all the NCAA or AAU or I’ve coached some time this that’s come out made both? ago, and those relationyour job? Or does it?

RT: I certainly hope ships are there. That tells RT: Well, it definitely so. It’s been a long time makes your job (as a coming. I feel like it’s been me that I’m doing the right things. coach) more difficult, something that’s brewing

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A look at this week’s prep football matchups (all games at 7:30 p.m. today unless otherwise noted)

BERKMAR AT CENTRAL GWINNETT BERKMAR PATRIOTS (7-AAAAAAA) CENTRAL BLACK KNIGHTS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Kenan Dever Coach: Todd Wofford Record: 0-6, 0-1 region Record: 4-2, 1-1 region Last week: Lost to Meadowcreek 48-7 Last week: Beat Lakeside-DeKalb 38-36 Based on records alone, this game would appear to be a mismatch. However, Central coach Todd Wofford is taking nothing for granted, especially considering five of the Black Knights’ six games this season have been decided by a touchdown or less, including last week’s come-from-behind win over struggling Lakeside.

“Every game we’ve had this year has been close,” Wofford said. “We haven’t had a breakout or (totally) clean game yet. We’re still trying to clean up missed tackles, trying to clean up drops, trying to clean up penalties, stuff you’d think we’d have under control by now.”

Control, specifically ball control, will be a major factor and it’s one of the things the Patriots have had to hang their collective hat on recently, even as they continue Jalen to struggle through their losing streak, which has now reached 43 games. The King running game, keyed by sophomore running backs Jonathan Wiley and Russell Smyre, has given coach Kenan Dever’s team something to build on.

“Keeping team morale when you’re in a streak like this is always tough,” Dever said. “You find out a lot about your team’s character. But seeing our young guys make plays — we’ve got a lot of juniors, sophomores and a few freshmen — and starting make strides, it’s gratifying. We just have to stick to what we’ve done best — ball control. We need some long drives and hope we can get some scores.

We’re back to my roots in coaching, using multiple formations and giving different looks.”

It will be incumbent upon the Black Knights’ offense to produce when they are on the field, which means the offensive line, behind tackle Jalen King, needs to provide time for All-American QB Jarren Williams to scope the field for his receivers.

Last meeting: Central won 69-0 last year Location: Central Gwinnett High School

BUFORD AT JOHNSON-GAINESVILLE BUFORD WOLVES (8-AAAAA) JOHNSON KNIGHTS (8-AAAAA) Coach: John Ford Coach: Jason Roquemore Record: 3-1, 1-0 region Record: 0-6, 0-2 region Last week: Beat Clarke Central 45-7 Last week: Lost to Walnut Grove 48-0 An odd stretch of back-to-back bye weeks and a loss to South Carolina powerhouse South Pointe on Sept. 15, was followed by another bye week on Sept.

22. Three off weeks in a four-week span wasn’t ideal, but Buford got it rolling well again last Friday with a rout of Clarke Central.

The Wolves rebounded from their first loss under new head coach John Ford with a dominant effort against a Clarke team that had been impressive in a 4-1 start. The offense operated with precision despite playing a lot of people. Isaiah Isaac had four catches for 52 yards and Derrian Brown led the rushing attack with 11 carries for 56 yards and a score.

“We wanted to play offensively with balance,” Ford said. “We needed to get betCarson ter at things and we worked on them.”

Guy Defensive backs Mikey McMorris (seven tackles, two pass breakups) and Kellen Neal (eight tackles, one pass breakup) were among Buford’s defensive standouts last Friday, while defensive end Ahmad Craig (four tackles, two sacks) and linebacker Isaiah Shephard (six tackles, two for losses) also played well.

The Buford coaches also were pleased with what they got on special teams from both Hayden Olson (6-for-6 PATs, 40-yard FG, four kickoffs for touchbacks) and Carson Guy (three punts for 36.3yard average, one punt inside the 20-yard line and one punt inside the 10). Guy also had eight tackles from his linebacker position.

The Wolves are heavy favorites against winless Johnson, which hasn’t scored more than seven points in its last five games, all lopsided losses. The Knights have lost 20 straight games.

Last meeting: Buford won 48-0 last year Location: Johnson High School

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COLLINS HILL EAGLES (6-AAAAAAA) DULUTH WILDCATS (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Lenny Gregory Coach: Bob Swank Record: 3-3, 1-1 region Record: 2-3, 0-1 region Last week: Beat Discovery 45-12 Last week: Lost to Mountain View 44-7 Two dramatically different approaches to offense will square off against each other in this intriguing region matchup.

Collins Hill coach Lenny Gregory is keenly aware of the firepower Duluth possesses with quarterback Jalil El-Amin and receivers like Will Huzzie, and is challenging his defense accordingly.

“They’re very explosive on offense,” Gregory said of the Wildcats. “They have playmakers all over the field. Their two (main) receivers can catch just about anything thrown to them, and their quarterback is a dangerous dual threat. We’re very aware of the challenge.”

By contrast the challenge Collins Hill poses to the Duluth defense with their setNajji ting back and forth between their old spread set and a new, ground-based wing-T Germana is one that had coach Bob Swank and the Wildcats doing their homework during film study this week.

The latter in particular, with multiple contributors, led by Evan Anderson (95-606, 6 TDs), Najji Germana (49-263, 3 TDs) and Jalen Johnson (34-253, 2 TDs) has prompted Swank to bestow some very favorable comparisons upon the Eagles.

“Trying to prepare for this is like trying to prepare to play Georgia Tech’s (spread option offense),” Swank said. “It’s been interesting to see our scout team try to execute it. (Defending it is) disciplined football, assignment football. But there’s really no way to simulate the speed that Collins Hill plays it at.

“We just have to go in battling and win the takeaway battle to give us a chance going into the fourth quarter. You can’t beat a good football team if you don’t win the takeaway battle.”

Last meeting: Collins Hill won 38-18 last year Location: Duluth High School

COMMERCE TIGERS (8-A) PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN STORM (8-A) Coach: Michael Brown Coach: Parker Conley Record: 4-1, 3-1 region Record: 1-4, 1-3 region Last week: Lost to Prince Avenue Christian 21-6 Last week: Lost to George Walton 28-0 One of the state’s traditional small-school powers heads to Lilburn this week, creating a major challenge for the young Storm. Commerce was undefeated until last Friday, when it lost to second-ranked Prince Avenue Christian.

“From what we see, this is typical Commerce, doing what they do best,” Providence head coach Parker Conley said. “I definitely think their size and their skill is going to be tough for us. But I’m excited for our guys. I feel like we’re moving in the right direction to be able to compete with them.”

Providence has battled through injuries lately, tough for a team with a small roster, but it has competed hard every week. Since a 17-14 win over Riverside Military, it has lost three straight to Hebron Christian, Lakeview Academy and George Walton.

James “I’m very pleased with them,” Conley said. “On Friday (against George Walton), Berry that one hurt, obviously, because we did play really tough. Our attitude is we do have something to prove and we want to go out and compete as hard as we possibly can. They know the tasks coming up ahead of us. We’re focused on how we can be the best team we can possibly be and play our game. We hope they can see we can find success if we do that.”

Commerce is the beginning of a tough slate of games for Providence, with Athens Academy, Athens Christian and Prince Avenue Christian coming up next. That gauntlet is difficult for Providence, which must play well up front in each of those. That starts with James Berry, one of the team’s leaders. “(Berry’s) just been kind of the rock on the O-line,” Conley said. “He’s been doing a good job leading some of the younger guys and being the leader we need on the line.”

The Commerce game is the Storm’s first at home since the win over Riverside on Sept. 1.

Last meeting: Commerce won 63-0 last year Location: Providence Christian Academy

DISCOVERY AT MILL CREEK

GRAYSON AT SHILOH

DISCOVERY TITANS (6-AAAAAAA) MILL CREEK HAWKS (6-AAAAAAA) Coach: Efrem Hill Coach: Shannon Jarvis Record: 1-5, 0-2 region Record: 4-2, 1-1 region Last week: Lost to Collins Hill 45-12 Last week: Lost to North Gwinnett 35-21 Mill Creek suffered a tough loss last Friday to North Gwinnett and its first-year head coach Bill Stewart, who was previously the Hawks’ defensive coordinator.

There were some positives from the effort, but two fumbles gave North two defensive touchdowns that were the difference in the 35-21 setback.

“Our players and coaches have really responded and had a great week of practice,” Mill Creek head coach Shannon Jarvis said. “We are very excited to get back home and host Discovery. They are much improved and Coach (Efrem) Hill and his staff are doing a great job.”

Uriah Leverette rushed for 157 yards and two touchdowns against North, posting his second straight 100-yard game thanks to blocking up front led by John Trey Harris, Daniel Wakesa and Jonathan Leech. Trey Turner and Jontavious Shotwell Turner were among the Mill Creek defensive standouts last week, each breaking up three passes.

Discovery lost at Collins Hill last week when it fell behind big early, but kept battling back with a pair of third-quarter TDs from Khiree Seabrook and Jason Mitchell. Mitchell was a playmaker at quarterback and wide receiver.

“This week I am looking for us to be more consistent,” Hill said. “We know Mill Creek is going to be sound at what they do, but we are focused on what we do. We have focused this week on controlling what we can, which are things like effort and assignments.

“Mill Creek is a very good football team. We will be ready to play this week and we will see what happens.”

Last meeting: Mill Creek won 62-0 last year Location: Mill Creek High School

GRAYSON RAMS (8-AAAAAAA) SHILOH GENERALS (8-AAAAAAA) Coach: Christian Hunnicutt Coach: Ryan Andrews Record: 5-0, 0-0 region Record: 1-5, 1-0 region Last week: Beat Ramsay (Ala.) 42-16 Last week: Beat Rockdale Co. 14-12 Both teams come into this region matchup with a bit of a different mindset from any other game so far this season. For only the second time this season, and first time in just over a month, Grayson will be playing a team from Georgia, and it will be the first time this season squaring off against a fellow Gwinnett foe.

Meanwhile, Shiloh enters today’s game in a completely different frame of mind after gaining its first win of the season in last week’s region opener against Rockdale County. Despite enduring a physical contest that will possibly cost them as many as two starters Friday, coach Ryan Andrews is optimistic the Generals will be ready to give their best effort.

“Rockdale beat us up pretty good,” Andrews said. “But that’s part of the game.

Ryan That’s part of the season. It’s next man up. Just do what you’re coached to and live Taylor with the results. The thing about this team is that they’ve never lacked confidence or energy. Regardless of what the scoreboard says, you can see every week, the kids are getting better.”

Indeed, the Generals have been showing improvements across the board in recent weeks, including some timely completions from quarterback Jase Ivey last week.

But they will be facing perhaps their stiffest challenge to date against a Grayson team that has stood up to a very challenging schedule to earn the No. 1 ranking in the state’s largest classification.

Still, there is “a laundry list” of improvements coach Christian Hunnicutt wants to see from his Rams, such as cutting down on penalties and turnovers. While they bring a ferocious defense, led by defensive tackle Ryan Taylor, into today’s contest, Hunnicutt is also wary of a hungry, young Shiloh team.

“Ryan Andrews and his staff do a tremendous job of coaching effort and resiliency,” Hunnicutt said.

“There’s not quit in them. They’ve got enough kids rallying to the ball to get your attention. … We’re just looking to be one point better. We’re not taking them lightly.”

Last meeting: Grayson won 70-6 last year Location: Shiloh High School

HEBRON CHRISTIAN AT ATHENS ACADEMY

LAKESIDE AT PARKVIEW

HEBRON CHRISTIAN LIONS (8-A) ATHENS ACADEMY SPARTANS (8-A) Coach: Jeff Saturday Coach: Josh Alexander Record: 4-1, 3-1 region Record: 5-0, 4-0 region Last week: Beat Towns County 29-7 Last week: Beat Riverside Military Acad. 40-20 After a near miss against Commerce just over a month ago, Hebron has another chance to show it belongs among the upper division in the region, not to mention gain valuable power ranking points, against a traditional state power.

This time it’s undefeated Athens Academy that stands in the Lions’ way, and while they put up a good fight and nearly pulled off the road upset in September, coach Jeff Saturday has reminded them that they will have to go the extra mile to finally reach the top of the proverbial mountain.

“Athens Academy is one of the top teams in the state,” Saturday said. “Any time you get a chance to battle a team that has played as well as they have, you have to take advantage of it. Our kids get it. It’s a great way to see how good you are.

Cody Can you give yourself a chance to win?

Borges “If you get beat physically, that’s (occasionally) going to happen. But don’t lose the game mentally. Give yourself a chance. That’s the focus.”

The Lions can give themselves the best chance by finding a way to hold an Athens Academy offense that has averaged 46 points per game somewhat in check.

It won’t be easy, with the Spartans boasting several playmakers like quarterback Jack Thomas, running back Len’neth Whitehead and slot receiver Payton Bowles.

But the Lions will need to find an answer on both sides of the ball from two-way contributors such as Cody Borges, Ja’Leak Perry, Chandler Lewis and Michael Moyers, and simply stay on point.

“You just have to know your assignments, do your job and trust the guy beside you can do his job,” Saturday said. “And we can’t commit self-inflicted wounds. Against Commerce, we had two turnovers inside their 15-yard line. You can’t give those (opportunities) away against a good team.

“We have to win the turnover ratio, cut down on penalties and play good in special teams. If you do those three things, you give yourself a chance to win.”

Last meeting: Athens Academy won 21-10 last year Location: Athens Academy

LAKESIDE-DEKALB VIKINGS (7-AAAAAAA) PARKVIEW PANTHERS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Cam Jones Coach: Eric Godfree Record: 1-5, 0-2 region Record: 3-2, 1-0 region Last week: Lost to Central Gwinnett 38-36 Last week: Beat Norcross 31-28 Lakeside nearly pulled off a huge win last Friday against Central Gwinnett before falling 38-36. The Vikings also lost a tight game with unbeaten Meadowcreek the week before, so they could be sitting at 2-0 in the region instead of 0-2.

If Lakeside wants to compete with Parkview this week, it must find a way to slow down a Panther offense that rolled up 63 points in this matchup last season.

Norcross held Parkview to a season-low 31 points last Friday but couldn’t come away with a victory.

The 31-28 win was huge for the Panthers, who have a chance to build more momentum with Lakeside and Berkmar on the schedule before a huge Oct. 20 game with Brookwood.

Kobe “It was absolutely big to beat a program like (Norcross),” said Parkview head Wilson coach Eric Godfree, whose team celebrates homecoming this week. “It was good to get a close win and to win a close one against a program like that.”

Parkview’s defense played much better against Norcross than it did the previous two outings, when it gave up 64 to Lowndes and 50 to Tift County. Kobe Wilson and Jack Lapenta had an interception each, Malik Washington made eight tackles, Bryce Wilson had a sack and Ben Markiewicz had 1 1/2 tackles for losses.

The Parkview offense also had success against a stout Norcross defense, but struggled at times in the second half when it could have put the game away.

“We had too many three-and-outs offensively vs. Norcross, especially in a time when we needed to get some first downs and we didn’t do that,” Godfree said. “Defensively we were so much better all around, but we gave up three big plays. We’ve got to eliminate those big plays.”

Fred Payton (11 of 22 passing, 165 yards, two TDs and 18 rushes, 89 yards, TD) led the offense, while the Parkview rushing attack had 237 yards against Norcross.

Last meeting: Parkview won 63-30 last year Location: Parkview High School

PEACHTREE RIDGE AT MOUNTAIN VIEW

WESLEYAN AT MT. VERNON PRESBYTERIAN

PEACHTREE RIDGE LIONS (6-AAAAAAA) MOUNTAIN VIEW BEARS (7-AAAAAAA) Coach: Reggie Stancil Coach: Nick Bach Record: 1-4, 1-0 Record: 5-1, 1-1 Last week: Had a bye Last week: Beat Duluth 44-7 With Peachtree Ridge coming off a bye week following its first win of the season the week before, Mountain View coach Nick Bach expects to see an entirely different Lions team from the one he expected to see only a few weeks ago.

And to him, it’s not difficult to find the difference.

“They look like they found something in their ground game against Discovery (two weeks ago),” Bach said. “They had some success with it. They’ve also got some very large guys at the tight end spots, and those guys move around a lot. …

We’ll definitely have our hands full.”

Indeed, the new ground game behind running back Jamari Jackson and an offensive line anchored by Bryce Jones has added a dimension to the Lions’ offense.

Berechiah Mountain View’s front seven, led by linebackers Blake Carroll (31 tackles, 6 TFLs, Austin 7 1/2 sacks), Berechiah Austin (42 tackles, 6 TFLs, 1 sack) and Trevon Salter (44 tackles, 8 TFLs, 5 1/2 sacks), will have to match its effort and intensity.

However, the same can be said of the challenge the Peachtree Ridge defense faces against a very well-balanced Bears offense, which bounced back nicely from its first subpar performance two weeks ago with a 44-point outburst last week.

But the way coach Reggie Stancil sees it, the Lions’ defense can get a big hand from its offense if the latter can maintain control of the ball and the clock.

“We’ve got to control the ball,” Stancil said. “(Mountain View has) a very good offense, and they’ve got some ball hawks in their secondary. We just have to do things we can control. If we can handle those things, we have a chance.”

Last meeting: Mountain View won 21-20 last year Location: Mountain View High School

WESLEYAN WOLVES (5-A) MT. VERNON MUSTANGS (5-A) Coach: Franklin Pridgen Coach: Wayne Dabbs Record: 5-2, 2-1 region Record: 6-0, 2-0 Last week: Lost to ELCA 45-6 Last week: Beat Holy Innocents’ 35-31 Coming off a loss to top-ranked Eagle’s Landing Christian, Wesleyan gets no break with No. 3 Mount Vernon Presbyterian in a 4 p.m. start today. The final score against No. 1 ELCA might have been lopsided, but head coach Franklin Pridgen felt like it wasn’t a true measure of the Wolves’ performance.

“The game was a lot harder fought than that,” Pridgen said. “We were outmanned all over the place. ELCA is the gold standard in our classification.

“We did make some plays. We had the ball inside the red zone four times and could only come up with one touchdown. We had some opportunities — they’re just really good. But I saw a really courageous team in Wesleyan. I was proud of our kids. We left with no regrets.”

Billy Mount Vernon doesn’t have lights at its field so it’s an afternoon kickoff today. It Stepp changes Wesleyan’s timetable a little bit, but not in a disadvantageous way.

“We play football at 4 o’clock every day,” Pridgen said. “This is no big deal.”

The Mustangs are much improved this season and unbeaten so far.

“It’s a spread scheme with a lot of run-pass option and quarterback read,” Pridgen said. “They will definitely try to get the ball to their playmakers in space.”

Wesleyan isn’t big across the line, but the Wolves are agile and smart, which bodes well for the matchup. They are also as full strength as they’re likely to be following a rash of injuries through the first half of the season. Billy Stepp, a senior linebacker and receiver, has been back for the last two games and has made an impact. He came back sooner than expected, along with fellow receivers Brae Davidson and Stewart Stamper.

When: Today, 4 p.m.

Last meeting: Wesleyan won 34-0 last year Location: Mount Vernon Presbyterian

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Javion Johnson (15-99, TD) and even sophomore won by the Broncos — is quarterback Quincy Bononly 648-97. ner (21-95, TD).

And while his task in “What they’re doing keeping the Mustangs from schematically is simple to getting a little too cocky them,” Jones said. “But off their fast start against when you look at on it a team they have never film, they bring a lot of beaten may be a big one, different formations and Brookwood coach Philip motions and option plays Jones’ job convincing the to trick our eyes a little Broncos that they actually bit. It’s going to require a pose a threat despite the great deal of discipline and history would seem to be control for our defense.” an even bigger one.

Likewise, Brookwood However, Jones said has piled up yardage on the that all he had to do was ground this season, averagshow his players film of ing 5.6 yards per carry Meadowcreek to get their behind senior Dante Black attention.

(97-601, 12 TDs).

“No. 1, their record However, Carrera is speaks for itself,” Jones equally concerned with how said. “Last year, they came Meadowcreek’s Quincy Bonner (7) cuts across the field against Berkmar during their potent the Broncos have game Friday night at Berkmar High School in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Will Fagan) into this game 1-5. This been when they’ve taken to year, they’re 6-0. It doesn’t you’re always in search of surge has understandthere are other compothe air behind quarterback take much to realize this is improvement.” ably gone to running back nents of the Meadowcreek Angelo DiSpigna (47-73-2, a different creature we’re While both teams have Chauncey Williams, who ground game to contend 680 yards, eight TDs) and facing. No. 2, we’ve really room for improvement, leads all Georgia running with, even besides the weapons like Matthew Hill emphasized that we’re fo- one area that has worked backs with 1,410 yards and fact that the Mustangs, (16-230, three TDs rec., 33cused on getting better ev- well for both teams, and 21 touchdowns on 129 car- who have averaged 9.3 271, TD rushing) and Nick ery game, especially since which figures to be on ries, plus its Clydesdaleyards per carry as a team, Prince (17-156, two TDs). early in the season, when prominent display Friday, like offensive line, led by have other weapons, such “(Black) does a good we had our struggles. As a is the running game. seniors Mark Haynes and as senior two-way threat job running downhill, coach, you always believe Much of the attention Romney DeLeo. Qu’Vella Calhoun (12-126, and they’ve got a great you can get better, and for Meadowcreek’s sudden But Jones points out three TDs), junior slot offensive line,” Carrera

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(10 of 13 passing for 148 yards with a touchdown lot of savvy about him,” pass and touchdown run).

Mobbs said. “He throws the Kevonte Polk (13 rushes, ball well and he probably 90 yards, two TDs) and doesn’t get enough credit Larry Harper (eight rushes, for how he runs it. He’s re50 yards) led the ground ally good in the pocket, but game, while Jacoby Sharpe when things break down, (three catches, 41 yards) he has a knack for making and Zach Charles (three plays. We have to hem up catches, 56 yards, TD) and contain him. He’s kind were playmakers at wide of what makes them go.” receiver.

The Winder-Barrow The offense hopes to Lanier’s Larry Harper Jr. (8) finds a hole and picks up keep clicking against a offense will face a Lanier a first down before South Gwinnett’s Kevonte Polk (26) strong Winder-Barrow defense that has been the tackles him in Friday’s game. (Photo: Craig Cappy) team’s strength much of defense. the season. After holding squeaked past St. Pius in best halves of the season “Defensively, I think South Gwinnett in check a high-scoring matchup, from the Lanier offense. they’re as good as they’ve and holding powerful 36-33.

The unit scored 29 second- been, especially in the Northside-Warner Robins While it wasn’t the half points against St. Pius front seven,” Mobbs said of in check for three-plus defense’s best night, one behind efficient play from Winder-Barrow. “They’re quarters, the Longhorns big positive was one of the quarterback Zach Calzada good, physical guys with

IN BRIEF

Collins Hill’s Arner picks South Carolina

Collins Hill senior Haley Arner has made a commitment to the South Carolina Gamecocks women’s swimming program.

Arner was third in the 200 freestyle at the state high school meet as a junior, in addition to finishing seventh in the 500 free. She was Gwinnett County champion in the 200 free and county runner-up in the 500 free.

As a sophomore, she was county champion in both the 200 and 500 free, as well as state runner-up in the 500 free and fourth at state in the 200 free. She was county runner-up and fourth at state in both the 200 and 500 free as a freshman.

participants, ages 6 to 13, who competed this year.

Members of the championship team are: Reed Sweigart, Ethan Gao, Billy Abdow, Andrew Garger, Ryan Davidson, Shaun Cook, Chapman Barnett, William Love, Harris Barth and Lucas Jinglov.

Braves give manager Snitker another year

The Atlanta Braves exercised their 2018 contract option on manager Brian Snitker on Thursday.

Snitker was tabbed as interim manager in May 2016 before being named manager Oct. 11, 2016.

In Snitker’s first full season as Atlanta manager, the Braves split their first 90 games despite being without slugger Freddie Freeman (fractured Parkview grad Bennett wrist) for seven weeks at that time. named to Erskine HoF They went a National League-worst Parkview grad Kyle Bennett has been 27-45 the rest of the way to finish selected to the Erskine College (S.C.) with a 72-90 record, marking the third Flying Fleet Hall of Fame for athletics. straight campaign with at least 90 Bennett, a former men’s soccer losses for the club. standout at the school, will be inducted Snitker, who will turn 62 on Oct. Oct. 28 in conjunction with Erskine’s 17, has a 126-146 record as Braves’ Homecoming festivities. The 2009 Er- manager since he was promoted from skine grad was a Daily Post Super Six Triple-A after Fredi Gonzalez was selection in boys soccer in 2005, in fired May 17, 2016. addition to earning all-county honors his final two seasons.

TPC Sugarloaf team wins PGA Junior League region title

Atlanta’s Martinez voted MLS Player of Month

athleticism, too. And their secondary’s pretty talented as well. This is the most talented team all-around they’ve had and they also have got the most momentum of any team that they’ve had. It will be a battle. Anything they’ve done or we’ve done so far is meaningless to this point.

It’s all about Friday night.”

Lanier (3-2) built up to this point with a difficult non-region schedule, by design, that featured games with Northview, South Gwinnett, Northside, Lambert and St. Pius.

“Our deal is we want to be battle tested when region play starts, so we hope that’s the case,” Mobbs said.

WINDERBARROW AT LANIER WINDER-BARROW BULLDOGGS (8-AAAAAA) Coach: Heath Webb Record: 6-0, 1-0 region Last week: Beat Apalachee 56-14 LANIER LONGHORNS (8-AAAAAA) Coach: Korey Mobbs Record: 3-2, 0-0 region Last week: Had a bye When: Today, 7:30 p.m.

Last meeting: Lanier won 34-21 last year Location: Lanier High School

DAILY POST PICKS The staff makes its predictions for this week’s prep football winners WILL HAMMOCK

CHRISTINE TROYKE

DAVID FRIEDLANDER

SCOTT SMITH

SHERI MASSENGILL*

Archer at Newton

Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

Archer

Berkmar at Central Gwinnett

Central

Central

Central

Central

Central

Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Brookwood

Meadowcreek

Buford at Johnson

Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Buford

Collins Hill at Duluth

Collins Hill

Collins Hill

Collins Hill

Collins Hill

Collins Hill

Commerce at Providence

Commerce

Commerce

Commerce

Commerce

Commerce

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Dacula

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

Mill Creek

East Hall at GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

GAC

Grayson at Shiloh

Grayson

Grayson

Grayson

Grayson

Grayson

Hebron

Hebron

Athens Acad.

Brookwood at Meadowcreek

Dacula at Apalachee Discovery at Mill Creek

Hebron at Athens Academy

Athens Acad. Athens Acad.

Lakeside-DeKalb at Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Parkview

Peachtree Ridge at Mountain View

Mtn. View

Mtn. View

Mtn. View

Mtn. View

Mtn. View

Wesleyan at Mount Vernon

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Wesleyan

Mt. Vernon

Winder-Barrow at Lanier

Lanier

Winder

Winder

Winder

Winder

Last week (overall)

12-2 (83-20)

11-3 (83-20)

11-3 (78-25)

9-5 (77-26)

10-4 (69-34)

*Each week features a guest picker. This week’s guest picker is Shari Massengill, assistant general manager of the Gwinnett Braves.

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Atlanta United forward Josef Martinez was voted the MLS Player of the Month for September. Martinez also TPC Sugarloaf’s all-star junior won the award for March, making him golf team, representing Georgia, took the only player to receive the recognifirst place in the PGA Junior League tion twice this season.

Regional Championships last weekend Martinez scored nine goals, was at Kiawah Island, S.C. just the third played in league history With the victory, the team advances to record back-to-back hat tricks and to the PGA Junior League Regional helped lead Atlanta to a 5-0-2 record Championships, scheduled for Nov. during September. Atlanta clinched a 16-19 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scott- playoff spot and sits in third place in sdale, Ariz. It is one of eight teams to the Eastern Conference. reach nationals from a field of more The 24-year-old has now scored than 700 teams nationally.

18 goals in just 18 games (15 starts) Patrick McCrary serves as Sugarand is fourth in the MLS Golden Boot loaf’s team captain and Greg Powers race, trailing Chicago’s Nemanja is the coach. The all-star golfers were Nikolic by three goals. selected from the local league’s 34 — From staff, wire reports

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said. “But they also like to throw Hill into the backfield, and (DiSpigna) throws it well. We’ve got to try to contain him as much as we can.”

While Carrera has plenty of confidence in his own passing game being able to keep Brookwood’s defense honest should it try to load up the box to stop the run, Bonner and the Mustangs haven’t had to to take to the air often, with just 60 total pass attempts this season.

Jones makes no secret he would like for his Broncos to force Meadowcreek into testing its aerial proficiency.

“Well, you always want to make every (opposing) offense beat you left-handed and make them do things they don’t normally want to do,” Jones said. “That’s the goal every week — to force them to beat you in ways they’re not necessarily comfortable with. … That’s just playing good, solid defense, and we’re looking forward to the challenge.”

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Déjà vu?

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2017 • 5B

Dacula aiming for repeat of 2016 turnaround

Spartans set to take on top passer in state

By Will Hammock

By Christine Troyke

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A repeat of history wouldn’t be bad at all for the Dacula football team.

For the second straight year, the Falcons enter Region 8-AAAAAA play with a 1-4 record, the product of a challenging non-region schedule. They bounced back from that start last season to win six straight games and the region championship, reaching the second round of the state playoffs.

Another region title is the mission, which begins tonight at Apalachee.

“Once you start region play, you realize that the games matter a little bit more,” said Dacula head coach Tommy Jones, whose team had a bye last Friday. “You understand you have to approach every day with heightened urgency, make the most out of every opportunity that you have. Obviously, we didn’t want to be 1-4 to start the season, but at the same time, when you don’t start your region games until the month of October, you realize the majority of your goals are all in front of you.”

Dacula’s lone win is over a good Arabia Mountain team, and its four losses have all been to teams a classification higher in Class AAAAAAA — Central Gwinnett, Mill Creek, West Forsyth and Walton.

All four losses have been 14 points or fewer, including a competitive loss to seventh-ranked Walton two weeks ago. A play here and

East Hall quarterback Austin Parker threw for 423 yards last week in a shootout win over Union County and leads the state with an eye-popping 2,140 yards through six games.

Parker presents a challenge that has Greater Atlanta Christian’s defense revved up.

“We know we’re not going to hold them to 50 yards passing, but we want to play against good players,” head coach Tim Hardy said.

“Their quarterback is accurate and athletic. He’s good about biding his time. It’s impressive.

“We need to be good in coverage and we need to get to him. He’s a good player, but everyone looks their best when they can stand back there (forever). We need to put him under duress. However, with him being a good runner, that creates another set of issues.”

The Spartans, who moved up a spot to No. 2 in Class AAA, also recently played Union County and its multithreat QB. They limited Union County, which scored 42 on East Hall, to a touchdown.

“The big difference is (East Hall’s) receivers,” Hardy said. “You see a team get one or two 50/50 balls a game, OK. You see that three or four times every game for six straight games, that’s another thing.”

“East Hall won the region tournament in basketball last season and there’s some crossover.”

Hardy saw some further similarities in the Vikings’ willingness to be aggressive.

“The way they play is a little bit like a bas-

Dacula receiver Jalen Perry (3) dives for yardage against Mill Creek during Friday’s game. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

DACULA AT APALACHEE DACULA FALCONS (8-AAAAAA) Coach: Tommy Jones Record: 1-4, 0-0 region Last week: Had a bye APALACHEE WILDCATS (8-AAAAAA) Coach: Steve Sims Record: 1-5, 0-1 region Last week: Lost to Winder-Barrow 56-14 When: Today, 7:30 p.m.

Last meeting: Dacula won 26-7 last year Location: Apalachee High School

there in each of the four losses could have turned those into wins.

“Obviously, we were disappointed we lost the football game (to Walton), but I was proud of our kids for battling hard against a state-ranked team,” Jones

said. “We gave ourselves a chance to win the game late. We just weren’t able to finish like we know we need to. … I’m really proud of our kids for their resolve. They continue to come to work every day and they apply themselves in an awesome manner.”

Up next is Apalachee, a program that has been rebuilding under longtime Norcross assistant Steve Sims, who is a Dacula grad. The Wildcats lost 56-14 to unbeaten WinderBarrow in last week’s region opener, which came on the heels of a 42-0 loss to Monroe Area, a ranked team in AAA. However, they do have a win over a AAAAAAA team, defeating Discovery 29-28.

“The Apalachee kids play extremely hard,” Jones said. “Up front they do a good job of changing the line of scrimmage. You

can tell their kids play with an edge. We’re going to have to come to play.”

Dacula’s offense moved the ball well against Walton in its last outing.

Quarterback Shayne Buckingham was steady again, completing 11 of 17 passes for 125 yards and a touchdown and rushing 10 times for 48 yards and another score. Jalen Perry continued to be a playmaker with four rushes for 78 yards and a TD, four catches for 28 yards and solid play on defense, and Kenny Severe had three catches for 53 yards and a score.

It wasn’t quite enough to get a victory, but Dacula is ready to put the early season to rest and focus on the important region games ahead.

“You hope that playing a tough, non-region schedule prepares you well for your region games,” Jones said.

No. 3 Archer opens region play

By David Friedlander

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Having a week off is just what a team needs to get a break in the grind, that is a typical high school football season.

On the other hand, when that team is in the midst of a hot run like No. 3 state-ranked Archer heading into its Region 8-AAAAAAA opener against Newton, there is always a danger of a bye week interrupting momentum.

Throw in an extra day off, plus an unusual start time, and Saturday’s 2:30 p.m. kickoff at Homer Sharp Stadium in Covington could cause a little disruption for a lot of teams.

However, coach Andy Dyer has been pleased with how the Tigers (5-0, 1-0) have responded in practice during the off week and is confident they will be ready to play against Newton.

“It’s been an odd season all the way around with the Hurricane (Irma causing unscheduled byes),” Dyer said. “Our kids have been pretty good about being flexible. So I think they’ll be OK.” If there are any distractions for the Tigers, they had best get over them quickly against a talented Newton (5-1, 1-0) that has already gotten a jump on its region schedule after pulling away from South Gwinnett last week.

The Rams feature a potent and very diverse offense led by quarterback Myron Middlebrooks, who is a major threat with both his arm

ning backs Nuru Tinch, Adarius Thomas and Ryan Burton and Archer will have plenty of Newton options to have to defend.

“Offensively, they spread around the ball well,” Dyer said.

“They’ve got a lot of different options. For us defensively, it all starts up front setting the tone.

We’ve got to be disruptive.”

The Tigers’ defense has done a very good job of being disruptive so far this season, with linemen like Will Choloh and Colby Wooden having clogged up running lanes up front, while a lockdown secondary led by corners Taiyon Palmer and Andrew Booth and safety Jalyn Phillips have made life difficult for opposing passing games.

The Archer offense has been more sporadic, but is coming off a solid game in its last outing against Roswell.

And the solid midrange passing game on the arm of quarterback Carter Peevy and twoheaded running attack led by Keegan Strickland and Semaje Banks has been productive when Archer Tiger’s Semaje Banks (28) cuts upfield during Fri- needed. day night’s game at Mill Creek in Hoschton. (Photo: Karl But Dyer has emphaL. Moore) sized that the main goals for the offense be kept ARCHER AT NEWTON relatively simple for Saturday’s game.

Gwinnett 30-8 Archer Tigers “Offensively, we want When: Saturday, 2:30 (8-AAAAAAA) p.m.

Coach: Andy Dyer to win first down and end Last meeting: Archer Record: 5-0 every possession with a won 42-0 last year Last week: Had a bye kick,” Dyer said. “(NewLocation: Homer Sharp Newton Rams ton’s) defensive line is Stadium, Covington (8-AAAAAAA) very big and athletic, Coach: Terrance Banks which always poses isSeries history: Record: 5-1, 1-0 sues. And they play a lot 2016 — Archer 42, Newton 0 Last week: Beat South of man coverages. So we’ve got to do a good Robert Lewis and Miand his legs. job of pass blocking and Throw in receivers chael Mathison and runwin the 1-on-1 battles.”

EAST HALL AT GAC EAST HALL VIKINGS (7-AAA) Coach: Bryan Gray Record: 5-1, 2-0 region Last week: Beat Union County 62-42 GAC SPARTANS (7-AAA) Coach: Tim Hardy Record: 5-1, 2-0 region Last week: Beat Fannin County 55-7 When: Today, 7:30 p.m.

Last meeting: GAC won 69-12 last year Location: Greater Atlanta Christian School

ketball team using the press,” he said. “It’s a team that runs and guns.

Which means sometimes the score gets up on both sides.”

GAC has been using a diverse offense attack to put up numbers this season.

Just in the first half last week, the Spartans had six players with rushing carries and six others with receptions.

Quarterbacks Josh Rose and Jackson Hardy finished a combined 12 of 14 for 255 yards and four touchdowns, while GAC averaged nine yards per carry in a demolition of Fannin County.

“This is a really critical region game,” Hardy said. “That team is playing as well as anybody in (7-AAA). We like that. We’re excited about that.”

After a seasonopening loss to Class AAAAAA Habersham Central, East Hall has ripped off five straight wins and scored no less than 42 points in any of those games.

“The last half of last year, they really found their identity offensively,” Hardy said.

“They’re playing with some bounce and some confidence right now.”

Greater Atlanta Christian School wide receiver Max Burke (9) runs up the side during Friday night’s game against Valor Christian at Greater Atlanta Christian in Norcross. (Photo: Chris Roughgarden)

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Buford crushes Walnut Grove for 8-AAAAA title “It’s a pretty big rivalry, but it’s a good one. We respect them and they respect us, and it’s always a good BUFORD — Buford game,” Buford’s Arielle faced a familiar foe in Oda said. “I’m really proud the finals of the Region of our 8-AAAAA tournament team that Thursday night. we worked The Wolves have built together. up a competitive rivalry We’ve had with Walnut Grove, includa lot of ing wins over the Warriors long pracin the region finals last tices after Arielle year and the state finals the school Oda past two years. and feels The chapter added to good that everything came the series on Thursday together.” was much like the previHitting in the leadoff ous entries. The Wolves spot, Oda helped spark the cruised to a 10-0 shutout offense, going 2-for-2 with in five innings to capture a walk, two steals and two their sixth straight region runs as the Wolves (21-4) championship. carved out 11 hits off two

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pitchers.

Every starter in the Buford lineup delivered at least one hit or RBI. The Wolves jumped out to an early lead with three runs in the first and never looked back.

That fast start was key to Buford’s success after Walnut Grove (14-16) posted a pair of shutouts on Wednesday (8-0 over Flowery Branch and 10-0 over Loganville) to reach the finals.

But the momentum from those wins quickly evaporated as the Wolves jumped on starter Madison Martin.

“Walnut played so well yesterday and Loganville was tough for us on Tuesday night,” Buford head

coach Tony Wolfe said.

“The fast start was the key for us. We felt that would really help us if we could get them down early and the kids did exactly that and kept their foot on the gas. I’m really happy for these girls to get a region championship because it’s something they’ll always remember.”

Oda led off the first with a single to left center and scored when Mariah Wicker (1-for-3, two runs, two RBIs) doubled off the wall in center. But the big blow came when Gabby Benson (2-for-3, three RBIs, run) plugged the gap in right center for a triple to plate Wicker and Janelle Mathis, who reached via a walk.

Those three early runs were more than enough cushion for starter Logan Caymol to work with as she went all five innings.

Caymol finished with three hits, all singles, while striking out eight and walking just one. Buford’s defense also helped by an errorless game.

Buford’s offense kept rolling in the second as the Wolves sent seven hitters to the plate, eventually plating four more runs.

Buford received RBIs from Wicker, Hannah Jo Hyatt and Skylar Jenkins, who finished 2-for-3 with a triple, a run and an RBI. A wild pitch in the third inning scored Benson, while two more runs in

the fourth off RBIs from Benson and Anabel Adams gave Buford a 10-0 lead and enough room for the run-rule limit after five innings.

The win gives the Wolves a top seed in next week’s Class AAAAA state tournament, where they will gun for their 11th straight state championship beginning with a best-ofthree series against Hiram on Wednesday.

“I’m really pumped about it and if we keep working the way that we do, we have a shot at this,” Jenkins said of another state title. “If we stay humble and confident and work together, we can do anything.”

Freshmen help Grayson walk-off with region title

By David Friedlander

the plate.

But Jones fielded the ball cleanly and fired a strike on the fly to Gilbert, LOGANVILLE — who applied the tag to Youth was served at the retire Berkhiser and keep most opportune time for the game tied.

Grayson in Game 3 of its And when the door Region 8-AAAAAAA opened for Grayson when championship series with Bailey reached on an error Archer. with one out in the bottom First, freshman left fieldof the inning, Bill Batcher Kailyn Jones teamed elor elected to roll the dice.

Who: Faith Barth up with fellow freshman First, he had Maya School: Archer Skyler Gilbert to gun down Figueroa bunt the runner Sport: Softball the potential go-ahead run over into scoring position, Class: Freshman at the plate in the top of the now with two outs in the Highlights: Broke a inning. seventh.

1-1 tie with a grand Second, he removed his Then, another freshman, slam and finished with slugging designated player Kylie Macy, delivered five RBIs in a 7-5 vicfor a pinch runner for the a two-out RBI single in tory over Grayson, and had five hits, a home second time on the day, the bottom of the inning run and six RBIs in a making her ineligible to reto give the Rams a 5-4 doubleheader sweep of enter if the game went into walk-off win Thursday at South Gwinnett extra innings.

Grayson.

Coach Eric Stoker’s “People might’ve Jones wound up the day take: “Faith has a great thought I was crazy when 2-for-3, while Gilbert, mind for the game as a I bunted Maya because playing behind the plate freshman. She keeps Maya is hot as a firecrackin place of injured slugger getting better as the er right now,” the elder Sara Beth Ratcliffe, added season has continued.

Batchelor said. “And then an RBI and worked with I can see her being a special player the next Brinaya was burned, so Conner Batchelor (23-3) to four years.” we were kind of taking a battle through seven tough chance. But (pinch runner) innings to give the Rams Gracie Wyatt is a great (24-5) a 2-1 win in the best-of-three series and the driving in another with an baserunner for us. What a region title. infield grounder and a third weapon.”

That gamble paid off “That was freshman-to- run coming home on an as Macy lofted a single freshman-to-freshman,” error to vault the Rams in to right center, allowing Grayson coach Bill Batch- front 3-2.

Wyatt to dash home with elor said. “I’m telling you After Archer regained the winning run to set off what, Kylie Macy’s got ice the lead in the top of the the celebration. water in her veins. … Man, fifth on an RBI double by The Rams, who will host I’m proud of this group.

Sims and an RBI single Berkmar in the first round “We might’ve led the

by Jordan Sanders to take of the Class AAAAAAA first (game) a little bit, a 4-3 lead, Grayson once state playoffs next week, yeah, we were behind a lot again had an answer in also got a big day at the (in this series), that’s for the bottom of the inning plate from Aaliyah White, sure. You’ve got to give on Gilbert’s sacrifice fly who was 2-for-4 with two (Archer) credit. That’s a to knot the game again at stolen bases and a run, good ball club over there.

4-all. while Conner Batchelor They put pressure on you.

Those events set up all I’ve been fortunate to be the seventh-inning drama, was also 2-for-4 and scata part of a lot of region which started when Skylar tered nine hits and four earned runs, but stranded championships, but this Berkhiser led off the top one, it doesn’t get any of the inning with a single 10 Archer baserunners.

Sims finished the day sweeter.” and moved to second when 2-for-4 with two RBIs, Indeed, after trailing Sims grounded out to while Berkhiser and most of Wednesday’s short. doubleheader before ralShe appeared to be able MacKenzie Martin also had two hits apiece for the lying to take Game 2 and to move to third when Tigers, who will play host force the deciding game, Sanders sent a drag bunt to Norcross in next week’s Grayson fell behind early up the first base line but opening round of state. once again Thursday. was forced to return to “It was a great game.

An RBI groundout by second when Sanders was Faith Barth and Casey called out for being out of A nail-biter to the end,” Archer coach Eric Stoker Sims’ RBI single put the batter’s box when she said. “We knew it was goArcher (18-9) quickly out bunted for the second out ing to be like that (Thursin front 1-0 in the top of of the inning. day). We preached to the first.

Still, it looked like the them the whole time about But Grayson responded Tigers were going to take capitalizing on our opporin the bottom of the inning, the lead when Kailynn with Conner Batchelor James lined a single to left, tunities. … We’re young, but we’re looking forward driving in one run with sending Berkhiser speed(to state).” a single, Brinaya Bailey ing around third toward

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Wesleyan first baseman Jennifer Nolan scores on a wild pitch in the bottom of the third inning in Game 1 against Eagle’s Landing Christian Academy on Thursday.

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Wolves battle back, beat ELCA twice for 5-A title

By Colin Hubbard

game with back-to-back strikeouts, but a single to center and a double down PEACHTREE CORthe right field line set up NERS — Wesleyan had the Chargers with a prime its back against the wall opportunity to take an in the Region 5-A chamearly lead. pionship against Eagle’s It nearly happened after Landing Christian.

Ansley Jenkins scorched Behind tremendous a ball, but it was right at defense and lights-out Wesleyan second baseman pitching from both Cassie Ann Margaret Jones for Henning and Madison the third out of the inning.

Kerpics, the Wolves won Henning cruised back-to-back games on through her next two inThursday night to knock nings, which featured two off the Chargers. more strikeouts and no Henning and Kerpics hits, but the Wolves were combined for 19 strikeequally quiet at the plate, outs and zero runs as Wes- too. leyan claimed the title.

Things changed in the Game 1 was won by bottom of the third for the Henning, who pitched the Wolves.

Wolves to an 8-0 run-rule Jennifer Nolan got victory over the Chargers things started off with an behind a four-hit, seveneight-pitch walk and came strikeout performance. around to score on a wild Kerpics pitched a onepitch to put Wesleyan up hitter and recorded 12 1-0. strikeouts, to close things On the next pitch, Kerr out for the Wolves with a slashed a ball into cen4-0 victory. ter field, scoring Gracie Jahni Kerr, a Florida Taylor to extend the lead State commit, picked up to 2-0 heading into the two RBIs in Game 1, and fourth inning. drove in two more in Game The Wolves followed 2. The first came on an op- that up with three more posite-field home run and runs in the fifth. The first the second put the Wolves came on a single from up 3-0 in the top of the sev- Henning and the second enth with a double to left. on a three-run home run She also scored the game’s to left field from Reece first run and came around Holbrook. to score the Wolves’ fourth Their 6-0 lead turned and final run after stealing into 8-0 in the bottom of third and coming home on the sixth, which ended the a bad throw into left field. game on the spot. Taylor drove home Nolan from Game 1 second on a single to Henning started the right, and Kerr ended it Staff Correspondent

with a single to center.

Game 2 The Wolves got a hard-earned first-inning run to start off Game 2.

Kerr led the game off with a walk, and promptly stole second. With Kerr standing on third after a sacrifice from Jones, Henning struck out, but a throw down to third that got away allowed Kerr to come home to score.

The Chargers threatened in the bottom of the second, but Megan Gallagher dispelled it after laying out in the outfield to make a catch with a runner on first.

Kerpics walked her first batter of the game to put runners on first and second with two outs, but the sophomore stuck out Faith Palmer to end the inning.

Fresh out of the jam, Kerr launched a towering opposite-field home run to left-center to extend the Wolves’ lead to 2-0.

Kerpics found herself in an even bigger jam in the bottom of the fourth after the catcher was unable to hold onto strike three that would have sent the game into the fifth.

Instead, the Chargers rallied and put runners on second and third after a walk and a wild pitch with two outs.

But again, Kerpics’ defense had her back. This time, in the form of a diving catch behind second base from Holbrook to end the inning.

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Goal for U.S. men: Two wins for World Cup berth

By David Smale The Sports Xchang

With two matches left in the Hexagonal to determine the three World Cup spots for CONCACAF, the U.S. men’s national team has its destiny in its hands heading into a crucial match against Panama tonight in Orlando, Fla. While sitting in fourth place in the group, Team USA still holds all the cards in determining its destiny for World Cup 2018 in Russia. With

victories in the last two matches, the U.S. squad will earn one of the three automatic spots.

A victory Friday would not secure the spot for the Americans, but it certainly would go a long way.

Just a point separates third-place Panama from the United States. A victory by the Americans would put Bruce Arena’s side two points ahead of Panama heading into the final match, a visit to sixth-place Trinidad & Tobago on Tuesday.

However, Panama can

clinch the country’s first World Cup berth with an upset victory over the United States. Panama hosts Costa Rica on Tuesday.

The Americans have never lost to Panama in World Cup qualifying matches (5-0-2) and own a 12-1-6 all-time record in the series. The sides played to a 1-1 draw at Panama City in late March.

Team USA earned a critical point in its last match when Bobby Wood scored the equalizer in the 85th minute in Honduras in a 1-1

draw last month. The point earned was just as important as the two it denied Honduras, and the result positioned the U.S. to have the power that any team would ask for: the ability to dictate its own World Cup fate.

“It sets us up for these last two games in terms of everything being there for us,” midfielder Michael Bradley said. “Controlling our own destiny and knowing that whatever else happens, we have 180 minutes to make sure we’re going to Russia.”

And while fate is in their

own hands, the Americans know there’s no more margin for error. The team has been in that position twice before during this cycle and each time responded in the best way.

After falling 2-0 to Guatemala during semifinalround play in March 2016, the U.S. team faced a quick turnaround and prospect of early elimination if it fell in the return match four days later in Columbus, Ohio. Instead, an inspired U.S. side rattled off a 4-0 victory, the first of three

consecutive to finish on top of the group.

Following two successive defeats to open the Hex last November, the Americans began turning this around with a 6-0 victory against Honduras. Four days later, it battled to a 1-1 road draw with Panama.

“Since I’ve been part of the national team — even before that — whenever our backs are against the wall, the team has always been resilient and able to answer that call,” defender Graham Zusi said.

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Dacula wins 2nd-straight 8-AAAAAA softball crown

Bulldogs repeat as area volleyball champ

From Staff Reports

By Ken Chrzanowski

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WINDER — Dacula clinched back-to-back region titles and head coach Traci Keefer’s 350th career win Thursday night in its 3-1 win against Region 8-AAAAAA tournament host Apalachee.

Pitcher Sydney Boulware struck out 10 batters en route to the Falcon’s eight-inning win. Alexis Davis scored and drove in one run in a 2-for-4 night at the plate. Elsie Igberaese was 1-for-3 with one run and one RBI, Jin Sileo recorded a hit and scored and Erin Watt was 1-for-3 at the plate.

Dacula (15-7) took the No. 1 seed from Region 8 and will host Chattahoochee to open the state playoffs on Oct. 13.

SOFTBALL SOFTBALL GAC finishes runner-up in region tournament NORCROSS — Greater Atlanta Christian placed second in the Region 7-AAA softball tournament Wednesday night, splitting a double header against North Hall and East Hall.

The Trojans won Game 1 against North Hall in six innings, 14-1, and lost in the finals to East Hall 2-1. Amanda Briskin led the Trojans with a combined three hits in two games.

In Game 1, Briskin was 3-for-5 with an RBI, and Maddie Marchiando drove in two runs

in her 2-for-4 game at the plate.

In Game 2, Briskin’s bat stayed hot, going 2-for-4 in the loss to East Hall.

GAC will host Morgan County, the No. 3 team from Region 8-AAA on Oct. 11.

Lanier 4, Winder-Barrow 2 WINDER — The Lanier softball team earned a No. 3 seed in next week’s state tournament with the help of a completegame performance from pitcher Laura Ann Acker.

In Lanier’s Region 8-AAAAAA consolation game Thursday, Acker pitched seven innings for the Longhorns (13-10) and allowed one earned run on nine hits. Maygan Loparo was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and Payton Franklin drove in two runs, going 1-for-3 at the plate.

The Longhorns will face Cambridge, the No. 2 team from Region 7 on Oct. 13.

VOLLEYBALL VOLLEYBALL Grayson advances in Area 8-AAAAAAA tournament CONYERS — Grayson defeated Shiloh 25-10, 25-17 in its opening round match of the Area 8-AAAAAAA tournament Thursday at Rockale County High School.

Bria Holmes-Lewis led the way with 11 kills for the Rams (29-12), who will take on Archer in the next round at 5 p.m.

Friday.

The Rams advance to face Archer today at 5 p.m.

Shiloh wins twice CONYERS — Shiloh bounced back from its opening loss to Grayson to defeat South Gwinnett 25-11, 25-20 and Newton 25-16, 25-15 to advance at the Area 8-AAAAAAA tournament Thursday at Rockdale County High School.

Stephanie Burke finished the day with six kills, four aces,

12 assists, 11 digs aand four solo blocks on the day for the Generals (18-17).

Also contributing were Kaliz Hunt, who had two aces, four kills and three solo blocks against Grayson, Faith Collector, who had three kills, two assists and a dig in the Grayson match, Trinity Collector (five aces, a kill and four digs vs. Newton and four aces, three kills, two assists and two digs vs. South) and Daborah Head (1 aces, two kills, five assists, three solo blocks, six digs vs.

Newton; three aces, two kills, three assists, four solo blocks and six digs vs. South).

Hebron advances to finals MONROE — Hebron Christian swept to a 25-16, 25-16 victory over Athens Academy in the semifinals of the Area 8-A tournament Thursday at George Walton Academy.

Hayden McGee pounded down 13 kills, while Rebeca Olariu added five kills and 10 digs and Abbi Luke handed out 19 assists to help the Lions (416) advance to Saturday’s area championship match, where they will face a rematch with Athens Academy.

Archer advances in area tournament CONYERS — Archer defeated Rockdale in the first round of the Area 8-AAAAAAA volleyball tournament 25-19, 25-9.

Archer advanced to face Grayson in the second round at 5 p.m. today.

Providence ousted MARIETTA — The Providence Christian volleyball team ended its season with a loss to Lakeview Academy in the Area 8-A tournament, 21-25, 21-25.

Cameron Hall racked up 16 assists for the Storm, who finish the season with a final record of 26-23.

than a four-point lead and the Bulldogs were clinging to a 15-14 lead when SUWANEE — North a defensive score and Jill Gwinnett successTontillo’s serves netted fully defended its Area North a 20-14 lead. A kill 6-AAAAAAA volleyballl by Packer finished the first tournament championset at 25-19. ship on Thursday night as The second set was simithe top seeded Bulldogs lar at the outset. defeated number two seed North jumped out to a Mill Creek 25-19, 25-22.

5-2 lead before Mill Creek “We played a great over- tied the score at six. all match,” North coach This time, the Hawks Vanessa Henry’s said of were able to get in front, her 36-5 squad. “Our digs and an ace from Natalie and passing were good and Boyd lifted Mill Creek to our kills were consistent.” a 9-6 lead. The lead held Leading the Bulldogs and an ace by the Hawks’ was senior Lizzy Packer Rachel Machovec and who recorded 15 kills and a kill by sister Rebekah 18 digs.

Machovec had Mill Creek “Volleyball is such a in front 12-8. team sport, no one person North was able to rally. can execute without all Eventually, a kill by Packer the right pieces coming followed by a kill from together,” Packer said. junior Caitlin O’Farrell put “We wanted to defend as the Bulldogs on top 15-14.

Area champs and continue The teams traded points our run of North Gwinnett until the score was knotted winning in this area.” at 22.

Mill Creek and North Autumn Hamilton met in September in a registered a kill for North, match that went to three followed by another point sets before the Bulldogs for the Bulldogs, which came out on top. The led to championship point Hawks (36-4) hoped to turn being an ace, delivered by the tables in the rematch.

Jada Jones.

North, however, jumped Critical to the win were out to a quick 5-2 lead the 10 kills in the middle before the Hawks rallied. registered by O’Farrell.

A block by Mill Creek’s “We had to keep poundMorgan Iverson tied the ing,” O’Farrell said. “Alexa score at six. Neither team (Fortin) is such a great setwas able to gain more ter, she puts it right where

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Moore, Lynx prevail again Collins Hill grad wins 4th WNBA championship

By Jess Myers

The Sports Xchange

MINNEAPOLIS — Still smarting from a bad WNBA Finals game a year ago, Sylvia Fowles found a way to rebound. Literally.

Fowles and Collins Hill grad Maya Moore led the way as the Minnesota Lynx never trailed, beating the Los Angeles Sparks 85-76 in Game 5 of the WNBA Finals on Wednesday to claim the fourth league crown in franchise history.

In accepting the Finals MVP trophy after scoring 17 points and pulling down a season-high 20 rebounds, Fowles recalled Game 5 a year ago, when she missed a rebound that allowed the Sparks to make the final shot and win the title.

“If I didn’t do anything else, I wanted to make it my business to go out there and rebound,” Fowles said.

“That was my downfall last year, and that haunted me for a long time after Game 5 last year. I wanted to come in and show my presence, and that was rebounding.”

Minnesota joins the now-defunct Houston Comets as the WNBA’s only four-time champions.

The Lynx also won titles in 2011, 2013 and 2015.

Moore topped the Lynx with 18 points, and Lindsay Whalen added 17 points. Moore had 10 boards, while Whalen contributed eight assists.

“I think every time you do this, it gets a little more special because it gets a little harder,” Whalen said. “It gets a little more meaningful because you know it’s not easy, and it’s not something we take for granted, ever.”

Leading by four to start the fourth quarter, the Lynx held off a late charge by the Sparks to claim the deciding game in the bestof-five series.

Los Angeles, which won the title last season in Minnesota, fell short despite a game-high 19 points and team-high 15 rebounds from Candace Parker.

“Rebounding hurt,” Parker said. “Our start

Minnesota forward Maya Moore (23) celebrates in the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Sparks in Game 5 of the WNBA finals Wednesday in Minneapolis. (Photo: Brad Rempel-USA Today Sports)

wasn’t as up to par as we wanted it to be, but we cut the lead and got back in the game. A couple calls didn’t go our way. We need to do a better job in the offseason of trying to figure out how to draw contact.”

The Sparks trailed by 12 with less than two minutes to play, then went on a 9-0 run, cutting Minnesota’s lead to 79-76 in the final 30 seconds. However, a Moore jumper and free throws by Fowles and Whalen sealed the victory.

Los Angeles had trouble finding the rim in the opening minutes, missing its first five shots of the game.

That opened the door for

the Lynx to keep their raucous audience on its feet.

Minnesota opened up an 11-point lead at one point in the first, but the Sparks closed the quarter on an 11-2 run, cutting the Minnesota advantage to 21-19 after 10 minutes.

The Lynx led 41-35 at halftime after Moore overcame a string of misses in the second quarter to lead Minnesota with 10 firsthalf points. The Sparks got a dozen in the first half from Parker, even though she missed a trio of 3-point shots. The Sparks were a collective 0-for-7 from 3-point range in the first half.

Fowles was the top overall rebounder in the first half with 10, while Parker pulled down seven first-half rebounds for Los Angeles.

“We were right there at halftime, then they sort of extended their lead, and we hung around,” said Sparks coach Brian Agler, who was whistled for a technical foul in the second quarter. “I don’t know exactly what the timing was, but with 20-some seconds left (in the game), we’re down three. That’s a credit to our team, to fight hard and put ourselves in position. We made some really good plays and just couldn’t get over the hump.”

In the third quarter, the Lynx came out hitting shots and boosted their lead to 47-35, but Los Angeles calmed down and started getting the ball to Parker under the basket more often. An 11-2 run by the Sparks, and two baskets in the final minute of the third cut, Minnesota’s lead to 60-56 heading into the final quarter.

“We knew it was going to come down to our starters and their starters.

That’s how the series was defined,” said Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve, fighting back tears at the postgame podium. “We also thought getting off to a good start would be important, and we did that.”

Notes: For the first time in the three games played in Minnesota, the Sparks stayed on the court while the national anthem was played. They had retreated to their locker room prior to the first two games of the series. … Lynx F Sylvia Fowles, the reigning league MVP, had her fifth consecutive double-double in the game, which is a WNBA Finals record. … It was the league-record fifth WNBA crown for Lynx F Rebekkah Brunson, who was part of the 2005 title team in Sacramento and has won four titles with Minnesota. … Sparks F Nneka Ogwumike fouled out of the game with 5:39 to play in the fourth. She scored 11 points.

it needs to be.”

Fortin dished out 35 assists in addition to 11 kills of her own. Reagan Schneider added 27 digs, Jada Jones had 19 digs while Tontillo pitched in with 16 digs.

Meanwhile, Mill Creek (35-4), which had beaten Mountain View 25-15, 25-22 earlier in the day to advance to the title match, got a combined 19 kills, seven digs and three aces from Rachel Machovec, 13 kills from Rebekah Machovec, five kills and five blocks from Iverson, three kills and six blocks from Lauren Anderson, three kills and five blocks from Mar’ria Philllips, 10 digs from Joah Bernis, and 35 assists from Emily Walker.

In the third place match, Mountain View defeated Duluth 25-19 and 25-14.

Rachel Machovec was named Area MVP. Also on the all-area team were Rebekah Machovec and Emily Walter from Mill Creek. Packer, O’Farrell, Schneider and Fortin from North Gwinnett represented the champions. Bailey Carpenter from Mountain View, Brittany Best from Peachtree Ridge, Meredith Eckard and Taylor Hentz from Duluth along with Djenabou Berry from Collins Hill rounded out the squad.

McCann, Astros blast Boston 8-2 The Sports Xchange HOUSTON — Presented a lengthy, rhetorical question seeking perspective on his historic threehomer game, Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve responded with a simplicity matching his successful approach at the plate, cutting to the chase with a one-word answer that succinctly summarized if he previously enjoyed such an incredible, singular performance in his career.

“Never,” Altuve said.

Altuve recorded the 10th three-homer game in postseason history as the Astros jumped on Cy Young Award contender Chris Sale to claim an 8-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday at Minute Maid Park in Game 1 of this American League Division Series.

Altuve (3-for-4, three RBIs) became the first player in franchise history and the ninth overall to homer three times in a postseason game, doing so twice off Sale (0-1).

The five-time All-Star, three-time batting champion, and MVP candidate, followed a solo shot from Alex Bregman in the first inning that staked Houston to a 2-0 lead with a twoout solo home run off Sale in the fifth and a leadoff dinger against Boston right-handed reliever Austin Maddox in the seventh.

He etched his name alongside legends Babe Ruth, who accomplished the feat twice, Albert Pujols, George Brett and Reggie Jackson. When pressed further, Altuve expressed mild shock.

“I couldn’t believe any of my homers,” Altuve said. “I hit one and I was like, ‘Wow!’ And the second one was like, ‘Wow, what’s going on here?’

(After the third homer) oh, I don’t know. I got to wake up.”

The Astros grabbed a 1-0 series lead by socking four home runs overall while getting two-RBI hits from Marwin Gonzalez and Brian McCann.

Sale, making his first

career postseason start, was shaky throughout his five-plus innings of work. He surrendered nine hits and one walk and was charged with seven earned runs while striking out six. Gonzalez drove home Evan Gattis and Josh Reddick with his two-out double in the fourth. Gattis and Reddick reached in succession to chase Sale in the bottom of the sixth.

“It sucks,” said Sale, who threw 100 pitches.

“Never really gave my team a chance to win. Put them in a hole early. They fought back and they fought back hard, and I gave it right back to them.

It happens. Terrible time for it to happen.”

Said Red Sox manager John Farrell: “Any time he mislocated, particularly in the middle of the plate, they made him pay for it.”

Astros right-hander Justin Verlander (1-0) labored following a quick start, coughing up a 2-0 lead before rallying to a strong finish. Verlander needed 79 pitches to complete four innings, having surrendered a two-out single to Sandy Leon in the second inning and a sacrifice fly to Rafael Devers that scored Mookie Betts in the fourth.

“I’ve got to give a lot of credit to McCann,” Verlander said. “We have been working really hard on my changeup and was able to execute a good one there and get a double play. I turn around and I’m pretty fired up and I see Mac jumping up and down, too. He was just as fired up as I was.”

Verlander tossed just 20 pitches total in the fifth and sixth, aided in the former frame by an inning-ending double play off the bat of Red Sox left fielder Andrew Benintendi. Verlander then retired the side in order in the sixth and completed his outing having allowed two runs on six hits and two walks with three strikeouts over six innings for his eighth postseason victory.

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GWINNETT GRADS Morché happy, confident heading into UGA match

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By Will Hammock

will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Friends and family were the first to pick up on Cosette Morché’s unhappiness at Louisiana-Lafayette, where she played goalkeeper on the women’s soccer team the past two seasons.

The Peachtree Ridge grad didn’t sound like herself, even if she didn’t see it immediately. She was close with her teammates, but didn’t feel she was headed in a positive direction as a goalkeeper after two college seasons.

“I didn’t even realize I was unhappy at first,” Morché said. “My parents called me and told me I wasn’t myself. They didn’t say anything at first but when I said I was going to transfer, they said, ‘We noticed you’re not yourself.’ … I couldn’t see myself improving (at Louisiana-Lafayette), which is kind of disappointing. You would think you would come to college to do better. Our team was really close. We would do anything for each other.

But it didn’t translate to the field.”

The decision to leave Louisiana-Lafayette sent Morché on a hectic journey in December that featured multiple college visits and 12 total plane rides in a two-week span. She trimmed her list down to Texas A&M, Tennessee and Minnesota, then enrolled at Texas A&M for the spring semester.

She loved the school, the players and the coaches, admitting that the signing decision “wasn’t even close” between Texas A&M and her other choices.

“At my old school, I wasn’t really happy,” Morché said. “It just didn’t seem like college should be. I wasn’t enjoying soccer as much as I did before. Thankfully, when I transferred here, I feel like it helped me get my love back for soccer.”

Morché has given her new team a major boost, too.

Texas A&M entered Thursday night’s match vs. Alabama with a No. 23 national ranking and an 8-2-1 (3-1 in Southeastern Conference play) record with Morché playing all 1,013 minutes, 39 seconds in goal. The 6-foot-2 keeper has 32 saves, four shutouts and a 0.80 goalsagainst average.

“We all came in July and did training with our strength coach and played pickup over the summer pretty much every night,” Morché said. “The preseason went really smoothly. I love how I came in the spring and we got so close.

We were able to play so well together and moved it from the spring over to the summer and to the fall.

It’s like we’ve never really

lins Hill’s Tomon Fox (No. 12) is a defensive end, North Gwinnett’s Donnie Miles (No. 15) is a safety, South Gwinnett’s Malik Robinson (No. 24) is a linebacker and Buford’s Nick Polino (No. 58) is an SATURDAY offensive guard for UNC. Noon — Wake Forest at Clemson, 3:30 p.m. — LSU at Florida, CBS ESPN2 Lanier’s Tyler Taylor (No. 24) is a Buford’s Jake Simpson (No. 42) is a linebacker and Buford’s Blake Fergulinebacker, North Gwinnett’s Sean Maginn (No. 79) is an offensive lineman and son (No. 50) is a long snapper for LSU. Lanier’s Mike Allen (No. 91) is a defenArcher’s Antonio Riles (No. 51) is an sive lineman for Wake Forest. Grayson’s offensive lineman for Florida.

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3:30 p.m. — Air Force at Navy, CBS Noon — Iowa State at Oklahoma, Fox Sports Network Peachtree Ridge’s Orlando Brown (No. Parkview’s Shaq Vereen (No. 6) is a 78) is an offensive tackle for Oklahoma. linebacker for Air Force. Archer’s John Noon — Penn State at Northwestern, Gillis (No. 18) is a safety, Brookwood’s ABC Josh Brown (No. 28) is a running back, Buford’s Steven Reese (No. 23) is a GAC’s Paul Carothers (No. 50) is a linewide receiver, Buford’s Chee Anyanwu backer, GAC’s Ford Higgins (No. 72) is (No. 34) is a linebacker and Brookwood’s an offensive tackle and Mountain View’s Jesse Brown (No. 36) is a running back Kendel Wright (No. 76) is an offensive for Northwestern. tackle for Navy.

Noon — Georgia at Vanderbilt, ESPN 3:30 p.m. — Charleston Southern at For UGA, Norcross’ Lorenzo Carter (No. Indiana, Big Ten Network 7) is a linebacker, Grayson’s DeAngelo Parkview’s Jack Chambers (No. 18) is a Gibbs (No. 8) is a defensive back, Moun- quarterback for Charleston Southern. tain View’s Tim Hill (No. 29) is a defen4 p.m. — Maryland at Ohio State, Fox sive back, Peachtree Ridge’s Robert North Gwinnett’s Jalen Brooks (No. Beal (No. 33) is a linebacker, Brook43) and Collins Hill’s Brett Shepherd wood’s Nick Moore (No. 43) is a fullback, (No. 53) are linebackers for Maryland.

South Gwinnett’s Reggie Carter (No. 45) Archer’s Isaiah Pryor (No. 14) is a safety is a linebacker, North Gwinnett’s Micheal for Ohio State.

D’Angola (No. 91) is a punter, Shiloh’s 4 p.m. — Oregon State at Southern Kolby Wyatt (No. 91) is a defensive line- California, Pac 12 Network man, Grayson’s Justin Young (No. 92) is North Gwinnett’s Josh Imatorbhebhe a defensive lineman and GAC’s Brooks (No. 17) is a wide receiver and North Buce (No. 97) is a kicker. For Vandy, Gwinnett’s Daniel Imatorbhebhe (No. North Gwinnett’s Caleb Scott (No. 9) is 88) is a tight end for USC. a wide receiver, Parkview’s Bryce Lewis 4 p.m. — Tulsa at Tulane, ESPNU (No. 30) is a cornerback, Norcross’ Jalen Norcross’ Monty Montgomery (No. 30) Pinkney (No. 44) is a defensive lineman, is a linebacker and Shiloh’s Cameron Mountain View’s Johnathan Stewart Sample (No. 55) is a defensive end for (No. 73) is an offensive lineman, GAC’s Tulane.

Devin Cochran (No. 77) is an offensive 4 p.m. — Arkansas at South Carolina, lineman, Norcross’ Jared Pinkney (No. SEC Network 80) is a tight end and Shiloh’s Darion Parkview’s Trey Derouen (No. 79) is an DeBrossard (No. 96) is an offensive offensive lineman, Collins Hill’s Drew lineman.

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D’Andre Plantin (No. 62) is an offensive Noon — Texas Tech at Kansas, FS1 lineman for Virginia Tech. Suwanee’s Grayson’s Zach Barnes (No. 52) is a Will Harris (No. 8) is a defensive back, defensive lineman for Texas Tech.

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Singleton (No. 16) is a safety, Buford’s 7:30 p.m. — Michigan State at MichiJosh Blackwell is a cornerback, Graygan, ABC son’s Will Taylor (No. 55) is a center, Peachtree Ridge’s Connor Heyward (No. Grayson’s John Taylor (No. 57) is a long 11) is a running back for Michigan State. snapper, Collins Hill’s Christian Harris 7:30 p.m. — Missouri at Kentucky, (No. 70) is an offensive guard and North SEC Network Gwinnett’s Drew Jordan (No. 86) is a North Gwinnett’s Nate Brown (No. 7) is a defensive end. For Virginia, Peachtree wide receiver, Buford’s Thomas Wilson Ridge’s Jordan Ellis (No. 1) is a run(No. 8) is a safety and Grayson’s Dimening back, Wesleyan’s Jordan Mack (No. trios Mason (No. 9) is a wide receiver for 37) is a linebacker, Mill Creek’s Tyler Missouri. Peachtree Ridge’s Blake Best Fannin (No. 72) is a center, Parkview’s (No. 53) is a long snapper and Archer’s Juwan Moye (No. 99) is a defensive end, E.J. Price (No. 72) is an offensive lineCentral Gwinnett’s Darious Latimore is man for Kentucky. a cornerback and Collins Hill’s Robert 8 p.m. — Wisconsin at Nebraska, Big Snyder is a linebacker.

Ten Network 12:30 p.m. — Pittsburgh at Syracuse, Grayson’s Mohamed Barry (No. 7) is a Fox Sports South linebacker for Nebraska.

Collins Hill’s Jonathan Thomas (No. 23) 8 p.m. — Central Florida at Cincinnati, and Mountain View’s Kielan Whitner ESPNU (No. 25) are linebackers for Syracuse.

Shiloh’s Cam Stewart (No. 11) is a wide 3:30 p.m. — West Virginia at TCU, FS1 receiver and Buford’s Tre Neal (No. 23) Buford’s Tyler Thurmond (No. 70) is is a defensive back for Central Florida. an offensive lineman for West Virginia.

Norcross’ Kevin Mouhon (No. 48) is a Norcross’ Ridwan Issahaku (No. 31) is a defensive end for Cincinnati. safety for TCU. 8 p.m. — Arizona at Colorado, Pac 12 3:30 p.m. — Miami (Fla.) at Florida Network State, ESPN Grayson’s Jack Banda (No. 92) is a Norcross’ Christopher Herndon (No. 23) defensive end for Arizona. Brookwood’s is a tight end and Peachtree Ridge’s TyAfolabi Laguda (No. 1) is a defensive ler Murphy (No. 32) is a defensive back back for Colorado. for Miami. Central Gwinnett’s Adonis 10:15 p.m. — Stanford at Utah, FS1 Thomas (No. 22) and Brookwood’s GAC’s Davis Mills (No. 15) is a quarterLeonard Warner (No. 35) are linebackback and Duluth resident Anthony Trinh ers for FSU. (No. 40) is a linebacker for Stanford.

3:30 p.m. — Notre Dame at North 10:45 p.m. — California at Washington, Carolina, ABC ESPN Buford’s Montgomery VanGorder (No. Collins Hill’s Chris Palmer (No. 98) is a 4) is a quarterback for Notre Dame. Colnoseguard for Cal. A quick look at where to watch former Gwinnett standouts on TV in this week’s college football action:

Peachtree Ridge grad Cosette Morché is the starting goalkeeper for Texas A&M after transferring from Louisiana-Lafayette, where she played her first two college seasons. (Photo: Texas A&M)

stopped playing together even when we all went home because we were working so hard. This season’s been really good.”

The Aggies hope to continue their hot streak on Sunday, when Morché gets a trip home to play the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens at 5 p.m.

“I’m really excited because not only are lot of my family coming but a lot of my former teammates and classmates are going to be there at the game,” Morché said. “It’s going to be really fun to see everyone.

Hopefully, they’ll wear maroon instead of red.”

Morché hopes to show her family and friends a new version of herself. She is happy playing soccer again, and also feels she is a much better goalkeeper because of her short time in College Station.

Personal improvement was a major goal for Morché, who wants the rest of her junior season and next year as a senior to prepare her for a future in pro soccer.

“It kind of blows my mind because when I first got here, I was kind of overwhelmed by learning so much at one time,” she said. “Now from the past, the spring and the summer and into the season, I realize how much more I’ve improved. It’s insane how much I’ve improved with my confidence and my ability. Coach G (Guerrieri), my head coach, is the goalkeeper coach as well.

He taught me an insane amount of stuff.

“That’s one of the reasons I wanted to transfer to a bigger school. I want to play soccer after college.

Coming here, I’m getting the training I need and it’s giving me the confidence to play after college as well.”

Plenty of goals, in large part team-related, are left at the college level before a pro career. A victory in Athens this weekend would be a nice start to the remainder of the season for the Aggies, who are among the favorites for an SEC title run.

“I definitely think we can win the rest of our games,” Morché said. “I have so much confidence in us. After that, 100 percent I think we’ll be able to make it into the NCAA Tournament and hopefully

win it. Last season they made it to the Final Four and lost in PKs. That’s not a very good way to go out.

PKs don’t really show who is the better team. Hopefully we can get past that point and get further than they did last season.”

VOLLEYBALL North’s Munlyn honored by SEC Missouri junior Alyssa Munlyn, a North Gwinnett grad, was named the Southeastern Conference co-defensive player of the week on Monday.

Munlyn averaged 2.12 blocks per set last week in road wins over Auburn and Alabama. Her 12 total blocks against Auburn marked the fourth match this season she has reached double digits in blocks.

SOFTBALL Kavel part of Duke history Wesleyan grad Jameson Kavel started at shortstop in the first softball game in Duke history, an 8-3 victory over N.C. State.

Kavel also registered Duke’s first RBI by drawing a bases-loaded walk.

SOCCER Rygh’s game-winner nets recognition Killian Hill Christian grad Kristyn Rygh was named the Bob Jones women’s soccer team’s player of the game for last Saturday’s 2-1 win over Truett-McConnell.

Rygh scored the goahead goal and provided strong play in the midfield in the victory.

TENNIS Kelly earns Georgia College award Peachtree Ridge grad Jena Kelly was named the Georgia College Bobcat Athlete of the Week as the school’s top athlete in all sports.

Kelly won three singles matches and three doubles matches in Flight A at ITA Southeast Regionals.

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

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

Elliott working through learning curve in Cup Series

By Don Coble

Staff Correspondent

Chase Elliott has all the tools to be successful as a driver in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. But despite having top-notch Hendrick Motorsports equipment and a racing pedigree that starts with his hall of fame father Bill Elliott, the learning curve has been a struggle.

Young Elliott was in a good position to win his first race last Sunday, but lacked an important ingredient — experience

— in the final two laps at the Dover International Speedway.

Elliott led 59 of the final 61 laps, often by more than 150 yards, only to give it away coming to the white flag while trying to get around slower traffic.

Kyle Busch turned Elliott’s indecision into a race-winning pass.

Unlike two other runnerup finishes this year, including two weeks earlier at the Chicagoland Speedway, Elliott was devastated by the fact he remains winless in 70 career races.

“I thought if I had a clean track, I could have run as fast as he did, but I didn’t, and I should have done something different,” Elliott said. “So that’s just on me, and he did a better job than I did. At the end of the day that’s what it comes down to.”

Elliott was stuck behind Ryan Newman for several laps at the end of the race. Newman, who was trying to stay alive in the playoffs, fought vigorously to stay on the lead lap. Instead of moving to the middle or the top of

the track, Elliott got so preoccupied in waiting for Newman to move, Busch quickly closed the gap and made the race-winning pass on the top groove.

Like everyone else, Busch was stunned Elliott didn’t change his line.

“The only thing Chase could have done differently was just moved around and tried to get out of the wake of the cars that were in front of him,” Busch said.

“I was actually surprised he didn’t. He kept running the bottom behind those guys, and the bottom was

what got him there for that point in the day. He was good down there all day long, but he was just getting slowed down too much by the air and everything in front of him.

“He could have just tried to blitz them on the top and get around them sooner, but other than that, I think he was just so focused on what he had all day long, making the bottom work, that he just stuck with it.”

Few rookies have come to the Cup series with more fanfare. But in the past two years, Chris Buescher,

Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Austin Dillon and Ryan Blaney all have posted their first victories while Elliott remains winless.

And it’s something that’s starting to wear on the 21-year-old driver.

“I’m just so disappointed in myself,” Elliott said.

“Golly, I couldn’t have had it any easier. It ran green from the stage break all the way to the end. And, I gave it away. I appreciate my team and their efforts today. The pit stops were great and they kept us in the ballgame. I didn’t.”

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Lots the same, but don’t sleep on the Badgers

By Anthony Gimino The Sports Xchange

That’s it for September.

Alabama is Alabama.

Clemson is Clemsonsing, in all the good ways. Georgia’s defense is ferocious.

Oklahoma has pocketed a win at Ohio State. Saquon Barkley is returning kicks for scores and throwing touchdowns for Penn State, which hardly seems fair.

If that’s the Big Five for the first month of the college football season, there is still a long line out the door hoping to get into the playoff club.

TCU and Washington State — each with a signature victory — have taken turns as the flavor of the day and jumped closer to the front of the line.

Some of the sexy teams with one loss — including USC, Oklahoma State, even Notre Dame — can’t be eliminated from playoff discussion.

But don’t overlook an ol’ reliable. The quiet team in the corner.

1 Wisconsin.

Wisconsin is still just so Wisconsin. Great offensive line. Stop-me-if-you-can running game. Efficient passing attack. Stout

Wisconsin wide receiver Danny Davis III (6) gets by Northwestern safety Kyle Queiro (21) to pick up yards after the catch Saturday in Madison, Wis. (Photo: Jeff Hanisch-USA Today Sports)

defensive front seven.

Perhaps you’ve seen this before.

The Badgers arrived ahead of schedule with a young team last season, winning 11 games and nearly popping Penn State’s balloon in the Big Ten title game. Their formula is working again.

Wisconsin is in the national top 25 in rushing, the top 10 in third-down conversions and the top five in passing efficiency, rushing defense, total defense and sacks.

While the hurdles haven’t been the high-

est, that’s also kind of the point looking ahead. The Badgers (4-0, 1-0 Big Ten) don’t play Ohio State in the regular season. They don’t play Penn State.

They get Michigan at Camp Randall Stadium.

If they win at Nebraska this Saturday, the path is clear to at least the West Division championship and the Big Ten title game.

In a 33-24 victory over Northwestern on Saturday in which the Wildcats scored two late touchdowns to make the final score more respectable, Wisconsin had eight sacks

and held standout running back Justin Jackson to 25 yards on nine carries.

Those two late TDs are the only second-half points allowed by Wisconsin this season.

“I thought it was a great example, too, of how football is a team game, and it takes everyone,” Badgers coach Paul Chryst said after the game. “I thought this was one of those games of field position, and I thought that we had better field position and took advantage of it in the second half and able to get some points.”

Field position. That’s so Wisconsin.

True freshman running back Jonathan Taylor leads a typical collection of deep backs, and the receiving corps can make big plays when needed.

Sophomore quarterback Alex Hornibrook has been just fine at not messing things up, ranking fifth nationally in passing efficiency.

Many teams will be left behind as the playoff race accelerates, but the steady Badgers have the skill — and the schedule — to be within reach of the finish line in early December.

5 things we learned in Week 5 1. “Angry” Alabama is awesome. The Crimson Tide has wrecked Vanderbilt and Ole Miss by a combined score of 125-3 in the past two weeks, and coach Nick Saban was still so grouchy he sniped at a reporter in his postgame press conference Saturday night for not putting the microphone close enough to his mouth.

2. The window of opportunity is closing for Butch Jones. Big buyout or not — reportedly at least $11 million to sweep away the entire staff — Jones is in trouble at Tennessee. He missed his chance to make hay in the past two seasons, when neither Florida nor Georgia was a juggernaut, and losses to both of those schools this year mean the Vols won’t win the SEC East. Again. Saturday’s 41-0 home loss to Georgia might have been Jones’ point of no return.

3. The Texas defense is a salty bunch. The Longhorns have been superb defensively in three games since a wild 51-41 loss to Maryland, holding Iowa State to seven points last Thursday.

If defensive coordinator

Todd Orlando’s big, aggressive group is legit, Texas is going to make some noise in a key upcoming stretch that goes like this: Kansas State, vs. Oklahoma, Oklahoma State.

4. Scott Frost is on every AD’s speed dial. Central Florida was 0-12 two seasons ago to close out the George O’Leary era before Frost arrived as a rookie head coach. The former Nebraska quarterback went 6-7 in his debut season and is off to a 4-0 start this season with the Knights, with lopsided victories at Maryland and over Memphis. At 42, with an impeccable pedigree, Frost is the newest hot coach.

5. Call him Coach UhOh. LSU has been boatraced by a Mississippi State team that subsequently got exposed by Georgia and Auburn, and then theoretically hit bottom Saturday with a home loss to Troy. LSU didn’t have to put a $12 million buyout into coach Ed Orgeron’s contract — the Tigers were essentially bidding against themselves after firing Les Miles last season — but that is what the school will owe if it wants to quickly pull the plug this season.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2017 CONSTRUCTION/ SERVICE BIDS CONSTRUCTION/ SERVICE BIDS ADVERTISEMENT TO BID Sealed bids will be received by the City of Peachtree Corners (Owner) until 10:00 a.m. legally prevailing time on October 6, 2017 for: Winters Chapel Road Mill, Overlay and Pedestrian Crossing Bidder shall provide one (1) original and three (3) copies of the Bid. Each Bid must be submitted in a sealed envelope, addressed to City of Peachtree Corners (OWNER). Each sealed envelope containing a Bid must be plainly marked on the outside as follows: TO: City of Peachtree Corners 147 Technology Parkway, Suite 200 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 Attention: James Nguyen, Transportation Engineer RE: Winters Chapel Road Pedestrian Crossing A copy of the Full Invitation to Bid is available on the City of Peachtree Corners website at (https://www.peachtreecornersga.gov/businesses/ doing-business-with-thecity/rfp-bidding).

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The Contract Documents, consisting of Advertisement for Bids, Information for Bidders, Bid, Bid Security, Agreement, General Conditions, Supplementary Conditions, Payment Bond, Performance Bond, Notice of Award, Notice to Proceed, Change Order, Drawings, Certificate of Substantial Completion, Specifications and Addenda may be examined at the following locations: City of Peachtree Corners 147 Technology Parkway Suite 200 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 Dodge Data & Analytics (Online Plan Room) www.construction.com/ projectcenter/ Keck & Wood, Inc. 3090 Premiere Parkway, Suite 200 Duluth, Georgia 30097 Phone: (678) 417-4000 ConstructionConnect (Online Plan Room) www.constructconnect. com In order to assure that Bidders receive all addenda and or clarifications to the bid documents in a timely manner, it is highly recommended that all bidders obtain at least one complete set of Bid Documents directly from the Engineer. Entities that do not purchase Bid Documents from the Engineer will not be on the Engineer’s plans holder list and will not receive addenda and or clarifications to the bid documents directly from the Engineer. Bidders relying on plans rooms or other services to obtain the Bid Documents, rather than purchasing them directly f

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ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS PUBLIC NOTICE APH 2017-10-060 PLACE: City of Peachtree Corners City Hall 147 Technology Pkwy Suite 200 DATE & TIME: October 17th, 2017 7:00 P.M. PURPOSE: Alcoholic Beverage License Application Consumption on Premise Beer, Wine and Sunday Sales APPLICANT: Osteria Di Mare Dba Ossea, LLC 5005 Peachtree Pkwy, Ste 810 Peachtree Corners, Ga 30092 904-511379, 9/29,10/6 NOTICE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE REQUEST An application for an alcohol beverage permit to serve beer, wine and distilled spirits has been filed with the City of Norcross Georgia by the following party at the following location, to wit: Application / owner EDGAR SOTOMAYOR Registered agent EDGAR SOTOMAYOR Location: EL SINALOENSE INC 2077 BEAVER RUIN RD STE 170 NORCROSS, GA 30071 9 0 4 - 5 1 2 5 5 3 , 10/6,11,13,18,20,25,27, 11/1,3,8 NOTICE Good Word Brewing 3085 Main St. Suite 520 Duluth, Ga. 30096 Robert Skinner Todd Dimatteo David Blanchard Michaell Gallagher Tom Moore Andrew Case “AN APPLICATION HAS BEEN FILED ON SEPTEMBER 16TH WITH THE CLERK OF THE CITY OF DULUTH FOR A LICENSE TO OPERATE GOOD WORD BREWING AT THE ABOVE LOCATION. A DECISION ON WHETHER OR NOT TO GRANT OR DENY SUCH A LICENSE WILL BE MADE BY THE CLERK OF THE CITY OF DULUTH NO LATER THAN THIRTY (30) DAYS FROM THE DATE THE FILED APPLICATION IS DETERMINED TO BE COMPLETE. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO NOTE ANY OBJECTIONS, IN WRITING, THAT THEY MAY HAVE TO THE GRANTING OF SUCH A LICENSE BY FILING SAID WRITTEN OBJECTIONS WITH THE CLERK OF THE CITY OF DULUTH.” 904-511345, 10/4,6,11,13 NOTICE September 26, 2017 Pursuant to the City of Buford Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance of 1995, please be advised that Shahida Jahan has applied for a license to sell beer and wine by the package at Tote A Poke Food Mart, located at 565 E Main St, Buford, GA 30518. The City of Buford shall take public comments on such application until October

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ELECTION NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE CERTIFICATION OF THE LOGIC AND ACCURACY TEST OF DIRECT ELECTRONIC VOTING UNITS FOR THE NOVEMBER 7, 2017 NORCROSS MUNICIPAL ELECTION Notice is hereby given, that on October 11, 2017, beginning at 10:00 a.m., the certification of the logic and accuracy test of the direct electronic voting units to be used for the November 7, 2017 Municipal Election, will be conducted. Said test will be conducted at the Norcross City Hall, located at 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, Georgia 30071.

All interested persons are invited to observe said certification.

This 3 of October 2017.

Monique D. Lang City Clerk Elections Superintendent AVISO PÚBLICO Certificación de la logística y prueba de unidades electrónicas de votación directa 7 de noviembre de 2017 Elección Municipal de Norcross Por medio de este aviso, dejamos saber que el 11 de octubre de 2017, comenzando a las 10:00 am, se llevará a cabo la certificación de la prueba de lógica y exactitud de las unidades de votación electrónica directa que se utilizarán para la Elección Municipal del 7 de noviembre de 2017. Dicho examen se llevará a cabo en el Ayuntamiento de Norcross, ubicado en 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, Georgia 30071.

Todas las personas interesadas están invitadas a observar dicha certificación.

Este 3 de octubre de 2017.

Monique D. Lang Personal de la ciudad Superintendente de Elecciones 917-512435, 10/6

PUBLIC HEARINGS PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF DACULA The public is hereby notified that the City of Dacula will be conducting a special hearing in Dacula Municipal Court on October 24, 2017..

The hearing will take place at, 442 Harbins Road, Dacula, GA 30019 at 4:00 PM. 928-512567, 10/6 PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF DACULA The public is hereby notified that the City of Dacula has rescheduled the City Council Work Session for the month of October 2017.

The new date and time is as follows: City Council Work Session will be held on Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 7:00 PM. The meeting will take place at Dacula City Hall, 442 Harbins Road, Dacula Ga. 30019.

928-511930, 10/6 McCullough Towing 4431 Buford Hwy Norcross, Ga 30071 770-263-8483 9/25/17 NOTICE OF ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE The following vehicle, advertised to O.C.G.A.Code Section 40-11-12, is being stored at 4431 Buford Hwy, Norcross, Ga. 30071. 770263-8483.

This vehicle is being deemed abandoned and will b

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be auctioned or disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner and or lien holder.

The Vehicle was impounded from 6750 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, Norcross, Ga. On 09/14/17, at the request of the property owner or manager.

Trailer VIN# 4PCU1D81031000217 TAG# NoTag 928-511374, 9/29,10/6

roundabout project at the intersection of North Road and Pharrs Road and the intersection of Ridgedale Drive and Pharrs Road crossing certain parcels of land inside the City of Snellville, Gwinnett County, Georgia at its August 28, 2017 general meeting. The public road improvements shall take place along the intersection of North Road and Pharrs Road and the intersection of Ridgedale Drive and Pharrs Road. The roadway improvements shall include improved and relocated stormwater systems serving the roadway to accommodate the construction of two traffic roundabouts at the intersections of these roadways. The project lies entirely within the City of Snellville, Gwinnett County, Land District 5, Land Lots 56, 57, 72 and 73. Drawings or maps or plats of the proposed project, as approved, are on file and area available for public inspection at Snellville City Hall located at 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, GA 30078.

Phone: (770) 985-3500. Any interested party may obtain a copy of the drawings or maps or plats or portions thereof by paying a nominal fee and requesting in writing to the City of Snellville to the attention of Butch Sanders at the address for the City of Snellville shown above or calling at the number listed above. Any written request or communication in reference to this project or notice SHOULD include the Project and P.I. Numbers as noted at the top of this notice.

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ABANDONED VEHICLES: RE: 2004 Kawasaki Z-1000 Motorcycle VIN JKAZXCC124A011911 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR WHITE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above motorcycle was initially removed from Xtreme Cycles 4275 Hwy 78 located in Lilburn, Ga. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The motorcycle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Suzuki Motorcycle (T#908932) VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLACK TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above motorcycle was initially removed from Xtreme Cycles 4275 Hwy 78 located in Lilburn, Ga. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The motorcycle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Suzuki Motorcycle (T#908955) VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLACK TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above motorcycle was initially removed from Xtreme Cycles 4275 Hwy 78 located in Lilburn, Ga. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The motorcycle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Suzuki Motorcycle (T#908956) VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLACK TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above motorcycle was initially removed from Xtreme Cycles 4275 Hwy 78 located in Lilburn, Ga. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The motorcycle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. 928-512430, 10/6,13 NOTICE OF LOCATION AND DESIGN APPROVAL BY THE CITY OF SNELLVILLE, GEORGIA OF PUBLIC ROAD IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT NUMBER M-0889-01 Pursuant to Georgia Code 32-3-5, the Mayor and City Council of the City of Snellville, Georgia officially approved the Right of Way and construction of proposed r

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS PUBLIC AUCTION There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Willard Wrecker Service, 719 Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA 30518, on Saturday, October 14, 2017 at 11:00 AM the following vehicles declared abandoned or foreclosed vehicles pursuant to O.C.G.A Section 40-11-05, as follows: # Ye a r Make Model VIN 1 2009 Chevrolet Impala 2G1WT57N791157499 2 2014 Ford Focus 1FADP3F23EL304555 3 1997 Ford Taurus 1FALP52U0VA149053 4 2015 Hyundai Sonata 5NPE34AB6FH136696 5 2002 Saturn L200 1G8JU54F52Y502943 6 2006 Nissan Altima 1N4AL11D96C226067 7 2011 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZC5E15BF386324 8 1998 Ford Crown Victoria 2FAFP74W5WX116243 9 2008 Suzuki Forenza KL5JD56ZX8K732976 10 1997 Honda Accord 1HGCD5667VA013552 11 2016 Honda Pilot 5FNYF5H34GB009096 12 Utility T703342 13 2001 GMC Yukon Denali 1GKEK63U41J303638 14 2002 Saab 9-3 YS3DF55K322023571 15 2000 Toyota Echo JTDAT1231Y0094703 16 2012 Freightliner Business Class M2 1 F V A C WDT9CDBD5397 17 1995 Honda Accord

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1HGCD5562SA072036 18 2012 Ford Fiesta 3FADP4AJ7CM173453 19 1981 Ford F-100 1FTCF10E1BNB07657 20 2001 Honda Accord 1HGCF86611A051106 21 2010 Ford Crown Victoria 2FABP7AV5AX108761 22 1997 Saturn SL1 1G8ZG5289VZ157221 23 2002 Acura MDX 2HNYD18282H548078 24 2008 Mazda Mazda6 1YVHP80C685M32754 25 2000 Nissan Xterra 5N1ED28T6YC584298 26 2003 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ND52J03M567229 27 2001 Cadillac deVille 1G6KD54Y61U204325 28 1989 Ford F-150 1FTEF14NXKNA19936 29 2000 Chevrolet Ta h o e 1GNEK13T4YJ197697 30 2016 Honda Accord 1HGCR3F88GA033335 31 2009 Toyota Corolla 1NXBU40E19Z065294 32 2002 Volvo S40 YV1VS29542F805374 33 1994 GMC Safari 1GKDM19ZXRB508558 34 1998 Dodge Durango 1B4HS28Y6WF111061 35 1991 Chevrolet Caprice 1G1BN53E5MW139454 36 2001 Ford Expedition 1FMRU15W11LA46446 37 2002 Buick Rendezvous 3G5DA03E72S564589 38 2002 Hyundai Sonata KMHWF35H62A513304 39 1997 Infiniti Q45 JNKBY31DXVM006889 40 1990 Toyota Celica JT2AT86F8L0009130 41 2002 Volkswagen Beetle 3VWDD21C22M424142 42 2006 Mitsubishi Galant 4A3AB76S06E008088 43 1997 BMW 528I WBADD6322VBW05443 44 1998 Ford Expedition 1FMPU18L2WLA23676 45 2003 Ford Taurus 1FAFP56S63G145959 46 1994 Ford Te m p o 2FAPP36X1RB109908 929-509280, 9/29,10/6,13

PUBLIC AUCTION THESE VEHICLES WILL BE SOLD FOR PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR CASH AT STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCATED AT 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA AT 10:00 A.M. ON OCTOBER 14, 2017. THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES ARE DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA 40-11-5.

ESTOS VEHICULOS SERAN VENDIDOS AL PUBLICO POR DINERO EN EFECTIVO EN STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCALIZADO EN 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA A LAS 10:00 A.M. EN 14 OCTOBRE 2017 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www.swsatlanta.com 2014 Jonway Gator Sports Scooter LH1TLBBN6DB001561 Tow Dolley NO VIN 2012 Kia Forte KNAFU4A22C5597730 2005 Kia Optima KNAGD126X55376965 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1J8GS48K17C504127 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer 1GNDS13S982223871 2009 Toyota Camry 4T1BE46K49U808511 2002 Infiniti Q45 JNKBF01A52M002500 2006 Yamaha Motor YZFR1 JYARN15E46A006451 2002 Acura MDX 2HNYD18872H537688 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt 1G1AL18F887190054 2008 Toyota Camry 4T1BE46K48U197846 1995 Lexus LS 400 JT8UF22E5S0015387 1999 Cadillac Deville 1G6KD54Y0XU764026 2010 Hyundai Elantra KMHDU4AD1AU874345 1978 Star Stardust Camper STR11HFJA040473 2006 Nissan Maxima 1N4BA41E76C805546 2000 Honda Accord JHMCG668XYC031421 2004 Pontiac Bonneville 1G2HY52K64U224545 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse 4A3AK24F86E011099 2006 Chrysler Pacifica 2A4GM68446R853247 2006 Chrysler Sebring 1C3EL45X46N284873 2005 Volkswagen New Beetle 3VWCD31Y15M313034 2004 Nissan Maxima 1N4BA41E34C913420 2005 Chevrolet Malibu 1G1ZS52F25F209365 1999 Isuzu Trooper JACDJ58X4X7920212 2006 Pontiac G6 1G2ZH158064131326 1997 Toyota 4Runner JT3HN86R9V0105852 2002 Hyundai Santa Fe KM8SC13D32U334874 1986 Ford F-350 Super Duty 2FTJW3516GCA52371 2001 Ford Expedition 1FMRU16W51LA45363 Lowe 14’ Aluminum Boat NO HIN Boat Trailer NO VIN HomeMade Utility Trailer NO VIN 2006 Pontiac Torrent 2CKDL63F366111114 1998 Acura CL 19UYA3141WL001217 2002 Lexus GS 300 JT8BD69S620151219 2003 Pontiac Sunfire 1G2JB12F237205390 929-512431, 10/6,13

cloths. Unit # 4068, Alena Marbury, Deep freezer, table, boxes, tv. Unit #4113, Michael Hayter, Bike, Weights, Boxes. Unit # 4167, Esther Duvernay, Washer, Bed, couch, movies, stereo system, keyboard. Unit’s 1021 & 1051 Miranda Millions, Rolling tool chest, Pool Table, Microwave, Lawn Mower, Camping Grill, Chairs, Speakers, Dresser, Shelves, Mini Fridge, End tables, King bed, Dressers. Unit #1076 Ericka Renee – Sofa, Love Seat, Pictures, Books, Luggage.

Unit # 1081 James Phillips – Washer, Dryer, Sofa, Arm Chair, Workout equipment, Drums, Tools, End Table, Sports Equipment. Unit# 2022 Steven Weeks – Table, Chairs, End Table, Pictures/ Posters, Shop Vac, Air Compressor, Totes. Unit # 2074 Tony Bennett – Refrigerator, Table, Chairs, Dresser, Cooler, Computer Stand, Ladder, Display Case. Unit# 3019 Don Earls – Bet, Lamps, Shelves, Rugs, Paintings, Clothes. Unit# 3112 Scott Castaline – Fishing Poles, Beds, Dressers, Fan, Washer, Dryer, TV, Totes. Unit# 3163 Dawn Richards – Luggage Containers, Chairs. Unit # 4016 Mansur Baba – Jordan Shoes, Clothes, Sneakers/ Tennis Shoes. Unit# 4058 Nicole Griffith – Sofa, Love Seat, Pictures, Lam, Guitar, Rugs, Beds, Dresser, Clothes. Unit# 4089 Antoinette Williams – Decorations for Easer, Toys, Stuffed Animals. Unit # 4185 Ana Higgs – Boxes and Clothes.

929-511277, 9/29,10/6

PUBLIC SALE In accordance with the provisions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at Life Self Storage located at: 2655 Langford Rd. Norcross, Ga. 30071, 770-2420468; And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2017, @ 10:00 AM. SPACE NO.; CUSTOMER NAME; INVENTORY 324 Daniel Davis Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equipment 176 A d e r e m i Olatru-Olagbegi Household Goods/Furniture 252 Alfredo Ambrosini Household Goods/Furniture; 274 Anjevon Smith Household Goods/Furniture/ TV/Stereo Equipment 283 Yosef Galiah Household Goods/Furniture/ TV/Stereo Equipment 285 Irene Strode Household Goods/Furniture 290 Irene Strode Household Goods/Furniture 319 Irene Strode Household Goods/Furniture 322 Lavon Vaughn Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equipuipment/ Tools/Appliances 429 Alfonzo Mendoza Household Goods/Furniture; Boxes 483 Debra Gattone Office Furniture/ Machines/ Equipment 486 Sumeta Satija Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equipuipment/ Tools/Appliances 527 Delandia Jaime Household Goods/ TV/Stereo Equipment/ Boxes 534 Omar Gutierrez Tools/ Appliances; Office Furniture/ Machines/ Equipment 536 Elizabeth De Larosa Household Goods/Furniture; Tools/Appliances 929-512122, 10/6,13

PUBLIC AUCTION Notice of Abandonment and Sale in accordance with O.C.G.A. 40-11 the following vehicles have been declared abandoned and will be sold at Public Action to the highest and best bidder for cash only. The auction will be held on October 17, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., 2090 Beaver Ruin Rd Suite 900, Norcross GA 30071, phone (404) 2098399. Review 9:30 a.m.

2006 Chevrolet 3500 VIN: 1GBJG31U361122779 929-511300, 10/4,11 NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 ZEUS AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR, INC., WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S): 2006 CHEVROLET HHR 3GNDA23P16S523071 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON OCTOBER 25, 2017 AT 10 AM. AT 420 ATHENS HWY SUITE A LOGANVILLE, GA 30052 *7775 929-512437, 10/6,12

PUBLIC AUCTION ON 10/18/2017 AT 2:30 PM StoreSmart Self Storage located at 2914 Buford Dr. Buford, GA. 30519 will conduct a public auction of the following: Unit #’s 2033 & 2036, Reginald Harris, Washer, Dryer, baby crib, boxes, speakers, vacuum, and tires. Unit # 2075, Ezria Richardson, Bed, Weights,

LIFE STORAGE STORE 413 875 MARATHON PARKWAY LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30046 AUCTION DATE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24TH, 2017 @ 10:30 AM In accordance with the provisions of State law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manages’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at the Life Storage location (s) listed below.

And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on Tuesday, October 24th 2017 @ 10:30AM 875 Marathon Pkwy Lawrenceville, GA 30046 678-242-1441 Space No. C u s t o m e r Name Inventory 3158 Jason Davis Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equip.; Office Furniture/Machines/Equip.; Account Records/ Sales Samples; Boxes.

2164 Elizabeth S Stephens Household Goods/Furniture. Office Furniture/Machines/Equipment 3173 Benita L Watts Household Goods/Furniture; TV/Stereo Equip.; Tools/Appliances 4045 Zenobia I Faulk Household Goods/Furniture.

4089 Ellen Sirleaf Household Goods/Furniture ; TV/Stereo Equip.; Tools/Appliance 929-511302, 10/6,13 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 40-11-2, is being stored at: (Address) 1035 CRIPPLE CREEK RD. LAWRENCEVILLE GA 30043 (Yr/Make) 2004 LEXUS 2S VIN# JTHBA30G345012137 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 9-21-2017.

929-510794, 9/29,10/6

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE In accordance with Georgia Law Chapter 40-11-5 the following vehicles have been deemed abandoned and will be sold at a public sale on 10-27-17 @ 11:30 Said Vehicles are located at: 1386 Indian Trl-Lilburn Rd #100 Norcross, GA 30093 VIN# 1GKEC16Z66J170976 2006 GMC YUKON VIN# KMHGC46F39U047288 2009 HYUNDAI GENESIS Sale will be held at 1:00 on 10-27-17 Location: 1400 Pleasant Hill Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30044 VIN# WDDNG7BB1AA320650 2010 MER BENZ S550 Sale will be held at 3:30 on 10-27-17 Location: 3400 McDaniel Rd, Duluth, GA 30096 929-512559, 10/6,13 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 40-11-2, is being stored at: (Address) 2710 MAIN ST EAST, SNHELVILLE GA 30078 (Yr/Make) 22001 TOYOTA 4 RUNNER VIN# JT3GN87R610188614 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 9-21-2017.

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NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 40-11-2, is being stored at: (Address) 505 BUFORD DR STE F, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA 30045 (Yr/Make) 2008 MERCURY MARINER VIN# 4M2CU91168KJ11336 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 9-21-2017.

929-510817, 9/29,10/6

ZONINGS THE CITY OF NORCROSS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A Public Hearing will be held before the Norcross Board of Appeals on Thursday, October 26 at 7:00 PM in City Hall at 65 Lawrenceville Street for the purpose of due process of the following: VAR2017-0023, located at 0 Mitchell Road, parcel identification number R6242 406, 1) a variance to Section 115-93(h)(1)(commercial/ other uses) to increase the front yard setback, and 2) a variance to Section 115-93(i) (e) to allow all parking in the front yard.

For further information please call the Community Development Department at 678-421-2067.

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GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2017 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 THE FOLLOWING REZONING, CHANGE-INCONDITIONS, SPECIAL USE PERMIT AND OTHER ITEMS OF BUSINESS, LOCATED WITHIN UNINCORPORATED GWINNETT COUNTY, ARE SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS AS STATED ABOVE. SITE PLANS, LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER INFORMATION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING DIVISION, 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SUP2017-00030 — APPLICANT: JACQUELINE HULEY; OWNER: JOE GARGIULO; APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN A R-100 ZONING DISTRICT FOR A COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENT; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 042 PARCEL 012; 1300 BLOCK OF TREE LANE; 1.89 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/ HUNTER RZM2017-00006 — APPLICANT: SPARTAN INVESTORS I, LLC, C/O MAHAFFEY PICKENS TUCKER, LLP; OWNERS: GRID PROPERTIES, LLC, GLORIA RAWLINS STILL, & STILL LAKE NURSERY, INC. C/O MAHAFFEY PICKENS TUCKER, LLP; REZONING OF C-2 & RM TO R-TH; TOWNHOUSES (BUFFER REDUCTION); DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 108 PARCELS 002, 014 & 077; 700 BLOCK OF SCENIC HIGHWAY; 600 BLOCK OF OLD SNELLVILLE HIGHWAY; 15.5 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/ HUNTER RZR2017-00011 — APPLICANT: HOME SOUTH COMMUNITIES, LLC, C/O MAHAFFEY PICKENS TUCKER, LLP; OWNER: JOHN T. LAMB; REZONING OF RA200 TO OSC; SINGLE-FAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 136 PARCEL 001; 2400 BLOCK OF SUNNY HILL ROAD; 2500 BLOCK OF MORGAN ROAD; 86.15 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD CIC2017-00019 – APPLICANT: DONNY MUI; OWNER: PANCAL BELLE MEADE 223, LLC; CHANGE IN CONDITIONS OF ZONING FOR PROPERTY ZONED M-I; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 035 PARCELS 011 & 045; 1700 BLOCK OF BELLE MEADE COURT; 11.23 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/BROOKS RZC2017-00021 — APPLICANT: MCBRIDE DALE CLARION; OWNER: SPEEDWAY; REZONING OF C-2 TO C-2; CONVENIENCE STORE WITH FUEL PUMPS (BUFFER REDUCTION); DISTRICT 6 LAND LOT 182 PARCELS 465, 467, & 474; 1300 BLOCK OF PLEASANT HILL ROAD; 1300 BLOCK OF CORLEY PLACE; 1.61 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/BROOKS RZR2017-00015 — APPLICANT: MERTIAGE HOMES, C/O ADVANCED ENGINEERING & PLANNING; OWNERS: CLARICE DEATON & JAS HUGH DEATON, JR.; REZONING OF RA-200 TO OSC; SINGLE-FAMILY SUBDIVISION (BUFFER REDUCTION); DISTRICT 1 LAND LOT 004 PARCELS 002 & 090; 3800 BLOCK OF THOMPSON MILL ROAD; 3800 BLOCK OF RIDGE ROAD; 53.41 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD RZR2017-00016 — APPLICANT: DR HORTON, INC. C/O MAHAFFEY PICKENS TUCKER, LLP; OWNER: UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN’S HOME OF THE NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE, INC.; REZONING OF R-100 TO OSC; SINGLEFAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 098 PARCEL 001; 3400 BLOCK OF BRUSHY FORK ROAD; 51.6 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/ HUNTER RZR2017-00017 — APPLICANT: DR HORTON, INC. C/O MAHAFFEY PICKENS TUCKER, LLP; OWNER: UNITED METHODIST HOME CHILDREN’S OF THE NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE, INC.; REZONING OF R-100 TO R-75; SINGLE-FAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 098 PARCEL 001; 3400 BLOCK OF BRUSHY FORK ROAD; 35.5 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/HUNTER RZR2017-00019 — APPLICANT: CKK DEVELOPMENT LLC; OWNERS: JOHN & LANCE MARLOWE, JAMES DACUS, SUSAN ZAKERI, JOHN STAFFORD C/O MIKE SMITH, & VALERIE STAFFORD; REZONING OF R-100 MOD & RA-200 TO TND; TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICT (BUFFER REDUCTION); DISTRICT 3 LAND LOT 001 PARCELS 021A, 021B, 021D, 028, 039, & 053; 1800 BLOCK OF AUBURN ROAD; 3000 BLOCK OF HOG MOUNTAIN ROAD; 42.33 ACRES. DISTRICT 3/ HUNTER P&D BOC TBL 10-24 934-512432, 10/6

ZONINGS LEGAL NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC CITY OF LAWRENCEVILLE LAWRENCEVILLE CITY COUNCIL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2017 AT 7:00 P.M. LAWRENCEVILLE CITY HALL COUNCIL ASSEMBLY ROOM 70 SOUTH CLAYTON STREET LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 THE FOLLOWING REZONINGS, SPECIAL USE PERMITS AND OTHER ITEMS OF BUSINESS, WITHIN THE MUNICIPAL LIMITS OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCEVILLE, ARE SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARING AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE STATED ABOVE. STAFF REPORTS, SITE PLANS, LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER INFORMATION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, 70 SOUTH CLAYTON STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY (PHONE 678-407-6583).

SU-17-11 – APPLICANT: KV&B REFRIGERATED TRANSPORT; OWNER: DONG S. KIM; FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN BG (GENERAL BUSINESS DISTRICT) ZONING FOR PARKING OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES (TRACTOR AND/ OR TRACTOR TRAILERS) AND GRAVEL PARKING; THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED AT 733 BUFORD DRIVE & 346 REYNOLDS ROAD (TAX PARCELS 7012 016A & 020) CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 1.2 ACRES. P&D CC NEW BUSINESS–11-06-2017 934-512438, 10/6

FULL TIME

DRYWALL MECHANICS Merit Construction Company is seeking Experienced Drywall Mechanics for full time employment with benefits. Applicants must have one year experience, Georgia Driver’s License and must have own transportation.

Call: Richard Poole @ 770-448-4200 Ext. 122 Email: Richard Poole @ richardp@merit construction.com MEDICAL

Willow Wood Nursing Seeking: FULLTIME RNs, LPNS & CNAs Apply in person 4595 Cantrell Rd. Flowery Branch, GA

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HOLIDAY WEEEKEND ESTATE, ANTIQUES & VINTAGE AUCTION SATURDAY OCTOBER 7th 10:00 am MADISON LIONS CLUB BUILDING (beside Wal-Mart) 1391 Fair Ground Rd. MADISON, GEORGIA This 1000 lot auction will feature period 19TH Century furniture from Beallwood Estate and English & French furniture, corner cupboards, C Lee plantation & other beds, sideboards, antique chests, primitives, English curios, occasional tables, commodes, accessories, secretaries, painted furniture, country collectibles, parlor items, décor, antique crocks & jugs, pottery, artwork, silver dollars, glassware, porcelains, coins, quilts, clocks, rugs & more!

SALE!! OCT. 5-6-7, 8AM-4PM. 3557 SHOAL Trail Dr. Christmas Items, HH, Appliances, ClothesBabies/ Men’s/ Women’s, etc.

BUFORD • HUGE Multi-Fam. Gar. Sale!

Fri-Sat, 10/6-7, 7am-12.

2030 Wynfield Point Dr. Baby/kids clothes/ access, HH goods, furn DACULA APALACHEE HERITAGE COMMUNITY WIDE GARAGE SALE SAT., OCT. 7TH, 9AM – 4PM Off Dacula or Fence Rd.

www.bhantique auctions.com (434) 251-5769 Auctioneer STEVE BURKE Auctioneer #NR3155

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It’s fitting that the new TV show “Young Sheldon” is a spin off of the successful “The Big Bang Theory” in which Jim Parsons plays Sheldon Cooper. Parsons plays a role in both shows, and with his endorsements, Forbes says he is the highest paid TV actor.

The list below ranks the top 10 highest paid actors, with eight of the 10 spots belonging to actors from “The Big Bang Theory” or “Modern Family.”

1. Jim Parsons, “The Big Bang Theory” 2. Johnny Galecki, “The Big Bang Theory” 3. Simon Helberg, “The Big Bang Theory” 4. Kunal Nayyar, “The Big Bang Theory” 5. Mark Harmon, “NCIS” 6. Ty Burrell, “Modern Family”

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Oct. 14 Thin Mint Sprint — The annual fundraiser for the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta takes place at Suwanee Town Center Park.

The 5K starts at 8 a.m. followed by fun run at 9 a.m.

Lilburn Daze — The annual arts and crafts festival takes place at Lilburn City Park from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information, go to www.lilburndaze.org.

Italian Car Day — Norcross’ Lillian Webb Parks hosts a day of all things Italian and automotive.

The event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, go to www. italiancardayatlanta.com.

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Create and Bake Pizzeria

1956 Duluth Highway, Unit 104B, Lawrenceville www.createnbakepizza.com 770-545-8885

Create and Bake offers pizza by the slice, as well as 10-inch, 14-inch and 16-inch pies. The restaurant can also bake a cheese calzone. The 10-inch pizza pictured is a vegetarian pizza.

Create and Bake also has turkey bacon, pepperoni and sausage as an alternative to beef and pork. (Photos: Jay Jones)

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Owners: Edawn Coughman, owner, and Edward Willis, manager Open Since: July Location: On the corner of Duluth Highway and Breckinridge Boulevard, just east of Interstate 85. The restaurant is across the street from North Brown Road Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday Atmosphere: Create and Bake Pizzeria’s name is the truest form of description for this pizzeria where customers walk in, choose their ingredients and watch the staff make it and bake it in front of them. The restaurant offers a family atmosphere with flat-screen TVs mounted throughout to watch sports.

Create and Bake Pizzeria’s motto is “Do It with Love,” and you get a sense of that from talking with manager Edward Willis.

And like Tina Turner asking, “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” Willis says he’s taking on a new direction to make pizza with quality ingredients and plenty of choices. In short, making a great pizza is not a secondhand emotion.

There are many ways to make pizza at Create and Bake that are as unique as each person who walks in.

Customers choose their dough, sauce, cheese and toppings on a checklist.

They hand the list to the pizza maker, and can watch them begin their work.

Conversation with your pizza maker is encouraged.

Talk can go from how the Falcons did last Sunday to how you want to line up your pepperoni.

“You can literally have any pizza you want,” Willis said. “Everybody doesn’t eat pork or beef, so that’s why we have turkey products like sausage pepperoni and bacon. We try to be as diverse as possible.”

Pizza can be ordered by the slice starting at $1.60 and go up to 10-inch ($5.99), 14-inch ($9.99) and 16-inch ($10.99). A cheese calzone is $6.95. Toppings

ON THE MENU • Chicken wings: Served baked or fried, Create and Bake offers 11 different flavors including cinnamon chipotle, garlic parmesan, jerk and lemon pepper.

You can mix sauces, too. Eight pieces for $7.95 to 100 pieces for $67.95.

• The Fredo: A special house pizza that includes chicken, creamy house Alfredo sauce, spinach and mozzarella.

Small: $9.95; Medium: $15.95; Large: $17.95.

• Create your own pizza: Customers can choose from dough — original, crispy, double or gluten free — along with sauce options and 18 different toppings to create their own pizza.

Prices vary.

are an additional cost with price based on the size of the pizza. For a 10-inch pizza, toppings are 80 cents each. Toppings are $1 on a 14-inch pizza and $1.25 on a 16-inch pizza.

And while the combinations for made-to-order pizza can be almost infinite, Create and Bake also has house specialty pizzas such as their vegetarian Green Machine and a pie called Crackle Tackle that has turkey bacon, mozzarella, ham, pineapple and jalapeno peppers. House specialties are served small, medium and large. Prices

Above, Edward Willis at Create and Bake Pizzeria puts the finishing touches, a few dashes of extra virgin olive oil, on a vegetarian pizza. The restaurant boasts nine vegetable and nine meat toppings to choose from on the menu. Below left, Create and Bake Pizzeria opened in July and is owned by former NFL player Edawn Coughman. A doorway connects the restaurant and his ice cream parlor, Coughman’s Creamery. Below right, Create and Bake Pizzeria is located on the corner of Duluth Highway and Breckinridge Boulevard, just east of Interstate 85.

of honey on the edges. Willis said he was undecided on October’s pizza of the month. He said he was torn between a Bánh mì pizza based on the Vietnamese sandwich and a Bunny Chow pizza based on a South African recipe.

Something you may not know: Create and Bake was started by former NFL and CFL player Edawn Coughman and is connected to his ice cream parlor, Coughman’s Creamery. Coughman played football at Tri-Cities High School in Riverdale.

rience with attention to creating a space that matches Chef Paul Thai’s Southern/ Cajun menu. From the Edison Light Blub fixtures over the bar to the muted old-style wood paneling and brick-wall murals, the restaurant wants to make a good first impression.

Thai worked with master chef Tom Catherall before joining Parkside District. He said they started building the menu with an enormous Cajun-Creole influence.

Executive Pastry Chef Vereak Chhun creates unique When owners decided on a desserts at the Parkside District including the Foster more local theme, Thai and Cheesecake. (Photo: Jay Jones) his staff went in a different direction by adding Southern This eatery’s modern urban ment as a “seafood and cooking to the mix with a interior invites patrons to a meats” company, Parkside hint of Asian influence. casual, upscale dining expeDistrict offers much more.

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familiar gulf plates with their twist. Blackened Redfish étoufée is served with a crawfish Cajun stew while Scallop Jama’ Sotto is, as the menu states, “where jambalaya meets risotto.”

The Shrimp and Grits sits atop the dinner menu and is a good start. Parkside’s Oyster Bar has raw oysters on the half shell along with three styles of charbroiled oysters — house charred, Rockefeller and bruschetta.

The restaurant also offers Tomahawk Pork Chop, chicken, steak entrees and a “PD” original, Country Fried Veal, among the other dinners.

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vary. Most of the selections range from $9.95 to $17.95.

Willis can talk about pizza all day, if you let him.

He said diversity is a goal of Create and Bake and that he wants to offer customers more choices with a Pizza of the Month based on re-

gional flavors from around the world.

The September Pizza of the Month was a Chorizo pepper pie with onion, jalapeno peppers and turkey sausage. August’s pizza was Nashville Hot made with spicy chicken and a touch

GWINNETT TASTES A selection of local eateries recently featured in the Gwinnett Daily Post: El Caribeno The restaurant grew out of a family business started when owner Luis Polanco Jr.’s dad started selling pastries at church. El Caribeno features Puerto Rican and Cuban dishes plus fusion items to give newcomers a way to warm up to the style of food.

At 11 a.m., guests can come try an assortment of Caribbean plates at the “Hot Bar.” The entries rotate each day, and stewed cod and chicken cracklings are two popular choices. But the most popular is Saturday’s meal, roasted pork

and a side of rice cooked with pieces of pigeon, or “Arroz con Gandules.” Pizza empanada, Mofongo plates are popular menu items, and the restaurant’s pastry bar includes popular sweets such as sweetened cream cheese danishes or “quesitos,” guava puff pastries, flan and more.

In addition to serving meals, El Caribeno also sells some imported groceries and memorabilia, including arabica coffee beans, imported sodas, T-shirts and keychains.

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Above left, Ed Hilsum is part of the Magic of Champions group that is currently on a tour of 30 U.S. states. Above right, after selling out shows in London’s West End for the past three years, five of the United Kingdom’s top illusionists are touring the United States, stopping in Gwinnett for two shows on Sunday. (Photos: Champions of Magic)

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United Kingdom’s Champions of Magic seek to conquer United States

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on stage. But we have five magicians that are part of our show.”

McAleer is teaming with acts Richard Young And Sam Strange, Edward Hilsum and Fay Presto, who started their 30-date North America Tour earlier this month. The tour will stop at the Infinite Energy Arena on Sunday for two shows — 2 and 7 p.m.

“Magic has never been as popular as it is today, and with a show like ‘Champions of Magic,’ audiences get to see the latest

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After selling out shows in London’s West End for the past three years, five of the United Kingdom’s top illusionists will find out if their act will be as successful in the U.S. as it has been in the British capital.

“I don’t know how the U.S. audience will react,” said Alex McAleer, a mind reader. “I’m excited to see what happens in the U.S., I think we all are. What makes us special is that

What: Champions of Magic — Alex McAleer; Richard Young and Sam Strange; Edward Hilsum; Fay Presto Where: Infinite Energy Arena, Duluth When: 2 and 7 p.m.

Sunday Tickets: $25-$40 and available for purchase at infiniteenergycenter. com

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illusions before their very eyes,” Hilsum said. “I hope this show will inspire the next generation of magicians.”

The acts, who have dozens of online views among them, have been seen throughout the world and on TV on shows such as ITV’s “Next Great Magician” CNN’s “A Quest For Magic,” NBC’s “Caught On Camera With Nick Cannon” and “Penn & Teller: Fool Us.” “I think live magic is the future,” McAleer said.

“We’ve all seen those guys on TV do the impossible, but that’s just TV, on which the impossible happens all the time. But live on stage, before your very eyes, is where magic works the best.”

Each act has a different strength, whether its Young and Strange’s large-scale illusions, McAleer’s mind reading, Hilsum’s illusions or Presto’s close-up tricks.

“There are two parts to my section of the show,” McAleer said. “The first is an opportunity to have some fun with the audience by showing everyone why you should never play

Fay Presto is part of the Champions of Magic group performing Sunday at the Infintie Energy Arena.

cards with a mind reader.

I won’t reveal too much about the second section, as I’d like to keep it a surprise, but it’s one of the hardest and largest-scale stunts that I’ve ever done.”

The show is geared toward audiences of all ages, as all of the magic is kid friendly. The audience should expect to see disappearances, levitations and teleportation that are

complemented by lighting and other special effects that lead up to a grand finale that is sure to leave patrons talking.

“I’ve been very excited about the new illusions and magical moments that we’re creating for the tour,” Hilsum said. “One of the great things about every Champions of Magic show is that there is something for everyone.”

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arts&entertainment Lingerfelt featured artist at Art Splash Festival FROM STAFF REPORTS More than 100 artists will be featured this weekend at the Historic Norcross Art Splash Festival, including Manami Yagashiro Lingerfelt.

Lingerfelt, originally from Japan, is the featured artesian at the festival, which runs Saturday and Sunday in Norcross.

She will have her newest pieces for sale at her booth and her work (a soaring owl with gray and blue tones) will also be on display on the T-shirts worn by festival volunteers.

Said Lingerfelt: “I am always physically and emotionally involved in my art, and I strive to express positive energy and power through my lyrical and mystical images.”

According to a press release from festival organizers, each fall, planners for Art Splash choose a feature artist whose work illustrates the magic and enchantment of the historic district. This year it is Lingerfelt, who graduated in 1985 from the Tokyo Musashino Art College and then began a career as an illustrator and graphic designer. She took a 10-year break from the art scene to travel to India, Nepal and Sweden.

“Seeing the world definitely broadened my scope of the beauty that surrounds us all,” she said.

In addition the the art-

Lawrenceville residents Betty Ireland, Donna Repke and Lauren Vaillancourt enjoy the inaugural Lawrenceville Oktoberfest celebration on Perry Street last year. (File Photos)

Time to party

City to host Oktoberfest celebration FROM STAFF REPORTS

Manami Yagashiro Lingerfelt is the featured artist at the Historic Downtown Norcross Art Splash Festival, held Oct. 7-8. (Special Photo)

ists and their displays, the festival will feature live entertainment, a play area for kids and a food court.

The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday.

Parking and shuttle service are free. For more information, visit www.

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October is here, and Lawrenceville is ready to party. For the second straight year, the city will host an Oktoberfest celebration, this one happening Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. on the Lawrenceville Square.

The city of Lawrenceville has partnered with

event, which is sponsored

by Spaten Beer. There will be games and live music, What: Oktoberfest along with beer. celebration A small number of When: Noon to 6 p.m.

VIP tickets to the event Saturday are available for $45 and Where: Lawrenceville Square include three drink vouchers, two food vouchers and an Oktoberfest T-shirt Local Republic, McCray’s and koozie, as well as access to the VIP tent and Tavern and United Combar. munity Bank to host the

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IF YOU GO What: Art Splash Festival When: 10 a.m to 6 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday Where: Historic downtown Norcross More info: www.Norcross.SplashFestivals. com

Grayson resident Mike Fromme, center, poses for photos with Local Republic owners Ben Bailey, left, and Chris Collins after he won the bratwurst-eating contest at the inaugural Lawrenceville Oktoberfest last year.

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This year’s Taste of Suwanee festival will feature more than 30 local restaurants offering a sampling of menu items at Town Center Park on Saturday. (File Photo)

Taste of Suwanee returns to Town Center Park Saturday FROM STAFF REPORTS Suwanee’s tastiest tradition is back this weekend.

More than 30 local restaurants and vendors will serve up food and fun at Taste of Suwanee, held at Town Center Park from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Town Center Park is located at 330 Town Center Ave. Participants will be able to sample countless appetizers, entrees and desserts from restaurant menus while enjoying performances from bands, ensembles and dancers in two different park locations.

Dish Network will also air college games live throughout the afternoon.

After eating, festival-

IF YOU GO What: Taste of Suwanee Where: Suwanee Town Center Park, located at 330 Town Center Ave. When: Noon to 5 p.m. Saturday Cost: Attendance is free, but tickets to sample food and enjoy Kid Zone activities cost 50 cents. Food samples and activities cost between one and six tickets each.

Parking: Participants can park for free at the Town Center Park or Shadowbrook Baptist Church parking lots. A free shuttle, courtesy of Primrose School of Suwanee West, will run from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. between the park and Shadowbrook Baptist Church.

goers will be able to stroll through the Artist Market to browse for arts and crafts from local artists. Children can enjoy the Kids Zone, which will feature inflatables, rides and games.

Admission to Taste of Suwanee is free, but tickets

used to sample food and enjoy activities in the Kid Zone are 50 cents each.

Each food sample or activity will cost between one and six tickets.

For more information, visit www.tasteofsuwanee. com.

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Red Clay hosts unique poetry, music collaboration Many songs are described as poetry set to music, and Oct. 14 both poetry and music will be featured in a rare type of event at the Red Clay Music Foundry.

Eddie Owen Presents will feature “Broken Watch: A New Song Cycle on the Poetry of David BotDavid Bottoms toms,” which combines the artistry of the written word and music by composer Chris Ferebee.

The concert features a new song cycle by Ferebee that sets eight poems by David Bottoms to Ferebee’s music.

One of the unique features of this artistic collaboration is that

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the English countryside. In addition to composing, Ferebee also writes for and performs on plucked-string instruments with fusion ensemble Floyds Row. While at University of Oxford in Great Britain, he was the coartistic director of the M@SH Centre for Experimental Music.

Ferebee composed the music to reflect written themes in BotHolley Calmes toms’ work. “Broken Watch” is written for soprano, string Bottoms will begin the evening quintet, harp, piano, reed orby reading each poem before gan, two plucked string players the musical setting is played. In (classical and steel-strung guithis way, the audience is able to tars, mandolin, gittern, lyre and hear the poem read directly by bowed psaltery), and percusits author and then hear a musi- sion. The concert will feature cal perspective of that poem.

13 musicians.

Ferebee is a native Atlantan The featured singer is and lived for a decade in Great renowned American soprano Britain. His music centers on Justine Aronson who is travelhis love of the deep South and ing to Atlanta specifically to

perform at the concert.

This poetry-musical collaboration also honors the life and work of one of Georgia’s most important and influential poets.

Bottoms was Georgia’s Poet Laureate from 2000 to 2012.

Born in Canton, Ga., in 1949, he is a graduate of Mercer University with a doctorate from Florida State University.

He was a Richard Hugo Poetin-Residence at the University of Montana, and he currently holds the John B. and Elena Diaz-Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University. At Georgia State he also co-edits “Five Points: A Journal of Art and Literature” and teaches creative writing.

Bottoms’ first book, “Shooting Rats at the Bibb County

Dump,” was selected by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. He has written eight books of poetry and has given more than 200 readings in colleges and universities across the United States.

The performance starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $24 the day of the show. Red Clay Music Foundry is located at 3116 Main St. in Duluth. Tickets and more information about this event can be obtained by visiting eddieowenpresents.com/concerts/ live-red-clay.

Holley Calmes is a freelance writer and public relations consultant specializing in the arts. Email her at hcalmes@ mindspring.com.

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For beer lovers looking for a new place to enjoy new beers, Lanier Islands has the event for you Oct. 14. The Sunset Cove Beer and Wine Fest will feature more than 100 beers and 25 wines to sample as part of a day-long event that will also feature music and college football.

LanierWorld will host the event, which runs from 1 to 5 p.m. Though the festival concludes at 5, guests are welcome to stay and enjoy the beach and Sunset Cove Beach Cafe until it closes at 11 p.m.

“We’re really excited to present this event to our 21-and-older fans of the Islands,” said Missy Burgess, director of public relations and sponsorships for Lanier Islands.

“Our Legacy Cruise Series — which involves a series of wine and scotch and cigar cruises — has been such a hit that we’ve simply brought that same concept ashore at LanierWorld and supersized it.”

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Burgess said LanierWorld will show the University of Georgia game vs. Missouri as well as the Auburn-LSU game.

The band Whispering Gypsies will play on the Sunset Cove Stage from noon to 4 p.m.

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Striking A chord ‘Mountain between Us’ a human vs. nature film that’s only pretty good

The Mountain Between Us (PG-13) HHHH

By Michael clark Movie Critic

The human vs. nature movie genre is vast with many subcategories, but the ones most people relate to tend to involve snow. From “Alive” to “The Revenant,” “Call of the Wild” and “Into the White,” to “Eight Below” and “Everest,” snow-based disaster flicks strike a specific chord. Toss in a plane crash AND a dog AND possible romance and you’ve got something many folks might want to check out.

Based on the novel of the same name by Charles Martin, “The Mountain Between Us” is a movie that could have been great but is only pretty good due to a screenplay by J. Mills Goodloe and Chris Weitz which seems to be operating from a checklist.

Many scenes seem to be there because they’ve been in other similar movies so there is a perception of necessary inclusion. Luckily,

most of these scenes take place in the first two acts, essentially only including photojournalist Alex (Kate Winslet), neurosurgeon Ben (Idris Elba) and a Labrador Retriever (played by several well-trained, lookalike dogs).

Stuck in the Salt Lake City airport, Alex — trying to get to New York for her wedding — and Ben — due in Baltimore to operate on a child — combine wallets and hire a cocksure private pilot (Beau Bridges) — also a Vietnam vet — to fly them out of their collective quagmire. Barely off of the ground, the pilot takes a permanent powder, and the four-seat prop plane crashes. Both Ben and Alex are banged up, but he less than she, which is good as, well … he’s a doctor. In case you’re interested, the dog (known for the duration only as “Dog”) doesn’t receive a single scratch, at least initially.

The writers and the Israeli-born director Hany Abu-Assad (“Omar,” “The Idol”) deliver the first act with near-flawless execution. The crash sequence itself is a masterful example of unique point-of-view perspective, and the two

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once-strangers are thrown into a harrowing experience neither expected and each have difficulty adapting to — a situation no one could ever enter into without total fear and complete panic.

Relieved of the “small talk” phase of their acquaintance, Alex and Ben face ever-escalating prickly moments, with each making decisions that could either save or doom both of them — and none of these

the most chances and — to toss in a baseball analogy — swings for the fences, connecting about half of the time. It goes for home runs instead of a series of wellstruck singles and ends up batting a respectable .325.

This also marks the introduction of another speaking character which will likely work for some but probably not for most others.

Even hinting at what takes place from this point on is patently unfair, but it is safe to say that the filmmakers take the narrative in directions we never see coming and deftly capture the skittish nature of what life is like for people who have gone through — and star in “The Mountain Between Us.” (Special Photo: 20th maybe not fully escaped — harrowing, life-threatening experiences.

By anyone’s best case options are at all appetizing. a solid group effort, and this scenario, surviving a plane Alex — with a broken leg is where the cliches start — wishes to leave the rela- piling up. The pair with two crash — or any trauma — will leave them forever tively safe confines of the legs start bickering like an different and change their wrecked fuselage, while the old married couple, pause outlook to practically everycooler-headed Ben wants to for something resembling thing. Coming out on the stay put. Want to guess who a Hallmark moment with other side still breathing and wins that argument? attitude, then repeat. As with a pulse doesn’t equate The lengthy midsection it is nearly impossible for to getting through an ordeal; puts the accent on the whole either Winslet or Elba to it only marks the start of human vs. nature dynamic, ever do anything close to and it is the least-effective unconvincing, this stretch is what could be a long, difportion of the film. Alex, somewhat easy to overlook. ficult and perhaps endless Ben and Dog realize none To everyone’s credit, the road to recovery.

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‘2049’ is great — but you should see original ‘Blade Runner’ first Blade Runner 2049 (R) HHHH

of his dirty work and really earns her keep in the film’s final act. Luv is as every bit as imposing and lethal as Rutger Hauer’s Roy Batty from the 1982 production

By Michael clark and could easily take the Movie Critic prize (if there actually was one) for the best villain of Hey, if you hadn’t the 2017 movie season. already heard about it, a Don’t be surprised if Hoeks sequel to the 1982 movie gets a Best Supporting “Blade Runner” is being Actress Oscar nomination released this week. It stars come February.

Ryan Gosling, Harrison Making another strong Ford, Robin Wright and impression in the exact opsome other people most posite way is Joi (Anna de folks won’t recognize by Armas), K’s live-in girlname. It’s a sci-fi flick friend who (let’s be careful about the hunting down and with the wording here) only “retirement” of replicants appears when K wants her — computers that look and Ryan Gosling stars as K in “Blade Runner 2049.” (Special Photo: Warner Bros.) to. Neo- and traditional behave like humans. It’s feminists are going to have very good — you should go know I go far out of my no mistake, “2049” is in no K is under the direct major problems with the see it now. Have a nice day. way to avoid revealing way a “standalone” type of supervision of LieutenJoi character, and the things The above isn’t exactly spoilers, as do most other film, and that — I’m happy ant Joshi (Wright), whose she does to please K (who what the partnering studios credible journalists, and to report — is a very good severe, slicked-back hair is definitely not a mouthand director Denis Vilwould not have done so thing. matches her stoic, exactbreathing misogynist) will leneuve had in mind for with “2049.” To keep with Here’s some of what ing and uncompromising likely get many panties to a review of “Blade RunMr. Villeneuve’s directives, you’re allowed to know demeanor. Her big fish bunch-up. ner 2049” but it’s not all I will respectfully honor his regarding the plot going in. catch comes in the form Without mentioning that far off, either. In an unorthodox request.

Opening in the year 2049 in of Niander Wallace (Jared names, there are multiple unprecedented move, the First, if you want to see the wasteland of what used Leto), a sinister dude with (meaning more than one) reviewing press at the “2049” and haven’t seen to be California, LAPD white eyes who has efcharacters from the 1982 daytime preview screenthe 1982 movie yet, watch- detective K (Gosling) has fectively replaced the Tyrell affair that show up here, ing was read a laundry list ing it will be a supreme landed on a protein farm Corporation from the 1982 and two of them are in of “suggestions” (actually exercise in futility; you overseen by an old model film. He too has slickedexactly one scene each. Aninstructions) likely comsimply won’t understand replicant (Dave Bautista) back hair and an exacting other — some guy named piled by Villeneuve of what anything that’s happenwith orders to bring him in. disposition. Without giving Deckard — one of the few they shouldn’t reveal in ing and you will leave the The replicant wishes not away any specifics, fans of without slicked-backed or their reviews. It included theater angry and/or disap- to comply, and before he Leto should be made aware severe hair — is given sigcharacter traits, the fate pointed. This can be easily and K tussle, the replicant his participation here is, nificantly more screen time. of other characters from remedied by renting or mentions something about shall we say, minimal.

With the understandable the 1982 movie and most streaming “The Final Cut” a miracle. Take note, the Niander’s principal exception of Han Solo, importantly, plot twists. version of the 1982 film. “miracle” thing is quite im- underling is Luv (Sylvia Deckard is the most iconic This is understandable to Make sure it’s “The Final portant to the narrative and Hoeks), an aggressive, pale- character Ford has ever or a point. If you are a regular Cut” and not one of the is revisited several times skinned woman, again with will likely ever play. In the reader of my reviews, you four other versions. Make later on in the movie. severe hair, who does all trailers for “2049,” Ford is

seen multiple times, and it’s hard to figure out how important his part is here.

As it was not one of the studio’s requests, it can be stated that Deckard’s role is metaphysically huge, and he is on-screen for roughly 30 percent of the 164 minute run time.

From a technical perspective, “2049” is nothing less than astounding, jaw-dropping and aweinspiring. It has raised the bar for every film (sci-fi or otherwise) and might finally deliver the longoverdue Oscar for legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins. Nominated 13 times so far, the Academy is going to have to finally give Deakins his rightful due.

He is the Martin Scorsese of cinematographers.

“2049” does something few, if any, sequels ever accomplish. It comes 35 years after an original no one ever expected. It’s a follow-up many wanted but were also extremely leery about ever getting. “Blade Runner” is a movie that took sci-fi to another level.

Its admirers extend beyond the typical “fanboy” types, and in some (but not all) ways, “2049” is better than its 1982 predecessor. In my humble opinion, these two “Blade Runner” films are the finest one-two punch in the history of cinematic science-fiction.

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OVERALL IMPRESSION

Pass: The film offers some good humor, interesting characters, great acting and wraps it all in messages of empowerment and equality which still resonate more than 40 years later.

Fail: While all the characters are interesting, there was a little more attention paid to the main story and not quite enough to the back story. It would have been nice to get a little more background on the characters, but it doesn’t really detract from the enjoyment of the film.

Steve Carell has always been at his best when he can ham it up and mix in some drama at the same time. No exception here. He deftly navigates the waters of a complicated character, allowing the audience to both hate him and feel sorry for him.

Anyone who enjoys a good sports dramedy would enjoy this movie. It’s based on a true story, so anyone looking for a period sports piece would enjoy it, as well as tennis fans who aren’t familiar with the story.

It’s far from a “must-see in theaters” movie.

However, if you’re looking for a fun movie for a Saturday matinee, you can’t go wrong with this one.

Overall, it’s a very enjoyable film. Both Carell and Emma Stone own their characters. There’s a lot of fun, and the messages truly still resonate today. It comes from a smart script that never gets preachy, shines a light on the protagonist while never painting her as a saint, and walks a fine line between good-natured humor and heavy drama. Even the actual match is choreographed in a way that will keep tennis fans on the edge of their seats, while keeping even the most casual viewer engaged in the action.

Pass: Movie script faithfully adheres to actual historical accounts up to and including the climactic match; very good acting all around; good, brisk direction that keeps the viewer engaged.

Fail: Although the movie tries to present a balanced account of the behind-the-scenes lives of the two protagonists, it skews much more heavily toward the side of Billie Jean King; thus, it seemed to serve more as political platform for women’s and gay rights as a result. Still, “Battle of the Sexes” is a watchable and informative flick.

Both Emma Stone (as Billie Jean King) and Steve Carrell (as Bobby Riggs) were outstanding in their lead roles. In addition to having strong resemblances to their respective subjects, you can tell that both actors really studied their behavior and speech patterns, which enhanced the realistic portrayals they gave on the screen.

Those who enjoy sports-related biopics such as “Raging Bull” or “Ali” will relish the buildup of tension between King and Riggs that culminated in their 1973 showdown in the Houston Astrodome.

However, the movie veers off a lot into the angst experienced by King as she struggles with her conflicted sexual identity, which to me detracted a lot from the sports angle of the film.

Although “Battle of the Sexes” delivers in many ways, it’s not worth beating down the doors of your local movie house.

Wait for the DVD or Netflix for this one.

Having lived during the time of this epic event, I was very pleased to see how well-crafted and well-directed “Battle of the Sexes” turned out to be. Both Stone and Carrell gave commendable performances — Stone showing King as the alpha-female driven to succeed both on the court and in her fight for more equitable compensation for female athletes, and Carrell as the former champ Riggs whose struggle to regain fame and his ongoing gambling addiction made a circus out of this matchup.

Ron Adams, Athens

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NOW SHOWING Recently reviewed films now playing in metro area theaters. Ratings are out of 4 stars.

• Battle of the Sexes (PG13) — 4 out of 4 stars Emma Stone and Steve Carell are brilliant as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in the 1973 match between the respective former No. 1 tennis players. Operating as both a female empowerment sports film and a commentary on the struggle of LGBTQ people, this film commits no fault.

— Khari J. Sampson • Victoria and Abdul (PG13) — 4 out of 4 stars A true story that highlights the differences in culture, class and purpose is brought to the big screen with ‘Victoria and Abdul.’ Judi Dench is great as Queen Victoria, and Ali Fazal as Abdul Karim is just as impressive. This movie is well worth the watch in both content and visuals. The sets and costumes are wonderfully crafted, and the dialogue never lags. Leave the kids at home for this one, though, and get ready to feel all the emotions.

— Alex Tostado • The Lego Ninjago Movie (PG) — 3 stars After taking on pop culture and superheroes, the animated Lego franchise pays homage to Asian cinema with this martial arts sendup. A team of six color-coded ninjas battles flame-eyed villain Lord Garmadon, who has a familial connection to the Green Ninja, Lloyd. Featuring Dave

Franco, Justin Theroux and Jackie Chan, it’s funny and warm-hearted. — KS • Home Again (PG-13) — 3 1/2 stars Reese Witherspoon stars in this feel-good comedy about starting over. Newly separated Alice (Witherspoon) and her two daughters move to L.A. Aspiring filmmakers Teddy, George and Harry meet Alice, and

with a little convincing and help from her mother, the three guys move in with Alice and her daughters. This is a good date-night movie or even friend’s night out movie. — AT • Crown Heights (R) — 3 stars Lakeith Stanfield and Nnamdi Asomugha star in this movie based on the true story of a man that wrongfully

earlier in the movie make the timeline of what’s happening a little murky. — Michael Buckelew • Leap (PG) — 3 stars In this light-hearted animated film, we are reminded to never give up on our dreams, no matter how small,

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“Baby Driver” Blu-ray (R) Movie: ★★★★ Disc: ★★★★

British writer/director Edgar Wright’s sixth feature was totally shot and set in Atlanta and is arguably his most fully-realized effort. Baby (Ansel Elgort) is a soft (or no)spoken getaway driver who owes something or other to a crime ringleader (Kevin Spacey).

In order to work off his debt, Baby is teamed with a seasoned series of thieves (including Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx) who make his job all the more difficult. An action movie with brains, brawn, a heart and a funny

spent more than two decades in prison for murder. The story of Colin Warner continually battling a system that doesn’t want to believe him keeps your attention for the entire run time. But the payoff at the end doesn’t get enough buildup, and some flashbacks

when Felicie (voiced by Elle Fanning) and her best friend Victor (Nat Wolff) escape their rural orphanage to go to Paris and make it big. Little ones will love the ballerina and inventor storylines, while adults will enjoy the beautiful animation and good messages. — AT • War for the Planet of the Apes (PG-13) — 3 1/2 stars Super-intelligent apes, led by the first, Ceasar (Andy Serkis, in an award-worthy motion capture performance), battle for survival against increasingly desperate human survivors of a planetwide pandemic. Here director Matt Reeves has accomplished the practically impossible: a third film of a trilogy that’s better than previous two. — KS • Patti Cake$ (R) — 3 1/2 stars If “Pitch Perfect,” “Rushmore” and “8 Mile” had a baby, you’d get something like “Patti Cake$,” in which a plus-sized New Jersey blonde (Danielle Macdonald) aspires to be a successful rapper. Winning and smart, it’s hard to believe it’s director Geremy Jasper’s first feature film. — KS • Good Time (R) — 3 stars Miles away from his past good guy roles, Robert Pattinson plays the heel in this gritty NYC street crime drama by the Safdie brothers.

Ironically named — it’s not darkly humorous as the title suggests — the jumpy, jittery “Good Time is a deconstruction of the heist flick archetype. — KS

bone, “Baby Driver” also sports a beyondkiller soundtrack that is timed in sync to the movie’s editing.

Technical specs: aspect ratio: Widescreen (2.39:1/1080p), audio: English (DTS-HD MA 5.1), dubbed French, subtitles: Chinese, English, French and Korean.

Special features include: • 10 featurettes • Commentaries • Deleted/extended scenes • Music video • Storyboards • Additional HD copy • First edition slipcover packaging (Sony, $34.99)

• “Baby Driver” (Oct. 10): A getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) can’t get out of the grasp of the crime kingpin (Kevin Spacey) who employs him. (R) • “The Beguiled” (Oct. 10): In director Sofia Coppola’s take on the drama, a Civil War soldier (Colin Farrell) finds tense refuge at a girls’ school; Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst also star.

(R) • “Demonic” (Oct. 10): One of the survivors of a multiple murder recalls the situation for a detective and a psychologist (Frank Grillo, Maria Bello). (R) • “Fallen” (Oct. 10): A teen (Addison Timlin) finds herself enmeshed in a timeless love triangle at her new reform school. (PG-13) • “The House” (Oct. 10): To fund their daughter’s college tuition, a couple (Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler) opens a makeshift casino. (R) • “Girls Trip” (Oct. 17): Several longtime friends reunite for a trip to New Orleans and get new revelations along the way; Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith,

Regina Hall and Tiffany Haddish star. (R) • “Westworld: Season One” (Nov. 7): The HBOseries reimagining of the

fantasy about a resort populated by lifelike robots stars Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton. (Not rated)

CENTER STAGE THEATER 1374 W. Peachtree St., Atlanta 404-885-1365 www.centerstage-atlanta. com • Oct. 6: Kevin Smith • Oct. 31: Post Malone COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway, Atlanta 770-916-2800 www.cobbenergycentre.com • Oct. 7: Rickey Smiley and Friends • Oct. 13: An Evening with Travis Tritt • Oct. 22: Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood LIVE! • Oct. 26: “So You Think You Can Dance” Season 14 Tour

678-957-7283 www.eddieowenpresents. com • Ongoing: Songwriters Open Mic hosted by Eddie Owen • Oct. 6: Garrett Moore and Collin Baxter • Oct. 7: Erin Enderlin and levi Lowery • Oct. 12: Christie Lenee, Daniel Campagne & Hussy Hicks • Oct. 15: Peter Rowan • Oct. 28: Akpe Motion

EVERETT’S MUSIC BARN 4055 Stonecypher Road, Suwanee 678-858-5363 everettsmusicbarn.net • Oct. 7: Fall Festival & Fundraiser • Oct. 14, 21: The Everett Family Band & Guest • Oct. 28: Carolina Blue FOX THEATRE 660 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta 404-881-2100 foxtheatre.org • Oct. 6: Mastodon with Eagles of Death Metal and Russian Circles • Oct. 8: Wilco • Oct. 13: Aretha Franklin • Oct. 16: Gracias Christmas Cantata • Oct. 20: Lil Yachty INFINITE ENERGY ARENA 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth 770-813-7500 www.infiniteenergycenter. com • Oct. 7: Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band with Nancy Wilson • Oct. 11: Gorillaz • Oct. 19: Halsey • Oct. 21: Nashville Hitmakers THE LOFT 1374 W. Peachtree St., Atlanta 404-885-1365 www.centerstage-atlanta. com/shows/the-loft • Oct. 6: The Wailers • Oct. 19: Atlas Genius • Oct. 24: Myrne • Oct. 25: Benjamin Booker • Oct. 30: Rich Chigga THE MASQUERADE 695 North Ave. N.E., Atlanta 404-577-8178 www.masqueradeatlanta. com • Oct. 6: Boyce Avenue • Oct. 6: Max Frost, Nawas • Oct. 6: The Bastard Suns • Oct. 7: Widowspeak, Clearance and Twin Studies • Oct. 8: Vagabon, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya and Command • Oct. 8: Jay Critch, Richie West, and Yung Dred • Oct. 9: The Courtneys • Oct. 10: Wolves in the Throne Room, Pillorian • Oct. 10: Ten Fe • Oct. 11: Four Year Strong, Seaway, Like Pacific, Life Lessons and Grayscale • Oct. 11: KMFDM, ohGr, and Lord of the Lost • Oct. 11: Vita and the Wolf • Oct. 13: Palisades, Righteous Vendetta and All the Rest • Oct. 20: Truth • Oct. 22: Beach Fossils, Snail Mail and Raener • Oct. 22: Keke Palmer • Oct. 22: Daniel Caeser, Snoh Aelegra • Oct. 23: Nekromantix, The Brains • Oct. 24: Beach Slang, Pet Symmetry and Positive No • Oct. 24: Theory of a Deadman, Royal Republic and Ayron Jones • Oct. 24: Within the Ruins, Enterprise Earth, Aversions Crown and Currents • Oct. 25: A Wilhelm Scream, Such Gold, After The Fall and We Were Sharks • Oct. 25: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Ian Sweet • Oct. 25: Black Pistol Fire, Blackfoot Gypsies • Oct. 26: Red, 10 Years, Otherwise and Emerge • Oct. 26: Toadies, Local H • Oct. 26: Grails, Jason Loewenstein Solo Electric • Oct. 27: The Spill Canvas, Chase Huglin • Oct. 27: Hum, Sweet Cobra • Oct. 27: Amigo the Devil, Andrew Sheppard, Wil Ridge • Oct. 28: Arch Enemy, Trivium, While She Sleeps and Fit For An Autopsy • Oct. 28: Louder Than Bombs • Oct. 28: JR JR, Chad Valley • Oct. 29: Soulfly Does Nailbomb: Performing “Point Blank”, Harm’s Way, Lody Kong and Thousand Pound Pig • Oct. 29: Motionless in White, The Amity Affliction, Miss May I and William

RED LIGHT CAFE 553 Amsterdam Ave., Atlanta 404-874-7828 redlightcafe.com • Oct. 6: The Comedy Stallions • Oct. 7: Foster and Friends • Oct. 8: Van Gordon Martin, Moon Chief, Rhythm Earth SYLVIA BEARD THEATRE Buford Community Center, 2200 Buford Highway, Buford 770-945-6762 www.bufordcommunitycenter.com Aretha Franklin will perform Nov. 8 at the Fox Theatre.

• Oct. 6: Mountain Faith (Special Photo) Band • Oct. 21: Montgomery Control PHILIPS ARENA Gentry and Corey Smith • Oct.: 29: Slow Magic 1 Philips Drive N.W., Atlanta • Oct. 30: Screaming Fe404-878-3000 males, Street Eaters SMITH’S OLDE BAR www.philipsarena.com • Oct. 30: Death From 1578 Piedmont Ave., Atlanta • Oct. 20-21: The Eagles Above 404-875-1522 • Oct. 28: R&B Superjam • Oct. 30: The Movielife, www.smithsoldebar.com • Nov. 4: Fall Out Boy Iron Chic and King of Sum• Ongoing: DJ Sky • Nov. 7: Imagine Dragons mer • Oct. 6-7: Electric Avenue • Oct. 30: I The Mighty, Hail • Nov. 12: Marc Anthony Performs Duran Duran’s The Sun and Good Tiger • Nov. 14: Jay-Z Greatest Hits plus 80’s Hits • Oct. 31: Knuckle Puck, • Nov. 28: Lady Gaga • Oct. 8: Themestock 6 Movements, With Confi• Dec. 12: Katy Perry • Oct. 9: Electric GlitterLand dence and Homesafe • Dec. 17: Janet Jackson • Oct. 10: Black Guayaba • Oct. 31: Worriers, Thin • Oct. 13: The Yawpers Lips, Katie Ellen, Mom RED CLAY MUSIC • Oct. 14: BallBreakers & Jeans. and Prince Daddy & FOUNDRY Streetfighting Band The Hyena 3116 Main St., Duluth • Oct. 16: Gonwana • Oct. 31: Amine, Towkio

• Oct. 20: Bird Dog Jubilee • Oct. 22: Driftwood • Oct. 26: Backup Planet • Oct. 27: Son Little • Oct. 29: Call Me Karizma • Nov. 3: Fragile • Nov. 4: Quialdogs, Parker Smith & The Bandwith, Other Brother • Nov. 10: Patrick Sweany • Nov. 11: The Bitteroots • Nov. 15: Roanoke • Nov. 22: Celebration Day • Nov. 24: Elegant Bachelors • Nov. 30: Yornrico Scott THE TABERNACLE 152 Luckie St., Atlanta 404-659-9022 tabernacleatl.com • Oct. 7: Manchester Orchestra • Oct. 9: SZA • Oct. 11: Kaleo • Oct. 12: In This Moment • Oct. 13: Thievery Corporation • Oct. 14: Adventure Club • Oct. 15: NEEDTOBREATHE • Oct. 19: Krewella • Oct. 20: Louis The Child: Last To Leave Tour • Oct. 21: Greensky Bluegrass • Oct. 27: Dirty Heads • Oct. 31: RL Grime

VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE AT ENCORE PARK 2200 Encore Parkway, Alpharetta www.vzwamp.com • Oct. 7: Crock Fest 2017 featuring Toby Keith, ZZ Top, Cracker, Midland and more • Oct. 14: Laid Back Festival : Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Gregg Allman Band with Devon Allman and more • Oct. 20-21: Florida Georgia Line with Nelly and Chris Lane • Oct. 27: Q100 Presents Backstreet Boys and more

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EDDIE’S ATTIC 515-B N. McDonough St., Decatur 404-377-4976 www.eddiesattic.com • Ongoing: Eddie’s Attic Songwriter’s Open Mic • Oct. 7: Liz Longley • Oct. 8: Virginia Schenck • Oct. 8: Lilly Winwood •Oct. 10: Holly Bowling • Oct. 11: Jerry Joseph • Oct. 11: The New Respects • Oct. 12: Bill Callahan • Oct. 13: The Bonaventure Quartet • Oct. 13: Micheal McDermott • Oct. 14: Sierra Hull • Oct. 15: River Whyless • Oct. 18: Christian Lopez • Oct. 18: Cicada Rythm • Oct. 19: Tommy Casto and the Painkillers • Oct. 19: Charlie Mars • Oct. 20: Kristy Lee • Oct. 22: Claire Lynch Band • Oct. 22: Bob Sima • Oct. 24: Angri Aparo • Oct. 25: Dan Bern • Oct. 25: Christopher Alan Yates with Adelaide Tai • Oct. 26: Caleb Caudle • Oct. 27: Grant Lee Phillips

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Wednesday’s opener, titled “The March of Freedom,” heads to New York City, where viewers are introduced to Shin Dong-Hyuk, believed to be the only prisoner to escape from a North Korean labor camp.

“The thing for me that I found so interesting,” McCreary says, “… was when he started hearing someone telling him about what food was, the kinds of foods, an older guy who had been out in the world and come back. Because you had to eat only what was in front of you, you couldn’t take anything, and he saw a girl basically die because she had scurried away some food and was eating it later on. So this freedom, this idea of being able to choose what he could eat became the thing that he latched onto for freedom.”

Later in the series, in the Nov. 15 “The Power of Us,” Freeman meets politicians and those involved with the political process, including former President Bill Clinton, Henry Kyemba, a former member of Ugandan President Idi Amin’s cabinet; and Jack Abramoff, the former lobbyist who served more than three years in prison for mail fraud and conspiracy to bribe public officials.

“He’s seen how the system now breaks down,” Younger says of Abramoff, “and really when he was in jail he really actually kind of … had an epiphany that he really wanted to try and make things better, having been an agent of harm to democracy, I would say. … He’s determined now to make it more effective. …”

And, according to Freeman, he was very eager to talk about it.

“That was fascinating,” Freeman says with a laugh, “and he was one of those people who is easy to interview because all that’s happening is you’re turning on a switch and letting it happen.”

As to whether doing a project such as this changes his view of humanity, Freeman is quick to answer “no,” but adds, “It makes me more knowledgeable of who we are. Of course, everybody has a whole library of National Geographic magazines and you read about these primitive places because NatGeo’s been going around the world and doing this for a long time. So you have some connection to the fact that they have existed. But realizing manoa-mano that they do exist is very eye opening. It’s very broadening.”

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