February 19, 2020 — Gwinnett Daily Post

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Three arrested in homicide near Peachtree Corners

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Gwinnett County police arrested three men in connection with the deadly shooting of Malik Werts at an apartment complex on Ashley Lakes Drive in Peachtree Corners last month.

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Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday deputies arrested three men under surveillance after two of them tried to break into an investigator’s unmarked car.

Michael Smith, 21 of Duluth, was arrested alongside 20-year-old Pharaoh Johnson of Roswell and 24-year-old Thomas St. Patrick of Norcross on Feb. 5. Smith was out on bond on felony murder charges in Johns Creek.

Smith and St. Patrick were charged with entering an automobile after a sheriff’s office spokesperson said they tried to break into an unmarked car with an investigator sitting inside. He and fellow investigators apprehended and arrested the suspects.

Smith turned himself in to police in November 2018 after being charged for felony murder in the death of his girlfriend, Adelisa Murtovic. Her body was found in a burning car on Oct. 30,

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All three men are charged with aggravated assault, felony murder and home invasion in the first degree.

Cpl. Collin Flynn said detectives believe the homicide was motivated by drug activity and robbery. They also believe that the victim’s apartment was specifically targeted by the three suspects.

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2018. Johns Creek police said Murtovic died of a gunshot wound from a shootout that occurred roughly six hours before her body was found.

The burning car containing Murtovic’s body was found in Lawrenceville.

Smith allegedly told Lawrenceville detectives that he and Murtovic went to the Retreat at Johns Creek Apartments to buy drugs. While they were there, other people showed up and approached the car with a gun and started shooting. Smith told police he got his gun and basically a gunfight ensued and then he ran into the woods.”

Smith allegedly told police that after he ran into the woods, someone else jumped into

the car where Murtovic was a passenger and fled the scene.

Gwinnett County police said inMichael vestigators determined Smith Smith was a suspect in a Jan. 11 armed robbery in the parking lot of a hookah lounge in Lawrenceville. Gwinnett County police filed warrants for armed robbery, aggravated assault and false imprisonment.

The sheriff’s office fugitive unit was searching for Smith when they found him with Johnson and St. Patrick.

Johnson is facing charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, armed robbery, possession of a firearm or knife and giving false information to police. Police said St. Patrick was wanted in Hall County for Failure to Appear and in Los Angeles County on a weapons related charge.

U.S. Senate election may keep its melee format in Georgia

By Beau Evans

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Officers were dispatched shortly after noon on Jan. 31 to a call about a man who had been shot inside one of the apartment buildings.

On Friday, police arrested two brothers from Duluth, 18-year-old Cobe Myart and 20-year-old Corey Myart, as well as 19-year-old Gabriel Morales from Lawrenceville.

Duluth man arrested while out on bond on murder charges

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By Michael Plane National Health Press Nancy Holm of Salt Lake City, Utah had tried 18 different diets and diet products without success.

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On Friday, police arrested two brothers from Duluth, 18-year-old Cobe Myart (left) and 20-year-old Corey Myart (right), as well as 19-year-old Gabriel Morales (middle) from Lawrenceville.

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ATLANTA — The race to fill former U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson’s seat permanently looks to remain a free-forall “jungle” primary involving candidates from all parties at once after legislative changes to that format were shelved Tuesday.

Under House Bill 757, special elections in Georgia for suddenly vacated offices would require a party primary to be held prior to a general election in the fall.

Currently, special elections do not include party primaries, instead pitting all candidates who qualify against each other simultaneously in the general election.

Changes to the bill introduced Tuesday would apply the party-primary format to special elections starting in 2021. That timing would keep this year’s U.S. Senate contest to permanently replace Isakson as a free-forall special election with no party primary.

The party-primary bill became a political hot potato last month when U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Gainesville, announced his bid to unseat appointed U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Gov. Brian Kemp tapped Loeffler late last year to fill Isakson’s seat until the Nov. 3 election.

The bill was initially amended to require a party primary

for the Senate race. Several of Collins’ supporters including Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, favored the change.

Many lawmakers and observers at the state Capitol speculated restoring the election format to a traditional primary could boost Collins’ chances to beat Loeffler before competing against the Democratic candidate.

Without the changes, the November free-for-all election will likely result in a January runoff. Special elections require the leading candidate to secure more than 50% of votes to avoid a runoff.

The revised bill would also apply the party-primary format for special elections to state House and Senate seats. Some state lawmakers worried Tuesday that adding more primaries for local elections could be too expensive for many counties.

Originally sponsored by Rep. Barry Fleming, R-Harlem, the bill’s changes in recent weeks have been brought

by Rep. Shaw Blackmon, RBonaire.

At a House Governmental Affairs Committee meeting Tuesday, Blackmon said the latest changes aimed at pushing back the start date were “requested by members of our body” and took into account how the race “is playing out in the Senate.”

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who

favored holding off on the changes until next year, said the slower approach to tweaking elections in Georgia is prudent. He also called for creating a commission to keep studying the issue after the 2020 legislative session ends.

“It’s a very broad issue that deals with several different races,” Raffensperger said.

“It’s not just a one-off for a congressional seat.”

Critics, meanwhile, wondered why the changes could not take effect in time for this year’s elections.

“If the policy is good for Jan. 1, 2021, then it should be good for now,” said House Minority Leader Bob Trammell, D-Luthersville.

The race between Loeffler and Collins has heated up amid rounds of political advertising. Collins has lampooned Loeffler’s touting her upbringing on a farm in Illinois, despite now being a wealthy CEO from Atlanta. Loeffler’s allies have cast Collins as too enmeshed in the politics of Washington, D.C. Aside from Republicans Loeffler and Collins, and Democrat Raphael Warnock, the U.S. Senate race has drawn two other Democratic challengers so far: Matt Lieberman, the son of former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, and Ed Tarver, a former U.S. attorney and state senator from Augusta.

A4 ♦ Wednesday, February 19, 2020 ♦ gWinnettdailypost.com COLUMNIST I KEITH ROACH

WEATHER WATCH

Allergist will need to assess beta blocker rash

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EAR DR. ROACH: I have a dilemma. I suffered an aortic dissection nine months ago and was put on labetalol. I have bounced back well, and at age 84 take care of my house and husband, cook for three adults and am generRoach ally healthy. I developed an allergy to labetalol so I started taking metoprolol and am allergic to that also. My heart doctor does not want me to stop. He insists I take a beta blocker. My dermatologist has me on my third course of prednisone. If the allergic rash returns, my choices are live with it or go on an immune system suppressant (CellCept). I am very sensitive to drugs, and have reacted to multiple medications. Half an adult dose usually works for me. At my age and with my sensitivity I do not want to use CellCept.

Do I have any other options?

— J.O. ANSWER: An aortic dissection is a very serious tear in the lining of the aorta, the largest blood vessel in the body. A beta blocker is the best way we have of preventing a recurrence, so I understand the desire for treatment.

However, taking a medication you are allergic to is also very dangerous.

Allergies to beta blockers are quite unusual, but not unheard of. Some beta blockers are similar to propranolol chemically, and thus likely to elicit an allergic reaction as well, but others, especially carvedilol, are quite unrelated chemically and much less likely to cause an allergic reaction. Allergy specialists often recommend going 30 days between stopping the drug you are allergic to and the one to replace it with.

The calcium channel blocker verapamil has many characteristics of a beta blocker and might be useful to bridge you from the current treatment to another.

An allergist would be the expert who could provide you with personalized information.

Mycophenolate (CellCept) suppresses the immune system and increases risk for bacterial and viral illnesses. It’s not a drug to be used lightly.

DEAR DR. ROACH: Can you explain why being born between 1945 and 1965 is a risk factor for hepatitis C virus infection? I’ve seen this mentioned repeatedly in ads for hepatitis medications, and I’ve noticed that my health insurance covers one-time screenings for adults born between these dates. I’m wondering if this birth-window-related risk factor is due to past immunization practices for school children and military recruits.

Was there a time when needles were reused and, perhaps, insufficiently sterilized during group immunization events, allowing transmission of the virus from one vaccination recipient to another?

— M.R. ANSWER: In Egypt, treatment for schistosomiasis from the 1950s to the 1980s involved needles that were repeatedly reused, leading to extremely high rates (10%) of hepatitis C, a viral disease easily spread by blood, in that country.

Needles were not reused for vaccination in the U.S. or Canada during that time, but people born during that time period are at high risk for hepatitis C; 81% of Americans with hepatitis C were born in that period. Hepatitis C virus wasn’t identified until 1989, so this may be due to inability to test the blood supply during that time, or possibly due to inadequate sterilization.

Finally, injection drug use — even if only tried once — can lead to hepatitis C.

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MAJOR 9:46-11:46 a.m 10:26 p.m.--12:26 a.m.

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POLLEN COUNTS trees: low Weeds: low grass: low

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TODAY’S HISTORY: in 1807, former u.s. Vice president aaron burr was arrested for treason. in 1878, thomas edison received a patent for the phonograph. in 1942, president Franklin roosevelt signed executive order 9066, allowing the internment of Japanese-americans. in 1945, about 30,000 u.s. marines landed on iwo Jima. in 1963, betty Friedan’s “the Feminine mystique” was published, sparking a new wave of feminism in the united states.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: nicolaus copernicus (1473-1543), astronomer; lee marvin (1924-1987), actor; John Frankenheimer (1930-2002), director; smokey robinson (1940- ), singersongwriter; amy tan (1952- ), author; Jeff daniels (1955- ), actor; ray Winstone

(1957- ), actor; roger goodell (1959- ), nFl commissioner; seal (1963- ), singersongwriter; Jonathan lethem (1964- ), author; benicio del toro (1967- ), actor; Jeff Kinney (1971- ), cartoonist/children’s author; david mazouz (2001- ), actor; millie bobby brown (2004- ), actress.

TODAY’S FACT: the hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an average surface temperature of 867 degrees F. TODAY’S SPORTS: in 1995, sterling marlin became the third person in the race’s history to win back-to-back daytona 500s, a feat that has not been accomplished since.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “apologies aren’t something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror.” -- Jonathan lethem, “gun, With occasional music”

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COLUMNIST I AMY DICKINSON

Abuse survivor is afraid to tell parents

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EAR AMY: I am a woman in my mid20s. In junior high school, I was sexually abused by a classmate. When I went to a teacher for help, my concerns were dismissed as “boys being boys.” I was told that this abuse just meant that the boy in question liked me.

After my teacher failed to help me, I tried to reach out to my parents. I was terrified to tell them, because they are devout Christians and had always taught that premarital sex was not acceptable. I was afraid that they would blame me, and my abuser used this fear against me by threatening to tell others that I was “easy.”

I tried to talk to my dad about it, but I hinted around it to see how he would take it.

He was agitated and talked about how whatever I did now with someone would take away from my future spouse’s relationship with me. My takeaway was: “You are ruined by what has happened to you, and no one else will want you.”

This began a long path of self-hatred and blaming myself. I began to withdraw, I began to self-harm, I developed disordered eating, and my parents often fought with me about my “moodiness” or “being difficult.”

I never told them about the abuse.

I have been going diately react in any to therapy, and one expected or anticithing that I keep compated way. ing back to is telling Yes, they might feel my parents about what heartbroken, conhappened. fused, and guilty. They I have been afraid may lash out — or that they will react try to deny this epipoorly, or blame me, Dickinson sode or diminish its or view me differently. impact on you.

I want them to understand They might need time that I wasn’t a bad kid, but to figure out how to be apthat I was a kid who was propriately supportive. But hurting and didn’t know you should give them the how to ask for help. opportunity to love you I worry that if I tell my through this. This will be dad about my past, I will a challenging process for break his heart and he will all of you, but it is one you blame himself. I think enough should initiate — when you self-blame and self-hatred are ready. have infected my life, and I DEAR AMY: My huswouldn’t wish it on anyone. band and I have been diBest-case scenario, this vorced for over 15 years and would help me find clo- see each frequently at our sure. Worst-case scenario, family gatherings. Neither it could damage my rela- of us has a significant other. tionship with my parents.

Our youngest daughter I am at a loss. Should I eloped in November and keep this as a secret from wants to have a reception my parents? this summer. My ex-husband — Old Wounds is very financially stable and DEAR OLD WOUNDS: owns his home, vehicles, No, I don’t think you should and a boat. keep this a secret. You should I (on the other hand) live work this through with your paycheck to paycheck. I just therapist’s help. You might started collecting Social ask your parents to meet Security and still struggle. with you in your therapist’s He told me he would pay office so you will have guid- $5,000 for the reception if ed coaching to handle your I paid $1,000. disclosure.

I cannot afford to pay anyAs a parent, I can tell you thing toward this wedding that a child’s pain cuts a and told him so. What do parent very, very deep. Your you suggest? parents might not imme— Broke Bride’s Mom

DEAR MOM: I suggest that your daughter enjoy her $5,000 (or $4,000, or whatever her father decides to donate) reception.

You can be helpful by finding ways to help your daughter stretch this money the furthest.

DEAR AMY: I’m responding to the touching note from “My Son’s Mom.” Her son had been in trouble, and she wondered about contacting various counselors to let them know that he was graduating from high school.

As a legal services attorney serving justice-involved youth, I want to encourage this mom to share the good news.

I feel such joy when I receive notes about the progress and milestones of the youth I have worked with.

Thank you to the parents and youth who let us know their achievements.

We love making a difference.

— Patti DEAR PATTI: Thank you for doing good work.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: ASKAMY@amydickinson. com. Readers may send postal mail to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068.

You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or “like” her on Facebook.

Have confidence, let your intuition take charge and give your imagination free rein. engage in endeavors that stimulate your mind and encourage you to make positive changes. use your talents, insight and energy to achieve your dreams, hopes and wishes.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — if you want to make a change, take care of the details yourself and don’t expect others to help. change begins within, not by following others or letting them do things for you.

PISCES (Feb. 20-march 20) — if you study whatever situation you face, you’ll come up with a plan that will encourage positive growth, individuality and recognition. an unexpected offer will promote greater prosperity.

ARIES (march 21-april 19) — Keep plugging away at whatever job or responsibility you take on. Knowing that you are giving your best will help counter any negativity you face. reward yourself with something special.

TAURUS (april 20-may 20) — a steady pace forward will do the trick. Have a destination in mind, but be willing to take a detour if you think you might gain insight, experience or knowledge.

GEMINI (may 21-June 20) — look at the facts, assess whatever situation you face and be reluctant to share personal information. personal improvement and being health conscious are encouraged. Walk away from indulgent behavior.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — promotions or career changes will turn out better than anticipated. a positive attitude will encourage others to hear you out and help you get what you want.

LEO (July 23-aug. 22) — spend less, save more and be reluctant to make a lateral move or invest in someone other than yourself. update your image and spend time with a loved one.

VIRGO (aug. 23-sept. 22) — if you socialize, the people you meet will give you insight into how best to use your skills to excel. if you mix business with pleasure, good things will transpire.

LIBRA (sept. 23-oct. 23) — take one step at a time. expect to meet with opposition or be forced to deal with a demanding individual. make plans to do something that will ease stress.

SCORPIO (oct. 24-nov.

22) — stick close to home and to the people who feed your imagination and creativity. strive to make adjustments that will add to your happiness. take control and live life your way.

SAGITTARIUS (nov. 23dec. 21) — your emotional well-being will be threatened by someone who tries to meddle in your affairs. Fix up your living space to suit your personal needs. Fitness is encouraged.

CAPRICORN (dec. 22Jan. 19) — make a decision and act on it. don’t leave anything to chance. take control, make things happen and forge ahead. your life will only be as good as you make it.

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WORLD & NATION

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Turkey acquits defendants in 2013 Gezi Park protest trial A Turkish court acquitted defendants Tuesday over the 2013 protests in Istanbul’s Gezi Park — a high-profile trial criticized by rights groups as part of the government’s crackdown on dissenting voices.

The defendants included the businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala who, along with two others, was facing a life sentence for allegedly attempting to overthrow the government.

Seven of the 16 defendants in the case are living abroad and were being tried in absentia. Arrest warrants against those seven have been lifted, and they are expected to be officially acquitted if they return to Turkey.

The court ordered the release of Kavala, who has been held in pre-trial detention since November 2017. He has always maintained that he took part in a peaceful demonstration to save the green space in central Istanbul from developers.

The Gezi Park protests almost seven years ago began over a plan to turn a small park in central Istanbul into a shopping mall.

Hospital director dies, China calls dead doctors ‘martyrs’

By James Griffiths CNN

The death toll from the novel coronavirus has reached 1,873, as almost half of China’s 1.3 billion-strong population remain subject to varying forms of travel restrictions and other quarantine measures.

On Tuesday, Liu Zhiming, director of the Wuchang hospital in Wuhan, the city at the center of the outbreak, himself died of the virus, according to a statement released by local government authorities.

Liu was a neurosurgeon and the most senior health worker known to have died as a result of the coronavirus epidemic. His death could renew criticism that the government has not done enough to protect frontline medical workers, many of whom are overworked and overstretched.

Also on Tuesday, state media reported that doctors and nurses who die while trying to contain the outbreak will officially be designated as “martyrs.”

All but five deaths from the virus have occurred inside mainland China, where an additional 98 fatal cases of Queen’s nephew, Covid-19, the disease caused Earl of Snowdon, wife by the virus, were reported Tuesday morning. The number Serena to divorce of confirmed cases in China Queen Elizabeth II‘s neph- increased by 1,886, bringing ew, the Earl of Snowdon, the global total to over 73,325. has announced he is to divorce his wife after 26 years of marriage.

NATION David Armstrong-Jones — son of the late Princess Boy Scouts of America Margaret — and his wife Serfiles for bankruptcy, ena have “amicably agreed” lawsuits now on hold to separate, a spokesman for the couple confirmed The Boy Scouts of America in a statement to CNN on has filed for bankruptcy, acTuesday.

The news comes just cording to a court document days after the Queen’s el- filed in Delaware bankruptcy dest grandson, Peter Phil- court early Tuesday.

The youth organization, which lips, and his wife Autumn celebrated its 110th anniverannounced that they were sary February 8, listed liabilialso splitting up.

The earl, known profes- ties of between $100 million sionally as David Linley, is and $500 million and esti21st in line to the British mated assets of $1 billion to throne, and the first royal $10 billion.

The bankruptcy filing comes in line who is not a direct descendant of the Queen. at a time when the organizaHe is best known as the tion faces hundreds of sexufounder of the luxury fur- al abuse lawsuits, thousands of alleged abuse victims and niture store Linley.

The Snowdons married dwindling membership numin October 1993 and have bers. As a result of the filing, all civil litigation against the two children together. organization is suspended.

Paul Mones, a Los Angeles14 killed, hundreds based attorney representing sick from toxic gas “hundreds of sexual abuse leak in Pakistan victims in individual lawsuits,” called the organization’s bankAuthorities have been un- ruptcy filing a “tragedy.” able to explain the origin of “These young boys took an an apparent gas leak that oath. They pledged to be obehas killed 14 people and left dient, pledged to support the hundreds more sick in south- Scouts and pledged to be honern Pakistan since Sunday. orable. Many of them are exConcerns are growing in tremely angry that that’s not the port city of Karachi in what happened to them and Sindh province that toxic the Boy Scouts of America did gas could still be leaking as not step up in the way they officials scramble to find should have,” Mones said. the source of the problem.

Dr. Zafar Mehdi of Sindh Walmart holiday Province’s Health Departsales not as ment said 14 people had died from toxic gas exposure in ‘good as expected’ Karachi and that 500 others Walmart, America’s largwere affected by the gas to varying degrees, including est retailer, reported subpar some who are in intensive holiday sales Tuesday, recare. Mehdi said autopsies flecting a weak holiday shophad been carried out on the ping season for the brickdead and that post-mortem and-mortar retail industry.

Sales at stores and websites reports were expected in open for at least one year — 72 hours.

—From wire reports a key measure of the retail-

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Bill Gates bought an electric Porsche; Elon Musk not impressed

Bill Gates co-founded America’s most valuable company and has become one of the world’s leading philanthropists. But Tesla CEO Elon Musk finds him “underwhelming.”

In a tweet Tuesday morning, Musk dissed Gates after the Microsoft founder mentioned in a recent interview that he had bought an electric Porsche Taycan, rather than a Tesla.

In the interview with Marques Brownlee on YouTube, Gates offered a great deal of praise for electric vehicles and for Tesla.

But he said one issue stopping some buyers from changing to electric is the more limited range for electric vehicles.

Even if there is a charging station available, it is more Kevin Frayer/getty images asiapac/getty images time consuming to recharge Chinese women wear protective masks as they pass the CCTV building on their way to work an electric vehicle than it is to on Monday in Beijing, China. fill up a gas tank.

The vast majority of those ent good news, stringent and “a positive trend has emerged Teens honored cases have been in China, but often draconian measures are nationwide in curbing the epconcern has been growing in being ramped up in much of idemic.” for rescuing woman the past week over much small- the country. This comes as Despite the optimism exfrom burning car er but growing outbreaks in authorities make an effort to pressed by Chinese officials Singapore, Japan and Hong return to something like nor- and in state media, there are Jennifer Scott has been waitKong. mality in many major cities indications the authorities are ing to thank those who saved According to China’s Na- and commercial hubs, with not totally convinced of their her life back in December. tional Health Commission, the long break forced by the success in reining in the virus.

The teens that saved her since the outbreak began in outbreak taking its toll on the According to analysis by CNN were given the Heroic BravDecember, more than 12,500 country’s economy. of Chinese government orders, ery Award at a supervisor’s patients have recovered and On Monday, a committee some 780 million people are meeting in Lehman Townbeen discharged from hospital. headed by Chinese Premier still living under some form of ship in Pennsylvania.

Outside of Hubei, the prov- Li Keqiang said that a “great- restrictive movement, includScott crashed into a tree in ince of which Wuhan is capi- er outbreak of the epidem- ing all of Hubei, the northeastLehman Township on Dec. tal, the number of new cases ic has been avoided through ern province of Liaoning, and 28, along Route 29, and her has dropped for 14 consecu- strengthened prevention and China’s two most important car rolled. tive days. Despite this appar- control measures,” adding that cities, Beijing and Shanghai.

A group of 10 people, including teenagers, pulled over years of Trump’s presidency when they saw her car was on against the last three years of fire; but Scott was trapped.

The door was caved in, and Obama’s time in office tells a the teens, which included different story.

The U.S. economy has gained Kaitlyn Witter of Larksville, 6.6 million jobs during Trump’s tried everything they could first 36 months in office. But to get her out.

“After kicking and punching in a comparable 36-month period at the end of Obama’s out the windows, nothing was tenure, employers added 8.1 working. So, I remembered there’s a hatchet in the car. million jobs.

Let’s go get the hatchet,” Witter explained. “They ran over, Jeff Bezos commits grabbed the hatchet, and thank $10 billion to fight god that worked because we yichuan cao/nurphoto/getty images climate change got her out in time.”

Walmart, America’s largest retailer, reported subpar holiday Scott was able to thank the Jeff Bezos is throwing his teens that saved her with awards sales Tuesday, reflecting a weak holiday shopping season for weight — and wealth — be- at the meeting. the brick-and-mortar retail industry. hind the fight against climate er’s health— increased only the bottom of the worst reces- change months after Amazon Drew Carey mourns 1.9% during its final quarter sion in generations, I signed employees publicly pressured of 2019. That included a 35% the Recovery Act, paving the him and the company to do death of ex-fiancée spike in online sales. Wall way for more than a decade more to address the issue.

Amie Harwick Street expected a stronger of economic growth and the The Amazon CEO on Monlongest streak of job creation day announced a new fund performance.

Comedian Drew Carey is “In the few weeks before in American history,” Obama to back scientists, activists mourning the death of his exChristmas, we experienced wrote on Twitter. and organizations working to fiancée Amie Harwick, writHours later, Trump hit back, mitigate the impact of climate some softness” in toys, video ing in a social media post that games and clothing, Walmart accusing his predecessor of change. Bezos will commit $10 he was “lucky” that she was a chief financial officer Brett a “con job” in “trying to take billion “to start,” he said in an part of his life.

Biggs said in a news release. credit for the Economic Boom Instagram post.

Harwick, 38, was found unThe holiday “wasn’t as good taking place under the Trump The initiative, called the responsive and “gravely inAdministration.” as expected,” he said.

Bezos Earth Fund, will begin jured” beneath a third-sto“He had the WEAKEST re- giving out grants this summer.

Walmart and Target have ry balcony at her home early been two of the strongest covery since the Great Depres- The $10 billion commitment Saturday morning, according traditional retailers in re- sion, despite Zero Fed Rate & constitutes less than 8% of the to a statement from the Los cent years, weathering the MASSIVE quantitative eas- world’s richest man’s estimated Angeles Police Department. rise of Amazon and the shift ing,” Trump wrote of Obama. $130 billion net worth.

The LAPD said officers That argument was echoed Even so, it is one of the bigto online shopping that has were responding to reports upended the retail industry. by White House trade adviser gest charitable pledges ever, of a “woman screaming” in Peter Navarro in an interview according to a ranking by the But like Walmart, Tarthe Hollywood Hills neighget also had a disappoint- with CNN’s Poppy Harlow on Chronicle of Philanthropy, borhood where Harwick lived Tuesday. behind a $36 billion commiting holiday. when they found her.

“What President Trump re- ment by billionaire Warren Police said her injuries were alized is that we had a struc- Buffett in 2006 and an estiObama, Trump tural problem, primarily with mated $16.4 billion pledge by consistent with a fall and she face off over claims offshoring our jobs and over- Helen Walton, the late wife of was transported to a local hosregulation and high taxes rela- Walmart founder Sam Wal- pital where she died. Officers of strong economy found possible evidence of a tive to around the world. He ton, in 2007.

President Donald Trump is fixed those structural problems.

“Climate change is the big- struggle in Harwick’s home as lashing out after former Presi- That set up the economic boom gest threat to our planet,” Bezos well as forced entry, the LAPD dent Barack Obama marked that we’re having right now,” said in the post. “I want to said. Harwick’s ex-boyfriend, the 11th anniversary on Mon- Navarro said on “Newsroom.” work alongside others both Gareth Pursehouse, 41, was arday of signing a nearly $800 But despite Trump’s frequent to amplify known ways and rested Saturday afternoon in billion stimulus package de- claims that the US under his to explore new ways of fight- connection with the case and signed to reverse the effects watch is enjoying its strongest ing the devastating impact of is being held on a $2 million bail, according to jail records. of the Great Recession. economic run ever, a look at climate change.”

“Eleven years ago today, near jobs created over the first three —From wire reports —From wire reports

Skeleton could reveal Neanderthal death rites

By Ashley Strickland CNN

Around 70,000 years ago, a Neanderthal was laid to rest in Shanidar Cave. Excavations in recent years have slowly revealed its entire upper body, including a lower back, the clenched bones of a right hand and the left hand almost acting as a pillow beneath the skull.

It’s the first discovery of its kind in 20 years, according to a new study published Tuesday.

And the cave where the Nean-

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derthal skeleton was found has its own intriguing story to tell.

Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan is where archaeologist Ralph Solecki found the remains of 10 Neanderthal men, women and children in the 1950s. An advocate for humanizing our Neanderthal ancestors, Solecki suggested at the time that the grouped remains were found with ancient pollen clumps because Neanderthals buried their dead and included flowers as part of their

funeral rites.

The discovery of the new Neanderthal remains happened between 2016 and 2019, when the research team was looking to date sediments, according to Graeme Barker, study co-author from Cambridge University’s McDonald Institute of Archaeology.

A study including details about the Neanderthal, referred to as Shanidar Z, published Tuesday in the journal Antiquity.

“So much research on how Neanderthals treated their dead has to involve returning to finds

from 60 or even a 100 years ago, when archaeological techniques were more limited — and that only ever gets you so far,” said Emma Pomeroy, lead study author at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology.

“To have primary evidence of such quality from this famous Neanderthal site will allow us to use modern technologies to explore everything from ancient DNA to long-held questions about Neanderthal ways of death, and whether they were similar to our own.”

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Excavations in recent years have slowly revealed a Neanderthal’s entire upper body, including a lower back, the clenched bones of a right hand and the left hand almost acting as a pillow beneath the skull.

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ROLLE BOLLE From A1 roughly 30 feet away. The asymmetry of the wheel causes it to curve, requiring a skillful touch for precision.

Multiple players roll for each team trying to get their wheel as close to the stake as possible. The person with the closest wheel, or bolle, to the stake earns points for their team.

Holevoet said the sport is popular in the area of northern Illinois where he’s from. He’s since seen it spread to parts of the Southeast. He’s trying to get the sport to take off in Gwinnett.

“We’ve been going slow but we are making good headway with what we’re doing,” Holevoet said.

Holevoet made his own court at his Lilburn home to play with friends, but his first ambitious step was to spark interest from Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation. Holevoet said he showed the sport to Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation Adult Sports Coordinator Stacey Fowler on a softball field at Bethesda Park in Lawrenceville.

Holevoet was optimistic he could build a court at Bethesda if he had the county’s blessing. Fowler, to Holevoet’s surprise, took a proposal of one court a few steps further. Holevoet said Fowler helped get approval to build four courts at Bethesda.

The Bethesda courts opened in late September. Holevoet’s vision is for parks across the county to have access to the game. So

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above: Dwayne Halbig, right, and Tom Reinmiller measure their rolls for points in Lilburn. In Rolle Bolle, players roll asymmetric wheels toward Steve Holevoet shows children how to play Rolle Bolle during the Law- stakes in the ground. The closest is awarded points. below: Bethesda Park in Lawrenceville has four Rolle Bolle courts. renceville United Methodist Church Fall Festival. special photo

far Bethesda is the only park in the county with dedicated Rolle Bolle courts.

Holevoet has built up interest by inviting friends and acquaintances to play on his homemade court. He’s built a regular group of players that meet on Thursday evenings for open practice. That meeting place used to be Bethesda Park until the weather took a wintery turn.

The core group is dedicated to playing weekly.

“We play (at Bethesda Park) when it’s nice and pretty,” player Mary Jane Stephens said. ”When it rains you don’t want to play in the mud — although we’ve played in the rain and played in the dark.

You think measuring is one thing?

Try it with a flashlight.”

The group now meets weekly in the basement of a small build-

HAMBY From A1 (expletive) if they let me,” Speaker 1 said.

Edward D. Buckley, one of Ingram’s attorney’s, asked Hamby, “Is that your voice on the recording?”

“It sounds like my voice, but I don’t recall ever saying anything like that,” Hamby said.

Hamby said that the recording sounded “spliced.”

During his deposition, Phillip Beard, Buford City Commission chairman and Buford Board of Education chairman, also disputed the authenticity of the recording.

“But I’m not an expert,” Beard said in his October deposition. “I questioned the validity of the recording and I’m still going to question it.”

Beard said he had not contacted an expert to verify if the recording was inauthentic.

“I plan to, if I ever locate one,” Beard said.

Hamby acknowledged he had cursed at work. He separately said he has used the

ing across from Luxomni Baptist Church in Lilburn. The court is still the same dimensions — 12 feet wide, 30 feet between stakes with about six feet of room behind the stakes — as the Bethesda Courts.

Holevoet is excited about another boost to the game’s popularity. For the first time, Rolle Bolle will be played in the Gwinnett Senior Golden Games. Holevoet and some of the regular players demonstrated the game for event organizers last year and it caught on. Stephens said she’s also demoed the sport at senior centers and communities around Gwinnett County.

“Everybody is having a terrific time learning to play it, they all think it’s great,” Stephens said.

“At first they go, ‘Oh no, I’ve got arthritis in my wrist, I can’t do it.’

Then we lay the smaller bolle in

“n-word,” though he did not recall a specific incident.

“I may have used it at some point in my life,” Hamby said.

Hamby also said that he speaks to construction workers “direct,” using coarser language than he would use at work.

“And being direct, that could involve profanity because … you felt like that’s something they could get their head around, right?” Buckley said.

“Yes, sir,” Hamby said.

Hamby said he suffered a car accident in August 2016 that gave him a “traumatic brain injury” and caused him to go to therapy. Symptoms, including memory loss, are mentioned during his deposition. He said in testimony the injury caused him to forget names of people he knew prior to the car accident and affected his short and longterm memories.

Hamby said he has aphasia, which causes him to confuse words.

“It’s not your testimony that your aphasia would cause you to use the word (n-word), is it?” Buckley said.

their hand the they realize they don’t have to bend down very far.”

Holevoet has found that seniors and children have gravitated toward the game the most since he’s started playing in Gwinnett County.

“It’s a great thing for camaraderie,” he said. “(Kids) love playing with the older people and the older people love having someone to teach.”

Registration for the Golden Games ends March 1. Packets can be picked up at parks and senior centers in Gwinnett County.

More information is available at gwinnettseniorgoldengames.org.

Holevoet said he feels some pressure to get the game off the ground and make it more accessible to Gwinnett County residents. He sees Bethesda and the Golden Games as a trial for other parks to see the game’s conta-

“No, sir, that is not my testimony,” Hamby said.

Since Hamby resigned in August 2018, the Buford Board of Education has tried to distance itself from the superintendent.

“As the Buford City Schools Board of Education, we would like to apologize for the actions of our former superintendent,” board members said in an August 2018 letter. “His language in no way reflects the sentiments of the Board of Education or School District.

We recognize the hurt, anger and frustration the events of last week caused our students, parents and community.

“Racism is not condoned or acceptable in any manner.”

Beard said in his testimony, “I haven’t talked much to (Hamby) since all this came about, probably,” with the exception of notifying him, by text message, that a mutual acquaintance had died.

The case file also includes flight confirmations with Beard and Hamby’s names for a hunting trip that Hamby and Beard went on together in October 2018, after Hamby resigned. Hamby said the trip was an “an-

gious nature.

“I’m just glad that they’ve accepted me and given me a shot at something,” Holevoet said. “This may be a small spot on a map, but it’s like a big volcano and it can erupt at any time.”

nual” tradition he and Beard had kept going for “15, 16” years.

Beard said the hunting trip was scheduled and paid for prior to Hamby’s resignation, and said they did not interact much on the trip. Beard said he heard that Hamby attended Buford High School’s 2019 commencement ceremony when Hamby’s son received a diploma, but the two did not speak.

The lawsuit claims that Ingram was “targeted” by then Buford Academy Principal Kaleen Pulley and terminated “without justification.” The suit alleges that Ingram was first disciplined, and then fired, for her participation in board of education and city commission meetings.

Ingram began attending the meetings in September 2014. After noticing the color gold was not included in Buford City Schools’ new multipurpose facility. Only green and white were present.

Gold was one of the colors used in Buford’s black high school, Greenard-Watson, prior to the school system’s desegregation in 1969. Green and white were the colors of Buford High School, the white school.

OBITUARIES Buford, GA

Laura Juanita Beagle (Jones) Laura Juanita Jones Beagle was born on January 16, 1929 in Shoals, IN and died February 9, 2020.

Her parents were Elvis and Irma Jones. In June, 1948, she married Earl B. Beagle. She was preceded in death by her husband, Earl; sons, Gregory, Joseph and Michael; and granddaughter, Angela Flick. She is survived by her daughters, Catherine and husband James Fraser, Judith Beagle; sons, Stephen and wife Valerie, Patrick; grandsons, John Beagle, Samual Beagle and wife Carmeletta; granddaughter, Julia Beagle; great grandchildren, Lincoln, Eva, Asher and Rhys; sister, Darlene Ashford; and brother, Randall Jones. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 11:00 am in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Danny Newbern of Zion Hill Baptist Church officiating.

Interment will follow at Lithonia City Cemetery

in Lithonia. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Saturday, February 22th from 10:00 a.m. until the time of service at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Kidney Association.

Hoschton

Kathy Bogus (Smith) Kathy Smith Bogus, age 56, of Hoschton, GA passed away on Sunday, February 16, 2020. She was preceded in death by her father, Wade Smith. Mrs. Bogus is survived by her husband of seven years, Kevin Bogus, Hoschton, GA; sons and daughters-in-law, Jerry Christopher Freeman, Jr. and wife, Brittney, Braselton, GA, Andrew Ryan Freeman and wife, Emily, Auburn, AL and Kevin Dwight Bogus, Jr. and wife, Emelie, Lawrenceville, GA; mother, Mary Ellen Smith, Hoschton, GA; six grandchildren, Gavin Freeman, Keller Freeman, Layla Freeman, Drew Freeman, Riley Freeman and Nathanael Bogus; brother-in-law, Lance Bogus, Snellville, GA; sister-in-law, Martha B

Bogus, Flowery Branch, GA; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Mrs. Bogus was born October 29, 1963 in Atlanta, GA. She was a 1981 graduate of South Gwinnett High School in Snellville, GA, a 1985 graduate of the University of Georgia with a Bachelor’s Degree, and a 1988 graduate of the University of Georgia with a Master’s Degree. She was employed with Gwinnett County Public School System where she taught at Lovin Elementary School in Lawrenceville, GA. She was a member of a sorority. Mrs. Bogus attended Ivy Creek Baptist Church in Buford, GA. She loved going to the beach and loved the ocean.

She adored her grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 11:00 a.m., in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Dr. Jim Ferguson officiating. Interment will follow in Hoschton City Cemetery in Hoschton, GA. The family will receive friends from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 18th and at 10:00 a.m. until the time of service on February 19th at the funeral home.

tended family.

A visitation will be on Thursday, February 20, Lamar Everett, age 65, 2020 from 10:00 am of Norcross, GA passed until 11:00 am at Conneraway on Sunday, February Westbury Funeral Home.

16, 2020. Funeral services Following the visitation a will be held on Friday, memorial service will at February 21, 2020 at 1:00 11:00 am in the Chapel of p.m. in the Chapel of Conner-Westbury Funeral Flanigan Funeral Home.

Home. Reverend Gene Luke will officiate.

Conner-Westbury Funeral Home 1891 W. McIntosh Road, Griffin is in charge of arrangements.

Please join the family Gwinett and friends in honoring the John David Kelley life of John David Kelley by visiting www.connerMr. John David Kelley, age 59, of Buford Georgia westburyfuneralhome.com passed away Friday, Febru- to post your tributes and memories. ary 14, 2020 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center.

John was born in Malone, Buford, GA New York on May 12, Herman Phillips 1960. He is preceded Herman Phillips, age in death by his parents, 77, of Buford, GA passed George Kelley and Caroaway on Saturday, Februline Norton Kelley. Also his father and mother in ary 15, 2020. He was prelaw, Jack and Edna Brown. ceded in death by his son, John was a loving husKeith Phillips; parents, band, father and grandLewis and Clara Phillips; father. He enjoyed being sisters, Louise Munday outdoors, hunting, and and Lavonia Marsh; and fishing. brothers, Billy Ray PhilSurvivors include his lips, Travis Phillips and wife, Denise Kelley; Gerald Phillips. Mr. Philchildren, Tara Wilson and lips is survived by his wife husband, Elliott, Alison of fifty-six years, Barbara Sanford Phillips, Buford, Kelley, Heather Michael GA; children, Jeff and and husband, Wayne; grandchildren, Jackson, Kim Phillips, Buford, GA, Jasper, Cayden and Casey; Leslie and Sullivan Hopsiblings, Judy Huggins and kins, Flowery Branch, GA husband, Larry, James Kel- and Scott Phillips, Buford, ley and wife, Linda, Paul GA; four grandchildren, Kelley and wife, Robbie Peyton Bain, Morgan Kelley and wife, Debbie Phillips, Carson Hopkins and Chris Kelley; several and Courtlyn Hopkins; nieces, nephews and exgreat grandchild, Aurora t B Norfcross, GA

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Bain; sister and brotherin-law, Nancy and Johnny Pendley, Sugar Hill, GA; brothers and sisters-in-law, Bobby and Edith Phillips, Pendergrass, GA, Herbert Phillips, Jefferson, GA, Lloyd and Betty Phillips, Pendergrass, GA, Jerry Phillips, Greensboro, GA and Wayne Phillips, Sugar Hill, GA; sisters-in-law, Syble Phillips, Maysville, GA and Mavis Phillips, Lawrenceville, GA; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Mr. Phillips was born July 8, 1942 in Buford, GA. He was a graduate of Dacula High School in Dacula, GA and he had received some college credits during the time he was in the U. S. Navy for four years.

Mr. Phillips was a retired mechanical contractor.

He was a member of the Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union Local 72 and was also a member of Buford American Legion Post 127. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Kenneth Parker and Rev. Jerry Brackett officiating. Interment will follow at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens in Buford, GA. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday, February 18th from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

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Storm senior Moody makes u.S. Paralympic team

By Jack Leo

Staff Correspondent

LILBURN — Providence Christian Academy senior Bailey Moody is the youngest player on the recently announced 2020 U.S. Paralympic Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team roster.

Moody, the only high-schooler on the team, will be looking to defend the Americans’ gold medal finish in the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

“There is a sense of accomplishment and pride that comes with getting to wear the letters ‘USA’ across your chest,” Moody said. “I’m kind of in this giddy excitement state. I’m so excited, and I’m ready to work my tail off and give everything that I have to this team.”

The selection was another big ac-

complishment for Moody along a journey that included setbacks and disappointment.

Eight years ago, Moody discovered a large lump in her right knee and began experiencing extreme pain.

Soon after, Moody was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.

Following several weeks of chemotherapy, Moody was informed the tumor on her knee would need to be surgically removed.

“I chose a rare form of amputation called a rotationplasty,” Moody said.

“Essentially, they took out the knee joint and rotated the bottom portion of the leg 180 degrees and reattached it at the thigh,” Moody said. “My foot

Providence Christian senior Bailey Moody, shown after a U.S. wheelchair basketball tournament, was selected to represent the Americans in the 2020 Paralympics. ♦ Special Photo

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Defense helps Norcross girls adjust to new coach Clanton

By David Friedlander

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North Gwinnett’s Rex McDaniel celebrates with one of his coaches following his victory in the Class AAAAAAA 145-pound final at the GHSA traditional wrestling state championships on Saturday at the Macon Centreplex.

MaT MaGIC History, triumph, redemption at state wrestling

NORCROSS — For as long as she’s been coaching basketball, Ashley Clanton has pretty much had a defensively philosophy.

But it hasn’t always been that way.

“My teams are normally good defensively,” said Clanton, who was a high school standout in Illinois and played in college at Penn State and DePaul before rolling up more than 200 wins as a coach in Illinois. “It’s funny because when I played, I liked to shoot the ball. But as a coach, it’s just been something that I’ve always had undersized teams. So you had to find ways to make things work.

“So coming to Norcross, where you’ve got size and you’ve got kids that can move and are gifted in a lot off ways defensively, it’s just an area that’s fun to coach because they can cover space, they can cover ground. If you get them to sit down and lock down, they’re tough to score against.”

Indeed, defense was one of the first things Clanton emphasized when she took over as head coach at Norcross last spring, not that the Blue Devils were weak on defense before.

Under former coach, and current Archer coach Dani Wright, Norcross allowed an average of just 39.9 points per game in 2017-18 and 48.9 points per game last season.

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MACON — As is the case pretty much every year, the 2020 Georgia High School Association state traditional wrestling championships produced a wide variety of storylines during championship Saturday at the MaMORE con Centreplex.

INSIDE Just what significance those More photos from the championships.....B2 different storylines held for different teams and individuals on Gwinnett County’s mat scene depended on who you ask.

There was plenty of history made by several of the 21 different individuals to make the finals in their respective classifications and and weight classes.

The repeat championships by North Gwinnett’s Dianna Holmes, Duluth’s See WRESTLING, B4

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Brookwood’s Chase Hornsby tries to take control of Forsyth Central’s Avery Krippner during their Class AAAAAAA 170-pound final at the GHSA state traditional wrestling championships on Saturday at the Macon Centreplex.

Norcross’s Kayla Lindsey (10) tries to stop the drive of Brookwood’s Diana Collins (20) during the Region 7-AAAAAAA tournament championship game at Norcross High School earlier this month.

New-look Buford boys playing well

By Will Hammock will.hammock@gwinnettdailypost.com

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Buford’s Caleb Williams attempts a free throw Saturday in the state playoffs.

For almost every Buford boys basketball player, the first-round victory over Decatur was a new experience.

The Wolves won the 2019 Class AAAAA state championship with a roster that included 11 seniors, forcing a complete rebuild at the varsity level this season. The newlook team wasn’t perfect in last Saturday’s 75-57 win, but it was hard for head coach Eddie Martin to complain about his team’s opening win.

“When you look at our team, there’s one kid on our team, Caleb Williams, that played in a state tournament game for us last year.

One kid,” Martin said. “This was new for every one of them. I think the first (game at state) is always the hardest. That doesn’t mean that’s the best talent you’re going to play against, but it’s always hardest to get that first one behind you.”

Williams is now part of a small senior class that includes two transfers, guard Sebastian Augustave of Mill Creek and center James Munlyn from North Gwinnett.

The state tournament experience is new for both of them, but Augustave had nine points and five assists and Munlyn had 15 points and 15 rebounds against Decatur.

Young players have filled in the spots alongside those seniors.

Sophomore Caleb Blackwell had a team-high 16 points in the first round, and sophomore Jaylon Taylor had six points, five rebounds and five blocked shots. Freshman London Williams (six points) and senior Carson Bell (five points) contributed off the bench.

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WRESTLING From B1 Aki Choates and Collins Hill’s Tiyahna Askew, plus the first title from Meadowcreek’s Mi’Kel Jiles, who became the school’s first state champion in 28 years, made Saturday a big day for the county’s wrestlers in the girls division.

A number of boys wrestlers also etched their name into the history books in a number of different ways.

Buford’s Nick Stonecheck completed a run of being a state champion in all four seasons of his high school career, with his final title coming following a pin of Starr’s Mill’s Ethan Kasier in the Class AAAAA 152-pound final. Titles from Wolves teammate Charlie Darracott and Collins Hill’s Lucas DeSilva in the 160-pound weight class in AAAAA and AAAAAAA, respectively, made each a threetime state champ. Collins Hill’s Clint Gilbert, Buford’s Blaine Bergey and Mountain View’s Garrett Spikes all became two-time state champs.

For a handful of individuals, championships earned Saturday marked the end of a special journey for other reasons.

For North Gwinnett’s Rex McDaniel, Collins Hill’s Elijah Griffin and Joey Felix, Buford’s Evan DiMaggio and Brookwood’s Chase Hornsby, all seniors, that journey

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Buford’s Charlie Darracott attempt to take down Woodland-Cartersville’s Cole Cochran during their Class AAAAA 160-pound final at the GHSA state traditional wrestling championships on Saturday at the Macon Centreplex. was a steady career-long climb that finally resulted in the payoff of a trip to the top of the awards ceremony.

For McDaniel, the climb to the top was a particularly long and tough one after the senior reached the podium three straight years with progressively higher state placings, only to still fall agonizingly short of the title following

last year’s 1-0 loss to North Forsyth’s Paul Watkins in the finals.

But Saturday, the senior finally climbed his way to the top with a 5-3 decision over Lassiter’s Landon Chambers, a title made all the more satisfying by everything he had to go through to earn it.

“It’s surreal,” McDaniel said shortly after the match. “After

a lot of years in the finals, it’s something I’ve wanted to finish. … It’s like I’m in a dream. All the work we put in, it’s great to (get the) payoff.

“I had a 1-0 loss last year (in the finals). Losing by one point made me think of how much work I needed to put in to get that one point. I mean, I put in more practices this year and pushed myself

MOODY

DEFENSE

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is backward… it functions as my knee.”

A few months following the surgery, Moody began physical therapy. Within a year, she was walking on a prosthesis and was declared to have no evidence of the disease. She has remained in remission for almost eight years.

Throughout her battle with cancer, Moody wrestled with some difficult doubts and questions.

“When the doctor came in the room and told me I had cancer, the first question I asked my parents was, ‘Will I ever be able to play basketball again?’” Moody said. “So my whole goal throughout the entire journey was about getting back to playing basketball.”

Moody started playing basketball again, but was frustrated to find that she couldn’t keep up with her teammates and opponents.

It was simply too difficult for her to constantly change direction with her prosthetic leg. It was during that time of doubt that Moody’s parents found wheelchair bas-

And for a decade under Hall of Fame coach Angie Hembree before that, the Blue Devils also were quite attentive on the defense end of the court.

That culture made not only the transition to Clanton’s emphasis on defense a lot easier, but also every other aspect of change from a coaching staff and system the current players had grown up wanting to play for to someone new.

“I think they were excited about (the) change, and they were really good about saying, ‘Let’s band together and see what we can do,’” Clanton said. “They’ve been more receptive than, I think, than what people expected them to be. It’s different. We’re asking them to grind day in and day out, and we’re practicing a few more days than what they’re used to. But they kind of grit their teeth and bear it, and have done the best they can do.”

Nobody can argue with the results so far. Since a pedestrian 4-4 start to the 2019-20 campaign, Norcross has already matched last year’s win total with a 19-9 record, and regained the Region 7-AAAAAAA title with an overtime win over Brookwood in the championship game after finishing as runner-up to the Broncos a year ago.

And they’ve done it primarily with defense. With senior forward Yamani Paul the only player averaging in doubledigit scoring (11.7 ppg) and only two other players close — Mariah Baltierra (9.6 ppg) and Devyne Turner (9.1 ppg) — they’ve had to.

The Blue Devils are currently allowing opponents just 36.9 points per game, and have yielded 50 points in a single game just once since the start of the new year, and it took overtime for that to happen.

They have particularly locked down of late, having allowed an average of just 27.5 points over their last six games dating back to Jan. 24.

And as Paul points out, the effort goes beyond just creating opponents turnovers, something Norcross has done quite well with an average of 11.7 steals per game as a team, led individually by Baltierra (2.1), Turner (1.8), Kayla Lindsey (1.8) and Paul (1.5).

“It’s just reiteration of what we do in practice,” said Paul, who also averages a teambest 5.4 rebounds per game.

“That’s all we go over. (Clanton) knows that offensively, individually, we’re really good. So when we put it (all) together, we’re great if we’re playing together on defense.

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Providence Christian student Bailey Moody in action with the U.S. wheelchair basketball team. ketball.

“I loved it,” Moody said.

“I could keep up with everybody else and I didn’t have to push twice as hard as everybody. I could just play the game and do what I loved to do.”

Moody’s first big break in wheelchair basketball occurred when she attended a national team development camp in November 2017. Moody was surprised when she was asked to return to the camp three months later to try out for the U.S. Women’s National Team. She made the team in 2018 and has played all over the world representing the United States.

“My first year, we traveled

to Germany for the World Championships,” she said.

“Last year, we were in Lima, Peru for the Parapan-Am Games.”

As difficult as her journey has been, Moody has attributed all of her successes to the struggles she has faced.

“I loved basketball, but when I got sick, I thought that everything that I loved to do was going to be over,” Moody said. “But, then, after my sickness, I got opportunities to do things that I never would have had if I hadn’t lost my leg. (Now), it’s mostly excitement. Mostly a drive to work harder for this so that I can be standing on the podium.”

BUFORD From B1 That group already gave Buford a repeat Region 8-AAAAA championship, highlighted by an 88-86 win over talented Cedar Shoals in the region finals. The Wolves (21-6) hope to take the next step this week with a home game against Statesboro in the second round.

Statesboro (21-6) presents a major challenge, having won 20 straight games before a 49-46 loss to Wayne County in the region finals.

“Our expectations are high,” Martin said. “It doesn’t matter who we have on the team.

Our expectations are high.

But from where we were to where we are now and the way we’re playing, we’ve come a long way. We’ve come a long way. Caleb Williams is the only person out there who logged any minutes to amount to anything on the varsity last year. I know we got two senior transfers, but they were totally new to our system. Then you mix in two sophomores and a freshman who are getting a lot of playing time out there, it’s been trying to put together a group.

“And they’ve gotten better and better and better as the season has gone along. I think right now we’re playing pretty good basketball.”

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Buford’s Caleb Williams (1) shoots against Decatur in the state playoffs Saturday.

Martin said there is a long list of improvements his team has made since early in the season. At the top of it is better offensive continuity, as well as better defensive play and rebounding.

Given the the Wolves’ youth, the room for even more im-

provement is considerable.

“If you look at our roster, probably 3/4 of it is sophomores and freshmen,” Martin said. “It’s a young team, but they’re talented and they’re playing well together right now. That’s all you can ask for this time of the year.”

harder, and not taking anything off, really.”

If McDaniel’s title was born from a lesson earned from a loss in the finals a year earlier, then a similar situation that led to Darracott’s title was equally as satisfying.

The Stanford-bound senior had waited a whole year for another shot at the finals after dropping a 9-8 decision to Veterans’ Morrissey Francis in the 2019 Class AAAAA 152-pound championship match — a loss in which a long and vigorous warm-up before the match contributed to him running out of gas late.

Fast forward a year later, and Darracott was far fresher in his 8-6 decision over WoodlandCartersville’s Cole Cochran, which gave him a sense of redemption as he returned to the top of the podium.

“Oh, it does (feel good),” Darracott said afterward. “There’s redemption in the sense that I proved myself again, to be able to know that I can do what I do.

I know where I belong, and I’m glad I had the opportunity to show that.

“I don’t think I would’ve placed here, as well and at nationals last year a month after that state match, unless I learned that daunting lesson. But you know, God’s got a great plan. He orchestrated that whole thing for me to be able to do what I do.”

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Norcross’s Devyne Turner (5) tries to block the shot of Brookwood’s Shannon Niles (2) during the Region 7-AAAAAAA tournament championship game played at Norcross High School earlier this month.

STATE BASKETBALL gwinnett matchups in the second round of the state high school basketball playoffs: Wednesday, Feb. 19 5 p.m. — Wayne county at buford girls 6 p.m. — archer at Westlake girls 6 p.m. — christian Heritage at Hebron girls 6 p.m. — north paulding at norcross girls 6 p.m. — parkview at mceachern girls 6 p.m. — pebblebrook at collins Hill girls 6 p.m. — trinity christian at Wesleyan girls 6:30 p.m. — statesboro at buford boys 7 p.m. — Kennesaw mountain at berkmar boys 7 p.m. — pebblebrook at grayson boys 7:30 p.m. — Hillgrove at norcross boys 7:30 p.m. — pinecrest at providence boys Thursday, Feb. 20 6 p.m. — brookwood at tift county girls 6 p.m. — brunswick at dacula girls 6 p.m. — gac at monroe girls 6 p.m. — grayson at cherokee girls 7 p.m. — shiloh at Wheeler boys 7:30 p.m. — east coweta at north gwinnett boys 7:30 p.m. — gac at monroe boys 7:30 p.m. — stephenson at lanier boys “We do (take a lot of pride in defense). Practice is really competitive. So when we get out here (for a game), we’re ready to go.”

But as much as attention to detail on the defensive end has been one key, there have been other factors that have helped make the transition to Clanton’s coaching tenure as

seamless as possible.

One may be the continuation of a literal family atmosphere surrounding the team that began when Wright brought her husband David on to her staff as an assistant.

Clanton also has maintained a visible family presence with her father B.J. Luke, a Hall of Fame football coach in Illinois before retiring, on staff as a community coach.

“He coached with me last year at (Mother) McCauley (in Chicago),” Clanton said of her father. “He’s a Hall of Fame football coach in Illinois.

The thing my dad has always been good at is, he’s won a ton of football games in the state of Illinois … and he’s always been someone who can get people believing in themselves. And I think that’s the biggest thing he brings to our team. He brought that to our team at McCauley last year, and it’s the same thing here.”

The Blue Devils have believed in themselves when many observers outside the program opined before the season that adjusting to a new coach and trying to replace a successful senior class led

by Division I college players Morgan Robinson-Nwagwu and Myra Strickland might force them to take a step back.

But as they head into a second-round Class AAAAAAA tournament game against North Paulding this week, they’ve proven their doubters wrong.

“When we came in (to the season), a lot of people would tell me, ‘Oh, you’re going to be (about) middle of the pack (in region) and may be down this year,” Clanton said. “And I just took that to the kids and told the, ‘This is what people are saying. I don’t plan on that being the case, and I hope you don’t plan on that being the case. So let’s get to work and see what we can do.’”

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What’s your guilty pleasure?

ast week I confessed my ongoing inspired me to invent a word: “Cheeslove of the Three Stooges. It’s the tal.” What’s cheestal, you ask? Simple. definition of “guilty pleasure.” The When you order a Krystal cheeseburger, dictionary calls it “something that one it is served in an equally tiny cardboard enjoys, but would be embarrassed by if carton. More often than not, there’s a litother people found out.” It might be a tle dollop of melted cheese stuck to the childhood habit, a TV show, or some type bottom of that carton. It’s the best part of food. In other words, something of the meal. Even though those that might be viewed as juvenile slices of cheese are the exact same by one’s friends or family. size, if there isn’t a fingertip-sized Soon after my Stooge story was glob of cheestal at the bottom, I published, the letters and e-mails feel cheated. started flowing. It turns out I’m A surprising number of my “manot the only seasoned citizen who ture” friends still love Mountain harbors a secret love, the kind you Dew. If you’ve ever seen the afdon’t go around bragging about. ter-effects of Mountain Dew on Carroll Here are some of the most candid a 7-year-old, you can only imagconfessions. The names are omitine what it does to the heart of a ted to protect the guilty. grandparent. It’s been known to make Age-inappropriate foods dominate pacemaker engines knock like a ‘72 Pinto. our lists: Lucky Charms, Sugar Smacks, But evidently, we’re going to live forSmurfberry Crunch, Fruity Pebbles, ever, because look what we are having Frosted Flakes right out of the box (with for dessert. Chocolate-covered, cream no milk), and my own guilty pleasure, filled doughnuts, Hot Fudge Cake from Cap’n Crunch. Yes, I know it will rip up Shoney’s, Swiss Cake Rolls, and Reddithe roof of the mouth if you don’t let it Wip straight from the can. When you look get soft enough, but who has that kind on the package for the calorie count, it of patience? Besides, how bad can Cap’n should read, “If you have to ask, why are Crunch be for you? He’s in the military. you eating this?” It doesn’t bother me. I Some of us still raid the candy coun- wash it down with Diet Coke. You know, ter. Many of my correspondents are in to cancel out the calories. their fifth or sixth decade of consuming Some things, we never outgrow: gulpcandy corn, animal crackers, and those ing down a Pepsi for breakfast, drinking politically-incorrect, hard to find candy water straight out of the hose pipe, eatcigarettes. ing convenience store hot dogs, and visI still enjoy a pop tart now and then, iting Cici’s Pizza buffet. It’s all you can but to my credit, I eat the healthy kind: eat for about six bucks. I go there for a unfrosted strawberry. Cue my wife, say- pizza feast, and for the next 24 hours I’m ing, “So, THAT’S your idea of healthy.” in critical, but stable condition.

Well, it’s not sugar-coated, for what that’s An early-morning guilty pleasure is worth. (And according to the nutrition Hardee’s. As one friend said, “Their gravy facts, not very much). is the secret to a long life. Look around For many of us, a trip to a ball game is Hardee’s during the breakfast rush. Somenot complete without corn dogs, conces- times I’m the only one there whose age sion stand nachos, and chocolate dipped is still in double digits. I think that gravy ice cream cones. I actually had a McDon- holds your innards together.” ald’s soft serve cone that day their maAs for TV, we’re still hooked on “Saved chine was working, back in 2007.

By The Bell,” “The Price is Right,” “Full Despite my rural Alabama upbringing, House,” and Foghorn Leghorn cartoons I never latched on to a legendary guilty (“Pay attention, boy!”) pleasure: peanuts poured into a bottle But not all guilty pleasures are memoof RC Cola. But many of you enjoy that ries from childhood. They’re still making southern delicacy to this day. I do still new ones today. For example, HGTV. I love Nehi Grape. Thank you Cracker like to watch them rebuild a house on a Barrel, for making America Nehi again. $200 budget. This is known as “reality” Peanut butter is a major foundation television. of my food pyramid. The crunchier, the Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m craving a better. In this, I am definitely not alone. mayonnaise sandwich.

My friends eat it with a spoon, right out of the jar. Or they make a big ol’ sloppy David Carroll, a Chattanooga news PB & J white bread sandwich, with the anchor, is the author of “Volunteer jelly dripping onto your shirt.

Bama Dawg,” available on his website, Some of us still enjoy cheeseburgers, ChattanoogaRadioTV.com. You may contact long after our doctors told us to stop. him at radiotv2020@yahoo.com, or 900 My love for one tiny square burger even Whitehall Road, Chattanooga, TN 37405.

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COLUMNIST|TOM PURCELL

Bringing chocolate, peanut butter and Americans together again

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very time I bite into a Clark Bar, during the post-World War II boom I become 10 years old again. for returning veterans benefiting from Irish immigrant D.L. Clark the GI Bill. created the legendary chocolate-coatThe families in those neighborhoods ed peanut-butter-crunch confection were wonderful – but, being budgetin Pittsburgh in 1917. Individually conscious, they were strictly Clark Bar wrapped Clark Bars were shipped to families, as the locally produced conU.S. troops during World War fection was always discounted I and became popular nationduring the Halloween season. wide following the war.

Our pillowcases would be filled According to “Sweets: A Hiswith dozens of Clark Bars when tory of Candy,” Clark applied a we’d finally conclude our tricknew technique that allowed a or-treating. thin milk-chocolate shell to coat The Clark Bar’s corporate owna non-chocolate filling, producership would go through a seing America’s first successful ries of sales and bankruptcies Purcell “combination” candy bar. That over the years. Production finalmakes the Clark Bar’s origin a ly ceased in 2018, breaking the reflection of American innovation. hearts of millions of 1970s kids like me.

Clark’s family-owned business proBut now, the Clark Bar is back! duced the candy until 1955, when his Boyer Candy in Altoona, Pa. – the company was acquired by corporate very same company that makes the owners in Pittsburgh. But every Octo- Mallo Cup – has begun producing the ber for decades after that, thousands of Clark Bar again. That makes the Clark families bought the highly affordable Bar part of a classic American comebars to hand out on Halloween night. back story.

That makes the Clark Bar a tremenThough I didn’t yet appreciate or undous source of American nostalgia. derstand the Clark Bar’s history when By the time we were both 10 in 1972, I was 10, I certainly enjoyed devouring my best friend Tommy Guillen and I hundreds of them. The Clark Bar rehad Halloween night down to a science. mains a heavenly piece of Americana We knew which houses to hit and – one thing that still unites millions, which to avoid. A couple of families even in these highly partisan and dialways handed out popcorn balls or vided times.

Rice Krispies marshmallow bars – Regrettably, the Clark Bar’s comefamilies that were just begging to have back is currently limited to the Pittstheir car windows soaped! burgh market. But if you can, buy a Georgetown, the richest neighbor- pack or two – and share them with hood near our homes – literally on the friend and foe alike. other side of the railroad tracks – was Sharing the Clark Bar’s tastiness just our first stop. might melt hearts just enough to fosGeorgetown parents filled our pil- ter calm, reasoned discussion. lowcase sacks with brand-name canEvery time I taste one, I become as dy heaven: Hershey’s, Nestle Crunch, hopeful and optimistic as I was when Milk Duds, Good & Plenty, Almond I was 10.

Joy, $100,000 Bar, Twizzlers, SnickI hope everyone can enjoy and share ers, Milky Way, Kit Kat, M&Ms, Reese’s the positive energy that comes from Peanut Butter Cups and the granddad- enjoying a few bites of the Clark Bar’s dy of them all, Mallo Cup – chocolate- chocolate and peanut butter perfeccovered marshmallow perfection! tion – together.

After miles of walking, we’d head back across the railroad tracks to hit Tom Purcell is a Pittsburgh Tribunethe small ranch houses in the adjoin- Review humor columnist. Send comments ing borough – affordable homes built to Tom at Tom@TomPurcell.com.

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Moderate, centrist: What do these mean?

or all the thunder on the Bernie Sanders left, the most interesting trend in the Democratic campaign this year may be the re-emergence of the moderate wing of the party, led by charismatic new voices: former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar.”

So begins a recent column by David Ignatius of The Washington Post, who goes on to name other members of Congress he considers “moderate.”

The media attach labels to politicians who reflect their political and social views. Those labels have included “right-wing,” “extreme right-wing” “far-right,” “out of the mainstream,” and when reporting on religion, “fundamentalist.”

Occasionally a politician will be described as “liberal,” but usually in the context of a policy or personality a media person regards favorably. People most conservatives consider extreme left, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) never seem to be labeled as such by mainstream media.

Labels have an effect on how news as written and the intentions of the consumers and the general public view Founders? a person, especially since negative laAsked at a town hall meeting in Iowa bels such as “intolerant” “racist” and

by Kristin Day, a self-described pro“sexist” are their frequent etymologilife Democrat, if there was room in cal companions if one is conservative. the party for someone like her, Pete The problem is the media never Buttigieg basically said no. define their terms, nor apply them The exchange as reported by The Thomas equally to liberals.

Washington Examiner continued with Why is someone considered “modButtigieg saying: “I respect where you erate” when they vote against protection for are coming from and I hope to earn your the unborn? Watch how Sen. Klobuchar and vote, but I’m not going to try to earn your others the media consider “moderate” vote on vote by tricking you. I am pro-choice, and upcoming Senate legislation that would out- I believe that a woman ought to be able to law abortion after 20 weeks and protect the make that decision.” lives of babies who survive abortion.

The crowd applauded.

Is it moderate to favor same-sex marriage?

“Here’s what I can tell you,” Buttigieg conIs a person moderate who wants to raise tinued. “I know that the difference in opinyour taxes, impose new regulations on your ion that you and I have is one that we have business, undercut the Second Amendment, come by honestly, and the best that I can increase spending (a bipartisan practice in offer... is that if we can’t agree on where to Washington), control your health care and draw the line, the next best thing we can do appoint judges who interpret the Constitu- is agree on who should draw the line and, tion in ways that agree with their political in my view, it’s the woman who’s faced with agenda, rather than accept the document that decision in her own life.”

Moderator Chris Wallace then asked Day whether she was satisfied with Buttigieg’s answer. Day said she was not and that Buttigieg had failed to answer whether he supported efforts to broaden the party’s language regarding abortion.

“The second part of the Democratic platform contains language that basically says we don’t belong,” Day said, noting that it was not too long ago that the Democratic Party tried to accommodate pro-life liberals. “We have no part in the party because it says abortion should be legal up to nine months, that the government should pay for it, and there’s nothing that says people who have a diversity of views on this issue should be included in the party.”

It is Day’s position that should be considered “moderate.” Buttigieg and the rest of the Democratic presidential field are not.

Look for Cal Thomas’ new book “America’s Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers and the Future of the United States” (HarperCollins/Zondervan).

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MERCURY MARINER, 2010

4-wheel drive, black, leather seats, moon roof, 1 owner, nonsmoker, no pets, low miles at 103,000, great condition! $7,900

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770-962-2071

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