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Norcross woman’s skull found in river

By Joshua sharpe

Gwinnett Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Carol A. Terry said the skull shows no trauma.

The skull of a Norcross woman “The fact that it is separated missing since March has been from the rest of the body does found, Gwinnett County Police not equate to homicide,” she said announced Tuesday. in an email. “It could be due to No cause or manner of death has decomposition/animal activity. We been determined yet for Ceaulowill be searching for the rest of the vone (pronounced Shay-la-von) remains.”

Milner, 45, whose dental records The county 911 center received were compared to the skull found a call before 4 p.m. Sunday from a Sunday by a family on the Yellow man who was fishing on the river River, according to authorities. with his children. He saw the skull joshua.sharpe@gwinnettdailypost.com

just below the surface of the water near Riverside Drive and Lake Lucerne Road in unincorporated Lilburn, police Ceaulovone Milner Cpl. Michele Pihera said. The man took the kids home and met with officers.

“Milner’s family has been notified of the discovery of her remains,” Pihera said. “Though this is a tragic outcome, we hope that

the family can grieve her loss and begin the healing process.”

She was a mother of two daughters and had granddaughter, according to a fundraising website set up by the family.

The woman had reportedly last been seen on March 28 leaving a friend’s house to head to home to Indian Trail Apartments. The friend who had last seen Milner told officers Milner was supposed to call once she made it home March 28, but the call never came, according

Back on the turf

Former football star Butler transitions to irrigation industry

By Keith Farner

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DULUTH — Used to performing at a high level on the football field, Kevin Butler has taken on a different perspective with turf in recent years.

Playing pro football with the Chicago Bears and college football at the University of Georgia, Butler said his network of connections gave him a lot of different opportunities.

Seven years ago Butler joined a company that makes sensors that measure and record moisture levels and water use in a variety of landscape environments.

Butler, a Duluth resident, said finding a business that you have pleasure in is a blessing, and one that shows measurable results while helping the environment is a bonus.

It’s how Butler spends his time outside of watching his son, Drew, a Peachtree Ridge High and UGA grad, who punts for the Arizona Cardinals. Or serving as an analyst for the Georgia Bulldog Radio Network. Butler, who played for the Chicago Bears from 1985-95, saw a host of his records fall last season to Robbie Gould, including the franchise record for field goals, which was 243.

Butler said he has a great relationship with Gould and respect for what he does because he kicked in the same stadium with the same conditions.

Working with UgMo Technologies, a King of Prussia, Pa.-based business, Butler has clients that include the cities of Duluth and Roswell, to McDonald’s, Zaxby’s, RaceTrac and the Cobb County Parks and Recreation Department. The system not only saves thousands of dollars, it also conserves water.

“We can work with counties and school districts and put money back to where it should be going, not down the street,” Butler said. “The parks and rec department can certainly do a lot more with that money toward

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Deal: Apparel company to bring 300 jobs to Gwinnett

By Curt yeomans curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

A 7-year-old, San Francisco-based online consignment company is coming to the Duluth area, and it’s bringing more than 300 new jobs with it, Gov. Nathan Deal announced Tuesday.

The governor said thredUP will set up a distribution warehouse in an existing facility at 2670 Breckinridge Blvd., in unincorporated Gwinnett Nathan Deal County. The company operates as an online marketplace that buys and sells secondhand women’s and children’s clothing that are in “like-new” condition.

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Police name suspect in man’s murder

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you don’t like it, we’ll pull it out at no cost and you can go back and spend. We will save you that amount. We will show you the efficiencies.”

While Gwinnett County is

LAWRENCEVILLE — Robert Purcell was trying.

He was 40 years old and reportedly living out of his old gray Honda Civic. He was known to sleep in it on Centerville Highway. But the same car took him to and from two jobs, at Marco’s Pizza and Johnny’s New York Tye Stewart Style Pizza down the road.

“There was not anything he couldn’t do,” declared Kal Patel, owner of the Marco’s location.

Patel couldn’t recall Purcell ever having a conflict with anyone. Purcell got along with everyone, Tremaine the boss said.

Washington But someone fought with Purcell over the weekend.

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Duluth resident Kevin Butler, who played football for the University of Georgia and the Chicago Bears, works for UgMo Technologies to install water-saving irrigation sensors for local parks and recreation departments and landscaping projects. The seven-year-old company makes sensors, left, that are buried beneath the ground to gather soil and moisture information to determine irrigation levels. Like cell phones, they regularly see advancements in technology that make the devices smaller and more efficient.

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healthier fields and better conditions from the ground.”

After Roswell installed the UgMO system, from September 2014 to December 2015, the city saved 64 percent in water and $110,089 from the previous year, Butler said.

Butler said Duluth spent some of its Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax money on its installation.

“Water’s never going to get cheaper,” he said. “To be able to have some control over the usage is a light that goes off. If

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Missing from the apartment were Milner’s cellphone and car keys, though her car was out front.

Milner’s daughter reported her missing on March 31.

Police have said Milner had medical issues, though they haven’t elaborated on what kind.

The friend and the daughter said Milner had been acting normally before she went missing and that

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Army specialist Memorial Day Parade in Dacula a hit Gilbert honored at Memorial Day event

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The city of Dacula hosted its 23rd annual Memorial

BY JOSHUA SHARPE Day Parade on Monday.

MORE ONLINE joshua.sharpe The parade began at Hebron Visit gwinnettdailypost.com @gwinnettdailypost.com Baptist Church, proceeded for a photo gallery. down Dacula Road and LAWRENCEVILLE A Lawrenceville native, ended at Dacula High — I’m so sorry. We’re so Kyle Gilbert, 24, was School. This year’s theme grateful. Thank you so killed by friendly fire in was “Faces of Honor.” much.

September in Bagram, “War does have a face, They were coming at Afghanistan. The county and that face is our sons, our Ralph Gilbert from all added his name to the daughters, your brothers, sides — old veterans in memorial, honoring him in your sisters, your aunts and their identifying ball caps, the ranks of locals who’ve uncles, grandma and grandwomen with white hair and died in the War on Terror. pa, or even your mom and prayer in their hearts, ofGilbert’s name was the first dad,” said Marvin Atherton, ficials, complete strangers. added since 2011. the founder of the Dacula Gilbert, a tall, broad man To get the recognition, Memorial Day Parade. “No sporting a of course, Ralph Gilbert matter who it was or is, mustache and Cecilia Tate’s son died. remember that war has a and a suit The months since have face and most likely it is the and tie, been filled with a mix of face of a young adult that kept shak- emotions, Ralph Gilbert just turned 21, full of life, ing the said. promise, vigor and hope. extended He’s been sad, but “Today we remember one hands, proud. “He was where he by one, face by face, the 1.1 taking wanted to be and he was million Americans who have Kyle E. Gilbert the words doing what he wanted to laid down their lives in the and nodding do,” Ralph Gilbert said of field of battle for our nation, along, “Thank you.” his son. a nation that they loved, Here came the comCounty Commissioner a nation that we love,” mander of the Georgia Tommy Hunter, who called Averthon continued. “Today Army National Guard.

Ralph Gilbert a friend, we take time out of our busy “Know we’re praying for said the ceremony was a ya every single day,” Brig. homecoming.

Gen. Thomas Carden Jr. He spoke to the crowd •From Page 1A told him, offering another about the meaning of the “thredUP’s decision to hand. day and how, in an odd Someone asked Gilbert way, the fact that the mean- grow its business here in how it all felt, the swell of ing is lost on many people Georgia is a direct reflection support. is a good thing. He said on of our first-rate workforce He thought for a while and the ease of access we the way to the service, he as the crowd swarmed provide to the company’s passed people who were around him in the sun at online customer base,” Deal out swimming, cutting the Gwinnett Justice and said in a statement. “These their grass or otherwise Administration Center on are critical components for passing the day off work Monday afternoon. innovative companies like and not actively paying “I guess the word I’m thredUP to continue growtribute. looking for is ‘overwhelming.

But what else would ing,’” he said.

“I am confident thredUP veterans who died for It was a good word, will benefit from the wealth American freedom want surely about as good as of resources that make but for people to go about any to explain Gilbert’s Georgia the No. 1 state for their lives? situation. He had just sat business.”

“It takes a special kind through a Memorial Day The company’s new facilof person to give up their service at the Gwinnett ity will allow it to expand life so that people can Fallen Heroes Memorial forget about them,” Hunter its presence and reach in the in front of the justice and Southeast, which the goversaid. administration center.

Kyle Gilbert was one of nor’s office said will allow Gilbert and family were on those people, the commis- thredUP to “better serve a the front row because his rapidly growing customer sioner said. son, Army Specialist Kyle base.” Company officials “Nobody made him do E. Gilbert, was being hon- that,” Hunter said, beginsaid the new location will ored. The mother, Cecilia help them operate efficiently ning to choke up. “Thank Tate, also attended.

God for people (like him).” while taking advantage of re-

field that might receive more sun, or have grass versus not a client, Butler said he’s flowers. communicated with county “When you generalize it, commissioners and parks that’s when you start to get and recreation officials the trouble spots.” Butler and believes he can return said. “If you can create $300,000 in water savings a profile that is addressback to Gwinnett. ing each zone individually The network of wireless instead of collectively, that’s sensors is buried underwhere you’re going to see ground across an area that’s the efficiencies pop up.” irrigated. Those sensors Pairing information with collect data based on the root recent weather in a given system, sunlight and moisarea, a property’s sensor ture requirements. Monitor- system might communicate ing is done 24 hours a day the need for three minutes and every 10 minutes the of irrigation one night, five sensors send a package of minutes the next or none information to a centralized after a recent rain event. location that communicates The company is seven what’s needed in that area. years old, but research and The sensors help to distin- development took about guish one area of a yard or three years to develop the

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“We’re excited to put down roots here in Duluth and to have access to the area’s tremendous high-quality workforce as we build out our team,” thredUP Chief Operating Officer John Voris said in a statement. “By opening new distribution centers in strategic locations across the country, thredUP is able to increase processing capacity, while also offering faster shipping transit times and more localized, seasonally relevant inventory.”

The company plans to retrofit and upgrade the facility it is moving into. Ultimately, inspection, quality assurance, inventory and human resources management positions are expected to be created at the new facility.

“ThredUP’s decision to locate in Gwinnett County demonstrates once again

the strong business climate that exists here,” Gwinnett County Chairwoman Charlotte Nash said in a statement. “Gwinnett’s skilled workforce and connectivity make it the ideal location for companies like thredUP to grow and thrive.”

Local and state economic development officials said they were excited about the news. Officials with the Gwinnett Chamber’s Economic Development arm and the county’s development collaborative, Partnership Gwinnett, said thredUP has had an annual growth rate of more than 200 percent since 2011.

The company and Goldman Sachs Investment Partners also closed on an $81 million investment deal last year.

“We are pleased that thredUp, a leader in the online consignment

business, has chosen to expand its distribution operations into Gwinnett,” Gwinnett Chamber Economic Development and Partnership Gwinnett Senior Project Manager Shantell Wilson said in a statement released by the chamber.

“This is simply another feather in Gwinnett’s cap and testament to our probusiness climate and expansive infrastructure.”

Georgia Department of Economic Development Commissioner Chris Carr added: “This announcement is indicative of our pro-business environment, collaborative statewide partnerships and a top-notch workforce.

Today, we welcome thredUP to Georgia as a new corporate citizen, and we look forward to supporting them as they fill these newly created jobs with Georgia’s highly skilled talent.”

when needed,” Cooper said.

“You never waste a bit of water. No guessing involved. … Without a system like this, our management is reactive; with this, it allows you to be proactive.”

Outside of landscaping, Butler has several perspectives on college and pro football.

On radio, he said he offers an honest opinion on pre- and post-game shows discussing Georgia football. He admitted the recent coaching change from Mark Richt to Kirby Smart needed to happen because even though Richt coached Butler’s son for four years, Butler thought the program had grown stagnant.

“I didn’t see the fire in Coach Richt’s eye and determination in players’ eyes,” Butler said. “We had gone through defensive coordi-

nator changes, offensive coordinator changes, those things didn’t work. Kirby steps in, has lot of energy.

He has that fire in his eyes.”

Watching his son, Drew, the father said Drew has adjusted to life in the NFL, but that doesn’t made it any easier as a dad, no matter his son’s age or competition level.

“I don’t do a lot of talking. You get nervous,” he said. “Any time your children are competing, from soccer as a 5-year-old, to the NFL, you want them to do perfect, and as you get older, you know that’s not realistic.”

Yet Butler added that he’s proud of Drew.

“It’s a wonderful thing for a father to know what your son’s experiencing, because I did the same thing,” he said.

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The parade began in 1993 face by face.” fought and died during the under the supervision of A C-130 aerial flyover global war on terrorism.

Atherton. kicked off this year’s paGeorge E. O’Kelley Jr. “It’s important to me rade. It commenced as the of Carnesville served as the for our next generation, Mountain View High School grand marshal. O’Kelley Black and Gold marching was born in 1925 and at age our children these days, to know why they can go band played the national 19 joined the U.S. Navy to school in a free county anthem in front of Fire in 1944. He served on the and have the life that they Station 16 on Dacula Road. U.S.S. Barnwell, Amphibihave,” Atherton said. “This The flyover was conducted ous Personnel Assault 132, parade is not about me. It’s by the 94th Airlift Wing and in the Pacific theater. He the 700th Airlift Squadron was honorably discharged in about the men and women who gave their lives for our out of Dobbins Air Reserve 1946 with the rank of seacountry.

Base, Marietta. man first class.

“I never expected that I The parade honored and The Dacula Memowould still be doing it now. remembered those who put rial Day Parade is the only their lives on the line for Memorial Day parade in the I have made it a career honoring the military.” their country and those who metro Atlanta area — with gave the ultimate sacrifice over 150 units participating Gage Weeden claps for the people in the Memorial Day Parade on Monday in Dacula.

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sensors, and like cellphones, they regularly see advancements in technology that make the devices smaller and more efficient.

“It is just the consistency of not overwatering and underwatering,” Butler said.

“Obviously, the turf health has improved greatly, and the conditions of the field.

The hard field is dangerous to athletes, so if you can get that proper moisture level, you’re going to have a safer field.”

In recent months, UgMo has partnered with Russell Landscaping after Bill Russell told Butler his house’s water bill was about $600 a month. Since the system was installed, the bills dropped below $150, Butler said. In that example, it kept Russell from spreading pesticides and fungicides around the property.

•From Page 1A His head hit the pavement. A bullet hit his chest, a bullet fired from a pistol as two young men robbed him,

As a business, Russell introduces the UgMo product to its clients, then UgMo aims to add value without adding labor, Butler said.

Soil-sensing technology has long been available at golf courses and athletics fields, but only recently entered the landscaping industry. Russell Chief Operations Officer Hugh Cooper said he notices a difference in manpower using the sensors.

Previously, if it rained, Cooper said they’d have to send employees out to turn off 100 controllers.

Without the sensor, irrigation is tailored by a controller and a timer. For management, it saves time spent by employees. For customers, it saves water.

“This reads the exact needs of the turf, the plants, the flowers, and only waters

Murder according to police. He was soon pronounced dead at the hospital.

Warrants released Tuesday say the assailants took his cellphone, money,

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ID and pocket knife and then ditched his body in the Honda on the exit ramp from U.S. Highway 78 to Hugh Howell Road.

The warrants charge Tremaine Washington, 18, the alleged shooter, and Tye Roderick Stewart, 25, with murder. Stewart is charged with murder under Georgia’s party-to-a-crime statute, the documents say. The law makes those who play a role in carrying out criminal acts just as guilty as those who physically commit them.

The suspects, who remain in the county jail without bond, live in the Snellville area.

Stewart, who works at Dollar Tree, faces a robbery charge in addition to murder and is also held for probation, according to jail records. Washington, who

is unemployed, is accused of murder and aggravated assault.

Co-workers at Marco’s reported Purcell missing Saturday when they noticed Purcell and his car missing from behind the restaurant, where he often parked it.

Officers found some of his belongings in the parking lot.

It isn’t clear how long the man had been homeless.

Patel said he had heard him talk about looking for a place recently after spending some time living with a friend in the area.

“I try not to get into people’s personal life when I don’t have to,” the boss said.

But Patel knew Purcell had a mother and a brother.

He was about to call them Tuesday afternoon to pay his respects.

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The rules?

What rules?

“Rules are made to be broken” is a saying that has many variations, but perhaps no one has summed up Hillary Clinton’s attitude (and Bill’s, too) about rules more than the late sciencefiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein, who said: “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

In its reCal port on how Thomas Hillary Clinton handled her “private” emails while serving as secretary of state, the State Department’s inspector general has found that Hillary Clinton disregarded cyber security guidelines when she used a private computer server. She continues to deny she did anything wrong and falsely claims she turned over “all” of her emails to the State Department after she left office. In fact, she, or members of her team, deleted about 30,000 of them before an investigation of her practices began.

The IG’s report chides her, saying she should have “preserved any federal records she created and received on her personal account by printing and filing those records with the related files in the Office of the Secretary. At a minimum, Secretary Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing with Department business before leaving government service and, because she did not do so, she did not comply with the Department’s policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act.” There are federal penalties for tampering with a smoke detector on an airplane and disobeying flight attendants that can include fines and even jail time.

Isn’t what Hillary Clinton did far worse than that, if she potentially compromised U.S. secrets?

The IG also says she stonewalled requests by the government for access to her server, which was in her Chappaqua, N.Y., home, with another discovered at an unsecured location in a Denver bathroom closet. Marcel Lazar, the Romanian computer hacker calling himself “Guccifer,” claims to have hacked into Clinton’s servers. He pled guilty to the charge before a Virginia judge this week. Might there also be Chinese and Russian hackers out there who’ve also had a look at Clinton’s emails?

Hillary Clinton has claimed she only used private email for her daughter’s wedding and yoga classes. Who believes that, other than her partisan supporters and uninformed voters? Highranking government officials are aware of the regulations governing their tenure while in office and their responsibilities for the handling of records once they leave it. Will Hillary Clinton’s failure to comply with the State Department’s policies on records necessarily lead to an indictment? That is what an FBI investigation is attempting to determine.

Hillary Clinton has invoked the “everybody has done it” defense, but again that’s not true. She often cites former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who also used a private email server, but as a Wall Street Journal editorial notes, Mr. Powell’s use of private email was limited, and he never set up an unsecure server in his home, not to mention a Denver bathroom.

Something else from the IG’s report that firmly rebuts Hillary Clinton’s defense: “Notification is required when a user suspects compromise of, among other things, a personally owned device containing personally identifiable information.” But the IG found “no evidence” that she or her aides complied.

For years the Clintons have skirted laws and practiced disinformation, rhetorical gymnastics (“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”) obfuscation, changing the subject, non sequiturs and anything else that might block their enrichment or achievement of political goals.

This time, Hillary Clinton should not be allowed to get away with it, nor should she have her incidents of malfeasance rewarded by being elected president of the United States.

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

Saluting the man behind annual Dacula Memorial Day Parade I’ve written about him in this space before, but sometimes a job well done is worth mentioning again. And the Dacula Memorial Day Parade is done well, which means it’s time to again thank Marvin Atherton for the work he has done, and continues to do, in what has become the city’s signature event.

Atherton got the parade started in 1993. It has continued to grow since then, both in participants and those who come to watch. The latest touch has been to have a flyover by a C-130 jet, a happening that has left the crowd in awe. Throw in more than 2,000 participants and you have large, and heartfelt, salute to the men and women who have given their lives in service of our country.

Todd Cline Editor Atherton has worked hard to make sure those people get their proper recognition. From marchers carrying placards bearing the names of some of the fallen locals to more than 150 units participating each year, it is an event served up with plenty of dignity and honor.

And it wouldn’t exist if it

weren’t for the hard work of Marvin Atherton. He has never been one to seek attention, but he summed himself up very succintly at Monday’s parade by saying: “I never expected that I would still be doing it now. I have made it a career honoring the military.”

That’s a nice legacy to have.

Like the veterans he helps honor, what Atherton does is probably taken for granted by too many people. But anyone who has ever tried to organize a civic event can appreciate what it has taken — the many hours and phone calls, the prodding and the pushing, the calling in of favors — to make the parade the success that it now is.

You’d be hard-pressed to get Atherton to accept kudos for all of that work, but he

deserves it all the same. But no matter where the credit may go, he keeps his focus on the parade and how important it is to honor our fallen troops. And that’s what has made the event such a success.

As Atherton also said on Monday: “It’s important to me for our next generation, our children these days, to know why they can go to school in a free county and have the life that they have. This parade is not about me. It’s about the men and women who gave their lives for our country.”

Amen to that. And amen to Atherton’s dedication to its pursuit.

Email Todd Cline at todd. cline@gwinnettdailypost. com. His column appears on Wednesdays.

Obama’s legacy of a pre-post-racial era WASHINGTON — As Barack Obama’s presidency takes a backseat to the psychodrama known as the 2016 election, historians, speculators and revisionists are busy writing his presidential epitaph.

Not least of the revisionists is Obama himself. At a recent commencement address at historically black Howard University, Obama noted that his election did not, in fact, create a post-racial society. “I don’t know who was propagating that notion. That was not mine,” he said.

This remark stopped me for a moment because, well, didn’t he? Wasn’t he The One we’d been waiting for? Wasn’t Obama the quintessential biracial figure that would put racial differences in a lockbox for all time?

This was the narrative, to be sure. But, if not Obama’s, then whose?

In retrospect, it was mine, yours, ours. White people, especially in the media, created this narrative because we loved and needed it. Psychologists call it projection. We made Obama into the image of the right sort of fellow. He was, as Shelby Steele wrote in 2008, a “bargainer,” who promised white people to “never presume that you are racist if you will not hold my race against me.”

Obama wasn’t so much the agent of change as he was the embodiment of a post-racial

a solitary fan in an otherwise empty area. We introduced ourselves. Obama was polite, gracious and, yes, flattering in a knowing way. We three parted company and my first impression of the president remains unchanged. He reads people well and gauges Kathleen precisely what they want to Parker hear. All good politicians do, but some are better at it than others.

America as whites imagined it.

That many interpreted But Obama’s message, beObama’s message as postginning with his 2004 address racial made some kind of to the Democratic National sense. The divide between red Convention in Boston, has aland blue states may be seen as ways suggested that he would also splitting along racial lines be at least a messenger of in some cases. unity, which sounded an awful Eight years after being lot like post-racial. “There’s elected as the first black presinot a black America and white dent of a white-majority naAmerica and Latino America tion, Obama is shrugging off and Asian America; there’s the any responsibility for having United States of America,” he contributed to the post-racial said. expectation. Is this because, Most in the media listened racially, things actually seem to those words and were worse? But what if they spellbound. Up in the press weren’t? What if there had section, swaddled in hope and been no “Black Lives Matpowdered with the pixie dust ter” movement, no Trayvon of change, we were teetering Martin, no Freddie Gray, or dangerously close to clasping any of the others who were hands and singing “Kumbaya” killed by police in the past few over post-racial s’mores of years, or, in Martin’s case, by milk chocolate and marsha vigilante? mallows. I remember turning I’m guessing he’d have to my colleague and saying, grabbed that narrative in “We’ve just heard the first a bear hug and given it a black president.” great, big, sloppy kiss. His Little did I know. remarks to a graduating class, We ran into Obama later instead of disavowing that that night in the lower lobby silly post-racial thing, would of a hotel. He was talking to have celebrated his greatest

achievement — the healing of America.

How lucky are you, class of 2016?! Here you are about to launch your life in a post-racial era, heirs to a heroic legacy and a future of sun-drenched days. When you want the tides to come in, you let me know. Heh, heh, the truth is, I wasn’t able to pull that one off. But I did end racial disharmony! Not too bad.

One can dream (and joke).

But all those awful things did happen. And perhaps having a black president gave communities the strength and courage they needed to raise their voices. And maybe hearing a black president speak to the bravery of police officers, the majority of whom act in good faith, was helpful to whites feeling the stigma of racism attach to their own innocence.

Did Obama do enough to make good on his intentions, if not promises? We’ll know in a generation or two, perhaps. In the meantime, the real truth is that Obama sized up the electorate and, in the ultimate act of flattery, imitated their projections. Then he gave them precisely what they wanted, not a post-racial world but a pre-post-racial one — a custom-designed, rainbow-hued, streamlined fantasy of hope and change.

Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@ washpost.com.

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Help for eye twitches Dear Dr. rOaCH: I have blepharospasm (eye twitching, for those who have never heard of it). It’s terrible. I’m 58 and have had it for 10 years, but it has gotten worse as I’ve gotten older. Are there any treatments other than Botox that you have heard of? I’ve read all that’s on the Internet, but have found no help or remedies.

— B.S. ansWer: Blepharospasm is a localized form of dystonia, a movement disorder with repeated or sustained muscle contractions.

In your case, it’s the muscles of the eyelid that repeatedly contract, and though I see it frequently, the cases I see generally are mild and go away after a few days. I’ve never seen a case as bad as you have described, but my sources clearly recommend botulinum toxin (Botox and others) for people with more severe blepharospasm. This bacterial toxin prevents muscles from contracting, and most people have benefit that lasts many years.

Since you specifically ask about other treatments, I have read about the use of deepbrain stimulation, and have read case reports and a small series of six patients who showed a 72 percent improvement in their symptoms.

Oral medications usually are not effective, but there may be benefit from L-dopatype drugs, from anticholinergic drugs (such as trihexyphenidyl) and from baclofen. All these have significant potential side effects. In the future, there may be a role for gene therapy or magnetic stimulation. Surgery to remove some of the muscles and nerves has shown benefit in some people.

The site www. blepharospasm.org is very helpful, with links to support groups and questions answered by clinicians with specific experience in this issue. reaDers: The booklet on vertigo explains this disruptive condition in detail and outlines its treatment.

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Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@ med.cornell.edu or request an order form of available health newsletters at 628 Virginia Dr., Orlando, FL 32803.

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In 1796, Tennessee was admitted as the 16th U.S. state.

In 1980, the Cable News Network (CNN) began broadcasting.

In 1990, President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed an accord to halt production of chemical weapons.

In 2009, General Motors Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Brigham Young (1801-1877), religious leader; Andy Griffith (1926-2012), actor; Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), actress; Pat Boone (1934- ), singer-songwriter; Morgan Freeman (1937- ), actor; Brian Cox (1946- ), actor; Ronnie Wood (1947- ), guitarist; Powers Boothe (1948- ), actor; Heidi Klum (1973- ),

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TODAY’S FACT: The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” released on this day in 1967, was the first rock album to win a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1925, Lou Gehrig pinch-hit for the New York Yankees, marking the first game in Gehrig’s record-setting streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.” — Marilyn Monroe

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Tanning addict risks cancer to stay tan Dear amy: My cousin is like a brother to me.

We have been extremely close our whole lives.

My cousin has always thought he looked better with a tan, so he has been using tanning beds for years, despite knowing the risks.

Last month, he was diagnosed with skin cancer on his back and had two surgeries to remove the cancer. In spite of all of this, he continues to go to the tanning salon.

Others and I have begged him to quit, to no avail. He admits that he is “addicted.” I lost my first spouse to cancer, and it is killing me to think that my cousin has prioritized vanity over his own health and the concerns of those who love him. Is there anything more I can/should do?, — One Loss too Many Dear One LOss: My research on this topic led to helpful information posted on www.skincancer. org. According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the number of skin cancer cases due to tanning is higher than the number of lung cancer cases due to smoking.

In the U.S. alone, 419,254 cases of skin cancer can be attributed to indoor tanning. Out of this number, 6,199 are melanoma.

Tanning beds are known carcinogens. Two research papers I read also suggest that tanning can be addic-

ing too much, or if this is a matter of me not trying hard enough to engage my boyfriend.

I am not perfect, and perhaps it is my fault for not expressing this need early on in our relationship.

I wonder if this is a case of me simply seekAmy Dickinson ing “greener grass”? Are most relationships boring? tive.

Should I not expect to have But your cousin knows lively discussions with my this. His behavior can be better half? Would I be compared to a smoker who better off struggling finanis unable to quit. Because cially by myself in order he has admitted his addic- to have a chance at a better tion to you, you may be relationship? able to urge him into treatEnding things would be ment. Find a local therapist the most difficult thing for with experience dealing me to do. I love him. He with addictions and offer is nice. Should I simply to go with your cousin to accept the good and ignore his first appointment. the not-so-good?

Dear amy: I’m a — Looking for Greener 26-year-old graduate Grass studen, and I have been Dear LOOking: dating my boyfriend for six Any person in a long-term years (living together for love or family relationship three). would do well to accept the My boyfriend and I have good and ignore the notfew common interests. His so-good. Unfortunately, only hobbies are working life doesn’t seem to work out and watching sports. that way. We all want (and I have hobbies and am have a right to try to find) a naturally a curious person. relationship that is stimuBut when I try to foster lating and fulfilling. intellectual conversations You should work hard to with my boyfriend, I am make your relationship as met with apathy. fulfilling as possible. But I am starting to realize no — your love relationhow important it is to me ship should not be boring to be with someone who (to you). can push me intellectually.

Leaving a relationship I want to grow as a person is extremely painful. You both in my professional should be brave enough life and personal/social to talk to your guy about life. this without blaming him I wonder if I am askfor being himself. Many

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people with one foot out the door can only get the courage to leave after they have found another romantic partner. Don’t do that.

Dear amy: Readers criticize people who send invitations to baby showers, graduations, etc. to far-flung relatives as “gift grabs.”

I am one who sends an invitation to baby showers, birthdays, baptisms, etc. to every member in my family. The entire reason is to make sure they feel included in family events, not for them to give me or my children a gift. It’s a great way to update my family members who are not on social media with what is happening in my family’s life.

I have never faulted outof-town family members or distant relatives for not sending presents or making an appearance.

But I would definitely feel bad if they felt like I was excluding them from a big milestone.

— Not everything is about the gift Dear nOt: Thank you for offering your gracious perspective.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: askamy@tribpub.com.

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

Amy Dickinson’s memoir, “The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter and the Town that Raised Them” (Hyperion), is available in bookstores.

The tide is turning, and better days are heading your way. Strength, stability and the necessary things to build a solid future are within reach.

Obstacles to watch out for are excess, bad influences and temptation.

Discipline and hard work will lead to a new beginning.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Check out what everyone else is doing and put your time and effort behind the project that looks most appealing. Don’t feel guilty if your choice happens to involve self-adornment.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Keep your secrets to yourself and your emotions tucked away someplace safe. Check into ways to spice up your life and leisure time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — If you take the initiative, you’ll capture attention. Your effervescent personality will convince others to do things your way. Don’t put pressure on anyone when you can just be yourself. Romance is highlighted.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Check out vacation spots or get involved in an event that will help you grow mentally, spiritually or emotionally. A change in your personality will bring about positive alterations at home.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Keep moving forward. Initiate an emotional interaction with someone you love. Tend to desired personal improvements and choose a path that excites and inspires you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — The detail work and special touches you put into everything you do will separate you from the crowd. Step things up a notch and present and market what you have to offer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Adventure will beckon you, but do your research before you jump into something that you know little about.

Knowledge can help prevent a mishap. Don’t argue when you should be offering affection.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) — Don’t worry about what everyone else does. If you live by your standards, you will continue to do well. Success doesn’t happen when you are negative. Tend to whatever needs fixing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Set your sights on what interests you the most. If you share your feelings, you can bring about a positive change in an important relationship and stabilize your home life as well.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Do your best to stay focused. Let experience guide you.

Don’t let anyone push you around. Use your intelligence and knowledge and do things your way.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Get a strong handle on your personal finances and investments that will help you get ahead over time. Romance will drive you to do your best.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Look for an event that will help you mingle.

The people you encounter when you participate in your community, afterhours networking events or enjoyable activities will lead to opportunities.

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GaDOE announces delays in end of course test results

By KEith FarnEr

keith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

As schoolteacher post-planning activities wrapped up last week, superintendents across the state were notified that end of course test results, and therefore final grades, would be delayed.

In Gwinnett County

Public Schools, the issue affects about 5 percent of scores, or more than 3,000 middle school and high school students. An email was sent to districts on Friday from State School Superintendent Richard Woods. GCPS spokeswoman Sloan Roach said the state worked to make sure scores for high school seniors were received

before graduation.

The delayed results are expected this week.

The delay means the state did not make its expected two-week turnaround for test results.

Computer glitches across the state last year and this year caused problems with administering the Georgia Milestone tests. Although GCPS reported fewer issue

than other districts.

Half of the missing scores in GCPS are for ninth-grade language arts.

Some students may have multiple EOC scores missing.

Before grades are received and families can access them in the parent portal, initial grades will be registered as an “NT.” When the grades arrive, fi-

nal grades will be available in the portal under “course history” and final report cards will be reissued.

“Like schools and parents, we are greatly disappointed, as we planned and worked with our testing contractor to deliver a twoweek turnaround,” Woods said in the Friday email to superintendents. “That obviously did not happen for

many districts, so we will be conducting a thorough review as soon as possible to address these issues and streamline the process. We understand this unfortunate incident has impacted many — including students, parents, teachers, schools and districts — and we apologize for the burden this has placed on you and them.”

world&nation WORLD Pentagon: Two Americans injured in Iraq, Syria

Trump talks veteran fundraising

By Emily FlittEr

Reuters

NEW YORK — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday detailed $5.6 million in contributions he raised for military veterans, and sharply criticized the news media for questioning him for months about what happened to the money.

At a combative news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan, the billionaire accused the media of failing to give him credit for raising the funds at an event in January in Iowa.

“The press should be ashamed of themselves,” he told reporters gathered before him. “You make me look very bad. I’ve never received such bad publicity for doing a good job.”

He called an ABC News reporter at the event, Tom Llamas, “a sleaze” and described Jim Acosta of CNN as “a real beauty.”

Trump’s tirade flew in the face of the hopes of some Republican leaders who want him to tone down his rhetoric and become more ISIS taking aim at magnanimous now that he has sealed the Republican satellite TV sets presidential nomination for CAIRO — Islamic State the Nov. 8 election. on Tuesday urged Muslims Trump, whose bellicose to destroy their satellite TV language has been a tradesets to prevent hostile chan- mark of an insurgent candinels “destroying their beliefs dacy that has upended the and polluting their ethics.”

Republican Party, has shown The ultra-hardline no signs of doing so.

Sunni group issued its call as While Trump has long military pressure increased against it with offensives targeting its strongholds in Raqqa, Syria, and in Falluja, west of Baghdad.

“The enemies of Islam are U.S. warns of waging a media war on the possible Europe Islamic State that is no less attacks, offers no dangerous than the military specific threats campaign,” the group said WASHINGTON — The in a video on its official United States warned its Telegram account, filmed citizens on Tuesday of in Raqqa and monitored in possible summer terrorist Egypt.

It did not say whether it attacks in Europe, saying would try to enforce its aptargets could include the peal in the territory under its European soccer championcontrol in Syria and Iraq. ship in France, although a It singled out religious State Department official channels funded by Saudi said there was no specific Arabia and also showed threat information. the logos of al-Jazeera and Concern about security in Orient TV, a channel close Europe has increased since to the Syrian opposition, as the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris well as the Egyptian relithat left 130 people dead gious channel al-Nas. as well as the March 22 atThe video ended with tacks in which two suicide a scene showing people bombers struck Brussels stamping on satellite dishes. airport and a third the city’s metro, killing 32.

“We are alerting U.S. citCanadian PM izens to the risk of potential Trudeau will not terrorist attacks throughout Europe, targeting major be punished in elbowing incident events, tourist sites, restaurants, commercial centers OTTAWA — Canaand transportation,” the dian Prime Minister JusU.S. State Department said tin Trudeau will not face in a travel alert that extends punishment for manhandling through Aug. 31. a legislator and inadvertently elbowing another during Justice Dept. asks a fracas in the House of Commons, parliamentarians for hold on court decided on Tuesday. sanctions in case A committee examining on immigration what punishment if any to WASHINGTON — The impose on Trudeau for his U.S. Justice Department on actions on May 18 voted to Tuesday filed an emergency drop the matter after the female opposition legislator he motion to stop sanctions elbowed said she accepted imposed by a federal judge his apologies. in Texas that included Trudeau has formally mandated ethics classes for expressed regret three times federal prosecutors, as part for the incident, which was of ongoing litigation over prompted by impatience at immigration policy. what he saw as stalling tacThe sanctions were ortics by the opposition ahead dered on May 19 by District of a vote.

Judge Andrew Hanen, who — From wire reports ruled in February 2015 that WASHINGTON — Two U.S. service members were injured over the weekend, one each in Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday.

“They were not on the front lines, they were not engaged in active combat, but they were hit in both cases by indirect fire and suffered injuries,” Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said.

The United States has authorized 4,087 troops in Iraq and 300 in Syria.

Since December, Iraqi forces trained by the U.S. military and backed by coalition air strikes have taken back territory from Islamic State, which seized swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014.

Davis did not say to which branch of the military the injured belonged.

He added that the incident in Iraq took place in the north, near Erbil, while the injury in Syria was north of Raqqa, Islamic State’s de facto capital.

NATION

PEOPLE Elton John still pushing to have talk with Putin

MOSCOW — British singer Elton John told a concert in Moscow he still wanted to meet President Vladimir Putin to discuss his concerns about gay rights and AIDS in Russia despite the Kremlin leader not having time to meet him this time round.

John, performing at a luxury shopping and entertainment center in the Russian capital on Monday night as part of a world tour, sounded disappointed about not getting to meet Putin, but said he would return to try to see him.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds paperwork which states “Don“As some of you may ald J. Trump, Veteran Fundraiser” during a news conference at Trump Tower in Manhatknow I hoped to meet with tan, N.Y., on Tuesday. (Reuters/Carlo Allegri) President Putin on this trip,” John, whose music has been had an adversarial relato libelous. Asked whether fair,” he said. popular in Russia since the tionship with the media, he would keep his adverThe campaign of DemoSoviet era, told the audithe donations to veterans sarial stance with reporters cratic front-runner Hillary ence. touched a raw nerve with if elected president, Trump Clinton sought to take ad“Although it wasn’t poshim. Reporters have been said: “Yeah, it’s going to be vantage of Trump’s discompersistently questioning like this.” fort by holding a conference sible, I’m deeply grateful whether he in fact raised all A reporter told Trump he call with reporters to accuse to him for inviting me to the money he said he had in seemed resistant to the kind him of hypocrisy over veter- discuss some serious issues in Russia including LGBT, January and why it had taken of scrutiny that comes with ans’ issues.

HIV and AIDS, and I very so long to hand donations the office of U.S. president.

John Douglass, a retired over to veterans groups.

But Ari Fleischer, a Air Force general and Clin- much hope we will find time in future to meet.”

The Washington Post said former White House press ton backer, raised Trump’s Trump only handed over secretary for President disparagement a year ago of a personal donation of $1 George W. Bush, said the U.S. Senator John McCain Lionel Messi million last week — four news media should stop fret- of Arizona, a war veteran. misses first day months after announcing ting about how Trump treats Trump had said McCain, a of tax fraud trial it — once the newspaper them. former Vietnam prisoner of started asking questions “My advice to the press: war, was not a hero because MADRID — The trial about the money.

Stop interviewing yourselves he got captured.

Trump said the coverabout Trump’s attack on the “For him to disparage that of Lionel Messi on charges of tax evasion opened in age of his veterans group press. Don’t worry about service is despicable and donations had been close it. Just do your jobs and be disgraceful,” Douglass said. Barcelona on Tuesday, but injury prevented soccer’s five-time World Player of the Year from attending. The growing number of Native Barcelona star will be in Americans embroiled in court battles over changes to court on Thursday to testify.

Messi and his father, voting laws that could influJorge Horacio Messi, are ence the outcome of some tight races in the November accused by the Spanish tax office of defrauding the gov2016 presidential and conernment of 4.2 million euros gressional elections.

While the Native Ameri- ($4.7 million) between 2007 and 2009. They could can population is small naface jail terms of up to 22 tionally, lawsuits involving tribes over voting problems months if found guilty.

Both have denied the have proliferated since the Supreme Court struck down allegations and missed Tuesday’s hearing, which parts of the Voting Rights A group of tourists walk through the streets in downtown Act in 2013. lasted over an hour. The Valencia, Spain, in this file photo. The United States has 28-year-old player and his warned its citizens of possible attacks in Europe that father are not obliged to atmay be forthcoming, though no specific threat has been Supreme Court tend the court every day, but acknowledged. (Reuters/Heino Kalis) rejects challenge they will have to testify on Thursday.

President Barack Obama’s begun. Hillary Clinton, with to death penalty “The intention of Mr. Lioexecutive actions on imher long experience, espeWASHINGTON — The nel was to attend the plenary migration were outside the cially as Secretary of State, bounds of the president’s has a firm grasp of the issues Supreme Court on Tuesday hearing, but he has suffered authority. and will be prepared to lead refused to hear an appeal as- an injury,” Messi’s lawyer, serting that the death penalty Javier Sanchez-Vera, said in Hanen also ordered the our country on day one.” court. He presented a mediviolates the U.S. ConstituDepartment of Homeland Security to prepare a stateNative Americans tion’s ban on cruel and un- cal report. usual punishment filed by a by-state review of immiLouisiana man convicted of Poland to appeal grants who were given three move to front line years of safeguards from in fight over voting fatally shooting his pregnant decision not to former girlfriend. deportation under Obama’s BELCOURT, N.D. — Two of the eight justices, extradite Polanski previous immigration action Elvis Norquay, a member liberals Stephen Breyer and instead of two.

WARSAW — Poland of the Chippewa Indian Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said will appeal a court decision tribe, has lived most of his they would have accepted Calif. governor not to extradite filmmaker 58 years on North Dakota’s the case. endorses Clinton remote Turtle Mountain resRoman Polanski to the The justices, who have LOS ANGELES — United States over a 1977 ervation and says he’s never sharply disagreed among California’s governor Jerry child sex conviction, Justice had a problem voting. themselves over capital Brown said Tuesday that he Minister Zbigniew Ziobro That was before 2014, punishment, declined to is backing Hillary Clinton when he hitched a ride with consider the appeal brought said on Tuesday, reigniting a long legal battle. over Bernie Sanders in the a friend to cast a ballot in

by Lamondre Tucker, who The United States restate’s primary on June 7, local and congressional elec- was sentenced to death for calling her delegate lead tions and was turned away. the 2008 murder of 18-year- quested Polanski’s extradi“insurmountable” and addEmbarrassed, he asked why old Tavia Sills in Shreveport. tion from Poland after he made a high-profile appearing, “This is no time for he couldn’t vote. He was Sills, nearly five months ance in Warsaw in 2014.

Democrats to keep fighting told he lacked proper ID un- pregnant, was shot three The Oscar-winning filmeach other.” der new state requirements. times and her body was maker lives in Paris but also Brown wrote, “The stakes He has no phone, no current dumped in a pond. couldn’t be higher. Our driver’s license and his tribal Tucker, who is black, had has an apartment in Krakow in southern Poland and country faces an existential ID lacks a street address. argued in part that black threat from climate change “When we left, my friend men had an increased likeli- visits regularly.

A Polish court rejected and the spread of nuclear said, ‘That’s not right,’” said hood of being convicted of the request in October last weapons. A new cold war Norquay, who has lived on murder and sentenced to is on the horizon. This is no disability since 2002 in a ru- death in Louisiana’s Caddo year, and the prosecutor’s office initially said it would time for Democrats to keep ral county near the Canadian Parish due to endemic racnot appeal the decision. fighting each other. The border. ism.

— From wire reports general election has already Norquay is among a — From wire reports

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Laurel Bartlett Laurel Jean Bartlett, age 62 of Lawrenceville, GA, passed away May 18, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770979-3200, www.wagesfuneralhome.com

LAWRENCEVILLE

Douglasville, GA; grandchildren, Donald Whitman, John Wall, Timothy Wall, Jr., Brandon Whitman, Amanda Francisco, Veronica Watkins, Dalton Watkins, Barry Watkins, Jr., Tony Watkins, Mario Watkins; great grandchildren, Alexis Whitman, Bricen Watkins, Alex Cruz; several nieces and nephews.

Condolences may be sent by visiting www.billheadfuneralhome.com.

The family will receive friends Saturday, May 4, 2016 from 1:00 p.m. until the time of the service at Bill Head Funeral Homes & Crematory Duluth Chapel (770)476-2535.

Leon Brownlee Rev. Leon Brownlee, age 86, of Lawrenceville, GA passed away on Sunday, May 29, 2016. He was preceded in death by his son, Jason Lee Brownlee. He is survived by his wife of thirteen years, Nelda White Brownlee, Lawrenceville, GA; children, Radford and Joann Brownlee, Dawsonville, GA, Michael and Katrina Brownlee, Dawsonville, GA and Steve Brownlee, Lawrenceville, GA; nine grandchildren; three step grandchildren; sister, Ruby Brownlee Turnbull, Lawrenceville, GA; brothers, Harvey Brownlee, Lawrenceville, GA and Wendell, Brownlee, Buford, GA; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Rev. Brownlee was born December 22, 1929 in Lawrenceville, GA. He was a graduate of Lawrenceville High School in Lawrenceville, GA. He was a veteran of the U. S. Army and was a retired mattress builder. Rev. Brownlee was a Baptist Minister for over fifty years and was of the Baptist Faith. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Radford Brownlee and Rev. George Ward officiating. Interment will follow at Shadowlawn Cemetery in Lawrenceville, GA. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

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

DULUTH

Eddie Carter Eddie Jean Carter, 72, of Duluth, GA died May 29, 2016. A memorial service will be held Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at Bill Head Funeral Home Duluth Chapel.

Ms. Carter, a native of Alpharetta, GA was retired From NORCOM in Norcross, GA. She is survived by her, daughters, Carol Jean Wall of Duluth, GA, Pamela Darlene Watkins and her husband, Barry Watkins, Sr. of Winder, GA; sisters, Jannie Calhoun of Loganville, GA, Barbara Davis of Dahlonega, GA; brother, Carroll Moore of D

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Dariusz Czerwiak Dariusz Czerwiak, age 61, of Mt. Pleasant, WI, passed away on May 29, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Charles Danko, Jr. Charles John Danko, Jr., age 73, of Dacula, GA passed away on May 30, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Decator Dunagan Decator Dunagan, age 71, of Lawrenceville, GA passed away on May 28, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Lamar Dutton Lamar Alfred Dutton, 81 of Maysville, GA, formerly of Lilburn, passed away peacefully on May 30, 2016 from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Lamar was born in Lawrenceville, GA to Lige and Eula Walls Dutton on May 10, 1935 and grew up on the family farm as one of 10 brothers and sisters. He graduated from Bethesda High School in 1955 and joined the Army the same year, serving in the Korean Conflict and was discharged in 1957. He was of the Baptist Faith. Lamar worked for Reliance Electric Co. in Tucker, GA for over 20 years and then started Dutton Landscaping Company with his son Mickey, and brothers, Robert and Hoyt in 1985.

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770-962-3100. Funeral services will be held at 2 PM on Thursday, June 2, 2016, in the Lawrenceville Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home. Rolland Jackson will officiate. Following the service, Lamar will be buried at Eternal Hills Memory Gardens, Snellville, GA. Please leave online condolences at www.stewartfh.com.

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Kimberly Green Kimberly Short Green, age 59 of Stone Mountain, GA, passed away May 17, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770979-3200, www.wagesfuneralhome.com

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Kenneth Hulsey Kenneth Lance Hulsey, age 47, of Braselton passed away Friday, May 27, 2016.

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Clotilde Kalanga Clotilde Mulumba Kalanga, age 50 of Lawrenceville, GA, passed away on May 27, 2016.

Tim Stewart Funeral Home: 300 Simonton Road SW Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046. 770962-3100. stewartfh.com

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obituaries Richard Keen Retired Policeman Richard Carlton Keen, age 72, of Lawrenceville, GA passed away on Wednesday, May 25, 2016. He was preceded in death by his father, James Carlton Keen. He is survived by his daughter, Kristen Keen, Lawrenceville, GA; mother, Ruby Marie Jones Keen, Thomaston, GA; sisters and brother-in-law, Brenda Dennard, Suwanne, GA, Linda and Sammy Jeanes, Bostwick, GA; brothers, Dennis Keen, Stockbridge, GA, Gary Keen, Homosassa Springs, FL; several nieces, nephews and cousins. Mr. Keen was born July 21, 1943 in Clarkston, GA. He was a 1961 graduate of Avondale High School and a veteran of the U. S. Army. He was a retired Gwinnett County Policeman with fifteen years of service, he also worked for KimbroughKeen, Thomaston, GA and his last employment was U.S. Auto Sales in Lawrenceville, GA. He was a private pilot and a private investigator. He was of the Baptist faith. A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 12:30 p.m. at the Georgia National Cemetery in Canton, GA with Dr. Jim Ferguson officiating and with military honors. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: Eagle Ranch, P.O. Box 7200, Chestnut Mountain, GA 30502 in memory of Richard C. Keen.

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

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Joseph Medved Joseph Medved, age 81, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away on Saturday, May 28, 2016. He was preceded in death by his grandson, Nickolas Ross.

He is survived by his wife of fifty-five years, Alice Medved, Sugar Hill, GA; children, Joseph Medved, Jr., Cumming, GA, Laura Ann and Doug Beachem, Johns Creek, GA, Cynthia and Patrick Ross, Nashville, TN and Christopher and Kathy Medved, Jefferson, GA; grandchildren, Janna Medved, Joseph Medved, III, Jack and Heather Beachem, Madison Ross, Hanna Ross, Keelin, and Hayden Medved; sister, Dottie Crabtree, Cincinnati, OH; former daughter-in-law, Pamela Medved; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Mr. Medved was born March 3, 1935 in Star Junction, PA. He was a graduate from Western Reserve College with an Associate’s Degree. He was a veteran of the U. S.

Navy. He retired in 1999 from Tamfelt Company where he was a sales engineer and was in the paper industry for forty-two years. He was a founding member of Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Flowery Branch, GA where he was a lay minister. Funeral Mass will be said at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, June 3, 2016 at Prince of Peace Catholic Church with Father Louis serving as Celebrant.

Interment will follow at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens in Buford, GA with military honors. The family will receive friends on Thursday, June 2, 2016 from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Flanigan Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Hillside Hospital for Children, 690 Courtenay Drive, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30306 www. hside.org in memory of Joseph Medved, Sr. To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www. flaniganfuneralhome. com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

DULUTH

Constance Peischl Constance June Peischl (Connie), age 82, of Duluth, Georgia, passed away suddenly on May 28th, 2016. Connie was born in Larchmont, New York. She was an avid lover of life, international travel, fine foods, beautiful flowers, lovely music, her friends but most of all her beloved family.

Connie is preceded in death by her parents, Stephen and Margaret Hyzdu, and her brothers Frank Hyzdu and Bob Hyzdu.

She is survived by her husband, Dick; son, Barry Piacente (Jenny); daughters, Victoria Potts (Jim), Stephanie Mau (Kevin) and Kara McCoy (Brian); Grandchildren , Nicholas, Victor, Rachel, Moriah, Jacob, Avery, Grace, Claire, John, Charlie, Joe and Ryan.

A funeral mass will be held Thursday, June 2, at 11:00 am, at St. Brigid Catholic Church, 3400 Old Alabama Road, Johns Creek, 30022. A reception will immediately follow the service. The family will have a private burial.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Connie Peischl Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Lionheart School, 225 Roswell Street, Alpharetta, Georgia, 30009 BUFORD

in death by infant daughter, Norma Puckett; son, James Hoyt Puckett at age 32; parents, Henry Isaac and Mamie Sarah Puckett; sisters, Zina Puckett White, Estie Mae Puckett, Ola Puckett Montgomery, Bertie Ruth Puckett Clinton; brothers, James E. Puckett, Hubert I. Puckett, Alfred Joe Puckett, Grover H. Puckett, Luther M. Puckett, and Alton V. Puckett. He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Betty Ruth Hayes Puckett, Buford, GA; daughter, Linda and Grady Hendrix, Buford, GA; four grandchildren, Tracy Hendrix Larue and husband Tracy, Julie Puckett, Dana Hendrix Bruce and husband Chad, Joey Puckett; multiple great-grandchildren and great, great-grandchildren; several beloved nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Mr. Puckett was born June 22, 1927 in Forsyth County, GA. He was a veteran of the U. S. Army, and was retired in 1979 from General Motors Assembly Plant in Doraville after 30 years. He was a member of UAW Local 10, and a long time member of Harmony Baptist Church in Buford, GA. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Farrel K. Presley, Rev. Brian Satterfield, and Rev. Phillip Robinson officiating. Interment will be at Ivy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, 2500 Ivy Creek Rd, Buford, GA, 30519. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 from 2:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at Flanigan Funeral Home.

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

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Sims allowed just three hits on Tuesday night LAWRENCEVILLE against Pawtucket, but all — Coolray Field fans are were home runs. seeing for themselves that Add in four walks, a Lucas Sims remains very hit batter and three wild much a work in progress pitches — two of which despite his potential. scored runs — and you The Brookwood gradu- have a very rough fourate’s stuff is there. His plus innings for Sims, who control isn’t. also had an error on a wild To make things worse, pickoff throw. the Atlanta Braves’ 2012 Two of the home runs first-round draft choice has came back-to-back leadhad trouble keeping the ing off the fifth inning to ball in the ballpark during break a tie and Pawtucket his home starts for Gwindefeated the G-Braves 6-4.

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Buford to host satellite camp

Gwinnett threatened in the ninth inning with the help of two Pawtucket errors, but Jace Peterson hit a deep fly ball to left field to end the game with two runners in scoring position.

Sims, who allowed three homers for the second time in three home starts, fell to 1-4 with a 6.05 ERA in eight Triple-A outings after an April promotion from Double-A Mississippi.

Chris Marrero hit a tworun homer for Pawtucket

(25-27) in a three-run third inning that included two walks, a wild pitch and Sims’ error.

Sims walked two and threw two wild pitches in the fourth for a run, then gave up homers to Ryan LaMarre and Justin Maxell leading off the fifth inning before pulled after 93 pitches. Just 52 were strikes.

Sims, 22, struck out 26 over 14 2/3 innings in three starts for Mississippi Gwinnett Braves starter Lucas Sims, a Brookwood graduate, throws a pitch Tuesday night at Coolray Field in

See SIMS, Page 4B Lawrenceville. (Photo: Chris Roughgarden)

Coming home

From Staff Reports With a multitude of artificial turf fields right next to the high school, Buford looks like the ideal place for one of the popular NCAA football satellite camps.

The Wolves are indeed hosting a prominent event June 13 — the Buford Football Southeast Satellite Camp.

College coaches from Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Georgia Tech, North Carolina State, Michigan, Maryland, Wake Forest and Miami (Fla.) are on the list of camp workers.

“I know these things See BUFORD, Page 4B

Revered camp set for GAC Brookwood grads flock to their alma mater to coach

Head coaches and alumni from Brookwood High School from left to right: Philip Jones, Lauren Ollinger, Daniel Bowles, Emma Harris, Mark Isenhour, Chris Carter, Stephen George, and Chad Carithers. (Photo: Cole McCauley)

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Georgians interested in the prestigious Sound Mind Sound Body Football Academy faced travel in the past, but that changes this year.

The well-known football event, which began in Detroit, has expanded to six nationwide sites, including the Southeast Regional this Friday and Saturday at Greater Atlanta Christian. The local stop is followed by other June dates in Houston, Detroit, Tampa, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. “It’s football, but also it’s character education for these kids,” GAC head coach Tim Hardy said.

“It truly is Sound Mind, Sound Body. They’re trying to bring another level of instruction and we’re talking about the whole package, who you are on the field, off the field, in the classroom, how you handle yourself in social media. It gives a lot of young men opportunities to improve their football See GAC, Page 4B

FOOTBALL What: Sound Mind Sound Body Football Academy When: Friday-Saturday Where: Greater Atlanta Christian More information: www.smsbacademy.com

By Will Hammock

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As he begins his new job full-time next week, Jason Dopson will have issues to address, tasks to handle and the numerous other chores that come with transferring to a new school.

One thing that won’t be on the to-do list of Brookwood’s new athletic and activities director — hiring new coaches.

The turnover in the head coaching ranks at the Snellville high school has been minimal over the years, which has held true even with a number of longtime coaches retiring over the past decade.

The coaching staff has just gotten younger, with Brookwood graduates returning to their alma mater.

The Broncos have 18

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The Brookwood coaching staff is filled with alumni of the high school, including eight in head coaching positions. Here’s a look at the former Broncos who have returned to their alma mater: Name Chad Carithers Chris Carter Philip Jones Daniel Bowles Mark Isenhour Chad Pickett Lauren Ollinger Jason Hughes Katy Willis Stephen George P.J. Katz Elizabeth Debban Chris Paul Lauren Harrison Emma Harris Chelsea Hawkins Reeves Blankenship Kelsey Schaffernoth

coaches on staff who are alums, including eight head coaches.

“There’s no doubt about it, having (the Brookwood alumni here)

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is a big help,” Dopson said. “That’s just a testament to the school and the community, and what it says about the school that people are fired up to

come back to teach and coach at the school and the community where they grew up. Most (of the coaches) played sports at Brookwood.

It’s kind of what gives Brookwood that Brookwood feel. It’s a pretty neat place.

“It’s a place where people, once they’re done with college, they want to get into teaching and coaching and their alma mater is one of the first places they contact. Mr. (Brookwood principal Bo) Ford, Mark Kimbro and Dave Hunter have done a good job of bringing those guys and ladies back to teach and coach.”

Dopson’s job also is one of those that doesn’t change often. Longtime Bronco football coach Dave Hunter was the athletics directo from 1987 to 2006, when Mark Kimbro took over. Kimbro retired last year but held the position this spring during the transition to Dopson’s start date.

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Family atmosphere draws Bennum to Brookwood

By David Friedlander

become the Broncos new varsity volleyball coach.

For the past three school years, the 31-year-old The Brookwood High Bellingham, Wash., native School athletics communi- has had to juggle quite a ty has always prided itself bit in terms of a commute on creating a strong family and time living in Madiatmosphere. son County and coaching And make no mistake, at North Oconee, while family was a major facher husband Jeff served tor in Stacey Bennum’s as head boys varsity decision to accept the basketball coach at Elbert Snellville school’s offer to County.

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With Jeff set to join Daniel Bowles’ staff at Brookwood as an assistant, her whole family, including the couple’s three children, will definitely be seeing a lot more of each other.

“I was sad to leave the volleyball players at North Oconee because they’ve got a good team returning (next season),” Bennum said. “But I was coach-

ing up there and we lived in Madison County. My husband was coaching in Elbert County, which is about 30 minutes in the other direction. So we’ve been all over the place the last few years.

“We just wanted to get together in one place because we love going to high school games and being involved with the kids’ schools, and the

kids would sometimes get confused. So, when (the Brookwood jobs) opened up, we jumped at it. Brookwood has a great tradition both athletically and academically, so we’re really excited.”

Brookwood administrators are just as excited to have lured someone with Bennum’s winning

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Ongoing through July 31: All Sports Youth Camps will be held all summer at Bogan Park, Collins Hill Park and George Pierce Park. Training in a variety of sports is offered. For more information, go to www.allsportsyouthcamps. com or call coaches Daniel Stencil or James Clanahan at 770-289-0899.

BASEBALL

Ongoing through today: I9 Sports of Northwest Gwinnett County offers summer baseball and T-ball programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at E.E. Robinson Park.

Summer season starts in June. For more information or to register, go to www. i9sports.com or call 678472-2142.

June 20-24: The 36th annual Robert Sapp Baseball Camp is accepting applications for its summer session to be held at the Hog Mountain Baseball complex across from the Atlanta Falcons complex.

The camp is June 20-24 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for boys ages 7 to 14. The fee is $130 with team rates available ($10 discount for five or more players from a team). Information and brochures can be obtained by calling Robert Sapp in Flowery Branch 770-287-3309 or by email: rsbbcamp@charter.net.

More information can also be found on the camp website: www.robertsappbaseballcamp.com

BASKETBALL

Ongoing through today: I9 Sports of South Gwinnett County offers summer basketball leagues for boys and girls ages 4 to 12 at Lenora Park in Snellville. Summer season starts in June. For more information or to register, go to www.i9sports. com or call 404-551-2036.

Ongoing through today: I9 Sports of Northwest Gwinnett County offers summer basketball programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at Lanier and Discovery High Schools.

Summer season starts in June. For more information or to register, go to www. i9sports.com or call 678472-2142.

June 6-10: the Wesleyan Girls Basketball Camp with head coach Jan Azar will be held at the Peachtree Corners private school from 9 a.m. to noon. For more information, go to www.wesleyanschool.org or email to jazar@wesleyanschool.org.

June 6-9: The Buford Lady Wolves Basketball Camp will be held at the high school from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Girls in

grades 1 to 8 may attend.

Cost is $70. Campers can register online at www. ladywolvesbasketball. teamsitesnow.com or by emailing to gene.durden@ bufordcityschools.org.

FOOTBALL

Ongoing through today: I9 Sports of Northwest Gwinnett County offers summer flag football programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at Gary Pirkle Park and Discovery High School. Summer season starts in June. For more information or to register, go to www.i9sports.com or call 678-472-2142.

GOLF

Ongoing through today: I9 Sports of Northwest Gwinnett County offers summer golf programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at Sugar Hill Golf Club.

Summer season starts in June. For more information or to register, go to www. i9sports.com or call 678472-2142.

LACROSSE

Ongoing through today: I9 Sports of Northwest Gwinnett County offers summer lacrosse programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at Gary Pirkle Park.

Summer season starts in June. Register by April 15 for extra savings. For more information or to register, go to www.i9sports.com or call 678-472-2142.

MULTI-SPORT

Ongoing through today: I9 Sports of Northwest Gwinnett County offers multi-sport summer programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at Rabbit Hill Park, George Pierce Park and Duncan Creek Park.

Summer season starts in June. For more information or to register, go to www. i9sports.com or call 678472-2142.

SOCCER

Ongoing through today: I9 Sports of Northwest Gwinnett County offers summer soccer programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at Gary Pirkle Park and Discovery High School. Summer season starts in June. For more information or to register, go to www.i9sports.com or call 678-472-2142.

VOLLEYBALL

Ongoing through today: I9 Sports of Northwest Gwinnett County offers summer volleyball programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at the Atlanta Volleyball Academy.

Summer season starts in June. For more information or to register, go to www. i9sports.com or call 678472-2142.

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Local foursome in this week’s WCWS From Staff Reports

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Case has played in 214 Four of the eight teams career games (143 starts) in the Women’s College with Alabama, which World Series, which begins faces Oklahoma at 7 p.m. this week in Oklahoma Thursday on ESPN2 in City, have a Gwinnett its opener. She has a .274 County softball product on average with two home the roster. runs and 18 RBIs this year, in addition to earning Michigan’s Sierra the left-field spot on the Lawrence (Greater Atlanta Southeastern Conference’s Christian), Alabama’s KalAll-Defensive Team. lie Case (Buford), GeorDickey’s Georgia Bullgia’s Brea Dickey (Collins dogs and Daniels’ Florida Hill) and Florida State’s Greater Atlanta Christian grad Sierra Lawrence is one of State Seminoles face each Tessa Daniels (Buford) four Gwinnett products in this week’s Women’s College other in Thursday’s noon will play this week in World Series. (Photo: Mike Janes) game on ESPN. Both college softball’s ultimate Gwinnett grads have seen showcase. Lawrence and top outfielders throughout .440 batting average this spot duty as college freshCase are veterans accusher Michigan career. She season (after hitting .314, tomed to WCWS appearhas started every game the .351 and .346 her first three men, with Dickey hitting .295 (13-for-44) with ances — it’s the third past three years and has seasons) with 11 home 17 runs scored. Daniels career WCWS trip for 243 starts in 246 career runs, 45 RBIs, 36 walks, each — while Dickey and games, tallying 41 home 20 stolen bases and a .553 has made nine pitching appearances for 10 total Daniels are freshmen and runs, 201 RBIs, 43 douon-base percentage. innings with a 3.50 ERA. first-time participants. bles, 72 stolen bases and Her Wolverines open Lawrence, a senior, has 132 walks. the WCWS on Thursday at She doubled in her only at-bat. been one of the nation’s She has a career-best 9:30 p.m. against LSU on

French Open under fire as backlog grows Reuters PARIS — Fans spent more time looking at the murky Parisian sky than watching tennis on Tuesday as French Open organizers were accused of “not caring about the players” after the event was disrupted by more rain following the previous day’s washout.

Czech seventh seed Thomas Berdych summed up everyone’s frustration on a day when nine hours of play was lost by tweeting: “Hey @AustralianOpen can you send us one roof here to Paris?! You have 3 down there.”

The inability to play under cover, with Roland Garros being the only one of the four grand slam venues that does not have a court with a retractable roof, certainly proved costly for Agnieszka Radwanska and Simona Halep — fourth-round losers in the only two matches that were completed on day 10.

With the fixture list piling up, the women in top seed Serena Williams’ half of the draw would now need to play on four successive days to win the title if the final takes place on Saturday as scheduled — though more rain is forecast.

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic and the men in his half of the draw, including Berdych, can also forget about enjoying the traditional rest days

While matches at the three other majors — Wimbledon (grass), Australian and U.S. Opens (both hardcourts) — are halted at the first sight of any raindrops, the brittle claycourt surface at Roland Garros means competitors are often told to play on in drizzle.

Roger Federer did just that in the 2009 men’s final when he beat Robin Soderling to win his solitary French Open trophy.

Novak Djokovic of Serbia reacts as the game continues Unsurprisingly, Pironkounder the rain. (REUTERS: Gonzalo Fuentes) va did not think Tuesday’s between each round as seed suffered a monumen- conditions were unplaythey would have to play on tal meltdown as she lost 10 able, though she acknowlfour of the next five days successive games in a 2-6, edged they were far from ideal. to contest Sunday’s final.

6-3, 6-3 defeat by an op“Well, it’s happened Radwanska, the world ponent ranked 100 places before, of course. We have No. 2, and 2014 runner-up below her. played in all sorts of condiHalep —who both started “I’m just so surprised tions,” said the Bulgarian, a their round of 16 matches and angry that we have to on Sunday — were forced play in the rain. I mean, it’s semifinalist at Wimbledon to play in misty rain on not a $10,000 tournament. in 2010.

“Usually if the court is Tuesday as organizers It’s a grand slam,” said not fit for play, like if it’s made a desperate attempt Radwanska, the highest slippery, they would cancel to clear the huge backlog. seed to exit the tournathe match right away. But “No one cares about the ment. today the court was still players in my opinion,” “How can you allow sixth seed Halep said after players to play in the rain? hanging in, it was okay. We she was beaten 7-6, 6-3 by I cannot play in that condi- could have played, and so Australian Sam Stosur in a tion. They really don’t care we did.”

Radwanska and Halep’s battle of former finalists. what we think.” exit meant that at least five “It was impossible Ernests Gulbis and of the top eight women’s to play. To play tennis David Goffin did get on matches during the rain is court for their fourth round seeds failed to make their allotted quarter final spots. a bit too much. I was close showdown but took matOnly two of 10 schedto getting injured with my ters into their own hands back… but no one cares.” by marching back into the uled matches were completed as the claycourt Radwanska had been locker room even before leading Bulgaria’s Tsorganizers had a chance to major suffered its sixth day of showers, with Djokovvetana Pironkova 6-2, 3-0 make a call. ic — leading Spaniard when rain halted play on It was a decision that Roberto Bautista Agut Sunday.

Halep welcomed. “Good.

3-6, 6-4, 4-1 — one of 16 When the match reWell done to them,” the sumed more than 40 hours Romanian said as she gave players still stranded in the fourth round. later, the Polish second them a thumbs-up.

Spieth looks to defend his U.S. Open title

By Tom LaMarre

beverage of choice for the last drink?

“Water.”

Jordan Spieth is looking Larsen to play in forward to defending his PGA Championship title in the U.S. Open in two Nicole Broch Larsen of weeks at Oakmont.

Denmark, one of the top Recently, he had to part players on the Ladies Euroways with the trophy from pean Tour, accepted a special the national championship exemption to play in the event.

2016 KPMG Women’s PGA “I already had to give Championship from June it back, so I already went 9-12 at Sahalee Country through that process, so Club in Sammamish, Wash. that’s good,” said Spieth, Larsen, 23, is No. 8 on the who also had to leave the 2016 Ladies European Tour Green Jacket he won in Order of Merit, or money 2015 at Augusta National, list, and No. 77 in the Rolex as now he can only wear it Women’s World Golf Rankon the grounds after having ings. She is Denmark’s topit with him for a year. ranked women’s player and “It’s over with. … Yeah, is expected to represent her I had to give the trophy country in the 2016 Olymback.” pics Games at Rio de Janeiro Spieth claimed a onein August. stroke victory in the U.S. In her third year on the Open last year at Chambers LET, Larsen will be making Bay when Dustin Johnson her first appearance in the three-putted the final green United States as a profeswith a chance to win. sional and will play in only At Oakmont, he will try her third major championto become the first backship. to-back U.S. Open winner Last year, Larsen comsince Curtis Strange in peted in the Ricoh Women’s 1988-89.

British Open and the Evian “I had a last few moments Championship in France. with (the trophy) and said, In 2015, Larsen was voted ‘Don’t worry, you’ll be back the LET “Players’ Player of here,’” Spieth said. “Yeah, the Year” after finishing third took one last drink out of it, on the Order of Merit. She and then we cleaned it up started playing golf at age 9 and sent it back.” and was selected to the DanAnd what was Spieth’s ish national team at 14.

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Washington wins women’s NCAA title Freshman Julianne Alvarez lipped out a 6-foot par putt on the 18th hole that would have given Washington the national championship.

Given another chance, Alvarez chipped to within inches of the cup for a winning par on the 20th hole to give the Huskies a 3-2 victory over defending national champion Stanford in the match-play final of the NCAA Women’s Championships at Eugene (Ore.) Country Club.

Alvarez, from New Zealand, turned back senior Lauren Kim, who barely missed a 12-foot putt to prolong the match, and gave Washington its first NCAA women’s golf title.

“I knew Lauren is a good player and that she wasn’t going to give up,” said Alvarez, who had a 3-up lead before Kim won the last three holes of regulation to pull even. “I knew I had to do it for my team and had to just go on to the next shot.

“I was just focused on getting the ball in the hole as quickly as I could.”

Ying Luo, a Washington senior from China, put the Huskies on the verge of the national title when she wedged her third shot into

the 18th hole from the fairway to claim a 1-up victory over junior Casey Danielson, who was 5-0 in NCAA match play for Stanford the last two years before that moment.

Said Luo: “I stood behind my ball and imagined it going into the hole.”

Senior Mariah Stackhouse, who scored the decisive point for the Cardinal in the final against Baylor last year, rallied from 3 down with four holes to play to get Stanford even at 2-2 when she beat Washington freshman Sarah Rhee with a par on the 20th hole.

“I’m just so proud,” said Mary Lou Mulflur, who has coached the Huskies for 32 years. “I knew today was going to be a battle. We just kept going and didn’t give in. And the chip-in on the 18th hole by Luo was unbelievable. To come through like that was just incredible. … It’s almost like it was fate, it was destiny.”

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To Golden State, with Love and Irving

By Jason Lloyd

NBA FINALS

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CLEVELAND — By the time the Cleveland Cavaliers reached the NBA Finals last year, Kevin Love’s left arm was in a sling and Kyrie Irving was wearing a knee brace. The roster was so shredded by injuries that LeBron James now concedes he didn’t even appreciate what was his fifth consecutive shot at a championship.

One year later, all of that has changed.

Now the Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors are back where they were expected to be all along. And this time, both teams are relatively healthy.

The Warriors will host the Cavs in Game 1 of the NBA Finals Thursday night at Oracle Arena in a rematch of a series the Warriors won last year in six games. Both teams took far different paths to get back here.

Golden State was fighting health issues this time when reigning Most Valuable Player Steph Curry went down with knee and ankle injuries in this postseason. Suddenly the Warriors looked vulnerable despite winning an NBArecord 73 games during the regular season. They fought back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference finals and earn the right to defend their championship.

“This whole playoff run has kind of been a roller-

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said. “So much was going on in my mind, knowing that Kev was out for the rest of the season and knowing that Ky was dealing with injuries. Having these guys Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) and guard Kyrie Irving (2) celebrate right here at full strength, during the Eastern conference finals of the NBA Playoffs at Quicken Loans Arena. having our team at full (Photo: Ken Blaze-USA Today Sports) strength, and the way I feel coaster ride for me spe34-point win at Cleveland ship in 52 years. personally, I appreciate this cifically, but for our team,” in January.

Having Love and Irving moment, to be able to be Curry said after closing out Blatt was fired less than back healthy is crucial to a part of it and to be there the Thunder. “We never lost a week later. their chances. While James once again.” confidence, and every game These Cavs have rarely still leads the Cavs in scorThese Finals could serve just played with fearlessbeen tested in the playoffs, ing, he has taken a more as a shootout. The Warriors ness and that confidence enjoying lengthy rest peri- secondary role at times in and Cavs have made the that we could get back to ods between each series. this postseason while the most 3-pointers of any team the Finals however we had They swept their way Cavs played through their this postseason and the to get it done. Now we’re through the first two other stars. numbers aren’t really close. four wins away from our rounds, setting records Irving watched most of The Warriors have made goal, and that’s a pretty for their 3-point shooting the Finals last season from 212 3s in 17 playoff games, special accomplishment.” in smashing the Atlanta a hospital bed and later the while the Cavs made 202 in Cleveland’s major tests Hawks in the conference bench after a fractured left 14. No one else made more occurred during the regular semifinals. The Toronto knee in overtime of Game than 150 this postseason. season. The Cavs fought Raptors pushed them to six 1 required surgery. Love’s James is playing in his chemistry issues and fired games in the conference shoulder was dislocated in sixth consecutive Finals, a coach David Blatt, replacfinals, but the Cavaliers — the first round last year, ren- feat that hasn’t been done ing him with his top asnot the Warriors — have dering him a spectator for since Bill Russell’s Bossistant, Tyronn Lue, despite been the most dominant the bulk of the Cavs’ march ton Celtics teams 50 years the best record in the East team of this postseason. to the Finals. ago. But James’ 2-4 Finals under Blatt. The Warriors Now they’re four wins “There’s definitely a record is less impressive swept the season series from Cleveland’s first different feeling. I didn’t than most other superstars from the Cavs, including a major pro sports champion- appreciate last year,” James of this era.

James in November called the Warriors “the most healthy team I’ve ever seen in NBA history,” but now that may not be the case after Curry’s knee problems led to losses in all three rounds of the playoffs. The Warriors are trying to become the third team to repeat in the NBA in the last eight years and the first since James’ Miami Heat did it in 2012 and 2013.

“At this time of the year regardless how much rest they’ve had, everybody’s got some nicks and knacks, that’s just what comes with the NBA season,” Warriors forward Draymond Green said. “We may have a few more than them being the road that we’ve had to take throughout this playoffs, but it happens. It’s the NBA Finals. You find a new wind for that. You just dig deep.

You don’t come in saying, ‘Oh, they’ve had more rest than us, we’re doomed.’

No, we’ll be just fine.”

Kevin Durant not ready to talk about his future yet The Sports Xchange On the eve of June 1, Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder could feasibly be in their final month together.

The seven-time All-Star forward is the gem in NBA free agency and can look beyond Oklahoma City when the market opens July 1. Durant, 27, is from Washington, D.C., and has been rumored to be interested in going home and all points between at various points of the season which ended for the Thunder on Memorial Day night in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals.

“I mean, we just lost like 30 minutes ago, so I haven’t even thought about it,” Durant said Monday night. “I’m just embrac-

Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant (35) reacts during the second quarter in Game 7 of the Western conference finals of the NBA Playoffs against the Golden State Warriors at Oracle Arena. (Photo: Kyle Terada-USA Today Sports)

ing my teammates and just reflecting on the season.

I’ll think about that stuff, I don’t know when. But we just lost an hour ago, 30 minutes ago, so I don’t know.”

Golden State and San Antonio, two Thunder rivals and powerhouses in the conference, are likely to be suitors. They can offer a maximum contract worth $25.9 million, or a max

deal worth $111 million over four years.

The Thunder can offer $149 million over five years.

Two years ago, the max offer was the difference between Carmelo Anthony leaving the New York Knicks for other teams offering lesser deals such as the Chicago Bulls.

The long-term maximum is not the only road for Durant and the Thunder.

LeBron James was in the same free agent class two years ago with Anthony and resisted the personal bond with Dwyane Wade and bolted the Miami Heat for a return to his home state and first NBA team on a short-term deal. On a one-year deal with a rolling option, James is in control of his own future

Penguins aim to put Sharks in a hole

By Alan Robinson The Sports Xchange

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins speedskated through the first three rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs, needing only a single Game 7 while eliminating three of the NHL’s best teams.

But when the San Jose Sharks emerged as their opponent in the Cup finals, the Penguins’ multiplemonth run as the league’s hottest team was supposed to be up.

Yet as the Penguins head into Game 2 on Wednesday night, they find themselves up 1-0 over a team that supposedly had too much depth, too much top-line scoring, too many upper-tier defensemen and too much goaltending for them.

Could all the experts — and the Sharks were overwhelming media favorites — have been all wrong about a Penguins team that’s done almost everything right for five months, going 46-18-5 since late December?

“It’s nice to get that first win in a series, but certainly there’s a lot of work to be done, and I think our

Pittsburgh Penguins center Nick Bonino (13) celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal against the San Jose Sharks in the third period Game 1 of the 2016 Stanley Cup Final at Consol Energy Center. (Photo: Charles LeClaire-USA Today Sports)

guys are well aware of it,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said Tuesday, reflecting on his team’s 3-2 win in Game 1 the night before.

For the Sharks, Game 2 certainly isn’t a must-win game — after all, they’ll be back home Saturday night for Game 3, and they’re 7-2 in these playoffs in the Shark Tank.

But perhaps it could be classified as a better-notlose game, too. Historically, teams down 2-0 in NHL playoff series have only about a 14 percent chance of rallying to win.

The Sharks themselves

are 0-10 when trailing 2-0 in a playoff series.

“I think maybe (there’s) a sense of urgency,” goaltender Martin Jones said. “You never want to go down 2-0 in a series.

Whether you lose the first game, any game, you never want to lose two in a row in the playoffs.”

One of the Sharks’ concern must be Pittsburgh’s 41-26 edge in shots in Game 1, even though San Jose clearly has a deeper and more accomplished group of defensemen than the Penguins do.

“Our turnover rate was probably a little higher

than we’re used to,” said Joe Pavelski, the Sharks’ leading playoff scorer who was held to two shots in Game 1. “If we limit that, that cuts a few shots, a few zone-time minutes right there.”

The shots advantage illustrates how the Penguins are capable of utilizing their speed to maintain a constantly-in-overdrive pace.

“We’ve got to keep doing what we’re doing,” forward Carl Hagelin said, reflecting not only on Game 1 but the Penguins’ earlier playoff wins over the New York Rangers, the NHL regular-season champion Washington Capitals and the Tampa Bay Lightning.

To Sharks coach Peter DeBoer, harboring that Pittsburgh quickness “is on us. It’s on us to execute better. It’s on us to impose our game on them for longer stretches.”

DeBoer didn’t announce any lineup changes, but forward Matt Nieto, out with an upper-body injury since Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals, could be inserted.

“He’s always a consideration,” DeBoer said.

every summer.

That could entice Durant, who might be willing to sign a one-year deal for 2016-17 for $26 million.

His projected five-year deal starting in 2017 could be worth $227.9 million under the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement.

Durant vowed not to let the emotional letdown of losing to the Warriors even after grabbing a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series guide his path in July.

“We’re all upset. We wanted to get a chance to play for a championship in the Finals, so that hurts,” he said Monday. “But when you sit down and look back at what happened throughout the season, you can be proud of not just the players, but everybody in the organization, from the

top to the bottom, people that you guys don’t know or ever see contribute to what we bring out on the court. That’s just pride, effort, passion, love for the game. Pure love for the game every single night, and that comes from just walking into our practice facility every single day and feeling those vibes and feeling that energy from everyone. I’m just proud of what we’ve all been through this season.

We stuck together and we sacrificed for each other.

That’s just what makes this game so special.”

Point guard Russell Westbrook has two years left on his current deal.

They were the only teammates to finish in the top five of 2016 NBA MVP voting.

IN BRIEF Brookwood’s Moon a first-team Divsion II All-American Brookwood grad Zach Moon, a junior baseball player at USC Aiken, was named a first-team All-American by the NCAA Division II Conference Commissioners Association.

Moon had a .367 batting average with 16 home runs and 68 RBIs this season. He will play baseball this summer for the Dodge City A’s (Kansas) in the Jayhawk League after playing the previous two summers in the Sunbelt League for the Atlanta Crackers.

Dream’s McCoughtry named WNBA player of the week

NEW YORK — Angel McCoughtry of the Atlanta Dream and Candace Parker of the Los Angeles Sparks were named the WNBA’s Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week on Tuesday.

McCoughtry earned the Player of the Week honor for the 14th time in her career. The two-time WNBA scoring champion and four-time All-Star helped the Dream win all three of its games last week as Atlanta surged to the top spot in the East with a 5-1 record. For the week, the former University of Louisville standout ranked second among Eastern Conference players in scoring (21 ppg), tied for seventh in rebounding (6.7 apg) and was eighth in steals (1.67 spg). Thus far in 2016 she ranks sixth in the WNBA in scoring (19 ppg).

Parker, the 2008 and 2013 WNBA MVP, earned the Player of the Week award for the 16th time in her nineyear career. The University of Tennessee product led the Sparks to road wins in their two games as they improved to 5-0.

Through five games, Parker ranks fourth in the WNBA in scoring (20.8 ppg) and seventh in rebounding (7.8 rpg).

For the week, she paced all Western Conference players in scoring (24 ppg) and tied for seventh in rebounding (6.5 rpg) and assists (3.5 apg).

— From staff reports

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Jake Peavy, Giants one-hit Braves

By Stan Awtrey

Ratcliffe. Grilli was the closer last year before rupturing his left AchilATLANTA — Jake les tendon. This year, Peavy celebrated his he has two saves but 36th birthday by throwceded the closer’s job to ing seven scoreless inArodys Vizcaino. The nings, getting a hit and Braves recalled Ryan scoring a run in the San Weber from TripleFrancisco Giants’ 4-0 A Gwinnett. … San win over the Atlanta Francisco RHP Johnny Braves on Tuesday at Cueto was named NaTurner Field. tional League Pitcher of Giants relievers the Week. In two starts, George Kontos, Josh Cueto was 2-0 with a Osich, Cory Gear0.50 ERA, striking out rin and Javier Lopez 11 in 15 innings. .... completed a combined San Francisco started one-hitter.

Conor Gillaspie at third Peavy (2-5) won for base Tuesday in place the first time since April of Matt Duffy, who sus23 and earned his first tained a left wrist contucareer victory at Turner sion when hit by a pitch Field. He faced the San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Jake Peavy (22) delivers a pitch to an Monday. … Giants minimum batters in his Atlanta Braves batter in the first inning of their game at Turner Field. (Photo: manager Bruce Bochy seven innings and alsaid RHP Sergio Romo Jason Getz-USA Today Sports) lowed only one hit. He complained of soreness struck out three, did not when Denard Span infield out. he faced until Tyler in his right elbow and allow a walk, and threw lined a triple into the Span finished 3-for-4 Flowers led off the fifth will not pitch again on 57 of his 77 pitches for gap in right-center. with two RBIs. with a single, only to be his rehab assignment strikes.

The Giants put the Atlanta right-hander erased in a double play. for four or five days.

Peavy scored a run game away by scoring Matt Wisler (2-5) The Giants managed Bochy said OF Angel in the sixth inning to three times in the eighth pitched seven innings only two hits against Pagan (left hamstring) break up a scoreless inning. After San Fran- and allowed three runs Wisler through the should return when he tie. The rally started cisco loaded the bases, on four hits and two first five innings, but is eligible to come off the DL on June 8. … innocently when Peavy pinch hitter Matt Duffy walks, with two strike- both were wiped out a Atlanta RHP Williams reached first with two lifted a sacrifice fly to outs. double plays.

Perez (2-1, 3.71) starts outs on a broken-bat right. Span drove a run The first five inNotes: The Braves today against Giants single that just escaped home with a single over nings were dominated traded veteran RHP the infield. Peavy was the drawn-in infield, by the starting pitchJason Grilli and cash to LHP Albert Suarez, running on the next and Joe Panik pushed ers. Peavy retired the Toronto in exchange for who will make his mapitch and easily scored across a run with an first 12 Atlanta batters minor league RHP Sean jor league debut.

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GAC

LSU staff, as well as 35 total FBS programs are skills but also learn real on the schedule. life lessons from these top The overall athlete coaches.” participation is expected Plenty of top football to be around 400. More talent is scheduled for than 13,000 players the local event — local nationwide have gone noteworthy prospects in- through the program since clude Grayson’s Jamyest it started in 2004. It was Williams and Robert Beal started originally in Deof Norcross — as well as troit to increase graduasome prominent coaches. tion and scholarship rates, College coaches from and success there saw it nine Southeastern Confer- grow to Tulsa, Oklahoma ence schools, including and Washington, D.C. in Les Miles and the entire 2007.

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Now the event has two sites in the South, with GAC and Tampa.

“They wanted to come to this region, and our facility and our location were really helpful to them,” Hardy said. “As we worked through the process, I think it’s been a great connection. We’re excited about hosting them at our (Long) Forum facility and our multiple turf fields.”

Sound Mind Sound Body focuses its curricu-

lum on academics, athletics and life skills. Friday’s schedule, with separate sessions for students and parents, will focus on academics and life skills from 4 to 8:30 p.m.

The athletes return Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for on-field work and competition under the watchful eyes of numerous college coaches.

“It’s a huge thing,” Hardy said. “It’s like a (NFL) rookie symposium.”

Broncos

Pickett, P.J. Katz and Reeves Blankenship.

The coaching staff of Other Bronco proBrookwood grads Dopgrams have turned to son inherits wasn’t built alumni when veteran by accident. coaches move on, too.

“We currently have 33 Daniel Bowles, who also Brookwood alumni on is the school’s girls tennis staff in the building, and coach, was hired in 2009 I believe 18 are coaches as head boys basketball in the building, and I coach to replace Craig believe eight of those Witmer, another Brookare head coaches,” Ford wood grad. Both Witmer said. “It’s a wonderand Bowles played under ful thing because they Eddie Martin, the first know what the expectaBrookwood boys hoops tions are. They know the coach from 1981-2001. culture and climate of Bowles, who had been the school and they know the head coach previthe expectations of the ously at South Cobb, now school. One of the hidhas former Bronco Brett den benefits is many of Huckle on staff as a comthem have brought their munity coach. families back and moved “I remember telling our back into the community. principal at South Cobb It creates that family atthat I was not looking for mosphere we’re so proud and not applying for jobs, of and keeps the tradition but when (the Brookof excellence alive in wood job) came about everything we do. when Craig decided he “We have just under didn’t want to coach 70 Brookwood alumni anymore, it was too good serving on staff in the of an opportunity to at Brookwood cluster, out least pursue and see what of the seven Brookwood happened,” said Bowles, schools. They understand whose father taught math the value of good educa- at Brookwood from the tion and they want to give mid-1980s until three back to their community.” years ago. “It turned out Until recently, some of really good. … From a the same coaches those basketball perspective, Brookwood grads played there have only been for were still coaches three coaches on the guys at the high school, like side, me and Craig both longtime football coach being alumni. No one Mark Crews. Crews, a really changed anything coach since 1987 and and did everything differhead football coach since ent. That’s the cool part.

2002, retired in 2014.

There’s no reinventing He was replaced by the wheel. We just had to Brookwood grad Philip adjust a little.”

Jones, who played under When Scott Terry Hunter and Crews, stepped down after 13 graduating in 1997. seasons as the Broncos’ Jones’ roots at the school girls basketball coach in and football program 2014, the school hired are deep, with his father 2000 Brookwood grad serving as offensive line Mark Isenhour as his reand strength coach from placement. Now Bowles 1988 until early in 2015. and Isenhour, former teammates two years He now employs three apart in high school and Brookwood products on at LaGrange College, run his football staff: Chad

the basketball programs at their alma mater together.

Bowles and Jones graduated just a year apart, too.

“My son is now in a day care class with Philip Jones’ son,” Bowles said.

It’s a process that patterned itself after the late 1980s and early 1990s, when coaches and teachers settled with their children in the Brookwood district. Many still live in the area, though they’ve been replaced by a new era of Bronco coaches.

The oldest current coaches, at least in the group of Brookwood alums, are barely into their 40s, guys like 1991 grad Chad Carithers (head girls soccer) and 1993 grad Chris Carter (head girls cross country).

Like Jones, Bowles and Isenhour, they played the sport at Brookwood that they currently coach.

“I guess me and Philip are the old ones now with Chad (Carithers) and Chris Carter,” Bowles said. “It’s cool just hearing all the different stories even now, like when Craig Witmer was still around, hearing stories.

Or hearing stories about when Chad played soccer here and how ridiculous he was. Those people coming back, it does say a lot. The principals change, the faces change, but they do a good job of keeping a lot of things the same.”

Both head soccer coaches, Carithers and Stephen George (Class of 2006), are Brookwood grads. Lauren Ollinger (girls lacrosse) and Emma Harris (cheerleading) also have returned as head coaches.

The other assistant coaches back at their alma mater are Jason

Hughes and Chris Paul in baseball, Katy Willis in cheerleading, Elizabeth Debban in volleyball, Lauren Harrison in track and cheerleading, Chelsea Hawkins in softball and Kelsey Schaffernoth in soccer.

Both Schaffernoth and assistant football coach Blankenship, fellow Brookwood Class of 2011 alums, are fresh out of college.

“When I was studentteaching, I thought I would like to come back to Gwinnett County in general and of course I’m going to apply to Brookwood,” said Schaffernoth, who also teaches language arts.

“When I got the offer, I knew this was definitely where I wanted to be. …

The highlight (of coming back) is the community. Everyone is really helpful, which is nice.

Everyone is willing to share things and I felt like I could ask anyone a question, which is really good because I had a lot of questions.”

Not all of the coaches followed the direct route from college to Brookwood, though.

Jones coached football at Walton, Ware County and Banks County. Bowles coached at Chattahoochee and South Cobb, as well as at the college level at Southern Poly. Isenhour also worked in college, including a stint as head women’s coach at LaGrange College from 2007-13.

“Many of them have gone other places and have been head coaches, even at the collegiate level,” Ford said. “So when they come back and bring their families back, it’s a really big deal for us.”

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but also walked 10 and had a 0-2 record despite a 1.84 ERA. Control continues to be an issue after the right-hander’s promotion to Gwinnett. Sims got his first victory at Norfolk last Wednesday while walking six in five innings. He has 25 walks to go with 44 strikeouts in 38 2/3 innings with the G-Braves (25-28).

Pawtucket left-hander Henry Owens (4-2) got the victory, allowing three hits and four runs over six innings.

The G-Braves finished with just five hits. Brandon Snyder had an RBI single and a sacrifice fly.

Jim Johnson pitched a scoreless seventh inning in his second rehab outing with Gwinnett and is scheduled to pitch again tonight in the series finale before being activated by Atlanta.

Notes: Ryan Weber was recalled

by Atlanta when veteran reliever Jason Grilli was traded to Toronto in exchange for Class A pitcher Sean Ratcliffe. … G-Braves third baseman Rio Ruiz was scratched from the lineup because of a sore knee. …

The series with Pawtucket and the homestand concludes with a 7:05 p.m. game today. … Right-hander Lucas Harrell, who won 11 games for the Houston Astros in 2012, will make his first start for the G-Braves after three relief appearances. He spent 2015 pitching in Korea. …

Pawtucket placed first baseman Sam Travis, Boston’s No. 7 prospect, on the disabled list with a torn left ACL suffered Sunday. … The G-Braves play four games in Durham before returning to face Lehigh Valley and Norfolk in a week-long homestand.

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are big and I guess we had to jump in the game with them,” Buford athletic director Dexter Wood said. “Our facility makes it really good.

You’ve got those three turf fields side by side by side.”

The event is from 3 to 6 p.m., with walk-up registration beginning at 1:30 p.m. It is open to players in grades 9 to 12 and the cost is $30 per

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camper. For pre-registration, go to www.bwolvesfootball.com.

Fellow Gwinnett schools Central Gwinnett and Collins Hill previously announced satellite camps on their campuses, both with numerous schools. Central’s June 16 event notably includes Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer and his staff, while Collins Hill’s June 21 guest coaches include Penn State and Georgia State.

Bennum

experience.

Bennum, who was a strong player in high school and junior college, has been coaching on both the club and high school levels for the past 12 years.

That experience includes the last three seasons at North Oconee, during which she has guided the Titans to a 100-37 record that includes trips to the state quarterfinal round in each season, plus an Area 8-AAA championship in 2013.

“We are extremely excited to add Coach Bennum to our coaching staff at Brookwood,” Jason Dopson said of his first hire since becoming Brookwood’s athletics director in a statement released Tuesday. “She has a vast amount of volleyball experience and knowledge as a player and our team is very fortunate to get a coach of her caliber to continue the success that Coach (Brian) Welsch started. We would like to thank Coach Welsch for everything he did for our volleyball program and wish him the best of luck.”

Indeed, Bennum will be inheriting a Broncos program that has dominated locally, winning area titles Class AAAAA and AAAAAA each of the past six seasons, and has made the postseason in each of those seasons, including three trips to the state quarterfinals and three more Sweet 16 appearances, under Welsch.

Bennum believes the biggest key to taking Brookwood to the next level and makimg a serious run at a state championship will be continuing the job Welsch did at building up the freshmen and junior varsity programs, as well as the middle school feeder programs.

“Club volleyball has obviously been growing a lot (in Georgia) over the last 10 years,” Bennum said. “We need to get more players started playing as young as the middle school level. Brian did a great job of developing the Brookwood Volleyball Academy (offseason developmental program for the cluster’s middle school age players).

That’s a step in the right direction.”

THE BENNUM FILE Name: Stacey Bennum New position: Head volleyball coach at Brookwood Former position: Head volleyball coach at North Oconee High School Age: 31 Career record: 101-50 Education: Graduated from Sehome (Wash.) High School in 2002; graduated from Brigham Young University in ’06 Background: Played in high school, first at Viewmont in Bountiful, Utah, and then at Sehome in Bellingham, Wash; Was MVP of the Northwest League her senior season; Played two seasons at Dixie State College in St. George, Utah; high school coaching experience has come at Kerns in Salt Lake City and North Oconee, where she led the Titans to a 100-37 record, including an Area 8-AAA championship and three trips to the state quarterfinals in three seasons; Also has several years experience coaching club volleyball in Utah and Georgia Family: Husband Jeff; daughters Cheyenne, 7, and Berkeley, 5, son Cannon, 1

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Dominating Truex win makes NASCAR look boring

By Jonathan Ingram The Sports Xchange

The folks at NASCAR perhaps should not look back, because something might be gaining on them.

On the other hand, nothing seems to be gaining on Martin Truex Jr. That was the conclusion from America’s biggest day of racing on Sunday, when the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 were staged back-to-back in Indianapolis and Charlotte.

The 100th running of the Indy 500 drew well over 300,000 fans after the Indianapolis Motor Speedway cut off ticket sales to its vast infield and declared the event a sellout. The race itself saw 54 lead changes and a stunning, suspenseful finish won by rookie Alexander Rossi, America’s next great hope in open-wheel racing.

In Charlotte, where attendance topped 100,000, there couldn’t have been a worse time to stage one of NASCAR’s most boring races ever — unless you were a Martin Truex Jr. fan.

The driver for Furniture Row Racing led 588 of the 600 miles. Jimmie Johnson grabbed the lead for all of 100 feet once at the start/finish line to get the only pass of Truex under green that didn’t involve pit stops.

It will be interesting to see how TV ratings work out. Even though Charlotte

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Martin Truex Jr. (78) celebrates his winning the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. (Photo: Jim Dedmon-USA Today Sports)

has the better time slot of an evening event, Indy could well come out on top. Whether that means the Indy Racing League can begin to compete with NASCAR for the role of America’s preferred racing series is another open question mark.

But there’s no doubt the feud that took place between Indy car team owners and the owners of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is finally over for fans. It was the split between CART and the Indy Racing League that enabled NASCAR to steal a march on open-wheel racing for the last 20 years.

The sellout at Indy was the first capacity crowd since the 1996 race at the privately owned track where permanent seating is estimated at 260,000. That was the last race before Speed-

way co-owner Tony George launched the IRL, setting off a feud that lasted 10 years with Indy car team owners and twice that long with fans of the Indy 500.

For Truex, who missed winning the Daytona 500 by scant inches, the long wait to win a major race is over. After losing last year’s Charlotte marathon to Carl Edwards in the closing stages on fuel mileage, Truex won for the first time this year absent any surprise at the finish.

“For a guy like me to win a race like this is a big deal,” he said Sunday night.

It was also the first victory for Furniture Row Racing since switching from Chevrolet to Toyota and becoming an affiliated team with Joe Gibbs Racing. Including the near miss at Daytona, coming into

Charlotte the Furniture Row team sustained its theme of close but no trophy. Truex had led 417 laps prior to the race before adding 392 to that total.

Were there times when he thought about his past record of missing the checkers?

“There were a few moments towards the end of the race where I was thinking, ‘Please, I don’t want a caution,’” Truex said. “But you’re not really saying, ‘What the hell is going to happen this time?’ You’re trying to stay positive and stay focused and do the things you need to do. But the last couple of laps is a little bit more difficult when you’re getting close and you just want to see that white flag. And you kind of have a finger or two crossed on the steering wheel there trying to get to the end.”

Near the conclusion of his post-race interview, the driver apologized briefly for stinking up the show.

But it was clear that Truex, crew chief Cole Pearn and team owner Barney Visser enjoyed putting on a buttwhipping and turning the other teams into also-rans.

Chevy driver Kevin Harvick finished second after overtaking Johnson, but didn’t even get close to the rear bumper of the Toyota.

The only threat to Truex were Ryan Newman and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Each of

them put up aggressive resistance to being lapped, the only thing enabling Harvick and Johnson to draw closer.

The full-bearded Visser, a low-key mountain-man type, is clearly his own man in a garage full of clean shaven team owners. But following criticism for switching from Chevy after initially building his team around the Detroit brand, he was clearly glad to see that first victory for the Japanese company.

“It was the most excited I’ve ever seen him,” Truex said. “I’m pretty sure he even hugged me.”

“You know, it’s been kind of a steady progress,” Visser said of his team’s development.

Visser has now won with three drivers, including Regan Smith and Kurt Busch, and recorded victories in two of NASCAR’s classic events, including the Southern 500 at Darlington.

“We started pretty much with nothing and now we’re able to gradually attract drivers that could get up front and win,” Visser said.

“Kurt was big for us. He showed that our equipment was pretty good. And Martin obviously stepped in, and I think he’s proven to the whole world now who he is. He’s led a lot of laps this year. It’s just been steady progress for us.”

Visser, a relatively tough taskmaster, insists on the team’s location in Denver

near his business headquarters and far from NASCAR’s Charlotte hub. After the Saturday night Sprint All-Star Race was delayed by rain, Pearn and his crew had only a day and a half to return to the shops and prepare for the Coca-Cola 600, where qualifying ran on Thursday.

The Furniture Row shops are located in a nondescript industrial park not far from downtown Denver just off of Interstate 70. Hundreds of thousands drive by daily without ever knowing the shop is there. The team once asked Visser about putting up a sign. He replied, “Would that make the car go any faster?”

By elevating Pearn to the role of crew chief last year from his job as an engineer and hiring Truex, Visser and his team general manager Joe Garone found the final two pieces of the puzzle to create a squad that is a race contender on a regular basis.

Visser’s deal with Toyota and Gibbs may be the missing pieces of the puzzle to a championship season after last year’s fourth-place finish.

“We want to do better this year,” Truex said. “Leading laps is great, but we need to keep winning some more and hopefully put ourselves in position to go for a title.”

Sunday’s race certainly looked like a championshipwinning performance.

Falcons set to meet with Freeney today CBS’ Lundquist The Sports Xchange FLOWERY BRANCH — Atlanta Falcons head coach Dan Quinn worked his way up the NFL coaching ranks mostly as a defensive line coach.

That partially explains why he’s looking forward to sitting down and meeting with future Hall of Famer Dwight Freeney today.

“Just our connection to see if we’d be a good fit for one another,” Quinn said. “I certainly have coached against him and watched tons of tape on him through the years and I have a huge amount of respect for him.”

The Falcons, out of respect, will not ask Freeney to work out.

“It’s a chance for us to sit down and visit,” Quinn said. “That would be the most important thing for him and for us.”

Falcons linebacker Sean Weatherspoon believes that his former teammate would be a good fit for the Falcons. Weatherspoon played with Freeney last season with the Arizona Cardinals, where the pass rusher had 8.5 sacks in just 11 games.

“He’s great,” Weatherspoon said. “He’s about the team. He’s helpful. One of my rookies in Arizona was Marcus Golden and he came and snatched up and put him right under his wings and taught him some

Baseball Major League Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division

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W L Pct GB L10 Chicago................35.. 14..714.....—... 7-3 Pittsburgh.............29..22..569...... 7...6-4 St. Louis...............27..25..519... 9.5...5-5 Milwaukee............23..28..451.... 13...5-5 Cincinnati............. 17..34..333.... 19...2-8 West Division

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Atlanta Falcons General Manager Thomas Dimitroff and Head Coach Dan Quinn converse on the field following the first day of training camp at the Falcons Training Complex in Flowery Branch last season. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

things. He just worked will all of them young guys.”

Weatherspoon and Freeney helped the Cardinals reach the NFC Championship Game.

“He even helped me with some things off the ball,” Weatherspoon said.

The Falcons were last in the league with 19 sacks last season, and Freeney will likely fill a designated pass-rusher role.

“He has some tips and things like that,” Weatherspoon said. “He can help us with our rush moves.

He’ll just make our team better. That’s what Dwight is going to do. We would love to have him here because he’s a team guy.”

Freeney is 36, but hasn’t displayed signs of major slippage.

“He still has it,” Weath-

erspoon said. “He’s running. He’s passionate about it. The guy is first class.

He’s one of the veterans that I look up to that I’ve had a chance to meet over the years. He’s been a helpful guy.”

While the Freeney situation is unfolding, the Falcons are taking some deep looks at some of their rookie draft picks, with Keanu Neal and linebacker DeVondre Campbell lining up with the first team defense at OTAs on Tuesday.

Neal, the team’s firstround pick, is expected to land the starting strong safety position, but Campbell, a fourth-round pick from Minnesota, is in a highly competitive situation at weak-side linebacker.

Also, rookie guard Wes

Schweitzer and middle linebacker Deion Jones received additional snaps.

“With a number of guys, we want to find out … let’s see what they have and how well they can learn,” Quinn said. “There were some busts for sure. That’s part of it. You have to go through some of that frustrations of missing a call or missing where you were supposed to be.”

Some veterans also received some extensive work.

“Other guys, although they are veterans and haven’t been a part of this system, (center Alex) Mack, (wide receiver Mohamed) Sanu and (linebacker Sean) Weatherspoon, those are some of the guys we wanted to get some extra turns in as well,” Quinn said. “Where are they at with their development in picking up the system? It was good to go through a lot out there today.”

Orlando to host 2017 Pro Bowl Orlando will host the Pro Bowl in January 2017 in ongoing alterations to the NFL’s postseason all-star game designed to stoke interest.

Honolulu has hosted the Pro Bowl almost every year since 1979 but the game was in Florida in 2009 at Miami Gardens, which then held the Super Bowl days later.

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in our college basketball and major championship After 53 years in broad- golf coverage. We are forcasting and 17 years as the tunate to have one more play-by-play voice as the football season to appreciSEC on CBS, Verne Lun- ate Verne’s one-of-a-kind dquist is passing the baton storytelling as we pave to Brad Nessler in 2017. the way for a seamless Nessler, a longtime and smooth transition to Berkeley Lake resident, Brad.”

Lundquist thanked CBS will join the broadcast and said with Nessler at team on which Lunquist the helm, the crew is in is currently the anchor great hands. with analyst Gary Dan“Being a part of the ielson and reporter Allie SEC on CBS since 2000 LaForce.

Lunquist, who turns 76 has been the most significant assignment I’ve on July 17, will remain at CBS as a staple of col- been given in my more than five decades in this lege basketball and golf business,” Lundquist coverage. said. “Now, it’s time to “Verne has set the standard for college foot- step back and take in the aroma of those tulips, ball broadcasting,” Sean those roses, and those McManus, CBS Sports daffodils that friends have Chairman, said Tuesday. been telling me about for “Together with Gary years. In 2017, I’ll happily Danielson he has played step aside from college a key role in making the SEC on CBS the highest- football and welcome Brad to the booth. rated college football “I’ve known Brad for package in America. After more than 30 years and an incredible 17 years, have always admired his he will be handing the work ethic and his on-air reigns off to Brad, who presence. He shares the in his own right is highly same passion for college acclaimed and respected football that I do. The as one of the premier play-by-play broadcasters SEC on CBS is in great in the business. I am very hands. Brad and Gary will form a great partnership in pleased that Verne will still have a prominent role the years ahead.”

SPORTS AT A GLANCE Pittsburgh 10, Miami 0 Tuesday’s Games Washington 5, Philadelphia 1 San Francisco 4, Atlanta 0 Miami 3, Pittsburgh 1 L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 4-3) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 9-0), 8:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Leake 3-4) at Milwaukee (Peralta 3-5), 8:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Moscot 0-2) at Colorado (Gray 2-2), 8:40 p.m.

Today’s Games St. Louis (Garcia 4-4) at Milwaukee (Davies 2-3), 1:40 p.m.

Washington (Scherzer 5-4) at Philadelphia (Morgan 1-3), 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Atlanta (Perez 2-1), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Niese 5-2) at Miami (Conley 3-3), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Bolsinger 1-1) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 5-3), 8:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Lamb 0-3) at Colorado (Chatwood 6-3), 8:40 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE AT NATIONAL LEAGUE Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets 1, Chicago White Sox 0 Houston 8, Arizona 3 Tuesday’s Games Houston 8, Arizona 5 Chicago White Sox (Latos 6-1) at N.Y. Mets (Matz 7-1), late Today’s Games Chicago White Sox (Gonzalez 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 3-1), 1:10 p.m.

Seattle (Hernandez 4-4) at San Diego (Friedrich 1-1), 10:10 p.m.

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(Gausman 0-2), late N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 3-3) at Toronto (Happ 6-2), late Tampa Bay (Smyly 2-6) at Kansas City (Gee 1-2), late Detroit (Sanchez 3-6) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 3-3), late Minnesota (Duffey 2-3) at Oakland (Surkamp 0-3), late Today’s Games Minnesota (Dean 1-1) at Oakland (Manaea 1-3), 3:35 p.m.

Texas (Hamels 5-1) at Cleveland (Bauer 3-2), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (Kelly 2-0) at Baltimore (Wright 2-3), 7:05 p.m.

Detroit (Fulmer 4-1) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 3-5), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 3-0) at Toronto (Sanchez 4-1), 7:07 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 3-6) at Kansas City (Duffy 0-0), 8:15 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE AT AMERICAN LEAGUE Sunday’s Game Texas 6, Pittsburgh 2 Monday’s Game Seattle 9, San Diego 3 Tuesday’s Game Seattle 16, San Diego 4 Today’s Game Arizona (Ray 2-4) at Houston (Fiers 3-3), 8:10 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association Conference Finals Eastern Conference Cleveland 4, Toronto 2

Tuesday, May 17: Cleveland 115, Toronto 84 Thursday, May 19: Cleveland 108, Toronto 89 Saturday, May 21: Toronto 99, Cleveland 84 Monday, May 23: Toronto 105, Cleveland 99 Wednesday, May 25: Cleveland 116, Toronto 78 Friday, May 27: Cleveland 113, Toronto 87 Western Conference Golden State 4, Oklahoma City 3 Monday, May 16: Oklahoma City 108, Golden State 102 Wednesday, May 18: Golden State 118, Oklahoma City 91 Sunday, May 22: Oklahoma City 133, Golden State 105 Tuesday, May 24: Oklahoma City 118, Golden State 94 Thursday, May 26: Golden State 120, Oklahoma City 111 Saturday, May 28: Golden State 108, Oklahoma City 101 Monday, May 30: Golden State 96, Oklahoma City 88 NBA Finals (Best-of-7 x-if necessary) Cleveland vs. Golden State Thursday, June 2: Cleveland at Golden State, 9 p.m.

Sunday, June 5: Cleveland at Golden State, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, June 8: Golden State

at Cleveland, 9 p.m.

Friday, June 10: Golden State at Cleveland, 9 p.m. x-Monday, June 13: Cleveland at Golden State, 9 p.m. x-Thursday, June 16: Golden State at Cleveland, 9 p.m. x-Sunday, June 19: Cleveland at Golden State, 8 p.m.

Golf Ryder Cup Points Through May 30 Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at Hazeltine National Golf Club Chaska, Minnesota Captains: Davis Love III, U.S.; Darren Clarke, Europe United States 1. Jordan Spieth 8,964.820 2. Dustin Johnson 5,016.873 3. Bubba Watson 3,691.748 4. Brandt Snedeker 3,511.352 5. Rickie Fowler 3,441.704 6. Phil Mickelson 3,261.735 7. Zach Johnson 3,205.112 8. Brooks Koepka 3,055.301 9. Patrick Reed 2,960.257 10. Matt Kuchar 2,654.500 11. J.B. Holmes 2,592.281 12. Charley Hoffman 2,426.558 13. Kevin Chappell 2,354.391 14. Bill Haas 2,249.046 15. Jason Dufner 1,833.869

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ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE NOTICE An application for an alcohol beverage permit to the sale of retail package malt beverages and wine has been filed with the City of Duluth, Georgia by the following party at the following location, to wit: Applicate/Owner: Betty Underwood McAtee Registered Agent: Timothy Clark Business Name: Dreamland Duluth Operations, LLC Location: 3540 W. Lawrenceville Street, Duluth, GA AN APPLICATION HAS BEEN FILED ON 05/23/2016 WITH THE CLERK OF THE CITY OF DULUTH FOR A LICENSE TO OPERATE BEER AND WINE 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. 904-422998, 6/1,2,8,9 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: Applicant/Owner: EDUARDO GOMEZ Registered Agent: EDUARDO GOMEZ Business Name: LAJO INC GUADALAJARA SUPERMARKET Location: 5730 BUFORD HWY STE N Norcross, GA 30071 9 0 4 - 4 1 8 5 0 8 , 5/11,12,13,18,19,20,25,26, 27,6/1

PUBLIC HEARINGS PUBLIC NOTICE The Town of Braselton Mayor & Council will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 4 p.m. to take Public Comment on the proposed budget for FYE 2017.

The Braselton Downtown Development Authority will h

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hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 11 a.m. to take Public Comment on the proposed budget for FYE 2017.

NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 4011-2, is being stored at: (Address) 211 MCARTHUR ST, LAWRENCEVILLE GA 30045 (Yr/Make) 2001 HONDA ACCORD (VIN#) 1HGCF866X1A042582 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 5-26-16.

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alty Management, Inc. in said condominium unit and the appurtenances thereto under that Certain Declaration of Condominium of The Springs Condominium, dated November 16, 1982, recorded in Deed Book 2473, Page 462 and amended in Deed Book 2497, Page 30, Gwinnett County, Georgia Records, together with any further recorded amendments thereto, (hereinafter referred to as the “Declaration”), which plat and Declaration are incorporated herein by reference. will expire and be forever foreclosed and barred on and after the day of June 27, 2016.

The tax deed to which this notice relates is dated the April 7, 2015, and is recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Gwinnett County, Georgia, in Deed Book 53539 Page 828.

The property may be redeemed at any time before the day of June 27, 2016, by payment of the redemption price as fixed and provided by law to the undersigned at the following address: Fletcher Law Firm LLC, 191 Roswell St., Marietta GA 30060.

Please be governed accordingly.

Sincerely, Paul Hutton c/o James R. Fletcher II, Esq.

The Braselton Visitors Bureau Authority will hold a Public Hearing on Friday, June 10, 2016, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. to take Public Comment on the proposed budget for FYE 2017.

The Braselton Urban Redevelopment Agency will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 9:30 a.m. to take Public Comment on the proposed budget for FYE 2017.

NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 4011-2, is being stored at: (Address) 509 BUFORD DR, STE G, LAWRENCEVILLE GA 30046 (Yr/Make) 2008 CHRYSLER SEBRING (VIN#) 1C3LC46J88N185655 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 5/26/16 928-422976, 6/1,8

All hearings will be held in the courtroom of the Braselton Police & Municipal Court Facility located at 5040 Highway 53.

Copies of the proposed budgets are available at the Braselton Town Hall during normal business hours or can be obtained electronically via request to jdees@ braselton.net 928-422971, 6/1 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 4011-2, is being stored at: (Address) 2993 DULUTH IND WAY, DULUTH, GA 30096 (Yr/Make) 2000 CHEVROLET EXPRESS G 3500 (VIN#) 1GBJG31R1Y1125176 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 5/26/16 928-422978, 6/1,8

NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 4011-2, is being stored at: (Address) 3540 LAWRENCEVILLE HWY, TUCKER, GA. 30084 (Yr/Make)2009 CHEV AVEO (VIN#) KLITD66EX9B623125 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 05/26/2016.

928-422982, 6/1,8

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE OF RIGHT TO REDEEM PROPERTY Take notice that: The right to redeem the following described property, to wit: 1285 Branch Drive, Tucker GA 30084 (Gwinnett County) according to the present system of numbering properties in Gwinnett County Georgia, having Tax Parcel ID # R6192C011, and being further described as follows: All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in Land Lot 192, of the 6th District, of Gwinnett County, Georgia and being a condominium unit known as Unit No. 1285, Building No. 2, Phase I, of The Springs Condominium as depicted on a plat prepared

by Construction Engineering Associates and recorded in Condominium Plat Book 1, Pages 73 and 74, Gwinnett County, Georgia Records, together with all right, title and interest of Southern Rea

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NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 4011-2, is being stored at: (Address) 5580 NEW PEACHTREE RD, CHAMBLEE GA 30341 (Yr/Make) 2004 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER (VIN#) 3C8FY68B34T242137 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by (Date) 05/26/2016.

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PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS Pleasantdale Storage of Doraville shall conduct an online auction at www.storagebattles.com to conclude on Thursday, June 16th, 2016 at 10:00am Unit # A90 – Tanner Brackett - Unit is said to contain: Queen Head & Footboard. (matching set) Chest of Drawer, Night stand, & Long Dresser. Angel Lamp.

Driftwood Deco. 10 bags & boxes. Desk or Table. Two Chairs.

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PROTECT OUR PLANET NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 3345 Medlock Bridge Road Peachtree Corners Ga. 30092 to satisfy a lien on June 8 , 2016 at approx. 01:00 P.M. at www. storagetreasures.com www.storagetreasures. com Cube # 1145Sweatt , Kimberly Donyale Cube# 1498Francisco Figueroa Cube# 1504B

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS Beatrice Woolen Cube # 1379Nicholas Letech Ellis Cube# 1212 – Dawkins , Samuel George Cube # 1576Natalie Black Cube # 1131 Melendez , Trina 929-419508, 5/25, 6/1

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items 052 Darrel Roberts Household Goods 367 Frank Grantham Household 308 Jose Angel Torres Household goods 409 Mandela Roberts Boxes Mattress Chest of drawers

---------------------------2003 GMC Truck(yellow) VIN: 1GDHG31U531901649 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by Date: 4-16-16 929-423109, 6/1,8

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 4257 Buford Drive, GA, 30518 770-614-4863 June 9, 2016 @ 9:30 AM

303 Melissa Hirschlein Furniture, bed, clothes, pictures, misc household 6042 Joshua Heirakuji Tools 639 Tina Coley Washer, dryer, beds, desk, household goods 708 Jessica Cline Couch, chairs, entertainment center 744 Allie Festa-King Clothes, furniture 8032 Jimmy Simmons Household goods The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property 929-420131, 5/25,6/1 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding via www.storagetreasures.com on 6/9/2016 at 5:30 PM for the Extra Space Storage facility located at: 2040 Lawrenceville Highway Lawrenceville, GA 30044 (770)962-4330 The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes, and appliances.

362 Stacey Hicks Household etc.

339 Shawn Schillinger House hold 453 Clark, Lorrie Household 262 Moye Chris Household i

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Extra Space Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 1172 Auburn Rd. Dacula GA, 30019 770-236-0688 June 9,2016 @ 4:15PM

222 Fonda Ellington Household Items 111 Matt Hardin Household Items The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property 929-421241, 5/25,6/1 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 40-11-2, is being stored at: South East Transportation 4138 Arcadia Industrial Circle Lilburn, GA 30047 2000 Chevrolet Tahoe(grey) VIN: 1GNEK13T8YJ120475 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by Date: 3-4-16 ---------------------------1999 Anderson Eguip.

Trailer VIN: 4YNBN1627XC282017 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by Date: 4-7-16 -

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Notice is hereby given that Champion Self Storage at 2415 Loganville Hwy. Grayson, GA. 30017 will sell the contents of the storage units listed below at a public auction to satisfy a lien placed on the contents (pursuant to the Self Storage Facility Act of the Georgia Code). The sale will take place at the website StorageStuff.Bid on June 16th at 09:00 am.

2016. The sale will be conducted under the guidance of Cheli Rosa (AU003807) on behalf of the facility’s management. Units may be available for viewing prior to the sale on StorageStuff.Bid. Contents will be sold for cash only to the highest bidder. A 10% buyer’s premium will be charged as well as a $50 cleaning deposit per unit.

All sales are final. Seller reserves the right to withdraw the property at any time before the sale or to refuse any bids. The property to be sold is described as “general household items” unless otherwise noted. #112 Christopher P Ruelle – Household Furniture, Clothes #114 Steven Starling – Household, Antiques #127 Cindy Hawkins Household Items #135 Kamarah S. Angus/ Kamarah Sharon Ay Agus – Furniture, Household Items, Hobby, Crafts #226 Steven Starling – Household Items #426 Joseph Griffith – Household #443 Priscilla Billingslea Household, Clothes 929-419510, 5/25, 6/1 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 4400 Lawrenceville Hwy Lilburn, GA 30047 770-638-2252 June 9, 2016 at 5:30 PM 005 Clayton Pentz Toys, Sporting Goods, Tools, Household Goods, Furniture, Boxes,Trunks 318 Elizabeth Scruggs appliances, boxes,furniture 346 Kayode Ogunfolajin Household Goods 156 Dustin Farmer Household goods 129 Kimberly Griggs Household Goods 116 Peter Kwatia furniture 250 Roderick Sargent Household goods The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-419513, 5/25, 6/1 PUBLIC AUCTION Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: Auction Date: 6/09/2016 Address: 4755 Nelson Brogdon Blvd N.E Sugar Hill, GA 30518 Phone: (678) 482- 5710 Time of Sale: 2:00 PM Pamela Barnes Unit 625 Household Jennifer Samples Unit 244 China, linens, furniture Courtney Kennedy Unit 437 Misc. Household Items Todd Cleveland Unit 706 Household Goods Mike Ghee Unit 515 Household Goods Russell Couch Unit 236 Household Items Nicole Adam Unit 629 Household Items Christopher Waits Unit 771 Household Items Brittnay Buttrum Unit 104 TV, Clothes Alex Anthony Unit 692 Household Items Angela Eder Unit 151 Furniture, TV’s Household Goods Todd Cleveland Unit 502 Household Goods, Furniture, and Boxes Clifton Speagle Unit 261 Household Goods, Furniture, and Boxes Todd Cleveland Unit 770 Household Goods and Boxes Jessica Holt Unit 135 Household Goods, Boxes, and Furniture Tammy Krangar Unit 434 Household Items Michelle Staab Unit 734 Household Goods, Boxes, and Car Parts Barry Bigsby Unit 315 Household Items The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2016 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION AND GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WILL HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS ON PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE GWINNETT COUNTY UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE TEXT AND THE OFFICAL GWINNETT COUNTY ZONING MAP, AS STATED ABOVE. UDOA2016-00002–AN AMENDMENT TO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE OF GWINNETT COUNTY; TITLE 2: LAND USE AND ZONING; AND THE APPENDIX; TO CREATE A NEW OVERLAY ZONING DISTRICT TO BE ENTITLED: VENTURE DRIVE REDEVELOPMENT OVERLAY DISTRICT; TO REVISE EXISITNG SECTIONS OF THE ORDINANCE TO ACCOMMODATE THE NEW OVERLAY DISTRICT; AND TO ADOPT THE OFFICAL VENTURE DRIVE REDEVEOPMENT OVERLAY DISTRICT MAP. SUBSEQUENTLY, GWINNETT COUNTY IS ALSO SEEKING TO AMEND ITS OFFICIAL ZONING MAP TO REFLECT THE GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES OF THE VENTURE DRIVE REDEVELOPMENT OVERLAY ZONING DISTRICT, APPLYING THE OVERLAY ZONING TO PROPERTIES BOUNDED BY PLEASANT HILL ROAD, SATELLITE BOULEVARD, STEVE REYNOLDS BOULEVARD AND INTERSTATE 85. THESE PROPERTIES ARE PRESENTLY ZONED C-2, O-I AND RM-24. EACH AFFECTED PARCEL WILL BE REZONED TO RETAIN ITS PRESENT ZONING CLASSIFICATION, PLUS THE ADDITION OF THE REDEVELOPMENT OVERLAY DISTRICT DESIGNATION. COPIES OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT AND THE PROPOSED OVERLAY ZONING DISTRICT MAP 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. BOC TBL 6-28- UDOA201600002 & MAP 934-422900, 6/1

1700 BLOCK OF PLUNKETTS ROAD; 3700 BLOCK OF BLUE RIDGE DRIVE; 5.92 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/BROOKS SUP2016-00017 – APPLICANT: JBW INVESTMENTS, LLC; OWNER: RONNIE F. PLUNKETT; FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN AN O-I (PROPOSED) ZONING DISTRICT FOR A RETIREMENT COMMUNITY (INDEPENDENT LIVING); DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 218 PARCELS 004 & 053; 1700 BLOCK OF PLUNKETTS ROAD; 3700 BLOCK OF BLUE RIDGE DRIVE; 5.92 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/BROOKS SUP2016-00021 – APPLICANT: JBW INVESTMENTS, LLC; OWNER: RONNIE F. PLUNKETT; FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN AN O-I (PROPOSED) ZONING DISTRICT FOR A BUILDING HEIGHT INCREASE TO FOUR STORIES (70 FEET); DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 218 PARCELS 004 & 053; 1700 BLOCK OF PLUNKETTS ROAD; 3700 BLOCK OF BLUE RIDGE DRIVE; 5.92 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/BROOKS SUP2016-00033 – APPLICANT: JOHNSON DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES, INC.; OWNER: BRANDSMART U.S.A. OF GA, LLC; FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN A C-2 ZONING DISTRICT FOR A MINI-WAREHOUSE STORAGE FACILITY AND RV PARKING; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 146 PARCEL 039; 2900 BLOCK OF BUFORD DRIVE; 10.21 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/ BROOKS SUP2016-00035 – APPLICANT: MAHAFFEY, PICKENS, TUCKER, LLP; OWNER: SCENIC BUFORD RETAIL, LLC; FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN A C-2 ZONING DISTRICT FOR A MINIWAREHOUSE STORAGE FACILITY; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 146 PARCEL 046; 2900 BLOCK OF BUFORD DRIVE; 2.76 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/ BROOKS SUP2016-00038 – APPLICANT: STACEY BRITT; OWNER: ROOKER GWINNETT, LLC; FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN AN M-1 ZONING DISTRICT FOR A TRUCK STORAGE LOT (GRAVEL); DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 239 PARCEL 006; 1600-1800 BLOCK OF CEDARS ROAD; 9.56 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/ HEARD RZC2016-00012–APPLICANT: T&M PROPERTIES V, LLC; OWNERS: PINEBLOOM GWINNETT I, LLC, POINTEBRAND II, LLC & POINTEBRAND III, LLC; R-ZT TO M-1; LIGHT INDUSTRIAL / OFFICE WAREHOUSE USES (REDUCTION IN BUFFERS); DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 172 PARCELS 001 & 009; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 173 PARCEL 004; 500 BLOCK OF HORIZON DRIVE; 51.87 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/BROOKS SUP2016-00031 – APPLICANT: T&M PROPERTIES V, LLC; OWNERS: PINEBLOOM GWINNETT I, LLC, POINTEBRAND II, LLC & POINTEBRAND III, LLC; FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN AN M-1 (PROPOSED) ZONING DISTRICT FOR A BUILDING HEIGHT INCREASE TO 62 FEET; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 172 PARCELS 001 & 009; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 173 PARCEL 004; 500 BLOCK OF HORIZON DRIVE; 51.87 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/ BROOKS P&D BOC TBL 6-28 934-422892, 6/1

GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2016 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENT TO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE IS SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS AS STATED ABOVE. INFORMATION IS 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. UDOA2016-00003AN AMENDMENT TO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE OF GWINNETT COUNTY; TITLE 1: ADMINISTRATION AND TITLE 2: LAND USE AND ZONING TO PROVIDE NEW OR REVISED REQUIREMENTS FOR DONATION DROP BOXES. BOC TBL 6-28–UDOA201600003 934-422895, 6/1 GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2016 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. SUP2015-00026 – APPLICANT: DEVELOPMENT PLANNING & ENGINEERING; OWNER: JAMES DAVENPORT; FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN C-2 & M-1 ZONING DISTRICTS FOR A TRUCK STORAGE LOT; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 076 PARCELS 002 & 029; 1600 BLOCK OF BOGGS ROAD; 2500 BLOCK OF BRECKINRIDGE BOULEVARD; 5.11 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/ BROOKS BRD2016-00002 – APPLICANT: QUIKTRIP CORPORATION; OWNER: INDIAN TRAIL ASSOCIATES, LTD.; FOR A BUFFER REDUCTION FROM 75 FEET TO 0 FEET IN A C-2 ZONING DISTRICT; DISTRICT 6 LAND LOT 212 PARCEL 036; 2200 BLOCK OF BEAVER RUIN ROAD; 2000 BLOCK OF INDIAN TRAIL LILBURN ROAD; 1.91 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/ BROOKS RZR2016-00005–APPLICANT: MAHAFFEY, PICKENS, TUCKER, LLP; OWNER: BEATRICE S. WHITEHEAD; R-100 TO R-TH; TOWNHOMES; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 017 PARCEL 009; 500 BLOCK OF PADEN DRIVE; 22.46 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/ HEARD RZC2016-00007–APPLICANT: JBW INVESTMENTS, LLC; OWNER: RONNIE F. PLUNKETT; M-1 & R-100 TO O-I; RETIREMENT COMMUNITY (INDEPENDENT LIVING); DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 218 PARCELS 004 & 053;

FULL TIME DRIVERS CDL DRIVER NEEDED Local deliveries with regular hours. Apply at The Rock Yard, 4569 Abbotts Bridge Road, Duluth, GA. MISCELLANEOUS

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Knowledge of Quick Books a plus.

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HOUSES FOR SALE COVINGTON, GA 30014

LAKE WALTON ESTATES! 6219 WATERS EDGE DRIVE All Brick, Executive Home In One Of Walton County’s Exclusive, Gated Communities Sits Across From Neighborhood Amenities On 2.18 Acres FULL FINISHED BASEMENT 4BR/4.5BA $569,900 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

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LOGANVILLE, GA 30052

For Sale or Rent 391 Conyers Road All Brick Ranch On Full Unfinished Basement With Separate Workshop/ Storage. Zone CH In The City Limits of Loganville, Georgia.

High Traffic Count! $228,900 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

MONROE, GA 30656

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37.123 ACRES BRING ALL OFFERS! 1155 Jim Daws Rd Great 37.132 Acre Tract Zoned A-2, With Nice Hardwoods & Pines. Perfect For Livestock, Farming, Hunting, Or Build Your Dream Home.

2 Creeks On Property.

All Brick House and 2 Acres Sold Separately for Additional Price. $242,000 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

LOGANVILLE, GA 30052

Commercial Property (1324 Sq.Ft.,1.39AC) 10977 Old Atlanta Highway, Covington, GA. 30014. Highest Zoning. Remodeled Building Off I-20 (Best Visibility).

Call 770-241-9685.

No soliciting.

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

2 ACRES ZONED R-100 With Duplex and 2 Storage Buildings MCCULLERS ROAD Zoned A1 $59,900 • EHO

Near Mall of GA. 5BR/3.5BA, S/T, Ivy Green Subd. Fplc., dbl. gar., 3,233 sq. ft. $1700/mo. + dep.

678-227-4405

DRYER/WASHER $125 ea.; Super Capacity $175 ea.

Front Loader Set $450 & up; Regular Refrig. & Ranges $175 & up; SXS Refrig. $300 & up.

Dishwasher $100 & up. Different colors.

Del/1 yr warr.

Tim 404-205-2222

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GWINNETT, BUFORD

BARROW-AUBURN 1-2-3 BEDROOMS IN MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY. Rent Starting at $100/ week. Large Lots.

770-513-3151

LAWRENCEVILLE 2 mi. to Mall of GA. Rooms for rent in 5BR/3BA home.

Priv. bath, furn., cable, int., alarm.

Util. incl. No Smoking/drug/pets. $400 - $525/mo.

404-667-3880

DRASTICALLY REDUCED! 2.56 ACRES ON N. BROAD ST. Zoned B-3 All utilities available.

Property will make a great strip mall. $135,000 Bring All Offers EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

GWINNETT/LILBURN HUGE-PROFITS! COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT ARV = $325,000, 4BR/3BA, 2 Acres of Private & Level Land! Includes Duplex + Detached Garage! Call NOW 770-862-7101

HOME REPAIR/ REMODELING

SERVICES

FLOORING

FOREST

HARDWOOD FLOORS

REMODELING, INC.

BY M.D. NANNI • Oak • Maple • Cherry • Walnut New Homes Repairs Refinishing Renovations

•Finished Basements •Bathroom Remodeling •Kitchen Remodeling •Custom Cabinets •Room Additions •Garages/Carports •Screened Porches •Custom Decks •Siding All Types

• Borders • Stairways • Medallions Free Estimates Insured/Certified Michael Nanni

Call John

770-962-2071

770-867-9670

GARAGE SALES

MOVING/RETIRING & MUST SELL! Bedroom sets, Chiffarobe, Dresser, TV Stand, Entertainment Center & many misc. items.

CALL 770-932-5492.

MISC. FOR SALE GRILL CHARBROIL ELECTRIC GRILL With cover. Like new.

Cost $200... Yours for $125. 678-765-7778

The City of Dacula is an equal opportunity emplooyyer DOGS

VEHICLES

LABRADOR RETRIEVER PUPPIES: Black, 3 pups, 8 weeks, all shots, AKC registered.

Awsome pedigree. 770-561-3843 OTHER ANIMALS DONKEY MINIATURE FEMALE DONKEY FOR SALE. 11 months old.

Great pet. $425.

Call Pat 404-626-7921.

LOST & FOUND PETS

LOST DOG $200 Reward, Male, Yorkie Schnauzer mix, 11yrs old, grey & tan, 20lbs.

Last seen in Falcon Ridge neighborhood off Grayson Parkway, Grayson.404-934-0753 ADOPT A PET KITTENS (3) 12 week old Kittens â—Š Female blonde/ white tiger striped â—Š Male orange and white mix â—Š Male blonde/ white tiger striped Free to good homes only.

770-708-7319 or e-mail kirkke53@gmail. com

PETS/LIVESTOCK

DOGS

PUPS, AKC Texas Champion blood lines. Show quality. Beautiful markings. Parents on site. Must see!

Serious inquiries call for appointment 678-925-3763 678-727-3040

DACULA, 30019 MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE Apalachee Farms, The Terraces, 748 Glen Valley Way, 6/3 & 4, 8-3. Lots of HH items, quality clothing, hunting items, Summit tree stand, lots of misc.

CADILLAC DTS, 2008 Purchased NEW Black with black leather. High Mileage but well maintained with records‌ New radiator, tie rods, wheel bearings, brake & transmission service in March. Immaculate inside & out. $4500 (Make Offer) Cell: 404-906-8938.

LAWRENCEVILLE-30043 Little Suwanee Pointe Community Sale Sat., 6/4, 8-1. Located off Technology Pkwy. or Old Peachtree. Near Gwnt. Braves Stadium.

WHITE RARE. AKC, shots & dewormed.

Happy & healthy. Avail.

5/10. $750. Text/call 706-975-4486 pics/info.

FORD F-150 SUPER CAB, 1998 Fair cond. Check engine light is on. Needs tune up/paint job. Excellent Body - No Dents!

New tires, interior in good cond. 200K miles. $3000. Serious inquiries only call 770-256-4196.

HOME REPAIR/ REMODELING

HOME REPAIR/ REMODELING

LANDSCAPING/ LAWN CARE

GTS

HANDYMAN SOLUTIONS

BY HERNANDO

ROOFING & REMODELING

• Roofing • Basement Finishing • Kitchen Remodeling • Bath Remodeling • Additions • Decks • Fencing • Painting

Licensed & Insured

CALL: 770-771-2810 All Major Credit Cards Accepted

or by submitting an email to daculacityhall@daculaga.go ov

VEHICLES

• General Repairs

404-670-3087

A full description of the position and application can be obtained at 442 Harbins Road, Dacula, GA 30019

DODGE DAKOTA SLT, 2000 QUAD CAB SLT One Owner. The Best You Can Find. This Truck Looks and Drives Close To New. One Babied Owner.

Full Four Doors and Custom Fiber Glass Matching Bed Cover.

It Is So Nice You Will Want To Keep It In Your Family Forever.

The Color Is Amber Fire With Super Nice Black Interior.

This Truck Would Be Almost Impossible To Replace. 3.9 V6 and All The Options. Only $5700.

770-899-5856

FORD F-150, 2001 XLT 4x4, Crew cab, 112000 miles, Automatic, white/gray, $3300, Clean Title, No Accidents. Call at 657-200-8429

FORD FOCUS SE, 2015 Ruby Red, Stk#P8228 $12,552 800-PREOWNED

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At GCPSJobs.org or Call 678-226-7670

VEHICLES

MERCEDES BENZ 560 SL ROADSTER, 1987: Low Miles. $8,000 just spent on new custom burgandy paint & new tan german leather. 2 Tops.

Babied & Beautiful.

Best Car Fax possible. Hagerty & Nada values these cars at $22,200-$42,200.

Super Collector Car. Will probably be the fastest appreciating 80’s collector cars over the next 5-10 years.

Only $13,700 770-873-2627

GERMAN SHEPHERDS

All Home Remodeling Projects & General Repairs Including: HVAC troubleshooting & more!

Over 25 years of exp. in all home repairs & improvements. *Licensed & Insured*

678-482-1702

hcorrales17@gmail.com

Call for a Free Estimate

COUNTRY BOY TREE REMOVAL Expert Take Downs √ 20Years Experience √ Insured √ Free Estimates √ Stump Grinding Bucket Truck

If your old stuff is collecting dust, it could be collecting cash!

classifieds 770-962-SELL

Summer Seasoned

Oak 1/2 Cord - $100 1 Cord - $190

Delivered & Dumped LICENSED

770-932-1751 Cell 770-313-5751

MOTORCYCLES

HARLEY DAVIDSON, 2012 IRON 883 Excellent Cond., 1000 miles, garaged, have title, helmets, rain suit, saddle bags incl. $5000 OBO. Social Circle. 770-787-7098

Across 1.“...like Sunday Morning�

Down 2. Same as 1 across

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FORD FREE STAR LIMITED VAN, 2004.

Automatic sliding doors, rear camera, DVD. Extra clean. $3395.

Call 770-616-7399.

Easy.

ENGLISH BULLDOG

BUFORD, 30518 GIANT YARD SALE June 3 & 4, 10a-5:30p.

10 Scott St. Furn., appli., antiques, hshld. items, collectibles.

Everything Must Go!

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE

SNELLVILLE ESTATE SALE 1820 STOCKTON WALK LANE JUNE 3 & 4, 10AM-5PM Antiques, furniture, kitchen items, & clothes

or emailed to daculacityhall@daculaga.go ov

APPLIANCES

Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com MONROE, GA 30655

LAWRENCEVILLE SUGARLOAF SPRINGS NEIGHBORHOOD GARAGE SALE Sat. June 4th, 8am2pm. Sugarloaf Pkwy., between Hwy. 120 & North Brown, across from Sugarloaf Mills.

HOUSES FOR RENT

ROOMMATE WANTED /ROOM FOR RENT

MONROE, GA 30656 32.53 ACRE TRACT Jim Daws Rd Great Acreage Tract Zoned A-2 With Nice Hardwoods & Pines. Perfect For Livestock, Farming, Hunting, Or Build Your Dream Home $211,445 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

GARAGE SALES

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Newton, Covington COMMERCIAL

418386-1

DULUTH MOVING SALE Furniture, Exercise eqmt, pingpong set, ceramic collectibles.

Fri 9-4 & Sat 8-5 3430 Highgate Hills Drive 30097

REDUCED! LAND LOT / BRING ALL OFFERS! 3604 Sand Hill Dr. Imagine Your Dream Home Here & You Sitting In Your Sunroom Overlooking The 8Th Fairway Of Honey Creek Golf Course While Sipping Your Morning Coffee $19,500 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

Please submit resumes/application to City of Dacula P.O . . Box 400 Dacula, GA 30019

423099-1

(678)730-0779

CONYERS, GA 30094

422854-1

Applicants must possess a minimum of a Class B CDL,, and be a able ble to perfo orm the duties of a maintenance/sanitation worker.

The position requires a high school education or equivalent GED.

Become a Dental Assistant

FARMS, LOTS & ACREAGE FOR SALE

SPECIALTY WORK

School Bus Drivers

JOB OPENING

LAKE SINCLAIR! REDUCED! 176 Twisting Hill Rd. Beautiful Lake Front Property On Deeded Lot! Inground Salt Water Pool, Detached 2 Car Carport, Front/ Back & Side Porches!

FULL UNFINISHED BASEMENT 4BR/4BA $649,000 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

The Doctor Is In

is accepting applications for

HYUNDAI ELANTRA SEDAN SE, 2015 Monaco White, Stk#8559 $13,900 877-698-5030

NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5S, 2002. Silver, 1 owner, 127k mi, auto., AC, PS, PW. Runs beautifully, clean, well maint. $3700 OBO. 770-883-2340

If your old stuff is collecting dust, it could be collecting cash!

classifieds

770-962-SELL

TOYOTA RAV4, 2002 AWD, automatic, 122K miles, no accidents, everything works. $3400, Silver color, clean title, 2.0 L Engine.

Interested? Call at 813563-3879

But not as easy as buying and selling in the

Gwinnett Daily Post The Easy Way to Buy & Sell

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MOTORCYCLES

CAMPERS/RVS

TOYOTA RAV4, 2007 67,322 miles, 4WD, Auto Trans, Silver ext/ Gray int. $3800.

Call: 404-947-2939

YAMAHA V STAR 1100, 2008. Custom Cruiser, Black, 13K Miles, Garage Kept, windshield, saddle bags, brand new tires. Runs Great. $3900. 770-255-4741

TRAVEL TRAILER, 2006, 31 Foot In Length, Sleeps 6, 1 Slide Out. $9500.00 CALL 770-337-0346

LANDSCAPING/ LAWN CARE

LANDSCAPING/ LAWN CARE

POWER WASHING

SERENITY LAWN CARE

PRESSURE WASHING

• Any Lawn Work!

If it’s in your yard, we do it!

Landscape Design using any material Trimming & debris Clean Up • Pressure Washing

HOUSES STARTING AT $89 • Roof Cleaning • Black streaks removed from roof • Mold & Mildew removed from homes • Drives-WalkwaysPatios-Decks cleaned/sealed • Gutters cleaned

M&M Lawn Maintenance All Types of Yard Work

Call 706-525-1881 or 678-283-4508

* Lawns starting at $30

For a FREE Estimate

CALL OR TEXT

CALL

404.886.3587

770-780-9786 RITE WAY/ LANDSCAPING • Retaining Walls All Types • Drainage Control • Waterproofing Basements • Landscaping: Sod, Seeds, Plants & etc. • Concrete, Flagstone & Pavers for Patios, Walkways & etc. • New & Repair Wood Fences FREE ESTIMATES! CALL 678-227-0400

Established 1989

TREE FORM LANDSCAPING

By Albert Mahaffey

• Bobcat & Backhoe • Stacked Stone & Flagstone • Drainage Solutions • Concrete - Tear Out & Replace • Waterproofing

www.treeform.net

770-307-8863

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