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G-Braves face challenge of falling attendance Average of 3,289 last among Class AAA teams

BY GUY CURTRIGHT

manager North Johnson Staff Correspondent said. “We’re literally having meetings daily trying LAWRENCEVILLE — to figure it out.”

With average attendance Gwinnett is last in the heading to a drop of about International League and 500 per game for a fourth all of Class AAA with an straight year, the Gwinnett announced average attenBraves are searching for dance of 3,289 per game remedies. with a six-day home stand “Certainly there are frus- beginning Monday remaintrations,” G-Braves general ing in the season.

That compares with an average of 3,808 last season, 4,281 in 2014 and 4,762 in 2013. The team has averaged more than 5,000 per game just once in its eight seasons, when the figure was 5,966 in 2009 — Coolray Field’s first year.

“We’re looking at everything we do from market-

ing, ticketing, media, the game experience,” Johnson said. “We feel like we’re getting lost right now. The identity just isn’t there.

The Braves still mean just Atlanta to most people.

“There is a lot of competition for the sports dollar alone, plus the entertainment dollar. We have a unique situation here.

The competition is much

G-BRAVES AT GATE The Gwinnett Braves rank last among Class AAA teams in attendance at Coolray Field after dropping about an average of 500 fans per game each of the last three years.

Year Attendance Average 2009 423,556 5,966 2010 337,240 4,818 2011 351,565 5,095 2012 327,584 4,680 2013 323,799 4,762 2014 303,959 4,281 2015 270,336 3,808 *2016 210,516 3,289

*Six games left in 2016

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READY FOR RIO

Suwanee 5K promotes charity and industry

BY ERIKA WELLS erika.wells@gwinnettdailypost.com

Blind Dacula swimmer, 15, to compete at Paralympics

More than 100 participants turned the Suwanee Town Center area into a race course for the seventh annual Hoofin’ for Habitat 5K Run/Walk event on Saturday.

Some set out to beat their personal record, while others simply wanted to take part in an early-morning community activity. But everyone showed up to support the Women’s Council of Realtors Gwinnett chapter’s effort to help Gwinnett Habitat for MORE ONLINE Visit gwinnettdailypost.com Humanity.

“Our for a photo gallery. purpose is to empower women to be in the industry,” member and race coordinator Sarah Stovall said. “Habitat just happens to fit in with that. They’re building homes for people.”

The Women’s Council is part of a network of real estate agents who support women in becoming better entrepreneurs and serving the community.

“It was developed when people weren’t used to seeing us in any industry,” Stovall said. “It was an opportunity for the Women’s Council to have women get together and trump each other up and be successful. But now that times have changed, it really is an organization

BY KEITH FARNER • keith.farner@gwinnettdailypost.com DACULA — Even less than a week before she left for Rio de Janeiro, McClain Hermes said the thought hadn’t quite sunk in yet. She occasionally would catch herself and think, “Oh my gosh, I’m going to Rio.” Hermes, 15, a student at Gwinnett Online Campus, will compete next month at the Rio Paralympic Games as the youngest member of U.S. Paralympic team.

Hermes is also one of three MORE ONLINE blind Paralympians from Georgia set to compete in Visit us online at gwinnettdailypost.com Rio. for for more photos.

Hermes is completely blind in her right eye and has minimal vision in her left, meaning she can see through the equivalement of a straw, or coffee stirrer, or about 2.7 percent of normal vision, she said. But she said her vision has stabilized in the last six months.

“It means a lot to me that all of my training has paid off,” she said.

“All of the sacrifices that I’ve made, and my parents have made have paid off. It’s really what you’ve put into it, you get out.

So we put a lot into it, and now we’re getting a lot out of it. …

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See RIO, Page 9A Top, a sign sits in the front yard of a neighbor across the street from Dacula resident McClain Hermes’ home. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner) At right, Hermes, a Gwinnett Online Campus student, will compete next month in Rio at the Paralympic Games’ as the youngest member of the U.S. Paralympic Swimming Team. (Special Photo)

Runners make their way back to Suwanee Town Center at the Women’s Council of Realtors Gwinnett chapter’s Hoofin’ for Habitat 5K Run/Walk on Saturday. The race spread awareness of the trade organization while supporting the nonprofit Gwinnett Habitat for Humanity.

(Staff Photo: Erika Wells)

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Gwinnett departments to make budget requests this week

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A team of six Gwinnett County residents will begin the process of deciding what they feel should go in the county’s 2017 budget on Monday.

The county’s Citizen’s Budget Review committee will meet every day from Monday through Thursday, beginning at 8 a.m., to hear presentations from department heads. The officials will outline how they want to spend money allotted to them next year, and explain any new programs or positions they want to add. The meetings will be held in Conference Room C at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, 75 Langley Drive, in Lawrenceville.

The committee will make recommendations to county officials, including Board of Commissioners Chairwoman Charlotte Nash, on what should be included in the proposed

Gwinnett County Police Chief Butch Ayers presents his department’s 2016 budget to the county’s Citizens Budget Review Committee last September. This year’s department budget and business plan presentations are set to begin Monday. (File Photo)

budget later this year.

“I believe strongly in seeking public input in local government decisions and am thankful for these six thoughtful and knowledgeable residents

who agreed to serve on the budget review team,” Nash said in a statement. “Each person brings something different to the table, which will be helpful as we listen to departmental

needs and plans, review revenue projections and prepare the 2017 proposed budget.”

The committee will be made up of Lisa Burleson, David Cuffie, Norwood Davis, Kevin Do, Burt Manning and Santiago Marquez. This will not be the first time Burleson, Manning, Marquez or Davis have served on the committee, although officials said three years have passed since Davis, the chief financial officer for 12Stone Church, last served on the committee.

Of the newcomers, Cuffie is the CEO of Total Vision Consulting LLC and Do is a ReMax Grand South realtor and Vietnamese American Community of Georgia volunteer.

Meanwhile, Burleson is a retired Gwinnett County Public Schools district level administrator, while Manning is a retired real estate appraiser and Marques is the chief

financial officers and vicepresident for the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

On Monday, the committee will hear court related requests from the administrative office of the courts, clerk of court’s office, Probate Court, Juvenile Court, District Attorney Danny Porter, the Recorder’s Court judges and the clerk of Recorder’s Court office. There will be a “welcome” presentation before the first department presentation on this day.

Tuesday will feature presentations from the Departments of water resources, transportation and community services, Tax Commissioner Richard Steele, the library system and Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services.

Wednesday’s presentations will come from the department of corrections and planning and development, Solicitor General Rosanna Szabo, Gwinnett

County Police and the Sheriff’s Office.

The presentations on Thursday will come from representatives of the human resources, law, financial services, support services and information technology departments, as well as county administration and the Board of Commissioners.

The presentations will be taped and broadcast on TVgwinnett. The videos will also be available for viewing at http://bit. ly/2bN8DMt the same day that the presentations take place. Presentation materials will also be posted with the videos online.

County officials are expected to present the proposed budget on Nov. 15, and a public hearing has been scheduled to take place on Dec. 5. The Board of Commissioners is expected to vote on whether to adopt the proposed budget at its first meeting in January.

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BUSINESS BRIEFS Suwanee clothing company among fastest-growing companies

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Dress Up, a women’s clothing store with a Suwanee location, recently ranked No. 1,931 on the 2016 Inc. 5000 list following a three-year sales growth of 192 percent.

Inc.com, a publication that focuses on business growth, has produced the list for the last 35 years.

“We were tired of typical retail stores both from a consumer standpoint and an employee standpoint, so we created Dress Up,” co-founders Derrick and Danielle Case said. “To be in the top 2000 of the fastestgrowing companies in the nation is very exciting and honorable.”

In early 2013, the company had five storefronts, according to Hillary Harper, a corporate spokeswoman. Harper said that since then, Dress Up has created its website www.ShopDressUp.com and added 12 stores in the southeast.

Companies including Dell, Domino’s Pizza, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Pandora, Yelp and other companies have been past honorees.

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BEING A STAY-HOME CAREGIVER TO YOUR PARENTS

As tough as dealing with placing a loved one in a nursing home Most adult children do whatever they can to help their elders. Frequent visits, helping with chores, always being available during an emergency. This quickly becomes routine for you.

As they get older, you explore options for their care.....in-home care, adult day care, assisted living, even nursing homes. Most parents make it clear they want YOU to care for them, not a paid stranger.

Should you quit your job to be their full-time caregiver? It may seem that following your heart is financially wise based on elderly care costs. You can save that money and put off their need for nursing home care. You are making your parents feel good and saving their money.

and potentially hundreds of dollars in Social Security benefits when you retire.

2. Retirement Plans: You miss out on an employer’s retirement plan and 401k match. You’ll have no retirment package unless you had one before you quit your job 3. Job Skills: Your skills may become out of date while you care for your elders as others move ahead.

4. Re-entering the workforce: Whatever your age or experience, it’s always harder to get a new job if you are unemployed. The work force demands are constantly changing. This is particularly worth noting if you attempt to go back into your previous field.

5. Your age: You are aging as you are caregiving. Although age discrimination when hiring is illegal, employers can find other reasons for not hiring you-such as out of date skills.

6. Caregiver isolation: Not everyone is cut out to be a full-time caregiver.

Besides missing your paycheck, you are apt to miss the work atmosphere and the social interaction you had working.

As with most things, there is no right answer for everyone. Some can afford and want to take care of the elderly; but not all do or financially can.

Solutions: better resources for eldercare and better support for employers would be an excellent start as a nation. Having to quit a paying job doesn’t become an ‘either/or’ decision. Until we have that, adult children who want to care for their aging parents themselves will be faced with some difficult choices.

Just be sure you arrive at a logical, financially sound solution as best you can. There is too much at stake to make this a purely emotional ‘knee-jerk’ decision.

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One near Express. The shop will sell the company’s skin care line that uses diamond powder as a Vitality Med Spa has base ingredient in all of its debuted its new, upgraded products, and offer in-store facials and samples. facility at Suwanee Town Forever Flawless has Center, the company anfive diamond collections nounced this week. called White Diamond, The full-service mediBlue Diamond, Pink cal spa was set to hold its grand opening at 310 Town Diamond, Black Diamond Center Ave., A-2 on Thurs- and Platinum Diamond. A sixth products, the Gold day with the Gwinnett and Diamond Collection, Chamber of Commerce is also expected to be unattending for the ribbonveiled later in the month. cutting ceremony.

“The boutique offers The celebration will customers the opportucontinue through Sunday nity to view and become with food and giveaways. educated on the entire skin Vitality provides care line which includes non-surgical restoration, aesthetics, laser treatments eye care, anti-aging, collagen boost, lifting and and medical weight loss stretching, and hands and solutions, according to Sandra Gregory, a compa- nail care for both women ny spokeswoman. Gregory and men,” company officials said in a statement. said the spa has added a Shoppers can also visit beauty bar with full nail www.foreverflawless.com services, lash options and for additional information hair blow-out treatments. about each of the company’s product collections.

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son have joined the RE/ MAX Legends location in Buford, the company announced.

Nash, who has been in the industry several years, is part Jason Moore’s “Sells Moore Team” and the on-site agent at Woodward Preserve, a Buford subdivision.

Nelson, who moved to Gwinnett County from Florida, will be a specialist in Snellville, Grayson and the surrounding areas to focus on farmland.

RE/MAX Legends, founded in 2011, is a locally owned and operated full-service real estate brokerage with Gwinnett County offices in Buford, Lawrenceville, and Snellville. The brokerage has 50 real estate agents and specializes in residential real estate.

For more information, visit www.remax-legends. com or contact 770-9635181.

Infiniti of Gwinnett owner John Ellis can tell customers his dealership has gone 10-for-10 in earning recognition for customer service over the last decade.

The Duluth-based dealership recently received the Infiniti Award of Excellence for 2015, marking the 10th consecutive year that it has earned the honor. The award recognizes dealerships for sales, facilities, employee training and helping customers shop for and buy a car, vehicle servicing, financing car purchases and interactions between employees and their bosses.

The dealership celebrated the award with a luncheon on Aug. 19, where Infiniti Dealer Operations-East Region Manager Terry Hoffman presented the honor.

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You want to please them and take care of them like they cared for you when you were a child.

However, before considering a major life change, consider your financial future and bear in mind that the odds are you will not recoup any of the financial resources from your parents’ estate. Besides giving up a paycheck, consider these points as well.

Pictured above left are Dress Up co-founders Derrick and Danielle Case. (Special Photo) Above right, Infiniti of Gwinnett Executive General Manager Steve Kendrick, right, receives the Infiniti Award of Excellence from Infiniti Dealer Operations-East Region Manager Terry Hoffman on Aug. 19.

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Surgery best for ruptured appendix DEAR DR. ROACH: A co-worker of mine recently had a ruptured appendix.

The doctors did not remove it but instead gave him heavy doses of antibiotics for three weeks. I thought they had to remove it. What is going on?

— D.M. ANSWER: Surgery remains the preferred therapy for acute appendicitis, the inflammation of the appendix of the large intestine.

Nonoperative management can be used in people with uncomplicated appendicitis — which might be valuable for some, especially people with a history of surgical complications. However, 27 percent of people assigned to antibiotics needed surgery anyway.

Importantly, people with a ruptured appendix have been excluded from most of these studies. Rupture is considered a complication.

I did find a study in children comparing antibiotics with surgery for ruptured appendix, but the surgery group had significantly better outcomes.

I am not sure why your co-worker received antibiotics for a ruptured appendix.

There may be a time when we will be better able to identify who can safely be treated with antibiotics and who needs surgery, but for now, most surgeons still recommend surgery. It is a safe procedure for the vast majority of patients with acute appendicitis.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a Type 1 diabetic who was diagnosed with common variable immunodeficiency.

Can you tell me about this, and whether it might be related to my diabetes?

— J.B. ANSWER: Common variable immunodeficiency is, despite its name, not a common condition. It does indeed cause immune deficiency and increased susceptibility to infection and malignancies. Further, the condition may be so mild as to go unnoticed in some people, while others have recurrent infections or inflammatory conditions.

The hallmark of the syndrome is a very low level of immunoglobulins (antibodies) in the blood. Although usually present at birth, most are diagnosed between ages 20 and 45 so there often is a long delay in diagnosis.

Because CVID is not one disease but many, there are many manifestations of this condition. However, recurring infections, especially pneumonias or sinus infections, should prompt a clinician to consider testing for this condition.

There is evidence that inflammatory bowel disease and Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes may be associated with CVID. I have read an unpublished study that showed up to 25 percent of diabetics may have undiagnosed CVID. Diabetics can get recurrent infections and have elevated cancer incidence. The diabetes often is blamed for what is actually an immune-system disease.

Treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin may be lifesaving in serious infections. I have read that this treatment may make blood sugar sporadically drop in an unpredictable fashion.

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In 1955, 14-year-old African-American Emmett Till was murdered for flirting with a white woman in Money, Mississippi.

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. made his “I have a dream” speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom event in Washington, D.C. In 1968, protesters fought with police at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

In 1996, Prince Charles and Princess Diana formally divorced.

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Boyfriend’s social surveillance spells trouble DEAR AMY: I have been dating my boyfriend “William” for 2.5 years.

We are both divorced with children. William’s ex-wife had a horrible two-year affair that hurt him deeply. Knowing this, I have always tried to assure him that he is the only man in my life and I make sure to go above and beyond to reassure him that I am thinking about him whenever we are apart.

However, in the past six months, William has become extremely jealous of my very dear gay friend of many years “Kevin” (who also happens to be an important client of mine).

It started out with snide comments and then recently escalated to him accusing me of having an “inappropriate intimate relationship” with Kevin.

He says Kevin is a bad influence, he is inappropriate and most recently, he feels like I am having an emotional affair.

I have made it very clear that we are just friends — exactly like all of my female friends — but William refuses to accept this.

William has gone so far as to create secret social media accounts to monitor my daily activity. He also monitors Kevin’s. It became somewhat of an obsession. He has been checking several times a day and screen captures anything he deems inappropriate with ANY of my friends, but is focused

relationship and keep my friends in the process!

— Heartsick in PA DEAR HEARTSICK: I’m not a therapist. But I can see a pattern building.

Even if you are not telling me an objective version of this story, it seems like a bad situation for you.

Anyone who sets up seAmy Dickinson cret accounts to monitor you — and also friends of specifically on Kevin. yours — is not someone This volatile situawho respects your right tion had been building to have relationships and over the past six months. friendships with other We have been arguing people. I don’t believe a lot without my full you should try to “fix” understanding as to what this relationship. was going on behind And I hope you don’t the scenes. I have been expose your children to unjustly accused of many this craziness. completely fabricated DEAR AMY: One of scenarios. my bachelor friends has Apparently I spent too run into a problem that long in the ladies room has me stumped. He is at a restaurant several into online dating and months ago, and now I’m seems to run into the being accused of conspir- same situation with many ing with Kevin to get of his dates. together without William They meet up for knowing. drinks or dinner, and he One Friday night I fell is happy and prepared to asleep and didn’t text foot the bill. Though by William to say goodnight. date six or seven, after This caused a week-long dinners, plays, movies, argument. William would etc., none of these women not take my calls, canhas ever offered to split celled our plans for the the check or pay for one weekend and refused to thing. believe that I didn’t sneak I personally find that away to New York to see appalling, but we can’t my friend. think of a tactful way to I also have a female handle this. friend who William has Suggestions? decided is “undermin— Stumped ing” our relationship and DEAR STUMPED: frowns on me seeing her One way around this is as well. to plan low-cost outings, This man is wondersuch as walks, hikes, ful in so many ways, but or museum visits. Your I can’t seem to fix my friend might be initiating

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all of these dates, which would make the woman more likely to assume he is treating.

But this is also the ideal situation to test a couple’s ability to communicate.

By the sixth or seventh date, your friend should be brave enough to say, “I notice you seem to expect me to always pick up the check. Are you willing to share the costs when we do something together?

DEAR AMY: “Protective” was wondering how to exclude her aunt’s racist boyfriend from this year’s Thanksgiving dinner.

I liked your recommendation, but perhaps something more blunt is called for: “Your boyfriend is a jerk. We’re all tired of him and don’t want to share our holiday with him. He needs to stay home.”

— Blunt DEAR BLUNT: Excluding this family member’s romantic partner will likely lead to the aunt’s exclusion, too.

If family members are willing to deal with this drama, then yes — they could definitely choose the more blunt statement.

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.

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A willingness to compromise will bring big returns. Your engagement, suggestions and desire to do something that will make a difference will put you in good company. Don’t let limitations and frustrations consume you and cause an inability to bring about positive change. Choose peace, not discord.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Focus on partnerships. Getting along and working with people trying to achieve similar goals will pay off. Romance will improve your life and help you avoid loneliness.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Keep your distance. If someone asks your opinion, be careful.

Avoid being drawn into someone else’s personal problems. You will end up being blamed if you try to help.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Traveling, communicating and making new connections will prove advantageous.

Your imagination will capture attention and put you in the forefront of a plan that will lead to your advancement.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — A conservative approach to work and money will stabilize your life. Don’t let anyone talk you into something you cannot afford. Think first and avoid regret. Temptation will be your downfall.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Dive in and take hold of your future. Mix and match the things you do well with the things you enjoy and you will achieve peace and happiness.

Romance is highlighted.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Speak from the heart and recognize when it’s time to back away from a situation that is making you unhappy or that feels unfair. Let your heart determine your destination.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Your openness and desire to please will invite a positive response. If you share your thoughts and plans and show interest in the suggestions and responses you receive, good things will happen.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Be sensitive toward others. If you listen carefully, you will come up with a plan that will appease everyone and make you the hero. Don’t fold under emotional pressure.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — It’s a good day to invite friends over or host an event that will make you the center of attention. You will pick up compliments and be made privy to moneymaking opportunities.

Romance is featured.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Check into something you have always wanted to pursue. Mixing the past with the present can bring good results as long as you are reasonable and willing to work hard.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — You can bring about change that will make your home and personal life more enjoyable. A relationship will play an important role in the choices you make.

Love is highlighted.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A change of location will do you good.

Taking a day trip or attending an event at a place you’ve never been before will break up the monotony in your life.

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Venture Drive proposal heads back to planning

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Plans to redevelop the Venture Drive corridor near Gwinnett Place Mall with high-rise mixed use buildings is heading back to the county’s Planning Commission.

In an expected move, the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners voted earlier this week to remand the Venture Drive Redevelopment Overlay District plans back to the Planning Commission. The shift to bump the plans back down a level comes after county staff made changes to the original proposal with guidance from a consultant.

Gwinnett County commissioners have sent the Venture Drive Redevelopment Overlay District proposal back to the county’s Planning Commission for review. The move came after staff and consultants made several changes to the proposal over the summer. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

“We’re very excited to move forward with this revised ordinance,” Planning and Development

Director Kathy Holland told commissioners earlier this week. “As the planning commission consid-

ered a previous version of the amendment, staff is requesting that the board remand the revised redevelopment overlay district UDO amendment, as well as the zoning map amendment to the Planning Commission for Public Hearing and recommendation.”

The move this week to send it back to the Planning Commission stretches out a process that has already been stretched across the summer because of repeated postponements while consultants looked at the proposal. It originally came to the Board of Commissioners in April and had been postponed every month since then.

The latest development

is not a surprise move, however, because County Administrator Glenn Stephens earlier in the summer said he was going to ask to have this done once the revisions were made to the proposal.

Commissioner Jace Brooks, whose district includes the Venture Drive area, said it was the right move for the commissioners to take.

“Yes, we are very excited about it, but since there are a number of changes and it’s been a while, it makes sense to send it back to the Planning Commission to get their thoughts on it as well,” he said.

The revised plans won’t show up too soon on the

Planning Commission’s calendar despite the remanding. County spokesman Joe Sorenson said they aren’t expected to go before that board until its October meeting because a public hearing must be held. There are public notice requirements for hearings that must be met before it can be held.

The proposed ordinance amendment for the overlay district, as well as the affiliated zoning map amendment proposal will be part of the Planning Commission’s agenda packet, which can be viewed online at www.gwinnettcounty.com.

A final version of the agenda packet is expected to be available in September.

Free mulch available to residents of Lawrenceville

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The free mulch will be available every Wednesday and the last Saturday of Lawrenceville officials the month, starting this are offering free mulch to weekend. city residents to help them Saturday hours are with fall landscaping proj- 8 a.m. to noon while ects around their homes.

Wednesday hours are 1:15 The city is inviting resi- to 3:30 p.m. dents to come by a pickup “As a city, we strongly station at 430 Paper Mill support sustainable efforts Road, and staff will be and we are thrilled to proavailable to help residents vide the community with load up their trucks or trail- free mulch,” City Manager ers. Self service will also Chuck Warbington said in be available, but residents a statement. “Mulching is will have to bring buckets a low-maintenance practice

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Residents who are interested in this service are invited to call 770-277-7531 to set up a delivery time.

“However, this (home delivery) service is based on the availability of a dump truck and driver,” added Director of Public Works Dennis Billew said in a statement.

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nation Kansas City area hit by flooding after days of rain The Kansas City area was flooded late Friday after a three-day downpour, forcing emergency services to conduct about 10 water rescues in Missouri’s largest city, officials said.

News photos showed vehicles stopped or abandoned as flood waters swelled across streets. No injuries nor fatalities were reported.

The National Weather Service issued a flash flood emergency notice to the Kansas City area for the first time ever on Friday night that went into Saturday morning.

The flooding had receded within the urban center later on Saturday, but rivers in more rural regions north of the city were still overflowing, said Dan Hawblitzel, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Kansas City.

Video shows police pursuit of deaf driver A video has emerged purportedly showing the beginning of a chase that resulted with a Highway Patrol trooper fatally shooting a deaf driver two weeks ago.

The motorist, Daniel Harris, 29, of Charlotte, N.C., was shot during a traffic stop on Aug. 18. The shooting occurred amid a national debate over the use of deadly force by police.

The cellphone video, posted on ABC affiliate WSOC-TV, showed what appeared to be a trooper standing near his squad car, facing a blue car stopped on the exit ramp. The car drives away and the trooper runs around his squad car, hops in the driver’s side and begins his pursuit, the video showed.

Two other men are seen in the video, but their involvement in the incident is unclear. The station said that it obtained the video from a motorist who was near the scene and that it had showed it to authorities who are investigating the incident.

Man charged in killing of nuns A Mississippi man with a history of armed robbery and theft has been arrested and charged in the stabbing deaths of two Roman Catholic nuns at their home earlier this week, but no motive has yet been determined, according to local authorities.

Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, faces two counts of capital murder in the deaths of two nuns in Durant in rural central Mississippi, the state Department of Public Safety said in a statement late Friday.

“Sanders was developed as a person of interest early on in the investigation,” Mississippi Bureau of Investigation Director Jimmy Jordan said.

Sanders’ motive was unclear, said Willie March, sheriff of Holmes County, Mississippi, where the suspect is being held until his initial court appearance.

— From wire reports

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By Iona, seRRapIca and GaBRIele pIleRI

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ASCOLI PICENO, Italy — Weeping relatives hugged each other and reached out to touch the simple wooden coffins at a state funeral on Saturday for some of the 291 people killed in an earthquake this week.

Amongst the 35 coffins laid out in a sports hall were small caskets holding the bodies of an 18-month-old baby and a 9-year-old girl, two of the 21 children who are known to have died when the quake hit central Italy early Wednesday.

“Don’t be afraid to bewail your suffering, we have seen so much suffering. But I ask you not to lose your courage,” Bishop Giovanni D’Ercole said in a homily in the hall, which was packed with grieving families and top politicians.

“Only together can we rebuild our houses and churches. Above all, together we can give life back to our communities,” he said, speaking in front of a dusty crucifix salvaged from one of the dozens of churches devastated by the quake.

Even as the funeral Mass was being held, rescuers kept searching through the rubble of the worst-hit town, Amatrice,

world Bangladesh cops kill ‘mastermind’ of Dhaka attack DHAKA — Bangladesh security forces killed three Islamist militants on Saturday including a Bangladesh-born Canadian citizen alleged to have masterminded an attack on a cafe in Dhaka last month in which 22 people, mostly foreigners, were killed, police said.

The militants were cornered in a hideout on the outskirts of the capital and, having refused to surrender, were killed in the ensuing gunbattle, Monirul Islam, the head of the Dhaka police counterterrorism unit, told Reuters.

He initially said four militants had been killed but later revised the number to three.

The success notched up by the security forces came ahead of a visit on Monday

by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who is expected to discuss security in the wake of a series of killings of liberals and religious minorities in the mostly Muslim country.

Turkey says warplanes hit Kurdish militia KARKAMIS, Turkey — Rebels supported by Turkey fought Kurdish-backed forces in north Syria on Saturday, as Ankara ratcheted up its cross-border offensive by saying it had launched air strikes against both Kurdish forces and Islamic State.

Turkey’s government, which is fighting a Kurdish

people ‘Don’t Breathe’ leads box office with $10M Friday

LOS ANGELES — The horror genre proves to be frighteningly reliable this season as “Don’t Breathe” is the latest scary flick to have an impressive box office showing. The film, from Sony’s Screen Gems and Steve Bersch’s Stage 6 Films, earned $10 million on Friday at 3,051 locations, and is eyeing a $22 million opening weekend.

“Suicide Squad” will steal second place this weekend with about $11 million at 3,582 locations.

The Warner Bros. film is in its fourth frame and has Italian President Sergio Mattarella shakes a woman’s hands after an earthquake victims funeral service Saturday inside a gym in Ascoli Piceno, Italy. (Reuters/Adamo Di Loreto) already earned well over $500 million worldwide.

Jason Statham will carry but acknowledged they sister Giulia’s small cofin cuts, sat in a wheel“Mechanic: Resurrection” had little hope of findfin lay in the center of the chair, his head bowed. to an opening of $7 million ing more survivors from sports hall for the funeral Some of the mourners Italy’s worst earthquake Mass. clutched framed photos of at 2,258 locations after earning $2.6 million on in seven years.

“Hello little one,” said their loved ones.

Friday. The film, about Nine more bodies were a handwritten note left on As the names of the recovered from the town her coffin by one of the dead were read out, hun- an assassin forced out of retirement, follows up on on Saturday, including rescue team that retrieved dreds of people outside three pulled overnight her body. the sweltering sports hall 2011’s “The Mechanic.”

Specialty division Lionsfrom the crumpled Hotel “I am sorry that we broke into prolonged Roma, bringing the death arrived late. You had alapplause in a sign of soli- gate Premiere is distributing the film, and is banking toll in Amatrice alone to ready stopped breathing, darity with the families.

230 residents and tourists. but I want you to know up Italian President Sergio on success in the U.K. market.

Authorities said 387 there that we did all we Mattarella and Prime people were still in hospi- could to get you out of Minister Matteo Renzi tal, with one patient dying there.” lingered after the service Ridley says it of his injuries during the Relatives of the dead had ended to talk to the will ‘be a while’ day. sat on chairs next to the ranks of mourners. before reveal of One of the last people coffins or knelt on the “We will decide all to be plucked alive floor, their arms resting together how to get going ‘Star Wars’ title from the debris was a on the caskets, which again. But don’t give up, LOS ANGELES — Daigirl called Giorgia, who were covered in flowers. that is crucial,” Renzi told sy Ridley heard a title for turned 4 on Saturday. Her One man, his legs covered one youth.

“Star Wars: Episode VIII,” but she’s not telling. government would consider On a recent episode selling crude through Iran of the podcast “My Dad should talks with the auWrote a Porno” — a detonomous Kurdish region lightful show about a man who discovered that his dad on an oil revenue-sharing agreement fail, a senior oil wrote an outlandish dirty book, and rather than keep ministry official in Baghit to himself, he’s reading dad told Reuters. it out loud for the world Iraq’s State Oil Marketto enjoy — Daisy Ridley ing Organisation plans to confessed that she was, at hold talks with the Kurdish Regional Government, one point, told a title for the film. possibly next week, about “I heard a title, and I’m Iraqi oil exported through not sure if it’s going to be Turkey, Deputy Oil Minthat. I really don’t know ister Fayadh al-Nema said A member of the security personnel stands on the side much about anything,” she of a car as he arrives at the site of a gunbattle with mili- in an interview on Friday said, trying to avoid the tants on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Satur- evening.

“If the negotiations come question. Then she added, day. (Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain) “I have heard it, but I heard to a close” without an highest-ranking diplomat insurgency at home, has agreement “we will start to it a long time ago before we started filming. So I said on Saturday, addsaid the Syrian campaign find a way in order to sell feel like some things have ing that warmer relations it opened this week is our oil because we need tweaked slightly during would benefit the whole as much about targeting money, either to Iran or Islamic State as it is about world. other countries,” he said by (production), but it’s going to be a while before it’s Beijing severed links preventing Kurdish forces telephone. released, I’d imagine.” with the Vatican in 1951 filling the vacuum left shortly after the Commuwhen Islamists withdraw.

Boko Haram nist Party took power and Turkey wants to stop Fire severely landmine kills 4 launched a crackdown on Kurdish forces gaining organized religion, with control of a continuous Chadian soldiers damages set China’s new rulers setting stretch of Syrian territory of ‘Knightfall’ N’DJAMENA — A up their own church and on its frontier, which AnPRAGUE — A fire kara fears could be used to appointing bishops without landmine planted by Isseverely damaged a set for lamist group Boko Haram the pope’s backing. support the Kurdish milikilled four Chadian soldiers the “Knightfall” television After decades of mistant group PKK as it wages series at studios in Prague its three-decade insurgency trust, Pope Francis is push- on patrol near Chad’s border with Niger on Saturday, overnight, causing damage ing to improve relations on Turkish soil. worth about $4 million, two security sources said. and his secretary of state, Turkish security Czech media reported on They were traveling in sources said two F-16 jets Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Saturday. a vehicle that rode over sounded upbeat about the bombed a site controlled Firefighters brought the mine at Kaiga Kindji, chances of success. by the Kurdish YPG the fire under control late “There is much hope and in the Lake Chad region, militia, which is part of which has been plagued by on Friday after they used expectation that there will the broader U.S.-backed helicopters to dump water the militants since 2009.

Syrian Democratic Forces be new developments and on the blaze at the BarranThe Nigerian-based coalition. The sources also a new season in relations Boko Haram wants to cre- dov Studios from the nearby said the jets hit six Islamic between the Holy See and Vltava river, CTK news China,” he said in a speech ate a breakaway Islamic State targets. state in the region and once agency reported. in the northern Italian city Shooting of the series, occupied an area the size of of Pordenone, which was Vatican says it depicting the final days of released to reporters in the Belgium. has high hopes of Vatican.

But a regional offensive the Knights Templar in the led by Nigeria, Chad, Cam- 14th century, was due to better China ties Iraq plans to sell eroon and Niger — the four start in the Czech Republic VATICAN CITY — The countries most affected by this weekend after initial oil through Iran Vatican is hopeful it can Boko Haram — has chased work in Croatia. “Avengers” star Jeremy Renner is an improve ties with China af- if Kurd talks fail it out of much of that terexecutive producer. ter decades of tension, the ritory.

— From wire reports BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Roman Catholic Church’s — From wire reports

Trump tweets about killing of NBA star’s cousin, draws criticism ReuteRs Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday the shooting death of a cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade affirmed his campaign comments about violence in minority communities and highlighted why black voters would support him in November.

Trump’s Twitter message came a day after Nykea Aldridge, a

Must read 32-year-old mother of four, was shot in the head and arm by crossfire in Chicago while pushing a baby in a stroller, police said.

Police were questioning two people on Saturday in connection with the shooting, which may have come from a stray bullet from a robbery attempt, the

Chicago Tribune reported, citing police.

“Dwayne Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago,” Trump said on Twitter. “Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” Later, Trump’s tweet was deleted and reissued with the correct spelling of Dwyane Wade’s name.

Trump’s tweet drew immedi-

ate and widespread criticism as insensitive and opportunist, although hours later, Trump also offered a second, more somber comment on Twitter offering condolences to Wade and his family over the death of Aldridge.

Actor Don Cheadle sparked a spirited, hours-long debate on Twitter in which he characterized Trump’s tweet as “more red meat to his alt-right troglodytes.”

One of Trump’s highest profile

supporters defended the tweet, calling it a fair comment considering that Chicago, which has long been governed by the Democratic Party, has some of the worst gun violence in the country.

“Maybe it was a little clumsy but I don’t think it was opportunistic,” Jeffrey Lord said on CNN as part of his regular commentary on behalf of Trump for the cable network.

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The sorry standard of bribery

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders never understood the epic quality of the Clinton scandals. In his first debate, he famously dismissed the email issue, it being beneath the dignity of a great revolutionary to deal in things so tawdry and straightforward.

Sanders failed to understand that Clinton scandals are sprawling, multilayered, complex things.

They defy time and space. They grow and burrow.

The central problem with Hillary Clinton’s emails was not the classified material. It wasn’t the headlinemaking charge by the FBI director of her extreme carelessness in handling it.

That’s a serious offense, to be sure, and could very well Charles have been grounds for Krauthammer indictment. And it did damage her politically, exposing her sense of above-the-law entitlement and — in her dodges and prevarications, her parsing and evasions — demonstrating her arm’s-length relationship with the truth.

But it was always something of a sideshow. The real question wasn’t classification but: Why did she have a private server in the first place? She obviously lied about the purpose. It wasn’t convenience.

It was concealment. What exactly was she hiding?

Was this merely the prudent paranoia of someone who habitually walks the line of legality?

After all, if she controls the server, she controls the evidence, and can destroy it — as she did 30,000 emails — at will.

But destroy what? Remember: She set up the system before even taking office. It’s clear what she wanted to protect from scrutiny: Clinton Foundation business.

The foundation is a massive family enterprise disguised as a charity, an opaque and elaborate mechanism for sucking money from the rich and the tyrannous to be channeled to Clinton Inc. Its purpose is to maintain the Clintons’ lifestyle (offices, travel, accommodations, etc.), secure profitable connections, produce favorable publicity and reliably employ a vast entourage of retainers, ready to serve today and at the coming Clinton Restoration.

Now we learn how the whole machine operated.

Two weeks ago, emails began dribbling out showing foundation officials contacting State Department counterparts to ask favors for foundation “friends.” Say, a meeting with the State Department’s “substance person” on Lebanon for one particularly generous Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire.

Big deal, said the Clinton defenders. Low-level stuff. No involvement of the secretary herself. Until — drip, drip — the next batch revealed foundation requests for face time with the secretary herself.

Such as one from the crown prince of Bahrain.

To be sure, Bahrain, home of the Fifth Fleet, is an important Persian Gulf ally. Its crown prince shouldn’t have to go through a foundation — to which his government donated at least $50,000 — to get to the secretary. The fact that he did is telling.

Now, a further drip: The Associated Press found that over half the private interests who were granted phone or personal contact with Secretary Clinton — 85 of 154 — were donors to the foundation.

Total contributions? As much as $156 million.

Current Clinton response? There was no quid pro quo.

What a long way we’ve come. This is the very last line of defense. Yes, it’s obvious that access and influence were sold. But no one has demonstrated definitively that the donors received something tangible of value — a pipeline, a permit, a waiver, a favorable regulatory ruling — in exchange.

It’s hard to believe the Clinton folks would be stupid enough to commit something so blatant to writing. Nonetheless, there might be an email allusion to some such conversation. With thousands more emails to come, who knows what lies beneath.

On the face of it, it’s rather odd that a visible quid pro quo is the bright line for malfeasance.

Anything short of that — the country is awash with political money that buys access — is deemed acceptable. As Donald Trump says of his own donation-giving days, “when I need something from them … I call them, they are there for me.”

This is considered routine and unremarkable.

It’s not until a Rolex shows up on your wrist that you get indicted. Or you are found to have dangled a Senate appointment for cash. Then, like Rod Blagojevich, you go to jail. (He got 14 years.)

Yet we are hardly bothered by the routine practice of presidents rewarding big donors with cushy ambassadorships, appointments to portentous boards or invitations to state dinners.

The bright line seems to be outright bribery.

Anything short of that is considered — not just for the Clintons, for everyone — acceptable corruption.

It’s a sorry standard. And right now it is Hillary Clinton’s saving grace.

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Random thoughts on random subjects Lawyers, like kids, can say the darnedest things. During a recent hearing in Atlanta regarding an appeal by environmental groups of a permit allowing the Sea Island Company to construct a 350-foot long rock barrier — known as a groin — that would jut out from the island’s shoreline.

It would create a new beach at the posh resort, and opponents said the project would be detrimental to the local wildlife — particularly endangered sea turtles. The attorney for Sea Island, Patricia Barmeyer, said, in so many words, big honking deal. She reasoned that if sea turtles already swim hundreds of miles to their annual nesting grounds, they can surely find another place to lay their eggs. Barmeyer, who is not a sea turtle but who seems to know them well, said, “We don’t think that having to swim to one side or the other of the (groin) would impose a meaningful or unreasonable detriment.”

Last I heard, the sea turtles who have been coming to Sea Island longer than Barmeyer, strongly disagreed and said they just might lay their eggs in Barmeyer’s shoes. *** My recent column on Bill and Gloria Gaither drew an unusually large reader response from across the state.

Some know them personally.

are the cries of righteous indignation from politicians and pundits and preachers? Do all lives matter or just certain ones? I thought so. *** In some ways, it seems like a lifetime ago. In other ways, it seems like it was only Dick yesterday. I speak of the 1996 Yarbrough Centennial Olympic Games, which have just observed Some have met them at their their 20th anniversary. As one homecoming concerts, but all of the managing directors of wanted me — and them — to the Atlanta Committee for know how much the Gaithers the Olympic Games, I never have touched their lives with experienced more highs and their music over the years. lows than during those days.

The only negative comments I Having put it behind me, I got were that I didn’t mention didn’t plan to get involved in a reader’s particular favorite any commemorations of that gospel group or artist when event. listing those I had enjoyed At the last minute, I while growing up. Happily, decided to go to a reunion what I hoped was true seems of management, staff and to be — those who know supporters. I saw people that them say Bill and Gloria I hadn’t seen in 20 years. We Gaither are good folks. were all Type-A personali*** ties, highly opinionated and Did I miss something or sometimes fractious, but towere there riots in the streets gether we did something very and stores looted and angry special. Now, I realize that we protests by media muggers were a remarkable band of with bullhorns and provocabrothers and sisters. tive T-shirts after Eastman *** police officer Tim Smith was I will have more to say on gunned down in the line of this in the near future — a duty? And how about Marilot more — but it is a travetta Police Officer Scott Davis esty that the field at Sanford who was allegedly shot by Stadium is not named for two 15-year-old gang mem83-year-old retired Hall of bers at 4:30 in the morning?

Fame football coach Vince (Fortunately, Officer Davis is Dooley, the winningest coach expected to recover.) Where in the history of the University

of Georgia. I am told it is a couple of mean-spirited political types and a few assorted other narrow minds that prevent this from happening.

And don’t tell me because a building is named for him on campus that this suffices.

National television doesn’t show that building. It shows the playing field. Almost every field and stadium in the Southeastern Conference and many across the nation honor a legendary coach. Even the University of Florida has named their field for Steve Spurrier. But not Vince Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium?

Gadzooks! What is it going to take to do the right thing in Athens? I’m not going to let this one go.

Finally, after a year’s absence due to circumstances beyond my control — like the Woman Who Shares My Name breaking her leg twice — I am headed to St. Simons Island to see if the corn-fried shrimp are still at the Georgia Sea Grill and are waiting for me. I hope so. After what I have been through, it is the least those little critters can do for me.

You can reach Dick Yarbrough at yarb2400@ bellsouth.net; at P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta, Georgia 31139; online at dickyarbrough.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dickyarb.

National Parks and a lifetime of memories Well hark-a-lark. The National Parks Service had a birthday this week. The service is now a centenarian!

Happy Birthday and God bless Theodore Roosevelt! I know. I know. TR didn’t start the NPS, but he fought hard to protect and expand it.

My love affair with our national parks goes back to my childhood. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park was the first, and only park, I ever visited as a child, but I loved going to Cherokee and Gatlinburg and Clingmans Dome. I would climb up the hills and ridges, wearing my fauxcoonskin cap, imagining that I was Davy Crockett in search of a “bar” to grin down, miffed that he had bagged one by the age of 3, while I was 5 and still without a kill.

Sometimes we would actually run across bears, usually scrambling around in the trash cans at roadside parks. My daddy always made me stay in the car, but he would get out and take pictures of them with our little Eastman-Kodak brownie camera.

When we visited Cherokee I would always get my picture made with a real live Cherokee Indian, who was invariably dressed like a member of the Sioux tribe with full headdress, standing in front of a tipi. Go figure. I was more interested in the toy bow and arrow set I might get than the rocks and rills and wooded temple hills that my parents

out and visit them. What precious memories.

We were in the North Dakota Badlands once — South Dakota has Badlands, too — and decided to go out around midnight to see the stars. Words can’t describe how beautiful the night sky Darrell Huckaby is when you are hundreds of miles away from any city lights. Emerson wrote, “If the enjoyed so much, but it was stars should appear one night still a special treat to enjoy the in a thousand years, how men mountains, whether in sumwould believe and adore; and mer or during fall leaf season. preserve for many generaAlthough the eastern tions the remembrance of the woodlands was as far as I ever city of God which had been roamed, I looked at picture shown! But every night come books depicting the great out these envoys of beauty, western national parks, like and light the universe with Yosemite and Grand Canyon their admonishing smile.” and, the granddaddy of them While we were getting all, Yellowstone. I loved the up close and personal with big signs, always held up by God’s creation a stray buffalo massive wooden posts, and showed up and scared us all dreamed of one day posing in into our Dodge Caravan and front of one such sign. we headed for safer pastures.

Let me tell y’all something. But we’ll always have that I have been blessed to pose in moment. front of a few national park Another time, at Yelsigns out west. Yellowstone. lowstone, on the Fourth day Badlands. Teddy Roosevelt. of July, my youngest child, Big Bend. Redwoods. Death Jenna — aka Danger — was Valley. Zion. Glacier. Crachased by a grizzly bear, ter Lake. Rocky Mountain. who got really close before Denali. The list goes on (and the rangers drove him away on and on) — and of course and eventually shot him. Our we have visited many of the hearts beat extra fast for about eastern parks, too, like Everthree days, but we gained glades and Acadia — which a story that we will share are about as far apart as two forever. places can be, in geography Everything you hear and geology. Our parks are a about the beauty of the rock great national treasure, and I formations and waterfalls at wish more people would get Yosemite is true, and more.

Take the scenic drive through Rocky Mountain National Park and you’ll understand why Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. changed his name to John Denver and wrote about climbing cathedral mountains and seeing silver clouds below. You really are a poorer man (or woman) if you’ve never seen an eagle fly. You don’t need a left-handed cigarette to experience a Rocky Mountain high.

My lovely wife, Lisa, and I, along with a couple of good friends, an Anglican preacher and his certifiably crazy wife, once took a guided raft trip down the Rio Grande through Santa Elena Canyon. It would have been 115 degrees in the shade, if there had been any shade. There wasn’t, so it was 120 most of the time, but, again, we saw more beautiful scenery and made more precious memories than one can say grace over.

In Glacier NP we hiked among 6-foot snow drifts along Going to the Sun Road and rafted and swam in a glacier-fed river on the same day. We didn’t swim long, though.

I could go on (and on and on and on) — but I won’t. I will, however, get on the road again as soon as possible and continue to visit our parks as long as the Good Lord gives me the strength to carry on.

Happy Birthday, NPS — I hope the next century is as good as the last.

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Constitutional amendments for ballot announced Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office announced this past week that four proposed constitutional amendments will appear on the Nov. 8 general election ballot.

Brian Any Kemp amendment to the constitution needs to be approved by voters before they can go into effect, and while some of the proposals have bipartisan backing, others have stoked controversy and division.

Political Notebook

Amendment No. 2 is the Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund amendment. The fund would take money collected from fines levied on sex traffickers and fees paid by adult entertainment businesses and spend it on support programs designed to help children who have Curt Yeomans been victims of sex crimes.

Amendment No. 3 would Amendment No. 1 is the abolish the state’s existOpportunity School District ing Judicial Qualifications amendment, which would Commission, create a new give the state the authority to one where members would take over schools that “have be appointed by the goverbeen determined to be failnor, president of the Senate, ing through any governance Speaker of the House and model allowed by law.” the Georgia Supreme Court.

Amendment No. 4 deals with excise taxes on firework sales. It would let the state use proceeds from those taxes to fund trauma care and public safety purposes, as well as pay for firefighters equipment and training.

Duluth. Supporters wishing to attend the event are asked to RSVP at marinstatehouse. com.

Marin is being challenged in the House Marin kicking off District Pedro campaign Thursday 96 race by Marin State Rep. Pedro Marin, Republican D-Duluth, is inviting supRichard “Rick” Underwood porters to launch his re-elec- in the General Election. tion bid this week.

The longtime legislator Norcross council will host a campaign kickmembers unopposed off party at 6:30 p.m. on for re-election Thursday at I Luv BowlWhile Norcross residents ing, 4500 Satellite Blvd. in will have to go to the polls

in November to decide who will hold several key positions, such as president, a U.S. senator and county commission chairman, it turns out city officials won’t be on that list.

Although three city council seats are up for election this year, officials announced this past week that no one qualified to run against Councilmen Josh Bare, Andrew Hixson and David McLeroy, who are each running for re-election.

Political Notebook appears in the Thursday and Sunday editions of the Gwinnett Daily Post.

Gwinnett among first communities in state to get smart traffic signals

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Mammoth Hand Car Wash Detail Salon owners are joined by officials from the city of Peachtree Corners and the Peachtree Corners Business Association for a ribbon cutting at the business on Holcomb Bridge Road. (Special Photos)

Mammoth Car Wash holds ribbon-cutting

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Peachtree Corners recently welcomed a new car wash business to the city and judging by the name, it’s a pretty big deal.

City officials said Mammoth Hand Car Wash Detail Salon opened a 3,200-square-foot location, which previously housed a different car wash, at 4050 Holcomb Bridge Road in May. Town leaders celebrated the business’ arrival more recently, however, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

“We’re happy to welcome Mammoth to the business community,” Peachtree Corners Mayor Mike Mason said in a statement. “They’ve done a remarkable job in remodel-

Some traffic signals in Gwinnett County are getting a little smarter.

The Georgia Department of Transportation announced on Thursday that Gwinnett is one of a handful of communities where the state recently installed smart signals at intersections. They’re called smart because the signals track traffic data for the agency.

Transportation officials said they launched the first group of signals at the end of last month.

ing the building. I’m sure they will do very well in Peachtree Corners.”

The business is owned

by Ted Marcus and his son, Andrew, and has a stacked stone canopy, a repaved parking lot and new landscaping. The Marcuses also had the interior remodeled and had the detailing station updated, city officials said.

In addition to hand washes and detailing, which range in price from $19.95 to $39.95, the business also offers engine cleaning, hose shining, vinyl and leather treating and conditioning, polishing, shampooing and highspeed compounding.

The car wash is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sundays.

“We are thrilled to reach this major milestone on such a quick timeline and look forward to continued deployment throughout the state,” GDOT State Traffic Engineer Andrew Heath said in a statment.

“The software allows us to understand the performance of each signal by monitoring data that comes in every tenth of a second.

“Our engineers are able to make real time adjustments to the signals to optimize performance based on actual roadway conditions.”

The system, which has been launched in partnership with Intelight

The signals will now be set up to send real-time information to a Traffic Operations Center so engineers will know about a problem as soon as it happens.

“This response to operational issues improves signal operations on Georgia’s busiest corridors while also providing transparency to the public on system performance,” GDOT officials said in a statement.

GDOT is offering the new signals to communities at no cost to local governments and hopes to have them all installed by 2018.

Calendar of Events: September 2016 HEALTH HAPPENING

YOGA FOR HEALTH & WELLNESS

Join us each month in the Education Center for an informative lecture on a variety of health and wellness topics.

Yoga is an ancient system of exercises which has been shown to positively influence physical and mental health and promote overall wellness. Learn more about what yoga really is and experience how you can personally benefit from this practice. THIS

Prostate Cancer Awareness Thursday, September 15; 6:30 p.m.

Speaker: Kalpit Patel, MD

LIVING WELL LECTURES Each month, join us on the first Friday in the Education Center for a fun and informative lecture on health and wellness topics.

BARIATRIC SUPPORT GROUP

Getting Lifeline Before the Fall Friday, September 2; 1 p.m.

Speaker: Dianne Appling

WELLNESS IN THE KITCHEN Cooking tasty, healthy meals is a snap when you know the secrets of a chef. Join our chef from Café 1400 in the Education Center for tips and tricks that will take your cooking to the next level and bring wellness to the table.

Gainesville Around the World in One Meal Thursday, September 22; 5:30 p.m.

CAR SEAT SAFETY CLASS Make sure your baby is as safe as possible in his or her car seat by taking this class and learning from the experts. We’ll also check the installation of your car seat in your vehicle at the end of class.

LUNG CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Join the newly diagnosed, survivors and loved ones for a lung cancer support group. Please call 770-219-8815 or email penny.mccall@nghs.com for more information.

Monday, September 19; 4:30 p.m.

Education Center

CHILDBIRTH CLASSES Prepared Childbirth

The Prepared Childbirth class covers natural pain control methods, different types of deliveries, the coach’s role and types of anesthesia available, and it includes a tour of the OB Unit.

Braselton Saturday, September 10; 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

KEEP YOUR SPINE IN LINE

Breastfeeding is important to you and your baby’s health. Our Breastfeeding class is taught by Board Certified Lactation Consultants. Dads are welcomed and encouraged to attend.

COOKING WITH DIABETES IN MIND This four-week course will empower anyone who has diabetes, or is at-risk for developing diabetes, and will include instruction on adapting recipes for diabetics and making healthy choices when shopping.

Thursdays, September 8, 15, 22 & 29 11 a.m.

Speaker: Chef Fred Duggan & NGPG Family Medicine Education Center

Register today!

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Thursday, September 29; 6 p.m.

Education Center

Gainesville Saturday, September 3 & September 12; 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Tuesday, September 6; 4 p.m.

Speaker: Matthew A. Hazzard, MD Education Center

Comments from the audience welcome.

Join Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Bariatric and Metabolic Institute’s informative support group meeting for patients currently in the bariatric program.

September 14; 6:30 p.m.

Speaker: SafeKids Education Center

Experiencing back pain? Join Dr. Matthew Hazzard, neurosurgeon with The Longstreet Clinic, for a review of treatment options for some of the more common spine problems.

Mammoth Hand Car Wash Detail Salon opened earlier this year on Holcomb Bridge Road in Peachtree Corners and recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

CLASS IS A LECTURE ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF YOGA, NOT AN EXERCISE CLASS.

Monday, September 21; 6 p.m.

Education Center

Braselton Healthy Southern Favorites Tuesday, September 13; 6:30 p.m.

Love movies? Want to tell everyone what you think? Become a Film Fan. The Post will pay for the movie and a light snack.

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Inc., with its deployment expected to be completed by next fall. In all, 1,000 intersections in Gwinnett and Athens-Clarke counties, Thomaston, Cartersville and elsewhere in metro Atlanta have gotten the signals so far.

The agency plans to eventually expand that number to 9,000 signals.

GDOT officials said the new signals will help improve their response times to problems at intersections. The traditional set p has been to have engineers do on-site checks of signals or wait for drivers to file complaints about problems.

Phone: 800-347-1416 Online: www.nghs.com/events

Breastfeeding

Braselton Monday, September 12; 6:30 p.m.

Gainesville Monday, September 26; 6:30 p.m.

Newborn Parenting

Newborn Parenting class covers the basics of baby care including recognizing illness, feeding, bathing, diaper changes, and more.

Braselton Monday, September 19; 6:30 p.m.

Gainesville Monday, September 12; 6:30 p.m.

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Second arrest made in fake money case

From left, Nick Masino with the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, Sarah Stovall and Denise Quinlan, both with the Women’s Council of Realtors Gwinnett chapter, lead the awards ceremony at the Hoofin’ for Habitat 5K Run/Walk in Suwanee on Saturday. (Staff Photo: Erika Wells)

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where the fake money was used to steal lawn equipment from a Walmart in Buford Gwinnett County police and then returned for cash at said Friday that a second a different Walmart. suspect who was allegedly Taylor is accused of using involved in a forgery and the fake money to pay for theft case involving fake mo- the equipment at Gerstention picture money has been lauer’s cash register and Sinbooked into the county jail. quefield is accused of taking Law enforcement booked it to the other Walmart to get Buford resident Melissa the cash.

Sinquefield into the jail Gerstenlauer, who is just after 10 a.m. Friday on facing a forgery in the first charges of forgery in the first degree charge, was arrested degree, theft by deception earlier this week, but police and a probation violation. said she has since bonded Sinquefield, Travis B. out of jail.

Taylor and Jocelyn A. Taylor is still wanted on Gerstenlauer are accused of forgery in the first degree and being involved in a scheme theft by deception charges. curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

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All proceeds from the event will benefit Gwinthat is built to strengthen nett Habitat for Humanity our business … for anyone to further the nonprofit’s who is associated with our mission to help families industry.” in need of affordable She said the main housing. The donationpurpose of the event was driven organization builds to promote the group, homes and a sense of From left, Travis B. Taylor, Melissa Sinquefield and Joc- which also is open to men. community, said Nick elyn A. Gerstenlauer are facing charges related to a case Masino, senior VP and where fake motion picture money was used at a Buford Anyone who belongs to the National Association chief economic developWalmart to pay for lawn equipment, which was then reof Realtors can join. ment officer at the Gwinturned for cash at a different Walmart. (Special Photo)

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nities in Georgia,” he said.

“Anytime I can be involved in something that gets people outdoors and physically active, that’s great.”

This year was the first time the Peachtree Road Race qualifier took place in Suwanee.

For more information, visit www.wcrgwinnett.org and www.habitatgwinnett. org.

Rio

•From Page 1A It really means a lot to see the rewards. Because you can’t always see the rewards.”

Hermes admitted one of those sacrifices is traveling 120 miles a day roundtrip to reach the pool where she trains.

Hermes and her mother credit programs and facilities like the Shepherd Center, BladeSports and Georgia Blind Sports Association for why seven athletes from Georgia will represent the U.S. at the Paralympics.

Before Hermes arrives in Rio, she and the rest of the swimming team will be in Houston for processing and training camp.

Hermes became a swimmer more than a decade ago, but in recent years has excelled in several events, and competitions, including the Can-Am Games, and the Parapan Games, where she earned her first international medal, a bronze.

Hermes, who swims locally with the Dynamo club, will compete in Rio in the 400-meter freestyle, 100 backstroke and 100 breaststroke.

She competes in the S12 classification, one of three classes for blind swimmers.

At the Paralympic Trials, she had a first-place finish in the 400 freestyle finals when she swam the race in five minutes, 17.07 seconds — 10 seconds off her personal best. Hermes was also first in the 100 breaststroke in 1:37.33, though slightly faster in

nett Chamber of Commerce.

Masino, who ran the race twice in the past, said the Women’s Council and the Chamber have formed a beneficial partnership.

The former mayor of Suwanee served as the Grand Marshal and said he was honored by the opportunity.

“Gwinnett is ranked in the top 3 healthier commu-

Dacula resident McClain Hermes, a Gwinnett Online Campus student, will compete next month in Rio at the Paralympic Games as the youngest member of the U.S. Paralympic Swimming Team. She recently posed for a few pictures at her home. (Staff Photos: Keith Farner)

prelims (1:35.28) earlier the same day.

In her best event, the 100 backstroke, she lowered her qualifying time to 1:21.88 in the finals.

The 100 backstroke is the event she believes is her best chance at making the finals. She will swim that event as an S12, and the other two events in the higher S13 class because in those events, the classifications are combined.

As an S12 in the 400, for example, she’s ranked fifth, but in the combined S13, she’s 27th.

“It really does put a damper on it,” she said.

Since she is swimming against the best in the world, Hermes said she has set a realistic goal to make the finals in her event.

Hermes has tried to pump the brakes on expectations that she’ll make the

podium.

“Hello, I’m 15,” she said. “… It would be great to medal, but to make finals in an event is really what I’m shooting for.”

While trips to experience Rio will be at a minimum, Hermes also plans to take in the experience and culture of Brazil, and prepare for a possible trip to Tokyo for the next Paralympics in 2020. Her mother just wants her to enjoy the experience.

“As a mom, I’m happy that McClain’s not sitting here biting her fingernails, stressing about a gold, or about a medal even,” Carmen Hermes said. “You’re 15, enjoy the experience, do your best, because when she gets on the block in Tokyo, she’ll have that experience behind her.”

Part of that experience will be meeting swimmers at the top of the world

rankings in her classification, and Hermes has already mastered “Hello, my name is McClain,” in Russian and Spanish and is working on Portugese.

As a high school student, she works her school and swim schedules around each other.

To prepare for being gone for a month because of the Paralympics, she started school a week before classmates, and she’s worked hard to be nearly a month ahead of schedule to compensate for the time off. Her classload was cut to three, but when she returns, she’ll be back up to all six classes.

Hermes has a mentor, Anna Johannes, who has competed in past Paralympics, but won’t participate this year, and she’s also paired with a “big sister,” Mallory Weggemann, who is also on this year’s

team. They’re both swimmers. Johannes, an S8, is missing an arm above the elbow, and Weggemann, an S9, is paralyzed from the waist down.

All three swimmers were on the Para Pan-Am team last year.

As part of the Paralympics, Hermes will have to report early for her events and have her clothes and swimsuits checked for logos.

One main adjustment is she will adjust to a new tapper, the person who taps her using a long pole device as she nears the wall. But she’s experienced a glimpse of that already at the previous Can-Am and Para Pan events, both in a village setting and out of the country away from her parents while going through processing and with ceremonies.

“It’s all just a process of preparing you for the games,” she said.

One tapper tapped Hermes last summer, and others have at various competitive events.

Developing a relationship in two weeks is critical because Hermes said if she doesn’t feel comfortable, she’s not going to go full speed ahead into the wall, “because I don’t know if they’ll be there.”

While Hermes will be the one in the pool, it will be a family affair as her parents plan to make the trip to Rio. Carmen admitted she is more anxious about her daughter being away from home for a month than McClain is.

But she’s comforted knowing that her daughter is with older and mature athletes, and simply that McClain is, “with her peeps.”

G-Braves

point in the summertime.”

The G-Braves, not greater here than in any helped by traffic, have other AAA market. It’s an had trouble drawing for ongoing challenge. We’re weeknight games since trying to figure out the their inception, but had best way we can position been able to make up for ourselves to stop this trend that somewhat by drawing we are in.” big Friday and Saturday The Atlanta Braves crowds. move to SunTrust Park in Weekend crowds haven’t Cobb County next season been what they once were from Turner Field may this year, though, as the give the G-Braves a boost.

G-Braves have been hurt “While it’s the same by the proliferation of the distance from here, it’s not multiple free community the same drive (for people concerts and festivals in in Gwinnett),” Johnson Gwinnett. said. “We’ll have to see “That’s great for all how it all plays out. I’m an the communities, but it optimist.” has definitely cut into our The Braves’ move of crowds,” Johnson said. their Class AAA team from Gwinnett is last in the International League and all of Class AAA with an announced The earlier start of average attendance of 3,289 per game. A six-day homestand beginning Monday is all Richmond to Gwinnett has that remains in the season. (File Photo) school also hasn’t helped, benefited the major league with August now a tough team because of the ability league team. minor league markets. support. month as well as April and Boston, Seattle, Detroit to quickly shuttle players Gwinnett isn’t and the “The other AAA teams May. and Toronto also have back and forth.

G-Braves, although with are all in large cities, not “It’s a huge impact,” the It has come with difconvenient situations, but a substantial population small towns, and they have GM said. “But we’re not ficulty, though, in building Pawtucket, Tacoma, Toledo to draw from, don’t have their own media,” Johnson going to get the school sysa fan base for the minor and Buffalo are established one central community of said. “The team is the focal tems to change what they

are doing.”

The G-Braves tried starting weekday games at 6:05 p.m. and 6:35 p.m. before going back to 7:05 p.m. this season.

Next season, the team will move up slightly the start of Saturday and Sunday games.

“We’ve tried about everything,” Johnson said.

“All of the current trends of what you’re supposed to do in minor league baseball we’re doing. The people come out and they say they had a great time.

But even then, they don’t always come back.

“The things that make Gwinnett great are also what helps make it challenging for us. There are great recreation parks, so much to do. Gwinnett isn’t a county of watchers. It is a county of doers with a lot going on. But I’ll always be an optimist. We just have to find our place.”

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Mopar car show raises charity funds Man gets life, no parole for

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This time last year, rainy weather washed out the North Georgia Mopar Club’s annual Southern Classic car show at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds.

But Saturday, the sun shined brightly on those who gathered to feast their eyes on classic and new autos at 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville.

The two-day fundraising event highlights the Mopar — relating to Chrysler brands, parts and service — culture while allowing attendees to reflect on the past.

Each day, the crowd judges 21 Mopar classes.

“It offers a little bit of history if you’re willing to learn,” said club president Dan Clark of Lilburn.

The North Georgia Mopar Club formed about 30 years ago for local enthusiasts. For the past 15 years, it has hosted the car show in several locations in Georgia.

The show brings back memories for many including Clark, who attended with his family. He took a break from racing around in his golf cart monitoring activities to reminisce about two cars.

The first is a black 1966 Dodge Dart GT he purchased five years ago, restored in four and debuted this year. But Clark could not talk about his recent addition to his collection without discussing a

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North Georgia Mopar Club President Dan Clark shows off his recently restored 1966 Dodge Dart at his organization’s Mopar Southern Classic car show at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds on Saturday. (Staff Photo: Erika Wells)

nearby red 1966 Dodge Dart GT. He purchased it while in high school when his daughter, Brandy Howell of Lilburn, started driving, he passed it to her. Howell said she was apprehensive about driving the car, which does not have power steering, until she got used to it.

“This car has been around my whole life,” Howell said. “When I was in first grade, I dressed up as Minnie Mouse for Halloween and we drove it in a parade.”

She said she mostly enjoys how the cars bring her family together.

“I have a son now, and when he was 2 months old, we put him in the car,” Howell said. “Now this car is on its third generation.”

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meet as well as food, door prizes and raffles. A portable screen turned the event into a drive-in theater at dark featuring the movie “American Graffiti.”

Proceeds from the event will go toward scholarships and to nonprofits such as Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Angel Flight and Susan B. Komen. The organization raises money through its events and at the end of year donates the funds.

The show includes several types of cars including Chevrolet, General Motors, Ford, hot rods and imports. Clark said Dodge’s re-introductions of two popular models has helped put those vehicles back on the map for car shows.

“Mopar cars are expensive to restore, so this tends to be an old man’s sport,” he said. “That has hurt the Mopar community over the years because it’s expensive for the young kids to get into.

Now with the new Challengers and the new Chargers, people can drive those cars for daily transportation and still bring it to a show.”

The car show is set to continue from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. Parking is $5 per car.

For more information, visit www.northgeorgiamoparclub. com.

obituaries LAWRENCEVILLE

Ewell Arnold Ewell A. Arnold, age 85 of Lawrenceville, GA passed away August 27, 2016.. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel 1031 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville GA, 30046 770-277-4550.

AUBURN

Billy Carver Billy “Bill” Green Carver, born Feb. 26, 1935 in Akron, Ohio to Grace Sadler Carver and Turley Green Carver, died at his home August 23, 2016 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. His wife and his daughter Cathy took care of him to the very end.

Bill married his high school sweetheart, Joyce Ann Wagner on Jan. 23, 1955. They raised 4 children together and remained faithfully married for 61 years. He attended Freed-Hardeman College and Akron University earning a B.A. in Education. Bill taught at Manchester Jr. High, Bolich Jr. High in Cuyahoga Falls, OH, and 15 years at Dacula Middle School in Gwinnett, GA. They moved to Auburn, GA in 1981 and retired in 1997.

Throughout his teaching career, Bill coached and served the athletics program as a scorekeeper. He also organized the annual science fairs and intermural sports.

A lifelong member of the church of Christ, Bill served as a deacon, Sunday school teacher, and song leader. His devotion to God was evident in his consistent loving attitude and faithful church involvement. Bill also served as Club President of the Lion’s Club in Auburn, Ga. A jack of all trades, Bill worked as a cabinet builder in his twenties and a truck driver during the summer in order to afford to teach.

Bill’s hobbies included golf, woodworking, jigsaw puzzle building, bowling, ping-pong, card playing, sci-fi, and music. l h i l i d

Alzheimer’s claimed Bill’s mind, but the Lord claimed his soul years ago.

He leaves his wife, Joyce; son, Dr. Mark Carver of Pinehurst, NC; daughter, Cathy Carver of Athens, GA; daughter, Amy Carver/Lori Dunsmore of Athens, GA; and son Chris and daughter Joan Carver of Acworth, GA; 6 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren; 6 nieces, 2 nephews and numerous friends. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to West Metro Church of Christ, 4550 Hiram-Sudie Rd., Hiram, GA 30141.

Condolences can be left at www.GeorgiaFuneralCare. com. Georgia Funeral Care & Cremation Services is proudly serving this family.

HIAWASSEE

Janet Clary Janet Leigh Clary age 58, of Hiawassee, GA passed away on August 25, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

SUWANEE

Huron Hambrick Huron E. Hambrick, age 91 of Suwanee, GA, passed away on August 28, 2016. Crowell Brothers Funeral Home and Crematory, 5051 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, GA 30092.

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LILBURN

Russell Kirn, II Russell W. Kirn II age, 51 of Lilburn, GA; passed away on Wednesday August 24, 2016. Service and Arrangements by Byrd & Flanigan Crematory And Funeral Service. Please sign our online guest book registry at byrdandflanigan.com

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The family of a slain 26-yearold mother may be one step closer to finding closure after two years of praying and hoping for justice.

On Friday, a Gwinnett County jury found Charles Thomas Outlaw Jr. guilty of killing Angela Rabotte around the first weekend of April 2014. Outlaw was sentenced to life without parole for the murder plus 15 years for hiding the body and a weapon-related charge, according to Assistant District Attorney Tom Williams.

Since the verdict, Rabotte’s loved ones have shared their feelings about the results through social media.

“I promised we would get justice and we did, it has been so hard waiting for this day,” Rabotte’s mother, Judy, posted on Facebook. “And each day will still be hard … I’ve only made it because of God and family, friends and even strangers, praying for us and supporting us and loving us. … SLEEP SWEETLY MY ANGEL ANGIE! YOU CAN REST NOW! I LOVE YOU MY BABY!” The prosecution said Outlaw shot Rabotte execution style after an argument and then dumped her body in the woods in Lilburn. Shortly after her family

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Ronnie Plunkett Ronnie F. Plunkett, age 65, of Buford, GA passed away on Wednesday, August 24, 2016. He was preceded in death by his son, Jesse James Plunkett; and parents, Willie Joe and Marie Dinsmore Plunkett. i i d b hi

and friends reported her missing, her body was found off Lilburn Industrial Boulevard.

Judge Joseph Iannazzone declared a mistrial a few hours into the first trial Aug. 16. The prosecution played a recording that revealed Outlaw’s criminal past — potentially affecting the jury’s decision. The most recent trial before Judge Deborah Fluker began Tuesday.

Rabotte was an adult entertainer who disappeared after she worked a bachelor party in Atlanta early that Saturday morning.

Police believe Outlaw was the last person to see her. Rabotte’s family said Outlaw was her friend; they had known each other as teens and then reconnected a few months before the murder.

Rabotte, who left behind a sixyear-old daughter, would have turned 29 years old Aug. 12.

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He is survived by his wife of thirty-eight years, Gail Hansford Plunkett, Buford, GA; children, Michael and Penny Pikaart, Buford, GA and Crystal Marie and Coley L. Capell, III, Hoschton, GA; grandchildren, Adara Elizabeth Pikaart, Brian Farrell Pikaart, Coley L. Capell, IV, Jacob Lee Capell, Ernest James F. Pikaart and Farrah Dale Pikaart; sister and brotherin-law, Jo Ann and Ed Chambers, Jefferson, GA; brothers and sister-in-law, Phil and Patricia Plunkett, Suwanee, GA and Jeffrey Plunkett, Homer, GA; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Mr. Plunkett was born March 30, 1951 in Cumming, GA. He was a 1969 graduate of North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee, GA. He was a retired cabinet maker from Plunkett Cabinet Company in Suwanee, GA. He was a member of Calvary Chapel Gwinnett in Buford, GA. Funeral services will be held on Monday, August 29, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Pastor Mark Byrd officiating. Interment will follow at Ivy Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Buford, GA. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Sunday, August 28, 2016 from 3:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and on Monday, August 29, 2016 from 10:00 a.m. until time of service.

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.

Adrianne Perez Adrianne Perez age 41, of Flowery Branch, GA passed away on August 25, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

Angela rabotte, who was shot and killed in 2014, takes a selfie with her daughter. (File Photo)

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SUWANEE

Sean Smith Sean Patrick Smith, age 23 of Suwanee, GA, passed away on August 27, 2016. Crowell Brothers Funeral Home and Crematory, 5051 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, GA 30092.

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Bradley Starnes Bradley “Chip” Starnes age 58, of Lawrenceville, Georgia died Thursday, August 25, 2016. Crowell Brothers Funeral Home and Crematory, 201 Morningside Drive/PO Box 2434, Buford, GA 30518.

770-945-9999. Please sign the online guest book at www.crowellbrothers.com

SNELLVILLE

Nichole Storr-Cain Nichole Storr-Cain age, 41 of Snellville GA; passed away on Sunday August 21, 2016. Service and Arrangements by Byrd & Flanigan Crematory And Funeral Service.

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COMER

Robert Taylor Robert Eldon Taylor age 77, of Comer, GA passed away on August 25, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

CUMMING

Todd Walker Todd Walker age, 53 of Cumming, formerly of Snellville, GA; passed away on Wednesday August 24, 2016. Service and Arrangements by Byrd & Flanigan Crematory And Funeral Service. Please sign our online guest book registry at byrdandflanigan.com

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Jordan Walling Mr. Jordan Christopher Walling age 23 of Gainesville passed away on Thursday August 25, 2016 following a sudden illness.

Memorial services will be held on Sunday August 28, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Paul United Methodist Church, Washington Street, Gainesville.

Reverend James Gwin and Reverend Geoffrey Grubbs will officiate. The family will receive friends on Sunday August 28, 2016 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. at the church.

Jordan was born on December 15, 1992 in Lawrenceville, Ga to Gerald Lee Walling and Susan Nichols Walling. He was a member of Berkmar United Methodist Church in Lilburn, Ga. He joins aunt, Voliet Diemer, uncle, Rick Nichols, uncle, Bill Nichols.

He is survived by his parents, Gerald and Susan Walling of Gainesville, brother, Jason Walling of Atlanta, sister, Sarah Walling of Gainesville, aunt and uncle, Diane and Emmett Prevatt of Jacksonville, FL, uncle, Mike Diemer of Inman, SC, cousins, Alex, Nicholas, and Catherine Diemer, Carleigh and Mary Nichols, aunt, Jane Hammock of Jacksonville Beach, FL, cousin, David Bew of Orlando, grandmother, Marian Nichols of Jacksonville Beach, FL, aunt and uncle, Becky and Mickey Rhinehart of Savannah, Ga. In Lieu of flowers please make donations to Acceptance Recovery Center of Athens, Ga https:// www.classy.org/checkout/ donation?eid=69573.

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High numbers of absences continued on Friday at Lanier Middle School, where a stomach bug caused hundreds of absences throughout

the week.

Gwinnett County Public Schools spokesman Bernard Watson said 175 students were absent, while nine more checked out because of illness and three staff members were out.

Watson said the school would be cleaned again on

Friday night.

School officials first alerted parents about the issue on Wednesday when 54 students were absent, 10 were sent home and four checked themselves out, though not all had stomach bug symptoms.

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Grayson running back Kurt Taylor (5) tries to get away from IMG’s Jordan Anthony (4) during Saturday night’s game at Grayson in Loganville. Below, Grayson quarterback Chase Brice (2) hands off to Jaquavius Lane (11). (Photos: Karl L. Moore)

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a stop, with DeAngelo Gibbs laying a big hit on Emmanuel Greene for no gain on the first snap of LOGANVILLE — the game, and the defense After Grayson played holding IMG to a threeIMG Academy toe-to-toe and-out. throughout the first half Chase Brice then led the of its much-anticipated offense on a seven-play, season-opening showdown 42-yard drive to the IMG with the Florida power12-yard line before disashouse, Ascenders coach ter struck with a fumble on Kevin Wright thought it a pitch to Williams. was time for his team to But the 5-foot-9, just keep things simple.

170-pound senior reThat strategy paid off deemed himself in a big because while the topthey’re well coached,” Jeff to us,” Wright said. “We way to give Grayson the ranked (AAAAAAA) Herron said after his debut knew that there was a good lead early in the second Rams can match up with as Grayson’s head coach. chance (Grayson was) go- quarter. pretty much every team “But we beat ourselves, in ing to come out in a lot of Williams got behind in Georgia, they simply my opinion. We kept our wing-T. We’ve practiced the IMG secondary, and couldn’t match the athleti- defense on the field too it, but you can’t really then broke a tackle at the cism of Kellen Mond and much by turning the ball simulate it until you get 10 after Brice hit him the power of the IMG over, and when we got in the game. So we knew with a strike for a 53-yard front line, which paved tired, we started making that was their game plan to touchdown pass that gave the way for a 26-7 win mental mistakes.” try to control the ball. We the Rams a 7-0 lead with Saturday before a national True, the combination tried to flip the script.

10:28 left in the first half. television audience and an of ill-timed turnovers “In a 3-5 defense (like But Mond put the IMG overflow crowd at Grayson and the relentlessness of Grayson’s), the whole offense on his shoulders Community Stadium.

Mond and the IMG (2-0) idea was to bring presand engineered a 15-play, Mond ran for 126 yards running game, which did sure. So we tried to spread 80-yard drive to get the and two touchdowns and little more than line up them out and equal out the Ascenders back in the threw for 124 yards and and let the Texas A&Mnumbers in the box. Kellen game. another score, and Graycommitted signal caller is a very good dual-threat The 6-3, 195-pound seson (0-1) didn’t help itself run the ball straight ahead, quarterback. He probably nior completed five passes with three turnovers. allowed the Ascenders to ran the ball more (Saturfor 40 yards, and ran nine “I don’t want to say wear the Rams down over day) night than he did in more times for 36 more, anything negative about time. any one game in his life.” including the final 15 for IMG because they’re a “That was what we were The Rams couldn’t have See GRAYSON, Page 4B good football team and afraid they would try to do asked for much better of

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LOGANVILLE — For a handful of IMG Academy football players, Saturday’s game at Grayson High School was a slice of home.

The Ascenders defeated the Rams 26-7 in the season opener for both teams on ESPN 2, thanks in large part to four former Gwinnett County stars on the defensive side of the ball.

Safety Isiah Pryor, an Ohio State commit from Archer, and defensive end Robert Beal, a Georgia commit from Norcross, both started the game for IMG. Former Mountain View defensive lineman and Arizona commit Elijah Watson and former Dacula defensive lineman T.K. Chimedza each rotated in heavily.

Pryor, Beal and Watson are all seniors, while Chimedza is a junior. IMG also has eighth-grader Mark Blount from Grayson on the roster. The feeling of making their debut for the Bradenton, Fla., prep school in a familiar setting was a little strange, the former Gwinnett players admitted.

“It was really weird,” Pryor said. “I was saying that to my teammates. I’ve been playing here since I was young.

Having to come back with a different team it felt kind of weird.”

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Ex-NFLer Newton creates camp for middle school girls

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About the same time former Atlanta Falcon, the original Cam Newton, made the transition from pro athlete to personal trainer, his daughter was born.

Seven years later, seeing her on the cusp of some pivotal years, Newton came up with an idea to offer a weekly camp for middle school girls.

Newton’s company, Core Fit 360, trains a wide variety of clients, from college football players to retired college pro-

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fessors. They train in the facility attached to the IceForum in Duluth in what used to be the suburban home of the Atlanta Thrashers.

“We offer a variety of personal training, boot camps, private group sessions,” said Newton, who grew up in Bennettsville, S.C., and started at

Furman for three years before playing in the NFL. “We do corporate wellness training and also I have a program where I train teachers at their schools.

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Speed and agility.”

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Not only does it target an athletic demographic with significant attrition rates, it’s a mind-and-body program.

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Cam Newton, who played for Furman and the Atlanta Falcons before retiring, owns a personal training company, Core Fit 360, in Duluth.

They’re adding a new weekly camp for middle school girls, which includes both training and mentoring in each session.

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Monday

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5 p.m. — Columbia at Meadowcreek 5:30 p.m. — Central at Duluth 5:45 p.m. — Westminster at GAC 6 p.m. — Dacula at Grayson 6 p.m. — Mill Creek at Shiloh 6 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Lanier Tuesday

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4 p.m. — Discovery at Central 4:45 p.m. — Providence at Prince Avenue 5 p.m. — Wesleyan at Galloway 5:30 p.m. — Central at Lakeside 5:45 p.m. — Berkmar at Norcross 6 p.m. — Brookwood at Parkview 6 p.m. — Collins Hill at North 6 p.m. — Dacula at Winder-Barrow 6 p.m. — Duluth at Peachtree Ridge 6 p.m. — GAC at Union Co. 6 p.m. — Lanier at Apalachee 6 p.m. — Mountain View at Mill Creek 6 p.m. — South at Grayson 6:15 p.m. — Shiloh at Rockdale Co.

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5 p.m. — Archer, Collins Hill, West Hall at Lanier Buford, Lovett at Brookwood GAC at Alpharetta Mill Creek, Grayson at Dacula North, Northview at Mountain View Parkview, Central, Chestatee at Shiloh 6 p.m. — Meadowcreek, Discovery at Berkmar 6 p.m. — Providence, George Walton Acadmey at Tallulah Falls 6 p.m. — Wesleyan, Galloway at Mount Vernon

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Oct. 16: The Blessings for the Boozers 5K/Fun Run will be held Oct. 16 at Little Mulberry Park on Fence Road in Dacula as a benefit for Jessica Boozer and her son Braden, who are both battling cancer. For more information, go to www.runforbraden.com or www.fundracers.org.

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Fowler grabs Barclays lead with 68

of which have come after trailing through 36 holes.

His best finish this Bethpage Black hasn’t season was a solo second hosted the U.S. Open since at the Waste Management 2009, but USGA-style Phoenix Open in February, when he lost to Hideki conditions have broken out Matsuyama of Japan in a at The Barclays. playoff.

And while Rickie Fowler’s most recent Fowler has never hoisted a victory came at last year’s major trophy, he’s certainly Deutsche Bank Championplaying the treacherous ship, the next event on the 7,468-yard Black Course Playoffs schedule, when like an Open champ.

“It’s definitely a true test Rickie Fowler watches his shot on the 18th hole during he claimed a one-stroke of golf out here,” Fowler Saturday’s third round of The Barclays at Bethpage Black victory over world No. 4 said after shooting a third- in Farmingdale, N.Y. (Photo: Eric Sucar-USA Today Sports) Henrik Stenson of Sweden.

Adam Scott of Australia round 3-under-par 68 to take a one-stroke lead over to give him sole possession front nine with three bird- posted a 65 that was the low score of the tournaPatrick Reed at 9-under of the lead. ies opposite three bogeys, ment and is two shots back 204 on Saturday at the FeThe 27-year-old native but parred his final nine in solo third, while Martin dEx Cup Playoffs kickoff of Murrieta, Calif., began holes to finish at 70 and Laird of Scotland, the event. the day tied for second stay within striking dis18-hole co-leader along“It is a major venue and and had three birdies on tance of Fowler. it’s one of the biggest ven- his bogey-free round and “I just didn’t hit the ball side Reed, had a 69 and is another stroke back on a tie ues we play at. You can’t has only one bogey in 54 very well today,” Reed for fourth with Emiliano fake it around here. You’re holes. said. “My tee shots were going to have to pull off “To have a few putts go off, hanging right. Felt like Grillo of Argentina, who totaled 71. some magic here and there in, to be able to be getting I got absolutely nothing Defending champion to save some pars like I’ve up-and-down for par and out of my round.” and top-ranked Jason Day been able to.” saving those shots to keep “I just need to put one (70) of Australia, Justin Fowler, No. 8 in the the momentum going, it good round together toThomas (66), Kevin StreelWorld Golf Rankings, uti- makes all the difference,” morrow and chase Rickie man (67) and Gary Woodlized a little of that magic Fowler said. down.” land (68) are four shots on the No. 18 green, sinkReed, the world No. 14, Fowler has three career behind in a tie for sixth. ing a five-foot birdie putt played an up-and-down PGA Tour victories, all

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Is Johnson set to make Chase charge?

By Reid Spencer The Sports Xchange

BROOKLYN, Mich. — Jimmie Johnson was looking for a glimmer of hope, and he found it in Friday afternoon’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series qualifying session at Michigan International Speedway.

No, Johnson didn’t win the pole for today’s Pure Michigan 400 (2 p.m. on NBCSN). That distinction went to Joey Logano.

But Johnson ran second in the knockout session, and what’s more important, the six-time champion and his Hendrick Motorsports teammates outshined the entries from Joe Gibbs Racing, the dominant organization in the series this year.

“I do believe we’re showing signs (of improvement),” Johnson said. “And I’m living it, so I guess I’m looking for those little signs and rays of light and maybe others don’t see it.

And I really try hard not to BS you guys when you ask the questions.

“But I could say in the last couple of months, we have seen some bright spots. We just need a little more consistency with it; and then most importantly, stop making mistakes. I’m part of that as well.”

Johnson won twice in the first five events of the season, at Atlanta and Fontana, but since then he has posted only four top-five finishes. Then again, racing in the summer hasn’t been one of Johnson’s strong suits.

“I’ve been able to win championships having a slow summer, which most of my summers have been slow,” Johnson said. “And then there’s a few where we were quick through them.

“When you think of the tracks that we race on during the summer months, although they are very challenging and aerodynamics do come into play, they’re not your traditional 1.5-miles and they’re really not a lot like the tracks we race on during the Chase.

And, they’re not my best tracks. My best tracks really are during those final 10 events.”

Though one qualifying session doesn’t establish a trend, it was enough to give Johnson’s confidence a significant boost.

“Past history shows when you get hot, you can stay hot,” he said. “We hope we’re heating up and on the verge of getting hot.”

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Speeds pick up For the first time since NASCAR began testing a prospective lower-downforce competition package for 2017, the Sprint Cup Series is returning to a speedway for the second time with the new configuration.

Predictability, crew chiefs have learned quite a bit since the package debuted at Michigan International Speedway in June.

“I think everyone is running a little faster — about a half a second faster than what they did with this package last time, which

tells me teams are getting smarter,” said Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin, who qualified third for today’s Pure Michigan 400.

“It doesn’t take long.

Once you take downforce away, these teams start to adjust, get their balance better and you see faster speeds. These are pretty quick speeds for this spoiler that’s on it. I think we’ll see how it all pans out in the race — I know it was tough to really pass in the race (in June). Hopefully, that’s a little better this time as well.”

That Hamlin claimed

the third starting spot for today’s race is no surprise.

The driver of the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota has started from the top 12 for every race this season, with an average qualifying position of 6.2.

But Hamlin had a problem during Happy Hour on Saturday afternoon. Early in the practice session, his car broke traction in Turn 4 and spun into the infield grass on the frontstretch.

“That came out of nowhere,” said Hamlin, who had posted the fastest speed in the session to that point (197.878 mph).

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Grayson’s Williams commits to South Carolina

By Paul Thomas

class by 247sports.com, Wilannounced he will play for liams made South Carolina next season. a splash He chose the Gamecocks during the LOGANVILLE — Prior over Georgia, Tennessee, game as to Saturday’s nationally Ohio State and Clemson well with televised game against live on ESPN. a 56-yard IMG Academy, Grayson “For the next three or touchdown Jamyest senior Jamyest Williams four years I’ll be attendcatch in Williams announced his college ing the University of South the Rams’ decision.

Carolina,” Williams said af- 26-7 loss to IMG. Williams, a four-star pros- ter thanking his large group During the broadcast bepect ranked the No. 5 player of supporters that included fore the game, he said his in Georgia for the 2017 friends and family. relationships with South

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Carolina head coach Will Muschamp and defensive coordinator Travaris Robinson were the main factors in his commitment.

But he was also close with Georgia defensive coordinator Mel Tucker, which made the choice a tough one.

“It came down to the end,” he said after the game. “It came down to the very end because I

From Staff Reports PEACHTREE CORNERS — Collins Hill scored 39 points as it beat Northview by 10 points to win the varsity boys’ race at the Wesleyan Invitational Saturday.

The Eagles were led by Merrick Rizzo (17:34), who won the race, and Anthony Urmetz (17:57), who finished third. Other top finishers for Collins Hill included Grey Beaubian (18:22) in sixth, Tyler Clark (18:49) in 11th and Alex Araya (19:14) in 18th.

Providence Christian also had a strong finish, taking home fifth place with 106 points. Chandler Scoggins (18:47) paced the way for the Storm with a 10th-place finish, while Luke Hudson (19:11) was 16th and Landon King (19:27) was 23rd.

Other top finishers from Gwinnett included Meadowcreek’s Biya Haile (18:01) in sixth, and Wesleyan teammates Bailey Renfroe (18:49) and Peter Hess (19:01) in 12th and 14th respectively.

The Wolves finished sixth as a team (116), while Meadowcreek (178) was seventh.

On the girls’ side, Collins Hill’s Shea Bonacci (23:05) was the top Gwinnett finisher in seventh place, while teammate Mikayla Dudley (23:11) finished 10th. Wesleyan’s Sophia Kidder (23:17) and Quin Kaloper (23:22) were 11th and 12, while Providence’s Anna Huntington (23:23) was 13th. Collins Hill’s Jessica Kolman (23:34) was 14th and Wesleyan’s Emma Surber (23:58) was 18th.

In the team scores, Wesleyan (95) edged out Collins Hill (99) by four points for third place, while Providence (184) was seventh.

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Parkview, Peachtree Ridge show well at meet in Florida BUNNELL, Fla. — Parkview’s boys and girls finished second and fifth, respectively, while Peachtree Ridge finished fifth and fourth at the Spikes and Spurs Classic on Saturday.

Parkview’s boys tallied 76 points to finish in the runner up postion in the meet which included 21 schools. J. Christian Corsello led the Panthers in 16:37. Peachtree Ridge scored 164 points to take fifth. Chase Condra finished third overall in 15:55 while Alex Haggard finished eighth in 16:43.

Peachtree Ridge scored 177 points in the girls race, led by Mary Kathryn Knott’s 10th place finish in 19:58. Leah Bisher took eighth place in 19:45 for the Panthers, who finished one point behind Peachtree Ridge.

VOLLEYBALL VOLLEYBALL Mill Creek sweeps day SNELLVILLE — Mill Creek won all four of its matches on Saturday in a play date hosted by Brookwood.

The Hawks (20-4) defeated Winder-Barrow 25-17 and 25-18, Archer by scores of 25-17 and 25-15, Walnut Grove 25-21, 25-19 and Athens Christian 25-12 and 25-18.

North racks up four wins SNELLVILLE — North Gwinnett won all four of its matches at the Brookwood tournament on Saturday.

The Bulldogs (14-4) defeated Brookwood 25-11 and 25-18, Grayson 25-14 and 25-18, South Gwinnett 25-6 and 25-19 and Clarke Central 25-15, 25-6. Shea O’Farrell led North with 30 kills while Lizzy Packer added 19 kills and Jill Tontillo supplied 29 digs.

Norcross wins three CUMMING — Norcross won three of four matches at the All City Challenge held at South Forsyth High School on Saturday.

The Blue Devils defeated North Cobb 25-17 and 25-23, South Forsyth 25-23 and 25-13 and East Coweta 25-16, 25-11. Norcross fell to Johns Creek 25-15, 25-22.

Makenzie White had 44 kills and 17 digs to lead the Blue Devils (14-4). Sam Lanning recorded 16 kills and 15 blocks, Kay Warren chipped in 62 assists, Lydia Gratwick contributed 49 digs and Tia Jimerson supplied 34 kills.

Hebron Christian splits ATLANTA — Hebron Christian split its four matches on Saturday. The Lions defeated Drew Charter 25-3 and 25-7 and Paidea 25-9 and 25-13.

Hebron lost to Lovett in three sets and Pace in straight sets.

Kayla Eiken had 22 kills, Hayden McGee notched 21 kills and four blocks and Abbi Luke contributed 66 assists.

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Mill Creek 4, West Forsyth 1 CUMMING — Mill Creek defeated West Forsyth 4-1 in a non region contest on Saturday. Skylar Hayward was the winning pitcher for the Hawks (5-1).

Mia Anderson also threw two scoreless innings in the victory. Maddison Koepke hit a solo home run and Hannah Adams collected two doubles to lead the Mill Creek offense.

Grayson wins twice MILLEDGEVILLE — Grayson defeated West Laurens 5-0 and Greenbrier 6-2 on Saturday in games played at Georgia College and State University.

Conner Batchelor was the winning pitcher in the opener and supplied two hits. Maya Figueroa also added two hits and drove in a pair of runs.

Kaitlyn Smith was the winning pitcher against Greenbrier. Smith struck out 12 and Sara Beth Ratcliffe led the Rams with two hits and scored three runs. Figueroa had two hits and three RBIs while Madelyn Goodman added a pair of hits for Grayson (6-1).

Lanier wins a pair SUGAR HILL — Lanier defeated Mountain View 5-2 and Flowery Branch 6-5 on Saturday.

Cameron Dillard threw a complete game against Mountain View to earn the win in the circle. Dillard allowed five hits, one earned run and struck out two.

Maygan Loparo was 2-for-4 with a double and a run, Kirsten Laughlin was 2-for-3 with a run and RBI and Ashley King contributed a two-RBI double.

Dillard came on in relief to earn the win against Flowery Branch. Coming in to pitch in the third inning, Dillard scattered two hits and struck out three. Dillard earned the victory for herself in the seventh inning when she laid down a walk-off suicide squeeze bunt for the Longhorns (7-4,3-0).

Loparo had three hits and King collected two more and an RBI to lead the Lanier offense.

Wesleyan 6, Decatur 0 PEACHTREE CORNERS — Wesleyan’s Madison Kerpics tossed a no-hitter to lead the Wolves to a 6-0 win over Decatur on Saturday. Kerpics struck out 12 in the circle for undefeated Wesleyan (8-0).

Jameson Kavel was 2-for-4 with a triple, a stolen base and two runs. Cassie Henning was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs while Megan Gallagher hit a key triple for the Wolves.

Parkview splits twinbill CARROLLTON — Parkview split a pair of games played on Saturday. The Panthers defeated Cedartown 2-1 but fell 4-2 to Morgan County. MacKenzie Michels was the winning pitcher in the opener, tossing a complete game and allowing four hits while striking out two. Hannah Turnbull and Allison Barfield had key hits in the victory.

In the loss to Morgan County, Destiny Beckham had three hits, Barfield added a pair of hits and an RBI while Morgan Schultz also drove in a run for Parkview (7-2).

Muschamp and Robinson have a track record of producing NFL defensive backs. While it might not be the same as the pride felt on draft night, Williams said that Gamecocks’ coaching staff was ecstatic when he told them he was ready to become a part of the 2017 class.

“They were excited,” he said. “Ready to get this thing going.”

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really had a great relationship with Coach Tucker and it was a very, very hard decision. But I just felt like I had the greatest relationship with Coach Muschamp and T-Rob.” Last season as a junior at Archer, the 5-foot-9 Williams ran for 1,339 yards and started at cornerback.

He wants to play defense in college, which is why South Carolina was a big draw.

shotgun snap sailed high over Brice’s head, forca TD that pulled the Asing the Clemson-bound IMG 0 10 6 10 — 26 cenders even at 7-all with quarterback to fall on the Grayson 0 7 0 0 — 7 5:16 left in the half. ball 18 yards behind the FIRST QUARTER And Grayson’s other line of scrimmage, which None Achilles heel in the half, turned the ball back over SECOND QUARTER Grayson: Jamyest Williams 53 turnovers, struck again to IMG right around midpass from Chase Brice (Will Van when Brice couldn’t confield again.

Pamelen), 10:28 IMG: Kellen Mond 15 run (Cooper nect with Williams on a And it took eight plays Graham kick), 5:16 third-down snap. for the Ascenders to cash IMG: Graham 37 FG, 0:05.6 THIRD QUARTER Josh Kaindoh pounced in, with Mond keeping 3 run (kick failed), 1:48 on the fumble to give IMG IMG: Mond the ball on seven of those FOURTH QUARTER IMG: Graham 34 FG, 9:47 the ball on the Rams 41 plays, including a 3-yard IMG: Jhamon Ausbon 6 pass from dive into the end zone that with 2:14 left in the half.

Mond (Graham kick), 4:43 extended the IMG lead to And the Ascenders

IMG GRAY 16-7 with 1:48 left in the cashed in with the help of First downs 20 11 a strange play as the clock Rushes-yards 43-180 29-34 third quarter.

Passing yards 154 148 The Ascenders then ran down.

Att.-Comp.-INT 16-27-0 10-17-1 drove 50 yards in seven An apparent touchdown Fumbles-lost 0-0 4-2 Penalties-yards 12-73 5-38 plays before settling pass from Mond to Jahfor a 34-yard field goal mon Ausbon was negated INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING — IMG: Mond 33-126, from Graham to push the when Ausbon was ruled Jamal Currie-Elliott 4-22, Mike lead to 19-7 with 9:47 to to have stepped out of Jones Jr. 1-14, Asa Martin 3-13, play. bounds at the 5-yard line Emmanuel Greene 2-4, Zack Annexstad1-1. Grayson: Kurt Taylor 13IMG capitalized on with 9.6 seconds left.

35, Williams 6-24, Brice 1-1, Laquaanother fumble, which, But the play was ruled vius Lane 3-(-8), TEAM 1-(-18). a spot foul, allowing IMG PASSING — IMG: Mond 13-24-0, though recovered by 124; Z. Annexstad 3-3-0, 30. GrayGrayson, forced the Rams to pick up five yards in son: Brice 10-17-1, 148.

RECEIVING — IMG: Greene 7-63, to punt deep in their own the exchange, and gave Ausbon 3-28, Martin 3-14, Tre territory.

Cooper Graham a chance McKitty 2-40, Brian Hightower 1-9.

Mond applied the to boot a 37-yard field Grayson: Evan Sturgill 4-36, Taylor Williams 1-57, Lane 1-10, Elifinishing touches by goal with 5.4 seconds left, 2-32, jah Shah 1-8, DeAngelo Gibbs 1-5. capping the nine-play, 57which sent the Ascenders yard drive with a 6-yard into halftime with a 10-7 scoring strike to Jhamon lead. forcing them to turn the Ausbon, which made the “I thought it was a ball over on downs at the score 26-7 with 4:43 left. turning point right there,” 31.

Despite that final score, Herron said. “It kind of But momentum shifted the momentum a changed permanently over it didn’t change Wright’s little bit.” the next two possessions. opinion that Grayson will The momentum shifted Clutch conversions — a still be a force to reckon further when Mike Jones 7-yard pickup by Williams with in Georgia’s Class AAAAAAA. Jr. jumped a Grayson on fourth and 1 from the “They’re going to be route and picked off Brice Grayson 40 and a 13-yard on the first snap of the screen from Brice to Kurt really good,” Wright said. second half, setting up Taylor on third and 9 from “They’ve got a new coach, and he’s got to settle in.

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ganville last season, so to start the season off with a Grayson’s offense win on the same field was scored on its second an added bonus. possession of the game “It’s always good to on a 56-yard touchdown come back home,” Chimepass from Chase Brice to dza said. “Last year playJamyest Williams. After ing on this field we lost that point, the Rams rarely 40-0 so it’s nice to come moved the ball into IMG back and give them a little territory and never farther beating of my own. It was than the 31-yard line. good. We came together Grayson finished with as a team, though. The 182 total yards of offense first half we were kind and just 34 yards rushing. of awful and came back.

Beal had a big tackle for We’re a second half team, loss in the first half as he we came back and fought stopped Grayson junior hard.”

Jaquavius Lane on an endOther than the Florida around. heat at practice, the GwinIn the second half Beal nett group said that the pressured Brice and Wat- toughest part of the transison was there for the sack. tion to IMG has been the Chimedza also recorded schedule. a sack in the second half.

“It’s crazy. It’s just like Pryor and Chimedza each a college schedule,” Beal lost to Grayson in Losaid. “Just class, school

work and studying. That’s pretty much it.”

The daily schedule for an IMG football player begins with breakfast at 6 a.m. Classes then start at 7:45 a.m. and after a break for lunch school concludes and it’s right into position meetings from 1:30 to 3 p.m. The team takes the field for practice at 3:30 p.m., which is followed by dinner and study hall.

The fact that the Gwinnett players have each other to lean on has made the transition easier. That and the fact that they’ve seen noticeable gains in the weight room and on the field.

“We’ve got a good bond going on,” Pryor said.

“We talk to each other a lot. We’re like bros.”

Newton •From Page 1B with Newton and 30 minutes in a classroom setting with a female mentor.

“We want to focus on ages 8 to 12 and our mission is to use fitness and mentorship as an inspirational and uplifting tool,” Newton said. “We want to ignite the growth of strong and powerful women.

“It’s so obvious the negative forces that affect young girls in particular, from peer pressure to bullying to image to what they see on TV and social media. We want to bring these young girls in and use it as a tool to empower them.”

Statistics show half of all girls who participate in sports quit before they turn 17.

Former Atlanta Falcons cornerback turned personal trainer Cam Newton talks with one of his clients, figure skater Reagan Bridwell at the facility housing Core Fit 360 in Duluth.

Newton is starting a weekend program for middle school girls which includes training and mentoring. (Staff Photo)

“I have daughters,” Newton said simply of what sparked the idea for the camp. “I know several

different mentors and we formulated this program.

“There will be no direct competition. We think it’ll

be attractive for kids to come in and see how to work with each other and share thoughts and open up about things that might be influencing them in a negative way. There will be a coach doing the mentoring and I’ll be doing the training portion.”

Newton learned from many experiences during his playing career and uses a hybrid training system which emphasizes safety and form.

“I was a small-school guy and ended up getting an opportunity to play a few years in the League,” Newton said. “I was crippled by an Achilles injury and it kind of set me back. Really set me back.

It drove me to my next passion, which was help-

ing others and fitness. A teammate who was already doing it brought me in and I was under his umbrella for a year.

“Then I branched out, started my own company, built my own systems and grew from there.”

Newton won’t say he’s successful, but his seven years in the field and list of longtime clients speak volumes.

“I’ve been very fortunate,” he said. “It’s been a journey for me, from Falcons to fitness. I’ve seen a lot of companies come and go and I’ve had my niche market and I’ve built a lot of lasting relationships. It’s a rewarding experience.”

He already works with a handful of young figure skaters who train at the

IceForum and delights in the progress they’ve been making in their physical and, as importantly, mental strength.

“It’s a humbling experience,” Newton said of seeing their confidence grow.

Each Weekend Warrior session will start at 10 a.m. and costs just $10. Newton plans to run them in sixweek cycles. Online registration, as well as more information, is available at corefit360.com.

“We want to keep the price low and make it less of a hassle for parents to get down here so it’s on Saturdays,” Newton said.

“Watching my daughter in sports and the questions she asks me even at that age — it sparked a light. Hopefully it’s a great success.”

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Jackets eager to move forward G-Braves fall, but tion players know more about what they’re doing,” Johnson said. “And even ATLANTA — With only though they’re still young, a few days before they head they’ve played. I think off to Ireland for the season our offensive line is much opener, there’s still some more athletic and Freddie uncertainty about what to (Burden) is playing better expect from the Georgia than he did a year ago.”

Tech football team.

The backfield will be No one anticipates young. The starting duo another 3-9 season — but — Johnson called them no one really anticipated 1A and 1B — at B-back that one, either. Coach Paul are sophomore Marcus Johnson is eager to learn, Marshall and freshman Dejust like everyone else. drick Mills. The A-backs “I’m not sure you’ll start with Clinton Lynch know until you play and Qua Searcy and go somebody,” Johnson said. five or six deep. Burden is “I think we’ll be better but on the preseason watchlist you don’t know until you for the Rimington Award, start playing.” given annually to the naJohnson has been upbeat tion’s best center. throughout the preseason.

Johnson has noticed that He set an optimistic tone the players have been more at the ACC Kickoff in focused this year. Their Charlotte and has continattention span was likely ued along that path for aided by last year’s flop. the most part throughout “I think last season the first three weeks of helped our players focus,” practice. he said. “Nobody wants to “Clearly our skill posigo through that again. That

By Stan Awtrey Staff Correspondent

Eagles have Savannah kicker Boston College has BC working from shotgun Colton Lichtenberg back In its final scrimmage for a second season as before leaving for Ireland, placekicker.

Boston College worked exHe was thrown into the clusively from the shotgun fire last year as a freshformation. Patrick Towles, man when a senior kicker the graduate transfer from was injured after the third Kentucky, took most of the game. He was 3-for-6 on snaps with the first unit and field goals and missed is the presumed starter, alsome big kicks. During though coach Steve Addazio the offseason, Lichtenstill hasn’t made a decision. berg worked with former Boston College kicker Getting ready to go Nate Freese, the school’s There will be 79 playall-time leading scorer. ers who are leaving the country for the first time.

Ticket deal Most knew very little about Georgia Tech is offerIreland when the process ing a ticket package that began and they are becom- includes a game ticket to ing more and more familiar either the Vanderbilt on with the country as the Sept. 15 or Georgia Southdeparture approaches. ern game on Oct. 17 and an Shane Stephens, Ireall-access pass to the Colland’s Consul General lege Football Hall of Fame. in Atlanta, talked to the Prices range from $50 to $60 per ticket, which team about the country, its people and the customs includes admission to the game and the attraction. after practice last year. was a real reality check for them.”

Smart-er approach better for UGA?

By Jon Gallo

Staff Correspondent

Forty-nine wins, two top-10 finishes and four yards shy of playing for a BCS title — that’s what Georgia did during the previous five seasons before a day that will forever be etched in Bulldog football history: Nov. 29, 2015.

That’s when Georgia declared being good isn’t good enough, so Mark Richt was sent packing after leading Georgia to seven top-10 finishes in 15 years — not bad for a program that had finished in the top 10 just 10 times in the 51 years before he arrived in Athens.

Still, Richt — despite being the school’s second all-time winningest coach — never delivered what Georgia fans coveted most: a national title. Richt’s inability to bring home the crystal football simply couldn’t be overlooked, considering six schools within a seven-hour drive from Atlanta — Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, LSU and Tennessee — have combined to win a dozen national championships since 1998. Georgia hasn’t been college football’s top dog since 1980.

But here’s another date Georgia fans hope will evoke memories: Dec. 6, 2015. That’s when Georgia made Kirby Smart, a former Bulldog defensive back, a $3.75 milliona-year offer he couldn’t refuse with the intent he duplicates in Athens what he did at Alabama, where he helped win four national titles in seven seasons as the defensive coordinator.

“To be honest with you, my expectations are way greater than anybody else’s expectations of what we should do,” Smart said at SEC Media Days. “I want to win. I’ve been at some really good programs in my career — LSU, Alabama, FSU, Valdosta State, University of Georgia.

They’re good programs and they’re able to recruit good people.

“When you do that, you should have high expectations. And we do.”

Smart has revamped the staff — most notably hiring offensive coordinator Jim Chaney and defensive coordinator Mel Tucker — and has tried to temper the rabid expectations of Georgia’s fans, who have become tired of seeing other SEC schools play in college football’s biggest games while the Bulldogs have consistently finished lower than their preseason ranking. But was hiring the 40-year-old who grew up in Bainbridge and had never been a head coach truly the smart move?

Time will tell, but Smart won’t have a lot of it to

Georgia’s Greyson Lambert celebrates with fans after last year’s victory over Georgia Tech. (File Photo)

prove he was the right man to replace Richt, who tried to do things the right way but consistently produced the wrong result against Florida and highly ranked teams, especially late in his tenure.

Smart’s biggest decision is at quarterback, where he has two choices who represent different ends of the spectrum. He has fifth-year senior Greyson Lambert (1,959 yards, 12 TDs, 2 INTs), who went 10-2 as a starter last year. He wasn’t the reason Georgia won, but he wasn’t the reason Georgia lost to Alabama or Tennessee. He’s the safe choice, which can’t be said for Jacob Eason. The true freshman has been lauded for his ability to sling the ball all over the field. But it’s one thing to put up video game-like statistics against high school teams in Washington state; it’s entirely different to do it in college football’s toughest conference.

“There’s no such thing as a drop-dead date (to make a decision),” Smart said while speaking at the Touchdown Club of Athens earlier this week. “But here’s my question: Just because we don’t announce one, does that mean there’s not one? What does North Carolina want to know?

Why should I give them information?”

Either way, expect Georgia to rely heavily on an offensive line that returns three starters — senior center Brandon Kublanow, senior guard Greg Pyke and junior guard Isaiah Wynn — and its running game, which is its biggest question mark.

Junior Nick Chubb (747 yards, 7 TDs) is coming off a severe knee injury he suffered against Tennessee that ended his season in October. Sony Michel (1,161 yards, 8 TDs) fractured his forearm when he flipped his ATV in early July. The worst case for Georgia is if both are out — or ineffective — against North Carolina to open the season, senior Brendan Douglas and redshirt fresh-

man Tae Crowder have to power the ground game.

“I see Nick Chubb as being the player he has been before and hope he can continue to do so,” Chaney told reporters. “I mean, he’s a downhill running son of a gun, so let’s hand him the ball and see what he can get done.”

Georgia’s receivers return plenty of familiar faces, but not the group’s biggest name. Malcolm Mitchell, whose 174 career receptions are third-most in program history, is gone, meaning the Bulldogs will have to replace his teamhigh 58 catches for 865 yards and five touchdowns from a year ago. Enter sophomore Terry Godwin, whose 35 receptions and 379 yards are most among returning players, while his two receiving scores rank one behind Michel among returners.

“I know the athlete Terry can be but Terry needs to get a little more consistency,” Smart told reporters. “I tell him that every day. He has to block with the same vigor he runs a route with.

He has to practice starts and take-offs and all the little fundamentals just as hard when he’s getting the ball. That’s the part Terry’s gotta do.”

Senior Reggie Davis, junior Isaiah McKenzie, sophomore Michael Chigbu, sophomore Jayson Stanley, and freshman Riley Ridley round out the group, while junior tight end Jeb Blazevich will be complemented by true freshmen Isaac Nauta (who played high school football at Buford) and Charlie Woerner.

Defensively, Georgia’s strength is in its secondary. Junior cornerbacks Malkom Parrish and Aaron Davis and senior safety Quincy Mauger and junior safety Dominick Sanders (team-high six interceptions) all return from a unit that posted more interceptions (12) than touchdown passes allowed (11). Georgia gave up just 156 yards through the air per game last season, best

in the country. Opponents completed 52 percent of their passes — the thirdlowest mark in the SEC — and that mark could drop if returning junior defensive end John Atkins, junior nose tackle DaQuan Hawkins and sophomore defensive tackle Trent Thompson pressure the quarterback.

Georgia’s biggest weakness last year was getting to the quarterback. Its 21 sacks were 10th in the SEC and just three were recorded against ranked teams.

Sophomores Natrez Patrick and Roquan Smith, along with juniors Davin Bellamy, Reggie Carter (South Gwinnett) and Lorenzo Carter (Norcross), and senior Chuks Amaechi will be counted on to fill the voids left by Leonard Floyd (NFL), Jordan Jenkins (NFL) and Tim Kimbrough (transfer).

“Roquan is somebody who we’re going to have to go out there and match his intensity,” Bellamy told reporters. “That guy, he flies around. Natrez is the same way. He doesn’t shy away from anybody.”

Regardless, Georgia, ranked No. 18 in the Associated Press Preseason Top 25 Poll, won’t have the luxury of easing into the season. After opening against No. 22 North Carolina (11-3 last year) on Sept. 3, Georgia hosts Nicholls State (3-8) on Sept. 10 before beginning what could very well be a season-defining three-game stretch: at Missouri (5-7), at No. 11 Ole Miss (10-3) and at home against No. 9 Tennessee (9-4). Georgia’s final seven opponents — South Carolina, Vanderbilt, No. 25 Florida, Kentucky, Auburn, Louisiana-Lafayette and Georgia Tech — went a combined 36-51 last season.

“Pressure to win began in December, to be honest with you,” Smart said at SEC Media Days. “And I promise you, I’ll put more pressure on myself to win than any fan will or any part of Dawg Nation will.

That never leaves.”

keep South lead

The G-Braves made a run in the top of the DURHAM, N.C. — eighth against Durham Durham snapped the reliever Eddie Gamboa, Gwinnett Braves’ fourbut a base-running misgame winning streak with take proved costly. Castro led off the inning with a a 5-3 win on Saturday double to left, but when night.

Despite the loss, the G- the next batter Braeden Schlehuber grounded Braves (61-73) still hold a half-game lead for first to the mound, Castro place in the International was caught off base and tagged out. Emilio League South Division.

Bonifacio followed with Second-place Charlotte a single to right, moving (61-74) suffered a 9-5 Schlehuber to third. Gamloss at Norfolk on Saturboa walked Reid Brignac day night.

Gwinnett took the lead to load the bases and Rio Ruiz then smashed a douin the top of the second ble to right, scoring both inning, as Ronnier MusSchlehuber and Bonifacio telier drilled a two-out to make it 5-3. solo home run to left Gamboa would not off Durham starter Alex allow any runs the rest of Cobb, who was pitching the way. He completed on a rehab assignment for the Tampa Bay Rays. five innings with four hits, two earned runs and Mustelier’s fourth blast of the season made it 1-0 eight strikeouts. Cobb pitched four innings with G-Braves. five hits, one earned run But the lead did not and one strikeout. last long. In the bottom Ellis went six innings of the second, G-Braves’ starter Chris Ellis walked with five hits, five runs (four earned), three walks J.P. Arencibia and Jaff Decker to put two runners and seven strikeouts.

Jason Hursh worked two on with one out. Jake innings with one hit, one Goebbert followed with a double to right, scoring walk and one strikeout.

Bonifacio paced the both for a 2-1 Bulls’ lead.

Jake Hager then bounced Gwinnett offense with a 4-for-4 night, including a a double down the third double and a run scored. base line, scoring GoebRuiz finished 1-for-4 with bert for a 3-1 lead.

Durham (58-77) added a double and two RBIs. a run in the bottom of the Brignac’s eighth-inning walk extended his onfifth as Hager blooped base streak to 15 games. a double down the right For Durham, Hager field line and scored on a was 3-for-4 with two single to right-center by doubles, a run scored and Curt Casali.

The Bulls extended the one RBI. The G-Braves and lead to 5-1 in the bottom Bulls meet Sunday in the of the sixth. Casey Gillaspie led off with a triple finale of the three-game series in Durham. Gwinto right and scored from nett starts right-hander third as Gwinnett shortWilfredo Boscan (6-7, stop Daniel Castro, with 3.72), while Durham the infield playing in, counters with right-handmisplayed a ground ball er Jake Faria (3-4, 3.83). hit by Arencibia.

From Staff Reports

G-Braves playoff tickets go on sale From Staff Reports

Coolray Field, with first pitch for Game 3 at 7:05 LAWRENCEVILLE — p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9, With the Gwinnett Braves Game 4 set for 7:05 p.m. trailing the Charlotte on Saturday, Sept. 10 Knights by just a half and Game 5 scheduled game in the race for the for 2:05 p.m. on Sunday, International League’s Sept. 11.

South Division heading Tickets for all three into Friday night’s play, first-round games will the team has announced be available for purchase that tickets for a potential in person at the Coolray first-round series in the Field ticket office, by Governor’s Cup Playoffs phone at 678-277-0340 will go on sale to the and online at Gwinnettpublic beginning at 9 a.m. Braves.com. on Monday.

Tickets for the following round, the Governor’s Should the G-Braves Cup Championship Sewin the IL South, which ries, would go on sale if would be their first division title since moving to the G-Braves advance.

Playoff ticket prices for Gwinnett in 2009, they would play the West Divi- all sections of Coolray sion champion Columbus Field remain unchanged Clippers in a best-of-five from regular-season prices. If the G-Braves do series beginning Sept. 7. not qualify for the playThey would host offs, all ticketholders will Games 3, 4 and 5 (the latter two if necessary) at be refunded.

Niners Kaepernick isn’t standing tall with play es black people and people of color,” he said. “To me, this is bigger than football SANTA CLARA, Calif. and it would be selfish on — Colin Kaepernick my part to look the other didn’t stand for the nation- way. There are bodies in al anthem before Friday’s the street and people getpreseason game against ting paid leave and getting the Green Bay Packers. away with murder.”

Then he didn’t stand tall in The 49ers and NFL the game, either. issued subsequent stateWhile both social and ments, both noting that the national media clearly while they encourage cared more about the standing for the anthem, former, 49ers coaches and there are no rules against it. fans had to be much more Kaepernick is not exconcerned about the latter. pected to be disciplined.

Kaepernick did take But shortly after his time after the game to sitdown strike, he threw explain his stance on the far too few strikes on the anthem in an interview field to accomplish his with NFL Media. goal, which had been to “I am not going to stand overtake Blaine Gabbert up to show pride in a flag in the team’s quarterback for a country that oppress- competition.

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South defense shuts down Lanier for 17-0 victory From Staff Reports SNELLVILLE — By the time a more than 90-minute lightning delay had ended early in the second quarter of its game with South Gwinnett, Lanier’s defense finally began to make an adjustment to the Comets’ option offense.

But by that time, it was too late.

The hosts had already rolled up over 130 yards and 10 points, which was more than enough for a defense that smothered the No. 2 state-ranked (AAAAAA) Longhorns all night long in what became a 17-0 South victory Friday night at Richard Snell Community Stadium.

The Comets (2-0) stuffed Lanier for just 75 yards of total offense and four first downs, half of which came during the game’s final possession, in handing the Longhorns (11) their first regular season loss since Oct. 18, 2013 — a 20-17 double overtime setback to Chestatee.

While Seth Johnston (120 yards total offense) and Myles Barnum (12-56 rushing) paced the offense, other heroes on the night included Justin Mascoll (two sacks) and an interior defensive line, led by Robert Cooper (one sack), which harassed Baity, quarterback Noah Fritz and the rest of the Lanier offense all evening and helped the Comets to their first 2-0 start since 2009.

Archer 20, Peachtree Ridge 19 SUWANEE — It took three Archer quarterbacks to get the job done Friday night, and Braylen Weems was the hero of the trio.

The sophomore, who doubles as a free safety, made three huge plays on a game-winning,

fourth-quarter drive as the Tigers rallied for a 20-19 victory at Peachtree Ridge.

The victorious march was sandwiched around a pair of turnovers forced by the Archer (1-1) defense, helping the team come back from a deficit created in most part by its snapping difficulties in the first half.

Weems hit Malik Sproles with an 18-yard TD pass with 2:57 to provide the winning points.

Keegan Strickland led the Tigers’ running game, piling up 178 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries.

Connor Heyward scored on a 5-yard touchdown run for Peachtree Ridge (1-1), while the Lions also got a 46-yard interception return by Wilson Catoe to build a 19-10 lead after three quarters.

Brookwood 40, Walton 13 SNELLVILLE — Brookwood used a quick-strike offense and opportunistic defense and special teams to blow out the Walton Raiders 40-13 on Friday night.

A 75-minute weather delay just before halftime added a little unexpected excitement to an impressive overall performance by the Broncos (2-0).

The lightning struck early as well.

On just the fourth play of the game, Walton snapped the ball over the punter’s head.

D.J. Horne scooped up the ball at the 1 yard line and fell into the end zone for a Brookwood touchdown.

Angelo DiSpigna was extremely efficient on his way to 204 yards passing including the two scoring throws to Nick Prince and no interceptions.

Prince finished with 78 yards for the game as well.

Parkview 37, Shiloh 12 SNELLVILLE — An extended halftime due to lightning turned out to be Parkview’s best weapon Friday.

The Panthers’ defense recovered from a miserable first half and Parkview rallied for four third-quarter touchdowns to defeat Shiloh 37-12.

Shiloh ran 59 offensive plays in the first half, racking up nearly 250 yards and controlling the clock. But the Generals (1-1) were only able to punch in one touchdown and led only 10-7 at halftime.

Parkview (2-0) turned the tables in the third quarter,

stopping Shiloh’s offense cold, cashing in on turnovers and scoring four touchdowns in a seven-minute span.

Shiloh’s D.J. Walker put on an aerial show in the first half, completing 14 of 29 passes for 181 yards and a TD. He finished with 19 for 41 for 209 yards and two interceptions.

Shiloh’s Donavon Grier led all receivers with eight receptions for 102 yards and Jalen Myers rushed for 73 yards on 17 carries.

Deion Slade led all Parkview rushers with 78 yards on 13 carries and 1 TD. Caleb Mitchell completed 10 of 22 passes for 154 yards and 2 TDs and Miles Marshall had three receptions for 69 yards and 1 TD. Mill Creek 32, Stephenson 7 HOSCHTON — A week after ending Colquitt County’s 30-game winning streak, Mill Creek hosted Stephenson looking to build on its early season momentum.

Mission accomplished.

Anthony Presto ran for two touchdowns and Cameron Turley passed for another as the No. 3 state-ranked (AAAAAAA) Hawks pummeled the Jaguars 32-7 Friday night at Markham Field in Hoschton.

After Edmond Graham blocked a 42-yard field goal attempt on Stephenson’s opening drive, Anthony Presto powered 3 yards for a TD to cap a 13-play, 69-yard drive to give the Hawks (2-0) an early 7-0 lead.

Turley was 16 of 32 passing for 144 yards and 1 TD to lead the Hawks.

Norcross 17, Collins Hill 14 SUWANEE — After a slow start, Norcross’ defense and quarterback Baron Radcliff delivered late for the Blue Devils on Friday night at Collins Hill.

Radcliff supplied the gamewinning touchdown pass in the fourth quarter and the Norcross defense recorded four secondhalf sacks as the fifth-ranked Blue Devils defeated Collins Hill 17-14 in a battle between the two former region rivals.

The game was delayed due to lightning for an hour and 42 minutes.

Radcliff finished the game 7 of 12 for 135 yards and two touchdowns. Norcross moved to 2-0 on the season, while Collins Hill fell to 0-2.

Norcross’ defense was led by eight tackles and a sack from

Montgomery. Pinkney finished with six tackles and two sacks, Jordan Ferguson had 6.5 tackles and Darehus Barnhill recorded a sack.

Dacula 34, Central 13 DACULA — On a night highlighted by a 72-minute lightning delay at the end of the first quarter, the Dacula Falcons weren’t going to let their season-opener get spoiled.

And after four grueling quarters, the Falcons celebrated on their home field with a 34-13 win over the Central Gwinnett Black Knights.

Tre McMillan led the Falcons (1-0) in rushing with 154 yards on seven carries and scored two touchdowns, including a 78-yarder.

Ty Harris carried the ball 15 times for 68 yards and scored two touchdowns as well.

As a team, the Falcons rushed for 353 yards on 40 attempts.

Return specialist Jaylon Jones finished his night with 162 return yards, including a 95-yard kick return touchdown and a 64-yard return.

Central quarterback Jarren Williams completed 20 of 39 passes through the air for 302 passing yards and two touchdowns to lead the Black Knights (0-2).

North 43, Milton 29 SUWANEE — North Gwinnett running back Ryan Lovelace rushed for three touchdowns and quarterback Cade Fortin tossed two more as the Bulldogs won their first game of the season 43-29 over Milton at home on Friday night.

The Bulldogs (1-1) had to endure both a lengthy weather delay and a furious comeback

by Milton (1-1) before pulling away in the fourth quarter with 14 unanswered points.

Lovelace, who only totaled 37 yards on 17 carries, made his touches count, especially in the fourth quarter with a pair of TD runs of 1-yard each to help put the Eagles (1-1) away.

Providence 24, Fulton Leadership 0 LILBURN — Providence Christian Academy won its first ever varsity football game Friday, beating Fulton Leadership Academy 24-0 after the game was stopped with 7:23 to go in the second quarter.

The game officially goes down as a forfeit after the Gryphons’

coaches decided to call it a night instead of coming back after the weather delay.

“It’s not quite the ending I had envisioned, but I’m happy with the ending,” Providence head coach Ken Robinson said. “I told the guys that life isn’t about you.

Sometimes things don’t go exactly the way you want them to.”

Throughout the week, students at Providence were on edge in anticipation of the first home game on Providence’s campus. And when Mitchell Miller took the opening kickoff back 91 yards, electricity filled the stadium.

Mitchell later added a 6-yard TD run and a 9-yard scoring strike to David Sloan.

Duluth 22, Berkmar 0 DULUTH — With both teams looking for their first win of the season, Duluth battled Berkmar as well as the weather to earn its first win with a 22-0 victory Friday.

It was Duluth’s first shutout since 2007. The defense used the bend-but-don’t-break philosophy to perfection all night.

The Wildcats (1-1) used the big play several times as Jalil ElAmin connected with Brandon Loftin and Hunter Seabrook on long touchdown passes. El-Amin finished the game 10 of 14 for 210 yards.

Mtn. View 28, Lambert 24 LAWRENCEVILLE —When Malachi Carter broke a tackle at midfield and raced into the end zone, the Mountain View junior didn’t just score the game’s winning touchdown. He put the program in a position its never been in before.

The Bears’ 28-24 victory gave Mountain View its first 2-0 start since it began playing a full varsity schedule in 2010.

Mountain View defeated Osborne 60-0 last week and its win over Lambert, a playoff team from last season, is one of the biggest in the program’s brief history.

Mountain View, which opened in 2009, began the season 0-2 four of the last six years.

Jasen Johnson led the Bears offense with 152 yards rushing on 19 carries with two touchdowns.

Mathew Edwards, who threw the game-winning TD pass, was 14 of 34 for 226 yards. Carter was the game’s leading receiver with six catches for 168 yards and two touchdowns.

Wesleyan 48, B.E.S.T. 34 ATLANTA — Following an impressive win in its season opener, Wesleyan got its usual excellent performance from quarterback Banks Ramsey, but the steady play of running back George Bielan was also key in the Wolves’ 48-34 victory over BEST Academy on Friday.

The teams combined for an explosive first half with 552 yards of total offense (370 from Wesleyan) and 54 points.

The Wolves (2-0) held a 3420 advantage at the half, but needed a 3-yard Ramsey TD run with 6:36 remaining to finally put the game away.

Ramsey finished the night with 293 yards and three TDs through the air, while Bielen ran for 125 yards and three scores.

GAC 16, Westminster 13, OT ATLANTA — Beginning the season without its starting quarterback was certainly a daunting task for Greater Atlanta Christian.

Despite the absence of Davis Mills and the presence of some inclement weather, the Spartans are proving that it is a team to be reckoned with after earning a 16-13 overtime win at Westminster late Friday night at Alfred E. Thompson Stadium.

Kyler McMichael provided the game-winning score for the third-ranked (AAA) Spartans (2-0) with a touchdown run on second snap of the extra frame after the GAC defense held the host Wildcats to a field goal on their possession.

It was his second TD of the night.

Alcovy 28, Meadowcreek 15 NORCROSS — Meadowcreek was hurt by three turnovers, one of them a pick six, in a seasonopening 28-15 loss to Alcovy on Friday at Meadowcreek Community Stadium.

QuVella Calhoun took a fourthquarter kickoff and ran it down inside the Alcovy 10-yard line.

A few plays later, Triston Harris scored on a keeper. Though the two-point attempt failed, the Mustangs only trailed 21-15 with 7:24 left in the game.

However, Alcovy responded on its next possession.

On third and 12 from its own 40, running back Adrian Robinson scampered 49 yards down to the Meadowcreek 6.

Robinson scored a few players later from 6 yards out to put the game away.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2016 PUBLIC HEARINGS CONSTRUCTION/ SERVICE BIDS CITY OF DULUTH FOR THE PROJECT Installation of Dreamkeepers Art Piece 3167 Main Street, Duluth, GA 30096 The City of Duluth will receive Proposals from Contractors to provide, furnish and install all materials, labor and equipment necessary for the construction and installation of the wall, art pad, electrical and landscaping for the Dreamkeepers Art Piece at Duluth Town Green. The actual art pieces and glass will be provided by the Duluth Fine Art League but must be installed as part of this project. This project is located at: 3167 Main Street, Duluth, GA 30096 A complete Request for Proposal Package, including Contract Documents, may be examined at the location listed below: City of Duluth Office of City Manager 3167 Main Street Duluth, Georgia, 30096 (770) 497-5321 / (770) 623-2765-FAX Sealed proposals will be received until 2:00 PM EST on September 16, 2016 at City Hall. Sealed proposals will be received by the City of Duluth (Owner), 3167 Main Street, Duluth, GA, 30096. Sealed proposals are to be submitted to the City Clerk and addressed as follows: TO: City of Duluth 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 Attention: Teresa Lynn, City Clerk RE: Dreamkeepers Art Piece The City reserves the right to reject any and all proposals.

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PUBLIC HEARINGS NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE The following motor vehicle, advertised pursuant to O.C.G.A. Code Section 4011-2, is being stored at: 1772 Graystone DR., Hampton, GA. 30228 1192 Ford Ranger XLT 1FTCR10AXNPA09031 This vehicle is deemed abandoned and will be disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner or lienholder by 9/3/2016.

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PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF DACULA The public is hereby notified that members of Dacula’s City Council will be present for the September Municipal Court. A quorum will be present. Court is scheduled for Tuesday, September 20, 2016, beginning at 4PM in the Dacula Municipal Courtroom located at 442 Harbins Road, Dacula, Georgia 30019.

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This vehicle is being deemed abandoned and will be auctioned or disposed of if not claimed by the legal owner and or lien holder.

The Vehicle was impounded from 1420 S. Hairston Rd. Stone Mountain, Ga. on 7/11/16, at the request of the property owner or manager.

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PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS 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: 1790 Peachtree Industrial Blvd Duluth, Ga. 30097 770-814-7776 September 14, 2016 @ 2:00PM 1613 Amanda Williams Boxes, rocking horse, furniture 1625 JanMichael Burch Boxes, pictures, tables, eliptical 2202 D a r r i c k Townsend Boxes, furniture 2321 David Gould Boxes, hand weights, table 3325 Arlissia Hines Boxes, Gatorade, bed, vacuum 3510 Arlissia Hines Boxes, cleaning supplies, furniture 3535 Sylvia Ramsey Boxes, clothing, mattress 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 929-439230, 8/28,9/4

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 5180 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Norcross, Georgia 30071 to satisfy a lien on September 14, 2016 at approx. 1:30 PM at www.storagetreasures.com Cube #528, TYNDALL, MARK; Cube #528, Foresight Software Llc; Cube #545, TYNDALL, MARK; Cube #545, Foresight Software Llc; Cube #679, Kevin Sharpe; Cube #613, Gilan Sanad; Cube #645, MARSHALL, CYNTHIA; Cube #944, MARSHALL, CYNTHIA; Cube #110, Jason Birkl; Cube #110, Five Star Undercar LLC; Cube #110, Five Star Undercar of GA LLC; Cube #855, Tanesha Walker; Cube #778, Kevin King.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash

by CubeSmart #6291 345 Sawmill Rd NE, Suwanee GA 30024 to satisfy a lien on September 14th, 2016 at approx. 10:00 AM at www. storagetreasures.com.

Name of Customer; Unit #; General Description of Property Stephanie Miller 1021 Household Goods Joanne Clayton 1198 Household Goods 929-438538, 8/28,9/4 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash

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Name Unit # Earl Fullerton 286 Yomura Holdings 408 Brice McCord 661 Ronda S Zimmerman 587 929-438542, 8/28,9/4 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash

by CubeSmart #698, 3495 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd, Suwanee, GA 30024, to satisfy a lien on September 14, 2016 at approx. 10:00AM at www.storagetreasures. com.

Name Unit # Sherry Pallo 301 Michael R. Chandler 114 & 125 Christopher Hendricks 521 Joshua Hopkins 135 Jason Salo 306 Amy Davis-Faulk 2059 Pamela Michelle Teal 344 Mark Rafus 2075 Jasper Jackson 197 929-438551, 8/28,9/4 NOTICE Securlock Storage will sell personal property consisting of household and personal effects, office, and other equipment, toys and appliances will be sold to satisfy owner’s lien for rent due law 10-4-213. All items or spaces may not be available on the day of the sale. We reserve the right to refuse any and all bids, buyers must secure spaces with own locks. NO CHECKS. CASH ONLY. To claim tax-exempt-ORIGINAL RESALE CERTIFICATE FOR EACH SPACE PURCHASED IS REQUIRED. Time: 11:30 AM Date: September 15 2016 Place: 1573 Athens Hwy Grayson Ga 30017 Irma Mitchell – 2 Bed sets, Flatscreen, Dresser, couch, Kitchen Chairs, 4+Boxes, Bags, Totes Gairy Brown (2 units) – Mattress, 20+ Boxes, 10+ Bags, Household Items Lydia Acquaye – Household Steve Muir – Washer, Cabinets, Chairs 5+ Bags, Salon Equipment 929-438609, 8/28,9/4 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: 98 Hurricane Shoals Drive, Lawrenceville, GA 30046, 770-682-4990, September 7th, 2016 at 1:30PM Shameka Harper U

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Unit 0310 Household Items Sharina Bailey Unit 0548 Household Items Demetrice Johnson Unit 1115 Household Items Wade Bledsoe Unit 0919 Household Items Nicole Tyer Unit 1201 Household Items Orlandrick Ellis Unit 0833 King Bed, TV, Household Goods Brittany Robinson Unit CC281 Household Items Austin Harris Unit 0907 Household Items Edis Ramic Unit 0537 Household Items Loyd Wilson Jr. Unit 0925 Tools 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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130 – LaSaundra Williams–$289.00 – table, chair, bar 140 – Stacy Walton – $581.80 – chair, bags, boxes, clothes, toys, tread mill 143 – Anna Anethoh–$624.80 – Tv 155 – Ndabayingii Murphy–$565.00 – bed, chai, couch, mattress, table, bags, boxes, totes, desk 232 – Shelisa Minnifield–$467.60 – dresser, books, boxes, chair, rug 245 – Kinte Cobb–$415.10 – night stands, dresser, entertainment center, tv 275 – Kimberly Williams–$452.20 – bed, chair, couch, dresser, entertainment center, mattress 346 – Sashaun Robinson–$545.00 – mattress, clothes, table 392 – Kenny Ortiz–$522.50 – bed, boxes, mattress, dresser, entertainment center, bags, book, shoes 485 – Marie Bombasse–$362.00 – chair, boxes, bags, table, totes, vacuum cleaner, ladder, power tools 492 – Joseph Willis–$284.05 – bed, clothes, boxes, tool box 506 – Bonita Crichlow–$281.00 – chair, mattress, table, bags, boxes, shoes, totes, deep freezer 517 – Adrian Semper–$448.80 – bed, table, boxes, toys, couch, mattress, entertainment center, bags 528 – Andre Gadson–$544.60 – mattress, bags, clothes, boxes, shoes, lamps 587–Joe Noonan–$916.60 – couch, dresser, table, bags, boxes, clothes, totes, chair, hand tools 604 – John Posey–$411.40 – bed, chair, couch, dresser, mattress, bags, bicycle, boxes, toys, shoes 634 – James Wages–$863.40 – refrigerators, tool box, power tools, generator, hand tools, lawn mowers 685 – Shayla Chestnut–$551.40 – bags, couch, boxes, mattress, bed, clock, clothes, pictures 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.

929-437407, 8/21,28

Time of Sale: 4:00 Pm Judith Aquilar Unit A104 Chair, Dresser, Stereo, TV, Bags, Boxes, Totes, Clothes, File Cabinet, Power Tools

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.

929-438169, 8/21,28

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE In accordance with O.C.G.A. §40-3-54, the following described vehicle(s) are hereby court ordered for public auction at the following location(s) and the described vehicle(s) for said location.

These vehicle(s) will be sold on 9/7/2016 (date) between 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 pm (time) at Rush Truck Center, 2500 Button Gwinnett Drive Atlanta, GA 30340.

Vehicle(s) are sold AS-IS, with no warranty, SEALED BIDS, cash sales only.

2005 Nissan UD (automobile year, make, and model) JNAPA80H25AN50207 (VIN) 929-438138, 8/21,28 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.storagebattles.com on Wednesday, September 7th at 12:00PM for the Extra Space Storage facility located at: 3942 Stone Mountain Hwy. Snellville, GA 30039 770-979-8936 The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes, and appliances.

122 – Jonna Gayle – 839.40 – boxes, totes, bags, table, chair, couch, mattress, tv, rug

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: 09/07/2016 Address: 3564 Lawrenceville Hwy Lawrenceville, Ga 30044 Phone: (770) 286-9209 T

BraDana Hurry Clanton Unit 352 Magazine Rack, Couch, Dresser, Table, TV, Bags, Boxes Wanda Hayes Unit 327 Microwave, TV, Tools, Wood, Bags Tony Ward Unit 1087 Couch, Table, Ana Ayala Sevilla Unit 2032 Dresser, Nightstand, Mattress, Sofa, Speakers, Clothes, Stuffed Animals, Box springs Violet McKenzie Unit 2034 TV, Mattress, Microwave, Boxes, Bags, Spices, Lights, Household Items Rocheforte Woodson Unit 2134 Bike, Ladder, Boxes, Bags, Mattress, Box Spring, Dresser, Clothes, Luggage, Barrells Darrell Pannell Unit 4033 Vacuum, Clothes, Boxes, Totes, Dresser, Speakers, Hand Tools, Motorcycle Helmet 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.

929-437861, 8/21,28 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: 2050 Gravel Springs Road Buford, GA 30519 678-492-4958 September 7th, 2016 at 11:00 AM Unit A107 – Charlotte Thomas – Household Goods Unit A114 – Keabeh Morgan – Household Goods Unit A159 – Andrea Hunt Unit A244–Milton Rowe Unit C1033 – Ryan Starks – Household Goods Unit E619 – Janice Simril Unit E714 – Annette Allen The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash o

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SECTION C • SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2016

Alicia James, director of Georgia Gwinnett College’s Academic Enhancement Center, talks with Farzana Zerin, a sophomore biology major and AEC student assistant, inside the AEC. The AEC has moved into the college’s recently completed expansion of Building C, which includes classrooms and offices. (Photo: Rod Reilly)

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LAWRENCEVILLE — The days of local college students walking from one building to another to receive tutoring appear to be over, at least in the formal sense.

While the buzzing activity of the first wave of papers and exams is still a few weeks away, Georgia Gwinnett College recently opened an expansion of Building C that features an all-encompassing tutoring center under one roof. It’s called the Academic Enhancement Center, and it is part of an $11.5 million addition to that building, which includes classrooms and offices that serve the schools of business, education and transitional studies.

The addition includes three floors, 16 classrooms, and 104 offices and covers 54,300 square feet. It more than doubled the size of the previous building structure.

“I think we’ll see this building be sort of a hub for a lot of our efforts, especially the academic enhancement efforts,” said Justin Jernigan, dean of the School of Transitional Studies.

Previously, the college’s tutoring areas were separated, such as writing in one area and math and science in

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another. Because of that, it was common that a student who needed help in multiple areas wouldn’t make it all the way around campus.

“Now we have those combined in this center here and it really does, I think, minimize the loss of students going from one place to another place because that definitely happened in the past,” Jernigan said. “If students really, really focus and have their minds set on it, they’ll get there, but in many cases they either got lost along the way (or) got distracted along the way.”

A little more than 30 percent of GGC students receive some form of tutoring, Jernigan said, though that number is higher among freshmen and sophomores and the overall number rises in the spring semester.

Two tutors talk inside the Academic Enhancement Center, which is part of a $11.5 million expansion to Building C at Georgia Gwinnett College that opened for the fall semester. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)

The one-stop-shop building also helps meet a student’s needs quickly instead of waiting to set up another appointment.

“If they have a need in multiple areas, we’ve got the tutors right there, and we don’t have to refer them,” Jernigan said.

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It previously was in Building I, which doesn’t have classrooms, and Dean Cathy Moore said students mainly came to that building only if they met with a mentor or had another appointment.

“It’s not some place they would come and just hang out,” Moore said. “But in this building, they will.

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Tips for Students Before Attending the Probe College Fair.

College fairs are fantastic opportunities for students to see many different schools at one time. Here are a few tips for students to prepare in advance for making the most of the fair: • Do your homework - and in this case, we don’t mean English papers. Students should find out in advance who is attending the college fair and decide on which schools they are most interested in learning about. Next, students should spend some time on each school’s website, especially the admissions or future student page(s). Here, students can find facts about the school, learn about the campus, and look up admission and/or scholarship application deadlines.

• Make a list of questions to ask each school - Once they have narrowed down which schools to talk with at the fair, students should write down 3---4 questions to ask each school. It is a good idea to stay away from simple questions that could be answered quickly with a little online research.

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campus, individual academic or extracurricular programs, or other questions specific to housing or student activities.

• Pre-register - This year students have the chance to pre---register for a bar code that can be easily scanned by colleges they visit with at the fair. This will allow schools to easily capture information and saves students from having to handwrite information cards. Take a few moments to sign up at www.gaprobe.org/#students • Have a back---up plan - What happens if the student gets sick on the day of the fair or has practice or a meeting during an evening fair? It is a good idea to have a back---up plan to send parents in the student’s place. At the end of the day, parents will play a major role in the decision making process and it is good to get them involved in the initial research process.

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High School Students Don’t Need to Wait to Start College; Dual Enrollment Offers Option to do Both Scott’s mom says she likes that her daughter, “earns the college credit by passing the course For Gillian Scott, heading back to school this without having to take an AP class and pay for August was a little different than that of many of the exam hoping to earn a 3, 4 or 5 that colleges her classmates. The Harrison High Junior is also require to accept the class for college credit.” taking classes at Kennesaw State University.

Through the Dual Enrollment Honors Program, She adds that forgoing the AP option has a three days a week she attends one class at her financial benefit too. Says the elder Scott, “Most High School followed by three at KSU. She also people don’t realize that participation in the takes a weekly science lab. program takes nothing away from the available funding that is offered under the HOPE Scott says, “I love being finished with my Scholarship which is available for freshmen in KSU classes by 11am allowing time to study, college. meet with a professor, socialize, or just head back home until I go to Harrison.”

Despite many benefits, the program has disadvantages. With regard to school breaks, That flexibility is one of the big benefits college and high school holidays don’t always program organizers tout. Students can attend match. Plus, enrollees often choose college full or part time and select a daily schedule that courses before knowing their high school works best for them. Dual enrollees may also schedule. choose courses specially designed for dual enrollees, or are eligible to take the same classes Still both Nightingale and Scott wouldn’t as a KSU student. The program works by trade the experience. allowing them to take college courses in lieu of high school classes and earn both high school “It really helped me learn how to manage and college credit simultaneously. my time well. It also really helped me mature in my studies as there wasn’t all the “hand holding” Recent Hillgrove High Graduate Nicole that they do in high school, says Nightingale” Nightingale knows this all too well. She spent two years in the program. Her final year was She is excited to put those skills to work this tuition free. year. In September, she begins her official college career at the Boston Conservatory studying “I loved this program as it gave me so dance. much more time during my day, “ says Nightingale. “I was overwhelmed before with Scott agrees about the maturity aspect, trying to get all my school-work done. Being a “After high school I think that I’ll be far more part of this program helped me be able to do prepared for college life. Hopefully, instead of everything.” fumbling around and freaking out in my freshman year, I’ll feel a lot more calm and Another benefit? Compared to the more collected.” traditional Advanced Placement route, she was earning guaranteed college credit for her work.

To discover more about the Dual Enrollment Honors Program at KSU, you can chat with a “I loved the fact that I was in the college representative during the Probe college fair at the atmosphere, and I was getting college credit,” Infinite Energy Center in Duluth on August 31st said Nightingale. from 6-8pm. To take part in the dual enrollment program next fall, participating students must That factor was also a big plus for Scott and register by January 2017 you can learn more at her mother, Traycee. www.kennesaw.edu.e the best choice.

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An open thank-you note to my children Remember my emptynester column back in June? Well, ignore it.

At that point, the boys were just away for a few weeks. I knew they’d be home at the end of July.

Granted, that’s not the same as expecting them to walk in the door any minute, but still — it doesn’t qualify as true empty-nesterhood.

This is the REAL empty-nester column, because this time it’s official. The boys are off at college now, in a far-distant state, and they won’t be walking through the door again until midDecember.

And so, now that I officially have no children at home, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the four of them for the best 29 years of my life: Jennifer, married with two kids of her own; Robert, newly married and pursuing his dreams; Michael, a junior in college; and Nathan, a freshman.

Thank you, kids, for keeping me young and allowing me to relive some of the best parts of my own childhood — running through sprinklers, playing tag, catching fireflies, sliding down a big grassy hill on a cardboard box.

Thank you for helping me stay in shape. I know of no better fitness plan

Rob Jenkins than throwing batting practice, rebounding free-throws, spotting stunts and running under long passes.

Thank you for dragging me outside when, left to my own devices, I might have just sat on the couch, nose buried in a book. Those nights under the stars, the days in the woods or on some lake are among my favorite memories.

Thank you for keeping my mind sharp, as I struggled at times to answer your often insightful, sometimes piercing and occasionally impossible questions.

Thank you for filling our home with sound. I used to wish, sometimes, for a little peace and quiet. Now I have it, and I realize I would happily trade it for some noise.

Crying babies, fighting kids, mindless Nickelodeon cartoons — I miss it all.

Thank you for the music, whether from a stereo booming behind a

teenager’s closed bedroom door or the family piano or someone practicing the trumpet.

Thank you for all the cheesy stories you let me tell, all the bad dad jokes you patiently listened to, all the mac and cheese you endured when Mom was out for the evening.

Thank you for the fashion advice (which, on occasion, I even took), for all the times you tried not to roll your eyes, for not being too embarrassed to be seen with me at the mall.

Thank you for Friday night movies and pizza, for Saturday morning pancakes and cartoons, for family church on Sundays.

Thank you for the ball games, the cross country meets, the band and chorale concerts, the cheerleading competitions, the art shows, the science fairs, the award banquets, the Scout campouts, the daddydaughter dances.

I loved every minute of it. And I will forever be in your debt.

Rob Jenkins is a local freelance writer and the author of four books, including “Family Man: The Art of Surviving Domestic Tranquility,” available at Books for Less in Buford and on Amazon. E-mail Rob at rjenkinsgdp@yahoo.com.

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WHAT IS YOUR ROLE WITH PROBE COLLEGE FAIR: This is my 8th year hosting the North Gwinnett Counselor Workshop and PROBE fair

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Probe College Fairs Great Option for All Students

By Erin Wolf

Katie Liles just started her 8th year as an educator. Like all instructors, she has a room full of students to teach and nurture for excellence. But unlike most teachers, her classroom is in her home. Her students are her 5 children.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, more than 3 percent of children in Kindergarten to 12th grade are home schooled. That number continues to grow. In the NCES study, 91 percent of families cited concern about the traditional school environment.

“They will be prepared for college scholastically, but they will also be able to excel in the real world since every day is the real world for them,” Liles says. “I will know their strengths and weaknesses and be able to focus on the needed areas.”

She recognizes there are resources like Probe fairs that assist with college planning. These events are free and scheduled with day and evening hours to accommodate a variety of learning programs.

“The purpose of Probe is to help connect Georgia high school students with colleges and universities across the state and country,” says Bill Smith, Probe Executive Director. “Our goal is to provide students access to as many colleges and universities as we can for each community in Georgia.”

“We believe that socialization of children is best done when interacting with other children and adults of different ages- not just to be placed in the same class with the same age students every single year,” says Liles. “We are able to While the Probe fairs are offer them interaction with all ages and cultures by taking outings and typically attended by High School serving our community through Juniors, Sophomores and Freshman may attend to get a jump-start on church homeschool activities.” their college planning. A full list Liles doesn’t have any kids in high school--her oldest just started can be found at www.gaprobe.org, 8th grade--but she knows college is The site offers registration and on the horizon. She uses an directions to nearby fairs. This fall, accredited curriculum in her there are more than 68 college fairs Macon area home, and understands statewide--including one at the college and life preparation are Infinite Energy Center in Duluth both needed. on August 31st from 6-8pm.

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Pictured left to right: 2016 Grayson High School graduate Lauren Warwick, 2016 Dacula High School graduate Madison Grubbs and Georgia Farm Bureau President John Archer (Special Photo)

Local high school graduates awarded $1,500 scholarships

By Zach Miles

The purpose of the Georgia Farm Bureau’s scholarship is “to recogGeorgia Farm Bureau’s nize and assist deserving president John Archer and outstanding young recently awarded Laupeople who are pursuren Warwick of Grayson ing a college degree in High School and Madiagriculture or a related son Grubbs of Dacula field.”

High School each with a Warwick and Grubbs $1,500 scholarship. will attend the University

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of Georgia beginning in the fall 2016 semester, and both girls plan to major in animal science.

Details about the 2017 scholarship opportunity are available. For more information regarding the Georgia Farm Bureau’s scholarship, call their office at 770-963-6209.

Military notes U.S. Air Force Airman Britney N. Wilcox recently graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio. Wilcox is the daughter of Tracy and Unhui Wilcox of Lawrenceville. She is a 2014 graduate of Mountain View High School in Lawrenceville.

Champeria Cobb has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program. Cobb is the daughter of Darrio Cobb of Upper Darby, Pa., and Latarsha Goodwinne of Grayson.

She is a 2017 graduate of South Gwinnett High School in Snellville.

Tasheaca T. Bryan has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Bryan is the daughter of Leon Bryan of Loganville.

She is a 2017 graduate of South Gwinnett High School in Snellville.

Anthony Greene has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program. Greene is the son of Roseline Appleton of Lithonia and Daniel Greene of Providence, Rhode Island.

He is a 2015 graduate of Central Gwinnett High School in Lawrenceville.

Austin Boussou has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Boussou is the son of Genevieve Kouassi of Loganville. He is a 2016 graduate of Abidjan Secondary School in Lawrencevile.

Davantay Brown has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program. Brown is the son of Donna Brown of Atlanta and Ethan Brown of Duluth. He is a 2016 graduate of Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee.

Bianca Buchanan has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Buchanan is the daughter of Sheila and Bertchel Buchanan of Stone Mountain.

She is a 2016 graduate of South Gwinnett High School in Snellville.

Angel Nunezgozman has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program. Nunezgozman is the son of Silmare Guzman of Lawrenceville. He is a 2016 graduate of Collins Hill High School in Suwanee.

Jack Heustess has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Heustess is the son of Edward and Amy Heustess of Suwanee. He is a 2016 graduate of Lambert High School in Suwanee.

Brian Muccay has recently joined the United

States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Muccay is the son of Jennifer and Robert Muccay of Suwanee. He is a 2015 graduate of Lambert High School in Suwanee.

Colin Blankenship has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Blankenship is the son of James and Julre Blankenship of Suwanee. He is a 2016 graduate of North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee.

Ji Park has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program. Park is the son of Il Sun Park and Yong Soon Kim of Lawrenceville. He is a 2009 graduate of Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee.

Derrick Bayer has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Bayer is the son of Jeffrey and Daunyale Bayer of Suwanee. He is a 2016 graduate of Lambert High School in Suwanee.

Hwang Tae has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program. Tae is the son of Gyung Kwon and Hwang Jong of Duluth.

He is a 2010 graduate of Duluth High School in Duluth.

Gustavo Angel has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program. Angel is the son of Dominga Guzman Dominguez and Marcelino Algel Librado of Sugar Hill. He is a 2016 graduate of Lanier High School in Buford.

Matthew Antill has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program. Antill is the son of Matthew Antill of Cambridge, Ohio, and Allison Wynters of Byesville, Ohio.

He is a 2016 graduate of Brookwood High School in Snellville.

Heon J. Lee has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Lee is the son of Sung Yea Lee-Moon of Suwanee.

He is a 2016 graduate of Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee.

Yeeun Cho has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program. Cho is the son of Yongki Cho and Soonja Lee of Suwanee.

He is a 2016 graduate of North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee.

Nicolas EcheverriDominguez has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Echeverri-Dominguez is the son of Juan Echevarri of Lawrenceville and Maria

Dominguez of Orlando.

He is a 2013 graduate of Cypress Creek Senior High School in Orlando, Fla..

Joseph T. Matthew has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Matthew is the son of Siby and Terrine Matthew of Lilburn. He is a 2016 graduate of Parkview High School in Lilburn.

Quinn W. Dziwura has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Dziwura is the son of John and Cindy Dziwura of Suwanee. He is a 2016 graduate of Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee.

U.S. Airforce Airman Marquis D. Wilson recently graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San AntonioLackland, San Antonio, Texas. Wilson is the son of Cynthia A. Haynes of Peachtree Corners. He is a 2015 graduate of Dutchtown School in Hampton.

U.S. Airforce Airman 1st Class David M. Byrley recently graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San AntonioLackland, San Antonio.

Byrely is the son of Laurie and Donald Byrely of Buford. He is a 2010 graduate of Fairmont High School in Kettering, Ohio.

U.S. Airforce Airman Calvin T. Leangpun recently graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San AntonioLackland, San Antonio, Texas. Leangpun is the son of Lisa L. Goff of Duluth and Timothy L. Goff of Snellville. He is a 2014 graduate Grayson Hish School in Grayson.

Hwang Yongseong has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Yongseong is the son of Hwang Youngsoo and Busoon Kim of Peachtree . He is a 2011 graduate of Peachtree Ridge High School.

Kyung M. Hyun has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Hyun is the son of Won Sook Seong and Haekil Hyun of Duluth. He is a 2016 graduate of Technical Gwinnett School of Georgia in Lawrenceville.

Hyung G. Choi has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Choi is a 2012 graduate of North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee.

Desmond Evans has recently joined the United States Army under the delayed enlistment program.

Evans is the son of Andrew Evans and Lori Jackson of Norcross. He is a 2016 graduate of Norcross High School in Norcross.

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Alicia James, left, director of Georgia Gwinnett College’s Academic Enhancement Center, talks with Justin Jernigan, dean of the School of Transitional Studies. A little more than 30 percent of GGC students receive some form of tutoring, though that number is higher among freshmen and sophomores and the overall number rises in the spring semester. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)

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The college’s honors program relocated to Building B, while nonacademic areas, such as public relations and digital communications, have a new home in Building I. The college is finishing a pedestrian pathway be-

GGC tween Buildings A and D, and among the new dining services options is a Moe’s Southwest Grill, along with more seating.

There’s also a private lactation facility in the library and a campus Weatherbug station. And workers recently broke ground on a memorial garden where flag poles previously stood.

“Most of this year’s changes revolve around providing better service for students,” President Stas Preczewski said in a press release. “From dining to information security, there are few aspects of the student experience that will not be impacted by the enhancements we are making this semester.”

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Parkview High wins High Q tourney, $5,000 Congratulations to Parkview High School, which recently became the reigning High Q champion after a group of its students knocked off defending champion Douglas County in a match televised on WSB-TV. Parkview won the Gwinnett tournament last fall, and was among 30 teams to compete in the 30th season of the academic quiz bowl tournament played between teams of four players. They use a buzzer system to score points by answering questions from a wide variety of academic topics.

It was the first time Parkview had returned to the show since 2004. For its part, Parkview won $5,000.

Norcross cluster students win Junior Olympics Sport Stacking Four students from Norcross-area schools recently won a combined 17 medals in Houston at the Junior Olympics Games Sport Stacking championship.

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students to attend Education Day, the Gladiators have moved the Oct 26 home game against the Wichita Thunder to 10:05 a.m. on Oct 27. This marks the first time in organizational history that the team will play a morning game at home.

Gladiators full and half season ticket holders who Keith Farner are unable to make the early start time can exchange their ementary and Pinckneyville tickets for any other regular Middle, Nicholas Follmer season home game of their of Peachtree, Bryan Powell choosing. of Simpson Elementary The Gladiators are and Jonathan Driggers of partnering with Georgia Peachtree.

United Credit Union and the Nicholas won four golds Gwinnett Environmental and in the 10-year-old age group; Heritage Center for their first while Bryan won two silvers Education Day, and worked and a bronze, Matthew won a over the summer to create a silver and Jonathan a bronze. hockey and Georgia StanGladiators announce new dards of Excellence-based Education Day game curriculum for participating The Atlanta Gladiators schools. The curriculum will recently unveiled their new allow teachers to work with Education Day program, their students in advance of while simultaneously anthe event by teaching not nouncing a rescheduled late- only the basic principles October home game. of the game, but also how In order to accommodate traditional subjects like math, several metro Atlanta school science and language arts system schedules, and allow are used daily in the hockey

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Parkview High School students recently won High Q quiz bowl competition on WSBTV. The students won the Gwinnett tournament last fall, and was among 30 teams to compete in the 30th season of the academic quiz bowl tournament played between teams of four players. (Special Photo)

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The packet also includes the history of the league and of the team, geography-based lessons, and a physical education blueprint for getting schoolchildren engaged in the on-ice action.

During the Education Day, the Gladiators will follow STEM education principles to create and feature in-game elements that further educate the students in attendance.

The students will find themselves in an immersive experience full of on- and office action and learning.

The Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center will also be on hand with their “Maximus’ Forest Friends” exhibit. Maximus, the Gladiators mascot, will interact with the students as they take a break from hockey and tour the exhibit to learn about the many animals

native to Georgia’s forrests.

Schools and teachers who are interested in participating in the Gladiators Education Day are encouraged to contact Clyde Patterson in the Gladiators front office at 770-497-5102.

The season begins Oct. 14 against the Toledo Walleye.

Keith Farner writes about education. Good News from Schools appears in the Sunday edition of the Daily Post.

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COLLEGE NOTES Amber A. Talley of Dacula has recently been named to the Summer 2016 academic honors list at South Georgia State College.

Robyn K. Mack of Sugar Hill was recently named to Winter 2016 dean’s list concluding in April at Grand Valley State University.

Annalyse Grayson of Dacula recently received a graduates degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Bryce Greene was recently the winner of The MPRA Scholarship Program sponsored by the MPRA while attending Mercer University.

Jacob Hambrick was recently named to the dean’s list for the spring term at Centre College.

Alexis Schuster of Grayson was recently named to the Spring 2016 president’s list at Georgia State University.

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AUBURN Library invites book lovers to get ‘Between the Pages’ The Auburn Public Library is inviting book lovers to come by on Thursday and join its book club for its latest meeting.

The Between the Pages Adult Book Club will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the library, and members will be discussing Miranda BeverlyWhittemore’s “Bittersweet.”

The club regularly meets at 11:30 a.m., on the first Thursday of every month.

The library is located at 24 Fifth St., in Auburn.

BARROW COUNTY Winder fire department to host race fundraiser for burn foundation The city of Winder Fire Department will host its fifth annual 9/11 Memorial XC 5K and Fun Run event to benefit the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation on Sept 10.

The event will take place at Fort Yargo State Park, 210 S. Broad St., and includes fruits, fluids, snacks and fire trucks on display.

The fun run will start at 5:30 p.m., and the 5K will begin at 6 p.m. An awards presentation will follow the 5K. The fee for the 5K is $25 and for the fun run, $20 until race day. Early registration will end Sept. 5.

To register, visit www.active.com. For information, contact Josh Kemerling at josh.kemerling@cityofwinder.com.

BERKELEY LAKE Family-friendly Munchable Masterpieces event set for Sept. 9 Families can create handmade dinner and dessert — without worrying about cleaning up afterward — at the Munchable Masterpieces event Sept. 9.

The meal-making activity will take place at Pinckneyville Park Community Recreation Center at 4650 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.

Ingredients and supplies will be provided.

The activity costs $12 per person. Guests must register by Sept. 6 at www. gwinnettcounty.com with code PVP41410 or call 678-277-0920.

BRASELTON Pieces of Eight performing at Chateau Elan Fans of the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean or Jimmy Buffett can rejoice because their kind of music is heading to Braselton on Labor Day Weekend.

Chateau Elan will host the band, Pieces of Eight, at the Winery Pavilion at 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 4 for its summer concert. The event is billed as a chance to hear “your favorite beach hits from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.”

Tickets cost $30 and anyone interested in attending the concert is asked to call Chateau Elan’s Reservations Office at 678-425-0900, ext. 4,1 quickly to purchase tickets because there will be limited availability. Attendees can bring their own picnic basket, but outside alcohol will not be allowed. They can also eat at one of the winery’s restaurants if they prefer.

Chateau Elan is also offering an overnight accommodations package that includes two tickets to the concert for those people who would prefer to stay the night after the concert. The full cost of the overnight stay and concert package is $219 to $339.

Additional information can be found at www.chateauelan.com.

BUFORD Free public safety event to take place at Coolray Field The Public Safety Fall Festival will take place at Coolray Field from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 8.

pavilion.

Bring your apron, a big bowl and knife for Flynn to explain how to freeze corn.

A half bushel (30 ears) for $15, or a full bushel (60 ears) for $30 is available from a north Georgia farmer.

RSVP by emailing deb. ndgp@gmail.com.

The Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center will host its seventh annual Honeybee Festival Today at its campus in Buford. (File Photo)

Gwinnett EHC to host its annual Honeybee Festival this weekend

By Curt Yeomans curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

The Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center will be abuzz with excitement over a little guy this weekend.

This “little guy,” of course, flies around, pollinates flowers and makes honey.

He is a honeybee after all.

The center will hold its seventh annual Honeybee Festival from 1 to 5 p.m., today to celebrate the contributions that the little bees make in the world, from pollinating crops to making wax and honey. Bees fans from around the area are invited to converge on Buford for the festival, whether they are dressed as bees or not.

“It may be small, but the honeybee plays a huge role in the production of the foods Americans eat as it is one of the top pollinators of crops in the United States,” EHC officials said in a statement.

The festival will include several activities for families, all of which is naturally based around bees. They include bee games, bee crafts, a Honeybee Theater and opportunities to sample honey. Officials at the center, which has its own hives, also said there will be programs to teach attendees different ways to use honey in innovative snacks.

The Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center bottles honey made from its own honeybee hives and sells it to visitors in 6 and 9 ounce jars.

The center will celebrate the little bee Today during its seventh annual Honeybee Festival.

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If attendees are looking for more bees in their Honeybee Festival, there will also be opportunities to take a guided hike filled with pollinator trivia, as well as beekeeping information sessions and an opportunity to see observation hives in person.

Eastern Piedmont Beekeepers’ Association member Lena Franklin will give a presentation at 2 p.m. on how to make a lip balm from beeswax. Meanwhile, certified beekeeper Silviu Gavriliuc will give a presentation at 3 p.m. on natural beekeeping and how to process honey. Officials also plan to offer honeybee classes for children at various times throughout the after-

noon.

Additionally, several beekeepers and vendors are expected to be on hand to sell locally made honey and beeswax products while also chatting up attendees about their work with bees and products made from bee hives.

The cost to participate in Honeybee Festival programs is $8 per person, although EHC members and kids under 2 will be admitted for free. The center’s gift shop will also sell six and nine ounce jars of raw honey that has been collected from the EHC’s bee hives.

The Environmental and Heritage Center is located at 2020 Clean Water Drive, in Buford.

The city recently anOn the development nounced it has picked side, The Residential Todd Hardigree to run the Group is in talks with Google to bring Google Fi- department. Hardigree had previously been the departber internet and HD video ment’s assistant director to the property. Architecfor the last four years, and tural drawings have been worked for the gas desubmitted to city officials partments in Commerce for permitting and the first and Winder before that. round of comments will be He has also received the reviewed shortly.

University of North Georgia Home South CommuniManagement Certificate ties is planning to begin and completed the Midwest development this fall on Gas Association Training a new luxury townhome Program. community located within Officials said his first big walking distance to the DACULA task in his new role will be shops and restaurants in City Council changing overseeing a $22 million downtown. work session times gas infrastructure improveThe new community will Dracula officials anment project that Lawconsist of 36 townhomes nounced this past week renceville is undertaking. that the city is changing the with three-story brick de“(Todd) Hardigree has signs that will each have a start times for City Council two-car, rear-entry garage. significant experience in work sessions. the gas industry and has The meetings, which had been working under the previously begun at 7 p.m., GRAYSON leadership of our former will now begin at 6 p.m. director for four years, makLibrary’s Chess Club The change does not affect ing him a very logical and meeting next weekend regular council meetings, qualified choice for the job,” Fans of a popular old which will continue to be Mayor Judy Jordan Johngame will be looking to say held at 7 p.m. on the first son said in a statement.

“Checkmate” at the GrayThursday of every month.

“We congratulate him on son library next weekend.

Visit daculaga.gov for this appointment.”

That’s because the additional information City Manager Chuck library will host its Chess about upcoming council Club from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Warrington said, “Todd’s meetings.

Sept. 4. Adults and children background in customer are invited to come out and service and support as well as his knowledge of DULUTH try their hand at the game, the industry made him the City busy with several whether they are newcomers or old hands at moving right fit for the position. He new projects, is a natural leader, compawns, knights, bishops, businesses mands the respect of his kings and queens around Along with several team members and will add the board. new businesses open in greatly to the leadership The club meets on downtown Duluth, includteam of the city as we work the first Sunday of every ing Dreamland BBQ, O4W to provide the upmost care month.

The library is locatPizza, The Chocolaterie to our utility customers ed at 700 Grayson Parkway and Piatto, construction each and every day.” in Grayson. continues at Parsons Alley.

The Block/Parsons Alley LILBURN project will release new International festival LAWRENCEVILLE tenant information soon, to highlight different City hires new and the demolition of the cultural traditions gas director old Proctor Square is about The Small Town, Big There’s a new guy calling 75 percent finished. Gradthe shots in Lawrenceville’s World: Lilburn International ing of the site is slated to Festival will explore music, Gas Department. start mid-September.

The Gwinnett County police and fire departments will host the festival at 2500 Buford Drive.

Admission is free, but canned goods will be accepted for county food banks.

The event will include first responder vehicles on display, a car and motorcycle show, a softball game, children’s activities and more.

food and traditions from around the world Sept. 10.

The festivities will take place at Lilburn City Park, 76 Main St., from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Cultural performances, food vendors, a parade of flags, international games and crafts, a children’s bounce house and more will be featured.

The event is organized by the Lilburn Community Partnership, a grassroots effort to foster community engagement to better the city.

Shuttle service will be available from the First Baptist Church of Lilburn, 285 Main St., parking lot.

For information, visit www. cityoflilburn.com.

LOGANVILLE Event to honor first responders Local first responders will be honored at 11 a.m. on Sept. 7 at Southern Plantation, an annual event to honor local heroes. Local law enforcement, firefighters and EMS personnel will be honored.

State Senator Bill Cowsert is scheduled to be the keynote speaker, and lunch will be served following Cowsert’s speech.

The event is at 580 Tommy Lee Fuller Drive in Loganville.

For more information, call Lynda at 770-262-5317.

NORCROSS Garden guru to visit Thrasher Park Sept. 3 Back by popular demand, shucking corn with garden guru Ed Flynn will give tips and advice at 9 a.m. at the Thrasher Park

PEACHTREE CORNERS City wraps up high school internship program Peachtree Corners recently gave six Gwinnett County high school students an opportunity to spend nine weeks learning about government in the city.

The students worked on a group research project involving the city’s new Prototype Prime business incubator that gave them a chance to look into start-up incentive programs and support options. They then got to create an awards program, known as the Vision Award, to recognize the start-up that showed the most innovation and presented a proposal to the city council.

Earlier this month, the council adopted that awards program, which will offer a $2,500 grant and three months of free rent in the incubator to a STEMrelated start-up that makes something or does something unique.

“This program is purely about exposing students to the various facets of city government,” program administrator Jennifer Howard said in a statement. “We hoped to create a spark. But at minimum, students learned about the different functions and how they are intertwined.”

Intern and Norcross High School student Jeremy Fortin said: “I got to see how the city interacts with businesses and people, and see policy in action.”

SNELLVILLE GreenFields XP to give South Gwinnett Park turf overhaul GreenFields XP will add more durable turf to a new South Gwinnett Park field during renovations, the company announced Wednesday.

The field at McGee Road will have about 84,000 square feet of GreenFields XP50. The XP fiber should allow for constant, multiuse of the field, according to the company.

Multiplex is the company responsible for the redevelopment.

“GreenFields was a pleasure to work with on our South Gwinnett Park project for Gwinnett County,” said Marc Johnson of Multiplex. “The reason why we decided to use GreenFields was because of their outstanding customer relations and the high performance ratings of the product that they would be supplying.”

SUGAR HILL Sugar Rush returns Oct. 15 The city’s fall festival is scheduled for Oct. 15 and includes events throughout the day.

A 5K begins at 8:30 a.m. while the festival is set for 11 a.m.

There will also be free rides, a pet zone, pumpkin painting and live music.

SUWANEE Revamped Suwanee Fest set for Sept. 17-18 Suwanee Fest returns to Town Center Park Sept. 17 and 18 where nearly 200 vendors and exhibitors, 15 entertainment acts, a four-part training course for superheroes-in-training are expected.

Other changes include a revamped Family Fun Zone, a stand at attention competition, tiger tails pet tent and a performance from the Michael Jackson Tribute Band. The schedule is 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

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Southern movies are always such a delight

A while back, we were in Canada for a movie that was filming there.

One night, the shooting lasted until late so it was about midnight when we got back to the room.

Trying to key down from the day, I started surfing the channels when, suddenly, I squealed with delight.

“Gator! I can’t believe this!” I clapped my hands and danced around the room like a child. I love the movie “Gator,” which stars Burt Reynolds as Gator McKluskey. It is the sequel to “White Lightning” which is about a Southern moonshiner who is given an early prison release in order to help the feds.

I don’t like it nearly as much as “Gator,” which has basically, the same

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We Southerners have a unique sense of humor where we tell stories on ourselves or on each other, then howl with laughter. But dear Lord, please protect the outsider who casts one sideward glance at our people or says one word about the way we talk.”

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Tink, unbuttoning his shirt, stopped and looked at the plasma screen on the wall.“Oh, no,” he groaned. “I came to Canada to get away from that.”

“That,” of course, would reference the Southern redneck movies which I adore. Give me Burt and his sidekick, Jerry Reed, together in a movie and I’ll be entertained a long time.

I sighed. “I love Canada. It’s been so long since I’ve seen this movie.” Canadians are the nicest people in the world, always pleasant and courteous. Take my advice and visit Canada for the people and not the television. It’s about five channels of terrible television and what they do have is mostly recycled bad American shows. This probably demonstrates, though, why they’re so nice — they don’t watch all the violence, rudeness, and

ugliness that we watch.

Tink was subjected to that movie for the next two hours. When Lauren Hutton blew a kiss to Burt and he climbed into his car to drive off up a long, graveled, tree-lined road, I was blissfully content. Throughout that movie, as with other similar movies, I laughed out loud whenever someone made a crack about Southerners or Reynolds poked fun at himself.

“How can you laugh at that?” Tink will ask.

“Aren’t you insulted

when people make fun of Southerners in these movies?”

“Why? I only laugh when it’s true and I NEVER laugh when anyone besides a Southerner says it. That’s one of the best traits about Southerners — we can laugh at ourselves. We’re united in wit.”

We Southerners have a unique sense of humor where we tell stories on ourselves or on each other, then howl with laughter. But dear Lord, please protect the outsider who casts one sideward glance at our people or says one word about the way we talk. Once in Los Angeles, someone asked with a mocking laugh, “Do you guys really marry your relatives?”

“No,” I replied without a second’s delay or even a smile. “We have laws agin it.” Tink, who had drawn a sharp breath and held it when he heard the question, threw back his head and roared at the reply. I looked at him and said, straight-faced, “We do.”

When Burt Reynolds’ memoir, “But Enough About Me,” was published, Tink bought me a copy and I relished every

chapter and every story.

Burt, a proud Southerner, said they discovered a formula that worked and repeated it for several movies — Southern good ol’ boy gets in trouble and outsmarts the law and the bad guys with a lot of car stunts.

Hal Needham, famed stunt man, was living in Burt’s guesthouse following a divorce. One morning Needham walked in and threw down a yellow legal pad on which he had hand-written a script.

It was “Smokey and The Bandit.” It would become the second highest grossing film of 1977. The first was “Star Wars.”

Here are three things you might not know about me: 1) I once got thrown out of the White House (a story for another day), 2) I love buttermilk and 3) I have never seen a Star Wars movie.

But I still have my original vinyl of the “Smokey and Bandit” soundtrack.

Ronda Rich is the best-selling author of What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should). Please visit www.rondarich.com to sign up for her free weekly newsletter.

Why it’s good to be the odd one out I was the only white person in the classroom, and I didn’t know how to do the hula, which was embarrassing.

Have you ever been the only person of your race or sex in a classroom or meeting? If so, you know what it’s like to be the odd one out.

My first experience with being “different” was in third grade when I spent a month attending the Hana School, a small three-room school on the remote side of the island of Maui. It was 1972, Hawaii was a state, but much of it was still very Hawaiian, especially Hana.

The white people lived primarily in Honolulu.

About the time Obama was the only black kid in the elite Punahou School in Honolulu, my brother and I were the only white kids at the Hana School.

We weren’t just white, we were chalk white, two pasty-face kids withblonde hair in a class full of native Hawaiians. We were also the only kids who wore shoes, and who didn’t know how to do the hula, or surf.

Oddities, for sure.

Back in the 1970s — a lax time when seat belts were optional and kids played unsupervised — schools weren’t as strict about attendance. My mother took us out of school for a month to go to Hawaii. We were a middle class family, but we had relatives with money and a home in Hana. My mother was a schoolteacher who had taken the year off because she’d had a baby.

We saved up for the plane tickets, flew to Hawaii and made the trek out to Hana, where for the first time in my life, I was the different one.

One of my most vivid memories is sitting on the toilet in the girl’s room, and looking up to see a Hawaiian girl peeking eagerly over the stall wall, hanging on for dear life at the top of the wall,

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looking down at me with a huge, curious smile on her face. I wondered if she thought I might have a long blonde tail under my shorts.

But the curiosity wasn’t mean; the kids were as friendly as they could be. When we went to the beach to do the hula, a daily practice that was much more challenging than the dodge ball I was used to, no one made fun of me.

Several kids stood right beside me, helping me learn. They all wanted to sit by me at lunch.

At the age of 8, I remember two things: First — When you’re the different one, every ritual or system you don’t know is a potential landmine of embarrassment and alienation. Second — You never forget the people who are kind to you. The people who show you the ropes with no judgment are like angels, a lifeline to feeling normal.

If you’ve never been the only person of your race or sex in a situation, try it. You’ll quickly realize how many unspoken rules and mores exist in every group. Imagine walking into an alien world where unspoken rituals, communication styles and work habits are widely understood by everyone but you.

Now imagine everyone staring at you wondering if you’ll fit in, judging everything you do by their secret template.

Now imagine someone reaches out to you and says, “Stand by me. I’ll be your friend. I’ll teach you the hula.”

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