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lthough he never stepped foot in Gwinnett, his name is known through the county seat. The town turned 195 this week, and while most people who’ve heard about its namesake have heard of his famous dying command, “Don’t give up the ship,” there is a lot more to his story than those five simple words.

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BY CURT YEOMENS

TIMELINE OF JAMES LAWRENCE

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America didn’t have many heroes in the early months of the War of 1812. But Capt. James Lawrence was one.

In fact, he was kind of a rock star in the young U.S. Navy in early 1813.

Although he never stepped foot in Gwinnett County, Lawrence’s name is known to every Gwinnettian through the county seat, Lawrenceville. The town turned 195 on Thursday, and while most people who’ve heard about its namesake have heard of his famous dying command, “Don’t give up the ship,” there is a lot more to his

story than those five simple words.

“Lawrence was one of a number of the earliest officers in the Navy and he left (an extensive) legacy,” U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Senior Historian Michael Crawford said.

Lawrenceville historian Mary Frazier Long said the name is a source of pride for city residents who are at least somewhat familiar with the story behind the town’s name.

“I think they are generally real proud that it was named for Lawrence,” she said. “They

This 19th-century engraving shows a wounded Capt. James Lawrence on the deck of U.S.S. Chesapeake, while it is boarded and captured by the crew of the H.M.S. Shannon after a battle off the coast of Boston on June 1, 1813. (Courtesy of the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command)

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• 1781: Born in Burlington, N.J. • 1798: Joins the Navy.

• 1804: Participates as second in command leiutenant during raid to burn the captured U.S.S. Philadelphia during the Barbary Wars.

• 1810: Participates in trials for experimental spar-torpedo, promoted to master commandant and given command of U.S.S. Hornet.

• February 1813: Earns praise for commanding the Hornet during its famous victory over H.M.S. Peacock.

• June 1813: As captain, leads U.S.S. Chesapeake into battle with H.M.S. Shannon. Chesapeake is captured. Lawrence is mortally wounded and gives famous dying command, “Don’t give up the ship.”

• 1821: Lawrenceville takes his name and is incorporated.

Man found shot near Lilburn-area day care

BY ERIKA WELLS

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Gwinnett police are investigating an incident involving a driver who stopped at a Lilburn-area day care to seek help for her passenger who had been shot Saturday.

Authorities don’t believe the incident happened at the day care facility at 4050 Darling Court off Killian Hill Road. Police are not sure of the motive, but they said the shooting may have been drug-related.

Officers were sent to the Childtime parking

lot at about 3:41 p.m.

When they arrived, the driver said her passenger, a 21-year-old white man, had been shot.

“We don’t know if they picked this place specifically or if it was convenient based on circumstances,” spokesman Sgt. Jake Smith said

Gwinnett police are investigating an incident involving a driver who stopped at a Lilburn-area daycare to seek help for her passenger who has been shot. The 21-year-old victim was taken to the hospital, where he died. (Staff Photo: Erika Wells)

at the scene.

The victim was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died. Authorities said they would not release his name until his family is notified.

The woman, who may have been his girlfriend, is considered a witness — not a suspect, Smith said.

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went towards the center of the bar and then asked ‘where is the money,’” according to a police report.

One of the employees was the manager. She said the man went inside her coat and took out the business’s money that she kept in a purse there.

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Once the officer finished talking to everybody on the scene, he told the manager to call him back when she got a chance to look at the security footage.

As soon as she started watching the footage, Collier “suddenly left,” according to the report. That may be because of what the video contained.

The officer reported that the footage of the crime doesn’t exactly match what Collier described. It shows him lingering outside, look-

BY CAILIN O’BRIEN

Detectives are looking for a Buford man accused of scamming a victim in Auburn out of $31,000.

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He got a match — for a Jack Abernathy. He found a picture of Abernathy and confirmed that he’s been going by Collier. He reportedly has an active warrant for a probation violation on a robbery charge in Gwinnett County.

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A man does eventually come toward Collier, but he doesn’t point a gun at him, according to police. Instead, he follows the security guard inside. Collier doesn’t put his hands up until he’s inside the building with the other employees.

“It’s not until Collier is on the ground that the suspect, in all black, produces a silver handgun from his pocket and points it at (the other employee),” police said.

The manager said Collier

video stills they’d put out earlier in the week. In the images, Oviedo is reportedly Jack seen taking Oviedo money out of a BB&T account where the victim sent $31,400.

The Auburn man thought he was buying a 2013 Infinity QX56 over the internet

from a dealer in Louisiana when he sent the money Nov. 3. He never got the car and the BB&T account was reportedly opened under a fake identity.

Detectives took out a warrant for Oviedo’s arrest on a theft by taking charge, which is a felony. His whereabouts are unknown.

Anyone with information on where he is should call Crime Stoppers at 404-5778477.

Peachtree Corners public works honored for geospatial project FROM STAFF REPORTS

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The awards ceremony will The city of Peachtree take place at the Cobb EnCorners’ public works ergy Performing Arts Centre department — in partnership in Atlanta on Feb. 25. with the global engineering The program applied company CH2M — will photo imaging and a surveyreceive state recognition ing technology, known as this winter for its work on a LIDAR, that measures disgeospatial project. tance by illuminating a target The American Council with a laser light to compile a of Engineering Companies comprehensive asset catalog of Georgia will present the for the city. That catalog will Georgia Engineering Excel- help refine and focus the lence Award for Studies, city’s management strategy, Research and Consulting En- according to the city. gineering Services to the city The technology had been and CH2M for their Geospa- used to produce aerial views

for several years, but no jurisdiction in Georgia had used it from the ground level, according to the city.

“I am extremely proud the city and CH2M are being recognized by ACEC Georgia for our asset inventory project,” Peachtree Corners Director of Public Works Greg Ramsey said in a statement. “The city now has a complete inventory of infrastructure items. Over 35,000 assets were captured in rights of way, which was more than double what the city had documented previously.”

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FROM STAFF REPORTS Avalon and Northside Hospital are teaming up this holiday season to give back to an organization helping homeless single mothers and their children in north metro Atlanta.

The pair will host an Avalon on Ice Skate

Night on Dec. 28 from 5 to 10 p.m. Ten percent of all ticket sales will be donated to The Drake House, an organization that provides short-term crisis housing, education and empowerment programs to homeless mothers and their kids.

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year,” according to a news release.

Guests to the skate night will receive $3 off their ticket that day. The ice skating rink will be at The Plaza at Avalon, 2200 First St. in Alpharetta.

Guests to Avalon are also encouraged to drop off gifts to the concierge booth during operating

hours. The families would appreciate gifts of toys, games, craft supplies, clothing and household items.

Guests can also make monetary donations when they visit with Santa, and all fountain change collected during December will be donated to The Drake House.

Deal reappoints Snellville resident to state massage therapy board A list of 23 state board appointments released by Gov. Nathan Deal’s office on Friday included a Gwinnett connection.

The governor reappointed Nathan Deal Snellville resident Craig Knowles to the Georgia Board of Massage Therapy.

Knowles Craig Knowles has been on the board since he was first appointed by Deal in 2013 and serves as its chairman. He is a licensed massage therapist, having received national certification in 2000 and receiving his Georgia license in 2007.

He opened Knowles Rehabilitation in 2009.

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on its Facebook page that Gabe Okoye was elected as the party’s new chairman, Cheryl Williams will serve as first vice-chairwoman, Chuck Johnson will be the second vice-chairman and Francine Burrell will be the secretary.

Perdue hails proposed Curt Yeomans innovative treatment for injured veterans of the Federation of State U.S. Sen. David Massage Therapy Boards’ Perdue, R-Ga., called board of directors and a medical treatment at the lead instructor at the heart of bipartisan Gwinnett College’s legislation he has coRising Spirit Institute. introduced a potential He has also served the “new standard” in National Certification treating PTSD and other Board of Therapeutic serious brain injuries Massage and Bodywork sustained by veterans this in various capacities. past week.

He graduated from The No Heroes Left Siena Heights University Untreated Act, which with a bachelor’s degree Perdue introduced in applied science and with Sen. Gary Peters, healthcare management.

D-Mich., earlier this Gwinnett Democrats month, would create a elect new officers medical innovation pilot The Gwinnett County program at two Veterans Democratic Party elected Administration medical new officers this past centers. Fifty veterans week to lead the group. would receive magnetic The party announced EEG/ECG-guided

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“Our veterans sacrificed everything to defend our freedoms and it is our responsibility to make sure they get the care they were promised,” Perdue said in a statement. “The No Heroes Left Untreated Act would establish a pilot program that explores innovative treatment options David Perdue touted by many leaders in our active forces community.

“If successful, this pilot program could set a new treatment standard for veterans dealing with traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.”

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One side effect of metoprolol is lightheadedness.

I have had this condition since taking it. Four doctors, including two specialists, have been of no help. Is there anything I can take to alleviate this condition? — M.T. ANSWER: There are many possible reasons for lightheadedness, some of which have to do with the pacemaker itself. One thing is sure: The metoprolol is long gone and is not causing the lightheadedness now.

The approach to the symptom of lightheadedness is challenging, since many different systems can be involved. Medications are a common cause, so any new medications that may have been started near the time you got your pacemaker should be reviewed. Low blood pressure, especially upon standing, is a common problem that can be overlooked by physicians.

Given the timing of your symptom and the pacemaker placement, I would be concerned about a condition called “AV dyssynchrony,” or, more simply, “pacemaker syndrome.” An expert in cardiac rhythms (electrophysiologist) is best able to make this diagnosis. It is treated by reprogramming the pacemaker. Occasionally it requires changing the type of pacemaker, although most modern pacemakers can be suitably reprogrammed. Appropriate diet and careful salt regulation (sometimes more, sometimes less) can be helpful, but management requires expertise.

DEAR DR. ROACH: A couple of days after I got the flu, I developed respiratory problems. I woke up with stuffy sinuses and coughed hard for a long time. Afterward, I couldn’t breathe — my lungs weren’t letting air in my mouth, and I couldn’t get air through my sinuses.

Fortunately, I had an old inhaler lying around (I have a history of exercise-induced asthma). What should someone do if this happens to him or her during flu season?

— H.C. ANSWER: The best way to prevent flu-related problems is to avoid getting the flu in the first place, and that means to get vaccinated (it’s not too late!). However, because the vaccine isn’t perfect and because some people can’t get the vaccine, there still will be many cases of flu this season.

Uncomplicated cases of the flu often have some degree of respiratory symptoms, especially cough, which usually is nonproductive (“dry”). However, a more severe or productive cough, especially with shortness of breath, raises the suspicion of influenza pneumonia, a severe, lifethreatening — but fortunately rare — complication of influenza. People with this are very ill and usually have a high fever.

Sometimes people can develop symptoms after getting over the flu. Instead of continuing to get better, they develop high fever and cough, usually producing purulent (thick, yellow or colored) sputum.

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In 1957, the first civilian electricitygenerating nuclear facility in America opened in Pennsylvania.

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Old friend finds joyful updates painful DEAR AMY: My friend and I both have 30-yearold daughters. Each of our daughters has struggled over the years, during which we have laughed, cried, commiserated and supported one another.

My friend’s daughter now has a successful career, is married, bought a house and just had her first baby. I gave fabulous wedding and baby showers at my home, and I am happy for her many successes.

My daughter continues to struggle but is doing well in her chosen career, is unmarried and unattached, lives at home and just developed a serious medical condition that makes it unlikely she will have children.

As I have only one child, this changes my daughter’s future and mine.

I am not unhappy and choose not to dwell on lost possibilities. Life is unexpected and there are many ways to include children in your life, but neither my daughter nor I are ready for that just now.

My friend recently told me she is hurt because I don’t ask for frequent updates on her grandchild.

Quite honestly, I am happy for her, but the anecdotes and updates from a delighted grandparent remind me of what we may never have (but thought and hoped we would).

I asked my friend if she could share news with other grandparents, but she feels I am not being

such as tantrums, yelling, disrespectful talk to their parents and sometimes hurting each other.

They are generally wellbehaved when they are with me and without their parents, but they still have to be told to say “Thank you,” “Excuse me” and “Please.”

Amy Dickinson They interrupt adult conversations, spend much a good friend and should of their time on their keep grandchild updates phones or the computer as a regular part of our and will ignore their parconversations. ents’ requests.

Do I have to?

I do notice that threats — Old Friend regarding bad behavior DEAR OLD FRIEND: are never carried through; You don’t “have to” do there are no consequences. anything you don’t want I love them very much to do, but the kindest thing and am sad to see this is for you to acknowledge happening. I think their and tolerate your friend’s parents are wonderful life-news, just as she people but are struggling should kindly acknowlwith parenthood. edge and tolerate yours.

I would never be able to Ideally, you would be confront them about my able to convey to your feelings, but I dread famfriend that you find this ily get-togethers. I would joyful accounting painful love to occasionally have at times. She should never each of the twins separateinsist that you have to ask ly on a one-on-one basis. about this grandchild, but They are at an age where you should also not insist it might be wise to talk to that she must keep this them individually about important part of her life how I feel about their completely private. behavior. But do you think It is very challengI should I continue to be ing to be hitting a rough silent and not interfere? patch just as others seem — Sad Grandma to be sailing. I hope you DEAR SAD: I agree and your old friend can that it would be wisest at privately, honestly and this point to spend one-oncompassionately come to one time with each twin. an understanding about This will enable you to your respective needs. see them as individuals, DEAR AMY: My and will give them fewer daughter and son-in-law reasons to act out through have 12-year-old twins. I reacting to each other, witness horrible behavior fighting and/or double-

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teaming you.

You should always expect their very best behavior, prompt them toward politeness and deliver reasonable consequences while in your household. Mainly I think you should offer them the peaceful, firm, loving and gentle atmosphere that they seem to be missing at home. Be honest with them about what you see in terms of their behavior.

Tell them you know they can do better, and help to guide them to meet their true potential.

Grandparents have the opportunity to be hugely influential in the lives of grandchildren. Don’t give up on these kids.

DEAR AMY: “Deeply Disappointed” described a very tough situation with his 23-year-old stepson, who had already been jailed for DWI. Nobody mentioned if this young man was enrolled in a 12step program to deal with his drinking. I feel this is necessary for his recovery.

— Worried DEAR WORRIED: I agree. Sobriety is a daily triumph. Twelve-step programs can help.

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Look for legal, contractual, financial or medical opportunities to improve your life. Change should be welcome, and being proactive will ensure that you reach whatever goal you set. This is a year to prosper and to move into the future with optimism.

Romance is highlighted.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Lady Luck is in your corner.

Look at your options and put your strategy to work.

Settlements, investments and finances will take a positive turn.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You need to put more time, effort and energy into clearing up unfinished business.

Taking care of matters that can have implications for your tax returns or a pending deal are imperative.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — You should ask for favors, offer support to an organization you care about or take the initiative to reconnect with old friends. Reunions will lead to future plans.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Emotional distress may land you in hot water if you neglected someone who was expecting to receive more attention from you.

Don’t waste time when you should be doing something special for the one you love.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Be observant and speak out about anything you feel is being misjudged or misused.

The way you handle others will have an impact on the way things turn out.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Travel plans, socializing with peers or expressing your feelings to the people you care about most are all favored. Observe and respond based on how others treat you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Honesty will help you avoid emotional discord. If you want to make changes at home, offer suggestions and involve everyone who will be affected by the changes you make.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Discuss plans and book all your arrangements for the holidays. Try something new or take a different approach to how you spend your time and money.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Check your bank balance before you spend too much. Confusion about what you can afford is apparent. You can’t buy love, but offering affection will encourage it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — You’ll have difficulty discovering the truth when dealing with emotional matters. Observation will be in your best interest, along with questioning those who can offer you insight into your situation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Get involved in a cause geared to helping less-fortunate people.

The time spent will be enlightening as well as rewarding in terms of the people you encounter and the friends you make.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Frustration, anxiety and disputes will surface if you are too pushy or you allow someone to take advantage of you. Stay focused on what’s important to you. Strive to be positive.

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Father convicted of murdering toddler, hiding body Man gets maximum sentence for killing daughter in 2007

BY CAILIN O’BRIEN

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It took nearly 10 years, but both of 2-year-old Prisi Vasquez’s parents are now paying the price for her murder.

A jury convicted Christian Vasquez Thursday of hitting Prisi over the head until she died and hiding her body in an attic of their Lawrenceville apartment in 2007.

“As a parent, you owed her love and affection,” Judge Warren Davis said before sentencing Vasquez on Thursday. “As a parent, you owed her a duty to take care of her. The jury has found you caused her death.”

He sentenced Vasquez to life in prison plus a consecutive 70 years. It was the maximum sentence he could receive. It was also what the state asked for.

“I don’t ask for the maxi-

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A jury convicted Christian Vasquez on Thursday of hitting Prisi Vasquez, left, on the head until she died and hiding her body in an attic in 2007.

(Courtesy: Telemundo Atlanta)

I don’t ask for the maximum in a lot of trials.

But I look at the circumstances of this case and on the continuum I can’t imagine a worse scenario.”

— Prosecutor Rich Vandever

mum in a lot of trials,” Prosecutor Rich Vandever said. “But I look at the circumstances of this case and on the continuum I can’t imagine a worse scenario.”

Vasquez looked down at the desk through the verdict and sentencing. He chose not to speak when his turn came.

He went quietly with the officers into custody when the trial ended.

The jury took about six hours Thursday to find Vasquez guilty of seven felony charges, including murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children and hiding a body. It’s a relatively quick end

to what has been a drawn out pursuit of justice for Prisi.

Vasquez is convicted of hitting his toddler in the head with a blunt object until she died in early 2007. He and Prisi’s mom, Amy Ruiz, then his wife, then allegedly left the naked and bloodied body of their little girl in a bag before fleeing to Mexico.

Her body stayed there for 16 months until tenants moved into the apartment beneath it.

“That’s probably more telling than any other aspect of this case,” Davis said as he sentenced Vasquez. “Your child’s not even given the dignity of

a decent funeral. Instead, your priority was getting as far away as quickly as you possibly could.”

In June 2008, authorities said Ruiz called her father in Gwinnett from Mexico to tell him where Prisi’s body was.

Vasquez was indicted on four counts related to the case that August, but it would be four more years before he was extradited back to the U.S. And an additional four years before he would begin paying for Prisi’s death.

Ruiz faced similar charges,

but was convicted in April of involuntary manslaughter — not murder — in the death of her daughter. She’ll serve a less harsh sentence than her exhusband.

For the prosecution, both trials added up to a long-fought battle finally resulting in the justice Prisi deserves.

“Things have a way of working out the best they can,” Vandever said. “In this case, we got the benefit of letting people know about Prisi, letting people know this isn’t OK and holding people responsible.”

Gwinnett fire graduates 19 firefighter-paramedics FROM STAFF REPORTS The Gwinnett County Fire Department has added 19 newly certified firefighter-paramedics, the department announced Friday.

A badge pinning and certificate presentation ceremony was held at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center in Lawrenceville on Thursday.

The graduates are Stephen Baker, Nate Beuschel, Ryan Black, Phillip Burks, Johnathon

Carter, Ian Cassuto, Gerald Comer, Robert Coneys, Mike Costanzo, Adam Creech, Jackson Fischer, Dan Miner, Abdulah Mujaddidi, Robert Parr, Sean Sack, Dale Stiles, Blake Stinnett, Luke Underwood and Aiden Wilkes.

County administrator Glenn Stephens praised the graduates for their hard work and dedication after they made it through 16 months of classroom instruction, medical clinical rotations, practical lab scenarios and basic firefighter training.

Fire Chief Casey Snyder and members of the department’s command staff joined the recruits and their families to acknowledge their achievement.

“Chief Snyder expressed to the group the importance of realizing the tremendous responsibility they each now have as members of the department to provide exceptional service to the community and to live up to the high standards set by those who came before them,” according to a department news release.

County offers videos of schools’ holiday performances online

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

If Gwinnett County residents aren’t in the Christmas spirit yet, county officials have something to help them get there.

Over the past few weeks, the county has hosted holiday musical performances by school groups at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center. Links to videos from those performances are available on the county’s website.

The participating schools include Winn Holt, Trip, Norcross, Minor and Kanoheda elementary schools, Lanier, Shiloh, Radloff and Crews middle schools, and Berkmar and Meadowcreek

Trip Elementary School students perform holiday songs at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center in Lawrenceville. The county hosted holiday musical performances by 11 schools at GJAC this month. (Photo Courtesy of Gwinnett County)

high schools. The last performance of the season was on Friday.

The groups performed everything from the “Candy Cane Twist” and “Jingle Bell Rock” to “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” and “Good King Kong Looked Out.” There were

songs from other parts of the holiday season, such as the Kwanza song “Harambee” performed as well.

The videos can be viewed by visiting http:// bit.ly/2hHqVyT, and clicking on the name for each school to access the county’s Vimeo link.

Gwinnett Fire held a ceremony in Lawrenceville on Thursday for 19 recruits who completed a 16-month training program to become firefighter-paramedics. (Photo: Gwinnett County Department of Fire and Emergency Services)

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Dozens of vehicles crash on icy Baltimore road

By FraNk McGurty

Michael Sheen to become full-time political activist

Reuters

A fuel tanker skidded off a Baltimore highway WARSAW — Polish and exploded on Saturday opposition leaders said morning, sending sheets Saturday that they would of fire in the path of the maintain their blockade of approaching traffic and trigparliament’s main hall and gering a deadly 55-vehicle called for popular protests pileup on the ice-coated against a government that roadway, Maryland officials has accused it of trying to said. seize power.

The accident on InterPoland’s biggest politistate 95, which occurred cal standoff in years began at about 5 a.m., left two Friday when opposition people dead, including the lawmakers objected to driver of the fuel truck, plans by the ruling Law and said Lieutenant Kevin Ayd, Justice (PiS) party to curb spokesman for the Marymedia access to parliament, land Transportation Authorand blocked the plenary ity Police. hall podium ahead of a The fiery pileup was one budget vote. of dozens of crashes in the About two dozen memBaltimore-Washington area bers of the Civic Platform as freezing rain slowly ac(PO) party have taken turns cumulated into an icy sheet to occupy the podium and on roadways in the early the party’s leader said they morning darkness. would remain there for the A second multi-vehicle next few days. crash occurred at about the PiS lawmakers moved same time along Interstate voting to another area 95 in Baltimore, part of a without media access, major north-south corridor prompting accusations they along the U.S. East Coast. had passed the 2017 budget One person was killed in illegally, breaching the that accident when one constitution. of the drivers exited his vehicle and was struck by oncoming traffic.

Ex-Guantanamo In the 55-vehicle pileup, detainee Diyab a bystander’s video shows denied entry the skidding fuel truck hitting a barrier and flipto South Africa ping over in a gap between MONTEVIDEO — A the north and southbound former Guantanamo prislanes. As the fireball spread, oner who was resettled in approaching cars and trucks Uruguay but has asked to leave was denied entry to South Africa by that country’s migration authorities, a Uruguayan official said.

Jihad Diyab, a Syrian Trump chooses national who had planned to travel to South Africa South Carolina as a tourist, will return to congressman as Uruguay on Saturday, budget director said assistant secretary to President-elect Donald the president Juan Andres Trump has nominated Roballo.

Diyab had left Uruguay Republican South Carolina on Thursday and paid his Rep. Mick Mulvaney to be own way to Johannesburg the director of the Office of and would have had to eiManagement and Budget. ther return to Uruguay in 90 “We are going to do great days or find another country things for the American to give him residency. people with Mick MulDiyab was held for 12 vaney leading the Office of years in the U.S. military Management and Budget,” prison at Guantanamo Trump said in a statement Bay, Cuba, without being Saturday morning. “Right charged. He was released now, we are nearly $20 trilalong with five other prislion in debt, but Mick is a oners to Uruguay in 2014 very high-energy leader with to reduce the number of deep convictions for how detainees. to responsibly manage our nation’s finances and save our country from drowning China to return in red ink.” seized U.S. drone Mulvaney, if confirmed by BEIJING/WEST PALM the Senate, would manage BEACH, Fla. — China the White House’s annual will return an underwater proposed budget, program U.S. drone seized by a and policies. The direcnaval vessel this week in tor also sets up the federal the South China Sea, both government’s purchase of countries said on Saturday, goods and services, called but Beijing complained that procurement, and oversees Washington had been “hyp- the performance review for ing up” the incident. government agencies and The drone, known as an federal employees. unmanned underwater vehicle, was taken on ThursN.C. lawmakers day, the first seizure of its pass limits on kind in recent memory.

The Pentagon went public governor-elect with its complaint after the RALEIGH, N.C. — action and said on Saturday it had secured a deal to get North Carolina’s Republican-dominated legislature the drone back.

“Through direct engage- passed a series of measures ment with Chinese authori- on Friday to curtail the exties, we have secured an ecutive authority of Demounderstanding that the cratic Gov.-elect Roy Cooper Chinese will return the just weeks before he is to UUV to the United States,” succeed a Republican in the Pentagon spokesman Peter executive mansion.

Cook said in a statement.

The bills, passed in the — From wire reports last hours of a special “lame

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LOS ANGELES — Without specifying for how long, Michael Sheen announced on Saturday that he will break from acting in order to become a full-time political activist.

“In the same way as the Nazis had to be stopped in Germany in the Thirties, this thing that is on the rise has to be stopped,” Sheen told the U.K. paper The Times.

Sheen is the star of “Masters of Sex,” which Showtime did not renew for a fifth season, meaning its final episode aired on Nov. 13. He also stars in Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt’s sci-fi film “Passengers” which opens on Dec. 21.

Trucks and vehicles are shown in a pile-up involving a fuel tanker that skidded off the The actor also has two film an icy 1-95 highway in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday. (Courtesy Sage Hiller/Handout via currently in post-production Reuters) — “Home Again,” starring Reese Witherspoon and can be seen attempting to tos posted online showed across much of the Eastern Mike White’s film “Brad’s Status.” stop but instead plowing dozens of emergency Seaboard.

He cited Donald Trump’s into one another. vehicles and tow trucks on The NWS said at 10 a.m. election as well as the Brexit “I want to share my the scene. that the heaviest weather vote as reasons for his decideepest condolences to “We do not know when had moved into the midsion to move from Los those affected by this morn- I-95 will be reopened,” Ayd Atlantic and Northeast, Angeles to Wales. ing’s multi-vehicle crash,” said. “We urged motorist while the Upper Midwest Baltimore Mayor Catherine to stay off the road until and Great Lakes regions Pugh said in a statement. conditions improve.” continued to see a mix of Heimlich, known “Today’s icy road condiA winter weather adviprecipitation. tions remind us all that it is sory was in effect for the Warnings and advisories for choking imperative to exercise exBaltimore-Washington, remained in effect through- maneuver, dead treme caution due to severe D.C., area until noon, out much of the country, Henry Heimlich, the weather.” according to the National stretching from the central medical maverick who came The crash forced the Weather Service, as snow Rocky Mountains to the up with a maneuver credited closure of the northbound and freezing rain gave way East Coast. Dangerously lanes on the highway. Pho- to a wintry mix or rain cold conditions, in part due with saving thousands of choking victims but who damaged his standing as a proponent of the curative powers of malaria, died on The state argued that door-to-door deliveries to all Saturday at the age of 96.

Heimlich died at Christ Flint households exposed to lead-tainted tap water would Hospital in Cincinnati of complications from a masbe financially crippling and sive heart attack he suffered was unnecessary because on Monday, his family said bottled water was available in a statement. to residents at governmentA thoracic surgeon who run distribution sites, or by often feuded with the estabdelivery upon request. lished medical community, But a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court Heimlich said the maneuver which was named after him of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling, refused the state’s plea to set saved more than 100,000 lives. He claimed to have aside the blanket water-deNorth Carolina Gov.-elect Roy Cooper speaks to sup- livery order imposed on Nov. used it himself last May on another resident of the porters at a victory rally Dec. 6, the day after his Repub- 10 by U.S. District Judge lican opponent and incumbent Pat McCrory conceded in David Lawson.

Cincinnati retirement home Raleigh, N.C. (Reuters/Jonathan Drake/File Photo) where he lived.

“Although there may be Heimlich and Jane Murno known precedent for the A second ex-policeman duck” session called to help ray were married from 1951 door-to-door delivery of charged in the April 2014 victims of Hurricane Matbottled water, there is also no until her death in 2012. They thew, strip the governor from death of Gregory Towns, 24, precedent for the systematic had four children. was convicted of lesser ofthe power to make cabinet infrastructure damage to a appointments without Senate fenses, including involuntary water delivery system that Pope jokes early manslaughter and reckless confirmation, name people has caused thousands of conduct, according to the to be trustees of the Unipeople to be exposed to poi- birthday song Atlanta-Journal Constitution sonous water,” circuit judges may bring jinx versity of North Carolina newspaper and several area and the ability to control Damon Keith and Bernice VATICAN CITY — Pope television news outlets. hiring for about 1,200 state Donald wrote in Friday’s Francis, who turns 80 on WSB-TV reported that a employees. opinion.

Saturday, responded to Fulton County jury deliber“What is happening now may look like partisan politi- ated for just 30 minutes New York’s Trump thousands of people singing “Happy Birthday” on cal games, but the result will before delivering its verdicts sticky notes head Wednesday by joking that against the two defendants hurt North Carolinians,” — former police Sergeant Cooper said on Twitter Frifor local museum doing it early may bring a jinx on him. day. He has threatened to sue Marcus Eberhart and former NEW YORK — A histori“Thank you very much police Corporal Howard the Republican-dominated cal group on Friday began for your greetings for my legislature and the outgoing Weems. preserving thousands of upcoming birthday,” the Both were members of Republican governor, adding Argentine pope said at his the police department in the sticky notes placed on the that “the courts will have to general audience, the last clean up the mess the legisla- Atlanta suburb of East Point. walls of a busy New York They are to be sentenced on subway station over the past public appearance before the ture made.” month to lament the election birthday.

Wednesday.

“But I’ll tell you someof Donald Trump as the next Ex-police officer thing that will make you U.S. president.

Michigan loses convicted of laugh. In my country, Distraught and defiant court case to stop residents and visitors to the expressing greetings ahead murder by Taser United States’ largest city — of time brings bad luck and water deliveries ATLANTA — A former long a Democratic and liber- those who do it are jinxers,” Michigan must deliver Georgia policeman was he said. al stronghold — have stuck bottled water or provide infound guilty of murder on The Vatican, a soveranonymous messages on the home filtration to all qualiFriday in the death of a walls of Manhattan’s Union eign city-state surrounded fied residents in the city of suspect shocked repeatedly Square station since Trump’s by Rome, has produced a Flint, where lead contamina- Nov. 8 victory. Many of the postage stamp to mark the with a Taser while handtion sparked a public health notes express grief or pledge birthday of the pope, the cuffed, media reported, in a rare criminal conviction of a crisis, a U.S. appellate panel to turn the country in a more first from Latin America, law enforcement officer for a ruled on Friday upholding a liberal direction. who was elected in 2013.

— From wire reports lower-court order. stun gun-related fatality.

— From wire reports

Why Trump’s Israel ambassador could upend relations in the Middle East

By Nicole Gaouette aNd elise laBott CNN

Donald Trump’s designated ambassador to Israel signals a potential shift in long-standing U.S. policy that has implications for Washington’s relationships in the region, with Europe and even the American Jewish community.

The President-elect tapped New York-based attorney David Friedman on Thursday to repre-

Must read sent the United States. Friedman, who maintains a residence in Jerusalem, is known for hardline views that depart from decades of established American policy and in some cases are to the right of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Friedman argues that Israeli settlement construction in Palestinian areas shouldn’t be illegal

and has called the effort to find a two-state solution an “illusion.” In Trump’s announcement, the bankruptcy lawyer and Orthodox Jew welcomed moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to “Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem” — settling in one phrase a fraught issue that has been designated for final peace talks, as Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital as well.

The upshot, analysts and experts say, is that there’s likely turbulence ahead. The Israeli-

Palestinian conflict has ebbed as an issue of concern for the Middle East, roiled by five years of war that have changed regional dynamics. But a U.S. shift in the status quo of Jerusalem — home to the third-holiest site in Islam as well as the holiest in Judaism — and away from forging a state for the Palestinians, long seen as an important cause by other Arabs, could revive regional tensions.

“Immediate reaction will be muted, but over time, if the U.S.

does support a dramatic change in the status quo that undermines Palestinians or undermines chances for some sort of independent Palestinian state in the future, it’s going to cause a problem for Arab governments,” said Haim Malka, deputy director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “And then it could become a point of contention between those Arab governments and the U.S. government.”

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Bonfire of the agencies WASHINGTON — Democrats spent the first two decades of the post-Cold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. President Obama famously mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 for suggesting that Russia was our principal geopolitical adversary. Yet today the Dems are in high dudgeon over the closeness of secretary of state nominee, Rex Tillerson, to Vladimir Putin.

Hypocrisy aside, it is true that, as head of Exxon Mobil, Tillerson made major deals with Russia, received Russia’s Order of Friendship and opposed U.S. sanctions. That’s troubling but not necessarily disqualifying. At the time, after all, Tillerson was acting as an agent of Exxon Mobil, whose interest it is to extract oil and make money.

These interests do not necessarily Charles overlap with those Krauthammer of the United States.

The relevant question is whether and how Tillerson distinguishes between the two and whether as agent of the United States he would adopt a tougher Russia policy than he did as agent of Exxon Mobil.

We don’t know. We shall soon find out. That’s what confirmation hearings are for.

The left has been in equally high dudgeon that other Cabinet picks appear not to share the mission of the agency which they have been nominated to head. The horror! As if these agency missions are somehow divinely ordained. Why, they aren’t even constitutionally ordained. The Department of Education, for example, was created by President Carter in 1979 as a payoff to the teachers’ unions for their political support.

Now, teachers are wonderful. But teachers’ unions are there to protect benefits and privileges, not necessarily to improve schooling. Which is why they zealously defend tenure, protect their public-school monopoly and reflexively oppose school choice.

Conservatives have the odd view that the purpose of schooling — and therefore of the Department of Education — is to provide students with the best possible education. Hence Trump’s nominee, Betsy DeVos, a longtime and passionate proponent of school choice, under whom the department will no longer be an arm of the teachers’ unions.

She is also less likely to allow the department’s Office for Civil Rights to continue appropriating to itself the role of arbiter of social justice, micromanaging everything from campus sexual mores to the proper bathroom assignment for transgender students. If the mission of this department has been to dictate policy best left to the states and localities, it’s about time the mission was changed.

The most incendiary nomination by far, however, is Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. As attorney general of Oklahoma, he has joined or led a series of lawsuits to curtail EPA power. And has been upheld more than once by the courts.

Pruitt has been deemed unfit to serve because he fails liberalism’s modern-day religious test: belief in anthropogenic climate change. They would love to turn his confirmation hearing into a Scopes monkey trial. Republicans should decline the invitation. It doesn’t matter whether the man believes the moon is made of green cheese. The challenges to EPA actions are based not on meteorology or theology, but on the Constitution. The issue is that the EPA has egregiously exceeded its authority and acted as a rogue agency unilaterally creating rules unmoored from legislation.

Pruitt’s is the most important nomination because it is a direct attack on the insidious growth of the administrative state. We have reached the point where EPA bureaucrats interpret the Waters of the United States rule — meant to protect American waterways — to mean that when a hard rain leaves behind a pond on your property, the feds may take over and tell you what you can and cannot do with it. (The final rule excluded puddles — magnanimity from the Leviathan.)

On a larger scale, Obama’s Clean Power Plan essentially federalizes power generation and regulation, not coincidentally killing coal along the way. This is the administration’s end run around Congress’ rejection of Obama’s proposed 2009-10 cap-and-trade legislation. And that was a Democratic Congress, mind you.

Pruitt’s nomination is a dramatic test of the proposition that agencies administer the law, they don’t create it. That the legislative power resides exclusively with Congress and not with a metastasizing administrative bureaucracy.

For some, this reassertion of basic constitutionalism seems extreme. If so, the Obama administration has only itself to blame. Such are the wages of eight years of liberal overreach. Some legislation, like Obamacare, will be repealed.

Some executive orders will be canceled. But most important will be the bonfire of the agencies. We may soon be secure not just in our puddles but our ponds.

Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com.

Santa, bring special gifts to teachers Dear Santa Claus: I am going to forgo my usual letter requesting snarky gifts for the humor-impaired.

I expect there will be other opportunities in the future to gag them. One thing about the humor-impaired, they are like houseflies: They never go away.

Instead, I am going to ask you for something that may not be possible for you to stick in your goody bag, but I’m not sure where else to go. I would like to see our public school teachers have a little peace on Earth. If their job wasn’t already hard enough, now they are caught up in an elephant fight not of their own making.

On one side are the deeppocketed, out-of-state, specialinterest ideologues who care not one whit for schoolteachers. They just want to get their greedy talons on the dollars being spent on public education. On the other side is the status quo crowd, whose intransigence has been fueled by a suspicion that public education is viewed as one big experimental laboratory in which the mad scientists are not held responsible for their results, just the schoolteachers who are caught in the middle.

Schoolteachers do not go into the profession for the money. They become teachers because they believe they can change young lives for the

Dick Yarbrough better. I suspect every teacher in our state can look back on a schoolteacher in their own past who made a difference in their life and perhaps inspired them to want to do the same for the next generation.

You and I have been in correspondence over the years, but I’m not sure we ever talked about the teachers who influenced us. I’m not familiar with the education system at the North Pole, but someone must have given you the inspiration to want to fly around the world delivering toys to good little girls and boys. I would guess it was a teacher.

In my own case, I had a number of schoolteachers back in East Point who taught me things that still resonate, lo, these many years later.

They taught me to spell; to add and subtract; to not only write a declarative sentence, but to diagram it as well (a lost art); to find Belgium on a map; to dissect a frog (that one I’m not sure about); basic Spanish;

typing; the Pledge of Allegiance and English Literature, among other things. Despite my teenage resistance, most of it seems to have sunk in.

I am trying to understand what has changed from those ancient times until today, where second-guessers in the media decry our “pitiful public schools” and politicians rail about the absolute necessity for “school choice,” a euphemism for abandoning public schools and making them, as one current legislator intoned, “the schools of last resort.”

Have schoolteachers become so incredibly inept in the decades since I was a lad that they are incapable of imparting knowledge to the current generation as did my teachers?

Or could it be that our society has gone to hell in a wheelbarrow and policymakers won’t accept the fact that poverty, drugs, child abuse, bureaucratic red tape at every level of government, navel-gazing policy wonks and apathetic, absentee and/or permissive parents have made the schoolteacher’s job nigh impossible?

Since teachers can’t close the schoolhouse door on society’s problems — and policy makers don’t seem inclined to — the next best thing in the eyes of our intrepid public servants is to run away from the problem and blame it on our schools. This is like blam-

ing the current federal deficit on the Founding Fathers.

I don’t think the schoolteacher’s life is going to get easier any time soon.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Betsy DeVos to be his secretary of education.

She is no friend of public education. DeVos and her family have poured millions of dollars into “school choice” initiatives with scant positive results. As Atlanta newspaper education columnist Maureen Downy observed recently, “The U.S. Department of Education was once seen as an ally of public education. It may now become an adversary.”

I don’t know how our schoolteachers do it, Santa, and sometimes I wonder why they even make the effort, given of all the obstacles thrown in their path, but I am grateful they continue trying to make a positive difference in young lives. That is why I strongly suggest that we all get off their backs this Christmas and give them some peace on Earth. If anyone deserves it, our schoolteachers do.

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

Stocking stuffers for naughty celebrities If Santa is checking the part of his list that contains the names of celebrities, politicians and sports figures, he will be able to do more for the coal industry this year than any of Donald Trump’s anti-environment deregulation decrees combined, because there will be a lot of lumps of coal stuffed in a lot of celebrity stockings next Saturday night. I would purely hate for Santa Claus to dirty up his sleigh with all that coal dust so I have come up with some alternative gift ideas, just to keep the jolly old elf from having to carry around so many lumps of coal. If you’re listening, Santa, here we go.

For Hillary Clinton, who may be the most disappointed person in the universe this Christmas, I suggest that he bring a brand new Apple computer and one of those games nerds like to play, like Rule the World. Hillary can sit in her basement and pretend to be the most powerful person in the world, without hurting a single solitary soul. She will be so happy and content that she might even let Bill start dating again.

Barack Obama will have a lot of time on his hands shortly after the first of the year.

I think Santa should bring

Maybe he could throw in one of those new voice activated iPhones, as well — to make tweeting easier, because it looks like becoming the leader of the free world isn’t going to slow The Donald down one bit when it comes to that.

Darrell Huckaby For Cher and Rosie O’Donnell and all those other Hollywood types who swore soon-to-be-ex-Presbo a mem- they would leave the counbership in the Royal Nairobi try if Trump were elected, Golf Club. It’s Kenya’s most perhaps St. Nick could bring exclusive club and Obama can a great big U-Haul for them play as much as he likes — to share — or maybe just a without doing anybody in this couple of dozen one-way bus country a bit of harm. tickets to the great frozen Every now and then he can north. The emphasis, undersend Hillary an e-mail. He stand, is one way. can lie about his golf scores On the local scene, as Kris and she can lie about everyKringle passes by North thing, like she always has, Avenue he could leave a little and they both will be happy bit of class under Tech coach as two pigs in mud.

Paul Johnson’s Christmas As always, I strive to be an tree, because he doesn’t have equal opportunity offender so any at all. And if he heads I will suggest that Santa bring east, toward Athens, maybe a couple of gifts to President- he could bring Georgia’s elect Donald Trump, too.

Kirby a few more smarts — For starters, maybe he could because despite his surname, swing Rudolph and the other he still seems a bit lacking. reindeer by one of the 400 Arthur Blank doesn’t need wig shops in the local area a thing. He has a new stadium and pick out a hairpiece for and a team that appears to be the old boy. I mean, does he on the rise. Ditto the Braves, really plan on taking the oath although time will tell. If of office looking like he has a Santa has something in that haystack on top of his head? big pack of his that can sort

out the traffic that is certain to plague the Bravos as soon as the season starts, he might consider dropping that off — but I don’t believe even Santa can accomplish that.

I hope that Santa will drop off an Academy Award nomination at Will Smith’s Hollywood mansion so the spoiled star won’t have to pout and hold his breath when award seasons rolls around this year, and maybe he could leave a new set of playing cards, too, so Will won’t have to keep playing the race card when he doesn’t get his way.

I really wish he would bring Tiger Woods a new mindset to go with his new clubs and new swing because I’m a fan and would purely love to see him compete at the highest level again.

Remember pet rocks? If there are any of those left lying around at the North Pole Santa should toss one in the back of his sleigh and drop it off at poor Bill Cosby’s house, because the old boy could certainly use one to hide under as the publicity surrounding him gets worse and worse and worse.

And for the rest of us?

Peace on Earth and good will toward man would be a great start to 2017.

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Syria, rebels working to secure Aleppo evacuation deal Reuters

ALEPPO, Syria/BEIRUT — A new deal is being negotiated to complete the evacuation of rebel-held areas of Syria’s east Aleppo which ground to a halt on Friday after demands from pro-government forces that people also be moved out of two villages besieged by insurgents.

A Syrian rebel official and a government official said early on Saturday the evacuation of Aleppo would resume and the two Shi’ite villages would be evacuated, as well as the wounded from two towns near the Lebanese border and east Aleppo.

But sources said negotiations between pro-government and opposition forces as well as their international backers were still going on to finalize how the evacuations would take place and how many people would leave.

The chaos surrounding the evacuation reflects the complexity of Syria’s civil war, with an array of groups and foreign interests involved on all sides.

Aleppo had been divided between government and rebel areas in the nearly six-year-long war, but a lightning advance by the Syrian army and its allies began in mid-November following months of intense air strikes, forcing the insurgents out of most of the rebel-held territory within a matter of weeks.

A senior Syrian rebel official from the powerful Ahrar al Sham group involved in the talks on Saturday said the deal was being held up by Iran and its allied Shi’ite militias which were insisting people

ous evacuation deal was al-Foua or Kefraya, where breached by pro-governit says there are around ment, Iran-backed militias 20,000 people — of whom who detained “hundreds” roughly 4,500 are proof people trying to leave, government fighters — was leading to some deaths. A postponed and would begin Syrian military source deon Sunday. nied this, but said a convoy It was expected that 50 trying to leave was sent buses would take around back.

1,500 people, including “Now we are working wounded, to governmenton international guarantees held areas. to guarantee the safety of The Observatory said those who leave Aleppo 8,000 people, including so that such violations are some 3,000 fighters and not repeated,” Syrian rebel more than 300 wounded, negotiator Abu Bakr told had left Aleppo in convoys al-Arabiya from Aleppo on of buses and ambulances in Saturday. the evacuations that began The Syrian Arab Red on Thursday morning.

Crescent and the ICRC said Rebel officials say the guarantees were needed to numbers evacuated are A child sleeps while waiting to be evacuated with others from a rebel-held sector of protect people. much lower, with no fighteastern Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday. (Reuters/Abdalrhman Ismail) “We’re ready to resume ers having left. facilitating the evacuation The United Nations says be allowed to leave the Aleppo told Reuters that day, after pro-government according to our humanitar- around 30,000 people rebesieged Shi’ite villages of nobody had left the rebelmilitias demanded that the ian mandate. But we now main in rebel-held Aleppo, Kefraya and al-Foua before held enclave and no buses wounded also be brought expect all the parties on the of whom a number would allowing the Aleppo evacua- had entered. He also said out of al-Foua and Kefraya, ground to provide us with be taken to Idlib province, tion to proceed. he had heard gunfire near and protesters blocked a solid guarantees in order to which is mostly controlled “Iran and its sectarian where people were to wait convoy on the road out of keep the operation going,” by hardline Islamist groups, proxies are using the hufor the buses.

Aleppo. said Marianne Gasser, head and the rest would go manitarian situation of our The International ComAnother Free Syrian of the ICRC in Syria. to government-held city people in besieged Aleppo mittee of the Red Cross Army official Zakaria MalNo evacuations on districts. and preventing civilians said thousands of cold, hafji said that he expected Saturday Idlib is already a target from leaving until the scared and injured people the Aleppo evacuation to A military news outlet for Syrian and Russian air evacuation of their groups were still in east Aleppo resume on Sunday after run by Hezbollah, an ally of strikes, but it is unclear in al-Foua and Kefraya,” waiting to leave. It said it reaching an agreement that Damascus, had said evacu- whether the government Munir Sayal, the head of had received some indicaalso includes simultaneous ation buses were heading to will push for a ground the political wing of the tions that a deal would be evacuation from the two the two villages to complete assault or simply seek to movement, told Reuters in a reached soon.

Shi’ite villages. the evacuations and said this contain rebels there for now.

Turkey has said Aleppo telephone interview.

The Syrian government “Tomorrow morning the could happen on Saturday. evacuees could also be Al Farouk Abu Bakr, official, part of the team evacuation from Aleppo But the Syrian Observahoused in a camp to be the head rebel negotiator negotiating the evacuawill begin again,” Malhafji tory for Human Rights, constructed near the Turkish inside Aleppo charged with tions, said: “It was agreed told TV news channel alwhich monitors the war, border to the north. negotiating on their behalf, to resume evacuations from Arabiya al Hadath. said the evacuations in earlier said an agreement east Aleppo in parallel with Beaten and robbed was reached that included the evacuation of (medical) Numerous activists, The Hobby Lobby ad in today’s the two Shi’ite villages as cases from Kefraya and al- rebels and east Aleppo demanded by Iran. But he Foua and some cases from residents shared reports and newspaper has incorrect dates. The said later that Tehran had Zabadani and Madaya.” videos of people fleeing correct dates should be: once again obstructed a The towns of Madaya amid chaos, the sound of PRICES GOOD IN STORES deal. and Zabadani are blockaded shooting, being detained As darkness fell on by pro-government forces. and returning home badly MONDAY, DECEMBER 19 Saturday afternoon and The operation to evacuate beaten and robbed of their SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2016 temperatures began to fall fighters and civilians from possessions near a checkbelow freezing, there was the last opposition-held point as they tried to leave PRICES GOOD ONLINE no sign the evacuation was area of Aleppo was susthe city on Friday.

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U.S. to disclose estimate of number of Americans under surveillance WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community will soon disclose an estimate of the number of Americans whose electronic communications have been caught in the crosshairs of online surveillance programs intended for foreigners, U.S. lawmakers said in a letter seen by Reuters on Friday.

The estimate, requested by members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, is expected to be made public as early as next month, the letter said.

Its disclosure would come as Congress is expected to begin debate in the coming months over whether to reauthorize or reform the so-called surveillance authority, known as Section 702, a provision that was added to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2008.

“The timely production of this information is incredibly important to informed debate on Section 702 in the next Congress — and, without it, even those of us inclined to support reauthorization would have reason for concern,” said the letter signed by 11 lawmakers, all members of the House Judiciary Committee.

The letter was sent on Friday to National Intelligence Director James Clapper. It said his office and National Security Agency officials had already briefed congressional staff about how the intelligence community intends to comply with the disclosure request.

Clapper’s office confirmed the letter had been received but declined further comment.

The lawmakers termed their letter an effort to

“memorialize our understanding” of the intelligence community’s plan to provide an estimate in

real numbers, not percentages, as soon as January that can be shared with the public.

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Legend

•From Page 1A consider him a hero.”

A star on the rise long before 1813 Lawrence entered the U.S. Navy in 1798, when he was about 16 or 17, after abandoning an education in the legal profession, according to a biography from the Naval History and Heritage Command.

Crawford said the Burlington, N.J. native went on to build a reputation throughout his career of pushing his crews to be prepared for battle. It’s one of the key parts of the legacy of Lawrence, the historian said.

“He was known for his skill and devotion to training his crews,” Crawford said. “He was more interested and focused on his men than on the technology of the ship itself.”

In 1802, he became a lieutenant on the schooner U.S.S. Enterprise while the United States was at war with Tripoli, a period known as the Barbary Wars.

During that war, Lawrence participated in a mission in 1804 to destroy a U.S. frigate, the U.S.S. Philadelphia, that had been captured by the Tripolitans.

An expedition made up of U.S. naval officers and Marines secretly went in to Tripoli harbor one night and set the Philadelphia on fire.

Lawrence was second in command of the company, and led the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise and a gun boat in an exchange of fire with the Tripolitans.

Nearly 50 years later, a Naval Department report described the bravery of the men on that mission by saying, “no deed of adventurous daring or successful enterprise in our naval annals, teeming as they do with brilliant exploits, deserves more exalted praise or more ample reward.”

Between 1805 and 1810, he served as a first lieutenant and served as an officer on several ships before participating in trials for an experimental spar-torpedo in 1810.

“He had to be pretty assertive to go into the navy that young and to have gone up in rank as he did,” Long said.

In November 1810, he became a master commandant and took command of the sloop of war, U.S.S. Hornet.

Hornet v. Peacock In February 1813, Lawrence scored a key victory in the naval War of 1812 when the Hornet defeated and captured the brig H.M.S. Peacock in 14 minutes. It contrasted repeated American failures in a ground war.

“It was one of a series of single-ship victories in the early part of the War of 1812 that kind of glorified the Navy,” said Crawford, who views the victory as another key part of Lawrence’s legacy.

The Hornet had been patrolling the waters off the coast of South America for months when it encountered the Peacock on Feb. 24, 1813. It had captured a packet trade ship and had pursued a merchant ship to the Demerara River in Guyana.

After the Hornet saw one British ship anchored in the river, and the Peacock advancing from the sea, the Americans turned to head back out to sea. As the Hornet passed the Peacock at what Theodore Roosevelt would later describe as “half pistol-shot range” in his book, “The Naval War of 1812,” both ships opened fire.

“The guns were fired as they bore, and the Peacock suffered severely, while her antagonist’s hull was uninjured, though she suffered slightly aloft and had her pennant cut off by the first shot fired,” Roosevelt wrote in his book.

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This illustration shows the famous naval battle between the U.S.S. Chesapeake, right, and the H.M.S. Shannon off the coast of Boston on June 1, 1813. The Chesapeake lost, and its commander, Capt. James Lawrence, died a few days later from wounds he sustained during the battle.

(Courtesy of the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command)

This image depicts the February 1813 victory of Master Commandant James Lawrence and his ship, the U.S.S. Hornet, over the H.M.S. Peacock off the coast of Guyana. The Peacock is shown sinking in this illustration. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

The ships turned again, and the Hornet fired again as it came alongside the Peacock on the starboard side. The British ship surrendered. Then it sank.

The victory earned Lawrence fame and even presidential praise.

Congress, on the recommendation of President James Madison, promoted Lawrence to captain the following month. As a result, he was given a new command, the U.S.S. Chesapeake, and praise from Madison in a letter to Congress in May. “In continuation of the brilliant atchievements (sic) of our infant navy,” Madison wrote in the letter.

“A signal triumph has been gained by Captain Lawrence and his companions in the Hornet sloop of war; which destroyed a British sloop of war, with a celerity so unexampled, and with a slaughter of the Enemy, so disproportionate to the loss in the Hornet, as to claim for the conquerers the highest praise, and the full recompence provided

by Congress, in preceding cases.”

A matter of honor Hot off the heels of the victory over the Peacock, the newly promoted Lawrence went to Boston in mid-May to take command of the frigate, U.S.S. Chesapeake.

It wasn’t long before the H.M.S. Shannon, commanded by Capt. Philip

Broke, began taunting their American counterparts while two other British ships that had helped blockade the harbor were away.

“Broke had sent into Boston a challenge saying, ‘I’ll fight you one on one if you’re willing,’” Crawford said. “But Lawrence had already sailed so he never received the challenge. The very presence and behavior of the Shannon was challenge enough.”

There was one problem with Lawrence going after the Shannon, though: He wasn’t supposed to do it.

The small U.S. Navy didn’t like risking the loss of a ship to an evenly matched, or stronger, British vessel.

“The standing policy of the Navy Department at that time was that U.S. naval vessels should not engage equivalent British naval vessels,” Crawford said.

“Rather the strategy was to attack British commerce. … So Lawrence basically went against policy when he decided to go out and attack the Shannon.”

Why Lawrence did it is anyone’s guess.

“I think the motivations probably centered around Lawrence’s sense of honor,” Crawford said. “Honor was a great, important thing to all naval officers at the time, and to avoid a challenge he probably felt was dishonorable. …

He probably felt there was more honor and glory in attacking a commissioned

warship than going off and capturing an armed merchant vessel.”

The fall of the Chesapeake The Chesapeake and the Shannon were seemingly evenly matched in design and firepower. However, the battle was a total mismatch when it came to experience.

Broke had commanded the Shannon for seven years, liked to drill his men and was a student of the science of gunnery. Meanwhile, the Chesapeake had a new captain and lieutenants, and a third of the crew were also new to the ship.

Lawrence had to quickly train his new crew on using the ship’s guns, as well as other drills.

“It was not exactly a raw crew,” Crawford said. “It was just a matter that they were not as familiar with the ship as they would have been if they’d been in it longer.”

The lack of experience quickly proved to be a critical weakness during the approximately 15-minute battle.

“The Shannon backed its sails in order to let the Chesapeake to approach it,” Crawford said. “Lawrence decided not to take advantage of this to rake the Shannon by crossing its stern. He instead decided to pull up aside, broadside to broadside, which was a big mistake because the Shannon’s gunnery was so good.

“During that first broadside, the Chesapeake lost

the men at the wheel, and rigging was cut so that the Chesapeake lost any possibility of maneuvering.”

Most of the Chesapeake’s officers were wounded and killed on the spar deck after the ships collided. The one remaining uninjured senior officer carried a wounded Lawrence below deck as the captain told his men, “Don’t give up the ship.”

“When (the British) boarded the Chesapeake, there was no leadership on the spar deck and so they quickly took command of the ship,” Crawford said.

Lawrence died on the ship a few days later, on June 4, as it was being led to Halifax.

A naval motto Lawrence’s final command started to gain prominence not long after the Chesapeake’s loss to the Shannon, and his subsequent death.

That order is the final part of his legacy, according to Crawford. Word of it had spread across the country within two weeks of the battle and Lawrence grew into an even bigger American hero as a result.

“It reached the Great Lakes where Oliver Hazard Perry was preparing his squadron to fight the British on Lake Erie, and Perry put a motto flag on board his flag ship, which he named after Lawrence, ‘Don’t give up the ship,’” Crawford said.

A famous painting of the

Battle of Lake Erie, which was fought later that year, shows Perry leaving the heavily damaged Lawrence to head to another ship to continue the battle. The flag was clutched in his hand.

The Americans won the battle.

“That phrase became part of naval heritage just like John Paul Jones’ ‘I have not yet begun to fight’ or Farragut’s ‘Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead,’” Crawford said. “All of these phrases, including Lawrence’s phrase, ‘Don’t give up the ship,’ refer to an indomitable will not to surrender, not to give in to an enemy force, and have become part of the ethos of the Navy.”

Songs were written about the command. T-shirts and buttons emblazoned with it can be purchased. The phrase was even printed on the Naval Academy’s football uniform base layer shirt for its annual football game against Army a few years ago.

A replica flag is part of a memorial to fallen sailors in the Naval Academy’s chapel as well.

A namesake in central Gwinnett In the years following the War of 1812, it wasn’t uncommon to see communities take the name of Lawrence and other War of 1812 heroes for their own.

Counties in 10 states, as well as several cities, townships and an elementary school in his hometown are named for the captain. Several U.S. Navy ships have also been named for him over the last 200 years.

Lawrenceville joined the list when it was chartered on Dec. 15, 1821, according to Long.

“People were still kind of enthused on that war,” she said. “They’d about run out of Revolutionary War people to name things after. … It was just the thing to do back then.”

Long said she has not found any records that show other options were considered for the town’s name.

“People who were naming things in Lawrenceville were searching a prominent person to name the county seat for,” Long said.

“I imagine someone had just read about it and got enthused about ‘Don’t give up the ship.’

“He was just considered to be a real hero.”

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Occupant leads others to safety from Lawrenceville fire kitchen of the split-level singlefamily home; everyone had made it An adult occupant’s reaction to a outside the home. house fire in Lawrenceville helped “Thankfully, the adult occusaved the lives of the others inside pant heard a popping sound and Saturday. discovered the fire in the kitchen,” Gwinnett firefighters responded Wells said. “While the occupants to a report of a house fire in the were leaving the home, the smoke 1900 block of Stone Brook Court alarms activated. at 10:53 a.m., said spokesman “Due to the quick thinking of the Deputy Chief Charles Wells. adult occupant to alert her children, When crews arrived, they everyone was able to exit the home noticed fire on the back porch and without injury.”

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GDP-12/18/2016 BOGART

Lois C. Baker Lois C. Baker, age 85, of Bogart, passed away Thursday, December 15, 2016.

SUWANEE

Leone “Lee” Blok Leone “Lee” Blok, age 85, of Suwanee, GA passed away Thursday, December 15, 2016. She was preceded in death by her husband, Daniel John Blok; son-in-law, Reggie Cumming; brother, Dale Grevengoed. Mrs. Blok is survived by her children, Jan and Gregg Korhorn, Sugar Hill, GA, Barbara Cumming, Marietta, GA, Terri and Harry Bosma, Snellville, GA; eight grandchildren, Brenda Huber, Chris Korhorn, Jon Cumming, Joy Cumming, Jordan Cumming, Soo Jones-Kelley, Brian Bosma, David Bosma; two great grandchildren, Abi Cumming and Lawson Bosma; sister and brotherin-law, Hazel and Harold Christians, Grand Rapids, MI; sister-in-law, Gwen Grevengoed, Dunwoody, GA; nieces, nephews, and cousins. Mrs. Blok was born on February 21, 1931 in Holland, MI. She was a graduate of Grand Rapids Christian High School, attended Davenport Business College, and was a retired secretary from Deutz Corporation. Mrs. Blok was an active member of Shadowbrook Baptist Church in Suwanee, GA, where she sang in the choir, and she was cherished in her Senior Adult Ladies Sunday School Class. Funeral services will be held on Monday, December 19, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Jerrod Rumley and Rev. Bobby Linkous officiating. Interment will be at East Shadowlawn Memorial Gardens in Lawrenceville, GA. The family will receive friends from 9:30 a.m. until time for the service. Flowers are accepted or donations may be made to Samaritan’s Purse for Cleft Lip and Palate in memory of Leone “Lee” Blok. To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com. Arrangements By: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Carolyn Hughes

Mrs. Carolyn Lee Hughes, age 75, of Buford passed away Friday, December 16, 2016 at Peachtree Christian Hospice, surrounded by her family.

Funeral Services will Harold Hanners be 2:00 p.m., Monday, Mr. Harold Vic Hanners, December 19, 2016 in age 85, of the Chapel of Memorial Buford, Park South Funeral Home GA passed with interment following away Friday, at Memorial Park South December Cemetery. Pastor Kem 16, 2016. He is survived Lowery will officiate. The by his wife of fifty-nine family will receive friends years, Marion Wills 12:00 – 2:00 p.m., MonHanners, Buford, GA; day, December 19, 2016 daughters, Vicki and John at Memorial Park South Ladshaw, Flowery Branch, Funeral Home.

GA, Marilyn and Kevin Mrs. Hughes was born Owen, Flowery Branch, October 2, 1941 to the late GA; five grandchildren, Arthur & Levis Lowery of Michelle Hall, ChrisAtlanta. She was retired topher Hall, Lori Beth from Theragenics, where Hall, Matthew Owen, and she was a Lab Manager Heather Owen; two great and of the Baptist Faith. grandchildren, Raegan She loved her family as Culpepper, and Anabelle they were the most imporPrescott; sister-in-law, tant thing to her.

Diane Hanners, Ormond Mrs. Hughes is surBeach, FL; brother-in-law, vived by her husband of Terry and Sue Wills, Lees- 57 years, Gene Hughes burg, GA; several nieces, of Buford; sons, Eddie nephews and cousins. Mr. Hughes of Acworth and Hanners was born Novem- Duane Hughes of Buford; ber 3, 1931 in East Ordaughters & sons-in-law, ange, New Jersey. He was Pam & Philip Suriano of a veteran of the U.S. MaSugar Hill and Lisa & rine Corps. He was a 1954 Greg Strickland of Flowgraduate of Decatur High ery Branch; grandchildren, School, Decatur, GA and Joshua Hughes, Robbie was retired from Lockheed Suriano, Ryan Suriano, after forty years and nine Madison Strickland and months of service. He was Morgan Wright; greata Tucker Masonic Lodge grandson, Parker Suriano; 42 F. & A.M. member brother & sister-in-law, for fifty-two years, and Kenneth & Bonnie Lowery attended Buford Masonic of Cartersville; and sister Lodge F. & A.M. He was & brother-in-law, Judy & a member of the First Gary Craven of Kennesaw.

Baptist Church of Buford, Memorial Park South FuAbundant Life Fellowneral Home, 4121 Falcon ship, Silvertones Choir, Parkway, Flowery Branch, Upper Room Sunday Georgia 30542 is in charge School Class and an acof arrangements. Send ontive member of Bojangles line condolences to Breakfast Club Group. He www.memorialparkfunerwas also a retired Bailiff alhomes.com from the Gwinnett County LAWRENCEVILLE Court System for almost ten years. Funeral services Ange Konan will be held on Monday, Ange Daniel Konan age December 19, 2016 at 21 of Lawrenceville, Ga; 1:00 p.m. in the Chapel of passed away on December Flanigan Funeral Home 12, 2016. Arrangements with Rev. Stephen Fountain and Rev. Wayne John- by Byrd & Flanigan Crematory and Funeral son officiating. Interment Service Lawrenceville, will follow at Broadlawn GA (770)962-2200, Please Memorial Gardens in sign our online condolence Buford, with a gravebook at Byrdandflanigan. side service and Military com Honors. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Sunday, December 18, 2016 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a charity of your choice in memory WINTERVILLE of Vic Hanners. To express Ernest Loggins condolences, please sign Ernest Willie Loggins, our online guest book at age 74, of Winterville, www.flaniganfuneralhome.com. Arrangements Georgia passed away on Saturday, December 17th By: Junior E. Flanigan of 2016.

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and in each bedroom, according to fire officials. Also, families should develop a home fire escape plan and regularly practice fire drills.

Gwinnett Fire offers free home safety surveys and smoke alarm checks as part of its community outreach program.

For more information, contact the Gwinnett Fire Community Risk Reduction/Education Section at 678-518-4845 or email fireprograms@gwinnettcounty.com.

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Roy P. Holder Roy P. Holder, age 85 of Monroe, passed December 15, 2016. Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 209 South Hammond Drive, Monroe, GA 30655. 770-2672594. www.stewartfh.com

Barbara M. Moore, age 89, of Lawrenceville, GA passed away Thursday, December 15, 2016. She is survived by her children, Kathy McMillan, John Moore, Alex Moore, and Bobby Moore; six grandchildren; six great grandchildren; sister, Winnie Martinek; as well as many loving nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, Charles W. Moore. A Funeral Service Honoring the Life of Barbara will be held on M

Gwinnett officials said no one was hurt in a house fire in Lawrenceville on Saturday. (Photo: Gwinnett County Department of Fire and Emergency Services)

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Monday, December 19, 2016 at 2:00PM at Tom M. Wages Lawrenceville Chapel with Rev. Inman Houston officiating. Interment will follow at Gwinnett Memorial Park. The family will receive friends on Sunday, December 18th from 2:00pm-4:00pm & 6:00pm-8:00pm in the funeral home. Condolences may be sent to or viewed at www.wagesfuneralhome.com. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service LLC, “A Family Company” 120 Scenic Hwy Lawrenceville, GA 770963-2411. .

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Ernest Pirkle Ernest “Sonny” Pirkle, age 78, of Jefferson, GA passed away Thursday, December 15, 2016. He is survived by his wife of fifty-three years, Sue Hutchinson Pirkle, Jefferson, GA; children, Tonda and Paul Hill, Chipley, FL, Fonda and Gary Hopkins, Lawrenceville, GA, Kevin and Rachel Pirkle, Jefferson, GA; six grandchildren, Austin, Bethany, Tyler, Taylor, Grant, Kaitlyn; one great grandchild, Josiah; sister, Sara Annette Blair, Winder, GA; sistersin-law, Faye Hutchinson, Valdosta, GA, Ruth Jarvis, Ray City, GA, Linda Gibson, Valdosta, GA, Shirley Hutchinson, Valdosta, GA; brothers-in-law, Jerry and Sharon Hutchinson, Ft. White, FL, Chester and Shirley Hutchinson, Tampa, FL; several nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Mr. Pirkle was born on August 5, 1938 in Chamblee, GA. He attended Chamblee High School and was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Mr. Pirkle retired from Ford Motor Company after thirty-two and a half years of service there. He was a member of Peachtree Road Baptist Church in Suwanee, GA. Funeral services will be held on Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at Peachtree Road Baptist Church in Suwanee with Pastor Jay Reed, Mr. Kevin Pirkle, and Dr. Preston Moore presiding. Interment will follow at White Chapel Memorial Gardens in Duluth, GA. The family will receive friends on Saturday, December 17, 2016 from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Flanigan Funeral Home in Buford. 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.

Barbara M. Moore

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Douglas Davidson, of Hoschton, GA passed away on December 17, 2016. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

The firefighters immediately entered the home and extinguished the fire in about 30 minutes.

They got the blaze under control, but the fire significantly damaged the kitchen and living room; smoke affected other areas of the home.

Fire officials did not release a possible cause of the fire or whether charges would be filed.

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Catherine M. Potts Catherine M. Potts, age 94, of, Lilburn, GA, passed away on December 15th, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company”, Snellville Chapel 770-979-3200 has been entrusted with the arrangements.

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Gabriel Rogers Gabriel Tyler Rogers, age 22, of Dacula, Georgia passed away on Wednesday, December 14th, 2016.

Gabriel was born at Gwinnett Medical Center. He attended Mountain View High School. He loved & collected cars. He always had a loving sweet smile and loved his family and friends. He enjoyed playing football. He also enjoyed making others happy. He is survived by his mother, Amanda LeBlanc & his step-father, Jason; girlfriend, Kaylee Payne; brothers, Corey Rogers, Preston Rogers, Brady Atwell; sister, Lola Atwell; grandparents, Judy LaClair, David “Pappy” Hand, Annette Ward & Maria England; great grandmother, Nana Glover; aunt, Courtney Hand; step-mother, Meg Atwell; cousins, Jonathan Hand, Wesley King; Wyatt & Avery Hurley and his loving companion, Arie.

The family will have a viewing and visitation on Sunday, December 18th, 2016 from 2:00pm until 4:00pm at Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel, 1031 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville, 770-2774550. Online condolences may be expressed at www.wagesandsons.com.

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Susan Showman Susan Margaret Showman, age 97, passed away peacefully at her home in Snellville, Georgia on December 15, 2016 surrounded by family. She was born on September 8, 1919 in Clymer, Pennsylvania to Elizabeth (Zahorkny) and George Popson.

Susan was the youngest child among eight children. She was raised on a farm and grew up helping with daily farm duties. She graduated from Clymer High School in 1937 and continued her work on the farm until marrying James W. Showman on January 27, 1940. James and Susan met when Susan’s brothers brought Jim to dinner.

After eating Susan’s blueberry pie he knew he was hooked. They enjoyed a long, loving marriage full of much affection and humor. Together they had 4 children and eventually moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio and then, finally, Georgia in 1973 where Jim started a full-service gas station that Susan helped run. In their spare time they enjoyed going to the horse races, gardening, and travel. Susan was a master seamstress and an accomplished cook. Her baking skills left everyone wanting more especially during the holidays when

she whipped up all the favorites. We believe her homemade bread could bring peace to Earth if the chance arose- she baked over 32,000 loaves over the course of her life (leaving her with superhuman strength in her hands…wayward grandchildren beware!). There has been an ongoing mystery surrounding the secret to making her spaghetti sauce. Somehow, no matter how hard one tries, it just never tastes the same as ‘Susan’s sauce’. She was an avid baseball fan and always kept up with her Atlanta Braves- she could often be heard yelling “oh come on guys!” at the screen during a game.

Susan loved shopping and was always ready to go on a trip to Belk: “a woman can never have too many shoes or too much Chanel No. 5” was her motto!

Susan will also be remembered for her spunky attitude and quick wit. She always had a funny, unexpected comment to make you laugh when you most needed it; oftentimes, these comments included some well-placed salty language that only added to her sweet little old lady charm. Susan was a oneof-a-kind wife, mother, grandmother, and woman.

Her soft hands and tender heart will be missed dearly by her loved ones though we all know her reunion with her husband in heaven has been a long awaited event for Susan. There is no doubt that Susan and Jim will pick up right where they left off – with a squeeze of the hand, a pat on the bottom, and a kiss as they continue on with their loving journey together. Left to honor Susan and remember her love are three children, Gayle (Craig) Hocevar, Bonnie (Joe) Ciomek, and Jim (Patricia) Showman, seven grandchildren; Craig Hocevar, Susan (Gary) Adkins, Jennifer (Alfredo) Piceno, Desi (Trey) Borgh, Laura (Terry) Clotfelter, Pam Vargo, Bill Showman; and many great grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. Susan was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, her siblings, son Bill Showman, and grandson James Showman. All of whom she loved dearly.

In lieu of flowers, Carry on a tradition that Sue and Jim enjoyed: have a piece of your favorite baked good and a hot cup of coffee (with real cream!) at 2pm as you take a moment to remember Susan. .

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Santa visits Lawrenceville in week before Christmas

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While many families waited in long lines for short visits with Santa, children in Lawrenceville had more quality time to sit on his lap and share their Christmas wishes this weekend.

Gwinnett County’s park and recreation department offered one of the last opportunities to see Mr. and Mrs. Claus at the festively decorated historic courthouse downtown. They will be there until Dec. 19.

The event featured photos with Santa, crafts with his elves and a selfguided tour including a room filled with toy trains in the courthouse at 185 Crogan St. “The wait isn’t very long, and we have a Santa room here where the whole family can get together,” said Donna Herbermann, who works at the courthouse. “We have the best Santa and

Above, families participated in an elf workshop at the Visit with Santa event at the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse in Lawrenceville on Saturday. From left, Mrs. Claus, Kadelyn Phillips, 4, of Buford and Santa spend time at a special holiday event at the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse in Lawrenceville on Saturday. (Staff Photos: Erika Wells)

the best setup.”

Herbermann, who has helped with the event several years, said this weekend has gone smoothly and she has especially enjoyed seeing the children’s smiling faces.

Kadelyn Phillips, 4, of Buford was just one of the

many excited little ones exploring the building after she asked Santa for a baby doll and a dinosaur.

Kadelyn insisted; “Santa’s going to give me all the presents, and he said I was going to get a nutcracker, too,” before she rushed off to play with a miniature train set.

She enjoyed all the holiday activities while also continuing a longtime tradition her grandparents started over 20 years ago when they took her mother to the courthouse.

Kadelyn’s grandma — or Gigi — Julia Patridge and grandpa love taking their grandchild out,

especially during the holidays, to nearby events.

“We like to keep it local; we try not to go where it’s all hectic,” Patridge said. “It’s more authentic and traditional here. Nothing really has changed. We make a day of it. We’ll eat and if it’s not raining we’ll go to the

park or spend time on the square.”

The final chance to meet with Santa will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday. The Santa visit is $5 per photo, and the elf workshop activity is $1 per child.

For more information, visit www.gwinnettcounty. com or call 770-822-5450.

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Jess Simpson leaves Buford for Georgia State job

By Will Hammock

players about the decision Friday.

“Bittersweet would be the word to use (to deBUFORD — Jess scribe Friday),” Simpson Simpson announced Frisaid. “We’ve been here day morning that he has over 20 years now, and I’ve resigned as Buford’s head gotten to raise my family football coach, opening here and gotten to do life up one of Georgia’s most with so many great people. coveted jobs.

So many folks have had His next move is into such a great effect on my the college coaching ranks family, and I’ve gotten with Georgia State, where to coach so many great he has been hired by new kids. To work with my GSU head coach Shawn Jess Simpson talks with reporters Friday morning about best friends, my assistant Elliott as the Panthers’ his departure as Buford’s head football coach to become coaches, every day. To say defensive line coach. The defensive line coach at Georgia State. (Photo: David Mc- this has probably been the location and timing both highlight of my life so far Gregor) worked out for a Simpson and just being blessed to be move, particularly since seasons — Cooper, a 2016 Jake is a Wake Forest foot- in this work environment his sons finished their grad, signed with Army ball commit. and this community is cerBuford careers the past two football, and current senior He told his Buford tainly an understatement. will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

I’m very appreciative and grateful. It’s very bittersweet to say goodbye.”

Simpson has coached the Wolves to 10 of their 11 all-time state championships, the last seven as head coach. He also won three state titles as the high school’s defensive coordinator under veteran coach Dexter Wood, who still serves as Buford’s athletic director.

Buford has played in the state championship game for an astonishing 10 consecutive seasons, winning four straight titles from 2007-10 and three more in a row from 201214. Simpson’s defenses also were pivotal in state

Bragging rights

titles from 2001-03, helping the Wolves establish a new state record with 47 straight victories.

Simpson’s final Buford team went 13-2 and finished as Class AAAAA state runner-up to Rome last Saturday. Since taking over for Wood in 2005, Simpson has an amazing 164-12 record, good for a 93.2 winning percentage.

Buford has changed head coaches very few times since Ed Cochran was named to the position in 1973. He led the Wolves until 1991, then Ed Dudley took over from 1992-94.

Wood became head coach

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Hillery’s big night leads CG

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LAWRENCEVILLE — Mill Creek’s boys spent much of their Gwinnett Daily Post Challenge game against Central Gwinnett trying to pull themselves out of a first-half hole, and nearly did so.

But Jalen Hillery and the host Black Knights simply would not let the Hawks climb all the way out, with the 6-foot-5, Jalen Hillery 195-pound senior posting a double-double with 40 points and 10 rebounds to blunt any comeback attempt in Central’s 69-61 victory Saturday night.

“I’ve been telling anyone

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Ridge Team Mobbs pulls away in All-Star football game holds off Grayson Team Mobbs’ Jasen Johnson Jr. (10) stiff-arms Team Hardy’s Bryce White (14) during the first half of Saturday’s Gwinnett All-Star Football Game at Mountain View High School in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

By Ken Chrzanowski

Staff Correspondent

LAWRENCEVILLE — The weather outside was frightful, but that didn’t deter the best senior football players in Gwinnett County from taking the field one last time on Saturday.

In a cold rain, Team Mobbs defeated Team

Hardy 17-6 to claim bragging rights in the Rivalries of Gwinnett game hosted by the Gwinnett Touchdown Club and played at Mountain View High School. The teams were selected and led by Korey Mobbs of Lanier and Greater Atlanta Christian’s Tim Hardy.

The rough weather conditions had an im-

mediate impact as on the second play of the game, Team Mobbs quarterback Drew Dinsmore went back to attempt a pass. As the Collins Hill signal caller raised his arm to throw, the ball vacated his hand for a fumble. Cameron Sample of Team Hardy recovered the fumble on the Mobbs 20.

Team Hardy was able

to cash in on the gift as quarterback Seth Johnston attempted a pass and finding no open receivers, the South Gwinnett signal caller scrambled his way into the end zone at the 10:20 mark of the opening quarter. JT Amaya’s extra point however, clanked off the right upright, giving Team Hardy a 6-0 advantage.

Team Mobbs came right back and capped off the following drive with a touchdown run of two yards by Mountain View’s own Jasen Johnson. Mill Creek’s Brenton King converted the extra point and Mobbs led 7-6.

The score remained the same until the first play of

Mountain View’s Uchenna Nwagbara (23) blocks a shot by Parkview’s Amhir Langlais (25) during the second half of Saturday’s GDP Challenge at Central Gwinnett High School in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

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LAWRENCEVILLE — Both the Mountain View and Parkview boys had to overcome long scoring droughts during their clash in the Gwinnett Daily Post Challenge.

Ultimately, it was a dry spell at the worst possible time for the Panthers, combined with a late surge by the Bears, that proved decisive in Mountain View’s 53-47 win Saturday at Central Gwinnett.

Uchenna Nwagbara came off the bench to provide 15 points, seven rebounds and a blocked shot in the low post for the victors.

But it was a pair of well-timed 3-point-

ers by Spencer Rodgers and clutch free throws down the stretch from Jalen Hayes, plus a tough defensive effort that held Parkview (6-6) scoreless

for the final 4:25 of the game that helped the Bears (10-4) overcome their own offensive issues.

“We had a lull there in the third (quarter),”

Mountain View coach B.J. Roy said. “We’re trying to use this Christmas (break) stretch to where we can fix some stuff and figure out if we’re tough enough. …

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This is going to be a real test of our character to see what we’re made of.”

The Bears seemed to pass that test, though it didn’t seem like Saturday’s game would be much of a test after they began to penetrate Parkview’s packed in defense following a back-and-forth first quarter that left Mountain View leading 20-15.

And after holding Parkview scoreless for a full five minutes spanning the first and second quarters, the Bears turned up the defense again late in the first half by keeping the Panthers off the scoreboard for another 3:12 stretch.

But after Brandon Green capped a 10-0 run with a driving layup to gave

LOGANVILLE — The Peachtree Ridge Lions were looking to extend their winning streak to five games with a win over the Grayson Devin Vassell Rams in the Gwinnett Daily Post Challenge finale at Grayson High school.

The Rams, however were not going to go down easily after coming off of a big win over the Archer Tigers on Friday night.

It was a back-and-fourth effort that took four full quarters, but the Lions managed to pick up the win 55-47 to improve their record on the season to 7-3.

It was a big win, especially coming to their place,” Lions head coach Keith Arrington said. “Our kids usually respond to me getting onto them a little bit, and for us, it’s usually about playing hard. I thought a couple of times we let the Rams’ energy get us, and we had to pick

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Mountain View rallies to beat Parkview 53-47

By David Friedlander

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Minnesota football players end boycott, will play in bowl Reuters MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota football team on Saturday said it would not boycott its upcoming bowl game this month to protest the suspension of 10 players in connection with a sexual assault investigation.

The Golden Gophers had announced on Thursday night they would skip all team activities, including the Holiday Bowl in San Diego on Dec. 27, until the players were reinstated and “due

ongoing national debate over how sexual assault allegations are handled on U.S. college campuses.

The 10 players were suspended this week after a university investigation into an alleged sexual assault following the team’s first game of the season in September.

The school has not given a specific reason for The Wisconsin Badgers line up for a play during the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Golden Gophers the suspensions, citing at Camp Randall Stadium. Wisconsin won 31-17. (Photo: privacy laws. No criminal charges were filed.

Jeff Hanisch-USA Today Sports) The team’s about-face to the suspensions had process is followed.” came after a meeting on The team’s response embroiled players in an Friday night between

senior players and the university president, according to a statement.

The players will remain suspended but will have a “fair hearing” before a “diverse review panel.”

“Sexual harassment and violence against women — they have no place on this campus, on our team, in our society,” said senior Drew Wolitarsky, who read the statement on behalf of the team.

He also said he hoped for a “public dialogue” on the “apparent lack of due process in a univer-

sity system.”

The school’s president, Eric Kaler, told reporters at a news conference that he was pleased by the outcome and promised to hold fair hearings for the 10 suspended players.

He also emphasized that the players’ decision to consider a boycott was in support of their teammates and not an endorsement of sexual violence.

Minnesota is scheduled to play the Washington State Cougars in the bowl game. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. on ESPN.

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Alabama’s Adonis Thomas, a Central Gwinnett graduate, warms up prior to the start of the 2015 SEC Championship game at the Georgia Dome. (Staff Photo: Jason Braverman)

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From Staff Reports Former Central Gwinnet linebacker Adonis Thomas announced on Friday that he will play for Florida State next season.

The former Under Armour All-American signed with Alabama out of high school and redshirted in 2015. Over the summer

the 6-foot-3, 230-pounder transferred to Northwest Mississippi Community College.

This season for the Rangers, Thomas recorded 73 tackles, 11.5 for loss, six sacks and one interception.

He chose Florida State over offers from Kentucky, Ole Miss, Penn State and Mis-

sissippi State among others.

He will enroll at FSU in January. His first game for the Seminoles will be on Sept. 2 against Alabama in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game at the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Thomas has three years of NCAA eligibility remaining.

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BASKETBALL

Today

• Berkmar boys in King of the Bluegrass Tournament in Fairdale, KY • Norcross boys in Fort Myers tournament

WRESTLING

5 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at McCallie (TN) Invitational Monday

BASKETBALL

• Berkmar boys in King of the Bluegrass Tournament in Fairdale, KY • Collins Hill girls in Woodland Invitational • Norcross boys in Fort Myers tournament • Norcross girls in Myrtle Beach tournament • Wesleyan girls in Crescent Bank Classic in Myrtle Beach, SC 7 p.m. — Houston Co. girls at Providence 8:30 p.m. — Loganville boys at Providence

WRESTLING

9 a.m. — Peachtree Ridge at McCallie (TN) Invitational Tuesday

BASKETBALL

• Berkmar boys in King of the Bluegrass Tournament in Fairdale, KY • Buford boys and Cedar Grove at Woodward Academy • Collins Hill girls in Woodland Invitational • Norcross boys in Fort Myers tournament • Norcross girls in Crescent Bank Classic in Myrtle Beach, S.C. • Parkview girls in Crusader Christmas Classic in Tampa, Fla. • Providence Christmas Tournament • Wesleyan boys at Lovett • Wesleyan girls in Crescent Bank Classic in Myrtle Beach, S.C. 5:30 p.m. — Shiloh boys and Clarke Central at Woodland-Stockbridge Tournament 6 p.m. — Morgan Co. girls at Buford 6 p.m. — St. Pius at GAC

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10 a.m. — White Co., North Cobb, Wesleyan at GAC

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7:30 p.m. — Atlanta at Toronto FSSE 8 p.m. — Los Angeles Lakers at Philadelphia ESPN 10:30 p.m. — Dallas at Utah ESPN

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WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 2 p.m. — UCLA at South Carolina ESPN2

Sports Calendar

RUNNING

Jan. 28: The seventh annual Norcross Blue Devils Run, a Peachtree Road Race qualifier, will feature a 5K and 1-mile fun run at Pinckneyville Middle School in Peachtree Corners. 5K starts at 8 a.m. and fun run starts when 5K finishes.

Pre-registration is $25 and race-day registration is $30.

Proceeds from the studentled event will benefit the high school’s cross country and track and field programs. For more information or to register, go to bluedevilsrun.wixsite.com/ norcross or run signup.com/ BlueDevilsRun. Feb. 4: Meadowcreek will host its fourth annual Stampede in the Park 5K Trail run Feb. 4 at Yellow River Park. The course covers soft

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surfaces and paved trails.

All proceeds benefit the high school’s cross country program. Registration is available at active.com, and more information is available at stampedeinthepark. wix.com/5k1kfunrun. Email stampedeinthepark@gmail. com with any questions.

SOCCER

Ongoing through Jan. 14: Atlanta Fire United youth soccer has opened online registration for its spring recreational season at www.atlantaunitedsoccer. com. Walk-up registration also will be held Jan. 7 at George Pierce Park in Suwanee and Jan. 14 at Bunten Road Park in Duluth. Registration ends Jan. 15. First games are March 4 and practices start Feb. 20.

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Georgia gets 500th win at Stegeman tonight. A lot of guys needed the experience and ATHENS — Junior for- Yante (Maten) had a big ward Yante Maten scored night. He was bigger than 30 points as Georgia everybody on the court so notched its 500th win at he took advantage of his Stegeman Coliseum with size. But we got him the an 84-64 victory over ball and we played very Charleston Southern on unselfishly. It was a pretty Saturday. complete game for the Senior guard J.J. Frazier most part.” added 14 points and five Freshman guard Chrisassists for the Bulldogs (7- tian Keeling scored 19 3), who have won four of points, and junior guard five. Eleven players scored Cortez Mitchell added 15 for Georgia, which had 22 points for the Buccaneers assists on 28 field goals.

(5-6), who have dropped “It is always good two straight and four of to win,” Georgia head five overall. coach Mark Fox said.

The Bulldogs went “I thought we were able through a four-minute to play a bunch of guys scoring drought in the

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second half, but Charleston Southern couldn’t take advantage.

Junior forward Pape Diatta hit a 3-pointer that pushed Georgia’s lead to 20 with 9:36 left in the game. The Bulldogs cruised from there and were never seriously challenged.

Gerogia is 6-1 at home this season.

The Bulldogs took control early, opening in the game with a 23-7 run.

Maten had 19 points in the first half, including a layup off an assist from Jordan Harris that put the Bulldogs up 28-13 with seven minutes left in the

first half.

Georgia took a 46-30 lead into intermission.

Maten has scored in double figures every game this season and spurred a dominating advantage for the Bulldogs on the boards. Georgia outrebounded Charleston Southern 41-23.

The Bulldogs travel to Atlanta to take on rival Georgia Tech on Tuesday, and open SEC play at Auburn on Dec. 29.

Charleston Southern will try to bounce back at Virginia Tech on Tuesday and opens Big South play against Winthrop on Dec. 29.

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Monk scores 47 as Kentucky beats UNC The Sports Xchange LAS VEGAS — Kentucky freshman guard Malik Monk scored a careerhigh 47 points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 22 seconds left, to help the sixth-ranked Wildcats to a 103-100 victory over No. 7 North Carolina on Saturday in Las Vegas.

After Monk’s basket, North Carolina forward Isaiah Hicks missed a layup and the Tar Heels fouled another standout Kentucky freshman, point guard De’Andre Fox. He made both free throws to put the Wildcats ahead 103-100.

North Carolina inbounded the ball and called timeout with two seconds left at halfcourt to set up the last shot. The cross-court pass was knocked out of bounds

by Fox. After a review by the referees, 0.7 seconds was put on the clock.

A 3-point attempt by guard Kenny Williams at the buzzer missed with the ball stuck between the rim and backboard.

North Carolina forward Justin Jackson, who also set a career-high with 34 points, made a layup with 47 seconds to put the Tar Heels ahead 100-98. His 3-pointer with 1:37 left gave North Carolina a 9895 advantage, its first lead since early in the first half.

Kentucky Wildcats guard Malik Monk (5) dribbles against the defense of North Carolina Tar Heels guard Kenny Williams (24) during a game at T-Mobile Arena. (Photo: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA Today Sports)

but Butler got a dunk from Tyler Wideman off a welldesigned out of bounds play with 15.8 seconds to play and two free throws from point guard Tyler Lewis with 10.6 seconds to go to account for the final score.

82-79 lead, and two Ryan Cline free throws with one minute to play gave Purdue an 84-79 advantage.

Bonzie Colson had 23 points to lead the Fighting Irish, and Matt Farrell added 22.

60 with 36 seconds to play on a layup by Tyler Davis.

DJ Hogg hit a 3-pointer that brought Texas A&M to within 65-63, but rizona’s Rawle Alkins hit two free throws with 15 seconds to play to push the Wildcats’ lead to 67-63 and secure No. 16 South Carolina 77, the victory. Arizona won despite going the final 8:11 South Florida 66 No. 11 Louisville 87, TAMPA, Fla. — Sopho- without a field goal.

Eastern Kentucky 56 Davis led all scorers more guard P.J. Dozier LOUISVILLE —The with 23 points and added scored a career-best 23 Cardinals used a 26-0 run 10 rebounds for Texas to overpower the Colonels points while notching his fourth consecutive 20-point A&M (7-3). at the KFC Yum! Center. outing to lead No. 16 The Cardinals (10-1) No. 23 Florida State 83, South Carolina over South were led by sophomore Manhattan 67 Florida. guard Donovan MitchSUNRISE, Fla. — No. No. 2 UCLA 86, Senior guard Duane ell’s 15 points in only 19 Ohio State 73 Notice scored 14 of his 15 23 Florida State defended minutes.

LAS VEGAS — points in the second half as its second trip into the AP Eastern Kentucky (6-6) UCLA’s high-scoring the Gamecocks (9-1) over- Top 25 Poll a lot betwas led by Nick Mayo ter than its first when it offense did not reach its came a six-point halftime with 15 points. downed Manhattan in the average, but the seconddeficit. Freshman forward Orange Bowl Basketball ranked Bruins were still No. 12 West Virginia 112, Malik Kotsar recorded 11 Missouri-Kansas City 67 points and nine rebounds Classic. efficient with four players MORGANTOWN, The Seminoles, who in double figures to remain and freshman guard W.Va. — No. 12 West reached the poll in Week unbeaten by defeating Rakym Felder scored 11 Virginia pulled away from points.

2 at No. 25 but were Ohio State 86-73 on SatMissouri-Kansas City with promptly dropped a week urday.

Sophomore guard 24 unanswered points in Guards Aaron Holiday Jahmal McMurray poured later after a loss to Temple, handled business this go and Bryce Alford each had the first half, giving fans in a season-best 25 points round behind 16 points an early start in celebrating and drained five 3-point 20 points for the Bruins, coach Bob Huggins’ 800th baskets for the Bulls (5-4), from guard Dwayne Bawho are 12-0 for the first con, the Seminoles’ leadtime since starting 14-0 in victory. who dropped their 20th ing scorer.

Nathan Adrian’s 13 2006-07. UCLA made 48.4 consecutive game against The win by Florida percent of its shots against points led seven playTop 25 foes. Freshman State (11-1) — its seventh ers in double figures and a Buckeyes’ defense that forward Malik Fitts conallowed opponents to shoot the Mountaineers forced tributed 12 points and eight straight — gives the Semionly 37.9 percent entering 27 turnovers during the rebounds and junior guard noles their best 12-game start since the 2003 season.

45-point blowout. the game.

Geno Thorpe added 11 Daxter Miles, Brandon UCLA, which averaged points and nine rebounds.

Watkins and Esa Ahmad 97.9 points a game before Notice knocked down No. 25 Cincinnati 119, scored 12 points each for Saturday, scored far more all four of his second-half Fairleigh Dickinson 68 than what Ohio State (8-3) West Virginia (9-1), while 3-point attempts to help the CINCINNATI — Kevin Lamont West, Jevon Carter Gamecocks pull away from allowed (61.7 points a Johnson scored a careerand Teyvon Myers all had South Florida. game). high 18 points and Jacob Ohio State forward Marc 10.

Evans added 17 as No. 25 Loving had a team-high 19 No. 19 Arizona 67, Cincinnati pounded FairNo. 15 Purdue 86, points, 13 of which came Texas A&M 63 leigh Dickinson.

No. 21 Notre Dame 81 in the first half.

HOUSTON — Dusan Seven players scored INDIANAPOLIS — Ristic scored 18 points and in double figures, helping Caleb Swanigan scored 26 Lauri Markkanen added No. 18 Butler 83, points, and Vince Edwards 17 as No. 19 Arizona built Cincinnati (9-2) score the No. 9 Indiana 78 most points in any game added 20, helping No. INDIANAPOLIS — a huge lead and held on during Mick Cronin’s 10 15 Purdue rally from a Kelan Martin scored 28 to beat Texas A&M in the 14-point halftime deficit to first game of the Lone Star seasons as head coach. points, including five Bearcats forward Kyle 3-pointers, and No. 18 But- defeat No. 21 Notre Dame Shootout at the Toyota Washington returned to the in the Crossroads Classic ler held off a late rally to Center. starting lineup and finished defeat No. 9 Indiana 83-78 in Bankers Life FieldArizona (10-2) domihouse. on Saturday in the Crossnated the first half, forging with 12 points and eight rebounds.

The Boilermakers (9-2) a 9-0 run over the final roads Classic in Bankers Washington scored six trailed by as many as 17 in 2:24 to assume a 41-28 Life Fieldhouse. quick points, including the first half, when Notre Kamar Baldwin and lead at intermission. That Dame (9-2) shot 60.6 Andrew Chrabascz each lead ballooned to 22 points a dunk to put Cincinnati percent from the field, but in the middle of the second ahead 14-11. A 3-pointer added 14 points for the Bulldogs (10-1), who have Purdue opened the second half when Texas A&M got by Justin Jenifer made the beaten fellow Top 25 mem- half on a 12-2 run and sloppy with the basketball score 25-12 as the Bearcats hit 8 of 10 shots to open continued to pound the ball and committed turnovers bers Arizona, Cincinnati the game. Cincinnati led inside to Swanigan and and Indiana (8-2). that led to four straight 65-26 at halftime behind Edwards.

James Blackmon Jr., baskets for Arizona.

67.6 percent shooting, Swanigan’s final field who led Indiana with 26 But the Aggies made a including 6 of 11 from points, made a 3-pointer to goal with 1:26 remaining final charge, cutting the 3-point range. gave the Boilermakers an close the deficit to 79-77, Arizona advantage to 65-

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potentially game tying pick six when the ball just TEAM MOBBS 17, the second quarter. Facing slipped out of his hands TEAM HARDY 6 Hardy 6 0 0 0 — 6 a third-and-10, Dinsmore and the fumble was recovMobbs 7 7 0 3 — 17 dropped back and found ered by Team Mobbs.

FIRST QUARTER Neither team was able to North Gwinnett’s Ryan Hardy: Seth Johnston 20 run (kick dent the scoreboard until Lovelace crossing over failed) 10:20 Mobbs: Jasen Johnson 2 run King converted a 25 yard the middle. Lovelace took (Brenton King kick) 5:37 field goal late in the fourth the 5-yard completion and SECOND QUARTER quarter to put the finishing after bouncing off two Mobbs: Ryan Lovelace 49 pass from Drew Dinsmore (King kick) score in the books. would-be tacklers, raced 11:45 Statistically, Team down the left sideline to THIRD QUARTER None Mobbs was led by Johncomplete a 49-yard touchFOURTH QUARTER down play. King’s extra son’s 54 rushing yards, Mobbs: King 25 FG, 2:49 point boosted the lead to while Michigan State 14-6. turned and came down with recruit Connor Heyward “I was happy to score,” greater force as the second added 51. Johnston led Lovelace said. “This was a Team Hardy with 34 yards half began. really good time (playing on the ground.

The third quarter saw in this game). I got to know As the players cut short no scoring but did feature a bunch of good guys who their postgame handtwo interceptions. Team I only knew from playing shakes due to the heavy Mobbs’ Des Howard against.” picked off a Johnston throw rain, many of the players Dinsmore’s coach at mentioned the need to get Team Mobbs’ Des Howard (17) intercepts a pass intended for Team Hardy’s Donavan to stop Team Hardy’s first Collins Hill gave credit for Grier (81) during the second half of Saturday’s Gwinnett All-Star Football Game at possession of the half. home and study for final the touchdown and the vic- Mountain View High School in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Kyle Hess) exams next week. A few The second interceptory to those whose names had other things on their tion occurred when Team don’t often make it into the Reach said. “Coming Team Hardy had a Allen of Team Mobbs. mind.

Mobbs quarterback Noah together in a short practice chance to pull closer late game summary.

After a mostly rain “I have track season Fritz was picked off by “I think the key today coming up,” Lovelace said. time and helping us keep in the half. However, an free halftime ceremony to Devin Thomas of Team was our offensive line,” “But not until after I enjoy the ball in tough weather.

Amaya field goal attempt acknowledge scholarship Hardy and GAC. Thomas Eagles head coach Kevin my holiday break.”

That was big.” was blocked by Michael winners, the moisture rehad a clear path for a

•From Page 1B Mountain View its biggest lead at 34-19 with 34 seconds left in the half the Bears wouldn’t score again for another 6:58 of game time.

Meanwhile, Parkview got a pull-up jumper by Truitt Spencer with 22 seconds left and Cam Chavers banked in a 3-pointer to beat the first-half buzzer to help the Panthers chip away and pull to within 3424 by intermission.

“We challenged (the players) right before the half, and Cam just stepped up and helped us out there,” Parkview coach Nick Gast said. “We showed some heart. We’re going through a slump right now, but we showed some heart.”

That heart began to show in the third quarter, as the Panthers scored the first 12 points of the second half, eight of which came from Ahmir Langlais, including a transition layup off a nifty feed from Chavers to vault Parkview into a 36-34 lead.

It took Mountain View until the 1:36 mark of the period to finally get back on the scoreboard on a Nwagbara layup, and the Bears managed only four points in the entire third quarter.

But the deficit could’ve been even worse had Parkview not struggled from the free throw line, where it finished just 4 of 10 for the game.

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Parkview’s Cam Chavers (24) drives to the basket during the first half of Saturday’s GDP Challenge at Central Gwinnett High School in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

“Free throws have been a problem for us all year,” Gast said. “It’s something we’ve got to go back to work on. It’s all part of learning how to win.

You’ve got to make plays at the right time, and we’re not doing that yet.”

Still, Justin Spencer gave his team one of its few made free throws to complete a three-point play that gave the Panthers their biggest lead of the game at 47-41 with 4:25 left.

But those were the last points they would score, as Mountain View’s defense tightened up again down the stretch.

And just as suddenly as it disappeared, the Bears’ shooting touch reappeared, with Rodgers knocking down 3-pointers to sandwich a power drive down the baseline from Nwagbara to key an 8-0 run that pushed the Bears back in

front at 49-47 with 3:08 left.

“Scoring, obviously, makes everybody happy,” Roy said. “We went to (Rodgers) on a shot, and he knocked it down.”

Neither team was able to do much offensively the rest of the way, but Hayes gave Mountain View just enough by getting to the foul line, and then hitting for the most part when he got there.

After missing the front end of a 1-and-1 with 45.1 seconds left, the 6-foot junior hit four straight on two more 1-and-1 opportunities in the final 17.4 seconds.

And Mountain View made two last defensive stands, with Nwagbara blocking Langlois’ attempt at the game-tying bucket, and the Bears finally corralling a rebound after misses by Langlois and Jamiel Wright to put the

game away.

Rodgers joined Nwagbara in double figures with 13 points, while Hayes chipped in seven points, four boards and five assists for Mountain View.

Chasers led Parkview with 16 points, while Langlais added 11 points and nine rebounds, and Wright finished with four points, four rebounds, four assists and four steals.

Wesleyan (boys) 64, Hebron Christian 61 Hebron’s John Stewart scored a game-high 23 points, but Christian McLean countered with 20 of his own to help Wesleyan hold on for a 64-61 win in the first game of the day.

The Wolves (5-3) also got five 3-pointers on the day from Sean McDonough on his way to 18 points, while Connor Almon also had five 3s on the day, and finished with 15 points for the Lions (6-5).

GAC (girls) 74, Mountain View 46 The Spartans ended the first half on a 10-5 run, and then scored the first nine points of the second half to break open a close game and cruise to the win.

Tamiah Lewis led the way with 21 points, while Robyn Benton chipped in 18 as GAC improved to 9-4 on the season. The Spartans also got 10 points from Taylor Sutton.

Lillian Kennedy scored 13 points to lead the Bears (4-8), while Alea Spears added 10 points.

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who will listen that Jalen Hillery is a heck of a player,” Central coach Branden Mayweather said. “He has been the whole time he’s been here. Having his senior leadership late in games is crucial.

“It feels like every game has been a onepoint game or triple-overtime game. But they’re learning. We’ve got a bunch of young guys who are starting to learn that you have to play for a full 32 minutes to win a ball game.”

The Black Knights (5-7) played well enough for most of the first half, especially a 14-1 run over a 4:04 span of the second quarter that ballooned their advantage to 31-14 before taking a 35-20 lead into intermission.

But Mill Creek (5-6) slowly began to chip away in the second half, with the Hawks twice pulling as close as five points in the third quarter, that last time at 43-38 following a steal and lay in

by Kendall Latney with 1:12 left in the period.

“I thought we found some guys who wanted to compete there in the third quarter, and we kind of rode them,” Mill Creek coach David Allen said.

“That’s what I’m looking for, guys who are going to compete.”

But after a Tre Rice

jumper pulled Mill Creek to within 48-42 with 5:41 remaining, Hillery provided Central with an answer with a layup off a feed from Jalen Morgan, pull-up jumper and two long 3-pointers in transition in a 1:49 span, part of a 12-2 run that pushed the Black Knights’ lead back to double digits at 60-44 with 2:31 left.

“Every time I get hot, my teammates look for me, and I get fired up,” Hillery said. “I just put it in my head that … my teammates need me, and I just get kick-started.”

And Hillery had help down the stretch when Mill Creek made one last run to bring the lead down in double digits, with the senior combining with Skyler Adams, Bernard Kasanda and Julian Grajales to go 9 of 13 at the foul line over the final 2:17 to ice the victory.

Adams finished with eight points for Central, while Grajales contributed six rebounds, Derrick Lawrence chipped in five assists and Kasanda dished out four assists.

Rice, Matthew McDowell and Christian Mancillas each had 13 points to lead Mill Creek, with McDowell also pulling down a game-high 12 rebounds and Mancillas adding six boards and three assists.

The Hawks also got 10 points from Noah Kenney.

Simpson

Georgia State). Talking to Shawn Elliott and you see in 1995, moving over what’s going on down at from Marietta, where he Georgia State, the potential coached Simpson as a is just incredible. The AD, high-schooler.

Charlie Cobb, what he did Wood was emotional at Appalachian State buildFriday when talking about ing facilities. He’s three Simpson’s departure. The years in now at Georgia two met 29 years ago when State. The acquisition of Wood became the head Turner Field, what they’re coach at Marietta, where going to do with the Simpson was a player. Bestadium. Then underneath tween that time, and their the football facilities to be time working at Marietta built and knowing that will and Buford, Wood estimatbe done in the next eight ed that 25 or 26 years of Buford head coach Jess Simpson talks to the Wolves af- to 12 months is incredible. his 42 years in education ter they defeated Woodward Academy to reach the Class You think about recruiting have involved Simpson in AAAA state football finals last season in Buford. (Photo: and you have to have that. some way.

Knowing Shawn Elliott David McGregor) “Timing’s everything and knowing him as a and the timing’s good maybe starting this culture, at the Georgia Dome for coach and person, watchwith Jake being his last but he was there every step Buford’s state title game ing him on the grass over boy (at Buford),” Wood of the way. Maybe even this month, then those two the years and watching said. “Most of my emomore integral because what talked on the phone this him lead when he had the tions are like that because he did in that weight room past weekend. chance at South Carolina he’s like a son to me and and what he did as deEven then, Simpson said (as interim head coach).

I’m just proud of him. It’s fensive coordinator those he didn’t take anything out “The guy’s passion and one of his dreams and the years probably laid the of the conversation that energy are unquestioned. logistics work out really, foundation for everything would lead to a job offer.

The guy gets after it in really well for him. I’m we did. When he took over, But the job talks heated up recruiting. He gets after it really proud for him. I’m there was no doubt he was late this week, leading to in coaching. He loves kids. trying to focus on that. But ready and with his energy his difficult departure from He’s just a neat guy. I think there’s a big hole and that and passion, he would even Buford. he’s going to be great to hurts. … The transition take it to a new level and “It was tough in terms work for. … I’m blessed was so smooth when he certainly that happened.” of leaving here and leaving to get to do it and be a became head coach here Simpson said coachwhat’s comfortable, leavpart of building something because he was so inteing in college was always ing what I’ve known so special. What I tried to gral in what we had done something he wanted to long,” Simpson said. “On echo to our kids today was, before. He was here from try, but the Georgia State the flip side of that coin, as a man, I don’t know if Day 1 with me. job wasn’t in the works for there’s so much potential there’s anything greater at “I get a lot of credit for long. He spoke with Elliott and it’s so exciting (at work than to take your two

hands and the guy next to you take his two hands and let’s go build something.

That’s what I’ve loved here. Dexter bringing me here in 1995 and giving me the opportunity to help build and seeing what this has become. There’s nothing more satisfying than that. This new stage of life for me, this next chapter of life, is about building again. I hope I can be a small part of that and add something to it.”

That his position at Georgia State was on the field, and not administrative, certainly made the move more appealing.

“I’m a football coach,” Simpson said. “I always tell everybody the best part of my day is 3 to 6 when I get to be on the grass and not at a desk. To be able to make the jump to a program in the Sun Belt (Conference), at the Division I level, and be able to have my own group, my own room, to pour into another group of guys and do it at that level. It’s going to be a huge challenge. But it’s certainly invigorating and I’m excited about doing it.”

The excitement of building Georgia State’s program, mixed with the

sadness of leaving Buford, made for an interesting end to the week for Simpson and his family. It allowed him to reflect on where Buford was when he and Wood arrived in 1995, back when the Class A program had 14 kids out for their first practice. Their initial team had a roster of 24 players.

Now Buford is deep, loaded and playing in Class AAAAA. He didn’t want to speculate on any potential replacement as head coach, but said the program is set up for success. With less than 24 hours to process the news, Wood said he and the Buford administration hadn’t discussed the vacancy yet.

In the meeting with players Friday, Simpson stressed that Buford will be fine going forward.

“I just trying to express what a 17-, 16-, 15-yearold is really going to remember and hear (from the meeting) and trying to make sure they know how much I love them, how change is a part of life and they’re going to be okay,” Simpson said. “The culture and the program we built here is a whole lot bigger than me and they’re going to be alright.”

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NFL AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA Home Away New England 11 2 0 .846 349 230 5-2-0 6-0-0 Miami 8 5 0 .615 281 301 6-1-0 2-4-0 Buffalo 6 7 0 .462 325 301 3-3-0 3-4-0 N.Y. Jets 4 9 0 .308 229 324 1-5-0 3-4-0 South

W L T Pct PF PA Home Away Tennessee 7 6 0 .538 321 306 4-3-0 3-3-0 Houston 7 6 0 .538 229 274 5-1-0 2-5-0 Indianapolis 6 7 0 .462 328 333 3-4-0 3-3-0 Jacksonville 2 11 0 .154 240 338 1-6-0 1-5-0 North

W L T Pct PF PA Home Away Pittsburgh 8 5 0 .615 317 256 4-2-0 4-3-0 Baltimore 7 6 0 .538 279 237 5-2-0 2-4-0 Cincinnati 5 7 1 .423 268 269 3-2-1 2-5-0 Cleveland 0 13 0 .000 207 375 0-7-0 0-6-0 West

W L T Pct PF PA Home Away Kansas City 10 3 0 .769 302 255 5-1-0 5-2-0 Oakland 10 3 0 .769 358 320 5-2-0 5-1-0 Denver 8 5 0 .615 296 242 4-2-0 4-3-0 San Diego 5 8 0 .385 350 347 3-3-0 2-5-0

AFC NFC Div 8-1-0 3-1-0 3-1-0 5-4-0 3-1-0 2-1-0 3-6-0 3-1-0 1-3-0 3-6-0 1-3-0 1-2-0 AFC NFC Div 4-5-0 3-1-0 1-3-0 5-4-0 2-2-0 4-0-0 4-6-0 2-1-0 2-3-0 1-8-0 1-3-0 1-2-0 AFC NFC Div 6-3-0 2-2-0 2-1-0 7-3-0 0-3-0 4-0-0 4-5-0 1-2-1 2-2-0 0-9-0 0-4-0 0-5-0 AFC NFC Div 7-2-0 3-1-0 4-0-0 7-2-0 3-1-0 2-2-0 5-4-0 3-1-0 1-3-0 4-5-0 1-3-0 1-3-0

NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA Home Away Dallas 11 2 0 .846 340 238 5-1-0 6-1-0 N.Y. Giants 9 4 0 .692 255 244 6-1-0 3-3-0 Washington 7 5 1 .577 330 317 4-2-0 3-3-1 Philadelphia 5 8 0 .385 290 272 4-2-0 1-6-0 South

W L T Pct PF PA Home Away Atlanta 8 5 0 .615 428 345 3-3-0 5-2-0 Tampa Bay 8 5 0 .615 293 296 3-4-0 5-1-0 New Orleans 5 8 0 .385 358 351 3-4-0 2-4-0 Carolina 5 8 0 .385 311 337 4-3-0 1-5-0 North

W L T Pct PF PA Home Away Detroit 9 4 0 .692 295 268 6-1-0 3-3-0 Minnesota 7 6 0 .538 258 225 4-2-0 3-4-0 Green Bay 7 6 0 .538 333 312 5-2-0 2-4-0 Chicago 3 10 0 .231 221 290 3-3-0 0-7-0 West

W L T Pct PF PA Home Away Seattle 9 4 1 .679 298 235 7-0-0 2-4-1 Arizona 5 7 1 .423 299 277 4-2-1 1-5-0 Los Angeles 4 10 0 .286 197 328 1-5-0 3-5-0 San Francisco 1 12 0 .077 251 393 1-6-0 0-6-0

AFC NFC Div 4-0-0 7-2-0 3-2-0 3-1-0 6-3-0 3-1-0 2-1-1 5-4-0 3-2-0 2-1-0 3-7-0 0-4-0 AFC NFC Div 2-2-0 6-3-0 3-1-0 2-2-0 6-3-0 3-1-0 1-3-0 4-5-0 1-3-0 1-3-0 4-5-0 1-3-0 AFC NFC Div 2-2-0 7-2-0 3-2-0 3-0-0 4-6-0 1-3-0 2-2-0 5-4-0 2-1-0 0-4-0 3-6-0 2-2-0 AFC NFC Div 4-0-0 5-4-1 2-1-1 1-3-0 4-4-1 2-1-1 1-3-0 3-7-0 2-2-0 0-4-0 1-8-0 1-3-0

Thursday’s Game Seattle 24, Los Angeles 3 Saturday’s Game Miami at N.Y. Jets, late Today’s Games Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Detroit at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Atlanta, 4:05 p.m.

New England at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

Oakland at San Diego, 4:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Carolina at Washington, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 15 N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 8:25 p.m.

Banged-up Falcons in driver’s seat vs. lowly 49ers The Sports Xchange

the type of player he is. I think he’s an elite quarterThe Atlanta Falcons sit back.”

What: San Francisco at in the driver’s seat in the Despite missing Jones Atlanta Falcons NFC South and, with a and Sanu, the Falcons put When: Today, 4:05 p.m.

Where: Georgia Dome favorable schedule in the up 42 points in the win TV: FOX final three weeks, are very over the Rams. The 49ers much in the mix for a firsthave scored a total of 47 round playoff bye. points in their last three But they need to get MVP candidate. Ryan has games combined. healthy ahead of the playalready thrown for more Quarterback Colin Kaeoffs. than 4,000 yards with 30 pernick will start against The banged-up Falcons touchdowns and seven Atlanta. Kaepernick has (8-5) kick off their closing interceptions. He threw completed 54.8 percent of stretch today, when the three touchdowns and no his passes with 11 touchlowly San Francisco 49ers interceptions against the downs and three intercep(1-12) visit the Georgia Rams. tions, since taking over Atlanta Falcons head coach Dan Quinn looks on in the Dome for the final time.

“Matt’s one of those as the starter for Blaine third quarter of the game against the Los Angeles Rams This is the last season for quarterbacks that tranGabbert in Week 6. at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. (Photo: Jayne Kathe Falcons in the dome, scends any system,” San “I think Colin has gotmin-Oncea-USA Today Sports) before moving down the Francisco head coach ten better each week with block to their new stadium the sprain is expected to. tive regular-season games, Chip Kelly told reporters us,” Kelly said. “The more “We’ll get him back for the 2017 season. before missing last week’s Wednesday. “It doesn’t comfortable he gets in our Wide receiver Julio here shortly,” Quinn said loss to the New York Jets. matter, I really don’t system, the more comfortJones, who missed last of Jones. “When he can Smith is in the league’s think, what system he’s able we are around him. week’s road win over the explode like he does … concussion protocol and running. Although, the one … We’ve been pleased Los Angeles Rams with the good news is it’s not still needs to be cleared he’s running right now with Colin.” a toe injury, will be out something that’s going to before taking the field he’s very, very successKaepernick has yet to again this week. be a long-term thing.” again. ful in. I think he fits very lead a victory this season, Atlanta head coach The 49ers are battling Even if the 49ers were well into what (offensive though. Last week, San Dan Quinn reclassified their own injuries, with at full-strength, they’d coordinator) Kyle (ShaFrancisco jumped out to Jones’ injury as a sprained left tackle Joe Staley be hard-pressed to keep nahan) is doing. But he’s a 14-0 lead in the first toe. Quinn had initially (hamstring/doubtful) and up with the Falcons, who had a couple different quarter against the Jets, described the injury as receiver Torrey Smith boast the league’s most coordinators and been suc- but was held scoreless in turf toe, which could have (concussion/out). Staley prolific offense, led by cessful with whoever was the second half and lost lingered much longer than had started 92 consecuquarterback Matt Ryan, an coaching him. That’s just their 12th straight game,

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despite a 193-yard rushing performance from Carlos Hyde.

“Once again, it comes down to our execution,” Kaepernick said. “We have to be able to make plays and we didn’t make enough in the second half to put points on the board.”

The Falcons lead the surging Tampa Bay Buccaneers by one game in the NFC South and are within a game of the Seattle Seahawks and Detroit Lions in the battle for the second seed in the NFC. After today’s game against the 49ers, the Falcons close out the regular season at the Carolina Panthers and at home against the New Orleans Saints.

Atlanta’s three remaining opponents are a combined 11-28.

“Who we’re playing and where we’re playing — that’s kind of irrelevant, so to speak, because you want to just go and battle for it,” Quinn said. “(That’s) the intent of the players, that’s what we’re set out to do.”

Lions look to wrap up division title against surging Giants The Sports Xchange Matthew Stafford isn’t going to let a dislocated digit prevent him from helping the Detroit Lions show they’re No. 1 in the NFC North. With glove expected in tow, Stafford and the surging Lions could wrap up the division title with a road win against the New York Giants today at 1 p.m. and a Green Bay loss to Chicago.

Although Stafford injured his right middle finger early in Sunday’s 20-17 victory over the Bears, his legs worked just fine as the quarterback ran 7 yards for a score late in the fourth quarter to give Detroit its fifth straight victory.

“It’s never fun when it’s on your throwing hand but I’ll figure it out and we’ll go from there,” Stafford said. “(The glove) is not really for my state of mind; it’s for what’s going to be functional. So whatever’s most functional, with what I can perform the best with, that’s what I’ll go with.”

New York’s state of mind has been fabulous with seven wins in its last eight outings, highlighted by capturing a season sweep of NFC East-leading Dallas in a 10-7 victory last Sunday night. Electric wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. improved the Giants’ postseason position after racing 61 yards for his team-leading ninth touchdown of the season and sixth in his past five home games.

Packers at Bears Today, 1 p.m.

The Green Bay Packers appeared dead in the postseason chase after a dismal four-game losing streak, but they have turned things around and will carry a three-game winning streak into today’s road matchup at the Chicago Bears. Green Bay is one game out of the final playoff spot in the NFC and still has an outside shot

Saints at Cardinals Today, 4:05 p.m.

The NFL’s top offense and best defense go head-tohead today, but surprisingly no playoff implications will be on the line. The Arizona Cardinals and their topranked defense welcome the New Orleans Saints and their league-leading offense in an intriguing, if ultimately meaningless, matchup.

Both teams’ high hopes in the preseason have Colts at Vikings given way to disappointing Today, 1 p.m. campaigns despite each The Indianapolis Colts had squad’s dominance in one facet of the game. Drew Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford (9) cele- control of their own destiny Brees and New Orleans’ brates after scoring the game winning touchdown dur- before falling last week and prolific, pass-happy ofing the fourth quarter against the Chicago Bears at Ford now need to win and get some help to move back fense haven’t been able Field. (Photo: Raj Mehta-USA Today Sports) into the playoff picture in the to overcome a whopping its last dozen games on the AFC. The Minnesota Vikings, 22 turnovers and one of at winning the NFC North title. road, got back the services who host the Colts today, the league’s worst pass The defense has orchesof Robert Griffin III at quarare trying to push themdefenses. trated the resurgence for terback a week ago but he selves back into the playoff Turnovers also have the Packers, who have did little in his return as the picture as well and enter the plagued the Cardinals, yielded 36 points during the Browns were thrashed by week one game out of a wild whose 23 giveaways help three-game winning streak Cincinnati 23-10. card spot in the NFC. account for the fact Ariafter being shredded for Indianapolis dropped a zona ranks 14th in scoring 153 during the four-game Jaguars at Texans 22-17 decision at home to defense despite allowing skid. Green Bay has a major Today, 1 p.m. the Houston Texans last the fewest total yards in the injury concern with quarterDespite lingering quesweek to drop out of a threeleague. Arizona had four back Aaron Rodgers nursing tions on offense, the Housway tie for first place in the turnovers in last week’s a calf strain that he suffered ton Texans enter the home AFC South and are staring 26-23 setback at Miami, its early in last week’s 38-10 stretch of the season tied for at a final three games that third loss in four games. romp over Seattle. first place with Tennessee include a trip to Oakland in the AFC South Division. and a home game against Patriots at Broncos Eagles at Ravens The Texans look to maintain Jacksonville after finishing Today, 4:25 p.m.

Today, 1 p.m. at least a part of the division up in Minnesota.

The New England Patriots After failing to keep a lead with a game against There is more optimism hold the No. 1 seed in the seasoned veteran quarterTitans on the horizon when in Minnesota, which got AFC with three games to back at bay, the Baltimore it hosts the Jacksonville star running back Adrian play as they prepare to visit Ravens look to keep their Jaguars in a crucial contest Peterson back at practice the defending Super Bowl postseason aspirations in today. this week. champion Denver Broncos line on today when they face Although Brock Osweithis afternoon. The Patriots rookie Carson Wentz and ler’s struggles continue, Steelers at Bengals were in a similar position a the free-falling Philadelphia the Texans’ defense turned Today, 1 p.m. year before dropping their Eagles. Baltimore’s topover Andrew Luck three The Pittsburgh Steelers final two games of the reguranked defense was gashed times in a 22-17 win over have surged back to the lar season and wound up

by Tom Brady and the New the Indianapolis Colts last top of the AFC North on losing at Denver in the AFC England Patriots in a 30-23 week to snap a three-game the heels of a four-game Championship Game. setback on Monday, dropskid. Osweiler threw two winning streak, but they The two-point loss to the ping the Ravens one game touchdown passes and will face a tough divisional Broncos that denied New behind first-place Pittsburgh Kareem Jackson returned matchup when they visit England a trip to the Super in the AFC North. an interception 42 yards for the Cincinnati Bengals this Bowl hasn’t been forgotten Philadelphia is losing its a score as Houston won at afternoon. Pittsburgh moved by quarterback Tom Brady, fight to stay out of the NFC Jacksonville 24-21 earlier in into first place in the AFC who told reporters this week East cellar after four straight the season.

North with a 27-20 win in the that he “watched it a bunch losses and eight in its last snow at Buffalo last weekthis offseason.” The Patriots, 11 games.

Titans at Chiefs end — its third road victory coming off a 30-23 win over Today, 1 p.m. during the four-game run.

Baltimore on Monday night, Browns at Bills Two teams with diviThe Bengals have posted can clinch the AFC East Today, 1 p.m. sion title hopes on the line back-to-back victories to and a first-round bye in the The Buffalo Bills, who square off when the Kansas maintain a slight pulse postseason with a victory. have lost five of their last City Chiefs host the Tennes- in their bid to reach the seven games, attempt to see Titans. The Chiefs can playoffs for a sixth straight Raiders at Chargers avoid the ultimate embarclinch a playoff spot with a season, but have no margin Today, 4:25 p.m. rassment when they host win, while the Titans have for error and need plenty The Oakland Raiders lost the Cleveland Browns today. little margin for error in a of help. Star wide receiver both their hold on the top With rumors of his impendtight AFC South race while A.J. Green, who has missed seed in the AFC and first ing firing swirling, a loss outside of the wild-card the past three games with place in the AFC West in against the winless Browns picture. a hamstring injury, returned the same night, but they could spell the end for Rex The Chiefs are tied with can still wrap up their first to practice Wednesday for Ryan’s time in Buffalo.

Oakland atop the AFC West the first time since he was postseason berth in 14 Cleveland, which has lost and one game behind New years when they visit the injured.

England for the best record in the AFC, and they own the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Raiders after finishing the season sweep with a 21-13 win last week.

The Titans helped the Chiefs with a 13-10 win over Denver last week, keeping pace with Houston at the top of the AFC South standings with a second matchup with the Texans looming in Week 17.

San Diego Chargers. The Raiders have had 10 days off since suffering their first road loss in a 21-13 setback at Kansas City.

Oakland has won three straight against the Chargers, although they had to erase an eight-point second-half deficit in a 34-31 win in Week 5. San Diego is out of playoff contention, but its first seven losses were by eight points or fewer until last week’s 28-16 defeat at Carolina.

Buccaneers at Cowboys Tonight, 8:30 p.m.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones keeps opening the door to a quarterback controversy on his team, but no one else seems to be biting. There is no controversy on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who are closing in on a playoff spot behind Jameis Winston as they prepare to visit the NFC-leading Cowboys.

The Buccaneers are winners of five straight to pull into the No. 6 spot in the NFC, a half-game ahead of the Washington Redskins and one game clear of the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers. Tampa Bay is tied with the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC South and is staring at a tough close to the regular season with a trip to New Orleans and a home game against the Carolina Panthers after the visit to Dallas.

Panthers at Redskins Monday, 8:30 p.m.

How much of an impact Josh Norman’s decision to leave Carolina via free agency had on the team will never be known, but one thing is certain: The Panthers will need a miracle to return to the postseason.

Sitting three games out of the final playoff spot in the NFC with three to play, Carolina will pay a visit to Norman and the Washington Redskins on Monday night.

Panthers coach Ron Rivera said his team has “no room for error” and quarterback Cam Newton insisted going up against Norman, who signed a $75 million, five-year deal with the Redskins, is not part of the game plan. “It’s not a game about him vs. us,” Newton said. “We just need to win this game.”

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Grambling State stops N.C. Central in Celebration Bowl

By Guy Curtright The Sports Xchange

ATLANTA — Grambling State, a once dominant football program at an embarrassing low four years ago, is back on top among teams from Historically Black Colleges and Universities thanks to a late blocked extra-point attempt in the Celebration Bowl.

North Carolina Central’s Quentin Atkinson was called for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after catching a 39-yard touchdown pass with 2:14 remaining. Joseph McWilliams blocked the lengthened kick by Brandon McLaren to preserve Saturday’s 10-9 victory at the Georgia Dome.

“I do want to apologize,” said Atkinson, who was flagged because he took off his helmet. “That was a selfish play and I’m not selfish. It was the heat of the moment and I was excited to bring the team back.”

Martez Carter had a 32-yard touchdown in the

Grambling State Tigers defensive lineman DeVaughn Madise (96) and offensive lineman Terry Boyd (60) carry the trophy after defeating the North Carolina Central Eagles 10-9 in the Celebration Bowl at the Georgia Dome.

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third quarter for Grambling (12-1) and the Tigers claimed bragging rights to a 15th national HBCU with their 11th straight victory. It wasn’t easy, though.

“We had to bite down, play great defense and run the football,” Grambling coach Broderick Fobbs said. “That’s what makes us a very dominant team.

We’re able this year to win in many different ways.”

Grambling is 27-9 in

three seasons under Fobbs, a former Tigers captain who was hired after the team went 2-21 over two years and had to forfeit when players complaining about old issues with the program refused to board the bus to play Jackson State.

It is a different atmosphere now.

“This is a special place,” said quarterback DeVante Kincade, who transferred from Ole Miss. “I would

tell anybody to come to Grambling.”

The only loss this season for Grambling, the Southwest Athletic Conference champion, was 31-21 to Arizona and the Tigers led 21-3 at halftime against the Pac-12 team.

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference winner N.C. Central (9-3) had won nine straight games since opening the season with losses to Duke and unbeaten Western Michigan.

“We wanted to make a statement that we’re not underdogs,” said N.C. Central linebacker Reggie Hunter, who was in on 11 tackles. “We’re not underdogs. We’re coming back next year.”

Grambling, down 3-0 at halftime, went 70 yards in eight plays the first time it had the ball in the third quarter, going ahead on Carter’s lengthy TD run.

“I’m the home run hitter,” said the shifty Carter, who had 109 yards on 12 carries as Grambling finished with 196 nets yards on the ground.

The Tigers made it a

seven-point advantage later in the quarter as Jonathan Wallace kicked a 26-yard field goal after a fumble recovery by linebacker Malcolm Williams.

Grambling had a chance to pad its lead early in the fourth quarter after a 30yard punt return by Carter, but N.C. Central made a fourth-down stop at the 2-yard line.

After an interception

by Grambling linebacker Marchel Jackson stopped N.C. Central midway in the fourth quarter, Eagles quarterback Malcolm Bell scrambled and found Atkinson at the back of the end zone.

The PAT attempt had to become the equivalent of a 36-yard field goal, though, after the penalty and the kick was blocked

by McWilliams, who came fast off the edge.

“We’ve got to do a better job in protection,” N.C. Central coach Jerry Mack said.

The teams combined for 343 yards in the first half, but the only scoring was a 23-yard field goal by N.C.

Central’s McLaren in the first quarter.

McLaren later missed from 34 yards, Grambling’s Wallace couldn’t connect from 30 yards and Kincade had a tipped pass intercepted in the end zone by the Eagles’ Alden McClellon.

Bell completed 18 of 32 passes for 240 yards, while Kincade was 15 of 31 for 149 yards.

Notes: Schools from the SWAC and MEAC give up spots in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision playoffs in favor of participating in the Celebration Bowl. …

The MEAC prevailed in the first Celebration Bowl, with North Carolina A&T defeating Alcorn State 41-34. … Attendance this year was announced as 31,096 — about 5,000 less than a year ago. … N.C. Central shared MEAC titles in 2014 and 2015 before winning outright this season. … Grambling, also trailing at halftime in that game, defeated Alcorn 27-20 for the SWAC championship.

Donnel Pumphrey Marcus Cox, Mountaineers top Toledo sets career rushing record in bowl win

By Steve Guiremand The Sports Xchange

LAS VEGAS — San Diego State’s Donnel Pumphrey said his 15-yard sweep around right end that broke Ron Dayne’s NCAA career rushing mark was just like a dream … sort of.

“Just to be able to celebrate with my teammates, it was just amazing,” Pumphrey said after the Aztecs scored 34 unanswered points to defeat Houston, 34-10, in the 25th annual Las Vegas Bowl on Saturday afternoon at Sam Boyd Stadium.

“I pictured it last night.

I had a dream about it. Just to get that love from my guys, that really shows how close our team is.”

A teary-eyed Pumphrey was asked if the record came on a sweep in his dream.

“I honestly don’t know,” Pumphrey said with a large smile. “I didn’t have a dream. I just made that up.”

That response brought a loud outburst of laughter from the media assembled for the postgame press conference as Pumphrey, sitting with the Rossi Ralenkotter MVP trophy, delivered the last deke of his memorable college career.

The 5-foot-9 Pumphrey, who gained minus-1 yard on his first seven carries, finished with 115 yards on 19 attempts — including a 32-yard touchdown run in the third quarter that gave San Diego State its first lead at 13-10. He finished his career with 6,405 yards.

Seven plays after Pumphrey’s TD run, freshman cornerback Ron Smith picked off Houston quarterback Greg Ward Jr. in the right flat and raced 54 yards untouched up the left sideline to increase the Aztecs’ lead to 20-10. It was San Diego State’s third interception of the quarter.

Pumphrey broke former Wisconsin star Dayne’s career rushing record (6,397) on the Aztecs’ next possession on the sweep around right end. He eluded Houston safety Khalil Williams in the backfield and picked up a key block from fullback Nick Bawden for a 15-yard gain that ended in the San Diego State bench, where he was mobbed by his teammates.

“It definitely wasn’t easy,” Pumphrey said. “(Houston) didn’t want me to break (the record)

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against them. Our offensive line accepted the challenge.”

Pumphrey carried just one more time for three yards after that. The Aztecs (11-3) sealed the win on a 28-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Christian Chapman to a wideopen wide receiver Curtis Anderson III with 8:58 remaining.

That score came just one play after Ward was stopped for a three-yard loss by defensive tackle Noble Hall as the Cougars (9-4) gambled on fourthand-1 on their own 31.

Freshman Juwan Washington’s 7-yard touchdown run with 1:11 left ended the scoring.

Pumphrey attended high school at Canyon Springs High School in North Las Vegas, about 18 miles from Sam Boyd Stadium. He entered the game needing 108 yards to break mark held by former Heisman Trophy winner Dayne (1996-99).

Dayne told the Wisconsin State Journal’s “The Red Zone” podcast last month that he thought Pumphrey should have an asterisk placed by his name because the NCAA didn’t count his bowl game rushing totals to his record.

The NCAA began counting bowl games toward regular season and career statistical totals in 2002, but it did not go back and add bowl totals for players who played before 2002. If it had, Dayne’s total, counting bowl games, would be 7,125, including 200 yards in the 2000 Rose Bowl.

Dayne tweeted his congratulations to Pumphrey after his record run.

“Congratulations young man #GOAT #7125.”

Ward, whose 2-yard touchdown run gave Houston a 10-0 lead in the first quarter, finished 25 of 34 for 229 yards but was sacked seven times to go along with four interceptions.

“Turnovers, turnovers,” Houston coach Major Applewhite said. “We had situations where there was miscommunication on a route, miscommunication on a pick-six. It really swayed the game.”

It was Applewhite’s first game as head coach of the Cougars after replacing Tom Herman, who left to become head coach at Texas on Nov. 26.

“We lost,” Applewhite

palachian State 8-yard line with 2:06 to play.

Montgomery, Ala. — After the penalty pushed Taylor Lamb rushed for Toledo back 5 yards, Vest’s kick sailed barely outside a touchdown and threw a of the right goal post, actouchdown, and Darrynton cording to the officials.

Evans returned a kickoff The Mountaineers, the for a score to lead Appaco-champions of the Sun lachian State past Toledo Belt, ran out the final min31-28 on Saturday in a utes and celebrated. thrilling, back-and-forth Woodside finished 18 Camellia Bowl. of 26 for 247 yards with Lamb had 126 yards two touchdowns, and Hunt rushing on nine carries and scored two touchdowns Dacula grad Marcus Cox, and became the program’s the Mountaineers’ career rushing leader who topped Appalachian State Mountaineers running back Marcus career rushing leader with 5,000 yards in his career Cox (14) carries the ball against Toledo Rockets at Ca- 120 yards on 22 carries.

Appalachian State on the night, had 143 rush- mellia Bowl. (Phto: Marvin Gentry-USA Today Sports) scored on its first possesing yards and a touchdown sion, with Lamb connectfor Appalachian State, Toledo answered each attempt. which won its second time, scoring touchdowns The Mountaineers took ing with Deltron Hopkins on a 16-yard touchdown straight Camellia Bowl in on a pass from quarterback the lead on their next only its second season in Logan Woodside to Chris drive, this time settling for pass. The Rockets anthe FBS. Thompson and on a short Michael Rubino’s 39-yard swered quickly, with The game kicked into plunge from running back field goal that put Appala- Woodside capping a fourhigh gear in the second Kareem Hunt late that sent chian State up 31-28 with play, 75-yard drive with a touchdown pass to tight half, with the teams the game into the fourth five minutes left. end Michael Roberts. combining for 28 points in quarter tied 28-28.

Toledo kicker Jameson Hunt and Cox got gothe final 8:04 of the third Appalachian State Vest missed a 30-yard field ing in the second quarter, quarter. Appalachian State marched to the Toledo goal on its ensuing drive with each scoring rushing took touchdown leads on 21-yard line to open the after a bizarre sequence touchdowns to send the a Lamb keeper on fourth fourth quarter but squanthat saw the Rockets game into halftime tied down and Evans’ 94-yard dered the opportunity with called for delay of game kickoff return. a failed fake field goal on fourth-and-2 at the Ap- 14-14.

McQuarley, Lobos run past UTSA 23-20

By Chris Jackson The Sports Xchange

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Lobos used their punishing ground game and an inspired defensive effort to defeat the Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners 23-20 in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl on Saturday afternoon.

Richard McQuarley ran for 68 yards and two touchdowns on 17 carries while Teriyon Gipson added 60 yards and one score.

Quarterback Lamar Jordan picked up 81 yards on the ground and 77 through the air.

It was the first bowl win for New Mexico (9-4) since it captured the New Mexico Bowl trophy in 2007, and the first under coach Bob Davie.

“After a win like that, there wasn’t a lot of yelling, it was more of a feeling,” Davie said. “It’s all about these players. I’ve talked in depth about enjoying the moment.”

After the Roadrunners (6-7) scored to pull within 16-13 in the fourth quarter, the Lobos drove down to the 2-yard line and elected to go for it on fourth-and-1 with 3:08 remaining. After a timeout and a replay review, McQuarley was able to get the yard right up the middle.

“Richard McQuarley really stood out to me,” Davie said. “He’s a heck of a player.”

Another 1-yard run put

The first half was surprisingly dominated by the defenses. Both teams showed the ability to move the ball through the middle of the field, but would then stall out inside the 40.

The Lobos led 7-3 at the end of the first quarter after McQuarley scored on a 1-yard run with four seconds left, capping a nine-play, 66-yard drive. It was the only touchdown of the half.

UTSA was able to drive down for a 28-yard field New Mexico Lobos running back Richard McQuarley (3) goal with 1:32 left in the celebrates after scoring the winning touchdown against second quarter to cut the the UTSA Roadrunners at University Stadium. (Photo: New Mexico lead to 7-6.

Ivan Pierre Aguirre-USA Today Sports) That still left the Lobos McQuarley in the end zone he did the rest, scampering enough time to drive down and sewed up the victory for a 16-yard touchdown, to the 35 with four seconds for New Mexico. UTSA the first of his career. The remaining. Jason Sanders picked up a touchdown with extra point pulled the Road- booted a 52-yard field goal into the swirling wind to 25 seconds left but failed to runners within 16-13. make it 10-6. recover the ensuing onside UTSA had 246 yards of For the Roadrunners, it kick. rushing on the day, led by was a game of what could “I told our guys to hold senior Jarveon Williams’ have been. their heads up high, they 125 yards on 16 carries.

“The (scoring) opporhad nothing to be ashamed “We’ve always had tunities were few and far of,” Roadrunners coach a good rushing attack,” between,” Wilson said.

Frank Wilson said. “ToWilliams said. “Today, we “We had to kick three field day our best wasn’t good didn’t have enough good goals. If we were able to enough.” plays.” score touchdowns there, it The Roadrunners had put New Mexico started the together their first touchthird quarter with a 10-play, would have been a different outcome.” down drive starting with 75-yard drive, capped by For Davie and the Lobos, 24 seconds left in the third Gipson’s 10-yard touchthere was no need to look quarter. They drove down down run. back at what could have to the 35, only to seemingly The next two drives for been. stall out after Dalton Sturm the Lobos, sandwiched “I’m so happy these was stuffed on a run on around an unsuccessful players have a chance to go third-and-15. UTSA elected drive by the Roadrunners, home for the holidays to see to go for it and Sturm found amounted to nothing. their family, friends, former Brady Jones for a 19-yard “We didn’t have a lot of completion. offense, but we had enough coaches and teammates, and hold their heads high,” Two plays later, Sturm when we needed it,” Davie Davie said. found Trevor Stevens and said.

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Lanier boys overcome slow start to beat Archer

By Mark Blumen

Archer Tigers in the Gwinnett Daily Post Challenge.

Lanier scored just two LAWRENCEVILLE points in the first quarter — The Lanier Longhorns but rallied for a 64-51 win were coming off a big win over the Tigers. Adrian over Meadowcreek on Martin had eight of his 13 Friday night, after losing points in the third quarter to the Mustangs by 31 a while Edward Ruiz, who few weeks ago and knew had 17 on Friday had 10 it would be a struggle in the fourth quarter to playing on back-to-back help spark the team to the nights as they played again victory. on Saturday against the The Longhorns trailed Staff Correspondent

9-2 after the first quarter and looked sloppy doing it, but rallied in the second quarter behind two big 3-pointers by Christian Pasley to lead 18-14 at intermission. Lanier turned the tide for good in the third quarter.

“I don’t think we did anything differently in the second half. Our defensive intensity just picked up,” said Lanier head coach

Jeremy Huckaby. “We had a couple easy ones in transition and a couple of pitch outs, a couple wide open looks.”

Lanier scored 29 points in the fourth period. Tyler Taylor went 5 of 6 and had seven of his 16 points in the period to keep the Longhorns ahead.

“Early on, we thought we were getting some good looks,” said Hucka-

by. “We Just didn’t finish.

We started finishing those late in the game. We did a great job defensively switching up between man and zone.”

Malik Sproles led Archer with 18 points including five 3-pointers. No one else was in double figures.

In the girls game Archer got 17 points from Lindsey Marchesee and coasted to a 66-46 victory over

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Buford girls remain undefeated From Staff Reports LOGANVILLE — Buford remained undefeated by downing Duluth 63-57 in the Gwinnett Daily Post Challenge game held at Grayson on Saturday.

The Wolves (7-0) were led by Jessica Nelson’s 14 points. Audrey Weiner and Marissa Bruce each added nine points while Snoody Johnson chipped in eight points and teammate Tory Ozment contributed seven points, eight rebounds and four assists.

Torey Walker led Duluth with 14 points while Deja Mitchell added 11 in the loss.

GIRLS BASKETBALL GIRLS HOOPS North Gwinnett 63, Meadowcreek 30 LOGANVILLE — North Gwinnett defeated Meadowcreek 63-30 in the Gwinnett Daily Post Challenge contest held at Grayson on Saturday. The Bulldogs (4-7) were led by Kendall Kerr who scored 18 and Sydnee Jackson who added 12. Alanni Brown and Makayia Schymanski chipped in with 11 and nine points, respectively.Arian Rumph led Meadowcreek with 14.

Shiloh 57, Aiken (Ohio) 36 SMYRNA (TENN) — Shiloh defeated Aiken (Ohio) 57-36 In She Got Game Classic at Stewarts Creek on Saturday. Shiloh (5-8) was led by Tanya Gathings 17 points and Kayla Allen’s 14 points. Lauren Edwards added 11 points while Kayla West chipped in 10 points.

Norcross 65, Orangeburg-Wilkinson 24 MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Norcross handily defeated Orangeburg-Wilkinson (S.C.) in the Crescom Bank Invitational on Saturday. Norcross (13-0) was led by Taylor Mason’s 12 points and six rebounds. Vanessa Blagmon added seven points, five rebounds and four assists while Tehya Lyons chipped in with six points and six assists.

Grayson 61, Peachtree Ridge 37 LOGANVILLE — Grayson overcame an eight-point deficit at the end of the first quarter and went on to defeat Peachtree Ridge 61-37 in the Gwinnett Daily Post Challenge contest held at Grayson on Saturday.

Summer Dillwood finished with a game-high 21 points for the Rams (4-6) and Jonnise Poole added 15. Jazmin Robinson scored 11 while Jamecia Torrence’s 10 rounded out the scoring for the Rams.

Elyce Joseph led Peachtree Ridge in scoring with 17 points, including four 3-pointers.

Mill Creek 59, Central Gwinnett 35 LAWRENCEVILLE — Mill Creek’s Morgan Simmons scored a game-high 21 points, most of which came during the second quarter, to lift the Hawks to a 59-35 win over Central Gwinnett in the Gwinnett Daily Post Challenge contest held at Central on Saturday. The second quarter was decisive as Mill Creek (11-1) outscored the Black Knights (8-6) 29-3 to roll to the victory.

Wynter Webb added 18 for the Hawks.

Jayla Black led Central with eight points while teammate Dalen Tate added seven.

Discovery 58, Berkmar 28 LAWRENCEVILLE — Discovery downed Berkmar 58-28 in the Gwinnett Daily Post Challenge contest held at Archer on Saturday. Akaya Chaney led the Titans with 16 points while Jasia Paraoan poured in 13. Kyasia Overstreet added 10 while Jalia Bryant contributed eight points in the victory.

BOYS BASKETBALL BOYS HOOPS Berkmar wins a pair FAIRDALE, Ky. — Berkmar defeated Lee high school, out of Alabama, 56-48 in the first round of the King of the Bluegrass Tournament on early Saturday.

The Patriots (9-3) followed that up with a quarterfinal win over Allatoona 65-45 to move into today’s semifinals.

Against Lee, Al Durham led

Berkmar with 24 points and six rebounds. Zach Cooks also pulled down six rebounds and contributed 17 points in the victory.

In the win over Allatoona, Jay Estime was the leading scorer with 21 points while Cooks added 18 and Durham chipped in 13.

Discovery 62, GAC 47 LAWRENCEVILLE – Discovery downed Greater Atlanta Christian 62-47 in the Gwinnett Daily Post Challenge held at Archer on Saturday. Discovery (9-5) was paced

by Jaden Stanley’s 23 points. Ty Chaney added 13 points while teammate Kalu Ezikpe chipped in with 10 points.Hunter McIntosh led GAC with 17 points and Charlie O’Briant added 14.

Heritage 78, Brookwood 69 CONYERS – Brookwood’s Bubba Parham tied a school record by connecting on eight 3-pointers on Saturday. However it wasn’t enough as the Broncos fell to host Heritage 78-69.

Parham ended the game with 31 points, while Trae Higgenbotham added 20 for the Broncos (3-8).

Morgan County 64, Dacula 57 OAKWOOD – Morgan County defeated Dacula 64-57 in the Spartan Shootout at West Hall on Saturday. The Falcons (6-3) were led by Reggie Horton who scored 22 points. Justin Goodson had 16 while Mekhail Bethea added 12.

Hornets end skid with win over Hawks The Sports Xchange ATLANTA — Marvin Williams matched his season high with 19 points, including the game-clinching 3-pointer with 27.8 seconds left that lifted the Charlotte Hornets to a 107-99 win over the Atlanta Hawks and end their four-game losing streak.

Atlanta twice erased a double-digit lead in the second half and led 95-94 with 3:50 remaining. But the Hornets regained the lead on Marco Belinelli’s third 3-pointer of the fourth quarter and Atlanta could never get closer than two

points.

Williams, who played with Atlanta from 20052012, shot 7-for-10 from the field and added six rebounds. Belinelli shot 8-for-11 to finish with 19.

Charlotte (15-13) also got 18 points and 10 assists from Kemba Walker and 16 points and 11 rebounds from Cody Zeller.

Atlanta (13-14) got 21 points from Tim Hardaway Jr. and 20 points, five rebounds and five assists from Paul Millsap, who gave the Hawks their final lead with a short jumper.

Dwight Howard had 10 points and 23 rebounds, his

18th double-double, and 17 points from Kent Bazemore. Dennis Schroder scored 12 points, but committed a turnover, missed two free throws and a layup in the final minute.

Atlanta led by as many as eight points in the first quarter, racing to an 1810 lead when Bazemore knocked in a 3-pointer at the 4:20 mark.

But Charlotte came back to tie the game 22-22 at the end of the period and maintained the momentum in the second quarter. The Hornets led by as many as 12 points when Jeremy Lamb made a field goal

with 5:44 to put Charlotte ahead 40-28.

Atlanta shot only 35.7 in the half, gong 4-for-19 at one stretch, and Charlotte had a 53-42 lead at halftime. Walker had nine in the first half, with Hardaway scoring 14 for Atlanta.

The Hornets didn’t slow down in the third quarter.

They scored the first two baskets and led by as many as 16 points at 62-46.

Atlanta cut the lead to 63-59 on Howard’s basket with 6:08 left, but never got any closer before the end of the period. Charlotte led 80-74 after third quarters.

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Lanier. The win snapped Lanier’s five-game winning streak as the Longhorns fell to 10-2. Tia Shorter finished with 12 points and Asia McCoy had 10 to lead the way.

Archer jumped out to a 19-5 after the first quarter.

Kyleeah Whitehead had a steal at 3:43 left in the period to give Archer a 12-0 lead and the Tigers never looked back.

Lions

up our effort and we did.

We hit a few big shots tonight.”

Devin Vassell came up huge for the Lions with a game-high 25 points and Conner Heyward added eight points including two 3-pointers.

Rams star junior Travis Anderson, who was coming off of five consecutive games of 22 points or more was held to just 14 points on 3 of 9 shooting and that was a credit to Arrington’s game plan.

“We basically said that he was not going to catch the ball and we tried to keep the ball out of his hands as much as possible,” he said. “But that meant some of their other guys kind of went to work. So there are some things that you give up in order to take him away which we chose to try to do. But he’s a great player, so we had to do it in order to lessen his ability to score.”

With the Lions leading the Rams 11-7 to start the second quarter, Vassell started off the quarter with a 3-pointer, just like he did in the first quarter to put the Lions up 14-7. However, the Rams battled back and cut the lead to 14-12 on a corner 3-pointer from Orvel Graham.

With the lead back up to 18-14 in favor of the Lions, Joey Chavez knocked down a corner 3-pointer to cut the lead to one, but the Rams could not get over the hump and trailed the Lions 21-20 at the half.

The Rams opened up the third quarter on fire and took their first lead of the game on a 3-pointer from Nick Edwards off an assist from Anderson to put them up 23-21.

Edwards added a running layup on the Rams’

next possession to increase their lead to four, but Vassell brought the Lions to within one after he made a 3-pointer.

With the teams deadlocked at 29-29 with under two minutes to go in the third. Vassell put the Lions up 31-29 with a layup, but Anderson answered with a tip-in layup to tie the game back up at 31-31.

With the momentum starting to shift back over to the Rams, Peachtree Ridge closed the quarter out on a 7-3 run and led 38-34 heading into the fourth quarter.

Anderson opened the fourth quarter with a deep 3-pionter to cut the Lions’ lead to one, and gave the Rams the lead with two free throws to follow, but Vassell answered the bell once again. He put the Lions up 46-43 and Collins followed that up with a three-point play to extend the Lions’ lead to 49-43 with 2:40 left to play.

Edwards knocked down a corner 3-pointer for the Rams on their ensuing possession, and Anderson added a free throw to cut the Lions’ lead to 49-47 with 1:32 remaining, but that was the closest they would get from that point on.

The Rams missed their next four shots in a row and the Lions knocked down four free throws and a layup from Collins to close out the game 55-47.

“It felt good and I knew that my team was depending on me,” Vassell said. “I was just trying to get my team going and help us gain control of the game. Basketball Is a game of runs and we just tried to get good possessions every time we went down the court and stoped the ball on defense.”

SPORTS AT A GLANCE Basketball National Basketball Association CENTRAL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto............... 18....8.....692...... — Boston............... 14..12.....538........4 New York............ 14..12.....538........4 Brooklyn...............7..18.....280...10.5 Philadelphia.........6..20.....231......12 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Charlotte............ 14..13.... .519...... — Atlanta............... 13..13.....500........5 Washington........ 11..14.....440........2 Orlando.............. 12..16.....429.....2.5 Miami...................9..18.....333........5 Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland........... 18....6.....750...... — Milwaukee.......... 13..12.....520.....5.5 Detroit................ 14..14.....500........6 Chicago............. 13..13.....500........6 Indiana............... 13..14.....481.....6.5 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio.......21....5.....808...... — Houston.............20....7.... .741..... 1.5 Memphis............ 18..10.....643........4 New Orleans........9..19.....321......13 Dallas...................6..20.....231......15 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah................... 17..10.....630...... — Oklahoma City... 15.. 11.....577..... 1.5 Portland............. 13..15.....464.....4.5 Denver............... 10..16.....385.....6.5 Minnesota............7..18.....280........9 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State......23....4.....852...... — L.A. Clippers......20....7.... .741........3 Sacramento....... 10..16.....385...12.5 L.A. Lakers......... 11..18.....379......13 Phoenix................8..18.....308...14.5 Friday’s Games Washington 122, Detroit 108 Orlando 118, Brooklyn 111 Boston 96, Charlotte 88 Atlanta 125, Toronto 121 Milwaukee 95, Chicago 69 Sacramento 96, Memphis 92 Houston 122, New Orleans 100 L.A. Lakers 100, Philadelphia 89 L.A. Clippers 102, Miami 98 Utah 103, Dallas 100

Saturday’s Games Oklahoma City 114, Phoenix 101 Indiana at Detroit, late Charlotte at Atlanta, late L.A. Lakers at Cleveland, late Houston at Minnesota, late New York at Denver, late Portland at Golden State, late Today’s Games L.A. Clippers at Washington, 3:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Dallas, 4 p.m.

Utah at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Boston at Miami, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

College Friday’s Games EAST Howard 77, Shenandoah 66 Liberty 81, Clarks Summit 33 Rider 90, Drexel 82 William & Mary 113, Milligan 59 SOUTH Gardner-Webb 95, Warren Wilson 45 High Point 79, NC-Wesleyan 61 Miami-Florida 76, Florida Atlantic 56 Samford 82, South Alabama 79 South Carolina State 69, Furman 67 Texas Rio Grande Valley 95, Lamar 81 MIDWEST Arkansas St. 89, Central Arkansas 77 North Dakota State 87, North Dakota 70 Texas-Arlington 56, Bradley 51 WEST Bethesda University 100, CSU Northridge 95 Idaho State 76, Montana Tech 46 Long Beach St. 71, Oregon St. 67 Portland 85, South Dakota 82 Portland St. 82, San Francisco 78 Stanford 79, Cal St. East Bay 55 Saturday’s Games EAST Binghamton 85, Delaware State 66 Georgetown 78, Syracuse 71 La Salle 84, Florida Gulf Coast 80 Massachusetts 95, Kennesaw St. 77 Providence 76, Wagner 54 Siena 71, Bucknell 68 St. Bonaventure 79, Niagara 69 Stony Brook 75, St. Francis (PA) 63 Temple 68, New Jersey Tech 63 Texas Tech 79, Richmond 72 Vermont 82, Eastern Michigan 74

Virginia Tech 113, The Citadel 71 West Virginia 112, UMKC 67 Winthrop 86, Hampton 79 Canisius 94, Buffalo 87 Virginia 79, Robert Morris 39 Seton Hall 81, Delaware 68 Rice at Pittsburgh, late Middle Tennessee St. at VCU, late St. Francis (NY) at Albany, late Towson at MD Baltimore Cty, late SOUTH Appalachian St. 73, James Madison 61, OT Arkansas 77, Texas 74 Florida St. 83, Manhattan 67 Georgia 84, Charleston Southern 64 Louisiana-Lafayette 76, New Orleans 71 NC-Wilmington 100, Radford 64 North Carolina Central 74, McNeese St. 66 Presbyterian 90, Coastal Georgia 48 South Carolina 77, South Florida 66 Jacksonville 75, Florida A&M 72 Florida 87, Charlotte 46 UNC Asheville 59, Western Carolina 57 Northwestern St. 68, LouisianaMonroe 64 LSU 88, Texas Southern 80 Baylor 82, Jackson State 57 Northern Illinois at Florida International, late Kansas vs. Davidson at Kansas City, MO, late Lipscomb at Tennessee Tech, late North Texas at Sam Houston St., late Texas Rio Grande Valley at Houston, late Evansville at Austin Peay, late Bethune-Cookman at Tenn-Martin, late Grambling State vs. Louisiana Tech at Bossier City, LA, late Arlington Baptist College at Houston Baptist, late Chattanooga at Vanderbilt, late Northern Arizona at Texas-El Paso, late MIDWEST Cincinnati 119, Fairleigh Dickinson 68 DePaul 109, Chicago St. 61 Detroit Mercy 85, Western Kentucky 79 East Tennessee St. 78, Morehead St. 68 Eastern Illinois 67, Missouri 64 Louisville 87, Eastern Kentucky 56 Memphis 99, Oklahoma 94, OT Michigan 98, Maryland - E. Shore 49

Ohio 71, Cleveland St. 53 Purdue 86, Notre Dame 81 Western Illinois 75, Wis.-Milwaukee 59 Loyola-Chicago 81, Illinois-Chicago 75 South Dakota State 88, Murray St. 84 St. Louis 72, SIU - Edwardsville 58 Butler 83, Indiana 78 Kentucky 103, North Carolina 100 Iowa vs. Northern Iowa at Des Moines, IA, late Belmont at Green Bay, postponed Missouri St. 71, SE Missouri St. 66 Southeastern Louisiana at Toledo, late Drake vs. Iowa St., late Oklahoma St. at Wichita St., late Dayton vs. Northwestern at Chicago, IL, late Marshall at Akron, late Wake Forest at Xavier, late Texas State at Tulsa, late Oral Roberts at Creighton Indiana St. at Valparaiso, late Brigham Young vs. Illinois at Chicago, IL, late WEST Arizona 67, Texas A&M 63 Colorado 81, Fort Hays State 71 Denver 73, Northern Colorado 70 Kansas St. 89, Colorado St. 70 UCLA 86, Ohio St. 73 Santa Clara 69, Washington St. 68 UC Davis 87, William Jessup 64 Wyoming 97, Cornell 78 Utah 92, Prairie View A&M 60 Indiana - Purdue 101, Southern Utah 81 Incarnate Word at Loyola Marymount, late Cal Poly SLO at California, late New Mexico St. at Arizona State, late Arkansas-Pine Bluff at New Mexico, late Montana at UC Riverside, late NW Nazarene at Idaho, late Bethesda University at San Diego, late Utah Valley at Weber St., late Mississippi Valley State at Grand Canyon, late Fresno St. at Pacific, late Abilene Christian at Sacramento State, late Troy at Southern California, late UNLV vs. Oregon at Portland, OR, late Today’s Games

EAST Penn St. (6-5) vs. St. John’s (5-6), at New York, NY, 11 a.m.

Holy Cross (4-6) at Rhode Island (6-4), 12:30 p.m.

Fordham (5-6) vs. Rutgers (10-1), at New York, NY, 1 p.m.

North Florida (4-9) at Connecticut (4-5), 1 p.m.

Quinnipiac (3-6) at Maine (4-6), 1 p.m.

Eastern Washington (8-2) at Northern Kentucky (7-3), 1 p.m.

Sacred Heart (5-6) at Boston College (5-5), 1 p.m.

Central Conn. St. (2-7) at Massachusetts Lowell (2-8), 1 p.m.

New Hampshire (7-3) at Boston U (4-6), 1 p.m.

Georgia St (6-3) at Old Dominion (5-4), 2 p.m.

Elon University (6-4) at St. Peter’s (4-5), 2 p.m.

Dartmouth (0-9) at LIU Brooklyn (7-4), 2 p.m.

Kean (0-0) at Drexel (4-6), 4:30 p.m.

Central Pennsylvania College (0-3) at Howard (2-8), 6 p.m.

SOUTH Miami (OH) (5-5) at Central Florida (7-3), Noon Mercer (5-5) at Auburn (7-2), 1 p.m.

Rider (7-3) at No.Carolina A&T (1-9), 1 p.m.

IUPU - Ft. Wayne (8-3) at Stetson (6-6), 1 p.m.

Alcorn St. (2-6) at Georgia Tech (5-3), 2 p.m.

Fairfield (5-3) at N.C. State (8-2), 2 p.m.

Jacksonville St. (6-6) at South Carolina Upstate (7-6), 3 p.m.

Texas-San Antonio (3-7) at Texas A&M CC (6-2), 3 p.m.

LSU Shreveport (0-2) at Stephen F. Austin (3-5), 3 p.m.

Gonzaga (10-0) at Tennessee (6-4), 4 p.m.

Clemson (7-2) vs. Alabama (5-4), at Birmingham, AL, 4 p.m.

John Brown (0-1) at Baylor (9-0), 4:30 p.m.

Southern (4-6) at UAB (5-5), 5 p.m.

Mobile (0-0) at Nicholls State (5-6), 5 p.m.

Texas Southern (4-6) at Texas Christian (9-1), 6 p.m.

MIDWEST Gardner-Webb (6-5) at Nebraska (5-5), 2 p.m.

Wright St. (7-4) at Kent St. (7-3), 4 p.m.

Cal St. Fullerton (4-6) at Nebraska Omaha (6-5), 4 p.m.

St. Joseph’s (5-4) at Illinois St. (5-3), 4 p.m.

Northeastern (5-5) at Michigan St (7-4), 7 p.m.

WEST South Dakota (8-5) at Montana St. (5-6), 4 p.m.

Bowling Green (4-6) at San Jose St. (5-4), 5 p.m.

Portland (6-3) vs. Oregon St. (3-8), at Portland, OR, 6 p.m.

Idaho State (2-8) at Boise St. (5-4), 6:30 p.m.

Western Michigan (3-6) at Washington (4-5), 8 p.m.

Football NCAA Football Bowl Glance Friday, Dec. 16 Results NCAA DIVISION I FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP - SEMIFINAL (Fargo, North Dakota) James Madison 27, North Dakota State 17 Saturday, Dec. 17 Results Las Vegas Bowl presented by Geico (Las Vegas, Nevada) San Diego State 34, Houston 10 Gildan New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque, New Mexico) New Mexico 23, Texas-San Antonio 20 Raycom Media Camellia Bowl (Montgomery, Alabama) Appalachian State 31, Toledo 28 Air Force Reserve Celebration Bowl (Atlanta, Georgia) Grambling State 10, North Carolina Central 9 Autonation Cure Bowl (Orlando, Florida) Arkansas State 31, Central Florida 13 Monday, Dec. 19 Miami Beach Bowl (Miami, Florida) Central Michigan vs. Tulsa 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 20 Boca Raton Bowl (Boca Raton, Florida) Memphis vs. Western Kentucky 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 21 San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl (San Diego, California) Brigham Young vs. Wyoming 9 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 22 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (Boise, Idaho) Idaho vs. Colorado State 7 p.m.

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A scene from last year’s outdoor live nativity at the Lake Lanier Islands Magical Lights driving tour is seen above. Performances this year by different members of Cross Pointe Church run nightly through Dec. 23. (Special Photo)

Lanier Islands live nativity shares Christmas story, delivers family traditions

By Keith Farner

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Islands’ stables.

As family traditions go, Traditional Christmas songs this one is emotional for You’ve heard about it. I’ve and a narrated account of Ashley Spikes. heard about it since I was a the Christmas story are Along with her parents, little girl, and read about it, performed before audiences sister and daughter, Olivia, but to actually see it, … it in an open-air setting. who is two and a half, the just puts it in perspective.”

“Much like the Star of live nativity scene at Lake Inside the Islands’ Magi- Bethlehem lit the shepLanier Islands is something cal Lights driving tour is herds’ way to the manger, they’ve done for as long the live nativity scene that, our Magical Lights Tour as anyone can remember. until this year, was held leads to the Grand Hall,” Asked about their own fam- outdoors for its first decade said Virgil Williams, chairily tradition, tears flowed as of existence. But now, inside man of the board for Lanier Spikes stood in front of the the Grand Hall, members of Islands. live nativity alongside her Crosse Pointe Church put Bobby Ikebudu is the mother, Angelee Garner, and on a 15-minute performance fourth- and fifth-grade sister, Elise Garner. repeatedly throughout the pastor at Cross Pointe and “Get to be with family,” evening of the story of the recently performed as a Angelee said. “Get to enjoy first Christmas in Bethleshepherd at the live nativity. all the activities. The spirit hem. Cross Pointe has three “We want to find differof Christmas and having campuses in Gwinnett, ent ways to reach out to the the live nativity is over the including one just outside community and families top for us. … It just kind Lanier Islands. about what Christmas is all of brings the story to life.

The live nativity, which about,” he said. “We want to

give them what truly Christmas is about, which is Jesus, our Savior coming, being born in Bethlehem, the Christmas story.

We just want to unwrap that in a very clear way.”

Andy Armento and his wife Sarah and their children, Halle, 7, and Ella, 10, performed alongside Ikebudu as Joseph, Mary, an angel and a wiseperson. The Armentos performed alongside Ikebudu and another family, Stacey Sparks, and her children, Ashley, 10, and Kyle, 18.

“We saw a need that needed to be met,” said Andy, a member of Cross Pointe, who said members of the church each volunteered to perform one night at the live nativity. “I think

people are very receptive to the message. We know there are people who return year after year just to see this and get pictures of the live nativity scene.”

Ikebudu and Andy Armento said attendees may receive the story in a different way than hearing it from scripture in a church or reading it themselves.

“It’s really gratifying, and we give all glory to God for anything that comes out of this,” Armento said. “Our hope is they get involved in a church; we welcome them to our church.”

It also adds an element to the Biblical story for those performing.

“You’re actually in the cold, you’re actually feeling what they felt like,” Ikebudu said. “They walked days and days to see this Savior.

So you’re actually in their footsteps and walking to see this, Mary and Joseph experiencing this baby being born.”

Andy Armento and his wife Sarah, as Joseph and Mary, perform a live nativity at Lake Lanier Islands during its Magical Lights driving tour. Performances by different members of Cross Pointe Church run nightly through Dec. 23. (Staff Photos: Keith Farner)

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Environmental club Local business donates planters to library in Lanier receives Monarch certification Good News from Schools

Keith Farner “They have successfully demonstrated their commitment to environmental stewardship and increasing native diversity for all pollinators,” MAG co-chair, Susan Meyers said.

Duluth native receives $2,500 scholarship The National Liberty Museum announced that Jack Griffin of Duluth is one of 14 students nationwide selected to receive scholarship funds from the National Liberty Museum’s new Liberty Scholarship Program. The competition invited high school seniors and undergraduate students up to age 25 to submit a three- to five-minute videospeech on “how I plan to make a difference in the lives of others.”

A total of $25,000 in scholarship funds were awarded to the 14 winning students.

Griffin received the third highest prize of $2,500. His plan to make a difference has already begun through his creation of a website and app called “Food Finder,” which helps families in need have easy access to resources for food, clothes and shelter. He attends the University of Michigan.

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

A local landscape management and design company recently made the entrance of a Gwinnett library a bit greener.

Mayer Landscape, based in Suwanee, provided two large planters at the entrance of the Suwanee Branch, 361 Main St. For the first time in eight years, the planters are filled with a mix of perennial plants and bulbs including Camellias, Nandina, Dwarf English Boxwood and Dwarf Gardenia, Hyacinth and Crocus.

Louise Goodman, homeowners association president of the nearby Stonecypher commu-

Radha Ashok, left, Suwanee library assistant branch manager, has worked with Porth Monts of Mayer Landscape in Suwanee, a local business that contributed two large planters at the entrance of the Suwanee Branch. (Special Photo)

nity, brokered the deal.

The landscape business provides services to the community.

Goodman approached Mayer Landscape manager Porth Monts about the project and Monts

quickly agreed to help, she said.

“I love gardening and have been bothered that these planters have been empty since the great recession hit,” said Goodman, who frequently visits the library. “They were just crying out for something beautiful.”

Mayer Landscape has adopted the branch as a showcase for the company’s landscape design services.

“We are very happy to be in Suwanee and wanted to give back to the community,” Monts said.

“This seemed like a good way to add beauty to the community and at the same time let people see what we can do.”

pet of the week Each week the Gwinnett Daily Post will feature an animal available for adoption at the Georgia SPCA, which is located at 1175 Buford Highway, Suite 109, Suwanee, GA 30024. The hours of operation are Mondays through Fridays 11 a.m. until 7 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., and Sundays 1 until 4 p.m. You can see the rest of the adoptable cats and dogs at www.georgiaspca.org.

Candy is an 11-month-old American Staffordshire Terrier mix who recently came back to our shelter from foster. She is a little uneasy when you first meet her,

but as soon as she gets outside the kennel, you will see why she is a staff favorite. Candy is a big, strong girl who is full of energy and ready to play. All Candy wants is to be the center of attention, and with a personality as sweet as her name, it’s hard to believe that she is still here.

Candy is available for adoption, and all of the staff at the Georgia SPCA would love to see her go to a great home. You can contact us via telephone at 678-765-2726 or by our email, info@georgiaspca.or.

The Georgia SPCA is located at 1175 Buford Highway, Suwanee 30024.

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Part II: Is the United States descending into fascism?

As I observed last week, when “progressives” use the term “fascist,” they usually don’t know what they’re talking about. Most of the time, what they really mean is “totalitarian dictator.”

But totalitarianism is not unique to fascism. Hitler was certainly a brutal dictator, but so were Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and that darling of the modern left, Fidel Castro — and they were all communists, not fascists.

Progressives also tend to associate fascism with extreme nationalism, but once again that doesn’t compute. Sure, the Nazis fit that description — but has there ever been a more rabidly nationalistic bunch than the Soviets, except maybe the Chicoms?

Obviously, “fascism” doesn’t mean what the left thinks it means. Instead, it’s a very specific economic and political philosophy — a philosophy of the left, at that, despite progressive propaganda insisting it’s some sort of far-right ideology. Remember, “Nazi” was short for “National Socialists.”

I offered a more detailed explanation of fascism in a column I wrote a couple

Rob Jenkins years ago. Suffice it to say, for now, that fascism creates an unholy alliance between corporations and government, in which the former strive shamelessly to curry favor and the latter picks economic winners and losers.

Perhaps you recognize this model by its modern name: “crony capitalism,” which is actually not capitalism at all. It’s just fascismlight.

To those who worry the U.S. is descending into fascism, following the election of Donald Trump, I would respond that we’ve actually been there for some time — perhaps going back to George W. Bush and his proposed federal bailout of the automobile industry.

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The Lanier High School environmental club has had several programs reach out to the community in recent years, from collecting and donating books to an orphanage in Peru, to environmentally friendly parking spots.

Its latest recognition came from Monarchs Across Georgia, an initiative of the Environmental Education Alliance of Georgia, which awarded certification to Lanier’s environment club.

Teacher sponsor Jeannie Lanio initiated this award for the school’s outstanding gardens. The certification recognizes their efforts to provide critical habitat requirements not just for butterflies, but other pollinators such as hummingbirds, bees, beetles and moths.

The Monarchs Across Georgia’s Pollinator Habitat Certification Program was initiated to promote the restoration of native plants, and to provide citizens an opportunity to reconnect with the natural environment.

MAG has been engaging schools and families in learning experiences involving monarchs and other native butterflies for over 10 years. With the decline of the monarch caterpillar’s only host plant, milkweed, the group decided to create the certification program as a way to further encourage gardeners to incorporate milkweed into their landscapes.

Other habitat requirements that the group had to meet included providing additional caterpillar and adult pollinator nectar food sources, water and basking sites, and some type of shelter with choices ranging from dense shrubs, logs or brush piles.

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lowed through on the bailout, as he constantly brags.

If that isn’t a case of the federal government picking economic winners and losers, I don’t know what is — unless it’s the feds’ blatant subsidizing of inefficient “green energy” companies — Solyndra, anybody? — while at the same time plotting the demise of the coal industry.

Or their collusion with textbook giant Pearson Education to create Common Core standards and materials, from which Pearson has profited mightily.

Or their seduction of the health insurance industry in a failed attempt to make Obamacare viable.

I could go on, but the real question is whether Trump will embrace similar policies. Unfortunately, his recent attempts to keep campaign promises by preventing companies from leaving the U.S. indicate some tendency in that direction.

However, I believe Trump is ultimately more pragmatist than ideologue. Unlike progressives, he is not laboring under the false Malthusian notion that the economy is finite — that for some to win, others have to lose. He understands that the best way to grow the economy is to grow all sectors rather than picking and choosing.

So while Trump’s fascistic proclivities may bear watching, I believe in the long run we will have less crony capitalism under him than we did under either Obama or Bush.

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. Email Rob at rjenkinsgdp@yahoo.com.

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Am I surprised we’ve done so well? Yes and no. ... Yes, because I would watch these pitmasters on television and just see how great they are and I wanted to be like them.

But a part of me isn’t surprised because Justin and I are very competitive and we don’t like being second fiddle to anyone. It’s all or nothing.”

— Beth Mewborn, pitmaster

Smokin’ competition Local woman places seventh in national barbecue contest

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world — the best of the best — and everyone is Beth Mewborn may only so good. It’s humbling to be the country’s seventhknow just how good you best female pitmaster, but have to be to beat these the Lawrenceville resident teams.” and language arts teacher at Mewborn, who heads Riverwatch Middle School J&B’s BBQ with her husin Suwanee placed first in band of seven years, Justin, the state. earned one of 10 berths at In early November, the national championship Mewborn, 33, became the after competing in a series first Gwinnett resident to of qualifying Kansas City lead a team to the Georgia Barbecue Society events BBQ Championship by from January through accruing the most points October, in which femalethroughout a season acled teams earned points cording to GBC, which throughout the season to ended its season at the qualify for a spot in AlaRoarin’ Lions Smokin’ bama.

BBQ Competition in Jayna Todisco of A Winder. A week later in Mazie Q in Concord, N.H., Orange Beach, Ala., she won the championship and placed seventh in the first- a $5,000 gift certificate ever Cowboy Charcoal Fire to spend at an Alabama and Ice Women’s Champi- jewelry store with 93.53 onship Barbecue Series. points, followed by Sylvia “It’s awesome, but it’s Curry of Lady of Q in Raalso very humbling,” she mona, Calif. (93.18), who said. “You are competearned a $2,000 jewelry ing against the best in the gift certificate.

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Beth Mewborn recently placed seventh in the first-ever Cowboy Charcoal Fire and Ice Women’s Championship Barbecue Series. (Photos: Cowboy Charcoal Fire and Ice Women’s Championship Barbecue Series)

Kim Hicks of Midnight Burn of Henderson, N.C., placed third with 92.15 points, followed by Candy Sue Weaver of BBQR’S Delight of Pine Bluff, Ark. (92.07); Mewborn’s friend, Tina Cannon of The Pit Crew GA of Newnan (91.14); Theresa Bell of Big Dog BBQ in Virginia Beach, Va., was (90.09) just ahead of Mewborn (90.09); Shannon Turner of Muttley Crew BBQ out of Apex, N.C., eighth (89.25); Heather Sinyard of Crimson Q in Cleveland, Ga. (87.26); and Michelle Zinneman of Firehouse Smokers in Sevierville, Tenn., placed 10th with 84.63 points.

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The third- through 10th-place finishers each received a $1,000 jewelry gift certificate.

Mewborn, who also finished 14th among 89 teams at the World Food Championships that were held with the Cowboy Charcoal Fire and Ice Women’s Championship Barbecue Series, let her 7-year-old daughter Olivia pick out a necklace and she spent the rest on a crucifix pendant adorned with a blue sapphire and a diamond.

Mewborn’s success has put her career as a pitmaster at a crossroads. She loves her job at Riverwatch, where she’s spent the past six years teaching reading and writing skills to teenagers. But she also is just as passionate about turning a cut of meat into a slice of heaven.

Right now, barbecuing is Mewborn’s “jobby” — a hobby that she treats like a job. But Mewborn’s recent success has her thinking about investing in a vehicle that would allow them to sell their award-winning food to the public.

“What’s happened this year changes our perspective for the future,” said Mewborn, who will be awarded with a state champion’s check of $2,500 in February. “In 2017, we’re going to look into getting a trailer so we can sell food to the public and do catering events. As for 2018, we have to see what happens in the next year. But who knows?”

J&B’s BBQ placed seventh in the state competi-

tion last year — 255 points behind Cannon’s crew.

This year, in the competition’s seventh year, J&B’s accrued 1,005 points in nine events, 10 more points than Cannon, who participated in the same number of competitions. For the year, J&B’s ranked first in GBC in chicken and pork, second in ribs and 16th in brisket.

She’s spent countless hours and money traversing the country barbecuing — and winning — against the biggest names in the business, including Myron Mixon, a four-time world barbecue champion from Vienna, Ga., who used a successful run on the reality television show “BBQ Pitmasters” to become a celebrity and spawn a national brand of products and restaurants.

“Am I surprised we’ve done so well? Yes and no,” said Beth, who began barbecuing competitively in April 2012, when her pork ribs and smoked chicken salad earned a top-five finish at a competition in Cornelia. “Yes, because I would watch these pitmasters on television and just see how great they are and I wanted to be like them.

But a part of me isn’t surprised because Justin and I are very competitive and we don’t like being second fiddle to anyone. It’s all or nothing.”

The Championship Barbecue Series was divided into two, one-day rounds that were weighted equally.

The teams opened the competition with a two-hour

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grilling challenge where they each chose the meat they prepared using only Cowboy Lump Charcoal as their heat source.

Mewborn made a Caribbean jerk pork tenderloin with a mango salsa, which she said ended up being one of the few mistakes she’s made this season.

“It was a good pork tenderloin, but other teams were a lot more creative than we were,” said Mewborn, who moved to Georgia from her native Michigan in 2006. “We’ll use what we learned this year to help us next year.”

On the second day, the teams competed in the final round using the KCBS rules and regulations preparing chicken, pork ribs, pork butt and brisket. Mewborn finished 3.44 points shy of winning a competition that showed men aren’t the only ones who can barbecue.

“Competitive barbecue has been dominated by men — but women are just as good at this sport,” Cameron Bailey, Cowboy Charcoal’s Senior Brand Manager — Grilling Products, said a few days before the final. “This is a parallel to parts of our society today outside of barbecue, and we are thrilled to help drive that message. We do intend to work with the Cowboy Fire and Ice champion to inspire all people who love good food to grill and/or barbecue. And it would be fantastic if we inspire a few women to become pitmasters who never would have thought to try before!”

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(5:30) ››‡ “Riddick” (2013) Vin Diesel. ’ ›› “Transformers: Age of Extinction” (2014, Action) Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Li Bingbing. ’ (CC) Transformers (6:00) “Love You Like Christmas” (2016) (CC) “A Heavenly Christmas” (2016, Drama) Kristin Davis, Eric McCormack, Shirley MacLaine. (CC) “Sleigh Bells Ring” (2016, Romance) Erin Cahill, David Alpay. (CC) Property Brothers: Buying & Selling (CC) Property Brothers (CC) Property Brothers (N) (CC) House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l Property Brothers (CC) American Pickers “Concrete Jungle” ’ (CC) Vikings Ragnar and Ivar face a decision. ’ Vikings Lagertha seeks to fulfill an ambition. (N) (:01) Real Vikings (N) ’ (CC) (:03) Vikings ’ (CC) (DVS) Little Women: Dallas “Friday Night Fights” (CC) Little Women: Dallas “Party Crasher” (CC) Little Women: Dallas “A Little Extra: Man Up” Little Women: Dallas “Hello! Goodbye!” (N) (:02) Little Women: Dallas “Hello! Goodbye!”

The Thundermans (CC) The Thundermans (CC) Game Shakers ’ (CC) SpongeBob Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Surprise! Instant Xmas Carol! (N) (CC) Conan (N) (CC) (6:00) ››› “Mildred Pierce” (1945, Drama) ››‡ “Perri” (1957) Narrated by Winston Hibler. Premiere. ››› “Old Yeller” (1957, Drama) Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker. (CC) (:15) ››› “The Littlest Outlaw” (1955) Bones A TV-show host’s remains are found. ’ ›››‡ “The Help” (2011, Drama) Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard. (CC) (DVS) Bones “The Pinocchio in the Planter” ’ (CC) The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show (:12) The Andy Griffith Show (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ (6:30) ›› “Couples Retreat” (2009, Comedy) Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau. (CC) ›‡ “Little Fockers” (2010, Comedy) Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson. (CC) (DVS) Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’

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(Local Programming) Last Man Standing ’ (:31) Dr. Ken ’ (CC) Shark Tank ’ (CC) (DVS) (:01) 20/20 ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) A Home for the Holidays (N) ’ (CC) Hawaii Five-0 Classified information is stolen. Blue Bloods “The Extra Mile” ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) Terry Crews Saves Christmas “Elric Family” (N) Terry Crews Saves Christmas “Child Family” (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Taraji’s White Hot Holidays ’ (CC) (DVS) Sleepy Hollow “Ragnarok” ’ (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Dr. Seuss’ Grinch Murray-Xmas ››‡ “Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love” (2016) Jennifer Nettles. ’ (Local Programming) Tonight Show-J. Fallon (Local Programming) Washington Week (N) Charlie Rose Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show American Ninja Warrior ’ American Ninja Warrior ’ (Part 2 of 2) 11Alive News at 10 (N) Corrupt Crimes (CC) Forensic Files ’ (CC) Father Brown Father Brown helps Jacob. (CC) Death in Paradise “Political Suicide” ’ (CC) New Tricks ’ (CC) Wolf Hall on Masterpiece ’ (Part 5 of 6) (CC) (:02) Wolf Hall on Masterpiece (CC) The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory ›› “Fred Claus” (2007, Comedy) Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson.

Last Man Standing ’ Last Man Standing ’ Pawn Stars (CC) Seinfeld “The Strike” To Be Announced The Killing of JonBenet: Her Father Speaks ’ (CC) (:01) JonBenét’s Mother: Victim or Killer? ’ (CC) (6:00) ›‡ “Deck the Halls” (2006) (CC) ››‡ “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” (1992, Comedy) Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern. (CC) ›› “Four Christmases” (2008) Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon. (CC) The Real Housewives of Atlanta Married to Medicine (N) Married to Medicine Houston (N) The Real Housewives of Atlanta Married to Medicine Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) This Is Life With Lisa Ling “Prison Love” (CC) This Is Life With Lisa Ling “Locked Angeles” This Is Life With Lisa Ling “Wired Philly” (CC) (6:50) ›› “Super Troopers” (2001, Comedy) Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan. ›› “We’re the Millers” (2013, Comedy) Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Will Poulter. (CC) ›› We’re the Millers Alaskan Bush People “Judgement Day” (CC) Alaskan Bush People “Released to the Wild” Alaskan Bush People “Back in Browntown” ’ Gold Rush ’ (CC) Moonshiners “Making Spirits Bright” ’ (CC) College Football College Football Dollar General Bowl -- Ohio vs. Troy. The Sun Belt meets the MAC when the Troy Trojans face the Ohio Bobcats in the Dollar General Bowl. (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (CC) (6:30) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) College Basketball Harvard at Houston. From Hofheinz Pavilion in Houston. (N) (Live) College Basketball Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic, Second Semifinal: Teams TBA. (N) (5:30) ››› “Friends With Benefits” (2011) ›› “The Wedding Planner” (2001, Romance-Comedy) Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey. (CC) ›› “The Wedding Planner” (2001) Jennifer Lopez. (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) The O’Reilly Factor (N) (CC) The Kelly File (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The O’Reilly Factor (CC) Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive Diners, Drive (6:45) ››‡ “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” (2009, Fantasy) Voices of Jim Carrey. ’ (CC) (8:50) ››› “The Santa Clause” (1994, Comedy) Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold. ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) Red Bull Crashed Ice Tennis From Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2016.

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Red Bull Crashed Ice (6:00) ››‡ “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” (2014) ›› “Christmas With the Kranks” (2004, Comedy) Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis. ’ (CC) ›› “Christmas With the Kranks” (2004, Comedy) Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis. ’ (CC) (6:00) “A Dream of Christmas” (2016) (CC) “Sleigh Bells Ring” (2016, Romance) Erin Cahill, David Alpay. (CC) “Christmas in Homestead” (2016, Romance) Michael Rady, Taylor Cole. (CC) Tiny House Hunters Tiny House Hunters House Hunters Renovation (CC) House Hunters Renovation (CC) House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l Ancient Aliens The end of Apollo. ’ (CC) Ancient Aliens Erich von Daniken’s theories. ’ Ancient Aliens “Destination Mars” (CC) (DVS) Ancient Aliens “Closer Encounters” Alien encounters throughout history. ’ (CC) (6:00) “All About Christmas Eve” (2012) (CC) “Last Chance for Christmas” (2015, Romance) Hilarie Burton, Gabriel Hogan, Tim Matheson. (CC) (:02) “12 Men of Christmas” (2009, Romance-Comedy) Kristin Chenoweth, Josh Hopkins. (CC) ››› “A Fairly Odd Christmas” (2012, Comedy) Drake Bell. ’ (CC) Nicky, Ricky Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Seinfeld “The Race” Seinfeld “The Gum” The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Full Frontal Search Party (CC) (6:15) ››› “Love Crazy” (1941) (CC) ›››› “The Thin Man” (1934) William Powell, Myrna Loy. (CC) (DVS) (:45) ››› “After the Thin Man” (1936, Comedy-Drama) William Powell, Myrna Loy. (CC) (DVS) (:45) Another Thin Man Bones A man dressed as Santa is blown up. ’ The Librarians A human is inhabited. (CC) The Librarians Flynn leads a rescue mission. The Librarians “And the Reunion of Evil” (CC) The Librarians (CC) The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’ Modern Family “Fizbo”

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(Local Programming) A Charlie Brown Christmas ’ (CC) The Great American Baking Show Molten lava cakes; decadent truffles. (N) ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Jimmy Kimmel Live ’ (Local Programming) The Big Bang Theory (:31) The Great Indoors (:01) Mom ’ (CC) Life in Pieces ’ (CC) Life in Pieces ’ (CC) Life in Pieces ’ (CC) (Local Programming) Late Show-Colbert (Local Programming) Terry Crews Saves Christmas “Abrolat Family” Supernatural “Keep Calm and Carry On” (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Hell’s Kitchen The remaining contestants compete. ’ (PA) (CC) (DVS) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) Football Night in Philadelphia (N) ’ (Live) (CC) (:20) NFL Football New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles. From Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. (N) ’ (Live) (CC) (Local Programming) (Local Programming) The This Old House Hour ’ (CC) A Chef’s Life Holiday Special ’ (CC) Antiques Roadshow “Best of 20” ’ (CC) (Local Programming) The Andy Griffith Show Jeopardy! (N) ’ (CC) The X-Files “Paperclip” ’ (Part 3 of 3) (CC) The X-Files Deaths attributed to lightning. (CC) 11Alive News at 10 (N) Corrupt Crimes (CC) Forensic Files ’ (CC) Happy Holidays With the Boston Pops ’ (CC) Spelman-Morehouse Christmas Carol Concert Around Atlanta New Orleans Jordan Smith ’Tis the Season ’ (CC) Spelman-Morehouse Christmas Carol Concert The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory ›› “The Pacifier” (2005, Comedy) Vin Diesel, Lauren Graham, Faith Ford.

Last Man Standing ’ Last Man Standing ’ Pawn Stars (CC) Seinfeld “The Strike” The First 48 “The Invitation” ’ (CC) The First 48 A local criminal is fatally stabbed. Nightwatch Firefighters contain a blaze. (N) (CC) (:01) Gangland Undercover “Mongol Nation” (N) (:03) The First 48 “Killer Contact” ’ (CC) (5:30) ›› “A Christmas Carol” (1984) (CC) ›‡ “Deck the Halls” (2006, Comedy) Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick. (CC) ››› “The Goonies” (1985, Adventure) Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen. (CC) Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles (N) Top Chef The chefs must use “trash fish.” (N) The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Erin Burnett OutFront (N) (CC) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) CNN Special Report “The Murder of JonBenet” CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) (CC) (6:50) Futurama (CC) (:24) Futurama ’ (CC) (7:55) Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity (CC) Gabriel Iglesias: I’m Not Fat... I’m Fluffy (CC) Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy (CC) Diesel Brothers ’ (CC) Diesel Brothers ’ (CC) Diesel Brothers ’ (CC) Diesel Brothers ’ (CC) Diesel Brothers ’ (CC) College Football Famous Idaho Potato Bowl -- Idaho vs. Colorado State. The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl features a matchup of Colorado State (7-5) and Idaho (8-4). (N) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) College Basketball: Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic College Basketball UNC-Asheville at Ohio State. From Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio. (N) Vice World of Sports DRL Drone Racing E! News (N) (CC) ››› “Friends With Benefits” (2011, Romance-Comedy) Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson. (CC) Botched (CC) E! News (N) (CC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) (CC) The O’Reilly Factor (N) (CC) The Kelly File (N) (CC) Hannity (N) (CC) The O’Reilly Factor (CC) Chopped Falafel mix, date paste; unknown fish. Chopped Odd pizza; two proteins; hot dessert. Chopped “Million Dollar Baskets” (N) (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (N) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) Beat Bobby Flay (CC) (6:45) ››› “Elf” (2003, Comedy) Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart. ’ (CC) (8:55) ›› “Jingle All the Way” (1996, Comedy) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad. ’ (CC) The 700 Club ’ (CC) Supercross Rewind ACC All-Access ’ XTERRA Adventures World Poker Tour (6:00) “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2” ››› “Despicable Me 2” (2013, Comedy) Voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig. ’ (CC) ››› “Despicable Me 2” (2013, Comedy) Voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig. ’ (CC) (6:00) “On the Twelfth Day of Christmas” (CC) “My Christmas Love” (2016, Romance) Meredith Hagner, Bobby Campo, Gregory Harrison. (CC) “A Nutcracker Christmas” (2016, Drama) Amy Acker, Sascha Radetsky. (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) Flip or Flop (N) (CC) Flip or Flop (CC) House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l House Hunters (CC) Hunters Int’l Pawn Stars (CC) (DVS) Pawn Stars (CC) (DVS) Alone A survivalist suffers a serious injury. (CC) Alone The participants build their shelters. (N) The Selection: Special Operations Experiment (:03) Alone The participants build their shelters.

(6:00) Project Runway Guest judge Zendaya. Project Runway “Finale, Part 2” (Season Finale) Choosing the winner. (N) (Part 2 of 2) (CC) (:02) Project Runway: Junior (N) (CC) (:02) Project Runway: Junior (CC) The Thundermans (CC) The Thundermans (CC) ››› “Ice Age” (2002, Comedy) Voices of Ray Romano. ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Full House “Air Jesse” Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) 2 Broke Girls ’ (CC) 2 Broke Girls ’ (CC) 2 Broke Girls ’ 2 Broke Girls ’ The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Conan (N) (CC) (6:15) ›››› “Strangers on a Train” (1951) ››› “Holiday Affair” (1949) Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh. (CC) (:45) ››› “Remember the Night” (1940) Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray. (CC) A Christmas Carol (CC) Bones Brennan worries about motherhood. (CC) NBA Basketball Los Angeles Lakers at Miami Heat. From the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami. (N) (Live) (CC) NBA Basketball San Antonio Spurs at Los Angeles Clippers. (N) (CC) The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (CC) (DVS) Falling Water Tess tries to protect the Boy. (N) (:04) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ’

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Spelman-Morehouse Christmas Carol Concert A Bucknell Candlelight Christmas ’ (CC) Atlanta Eats Hosted by Steak Shapiro.

The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ ››‡ “Shark Tale” (2004, Comedy) Voices of Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger. Family Guy (CC) Family Guy (CC) Duck Dynasty ’ (CC) Duck Dynasty ’ (CC) Duck Dynasty ’ (CC) Duck Dynasty “O Little Town of West Monroe” (:01) Duck Dynasty ’ (:32) Duck Dynasty ’ (:03) Duck Dynasty ’ (:33) Duck Dynasty ’ (5:30) “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” (1992) ››› “The Outlaw Josey Wales” (1976, Western) Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke. (CC) ››› “The Cowboys” (1972) John Wayne. ›››‡ “My Cousin Vinny” (1992, Comedy) Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio. ››› “The School of Rock” (2003, Comedy) Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White.

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CC) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown “Cuba” (CC) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CC) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CC) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CC) (4:50) Bruce Almighty (:20) ››‡ “Meet the Fockers” (2004, Comedy) Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman. (CC) Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain (CC) Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny (CC) Alaska: The Last Frontier “The Monster Catch” Alaska: The Last Frontier “When Cows Attack” Alaska: The Last Frontier “Chopper Rescue” Alaska: The Last Frontier ’ (CC) Alaskan Bush People ’ (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) College Football Hawaii Bowl -- Hawaii vs. Middle Tennessee State. Middle Tennessee’s 8-4 season earned it a trip to Honolulu for a bowl game against 6-7 Hawaii. (N) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (CC) (6:00) 30 for 30 (CC) 30 for 30 (CC) 30 for 30 (CC) 30 for 30 (CC) (6:00) ››‡ “Cheaper by the Dozen” (2003) ››‡ “Cheaper by the Dozen” (2003, Comedy) Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Piper Perabo. (CC) ››› “Love Actually” (2003, Romance-Comedy) Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Colin Firth. (CC) Fox Report (N) (CC) Stossel (CC) Justice With Judge Jeanine (N) (CC) The Greg Gutfeld Show (N) (CC) Red Eye With Tom Shillue (CC) Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (CC) Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives “DDD MVPs” (CC) Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (CC) Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives “Incredible Italian” Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (CC) The Santa Clause ’ (:40) ››› “Elf” (2003, Comedy) Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart. ’ (CC) (:45) ››› “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1989, Comedy) Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo. ’ (CC) Bull Riding Championship.

Red Bull Crashed Ice XTERRA Adventures Golf Life Tennis From Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2016. ›› “The Santa Clause 2” (2002, Comedy) Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell. ’ (CC) ›› “The Santa Clause 2” (2002, Comedy) Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell. ’ (CC) ›› “The Santa Clause 2” (2002) Tim Allen.

(6:00) “My Christmas Love” (2016) (CC) “Every Christmas Has a Story” (2016, Romance) Lori Loughlin. (CC) “A December Bride” (2016) Jessica Lowndes, Daniel Lissing. (CC) “Christmas List” (2016) Alicia Witt. (CC) Fixer Upper Renovating a ranch. (CC) Fixer Upper An old Victorian. (CC) Fixer Upper A couple are first-time buyers. (CC) Fixer Upper (CC) Fixer Upper (CC) Pawn Stars (CC) (DVS) Pawn Stars ’ (CC) Pawn Stars “A Very Vegas Christmas” ’ (CC) Pawn Stars Pawn Stars A Christmas card competition. (CC) (:31) Pawn Stars (CC) (:03) Pawn Stars (CC) (:33) Pawn Stars (CC) (6:00) “The Christmas Gift” (2015, Drama) (CC) “Dear Santa” (2011, Drama) Amy Acker, Brooklynn Proulx, Gina Holden. (CC) (:02) “A Gift Wrapped Christmas” (2015, Drama) Meredith Hagner, Travis Milne. (CC) Henry Danger ’ (CC) Game Shakers ’ (CC) “Santa Hunters” (2014) Benjamin “Lil P-Nut” Flores Jr.. ’ (CC) iCarly “iChristmas” ’ Full House ’ (CC) Full House ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Surprise! Instant Xmas Carol! (CC) ›››› “A Christmas Story” (1983, Comedy) Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin. (CC) (DVS) ›››› “A Christmas Story” (1983, Comedy) Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin. (CC) (DVS) (6:00) ›››‡ “Meet Me in St. Louis” (1944) ›› “Christmas in Connecticut” (1945, Comedy) Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan. (CC) ››› “The Dolly Sisters” (1946, Musical) Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver. (CC) Surprise! Instant Xmas Carol! (CC) ›››› “A Christmas Story” (1983, Comedy) Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin. (CC) (DVS) ›››› “A Christmas Story” (1983, Comedy) Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin. (CC) (DVS) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) The Golden Girls (CC) Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond Everybody Raymond The King of Queens ’ The King of Queens ’ (:08) NCIS Investigating a Navy captain’s death. (:09) NCIS Tony’s father visits for Christmas. ’ (8:52) NCIS (CC) (DVS) (:35) NCIS The city’s Internet is shutdown. ’ (:17) NCIS (CC) (DVS) Modern Family ’ Modern Family ’

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7 p.m. on ABC Movie: The Sound of Music Julie Andrews’ sweet voice fills the hills in this Academy Awardwinning 1965 musical based on the true story of Austria’s Von Trapp family. Andrews plays Maria, the convent-trained governess of a wealthy Austrian’s (Christopher Plummer) children.

The score features such songs as “Edelweiss” and “My Favorite Things.” Among those playing the youngsters are Angela Cartwright, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies and the late Charmian Carr.

8 p.m. on NBC America’s Got Talent It’s not the usual time of year for this show to appear, but since the Yuletide is made for welcoming familiar faces, why not? Some of the standouts of the contest’s past season return for this new special — including the winner, young singer-songwriter Grace VanderWaal — along with such veterans of the show as Jackie Evancho and Terry Fator.

10 p.m. on NBC The Wall A “preview” showing introduces this competition series from executive producers Chris Hardwick (also the host) and LeBron James, which has its official premiere in January. As teammates respond to questions correctly or not, the cash value of the answer is added to or deducted from their winnings — signaled by dropping balls that are colored green (for “right”) or red (for “wrong”).

More than $12 million is available to the players in any given episode.

8 p.m. on CW Terry Crews Saves Christmas Andale, andale! The Godina family thought they had a can’tmiss idea when they planned their holiday fiesta, but the end results were, as they say, no bueno. Leave it to Terry and his team of experts to turn this epic fail into a memorable Mexican celebration, however, in the second of this four-night holiday miniseries.

Julie Andrews

Tony Bennett

TUESDAY 9 p.m. on NBC Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet to Come Still going strong professionally, one of music’s most legendary singers is honored for his milestone birthday (which actually was in August) in this new special. Lady Gaga — who’s been Bennett’s very evident crooning partner in recent times — turns out to perform on the occasion, as do Michael Buble, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Elton John, Diana Krall, k.d. lang, Rufus Wainwright and Stevie Wonder.

11:30 p.m. on TCM

THURSDAY 8 p.m. on LIFE Project Runway Actress, singer and dancer Zendaya, who also was recognized recently at the FN Achievement Awards for the successful launch of her new footwear line, is guest judge as Season 15 reaches its climax with the finalists presenting their lines at New York Fashion Week before learning which of them is this season’s champion. Don’t be surprised if there’s a surprise twist or two along the way, either. Heidi Klum is host and one of the

judges; Tim Gunn is mentor to the designers.

Cumberbatch, Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen and David Suchet.

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

8 p.m. on CBS A Home for the Holidays Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter Miranda Lambert headlines the 18th edition of this annual holiday special that advocates adoption by interweaving inspirational stories of American foster families with music from some of today’s most popular artists. In addition to Lambert, Canadian singersongwriter Alessia Cara and international pop star Rachel Platten are scheduled to perform on this year’s special. The featured families hail from California and Nashville, Tenn.

9 p.m. on PBS Shakespeare Live! From the RSC Staged last April by the Royal Shakespeare Company to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s passing, this new “Great Performances” presentation offers a truly star-studded cast in scenes from his plays that also reveal much about his own life. Among those featured are Judi Dench, Benedict

4 p.m. on CBS NFL Football The Oakland Raiders appear to be playoff bound in the AFC thanks to the stellar play of quarterback Derek Carr. The Raiders host Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts who will need some help to make the playoffs themselves as the NFL resorts to a full Saturday schedule in lieu of the Christmas Holiday on Sunday. With Carr at the helm the Silver & Black are among the league leaders in several offensive categories.

Derek Carr

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AUBURN Library’s Teen Writing Club meets Tuesday The Auburn Public Library is inviting teens who have an interest in writing to swing by to join a group of like-minded peers this week.

The library’s group for budding writers, the Teen Writing Club, is set to get together for one last time before Christmas. The club will meet from 5 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the library, which is located at 24 Fifth St. in Auburn.

Teens between 12 and 18 are encouraged to visit the club to share their work with their peers and get advice and critiques. There aren’t many meetings of the club left since the library’s website shows it will meet every two weeks until Jan. 3.

BARROW COUNTY Winder dancers kick up their heels for a cause More than 80 dancers from northeast Georgia donated toys at an annual event to help children in need during the holidays.

The Winder Square Dance Club’s Jug Tavern Squares group held its Toys for Kids at Christmas Dance to support the Winder fire department’s yearly Christmas toy drive.

The Jug Tavern Squares and the fire department have worked together for many years to provide toys to local families at Christmas.

Throughout the year, the club holds benefit dances to raise money for the toy drive.

This year, the club collected over $600.

The Jug Tavern Squares have been dancing in Barrow since 1969 and hold dances the second and fourth Friday at the YMCA on Brad Akins Drive in Winder. The club offers square, round and line dancing.

For more information, visit www.jugtavernsquares.org or call the club presidents Boyd and Teresa McLocklin at 770-540-3341.

BERKELEY LAKE Residents should report problems with mail Berkeley Lake Mayor Lois Salter recently addressed concerns about mail delivered late or to the wrong address in the city.

Salter said she asked the post office about the errors and was told mail is often delivered late when carriers have to go back to the office for second loads on heavy mail days. They then must run the whole route again, which causes delays.

She said the post office apologized for mail delivered to the wrong person.

Salter suggested residents notify Duluth postmaster Charly Nicius in writing if mail problems continue. He can be reached by email at charly.nicius@usps.gov or by letters addressed to Postmaster at 3470 McClure Bridge Road, Duluth, GA 30096-9998.

Letters and emails should include the date on which the error occurred.

BRASELTON Downtown Braselton welcomes salon doubling as gift store A hair salon that doubles as a gift store has opened in downtown Braselton.

The Downtown Development Authority recently hosted a ribbon-cutting for Downtown Salon and Gifts, located at 50 Brassie Lane.

The salon features a variety of hair-based services, including cuts, color, highlights and treatments.

The shop carries jewelry, women’s tees and vests, purses and home decor.

Downtown Salon and Gifts is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Saturdays.

BUFORD Winter Peachstate Cornhole League registration opens Cornhole players can sign up for a social non-competitive or a competitive division for 8 weeks of match-ups including playoffs beginning Jan. 11.

The match-ups will take place in the ballroom of the

Tuesday.

The city normally hosts a friendly-family movie night every other Monday, meaning the next viewing should fall on Dec. 26. But since that day is a holiday observing Christmas, the city will instead host a viewing of “Finding Dory” on Dec. 27.

This family-friendly movie focuses on Dory, a lovable but forgetful blue tang fish searching for her long-lost parents.

“Everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way,” according to the movie’s IMDB page.

The event will take place at the Norcross Cultural Arts & Community Center Banquet Room 1:30 to 8:30 p.m., according to the city’s website. The center is located at 10 College St.

From left are Snellville Senior Center Director Kathi Gargiulo, 2016 Senior Center Volunteer of the Year Cathy Rickman, Mayor Tom Witts and Parks and Recreation Director Lisa Platt as Rickman is awarded a plaque for the honor. (Special Photo)

‘Yes’ woman Rickman named Snellville Senior Volunteer of the Year From Staff Reports

Center.

On the people she Cathy Rickman has volunteers for at the been named Senior Cen- Snellville Senior Center: ter Senior Center Volun“They are a friendly, teer of the Year. close-knit group. I’ve The more than 30-year built friendships here.

Snellville resident accept- They care about you.” ed the honor from Mayor She doesn’t envision and Council at Monday’s stopping volunteering council meeting. anytime soon and enjoys Rickman is often going on field trips with found at the front desk the seniors best because of the Senior Center and of the “travel and fellowfrequently calls bingo ship.” games.

Rickman also vol“Her willingness to be unteered regularly at wherever she is needed her church as a youth has been such a contribu- advisor, a counselor, in tion to the success of the the woman’s club and as Senior Center,” Senior part of the annual craft Center Director Kathi auction. She enjoys makGargiulo said. “If not for ing wreaths, cards, scarfs volunteers like Cathy, we and other crafts. She also would not be able to pro- enjoys cross-stitching, vide the amount and the scrapbooking and paintquality of programs that ing. we currently offer.”

“She has often come She volunteers two or at the last minute and three times per month, shows up with a smile and says it’s hard to say on her face,” Gargiulo no. “I usually try to say said. “Cathy has done an ‘yes’ when they call,” she exceptional job in going said. above and beyond to help She’s been volunteerour community and we ing for two years — since truly appreciate all of her she retired from Avon hard work and dedicaProducts Distribution tion.”

Buford Community Center at 2200 Buford Highway at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday.

The top teams at various locations will be eligible to compete in a state tournament.

The registration fee is $125 per team through Jan. 1 before prices increase.

Late registration will be held from Jan. 2 to 7. For more information, visit www.bufordcommunitycenter.com.

DACULA City offices taking extended weekend for Christmas Dacula residents who need to do business with the city around the holiday will need to take care of it early or wait a little longer than usual.

The city’s website shows city offices will be closed on Friday and on the following Monday because of Christmas.

The offices are expected to reopen on Dec. 27.

DULUTH City to ring in the new year with Craig Campbell Georgia native Craig Campbell is set to hit the stage with his chart-rising song “Outskirts of Heaven” on Dec. 31 in Get Duluth’s NYE Extravaganza.

“Craig Campbell is an amazing performer and we are excited to have him in Duluth,” Event Coordinator

Madison Chucci said.

The Red Bow’s singer/ songwriter is captivating audiences across the country with featured hits like “Outskirts of Heaven”, “Keep Them Kisses Comin’” and festive covers including Alan Jackson’s “I Only Want You For Christmas” and “White Christmas.”

There will be familyfriendly activities, a large snow slide, a winter carnival and live entertainment by the Highbeams and DJ Rob. The festivities begin at 7 p.m. on Duluth Town Green. The event is free to the public.

However, the inflatables will have a cost.

GRAYSON Library offering ‘Winter Break Coloring’ session It’s the week before Christmas, so take a break from all of the shopping, kick back and take time to release any possible holiday stress.

At least that’s what officials at the Grayson library branch are encouraging residents to do.

The library will host a “Winter Break Coloring” session for residents of all ages from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Participants can take crayons (or colored pencils if that’s their preference) and create colorful images.

Just remember to color within the lines.

The library is located at 700 Grayson Parkway.

PEACHTREE CORNERS Volunteers selling engraved pavers to benefit veteran monument Veterans could have their names engraved into the floor of a proposed monument in the Peachtree Corners Town Center.

The Peachtree Coreners Veterans Monument Assocation is selling engraved pavers to honor veterans and raise funds for the monument, which the group of volunteers has been envisioning and building.

The pavers can be engraved with the name of any veteran, living or deceased, even if they don’t live in Peachtree Corners. PCVMA will provide buyers with a printable certificate, which can be customized and given to the veteran being honored.

Purchases can be made online at www.ptcvets.net/ donate-a-brick-1. Plans and drawings of the monument can be viewed at www. ptcvets.net.

SNELLVILLE City to kick off new year with blood drive The city of Snellville will host a blood drive on Friday, Jan. 6, at City Hall. The blood drive will run from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m.

To learn more about blood donation opportunities, visit www.redcross.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800733-2767).

“

She has often come at the last minute and shows up with a smile on her face. ... Cathy has done an exceptional job in going above and beyond to help our community and we truly appreciate all of her hard work and dedication.”

— Senior Center Director Kathi Gargiulo

LAWRENCEVILLE McCray’s hosting Great Gatsby New Year’s Eve Party McCray’s Tavern on the Square is inviting Gwinnett County residents to party like it’s 1922 on New Year’s Eve. The popular Lawrenceville restaurant will harken back to the Roaring Twenties and host a Great Gatsby-themed New Year’s Celebration to usher in 2017. Attendees are encouraged to show up “wearing your best frock or suavest suit” because there will be prizes given to the people judged to be the best dressed.

Flappers, bootleggers, socialites, jazz musicians — they’re all welcome regardless of whether they are more West Egg or more East Egg. Dinner will be served until 10 p.m. Dec. 31, and there will also be a midnight balloon drop and champagne toast.

McCray’s is located at the corner of Perry and Crogan Streets on the Lawrenceville Square.

LILBURN City to offer free septic tank maintenance workshop The workshop will allow the public to learn about how a septic tank system works, how to prevent problems and how to determine when repair is needed.

The event will take place at the Norcross Human Services Center, 5030 Georgia Belle Court, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 5.

Residents from unincorporated Gwinnett, Lilburn or Peachtree Corners may qualify for a maximum five percent credit toward their stormwater utility fee for the following year.

For more information and to register, email the attendee’s name, address and phone number to dwrswreg@gwinnettcounty.com or call 678-376-7193.

LOGANVILLE American Legion to hold Children’s Christmas Party The American Legion will host its Children’s Christmas Party this week.

Kids who visit American Legion Post 233 Tuesday from 4 to 9 p.m. can enjoy complimentary hot dogs, cookies, soft drinks and a free gift. Partygoers can also visit with Santa and receive a photograph with him.

The party is open to families of military service members, families of veterans and Loganville residents.

American Legion Post 233 is located at 4635 Atlanta Highway.

NORCROSS Norcross to host viewing of ‘Finding Dory’ Norcross’ next Movie Monday will actually be a Movie

SUGAR HILL Study to help city plan development Bleakly Advisory Group is performing research and analysis on demographic and market patterns along the Buford Highway and Ga. Highway 20 corridors in the Sugar Hill area. Planning staff is preparing to present the findings to the mayor and city council from the Buford Highway study within the next couple of months.

The information gathered from these studies will assist in the progress of a vision for the future development of each corridor. Planning staff will lead the city’s leadership team in visioning exercises for the Buford Highway study while TSW, a planning firm, has been contracted to lead the visioning and planning exercises for the Ga. 20 study.

SUWANEE City to participate in tree-recycling program The city of Suwanee is once again participating in the Christmas tree-recycling campaign, which is part of Keep Georgia Beautiful’s annual Bring One for the Chipper program.

Area residents may drop off their former living Christmas trees at Sims Lake Park, at 4600 Suwanee Dam Road, from Dec. 26 through Jan. 31.

Decorations, lights and stands should be removed from all trees prior to donating. Last year, mulch from nearly 1,200 former Christmas trees was spread in Suwanee parks. Volunteers will assist with unloading, as well as handing out crepe myrtle, redbud and red maple seedlings (while supplies last) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan. 7.

Adult and teen volunteers are needed to assist Jan. 8.

To volunteer, contact Nicole Schnepper at nschnepper@suwanee.com or 770-945-8996.

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Rodney the teacher After Sunday dinner, while the others cleaned, talked or dealt with children, I sat down in a recliner matching the one that Rodney was in. I inhaled deeply and leaned forward, my elbows resting on my knees.

“Rodney, I hate to ask you this.” Clearly I did. It was hard. “I know you’re so busy.”

Sincerely, without knowing the request, he said, “I’m glad when you ask me. It means a lot.”

I hate to ask for help.

Not because I’m too proud but because I know in some way, it inconveniences someone at best and, at worst, puts them behind in their own work.

As one who has not been caught up since 2009, I have lots of sympathy for people fighting this kind of losing battle. I especially hate to ask Rodney because he has been behind since 1989, at least. Everyone asks him for help. Every day.

Everything from helping a fellow farmer to babysitting grandkids to doing something for the church.

Several years ago, I was in a bind. While cutting grass with the riding mower, I hit a piece of wood that jammed firmly, tightly, in the blades. Try as I might, I could not dislodge it. Within minutes of my call, Rodney arrived, laid down on his back on the driveway and worked for 15 minutes before he removed it.

“Well,” he said, “I reckon I’ll get me some lunch.” He looked at his watch. “I ain’t got one

My confidence sufficiently buoyed by all this advice, I nervously listened to Rodney’s first lesson. I might have retreated had it not been Kabe Cain who sold us the tractor and is a solid friend who is always honest and Ronda honorable. Kabe delivered Rich the tractor and explained things mechanically. I had thing done today that I studied the instruction planned to do.” Then, he manual seriously. recounted all the people Kabe said, “You can do who had called and asked this. I wouldn’t sell you for his help so he laid something that I thought aside his work to help oth- you’d get killed on. Just ers. It was 1:30 p.m. He always remember to put had started at six. your seat belt on.”

So, it’s hard to ask for Rodney turned out to be his help but for what I the perfect teacher. Even needed, I trusted only though he didn’t put his Rodney. We had recently seat belt on. He explained bought a tractor and Tink and reassured. Carefully, was out of town, producI began to practice his ing a television series. teaching. I called one day “Would you teach with a question. me how to bush hog?” I “Do you think I can asked. I’m past the point cross that pipe in the of counting on people stream to get to the front to show up and work. pasture?” It was scarily Sometimes, they do. Most narrow. times, they don’t. And “If it’s wide enough.” when they don’t, almost “No joke,” I replied without exception, they wryly. don’t call. It takes more “Lift the bucket up on time to schedule and keep the front so it’s higher up with who’s not comthan the fence, lift the ing than it does just to do bush hog and just ease the work. It takes a lot of along. Don’t do it when time just being mad about it’s wet.” it, too.

I took a deep breath, Rodney nodded. “Most- prayed and did exactly ly, be careful. You can get what Rodney instructed. killed on a bush hog.”

“I did it!” I called, This advice I got from jubilantly. most, usually accompaHe chuckled. “Glad I nied by a grisly story of could help you.” someone who did. I asked And, really, he was. my childhood friend and Ronda Rich is a bestlongtime farmer, Jerry, if selling Southern author. he had advice. “Yeah. Be Visit www.rondarich.com careful. You can get killed to sign up for her free on them things.” weekly newsletter.

Why your best employees are quitting before they start Is your interview process driving the best people away? The days of the all-powerful employer sitting back while the candidate tries to impress them are over. If you want top talent, they are going to interview you, just as much as you are interviewing them.

Here are three classic interview mistakes, that drive away the best people, and how you can avoid these traps: 1. Over emphasizing the “stuff.”

An office tour is nice, particularly if you offer free espresso. But in today’s world, most organizations offer similar perks. Standing desks, pool tables and an organic snack bar are less important than the job itself.

Smart people know the perks are window dressing; what really matters is the job and culture.

Top talent doesn’t care which company offers a better smoothie. Top performers want to work with excited, positive people in a job where they can have a real impact. Instead of spotlighting the cool conference rooms, talk about how your products and services impact your clients. Showcase team members who are excited about their jobs. Talk about your values and purpose more than your latte machine.

2. Keeping a candidate in quarantine.

If you’re serious about a candidate, have them talk to the people they will be

Forget Perfect

setting your candidate up to disengage. Focusing exclusively on job skills minimizes the candidate; you’re treating them like an asset instead of a human. It reduces the relationship to a transaction.

You’re better off checking off skills early in the interview process, then Lisa McLeod move into the second stage, the part most interviewers miss: Assessworking with. Ask them ing cultural fit. You want to have lunch with their would-be boss. Give them to know, will this person be overwhelmed by your an honest representation office dance party? Or if of what it’s like to work you don’t dance at work, for your organization. If is he or she a person who you keep your candidate needs movement and fun in the dark, they’ll probin their day? Ask about ably think what you’re hiding is worse than it is. their work friendships in pervious jobs. Do they Yes, you want to show your best self to the candi- create trust and camaraderie, or are they a negative date. But you don’t want your new hire to show up heads down person who will take energy away for work delusional. You from others? It’s your job might be afraid of turnas an interviewer to deing off a potential great termine which candidate hire, but the only thing will be a good fit, who worse than losing a great candidate is spending the will add to your energy, not just a warm body who time and money to hire can check the box “proand onboard them, only to have them quit after six ficient in excel.” Every(or three) months because one doesn’t have to be a cheerleader; quiet positive the job wasn’t what they expected. Do yourself and energy is good too.

Take a lesson from your candidate a favor, let Gary Kelly, CEO of them see a slice of your world and the people in it. Southwest Airlines, who 3. Focusing entirely on notes, “Our people are our single greatest strength skill. and most enduring longDigging into a canterm competitive advandidate’s resume is crutage.” cial: Don’t be fooled by Lisa McLeod is the puffery. You need to find author of the bestseller out whether this person “Selling with Noble actually knows how to Purpose.” Her most recent do the work. But if you book is titled “Leading limit your interview to a checklist of skills, you’re with Noble Purpose.”

Gwinnett-based architecture firm awarded for town square design FROM STAFF REPORTS

and private-sector clients around the world.

A Gwinnett-based “The Mableton Town full-service architecture Square is truly the central and engineering firm was hub for the creation of a honored last month for new town center and the its work on the Mableton first step in the long-range Town Square in Cobb plans laid out in the South County, the company an- Cobb Town Center Lifenounced Monday. long Community Study Pond of Peachtree Cor- completed in 2010,” said ners was recognized at the firm spokesman Erik annual Georgia PartnerGrandowski. ship for Transportation The project includes Quality Preconstruction a one-way circulation Design Awards during road around the nearly the American Council of football-field-sized town Engineering Companies square adjacent to Mableof Georgia Summit on ton Elementary. Also, Nov. 30. GPTQ and the the project provides a Georgia Department of new connection from Old Transportation selected Floyd Road via an extenthe firm for the design sion of existing Walker award.

Drive.

Founded in 1965, Pond It is the first transis an architecture, engiportation project to be neering, planning and completed in the impleconstruction firm serving mentation of the Lifecorporate, government long Mableton Vision

according to the recently adopted Mableton Form Based Code.

The process included an extensive concept development, public involvement program, database preparation, preliminary design, right of way plans and final design.

Enter to win a pair of tickets!

The Gwinnett-based architecture and engineering firm Pond received a design award last month for its work on the Mableton Town Square, above right, in Cobb County, the firm announced Monday. Above right, the architecture and engineering firm Pond based in Peachtree Corners was honored at the Georgia Partnership for Transportation Quality Preconstruction Design Awards during an annual summit Nov. 30. (Photos: Pond)

Experimental aircraft group is offering family portraits fundraiser WINTER WONDERLAND

OPEN NOW January 8, 2017

BY CURT YEOMANS

Field, has received an anonymous offer to match money it raises by the end of the year, up to a limit of Officials with Gwinnett $2,000.

Experimental Aircraft AsSessions will be open sociation Chapter 690 are from 12:30 to 5 p.m. today, hoping local families can following on the heels of help the group soar. other sessions that had also A member of the chapbeen available on Saturday. ter, John Slemp, is offering The photos will cost to give a portion of the pro- $250 per session, with ceeds from family portraits nearly half of that going to taken today to help the the club. Families will get group raise money to buy a four 8-by-10 photos, four wing kit for their two-seat 5-by-7 prints and three RV-12 aircraft. The chaplow resolution digital files ter, which meets at Briscoe designed to be uploaded to

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Enter on Monday only on Facebook.com/GwinnettDailyPost

social media websites and apps.

Additional prints would cost $30 for an 8-by-10 and $25 per 5-by-seven.

Officials with the chapter said cash is the preferred payment, but credit cards will be accepted as well.

Families can book a session, by contacting Slemp at john@aerographs.com.

Additional information about Gwinnett Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 690 and its programs can be found at www.eaa690.org.

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