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Okoye: Add diversity in leadership

Thousands were evacuated ahead of the Tennessee wildfires in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge in November, and more than two months later, the towns and their residents have yet to recover.

One local venue aims to help.

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Suwanee bluegrass concert to benefit wildfire victims

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Some of the finest bluegrass musicians in the region will put on a show in Suwanee on Saturday to raise money for those affected by the

Gatlinburg, Tenn., fires.

Everett’s Music Barn, located at 4055 Stonecypher Road, will host the fundraising event as part of the Bluegrass Hope Concert Series. The series is an effort to raise money for the victims of November’s wildfires through the nonprofit Tennessee Valley Coalition for the Homeless. The organization aids those who don’t have insurance, savings or other financial ways to recover.

“Every dollar we get will be a blessing, and every dollar will be spent wisely and

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to make another blessing,” venue owner Tommy Everett said.

Sevier County, Tenn., is still feeling the effects of the

blaze that claimed the belongings and property of so many. Firefighters and other first responders were affected while risking their lives to save others.

The concert will feature food, raffles and music from the Everett’s Family Band, Bluegrass Outlaws, Wilson Banjo Co., The Wiseman Brothers, Blueroad, 8th of January, New Dixie Strom, Bluegrass Alliance and Center Stage. The event will kick off at 2 p.m. and end at 11 p.m.

Everett promises good, clean fun in a familyfriendly environment. The historic spot has been open for more than 50 years and is alcohol-free, he said.

County’s appointments don’t reflect population, Democratic chair says

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

Gwinnett County Democratic Party Chairman Gabe Okoye conceded that ultimately it’s the voters who decide whether they want someone from a minority population group representing them, but appointed officials?

That’s a different story.

Okoye stood before county commissioners on Tuesday and called on them to appoint more minorities to key positions in the majority-minority county’s government, including county administrator, spokesman, clerk and department head jobs.

“The county’s government does not reflect the diversity that is out there in the county,” Okoye told the Daily Post after the meeting.

Okoye’s call for more minority representation in leadership positions comes amid an ongoing backlash against Commissioner Tommy Hunter for comments he made on Facebook, including calling U.S. Rep. John Lewis a “racist pig.”

Okoye said he believes the fact that Hunter made the comments in the first place might be a byproduct of a lack of diversity in the higher levels of county government.

“The structure in the county is not helping matters because it’s like the good ol’ boys and a club,” he said.

While Okoye singled out the appointed

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Gwinnett Democratic Party Chairman Gabe Okoye speaks at a county commission meeting in January. On Tuesday, Okoye called for more minorities to be appointed to county leadership positions. (File Photo)

Norcross leaders repeal limit on length of hotel stays

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Norcross leaders took what Mayor Bucky Johnson described as a sort of do over on Monday and repealed a controversial limit on how long someone can stay in a hotel or extended stay motel inside

the city limits.

Much of the sweeping hotel-motel ordinance approved by the City Council last month will stay in place. The council’s decision this week only struck four subsections that put into place 15 consecutive day limits on hotel stays and 30 consecutive day

limits on extended stay rentals.

“Whenever we do a new ordinance, we don’t just pluck it out of the air and make it up,” Johnson said during the meeting. “We go and look at other cities where these kinds of ordinances are taking place and we try to find the best

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vocates and organizations that work with Gwinnett County’s homeless population. That prompted city leaders to quickly take a second look at the ordinance.

“There were three really tough issues,” said Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Craig Newton, who

was involved in efforts to review the ordinance. “It was onerous in some cases and unenforceable in others, and very litigious so we tried to minimize that.

We looked at a certain portion of this ordinance to fix it and I think we’ve come

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practices and so forth.

“Occasionally, we need a mulligan and today is kind of a mulligan in terms of the ordinance and trying to make an adjustment to it.”

The length of stay limit had drawn criticism and concern from a collection of residents, homeless ad-

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Georgia Gwinnett College receives award for tutoring FROM STAFF REPORTS There’s good news for Georgia Gwinnett College students looking for a little extra help this semester.

The college was recently awarded a system-wide award from the University System of Georgia for its tutoring services.

The GGC Academic Enhancement Center’s TIC-TAC-TOE program won a silver level Chancellor’s Service Excellence Student Improvement The Gwinnett Fire Technical Rescue Team trained recently at Ivy Creek in Buford. (PhoInitiative Team Award. The tos: Gwinnett County Department of Fire and Emergency Services) commendation recognizes the tutoring team’s ability to continue improve its tutoring methods to emphasize student and employee satisfaction.

The numbers seem to affirm the program’s success.

More than 30 percent of all FROM STAFF REPORTS students use the AEC’s tutoring services at least once A specialized group of during their college career, Gwinnett firefighters often said T.J. Arant, senior vice called to work some of the president for Academic and most dangerous situations Student Affairs and provost in the area participated in a at the college. rope rescue training at Ivy “This is very meaningful Creek recently. to us since this college was The firefighters all serve designed specifically to enas members of the departsure that students are able to ment’s Technical Rescue find paths to success,”Arant Team, a part of the Georgia said. “We are proud that our Search and Rescue team. tutoring team received this They’re tasked with savdistinguished recognition The Gwinnett Fire Technical Rescue Team practiced deing people who are hard ploying a Stokes Rescue Basket and shuttling lifesaving for their important work to reach for hazardous with our students.” equipment on a high-line rope course. reasons, including swollen The TIC-TAC-TOE rivers, dangerous debris program provides tutors fields and steep terrains. everywhere students might “Their actions often be. place them in dangerous The TIC stands for Tutors environments where skill, quick decision-making and the right equipment make all the difference,” Firefighter Capt. Tommy Rutledge said.

That’s why training like the one that took place in

BY CAILIN O’BRIEN Buford recently is important. The team practiced cailin.obrien @gwinnettdailypost.com moving quickly and acFirefighters who are members of the department’s Techcurately as they deployed a nical Rescue Team are tasked with saving people who A Gwinnett man will Stokes Rescue Basket and are hard to reach for hazardous reasons, including swolspend three years in shuttled lifesaving equiplen rivers, dangerous debris fields and steep terrains. prison after he choked ment on a high-line rope tains Gwinnett’s Technical the mother of his child so “The Technical Rescourse. The goal was to hard that she was still out cue Team is an integral rescue fake victims from a Rescue team. The task force was instrumental in of breath when she called component of the departvariety of dangerous situsaving lives during Hur911. ment’s commitment to ations.

They’re skills this group ricane Matthew, a deck In May, Tonee Lamont provide excellent service to has used before. The Metro collapse in Atlanta and a the citizens and visitors of Gregory, 27, was livGSAR Task Force 7 is the tornado that hit Buford in ing with his daughter’s Gwinnett County,” Rutbranch of GSAR that con- 2010. mother after he was ledge said. released on parole for another crime. Gregory and the woman got into an argument after she accused him of taking $50 of her rent money from

Firefighter group trains at Ivy Creek rope course

Georgia Gwinnett College’s TIC-TAC-TOE tutoring program won an award recently. (Photo: Georgia Gwinnett College)

in the Classroom, a part of the program that provides in-class tutoring support to complement classroom instruction in specific classes.

TIC tutors serve about 300 students each year.

“Even though our average class size is only 21, faculty members may find that in some specific courses, a tutor in the classroom can extend their ability to address individual students’ needs,” said Justin Jernigan, the dean of the School of Transitional Studies, which includes the AEC. “Particularly if students are doing exercises during class and may encounter questions or problems.”

Students in need of help outside of class can find use the TAC part of the program — Tutors Round Campus.

TAC tutors camp out in residence halls, dining halls, study areas, in the

library or out on the line.

They set up a sign announcing their area of expertise and then wait for students to stop by for help.

TAC tutors provide about 150 sessions per semester.

Students who realize they need help when they’re at home are covered, too. The TOE portion of the program stands for Tutoring Online Everywhere. More than 430 students used TOE during the past academic year.

Overall, the AEC employees 30 full- and parttime tutors, 10 peer tutors, 12 student assistants and 55 faculty volunteer tutors.

“The TIC-TAC-TOE program significantly extends the AEC’s reach beyond the walls of the center,” Jernigan said. “The program is distinctive to GGC and fits perfectly with the college’s focus on active student engagement and holistic student access.”

Man convicted of beating, choking mother of his child

Couples can marry, renew vows at GJAC this Valentine’s Day

BY CAILIN O’BRIEN cailin.obrien @gwinnettdailypost.com

The Gwinnett County Magistrate and Probate Courts will celebrate Valentine’s Day with a heavy dose of romance.

Chief Magistrate Kristina Hammer Blum and Probate Court Judge

Christopher Ballar will be performing wedding and vow renewal ceremonies at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center Feb. 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Couples who are getting married must bring a valid marriage license with them to the ceremony. Call the probate court at 770-8228350 for information

about obtaining a marriage license.

Couples renewing their vows do not need to bring a copy of their license.

Appointments are encouraged. Blum and Ballar will welcome walk-ins, but couples with reservations will be taken first. To book an appointment, call 770822-8081.

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gers in the process. When officers arrived, they saw a red scratch mark on the woman’s neck and what seemed to be the beginning of bruising on her face.

She said Gregory texted her after the beating and offered her $10,000 to drop the charges.

Gregory testified at his trial and admitted to slapping the victim five times, but denied choking her.

He was convicted of simple battery, battery and battery as the lesser included offense of aggravated assault.

Grease, wipes blamed in Duluth 2,125-gallon sewage spill on Wed.

BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

A combination of grease, wipes, paper and “other products” caused a spill that sent more than 2,000 gallons of sewage into Sweetwater Creek in Duluth on Wednesday.

Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources spokeswoman Karen Shields said the spill came from a manhole located at 3109 Dover Drive. Water department officials were made aware of the spill at 8:26 a.m. and crews got it stopped at about 10 a.m. About 2,125 gallons of sewage entered

the creek because of the incident, Shields said.

Grease was found to be the main cause of the spill, but the wipes and paper contributed to the problem as well.

“Using the toilet as a trashcan can result in blockages that can lead to backups in residents’ plumbing or sewer overflows,” Shields said.

“Items that should be placed in a trashcan include cleansing wipes, diapers, paper towels and cotton swabs.”

Crews spread lime and raked the area in an effort to reduce the environmental impact of the spill, and signs were posted nearby

to make residents aware of the incident. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division was contacted about the spill as well.

Gwinnett officials have previously said grease clogs, which they have described as capable of becoming as hard as cement in the sewer pipes, are a leading cause of sewer spills in the county. They have created an educational website on the dangers of pouring grease, fats and oils down drains at www. unclogthefog.com.

They have also posted a listed of items that should not be flushed down toilets at http://ow.ly/jUdN302obt3.

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She wanted him out of her apartment. But Gregory didn’t Tonee want to Gregory go.

According to his victim’s testimony, he grabbed her and threw her across the bedroom where he punched and kicked her.

Then he choked her.

She was able to get him off of her, but some of her nails broke off and left injuries on her fin-

Parkway. The shows will take place from Feb. 23 to March 5.

Photos must be uploaded at InfiniteEnergyCenter.com/rbbb-memories by noon Friday.

Tickets to the shows are available at InfiniteEnergyCenter.com, the Arena Box Office or by calling 770-626-2464.

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Civitan hosts speaker for Shafer bill encourages savings Clergy Appreciation Week accounts with prize drawings From StaFF reportS As part of Clergy Appreciation Week, the Johns Creek Civitan and Duluth Civitan clubs honored clergy and others during a meeting Tuesday at Rainbow Village in Duluth.

According to a news release from the Johns Creek Civitan Club, Civitan clubs around the world recognize clergy of all faiths “for their service to their communities during the annual Clergy Appreciation Week, which is inspired by the heroism of four U.S. Army chaplains during World War II who worked together to evacuate soldiers and ultimately gave their lives.”

The local Clergy Appreciation Breakfast featured guest speaker Clyde Strickland, a local businessman

The Johns Creek Civitan Club and Duluth Civitan Club hosted guest speaker Clyde Strickland during a meeting last week at Rainbow Village in Duluth. (Photo courtesy of Johns Creek Civitan Club)

and philanthropist.

Strickland and wife Sandra have devoted much of their lives to being community volunteers and making many charitable contributions since moving to Gwinnett County in 1969.

Civitan International is an organization of community service clubs with about 40,000 members across four continents.

Each club works to help

others and fulfill needs in their community, with a special emphasis on helping people with developmental disabilities.

Civitans also continue this mission through fundraising for the UAB Civitan International Research Center, a world-class medical facility dedicated to researching developmental disabilities and other cognitive disorders.

growing area where we have already begun to build so many great relationships.”

Frenik is expected to host A full-service digital mar- a grand opening celebration keting firm is opening a new Thursday to commemorate location in Berkeley Lake. the new facility, which will Partnership Gwinnett an- serve as a home for the comnounced the opening of Fre- pany’s creative and developnik Marketing Group’s new ment teams. location at 4940 Peachtree The facility will have Industrial Boulevard on space for in-house website Wednesday. The new facility and mobile application is part of the Atlanta-based design capabilities and full company’s plans to grow in video production services. both the county and metro Employees will also have area over the next few years. space for internet market“All of us here at Frenik ing strategy and software couldn’t be more excited to development. have found such a great loca“Technology is transformtion in Gwinnett County to ing how people connect as call home,” Frenik Marketwe spend more time than ing Group founder and CEO ever on mobile devices, Jordan Sandler said in a laptops, and tablets,” Sandler statement. “Our roots are in said. “Today, the challenge Gwinnett, and we are thrilled for brands is to appeal to to be moving to a rapidly customers through these

devices in real time and to create campaigns that work seamlessly across all platforms of media.”

Partnership Gwinnett officials said Frenik’s revenue has doubled annually in recent years, and has created 20 new jobs as it prepares for future growth.

“This announcement is another excellent example of how Gwinnett County continues to excel at being a draw for innovative organizations,” Partnership Gwinnett Chief Economic Development Officer Nick Masino said in a statement.

“It is confirmation that Gwinnett has a business environment that promotes and facilitates growth, one that attracts young and upcoming companies such as Frenik and we look forward to their continued success.”

Firm to open Berkeley Lake office

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State Senate President Pro Tempore David Shafer filed legislation on Tuesday to get more Georgians to save money by making them eligible to win prizes for doing so.

Shafer, R-Duluth, is the author of Senate Bill 134, also known as the Save Earn Win Act. The bill gives banks and credit David Shafer unions permission to offer a new savings account format where the owner of the account would be entered in a drawing for a financial prize just for having the account.

“Our country is facing a crisis and we have stopped saving,” Sen. Shafer said.

“Most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and do not have enough to pay for a $400 emergency.

I am proud to introduce the Save Earn Win Act which will serve as an incentive for people to save more and to invest in their future.”

A Senate spokesperson said the drawings would give account owners “the thrill of a lottery or raffle” without taking the risk of losing any money in the process. The spokesman added it would also give Georgians an incentive to save money they earn rather than spending it on “immediate thrills.”

Shafer was joined by officials from the Georgia Bankers Association, Community Bankers Association, Georgia Credit Union Affiliates, Members First Credit Union, the

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Curt Yeomans United Way, Operation Hope and Urban Asset Builders to announce the bill on Tuesday.

Shafer’s co-sponsors on the bill include Sens.

John Albers, R-Alpharetta; Michael Williams, RCumming; Hunter Hill, R-Atlanta; Jeff Mullis, RChickamauga, and Bruce Thompson, R-White.

Senate to consider Martin-backed mental health counselor licensing bill A bill authored by Sen. P.K. Martin, RLawrenceville, that would repeal a sunset provision related to the licensing for mental health counselors is heading to the floor of the state P.K. Martin Senate.

The Senate’s Press Office announced Wednesday that Senate Bill 52 was one of three bills expected to be on the Senate floor today.

The bill passed out of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Tuesday. The committee’s chairwoman, Sen. Renee Unterman, R-Buford, was among the bill’s co-sponsors.

The other bills deal with

supplemental appropriations for the state’s current fiscal year and freezing the cost of renewing hunting, trapping and fishing licenses.

Perdue, Isakson vote to confirm DeVos, Sessions U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Johnny Isakson were among the senators who voted to confirm President Donald Trump’s appointments of Betsy DeVos and Jeff Sessions as Secretary of Education and attorney general, respectively, this week.

DeVos’ appointment was confirmed narrowly on Tuesday with Vice President Mike Pence needed to cast a tiebreaking vote in her favor.

Sessions was confirmed as the new attorney general in a 52-47 vote Wednesday.

Martin, Cox set to address Lilburn Women’s Club The GPWC Lilburn Women’s Club are going to relax and “wine” about what’s going on at the state Capitol later this month.

The club has organized a “Wine About The Issues” event, which will feature and be hosted by state Sen. P.K. Martin and state Rep. Clay Cox, RLilburn, from 7 to 9 p.m.

Feb. 21, at 1910 Public House, 107 Main St. in Lilburn.

The gathering will focus on a discussion about currently pending legislation in the state house.

A complimentary drink and light hors d’oeuvres will be served at the event.

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

4A • ThursdAy, FebruAry 9, 2017 To Your Good Health

Keith Roach

Troubling twitches are fasciculations Dear Dr. roaCH: I have a 53-year-old daughter who is troubled by muscle twitches. They occur on various parts of her body, some lasting for several minutes, and others much longer. No pain is associated with these mysterious twitches, but recently their frequency seems to be increasing, along with the severity.

She has seen several neurologists and internists, and had numerous tests, and nobody has made a diagnosis. My daughter is relieved that nothing serious has been discovered but is quite nervous that the problem persists. Do you have any thoughts or suggestions?

— Anon. aNsWer: I have published columns recently on degenerative neurological diseases, and many of them include muscle twitches, or “fasciculations,” in medical jargon. It is perfectly understandable to be worried about these, especially when they seem to be longlasting or worsening. Up to 70 percent of people get muscle twitches from time to time, but there is a subset of those people — and it sounds like your daughter is in this group — whose symptoms are significantly more severe.

However, in my role as a general internist, the vast majority of people I see with this concern do not have any identifiable disease. In this case, the term “benign fasciculations” is used, even if it doesn’t seem so benign to the person suffering with them.

Dear Dr. roaCH: I am a 66-year-old female in great health. I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation about eight years ago. I don’t feel like I have a-fib often, or an intense case of it. I have been taking diltiazem with an aspirin daily. Although, over the past three months I have been trying to wean myself from the diltiazem and have been taking it every other day instead.

My doctor is encouraging me to go on blood thinners, which he knows I do not want to do. What is your opinion on blood thinners and their side effects?

There are so many people being diagnosed with a-fib these days, with many different paths to follow with medications. I don’t like taking medications, because the side effects are sometimes worse. I don’t take meds for any other medical issues at this time. It seems doctors don’t agree on how to treat a-fib.

— K.N. aNsWer: It may seem that doctors don’t agree how best to treat a-fib, but one reason for that is that everyone has his or her own individual risks. The decision of whether to use anticoagulants in a person with atrial fibrillation thus needs to be individualized, and most experts use a scale called the CHA2DS2VASc score to evaluate an individual’s risk.

Your score is at least 2, and in a study using people with a score of 2 or higher, anticoagulation had more benefit than risk, so I would agree with your doctor’s recommendation to use an anticoagulant, such as warfarin, or one of the newer agents (which have the benefit of not needing periodic blood tests).

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world&nation world House of Commons OKs Brexit bill Britain’s lower house of Parliament passed legislation Wednesday to allow Prime Minister Theresa May’s government to officially begin the Brexit process.

Now that the legislation has been approved by the House of Commons, it will be put before the House of Lords for a final decision later this month.

Members of the House of Commons had already voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill to kick off Britain’s divorce from the European Union in its initial readings, and a seven-hour debate on amendments preceded the final vote, which was 494 MPs in favor and 122 against.

David Davis, the secretary of state for exiting the European Union, called the vote “historic.”

Senate confirms Sessions as AG

By Ashley Killough, Tom LoBianco and Ted Barrett CNN

people Grammys set to be a night of tributes

This year’s Grammys won’t forget about all the giants of music the world lost last year.

The ceremony will include tributes to both Prince and George Michael, the Recording Academy, which puts on the Grammys, announced Wednesday.

“While the primary focus of the Grammy Awards is to celebrate and honor the year’s best in music, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., was confirmed by the Senate to become the next attorney we consider it our respongeneral Wednesday in Washington. (Photo: CNN) sibility to tell music’s broader story by honoring Mitch McConnell took to Warren’s censure and to delay Trump’s picks from its legends lost — that’s what we strive to achieve the Senate floor to sing the subsequent reaction continbeing confirmed, even if praises of Sessions, after ued to largely overshadow they don’t have the votes to with our annual tributes,” Ken Ehrlich, executive Democrats spent hours criti- the Sessions fight in the reject them. Next, they’re cizing him. hours before his vote, but expected to repeat the same producer of the Grammy Awards, said in a state“He’s just a likable guy, the Massachusetts Democrat 30-hour debate plan for one of the most humble and told CNN’s Manu Raju said Health and Human Services ment. “While it’s nearly impossible to convey the most considerate people Sessions, whom she served Secretary nominee Tom full depth of an artist’s you’ll ever meet,” Mcwith in the chamber, is just Price and could easily drag Connell said. “He’s a true the latest example of a poor the fight over Treasury pick cultural impact in a single performance, it’s that very Southern gentleman.”

Cabinet choice.

Steven Mnuchin into the challenge that has led us to In the debate Tuesday “We may not have the weekend. evening, after Republicans votes to stop him,” she said, On Tuesday, Betsy DeVos some of our most memoProtests erupt rable Grammy moments.” already blocked a Senate “but we sure as hell need to was confirmed 51-50 in a in Paris suburb filibuster, Warren reignited make it clear to the Repubbattle that sparked impasafter alleged that debate by reading from licans and to the American sioned protests and the Spears’ daughter a 1986 letter Coretta Scott people exactly who Donald flooding of Senate switchpolice rape King sent opposing Sessions Trump is putting in charge of boards by angry Democrats recovering after Violence has erupted ATV accident for a federal judgeship. our government.” and liberal activists. on the edge of Paris and McConnell accused WarSessions was ultimately The tactics have yet to The 8-year-old daughter spread to at least five ren of impugning Sessions blocked from a federal work in actually defeating of Jamie Lynn Spears is nearby towns amid a pubon the Senate floor — a vio- judgeship and carried that any of Trump’s Cabinet lic outcry over the alleged lation of Senate rules — and battle scar into Wednesday’s picks, but they have fired up doing “better and better” rape of a young black man following an ATV acafter a series of procedural final confirmation battle. a base of Democratic and by police. cident, according to her votes, she was forced to sit Democrats are using liberal activists irate over a Several nights of clashes family. down and stop debating. every tactic in their arsenal series of Trump actions. have broken out after four Jamie Watson, who is police officers purportedly the stepfather of Spears’ Myers, Florida, on June 26 forced a 22-year-old man daughter, Maddie, posted to deliver a message to its to the ground, beat him and a picture with the words Muslim owner: Shut down anally raped him with a “Believe in Miracles” on the store. baton at a housing estate in Silencing of Instagram Tuesday.

“Thank you to everyone And if the owner didn’t the northern Paris suburb Warren backfires for the prayers,” the capdo so within a month? of Aulnay-sous-Bois. on Senate GOP The officers were sustion said. “Maddie is doing “Four people will come pended pending an inquiry better and better. Thank The Senate has silenced with guns and they will into accusations that they y’all so much.”

Elizabeth Warren. blow up” the owner, Jones used excessive force while The child was hospitalAnd by doing so, majority said. He added that he and arresting the young man, ized Sunday after acciRepublicans just handed the others would be “keeping identified only as Théo, dentally steering her ATV liberal firebrand a megaan eye” on the owner and during an identity check into a pond on her famphone — further elevating that they “will blow up all Sen. Elizabeth Warren was silenced for the rest of the last week. ily’s Louisiana property, President Donald Trump’s Muslims and get this land Jeff Sessions nomination debate by Republicans using All four officers inaccording to a statement fiercest and most prominent rule that says senators will not impugn another senator. back.” volved in the Feb. 2 critic in the Senate and turn- (Photo: CNN) Those threats were includ- from Tangipahoa Parish incident have been charged ing her into a Democratic ed in a set of facts that Jones Sheriff Daniel Edwards. with aggravated assault, Family members rushed hero. will be under winter weather accepted as part of a guilty male senators for attemptwhile one was also charged The rebuke of Warren plea on Wednesday, accord- into the water to try and advisories. ing to read a letter from a with rape, according to the came after the Massachusetts civil rights icon — had given rescue the girl, who was ing to federal documents.

Interior Ministry. “trapped and secured by Democrat read a letter writ- those women a new rallying Trump’s blast In all, Jones pleaded ten 30 years ago by Coretta guilty to federal hate crimes the seat belt and the ATV’s point. of Nordstrom safety netting,” the stateScott King, the widow of related to that incident, as Six Red Cross ment said.

Martin Luther King Jr., well as a similarly threatengets retweeted Snowstorm workers killed opposing the nomination of ing incident at a different by @POTUS expected to Jeff Sessions for a federal in Afghanistan Muslim-owned grocery 5 hurt in circus President Trump tweeted store less than a month later, judgeship. pound Northeast high-wire fall; Gunmen killed six Red a jab at Nordstrom deWarren cited the letter according to federal court Cross workers on Wednes- during a debate on the nomiA storm forming in the partment stores from his Wallenda OK documents. day in northern AfghaniAtlantic will blast the North- personal account Wednesday nation of Sessions — now stan.

Five performers were east with up to a foot of morning, which was then an Alabama senator — as Sears’ stock hits A team of three drivers injured Wednesday after snow this morning, creating retweeted by the official Donald Trump’s attorney all-time low and five field officers was tumbling from a high-wire travel nightmares across the POTUS account. general. Reading from This is how bad things on its way to deliver liveact during a circus practice region, CNN meteorologists POTUS, the official TwitKing’s letter to members of stock materials to an area in Sarasota, Florida, ofsaid. ter account for the president, are at Sears. Shares of the the Senate Judiciary Comin Jawzjan province when mittee in 1986, Warren said: Snow will start falling in had so far been reserved for once proud retailer plunged ficials said. “unknown armed men” at- “Mr. Sessions has used the One performer is listed nearly 15 percent on TuesBoston and Hartford, Congovernment issues. tacked it, the International awesome power of his office necticut, around midmorning The Trump tweet blasted day and hit their lowest level as a trauma alert, accordCommittee of the Red ing to a tweet from the ever since its merger with today, just in time for the Nordstrom for treating his to chill the free exercise of Cross (ICRC) said.

Sarasota County governKmart back in 2005. the vote by black citizens in early commute, and become daughter Ivanka “so unThe Taliban denied ment.

There was no specific heavy in the afternoon, fairly” by discontinuing her the district he now seeks to responsibility for the attack serve as a federal judge.”

The incident occurred as news to explain why shares meteorologist Dave Hennen fashion line. in a tweet from spokesman said.

Nordstrom announced last fell. But rumors of impend- eight performers practiced Republicans cried foul on the high wire for Circus Zabihullah Mujahidm.

Boston should get about a week that it would no longer ing doom for the company — charging that Warren “It is not yet clear who violated Senate rules against foot of snow, with surround- carry Ivanka Trump’s line of have been swirling for some Sarasota’s Friday show. carried out the attack or One performer lost baltime as sales continue to ing towns such as Springclothing and accessories. impugning another senawhy,” the Red Cross said ance, according to Pedro plunge and losses mount.

The president went on tor. A vote along party lines field and Fitchburg seeing a in a statement.

Reis, founder and CEO of In January, the company Twitter to defend his daughupheld that decision, turning few inches less.

Two of its employees the Circus Arts Conservaannounced plans to sell In New York and Philater — who is also a close what could have been an still are unaccounted for, 150 Sears and Kmart stores tory. delphia, the snow will hit White House adviser. ordinary late-night partisan the aid organization said.

The five performers fell and sold its iconic Craftsaround daybreak, with 30floor speech for political The head of the ICRC man line of tools to Stanley 25 to 30 feet, said Drew mph winds creating whiteout Man who gave devotees into a national delegation in Afghanistan, story.

Winchester with Sarasota Black & Decker. conditions at times, Hennen Monica Zanarelli, said Fire Rescue.

Sears also closed 78 The moment immediately said. Six inches to a foot will threat to grocery in a statement: “This is a Well-known daredevil stores last year and more store guilty collect in New York, with 5 galvanized the Democratic despicable act. Nothing Nik Wallenda was among than 200 in 2015 and has base. Weeks after the wom- to 10 inches in the City of of hate crimes can justify the murder of three performers on the plans to sell its Kenmore Brotherly Love. en’s marches around the James Benjamin Jones our colleagues and dear appliance and Diehard auto wire who were not injured, More than 40 million country turned out droves Reis said. friends.” people will be under a winter walked into the Halal Meat parts brands, too. of anti-Trump protesters, — From wire reports Warren — silenced by — From wire reports — From wire reports storm watch, and 12 million and Grocery Store in Fort The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama as the next attorney general, surviving a vocal push by Democrats to derail his nomination.

The 52-47 vote was mostly along party lines, though one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin, joined the Republicans to back their Alabama colleague.

The final vote for Sessions — one of Trump’s closest advisers and his earliest supporter in the Senate — was scheduled for Wednesday evening, after 30 hours of debate from Democrats and a stunning fight between liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Senate Republicans which ended in her being forced to sit down after she was accused of impugning Sessions.

The fight over Sessions’ nomination spurred some of the most jarring, and at times personal attacks, rooted in allegations that Sessions was a racist — claims the Alabama senator and his supporters have fiercely denied.

Even early in the nomination process, one of Sessions’ colleagues, Cory Booker, became the first sitting senator to testify against another sitting senator during his confirmation hearing.

Shortly before the vote, Senate Majority Leader

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Eclipse, full moon, comet teaming up to put on a show Friday

By Doug Criss

partial eclipse that leaves sections of the moon darkened by the Earth’s shadow. No, it won’t Got big plans for Friday night? known as a “snow moon.” The be as spectacular as those “blood That’s OK, we don’t either. name comes from the fact that moon” eclipses. It’ll be subtler.

Guess we’ll all have to make the heaviest snows usually fall The level of darkness reached do by watching the celestial during February, according to the during the eclipse may or may show that will take place that Old Farmer’s Almanac. not be apparent; it just depends night.

But if that’s not special on where you are when you view First, there will be a full moon. enough, there’s also an eclipse it.

That’s always fun, but this one that night. It’ll be a penumbral In North America, the eclipse will be a little more special. It’s lunar eclipse, meaning it’s a begins at 5:34 p.m. and ends CNN

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at 9:53 p.m., according to astronomy website EarthSky. The eclipse will be at its height around 7:44 p.m.

If that’s still not enough, let’s throw in a comet to the night’s festivities.

Comet 45P (it has a much longer name, but we won’t burden you with it here) is visible as it flies by Earth. The comet will get within 7.4 million miles of the

planet as it makes its closest approach this weekend, according to Universe Today.

Comet 45P will be the most visible a couple of hours after the eclipse, so look to the skies again about 3 a.m. Saturday and find the greenish-blue light with a tail.

And don’t forget, a total bigtime solar eclipse will streak across the United States on Aug. 21.

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Hide from your children you’re bad at math CHICAGO — There is an emerging education trend I’ve noticed that will hopefully sweep the nation: Asking the adults in children’s lives to not bad-mouth themselves about math.

The first time I noticed it was several years ago at an orientation for parents at my younger son’s new middle school. The principal was trying to explain that the math standards on the statewide achievement test were going up and that it might be noticeable in work that was coming home at night.

“Please encourage your children,” the administrator pleaded. “If you find that you are unable to help with the homework, know that we will have extra supports available for any students who need them. But please don’t say that you are not good at math. Or that math is ‘hard’ or you Esther don’t understand Cepeda why it all has to be so complicated.”

More recently, an administrator at one of my local high schools had the same message for teachers: Don’t go around saying you’re not good at math.

As a former algebra teacher, it was music to my ears.

It was a potent reminder that childhood scars can be perpetuated by well-meaning parents looking to empathize with their children. And maybe this message is getting out.

In an essay titled “Does Math Have the Power to Heal?” on the website of The Good Men Project, Michael Allwright recently wrote: “When I was in seventh grade I hated math. … I found myself often demotivated, frustrated or checked out in math classes. I had the emotional scars of being ‘not good at math,’ and it showed up from balancing my checkbook to learning calculus. Fractions haunted me when building our remote cabin in McCarthy, Alaska.”

When Allwright’s son started struggling with math, he realized he was about to “impart to my son a similar soul-crushing math experience that I had.” Instead, Allwright took a deep breath and “was able to show him that math wasn’t hard or complicated.

Sure, it was complex, but complex things are made up of multiple simple steps.”

Alas, such enlightenment is not universal. Just last week, I sat in a faculty meeting and heard the words, “Math is so hard.” It’s not that people who make such statements are necessarily wrong — it’s that these declarations are not at all helpful.

Thankfully, the word about how societal attitudes toward education and life undermine learning is seeping out from research labs and into public schools.

In her book “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,” professor and researcher Carol Dweck — whose writings have become influential to education practices — investigates the difference between those who believe they can learn and those with a fixed mindset who believe they have certain traits (like being good at sports or bad at math) that are unchangeable.

“No parent thinks, ‘I wonder what I can do today to undermine my children, subvert their effort, turn them off learning and limit their achievement,’” Dweck writes. “Of course not. They think, ‘I would do anything, give anything, to make my children successful.’ Yet many of the things they do boomerang. Their helpful judgments, their lessons, their motivating techniques,” and, I’d add, their attempts to relate, “often send the wrong message.”

In her book, Dweck says that praising intelligence or talent “has the opposite effect. It makes children doubt themselves as soon as anything is hard or anything goes wrong. If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.”

Being a teacher is a hard job, but it’s actually second only to being a parent.

We carry emotional baggage about our own schooling, relationships with our parents and their expectations. This is layered over the hopes and dreams we have for our own kids, making it challenging to always be positive and constructive.

But take it from a teacher who desperately wants to teach your kids to love learning: Don’t put yourself down as a learner. And whatever you do, don’t say you were never any good at a particular subject. Just smile and assure your kids that there are plenty of adults around who are ready to help.

Esther Cepeda’s email address is estherjcepeda@washpost.com. Follow her on Twitter, @estherjcepeda.

The North Korean red line SANTA MONICA, Calif.

— The Cold War was waged and won in many places, including this beach city, home to the RAND Corp. Created in 1948 to think about research and development as it effects military planning and procurement, RAND pioneered strategic thinking about nuclear weapons in the context of the U.S.-Soviet competition. Seven decades later, it is thinking about the nuclear threat from a nation created in 1948.

When Defense Secretary James Mattis said that any North Korean use of nuclear weapons would draw an “effective and overwhelming” U.S. response, he did not, according to RAND’s Bruce W. Bennett, “overcommit” the president by saying that the response would be nuclear.

But an overwhelming response could be.

On Jan. 1, North Korea’s 33-year-old leader Kim Jong Un said that his regime was at “the final stage in preparations to test-launch” an ICBM, perhaps one capable of reaching America’s Pacific Coast. On Jan. 2, Donald Trump tweeted: “It won’t happen!” He thereby drew a red line comparable to his predecessor’s concerning Syrian chemical weapons. So Trump, who excoriated Barack Obama for ignoring that red line, must, Bennett believes, be prepared to threaten actions that would prevent North Korea from learning from its test — ac-

its detonation over its western desert.

In 2006, William Perry, who had been defense secretary for Bill Clinton, and Ashton Carter, who would be Obama’s final defense secretary, recommended U.S. action to destroy any ICBM George set for testing on a North Will Korean launch pad. But that nation’s conventional retaliations such as shooting down tory capabilities, including the missile. artillery and rockets capable The United States has of inflicting considerable dam30-some ground-based age on at least Seoul’s northinterceptor missiles at Fort ern suburbs, forestalled this.

Greely in Alaska and othAnd North Korea has perhaps ers at Vandenberg Air Force 1,000 tactical-range ballistic Base in California. This small missiles capable of striking capability is intended to cope throughout South Korea and with an accidental firing by Japan. Furthermore, North an adversary, or an intentional Korea has cyberwar, commanfiring by a rogue general, or do and sabotage capabilities. to deter or defeat a deliberToday, U.S. surface ships ate attack by an adversary and submarines alone could with a small nuclear arsenal, deliver dozens of cruise missuch as North Korea. Will siles, and each of up to 10 B-2 the U.S. anti-ballistic missile bombers could carry two Massystem work? Bennett says sive Ordnance Penetrators to technologies can go wrong, destroy underground leaderso this would be an opportuship or missile bunkers. But as nity to fix any failures. And soon as Kim has one or more unless we then are prepared ICBMs (probably road-moto shoot down theater-range bile) capable of delivering, on ballistic missiles, we will short notice, a nuclear payload signal less-than-convincing to, say, Santa Monica, precommitment to South Korea emptive U.S. action, even just and Japan. To those who say it against his nuclear infrastrucis premature to conclude that ture, might be too risky.

Kim is capable of delivering Furthermore, preparations a nuclear warhead, Bennett for a more ambitious strike — says: In 1966, China, in its against North Korean artillery fourth nuclear test, just two and rockets, ports, airfields, years after its first, had a mis- command-and-control censile carry a nuclear weapon to ters, leadership bunkers and

forward-positioned forces — might be apparent and might provoke Kim to strike first against Seoul and U.S. forces in South Korea. South Korea talks openly of creating, this year, a “decapitation brigade” involving perhaps as many as 2,000 troops whose mission would be to eliminate North Korea’s leadership in the event of war.

Kim recently dismissed the head of his secret police, the latest sign of insecurity. Bennett believes Kim, undeterred by tweets, might test his ICBM for internal purposes — to impress restive North Korean elites. Bennett suggests that the threat to shoot down the test flight would constructively exacerbate Kim’s problems. As might U.S. propaganda, for example by reminding North Korean elites that China’s president has had eight summits with South Korea’s president in the last four years but never has had one with Kim, who China apparently considers not important.

North Korea, which has been run opaquely for the Kim family’s benefit since 1953, is approaching a red line.

Although the line was drawn before Trump took office, perhaps it represents continuity. It prefigured the kind of improvisational governance that has made his early weeks so interesting.

George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com.

I am still searching for a diet panacea I know Democrats and progressives are going nuts over President Trump’s first few weeks in office — I know the Middle East is a mess and that we have no small number of incredible challenges at home — but I have my own worries.

Like millions of other Americans, I’m on my annual February diet.

You see, it’s not easy to be trim and fit in America. Our culture is saturated with an abundance of high-calorie, processed foods that turn into instant fat.

We work long and hard in sedentary office jobs, then eat our stress away, two or three fast-food treats at a time.

We’ve become so fat, to quote Rodney Dangerfield, that our bathtubs have stretch marks.

We know our increasing tubbiness isn’t healthy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity-associated diseases such as diabetes have soared in recent years.

Gallbladder diseases, sleep apnea, high blood pressure and heart disease are all caused by carrying too much weight.

And so we are on a

tamarind— which go well with the bourbon I am driven to drink as I try to figure out which diet to go on.

Volumetrics is another “in” diet. It encourages the consumption of low-energydensity foods, which make you feel full with fewer calories than high-energy-density Tom foods. It also sounds like too Purcell much math is involved.

The Gluten Diet is on the continuous mission to lose outs, though, according to weight. Our challenge is that The Daily Meal. Apparently, the fad diets that promise to it puts people at risk for get us there go in and out of “different deficiencies such fashion faster than the white as B vitamin deficiencies, patent leather shoes and belts calcium, fiber, vitamin D and my father used to wear to iron.” church.

The Daily Meal no longer According to the website favors the Atkins Diet, either, The Daily Meal (thedailywhich makes me sore. meal.com), the MediterDr. Atkins said we could ranean Diet — it features eat delicious steaks, pork, natural, plant-based foods, chicken and fish. He said we such as fruits and vegetables, could eat as much eggs and whole grains, legumes and cheese and other tasty nonuts — is in. sugar treats as we could stuff So, too, is the Paleo Diet, into our bellies. His diet was which apparently is similar all the rage for years. to the Mediterranean Diet, But now The Daily Meal except legumes are forbidsays his diet is a “no go”? den.

That it is not heart-healthy Which is a shame, too, and that most users are not because I just learned that compliant over the long legumes include alfalfa, term? clover, peas, beans, lenNot so fast! Several promitils, lupin beans, mesquite, nent studies have concluded carob, soybeans, peanuts and that old Doc Atkins was on to

something. Low-carbohydrate diets may actually take off more weight than low-fat diets and may be surprisingly better for cholesterol, too.

One of my greatest dieting disappointments of the last 20 years, though, was the failure of the “exercise pill,” which had shown promise at Duke University around 2002.

Researchers had located the chemical pathways that muscle cells use to build strength and endurance. With that knowledge in hand, there was hope that a pill could be created that would pump up muscle cells without the need for actual exercise.

Dieting Americans could have sat on the couch, chomping potato chips and dip, while their biceps got as round as cantaloupes and their abs got as hard as stone — but this uniquely American dieting innovation wasn’t to be.

I think I’ll try a new, restrictive diet this February: the “Democrats in Congress Diet.”

I’ll deny myself everything.

Email Tom Purcell, author of “Misadventures of a 1970’s Childhood” and “Wicked Is the Whiskey,” at Tom@TomPurcell.com.

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One of the leading voices against the length of stay provision, Kathleen Allen, expressed pleasure at the fact that the council revisited the issue after several residents got up at the council meeting last month and urged the governing body to do so.

Allen, who previously said she supported much of the rest of the ordinance, was one of the residents who got up and spoke against the provision. She and other advocates for the homeless and assistance group leaders around the county previously told the Daily Post they felt the provision would only send the issues to other parts of the county rather than resolving them.

“I’m grateful that they reconsidered it so quickly and didn’t let it get to the point where it could have the negative impact that it could have had if it was left in place,” Allen said Wednesday.

She supported an idea brought up by Newton at the council meeting to get Gwinnett County leaders to set up a “continuum of care” for homeless resi-

Hotel dents in the county.

Allen said the continuum would be an infrastructure to help nonprofits in the community with work with Gwinnett’s homeless population while also making the county eligible for additional funding to help homeless residents. She said it would be set up so that while county leaders would have to authorize it, a nonprofit could run it on their behalf.

Meanwhile, the city council’s decision to repeal part of the ordinance does not mean city leaders are backing away from efforts to reduce crime at hotels and motels in the city though. Newton said an average of 25 percent of the city’s police force ends up responding to incidents at the hotels and motels on a daily basis.

The ordinance still includes a ban on hotels charging hourly rates, and hotel owners would still have to take safety precautions, such as installing video cameras, keeping a record of rental agreements, quickly reporting crimes, removing graffiti within 24 hours, maintaining records of who rents a room, keeping someone on

duty at the check-in desk at all times and issuing placards to be hung in patrons’ cars while they stay at the hotel.

Hotel guests would have to provide vehicle identification information to the hotel owners and park their cars “nose in” in parking spaces.

“Our most vulnerable citizens are staying in very precarious situations, and when our government, sometimes in a rush, to enact safety, we acted a little improperly and did what we thought was best for our city,” Councilman Andrew Hixson said.

“I’m glad that we’ve, through activism and through community engagement, done what we need to do to eliminate some of the problems with this ordinance, but we remain resolved to protect these citizens that are in these hotels. We remain resolved to partner with the businesses to make sure that they are the safest places possible.”

Newton said there are some proposals being considered after a meeting between residents, business owners, public safety officials and city leaders on the issue.

“It just shows that when the public gets together and business owners get together with our elected officials, we can get a lot done,” Newton said. “We did find common ground in several different areas.”

Newton said one initiative that came out of the discussions about the ordinance is a certification program where hotel and motel owners would go through crime prevention training.

The multi-phase training program, known as the Crime Free Multifamily Housing program, started in Arizona in 1998, Newton said. He said the first phase of the program focuses on education, while the second phase is geared towards prevention and the third phase is social-based.

“Each hotel and motel will be certified crime free,” he said. “That will be a good selling point and advertising point for these motels, extended stays and hotels here in Norcross if we can involve, if we train, if we educate these hotel and motel owners and help them become partners with us in reducing crime.”

need more places to bring your family — more safe Everett said he is paying havens. That was my it forward, as his business granddaddy’s goal when runs each week solely on he started (Everett’s donations.

Music Barn).”

“We need more venues More than a dozen like this around the people were killed as community,” he said. “We a result of the fires,

which started and quickly spread after two teens were playing with matches in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, according to reports.

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has led the effort in rebuilding and providing aid for her hometown.

Now Everett is doing what he can to help.

Also, he has been involved with local efforts to help those who dealt with the fires in

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Calvin Brown Calvin J. Brown, age 61 of Gainesville, GA and formerly of Buford, GA passed away on February 8, 2017. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

DULUTH

William Campbell “Bill” Edwards November 15, 1924 – February 7, 2017

William Campbell “Bill” Edwards died February 7, 2017 at his home in Duluth, GA following an extended illness. He was 92.

Born November 15, 1924 in Eastman, GA to Mary Douglas Edwards and Charter Ball Edwards, he graduated from Tift County High School in Tifton, GA in 1942. He attended the University of Georgia and graduated from Atlanta Law School in 1948. His career was spent in the property and

casualty insurance industry, until his retirement as Vice President of Claims for the Atlanta Casualty Companies in 1989.

He was a devoted parishioner of St. Benedict Catholic Church in Duluth, GA, and volunteered for the City of Duluth Police Department and other civic organizations.

He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Jean Mayer Edwards of Owatonna, MN; four children: William Campbell Edwards, Jr., of Jacksonville, FL; Leslie Edwards Van Haltern of Decatur, GA; Robert Graham Edwards of Dahlonega, GA; Hilary Edwards Cruz of Sugar Hill, GA; four grandsons and two granddaughters.

A memorial Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, February 10, at St. Benedict Catholic Church in Duluth, GA. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully requests donations be made to St. Benedict Catholic Church in support of its Cameroon mission.

BUFORD

Joe Gaskin Joe F. Gaskin, 94, a longtime resident of Buford, passed away February 7, 2017.

Mr. Gaskin was a proud World War II, U.S. Navy Seabee Veteran, serving in the Pacific; an alumnus of Young Harris College; and had a long and respected career in the water and wastewater construction field, most notably with the J.B. McCrary Company, later with Fortune Construction, W.L. Carey Construction, and subsequently self-employed. He was a

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Originally from Chickamauga, Georgia, he and his family had been longtime residents of Buford. He was a member of the Buford First Baptist Church and an avid supporter of Buford High School and Georgia Tech athletics.

In February 2014, he was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Ruth.

Mr. Gaskin is survived by his son, Joe B. Gaskin and his wife, Terry; grandchildren, Tracey Gaskin, Chris Gaskin and his wife, Jill; and great grandchildren, Jimmy and Tripp Gaskin.

The family plans to have a private graveside service at a later date.

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“The commissioners are elected, I have no problem positions, he also said add- with that,” Okoye said. ing more seats on the com- “But why is it that the mission might help matters County Administrator, Mr. by shrinking commission (Glenn) Stephens is white, district sizes and providing the deputy (county adminmore positions for minority istrator) is white, (Comcandidates to run for. He munications Director) Joe pointed to the Fulton and Sorenson is white and the DeKalb counties, each of clerk is white. which have seven commis“Is there no qualified sion seats. non-white person for these Among the 10 counties appointed positions in a in the Atlanta Regional population of close to 1 Commission footprint, million people?” only Fulton, DeKalb and Commission ChairwomHenry have more than five an Charlotte Nash said the seats on their commissions, county is trying to increase including chairman or CEO diversity at the appointed positions. Henry’s board level. Although there are has six seats, Rockdale’s not many minorities in has three seats and the rest appointed department head have five-seat commissions. positions, there are some.

Okoye pointed out there “We are certainly interare some U.S. states whose ested in adding more diverentire populations are sity at all levels within the smaller than Gwinnett as county organization, includevidence of why he felt the ing the senior management county commission should level,” Nash said. “I know be enlarged. that this is an objective as But on the issue of aphiring decisions are made pointed positions, Okoye by staff, even as they focus on hiring the most qualified said that while Cobb candidate for each position.

County, which has more “We are making progress than 100,000 fewer resioverall and anticipate that, dents than Gwinnett, also has a five-seat commission, as we have vacancies at the department head level, we its county manager is an will be able to promote and African-American. Cobb also has one African-Amer- hire individuals who add to the diversity at that level.” ican commissioner.

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Linda Godown Linda Godown, 74, of Jersey, GA, passed away Sunday, February 5, 2017, at home peacefully.

Linda was born in Sioux City, IA on July 21, 1942, to the late Willard O. Deal and Marion Elizabeth Deal. She was preceded in death by her brother, the late Dennis Deal.

Linda is survived by her husband, Joseph A. Godown, mother Marion E. Deal, brother James R. Deal and sons Kenneth A. Godown, Mathew J. Godown and Robert C. Adams, and two grandchildren, Emily M. Godown and Christopher Adams.

Linda had RN licenses in seven states and lived all around the country and world during her lifetime.

She was an active member of the Quirky Quilters of Grayson.

A celebration of her life will be held later in the spring of 2017.

north Georgia last year.

“Dolly is a great country singer and her soul and her roots are in bluegrass and gospel music,” he said. “We have a little bit of both.”

Concert-goers should expect a packed house

since the response from the city, the community and across the Southeast has been overwhelming, Everett said.

For more information, visit hope.thebluegrassjamboree.com or call 678-858-5363.

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Sandra Jo Seal, age 55 of Flowery Branch, GA passed away on February 6, 2017. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

Mary “Sammy” Conger Tracy, 72, of Peachtree Corners, GA passed away February 6, 2017.

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Paul West, Jr. Mr. Paul Stephen West, Jr., age 71, of Jefferson, Georgia, who passed away on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at his residence.

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Opal Nell Gresham Thompson, age 89, died February 7, 2017. A native of Gwinnett County, Mrs. Thompson was the daughter of the late Fred and Annie Davis Gresham. Mrs. Thompson was preceded in death by her husband David Fleming Thompson Jr. Mrs. Thompson worked for the Chamber of Commerce and Barrow County Board of Commissioners.

Mrs. Thompson was a member of Winder First UMC. Graveside services will be held Saturday at 11:00am at Barrow Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Friday from 6-8pm.

Survivors include children; Christy (Andy) Hamilton, David Fleming Thompson III (LIsa), Fred (Amy) Thompson; 11 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.

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Local wrestlers could have big impact at state

By David Friedlander david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Georgia Gwinnett College’s Hailey Burnham finished last season with 36 RBIs, second only to Brashante Dareus for the Grizzlies. Burnham and the Grizzlies open the 2017 season Friday at home. Below, Georgia Gwinnett College’s Taylor Hansis won some key games for the Grizzlies late last season and is among three returning starters. (Photos: Rod Reilly)

Grizzlies fueled by end of last season

By Christine Troyke christine.troyke@ gwinnettdailypost.com

The Georgia Gwinnett College softball team, ranked No. 15 in the preseason poll, is playing with a little chip on its shoulder this season.

“You watch two teams celebrate championships on your field, it doesn’t taste very good,” head coach Kat Ihlenburg said.

The Grizzlies lost to Ashford in their conference final 7-6 and then were one hit away from the World Series against St. Xavier in the opening round bracket of the NAIA tournament.

GGC forced a second game with St. Xavier and had the game-tying runs on base with two outs.

But the ball hit one of the baserunners and ended the Grizzlies’ season.

“We’re a top-15 program,” Ihlenburg said.

“For the last two years, we have demonstrated our ability to play well as the season continues in May and that’s where you’ll get the continued mantra, ‘Win the big game on our field.’

“I will tell you, in the championship game, it was part exhaustion, but part inexperience. You have never gotten to that game. Now we’ve been and we saw what the other team did to win. There is no reason we can’t win that game this year.”

GGC’s season opener is at home Friday against USC-Beaufort. The doubleheader starts at 2 p.m. in Lawrenceville.

The weekend continues with games against

Rio Grande (Ohio) and Brewton-Parker in the Grizzly Open.

“USC-Beaufort is one of the best ways to start our season,” Ihlenburg said. “We have a long history of playing them and a pretty even matchup. Then we go right into the next weekend with Brenau, who we saw multiple times, and finish February over at Reinhardt, who is a preseason top -20 team.

“We’ll really have a snapshot for where we stand.”

Part of GGC’s returning core of players include Mary Burk and Chelsi Palazzo from the team’s A.I.I. title-winning run in 2015. They are among five seniors on the roster, including Katie Jo Goodwin, Brashante Dareus and Hailey Burnham.

Palazzo and Goodwin anchor the pitching.

“Both of them have many innings of experience from last year,” Ihlenburg said. “Chelsi just really continues to develop. Her first two seasons, she didn’t pitch as much. Katie Jo saw some good innings last year and certainly we’ll expect her to contribute.

Then there’s our sophomore Taylor Hansis, who really won some important games at the end of the season.”

Dareus and Burnham provide the power offensively. Shorter University transfer and Buford grad Niki Cook provides a kick of speed for the Grizzlies, who had a program-best 44-19 mark last season.

Two more Gwinnett grads — Archer’s Sydney Willhite and Mill Creek’s Kaitlyn Howell — join the team as freshmen.

“Kaitlyn Howell has state championship expe-

rience,” Ihlenburg said.

“She’s a winner, which is important to us.”

Another state champ, Quentin Staton from Pope, also coming in.

“We want championships; we want to be that caliber,” Ihlenburg said.

“So they’re an exciting class.”

GGC’s schedule of games is fairly evenly distributed over the next three months, an important change from the past.

“I think it’s really going to pay off at the end,” Ihlenburg said. “In years past, we’ve had two games in April. So I’m excited to see eight dates, which is 16 of my games, in April.

“As we play later in the season, it becomes challenging, being independent still (to schedule teams).”

The A.I.I. tournament, again set for the Grizzlies home field, is May 5-6.

Quality and quantity take on nearly equal footing for teams at the Georgia High School Association’s state traditional wrestling championships.

And several Gwinnett schools figure to be in good position in both respects as this year’s tournament gets underway today at the Macon Centreplex.

After having their state duals state title streak ended by powerful Camden last month, four-time defending state champion Archer will have a tough time extending its string of traditional titles in the state’s highest classification this weekend.

But even if they can’t, the Tigers don’t figure to take much of a step back with 11 state qualifiers, including several high seeds in their respective weight class like sectional champions Quinn Miller (220 pounds), Gavin Smith (132) and Logan Smith (138).

They will hardly be alone, with Gwinnett neighbors Brookwood (11 qualifiers, including sectional champion David Key), Mountain View (10 qualifiers, including sectional champs Carlos Gonzalez and Chase Standridge) and Collins Hill (seven qualifiers, including sectional champs Tariq Malik, Lucas DeSilva and Nathan Wellington) also poised to challenge for spots near the top of the team standings in Class AAAAAAA. For Brookwood, this weekend could be historic, with the Broncos’ contingent being the largest the team has ever sent to state, giving them a very good position to post their first top-five finish in the team standings in many years.

But coach Chris

Cicora says the key to the team maximizing its effort this weekend will be simply to stay the course, and stay on guard against the unpredictability a state meet can bring.

“We just need to focus on the same things,” Cicora said. “We need to remember what brought us to this point and don’t worry about who we wrestle, just what we’re doing. We’re in great position. We’ve been consistent all year long, and if we wrestle how we’re capable of wrestling, we can do well.

But anything can happen at state.”

Gwinnett will also be well-represented among the smaller classifications, including in Class AAAAA, where Buford hopes to add a state traditional title to the state duals trophy it took home last month.

And the Wolves appear to be in extremely good position to do so after qualifying wrestlers in all 14 weight classes, including six individuals — Logan Ashton (106), Nick Stonecheck (126), Blaine Bergey (132), Charlie Darracott (138), Tristan Bozoian (160), Cooper Roberts (170) and Jack Ness (195) — who placed first in their respective weight classes in last week’s sectional meet.

Meanwhile, Wesleyan will take nine wrestlers to Macon this weekend, including 152-pound sectional champ William Delk, to try to finish strong in Class A. In addition, a number of individuals from other Gwinnett teams are poised for strong showings after last week’s sectional weight class wins, including Mill Creek’s Chandler Miele (160) and Dorian Piekarz (170) in Class AAAAAAA and Dacula’s Noah Bullock (113) in Class AAAAAA.

Archer’s Gavin Smith takes down Etowah’s Blake Wilson during the 106-pound match in the 2015 GHSA Class AAAAAA state championship wrestling dual at the Macon Coliseum in Macon. (File Photo)

New head football coaches Stancil, Saturday ready to lead The five new head football coaches in Gwinnett high school football, part of an offseason of change so far, have at least one common trait — they know what they’re getting into.

All five hires (South Gwinnett hasn’t announced its new coach yet) know football in Gwinnett. Buford’s John Ford played football here (at Brookwood), Collins Hill’s Lenny Gregory was an assistant here (at Grayson) and Bill Stewart was an assistant here twice (at Parkview and Mill Creek). All three of those

Will Hammock guys bring head coaching experience to their new jobs, too.

Peachtree Ridge’s Reggie Stancil, a longtime Norcross assistant, and Hebron’s Jeff Saturday, who was promoted from Lions assistant, also have

coaching backgrounds in Gwinnett. Their time locally will prepare them for the unique challenges facing a football coach in Gwinnett, where raising money is just as important as winning football games.

While Stancil and Saturday don’t have the head coaching pedigree of the others, they are both more than worthy of the opportunity.

Stancil has been a major part of Norcross’ success, helping the program to a pair of state championships. He moved up from wide receivers coach to quarterbacks coach, coor-

dinating the passing game the past two seasons.

He learned under Gwinnett’s longest-tenured head coach, Keith Maloof, one of the best around in bonding with players. He also played an important role in sending large numbers of Blue Devils to college, a trend since Maloof took over the program in the late 1990s.

Stancil just needed a chance and Peachtree Ridge gave it to him, landing what I think is one of the most promising young coaches in the area. He had options to leave Norcross over the years, but waited

patiently for the right fit and joined a program that has been consistently successful for a decade.

Hebron had excellent candidates for its vacancy, too, but went with Saturday, a fixture with the program the past few years.

He is connected well in the community — his son is a sophomore football player — and has anm engaging personality that comes across whether talking to him directly or watching him as an NFL commentator on TV. He also has experience playing at the highest level, serving as the India-

napolis Colts center for 13 of his 14 NFL seasons. For 12 of those seasons, a total of 170 games, he snapped to legendary quarterback Peyton Manning.

Saturday, just like Stancil, knows what lies ahead in being a head coach and he is excited about the challenge.

Hebron and Peachtree Ridge supporters should be, too. They’re getting a couple of great, first-time head coaches.

Will Hammock can be reached via email at will. hammock@gwinnettdailypost.com. His column appears Thursdays.

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5:30 p.m. — Discovery at Meadowcreek 5:30 p.m. — North Forsyth at Archer

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• Dacula at Jackson Co. • Meadowcreek and Mountain View 3:30 p.m. — Grayson at Central 3:45 p.m. — St. Francis at Providence 4 p.m. — Discovery at Cedar Shoals 4 p.m. — GAC girls at Riverwood 4 p.m. — Norcross at Wesleyan 4 p.m. — North boys at Northview 4 p.m. — Northview girls at North 4 p.m. — West Forsyth at Mill Creek

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4 p.m. — Hebron at Dacula Friday

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5 p.m. — Lovett at GAC 5:30 p.m. — Dacula at Hebron 5:30 p.m. — Gainesville at Wesleyan 5:30 p.m. — Lanier at Loganville 5:30 p.m. — Norcross at Habersham Central 5:30 p.m. — North at Buford 5:30 p.m. — South at Kennesaw Mountain 5:30 p.m. — South Forsyth at Collins Hill 5:30 p.m. — Stone Mountain at Berkmar 5:30 p.m. — Walton at Brookwood 6 p.m. — Central at Campbell 6 p.m. — Mountain View at Lambert

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Brown, DeShields make Naismith 30 list

By Will Hammock

doubleheader sweep of Calumet (Ind.), the outfielder went 2-for-2 with four walks, five runs scored and two RBIs.

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Gwinnett grads Lexie Brown and Diamond DeShields, in the middle of big seasons, were both named this week to the Naismith Top 30, the top 30 college basketball players in the country who are under consideration for the Naismith National Player of the Year honor.

Of those 30, 10 will be announced as Naismith semifinalists March 2.

Brown, a junior, leads Duke (20-4) in scoring (17.9) and steals (2.9), in addition to averaging 3.3 assists and 3.2 rebounds.

The North Gwinnett product also makes 92.2 percent of her free throws and 39.8 percent of her 3-pointers.

DeShields, also a junior, averages 18.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and 3.7 assists for Tennessee (15-8).

The Norcross grad suffered an 81-78, overtime

Duke guard Lexie Brown (4), a North Gwinnett grad, tosses the ball into the air as time expires in the second half of the Blue Devils game against South Carolina on Dec. 4 in Durham, N.C. (Photo: Mark Dolejs-USA Today Sports)

loss to Georgia in Athens this past Sunday, but she finished with a game-high 34 points along with six rebounds, four steals and three assists.

BASEBALL Trawick opens season on hot streak Peachtree Ridge grad Matt Trawick, a junior at

Reinhardt, has started the college baseball season on quite the hot streak.

Trawick has a .714 batting average through four games with an .800 on-base percentage. He has five hits (two doubles) in seven at-bats with five RBIs, nine runs scored and five walks. He also has been hit by a pitch twice.

In a season-opening

Buckler earns NJCAA honor Norcross grad Brooks Buckler, a sophomore at Tallahassee Community College (Fla.), was named the National Junior College Athletic Association Region 8 Pitcher of the Week last week.

Buckler threw five scoreless, no-hit innings in TCC’s season-opening win. He had four strikeouts and no walks in the outing.

Buckler has signed with Kennesaw State for the 2018 season.

Gwinnett Grads is a column that runs on Thursdays spotlighting achievements of past Gwinnett standouts. Coaches and parents are urged to send suggestions via email to will.hammock@gwinnettdailypost.com.

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The Atlanta Falcons Quinn was the defensive confirmed Wednesday they coordinator of the Seattle will replace Richard Smith Seahawks before becomas defensive coordinator, ing Atlanta’s head coach just days following the in 2015. historic collapse in the The Falcons’ defense overtime loss to the New surrendered 31 consecuEngland Patriots in Super tive points and 546 total Bowl LI. yards in Sunday’s 34-28 The team also said overtime loss in the Super defensive line coach Bryan Bowl. The Falcons led Cox was fired. Smith could the Patriots 28-3 early in return to the Falcons in an the second half before the advisory role but he plans largest comeback in Super to explore other options.

Bowl history.

Assistant offensive line Smith, 61, had been the coach Keith Carter was team’s defensive coordinapromoted to running backs tor since 2015 after Quinn coach on Wednesday. was hired. Before coming The Falcons are conto Atlanta, Smith was the sidering three internal linebackers coach of the candidates for defensive Denver Broncos. coordinator in secondary Cox, 48, had coached coordinator Jerome Henthe defensive line since derson, defensive backs 2014 and was one of the coach Marquand Manuel holdovers from previous and linebackers coach Jeff head coach Mike Smith’s Ulbrich, according to the staff. Cox was an All-Pro Atlanta Journal Constitulinebacker during a 12tion. year playing career and has Falcons head coach coached in the NFL for a Dan Quinn took on more decade.

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

HOSCHTON — B.J. Roy’s 38th birthday was only the second-best celebration for the Mountain View boys basketball team Wednesday night.

The Bears serenaded their head coach with “Happy Birthday” in the locker room, but most of the excitement happened moments earlier on Miles Long the court after they clinched the first state tournament berth in program history with a 40-39, comeback win over rival Mill Creek in the Region 6-AAAAAAA Tournament.

They trailed the tournament hosts by nine after three quarters and by seven near the midway point of the fourth quarter before rallying and escaping a lastsecond layup attempt by the Hawks.

“It’s huge (to make state),” said Mountain View’s Miles Long, who had eight of his team’s 16 fourth-quarter points. “It’s the first time we’ve ever won something. Usually we’re the ones getting eliminated. It feels good to finally win something.”

Long, who finished with 10 points, got the comeback started with a four-point play, sinking a 3-pointer as he was fouled less than a minute into the fourth quarter. It was the only 3-pointer the Bears made on a night they shot 1-for-13 from long range.

Despite that shot, No. 3 seed Mill Creek, which lost to No. 6 Mountain View for the third time this season, held onto its lead until backto-back baskets by Uchenna Nwagbara trimmed the margin to 39-38 with just over a minute left.

Long then took a feed near the basket and made the game-winning shot with 33 seconds left for the

40-39 advantage, the Bears’ first edge since the second quarter.

From there, it came down to defense to hold off the Hawks (13-12), who had won five of six games to close the regular season.

“I was nervous,” Long said of Mill Creek’s final possession. “I didn’t want them to score. I wanted to get that win.”

Mill Creek struggled to get a good look initially and lost the ball in traffic, allowing Mountain View (18-8) to force a jump ball.

The Hawks had the possession arrow, but the clock was down to 4.4 seconds.

They ran a play to get the ball to Christian Mancillas, who was open under the basket, but a deflection sent the ball out of bounds with 1.8 seconds left. A second inbounds play resulted in another deflection and took the clock down to 0.7 seconds.

Mill Creek had one last shot when it got Matty Dobbs free, but his running layup rimmed out as time expired.

“We had seen (Mill Creek) run baseline out of bounds so much,” Roy said.

“We went to that Collins Hill game and watched so much of what they did. In that overtime against Collins Hill, they ran through a ton of plays. I liked the way they switched Mancillas and we got lucky and knocked the ball out there at the end.

They kept going to him.

He’s a solid player. I was really worried the way Dobbs slipped on that backside that we didn’t cover that. But we managed it somehow.”

Mill Creek seized control in the first half with a 7-0 run to end the second quarter, building a 24-17 lead at the break. Kendall Latney (game-high 13 points) scored all seven of those points, leading a Hawks bench that outscored the Bears 19-8.

The hosts’ stingy defense helped build a lead as large as 11 points in the third quarter, and still had a 33-24 lead after three quarters.

But Mill Creek couldn’t find enough offense in the

final two quarters, managing just 15 points — it was outscored 16-6 in the fourth

by Mountain View.

“It means so much (to finally make state),” Roy said.

“We’ve been trying and this is our third year (as the current coaching staff). We’ve been preaching all week that we’ve put ourselves in position to do something historic. You don’t get them very often. You fight for this game once a year. … It took a lot of defensive presence, we held them to 15 points in the second half, and to hold a team under 40 was big.

We’ve found that if we’re going to be successful, we’ve got to hold teams in the 40s.”

Spencer Rodgers, a junior who topped the 1,000-point mark, matched Long’s 10 points to lead the Bears.

Nwagbara had eight points and seven rebounds, and Jalen Hayes added nine points.

“We’re really looking forward to getting a board up in our gym that says state tournament boys basketball,” Roy said. “We’re really looking forward to that.”

Latney was Mill Creek’s only double-figure scorer.

Chris Birch contributed nine points for the Hawks.

from there as Discovery made all four of its fourthquarter 3-pointers, two from Brian Liles (nine points).

Jaden Stanley, who had a game-high 19 points along with six rebounds, made a 3-pointer with 18.7 seconds left to cut the gap to 48-47.

Discovery’s Ty Chaney stole the inbounds pass, but was called for an offensive foul when he drove to the basket. Peachtree Ridge’s Kristian Collins (10 points) made 1 of 2 free throws with 6.6 seconds left to make it a two-point game before Bussey’s final shot missed.

Caleb Holifield led the Lions with 15 points, and Connor Heyward had nine points and nine rebounds.

The Titans (17-9) also got nine points and 14 rebounds from big man Kalu Ezikpe before he fouled out with 5:04 left.

“It doesn’t have to be beautiful,” said Peachtree Ridge head coach Keith Arrington, who took his team to state for the eighth time in nine seasons. “You just have to keep winning. … It was a huge win for us, that’s for sure.”

Duluth boys 84, North Gwinnett 44 North Gwinnett took Duluth to overtime five days Peachtree Ridge boys 49, earlier, but didn’t have the same fortune in WednesDiscovery 47 day’s 6-AAAAAAA tournaA driving layup by ment opener.

Discovery’s Jaylen Bussey Second-seeded Duluth as time expired was off the rolled to an 84-44 victory mark and Peachtree Ridge qualified for state with a 49- over No. 7 North, which 47 win over the Titans, who lost 68-65 in overtime to the were seeking their first state Wildcats last week. North finished the season 4-21 playoff appearance. with losses in 11 of its last The fourth-seeded Lions 12, as well as going winless (16-10), who had lost to in region play.

Discovery 66-59 five days Meanwhile, Duluth earlier, took control of the (17-9) advanced to the state 6-AAAAAAA tourney tournament with its fifth win game in the third quarter. in six games under first-year They had 18 points in the head coach Cabral Huff. third, erasing a six-point The Wildcats led 42-18 at halftime lead that was the result of going 2-for-15 from halftime and never let up.

Will Huzzie led Duluth 3-point range in the first two with 20 points, Christian quarters. They were 3-for-4 Kelley had 13 points and from long range in the second, relying more on drives Adam Flagler scored 12.

Mikey Joseph (15 points) to the basket to go up by as many as nine points midway and Tyler Goodson (10) scored in double figures for through the fourth quarter.

North.

They had to hang on

GGC baseball launches record four homers From Staff Reports

great victory for the guys,” GGC head coach Brad ALBANY — No. 5 Stromdahl said. “We came Georgia Gwinnett baseball into the game with a sense picked up its second victory of focus, played as a group, in a row on Wednesday, and took advantage of the defeating NCAA Division runners we had on base.

II foe Albany State 17-1.

As a group, we hit well, During the contest, the played sound defense, and Grizzlies (3-3) broke the displayed a lot of power school single-game home against two top-notch pitchruns record, launching four ers. We gave some of our home runs over the left field younger guys the opportufence against Albany State. nity to play multiple innings “Today was an all-around and to get several at-bats

under their belt. I’m proud of the team’s progress as we move forward with the learning process in the early weeks of the season.”

Jean Figueroa launched a three-run blast in the top of third as part of a five-run inning for the Grizzlies.

In the fourth Alex Garland hit GGC’s second home run of the game, lifting a two-run shot to left to increase the Grizzlies’ lead to 7-1.

An eight-run fifth inning pushed the Grizzlies ahead 15-1 behind four hits, including the third and fourth home runs of the game.

Figueroa, who went 3-for-3 with four RBIs in the contest, drove in the first run of the inning with an RBIdouble while first baseman Kyler Timmerman joined the hitting frenzy with a three-run shot to left and Deion Sellers ended thw inning with a two-run homer.

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Berkmar boys rally to top Brookwood 60-52

By Scott Smith

Senior Correspondent

SNELLVILLE — Brookwood was playing as a guest in its own home on Wednesday night in the Region 7-AAAAAAA semifinals against Berkmar.

As it turned out, the surrogate hosts weren’t very hospitable as the Patriots overcame a slow start to top Brookwood 60Zach Cooks 52 to send the Patriots to the region championship game Friday night at Brookwood against Norcross at 8 p.m.

Brookwood, who was the visiting team due to being a lower seed, got off to a hot start by building a 21-11 lead after the first quarter.

Bubba Parham, who finished with 15 points, scored seven of those in the frame, while Markus Smith (who also finished with 15 points) added eight points.

But Berkmar didn’t

panic and stayed with its game plan and by the half had pulled within a basket at 28-26.

“We’ve had a week off and were a little rusty early,” Berkmar head coach Greg Phillips said.

“Brookwood was playing well but we got in a defensive groove in the second half.”

The Patriots (20-6) took their first lead of the night on the opening possession of the third quarter with a 3-pointer from Jay Estime.

However, Brookwood (20-6) hung tough and trailed by a mere point at 41-40 by the end of the third.

Midway through the fourth, it was still a onepoint game in favor of Berkmar at 46-45, but the Patriots finally put together a 9-2 run to build a 55-47 cushion with just under two minutes left.

Zach Cooks, who didn’t practice all week due to a facial injury suffered at the end of the regular season, led that spurt with three assists and scoring one basket.

Cooks, who normally starts, came off the bench

to finish with 18 points, six assists, five rebounds and two steals. Estime also scored 18 for Berkmar with Al Durham following with 17 points.

Brookwood, which will play Meadowcreek on Friday night at 5 p.m. for third place, also received 14 from Trae Higginbotham.

Rayshaun Hammonds and 11 from Kyle Sturdivant.

Dalvin White also helped with nine points.

Meadowcreek was led by 11 points each from Anyeuri Castillo and Corey Hightower.

Up next for Norcross is a meeting with Berkmar on Friday night at 8 p.m. for the region championship, while Meadowcreek will play for third place against Brookwood at 5 p.m.

of the Parkview offense, the Broncos couldn’t put Parkview away as the Panthers found their stroke from the outside.

With 6:05 left in the game, Parkview (1215) found its first points of the second half with a basket from Hannah Sadler.

That sparked Parkview to a 9-2 run, getting within three at 36-33 off Norcross boys 54, a 3-pointer from Lyric Meadowcreek 47 Trust with 2:47 left.

Norcross led from start Brookwood turned the to finish in its semifinal ball over on the ensuing matchup with MeadowBrookwood girls 39, possession with an offencreek to come away with Parkview 33 sive foul on Kiera Adams, a 54-47 win in the Region The Brookwood girls her fifth of the night.

7-AAAAAAA semifinal earned a berth in the However, play wasn’t on Wednesday at Brookchampionship game of wood. the Region 7-AAAAAAA stopped long enough and Adams stayed in the Despite never leading, tournament by holding game and came up with a Meadowcreek (15-12) on to top rival Parkview big steal that led to a pair kept pushing its way 39-33. of free throws for N’dea back in the game, getting The two teams battled Jones. as close as 25-23 in the to a 22-22 tie at the half Adams was finally told opening minutes of the and it looked as if the she had five fouls, but the third. contest would go on to Panthers were held scoreBut Norcross (21-5) be a shootout, but the always found an answer Brookwood defense held less in the final minute of to each charge from the Parkview scoreless in the the game to preserve the Brookwood win.

Mustangs, eventually se- third quarter.

Jones led Brookwood curing the lead by hitting Brookwood (20-5) with 20 points, while 10 of 12 free throws in would go on a 10-0 run Adams followed with 11. the fourth. in the third and scored Two players for Northe first two points in the Diara Smith led Parkview with 17 points. cross scored in double fourth to go up 34-22.

Brookwood will face digits, led by 16 from Despite the struggles

Norcross in the championship game this Friday at 6:30 p.m. at Brookwood, while Parkview will battle Central for third place at 3:30 p.m.

Norcross girls 69, Central 40 Tehya Lyons scored 16 points and Vanessa Blagmon added 10 more as Norcross (24-2) cruised to a 69-40 win over Central Gwinnett in the Region 7-AAAAAAA semifinals.

The win puts the Blue Devils in the tournament title game where it will play Brookwood on Friday night at 6:30 p.m. at Brookwood.

The lead for Norcross was never in serious jeopardy, despite an all-out effort from Central (1612), as the Blue Devils led 42-23 at the half and 59-33 headed into the fourth.

Tehya Lyons and Taylor Mason also added eight points each for Norcross.

Central, which will face Parkview for third place on Friday at 3:30 p.m., was led by 12 points from Jayla Black and 10 points from Armani Milton.

South boys outlast Archer’s comeback attempt 67-62

By David Friedlander

to come out and give us a fight, and they weren’t going to lay down. “(Wednesday) night, our LAWRENCEVILLE coaching staff was great, — It took everything they our players were great and had, but the other team we played South competed as hard as they Gwincould. We just happened to nett’s boys be the one who came out had just on top.” enough It didn’t look like it to fend would be so difficult a off host night for South after NaArcher in heim Alleyne ended a 17-2 Naheim Alleyne a quarterfi- run with a 3-pointer the nal game of left corner that gave the the Region 8-AAAAAAA Comets their biggest lead basketball tournament. of the game at 30-15 with After a 15-point lead 2:51 left in the first half. slipped away almost Even after Archer (7-18) entirely the Comets made had pulled to within 10 just enough plays and hit points by halftime and clutch free throws down nine points by the end of the stretch to hold on for a the third quarter, the lead 67-62 victory Wednesday was still a relatively comat Archer. fortable 54-45 following “We had guts to hang Alleyne’s drive down the on,” South coach Ty baseline with 6:43 to play.

Anderson said after the But the Tigers refused Comets (14-9) advanced to quit, and went on a 7-0 to Friday’s 8:30 p.m. run, capped by Brendon semifinal against topTucker’s driving layup seeded Newton. “That’s down the lane, that cut the just tournament basketball. deficit to just 54-51 with This is what the end of the 5:42 left. year brings to you. Our Tucker hit the two free guys played hard. Their throws, and Malik Sproles guys played hard. … We hit 1 of 2 from the line on knew (Archer was) going the ensuing possession to david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

bring the Tigers to within 62-59 with 26.7 seconds left.

But after gaining possession on a South turnover with 23.3 seconds left, the Tigers turned it right back over on the next possession, and D’onte Torrence knocked down a pair of free throws with 21.8 seconds left to give the Comets breathing room at 64-59.

South hit three more in four tries over the final 11.8 seconds to eventually put the game away, and free throws proved to be a big difference in the game, as the Comets finished the night 29 of 37 from the line on the evening, while Archer was a mere 9 of 20 from the stripe.

Torrence and Alleyene led South with 13 points each, while Brycen Lee added 11 points, while Zawdie Jackson and Harry Williams combined for 17 points, including going 12 of 14 from the line.

Brendan Johnson had a double-double with 12 points and 13 rebounds to lead Archer, while the Tigers also got 13 points from Sproles and 11 points from freshman

quarter.

But Grayson finished the period on a 17-0 run, Shiloh boys 43, paced by five points each Rockdale Co. 36 Grayson girls 60, from Poole and Bianca The Generals (15-11) Shiloh 46 Fizouaty, and the Rams led the entire game, inIt took nearly 20 minnever looked back as Shicluding a good portion of utes into their Region it by double digits, but had 8-AAAAAAA tournament loh never got any closer to hold off a late charge quarterfinal against Shiloh than seven points after that. by the Bulldogs (7-19) to to do it, but Grayson’s girls basketball team finalPoole had three assists advance to Friday’s 5:30 ly got to playing defense and three steals to go p.m. semifinal against the way coach Robin Pot- with her scoring, while Grayson. ter wanted.

Robinson added four asT.J. Massenburg had That pressure, which sists. Amaris Jones had a double-double with 10 forced numerous turn14 points to also reach points and 12 rebounds, overs, helped the Rams double figures and added including hitting four turn the game around and four steals, while Fizouaty big free throws down the stretch to help Shiloh hang run past the Generals 60- chopped in 11 points, six rebounds and two steals.

46 Wednesday at Archer. on.

Jazmin Robinson The Generals also got Rockdale Co. girls 55, 11 points from Brian Cof- finished with a doubleSouth Gwinnett 49 double with 15 points and fey and eight points and The two teams were eight rebounds from Greg 10 rebounds, while Jonnise Poole nearly matched tied at 39 with 4:30 to James. play, but the sixth-seeded her with 15 points and Saigon Taylor had 12 Bulldogs (11-15) used a nine boards to help push points to lead Rockdale 9-2 run over the next two Grayson (13-12) into County. minutes to build a lead Friday’s 7 p.m. semifinal Archer pulled as close they would never relinas three points three more against top-seeded and quish and end the Comhost Archer. times in the final frame, ets’ season at 17-8.

Shiloh (9-17) jumped the final time following Diamond Swift and out to as much as an 11-2 a big break in the final Dazai McDonald each lead behind Kayla West minute. (game-high 17 points) and scored 19 points to lead Down six, it looked Rockdale County, while like the Tigers had turned Sharai Lay (15 points, Xian Lopez paced South 10 rebounds, 4 assists, 5 the ball over with 34.2 with 14 points, and Alexis seconds left, only to get a steals), and the Generals Lewis chipped in 12 still led 34-27 as late as reprieve when South was the 5:18 mark of the third points. assessed a technical foul

Justin Edmondson.

for having six players on the court.

Atlanta completes Dacula girls headed back to state playoffs season sweep of Denver Nuggets PREP ROUNDUP

From Staff Reports

DACULA — The Dacula girls basketball team punched its third straight ticket to the state playoffs on Wednesday with a 6143 win over Apalachee in the Region 8-AAAAAA Tournament at home.

Aiyana Hamilton led the way with 15 points and seven rebounds for the Falcons (12-14). Alyssa Criscolo added 12 points and five rebounds, Kendall Bollmer had 12 points and two assists, while Helena Lee had nine points, eight rebounds and four assists.

The Falcons will face Gainesville on Friday at Apalachee.

GIRLS BASKETBALL GIRLS HOOPS Wesleyan 68, ELCA 28 PEACHTREE CORNERS — Wesleyan cruised past Eagles Landing Christian Academy 6828 in the Region 5-A Tournament on Wednesday.

The Wolves are now 22-4 on the year.

BOYS BASKETBALL BOYS HOOPS Wesleyan 72, Landmark 66 PEACHTREE CORNERS — The Wesleyan boys basketball team stayed hot with a 72-66 win at home agains Landmark

Christian in the Region 5-A Tournament on Wednesday.

The Wolves (16-10) have now won 10 of their last 11 games.

Offensivley Christian McLean led the team with 24 points.

Grant Frerking added 16 points, Sean McDonough had 15 and J.D. Kavel scored 13.

BOYS SOCCER BOYS SOCCER

Mill Creek 3, Hebron 1 DACULA — Mill Creek boys soccer opened the season with a 3-1 win at Hebron Christian on Wednesday.

Josiah Ortiz scored two goals for the Hawks (1-0) and Boland Lekeaka netted the other score.

Zach Ernst recorded an assist.

Jake Major scored the Lions’ (0-2) goal.

Collins Hill 2, Dacula 1 SUWANEE — Collins Hill opened the season with a 1-0 win over Dacula on Wednesday.

The Eagles’ (1-0) goals were scored by George Perez and Marco Suarez. Michael Arrington was the Falcons (0-1) goal-scorer.

Chattahoocee 3, Parkivew 1 JOHNS CREEK — Chattahoochee boys soccer scored twice in the first 10 minutes and never looked back in a 3-1 win against Parkview on Wednesday.

Andrei Bajura scored the Panthers’ (0-1) lone goal on a penalty kick in the 76th minute drawn by Jorge Garcia. Rasid Jakupovic and Bajura each hit the post in the second half as well.

GIRLS SOCCER GIRLS SOCCER

Mill Creek 5, Hebron 0 DACULA — Mill Creek girls soccer opened the season with a 5-0 win at Hebron Christian Academy.

Allison Amrocowicz, Tori Wilson, Jenna Millerm, Marissa Harkins and Amanda Weinhart all scored for the Hawks (1-0).

Leah Miller recorded the shutout in the goal.

Collins Hill 6, Dacula 0 SUWANEE — Behind four goals and two assists from Rachel Jones, Collins Hill opened the season with a 6-0 rout of Dacula on Wednesday.

Shea Bonacci scored a goal and had an assist, Lily Dougherty scored a goal and Ciara Whitley recorded an assist. In the goal Kate Dougherty recorded the clean sheet with eight saves.

Wesleyan 1, Dunwoody 0 PEACHTREE CORNERS — Wesleyan girls soccer defeated Dunwoody High School 1-0 on Wednesday.

Lucy Mitchell scored the match’s lone goal on an assist from her sister Abigail Mitchell. Tatum Connor recorded the shutout in the net for the Wolves (1-0).

BOYS TENNIS BOYS TENNIS Dacula 4, Mountain View 1 DACULA — The Dacula boys tennis team opened the season with a 4-1 win over Mountain View.

The Falcons (1-0) swept the singles’ points with Chase

Hamilton, Mateo Gomez and Siso Johnson. Daniel Mocanu and Drew Grap won at doubles No. 1.

HIES 3, Providence 2 LILBURN — Providence Christian fell 3-2 in its season opening match to Holy Innocents’ on Wednesday.

The Storm (0-1) picked up victories from Griffin Hendrix at No. 2 singles and Chris Elem at No. 3 GIRLS TENNIS GIRLS TENNIS

Dacula 5, Mountain View 0 DACULA — Dacula girls tennis opened the season with a 5-0 sweep of Mountain View.

Maya Clark, Samantha Lowry and Lainey Thomas took the singles points for the Falcons (1-0). Emily Santerfeit and Marybeth Lord won at doubles No. 1 and Sarah Roberts and Brittany Triff won at doubles No. 2.

Mill Creek 3, Cambridge 2 MILTON — Mill Creek defeated Cambridge 3-2 on the road in its season opener.

Kayleigh Hahn and Madeline Hill won at No. 1 and No. 2 singles respectively. Chika Nwosu and Callie Franklin earned the win at No. 2 doubles for the Hawks (1-0).

HIES 3, Providence 2 LILBURN — Providence Christian fell 3-2 in its season opening match to Holy Innocents’ on Wednesday.

The Storm (0-1) got wins from Grace Auman at No. 1 singles and Alexis Trammell at No. 2.

By Guy Curtright The Sports Xchange

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Hawks head out to the West Coast for their final games before the All-Star break with a victory after continuing their winning ways at home against the Denver Nuggets.

Dennis Schroder had 24 points and 10 assists as the Hawks, up by 20 points early in the third quarter, withstood a Nuggets rally for a 117-106 victory Wednesday night.

Denver was within four points with less than two minutes remaining, but Paul Millsap completed a three-point play and Schroder hit a pair of free throws to put the Hawks (31-22) back in control.

Millsap had 23 points as Atlanta placed seven players in double figures. Tim Hardaway Jr. and Kent Bazemore each scored 14 points, while Dwight Howard had 11

points and 13 rebounds.

It was the Hawks’ fifth straight victory over the Nuggets in Atlanta and gave them a sweep of the season series.

Wilson Chandler scored 24 points for the Nuggets (23-29) and Nikola Jokic contributed 18 points and 15 rebounds. Will Barton scored 17 points off the bench, but was 0 of 9 from behind the 3-point arc as the Nuggets went 13 of 44 from deep.

It was a strange threegame homestand for the Hawks, who never trailed in a victory over Orlando on Saturday and never led against Utah on Monday.

The Hawks were up 7255 at intermission against the Nuggets while posting their highest total for a half this season.

Atlanta, which hit its first four 3-point attempts, had four players in double figures by the break while shooting 56 percent overall and making 7 of 14 from behind the arc.

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JUST LISTED! HUD CASE # 105-305453 4BR/2.5BA TRADITIONAL HOME Separate living/dining room. Kitchen with center island.

Family room with fireside Fireplace.

Insured with Escrow.

EHO - $210,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

UNDER CONTRACT! Brick Front 2-Story On Huge .66 Corner Lot • New Carpet • Formal Living / Dining Rooms • Open Kitchen • Family Room • 2nd Kitchen in Finished Basement EHO • $229,900 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

UNDER CONTRACT! HUD CASE #101-975414 Ranch On 5 Plus Acres with Rocking Chair Front Porch.

Entrance with Views To Fireside Family Room with Fireplace & Bright Sun-Room.

Insured with Escrow.

EHO - $120,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA 30025

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

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770-513-3151

PIT BULL /LAB MIX 18 mo. old & very friendly Need to find him a new home. Has everything (crate, toys, leashes, etc) Up to date on shots & meds 404-434-1977

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LAWRENCEVILLE LOGANVILLE, GA 30052 807 BRADLEY CIRCLE

LAKE/RIVER/COASTAL PROPERTY FOR SALE MONROE, GA 30656 506 MORGANS LANDING

EATONTON, GA 31024 210 RIVER LAKE DR.

OFFICE/ WAREHOUSES SPACE AVAILABLE 750 to 3600 sf Mike 404-375-5438.

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2775 Drayton Hall Drive, Buford, GA 30519

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LANDSCAPING/ LAWN CARE

$1,150,000 Magnificent 5BR/5.5BA North Atlanta Home in the prestigious Drayton Hall Subdivision. Enjoy safety and security in the gated community with estate lots.

For more information visit www.connielawson.com or call Connie Lawson, Realtor - RE/MAX Legends (c) 770.318.0458 (o) 770-963-5181

GWINNETT

BEAUTIFUL 2 STORY TRADITIONAL 3BR/2.5BA 2-STORY TRADITIONAL With stone accent.

Inviting front porch entry with living/ dining room.

Fireside fame rams with fireplace & open kitchen.

EHO • $160,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com MONROE, GA 30655 3595 BRISCOE DR.

GARAGE SALES ELEGANT TRADITIONAL! Lovely 4BR & 2.5BA 2 Story is Simply Elegant!! Open floor plan, family room with firplace and includes an above ground pool.

EHO • $175,900 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA 30025 935 LITTLE RIVER RD

GORGEOUS LAKE LOT! Beautiful Shaded Lake Lot With Hardwoods With Great Views of Lake Oconee.

EHO • $245,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com REAL ESTATE FOR RENT APTS/DUP/CONDOS/ T’HOMES FOR RENT

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TONS OF SQUARE FOOTAGE! 5BR/3BA RANCH With full finished basement! On 1.22 Acres. Vaulted Family Room with Fireplace, Formal Dining Room, Oversized Kitchen with Breakfast Area.

Split Bedroom Plan.

EHO - $199,900 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

NEW LISTING! HUD CASE #101-975414 Ranch On 5 Plus Acres with Rocking Chair Front Porch.

Entrance with Views To Fireside Family Room with Fireplace & Bright Sun-Room.

Insured with Escrow.

EHO - $120,000 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

GWINNETT DUPLEXES

SUWANEE, 30024 ESTATE SALE Feb. 10, 11 & 12, Fri & Sat. 9am-5pm & Sun. 1pm-5pm. 1000 McGinnis Park Ct., Suite 1.

Furniture 50% off, all other items 30% off.

Jewelry excluded from sale. For more info. call 770-831-8089

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

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

Dishwasher $100 & up. Different colors.

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CHEVROLET MALIBU, 2010 All power, garage kept, new tires. Exc. cond.

4 door, 50k miles. $10,500. 770-490-3265

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CATS SIAMESE KITTENS Wormed & Vaccinated. $300. Loganville, GA. Call 470-723-4076.

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2 Communities!

One on Singleton Road & One on Law’ville-Suwanee Road! 2BR & 3BR, 2BA, Fireplace, Vaulted Ceilings, Off Street Parking.

Starting @ $900/mo.

B.C. PROPERTIES 770-446-1550 770-995-8828

LOST WEDDING RINGS Wedding band & engagement ring. Lost at Gwinnett Tech Friday Jan 27.

Call 678-995-9874.

JEEP WRANGLER, SPORT 4.0, 1998 Red With Black Top, Lift Kit, New Tires, Many Extras. Looks & Drives Great! $7900.

770-519-3438