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Curtis Clemons announces endorsements in sheriff’s race

By Curt Yeomans curt.yeomans@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Several elected officials and community leaders have announced their support of Curtis Clemons in the sheriff’s office race.

Clemons is one of several Democrats Curtis Clemons running for

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sheriff this year. His campaign announced he has received endorsements from State Rep. Donna McLeod,

D-Lawrenceville, Solicitor General Brian Whiteside, Sugar Hill City Councilman Marc Cohen, Former Gwinnett County Democratic Party Chairman Steve Deak, Poplar Hill Baptist Church Pastor Avery Headd, Allen Temple UMC Church Pastor Kenneth Brown and Thomas Livsey, who is the unofficial mayor of the “Promised Land” community in south Gwinnett.

Clemons is a recently re-

tired Gwinnett police assistant chief with 30 years of law enforcement experience as well as a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. He has pledged to end the office’s participation in the controversial 287(g) program and pursue bond reform that would allow non-violent misdemeanor offenders whose bond is less than $500 to complete a signature bond.

“Being poor shouldn’t be an additional punish-

ment and not treated as a am confident that her milicrime,” Clemons said. tary experience combined with her distinguished legal and public service caMassachusetts reer has equipped Zahra congressman to handle the challenges endorses Karinshak of Washington—and help in 7th District race make it better in the process.

“I first got to know Zahra State Sen. Zahra Karin- in 2018 when I endorsed shak picked up the back- her in her State Senate race, ing of a sitting congress- and I couldn’t be happier man in her bid to win the to be standing next to her 7th Congressional District again this year.” race.

U.S. Rep. Gwinnett House Seth Moulton, delegation meeting D-Mass., and on Jan. 29 his Serve America PAC Members of Gwinnett have endorsed Karinshak, County’s delegation in the who is one of Georgia House of RepresenZahra several Demo- tatives will meet in Atlanta Karinshak crats running later this month.

The delegation announced to replace retiring Rep. Rob Woodall. the meeting will take place “I am proud to endorse at noon on Jan. 29 in Room Zahra Karinshak for Geor- 510 at the Coverdell Legisgia’s 7th Congressional Dis- lative Office Building.

The agenda for the meeting trict,” Moulton said. “An Air Force veteran, former fed- has not yet been released. eral prosecutor, and State Senator, Zahra is uniquely Political Notebook appears qualified to serve in the in the Sunday edition of the United States Congress. I Gwinnett Daily Post.

Police: Teen boys dressed as women in theft, fraud

By Taylor Denman taylor.denman@ gwinnettdailypost.com

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Gwinnett County Police said Friday officers have identified two teenage boys suspected of stealing items and vehicles from local gyms, sometimes while wearing wigs and women’s clothing.

Gwinnett County detectives linked a series of thefts in November and December of 2019 Tarquinnious at Gwinnett gyms.

Mack Detectives said a group of young men, sometimes wearing wigs with long hair, would visit gyms seekDequavis ing memberships. While at Smith the gym, they would steal car keys from customers and then steal their vehicles in the parking lot.

Customers who left credit cards in their cars noticed fraudulent charges shortly after their cars were stolen, police said.

Police noted these thefts at four Gwinnett County gyms between Nov. 27 and Dec. 28: ♦ Planet Fitness on Nov. 27 at 1900 Rockbridge Road in Stone Mountain ♦ Gold’s Gym on Dec. 18 at 860 Duluth Highway in Lawrenceville ♦ LA Fitness on Dec. 22 at 3420 Buford Drive in Buford ♦ LA Fitness on Dec. 28 at 6131 Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree Corners

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Gwinnett County Police said Friday it has identified two teenage boys suspected of stealing items and vehicles from local gyms, sometimes while wearing wigs and women’s clothing.

A Gwinnett County detective identified two of the suspects as Tarquinnious Mack, 17, from Atlanta and Dequavis Smith, 18, from Atlanta.

Both Smith and Mack have active warrants for theft by taking, financial transaction card theft and financial transaction card fraud.

Police said their current whereabouts are unknown.

The Gwinnett County detective heading up the case is looking into the possibility that other suspects could be involved in this crime series.

Police said some of the vehicles have since been recovered in Atlanta.

Police ask citizens with information regarding Smith’s or Mack’s whereabouts to contact detectives at 770513-5300.

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Tens of thousands of children in Libya at risk amid violence and chaos of civil war

Trump recounts details of Soleimani strike to GOP donors at Mar-a-Lago

Tens of thousands of chil- By Kevin Liptak dren and civilians in Libya CNN continue to suffer “grievously” President Trump recounted amid the violence and chaos minute-by-minute details of of the country’s longstanding the U.S. strike that killed Iran’s civil war, the UN Children’s top military commander durFund said Friday, calling for ing remarks to high-dollar Rea durable peace agreement publican donors at his South to be reached “for the sake of Florida estate, according to each and every child.” audio obtained by CNN. “Today, children in Libya Trump, speaking at a GOP are in a dire and untenable fundraising dinner Friday situation that the rest of the evening, offered new details world should find unacceptabout the strike that killed able,” UNICEF chief HenriGen. Qasem Soleimani, which etta Fore said in a statement, exacerbated tensions in the ahead of a summit in Berlin. region and led to an ongoing “We urgently call on all pardispute with Congress over ties to the conflict and those his constitutional ability to who have influence over them wage war. to protect children, end the reIn his speech — held inside cruitment and use of children, the gilded ballroom on his cease attacks against civilian Mar-a-Lago property — he infrastructure, and allow for claimed that Soleimani was safe and unimpeded humani“saying bad things about our tarian access to children and country” before the strike, people in need,” Fore said. which led to his decision to The situation in Tripoli and authorize his killing. western Libya has deteriorat“How much of this s--- do ed further since in April last we have to listen to?” Trump year when hostilities broke asked. “How much are we goout, leaving hundreds dead ing to listen to?” and more than 150,000 inTrump did not describe an ternally displaced — 90,000 “imminent threat” that led to of them children. his decision to kill Soleimani, the justification used by adIran will send downed ministration officials in the plane’s black boxes to aftermath of the attack.

Instead, he described SoUkraine for analysis leimani as a “noted terrorist” Iran will send to Kiev the who “was down on our list” black boxes of a Ukrainian and “was supposed to be in airliner that its military acci- his country” before traveling dentally shot down this month, to other nations in the region. killing all 176 people on board, Iranian media reports.

NATION Rezaifar said that Iran was also prepared to ask for expert National Archives analysis from France, Canada and the United States in trying admits to altering photo to read the flight data record- of 2017 Women’s March er, part of the so-called black The National Archives adboxes. If experts in Kiev are unable to extract the data, the mitted to altering a 2017 phobox will then be transferred to tograph of the Women’s March to censor signs referencing France, Rezaifar said.

“At the request of the Ukrai- women’s anatomy and Presinian authorities, the black boxes dent Donald Trump’s name, of the Ukrainian downed jet according to The Washingwill not be read in Iran, but ton Post.

The photograph, taken by instead will be transferred to Ukraine for analysis and read- Getty Images’ Mario Tama, ing,” Hassan Rezaifar, head shows a sea of people marchof Iran’s Civil Aviation Or- ing down Pennsylvania Avganization commission, said. enue in Washington, DC, on Iran initially denied shoot- January 21, 2017 — a day after ing down the Ukrainian In- Trump’s inauguration.

In changes to the original ternational Airlines plane, but admitted a week ago that photo, Trump’s name is blurred its military had mistakenly from signs that read: “God Hates Trump” and “Trump & downed the aircraft.

GOP — Hands Off Women,” China’s coronavirus according to the Post. According to the Post, the word p---y cases likely grossly is also blocked out from one underestimated sign and the word vagina is no longer visible in another.

The number of cases in an CNN has reached out to the outbreak of a new strain of National Archives for comcoronavirus in China is like- ment. In a statement providly to have been grossly un- ed to the Post, the National derestimated, according to a Archives said the decision new study, which warns that “as a non-partisan, non-pohuman-to-human transmis- litical federal agency” to blur sion of the mysterious virus Trump’s name was to avoid may be possible. engaging in “current political Authorities in China’s Wu- controversy.” han city have confirmed 45 The National Archives told cases of the 2019 novel coro- the newspaper it obscured the navirus, which is in the same references to women’s genifamily as the deadly severe tals because the museum gets acute respiratory syndrome a lot of young visitors and (SARS) and Middle East re- the words could be seen as spiratory syndrome (MERS), inappropriate. but so far appears to be less lethal. Two people have died, Community questions Wuhan authorities say.

Officials in China have linked effects of jet fuel dump the viral infections to a Wuhan on children’s health seafood and wildlife market, which has been closed since Frustrated community memJanuary 1 to prevent further bers questioned government spread of the illness. officials and Delta Air Lines —From wire reports representatives during a meet-

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President Donald Trump recounted minute-by-minute details of the U.S. strike that killed Iran’s top military commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani during remarks to high-dollar Republican donors at his South Florida estate, according to audio obtained by CNN. Trump described in detail watching remotely as Soleimani arrived at Baghdad International Airport, where he was met by Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the head of Kata’ib Hezbollah.

Trump claimed erroneously that Soleimani was meeting “the head of Hezbollah” (the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group is separate from group led by Abu Mahdi alMuhandis).

And he claimed the strike he authorized took out “two for the price of one.”

He went on to recount listening to military officials as they watched the strike from “cameras that are miles in the sky.”

“They’re together sir,” Trump recalled the military officials saying. “Sir, they have two minutes and 11 seconds. No emotion. ‘2 minutes and 11 seconds to live, sir. They’re in the car, they’re in an armored vehicle. Sir, they have approximately one minute to live, sir.

30 seconds. 10, 9, 8 ...’ “ “Then all of a sudden, boom,” he went on. “’They’re gone,

sir. Cutting off.’ “ “I said, where is this guy?”

Trump continued. “That was the last I heard from him.”

Trump’s detailed recounting of the strike goes further than what he or other officials have said about the evening in early January that took out Iran’s top military and intelligence commander. The strike led to increased tensions in the region and fears the U.S. and Iran could go to war.

Trump acknowledged the outcome Friday, saying the strike “shook up the world.” offices say that senators must refrain from speaking while the case is being presented.

“That’s going to suck,” Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida told CNN when asked about the no-talking rule. “I guarantee you it’s going to be hard,” he said, adding sarcastically, “but I think we’ll survive.”

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Lieu tells Nunes to ‘shove it’ after Republican colleague threatens lawsuit

The National Archives admitted to altering a 2017 photograph of the Women’s March to censor signs referencing women’s A feud between two Calanatomy and President Donald Trump’s name, according to ifornia lawmakers spilled The Washington Post. into the public recently, with ing to talk about a fuel dump from a plane making an emergency landing near Los Angeles this week.

The town hall meeting held in Cudahy, California, on Friday was packed, with some audience members holding signs with messages like “Stop letting corporations dump on us” and “Protect our children like they were PG&E.” A representative for Delta read a statement sending apologies on behalf of the company and updates on the investigation into the aircraft that dumped fuel over five elementary schools in the Los Angeles area.

“On behalf of Delta, we deeply regret what happened,” said managing director of state and local affairs for Delta, Dana Debel. “What we’re here to do today is to listen to all of you.” She was interrupted by a chorus of angry voices.

“That doesn’t make it right,” one woman can be heard saying. “Oh, now you do (regret it),” said a man.

Sixty people were treated after the Delta plane dumped jet fuel making its emergency landing Tuesday. A plane making an emergency land-

ing must lose some fuel to be light enough to land, but procedure calls for that to take place at high altitudes over designated unpopulated areas, according to the FAA.

Senators prepare for no-talking impeachment trial rules The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump will be an unusual event in more ways than one.

It will mark only the third time in American history that a President faces a Senate impeachment trial. The trial is expected to interfere with — if not halt entirely — the usual business of the Senate and senators will have to comply with a set of rules that are not usually enforced and that may test their patience.

To start, lawmakers used to giving lengthy speeches on the Senate floor to weigh in on the issues of the day will instead have to be quiet. Official decorum guidelines for the trial released by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s

one alleging conspiracy and the other threatening legal action.

Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu in December accused Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of conspiring with Lev Parnas, an associate of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and a key figure in the Ukraine scandal at the center of Trump’s impeachment, to undermine the US government. A lawyer for Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, then threatened legal action if Lieu doesn’t apologize.

On Friday, Lieu tweeted the first page of a December 31 letter from Nunes’ attorney, Steven Biss, threatening to sue to protect his client’s reputation.

Lieu included his curt response: “I welcome any lawsuit from your client and look forward to taking discovery of Congressman Nunes,” Lieu wrote in a reply letter dated Jan. 16. “Or, you can take your letter and shove it.”

CNN has reached out to Biss and Nunes’ office for comment.

—From wire reports

PEOPLE

Hank Azaria says he will no longer voice Apu for ‘The Simpsons’ After 30 years as a controversial Indian-American character on “The Simpsons,” Hank Azaria has announced he will no longer voice the thickly accented Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.

“All we know there is I won’t be doing the voice anymore, unless there’s some way to transition it or something,” Azaria said, according to /Film, an industry news blog that reported Friday it had asked the actor about the matter after a discussion panel.

“What they’re going to do with the character is their call,” Azaria said, according to /Film. “It’s up to them, and they haven’t sorted it out yet.

All we’ve agreed on is I won’t do the voice anymore.”

The decision to remove Azaria from voicing Apu was mutual, the actor said, according to /Film.

“We all agreed on it,” he said. “We all feel like it’s the right thing and good about it.”

The comedian Hari Kondabolu — whose 2017 documentary, “The Problem with Apu,” thrust controversy over the character into the mainstream — wrote Friday on Twitter that he hopes “The Simpsons” keeps Apu and lets “a very talented writing staff do something interesting with him.”

Harry and Meghan will no longer use titles ‘His and Her Royal Highness’ The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will no longer use the titles His and Her Royal Highness after announcing they would step back from their roles as senior members of the royal family, Buckingham Palace announced Saturday.

The couple will also repay the Sovereign Grant funds they recently spent to renovate their official residence, Frogmore Cottage — about $3 million of British taxpayers’ money, according to figures released last year.

The royal family has been discussing Prince Harry and Meghan’s future after the couple made a surprise announcement that they would step back from their roles as senior members of the royal family, split their time between the United Kingdom and North America and become financially independent.

Evelyn Yang shares sexual assault survivor story at Women’s March Evelyn Yang, the wife of presidential candidate Andrew Yang, said Saturday that the theme of this year’s Women’s March — “Rise and Roar” — is “very personal” for her after revealing publicly this week that she’s a survivor of sexual assault.

Yang told CNN in an interview that aired Thursday that she was sexually assaulted by her OB-GYN when she was pregnant with her and Andrew’s first child.

Speaking at the Women’s March in New York City, Yang told the crowd her story and admitted it was “terrifying” for her to share on a national stage.

“I had to believe that coming forward would help me reclaim my voice and help others reclaim theirs,” Yang said. “Otherwise we would all just be another statistic in the shadows.”

—From wire reports

US Space Force has revealed its utility uniform, and the internet has opinions

By Jason Hanna and Alta Spells CNN

The new U.S. Space Force has shown off its utility uniform, and it looks familiar.

Technically, the nation’s freshest military branch revealed its new name tapes, which attach to the uniform.

“U.S. Space Force” can be read in blue embroidery, a Twitter entry posted Friday shows.

The larger point is that the name tapes are going on the

MUST READ same kind of camouflage uniforms already in use by the Army and Air Force.

“USSF is utilizing current Army/Air Force uniforms, saving costs of designing/producing a new one,” the branch posted in a follow-up tweet.

Plenty of Twitter users responded with wisecracks — or had questions — about a space-focused service using camouflage.

“Camo in space?” one said.

“More wasted tax dollars.

Great job!”

Others thought more creativity or inspiration was called for, like maybe something inspired by Starfleet.

The Space Force’s Twitter manager noted these, and pointed out that not only was the branch trying to be costeffective, members aren’t exactly in space, yet.

“Members will look like their joint counterparts they’ll be working with, on the ground,” the branch tweeted.

President Donald Trump created the newest military branch on December 20.

Some active duty airmen currently in the Air Force’s already-existing Space Command will be assigned to the new branch but will remain in the Air Force for the time being, officials have said.

Some 5,000 to 6,000 personnel out of the current 16,000 us space Force will eventually be transferred U.S. Space Force has shown off its utility uniform, and it’s bound to the Space Force, a senior U.S. Air Force official told to look familiar. Technically, the nation’s freshest military branch revealed its new name tapes, which attach to the uniform.

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A4 ♦ Sunday, January 19, 2020 ♦ gwinnettdailypoSt.com COLUMNIST I KEITH ROACH

WEATHER WATCH

A liver transplant is necessary with advanced disease

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EAR DR. ROACH: My son is 62 years old and has cirrhosis of the liver. He does not drink. Years ago, he had a blood transfusion that turned out to have hepatitis C. He cannot get a liver transplant.

He has ascites, Roach which needs to get drained once a week. It is very painful.

I heard that someone compatible could donate part of his or her liver. Would this be beneficial?

— B.M. ANSWER: A viral disease that is spread in North America mostly through blood transfusions or the use of infected needles, hepatitis C is one of the most common causes of cirrhosis and end-stage liver disease. Fortunately, in the past few years, highly effective treatment for hepatitis C has been developed. In the future, fewer people should go on to develop cirrhosis due to hepatitis C. With very advanced cirrhosis, the only curative treatment is a liver transplant. A transplant can come from a deceased donor, but also from a living donor. A few hundred living donor transplants are done per year in the U.S. In adult-to-adult transplant, the right lobe of the liver is donated, with a mortality risk to the donor of about 0.5%.

One major advantage to living donor donation is that it can be done usually much faster than waiting for a compatible liver to become available.

The criteria for receiving a living donor transplant are the same as they are for a deceased donor transplant. I don’t know why your son isn’t able to get a liver transplant.

Severe liver disease — such as needing drainage of ascites, a fluid buildup in the abdomen indicative of high pressure and severe cirrhosis of the liver — is the key reason to get it. It may be that he has another disease that would make surgery too dangerous.

You need to find out from his liver doctor why he isn’t considered a candidate for liver transplant.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I went to my doctor for some blood tests, but the assistant who drew my blood put in the wrong code and tested me for herpes, which came back positive for HSV-2. I have been married for 26 years.

I haven’t been with anyone in all those years, and never had any symptom. Now, I feel so sick I can’t concentrate. I can’t believe this. My doctor told me that I could have the herpes antibodies from the chickenpox or could have come in contact with it somewhere else in my life. Can you please help me understand this? Also, I just found out my mom had herpes.

— N.N. ANSWER: HSV-2 is the usual cause of genital herpes, and HSV-1 is the usual cause of oral cold sores. Chickenpox is a related herpes virus, but is not HSV. Let me make a few important points. The first is that the test isn’t perfect, and it could be just wrong. The test is 97% specific, but when used for a low-risk population, people like you, many or most of the positives are false positives.

If your test results are indeed correct, your exposure to herpes could have come before you were married.

Most people with herpes never have had an outbreak and don’t know that they are infected and potentially infectious. Another possibility is that some people have HSV2 on their lips: If your mom did, contact with her could be how you were exposed.

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today is the 19th day of 2020 and the 30th day of winter.

TODAY’S HISTORY: in 1915, two german zeppelins dropped bombs on the towns of great yarmouth and King’s lynn in england. in 1966, indira gandhi was elected as india’s first woman prime minister. in 1977, snow fell in miami for the only time in recorded history. in 2006, naSa launched the new Horizons space probe to study the dwarf planet pluto.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: robert e. lee (1807-1870), confederate general; edgar allan poe (1809-1849), author/ poet; paul cezanne (1839-1906), artist; Jean Stapleton (1923-2013), actress; tippi Hedren (1930- ), actress; Janis Joplin (1943-1970), singer-songwriter; dolly

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TODAY’S FACT: robert e. lee’s u.S. citizenship was posthumously reinstated by an act of congress in 1975. tODAY’S SPORTS: in 1903, the French sports newspaper l’auto announced the creation of a new longdistance bicycle race called the tour de France that would begin in may of that year.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “years of love have been forgot / in the hatred of a minute.” -edgar allan poe, “to --”

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COLUMNIST|AMY DICKINSON

Lost love letters should be returned to sender

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EAR AMY: In the early ’30s, my uncle attended college in North Carolina.

He met a girl and they fell in love. When he graduated, he moved back to his home state, and she stayed in North Carolina.

They exchanged letters through 1933 or so, but the long distance doomed the relationship. He apparently was devastated at the breakup and saved all of her letters.

My uncle died in 1979 and I inherited all of his estate, including all of her letters (about 120), pictures, and other small items she had sent to him.

In trying to decide what to do with them, I found her family on the internet. She passed away in 2002 but has a large extended family.

I composed a respectful letter to her oldest son (who is in his late 70s), telling him what I have. I specifically apologized at the beginning of the letter if he thought this was an intrusion into their family’s life, but on the other hand many people these days do genealogy research, and would love to know all about their family’s history.

I have not sent the letter. My family is pretty split over this. Some say to just throw this stuff out, while others agree that I should contact the family. I don’t want to upset them over their

grandmother’s love boyfriend. affair with someone He is oblivious, and they’ve likely never says I’m being jealeven heard of. ous. He and I have a What do you think very solid relationI should do? ship. Am I just be— Conflicted ing crazy?

D E A R C O N - Dickinson — Jealous?

FLICTED: Do NOT DEAR JEALOUS: throw out these letters and Jealousy isn’t always a bad photos. Contact the wom- thing, but it is often flung in an’s son, accurately describe a partner’s direction like an what you have, and offer to accusation, instead of it besend the collection to him. ing the reasonable and jusI detect an undercurrent tified response to a specific of scandal or embarrass- situation. ment over this collection. I You might as well cop to fail to see why you are hes- feeling this way: “Jealous? itating. Your uncle and his You bet I am, buster.” This correspondent were young doesn’t mean that he has people who loved one an- done anything wrong (or other. Their tender story that she has), but that he is is beautiful, and universal. a desirable guy, and she is As far as I can tell, there a newly single woman takwas no taboo to their love af- ing a four-hour road trip fair. These letters — and es- just to say hi. pecially the photos — would The real concern would most likely be treasures to be if she (or he) insisted on her family members. excluding you. Neither of DEAR AMY: Should I them has. be concerned that my boyAttend this dinner, befriend’s (female) work friend, have like a sophisticated whom he would only see and confident person, laugh twice a year at conferenc- at all of their inside jokes, es (and has recently gotten ask pointed questions about divorced), is driving four work and family, think of hours to visit our town? She people you could fix her up says she wants us all to go with — and suss this out. to dinner.

Your Spidey sense should Here is the problem: We tell you whether you’ve got live in a very small and un- a real problem, or whethassuming place. No one ever er this is perhaps a case of just vacations here. It’s ob- someone (her) exploring a vious to me that she’s com- new territory, only to find ing to town just to see my that there is a sturdy flag

already planted there.

DEAR AMY: I’m the child of an older dad — a man who people assumed was my grandfather.

I simply corrected people and let them be embarrassed all by themselves.

“K In Colorado” is an older dad who should be a lot more worried about keeping himself healthy, so he can be vibrant through all his son’s life than about a stranger’s assumptions.

Letting ignorant people bug him is not good for his health.

— Summer DEAR SUMMER: Your dad raised a practical and resilient child. Good job, Dad! I completely understand the frustration this dad must experience to frequently be mistaken for his adolescent son’s grandfather, but this assumption was a likely outcome when he chose to have his first child at the age of 57.

Good and happy parents embrace the joys of parenthood, while tolerating its many frustrations.

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

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

take pride in what you do and how you treat others, and the response you get will help you turn this into a memorable year. use your intuition and experience to bring about positive change for you and your community. make love a priority.

CAPRICORN (dec. 22Jan. 19) — Honesty will help you drum up the support you need to get ahead. if you share your feelings, you will be able to resolve an issue that has been standing in your way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — put some energy and initiative behind your ideas. Be ready to deal with lastminute changes or people who don’t come through for you. Know your boundaries and limitations.

PISCES (Feb. 20-march 20) —- Handle personal matters calmly. if you or someone else gets all worked up, you won’t resolve anything. positive change happens when balance and equality are maintained. pay attention to detail.

ARIES (march 21-april 19) —travel will result in knowledge and a better understanding of what you will be doing next. your ability to see all sides of an issue will give you leverage when discussing your intentions.

TAURUS (april 20-may 20) — you may not agree with the changes someone makes, but if you take care of your affairs and remain quiet, you will avoid a dispute. protect your reputation and security.

GEMINI (may 21-June 20) — you are best off handling relationships with care. your expectations may not measure up to what someone close to you anticipates. don’t wait until a situation gets out of hand. offer suggestions and incentives now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — make serious decisions and personal changes that will improve your life, home environment and relationship with a loved one. a reunion will bring back fond memories.

LEO (July 23-aug.

22) — don’t sit around accomplishing little. accept an invitation, do something that will help you obtain better health or add to your knowledge. you can improve your life!

VIRGO (aug. 23-Sept.

22) — don’t hesitate to make a change. what you discover will open a passage to new friendships, financial possibilities and personal growth. love and romance will enrich your life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-oct.

23) — Balancing your responsibilities will be easy if you are practical and moderate and also know when to say no. Be precise regarding what you are willing to do for others.

SCORPIO (oct. 24nov. 22) — Be reasonable if someone challenges you. injury is likely if you take on more than you can handle. you’ll make a better impression if you promote peace and love, instead of showing physical strength.

SAGITTARIUS (nov. 23dec. 21) — look at your to-do list and get to work. a practical approach will help you get things done promptly. once finished, enjoy some serious relaxation.

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Barrow County teacher accused of having sexual relationships with students

By Taylor Denman taylor.denman@ gwinnettdailypost.com

The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Barrow County School System teacher after investigators said she had inappropriate relationships with Apalachee High School students and gave them alcohol.

Police arrested Heather Kishun, 35, of Bethlehem Friday morning. The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office was notified that Kishun was hav-

ing sexual relationships with Apalachee High students at her home and opened an investigation.

The Barrow Heather County SherKishun iff’s Office said Kishun was a Barrow County School System employee at the time of the incident, but found that no inappropriate contact occurred at any schools.

Kishun was charged with

aggravated child molestation, child molestation, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, furnishing alcoholic beverages to persons below the legal age and sexual assault against a person enrolled in school.

Kishun is being held at the Barrow County Detention Center. She is listed as a paraprofessional on Apalachee High School’s website. Kishun’s Linkedin page shows she was a former Gwinnett County Public Schools teacher.

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Buford Dam at Lake Lanier is seen in this 2009 aerial file photo. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Buford Dam Road, which runs atop the dam, and three Corpsrun parks will be closed from the Lower Overlook in Gwinnett to West Bank Park in Forsyth for several hours Wednesday to accommodate road maintenance work.

Peachtree Cafe opening Buford Dam Road closing new Lawrenceville location Wednesday for roadwork

By Curt Yeomans

By Curt Yeomans

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curt.yeomans@ gwinnettdailypost.com

A popular Lawrenceville dining spot is getting ready to reopen later this month in its new location in the city’s Southlawn development.

Peachtree Cafe announced it will open in its new spot, a few yards north of its old spot on South Clayton Street, on Jan. 31. It’s the first major announcement concerning an opening in Lawrenceville’s Southlawn mixed-use development located between the Lawrenceville Lawn and City Hall.

“We would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming support and patience during our transition to the new space,” Peachtree Cafe officials announced on their Facebook page. “It is with great pleasure that we announce the Grand Re Opening of The Peachtree Cafe Friday January 31st at 6 a.m.”

Peachtree Cafe has been a

Peachtree Cafe posted this photo of its new location in Lawrenceville’s Southlawn development on South Clayton Street.

The popular eatery announced it will open in its new location Jan. 31. ♦ photo: peachtree cafe/Facebook

popular breakfast and lunchtime draw in Lawrenceville for several years, and was once featured on the Georgia Tourism Division’s “100 Plates Locals Love” list.

It moved from its prior location next to Lawrenceville City Hall last year so its old building could be torn down to make way for part of the Southlawn development.

Gwinnett Public Schools taking applications for Instructional Resources Review Committee

By Taylor Denman taylor.denman@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Gwinnett County Public Schools is accepting applications from parents and community members for the district’s Instructional Resources Review Committee.

The deadline to return completed applications is Jan. 24. Applicants can

download an online form and mail completed applications to 437 Old Peachtree Road in Suwanee or fax to 678-301-6829.

The IRRC is evaluates print and digital instructional resources and recommends resources to be considered for pilot in GCPS schools.

This year’s IRRC will meet March 9 at the J. Alvin Wilbanks Instructional Sup-

port Center. Members of the committee may choose to participate in a morning session, afternoon session or both. Instructional resources will be reviewed for select courses in the areas of Language Arts, grades 3-5 and high school; Social Studies, grades K-2, 6-8, and some high school; Career and Technical Education, grades 6-12; and Foreign Language, grades 6-12.

Drivers will want to avoid Buford Dam on Wednesday because they won’t be able to use Buford Dam Road to get across it.

The U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers announced Buford Dam Road will be closed at its namesake dam from 9 a.m. until about 5 p.m.

Wednesday to accommodate road repairs. As a result of that closure three parks run by the corps at or near the dam will be closed to the public.

Those parks include the Lower Overlook, Lower Pool West and West Bank Turn-Out. The road closure will not impact the Lake Lanier Management Office, which is near the dam on Buford Dam Road but will remain open to visitors on Wednesday.

Police: Victim in Lawrenceville drive-by shooting died Thursday

By Taylor Denman taylor.denman@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Police say a man shot in a Tuesday evening driveby shooting died on Thursday evening.

Police said 18-year-old Angel Cruz died after he was shot in his Lawrenceville home on Tuesday night.

The case is being investigated as a homicide, police said. Police believe the shooting may be gang related.

Gwinnett County Police responded to the 3100 block of Dunlin Way in Lawrenceville on Tuesday night after receiving a call about a person shot.

When officers arrived to the scene on Tuesday, police said Cruz had at least one gunshot wound. He was immediately transported to the hospital with critical injuries.

Investigators interviewed witnesses at the scene. The preliminary investigation indicated the shooting was a drive-by and the motive for the shooting is possibly gang related.

Police ask anyone with information about the incident to contact GCPD detectives at 770-513-5300 or leave anonymous tips for Crime Stoppers at 404577-TIPS (8477) or www. stopcrimeATL.com. Use case number 20-004418 when reporting information.

Lilburn police said Cruz and his relatives were involved in a March 2018 incident in which he and his relatives got into an altercation with officers in the parking lot of a church on Lawrenceville Highway.

Lilburn police arrested 38-year-old Wilmer R. Cruz and 37-year-old Cristina Cruz, Angel’s father and mother, for numerous charges stemming from the altercation with police officers. Angel, 16 at the time, and his older brother, Wilmer Cruz Jr., were also arrested.

On March 25, Lilburn Police located a runaway teenager near 4830 Lawrenceville Highway. Officers located the teenager with Wilmer Cruz Jr., 17 years old at the time, who refused to leave that car

when directed by police.

Wilmer Cruz Sr. and Cristina Cruz confronted officers and “several other people” approached the car. Cristina Cruz tried to get between one officer and the car, and the officer responded by pulling out his ASP baton and attempted to push several people back.

Wilmer Cruz Sr. and his son Angel Cruz rushed at the officer, who went to strike Cruz Sr. in the leg with his baton, but stopped when he saw children were nearby. The two men grappled with the officer who escaped and holstered his baton. Cristina Cruz eventually pointed a taser at the officers, but did not fire it.

Cruz Sr. and Cruz Jr. both pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of an officer in June. Cristina Cruz was convicted of removal of weapon from public official, aggravated assault on a peace officer, attempted removal of weapon from public official and willful obstruction of law enforcement officers in September.

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taste, so records are worth it for that kind of thing. For me, it’s just a way to get reasonable music, and I think there’s something about still have a physical medium versus digital.”

Although Erbesfield said he goes to record shows often, he doesn’t usually have something in mind he’s looking for. Half of the fun, he said, is just getting to spend time with his brother or friends and browsing the wide selection of records to see what he can find.

At the Lawrenceville Record Show he found a “Raiders of the Lost Ark” soundtrack on vinyl that he purchased for a “reasonable” price.

Kevin Bigham of Dacula also purchased a few records on Saturday by Captain Beyond, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Screaming Blue Messiahs. He said what he likes about vinyl in particular is the sound.

“It’s a little rougher sometimes, especially with the punk rock – the little scratches and such,” Bigham said.

“They bring back a lot of memories like, ‘Oh, well, I had this album when I had

packages to donate to the community,” said GGC’s assistant director of community engagement and service Nury Lizeth Castro.

Students at the college will also make “no sew” blankets and friendship bracelets for young patients at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

The day before the King holiday, will see the Gwinnett NAACP hold its annual MLK Jr. Sunday Supper event.

The supper will last from 4 until 6 p.m. Sunday at South Gwinnett High School, which is located at 2288 Main Street East in Snellville. The event will include spoken word performances, musical selections, guest speakers and a presentation of the Gwinnett NAACP’s new Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics Program.

Tickets for the supper cost $5 per individual and a maximum of $20 for a family of more than four people. Tickets can be purchased at bit. ly/2TCPuC7.

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Albums by Captain Beyond, Jimmy Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Screaming Blue Messiahs were among those found at the third annual Lawrenceville Record Show on Saturday. a kid.’ You come through a lot of memories looking through all of these.”

So far, he’s collected about 50-60 records, he said.

Others, like Scott Roberts who shared a table with his friend Terry Maltas of Snellville, sold memorabilia such

as T-shirts, ties and pins.

They met at a record store in Lenox Square in the ’90s.

Roberts said he used to help his friends sell stuff at record shows in the ’80s and ’90s, but Saturday was his first time selling his own merchandise.

“You meet a lot of different people and you hear stories of their experiences, so it’s kind of nice to bond with people that are like, ‘Oh, hey the Beatles I remember them’ or whatever,” Roberts said. “Or like Terry has all of these records from way back

in the ’40s to like released last week, so it’s pretty neat to kind of just see people that appreciate music.”

Roberts said he met people of all ages on Saturday, but mostly people in their ’40s and ’50s “probably trying to recapture something.”

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Gwinnett getting additional 188 electronic voting machines

By Chamian Cruz

chamian.cruz@gwinnettdailypost.com

Gwinnett County is scheduled to be delivered its new electronic voting machines and other election equipment worth just over $7.4 million starting Friday.

Gwinnett County Communications Director Joe Sorenson said the old equipment was picked up Jan. 6. The delivery of the new equipment is expected to take several days, beginning Jan. 24.

Along with 220 polling place scanners, one central scanning device, 543 poll pads, one election management system and four mobile ballot printers, Gwinnett County will also get 188 more new electronic voting machines than were purchased by the state in the original request for proposals, according to the latest numbers from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office.

In a letter to Gwinnett County officials, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in most states “counties bear the sole financial and legal responsibility of running elections and buying all equipment necessary. Because we have a uniform system, we leverage the purchasing power of the state to greatly reduce the counties’ burdens.

“A review of the purchases that our office is making for elections

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Gwinnett County is scheduled to be delivered its new election equipment starting Friday, Jan. 24, but may take several days to complete. equipment shows a cumulative cost of approximately $100 million,” Raffensperger said. “If each county had made these purchases individually, the total cost would have been closer to $160 million … Had your county individually purchased the elections equipment, the cost would have been $11,621,917.89.”

Overall, the state purchased 33,100 Dominion ballot-marking devices. The secretary of state’s office delivered the largest shipment to metro Atlanta of equipment for Georgia’s new paperballot voting system at the end

of December.

“Employees worked over the Christmas holidays taking deliveries of components and subjecting them to the state’s quality-assurance testing in order to remain ahead of schedule in getting the equipment to every county in time for use during the March 24 Presidential Preference Primary,” officials at the Secretary of State’s Office announced on Dec. 30.

The Secretary of State’s Office has called this is the largest single implementation of a new voting system in U.S. history, with

GPB News reporting 31,826 ballot-marking devices are slated to be delivered to counties ahead of the March 24 presidential preference primary.

Like Gwinnett, nearly half of the state’s 159 counties are getting more voting machines than they were originally allotted.

According to a spreadsheet from the secretary of state’s office, Gwinnett County was originally set to get 2,257 ballot-marking devices.

Now, it will get a total of 2,445 devices.

This is because, according to the secretary of state’s office, each county would get one ballot-marking device for every 225 active voters or based on the amount in the request for proposals — whichever was higher.

Gwinnett County has 550,140 active voters.

Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer and project manager with the secretary of state’s office, told GPB News the mobile ballot printers will allow county officials to print off absentee, provisional and back-up paper ballots on demand and only pay the cost of paper.

Sterling also told GPB the state will pay for licensing and printing fees, as well as the cost of ballot-marking devices and other things in case extras need to be purchased by the state or coun-

ties down the road.

The latest figurers regarding the number of new voting machines come after an update given at a statewide elections officials conference in December, where the secretary of state’s office also announced a matching grant program for counties to invest in things like security, accessibility and general needs.

The state will provide up to $15,000 in a three-to-one grant for equipment needed to secure voting equipment and up to $10,000 in a one-to-one grant for general county purchases necessary to operate the voting precincts with the new voting equipment.

This money comes from funds received through the Help America Vote Act and is part of the state’s new Secure The Vote outreach initiative. Information about the initiative can be found at securevotega.com.

Sorenson said Gwinnett County does plan to apply for the grant program, but the price is yet to be determined.

Raffensperger said in December his office was preparing for record turnout in the 2020 election. He estimates that more than five million of Georgia’s registered voters could cast ballots in a contest that features a presidential race and every state and federal lawmaker on the ballot.

GSMST’s 2020-21 school year registration deadline Jan. 24

By Taylor Denman taylor.denman@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Eighth grade students taking an interest in fields of math, science and technology and seeking rigorous high school course loads have one week to apply to one of the country’s peak public schools in terms of academics.

Parents and guardians are able to register their students to be included in the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology lottery until 4 p.m. on Jan. 24.

Parents apply to the lottery online. The registration lottery will be held at 9 a.m. on Feb. 11, at the J. Alvin Wilbanks Instructional Support Center.

The GSMST lottery is open to all eighth grade students living in Gwinnett County Public Schools’ district who expected to be promoted to ninth grade by June 1 and are currently enrolled in a math curriculum that is considered the equivalent of Carnegie-eligible Accelerated Algebra or higher.

For students taking nonaccelerated algebra this year,

their lottery number will remain valid only if they earned a first semester grade of 90 or higher and they score in the distinguished category on the Georgia Milestones End-of-Course Test in May. Students are also eligible if they earn a score of 550 or higher on the math component of the PSAT or SAT. A February 2019 ranking from Niche, an online

research company, ranked GSMST as the No. 13 public school in the country, based on rigorous analysis of key statistics and millions of reviews from students and parents using data from the U.S. Department of Education.

In December, U.S. News and World Report ranked 22 Gwinnett County high schools in its annual Best

High Schools By Metro Area ranking, including the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology as the No. 1 high school in the metro Atlanta area.

Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology led the state with an average SAT score of 1375.

It also had the county’s only 100% graduation rate in the 2018-19 school year.

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Water, mobility, housing biggest issues facing metro area

areas that Armstrong sees as challenges facing the metro area in the years to come.

There are several issues Metro Atlanta’s water that continue to be press- supplies, particularly Lake ing matters that the metro Lanier and the ChattahoochAtlanta region will have to ee River, have long been at face in the future, whether the center of the ongoing it be how many more peo- water wars between Georple move to the area, where gia, Florida and Alabama. they will live or how they A special master appointget around, Atlanta Region- ed by the U.S. Supreme al Commission Chairman Court has recommendKerry Armstrong told the ed the high court reject a Gwinnett Chamber Friday. claim filed by Florida to By 2050, the region is increase water flows down expected to add 2.9 more the Chattahoochee River, residents, bringing the ar- but Armstrong said vigea’s total population to 8.6 ilance is needed in case million people. By that time, lawmakers representing the number of jobs in the Alabama or Florida try to region is also expected to pass legislation to circumincrease by 1.2 million to vent a court decision that hit a total of 4.7 million favors Georgia. jobs in metro Atlanta.

Conversation efforts will “Big changes are com- also need to be maintained ing,” Armstrong said. in metro Atlanta.

Armstrong said Gwinnett “We’re got to pay attenCounty is still projected to tion to extremes in weather eventually surpass Fulton changes, infrastructure isCounty in population to be- sues — dams age, they have come Georgia’s most pop- problems, they need to be ulous county in the com- fixed — and river beds have ing years, but Armstrong to be taken care of,” Armsaid the exact year “has not strong said. been pegged yet.” He said “I think in my very first it is expected to happen be- one of these speeches, I fore 2050, however, based said one of the things that on current growth trends. keeps me up at night is The projected growth water, and I look forward across metro Atlanta has to the day when we have implications for the re- that figured out. Well, we’ll gion in a number of differ- never have that figured out. ent areas, including water, It will always be our most 117_GDP_FRI_OBITS_OBITSv2 1/17/2020 5:04 PM Page 1 transportation and hous- precious resource and will ing. Those are some of the require all of us, and sucBy Curt Yeomans curt.yeomans@ gwinnettdailypost.com

ceeding generations, to pay attention to that.”

As for how mobility is impacted by growth, Armstrong pointed to a few areas, such as a need for connected vehicle technology where cars can receive information about traffic issues including upcoming red lights, or whether metro Atlanta will see an increase in electric cars, which might require additional charging stations for those vehicles.

There are also the issues how transportation revenues will be generated if there is a decline in gas consumption, which is something that has provided a funding source for transportation projects through gas taxes.

Multifamily housing is also expected to see a big increase in the coming years.

“The Atlanta Apartment Association estimates that by 2045, there will be 290,000 more multifamily units built in our region,” Armstrong said. “I don’t care what you think about apartments, good or bad, but our people need places to live and they need places to live that they can afford to pay for.”

Armstrong said that metro Atlanta has long enjoyed a reputation of having places to live that are available at affordable prices.

He warned that is changing as housing prices in-

creases outpace income increases, and that metro Atlanta could begin to see a drop in population if the affordable housing issue is not addressed.

“The fact is in metro Atlanta, most of our folks have to spend more than 50% of their disposable income on housing and mobility combined,” Armstrong said. “That’s a model that won’t work. That needs to be more like 30%. We’ve got to find ways to make housing within reach of the people who make the world work.”

A growing number of older people in the region will also be a factor metro Atlanta leaders will have to plan for.

“More than 1 million people will be age 75 or older (in 2050), making this group the fasting growing in the region,” Armstrong said. “Right now, men outlive their ability to drive by ... seven years, women by 10 and that’s just because women live longer.

“And these are not just going to be people who stay at home and watch soaps or play video games. These are vital Americans who have meaningful, powerful things to contribute to our society, but they can’t drive. They’ve got to have a way to get around to their work, to their families, to their healthcare, to their church, to their library.”

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The Gwinnett Daily Post and Professional Bull Riders are partnering to find a local citizen who embodies what it means to be a modern cowboy.

PBR, Daily Post looking for community cowboys

By Taylor Denman taylor.denman@ gwinnettdailypost.com

You don’t need a 10-gallon hat and spurs to be a cowboy.

The Gwinnett Daily Post and Professional Bull Riders are partnering to find a local citizen who embodies what it means to be a modern cowboy.

“Be Cowboy” is a nod to the original trail-blazing men and women of the Wild West who sought opportunity and a better life for themselves and their families through dedication and hard work.

Modern cowboys and cowgirls embody toughness, courage, respect, determination and patriotism for any flag.

At the upcoming March event at Infinite Energy Arena, the PBR will honor an individual who embodies “Be Cowboy” values. Submissions can be made at

gwinnettdailypost.com/becowboy.

PBR says anyone can be a cowboy, from school teachers, firefighters and police, to community leaders, single moms, veterans and kids making a difference in their communities “Be Cowboy” honorees for each event can be nominated by anyone.

The “Be Cowboy” campaign is part of PBR’s season-long mission to unite communities, acknowledge local heroes and inspire the Native American and special needs communities.

“Be Cowboy” will focus on youth advocacy with seminars that will highlight Western literature in partnering with the National Day of the Cowboy’s Read ‘em Cowboy program.

To “Be Cowboy” you need only to live honestly, fairly and respectfully with pride, integrity and humility — no chaps or buckles necessary.

OBITUARIES DACULA

Edmond Hankamer EDMOND (Ed) HANKAMER PASSED AWAY ON Nov. 19, 2019, from cancer, shortly before his 83 birthday. He passed away at home with his family by his side.

He was born in Galves-

ton, TX on 12/20/1936 His family was from Hankamer, TX He is survived by his wife, Cathy Flynn Hankamer, daughters, Deborah Lee Hankamer Gilkey, (Randy), Dr. Kimberly Hankamer-Sauer (Bobby), Grand-daughter, Rachel Gilkey and Grand-son, R.J. Gilkey.

Ed married his college sweetheart. They were married 63 wonderful years.

He grew up in Miami, Fl. attending Miami Sr. High, U

U of Fla. & U of Miami Ed worked for Fla Marine Service, where he was a Mgr. for 35 years, then worked for R.B. Grove for 10 years as Gen. Manager.

He retired and then he and Cathy moved to Ellijay, Ga. to the beautiful mountains. After living in the mountains for 8 years, he and Cathy moved to Dacula, Ga., his present residence to be closer to their daughters.

Ed & Cathy traveled thru out the U.S., Canada and Europe over the years.

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They also loved to cruise, taking 13 cruises over their married life. They loved to travel!

Ed was preceded in death by his parents, Edmond & Ethel Hankamer, his sisters, Ruth Ann Wilson and Linda Doucette.

Ed was a true gentleman and everyone that met him loved him. He had many friends in Miami that he hated to leave when he moved away.

Cathy’s cousin, Father John Oldfield, NY, said prayers in a mass for Ed.

Buford, GA

Nancy Hooper (Young) Nancy Young Hooper, age 73, of Buford, GA passed away Friday, January 17, 2020. Flanigan Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

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Buford third, Archer fourth at state duals

By David Friedlander

david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

MACON — Buford found itself in unfamiliar territory by having to fight its way through wrestlebacks during Saturday’s action at the Georgia High School Association’s State Wrestling Duals Championships at the Macon Centreplex.

But the Wolves bounced back from Friday’s loss in the semifinals to post a pair of victories, beating Harris County 51-24 and Ola 48-21 to claim third place in the Class AAAAA tournament.

Archer also earned its way into the third-place match in Class AAAAAAA with a win over North Forsyth, but couldn’t hold off a late charge

by West Forsyth in the consolation finals to place fourth overall.

Buford’s 37-25 semifinal loss to eventual state runner-up Veterans meant the Wolves would not participate in the championship meet for the first time in five years.

However, the Wolves shook off any disappointment they may have had, and the Wolves took care of business in Saturday’s action behind two individual wins each from Tyler Henley at 120 pounds, Nick Cambria at 126, Nick Stonecheck at 152, Charlie Darracott at 160, Blaine Bergey at 170, Evan DiMaggio at 220 and Jacob Smith at 285.

“We knew coming in that Veterans was going to be tough,” Buford coach Tom Beuglas said. “Realistically, third was probably the best we could do. We had

a close one (Friday) night (against Veterans), but I was just happy we were able to bounce back the way we did. … Sometimes you have the firepower, some times you don’t. We were a little short this year.”

Archer, meanwhile, built up big leads in both their meets Saturday, and tried to hold on at the end of each.

The Tigers held off North Forsyth 37-31 in the consolation finals, but couldn’t repeat the feat in the consolation finals, as West Forsyth rallied from a 19-0 deficit to win the third-place meet 34-25.

Despite the loss in Saturday’s second match, Archer coach Keith Jannett was very pleased with this team’s effort for the entire weekend, including a win during the consolation rounds over a Mountain View team that had beat the Tigers handily during a dual meet earlier this season.

“We’ll take it,” Jannett said. “We came in (to the tournament) unseeded, so this was kind of a Cinderella weekend for us.”

Vernon Rogers (106 pounds), Wade Hipp (113), Cam Sapp (132) and Florin Myndresku (138) all won both their matches for Archer on Saturday.

One other Gwinnett team was in action Saturday, with Brookwood falling to West Forsyth 48-32 in the consolation semifinals.

Xavier Bentley (120), Eason Rivas (145), Chandler Mullis (160), David Hornsby (170), Landon Moss (182) and Jonathan Oldknow (195) were all victorious on the day for the Broncos.

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North Forsyth’s Tate Bissell, left, won his match over Archer’s Kam Shannon on Saturday at the state duals in Macon.

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Above: Collins Hill’s Jordan St. Preuve wrestles Camden County’s Cahmari Johnson at 160 pounds on Saturday in the Class AAAAAAA state duals at the Macon Centreplex. In the end, the Eagles were unable to catch up with the Wildcats to win the state title. Below: Collins Hill’s D.J. Morrison celebrates with coach Nate Ethridge after his win over Camden County’s Brian Jones at 285 pounds.

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Camden County holds off Collins Hill to win Class AAAAAAA duals championship

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MACON — With two matches remaining in the Class AAAAAAA finals of the Georgia High School Association’s State Wrestling Duals Championships, Collins Hill had Camden County in a position it had rarely been in during their five-year reign as champions in two different classifications.

But trailing in the meet and with their grasp on the trophy slipping away, bonus-point wins from Omega Clark and Cody Herrin helped the Wildcats rescue themselves and rally for a 35-27 win in the meet to take their sixth straight state title Saturday at the Macon Centreplex.

Collins Hill, which defeated defeat Colquitt County (47-25), McEachern (48-19) and North Forsyth (42-23) over the previous two days to get to the finals, had a chance to break the Camden streak by taking a 27-25 lead late in Saturday’s meet, but the Eagles couldn’t quite finish.

Clark won a major decision at 182 pounds and Herrin scored a pin midway through the second period at 195 to put Camden County over the top and relegate Collins Hill to runner-up status for the second straight year.

“We took our swing, but we didn’t connect,” Collins Hill coach Nate Ethridge said. “It wasn’t because we didn’t try. It wasn’t because the kids didn’t compete. We just got beat.

(Camden is) a good program. They do a good job.”

Collins Hill had to dig down deep early after getting only a 2-0 decision at 285 pounds from D.J. Morrison to fall into a 15-3 hole through the first five matches.

But Joey Felix outpointed Camden’s Kaleb Clark 9-4 in the 126-pound match to ignite a run of three straight

wins for Collins Hill and establish some momentum.

Elijah Griffin rallied from a 4-1 deficit early in the second period, with a pair of takedowns included in a run of five unanswered points in a 6-4 decision at 132.

Clint Gilbert then pinned Camden’s Robert Henderson in 59 seconds in the 138 match to pull the Eagles even at 15-all.

Even when Charles Morton and Nathaniel Santos won the next two matches on a major decision and a pin respectively put Camden County back in front at 25-15, Collins Hill

kept fighting back.

Like Griffin, Jordan St. Preuve had to overcome an early deficit in his match at 160, but he eventually wore down Cah’mari Johnson in the third period and scored a fall with 1:31 left in the match for the win and three bonus points.

Nationally ranked Lucas DeSilva followed by putting Joshua Morton on his back in 1:43 to give the Eagles back-to-back pins and vault them into their first lead of the meet with just two matches remaining.

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Gwinnett’s Higgins, Wright pave way for navy QB’s record-setting season

By Christine Troyke christine.troyke@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Navy senior Malcolm Perry rushed for more yards in a season than any quarterback in FBS history, and paving the way were a pair of Gwinnett grads.

Ford Higgins and Kendel Wright were part of an offensive line that allowed Perry to run for 2,017 yards and set a multitude of records

at the academy.

“I still really can’t believe it, but at the same time, the guys up front, the O-line, the A-backs and the wide receivers as well blocked their butts off all season,” Perry said after the last game of the season. “It’s just a testament to how well they worked during the season, and how hard they worked in the offseason, and how it translated to the game.”

Bigger, though, than indi-

vidual benchmarks is the Midshipmen’s terrific turnaround.

Navy orchestrated a gamewinning, last-minute drive to beat Kansas State in the Liberty Bowl on New Year’s Eve and finish the season 112. The team won just three games in 2018 and the eightgame difference is the greatest in NCAA history.

“After the season last year, nobody was happy,” said Wright, who graduated from Mountain View in 2015. “We

made it a priority amongst ourselves to do things differently. Our senior class was good and everything, but a lot of the younger guys played a big factor in it. Without them buying in to our leadership from the beginning, we definitely wouldn’t have ended up with 11 wins.

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Greater Atlanta Christian grad Ford Higgins (72) was part of a stout Navy offensive line which allowed quarterback Malcolm Perry (10) to rush for an NCAA record this season.

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Australian Open to go on despite air quality concerns

By Matias Grez CNN

The Australian Open will go ahead as scheduled this week despite continuing concerns about the air quality in Melbourne, according to the grand slam’s tournament director Craig Tiley.

The city has been affected by the widespread bushfires that have ravaged the country and organizers have come in for heavy criticism from players for allowing the qualifying rounds to go ahead with Melbourne enveloped by smoke haze.

“There is a lot of speculation about the Australian Open not happening, or starting later,” Tiley told reporters. “The Australian Open is happening.”

Earlier this week, Slovenia’s Dalila Jakupovic was forced to quit her qualifying match while she was lead-

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Smoke haze from the Australian bushfires hover over the Rod Laver Arena ahead of the Australian Open. ing after succumbing to a coughing fit brought on by the bush fire smoke.

British player Liam Broady

also criticized tournament “healthy” a “slap in the face.” organizers, calling an email Jakupovic and Broady both which declared that condi- played their matches on the tions were “playable” and same day the Environment

Protection Authority for Victoria warned residents of Melbourne to stay indoors, keep windows and doors shut and keep their pets inside.

“Air quality is a very complex and confusing issue which relates to a number of different factors,” Tiley said. “There are number of different air quality measures and it is made more complex by going on an app. There are different apps and websites which give you different readings.

“This is about trusting the medical advice and trusting the expertise and scientific advice of the people who analyze this every day. The safety, the wellbeing and the health of the players is the priority for us, as with our staff and our fans.”

Tiley says tournament organizers are using a specific type of air quality measure called PM2.5 and any reading in excess of 200 would be

deemed unsafe for players.

Only once has the reading exceeded 200, delaying Tuesday’s qualifiers by an hour, but is yet to exceed that mark while matches have been in progress.

The Australian Open gets under way on Monday and Tiley says organizers have the option to move matches inside should the air quality deteriorate and become too dangerous.

“We do have three indoor arenas in which we can compete. It may look different but the tournament will happen,” he said.

“We are speculating if that would happen but if we had to work it out we would.

“We don’t expect that to happen because we haven’t yet seen anywhere in the world where there has been above that 200 on the PM2.5 concentrate consecutively over two weeks.”

achievement. Joining them are celebrated engine builder and crew chief Waddell Wilson and the late, hugely-popular driver-turnedbroadcaster, Buddy Baker.

The Labonte brothers become only the second pair of siblings to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame, joining Glen and Leonard Wood.

As with the Wood Brothers, the Labonte brothers have a celebrated history now marked with a rare and coveted Hall of Fame exclamation point.

While Bobby Labonte and his wife Kristin couldn’t be more genuinely honored or excited to attend the NASCAR Hall of Fame induction gala in Charlotte next month, he admittedly still gets a kick thinking of how he got the big news.

A year prior – Labonte’s first year of eligibility for the Hall of Fame, the couple got dressed up and attended the selection announcement at the Hall. However, Labonte’s name was not among the five chosen for the 2019 class.

So last spring, for his second year of eligibility, Labonte changed the vibe and opted not to attend the formal Hall of Fame announcement in

downtown Charlotte. Instead he and Kristin went for a bike ride at the time the news was to be revealed. The two are avid riders and say it just felt like a good way to deal with the natural tension of a potential life-changing moment.

“We’re about halfway into our 20-mile ride and I see on my phone – which is connected through a little computer on my bike — the word ‘Congratulations’ as a text message,’’ Labonte vividly recalled. “Then all of a sudden, a phone call comes, then another, so we just had to stop on the road and answer the phone and the texts. And I called my mom and dad.

“They told me,’’ he continued with a hearty laugh. “‘You’re not the first to call.’’’

Labonte said the pride, the memories and the overall great sense of accomplishment he was able to share with family and friends that afternoon was palpable. After all, so much of his career was family-centric. When his brother Terry – eight years his senior — got a chance in NASCAR’s big leagues in the 1980s, the entire Labonte family relocated from Texas to North Carolina for support.

Labonte lives up to family name with Hall of Fame honor

By Holly Cain NASCAR Wire Service

The indications were there from that first green flag he took as a little boy growing up in small town Texas. Bobby Labonte was perhaps simply destined to be a winner, a champion. And on January 31, he will officially become a member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Even from those early laps he turned trying out a quarter-midget on a short track near his family’s Corpus Christi home, the elementary-aged Labonte left no doubt about his competitive frame of mind or his talent behind the wheel. There was something special there. Unmistakable.

“When he first started out in quarter-midgets he was either going to wreck or win,’’ Labonte’s older brother Terry recalled with a slight chuckle.

“He was wide open.

“He did good though. We had quarter-midgets and I remember the first time my dad made him go out and follow me and he wouldn’t even follow me. I was just going to show him the line, but no, he wanted to pass me.

“I knew from the start he was going to be competitive.’’

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Bobby Labonte looks on before the 2016 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.

Competitive and Hall of Fame-worthy. As it turns out, all those years ago on that South Texas short track, Terry was actually watching and guiding a Hall of Famer in training…his brother.

Bobby Labonte, now 55, went on to become one of the most successful drivers of his generation, earning two national series championships — the Grand National (now NASCAR Xfinity Series) title in 1991 and answering that

with the 2000 Cup Series championship. He was the first driver in NASCAR’s long and storied history to win both titles.

He also earned the prestigious 2001 IROC championship and was the first driver to win races in all three major NASCAR racing divisions – Cup (2002), Xfinity (1992) and the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoor Truck Series (2005) — at a single track (Martinsville, Va.).

In 1994, Bobby won a second Grand National title – this time as a team owner with driver David Green.

And now Bobby will formally join Terry, a two-time Cup Series champion, in the sport’s grand NASCAR Hall of Fame in two weeks. Labonte’s former Cup Series team owner Joe Gibbs and his former Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Tony Stewart will also be inducted in this Hall of Fame class of high

PAVE From A10 the effort and the hard work from the guys below us, we wouldn’t have even gotten close to 11 wins this season.”

The seeds for this season were sown not just a year ago, but years ago.

Perry and Wright went to the Naval Academy Prep School together. Higgins, a three-sport letterman at Greater Atlanta Christian, was part of the 2016 class that joined them in Annapolis the following season.

“It was really neat the way that whole NAPS class was so accepting of me and a lot of the direct people after the hardships they had already been through the year before,” said Higgins, Navy’s Captain of Captains as a senior. “I got to know Kendel really well, just bonding over being from the same hometown in Gwinnett, being in the same position group.

“Malcolm isn’t the loudest guy.

He’s pretty reserved. But we quickly became really good friends over friendly competition and a common sense of humor. It’s been incredible getting to experience that from the jump and build those bonds.”

As linemen, adjusting to the triple option presented Higgins and Wright with early challenges.

Higgins played in front of Davis Mills, a pro-style quarterback with a huge arm, at GAC. Not just that, he was moving from playing tackle and guard for the Spartans to center.

“The triple option that we run is a very aggressive, downhill type of offense,” Higgins said. “When I was playing at GAC, Davis had one of the strongest arms in the nation to air it out. He had a great, great pocket presence and quarterback IQ for that type of offense.

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Mountain View grad Kendel Wright was part of a stout Navy offensive line which allowed quarterback Malcolm Perry to rush for an NCAA record this season.

“Coming here initially, it was a whole shift. A culture shift for the offense. It’s a different mentality playing here at Navy with the triple option.”

Wright said Mountain View tried to incorporate aspects of the triple option when he was a sophomore.

It wasn’t successful.

“At first it was a big shock, but you get more immersed in it and the coaches are knowledgeable in every triple option scheme there is,” Wright said. “When I came here, seeing the older guys execute it the way we needed to, really paved a path for all the line-

men that came in here.

“It’s completely different in terms of our jobs, the movement and the agility and the speed that is necessary in our assignments.”

Neither Wright or Higgins played as freshmen in 2016, working their way into the starting lineup over time. Wright got into 11 games as a sophomore at tackle, but missed the Army game and the bowl game after finger surgery. Higgins started one of the 10 games he played and also had an ankle injury keep him out of the final two games in 2017.

Higgins broke through as a ju-

nior, starting all 13 games for the Midshipmen. Wright missed four games with another injury and returned to start three of the remaining seven games.

The season results were not satisfactory, though, and the work to right the ship began in earnest.

Step one was moving Perry back to quarterback and tailoring the system to him.

“Being able to build that offense around his skill set and the way he moves, the way he’s so versatile in what he does,” Higgins said.

“Because he is a passing threat as well. With his strength being running the ball, as an offensive lineman, knowing that if we call a pass play, Malcolm can still break the pocket or run through and make big plays, is always in the back of our minds.

“I can promise you that both Kendel and I, and everyone in our position group, are not surprised by what Malcolm has done. We knew he was a great athlete and a great leader for our class.”

Navy opened with wins over Holy Cross and East Carolina before it fell to Memphis 35-23. A week later, the Midshipmen put together a last-minute, game-winning drive. They led 21-9 going into the fourth quarter, but Air Force stormed back to take a 25-21 lead with 3:15 remaining. Starting at its own 25, Navy marched the length of the field in 11 plays, capped by a three-yard rush from Perry with 23 seconds left.

“We realized what we could accomplish in the Air Force game, that last drive,” Wright said. “Just play after play we were making progress. I still remember everything that happened. All the work we put in and all the fight that we talked about, being relentless in our effort, it showed in that drive.

“We had drives that were similar against Tulane, SMU, Kansas State, where we just had to fight to the very last second. That was

set in that Air Force game.”

The Army game, which brought Navy the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy for the first time since 2015, was the culmination of years of toil for Higgins, Wright and the rest of the class. Perry became just the fourth quarterback ever to run for 300 yards in a decisive 31-7 victory.

“I’ve been coaching for a long time, but this is a special group,” head coach Ken Niumatalolo said.

“I’ve been saying it for a long time.

I saw it back in January. Everything that’s happened this year is not surprising to me because they did the work, they paid the price and did everything that was asked of them.”

Higgins and Wright are both headed for Marine school in Quantico, Va., after graduation.

“I’m very honored to be selected for the Marines and I’m extremely excited to go serve — it’s what we all came here to do ultimately,” Higgins said.

What they accomplished at Navy will take some time to sink in.

“With my football career coming to an end, there’s been a lot of reflection and mostly it’s just being so honored and thankful to be able to come to this school in the first place,” Higgins said. “Getting an opportunity to play for a guy like Coach Niumat was hard to pass up for me. To see what it’s done for me is incredible and I’ll forever be thankful for the opportunity.”

Wright felt like it might take years for the full magnitude to resonate.

“We’ll look back and realize we had one of the best seasons in Navy football history and set records left and right,” he said. “Really there’s so much going on, it’s like when the game was over, you’re onto the next chapter. There’s really not time to look back right now, but when I do get a chance, I’ll sit down with the guys and we’ll talk about moments we all remember.”

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COLUMNIST|DICK YARBROUGH

Some random thoughts on some random subjects in the new year

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hether you support Donald Trump classroom that private schools don’t have or think he is guilty of neto face. The Republican majority farious deeds regarding in the Legislature is shrinking like Ukraine, he is not going to be rea pair of cheap shorts and pushing moved from office unless Repubanother voucher proposal scheme licans have a death wish. in an election year could be politiThis, despite ponderous pontifical suicide. And to those legislators cations by liberals that at least 10 contemplating doing so, it doesn’t Republicans senators will turn on matter what kind of slick name you him and provide a constitutional give the scheme, it is still lipstick Yarbrough majority for removal. Right now, I on a pig. ... see only Mitt Romney, who probaAccording to your emails, you bly would like to run for president (again), think as little of the uncapped film tax credand a couple of others so inclined. This is all it giveaway to the Hollywood crowd as do about the 2020 election. Trump is his own I. Whether the Legislature does anything worst enemy with intemperate tweets and about it is another matter. But this much unnecessary insults. The fact is the stock is clear: There is some serious money to be market is at an all-time high and unem- made brokering the tax credits. Monarch ployment is at historic lows. He has got- Private Capital brags on its webpage that it ten China to the table on tariff issues that “has brokered over $500 million in entershould have been addressed a long time tainment and film credits and is the largest ago and he made a charcoal briquet out of broker of tax credits in the state of Georgia.” a jive-talking Iranian terrorist intent on It seems the company’s director of public doing us harm. Were this Barack Obama policy and business development is state or Bill Clinton, the national media would Rep. John Carson, R-northeast Cobb. His be wetting itself. ... bio says he handles the firm’s legislative Speaking of Bill Clinton, I had to laugh and business development initiatives and the other day when House Speaker Nancy public policy matters in many of the states Pelosi was being interviewed by one of her in which they operate, just not in Georgia. suck-up media sycophants. She intoned Therefore, I am sure all of this is just one ominously that no matter what the out- of those staggering coincidences that occacome of the Senate trial, Donald Trump sionally occur in politics. By the way, if the would forever be known as an “impeached name sounds familiar, John Carson is the president.” What the suck-up didn’t ask poster boy for private school vouchers. ... was whether she would apply that title to Finally, the world is minus a bright light Bill Clinton, too. That is why I would not today, but heaven has gotten itself a winmake a good suck-up media sycophant. I ner. My beloved sister-in-law, Bebe Yarwould have asked that very question. ... brough, a great Christian lady, fought a It looks like Gov. Brian Kemp is going to good fight against an insidious disease and follow through on giving the state’s pub- succumbed shortly after Christmas. She had lic schoolteachers a $2,000 increase this the quickest wit, the sharpest sense of huyear as the second part of the $5,000 pay mor and the sunniest attitude of anyone I raise he promised them when running for have ever known. Her service at the Lakegovernor. I like a governor who keeps his wood Baptist Church in Gainesville was promises. However, I suspect schoolteach- as positive as she was — a lot of wonderers would also welcome something money ful stories and much laughter through the can’t buy — respect in the classroom. More tears. Her minister, Dr. Tom Smiley, talked than 40% of new teachers in Georgia leave about the fact that everybody with whom within their first five years. Money alone she came in contact was certain that they won’t solve that problem. ... were Bebe Yarbrough’s best friend. And I think schoolteachers and the organiza- they were. What more appropriate eulogy tions that represent them are getting their for a life well-lived than that? political act together at last. But they had better keep an eye on some of our intrepYou can reach Dick Yarbrough at dick@ dickyarbrough.com; at P.O. Box 725373, id public servants trying to sneak another Atlanta GA 31139; or on Facebook at www. private school voucher bill by them instead of fixing the societal problems outside the facebook.com/dickyarb.

LOCAL COLUMNIST|DARRELL HUCKABY

Take a lesson from Chicken Little

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emember the children’s story about You probably have newspapers out in Chicken Little? A bird dropped an the garage with those very headlines. If acorn and conked him on the head, you take certain newspapers in addition and he became hysterical. He went around to this one, that is. screaming “The sky is falling! The sky is Well, let’s examine the reality of the falling!” to anyone who would listen. And Chicken Little aftermath. there were plenty of gullible animals willing World War III? Not exactly. The Iranito listen — Henny Penny, Goosey ans marched in the streets during Loosey, Turkey Lurkey, and others, Soleimani’s funeral and trampled depending on which version of the 40 of their own to death, and acancient fable you stumble upon. cidentally shot down a plane full The point is, all of the animals of innocent people, to boot. That were eager to spread the erroneand a few missiles fired harmlessly ous news that the sky was, indeed, into empty buildings — an attack falling. that was completely orchestrated The more things change, the more not to kill anyone and carried out Huckaby they stay the same. I can’t help but after Iraq and the U.S. had been laugh when I realize that we have forewarned — has been the extent a whole party of partisan politicians and of the retaliation and the war. a moronic mainstream media that is just Granted, there may be random terlike Chicken Little and Goosey Loosey and rorist attacks in the future, but there alall of their foolish friends. ready were going to be random terrorist Just take a look back at the last couple attacks. Those people don’t like us. They of weeks, never mind the last three years. want us dead. Soleimani had killed lots Two short weeks ago, give or take a of us and was plotting to kill more. Folspontaneous demonstration or two, the low along here!

U.S. military, on orders of the commandThe stock market? The Dow continues er in chief, took out a murderous terrorist to set record after record after record. who had been recognized as an enemy of And that thing about the rest of the the state for years and years. Now, if Qas- world? Well, while the foolish folks represem Soleimani, the liberal left’s new best senting the House of Representatives on friend, had been Chicken Little, I suppose behalf of the Democrat Party were highhe would have been justified in scream- fiving one another and passing out pens ing “the sky is falling,” because, to para- from a bogus impeachment decree, the phrase Toby Keith after 9/11, “the whole grownup in our government was signing wide world was raining down on him.” a new trade deal with China and a long, The sky, did, I suppose, fall on Soleimani. long, long overdue bill — USMAC — to Do you remember the reaction? All man- replaces NAFTA, the boondoggle that ner of mayhem was about to take place. Bill Clinton hung around our collective I’ll refresh your memory. necks in 1993.

World War III was imminent. AmeriThe sky is not falling. That bright object cans were about to be attacked all over the you see in the eastern sky is the rising sun. world, at home and abroad. Our military The state of our Union is stronger than it was going to be embroiled in another quag- has been in years. mire, and we would not be able to stand Listen to the foolish rhetoric all you up to the wrath of the Iranians. want, but remember, when Chicken LitThe stock market was going to collapse. tle and his friends met the sly old fox, he None of us would have two dimes left to invited them into his burrow one by one. rub together by the end of the week. It And one by one, they disappeared, never was going to be like 1929 all over again. to be seen again.

We were going to become outcasts to But the sly old fox and the animals that the rest of the world. Nobody would be were smart enough to realize that the sky doing business with us. was not falling? Well, they all lived hapThe sky is falling. The sky is falling. The pily ever after. sky is falling.

Just go back and look at all the dire Darrell Huckaby is an author in Rockdale County. Email him at dhuck008@gmail.com. predictions. It’s only been two weeks.

COLUMNIST|MARC THIESSEN

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Be careful what you wish for, Sen. Schumer

n January 1999, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., voted against a resolution allowing witnesses to be subpoenaed during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial. A day later, he voted for an amendment offered by Sen. Tom Daschle, D.-S.D., to prohibit any further evidence, argument or deliberations except for two hours of concluding argument by each side.

But now, as Senate minority leader, Schumer is singing a different tune. “If you want the truth, you have to have witnesses,” he insists. “Who has ever heard of a trial without witnesses and documents?”

Be careful what you wish for, Senator.

If the Democratic House managers can call witnesses, so can the president’s legal team. Democrats might soon find that Trump is not the only one on trial — former vice president Joe Biden will be as well.

If Democrats call former national security adviser John Bolton to testify, Republicans can call Hunter Biden. His testimony would be relevant, as George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley recently pointed out, because part of Trump’s defense is that he raised Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian business dealings in his call with President Volodymyr Zelensky as part of a larger concern about corruption in Ukraine. If Hunter Biden’s contract with Burisma was corrupt, then

Trump can argue raising it had a Obama administration on Ukraine, “public purpose.” his son should not have been on But Hunter Biden’s testimony the board of a company there that might only be the beginning. The could be affected by U.S. policy president’s legal team could also spearheaded by his father.” call former Obama administration They could call Robert Weissofficials who warned then-Vice man, president of the progressive President Biden about his son’s watchdog Public Citizen, who said, business dealings in Ukraine. For Thiessen “It’s hard to avoid the conclusion example, they could call former that Hunter’s foreign employers White House energy czar Amos Hoch- and partners were seeking to leverage stein, who the New Yorker reports “raised Hunter’s relationship with Joe, either by the matter with Biden,” to testify under seeking improper influence or to project oath about the concerns he expressed to access to him.” the vice president and how he responded.

They could even call Turley, who has They could call Christopher Heinz, then- written that “the Biden contract was so Secretary of State John Kerry’s stepson, openly corrupt it would have made Jack who broke business ties with Hunter Biden Abramoff blush.” over Burisma because “working with BuThat’s not all. The president’s lawyers risma was unacceptable,” a spokesman could also call witnesses to testify about said. They could call former State De- Hunter Biden’s questionable business partment officials, such as then-Deputy dealings in other parts of the world, inSecretary Antony Blinken, who met with cluding China and Romania — testimony Hunter Biden during his time on Buris- that would be relevant because it would ma’s board. establish a pattern of corruption.

The president’s legal team could then Finally, they could call the former vice call nonpartisan experts to testify that president himself to testify. Questioned Hunter Biden’s contract was corrupt. For under oath, Biden would not be able to get example, they could call Yoshiko M. Her- away with the dismissive replies he regurera, a political science professor at the larly gives — that “no one has said my son University of Wisconsin-Madison, who did anything wrong,” and that we should has said that “if Biden is working for the “focus on Donald Trump.”

He would be forced to answer questions he has thus far avoided: Why do you think Burisma hired your son and paid him massive sums despite his complete lack of experience in Ukraine or natural gas? What did Obama officials say to you when they raised concerns about Hunter’s business dealings in Ukraine?

Biden has been shaky under mild questioning during the debates. How would he fare under the withering pressure of legal cross-examination? If he stumbled, or appeared confused, it could expose to voters how old and frail he really is at the very moment they are going to the polls to decide their party’s presidential nominee.

Do Democrats really want to put Biden through that, especially since they know that the president is going to be acquitted?

And for what? Democrats have no idea what John Bolton will say under oath.

His testimony may be exculpatory for the president, in which case they will have opened the Pandora’s box of witness testimony for nothing. So, call your witnesses, Sen. Schumer. They may very well pose a greater danger to Biden’s presidential prospects than they do to Donald Trump.

Marc Thiessen is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush.

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CONSTRUCTION/ SERVICE BIDS ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS PTC 18-01 MEDLOCK BRIDGE @ BUSH ROAD INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENT Sealed Bids for the construction of the Medlock Bridge @ Bush Road Intersection Improvements will be received by the City of Peachtree Corners, at the Peachtree Corners City Hall, 310 Technology Parkway, Peachtree Corners, Georgia 30092, until 10:00 A.M. local time on February 18, 2020, at which time the Bids received will be publicly opened and read. The Project generally consists of roadway widening and intersection improvements at the intersection of Medlock Bridge and Bush Road, including full depth asphalt pavement, milling and inlay, concrete curb and gutter, concrete median, concrete sidewalk, signing, pavement marking, storm drainage improvements, retaining wall, traffic signal installation, and grading.

For more information please visit the City’s website at https://www.peachtreecornersga.gov/businesses/ doing-business-with-thecity/rfp-bidding 9 0 2 - 6 3 0 0 9 9 , 1/17,19,24,26,31,2/2,7,9

ELECTION NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE OF A POLLING PLACE CHANGE PROPOSAL 2020-01 Pursuant to O.C.G.A. Sec. §21-2-265 and Sec. §21-2266, the following proposed polling place change is being advertised.

141 Current Location: Sugar Hill Community Center 2640 Sawnee Avenue Buford, GA 30518 New Location: Sycamore Elementary School 5695 Sycamore Road Sugar Hill, GA 30518 Maps showing the proposed change may be viewed in the office of the Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections located at 455 Grayson Highway, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046.

The Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections will meet on Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 6:00pm. Any person objecting to the change, as proposed, must file his or her objection in writing, by mail, or in person with the Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections, 455 Grayson Highway, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046. The objections must be filed by 5:00pm on Tuesday, January 21, 2020.

This 19th day of January, 2020 Kristi Royston Elections Supervisor AVISO PÚBLICO DE UN CAMBIO DE LUGAR DE VOTACIÓN PROPUESTA 2020-01 De conformidad con O.C.G.A Sección §21-2-265 y Sección §21-2-266, se anuncia el siguiente cambio de lugar de votación propuesto.

141 Ubicación Actual: Sugar Hill Community Center 2640 Sawnee Avenue Buford, GA 30518 Nueva Ubicación: Sycamore Elementary School 5695 Sycamore Road Sugar Hill, GA 30518 Los mapas que muestran el cambio propuesto pueden ser vistos en la oficina de la Junta de Inscripción de Votantes y Elecciones del Condado de Gwinnett ubicada en 455 Grayson Highway, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046.

La Junta de Inscripciones y Elecciones del Condado de Gwinnett se reunirá el Martes, 21 de Enero del 2020 a las 6:00pm.

Cualquier persona que se oponga al cambio, según lo propuesto, debe presentar su objeción por escrito, por correo o en persona ante la Junta de Inscripciones y elecciones del Condado de Gwinnett, 455 Grayson Hwy, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, GA. 30046. Las objeciones deben presentarse antes de las 5:00pm del Martes, 21 de Enero del 2020.

Este 19 de Enero del 2020 Kristi Royston Supervisora de Elecciones PUBLIC NOTICE OF A POLLING PLACE CHANGE PROPOSAL 2020-02 Pursuant to O.C.G.A. Sec. §21-2-265 and Sec. §21-2266, the following proposed polling place change is being advertised.

008 Current Location: 12 Stone Church – Hamilton Mill 3858 Braselton Hwy Buford, GA 30519 New Location: Osborne Middle School 4404 Braselton Hwy Hoschton, GA 30548 Maps showing the proposed change may be viewed in the office of the Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections located at 455 Grayson Highway, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046.

The Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections will meet on Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 6:00pm. Any person objecting to the change, as proposed, must file his or her objection in writing, by mail, or in person with the Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections, 455 Grayson Highway, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046. The objections must be filed by 5:00pm on Tuesday, January 21, 2019.

This 19th day of January, 2020 Kristi Royston Elections Supervisor AVISO PÚBLICO DE UN CAMBIO DE LUGAR DE VOTACIÓN PROPUESTA 2020-02

ELECTION NOTICES

PUBLIC HEARINGS

De conformidad con O.C.G.A Sección §21-2-265 y Sección §21-2-266, se anuncia el siguiente cambio de lugar de votación propuesto.

008 Ubicación Actual: 12 Stone Church – Hamilton Mill 3858 Braselton Hwy Buford, GA 30519 Nueva Ubicación: Osborne Middle School 4404 Braselton Hwy Hoschton, GA 30548 Los mapas que muestran el cambio propuesto pueden ser vistos en la oficina de la Junta de Inscripción de Votantes y Elecciones del Condado de Gwinnett ubicada en 455 Grayson Highway, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046.

La Junta de Inscripciones y Elecciones del Condado de Gwinnett se reunirá el Martes, 21 de Enero del 2020 a las 6:00pm.

Cualquier persona que se oponga al cambio, según lo propuesto, debe presentar su objeción por escrito, por correo o en persona ante la Junta de Inscripciones y elecciones del Condado de Gwinnett, 455 Grayson Hwy, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, GA. 30046. Las objeciones deben presentarse antes de las 5:00pm del Martes, 21 de Enero del 2020.

Este 19 de Enero del 2020 Kristi Royston Supervisora de Elecciones

The Board adopted the following dates as its regular monthly business meeting calendar: January 23, 2020 (4th Thursday) February 20, 2020 March 19, 2020 April 16, 2020 May 14, 2020 (2nd Thursday) June 18, 2020 July 16, 2020 August 20, 2020 September 17, 2020 October 15, 2020 November 19, 2020 December 17, 2020 Approved at December 19, 2019, Board Meeting 928-628779, 1/8,12,15,19

PUBLIC NOTICE OF POLLING PLACE CHANGE PROPOSAL 2020-03 Pursuant to O.C.G.A. Sec. §21-2-265 and Sec. §21-2266, the following proposed polling place change is being advertised.

055 Current Location: American Legion Post 127 2640 Sawnee Ave Buford, GA 30518 New Location: Lanier Middle School 6482 Suwanee Dam Rd Buford, GA 30518 Maps showing the proposed change may be viewed in the office of the Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections located at 455 Grayson Highway, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046.

The Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections will meet on Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 6:00pm. Any person objecting to the change, as proposed, must file his or her objection in writing, by mail, or in person with the Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections, 455 Grayson Highway, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046. The objections must be filed by 5:00pm on Tuesday, January 21, 2020.

This 19th day of January, 2020 Kristi Royston Elections Supervisor A

AVISO PÚBLICO DE UN CAMBIO DE LUGAR DE VOTACIÓN PROPUESTA 2020-03 De conformidad con O.C.G.A Sección §21-2-265 y Sección §21-2-266, se anuncia el siguiente cambio de lugar de votación propuesto.

055 Ubicación Actual: American Legion Post 127 2640 Sawnee Ave Buford, GA 30518 Nueva Ubicación: Lanier Middle School 6482 Suwanee Dam Rd Buford, GA 30518 Los mapas que muestran el cambio propuesto pueden ser vistos en la oficina de la Junta de Inscripción de Votantes y Elecciones del Condado de Gwinnett ubicada en 455 Grayson Highway, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046.

La Junta de Inscripciones y Elecciones del Condado de Gwinnett se reunirá el Martes, 21 de Enero del 2020 a las 6:00pm.

Cualquier persona que se oponga al cambio, según lo propuesto, debe presentar su objeción por escrito, por correo o en persona ante la Junta de Inscripciones y elecciones del Condado de Gwinnett, 455 Grayson Hwy, Suite 200, Lawrenceville, GA. 30046. Las objeciones deben presentarse antes de las 5:00pm del Martes, 21 de Enero del 2020.

Este 19 de Enero del 2020 Kristi Royston Supervisora de Elecciones 917-629496, 1/19

PUBLIC HEARINGS NOTICE Public Hearings will be held at 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, GA 30071 before the following boards on the following dates and for the purpose of due process of the following: Norcross Planning and Zoning Board, Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 6:30 PM in Council Chambers Norcross Mayor and Council, Monday, February 17, 2020 at 6:30 PM in the Conference Room Norcross Mayor and Council, Monday, March 2, 2020 at 6:30 PM in Council Chambers Proposed text amendment to Chapter 300, Article III, Section 302 A of the Construction Codes Section of the Norcross Unified Development Ordinance for the purpose of adopting a new item 10. International Existing Building Code, by reference as an ordinance of the City.

For further information contact the Community Development Department at 678-421-2027 928-630338, 1/19,2/9 NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Notice is hereby given that the Gwinnett County Board of Education, meeting in official session, voted to hold its regular monthly business meetings for 2020 on the third Thursday of each month, with the exception of January (4th Thursday) and May (2nd Thursday). Meetings will be held at the school system’s J. Alvin Wilbanks Instructional Support Center, 437 Old Peachtree Road, NW, Suwanee, Georgia. All monthly business meetings begin at 7:00 p.m.

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS

NOTICE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: Extra Space Storage 2050 Gravel Springs Rd Buford, Ga 30519 on January 28,2020 at 12:00pm Dominique Montgomery A126 Household Items

Unit 1117–Warren Baggett–Household Goods Unit 1159–Jordan Wilson– Household Goods Unit 1164–Latisha Alonzo– Household Goods Unit 1176–Qaddafi Ali Alonzo–Household Goods Unit 1187–Cieara Randolph–Household Goods Unit 1193–Valerie Williams–Household Goods Unit 1205–Carla Gaskins– Household Goods Unit 2004–Gary Craig– Household Goods Unit 2055–Carlos Rivera– Household Goods Unit 2080–Linda Richardson–Household Goods unit 3041–Kathleen Otomewo–Household Goods Unit 3091–Sydni HarveyJenifer–Household Goods Unit 3150–Kimberly Terry– Household Goods Unit 3165–Josh Kelley– Household Goods Unit 3217–Kefu Aiken– Household Goods Unit 3251–Kimberly Terry– Household Goods The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-628039, 1/12,19

sectional couch, 3 flat screen TV’s, misc. household The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-628746, 1/12,19

clothes,etc...

410 Shontae Scott bedroom apt 045 Steve Weingartner Household Goods 392 Brodrick Baptiste Household Goods 116 James Patrick Household goods 128 Cheryl Brown clothing, toys 113 Kendall Wilson Washer/Dryer, Bike, etc 037 Michael Molina W a s h e r, dryer,tool,household furniture, etc....

499 Ashley Velez Washer/Dryer, household goods,etc...

245 Aujanae Galloway Clothes, Household items, etc...

334 Winide Lubin Bags, Boxes, Clothes, etc...

The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-628803, 1/12,19

NOTICE 3564 Lawrenceville Hwy Lawrenceville, Ga 30044 Auction January 29, 2020 @ 1:00 PM Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: Unit Number Account Name Description of Goods 3042 Keedric Cofer Sofa, Chair, household Goods 3066 Diana Martinez Contents of three bedroom home 0307 Theodora Backman Boxes and totes D410 Douglas Mckibbin Business Materials D400 King Keri Household Items 4100 Danielle Johnson Household Goods 0349 Calvin Erby Household items and furniture 3038 Chane Hazelett Dining set, 2 bedroom sets, 4022 Tia Shuler TV clothing lamps 2158 Janice Turner Household Items 4050 Victor Dickerson Furniture, bedroom, living room 3017 Keith Jackson Contents of a one bedroom, bounce house 3047 Tamika Goines 1 bed room, bed, dresser, washer/dryer, 20 boxes, bar, dining room table..

4071 Ethel Price household goods The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-629302, 1/12,19

Nathaniel Brown Unit C1100 Household Items Tracy Parsons Unit E622 Household Items April Angeles C2031 Household Items

ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE ADVERTISEMENT NOTICE (TOWING OR STORAGE COMPANY) You are hereby notified, in accordance with OCGA 4011-19 (a)(2), that each of the below-referenced vehicles are subject to a lien and a petitioner may be filed in court to foreclose a lien for all amounts owed. If the lien is foreclosed, a court shall order the sale of the vehicle to satisfy the debt.

The vehicles are currently located at Willard Wrecker Service 719 W Shadburn Avenue, Buford, GA 30518 The vehicles subject to liens as stated above are identified as: Vehicle Make: HYUNDAI Year: 2007 Model: SONATA Vehicle ID#: 5NPET46C17H239625 Vehicle License#: State: Vehicle Make: LAND ROVER Year: 2000 Model: RANGE ROVER Vehicle ID#: SALPV1642YA442082 Vehicle License#: CJW9087 State: NC Vehicle Make: HYUNDAI Year: 201 Model: SONATA Vehicle ID#: 5NPEB4AC9DH620788 Vehicle License#: NSL429 State: SC Vehicle Make: BMW Year: 20110 Model: I28I Vehicle ID#: WBAUP9C5XAVL89157 Vehicle License#: CKM6891 State: GA Vehicle Make: GMC Year: 2006 Model: CANYON Vehicle 1FTCS196468270234 Vehicle License#: State:

ID#:

Vehicle Make: DODGE Year: 1998 Model: GRAND CARAVAN Vehicle ID#: 1B4GP44G3WB556600 Vehicle License#: AD52567 State: IL Vehicle Make: HONDA Year: 1995 Model: CIVIC Vehicle ID#: JHMEG8654SS036881 Vehicle License#: State: Vehicle Make: LAND ROVER Year: 2008 Model: RANGE ROVER SPORT Vehicle ID#: SALSK25478A182806 Vehicle License#: State: Vehicle Make: LEXUS Year: 2008 Model: IS250 Vehicle ID#: SALSK25478A182806 Vehicle License#: State: Anyone with an ownership interest in any of these vehicles should contract the following business immediately: WILLARD WRECKER SERVICE 719 W. SHADBURN AVE BUFORD, GA 30518 770-945-7580 928-626429, 12/20,27

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION: The following vehicle(s) was declared abandoned and foreclosed, pursuant to OCGA section 40-11-5, and will be up for public auction at Tran’s Auto Repair, 4757 Buford Hwy, Norcross, Ga 30071, on 01/25/2020 at 4:00 pm.

2004 MAC TRAILER VIN: 5MADA27444C007971 1999 INTERNATIONAL 9100 SERIES VIN: 2HSFPAHN9XC093709 929-629494, 1/12,19

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Morningstar Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: Location: Morningstar Storage 2534 Sever Rd Lawrenceville, GA 30043 Sale Date: Monday January 27th 2020 Time: 1:00 PM Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Morningstar Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Unit 1025 Brittany Stephenson Household Items Unit 2081 Norman Patterson Household Items Unit 3092 Tomeca Mullen Household Items Unit 309798 Graciela Macias-Titirisca Household Items Unit 3201 Beatrice Woolen Household Items 929-630126, 1/19,26

Portia Marriott E730 Household Items Cleveland Lester Jr. A245 Household Items The Auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

Extra Space may refuse and bid and may rescind and purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-629188, 1/12,19 NOTICE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 1172 Auburn Road Dacula, Georgia 30019 on January 28th 2020 @ 10:00 AM Unit 1041 Aliyah Yisrael Office and some home items, boxes and small furniture pieces Unit 245 Elasha Germain Household items Unit 906 Jay Borman Household items Unit 609 Linda Ignobia Household items Unit 121 Ryan Bedwell Couches boxes, shelves Unit 702 Wykethia Allen Shoes and clothes Unit 255 Zola Nemorin Household goods Unit Paa 234 Stephanie Kelly Green Ford truck Unit 1017 Austin Waits House hold goods Unit 951 Adam Vidler household goods Unit 455 Rebecca Hancock Household items Unit Paa 227 Noah White Trailer/Car The auction will be listed, and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only, and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-627555, 1/12,19 NOTICE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: Extra Space Storage 2790 Braselton Hwy Dacula GA, 30019 on, Tuesday–Janauary 28, 2020 at 11:00 AM. 209 Chris Wirtzberger Beds, garage stuff 742 Angela Dickerson Furniture 632 Leanne Greer Household goods 450 Covenant Family Medical Group–Northside Hospital Inc Medical fixtures, Documents, Furniture 202 Wanda Mize Household Items (furniture) 702 Rhonda Watt Household items, totes 680 Gina Nolen Household items 152 Stacy Miller Furniture and Boxes 818 Abdul Mian Household Goods 902 Abdul Mian Household Goods The auction will be listed, and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cas only, and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-628031, 1/12,19 NOTICE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 4750 Nelson Brogdon Blvd., Sugar Hill, GA 30518 January 28th, 2020 at 3:00 PM Unit 673 Nissa Amin Clothing Unit 620 Rainey Bennett Household Items The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-628747, 1/12,19 NOTICE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 2920 Buford Drive, Buford, GA 30519, 678-4963439 on 01/28/2020 @ 1:00 PM Unit 1074–Sheena Carr– Household Goods Unit 1091–Emenike Agiriga–Household Goods U

NOTICE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 4755 Nelson Brogdon Blvd., Sugar Hill, GA 30518 January 28, 2020 at 4:00 PM Unit 648 Charleste Loving Household Items Unit 260 Judy Corbin 1 Bed, Boxes, & A Sofa Unit 282 Alexandra Welch Clothes Unit 670 Robert Lloyd Computers Unit 525 Robert Lloyd Chairs, Boxes, & Totes Unit 747 Greenland Lawns& Home Renovations Landscape Equipment Unit 520 Michael Higgins Household Items Unit 162 Eli Mata Household Items Unit 769 Eva Harris Household Items The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-628482, 1/12,19 STORAGE TREASURES AUCTION Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: Auction to be held on January the 28th, 2020 at 12 PM (noon) Extra Space Storage 2044 Old Norcross Road Lawrenceville GA 30044 Unit: 2c37 Milexy Vital Love Seat, washer, dryer, Side tables Unit: 550 Dale Kadar Furniture, table Unit: 334 Clyde Calhoun Beds, table, baby items Unit: 119 Lindsay King Dresser Patio furniture Unit: 108b Cassandra Upshur Sofa, Table, tv, washer, dryer Unit: 218 Melvin Fuentes Paint, Tolls Unit: 502c Donna McKenie Mattress Headboard Unit: 2c62 Jerome Johnson Clothes, shoes, books Unit: 505c Melvin Harris Chair, bed, Handtools Unit: 137 Pricilla Ricci Furniture, boxes, clothes Unit: 6c09 Lynitra Jeffers Matrress mirror Unit: 339 Charles Thompson New Cardboard Boxes Unit: 141 Franklin Harrison Beds, washer dryer, bikes Unit: 508b Ashley Douglas pots and pans, books Unit: 122 Robert Williamson Household items Unit: 345 Charles Thompson new mini blinds, blinds for all windows, ceiling fans The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-628567, 1/12,19 NOTICE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 4257 Buford Drive, Buford, GA 30518, January 28, 2020 at 2:00 PM George Obryant Unit 6236 2 sofas, end tables, 2 recliners, tables, dining room set, 1-bedroom set, misc. household Jonathan Wicknig Unit 406 4 bedroom home M2M Strategies Unit 8237 Christmas decorations, office supplies Mark Montini Unit 8237 Christmas decorations, office supplies Randi Anderson Unit 8237 Christmas decorations, office supplies Kimberly Jackson Unit 6254 mattress set, bookshelves, clothes, vanity, bakers rack, boxes James Wiggins Unit 702 boxes from mother’s place Audrey Conway Unit 6207 bedroom set, dresser, chest, 2 nightstands, leather

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 3357 Breckinridge Blvd.

Duluth, GA 30096, January 28, 2020 at 12:00PM Unit 0121 – Stephanie Myles – Household Items, Furniture Unit 1124 – Arundel Jones – Boxes, Totes, Computer, Clothes, Bags, Wooden Poles, Cooking Equipment, Board Games, Toys, Couch/ Loveseat, Tarps Unit 1136 – Violet McKenzie – Couch, Dresser, Books, Carpet Cleaner, Luggage, Kitchen Island, Mirror, Crutches, Kitchenware, VHS’s, Handbag, Mini-Fridge, Headboard, Dresser, Shoes Unit 2037 – Louisa Fuentes – Guitars, Ladders, Heater, Tools, Shelves, Luggage, Table, Bins Unit 2057 – Stephen Scott – Mattress, Microwave, TV, Wall Art, Clothes, Bags, Office Chairs, Chairs, Lamps, Shoes Unit 2114 - Adilluda Williams – Luggage, Vacuum, Pillows Unit 2123 – Jessie Mack – Bags, Books, Pictures, Table, Totes, Linen, Luggage, Vacuum, Step Ladder, Cleaning Supplies Unit 2408 – Jennifer Washington - Mattress, Books, Clothes, Toys, Ladder, Luggage, Cricket, Decorative Glassware, CD’s Unit 2708 – Neville Skeete Couch, Table, Boxes, Clothes, Wheelchair, Standing Punching Bag, China Cabinet, Shelves, Dining Room Chairs Unit 3004 – Stone Law Group, PC - Files, Filing Cabinet, Banker’s Boxes Unit 3053 – Kamise Figgers – Mattresses, Chairs, Totes, Boxes, Bedding, Box Springs, Mirror, Couch, Clothes, Organizers, Shoes, Handbags, Wall Décor Unit 3059 – Brenda Katumba – Dresser, Organizer, Chest of Drawers, Sleigh Bed Frame Unit 3116 – Dominique NcCray – Chair, Mattress, TV, Bags, Boxes, Toys, Stuffed Animals, Blow Up Mattress Unit 3148 – Gloria Woods – Computer, Mini-Fridge, Bags, Boxes, Totes, Kids Table, Christmas Decorations, Monitor Unit 3156 – Michell Pattman – Boxes, Totes, Baby Items, Cleaning Supplies, Heater, Cot, Luggage, Organizer Unit 3301 – Antonio Walton – Totes, Boxes, Bed Frame

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 840 Scenic Highway Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046 770-368-6545 January 29, 2020 @ 5:00 PM Layman Sherman Unit 1307 sofa, bedroom set, boxes, clothes, washer, dryer, pool table Dominque Coleman Unit 2046 living room, washer, dryer, 2 bedroom sets Douglas Brandal Unit 2102 Household items Denise Taylor Unit 2404 Washer, Dryer, fridge, stove, living room set, go cart, china cabinet Lauren King Unit 146 fridge, boxes, dishes Micha Wheeler Unit 3038 tv, clothes ,accessories, bed frame, treadmill Yvonne Davis Unit 1208 2 four poster beds, dresser, 2 night stands, table and 4 chairs, 4 patio chairs, 2 cabinets,king mattress, queen mattress, sofa Sade Powers Unit 1047 one bedroom apt, boxes, 2 couches, dining set and 4 chairs, lamp, showcase, washer and dryer The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-628486, 1/12,19

Unit 3315 – Patricia Turner – Mattress, Box Spring, Box Unit 3328 – Ahmed Torh, Jr. - Cat House, Clothes, Kitchenware, Vacuum Unit 3407 – David Hines – Books, Chairs, Desk, Tables Unit 3416 – Gary McElroy – Chair, Dresser, Totes, Turkey Frier, Exercise Equipment, Hutch, Luggage, Wall Art, Computer, Shredder Unit 3419 – Jessie Mack – Dresser, TV, Bags, Boxes, Clothes, Mini-Fridge, Hangers, Bins, VHS’s, Shoes, Air Fryer, Headboard, Glass Tabletop Unit 3500 – Lakeila Jaudon – Bags, Bookbag Unit 3707 – Debra Williams – Bed, Chair, Mattress, TV, Bags, Boxes, Clothes, Vacuum, Misc. Decor The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-628799, 1/12,19 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 3345 Medlock Bridge Road Norcross, Georgia 30092 to satisfy a lien on February 12, 2020 at approx. 2:00 P.M. at www. storagetreasures.com Cube# 1456- Norma Rebolledo-Romo Cube# 1431- Bryant D. Willis Cube#1132- Kelvin Deharvey Edwards Cube# 1202- Martha Marie Sims Cube# 1338- Simone Kari Washington Cube# 1605- Mathew Bryan Miller Cube# 1344- Freida Lynette Kelley Cube# 1422- William Harrison Robinson 929-628566, 1/19,26 NOTICE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 4400 Lawrenceville Hwy Lilburn, Ga 30047 January 29, 2020@ 12:00PM 199 Shane Kicker Household Goods 187 Carlos Davis

NOTICE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 98 Hurricane Shoals Rd NE Lawrenceville, GA 30046 January 29th, 2020 at 10 AM 1030 Luisa Mendoza sofa, 2 queen bedroom sets, 2 Tv’s, 2 night stands, entertainment center, boxes, totes, other misc household items 0323 C h a r l e s Thompson bedroom set, 2 sofas, tables, boxes, misc items CC025 Tracey Cash Tv, fireplace, boxes, dresser, paint sprayer CC081 Brandy Curry twin bed set, dinette set, sofa, love seat, boxes, pictures 0334 James Campos Boxes of bedding material 1233 Brenda Duckett household items 0307 CATEDRAL DE FE hosehold 0802 Kerry Ryle Totes,boxes, backpacks 0525 Michael Lawrence Sheppard household items 1062 Kenneth Taylor Household Items 0401 Desmond Tucker Household Items 1053 Beth Swift household items boxes and bags 1029 Kenya Hall Household Items The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-628034, 1/12,19 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE There will be sold at public outcry at: 5315 D BUFORD HWY DORAVILLE GA 30340 Month, Day, Year 12/27/19 Time: 1:00PM The following vehicle, declared abandoned and foreclosure vehicles pursuant to OCGA Section 40-11-5, as follows: Year, Make, Model: 2013 TOYOTA SCION FR-S VIN#: JF1ZNAA16D2711238 929-629473, 1/12,19

NOTICE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 2801 Berkeley Lake Rd, NW Duluth, GA 30096, January 29th, 2020 at 10:00 AM Unit 0535 Candice Whitt Household Goods Unit 0349 Duane Land Household Goods Unit 4414 Jenaya Brown boxes, clothes, etc...

Unit 3405 Simon Jones Jr Household Goods Unit 4412 Terris Lewis Boxes furniture Unit 4111 Justin Yarbrough Household Goods Unit 1309 Shameka Render Household Goods Unit 5402 Andrea Thompson Household Items and Clothing Unit 0703 Kang Hur Household Goods Unit 0419 Veronica Chaffin household goods, clothes and shoes.

Unit 3113 Diana Robinson household items, and furniture Unit 0224 Darnell Carston household goods Unit 0407 Kyle Cuevas refrigerator and household items Unit 5406 Anglise Carter Household Goods Unit 4109 Rotonda Watkins-Wise Household Goods The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-629435, 1/12,19 PUBLIC AUCTION Notice of Abandonment and Sale in accordance with the O.C.G.A. 40-11 the following vehicles have been declared abandoned and will be sold at Public Action to the highest and best bidder for cash only. The auction will be held on January 28, 2020 at 10:00 a.m., 2025 E Main St W, Snellville GA 30078; phone (678) 404-5051. Review 9:30a.m.

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ZONINGS GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2020 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2020 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 The following Rezoning, Change-in-Conditions, Special Use Permit and other items of business, located within Unincorporated Gwinnett County, are scheduled for public hearings as stated above. Site plans, legal descriptions, and other information are available in the office of the Planning Division, 446 West Crogan Street, Lawrenceville, Georgia. Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

RZC2020-00004, Applicant: MTH Enterprises, Inc., Owner: MTH Enterprises, Inc., Rezoning of Tax Parcel Nos. R6051 025 and 026, R-100 to C-2; Commercial Retail Uses (Buffer Reduction), 2100 Block of Rosedale Road and 3200 Block of Stone Mountain Highway, 0.96 Acre. District 3/Hunter RZM2020-00004, Applicant: Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP, Owner: BCLS

ZONINGS Capital, LLC, Rezoning of Tax Parcel Nos. R7157 030 and 102, C-2 and M-1 to HRR; High-Rise Residential, 6600 Block of Sugarloaf Parkway, 7.38 Acres. District 1/Brooks RZM2020-00005, Applicant: Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP, Owner: Timothy S. Landers, Rezoning of Tax Parcel No. R5138 014, C-1 to RM-24; Apartments, 500 Block of Webb Gin House Road, 13.23 Acres. District 3/Hunter RZM2020-00009, Applicant: Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP, Owner: Timothy S. Landers, Rezoning of Tax Parcel No. R5138 014, C-1 to R-TH; Townhomes, 500 Block of Webb Gin House Road, 3.96 Acres. District 3/ Hunter RZM2020-00006, Applicant: Commonwealth Development Corporation, Owner: Rockland Acquisitions, LLC, Rezoning of Tax Parcel Nos. R6010 004 and 061, R-100 and C-2 to RM-13; Apartments, 8000 Block of South Rockbridge Road, 18.37 Acres. District 3/Hunter RZR2020-00006, Applicant: Richardson Housing Group, Owner: Estate of Mary Petrich, Rezoning of Tax Parcel Nos. R6158B005, 006, 007, 008 and 009, R-75 to TND; Traditional Neighborhood Development, 4400 Block of Vernon Street and 4300 Block of Shady Drive, 5.14 Acres. District 2/Ku RZR2020-00007, Applicant: Richardson Housing Group, Owner: Richardson Housing Group, Rezoning of Tax Parcel Nos. R6158B012, 013, 014 and 015, R-75 to TND; Traditional Neighborhood Development, 4400 Block of Vernon Street, 4300 Block of Shady Drive and 700 Block of Freeman Drive, 5.81 Acres. District 2/Ku CIC2020-00005, Applicant: AM Realty GA, LLC, Owner: AM Realty GA, LLC, Tax Parcel No. R6207 010, Change in Conditions of Zoning for Property Zoned C-3, 3200 Block of Commerce Avenue, 1.99 Acres. District 1/Brooks CIC2020-00006, Applicant: Wilmer E. Sanabria, Owner: New York Upholstery, Tax Parcel No. R5074 296, Change in Conditions of Zoning for Property Zoned O-I, 1400 Block of Scenic Highway, 0.41 Acre. District 3/Hunter CIC2020-00008, Applicant: GS&T Properties, LLC, Owner: GS&T Properties, LLC, Tax Parcel No. R7168 036, Change in Conditions of Zoning (Buffer Reduction) for Property Zoned M-1, 500 Block of Satellite Boulevard and 3200 Block of McGinnis Ferry Road, 7.49 Acres. District 1/Brooks CIC2020-00009, Applicant: Clayton Properties Group, Inc. dba Chafin Builder, Owner: Clayton Properties Group, Inc. dba Chafin Builder, Tax Parcel Nos. R5169 002 and R5184 022, Change in Conditions of Zoning for Property Zoned OSC, 1600 Block of Chandler Road and 1700 Block of Sharpton Trail, 70.15 Acres. District 3/ Hunter CIC2020-00010, Applicant: Manor Restorations, LLC, Owner: H2J Investments, LLLP, Tax Parcel No. R5325 007, Change in Conditions of Zoning for Property Zoned OSC, 3100 Block of Bold Springs Road and 2700 Block of Jones Phillips Road, 53.67 Acres. District 3/ Hunter SUP2020-00009, Applicant: Sylanna Williams, Owner: Sylanna Williams, Tax Parcel No. R5123 045, Application for a Special Use Permit in a R-100 Zoning District for a Family Personal Care Home, 2400 Block of Rosebud Road, 2.44 Acres.

District 3/Hunter SUP2020-00010, Applicant: Recovery Foundations Inc., Owner: Frank Darius, Tax Parcel No. R5018 006A, Application for a Special Use Permit in a C-2 Zoning District for a Residential Rehabilitation Center, 2400 Block of Lawrenceville Highway, 0.27 Acre. District 4/Fosque SUP2020-00011, Applicant: Bettina S. Bland, Owner: Juanita S. Holloway, Tax Parcel No. R5140 191, Application for a Special Use Permit in a R-75 Zoning District for a Home Occupation (Hair Salon), 300 Block of Black Oak Court, 0.40 Acre.

District 4/Fosque SUP2020-00012, Applicant: Belal Bakhtyar, Owner: Ali Dhannani, Tax Parcel No. R7004 001, Application for a Special Use Permit in a C-2 Zoning District for a Hookah Lounge, 1800 Block of Old Norcross Road, 3.06 Acres.

District 4/Fosque SUP2020-00013, Applicant: Xiao Jun Wen, Owner: G. Todd Tyson, Tax Parcel No. R6210 026, Application for a Special Use Permit in a M-1 Zoning District for an Adult Day Care Facility, 1800 Block of Shackleford Court and 1800 Block of Shackleford Road, 1.76 Acres. District 1/ Brooks P&D PC/BOC 2-4 & 2-25 934-630326, 1/19 CITY OF DULUTH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held before the City of Duluth Planning Commission to consider a request from McKinley Homes US, LLC, to rezone approximately 8.58 acres of property in Land Lot 2434, 7th District, Gwinnett County, consisting of tax parcels R7244 438 and 7244 002 from C-2 (General Business District) to RM (Residential MultiFamily District) to allow for the construction of a residential neighborhood consisting of 70 single-family attached homes (townhomes).

The public is invited to attend this hearing before the Planning Commission on the proposed rezoning at Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, Georgia 30096. The meeting date, place and time regarding this matter are as follows: WHEN: February 3, 2020 - 6:00 p.m.

WHERE: City Hall Council Chambers 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 PERSONS INTERESTED IN THIS MATTER are invited to review the prop

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ZONINGS posed rezoning, which is on file with the Department of Planning & Development of the City of Duluth and to attend the public hearing at the date, time and place provided in this notice, to express their opinion on this matter. Written comments may also be received in lieu of testimony during the public hearing.

Written comments may be sent to the following address: City of Duluth ATTN: Daniel Robinson 3167 Main Street Duluth, GA 30096 OR Email: drobinson@duluthga. net For more information, contact Daniel Robinson, Planning & Development, at (770)476-1790. ********************* ********************** ********************** ******** In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the City of Duluth is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for a person with a disability.

Please contact Teresa Lynn at (770) 476-3434 if special program accommodations are necessary and/or if program information is needed in an alternative format. Special requests must be made in a reasonable amount of time in order that accommodations can be arranged.

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AUBURN Carl House showcases amenities planning a wedding? Stop by carl House between 1 and 3 p.m. Feb. 9 to explore the property and meet wedding vendors. the carl House experience will also feature samples from the menu prepared by the venue’s executive chef, alan rabideau. tickets are $12 and can be purchased online at carlhouse. com/carl-house-experience. carl House is located at 1176 atlanta Highway in auburn. For more information, call 770-5860095.

BARROW COUNTY Farm Bureau honors Statham Elementary teacher Statham elementary School teacher diana cole was selected as the 2019 georgia Farm Bureau teacher of the year. cole has blended her 34 years as a teacher with her passion for agriculture education, nurturing and growing the Farm to School program, according to a news release. She built raised garden beds where students can grow their own fruits and vegetables and then eat them in the cafeteria. She also organizes an agmazing annual Farm week at Statham elementary.

“She’s one of a kind,” said Staci waters, the Barrow county Farm Bureau insurance office manager, who nominated cole for the award. “the love and passion mrs. cole has for agriculture is apparent in everything she does.”

Statham elementary School principal Salethia James said she is proud of cole’s accomplishments. “diana cole has positively impacted Statham elementary School, the Statham community, Barrow county School System and the entire state of georgia with her tremendous efforts with agriculture education,” James said.

BERKELEY LAKE BLOSOMS to meet Tuesday the Berkeley lake organized Society of mud Slingers will meet at 7 p.m. tuesday at lake Berkeley chapel, 4043 S. Berkeley lake road.

BloSomS is a service and fellowship organization for women in the Berkeley lake community. the group meets monthly from September through may. annual dues are $50, and new members can join anytime. in addition to the monthly meetings, members can also participate in special interest groups, such as a book club, crafters, gamers or line dancing.

For more information about the organization, email copresident roni pridemore at ronipride@gmail.com or copresident Shelley waxweiler at shelwax@gmail.com.

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A $10,000 Jackson EMC Foundation check to Just People will help purchase a vehicle for transporting individuals to work and programming. above: Adam Duncan, Jackson EMC residential energy advisor, and Jim Puckett, Jackson EMC Foundation board member (far left) present the check to Just People staff and individuals served by the organization.

Jackson EMC Foundation awards $73K to agencies serving Gwinnett area residents

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The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded $103,005 in grants during its December meeting, including $73,000 that will benefit organizations serving Gwinnett County.

The grants awarded to Gwinnett area nonprofits are as follows: ♦ $15,000 to Hi-Hope Service Center, Inc., in Lawrenceville, to help fund part-time nursing and nutrition services for 20 developmentally disabled Gwinnett residents who require onsite nursing care for services such as daily medication, insulin, blood checks and specialized medical treatment. ♦ $12,000 to Sandy Creek Nature Center, in Athens, to help construct an outdoor play and exploration area for children throughout the Jackson EMC service area to enjoy when visiting the 225 acres of educational and recreational facilities. ♦ $10,000 to Eyes of Love Lighthouse Mission, Inc., in Buford, a grassroots ministry that collects and distributes clothes, food and or to shop, visit www. bufordwolvesden.com. email wolvesden@bufordcityschools. org with questions.

furniture to needy families in Barrow, Gwinnett and Hall counties, to help with rent on the building housing the mission’s inventory. ♦ $10,000 to Junior Achievement of Georgia, Inc., for program materials, support materials and supplies for the JA Biztown and JA Finance Park interactive programs at Discovery High School to teach Gwinnett County middle school students the concepts of financial literacy, business, entrepreneurship and career readiness. ♦ $10,000 to Just People, a nonprofit organization serving adults with developmental disabilities, head injuries and mental illness in Gwinnett and Hall counties, to help purchase a vehicle to transport individuals to work and day programming. ♦ $10,000 to Mending the Gap, a Lawrenceville-based nonprofit organization serving the basic needs of low-income seniors, for its Save Our Seniors Project, which delivers a monthly care package of nutritious food, personal care items, cleaning supplies and toiletries. ♦ $6,000 to Norcross Meals on Wheels, which

mayor from 1996 to 2003 and currently serves as the council’s mayor pro tem.

Batterton, a 1976 graduate of the emory university School DACULA of dentistry, has maintained a Mito-Avengers 5K planned at dental practice in lilburn since Little Mulberry 1979. He is a member of the the mito-avengers 5K and LAWRENCEVILLE gwinnett Bible chapel and a Fun run will take place Feb. 16 Sanitation customers 1988 graduate of leadership at little mulberry park in dacula. to get new trash carts gwinnett, in addition to early bird registration for the the city of lawrenceville will attending the 2001 regional 5K is $23 through Feb. 1. after provide new 95-gallon roll-out leadership institute, according Feb. 1, the price will increase style trash carts the week of to the city’s website. to $25. the fee for the Fun run Jan. 27 to its current sanitation Batterton retired from his is $17. customers for curbside collection duties as a lieutenant colonel proceeds from the event of solid household waste. in the georgia national guard about 8,000 carts will be will go to the family of austin and was previously a member delivered by sanitation crews turner, an eight-year-old with a of the northeast georgia police throughout the week, according academy advisory Board. mitochondrial disease to a news release. the 5K will begin at 2 p.m., He currently serves as police “Sanitation service is provided department chaplain. and the Fun run is slated by the city to both residential and for 3 p.m. participants are For more information, visit BRASELTON commercial customers,” mayor cityoflilburn.com.

Braselton council members encouraged to dress as their david Still said in the news favorite superhero. take oaths LOGANVILLE release. “the city has made a little mulberry park is located two members of the Braselton Spaghetti dinner to raise significant investment in quality at 3855 Fence road in dacula. town council took their oaths funds for Special Olympics trash carts to better serve our For more information or to of office on Jan. 9, before the a spaghetti dinner sanitation customers, to increase register, visit fundracers.org. town’s first work session of the benefitting walton county efficiency and safety for our year.

DULUTH Special olympics will be served employees, and to improve the mayor Bill orr administered Mayor to deliver state from 4 to 7 p.m. Feb. 1 at appearance of our city.” the oaths to Becky richardson, of the city at BDLTH Show loganville Baptist church, 132 the new carts were who began her second term, and duluth mayor nancy Harris church St. in loganville. manufactured locally by rehrig James c. “Jim” Joedecke Jr., will provide her annual state of a meal including spaghetti, pacifici and will be delivered to who was elected in november, the city address at the BdltH bread, salad, drink and dessert each residence and business according to a news release.

(Be duluth) Show at 7 p.m. is $7. according to the regular trash each member of the town Jan. 27 at the red clay music tickets will be available schedule. there are no changes council serves four-year terms.

Foundry. at the door. they can also to recycling services or trash council meetings are held the the doors will open at 6 p.m., pick-up schedules. be purchased in advance by second monday of each month and seats are available on a emailing beafanwalton@yahoo. “our public works Staff has in the municipal courtroom. first-come, first-served basis. com. been working on this project for Harris will talk about what the many months,” city manager BUFORD NORCROSS city accomplished in 2019 and chuck warbington said. “we are Buford High’s Wolves Den City to sell Summer Concert what’s coming up in 2020. grateful to the city council for opens online Series tables the address will take the allocating the funds and looking Buford High School’s wolves mark your calendars. the place of the regularly scheduled forward to seeing it come to den is now available online. city of norcross will open sales council work session. the school-based enterprise fruition for our community and for Summer concert Series the red clay music Foundry sells Buford spirit wear and for our employees.” tables at 9 a.m. march 2. is located at 3116 main St. in accessories for students and For more information, norcross residents who duluth. their family members. visit lawrencevillega.org/ purchase tables for all eight For more information, visit proceeds from the school newtrashcarts. concerts will be able to make www.duluthga.net. store benefit the school’s purchases between 9 and LILBURN marketing and deca students.

GRAYSON 11 a.m. after 11 a.m., the City Council deca, formerly distributive Seeking employment, resume sales will open to the general honors Batterton education clubs of america, assistance or information public. the city of lilburn has prepares emerging leaders and about training opportunities? designated Jan. 8 of each year a table of six is $70 per entrepreneurs in marketing, then climb aboard the mobile as dr. S. Scott Batterton day. concert, and a table of eight is finance, hospitality and career lab with atlanta regional $80 per concert.

Batterton has served on management in high schools and colleges worldwide.

For more information, visit the lilburn city council since workSource georgia to receive For more information norcrossga.net.

1984. He was the city’s assistance from a professional human resource specialist. the mobile career lab will be at the grayson library, 700 grayson parkway, from 9:30 a.m. to noon thursday.

For more information, visit gwinnettpl.org.

serves Norcross, Peachtree Corners, Duluth and Berkeley Lake communities in Gwinnett County, to help deliver hot, nutritious, midday meals five days per week to home-bound or disabled senior citizens.

According to company officials, Jackson EMC Foundation grants are made possible by the 194,463 participating cooperative members who have their monthly electric bills rounded to the next dollar amount through the Operation Round Up program. Their “spare change” has funded 1,468 grants to organizations and 385 grants to individuals, putting more than $15 million back into local communities since the program began in 2005.

Any individual or charitable organization in the 10 counties served by Jackson EMC (Clarke, Banks, Barrow, Franklin, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison and Oglethorpe) may apply for a Foundation grant by completing an application, available online at www. jacksonemc.com/foundation-apply or at local Jackson EMC offices. Applicants do not need to be a member of Jackson EMC.

PEACHTREE CORNERS Sadd to host town hall meeting peachtree corners councilman phil Sadd is hosting a town hall meeting at 7 p.m. tuesday at winters chapel united methodist church, 5105 winters chapel road in peachtree corners. issues to be discussed include the Spalding drive widening and Holcomb Bridge intersection improvements, crime prevention initiatives, town center upcoming projects, curiosity lab autonomous vehicle test track and redevelopment efforts. “if you’ve ever driven on Spalding drive between winters chapel road and Holcomb Bridge road during rush hour, you’ve probably experienced significant delays and extended wait times,” Sadd said in a news release. “at the town hall meeting, we will provide an overview of the Spalding drive project and explain how it will help improve traffic flow and increase pedestrian safety. “this project will bring incredible improvements to our city, and we want to provide our citizens an opportunity to understand the plans and ask questions. in addition, we will provide updates on other key activities taking place throughout our city.” the peachtree corners mayor and council members, as well as other elected officials with common jurisdiction, will be in attendance to inform citizens of key matters impacting the community. the town hall meeting will include an open question-and-answer session, giving citizens an opportunity to voice concerns and ask questions of their local representatives. the town hall meeting is open to all citizens.

SNELLVILLE St. Oliver Plunkett wins Festival of Trees St. oliver plunkett catholic church was named the winner for the fourth consecutive

year in the Snellville’s annual Festival of trees. the “Spice people” ministry decorated the tree. the winner had to have the most donated items under their tree, which were counted along with online donations. each $1 donated online registered as a vote in the contest.

Just Fitness 4u came in second place. other participants included the Snellville Historical Society, the Snellville lions club, the daughters of the american revolution, dianah’s dynamic divas Jewelry and children’s Healthcare of atlanta. to see images of the trees, visit snellvilletourism.com/ component/k2/item/433annual-festival-of-trees.

SUGAR HILL Volunteer of Year, Community Champion honored Sugar Hill recently recognized Kathryn Baskin as the city’s Volunteer of the year for her work with the Sugar Hill Historic preservation Society and Sugar Hill area women’s club.

Steve graessle was also honored as the community champion for his work with the Sugar Hill community garden and Friends of the greenway.

For more information, visit cityofsugarhill.com SUWANEE Suwanee Sweetheart 5K planned love to run? the ninth annual Suwanee Sweetheart 5K is at 10 a.m. Feb. 15. the rotary club of Buford/ north gwinnett sponsors the annual Valentine’s daythemed race. proceeds from the event will benefit rotary club scholarships and other charities. the event will feature several prizes, including a prize for the fastest dog. registration is $30.

For more information, visit suwaneesweetheartsprint.com.

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