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Employee shot multiple times during robbery survives attack CAILIN O’BRIEN cailin.obrien@gwinnettdailypost.com

Two newer trucks join the fleet to be ready for any inclement weather on Thursday afternoon at the GDOT service barn in Lawrenceville. (Photos: Karl L. Moore)

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A Tucker convenience store owner who was shot once in the hand, once in the arm and twice in the head was able to walk to a stretcher after he was robbed Sunday.

Gwinnett County Police Department Cpl. Michele Pihera said the 37-year-old employee from Norcross was alone at the Discount Grocery Store on Lawrenceville Highway when three black men came in pointing guns at him.

The men were wearing orange bandanas and appeared to be 18 to 20 years old, according to the police report. All appeared to be armed with handguns.

The employee fought back. He said he “struggled with one of the suspects” near the cash register behind the counter.

“The suspect pistol-whipped him in the head,” Pihera said. “The employee grabbed his own handgun from behind the counter and tried to shoot the suspects.”

The employee told responding officers he shot his gun twice, but he wasn’t sure whether he’d hit any of the men. That’s See SHOT, Page 7A

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On Thursday, Gwinnett County officials had a common message for residents about this weekend’s expected snowfall: Be prepared ,and stay safe.

The National Weather Service is predicting as much as 6 inches of snow will fall in northern Gwinnett and a strip from Lawrenceville to Centerville between Tonight and Saturday. Other parts of the county are expected to receive up to 4 inches.

That prompted a wave of warnings from county and state officials on Thursday afternoon as preparations for the storm began.

“We urge people to pay attention to these winter weather warnings and adhere to them, take them seriously and plan today,” Gwinnett Police Cpl. Deon Washington said before the meeting. “Don’t wait until (Friday), don’t wait until this weekend.

More importantly, we ask people to stay off the roadways so that emergency personnel can do their jobs.

“We don’t want to unnecessarily create an emergency when you could have stayed at home.”

Weather forecasters are expecting a mixture of different

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types of precipitation to fall on Gwinnett and the rest of north Georgia between this morning and Saturday afternoon.

Gov. Nathan Deal is expected to declare a state of emergency for Gwinnett and 78 other counties at noon Friday. He is ordering state agencies to be prepared for up to 4 inches of snow based on recommendations from the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency.

The declaration was announced a day early to give residents and business owners a chance to get ready for the storm, the governor’s office said.

“We will continue monitoring the forecast models and make appropriate adjustments as necessary,” Deal said in a statement. “Georgians should stay calm, make the appropriate preparations and stay aware of a potential change in weather conditions.”

National Weather Service meteorologist Sid King said the area will first see rain during the day Today. That is expected to turn into a wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow in the afternoon, and then switch over fully to snow in

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GDOT supervisor Rober Martin talks about the amount of salt on hand that is ready for use Thursday afternoon at the GDOT service barn in Lawrenceville.

the early evening.

King said the temperatures are expected to fluctuate between the high teens, the mid-20s and mid-30s throughout the weekend, creating the possibility that hazardous conditions could repeatedly form on local roads. The temperatures aren’t expected to consistently stay above freezing until Tuesday afternoon, he said.

“We may have snow melting during the day and then it may refreeze over night,” King said.

“This may create a black ice situ-

ation on the roads.”

Getting roads ready for snow and ice Gwinnett County and state transportation officials spent Thursday preparing to spread brine as well as salt and sand mixtures on the roadways. State and county crews were expected to begin pre-treating roads Thursday night.

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A Suwanee woman is more than a recent Georgia Tech grad who happens to jump out of airplanes.

Rachael Blackstone earned her bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering in December after she helped develop a part for a machine that offers a more effective, less painful way to detect breast cancer early.

She skydives to relieve stress when she’s not applying what she learned before walking across the stage in December to help save lives.

Blackstone and her three classmates — collectively called “Next Breast Thing” — worked on a senior project to combat the the most common form of cancer in women.

“One in eight women Rachael will be diagnosed with Blackstone breast cancer,” Blackstone said. “The biggest fight we have isn’t finding a cure; it’s going and getting screening. It’s not enjoyable, but breast cancer is very survivable when detected at an early stage.”

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GCPS to expand STEM, project-based learning programs

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of science, said the school district Two of the most complans to mon buzz words and expand phrases in education its gains these days are STEM and in these Jonathon project-based learning. areas beWetherington And thanks to a $1.2 yond the million grant, teachers original 49 in Gwinnett accelerated schools that volunteered those programs in local to participate. schools.

“As we think about The two-year grant scaling the grant, … took affect in 2014 and we’re going to use the results from the program opportunity this grant it paid for were reported provided us on learnlast month to the Gwining experiences to really nett School Board. The accelerate and continue returns were positive, the movement in STEM and Jonathon Wetherand STEAM in the ington, Gwinnett County district,” said WetherPublic Schools’ director ington, referring to the

common acronyms that stand for science, technology, engineering and math and STEAM, which adds arts. “We’re looking to continue to leverage these teachers and these schools to expand robotics and coding.”

The money came from the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement.

The original vision of the program was to target teachers and administrators in schools, and it provided four days of professional learning, a stipend, the purchase of technology resources and development and implementation of STEMbased project-based learning.

Former Winn Holt Elementary Principal Jim Curtiss served as a mentor leader for the program, and offered feedback to principals and assistant principals.

Wetherington described learning through STEM as moving away from teachers lecturing and students completing worksheets, and more toward hands-on integrated lessons.

“We are providing the context for students to learn math and science and integrate them together and apply their knowledge in new and powerful ways,” he said.

“It’s a very exciting thing to see students take

knowledge that they’ve traditionally seen on a whiteboard or handouts, and really transform that into hands-on work.”

Wetherington said students in STEM-focused classrooms outperformed their peers in traditional classrooms by 11 percent in algebra, 13 percent in geometry and nine percent in biology. But he said performance was also reflected in engagement, and district officials saw significant gains in motivation and self-advocacy.

“We really want students to become selfreliant, problem solvers and critical thinkers,” he said. “That translated

not only to engagement from the students, but actual student achievement. We’re very proud of that.”

While the grant program ended last month, Wetherington said the district will continue it this semester and spread what was learned across the district. It already used residual grant funds to double the resource kit amount in schools from $3,000 to $6,000.

The expansion will include additional training for teachers, development of a STEM Innovators Academy, a STEM/STEAM Teachers Advisory Panel and a STEM endorsement.

Old Peachtree Road in Suwannee. Rutledge said A fire destroyed one both cars belonged to car and damaged several firefighters working at Several cars were bro- the station at the time. others at an automotive ken into at two different service area in Lilburn The fire department Gwinnett County fire before dawn Thursday encourages all on-duty stations Jan. 2. morning. personnel to be aware The alarm monitoring It’s unclear whether of valuables left in their company called 911 to the break-ins are related cars and to lock their report the fire at Stone to each other at this time, doors. Rutledge said the Mountain Nissan on said Gwinnett Firefighter department is looking Stone Mountain Highway Captain Tommy Rutinto other ways to safeThursday at 2:09 a.m. ledge. guard vehicles parked at Firefighters found heavy The cars were broken the station against theft. black smoke coming into that night at Fire “Whether they occur from the bay doors of the Fire crews put out a blaze at Stone Mountain Nissan on Station No. 9 on Five at a fire station, shopbuilding. Inside, they saw Stone Mountain Highway Jan. 5 at 2:09 a.m. (Courtesy: Forks Trickum Road ping center or private Gwinnett County Department of Fire and Emergency in Lawrenceville and a car burning “with exresidence, these types posure to other vehicles,” Services) Fire Station No. 21 on of crimes are unnerving said. compartment of the car said Gwinnett County They were able to con- crews found burning, Firefighter Capt. Tommy trol the flames by 2:36 but the exact cause is Rutledge.

“Firefighters worked a.m. still under investigation. fast and kept the fire The fire investigator The business was closed from spreading to the said the fire seems to at the time and officials showroom and office,” he have started in the engine have reported no injuries.

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and have no place in our society,” he said.

Rutledge also said the fire department will work closely with the police department to make sure the suspect or suspects are caught.

“Those responsible for such acts demonstrate a lack of respect for the personal property of others, especially those who are serving and protecting the community,” he said.

Rutledge asks anybody with information on the break-ins to contact Gwinnett County PD.

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Fire causes damage at local Multiple cars broken into at 2 Gwinnett County fire stations automotive service shop FROM STAFF REPORTS

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Grant helps GCPS guide over-age eighth-graders to graduation date

Governor honors 28 Gwinnett schools

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platinum award in greatest gains.

The school awards, developed by GOSA and Gwinnett doubled approved by the Georgia the number of award Board of Education, are schools honored by Gov. a part of Georgia’s SinNathan Deal in his latgle Statewide Accountest performance report ability System. Highest released on Thursday Performing schools about public schools must earn a three-year across the state. average College and Deal, along with Career Ready Perforthe Governor’s Office mance Index Achieveof Student Achievement Score that ranks ment, announced that in at least the 93rd 218 Georgia public percentile. Greatest schools in 53 districts Gains schools must earn will receive the Highest a three-year average Performing or Greatest CCRPI Progress Score Gains school awards, an that ranks in at least the increase of 28 schools 93rd percentile. from last year. Gwinnett Also released on County had the largThursday was the 2015est increase in award 16 update to the School schools with 26 schools Reports website, which in Gwinnett County shows interactive school Public Schools, comperformance reports for pared to 13 in 2015. all public elementary, Buford High received middle and high schools a platinum award in the in Georgia. GOSA greatest gains category, also updated the list and a gold in highest of “chronically failing performing. Buford schools,” which now has Middle also received a 153 schools in 35 diskeith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

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As Gwinnett County Public Schools has put a focus on making sure overage eighth-graders graduate on time with their peers, the grant money has poured in.

It began with $1.4 million in 2012, then nearly $200,000 in 2014 and recently, $300,000, all to support what GCPS calls its “Gear Up for Graduation” program, about 50 percent funded by the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement.

Nikki Mouton, executive director of curriculum and instruction at GCPS, said research shows that the more time that children spend behind their cohorts, the less likely that they will graduate on time. Many of the students are 14- and 15-year-olds in eighthgrade classrooms.

The program began during the 2011-12 school year at Sweetwater Middle, and has since expanded to Moore Middle, Radloff Middle and Lilburn Middle. Next school year, it’s expected to include Summerour Middle and an additional 372 students on top of the 717 already counted in the program.

The areas served as largely in the central and southwestern areas of Gwinnett.

In the first group at Sweetwater, 66 percent of students graduated on time, or in three years, at Berkmar High School.

Of that group, 56 percent were boys and 80 percent were on free or reducedprice lunch. In the second group at Sweetwater and Moore, 49 percent gradu-

A program to help over-age eighth-graders in Gwinnett began during the 2011-12 school year at Sweetwater Middle, and has since expanded to Moore Middle, Radloff Middle and Lilburn Middle. Next school year, it’s expected to include Summerour Middle and an additional 372 students on top of the 717 already counted in the program. (File Photo)

ated in May and another 11 percent are expected to graduate this spring, as 59 percent are boys and 95 percent of that group are on free or reduced-priced lunch.

The third group entered high school in 2014 from Sweetwater, Moore and Radloff, and 154 of the 218 remain enrolled in GCPS and have earned an average of 17.2 credits. In that group, 66 percent are expected to graduate in 2017 and 27 percent in 2018.

Mouton said it consists of several non-negotiable core components, including a family commitment and attendance and behavior responsibilities. Because it’s the equivalent of two school years in one, it’s critical to avoid any hiccups.

“When you miss a day of school,” Mouton told the School Board last month,

“you’re missing a lot of work.”

The program includes mandatory after-school and Saturday tutoring. It generally has small class sizes, and some individual computers are available, although it’s not a one-toone ratio.

“They spend time with their counselors and with their teachers talking about their own goals and goal-setting and being in charge of my own learning,” Mouton said. “That teacher-student relationship is huge.”

The core courses offered are eighth- and ninth-grade language arts, Algebra 1, Algebra 1 strategies, physical science, eighthgrade social studies/world geography, online introduction to health care science and online health. That gives students 6.5 Carnegie credits.

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tricts, an increase of 26 schools since last year.

None are in Gwinnett.

“I congratulate all of the students, teachers and administrators in Georgia’s awardwinning schools who worked tirelessly toward these accomplishments,” Deal said in a statement.

“We must continue to equip Georgia citizens with updated information and tools like the Georgia School Reports website in order to allow parents and students to better understand school performance. The bright minds of Georgia’s students are the state’s most precious resource, and I commend the schools that are exceeding expectations in preparing their students for future success.”

Other Gwinnett schools honored were Arcado Elementary, Brookwood Elementary, Brookwood High, Camp Creek Elementary, Couch Middle, Crews Middle, Five Forks Middle, Gwin Oaks Middle, the Gwinnett School of Math, Science and Technology, Head Elementary, Hull Middle, Jenkins Elementary, Level Creek Elementary, Mill Creek High, Mulberry Elementary, North Gwinnett High, North Gwinnett Middle, Osborne Middle, Parsons Elementary, Puckett’s Mill Elementary, Riverside Elementary, Roberts Elementary, Simpson Elementary, Sugar Hill Elementary, Suwanee Elementary and Twin Rivers Middle.

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Several fruits are good for the home garden Many homeowners enjoy growing fruit trees, which provide fruit that can be eaten fresh, used for baking, for preserving, and in ice cream.

Some are easier to grow than others, but all require appropriate care for the bearing of fruit.

Blueberries, blackberries, and figs, which require minimal maintenance and have few pest problems are best suited for the home garden.

Blueberries are a native to Georgia. They produce small blue to black colored berries during the summer. The plants require acidic soils with a pH of 4.5 to 5.5.

The plants have a multitude of uses in the landscape: they can be grown as a hedge to screen out unsightly views, to line driveways and side yards, and to serve as a barrier.

Most importantly, blue-

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Tim Daly berries provide delicious fruit during the summer months and have many culinary uses.

There are three types of blueberries grown in Georgia: northern highbush, southern highbush, and rabbiteye blueberries, which are the best suited for the home landscape. The other two are used for commercial production. Blueberries are not self-fruitful meaning they require the planting of a minimum of two varieties that

bloom at the same time for cross-pollination and the setting of fruit.

Early season varieties of rabbiteye blueberries include Climax, and Premier, midseason varieties such as Brightwell and Powderblue, and late season varieties Delite, and Tiftblue.

There are two types of blackberries: upright and trailing varieties. The upright varieties can be planted as a shrub and used to form a hedge.

The trailing ones form long vines that need to be supported on a trellis or some other structure.

The erect varieties may or may not have thorns, but the trailing ones do.

Among the most popular are ‘Arapaho,’ which produces large fruit early in the season, and ‘Navajo,’ which produce medium sized fruit in the midseason. Both are erect

and thornless.

The first year, blackberry plants form shoots that are referred to as primocanes consisting of vegetative growth. In the second year, the shoots become floricanes, which produce flowers and fruit. After harvesting the fruit, remove the floricanes since they will no longer produce fruit. Blackberries of all types have a tendency to form suckers from their roots. Remove them so the plant can devote its resources to producing healthy growth and abundant quality fruit. Unlike blueberries, they do not require the planting of two varieties to produce fruit.

Figs are relatively easy to grow. They need full sun and fertile, welldrained soil. The plants can grow 20 to 30 feet in height; however, pruning

the trees in late winter will help keep them manageable. Some of the most popular varieties are ‘Celeste,’ which has light brown to small violet fruit, ‘Brown Turkey,’ which has a larger bronze colored fruit and ‘LSU Purple’ with medium reddish to purple colored fruit. They do not require another variety for cross pollination. One drawback is that they are susceptible to temperatures below 20 degrees. If a hard freeze is forecasted, cover the figs with a blanket or some plastic. Once the weather begins to warm up, remove the coverings.

If given the proper care, these fruiting plants can produce abundantly.

When choosing fruit trees take their maintenance requirements into consideration and provide the appropriate growing conditions to ensure

fresh fruit for your dinner table.

The 2017 Annual Gwinnett County Extension Plant Sale offers several plants, including blueberries, apples, figs, native azaleas, and other plants at affordable prices. To download an order form, go to the Extension website at www.ugaextension.org/ gwinnett/ and on the left side of the page, click on “Agriculture and Natural Resources.” Click on the tab “2017 Plant Sale and Flyer,” which will have all of the pertinent information. You can also contact the Gwinnett County Extension office for one to be mailed to you.

Timothy Daly is an Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent with Gwinnett County Extension. He can be reached at 678-377-4010 or tdaly@uga.edu.

Gwinnett Chamber to host Gwinnett Chamber recognizes local drug outreach organization elevator pitch workshop From Staff Reports Imagine you’re in an elevator with the head honcho of a major company for which you’re interested in working.

It’s just the two of you when he smiles and asks what brings you by the office building today.

But as you try to speak, you freeze. The elevator stops, he nods a goodbye and walks out. The elevator doors shuts — and so

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does your window of opportunity.

The Gwinnett Chamber wants to Jim make sure Beach entrepreneurs and business owners never find themselves in this position.

The Chamber will host its Small Business — Eat & Educate Workshop:

“Define & Refine Your 30-Second Elevator Pitch” featuring best-selling author, entrepreneur, speaker and radio host Jim Beach.

The workshop will provide tools to make a clear, concise 30-second elevator pitch, effectively communicate your value proposition and grow sales or expand your network.

For more information or to register, visit gwinnettchamber.org.

A Lawrenceville-based outreach organization was has been recognized for its efforts to combat drug abuse in the community.

The Gwinnett Chamber named Gwinnett United in Drug Education — or GUIDE — as its nonprofit of the month for January.

In 1988, the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education formed the agency to enhance quality of life by preventing substance abuse.

The nonprofit promotes and provides resources for youth development, according to the organization.

GUIDE has worked with

The Gwinnett Chamber recognizes Gwinnett United in Drug Education — or GUIDE — as its nonprofit of the month for January. From left, Jose Doyague, Sarah Stokes, Jessica Andrews-Wilson, Molly Fraiser and Vince DeSilva Sr. (Special Photo)

thousands of people and offered prevention, development, training and other

services across the state.

For more information, visit guideinc.org.

Police are searching for four suspects of an armed robbery who pistol-whipped an employee at a Dacula KFC and Taco Bell combo restaurant. (Courtesy: Gwinnett County Police Department)

Police search for four suspects of armed robbery at Dacula restaurant

By Cailin O’Brien

manager.

The pair ran into a second employee on the way into the restaurant.

Police are looking for The suspect hit the first four men who pistolemployee with his gun and whipped and tried to shoot ordered the other employemployees of a fast food ee not to move or talk. restaurant in Dacula durThe suspect walked ing a robbery last month. toward the manager’s ofThe three employees fice, where the restaurant’s working Dec. 11 were assistant manager was closing the KFC and Taco working. Simultaneously, Bell combo restaurant on two other masked black Dacula Road at about 1 men came through the a.m., according to a police door. The employees noreport. One employee ticed a masked white man stepped outside to smoke standing at the drive-thru a cigarette after he’d window. finished washing dishes.

The assistant manThat’s when a “heavy-set ager had just dropped the black male with a mask” money into the safe for the walked up and pointed a night when the heavy-set gun at him. The man was black man pointed the wearing all black. gun at him. He forced the The suspect pointed assistant manager to the the gun at the employee’s ground, put his foot on his back and forced him to chest and hit him over the walk into the restaurant. head several times with He asked to speak to the his gun.

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The assistant manager also told police the man had pulled the trigger twice, but the gun hadn’t fired.

“He could not determine if the firearm was fake or just malfunctioning,” according to the report.

The assistant manager couldn’t open the safe for the suspects, since it was locked in such a way that it couldn’t be opened until the next day. So, the men turned to the registers, demanding the employees open them. They stole about $400 from the restaurant.

The suspects told the employees to run toward the back of the store.

Then, the four men left through the front door.

Gwinnett County police need help identifying these men. Tipsters can call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477.

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Pyoderma gangrenosum begins with blister, turns into ulcer DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 74-year-old woman in good health. I was diagnosed with pyoderma gangrenosum on my left leg. I was in a lot of pain. Can you tell me the cause of this rare disease? Also, is there a special diet I should be on?

— H. ANSWER: Pyoderma gangrenosum is an inflammatory disease of the skin.

The name suggests a terrifying infectious cause (“pyo” is the Latin root for “pus,” and “gangrene” describes the eating away of tissue), but the name is misleading — the disease is not due to infection. In pyoderma gangrenosum, a blister or nodule on the skin rapidly expands and forms an ulcer, usually on the leg or trunk.

The lesion often is quite tender. A biopsy almost always is performed to confirm the diagnosis. Treatment is with anti-inflammatory drugs — especially steroids, but other drugs that suppress the immune and inflammatory systems sometimes are used.

Over half of people with PG have some other underlying condition, and experts recommend searching for the common associated conditions, even in people who are otherwise healthy.

It’s particularly important to look for inflammatory bowel disease; blood disorders, such as myeloma or leukemia; and arthritis syndromes, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Many people with inflammatory conditions such as pyoderma gangrenosum or rheumatoid arthritis feel that their symptoms improve with a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, fatty fish, nuts and fiber. The data to support this is lacking; however, it’s a healthy diet in general and might help.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I developed tennis elbow in both elbows about two months ago. My doctor suggested naproxen and a tennis-elbow brace. Is there any physical therapy that would lessen the symptoms?

— L.J. ANSWER: Tennis elbow is caused by chronic inflammation at the epicondyle of the humerus, most commonly the lateral epicondyle.

(The lateral epicondyle is a bony prominence on your elbow, on the side your thumb is on when your palm is up).

Tennis elbow is mostly a condition of inexpert form, and if indeed you got yours from tennis, a tennis coach will be a good investment.

In addition to advice on proper motion, a brace is part of standard treatment, as is a short course of an anti-inflammatory medicine, like naproxen. I absolutely believe in physical therapy, but the precise strengthening and stretching that should be done are beyond the scope of this column and need to be overseen by an experienced physical therapist.

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

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In 1973, U.S. daylight saving time was implemented year-round in response to the 1973 oil crisis.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Jedediah Smith (1799-1831), explorer/author; Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), poet; Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), poet/novelist; Danny Thomas (1912-1991), actor/ comedian; Loretta Young (1913-2000), actress; Lou Holtz (1937- ), football coach/sportscaster; Rowan Atkinson (1955- ), actor/comedian; Nancy Lopez (1957- ), golfer; Howie Long (1960- ),

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Adult daughter may have eating disorder Dear Amy: Due to a job layoff last year, our 32-year-old daughter has been living with my husband and me. She recently returned to work, but receives a low salary and no health insurance.

She has a gluten intolerance, which requires meals without wheat and other additives. She refuses to eat the difficult to find and expensive glutenfree meals I purchase, accept any money or use the microwave. The food she purchases is scanty.

She appears emaciated but is adamant — without benefit of medical advice — that her weight is normal. She even pointed out that a certain model was skinny, although the model appeared to be heavier than she is. She became irate when I questioned the comparison.

My husband feels that as an adult she can make her own decisions. I believe that she is rebelling against her need to return home at her age. What can we do before she is hospitalized for anorexia?

— Worried Mother Dear Worried: Your husband may not understand that if your daughter has an eating disorder, the disease will be calling the shots.

Disordered eating trumps mature adult behavior.

Anorexia is a pernicious illness that intensifies with time; professional treatment and specialized therapy is important.

Your daughter’s eating issues may have been triggered by her health

During the course of our conversation, “Chuck” told me that he had been seeing a therapist. He said, “I’ve finally found out what my problem is.”

I asked him what that is.

He yelled into the phone, “My problem is YOU!” He continued to berate me until he slammed the Amy Dickinson phone down. I haven’t had any communication problems. Underlying with him since. depression brought on by I have had therapy for her personal and profesmy own problems with sional challenges would alcohol, and have learned be a factor, too. Anorexia that a true alcoholic (I is an expression of a consider myself one, but person’s need to control have been sober for three a very basic aspect of her years) normally blames life when other things other people for their may seem out of conown problems. And it’s trol, but the lack of basic inconceivable that “I” am nutrition can make her the root of my brother’s ability to cope with other anger. life challenges worse. Be According to my sibhonest, gentle and loving lings, Chuck has alienated toward your daughter every friend and most when discussing her eatfamily members with his ing issues. Don’t judge or behavior. This includes shame her. drinking and taking Please urge your Valium. He has blocked daughter to see a docall my emails, will not tor and a nutritionist, if answer any phone calls possible. The National and rejects any attempt I Eating Disorders Associa- make to contact him. He tion offers helpful tools is stubborn and obviously for loved ones — you has this progressive discan communicate with ease, yet he will not seek a counselor through the treatment. His other belief website or join their Par- is also classic for an alcoent, Family & Friends holic — he thinks he can Network: Nationaleating- control his drinking. disorders.org.

I’m at a loss as to how Dear Amy: About to help him. His blaming a year ago, my younger me for his own seribrother (who is an alcoous problems keeps him holic) called me to talk. from discussing anything We have rarely been in with me. I don’t like his touch by phone or in per- behavior, but I love him son for nearly 35 years, and don’t want him to die. due to me moving more Any ideas? than 2,000 miles away.

— Shut Out

Ask Amy

Dear Shut Out: You have learned a lot about alcoholism through your own experience and research. And now you need to absorb the biggest challenge of a family member of an alcoholic: The serenity to accept your own powerlessness in getting him to change.

At this point, you need to manage your own feelings about this relationship and the episodes that led to the estrangement.

In addition to maintaining your own sobriety, you should sit in the chairs with other adults who struggle with a loved one’s drinking, through attendance at an al-anon support group (al-anon. org).

Dear Amy: Thank you for your ongoing support for literacy through your “Book on Every Bed” holiday campaign.

This is the fifth year my husband and I have done this with our children, and starting Christmas morning with a wrapped book on their beds has become a treasured family tradition.

— Grateful Dear Grateful: This makes me very happy. Thank you.

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The way you deal with institutions, friends and relatives will be important if you want to get ahead with minimal interference. Keeping an open mind and looking for fair solutions will help you establish a good reputation among your peers.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You should take care of the small, but important details that could result in delays if they go unaddressed.

Handle matters personally, instead of relying on someone else who won’t do as good a job as you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Share your feelings and make changes to your lifestyle that will enable you to cut corners so you have more time to do things you enjoy.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Refrain from making a commitment that you cannot fulfill. Taking on too much will be your downfall. Offer only what is feasible.

Taking impulsive action must be avoided.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’ll be tempted to make last-minute alterations that will cause a rift with someone. Don’t let your impulses take control and ruin something good. Take your time and work on selfimprovement.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — An unexpected financial gain looks promising. Settlements, finalized contracts or even a gift or win is within your reach. Collect old debts and call in favors. Offer assistance and make a difference.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Get your money matters in order. Complete pending settlements, negotiations or any medical follow-up that is required to ensure you are in tip-top shape.

A financial gain is heading your way.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — An emotional gesture will help you realize how much someone means to you. Communicate freely and gain insight into the possibilities that exist if you take part in a joint venture.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You need to wrap things up quickly by doing what’s necessary.

Discussing your plans with younger or older friends or relatives will help you put things in perspective. A change will do you good.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Reevaluate what you have done in the past and think about how you want to move forward. A disciplined approach will encourage physical, emotional and financial improvements.

Put love high on your list.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Discussing home improvements or joint financial ventures will be difficult. Set a budget and refuse to overspend.

Look for hidden costs and find a way to cut corners.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Don’t think about what you want to do or ought to be doing, when you need to be taking action. If you are slow making decisions, you’ll get left behind. Choose love and peace over chaos.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Size up a situation and take a step forward. Don’t let the demands of others stand between you and what you want to accomplish.

Don’t give in to manipulation or threats.

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The issue with Trump and Russia

WASHINGTON — Coming from a presidential candidate, Donald Trump’s misty-eyed admiration of Russia and its autocratic leader was weird.

Coming from a president-elect, it’s nothing short of alarming.

I repeat the questions I asked back in September: What’s the deal with Trump and Russia? Does he have financial entanglements with Russian banks, businesses or billionaires that color his views? If not, as he claims, then why won’t he release the personal and business tax returns that could put the matter to rest?

The latest sign of Trump’s infatuation is his refusal to accept the conclusion of the U.S. intelligence community that Russian state-sponsored hackers meddled in our election — a risky and provocative operation that could only have been authorized by Vladimir Putin.

“It could be somebody else,” Trump told reporters on New Year’s Eve. “And I also know things that other people don’t know, and so they cannot be sure of the situation.” The president-elect added that “I know a lot about hacking, and hacking is a very hard thing to prove.”

It is unclear how Trump could know even a little about hacking, since he rarely uses computers.

Aides reportedly must print out news articles for him to read. In my experience, experts on cybersecurity know how to use a web browser.

Trump is scheduled to receive a full briefing on the issue Friday from senior officials including FBI Director James Comey Eugene and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Robinson President Obama has seen the evidence — and was convinced enough to impose new sanctions against Russia as punishment.

When Putin decided not to reciprocate, given that Obama will soon leave office, Trump offered this glowing comment on Twitter: “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) — I always knew he was very smart!”

Trump has argued that since the CIA was in error about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, it may well be wrong about Russian hacking. That’s ridiculous. It’s like saying that since Trump was wrong when he claimed early in the campaign to have seen thousands of Muslims celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11, everything he has said since may well be exaggerated, half-baked or a flat-out lie.

On second thought, maybe I should choose a different analogy.

One possible reason for Trump’s stubbornness is that intelligence officials believe the intent of the hacking was not merely to shake public confidence in the U.S. electoral process, but to help Trump win the election. The hacked material that was allowed to surface, mostly through WikiLeaks, contained embarrassing information about Democratic institutions and individuals, including the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman. Republicans were almost completely spared.

Perhaps believing that the legitimacy of his victory is being impugned, Trump is willing to take the founder of WikiLeaks — a fugitive from justice on sexual assault allegations — at his word. Trump tweeted Wednesday: “Julian Assange said ‘a 14 year old could have hacked Podesta’ — why was DNC so careless? Also said Russians did not give him the info!”

Another possible explanation is that Trump is deliberately making a huge shift in U.S. foreign policy regarding the other two global superpowers.

Not only has he been much more indulgent of Russia than recent presidents, he has also taken a much tougher and more confrontational line toward China. This smacks of 18th- and 19th-century balanceof-power statecraft, which became obsolete with the advent of modern weapons. Such machinations cannot be advisable in the nuclear age.

On New Year’s Eve, as Trump prepared to host a black-tie gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate, two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee — John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. — joined Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., in meeting with front-line Ukrainian troops who are defending their country against Russian-backed military aggression. In 2014, Putin annexed Crimea by force. A few years earlier, he sent troops into the sovereign nation of Georgia.

Perhaps Trump doesn’t believe all of this is really happening. Maybe he doesn’t care.

The senators made clear they want tougher sanctions against Russia to punish its territorial ambitions and its outrageous attempt to influence our election. How to deal with Putin could be the first big foreign policy fight between the new president and the Republican-controlled Congress.

Perhaps McCain and his colleagues will get to the bottom of why Trump, who sounds like such a tough guy with regard to the rest of the world, is such a pussycat when it comes to Russia. Senate committees can issue wide-reaching subpoenas, and should.

Eugene Robinson’s email address is eugenerobinson@washpost.com.

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The perfect mix of friends, football MEMPHIS, Tenn. — College football is about as big as anything there is in this country.

Aficionados of the game keep active with the passing years.

They grow old with enduring affection for alma mater. They can’t wait to return to campus in the fall, and they remain smitten with good memories well into their sundown years.

While there is bitterness in some rivalries, there are the many who are above that and whose love of alma mater allows them to embrace the supporters of other institutions.

Good work often takes place on campuses everywhere and often goes unrecognized. Many alumni who take note of those good works, nonetheless, subordinate its importance to winning big games. That is unfortunate.

Let’s hear a resounding rah, rah, rah for both.

In Memphis, a Tennessee town, you nonetheless find that there is great passion for the University of Arkansas and Ole Miss. Geography can influence sentiment. Here last week for the Liberty Bowl, I was the beneficiary of the warmest of hospitality authored by three Ole Miss loyalists — Keith Ingram, Coleman Connell and Reggie Barnes. They have diverse professional careers, but are unalterably wed to college football, emotionally.

A friendship with the first great Manning, Archie, the patriarch, led to an introduction to the aforementioned who mean it when they say, “Y’all come!”

bowls recruit its participants.

“That meant I got to go to Athens, and that always meant that it was a great trip,” Reggie says.

John Vergos, the proprietor, had reserved a table at “Rendezvous” which is a landmark that ranks with Graceland and the Peabody Hotel as “musts,” Loran when you are visiting this river Smith city. Vergos spiced the conversation with factoids about his Manning hosts a luncheon for family and Rendezvous which a circle of his friends at the 21 spawns long lines of barbecue Club in New York in December aficionados waiting for a plate during the College Football of signature charcoal ribs.

Hall of Fame induction banquet The restaurant’s popularity is which is how I came to know reminiscent of Yogi Berra’s this engaging trio. “Archie,” comment about a popular ressays Connell, “is good to his taurant in New York: “Nobody friends. If you are a friend of Ar- goes there anymore. It’s too chie Manning, you are a friend crowded.” of mine.”

Sports have redeeming value Ingram, who is a Democratic when it comes to friendships, state senator and former mayor hospitality and morale. If you of West Memphis, like Connell, are having a bad day, a buzz lives to duck hunt. “It is fun the about some sporting issue or acway we do it,” Keith says. “We complished athlete can become have heaters in our blinds. We a welcomed distraction. want to make it comfortable Casual reference from this for our guests.” Connell drives corner about a big leaguer who to his place in Clarkesdale, a came the Peach State’s way got couple of hours away in the top billing at the Rendezvous’ afternoon and gets up early the conversation-of-the-week. next morning to “bust” a few Eddie Robinson, whose minor mallards and get back to Mem- league career began in Valdosta phis for a full day in the office with his last stop taking place — a reminder that all across our with the Atlanta Braves, where great country, everyday men he was general manager. Holdand women utilize the sporting ing court by underscoring that scene to gain fulfillment in life. Robinson is a 96-year-old marReggie, a longtime mover vel, I noticed Reggie Barnes’ and shaker with the Liberty eagerness to pitch in.

Bowl, made friends across the When he was 9 years old, SEC when the old bowl invita- Reggie’s father took him to an tion system dictated that the exhibition game between the

White Sox and the New York Yankees in Memphis. Reggie’s seat abutted the Yankee dugout which had him just beyond arms-length of the Yankee first baseman who was aimlessly tossing a baseball in the air.

The player noticed the excited kid who would wind up with the ball he was tossing about — but not before the autographs of Yankee legends like Whitey Ford, Eddie Lopat, Joe Collins, Enos Slaughter, Tommy Byrne, Bob Turley, Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle had been added. And, of course, the signature of Eddie Robinson who had a soft spot in his heart for kids. “I couldn’t believe my good fortune,” Barnes said.

“I’ve never forgotten Eddie Robinson and thought that he had to be the nicest man in the world.” It was easy to confirm that Reggie is correct.

The goodbye hugs were warm and generous. I felt John Vergos stuffing a bottle of Rendezous famous seasoning, a Memphis original, in my pocket. Back at the Peabody, where the ducks were doing their thing, I began chastising myself. Should have had John Vergos autograph his famous seasoning. His autograph in the food business would be comparable to that of some of the big leaguers, who signed Reggie Barnes’ baseball in 1956.

Loran Smith is co-host of “The Tailgate Show” and sideline announcer for Georgia football. He is also a freelance writer.

Holding on to what’s truly important The new year always makes me nostalgic. I know I should be more about looking forward, but sometimes it is nice to sit by the fire, awaiting the snow that we may or may not see over the weekend, and reflect on simpler times.

Whenever I stop and look back for a few minutes, which I do more and more frequently as time goes by, I am utterly amazed at how blessed I have been throughout my life. My living room looks a bit like that vignette they used to show in Disney World’s Carrousel of Progress — the attraction with the catchy little song that got stuck in your head, “There’s a great, big, beautiful tomorrow …”

I am living in tomorrow, and it is, indeed, great, big and beautiful. I have a giant television that is smarter than I am and a phone that is smarter than my TV, and since Christmas, a device who calls herself Alexa that can play any song I might want to hear and answer any question I might have of her. It’s really scary. I wish my mama could have lived to see such.

As I sit with my grandson on my lap — Sir Henley the Adorable — I wonder what life will be like when he is 65 years old.

When I was his age — back in 1954 — I lived in a four room

Darrell Huckaby mill village house. My mama thought it was a mansion. The bathroom was out back.

We did have plaster on the walls. My friends who lived “out in the country” did not.

The inside of their homes was the other side of the outside boards of their houses. I’m pretty sure there was no insulation between the plaster and the outside walls in our home, which made a cold snap really cold.

The house was up on brick pillars. Not being an engineer or a builder I never understood why. I asked Alexa. She didn’t know either. But I do know that in the winter the cold wind would blow beneath the house and make the bare wooden floors even colder than usual.

We didn’t have closets in our home. We did have a cedar chest, however, and a chifforobe. Now there’s a word you don’t hear every day. Our

chifforobe was large enough to hold all the “hanging clothes” our family possessed, and our socks and unmentionables fit quite nicely in our chest of drawers.

We didn’t have a television, either, when I was Henley’s age, but we had a radio and listened to “The Lone Ranger” in the evening. I’m pretty sure that “I Love Lucy” was the show that motivated my mama to insist that we save up for a TV set, because, once we got one, all the ladies on our street would come over on Tuesday nights and fold their laundry together while watching that show.

We always had books in the house, though. Daddy always made sure that we had books and he read me all the childhood classics of my day — “Heidi,” “Robin Hood,” “Treasure Island,” “Arabian Nights,” “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” — and taught me to read so that I could go, unaccompanied, on literary adventures of my own by the time I was 5.

There were no light switches on the wall, and I don’t remember us having lamps, but there was a bare bulb in the middle of each room with a chain hanging down. We had a gas space heater in the living room, which

heated the living room and the kitchen, sort of, and at night we would cover up, during this time of year, with a half-dozen quilts and pray that using the slop jar under the bed did not become necessary during the night.

When I graduated from high school and matriculated to the grand and glorious University of Georgia, hallowed be thy name, my sociology professor found out that I was from Porterdale and announced to the class that “Mr. Huckaby was raised in poverty in a North Georgia mill village.”

My professor was obviously educated far beyond his intelligence. We weren’t poor in Porterdale. We just didn’t have any money.

I live within 10 miles of that old house as the crow flies. In many ways I am light years away from the Porterdale of my childhood. In other ways I strive mightily to make sure that I never leave, and pray that I will never cease being amazed at how far God has allowed me to travel — literally and figuratively — from that modest childhood home.

I pray that in 2080, when Henley is the age I am now, he will look back on his childhood as fondly as I can look back at mine.

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world&nation world S. Korea speeds up creation of ‘decapitation unit’ South Korea is ratcheting up its rhetoric against Pyongyang with a new threat: Come at us, and we’ll cut off the head of the snake.

The country is speeding up plans to set up what some call a “decapitation unit,” a brigade specifically tasked with targeting North Korea’s “wartime command,” including leader Kim Jong Un, according to a South Korea Defense Ministry official.

The unit will be activated in the “event of war,” the official said. Technically, South Korea and North Korea are still at war; they signed an armistice in 1953 but not a treaty.

The brigade was initially supposed to be ready in 2019, but the Defense Ministry now says it’ll be established “by this year.”

The move comes after a series of provocations

by Pyongyang, including broadcasting images of Kim leading a combat drill targeting South Korea’s presidential residence.

4 charged with hate crimes in beating

By Holly Yan, Sheena Jones and Emanuella Grinberg CNN

Four suspects have been charged in connection with the attack on a special-needs teen that was streamed on Facebook Live Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper, 18; Brittany Covington, 18; and Tanishia Covington, 24, have each been charged with a hate crime, felony aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Hill, Cooper and Brittany Covington also face charges of residential burglary. Hill also faces charges of possession of a stolen motor vehicle.

Video of the torture has stunned the country, not just because of the graphic abuse, but because of the comments made by some of the assailants. “*F*ck Donald Trump!” one attacker shouted in the video. “F*ck white people!”

But prosecutors have not specified why the four are charged with hate crimes. In Illinois, hate crimes can be U.S. places son filed for a variety of reasons, of bin Laden on including racially motivated terror watch list attacks and attacks based on a victim’s physical or mental The State Department said disability.

Thursday that one of 9/11 The suspects will appear mastermind Osama bin Lad- in court Friday. en’s sons has been placed Video of the attack shows on a terror watch list, noting that he has threatened terror attacks against the U.S. The department said that on Aug. 14, 2015, Hamza bin Laden was officially an- Ryan: GOP will nounced by al-Qaida senior defund Planned leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Parenthood as a member of the terror House Speaker Paul organization.

That same year, in an Ryan said Thursday that audio message released by Republicans will move to al-Zawahiri, Hamza bin strip all federal funding for Laden called for “lone ofPlanned Parenthood as part fender attacks against U.S., of the process they are using French and Israeli interests early this year to dismantle in Washington, D.C.; Paris, Obamacare.

France; and Tel Aviv, Israel.”

Ryan made the announceIn July, al-Qaida issued ment during a news conferanother audio message from ence on Capitol Hill.

Hamza bin Laden warning Congressional RepubliAmericans they would be cans have tried for years to targeted in the United States zero out all federal funding and abroad. for Planned Parenthood because the group provides Family: American abortion services. The issue helped trigger a 16-day govwriter vanished ernment shutdown in 2013, and Democrats and Presiin Afghanistan dent Barack Obama insisted two years ago any provision targeting the In May 2014, Paul group be removed from a Overby, an American writer bill to fund federal agencies. in his 70s, disappeared as he Another effort to defund was traveling between Khost the group will spur another in Afghanistan and North high-profile clash and could Waziristan in Pakistan — a be a tough vote for some region rife with the Taliban moderate Republicans and terror groups such as such as Maine Sen. Susan al-Qaida. He has not been Collins and Alaska Sen. heard from since.

Lisa Murkowski, who has On Wednesday, his wife opposed past efforts. went public for the first time with his disappearance.

Toyota to Trump: Overby’s wife, who asked Mexico plant not to be identified, last heard from her husband on won’t cause May 16, 2014, as he was U.S. job losses preparing to cross the border Donald Trump is taking into Pakistan.

Overby, who was writaim at another automaker ing a book about the current for making cars in Mexico. war in Afghanistan, was on This time it’s Toyota, which his way to interview Siraj plans to begin building its Haqqani, the leader of the Corolla compact car there.

Haqqani network, which is The automaker ana component of the Taliban nounced its plan to open and is responsible for many a factory in Guanajuato, of the most lethal bombing Mexico, in 2015. It stressed attacks in the Afghan capiThursday that the new tal., Kabul.

Mexico plant will not cause — From wire reports any job losses in the U.S.

Charges have been filed against the four people related to the Facebook live torture video in Chicago, according to a statement by the Cook County State Attorney’s Office.

Pictured from left are suspects Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper, 18; Brittany Covington, 18; and Tanishia Covington, 24, each of whom has been charged with a hate crime, felony aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. (CNN)

the 18-year-old victim cowering in the corner of a room, tied up with his mouth bound in plastic.

His eyes exude fear as his attackers get ready for their next act.

One assailant slashes the victim’s sweatshirt with a knife. The young woman streaming the abuse on Facebook Live repeatedly turns the camera back to herself.

An attacker then takes a knife to the victim’s head, carving a patch off his scalp.

For the next 25 minutes, the abuse continues for the world to see. The victim is repeatedly kicked and punched, but his screams are apparently ignored.

The young woman broadcasting the attack appears dismayed that she’s not getting more attention online.

“Y’all not even commenting on my s***,” she tells a friend during the live stream.

The attackers in the video are black, and the victim is

white.

Many who saw the video have blamed the Black Lives Matter movement. Within 24 hours, the hashtag #BLMKidnapping was mentioned more than 480,000 times on Twitter.

But on Thursday, police said they have not seen connection to the Black Lives Matter activist group, contrary to some reports on social media.

Neither the Black Lives Matter national organization nor its Chicago chapter responded to CNN’s request for comment Thursday.

But Deray McKesson, a longtime Black Lives Matter supporter, said that those linking the attack to the movement don’t have their facts straight.

“It goes without saying that the actions being branded by the far-right as the “BLM Kidnapping” have nothing to do w/ the movement,” he tweeted.

And a former Chicago police officer, Dimitri Roberts, slammed the notion that the Black Lives Matter movement is to blame.

“This is hate. And hate doesn’t have a color,” Roberts said. “So for folks to talk about (how) this is somehow connected to Black Lives Matter is absolutely the wrong way to look at this. … And we cannot respond to hate with hate.

It’s just going to perpetuate the cycle.”

According to the city of Chicago’s website, “Hate crimes are acts of bigotry, and are committed because of the intended victim’s actual or perceived ancestry, color, creed, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability (including HIV status), or national origin. Hate crimes not only harm the victim, but also the group in which the targeted member belongs.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that Republicans will move to strip all federal funding for Planned Parenthood as part of the process they are using early this year to dismantle Obamacare. (CNN)

machine gun and mortar, according to 1st Lt. John McCombs, a Marines spokesman.

The identities of the women are not being released at this time to allow them to get acclimated to their unit, McCombs said.

The unit already has three females in leadership roles and they will be able to help with the transition, he noted.

Women had not been allowed to participate in certain military roles until Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that starting in January 2016, the military would be required to open all combat positions to men and women.

Women have been working to fight alongside men for more than 150 years — as far back as the Civil War, when more than 400 women disguised themselves as men.

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“Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for U.S. NO WAY!” Trump tweeted on Thursday.

“Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax.”

Toyota has already broken ground for the new factory, which is actually in Mexico’s Bajio region, not Baja. Toyota does have another factory in Baja that builds pickup trucks, some of which are exported to the United States.

Trump’s debt spread across 150 companies More than 150 financial institutions hold the debt of President-elect Donald Trump and his businesses, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal.

The Journal’s analysis finds that the institutions bought Trump’s debt after it was repackaged as bonds.

The newspaper says the process has been used for more than $1 billion worth of debt connected to Trump and his companies.

A financial disclosure form released by Trump in May showed that he owed at least $315 million to at least 16 companies.

Trump’s presidential transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The transition also failed to respond to the Journal.

Trump has suggested he will talk about financial conflicts at a press conference next week, but he has given no indication that he will sell his holdings to avoid conflicts.

Among the companies listed in the report are Vanguard, which holds more than $225 million of Trump’s debt, and Wells Fargo, which holds $14 million.

Trump will soon oversee the Justice Department and the SEC, which are investigating Wells Fargo’s secret creation of millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts.

Military welcomes first three women infantry Marines An infantry battalion at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina received three historic additions Thursday — the first women infantry Marines.

The three women will serve in the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, with specializations as rifleman,

Coats picked to head intelligence President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Sen. Dan Coats of Indiana to serve as director of national intelligence, transition sources confirmed on Thursday.

Coats, who retired from the Senate this month after deciding not to seek re-election last year, would become Trump’s principal adviser on intelligence matters and would oversee U.S. intelligence efforts should he be confirmed by the Senate.

Coats previously served in the U.S. Senate from 1989-1999 before becoming the U.S. ambassador to Germany in the first term of President George W. Bush’s administration. He then returned to the Senate after winning election in 2010.

— From wire reports

people ‘Conan’ could switch to weekly format on TBS Conan O’Brien’s late night show, “Conan,” is, contrary to reports, remaining nightly instead of going weekly. But it may not stay that way for long. “(Conan) has a very full plate in things that we’re going to be doing the next step on in the next six months, and that led him to ask me, ‘Well, how do we balance this with the talk show?’” Turner Entertainment chief Kevin Reilly told Variety Thursday. “He’s going to have a show on TBS for many years to come.

Right now what form that takes in relation to these other endeavors is in flux.

Is going to once a week a possibility? It is. That’s going to come from him when he’s ready to get his hands around that.”

The Wrap reported earlier Thursday that “TBS is planning to retool… ‘Conan’ to a weekly format instead of a nightly one.” John Martin, the CEO of Turner — which owns TBS — reportedly told The Wrap that the move would be made, in part, due to an oversaturated late night lineup across TV.

WH donates swing set Sasha and Malia used A longtime fixture on the White House south lawn is getting a new home.

The Obama daughters’ backyard swing set was donated to a local organization serving those in need, a White House official confirmed Thursday.

It was first offered to the Trump family before being donated, the official said.

The Rainbow brand swing set was installed in March 2009, the family’s first spring in the White House. Daughters Sasha and Malia, 7 and 10 years old at the time, were surprised with the two-tiered, multiswing playset when they came home from school.

A spokeswoman for first lady Michelle Obama said the girls, now 15 and 18, “squealed with delight” upon seeing the swing set, which was paid for by the family, when it first arrived.

Months later, President Barack Obama told Oprah Winfrey he had thus far resisted the urge to swing, despite the set being within view of the Oval Office.

DWTS dancers Maksim, Peta welcome boy

Professional dancers Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd have welcomed a baby boy.

Chmerkovskiy announced in a tweet their son, named Shai Aleksander, was born early Wednesday.

The former “Dancing with the Stars” champ had hinted delivery was imminent by sharing a photo of Murgatroyd on Tuesday in a hospital bed.

This is the first child for the couple, who have been engaged since last December. Chmerkovskiy popped the question after a performance in Miami, in front of an applauding audience.

— From wire reports

6-year-old orders dollhouse, cookies from Amazon’s Alexa

By Doug Criss CNN

It was either a late Christmas present or an unfunny prank.

Megan Neitzel couldn’t figure out why an expensive dollhouse and four pounds of sugar cookies were delivered to her Dallas home. She didn’t order either. Neither had her husband.

Then she talked to her

Amazon’s Echo Dot. Brooke asked Alexa to “order me a dollhouse and cookies,” 6-year-old daughter, Brooke. and that’s just what Alexa did.

“The next morning, I asked A KidKraft Sparkle Mansion my daughter and she said, ‘I dollhouse, which costs about was talking to Alexa about a $170, and a tin of Royal Dansk dollhouse and cookies,’” Neit- sugar cookies soon arrived. zel told CNN affiliate KTVTA check of Neitzel’s Amazon TV. app confirmed the order was Alexa is not a sister or made after Brooke asked the imaginary friend, but the voice- digital gadget, “Can you play activated digital assistant in dollhouse with me and get me a

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Brooke then told Alexa, “I love you so much!”

House rules These voice-activated digital assistants really do make life easier. Maybe a little too easy.

So Neitzel made some changes. Now if anyone in the family tries to order something through Alexa, a four-digit code is required for purchases.

She and her husband also have

established rules on how their kids should interact with Alexa.

And Brooke won’t get to keep the dollhouse.

“It’s Christmastime. Let’s give it to someone who needs it,” Neitzel said. “(Brooke) agreed and we are narrowing down the choices of who she would like to give it to.”

The family’s already eaten several of the cookies, so at least Brooke gets to keep those.

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Suwanee resident Rachael Blackstone, a biomedical engineering grad from Georgia Tech, enjoys skydiving when she’s not researching in the healthcare industry. (Special Photos)

•From Page 1A The four women designed a positioning plate for the Koning Breast CT scan machine in Rochester, N.Y., where the only working device of its nature is located, she said. The Koning Corporation plans to open its facilities in Georgia by early spring, Blackstone said.

Unlike a traditional mammogram, the zero-compression breast CT scan allows the patients to lie face down on a table with the breast placed in a hole, she said.

“The CT scan creates a 360-degree better quality image,” Blackstone said. “It’s an all-around cool technology and although there still are some discomfort issues, it is definitely more comfortable than the mammogram.

“You don’t have to rely on a radiologist technician,” Blackstone said. “People can take ownership of their health. … I loved this project because of that. My grandmother had breast cancer, and whenever you have a family member that has it, it drastically increases your risk rate.”

When she began to study biomedical engineering, her initial goal was to become a pharmacist. Blackstone, who attended Lambert High, decided to work in the industry because she loves problem solving and the research and development part of health care. But she choose to go the research route when the option was offered in her major.

“Biomedical engineering is applying principles of engineering to the human body, like how to apply a prosthetic or how cancer cells react.”

As a student, she worked with Ethicon, a co-op of John-

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Rachael Blackstone, a Georgia Tech grad of Suwanee, far right, and her senior project teammates, from left, Amanda Foutch, Courtney Purcell and Victoria Huhta developed a part for a breast cancer detection machine.

Suwanee resident and Georgia Tech biomedical engineering grad Rachael Blackstone does an 8-way skydiving activity.

son & Johnson in Cornelia that works to address health care issues, according to the company.

While working with the co-op, she decided to put together her bucket list of what she wants to achieve in life before she “kicks the bucket.”

“There’s no reason you have to wait until you’re older in life to do the things on your bucket list,” Blackstone said.

One of her top choices was skydiving following her first jump in tandem on her 19th birthday.

After doing the required

200 skydives, she got her certification to glide through the air with a wingsuit. Now experiencing a 60-second freefall after taking the plunge from a plane at 14,000 feet has become second nature.

“The first jump is terrifying; the second jump is terrifying,” she said with a laugh, “but as time goes on you build up the nerve. … It gives you a different perspective of things.”

For now, as she weighs her options and jobs offer, she continues to reach for the sky when she not researching.

north Georgia over a weekend, Georgia DOT urges the area residents if at all possible stay off the roadways,” state transportation officials said in a statement. “GDOT urges all drivers to prepare themselves and their vehicles for winter weather.”

Gwinnett officials are planning to have trucks stationed in each of the county’s six maintenance districts to spread sand and salt mixtures on roadways. They are also expecting to have about 50 employees working through the storm, and communicating with other groups around the county, including Gwinnett County Public Schools, about road conditions.

“We do put a lot of focus on the four-lane roads,” county Transportation Director Alan Chapman said.

“It’s difficult because of the amount of equipment we have for a major storm to get into individual neighborhoods so we do encourage people that if you can stay home, please do so and try to wait it out.”

This will also be a chance for Gwinnett officials to put their brine-spreading truck to work for the first time. The truck is part of a brine pilot program implemented more than a year ago in the county.

The winter of 2016 turned out to be so mild that it wasn’t needed last year however.

“We plan to primarily use it to treat our bridges, which are the greatest trouble spots because they freeze first,” Chapman said. “They don’t have the ground underneath that (could) keep them warm longer. At this point, this is a limited program for us. We’ve got all of the salt and the sand trucks that we’ve had over the years.”

Public safety officials preparing responses Police and fire officials said they are also monitoring the weather in coordination with the county’s emergency management office to make sure they can address issues as they arise. Meanwhile, they

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Gordy Meyer age 57 of Lawrenceville, GA passed away Monday, January 2, 2017. He is survived by his daughter, Rachel Meyer Fischer; sons, Joel Meyer, Luke Meyer, Adam Meyer, and Seth Meyer; parents, Richard and Barbara Meyer; brothers, Dan Meyer, Don Meyer, and Bruce Meyer; 13 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his sister, Deborah Meyer Owens.

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are making efforts to maximize their ability to respond to the storm through additional staff and resources.

Washington said the police department’s uniform patrol officers are operating on 12hour shifts, and officers in the special operations unit will also go on 12-hour shifts to offer additional support.

Likewise, Fire Department Capt. Tommy Rutledge said Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services is identifying additional staff that can be brought in to help with responses, including extra ambulance crews.

They also have some tips for residents to keep them out of harm’s way.

“It’s going to be a beautiful event if it does happen as far as the white snow on the ground, and we want to make sure our citizens are safe,” Rutledge said.

Rutledge urged residents to not use stoves, ovens or grills to heat their homes because they create fire hazards. He also said residents should keep space heaters away from items that can catch fire, and turn them off whenever they leave their homes or before they go to bed.

“Anytime you have prolonged cold weather or winter weather, we do have an increase in the potential for house fires or residential fires due to home heating sources,” Rutledge said.

“We would encourage citizens to make sure, even before the cold weather hits, that you have your fireplace checked by a qualified technician and that you make sure your heater is working (and) your furnace is in good working order. Any home heating device should be used properly and should be installed properly, following manufacturers instructions.”

Power companies preparing as well Public safety departments are not the only people lining up their resources to prepare for the storm. Power companies were getting ready as well, getting manpower together and offering up tips

to help customers.

“At each of our district offices, we’re making sure our trucks are fully stocked, fueled and ready to roll,” Jackson EMC Vice President of Engineering and Operations Joe Dorough said in a statement. “All of our line crews and right of way crews will be on call and dispatched to any outages that may occur.

“Our Systems Control, the nerve center of our distribution network, will continue to monitor the cooperative’s more than 13,800 miles of energized wire throughout Friday evening into Saturday to detect outages as they occur.”

Jackson EMC customers can report outages by calling their local office, or by filling out a form on www.jacksonemc.com. the Lawrenceville office can be reached at 770-963-6166.

Meanwhile, Georgia Power customers can call 1-888891-0938, or fill out a form at www.georgiapower.com, to report an outage. Georgia Power also recommended customers unplug appliances that are turned on when the power goes out. Other suggestions included leaving the refrigerator and freezer closed because it will help food last longer.

Closures, postponements begin

By Thursday afternoon, the weather threat had some groups and institutions announcing plans to close or reschedule activities planned for the weekend.

Georgia Gwinnett College officials took to social media to announce offices that are normally open on the weekend will be closed, meaning any Saturday classes will also be canceled.

Meanwhile, organizers of this year’s “The Way of the Cross” production announced they are canceling the auditions they had scheduled for Saturday. At this point, the auditions scheduled for Sunday are still expected to take place between 1 and 5 p.m. at Lawrenceville First United Methodist Church.

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Moore Family would appreciate a donation to the Gwinnett County Public Schools Foundation “Robbie Susan Moore Scholarship” at http:// www.gcps-foundation.org or to the American Cancer Society at 1-800-227-2345 or https://donate3.cancer. org.

& Don; & many extended family & friends. The family will receive friends from 1-3:30 PM on Friday, January 6, 2017 at Tim Stewart Funeral Home: 300 Simonton Rd. SW Lawrenceville, GA 30046.

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Hulon Rainey Hulon Rainey, age 88 of Lawrenceville passed away on Thursday, January 5, 2017. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 PM on Friday, January 6, 2017 in the Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home, Lawrenceville. Rev. Jim Moore will officiate.

Interment will follow at Gwinnett Memorial Park.

Mr. Rainey was a member of Oakland Baptist Church. He worked for Genesco Shoe until their closing, then began work at Scientific Atlanta, from where he later retired. He loved to work with wood and handmade grandfather clocks. Mr. Rainey loved antique cars & also worked on and loved Fords. He is survived by: niece: Ida Mae Huston; nephew: Brian Alexander; 1st cousin: Alice Wiechec

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BY ANDY MILLER

Georgia Health News

Nearly one in four Georgia hospitals is being penalized by the federal government for high rates of patient injuries.

Federal health officials reported that 31 of 134 Georgia hospitals analyzed, or 23 percent, had a high level of such complications, which include infections, blood clots, bedsores and falls.

Of those facilities, 13 have received the Medicare penalties for the past three years.

They are AU Medical Center in Augusta; Candler Hospital in Savannah; Crisp Regional in Cordele: Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta; Grady Memorial in Atlanta; Meadows Regional in Vidalia; Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah; Piedmont Athens Regional in Athens; Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta; Southern Regional Medical Center in Riverdale; Tift Regional in Tifton; WellStar Atlanta Medical Center in Atlanta; and WellStar Kennestone in Marietta.

The hospitals penalized this year will lose 1 percent of all Medicare payments for a year, beginning this past October.

The penalties, created under the Affordable Care Act, involve not only payments for patient stays but also will reduce the amount of money that hospitals receive to teach medical residents and care

for low-income people, reported Kaiser Health News recently.

For the first time, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services counted the spread of antibiotic-resistant germs in assessing the penalties, KHN reported.

Specialized hospitals, such as those that treat psychiatric patients, veterans and children, are exempted from the penalties. Also exempt are smaller hospitals with the “critical access” designation, which means each is the only provider in its area.

Of the remaining hospitals, the ACA requires that Medicare penalize the 25 percent that perform the worst on these measures, even if they have reduced infection rates from previous years. That quota is one of the things that the hospital industry finds most objectionable about the penalty system.

“Data shows hospitals nationwide are making major strides in reducing hospital-acquired conditions,’’ Earl Rogers, president of the Georgia Hospital Association, said in a statement last week. “Yet because the Affordable Care Act mandates Medicare penalize 25 percent of all hospitals, a hospital can make improvements in patient safety each year and still be penalized. Imposing financial penalties regardless of improvement takes necessary resources away from continued patient-

Nearly one in four Georgia hospitals is being penalized by the federal government for high rates of patient injuries.

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the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, estimates there were 3.8 million hospital injuries last year, which translates to 115 injuries during every 1,000 patient hospital stays during that period.

— Earl Rogers, “These issues are at president of the Georgia Hospital Association the top of the priority list for health system executives and board memsafety efforts.”

“With indications of bers nationwide,’’ said Rogers noted that con- Congress revisiting the Chris Kane, a consultant gressional Republicans ACA, we look forward to for DHG Healthcare in and the incoming Donald participating in efforts to Atlanta. “Historically, Trump administration address this counterpro- clinical quality was passaim to repeal the ACA. ductive measure,” Rogers fail. Now there is transThe looming fight over said. parency with financial the legislation, whatever Hospital-acquired consequences.” the overall outcome, conditions have declined Some hospitals could may be an opportunity since 2010, the year be hurt financially in the to change or remove the the ACA was passed. future if more patients current penalty formula. Still, KHN reported, become aware of the Data shows hospitals nationwide are making major strides in reducing hospitalacquired conditions, Yet because the Affordable Care Act mandates Medicare penalize 25 percent of all hospitals, a hospital can make improvements in patient safety each year and still be penalized.”

HEALTH BRIEFS GMC encourages their patients to nominate nurses for DAISY award

recommended not overlooking the mental side of making a long-term health change. He said confidence is a big part of sticking to new healthy habits.

“When setting your goals, stick to what you GMC offers tips know, since self-efficacy to stick to your usually comes from having resolutions successfully done something before,” he said.

A doctor from Gwinnett Vicknair also suggested Medical Center’s Center choosing a consistent for Weight Management workout over an intense offered some options for one to keep motivation staying on track with alive, keeping expectations those tricky-to-maintain for results in check and New Year’s resolutions on creating an easy to follow GMC’s blog. health plan.

“It is estimated that He recommended less than half of those that finding a support system make resolutions make it to help with sticking to past the first six months,” resolutions. according to the blog. “But “Beginning a new health that shouldn’t stop you routine together is a great from making a commitway to make it more ment to health in the new enjoyable and to ensure year.” accountability,” Vicknair Dr. Devin Vicknair said.

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The award was established to reward nurses who established a special connection with a patient, showed empathy in all situations and exemplifies the essence of nursing, according to a press release.

The DAISY Foundation founded the award. DAISY is an acronym for Disease Attacking the Immune System. The foundation set up the award in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, who died at 33 of an auto immune disease.

The DAISY Foundation gives out one DAISY award a month. Each winner receives a nominee pin, a DAISY Award recipient pin, a Healer’s Touch hand-carved statue and an award certificate, according to the release. The winning nurse’s unit receives a banner to post all month and fresh-baked cinnamon rolls for everyone on the day the award is presented.

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Patients, he noted, could start to avoid hospitals that have been punished for low performance.

The 13 Georgia hospitals penalized over all three years of the program joined 228 others nationally, including some famous medical centers, such as the Cleveland (Ohio) Clinic; Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah; Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles; Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago; and Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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Defensively the Swarm have gotten bigger and more physical with the additions of 6-foot, 190-pound defenseman Leo Stourous and 6-foot-3, 215-pounder Connor Sellars in the draft. Second-year defender John Ranagan, 6-foot-3, 220 pounds, also signed as a free agent.

Georgia also beefed up at the transition position with Bryan Cole (6-foot-3, 190 pounds) and Liam Byrnes (6-foot-3, 195 pounds).

“They have a bit of a mean streak to them,” Poulin said of the new additions.

Head coach Ed Comeau said the goal was to add size to an already athletic defense that includes veterans Mitch Belisle and Alex Crepinsek. Drew Petkoff and rookie Brayden Hill will provide depth on the practice squad for now.

Peachtree Ridge is in the market for a new head football coach to replace Mark Fleetwood, who informed his players Thursday afternoon that he resigned to take a head coaching job in Alabama.

Fleetwood, 56, led the Lions for six seasons, taking them to the state Mark playoffs Fleetwood five times, including the past four seasons. His final team went 6-6, rebounding from a 2-5 start to reach the second round of the state playoffs, where it lost to eventual state runner-up Roswell.

He replaced Bill Ballard, who coached Peachtree Ridge for four years, prior to the 2011 season.

Fleetwood spent the 2010 season under Ballard as the Lions’ offensive coordinator before being promoted when Ballard resigned.

“It was not easy, it tore me up, all of this,” Fleetwood said of his decision.

“I started my career in Alabama and at the end of the day when all is said and done, I was better served finishing out (in Alabama) and finishing up retirement there and I’ll have a partial (retirement) in Georgia. It came quick.

I don’t want to say where I’m going because it’s a process there. But it’s in the state of Alabama and it’s a (Class) AAAAAAA school. I’m excited from that sense. It’s been a great run here.

“I’m so thankful to our administration, (principal) Dr. (Jeff) Mathews, all the assistant principals, the faculty, Dr. (Kevin) Tashlein, Bill Holleman, Jon Weyher, all those people were very good. The community at Peachtree Ridge is great. These were seven great years of my life. I’ll never forget it. I hope and I pray I touched some kids and made a difference in their lives, not only in football but in the game of life also.”

Fleetwood, a quarterback under legendary Wayman Creel as LakesideDeKalb and a three-year starter at South Carolina, coached for 26 years before becoming Peachtree Ridge’s head coach, but

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Georgia searching for offensive and defensive balance in second season in Gwinnett

By Paul Thomas

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After scoring the second-most goals in the National Lacrosse League last season, but also giving up the second-most, the Georgia Swarm spent the offseason addressing its defensive needs through free agency and the draft.

The Swarm were 8-11 last year as they made the first round of the playoffs and will open their second season in Georgia at home on Saturday against Saskatchewan at 7:05 p.m. at the Infinite Energy Arena.

Georgia’s first move was to sign veteran goalie Mike Poulin, entering his 10th year in the league, as a free agent from Calgary. He has a 76.3 save percentage for his career and made 396 stops last season. He said he opted to sign with the Swarm because of how dynamic they were on offense and hoped he could help the franchise take its next step.

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“I really think that we do have a good mix of offense, defense and transition that a lot of teams in this league don’t have,” Poulin said. “I’m hoping I can contribute to help this team get over the hump that is a first round playoff game, but also to compete for a

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Last season, teams averaged 13.3 goals per game against Georgia. Poulin said when he looked at what the team did last year, it wasn’t so much the quantity of shots they allowed, but more the fact that the shots

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Matt Ryan, Falcons look to improve playoff record The Sports Xchange FLOWERY BRANCH — Quarterback Matt Ryan doesn’t feel there’s any added playoff pressure on him after a three-year hiatus.

The NFC South champion Atlantas Falcons (11-5) will face the highest seed to advance from the NFC wild-card round at 4:35 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14, at the Georgia Dome.

Ryan, who was drafted in 2008, took the Falcons to the playoffs in four of his first five seasons in the league. The team has missed the playoffs for the last three seasons before earning the No. 2 seed this time.

Ryan has a 1-4 record in the playoffs as the Falcons were knocked out each time by the team that went on to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. Green Bay and

after the 2012 season. Ryan and the slightly-favored Falcons were knocked out of the wild-card round after the 2008 season by Arizona.

After missing the playoffs in 2009, the Falcons were the No. 1 seed after the 2010 season, but were upset

by Green Bay, 48-21, at the Georgia Dome. Green Bay went on to beat Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl.

Following the 2011 season, the Giants called out the Falcons offensive Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan (2) runs off of the linemen as “dirt bags” and field after last Sunday’s game against the New Orleans shut down Ryan and the Saints at the Georgia Dome. (Photo: Jason Getz-USA To- offense in a 24-2 rout. The day Sports) Giants went on to beat New the New York Giants went much. For me, it’s about England in the Super Bowl. on to win Super Bowl titles, how do we get the one win After the 2012 season, while Arizona and San next week, whoever it’s the Falcons defeated Seattle Francisco lost in the Super going to be against. I think in the divisional round after Bowl. putting any more pressure blowing a 10-point lead. In “I don’t think so,” Ryan on yourself, other than that, the championship game, the said. “We’ve won in the is a waste of time.”

Falcons’ blew a 17-point playoffs before. I don’t The Falcons reached the lead and lost to the 49ers, really worry about that too NFC championship game 28-24.

“I think that’s one of the things that I’ve learned,” Ryan said. “All of the extra-curricular pressure, the outside noise that people talk about, doesn’t make a difference.

“What makes a difference is how well we play. In order to play well, we need to practice well.”

Ryan noted that the Falcons could win the Super Bowl without playing a down outdoors.

“I think any quarterback would be lying to you if they said they didn’t like playing a dome where you are going to have good conditions to throw the ball,” Ryan said. “I think that’s a good thing for us. We are ready to play wherever, but obviously, playing indoors as a quarterback is always pretty nice.”

The fact that Falcons coach Dan Quinn has been

to two Super Bowls as Seattle’s defensive coordinator helps his message in the locker room.

“I think that talk of keeping it normal, keeping the routine normal and based on what we’ve done up until this point, I think that’s really true,” Ryan said on his radio show on 680 the Fan. “Dan talks all the time about the way that we prepare, the way that we practice, the way that we compete, makes everything seem real normal when we get in the games. I think that’s true. I think guys have done that.

“I think the approach and knowing that Dan knows how to get it done, he’s been there and has gone through that process before makes a difference. He understands what it takes, guys believe in that and trust in his process.”

IN BRIEF

Lanier junior Maygan Loparo has made a commitment to the Fordham University softball program.

Loparo, a catcher, has made all-region in high school softball the past three seasons. She was Gwinnett Diamond Club all-county as a sophomore, when she hit .390 with 27 RBIs, eight doubles and two triples, and honorable mention all-county last season.

(2011) and Kwesi Abakah (2012). Football player Edwin Higgins (1967), baseball player Eddie Jarrard (1974), runner Matthew Ursprung (2011) and soccer player Jessica Eberhardt (2012) also are being honored.

The teams being recognized are 1963 boys basketball, 2016 boys and girls lacrosse, 2015 softball, 2016 boys and girls tennis and 2016 boys and girls swimming and diving.

Falcons’ Beasley NFC defensive player of the month

Vic Beasley Jr. has been named NFC Defensive Player of the Month for his performance in the months of December/January by the NFL. During the last five games of the season Beasley recorded six sacks, along with two forced fumbles — both were tied for the most in the NFL over Comets’ Mascoll, that time period. In Week 13, Beasley Jr. posted his Rams’ Pappoe second three-sack game of his career and scored his All-American Skylar Thompson first career touchdown in selections to play golf for Atlanta’s 42-14 win over South Gwinnett’s Justin Los Angeles. He became South Carolina Mascoll and Grayson’s the first Falcon and 10th Owen Pappoe made CBS player in NFL history with Buford’s Skylar MaxPreps All-American Thompson, a junior, has three sacks and a fumble Football Teams, which made a commitment to recovery returned for a was released this week. the University of South touchdown since sacks Mascoll made the Carolina women’s golf became an official statistic second-team defense on program. in 1982. the junior All-American Thompson has seven In the final regular seateam. He had 68 tackles top-10 finishes the past son game in the Georgia (nine for losses), eight two years in American Dome, Beasley sacked QB sacks and 14 quarterback Drew Brees in the second Junior Golf Association pressures this past season. quarter of Atlanta’s Week tournaments, including Pappoe was a first-team 17 win over New Orleans, three this year. defense selection on the giving him the NFL sack North Gwinnett sophomore All-American title with 15.5 on the year. team. He had 82 tackles He also added two tackannounces its and five sacks for a state les and a pair of tackles for loss in the win. The latest HOF class championship team. second-year linebacker out The North Gwinnett Parkview senior of Clemson helped AtAthletics Hall of Fame lanta’s defense hold Brees will induct its latest class Bajura selected to 154 passing yards and a during halftime of both 77.1 passer rating through for Moldovan home varsity basketball three quarters.

National Team games on Jan. 13.

Beasley is the first Parkview senior Andrei Falcons linebacker to win The class includes eight Bajura was selected athletes and eight teams, Defensive Player of the as well as former assistant recently to the Moldovan Month since 1991 (Jessie Under-21 National Soccer Tuggle). DT Rod Coleman principal James Fredericks. Fredericks worked at Team. was the last player on the He spent the Panthers’ North from 1969-73.

Falcons to win the Defenwinter break training with sive Player of the Month Four of the eight aththe country’s full national award (2005). This is the letes selected were basteam. Bajura had six goals fourth time this season a ketball players — Mary in five playoff games last Falcons player has won Bennett Edwards (Class season in Parkview’s run of 1962), Jody Smith the Player of the Month to the state championship. award.

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• Area 5-A duals at St. Francis 4:30 p.m. — Area 7-AAAAAAA duals at Brookwood 5 p.m. — Area 6-AAAAAAA duals at Peachtree Ridge 5 p.m. — Area 8-AAAAAAA duals at Rockdale County Saturday

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2017 • 3B

Alabama braces for Clemson, Watson

By Anthony Gimino The Sports Xchange

There just might be an antidote to Alabama’s bestin-the-nation defense. His name is Deshaun Watson.

Clemson’s junior quarterback rolled up 478 yards and directed the Tigers to 40 points in last season’s national championship loss to the Tide. He’s back for more — especially a ring — when No. 1 Alabama (14-0) and No. 2 Clemson (13-1) play Monday in Tampa, Fla., for this season’s title at 8 p.m. on ESPN. “Deshaun Watson has played big in every game since he’s been at Clemson,” Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said. “I think he’s played great his whole three years. I mean, great.”

If anybody is going to unravel the Tide, it’s Watson. He’s an athletic dual-threat. He has a big arm and go-deep receivers.

That all means big plays.

You don’t beat Alabama with methodical 12-play, 75-yard drives. You need “chunk” plays. You need “splash” plays.

Clemson carved up Alabama with 10 plays of 20-plus yards last season.

Contrast that to Saturday, when the Tide allowed one such play — a 20-yard pass — in a dominating 24-7 semifinal victory over Washington.

“I thought he played fantastic against us last year,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said of Watson.

“He may be arguably the best player in college football. The guy is very athletic. He’s got a great understanding of their offense. He does a really good job of executing for his team. He can extend plays. He can run. He can run quarterback runs. And he’s a terrific passer. I mean, he is the complete package.”

The knock on Watson — the Heisman runner-up this season and third-place fin-

Clemson Tigers quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) against the Ohio State Buckeyes in the the 2016 CFP semifinal at University of Phoenix Stadium. (Photo: Mark J. RebilasUSA Today Sports)

isher last year — are his 30 interceptions in 29 games in the past two seasons.

While that might be disconcerting for Clemson fans, it’s probably not as distressing as losing your offensive play-caller the week before the season’s biggest game.

That’s the highly unusual position Alabama is in after Saban parted ways with Lane Kiffin on Monday, saying that Kiffin hasn’t been able to successfully juggle two jobs since accepting the coaching position at Florida Atlantic.

Saban elevated offensive analyst Steve Sarkisian to coordinator. Sarkisian has been involved with the planning of the offense this season, but, by NCAA rule, wasn’t able to coach at practice or otherwise instruct the players.

Now Sarkisian directs freshman quarterback Jalen Hurts and tries to find a play-calling rhythm against a Clemson defense coming off a 31-0 shutout of Ohio State.

Hurts has many of the same qualities as Watson, just in a younger package.

In fact, when he enrolled early at Alabama at last year’s winter break, he played the role of Watson on the Tide’s scout team in preparation for the title game, won 45-40 by the Tide.

Hurts was the SEC Offensive Player of the Year, directing an offense that was best when it played up-tempo. Alabama often relied on its ground attack, led by Hurts and running backs Damien Harris and Bo Scarbrough, but it has multiple threats in the passing game, including

receivers ArDarius Stewart and Calvin Ridley, and tight end O.J. Howard, the offensive MVP of last season’s championship game.

“I guess you’ve got some nuances that might be a little bit different maybe from a play-call or something like that, but it’s not like they’re going to come out and run the triple option,” Swinney said of Alabama’s change of coordinators.

“They’re going to do what they do. It’s just as simple as that. Why would they change? Nobody has stopped them.”

Alabama, going for its fifth title in eight seasons, leads the country in total defense, scoring defense and rushing defense.

Clemson is salty, too, seventh in scoring defense and eighth in total defense.

One mistake by either quarterback could be the difference. Alabama has scored 11 times on defense this season and will be hunting off-target throws

by Watson. Clemson, as is its usual strategy under coordinator Brent Venables, will bring defensive pressure and force Hurts to make quick decisions and complete passes in the intermediate and deep zones.

No true freshman quarterback has led his team to the national championship since 1985, when Jamelle Holieway did so for Oklahoma.

Will quarterback experience matter?

Will defenses rule?

Clemson is going for its first national title since 1981, and Swinney said these Tigers have “more juice” than the 2015 squad. Meanwhile, at Alabama, winning never gets old.

“When you play an outstanding opponent, that’s something that in and of itself as a competitor is motivation,” Saban said.

“And that’s certainly the case in this game.

FSU and West Virginia to meet in 2020 From Staff Reports ATLANTA — The Chic-fil-A Peach Bowl announced on Thursday that West Virginia and Florida State will kick off the 2020 season in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020 in Mercedes-Benz Stadium — currently under construction — which will open in 2017 and play host to the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship, the 2019 Super Bowl and the 2020 NCAA Final Four.

The 16th installment of the nation’s longestrunning kickoff game will be the fourth time the West Virginia Mountaineers and Florida State Seminoles have played to date, and the first time since 2010, with Florida State winning all three contests. The Seminoles will continue the ACC’s long standing tradition of appearances in the Chickfil-A Kickoff Game (12), while West Virginia remains the only Big 12 school featured, making its second appearance. It will also mark the first matchup between ACC and Big 12 schools in the game.

West Virginia fell to Alabama in the 2014 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, while Florida State is set to kick off the 2017 season in Atlanta against Alabama, in what will be the first college football game held in Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

The game will be nationally telecast by ESPN. Kick time is yet to be announced. All tickets will be sold through the university ticket offices.

CHICK-FIL-A KICKOFF

Florida State Seminoles head coach Jimbo Fisher has a word with an official to dispute a call during the fourth quarter of a game against the Syracuse Orange at the Carrier Dome. (Photo: Mark Konezny-USA Today Sports)

“These are two elite football programs and this game promises to be a battle of powerhouses,” said Percy Vaughn, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl chairman.

“We cannot be more proud to welcome back West Virginia and Florida State who have signed on for a second Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game appearance,” said Gary Stokan, Peach Bowl, Inc. president and CEO. “These two storied Big 12 and ACC programs have very passionate fan bases that will create an unmatched atmosphere. It’s going to be a memorable start to the season and there is no better place to host this than in Atlanta, the capital of college football.”

The Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game averages more than 67,000 fans for each game — higher than 35 bowl games this season — and its team payout averages $4.7 million, which is higher than 26 bowl games this season.

Television viewership is also traditionally strong with more than 47 million viewers tuning in to

the series since 2008.

“The Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game is an outstanding event, and we look forward to playing Florida State in the game to open the 2020 season,” said West Virginia Head Coach Dana Holgorsen.

“Florida State is one of the top teams in the nation each year, and it will be a challenge for us and a great way to open the season.

“Our players and coaches like playing in neutral site games in pro venues. When we played in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in 2014, our players, coaches and fans really enjoyed playing against Alabama in a great environment and we expect the same in this game. It will be a great experience for our players to play in Atlanta’s new indoor stadium.”

“The Mountaineers look forward to returning to the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, and playing in Atlanta’s new premier sports venue,” said West Virginia Director of Athletics and Associate Vice President Shane

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Lyons. “We all know that West Virginia and Florida State have met in bowl games before, but this provides a quality regular season matchup for both teams on a national stage.

The game will be a great chance for the two fan bases to make a road trip to Atlanta and get the 2020 season started.”

“We are pleased to be a part of the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, and to be matched against such an outstanding opponent in West Virginia,” said Florida State Vice President and Director of Athletics Stan Wilcox. “Our fans enjoy our games in Atlanta and we anticipate a great environment. It will be a challenging out-ofconference game for both programs, which will figure prominently for each team’s post season aspirations.

“Our fans have been talking about next year’s Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game against Alabama since the day it was announced, and I think we will see similar enthusiasm for an opener against the Mountaineers.”

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Getting to Know ... Jonathan Loudermilk North Gwinnett grad and 180 Sports Performance CEO Jonathan Loudermilk is in his first season as the Georgia Swarm strength and conditioning coach.

In this week’s edition of “Getting to Know…”

Loudermilk talks with staff writer Paul Thomas about opening a training facility in Hoschton, playing football at Samford and what his duties with the Swarm are.

PT: What was the process of joining the Swarm?

JL: One of my athletes that I train, his father introduced me to Drew Petkoff.

Drew is a defenseman for the Swarm and we sat down and started talking a little bit about training.

Ironically enough — he’s a Canadian, which most of the guys are — his mentor in Canada was a part of the same Soviet program that my mentor, Chip Smith, was a part of. So he saw what I did, I showed him a few video clips of the style of training we use and do at our facility and he said, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this other than in Canada with my mentor.’

I said, ‘Well, this is how I train. It’s the way I feel is most appropriate for my athletes with the best results. In my opinion it’s the way you do it.’ He said, ‘Man, we need to talk.’ So we sat down and compared notes. Ironically we figured out that Chip and his mentor, John Frappier, were both in the same foreign exchange program with the Soviets … I just told him, ‘Look I’d love the opportunity. I’ve been working with lacrosse for the last three years since I’ve been back in Gwinnett and I’ve fallen in love with the sport.’ I wish it was something I had in high school, but it didn’t exist. Kind of watching it from afar I’ve always been intrigued by it, but now that we’re entrenched in it — come (to my facility) at 3-5 p.m. and you’re going to find anywhere from 15-25 lacrosse kids in here from local high school programs and even some of the local middle school kids are starting to spill in.

I travel up to Young Harris college in the fall and train their men’s lacrosse college team through a performance-based workout. So it’s funny. I told (Petkoff) I’ve trained everybody in the spectrum, why not professional lacrosse?

We met, they felt like it was a good fit. I really felt good about it and I talked it over with my wife and said, ‘Hey honey it’s a unique season. I’m going to travel a little bit on weekends, but our home games are at home.

I can be at the arena in 20 minutes from my house, so let’s do it. Let’s go see what we can do with some of the top lacrosse players in the world.’

PT: So what does your job with the Swarm entail?

JL: It’s a unique op-

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kind of the rest is history.

PT: When did you open the 180 Sports facility?

JL: So 180 Sports Performance has been in business since July of 2015. We opened this facility (in Hoschton) in June of 2016 and have been here ever since. It’s a pretty amazing opportunity.

We’ve probably had 200plus kids that have come through our door the last nine months now. It’s been wonderful. When I was training, I was just training locally out of different parks and facilities and the opportunity presented itself with County Junction Baseball and Softball next door. James Clanahan and Daniel Stance are both Gwinnett County educators and awesome guys. They said, ‘Look, we’d love to North Gwinnett grad and Georgia Swarm strength and conditioning coach Jonathan lock arms with you and let Loudermilk at his 180 Sports Performance facility in Hoschton. (Staff Photo: Paul you come over here and Thomas) run this.’ So we moved in, and I think in a lot of portunity in that there’s into a Thursday, Friday getting accepted to UAB ways it legitimatized what not a lot of guys that live night practice and you for her master’s program we were doing. We were in market. A lot of my can’t move.’ and I thought, ‘Maybe I getting great results for the training is accountability, It’s very unique. I love should stay.’ kids as it was, but having it’s checking in with them, it though. It’s forced me I became a health, P.E. a facility — as much as I I write all the programs to be a better trainer. teacher and strength coach at times had said I’d never for them, I write all their Because when I have an at the school. The very own bricks and mortar, strength programs, I write athlete every day of the next year I was honored I’d never do that — it’s all their speed programs week and I can monitor enough to be recommend- probably been the biggest and I check in with them them in person that’s easy ed for their head coaching blessing ever. a lot. I help supplementacompared to what the job position as (Bramblett) tion-wise, that’s something requirements are here. It had resigned and moved PT: What’s it been like that I’m really big on. is unique. I’ve had a blast. on to another role. Was for you as a North GwinMaking sure my athletes The three weeks at trainone of the youngest high nett grad being back in are taking substance and ing camp were fast and school head football the area? supplements that are furious. I got to get around coaches in Alabama hisJL: I think my welcome (league-approved). At the the guys, got to know kind tory. Took that on for four back to Gwinnett moment end of the day if I can help of their personality. They years and when we had a was, it was our second year them with their supplewere very welcoming and child I felt like it was time at Mill Creek coaching mentation, their speed and embraced me. I apprecito move on. We moved to football, and I was getagility training and their ated that, because it is a Cincinnati, Ohio, where ting dressed in the visiweight training, from afar new relationship and we’re my wife (Jane) is from. I tor’s locker room at North with that accountability ready to go for Saturday was athletic director and Gwinnett. It was the tale piece, I ‘ve done the best night. strength coach at (Behtle- of two cities, I used to get that I can.

Tate High School) so I dressed over in the (home) When I’m with them, PT: How did you get worked with their athletes field house. I know a lot of it’s great. Because several into training? in every sport, so it was the coaches over there, one of our guys are rehabbing JL: I played college great to get involved with of my college teammates little injuries and things football in Birmingham, more sports. actually coached over there and I do a lot of their Ala. at Samford UniverThen a year or two later for a number of years, so rehab work or a lot of what sity, and upon graduating I got an opportunity to to see Marcus Rice on the I call the RTP — return to my thought process was, move back to Gwinnett other sidelines was a little play — and we’re get‘I’m just going to move and worked with Shannon different. But, all in all ting them brought up to back to Gwinnett. My Jarvis and the football staff I’ve grown up in this area. speed. We’re getting them Mom is well-connected in and then Bo Adams and My family sold Gwinnett back faster. So at practice the business world, I’ll go the lacrosse staff at Mill County the land to build I warm the guys up, give into some kind of busiCreek. I had a ball doing Jones Middle School, we them a little pep talk, they ness endeavor.’ I’ve always it, but just felt like there have a farm over there off get to lacrossing it up and been entrepreneurialwas something bigger. I Bart Johnson and Ridge I take the guys that are minded. needed to be working with Road and have grown up with me and need some Then I did an internall sports and not just one here my whole life. When I extra work and then as the ship at (Shades Mounor two. My wife coaches moved back I realized that practice goes on I stretch tain Christian School) in multiple sports, she’s a the little bitty Buford that I them out at the end. Do Hoover, Ala. and their basketball coach over at once lived in was not as litsome foam rolling and head coach (Mike BramMountain View, so for us tle anymore so we moved different prehab, rehab blett) approached me and as a family we’re always one or two exits up, we stuff with them after the said, ‘You’re great with around athletes. For me as live in Brasleton… I just practice. kids, you’re passionate, a coach, it’s my passion felt like this was the apIt’s unique. They fly in you’re authentic, you know to pour into those athletes propriate environment for and literally in 48 hours your stuff. Do you want to whether they’re our little us. I wanted the kids in this they fly out. We have a be a football coach?’ I was bitty four-year-olds in our community to be offered small window of opportu- kind of like, ‘I don’t know. rookie program all the what every kid in Gwinnett nity. I send them a lot of That’s a season of life that way up to my collegiate gets on every street corner things for travel. How to I’ve ventured to the end and now my professional because there’s 10 dozen keep your body prepared of.’ He said, ‘I really like athletes. sports performance centers on an airplane. They’re what you do in the weight Chip Smith is my men- in a 10-mile radius. But up all large athletes. I’m room with strength and tor and he’s always been here there wasn’t anything, 6-foot-4, and so I’m used conditioning, we need a great to me. At the time, in and for us I felt like the to cramming in a little guy. I’m the head baseball high school and college, I Commerce kids, Jefferson seat and going. I tell them, coach too, and I don’t don’t think I realized who kids, Jackson kids and ‘Look guys, you’ve got to always have the time to be or what he was because even the Hall (County) get up and walk around everywhere at once. Could his son Tripp and I went and the northern tip of on the plane. You’ve got you run the offseason and to high school together. I Gwinnett kids they deserve to drink a lot of water, then let’s talk afterwards.’ just thought he was a dad to have something that’s because you’ll get dehySo he kind of gave me with a cool gym and then feasible for them to drive drated while in air with the full reign of their footI figured he’s pretty good to and (parents) to not have oxygen changes and stuff, ball program’s offseason at what he does. So, when to entrust their child to hop pressure. You need to do program from January to I got into coaching I said, on 85 and trek back toward ankle circles and all sorts June. We got to the end of ‘If this is what worked the city. It’s been a blessof little things to keep it and it was a decision for best for me as an athlete ing. blood flow through your me to move home or me I want to know if this is legs, so that when you get to stay. It was pretty sweet what will work best for my PT: What was your off the plane you’re not and didn’t hurt that my athletes.’ I got certified in time like playing for stiff and tight trying to go girlfriend at the time was Chip’s MORR system and Samford?

JL: That was interesting. I signed out of high school at Eastern Kentucky University. I was recruited

by Louisville and was pretty much a lock going to Louisville and then John L. Smith left for the Michigan State job and Bobby Petrino came in. He just quit candidly said, ‘Look I’m recruiting different players, sorry.’ Luckily the guy recruiting me at Louisville became the head coach at EKU and so coach (Danny) Hope said, ‘Look, Jonathan I’d love to have you over there. If you like it, let’s see how it fits.’

I went up there and I think at that point — this is probably some advice to me Gwinnett kids — I was trying to find a match to what I experienced as a Gwinnett high school football player. I had seen a lot of schools but just felt that it would be a step down facility-wise or stadiumwise or whatever. I picked EKU based on football and facilities and I think I neglected the academic side of it. Got up there and after a year Richmond was not the place for me in Kentucky with two feet of snow.

I transferred to Samford University … that was an interesting process. I played five positions in five years in college (outside linebacker, defensive end, defensive tackle, offensive tackle and tight end). Part of it was I had three different coordinators in five years and three different head coaches by the time it was said and done. I’d say the latter half of my Samford career was amazing. They hired Pat Sullivan going into my senior year. He came in and just said, ‘Look, seniors, I know what you’re thinking. I can win with you or I can lose without you, but at this point I’m about winning. So if you make it on the field it’s because you’re the best guy. Not because you’re an upperclassman or not an upperclassman.’

For me it was a new lease on life. They moved me to tight end and I started eight out of 13 games my senior year at tight end. I had a ball doing it. I think the world of Pat Sullivan.

I think he’s a great man outside of football. A lot of people know him as the Heisman guy or the Auburn guy or the guy who coached LaDainian Tomlinson or whatever you want him to be. For us he was a breath of fresh air and he turned that program around and now Samford is a perennial contender in the (Southern Conference).

PT: How did you meet your wife?

JL: We met at Samford.

She’s the northern Cincinnati girl who came south.

We met and kicked it off.

Got married a year or two after college. We have three little kids now. Our five-year-old (Mical) goes to Buford. Our two-yearold (Olivia) and (sevenmonth-old Bri) are with me most days at the house.

I’m normally at the house during the day and then (at the facility) at night.

Swarm

Shayne Jackson (40 G/43 A), Johnny Powless (35 “We thought last year G/37 A), Kiel Matisz (14 (*Denotes first-year players) and Leo Stouros* we were athletic back G/48 A), Lyle Thompson Forwards (7): Jordan Hall, Shayne there, but we were kind of (27 G/33 A) and Miles Jackson, Kiel Matisz, Randy Staats, Lyle Goaltenders (2): Brodie MacDonald, Thompson, Jerome Thompson and Miles Mike Poulin small and medium athletic.

Thompson (19G/17 A) Thompson We wanted to get large and all returns as well after Practice Squad (4): Brayden Hill* (D), athletic, which we think we filling up the stat sheet last Transition (6): Liam Byrnes*, Bryan Warren Hill* (G), Drew Petkoff (D) and did,” Comeau said. “We’ve season.

Cole*, Jason Noble, Ethan O’Connor, Adam Shute* (G) got some physical guys Georgia scored 238 Chad Tutton and Sean Young* back there that can both goals last season and CoPhysically Unable to Perform List (3): cross-check guys into the meau thinks the execution Defensemen (5): Mitch Belisle, Alex Cre- Jesse King (F), Jordan MacIntosh ‘C’ (T) turf, but can also run the on offense can be impinsek, John Ranagan, Connor Sellars* and Johnny Powless (F) floor and score in transiproved upon this year. tion. We’re real happy with “We’re not going to the guys we were able to Offensively the Swarm knee injury. King’s injury on 18 goals and 33 assists. sneak up on anybody with pick up and get in that mix, return the majority of their makes the offseason addiRandy Staats was named our offense this year,” he and we’re excited to see main pieces, with the extion of veteran lefty Jordan NLL rookie of the year said. “We were the No. 2 them get an opportunity to ception of lefty Jesse King Hall from New England last season as he led the offense in the league last show what they can do at (22 goals, 55 assists) who even more important. He team with 95 points (36 year and people know what this level.” is out for the year with a had 51 points last season G/59 A). Fellow forwards we can do. I think it’s very

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much that even if they know you’re going to pickand-roll and you’re going to run certain plays you just have to out-execute.

I think that’s really the consistency that we need every game and every shift, so that’s something that we really want to see our guys get better at. We had some games last year where offensively at times we were a little bit lackadaisical. It’s hard work to be successful on offense in this league, the defenses are so good, so we’ll just keep focusing on the things that we do well and just continue to try and get them better.”

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Reunited linemates spark Gladiators’ comeback win

By Christine Troyke christine.troyke@ gwinnettdailypost.com

DULUTH — Justin Buzzeo and Brock Higgs were a major part of the Atlanta Gladiators’ potent offense earlier this season and found that spark again Thursday.

Buzzeo, an ECHL allstar selection, set up Higgs on third-period goals 25 seconds apart as the Gladiators rallied to beat Tulsa 3-2 at Infinite Energy Arena.

Forging a tie late in the second, Atlanta took its first lead 4:17 into the third. Buzzeo fired a crosscrease pass to Higgs on the far post. Higgs finished sharply, pin-balling the puck off the iron.

The Oilers nearly answered, but goalie Matt Ginn, in his return from injured reserve, shouldered a breakaway chance into the corner and Atlanta rushed back the other way.

Buzzeo found Higgs again at the post, and

Atlanta Gladaitors Justin Buzzeo (10), Brock Higgs (21) and Josh Atkinson (22) celebrate Higgs’ gamewinning goal against Tulsa on Thursday at Infinite Energy Arena in Duluth. (Photo: Amanda Hertel)

Higgs scored his 10th goal of the season at 4:42. Tyler Murovich also assisted on both goals in his first game following a suspension.

“It’s been a little bumpy,” Higgs said. “The chemistry is still there, it always has been, but sometimes you go through rough patches. It’s important that we just keep working hard every day.

Higgs and Buzzeo started the game on different lines for the first time this season.

“That moment we got back (together) it just clicked and everything was kind of fresh again,” Higgs said. “It obviously worked out for us.”

The Gladiators (13-15-20) have struggled at home this season but are 1-0 in

2017 and winning the first of three games at Infinite Energy Center this weekend was a good start. Tulsa (20-14-3-0) remains in town for a rematch tonight and South Carolina visits for a Sunday matinee.

“If you look at the season in halves, the first half wasn’t exactly what we wanted so it’s about that fresh start in 2017,” Higgs

Wesleyan girls fall at Holy Innocents’

By Guy Curtright Staff Correspondent

ATLANTA — The team that lost the first game between girls basketball rivals Wesleyan and Holy Innocents’ each of the past two seasons Mikayla Coombs went on to win the state title.

That would be a good omen for Wesleyan, but Holy Innocents’ certainly wasn’t worrying about that Thursday night.

The host Golden Bears hung on for a 61-54 victory in a Region 5-A game to give new coach Nichole Dixon a victory over Jan Azar in their first game on opposite benches.

“It was definitely different,” said Dixon, who played for Azar at Mount de Sales and coached under her for 10 years at Wesleyan. “She is a great mentor and an awesome coach.

“I was very proud of my girls for going out and getting a win for me the first time. I was very grateful to them. They gave it their all and had a lot of heart.”

Holy Innocents’ (14-1 and 4-0 in the region) led 49-34 after LSU-recruit Khayla Pointer hit her team’s sixth 3-pointer to start the second half.

The Bears, though, scored just 12 more points the rest of the game and Wesleyan (11-3, 2-1) was within 56-54 after a rebound basket by freshman A.C. Carter with less than two minutes remaining.

Pointer scored on a drive to push the lead back to four and Holy Innocents’ closed out the victory at the foul line while holding the Wolves — who shot poorly most of the game — without a point the rest of the way.

Pointer had 10 of her 16 points in the second half, with seven in the final quarter. Kaila Hubbard also scored 16, with 13 coming before halftime, and Ken-

nedy Suttle recorded all 11 of her points in the first half and fouled out in the fourth quarter.

Connecticut-recruit Mikayla Coombs scored 17 points to lead Wesleyan.

She also had nine rebounds Samford-signee Natalie Armstrong had 13 points and 11 rebounds, while Carter scored 11, seven in the first quarter and had 12 rebounds and three blocks.

Amaya Register, who had a leg cramp in the fourth quarter, added nine points and four rebounds.

After a first half when 80 points were scored, the teams combined for just 35 in the second. Holy Innocents’ was outscored 10-6 in the third quarter and 10-9 in the fourth after putting up 25 and 21 points the first two quarters.

“When you play that hard on defense for the whole game, you get tired,” Dixon said. “I think both teams did, but we were able to push through.”

Holy Innocents’ won its first state title last year,

edging Wesleyan 66-64 in overtime for the Class AA championship in the last game for former Bears coach Tony Watkins Jr. Wesleyan had won its 11th state championship under Azar with a 45-31 victory over Holy Innocents’ in the title game the previous year.

The teams played four times each of those seasons and that could happen again this season with both teams dropping down to the Class A-Private classification.

Wesleyan still leads the all-time series 14-9, but Holy Innocents’ has eight of the last 10 games.

“It was a rematch game and both teams gave it all they had,” Dixon said. “I know Wesleyan will be ready for us the next time.

You have so many great players on both teams.”

The teams play at Wesleyan in the next-to-last regular season game, then could meet again in the region and state tournaments.

That’s the way it has been the past two seasons.

Heyward, free throws help Lions survive

By David Friedlander

Lions’ seven field goals from behind the arc in the first half.

Combined with a tough LAWRENCEVILLE — defense that forced DisIn many ways, the Region covery (12-6, 2-4) into 11 6-AAAAAAA boys basket- first-half turnovers, includball clash between Peachtree ing eight in the first quarter Ridge and Discovery can alone, Peachtree Ridge be described as a war of jumped out to a double-digit attrition. lead by the 1:53 mark of the In the end, it was clutch opening frame, and led by play down the stretch by as much as 25-11 following veterans Connor Heyward Payton’s 3-pointer with 4:24 and Fred Payton that allowed left in the first half. the visiting Lions to pull It was a hole the host away for a 64-54 road win Titans would spend the rest Thursday night. of the night trying to climb Heyward finished with out of. game highs of 20 points and “We’ve done that to nine rebounds, while Payton ourselves a couple times (so added nine. far this season),” Discovery And both came up big coach Cory Cason said. from the foul line, combining “This is actually the third to hit 14 of the team’s 21 free region game now that we throws in the fourth quarter started out with a doubleto help Peachtree Ridge digit deficit early in the (11-5, 4-1) survive a game game. You spend so much that featured a combined 42 energy trying to recover fouls, three technical fouls, from it, and a lot of times three more ejections and 44 what happens is you get turnovers by the two teams. within one or two posses“We’ll take the win,” sions in the game, and you Lions coach Keith Arhave a hard time getting rington said afterward. “We over that hump.” overcame some stuff. We’re That’s exactly what sitting there with two guys happened to the Titans on out of the game because Thursday, as they battled they showed their emotions, back to cut the Peachtree and had another starter hurt. Ridge lead to as little as You’re sitting there with 28-21 on a pair of Justice three starters sitting out, and Stanley free throws with you still win a basketball 1:07 left in the half, and still game. There’s something to trailed by single digits at 30be said positive.”

21 by intermission.

Early on, most of But even as Discovery Peachtree Ridge’s positivkept chipping away, twice ity came from three-point pulling as close as six points range, with Heyward, in the third quarter, turnPayton and Caleb Holifield overs popped up at the most combining to hit six of the inopportune time. david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

The Titans coughed up the ball on three straight possessions in which they had a chance to pull to within four points — or three on a 3-pointer — late in the penultimate frame.

“I don’t know, but I think we had about 25 turnovers (in the game),” said Cason, whose team actually turned it over 27 times on the night.

“The number that we talk about is 12, and we had (almost) 12 in the first half.

You can’t pull out the game with turnovers like that. We fully expected (Peachtree Ridge’s) pressure, but it’s something you can’t simulate in practice. They did a really good job defensively of speeding up our guards.

“They caused a lot of it. They put us out of our rhythm. We couldn’t get into a lot of our sets that we normally run. A lot of credit goes to them. They also made a lot of tough shots early.”

Still, Discovery managed to hang around and made one last run early in the fourth quarter, which included an incident early on.

As the teams were coming back up the court following a 3-pointer at the top of the key from D.J. Young — the senior point guard’s only points of the night — he and Holifield, who led all scorers with 13 points to that point, were involved in an altercation that led to both players being ejected, as well as Lions forward Kristian Collins, who stepped onto the court from the bench area, with

5:50 remaining.

Justice Stanley hit one of the ensuing two technical free throws, and Jaylen Bussey completed a threepoint play with a driving layup and a free throw that completed a 7-0 run and pulled Discovery to within 41-38 with 5:33 left to play.

But Heyward helped Peachtree Ridge regain its composure by hitting four clutch free throws on consecutive possessions to key a 9-3 run that stretched the Lions’ lead back to 5041 after a Jamin HarrisonChester steal and layup with 2:48 left.

“Connor kept his composure and just kind of took it over down the stretch,” Arrington said. “He just controlled the ball, controlled the game and let us win the game. And Peyton hit some big free throws, too.”

And Peachtree Ridge needed those free throws, with Ty Chaney hitting some clutch shots on his way to a team-high 18 points to pull Discovery as close as seven points three more times.

But the Lions hit seven straight free throws in the final 1:17, part of a 21-for23 performance at the line in the fourth quarter, to put the game away.

P’tree Ridge (girls) 48, Discovery 36 Jalea Gray poured in a game-high 25 points as the Lions (5-11, 2-4) posted a road region win.

Jasia-Michelle Paraden scored eight points to lead the Titans (4-11, 0-6), while Kylee Trammell added six.

said. “If we worry about the process and not the results so much, things will work out for us.”

Former Gladiator forward Danick Paquette scored the game’s first goal 1:36 into the second period and then was in the box for cross-checking when Atlanta tied it at 18:56.

Tulsa’s Jamie Phillips, recently named the ECHL All-Star starting goaltender, made an incredible glove save on Thomas Frazee just a few minutes after Paquette’s tally, but Frazee banged home a rebound to even the score 1-1 with 1:04 left in the second. Phillips turned aside Mark Naclerio’s initial shot from the corner and Frazee was on the doorstep to pounce on the loose puck.

All three goals came by getting to the front of the net and making Phillip’s life difficult. The Michigan Tech product finished with 27 saves in his fourth consecutive start for Tulsa.

“It’s something we’ve

struggled with a little bit lately, but I think we got back to it tonight,” Higgs said. “We just had to stick with it.”

Ginn made 40 saves, including three crucial breakaways, in his first game back since being sidelined in Florida three weeks ago. Darcy Murphy chipped a bouncing rebound past Ginn with 5:07 left in regulation to get the Oilers within 3-2. But Ginn stonewalled Phil Brewer on back-to-back tries with less than two minutes left and Atlanta held on for the win.

“You can’t say enough about Matt in net,” Higgs said. “There have been games where he stood on his head and we didn’t come through for him. (His effort) goes under the radar sometimes when we lose or we win high-scoring games, but it’s him that gives us that backbone to be able to play with confidence. Because we know he has a big save in him back there — and a hell of lot of them.”

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Norcross sweeps Parkview hoops From Staff Reports NORCROSS — The Norcross girls basketball team improved to 6-0 in Region 7-AAAAAAA on Thursday with a 57-39 win over visiting Parkview.

Taylor Mason and Devyn Wilson led the Blue Devils (16-1) with 11 points and seven rebounds each. Vanessa Blagmon and Tehya Lyons each added 10 points.

BOYS HOOPS BOYS HOOPS Norcross 85, Parkview 47 NORCROSS — The Norcross boys also remained undefeated in Region 7-AAAAAAA action with an 85-47 win over Parkview on Thursday.

Rayshaun Hammonds led the Blue Devils (14-3, 6-0 region) with 19 points. Joseph Toppin added 16 points, Kyle Sturdivant 14 and Dalvin White had 13.

Parkview (8-9, 1-5) was led by 10 points from Toneari Lane.

Tipoff Club honors best in early-season county basketball Peachtree Ridge: Kristian Collins, Devin The Gwinnett Tipoff Vassell Club announced its selec- Providence: Sam Burtions this week for the nette, Parker Trump best in local high school Shiloh: T.J. Massenburg, basketball from the seaGreg James son’s first two months.

South Gwinnett: Brycen Norcross swept three of Lee, D’onte Torrence the top honors, including Wesleyan: Christian team of the month in both McLean, Sean Mcboys and girls. The Blue Donough Devils’ Jesse McMillan GIRLS also was named boys Archer: Asia McCoy, coach of the month.

Autumn Newby Mill Creek’s Ashley Berkmar: Venice NguyPhillips was girls coach of en, Leonna Brooks the month.

Brookwood: N’dea Jones, The players of the Kiki Adams month selections are as Buford: Snoody Johnson, follows: Tory Ozment BOYS Central Gwinnett: Dalen Archer: Garrick Collins, Tate, Aliyah Foote Malik Sproles Collins Hill: Desiree Berkmar: Jay Estime, Al Conner, Kayla Dixon Durham Dacula: Kandy Brown, Brookwood: Bubba Par- Kendall Bollmer ham, Trae Higginbotham Duluth: Brianna Dixon, Buford: Alex Jones, Mar- Endia Banks cus Watson GAC: Robyn Benton, Central Gwinnett: Jalen Tamiah Lewis Hillery, Jalen Morgan Grayson: Alecia TorCollins Hill: J.D. Ozoh, rence, Jazmin Robinson Kenny Stanciel Hebron: Alyssa Elliott, Dacula: Arusha Hunter, McKenna Taylor Shayne Buckingham Lanier: Bailey Bassette, Duluth: Adam Flagler, Jamyah Montissol William Huzzie Meadowcreek: Kiana GAC: Hunter McIntosh, Thaddies, Arian Rumph Charlie O’Briant Mill Creek: Morgan SimGrayson: Aaron Rowe, mons, Bridget Mukasa Travis Anderson Mountain View: Kamryn Hebron: John Stewart, Collins, Eni Quinny Connor Almon Norcross: Vanessa BlagLanier: Adrian Martin, mon, Taylor Mason Isaiah Lewis North Gwinnett: Jessica Meadowcreek: Amari Belcher, Sydnee Jackson Kelly, Anyueri Castillo Parkview: Hannah Mill Creek: Christian Sadler, Diarra Smith Mancillas, Matty Dobbs Peachtree Ridge: KaMountain View: Miles milla Jones, Tiara Young Long, Spencer Rodgers Providence: Tamia FranNorcross: Rayshaun cis, Mary Beth Kindig Hammonds, Jordan Gold- Shiloh: Sharai Lay, Tanwire yiah Gathings North Gwinnett: Ethan South Gwinnett: Emani Smith, Tyler Goodson Walker, Alexis Lewis Parkview: Toneari Lane, Wesleyan: Mikayla Truitt Spencer Coombs, Amaya Register From Staff Reports

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NEW YEARS RESOLUTION #1: CHEER ON THE GLADS!

most consistent football programs in recent history. most of it was at the colIt’s made the state playoffs lege level. He began as a nine of the last 11 seasons, graduate assistant at South beginning with a state title Carolina and Auburn, then in 2006. coached at Jacksonville “We are very appreciaState, Troy, Chattanooga tive of Coach Fleetwood and The Citadel. He also as he has championed the was Habersham Central’s Peachtree Ridge program head coach in 1995 and for years,” Mathews said.

1996, as well as Carters“We wish him all the ville’s defensive coordina- best in his new role. The tor from 2007-09. urgency and significance “We are excited for of supporting our football Coach Fleetwood to be able community is paramount. to pursue other opportuniWe will begin the search for ties,” Peachtree Ridge atha new coach immediately. letic and activities director We are dedicated to bringRyan Lesniak said. “As a ing a high level of leaderschool, we are appreciaship to our program and tive for what he has done our school. Our players and including several playoff community deserve it.” berths and being the longest The outgoing coach tenured (football) coach thinks Peachtree Ridge in our school’s history. We will be in good shape gohave a lot of exciting things ing forward, too. going on including a strong, “Peachtree Ridge won’t stable, experienced staff miss a beat,” Fleetwood and several key returners. said. “Dr. Mathews and This is a highly valued po- Ryan Lesniak, Ryan has sition and we are going to been incredible as AD start seeking the best fit for coming on this year. Those the Peachtree Ridge comguys will hire a great munity immediately.” coach and Peachtree Ridge Peachtree Ridge has will continue to do really been one of Gwinnett’s well.”

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2017 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS PUBLIC NOTICE APH 2017-01-045 PLACE: City of Peachtree Corners City Hall 147 Technology Pkwy Suite 200 DATE & TIME: January 17th, 2017 7:00 P.M. PURPOSE: Alcoholic Beverage License Application Package Beer, Wine & Sunday Sales APPLICANT: ALDI, Inc. (GEORGIA) dba ALDI, Inc. (GEORGIA) # 02 6135 Peachtree Parkway Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 904-463069, 1/6,13 NOTICE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE REQUEST An application for a retail beer wine and Sunday sales has been filed with the City of Norcross Georgia by the following location to wit: Applicant/Owner: FAIZ A CHOUDHURY Business Name: CITGO FOOD & GAS Location: 1804 BEAVER RUIN RD., NORCROSS GA 30071 904-459491, 12/16, 21,22,23,28,29,30,1/4,5,6

CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS PUBLIC NOTICE APH 2017-01-043 PLACE: City of Peachtree Corners City Hall 147 Technology Pkwy Suite 200 DATE & TIME: January 17th, 2017 7:00 P.M. PURPOSE: Alcoholic Beverage License Application Package Beer, Wine & Sunday Sales APPLICANT: La Confianza Mart, LLC dba Express Supermercado 3330 Peachtree Corners Circle Ste. G Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 904-462205, 1/6,13 ALCHOLIC BEVERAGE _________________ NOTICE OF BEVERAGE LISCENCE REQUEST An Application for an alcoholic beverage permit to service beer and wine has been filed with the city of Norcross, Georgia by the following party at the following location, to wit Application Owner: Salima Alzargan Registered Agent: Jallauddin Noorani Business Name: Mobil Buford Location: 5496 Buford Hwy Norcross, GA 30071 9 0 4 - 4 6 0 8 3 6 , 12/21,22,23,28,29,30,1/4,5, 6,11

CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS PUBLIC NOTICE APH 2017-01-044 PLACE: City of Peachtree Corners City Hall 147 Technology Pkwy Suite 200 DATE & TIME: January 17th, 2017 7:00 P.M. PURPOSE: Alcoholic Beverage License Application Package Beer, Wine & Sunday Sales APPLICANT: EL Habanero Mexican Restaurant dba EL Habanero LLC 6470 Spalding Dr., Suite B Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 904-462238, 1/6,13

ALCHOLIC BEVERAGE _________________ NOTICE OF BEVERAGE LISCENCE REQUEST An Application for an alcoholic beverage permit to serve beer, wine and distilled spirits has been filed with the city of Norcross, Georgia by the following party at the following location, to wit Application Owner: PANKAJKUMAR RAMANBHAI PATEL Registered Agent: MUNIRA ALI Business Name: VP FOOD INC Location: 5245 LANDFORD PARK DR STE E NORCROSS, GA 30071 9 0 4 - 4 6 1 9 1 1 , 12/23,28,29,30,1/4,5, 6,11,12,13

CITY OF PEACHTREE CORNERS PUBLIC NOTICE APH 2017-01-046 PLACE: City of Peachtree Corners City Hall 147 Technology Pkwy Suite 200 DATE & TIME: January 17th, 2017 7:00 P.M. PURPOSE: Alcoholic Beverage License Application Package Beer, Wine & Sunday Sales APPLICANT: Gold Coast Meridian, LLC dba Cafe Songhai 3380 Holcomb Bridge Rd, Suite 1 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 904-463071, 1/6,13

PROTECT OUR PLANET PUBLIC HEARINGS NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF GA. L. 1988, P. 235 (OFFICIAL CODE OF GEORGIA ANNOTATED SECTION 50-14-1), NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF GWINNETT COUNTY WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017, AT 4:30 P.M. IN CONFERENCE ROOM “B”, GWINNETT JUSTICE A

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AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER, 75 LANGLEY DRIVE, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. SUCH MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND WILL BE HELD AND CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS. 928-463308, 1/6

ABANDONED VEHICLES: RE: 2016 Solana YN50QT-8 Scooter VIN LL0TCAPH5GY461959 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLACK TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above scooter was initially removed from Old Norcross Road and Davenport Road in Duluth, Ga. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The scooter is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Trailer & Hitches 14 Ft Utility Trailer VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR BLACK TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above trailer was initially removed from 2760 Trotters Pointe Drive in Snellville, Georgia. It is presently located at 770-381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The trailer is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: Pallet Jack SERIAL # 027245 LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR Yellow TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above pallet jack was initially removed from Interstate 85 Southbound And Boggs Road in Duluth, Ga. It is presently located at 770381-1140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The pallet jack is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 4011-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed. This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. RE: 2010 SCOOTER CHOPPER VIN NO VIN LICENSE PLATE NO. NO TAG COLOR RED/FLAMES TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The above motorcycle was initially removed from 50 St. Marlowe Drive, Lawrencville,GA, at Durant at Sugarloaf Aparments. It is presently located at 770-3811140 at 2775 Simpson Circle in Norcross, Georgia, in possession of Statewide Wrecker Service, Inc. Attempts to locate the owner have been unsuccessful. The motorcycle is deemed abandoned under O.C.G.A. 40-11-2 and will be disposed of if not redeemed.

This notice is given pursuant to Georgia Law. 928-462496, 12/30,1/6

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO SOLICIT INPUT IN THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS (DCA) HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM PHA PLAN FOR FY 2017 The Georgia Department of Community Affairs(DCA) will hold the following public hearings to solicit input on the 2017 PHA Annual Plan (http://www.dca.ga.gov/ main/News/public_notices. asp): Friday, January 27, 2017 at 2:00pm at DCA-HAD Central Office, 60 Executive Park South, N.E., Suite 178, Atlanta, GA 30329 Monday, January 30, 2017 at 2:00pm at DCA-HAD Central Office, 60 Executive Park South, N.E., Suite 178, Atlanta, GA 30329 All interested parties are encouraged to attend and participate in this process. To arrange an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in the public hearings, please call 404-679-3158 no later than Wednesday, January 25, 2017. For any additional information, please contact the Georgia DCA Housing Assistance Division at (404) 679-3158 or toll free 1-888858-6085. TDD phone users may call (404) 679-4915 or (800) 736-1155.

928-463311, 1/6,13,20,27 NOTICE The next scheduled Board Meeting is set for Monday, January 9, 2017, at 5:00 p.m. in the Board Room at Gwinnett Medical Center, 1000 Medical Center Boulevard, Lawrenceville, Georgia.

928-463325, 1/6 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF QUALIFYING DATES FOR CITY OF LILBURN MUNICIPAL GENERAL ELECTION Notice is hereby given that a General Election for the City of Lilburn will be held on November 7, 2017 for the offices of two Council Members (Posts 1 & 2). Qualifying for said election will be held on the following dates at the office of the City Clerk: beginning August 21 at 8:30 a.m. and ending August 23 at 5:00 p.m. The qualifying fee for Council member is $105.00. The last day to register and be eligible to vote in this election will be October 10, 2017. The polls will be open on Election Day from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. If there is a need for a runoff election, the date of this election will be December 5, 2017. This said notice is given to satisfy the requirements of O.C.G.A. Sec. 21-2132(d)(3).

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PUBLIC HEARINGS MCCULLOUGH TOWING 4431 BUFORD HWY NORCROSS, GA 30071 770-263-8483 12/27/16 NOTICE OF ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE The following vehicle, advertised to O.C.G.A.Code Section 40-11-12, is being stored at 4431 Buford Hwy, Norcross, Ga. 30071. 770263-8483.

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

The Vehicle was impounded from 5301 West Fairington Parkway, Lithonia, GA 30038 Ga. on 11/15/16, at the request of the property owner or manager.

Yamaha Motor Corp Waverunner VIN# YAMA2521F999 Tag# GA 0686NM 928-462547, 12/30,1/6

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS GEORGIA SINGLE FACILITY NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Notice is hereby given that Champion Self Storage at 2415 Loganville Hwy. Grayson, GA. 30017 will sell the contents of the storage units listed below at a public auction to satisfy a lien placed on the contents (pursuant to the Self Storage Facility Act of the Georgia Code). The sale will take place at the website StorageStuff.Bid on January 18th at 09:00 am. 2017. The sale will be conducted under the guidance of Cheli Rosa (AU003807) on behalf of the facility’s management. Units may be available for viewing prior to the sale on StorageStuff.Bid. Contents will be sold for cash only to the highest bidder. A 10% buyer’s premium will be charged as well as a $50 cleaning deposit per unit. All sales are final. Seller reserves the right to withdraw the property at any time before the sale or to refuse any bids. The property to be sold is described as “general household items” unless otherwise noted. #217 – Rhonda Rolax – Household Items, Clothes, Furniture, etc. #255 – Brandie Brener Hicks/Brandie BrunnerHousehold items #295 – Lisa Whitfield – Household Items #309 – Lisa Womble– Household Items. #418 – Kellie L Carlton – Household Goods #443–Priscilla Billingslea – Household, Clothes #714 – Brandie Brener Hicks/Brandie BrunnerHousehold items and Furniture #715- Kimberly Phillips – Household #729- Sam Essiete – Household Items 929-462640, 12/30,1/6

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PUBLIC SALE Killian Hill Storage will hold a public sale to enforce a lien imposed on said property, as described below, pursuant to the Georgia Self Storage Facility Act Georgia Code 104-210 to 10-4-215, at 01:30 PM on Thursday, January 26, 2Ol7 , at Killian Hill Storage , 4139 Five Forks Trickum Road, Lilburn, GA 30047.

Management reserves the right to withdraw any unit from sale. Registered or motor vehicles are sold “As Is / Parts Only,” no titles or registration.

Tenant Name; Unit#; Stored Item SHEWEGUTA MUKAHANANA; E15; HHg FELIPPE MACKLIN; G13; printing equipment 929-462521, 1/6,13

1FBSS31L9WHC09989 2002 Ford Explorer 1FMZU62E32UA86712 1998 Buick Regal 2G4WB52K5W1427506 2000 Ford Expedition 1FMRU1561YLA69672 2004 Kia Rio KNADC125X46343020 2002 Honda Odyssey 2HKRL18612H509159 2004 Volvo S60 YV1RS61T042345515 2002 Ford E-250 1FTNS24272HA26218 1995 Mercury Grand Marquis 2MELM75W9SX688042 1999 Ford E-150 1FTRE142XXHB52986 2004 Dodge Neon 1B3ES56C34D528579 2004 Nissan Maxima 1N4BA41E04C927159 1999 Mercury Mountaineer 4M2DU55PXXUJ02184 2001 Acura 3.2 TL 19UUA56601A017059 1985 Chevrolet Caprice 1G1BN69H1FY156962 1977 Chevrolet Nova 1X27U7W100768 1998 Nissan Quest 4N2ZN1113WD814146 1994 Lexus ES 300 JT8GK13T9R0016990 1997 Chevrolet S-10 1GCCS19X6V8200077 2006 Kia Spectra KNAFE121965239871 *** SALVAGE/RECONSTRUCTED *** 2004 Dodge Neon 1B3ES56C24D595318 2012 Nissan Rogue JN8AS5MT1CW613816 *** MANUFACTURER BUYBACK *** 2002 Honda Civic 1HGES16522L059109 2003 Ford Mustang 1FAFP42X63F374269 2003 Acura 3.2TL 19UUA56683A004563 929-462497, 12/30,1/6

PUBLIC SALE THESE VEHICLES WILL BE SOLD FOR PUBLIC OUTCRY FOR CASH AT STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCATED AT 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA AT 10:00 A.M. ON JANUARY 07, 2017. THE FOLLOWING VEHICLES ARE DECLARED ABANDONED AND FORECLOSED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO OCGA 40-11-5.

ESTOS VEHICULOS SERAN VENDIDOS AL PUBLICO POR DINERO EN EFECTIVO EN STATEWIDE WRECKER SERVICE LOCALIZADO EN 2775 SIMPSON CIRCLE, NORCROSS, GEORGIA A LAS 10:00 A.M. EN 07 ENERO 2017 . LOS SIGUIENTES VEHICULOS AN SIDO DECLARADOS ABANDONADOS Y CERRADOS DE ACUERDO A OCGA 40-11-5 NUEVA LOCALIZACION 770-381-1140 www.swsatlanta.com 1996 LandRover RangeRover SALPV1244TA324775 2003 Pontiac Vibe 5Y2SL62873Z454591 2002 Nissan Altima 1N4BL11E72C249452 1996 Toyota Camry 4T1BG12K8TU684734 2008 Dodge Charger 2B3KA43R58H313352 2003 GMC Envoy XL 1GKET16S636210801 2002 Honda Civic 2HGES26782H536453 1996 Dodge Dakota 1B7FL26X7TW701783 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser 3C4FY48B84T215750 2005 Buick Rendezvous 3G5DA03E95S526916 2000 Nissan Maxima JN1CA31A8YT024742 2006 Ford Five Hundred 1FAHP23136G182037 2005 Ford Freestyle 1FMZK04125GA29496 1996 Nissan Maxima JN1CA21D9TT128492 1999 Audi A4 WAUED28D2XA322900 1994 Toyota Celica JT2ST07F0R0006784 1999 Lexus GS 400 JT8BH68X5X0017696 1999 Toyota Avalon 4T1BF18B2XU349128 1997 Mitsubishi Montero Sport JA4MT31P5VP018041 1998 Ford E-350 Super Duty 1

ZONINGS CITY OF SNELLVILLE PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given to the general public that the City of Snellville has received applications from Maria Wilson (applicant), Crawler Equipment Sales, Inc. (property owner) and Steven J. Archer (Executor) for Junior M. Archer (property owner), (case #LUP 17-02 RZ 17-03), requesting to: a) amend the City of Snellville Future Land Use Map from Low-Density Residential to Medium-Density Residential; b) amend the Official Zoning Map from RS-180 (SingleFamily Residence) District to R-HOP(55)-SF (SingleFamily Housing District for Older Persons); and c) request for variance from Sec. 6.4.33(c) of the Development Regulations to allow an eyebrow cul-de-sac for an age restricted (55+) 30 lot, detached single-family residential subdivision with amenity area and pond on a 15.636± acre tract located near Lenora Church Road, Maple Street, and Poplar Street, Snellville, Georgia (Tax Parcels 5027A 025, 027, 029, 036, 039, 040, and 069).

A Public Hearing with the Planning Commission, as p

ZONINGS provided by law, is scheduled for Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. at the Snellville City Hall Council Chambers, Snellville City Center, 2342 Oak Road, Snellville, Georgia to consider said request and recommendation by the Planning Department, conduct a public hearing and forward a recommendation to the Mayor and City Council for consideration, public hearing and action at a later date.

For inquiries please call the Public Information Office at 770-985-3517 or visit Snellville City Hall, Department of Planning and Development, 2342 Oak Road, 2nd Floor, Snellville, Georgia 30078.

Application information may also be found on the Cityís website at www.snellville. org.

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

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BRING ALL OFFERS! .51 Acre Beautiful Lot Which Has Privacy Fence On Each Side and Chain Link Across The Back.

Previous Home Burned Down But This Lot Has Gas, Sewer, Water, Phone, and Electric.

Access To Honey Creek Clubhouse & Amenities Available For Additional Fee $19,500 Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealty professionals.com

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