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Vol. 46, No. 179
Area native part of fight against Zika By Erika WElls erika.wells@gwinnettdailypost.com
Joyce naumis gets her bagged filled with supplies by Jenni Morgan at the Kroger Classroom Supplies Giveaway at the infinite energy Center in Duluth on Thursday. (Photos: Cole McCauley)
Preparing for pupils
Kroger gives away over $70K in classroom supplies
While Florida health officials look into what may be the country’s first Zika infection from a mosquito, a Dacula native is working to battle the virus. Since January, Haley McCalla has helped the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta with its efforts to lessen the impact of the virus. “There will be more interest here in the United States when we have the first case transmitted directly from a mosquito,” McCalla said. Now, the country could be Haley McCalla experiencing what McCalla described as a non-travelrelated case that may be in Miami-Dade County in Florida. Florida’s Department of Health is working with the CDC and testing mosquitoes in the area, the health department announced Wednesday. The virus can spread through mosquito bites, from a pregnant woman to her baby and by sexual transmission. Symptoms may
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By katE Croxton
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DULUTH — On Thursday morning, hundreds of elementary, middle and high school teachers went through a line at the Infinite Energy Center to load up $50 worth of classroom supplies. The Teacher Supply Giveaway event, hosted by Kroger’s Atlanta Division, is intended to make the school year easier by gifting more than $70,000 in products to Atlanta-area educators. “We are so excited to be able to give back the community,” said Customer Communications Manager Lori Smith. “Teachers do so much for our kids. We need to help them.” The Duluth event was held at the same time as another in College Park. Each teacher checked in using a county photo ID. Some educators were too busy preparing for the approaching school year and sent colleagues in their place. “Some teachers are back in meetings so they are not able to come during that time slot,” said Public Affairs Coordinator Nancy Gore-Scott. “This is our way of thanking the teachers for all they do for us.” The teachers were given a blue Kroger bag and walked down the line, collecting sup-
Group fighting sex trafficking gets new CEO By Joshua sharpE joshua.sharpe@gwinnettdailypost.com
start of the school year,” Hytowitz said. “Throughout the school year, you are always having to buy tissues and stuff like that. Having this is one less thing you have to buy. It helps me and my fellow teachers that aren’t here. If someone needs an Expo marker, I can hand that off and I don’t need to worry about it. “I know my summer is ending when I start doing this,” Hytowitz added with a laugh. “It is tradition now.” The event coincides with the
The statistic horrifies Bob Rodgers: as many as 400 girls — some no older than 14 — are reportedly victims of sex trafficking in Georgia every month. Rodgers, former president of Richmont Graduate University, is now taking the helm of Norcrossbased nonprofit Street Grace to do his part to help. The organization provides resources for victims and spurs awareness in Gwinnett County and around metro Atlanta. “I am extremely proud to Bob be assuming the Street Grace Rodgers leadership role,” the incoming CEO and president, a Gwinnett resident, said in a news release. “I’ve been involved in this cause in a volunteer capacity for many years and am honored and grateful for the opportunity to work alongside business and community leaders full time to end this injustice.” Rodgers counts as the second president of the nonprofit, which was founded in 2009.
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A table full of supplies is passed out to teachers at the Kroger Classroom Supplies Giveaway at the infinite energy Center in Duluth on Thursday. (Photo: Cole McCauley)
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plies as they went. “We have copy paper, construction paper, hand sanitizer, paper towels, Ziploc bags, Band-Aids,” Smith said. “We have all kinds of neat stuff that they can use with their kids. We want to make sure we reward the teachers.” The event came to be when teachers’ stipends were taken away and they were forced to pay out of pocket for their
supplies. The supplies are chosen to satisfy the teachers’ needs. “Years ago, we talked to teachers and asked them what were the products that they had to go buy themselves and needed the most,” Smith said. “It has been consistently the same, pretty much from year to year and it is very wellreceived.” Neil Hytowitz, a sixth-grade science teacher in Fulton County, has attended the event five years in a row and finds it helpful. “It eases a little bit of the
Board of Education members tour Gwinnett’s new schools By kEith FarnEr
Mozley, the principal of the school, stood in the media center of the new Coleman Middle School — J.W. Mozley gave a named after Coleman — on sheepish grin when asked Main Street in Duluth after about Brooks Coleman’s he gave a tour on Thursday appearances at his new afternoon to the Gwinnett school. County Board of EducaHonestly, they’re about tion and senior leaders of as often as one might expect Gwinnett County Public from the longtime state Schools. Coleman Middle representative who spent his and Baldwin Elementary in career in education. Norcross, which the group “You never know when also toured earlier Thursday, he’s just going to pop in,” are set to open for the first Mozley said of Coleman. time on Aug. 8. “But he’s very ecstatic and Coleman will be the is very honored … he’s still smallest middle school in very, very emotional about Gwinnett with about 600 it every time he talks about students, while Baldwin exit. … He’s still on cloud pects about 1,100 students. nine.” Baldwin is on the property keith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com
Coleman Middle School Principal J.W. Mozley, right, begins a tour of the new Duluth school for members of the Gwinnett school board Thursday. The school will open Aug. 8. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner)
of the former Summerour Middle School on Price Place that was renovated in the last 13 months.
Baldwin is named after Beauty Baldwin, who in 1984 became the first black woman to be the superinten-
dent of a school district in Georgia when she took over Buford City Schools. She served in that role for 10 years before her retirement. Inside the media center at Baldwin Elementary, furniture is decorated in pinks and greens as a nod to Baldwin’s sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha. Mozley returns to the building, which originally opened in the late 1950s, that he attended for middle school when it was Duluth Middle School in the 1990s. “It’s an honor for me to be back in the Duluth community and lead this great school,” Mozley said of the district’s flagship STEAM school, which integrates sci-
ence, technology, engineering, arts, math and humanities. The arts offerings at Coleman will be dance, visual arts, theater arts, band, chorus, orchestra, guitar and music technology. Arts will be offered during connections periods and integrated in the core academic areas. At Baldwin, students from kindergarten to second grade will have enhanced science and humanities offerings, while third- through fifth-graders will have a focus on STEM. Baldwin is also home to one of the district’s new dual language immersion
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