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Fatal Tucker fire ruled accidental Other agencies still investigating

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TUCKER — The timing was apropos.

On Tuesday, a few hours before the Gwinnett County Medical Examiner said the fire that killed three mem-

bers of the Patterson family was accidental, a demolition crew began tearing down the house, littering ashes of the family’s life together across the yard. A faint scent of charred wood escaped from the pile full of loose insulation, old pots, tools and leftover Christmas wrapping

Brent Patterson, right, stands on the scene of his burned home on Feb. 10, the morning after his wife and daughters died in the blaze near Tucker.

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Kathy Patterson and daughters Madelyn, 9, and Kayla, 12, died of smoke and See FIRE, Page 2A

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Student, Navy vet back to school after hardships

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LAWRENCEVILLE — Life was pretty sweet for Max Doster in the mid-1980s.

A track and field star at Hunter Huss High School in Gastonia, N.C., Doster earned an athletics scholarship to Western Carolina University in 1985. Doster pursued a degree in physical education, but during his second year, his mother’s medical needs took precedent and he left school to support his mother and younger brother.

That began a series of challenging circumstances that ultimately caused him to re-evaluate his life, family situation and where he lived. But in the last decade, his family situation has improved and he’s back on campus.

“Worth it, because I had to do a lot of growing up,” he said last week. “It forced me to say, ‘Hey man, you’ve got to make better decisions. You have to keep going.’”

In the late 1980s, he got married and had a child, but by 1992, a company relocaton left him unemployed.

The couple then had a second child, but within only a few years, they were divorced, he was out of work, had a car repossessed and was soon homeless. His mother also died.

Staying in motels, gazebos and where he could outside, Doster was homeless for about two or three weeks, he said, “but when you’re homeless and you don’t have nowhere to go, it seems like it’s months.”

“I was too proud to tell my family,” he said. “Because here I was in high school, I was this track star … went to Western

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When he finally arrived, he was a mature 30-year-old, which proved to be a blessing as he was looked at as a “big brother” figure to the teenagers also joining the Navy.

“That helped me, because that kept my mind off of being away from my kids, because I was separated from them for so long,” he said.

Doster was initially stationed

Gwinnett County commissioners may roll back the county’s millage rate by nearly half a mill next month to keep property tax revenue flat from last year.

The millage rate is the rate used to determine how much a property owner owes the county in taxes. County Chief Financial Officer Maria Woods and Chief Appraiser Steve Pruitt said preliminary figures on the tax digest show enough growth that commissioners would have to tentatively roll the general fund millage rate back by 0.404 mills to reach a revenue-neutral level.

Officials won’t know the exact tax digest and rollback figures until updated property value figures are taken into account later this month. The tentative rollback rate is 6.825 mills.

“I expect we’re going to roll back the

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Top, Georgia Gwinnett College student Max Doster, a Navy veteran, talks with his son Corey and granddaughter, Ariyanna, last week in the school’s library. Above, Doster returned to college in 2014 when he was divorced and homeless after losing a job. He plans to graduate next year with a degree in political science. (Staff Photos: Keith Farner)

Carolina, didn’t get to finish, so I felt like a loser coming home.”

So while Doster had a lifelong dream of joining the military in hopes of seeing the world, his main goal at the time was to find a residence.

“That was the hard part,” Doster said, “is just knowing, every person (who) wants to go serve his country … is going for one particular reason at that time, I remember telling my friend, ‘I’m having to join just to have a

place to stay.’”

Not only did Doster find new job security, he saw places around the world he only previously saw on television or in books.

While Doster had plenty of personal challenges, joining the military took on an added burden in the form of a year delay because he couldn’t join with three dependents. His divorce wasn’t final, and with two kids, it took him a year to officially join the Navy.

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A 18-year-old man was killed after trying to help a younger friend who was being robbed near Norcross early Saturday, police announced Tuesday.

Jimmy Rodriguez of Lilburn was reportedly driving his tan Volvo XC90 when the two robbery suspects shot multiple rounds at Rodriguez’s SUV at about 12:28 a.m.

“The senseless loss of life in this situation is very sad and unfortunate,” Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Deon Washington said in a news release. “We ask for support from the community in this investigation and are hopeful that an arrest will be made quickly.”

The victim and his two male passengers were traveling on Graves Road when Rodriguez saw a 15-year-old friend on a bike being confronted by two Hispanic men at Graves Road and East National Circle, according Gwinnett County police.

Moments before Rodriguez drove up, the

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Gwinnett Clean and Millions OK’d in water system contracts Beautiful, BOC end recycling bank lease mit Constructors Inc. and WWPS/WPS Joint Venture.

“This contract provides on-call demand services for Gwinnett County commaintenance, repair, rehab Under the terms of the ter- missioners voted to renew and troubleshooting at our mination agreement, Gwina total of $14.5 million in water production and water nett Clean and Beautiful has contracts for water and sewer reclamation facilities,” Deuntil July 31 to remove its system repairs on Tuesday. partment of Water Resources belongings from the property.

The money is spread Deputy Director of Facilities Earlier this year, Gwinnett across three annual contracts Jeff Boss wrote in a May Clean and Beautiful officials with multiple companies.

31 letter to the county’s said they were closing the The work covered in the purchasing department. bank, which had been in excontracts ranges from “No minimum or maxiistence for 30 years, because construction to repair and re- mum amount of work is it as no longer needed due to habilitation work on various guaranteed and work is growth in recycling by private components of the county’s procured on an ‘as-needed’ haulers. water system, depending on basis. The recommended Deputy County Adminwhat is needed over the next contractors have performed istrator Phil Hoskins told year. satisfactory and have met all commissioners on Tuesday The largest contract is requirements in the original that the Gwinnett Clean and a $7.5 million agreement bid. This is the final of three Beautiful board had already with Crowder Construction renewal options.” approved the termination Company, Lanier ContractWhile the size of that agreement. ing Company, Western Sum- agreement is large, it is down

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Gwinnett commissioners terminated the county’s lease with Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful for the group’s recycling bank in Duluth on Tuesday, about two months after the center closed its doors.

Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful announced in February that it would close the recycling bank at 4300 Satellite Boulevard. The group had leased the property since 2000, but the recycling bank closed at the end of April.

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“Increases in redevelopment and new economic development in the cities, CIDs and unincorporated portions of the county have increased the need for work under this contract.”

Similarly, Lan told purchasing officials in March that the $2 million contract was related to utility relocation and CIP projects. Both contracts are the second of three renewal options.

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from the previous contract award amount of $9 million, according to county documents. The county spent only a little more than $4 million on services during the previous contract period, however.

The other two contracts, worth $5 million and $2 million, were awarded to John D. Stephens Inc. The larger of the two contracts is for the construction and rehabilitation of gravity sewer mains.

The other one is for the construction and rehabilitation of pressurized water and sewer pipes.

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Fire department spokesman Capt. Tommy Rutledge soot inhalation, Dr. Carol A. said investigators are still Terry told the Daily Post. reviewing lab results as they “There’s no physical eviare received. dence that this fire was set,” The investigators could end Terry said. up disagreeing with Terry’s The ME’s determination ruling, though the ME’s office follows months of scrutiny and investigators from other of purportedly inconsistent Gwinnett agencies tend to statements made by husband be on the same page during and father Brent Patterson, prosecutions. the lone survivor of the Feb. 9 Brent Patterson’s take on blaze on sleepy, leafy Pointer the situation is unknown. An Ridge near Tucker. employee at the restaurant he “I just can’t imagine anyruns in Austell, Italian Oven, body indicting this man based said he wasn’t available Tueson what I’ve seen,” Terry said, day afternoon. adding that her findings are Questions do linger. based on toxicology reports How exactly the fire started and information from the fire remains unknown, or at least department’s investigation. unreleased by authorities.

The ruling, however, Why was the mother found doesn’t necessarily mean the still in bed? case is over.

Terry said Kathy PatterDistrict Attorney Danny son’s blood alcohol concenPorter said Tuesday he was tration at the time was .242. still waiting for a report from For perspective, the legal the fire department to make a limit to drive in Georgia is decision on whether to seek .08. There have been previous charges. reports that Kathy Patterson Asked about Terry’s ruling, drank often. If those reports Porter said: “Remember, are true, Terry said, “that that’s not binding on me.” level would not necessarily be incapacitating.”

“She could have been asleep at the time of the fire — which may have been aided by alcohol consumption,” Terry said.

One daughter appeared to have been in the bed also before the floor collapsed

under them, authorities have said. The other daughter was behind a couch, though the reason isn’t clear.

Brent Patterson has been silent publicly since authorities said they were investigating inconsistencies in his story. He said he went downstairs after hearing the popping of the blaze and wasn’t able to get back upstairs to save his wife and daughters because the flames had spread.

Authorities have said the fire apparently started in the living room, in the area of an electric-powered reclining couch flanked by two lamps, across from the fireplace.

The next morning, Patterson was at the scene, seemingly dazed.

He had tears in his eyes when he turned to tell a reporter on the other side of the caution-tape line what happened.

“They just,” Patterson said, “they got burned to death.”

The next morning he was at the house again, speaking with reporters, including some from an Atlanta TV station who would later call his statements into question.

Statements such as what time the fire took place.

Was it 8:30 or 9:30 p.m.?

Investigators brought up more substantive questions about Patterson’s statements.

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“The conflicting statements given by Mr. Patterson could not explain the fire behavior, fire patterns, or the speed of the fire spread,” the search warrant affidavit for the house said. “Also, the minor injuries sustained by Mr. Patterson are not consistent with his explanation of his actions that evening in either of his accounts.”

Terry said Tuesday inconsistencies could’ve been the result of inhaling carbon monoxide or trauma.

“The mind plays crazy tricks on you sometimes,” she said. “He may not know what actually happened.”

Terry said she finalized her report after speaking with the fire department and learning that there was no evidence of any accelerants used in the fire or other findings to suggest Brent Patterson started it. She also said toxicology tests for the victims revealed nothing unusual. (Because of the reports of the wife’s drinking, alcohol wasn’t a surprise, Terry said.)

The ME said she can understand how the fact that only the husband survived raises suspicions, but she has found them unwarranted.

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world&nation FBI advises no charges for Hillary

By John Whitesides and Julia Edwards Reuters

LONDON — Interior minister Theresa May opened up a strong lead over her nearest rival, Andrea Leadsom, on Tuesday in the contest to become Britain’s next prime minister, but the race was overshadowed by post-Brexit carnage for property investors and the pound.

In symptoms of market concern about the economic impact of leaving the European Union, sterling hit new 31-year lows and three funds investing in British property said they were suspending trading because too many people were rushing to withdraw their money at once.

May won 165 votes in a first ballot of Conservative members of parliament and Leadsom, a junior energy minister, won 66, increasingly the likelihood that Britain will get only its second woman prime minister after Margaret Thatcher.

WASHINGTON — The FBI recommended on Tuesday that no criminal charges be filed over Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers while she was secretary of state, but sharply rebuked the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate for “extremely careless” handling of classified information.

While FBI Director James Comey’s announcement lifted a cloud of uncertainty for Clinton’s White House campaign, his strong criticism of her judgment is likely to fuel a continued onslaught on the email issue by her Republican presidential rival, Donald Trump.

In a lengthy statement on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s conclusions from its yearlong investigation, Comey directly contradicted statements Clinton has made while defending her use of the private email setup.

He said, for example, that Saudi king vows the FBI found at least 110 emails that contained classito fight religious fied information when they extremists were sent, although she has repeatedly said she never GENEVA/DUBAI — The sent or received classified king of Saudi Arabia warned information on her private his country would strike servers. with an “iron hand” against “Although we did not find people who preyed on youth clear evidence that Secretary vulnerable to religious exClinton or her colleagues tremism, a day after suicide intended to violate laws govbombers struck three cities erning the handling of the in an apparently coordinated campaign of attacks.

In a speech marking Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that celebrates the end of the House Speaker Islamic holy month of Ramadan, King Salman said a Ryan criticizes major challenge facing Saudi Trump ‘star’ tweet Arabia was preserving hope WASHINGTON — U.S. for youth who faced the risk House of Representatives of radicalization.

“We will strike with an Speaker Paul Ryan on iron hand those who target Tuesday sharply criticized the minds and thoughts…

Republican presidential of our dear youth,” Salman, candidate Donald Trump’s 80, said.

Twitter post depicting Four security officers Democratic rival Hillary were killed in Monday’s Clinton against a backdrop attacks that targeted U.S. of cash and a Star of David, diplomats, Shi’ite Muslim saying anti-Semitic images worshippers and a security have “no place in a presidenheadquarters at a mosque in tial campaign.” the holy city of Medina.

“Candidates should know that,” Ryan, the highestranking elected Republican, Bangladeshi said in an interview with police may have radio station WTMJ in Milwaukee, two days before shot hostage, missed warnings Trump was due to meet House and Senate Republiof an attack cans in Washington.

DHAKA — Bangladesh “I really believe he’s got police shot dead the pizza to clean up the way his new chef of a Dhaka restaurant, media works,” he said, in a mistakenly thinking he reference to Trump’s social was one of the militants media efforts. The presumpwho killed 20 people, and tive Republican nominee misread online warnings of has frequently used Twitter an impending assault, police to skewer his opponents and and government officials push his proposals. said on Tuesday.

New details from interRepublicans push views with the officials and back on efforts the first information report registered at a Dhaka police to legislate guns station painted a picture of WASHINGTON — U.S. security agencies slow to congressional Republican deal with Friday’s attack, leaders on Tuesday resisted one of the country’s deadliest.

Democratic demands for a “This was the first time in vote on gun-control meaBangladesh such a thing had sures and warned that some taken place. Nobody was could face punishment for an prepared for it. They did not unusual sit-in last month that realize the gravity of the situ- tied up the House of Repreation initially,” H.T. Imam, sentatives for 25 hours. a political adviser to Prime With Democrats already Minister Sheikh Hasina, told rejecting a Republican gun Reuters in an interview. “Ini- bill and warning of possible tial response was slow.” further protests, the House — From wire reports appeared to be heading for

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PEOPLE In Cosby criminal case, accuser facing scrutiny

NEW YORK — Comedian Bill Cosby faces the latest court hearing this week in his sexual assault case in Pennsylvania, but his attorneys will again try to shift attention to his accuser.

Lawyers for the 78-yearold entertainer are set to ask a judge to throw out the charges leveled by Andrea Constand, who says Cosby drugged and assaulted her at his Philadelphia-area home in 2004.

If the Cosby case proceeds to trial, U.S. media attention will focus once more on the debate over the justice system’s handling of sexual Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the National Education Associaassault cases. tion’s 95th Representative Assembly in Washington on Tuesday. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque) Cosby’s defense team classified information, there she would accept the said, it was a mistake to use has made it clear their trial strategy will be to discredit is evidence that they were recommendations of career her personal email and she Constand’s account. On extremely careless in their prosecutors and the FBI di- would not do it again. We Thursday, his lawyers will handling of very sensitive, rector on whether to charge are glad that this matter is argue Constand should have highly classified informaClinton for mishandling now resolved,” spokesman been required to testify at a tion,” Comey said. emails.

Brian Fallon said. preliminary hearing in May But he said the FBI The FBI probe has He did not respond to and face cross-examination. concluded “no reasonable dogged Clinton for the past questions about Comey’s prosecutor” would bring year, contributing to her low rebuttal of the main argucharges. “Although the De- poll ratings on honesty and ments Clinton has offered in Madonna moved partment of Justice makes trustworthiness. Republicans defense of her email. to tears by Kenyan final decisions on matters have pointed to the controTrump has hammered like this, we are expressversy as evidence that she Clinton on the issue, saying case of child rape ing to Justice our view that considered herself above the the investigation should NAIROBI — Pop star no charges are appropriate law. disqualify her from being in this case,” Comey told Clinton’s campaign was president, and he is unlikely Madonna was reduced to tears during a trip to Kenya reporters in Washington. anxious to move on after to let up. as she listened to a man deHis recommendation will Comey’s announcement, On Tuesday, he said the scribe how his five-year-old likely stand. The counsaying in a statement it was FBI decision was unfair. daughter had been recently try’s top prosecutor, U.S. “pleased” with the FBI deci- “The system is rigged,” he raped by a neighbor in NaiAttorney General Loretta sion. said on Twitter. “As usual, robi’s Kibera slum.

Lynch, said on Friday that “As the secretary has long bad judgment.”

The U.S. singer met the man during a visit to Kibera, of Hawaii after rescue crews one of Africa’s biggest found their overturned boat slums, on Saturday and Sunabout 25 miles offshore. day. She had gone there to The Coast Guard identisee how she could improve fied the missing men as the lives of its residents, a Jensen Loo, Clinton Oshima spokesman said. and Derek Tomas, all 30 “This was an incredibly years old, said Petty Officer powerful and disturbing con2nd Class Tara Molle, with versation about the realities the public affairs office. of violence in these people’s Molle did not know if the lives,” said Trevor Neilson, men were from the area, but who manages Madonna’s they were known in the fish- Raising Malawi and Ray of ing community, she said.

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Freddie Gray case Medal of Freedom a gay nightclub in Orlando, In that first attack, the recipient, reform BALTIMORE — The Florida, in which 49 people body of a homeless man was were gunned down. discovered on fire between a fourth Baltimore police leader Mikva dies officer facing charges in the Hours before he was due highway and train tracks in CHICAGO — Abner to discuss gun legislation the Mission Bay area of San death of black detainee FredMikva, who served as a die Gray opted for a bench with two Democratic lawDiego, police said. makers who led the sit-in, The victim, a 53-year-old trial on Tuesday as prosecu- White House adviser, federal judge, congressman and tors seek their first convicHouse Speaker Paul Ryan man, was pronounced dead tion in the high-profile case. mentor to President Barack said he believed their proat the scene.

Obama, has died at age 90, Lieutenant Brian Rice, posals would violate the U.S. On Monday before dawn, 42, is the highest ranking of his Chicago nonprofit orgaConstitution and warned that a 61-year-old man was nization said on Tuesday. the six officers charged in he would not “incentivize” discovered bleeding with Mikva, who died on MonGray’s death in April 2015. more disruptive behavior. trauma to his upper body, day, emerged in the 1950s as less than 4 miles south of the He died after suffering a a liberal reform leader who broken neck while being first attack, police said.

Police seeking transported in a police trans- defied an electoral culture He was rushed to a hosman in killing of in Illinois dominated by port van. pital with life-threatening machine politicians before His death a week after two homeless injuries, and was still listed moving on to Washington. being arrested triggered in critical condition on Tuesmen in San Diego Obama, who presented rioting in which nearly 400 day, Nisleit said.

Police in San Diego on Mikva the Presidential On Monday morning, just buildings were damaged or Tuesday were seeking a man over an hour after the disMedal of Freedom in 2014, destroyed in the majority possibly connected to the covery of the badly wounded black city of 620,000 people. credited Mikva with steering him into public service as a slaying of two homeless men man, a third victim was During a pretrial hearlaw school student. and the wounding of a third discovered near some tennis ing, Rice elected to have “He saw something in over the holiday weekend, Baltimore City Circuit Court courts in the Ocean Beach officials said. neighborhood about 3 miles Judge Barry Williams decide me that I didn’t yet see in myself, but I know why Police were calling the his fate rather than a jury. to the west of the second he did it,” Obama said in a man a “person of interest” Williams has acquitted two attack, police said. statement. “Ab represented and not a suspect and they officers, and a jury deadthe best of public service provided few details on what Coast Guard locked in a third case. himself and he believed in connects him to the attacks Rice is charged with searches for three involuntary manslaughter, empowering the next genon the three men. eration of young people to Witnesses saw the “person missing fishermen second-degree assault, two shape our country … of interest” near where the counts of misconduct in ofThe U.S. Coast Guard “Like so many admirfirst attack occurred on fice and reckless endangersaid on Tuesday a search Saturday, and he was capment. He is free on $350,000 ers, I’ve lost a mentor and a was ongoing for three miss- bail. friend.” tured on surveillance video — From wire reports inside a local store wearing a ing fishermen off the coast — From wire reports

Four U.S. airports to open automated security lanes this fall Reuters Four major U.S. airports plan to speed up security checks by automating the distribution of bins for travelers’ carry-on bags, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and American Airlines Group Inc. said on Tuesday.

American’s hubs in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth and Miami will open the automated lanes this fall, which are expected to decrease wait times

Must read by 30 percent, the airline and TSA said in a joint statement.

Long security lines at U.S. airports this spring caused thousands of travelers to miss their flights and prompted criticism of TSA by airlines and other industry groups.

In an interview last month, American’s CEO Doug Parker said the world’s largest airline was working with airports to roll out

the faster lanes, already in place at rival Delta Air Lines Inc.’s Atlanta hub.

At the four airports, automated conveyer belts will move bins for carry-on luggage through X-ray machines and divert those with suspicious items to a separate area, preventing bottlenecks. After screening is complete, the belts automatically move the bins back to the start of each lane.

American and TSA also said they plan to add computed tomog-

raphy, or CT scans, for carry-on bags at a checkpoint in Phoenix by year-end.

The technology, currently in use for checked luggage, could allow travelers to leave carry-on liquids and laptops stowed in their bags.

“Think of the time — and bins! — that saves,” American’s Chief Operating Officer Robert Isom said in a letter to employees on Tuesday, shared with Reuters, noting that the airline is spending nearly $5 million on the new

lanes.

“Neither initiative is a slam dunk to solve TSA woes, but they are both huge steps in the right direction,” he said.

American has said the TSA must add enough staff to handle checkpoints during peak travel times without relying on airlines to contract extra airport staff. Earlier this year TSA projected it will screen 15 percent more people than in 2013, with 12 percent fewer agents.

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Seborrheic dermatitis is common DEAR DR. ROACH: I would appreciate any advice on dealing with seborrheic dermatitis. I have scratched areas until I bleed. I was told to use Selsun Blue shampoo and hydrocortisone cream, which help. It affects my back, face and scalp. Is this caused by sebaceous glands in skin? — S.L. ANSWER: Seborrheic dermatitis is a very common problem, but what causes it is incompletely understood.

The most current theory is that it is due to a reaction to a fungus on the skin, Malassezia, which colonizes the skin in people with seborrheic dermatitis. The fungi grow in areas with lots of sebaceous glands, which secrete oils to moisturize the skin. The most common locations are on the face, especially the sides of the nose, the eyebrows and the scalp. It can appear on the trunk, where it can be confused with other skin conditions. Most people come to the doctor because of the appearance; itching is fairly common, but you describe worse itching than I usually see. A skilled clinician, such as a dermatologist, usually can make the diagnosis just by looking at it, but a skin biopsy is occasionally necessary.

Because your body seems to be reacting to the yeast, you were prescribed Selsun Blue, which contains selenium. It reduces the body’s inflammatory response.

Steroids, the most gentle of which is hydrocortisone, also reduce inflammation on the skin. Tar shampoos (such as T-gel) also have antiinflammatory properties and are more effective in some people. Sometimes, physicians recommend treatment with an antifungal shampoo to reduce the amount of yeast.

Since it seems you have had only partial response to the steroid and selenium, it might be worth a trial of tar shampoo or antifungal shampoo. These are sold over the counter, but prescription strengths are available.

Ketoconazole gel or cream may be prescribed for use on your face.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 78-year-old retired airline pilot recently diagnosed with midstage ALS. I’m exhibiting all the classic symptoms. There are no treatment options other than Rilutek, which gives only an additional six months at most, with some serious side effects. I have been reading about a very promising drug called GM 604. Can you possibly expand on this drug? They claim it has arrested progression in 7 out of 8 trial subjects. I know it’s a rare disease, but the outcome is fatal except in a few isolated cases — Stephen Hawking, for one. The company claims “compassionate dispersal,” I would imagine to get around the Food and Drug Administration. — J.P. ANSWER: I did read through the results of the GM 604 trials, and although the evidence is preliminary, the drug appears to be safe.

The study results and case reports show significant improvement. The results are far from definitive, however.

Given that there are no other good options (Rilutek is quite limited, as you say), I certainly would recommend you try the drug, either as part of a study or through the drug company.

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In 1854, the Republican Party was formally launched at a convention in Jackson, Michigan.

In 1892, 16 people were killed during fighting between guards and striking steelworkers at a Carnegie Steel Co. plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania.

In 1942, diarist Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in a “secret annex” in a warehouse in Amsterdam.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), painter; Nancy Reagan (1921-2016), actress/first lady; Merv Griffin (1925-2007), TV personality; Janet Leigh (1927-2004), actress; Tenzin Gyatso (1935- ), 14th Dalai Lama; Ned Beatty (1937- ), actor; George W. Bush (1946- ), 43rd U.S. president; Sylvester Stallone (1946- ), actor; Geoffrey Rush

(1951- ), actor; Brian Posehn (1966- ), actor/comedian; 50 Cent (1975- ), rapper; Kevin Hart (1979- ), actor/ comedian; Pau Gasol (1980- ), basketball player; Manny Machado (1992- ), baseball player.

TODAY’S FACT: Future Beatles bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at a fair in Liverpool, England, on this date in 1957.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1957, Althea Gibson became the first AfricanAmerican athlete to win a tennis title at Wimbledon.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “I paint flowers so they will not die.” — Frida Kahlo TODAY’S NUMBER: 49,200 — fans in attendance at Major League Baseball’s first All-Star Game, held on this day in 1933 at Comiskey Park in Chicago. The American League defeated the National League by a score of 4-2.

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Child of atheists is ostracized over religion Dear Amy: The other day my 11-year-old daughter “Cristal” came home very upset because her friend’s mother won’t allow her daughter to be Cristal’s friend.

The other mother happens to be a conservative Christian, and thinks Cristal will be a “bad influence” because she comes from a secular family.

My husband and I are atheists, but we stay relatively neutral about religion when it comes to the children (we don’t have any problem with their participating in Christmas concerts, Easter egg hunts or bar mitzvahs with their friends and classmates).

They will be free to convert to any faith when they are older, should they choose to do so (so far they haven’t expressed an interest).

I don’t know what to say to my daughter. I just never expected, especially in these times — given all the conflicts you hear about between people of different religions — that anybody could have an objection to someone with no religion.

— Atheistic, But Not Amoral Dear Atheistic: Young adolescents are not always completely reliable reporters, and so if you really want to dive into this, you should contact the parents of the other child, and respectfully ask if they have any objections to the two girls being friends.

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Amy Dickinson situation is as reported, then this presents an opportunity to educate your daughter about tolerance (and intolerance). She might be interested in learning the basics about religion and different faith practices, and also about your rational understanding of the world and your choice not to believe.

You should explain that some people are afraid of others who are different — or have different ideas — than they have. Tell her that it’s not personal and that you know it hurts, and that one answer she can give to her classmate is, “I know your parents don’t want you to be friends with me, but my parents say I can be friends with everybody.”

I applaud your own tolerance concerning the faith practices of other people. Exposing your daughter to the beliefs and rituals of religions will be an important aspect of her education.

Your family’s tolerance will be her guiding light.

Keep shining.

Dear Amy: My 9-year-old grandson played Little League

baseball this year, as the youngest member of the team. He did not know any of the other kids on the team.

He has worked very hard, “toughing” it out through practice and games.

In a recent game, he got an opportunity to pitch. Unfortunately, he made an error and threw over the first baseman’s head, trying to get an out.

The first baseman then threw over the catcher’s head and my grandson failed to cover home plate. All the parents in attendance and all three of his coaches were yelling at him. He managed to pull it together and get the third out of the inning.

Once in the dugout, one of the coaches started yelling at him again, saying his bone-headed play had cost the team three runs.

My grandson was left shell-shocked on the bench. He sobbed all the way home. The next week when it was time to get ready for baseball, he said he did not want to go.

My son is working with him, trying to get this gentle, mild-mannered little boy back into playing. But honestly, I don’t know if he ever will want to play again.

So here’s a thought for you Mr. Jerk Volunteer Coach.

How about we get someone three times your size to jump down your throat when you make a mistake? And for all you

“generous” volunteers: If you don’t have the temperament to work patiently with young kids, just stay home.

— Not A Fan Dear Not A Fan: Congratulations, overbearing coaches and parents — you’ve alienated another child and squashed that child’s potential.

This is hardly what youth sports is supposed to be about.

Your family should continue to play baseball together and have fun doing so. Next season, if your grandson doesn’t want to play baseball (or even if he does), his folks should explore a martial arts class for him. This builds strength, coordination and confidence in boys and girls.

Dear Amy: “Probably Overprotective Mom” described a scenario where her son’s ex-girlfriend suddenly turned up pregnant.

My brother faced this.

He supported a child for 18 years, who he later learned was not his. DNA testing is a must.

— Been There Dear Been There: I agree.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: askamy@tribpub.com.

You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or “like” her on Facebook. Amy Dickinson’s memoir, “The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter and the Town that Raised Them” (Hyperion), is available in bookstores.

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Don’t wait to get started on something new. Take action and show off your skills and talents. The experience you gather will lead to valuable knowledge, excitement and adventure.

Don’t sit back when you should be moving forward and living your dream. Make love a priority.

CANCER (June 21July 22) — If you rearrange your surroundings, it will motivate you to make headway on a project that needs to be finished. Exercise and nutrition will contribute to a better appearance.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — If you don’t want to be disappointed, rely on yourself to get things done your way. The personal changes you want to make will not turn out according to plan.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Review what you have done and what you have left to accomplish. Organization and preparation will help you avoid delays. A discussion with a loved one will resolve a pending problem.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — If you listen more and talk less, you will avoid getting caught in an uncomfortable situation. Put more effort into helping someone in need.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Present your ideas in order to get help to expand your plans into something quite special. Take ownership and make all the arrangements necessary to follow through on your goals. Romance is encouraged.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Don’t let added pressure keep you from doing what’s best for you. A change you make will help you cut your costs, leaving more cash for entertainment and personal changes.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Make plans to get together with someone you want to do business with.

Joining forces with a person who shares your goals will make the ride to success easier.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — You’ll thrive in situations that motivate you to show what you have to offer. Share your story, express your feelings and form an alliance with someone special.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Make plans with children, a friend or a loved one.

Whatever you experience will help you make choices that will improve your life. Don’t be afraid to try something different.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Refuse to get into a disagreement at work or home.

It’s better to make personal changes that will leave you feeling good about your health and finances.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Discuss work-related matters with someone who can help you bring about satisfactory changes. Indulge in something that will improve your insight and appearance.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Make plans to improve your home life.

Bring about change, but do the work yourself.

Depending on others will be costly and will not bring the results you want.

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A liberal by a woman’s name is still a liberal Have you heard that Hillary Clinton is the “first woman” ever to be nominated for president by a major political party? Of course you have. The media have repeated the line so often it is broken news.

Hillary Clinton’s nomination and the euphoria in the press (one NPR female reporter said she has seen women weeping over the possibility of Hillary becoming president) eclipses any discussion about the real issues facing the country.

To quote Clinton in another context, “What difference does it make” that she is a woman?

Cal A liberal is a liberal, Thomas regardless of gender, race or ethnicity.

Must we go through an entire list of “firsts” before we get to someone who can solve our collective problems, instead of making them worse? Many of those cheering this supposed progress in American culture, which follows the historic election of the “first African-American president,” are insincere, if not disingenuous. Otherwise, they would have applauded the advancement of African-Americans like Gen. Colin Powell, Justice Clarence Thomas, former one-term Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and conservative women like Sarah Palin, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, and many others.

Immigrants who entered the country legally and became citizens are virtually ignored by the media. They champion instead illegal immigrants and the liberals who support them.

The reason for this disparity in attitude and coverage is that conservative blacks, women and Hispanics hold positions anathema to the left. Conservative AfricanAmericans have been called all kinds of derogatory names in an effort to get them to convert to liberal orthodoxy, and they’re ostracized if they don’t convert. If conservative, a female is likely to be labeled a traitor to her gender, or worse.

Notice how the term “women’s issues” is used by the media and certain politicians to suggest that there is only one acceptable position for females on any given topic. To the left, women’s issues appear to mean abortion rights, same-sex marriage, higher taxes, bigger government and electing more women who favor such things.

When it comes to accomplished conservative female leaders, one of the greatest and smartest of our time was the late Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan’s consequential U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

As Jay Nordlinger wrote in his review of Peter Collier’s book “Political Woman” for National Review, “In a saner world, Jeane Kirkpatrick would have been lionized by feminists. She had risen from the oil patch to the commanding heights of U.S. foreign policy. But her views were ‘wrong.’”

Collier writes that Kirkpatrick, who was a Democrat most of her life, recalled feminist icon Gloria Steinem once referring to her as “a female impersonator.”

Author Naomi Wolf called her “a woman without a uterus” and claimed that she had been “unaffected by the experiences of the female body.” Kirkpatrick responded, “I have three kids, while she, when she made this comment, had none.”

The left gets away with these kinds of smears because they largely control the media and the message. No Republican could escape shunning, or worse, if such language were employed against a female Democrat.

Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, born in Philadelphia to Philippine citizens, has written about some of the printable things she’s been called — “race traitor,” “white man’s puppet,” “Tokyo Rose,” “Aunt Tomasina.”

As the cliche goes, if liberals didn’t have a double standard, they would have no standards at all.

There’s an old joke about a woman with five children who was asked if she had it to do over again would she have five kids.

“Yes,” she replied, “just not these five.”

As the husband of a successful woman with a master’s degree and accomplished daughters and granddaughters, that’s how we feel about Hillary Clinton. We’re all for a female president, just not this one.

Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@ tribpub.com.

Kids these days make a difference I have no idea what it’s like to be a kid these days.

And I know the easy thing to do is complain about what they don’t do or what they could do better.

But then you read a story like the one we ran in Sunday’s Community section about 16-year-old Kendall Robinson and you take a deep breath because you are reminded of the amazing things kids these days are doing at such a young age.

In Robinson’s case, the Suwanee resident who will be a rising junior at Greater Atlanta Christian has started a nonprofit called Love Rolls.

She, with the help of her friends and major donations from some corporate sponsors, collects toilet paper that is donated to homeless shelters and other entitites

Todd Cline Editor that serve the homeless. This isn’t some cute, lemonadestand-in-the-front-yard type of deal. Robinson has a warehouse where the rolls are stored, which makes sense when her mother, Felicia, states that Kendalls’ corporate sponsors have donated more than 75,000 rolls so far.

If you are impressed by Robinson’s drive, you aren’t the only one. She’s received commendations from Presi-

dent Barack Obama and Gov. Nathan Deal. But what has meant the most to her is the feedback she’s received from the people she is helping.

During one toilet paper giveaway she got to speak with a homeless man who told her he was thrilled with the donation.

“They really are grateful and appreciative of what we’re doing,” Robinson said.

Kendall isn’t alone when it comes to Gwinnett students doing big things to help the less fortunate. Earlier this year, Peachtree Ridge High School junior Lauren Seroyer was co-winner of the United Way’s inagural SPARK Prize. For her efforts, her nonprofit — called The Care Closet — was awarded $25,000.

Seroyer said she started a food pantry program at

Peachtree Ridge after a classmate asked her for some of her breakfast at school one day, telling her he wasn’t getting enough to eat. With the cash influx from the United Way, Seroyer thinks she will be able to establish pantries at just about every high school in the county within the next two years.

“It’s truly amazing to know that I’ve had these opportunities to help students in need and that I was able to do something,” Seroyer said.

Those are just two examples of the types of things kids these days are doing in Gwinnett. It is both impressive and inspiring to see people so young doing so much good for the community. Good examples for us all — both young and old.

For millions, hunger doesn’t take a holiday CHICAGO — Though summer tends to deliver a few opportunities to put our feet up and take it easy, hunger never takes a holiday.

But while many of us served up juicy hamburgers and barrels of potato salad over the holiday weekend, more than 48 million Americans won’t be getting enough to eat.

That’s because summertime is particularly difficult for both people who live with food insecurity and the organizations that help them access free food, according to Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization.

Not only are children who are on summer break missing the breakfasts and lunches they would have gotten at school, but parents, who often are subject to the fluctuations of weather for work, struggle to pay for expanded child care and extra food.

Simultaneously, the nation’s food banks scramble to staff pantries and events when individuals and groups of volunteers, such as the Scouts and school-based community service organizations, are off on vacation.

And food pantries are not immune to the whims of weather.

“Food banks in Arizona and New Mexico just don’t do summer feeding because there aren’t enough volun-

Esther Cepeda teers, there isn’t enough food, and not enough money to get food out to the remote rural areas scattered throughout counties,” said Ross Fraser, director of media relations for Feeding America. “And I repeatedly hear that in states with drought conditions, fewer crops are being planted, which means less donated fresh fruits and vegetables and more farmworkers who aren’t working enough to sustain themselves. Then the farmworkers end up turning to food banks in greater numbers just to get by.”

In some places, the need is so great that food banks resort to unconventional ways to get food to the people who need it the most.

For instance, in Las Vegas, an ice-cream-style truck will be delivering 300,000 meals to a variety of locations this summer, serving about 126,000 food insecure kids in the area. Similarly, Vermont has a “Veggie Van Gogh,” starry-night motif truck that delivers produce to housing projects, schools

and clinics.

Dayton, Ohio, does massive food distributions monthly in arena parking lots that serve thousands of families at a time. So does Fort Smith, Arkansas, with its summertime “Antioch in the Park” event, which distributes food to approximately 1,700 individuals over the course of just three hours.

The Arkansas event is organized by Antioch Consolidated Association for Youth and Family Inc., led by Executive Director Charlotte Tidwell, who told me that the need is so great, and the large donations so plentiful, that it’s become necessary to hold events in the park just so there is enough space to accommodate the huge number of volunteers, pallets of food — and the people arriving to stock up.

“We hold the event in the most low-income area of our community and the area that is most accessible since there is no public transportation [in Fort Smith],” Tidwell told me.

But the park has its own challenges. “Arkansas is very, very hot, it’s like the sun only shines on Fort Smith. We’ve been out on days where it’s 100 degrees and it’s a real challenge.

Not only does the food need to be protected to stay safe, but the elderly come out and stand in the heat for it; people come out with their

little children; veterans and other people with disabilities come out and wait in the heat for hours just to get some food,” Tidwell said.

“We have to have paramedics, nurses and emergency responders standing by. We have bilingual volunteers going up and down the long, snaking lines of thousands of people handing out cold water and distributing snacks for the kids.

And we have volunteers to help those with disabilities transport their food.”

Such is the challenge of feeding communities that are in dire need — communities where those seeking food assistance are likelier than not to be working poor.

Research indicates that underemployment is the biggest predictor of food insecurity among people living in the United States — more than half (54 percent) of Feeding America’s client households reported at least one employed person at some point in the past year.

Tidwell says that what local food banks need most is cash donations, because they get plenty of food but need funds to help distribute it to the neediest.

Every dollar counts. If you have a few to spare, consider feeding hungry fellow Americans your act of patriotism.

Esther Cepeda’s email address is estherjcepeda@ washpost.com.

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David Anastasia David J. Anastasia, age 51 of Buford, GA, passed away on July 2, 2016.

Crowell Brothers Funeral Home and Crematory, 201 Morningside Drive/ PO Box 2434, Buford, GA 30518. 770-945-9999.

Please sign the online guest book at www.crowellbrothers.com

Laura Blackmon (Bobby) of Duluth; grandchildren, Makayla, Austin, Ashley, Kris, Raven and James; brothers, Tony Coker, Steve Coker, Leon Coker and sister-in-law, Phyllis Coker, brothers and sisters-in-law, Daryl, Ronnie and Lori Ann Whittington.

He was preceded in death by his brother, Anthony Coker. The family will receive friends one hour prior to service at Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory Duluth Chapel.

obituaries

FLOWERY BRANCH

Edward Evans Edward Lee Evans, age 61, of Flowery Branch GA passed away on July 1, 2016. Service and Arrangements will be announced later by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

DULUTH

John Flynn LAWRENCEVILLE

Carol Barona Carol Linda Barona, age 70 of Lawrenceville, GA passed away July 2, 2016. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel 1031 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville GA, 30046 770-277-4550.

NORCROSS

Henry Cole Henry Leon Cole, age 71 of Norcross, GA passed away July 3, 2016. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel 1031 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville GA, 30046 770-277-4550.

CUMMING

Shirley Braswell Shirley Patricia Braswell, age 77, of Cumming, passed away on Monday, July 4, 2016. Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory, Lilburn/Tucker Chapel, (770) 564-2726.

BRASELTON

Ellyn Bray Ellyn Williams Bray, age 85, of Braselton, GA passed away on July 2, 2016. Service and Arrangements will be announced later by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

SNELLVILLE

Sharon Cosme Sharon Regina Cosme, age 68, of Snellville, GA passed away on July 1, 2016. Service and Arrangements will be announced later by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

LAWRENCEVILLE

Mary Dillard Mary Sue Dillard, age 69, of Lawrenceville passed away Monday, June 20, 2016.

LILBURN

Augusta Brown Augusta Adams Brown, age 91, of Lilburn, GA, passed away June 30, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770979-3200, www.wagesfuneralhome.com

John W. Flynn, age 62, of Duluth, GA passed away July 1, 2016 at his home. The son of Betty McGrath Flynn of Pleasantville, OH who survives and the late Eugene Flynn, John was born March 21, 1952 in Zanesville, OH. He was a graduate of Fairfield Union High School and Ohio University. A self - taught potter, artist, woodcarver, and collector, his most recent passion was restoring antique radios.

John is survived by his wife, Jane Murray Flynn; daughter and son-in-law, Emily M. Flynn and Beau Johnson; and his greatest joy, his grandson, Benjamin Murray Johnson all of Duluth, GA. He is also survived by his sister, Kathy Flynn Ardrey, sister and brother-in-law, Sharon and Jon Walton all of Lancaster, OH; nieces and nephew. John was preceded in death by his brother, James Flynn, niece, Jamie Ardrey and sister-in-law, Marilyn Murray.

A caring cremation has taken place. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the charity of your choice.

A memorial service will be held at a later date.

Condolences may be sent by visiting www.billheadfuneralhome.com.

Bill Head Funeral Homes & Crematory Duluth Chapel (770)476-2535.

SNELLVILLE

Frederick Drennon Frederick “Gene” Drennon, age 73, of Snellville, GA, passed away July 1, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770979-3200, www.wagesfuneralhome.com

NORCROSS

Jason Gilbertson Jason David Gilbertson, age 35, of Norcross passed away Saturday, June 25, 2016.

HULL

Fred Brown Mr. Fred Eugene Brown, age 71, of Hull, GA, who passed away on Friday, July 1, 2016.

JEFFERSON

Rilla Carter Mrs. Rilla “Nettie Mae” Carter, age 71, of Jefferson, who passed away on Saturday, July 2, 2016.

HOSCHTON

Nicholas Castronova Nicholas Raymond Castronova, age 71, of Hoschton passed away Monday, June 27, 2016.

DULUTH

James Coker

LAWRENCEVILLE

Kenneth Easter Kenneth H. Easter, age 76, of Lawrenceville, GA formerly of WinstonSalem, NC, passed away Friday, July 1, 2016. He is survived by his wife of 46 years Sandra Easter; sons, Jon Easter and wife, Anne; David Easter and wife, Natalia; Joseph Easter and wife, Julianna; grandchildren, Charlie and Ben Easter; Maris Lee; sister, Judy Renfro and husband, Harold. Those desiring may make a donation to Hebron Baptist Church, 202 Hebron Church Rd, Dacula, GA 30019 or to American Parkinson Disease Association Georgia Chapter at apdageorgia.org.

James Douglas Coker, age 68 of Duluth, died July 3, 2016. A Memorial Service will be held 11:00 WINDER AM Thursday July 7, 2016 at Bill Head Funeral Home Willie Etheridge, Sr. Duluth Chapel. Mr. Coker Willie Stancil Etheridge was born in Acworth, GA Sr., age 73 of Winder, and was a self employed passed away July 2, 2016. independent title examiner.

He is survived by his wife, Judy Coker; sons, Jason Coker (Kim) of San Diego, CA and Kristopher Coker of Duluth; daughter, l k ( bb )

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Hudson, Jr. will be held Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 11:00 am at Wages Lawrenceville Chapel with Rev. Robert Anderson and Dr. Stephen Peeples officiating. Entombment White Chapel Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends Tuesday, July 5, 2016 from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm at the funeral home.

Condolences may be viewed or sent to www. wagesfuneralhome.com.

Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Lawrenceville Chapel 770-9632411 has been entrusted with the arrangements. .

DACULA

Evelyn Mason Evelyn Johnson Mason, age 99 of Dacula, Georgia, passed away July 2, 2016.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Lawrence Wiggins Johnson and Janie Lazenby Johnson; her husband of 55 years, Newton W. Mason; 2 sisters, Dovie Parks and Corrie Hudson; and a granddaughter, Julie Peters. Survivors include her daughter and son in law, Mary and Wayne Peters of Dacula, her son and daughter in law Joe and Linda Mason of Snellville; and two grandchildren, Janice Jernigan (Mark) of Woodstock, GA and Danny Mason of Snellville. A Marietta, Georgia native, Evelyn lived in Decatur before moving to Gwinnett County where she has lived for the past 43 years. She was a dedicated Christian and member of Mountain Park First Baptist Church, and the Church’s Joy Spreaders Sunday School Class.

A loving wife, mother and grandmother, she enjoyed spending time with her family and working in her yard. A service to honor and celebrate Evelyn’s life was held at 3:00 pm Sunday, July 3, 2016 at Tom M. Wages Snellville Chapel. Interment followed at Floral Hills Memory Gardens in Tucker. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www. wagesfuneralhome.com.

Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company, Snellville Chapel 770-979-3200 has been entrusted with the arrangements.

BUFORD

Elmer Hartley, II Elmer Lee Hartley, II, age 46 of Buford, GA, passed away on July 1, 2016. Crowell Brothers Funeral Home and Crematory, 201 Morningside Drive/PO Box 2434, Buford, GA 30518. 770945-9999. Please sign the online guest book at www. crowellbrothers.com

DACULA

Brose Hudson, Jr. Brose “Tater” Hudson, Jr. age 81, of Dacula, GA passed away Saturday, July 2, 2016. He is survived by his loving wife of 28 years, Carol Hudson.

Daughters and son-inlaw, Sharon Ferizovic of Dacula, GA, Lynn and Jay Mitchell of Dunwoody, GA; son and daughterin-law, Tony and Mindy Hudson of Lawrenceville, GA; step daughter, Tracey Spruell and her husband Brad of Carrollton, GA; 11 grandchildren and 2 greatgrandchildren.

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Margaret McDougald Margaret Helton McDougald, age 79, of Oakwood GA passed away on July 1, 2016. Service and Arrangements will be announced later by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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month battle with cancer.

She lived a fulfilling life helping others and touching many people in a very special way. Valerie loved her church and singing in the choir where she performed several solos, rejoicing and honoring God. Valerie was a graduate of Shamrock HS, class of ‘73, in Decatur, GA. She was a member of New Hope Baptist Church in Lawrenceville where she was a choir member, soloist, and a member of Ladies Fellowship. Valerie was also a former member of Clarkston Baptist Church & First Baptist Church Tucker.

She retired from the DeKalb County School System after working 18 years as a media clerk.

Previously, she worked at various hospitals, clinics, and doctor’s offices. She spent many years working as a volunteer in cross-cultural ministries teaching adults and children of all ages through ESL classes, Sunday school, vacation bible school, Back-Yard Bible Club and mission trips into various states.

After Hurricane Katrina, Valerie helped rebuild a church and community in Biloxi, MS. She also served as a caregiver for her mother and other elderly ladies, and she was an avid Mary Kay saleslady who loved to be pretty.

Valerie is preceded in death by her father: Bobby Chester Leach; stepfather: John Kennedy; maternal grandparents: James Ausbon & Rillie Irene Bowman; paternal grandparents: James & Ruby Leach, Lawrenceville; first husband: Harold Blaise, Jr. She is survived by her devoted & loving husband: Daniel Francis Nahill, Clarkston, GA; sons: Derik Ian Blaise, Stone Mountain, GA; Daniel Alan Blaise, Breckinridge, CO; mother: Rillie Mae Leach Kennedy (Bowman), Tucker, GA; brother & sister-in-law: James David & Joyce Leach, Lawrenceville; sister & brother-in-law: Cindy Ellen (Leach) & Glenn Bowman, Greenville, NC; step-sister: Ruth Kennedy, Shire, Tigrai, Ethiopia; step-brothers & spouses: David & Sonja Kennedy; Apsely, Victoria, Australia; Stephen & Penny Kennedy, Horsham, West Sussex, England; in-laws: Francis (Frank) John & Yvonne (Vonnie) Grace Nahill, Bushnell, FL; former in-laws: David (Dave) & Barbara (Bobbie) Kribs, Magnolia, TX; many aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, & friends.

Valerie will be cremated & laid to rest in the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Lawrenceville, GA in her family’s plot next to her daddy and step-father during a small ceremony following her funeral. The family will receive friends from 2-4 PM & 6-8 PM on Thursday, July 7, 2016 at Tim Stewart Funeral Home: 300 Simonton Rd SW L

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770-962-3100. Funeral services will be held at 11 AM on Saturday, July 9, 2016 at New Hope Baptist Church: 1945 New Hope Rd. Lawrenceville, GA 30046. Please leave online condolences at www.stewartfh.com

ATLANTA

Julius Oakes Julius Hill Oakes, age 91, of Atlanta GA formerly of Lawrenceville, GA, died, July 2, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC “A Family Company,” Lawrenceville Chapel, 770-963-2411 www. wagesfuneralhome.com .

WINDER

Donald Sadosky Donald Carlton Sadosky, age 68, of Winder passed away Thursday, June 23, 2016.

WINDER

Louise Sewell Louise Sewell, age 95 of Winder, formerly of Duluth, died July 3, 2016.

Funeral services will be held 2:00 PM Thursday July 7, 2016 at Bill Head Funeral Home Duluth Chapel. Interment White Chapel Memorial Gardens, Duluth. Mrs. Sewell was born in LaGrange, GA and worked as a bus driver for 19 years in Duluth with the Gwinnett County School System.

She is survived by her daughter Bette Herre (Artie) of Winder, sons Charles Sewell (Melanie) of Auburn, David Sewell of Gainesville, Ray Sewell of Auburn and Royce Sewell of Duluth; eight grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

Online condolences may be sent by visiting www. billheadfuneralhome.com The family will receive friends Thursday 12:00 PM until time of service at Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory Duluth Chapel, 770-476-2535.

STONE MOUNTAIN

Dianne Sikes Dianne Williams Sikes of Stone Mountain, Georgia, passed away Sunday, July 3rd 2016, at the age of 77.

Dianne is survived by her husband Dale Sikes of 58 years, her daughter Micki Sikes Dickerson (Gordon Dickerson), grandchildren Abigail Dianne Wahl (Caleb Wahl), Hunter Kerns, Katie Dale Hill (Matthew Hill), and great-granddaughter Jennifer Dianne Wahl. Dianne attended South West Dekalb High School, class of 1957, where she met and married her high school sweet heart, the love of her life.

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Valerie Nahill Valerie Diane Blaise Nahill (Leach), age 59, was born on November 26, 1956 in Duluth, GA and passed away peacefully at her home on July 3, 2016 in Clarkston, GA. She was surrounded by her husband, sons, mother, siblings and their spouses, and Aunt Brenda. Valerie rose victorious after a 14 m hb l ih

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obituaries Day School (Kiddie Korral) first on Wesley Chapel Rd. in Dekalb County and then in Lilburn, Georgia for the past 53 years. Dianne had a servant’s heart and was devoted to loving and nurturing children at the daycare center and dedicated to serving The Lord through Jack Ballard Church Builders and Christian Church’s Disability Ministry. Dianne’s loving and humorous spirit will be missed by all that know and love her.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, July 9, at 11:00 am at Mount Carmel Christian Church in Stone Mountain, Georgia. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the

church. In lieu of flowers, the family requests for donations to be made in her memory to Jack Ballard Church Builders at 614 Beaver Ruin Rd. Lilburn, Ga. 30047.

Online condolences may be expressed at www. crowellbrothers.com. Arrangements entrusted by Crowell Brothers Funeral Homes and Crematory, 5051 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Norcross, GA 30092. 770-448-5757.

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to roll their general fund millage rate, they would be breaking from the school system, which decided to keep its millage rate the same. The county and the school system levy separate millage rates on properties.

The county’s rate is set by commissioners, while the school system’s rate is set by the Board of Education.

Gwinnett property owners could benefit from a roll back by commissioners on the county’s millage rate, though.

“This is very simplified, because it doesn’t include any exemptions, (but) it’s just basically taking for every $100,000 in fair market value, there’s a reduction of $16 in their general fund property taxes,” she said.

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Shana Thomason Shana Lee Thomason, age 31, of Winder passed away Saturday, June 25, 2016.

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Son Tran Son N. Tran, age 53 of Lawrenceville, GA passed away July 4, 2016. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel 1031 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville GA, 30046 770-277-4550.

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He’s on the same campus with his daughter, India, 22, in Norfolk, Va., and went to a criminal justice major, and school to be an operations wife, Pamela, also a political specialist. He was on an old science major, who are each ship called the USS Shrevetaking classes at GGC. He port, which was about 30 and his wife were high school years old when he arrived. sweethearts, reconnected “Some of the old-school through a mutual friend and Navy guys, they looked at me classmates.com in 2003, to be that almost immediate engaged in 2004 and married leader guy for the younger in 2006. guys, (and I) did well there,” Doster enrolled as a politisaid Doster, who was procal science major to be better moted from seaman to third educated about the country, class and then second class government and political petty officer quickly. system. As a disabled veteran, Then medical issues arDoster is not sure he could rived, first in 2003 when he work a regular job, but he behad three feet of his colon lieves he would use his degree removed because of too many for humanitarian work. bouts with diverticulitis. Then Along with the rest of his back issues came the follow- family, including a son and ing year, which included a stepson, Doster said he wants spinal fusion. them to see that no matter Doster, 49, still has linger- what goes on, that nothing ing back issues following two ends just because a dream surgeries that led him to being falls short. medically discharged from the “I’m wanting them to see Navy in 2005. But he’s on a that their old man didn’t quit,” path to graduate from Georgia he said.

Gwinnett College next year Doster openly shares his with a degree in political story to help people avoid the science. path he traveled.

“Or you fall into a rut, or you fall into some disappointments,” he said. “It may halt your career you want to do for a while, but it doesn’t stop it all the way. You can always bounce back. For so long I kept some of this stuff with me because I was embarrassed to tell someone. … But then I started thinking, maybe this will help someone else. Either they’ve been in a similar situation, or keep them from being in this situation.”

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Dacula’s Hermes makes U.S. Paralympic team From Staff Reports

It is the first Paralympics berth for Hermes, a 15-yearAfter a successful week- old who is legally blind and end at U.S. Paralympic is a student at Gwinnett OnSwimming Trials in Charline Campus. The Paralymlotte this weekend, Dacula pics are Sept. 7-18 in Rio, resident McClain Hermes following the completion of has earned a spot on the the Olympics.

U.S. Paralympic Team comShe is one of 21 women peting in Rio de Janeiro, on the U.S. team, which Brazil, later this year. also includes 10 men.

Hermes fared well at Paralympic Trials, beginning with a first-place finish Thursday in the 400 meter freestyle finals of the S12 Classification, one of three classes for blind swimmers. She swam the race 5 minutes, 17.07 sec-

Dacula resident McClain Hermes, a Gwinnett Online Campus student, made the U.S. Paralympic Games See HERMES, Page 4B Team on Sunday. (Special Photo)

to do it. What else am I doing this summer?’ I took the weekend to think about it, but I knew I was probably going to accept it.”

It was, admittedly, a little weird coming back as the head coach of the team she swam for since she was in grade school.

“It’s crazy now because this is where I learned and now I’m back teaching little 4- and 6-year-olds to do the same thing,” said See MONTEON, Page 4B

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Lindsey Monteon is the head coach of the Woodland Brook swimming team, a Gwinnett Swim League program her parents helped found. She also just finished her first year teaching and coaching at Mountain View. (Staff Photo: Christine Troyke)

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For the first summer in years, Lindsey Monteon isn’t working at Chickfil-A. And it’s a pretty short walk to her new job.

Monteon is the head coach for the Woodland Brook Blazers, a Gwinnett County Swim League team her parents helped found, and only has to cut through the woods behind their house

commuted from Athens all year, but when she was approached about swimmers with disabilities heat coaching the Blazers this 9:20 a.m. — Ages 9-10 season, Monteon opted to Session 2 move back home for the 3:15 p.m. — Ages 13-14 summer. and 15-18 “(The board) recognized Sunday my last name,” Monteon Session 3 said. “Someone said, ‘Hey, 9:15 a.m. — Ages 8-andone of your founders is under coaching out at Mountain Session 4 View,’ and Jennifer Minor, 3 p.m. — Ages 11-12 our councilperson, reached out to me. and was hired at Mountain “I didn’t think about it View as a Spanish teacher very long. That day I was and swim coach. She like, ‘I think I’m going

GWINNETT SWIM LEAGUE What: Gwinnett County Swim League championships When: Saturday-Sunday Where: McAuley Aquatic Center, Georgia Tech Defending champion: Daniel Park Twisters Schedule: Saturday Session 1 9:15 a.m. — Honorary

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OMAHA, Neb. — Michael Phelps, one of the world’s most recognizable athletes, will lead a crop of new faces to Rio as a week of ruthless competition at the U.S. Olympic trials ended on Sunday and shifted the focus to the Summer Games pool.

Phelps and old foe Ryan Lochte, the 31-yearold pillars of U.S. swimming who between them have Amanda amassed Weir 33 Olympic medals, will again provide the foundation for a 45-member squad that will be a mix of experience and youth.

At one end of the spectrum are Phelps, who will compete in his fifth Games and Lochte his fourth, part of 15 swimmers with Olympic experience, including Brookwood grad Amanda Weir, in her third Olympics. At the other extreme are 30 Olympic newcomers.

Out are Olympic champions Tyler Clary, Matt Grevers, Cullen Jones and Natalie Coughlin.

In are a wave of first time Olympians, including Maya DiRado, who qualified in three events.

“Going forward we are going to have to step up to a new level and we will see some new faces step up at the top,” said Bob Bowman, Phelps’ coach who will also be in charge to the U.S. men’s team in Rio. “We have our tried-andtrue guys and I think with Michael and Ryan we’re going to be able to count on them but it’s going to be very exciting to have a new group of guys step up … and kind of take us into the next era of swimming.”

Swimmers arrived in Omaha declaring the pressure of the U.S. trials was far greater than anything they face at an Olympics, but monstrous expectations will weigh heavily in Rio where the stage is bigger, the spotlight brighter and the competition tougher.

With thumping rock music, pyrotechnics, flaming geysers and capacity crowds of over 14,000 filling the CenturyLink center for every session, the U.S. trials offered up exception-

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Ex-Blue Devil Beal commits to UGA Wesleyan’s new faces are familiar From Staff Reports

players in recent seasons.

Beal, who may project Former Norcross defen- as an outside linebacker sive end Robert Beal made at UGA, is rated as the a decision on his college No. 2 weakside defensive future Tuesday morning. end nationally and the No. Beal, who was once 30 player overall in the committed to Notre Dame, 247sports.com composite committed to the Georgia rankings. He is ranked Bulldogs over a long ofeven higher on the ESPN fer list of the nation’s top 300, which has the fivecollege football programs. star as the nation’s No. 1 The 6-foot-3, 230-pounder defensive end and the No. recently announced his 5 player overall. transfer from Norcross to He follows another IMG Academy, a Florida former Norcross defensive private school that has end, Lorenzo Carter, to the picked up several Gwinnett Bulldogs.

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to the Wolves’ program or to Gwinnett County high school football fans.

In fact, the faces of With 22 graduated Wesleyan’s offense — and seniors to replace from specifically the passing last season, it’s safe to game — should be quite say there will be quite a familiar with the hiring of few new faces around the Ed Dudley as the Wolves’ Wesleyan football program new offensive coordinator in 2016. and Andrew Frerking as the However, not all of those new quarterbacks coach. faces will be covered up For Dudley, this season with facemasks, and not all of them will be all that new See WESLEYAN, Page 4B david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Norcross’ Robert Beal (90) closes in on Valdosta quarterback Seth Shuman (17) during this year’s Corky Kell Classic game at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. (File Photo)

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Tanzanian, Kenyan win P’tree titles From Staff Reports ATLANTA — Sun, heat and humidity ruled the 2016 Peachtree Road Race. Participants and spectators of the world’s largest 10K welcomed the summer conditions on Independence Day after last year’s rainy skies.

The second annual Peachtree Cup was awarded to the top overall male and female. The men’s elite race ended with an exciting finish between three competitors. Gabriel Geay (Tanzania) narrowly beat out Daniel Salel (Kenya), who crossed the finish line first in the 2015 Peachtree Cup team competition. Geay finished in 28:48.50 ahead of Salel’s 28:48.65.

Kenya’s Philip Langat was not far behind with a time of 28:51.40.

“I’m very happy to win this race,” Geay said. “I didn’t know when I won, because those two Kenyans are very strong. But I knew I had good speed.”

For the women, two runners pulled away from the pack early in the race and dominated for the entire course.

Edna Kiplagat (Kenya) controlled the pace with Ethiopia’s Buze Diriba right behind, until Kiplagat made her move just before mile five. Kiplagat added to her lead before finishing in 32:24; Diriba crossed the line at 32:28.

“I am happy today because I have tried three times to win this race and I didn’t make it, but today I made it,” Kiplagat said.

For the second year in a row, the Kilometer Kids Charity Chase matched up our nation’s military branches in a two-part competition.

In partnership with United Military Care, Team Air Force, Team Army, Team Coast Guard, Team Marine Corps and Team Navy competed for bragging rights in two areas: The fastest military branch and the team

The leaders in the men’s division make their way down Peachtree Street during the Peachtree Road Race on Monday. (Staff Photo: Jason Braverman)

that receives the most donations for Atlanta Track Club’s Kilometer Kids youth running program through an online fundraiser.

Team Air Force crossed the line first with a commanding lead to win the footrace portion of the Kilometer Kids Charity Chase. Captain Richard Elmore finished first for his team in 37:15. Team Air Force’s cumulative time was 5:09:11.

At last check, Team Marine Corps was in the lead for the online fundraising portion of the Kilometer Kids Charity Chase with 33 percent of the donations. All proceeds will go towards expanding the reach and accessibility of the Kilometer Kids program in Metro Atlanta as part of a continued effort to encourage young people to achieve health and fitness through running. A portion of the funds raised through the 2015 Kilometer Kids Charity Chase were used to establish a Kilometer Kids program at Fort Benning, the first to be established on a military base.

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last fall and more than doubled in size for its spring season. Donations will be accepted through July 31 at charitychaseforkids.org.

Tatyana McFadden’s victory in the Shepherd Center Wheelchair Division of the Peachtree Road Race earned her the title of the winningest women in the division. The Clarksville, Maryland resident finished first at Peachtree for the sixth time in 23:14.

“It was definitely a busy weekend. There’s not much time between (Paralympic) Trials and this race, but I wouldn’t miss it for the world,” said McFadden, who was named to the Paralympic Team yesterday after winning six events. “I’m really glad to come down and it’s a great way to celebrate the Fourth.”

Josh George (Champaign, Ill.) claimed his first wheelchair division win at Peachtree in what was his 10th time competing in the race (20:19).

“It feels great. The past few years I finished second or third, so to finally get the win, it’s a pretty big one for me,” George said.

WIMBLEDON CHAMPIONSHIPS

Rolling Serena joins Venus in semis Kerber undaunted finals for the first time but Venus has five Wimbledon LONDON — Serena titles, the first coming in Williams battered An2000. She is the oldest astasia Pavlyuchenkova woman in the semifinals at 6-4, 6-4 at Wimbledon Wimbledon since Martin on Tuesday to join sister Navratilova did it at age Venus in the semifinals and 37. said she was surprised and Kerber is 3-2 against delighted the pair were still Venus Williams head-tocompeting at the top of head. their sport.

The sisters could meet The defending chamin the finals if Serena takes pion, seeking an elusive out Angelique Kerber 22nd grand slam to equal today.

Steffi Graf’s open-era Serena admitted to record, showed no sign peeking at the sidecourt of slowing down against scoreboard during breaks 25-year-old Russian as in the match. She will take they exchanged explosive on Elena Vesnina in the Serena Williams serves to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in other semifinal match. groundstrokes.

Although Venus, 36, and the quarterfinals at Wimbledon on Tuesday in London.

“I knew Venus was up, (Photo: Susan Mullane-USA Today Sports) Serena, 34, are the oldest and then they showed the women in the women’s score and I was like: yay!” singles, the latter said they opponent’s serving armory after tough losses, just to Serena said. “I’m just did not discuss retirement. in the ninth game of the continue to come back trying to win my match, They would know when first set. and continue to fight, it’s as well as my semifinal. the time came.

Pavlyuchenkova, the something that takes a lot I’ve learned this year us to “I’m surprised at the 21st seed, went for her of tenacity.” focus on the match and not longevity of it. That shots but never found a The world No. 1 — a get carried away. definitely took me by way to counter the Wilposition she has held for “Obviously I want her to surprise,” Serena said after liams attack. Nerves told more than three years — win so bad. I desperately the sisters also completed again in the same game wrapped up the victory on want her to win if I’m not a 6-4, 6-3 doubles victory of the second set, where her second match point there.” over Czech pair Andrea a series of errors allowed with a 123 mph ace for 11 On the men’s side, the Hlavackova and Lucie the American to break and in total. final quarterfinal spot went Hradecka following their then serve for the match.

Venus beat Yaroslava Sh- to 10th-seeded Tomas singles matches.

“She was serving amaz- vedova, advancing to her Berdych, who posted a 4-6, “When you’re younger ingly today,” Pavlyuchenfirst Wimbledon semifinal 6-3, 7-6 (8), 6-7 (9), 6-3 and you have a dream and kova said. “She was there since 2009. victory over fellow Czech you say it and you believe from the first point to the “This is an awesome Jiri Vesely. it, that’s one thing. But for last.” day,” she said after taking The match was tied at it to really happen and to Serena said she did 7-6, 6-2 sets from Shvetwo sets apiece when suscome true, it’s just a com- not know how she had dova. “I love playing the pended due to darkness on pletely different emotion.” developed such a potent game, I always have. Of Monday before Berdych Serena’s experience weapon. course when you’re winwas stronger throughout showed on Centre Court “I’m not as tall as all ning matches it’s sweeter the final set. Berdych will against Pavlyuchenkova, the other players. So it’s but the wins and the losses face France’s Lucas Pouille who has never gone bestrange that I have such always lead to this moin today’s quarterfinals. yond the quarterfinals at a a strong, hard serve,” she ment.”

“I’m going to try to stick grand slam. said. “But I have to say Venus rallied from 5-2 with my game, try to play The American simply what I think really is my down in the first set to with what I know the best, bided her time until she game is my mental tough- secure the meeting with try to dictate,” Berdych was able to seize on moness because just not only Angelique Kerber of Gersaid. “That’s it. I mean, ments of weakness from to be able to play, to win, many, who beat Simona there are not many secrets the Russian to ram home but to be able to come back Halep. behind it. Just being very her advantage. when I’m down.

Shvedova was playing focused from the first point She found a chink in her “Both on the court and in the Wimbledon quarter- till the last.”

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LONDON — A daunting double over the Williams sisters may stand between Angelique Kerber and a second grand slam but it is a challenge the German, having beaten Serena in January to win her first major, feels well prepared to meet.

The evidence suggests that fourth seed Kerber, just as she did when stunning the world No. 1 in the Australian Open final in January, has timed her tournament run perfectly.

Her game has improved with every round and, having struck a finely calibrated balance between accuracy and aggression in Tuesday’s pulsating quarterfinal win over Romanian fifth seed Simona Halep, is the only woman in the draw yet to drop a set.

“I’m playing really good tennis right now ...

I think I’m playing like in Australia,” she told reporters after her 7-5, 7-6 (2) win. “I know I can win such tournaments.”

Next up for the in-form German is eighth seed Venus Williams, at 36 the oldest player in the women’s singles and experiencing something of a renaissance.

When Kerber turned professional, the American already held four of her seven major singles titles and was a star on the horizon for the 15-yearold newcomer.

Since then, her relationship with both sisters has moved onto a more equal footing, and Kerber has

beaten Venus three times in the five matches they have played.

“When I came onto the tour the two Williams sisters were always the top favorites but in the meantime I have won against them both and so the respect is there,” she said. “So my perception of them both has changed over the years.”

Kerber is also in a happier place than at the French Open in May where, feeling the weight of expectation after her Melbourne triumph, she lost in the first round to unseeded Dutchwoman Kiki Bertens.

“When I arrived in Paris I was feeling much more pressure .... Also, I was not handling it so well off court,” she said.

“When I arrived here, I was telling myself, just like in Australia, just be relaxed ... just be focusing on the tennis thing.”

That confidence is reflected in her willingness to broach the issue of how she might change her game to cope with the different threat of Venus, and the admission that her serve — the part of her game misfiring Tuesday — needs to improve.

“I think Venus makes more mistakes (than Halep) but also more winners, so it will be a completely different match,” she said. “I will try to serve better ... but when it comes down to it I will have to go out and take a grip on the match.”

Kerber rates her chances of beating the older Williams at 50/50.

Record Wimbledon title no longer a pipe dream for Federer The shocking demise of top seed Novak Djokovic over the weekend not only LONDON — When elevated the Swiss to a self-styled “old guy” Roger position as the man to beat, Federer clocked that he it also raised the possibilwas on a semifinal colliity this could be the week sion course with an allwhen he finally ends his conquering world No. 1, his four-year hunt for an 18th vision of holding aloft the grand slam title.

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Draymond Green said the Golden State Warriors made a pretty straightforward recruiting pitch to free agent Kevin Durant.

The pitch last Friday in New York included two-time MVP Steph Curry, shooting guard Klay Thompson and small forward Andre Iguodala along with Green and head coach Steve Kerr, supporting the mantra of “Strength in Numbers.” General manager Bob Myers and assistant general manager Kirk Lacob also attended.

“We asked him how many championships do you think we can win with the way the team is now?

How many championships can you win without us?

How many do you think we can win together?”

Green told ESPN. Green said Durant was concerned he might disrupt the dynamic chemistry the Warriors developed in winning a regular-season record 73 games in 201516 before falling one win shy of repeating as NBA champions last month.

Over the course of the twohour meeting, the promise of more than open 3-pointers — a guarantee Green said the Warriors’ contingent did make — seemed to pique Durant’s interest.

On Monday, Durant started the July 4 holiday with the first major fireworks of NBA free agency, agreeing to leave the Oklahoma City Thunder to be a part of the Warriors.

“We told him he didn’t have to change who he is.

He doesn’t have to change how he plays. We will get him shots. If he shot 40 percent from 3-point line contested, how would he shoot wide open?” Green said.

Durant helped the Thunder to the Western Conference finals last season but has only one NBA Finals

Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant (35) reacts after a play against the Atlanta Hawks during a game earlier this season. (Photo: Mark D. Smith-USA Today Sports)

appearance, losing to the Miami Heat and LeBron James.

But Durant heard twice Friday from Curry, who Green said sent a text message to Durant to profess his commitment to championships, not endorsement deals or MVP awards.

ESPN reported the text from Curry to Durant was all about supporting teammates, not caring who sold shoes or won individual awards. Curry told Durant it would not matter which superstar was the face of the franchise.

The move sent shockwaves across the NBA but was not a total surprise to the Thunder. General manager Sam Presti said the team had a “pretty good indication” Durant was gone before his announcement Monday morning.

“I hope he feels like the experience in Oklahoma City was a big part of his growth as a person and a player, and that he’ll take that on with him, because he certainly was an integral part of the birth of our franchise, evolution of our franchise, and the legacy of our franchise,” Presti told USA Today. “Although it ended before we had hoped, no one will change the fact that he started

here and I think evolved tremendously as a result of his hard work.”

Presti would not directly engage in conversation about personnel or where the Thunder look from here to rebound, but focused on positives with Durant and Russell Westbrook, “founding fathers” of the franchise since it moved from Seattle to Oklahoma City nine years ago. Speculation ranging from the Thunder dealing Westbrook to maximize return — he’s a free agent after the upcoming season, and the Thunder get nothing in return for losing franchise cornerstone Durant — and giving him a massive contract extension was rampant Monday night. Presti said no immediate action is necessary.

“I haven’t spoken with him. I’ve texted with him, and he and I have been in contact, as I have been with a lot of our players through this process,” Presti said of Westbrook in the USA Today interview.

“This is a group of people who have been through quite a bit together, so he and I will have our conversation, and reflect on it, but I would let Russell convey and express however he feels.”

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Nowitzki, Mavericks agree to two-year deal The Sports Xchange Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks agreed to a two-year deal worth at least $40 million.

The deal can be signed today, when the NBA moratorium on contract signings is lifted.

Nowitzki played last season on a one-year deal and has spent his entire 18-year career with the Mavericks. He is sixth on the NBA’s all-time scoring list with 29,491 career points.

The Mavericks missed out on two primary free agent targets on the first two days of July, when point guard Mike Conley (Memphis) and center Hassan Whiteside (Miami) re-signed to remain with their current teams.

But Dallas did land two likely starters in Harrison Barnes and Andrew Bogut, castoffs from the Golden State Warriors who became available after Kevin Durant landed in Oakland on Monday.

Barnes was a restricted free agent but the Warriors renounced his rights to clear cap space needed to bring Durant aboard and then agreed to the deal involving Bogut. The rebuilt roster gives Nowitzki another chance to carry the Mavericks out of the first round of the playoffs for the first time since the 2011 NBA title.

Nowitzki turned 38 in June and said he is not a lock to play two more years.

He declined his $8.7 million player option for 2016-17 and became a free agent, but the Mavericks never fretted Nowitzki’s departure.

Owner Mark Cuban said last month that Nowitzki, acquired on draft night in 1998, has earned carte blanche with the franchise.

“Dirk gets to do what Dirk wants,” Cuban said.

“Period. End of story. I told him the other day: If Dirk wants to be the head coach, we’ll move Rick (Carlisle) over a little bit.

Dirk’s done so much for this franchise, he’s earned that opportunity.”

Wade will meet with Cavaliers Dwayne Wade has millions more and a lasting legacy on the table in Miami, but a reunion with LeBron James in Cleveland could get him much closer to another NBA title.

Wade will meet with the Cavaliers while his free agency situation continues to play out according to Jason Lloyd of The Sports Xchange. The cost of joining the Cavs would likely mean a significant hit to Wade’s bottom line.

The Chicago Bulls, Denver Nuggets and Heat are offering more money.

According to reports, the Bulls and Nuggets were told Wade would like a two-year, $50 million deal with a player option for a third year.

But the Heat offered the 34-year-old pillar of the franchise a deal for two years for $40 million, hoping to prevent a divorce. Wade, a 12-time All-Star, had made over $300 million in total salary since he was drafted in the first round out of Marquette in 2003.

Unless James sacrifices his own salary - as James did when the Big 3 formed in Miami five years ago along with Chris Bosh — it’s going to be up to Wade to take the deepest cut for a “Big 4” to form in Cleveland.

Even so, that looks to be a longshot, given the salary-cap limits the Cavaliers to a $3.47 million midlevel exception, could turn into reality if Wade is willing to take less money or Cleveland figures out a way to part with payroll.

Speculation that Wade could wind up with his close friend exploded on social media Tuesday afternoon after the Cleveland Cavaliers Twitter account followed these famous folks: Wade and his other half, Gabrielle Union. Wade also began following Cavaliers’ shooting guard J.R. Smith on Instagram.

A major roster shakeup could be made if James pushes for it, including dealing Kevin Love. Unloading point guard Iman Shumpert, who signed a four-year, $40 million deal last July, could get the Cavaliers in the range of $11 million for next season.

Gasol opens ‘new chapter’ with Spurs Pau Gasol confirmed Tuesday he is set to join the San Antonio Spurs when the NBA moratorium on free agent signings is lifted Thursday.

Gasol verbally agreed to a two-year deal worth $30 million. The deal features a second-year player option.

Gasol spent the past two seasons with the Chicago Bulls. Last season he averaged a double-double (16.5 points, 11.0 rebounds per game) but the Bulls failed to make the postseason.

Gasol, who turns 36 on Wednesday, was an AllStar in both seasons with the Bulls. But he declined his option on June 27 and now will make more than twice what he was earning in Chicago.

He almost signed with the Spurs back in 2014, but opted for Chicago instead.

Gasol was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks and had his rights traded to Memphis where he played until 2008 when he was dealt to the Los Angeles Lakers and won championships in 2009 and 2010.

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Penske conquering old nemeses NASCAR, Daytona

By Jonathan Ingram The Sports Xchange

The knock on Roger Penske when he began dedicating a full-time effort to NASCAR’s premier series in the early 1990s was that he couldn’t win the big ones — the Daytona 500 or the series championship.

That is pretty much ancient history since Brad Keselowski won the championship in 2012 and two Penske drivers won the Daytona 500 — Ryan Newman (2008) and Joey Logano (2015).

As if to put an exclamation point on the accomplishments of Team Penske in the Sprint Cup, Keselowski won Saturday night’s summer race at the Daytona International Speedway. That marked Penske’s 100th victory in NASCAR’s premier series — dating back to Mark Donohue’s win at the Riverside International Raceway in 1973 — and gave the team its first victory in the summer race at Daytona.

It might come as a surprise to many that team owner Penske has actually won a NASCAR race as a driver, taking first in a 250mile Pacific Coast Series event at Riverside in 1963 aboard a Pontiac Catalina owned by Ray Nichels.

The victory came to light earlier this year during the celebration of Penske’s 50th year as a team owner when a replica of the car he drove showed up at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte. It was one of 52

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Brad Keselowski (2) celebrates after winning the Coke Zero 400 on Saturday at Daytona International Speedway. (Photo: Jasen Vinlove-USA Today Sports)

wins recorded by Penske as a driver, primarily in SCCA club racing and professional road racing.

The team owner, age 79, was in winning form after the Daytona victory.

“The Captain” can sometimes dance around in his remarks, making it hard to quote him. But on this occasion, he was as persuasive and direct as one might expect from the Penske Corporation chairman.

“I would just say that the 100th in NASCAR is something special,” said Penske when asked about the landmark victory. “I think as I said earlier, to do it here on the Fourth of July weekend, it’s amazing. But it’s a byproduct of all the good people we have, and to me we’ve got to continue to remember that.

“I just think that (crew chief) Paul (Wolfe) and the team, we lose more than we win in this business, and you’ve got to know how to deal with the

downs and take advantage of the ups. And I guess 100 wins puts us in a good position. But you look at (Joe) Gibbs and you look at (Richard) Childress and certainly (Rick) Hendrick and some of the other teams, these guys have won a lot of races.”

If nothing else, Penske is a motivator. He provides his teams with the best facilities, operational equipment, budgets and talent. Then he motivates by example — a constant focus on how to get better.

And there’s no letting up.

Donohue, who helped Penske launch his success as a team owner in professional road racing and Indy cars, coined the phrase, “The needle goes back to zero.” After every win, the tachometer resets, and it is on to the next task.

The team covers so much ground because Penske organizes it as Caesar directed his army. Everybody has the confidence of

the Captain, who empowers all of his key players.

It is one captain and many, many lieutenants. That system buckles occasionally under internal conflicts, but it certainly encourages everybody to always bring his “A” game. And it drives innovation.

Race winner Keselowski fits well in this scheme, because he speaks up on his behalf strongly. He also is willing to look at things differently.

“We brought a completely different effort than what we’ve normally had here (at Daytona) and completely different approach, which was made feasible by having the two wins earlier in the season and knowing that we could try something different here,” Keselowski said. “And boy, did it pay off, so a lot of credit to my team, Paul Wolfe, crew chief, for all the things that they’re doing. Three wins, midpoint in the season, that’s a good start.”

So what took Penske so much longer to win 100 in NASCAR than in Indy cars, which was 16 years ago? For many years, NASCAR was not a priority for Penske. He didn’t go into NASCAR full time until 1991, when he started fielding cars for Rusty Wallace. It wasn’t until 1998 that Penske expanded to a two-car team.

After talking about the 100 Sprint Cup wins and the accomplishments of his peers, Penske moved on to emphasize his greater accomplishments across the board. It was a rare public

glimpse into the pride Penske takes in being America’s most accomplished race team owner. Usually, it’s matter of Penske and his guys walking out with the trophy after offering a hodgepodge of the usual post-race plaudits.

“I think we’ve competed in multiple series, and I think we’re almost at 450 wins now, and we’re I think three or four away from 500 poles,” said Penke, placing his operation into a different realm from Gibbs, Childress and Hendrick. “Our goal is 500 and 500. This was the first step to get to 100 in NASCAR.” Those are remarkable numbers, especially when one recognizes that the team is currently at a total of 434 victories and that an average of 10 victories per year will enable Penske to get to that 500-victory mark within five years or so.

Perhaps because he was in a relatively expansive mood, Penske was asked about his current drivers, each perceived to have some issues in the garage.

Alas, the softball game was over.

When asked about Keselowski’s outspokenness, Penske summed up how much the Michigan driver has brought to the team, adding, “Look, this is not a popularity contest, and anybody who thinks it is, you know, shouldn’t be sitting here tonight.”

What got Penske’s dander up was a question about Logano, who definitely has some issues with other drivers in the garage

regarding getting hit from behind by the Penske driver’s Ford. On Saturday night, it was Kurt Busch who was taken out of a chance to overtake Keselowski coming off of Turn 4 on the final lap. Busch’s Chevy ended up spinning instead of winning, thanks to Logano’s erratic pass attempt. Logano’s attitude about complaints has been “Get in line,” which doesn’t help matters.

Penske came to the defense of his driver in typically smooth fashion.

He didn’t say Logano was entirely innocent, only that he was receiving more heat than he deserved.

“Joey has taken, I think, some undue criticism from my perspective based on some of the things that have happened,” Penske said. “Certainly you can go back, and I could name three or four things that certainly weren’t his fault.”

Penske went on to praise Logano as one of the most talented drivers in the series — which nobody is disputing, except when he drops into ramming mode.

Given that Keselowksi and Logano are relatively young, look for them to help Penske have a realistic shot at 500 victories during the team owner’s lifetime.

He already has 10 this year, including six by his IndyCar drivers Juan Pablo Montoya, Simon Pagenaud and Will Power.

There are championships to be decided in both IndyCar and NASCAR, so it’s not likely to be the end of the winning for Penske in 2016.

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Argentina coach joins Messi in quitting UGA RB Juniors refused to release their players.

BUENOS AIRES — ArgenHe had already suffered the tina coach Gerardo Martino disappointment of a second has added his resignation to successive defeat on penalthat of captain Lionel Messi’s, ties by Chile in the final of the citing a leadership vacuum that Copa America. was posing problems in pickArgentina’s talismanic ing a team for next month’s captain Messi quit the interOlympics. national stage after the June Martino, whose senior side 26 reverse, his fourth defeat in lost the Copa America Centefinals with the national team nario final 10 days ago, said and third in the last two years he was quitting over a lack of including the 2014 World Cup support from the cash-strapped in Brazil.

Argentine FA in preparing an Messi complained before the 18-man squad for the Rio de final in New Jersey of a lack of Janeiro Games.

AFA support for the squad and “Owing to the lack of said he would go into detail decisions in ... the Argentine afterwards but has not spoken Football Association and seri- publicly since announcing his ous problems in choosing the international retirement. squad to represent the country Martino, a former Newat the upcoming Olympic ell’s Old Boys and Barcelona Games, the national team’s coach, took the job after Arcoaching staff has decided to gentina’s 1-0 extra-time defeat present its resignation,” an

by Germany in the Brazil final.

AFA statement said Tuesday.

Media reports said the AFA Martino was due to start owed him the last six months of work with the under-23 his salary and also criticised his Olympic squad on Monday, tactics in the two Copa America but found he had only a dozen finals against Chile in 2015 and footballers after leading clubs this year which went to penalty like River Plate and Boca shootouts after 0-0 draws.

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The AFA is under scrutiny from soccer’s ruling body FIFA over television revenue irregularities and a failure to agree on a format for presidential elections.

sacrifice but also a great deal of pride,” the 32-year-old said Tuesday.

Fonte was raised at Sporting Lisbon, the same club as Cristiano Ronaldo, although their careers have gone vastly Portugal’s Fonte had uphill different ways. climb to Euro semifinals While Ronaldo has enjoyed LYON, France — It has fame and fortune at Real Mabeen a long, hard slog to the drid, Fonte has travelled from European Championship semi- Felgueiras in the Portuguese finals for Portugal defender second tier to Vitoria Setubal Jose Fonte. and then to Pacos de Ferreira, When his country reached the followed by three seasons in last four in 2012, the center half the English second division had just helped Southampton with Crystal Palace. win promotion to the English He dropped down to the third Premier League and the idea of tier to join Southampton and playing international football has been with them through was but a distant dream. their rise to the top flight.

Fonte, who at one point spent “I had to work very hard and a season in the English third tier, I was loaned from club to club, could not even remember where always trying to improve in he was when his nation lost to different clubs, and getting to Spain on penalties four years England was the best thing that ago, saying he was “probably happened to me,” Fonte said. with my family in Portugal.”

“I learned a lot as a person and On Wednesday, he is likely player. to be in the side that faces “I reached higher levels, I Wales with a good chance of had more success, promotions, reaching the final for the secthen got to the Premier League ond time in 12 years. which helped me fulfil the big“It’s a story of work and gest dream of all.”

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Wesleyan quarterback Ramsey Banks is one of just s few returning offensive starters for the Wolves this season. (File Photo)

Wesleyan •From Page 1B will mark his return to Gwinnett County for the first time since he was head coach at Buford in 1994. In the 21 seasons since, he rolled up 168 wins as head coach at Walton, Ware County and Carrollton, bringing his career win total to 193.

And while he brings a wealth of overall football experience to the Wesleyan staff, Frerking brings a lot of specific knowledge of the program after playing for the Wolves in high school, including throwing for 2,276 yards and 32 touchdowns and leading them to a berth in the Class A state semifinals as starting quarterback in his senior season in 2010.

“Both Andrew and Ed add a lot to our staff,” Wesleyan head coach Franklin Pridgen said.

“Right now we’re far ahead of schedule in terms of installing our offense thus far (this season), and I couldn’t be any more pleased.

“We decided to split (the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach) into two jobs mainly because both of those guys were available.

When you have a coach like Ed Dudley available and interested, you have to jump on that. Andrew is not as experienced, but he gets to be tutored by a guy like Ed. And nobody knows our program like Andrew Frerking. When you have that opportunity, you always look to find that right fit. To see guys like those came in at the same time, it’s too good to pass up.”

Dudley is excited about returning to Gwinnett, even though plenty has changed — not only about the county, but about himself — since he led Buford to a 25-9 record over three seasons from 1992-94.

And he’s equally excited to be able to take a young coach like Frerking, who gradated from Baylor University in December of 2014 after walking on with the Bears for three seasons, under

his wing.

“A lot of water has passed under the bridge,” Dudley said. “The last time I was an assistant was in 1991 (under Ben Scott at Carrollton), and it was on the other side of the ball. … None of any of (Wesleyan’s current) players were even alive then. But I’m pleased to be where I am. It’s a new chapter for me, and I’m excited about that new chapter. … It’s an opportunity to get back to coaching more one-onone.

“To bring Andrew back in is tremendous. I think he’s got a great future in football. He’s got great experience playing for (former Baylor head coach Art) Briles. So I couldn’t ask for a better situation, and I’m hoping it translates into some good things on the field.”

In addition to their own experiences, both Dudley and Frerking will have a big advantage in having an experienced starting quarterback to work with in Banks Ramsey, who completed 150 of 226 passes for 1,832 yards and 14 touchdowns against seven interceptions as a sophomore last year.

“Banks is just a junior, but he’s already started 25 games for us (in his career),” Pridgen said.

“So, I think it will be real beneficial to have an experienced guy like Banks around. All the pieces are there with those three guys around.”

Dudley agrees, especially when another experienced piece of the Wolves’ passing game like rising senior Harrison Cook, who was second o the team with 52 catches for 664 yards and two TDs a year ago, also returning.

“When you’ve got a guy like Banks with his experience, and the (second) leading receiver from last year in Harrison Cook, it wasn’t like I’m coming into a situation where I’m running my own offense and having to install it. I’m running the Wesleyan offense.”

From Staff Reports

Georgia running back Sony Michel, the football team’s leading rusher last season, fractured his left forearm in an accident Sunday and underwent surgery for the injury.

Though it wasn’t specified in a UGA press release, the injury reportedly occurred while he was riding an all-terrain vehicle.

Michel underwent successful surgery Monday morning at Athens Regional Medical Center to repair the fracture, according to the release. He will begin a post-operative rehabilitation program and a full recovery is anticipated according to UGA Senior Associate Athletic Director for Sports Medicine Ron Courson.

Michel’s availability early in the season could be affected by the injury, a concern for a thin Georgia backfield that also has Nick Chubb on the mend from last year’s serious knee injury.

Monteon

board meetings with my mom at the court house at Monteon, who guided the 10.”

Blazers to a 4-2 record this Monteon’s high school, season. “It’s crazy to see Loganville Christian how it’s come full circle — Academy, didn’t have a what my parents started, swim team when she was I’m kind of taking on.” there, but the effervescent Her return also has brunette played basketball given her parents, Teresa and volleyball. and Bryan, a chance to get Coaching, and teaching, involved again. were not the plan when “I think they miss it,” Monteon headed off to Monteon said. “Now they UGA. have an excuse to come “No. I remember in back. And we’ll put them high school saying to my to work.” parents, ‘There is no way In 2004, kids from her I want to be a teacher.’ neighborhood were all go- Specifically,” Monteon ing to other teams to swim grinned. “But I love sports. during the summer.

I grew up playing them “So my family and and watching them. So I another family said, ‘Let’s wanted to do athletic trainstart a team here,’” Monteon ing. And I had Spanish as a said. “They did it. I don’t double major. think they knew a whole “Then I realized that I lot (about starting a team). loved Spanish and I wanted They had volunteered, beto do that. So, teaching. cause swim teams can’t run And I knew once I did high without parent volunteers. school, I wanted to coach But they learned. something. But I didn’t “I remember going to think I’d be coaching swim.

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Michel has surgery on forearm

They had a position for swim and now that I’m back in it, I love it. I remember how much fun it is.”

Monteon did her student teaching at Grayson and wanted to remain in Gwinnett County.

“This is where I grew up and where my family is and it’s a prestigious school system,” she said.

“I’m so happy at Mountain View. It’s a great fit for me. I had the best first-year experience ever. They say it’s the hardest year, but I didn’t think so at all. I had a great support system, a great administration. It’s a great school.”

The Bears swimming and diving head coach was on maternity leave this season. Monteon knew going in they had hired a lay coach, Amy Brown, out of SwimAtlanta. “(Brown) and I worked very well together,” Monteon said. “I learned a ton from her. I really had only

known the sport from a swimmer’s perspective.

There’s an art and a method to writing a workout. We learned a lot together but we also had a lot of fun.”

Monteon was used to coaching and teaching high schoolers, but the prospect of working with kindergarteners during the summer was a little daunting. Plus the team numbers went from around 50 at Mountain View to 160 at Woodland Brook.

“I was a little nervous coming in with the little ones, but I love it. They’re a joy,” she said. “Half the battle with the little ones is just getting them in the pool. It’s the most fun to watch them. They start and they can barely swim and by the end of the season they can make it the whole way (down the pool). It’s fun, too, because they look up to the big kids and they all cheer for each other. It’s really cool.”

Hermes

in 1:37.33, though she was slightly faster in prelims onds, shaving 10 seconds (1:35.28) earlier in the day. off her personal best.

On Friday, Hermes was The Dynamo club swim- first in her only event, the mer also was first in the 50 free, in 34.59 (after a 100 breaststroke Thursday 34.30 swim in prelims).

Hermes posted a Paralympic qualifying time Saturday in the 100 backstroke, swimming 1:24.75 in prelims, lower than her seeded time of 1:26.09. She lowered that time to 1:21.88 in the finals

for another first-place finish.

Hermes competed for the U.S. Paralympic National Team last year at the Parapan American Games, where she earned a bronze, her first international medal.

Rio •From Page 1B al entertainment but in the end delivered more flash than substance.

The trials failed to produce a single world record while just one American mark fell.

The meet finished with only two American men, Josh Prenot (200 breast) and Ryan Murphy (100 back), at the top of the world rankings, and just two women in Katie Ledecky (200, 400, 800 free) and Lilly King (100 breast) atop the lists.

Many of the winning times were slower than those four years ago at the London trials, a puzzling development that neither Bowman nor women’s coach David Marsh could explain.

“One of the things we have always done well, better than anyone else, is improve from the trials to the Games,” Bowman said.

“I’m confident we will do that again. We have a great plan in place and quite frankly we are going to have to do that if we are going to have the kind of Olympics we expect to have and want to have.”

That warning hit home loud and clear on Saturday when Australia’s Cate Campbell powered to a world record in the 100 meters freestyle at the

The women’s U.S. Olympic swim team, including Brookwood grad Amanda Weir (back row, second from right) poses for photographs at the conclusion of the trials Sunday in Omaha, Neb. (Photo: Erich Schlegel-USA Today Sports)

Brisbane Grand Prix.

Even Phelps, heading for his fifth Olympics, acknowledged times will have to improve dramatically between now and the opening of the Rio Games on Aug. 5 if he is to add to his haul of 18 gold medals.

“I think it’s going to take a lot faster times,” Phelps said after winning the 200 medley. “There are always fast times that are swam throughout the world.

“I do understand that I have to swim faster to have a chance to win the gold medal; I do know that.”

Having qualified in the 100 and 200 fly and 200 medley, as well as being

a candidate for the relays, Phelps, already the most decorated Olympian of all time, will expect to add to his staggering medal haul.

For the last three Summer Games, Phelps has shouldered plenty of the load, but now 31 and having dramatically scaled back his agenda, the U.S. will have to count on big contributions from others if the Americans are to confirm their status as swimming’s super power.

The best American shots at gold in the pool will come from the team’s youngest member, 19-year-old distance queen Ledecky.

Ledecky could leave Brazil as one of the breakout Olympic stars as she tries to complete a rare gold medal hat-trick in the 200, 400 and 800 freestyle.

“Hopefully, I think they’re going to be scared!

I mean, it’s no secret that we’re going to be there toward the end,” a defiant Lochte said.

“I think the Japanese, everyone, Brazil, Hungary, we’ve all been racing against each other so many times that we know it’s going to be a dog fight till the end.

“The U.S. is not easy to beat, and we’re going to definitely prove that in Rio.”

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Wooten’s pitching, timely homers lift G-Braves

By David Friedlander david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

LAWRENCEVILLE — As dominant as Rob Wooten was in his last start on June 30, when he combined with Matt Marskberry and Jose Ramirez to no-hit the Louisville Bats, it would’ve been hard for him to match that effort against Norfolk on Tuesday night.

While the 30-year-old right-hander wasn’t able to keep the hitless streak going past the second inning, he was more than good enough to help the GBraves break a three-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory before 1,964 fans at Coolray Field.

Wooten (2-1) scattered six hits over six shutout innings and struck out four in throwing a career-high 72 pitches, and got offensive support from home runs

by Mel Rojas Jr. and Rio Ruiz to bring the G-Braves to within a half-game of International League South Division-leading Charlotte.

to 7 2/3 before giving up a two-out single to Mike Yastrzemski in the bottom of the second.

And while he had to scatter six hits throughout his six innings — matching his all-time long outing in just the third start of his career — he managed to keep Norfolk off the board.

That included his final inning of the night in which he wriggled out of first-and-third, nobody-out and bases-loaded, one-out situations in the bottom of the sixth.

“I wanted to finish that Gwinnett’s Rio Ruiz bats against Norfolk on Tuesday at sixth inning,” Wooten said.

“I got us into that mess. I Coolray Field in Lawrenceville. (Photo: Karl L. Moore) wanted to get us out. There “I feel pretty lucky points of the game. I lost were some great plays right now to stay on this my curveball at one point, made behind me. Probably streak,” said Wooten, who but I found it. When I was one of the biggest ones was has not allowed a run in finding it, I was trying to one Reid (Brignac) made. his last 12 innings. “The use my split (-finger fastIt ended up being an infield good thing is we won both ball), and I found that. hit (by Christian Walker), (starts). (Tuesday) night “I kind of had to use but it saved a run and kept was definitely more of a pitches off each other and the bases loaded, and I grind. I definitely had all try to get through it, but the ended up getting out of it.” four pitches (working) defense made great plays.

Meanwhile, the Gthe last start. I felt like I And my catcher (Anthony Braves had some trouble could throw them at any Recker) did well.” making contact against time. (Tuesday) night, I Wooten ran his string of Norfolk starter Joe Gunhad to find a few at certain consecutive hitless innings kel (5-6) throughout the

first four innings, with the 24-year-old Baltimore Orioles prospect striking out seven in that span.

When they did get their bats on the ball, they made it count.

Two batters after Matt Lipka got Gwinnett’s first hit of the night with a oneout double in the bottom of the third, Rojas launched a Gunkel pitch over the Norfolk bullpen some 440 feet away for a two-run homer that put the G-Braves up 2-0.

An inning later, Ruiz teed off on the Tides’ righthander, sending a two-out solo homer onto the berm in right-center to push the Gwinnett lead to 3-0.

“I think we were a little more aggressive the second time around (the batting order),” said Ruiz, who hit his fifth homer of the season, and now has hits in 17 of his last 20 games.

“We hadn’t faced (Gunkel) before, some guys put some real good swings on him the first time, but had nothing to show for us. He also made a couple

pitches that kind of froze us. Sometimes, you’ve got to give him credit, but the next time around, you’ve got to get him.”

After Wooten departed, Marksberry pitched a clean seventh before giving up a solo homer by Xavier Avery to lead off the eighth to get Norfolk on the board an end the G-Braves’ shutout bid.

But Brandon Cunniff came out of the pen to retire the next three Tides hitters in order to get out of the eighth, while Ramirez did the same in the ninth to earn his fifth save of the season to close out the win. “(Wooten) really did grind it out,” G-Braves manager John Moses said.

“That ball Rojas hit, man, I think that’s the best ball I’ve seen him hit from the left side yet. And Rio came up with a clutch home run with two outs and two strikes on him.

“That’s what we needed — timely hitting. We got great pitching, and it was a well-played game (Tuesday) night.”

Cubs monopolize Phils hit 4 homers to rout Braves NL All-Star infield The Sports Xchange

The Sports Xchange For the first time in 53 years and only the second time ever, four players from one team will comprise the starting infield for a Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

All four Chicago Cubs infielders — first baseman Anthony Rizzo, second baseman Ben Zobrist, shortstop Addison Russell and third baseman Kris Bryant — were voted as starters for the Midsummer Classic next Tuesday in San Diego.

Only the 1963 St. Louis Cardinals previously had all four infielders in the starting lineup.

Center fielder Dexter Fowler will join his team mates, making the Cubs the first team since the Cincinnati Reds’ Big Red Machine in 1976 to have five starters in the lineup.

Also on the NL roster will be Cubs pitchers Jake Arrieta and Jon Lester.

Other National League starters will be San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey and outfielders Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals and Yoenis Cespedes of the New York Mets.

In the American League, the Boston Red

Baseball Major League Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division

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W L Pct GB L10 Chicago.................. 52. 31.. .627..... —...4-6 St. Louis.................. 43. 39.. .524....8.5...5-5 Pittsburgh................ 42. 41.. .506.....10...8-2 Milwaukee............... 36. 46.. .439..15.5...4-6 Cincinnati................ 31. 54.. .365.....22...3-7 West Division

W L Pct GB L10 San Francisco......... 53. 32.. .624..... —...5-5 Los Angeles............ 48. 37.. .565.......5... 7-3 Colorado................. 37. 45.. .451..14.5...3-7 Arizona................... 37. 48.. .435.....16...2-8 San Diego............... 36. 47.. .434.....16...6-4 Monday’s Games Milwaukee 1, Washington 0 Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 2 Chicago Cubs 10, Cincinnati 4 Philadelphia 8, Atlanta 2 San Francisco 3, Colorado 1 N.Y. Mets 8, Miami 6 San Diego 8, Arizona 4 Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati 9, Chicago Cubs 5 Atlanta (Foltynewicz 2-2) at Philadelphia (Eflin 0-2), late Milwaukee (Davies 5-4) at Washington (Gonzalez 4-7), late Miami (Chen 4-3) at N.Y. Mets (Matz 7-3), late Pittsburgh (Brault 0-0) at St. Louis (Leake 5-6), late San Diego (Friedrich 4-3) at Arizona (Godley 1-0), late Colorado (Chatwood 8-4) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 9-4), late Today’s Games Atlanta (Jenkins 0-1) at Philadelphia (Hellickson 6-6), 1:05 p.m.

Miami (Nicolino 2-4) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 4-4), 1:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (DeSclafani 2-0) at Chicago Cubs (Warren 3-1), 2:20 p.m.

Milwaukee (Garza 1-1) at Washington (Roark 7-5), 4:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 8-5) at St. Louis (Garcia 6-6), 8:15 p.m.

San Diego (Rea 5-3) at Arizona (Miller 2-8), 9:40 p.m.

Colorado (De La Rosa 5-5) at San Francisco (Cueto 12-1), 10:15 p.m.

Sox landed four starters in shortstop Xander Bogaerts and outfielders Jackie Bradley Jr. and Mookie Betts — all first-time starters — and designated hitter David Ortiz, who will make his 10th appearance.

Two Kansas City Royals players — catcher Salvador Perez and first baseman Eric Hosmer — were named to the AL starting lineup along with Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado and Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout, who will make his fifth appearance.

The All-Star starters reflect a youth movement, with 12 of the 17 players voted into the lineup at age 26 or younger. The American League’s starting infield and catcher are all 26 or younger, an All-Star first.

Perez topped all votegetters with 4,965,838 votes, while Rizzo was the NL leader with 3,242,670 votes.

The tightest race was for second base in the NL. Zobrist finished with 3,013,407 votes to edge the Washington’s Daniel Murphy by 88 votes.

PHILADELPHIA — Heading out for the ninth inning, Phillies starter Zach Eflin was as calm, cool and collected as he had been all night long.

It wasn’t until Atlanta’s Ender Inciarte popped out to third for the 27th out of the evening that the adrenaline rush finally hit the 22-year-old rookie.

“After I threw that last pitch and got the out, I was just out there shaking, thanking God for the opportunity to be out there on the mound,” he said. “I think it’s a cool way to get your first win. It was really exciting.”

Eflin carried the Phillies with his first complete game as a professional, and four Philadelphia solo home runs were more than enough to deliver the righthander his first career win, 5-1 over the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday night.

Peter Bourjos, Cody Asche, Maikel Franco and Tommy Joseph all went deep for the Phillies (3946), who won for the seventh time in eight games to creep closer to .500 with the All-Star break only five games away.

That was all the edge Eflin needed. The 6-foot-6, 215-pound right-hander efficiently worked his way through the Atlanta lineup,

solo home run, Ender Inciarte’s first of the season, which came in the seventh.

Braves starter Mike Foltynewicz (2-3) was responsible for all five Phillies runs as his ERA rose to 4.29. He departed after 5 2/3 innings, having given up eight hits and one walk with five strikeouts. “(There were) pitches that he just didn’t get them where he wanted to, and they made him pay,” Snitker said. “He did all the work for them, all they had Atlanta starter Mike Foltynewicz (26) reacts after allow- to do was hit it.” ing a home run by Philadelphia’s Maikel Franco (7) on It was a lot of the same Tuesday. (Photo: Eric Hartline-USA Today Sports) for the Braves (28-56), needing just 35 pitches to six hits but countered that losers of three in a low and get through four innings with six strikeouts and no seven of nine. and 60 to get through the walks.

Bourjos set the tone first six, setting him up The entire game was early, extending his hitting nicely to go the distance. played in a blazingly streak to a career-best 14 “What an efficient job quick two hours and eight games with a solo home run he did,” Phillies manager minutes. to left field in the first inPete Mackanin said. “He “I can kind of sense it ning to put his team up 1-0. was just outstanding. He on the mound, if I have After batting .164 in pounded the strike zone a quick inning,” Eflin April and with his average with all of his pitches. A said, adding that he didn’t as low at .197 on June 12, good two-seamer. He had pay attention to his exact Bourjos has gone on an everything going for him.” pitch count. “It was pretty absolute tear over the last Braves interim skipcomfortable tonight, I was month. A 1-for-4 night on per Brian Snitker added, being pretty consistent out Tuesday left his average “I thought he was really there and just kept feeding at .277 on the season, and good. Just pounded the after every inning.” he is batting .463 (32-forstrike zone, good breaking After a disappointing 69) over a 22-game stretch ball and I thought (he was) June 14 debut (2 2/3 insince June 12. very aggressive and very nings, eight earned runs “What a story that is,” impressive.” against the Toronto Blue Mackanin said. “How do Eflin (1-2) threw 92 Jays), Eflin is 1-1 with a you figure that out? If he pitches in nine innings, 2.03 ERA in his past four would have started that a the first time in five career starts. couple of weeks earlier, he major league starts he got Atlanta’s only run of the might have made the Allpast the sixth. He gave up night came, fittingly, on a Star team.”

SPORTS AT A GLANCE INTERLEAGUE AT NATIONAL LEAGUE Monday’s Game L.A. Dodgers 7, Baltimore 5 Tuesday’s Game Baltimore (Tillman 10-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 7-5), late Today’s Games Baltimore (Gausman 1-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Norris 1-0), 3:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 6-7) at Tampa Bay (Smyly 2-9), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 3-7) at Chicago White Sox (Gonzalez 1-4), 8:10 p.m.

Seattle (LeBlanc 1-0) at Houston (Fiers 6-3), 8:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division

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W L Pct GB L10 Cleveland................ 50. 32.. .610..... —...8-2 Detroit..................... 44. 39.. .530....6.5...6-4 Kansas City............ 43. 39.. .524.......7...5-5 Chicago.................. 43. 40.. .518.... 7.5... 7-3 Minnesota............... 27. 55.. .329.....23...4-6 West Division

W L Pct GB L10 Texas...................... 52. 32.. .619..... —...5-5 Houston.................. 44. 39.. .530.... 7.5... 7-3 Seattle.................... 43. 40.. .518....8.5... 7-3 Oakland.................. 36. 47.. .434..15.5...5-5 Los Angeles............ 33. 50.. .398..18.5...2-8

PGA FedExCup Points Standings Through July 5 YTD Top Rank Name Points Wins 10’s 1. Dustin Johnson 2,411 2 10 2. Jason Day 2,307 3 8 3. Adam Scott 1,984 2 5 4. Jordan Spieth 1,865 2 6 5. Russell Knox 1,418 1 3 6. Kevin Chappell 1,406 0 6 7. Brandt Snedeker 1,399 1 5 8. Patrick Reed 1,345 0 9 9. Justin Thomas 1,330 1 4 10. Kevin Kisner 1,328 1 5 11. Kevin Na 1,300 0 6 12. William McGirt 1,272 1 6 13. Matt Kuchar 1,204 0 8 14. Sergio Garcia 1,196 1 3 15. Smylie Kaufman 1,181 1 4 16. Hideki Matsuyama 1,179 1 5 17. Jason Dufner 1,175 1 5 18. Phil Mickelson 1,168 0 5 19. Daniel Berger 1,157 1 4 20. Bubba Watson 1,154 1 3

Monday’s Games Tampa Bay 4, L.A. Angels 2 Boston 12, Texas 5 Chicago White Sox 8, N.Y. Yankees 2 Houston 2, Seattle 1 Oakland 3, Minnesota 1 Toronto 6, Kansas City 2 Cleveland 5, Detroit 3 Tuesday’s Games Kansas City (Young 2-7) at Toronto (Dickey 5-9), late Texas (Griffin 3-0) at Boston (Price 8-5), late Detroit (Sanchez 5-8) at Cleveland (Carrasco 4-2), late L.A. Angels (Lincecum 1-2) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 3-3), late N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 5-2) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 2-6), late Seattle (Walker 4-6) at Houston (Keuchel 5-9), late Oakland (Manaea 3-4) at Minnesota (Milone 0-2), late Today’s Games Detroit (Fulmer 8-2) at Cleveland (Tomlin 9-1), 12:10 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 3-7) at Minnesota (Santana 2-7), 1:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Kennedy 6-7) at Toronto (Stroman 6-4), 7:07 p.m.

Texas (Perez 7-4) at Boston (Wright 9-5), 7:10 p.m.

Golf

LPGA Money Leaders Through July 4

Trn Money 1. Lydia Ko 13 $1,816,738 2. Brooke Henderson 18 $1,285,715 3. Ariya Jutanugarn 16 $1,148,033 4. Sei-Young Kim 15 $971,054 5. Haru Nomura 17 $888,165 6. Lexi Thompson 13 $711,325 7. In-gee Chun 11 $673,478 8. Ha Na Jang 10 $640,717 9. Minjee Lee 17 $638,298 10. Anna Nordqvist 15 $612,299 Web.com Money Leaders Through July 4

Trn Money 1. Wesley Bryan 10 $296,092 2. Richy Werenski 13 $263,470 3. Ollie Schniederjans 11 $245,713 4. Ryan Armour 13 $187,950 5. Brad Fritsch 7 $186,990 6. Trey Mullinax 13 $184,348 7. Seamus Power 13 $182,681 8. Brian Campbell 7 $170,138

9. Dominic Bozzelli 10. Sebastian Munoz

12 $169,507 13 $155,001

Champions Tour Money Leaders Through July 4

Trn Money 1. Bernhard Langer 10 $1,559,050 2. Billy Andrade 12 $830,191 3. Woody Austin 10 $818,245 4. Duffy Waldorf 12 $771,018 5. Kirk Triplett 12 $767,965 6. Miguel Angel Jimenez 5 $724,950 7. Joe Durant 11 $666,705 8. Scott McCarron 11 $663,972 9. Colin Montgomerie 10 $647,403 10. Rocco Mediate 11 $634,724

NASCAR Sprint Cup Points Leaders Through July 4 1. Kevin Harvick, 565 points.

2. Brad Keselowski, 551.

3. Kurt Busch, 545.

4. Joey Logano, 531.

5. Carl Edwards, 527.

6. Kyle Busch, 492.

7. Martin Truex Jr., 482.

8. Chase Elliott, 482.

9. Jimmie Johnson, 475.

10. Denny Hamlin, 446.

11. Matt Kenseth, 443.

12. Austin Dillon, 434.

13. Dale Earnhardt Jr., 433.

14. Ryan Newman, 425.

15. Ryan Blaney, 409.

Xfinity Series Points Leaders Through July 4 1. Daniel Suarez, 499 points.

2. Elliott Sadler, 493.

3. Ty Dillon, 483.

4. Justin Allgaier, 462.

5. Brendan Gaughan, 449.

6. Erik Jones, 442.

7. Brandon Jones, 429.

8. Brennan Poole, 422.

9. Darrell Wallace Jr., 394.

10. Ryan Reed, 366.

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Activated C Ryan Hanigan from the 15-day DL. Optioned C Christian Vazquez to Pawtucket (IL). Sent RHP Brandon Workman on a rehab assignment to GCL Red Sox (GCL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Signed CF Andrew Calica.

DETROIT TIGERS — Placed LHP Daniel Norris on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Buck Farmer from Toledo (IL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Designated LHP Tyler Olson for assignment. Placed RHP Wade Davis on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 1. Selected the contract of RHP Brooks Pounders from Omaha (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Activated RHP Trevor May from the 15-day DL. Optioned LHP Buddy Boshers to Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Luis Cessa to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

Recalled LHP Chasen Shreve from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Optioned LHP David Rollins to Tacoma (PCL). Selected the contract of LF Daniel Robertson from Tacoma (PCL). Transferred RHP Adrian Sampson from the 15-day DL to the 60-day DL. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Activated RHP Alex Colome from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Danny Farquhar to Durham (IL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Designated LHP Michael Roth for assignment. Recalled RHP Jose Leclerc from Round Rock (PCL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Placed RHP Daniel Hudson on the bereavement list. Recalled RHP Zack Godley from Reno (PCL).

COLORADO ROCKIES — Outrighted LHP Yohan Flande to Albuquerque (PCL).

NEW YORK METS — Optioned SS Matt Reynolds to Las Vegas (PCL). Selected the contract of SS Jose Reyes from Binghamton (EL). Transferred 3B David Wright from the 15-day DL to the 60-day DL. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Designated C Jacob Stallings for assignment. Selected the contract of LHP Stephen Brault from Indianapolis (IL). Sent RHP Gerrit Cole on a rehab assignment to Indianapolis (IL).

Signed C Miguel Perez to a minor league contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent 2B Kelby Tomlinson on a rehab assignment to Sacramento (PCL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Placed 1B Brandon Moss on the 15-day DL. Recalled CF Randal Grichuk from Memphis (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Signed RHP Mark Blackmar to a minor league contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Named Adam Mazarei assistant coach. Named Keith Smart assistant coach.

WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Named Chad Iske assistant coach. Named Eric Sebas-

tian director of coaching operations. Named Kamran Sufi advance scout. Named Maz Trakh assistant coach. Named Mike Terpstra assistant coach. Named Sidney Lowe assistant coach. Named Tony Brown assistant coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League DETROIT LIONS — Cut LB Stephen Tulloch.

College Football DELAWARE STATE — Announced DE Gabriel Sherrod has left the program and will transfer to Michigan State.

OKLAHOMA — Announced WR Dallis Todd has left the program and will transfer to another school.

WAKE FOREST — Announced DT Zeek Rodney is taking a leave of absence from the program due to personal issues.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Signed D Jeff Schultz to a one-year, two-way contract worth $575,000. Signed LW Mason Raymond to a one-year, two-way contract worth $675,000. Signed RW Jared Boll to a two-year, $1.8 million contract.

CALGARY FLAMES — Signed RW Linden Vey to a one-year, two-way contract.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Signed RW Jordin Tootoo to a one-year, $750,000 contract.

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Re-signed G Calvin Pickard to a two-year, $2 million contract.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Signed D Jacob Graves to a three-year, entry-level contract.

MINNESOTA WILD — Re-signed G Darcy Kuemper to a one-year, $1.55 million contract.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Re-signed LW Phillip Danault to a two-year, $1.824 million contract.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Re-signed C Jacob Josefson to a one-year, $1.1 million contract. Signed LW Luke Gazdic to a oneyear, two-way contract worth $700,000.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Signed G Jean-Francois Berube to a one-year, $675,000 contract.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Re-signed LW Nicklas Jensen one-year, $600,000 contract. Signed D Mat Bodie a one-year, $600,000 contract.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Signed LW Ryan Dzingel to a one-year, two-way contract worth $750,000.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Signed D T.J. Brennan to a two-year, two-way contract worth $1.25 million.

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Re-signed LW Magnus Paajarvi to a one-year, $700,000 contract.

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NOTICE Pursuant to the City of Buford Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance of 1995, please be advised that Louise Decker Mullins and has applied for a license to sell beer and wine by the package at Murphy USA #7553, located at 3795 Buford Dr, Buford, GA 30519. The City of Buford shall take public comments on such application until July 14th 2016, at which time the City Manager will determine whether to issue the requested license.

This 30th day of June 2016.

City of Buford, Ga A Ga. Municipal Corp.

904-429530, 7/6,13 NOTICE An application for an alcohol beverage license authorizing the sale of malt beverages and wine by the drink has been filed with the City of Duluth, Georgia by the following party at the following location: Applicant/Owner: Zoe’s Kitchen Holding Company, LLC d/b/a Zoe’s Kitchen; Registered Agent: Melissa Maloney; Officers: Kevin Miles, Pres. and Michael Todd, V.P.; Location: 2200 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Suite 100, Duluth, GA 30097 AN APPLICATION HAS BEEN FILED ON 06/13/2016 WITH THE CLERK OF THE CITY OF DULUTH FOR A LICENSE TO OPERATE A RESTAURANT SELLING MALT BEVERAGES AND WINE AT THE ABOVE LOCATION. A DECISION ON WHETHER OR NOT TO GRANT OR DENY SUCH A LICENSE WILL BE MADE BY THE CLERK OF THE CITY OF DULUTH NO LATER THAN THIRTY (30) DAYS FROM THE DATE THE FILED APPLICATION IS DETERMINED TO BE COMPLETE. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO NOTE ANY OBJECTIONS, IN WRITING, THAT THEY MAY HAVE TO THE GRANTING OF SUCH A LICENSE BY FILING SAID WRITTEN OBJECTIONS WITH THE CLERK OF THE CITY OF DULUTH. 904-427527, 6/29,30,7/6,7

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding via www. on storagetreasures.com 07/13/2016 at 3:30PM for the Extra Space Storage facility located at: 2790 Braselton Highway Dacula, GA 30019 The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes, and appliances.

201: Tim Ryan Household Items 226: Jennifer Kitchens Furniture & Household Items 509: Michael Morgenroth Household Goods 632: Leanne Greer Household Goods 1000: Terry Rutledge Household Goods 121: Twila Williams Household Goods 174: Angela Scruggs Household Goods 675: Maria Olinger Clothing & Shoes Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Extra Space Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment.

929-427538, 6/29,7/6 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 5151 Annistown Rd Stone Mountain GA 30087 770.469.5363 July 13th, 2016 at 12:00 PM Lisa Mcafee Unit 367 Plastic bins, decorations Unit 397 Janice Slaton Household items and furniture Unit 506 Anita Howard Household furniture Unit 106 Twala Love Household items Unit 232 Randy Carter Household items Unit 538 April Carbon Household items The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-427977, 6/29,7/6 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart #6291-345 Sawmill Dr, Suwanee GA 30024 to satisfy a lien on July 13, 2016 at approx. 10:00 AM at www.storagetreasures.com.

Name of Customer Unit # General Description of Property Stephanie Miller 1021 Household Items 929-428030, 6/29,7/6 PUBLIC AUCTION Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 3357 Breckinridge Blvd, Duluth, GA 30096, 770.891.4639 at 7/13/2016 3:00 PM 0108 Matthew Melchiore Household items; 0124 Felicia Rhem Household Items; 1112 Anthony Hicks Tools; 1122 Jones Falbert Tools; 1429 Girtmon

PUBLIC SALES/ AUCTIONS

Paisha household items; 1504 Small Lisa Household; 2004 Selma Grant Household goods; 2124 Ross Gena Household Items; 3037 Smith William vinyl records, other personal items; 3039 Rogers Vonda Household goods; 3115 Taiye Musa Household Items; 3301 Waterman Catreese Household Items and Boxes | The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

929-427984, 6/29, 7/6

Kerry McGraw 350 Tools Ronnie Littles 095 Couch burgundy gold Love seat 2 end tables and coffee table washing machine.

Rashad Jen042 Furniture nings Thecla Dantes 097 Household items Paula Mose158 Household ley Items Sellisa Ar126 Kitchen Bags chibald and boxes Deloris Wells 333 Household Items Courtney 429 Clothing.

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

929-425811, 6/29, 7/6

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 1172 Auburn Rd. Dacula GA, 30019 770-236-0688 July 14,2016 @ 4:15PM

236 Jonathan Ryno Household Items 431 Deborah Pennington Household Items The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property 929-429164, 7/1,6 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 4257 Buford Drive, GA, 30518 770-614-4863 July 14, 2016 @ 9:30 AM

513 Dianne Quintero Tanning bed, tanning bed parts, wood, gas cans, wet dry vac 6037 Alana Threlkeld A/C window unit, roaster, TV, tables, many boxes, crutches, many bags and totes 6266 Vickie Cooper Couch, bed, 2 tables, armoire, boxes, clothes, fake plant, portable heater 6273 Avery Byrd Rug, Keurig, clothes, plastic 3 drawer, purses, hangers 6273 Autumn Byrd Rug, Keurig, clothes, plastic 3 drawer, purses, hangers The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property 929-427990, 6/29,7/6 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 4400 Lawrenceville Hwy Lilburn, GA 30047 770-638-2252 July 14th, 2016 at 5:30 PM 005 Clayton Pentz Sporting Goods, Toys, Tools, Household Goods, Furniture, Boxes, Trunks Juanita Steed 070 Household Items 156 Dustin Farmer Household goods 165 Juliette Grier Household Goods 025 Shanice Barrett boxes, furniture, household goods 132 Starran Garrett furniture, boxes, household goods The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

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

929-427849, 6/29,7/6 NOTICE Pleasantdale Storage of Doraville shall conduct an online auction at www.storagebattles.com to conclude on Thursday, July 14th, 2016 at 10:00am Unit #A99 - George Gonzales - Unit is said to contain: Child’s Bed. Child’s Bike. Sofa & Loveseat. Long Dresser. Microwave. TV Wall Mount. Queen Box Spring & Mattress. 5/10 Boxes. Men’s Shoes. Over the Door PullUp Bar. Unit #D1 - Walter Muroff - Unit is said to contain: Vending Machines. Shingles.

HVAC Filters. Box Fans.

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929-427854, 6/29,7/6 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 2040 Lawrenceville Hwy Lawrenceville, GA 30044 770-962-4330 July 14th, 2016 at 5:30 PM 314 Barbara Hemmings Household 210 Catherine Harrison Furniture 3

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 July 19th at 09:00 am. 2016. 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. #127 Cindy Hawkins – Household Items #136 David Maylor – Household Items, Furniture #226 Steven Starling – Household Items, Hobby Crafts #484 Leon Bachus– Household Items #490 Pam Taylor – Household Items 929-425809, 6/29,7/6 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Georgia Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Ga. Code Ann. §§ 10-4210 et seq., the undersigned will conduct a public auction on July 22nd of 2016 of the below-listed units. Each of the below units generally contain the following: furniture, clothing, tools, and other household/business items.

PUBLIC STORAGE PROPERTY: 27313 1964 Rockbridge Rd. Stone Mountain, GA 30087 (770) 879-8632 7/22/2016 10:15AM STORED BY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS: A020 - Young, Jeanette A021 - Torres, Lydianne B024 - Darrington, Simone B033 - WHITE, TIMOTHY B044 - WHITE, TIMOTHY B048 - Ryland, Merissa C005 - Elder, Nicole C026 - Thomas, Jerome D042 - Crichlow, Bonita D047 - White, Robert D066 - Harper-Cotton, Nicole E036 - Bennett, Larry E053 - Snow, Stephanie E056 - Garrett, Marcus F003 - Rue, Jason F033 - Lacroix, Guenel F038 - Buchanan, Daphne F082 - Dubone, Tommy G028 - Tesfai, Yordanos G032 - Riley, Dennis G037 - Martinez, Ruth All sales are subject to cancellation. Public auction terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. Dated this 6th Day of July and 13th day of July 2016 by PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201.

(818) 244-8080, Bond No. 6004928.

929-428492, 7/6,13 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE In accordance with Georgia Law Chapter 40-11-5 the following vehicles have been deemed abandoned and will be sold at a public sale on 7-27-16 @1:30 Said Vehicles are located at: 728 Scenic Hwy Lawrenceville, GA 30046 VIN# 1B3ES46C61D295383 01 DODGE NEON VIN# 1FMRU17L12LA05593 02 FORD EXPEDITION Vin# 1GCDM19W4VB227710 97 CHEVROLET ASTRO 929-429638, 7/6,13

ZONINGS PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2016 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE GWINNETT COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION AND GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WILL HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS ON P

ZONINGS

ZONINGS

PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE GWINNETT COUNTY DEVELOPMENT UNIFIED ORDINANCE TEXT AND THE OFFICAL GWINNETT COUNTY ZONING MAP, AS STATED ABOVE. UDOA2016-00002–AN AMENDMENT TO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE OF GWINNETT COUNTY; TITLE 2: LAND USE AND ZONING; AND THE APPENDIX; TO CREATE A NEW OVERLAY ZONING DISTRICT TO BE ENTITLED: VENTURE REDEVELOPMENT DRIVE OVERLAY DISTRICT; TO REVISE EXISITNG SECTIONS OF THE ORDINANCE TO ACCOMMODATE THE NEW OVERLAY DISTRICT; AND TO ADOPT THE OFFICAL VENTURE DRIVE REDEVEOPMENT OVERLAY DISTRICT MAP. SUBSEQUENTLY, GWINNETT COUNTY IS ALSO SEEKING TO AMEND ITS OFFICIAL ZONING MAP TO REFLECT THE GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES OF THE VENTURE DRIVE REDEVELOPMENT OVERLAY ZONING DISTRICT, APPLYING THE ZONING TO OVERLAY PROPERTIES BOUNDED BY PLEASANT HILL ROAD, SATELLITE BOULEVARD, STEVE BOULEVARD REYNOLDS AND INTERSTATE 85. THESE PROPERTIES ARE PRESENTLY ZONED C-2, O-I AND RM-24. EACH AFFECTED PARCEL WILL BE REZONED TO RETAIN ITS PRESENT ZONING CLASSIFICATION, PLUS THE ADDITION OF THE REDEVELOPMENT OVERLAY DISTRICT DESIGNATION. COPIES OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT AND THE PROPOSED OVERLAY ZONING DISTRICT MAP ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING DIVISION, 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. BOC TBL 7-26- UDOA201600002 & MAP 934-429427, 7/6

BOYNTON, HOYT RICHARD CRYDER, DAVID A. DUSIK, & FRANK C. & CHERYL A. BLALOCK; RA-200 TO R-60; SINGLE FAMILY SUBDIVISION; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 178 PARCELS 014, 015, 016; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 185 PARCEL 068; 2200-2300 BLOCK OF KILGORE ROAD; 17.44 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/ HEARD RZR2016-00011–APPLICANT: MAHAFFEY, PICKENS, TUCKER, LLP: OWNERS: ESTATE OF VINNIE LUCILLE CLARK, RICHARD AND JOYCE HARRISON, AND JLC HOLDINGS, LLLP; R-100 TO TND; TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT (REDUCTION IN BUFFERS); DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 087 PARCEL 120; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 106 PARCELS 003, 067 & 278; 1100-1200 BLOCK OF WEBB GIN HOUSE ROAD; 43.56 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD RZM2016-00003–APPLICANT: MAHAFFEY, PICKENS, TUCKER, LLP: OWNER: JLC HOLDINGS, LLLP; R-100 TO RM-24; APARTMENTS (REDUCTION IN BUFFERS); DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 087 PARCEL 120 AND DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 106 PARCEL 278; 1100-1200 BLOCK OF WEBB GIN HOUSE ROAD; 12.57 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/ HEARD P&D BOC TBL 7-26 934-429431, 7/6

GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2016 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENT TO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE IS SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS AS STATED ABOVE. INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING DIVISION, 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. AN UDOA2016-00003AMENDMENT TO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE OF GWINNETT COUNTY; TITLE 1: ADMINISTRATION AND TITLE 2: LAND USE AND ZONING TO PROVIDE NEW OR REVISED REQUIREMENTS FOR DONATION DROP BOXES. BOC TBL 7-26–UDOA201600003 934-429424, 7/6 GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2016 AT 7:00 P.M. GWINNETT COUNTY JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION CENTER AUDITORIUM 75 LANGLEY DRIVE LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30046 THE FOLLOWING REZONING, CHANGE-INCONDITIONS, SPECIAL USE PERMIT AND OTHER ITEMS OF BUSINESS, LOCATED WITHIN UNINCORPORATED GWINNETT COUNTY, ARE SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS AS STATED ABOVE. SITE PLANS, LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER INFORMATION ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING DIVISION, 446 WEST CROGAN STREET, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE HOURS ARE 8:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. RZR2016-00005–APPLICANT: MAHAFFEY, PICKENS, TUCKER, LLP; OWNER: BEATRICE S. WHITEHEAD; R-100 TO R-TH; TOWNHOMES; DISTRICT 5 LAND LOT 017 PARCEL 009; 500 BLOCK OF PADEN DRIVE; 22.46 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/ HEARD SUP2015-00026 – APPLICANT: DEVELOPMENT PLANNING & ENGINEERING; OWNER: JAMES DAVENPORT; FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN C-2 & M-1 ZONING DISTRICTS FOR A TRUCK STORAGE LOT; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 076 PARCELS 002 & 029; 1600 BLOCK OF BOGGS ROAD; 2500 BLOCK OF BRECKINRIDGE BOULEVARD; 5.11 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/ BROOKS BRD2016-00002 – APPLICANT: QUIKTRIP CORPORATION; OWNER: INDIAN TRAIL ASSOCIATES, LTD.; FOR A BUFFER REDUCTION FROM 75 FEET TO 0 FEET IN A C-2 ZONING DISTRICT; DISTRICT 6 LAND LOT 212 PARCEL 036; 2200 BLOCK OF BEAVER RUIN ROAD; 2000 BLOCK OF INDIAN TRAIL LILBURN ROAD; 1.91 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/ BROOKS SUP2016-00040 – APPLICANT: SEVA ADULT CARE, LLC; OWNER: RADHA MADHAV SOCIETY, INC.; FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT IN R-100 AND R-75 ZONING DISTRICTS FOR A DAYCARE FACILITY (ADULT); DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 160 PARCEL 014; 2700 BLOCK OF DULUTH HIGHWAY; 15.10 ACRES. DISTRICT 1/ BROOKS RZC2016-00015–APPLICANT: MAHAFFEY, PICKENS, TUCKER, LLP; OWNER: J & J 360, LLC; C-2 TO MU-R; REGIONAL MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT; DISTRICT 7 LAND LOT 177 PARCEL 047; 3100 BLOCK OF WOODWARD CROSSING BOULEVARD; 2600 BLOCK OF MALL OF GEORGIA BOULEVARD; 16.0 ACRES. DISTRICT 4/HEARD RZR2016-00009–APPLICANT: MAHAFFEY, PICKENS, TUCKER, LLP: OWNERS: DAVID A. RAINES & DONNA K.

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MONROE, GA 30656 32.53 ACRE TRACT Jim Daws Rd Great Acreage Tract Zoned A-2 With Nice Hardwoods & Pines. Perfect For Livestock, Farming, Hunting, Or Build Your Dream Home $211,445 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

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COVINGTON, GA 30014

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MONROE, GA 30656

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT APTS/DUP/CONDOS/ T’HOMES FOR RENT

37.123 ACRES BRING ALL OFFERS! 1155 Jim Daws Rd Great 37.132 Acre Tract Zoned A-2, With Nice Hardwoods & Pines.

Perfect For Livestock, Farming, Hunting, Or Build Your Dream Home. 2 Creeks On Property. $242,000 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com

GWINNETT DUPLEXES

Newton, Covington

For Sale or Rent Commercial Property (1324 Sq.Ft.,1.39AC) 10977 Old Atlanta Highway, Covington, GA. 30014. Highest Zoning. Remodeled Building Off I-20 (Best Visibility).

Call 770-241-9685.

No soliciting.

2 Communities!

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

Starting @ $900/mo.

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

EATONTON, GA 31024

LAKE SINCLAIR! REDUCED! 176 Twisting Hill Rd. Beautiful Lake Front Property On Deeded Lot! Inground Salt Water Pool, Detached 2 Car Carport, Front/ Back & Side Porches!

FULL UNFINISHED BASEMENT 4BR/4BA $649,000 • EHO Peters Realty Professionals 770-466-2885 www.petersrealtyprofessionals.com GWINNETT LAWRENCEVILLE Two stories, 3 BR, 2.5 ba with 2 car garage. Sweet Water neighborhood,updated with all new appliances.

Serene setting on lake $156,500, 3419 Lake Drive, Lawrenceville 30044.

770-755-5771

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GWINNETT, SNELLVILLE Roommate to Share 4BR/3BA Home Off of Springdale Rd. Well furnished, utilities included. $550/mo.

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WINDER Treasure Chest Estate Sale Specialist is having another estate sale in Winder, Georgia 30680 at the home of Melvin Lynn Bentley located on 36 Alexander St., Friday – Sunday, July 8 -10, from 9am-5pm.

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MERCURY SABLE, 2005 Good Engine, Tires, & Body. Needs transmission. Sold for Parts. $700 OBO 770-866-5509

ADOPT A PET CAT Beautiful female tabby, glowing personality, spayed, needs a good home - 770/3657998 KITTENS FREE KITTENS to a good home. Born April 19th. Free 1yr old males.

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CAMPERS/RVS HURRICANE CLASS A BY FOUR WINDS, 2005 34 foot, 3 slides 39,800 miles, $37,000 obo Conyers 770-363-5916

Deadline For Class Liners Thurs 2pm Fri 2pm Tues 3pm Wed 3pm Thurs 3pm

Deadline for Display Tues 3pm Wed 3pm Thurs prior, 4pm Friday prior, 4pm Friday prior, 4pm

Legals Thurs, July 7 Gwinnett Legals

Fri, 12 Noon prior

Sunday, July 3

(Obits) Fri, 3:00

NASH CHEVROLET 630 Scenic Hwy. Lawrenceville 770-963-9266 www.nashchevy.com

RICK HENDRICK CHEVROLET OF BUFORD 4490 South Lee St. Buford, GA 30518 888-804-2957 www.hendrickbuford.com

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JEEP WRANGLER, SPORT 4.0, 1998.

Red w/black top, lift kit, new tires, many extras.

Looks & drives great! $8500. 770-519-3438

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

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

Dishwasher $100 & up. Different colors.

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RICK HENDRICK CHEVROLET OF DULUTH 3277 Satellite Blvd.

Duluth, GA 30096 888-475-8808 www.hendrickatlanta.com

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