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Stabbing suspect arrested

Victim sustained 17 stab wounds FROM STAFF REPORTS

Buford youth Asher Nash smiles on a couch in this photo submitted by his family. The 15-month-old, who has Down syndrome, has been at the center of national news lately in a bid to earn respect and inclusion for models who have special needs. (Photo: Crystal Barbee Photography)

Born to be a star

Mom promotes inclusion for model son with special needs

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Asher Nash has the kind of personality that could land him in the spotlight.

The 15-month-old Buford youth loves to bang anything that resembles a drum, according to his mother, Meagan Nash. Spice up his outfit with suspenders and a bow tie, and he eats it up with delight.

And then there’s that look he gets whenever someone whips out a camera.

“Any time I take out my phone and tell him I’m going

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to take his picture, it’s like he knows what to do and the brightest smile comes across his face,” Nash said. “He really seems to enjoy having his picture taken.”

It’s that photogenic personality that is the reason why Nash submitted photos of her son to an agency looking for models for an OshKosh The Nash family, from left, includes Addison, 8; father David; B’Gosh photo shoot earlier Asher, 15 months; and mother Meagan. Asher, who has Down this year. syndrome, has been at the center of national news lately in a bid to earn respect and inclusion for models who have special

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A suspect accused of stabbing a 35-year-old Snellville man with a knife 17 times in an Oct. 9 bar fight in Lawrenceville was arrested Monday night, Gwinnett police said Wednesday.

Viet Bach Dam, 20, of Chamblee was taken to jail after a traffic stop in Mobile, Ala., Gwinnett police spokeswoman Cpl. Michelle Pihera said.

Dam will be extradited to Gwinnett County, Pihera said.

On Monday, Gwinnett police said they were searching for Dam who fled following the altercation behind Paradise Karaoke, Viet Bach Dam according to police reports. Police were called to the incident, which happened at 1455 Pleasant Hill Road in Lawrenceville at 3 a.m. Oct. 9. Officers arrived to find the victim in a restroom before he was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

Detectives learned that the victim and the suspect knew each other because of a previous relationship connection with a woman.

While at the bar, the men walked out of the back door and began to fight in the parking lot. The incident was captured on video surveillance.

During the fight, the victim was stabbed multiple times, but police said he did not realize that he had been wounded until the two separated.

It is still unclear what caused the dispute. The victim has checked out of the hospital and is recovering from his injuries, Washington said.

Dam faces aggravated assault and aggravated battery charges.

Christmas coming to local malls early this year

BY CURT YEOMANS

people haven’t decided whether to go with Hillary or Trump masks and the candy hasn’t been handed out to costumed trick-or-treaters.

In its song, “Merry Xmas EvOfficials at the malls, however, erybody,” the band Slade declared, are already thinking two holidays “So here it is, Merry Christmas, down the road to Christmas. everybody’s having fun. Look Yup, you read that right. Plans to the future now, it’s only just are already being talked about at begun.” both malls for that holiday with Officials at the Mall of Georgia the snow (probably fake if it’s in and Sugarloaf Mills are taking Georgia), gingerbread men, little those words literally. gingerbread houses and elves The Halloween jack-o-lanterns who get paid in candy canes for haven’t been carved and lit, manual labor.

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“Atlanta-area Simon centers will celebrate the holly, jolly season with a plethora of festive fun for families this winter,” officials at Simon, the parent company of both malls, said in a statement on Wednesday. “Throughout November and December, shoppers are invited to indulge in spirited events.”

If the news that both malls are already talking about Christmas isn’t enough of a shock to folks See CHRISTMAS, Page 2A

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Personnel visit Dacula High to observe tech practices

By Keith Farner

model, Long said Dacula put its focus on technology Visit gwinnettdailypost.com and eCLASS, the district’s About 100 for a photo gallery. teachers and technology initiative, and administrators DACULA — There are all of the principals in the from across some schools who chamsaid. cluster believed the same Gwinnett pion the use of technology To illustrate the teachthing: Students are digital visited Dacula with the curriculum. But no natives and highly engaged High School on ing model, Long often uses other cluster across Gwinan example where he asks by technology.

Wednesday to nett infuses the culture like “If we can just harness observe how it teachers to watch a video that and use it to do the right the schools in and around and make an origami frog. uses technology in each Dacula. And in recent years, About one third have a per- work, and not let it be a classroom. district officials have taken fect frog, about a third have distraction. … This is a great (Staff Photo: way to do that,” he said. notice. a frog that’s not quite right Keith Farner) That’s why on WednesIn September at a School and about a third have a flat day, Dacula High School Board workshop meeting, piece of paper wondering hosted an eCLASS site principals for the Dacula what happened.

1,000 laptops in the last visit to showcase its ideas high schooler in Gwinnett know,” she said.

“The same thing happens cluster were honored for year, and every teacher who County and the way I teach and methods the school Fellow math teacher Amy when you try to teach a new their practices and impact teaches a core subject has and cluster use to integrate on students. Teachers were kids is totally different,” she Benson said students notice concept in math,” Long also on hand to explain what 15 laptops at their disposal, said. technology in its teaching when a group of visitors said. “Some of the kids get goes on in the classrooms Dacula High School Principractices. It’s the fourth Cooper said the transition come in the classroom to it fairly quickly, some kind such event at Dacula and the pal Bryan Long said. But the to this revamped teaching observe. of get it but have questions, and how it spreads to each school. concepts are not to simply events are now held twice model began two or three “There’s value placed on and some are lost. Well, “It might look a little add technology and devices. years ago, and it was a lot a year for teachers, adminthe work we’re doing from what you see is teachers istrators and district office “The technology is used of work at first, but teachers the county office,” she said. take the technology and they different at each school,” personnel to visit and learn. to really meet the kids where and students have adjusted In her 19th year teaching figure out things with them, Long said. “But all of them About 100 people from cluster-wide are doing the they are,” Long said. to it. The differentiation in Gwinnett, Benson said and then these kids who around Gwinnett County In one classroom, for allows for students in each there was a time when she have mastery, they’re able to same work to use technolPublic Schools took part in example, there is often three group to help one another if took students to a computer get enrichment and move on ogy to increase engagement the site visit where all 106 or four groups of students. one is struggling or arrives lab for math once a week. and go deeper. Kids that are ultimately to get educaclassrooms were open for a That was the case in teacher at a different answer than tion more personalized for “I don’t know that you lost get remediation.” tour to see how teachers and Kelly Cooper’s ninth-grade the rest of the group. students. Having the buy-in can walk in a room and have While there are seven students interact. from all five cluster princiAlgebra class.

“That collaboration shows 26 kids doing six different high schools across GwinThe school has added pals has been a huge plus.”

“The way I learned as a me just how much they things and that’s OK,” she nett that use an academy more oNliNe

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Brooks, Howard recognized for training accomplishments Gwinnett County Commissioners Jace Brooks and Lynette Howard were recognized by the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia this week for committing to learn more about citizen engagement.

The commissioners, who represent District 1 and 2 respectively on the Board of Commissioners, received achievement certificates that recognized the fact that they’ve completed ACCG’s requirements in the Jace Brooks Lifelong Learning Academy. Both commissioners completed requirements in the citizen engagement track, according to the association.

“County Lynette Howard officials face unrelenting pressure to make decisions on issues they’ve often never encountered, making our sessions a viable component to their day-to-day operations,” ACCG Executive Director Ross King said in a statement. “This program is a great example of the provision we offer counties to

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Curt Yeomans meet the needs of their citizens.”

The academy is a way for county commissioners to learn how to handle various situations that may come up in their respective counties. ACCG has been working with the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government on training for county commissioners.

Brooks and Howard said there is an added benefit in bouncing ideas off of commissioners from other counties.

“The Lifelong Learning Academy has been a valuable resource in my role as a county commissioner,” Brooks said in a statement.

Howard said, “Aside from the educational aspect, I am able to gain an alternative perspective from peers who have experienced similar county problems.”

Johnson receives alumni award from LaGrange College LaGrange College is proud of

of Sarasota and a doctoral degree in education from Argosy University.

She went on to teach at Central Gwinnett High School for 30 years lawrenceville as a member of its math departmayor Judy ment, and coached basketball and Johnson is congratulated softball as well. by laGrange Democrats hosting candidates College rally on Saturday President Dan Gwinnett County Democrats are mcAlexander inviting residents to visit Rhodes as he presents Jordan Park this weekend to meet her the Shackthe party’s candidates for several elford Alumni offices, ranging from Congress Achievement Award during to the state legislature and county homecomcommission. ing activities.

The Get Out The Vote rally (Photo courtesy will last from 10 a.m. to noon on of laGrange Saturday, at the park’s Pavilion No. College) 2. The park is located at 100 E. Crogan St. in Lawrenceville.

The rally will include U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga.; state Rep. Pedro Marin, D-Duluth; state Rep.the work one of its alumni has done Lawrenceville City Council from in the city of Lawrenceville.

2003-08 and began her first term as elect Brenda Lopez; county comShe’s pretty well-known in these mayor in 2011,” the school said in mission chairman candidate Jim parts, too. Judy Jordan Johnson is a statement. “She presides at meet- Shealey; commission District III candidate Jasper Watkins; and state the city’s mayor after all. ings of the City Council, serves as House candidates Donna McLeod, LaGrange bestowed its Shackel- the official spokesperson for the Sam Park and T.R. Radjabov. ford Alumni Achievement Award city and is the chief advocate of Rally attendees are planning to on Johnson over the weekend as policy.” go as a group to vote at the Gwinthe school celebrated its HomeJohnson graduated from the coming festivities. The award is school in 1974, and went on to earn nett County Board of Elections and Registration office at 455 Grayson designed to recognize alumni of the an associate’s degree from Young school who have gone on to have Harris College, a master’s degree in Highway in Lawrenceville.

Political Notebook appears in distinguished careers after graduteaching from the State University the Thursday and Sunday editions ation. of New York and educational speof the Gwinnett Daily Post.

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Motorcycle driver killed in wreck Nonprofit to host job fair

By Curt yeomans

near Inland Way, officials said.

“At 2:23 p.m., the northbound motorcycle struck a southbound Ford Escape that was attemptA motorcycle driver was ing to turn left in the center lane killed Wednesday after he hit a of U.S. 29 near Lilburn Square Ford Escape on U.S. Highway shopping center,” police said in 29, leading to lane closures in their statement. “The motorcycle both directions on the highway. driver was transported to GwinLilburn police said in a state- nett Medical Center, where he ment that the motorcycle driver was pronounced dead at 2:51 was heading north on the highp.m.” way and “weaving in and out” Lilburn officials said the of traffic while using the center driver of the Ford Escape was turn lane to pass cars before the not injured in the incident and accident. That led to the accident will not be charged. The incident curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

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Yes, kids can begin getting their photos taken with who might scream “Christ- Santa starting next week, mas? But it seems like 2016 through Christmas Eve. just began,” here’s an added Mall officials are encouragdetail: Photos with Santa ing visitors to check Santa’s will be available next Thurs- schedule at simon.com/ day at the Mall of Georgia. mallofgeorgia and to make Need smelling salts yet? appointments see jolly ol’

led to traffic tie-ups in the area, as one lane in each direction on U.S. 29 had to close for the investigation.

“That’s a four-lane road, and they’ve closed one lane in each direction,” City spokeswoman Nikki Perry said. “Traffic is moving through that area, but it’s moving slowly.”

Lilburn officials said they will release the motorcycle driver’s identity once his family has been notified.

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Waffle House and more.

“Almost all of the employers are The nonprofit Bridges Peachtree looking for permanent or seasonal Corners will hold its third annual help, so this is a great opportunity,” community job fair — featuring coordinator Pat Quigley said. more than 20 employers — in Attendees are encouraged to have Peachtree Corners today. an updated resume and dress in busiThe event will take place in the ness casual attire. There will be an fellowship building at Landmark opportunity to take a free head shot.

Church, 3737 Holcomb Bridge Road, Bridges Peachtree Corners is a grassroots community-building effort from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Employers will include Burlington founded by Christian men in the area.

For more information, visit www.

Coat Factory, Gwinnett County agenbridgespc.org/october-job-fair or cies, Kroger, Magnolia Advanced email Quigley at pat@vaildunlap.

Materials, RaceTrac, TRC Staffing, com.

World Financial Group, PNC Bank,

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Christmas Saint Nick at noerrsanta. com/simon/.

And don’t think photos with Santa will be the only Christmas fun to be had at the malls before Thanksgiving.

Officially, the Mall of Georgia will welcome Santa

during its Holiday Spectacular in the mall’s Village area from 5 to 9 p.m. on Nov. 19. There will be holiday-themed performances, a 50-foot Christmas tree will be lit and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” will be shown under the stars.

Meanwhile, Sugarloaf Mills is planning to host its own holly, jolly celebration to welcome Santa from 10 a.m. to noon on Nov. 18, which will also begin photos with Santa at the mall.

Families will be invited to enjoy a host of holiday activities, including seasonal crafts.

Sugarloaf Mills’ new Santa set will also be unveiled during the free event.

Don’t worry, though, because much of the rest of the Christmas programming will take place after Thanksgiving, including pet photos with Santa from Nov. 27 through Dec. 11 at

both locations.

Each mall will also host private Caring Santa events, where children with special needs and their families can get their pictures taken with Santa, on Dec. 4.

The Mall of Georgia’s Caring Santa event will be held from 8:30 to 10 a.m., and families can register for the event at www. eventbrite.com/e/caringsanta-tickets-27092021967.

Sugarloaf Mills’ event will be held from 9:30 to 11 a.m., and families can register at www.eventbrite. com/e/caring-santa-tickets27146847953?aff=es2.

Other holiday activities at the malls include: • The Salvation Army Angel Tree Program, Nov. 25 to Dec. 10 at both malls.

• Red Cross Blood Drives from Nov. 25 to 27, Dec. 10 to 11 and Dec. 23 to 24, from noon to 5 p.m. each day, at the Mall of

Georgia.

• Tree of Memories, where shoppers can hang a memory of a lost loved one on a tree in the Mall of Georgia’s upper level, near Macy’s, from Nov. 25 to Dec. 24.

• Kidgits Breakfast with Santa, 9 to 11 a.m. on Dec. 3 at Sugarloaf Mills’ food court.

• Simon Kidgits Club Breakfast with Santa, from 8:30 to 10 a.m., in the Mall of Georgia’s food Court.

• The Simon Holiday Photo Booth, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., on Dec. 3, 10 and 17, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Dec. 24, in the Mall of Georgia’s center court.

• Sounds of the Season, featuring local community, church and school groups, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., from Dec. 8 to 9, in the Mall of Georgia’s food court.

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Pneumonia vaccine not perfect, but effective DEAR DR. ROACH: When I was 55, my doctor recommended that I have the pneumonia vaccination, and a booster a couple of years ago. I am 72 now. Is it likely Hillary Clinton would have gotten one? Can you get pneumonia after having the vaccination? If so, why would it be recommended, and are they harmful?

— S.M. ANSWER: I don’t know whether Mrs. Clinton was vaccinated: As of this writing, that has not been made public. However, expert groups recommend vaccination. The current recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is to get the PCV13 (Prevnar) at age 65, followed by a dose of PPSV23 (Pneumovax) six to 12 months later. Adults over 18 also should receive these two vaccines if they have a condition that compromises the immune system, or certain other medical conditions.

Some experts recommend only the Pneumovax for healthy elderly.

No vaccine is perfect, so it is still possible to get pneumococcal pneumonia (pneumococcus is the bacteria responsible for the most common and one of the most serious types of pneumonia) after vaccination. There are many other types of pneumonia caused by organisms other than the one covered by the vaccine. The best estimate is that the vaccine prevents 50 to 80 percent of severe pneumococcal disease. The most common side effects are a sore or swollen arm. Serious reactions are rare. Because of the significant benefit and small risk of harm, I recommend at least the PPSV23 pneumococcal vaccine for those over 65.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have a friend who is an older male with diabetes that is controlled by oral medication. He has cataracts in both eyes. He told me he has some sort of infection “way inside” one eye, and the eye specialist is suggesting he have both cataracts done at the same time. I’m a bit concerned, not only because of the infection for which he takes drops, but also, isn’t doing both eyes at one time a bit risky for anyone? I always knew this surgery to be done on one eye first, followed by the other about two months later. He lives alone and has to go out of town to get the surgery done. Should he seek a second opinion?

— S.C. ANSWER: There are two parts to this question, and I don’t understand the first part, which is why do cataract surgery on someone with a deep infection of the eye. I think there might be a miscommunication here, since endophthalmitis is a feared infection that is a complication of cataract surgery, and it is more common in diabetics. If he had an existing infection now, he would need that treated before having cataract surgery.

The second issue is whether it is safe to do both cataract surgeries at the same time, and eye surgeons do not agree on whether there are higher risks in doing both surgeries on the same day. Fear of development of endophthalmitis is one argument against doing both cataracts on the same day.

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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1682, the city of Philadelphia was founded.

In 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers appeared in a New York City newspaper.

In 1904, the first underground New York City subway line opened to the public.

In 2005, after three weeks of criticism, Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th U.S. president; Emily Post (1872-1960), author; Joe Medicine Crow (1913-2016), historian/ author; Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), poet/ playwright; Ruby Dee (1922-2014), actress; Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), artist; Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), poet; John Cleese (1939- ), actor/writer; Dick Trickle (19412013) race car driver; Ivan Reitman (1946), director/producer; Carrie Snodgress

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TODAY’S QUOTE: “To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men’s doing.”

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Friend’s guilt over college assault haunts her DEAR AMY: When I was a freshman in college, 17 years ago, my roommate and I went to a house party.

My roommate disappeared into a room with a guy. He locked the door. I banged on the door, but she didn’t come out.

When she did emerge, she said she wanted to leave. On our walk back to the campus bus stop, she broke down sobbing, saying that he had forced her to have sex with him.

At the time, I had no way of comprehending that this was rape.

I am pretty sure I reacted poorly. I was in complete shock.

I do remember saying that we should go to the clinic, and that we should tell someone. She didn’t want to.

When we woke the next morning, she didn’t want to talk. We never talked about it.

Given all that is now coming to light around rape culture on campuses, and the wisdom that comes with age, I am riddled with guilt.

This must have shaped her college experience and her life in an awful way. I feel so ashamed and guilty that I didn’t help her. We are still friends and I really want to tell her I am sorry, but I don’t know how, or if I should.

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

DEAR AMY: I have been confined to the house after surgery. Friends have called and asked if I needed anything from the store.

I’d like to put it out there, that what anyone Amy Dickinson not able to take care of themselves really would — Ashamed like is if someone offered DEAR ASHAMED: to vacuum, or clean up the According to recent kitchen, make the bed, etc. statistics gathered by the I remember reading that National Crime Victimiza- after a death a neighbor tion Survey and published came around and cleaned by the National Sexual all the shoes for the funeral Assault Hotline, for female — that’s thinking outside college students, only an the box. estimated 20 percent report — Housebound in their assault. Your friend Santa Monica, Calif. is in the great majority of DEAR HOUSEwomen who do not report BOUND: I’d add doing being raped. yard work, offering to Because you still have drive for follow-up health an active friendship with appointments or dropping her, you should be open off a basket of books and and honest now. Tell her DVDs to your list. how you feel about what I also recommend Carhappened, share your ingbridge.org as an easy regret that you didn’t do (and free) way to share more to help her, and offer health updates and requests her your loving kindness for help with your commuand support. nity of friends and family.

She may say she doesn’t People who care about you want to discuss this or that really do want to help but she doesn’t remember the often don’t know how. episode in the same way DEAR AMY: I’m that you do. She may ask responding to “Left Out,” you never to bring this up who was executor of her again. father’s will, only to learn Respect all of her that she had been left out choices, and remember the of it. wisdom of Maya Angelou: I perform this function

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for my father, age 92. I have access to his lawyer, and with the exception of being somewhat at odds with my other siblings, the will is in the best order it can be.

If I could give any advice to this daughter I would say that she needs to rescind her position as executor. To harbor the animosity she seems to have toward her father’s decisions makes it a very unhealthy situation for what she will be responsible for after his death.

— Dave DEAR DAVE: Good advice. Thank you.

DEAR AMY: “Totally Embarrassed in Defeat” was a chess player who was whining about losing.

I wonder if he would have felt “so embarrassed” if he had been beaten by a man. I don’t blame the woman for rubbing his nose in the loss.

— Sue DEAR SUE: A good deal of sexual politics seemed to be in play in this particular match.

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

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You must carefully consider what you are willing to do for others. Compromise will be extremely important if you plan to reach your goals. An unusual but positive change at home will encourage you to pursue a creative venture.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Change your direction if it will help you reach your goal. Don’t let anyone sidetrack you when you are so close to hitting pay dirt. Be true to yourself and don’t look back.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Be willing to accept help if it will ensure that you reach your target. An emotional relationship will require a little nurturing if you want to avoid complaints.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You’ll be tempted to get involved in a last-minute scheme or trip that will end up costing you plenty. Stick to a plan you can trust and a pace you can keep.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Tidy up loose ends in order to free up time to follow your heart and dreams.

A romantic gesture will improve your personal situation. A financial gain is within reach.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Don’t let your emotions spoil your day. Be a team player, and always be willing to compromise.

A joint venture looks promising if you are willing to bend a little.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Put your time and effort into beneficial legal, financial and medical opportunities. A romantic celebration will enhance your personal life and longterm future.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — A unique professional relationship will turn into something special. If you share ideas, you’ll come up with new ways to use your skills, knowledge and attributes to get ahead.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Focus on relationships, commitment and self-improvement projects. A retreat or lifestyle change will give you a better sense of what you should be doing with your time, money and life.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You must keep the peace at home, or your productivity will diminish.

Too much of anything will be your downfall. Stick to basics and avoid indulgence. Use intelligence instead of force.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Don’t leave anything to chance. Live up to your promises and finish what you start. The more focused and organized you are, the less criticism you’ll face.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Plan a day trip and make a business move.

Set up meetings and discuss what you have to offer and what you need to help you advance.

Plan to do something exhilarating.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Taking a peek at your past may help you establish what you can do to improve your life now. The answer lies within you, not in someone else.

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world Russian warships withdraw request to refuel in Spain Russia has withdrawn a request for a flotilla of warships, including its flagship aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov, to refuel in the Spanish port of Ceuta as the ships head toward Syria, Spain’s foreign affairs ministry said Wednesday.

The small fleet of Russian warships and fighter jets reached the North Sea late last week and then moved south through the English Channel, according to the UK’s Ministry of Defense.

The flotilla is believed to be on its way to the Mediterranean and eventually, most Western defense analysts believe, to Syria.

In a statement, the Spanish ministry said it asked the Russian Embassy in Madrid to clarify reports that the flotilla might participate in the military operation against the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo.

“The Spanish government follows with deep concern the airstrikes against Aleppo and the humanitarian tragedy there,” the statement said. “Spain has requested in different occasions a ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid (into the city).”

Venezuela cries: ‘They are going to have to listen’ Anti-government demonstrators took to the streets in Venezuela on Wednesday, renewing their calls for a referendum to remove President Nicolás Maduro from power.

The protests come days after officials halted the opposition’s recall vote drive, ruling that there were multiple cases of voter identity fraud.

The controversial move has fueled mounting tensions between the government and the opposition that show no sign of slowing.

Each side accuses the other of staging a coup in the country, which is edging closer to a breaking point as it faces a recession, soaring food prices and broken hospitals.

world&nation ISIS sends ‘suicide squads’ to Mosul

By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Angela Dewan CNN

ISIS is sending “suicide squads” from Syria to its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul, witnesses have told CNN, as tens of thousands of troops close in on the key city to take it from the militant group’s control.

Witnesses said most of hundreds of new arrivals had streamed into Mosul from the group’s heartland of Raqqa, Syria, in the past two days, describing them as foreign fighters wearing distinct uniforms and suicide belts, and carrying light weapons.

ISIS fighters have been seen rigging bridges across the strategic Tigris River with explosives and have prepared dozens of vehicleborne suicide bombs.

A coalition of around 100,000 forces began an operation on Oct. 17 to retake Mosul, and have been slowly gaining ground toward the city, liberating villages from ISIS rule along the way.

Clashes with ISIS fighters are expected to intensify the closer in troops get, and in Mosul itself, bloody street-to-street skirmishes are expected.

While the coalition has made sweeping gains, ISIS has put up a fierce resistance in pockets, relying on asymmetric warfare tactics, such as setting oil fields and

Even as Iraqi troops are locked in a fierce battle with ISIS for control of Mosul, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Tuesday that efforts to capture the terror group’s Syrian stronghold, the city of Raqqa, will not be put on hold. (CNN)

even a sulfur factory alight to push coalition troops away, and using civilians as human shields.

The group is also carrying out retribution killings, executing about 40 people on Saturday near a newly “liberated” village near Nimrud, southeast of Mosul, as revenge for those who had welcomed Iraqi forces. ISIS separately killed another 284 men and boys last week in and near Mosul.

A UN High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesman, Rupert Colville, said Tuesday that his office had received reports of “barbaric acts” committed by ISIS as troops advance.

“We continue to receive

reports of depredations — including extrajudicial killings and summary executions — against children and women, as well as male civilians, by ISIL as Iraqi Government forces close in on Mosul,” he told a press briefing in Geneva, using an alternative name for ISIS. “We also continue to receive information that reinforces the belief that ISIL are deliberately using civilians as human shields — forcing them to move to sites where ISIL fighters are based, or preventing them from leaving other places for strategic reasons.”

He shared one case where three women and three young girls were allegedly killed Saturday

nation Early votes show Clinton’s strength in swing states

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has reason for optimism in several swing states — and appears to have turned Arizona into a battleground — as millions of Americans vote early.

More than 7.3 million Americans have already voted. Democrats have improved their positions in North Carolina, Nevada and Arizona compared to this point in 2012, according to a CNN analysis of the latest early voting statistics.

Republicans, meanwhile, have good news in Iowa. Republicans have Canadian nurse improved their position accused of killing there over 2012 — backing 8 in nursing home up the polls which suggest it could be the easiest state A Canadian nurse is won by President Barack facing first-degree murder Obama for Trump to flip charges in the deaths of eight this year. assisted-living facility resiAnd in Florida, where dents from 2007-14, accord- the latest comparable data ing to Canadian authorities. comes from 2008, DemocElizabeth Tracey Mae crats — buoyed by an inWettlaufer is accused of creasingly diverse electorpoisoning residents who ate — have cut deeply into ranged in age from 75 to 90 the traditional Republican in two Ontario facilities, the advantage in early ballots Ontario Provincial Police cast so far. said at a news conference on Tuesday.

Father killed after Wettlaufer, 49, appeared walking son to bus in Ontario Court of Justice A Brevard County in the city of Woodstock on father was shot and killed Tuesday. She was charged Wednesday morning after with eight counts of firstwalking his son to a school degree murder and taken bus stop, according to the into custody.

Woodstock police reCocoa Police Department. ceived a tip on September It happened in Cocoa, 29 that a nurse had killed Fla., on the corner of Fiske multiple patients, leading to Boulevard and Grove Street Wettlaufer’s arrest, police just before 7 a.m. said in a statement.

After dropping his son —From wire reports off at the bus stop Fern

Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton waves after speaking at a campaign rally in Lake Worth, Fla., on Wednesday. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

Avenue, the father was walking back to his Grove Avenue home a block away when a confrontation took place.

The man got into some type of argument with a man on a bicycle in a parking lot just yards away from his home. The suspect pulled a gun and shot the father several times.

Somehow he managed to get up and make it to the house, which was two houses down from the bus stop, where he collapsed and died in front of family members.

Student shot at Utah school by another student A student was shot by another student outside Union Middle School on Tuesday afternoon. Police said the victim suffered at least one gunshot wound, was taken to the hospital and was listed in critical condition. Two shots were fired, but it isn’t clear if both shots struck the victim, who was transported

by ground ambulance.

Tuesday evening officials said the teen was out of surgery and is in critical but stable condition.

Canyons School District said the shooting took place outside the school and confirmed both the shooter and victim were boys. The victim may have been a high school student who attended Hillcrest High School. It is believed he confronted the shooter before the incident took place, about 3 p.m.

Police said the shooting happened after an argument between the two students next to Union Park, adjacent to the school, as classes were letting out for the day.

Sheriff in Arizona charged with criminal contempt A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to be tried on a criminal contempt charge for “willful disobedience” of a court order in a racial profiling case.

after trailing behind a group that ISIS was forcing to relocate. The victims were lagging behind because one of the girls had a disability.

He said that 15 civilians in Safina, a village south of Mosul, were killed and thrown into a river “apparently in an attempt to spread terror among the other residents.”

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Tuesday that efforts to capture Raqqa would continue, and not be put on hold by the Mosul operation.

“There will be overlap, and that is part of our plan,” Carter said.

“We have already begun laying groundwork to commence the isolation of Raqqa.”

people Lady Gaga guest stars with Corden in karaoke gag She may have only recently gotten her driver’s license, but Lady Gaga is more than comfortable in a car.

The superstar singer thrilled her Little Monsters and more casual fans Tuesday with her “Carpool Karaoke” stint with James Corden on “The Late Late Show.”

Not only was she pitch-perfect on songs like “Perfect Illusion,” “Bad Romance” and “Poker Face,” but Gaga also proved to be adept at improv. She and Corden acted out her getting the call to perform the Super Bowl halftime show in February.

Gaga, who just released a new album, “Joanne,” revealed that her entire family came with her when she got her license and her dad cried.

Amy Schumer had Beyoncé’s parody approval

Amy Schumer is taking Twitter heat for her parody of “Formation,” but sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN the comedian had Beyoncé’s blessing to use the song.

Schumer’s video features the star with Goldie Hawn, Wanda Sykes and Joan Cusack lip-syncing and dancing to “Formation,” U.S. District Judge Susan shot while they were on Bolton’s order comes after location filming a movie U.S. District Judge G. Mur- together. The video was first released Friday on Tidal, the ray Snow asked the U.S. Attorney’s Office to file the music-streaming platform owned by Beyoncé’s huscriminal contempt charges band, Jay Z. against Arpaio and several Schumer also posted subordinates. the video to her YouTube Snow in May found channel.

Arpaio and three memSome on social media bers of his office to be in civil contempt because they accused Schumer of cultural appropriation and insensiallegedly violated court orders intended to keep the tivity to the racial politics Maricopa County Sheriff’s of the song. The hashtag Office from racially profil- #AmySchumerGottaGoParty started trending on Twiting Latinos. Snow wrote ter over the weekend. in August that continued failure to follow the court’s directions, along with false ‘Gilmore Girls’ statements and attempts trailer goes back to obstruct further inquiry, now justified filing criminal to Stars Hollow contempt charges.

Stars Hollow, you haven’t changed a bit. The same, NAACP: White however, can’t be said for students threw every “Gilmore Girls” character who used to call the noose on black charming little town home. student’s neck In Netflix revivial’s ofAllegations that white ficial trailer, released on students threw a noose Tuesday, viewers are given around a black student’s glimpses into the current neck and “pulled the noose lives of Rory (Alexis tight” have rocked a south- Bledel), Lorelai (Lauren ern Mississippi high school. Graham) and more, and it’s Members of the Missisa lot to process. sippi chapter of the NAACP First, Rory is living the claim that some members life of a “vagabond,” as of the Stone High School Emily (Kelly Bishop) calls football team in Wiggins it. She has no roots, no put the noose on the black credit and, she moans to student earlier this month Jess (Milo Ventimiglia), no at the high school football underwear. field house. The alleged Lorelai is similarly strugvictim and perpetrators are gling. football players.

She tries to reassure The NAACP wants a fed- herself: “We’re happy. Luke eral investigation of the in- and I are…happy?”

Prepare yourself for cident, saying the students in the alleged attack haven’t some fast-talking, heartfelt drama. been expelled, school of“Gilmore Girls: A Year in ficials didn’t report it to law enforcement nor have they the Life” is made up of four 90-minute, mini-movies. told the victim’s parents They debut on Netflix Friwhat kind of disciplinary day, Nov. 25. action would be taken.

—From wire reports —From wire reports

Gene study clears ‘Patient Zero’ as cause of U.S. HIV epidemic

By Julie Steenhuysen Reuters

CHICAGO — Genes taken from archived blood samples show the U.S. AIDS epidemic started in New York in the early 1970s, definitively debunking the long-held belief that the virus was spread in the early 1980s by a flight attendant who became vilified as “Patient Zero” for seeding the U.S. outbreak.

Scientists have long suspected

Must read that HIV had been circulating in the United States for a decade before the first few AIDS cases were identified in Los Angeles in 1981.

The new study, published in the journal Nature, offers some of the first genetic proof.

“What we’ve done here is tried to get at the origins of the first cases of AIDS that were ever noticed,” said Michael Worobey,

the evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who led the study.

Using a painstaking new approach, Worobey and colleagues pieced together the entire genetic sequence of the HIV virus from eight archived blood samples taken in 1978 and 1979 from gay and bisexual men participating in a hepatitis B study.

The team traced genetic changes in the virus samples taken from male patients in New York and San

Francisco. The researchers found that the HIV virus first jumped from the Caribbean to New York City around 1970, triggering the North American epidemic.

The team used the same approach to extract the full HIV genetic code from “Patient Zero,” a flight attendant identified as Gaetan Dugas in the Randy Shilts 1987 bestseller “And the Band Played On.” Shilts, who wrote his book after Dugas had died, identified him

as playing a key role in spreading the virus; media accounts painted him as a villain. The new study, however, found no biological evidence suggesting Dugas was the primary cause of the HIV epidemic in North America.

Dugas was first associated with the epidemic through a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that connected AIDS to sexual transmission of the disease in a cluster of 40 homosexual men.

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Facing the immigration controversy

Despite controversies that rage over immigration, it is hard to see how anyone could be either for or against immigrants in general.

First of all, there are no immigrants in general.

Both in the present and in the past, some immigrant groups have made great contributions to American society, and others have contributed mainly to the welfare rolls and the prisons. Nor is this situation unique to the United States. The same has been true of Sweden and of other countries in Europe Thomas and elsewhere.

Sowell Sweden was, for a long time, one of the most ethnically homogeneous countries in the world. As of 1940, only about 1 percent of the Swedish population were immigrants. Even as the proportion of immigrants increased over the years, as late as 1970, 90 percent of foreignborn persons in Sweden had been born in other Scandinavian countries or in Western Europe.

These immigrants were usually welleducated and often had higher labor force participation rates and lower unemployment rates than the native Swedes. That all began to change as the growing number of immigrants came increasingly from the Middle East, with Iraqis becoming the largest immigrant group in Sweden.

This changing trend was accompanied by a sharply increased use of the government’s social assistance program, from 6 percent in the pre-1976 era to 41 percent in the 1996-99 period. But, even in this later period, fewer than 7 percent of the immigrants from Scandinavia and Western Europe used social assistance, while 44 percent of the immigrants from the Middle East used that welfare state benefit.

Immigrants, who were by this time 16 percent of Sweden’s population, had become 51 percent of the long-term unemployed and 57 percent of the people receiving welfare payments. The proportion of foreigners in prison was five times their proportion in the population of the country.

The point of all this is that there is no such thing as immigrants in general, whether in Europe or America. Yet all too many of the intelligentsia in the media and in academia talk as if immigrants were abstract people in an abstract world, to whom we could apply abstract principles — such as “we are all descendants of immigrants.”

A hundred years ago, when a very different mix of immigrants were coming to a very different America, there was a huge, multi-volume study of how immigrants from different countries had fared here. This included how they did as workers in various industries and in agriculture, and how their children did in school.

Some people like to refer to the past as “earlier and simpler times.” But it is we today who are so simple-minded that it would be taboo to do anything so politically incorrect as to sort out immigrants by what country they came from. As Hillary Clinton said in one of her recently revealed e-mails, she is for “open borders.”

However congenial the idea of open borders may be to elites who think of themselves as citizens of the world, it is not even possible to have everyone come to America and the country still remain America.

What is it that makes this country so different that so many people from around the world have, for centuries, wanted to come here, more so than to any other country? It is not the land or the climate, neither of which is so different from the land and the climate in many other places.

Nor is it the racial makeup of the country, which consists of races found on other continents. What is unique are American institutions, American culture and American economics and other achievements within that framework.

People who came here 100 years ago usually did so in order to fit within the framework of America and become Americans. Some still do. But many come from a very different cultural background — and our own multiculturalism dogmas and grievance industry work to keep them foreign and resentful of Americans who have achieved more than they have.

Some immigrant groups seek to bring to America the very cultures whose failures led them to flee to this country. Not all individual immigrants and not all immigrant groups. But too many Americans have become so gullible that they are afraid to even get the facts about which immigrants have done well and improved America, and which have become a burden that can drag us all down.

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell. com.

Being the celebrity’s apprentice WASHINGTON — The system is rigged and the polls are phony.

As E-Day draws nigh, Donald Trump and his spokesvolken have contrived every possible excuse for the Republican candidate’s likely defeat. Unless, of course, lying has caught on “big league” and voters have followed their leaders’ cue and given pollsters incorrect answers.

Multiple poll results released in the final days, most of which indicate a consistent trend of Hillary Clinton winning, are suddenly suspect, in Trump’s mind. Obviously, everyone has a favorite polling group, usually corresponding to one’s preference at the top.

But enough reputable polls show similar results to lend heft to mere probability.

Even so, it ain’t over till it is, one is wise to say.

Trump may be spinning polls for other reasons, too.

Knowing how malleable people can be, he may hope to shift perceptions lest potential supporters be swayed by polls tilting Clinton-ward. If Trump hates losers, his comrades in arms (and that’s no joke) probably do, too.

Perhaps the strongest indicator that Trump will lose is his own premature distribution of blame. As far as he is concerned, defeat couldn’t be his fault.

The obvious truth is that Trump never should have been

don’t ring a bell, congratulations, you don’t watch TV. Because Priebus, when not jetting around with Trump on his gold-plated private plane, and Spicer are on one talk show or another nearly every time you look at a cable news screen.

They’ve worn more makeup Kathleen the past year than most women Parker do in a lifetime.

“They’re having the time the Republican nominee, as of their lives,” as one tenuredeven Trump probably would Washington Republican put it. admit. When he descended the They’re the elephants in the escalator to announce his can- Green Room, in other words. didacy, he was at just 1 percent Everyone sees them clearly — a barely perceptible speck but manages to avoid speaking on the continuum of Republiopenly of the obvious — that can candidates.

Priebus has presided over the He was ignored — or at ruin of the Republican Party. least not taken seriously — Why isn’t he being held acby nearly everyone for good countable? Why isn’t he being reason. And when he started called to the mat for allowing spouting hot rhetoric, few in Trump’s rise, which might not in the GOP leadership worhave been possible had the ried much since he’d surely be party chair done his job? moving along any day. This Why was everyone willwas not to be, in part because ing to stand by and watch as Trump commented laughthis reality-TV character take ing to a friend, who told me: charge?

“I had no idea it would be so “Because (Priebus) is their easy.” boy,” a disgruntled top ReTranslation: Once he publican told me. “He’s given realized he was dealing with a them what they wanted. He’s bunch of suckers, he continued kept the money flowing.” to play them. What fun — and, Where the money flows, voila. the love goes. In politics, it The suckers of whom he seems, principle really means was speaking are the party principal. leadership, specifically ReThe RNC gang sold out. publican National Committee When Trump launched his Chairman Reince Priebus and campaign by ranting about RNC communications director undocumented Mexicans as Sean Spicer. If these names murderers and rapists, the

party leadership should have shouted him down. Priebus should have summoned Trump to Washington and explained how things were going to go.

He might have handed Trump the GOP’s autopsy report from the 2012 election and referred him to the “Hispanics” section of the chapter on cultivating “Demographic Partners,” saying: This is what you’re going to do from now on.

Would Trump have agreed?

Probably not. But then Priebus should have said: Well, then, I’ll have to break you down during the primaries. At every opportunity, Priebus should have made the case that Trump, who eventually alienated not just Hispanics but also African-Americans and women, doesn’t represent the Republican Party. Instead, Priebus and others feared a base that hadn’t formed around Trump yet and, by their inaction, contributed to Trump’s success.

By letting Trump rise to the top, as oil slicks tend to, Priebus has left the party in such a gelatinous mess, Republicans will need a hazmat team to clean it up. And for this, he’d like to serve a third term?

Once you’ve seen the lights, smelled the greasepaint and been the celebrity’s apprentice, it must be hard to go back to Jersey.

Kathleen Parker’s email address is kathleenparker@ washpost.com.

Cubs finally deliver bliss to eternal fans CHICAGO — Like manna from heaven, a small bit of much-needed joy fell upon Chicago Saturday night as the Cubs secured a trip to the World Series for the first time since 1945.

I wasn’t watching the game but knew the moment they won because the pure bliss emanated from Wrigley Field many miles out to me as my neighbors burst from their homes onto the street shrieking and hooting. Moments later, the sky was awash in fireworks and people were driving down the street honking their horns in jubilation.

The collective delight offered a refreshing pause for Chicagoans distressed over the nation’s election-year anxiety and the gun violence pounding the city’s lowest-income residents.

On Saturday night, people of all backgrounds, races and income levels were in the streets singing together, hugging and crying — there were quite a lot of bittersweet tears, in fact. The Cubs’ win brought wistfulness to those lucky enough to witness the October miracle.

Yahoo Sports’ Kevin Kaduk picked right up on it, writing: “The thing that struck you were the tears.

“The tears were for so many

Esther Cepeda things. They were for the achievement, of course. … But for the fans, the tears were also for so many other things. It was for relatives no longer with us.

One man waved a posterboard sign that said ‘Best fan in heaven: Mom’ with a picture of a woman wearing a Cubs hat in a hospital bed. ‘I wish my dad was alive’ trended on Facebook because so many people were posting that phrase in relation to the Cubs.

“It was for people no longer near us, too. Fans texted and called others from the stands when they could catch a signal.

When’s the last time so many sons and daughters called their mothers and fathers that late on a Saturday night?”

This ’til-death-do-we-part love affair between Cubs fans and their beloved team is viscerally real to many people. In his 2014 book, “A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrig-

ley Field at One Hundred,” the Washington Post columnist and Cubs fan George F. Will wrote: “The gushing is never worse than when Cub fans get going about Wrigley Field. It is, they think, if thinking can be said to enter into such talk, a little foretaste of — you guessed it — the hereafter. The only real resemblance between Wrigley Field and heaven is that the ballpark is indeed the final destination of some Cub fans.

Every once in a while someone in the bleachers leans out from the front row and, pursuant to the wishes of the deceased, pours onto the outfield a small billowing gray cloud of dust that is the ashes of Uncle Ralph or Aunt Min, who, one hopes, really meant it when he or she said, ‘You know, when I die I wish … ’ This use of Wrigley Field is officially frowned upon, but it is believably said, sotto voce, that ushers and other representatives of officialdom have been known to enable this by pretending not to see it.”

I’m not a Cubs fan, but when I heard the news my mind went to Senobio Nila, a 106-year-old Cubs fan whom I interviewed in 2007. He had come to the suburbs of Chicago from Mexico in 1923 to

work in the railroads and, during his long life, Nila married, had seven children, put them through Catholic school and basically achieved the American Dream.

When I spoke to Nila, he was near the end. In his hoarse, low voice, he told me that he was very satisfied with all the things he’d experienced in America and in Chicago — but the one thing he wished he could live to see was the Cubs winning the World Series.

Nila passed away 10 months later. But if there is a heaven, I like to imagine that this Cubsloving immigrant, who initially lived in a discarded boxcar given to him by his employer and who eventually made his way to a beautifully appointed suburban home surrounded by well-to-do children and grandchildren, is up there waving a Cubs flag.

Fans of underdog teams like the Cubs and the Cleveland Indians — who between them have 174 years’ worth of World Series-win drought — know the true meaning of hope, love and faith. And this week, they’ll hold precious memories of their ancestors close as they cheer on their teams.

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

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Model

•From Page 1A But little Asher wasn’t picked at the time. His photo wasn’t even forwarded to the clothing company for consideration for one reason that shocked his mother: he has Down syndrome.

Nash said she was told by an agent that her son’s photo wasn’t submitted because OshKosh B’Gosh didn’t say it was looking for a child with special needs.

Her response?

“Did they say they didn’t want one?”

Asher’s story has picked up a lot of attention in recent days as his story went viral. It began with his mother posting his photo and story on the Facebook page for Changing The Face of Beauty, a nonprofit that tries to encourage companies to use children with special needs in their advertisements.

“In no way are we trying to petition Oshkosh,” she explained in an email.

“I am simply just trying to grab their attention to make them aware of an issue we are facing with children with disabilities today.”

From there, a Facebook page called “Kids With Down Syndrome” shared the story, leading to thousands of shares and likes on the social media website.

And now national news outlets are lining up to interview Asher. It’s even gotten OshKosh B’Gosh’s attention, with company officials inviting the Nash family to a meeting this week.

Nash said she’s waiting until a national interview

Above, Buford youth Asher Nash makes a face in this set of images submitted by his family. The 15-month-old, who has Down syndrome, has been at the center of national news lately in a bid to earn respect and inclusion for models who have special needs.

(Photo: Crystal Barbee Photography) At right, supporters of 15-month-old Asher Nash pose for a photo. The supporters call themselves “Asher’s Allstars.” (Special Photo)

on ABC World News Tonight airs on Friday before talking about what will come from the meeting, but she offered a brief, if somewhat vague, teaser of how it went.

“I will say that it was a positive meeting,” she said.

A little ‘ray of sunshine’ Asher’s parents discovered he had Down syndrome during a prenatal exam 12 weeks before he was born.

Nash explained there’s little difference between her son and any other 15-month-old boy in the world, though. He likes to play and explore his surroundings.

“He just loves to be a rambunctious baby,” she said. “He’s always crawling around the house … and he just loves to live life.”

He’s discovered a love for dance, as well, and will get down whenever someone puts on some music.

He’s young, of course, so he hasn’t quite mastered moves like Jagger.

His mom said he can, however, dance like the characters Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan played in the old Saturday Night Live sketches (later turned into a movie) about a pair of dancing clubgoers.

“You know that movie, ‘Night at the Roxbury,’ with the two guys who are always dancing?” Nash asked. “That’s how he dances. Whenever music is on, his head starts bouncing back and forth.”

Given his personality, interests and behavior, his mother said he shouldn’t be treated differently based on the fact that he has Down syndrome.

“He truthfully is just a ray of sunshine,” his mother said.

A sense of pride and a fashion streak at a young age To be honest, the Nash family swears by OshKosh B’Gosh clothing, according to Asher’s mother. She added he seems to have taken to how the clothing makes him look.

Nash explained she and the rest of the family routinely try to match

suspenders and bowties — Asher loves bowties, by the way — to whatever outfit he’s wearing at the time. He seems to get a kick out of the attire, his mother said.

“It’s like whenever he has a bowtie on, he knows he looks important and has the biggest smile on his face,” she said. “It’s as if he knows he looks official.”

A role model for others In many ways, Asher has already become an international star even without getting a modeling contract.

His mother said Asher’s story has proven to not only be his own journey, but a story of inspiration for other families of children with special needs. Nash explained she’s heard from other mothers around the world who have children with Down syndrome and other special needs, and have told her Asher is a role model for their own young children.

“There was one mother who emailed me and said, ‘Not only is what you’re

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Clinton Ayers Mr. Clinton Ayers, age 57 of Loganville, passed away on Wednesday, October 26, 2016. Funeral Services will be held at 11 AM on Saturday, October 29, 2016 at the Victory Baptist Church. Rev. Josh Ayers, Steven Ayers, and Chris (Jethro) Waye will officiate. Burial will follow at Corinth Memorial Gardens in Loganville.

Mr. Ayers was a 1977 graduate of Loganville High School, a member of Victory Baptist Church for 27 years where he was a Sunday school teacher, former deacon, and part of the RU program. He retired from Gwinnett County, where he was in charge of traffic signals, after 30 years. Mr. Ayers was Commissioner of District One in Walton County for 14 years and was a charter member of the Loganville Rotary Club. He was a Veteran of the United States Army and retired as a Sergeant Major in the Army Reserves. Mr. Ayers was preceded in death by his mother, Vaneda Ayers, in 2011. He is survived by his Wife of 35 years, Connie Ayers; Children: Josh & Sarah Ayers of Bethlehem; Rebecca Lynn Ayers of Loganville; Steven Ralph Ayers of Loganville; Granddaughters: Kaylie & Lanie Ayers; Father: Ralph Ayers of Loganville; Brother & Sister-in-law: Kerry & Deborah Ayers of Loganville; Sister & Brother-in-law: Rhonda & Robert Johnson of Sumd l i d

merdale; Many Friends also survive. In lieu of flowers, memorials should be made to the Friends of Unlimited in Monroe, the Walton Pregnancy Center in Loganville, or the RU Ministry at Corinth Baptist Church. The family will receive friends from 2 - 4 & 6 - 8 PM on Friday, October 28, 2016 at the Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 670 Tom Brewer Road, Loganville, GA 30052.

770-466-1544. Please sign the online guest registry at www.stewartfh.com .

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Grace Bullock Grace Johnson Bullock, age 95 of Loganville, originally of Suwanee, passed away on Tuesday, October 25, 2016. Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 PM on Saturday, October 29, 2016 in the Lawrenceville Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home. Rev, Craig Dale will officiate.

A homemaker, Woman of God, beloved Mother and Grandmother, Grace loved to garden, sew and sell her crafts at the local churches and fairs. She was preceded in death by; 1st Husband: Frank Johnson; 2nd Husband: Bill Bullock; Son: Robert C. “Bob” Johnson; Daughter: Lyn Gunter; Brother & Sister-in-law: T.E. EB & Florence Lockridge; Sister & Brother-in-law: Betty & Rev. Wallace Preast. Ms. Bullock is survived by: h

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The other reason, she said, is that it makes it easier for the world to accept people with special needs and see them as equals if marketing agencies treat them the same as other models.

But to a mother who is just proud of her son and wants to share him with the world, whether he becomes America’s next top model doesn’t matter.

She said she has plenty of reasons to be proud of her son, anyway.

“He was born to do something great,” she said.

“If it’s not modeling, it will be something else.”

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painting company before beginning his long career at Southern Railroad, a career which lasted over thirty years. He was a gifted athlete who began his passion for sports as a teenager, playing football and baseball at Grady High School, along with boxing at the local YMCA, then playing many years in a softball league, competing in a bowling league, and playing ALTA tennis. He enjoyed traveling with his wife, Glenda, playing golf with family and friends, watching sports and movies, playing games of Rummy with his grandchildren, and especially loved to work out daily at his favorite local gym, gaining a wonderful group of friends there.

The family will receive friends Thursday, October 27, 2016, at 10:00am until 12:00pm at Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel. Services will be held immediately following.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.

Online condolences may be expressed at http:// www.wagesandsons.com.

Freddie Cannon Freddie Cannon, of Lilburn, Georgia, passed away peacefully on October 25, 2016. He is survived by his daughters, Tracy Moxley, Terri Sullivan and husband Daniel Sullivan, Sandi Parson and husband Alan Parson, grandchildren, Carl Grubbs, Jessica Sullivan, Lauren Huntsman, and Sarah Parson, greatgranddaughters, Anna and Elizabeth Huntsman. He was preceded in death by his loving wife of 45 years, Glenda Cannon, and his parents, Fred Cannon and Geraldine Cannon of Atlanta. Freddie was a loving father, husband, grandfather, and friend to all.

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doing great for your son, but I think you are paving the way for other babies, too, who have Down syndrome,’” Nash said.

There are several reasons why she feels it is important for companies to feature people with special needs in advertisements. The first two reasons, she explained, are that it gives them a sense of acceptance and inclusion among their peers.

“Without truly accepting my son and others with special needs, there can be no inclusion for them in the future,” she said.

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After college Charlyne began her career as a high school teacher in Dalton, Georgia. Charlyne loved children and her last teaching position was at The Westminster Lower School in Atlanta , where she taught reading for nine years.

Surviving are daughters The Reverend Sally Parrott (John) of Greenville, S.C., and Cissy Benedict (Thomas) of Atlanta, Georgia; grandchildren, Dr. John F.Parrott Jr. (Snow) ,William Howard Parrott (Amanda),Thomas Cobb Benedict Jr., (Sarah) and Sally King Benedict Read (George) and six great-grandchildren: JP, Snow, Ellie, Charlotte, Sally, and River. Charlyne is predeceased by her husband of sixty-six years William Howard Fowler, and her two brothers, William Moreland King and Jim King.

A graveside funeral service will be held Saturday, October 29, at 11:00 AM in Lawrenceville for the immediate family. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to The Westminster School. Online condolences can be expressed at www.wageandsons.com.

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Charlyne Fowler Charlyne King Fowler, daughter of Charles King and Beulah Pryor King, was born in Johnson City, Tennessee on March 31, 1923. She grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee where she excelled in classical ballet. After graduating from high school Charlyne attended The University of Tennessee where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority and graduated with a BA i

Beverly Halferty Beverly Ann Boxey Halferty, 74, of Snellville, Georgia, and The Villages, Florida, lost the cancer battle 10-25-16. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, cousin and aunt.

Beverly was a graduate of Afton High in Afton Missouri. She was Miss M

Majorette of Missouri and the Missouri State Champion. She went to the National Baton Contest. She twirled in High School and College.

Beverly went to William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri where she met the love of her life Jon C. Halferty. They were married in August of 1963.The two of them raised three children, Jeff Halferty of Fl., Joy Halferty Hurd of Loganville, Georgia, and Jason Halferty of Jefferson, Georgia. They have 5 grandchildren and 3 step grandchildren. She was very proud of all their accomplishments.

Beverly was a retired Montessori teacher. She favored teaching reading and language to many children, some from foreign countries. She also had fun teaching baton, tap, ballet, gymnastics and swimming to many children.

Beverly enjoyed traveling, cruising, golf, and cards with friends. They had fun square and round dancing in the Villages and Atlanta. Church was important to her, and she taught Sunday school and Vacation Bible school many years at various churches.

A memorial service will be held at Community of Grace Lutheran Church in Grayson, Georgia at 4:00 PM on Friday, October 28, 2016. In lieu of flowers she would like donations made to the sign fund at Community of Grace, 1200 Athens Highway, Grayson, GA. 30017.

Arrangements by: Tim Stewart Funeral Home: 300 Simonton Rd SW Lawrenceville, GA 30046.

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North Gwinnett softball coach Randy Black, middle, flanked by seniors Haley Short, left, and Makenna Dowell, is hopeful his Bulldogs are finally ready to capture the program’s first championship at the Class AAAAAAA state tournament this weekend in Columbus.

After several close calls, North hopes to finally capture a title at state tournament came a GHSA-sanctioned varsity sport in the 1994, but the program has not yet claimed the ultimate prize.

SUWANEE — It’s It’s not something head not quite the “Billy Goat coach Randy Black, who Curse” or the “Curse of has spent the last 25 years, Rocky Colavito,” one of with the exception of a which will come to an end few years off following the sometime in the next week birth of his third and fourth when either the Chicago daughters, as a head coach Cubs or Cleveland Indians or assistant in the North wins the World Series. program, dwells upon, nor In fact, it would be a is it something he wants stretch to call the absence constantly nagging his of state fastpitch softball players’ thoughts. championship hardware in “I’d love to win it, but North Gwinnett’s trophy I know some really good case a “curse” at all. coaches who have had Still, the Bulldogs play- really good teams over ers are quite aware that the years who have never the program has not won won a championship,” said a state softball title of any Black, who got his 300th kind since winning backcareer coaching win during to-back slowpitch titles in the Bulldogs’ first-round 1988-89 despite fielding playoff series win over several very talented teams Shiloh earlier this month. over the past decade and a “I would never go back half. and look and grade myself And they definitely relon a championship. ish a chance to finally put “As a coach, I don’t that title drought to rest think about it very much. I when they begin play in just think about these kids. the Class AAAAAAA state We want to have success softball tournament at the every time we go out. SucSouth Commons Softball cess may not be winning.

Complex in Columbus It’s that these kids grow in with a first-round game some way as a person, as against Lowndes today at a player. On those years 6 p.m. in the (eight-year state “I know that my freshtournament) drought, we man year when we went to had some very, very good state, that was one of the teams. We lost to the evenfirst times we’d qualified tual state champions (in the for a very long time,” said playoffs or sectionals) five North shortstop Makenna of those years.”

Dowell, one of two seniors The long drought in who were freshmen starters getting to Columbus is when the Bulldogs ended definitely behind the an eight-season absence in North program now, as the Columbus three years ago. Bulldogs will be making “It’s been discussed, and their third state tournament there is pressure because appearance in the last four we know we’re good seasons, though they have enough to be there.” still yet to come home with In fact, the Bulldogs (24- a championship trophy.

7) have had teams talented Before they can do that, enough to be serious cham- however, they simply have pionship contenders several to win a game, something times since fastpitch bethey couldn’t do after go-

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ing two-and-out in each of their last two state tournament appearances.

And at least one North player admits breaking that barrier is essential if the Bulldogs are to reach their ultimate goal, and for more reasons than just the obvious logistical one.

“I think we’re all going to feel a little nervous,” said outfielder Haley Short, the other senior who started for the Bulldogs’ qualifying team as a freshman three years ago. “We want to get down there and win at least one game this year, but it’s not just that we want to win one game.

We want to win the whole thing. That’s the goal for every team.

“I think after that first time (three years ago), there wasn’t as much pressure to get down there.

Now that we’ve been down there, we’re kind of used to traveling down there and what the first game is all about. Now we’ve just got to get used to getting over that first (win).”

There’s every reason to believe North can get over that first-win obstacle and make a serious run at the title this weekend.

The talent is certainly there, with Auburn-commit and Super Six selection Dowell, Short and fellow seniors Haley Griffith and Bailey Martin and junior Erin Wilbur making up the nucleus of a solid batting order, complemented by strong pitching from sophomore right-hander Chandler Dennis.

But Black points out that perhaps the biggest advantages this year’s team have are experience and maturity.

“It’s a totally different group,” Black said. “Their demeanor is pretty much

the same (as it was three years ago), but they have grown up physically and athletically, they’ve gotten better. As softball players, they’ve gotten better because they’ve played a lot of softball since three years ago in October.”

Short agrees that this year’s team has a much better maturity level, as well as a better understanding about what it takes to succeed at the state tournament compared to that first trip in 2013.

“Our freshman year, I think I was a lot more timid and I know the seniors were super-excited about going,” Short said.

“Makenna and I were really excited, but we were a little timid because we didn’t know what to expect. But this year after being there twice, I feel so much more comfortable.

“I think the most important thing we learned (as a team) is just that we need to jell and develop chemistry, not just on the field, but also off the field.

And we just need to communicate because we know how amazing our team is as individuals but we just have to play as a team and not as individuals.”

According to Dowell, there is a much greater sense of team togetherness that the Bulldogs will bring to Columbus this year, and it goes beyond even the players to the coaching staff, especially Black.

“We definitely want to win it for him,” Dowell said. “He does so much stuff behind the scenes that no one even sees. He’s put in so much effort all these years, and he always encourages us. He always supports us even though we’ve never won. We all want to win it for him.”

Buford sprints back to finals

Wolves to play for state title after dispatching Ola

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BUFORD — For the third straight season the Buford girls volleyball team will play for the state championship. Buford made quick work of visiting Ola on Wednesday night in the Class AAAAA state semifinals 25-14, 25-11, 25-12.

Last season the Wolves won their first title in Class AAAA and they’ll look for a second straight state championship on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. against McIntosh at Marietta High School.

In all three sets Wednesday night, Buford (40-4) jumped out to an early lead on Ola (44-8) and never looked back.

“I never know how our girls are going to come out, but we’ve really been focusing on us just playing our game,” Buford head coach Hadli Daniels said. “It’s hard, playing in new classification a lot of these teams we don’t know, so we don’t know really what to expect. We don’t have any common opponents, so we just really focused on our side of the net and staying aggressive and attacking.

I felt like that if we were able to do that, we’d be hard to beat and I think they did that.

“They came out from the beginning really focused (Wednesday) night. They were really prepared, so I was very happy with their play.”

Morgan Mitchell led the Wolves with 29 assists, while Tatum Shipes had 11 kills, Gabby Curry had 13 digs and Avery Cason had three blocks.

Ola was making its first Final Four appearance and knew that slowing down a loaded Buford team was a tall task.

“We’re very proud,” Ola head coach Lonnie Wheeler said. “Of course everybody is sad now and that’ll last for a few days, but when that wears off we’ll wake up and realize we had a really good year.

Made the Final Four, record was good, everything was good. We suspected it would be a tough out. We feel like we didn’t play as well as we should, so

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Morgan Mitchell was really able to spread the ball around. ... It’s hard to defend when you don’t know where the ball is going.”

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we are disappointed with that.”

In the opening set Buford jumped out to a 7-1 lead before Ola answered back to make it 10-6.

Buford couldn’t quit pull away as Ola got within three points at 17-14, but the Wolves flexed their muscles and a Jamie Hay kill ended the set on an 8-1 run for Buford.

Ola hung tight early in the second set but a Cason block turned the momentum at 11-7 and Buford cruised from there with a 14-3 close out. In the third set aggressive serves from Shipes and Curry set the tone as they each had an ace and cruised to a 25-12 set win to clinch the match on a Mallory Martin serve.

“The key for us in tonight’s match was really to come out starting strong because we sometimes don’t start off strong and that slows our play,” Shipes said.

“When we play fast the other teams can’t keep up, so when we play fast like this it’s hard for them to keep up and we did a good job of that.”

Mitchell controlled the match with her passing, including a handful of quick passes over the net that kept Ola off-balance.

“I think we played defense well, we missed a few more serves than I would have liked, but we served aggressively so I was happy with that and we attacked the ball really well,” Daniels said. “I felt like we were smart as to where we put the ball and Morgan Mitchell was really able to spread the ball around. She really got our middles involved and our outsides and our right side. It’s hard to defend when you don’t know where the ball is going.

They did a really good job with that tonight.”

Buford’s Halston Hillier slams home a kill during the Wolves’ straight-sets victory over Ola in the Class AAAAA semifinals Wednesday in Buford. (Photo: David McGregor)

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WRESTLING

Ongoing through Nov. 1: Archer youth and middle school wrestling is accepting registration for the upcoming season at www.archerwrestling.com. Practices begin Nov. 1 and are Tuesday and Thursdays in the Archer High School wrestling room.

First- to fifth-graders practice from 6 to 7:30 p.m., while the sixth- to eighth-graders practice from 6 to 8 p.m.

Ongoing through Nov. 1: Collins Hill youth and middle school wrestling is accepting registration for the upcoming season at www.collinshillyouthwrestling.com. Practices start Nov. 1 for kindergarteners through eighth-graders on Mondays, Tuesday and Thursdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The Tiny Tusslers program, for ages 4 and 5, practices from 6 to 7 p.m. on

Tuesdays beginning Nov. 8.

Ongoing through Nov. 6: Mountain View youth wrestling is accepting registration for the upcoming season at www.mountainviewyouthwrestling.com. Practices will begin Nov. 7 and will be held Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Mountain View wrestling room.

Kindergartners through fifthgraders practice from 6 to 7 p.m., and middle schoolers practice from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

BASKETBALL

Ongoing through Dec. 1: I9 Sports of Northern and Central Gwinnett County offers winter programs for boys and girls ages 3 to 18 at North Gwinnett Middle, Bogan Park gym and Discovery High. All skill levels are welcome. To register, go to www.i9sports.com or call 678-472-2142.

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SHILOH AT NEWTON SHILOH GENERALS (8-AAAAAAA) Coach: Ryan Andrews Record: 2-6, 1-2 region Last week: Lost to South Gwinnett 35-6 NEWTON RAMS (8-AAAAAAA) Coach: Terrance Banks Record: 4-3-1, 1-2 region Last week: Lost to Grayson 34-0 Shiloh travels to Newton today in need of a win to keep its playoff hopes alive. Shiloh hasn’t reached the postseason since 2003 and Newton is looking for its fifth straight playoff appearance.

The Rams can clinch a playoff spot this week with a win over Shiloh and an Archer victory over South Gwinnett in Region 8-AAAAAAA action.

Shiloh can lock up a postseason spot by winning out against Newton and Archer. Only beating Newton would keep D.J. Walker the Generals in the hunt for a playoff spot, but it wouldn’t be a guarantee if Newton and South Gwinnett also finish tied for fourth at 2-3 in the region. South defeated Shiloh but fell to Newton, creating a three-way tie that would have to be broken my mini-games.

Newton’s offense has been stuck in neutral the last two weeks in region losses to Archer and Grayson. Last week Newton managed just 63 yards of total offense and five first downs. Two weeks prior, the Rams managed just 72 yards against the Tigers.

Shiloh’s offense has been up and down as well this season, but hopes to get a boost in the return of running back Jalen Myers, who didn’t play against South with a hamstring injury. Against Rockdale Myers ran for 133 yards and a TD. Head coach Ryan Andrews said pushing the pace on offense will be the key for his team against Newton. Last week quarterback D.J. Walker threw for 166 yards — including a 53-yard touchdown pass to Donovan Grier — against South, but turned the ball over twice. He’ll have to avoid those mistakes this week to keep Shiloh in the hunt.

“Tempo. Controlling the tempo,” Andrews said. “Against South we kind of let it get away, we didn’t really attack tempo-wise. So for us I think it’s just the tempo and tackling. When we have good tempo and we tackle well we’re in games.”

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next teammate. She shot 73 and 70 the first two rounds. “(Kaur) has far exceeded our expectations in every way,” Georgia State coach Cathy Mant said. “She is working hard and has been a terrific addition to our team this fall. She has had four top-25 finishes for us already and I am excited to see how she continues to grow.”

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Kennesaw State’s football program went through the early stages of open tryouts to fill its inaugural roster, but the bulk of the current Owls are signees and transfers.

Very few are left like Izzy Sam. “Just me and (Peachtree Ridge grad) Nick Perrotta,” the Lanier product said.

Those two are the only players remaining from the initial KSU football tryouts in the spring of 2014. Like Perrotta, Sam wasn’t sure college football was in his future. Perrotta attended Georgia Gwinnett College, where he played club baseball before enrolling at KSU and trying out.

Sam had college options in football after graduating from Lanier in 2013 — Stetson and Wofford offered, and Georgia Southern extended a walk-on invitation — but he was dealing with a handful of injuries from his senior year of high school, ranging from his collarbone to his wrists to his left knee to his ankles.

He enrolled at Georgia State as a freshman, but transferred to Kennesaw State with the intention to play football again.

“The fit was just perfect,” Sam said. “I like the atmosphere at Kennesaw better than Georgia State. I thought about playing at Georgia State at one point, but the atmosphere was better here.”

Sam wasn’t guaranteed a spot at Kennesaw when he participated in the Owls’ first-ever football tryouts.

He felt good about how he did in the workouts and position drills, a purposefully tough process designed to weed out the students who were serious from the more than 100 who showed up.

Not only did Sam make the Kennesaw State roster as a walk-on, he started all 11 games at linebacker last season for the Owls’ inaugural team. He made 51 tackles for a 6-5 team, including a highlight on the third play from scrimmage in the Owls’ inaugural home football game, when he recovered a fumble for a touchdown. It was KSU’s first fumble recovery for a

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Lanier grad Izzy Sam is the leading tackler on the Kennesaw State defense. (Photo: Kyle Hess/ksuowls.com)

touchdown in program history and also the first TD at Fifth Third Bank Stadium in program history.

The 5-foot-11, 230-pounder’s play impressed the Owls’ coaches enough that the redshirt junior was put on scholarship prior to this season, KSU’s second in football.

“Right before camp this year I earned a scholarship,” Sam said. “So I’ve been on scholarship a couple of months now. The coach called me into his office and told me. It was really random. I thought I was in trouble or something.”

Sam has played even better this year, too. His 49 tackles and 33 solo stops both lead Kennesaw State, which is 5-2 entering Saturday’s road game at Monmouth. He had 11 stops in last weekend’s win over Gardner-Webb.

“I think I‘ve taken more of a leadership role this year than last year,” Sam said. “I’m more familiar with the play calls on defense. I can guide my teammates to the right spot.”

Perrotta, a redshirt senior, also has been a key member of the defense the past two seasons. He has 14 tackles (four for losses) and two sacks this year.

Mill Creek grad Daniel David, an Appalachian State transfer, has played well in his first season with the Owls at quarterback.

He has played in a reserve role and as a fill-in starter, rushing for 137 yards and a score and completing 13 of 21 passes for 300 yards and three TDs with no interceptions.

Kennesaw State’s roster

IN FRONT OF THE CAMERAS A quick look at where to watch former Gwinnett standouts on TV in this week’s college football action: TODAY 7 p.m. — Virginia Tech at Pittsburgh, ESPN Collins Hill’s Emmanuel Belmar (No. 40) is a linebacker and Norcross’ D’Andre Plantin (No. 62) is an offensive lineman for Virginia Tech.

7:30 p.m. — Ohio at Toledo, CBSSP Parkview’s Jordan Reid (No. 12) is a wide receiver and Peachtree Ridge’s Tony Porter (No. 54) is a defensive lineman for Ohio.

7:30 p.m. — App. St. at Ga. Southern, ESPNU Peachtree Ridge’s Alex Gray (No. 3) is a defensive back, Norcross’ Josh Boyd (No. 8) is a running back, Shiloh’s Austin Exford (No. 9) is a defensive back, Dacula’s Marcus Cox (No. 14) is a running back, Mountain View’s Kaiden Smith (No. 36) is a defensive back and Mountain View’s Jalen Virgil (No. 81) is a wide receiver for App State. For Georgia Southern, Norcross’ Lorenzo Carter (No. 7) is a linebacker, Brookwood’s Shaun McGee (No. 8) is a linebacker, Buford’s Isaac Nauta (No. 18) is a tight end, Brookwood’s Matt Price (No. 29) is a wide receiver, Mountain View’s Tim Hill (No. 29) is a defensive back, Grayson’s Shattle Fenteng (No. 31) is a defensive back, Brookwood’s Nick Moore (No. 43) is a fullback, South Gwinnett’s Reggie Carter (No. 45) is a linebacker and Grayson’s Justin Young (No. 92) is a defensive lineman.

10:30 p.m. — California at USC, ESPN Collins Hill’s Chris Palmer (No. 51) is an offensive lineman for Cal. North Gwinnett’s Josh Imatorbhebhe (No. 17) is a wide receiver and North Gwinnett’s Daniel Imatorbhebhe (No. 88) is a tight end for USC. FRIDAY 7 p.m. — Navy at South Florida, ESPN2 Archer’s John Gillis (No. 4) is a cornerback, Brookwood’s Josh Brown (No. 42) is a running back, GAC’s Ford Higgins (No. 75) is an offensive lineman, Mountain View’s Kendel Wright (No. 76) is an offensive lineman and Greater Atlanta Christian’s Paul Carothers (No. 87) is a linebacker for Navy.

10:30 p.m. — Air Force at Fresno State, ESPN2 Parkview’s Shaq Vereen (No. 6) is a defensive back for Air Force.

SATURDAY Noon — Duke at Georgia Tech, FSSO Shiloh’s Jeremy McDuffie (No. 9) is a cornerback, Grayson’s Jordan Hayes (No. 13) is a safety, Archer’s Dylan Singleton (No. 16) is a safety, Archer’s Deondre Singleton (No. 33) is a safety, Buford’s Grant Hall (No. 46) is a safety and Collins Hill’s Christian Harris (No. 70) is an offensive lineman for Duke. For Tech, Norcross’ Clinton Lynch (No. 22) is a running back, Buford’s David Curry (No. 32) is a linebacker, Norcross’ Jarett Cole (No. 35) is a defensive back, Greater Atlanta Christian’s Tyler Cooksey (No. 43) is a linebacker, Buford’s Xavier Gantt (No. 46) is a running back, Dacula’s Jakob Brashear (No. 49) is a linebacker, Brookwood’s Bailey Ivemeyer (No. 62) is an offensive lineman, Mill Creek’s Tyler Vernon (No. 73) is a defensive end, Buford’s Alan Bussoletti (No. 85) is a wide

also includes defensive backs Adesola Abisoye (Grayson) and Nicolas Snowden (Snellville/Loganville Christian), running backs Donald Anyeanula (South Gwinnett) and Kevin Ficklin (Dacula), wide receiver Dorian Miles (Brookwood), offensive lineman Dewey Van Allen (Lanier) and kicker Nicholas Jones (Grayson/St. Pius).

VOLLEYBALL Munlyn picks up two SEC awards North Gwinnett’s Alyssa Munlyn, a Missouri sophomore, was named the Southeastern Conference player of the week and defensive player of the week on Monday.

The 6-foot-2 middle blocker had 17 total blocks in wins over LSU and Kentucky that pushed the Tigers into first place in the league standings. She had nine of Missouri’s 15 blocks in the LSU match and had eight of its 16 blocks against Kentucky.

She had a team-best three solo blocks vs. Kentucky.

Munlyn’s season average of 1.28 blocks per set is fourth in the SEC. GOLF Kaur stands out again Georgia State freshman Harmanprit Kaur continued the first fall of her college golf career, placing 12th this week at the FIU Pat Bradley Invitational in Lakewood Ranch, Fla. The Brookwood grad shot 75 in the final round and finished at 2 over, seven shots better than her

receiver, Central Gwinnett’s Francis Kallon (No. 92) is a defensive lineman, North Gwinnett’s Anree Saint-Amour (No. 94) is a defensive lineman and Grayson’s Chris Martin (No. 96) is a defensive lineman.

Noon — Kentucky at Missouri, SECN Peachtree Ridge’s Blake Best (No. 53) is a long snapper for Kentucky. North Gwinnett’s Nate Brown (No. 7) is a wide receiver and Buford’s Thomas Wilson (No. 8) is a safety for Missouri.

Noon — Central Florida at Houston, ESPNU Buford’s Dontravious Wilson (No. 7) is a running back, Shiloh’s Cam Stewart is a wide receiver and Buford’s Tre Neal (No. 23) is a defensive back for Central Florida.

Noon — Louisville at Virginia, ABC Peachtree Ridge’s Malik Staples (No. 31) is a running back, Mill Creek’s Robbie Bell (No. 75) is an offensive lineman and Parkview’s G.G. Robinson (No. 94) is a defensive tackle for Louisville.

Peachtree Ridge’s Jordan Ellis (No. 10) is a running back, Wesleyan’s Jordan Mack (No. 37) is a defensive back, Collins Hill’s Robert Snyder (No. 52) is a linebacker, Parkview’s Juwan Moye (No. 95) is a defensive end and Central Gwinnett’s Darious Latimore is a cornerback for Virginia.

Noon — West Virginia at Oklahoma State, Fox Parkview’s Chris Carson (No. 32) is a running back for Oklahoma State.

Noon — Michigan at Michigan State, ESPN Brookwood’s Nick Tompkins (No. 32) is a running back for Michigan State.

Noon — Penn State at Purdue, ESPN2 Lanier’s Tario Fuller (No. 25) is a running back for Purdue.

12:30 p.m. — Boston Coll. at N.C. State, WUPA Suwanee resident William Harris (No. 8) is a defensive back, Duluth resident Max Richardson (No. 52) is a linebacker and Grayson’s Bryce Morais (No. 90) is a defensive lineman for Boston College. Buford’s Shug Frazier (No. 90) is a defensive lineman for N.C. State.

3:30 p.m. — Army at Wake Forest, FSSO Lilburn resident Marcus Hyatt (No. 1) is a defensive back, Collins Hill’s Rhyan England (No. 20) is a defensive back, Peachtree Ridge’s Tyler Campbell (No. 22) is a running back, Buford’s Cooper Simpson (No. 79) is an offensive lineman, Norcross’ Emmanuel Aka (No. 96) is a defensive lineman and Loganville resident J.D. Mote (No. 98) is a punter for Army.

3:30 p.m. — Cincinnati at Temple, CBSSP Norcross’ Kevin Mouhon (No. 48) is a linebacker for Cincinnati.

3:30 p.m. — Florida vs. Georgia, CBS Archer’s Antonio Riles (No. 51) is an offensive lineman for Florida. For UGA, Norcross’ Lorenzo Carter (No. 7) is a linebacker, Brookwood’s Shaun McGee (No. 8) is a linebacker, Buford’s Isaac Nauta (No. 18) is a tight end, Brookwood’s Matt Price (No. 29) is a wide receiver, Mountain View’s Tim Hill (No. 29) is a defensive back, Grayson’s Shattle Fenteng (No. 31) is a defensive back, Brookwood’s Nick Moore (No. 43) is a fullback, South Gwinnett’s Reggie Carter (No. 45) is a linebacker and Grayson’s Justin Young (No. 92) is a defensive lineman.

3:30 p.m. — Miami at Notre Dame, NBC Norcross’ Christopher Herndon (No. 23) is a tight end and Peachtree Ridge’s Tyler Murphy (No. 32) is a defensive back for Miami. Buford’s Montgomery VanGorder (No. 4) is a quarter-

Yost, Lynch honored

by Peach Belt Georgia College runner Katherine Yost placed sixth at last weekend’s Peach Belt Conference Championships, earning first-team all-conference honors.

The Norcross grad, who had a school-record 6K time of 22 minutes, 33 seconds, became the first Georgia College runner to earn first-team all-conference since 2011. She also was named Bobcat Athlete of the Week as her school’s top performer in all sports.

Prior to the meet, Brookwood grad and Georgia College runner Grace Lynch was named to the Peach Belt’s All-Sportsmanship Team.

Yost, Lynch and their teammates now head to the NCAA Division II Southeast Region Championships on Nov. 5. Yost was 17th overall at that meet last season, becoming the second Bobcat ever to be named all-region.

SOCCER Fincher named all-conference Brookwood grad Kim Fincher, a senior at Kennesaw State, was named to the All-Atlantic Sun Conference second team on Wednesday.

Fincher ranks in the conference’s top 10 in points, goals and assists this season, establishing single-season career-highs with 19 points, six goals and seven assists.

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

back for Notre Dame.

3:30 p.m. — Samford at Miss. State, SECN Wesleyan’s Christian Stark (No. 25) is a defensive back, Parkview’s James Huston is a wide receiver, Peachtree Ridge’s Aaron Harris (No. 34) is a linebacker, Wesleyan’s Jordan Weaver (No. 64) is a kicker and Central Gwinnett’s Chris Shelling (No. 83) is a wide receiver for Samford.

Norcross’ Nathan Swanson (No. 59) is a long snapper, Sean Samuel (No. 93) of Snellville is a lineman and South Gwinnett’s Stephen Adegoke is an athlete for Mississippi State.

3:30 p.m. — Maryland at Indiana, ESPNU North Gwinnett’s Jalen Brooks (No. 43) and Collins Hill’s Brett Shepherd (No. 53) are linebackers for Maryland.

3:30 p.m. — Texas Tech at TCU, ESPN2 Grayson’s Zach Barnes (No. 12) is a defensive lineman for Texas Tech. Norcross’ Ridwan Issahaku (No. 31) is a safety for TCU. 3:30 p.m. — Northwestern at Ohio St., ESPN Buford’s Steven Reese (No. 23) is a wide receiver and Brookwood’s Jesse Brown (No. 36) is a running back for Northwestern.

7 p.m. — Kansas at Oklahoma, FS1 Shiloh’s Marnez Ogletree (No. 10) is a cornerback for Kansas. Peachtree Ridge’s Orlando Brown (No. 78) is an offensive tackle for Oklahoma.

7 p.m. — Nebraska at Wisconsin, ESPN Grayson’s Mohamed Barry (No. 7) is a linebacker for Nebraska.

7:15 p.m. — Auburn at Ole Miss, SECN Lanier’s Derrick Brown (No. 5) is a defensive lineman, Archer’s Kyle Davis (No. 11) is a wide receiver, Duluth resident Nick Ruffin (No. 19) is a safety, Brookwood’s Keenan Sweeney (No. 42) is a fullback, Mill Creek’s Kaleb Kim (No. 54) is an offensive lineman and GAC’s Darius Slayton (No. 81) is a wide receiver for Auburn. Archer’s Donta Evans (No. 35) is a linebacker for Ole Miss.

7:15 p.m. — Tennessee at S. Carolina, ESPN2 Norcross’ Alvin Kamara (No. 6) is a running back, Buford’s Austin Smith (No. 11 is a defensive lineman, Norcross’ Jason Croom (No. 18) is a tight end, Peachtree Ridge’s Nigel Warrior (No. 18) is a defensive back, GAC’s Micah Abernathy (No. 22) is a defensive back, Peachtree Ridge’s Baylen Buchanan (No. 28) is a defensive back, Grayson’s Jayson Sparks (No. 37) is a running back, Wesleyan’s Jaye Rochell (No. 38) is a wide receiver, Buford’s Quay Picou (No. 55) is a defensive lineman and Grayson’s Mykelle McDaniel (No. 94) is a defensive lineman for Tennessee.

Grayson’s Daniel Fennell (No. 35) is a defensive lineman, Parkview’s Trey Derouen (No. 79) is an offensive lineman, Mill Creek’s Kelsey Griffin (No. 94) is a defensive lineman, North Gwinnett’s Dante Sawyer (No. 95) is a defensive lineman and Archer’s Kobe Smith (No. 97) is a defensive lineman for South Carolina.

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11 p.m. — Stanford at Arizona, FS1 Grayson’s Jack Banda (No. 92) is a defensive lineman for Arizona.

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Titans continue to surprise Discovery 28, Duluth 0.

That score from last Friday night was surprising to most in the Gwinnett high school football community, including a handful of head coaches I’ve talked to this week. The fourtouchdown margin was a shock, and so was the shutout of a potent Duluth offense that had scored in double figures every game this season, even against top competition.

It was a huge night for Discovery in earning its first-ever region win, another milestone for a second-year program that already has done way more than expected under new head coach Efrem Hill.

“I was so impressed watching the film of (Discovery) by how hard Coach Hill has got those kids playing,” Mill Creek head coach Shannon Jarvis said two weeks ago.

“I say that because when we started our program,

head coach in March.

Another blow came from the Georgia High School Association’s reclassification. It put Discovery into top-heavy Region 6-AAAAAAA with a bunch of perennial powers — likely to even out the Will number of teams in each Hammock region — rather than sending the Titans to the more that was our No. 1 priorsuitable 7-AAAAAAA, ity. We knew we would be where their opponents outmatched some games. would have included a I’m impressed by how school just miles away hard they play and the (Central Gwinnett) and passion they play with. others (Berkmar, LakeThey are doing a great job. side-DeKalb, MeadowYou see some scores that creek) who matched up are close at halftime with more fairly with a prothem and you realize it’s gram heading into its first legit that they’re playing year of varsity play. teams close. You realize It was a raw deal to be they have a great future.” certain, and didn’t make Very little was expected sense geographically, this season from Discoveither. But Hill didn’t let ery, which saw its first the news hinder him from head coach leave after one his job. He went to work season of junior varsity getting his kids ready to play. Hill, an assistant last compete. year, was promoted to And compete they have.

Discovery, though undermanned often, already has a reputation for high levels of effort each Friday. It has two victories — also defeating Apalachee 27-10 on Sept. 9 — and that’s probably two more than most people expected.

Hard work has been the difference for the Titans and last week’s stunning result over Duluth was one of the payoffs.

“We’ve gotten better,” Hill said. “I look back from the spring when we really got started and we’ve come a long, long way. We still have a ways to go. But our kids compete. That’s the big thing. They fly around, they play fast and hard and good things tend to happen. That’s what happened last week.”

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

Howard, Hawks ready for debut Atlanta had a good preseason, going 5-2, as did The Atlanta Hawks Howard. He had a 15-reand their big offseason bound game last week When: Today, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Atlanta acquisition officially get against the Chicago Bulls TV: FSSE the NBA season rolling and scored 26 the week tonight, when they host prior against the defending the Washington Wizards.

NBA champion Cleveland New free agent signee stints with the Orlando Cavaliers. and Atlanta native Dwight Magic, the Los Angeles Despite the loss of HorHoward will make his Lakers and most recently, ford, the addition of HowHawks debut as part the Houston Rockets. ard should help the Hawks of a revamped roster, He last won NBA dereach the playoffs for the which added an imposing fensive player of the year 10th straight season. The rebounder and defender honors in 2011, and the last four trips have been in Howard but watched Hawks extended a threeunder head coach Mike another NBA All-Star, Al year, $70.5 million conBudenholzer, who still has Horford, leave for the Bos- tract in hopes that he can a strong core of veterans ton Celtics in free agency. return to his form from to surround Howard.

The 6-foot-11 Howard earlier in his career.

All-Star forward Paul is now 30 and a 12-year “I’m really looking Millsap returns along with veteran, years removed forward to (the season),” sharp-shooting Kyle Kofrom his high school days Howard told NBA.com “I rver and Kent Bazemore. at Southwest Atlanta think the situations I’ve had Point guard Jeff Teague Christian. He has been in my past really molded left via trade to Indiana, an eight-time all-star and me for this moment here. leaving the point guard three-time NBA defensive And I’m looking forward duties to the speedy Denplayer of the year during to doing whatever I can to nis Schroder. a career that has featured lead this team.”

The club also expects big From Staff Reports

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things from an improved Tim Hardaway Jr., as well as veteran big man Tiago Splitter. Veterans Mike Scott, Kris Humphries and Thabo Sefolosha are back, while the Hawks added two promising young players on the perimeter in forward Taurean Prince of Baylor and guard DeAndre Bembry of St. Joseph’s.

Schroder’s play at the point will factor heavily into Atlanta’s season, but it won’t be as visible as the addition of hometown talent Howard in the middle.

“All I’ve got to do is dominate both ends of the floor and do whatever is needed and show my teammates that every single night, every practice, everything we do, that I’m going to give them 110 percent,” Howard told NBA.com.

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Gladiators sign two goaltenders Affiliate calls up Ginn, Vladar

By Christine Troyke

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DULUTH — Both of Atlanta’s affiliated goalies were called up this week, the second less than 48 hours before the Gladiators’ special 10 a.m. puck drop today against Wichita.

Dan Vladar was recalled to AHL Providence on Monday and Matt Ginn was brought up a day later.

The moves are due to injuries in Boston. Tuukka Rask is day-to-day, but Anton Khudobin is expected to miss three weeks. The Bruins now have Zane McIntyre and Malcolm Subban from Providence.

“From there, it trickles down,” Gladiators head coach Andy Brandt said.

“It’s not ideal, but ….”

Brandt worked quickly to bring in two goaltenders with quality pedigrees, Steven Racine and Jay Williams. Both played elite college hockey last season and were in ECHL training camps this fall, but were released because each team had contracted goalies assigned from above.

Racine went 20-6-3 for the University of Michigan in 2015-16 with a .914 save percentage. The

25-year-old from Williamsville, N.Y., was in Cincinnati’s camp before affiliated goalies took the available roster spots.

Williams, who tied a school record with five shutouts in a season with Miami-Ohio in 2014-15, faced the same situation in Orlando. The 23-year-old wrapped up his career with the RedHawks last season with 22 games played and a .903 save percentage.

Williams won 19 games as a junior with a .917 save percentage and a 2.04 goals-against average.

Both goalies were signed Wednesday.

The Gladiators also got forward Shane Bakker back after Providence released him from the tryout contract he was on Tuesday. Atlanta acquired Bakker in an offseason trade and he earned a spot with the P-Bruins during training camp.

But the Gladiators will be without dynamic forward Colin Jacobs for a while. The 23-year-old Texas native was placed on the 21-day IR with an upper body injury Wednesday. He has three goals in four games with Atlanta.

Atlanta also released forward Brad Navin.

Atlanta Gladiators goalie Matt Ginn makes a save against Toledo in the season opener Oct. 14 at Infinite Energy Arena in Duluth. Ginn was recalled to the AHL on Tuesday. (Photo: Dale Zanine)

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

Dishwasher $100 & up. Different colors.

Del/1 yr warr.

Tim 404-205-2222

ALL OAK FIREWOOD FOR SALE $120 “Heaping Truckload”, Stacked, Gwinnett Area.

404-805-1783

BMW X5, 2005 4.4I SAV 177MIL EXCELLENT CONDITION, WELL MAINTAINED. PRICE TO SELL, RELOCATING OVERSEAS MUCH SELL ASAP! Contact#:770 736 9813 6500.00

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TRAILER Pace American 2001, Model no. CS510SA, white, $1500 2311 Paper Chase Dr., 678-886-7169

LINERS PUBLICATION DAY

DEADLINE

Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday

Tuesday 3 pm Wednesday 3 pm Thursday 3 pm Friday 3 pm

PUBLICATION DAY

DEADLINE

Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday

Friday 3 pm Monday 3 pm Tuesday 3 pm Wednesday 3 pm

To place a Classified ad please call

770-962-7355

to speak with a Sales Rep. or you can place an ad online at www.gwinnettdailypost.com

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HAYES LAWRENCEVILLE

1 CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP

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719 Pike St Lawrenceville 770-963-5251 www.hayeschrysler.com

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MAZDA MILLENIA, 2002: Black, 4 dr, sun roof, P/W, P/D, good condition, 144K miles. $3,950. 678-782-5316 or 205-307-9141

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LEXUS GS 350, 2008 AWD ,102K, Executive Driven, Well Maintained, NAV, Heated and Cooled Seats, Many Other Options. $14,500 North Point Motorcars (770) 2175524

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING DEADLINES

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DULUTH

DESK/CREDENZA Very Large Oak Office Desk and Matching Credenza. $500 OBO. 678-667-6240

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FURNITURE/ HOUSEHOLD GOODS

SATURN L200, 2002.

One elderly owner, DRIVEN 5k A YEAR. Loaded, new tires, garage kept, like new. $3295. 770-616-7399.

STORAGE SPACE FOR BOATS & FLATBEDS in Covington. $100$200/month. Call for info 770-366-9185.

ALL SEASONED Oak/ Hickory, All split wood.

No sticks/limbs. Barn dried. Heaping truck load $125. Delivered.

404-360-2799

770-962-8744

GAINESVILLE

This Is Your Chance To Buy A Low Miles Great Appreciating Collector Car/Driver At A Very Low Price.

770-895-7161

MERCURY PREMIER, 2005. One elderly owner, DRIVEN 9k A YEAR. Loaded, new tires, garaged, like new. $5495. 770-616-7399.

FIREWOOD

Seasoned Oak & Hickory.

Delivery or Pick Up. Call For Prices.

WN'S O R B GE BRID

MERCEDES 560 SL 1987: 76,258 Two Owner Miles • $16,900 Original And Gorgeous.

Selling Thousands Under The Market.

All Original Blue With Gray Leather That Is Exceptional. Auto Check Scores These Cars 25-45. This Car Scored 51. This Beautiful Car Still Has The Original First Aid Kit And Rare Factory Mercedes Radar Detector.. Has Been Loved And Cherished Its Whole Life.. Has Two Tops And Rear Wind Screen. Going Price On These Low Miles Original 560 SL Range Between $26,000 To Over $50,000.

VEHICLES

FIREWOOD

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VEHICLES

CHIHUAHUAS, AKC, male & female puppies.

“The Best”! Champion bloodline. Ready to go! $450-$600. Phone or text: 770-713-9494 or email: Bestnshow7@ gmail.com

404.886.3587

DOMESTIC CARE PROVIDED

All Types of Yard Work

404-670-3087

PRESSURE WASHING

Established 1989

Bucket Truck

LICENSED

All Major Credit Cards Accepted

SAT., OCT. 29, 9:30AM

PERSONAL SERVICES

Delivered & Dumped

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DOGS

CALL OR TEXT

770-714-8250 770-271-7127

1/2 Cord - $100 1 Cord - $190

Maintenance

PRO AUCTIONS 20th Fall Farm & Construction Equipment Auction

For a FREE Estimate

Made in USA

Oak

M&M Lawn

Tree Removal Prunning Stump Grinding Wood Chipper

PETS/LIVESTOCK

POWER WASHING

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

Experienced Tree Work 20+ Years

AUCTIONS

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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RICK HENDRICK CHEVROLET OF DULUTH 3277 Satellite Blvd.

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