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By BRETT DANIELAladdin Manufacturing Inc.

has transferred ownership ofthe closed Mohawk plant onNathaniel Drive in East Dublinto Dublin Industries LLC, ac-cording to court documents.The transfer occurred on

April 25, 2017. The intentionsof the new owner have not beendisclosed at this time.The former textile factory,

which spans over 800,000

square-feet on over 1,200 acres,employed 900 people in the2000s. In August 2009, howev-er, the plant laid off around 400employees, and Mohawk offi-cials announced its permanentclosing in April 2011 after 50years of business at the Lau-rens County plant, citing eco-nomic decline.The Courier Herald will pro-

vide more details on the newowners at a later date.

(Left) Sign at the old Mohawk Industries, Inc. (Above) The old Mohawk building has been trans-ferred from Aladdin Manufacturing Inc. to Dublin Industries LLC. (Photo by Brett Daniel)

A Rainy Day in Dublin

(Above) Two peoplehelp a man push hisvan during a smallrain storm Tuesdaymorning. (Right) Twovehicles splashthrough water on theroad. The forecast,which can be read on5a, calls for morerain today. (Photosby Griffin Lovett)

Law enforcement traffic campaigns heat up for summerBy PAYTON TOWNS IIILaw enforcement cam-

paigns started this week, be-ginning what many call theirsummer safety programs.Agencies started both the

100 Days of Summer Heatand Click It or Ticket onMonday. Click It or Ticketends on June 4 while the 100

Days of Summer Heat endson Sept. 3."Everybody is going to be

out traveling during the sum-mer before kids go back toschool," said Dublin PoliceCpt. Jim Champion. "Driversneed to be careful and pay at-tention to their driving. Theyneed to keep their speed

down and wear their seatbelts. Most definitely they donot need to drink and drive.People need to have a desig-nated driver. One beer couldbe enough to make someoneimpaired. It is real simple."With school ending this

week, Champion wanted peo-ple to be aware that more

people will be going on vaca-tion. As for this week,there will be more trafficcoming into town with gradu-ation ceremonies at DublinHigh School, at 6 p.m., Trini-ty Christian School, at 7 p.m,and East Laurens HighSchool, at 8 p.m., Friday.

Carl Vinson VA MemorialDay program, dedication forO.B. Johnson set for May 29

Special to The Courier HeraldThe Carl Vinson VA Medical Center will host its an-

nual Memorial Day program on Monday, May 29, at 2p.m. in its auditorium with a special dedication to thelate Otto B. Johnson Jr., M.D. starting at 1 p.m.Dean Swan, Chief of Voluntary Service at the med-

ical center and a retired U.S. Army command sergeantmajor with 27 years of service, will coordinate the eventand emphasized the importance of Memorial Day as atime for all Americans to show their appreciation for thesacrifices that our active duty military and veteranshave made for the nation.“This is one of our premier programs at our medical

center and a time when VA and the entire Middle Geor-gia community comes together to celebrate those whohave died for our country. We are hoping for a greatturn out,” Swan said.An annual federal holiday occurring on the last Mon-

day in May, Memorial Day is set aside to remember themen and women who died while serving in the UnitedStates Armed Forces. Originally known as Decoration

See PROGRAM page 8a

See TRAFFIC page 8a

The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center will hold a spe-cial dedication for Vietnam Veteran Dr. O.B. John-son at 1 p.m. Monday (Special photo)

Laurens County EMS directorcharged with DUI in Eastman

By JEREMY JOHNSONTerry Cobb, the Emergency

Medical Services Director ofLaurens County, was arrestedfor DUI in Eastman this pastweekend.According to the Eastman

Police Department, Cobb, 44,was driving a white 2001 FordF-150 when he was pulledover on AF Graham Drive onthe evening of Sunday, May14.He was off duty at the time

and also faces charges of open

container violation.“We are

aware of thesituation,and we areconductingour own in-vestigation.It’s a person-nel matter,”said BryanRogers, Lau-

rens County administrator.Cobb did not respond to

contact attempts.

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Dublin City Schoolsto hold public hearingson FY2018 budget

By SANDY ALDRIDGEThe Dublin City Schools

Board of Education took itsfirst look at the system's ten-tative FY2018 budget in aspecial called meeting Mon-day, May 22, at 5 p.m., andthen voted unanimously toadvertise it before two publichearings are held Monday,June 12, and Monday, June26.Public comment on the

budget will be welcome atthese meetings. A vote on fi-nal approval of the budgetwill take place after the pub-lic hearing June 26.The budget will be adver-

tised in The Courier Heraldon Friday, May 26, and Mon-day, June 6.According to the budget,

anticipated revenues for2018 total just over $29.7million while anticipated ex-penditures total almost $29million.Included in the expendi-

tures is almost $3.35 million

in bond payments, but only$2.25 million of that is cov-ered for sure in anticipatedSPLOST revenues. The sys-tem is hoping to receive therest in bond millage taxes,roughly a million dollarswhich are currently beingheld by the City of Dublinbecause of a lawsuit againstthe bond tax.The City of Dublin was

sued earlier this year be-cause of a 2.25 bond millageit levied at the end of 2016on behalf of the Dublin CitySchools. The additional bondmillage took the total mill-age for the city schools toover 22 mills.A Laurens County Superi-

or Court judge has ruledthat the tax is unconstitu-tional, so the City is holdingthe funds until a highercourt ruling is made.Kristi Thublin, chief fi-

nancial officer for the sys-

Dublin Board of Education members study thebudget during a workshop held before the regu-lar meeting Monday. (Photo by Sandy Aldridge)

Board approves Kellogg as assistantprincipal at Hillcrest Elementary School

See BOE page 8a

Q: What are these widelyenvisioned contours of Israeli-Palestinian peace?

A: Peace efforts since 2000were based on the same foun-dation: a Palestinian state inall of Gaza and the vast ma-jority of the West Bank. Israelwould keep some West Bankareas which contain most ofits settlers and swap these forland in Israel proper. Therewas to be some sharing ofJerusalem. Palestinianrefugees and their descen-dants could move to Palestine,but generally not to Israel, inorder to retain its Jewish ma-jority. It was generally as-sumed Israel would removeany settlers who live too deepinside the West Bank to beeasily incorporated into Israelwithin a redrawn border —perhaps 100,000 of them.

Q: Why has no final peacedeal been achieved?

A: Israel's maximal offernever quite touched the Pales-tinians' minimal demands.For one thing, dividingJerusalem proved too difficult,considering Israel and Pales-tine will need a border buteveryone wants the city to beopen. The Palestinians, de-spite winks and nods, neverformally renounced a refugees'demand to return to long lostproperties, a non-starter forIsrael. Continued Israeli set-tlement construction and occa-sional Palestinian violencefurther eroded trust.

Q: Where does the Arabworld stand?

A: Egypt and Jordan haveformal peace treaties with Is-rael and at least on the securi-ty front have increasinglytight relations. In recent yearsquiet cooperation has devel-oped especially on the intelli-gence front with Saudi Arabiaand other Gulf states — SunniMuslim nations who like Is-

rael see a threatening rival inthe Shiite theocracy of Iran.

The Arab League recentlyreaffirmed a 15-year-old offerof regional peace in exchangefor a total Israeli pullout fromoccupied lands. But bringingrelations into the open hasbeen contingent on the elusiveIsraeli-Palestinian deal.

Part of the complication isthe deep resonance for Mus-lims of Jerusalem, home to thereligion's holiest sites afterMecca and Medina in SaudiArabia.

Q: Might there be creativesolutions?

A: Absent the unlikelyprospect of an electrifying Is-raeli-Palestinian break-through, they will be needed.One possibility is an interimsettlement that gives thePalestinians a state in some ofthe land they seek. Perhaps aseparate deal can be reachedwith the Arab world onJerusalem only. Or incremen-tal steps might build confi-dence: a settlement freeze inexchange for some normaliza-tion with the Gulf, or an ex-pansion of the autonomouszones, or a partial removal ofthe blockade of Gaza. Israelihardliners favor this "groundup approach," even thoughthey oppose Palestinian inde-pendence. In theory, there isalso the widely unloved possi-bility of a combined singlestate roughly equally dividedbetween Israelis and Pales-tinians. To avoid that out-come, disastrous to the Zionistcause, perhaps Israel wouldabandon some lands unilater-ally, rewarded by Arabs orAmericans but not the Pales-tinians.

Q: Is there a Trump factor?A: Both Israeli and Arab

leaders seemed to respectTrump as a volcanic type ofU.S. leader, disinterested in

detail yet determined to deal,who should not be openlycrossed or unwisely underesti-mated. That could be useful ifthe time comes to apply U.S.pressure in a way previous ad-ministrations hesitated to do.

This could apply to thePalestinians, if Trump wantsto push something other thanthe classic two-state finalpeace deal.

He might also turn on Is-rael: Netanyahu, so clearly afriend and close to the Repub-licans, will have trouble ignor-ing him the way he did withObama.

It may not come to that.Part of the problem has beenIsrael's distrust of Arab inten-tions. On the other hand, Is-raelis are traumatized bytheir ostracization and at be-ing accused of apartheid to-ward the Palestinians. DeputyCabinet Minister MichaelOren, ex-Israeli ambassadorto Washington, suggestedTrump's extraordinary tender-ness might actually move theneedle: "The Israelis respondto love, not pressure."

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HOLIDAY CLOSING

The City of Dublin will be closed on Monday, May 29, 2017, for the

Memorial Day holiday. Garbage will not be

collected on that day. Garbage collection will

resume on Tuesday, May 30, 2017, for the Monday and Tuesday route customers. All other collection days will remain the same.

Charles D. Jenkins

Charles Donald “Don” Jenk-ins, age 78, of Dublin, passedaway on Tuesday, May 23,2017.

Mr. Jenkins was a memberof the Dublin Church of Christ.He worked in construction andwas also a truck driver. Mr.Jenkins was preceded in deathby his father, Joe E. Jenkins;mother, Edna Brown, andbrother, Melvin Jenkins. Hewas a devoted husband, andloving father, grandfather,great-grandfather and brother.

Survivors include his wife,Elizabeth Ann Jenkins, ofDublin; sons, Charles DonaldJenkins, Jr. and Fred Jenkins,both of Dublin; daughters,Donna Murry (Donny) andLisa Warnock, both of Dublin;brothers, Billy Jenkins, of Hen-dersonville, Tenn. and LarryJenkins (Barbara), of Franklin,Tenn.; sister, Lorene Wright(Ronnie), of Franklin, Tenn.;granddaughters, Candi Dean,Donielle Freeman (Ryan), andBrittany Sanders (Jamey), allof Dublin; grandson, JoshWarnock (Sarah), of Dublin;sisters-in-law, Juanita (Robert)Drew and Wynona Wells, bothof Dublin; eight great-grand-children and several nieces andnephews.

The family will receivefriends from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m.on Thursday, May 25, 2017 atTownsend Brothers FuneralHome.

Services will be held at 2p.m. on Friday, May 26, 2017 inthe Chapel of Townsend Broth-ers Funeral Home. Burial willfollow at 3:30 p.m. at HarmonyBaptist Church in Soperton,Ga. Minister Jerry Martin andMinister Johnny Scaggs willofficiate.

Pallbearers will be JoeBlackburn, Donny Murry, JoshWarnock, Robert Drew, RickiHunter, and David Foster.

Honorary escorts will be LessFoster, Skip Hendricks and themen of the Dublin Church ofChrist.

Please visitwww.townsendfuneralhome.com to sign the online memorialregistry.

Kelby Crummey

Mr. Kelby Crummey, age48, of Hawkinsville, Ga., diedMonday, May 22, 2017.

Funeral services will beheld at 2 p.m. Thursday, May25, at Southerland FuneralChapel, with interment inChauncey City Cemetery.

Kelby was a member ofSweet Home Baptist Church, a1987 graduate of Dodge Coun-ty High School, a graduate ofHeart of Georgia Technical Col-lege and an aircraft structuralsupervisor at Robins AFB. Hewas a dedicated father who en-joyed spending time with hischildren, watching his kid’ssports activities and enjoyedhunting and fishing.

Survivors: Daughter –Lindsey Crummey; Two sons –Lane Crummey and LandinCrummey; Mother and father– Ann Griffin Crummey andTruett Crummey; Brother –Shane Crummey; Severalaunts, uncles, nieces, nephewsand cousins.

The family will receivefriends in Southerland FuneralChapel from 5 p.m.-7 p.m.Wednesday, May 24.

Stokes-Southerland Funer-al Home of Eastman hascharge of arrangements.www.stokes-southerland.com

Jeynelle D. Haynes

Mrs. Jeynelle DowdyHaynes, age 85, of Rhine, Ga.,died Monday May 22, 2017.

Funeral services will beheld at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May24, at Hopewell BaptistChurch, with interment inHopewell Baptist ChurchCemetery.

Mrs. Haynes was a memberof Hopewell Baptist Church, aretired civil service employeeat Robins Air Force Base andlived in Warner Robins formany years. Jeynelle wasdaughter of the late DaisyReaves Dowdy and Tom PeteDowdy and was preceded indeath by a son, Harris Haynesand brother, Welton Dowdy.

Survivors: Daughter – Bet-ty Puckett (Tommy); Two sons– Luther Wayne Haynes (Di-ane) and Gerald Haynes (Sher-rie); One sister – Shirley Dix;11 grandchildren; 18 greatgrandchildren; Caretaker andfriend – Elizabeth Brown.

The family will receive

friends in Hopewell BaptistChurch from 1 p.m.-2 p.m.Wednesday, May 24.

Stokes-Southerland Funer-al Home of Eastman hascharge of arrangements.www.stokes-southerland.com

Jimmy E.Washington

Mr. Jimmy Eugene Wash-ington of Hawkinsville, passedaway on Monday, May 22,2017. Funeral arrangementsare incomplete and will be an-nounced later. The family is re-ceiving friends at 701 Brook-dale Drive, Dublin.

Services by Dudley FuneralHome of Dublin

www.servicesbydudley.com

Jerrylleane B.Kellam

Mrs. Jerrylleane Blash Kel-lam, of Fort Lauderdale, Flori-da passed away on Monday,May 22, 2017. Funeralarrangements are incompleteand will be announced later.

Please post condolences atwww.ServicesByDudley.com

Services By Dudley FuneralHome of Dublin

Sammy Wesley

Mr. Sammy Wesley, ofDublin, passed away on April14, 2017.

Mr. Wesley was born on De-cember 7, 1957, to Mrs. CorineButler and the late Mr. JoshMosely. He was also precededin death by his grandparents,aunts and uncles.

Mr. Wesley is survived by adaughter. Tamika Tobridge, ason, Sammy Tobridge, both ofDublin, two sisters, BarbaraWesley of Dublin, and Diane(Curtis) Grimes of East Dublin,three brothers, Danny Wesleyof Atlanta, Robert Butler ofDublin, Steve Butler of Dublin,and a host of grandchildren,nieces, nephews and friends.

A private service was con-ducted for Mr. Wesley.

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Leading the fight against lead pollutionChicago Bear Mike Ditka

was playing his first progame against the Vikings in1961 when he audaciouslytold teammate and veteranguard Alex Karras to get thelead out of his rear end. Kar-ras took a swing at Ditka forthat -- but Ditka's ferociousattitude kept him at the topof his game, and made himthe Bears' head coach from1982 to 1992. Now if only mu-nicipalities across the coun-try would get their lead out,too!

A recent Reuters investi-gation found 449 areas(that's 3,300 neighborhoods!)around the U.S. with lead ex-posure rates that are doublethose found in Flint, Michi-gan. According to the Centers

for Disease Control and Pre-vention, half a million kidsages 1 to 5 have blood leadlevels above 5 microgramsper deciliter, the referencelevel at which CDC recom-mends public health actionsbe initiated. And there is NOSAFE BLOOD LEVEL! Inkids it can cause permanentand severe mental disabili-ties. What can you do?

The CDC suggests thatyou:

--Talk to your local or statehealth department abouttesting paint and dust.Household dust is a majorsource of lead.

--Test your water.--Keep peeling paint away

from children. --Regularly wash chil-

dren's hands and toys. --Regularly wet-mop floors

and wet-wipe window compo-nents.

--Use only cold water fromthe tap for drinking, cookingand making baby formula.Hot water is more likely tocontain higher levels of lead.Most of the lead in householdwater usually comes from theplumbing in your house.

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New job in a new state testsstrength of manʼs relationship

DEAR ABBY: I am a gayman who has been dating a di-vorced man for nine months.I'm 25 and he is 50. He wasmarried to a woman for morethan 20 years and has threechildren. (I am the age be-tween his middle and oldestchildren.) We met one day andhave never been apart since.

It started great. We had aconnection I had never experi-enced before I met him. Hewas let go from his job, and Isupported him for some time.He finally found a job in Geor-gia, and I am left in New York.

I made plans to move therewith him, but I'm nervousabout it. First, because I havenever been in love before andI'm not sure if he's as in lovewith me as I am with him.Second, he cheated on his wifewith a man my age. The guyleft him right before he metme, and I'm not so sure he iscompletely over him. (I knowthey are still in contact, but hehas never lied about it.)

I'm worried he might cheaton me too, or worse, give his exanother shot, and I'll be left onthe sidelines. What advice canyou offer me? -- WANTS TOMAKE THE RIGHT MOVE

DEAR WANTS: Do nothingdrastic right now. Pay him avisit. Without committingyourself, take a look around tosee if Georgia might suit you.

You say this man hasn'tlied to you. While you're there,ask him whether he wouldgive his ex another shot if theman were willing. However,don't prejudge him because hewas unable to remain faithful

to his wife. Like some gay menwho come out later in life, hemay not have fully realizedthat he was gay until sometime after they were married.It happens.

DEAR ABBY: I work in acompany that has small of-fices. Although most peoplehave their own office, I shareone because I was the last guyhired.

I have one co-worker who Ireally like, but he has a seri-ous problem. He -- and hiswife, I suspect -- don't do laun-dry. This results in him havingserious odor. When he comesinto my office or I have to gointo his, or even walk by hisdoor, the smell is seriouslyrank. How do I tell him or hissuperiors about this issue? --HOLDING MY NOSE INTEXAS

DEAR HOLDING: Go toyour supervisor and explainthe problem. You should nothave to counsel the offendingemployee; the boss, your su-pervisor or someone in humanresources should do it. If theproblem is as severe as yousay it is, it probably won't bethe first time they have heardabout it because others willhave noticed it and com-plained, too.

DEAR ABBY: I have a newneighbor, and after meetingjust once, she declared us to be"great friends." I work fulltime and she doesn't, so any-time I'm home she wants toget together. That would befine if I liked her, but I don't!We are complete opposites,and she has a major gamblingproblem. How do I gracefullysay I'm not interested in beingfriends? -- PLEASE LEAVEME ALONE

DEAR PLEASE: The poorwoman is new in the neighbor-hood. That may be why she'sreaching out the way she is.When she suggests getting to-gether, explain that you havea full-time job and things youneed to do at home, so the an-swer is you don't have time.Sorry.

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Trump touts ultimate peace,but same obstacles remain

JERUSALEM (AP) — Pres-ident Donald Trump showeredhis Middle Eastern hosts withpraise and declared a break-through regional peace withinreach. No one contradictedhim, but behind the pageantryand politesse a wall of skepti-cism remains solidly intact.

It's often said that the con-tours of Israeli-Palestinianpeace are well-known. And asTrump professed, much of theArab world does seem ready tonormalize relations with theJewish state. But the obsta-cles that bedeviled industriousoutside brokers for decades —including Barack Obama andJohn Kerry — have not beenremoved.

Trump did not outline hisvision for getting aroundthem, or even the process thatmight enable such a thing.And he asserted he wasn'there to impose and lecture,and that changes must comefrom the region itself.

It was a detail-free strategythat he has employed withvarying success domestically,whether the issue is healthcare or tax reform. He avoidedthe key sticking points thatscuttled talks in the past, ig-noring the status ofJerusalem, Israeli settlementconstruction, borders orrefugees — and did not evenutter the words "Palestinianstate."

Israeli political commenta-tor Raviv Drucker said after-ward that Trump's "under-standing of the conflict is asdeep as cardboard" and dis-missed his ambitions as "al-most charlatanism."

But politicians were atten-tive nonetheless and at timeseven gushing. Many in bothRiyadh and Jerusalem seemedinclined to view Trump asstronger than Obama, and towelcome a realpolitik devoidof pesky humanitarian con-cerns.

The subtext seemed to be:reserve judgment and handlewith caution.

Here's a look at wherethings stand:

Q: What is the current situ-ation on the ground?

A: The Palestinian Authori-ty, an autonomy governmentnegotiated in the 1990s, con-trols pockets where most WestBank Palestinians live butwhich amount to less than 40percent of the land. It also haslost control of the seasideGaza Strip, which since 2005has been free of Israeli troopsand settlers, to Hamas mili-tants.

Gaza is blockaded from thesea and air by Israel and itsland borders are sealed andcontrolled by Israel andEgypt. Israel also controls en-try and exit to the West Bankand travel within it, and thePalestinians there cannot votein Israeli elections althoughJewish settlers can.

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without malicious intent.

Around 5:30 a.m. last Friday, a limb fellfrom a big tree behind the old GeorgiaPools Building off Highway 80 West.

This set off a series of events which brokefive poles and disrupted electrical service.The power lines were on the ground acrossIndustrial Boulevard while the power linebetween Shannon Drive across Highway80 to Industrial was hanging low enoughthat vehicles could not travel underneathit.

Thankfully this incident happened whenit did. Imagine if it had happened aroundmorning, lunch or afternoon rush hour.Then those wires would have been on top ofvehicles. Who knows what could have hap-pened?

Jay Studstill, area manager at GeorgiaPower, was first on the scene. He acknowl-edges the quick action of the Dublin FireDepartment and Dublin PoliceDepartment who blocked Highway 80 andother roads leading to the intersection,keeping traffic from becoming entangled inthe downed power lines.

City of Dublin employees and theGeorgia Department of Transportationalso responded to the scene. Employeesfrom various businesses and restaurantswatched from a distance.

Georgia Power trucks converged on thearea. They looked at the damage caused bythe limb and went to work. Some workeddirectly on the limb, as seen in the photoabove. Some worked on the other poles andtransformers that were damaged.

Early that morning an official estimatedthat the area might be without power andtraffic blocked for two days.

However, quick action by Georgia Powercrews brought everything back to normalby that evening, allowing people to travelthrough once again.

The dedication of those involved in thisincident is a good example of the dedica-tion and leadership we have here inDublin/Laurens County. We know thatwhen a limb falls in the middle of thenight, there are crews ready to answer thecall, and that helps the rest of us to resteasy.

-- Payton Towns III

Quick work by localagencies helpedavoid a big mess

Gov. Deal becomes part of the ʻresistanceʼEver since Donald Trump

was inaugurated as presi-dent, he has been confrontedwith a counter-movementcalled "the resistance."

This resistance is com-prised of Democrats whooppose Trump’s actions aspresident. They have conduct-ed mass marches to protestthe president’s policies, townhalls to push back againstattempts to kill Obamacare,and energetic campaigns inspecial elections likeGeorgia’s 6th CongressionalDistrict.

There is one area wherethe resistance has includednot only dissident Democratsbut the highest-rankingRepublican in state govern-ment: Gov. Nathan Deal.

This is indeed ironic whenyou remember that Deal sup-ported Trump in last fall’selection.

But on the issue of crimi-nal justice reform, Deal hasrefused to go along withTrump and his attorney gen-eral, Jeff Sessions, ofAlabama.

Sessions has instructed allfederal prosecutors to reversethe efforts of the Obamaadministration to reduce thenumber of low-level drugoffenders in federal prisons.The feds will now go for themaximum charge possible onevery criminal defendant,with the goal being to pack asmany people as possible intoprison cells.

The Sessions approach is arevival of the war on drugs ofthe 1980s and other lock-them-up programs that bloat-ed prison rolls everywhere

and caused correctional bud-gets to skyrocket.

Why are Trump andSessions doing this? To findthe answer, you must followthe money.

Two of the largest privateprison operators in the coun-try, GEO Group andCoreCivic, each donated$250,000 to Trump’s inaugur-al fund. GEO Group also con-tributed $225,000 to a superPAC Trump operates andhired two of Sessions’ formeraides as federal lobbyists.

Sessions has financialinvestments in those privateprison companies as well. Themore people that federal pros-ecutors send to prison, themore money these privateprison companies can poten-tially make – and the morevalue Sessions’ investmentshave.

From the very beginning ofhis administration, Deal hastaken a different approach. Inhis first inaugural address in2011, Deal said the state justcould not afford to keep lock-ing up so many drug addictsin prison.

"It is draining our statetreasury and depleting ourwork force," Deal said.

He appointed a top-levelcriminal justice reform com-mission that recommendedseveral changes in the state’s

sentencing laws to divert non-violent offenders to programsthat provided an alternativeto prison. These recommenda-tions became legislation thatwas approved by Republicansand Democrats alike andsigned into law by the gover-nor.

Thanks to these revisions,the corrections departmentsays that 67 percent of thestate’s prison beds are nowoccupied by the most seriousoffenders, up from 58 percentin 2009.

Georgia now has 139accountability courts, whichare an alternative to impris-onment, and the number ofnew participants enteringthese courts statewideincreased by 147 percent in2016 alone.

Felony drug courts had2,381 active participants,many of whom are strugglingwith substance abuse andwould probably be in a stateprison if not for the option ofthis alternative court.

It was once projected thatGeorgia would have 60,000people behind bars by now;the number instead is about52,000.

Even as Sessions wasdrafting his order for federalprosecutors to resume pack-ing the prisons, Deal wassigning the latest round of

criminal justice bills passedduring this year’s legislativesession. These included someadditional revisions in thestate’s probation system.

"This most recent legisla-tive package is another mean-ingful step forward in makingGeorgia a safer, more prosper-ous place to call home," Dealsaid upon signing the bills.

"The unprecedented crimi-nal justice reforms we’veimplemented since 2009 havealready had a remarkable andpositive impact, with overallprison commitments down15.4 percent through the endof 2016," he added.

Deal is not the only high-ranking official with thispoint of view. There are morethan 30 states, including suchred states as Texas and SouthCarolina, that are also tryingto reduce incarceration ratesby giving judges more alter-natives to mandatory mini-mums and enacting morealternatives to prison sen-tences.

Deal would no doubt dis-agree sharply with anyattempt to categorize him aspart of the "resistance" to apresident whose election hebacked.

But on this one, he andofficials in dozens of otherstates have made it clear thatthey are resisting the Trumpadministration.

(Tom Crawford is editor ofThe Georgia Report, an inter-net news service at gare-port.com that reports on stategovernment and politics. Hecan be reached at tcraw-ford@gareport.com. )

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Editorial roundupMay 16The Los Angeles Times

on the 'WannaCry' mal-ware attack being an indi-rect public serviceannouncement:

The particularly nastycomputer program dubbed"WannaCry" that attackedhospitals, businesses and gov-ernment agencies around theworld this past weekend waslike a cybercrime highlightreel, a compilation of by-nowfamiliar elements — con-science-free cybercriminals,an obscure vulnerability inMicrosoft Windows, older andill-maintained corporate com-puter networks and computerusers tricked into openingbooby-trapped email attach-ments — that played out onan epic scale.

What's different this timeis that the hackers apparent-ly had considerable help fromthe U.S. government. Theyused a stolen tool reportedlydeveloped by the NationalSecurity Agency to exploit ahidden weakness in theWindows operating systemand spread their ransomwarefar and wide. The tool wasone of many linked to theNSA that were leaked onlinelast year, then finallydecrypted in April for use byanyone with the requisitecoding skills.

It's tempting to howl at theNSA for not alerting compa-nies like Microsoft when itsresearchers find vulnerabili-ties in their products. Thereality, though, is that doingso would reduce the effective-ness of cybertools that havebecome an integral part ofmodern efforts by agencieslike the NSA to fight terror-ism, international criminalorganizations and roguestates.

What's needed is a bettereffort to determine if andwhen a vulnerability discov-ered by the feds representstoo great a threat to keep itsecret from the potential vic-tims. That's a difficult bal-ance to strike, and the deci-sion shouldn't be made solelyby the executive branch with-out the input of independentexperts and, potentially, law-makers.

The even more importantlesson here is that years, evendecades of warnings fromsecurity experts simply aren'tgetting through to the public.WannaCry should not havereached disastrous propor-tions — Microsoft released apatch that could close the vul-nerability in March, wellbefore the NSA's tool wasdecrypted. Yet tens of thou-sands of computers weren'tupdated, allowing the mal-

ware the room it needed tospread.

The problem could easilyget much, much worse asmore routine devices becomesmart, Internet-connectedones. Evidently we needstronger incentives not justfor companies to release moresecure products, but also forusers to keep them updatedand protect their data withencryption and backups.That's what the lawmakersand federal officials should befocusing on — not on trying todiscourage consumers fromusing encryption on theirsmartphones, or on buildingstockpiles of malware basedon vulnerabilities they alonehave found.

May 15The Seattle Times on

gun laws:Washington has taken

another step toward common-sense gun regulations, withthe governor signing a newlaw that requires police bealerted when someone fails abackground check.

The law, which takes effectin July, would also requirenotification of victims when afelon, domestic abuser, stalk-er or other ineligible peopletry to buy a gun. This is a bigimprovement in gun safety,without impinging on the

rights of lawful gun owners.The measure builds on pre-

vious gun-law improvements,including expansion of back-ground checks to include pri-vate and gun-show sales.

Background checks screengun buyers to make sure theyaren't fugitives, felons, in thecountry illegally or subject toa protection order thatincludes gun restrictions.Until the new law waspassed, there was no require-ment for follow-up whensomeone tries to buy a gunillegally.

The bipartisan measurehas another smart provisionrequiring the creation of astatewide notification systemso that those who have court-ordered protection orders willautomatically be notified ifthe person they are being pro-tected against tries to buy agun.

Laws like this one showthe possibility of improvinggun safety without takingaway the rights of those wholawfully own firearms anduse them responsibly.

Other reasonable propos-als that have yet to get leg-islative approval includemandating safe gun storageand other ways to decreasethe likelihood of guns gettinginto the hands of children orpeople who are suicidal.

HONOLULU (AP) — AnilUskanli, who authorities sayinspired so much fear amongflight attendants that mili-tary fighter jets were scram-bled to escort the plane toHawaii, raised a series ofpossible red flags betweenpurchasing his ticket and be-ing the first passenger toboard the American Airlinesflight.Uskanli, 25, of Turkey,

purchased his ticket aboutmidnight and went throughsecurity screening at Los An-geles International Airport.About 2:45 a.m. he opened adoor that led to an airfieldramp, airport police said.He smelled of alcohol, but

he wasn't intoxicated enoughto be held for public drunken-ness, so police cited and re-leased him.Uksanli's boarding pass

was confiscated, and he waswalked out to a public area ofthe airport, police said. Hewent back, got anotherboarding pass for the flightand went through securityscreening again.Even though he was trav-

eling to Hawaii, he didn'thave any checked luggage orany carry-ons, other than alaptop, a phone and items inhis pocket, according an FBIcriminal complaint.

Before takeoff, he sat in afirst-class seat and had to beasked several times to moveto his assigned seat towardthe back of the plane, thecomplaint said.

While the six-hour flightwas midair, Uskanli, with hishead swathed in a blanket,tried to get to the front of theplane. When he put his lap-top on a drink cart a flight at-

tendant used to block him,flight attendants feared thecomputer contained explo-sives, prompting the captainto initiate bomb-threat proce-dures.

Are we supposed to bepaying for criminals’ crimesor are the criminals supposedto be paying for their crimes?My tax dollars are going to payfor their iPads, eating andlights and for their workers tokeep them in line. They shouldbe made to pay for their ownfood, money and their guards.

I don't know what goodjobs you see. All I see is trea-son, lies, cover-up and black-mail. Now we've got a specialcouncil on the Russia probe. Itis Watergate on steroids.

Why do you call it theLadies Page in Wednesday'spaper when there is a manwiththe woman getting married.There are two people gettingmarried, it is not just a woman.

You call yourself a Chris-tian and yet you bash others.What about forgiveness?

I went to a high schoolathletic banquet the othernight, and I have never seen somuch bull in all of my life.

LCBOE is losing one ofthe best superintendentswe've ever had.

What does it take to re-place a high school coachwho has one of the worst atti-tudes in history?

Whenever they find Pres-ident Trump not guilty ofeverything, all of those whohave been crying wolf should bemade to resign immediately.

The city school teachers'salaries have been frozen

for the next school year. We arelosing good teachers because ofthe way they are being treated.

We are talking so muchabout Donald Trump. Weneed to take care of our busi-ness here at home, especiallythe Dublin City School Boardoffice.

Dublin City Council!Please, please don’t amendthe ordinance to sell alcoholicbeverages at Theater Dublin.This is the place where we haveour kids’ dance programs, ourband concerts, beauty contestsand gospel music. There are al-ready enough places in Dublinthat a person can imbibe.Please don't corrupt our the-

ater!

Okay, so now instead ofthe police officer patrollingthe streets looking for the badguys, he wants us, the public,to watch out for them and textif we see something happening.Do we get part of their salaryfor doing this?

The Republicans did notcomplain half as much asthe Democrats do when we hadObama for eight years. GiveDonald Trump a chance. Hehas only been in there a fewmonths.

The Democrats in Con-gress are going to be worth-less for the next eight years.

They might as well put a gonefishing sign on the door. I don'tknow anything and get out oftown. They want no part ofmaking America great again.

One problem is Trumpwill tell a lie and take nomore questions, when there isevidence all over that proves heis a liar.

Wednesday, May 24, 2017/Dublin, Ga/Page 5aThe Courier Herald

TellerCommunity Bank of Dublin-Laurens County is seeking an individual that can provide account services to customers by receiving deposits and loan payments, cashing checks, issuing savings withdrawals, selling cashier checks, answering questions in person and on telephone, recording transactions for all log books, maintains customer confidence by confidentiality, contributes to team effort and must comply with all compliance regulations. Applicant must comply with bank operations and security procedures by participating in dual control functions and auditing. Must also be able to work at either location (Dublin or Cochran) if needed. Applicant must have a minimum of 1 year Teller experience and a high school diploma or equivalent. If you meet these requirements, please send your resume to :

mfaulk@communitybankofdublin.com or mail to: Attn: Human Resources,

Community Bank of Dublin-Laurens County, P.O. Box 4750, Dublin GA 31040.

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Community BankOF DUBLIN - LAURENS COUNTY

COMMUNITY CALENDARWednesday

•AAIAmResponsible GroupContact, 272-5244 or 275-8259, 131 E.Madison St., 8 p.m.•Civitan Club every Wednesday at noon at the Golden Corral.

Thursday•Art Dublinmeets every second Thursday, 6:30 p.m., atDublin-Laurens Museum. Call 984-8665 for more info.•Evening Branch of the Dublin Lions Club 6:30 p.m.,CNH Tractor Plant, Firetower Rd.•Stevens/Forstmann Retirees at the Cloverleaf Restaurantin East Dublin.•AAIAmResponsible GroupContact, 272-5244 or 275-8259, 131 E.Madison St., 8 p.m.•AA24 Hour Group, contact 279-0839, 629 Broad Street,East, Dublin, Ga 8 p.m.•Magnolia Midlands Chess Clubmeets on Thursdays at 6p.m. in the lobby of the Fred Roberts Hotel. The club is for allages and all levels. There is no cost to be in the club. For moreinformation call Bill Perry at 697-6728.•NAWe Surrender Group, meets on Monday, Thursday andSaturday at 6:30 p.m. at Building 8 Unity House at the VA.Contact 478-410-2092•Celebrate Recovery (Christian-based) Fridays at 7 p.m. ex-cept last Fri. ea. mo., supper at 6:30 p.m., New Vision Fellow-ship across from old Kroger, 278-0710 or 290-1322.•Hand in Hand Cancer Support Group strength and solu-tions for patients and families. Middle Georgia Cancer Center,5:30 p.m., 207 Fairview Park Dr. (478)-275-1111.•LGBT Support Group - Whether you are in search of a sup-portive community, information, or you are an ally, all are wel-come 18 years of age and older. For more information emailLGBT.Dublin.Ga@gmail.com or visit us on Facebook.

Today is Wednesday, May24, the 144th day of 2017.There are 221 days left in theyear.Today's Highlight in His-

tory:On May 24, 1775, John Han-

cock was unanimously electedPresident of the ContinentalCongress in Philadelphia, suc-ceeding Peyton Randolph.On this date:In 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse

transmitted the message "Whathath God wrought" from Wash-ington to Baltimore as he for-mally opened America's firsttelegraph line.In 1883, the Brooklyn

Bridge, linking Brooklyn andManhattan, was dedicated byPresident Chester Alan Arthurand New York Gov. GroverCleveland.In 1935, the first major

league baseball game to beplayed at night took place atCincinnati's Crosley Field as theReds beat the PhiladelphiaPhillies, 2-1.In 1937, in a set of rulings,

the U.S. Supreme Court upheldthe constitutionality of the So-cial Security Act of 1935.In 1941, the German battle-

ship Bismarck sank the Britishbattle cruiser HMS Hood in theNorth Atlantic, killing all butthree of the 1,418men on board.In 1957, anti-American riot-

ing broke out in Taipei, Taiwan,over the acquittal of a U.S.Army sergeant who had shotand killed a Chinese man.In 1962, astronaut Scott Car-

penter became the secondAmer-ican to orbit theEarth as he flewaboard Aurora 7.In 1976, Britain and France

opened trans-Atlantic Concordesupersonic transport service toWashington.In 1977, in a surprise move,

the Kremlin ousted Soviet Pres-ident Nikolai Podgorny from theCommunist Party's ruling Polit-buro.In 1980, Iran rejected a call

by the World Court in TheHague to release the Americanhostages.In 1994, four Islamic funda-

mentalists convicted of bombingNew York's World Trade Centerin 1993 were each sentenced to240 years in prison.In 2001, 23 people were

killed when the floor of aJerusalem wedding hall col-lapsed beneath dancing guests,sending them plunging severalstories into the basement.Ten years ago: Bowing to

President George W. Bush, Con-gress passed an emergency warspending bill that did not in-clude a provision orderingtroops home from Iraq begin-ning in the fall of 2007. Ohiodeath row inmate Christopher

Newton was executed by injec-tion; it took him 16 minutes todie, more than twice the usualamount of time, once chemicalsbegan flowing into his veins,which the execution team hadtrouble locating.Five years ago: President

Barack Obama doubled downon criticism of rival Mitt Rom-ney's background as a venturecapitalist, telling a rally at theIowa State Fairgrounds theremight be value in such experi-ence but "not in the WhiteHouse." Brian Banks, a formerhigh school football star whosedreams of a pro career wereshattered by what turned out tobe a false rape accusation, burstinto tears as a judge in LongBeach, California, threw out thecharge that had sent Banks toprison for more than five years.One year ago: Democratic

front-runner Hillary Clintonand presumptive Republicannominee Donald Trump eachwon primaries in Washingtonstate. Protests outside a DonaldTrump rally in Albuquerque,New Mexico, turned violent asdemonstrators threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and otheritems at police officers, over-turned trash cans and knockeddown barricades.Today's Birthdays: Actor-

comedian-impressionist StanleyBaxter is 91. Jazz musician

Archie Shepp is 80. ComedianTommy Chong is 79. Singer BobDylan is 76. Actor GaryBurghoff is 74. Singer Patti La-Belle is 73. Actress PriscillaPresley is 72. Country singerMike Reid is 70. Actor JimBroadbent is 68. Actor AlfredMolina is 64. Singer RosanneCash is 62. Actor Cliff Parisi is57. Actress Kristin ScottThomas is 57. Rock musicianJimmy Ashhurst (Buckcherry)is 54. Rock musician VivianTrimble is 54. Actor John C.Reilly is 52. Actor Dana Ash-brook is 50. Actor Eric Close is50. Actor Carl Payne is 48. Rockmusician Rich Robinson is 48.Actor Dash Mihok is 43. ActorBryan Greenburg is 39. ActorOwen Benjamin is 37. Actor Bil-ly L. Sullivan is 37.Actor-rapperJerod Mixon (aka Big Tyme) is36. Rockmusician Cody Hanson(Hinder) is 35. Dancer-choreog-rapher-singerMarkBallas is 31.Country singer Billy Gilman is29. Rapper/producer G-Eazy is28. Actress Brianne Howey (TV:"The Exorcist") is 28. Actor Cay-den Boyd is 23.

Thought for Today: "It isthe weakness and danger of re-publics, that the vices as well asvirtues of the people are repre-sented in their legislation." —Helen Maria Hunt Jackson,American author (1830-1885).

ALMANAC

Vehicle damaged on South Jefferson StreetDublin Police DepartmentA black 2007 Kia Optima

was damaged on South Jeffer-son on May 13.The car owner said she

was driving the vehiclearound 2 a.m. and noticedthat the car was not driving right. When shereturned home she noticed that both thepassenger side tires had been flattened.She saw a hole in both of the tires and

believes she knows who is responsible.- Gang graffiti was found on Housing Au-

thority property on Vine Street on May 10.- A refrigerator was stolen on Hudson

Street on May 9. The building was damagedwhen someone threw a rock through thewindow.- A cell phone and coins were stolen on

South Jefferson Street on May 9.- Michael Matthieson, 62, of East Dublin

was charged with drinking in public on EastJackson Street on May 9. An officer sawMatthieson walking towards East Dublinwith an open container around 4:36 p.m.- The owner of a 2003 maroon Pontiac

Grand Prix reported that someone put sev-eral scratches on the vehicle on May 9.- Alex Lionel Brown, 41, of Dublin, was

charged with criminal trespass on WabashStreet on May 4. The victim said Browncame out of the house with a knife andstabbed her front passenger tire causing itto deflate.- Someone used a brick to break a win-

dow to a store on Marion Street on May 9.- Someone threw a rock at the back door

of Jet Foods on Claxton Dairy Road on May

9.- A small brick was thrown

through a window at JayFoods convenience store onClaxton Dairy Road on May 9.- Someone wearing a mask

tried to throw a rock throughthe door at the 3-Way Food Mart on NorthJefferson Street on May 9.- Someone used a Dublin woman's debit

card four times without her permission onMay 4.- A woman was seen taking keys that had

been left on the counter at K's Electric Va-por on Rice Avenue on May 8.

Laurens County Sheriff ’sOffice

- A deputy responded to Parker DairyRoad in reference to a theft which happenedon May 14.- A hand gun was stolen on Roxie Court

on May 14.

Editor's note: This information ispublic record and was taken from re-ports of the Dublin Police Departmentand the Laurens County Sheriff's Of-fice. These reports do not reflect on theguilt or innocence. An "arrest" does notalways indicate incarceration. Readersare cautioned that people may havesimilar names. Police Beat does notidentify minor children, victims of sex-ual assault, suicide attempts or medicalconditions. Cases dismissed do not ap-pear if the newspaper is notified beforedeadline.

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Dublin-Laurens Chapter of Fort Valley State UniversityNational Alumni Association’s Anniversary and ScholarshipFundraising Banquet will be held at 4 p.m. June 3 at MillvilleHigh School Association Center, 997 Ga. Highway 338, Dudley. Topurchase banquet tickets, call Jessie Turner, Chapter President at478-278-0030. Dr. Omi J. Dobbins will be keynote speaker. Dobbin’sheart is for God, and she is a therapist, teacher, encourager, speak-er, mother, wife, artist, student, member of Alpha Kappa AlphaSorority, and the daughter of Frenchy Hodges. The East Laurens Class of 1977 will hold its 40th Class Re-

union on Saturday, June 24 at the Dublin Country Club. A meet andgreet will begin at 6:30 p.m. with dinner to follow at 7 p.m. Makeyour reservation of $30 per person by Friday, June 16 by sending acheck for you and a guest (if desired) made payable to Gail Sims,2521 Queens Court, Grovetown, Ga. 30813. Check out our EastLaurens Class of 1977 Facebook page for more information or emaileastlaurensclassof1977@yahoo.com.

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Hawaii jet took off with unruly passenger despite red flags

Woman trying to buy birthdaycard trapped inside CVSTITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A

woman trying to buy a birthdaycard called police when she wasaccidentally barricaded inside aCVS store in central Florida.Lillian Rimmel stopped at a

Titusville CVS at 9:50 p.m. Fri-day to make a quick purchase,unaware the store was about toclose. As she walked toward thecheck out just after 10 p.m., shetriggered a motion sensor alarmand found herself barricaded in-side. A metal security gateblocked the front entrance assirens blared."I started screaming, 'Is any-

one here? Can anyone helpme?'" she said.

Rimmell was worried some-one would mistake her for a bur-glar, so she stood in front of a se-curity camera and dialed police.They contacted the manager tocome and let her out."I was just so nervous that I

did something wrong. I didn'tknow how this could happen. Iwas dumbfounded," she said.Rimmell says there was no

announcement warning thestore was closing. She said she didn't know how

store employees could havemissed her. She is 6-feet-tall and said she

could look over all of the parti-tions.

Wednesday, May 24, 2017/Dublin, Ga/Page 6aThe Courier Herald

Greg’s Smoked Boston ButtI cook most of the meals

around here…until Greg getsthe itch to grill.As much as I enjoy cooking,

I love a day off too!He enjoys grilling, so his

itch happens a little more of-ten during the warmermonths.Greg makes a wonderful

Boston butt!He makes a rub and pre-

pares the butt the day before.The next morning while thegrill is heating up he makes amop then slow cooks the pork6-8 hours.It makes the best pulled

pork sandwiches you’ll evereat!!For homemade barbecue

sauce recipes visitwww.notjustsundatdinner.com.Greg's Smoked Boston

ButtIngredients1 Boston butt (bone-in pork

shoulder roast) 5-7 lbs.Rubber glovesIngredients for rub mix:½ c. brown sugar6 tbsp. black pepper6 tbsp. salt4 tbsp. garlic powder4 tbsp. onion powder½ c. paprikaIngredients for mop

sauce mix:2 c. white vinegar2 tbsp. salt

2 tbsp. black pepper3 small onions, sliced thin3 lemons, 2 sliced thin, 1

squeezed½ c.water1 jalapeno pepper, sliced

thin

InstructionsTo make rub, mix brown

sugar, black pepper, salt, gar-lic powder, onion powder andpaprika together.Sprinkle rub over the pork

and massage onto meat. Coverand refrigerate 8-24 hours.Prepare smoker or grill for

indirect grilling. Greg keepshis grill at a constant 300 de-grees.To make mopping sauce,

mix white vinegar, salt, blackpepper, onions, lemons, waterand jalapeno peppers.

Place roast, fat side up onhot grate. Make sure you don'tplace it directly over the heatsource. Cover and cook 6 to 8hours, mopping every hour.Remove roast from grill

when done. Cover with alu-minum foil and let rest forabout 15 minutes.With rubber gloves on, pull

the skin and fat away fromroast. With your fingers pullthe pork into bite-size pieces.Discard fat. (You can also chopthe meat if you prefer.)Serve alone or on buns with

your favorite barbecue sauce.

By GARY BROWNThe Georgia 4-H S.A.F.E.

Program held the 2017 TargetChallenge Weekend for 22Sporter Rimfire onApril 29th atRock Eagle 4-H Center.Meaghan Moses competed as anindividual at this year’s 22Sporter Rimfire Match.The Laurens County Team shot in the 8:30

a.m. relay. The match consisted of a total of 60recorded shots. The match started with a 10minute sighting period at 50 yards. Scoringstarted with the 4-H'ers firing 10 shots from 50yards in the prone position followed by two 5shot rapid fire series in the prone position.This is followed by 10 shots slow fire fol-

lowed by two 5 shot rapid fire series in the sit-ting or kneeling position at 50 yards.Targets are then placed at 25 yards where

the 4-H'er will shoot 10 shots slow fire followedby two 5 shot rapid fire in the standing posi-

tion.Also attending the event

were Project S.A.F.E. CoachesDonnie Upshaw and AllisonUpshaw.

The 22 Sporter Rimfire ispart of Project S.A.F.E.(Shooting Awareness, Fun and

Education). The program promotes responsi-bility, decision-making and identifying realis-tic, personal goals.It uses experiential learning and positive in-

teractions with youth and adult role models tohelp young people develop self-concept, self-as-surance and a positive self-image.To find out more about Project S.A.F.E. you

can contact Gary Brown at 478-272-2277.

Gary K. Brown is Laurens County ExtensionAgent-4-H with University of Georgia Coopera-tive Extension. His telephone number is 478-272-2277. His email address is garyb@uga.edu.

Laurens County 4-Hʼer competes at State Rimfire MatchM e a g h a nMoses, DonnieUpshaw andAlison Upshawparticipated inthe Georgia 4-HS . A . F . E .Program at the2017 TargetC h a l l e n g eWeekend onApril 29 at RockEagle 4-HCenter. (Specialphoto)

Spacewalking astronauts tackle urgent station repairsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

(AP) — Spacewalking astro-nauts made urgent repairs atthe International Space Sta-tion on Tuesday, three days af-ter a critical relay box abrupt-ly failed.The 250-mile-high (400-

kilometer-high) replacementjob fell to commander PeggyWhitson, the world's most ex-perienced female astronaut.She now ties the record formost spacewalks by an Ameri-can — 10.Even though a second relay

box managed the data loadjust fine after Saturday'sbreakdown, NASA scrambledto put together a spacewalk inorder to restore backup capa-bility. The system is vital foroperating the station's solarpanels, radiators and roboticequipment.The failed data-relay unit

— recently refurbished withupgraded software — was justinstalled in March. Haulingout a spare, Whitson pho-tographed the faulty device tohelp engineers figure out what

went wrong. Then she quicklyremoved it and bolted downthe spare, an identical 50-pound (22-kilogram) box mea-suring 14 by 8 by 13 inches(35-20-33 centimeters) — offi-cially known as an MDM ormultiplexer-demultiplexer.But when Whitson discoveredsome metal flecks on some ofthe bolt holes, she had to pullthe spare box back out.Whitson and Fischer were

just out spacewalking on May12. That excursion was cutshort by leaking station equip-ment, leaving two antenna in-stallations undone. So Fischercompleted the chore Tuesday.Altogether, Tuesday's

spacewalk was expected tolast no more than a few hours— exceedingly short by NASAstandards."Here we go again," French

astronaut Thomas Pesquetsaid via Twitter as his U.S.colleagues suited up for thespacewalk. As they venturedoutside, Pesquet cautioned,"You guys be safe."It was only the second

spacewalk for Fischer, a rook-ie astronaut who arrived atthe orbiting lab last month."What's more awesome

than being on@Space_Station? Getting acall from mission control 4 an-other spacewalk! Dancing w/the cosmos," he said in atweet.After he had installed the

antennas, Fischer radioed,"Oh my gosh, it's so beautiful,"as the station sailed out overthe tip of South America andover the South Atlantic.Whitson is more than

halfway through a 9 ½-monthmission. Currently on herthird spaceflight, she's spentmore time off the planet thanany other American and, atage 57, is the oldest woman toever fly in space. Tuesday's ex-cursion put her in third placeon the all-time spacewalkinglist, behind a Russian and fel-lowAmerican with more hoursout in the vacuum.The space station also is

home to two Russians.

In this NASA provided frame from video, NASA astronaut Jack Fischerworks to install antennas at the International Space Station while astro-naut Peggy Whitson, not pictured, works on repairs Tuesday, May 23,2017. (NASA via AP)

AP Exclusive: CEOs got biggest raise since 2013NEW YORK (AP) — The

typical CEO at the biggestU.S. companies got an 8.5 per-cent raise last year, raking in$11.5 million in salary, stockand other compensation lastyear, according to a study byexecutive data firm Equilar forThe Associated Press. That'sthe biggest raise in threeyears.The bump reflects how well

stocks have done under theseCEOs' watch. Boards of direc-tors increasingly require thatCEOs push their stock pricehigher to collect their maxi-mum possible payout, and theStandard & Poor's 500 indexreturned 12 percent last year.Over the last five years, me-

dian CEO pay in the surveyhas jumped by 19.6 percent,not accounting for inflation.That's nearly double the

10.9 percent rise in the typicalweekly paycheck for full-timeemployees across the country.But CEO pay did fall for onegroup of companies last year:those where investors com-plained the loudest about exec-utive pay.Compensation dropped for

nine of the 10 companies scor-ing the lowest on "Say on Pay"votes, where shareholders givethumbs up or down on top ex-ecutives' earnings.Other measures that would

highlight the income gap be-tween CEOs and typical work-

ers are on the way, but gover-nance watchdogs worry thatCongress will kill or dilutetheir strength."It's all out of whack right

now," said Heather SlavkinCorzo, director of the AFL-CIOOffice of Investment, whichsays CEOs for major U.S. com-panies make 347 times morethan the average worker.The highest-paid executive

in the survey was ThomasRutledge of Charter Commu-nications, which absorbedTimeWarner Cable and BrightHouse Networks last year tobecome the nation's second-largest cable operator.His compensation totaled

$98 million, about $88 million

of that from stock and optionawards included as part of anew five-year employmentagreement.For Rutledge to collect the

full amount, Charter's shareprice will need to rise 155 per-cent over six years.CEOs typically got more

than half their total compen-sation from stock and optiongrants last year.The lesson from the rest of

the top five: How lucrative theentertainment business canbe.No. 2 on the survey was

Leslie Moonves at CBS, whomade $68.6 million. That in-cluded $63.9 million in bonusand stock awards the compa-

ny's board said he received forpresiding over a 36.6 percentreturn for CBS shares in 2016and for keeping CBS the top-rated network in the 2015-16season, among other perfor-mance measures.No. 3 was Walt Disney's

Robert Iger, at $41 million.That was 6 percent less thanthe year before, as slowinggrowth resulted in a bonus cut.Fourth-highest at $37.2

million was David Zaslav ofDiscovery Communications,whose networks include TLCand Animal Planet.Roughly 70 percent of that

was from stock and optionawards.No. 5 was Activision Bliz-

zard's Robert Kotick, whosecompensation surged 358 per-cent to $33.1 million.That was almost entirely

due to $24.9 million in stockawards he received as part of anew five-year employmentagreement. To get them, thecompany's earnings per sharemust hit a certain level, amongother financial targets.Kotick may not make the

top five this year.His 2017 salary was cut by

26 percent to $1.8 million aftermany shareholders said theywere upset about how muchActivision Blizzard executiveswere making. The company al-so eliminated his guaranteefor an annual salary increase.

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Ladies PageMrs. Mark Lee presentsʻDock of the Bayʼat Woman's Study Club

Special to The CourierHeraldMrs. Edward Short, presi-

dent, called the April 26Woman’s Study Club meeting toorder at 4 p.m. at the Oconee Li-brary. She welcomed members,honorary members, Mrs. E.B.Claxton, Jr. and Ms. BunnyHatchett, and guest, Mr. MarkLee.The only committee report wasthat of the creative writing com-mittee. Dr. Dahlia Allenthanked her committee mem-bers, Mrs. Sam Beall and Mrs.Mark Lee, for their help in read-ing entries and selecting recipi-ents of awards. Dr. Allen an-nounced the award recipientsfor this year - first place, RuthieScott, of Trinity; second place,Kendall Morton, of West Lau-rens; and third place, MadisonLangford, of West Laurens.These entries will be availablefor club members to read at theannual business meeting.Mrs. Claxton gave a touching

eulogy filled with humorousanecdotes for her long-timefriend and fellow Woman’sStudy Club member Mrs. JacobNew.After thanking Mrs. Claxton,

Mrs. Short introduced thespeaker for the day, Mrs. MarkLee, for her program inspired by“Dock of the Bay.”

We learned that the creatorof “Dock of the Bay,” Otis Red-ding, had his first hit with asong called “These Arms ofMine” and another of his popu-lar songs was “Respect.” OtisRedding has been called the“king of Southern soul” eventhough he was only 26 years oldat the time of his death in 1967.“Dock of the Bay” hit the top ofthe charts the next year. OtisRedding’s wife Zelma anddaughter Karla have managedhis legacy with the Otis ReddingFoundation.After her presentation about

Redding and his family, Mrs.Lee went back to a photographthat she had taken near KeyWest. That began the next sec-tion of her program inwhich sheshared more photographs andremembrances of that fascinat-ing place that is so enjoyed byher family. Her program endedwith an invitation to all to enjoythe key lime pie that her hus-band, Mark Lee, had made.Mrs. Short thanked Mrs. Lee

for the great program and re-minded members of the nextmeeting on May 10 when Mrs.Gibbs Flanders was slated topresent her program inspired by“Circle of Life” and Mrs. WeldonPayne was hostess. The Aprilmeeting was then adjourned.

Miss Hendleyand Mr. McCoyto wed July 8Mr. and Mrs. Danny McCoy, formerly of Dublin, are proud to

announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their son,Matthew Daniel McCoy, of McDonough, to Katherine Ann Hend-ley, daughter of Mr. Wes Hendley, of Dacula, and Ms. Terri Hend-ley, of Locust Grove.The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lofton

Allen, of Emporia, Virginia, and Mr. Art Hendley, of FernandinaBeach, and the late Mrs. Jane Hendley.Katherine is a 2015 and 2016 graduate of Georgia College and

State University, where she earned a B.A. in Political Science andMaster of Arts in Teaching. She is currently employed as a highschool teacher at Griffin-Spalding County Schools.The groom-elect is the grandson of Ms. Mabel Thompson, of

Dublin, and the late Raleigh Thompson and the late Frances andJohn D. McCoy.Matthew is a 2012 graduate of Valdosta State University,

where he earned a B.S. in Middle Grades Education. He is cur-rently employed as a teacher in the Butts County school system.The ceremony will be held on July 8, 2017. MATTHEW MCCOY AND KATHERINE HENDLEY

Otis Redding has been called the “king ofSouthern soul” even though he was only 26years old at the time of his death in 1967. (Pub-lic domain photo)

Celebrate all military this MayMemorial Day is celebrat-

ed each May to commemoratethe people who died in serviceof the United States of Amer-ica.Even though barbecues

and visions of the upcomingsummer weather may com-mand much of the attentioncome Memorial Day weekend,the holiday really serves as aremembrance for those mili-tary members who paid theultimate sacrifice for theircountry, as well as the per-sonnel who continue to pro-tect and serve today.

Memorial Day originsMemorial Day was first

known as Decoration Day andwas borne out of the CivilWar. on May 30, 1868, Gener-al John Logan, a nationalcommander of the GrandArmy of the Republic, decreedGeneral Order No. 11, whichdesignated the day for the“purpose of strewing withflowers, or otherwise decorat-ing the graves of comradeswho died in defense of theircountry during the late rebel-lion, and whose bodies now liein almost every city, villageand hamlet churchyard in theland.” May 30th was chosenbecause it wasn’t the anniver-sary of any particular battle.It took several years for

the first state to recognize theholiday, which New Yorkadopted in 1873. By 1890, allnorthern states recognizedDecoration Day. When theholiday changed from com-memorating those who diedfighting the Civil War to hon-

oring Americans who diedfighting in any war afterWorld War I, the South beganto recognize it as well.

Honoring the militaryAlthough Memorial Day

pays homage to the bravepeople who perished fighting

for their country, it also is anopportunity to recognize themilitary men and women andtheir families who continue towork to ensure the freedom ofAmericans.The United States Armed

Forces is renowned for its size

and strength. Various sourcessuggest the size of the UnitedStates military is somewherebetween 1.4 and 1.6 millionactive service people. Themilitary is comprised of theArmy, Army National Guard,Navy, Air Force, MarineCorps, and Coast Guard.

Each of these militarybranches also has its own re-serves.There are many ways to

honor active, reserve and for-mer veterans, as well as thosewho died in service of theircountry.• Help Veterans of Foreign

Wars distribute red poppiesas a visual reminder of themilitary’s efforts.• Volunteer at a veterans’

hospital or visit a woundedveteran at home.• Offer financial, legal or

career expertise through theCorporation for National &Community Service(serve.gov).• Help to maintain the vet-

eran area of a nearby ceme-tery. Place flags on all of thegraves.• Befriend military fami-

lies who frequently relocate,making a concerted effort towelcome them into your com-munity.• Educate children about

past wars and the servicesthe military provides.• Visit a military museum

or historic site.• Observe the National

Moment of Remembrance at 3pm local time for one minute.• Post a message to the

troops at the USO website(uso.org).

Common asthma triggers and potential causesAsthma, a chronic lung

disease that results in in-flamed and narrowed airpassages, affects millions ofpeople around the world. TheNational Heart, Lung andBlood Institute notes thatmore than 25 million peoplein the United States have

asthma. Asthma is alsoprevalent in Canada, wherethe Asthma Society of Cana-da says more than three mil-lion people currently haveasthma.When airways narrow and

swell, they can produce extramucus. Breathing becomes

quite difficult when asthmais present. The Mayo Clinicsays that asthma is just aminor nuisance for some peo-ple, while others may experi-ence life-threatening at-tacks. Recognizing potentialtriggers and avoiding themcan help control symptoms.The changing of seasons

can be a tricky time for asth-ma sufferers because of theincrease in air irritants.Pollen and mold spores areknown asthma triggers.Spring cleaning around thehouse also may trigger an at-tack if dust, pet dander orparticles of cockroach wasteare stirred up.People who are allergic to

certain substances also maydiscover these same aller-gens can trigger asthma at-tacks. Irritants in the envi-ronment also can bring onsuch attacks. The Asthma &Allergy Foundation of Ameri-ca indicates that, while peo-ple may not be allergic tocertain irritants, irritantscan bother inflamed and sen-sitive airways. Cigarettesmoke, wood fires, charcoalgrills, smog, strong fumes,and chemicals also may trig-ger asthma attacks.People with asthma also

must take care when exercis-ing or when they develop res-piratory illnesses. Exercise-induced bronchoconstrictioncan appear after severalminutes of sustained exer-

cise. The AAFA also notesthat colds, flu and sinus in-fections are among the mostcommon asthma triggers inchildren.Although many asthma

triggers are known, re-searchers continue to explorewhat causes asthma. TheNHLBI says that people maybe more likely to developasthma if:• They have atopy, an in-

herited tendency to developallergies.• Their parents have asth-

ma .• They were exposed to

certain respiratory infectionsduring their childhood.• They had contact with

allergens while their im-mune systems were develop-ing.A theory known as the

“hygiene hypothesis” sug-gests another potential causefor asthma. Researchers saythat growing concerns withhygiene and sanitation haveremoved many of the types ofenvironmental exposuresthat once helped children de-velop strong immune sys-tems. As a result, an in-creased risk for atopy andasthma has surfaced.Asthma sufferers can try

to avoid common triggersand may find that medica-tion and other lifestylechanges can help controltheir symptoms.

Various triggers can stir up asthma symptoms.

Three quarters of battered women who are employed are harassed at work by

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Day, it began after the Amer-ican Civil War to commemo-rate deceased Union andConfederate soldiers whodied in the Civil War. OftenMemorial Day is used as away of marking the start ofthe summer vacation season,with Labor Day marking itsend. The medical center is ex-tending an invitation to allpatriotic persons to join theVA in celebrating the lives ofAmerican veterans who havegiven the ultimate sacrificefor their country.

Prior to the Memorial Dayprogram, a special event willbe held at 1 p.m. dedicating

the intersection of highways441 and Claxton Dairy Roadin memory of Johnson, aVietnam veteran. The dedica-tion will be hosted by theLaurens County Commis-sioners and Friends of Veter-ans representative BuddyAdams.

Dublin VA Chief of Com-munications and StakeholderRelations Dr. Frank Jordanreiterated the welcome to allto attend the event and en-couraged groups to attend aswell as individuals.

“We are committed tomaking as many of ourevents as possible communityrather than VA events. Doingso not only lets our stake-

holders get to know what weare doing to care for Ameri-ca’s heroes, it gives us achance to educate citizensabout veterans and the sacri-fices that they have made. Anespecially important part ofthis education is to involveyoung people so that they cancarry on our patriotic tradi-tions. That’s why gettinggroups involved at our med-ical center is so critical for fu-ture success,” Jordan said.

For further informationabout the program, contactCarl Vinson VA Medical Cen-ter Chief of Voluntary ServiceDean Swan at 478-272-1210ext. 2729 orAldean.Swan@va.gov.

Program

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A packed auditorium is expected during the annual Carl Vinson VA Med-ical Center Memorial Day program, which will be held next Monday. (Filephoto)

West Laurens High Schoolwill hold its graduation cere-mony at 9 a.m. Saturday.

"We'll have a lot of trafficin town for all of these gradu-ations," Champion said."These are all good events. Weare proud of these young peo-ple who have graduated andwill be getting their diploma.Drivers need to be mindfulthere will be graduation cere-monies around these schools."

School ends this week.With that, many of the stu-dents may be playing outsidein neighborhoods.

"We need to be mindful ofthem playing in the road orriding bicycles," Championsaid. "As drivers, we have the

right-of-way, but we have touse common sense. If you seekids out there, slow down."

Dublin continues to have aproblem with drivers runningred lights and stop signs andspeeding.

"People get mad when theyget a ticket for speeding,"Champion said. "Or they havefour or five children who arenot being properly restrainedin their car. We are out thereto save people's lives. If youare doing something you arenot supposed to do, you willget a ticket. Don't be angry atthe police. The reason for aticket is to correct negativedriving behaviors."

Champion shared trafficstats for 2017.

"We've had five traffic fa-

talities this year," he said."That is atrocious. We are do-ing everything we can tomake the road safe for every-body. We want people to havea good time."

The city of Dublin has had430 wrecks with 106 injuriesfrom Jan. 1 through the end ofApril.

"We are averaging 108 traf-fic crashes for the first fourmonths of this year," Champi-on said. "The three major con-tributing factors are DUI, fail-ure to yield and speeding.Forty-one percent of thewrecks are caused by thesefactors. People get upset whenwe write tickets. These num-bers speak for themselves."

TrafficContinued from 1a

tem, told board members, "Ifthat money is not released,then the debt service fundwill stay in a deficit for anindefinite period of years."

Board member LauraTravick questioned Thublinabout why the bond millageis included in the budget.

"It just seems like wewould leave it as an out-standing amount that we areexpecting," Travick said.

Thublin said, "We'reputting it in our budget be-cause we need it. We're notcounting it at all in our cashuntil the lawsuit is settled.We need to go ahead andcount it; we're going to im-pose it again in hopes thecity can collect it in hopesthat we can eventually get itand that fund (bond millage)will be able to pay back thegeneral fund."

"We're not including thebond millage as cash be-cause it's not money we havein hand, but we're still keep-ing it in the budget becausewe're going to need it in or-der to pay our bonds nextMarch. Hopefully it will bereleased in time to pay ourbonds in October becausewe've got interest to pay of$217,000. So if we can getthat money released...thedebt service fund had to bor-row money from the generalfund. We need that moneyreleased so they can pay thegeneral fund, and then we'llhave the money to pay thosebonds due next March," saidThublin.

"We're going to have tocontinue to make bond pay-ments. The money isn'tthere to pay the general fundback, because we've got tohave that money to keeppaying the debt service.That's why we imposed thebond millage to begin with.We talked about that. Youasked if there was a way todo it without the bond mill-age, and there wasn't. Rightnow that fund is in a deficitbecause it has spent moremoney than it has," she said.

If the bond millage is notrecovered, the budget willstay in deficit for a longtime, said Thublin, "until2024-25-26 when we wouldpossibly be able to recoupthe money, but of course,that's a long way to predict

what income would be."In other action Monday,

the board voted four in favor,one against and one abstain-ing to approve the superin-tendent's personnel recom-mendations. Board membersBill Perry, Laura Travick,James Lanier and RichardSheffield voted to approvewhile Peggy Johnson votedagainst it. Demetrius Hollisabstained.

Among personnel hiredwas Tyrone Kellogg as assis-tant principal at HillcrestElementary. The two-yearDublin High School princi-pal was non-renewed inApril. This brought aboutweeks of upset at DublinHigh School among stu-dents, teachers, parents andconcerned citizens who havevoiced impassioned concernsabout the action.

Jerry Davis, Dublin citycouncilman, spoke duringMonday's meeting and askedthe board to reconsider Kel-logg as DHS principal.

Others hired were PatriceCarter, substitute bus dri-ver; Jaroy Stuckey as princi-pal at Dublin Middle School;and Sherrell Edmond asprincipal at Hillcrest Ele-mentary.

Several resignations wereapproved as follows: BrandyEly, teacher at Susie Dasher;Thomas Jason Minshew,teacher at Dublin Middle;Crescynthia Kimble, PEteacher at DHS; HildrickGarrison, teacher at DHS;Brandon Moore, SPEDteacher, Susie Dasher;

Amanda Rudd, teacher atSD; Adrian Ragsdale, SchoolNutrition at SD; ChristonGivens, SPED/CEIS, DHS;Vanessa McArthur,SPED/English teacher atDHS; Jamie McGinley May,Science teacher at DHS; Vin-cent Davis, ISS/PE at DHS;Stacye Lee, ELA teacher atDHS; Alexandria Walker,Horticulture teacher atDHS; Mike Adams, SPEDteacher at DHS; ChristopherZellner, SPED teacher atDHS; Thong Nguyen, Mathteacher at DHS; and ToshaWright, teacher at SD.

Retirements approvedwere from Pamela Ingram,CTAE teacher at DHS, andBetty Wright, SPED para-professional at DHS.

In public comments,Cherise Blackwell, JeanWolfe and Kesla Holder alsospoke to the board.

Blackwell issued twochallenges to the board con-cerning problems she sees asunacceptable at DublinCitySchools. Her challenges wereas follows:

• Drop the kindergartenretention rate by 10 percent.

• Increast Scholastic Ap-titude Scores and participa-tion by 10 percent.

Wolfe announced a sum-mer tutoring program totake place at Dublin Risingoffices in reading and math.She also announced a LittleFree Library program spon-sored by the organization.

Holder spoke about theDublin Teen Court program.

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Dublin City Councilman Jerry Davis addressesthe Dublin City School Board of Education.(Photo by Sandy Aldridge)

District awarded over $7 million for improvementsTENNILLE–The Georgia

Department of Transportationawarded four contracts equal-ing well beyond $7 million in-frastructure enhancements forLaurens and Bleckley coun-ties.

• Laurens County: EverettDykes Grassing Company willcomplete the $2.11 million pro-ject for 8.882 miles of milling,inlay, plant mix resurfacing,

single surface treatmentpaving and shoulder rehabili-tation on SR 126 from SR 117to SR 46;

• Bleckley County: EverettDykes Grassing Company alsowon the $2 million contract in-cluding 6.664 miles of milling,plant mix resurfacing and sin-gle surface treatment pavingon SR 26 from south of OldMilledgeville Road/County

Line Road to SR 87;Information on schedules,

lane closures and detours willbe available in advance of con-struction activities. All resur-facing projects have a March31, 2018 completion date,while the Augusta signal jobshould be finished by Dec. 31,2018.

The public is urged to“know before you go.”

ATLANTA (AP) — MattAdams' first home run withthe Braves came down nearthe right-field restaurant thathad been the landing spot fora few of Freddie Freeman'slong balls this season.Adams was quick to say

he's not staking any claim toFreeman's territory — in thestands or on the field.The newcomer hit a two-

run shot in his second startsince being traded to Atlanta,Ender Inciarte had a career-high five hits and the Bravesbeat Gerrit Cole and thePittsburgh Pirates 5-2 onMonday night."I think that's Freddie's

spot," Adams said of hishomer. "I think I'll leave thatto him."Brandon Phillips added his

200th career homer for theBraves, who have won eight of11.Adams was acquired from

St. Louis on Saturday as a fill-

in for Freeman, expected tomiss about 10 weeks with abroken left wrist. Freeman's14 homers before his injurywere tied for most in themajors, making him a difficultact to follow."I feel good," Adams said.

"I've just got to continue try-ing to be myself and not try todo too much."Adams had two hits,

including his fifth-inninghomer high into the right-fieldseats for a 5-1 lead.David Freese and Pirates

manager Clint Hurdle wereejected by plate umpire PhilCuzzi in the fourth. Freesedidn't like a called third strikeby Cuzzi and, with John Jasoat the plate, was still yellingat the umpire from the benchwhen he was ejected. Hurdlethen charged out of the dugoutand was quickly tossed.Freese said he thought he

was ejected too quickly.Mike Foltynewicz (3-4)

allowed two runs, one earned,in five-plus innings to win histhird straight start. JimJohnson pitched the ninth forhis ninth save.Cole (2-5) gave up five runs

and 10 hits in 4 2/3 innings.He had lasted at least sixinnings in eight straightstarts and allowed no morethan two earned runs in sixconsecutive starts.Light rain began to fall in

the fourth and continued theremainder of the game.Andrew McCutchen hit

into a double play in the fifthand was 0 for 4, dropping hisbatting average to .206.

TRAINER'S ROOMPirates: Mercer left in the

seventh with right hand dis-comfort, two innings afterMatt Kemp's grounder hit hisright hand. The shortstop wasbeing examined and the teamsaid he was day to day.Braves: 3B Adonis Garcia

(left Achilles tendon tendini-

tis) had no problems runningand appears set to come offthe 10-day disabled listFriday. Atlanta managerBrian Snitker indicated rookie3B Rio Ruiz will remain on theroster when Garcia returns.Snitker said the two can sharethe position to help Garciaavoid aggravating the injury.

FIVE HITSSnitker said Inciarte's big

game "is a week for a lot ofpeople." Hurdle also wasimpressed: "It doesn't happenvery often, not even in LittleLeague," he said.

SHORT NIGHTCole's bad night started

with Inciarte's 11-pitch at-batfor a first-inning single. Colethrew 31 pitches in the inning."I've never experienced one ofthose innings," Cole said."Good pitches, bad pitches,foul balls, close pitches . it wasjust one of those innings."

LONEY RELEASED

First baseman JamesLoney was granted hisrequested release from theBraves' Triple-A Gwinnettaffiliate. The 33-year-oldLoney signed a minor leaguedeal with the team on

Thursday after Freeman'sinjury. Braves general manag-er John Coppolella saidSaturday the club wouldn'thave signed Loney if it knew itwould be able to trade forAdams.

By RODNEY MANLEYOnce basketball season

ended, West Laurens seniorKhashahmi Smith got thechance to impress collegescouts at a couple of recruitingshowcases.Smith caught the attention

of coaches at Carver College inAtlanta, but it was not her 3-point shooting skills or herscrappy defense that made thebiggest impression.“They liked my attitude,”

Smith said Monday beforesigning a letter of intent toplay for Carver.West Laurens head coach

Oliver Griffeth said Smithmade similar impression afterhe took over the Lady Raiderscoaching job two years ago.“People say coaches are not

supposed to have favoriteplayers, but she’s one of myfavorites,” said Griffeth. “Herwork ethic is through the roof.She’s as dependable as theycome. She’s never missed apractice, never missed a work-out since I’ve been here.

“Nobody’s worked harderthan her. She’s had to work foreverything she’s got.”

Smith, a 5-foot guard,earned Region 2AAAA All-Region honors this season

after averaging eight points,four rebounds, four assistsand three steals per game.

She also was named thisyear’s Positive AthleteGeorgia scholarship winner ingirls basketball for the MiddleGeorgia region. Griffeth saidSmith was chosen from about500 nominees.A testament to Smith’s atti-

tude is that her accomplish-ments came despite her losingplaying time at one point dur-ing her senior season.“She never got down on

herself. She worked herbehind off and got her spotback,” said Griffeth.“A lot of kids these days do

not take criticism well. Shetakes it, and she works on itand corrects it. I’m gonna missher. She’s a leader by example.I tell all the eighth-gradersand younger players that ifyou want to see how thingsare supposed to be done, lookat Khashahmi.”Smith grew up playing

recreation basketball andplayed two seasons on theWest Laurens varsity.“My time as a basketball

player here has been great,getting close to this team. Iconsider them family.”The chance to play at the

college level, she said, “feelsgreat and awesome.”“It’s something that always

wanted to do,” said Smith,who plans to major in psychol-ogy. “They don’t have physicaltherapy, so I’m going for psy-chology.”Her mother, Danyielle

Smith, said she is excitedabout her daughter’s opportu-nity to play at the collegelevel.“I’m proud of her,” she said.

“There are just no words for it.She’s always had God in herlife, and always put Him first.She’s always worked hard. I’mjust so proud of her.”Griffeth said he expects big

things from Smith, who hascontinued to work out with theLady Raiders even after herplaying days ended.“I’m so proud of her,” he

said. “I know she’ll make WestLaurens proud.”

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WLʼs Will Stone (left) finished second, Carlandra Jones fourth in the 400.

The West Laurens girls and boys track teams turned in strong showings at the recent GHSA ClassAAAA State Track and Feld Meet at Berry College in Rome. Will Stone was the top finisher for theRaider teams, placing second in the 400-meter run. The Lady Raidersʼ Carlandra Jones finishedfourth in the 400, and she added another fourth-place finish as the anchor of the 4x400 relay teamwith Ariyanna Jones, Jameliah Russell and Brianna Mack. Storm Walker finished fourth in the shotput, Austin Helton placed seventh in the pole vault and Darius Bradford finished seventh in the 110hurdles. Kayla Jones and Kyrica Harris were alternates for the 4x400 relay team.

Raider squads compete at state track meet

Special photo

State competitors for West Laurens included (from left) Storm Walker,Will Stone, Austin Helton, Darius Bradford, Jameliah Russell, AriyannaJones, Brianna Mack, Carlandra Jones, Kayla Jones, Santeria Wattsand Kyrica Harris.

West Laurensʼ Smith signs to play hoops with Carver College

Photo by Rodney Manley

Smith signs with Carver College with family and coaches by her side.

EL celebrates historic soccer seasonBy BALI SMITHThe East Laurens High

School soccer teams celebrat-ed their successful 2017 sea-sons with an honors ceremonyand banquet Monday eveningat the Cloverleaf Restaurantin East Dublin.Falcon girls and boys head

coaches Chris Robinson andJonathan Senn served as mas-ters of ceremony during thespecial event.

Robinson was pleased withthe play of the Lady Falconsduring the 2017 campaign.The East Laurens girls wontheir fourth consecutiveregion championship and fin-ished as the Class AA runner-up with a season record of 22-3-1, and Robinson could nothave asked more from hissquad.“We have had a great year.

To make it to the state cham-

pionship game was a tremen-dous accomplishment. I reallythink we were the AA publicschool state champions, andnobody can stop me from feel-ing that way,” Robinson said.“This has been a long season,with the girls beginning theirpreseason workouts inJanuary. Coaching these girlshas been a real pleasurebecause of the effort these

Photo by Bali Smith

The Lady Falcons won their fourth straight region title and finished as thestate runner-up this season.

Photo by Bali Smith

The Falcons earned a home playoff game by finishing second in the region.

See SOCCER page 2b

AP Photo

Atlanta first baseman Matt Adams follows throughon a two-run homer in the fifth inning.

Adams homers to power Braves past Pirates, 5-2

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WEDNESDAY

COLLEGE GOLF4 p.m.

GOLF — NCAA Women'sChampionship, Match Play,Team National Championship, atSugar Grove, Ill.

MLB BASEBALL3:30 p.m.

MLB — Regional coverage,Miami at Oakland OR ChicagoWhite Sox at Arizona

7 p.m.MLB — Regional coverage,Kansas City at N.Y. Yankees ORTexas at Boston

7:30 p.m.FSSE – Pittsburgh at Atlanta

10 p.m.MLB — Regional coverage, St.Louis at L.A. Dodgers OR SanFrancisco at Chicago Cubs(joined in progress)

SOCCER6:55 a.m.

FS1 — FIFA U-20 World Cup,group play, Uruguay vs. Japan,at at Suwon, South KoreaFS2 — FIFA U-20 World Cup,group play, Costa Rica vs.Portugal, at Jeju, South Korea

2:30 p.m.FS1 — UEFA Europa League,final, Ajax vs. ManchesterUnited, at Solna, Sweden

3:55 a.m. (Thursday)FS1 — FIFA U-20 World Cup,group play, France vs. Vietnam,at at Cheonan, South KoreaFS2 — FIFA U-20 World Cup,group play, Ecuador vs. SaudiArabia, at Incheon, South Korea

WNBA BASKETBALL12:30 p.m.

NBA— Washington at Chicago

Teen Challenge golftournament June 10

The Dublin Teen ChallengeCharity Golf Tournament will be heldon Saturday, June 10, at the DublinCountry Club. Check-in will start at 8a.m., with a shotgun start at 9 a.m.The tournament will be a four-personscramble. Players can sign up as afoursome or individually to beassigned to a team. Entry fees are$360 per team or $100 per golfer.Prizes will be awarded for longestdrive and closest to the pin. Eachtournament participant will receive atournament polo shirt, a sleeve ofgolf balls, a goody bag and post-tournament lunch. A light snack willbe provided at the start, and lunchserved after the tournament. Formore information, call Trista Kincaidat (478) 984-5252 or emailtrista.kincaid@teenchallenge.cc. Toregister online, visithttp://events.teenchallenge.cc/dubgolf/.Trinity to host threeyouth soccer camps

Trinity Christian School will hostthree youth soccer camps this sum-mer open to all players Pre-K agethrough fifth grade. The camps willoffer quality instruction on funda-mentals, as well as exciting competi-tion and game experience. The firstcamp is for players who just com-pleted PreK and kindergarten. It willbe held Monday and Tuesday, June12 and 13, from at 8:30 to 10 a.m.each day at the soccer field on theTrinity campus. Cost is $30.

A camp for players who just com-pleted grades 1 and 2 will be heldWednesday and Thursday, June 14and 15, from 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. eachday at the school's soccer field. Costis $45.

A camp for players who just fin-ished grades 3-5 will be heldMonday, Tuesday and Thursday,July 17, 18 and 20, at the Trinity soc-cer field from 6 to 8 p.m. each day.Cost is $55.

Players at each camp shouldwear shorts, T-shirts, cleats or tennisshoes and shinguards. For moreinformation and to obtain a parentalconsent form, call Trinity head soc-cer coach Aaron George at (478)272-7699.Dublin Youth Hoops

Camp June 5-8The 2017 Dublin Irish Youth

Basketball Camp for boys and girlsages 5-17 will be held June 5-8 from9 a.m. to 12 p.m. each day at thenew Dublin High School gym.Campers will be given the opportuni-ty to work with highly-qualifiedcoaches, who will instruct on funda-mentals of both offense and defense,ball handling skills, shooting andpassing, while incorporating theseskills into team play. Cost is $40 percamper. Proceeds will help send theDublin High School basketball teamto the prestigious Kreul Classic thisDecember in Fort Lauderdale.

Raider SoccerCamp June 21-23

Raiders United Booster Club will besponsoring a youth soccer campJune 21-23 at West Laurens HighSchool. The camp, open to ages 5-12, runs from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.each day. Cost is $50 for pre-regis-tration and $55 the day of the camp.Make checks payable to WLHSSoccer. Students should bring awater bottle, shin guards,cleats/tennis shoes, sunscreen anda towel (Friday). The camp is hostedby WLHS soccer coaches NateSmith, Emory Davis and Al Tippett.For more information, please e-mailraidersunited17@gmail.com or nate-smith@lcboe.net.

Contact usTo submit information, call 272-

5522, fax 478-272-2189 or e-mailtchsports77@gmail.com

National LeagueEast DivisionW L Pct GB

Washington 26 17 .605 —Atlanta 19 23 .452 6½New York 18 24 .429 7½Philadelphia 15 27 .357 10½Miami 15 28 .349 11

Central DivisionW L Pct GB

Milwaukee 25 19 .568 —St. Louis 22 19 .537 1½Chicago 22 21 .512 2½Cincinnati 21 23 .477 4Pittsburgh 20 25 .444 5½

West DivisionW L Pct GB

Colorado 29 17 .630 —Arizona 27 19 .587 2Los Angeles 26 19 .578 2½San Francisco20 26 .435 9San Diego 16 30 .348 13

Monday's GamesColorado 8, Philadelphia 1Cincinnati 5, Cleveland 1Atlanta 5, Pittsburgh 2San Francisco 6, Chicago Cubs 4Arizona 5, Chicago White Sox 1Tuesday's GamesColorado at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.San Francisco at Chicago Cubs, 7:05p.m.Seattle at Washington, 7:05 p.m.Cleveland at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.San Diego at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.Toronto at Milwaukee, 7:40 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.Miami at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday's GamesToronto (Stroman 4-2) at Milwaukee(Garza 2-0), 1:10 p.m.Miami (Volquez 0-6) at Oakland (Gray 1-1), 3:35 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Quintana 2-5) atArizona (Delgado 1-0), 3:40 p.m.Cincinnati (Bonilla 0-2) at Cleveland(Bauer 4-4), 6:10 p.m.Colorado (Chatwood 3-6) at Philadelphia(Hellickson 5-1), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle (Gaviglio 0-0) at Washington(Roark 3-2), 7:05 p.m.San Diego (Cosart 0-1) at N.Y. Mets(Gsellman 2-3), 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Williams 2-3) at Atlanta(Teheran 3-4), 7:35 p.m.San Francisco (Moore 2-4) at ChicagoCubs (Hendricks 3-2), 8:05 p.m.St. Louis (Leake 4-2) at L.A. Dodgers(Hill 1-1), 10:10 p.m.

Thursday's GamesPittsburgh at Atlanta, 12:10 p.m.Colorado at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.San Francisco at Chicago Cubs, 2:20p.m.Seattle at Washington, 4:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Cleveland, 6:10 p.m.San Diego at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.Arizona at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUEEast DivisionW L Pct GB

New York 26 16 .619 —Baltimore 25 18 .581 1½Boston 22 21 .512 4½Tampa Bay 23 24 .489 5½Toronto 19 26 .422 8½

Central DivisionW L Pct GB

Minnesota 23 18 .561 —Cleveland 23 20 .535 1Detroit 21 22 .488 3Chicago 20 23 .465 4Kansas City 18 26 .409 6½

West DivisionW L Pct GB

Houston 30 15 .667 —Texas 24 21 .533 6Los Angeles 24 23 .511 7Oakland 20 24 .455 9½Seattle 20 25 .444 10

Monday's GamesMinnesota 14, Baltimore 7N.Y. Yankees 4, Kansas City 2Cincinnati 5, Cleveland 1L.A. Angels 3, Tampa Bay 2Houston 1, Detroit 0Arizona 5, Chicago White Sox 1

Tuesday's GamesKansas City at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.Minnesota at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Seattle at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.L.A. Angels at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.Texas at Boston, 7:10 p.m.Toronto at Milwaukee, 7:40 p.m.Detroit at Houston, 8:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.Miami at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Wednesday's GamesMinnesota (Berrios 2-0) at Baltimore(Tillman 1-0), 12:35 p.m.Toronto (Stroman 4-2) at Milwaukee(Garza 2-0), 1:10 p.m.Miami (Volquez 0-6) at Oakland (Gray 1-1), 3:35 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Quintana 2-5) atArizona (Delgado 1-0), 3:40 p.m.Cincinnati (Bonilla 0-2) at Cleveland(Bauer 4-4), 6:10 p.m.Kansas City (Hammel 1-5) at N.Y.Yankees (Severino 2-2), 7:05 p.m.Seattle (Gaviglio 0-0) at Washington(Roark 3-2), 7:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Nolasco 2-3) at Tampa Bay(Ramirez 2-0), 7:10 p.m.Texas (Perez 2-5) at Boston (Sale 4-2),7:10 p.m.Detroit (Norris 2-3) at Houston (Morton 5-3), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday's GamesKansas City at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.L.A. Angels at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.Seattle at Washington, 4:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Cleveland, 6:10 p.m.Texas at Boston, 7:10 p.m.Detroit at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

NBA PLAYOFFSCONFERENCE FINALS

(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)EASTERN CONFERENCE

Cleveland 2, Boston 1Wednesday, May 17: Cleveland 117,Boston 104Friday, May 19: Cleveland 130, Boston86Sunday, May 21: Boston 111, Cleveland108Tuesday, May 23: Boston at Cleveland,8:30 p.m.Thursday, May 25: Cleveland at Boston,

8:30 p.m.x-Saturday, May 27: Boston atCleveland, 8:30 p.m.x-Monday, May 29: Cleveland at Boston,8:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCEGolden State 4, San Antonio 0

Sunday, May 14: Golden State 113, SanAntonio 111Tuesday, May 16: Golden State 136, SanAntonio 100Saturday, May 20: Golden State 120,San Antonio 108Monday, May 22: Golden State 129, SanAntonio 115

FINALS(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

Golden State vs. Boston-Clevelandwinner

Thursday, June 1: Boston-Cleveland win-ner at Golden State, 9 p.m.Sunday, June 4: Boston-Cleveland win-ner at Golden State, 8 p.m.Wednesday, June 7: Golden State atBoston-Cleveland winner, 9 p.m.Friday, June 9: Golden State at Boston-Cleveland winner, 9 p.m.x-Monday, June 12: Boston-Clevelandwinner at Golden State, 9 p.m.x-Thursday, June 15: Golden State atBoston-Cleveland winner, 9 p.m.x-Sunday, June 18: Boston-Clevelandwinner at Golden State, 8 p.m.

NASCAR Monster Energy Cup PointsLeaders

By The Associated PressThrough May 221. Kyle Larson, 475.2. Martin Truex Jr, 431.3. Brad Keselowski, 408.4. Chase Elliott, 361.5. Jamie McMurray, 354.6. Kevin Harvick, 347.7. Kyle Busch, 325.8. Jimmie Johnson, 323.9. Joey Logano, 320.10. Clint Bowyer, 317.11. Ryan Blaney, 291.12. Denny Hamlin, 289.

13. Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 276.14. Trevor Bayne, 250.15. Kurt Busch, 246.16. Kasey Kahne, 242.17. Ryan Newman, 238.18. Matt Kenseth, 233.19. Daniel Suarez, 217.20. Erik Jones, 217.21. Ty Dillon, 204.22. Austin Dillon, 193.23. Aric Almirola, 188.24. Paul Menard, 173.25. Dale Earnhardt Jr, 173.26. Chris Buescher, 155.27. David Ragan, 144.28. Michael McDowell, 137.29. Cole Whitt, 136.30. AJ Allmendinger, 130.31. Landon Cassill, 128.32. Matt DiBenedetto, 123.33. Danica Patrick, 115.34. Corey Lajoie, 77.35. Reed Sorenson, 56.36. Gray Gaulding, 51.37. Jeffrey Earnhardt, 49.38. Michael Waltrip, 29.39. Derrike Cope, 16.40. D.J. Kennington, 1.41. Cody Ware, 1.

Tuesday's Sports TransactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES — OptionedRHPs Gabriel Ynoa to Norfolk (IL) andRHP Miguel Castro to Bowie (EL).Assigned C Francisco Pena outright toNorfolk. Recalled RHP Tyler Wilson fromNorfolk.CLEVELAND INDIANS — Assigned RHPCarlos Frias outright to Columbus (IL).Agreed to terms with OF David Lough ona minor league contract.DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHPAnibal Sanchez and C John Hicks toToledo (IL). Reinstated DH VictorMartinez from paternity leave. RecalledRHP Warwick Saupold from Toledo.HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned LHPAshur Tolliver to Fresno (PCL). Selectedthe contract of RHP Jordan Jankowskifrom Fresno. Designated OF Andrew

Aplin for assignment.KANSAS CITY ROYALS — OptionedRHP Jake Junis to Omaha (PCL). Sent3B Hunter Dozier to Wilmington(Carolina) for a rehab assignment.LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned1B C.J. Cron to Salt Lake (PCL).Recalled SS Nolan Fontana from SaltLake.MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned LHPAdalberto Mejia to Rochester (IL).TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent 3B JoshDonaldson to Dunedin (FSL) for a rehabassignment.

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Sent OFSocrates Brito to Reno (PCL) for a rehabassignment.COLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed toterms with OF Stephen Cardullo on aminor league contract.MIAMI MARLINS — Placed RHP DavidPhelps on the bereavement list.NEW YORK METS — Sent LHP StevenMatz to Las Vegas (PCL) for a rehabassignment.ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — OptionedRHP Sam Tuivailala to Memphis (PCL).Reinstated LHP Tyler Lyons from the 10-day DL.SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned RHPJose Valdez to El Paso (PCL). RecalledINF Carlos Asuaje from El Paso.Reinstated C Hector Sanchez from the10-day DL. Designated 3B Luis Sardinasfor assignment.

American AssociationCLEBURNE RAILROADERS — SignedRHP Santos Arias and OF CameronMonger. Released RHP Taylor Thurber.GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS —Signed RHP Ryan Fritze.ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed LHPKramer Sneed.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

ORLANDO MAGIC — Named JeffWeltman president of basketball opera-tions.

COLLEGEEMORY — Named Jake Dunn assistantwomen's soccer coach.PRESBYTERIAN — Named DustinKerns men's basketball coach.TEXAS TECH — Senior F Zach Smithwithdrew from the NBA draft.

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girls displayed throughout theseason.“People ask me why I coach

football and girls soccer. I tellthem that I still coach soccerbecause the girls, their par-ents, the community and ourschool administration makecoaching both sports easy forme. East Laurens soccer isgetting recognition through-out our state. With Katlynn(Jones) signing with BrewtonParker and a few of our juniorclass players being looked atstrongly, college coaches arestarting to realize that EastLaurens is a pretty good placeto visit to find good soccer tal-ent. Our girls deserve all therecognition they receivebecause they work so hard toget better at the game theylove.”All the Lady Falcon players

received a certificate andRegion 3AA champion patches,with a state runner-up patchcoming at a later date.Senior Sydney Fleming

received a special four-yearpatch from Robinson. Falconsbooster club president LancePadgett presented Flemingwith an encased soccer ballhonoring the Lady Falcons’68-10-3 record and four con-secutive region championshipsduring her playing career.Junior Hannah Theriault,

who scored 43 goals duringthe 2017 season, also received

an encased soccer ball inrecognition of reaching 100goals during her three- yearcareer.Lady Falcon Captain

Awards were issued to AlexisLawson, Katlynn Jones,Kendra Delgado andTheriault.Other awards were:•Rookie of the Year Award:

McCain Bracewell•Falcon Award: Janisis

Umpierre•Most Valuable Player:

Jalexia Wright•Region 3AA Defensive

Player of the Year: JalexiaWright•Region 3AA Player of the

Year: Hannah Theriault•Region 3AA All Region:

Kendra Delgado, KeishaButler, Jalexia Wright andHannah Theriault•Region 3AA Honorable

Mention: Janisis Umpierre,Lea Wilkinson and LaurenEvans.East Laurens boys head

coach Jonathan Senn also waspleased with his team’s accom-plishments this season. TheFalcons, who finished theirseason with a 6-9-2 record, fin-ished second in Region 3AAand hosted their openinground game of the state play-offs.

“Our players’ No. 1 goalwas to complete region playwith either a first- or second-place finish. I was proud of theway our team learned how tofinish an 80-minute game asthe season progressed. Wecompleted our region seasonwith a 5-3 record, defeatingevery team at least once, withthe exception of Dublin HighSchool,” Senn said. “By finish-ing in second place, we wereable to play the opening roundof the state playoffs at homefor only the second time in ourschool’s history. Although welost a tough match toThomasville, I was proud ofour team’s effort.”

Senn thanked Robinson,his players’ parents and theschool’s administration fortheir help and support during

the season.“Coach Robinson has

meant so much to the successof our soccer team. Not manycoaches have the opportunityto ask questions and discussgame-time strategy with afour-time region winner whojust completed competing fora state championship like Ido,” he said. “Our team’s par-ents and the school’s adminis-tration have been very sup-portive, and I want to thankthem for everything they do inhelping make the soccer sea-son a successful experience forthe players and coaches.”Senn also thanked his wife

for her understanding and

support during the season.Senior Awards were pre-

sented to Eduardo Lopez,Zyshonne Holliman andAustin PadgettOther awarda presented

wer:•Rookie Award: Darrell

Smith•Most Valuable Player:

Carson Morris•Falcon Award: Jon Eric

Senn•First-team 3AA All

Region: Bryce Robinson,Christian Brantley, JonathanHaygood and Jon Eric Senn•3AA Honorable Mention”

Devin Dollar, Jake McCantand Carson Morris.

SoccerContinued from page 1b

Photo by Bali Smith

Hannah Theriault washonored for scoring

100 career goals.

Phot by Bali Smith

Booster club president Lance Padgett presentedsenior Sydney Fleming an encased ball in

recognition of the Lady Falconsʼ 68 wins and fourregion titles during her of her four-year career.

Big leagues' founding documents to be auctionedLOS ANGELES (AP) — In

1876, a group of owners andteam officials gathered at aNew York hotel to draft andsign the constitution that cre-ated baseball's NationalLeague and would ultimatelyhave ramifications far beyondthe diamond.The principles the docu-

ment laid out, largely the workof Chicago White Stockingsowner William Hulbert, wouldprovide the basic model forevery major team sportsleague in the world that fol-lowed.The constitution is getting a

public airing for the first timein more than a century whenit's put up for sale by SCPAuctions of Laguna Niguel,California, starting today.It offers a glimpse into a

time when nearly half theteams in the league had"stockings" in their names, 50cents for a ticket was consid-ered a steep price, and gettingpaid to play sports wasdeemed dirty."The idea that grown men

would pick up a bat and balland put on costumes was sus-picious," said John Thorn, theofficial historian of MajorLeague Baseball. Not to men-tion the "residue and foul odorof drunkenness" thought topermeate the game.Many fans were convinced

the outcome of games wasdetermined in advance.Occasionally they were cor-rect, Thorn said.The NL's immediate prede-

cessor was the NationalAssociation of ProfessionalBaseball Players, known casu-ally as the NationalAssociation or NA. It wasplagued with problems in itsshort life including weak cen-

tral organization, teams con-stantly folding, and East Coastteams refusing to travel west.Players just split up the

gate receipts as though theywere a small-time rock bandplaying a nightclub. One team,the Boston Red Stockings, wasutterly dominant.(The Red Stockings are not,

as one might suspect, the mod-ern Boston Red Sox, but themodern Atlanta Braves.Similarly, Hulbert's WhiteStockings are not the modernChicago White Sox, butbecame the Chicago Cubs.)The league's demise after

the 1875 season gave Hulbert,a man of the West who did notlike the dominance of EastCoast teams, an opening tofound something new and last-ing.On Feb. 2, 1876, in a meet-

ing at the Grand Central Hotelin New York that includedother early baseball luminar-ies like Harry Wright and AlSpalding, the new constitutionof the National League ofProfessional Base Ball Clubswas drafted and signed.

It listed on its opening pageits central principles, includ-ing:•"To encourage, foster and

elevate the game of base ball."•"To enact and enforce

proper rules for the exhibitionand conduct of the game."•"To make base ball playing

respectable and honorable."But it did something far

more revolutionary in sports.It created a strict divisionbetween capital and labor.Owners and their officers ranthe business end, and paidwages to the players."Hulbert was a genius in

the model he created with theNational League," Thorn said."It is this model that gavebirth to every professionalsports league that followed,from football to basketball toEuropean football.Professional sports teams oweeverything to Hulbert."The new league had eight

teams: Chicago, Boston,Philadelphia, the CincinnatiReds, the Hartford DarkBlues, the New York Mutuals,and the St. Louis Brown

Stockings.The documents themselves

have been held privately fordecades by the family of an oldNational League executivethat is now putting them upfor sale. The auction house isnot making their names pub-lic."Everything is in great con-

dition. It's been preserved in abound volume since 1925,"said Dan Imler, vice presidentof SCP auctions.Last year, SCP auctions

sold a similar document,1857's "Laws of Base Ball,"which laid out the rules of themodern game.That went for $3.26 million.

This prize could easily surpassit. Imler said he expects bothinstitutions and individualswill be among the bidders.While its 74 pages have the

ink-and-parchment dignity ofold government documents,there are also cross-outs andother signs of mistakes,changes and corrections."It's highly dramatic

because it's the first draft ofhistory," said Thorn, who hasstudied the documents but isnot involved in the auction."This is sloppy. This is messy.This is what historians love."The new constitution was

no magic bullet. At first thingswere the same as ever. Towardthe end of the inaugural sea-son, Philadelphia and NewYork both refused to makescheduled western road trips.Hulbert kicked both teams

out. It was a risky move, butone that would help ensure theleague's survival."He stuck to his guns,"

Thorn said. "He was not goingto permit the clubs to flout therules."By the 1880s, the National

AP Photo

SCP Auctionsʼ Dan Imler holds the 1876constitution that founded the National League and

the modern business of big league sports.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —The principal of an Oklahomahigh school apologized afterits yearbook featured aquotation attributed to AdolfHitler.

Students at BishopMcGuinness Catholic HighSchool in Oklahoma Citydiscovered the quote whenthey got the books earlier thismonth. Graduating seniorschose quotes to pair with theirportraits.

A quote listed aboveHitler's name says, "If youwant to shine like the sun,first you have to burn like it."Some translations of Hitler'smanifesto "Mein Kampf"include similar wording,though the author of theexcerpt is disputed.

It appeared in the yearbookdirectly below a quotationattributed to Anne Frank, theHolocaust diarist who perishedin a Nazi death camp.

Principal David Mortonsent parents a letter last weekaccepting blame for the gaffeand saying the school wasbuying stickers students couldplace over the offending quote.Morton could not be reachedfor comment Monday.

Oklahoma schoolapologizes forHitler yearbookquotation

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