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By PAYTON TOWNS III of another vehicle at the inter- said the truck pulled out in front Horne was transported to Horne, who was charged with Three One of the three transported people in- section of Claxton Dairy to Road ofMacon her, and she hit it in theafter front Fairview two-vehicle Hospital by Laurens driving on awreck suspended driver's volved in a traffic accident Tues- and Woodlawn Drive around left part of her vehicle. County EMS. Passengers in license, said her back, neck and day remains in critical condi- 2:31 p.m. Tuesday. The Mitsubishi spun around Horne's car were April An- head were hurting. tion, a Dublin Police official Lumley, who was driving a in the road and hit the sidewalk. drews, 38, of Milledgeville, and A witness, who was behind said. 1999 Dodge Ram 1500, said his This caused the vehicle to come Keisha Fordham, 35, of Hard- Lumley, said the truck was According to a Dublin Police truck started to bounce as he off the ground, flip three times, wick. Both were airlifted to a bouncing as it approached the Black History Department accident report, tried to stop at the stop sign but and rest on its roof. Macon hospital. stop sign. Derek Lumley, of East Dublin, was unable to. The passengers in the Mit- Andrews' left arm was in- The truck's hood, front was given a citation for failure Carla Horne, of Dublin, was subishi had to be cut out by the jured while Fordham's injuries bumper, grill and front quarter Festival to yield after pulling out in front driving a 2001 Mitsubishi. She Dublin Fire Department. were to her back and ribs. panels were damaged. Calendar of Events

February 20, 2016 Youth/Career Day Green Grove Missionary Baptist Teen sentenced to 20 Church By PAYTON TOWNS III against Beck. 11 a.m. yearsA 17-year-old for Laurens Beck"The lossmurder of life is always a County woman was sentenced tragedy, and seeing young February 20, 2016 Wednesday to 20 years with people involved makes it that 10 to serve in prison. much sadder," Faircloth said. Dublin School Drama Mercedes Toledo pled "Young or old, there are conse- Club Presents: Black guilty to the voluntary quences to the choices we History Play manslaughter of Curtis Beck make as well as the choices of on May 10, 2014, said Bran- those we associate with, and I Dublin High School Auditorium don Faircloth, Deputy Chief hope this serves as a reminder 4 p.m. Assistant District Attorney. of that to us all. I'd like to Toledo, who was 15 at the thank Sheriff Bill Harrell and time of the offense, was a co- the Laurens County Sheriff's February 21, 2016 defendant of Dustin Mitchell. Office for their hard work in Senior Recognition Mitchell was previously this case, as well as the vic- Program convicted of felony murder tim's family for their support." Sandy Ford Baptist Church Speaker: Pastor Dorothy Simmons 3 p.m.

February 25, 2016 Black History: A Night of Delivery Sponsored By: Dublin Housing Au- thority & Oconee Community Center 6 p.m.

February 27, 2016 Legacy Readers The- atre Presents: Dinner Photo by Payton Towns III and Show “From be- Artiffany Stanley is looking forward to serving as the Chairperson for the 51st St. Patrickʼs Festival. hind bars and closed Special Photo doors” Phil Patel stands beside an electric vehicle charging station. Dublin Middle School Dinner at 5 p.m. Stanley the Chairperson for Show at 6 p.m. Four EV charging stations Tickets: $15 By P AYTON TOWNS theIII 51st St. Patrick's Festival comingBy KELLY LE NtoZ Dublinnoticed thethis EV charging April sta- February 28, 2016 Art iffany Stanley is Four electric vehicle (EV) tions there. gearing up for a busy charging stations will soon be “This is the future, but in Gospel Explosion month. available in Dublin this April. order for that to happen, there Greater New Evergreen Baptist This Saturday will begin Electric car manufacturer have to be other places where Church the 51st St. Patrick's Festi- Tesla approved the location people can charge them (EVs) about one year ago after a site because they can only go a 4 p.m. val with Stanley serving as the general festival chair- visit. certain distance without be- person. She was the vice- The EV stations will be lo- ing recharged,” said Patel. April 2016 chair last year. cated in the parking lot of the When he returned to She has spent the last new Hampton Inn and Suites, Dublin, he contacted the Tes- couple of years getting opening this April on Travel la office in Atlanta about the ready to be the chairperson. Center Boulevard behind possibility of locating EV Correction.... Earlier this week, we went Longhorn Steakhouse and charging stations in Dublin. to Stanley's office at City Cracker Barrel. He said, “They were not Habitat for Humanity raised Local entrepreneur and ho- looking at Dublin at the time $28,000 during its annual Hall to talk about the festi- val. tel owner Phil Patel, whose because they were looking at Daddy-Daugher Dance last newest venture is the Hamp- Macon. We told them we were Friday, not $2,800 as was re- ton Inn and Suites, says that building a new hotel, so they ported in Thursday’s edition of TCH: How does it feel to have the festival starting the newer chargers take a came and did the site survey.” The Courier Herald. We regret shorter time to charge than In the Southeast region, the error. this weekend? “During March with St. Stanley: It's here (while older ones. He added that there are currently stations in laughing). I have my Patrick’s, it will be go, go, go. ” anyone with an electric car Atlanta, and besides the one Police proclamation speech memo- will be able to use the stations in Dublin, there are plans to rized. I can do it in my — Artiffany Stanley free of charge. have stations in Macon and sleep. The stations will be able to Savannah. Tesla is trying to Beat charge any type of EV made locate them on the major TCH: Are you from here to Milledgeville, by other manufacturers, not highways. The cars average Dublin? Warner Robins, Eastman TCH: What are your just Tesla model EVs. “We’ll about 150-200 miles before Stanle y: I am. I was and Swainsboro. I was a hobbies? have adapters available if an they need to be charged, said Donation jar born and raised here in night student because I Stanley: I like playing electric car made by a differ- Patel. Dublin. I went to East Lau- worked here during the day softball and traveling. ent manufacturer requires They are placing them at rens High School and grad- and went to school at night. Those were my hobbies. I one,” said Patel. He added, locations where there are ho- stolen at uated from there. I went to don't have a lot of time now. that in case the demand in- tels and restaurants so people Middle Georgia College TCH: Th at sounds I try to find some me-time creases and they need to ex- can have a place to stay or en- Friendly here in Dublin and started tough. though. During March with pand in the future that the in- joy a meal while their car is a summer internship with Stanle y: I sometimes St. Patrick's, it will be go, frastructure is in place to add charging. the City of Dublin in 1996. wonder now, "How did I do go, go. another 10 charging stations. Patel said, “Dublin will be Gus No. 7 I've been here since then. that?" But you do what it Patel got the idea of offer- on the map. Tesla has a After graduating from Mid- takes. I had a goal in mind. TCH: Did you play soft- ing the EV charging stations screen on the dashboard Tell it, 5a dle Georgia, I drove back I had no fear about driving ball at East Laurens High when he was shopping at showing the locations of and forth for classes from on a back road. Phipps Plaza in Atlanta and charging stations and Dublin Th e man wh o almo st hit a See STANLEY page 8a little girl o n Bellevu e Tues- d ay even ing need s to learn ho w to drive. Yo u sc ared me half to death. DPD officer to help children with hats, gloves

Dublin Police Department officer Sarah Tapley, a new officer at the Dublin Police Department, asked for donations from other officers to pur- chase new hoods and gloves for children who Index don't have them. Chief Tim Chatman said, "Offi- Obituaries ...... 2a cer Sarah Tapley did this on her own and took Hometown...... 3a Editorial ...... 4a the initiative to address a need. There are more Weather...... 5a good officers out there than bad, and she is a News ...... 6a,7a good example. This is something she wanted to Sports...... 1b,2b do to help the children in the area." (Photo by Classifieds...... 3b Payton Towns III) Entertainment ...... 4b Friday, February 19, 2016/Dublin, Ga/Page 2a The Courier Herald she impacted the world around Amy Coleman Obituaries her. She became the quintes- sential mom. The mom of all Miss Amy Coleman, age 38, moms. She became everyone’s of Tarrytown died at her home “Mama Bea.” Wednesday night, Feb. 18, 2016, The memories created in her after a long illness. 102 years of celebrated life are Funeral services will be held endless. The grandchildren and in the Saliba Chapel on the cam- great-grandchildren in particu- pus of Brewton Parker College, lar carry the memories that Mount Vernon, at 3 p.m. Sun- seem to be the most precious, for day, Feb. 21. Burial will be in their memories are of a woman Tarrytown Cemetery with Sam- who loved them unconditionally, mons Funeral Home in charge of who raised them with a Godly arrangements. spirit and who always made Amy was a lifelong resident them laugh. She loved the out- of Tarrytown and was preceded Fat and cancer cells: doors and especially loved fish- in death by grandparents, L.E. ing. And for all the fisherman in “Shotgun” Coleman and Zackie the world, let it be known a fish and Fannie Claxton and a sister, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe, pose tissue and each cell is your belly or your prostate. did jump in her boat one sunny Brenda Arnsdorff. She was a WayneLose Gretsky: Imagine itlarger or than normal, they they're Start use walking 10,000 it steps a afternoon. Her hobbies included graduate of Montgomery County they were descending on at a much higher risk of hav- day (get a pedometer and a Kay Askew Kreft word search and crossword puz- High School, East Georgia Col- your goal -- and you'd never ing their cancer metastasize. walking buddy) and elimi- zles. Very rarely was she seen lege, Swainsboro, and Georgia played hockey before. Well, One more thing: The re- nate all added sugars and Kay Askew Kreft, age 67, fin- without a puzzle book in her College and State University, if you're obese and get can- searchers also found that syrups (sugar fuels some ished her race and went to be hand. She also loved her church Milledgeville. She was em- cer, your chances of fighting when you block the channel cancers), red meat (ditto), with her Heavenly Father on family and her church family ployed with Emanuel County off the attack are about as that periprostatic adipose processed foods and trans Feb. 17, 2016. She will forever be loved her. She became a mem- Department of Family and Chil- good as your ability to de- tissue provides to cancer fats from your diet. You'll remembered as a deeply devoted ber of Bethlehem Baptist dren Services and was a member fend that goal. Why? It cells, you prevent cancer mi- have a much better chance of wife, mom, daughter, sister and Church in 1924 and had been a of Tarrytown Baptist Church. seems mature adipocytes gration. blocking prostate cancer's friend to many. She was born faithful member without pause, Since her diagnosis with (fat cells) secrete chemicals While the five-year sur- slapshot! and raised in Dublin, where she and was also the oldest living Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Amy that cancer cells love to vival rate for early-stage was crowned Miss Dublin High member. There, too, she took on had devoted her life to spreading skate on. prostate cancer is near 100 Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host in 1966. After graduation, she a motherly role, having taught awareness about the disease. In A recent study published percent, for those in whom it of "The Dr. Oz Show," and moved to Roswellmarried, and the Nan Linder Sunday School 2015 she was instrumental in in Nature reveals that in has spread to distant body Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief had two daughters, JoAnna and Class for 42 years. Mama Bea the signing of the Governor’s prostate cancer, cancer cells parts, it falls to 28 percent. Wellness Officer and Chair of Jennifer. She worked tirelessly to truly loved without question Proclamation designating May can move on the fatty tissue So if you become (or are) one Wellness Institute at Cleve- make sure that they were well and was an inspiration to us all. as EDS awareness month. that surrounds the prostate of the more than 220,800 land Clinic. To live your loved and enjoyed a wonderful On Feb. 18, 2016, the world Survivors include her par- (called periprostatic adipose men in North America diag- healthiest, tune into "The Dr. childhood. She later married quite simply became a solemn ents, Gary and Lynette Coleman tissue) and spread quickly to nosed with prostate cancer Oz Show" or visit Don, and they enjoyed 25 years place, for this is the day God of Tarrytown; paternal grand- other organs. Since obese annually, make sure you're www.sharecare.com. together. called Mamie Beatrice Pridgen mother, Eva Coleman of Tarry- folks have more of this adi- not packing extra fat around She was a member of The Fountain home into his world. town; sister, Teresa (Greg) Circle for Children for over 20 But if there is one thing we have Stevens of Tarrytown; brother, years, and served as the presi- all learned from Mama Bea, we Charles (Kathryn) Coleman of dent in 1998. Later in life she will celebrate life, we will rejoice Mount Vernon; brother-in-law, found what she called her “true in Heaven, and we will be Everend Arnsdorff; and niece calling.” She served as a Victim thankful for family, but most of and nephews, Eva Grace Cole- Advocate for the Domestic Vio- all we will love God. man, Anthony Coleman, Bran- Teen daughterʼs sex life lence Department of the Chero- Mama Bea was preceded in don Arnsdorff, George Arnsdorff, kee County Solicitor General's of- death by her husband, Edward Micheal Stevens, Nikolaus fice for several years. Other than Claxton Fountain, mother, An- Stevens, Dillon Boyette and Will DEAR ABBY: My 16- your daughter needs to loving to serve people, she is well nie Cobb Pridgen, father, E.W. Boyette. year-oldreveals perfect kid came to parentalknow discord it. known for being quite the home Pridgen, sister, Doris Shepard, A visitation will be held at us, very adult-like, saying decorator, as well as a lady that brother, Edwin Pridgen, son, Sammons Funeral Home Satur- it was time for her to go on DEAR ABBY: I work the always exuded an impeccable Tommy Fountain and son-in- day from 6 to 8 p.m. the pill. We knew she had a front desk at a small hotel eye for fashion, style and south- law, Grady Wilkes. Flowers will be accepted or boyfriend, but didn't real- in the middle of nowhere. I ern class. She will be missed She is survived by her chil- contributions may be made to ize it was this serious. love my job. My boss and deeply by many, especially by her dren, Edward Fountain (Gina) Serenity Hospice Care, 304 West Despite my initial im- co-workers are amazing, husband, two girls, step-children, of Dublin, Patricia Fountain First St., Vidalia, GA 30474 or pulse to kill him and stick and we are like a big fami- grandchildren and her dogs, Car- Wilkes of Dublin, Barbra Gar- Tarrytown Baptist Church, 918 my daughter in a convent, ly. ly and Clayton. nto (Ervin) of Scott, Ricky Foun- Mark Burns Road, Tarrytown, we discussed it as a family Recently, while I was In lieu of flowers, please con- tain (Theresa) of Jasper and GA 30470. and agreed she would see a working the graveyard sider making a donation to The daughter-in-law, Elaine Foun- An online memorial register gynecologist. She also had shift, I was held up at gun- Cherokee Family Violence Cen- tain of Dublin. She is also sur- may be signed at a long talk with her mother point and robbed. Going to ter, PO Box 489, Canton, GA vived by 12 grandchildren, www.sammonsfuneralhome.co about sex, and with me a work still scares me, and 30169 or The Circle For Chil- Robin Williams, Tina Bracewell, m few days later. When I sat I'm anxious the entire time. dren, 4210 Blackland Drive, Ma- Jamie Fountain, Jonathan –––– down alone with her she Should I seek counseling rietta, GA 30067. Fountain, David Wilkes, Stan was embarrassed, but I and stay with this job to see –––– Wilkes, Teresa Sandlin, Allen Peggy Jean don't care -- I'm her father. if my anxiety lessens, or Fountain, Tracie Mallette, Ja- Robinson Fast forward to last Dear Abby find another one where I son Fountain, Noel Consalta week: She left her iPad in won't have to deal with and Jonathan Consalta. She is Peggy Jean Robinson, age the living room, and while I to a psychotherapist would cash? I'm terrified of this also survived by 17 great-grand- 71, of Dublin, passed away on was using it, up popped ex- be an overreaction. Her happening again, since the children and was able to hold in Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. plicit pictures of her not on- sexual impulses are nor- thief got away with it. -- her arms her first great-great- Graveside services will be ly with her boyfriend, but mal. Although I agree she JUSTDON'TSHOOT grandbaby, a memory truly held held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. with other guys and girls. needs guidance, that guid- DEARJUSTDON'T dear to all. 20, 2016 in Dublin Memorial Her mother and I talked ance should come from you SHOOT: You should defi- Visitation will be from 1 to 2 Gardens. about how to handle this. I and your wife. nitely seek counseling be- p.m. at Bethlehem Baptist Ms. Robinson was born in suggested therapy and As to your "violating cause of the trauma you ex- Church on Saturday Feb. 20, Laurens County to the late pulling her from school. My your daughter's personal perienced. Some states of- 2016 with service to follow at 2 Lewis Blanton Robinson Sr. wife disagreed. She accused property," I'm glad you saw fer it as part of a victims p.m.. Burial will be at Bluewa- and the late Naomi Tolbert Pea- me of violating our daugh- what was on the tablet and assistance program, but if ter Baptist Church Cemetery in cock. Born with special needs, ter's personal property and your wife should be as well. yours does not, then you Dublin. The Rev. Matt Hay- Peggy was loved by everyone said it's none of my busi- The kind of photos you de- will have to get it privately wood, the Rev. Mike Wynn and who knew her and never met a ness! scribe can cause big prob- through your health insur- the Rev. Tommy Pulliam will of- stranger. In addition to her par- Mamie Beatrice I may be old-fashioned, lems for teenaged girls. If ance or your employer's. Af- ficiate. ents, she was preceded in death but my daughter, whom I her relationship with her ter you have had some ses- Pridgen Fountain Pallbearers will be David by her sister, Rose Marie Brown love more than life, needs boyfriend sours, those pic- sions, you will then be in a Wilkes, Stan Wilkes, Jason and brother, Lewis Blanton On Dec. 7, 1913 the world to know this is not OK. tures can wind up on the better position to decide Fountain, Jamie Fountain, Robinson Jr. and brother-in- quite simply became a much bet- She's still a child despite Internet to be viewed for all whether to continue work- Jonathan Fountain and Josh law, J.L. Warren. ter place, for this is the day God looking like an adult, and time. ing at that hotel. Williams. Survivors include her broth- sent Mamie Beatrice Pridgen as a child, she needs guid- Colleges and prospective Ronnie Wilkes, Leslie Hen- er, Ernest W. Robinson (Dona) Fountain into this world. From ance. Am I wrong? Do you employers have been Dear Abby is written by derson, Dee Cullen, Hall Out- of Lizella; sister, Judy Warren simple beginnings on a farm in have any resources for me known to scour the Internet Abigail Van Buren, also law, Hugh McCord, Monroe of Bushnell, Fla.; brother-in- Catlin with her mom, Annie on handling my daughter's looking for these kinds of known as Jeanne Phillips, Shepard and Larry Shepard will law, H.A. Brown of East Dublin Cobb Pridgen, and her father, sexual impulses? -- CON- postings when interviewing and was founded by her serve as honorary pallbearers. and several nieces, nephews E.W. Pridgen, sister Doris (Shep- CERNEDDADINSANTA students and job seekers. mother, Pauline Phillips. Please visit and great nieces and nephews. ard) and brother Edwin Pridgen, CLARA What may seem like inno- Contact Dear Abby at www.townsendfuneralhome.co Please visit to eventually meeting the love of DEARCONCERNED cent fun now could cause www.DearAbby.com or P.O. m to sign the online memorial www.townsendfuneralhome.co her life, Edward Claxton Foun- DAD: To pull your daugh- her big headaches a few Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA register. m to sign the online memorial tain and starting her own family, ter out of school or send her years down the line, and 90069. –––– registry.

BETH J. HARPAZ, AP plays that turn spectators into a million visitors to its first pool of swirling circles of light on to create a glowing, collabo- dia platforms and public spaces LightTravel Editor up theparticipants night: who can change Citieslight festival over four host nights and large-scale color changed as specta- rative mural., light and a flower festivalsto bring art to wider audiences, Move over, holiday lights. colors or patterns by moving or in January this year. The Lu- tors interact with it. "The Pool" sculpture called "Laser Lotus" collaborating with museums, Large-scale light installations playing a game. The events are miere London event included a will also be part of Baltimore's that changes based on input governments and other entities that blend contemporary art also tourism magnets, attract- larger-than-life projected ele- first light festival, Light City from interactive touchpads. "to produce things on a scale and technology are taking off ing locals and out-of-towners phant stomping through the Baltimore, taking place around Why the sudden boom in that is larger and more impact- as a trend, lighting up the alike to waterfronts, historic air, a digital painting at West- the city's Inner Harbor March light festivals? For one thing, ful" than what can be done in a night from New Orleans and districts and other neighbor- minster Abbey and sculpted 28-April 3. said Nick Stillman, acting di- studio, gallery or even a public Baltimore to Sydney and Lon- hoods on dark winter nights human forms flying above Other exhibitions at Light rector of Arts Council New Or- plaza, Stillman said. don. and other periods when tourist buildings. City Baltimore will include leans, which organized LUNA Public art, he added, is no Many of these free light fes- activity may be low. New Orleans' LUNA Fete digital portraits by an artist Fete, "the technology is becom- longer just "a sculpture plopped tivals include interactive dis- London counted more than attracted 30,000 visitors in projecting lights, patterns and ing more accessible and user- in a plaza and left there for a 2015, its second year. The colors on festival-goers; "Lu- friendly and inexpensive." couple of years until mainte- event included "The Pool" by min," featuring lit-up sheets of Contemporary artists are al- nance is done. Birthdays artist Jen Lewin, in which a acrylic that visitors can draw so increasingly using multime-

Celeste Boynion Cyun - Thomas “Ted” Pooler 1 yr. Ava Bell Craft Posting Date: February 18, 2016 Billy Dudley Sr. Calvin Beasley Posting Date: February 18, 2016 Alexis C.C. Dudley Karl Arline Notice of Public Meeting Notice of Public Meeting Connie Rozier Ronnie Rozier Chuck Johnson Notice is hereby given that Houston Brown has submitted a Notice is hereby given that Nakisha McCray has submitted an Jeremy Wright rezoning application for 5.01 acres of property described as application for conditional use of property located at 116 South Natalie Harris Tree Service parcel 099B 119, Dublin, Georgia. Request to rezone from B2 Jefferson Street. Property will be used for a restaurant and to All types tree & stump removal Glynn A. Cooper (Highway Oriented Business) to R4 (Multi Family Residential). allow consumption of beer, wine and liquor on premises. 478-275-8003 Proposed use is for modern multifamily apartment complex. The City of Dublin Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a This request will be heard by the Planning and Zoning Board on meeting to vote in favor of or denial of this application. This in the Henry “Bud” Hicks, Jr. request will be heard by the Planning and Zoning Board on RALEY’S Memorial Chambers. You are cordially invited to attend this in the Henry “Bud” Hicks, Jr. Memorial UTOMOTIVE meeting and give any comments on this rezoning application Chamber located in City Hall in Dublin, Georgia. All interested A request. persons are invited to attend this meeting to give your comments Josh Raley, Owner on this conditional use request. [email protected] 478-697-4482 613 Telfair St., Dublin, GA 31021

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TheWest West Laurens High Laurensgo anywhere that has plants FFA Chapter places 3rd in State School FFA Floriculture Ca- and be able to identify reer Development Event them.” (CDE) team traveled to Fort Abby Green added, “It’s Valley State University in helped me discover my love Fort Valley Saturday, Feb. 6, for agriculture.” 2016 to compete in the State Kaitlyn Haggard said that Floriculture CDE in the se- this competition “allowed me nior event. The team placed to learn things I wouldn’t 3rd in this very competitive have learned otherwise.” event. The team was trained by Team members included Kasey Jackson, FFA Advisor Kyleigh Coleman, Sara An- at West Laurens High drews, Kaitlyn Haggard and School. Abby Green. The National FFA Organi- This team placed 1st in zation, formerly known as the senior event at the Area the Future Farmers of Amer- IV Floriculure CDE that was ica, is a national youth orga- held at Southeast Bulloch nization of 605,199 student High School this past De- members - all preparing for cember to qualify for the leadership and careers in the state competition. science, business and tech- The FFA Floriculture com- nology of agriculture - as petition is a career develop- part of 7,429 local FFA chap- ment event connecting class- ters in all 50 states, Puerto room lessons to the green in- Rico and the Virgin Islands. dustry practices. During the The National FFA Organi- competition students identi- zation changed to its present fy plants, equipment, in- name in 1988, in recognition sects, diseases and weeds as of the growth and diversity well as take a written knowl- of agriculture and agricul- edge exam and complete tural education. The FFA problem solving questions. mission is to make a positive Kyleigh Coleman said, “I difference in the lives of stu- Special photo enjoyed this competition be- dents by developing their po- Team members Kaitlyn Haggard, Sara Andrews, Abby Green and Kyleigh Coleman practiced iden- cause it was a way for me to tential for premier leader- participate in FFA, and I ship, personal growth and tifying plants at Windham Greenhouses in Glenwood prior to Saturday's state competition. found it interesting.” career success through agri- zation operates under a Fed- States, and is an integral partment of Education pro- service to the local agricul- Sara Andrews said that cultural education. eral Charter granted by the part of public instruction in vides leadership and helps tural education programs. she thinks “It’s always fun to The National FFA Organi- 81st Congress of the United agriculture. The Georgia De- set direction for FFA as a

Womanʼs Study Club:

When Ms. Melanie Moore Tech won 8-7. Hawking then deals with the connection of time and introduced herʻRight program at Another Place, example of wrong the Right concept of space (place), Timeʼspace in nature with an illus- Woman's Study Club on place was that of Douglas saying that given the vast- tration of how wolves saved "Right Place, Right Time," Corrigan, who in 1938 flew ness of the universe, aliens the rivers in Yellowstone Na- she referred to the Biblical from California to Brooklyn, likely exist, but contact with tional Park. After a 70-year Esther, who was told, "If you N.Y. He had filed a flight plan them should be avoided - re- absence with no wolves keep quiet at a time like this, for a return to California, but ferring to the possible out- around, the growing number deliverance and relief for the he flew across the Atlantic come like that of the Ameri- of elk decimated the vegeta- Jews will arise from some Ocean to Ireland instead. Of can Indians when Columbus tion, but when the wolves re- other place, but you and your course he claimed that his first landed in America. turned, the elk started feed- relatives will die. Who knows unauthorized flight was due One person who seems to ing in better protected areas. if you were made queen for to a navigational error, but have been at the right place at The vegetation started com- just such a time as this?" The there was always the great the right time, but born into ing back, including the trees. rest of the story shows how suspicion that this flight was the wrong family was Eve Eventually various animal she was indeed at the right intentional, since he had been Curie, the youngest daughter species began to return, and Special photo place at the right time and denied permission for a of Marie and Pierre, and the the trees stabilized the banks made the right decision to aid transatlantic flight. Of only person in her family who of the river with vegetation her people. course, he never publicly ad- did not win a Nobel Prize. In preventing further erosion. There are many other peo- mitted that he had flown to her way, however, she was The rivers meandered less The topELE 18 spellers top at East spellersLaurens Elementary School ple who were in the right Ireland intentionally. worthy of prizes, such as be- and became stable, thus the competed Jan. 22 to determine the top speller and who place at the right time as well Ms. Moore discussed two ing the first woman corre- wolves saved the rivers. would go on to compete in the county-wide spelling bee. as some who were in the books dealing with Time: "A spondent to visit the front in In closing, she told of some Two complete rounds and almost a third were completed wrong place at the wrong Wrinkle in Time" by World War 11, traveling informative and comical ex- before the first speller was eliminated by the 58th word. time as the result of decisions Madeleine L’Engle and "A 40,000 miles in six months, amples of her own experi- A total of 13 rounds were completed before two champi- that they had made. The car- Brief History of Time" by visiting in Africa, Russia, Chi- ences of being or not being in onship rounds determined the winner. Nevaeh Lagroon was toon character Ziggy recently Stephen Hawking. na and India. the right place at the right named ELE Spelling Champion. remarked about place and In the first, Mrs. L’Engle Other "prizes" might be time. Jayden Todd, runner-up, serves as the school alternate. time by observing, "One good discussed time in a way that that she was considered one of President Mrs. Frank Fields Top spellers from the fourth and fifth grade were select- thing about going a child could understand, ex- the most beautiful women in expressed the sentiments of ed by class level spelling competitions. Participants in the nowhere...it really doesn't plaining that "a child can un- Paris, that she wore the latest the club in saying that all of East Laurens Elementary Spelling Bee were Nevaeh La- matter what time you show derstand scientific concepts fashions and she married Ms. Moore's examples beauti- groon, winner; Jayden Todd, first alternate; Ta'Kyrah Moye, up." that would baffle an adult be- Henry La Bouissek, who ac- fully contributed to the topic of Emily Smith, Shamira Stantley, Frantasia Norris, Matthew It does matter, she stated, cause he can understand with cepted the Nobel Peace Prize "Right Place, Right Time" in Wiley, Ronnie Jordan, Tay Stanley, Jacob Aldridge, Jake and recalled that Roy Riegels, a leap of imagination that is in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF. the year's study of “...and Rowland, Madison Soles, Malik Smith, Noah Rozier, Cam- who played center for the denied an adult." Then the speaker told of Everything in Its Place." den Deal, Gabriel Palmer, Colin Cason and Tyler Graham. University of California, was The county-wide spelling bee was held at the Laurens at the right time but went to County Board Office on Feb. 2. Nevaeh represented ELE the wrong place, for he picked well and earned the position of runnerup for Laurens Coun- up a fumble by Georgia Tech ty. “Great job, Nevaeh!” said Principal Melanie MeLe- just 30 yards from the end more and other staff members, who are extremely proud of zone and ran 69 yards in the her. wrong direction, and Georgia Friday, February 19, 2016/Dublin, Ga/Page 4a The Courier Herald

The Courier Herald GRIFFIN LOVETT, Publisher DUBOSE PORTER, Executive Editor PAM BURNEY, Advertising Director CHERYL GAY, Circulation Manager

Published by Courier Herald Publishing Company 115 S. Jefferson St., Dublin, Georgia 31021-5146 Insight and viewpoints from our editorial board and our readers Email us at [email protected] to share your opinions W.H. LOVETT In Our Opinion President and Chairman, 1934-1978 DUBOSE PORTER Chairman GRIFFIN LOVETT President RecentlyHitchhiking while driving on an is stillspend widely time at the World’s Fair. practicedhis preferred drop point. Interstate highway, it came (As an aside, the theme of the However, I was relieved when Periodicals Postage Paid at Dublin, Georgia time to exit and replenish the exhibition was “Peace Through he got out. (USPS 161-860) - Daily except Sunday and select holidays gas tank. Understanding,” which begs the The most amazing hitchhik- After refueling, a man, look- question: Have we made any ing experience came in Ireland POSTMASTER: Send address change to: ing like he had been sleeping in progress? Another aside, I can’t in the seventies. I drove the The Courier Herald, Drawer B, CSS, Dublin, GA 31040 a sewer for a month, remember much about the Ring of Kerry and cherry-picked approached with a crude sign futuristic exhibitions but easily several places to visit — from SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: with the name of his destina- recall the Lowenbrau Beer kissing the Blarney Stone to Print Edition - $10/month tion scribbled illegibly on a Gardens with the pretty young playing golf in Ballybunion and Digital Edition - $10/month piece of cardboard. frauleins, in their low-cut Waterville. What did I do? I looked past dirndls selling half-priced beer.) The roads in Ireland are This newspaper is committed to the idea that the press should him to the street, which would When I retrieved my VW in small, but there is not a lot of tell the truth without prejudice and spread knowledge take me to the Interstate ramp, Baltimore, I found my way to traffic. Upon leaving Dublin, without malicious intent. refusing to stop. the Pennsylvania turnpike on where I was introduced to Why? You know the answer. the way to Chicago, bending Bailey’s Irish Crème, I saw in In today’s world, we have had to Loran Smith around the city and finding a the distance a person standing condition ourselves against route that would take me north near the highway. As I came overtures from strangers. We to Bemidji, Minn., where the closer, I noticed that it was a have no way of knowing Vikings were in training camp. pretty, red-headed girl with her whether their intentions are It was a way of life back then. The Pennsylvania Turnpike thumb out. I certainly felt safe harmless and have judged that There were a lot of folks who segued into the Indiana and comfortable picking up a it is better to be safe than sorry. didn’t have cars. Maybe drivers Tollway, which segued into the Hitchhiking is still widely of the past enjoyed company. Illinois Tollway. teenage girl. It was common- practiced, however. When you Talking to strangers was less It was an exciting drive place to see girls hitchhiking in travel, you see a lot of hitchhik- boring than counting utility across America’s midsection, Ireland. Our Take ers, but I wonder who picks up poles and cornstalks. which was fascinating to a For a week I gave lifts to all those poor souls, with no It is illegal to hitchhike in country boy from Georgia. attractive Irish girls, who A healthy criminal free documents, who some places in some countries, Every landscape was a painting became a source of interesting only have their thumbs as a but hitchhiking is still part of that remains a fixture in my information about their coun- means of travel? the traveler’s culture. I have mind’s eye. try. They had as many ques- downtown is the If you are over 50, you prob- several hitchhiking memories At a truck stop in Indiana, I tions of their driver as he had of ably have hitchhiked a few that make me wish times were filled up and shopped for a them. They all had the greatest key to a times in your life. How refresh- different—that we still felt com- snack. Suddenly, a guy who passion to visit America. All ing it was when you stuck out fortable giving a lift to a appeared to be my age came up had cousins in New York. your thumb and a driver would stranger. and asked if I were going to And, much to my delight, thriving wheel off the side of the road I remember in the summer Chicago. Sheepishly, I said, they all enjoyed country music. and beckon you to climb in. Now of 1964, I drove my Volkswagen “Yes.” He asked for a ride. I Made me give a thumbs up to that I look back on those times, to Baltimore, visited with a hesitated but consented. Even the girls who had their thumbs Downtownscommunity in many American communities expe- friend for a couple of days, and I conclude that there were more a half century ago, I was appre- out in the Irish countryside. rienced neglect and abandonment over the last sev- Good Samaritans in yesteryear. then took a train to New York to hensive. He slept all the way to eral decades. Dublin was no exception. Fortunately, over the last 20 years or so, that trend has shifted and cities around the country have decided to look for innovative ways to revitalize their downtowns. Why are downtowns so important and why the need for revitalization? Downtowns are the heart of a community and an indication of its social and eco- nomic health. Since downtowns are often then the oldest neighborhoods in a city, they contain unique features and iconic historic buildings. Community leaders, along with the Dublin Downtown Development Authority and Main Street Dublin have done a tremendous job of bringing new life, businesses and jobs to our downtown. Throughout the year, the DDA hosts several events that showcase the many amenities downtown has to offer. A turning point in the revitalization of downtown was the 1995 renovation of the former Martin Theater building, renamed Theatre Dublin. This kicked off a wave of restoration that has seen numer- ous projects, once thought impossible, come to fruition. One of the most notable recent achievements was the September 2015 grand opening of the $3.8 million renovation of Dublin’s seven-story “Skyscraper,” the former First National Bank building. The building has served as a landmark for our community for over 100 years. The building had seen multiple owners and had James Madison (1751-1836) ‘Man of faith and Chief Architect of the U.S. Constitution’ stood empty for three decades and was thought to be By DR. JACK BROWN enacted in their assembly.” of government.” (1785) Driving north on Interstate I-81 takes Thus, from that Constutional “It is not the talking but the walking a permanent reminder of Dublin’s past. It has instead one through the Shenandoah Valley to Convention to this day there have been and working person that is the true become a testament to what the future holds for our the city of Harrisonburg, Va., the home of official prayers in the United States Christian.” community when we all come together to work James Madison University, named in Congress. In the First United States James Madison made many notes in honor of America’s fourth president Congress he introduced the Bill of his personal Bible, regularly led his fam- towards a goal. (1809-1817). Rights, “which addressed religious free- ily in home devotions, was a defender of The DDA is currently working with the owner of He was one of the founders of America dom as the first item.” He later served as religious freedom, and said that … “It is the historic Kittrel Building, which stands next to the and outlived all of the other 54 founders Secretary of State under Thomas the mutual duty of all to practice of our country. Jefferson. Christian forbearance, love and charity “Skyscraper” to restore it to its former glory. They are James Madison attended Princeton Here are recorded a few insights into toward each other.” currently working on completing an existing condi- University and first studied for the the faith of James Madison: His faith was sincere and evident in tions survey and the other necessary steps to secure Christian ministry before he studied law. “We have staked the future of all of both his personal and public life. Historic Tax Credits for the project. “He was an instrumental member of the our political institutions upon the capac- Peace! Constitutional Convention” and recorded ity of mankind for self-government; upon (Note: The above quotations are The planning of the restoration of the Kittrel most accurately the debates that took the capacity of each and all of us to gov- recorded in America’s God and Country Building, along with several other planned events place in that important convention. ern ourselves, to control ourselves, to Encyclopedia of Quotations complied and and projects, is a wonderful example of the promising At that convention he “moved, second- sustain oursleves according to the Ten edited by William J. Federer, Fame ed by Roger Sherman, that Benjamin Commandments of God” (1778). Publishing, Inc., 1996, pages 409-413). future of downtown Dublin. Let’s keep up the Franklin’s famous appeal for prayer be “Religion is the basis and foundation progress. -- Kelly Lenz Editorial roundup

Fe b . 15 states. temperatures are expected to be in T h e D a lto n D ai ly Ci ti z e n o n But you don't have to wait two the 60s. v o ti n g i n th e G e o r g ia p r i m a r y weeks to make your voice heard. Remember to take a photo ID to It's election season and Early voting is underway and the polls. The state allows six Pres. Barack H. Obama Tel: (202) 224-3643 Georgia's big day is coming up. will continue until Friday, Feb. 26. forms of valid photo ID. Serving1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. YouFax: (202) 228-0724 On Tuesday, March 1, voters in Voters in Whitfield and Murray These include a Georgia driver's Washington, D.C. 20500 One Overton Park, Suite 970 Georgia, along with six other counties can vote at their court- license, even if expired; any valid (202) 456-1414 3625 Cumberland Blvd southern states in the so-called house during normal business state or federal government-issued Atlanta, GA 30339 "SEC Primary," will go to the polls hours. photo ID, including a free Voter ID Gov. Nathan Deal Tel: (770) 661-0999 to cast ballots in the Presidential Voting early has many benefits. card issued by your county regis- State Capitol Fax: (770) 661-0768 Preference Primary. First, you do it at your conve- trar's office or the Department of Atlanta, Ga. 30334 (404) 656-1776 Rick Allen Often neglected in national cam- nience. Driver Services; a valid passport; a Congressman paigns, this time southern states It also reduces the lengths of valid employee photo ID from any Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle WASHINGTON, D.C. plan to be a major voice in this lines on Election Day, eases stress branch, department, agency or 240 State Capitol 513 Cannon H.O.B. year's election. Alabama, on voting machines and poll work- entity of the U.S. government, Atlanta, Ga. 30334 Washington, DC 20515 Arkansas, North Carolina, ers, and can reveal glitches in the Georgia or any county, municipali- (404) 656-5030 P:(202) 225-2823 Tennessee, Texas and Virginia voting system in time to fix them. ty, board, authority or other state F:(202) 225-3377 joined with Georgia to vote earlier Early voting can also improve entity; a valid U.S. military photo Sen. David Perdue B40D Dirksen Senate Office than usual, March 1, with participation among minority vot- ID; or a valid tribal photo ID. Building Matt Hatchett Louisiana just a few days later. ers, according to a report from the Voting early is easy — much like Washington, DC 20510 Georgia House of Representatives This created a region in which Brennan Center for Justice that a quick errand that can be run on Phone: (202) 224-3521 District 150 candidates have to invest their found in favor of early voting laws. one's individual schedule. Fax: (202) 228-1031 State Representative time, energy and money or take a So why not plan a trip to the We encourage area voters to go 415 State Capitol massive hit on the road to the courthouse to vote early and avoid to the polls at their convenience to Sen. Johnny Isaakson Atlanta, GA 30334 White House. the hassle of Election Day? participate in this nation's historic United States Senate 404-656-5025 Phone 120 Russell Senate Office Building 404-657-8278 Fax After all, there are 1,010 dele- The rest of this week would and democratic method of selecting Washington, DC 20510 [email protected] gates up for grabs from these make an ideal time as afternoon its leaders. Thursday, February 19, 2016/Dublin, Ga/Page 5a The Courier Herald

YOUR COURIER Tell It! DonationDublin Police jar stolen at Friendlyon NedGus Collins No. Road 7 in East HERALD Department Dublin. The truck was LOCAL 7-DAY A donation jar was stolen stolen on Jan. 11 and recov- at Friendly Gus No. 7 on Police ered on Jan. 29. Veterans Boulevard on Jan. - A catalytic converter THE NEXT 24 HOURS 26. Beat and $40 of gasoline were A store employee noticed stolen on Highway 319 in TODAY TONIGHT TOMORROW that the donation jar was - Tools were stolen from East Dublin between Jan. 24 missing when he came into Howell Automotive on and 31. work that morning. The Palmer Street on Jan. 28. Call 272-0375 night clerk said he had not - Someone damaged a Editor's note: This infor- I'm stric tly a Demo c rat touched it. mailbox, breaking it off its mation is public record and but I can't get enough of The employee viewed the post on Hobbins Drive on was taken from reports of the Donald Trump going against video, which showed a man Jan. 29. Dublin Police Department Sunrise 7:11 a.m. Sunrise 7:10 a.m. Sunset 6:20 p.m. Bush. talking with the night clerk. - Tires and rims were and the Laurens County 66° 41° 70° The man slid the donation stolen from Fat Kid Customs Sheriff's Office. These re- I h o p e p e o p le w ill jar from the side of the cash Sunny and pleasant Clear Partly sunny and on East Jackson Street be- ports do not reflect on the warm c o me out and see what's register as the night clerk tween Jan. 28 and 29. guilt or innocence. An "ar- going on with Saxon was looking away. He even- rest" does not always indicate Heights. tually picked up the dona- Laurens County incarceration. Readers are tion jar and concealed it in cautioned that people may Rivers Ocmulgee ...... 11.31ʼ Sheriff's Office Go o d to see there are his jacket. have similar names. Police Latest observed value Oconee ...... 10.02ʼ - A Rentz woman talked so m e ho ne st young men The store was collecting with a deputy about a phone Beat does not identify minor turning money in that they money for a local citizen. SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY scam that happened on Jan. children, victims of sexual found on the ground. The jar contained approxi- 27. assault, suicide attempts or mately $15. - A debit card, tablet and medical conditions. Cases I w o nd er if J eb Bush - A propane tank was cell phone were stolen from dismissed do not appear if w o uld go to the 9/11 memo- stolen from a house on South a truck that was recovered the newspaper is notified be- rial in New York and tell Jefferson Street on Jan. 27. fore deadline. people that his brother kept Hi 70 Hi 72 Hi 72 everyone safe. SunLorise 748:10 a.m. SunLorise 754:09 a.m. SunLorise 749:08 a.m. ALMANAC Yo u've go t Jeb stand - Partly sunny and warm Cloudy Partly sunny and warm ing n ex t to hi s brother Today is Friday, Feb. 19, was first published by W.W. on how to smooth out trade George. I know the South is the 50th day of 2016. There Norton & Co. and currency imbalances going to buy it again. are 316 days left in the year. In 1976, calling the issuing blamed for a global financial Highs in the low 70s Highs in the low 70s Highs in the low 70s To day's Highlight in of Executive Order 9066 "a crisis. Lows in the high 40s Lows in the mid 50s Lows in the high 40s Electio ns have co nse- History: sad day in American history," One year ago: President quenc es. We've got young On Feb. 19, 1986, the U.S. President Gerald R. Ford is- Barack Obama urged dele- Senate approved, 83-11, the sued a proclamation confirm- TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY voters who don't understand gates from 63 countries at a why people in Washington Genocide Convention, an in- ing that the order had been summit on violent extremism can't get anything done. ternational treaty outlawing terminated with the formal to "confront the warped ideol- "acts committed with intent to cessation of hostilities of ogy" espoused by terror At least six times in destroy, in whole or in part, a World War II. groups, particularly using Is- o ur histo ry a president national, ethnical, racial or re- In 1984, the Winter lam to justify violence. Hi 60 has nominated a Supreme ligious group," nearly 37 years Olympics closed in Sarajevo, To day's Birthdays: Hi 59 Hi 59 Court justice in their final after the pact had first been Yugoslavia. Lo 41 Singer Smokey Robinson is Sunrise 7:07 a.m. SunLorise 738:06 a.m. SunLorise 734:05 a.m. year of office. submitted for ratification. In 1997, Deng Xiaoping, 76. Actress Carlin Glynn is 76. On this date: the last of China's major Com- A shower possible A chance of rain in the Plenty of sun Former Sony Corp. Chairman morning There are tw o ho uses In 1881, Kansas prohibited munist revolutionaries, died in Dublin that are covered the manufacture and sale of at age 92. Howard Stringer is 74. Singer in toilet paper. This is alcoholic beverages. In 2001, President George Lou Christie is 73. Actor crazy. It's 2016 and this still In 1915, during World War W. Bush opened a museum Michael Nader is 71. Rock mu- Highs in the low 60s Highs in the high 50s Highs in the high 50s goes on. This is childish and I, British and French war- dedicated to the 1995 Okla- sician Tony Iommi (Black Sab- Lows in the low 40s Lows in the high 30s Lows in the mid 30s people need to grow up. ships launched their initial at- homa City bombing. Movie bath, Heaven and Hell) is 68. tack on Ottoman forces in the producer-director Stanley Actor Stephen Nichols is 65. What is it go ing to take Dardanelles, a strait in north- Kramer died in Woodland Author Amy Tan is 64. Actor COMMUNITY CALENDAR to w ake p eop le up that all western Turkey. (The Gal- Hills, California, at age 87. Jeff Daniels is 61. Rock Friday animals belong to God. They lipoli Campaign that followed In 2008, an ailing Fidel singer-musician Dave Wakel- are his creatures. ing is 60. Talk show host Lori- •Dublin Serenity Al-Anon Family Group, 1515 Rice Ave. proved disastrous for the Al- Castro resigned the Cuban Dublin (use back entrance) Friday 6:30 p.m. lies.) presidency after nearly a half- anne Crook is 59. Actor Ray Bush w as the man in In 1934, a blizzard began century in power; his brother Winstone is 59. Actor Leslie •Dublin/Laurens Commission on Children, Youth and c har ge whe n 9-11 hap- inundating the northeastern Raul was later named to suc- David Baker (TV: "The Of- Families (Laurens County Family Connection) Board of Di- pened. He knew about a po- United States, with the heavi- ceed him. fice") is 58. NFL Commission- rectors. Call (478) 296-9141. tential attack for nine est snowfall occurring in Con- Ten years ago: A gas ex- er Roger Goodell is 57. ontact 272-5244 or 275- months. It has been proven necticut and Massachusetts. plosion in northern Mexico Britain's Prince Andrew is 56. •AA I Am Responsible Group c that the administration he In 1942, President killed 65 miners. Israel halted Tennis Hall-of-Famer Hana 8259, 1515 Rice Ave., 8 p.m. succeeded knew about the Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the transfer of hundreds of Mandlikova is 54. Singer Seal •NA We Surrender, Contact 275-9531, noon, 629 Broad terrorist from 1993, some Executive Order 9066, clear- millions of dollars in tax mon- Street, East Dublin. eight years before Sept. 11. is 53. Actress Jessica Tuck is ing the way for the U.S. mili- ey to the Palestinians after 53. Country musician Ralph Saturday They have to take some of tary to relocate and intern Hamas took control of the the blame, too. McCauley (Wild Horses) is 52. •Teen Talk 1-4 p.m. at Turning Point Church of God in people of Japanese ancestry Palestinian parliament. Jim- Rock musician Jon Fishman (including U.S.-born citizens) mie Johnson won the Daytona Christ, 511 McKinley St. (Phish) is 51. Actress Justine The man w ho almo st during World War II. 500. The East rallied from 21 Bateman is 50. Actor Benicio •Wrightsville Serenity Group AA meeting at 8 p.m. Lo- hit a little girl o n Be llevue In 1945, Operation Detach- points down for a 122-120 vic- cated across from Dairy Queen in Wrightsville. Tuesday evening needs to ment began during World War tory over the West in the NBA Del Toro is 49. Actress Bel- learn how to drive. You lamy Young is 46. Rock musi- •Millville High School Alumni at 11 a.m. at Millville II as some 30,000 U.S. All-Star Game. scared me half to death. cian Daniel Adair is 41. Pop School Marines began landing on Iwo Five years ago: Secur ity singer-actress Haylie Duff is Contact 272-5244 or 275- Jima, where they commenced forces in Libya and Yemen •AA I Am Responsible Group a successful month-long battle fired on pro-democracy 31. Christian rock musician 8259, 1515 Rice Ave., Saturday and Sunday 8 p.m. Want to Tell It? Keep it 47 words to seize control of the island demonstrators as the two Seth Morrison (Skillet) is 28. •AA 24 Hour Group, Contact 279-0839, 629 Broad Street, or fewer. from Japanese forces. hard-line regimes struck back Actress Victoria Justice is 23. E. Dublin, Ga, Sundays at 9 a.m. Keep it clean. In 1959, an agreement was against the wave of protests •NA We Surrender, Contact 275-9531, 629 Broad Street, Keep it real. signed by Britain, Turkey and that had already toppled auto- Thought for Today: "Pa s- East Dublin, Sundays at 3 p.m. Call 272-0375 Greece granting Cyprus its in- crats in Egypt and Tunisia. sion and prejudice govern the [email protected] dependence. The world's dominant world; only under the name of or Tell It! at In 1963, "The Feminine economies, meeting in Paris, reason." — John Wesley, Eng- www.courier-herald.com Mystique" by Betty Friedan struck a watered-down deal lish theologian (1703-1791). 81-year-old woman MakingNEW YORK soda (AP) — Coke cool:and thatCoke, drinks likePepsi Caleb's tryproblem giving — or attempts soda to ad- hipsterJaime Jose, aappeal 21-year-old stu- and Pepsi want to shake their were helping bring it back. dress the coolness problem," said dent from New York, doesn't chases fleeing robbers, Big Gulp image and cultivate a That cool factor comes with a Ali Dibadj, a Bernstein analyst. drink soda but said she's tempt- more hipster appeal. price. Dibadj said the focus on craft ed to buy the glass bottles of MOUNT POCONO, Pa. Pocono Mountain Regional The two soda giants are try- At a New York City grocery sodas is an attempt to emulate Coke as an occasional treat. rams(AP) — Police saythem an 81-year- withpolice say carthe woman took off ing to rehabilitate soda's cheap store, a 20-ounce bottle of Pepsi what happened in the beer in- "It's that retro thing of having old Pennsylvania woman after them and hit their car, image and fetch higher prices as was selling for $1.49, compared dustry, where craft beers have a story behind it," Jose said. chased down robbers who stole but the duo drove off. Americans keep cutting back on with $1.99 for a 10-ounce bottle been the main driver of growth. The idea is compelling her purse, ramming their car Officers found their dam- sugary fizz. of Caleb's. But Dibadj thinks craft's poten- enough that Coca-Cola created a with hers and leaving damage aged car in a grocery store That means more stylized PepsiCo also introduced tial on soda may be more limit- "craft beverages team" last year that helped officers apprehend parking lot. cans and bottles of Coke and the Mountain Dew Dewshine that ed, since soda's problem for most that oversees recently acquired them. Thirty-four-year-old expansion of Mexican Coke, comes in a glass bottle and is people isn't taste, but the calo- brands like Hansen's. The woman was sitting her William Hayhurst and 30- which is sweetened with sugar made with sugar instead of high- ries. It's also presenting its flag- car in her Mount Pocono dri- year-old Erin Vanmatre were instead of high-fructose corn fructose corn syrup, and dis- There is no definition for ship soda to fit craft sensibilities. veway on Tuesday when she arrested and arraigned syrup. Pepsi is pushing "craft so- played a soda called "1893" at a what makes a soda "craft," but Sandy Douglas, head of Coke was approached by a man and Wednesday on robbery and das" and even plans to open an trade show. Like Caleb's, 1893 is the trend is characterized by North America, said last year woman. As she talked to them other charges. eatery "honoring the kola nut" in a reference to Pepsi's creation by traits such as glass bottles and that Coke's packages by the end through an open window, one Police say the suspects tar- New York City in the spring. Caleb Bradham in 1893. ingredients that are seen as of the 1990s were all "huge" and grabbed her purse and they geted the woman after seeing A press release for Pepsi's Ko- "It does address the coolness more wholesome. "boring." fled in a car. her with cash at a pharmacy. la House last month was pep- pered with marketing buzz- words, and said the lounge Lawyersʼ Committee for Civil Rights Under would have a "resident cocktail Law wants to remove discipline questions from curator" and "artisanal menu." The idea is that its mere exis- applicationsThe Associa tuseded Pre sbys colleges,tion, few universities have formal policies tence could burnish soda's im- They are basic yes-no ques- guiding its use. age, even if most people never tions that ask whether a col- "So long as racial dispari- go. lege applicant ever got into ties persist at every stage of "At the end of the day, we just trouble in high school. Yet our criminal justice system, have to stay culturally relevant," they're anything but simple, we fully expect that these said Seth Kaufman, chief mar- say some who want run-ins at kinds of questions will unfair- keting officer for PepsiCo bever- school or with the law taken ly deny educational opportuni- ages in North America. out of the college admissions ty to, or have a chilling effect Soda remains a big business, equation. on, African Americans and with the familiar sizes like 12- Advocates, school districts other minority groups," wrote ounce cans and 2-liter bottles and even some colleges share Kristen Clarke, Lawyers' still accounting for the vast ma- concerns about youthful mis- Committee president and ex- jority of the market. But Ameri- takes haunting students into ecutive director, in a letter to cans keep reaching for alterna- adulthood, especially minority the Common Application. tives, with soda facing a prolifer- students, who federal statis- At a time of heightened vig- ation of competitors and being tics show are suspended and ilance against campus shoot- blamed for fueling obesity. Be- arrested at disproportionately ings and terrorism, admis- tween 2000 and 2014, U.S. soda higher rates than their white sions officials say questions sales volume fell 14 percent, ac- peers. about student discipline are cording to industry tracker Bev- The Lawyers' Committee seen as a necessary piece of a erage Digest. for Civil Rights Under Law on much larger picture. If they're selling less soda, Thursday is calling for the re- "College admissions is try- Coke and Pepsi at least want to moval of discipline questions ing to take educated risks, charge more for it by giving it from the Common Application whether it be academic risks more cachet. used by more than 620 col- or students that have had in- It's why PepsiCo in 2014 in- leges and universities. The discretions in their past," said troduced Caleb's Kola, which Center for Community Alter- Kent Rinehart, dean of admis- comes in a glass bottle with the natives in Syracuse, New sion at Marist College and a words "Honor in craft." At a Bev- York, has issued similar ap- board member of the National erage Digest conference soon af- peals, saying that while most Association for College Admis- ter, CEO Indra Nooyi said soda colleges collect the informa- sions Counseling. had lost some of its "cool factor" Friday, February 19, 2016/Dublin, Ga/Page 6a The Courier Herald

SkepticsCHICAGO (AP) — Mayor doubtnary investigations neware not com- Chicago video policy will rebuildclock is ticking, trust he said. If police Rahm Emanuel's promise to re- promised." ask for an additional 30 days, lease videos of police shootings Though most of the attention those requests must be made in in no more than three months will be on dashcam videos, the writing and will be made public was intended to bring more policy also calls for the release of along with videos and police re- transparency to Chicago, which any video — public or private — ports. took more than a year to make collected by authorities during Acosta also said he does not public the footage of a teenager's investigations, as well as audio expect all the releases to take 60 death and did so only after being recordings and police reports. or 90 days. Some will come out ordered by a judge. The mayor fought against much quicker. But skeptics question why the release of the McDonald Other big-city departments Chicago needs so long to release video, and recently released already get videos to the public the same type of videos that emails revealed an intense in- far sooner. In Seattle, the police Cincinnati and Seattle already terest in his office with how the department released dashcam make public within days, if not story was playing in the press. video last month of police shoot- hours. That has sown doubts One activist said the policy is ing a knife-wielding man the that the new practice will do lit- more about influencing damag- day after it happened. It was the tle to restore the trust in the ing news coverage than achiev- same Thursday in Cincinnati, mayor and the police force that ing transparency. where the day after police shot was damaged when the public "The 60 days is so the admin- and killed a man they say was saw the now-famous video of a istration can get ahead of the reaching for a gun, they re- white officer emptying an entire story, to give them time to come leased cellphone video shot from magazine into Laquan McDon- up with a PR strategy ... and a nearby car in a mere 17 hours. ald as he appeared to walk away cook up a story on how they are If the city holds video for two from police. going to massage what is on the or three months, "people are go- The policy announced Tues- video and serve it to the public," ing to think the video is bad for day calls for all videos to be re- said William Calloway, a leader the cops," said Michele Earl- leased within 60 days. The in the legal fight with the city Hubbard, a Seattle-based attor- deadline could be extended to 90 over the McDonald video. ney and advocate of government days if law enforcement re- Craig Futterman, a Univer- transparency. "They know if you quests a delay. sity of Chicago law professor Rev. Marvin Hunter, the great uncle of Laquan McDonald, speaks to a wanted to, you could release it "That just gives them time to who argued for the video's re- sooner (so) they are going to see alter the video, do something to lease, doesn't go that far. But he reporter after a news conference at the Northwestern University School waiting as hiding something." it, change the dates, maybe wonders how much good the of Law in Chicago on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. A coalition of civil rights How the information will be delete some things," said April new policy will do. attorneys and others filed a court petition Tuesday seeking to force released remains unclear. Cross, who lives in a predomi- "There is no way this is not The policy calls for the city to nantly black neighborhood on an improvement. ... But I see it Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez to hand over the create an online portal for video, the city's West Side. "That's not as an insufficient step if the goal prosecution and any further investigation involving the fatal police audio and police reports. But it giving people in the community is to earn trust," Futterman shooting of McDonald to a special prosecutor. (AP Photo/Carrie will be a few months before the faith in the police department at said. "To establish trust, that portal is up and running, ac- all." means being honest from the be- Antlfinger)line does that. that would not be tainted by a to reform the police force. cording to Emanuel spokesman Emanuel, in a statement, ginning, not 60 days, 90 days "Basically, we wanted to give release that is too early," said The new policy also lets the Stephen Spector. said the policy "strikes a better later." investigators sufficient time to Acosta, who is also a member of public know that the days of It also remains unclear balance of ensuring transparen- Sergio Acosta, a former fed- do what they needed to do in a task force Emanuel created af- keeping evidence a secret indef- which city agency will be re- cy for the public while also en- eral prosecutor who helped craft terms of interviewing people ter the release of the video to initely are over, and it puts in- sponsible for releasing the infor- suring any criminal or discipli- the policy, said the 60-day dead- and gathering other evidence make recommendations on how vestigators on notice that the mation.

Pope(AP) — Pope Francis suggests has evil." contraceptionalternative of interrupting the can be condoned in Zika crisis suggested that women threat- Francis, however, drew a pregnancy," Rivas said. ened with the Zika virus could parallel to the decision taken Francis has tended to use artificial contraception, by Pope Paul VI in the 1960s downplay the fraught moral saying there's a clear moral to approve giving nuns in Bel- hand-wringing over sexual difference between aborting a gian Congo artificial contra- ethics that preoccupied his fetus and preventing a preg- ception to prevent pregnan- predecessors, John Paul II nancy. cies because they were being and Benedict XVI. He has said Francis was asked Wednes- systematically raped. the church shouldn't be "ob- day en route home from Mexi- Abortion "is an evil in and sessed" with such issues. co if abortion or birth control of itself, but it is not a reli- Coming home from Africa could be considered a "lesser gious evil at its root, no? It's a last year, Francis dismissed a evil," when confronting the Zi- human evil," he said. "On the question about whether con- ka crisis in Brazil, where some other hand, avoiding pregnan- doms could be used in the babies have been born with cy is not an absolute evil. In fight against AIDS, saying abnormally small heads to Zi- certain cases, as in this one there were far more pressing ka-infected mothers. (Zika), such as the one I men- issues in Africa, such as The World Health Organi- tioned of Blessed Paul VI, it poverty and exploitation, and zation has declared a global was clear." that only when those prob- health emergency over the Zi- The Rev. James Bretzke, a lems were resolved should ka virus and its suspected moral theologian at Boston questions about condoms and links to birth defects. The College, said the pope's re- AIDS take center stage. virus has been reported in at marks did not amount to any Francis, history's first least 34 countries, many of change, but were in "perfect Latin American pope, did urge them in Central and Latin consistency with the tradition- doctors to come up with a vac- America. WHO and the U.S. al moral teaching" of the cine to prevent Zika from Centers for Disease Control church. Bretzke noted that spreading. "This needs to be and Prevention have advised Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical worked on," he said. pregnant women to consider "Humanae Vitae," which af- Several of Latin America's delaying travel to Zika-infect- firmed the church prohibition conservative churchmen have ed countries. against artificial birth control, reasserted the church's oppo- In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016 Pope Francis meets The explosion of Zika cases allowed for some circum- sition to both abortion and ar- journalists aboard the plane during the flight from Ciudad Juarez, has prompted some govern- stances under which "contra- tificial contraception as more Mexico to Rome, Italy. The pope has suggested that women threatened ments in Latin America to ceptive means" could be used reports of Zika cases and urge women to avoid getting for treatment or disease pre- brain-damaged babies with the Zika virus could use artificial contraception but not abort their pregnant and has fueled calls vention. emerged. fetus, saying there's a clear moral difference between aborting a fetus from abortion rights groups to Angelica Rivas, of the Fem- and preventing a pregnancy. (Alessandro Di Meo/Pool Photo via AP) loosen the strict anti-abortion inist Collective for Social De- laws in the overwhelmingly velopment in El Salvador, said Catholic region. the pope's remarks would not But Francis excluded abor- be much help since the church tion absolutely from the de- in her country has consistent- bate. ly opposed sex education on "Abortion isn't a lesser evil, the use of contraception, and it's a crime," he told reporters. birth control would not help "Taking one life to save anoth- the many women who are al- er, that's what the Mafia does. ready pregnant. It's a crime. It's an absolute "We have to give them the

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FloridaMIAMI (AP) mom — A Florida of 'BabyThe Supreme Lollipops' Court, in a mother condemned to die for 28-page decision, said the trial the beating death of her young judge erred in allowing prose- son known as "Baby Lollipops" cutors to repeatedly use the deserves a new trial because phrase "justice for Lazaro" in of inflammatory and improper closing arguments to the jury. statements made by prosecu- Prosecutors were also wrong, tors during closing arguments, the justices added, in describ- the state Supreme Court ruled ing the defense case as "diver- Thursday. sionary" and calling Cardona The justices tossed out the herself a "drama expert" who 2011 murder conviction and belonged on a Spanish-lan- death sentence for Ana Maria guage telenovela program. Cardona, 54, marking the sec- Cardona's lawyers objected ond time the court has re- 58 times but Miami-Dade Cir- versed her case. Cardona's cuit Judge Reemberto Diaz original 1992 conviction and overruled nearly all of them. death sentence was over- "As we have stated for turned because prosecutors decades, we expect and re- failed to disclose key evidence quire prosecutors, as repre- to the defense. sentatives of the state, to re- This time, the court found frain from engaging in inflam- that Miami-Dade prosecutors matory and abusive argu- crossed the line in closing ar- ments, to maintain their ob- guments during the second jectivity, and to behave in a trial, repeatedly attempting to professional manner," the jus- stir up juror emotions and tices wrote in a 6-1 opinion. sympathy for the 3-year-old "All of these arguments used victim, Lazaro Figueroa. Tes- by the prosecutor in this case timony showed the boy had were clearly improper." been severely beaten and suf- Justice Ricky Polston dis- fered from chronic neglect, sented but did not issue an weighing only 18 pounds when opinion. his body was found in some Miami-Dade State Attor- bushes in Miami Beach in ney Katherine Fernandez 1990. Rundle said prosecutors will Police dubbed the boy "Ba- try Cardona on murder and by Lollipops" because he was other charges a third time in a wearing a T-shirt with a lol- case that has riveted South lipop image when he was Florida for decades. found. Friday, February 19, 2016/Dublin, Ga/Page 7a The Courier Herald

HouseLANSING, Mich. (AP) approves — $30 million to help pay Flint water21 and pregnant bills women who The Michigan House ap- have been exposed to Flint's proved $30 million on water. Snyder has said Thursday to help pay Flint about 15,000 more Flint res- residents' water bills in the idents would benefit if the aftermath of the city's lead- government approves the re- contamination crisis. quest. The lawmakers unani- Health and Human Ser- mously OK'd the measure, vices Secretary Sylvia Bur- which now goes to the Sen- well is set to visit Flint later ate, which is expected to ap- in the day. Burwell plans to prove it and send it to Gov. tour a health center and Rick Snyder for final ap- meet with local leaders. proval. A new congressional re- Residents would have port by the nonpartisan about 65 percent of the Congressional Research Ser- drinkable water portion of vice said the Environmental their bills paid by the state. Protection Agency waited Residential customers too long to take enforcement would still have to pay for action after learning of ele- water used to flush toilets or vated lead levels in the tap do laundry. water in Flint. The city's supply was It says states have first- switched from Detroit water line enforcement responsi- to the Flint River in 2014. bilities for drinking water For 18 months, Flint used regulations, but that the the Flint River for drinking federal Safe Drinking Water water without proper corro- Act requires the EPA to take sion control, which caused enforcement action if a vio- lead to leach from the pipes lation continues 30 days af- into the water supply. If ter the agency notifies the consumed, lead can cause state and water utility of an developmental delays and infraction. learning disabilities in chil- Gov. Rick Snyder reacts while answering questions during a press conference on Wednesday, The CRS report says the dren. Feb. 17, at Rowe Professional Services in Flint, Mich. Snyder announced next steps to identify EPA did not use its emer- Gov. Rick Snyder said the and replace high-risk, high-priority pipes in Flint. Rowe Professional Services will be conducting gency powers to protect hu- assistance would provide a man health until January — credit for the estimated por- tests to determine where replacement pipes should be installed. Flint is under a state of nine months after officials tion of residential customer- emergency because corrosive water was allowed to leach lead from pipes into the supply. became aware of water cont- s' utility bills for water that (Rachel Woolf /The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP) amination in Flint. The or- has been or will be used for der came four months after drinking, cooking or bathing again without a filter. bills. In earlier committee $60 million. But those Snyder also has said he's elevated lead levels were from 2014 until this spring, Some Democrats say the meetings and in the Senate, amendments were rejected hopeful that the federal gov- found in blood samples tak- when officials hope the wa- state should pay for more Democrats offered amend- by the Republican-con- ernment will expand Medic- en from children in Flint. ter is declared safe to drink than 65 percent of residents' ments to double the figure to trolled Legislature. aid coverage to people under

CORONA, Calif. (AP) — Syed Raheel Farook was FBI agents searches on Thursday in the Navy from home 2003 to tied to California shooterʼs brother were searching the Califor- 2007, military records show. nia townhome of the brother During his stint, he received of one of the shooters in the the Global War on Terrorism San Bernardino terror at- Expeditionary Medal and tack. The brother is a Navy the Global War on Terrorism veteran who earned medals Service Medal, among other for fighting global terrorism. awards. Agents were carrying out After going through train- a search warrant as part of ing in the family's native an ongoing investigation, Illinois, Syed Raheel Farook FBI spokeswoman Laura served for three years Eimiller confirmed. No ar- aboard the aircraft carrier rests had been made. USS Enterprise as an infor- Eimiller declined, howev- mation system technician. er, to comment on where the The search warrant came search was happening or a day after Apple CEO Tim whether it had anything to Cook said the company do with the deadly shooting. would fight federal govern- An affidavit in support of the ment efforts to help the FBI warrant was under seal. hack into an iPhone that had Gunman Syed Farook's been used by shooter Syed brother and sister-in-law Farook. live in a home in Corona. A federal magistrate or- Farook and his wife killed dered Apple to help the FBI 14 people in the Dec. 2 terror get into the phone but Cook attack at a meeting of his said doing so would the soft- coworkers in San Bernardi- ware would mean building a no, about an hour east of Los "backdoor" that would by- Members of the media and onloookers stand across the street from the home of Syed Raheel Angeles. pass digital locks protecting Farook, the brother of Syed Farook, one of the shooters in the San Bernardino mass shooting as Farook's brother, Syed consumer information on Raheel Farook, is a Navy iPhones. He says the soft- FBI investigators execute a search warrant at the home on Thursday, Feb. 18, in Corona, Calif. veteran who earned medals ware would be too dangerous Syed Raheel Farook is a Navy veteran who earned medals for fighting global terrorism. (Stan for fighting global terrorism. to create. Lim /The Press-Enterprise via AP)

DENVER (AP) — Marijua- Jonathan Singer, a Democrat were sold with names that quiring organic certification Some pot producers are tak- The analysis gave no esti- Coloradona has attracted many labels sponsoring debates the bill to create suggested organic the products were for marijuana labels products by ing for issue, though, marijuana with the fact mate of how much pot growers in its time. On Friday, Col- the state-sanctioned labels. natural or organic. 2020, if permitted under feder- that the industry would have would be charged for the certi- orado lawmakers debate The bill has its first hearing "That misleads people," al law. to pay for the privilege of hav- fication, or what the organic whether the state should give Friday in the state House Pub- said Larisa Bolivar, head of So far federal authorities ing regulators check to see if labels might look like. the drug one more often asso- lic Health Care and Human the Cannabis Consumers that have weighed in on state their plants are organic. Some Still, just the prospect of ciated with purple carrots Services Committee. The mea- Coalition. "We don't want to marijuana experiments organic marijuana producers one day having easy-to-under- than purple haze — certified sure doesn't specify what wait for someone to get sick. haven't mentioned accurate la- said the cost burden would stand organic labels for mari- organic. growers would have to do to You need to know that when beling standards, though a hurt small organic growers in juana has consumer advocates Colorado starts work Fri- get the certification, it instead something says organic, it's or- 2013 memo from the Depart- the so-called "craft cannabis" cheering. States that allow day on becoming the first state directs the state's agricultural ganic." ment of Justice warned states niche. commercial pot sales do re- to regulate organic labels in its department to get a third par- Colorado is likely just the that federal authorities want "I would be proud to adver- quire labels listing chemicals pot industry, with other legal ty to draft the regulations. The first state to tighten the rules "strong and effective" regula- tise that our cannabis is or- used on the plants, but they weed states watching to see bill also doesn't say which pes- for advertising marijuana tions. ganic," said Julie Berliner, can be difficult to decipher. whether they too should step ticides would be off-limits for products as organic, said Chris Colorado's marijuana in- CEO of Sweet Grass Kitchen, A trustworthy symbol in to help consumers wonder- organic growers. Lindsey, legislative analyst for dustry generally supports a which makes marijuana-in- would be better, said Teri Rob- ing what's on their weed. Or- Consumer confusion over the pro-legalization Marijuana state-level organic labeling fused sweets. "My concern lies nett, head of the Cannabis Pa- ganic standards are regulated organic marijuana peaked in Policy Project. bill. with the cost of this certifica- tients Alliance. federally, and pot remains ille- Colorado earlier this year, "This is not exactly a move- "It's something that we tion." "That's important to a lot of gal at the federal level, mean- when Denver health authori- ment, but it's not too much of a need," said Meg Sanders, CEO A nonpartisan analysis pre- patients," she said. "This is ing there's nothing stopping ties seized thousands of mari- stretch to say we're headed of Mindful, a company that pared for lawmakers predicted one reason some prefer mari- commercial pot growers from juana plants from growers sus- that way," he said. grows marijuana and produces that only about 5 percent of juana rather than pharmaceu- calling their wares organic. pected of using off-limits The only other pot state to marijuana concentrates. "Be- Colorado's pot growers would ticals, because they want "Consumers have a right to chemicals on their plants. even mention organic certifica- cause of the federal illegality, apply for the certification, something organic. This will know what they're putting in Most of the plants were ul- tion is California, which last to have a state standard would roughly the same percentage help patients know when their body," said Colorado Rep. timately released, but some year adopted a regulation re- be incredibly helpful." as food producers. that's the case." THOUSANDS READ THIS PAPER! Advertise with Us! Call 478-272-5522 today and let us help advertise your business. Friday, February 19, 2016/Dublin, Ga/Page 8a The Courier Herald Georgia House backs Pope vs. Trump: 'Not Christian' (AP) — Thrusting himself in- lican presidential nomination, dential elections, have flocked to the heatedonly American build presi- responded border within minutes. wallsto Democrats in recent years. dential campaign, Pope Francis "For a religious leader to President Barack Obama won expansion of stateʼs declared Thursday that Donald question a person's faith is dis- more than 70 percent in the Trump is "not Christian" if he graceful," he said at a campaign 2012 election, leading some Re- ATLANTA (AP) — The 23 percent of the Supreme stantive case on the merits for wants to address illegal immi- stop in South Carolina, which publican leaders to conclude Georgia House on Thursday Court's caseload during the expanding the size of the gration only by building a wall holds a key primary on Satur- that the party must increase its Supreme Court along the U.S.-Mexico border. day. "I am proud to be a Christ- appeal to them. approved Gov. Nathan Deal's last three years, according to Georgia Supreme Court," he proposal to add two justices to the panel's report. said. Trump fired back ferocious- ian, and as president I will not However, the current GOP the Supreme Court, potential- In his State of the Judicia- Georgia would join three ly, saying it was "disgraceful" allow Christianity to be consis- presidential primary has been ly giving the Republican gov- ry speech to legislators last states where nine justices for a religious leader to question tently attacked and weakened." dominated by increasingly ernor a lasting impact on the month, Supreme Court Chief serve on highest courts, ac- a person's faith. Trump also raised the tough rhetoric on immigration. state's highest court. Justice Hugh Thompson said cording to data kept by the The rare back-and-forth be- prospect of the Islamic State ex- Trump has insisted that Mexico Georgia's Constitution al- the changes would not lessen National Center for State tween pontiff and presidential tremist group attacking the will pay for his proposed border ready permits up to nine jus- the high court's overall work- Courts. Two states have split candidate was the latest aston- Vatican, saying that if that hap- wall and has said some Mexi- tices, but state law provides load. their high courts: Texas has ishing development in an Amer- pened, "the pope would have on- cans entering the U.S. illegally for seven. "Rather, the intent is to separate nine-member panels ican election already roiled by ly wished and prayed that Don- are murderers and rapists. Under the bill, Deal would free up the state's highest for civil and criminal issues Trump's free-wheeling rhetoric ald Trump would have been While Trump's rhetoric has appoint justices to fill the new court to devote more time and and Oklahoma has a nine- and controversial policy propos- president because this would been among the most inflam- high court seats. If the propos- energy to the most complex member Supreme Court for als, particularly on immigra- not have happened." matory, some of his rivals have al becomes law, Deal will have and the most difficult cases civil matters. tion. It also underscored the The billionaire businessman staked out similar enforcement appointed at least five justices that have the greatest impli- Georgia isn't the only state popular pope's willingness to said later Thursday that he was positions. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by the time he leaves office at cations for the law and society considering a change this needle U.S. politicians on hot- "totally respectful" of the pope and retired neurosurgeon Ben the end of 2018. at large," he said in his pre- year. Lawmakers in Arizona button issues. but stood by his initial re- Carson are among those who Two sitting justices are ex- pared remarks. are debating adding 2 mem- Francis' comments came sponse. have explicitly called for con- pected to retire before Deal's House Democrats and a bers to its five-member court, hours after he concluded a visit Francis, the first pope from struction of a wall. term ends, because Georgia's handful of Republicans voted while lawmakers in Washing- to Mexico, where he prayed at Latin America, urged Congress Former Florida Gov. Jeb Constitution requires that jus- against the measure. Minority ton are trying to cut its nine- the border for people who died during his visit to Washington Bush, one of the few GOP can- tices retire by age 75 or risk Leader Stacey Abrams said member court to five. trying to reach the U.S. While last year to respond to immi- didates proposing a path to le- their retirement benefits. lawmakers should see how the The Georgia bill now goes speaking to reporters on the pa- grants "in a way which is al- gal status for people already in Court spokeswoman Jane changes to the court's respon- to the state Senate for review. pal plane, he was asked what ways humane, just and frater- the U.S. illegally, said Thurs- Hansen said Tuesday that sibilities affect its workload he thought of Trump's cam- nal." day that he supports "walls and Chief Justice Hugh Thompson before adding new justices. Man pleads guilty in in- paign pledge to build a wall He irked Republicans on the fencing where it's appropriate." would need to retire by July "To simultaneously in- ternational financial along the entire length of the same trip with his forceful call Bush said that while he gets his 2018 and Presiding Justice P. crease the size of the court hacking scheme border and expel millions of for international action to ad- guidance "as a Catholic" from Harris Hines by September without really understanding NEWA RK, N.J. (AP) — A people in the U.S. illegally. dress climate change. the pope, he doesn't take his 2018. the necessity, I find problem- Georgia man has admitted "A person who thinks only Immigration is among the cues from Francis on "economic Deal also appointed Justice atic," Abrams said. "There are participating in an interna- about building walls, wherever most contentious issues in or environmental policy." Keith Blackwell to the court in political concerns, always, tional hacking scheme that they may be, and not building American politics. Marco Rubio, another 2012. about appointments to the prosecutors say used stolen bridges, is not Christian," he Republicans have moved to- Catholic seeking the GOP nom- House members approved court and the positions that news releases to make $30 said. While Francis said he ward hardline positions that ination, said that Vatican City the measure, 120 to 45. those new justices would take. million in profits. would "give the benefit of the emphasize law enforcement has a right to control its borders Deal's spokeswoman Jen I think that's inherent in any Arkadiy Dubovoy pleaded doubt" because he had not and border security, blocking and so does the United States. Talaber declined to comment changes you make to the judi- guilty in New Jersey Thurs- heard Trump's border plans in- comprehensive legislation in Rubio said he has "tremen- on the bill Thursday. ciary." day to wire fraud conspiracy. dependently, he added, "I say 2013 that would have included dous respect and admiration" Rep. Christian Coomer, one Georgia Supreme Court He faces up to 20 years in only that this man is not a a path to citizenship for many of for the pope, but he added, of Deal's floor leaders, spon- seats come up for election prison. Christian if he has said things the 11 million people in the U.S. "There's no nation on Earth sored the measure. Coomer, R- every six years, but incum- The 51-year-old Alpharetta like that." illegally. that's more compassionate on Cartersville, told House mem- bents rarely lose. resident was one of nine peo- Trump, a Presbyterian and Hispanics, an increasingly immigration than we are." bers that the state's growing Georgia State University ple arrested last August in the front-runner for the Repub- large voting bloc in U.S. presi- population and economy re- law professor Neil Kinkopf the United States and quire more Supreme Court said the current court make- Ukraine. The Securities and justices. up proves that, noting that Exchange Commission also A larger court could be even though Republicans charged them and 23 other in- more efficient, for example, by have taken overwhelming dividuals and companies in allowing 3-member panels to control over the state over the the U.S. and Europe. The Dublin City Board ofNews Education will Digest....- Approval of agenda review cases and make recom- past decade or so, Democratic The U.S. attorney's office hold its board work session at 9 a.m. Feb. 20 in - Approval of minutes mendations to the full body, appointees to the high court says between 2010 and 2015 the central office. The agenda follows: - Public comments Coomer said. have managed to hold onto the group gained access to I. Budget work session - Board member comments The measure also removes their seats, even in the face of more than 150,000 press re- II. Executive session -Superintendent comments/announcements some types of court cases from significant efforts to oust leases that contained earn- a. Discussion of personnel I. Financial report the Supreme Court's responsi- them. ings figures and other infor- b. Discussion of real estate II. Executive session bilities, following a recommen- Kinkopf is skeptical of mation. III. Adjournment a. Discussion of personnel dation made by a panel Deal adding justices, likening the They used hundreds of b. Discussion of real estate appointed last year. effort to an attempt by former news releases to make stock The Dublin City Board of Education will III. Return to regular session Matters involving land ti- U.S. President Franklin De- trades before the information hold its regular board meeting at 6 p.m. Feb. IV. Personnel tles, equity, wills, extraordi- lano Roosevelt to add U.S. became public. 22. The agenda follows: a. Recommendation on personel nary remedies and divorce Supreme Court justices when Two others connected to - Call to order V. Adjournment and alimony would move to he was frustrated by sitting the scheme have pleaded - Invocation/Pledge to flag the Georgia Court of Appeals. members' rulings. guilty. Those cases represented about "There is no credible sub-

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nailed a jumper and Aja Brown buried a 3-pointer to put the Lady Irish up 27-11 with about five min- So much for a letdown. utes left before halftime. Any fears that Dublin’s Lady Irish might not be With 3:26 left, the Saints’ Kristin Morin con- on their game after a disappointing loss in the verted the other three-point play to cut the score region championship game were put to rest early to 29-16. The Lady Irish responded with an 11-1 in Wednesday’s state playoff opener against St. run to close the half and essentially put St. Vincent’s. Vincent’s away. The Lady Irish (21-9) had no trouble handling T’onna Williams, Brown, Kesijah Wilcher and the visitors from Savannah, pouncing on the Saints Askew scored consecutive baskets to stretch and never letting up for a 72-41 first-round victory. Dublin’s lead to 21. After Morin made a free throw The win sets up a Class AA Sweet 16 meeting for St. Vincent’s with 9.7 seconds remaining, with undefeated Model in Rome today at 6 p.m. Williams pushed the ball up court and was fouled “We played a great team game tonight, offen- as she put up a runner from the baseline. sively and defensively, probably our best game this The shot rolled around the rim and dropped season,” said head coach Jaroy Stuckey. through with less than a second on the clock. The first-year head coach naturally had some Williams sank the free throw to complete the concerns about how his team might respond to three-point play and put Dublin up big, 40-17, at Saturday’s loss to Swainsboro in the region title the break. game. The players eased his mind with some very The Lady Irish led by as many as 26 several focused practices leading up to the state opener. times in the third period. Stuckey pulled his “I think they kind of fed off of that. They’re very starters late in the quarter and played them briefly hungry. They were itching to get back out on the to open the fourth after St. Vincent’s pulled to Photo by Rodney Manley court. Once they got out there, they really got after within 20. it.” Askew led the Lady Irish with 18 points. Brown COAST TO COAST Dublin got at least one field goal from each and Wilcher each added 11. Dublinʼs Jessica Hollis (25) lays in two points after grabbing a rebound starter as it owned a 12-point lead at the end of the All 16 players on Dublin’s roster played in the and driving the length of the court. opening period. The Saints, however, managed to game, with 12 scoring at least a point. stay in the game through much of the second The Lady Irish advance to meet Model, the behind a pair of three-point plays. Region 7AA champions. The Lady Blue Devils are FightingThe first cut the score 22-11, Irish but Tyanna beat Askew 26-0. up onBy RODNEY Bryan MANLEY Co., 96-61 Sports Editor

Dublin made quick work of opening-round opponent Bryan County as the Fighting Irish tipped off the GHSA AA state playoffs at The Rock on Wednesday. The Irish led by 30 points at the half as they rolled over the Redskins, 96-61, to advance to the Sweet 16. Every Irish player saw action as head coach Paul Williams emptied his bench in the second half as Dublin went up by as much as 43 against the out- matched Bryan County, which entered the game with a 12-13 record. “We came out ready to play. That’s what you have to do this time of year, especially in your house,” said Williams. “It’s the Photo by Rodney Manley state playoffs, you can’t take any- body for granted, regardless of Photo by Rodney Manley LEADING THE WAY who it is.” Dublin point guard Kameron Pauldo (4) scores two of his game-high 21 points. Point guard Kameron Pauldo scored 21 to pace the Irish. He HOT HAND and backcourt mate Gerald Holden Baisden scored Phillips set the tone early, scor- 13 points, including ing the game’s first eight points three 3-pointers. and combining for 17 in the first back buckets, and Frederick Holden Baisden canned a 3- Mills finished with 17 points. will host Greater Atlanta period as Dublin grabbed a 23-8 Thomas scored in the paint to pointer to close the third period, Baisden scored 13 off the bench, Christian at 6 p.m. Saturday. lead. make the score 43-12, and the then drilled two more in the and Williams added 11. Phillips “We move on. That’s what it’s Raymond Williams, who hit a rout was on. fourth. scored all eight of his points in all about,” Williams said. “We got 3-pointer to end the first quar- The score was 56-26 at the His third trey made the score the game’s opening minutes. to rest our starters some. ter, dropped in a layup to open Pauldo — to push their lead to half as Dublin put up 33 points in 92-49 before the Redskins Jalyn James scored 21 to lead Everybody got to play in the the second. The Irish then nailed 37-10. the second period, and by the closed the game with a flurry of Bryan County. state playoffs. We’re just gonna four straight 3s — two in a row After Bryan County broke the end of three, the Irish lead had points over the game’s final few Dublin improved to 24-4 with get ready for GAC to come in by Bryceton Mills and two from streak, Williams put in back-to- grown to 40. Reserve guard minutes. the win. The Region 3AA champs here.” Hawks make minor deals, keep Teague, Horford Panthers to play series

ATLANTA (AP) — After A four-time All Star, most vage the up-and-down season. withStaff reports Vandy claiming top seed in the East a recently this past weekend, he The Hawks are dealing with season ago, the Atlanta Hawks has spent his entire nine-year another issue that play into their have been a bit of a disappoint- career with the Hawks. He's a trade deadline decisions. ment this season. good fit in coach Mike Center Tiago Splitter, Naturally, that made them a Budenholzer's system, but the acquired last summer from San The SEC is coming to the center of trade talks with the end of the $60 million deal he Antonio, is done for the season Georgia Dome, and this time NBA deadline approaching signed in 2011 makes it impera- after deciding to have surgery Thursday. tive that Atlanta at least gauge for a lingering hip injury. That it’s to play the Georgia State Center Al Horford, whose interest in him on the open mar- deprives the Hawks of a leading Panthers. contract is up this summer, and ket. defensive presence on the inside, The school announced point guard Jeff Teague were "My plan is to be here," a player who was supposed to Thursday that the Panthers mentioned prominently as trade Horford said. "I like our team. If take some of the burden off have scheduled a home-and- possibilities, which made the the front office feels like they Horford and Millsap, both a bit home series with Vanderbilt, first practice after the All-Star need to make changes, they will. undersized for their positions. marking the first time the Georgia State will host a team break seem anything but routine. AP Photo But I'm confident in what we Splitter's hip has been bother- Instead, the Hawks made two have." ing him since late November, and from the SEC. minor deals. STAYING PUT However, neither of the sen- it wasn't getting any better with The Panthers play in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, the A person with knowledge of Point guard Jeff Teague (above) was the subject ior members of the team were rehab and limited minutes. So, the deal says the Utah Jazz have dealt as trade deadline came and he'll have surgery next week in site of the SEC’s annual cham- agreed to trade for backup point of trade rumors but is still a Hawk. went on Thursday. New York and faces an eight- pionship game guard Shelvin Mack from After going 60-22 just a sea- month recovery. Georgia State will host Atlanta, sending the Hawks a son ago, the Hawks (31-24) begin "That's a big blow for us," Vanderbilt on Sept. 28, 2024, second-round pick in the deal. the stretch run fourth in the East Horford said. "Defensively, Tiago and then make the trip to The person spoke to The and just one game behind Boston. gave us so much with just his feel Nashville a season later to Associated Press Thursday on The Jazz have been in the games for the Bulls this season They have clearly fallen well and his ability. He fought. He face the Commodores on Sept. condition of anonymity because market for point guard depth and averaged 3.8 points, 1.7 behind conference leaders wasn't healthy, but he was still 20, 2025. the deal has not been announced. since Dante Exum tore his ACL assists and 1.7 rebounds in 15.9 Cleveland and Toronto. A team trying to come out here and play The Panthers, who are The trade is pending league during the summer. minutes per game. that looked like a championship and help us out. I'm just hoping coming off the school’s first approval. Mack’s trade also was report- Teague addressed the trade contender not so long ago — win- he has a good recovery and he's trip to a bowl game, will play Mack averaged 3.9 points, 1.6 ed by The Atlanta Journal rumors leading up to Thursday’s ning 19 straight games at one able to play at a high level again." at Air Force and Wisconsin assists and 7.5 minutes in 24 Constitution, which cited "sever- deadline. point last season — has struggled With Splitter done for the sea- this season. games this season. The 25-year- al people familiar with the situa- "It's part of the business," said to find any sort of consistency. son, Mike Muscala must take on a Georgia State will be in its old is shooting 42.1 percent from tion" as the source for the story. the former All-Star, who has The week before the All-Star bigger role. Also, 7-foot-3 rookie fourth season of FBS football. the field and a career-low 14.8 The Hawks also acquired been with the Hawks since 2009 break was typical: the Hawks Edy Tavares, who has spent Last year, the Panthers won percent from 3-point range in his guard Kirk Hinrich from the but could be expendable with lost on back-to-back nights to much of the season in the D- their final four regular sea- fifth season. He's under contract Bulls, according to The AJC. Dennis Schroeder as a backup. last-place Orlando — and then League, will surely get more min- son games to earn a invite to through the 2016-17 season Hinrich is a former Hawk, "You've just got to roll with the romped to a 23-point win at utes. the AutoNation Cure Bowl, with the final year not guaran- having played in Atlanta in the punches." Chicago. "Edy is going to have to start where they lost to San Jose teed, according to Basketball- 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons. Horford took the same All-Star forward Paul Millsap growing up a lot quicker and State. Reference.com. The 35-year-old has played 35 approach. insisted it's not too late to sal- helping us," Horford said. Friday, February 19, 2016/Dublin, Ga/Page 2b The Courier Herald

QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE Compelling questions... TODAY and maybe a few actual answers AUTO RACING 10:30 a.m. One week with franchises, and FS1 — NASCAR Xfinity Series, the world didn’t end? PowerShares QQQ 300, prac- tice, at Daytona Beach, Fla. First, lose that F-word. Yes, they’re franchises, Noon but NASCAR o cials must think using the word FS1 — NASCAR Sprint Cup “charters” will keep a couple of men named Bill Series, Daytona 500, practice, 3 THINGS WE LEARNED France from haunting them in their sleep. There at Daytona Beach, Fla. were immediate issues with charters, but they’ll 1 p.m. FS1 — NASCAR Xfinity Series, blow over. It’s the unintended consequences PowerShares QQQ 300, prac- FROM SPRINT UNLIMITED that’ll eventually bite. tice, at Daytona Beach, Fla. 2 p.m. Such as … ? FS1 — NASCAR Sprint Cup 1. Gibbs wants 500 Series, Daytona 500, practice, Before the last piece of confetti It might turn out to be nothing, but I keep at Daytona Beach, Fla. landed in Victory Lane, winning car wondering how franchising will change the 3 p.m. owner Joe Gibbs was reminding race owner-driver dynamic in the future. Will FS1 — NASCAR Xfinity Series, winner Denny Hamlin he has been superstar drivers want, and get, pieces of the PowerShares QQQ 300, final waiting two decades for a 500 victory. franchise? Will the owners, now empowered by practice, at Daytona Beach, Fla. “I said, ‘It’s the 500, OK, not the Shoot- 4:30 p.m. out. Try and get us a 500, will you?’” group strength, work together to lower sala- FS1 — NASCAR Camping Gibbs said with a chuckle. ries? Maybe it’s nothing, but I anticipate issues, World Truck Series, NextEra and not too far down the road. Energy Resources 250, qualify- 2. Squirrelly cars ing, at Daytona Beach, Fla. Can Jimmie whip us into shape? 7:30 p.m. The 25 stock cars in the Unlimited FS1 — NASCAR Camping looked squirrelly from the first green Jimmie Johnson wants to be NASCAR’s pied World Truck Series, NextEra flag to the seventh yellow flag. No one piper of physical fitness, and it’s a noble call- Energy Resources 250, at really had an explanation, except to say it was hard driving. “There’s a lot ing. But a seventh championship might prove Daytona Beach, Fla. easier. He wants fans to get involved, and surely BOXING of guys trying to take the spots, and that’s where we see the accidents,” some of them will take him up on it. But he also 10 p.m. driver Matt Kenseth said. SHO — Adam Lopez vs. Mario invited media members, and frankly, that’s a Munoz, junior featherweights, at 3. No chicane little like preaching temperance at a frat party. Atlantic City, N.J. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Daytona International Speedway has a chicane on the backstretch for 6 p.m. road racing. Unfortunately, that little ESPNU — Akron at Kent St. elbow turn is brutal on stock cars. Ken Willis has been covering 6:30 p.m. The nose of Jimmie Johnson’s No. NASCAR for The Daytona CBSSN — N. Illinois at Ball St. 48 Chevrolet was torn o when his Beach News-Journal for 27 7 p.m. car made a detour o course and ran years. Reach him at ken. ESPN2 — Richmond at VCU through the chicane rumble strips. [email protected] 8 p.m. Sure, car owner Joe Gibbs was happy Denny Hamlin won the Sprint Unlim- ESPNU — Oakland at — Godwin Kelly, godwin.kelly@ ited last weekend, but “Coach” wants to hold the Daytona 500 trophy over Valparaiso news-jrnl.com his head in Victory Lane. GETTY IMAGES/PATRICK SMITH 10 p.m. ESPNU — Iona at Monmouth GOLF GODWIN’S PICKS 6 a.m. 3 THINGS TO WATCH FOR DAYTONA 500 GOLF — European PGA Tour, WINNER: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Maybank Championship 1. Go for it in 2015 look like they are holding serve REST OF TOP 5: Joey Logano, Kevin Harvick, Malaysia, second round, at in 2016, based on the Sprint Unlimited Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The Daytona 500 is the first race of and Daytona 500 qualifying. Joe Gibbs Brad Keselowski, Matt Kenseth 5 p.m. the 26-race regular season, so don’t Racing looked particularly powerful, FIRST ONE OUT: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. GOLF — PGA Tour, Northern look for NASCAR’s elite drivers to run with Denny Hamlin taking the No. DARK HORSE: Danica Patrick Trust Open, second round, at for points on race day. Almost every 11 Toyota to victory in the Unlimited DON’T BE SURPRISED IF: Junior is without a driver in the 40-car field will be gun- Los Angeles and Matt Kenseth earning outside Expect to see this kind of fender to doubt the best and most experienced drafting ning for the win and that first golden pole honors for the 500 in his No. 20 fender action throughout Sunday’s 11:30 p.m. race driver in NASCAR today. GOLF — LPGA Tour, ISPS ticket into the Chase playos. “Last Toyota. Daytona 500. GETTY IMAGES/ year’s race was pretty aggressive at JARED C. TILTON Handa Australian Open, third the end,” said Joey Logano. “It was round, at Adelaide, Australia awesome.” 3. The new order Godwin Kelly is the NBA BASKETBALL spot in all Cup Series races. The field Now that NASCAR has initiated a has been reduced to 40 cars per race, Daytona Beach News- 8 p.m. Journal’s motorsports ESPN — Indiana at Oklahoma 2. Same old charter system, which includes 36 which means non-charter teams, such race cars owned by various teams, as Wood Brothers Racing, will have to editor and has covered City The race teams that were very good those cars are guaranteed a starting slug it out each week to make the grid. NASCAR for 30 years. 10:30 p.m. Reach him at godwin. ESPN — Boston at Utah — Godwin Kelly, [email protected] [email protected] SOCCER 2:20 p.m. FS2 — Bundesliga, Hamburg SV at Eintracht Frankfurt 8:30 p.m. NBCSN — Women, CONCA- CAF Olympic qualifier, semifi- nals, teams TBA, at Houston WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. FS2 — Seton Hall at Butler WEEKLY DRIVER RANKINGS — BASED ON BEHAVIOR AND PERFORMANCE

KYLE KEVIN JOEY DENNY MATT JIMMIE JR. KURT CARL BRAD Prep Schedule BUSCH HARVICK LOGANO HAMLIN KENSETH JOHNSON EARNHARDT BUSCH EDWARDS KESELOWSKI A Busch Path to No drama 1-for-1 See Logano The Richard Shares hometown A Busch Middle name Trash magnet brother Daytona win through first Simmons of (Kannapolis, N.C.) brother is Michael Trump goes through event of ’16 NASCAR? with funky George Trump might FRIDAY would like him Clinton like Baseball Johnson Co. at East Laurens, 5:30 p.m. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Basketball GHSA AA State Playoffs (Girls) Dublin at Model, 6 p.m. Soccer East Laurens at Dublin, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY Baseball Pacific Division unconditional release waivers and pay 30 ager Ned Yost to contract extensions. HOCKEY Laney at East Laurens, noon WLPct GB days termination pay instead of 45 days. National League National Hockey League and 3 p.m. NBA Golden State 48 4 .923 — March 30 — Last day to request uncondi- COLORADO ROCKIES — Claimed C COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reassigned L.A. Clippers 35 18 .660 13½ tional release waivers on a player without Tony Wolters off waivers from Cleveland. G Reto Berra and D Nate Guenin to San Basketball Sacramento 22 31 .415 26½ EASTERN CONFERENCE having to pay his full 2016 salary. Transferred RHP Adam Ottovino to the 60- Antonio (AHL). GHSA AA State Playoffs Phoenix 14 40 .259 35 April 3 — Opening day. Active rosters Atlantic Division day DL. SOCCER L.A. Lakers 11 44 .200 38½ reduced to 25 players. (Boys) WLPct GB Atlantic League Major League Soccer Thursday's Games May 18-19 — Owners meetings, New LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Traded the NEW YORK RED BULLS — Announced Greater Atlanta Christian at Toronto 35 17 .673 — Utah at Washington, 7 p.m. York. Boston 32 23 .582 4½ rights of 1B Jon Griffin to New Britain for academy director Bob Montgomery will Dublin, 6 p.m. Chicago at Cleveland, 8 p.m. June 9-11 — Amateur draft. the rights to RHP Dan Blewett. Signed become director of coaching education and New York 23 32 .418 13½ San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. July 12 — All-Star Game, San Diego. Brooklyn 14 40 .259 22 RHP Dan Blewett. youth partnerships. Friday's Games July 15 — Last day to sign for amateur BASKETBALL Philadelphia 8 45 .151 27½ COLLEGE Dallas at Orlando, 7 p.m. draft picks subject to deadline. National Basketball Association EMORY & HENRY — Named Steve Southeast Division Detroit at Washington, 7 p.m. July 24 — Hall of Fame inductions, BROOKLYN NETS — Named Sean Marks Brooks men's & women's tennis coach. WLPct GB New York at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Cooperstown, N.Y. general manager. NORTH TEXAS — Named Mike Ekeler Atlanta 31 24 .564 — Toronto at Chicago, 8 p.m. Aug. 1 — Last day to trade a player with- NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Acquired F defensive coordinator/linebackers coach, Miami 29 24 .547 1 Philadelphia at New Orleans, 8 p.m. out securing waivers. Jarnell Stokes and cash from Miami for a Troy Reffett co-defensive coordina- Charlotte 27 26 .509 3 Charlotte at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Sept. 1 — Active rosters expand to 40 future second round draft pick. tor/assistant head coach, Derrick LeBlanc Washington 23 28 .451 6 Minnesota at Memphis, 8 p.m. players. FOOTBALL defensive line coach, Nate Brown corner- Orlando 23 29 .442 6½ Indiana at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. November TBA — Deadline for teams to National Football League backs coach, Zack Womack strength and Central Division Miami at Atlanta, 8 p.m. make qualifying offers to their eligible for- CAROLINA PANTHERS — DE Jared Allen conditioning coach and Shane Elder assis- WLPct GB Houston at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m. mer players who became free agents, fifth announced his retirement. tant athletic director for football operations. Cleveland 38 14 .731 — Denver at Sacramento, 10 p.m. day after World Series. Indiana 28 25 .528 10½ Golden State at Portland, 10 p.m. November TBA — Deadline for free agents DLCRA to hold ʻSpring Chicago 27 25 .519 11 San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. to accept qualifying offers, 12th day after Detroit 27 27 .500 12 Boston at Utah, 10:30 p.m. World Series. Trainingʼ session Feb. 20 Saturday's Games The Dublin-Laurens County Milwaukee 22 32 .407 17 Dec. 1 — Collective bargaining agreement Washington at Miami, 7:30 p.m. between MLB and players' association Recreation Authority will hold its first WESTERN CONFERENCE Milwaukee at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. expires. Baseball and Softball Spring Training Southwest Division New York at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Dec. 2 — Last day for teams to offer 2017 on Feb. 20 at Southern Pines. WLPct GB Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m. contracts to unsigned players. Instructors will cover the fundamen- San Antonio 45 8 .849 — Dec. 5-8 — Winter meetings, National tals of both sports — pitching, field- Memphis 31 22 .585 14 Harbor, Md. Dallas 29 26 .527 17 MLB ing, throwing and basic hitting form. Houston 27 28 .491 19 The session for boys ages 5-14 will New Orleans 20 33 .377 25 MLB Calendar Transactions be from 9 to 11:30 a.m. The girls ses- Northwest Division The Associated Press WLPct GB Feb. 18 — Voluntary reporting date for Thursday's Sports Transactions sion, also for ages 5-14, will be from pitchers, catchers and injured players. 1 to 3:30 p.m. For more information, Oklahoma City 40 14 .741 — BASEBALL Portland 27 27 .500 13 Feb. 23 — Voluntary reporting date for American League call 277-5060. Utah 26 26 .500 13 other players. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Signed senior Denver 22 32 .407 18 March 1 — Mandatory reporting date. vice president of baseball operations and ʻClean & Greenʼ golf Minnesota 17 37 .315 23 March 16 — Last day to place a player on general manager Dayton Moore and man- tournament March 5 Keep Dublin-Laurens Beautiful will host its 9th annual Clean & Green 4- Person Scramble Golf Tournament on Saturday, March 5, at Riverview Golf Course, with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. Entry fee is $200 per team, and hole sponsorships are available for $100 each. For more information, call Steve Brown at 478-277-1408. Friday, February 19, 2016/Dublin, Ga/Page 3b The Courier Herald

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The name "Coca- that will allow smokers to vote must be prepaid SE Carrier/ 500 mile radius, no touch Cola" was suggested by Dr. on a simple question. freight, drop & hook, 24 hour deliv- Pemberton's bookkeeper, The butt receptacles, with ery, home weekend, .48 p/mile & full per diem pay. Call 912-375-3366, ext Frank Robinson. He penned two disposal holes each, is 311. the name Coca-Cola in the decorated with a question that flowing script that is famous has two possible answers. Driver Needed to pull containers today. Coca-Cola was first For example, one butt receptacle asks smokers: must have 2 yrs exp. and clean sold at a soda fountain in MVR. 478-609-4095 "Which superpower would you Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta want?" Non-Emergency Transportation by Willis Venable. Smokers can deposit their drivers needed. Must have valid butts in an opening for "Flight" class C drivers license annd be or for "Invisibility." able to pass drug screen. Apply at: Georgia is the largest state 301 Marcus St. in Dublin, GA. east of the Mississippi River. FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON Friday, February 19, 2016/Dublin, Ga/Page 4b The Courier Herald

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