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Sometimes, hyped-up games don’t turn out to be as good as advertised; one team or

the other wilts under the pressure of what’s at stake, and a rout en-sues.

But that was not the case Thurs-day as the Patriot’s Ta’lor Bynum hit a soft pop fly just over the outstretched glove of Loganville shortstop Haley Swords, driving in Jordan Browning to score the winning run as Heritage creat-ed a three-way tie atop Region 8-AAAAA in a 2-1 extra-inning thriller at home.

With the win, the Patriots im-proved to 20-3, 7-1 in the region, while the Red Devils dropped to 14-8, and 7-1 in region action. Apalachee is also 7-1 in the re-gion.

It was everything one could want in a game: outstanding pitching, slick fielding, heart-breaking mistakes and a pulsating finish.

Heritage Coach Jason McBay was effusive in his praise for his girls and the rugged Red Devils.

“When I started in coaching softball, Loganville is one of the teams I wanted us to emulate,” McBay said. “I just told the girls that it used to be that Loganville didn’t (take us seriously); they’d say ‘Oh, if we go to Heritage that’s a win!’ But I (told them) I think we’ve put ourselves on their level in the three years I’ve been here.”

Heritage’s version of Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux, Kamryn Toney, faced off against Maddie Green, the Red Devils version of soon-to-be HOF pitch-er John Smoltz, and they both pitched lights-out for eight taut innings.

Loganville mounted the first scoring threat of the game when second baseman Andrea Rosario got a two-out hit off Toney. For some reason, Rosario wandered off first base. Toney smartly threw to the ball to first baseman Destiny Herrera, and Rosario had no choice but to try for second

base. Unfortunately for the Patri-ots, Herrera double-clutched her throw to shortstop Addy Allegret-ti, who was covering second, and Rosario slid in safely. But, as she has so many times this season, Toney slammed the door by get-ting cleanup hitter Sydney Mc-Donald to fly out to right field and end the threat.

Heritage got on the scoreboard in the bottom half of the fourth inning, but a costly base-running error blunted what could’ve been a big inning for the Patriots.

Catcher Morgan Whiten led off with drive off the right field fence. Normally, it would’ve been a double, but an excellent play by Red Devils center fielder Megan Wooldridge held Whiten to a sin-gle. Herrera tried to bunt Whit-en to second, but Green struck her out. Toney followed with a grounder to deep short and beat Swords’ throw to first. Freshman courtesy runner Glory Seay re-placed Toney at first base.

With Whiten on second and Seay at first, Green got a big second out as she fanned sec-ond baseman Paige Owens on three straight pitches. Then, third baseman Bynum, who had an excellent day in the field, took a 2-1 Green pitch and hit a double to the right field gap that drove in Whiten and Seay for a sup-

It’s mid-September. Still hot in these parts despite summer’s rumored departure, as autumn’s crisp air has yet to appear.

I always thought September was an odd month; fall-ish things happen like football and school, but the weather is usually blah.

But I’ll tell you who are big fans of September: you guessed it, the legendary 1970s funk/R&B/jazz band, Earth, Wind & Fire. Their hit single “September” is one of my all-time favorites.

I had the band play it three times at our wedding.

Not making that up.The song, with its powerful

horn section and whimsical lyrics, asks if we remember dancing in September, when there never was

a cloudy day.

Whether your SEC team is still dancing in S e p t e m -ber or has e n c o u n -tered some c l o u d s

along the way, the season’s first few weeks have provided some shakeups, and it’s time to tour the nation’s finest football confer-ence, SEC Banter style:

Georgia: First and goal from the four and a touchdown secures victory over Sakerlina. UGA had four options in this situation: (1) hand the ball to the best player in

college football, Todd Gurley; (2) hand the ball to the best player in college football, Todd Gurley; (3) hand the ball to the best player in college football, Todd Gurley; or, last but certainly not least, (4) hand the ball to the best player in college football, Todd Gurley.

UGA chose differently and walked out of Williams-Brice Stadium winless in the SEC.

Missouri: Don’t look now, but the Tigers are quietly becoming the SEC East favorite. What a cute story if Mizzou somehow makes it to Atlanta in just its third year in the league! Sept. 27 will show us more from the Show Me State team when they visit South Carolina.

South Carolina: Only a true

moron would’ve predicted the Old Ball Coach would drop two home conference games in a row. M-O-R-O-N.

The Gamecocks’ win over Georgia put them right back in the center of the SEC East race.

Florida: The Gators needed three overtimes to beat Kentucky. In football. In the Swamp.

Will Muschamp’s seat grows hotter by the minute. (I don’t real-ly know if his seat is hot tempera-ture-wise; it’s just an expression.)

LSU: I’ve got the Bayou Ben-gals on mild upset alert Saturday against Mississippi State. LSU hasn’t played tackle football since August and the Starkvegas pups, with their Cousin Eddie-from-Va-cation lookalike coach and stingy

run defense, enter Death Valley with confidence.

Texas A&M: The Agriculturals may drop 70 points on hapless SMU in Dallas this Saturday.

While SEC money and expo-sure has elevated A&M’s pro-gram, SMU sure was better when boosters lavished playerswith oil-soaked cash back in the early 1980s.

Alabama: The Tide hasn’t made waves this year. Just gone about its business of winning, Nick Saban style.

But oh the drama set to unfold in Tuscaloosa this Saturday for the Bama-Florida game. Mus-champ’s golden opportunity for a student-schools-the-master mo-

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Conyers Police issued 14 ci-tations to the parents of youths who were out past City of Co-nyers curfew Saturday night.

The maximum fine for such an offense is $1,000 accom-panied with six months in jail. Typically, a judge has doled out fines between $150 and $300 and no jail time, says Kim Lu-cas, public information officer for the Conyers Police Depart-ment.

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You’ve asked for it. It’s finally here.Starting September 24, The Rockdale News opens

an exciting new chapter in community journalism. The award-winning community paper is adding another edition to its weekly coverage – an interactive digital edition. At the same time, it is also unveiling a new app for iPhone, Android and Windows phones.

“We are proud to be able to increase our news cov-erage by the use of this new, innovative digital paper and app,” said The News’ Publisher T. Pat Cavanaugh.

“It is the first for our company and was made pos-sible by our staff, who developed the concept of this new paper. I am proud of their efforts.”

Cavanaugh continued, “We are proud to be an ac-tive neighbor in the Rockdale community and are even prouder to be a part of the future of community news-papering.”

The new edition will come out on Wednesday after-noons directly to 12,000 local residents’ inboxes.

This digital edition comes to life under your fin-

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Editor Michelle Kim is excited to explore the new coverage possibilities with the digital paper. “Not only will you have unique, captivating local stories, you’ll be able to explore those stories like never before,” she said.

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It was a bittersweet moment for Claire Hen-ry in the media center of Rockdale County

High School Friday morning.Henry, the mother of Jordan Savage, a 2014

RCHS graduate who suffered with lupus and succumbed to the disease two weeks after gradu-ating at the age of 19, could only shake her head and smile at the legacy her son has left behind.

In honor of Savage, the Rockdale Coun-ty Touchdown Club and the Rockdale County Dugout Club held a Lupus Awareness Night during the RCHS rivalry football game versus Salem High School Aug. 29 in which they raised $500 from donations.

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The Rockdale County school board approved a $371,224 war-ranty covering the school system’s new tablets, but not before the re-lationship between the contracted company — Lexicon Technolo-gies, owned by a former school board member — and the school system was called into question by a resident Thursday night.

During the meeting’s public comments period, resident Sam Smiley asked the board to take an-other look before deciding on the contract.

“Certainly the relationship looks questionable,” Smiley said. “I don’t believe the Collins family and Lex-icon should be both contributor to the school system and benefactor in the way of contractor.” He added he did not want to diminish Collins family’s contributions to the com-munity.

Lexicon Technologies is a ma-jor contributor to the nonprofit Rockdale County Public Schools Foundation. The Foundation was created in 1988 in partnership with the Conyers-Rockdale Chamber of Commerce as a fundraising en-tity to support Rockdale County Public Schools and to raise funds that RCPS, as a government entity, could not, said RCPS spokesperson Cindy Ball, who serves as a former

officer on the Foundation’s volun-teer board. The Foundation gives grants to teacher projects, similar to Snapping Shoals EMC’s Bright Ideas Grant.

A request for proposals had gone out for the warranty contract, which would cover 400 Dell Ven-ue 11 Pro Tablets and 3,420 Apple iPad Tablets the school system was purchasing using $2.96 million in ESPLOST (the voter approved penny sales tax) funds as part of its’ aggressive plan to provide one device to every student within three years.

Assistant Superintendant and Chief of Staff Gene Baker said the warranty RFP was sent to Apple, Dell and Lexicon Technologies,

which repairs and refurbishes elec-tronic devices. Representatives from Dell and Lexicon attended the prebid informational meeting, but only Lexicon submitted a bid.

“The turn aroundtime require-ments were pretty exacting,” said Baker, describing the 24-hour turn-around requirement.

As part of the agreement, Lex-icon will also provide a “float” of devices to provide a replacement while a broken device is under re-pair. Baker said it would have cost RCPS $1 million more to purchas-ing additional devices if the school system tried to maintain its own “float.”

Rockdale-based Lexicon Tech-nolgies, started in 2003, is owned by the Collins family, whose chil-dren attended RCPS schools. Tra-vis Collins was a school board member for 12 years from 1997 to 2008, serving as vice chair and chairman.

On Thursday night, Smiley pointed out the school system’s ties to the Foundation would be further solidified by the hiring of a part

time administrator whose salary would be paid half by the school system and half by the Foundation.

RCPS Legal Counsel Santana Flanigan said that he had reviewed the RFP for the warranty contract and concluded the school system’s purchasing policies had been fol-lowed. The warranty contract was written to allow other companies to cover the warranty of additional pieces of equipment, if the school board so decided.

The contract was approved 6-1, with school board member Sharon Pharr voting against.

“I’m going to say it,” Pharr said before the vote. “I am disturbed at the lack of transparency in the rela-tionships.”

“I’ve only heard good things about Mr. Collins,” she added. However, “I am concerned about the relationships.”

Disclosure: The News Publish-er Pat Cavanaugh is a volunteer member of the RCPS Foundation Board.

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Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Geor-gia, introduced a bill to the House of Representatives Tues-day morning that focuses on the demilitarization of local law en-forcement agencies.

Johnson, who represents all off Rockdale County and parts of Newton, Dekalb and Gwin-nett counties, implored his fellow representatives to support the Stop Militarizing Law Enforce-ment Act of 2014, H.R. 5478, bill, which aims at reforming the Pentagon’s 1033 Program, which gives military-grade weapons and equipment to state and local law enforcement departments for free.

The bi-partisan legislation will stop local law enforcement agen-cies from requesting equipment from the 1033 program such as:

• Automatic weapons that are .50-caliber or higher

• Tactical vehicles, including multi-wheeled vehicles, armored vehicles, and mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, or MRAPs

• Drones that are armored, weaponized, or both

• Aircrafts • Grenades, including flash-

bang grenades, stun grenades and grenade launchers

• Silencers • Long range acoustic devices“I rise today to urge this house

to stop the free flow of excess defense department military weapons and equipment to local law enforcement,” he said in a minute-long speech during the general assembly. “Our neigh-borhoods need to be protected but Americans oppose blurring the lines between the police and military. When law enforcement uses military MRAPs on Main Street, that changes the relation-ship with the public.”

Congressman Johnson’s pro-posed legislation will also add requirements to enforce tracking mechanisms that keep up with and control transfers of the equipment given to local agencies and im-plement policies ensuring that po-lice agencies can’t sell the surplus equipment they receive.

Johnson first expressed in-terest in reforming the 1033 program in March when he co-wrote an opinion piece about his desire to reform the program.

Local law enforcement reac-tions

Rockdale County Sheriff Eric Levett isn’t exactly backing the

bill. While he states that vehicles such as the MRAP are designed for wars and have no place on the streets of Rockdale County, he does believe that each local law enforcement agency has to decide what equipment would be best to use to combat the crime in that community.

If a local agency deems one of the banned items necessary for the type of crime in the commu-nity, that could end up costing the taxpayers in that community money, Levett said.

“Now, we have to go through the local budget and find money to purchase the equipment when we could get if for free,” he said.

The RCSO has received vehi-cles, guns, clothing, gas masks and other equipment through the 1033 Program. It hasn’t received any equipment since Levett be-came the sheriff in January 2013.

Shortly after Levett became sheriff, an internal audit was conducted and some of the equipment the RCSO had ac-quired through the program was deemed unnecessary to keep be-cause it either wasn’t being used, said Sergeant Andrew Arnold, spokesperson for the RCSO.

The department currently has three hummers and 14 M-14 assault rifles, which were used for honor guard, in its inventory. The department is in the process of returning the M-14s back to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Conyers Police Chief Gene Wilson echoes the words of Le-vett. The city police department had received M-16 assault rifles through the 1033 program.

“It may not be that every de-partment needs it, but some de-partments might,” Wilson said about the use of assault rifles and other would-be banned equip-ment under the bill.

But Wilson also says that the use of heavier weapons by local police is partly due to people on the street using stronger weap-ons than were once used by sus-pects. In the 1970s, when Wilson was a police officer working in DeKalb County, a six shooter was all he needed, but the times have changed.

“People have a problem with police using assault rifles, (but) that’s what the public’s got,” he said after saying that police of-ficers may encounter an assault rifle threat two or three times a week. “That’s what we run into out here. It’s just a way to keep balance. I wish we were still in those (old) times, but those times are gone.”

Wilson is frustrated Johnson didn’t consult with him or Levett before moving forward with this bill since it’ll directly affect both law enforcement agencies in John-son’s congressional fourth district. He thinks it’s a knee-jerk reaction to the national media spotlight that has been put on local police af-

ter protestors for Michael Brown were met with militarized equip-ment by local law enforcement in Ferguson, Missouri.

“I’m disappointed in Hank Johnson,” Wilson said. “For him to be our representative, this seems out of character for him to not talk to the police chiefs in his own area.”

According to Andy Phelan, spokesperson for Johnson, John-son did consult with Levett, Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway and Cedric Alexander, public safety director for DeKalb County before filing the bill.

Will it get House support?

So far, both parties of the House have expressed interest in the bill, Phelan said. The bill’s co-sponsor is Republican Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho, which could prove resourceful in get-ting the bill to pass a House vote.

“Our nation was founded on the principle of a clear line between the military and civilian policing,”

said Labrador in a press release about the bill. “The Pentagon’s current surplus property program blurs that line by introducing a military model of overwhelming force in our cities and towns. Our bill would restore the focus of lo-cal law enforcement on protecting citizens and providing due process for the accused.”

Phelan says that the proposed legislation is receiving a lot of interest in other political spec-trums as well, but the team is still working “to reach out to other offices and continue to get sup-port and interest from both sides of the aisle.”

Passing the bill should be a matter of logical thinking, says Johnson.

“This is a common sense and bipartisan bill to reform the de-partment of defense 1033 pro-gram to stop the free flow of this equipment from foreign battle-fields directly to the streets of America,” he said. “Our country is not a war zone and it should not feel like one.”

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Unlike 112 years ago, when the Conyers Civic League was found-ed, the written word has fierce competition for winning the hearts and attention spans of today’s kid-dos. With a unique roster of in-ter-active author presentations, the League aims to engage youth with a book’s possibilities during The Irene Irwin Children’s Literary Day on Sunday, Sept. 28, 12:30 –3:30 p.m. at the Olde Town Pa-vilion.

“We are excited about our slate of accomplished authors,” said Event Chair Julie Rogers. “We’ve planned for it to be an engaging af-ternoon activity for families.”

12:45-1:30 p.m. Chris Rumble, artist, musician and author of “The Adventures of Uncle Stinky” se-ries

1:30-1:45 p.m. Susan Rosson Spain, author of “The Twelve Days of Christmas in Georgia,” as well as “Deep Cut,” a historical fiction work for middle-schoolers set against the back drop of the Civil War

1:45-2:30 p.m. Michael P. White, illustrator of many award-winning books including, “The Library Dragon,” involves audiences in the illustration

2:30-2:45 p.m. Mary Cunning-ham, author of the award-winning five-book ‘tween series, “Cyn-thia’s Attic”

2:45-3:30 p.m. Danny Schnit-zlein, author of “The Monster Who Ate My Peas” and “The Monster Who Did My Math”

The event is free, and there will be a selection of gently-used books complimentary of a book drive through Beasley Drug Co., Eastminster School and Peachtree Academy. Authors will have books on hand to sell and sign, cash or checks only accepted. Mellow Mushroom pizza will be available for $1 per slice. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information, please visit the Facebook page “Irene Irwin Children’s Literary Day.”

A town hall focused on Rock-dale County’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program proved informative for the citizens who showed up Thursday night.

About 20 people attended the town hall, hosted by Post 2 Commissioner JaNice Van Ness, to get some clarity about whether the county should al-ter the current structure of its federally funded NSP program to include demolishing blight-ed homes and rebuilding new homes.

Under the current format, the county can only use NSP funds to purchase, renovate and re-populate foreclosed homes.

Rockdale NSP Coordinator Tanesha Lanier began the meet-ing by explaining what the NSP is and some of the differences between the two formats. The two main concerns of the au-dience was which format was more cost effective and which format would take less time to complete from start to finish.

“With the demolition process you’re talking about establish-ing a whole different proce-dure,” said Lanier to the group. “I would say it would add on several months to the process.”

She then stated by using NSP funds to demolish and rebuild a home, it could prove more cost-ly in the end compared to the current format.

“Every option has pros and cons,” said Lanier. “I would have to defer to (the Rockdale County Board of Commission-ers) to make that determina-tion.”

Chairman Richard Oden joined Van Ness at the town hall.

Oden seemed to be sticking with his previously made comments in relation to the issue by stating the Planning and Development Department would be asking for an additional $150,000 in the next budget cycle to demol-ish blighted homes versus using NSP funds to complete such as a task.

If the county decided to move forward with using NSP funds for the proposed tasks, it would have to resubmit its application for NSP funds with Georgia’s Department of Community Af-fairs which will delay the county from dealing with the 32 prop-erties deemed NSP eligible in Rockdale, said Oden.

“I don’t want you to forget that part,” he said. “Now we’re in an election year. I can tell you, this could be 2015, second, (or) third quarter, before we can get them to listen to us.”

Van Ness stood by her pro-posal for the use of the funds and shortly before the meeting concluded, she held an informal poll in which she asked the guest appearing to raise their hand if they supported her idea.

More than half of the attend-ees sided with Van Ness.

“This is a very complex issue as you can see,” said Van Ness.

“We already have one (NSP) es-tablished, but I can’t say it’s the fastest because we’ve been do-ing it for five years. With this, it would just give us the flexibility to expand our scope. It’s totally a viable option.”

The audience also inquired about what code enforcement was doing to make the home-owners of these properties pay for their blighted houses.

Planning and Development Director Marshall Walker ex-plained that at least three or four owners they contacted paid to have the house demolished. Other owners have been more elusive and have not helped.

But, even though the homes may be “eye-sores” the county has to allow the legalities of the situation play out because the property owners have rights as well, Walker said.

Commissioner Oz Nesbitt, Post 1, was absent from the meeting. He’s publically stated at previous board of commis-sioner meetings that he’s strong-ly against using NSP money to demolish buildings and instead would rather use county money from the Planning and Develop-ment Department.

The town hall lasted from 6 to 7:30 p.m.


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“They are ruthless, sin-gle-minded and totally com-mitted.” — British security adviser; Source: “The Times of London,” Aug. 16, 2006.

This single quote succinctly sums up the essence and intent of Islamists’ manic obsession to dominate the world. It’s one thing to be fanatical about one’s religion; it is another to be consumed by the evil that embodies it and exudes from it.

“Fanatical,” by definition, relates to exces-sive enthusiasm often marked by intense devo-tion to something. If devotion to Islam stopped there, who would care? The fact that it transcends same is as plain as the sun in the sky. This is what those politi-cians — who would retain (or regain) power at any cost, and Kumbaya the crowd — either don’t get or refuse to acknowl-edge.

There are about 400 recog-nized terrorist groups in the world. Over 90 percent of these are Islamist groups. Over 90 percent of the current world fighting involves Islamist ter-ror movements. Nearly all of the world’s terrorism is reli-giously motivated by Islam. This involves terrorist acts in 26 countries worldwide. These people cannot be reasoned with. Their hatred is an anathema to

all rational consideration. They have but one goal: to subdue the world under the rule of Islam.

We have witnessed them car-rying signs that read: “Behead those who insult Islam,” “Kill those who insult Islam,” “Exter-minate those who insult Islam,” and “massacre those who insult Islam” — of course, the defi-nition of these insults is wide open to whatever interpretation they deem appropriate at the moment. I submit in evidence Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, James Foley, and Steven Sotloff.

Beheadings, suicide bomb-ings and ritual mutilation are not just strategies of war but time-honored traditions that are theologically sanctioned. To relegate these acts to mere terrorist tactics is not only stra-tegically unwise but diminish-es the true nature of the threat. Similarly, to designate enemies as religious fanatics, Islamic extremists, insurgents or radical militants who have corrupted the peaceful religion of Islam is a politically correct fallacy that is undermining every aspect of the war on terrorism and result-ing in the death of [Americans]. [The] apparently inexplicable violent acts committed … [are] the sacred blood rituals of Mu-jahideen warriors. … They are theologically prescribed and communally sanctioned. … To analyze the violence from a Western perspective, sugar-coating by the media of violent aspects of the Islamic religion, and failing to recognize that we are in the midst of a century-old

holy war, will only serve to per-petrate a never-ending cycle of reciprocal violence. (See: “Mu-jahideen Blood Rituals: The Religious and Forensic Sym-bolism of Al Qaeda Beheading” by Dawn Perlmutter; Institute for the Research of Organized and Ritual Violence LLC; Fall 2005/Winter2006)

In fairness, I must respect that not every Muslim is a maniacal killer. However, that same re-spect demands I point out that every Muslim follows a religion founded on the perverse dic-tates of one who exhorted the committing of such atrocities.

There is no value for life or family as defined in civilized cultures. For example, Cossor Ali, the wife and alleged par-ticipant in the 2006, UK mid-air terror bomb plot, while in custody, sat in the police station seemingly lovingly breastfeed-ing her 6-month-old baby boy she had planned to murder for her false god. The infant was to be used as a decoy as she went about murdering hundreds of in-nocent, unsuspecting air-travel-ers. Innocent and unsuspecting travelers Islam defined as infi-dels. America, and every corner of the world not controlled by their evil heterodoxy, is hated by Muslims. This may be a hard truth to grasp, but that makes it no less true. To strip our govern-ment of the tools needed to pro-tect us is tantamount to believ-ing a poisonous snake will not bite and kill the one who nurses it back to health.

To believe this evil can be

reasoned or negotiated with is indicative of those absent of reality. To believe that Ameri-ca has in some way caused this hatred is puerile and represen-tative of those who refuse to accept the truth that evil does exist. To refuse utilizing prov-en methods of national security is either ignorance or support-ive of that which threatens us. That specifically applies to the Council on American Islamic Relations, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Obama White House.

As a friend wrote me: “Every politician [and American] who does not put aside their political agendas and personal ambitions to unite against this threat must be exposed for the dangers they present and turned away from our Congress. Listening to them is pure insanity. Voting for them is inviting disaster.”

His e-mail was accompanied by a photo of beheaded Indo-nesian girls and another of an Islamic protestor brandishing a sign that read, “Islam will dom-inate the world.” The question not enough are asking is — “at what price?”

Mychal S. Massie is the for-mer National Chairman of the conservative black think tank, Project 21-The National Lead-ership Network of Black Con-servatives; and a member of its parent think tank, the National Center for Public Policy Re-search. You can find more at mychal-massie.com.

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it’s time to celebrate the annual United Way/Family Promise BBQ fundraiser, in partnership with Jim N’ Nick’s and Rockdale Career Academy’s Culinary Arts program.

For only $10 you can order a barbecue plate complete with all the fixings from Jim and Nicks, pre-pared by RCA students. The money raised from this event goes to help folks in so many ways that it would make your head spin.

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Whether you order one plate or buy a special treat for your whole staff (that’s what we are going to do at The News) it’s a great chance to support your community. And eat well, too.

CheatingThe county of Rockdale re-

ceived a black eye because of the bone-headed decision made by a few Sheriff’s deputies. The deputies decided they were going to take the lazy approach to their required testing.

This could have been an issue that played out in the Atlanta media for some time, but because of the quick and decisive action taken by Rockdale Sheriff Eric Levitt and his department, a PR crisis was averted.

We are taught to look up to and respect our law enforcement agencies; cheating on tests or doing anything that reflects adversely on our protectors is not acceptable.

Again, quick action helped pre-serve our respect.

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rockdalenewsSusan Parks Cooper said: Parents don’t care. How dare the city tell them how to parent their child. **eyeroll** From first hand experience... these kids that are dropped off, EVERY ONE OF THEM are a pain in the neck. Yes, even precious junior that you mom, think does nothing wrong. He’s up to something destructive also. Doesn’t matter that you are 40, and buy your 14 year old a ticket to a R rated movie. YOUR CHILD IS UNDER AGE, therefore, unless you stay, they cannot see the movie. You’re not special, your child is not above laws/ordinances/rules set by the county/city/businesses just because they are your spawn. I worked at the theater for a while. I was cussed out numerous times by the kids, then by their parents (Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree) because I wouldn’t break the rules for them. NO means NO. Quit telling your kids to not let anyone “disrespect them” while they go out cussing, and breaking things and stealing. Teach them the respect, by setting the example. Quit teaching them their crap doesn’t stink. It does. I assure you.

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Gabrielle ‘thegab’ Irvin said: Good! I hate coming out a movie and seeing literally 50 preteens moseying around the theater. i’ve seen them playing in shopping carts from WalMart. You know they all text each other to meet up there ... especially when a fight is brewing. It’s 12 AM and you’re 12 years old. GO HOME!!!

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She wanted to be part of a featured act in New York City and see her name light up the night.

“I wanted to be on Broad-way,” she said.

Hughes, 58, never made it to Broadway. In fact, she hasn’t strayed far from her Tucker. roots. But she’s been putting her acting skills to use on a dif-ferent type of stage.

For nearly 30 years, Hughes has delivered sermons from the pulpit of churches. She uses her acting background to enhance the experience for her listeners.

“I’m very comfortable with preaching in a way that is in-viting,” Hughes said. “I use my experience with theater for that. I love to take the scriptures and bring them to life. The way you do that is with narrative and storytelling.”

Hughes now looks to bring that same enthusiasm to the 130 member congregation at the Smyrna Presbyterian Church, 2920 Ga. Highway 212, Co-nyers. She was hired to be the new pastor two weeks ago.

“I love bringing those char-acters out of the flat words on the page but letting people know who they were as hu-mans beings,” she said. “There

are some schools of thought that that whole worship ex-perience is a performance for God. We’re singing and speak-ing. All that is being offered to God.”

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It’s never too late to start a new career and Hughes is proof of that.

After getting a bachelor’s degree in theater from Geor-gia State University and doing jobs not related to her degree, she discovered her calling to become a pastor at the age of 31 and applied to Columbia Theological Seminary in Deca-tur, Ga.

Her inspiration came from seeing a female seminary stu-dent pastor eight years prior. Her pastor at the time had se-lected Hughes and other people of the church to be a listening community for a couple of se-nior seminary students.

They were supposed to give the student feedback after they pastored for them.

But, Hughes probably learned the most that day.

“In that group of students was the first woman pastor I had ever heard in my entire life and it blew me away,” said Hughes. “I remember going home from that after hearing her and just thinking, ‘Oh my gosh. Maybe

I should do that. So, I thought about it for about eight years, and then I thought, ‘I think you’re done thinking about it. It’s time to get moving.”

It was meant to be

From the moment she stepped foot inside Smyrna Presbyteri-an, Hughes knew she belonged there.

“When I walked in the door, I just felt like ‘I feel the call,’” she said. “It was really an elec-tric kind of feeling.”

Her emotions were running high that day. The first time she preached at Smyrna Pres-byterian Church was Mother’s Day earlier this year. It was the first time she was without her children on the annual holiday since her youngest of three went off to college.

When she received the call from the church to preach, Hughes, who had been out of work for five months, instantly accepted the offer, but didn’t expect much else to come from the situation.

“As a new empty-nester, the last place I wanted to be on Mother’s Day was at home with no children,” she said.

But, Hughes fell in love with church after that first encounter.

“I went back to the Presbyte-rian office and said, ‘I’m inter-ested in that church,’” she said.

“They had an interim at the time and he was coming on the end of his tenure, so I knew they’d be looking. I told them, ‘I don’t even know what they’re look-ing for, but if they’ll consider me I’d love to be on the short list.’”

The church hired Hughes as a contract-call pastor, meaning she’s on a one year contract and, if everything is still in working order a year from now, she’ll be hired to another con-tract.

Revitalizing kids in Rockdale

Over the next year, Hughes wants to focus on growing the congregation of the church af-ter inner turmoil caused the church to lose nearly half of its members.

The best way to do that is to work with the children mem-

bers of the church and the chil-dren around the county.

“My expertise is revitaliza-tion,” she said. “What I focus on in revitalization is children, evangelism and who’s not here yet.”

Several community programs will be in the works to draw interest in the church and will help the teenagers and smaller children learn more about the church’s history so, as they get older, they’ll want to be a part of the present and future of the church.

But, adult members of the church must also help in the recruitment of the church mem-bers.

“We all have to do this work together,” said Hughes. “It doesn’t mean you have to go out of the town, out of the county or out of the country to bring people in. You really just need to go next door.”

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Submitted photoThe yard of the month for September, selected by the Conyers Garden Club, is at the home of Jerry and Betty Cox, 1655 Old Salem Road. This house has beautiful orange marigolds and celosia that form the landscaping basis at the front. A large planting of hosta with white spotting is at the swing on the trellis. Planters with vibrant pink and purple vinca, red geraniums and spike, lilac petunias, white verbena, orange and pink vinca line the porch. A circular flowerbed at the end of the driveway contains statuary, ornamental grass, cannas and iris. Plantings at the back gate have Gerbera daisies, sedum, red geraniums, black-eyed Susan, hosta and petunias. An arbor in the back features swings and baskets of ferns and caladiums.

Mason Michael Gregory was born July 14, 2014 at Rock-dale Medical Center in Conyers. He is the son of mother Donna Melissa Gregory and father Michael Eugene Grego-ry, both of Eatonton, Ga. He was born weighing 9 pounds, 7 ounces and measuring 21 inches long. His maternal grand-parents are Charlene and Richard Mitchell, of Covington, Ga. His paternal grandparents are Linda Jones and the late Barry Gregory, both of Conyers, Ga.

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Saturday, Sept. 20Parent Academy

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Special Needs Carnival3-5 p.m.; Church of Latter Day

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Olde Town Band Party Fundraiser for Phoenix Pass

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tueSday, Sept. 23Rockdale Retired Educators

5:30 p.m.; Rockdale Baptist Church, 1295 Smyrna Rd; Lily Tomlin speaking; RSVP for dinner; 770-483-6808.

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Saturday, Sept. 27

Macedonia Baptist Church Community 5K Run/Walk

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10th Annual Master Gardener

Extension Plant Sale/Festival9 a.m. - 3 p.m.; 1400 Parker Road;

Plant sale, food, children’s activities, gardening advice and materials, sem-inars.

N. GA Live Steamers Miniature Train Rides

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Palmer Room, 1595 Centennial Olym-pic Parkway; 8th Annual Magnet Con-nexion community event with dancing, DJ, silent auction, and more; $25 per person; 770-483-8737

Sunday, Sept. 27Irene Irwin Children’s Literary Day

12:30 - 3:30 p.m.; Olde Town Pavil-ion; Children’s authors/illustrators Michael White, Danny Schnitzlein, Chris Rumble, Mary Cunningham,Susan Rosson Spain; Craft Station; Mellow Mushroom pizza; hosted by Conyers Civic League.

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The “D, Downtown District” rezoning plan for the Olde Town area was approved by Conyers City Council on Sept. 17 after months of meetings and debate.

The new district simplifies and strengthens Olde Town’s historic protection rules, while encouraging denser housing and pedestrian-oriented devel-opment.

One big change is allowing “pocket neighborhoods”-small complexes of single-family homes built around a central green space or urban farm. An-other change is restricting the paint colors on buildings to a limited choice of subdued col-ors.

“It’s a good ordinance,” said Mayor Randy Mills, praising the officials who worked on it. City planner J.P. Alexander worked with University of Georgia ar-chitecture students-including Conyers native Erik Laurit-sen-on the rezoning under the supervision of city planning di-rector Marvin Flanigan.

Councilman John Fountain, chairman of the Community Development Committee, said that there “was a lot of work involved and a lot of grief in-volved...and I certainly appre-ciate it.”

The many new elements of the Downtown District will take some getting used to. Coun-cilman Vince Evans said he’s heard from people wanting to clarify how the paint color re-strictions apply to homes in the area. Alexander confirmed that

if a house is currently a color that is not on the new list, the house can still be repainted that same color, as it is considered “maintenance.” Only changing the color would trigger the new restrictions. Councilman Cleve-land Stroud noted that the new zoning can always be tweaked.

In other council business:•The council allocated

$750,000 in SPLOST funds for a planned multi-use trail that would run between the Nancy Guinn Library and Pine Log Park. Planned in conjunction with the nonprofit PATH Foun-dation, it would be the second phase of a local trail system that started with the existing Conyers Trail that runs between Olde Town and Johnson Park.

PATH is contributing $250,000 to the new trail proj-ect, but it still has a $375,000

shortfall and more funding is being sought, according to City Council. The council also renewed its master agreement with PATH that enables the two parties to continue planning the trail system.

• A construction contract for a street drainage improvement project on East View Road, to-taling $63,516, was approved by the council. Proposed a year ago, the project will be carried out by Peach State Construction Co. of Covington.

• City Manager Tony Lucas was recognized for 30 years of service in various city positions, including prior service as police chief. “He is very quick to de-flect any credit he may get to his staff,” said Councilman Gerald Hinesley. “We know this city is better because he’s city manag-er.”

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Sometimes, hyped-up games don’t turn out to be as good as advertised; one team or

the other wilts under the pressure of what’s at stake, and a rout en-sues.

But that was not the case Thurs-day as the Patriot’s Ta’lor Bynum hit a soft pop fly just over the outstretched glove of Loganville shortstop Haley Swords, driving in Jordan Browning to score the winning run as Heritage creat-ed a three-way tie atop Region 8-AAAAA in a 2-1 extra-inning thriller at home.

With the win, the Patriots im-proved to 20-3, 7-1 in the region, while the Red Devils dropped to 14-8, and 7-1 in region action. Apalachee is also 7-1 in the re-gion.

It was everything one could want in a game: outstanding pitching, slick fielding, heart-breaking mistakes and a pulsating finish.

Heritage Coach Jason McBay was effusive in his praise for his girls and the rugged Red Devils.

“When I started in coaching softball, Loganville is one of the teams I wanted us to emulate,” McBay said. “I just told the girls that it used to be that Loganville didn’t (take us seriously); they’d say ‘Oh, if we go to Heritage that’s a win!’ But I (told them) I think we’ve put ourselves on their level in the three years I’ve been here.”

Heritage’s version of Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux, Kamryn Toney, faced off against Maddie Green, the Red Devils version of soon-to-be HOF pitch-er John Smoltz, and they both pitched lights-out for eight taut innings.

Loganville mounted the first scoring threat of the game when second baseman Andrea Rosario got a two-out hit off Toney. For some reason, Rosario wandered off first base. Toney smartly threw to the ball to first baseman Destiny Herrera, and Rosario had no choice but to try for second

base. Unfortunately for the Patri-ots, Herrera double-clutched her throw to shortstop Addy Allegret-ti, who was covering second, and Rosario slid in safely. But, as she has so many times this season, Toney slammed the door by get-ting cleanup hitter Sydney Mc-Donald to fly out to right field and end the threat.

Heritage got on the scoreboard in the bottom half of the fourth inning, but a costly base-running error blunted what could’ve been a big inning for the Patriots.

Catcher Morgan Whiten led off with drive off the right field fence. Normally, it would’ve been a double, but an excellent play by Red Devils center fielder Megan Wooldridge held Whiten to a sin-gle. Herrera tried to bunt Whit-en to second, but Green struck her out. Toney followed with a grounder to deep short and beat Swords’ throw to first. Freshman courtesy runner Glory Seay re-placed Toney at first base.

With Whiten on second and Seay at first, Green got a big second out as she fanned sec-ond baseman Paige Owens on three straight pitches. Then, third baseman Bynum, who had an excellent day in the field, took a 2-1 Green pitch and hit a double to the right field gap that drove in Whiten and Seay for a sup-

It’s mid-September. Still hot in these parts despite summer’s rumored departure, as autumn’s crisp air has yet to appear.

I always thought September was an odd month; fall-ish things happen like football and school, but the weather is usually blah.

But I’ll tell you who are big fans of September: you guessed it, the legendary 1970s funk/R&B/jazz band, Earth, Wind & Fire. Their hit single “September” is one of my all-time favorites.

I had the band play it three times at our wedding.

Not making that up.The song, with its powerful

horn section and whimsical lyrics, asks if we remember dancing in September, when there never was

a cloudy day.

Whether your SEC team is still dancing in S e p t e m -ber or has e n c o u n -tered some c l o u d s

along the way, the season’s first few weeks have provided some shakeups, and it’s time to tour the nation’s finest football confer-ence, SEC Banter style:

Georgia: First and goal from the four and a touchdown secures victory over Sakerlina. UGA had four options in this situation: (1) hand the ball to the best player in

college football, Todd Gurley; (2) hand the ball to the best player in college football, Todd Gurley; (3) hand the ball to the best player in college football, Todd Gurley; or, last but certainly not least, (4) hand the ball to the best player in college football, Todd Gurley.

UGA chose differently and walked out of Williams-Brice Stadium winless in the SEC.

Missouri: Don’t look now, but the Tigers are quietly becoming the SEC East favorite. What a cute story if Mizzou somehow makes it to Atlanta in just its third year in the league! Sept. 27 will show us more from the Show Me State team when they visit South Carolina.

South Carolina: Only a true

moron would’ve predicted the Old Ball Coach would drop two home conference games in a row. M-O-R-O-N.

The Gamecocks’ win over Georgia put them right back in the center of the SEC East race.

Florida: The Gators needed three overtimes to beat Kentucky. In football. In the Swamp.

Will Muschamp’s seat grows hotter by the minute. (I don’t real-ly know if his seat is hot tempera-ture-wise; it’s just an expression.)

LSU: I’ve got the Bayou Ben-gals on mild upset alert Saturday against Mississippi State. LSU hasn’t played tackle football since August and the Starkvegas pups, with their Cousin Eddie-from-Va-cation lookalike coach and stingy

run defense, enter Death Valley with confidence.

Texas A&M: The Agriculturals may drop 70 points on hapless SMU in Dallas this Saturday.

While SEC money and expo-sure has elevated A&M’s pro-gram, SMU sure was better when boosters lavished playerswith oil-soaked cash back in the early 1980s.

Alabama: The Tide hasn’t made waves this year. Just gone about its business of winning, Nick Saban style.

But oh the drama set to unfold in Tuscaloosa this Saturday for the Bama-Florida game. Mus-champ’s golden opportunity for a student-schools-the-master mo-


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posed 2-0 lead. However, the Red Devils protested that Seay didn’t touch home plate. The umpire agreed, Seay was called out, and instead of a 2-0 lead and a runner on second base, the Patriots were out of the in-ning with only a slim 1-0 mar-gin.

Toney retired Loganville in order in the top of the fifth in-ning, striking out two and get-ting left-fielder Korbin Cald-well to fly out to right field.

Green struck out Heritage designated player Germecia Joseph for the first out in the home half of the fifth inning. But, left-fielder Lakaitlen Bar-ney followed with a double to left-center field. Centerfielder Jamiya Barker hit a grounder to shortstop Swords, who tried to tag Barney as she ran to third. Swords missed Barney, and threw to first trying to get Bark-er. But, the throw was late and the Patriots had runners on the corners with one out. Green got Allegretti to strike out, but not before Barker stole second base. Green slammed a door of her own, though, as she got Whiten to ground out weakly to short for the final out of the inning.

Both teams were retired in

order in the sixth inning. The lost run in the fourth in-

ning would come back to haunt the Patriots in the top half of the seventh inning.

Loganville’s Wooldridge led off with a double. The next bat-ter, Rosario, hit a flare to right field that fell between right-fielder Tori Collins and second baseman Owens. Owens pro-ceeded to kick the ball away, and Wooldridge scored to tie the game 1-1. The Patriots re-tired the next two batters, but the damage was done.

Heritage loaded the bas-es with two out in the bottom of the seventh when Barney reached first on a dropped third strike, and Green uncharac-teristically walked Barker and Allegretti. The next batter, Whiten, hit the ball hard, but Wooldridge made a good catch in centerfield to end threat.

And, it was on to extra in-nings.

To speed play in extra-inning softball games, each team starts the inning with a runner on sec-ond base.

With Robinson on second, Loganville pinch-hitter Harley Aldridge tried to bunt her to third base. Aldridge popped up the bunt, and first baseman Herrera, catcher Whiten and pitcher Toney ran for the ball. Unfortunately, they proved the theory that only one object can occupy the same physical

space at one time by collid-ing with each other. The ball bounced off Herrera’s mitt, the three Heritage players landed with a thud, and Loganville had runners on the corners with no outs.

Aldridge stole second, and Caldwell almost drove both runners in with a hard-hit ball to third base. But Bynum, again, made a fine stabbing grab of the ball. She threw a bullet to Herrera at first, who made a fine grab of her own when Bynum’s throw was slightly off-target. With one out, Coach McBay had Toney intentional-ly walk Kendall Herring to load the bases. Toney was at her best as she struck out Boothe and Swords to end the inning.

In the bottom of the eighth inning, pinch runner Jordan Browning was placed on sec-ond base. Herrera popped out to third for the first out. Green then walked Toney to put Patri-ots runners on first and second. Green struck out Owens for the second time in the game. Then, Bynum came up to bat with two outs. She worked the count to 2-2. Green pitched, Bynum swung and hit the perfect lazy fly ball just over Swords’ glove, driving in Browning, winning the game 2-1, and sending the home crowd into a frenzy of joy.

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ment, as the embattled coach, once under Saban’s tutelage, tries to shock the college football world and pull off a monumental upset.

Uh, no.Alabama continues its preseason schedule with an easy win.Arkansas: The Hogs ran the ball 30 times in a row (!!!) against Texas

Tech. That’s all I have to say about that.SEC West: Hands down the strongest division in college football.

The SEC West is 19-1 this season, with the lone loss an intra-division contest as Auburn beat Arkansas.

The division is so strong that 12 SEC West teams appear in the AP poll’s top 10 this week.

Kidding aside, and speaking to the depth of the SEC as a whole, seven SEC teams are in the AP poll’s top 15, the most from any confer-ence in the poll’s history, which dates back to 1936.

Best of luck to your Southeastern Conference football team this weekend and I hope it’s been a September to remember.

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“It makes me feel good,” said Henry about the hundreds of dol-lars generated in one night. “His living, as they would say, was not in vain.”

Maria Myler, president of the Lupus Foundation of America Georgia Chapter, accepted the check on behalf of the nonprofit organization. She the donation will be used to help fund programs that educate and provide information to families across the state of Geor-gia about the disease lupus.

“Every penny counts,” she said. Myler met Savage in October

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He also wanted to try out for the golf team but, Henry said, “I told him that would be too much sun because sunlight affects people with lupus.”

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entire squad” that was on duty to round-up the children, says Lucas.

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