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Probate judge recording captures concerns over finishing first term, affair

A tape released online of a conversation between Probate Judge Charles K. Mays Sr. and Freya Pear-son, the woman who is suing Mays for more than $20,000 in alleged backpay, reveals that Mays ac-knowledged her services but said he didn’t have enough money to pay her and expressed concerns he might not be able to finish his first term.

The secretly recorded conversation also refer-enced an affair between the two.

The conversation was allegedly taped on August 8, 2014, before Pearson filed a warrant application in October seeking an arrest for alleged theft of ser-vices of more than $24,000 for hours worked from February to June in Probate Court setting up a vet-eran’s or mental health accountability court. Mays had reportedly been told earlier in the year that such a court was not technically feasible within Probate Court. Pearson did receive about $2,000 through a temp agency for her court work and a one-time $2,500 payment from the county.

In the conversation, Mays outright tells Pearson, “I don’t have the money or the wherewithal to pay you for your services. That’s what causes me to step back. That’s it in a nutshell.”

Pearson said she didn’t agree with that assessment. “In my mind, if you have money to hire another person, you can pay me,” she said, referencing a Probate Court job offer to Deborah Anderson. “Just that simple. If you’re willing to argue with Roselyn (Miller, the county Finance Director) over money to hire somebody, you should be willing to do the same battle for me for work I’ve already done.”

Mays replied, “But see, the thing is, other peo-ple haven’t had the background that you have. So they’re not going to come after me, so to speak… the way that you have spoken and said things.”

He also said, “It’s not that I’m battling for them. It’s just that they’re working into whatever plan I’m in at that time.”

Mays later said, “The monies that you were paid and the invoices, I did have to battle for that… And

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Salem High School’s Thespian Troupe 5120 kept its head in the game and pumped up the school spirit with Disney’s “High School Musical,” staged April 23-26 at Salem High School. More photos at http://ezellsstudios.com (Photos courtesy of Ezell’s Studios)

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SPLOST OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MEETINGMon., May 4, 6:15 p.m., 1400 Parker Rd.

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After seven years, Rockdale County now has a full board for its ethics commission.

The Rockdale County Coali-tion of Homeowners Association (RCHA) officially selected Frank-lin Beauford to the Rockdale

County Board of Ethics Com-mission during a special-called meeting Tuesday evening.

Beauford, a retired Metro-politan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) executive of 42 years, was selected by the RCHA after each attending member cast a vote. Beauford, who nominated himself, says

that he’s excited for this new re-sponsibility.

“I believe in honesty and transparency,” said Beauford, who’s never held a public office. “I just want to make sure that the people we elect to office are doing just that.”

The 73-year-old will join Russel Moore, who represents

the Rockdale County Bar As-sociation, and Darlene Hotch-kiss, who represents the Co-nyers-Rockdale Chamber of Commerce, on the ethics board.

The three-member board of ethics hears ethics complaints filed against county commis-sioners. It was initially created in 2008, but was never enacted.

By Martin Rand [email protected]

Third and final ethics board member chosen

One Rockdale County Sher-iff’s Office deputy was terminated and four others resigned during a months-long investigation into al-legations of the use of anabolic ste-roids. The same deputy who was fired had also previously resigned from the Conyers Police Depart-ment after a 2011 bar fight.

During the RCSO’s internal in-vestigation, Deputy Jason Heyman tested positive for anabolic steroids, a substance used illegally by body-builders and athletes. He was termi-nated April 21.

Four other deputies resigned while the investigation was under-way: Jason Payne, Sgt. Larry Reed, Sgt. Bob Cooley and jail Deputy Chris Speyrer. They resigned before they were able to be drug tested.

Speyer was reportedly also ar-rested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations for providing false statements.

Heyman, a K-9 deputy with the Criminal Interdiction Unit, had been with the RCSO for two years. Cooley had been with the RCSO for 14 years, and Reed for 10 years. Payne had been with the RCSO for 15 years, resigned in good stand-ing in 2011, and was rehired in Oc-tober 2013.

The investigation began when a complainant brought the allega-tions to Sheriff Eric Levett in Sep-tember 2014. Levett said he then asked the OPS to investigate the matter and report to him. When it was substantianted that illegal sub-stances might have been involved, Levett said he contacted the Geor-gia Bureau of Investigations.

The GBI provided a criminal case update to the RCSO OPS during the first week of April 2015. The OPS continued the adminis-trative investigation at this point. During the administrative investi-gation, Deputy Jason Heyman was terminated on April 21. Heyman was terminated for six substanti-ated complaints: Violation of Oath of Office, Code of Conduct - Duty to abide by all laws and orders, Code of Conduct - Duty to refrain from disclosing any information relating to law enforcement activ-ities, Code of Conduct - Manner of Conduct, Code of Conduct - In-subordination and Code of Con-duct - Possession/Purchasing/Us-

ing/Selling Controlled Substances.On April 21, four additional dep-

uties with the RCSO were placed on paid administrative leave stem-ming from alleged policy violations relating to this same administrative investigation. Administrative inter-views were scheduled for these four employees within two days of being placed on paid administrative leave. When the deputies arrived for their scheduled individual adminis-trative interview, each of the four deputies submitted a written notice to resign from employment before any questioning could take place. The resignations for these four deputies were submitted to Geor-gia POST as “resigned while under investigation,” which automatically results in a POST investigation.

On April 23, Deputy Christo-pher Speyrer, one of the four dep-

uties who resigned while under internal investigation, was arrest-ed by the GBI for providing false statements as part of their criminal investigation. Speyrer is a Council Certified Officer through Georgia P.O.S.T. and was assigned to the Jail Bureau of the RCSO.

Heyman had been previously in-volved in a January 2011 fiasco in another law enforcement agency, the Conyers Police Department, where a bar brawl ended with him resign-ing from the CPD.

That fight at the Pointe bar in Olde Town began as a retirement celebration among off-duty law enforcement personnel for a RCSO captain. The captain reportedly wanted the bar to admit a 19-year-old, against bar policy. Later that night, a verbal fight later ensued between the celebrating group

and a bar patron and a punch was thrown, striking an off-duty officer. During the internal inves-tigation, Heyman resigned before administrative action could be taken. Two other officers were rep-rimanded and demoted.

Heyman recently applied for a landscape position with the Conyers

Housing Authority, but his employ-ment application was denied, said Gary Erwin, executive director of the Conyers Housing Authority.

“Based on the allegations of ille-gal drug use that are posed against Mr. Heyman, I believed it was in the best interest of the Housing Au-thority to not hire him,” Erwin said.

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Alvin and his cohorts will bring Mardi Gras to Conyers next week.

The city has given permits to the fourth Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, “Road Chip,” to film in Olde Town Conyers, May 4-8.

Casting calls for extras went out and can be found on line at South-ern Casting Call, Project Casting and other free casting sites. The production company is looking for extras who look like New Orleans jazz musicians, partying college stu-dents, and 18-to-70 year-old extras. Those who know how to dance or who have their own Mardi Gras costumes are encouraged to apply by emailing photos and information such as age, weight, sizes and contact information to [email protected].

In particular, the casting director is looking for African-American extras who can play the trombone and are available May 4-7, including night calls on May 6 and 7.

Location managers for the film spent last week meeting with mer-

chants, property owners and others to discuss compensation for inconve-niences encountered during filming on Center Street. Production crew members try to accommodate local businesses during filming, said An-drew Galbraith, assistant location manager for the production.

“We try to patronize the local businesses in every way possible while we’re filming. We’re just happy to be in Conyers for this project,” he said, adding that so far, the meetings have gone very well.

Details on the shoot times and locations will be released later, ac-cording to an email sent by Gina Hartsell, camera ready film liaison for Conyers Rockdale Economic Development Council Inc.

“Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip” is scheduled to open in the-aters on Dec. 23.

The first of the Chipmunks ani-mation and live action films, “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” grossed more than $361 million. Two sequels fol-lowed, “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” in 2009 and “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked” in 2011.

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HONOR FLIGHT CONYERS returned from its second trip of the year on Wednesday. Honor Flight Conyers offers a free day trip to any World War II Georgia veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit the WWII memorial and other national memorials and monuments. The veterans are given VIP treatment the whole way and escorted with an honor guard of police and greeted by firetrucks. For more information, go to www.honor-flightconyers.com or call 770-483-4049 (Photo courtesy of Gary Ezell)

A local pastors network, the Interdenominational Movement for Pastoral Accountability, Collaboration and Training (IMPACT), for-merly PACT, held a Unity Prayer Service for the City of Baltimore, its leadership and its churches during their state of emergency in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. The public was invited to the prayer service, held April 29 at Springfield Baptist Church. Springfield Baptist Pastor Eric W. Lee opened the service. The following pastors participated and led prayers for seven areas: Shady Grove Baptist Pastor J. Phillip Baker, for pastors and church leaders; Macedonia Baptist Pastor Billie Cox, for elected leadership and justice system; for families, youth and children; Bald Rock Baptist Pastor Christopher Shipp, for at-risk men and boys; Old Pleasant Hill Baptist Pastor Layne Fields, for schools; Church of New Beginnings Pastor Aldren Sadler, Sr., for law enforcement; Straight Gate Church Pastor George Levett, Jr., for ending the cycle of poverty. A donation was collected for the Southern Baptist Church of Baltimore, which saw its senior community and housing center, expected to house 60 seniors in need, burned to the ground.

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School IncreaseIt looks like Rockdale

County Public Schools will be receiving $10.9 million more dollars from state tax funds; this is a welcome sight for our local school children and their teachers.

There are plans to give all employees an across the board 3 percent raise; we support this action, also class size is going to be lowered; we also sup-port this action.

For more details on what plans are being made to use extra monies, go to last week’s edition or go to rockdalenews.com

We support any ac-tion that is taken by the school board and ad-ministration to improve the quality of education provided our children.

The RCPS Finance Di-rector said that all these positive changes should be done without raising the millage rate again this year; that is positive news in itself. We take Davis at his word, and we do not support raising the mill-age rate to pay for any of these changes.

We trust the school board will work to insure that a millage rate hike does not happen this year.

Three cheers for the Baltimore mommy who was slapping and whipping the heck out of her son.

Mommy Toya Graham saw her 16-year-old son Michael in the rioting crowd with a hoodie and a mask this past week and im-mediately went to him and took him off the street. She should be America’s poster mom-my this Mother’s Day for parenting.

Kids in this country are starving for a mommy and a daddy to step up to the plate and be real parents. As much as ever before the youth of America need to be loved, men-tored, tutored through school, time with loving par-ents and then a good kick to the backside every now and then.

My mother slapped my face once. She slapped me hard enough that I honestly don’t remember what I sassed her about. She took me out to the peach tree and whipped me with a peach tree limb (switch) on more than one occasion. My daddy gave me the belt more than once. Honestly, these are not my fond fam-ily memories.

However, they were on the scene. They weren’t missing in action. They were at home being parents. They cared enough about me to try to drive me in the right direction.

I regret every spanking I gave my two sons. I wish I could go back and undo ev-ery swat I ever gave them on the rear end. I never enjoyed that. However, they both finished school, never have been arrested and both are serving our country today in the military. We had some tough times like all families do, but God by his grace gave me enough strength and wherewithal to stay with my family and stay with my boys. Looking back I know they needed even more than what I gave but I am so glad I gave everything I did.

During her childhood our youngest daughter would occasionally threaten that she was calling social services on us. This was usually due to our insistence that she do some homework, clean her room a little or just go to bed. It was amusing but we encouraged her to go ahead if she thought she could find a better deal. She backtracked on that threat.

Like Toya Graham moms and dads are the answer to many of America’s problems. We must step up to the plate and be adults. Take responsibility for our families welfare, education and what they are doing. And when necessary go to the warzone like Mommy Graham and take action in order to save our children and this nation.

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The F-4 Phantom jet carrying flight surgeon Maj. Bobby Jones and pilot Capt. Jack Harvey disappeared into the Bach Ma Mountain in Vietnam on November 28, 1972. Jones’ sister, Jo Anne Shirley, lives with a broken heart yet continues a frustrating jour-ney in search of the truth from an uncaring bureaucracy, red tape, and indifferent politicians. This is her sto-ry… and her brother’s.

Jo Anne has visited Vietnam three times. “It’s been an amazing expe-rience. I never thought a girl from Georgia would meet so many dif-ferent people. Government officials from each country meet with us: Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and we start in Thailand. Our embassy, ci-vilian and military, work out issues with other governments, get details on the next excavation, and iron out diplomatic issues. I meet with our ambassador every day in the plan-ning stage.”

She’s also met the King of Thai-land. “On one trip we were escort-ed by Dick Childress, at that time the number two guy on the Na-tional Security Council. Dick knew everybody in every government. When we met the King of Thailand, the King came out saying, ‘Dickie, Dickie, Dickie,’ he had a great con-nection with Dick Childress. But the King looked at me as if saying, ‘Who is that and why is she here?’ Same thing happened in Laos. I got the same stare when we met with the Laotian Defense Minister, sort of like, ‘Who is she, and why is she here?’ Then we took a chopper into southern Laos, smack dab in the middle of the jungle, in the middle of nowhere, a tiny spot called Ta Oy. We spent two nights in tents. The ex-cavation team works out of Ta Oy.”

The only way in or out of Ta Oy

is by chopper. “The Laotian Defense Minister and I finally hit it off,” Jo Anne stated. “Back at the Capital of Vientiane he hosted us to a nice restaurant, complete with Laotian dancers in their traditional garb. So, the guy asked me to dance. I laughed, but we danced, as did an-other female in our group with the Laotian Ambassador, and the Lao-tian dancers grabbed some kids and danced with them. It was a fun day.”

Fun, in Laos, is rare. Jo Anne re-called, “The next day we flew from Laos to Cambodia but while we were at the airport at Vientiane we saw 3 caskets covered with the American flag being readied for loading onto another plane. I thought to myself, ‘this is why we do this, for all the MIAs still waiting to go home.’ As we watched the caskets load, the Defense Ministry must have seen the expression on my face. He gen-tly touched me and said, ‘you will always be my sister.’”

Time is running out for proper identification of Southeast Asia MIAs. Jo Anne explains, “The MIA families were notified about a year ago that the Asian soil is so acidic we only have about a six year win-dow before bones of the missing completely erode. We’ve already seen that at certain sites; some-times the bones have DNA, others do not. We’ll not give up after six years, but a positive ID will be-come more difficult.”

Astonishingly, some families refuse to offer DNA to help iden-tify MIAs. “We have a multitude of problems,” Jo Anne said. “Fam-ilies refusing to volunteer DNA, sequestration has cut funds, now the government has a totally new big organization. The school is still out on the new organization, but we’ve never had good leadership in

the defense POW/MIA office at the Pentagon. The guys that work the cases are awesome, but the leader-ship is lacking. JPAC (Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command) at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii has had horrible leadership in past years. Those people only cared about play-ing golf and their stepping stone to a promotion. One I did admire was General Kelly McKeague. He at-tended every meeting, even in D.C., and we knew he was dedicated. I told him once there was only one thing wrong with him, but there was no way he could correct it. He pleaded with me to tell him his fault, promising he would correct it, but I insisted that change was im-possible. He begged and begged, so I finally told him, ‘You graduated from Georgia Tech.’ The general’s wife burst out laughing.”

Jo Anne receives strong family support. “My husband and oth-er brother said, ‘you go anywhere, do what you need to do.’ Over the years we’ve spent about two hun-dred thousand dollars. I’ve also been blessed with friends like the dynamo Tommy Clack and Georgia Depart-ment of Veterans Service Commis-sioner Pete Wheeler. Those two have gone above and beyond the call of duty to help me.”

Jo Anne has never visited her brother’s crash site. “Board members are not allowed to do that; we do not go to our own crash sites in order to avoid complaints of neglecting other sites. Once when I was in Vietnam the chopper we were on flew near Bach Ma Mountain. An embassy official on the chopper pointed out the mountain but was covered in clouds. Same thing on the return trip, the mountain was surrounded by clouds. That made me realize how Bobby’s F-4 could have so easily dis-

appeared into Bach Ma Mountain.”Resolve equates to results: Jo

Anne stated, “It pays to have a big mouth and ask questions. I asked for the dialog from air traffic con-trol at Da Nang. By doing so I found out 2 aircraft were in the area when Bobby disappeared. One land-ed, then someone asked, ‘where is Hunter 11?’ (Bobby’s F-4). They thought both planes had landed then realized Hunter 11 was miss-ing and finally sent out the search party. Another incident, a friend came home from Vietnam a few weeks after my brother’s plane dis-appeared and told my parents an-other plane had taken photos of Bobby’s crash site. So I started ask-ing questions.… ‘Where are these photos?’…Well, the military people looked at me like, ‘What are you talking about?’ I told them photos existed, I knew that for a fact.”

The military researched. Lo and behold, they found the miss-ing photos. Jo Anne read the riot act to the military hierarchy, “I told them, ‘here’s the deal, when you get the photos I want my own copies because obviously you can’t keep up with your own stuff. And chances are you’ll probably need my copies again!’ I got my copies. I’ve loaned those copies back to the military….twice.”

Excavation of lower Bach Ma Mountain began in 1997. “That’s about 25 years after the crash. The idea of excavating below the crash site was that debris had probably been washed down the many ra-vines and gorges by a dozen moun-tain streams. They found nothing. In 2006 they went back for another dig. I demanded photos be taken. So, they’re walking around in the jungle and right there, lodged in the root of a tree, was a blood chit.” (Blood

chits are pieces of fabric about a foot square with survival or friendly messages in about 6 different lan-guages. Numbers are on the bottom of the fabric. When an airman is is-sued a flight vest these numbers are entered into a data base). Jo Anne continued, “The numbers on the chit correlated with Bobby’s num-bers. They’ve found pieces of the F-4 but no human remains. My family received the blood chit 36 years to the day of Bobby’s crash. It was a very emotional time.”

Connecting pieces of the puzzle, the military believes Bobby went down with the aircraft. Jo Anne wants to know, “Then where are the remains? I believe someone discov-ered the bodies and buried them, but that individual or people have either moved from the area or they are dead by now. The odds are not good for us to recover any remains.”

Her final thoughts: “We are in a race against time; soil acidity, lack of funding, the local populace mov-ing into and building in areas that were once battlefields. The military wants to bring our boys home, but military morale has deteriorated in our armed forces due to politics. Our military is in a fight for its own life. When our soldiers are sent into harm’s way they need to know they will be brought home, one way or the other. Yes, I would like Bobby to come home, but my concern is for the people serving today….not in the past.”

Approximate number of the un-recovered: World War II – 73,800. Korea – 7,800. Vietnam – 1,600. The Cold War – 126.

Pete Mecca is a Vietnam veteran, columnist and freelance writer. You can reach him at [email protected] or aveteransstory.us

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am battling now. That’s why I don’t want any more invoices or anything to go down because of what I’ve already paid out. And other folks are aware of it.” He went on to reference “the $2,500,” the one-time check cut from the county to Pearson.

He admitted he had not turned in an invoice Pearson had given to him for the hours she had worked.

“So you’re scared to send it,” she teased. “I’m not scared of them,” he said. “I

want to make sure I at least finish this term.”

Mays was elected in 2012 and this is his first term as Probate Judge and in elected office.

“Why wouldn’t you finish a term? Ev-erybody and their momma know about it,” said Pearson, referencing her work in Probate Court. “They were talking about it. So clearly they know I’m work-ing,” she replied.

“Well, just avoiding any sort of … any-thing that might come up. I’m sure with the way things have been talked about, it might bring an issue I’m just trying to avoid,” he said.

“You talking about me and you?” she asked.

“Well, that as well,” he replied.“They need to get out of my sex life,

that’s what the hell they need to do,” she said.

Mays also said he went to bat for Pear-son against his family. Pearson, her teen-age daughter, and 5-year-old granddaugh-ter all lived in the Mays’ rented McCalla Street home with Mays’ wife and children.

“I do it all the time with my family,” he said.

“I said outside of your household… There’s nothing to lose there. Your wife ain’t going nowhere,” she said.

“No, she ain’t going nowhere. But that’s stress on the family in general,” he replied.

“I get that,” Pearson said. “But that’s temporary and that’s private.”

Pearson asked if the fact he might have ramifications from paying her hours should affect her, and asked what he’d like her to do.

“To just drop it,” he said. “How does that help me?” she asked.“It doesn’t help you,” he said. “So you want me to drop it because I

care,” she said. “Not just because of that, but because of

the care that I show you. Show the same for me,” he asked.

She replied, “I show you as much love as you show me.”

For a link to the tape online, go to rock-dalenews.com

Mays told the News on Friday he was not aware of the recording, as of Friday af-ternoon, and to contact his attorney Gary Washington. He said he would have to hear the tape first before commenting, but that he stood by his previous statements on Pearson’s allegations against him. “None of the allegations she’s making are true,” he had told the News previously.

Pearson said in a statement sent Friday regarding the recording, “Judge Mays is around town telling lies about me being a volunteer. I was never a volunteer. But since he’s telling everyone that lie any-way, I think being a volunteer is a good idea. So I thought I’d volunteer his voice to the public.”

The warrant hearing on April 15 was deferred after Mays’ attorney Gary Washington proposed a city of Conyers traffic ticket to Pearson caused a conflict of interest for Pearson’s attorney, Mike Waldrop, who also serves as the city so-licitor and city attorney. DeKalb Coun-ty Superior Court Judge Linda Hunter, who was hearing the case since Rock-dale judges recused themselves from hearing the case of a judge in the same circuit, gave the parties until mid-May to file and respond regarding this mat-ter before she would issue a written rul-ing. Neither side had filed in Rockdale County courts on the conflict of interest issue as of Friday 4 p.m.

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The Heritage High School performing arts community mourned the sudden loss of Academy for Performing and Visual Arts freshman Michael Jared Rollins-Jones, who had sickle cell anemia and passed away the evening of April 20. He was 14. According to his biography in the program for Heritage’s spring musi-cal “Chicago,” where he was part of the company, Rollins-Jones began acting when he was 6 in a theater camp at Tarrytown, N.Y. He was invited to perform at the Lincoln Center in 2010 and performed around the state with Antonia Arts in 2011. In his time at Heritage, he played Pugsley Adams in “The Addams Family, The Musical” last fall and was in the company for “Once On This Island.” A memorial for Rollins-Jones was held April 25, at Lexington on the Green in Lithonia where “Chicago” cast members sang a trib-ute song for Crystal Rollins, Jared’s mother. Funeral services will be held in New York, where Rollins-Jones reportedly has family. The cast and crew of “Chicago” paid tribute to Rollins-Jones on Friday and collected donations to aid the family; a GoFundMe site has been set up for donations to help with Jared Rollins-Jones’ funeral expenses: http://www.gofund-me.com/jaredsangels

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despite the pain. Heritage mourns the loss of the 14-year-old actor to sickle cell anemia.

Screams of victory and more than a few tears erupted as adaptive athlete Michael Mills successfully pulled a 4,300-plus pound Honda Pilot SUV across a parking lot the length of a football field in a wheelchair for a Guinness world record attempt on Saturday. The event, a fundraiser for the Bert’s Big Adventure charity for children with terminal illnesses that raised $3,200, was held at the Etowah Crossfit’s Festivus Games in Woodstock, Ga. Mills’ team of family, friends, fellow adaptive athletes and supporters, identified as “Team Dirtbags,” also carried the flag for non-profits such as More Heart than Scars, for adaptive athletes, and 22 Too Many, for veterans suffering PTSD who die of suicide at a rate of 22 a day. To see video of Mills’ amazing feat of strength, go to rockdalenews.com (photos by Michelle Kim)

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The Rotary Clubs of Conyers and Rockdale honored the top seniors in various subject areas at all three Rockdale County Public Schools high schools on April 23. RCPS Superintendent Richard Autry, Rockdale Rotary President Alan Bouzoubaa and Cheryl Cooper and Conyers Rotary President Thua Barlay and Diane Adoma were present to recognize the seniors.

The RCHS seniors pictured and their subject areas are (left to right): First row - Lyshawndria Harris (CTAE), Lanaya Jackson (Foreign Language), Nuzat Mo-min (Math), Lilith South (RMSST Science), Michael Mason (PE), Kendra Williams (Art), Dakota Lewis (JROTC). Back row (Left to right) - Shivon Gray (English), Kaegan Gregory(Performing Arts), Brandon Ware (Science), R.J. Summers (Music), Jeff Bang (RMSST Math). NP: Brionna Johnigan (Vocational Ed), Sean Keeler (Social Studies).

The HHS seniors pictured are (left to right): Front row - Tyler Potts (Math), GraceAnne Dukes(Social Studies), Joy Polite (Foreign Lan-guage), Nejmah Winters (Vocation-al Ed), Sean Kim (JROTC), Tatian-na Thompson (Performing Arts), Sorayia Mene (CTAE); Back Row - Kevin C. Jones (English), Lauren Girod (art), Joseph Kim (Music), Jesse Wang (Science), George Moll (PE). NP: Lauren Girod (Art).

The SHS seniors picture are (left to right): Erin L. White (Science), Kenneth Davis (Art), Clarke Slade (English), Avery James (Social Studies), Eileen Swetnam (Per-forming Arts), Jixin Zheng (Math), Jacob Drasher (Music), Narcisse Wheeler (Foreign Language), Tia Champagnie (Vocational Ed), Mar-quis Knox (PE), Stephon Carty (JROTC), Juwan Smith (CTAE).

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The Salem boys soccer season ended in a 1-1 tie with Alcovy at home. The team didn’t meet its goal of making the playoffs despite man-aging to win three of its final four region games, but first-year head coach Anani Amaizo has built a foundation for great things on the pitch at Salem.

Born and raised in France, Amaizo – whose parents are from West Africa – went to college in the U.S, but at the time it was much to his surprise and chagrin.

“I came to Boston. I didn’t know I was coming to go to school,” Amaizo said. “For me, I was just coming here to visit. Before I re-alized that, my brother told me, ‘You’re going to go to school here and stay here in the U.S.’ I was really upset about it because I was going to sign a contract to play pro. I was really upset with my dad, but now I realize that what he did for me was good because I have my educa-tion. I can use the soccer right now

by coaching and developing other players.”

Amaizo played soccer in college and he eventually made his way to Atlanta in 2004. He has coached club soccer at RYSA, SSA and U12 girls in Lithonia. Amaizo was an assistant coach with Rockdale’s var-sity girls last year before getting the job at Salem.

When he got here, Amaizo says he didn’t like the culture of Salem soccer, so he changed it.

“When I was in school, we had alumni, senior night and all kinds of stuff,” Amaizo said. “I didn’t see that here, so I wanted to bring that here [because] we need the alumni to support the program as well be-cause they already played the game and they’re former students of the school. We need support from them so that the new kids can see what they have done when they were here. That will also motivate them to perform better.”

Amaizo says there was no orga-nization or accountability when he started the job. He wanted his play-ers to have a passion for the game

and to compete like they could play at the next level.

He’s seen them grow“At the beginning of the season

the kids were kind of like, ‘Yeah, we’re just going to go through the season.’ And I just had a meeting with them I said, ‘Listen, we have an objective. This game is not just go play and go home. If you have any ambition or any future you want to play the next level with this game, everything starts here from the high school,’” Amaizo said.

Amaizo met with the seniors and discovered that Salem hadn’t been to the playoffs in eight years. He told them that it was up to them to write a new history by working hard so they could qualify for the playoffs.

At the beginning of the sea-sons the players were coming late to practice and playing around. Amaizo, whose coaching philoso-phy is hard work on the field, told them it had to stop. As the season progressed they played well and

their mindset changed. They start-ed to work hard on and off the field.

The Seminoles missed the play-offs by just one game. Had they beaten Lanier at home in a game they lost 3-1, Salem would have accomplished its goal of qualifying for the playoffs. Still, Amaizo has seen the growth in his players and he believes its just the beginning.

“If we play as a team and we work as a team, it’s going to be very, very

Changing lanesSalem soccer head coach speaks on laying foundation for new culture

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In an almost-quiet Evans Memo-rial Stadium, Akil Williams lined up to take the last PK of the night with the shots currently tied 3-3 needing a goal to earn a victory for Heritage and send them to the next round. Williams calmly took his spot, slightly jogged toward the ball and fired a goal in the back of the net to give the Patriots a 3-2 (4-3 PKs) win over Sequoyah to advance to the second round of the playoffs.

“We work on penalties all year long. A little bit more this last week so you put them in that mindset. You can’t replicate a game, but you try to replicate the scenarios and circumstances as best you can with

pressure, pressure, pressure, pres-sure. Hard to do that on the train-ing field, but our guys did good,” Brandon Stewart, Heritage head coach, said.

“I’m proud of the boys. I’m proud to live to fight another day,” Stewart added.

Without their star player An-dre Deas – who was forced to sit because he was red carded – Heri-tage was had to make some lineup changes in its opening playoff game against Sequoyah. Adam North and Austin McMillan each scored a goal in regulation and stepped up in a big way for Heritage in the absence of Deas, who has 20 goals and eight assists on the season if that gives

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Survive and advanceHeritage outlasts Sequoyah in a 3-2 victory after PKs

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Amaizo says that he wants his players to come back with the mindset to work hard and follow his philosophy. His goal next year is to treat them like college play-ers and give them a sense of what the next level is like and if they can play at that level. Amaizo wants his players to believe in hard work, determination, have a passion for the game and heart.

“Once we give everything on that field and we follow that motto we will always be success-ful,” Amaizo said.

In America, soccer is low on the totem pole of sports popu-larity. Next year, Amaizo wants to take his players to France where soccer is developed more in June to get another idea of what soccer is about.

Amaizo said, “It’s going to change their mind about the way they view soccer.”

you any idea of just how talented he is.

“He’s the one that unlocks the defense,” Stewart said.

“He made a bad decision, he knows it. He’s been fantastic in training. He’s picked them up (the team) all game. He coached, he’s been one of the assistant coaches tonight. You know what, we live to fight another day for him,” he added.

Granted Heritage was with-out its star player, the Patriots still didn’t play as well as they could have. Stewart says the team was strong physically, but struggled mentally.

“It’s a little typical of not play-ing a match in a week. [We were] a little bit rusty, a little bit off game speed. When you’re a little off like that it’s a mental and psycholog-ical adjustment,” Stewart said. “I thought that we were physically – I mean you could see at the end of the game, we were running past them at will. Our physical ability was good, but that mental and psychological aspect that’s what

we’ll really have to combat for next week to wait another week until the second round. We’ll work on that a whole lot during training this week.”

Stewart says despite his team’s flaws and mistakes he liked their fortitude.

Nigel Brown, Conner Domale-ski, McMillan and North were the big contributors for Heritage. Domaleski was great in-goal and Brown was stellar defending and clearing the ball when the backs got in trouble.

The team as a whole played well, but missed some opportuni-ties to score.

“We gave them too much space. Without our normal line-up we had to do some adjusting. I thought it was better in the sec-ond half, and you could see the game with the ebbs and flows. We got forward we just didn’t get that final ball,” Stewart said. “Their keeper kept them in the match, [he] played fantastic. We have to do a better job of creating. A lot of that takes care of itself when we have Andre back so that will be a big help.”

Deas will suit up next time when Heritage hosts Richmond Acade-my on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

SALEMFrom PAGE 12HERITAGE

From PAGE 12 ATHLETE of the weekAkil WilliamsAkil Williams came up big in the clutch for Heritage on Wednesday. Williams hit a beautiful PK to give the Patriots a 3-2 (4-3 PKs) win over Sequoyah, advancing the Pats to the second round of the playoffs.


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