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March 11, 2015 | miltonherald.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 10, No. 11
Milton to buy Providence Park After long cleanup, county votes to let site go By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@appenmediagroup.com MILTON, Ga. – After more than a decade of cleanup, Providence Park may soon belong to the city of Milton. At its March 4 meeting, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners agreed by a 5-1 vote to sell Milton Providence
Park for $4,200. The city does not yet own the park. Both sides have simply agreed to the sale. The park, closed since 2004, has been owned by Fulton County since before the city’s formation in December 2006. The 42-acre site, wholly enclosed by Milton, includes a lodge, hiking trails, a rockclimbing cliff and a lake. Long before Milton’s existence, locals used the park as a dumping ground for chemicals. Those chemicals seeped
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Which glass would you drink? The pastors of Birmingham United Methodist Church, left, Tara Paul and Brent Ward, right, want to raise the money to buy a water filtration machine for the poor in Haiti. They will host a walk March 21.
How far would you walk for water? Local congregation hopes to help 1,000s By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@appenmediagroup.com MILTON, Ga. – When you are thirsty, how easy is it to turn on a tap and get some water? It’s simple and easy. For more than 1 billion
people around the world, it is not only difficult to get clean water, it can be deadly. More than 5,000 people die a day from lack of safe drinking water. Millions of women and children spend their days in search of water, time that could be spent working or going to school. Just off our shores, in Haiti, the struggle is still very real. It was exacerbated in 2010 by a large earthquake that rocked the country.
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Do you want to build a snowman? MILTON, Ga. – Disney characters Mike Wazowski from “Monsters, Inc.” and Olaf from “Frozen” paid a wintry visit to North Fulton Feb. 26. The residents at this
Hopewell Road home in Milton made the most of their snow days when they showed snow can be art as well as whimsical. —Jonathan Copsey
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