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April 30, 2014 | forsythherald.com | 73,500 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 17, No. 18
Gun shy of gun law Gun-toting stranger sends soccer parents calling 911 at Fowler Park By ALDO NAHED aldo@forsythherald.com
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Appen Media Group – publishers of the Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald and Forsyth Herald – returned from the Association of Free Community Papers (AFCP) annual conference this month in Orlando, Fla., with 19 awards for editorial, ad creation and publication design. Five of the awards were firsts among the
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Cast members in the Senior Follies during a rehearsal last week. The show this year will pay tribute to the Golden Age of Television. See story, page 10.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A man carrying a gun in his belt’s holster at Fowler Park had a lot of concerned parents calling the authorities. “We were getting a call every five minutes,” said Deputy Doug Rainwater, a spokesman for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office. The incident unfolded at the United Futbol Academy soccer field at Fowler Park on Monday and Tuesday, April 21 and April 22. The man walked up to the spectator benches and stood there with his gun in his holster in his belt — getting a lot of people’s attention. Doug Rainwater “This person claims to have Forsyth County Sheriff Deputy been exercising at the park while carrying a knife on Monday and then returning with a firearm on Tuesday,” said a that in Georgia you do have United Futbol Academy board that right.” member in a news release to Iggy Moleka, a United parents. “We need to underFutbol Academy execustand that they don’t want tive board member, to harm anyone and said that training it’s best to just leave was canceled on them alone, don’t e gun b h t d Wednesday, April engage them and 23, but would hope they move resume on April on.” 24. The sheriff’s “United Futoffice has ini t. bol Academy is creased patrols q ly / Q I X g totally neutral on at the park, not for this Second Amendthe man, but to asment,” Moleka said sure parents they are in an email to the Forsyth in the park, Rainwater said. Herald. “Our concern is our “A park is one of those kids and our members.” places where you can openly Rainwater said it’s unclear carry a weapon if you do have why the man was at the park, a permit,” Rainwater said. “A lot of parents with their kids at Fowler Park don’t understand See GUNS, Page 21
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A park is one of those places where you can openly carry a weapon if you do have a permit. A lot of parents with their kids at Fowler Park don’t understand that in Georgia you do have that right.”