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Nonprofit, police work to venerate veteran mainstay By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com
Holiday glow
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Concourse Center’s King and Queen buildings in Sandy Springs were spruced up for the holidays, sporting green and red crowns. The twin giants near the junction of I-285 and Ga. 400 provided hundreds of thousands of motorists a festive landmark for travel in north Metro Atlanta.
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — The Sandy Springs Foundation is raising money for the Eddie Mobley Memorial at Veterans Park, honoring the longtime business owner at 6205 Roswell Road for his military service. Before the park’s construction, Eddie’s Automotive occupied the site at Johnson Ferry Road and Mount Vernon Highway. Charles “Eddie” Mobley owned the automotive shop, which he first opened in 1971. Christine Propst, chairwoman of the Sandy Springs Foundation, said the idea for the fundraising campaign came from conversations with Police SANDY SPRINGS FOUNDATION/PROVIDED Criminal Investigation The Sandy Springs FoundaDivision Capt. Andrew Spears, a 19-year veteran tion is fundraising to honor longtime community stalwart of the department. “There is this long his- Charles “Eddie” Mobley (1948-2014) with a tribute tory between Eddie and bench at Veterans Park. the Sandy Springs Police Department,” Propst said. “It dates back 40 years, before we were a city.” Mobley, born in Kennesaw in 1948, was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War.
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