Just a few hours before Thursday’s Charlie Kirk vigil, the event has relocated for a second time, to East Cobb Park.
The event is slated for 7 p.m. in the front field of the park (3822 Roswell Road).
Organizers were forced to move the event from Woodlawn Square Shopping Center when Retail Planning Corp., its property management company, said it was not told about it.
Organizers said they received permission from the manager of the Chick-Fil-A to hold the vigil near the restaurant.
But Beth Wallace, the assistant property manager for Woodlawn Square, told East Cobb News the retail center never has had events like this and doesn’t, for liability reasons.
The vigil was moved Tuesday from the East Cobb Government Services Center when county officials said the vigil organizers didn’t notify them, and that it doesn’t allow public gatherings that would interfere with public safety operations at the Cobb Police Precinct 4 and Cobb Fire Station 21.
East Cobb Park is operated by Cobb PARKS. East Cobb News asked Cobb government spokesman Ross Cavitt if the vigil organizers needed to get permission before holding such an event, and he said “only if they were planning on using any of the facilities which it’s too late for that now.”
Candles will be distributed, and participants will be invited for song and prayer.
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