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LeBlanc’s game- field goal starts Tigers off with bang, sports, ib DawsonCountyNews WEDNESDAY I SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 DaWSOflNeWS ^COITI DAWSONVULE, GEORGIA $1.00 Teacher arrested for indecent exposure Man charged in FL with performing lewd acts toward hotel pool Kelly Whitmire DCN Regional Staff A DeSana Middle School teacher has been arrested on two charges of indecent expo sure in Florida. According to an incident report from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, Coby Shane Rosson, 35, of Dawson County, faces two counts of indecent exposure, exposure of sexual organs after being arrested at a condominium in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. He was arrested and taken to the Okaloosa Department of Corrections on Monday, Sept. 20 and released on bond Tuesday, Sept. 21. Per the report, a first victim reportedly pro vided deputies a cell phone video that showed Rosson “fully disrobed and masturbat ing toward the pool deck” and “looking down at guests in the pool from his room.” A second victim, who was floating in the pool, told depu ties she saw Rosson standing fully nude at the window of his unit and witnessed him per forming lewd acts “for approximately three- five minutes while looking at her and oth ers in the pool, which was occupied by adults and children.” The responding offi cer said Rosson was detained and read his rights. In an interview with law enforcement, Rosson reported ly admitted to consuming alco hol and committing lewd acts toward those in the pool. “He stated he and his wife have not had much ‘alone time’ and he ‘made a bad choice,”’ the deputy wrote in the report. According to officials with Forsyth County Schools, Rosson has been an employee of FCS since 2017 and is a PE/ Health teacher and basketball coach at DeSana Middle School. “We were made aware of his arrest this evening and will investigate the charges,” said Jennifer Caracciolo, Forsyth County Schools. “Coby will not be at school after fall break.” Since this is a personnel issue, Forsyth County Schools is unable to provide further comment at this time. The school system is on fall break through Sept. 24. The report said Rosson had no previous convictions or any other criminal history. According to information from the Florida state Senate’s website, exposure of sexual organ charges are given when a suspect appears to “expose or exhibit one’s sexual organs in public or on the private premis es of another, or so near thereto See Rosson 13A Rosson Local high schoolers start breakfast bar The Scarecrows are back Erica Jones Dawson County News Dawson County Junior High School has recently put up a larger-than-life painted tiger made out of hay bales as the first entry in the Good Shepherd Clinic's 2021 "Scarecrow Fest" contest. Good Shepherd Clinic holding 2021 ‘Scarecrow Fest’ By Erica Jones ejones@dawsonnews.com The Good Shepherd Clinic in Dawson County has officially begun accepting entries in its 2021 “Scarecrow Fest”, allowing local businesses and organizations a chance to compete for the best scare crow in the county. According to the official entry form for the contest, it is open to all Dawson County businesses, offices, churches, organizations and home- owners associations. The entry fee to participate is $100 to the Good Shepherd to help the nonprofit with its mission of providing health servic es to uninsured residents of Dawson County. Participants in the contest will build their best scarecrow and dis play it in front of their business or organization. They will then take a photo of the scarecrow and email the photo, scarecrow’s name and name of the company or organization to kmyers@gonorton.com by no later than Oct. 15 at 10 p.m. Entries will be posted on the Good Shepherd Clinic’s Facebook page, and the scarecrow with the most Facebook likes will be declared the official winner. Dawson County Junior High School was the first place in the county to put up a scarecrow, placing By Erica Jones ejones@dawsonnews.com On the morning of Friday, Sept. 24, four students at Fighthouse Christian Academy in Dawson County started a brand new business at their school: a breakfast stand aimed at raising money for a junior/senior trip to Washington D.C. High school senior Daniel Wilson, one of the four students involved in the proj ect, said that the idea first came to him and his friends when they were trying to think of a way to fundraise for the school’s first-ever senior trip. “We’ve never had a senior trip,” Wilson said. “So, we were kind of sitting there one day and Mr. Moye was talking about fundraising a senior trip, so we were try ing to think of how to fundraise it. We were all hungry at the time for breakfast, so we came up with what if we create a breakfast stand to raise money for that trip for both juniors and seniors.” Wilson and his group took a poll of the student body at their school and deter mined that less than half of the students eat breakfast before school starts in the morning. Because of this, Wilson said that they decided that starting the breakfast stand would be a win-win. “We thought that was perfect,” Wilson said. “We can feed kids and fundraise for this trip. It’s this school’s first trip to somewhere outside of Georgia.” Wilson, along with high school seniors Alex Diemer and Kay den Arp and junior Alyssa Freeman, met with a local CPA for advice on how to start the business. They gave a formal presentation with details on the prospective business to the CPA, who decided to become an investor in helping to start up the breakfast stand. Soon after, they managed to gain anoth er local investor, who offered to under write free breakfast for all the students and staff on the first day of the breakfast stand being open. Wilson said he and his group went to the local Kroger to purchase food for the first day, and met with the store manager there to see if they could help with the See Breakfast 16A See Scarecrow 13A K.A.R.E. for Kids finalizes parking for Moonshine Festival By Erica Jones ejones@dawsonnews.com At the Sept. 20 meeting of the Dawsonville City Council, K.A.R.E. for Kids representa tives updated city council mem bers on the most current plans for the upcoming 54th annual Mountain Moonshine Festival, with the confirmation of park ing lots for the event weekend . K.A.R.E. for Kids President Rhonda Evans, along with Councilman William Illg, met with the owners of the biggest businesses in the city hall com plex, including Food Fion, Bojangles and the Dawson County Board of Education. In those meetings, K.A.R.E. received written confirmation from all three entities for use of their parking lots throughout the event weekend. “The meeting that we had with Todd at Food Fion was great,” Councilman Illg said at the meeting. “The citizens don’t get to see a non-profit, a for-profit and a government all work together to pull some thing like this off, but I got to see it and I was so proud — proud of you guys, proud of Food Fion and proud of our city.” The first map for the festival showed their stage in an area that might hinder the trucks entering and leaving Food Fion, so the two agreed to move the stage and added she and other festival leadership are working on finalizing maps of where the vendors, car show and performance stage will go. Evans also met with Fire Chief and EMA Director Danny Thompson to provide 14 feet along the curbs for emergency vehicles to get through if necessary. She said that she plans to meet with all parties involved, including the fire department and sheriff’s office, closer to the event to make sure that they are all on the same page going into the festival. Covid-19 guidelines and requirements for the festival were also addressed at the City Council meeting. See Moonshine 12A 9 0 9 9 4 Inside Volume 7, Number 35 © 2021, Dawson County News Dawsonville, Georgia Church Events 2A Classifieds 8B Dear Abby 7B Deaths 2A Legals 9B Opinion 9A Sports 1B City council discusses vac cine incentives for employees 5A North Ga. Model Aviators hold ‘Extreme Flight’ fly-in
