#1 Memorial Day Weekend - Salute The Troops at Stone Mountain Park:

Stone Mountain Park honors our troops and their families at Atlanta’s largest three-day Memorial Weekend event featuring free concerts, the Lasershow Spectacular in Mountainvision®, special fireworks finale, and other patriotic activities.

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. -- Eight-year-old Happy Leveson-Jones, a student at The Springmont School, has won a Grand Prize in Art in the 2013 River of Words Youth Environmental Poetry & Art Contest.

Sponsored by The Center for Environmental Literacy, the annual River of Words contest is the world's largest youth poetry and art competition. It celebrates both National Poetry Month and Earth Day.

Happy received an expense-paid trip to the awards presentation in San Francisco. Winning art and poetry will be published in the annual River of Words anthology, which is available from The Center for Environmental Literacy. Her artwork also will be exhibited at the Saint Mary's Library in Moraga, Calif., and at the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. -- "Spring Market at the Mill" is returning to Johns Creek on Saturday, April 27 from 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Held at the Autrey Mill Nature Preserve and Heritage Center, vendor and crafters will be selling natural and manmade beauty products near the Pole Barn and in the Program Barn. Those who attend can choose from natural soaps, hand-woven shawls and scarves, jewelry, watercolor works and vintage glass made into everyday use. 

"We held our first market last winter, and had a great response from the community. We're excited to offer it again while the Preserve is in full bloom," Claudette Lopez, heritage and event coordinator for Autrey Mill said. 

For more information, visit Autrey Mill online or call (678) 366-3511.