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Riverside Farmers Market opens June 1

Riverside Farmers Market opens June 1

The Riverside Farmers Market will open for its fourth season on Saturday, June 1, 2013. The popular market is operated by Fulton County Cooperative Extension.

The market will return to the same location, in the parking lot of Roswell City Hall located at 38 Hill Street. Hours are Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon through September.  The market is open rain or shine.

The 2013 season promises to be the strongest yet for the Riverside Farmers Market, with more than 15 vendors. In addition to fresh fruits and vegetables, vendors will provide knife sharpening, honey, baked goods, eco-friendly clothing, as well as live performances by local musicians.

Market visitors can also get free advice from UGA Fulton County Cooperative Extension Agents and Master Gardeners on topics ranging from planting a garden, to radon detection to canning.   

For more information, call (404) 613-7670 or (404) 332-2400.

Springmont School employee selected for Leadership Sandy Springs

Springmont School employee selected for Leadership Sandy Springs

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. -- Ernestine Morgan, admission coordinator for The Springmont School, has been selected to participate in the 2014 Leadership Sandy Springs class.

Leadership Sandy Springs is a non-profit organization that provides participants an opportunity to learn more about the community and the issues facing it. Speakers and activities help class members develop their leadership skills. As part of the program, Morgan will lend her time and skills to various community projects.

Morgan became interested in Leadership Sandy Springs while participating in the Citizen's Police Academy, which is sponsored by the Sandy Springs Police Department.

"With Springmont School having served this community for 50 years, I can't think of a better way to build a stronger partnership with families, city personnel and our school," Ernestine Morgan said.

Golf invitational to benefit Shepherd Center

Golf invitational to benefit Shepherd Center

BROOKHAVEN, Ga. -- The third annual Service Above Self Invitational golf tournament will be held Monday, May 13.

The event raises money for the SHARE Military Initiative at Shepherd Center, an intense rehabilitational program for service members who suffer from PTSD and traumatic brain injuries.

"The SHARE program is offered free of charge to service members and their families through the generous support of donors," Shepherd Center co-founder Alana Shepherd said in a statement.

According to the Rotary Club of Brookhaven, which sponsors the golf invitational, it costs about $30,000 to put one soldier through the SHARE program.

"The support the Rotary Club of Brookhaven has shown through its Service Above Self Invitational helps enable us to provide the care and assistance our service members need to return to an active lifestyle," Shepherd said.

Sweep the Hooch registration open

Sweep the Hooch registration open

ATLANTA -- This year's Sweep the Hooch event is expected to be the biggest one yet.

The annual Chattahoochee River clean-up to slated to attract nearly 600 volunteers at a number of locations along the water.

Last year, Sweep the Hooch participants gathered up nearly four tons of trash.

"This is the kind of hands-on work that Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and our partners do that reaffirms our commitment to keeping our river clean," Chattahoochee Riverkeeper executive director Sally Bethea said in a statement. "We'll have volunteers paddling the river, wading in the water and combing the shoreline for trash."

Clean-up locations along the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area run from Buford Dam to Paces Mill.

Sweep the Hooch will be Saturday, Apr. 13 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. To sign up as an individual or with a group, visit sweepthehooch.org.

 

Holy Innocents' junior brings warmth to homeless

Holy Innocents' junior brings warmth to homeless

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. -- Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School Junior Peter Myer delivered some 80 coats and 30 blankets recently to the Open Door Community in downtown Atlanta. Myer conducted his winter drive in cooperation with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Myer delivered the warm clothing and blankets this month to Open Door operators, Eduard Loring and Murphy Davis, Presbyterian pastors, advocates for the homeless, and co-founders of Open Door.

“They are both wonderful people doing wonderful things to help those less fortunate than we are,” Myer said.

During the drop-off, Loring told the 17-year-old Myer that he had a good heart and asked him if he knew how to fuel a good heart. “I said, ‘No, how?’” Myer remembered. “And he said. ‘Help other people.’ It was truly a profound experience to see the work that I did benefiting those in need.”

Myer plans to continue his volunteer work at Open Door and hold another coat and blanket drive next fall

Sandy Springs mayor issues proclamation

Sandy Springs mayor issues proclamation
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. -- School representatives gather around Mayor Eva Galambos as she proclaims Feb. 26 as Springmont School Day in Sandy Springs. (left to right) Patrick Burns, chair of the Board of Trustees; Mayor Galambos; Head of School Jerri King; Samantha Fleming, a Middle School student; and Stan Stockdale, a member of the Board of Trustees. Now in its 50th year of service to the local community, Springmont School (formerly First Montessori School of Atlanta) is the Southeast's first Montessori school. Students range in age from 18 months to 14 years. Springmont School is located at 5750 Long Island Drive on a seven-acre wooded campus. The school also owns an 86-acre mountain retreat in Summerville, Ga., known as the Landschool. The proclamation signing is part of a yearlong series of events to commemorate the school's Golden Anniversary.

Holy Innocents' senior collects shoes for young war victims

Holy Innocents' senior collects shoes for young war victims

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. --On Feb. 27, Holy Innocents' Episcopal School senior Robert Moore will begin the third chapter of his shoe drive initiative, Kicks for Kids.

Moore, who was featured on WXIA-11Alive's Random Acts of Kindness segment and also named a Top 20 Under 20 student in Metro Atlanta by both "Atlanta INtown" and 21st Century Leaders, feels strongly about community service and believes shoe drives are an effective, simple, and important way to make a difference in developing or war-torn countries. As founder and organizer of Kicks for Kids, he ran a Metro Atlanta shoe drive in 2011 that netted more than 500 pairs of shoes that were distributed to wounded children and teens at a combat support hospital in Afghanistan.