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.

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.

WOODSTOCK, Ga. -- Georgia Senator John Albers (R-Roswell) has canceled a town hall meeting he planned to hold in Woodstock later this week.

Albers canceled the Thursday, Mar. 14 meeting early Monday afternoon. A new date was not immediately announced.