Help keep Piedmont Park beautiful

Volunteers are sought for Piedmont Park Conservancy’s Clean and Green team. What’s needed:

general landscape maintenance projects lake edge maintenance maintenance of playgrounds, public facilities and athletic areas dark park landscape projects watering trees, shrubs and flowers parkwide

When: 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays through Fridays

Where: 1342 Worchester Dr. NE, Atlanta

Contact: Coordinator of Volunteer Services, Michael Paul, at volunteer@piedmontpark.org or 404875-7275 extension 247.

Lead visitors through botanical garden

Smith-Gilbert Gardens, a 16-acre botanical garden, is seeking volunteers to become guides to lead tour groups.

“Spring is a busy time at the garden and it will be here sooner than we think,” said Stefanie Haerynck, the Garden’s education coordinator. “Docents get to experience the wonder on children’s faces as they admire the koi or see the bonsai trees.” When: ongoing

Where: Smith-Gilbert Gardens, 2382 Pine Mountain Road, Kennesaw

Contact: 770-919-0248

Mableton Day. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. Free. Mable House Complex, 5239 Floyd Road, Mableton. Car Cruise-in, entertainment, arts and crafts, vendor booths, food and Kids Corner. MabletonDay.com.

Park Work Day in Decatur

Work Day. 9-11:30 a.m. today. Frazier-Rowe Park, 2886 Lavista Road, Decatur. Meet by the picnic tables. Jobs for all ages and abilities. facebook.com/FrazierRowePark, frazier-rowepark.weebly.com.

Music, Health, Wellness Expo in Roswell

Roswell Family Music, Health and Wellness Expo. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. Free. Riverside Park, 575 Riverside Road, Roswell. Local bands and artists will perform, while fitness instructors will demonstrate programs such as Cardio Fusion and healthcare professionals will offer free health screenings. Inflatables, trampoline demonstrations, face painting, concessions and many other child-friendly activities also will be offered. Kiran Fatania at 770-594-6406, RoswellGov.com. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution calendar is a self-service operation. You can post your event in your own words and can make any changes at any time. To post your event: 1. Go to accessatlanta.com/ getstarted and click on “register with us.” 2. Fill out the registration form. When you are done, you will be taken to the home page.

Dunwoody Art Festival

Dunwoody Art Festival. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday (rain or shine). Free with free parking. Dunwoody Village Parkway, Dunwoody. Top artists from across the nation will showcase handmade jewelry, sculpture, paintings, homemade soaps and home décor for purchase. Food trucks will offer lobster rolls to homemade doughnuts. A Kidz Zone will include rides, sand-art activities, crafts and games. Continuous live music. CVBDunwoody. com/things-to-do/annual-events/ dunwoody-art-festival, dunwoody. SplashFestivals.com.

Garden Tour in Cobb County

“Through the Garden Gate” Tour of seven gardens by Master Gardener Volunteers of Cobb County (MGVOCC). 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today 3. Click on “add a listing” in the upper right. Click on“find your event” to see if it is already in the system. If it is not, create your event, using the form provided. (rain or shine). $20 advance, $25 day of event. Seven locations. This tour is designed to inspire and help homeowners learn from the gardens owned or maintained by Cobb County’s Master Gardeners who follow research-based horticultural practices. MGVOCC promotes and supports horticulture education projects throughout Cobb County. CobbMasterGardeners. com/2017-garden-tour-descriptions.

Train Day in Loganville

Train Day. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. Free. Vines Park, 3500 Oak Grove Road, Loganville. See G-scale trains with more than 1,000 feet of track, a 25-foot bridge, tunnels, a viaduct, an airport, towns and villages. Also enjoy crafts, games and concessions. GwinnettCountyEvents.com. You will receive email notification when your event is approved. All approved events will be posted online at accessatlanta.com. For print calendars, events are used at the discretion of the editors and as space allows.

Roswell sets millage rate hearings

Roswell has scheduled public hearings in the coming weeks for a millage rate that will remain 5.455 mills, unchanged for the last eight years.

The hearings are set for 7 p.m. May 22, 6:30 p.m. May 31, and 7 p.m. June 12 at Roswell City Hall, 38 Hill St. The proposed millage rate includes 5.205 mills for maintenance and operations and 0.250 mills for debt service, and will require an increase in property taxes by 3.93 percent.

Also, the City Council’s first and second readings on the proposed fiscal 2018 budget will take place at the May 22 and June 12 meetings. The document, presented to the City Council envisions $140.3 million in spending and $144.7 million in revenues.

A revenue bump of $16 million will come from the Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales tax approved by residents last November. Of that amount, $11 million will go toward design and right-of-way costs for the Big Creek Parkway project. The budget also provides for $1.6 million to replace fire department vehicles, $751,360 to pay for an increase in fire station staffing from 28 to 34 fire personnel per shift, and $150,000 to acquire body-worn cameras for police officers.

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