Decatur sponsors ‘community work day’

The Decatur High School garden plots will be turned into a parking lotas part of the redesign and construction of the new school. Officials are seeking funding to eventually bring back the greenspace as a roof garden. In the meantime, volunteers are needed to clear the land to be paved over.

Where: Sugar Creek Garden, 415 East Lake Drive, Decatur

When: 9 a.m. to noon today

Contact: Diane Loupe at dloupe@mindspring.com or 404-374-3990

Clean & Green team

Volunteers needed for:

• general landscape maintenance projects

• lake edge maintenance

• maintenance of playgrounds, public facilities, and athletic areas

• dark park landscape projects

• watering trees, shrubs, & flowers park-wide

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

Who: Piedmont Park Conservancy

Where: 1342 Worchester Dr. NE, Atlanta,

Contact: Coordinator of Volunteer Services, Michael Paul, at volunteer@piedmontpark.org or 404-875-7275 extension 247.