Volunteers hit a recycling grand slam on Aug. 19 at the East Cobb Park. Coca-Cola Enterprises & Coca-Cola Recycling partnered with East Cobb Baseball complex to place recycling bins at East Cobb Park. These organizations donated their time to prepare the 60 recycling bins donated by Coca-Cola Recycling and place them throughout the baseball fields and complex.

Volunteers included baseball players from the East Cobb 10-year-old Titans and Yankees teams, coaches and parents as well as Coca-Cola Recycling and Coca-Cola Enterprises employees.

The groups' goals included education through "Give it Back" wraps developed by Coca-Cola to deliver the most effective messaging on the bins to help ECB's customers learn to discard appropriately and influence other baseball organizations to take recycling back to their fields; a call to action for recycling; sending a positive message that recycling is the right thing to do to live positively; strategically placing bins to ensure bins stay in the right place, are clean, and appropriately used to promote recycling; and recovering 100 percent of Coca-Cola products sold at East Cobb Baseball.

Among the volunteers were Mark Root, Babs Baldwin, John Burns and Joy-Beam Burns and sons Hayden and Hudson, Tripp Boyer and sons Lake and Cole, Todd and Amie Webster and sons Mason and Logan, Lauren and Andrew Futrell and son John, Kyleen and Jay Wissell and son Brett, and Russ Dickerson and son Alex.

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Bank of North Georgia had tremendous success in hosting its third annual 'Back to School Peanut Butter and Jelly Food Drive' to benefit 27 local food banks near its 43 offices in metro Atlanta.

The timing was perfect with the busy school year kicking off at most area schools in early August. In total, the bank collected 3,837 jars at 5,787 pounds, which is almost three tons of PB&J. That is enough to make more than 46,297 sandwiches for children in metro Atlanta (with approximately two ounces of PB&J spread on each sandwich). Creamy peanut butter was the clear winner over crunchy and the bank received more grape jelly than any other flavor.

The bank's Roswell Branch team collected the most PB&J with a total of 934 jars. The team received $1,000 worth of PB&J from customer and community partner, Chrysalis Experiential Academy. Publix matched their donation for a total of $2,000 worth of PB&J.

Branches on Johnson Ferry Road, Powers Ferry Road, Roswell Street, and Chastain Road collected 269 jars (6,485 ounces) of PB&J for The Center for Family Resources, enough to make more than 3,200 sandwiches. The Galleria branch collected 31 jars for MUST Ministries.

Sally Litchfield is a longtime Marietta resident. She formerly practiced law in Marietta and now stays home to raise her two children. Send Sally news at sallylit @bellsouth.net. Call Sally at (770) 425-7122.