MARIETTA, Ga. -- There is a Document Shredding Day and shoe collection coming up for Cobb residents.

On March 16, Keep Cobb Beautiful will work from 9:00 a.m. - noon at Piedmont Church in Marietta. That morning, workers will be on hand to take household documents and gently worn shoes. The documents will be shredded at no cost, and with no weight limits. However, they will not take large clips or binders. The shoes, which should be tied together, will be donated to those in need.

Iron Mountain, Shoe Box Recycling and Piedmont Church are partnering up for the event. 

ACWORTH, Ga. -- The City of Acworth Parks and Recreation Department is holding their Computer, Electronics and Metal Recycling Day at the Acworth Sports Complex on Saturday.

From 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., the City of Acworth invites community members to recycle household items like grills, lawn mowers, metal patio furniture, car parts, bikes, gutters, metal siding, metal fencing and exercising equipment.

There is no cost to recycle metal and electronics, but computer monitors cost $15 and televisions cost $20 to recycle. As part of the Think Green! program, the City of Acworth hopes to reduce landfill collections.

A new addition to this year's recycling day is that Federal Recyclers will accept paint. Pints and gallons have a fee of $2, five-gallon cans cost $7. They ask that paint cans are labeled because some paints are hazardous waste, and need to be separated for controlled recycling.

ACWORTH, Ga. -- A horticulture instructor at Chattahoochee Technical College has been named the 2012 Georgia Green Industry Association Educator of the Year.

John Hatfield teaches at the school's North Metro Campus in Acworth.

"I went into education to try to make a difference," Hatfield said. "I wasn't always a big fan of school when I went through it. I said if I ever got the chance to teach, I would try to do it differently. I think I've done my best to make that happen."

Hatfield began teaching at CTC in 1995. He attended Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, the school where his parents met ("It was just understood that I would go there," he said), before earning a degree in landscape architecture from the University of Georgia and starting his own landscape design business. He returned to UGA for the graduate degree that would allow him to teach.