ATLANTA -- Fulton County Youth Commissioners will visit Springdale Place Comprehensive Service Center for Homeless Women with Children on Saturday, April 27, 2013.  The Youth Commissioners will take the lead in a project that will improve the Springdale Place building’s energy efficiency and save taxpayer dollars. Beginning at 9:00 a.m., Youth Commissioners will grab paintbrushes and other tools to paint the building’s roof white, which is in line with the “Cool Roof” concept.

According to the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), Cool roofs can “save energy, cool urban heat islands, and help slow global warming.”  The Youth Commissioners’ “White Roof Project” will increase building cost efficiency by reducing the roof’s heat levels. 

The DOE reports the following benefits of installing a Cool Roof”:*

ATLANTA -- This week's edition of the USA Today Metro Atlanta Super 25 Girls Lacrosse Poll is here. With the regular season winding down and the playoffs about to start the same name stands above all the rest.

The Milton Eagles are still on top this week with Lassiter, Walton, Centennial, and Mill Creek in the Top 5.

Chattahoochee, Alpharetta, Westminster, McIntosh, and Roswell complete this week's Top 10.

The Metro Atlanta Super 25 Polls are computer generated and produced exclusively by USA Today High School Sports for 11Alive News. 

(ATLANTA) -- The Drug Enforcement Office of Atlanta is holding the sixth annual nationwide prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 27 from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at several area locations.

The drug take-back service is free and open to the public. It follows a "no questions asked" theme according to Special Agent Chuvalo Truesdell.

He says the opportunity to get rid of pill abuse and theft by having all people bring their expired, unused or unwanted prescriptions to the event is something embraced by all. Since September 2010, law enforcement agencies in thousands of American communities have teamed with the DEA to take in over 2 million pounds, almost 1,018 of prescriptions.

There will be numerous sites set up on Saturday to accept drugs from Georgia residents - all in an effort the increase public safety and public health.