See RESIDENTS on page 8 See COMMUNITY on page 9 October 31, 2013 Volume 18, No. 21 oakhillgazette.com Southwest Austin’s Community Newspaper Since 1995 Don’t mess with the Oak Hill ballelds. Two weeks aer torrential rains caused an estimated $100,000 damage to the Oak Hill sports complex—six baseball elds and two soball elds—at Joe Tanner Lane and U.S. 290 West, the baseball and Oak Hill communities have stepped up to the plate and gone to bat for local youth baseball. OAK HILL - While the beloved century-old heritage oak tree stand- ing in the way of road improvements at the intersection of U.S. 290 and William Cannon was granted a two-month reprieve by TxDOT, its ultimate fate—and possible re- location—is still to be determined. Now community members are Residents race to raise money to save tree BJSClint Small Green Tech Academy oers new home for heritage oak racing the clock to secure the funds needed to transplant the tree by the Dec. 31 deadline. At an Oct. 16 Urban Forestry Board meeting, the Austin Heritage Tree Foundation received a $59,000 grant from the city to relocate the historic tree, leaving the Oak Hill community with roughly $30,000 to raise, according to Austin Heritage Tree Foundation director Michael Fossum. e rst priority, however, is rais- ing the $3,000 needed to complete a feasibility study to determine if and how the tree could be relocat- e environmental courses within the Green Tech Academy at Clint Small are designed to help students develop a connection with nature through hands-on learning, such as the planting and care of trees (above). ed. Fossum said the organization has raised between $600 and $800 toward the goal and has received a donation in kind from local arborist Keith Brown of Austin Tree Experts, who has agreed to prune the tree so it has clearance of electrical wires. e ght to save the tree caught the attention of Clint Small Middle School environmental studies teach- er Nate Rosenberg, who says Clint Small, which stands a short 1.8 miles away from the big tree, would be the perfect new home for the landmark oak, known locally as the Taco Bell tree, aer the restaurant formerly located at that corner for many years. “We really would be able to help the tree survive and thrive,” said Community goes to bat for Oak Hill ballfields AFA local radio station, 104.9 FM (e Horn) will broadcast from the elds on November 1 for a live all- day benet. Several local restaurants are planning fundraisers, as is the Oak Hill Business and Professionals Association. Even the Round Rock Express is helping out. A record-setting deluge on Oc- tober 13 caused Williamson Creek to overow its banks, ooding the e St. Edwards baseball team turned out in full force to help rebuild.
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See RESIDENTS on page 8
See COMMUNITY on page 9
October 31, 2013
Volume 18, No. 21oakhillgazette.com
Southwest Austin’s Community Newspaper Since 1995
Don’t mess with the Oak Hill ball!elds. Two weeks a"er torrential rains caused an estimated $100,000 damage to the Oak Hill sports complex—six baseball !elds and two so"ball !elds—at Joe Tanner Lane and U.S. 290 West, the baseball and Oak Hill communities have stepped up to the plate and gone to bat for local youth baseball.
OAK HILL - While the beloved century-old heritage oak tree stand-ing in the way of road improvements at the intersection of U.S. 290 and William Cannon was granted a two-month reprieve by TxDOT, its ultimate fate—and possible re-location—is still to be determined. Now community members are
Residents race to raise money to save tree!" B#!!$% J%&' S&("%) Clint Small Green Tech Academy o!ers new home for heritage oak
racing the clock to secure the funds needed to transplant the tree by the Dec. 31 deadline. At an Oct. 16 Urban Forestry Board meeting, the Austin Heritage Tree Foundation received a $59,000 grant from the city to relocate the historic tree, leaving the Oak Hill
community with roughly $30,000 to raise, according to Austin Heritage Tree Foundation director Michael Fossum. #e !rst priority, however, is rais-ing the $3,000 needed to complete a feasibility study to determine if and how the tree could be relocat-
!e environmental courses within the Green Tech Academy at Clint Small are designed to help students develop a connection with nature through hands-on learning, such as the planting and care of trees (above).
ed. Fossum said the organization has raised between $600 and $800 toward the goal and has received a donation in kind from local arborist Keith Brown of Austin Tree Experts, who has agreed to prune the tree so it has clearance of electrical wires. #e !ght to save the tree caught the attention of Clint Small Middle School environmental studies teach-
er Nate Rosenberg, who says Clint Small, which stands a short 1.8 miles away from the big tree, would be the perfect new home for the landmark oak, known locally as the Taco Bell tree, a"er the restaurant formerly located at that corner for many years. “We really would be able to help the tree survive and thrive,” said
Community goes to bat for Oak Hill ballfields
!" A'' F#(*%) A local radio station, 104.9 FM (#e Horn) will broadcast from the !elds on November 1 for a live all-day bene!t. Several local restaurants are planning fundraisers, as is the Oak Hill Business and Professionals Association. Even the Round Rock Express is helping out. A record-setting deluge on Oc-tober 13 caused Williamson Creek to over$ow its banks, $ooding the
!e St. Edwards baseball team turned out in full force to help rebuild.
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Volunteer Deputy Registrar trainingTues., Nov. 5, One-hour sessions at 10:30 am, 12:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.Travis County Tax O"ce, 5501 Air-port Boulevard, Austin, TX 78751. Help citizens register to vote by be-coming a Volunteer Deputy Registrar. Volunteer Deputy Registrars promote voter registration most commonly at community events and within their own social networks. !ey distribute voter registration applications and con#rm that all of the applications they provide are completed correctly. !ey also provide a receipt to show proof of registration and deliver applications to the Voter Registrar within 5 days of completion. To volunteer, you must be age 18 or older and must attend a one-hour
training session. During training, you will review the quali#cations to become a VDR, learn how to regis-ter voters correctly and be o"cially sworn-in. For more information, visit www.traviscountytax.org or call (512) 854-9473.
Oak Hill Business and Professional Association monthly meeting!urs., Nov. 7, 11:30 am to 1 pmMandola’s Italian Market at Arbor Trails, 4301 W. William Cannon !is month’s featured speaker is Gary Bradley, the original developer of Circle C Ranch. !e public is in-vited and new members are always welcome. For more information, go to www.ohbpa.org
MoPac South Open House!ursday, November 7, 2013 5:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.James Bowie High School Cafeteria4103 Slaughter Lane 78749 !e Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority and the Texas Department of Transportationwant to hear from you and they are holding a Public Scoping Meeting and Open House to gather public input. !ey have launched a study to evaluate potential safety and mobility
improvements along MoPac. The limits of the improvements would extend from Cesar Chavez Street to Slaughter Lane. Project team members will be on hand to answer questions and provide information. No formal presentation will be given. Attendees are invited to come and go at their convenience. If you are unable to attend the meeting, but would like to learn more about the project or submit a question or comment, please visit the Virtual Open House at www.MoPacSouth.com from No. 8, .through Nov.18,.If you plan to attend the Open House and have special communication or accommodation needs, please contact Melissa Hurst at (512) 996-9778.
Circle C Area DemocratsMonday, November 11 at 6:30 p.m.Santa Rita Cantin, Escarpment VillageCircle C Area Democrats is a Dem-ocratic club and state registered political action committee dedicated to building party ID, community service and the election of Democrats representing SW Travis County. Our membership includes residents of Circle C, Western Oaks, Legend Oaks, Shady Hollow and additional Oak Hill neighborhoods. For more informa-tion go to circlecareademocrats.org
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We have launched a study to evaluate potential safety and mobility improvements along MoPac. The limits of the improvements would extend from Cesar Chavez Street to Slaughter Lane.
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For days a!er escaping severe "ooding, an African American boy of six or seven wandered homeless inside the Austin Convention Cen-ter dressed only in a dirty T-shirt, a worn pair of jeans, and tennis shoes. #e image still haunts 16-year-old Jonathan DeLong, eight years a!er the two met following the a!ermath of Hurricane Katrina over the Labor Day Weekend in 2005. #e unidenti$ed child and some 4,000 victims of hurricane Katrina set up residence inside the Aus-tin Convention Center. DeLong, though only nine years old at the time, responded by giving away his toys to the boy and other evacuated Louisiana children. It’s an experience that inspires DeLong to this day; he currently trains with other South Austin teenagers to become $rst responders in future disasters. He also serves as the youngest volunteer of the statewide task force, Texas Search and Rescue (TEXSAR.) DeLong also represents the only teen member of Region 6—throughout Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Louisiana—to serve on the nation-wide Youth Preparedness Council in Washington, D.C. at a summit meeting twice a year. DeLong will serve two years on the council formed last year by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA.) Last July DeLong served three days on the national council in Washington D.C., meeting with FEMA and Homeland Security rep-resentatives to talk about strategies, initiatives and special projects that interest him. One of his special projects includes the formation of a pilot program at James Bowie High School that trains teens to become potential $rst responders for everything from 911 types of emergencies to full blown disasters throughout their
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community. DeLong leads a teen Commu-nity Emergency Response Team (CERT,) program as an a!er school
extra-curricular club, sponsored by Bowie physics teacher Patricia Dittmar. The pro-gram is the $rst of its kind located in any of the schools within the Austin Indepen-dent School District, said John Gaete, AISD emergency manage-ment coordinator. Teens enrolled in the CERT program may not respond to any on-campus critical
incidents, but they may respond to emergencies and disasters o& cam-pus or within their neighborhoods and community. #e program also intends to raise teen awareness of response readiness in the event of a disaster, critical incident or emer-gency situation. “Jonathan DeLong is a unique individual serving on a national panel—the Youth Preparedness Council. It’s a pretty big deal,” said Gaete. “He is impressive. I don’t think we could have chosen a better leader for CERT at Bowie.”
DeLong felt inspired while tag-ging along with his mom, mental health responder Laurie DeLong, while caring for people displaced by Katrina, who lived in the Austin Convention Center for weeks a!er-wards. He also acted as an honorary member of the Austin Adult CERT program over the past seven years. “I can still remember everything about that time in 2005 at the Con-vention Center. I remember the smell. Sometimes when I get a whi& of that smell or something bad in the trash, that smell brings back all those memories,” Jonathan DeLong said. #e smell was caused by the water and other elements that evacuees had to wade through to escape the storm and had permeated their clothing and sparse belongings they brought with them from home. #e sights inside the convention center also assaulted his senses, he said. “I had to walk through triage, an area where medical service personnel determine the degree of emergency treatment needed for incoming patients based upon their injuries. #ere were countless people. I looked to my le! and saw nothing but cots and I looked to my right and saw nothing but more cots along with a projector screen hang-
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You’re familiar with the old say-ing, “Don’t shoot me. I’m only the messenger.” To this I say pish and posh. !is old adage doesn’t apply anymore. !e messenger today IS the problem. !e messenger—this insincerely smiling, hair-weaved, plastic-faced talking head—needs to be shot in the behind with a paintball gun, and his message needs to be torn up, stomped on, and burned to ash. Pish and posh, I say. !e messenger I’m pishing on poshing on, of course, is the me-dia—namely, the national outlets: CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc. Do you ever stop to wonder why your stomach is nervous and sour all the time now, why your heart beats out the bossa nova, why you fret and bite your lip bloody just sending the kids to the school bus stop? !e media, I tell you. It’s the media. Because of our nonstop over-exposure to the national news organizations’ sensationalistic babble, we have all come to believe, consciously or not, that our world has become a living hell. As each of us workaday folks tries so hard just to crawl out of bed each morning to keep food on the table, the electricity on, and our
children on the straight and narrow, we have to combat that nagging, pecking sense of doom—that we’re only a mere happenstance away from grisly death, violent criminal mayhem, or worse, a government-led social-ist agenda. Two real, recent exam-ples of headlines from CNN: “Weatherman Eats Cat Vomit” and“Teens Attack Mom; Plan to Eat Her Liver.” No lie. Did we truly need to know this? And did these teens plan this liver feast a"er watching the weatherman scarf cat puke? !ese kinds of “news items” are not merely useless—they’re harmful. Every single cotton-picking day you have to digest (no pun intend-ed) BREAKING NEWS of the latest multiple homicide, the most shock-ing tale of kidnap, abuse, and mis-treatment, the most recent sordid instance of demented behavior (and sometimes this doesn’t even involve Congress) such as the headlines above. !e thing of it is—and here is where you have to stop yourself
and understand motives—the world really isn’t all that bad. Really, it isn’t. It’s the media’s job, however, to make you feel that way. It’s not CNN’s goal per se to give every man, woman,
and child in America a massive case of peptic ulcers, but it is their job to make money. And gruesome, terrible, apoc-alyptic headlines mean more views, which mean more advertisers, which mean more money. With news on a 24-hour-a-day-eight-days-a-week cycle now, every second of the day we are fed the most grisly, horri#c stories that these “news gatherers” can find—
because that’s what they think we want to see. But here’s the deal. We’re not going to hell in a handbasket; it just feels like it. Did you know, for example, that since the early 1990s, crime has actually declined in the United States and that current crime rates are no worse than they were in the 1960s? True, these stats come from the U.S. Bureau of Justice. !e ho-micide rate in America has declined substantially since 1992 from a rate of 9.8 per 100,000 persons to 4.8 in 2010, according to latest #gures. !at’s still high, as far as the rest of the industrialized world goes, but, hey, in Russia it’s 13 per 100,000, and in Venezuela it’s 48 per. And nobody here commutes to Honduras, right? !ere, the homicide rate is 78 per. We’re practically a Buddhist mon-astery by comparison. Here’s more: A research think tank known as the Millennium Project produced these eye-opening num-bers in 2011:• !e average life expectancy world-wide rose from 64 years in the mid-1980s to 68 years today.• Infant mortality worldwide has fallen from nearly 70 deaths per 100,000 people to 40 deaths today.• Poverty, de#ned by the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 a day, fell from 43 percent of the world population in the mid-1980s to 23 percent now.
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• #e percentage of the world popu-lation with access to water rose from 75 percent to more than 86 percent.• Secondary school enrollment rose from 45 percent in the mid-1980s to nearly 70 percent today.• The number of major armed con$icts declined from 37 in the mid-1980s to 26 today. Unfortunately, these kinds of num-bers aren’t found on your average national news site now. In fact, if you ask me, the best, most useful news you can !nd these days is in your local, community newspaper.
This Old Spouse Continued from p. 4 #e little weeklies and bi-weeklies
that actually cover neighborhood news, civic involvement stories, and human interest items that have nothing at all do with cats in microwave ovens, are where you’ll discover “news you can use.” As far as Fox and CNN and all the rest are concerned, pish and posh, I say.
Roger White is a freelance writer living in Austin, Texas, with his lovely wife, two precocious daughters, a very fat dachshund, and a self-absorbed cat. For further adventures, visit oldspouse.wordpress.com.
!e word from Oak Hill is... news. I’ve got lots of news items this week. Let’s start with the Taco Bell tree. More speci!cally, it’s the Heritage Oak tree on Hwy. 290, where the Taco Bell used to be, on the northeast corner of William Cannon. A group of local citizens are trying to save it. But it’s no cheap trick, as it’ll cost $77,000 to move the tree to a new location, according to Andrea B. Street, one of the leaders of the save-the-tree e"ort. “We did receive a $59,000 grant from the city of Austin,” Andrea writes. “However, we the communi-ty must come up with the remaining balance of $18,000 by the end of the year to save this beautiful Heritage Oak from its ultimate demise.” Donations are tax deductible and checks should be made out to the Austin Parks Foundation, the non-pro!t that manages the Taco Bell Tree fund. Be sure to write Heritage Oak Foundation or Taco Bell Tree in the memo section. Checks can be sent to Austin Parks Foundation, 507 Calles Street, Suite 116, Austin, Texas 78702 or you can call Andrea directly at 512-552-3057 and she’ll come by and pick up the check herself. For more information, check out the website at austinheritaget-reefoundation.com. Now. If only they could have saved Taco Bell. I could de!nitely go for a smothered burrito for lunch.
• • • Publicist Katherine Taylor tells me that an Austin family called #e
Hornsby’s will be on Steve Harvey’s version of Family Feud this Nov. 7. Please check your local listings. I will also be featured in a family feud this November, although we call it by its tradition-al name, Thanksgiving dinner.
• • • Speaking of shows, local singer Jazz Mills will be having her EP release party Nov. 9 at Strange Brew, the great new ven-ue (new to me, anyway) located at 5326 Manchaca Rd. across the corner from Crockett High School. Ms. Mills has opened for Cold-play, Stevie Wonder, Arcade Fire and Fleet Foxes among others. She’s also collaborated with #e Black Angels, #e Kills, and Leopold and His Fiction. Among others. #e eclectic Mills will perform a vast range of styles, from folk to pop to throwback vintage tunes. If you want to hear a sample of her work, please point your browser at http://vimeo.com/60887101 to watch her video “Little Baby.” I checked out a review copy of her self-titled EP online and it’s not bad. For the most part it’s sparsely arranged—think jazz combo—with the exception of a song called, sim-ply, “Pop Song.” But it lives up to the name. Very catchy tune. Her show at Strange Brew starts at 10 p.m. with tickets priced at $10 or $12, which you can buy online at holdmyticket.com/event/153765.
• • • Meanwhile, back in beer news…
Austin Beer Week continues with another Jester King sighting. #e local brewery will be featured in a cheese and beer pairing at Épicerie Café & Grocery, 2307 Hancock
Drive on Sunday, Nov. 3 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased online at epiceriejesterk-ingcheesebeer.eventbrite.com/. Or you can do like me and buy yourself a six-pack of Shiner and a can of Cheese Whiz and pretend you were there.
• • • Got a couple of items outside the Hill. In San Marcos, Texas State Uni-versity will present Save #e Night, Nov. 7 from 7-8:30 p.m. at the WTF Gallery. I’m sorry, that’s the Wittli" Gallery. Bad eyes. Co-presenting the lecture will be Paul Bogard, author of #e End of Night, Searching for Natural Dark-ness in the Age of Arti!cial Light. “A starry night is one of nature’s most magical wonders,” Bogard writes in his book. “Yet in our arti!cially lit world, three-quarters of Americans’ eyes never switch to night vision and most of us no longer experience true darkness.” Bogard will be joined by Cindy Cassidy onstage.
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TxDOT and the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority intro-duced criteria to narrow the options for the Oak Hill Parkway project at an Oct. 22 open house at Covington Middle School. Each concept will be evaluated by three measures: Improvement of mobility and op-erational e!ciencyCriterion: how well the project reduces through-travel tra!c time, improves local mobility on major thoroughfares, improves operation-al e!ciency of U.S. 290 and SH 71 and reduces local tra!c congestion. Increased multimodal travel op-tions for people and goodsCriterion: how well the project pro-vides opportunity for multimodal travel options. Improved safety and emergency responseCriterion: how well the project cor-rects geometric de"ciencies within project limits, upgrades facility to current design standards and serves as a reliable route for emergency response organizations. Kelli Reyna, TxDOT public in-formation o!cer, said the criteria will insure the concepts serve the purpose and need of the project and help narrow the alternatives as the project progresses. “At this point we have every idea,
Oak Hill Parkway open house!" B#!!$% J%&' S&("%) everything out there. We need to get
through which of these is feasible,” Reyna said. “#en of course, the public has been commenting on all of these concepts. We take that into consideration as well, because we want to make sure it’s going to meet the public’s needs, but more importantly, it has to meet the project’s needs because we don’t want to put a project in and spend millions of dollars and not improve the congestion.” Reyna said the project is still in a feedback-gathering stage and the concepts won’t be narrowed until spring or summer of 2014. Ada Drozd, who lives on Old Bee Caves Road, was one of several community stakeholders to attend the open house. “My husband and I both work full time so we’re commuting every morning to and from work. We hit rush hour both ways,” Drozd said. “#at can really add to the amount of time that you’re away from home. We have a daughter that we have to take to day care, and so it really matters to us if we have e!cient and e$ective routes to take out of our neighborhood.” Drozd said she likes concept E1, which includes a route out of Old Bee Caves Road, and concept B, which includes U.S. 290 mainlanes north of the creek without direct
connectors. Drozd said she’s concerned some of the elements in Concept F, which focuses on using non-continuous frontage roads, would limit access to and from her neighborhood. “It’s all well and good to want to improve access for the city at large, but if you’re not even going to con-sider who lives there now, I think that you’ve just failed at step one, which is taking into account those who’ve moved there and are trying to make it their home and make it a good community,” Drozd said. “We want to be considered "rst and foremost in this plan.” Concept F was developed with help from some key Fix 290 members—Fix 290 is a grassroots community organization dedicated to "nding an environmentally responsible solution to the tra!c problem—and is one of the newest concepts to be introduced. Carol Cespedes, a founding mem-ber of Fix 290, said the concept was created in part by looking at what was lacking in the other alternatives. #e organization wanted to create a concept that favors local access roads over frontage roads. “We’re just one of the groups of stakeholders along 290 and I recog-nize that,” Cespedes said. “Critical points on Concept F are really drawn from other concepts.”
Cespedes addressed concerns of Granada Hills neighbors that Concept F would cut o$ the neigh-borhood access to the U.S. 290 mainlanes. “Some of the neighbors are appre-hensive and yet the alternatives for them are probably worse. Coming out of Granada Hills they have two lanes. #ey have two-way access,” Cespedes said. “#ey have access to the main lanes. If they come straight out of Granada Hills in any of these plans they’re not going to be able to get onto the express lanes.” Nancy Long, a resident of Granada Hills, said she prefers Concept C,
which focuses on U.S. 290 main lanes north of the creek with direct connector ramps, and Concept D, which utilizes U.S. 290 express lanes with frontage roads. Long said the frequent bottle-necks at the ‘Y’ make it extremely di!cult to run even the simplest daily errands. “We’ve lived out here since 1983, so we’ve experienced a lot of slow downs. #e main thing is coming out here before the ‘Y’ when it narrows down,” Long said. “Our shopping is actually at the ‘Y’. It’s become so congested there. We need ways to get to and from shopping.” Rick Perkins, Oak Hill Association of Neighborhoods (OHAN) secre-tary and Granada Hills resident, said Concept C is his clear favorite. “It gives us the opportunity for having express lanes as well as local tra!c. When we come out of Granada Hills and we want to stay local and go downtown, go to the HEB or just go to ACC, we can do that,” Perkins said. “We don’t have to worry about high speed tra!c barreling down behind us. #at’s the main thing.” Perkins said OHAN would soon be developing its own list of criteria to narrow down the concepts and will choose one or two top alternatives that the association believes best serves the area. All public comments for the open house must be received by Nov. 1. To see a full list of alternatives and provide feedback visit oakhillpark-way.com.
Visitors to the TxDOT/CTRMA open house study maps provided.
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Rosenberg of the school’s Green Tech Academy, which o!ers classes in technology and environmental studies. “It shouldn’t be our choice when a tree decides it’s going to die or when a tree is going to be gone. If enough people care about that tree to give it nick names, then it should have a chance to have at least another generation of kids who want to run o! and climb it or know why it’s here.” "e environmental courses within the Green Tech Academy at Clint Small are designed to help students develop a connection with nature through hands-on learning. “Each semester we have 400 kids whose focus is on building gardens, watering gardens and maintaining gardens,” Rosenberg said. “If any place was perfect enough for it, it would be our school. "e love that (the students) put into it is going to be something that’s going to help it survive in the long run.” Rosenberg said having the heritage tree on campus would provide an opportunity for the students to learn the special care required for older trees and appreciate the importance of maintaining our natural habitat. “It would work into lessons on
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that have made it to this level. "e amount of carbon they’re pulling in is exponentially higher as they get older,” Rosenberg said. “If we’re losing these old trees but planting new trees, you’re kind of just losing that intake of the carbon and #ltering of the water.” If the tree is moved to Small Mid-dle School it would be cared for by students under the supervision of Rosenberg and other Green Tech Academy sta! who teach the kids how to determine how much water a tree needs, depending on drought conditions and the tree’s age. “We do training programs each semester with our student aids,” Rosenberg said. “With the sixth graders, a lot of times it’s their #rst times being in a garden. It’s their #rst time using tools. So we spend our #rst grading period focusing on tools and tool safety. How to use them, where to use them and when to use them.” Rosenberg said the Green Tech Academy also provides opportuni-ty for cross-curricular education, such as the collaboration between environmental studies students and art students. “Nature should be inspirational,”
said Rosenberg, citing the school’s meditative garden, which features an elaborate labyrinth in the shape of a tree. “Nature should be either incorporated into art or used for art or be inspiration for art.” Fred Tabares, an art teacher at Small Middle School, said he strives to introduce his students to artists who are conscious of the environ-ment and express nature through their works. “I try to get (students) into that transition from making art that looks pretty over your couch versus making art that is an extension of their voice—whatever they believe in,” Tabares said. Despite the school’s hundreds of volunteer arborists and close proximity to the tree, there are still several obstacles that may hinder the ability to transport the tree to the Small Middle School campus, Fossum said. "e 1.8 mile trek, while seemingly short, would likely involve halting tra$c and temporarily removing power lines. “Whenever you have to move a tree like that a long distance, height is a problem because anytime you have to pass under a power line or a streetlight or something like that,
!e beloved century-old heritage oak tree is standing in the way of road improvements at the intersection of U.S. 290 and William Cannon.
usually you’re going to have to take those utilities down,” Fossum said. “"at makes the cost rise a lot to have to interrupt all those utilities.” Andrea Street, an Oak Hill resident who has been going door to door to raise funds for the tree, said she too is concerned about the logistics of transporting the tree down U.S. 290. But Street said while the allocated TxDOT location for the tree—which is across U.S. 290 by the Shell sta-
tion—may prove to be less costly, she would prefer to see the tree go to Clint Small where it can be seen and enjoyed by more people. “I would be more inclined to have it put at the middle school than have it stuck at TxDOT’s location. It’s going to be away from the road. You’re probably not even going to be able to see it from the road,” Street said. “My vote would be for the middle school.”
To donate to the fund to save the Taco Bell tree: Send a check to the Austin Parks Foundation at 507 Calles Street, Ste. 116 Austin, TX 78702 (Write Austin Heritage Tree Foundation—Taco Bell Tree on the memo line.) Donate by phone by calling 512-477-1566 (ext. 1) (Specify that the donation is for the Austin Heritage Tree Foundation—Taco Bell tree and email Michael Fossum at [email protected] with the name of the donor and amount of the donation).Or donate online at austinparks.org/adopter-donations.html. Click on the Austin Heritage Tree Foundaiton box and email [email protected] with the name of donor and amount of the donation. For more information on local heritage trees visit austinheritaget-reefoundation.com.
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Oak Hill sports complex and mak-ing the ball!elds unusable for the foreseeable future. A photo, at once iconic and heart-breaking, shows 9 year-old Branden Wenzlo" sitting on the battered bleachers, his head bowed in grief a#er seeing his beloved ball!elds in ruin. $en the water receded. And the sun came out. And the word spread. Hundreds showed up to clean up the !elds on October 21. Stephen Bega, president of the Oak Hill Youth Sports Association (OHYSA), told the Gazette, “Approximately 250 members of our community came out to assist—including the entire St. Edward’s University baseball team. We cleaned out most of the trash and debris and got the complex looking like an occupied space again.” Head baseball coach Rob Penders of St. Edward’s University, told the Gazette, “I saw the story on the news a#er the storm and knew our players would be happy to help. $ey all played baseball as kids obviously, so it was a great opportunity for our players to assist a cause that they all had an attachment to. When I men-tioned it to the team they all wanted to help the kids get back playing as soon as possible.” While none of the St. Ed’s team had direct ties to Oak Hill, many on the Bowie High School baseball team do. Bowie head baseball coach Sam Degelia said he, too, heard about the %ooding on the news. “I mentioned it during study hall at school to the team, how they once were little and how important baseball is to little kids, how much fun it is to be around their friends, family, and everyone was on board to help out,” he told the Gazette. Lynda and Blake Youngblood have two daughters who have played on Oak Hill so#ball teams for several years. Lynda is the OHYSA Shetland so#ball commissioner. Blake told the Gazette, “We are both amazed at the generous outpouring of sup-port in rebuilding the !elds a#er the %ooding.” While the number of children play-ing youth baseball and so#ball in recent years has decreased, that does not seem true in Oak Hill, where 900 children currently participate in “America’s pastime.” $at number will increase to 1,250 in the spring. Youngblood said, “Recreational
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Continued from p. 1 baseball and so#ball at Oak Hill provides more than just a place to play ball. Oak Hill brings families from all walks of life, who’d never know each other otherwise, together as friends and competitors. It has blessed Lynda and me with so many opportunities to dedicate our time working and learning together with our kids. For our girls, the so#ball program has helped them grow as athletes and competitors, providing them as well with close and enduring friendships.” $ose friendships brought current and former players to the ball!elds to start the cleanup process that will bring the complex back for spring play. Coach Degelia said of his Bowie team members, “Some of our players came up through the Oak Hill Little League and a lot of them have played a game or two there. I actually grew up playing at South Austin Optimist, but I have played a few games there back in the day. It’s a great commu-nity to be a part of.” Added St. Ed’s Coach Penders, “Any communal area is important to a community, especially one that allows players, parents, and coaches the ability to build relationships through teamwork. Many people have had their lives influenced positively by sports at an early age and I know I always look back on my youth baseball days with fond memories.” $e initial stages of design and construction for the Oak Hill com-plex have begun, according to Bega. Ryan Sanders Turf Services, headed by the groundskeeper at the Round Rock Express, will provide new !elds and sod once the infrastructure has been repaired.
Fundraising $e Horn, 104.9 FM, plans to broadcast live from the sports complex on Friday, November 1. Donations will be accepted from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Listeners are invited to come by and meet the on-air personalities throughout the day. Breakfast tacos will be provided by Rudy’s, with pizza from the Austin Pizza Garden. $e Recycling Center will collect scrap metal, old electron-ics and batteries, with 100 percent of the value of the recyclables going to OHYSA. Planet Fitness is auctioning o" Black Card memberships on eBay,
with all proceeds going to rebuild the ball!elds. Restaurants planning an Oak Hill night in November include Chili’s, Jack Allen’s, Double Dave’s, Craigo’s, Doc’s, Golden Chick, the Melting Pot and Zingers. A Gala/Silent Auction will be held November 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Eleven Plates & Wine in Westlake. OHYSA is currently soliciting business and individuals for items to contribute to the bene!t. Whole Foods Market is sponsoring a movie night in mid-November. $e movie to be shown: $e Sandlot. $e Oak Hill Business and Pro-fessional Association is turning its
December 5 holiday party into a fundraising event for OHYSA. For the latest on fundraising ef-forts, see the OHYSA website, http://www.ohysa.com/, or its Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/rebuildoakhill. Coach Penders sees a lot of good coming from the a#ermath of the %ood. He said, “It was great to see how the people who run the ball-!elds were so proud of their facility. $e amount of people they had out there for the cleanup day is proof of their leadership and you can tell this will just be a temporary setback. $e facility will soon be better than ever thanks to their e"orts.”
Players work on batting cages.
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Ongoing EventsSundays
Live Jazz Brunch- 10am-2pm. Nutty Brown Cafe, 12225 Hwy. 290 W., 78737. 301-4648. www.nutty-brown.com.
Tessy Lou Williams & The Shotgun Stars- 3pm at Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood. No cover.
Mondays
Charles Thibodeaux and the Austin Cajun Aces- 6:30pm at Evangeline Cafe, 8106 Brodie Lane. 282-2586.
Texas Songwriters Showcase - 6:30pm Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W., Spice-wood. No cover.
Tuesdays
Kem Watts - 4pm Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood. 264-03183
No Bad Days Open Mic - 7pm at Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood.
50+ Singles Dance- 7:30-9:45 Live Music. Senior Activity Center 29th & Lamar. 2874 Shoal Crest. www.!ftyplusdanceaustin.com
Trivia Night - Wednesdays at Wa-terloo Ice House, Southpark Mead-ows, 9600 South I-35 Service Rd. SB, Suite D-100. 512-301-1007. wa-terlooicehouse.com.
The Peacemakers- 10pm at Evan-geline Cafe, 8106 Brodie Lane. 282-2586.
Open Mic Night- at Nutty Brown Cafe, 12225 W Highway 290, Free.Thursdays
KGSR Unplugged At The Grove -every Thursday evening through Sept 6th. Join KGSR every Thurs-day for 23 consecutive weeks at Shady Grove on Barton Springs Road for one of Austin’s longest running free concert series.
Karaoke- at Boomerz Nightclub, 6148 Hwy 290 W.. 892-3373.
Tony Harrisson / Dance Lessons / Jesse Dayton- 6pm - 9:15pm / 9:15pm at the Broken Spoke, 3201 S. Lamar. 442-6189.
Open Mic with your host, Ga-rett Endres. Starts at 9pm every Thursday 290 West Club 12013 W Hwy 290
“Thirsty Thursday” gathering- Poems and songs will be shared
in a round robin, open mic atmo-sphere following the featured pre-sentation. On the third Thursday of every month. Free. Food pantry do-nations are welcomed. 7pm at New Life Lutheran Church, 120 Frog Pond Lane in Dripping Springs. For more info call 858-2024.
Third Thursday at The Blanton- free evening of art and activities. 5-9pm at Blanton Museum, Brazos and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. blantonmuseum.org/.
Fridays
Friday night Dance Club- w/ Western bands and a Pot Luck break. 7:30pm-10pm at South Austin Activity Center, 3911 Manchaca RD, Austin. $4.50.
Saturdays
New Events
November 1 - November 3
XXV - Anticipation of Next - Fri & Sat @ 8pm, Sun @ 2pm. Tapestry Dance Company performing Amer-icas only indigenous dance form: Tap! Stateside at the Paramount 713 Congress Ave. 512.472.5470 [email protected]
Sat. & Sun., November 2 & 3
Austin Celtic Festival - 12pm - 7:30pm world class music, dance, sports, history, animals and fun for you and your family. Fiesta Gar-dens 2101 Jesse E. Segovia www.austincelticfestival.com
Monday, November 4
Mariza - 8pm Mariza (vocals), Jose Manuel Neto (Portuguese guitar), Pedro Joia (guitar), Vicky Marquez (drums). Bass Concert Hall E. 23rd St. and Robert Ded-man Dr. online at www.livenation.com or www.TexasPerformingArts.org, or by calling (512) 477-6060
Tuesday, November 5
The Doobie Brothers - 8pm doors @7pm The Paramount Theatre 713 Congress Ave. 512.472.5470 [email protected]
Wednesday, November 6
The Price is Right LIVE - 7:30pm The Long Center 701 W. Riverside Dri. (512) 457-5100 [email protected]
November 7 - November 16
Alamo Aftermath: A Texas Revo-lution Operetta - 8pm (Thursday, Friday, Saturday for two weeks) In-spired by letters and memoirs from the Texas Revolution. City Theater 3823 Airport Blvd. www.texshows.com or call 512/569.6155
Thursday, November 7
Bob Schneider - 9pm doors at 8pm All proceeds from the show will bene!t American YouthWorks. Austin City Limits live at the Moody Theater 310 Willie Nelson Blvd. Venue: (512) 225-7999 Tickets: (877) 435-9849
Saturday, November 9
Is There Life After Lubbock? - 8pm doors@7pm Join host Jaston Williams and his guests Joe Ely and Jo Carol Pierce as they share stories, poetry, laughter and a few songs, while trying to answer the question on everyone’s mind: Why Lubbock? Feel free to wear your house shoes, sip on long necks, and ask any question within rea-son. The Paramount Theatre 713 Congress Ave. 512.472.5470 [email protected]
Sunday, November 10
Harry Connick, Jr. - 8pm This performance with his band will be in support of his new album re-lease, Every Man Should Know.Bass Concert Hall E. 23rd St. and Robert Dedman Dr. online at www.livenation.com or www.TexasPer-formingArts.org, or by calling (512) 477-6060
Arts & Entertainment Community Clubs & EventsOngoing Events
South Austin Mystery Book Club - 7:30 pm on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, at the Sunset Val-ley Barnes & Noble on Brodie Ln. Our April 16th book is Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn. If you have ques-tions please email [email protected].
Conversation Cafe - Drop in for open, public dialogue on a variety of topics. Every third Saturday from 10:30am-11:30am at the Hampton Branch of the Austin Public Library at Oak Hill, 5125 Convict Hill Rd.. Free and open to the public. 512-974-9900 / cityofaustin.org/library.
Classes and meditation - with Western Buddhist nun, Gen Kel-sang Ingchug. Every Sunday at 9:30am at Chittamani Buddhist Center, 1918 Bissel Lane, 78745. Everyone welcome. Spiritual counselling by appointment. Call for free brochure. 916-4444. medi-tationinaustin.org.
Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter - Meets monthly on the second Sunday of the month at 2pm at the Westlake Barnes & Noble bookstore, corner of Loop 360 and Bee Cave Road,. www.hotxsinc.org.
VFW Post 4443 meeting - Meets on !rst Tues. of month from 7-8:30pm at 7614 Thomas Springs Road in Oak Hill. Members and potential members are encour-aged to be there around 6pm to gather for dinner. There is no cost.
The Oak Hill Rotary Club -Meets at noon on the !rst three Mondays of the month at Mandola’s Italian Market, 4301 W. Wm. Cannon. More info at 288-8487 See www.oakhillrotary.org for other activities and events.
Circle C Area Democrats - 6:30-8:30pm at Santa Rita in the Es-carpment Village. Meets on sec-ond Mondays of month. For information:circlecareademocrats.org.
Toastmasters Groups - Build leadership and communication skills in a friendly, supportive at-mosphere. Visitors welcome. Tejas Toastmasters: 288-7808/ tejastoastmasters.org. Meets ev-ery Mon. at 6 pm at IHOP, 1101 S. Mopac. South Austin Toastmas-ters: meets !rst and third Tues-day at noon at ACC South Austin Campus, 1820 W. Stassney Lane. Phone 443-7110 or 288-7808. Oak Hill Toastmasters: meet every Thursday from 6:45-8pm at West-ern Hills Church of Christ, 6211 Parkwood Drive. Open to ages 18 & up. 956-494-4809 / oakhill.free-toasthost.biz for more info.
Alzheimer’s Caregiver Suppor-Group - 2nd Wednesday of the
month at noon at Arveda Alzheim-er’s Family Care, 11013 Signal Hill Drive, 78737. Anyone caring for a loved-one with dementia and needing support is invited. RSVP to 512-637-5400 and feel free to bring your own lunch. www.arve-dacare.com.
Senior Luncheon Program - Se-niors (over 60) meet at 8656 Hwy. 71 W, Bldg A, next to JP bldg every Tues, Wed and Thurs from 10am-2pm. Transportation available. Call 512-854-2138 for more info.
Oak Hill Neighborhood Plan-ning Contact Team - Meets fourth Wednesday of the month at the ACC Pinnacle Campus, 10th Floor Board Room. www.ohnpct.org.
MOMS Club of Austin - South-west Oaks - Social and support group for stay-at-home moms and their children. Meet new friends, and enjoy a guest speaker. Monthly meeting at Oak Hill United Methodist Church, 7815 W Hwy 290. 10am on the !rst Thursday of every month. For more info, email [email protected].
Southwest Networking Group (SWING) - meets for breakfast at Waterloo Ice House, Slaughter Ln. & Escarpment Blvd., 9600 Es-carpment Blvd.. 8-9:30am. Bring business cards. For more info call 482-9026 or 921-4901. Thursdays.
South Austin AARP Chapter 2426 - Tom Bauer will talk about leadership styles and best prac-tices, 1pm - 4pm at South Austin Senior Activity Center, 3911 Man-chaca Rd. Free. Meets on third Wednesday of the month. For more info call Mary at 280-8661. www.southaustinaarp.org.
OHBPA Meeting - (Oak Hill Busi-ness Professionals Association). Meets every !rst Thursday of the month from 11:30am-1pm at Man-dola’s Italian Market, 4301 W. Wm. Cannon $15. ohbpa.org.
Retired Austin Travelers - a group for people who love to travel. Regular meetings are held the second Wednesday of odd-num-bered months, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM,in the Oak Hill Library at 5124 Convict Hill Road.. ratsonline.org.
Creative Arts Society - Meets on !rst Wed. of month (except Jan.,July, Aug.) at ACC Pinnacle, 10th "oor, faculty lounge. 6pm net-working. 7pm program. All artists and art enthusiasts are welcome. creativeartssociety.org 288-0574.
South Austin Lions Club -Meets every second and fourth Thursday6pm – 7pm Premier High School at Travis 1211 E. Oltorf On the campus of Travis High School, follow Premier sign as you enter driveway, veer right. http://www.e-
clubhouse.org/sites/austin_south/
New Events
October 10 - November 21
A Matter of Balance - Thursdays 10am - 12pm A program designed to manage falls and increase activ-ity levels. Seton Southwest Medical Center 7900 RM 1826 Call 512-324-9000 ext. 89109 to register. Sponsored by the Area Agency on Aging of the Capital Area FREE
Saturday, November 2
Austin Powwow and American Indian Heritage Festival - Out-door storytelling, an American Indian arts and crafts fair, and an American Indian dance contest. Toney Burger Ctr. 3200 Jones Road Hosted by the City of Sunset Valley
Sunday, November 3
The Contemporary Picnic - 11am - 2pm Gather with friends to prac-tice the !ne art of a picnic brunch, while discovering newly commis-sioned sculptures by Liam Gillick and Marianne Vitale on the pictur-esque grounds of Laguna Gloria. $15/ $10 for members
Sat. & Sun., November 9th & 10th
Beauty360 Expo - Educational presentations, panels and how-to classes as well as fun things like styling & services, product give-aways, !tness classes, runway shows and more bene!ting Komen Austin on Race for the Cure week-end. Palmer Events Center Beau-ty360Expo.com
Saturday, November 9
Taste of Greece - 9am - 10pm Join the fun of a Greek music, Bazaar, traditional dancing, authentic Greek food and delicious pastries. Trans-!guration Greek Orthodox Church 414 St. Stephens School Road 512-329-6363
Monday, November 11
Rotary Club of Dripping Springs Veterans Day Tribute - 5:30 - 10:30 The food service will begin at 5:30. Live music from the Kyle Family and Chad Hudson from 6pm until 7pm. A ceremony and tribute to our veterans will start at 7pm and end at 7:30pm. The Hot Texas Swing Band will round the night off with great live music entertainment. Mercer St. Dancehall 322 Mercer St. mercerstreetdancehall.com
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New Events
Thursday, October 31
Cornell Hurd - 9:15pm Broken Spoke 3201 South Lamar 442-6189
Halloween Party - 7:30pm Ura-nium Savages - 8:30pm Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood. 264-0318 $10
Friday, November 1
Hook Herrera Denny Freeman Gil T Isais Mike Hook - 10pm Evangeline Cafe 8106 Brodie Lane 512. 282-2586
Charlie Pierce - 4pm Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood. 264-0318
T Jarrod Bonta Trio - 7pm Satel-lite Bistro & Bar 5900 Slaughter Ln #400 288-9994
The Eggmen - 7:30pm at the Nutty Brown Cafe 12225 Highway 290 West 512-301-4648 $7
Strings Attached plays Paul Si-mon - 10pm Strange Brew 5326 Manchaca Rd 512-828-7636 strangebrewloungeside.com $15
Saturday, November 2
Cameron Riggs - Brunch Night Train with Courtney McAdams 7pm Satellite Bistro & Bar 5900 Slaughter Ln #400 288-9994
Lake Travis Fiddlers CD Re-lease - 3pm Boardertown Boot-leggers - 6:30pm Central Market 4477 S. Lamar Blvd. 512-899-4300 Free
Cold Steel Revolver - 7pm at the Nutty Brown Cafe 12225 Highway 290 West 512-301-4648 Free
Cats Uncaged Tour - 9am Fea-turing Jackson Galaxy of My Cat From Hell. There will be on site adoptions all day at the event. Come meet your new best friend! This is a pet-friendly event. Glenn Theater at the Backyard 13801 Bee Cave Pkwy 512-651-5033
Eloy Santos Bene!t - 4:30pm Artists: Mike Ethan MessickEmily Grace Clark & Friends & more at the Nutty Brown Cafe 12225 High-way 290 West 512-301-4648 Free
Monday, November 4
Texas Music Showcase George Ensle hosts Mike Beck - 8pm Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W Spicewood. 264-03183
Tuesday, November 5
Durawa with WC Clark - 6pm Strange Brew 5326 Manchaca Rd 512-828-7636 strangebrewloung-eside.com $5
Wednesday, November 6No Bad Days - Open Mic hosted by Mark Allan Atwood - 4pm Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood. 264-0318
Happy Hour with My Buddy Todd - 5:30 Chisos Grill 12921 Hill Country Blvd. 512-263-7353 chisosgrill.com
The Musician’s Woodshed - 7pm at the Nutty Brown Cafe 12225 Highway 290 West 512-301-4648 Free
The Lost Pines - 6:30pm Central Market 4477 S. Lamar Blvd. 512-899-4300
Proper Nang Night - 6pm rockin music and any donations received go to support growing Austin High School bands! Maria’s Taco XPress 2529 S. Lamar 512-444-0262 tacoxpress.com
Jazz Mills EP pre-release Show - 8pm Strange Brew 5326 Man-chaca Rd 512-828-7636 strange-brewloungeside.com $10 - $12
Sunday, November 10
Gospel Brunch w/ Cracker Box Gospel Band - 11am Maria’s Taco XPress 2529 S. Lamar 512-444-0262 tacoxpress.com
Ongoing Events
Second Saturdays are for Fami-lies - $7 per family; $5 Member families. Noon-4pm at Austin Mu-seum of Art, 823 Congress Ave. Please RSVP to [email protected] to give an idea of materi-als needed. 512-495-9224 / www.amoa.org.
At Austin Children’s Museum: Community Night - Come out and play EVERY Wednesday night at 5pm and enjoy exhibits, storytime and a variety of hands-on activities.Themed stories, songs,d activities. Tuesday - Saturday: 11am, 1pm & 3pm. Baby Bloomers- Every Mon.. For kids 3 & under & their caregiv-ers. Storytimes 9:30 & 11am; Sing-a-long 10:30am at Austin Children’s Museum, 201 Colorado St.. 472-2499 / ausinkids.org.
Storytime - Tuesdays & Wednes-days at the Hampton Library, 5125 Convict Hill Rd. Toddler at 10:15 am, Preschool (ages 3-5) at 11am. 892-6680. wiredforyouth.co
Austin Zoo & Animal Sanctuary - Join us in making Animal Enrich-ment (toys for animals) every Mon-day and Wednesday at 11:30am in the Picnic Grove and Story Time on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:15am and 1:15pm in the Pea-cock Barn. Both activities are in-
cluded with regular Zoo admission. 10808 Rawhide Trail, Austin 78736. For additional information, call 512-288-1490 or visit www.austinzoo.org.
New Events
November 1 - November 24
Into the Woods - Friday & Satur-day evenings at 7:30 and Sunday afternoons at 2:00 Into the Woods weaves together characters from several familiar fairy tales. What begins a lively irreverent fantasy becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children. The EmilyAnn Theatre & Gardens 1101 FM 2325 in Wimberley. Tickets are available at www.emilyann.org.
Saturday, November 2
The Little Engine That Could™ Earns Her Whistle - 12pm One World Theater 7701 Bee Caves Road. [email protected] 512.330.9500 ext 5
Gorgeous Millie’s Touch a Truck - 9am - 2pm touch and climb on over 20 vehicles including !re trucks, ambulance, police car, limousine, RV, and more! Also included is lo-cal Austin cuisine, a bounce house, petting zoo, face painting and live entertainment! Bene!ting the Aus-tin Childrens Shelter. Bridge Point Elementary School 6401 Cedar St, Parking at Riverbend Church $5
Saturday, November 9
Learn to Fish Day - 9am - 12pm Take away a !shing fun pack and enter the drawing for door prizes. Equipment and bait provided or bring your own. McKinney Falls State Park 5808 McKinney Falls Pkwy 512-751-5418
Outdoors & Fitness
Ongoing Events
Farmer’s Market at Sunset Valley - Locally grown fresh produce at Tony Burger Center, 3200 Jones Rd. Saturdays from 9am-1pm. www.sfcfarmersmarket.org.
Free Introduction to Dance Class - for adults and teens. Every Saturday at 11am at Tapestry Dance Company & Academy, Western Trails Blvd., Austin. www.tapestry.org.
Docent Tours of AMOA - Each Saturday and Sunday 1pm Docent-led tours of the recently restored 1916 Driscoll Villa, the intimate art exhibition Laguna Gloria Grounded and the historic gardens overlooking Lake Austin. at Austin Museum of Art, 823 Congress Ave. 512-495-9224 www.amoa.org.
Texas Outdoor Women’s Net-work - Open to women of all ages interested in outdoor activi-ties. !shing, kayaking, camping, hiking and more! No experience required. Free monthly meetings on fourth Tuesday of each month at 6pm at the LCRA Red Bud Complex, 3601 Lake Austin Blvd. . www.townaustin.org.
Hill Country Outdoors- “Austin’s Most Active Outdoor, Sport and
Social Club” Specializing in ad-venture with outdoor events such as hiking, camping, biking, road trips and rafting. www.hillcountry-outdoors.com.
Westcave Preserve public weekend tours- Sats. and Sun-days, 10am., noon, 2pm & 4, $5 adult/$2 child/$15 family. One mile hike into the canyon & back. Kids welcome w/ adult. No pets. For more info call (830)825-3442 westcave.org.Guided Hike - Second Saturday & second Sunday of each month at 9am at Bright Leaf Natural Area, 4400 Crestway Dr., Austin. Hikes are usually 4 miles long and last about 2 hours. Wear sturdy shoes and bring your own water. www.brightleaf.org
Boot Camp Workout - At 9am every Saturday, our expert coaches will lead you through a muscle ton-ing, fat burning, FREE 45 minute boot camp class! Bring your ten closest friends and jump start your weekend. Mills Elementary School1-877-801-8171, extension 710
Nature Hike at McKinney State Falls - Free interpretive hikes to discover the diverse range of "ora and fauna that can be seen at McKinney Falls. Hikes are offered
the 2nd & 4th Saturday of each month starting at 10am from the Smith Visitors Center. Wear com-fortable shoes, a hat, and bring water. Hikes last approximately 1.5 hours. Info contact: [email protected]
New Events
Saturday, November 9
Light The Night Walk - 4pm Walk and fundraise in honor of those lives touched by cancer. Lake Park at Mueller 4550 Mueller Blvd www.lightthenight.org
Sunday, November 10
Race for the Cure in Circle C - 10am This 5k event in the park, takes place at the same time as the official event downtown. Proceeds will go directly to the Komen Austin Foundation. Circle C Metro Park. register for the event, www.circlec-race4cure.eventbrite.com
Monday, November 11
Veteran’s Day Parade - 7am - 9am 7:00 to 9:00 am, Line up at Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridgeparade will proceed up Congress Ave. to the Texas State Capitol; Capitol South Step Entertainment; the Del Valle High School Cardinal Band.
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also included a head-up display so you don’t have to take your eyes o% of the road except to tune the radio. Among the high-tech gadgetry,
though, is a real throwback, though the kids won’t believe it: a push-but-ton starter on the dash. (That’s another current fad, though the last push-button starter we recall was on a 1949 Buick, the year was 1958, and the button was under the gas pedal.) Another thing this Buick brought
to mind was the relative hierarchy of cars in the 1950s. People with a lot of money drove Cadillacs, people with a little money drove Buicks, or, if they had a sporty &air, Pontiacs.
We asked about Buck Rogers be-cause this Buick will do every-thing but &y, al-though, accord-ing to the old en-gineering adage, anything will &y if you put enough power behind it, (though the landing would probably leave something to be desired, like live passengers.) But this new Buick has all the things we thought were right around the corner. (One thing was: at least one of the so-called “Dream Cars” of the 50s had a rear-facing TV camera.) !e new cars like the Buick and
the new Chevrolet are the throw-backs to the big cars of the 1950s, at least on the inside. !e Impala and the LaCrosse are both very spacious and our test unit from Buick was also equipped with every one of the cur-rently-desirable items of equipment
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from air bags and sound equipment to heated steering wheels and seats and navigation system. !e list price for all this and more
on the LaCrosse was a tidy $44,400, though a well-equipped LaCrosse can be had for a list much closer to thirty-nine thousand. Still, if you’re a family and expect to keep the new car for ten years, you might want to think about the kind of safety equipment on this Buick, not all of which may be available on less expensive cars, and opt for the extra cost. Besides, you can’t even guess at how
the relative cost of a mid-50s Buick (probably around three grand) would compare to this new and fully-loaded
Buick. Most of the standard equip-ment and virtually all of the options on today’s cars didn’t even exist in the mid-50s, from the steel-belted radial tires to three-point safety belts (which nobody, or almost nobody, would have worn, anyway), to anti-lock brakes to a sound system we couldn’t even dream about (satellite radio? Not even on the radar, no pun intended. Strip down the least new expensive
car on the U.S. market and it will be far better equipped than the most expensive 1950s Buick, Cadillac or Chrysler. Or Mercedes, Audi or BMW, for that matter. Something to ponder as you test-drive a new LaCrosse…
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Continued from p. 5 Cassidy is a member of the Hill Country Alliance “Night Sky Team” and a Hays County Master Natu-ralist. She will discuss the e!ects of arti"cial light on the natural world. “Almost every living thing on our planet uses the cycle of light and dark to trigger life processes,” Cassidy says. “Humans have come to depend on arti"cial light for nighttime activities. So, how does arti"cial light at night a!ect us as well as all fauna and #ora?” Beats me. $ose attending are asked to refrain from bringing #ashlights and/or laser pointers. But if you do, de"nitely report back to me, as that would be hilarious. And in Dripping Springs, the Rotary Club will sponsor a Veterans Day Tribute Nov. 11 from 5:30-10:30 p.m. at the Mercer Street Dancehall. $ere will be music, there will be food, there will be dancing. Proceeds bene"t local Veterans organizations and the Wounded Warriors Project. Unfortunately, a%er reading the press release, the #yer, the Mercer Street Dancehall website, the Drip-ping Springs Rotary website and the
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Singer Jazz Mills will be having her EP release party Nov. 9 at Strange Brew, 5326 Manchaca.
Rotary Facebook Page, there is no mention of the price of admission. But I doubt it’s free.
• • • $e Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Dept. released a video on mosquito prevention and awareness. As you might recall, we had a local resident die of West
Nile virus caused by mosquito bites, so take this ounce of prevention seriously. $e link to the video is http://youtu.be/f2b8el0498A, but here’s an encapsulation of the four D’s to minimize mosquito bites. • Dusk and Dawn—Whenever possible, avoid prolonged outdoor activity at dawn and dusk when mosquitoes are most active • Dress—Wear long-sleeved, loose-"tting, light-colored clothing. • DEET—Use mosquito repel-lent and carefully follow all label directions. • Drain—Regularly check prop-
erty for water-holding containers and empty them out. It only takes a teaspoon of water for mosquitoes to breed.
• • • $e Austin Zoo is sponsoring a diaper drive. Tell me the truth, are you thinking about chimpanzees right now? I know. It’s also a serious matter, but it just seems like an odd pairing, so I’ll just take it straight from the press release— Austin Zoo and An-imal Sanctuary and Austin Diaper Bank are joining forces to help with this issue. It’s true. From 9:30 a.m. to noon on Nov. 9, diapers and monetary contributions will be accepted at the entrance of the zoo.
And now for the obligatory quote: “Austin Diaper Bank is proud to serve families in the greater Austin area, where we have given out over 20,000 diapers in our "rst four months of operation,” said Exec-utive Director Beverly Hamilton. “We’re keeping babies clean, dry and healthy. We’re also giving parents the opportunity to work. Most childcare providers will not enroll children unless their parents provide a supply of disposable diapers.”
• • • Want your neighborhood associ-ation highlighted? Have a story you need to tell? Would you like to rat out a neighbor? If so, be sure to email me at [email protected] and get the word out.
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Carly Johnson completed the 2013 Austin High volleyball sea-son Tuesday night at Lake Travis and will now focus on playing beach volleyball for the Texas Volleyball Tour. “Carly is our go-to player,” Maroon coach Marie Putman said. “She is a leader on and o! the court and is not afraid to step up in big games. Her energy and drive will be greatly missed next season.” A native of Austin, Johnson attended Patton Elementary be-fore progressing to Small Middle School, where she also played bas-
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Johnny Rochell will return to the Class 4A Region IV track meet this weekend in San Antonio a"er earning a trip to the event as a junior. “He is a really good student who works really hard in the classroom and in cross county,” coach Don Holland said. “He showed some dedication and really enjoyed it.” Born in Austin, Rochell attend-ed St. Elmo Elementary before moving up to Bedichek Middle School, where he also played football, basketball and ran track. Rochell continued to play the
Sophomore quarterback Beau Kalbacher threw for 213 yards and three touchdowns, as Austin High topped Anderson 34-14 to dampen spirits at the Trojan homecoming on their 40th anniversary weekend. “I thought it was a good win for the kids,” coach Mike Rosenthal said afterward. “All their hard work has paid o!.” Sophomore Marcello
Mendoza led all Maroon rushers with a touchdown on a dozen carries for 71 yards. John Albert Mansour scored #rst for the Maroons on a 2-yard plunge and sophomore tight end Jacob Traudt added a successful two-point conversion. Anderson (0-8, 0-4) then scored on a long pass play and connected on an extra point, but Austin High (2-6, 1-3) still led 8-7.
Devon Easty then had a #rst down catch and hauled in the #rst of his three touchdown catches on a scor-ing play in the back of the end zone. “We had to come out and get a win today,” the senior receiver noted. “It was a great win for the guys.” Easty scored another touchdown, before Kalbacher found Casey Schwertfeger for a two-point play
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Austin Eschenburg posted a 173.7 quarterback rating, throwing for three touchdowns in Bowie’s 59-17 victory over Akins Friday evening at Burger Stadium. Running back Cole Myers ran eight times for 105 yards, and Mac McGarah scored three touchdowns and had 153 receiving yards for the night. Preston Oliver and Tyler Walker each recorded six tackles for the Bulldog defense. Bowie opened the game with a nice kick-return by Zach Velasquez to the 40-yard line. Myers then ran for seven yards, before Ben Setter-quist picked up a !rst down on a 4-yard reception. Eschenburg then hit McGarah as the towering wide-out curled toward the goal post for Bowie’s !rst touchdown. Connor Flanigan converted the extra point and Bowie led 7-0. Bulldog linemen Andrew Alvara-do, Clayton Law, Keith McAlonan, Kyle Mealey and Caleb Teague dominated up front for the visitors, and Eschenburg barreled into the end zone on a 1-yard touchdown to extend the Bowie lead. A"er Flanigan connected on a 33-yard !eld goal, the Eagles put three on the board with a 29-yard !eld goal early in the second quarter. Eschenburg then scored again on the ground, and McGarah caught a 62-yard
Bowie over Akins!" P#$%&'( O)*+, touchdown to give Bowie a 31-3
advantage at intermission. Teddy Lowery ran over the goal line in the third period for Akins (3-6, 2-3) before McGarah shined again on a 36-yard touchdown pass from Eschenburg. Alexander Curtis, who had 2 # tackles, scored a special teams touchdown on a blocked punt late in the third quarter. Preston Wheeler entered the game for Es-chenburg and scored on a 16-yard jaunt to complete the scoring for Bowie (7-1, 3-1). Before the game, Bowie retired Michael Griffin’s jersey to honor the former Bulldog athlete who went on to play for the University of Texas and now starts at free safety for the Tennessee Titans in the NFL. Gri$n and his family were on hand for the ceremony.
Gazette: Emmeline Aguirre!e Bowie defense had little trouble keeping the Akins o"ense in check.
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ketball and ran track. Her favorite sports moment occurred last year in a win over Lake Travis. “!at was pretty exciting,” she recalled. Her best game this year was a win over Bowie when she recorded over thirty kills. Pre-calculus instructor Ms. Swail is Johnson’s favorite teacher at Austin High. “She connected with us on a personal level and I really enjoyed that,” Johnson noted. Following graduation, Johnson aims to attend either the University of Texas or Tex-as A&M. “I’d like to major in either
Student Athlete of the WeekCarly Johnson, Austin High
Continued from p. 14 chemical engineering or biomedical engineering,” she added. Johnson’s mother Trish has been a consistent, positive in"uence for the outside hitter. “She’s my biggest supporter,” Johnson stated. “She pushed me every day.” !e senior co-captain has important advice for younger pupils aspiring to play var-sity sports in high school. “Practice more than you think you should,” she said. “Try every sport you think you are interested in because you can #nd out what you like and you can meet a lot of friends.”
Johnny Rochell, Crockett Highthree sports upon arriving at Crockett, and began practicing in the morning with the basketball team last Wednesday. !is spring, he will compete in track and #eld, running anchor in the 4 x 400 and also running the 400 and 800 meter events. His favorite athletic experience happens before cross county meets. “We are motivating each other and we’re all encour-aging each other,” he explained.
Continued from p. 14 English III instructor Ms. Lewicki is Rochell’s favorite teacher at Crock-ett. “She was energetic and related to our problems,” the senior runner said. “She put in time, e$ort and money to help us out.” !e young-est of two children born to Tammy and Johnny Rochell Sr., Johnny Jr. will play guard this winter for the Crockett hoops contingent. His older sister Justice played basketball
for the Lady Cougars. Rochell’s cousin Deshawn provided a positive in"uence for him. “He’s been through some rough times and helped me out a lot,” Rochell added. Participating in cross-coun-try greatly enhances Rochell’s high school experience, he explained. “It helped me because I love the people,” Rochell noted. “I am around good people. Academically, it makes me want to push to strive further.”
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Oak Hill Business & Professional Associationinvites the public to join us at our monthly meeting
November 7, 2013 11:30-1:00at Mandola’s Italian Market4301 W William Cannon (near Mopac)
Come learn about the issues affecting Oak Hill andnetwork with other business owners and professionals.
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that put the visitors in front 22-7 at the half. !e Trojans scored on a short run play, but the Maroons extended the lead with a Mendoza 3-yard blast over the goal line on the "rst play of the fourth quarter. Fine defensive play from safety Chris Elizondo and a sack by defensive lineman Josh Christman shut down the Anderson attack earlier in the "nal period.
Austin over AndersonContinued from p. 14 A "rst down reception by Trey
Blake preceded runs by Mendoza as the Maroons marched down"eld en route to another scoring catch by Easty with 4:22 le# in the game. Anderson $ubbed the catch on a short kick-o% and the Maroons ate the clock to clinch the win. Easty "nished the day with "ve catches from Kalbacher for 78 yards. “Beau was on his game today,” Easty added.
Crockett blanks Lanier Jonathan Garcia recorded six tack-les and snagged three interceptions as Crockett crushed Lanier 49-0 !ursday night at Burger Stadium. !e victory clinched for Crockett a number one seed in the Class 4A Division II Region IV playo%s which begin November 14th. “!e amount of e%ort we put into it has paid o%,” coach John Waugh said. “I knew we were capable of playing well. In all three phases of the game, the kids are doing their job.” Justin Miller ran for a 5-yard touchdown on a reverse to open scoring for the brown and gold against the Vikings. Trevon Louis then intercepted a Lanier (0-8, 0-4) throw and sprinted across the goal line to extend the Cougar advantage. Garcia registered his second pick of the evening, and darted into the
!" P#$%&'( O)*+, end zone before an extra point by Adrian Herrera gave the Cougars a 21-0 lead. Senior defensive back Edzon Ramirez recovered a Viking fumble and scored another defensive touchdown for Crockett (3-5, 3-1). Junior fullback Isjalea Greene scored on a 7-yard jaunt in the third period, and Louis capped scoring in the contest by catch-ing a 28-yard scoring strike from quarterback Zach Ochoa. With the Cougar ground game operating at high e&ciency, Ochoa only threw four passes, completing three for 75 yards. Miller ran for 39 yards on six attempts and Greene "nished with 42 yards on three carries. Defen-sively, Seth Riojas led the Cougars with nine tackles and a sack, while Trevon Harris had "ve tackles and recovered a fumble.
An extra point by Adrian Herrera gave the Cougars a 21-0 lead. Gazette: Geoffrey Ryan
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!e Cougar ground game operated at a very high e"ciency, and Crockett quarterback Zach Ochoa only had to throw four passes.
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Religious ServicesANGLICAN
St. Philip’s Anglican Church 1408 W. 9th St, Austin. 78703 Fr. Gary Francis, VicarHoly Communion1928 Book of Common PrayerSunday 11:00 [email protected] Anglican Worship
ASSEMBLY OF GOD New Life Assembly of God 7612 Cooper Lane, Austin. 78745 (Between Wm. Cannon and Dittmar) Call: 445-5433 Pastor: Charlie HilburnSunday Services: Sunday School 9:30am; Worship & Children’s Church 10:30am; Prayer and Worship Service 6pm Wednesday Services: 7:00pm Kidtastic! * Missio Dei Youth Ministry * Adult Class [email protected] www.newlifeaustin.org connecting...growing...reaching
BAPTIST Bee Cave Baptist Church 13222 Hwy. 71W (at Hwy. 620) 263-5058 Pastor: Rev. Jim Roquemore Services: Sun. 10:45am & 6:30pm, Sunday School 9:30am Children’s church available Sun. am Wed. Prayer & Bible Study 7 pm
First Baptist Church of Oak Hill 6907 Convict Hill Rd 78749 288-7570 Pastor: Rob Satter!eld Services: Sun. 10:50am & 6:00pm Bible Study Sun. 9:30am Wednesday Prayer 6:45pm www."coakhill.org
Oak Hill Primitive Baptist Church 11408 Camp Ben McCulloch Rd. Pastor: Elder Richard Halbgewachs Church: 288-4994 Pastor: 894-4105 Services: Every Sun. 10:30am
BUDDHIST Chittamani Buddhist Center Without Inner Peace, Outer Peace is Impossible. Classes and meditation currently on the 4 Noble Truths. Every Sunday 9:30am -11 am Everyone welcome www.MeditationInAustin.org 1918 Bissel Lane, 78745 (o# Manchaca) 512-916-4444
Sitagu Buddha Vihara 9001 Honeycomb Dr. 78737 (4 miles west of the “Y”). We are a monastery, meditation center, community center, education center
and home of a beautiful Burmese pagoda. Daily activities. sitagu.org/austin/, (512)301-3968 [email protected].
CATHOLIC St. Catherine of Siena 4800 Convict Hill Rd. 78749 892-2420 Pastor Rev. Patrick Coakley Weekend Masses: Sat. 5pm, Sun 8:30am, 10:30am, 12:15pm, 5pm Weekday Masses: Mon-Fri. 12noon, Sat. 9am, Tues & 1st Fri 7pm
CHURCH OF CHRIST Western Hills Church of Christ 6211 Parkwood Drive 892-3532 www.westernhillscoc.com [email protected] Sunday Services:9am Bible Classes (all ages),10am Worship (with Children’s Church) Evening - groups & worship alter-nat-ing weeks Wednesday: 7pm Worship, classes for all ages, 6pm Meal together We have an inspiring and Bibli-cally rich worship service, a very active Youth Ministry and a growing Chil-dren’s Ministry! “We are... a place to believe, a place to belong, a place to call home”
COWBOY CHURCHCowboy Church of the Hill Country 8305 Sharl Cove (slightly south of intersection of Loop 45 and Camp Ben McCulloch Road) 587-2242 Pastor: Jerry [email protected]: Sunday 10 a.m. www.cowboychurchhc.org facebook.com/Cowboy ChurchHC [email protected] We do things the Cowboy way!
EPISCOPALIAN St. Alban’s Episcopal Church 11819 So. IH-35 (exit #223, FM 1327; take north access road 1.1 mile) 282-5631 www.stalbansaustin.org Seeking the transformation of lives through sharing God’s love and grace Rector: $e Rev. Margaret Waters Services: 9 a.m. Come & See! (Blended worship w/ sermon & Holy Eucharist) 10:00 a.m. Co#ee Hour 10:15 a.m. Christian Formation for All Ages (Please go to the website for more details) 11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II 12:45 p.m. Co#ee Hour Children’s Chapel at both services, and professional nursery from 8:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Youth Group, Sundays 4-6 p.m. Bible Study, $ursdays 9:30-11 a.m.
St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church 8724 Travis Hills Dr. 78735 (between Southwest Parkway and Old Bee Caves Road) 288-0128 www.stchristopher.net Rector: $e Rev. Bo Townsend Services: Holy Communion at 10am Sundays; Children’s Chapel at 10 am Christian Ed. 9am (Sept. 10-May 20) Seeking God’s Truth, Sharing God’s Love
ISLAMMasjid Ibrahim Islamic Center Religious Services/Youth & Children Activities 1701 W Ben White Blvd. Bldg. #3 512-693-2924 Friday Sermon @ 1:00 PM Mosque open 7 days for 5 daily prayers Check Mosque website for prayer timings and weekend programs www.masjidibrahim.org Email: [email protected]
LUTHERAN Abiding Love Lutheran Church 7210 Brush Country, 78749 892-4040 Sr. Pastor:Lynnae Sorensen Assoc. Pastor: Brad Highum Sunday Services: 8:30am and 11am Sunday School 9:45 am Children’s Center 892-2777 M-F, 7:00am-6:00pm Food Pantry-Monday, 1:30-3:30pm [email protected] www.abidinglove.org
Bethany Lutheran Church “Where Jesus Meets His Friends” 3701 West Slaughter Lane (next to Bowie High School) 292-8778 email: [email protected] Pas-tor: Rev. William B. Knippa Assoc. Pastor: Rev. Kevin D. Lentz Sun. Worship Services: 8am (Trad.) 9:30 & 11:00 am (Blended Traditional & Contemporary Music) 6:00 p.m. (Contemporary Praise) Sunday School & Bible Study: 9:30am Nursery During Services Bethany Preschool, Mon & Wed pro-gram, Tues & $ur program www.blcms.org
Holy Cross Lutheran Church 4622 S. Lamar 892-0516 Rev. Magdalene Holm-Roesler, Pastor Services: 10:00 am Sunday Study Hour: 9:00 am Sunday
Fellowship & Co#ee a%er services Adult and Children’s Sun. School hclcaustin.org You’re always welcome here.
Mt. Olive Lutheran Church10408 Hwy 290 West(4 miles from the “Y” in Oak Hill)512-288-2370 [email protected]: Paul Meyer and Ben BraunServices: 8 am traditional and 10:30 am contemporary.Education Hour: 9:15-10:15 amPreschool: 18 months to Pre-K,Preschool Phone: 512-288-2330Full and part-time hours.
Risen Savior Lutheran Church-WELS 2811 A%onshire Way 78748 280-8282 Rev. Paul Kuehn, pastor Services: Sunday Worship— 9:30am Sunday School/Bible Classes for all ages, Sunday— 11:00am; $ursday Night Worship— 7:00 pmwww.risensavioraustin.net
METHODIST Oak Hill United Methodist Church 7815 Hwy. 290 W. 78736 288-3836 Rev. Jim Roberts, Rev. Pam She&eld, and Rev. Stella BurkhalterServices: Sunday 8:45, 10 & 11:15am (Interpreted for the deaf at 11:15 service) Wednesday ReCharge service 6:15pmSunday School: 10 & 11:15am Children’s Sunday School: 8:45, 10 & 11:15amYouth group: 5pm www.oakhillumc.org open hearts, open minds, open doors!
Manchaca United Methodist ChurchOpen hearts, Open minds, Open doors!1011 FM 1626 (SE corner of FM 1626 & Manchaca Rd)www.ManchacaUMC.org; o&[email protected]; 512.282.7274Pastors: Rev. Laura Adam, Rev. Tracey Beadle Sunday Schedule: 8:30 am – Traditional Worship with Communion in the Sanctuary.9:45 am - Sunday School; adult, youth and children.11:00 am - Traditional Worship and Hymns in the Sanctuary. 11 am - Life on the Road - Casual Praise Service in the Family Life Center4 pm - High school & Middle school youth programs including tutoringWednesday Worship: 6:00 am - Individual Prayer and Meditation with Communion
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7416 Hwy 71 W, 78735 512-288-8000Worship services: 9:15 and 11:00Children’s Ministry: 9:15 and 11:00Middle/High School 6 pmwww.austinridge.org
LifeAustin 8901 W Hwy 71 78735Phone: 512-220-6383Lead Pastor: Randy PhillipsSun. Services: 9 am Celebration Ser-vice, 11 am Celebration ServiceWed Services: 7 pm Life University, 7 pm Student LifeLifeAustin is a Bible Church - a cosmo-politan community of healing and hope. We are all about connecting people to Christ and to each other.
Unity Church of Austin 5501Hwy 290 West, 78735 (512) 892-3000 [email protected] Rev. Analea Rawson Service 11:00 pm “Our God is love,our race is human and our religion is oneness.” www.unitychurchaustin.org
ORTHODOX St. Sophia Orthodox Church 225 Rose Dr. in Dripping Springs Fr. Peter Smith, Pastor 512) 638-0721 / pcmsmith@hotmail. com (Fr. Peter’s email) www.stsophiachurch.us Services: Sundays- 8:45 a.m. Orthros (Matins) & 10:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy- Wednesdays- 7:00 p.m. Daily Vespers or other special services according to the season Saturdays- 5:45 pm. Ninth Hour & 6:00 pm Great Vespers and Confession Special feast day services as an-nounced All services are in English and visitors are always welcome. !e Orthodox Church is the original, historic, pre-denominational Church of the New Testament. Please join us for worship soon!
PRESBYTERIAN Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church5226 W William Cannon 78749Pastor Larry W. Coulter; Assoc. Pastors Michael Killeen, Britta DukesWorship Schedule: 9:30 & 11:00 a.m.Sunday School: 9:30 & 11:00 a.m.
Shepherd of the Hills Brodie Campusat the corner of Brodie Ln. & Hewitt Ln.12420 Hewitt Lane 78748Ted $ulin, Campus PastorWorship Schedule: 11:00 a.m.Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.Web site: www.shpc.org
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Guests who purchase a medallion will receive a free Duracell 9-volt battery for their home smoke detector, while supplies last. Each restaurant recycles le#over, !ve-gallon pickle buckets and sells them to guests for $2. Donation canisters on register counters explain the non-pro!t mis-sion and collect spare change, while the Round Up Program allows guests to round up their bill to the nearest dollar. All funds raised bene!t the Foundation.
Sub Shop donates defibrillatorsBarn at Bell Springs is a beautiful venue for special occasions Back in the late ’80s Donna Johnson and her husband Bud started raising longhorn cattle in the rolling hills just west of downtown Dripping Springs. To hold the hay to feed the cattle, they built a large limestone barn near the top of a hill. "rough the years, many friends and family members held weddings at that lovely spot and the kitchen that Donna asked Bud to put in the barn really came in handy.
As their herd of Longhorns dwindled down over the years, Donna always thought the barn would make a great events center. In 2011, a#er Bud had passed away, and with the help of local artist, art restoration expert and musician Bill Rider, she was able to turn that vision into a reality and open the Barn at Bell Springs.Set on 16 acres, the Barn is now being used for cor-porate events, weddings,
quinceañeras and parties. In addition to the full kitchen, the Barn has a large dance $oor with a raised stage, a serving room, a saloon and a bridal studio. "e covered porch, outdoor patio and attached deck add more room to enjoy the beauty of the land. “"e venue easily accom-modates parties of up to 150 people,” says Johnson. Every second and fourth Sunday the Hot Texas Swing Band can be found performing from 7pm to 10pm with swing dance les-sons being taught from 6pm to 7pm. "e BYOB event is open to the public and only costs$5. It can be a great introduction to anyone considering using the venue for their own event. "e dances have a dedicated Facebook Page- Drippin’ Dancin’. For more information and to see more pictures of the Barn at Bell Springs, go to the web-site at barnatbellsprings.com.
Donna Johnson and Bill Rider on the back patio of the Barn at Bell Springs.
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ing down where people got to see pictures of their houses destroyed. Everyone stood there watching and waiting to see what they had le!—which wasn’t much—as the reports about the damage done by Katrina in Louisiana came in from CNN,” DeLong said. “I used to carry inside my toys in my backpack. "ere were a lot of children my age or younger and I would give them my toys. It would help them to cope with what they were going through because there was someone else there who was their age and who understood what they were going through.” His presence initially caused some hesitancy among TEXSAR #rst responders at the Austin Con-vention Center, he said. “As long as I stayed with my mom and didn’t stray too far away, or try to take on things that I couldn’t, then it was all right,” he said. “"ere were so many e$ects of Katrina that %owed into the emer-gency response world—con%icts and miscommunications existed within even the Austin Convention Center—and that multiplied tens of thousands of times over throughout the national community. Looking back, I don’t know how people were able to keep it together and work as a team, but they did.” DeLong said that he made a
Bowie teen trains for Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Continued from p. 3 special long-lasting connection with another boy whom he met while spending a few hours every day, over the span of several days, volunteering a!er school with his mother, in the convention center helping the displaced. “I also remember speci#cally this boy about my age, of a di$erent ethnicity. He always had on the same jeans, a T-shirt and tennis shoes. He looked like he had been taken care of by his parents. He stuck out because every day that I went down there to the convention center I saw him with his family. I would always sit down with him. We would talk. He was only about 6 or 7 years old—at that time he was my age, and he had nothing. I gave him a lot of my toys—Hot Wheels cars and stu$ed animals. I don’t remember so much of what we said, as much as just him. I became somewhat close to him and always talked to him a little bit longer than anybody else.” DeLong never learned his Loui-siana friend’s name, nor did he ever learn where the boy went a!er his stay at the convention center. “I went to see him that last day and he wasn’t there. I don’t know what happened to him. His cot wasn’t made. I never got to say goodbye. For some reason, that has just stuck with me,” DeLong said. “I do think about him quite o!en. He forever changed me. I wish I could remember his
name so that I could at least try to #nd him. He’s who got me interested in emergency response.” He said that he also felt as a youngster that the team of adult #rst responders seemed out-numbered by the shear numbers of people with their dire needs inside the temporary hurricane shelter. He remembers the experience instilled in him a sense of duty and obligation for years af-terwards to provide added support for future disasters. “People would take bandages, medicines and supplies as they le! the convention center. "ey would take anything of signi#cance—food, drinks, and electronics with them. Other times, they had (contagious) diseases as they le! the convention center; they le! with the potential of spreading the diseases out in the community,” he said. “Responders had to think both of themselves and everybody else le! inside.” Years later, DeLong said he felt a call to be a #rst responder to vic-tims of a #re at Steiner Ranch that destroyed 50 homes and burned 125 acres in September 2011. He was attending classes at Bowie that day when he heard the news on a television inside a journalism class.
He remembers feeling frustrated by having to wait for the school day to end before he could help CERT alongside of his mother. "ough adult CERT responders must be at least 18 years old to o&cially respond in an emergency, DeLong accompanied his mother to provide food and water to #rst responders at the Steiner Ranch #re station. “"e #rst responders would come in shi!s and they’d rehydrate. We o$ered any #rst aid that they needed before they went back out,” Laurie
“Jonathan DeLong is a unique individual serving on a national panel—the Youth Pre-paredness Council. It’s a pretty big deal. He is impressive. I don’t think we could have chosen a better leader for CERT at Bowie.”
John Gaete, AISD emergency management coordinator
DeLong said. “At his age, there hasn’t been any problem with him (Jonathan) doing that.” For the DeLongs, the pilot CERT program at Bowie represents the realization of their shared goal that began at the Austin Convention Center following Katrina six years ago. Jonathan DeLong and about a half dozen other teens currently enrolled in the program at Bowie, will help realize that goal when they complete
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20 hours of a!er-school training in November. Students committed themselves to attending classes from 4:30 until 7 p.m. each Wednesday throughout the fall semester in order to earn their CERT certi"cation. During their "nal class they will gain "rst-hand experience by partic-
ipating in disaster drill simulations from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday Nov. 16 while training with TEXSAR across the street from the Sunset Valley Police Department, Laurie DeLong said. Austin’s TEXSAR group has opened another branch in Galves-ton; together the two groups provide
Bowie teen trains for Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Continued from p. 22 search and rescue and recovery when requested, throughout the entire state, she said. “#ey serve primarily all across the state, but they have gone out of state when requested,” she said. “We do a lot of body recovery too. When they (TEXSAR) don’t expect to "nd the person (who is reported missing)
alive; those are the calls we (CERT) typically will go on with TEXSAR. We manage the commands for them.” CERT teens will gain the increased awareness and readiness to help other adolescent victims of Cen-tral Texas disasters and large-scale emergencies. “Jon DeLong is a remarkable young man. His experience and knowledge make him a great advocate for Teen CERT,” said FEMA Region 6 Indi-vidual and Community Prepared-ness Specialist Bill Bischof. “We plan on connecting him with teens
in all our Region 6 states so that he can encourage them to participate in Teen CERT.” #e Bowie teens who will become "rst responders will "ll a void, Jon-athan DeLong said. “Youth make up about 25 percent of the population in a disaster. Some of the problems that youths have to go through are di$erent than they are for adults—we have school, we have lost girlfriends, a lot of times youths get really attached to their pets, their makeup, their hygiene products,” DeLong said.
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HOUSECLEANING Debbie’s Hill Country Cleaning Service— $15/hour. 15 years ex-perience. Residential/commercial. Reliable, a"ordable, bonded, in-sured. Weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, move-out specials. Great references. 512-373-0811, [email protected].
Oak Hill Gazette October 31-November 13, 2013.. 25...Oak Hill Gazette December 20-January 9, 2013... 29...Oak Hill Gazette December 6- December 19, 2012... 25
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Drivers: O/Ops. Home Most Nights! Steady Work, Excellent Pay Plus Fuel/Tire Discounts. 24yoa, 2yr Exp, Good MVR. Call 877-606-8231
HELP WANTED
WELDER: Foster Wheeler, a global leader in power systems sectors is searching for Strong TIG Welder’s who are highly mo-tivated and experienced to join our newest fabrication facility in McGregor, TX. Full-time perma-nent positions. Please fax resumes to 908-730-4153 attn John Rambo or apply at www.fwc.com
QUALITY CONTROL: Foster Wheeler, a global leader in power systems sectors is searching for Quality Control Specialist who is highly motivated and experi-enced to join our newest fabri-cation facility in McGregor, TX. Must have experience with NDT Testing. Full-time permanent positions. Please fax resumes to 908-730-4153 attn John Rambo or apply at www.fwc.com
THE VILLAS ASSOCIATION, INC. ,a New Mexico nonpro!t corporation,
Plainti",vs.
PATRICK MICHAEL SMITH; andBAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP#a COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS
SERVICING, LP,a California Limited Partnership,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF SUIT
THE STATE OF NEW MEXICOTO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFEN-DANT PATRICK MICHAEL SMITH GREETINGS:YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the above-named Defendant, $e Villas Association., has !led a Cross-Claim for Debt and Money Due in the above action in which you are named as a defendant in the above-entitled court and cause. $e general object of the action is to obtain a judgment on debt and money due Vista West Homeowners Association, Inc.
Unless you enter your appearance in this action on or before the 3rd day of De-cember, 2012, Judgment by Default will be entered against you.
Name and address of Defendant, $e Villas Association, Inc.’s, attorney: Scott E. Turner, Esq., and Jake A. Garrison, Esq. the Turner Law Firm, LLC, 500 Marquette Ave., N.W., Suite 1480, Albu-querque, NM 87102-5325; Telephone: (505) 242-1300.WITNESS the Honorable Beatrice Brick-house, District Court Judge of the Sec-ond Judicial District Court of Bernalillo County, this 17th day of October, 2012.GREGORY T. IRELANDCLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT
BINGO (Smoke Free) VFW Post 3377 every Wed & Fri 7 pm. Hall rentl available. Manchaca, 12919 Lowden Kane. 282-5665
Gazette ClassifiedsOak Hill Gazette July 12-July 25... 23
Established community news-paper seeks experienced sales representative to handle print and online advertisers. This is a flexible, work from home, part or full-time job. Candidates must be outgoing, organized and self-mo-tivated. Reliable transportation, internet access and computer skills are also necessary. Great income potential for the right person. Please email resume to [email protected].
LEGAL NOTICE
HELP WANTED
BABYSITTING
RELIABLE BABYSITTING Been putting off that “date night” EHFDXVH� \RX� FDQ·W�ÀQG� D� GHSHQG-DEOH�VLWWHU"�&DOO�PH��6RÀD��1RW�RQO\�am I dependable, but also prompt, safety-conscious and most of all, )81��,�DP�ZRUNLQJ�WR�KHOS�SD\�P\�tuition at Texas State, so please call for my references or to set up an interview (512) 892-0672
$Q\�MRE�\RX·YH�JRW��,·YH�JRW�\RX�covered! Baby/house/pet sitting and odd jobs. College student working to pay tuition. Reliable, responsible, punctual. Please call Mallorey, (512) 299-7188 for re-sume and references.
HOUSECLEANING
Playing Señor Buddy’s
Saturday, July 14
7-10pm
Nick Krauss and his Austin Torpedoes
8600 Hwy 290 W
288-0437
Kayt Hansen and Nick Krauss will be performing with the rest of their band.
Auction— Supra, TX1058DZ, ;.%&����%�����EXLOW�������:LOO�be held at South Austin Marine, �����+Z\�����:HVW��$XVWLQ��7;��78735 on July 16, 2012 at 9:00 am.
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Down1. Open a tennis match2. Kilmer classic3. Inactive4. Taylor of "Mystic Pizza"5. Landlord6. Smell, usually a pleasantone
7. Gilpin of "Frasier"8. Catchall abbr.9. Sandwich shop10. Sagacious11. Induration12. Sheltered, nautically13. Paris possessive21. Climbing vine22. All, musically26. Dernier ___27. Squeeze28. Starchy staple29. Baby newt30. Heroin, slangily31. Slippery swimmers32. Watch33. Hungary's Nagy34. Relieves pain35. Mardi ___38. Sums owing39. 401(k) alternative40. Brit. lexicon45. Ceiling fan46. Attila, e.g.47. Speaks publicly49. Pop pieces
50. Meat option51. Form of oxygen52. Leases53. Delhi wrap54. "Dancing Queen" group55. Nailed obliquely56. Memo heading57. Molten rock58. Mutilate, spoil
CROSSWORD PUZZLEACROSS1- Motionless6- Mimicked10- Cries of discovery14- Els with tees15- Network of nerves16- Ad word17- Staggers18- Like some history19- Very, in Versailles20- Probability23- Cornerstone abbr.24- Female gametes25- Salt Lake City athlete26- Call out27- False show32- One telling tales35- Fraud36- Hard water37- Sending signals everywhere41- Man-mouse link42- Efface43- Ova44- Sea bass46- Coal scuttle48- Kind of reaction49- Big ___50- In place of53- Make lurid58- Face covering59- Beethoven’s birthplace60- Claw61- La Scala solo62- Floe63- Incident64- Having wealth65- Summer coolers����6DWLVÀHV
DOWN1- Open a tennis match2- Kilmer classic3- Inactive4- Taylor of “Mystic Pizza”5- Landlord6- Smell, usually a pleasant one7- Gilpin of “Frasier”
...Oak Hill Gazette November 14- November 28, 2012... 25
Gazette Classifieds
Established community news-paper seeks experienced sales representative to handle print and online advertisers. This is a flexible, work from home, part or full-time job. Candidates must be outgoing, organized and self-mo-tivated. Reliable transportation, internet access and computer skills are also necessary. Great income potential for the right person. Please email resume to [email protected].
HELP WANTED CROSSWORD PUZZLEACROSS1- Sound of a horse6- Practice pugilism10- Bog14- Home ______; Culkin movie15- Villainous character inShakespeare's "Othello"16- From17- Cartoon part18- Demeanor19- Blind part20- Slowpoke21- Yielded23- Weep25- Actor Chaney26- Shooting marbles29- Biting32- Exploits37- Source of iron38- Western Indians39- Beginning40- Long-distance shooting?43- Having a handle44- Soothe����/RQJ�ÀVK46- Actress Christine47- "You are ___"48- Leg joint49- Give ___ break!51- Compass pt.53- Aquatic rodent58- Away62- Money63- Netman Nastase64- Stomach woe����'UDIW�FODVVLÀFDWLRQ66- Hand over67- Slow, musically68- Faculty head69- Iowa city70- Cornered
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Drivers: O/Ops. Home Most Nights! Steady Work, Excellent Pay Plus Fuel/Tire Discounts. 24yoa, 2yr Exp, Good MVR. Call 877-606-8231
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THE VILLAS ASSOCIATION, INC. ,a New Mexico nonpro!t corporation,
Plainti",vs.
PATRICK MICHAEL SMITH; andBAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP#a COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS
SERVICING, LP,a California Limited Partnership,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF SUIT
THE STATE OF NEW MEXICOTO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFEN-DANT PATRICK MICHAEL SMITH GREETINGS:YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the above-named Defendant, $e Villas Association., has !led a Cross-Claim for Debt and Money Due in the above action in which you are named as a defendant in the above-entitled court and cause. $e general object of the action is to obtain a judgment on debt and money due Vista West Homeowners Association, Inc.
Unless you enter your appearance in this action on or before the 3rd day of De-cember, 2012, Judgment by Default will be entered against you.
Name and address of Defendant, $e Villas Association, Inc.’s, attorney: Scott E. Turner, Esq., and Jake A. Garrison, Esq. the Turner Law Firm, LLC, 500 Marquette Ave., N.W., Suite 1480, Albu-querque, NM 87102-5325; Telephone: (505) 242-1300.WITNESS the Honorable Beatrice Brick-house, District Court Judge of the Sec-ond Judicial District Court of Bernalillo County, this 17th day of October, 2012.GREGORY T. IRELANDCLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT
BINGOBINGO (Smoke Free) VFW Post 3377 every Wed & Fri 7 pm. Hall rentl available. Manchaca, 12919 Lowden Kane. 282-5665
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...Oak Hill Gazette December 6- December 19, 2012... 25
Gazette ClassifiedsPUBLIC NOTICES
Drivers: O/Ops. Home Most Nights! Steady Work, Excellent Pay Plus Fuel/Tire Discounts. 24yoa, 2yr Exp, Good MVR. Call 877-606-8231
HELP WANTED
WELDER: Foster Wheeler, a global leader in power systems sectors is searching for Strong TIG Welder’s who are highly mo-tivated and experienced to join our newest fabrication facility in McGregor, TX. Full-time perma-nent positions. Please fax resumes to 908-730-4153 attn John Rambo or apply at www.fwc.com
QUALITY CONTROL: Foster Wheeler, a global leader in power systems sectors is searching for Quality Control Specialist who is highly motivated and experi-enced to join our newest fabri-cation facility in McGregor, TX. Must have experience with NDT Testing. Full-time permanent positions. Please fax resumes to 908-730-4153 attn John Rambo or apply at www.fwc.com
THE VILLAS ASSOCIATION, INC. ,a New Mexico nonpro!t corporation,
Plainti",vs.
PATRICK MICHAEL SMITH; andBAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP#a COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS
SERVICING, LP,a California Limited Partnership,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF SUIT
THE STATE OF NEW MEXICOTO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFEN-DANT PATRICK MICHAEL SMITH GREETINGS:YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the above-named Defendant, $e Villas Association., has !led a Cross-Claim for Debt and Money Due in the above action in which you are named as a defendant in the above-entitled court and cause. $e general object of the action is to obtain a judgment on debt and money due Vista West Homeowners Association, Inc.
Unless you enter your appearance in this action on or before the 3rd day of De-cember, 2012, Judgment by Default will be entered against you.
Name and address of Defendant, $e Villas Association, Inc.’s, attorney: Scott E. Turner, Esq., and Jake A. Garrison, Esq. the Turner Law Firm, LLC, 500 Marquette Ave., N.W., Suite 1480, Albu-querque, NM 87102-5325; Telephone: (505) 242-1300.WITNESS the Honorable Beatrice Brick-house, District Court Judge of the Sec-ond Judicial District Court of Bernalillo County, this 17th day of October, 2012.GREGORY T. IRELANDCLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT
BINGO (Smoke Free) VFW Post 3377 every Wed & Fri 7 pm. Hall rentl available. Manchaca, 12919 Lowden Kane. 282-5665
Gazette ClassifiedsOak Hill Gazette July 12-July 25... 23
Established community news-paper seeks experienced sales representative to handle print and online advertisers. This is a flexible, work from home, part or full-time job. Candidates must be outgoing, organized and self-mo-tivated. Reliable transportation, internet access and computer skills are also necessary. Great income potential for the right person. Please email resume to [email protected].
LEGAL NOTICE
HELP WANTED
BABYSITTING
RELIABLE BABYSITTING Been putting off that “date night” EHFDXVH� \RX� FDQ·W�ÀQG� D� GHSHQG-DEOH�VLWWHU"�&DOO�PH��6RÀD��1RW�RQO\�am I dependable, but also prompt, safety-conscious and most of all, )81��,�DP�ZRUNLQJ�WR�KHOS�SD\�P\�tuition at Texas State, so please call for my references or to set up an interview (512) 892-0672
$Q\�MRE�\RX·YH�JRW��,·YH�JRW�\RX�covered! Baby/house/pet sitting and odd jobs. College student working to pay tuition. Reliable, responsible, punctual. Please call Mallorey, (512) 299-7188 for re-sume and references.
HOUSECLEANING
Playing Señor Buddy’s
Saturday, July 14
7-10pm
Nick Krauss and his Austin Torpedoes
8600 Hwy 290 W
288-0437
Kayt Hansen and Nick Krauss will be performing with the rest of their band.
Auction— Supra, TX1058DZ, ;.%&����%�����EXLOW�������:LOO�be held at South Austin Marine, �����+Z\�����:HVW��$XVWLQ��7;��78735 on July 16, 2012 at 9:00 am.
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Down1. Open a tennis match2. Kilmer classic3. Inactive4. Taylor of "Mystic Pizza"5. Landlord6. Smell, usually a pleasantone
7. Gilpin of "Frasier"8. Catchall abbr.9. Sandwich shop10. Sagacious11. Induration12. Sheltered, nautically13. Paris possessive21. Climbing vine22. All, musically26. Dernier ___27. Squeeze28. Starchy staple29. Baby newt30. Heroin, slangily31. Slippery swimmers32. Watch33. Hungary's Nagy34. Relieves pain35. Mardi ___38. Sums owing39. 401(k) alternative40. Brit. lexicon45. Ceiling fan46. Attila, e.g.47. Speaks publicly49. Pop pieces
50. Meat option51. Form of oxygen52. Leases53. Delhi wrap54. "Dancing Queen" group55. Nailed obliquely56. Memo heading57. Molten rock58. Mutilate, spoil
CROSSWORD PUZZLEACROSS1- Motionless6- Mimicked10- Cries of discovery14- Els with tees15- Network of nerves16- Ad word17- Staggers18- Like some history19- Very, in Versailles20- Probability23- Cornerstone abbr.24- Female gametes25- Salt Lake City athlete26- Call out27- False show32- One telling tales35- Fraud36- Hard water37- Sending signals everywhere41- Man-mouse link42- Efface43- Ova44- Sea bass46- Coal scuttle48- Kind of reaction49- Big ___50- In place of53- Make lurid58- Face covering59- Beethoven’s birthplace60- Claw61- La Scala solo62- Floe63- Incident64- Having wealth65- Summer coolers����6DWLVÀHV
DOWN1- Open a tennis match2- Kilmer classic3- Inactive4- Taylor of “Mystic Pizza”5- Landlord6- Smell, usually a pleasant one7- Gilpin of “Frasier”
SUBSTITUTE BUS DRIVERSFLEXIBLE SCHEDULE - TRAINING PROVIDED
$14.00 per hourFor job postings and link to required online application,
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...Oak Hill Gazette December 6- December 19, 2012... 25
Gazette ClassifiedsPUBLIC NOTICES
Drivers: O/Ops. Home Most Nights! Steady Work, Excellent Pay Plus Fuel/Tire Discounts. 24yoa, 2yr Exp, Good MVR. Call 877-606-8231
HELP WANTED
WELDER: Foster Wheeler, a global leader in power systems sectors is searching for Strong TIG Welder’s who are highly mo-tivated and experienced to join our newest fabrication facility in McGregor, TX. Full-time perma-nent positions. Please fax resumes to 908-730-4153 attn John Rambo or apply at www.fwc.com
QUALITY CONTROL: Foster Wheeler, a global leader in power systems sectors is searching for Quality Control Specialist who is highly motivated and experi-enced to join our newest fabri-cation facility in McGregor, TX. Must have experience with NDT Testing. Full-time permanent positions. Please fax resumes to 908-730-4153 attn John Rambo or apply at www.fwc.com
THE VILLAS ASSOCIATION, INC. ,a New Mexico nonpro!t corporation,
Plainti",vs.
PATRICK MICHAEL SMITH; andBAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP#a COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS
SERVICING, LP,a California Limited Partnership,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF SUIT
THE STATE OF NEW MEXICOTO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFEN-DANT PATRICK MICHAEL SMITH GREETINGS:YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the above-named Defendant, $e Villas Association., has !led a Cross-Claim for Debt and Money Due in the above action in which you are named as a defendant in the above-entitled court and cause. $e general object of the action is to obtain a judgment on debt and money due Vista West Homeowners Association, Inc.
Unless you enter your appearance in this action on or before the 3rd day of De-cember, 2012, Judgment by Default will be entered against you.
Name and address of Defendant, $e Villas Association, Inc.’s, attorney: Scott E. Turner, Esq., and Jake A. Garrison, Esq. the Turner Law Firm, LLC, 500 Marquette Ave., N.W., Suite 1480, Albu-querque, NM 87102-5325; Telephone: (505) 242-1300.WITNESS the Honorable Beatrice Brick-house, District Court Judge of the Sec-ond Judicial District Court of Bernalillo County, this 17th day of October, 2012.GREGORY T. IRELANDCLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT
BINGO (Smoke Free) VFW Post 3377 every Wed & Fri 7 pm. Hall rentl available. Manchaca, 12919 Lowden Kane. 282-5665
Gazette ClassifiedsOak Hill Gazette July 12-July 25... 23
Established community news-paper seeks experienced sales representative to handle print and online advertisers. This is a flexible, work from home, part or full-time job. Candidates must be outgoing, organized and self-mo-tivated. Reliable transportation, internet access and computer skills are also necessary. Great income potential for the right person. Please email resume to [email protected].
LEGAL NOTICE
HELP WANTED
BABYSITTING
RELIABLE BABYSITTING Been putting off that “date night” EHFDXVH� \RX� FDQ·W�ÀQG� D� GHSHQG-DEOH�VLWWHU"�&DOO�PH��6RÀD��1RW�RQO\�am I dependable, but also prompt, safety-conscious and most of all, )81��,�DP�ZRUNLQJ�WR�KHOS�SD\�P\�tuition at Texas State, so please call for my references or to set up an interview (512) 892-0672
$Q\�MRE�\RX·YH�JRW��,·YH�JRW�\RX�covered! Baby/house/pet sitting and odd jobs. College student working to pay tuition. Reliable, responsible, punctual. Please call Mallorey, (512) 299-7188 for re-sume and references.
HOUSECLEANING
Playing Señor Buddy’s
Saturday, July 14
7-10pm
Nick Krauss and his Austin Torpedoes
8600 Hwy 290 W
288-0437
Kayt Hansen and Nick Krauss will be performing with the rest of their band.
Auction— Supra, TX1058DZ, ;.%&����%�����EXLOW�������:LOO�be held at South Austin Marine, �����+Z\�����:HVW��$XVWLQ��7;��78735 on July 16, 2012 at 9:00 am.
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Across1. Motionless6. Mimicked10. Cries of discovery14. Els with tees15. Network of nerves16. Ad word17. Staggers18. Like some history19. Very, in Versailles20. Probability23. Cornerstone abbr.24. Female gametes25. Salt Lake City athlete26. Call out27. False show32. One telling tales35. Fraud36. Hard water37. Sending signalseverywhere41. Man-mouse link42. Efface43. Ova44. Sea bass46. Coal scuttle48. Kind of reaction49. Big ___50. In place of53. Make lurid58. Face covering59. Beethoven's birthplace60. Claw61. La Scala solo62. Floe63. Incident64. Having wealth65. Summer coolers66. Satisfies
Down1. Open a tennis match2. Kilmer classic3. Inactive4. Taylor of "Mystic Pizza"5. Landlord6. Smell, usually a pleasantone
7. Gilpin of "Frasier"8. Catchall abbr.9. Sandwich shop10. Sagacious11. Induration12. Sheltered, nautically13. Paris possessive21. Climbing vine22. All, musically26. Dernier ___27. Squeeze28. Starchy staple29. Baby newt30. Heroin, slangily31. Slippery swimmers32. Watch33. Hungary's Nagy34. Relieves pain35. Mardi ___38. Sums owing39. 401(k) alternative40. Brit. lexicon45. Ceiling fan46. Attila, e.g.47. Speaks publicly49. Pop pieces
50. Meat option51. Form of oxygen52. Leases53. Delhi wrap54. "Dancing Queen" group55. Nailed obliquely56. Memo heading57. Molten rock58. Mutilate, spoil
CROSSWORD PUZZLEACROSS1- Motionless6- Mimicked10- Cries of discovery14- Els with tees15- Network of nerves16- Ad word17- Staggers18- Like some history19- Very, in Versailles20- Probability23- Cornerstone abbr.24- Female gametes25- Salt Lake City athlete26- Call out27- False show32- One telling tales35- Fraud36- Hard water37- Sending signals everywhere41- Man-mouse link42- Efface43- Ova44- Sea bass46- Coal scuttle48- Kind of reaction49- Big ___50- In place of53- Make lurid58- Face covering59- Beethoven’s birthplace60- Claw61- La Scala solo62- Floe63- Incident64- Having wealth65- Summer coolers����6DWLVÀHV
DOWN1- Open a tennis match2- Kilmer classic3- Inactive4- Taylor of “Mystic Pizza”5- Landlord6- Smell, usually a pleasant one7- Gilpin of “Frasier”
COMPANION/CAREGIVER AVAILABLE FOR HIRE. Flex-ible hours. Excellent references. Call Kris (512) 573-9051 or email [email protected] you looking for a CNA-Care giver-Sitter or you may just need to run some errands? Call me @ 512.696.3242 Brenda Jackson
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Wed., Nov. 6th9am to 1pm
held at the Oak Hill Store7100 West Hwy 290 Suite C
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All retail positions are being hired
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or apply online www.austingoodwill.org
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lems. Currently, she is employed by the Texas Department of State Health Services. Another Bowie teenager, 17-year-old Patricia Van Sickles, said she wanted to join the CERT program because some day she would like to become a nurse for the United States Navy. “I’m just trying to get into medical stu! and get myself ready for any situation I might be put into work-ing as a nurse for the military,” Van Sickles said. “I want to go into the medical %eld and I want to be able to help people while I’m still young.” Sixteen-year-old Hannah Konyecsni would like to study forensic science in college and the CERT program at Bowie prepares her for worst-case scenarios. “You never really know when something bad will happen. You have to be prepared for anything—especially with a lot of the events go-ing on in the world lately,” Konyecsni said. “Both of my parents are doctors and I’ve witnessed them stopping to render aid in car crashes and I want to be able to help too.” Students enrolled in the CERT pro-gram receive a textbook, Community Emergency Response Team, that includes unit goals, special topics, and public health considerations. Mike von Wupperfeld, safety o&cer for the Austin Travis County EMS, spoke to the Bowie CERT group Oct.
9. Von Wupperfeld presented an organized unit of training, complete with a Microso$ PowerPoint slide-show for the CERT trainees, entitled “Medical Operations.” "e training provides both student participants and others pertinent information about how to respond to critical incidents that occur within their neighborhoods and community. Von Wupper%eld showed the stu-dents how to apply medical gloves without touching any contaminated surfaces. He said that most medical gloves typically only last as long as six months when exposed to the Texas heat before they deteriorate, so they are a maintenance item that needs checking. Furthermore, emergency responders should never use Latex gloves because so many people have allergies to them. He also demon-strated how to blow into the medical gloves to ensure their structural integrity. In disasters, responders may use buckets of diluted bleach or soap to wash their gloved hands o$en between patients as replace-ment gloves may be in short supply. “When you go between patients, we either clean our gloves using a liquid soap or change our gloves to avoid cross-contamination of the sick and injured,” Von Wupper%eld said. “A$er removing your gloves, you should wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing the song ‘Happy
“After removing your gloves, you should wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing the song ‘Happy Birth-day’ —20 to 30 seconds. Soap and warm water works well; you don’t have to use anti-bacterial soap. If you use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, don’t wash it o!—let it air dry—alcohol kills the ‘bugs’ by the drying action.”
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Birthday’ —20 to 30 seconds. Soap and warm water works well; you don’t have to use anti-bacterial soap. If you use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, don’t wash it o!—let it air dry—alcohol kills the ‘bugs’ by the drying action.” Before responding to a critical incident or disaster, emergency responders o"en place dust masks and goggles on their faces to keep liquids or debris from getting into their nose, mouth or eyes. At the scene of an emergency, exercising caution is the best rule of thumb, he said. “When you arrive at an emergen-cy, assess the scene’s safety—using a windshield view as you’re driving up to it,” von Wupperfeld said. “Ask yourself ‘What do I see? Do I have the knowledge, the skills and equipment to help?’ before you respond.” Initial evaluation involves a quick Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment (START) protocol that identi#es those with immediate medical needs, delayed needs, minor needs, and those that are deceased. Per-formed quickly, START allows for the fast assessment of any number of casualties. Next, a responder should assess their patients with a secondary head-to-toe triage to further identify their needs. $e assessment can start by asking victims at a scene “Can you tell me what happened, where you are, or who you are?” he said. At times, the injured su!er a rapid de-terioration in their memory of what happened at a scene. $is protocol is followed by a hands-on head-to-toe assessment. “Look, listen, and feel,” von Wupperfeld said. “Look for medical identi#cation an injuries in a head-to-toe assessment. Work from the head #rst down to the legs.” Von Wupperfeld said that emer-gency responders likely would be provided with bags of color-coded tags that identify treatment priori-ties. Each tag will have bar codes on them to aid in tracking the patient from the scene of a critical incident to EMS and to the hospital. He said the three top killers at
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the scene of any disaster are: airways obstruction, excessive bleeding and shock. He said the START Triage system remains the same for any emergency responder, including those who worked at the Austin City Limits Festival at Zilker Park during the #rst two weekends this October. Von Wupperfeld also taught stu-dents how to assess victims of #re or severe chemical burns and taught them to apply bandages. When as-sessing a burn’s severity, responders use the size of the injured person’s palm to measure the percentage of the body burned; one person’s hand equals 1 percent. He also said the depth of any burn may increase without immediate medical attention. He told the stu-dents never to apply ice to any type of burn, only water to cool it down. For someone under the age of 10 or older than 50, any type of burn requires immediate care based upon their expected rate of recovery. He showed the students how to apply sanitized gauze bandages to burns to hands. Von Wupper#eld also showed students how to apply splints for victims who have broken bones.
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Students practiced setting splints on one another and applied sling bandages to support them. He also taught students how to look for signs of hypothermia, a condition that occurs when a per-son’s core body temperature drops below their normal 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or somewhere between 98 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit as a result of exposure to cool or cold environmental conditions. He ac-knowledged that for some people, normal body temperature ranges
slightly below 98 degree Fahrenheit. “People with hypothermia are very irritable and may argue with you and tell you that they are !ne,” Von Wupperfeld said. “They’re probably shivering severely; when they stop shivering it becomes a life-threatening emergency.” Von Wupperfeld warned students about the dangers of using untreated or un!ltered water in an emergency. “Before using any water, in a disaster, use proper water sanitation methods,” Von Wupperfeld said. “Boil it for several minutes and let it
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in infected humans and animals, he said. &e CERT program was created nationally following the Sept. 11, 2001 attack and disaster. In Aus-tin, Sonia Goodman is the CERT coordinator for the City of Austin Homeland Security Emergency Management Department.
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