PLEASE take 5 minutes to give input about our AISD Boundaries! (whether you have children or not)

Facility Master Planning  We are asking AISD staff, parents and community stakeholders to take a few minutes to help us identify FMP alternatives on issues such as boundary changes, overcrowding and under-enrollment, as well as to identify the needs at campuses and other AISD facilities. Your input is vital to this process. Please take the time to complete the anonymous survey (in English and inSpanish) at http://www.austinisd.org/fmp   Last day is TOMORROW!!  5/7/14   Thank you!

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Attempted kidnapping in Milwood

All, please see below message from the Milwood Mother’s Network FB page.

A young girl was almost kidnapped by some men in a 4-door gray car on Ganymede.  Police say there was a witness and luckily the girl got away and found an adult to call 911.

PLEASE BE ALERT and report ANYTHING that you see out of the ordinary.

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Found Dog!

Lost Dachshund found off of Arrowwood Dr.

Gender: Male

Color: Mostly black with brown markings.

Found: Afternoon of 04/12/2014

Description: Short Haired, fixed male with no collar. Long tail and very sweet.

Contact Michael at 512 497 2366

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Walgreens hosting a n Egg Hunt today at Balcones Park!

Easter egg hunt today April 12th from 11am-1pm at Balcones park on Amherst. We will have face painting, egg/spoon race, and potato sack races to name a few.  We will also provide hot dogs, chips and drinks donated to us from our local vendors all FREE to your community residents!

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Garage Sale Reminder – April 26th

Just a reminder that the Milwood Neighborhood Garage Sale is scheduled for Saturday, April 26th.  As usual, residents will hold garage sales at their homes, and the MNA will take care of the advertising with signs around the area and ads in the Statesman and on Craigslist.  An added feature this year is a partnership with Goodwill.  For homes that sign up, a Goodwill truck will come to participants’ homes that afternoon and pick up any unsold items you want to donate.  If you want to sign up, please send us your address!

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Pools input

Dive In!  Do you have an opinion about your neighborhood pool?

You’re Invited:

The City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department will host an interactive town hall meeting to solicit opinions about Austin’s public pools and splash pads.

This meeting is part of an Aquatic Assessment which will help determine the needs and priorities for Austin’s aquatic facilities and programs based on the public’s feedback and an independent consultant’s evaluation of facility infrastructure.

Interactive Town Hall Meeting

To maximize the amount of community input the Aquatic Assessment will receive; PARD and the Consultants will survey the community utilizing several methods.

PARD will host an Interactive Town Hall Meeting on April 29, 2014 at 7pm beginning with an open house at 6:30pm in the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center Theater.  Functioning much like a radio call-in show, the Interactive Telephone Town Hall will simultaneously connect thousands of interested stakeholders with organizational leaders and Aquatics Stakeholders from the comfort of their own home.  Everyone is welcome to attend or to call into this meeting.  Methods to participate are:

In person:
George Washington Carver Museum
1165 Angelina St, Austin, TX 78702

Online:
http://www.atxn.tv

By phone toll free:
888.409.5380 – English
877.353.4701 – Español

By text:
To polls and discussion questions during the event

On television:
Time Warner Cable – Channel 6 (10.6 without a cable box)
Grande Communications – Channel 6 (119.6 without a cable box)
AT&T U-Verse – Channel 99
www.youtube.com/austintexasgov

Twitter:
@austintexasgov
#swimaustin

Childcare for the Interactive Town Hall Meeting will be provided by PARD staff at the meeting site.

The Austin Parks and Recreation Aquatics Division received valuable input from thousands of Austinites about aquatic facilities through surveys and public input meetings in August, 2013.  More information about these meetings, as well as future meetings and the Aquatic Assessment can be found at austintexas.gov/departments/aquatics-assessment.

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Lost dogs

Two dogs went missing from 4501 Whispering Valley Drive.   They answer to Coda and Zoey but were not wearing collars and don’t have their tags on.

One is a 50 lb. blue lab mix and the other is a 20 lb. daschund/greyhound mix that has a coat that is brown and kind of tiger striped.

 

If anyone has any information, please contact Nicole Mendlik.

 

Cell (512) 658-4196

Email:  nicole@metafitnessonline.com

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