The Milwood Baptist Church is hosting a Blood Drive on Saturday, Jan. 30th from 10:00AM to 2:00PM in the Fellowship Hall. It is being coordinated with the Blood Center here in Austin; they will have their personnel running the drive.
To sign up in advance and avoid lines, please call the church secretary at 834-1100.
Since 2006, a couple who lives off of Silver Creek Drive has been monitoring water quality in Walnut Creek through the LCRA Colorado River Watch Network program, and recently they created a Blog to document their findings and spread the word on the health of Walnut Creek. This blog has details about the monitoring site 290-Walnut Creek by the Metric Blvd bridge.
After getting some information from a couple of our neighbors, we have determined that a pair of dogs, probably brothers, were dumped in the neighborhood. One is named Leroy and the other is Lester. We think they are border collies. The phone number listed on their tags is from a disconnected Decatur, Texas line.
If you know anything about these dogs or their owners, please send us a note so we can put you in contact with the neighbors who found the dogs.
I found a male. Black and white border collie near summit elementary. Please email me if this is you pet and I can get the contact information to you.
A dog was found recently in the neighbor. His tag says “Leroy” and he has longish brown hair and a white face. A phone number on the tag is from a disconnected Decatur, Texas line.
If you know about this dog or it’s owners, please send us a note so we can put you in contact with the neighbor who found this dog.
The Austin Fire Department has issued a fireworks permit for several displays being held on the next three consecutive Saturdays (12/05, 12/12 & 12/19). The start time for these events will be sometime between 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm at The Domain Shopping Center (11410 Century Oaks Terrace). This event is part of the Domain’s Annual Christmas Celebration, which first began in Dec 2007. We often get inquiries regarding fireworks displays and would like to notify you in advance.
Thanks,
Battalion Chief Don Smith
Fire Marshal, Austin Fire Department
This news release just in from Austin Water Utility:
The Austin Water Utility (AWU) will begin the annual wastewater averaging cycle November 16th to arrive at the wastewater charges for customers for the 2009/2010 service year. AWU encourages customers to always conserve water but customers concerned about their wastewater costs should make special attempts to conserve water during the averaging months.
Between the start of the averaging period in November and the conclusion in March, each customer’s water use is measured for three consecutive monthly billing periods. The water usage for the two monthly billing periods with the lowest daily usage is averaged and is the basis of the wastewater average billing for the year. The month with the highest daily average water use is eliminated from the calculations. Monthly billing is based on the customer’s wastewater average or actual water use, whichever is lower. The new wastewater rate will be reflected beginning in the April 2010 statement.
AWU uses late fall and winter months to establish wastewater averages because less outdoor water is used during this time and measures more accurately indoor household water usage which is returned to the wastewater system.
Customers can go to www.cityofaustin.org/water and listed under wastewater averaging they will find the specific dates for their wastewater averaging period and for more details on wastewater averaging and reducing water and wastewater bills by conserving water.
