Lost Cat – White Male

His name is “White Cat”. He is entirely white except for a grey smudge on the top of his head. There’s a good chance that he is pretty dirty because he likes to roll in the dirt. He is a male 5 year old that weighs about 15lbs. He was lost on Sunday, April 5, 2009 in the Duval/Dull Knife area of the Mesa Park Subdivision. We think he might have gotten into the drainage system and popped out on the north side of Duval somewhere. He is strictly and indoor cat (no collar) and so he’s probably very scared and won’t let anyone approach him. Reward if found. Please contact with any information.

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Growing Summer Vegetables

Summer’s almost here. Come gather tips on starting and improving your vegetable garden from Kathy Boles of the Texas Master Gardners Association.

Date: Saturday April 25th
Time: 2pm – 3pm
Location: Milwood Library (Meeting Room)

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Parks Long Range Plan meeting – Tuesday April 14

The Austin Parks and Recreation Department (PARD) will meet with the community in April to review the draft document of the Parks and Recreation Long Range Plan for Land and Facilities (LRP). The document will be available, starting 04.01.09, to download for 30 days/month of April 2009. www.ci.austin.tx.us/parks/longrangeplan.htm

The meetings will explain:

1. How input was gathered for the LRP
2. How input was implemented into LRP
3. Display where input is located within LRP
4. Open the floor for 3 minute citizen communication

The public meeting for the N/NW portion of the city will be Tues. April 14th, 2009. PARD does ask that input participation be from residents within the designated boundary to ensure the meeting stays on track and focuses only on recreational opportunities within these areas.

For residents unable to attend the public meeting, comments may be submitted to: longrangeplan@ci.austin.tx.us

If you have any questions prior to the meeting, please contact the PARD
Planning & Design Division at 974.6760.

Public Meeting for the N/NW portion of Austin

Tues. April 14, 2009
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Northwest Recreation Center – Gymnasium
2913 Northland Dr.
512.458.4107

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Union Pacific Tonight

Come out tonight at 7:00pm to the Covenant Methodist Church at 4410 Duval Rd, Austin, TX‎ to hear from Union Pacific on the siding project coming to a rail line near you.

Map is here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=4410+duval+road+covenant+church+duval&sll=30.4207,-97.727509&sspn=0.094442,0.206165&ie=UTF8&ll=30.4207,-97.727509&spn=0.098883,0.206165&z=13&iwloc=A

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Cap Metro Action Plan May 15

A small tidbit we wanted to note for those of you looking for new information on the commuter rail…

From the March 20 press release: By May 15, Capital Metro will report back to the community with the status of the project and an action plan.

so we’ll look forward to that…

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Upcoming Neighborhood Events

April 2 – Union Pacific Speaker
(7pm Covenant Methodist Church)
Union Pacific will send a speaker to discuss the siding project for the railroad tracks west of the neighborhood.

April 18 – Spring Neighborhood Garage Sale
We will help promote your garage sale through various outlets. If you would like to be included in the listing please sign up now.

April 30 – General Meeting
(7pm Milwood Library)
Join us for our spring General Meeting and candidate forum.  We are planning on having several candidates attend and speak.

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Commuter Rail On Indefinite Hold

Seems that Austin’s commuter rail line that was scheduled to begin public service at the end of March has hit a few snags and is now on hold till further notice.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/03/21/0321capmetro.html

http://www.capmetro.org/news/RailDelay-CEO.asp

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