Letter from Allandale NA

Posted Aug 24, 2007 6:02pm by Chris Jones in Events | Comments Off

The NSCNA Board of Directors has received a letter from Tom Linehan who is the current president of the Allandale Neighborhood Association (ANA). He asks if our group would make a financial contribution to their legal fund. Tom and another ANA Executive committee member attended our last Board meeting to discuss their request. They are looking for support from the surrounding neighborhood associations including ours.

You can view the letter here.

The NSCNA Board agreed that the general membership should be responsible for providing the NSCNA response. A special general membership meeting will be scheduled soon. Additional details about the meeting’s agenda and logistics will be posted as soon as the information is available.

August 2007 Yard of the Month

Posted Aug 21, 2007 11:42pm by Chris Jones in Beautification | Comments Off

The Beautification committee has chosen the Yard of the Month for August 2007. The winner is Joe Carroll at 8213 Rockwood. Congratulations to this homeowner on a good job of beautifying the neighborhood. The next time you find yourself on Rockwood, make sure you look for the Yard of the Month sign to enjoy the view at 8213 Rockwood. Continue reading to see more photos of the yard.
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Commanders Forum notes from August 14th, 2007

Posted Aug 16, 2007 9:19am by Chris Jones in Meeting Notes | Comments Off

The 3rd quarterly Commanders Forum was held on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 at Austin Revival Center, 305 Deen Avenue at 7:00pm. Attending from North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Assn was Mary Arnett, Jo McFerren, and Margaret Flaniken. First on the agenda was District Rep Mike Young who gave an update on the Slayton Dr house which had been the target of an intensive effort to clean up the property and make it safe for children walking to Barrington Elementary. There had been numerous issues with the ownership of the property. A resolution of the issue was achieved when several of the persons who had a joint interest in the property were arrested on various drug or other charges and an investor from the community stepped forward to buy out their interests and the remaining owners interest in the property. The house is now boarded up and safe for the neighborhood.
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Archived Newsletters reach 29 issues

Posted Aug 14, 2007 7:14pm by Chris Jones in Newsletter | Comments Off

I received 7 old newsletters from NSCNA resident Andreas Guenin yesterday. They are primarily 2001-2004 newsletters that I was missing. I have scanned them in and archived them on the website and the Yahoo group site. Thank you Andreas! We now have 29 archived newsletters which contain a total of 319 pages of NSCNA history.

You can view the newsletter archive here:

or simply go to the nscna.org website and click on the “Media” tab then scan to the bottom of the page.

Please note that I am still missing a few newsletters. See my list below and if you happen to run across any old newsletters, please check to see if you have any that we are missing. Thanks!
Chris

Missing Issues:

2003 Issue 2
2000 Issue 14
1998-1999 Issue 11
1996-7 Issues 1-5
Anything before 1997

You’re invited to The Commanders Forum

Posted Aug 8, 2007 12:15pm by Chris Jones in Events | Comments Off

North Central Area Command/IDA Sector

Learn about the exciting things that are happening right here in your neighborhood! Guest Speaker will be our new Chief of Police Art Acevedo. The new Assistant Chief over Central Bureau, Sam Holt and Assistant Chief Al Eells will be attending to introduce the new commander for the North Central Area Command Phil Crochet. A brief question and answer session with the command staff and district reps will follow. Spanish interpreters will be in attendance.

Hope to see you there!

When: Tuesday August 14, 2006
7 P.M.
Where: Austin Revival Center
305 Deen Ave

Hosted by: North Central Area Command District Representatives
For more information call 974-5722

North Shoal Creek Takes a Bite Out of Crime!

Posted Aug 8, 2007 12:10pm by Chris Jones in Events | Comments Off

With hot dogs grilled by Stillwood neighbor, John Anderson, and a very cool dog that “stole the show” from APD’s K9 Unit led by Sgt. Mike Fitzgerald, North Shoal Creek neighbors celebrated National Night Out in a big way at Pillow Elementary! Austin Fire Department brought their impressive ladder truck and gave away two fire extinguishers courtesy of Lowes. APD District Rep James Hellums hung out with us as we discussed current crime issues and the need for our neighborhood to be aware of crime activity that happens around us, the importance of reporting crime to 911 or 311, and a sense of community that allows us to know and watch out for each other.

Click here for photos of the event.

Special thanks to Bryan Hardeman and the Austin Infiniti Dealership on Burnet Rd for his financial support of this event. Debbie Luna from Randolph Brooks was on hand to help with water bottles, glow necklaces and some gift certificates to Target and Home Depot. Special thanks to Lowes for door prizes: two personal safes, a motion detector floodlight, two fire extinguishers. Cothrons Lock and Key gave us two combination key holders. Austin Energy gave us energy efficient light bulbs to remind us about turning on our porch lights to fight crime at night. Also in kind donations were made by Dairy Queen, Mrs. Baird’s Bread, Sonic, Picky’s Pantry at Steck and Burnet.

Extra special thanks to the whole Anderson family: John and Denise, Caleb, Ben, Lauren and Arial, who presided as our hosts that evening and made the event go so smoothly. Thanks to Linda Wilson for her assistance with checking people in and making them feel welcomed. Thanks to Malcolm St. Romain for his assistance with the presentation, not to mention his “neighborhood event” sized grill.

There were 126 attendees including a baby less than a year old, all the way to Flossie Sweat, 100 year old resident of our neighborhood who still lives in her own house, who found the time, motivation and strength to come and participate in National Night Out. We were honored by her presence.

Stillwood residents won the energy efficient bulbs for having the highest number of attendees.

Thanks to everyone who made it a success!!!

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