NSCNA Blog Archive

  • NSCNA General Membership Meeting, Sept 7

    Administrator

    Date: Tuesday, Sept. 7
    Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
    Location: Pillow Elementary, 3025 Crosscreek Dr.

    There will be a general membership meeting of our association on Tuesday, September 8. It will be a packed agenda, with three main topics.

    The City of Austin will give a presentation on the results of the Steck Avenue restriping project.

    The Beautification Committee will present a proposal to apply for a City of Austin Urban Forest Grant. More information here: Proposal to Apply for Urban Forest Grant

    Finally, the NCSP Special Committee will give a presentation on the City of Austin Neighborhood Cost Sharing Program. We will be discussing whether the neighborhood should participate, and the process for selecting our project. Please see the most recent newsletter for information on this effort.

  • Thanks to Our August/September Advertisers

    Administrator

    We wanted to take a moment to thank the businesses that chose to advertise in the August/September 2010 issue of the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood News. Please support our advertisers whenever possible.

    Businesses in the following list that have an asterisk (*) next to their names offer a discount or coupon in their newsletter ad.

    • *Boot Camp U — Morning and evening exercise classes at Pillow Elementary
    • Peggy Little — Real-estate agent who often sells homes in our neighborhood
    • Sandy Perkins — Real-estate agent who lives in our neighborhood (and longtime former editor of the newsletter!)
    • *Hill-Berts Burgers — Restaurant on Burnet Road, which hosted a NSCNA Social Get-Together in June
    • *Yogagroove — Located in Grapevine Market Shopping Center; holds classes in Bikram Yoga
    • Satay — Thai/South Asian restaurant located in North Shoal Creek since 1987
    • *Gym One — Neighborhood gym in the same shopping center as Satay
    • td designs — North Shoal Creek area company offers remodels, custom homes and residential framing design by Tony Davis
    • Jill Leberknight — Real-estate agent who often sells homes in North Shoal Creek
    • George Johnson — State Farm Insurance Agent with an office on Burnet Road
    • Crestview Minimax — Grocery store adjacent to North Shoal Creek that’s been around since 1953
    • Freshteh Kosari — Real-estate agent whom you might also remember as one of our face painters during the NSCNA Independence Day celebration
    • Judy Rowland — Music teacher and soloist/pianist who lives in North Shoal Creek
    • Heartsong Music — Neighborhood music studio offering Music Together® classes for children 0-5 and their parents/caregivers
    • Good Turn Music — Lee Donovan offers guitar lessons for beginners in several locations, including students’ homes

  • Proposal to Apply for Urban Forest Grant

    Administrator

    The NSCNA Beautification Committee is working on a grant proposal to submit to the City of Austin’s Urban Forest Grant Program. We’re requesting money to purchase and plant trees to mitigate our neighborhood’s urban heat island effect, which, bounded as we are by commercial development and freeways, is likely to be considerable. We’re also asking for money to hire a certified arborist to assess where it’ll be more effective to plan the trees.

    For additional information on this grant program, including grant restrictions on where the trees can be planted, visit the city’s Urban Forest Grant Program web page.

    The Beautification Committee proposal will be presented to the association membership at our September 7 General Meeting. Here is a review draft of the grant application. If you have any questions on the proposal or want to participate in the project, please contact the Beautification Committee at beautification@nscna.org.

  • Share Your Community Spirit – Join NSCNA

    Administrator

    Currently NSCNA has 136 member households and your membership will help meet the goal of 150 in 2010. Soon you will receive a copy of the latest edition of the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood News. The membership form is on the back page of the newsletter. Please take time to complete the form and send it with $15 to the NSCNA address on the form. You are eligible for membership if you live within Mopac Expressway on the west, Research Blvd. on the north, Burnet Road on the east, and Anderson Lane on the south.

    Inside the newsletter, you will find pictures of the fun had by all at the Independence Day Celebration at Pillow Playground. You will also see the results of the recent membership survey and articles about what the association is working on this year related to safety, National Night Out, development, and sidewalk repair. These issues scored as high priorities by NSCNA members who completed the membership survey.

    Won’t you please support the neighborhood association and the outstanding business owners who advertise in our newsletter?  Thank you from the Membership Committee.

  • It is Time to Bowl! Sunday, August 29

    Administrator

    Where: Highland Lanes at Burnet Road and 183
    When: Sunday, August 29
    Time: 9:30 am – noon
    Cost: $7 per person

    Take a break from the heat, come and bowl with your neighbors! This Sunday, August 29 at 9:30 am we will meet at the Highland Lanes bowling center for a few hours of fun and bowling. With the summer heat still in full force, it is a great way to cool off, get a little exercise and release some stress as you hurl that bowling ball down the lane. Don’t worry if you are rusty or have never bowled before — you will be in great company.

    If you have young kids who have never bowled, come and introduce them. All lanes have bumpers that you can lift up with the push of a button, so easy to lift and lower as appropriate for the bowler. They have special lightweight youth balls and can fit feet all the way down to a child’s size 8. My 4 year-old daughter loves it.

    We will be taking advantage of their special bowling rate Sunday mornings — $7  per person for shoes and unlimited bowling until noon. If you would like to join us, contact our Social Chair, Alyssa Hedge at socialchair@nscna.org or call her at 380-9616. Also, we ask that you arrive as close to 9:30 am as possible so we can get enough lanes. Some Sundays can be quite busy.

    If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask and we hope to see many of you there.