NSCNA Blog Archive

  • You’re invited to The Commanders Forum

    Administrator

    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!

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    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!!!

  • City of Austin Planning and Priorities

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    Toby Futrell, the City Manager, invited representatives from all Austin neighbhorhood groups to attend a town hall meeting on July 19th of this year. You can view the invitation here.

    The City staff were busy putting together 2008’s proposed budget and wanted to get feedback from the neighborhoods before finalizing it. During this event, more than 100 neighborhood groups were represented and the top priorities of each neighborhood was discussed. Our President, Malcolm St. Romain attended the meeting and discussed our top issues with many people.

    Today, we received a letter from Toby with the results of that meeting, containing a list of the top 5 priorities most sought after by neighborhood groups as well as a detailed description of each top priority with information on how much money each will get in the proposed 2008 budget.

    You can read the letter here.

    And please feel free to go to the new discussion forum and discuss it in more detail. Tell us what you think…

  • 4th of July Parade photos

    Administrator

    Sandy Perkins provided some photos from this year’s 4th of July Parade.

    2007 4th of July Parade photos

    If you have any photos you would like to share from this event, please email them to Chris Jones at webmaster @ nscna dot org.

  • August 7th: National Night Out

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    The block captains distributed flyers to all residents last week inviting everyone to the National Night Out event on Tuesday August 7th at Pillow Elementary. If you did not get a flyer, click “Continue reading” to read a copy.

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