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Thanks to Community Garden volunteers Sarah Brandon and Jennifer Noinaj, our North Shoal Creek Community Garden has been selected to be one of the tours in this year’s Austin Design Week. The event takes place on Thursday, November 8, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the garden which is located at 3025 Crosscreek (northwest corner of the Pillow campus).
To register for the tour, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adw-2018-presents-north-shoal-creek-community-garden-tour-registration-49780261101
For more information on Austin Design Week 2018, please visit https://www.austindesignweek.org
For more information on the North Shoal Creek Community Garden, please click the “Garden” tab at nscna.org.
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When: Saturday October 27, 2018, 8am-2pm
Where: Pillow Elementary; 3025 Crosscreek Dr, Austin, TX 78757Volunteers are needed to help fill mulch bags, deliver trees, and plant trees in the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood. Volunteers, please bring work gloves, hats, sunscreen, and water
Pick-up trucks are also needed!
To register: https://www.austintexas.gov/department/community-trees
Please help — the Austin Community Tree Program is providing the trees, and North Shoal Creek needs to provide the volunteers to help plant them!!!
Sharon Justice, Chair,
NSCNA Media Committee
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This is an update of the August 23 and 25 postings about the approved North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan and the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan Contact Team (North Shoal Creek NPCT).
As previously announced, the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan Contact Team bylaws adoption and officer election meeting was held on September 25, 2018. At that meeting the draft bylaws were approved; Sharon Justice was elected as Committee Chair and Kenneth Webb was elected as Vice-Chair.
The North Shoal Creek NPCT bylaws has been posted on the following web page:
http://www.austintexas.gov/page/adopted-neighborhood-planning-areas-0
That page has links to the approved plan, Future Land Use Map, in both PDF format and interactive map format, bylaws and additional information concerning the contact team.
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On the agenda: approval of bylaws and election of officers (chair, vice-chair, secretary). Initial slate:
Chair – Sharon Justice
Vice-chair – Kenneth Webb
Secretary – Dylan BilesNominations will also be taken from the floor.
This link takes you to information about the meeting, including eligibility for voting:
http://www.austintexas.gov/event/north-shoal-creek-contact-team-bylaws-adoption-officer-election-meetingThis City of Austin site provides info about contact teams: http://www.austintexas.gov/department/neighborhood-plan-contact-teams
And at this one you can click on the North Shoal Creek entry to read our plan and see our Future Land Use Map (FLUM):
http://www.austintexas.gov/page/adopted-neighborhood-planning-areas-0
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Free workshop for volunteers preparing to create the Steck Ave. Bridge Mosaic! Sign up now — space is limited to 8 more people!
Intro to Mosaic workshop for North Shoal Creek Neighbors
Saturday, Sept 22 9:30-noon
Austin Mosaic Guild
1810 W Anderson Lane
Austin, Texas 78757
AustinMosaicSchool.comInstructor: Dianne Sonnenberg
DianneSonnenberg.comThis workshop is for North Shoal Creek neighbors to learn techniques of making a mosaic so that we will be prepared to work together on our neighborhood beautification, public art project of decorating the Steck Avenue bridge (at Steck and Daleview) with beautiful mosaic art.
Folks participating in this introductory workshop will be learning techniques that we will use to work together, as well as guide other volunteers, in creating the mosaic on mesh backing that will then be installed on the cement pillars of the bridge. Dates, times and locations for those work days are to be determined, but our hope is that participants in this workshop will be willing to dedicate time during October-November.
At this workshop we will each create a simple design on a 4 inch square mosaic to take home with you.
This is the process:
• Create a simple design on paper. (Simple is the key word! Like a heart or circle or star or similar pattern)
• Prepare the fiberglass mesh backing.
• Learn to cut, place and work with the materials and adhesives. We will discuss safety.
• When adhesive is dry, transfer it to a small stone tile (similar to the concrete pillars!)
• Grouting (there will probably not be time to do this in the same session, so we will demo, and figure out whether we will send you home with the grout or come back to finish.)Everyone should wear closed toe shoes, and “work/play” clothes. The adhesives can be messy.
There is no fee to participants, except your commitment to volunteer hours this fall to help realize the Steck Bridge Mosaic project. This project is part of our North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Partnering Program approved by the City Public Works Dept. February 2017.
We have space available for 8 more for this initial workshop.
Please reply to beautificationchair@nscna.org as soon as possible, or by end of day on Thursday, Sept 20 so that we can reserve your spot!If you have questions, please call Amelia at 512-364-5519.
