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CELEBRATE THE 4th WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS AT THE 15TH ANNUAL NORTH SHOAL CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD PARADE AND CELEBRATION SATURDAY JULY 4TH!
9:00 AM: Gather in the circle drive at the Pillow Elementary School entrance.
9:15 AM: Parade opening ceremony
9:20 AM: Parade begins!DRESS PATRIOTIC!
Prizes for Best Costume, Best Decorated Bike, Best Decorated Trike, Best Decorated Stroller, Best Decorated Wagon, and Best Dressed Pet. To be eligible for a prize, register and pick up a number at the Parade Registration Table.BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE!
After the parade, enjoy food, games, and fun activities like face painting and balloon twisting beneath the tent pavilion behind the school!ALL FESTIVITIES ARE FREE!!
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a New Shoal Creek Floodplain Map is now available online.
Shoal Creek is one of several Austin creeks recently remapped by Austin’s Watershed Protection Department. The revised floodplain map for Shoal Creek has been submitted to FEMA and is expected to be approved in July 2015. If approved as expected, it will then be adopted by the City of Austin effective January 2016.
To see the preliminary revised map, go to www.atxfloods.com/FP_mods/Map.html
Just type in your address to see if your home is in the floodplain. You can also scroll up and down the map to follow the floodplain from Shoal Creek’s headwaters just north of 183 down to its juncture with the Colorado River.
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The North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Association now has an official Facebook page, thanks to Board Member Vannezsa Smith and with help from ex-President Chip Rosenthal. Please take a look. We hope you’ll find something to Like on it.
While the Media Committee will be posting information about NSCNA events and news on it, it’s intended to be predominately a resident created page. If you have photos of the Memorial Day rains in our neighborhood, please share them. Got photos of some of your favorite spots in the neighborhood? Please share them too. The more you share, the more the flavor of our neighborhood shines through.
You can use this link to access it: www.facebook.com/nscna
We need a cover photo more emblematic of North Shoal Creek. Got one you think would fit the bill? If so, please email a copy to media@nscna.org
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Suggestions for mosquito control:
It’s mosquito time and this year they’re worse than usual, thanks to our very, very rainy May. You can help fight mosquitoes by using mosquito dunks in any standing water around your home. According to Wikipedia, mosquito dunks contain BTI, a group of bacteria that kill mosquito larvae while having almost no effect on other organisms. Lowes carries the dunks ($9.97 for a pack of 6). Each dunk lasts 30 days and is enough for 100 sq. ft. You’ll need to retreat every 30 days. (Haven’t checked Walmart but they probably do too.)Dunks don’t work against adult mosquitoes. To eliminate mosquito breeding areas and reduce your risk of disease, follow these 4 D’s posted on the website of the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department:
• Dusk & Dawn – Whenever possible, avoid prolonged outdoor activity at dawn and dusk when mosquitoes are most active
• Dress – Wear long-sleeved, loose-fitting, light-colored clothing.
• DEET – Use mosquito repellent and carefully follow all label directions.
• Drain – Regularly check yards and neighborhoods for water-holding containers and empty them out. It only takes a teaspoon of water for mosquitoes to breed.
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The following information has been received from Austin ARMA:
With the increased awareness of identity theft, it is more important than ever to carefully dispose of personal records such as credit card statements, checking account records, prescription documents, and medical insurance files. The Austin chapter of ARMA along with Balcones Shred, Iron Mountain and Shred-It are sponsoring our 12th Annual Free SPRING Shred Day. Mark your calendar for Saturday, May 16th, 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at our NEW location ACC Highland (6101 Airport Blvd), in the NE parking lot along East Highland Mall Blvd. Due to increased demand, to ensure the safety of the volunteers, and to streamline the process, we will be implementing a new “Express Lane” for attendees. This speedy and secure option will allow attendees to drop off their boxes to be placed on a secure truck that will be driven by the insured and bonded shred vendors to their secure shred facilities here in Austin and will be shred within 48-72 hours. We will also have the onsite Mobile Shred Units for those who wish to wait for their items to be shred in their presence. We will only accept dry paper packed in cardboard boxes with fitting lids that are no larger than 24” x 24” x 36” (i.e. no hard plastics, no plastic bags, no electronic media and no three-ring binders). For additional specifications regarding what can be shred and how it should be prepared, please visit http://www.austinarma.com/shred-day. All of the shredded material and cardboard boxes are recycled.
Please note the location for the spring shred day will be held at the ACC Highland campus at 6101 Airport Blvd.
In 2014, our two events shredded over 80,000 POUNDS OF PAPER and collected over $9,000 for the local chapter and local charities.
ARMA International is a not-for-profit professional association and the authority on governing information as a strategic asset.
Monetary donations will be accepted with 50% of the proceeds going to the local ARMA Austin Chapter and 50% going to the Capital Area Food Bank.
For more details regarding the free household shredding, contact Debi Tadd via email at Debi.Tadd@BBVA.com or by phone at 512-453-4272 or William Basinger via email at wtbasinger@gmail.com.
