Writers Meeting for the Neighborhood Newsletter - Nov. 1st

Hi Neighbors,

I'd like to invite you all to our first Writer's Meeting, this coming Sunday evening, November 1st, 6-7 pm, at Genuine Joe Coffee.

The purpose of the writer's meeting is to generate new content ideas for the neighborhood newsletter, and to get a few more folks on board to submit articles on a more frequent basis. Whatever your passion or your area of interest is, we would love to hear about it and see how to incorporate your ideas into the newsletter.

Please feel free to share this invitation with your neighbors who are not on this email group who might like to be an occasional writer for the newsletter. Neighbors of all ages, from school age on up, are welcome to join us. Our neighborhood is very diverse in terms of age and race, and we would like our newsletter to be more reflective of this diversity.

Please call or email with any questions. I hope to see you there!
kat

Kat Correa
CNA Newsletter Editor
cnanewsletter@gmail.com

Chicken Keeper Meet Up - Oct. 24

If you have chickens, would like to meet chicken sitters or would like have your own backyard flock one day, come meet other chicken people in the neighborhood at Genuine Joes 2001 West Anderson Lane this Saturday 10/24 at 11am. The get-together will be in their meet-up room.

Pictures from the Pumpkin Carving Pizza Party

Crestview Pumpkin Carving and Pizza Party - October 2009

Here are some pictures taken of our CNA October general meeting.

North Austin Coalition of Neighborhoods meeting - Oct. 21st

Meeting - This Weds, Walnut Creek Library (6-8pm?)

Team,

I am going to guess the October and November meetings are going to be the most important meetings we will have this year.

October:
We are going to sit down and talk, informally, about what we feel North Austin's critical needs are, what NACN's goals are, and what we are going to do in 2010 and 2011 to make things happen.

November:

We are going to discuss how we can get our 501c status and we will vote on a formal list of needs to present to the City.

We will not be having a December meeting.

October 21st agenda:

1. Discuss Goals for North Austin

2. Discuss Goals for NACN

3. Discuss Sponsor Appreciation for 2009

4. Discuss November meeting - is Nov.16th good for everyone?

5. Discuss Nov 7th Clean Up


Regards,
Mary Rudig
Gracywoods Rep for NACN
http://www.main.org/nacn/

Neighborhood Planning Contact Team meetings

Crestview is in the process of deciding what our planning contact team will look like. We're a long way from elections. The Team can be as few as 4 or as many as 2000. That all has to be decided through the writing of the by laws, which is what we are starting the work on, and will determine everything concerning the Team. Now is the critical time to contribute your input. Once it's established it will be difficult to make substantive changes especially if we weren't a part of the initial process.

Tuesday the 20th 6:30pm in the PEC building of St. Louis Catholic Church, room 201
Tuesday Nov. 3rd same time and location.

Rumpelstiltskin - October 17, 5pm

Violet Crown Community Theater presents a FREE, interactive performance of Rumpelstiltskin at Brentwood Elementary School/Park (between pool and school) [Rainy day backup: First Cumberland Presbyterian Church]. Bring your friends and family and enjoy this classic story while supporting local community theater at this unforgettable event. Enter a raffle to win a gift certificate to Birds Barbershop!

Please bring a canned good donation for First Cumberland Presbyterian Church's food bank.

Crestview Garden Tour - October 18th

10:00-10:45 a.m.
Anne-Charlotte Patterson - 1305 Richcreek Rd.
Large number of native & drought-tolerant plants, big compost pile, small veggie garden. Always in progress.

11:00-11:45 a.m.,
Danielle Davidson - 1212 Richcreek Rd
Solar panels, rain collection, grey water & a hackberry stump eradication experiment. Beyond that, the yard is a renovation & design in progress. Ideas welcome!

12:00-12:45 p.m.
Martha King - Cullen, SE corner of Woodrow and Cullen

1:00-1:45 p.m.
Paige Hill - 1115 Taulbee
1000 s.f. front yard vegetable garden supplying Crestview's CSA shares through Urban Patchwork. Microbial composting system. Stone work and new "fencing".

CNA General Meeting Agenda - Oct 12, 2009: PARTY!

On Monday night, October 12th, from 7pm-8:30pm the Crestview Neighborhood
Association will be sponsoring a Halloween Pizza Party! Bring pumpkins, kids and
neighbors for Halloween treats, pumpkin carving and pumpkin drawing for the little
ones. Carving supplies, pizza and treats will be provided by the CNA. The party
will be held instead of the General meeting and located in the PEC building at the
St. Louis Catholic Church, instead of the usual Wozniak Hall location. See the school map for details.

Boo!

City of Austin Notice of Proposed Road Closure

The City of Austin has proposed running the 3M Half Marathon on January 24, 2010, 6am - 11am, down Northcross Dr. and then south down Burnet Rd. This will result in these streets being closed for the duration. A poll has been started (bottom right column of this web page) to solicit feedback from the neighborhood regarding the proposed closure. The poll will close on Nov. 5th 2009.

Austin Dog Fair - Oct. 17th

On October 17th (Saturday) at Brentwood Park, 2-5pm we are going to host local vendors (vets, trainers, supplies) and help dogs make new friends! We did this in the spring and it was a lot of fun.

Help us get the word out and if you know any vendors that want to host a table just let us know...its all free.

Go to www.austindogfair.com for more details...

Thanks!

Posted by Michael Dennis