Greenbelt Fans,

The creek is flowing! And we need more hands on deck for our work day this Saturday at the Homedale Trail. Come celebrate Halloween with us as we spook the weeds and invasives and organize some windrows, lay some stepping stones, and clean out the trash. RSVP soon so we can order enough Maria?s tacos treats to get us started.

Costumes welcome! We?ve got the supplies and tools, we need the hands and hearts.

Location: Homedale Entry, 2010 Homedale, behind Barton Hills Elementary School
Time: 9 am - 1 pm

Thanks, look forward to working with you.

Glee Ingram
Greenbelt Guardians Coordinator
(512) 443-7522
gleeful@earthlink.net

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Pull out your compass and get set for another adventurous carnival at Barton Hills Elementary School!

If you've never been to the annual fundraiser get ready, you're in for a treat! This Friday, October 23rd, from 6-9pm hundreds of neighbors will converge upon the elementary school to jump in bouncy houses, throw beanbags at their favorite teachers hoping they will get dunked, eat all sorts of delicious treats, play games, win prizes, run shrieking through a maze and generally have the best time ever!

This year's theme is exploration - think maps, oceanic creatures, ice fishing, a chopstick challenge and food from every continent - there's something everyone will enjoy! So pull on your hiking books and climb Mt. Everest to the
best carnival yet!

DeAnn Eisenhauer

We invite you to come and bid on our wonderful Silent Auction baskets (by Ms. Becky from old Barton Hills carnival days) and incredible items and services too numerous to name, pet those adorable animals from Fry's Animal Farm-Petting Zoo, play with the clowns, and have fun at our games for all ages.

There will also be a pie contest, wine toss, kid's activities such as craft tables, face painting, and stuffed animal walk. We will be selling cactus and aloe babies from our abudant flower bed on the corner to benefit the gardens at St. Mark's so we can continue to beautify the neighborhood. As always Maggie's Cafe will be open and this year we have veggie burgers and kids meals.

Proceeds benefit the church and its Outreach programs.

For more info contact St. Mark's Church at 444-1449. As always thank you neighbors for supporting the Barton Hills School and St. Mark's Church through the years. We live in such a great neighborhood! Let's have fun this weekend and enjoy the beautiful weather.

Becky Nolan

Fasten your seatbelts...

We have a very busy agenda for tomorrow night and it's our last meeting of the year so bring family and friends for the final hootenanny of 2009!

Pizza/pasta/salad dinner starts around 6 pm-$6 for all you can eat. Please come and stay for the meeting, if possible, as we will be voting on new officers for next year and discussing many city agency updates plus a few new neighborhood/development issues that have popped up recently.

Look forward to seeing you tomorrow night!

Kimber

Kimberly White Erlinger
President, Barton Hills Neighborhood Association




7:00 PM Welcome/Opening Remarks

7:05 Approval of Minutes/Approval of Treasurer's report

7:10 2010 BHNA Officer Elections
(Proposed slate:
President, Wendy Papasan
Vice-President, Penley McQueen
Treasurer: John Morgan
Austin Neighborhood Council Rep: Kay Killen
Other positions TBD-Consider Volunteering!)

7:20 Update, discussion and vote on Barton Springs median project donation-Mary Campbell

7:30 Greenbelt Guardian Update, including Betty Brown/Homedale Sign-Glee Ingram

7:40 Development Update, including new Waterfront Overlay resolution and Red's Porch-Peter Hess, Melissa Hawthorne, Nan Clayton

7:50 Drive-By Museum Information-Joe Gieselman and Steve Dubov

8:00 Capital Metro Update-Alissa Schram

8:10 City Animal Shelter Update-David Lurie

8:20 Open Forum, if time permits

Hello Greenbelt Fans,

After a long, hot, dry summer, we are excited to get back to work on our adopted Homedale Trail for a fall work day. As always, there is plenty of work to do. It seems that the plant response to the life-threatening heat and drought this summer is resulting in wildly prolific blooming and seeding ? some of it is very welcome on the greenbelt, like the mass of native golden-eye blooming in our restoration research area of the trail. But some of it is not so welcome, like the choking community of ragweed in the drainage easement at the entry area of the trail, and in the creek bed upstream from the rock flats. We need some hardy, non-allergic volunteers to pull up these weeds and sack them for removal. And there are other weeds and invasives  to remove along the trail: Johnson grass, Wisteria, Chinaberrry, Nandina, and the ever-pervasive Ligustrum.

We also need to do some tidying up of large fallen branches on the switchback trail and organize them into windrows, plus check for regrowth of the ligustrum population that was removed about in that area four years ago. In that same area, we plan to continue constructing stone steppers on the steep path, to improve the safety of the trail.  There are a few piles of caliche and rock near the entry trail that we need to put to good use. And some dead or low growth branch pruning to do. Plus the regular trash clean-up along the trail and near the rock flats and Campbell?s Hole. Plenty of beer cans and paper wrappers to collect and haul out.

Please plan to wear long sleeves and pants and closed-toe shoes and bring your gloves if you have some and a water bottle. We will provide all of the tasks and team leaders and ivy block and tools and energy food and water. Remember, it?s Halloween Day, so plan on some silly fun, and costume if you feel inspired.

RSVP to assure we have enough tacos and tools.

Date: Saturday, October 31
Time: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Place: Homedale Trail Entry, 2010 Homedale Drive, directly behind Barton Hills Elementary School


Glee Ingram
Greenbelt Guardian Coordinator
(512) 443-7522
gleeful@earthlink.net

Hi Neighbors,

Don't forget about the 1st Annual Barton Hills Ice Cream Social, happening this Sunday, October 11, from 2-4 pm. Take a break and join us for a cone and some conversation!

The Austin Ice Cream Truck will be at the school playground-please show caution on Barton Hills Drive-to hand out free ice cream cones! First come, first served.

Special thanks to Wendy Papasan for donating the ice cream, which she won in a charity auction!

See you Sunday!!

Kimberly White Erlinger
President, Barton Hills Neighborhood Association