The Lamplight Post              December 2003

Kim Johnson, President, 339-9722   Cindy Baxter, Vice President, 339-2043

Julie Nichols, Secretary, 834-0599  Doris Dees, Treasurer

 

December 9th, Tuesday at 7pm, Westview Middle School Library - L.V.A.N.A’s December Holiday Social

Please join us for holiday fair and to show appreciation to our many volunteers for 2003.

 

THIS IS IT

As of December 31, 2003 this will be the last newsletter delivered to your home.

   Siting financial inability to pay for printing the newsletter, no volunteers to serve on the Executive Board, and no volunteers to fill the newsletter editor, advertising representative and newsletter coordinator positions, the current board has no alternative but to fold the association until further notice. (The Park Fund money donated over the past several years, however, remains in a separate account for the intended use of park improvements to happen this winter).

   To check the status of the association after December 31, 2003, you may go the L.V.A.N.A. website at www.main.org/l.v.a.n.a.  No newsletters will be delivered in January. An online newsletter may or may not be available in February.  If a newsletter editor is found, newsletters will be emailed or mailed/hand delivered to members only.  No meetings will be had until key positions are filled.  If none are found in the next 6 months, a special meeting in June may be announced.

   To volunteer for one of the posts listed, contact an officer listed above.  In order for the association to continue in making a mark in our community, sponsoring garage sales, making/printing a newsletter, hosting events and neighborhood gatherings, hold meetings, keeping in touch with surrounding associations and community crime fighting partners … volunteers are needed.  Crime loves this sort of dilemma.

Help keep the light burning in Lamplight Village.

   If not you, then who?  So much is to be lost for our neighborhood but so much could be gained if we all did a small part.  Whether it be putting out the meeting signs, helping with ads, writing an article for the newsletter, delivering newsletters one time, running to the printer to drop off/pick up the newsletters, inserting flyers, bringing refreshments for a meeting….just a one time donation of your time can help make a difference.

CHRISTMAS YARD DECORATING CONTEST DECEMBER 13-14

 

This will be a 2 night judging affair.  Leave your lights on from 7-9 p.m. on Dec. 13th and 14th.  The 13th will be the individual judge’s picks and on the 14th the judges drive the neighborhood and collaborate to make the final choices.

1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners will receive a yard sign

 thru the holiday season.

Criteria for judging is based on creativity, originality, special effects, design, technical attributes and most important of all, the “WOW” factor.  It is not how many great decorations you have in your yard but rather how well it is done that catches the eye of the judges.  So dust them off and hang them up!    Happy Holidays to all!

 

 
 

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All the good you can ~ by all the means you can ~ in all the ways you can, in all the places you can ~ at all the times you can, to all the people you can ~ as long as ever you can.                             John Wesley

                                   

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES

 

L.V.A.N.A. Wishes to Thank …

Those people who helped the Association by delivering newsletters in November 2003, included the following: Kurt Weger, Theresa Tichenor, Nancy Desher, Paul Alvarez, Carl Schorlemmer, Robert Castano, Jodie Dowell, Kathy Dodds, Kim Johnson, Cindy Crouch, Natalie Plessala, Gloria Touey, Julie Nichols, Richard Byrnes, Bruce Tiffany, Sara Schopp, Debra Stanley, Olivia Herrera, & Cindy & Richard Baxter. 

 

Scofield Park

Residents who gave time to water the trees across from Westview Middle School During October and November Forrest & Bonnie Cherico, Sarah Schopp, Norma Lane, Paul Alvarez.  Despite the current dilemma of the association, tree watering is still needed thru out the winter.  Please contact Alvie Nichols to help, 834-0599.

 

Trail of Lights

City Parks & Recreation Department will present its annual Trail of Lights in Zilker Park to celebrate the Holiday Season.  To find out more, visit http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/parks/events.htm .

December 14-23, 2003, 7pm, Zilker Park 2100 Barton Springs Road

 

Much Mulch!

City Parks & Recreation Department is offering free mulch on a first-come, first-served basis.  The mulch was the bi-product of recent clean-ups of storm damaged areas.  The mulch is available at Walnut Creek Park, though no supervisors or equipment will be stationed there.  Takers will be responsible for shoveling and hauling the mulch themselves.  Find directions to the park at http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/parks/parkdirectory.htm . 

 

Candlelight Christmas

The Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms is hosting its annual Candlelight Christmas with activities centered around Christmas as it was in Austin in the 1880s. Cost: $15 for adults, $10 for children. Reservations: 837-1215. More information http://www.heritagesocietyaustin.org/pioneerfarm.html  Friday and Saturday, December 12th and 13th, 6-10 pm.

 

NEIGHBORHOOD CONTACTS

EMERGENCY CALLS:  9-1-1, Police Non-emergency calls: 3-1-1 or 974-5750, A.P.D. District Representative: Officer Mike Dunn, 974-5553, e-mail:  mike.dunn@ci.austin.tx.us, A.P.D. Community Liaison - Lai Tran, 974-4737; Neighborhood Watch:  Alvie Nichols, 834-0599, Newsletter Distribution: Richard Baxter,  339-2043, Traffic Representative: Norma Lane, 719-4467.

The Lamplight village Area Neighborhood Association’s website is www.main.org/L.V.A.N.A.

 

 

2004 L.V.A.N.A. MEMBERSHIP FORM

 

 For the 2004 calendar year, January thru December, membership is only $8.00 per household.

  

Name('s) ___________________________________________                  Enclosed is:           Address:___________________________________________                     ___ $8.00 (1 vote)    

Phone: (hm) _______________ (wk) ____________________                   ___ Park Fund $____  

E-mail: _____________________________________________                  ___ Additional  Contribution $____

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Mail to:   L.V.A.N.A.    P.O. BOX 270026    AUSTIN, TX  78727

                       

Please note: The paying of dues does not commit you to volunteer.   Your support, whether financially or physically, is extremely important to the success of L.V.A.N.A.’S goals and for the betterment of our neighborhood and community.

 

Together a difference can be made for our children, families and community!

 

CRIME ONLY GROWS WHERE IT IS ALLOWED TO FLOURISH.