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July 2009
Lake Pointe
Volume 2, Issue 7
MESSENGER
A Newsletter for the Residents of Lake Pointe on Lake Austin
National Night Out 2009 Dear Friends, Greetings! It’s time again to gather your neighbors and team up with your Law Enforcement Agency to give crime a going-away party. National Night Out is an annual event held on the first Tuesday of October. National Night Out is sponsored by the National Night Out Association of Town Watch. This past year’s National Night Out campaigns involved citizens, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, business, neighborhood organizations and local public officials from more than 9,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and military bases worldwide. In all, more than 29.5 million participated in National Night Out last year. National Night Out is designed to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness, generate support for and participation in local anti-crime efforts, and to strengthen neighborhood spirit and law enforcement – community partnership. But its primary goal is to send a strong message to criminals to let them know neighborhoods are organized and fighting back. Along with the traditional display of porch lights and front-yard vigils, cities, towns and neighborhoods celebrate NNO with a variety of events and activities such as block parties, cookouts, visits from local law enforcement officers, parades flashlights walks contests and youth programs. NNO has proven to be an effective, inexpensive and enjoyable program to promote neighborhood spirit and policecommunity partnerships in our fight for safer communities. The benefits that your community will derive from NNO will most certainly extend well beyond the one night. The Travis County Sheriff ’s Office has promoted National Night Out for the past 25 years. Our participation has grown from helping with a handful of neighborhood get-togethers to more than 4,000 participants enjoying block parties, carnivals, parades and an assortment of other activities. Our involvement has grown from a couple of crime Copyright © 2009 Peel, Inc.
prevention officers, to dozens of patrol officers, sergeants, lieutenants, captains, majors, county commissioners and the Sheriff. National Night Out is a great way to get together with your neighbors, find out what’s going on in your community and visit with local law enforcement officers about what you can do to help reduce the opportunities for crimes to occur. Participation can be as simple as a small block party, or as big as a parade or carnival. To get involved, or to find out how to register your event for National Night Out, call the Travis County Sheriff ’s Office at 854-8413 or 854-9770. Deputy James Kitchens Travis County Sheriff ’s Office Community Services & Outreach Unit (512) 854-8413 Fax: (512) 854-4719
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Lake Pointe Nature Watch By Jim and Lynne Weber
Signature Plants The hill country of central Texas is defined as an environmental ecoregion, which means it contains a certain set of plants and animals whose presence indicates specific conditions such as temperature range, rainfall, food supply, and physical characteristics of the land. This set of species, called indicator or signature species, can be among the most sensitive in a region, acting as an early warning of changing conditions to monitoring biologists. There are several signature plant species found on the Edwards Plateau, many of which are common, and several that are quite rare. Found only in 5 Texas counties (Blanco, Comal, Hayes, Kendall, and Travis), canyon mock orange is a rare low shrub with small glossy green leaves and fragrant white blossoms. It grows near springs, among boulders and on bluffs in shady, moist canyons. Endemic to the hill country, this plant is almost identical to a more common but still uncommon species called Texas mock orange, which occurs in Bandera, Edwards, Real, and Uvalde counties. Aside from slight geographic differences in location, the key to properly identifying each species lies in the hairs that cover the lower leaf surface – canyon mock orange has only short straight hairs and Texas mock orange has a mix of short straight hairs and long tangled hairs. Listed as a state “species of concern” due to its declining numbers, canyon mock orange is in need of environmental protection. One of the most beautiful and uncommon shrubs found only on the Edwards Plateau is the sycamore leaf snowbell. A sprawling, irregular, deciduous shrub, it grows on or (Continued on Page 5)
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lake pointe Nature Watch - (Continued from Page 4) under steep bluffs near creeks, offering showy white bell-shaped flowers in the spring and large green leaves with angular projections in the summer, turning to bright yellow in the fall. As a larval host plant, its leaves offer food for the caterpillars of tiger swallowtail butterflies. Several protection efforts by concerned citizens and botanists to propagate this plant are occurring on private lands. Once scattered throughout central Texas, the bracted twist-flower is now a rare plant, likely due to the combined effect of picking and over-grazing. Found on rocky, wooded slopes it grows 2-4 feet tall, with a base of long, lobed green leaves that become shorter and more rounded as they travel up the stem. Striking violet-purple multi-flower spikes 4-10 inches tall grace the plant in late spring, with each individual flower having a small bract or leaf at its base. Climbing on shrubs and small trees and found in a variety of environments, the uncommon bracted passion flower vine is yet another native jewel of the hill country. While its pale yellowgreen flowers are small at only one inch across, they exhibit the typical intricacy of passion flower structure. Smooth, deeply lobed green leaves provide food to zebra longwing and gulf fritillary caterpillars, but also frequently sport tiny yellow spots, presumably to mimic butterfly eggs and discourage excessive egg laying. While the signature plant species described above are rare and unique on their own, together they help define the true nature of the Texas hill country. Monitoring and preserving them is not only good for the sake of maintaining biological diversity and understanding changing environmental conditions, but for the future beauty of our ecoregion as well. Send your nature-related questions to
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By: Michelle & Charlie Bubnis Home cleaning products contain an array of harmful chemicals perspiration remover for clothing. Lemon juice and salad oil as a that are not required by law to be listed on the products’ label. furniture polish. Lemon juice on a cloth cleans aluminum These chemicals have a toxic effect on indoor air quality. The best • Table Salt: Abrasive cleaner way to avoid this unknown risk to your family is to create your own • Vinegar : Water softener, cuts grease, removes stains; strips lime cleaning products which is much easier than one may think. Here deposits from showers, removes white haze on glassware are some suggestions: • Washing Soda :Cleans clothes, boosts soap’s cleaning power, softens • Almond Oil: Furniture polish water, cuts grease and disinfects • Baking Soda: Cleans, deodorizes, removes stains and softens Consider always avoiding fragranced cleaning or fragranced laundry fabrics products as 95% of chemicals used in fragrances are synthetic and derived from petroleum. These chemicals are combined in untested • BonAmi: Functions as an abrasive cleanser • Borax: Natural mineral that can be used to bleach, deodorize, combinations. They are capable of causing cancer, birth defects, remove stains, and boost soap. It also kills bacteria and mold. It central nervous system disorders and allergic reactions. can also be used in your dishwasher as 1 part borax and 1 part So pick up a few of the suggested items listed above at the grocery washing soda. Add ¼ cup to dishwasher load store and the air quality in the home will improve along with the • Castile Soaps: All purpose cleaner health of your family. • Citrus peels: Deodorize garbage disposal For more Information: • Cornstarch: Absorb oil and grease, starches clothes 1. Less Toxic Alternatives by Carolyn Gorman, 2004 • Club Soda: Pre-wash and stain remover 2. The Most Common Chemicals Found in Thirty-One Fragrance • Hydrogen Peroxide: Germicidal. Hydrogen Peroxide and cream of Productds by a 1991 EPA Study by Julia Kendall www.immuneweb. tartar paste make a good cleaner for sinks and bathtubs org/articles/perfume.html • Lemon Juice: Bleach alternative, grease cutter, stain and
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