July 4 Parade pictures now online

Sunny skies blessed our neighborhood again this year for our annual July 4th Parade, and Barton Hills Drive was alive with red, white, and blue patriotic spirit. Check out 48 pictures taken by neighbor Bill Newcomb during the parade and afterwards at the gathering at Barton Hills Elementary.

Special thanks to Cindy Bogard for heading up the Parade Committee of awesome volunteers!

 

PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING
July 21, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
One Texas Center, 505 Barton Springs Road

BARTON SPRINGS ROAD BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES

The City of Austin, with matching grant funding from the Texas Department of Transportation, is planning to add bike lanes to Barton Springs Road from Rollingwood Dr. to Robert E. Lee Rd. and pedestrian walkways in Zilker Park.

[Note: view this notice in PDF format to see a map detailing the proposed location]

The 5′ bike lanes will be added by widening the existing shoulders of Barton Springs Road where necessary. The 5′ pedestrian walkway will generally parallel Barton Springs Road and meander through the park, providing connections to the McBeth Recreation Center bus stop, several parking lots, and the new pedestrian walkway under the Barton Springs Road Bridge at Barton Creek. This new walkway will be compliant with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation accessibility requirements.

All interested neighborhoods, bicyclists, and park users are invited to attend this informational meeting to learn more about the project.

A second meeting will be held on August 16, 2005 at the same time and location. For more information, contact: Mark Schruben, City of Austin Project Manager, 512-974-7048.

 

To the hardy, foolhardy, and committed fans of the Greenbelt:

This will be the last appeal for volunteers for our Saturday, July 9 work day at Homedale Trail, from 8:00 a.m. until noon.

John Cook and Stan Ostrum and I walked the trail this Friday and made a list of ?non-extreme? maintenance tasks, in deference to the heat. We will be stockpiling rock and log supplies for a future work day. We need lots of ?ligustrum scouts? to wander into the woodlands beyond the trails to tag large ligustrums that will be cut down or girdled, to reduce the enormous seed bank. The partying has been heavy along the stream and at the base of the cave by the rock flats, so there is lots of trash to haul out. And there are banks of sticker stalks seeds that we need to bag up to prevent future infestations. We will also be doing some stabilizing of the cedar edging along the woodlands trail.

For those who come, BE SURE to bring: your own water bottle, a sun hat, and work gloves. Wear long sleeves & pants and close-toed shoes if you plan to work off trail. WE WILL PROVIDE trash sacks, plastic gloves, all wheelbarrows and tools needed. We will also provide water and energy drinks and some energy bars, and sun screen and poison ivy protectant lotion.

Thanks so much to those who plan to work ? this is an act of real dedication! Please RSVP so we can plan appropriately,

Glee Ingram
Greenbelt Guardian Coordinator
gleeful@earthlink.net

 
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