Saturday May 16 is the Westcreek Neighborhood Garage Sale.  The Executive Committee will put signs out at entry points to the neighborhood as well as run an add in the Austin American Statesman. 

Please remember to pick up your garage sale signage after holding a sale.

Learn the basics of using your irrigation system efficiently while saving water at a free Austin Water seminar.  Austin Water conservation staff will offer a free landscape irrigation workshop on Tuesday, April 6 from 6-8 p.m. in Room 105 of the water utility offices located at 625 East 10th Street.

Topics will include:

• scheduling landscape irrigation systems
• programming the controller
• basic irrigation system maintenance
• adjustments to avoid runoff and overspray

The goal of this class is to give homeowners the tools to manage their irrigation system efficiently while conserving water.

Space for the class is limited. To register, contact David Turnage, Conservation Program Specialist, at 512.974.3517 or david.turnage@ci.austin.tx.us.

For more information on conserving water, visit  www.waterwiseaustin.org.

• Email Address: david.turnage@ci.austin.tx.us

The Mills Elementary PTA is sponsoring a candidates’ forum for those seeking seats on the AISD Board of Trustees for District 7 and At-Large District 9.  The forum will be held Wednesday, April 7 at 6:30pm in the Mills Elementary School cafeteria at 6201 Davis Lane.  The event is open to the public.  The forum will be a Q/A style  with questions taken from the audience.  Two candidates are vying for District 7: Incumbent Robert Schneider and former AISD administrator Warren Faulkner.  Five candidates are vying for District 9:  Tamala Barksdale, Cassandra Enoch Brown, Julie Cowan, Dianne T. Mendoza, & Mike Reed.

Large Brush Collection will begin April 12, 2010 for the Westcreek Neighborhood. Branches over 3 inches in diameter and up to 15 feet long are collected during specially-scheduled large brush collections. Large brush must be at the curb in front of your house by 6:30 a.m. on the first day of the scheduled collection week(s).

Large brush should be stacked, unbound, in one row along the curb with the cut ends facing the street. The row should be no more than 15 feet long and four feet high. Anything beyond this amount will not be collected unless you have made prior arrangements to pay additional fees.

Large brush will not be collected if it’s inaccessible. Place your large brush about five feet from your garbage cart and other potential obstacles such as mail boxes, fences, walls, water meters, telephone connection boxes and parked cars. Avoid placing large brush under low-hanging tree limbs or power lines.

Solid Waste Services cannot collect the following items during large brush collections:

- Bamboo, cactus, vines, rose bushes or vegetation with thorns. (These can be included with your weekly yard trimmings collection. Cactus, rose bushes and thorny branches should be wrapped in cardboard or several layers of newspaper before being placed in a reusable container or paper yard waste bag on your yard trimmings collection day.)
- Yard trimmings (grass, leaves and small branches)
- Garbage
- Bulky items

• Web Site: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws/yardbrush.htm

Shred Day 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
8:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Austin High Parking Lot
1715 W. Cesar Chavez

With the increased awareness of identity theft, it’s important to dispose of personal records carefully.  To highlight this, the Austin Chapter of ARMA International, Financial Fitness Greater Austin and the City of Austin is sponsoring a Free event to help individuals and families with:
• Home records management
• Identity theft protection
• Recycling
 
Households can bring up to five file boxes of paper records for shredding.  Mobile shredding trucks from Austin Shred, a Balcones Resource Company, CenTex Shred, Certified Shred LLC, Iron Mountain and Intel Armor will be on-site to shred the material.
 
Restrictions:
• No wet material
• No plastics/binders
• No electronic media
• No three-ring binders
 
In lieu of a fee for the service, monetary donations will be accepted for the Capital Area Food Bank.
 
For more information contact Jannette Goodall at 974-9045 or via email at Jannette.goodall@ci.austin.tx.us

• Email Address: jannette.goodall@ci.austin.tx.us, jannette.goodall@ci.austin.tx.us