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Protect Your Trees and Our Property Values from Oak Wilt |
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 16:22 |
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Our neighborhood continues to lose one of its most important assets--the beautiful live oaks and red oaks that form a shady, green canopy over our streets and homes. These oak trees are being threatened by a contagious disease called oak wilt. Over the past twenty years, Austin has lost more than 10,000 oaks to the deadly and infectious oak wilt disease. For both individuals and the City as a whole, this loss is felt by increased utility bills, reduced property values, and a sense of devastation.
Protect the value of your property by learning about Oak Wilt, and become aware of the ways to detect, correct and stop the spread of this terrible blight.
A few important tips to help stop the spread of Oak Wilt:
DO NOT PRUNE OAKS from February through June during the Oak Wilt carrier beetle's peak season. You can help enforce this ban by reminding everyone of the real and expensive dangers to our neighborhood oaks. Everyone needs to protect our property values and oak trees.
It is strongly recommended that you employ only certified arborists to prune your valuable Oaks. Avoid the uncertified tree service vendors who roam the neighborhoods and perform unsafe Oak Wilt practices. Find local certified arborists and check with the Better Business Bureau:
International Society of Arboriculture
(Search by name, location, or zip code)
Better Business Bureau
(Search by zip code and vendor name) |
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Shred Day in April |
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:59 |
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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 Resources Company, CenTex Shred, Certified Shred LLC, Iron Mountain and Intel Armor will be on-site to shred 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
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Construction Next To The Post Office |
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Monday, 22 February 2010 14:12 |
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Lake Creek Park is a new subdivision of 90 single-family homes being built on Hymeadow Street next to the new Post Office. The work currently being done on the site is clearing of land, building of roads, and detention pond; crew reports this phase of construction should take about 4 months. The City of Austin granted a variance such that roads on the site will not connect to Lonsdale. For more information about the site plan, contact
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New Web Format |
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 22:59 |
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NASWC is pleased to release our website in a new format utilizing the content management system, Joomla. You will find the same content from our original web site in an easier to use structure. PLUS, Joomla will allow our officers, committee chairs, and Neighbor to Neighbor content authors to quickly post new articles and updates to the web site. |
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Mission |
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 03:35 |
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NASWC's purpose is to promote the general welfare of the residents of Williamson County, Texas, who live within the area bounded by Highway 620 on the north, Parmer Lane on the east, Anderson Mill Road on the south, and Highway 183 on the west.
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