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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 police-community 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 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
July 2009, Volume 3, Issue 7
Healthier Homes
Easy Ways to Improve Household Air Quality By: Michelle & Charlie Bubnis
Home cleaning products contain an array of harmful chemicals that are not required by law to be listed on the products’ label. These chemicals have a toxic effect on indoor air quality. The best way to avoid this unknown risk to your family is to create your own cleaning products which is much easier than one may think. Here are some suggestions: • Almond Oil: Furniture polish • Baking Soda: Cleans, deodorizes, removes stains and softens fabrics • BonAmi: Functions as an abrasive cleanser • Borax: Natural mineral that can be used to bleach, deodorize, remove stains, and boost soap. It also kills bacteria and mold. It can also be used in your dishwasher as 1 part borax and 1 part washing soda. Add ¼ cup to dishwasher load • Castile Soaps: All purpose cleaner • Citrus peels: Deodorize garbage disposal • Cornstarch: Absorb oil and grease, starches clothes • Club Soda: Pre-wash and stain remover • Hydrogen Peroxide: Germicidal. Hydrogen Peroxide and cream of tartar paste make a good cleaner for
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Barton View Healthier Homes - (Continued from Cover Page) sinks and bathtubs • Lemon Juice: Bleach alternative, grease cutter, stain and perspiration remover for clothing. Lemon juice and salad oil as a furniture polish. Lemon juice on a cloth cleans aluminum • Table Salt: Abrasive cleaner • Vinegar : Water softener, cuts grease, removes stains; strips lime deposits from showers, removes white haze on glassware • Washing Soda :Cleans clothes, boosts soap’s cleaning power, softens water, cuts grease and disinfects
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Barton View Nature Watch
Bracted twist-flower Photo: Mrs. W.D. Bransford
Canyon mock orange Photo: Mrs. W.D. Bransford
By Jim and Lynne Weber Signature Plants The hill country of central Texas is and fragrant white blossoms. It grows near springs, among boulders defined as an environmental ecoregion, and on bluffs in shady, moist canyons. Endemic to the hill country, which means it contains a certain set this plant is almost identical to a more common but still uncommon of plants and animals whose presence species called Texas mock orange, which occurs in Bandera, Edwards, indicates specific conditions such as Real, and Uvalde counties. Aside from slight geographic differences temperature range, rainfall, food supply, in location, the key to properly identifying each species lies in the and physical characteristics of the land. hairs that cover the lower leaf surface – canyon mock orange has This set of species, called indicator or only short straight hairs and Texas mock orange has a mix of short signature species, can be among the straight hairs and long tangled hairs. Listed as a state “species of most sensitive in a region, acting as an concern” due to its declining numbers, canyon mock orange is in early warning of changing conditions need of environmental protection. One of the most beautiful and uncommon shrubs found only on to monitoring biologists. There are the Edwards Plateau is the sycamore leaf snowbell. A sprawling, several signature plant species found on irregular, deciduous shrub, it grows on or under steep bluffs near the Edwards Plateau, many of which are common, and several that are quite creeks, offering showy white bell-shaped flowers in the spring and large green leaves with angular projections in the summer, turning to rare. Found only in 5 Texas counties bright yellow in the fall. As a larval host plant, its leaves offer food (Blanco, Comal, Hayes, Kendall, and for the caterpillars of tiger swallowtail butterflies. Several protection Travis), canyon mock orange is a rare efforts by concerned citizens and botanists to propagate this plant low shrub with small glossy green leaves are occurring on private lands. (Continued on Page 5)
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Barton View Nature Watch - (Continued from Page 4) 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 multiflower 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 yellow-green 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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Barton View July Events at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Independence Day - Wildflower Center is closed. Nature Nights - 6 to 9 p.m. Thursdays in July Talks, crafts, hikes and fun for the family. $1 admission and free to members and Eco-Explorers. Fossils, July 9; Birds of prey, July 16; Bees, July 23; Water ecology, July 30. The Origami Diva - July 9 through October 4 An intricate installation of origami by Austin artist Joan Son in the McDermott Learning Center. Origami merchandise in the store. Book Signing - 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 11 Terry Thompson-Anderson signs The Texas Hill Country: A Food and Wine Lover’s Paradise, in the store. Lady Bird Johnson Tribute Day - 9 a.m. to 5:30 Sunday, July 26 Remember our founder with a visit to the Wildflower Center. Book signings, videos and a porcelain display. Free admission.
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