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City to Hyde Park Residents:
Become A Green Garden Block Leader
Dear Hyde Park Neighbors,
The City of Austin is recruiting its citizens to become
block leaders who promote the City's environmental
programs. These environmental departments have combined
efforts to assemble the Green Gardening Block Leader
Program. Green Gardening includes the Water Conservation
Programs, Watershed Protection, 'Dillo Dirt' compost,
Austin Energy's Green Building Program, and the
Recycling / yard waste Programs.
As a Green Garden Block Leader, you or someone in your
neighborhood, will act as a spokesperson for these
different environmental programs by distributing door
hangers to your neighbors. Three or four times a year,
these door hangers will be passed out with pertinent
seasonal information about environmental conservation.
In addition, Block Leaders will be given yard signs
for easy identification by neighbors who are interested
in learning more about the program.
Austin needs your help to keep our city clean and green.
By becoming a Green Garden Block Leader, you are doing
your part for the City's park system, water supply, and
environment as a whole. For more information call 974-2978
or e-mail
karenstewart@ci.austin.tx.us.
Thank You!
Karen Stewart
City of Austin |
Same all Over?
Dear Editor,
Below is a paragraph from The Little Friend by Donna Tartt,
published by Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002, page 428.
(The setting is a small town in Mississippi)
"The days were very noisy. Heavy machinery - bulldozers,
chainsaws - roared in the distance, three streets over.
The Baptists were cutting down the trees and paving over
the land around the church because they needed more
parking, they said; the rumble in the distance was
terrible, as if of tanks, an advancing army, pressing
in on the quiet streets."
Herb Dickson
Proprietor, The Woodburn House |
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