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.

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."