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Volume 10, Number 4 Davenport Ranch Neighborhood Association

April 2014 www.DavenportRanch.org

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSLETTER

WILEY COYOTE It’s too bad that the typical coyote is not the hapless cartoon character who is always being bested by the roadrunner. Coyotes are smart, adaptable and capable of learning. After receiving some reports from owners of coyote sightings in Davenport Ranch, I contacted Travis County to find out what owners should do. Their advice is to call 311 and report the date, time and location of the incident or sighting. This is the system the country and state use to track coyote activity. Using this information they can spot trouble areas or particularly aggressive behavior. The Wildlife Service will initiate a trapping response if they receive an excessive number of sightings within a residential area. Trapping is only temporarily successful because new coyotes will move into a vacated territory. The Wildlife Service always posts signs when traps are in the area, and they never leave traps over the week end. We will inform the Davenport residents of such trapping efforts via our social media outlets if they actually go into effect. Even if you have not seen coyotes, you can be sure they are living in the ravines. Protect small pets by not leaving them unsupervised; coyotes can jump fences. They are also attracted by food and water. The coyotes trapped a few years ago had been eating dog food. Exercise the common sense required to live among the wild things. Please report to 311 when you do observe coyotes. Earline Wakefield Property Manager

8 Year Old Austin Boy Goes to National Contest Eight-year-old Austin boy will represent Texas photography in the National contest. Max Whitney, second grader diagnosed with autism, was awarded the Overall Award of Excellence in Photography for Special Artists by the Texas Parent Teacher Association on Saturday. He will represent all Texas Special artists in photography in grades K through 12 in the National PTA Reflections Program. Max’s photograph, titled Lizard InspEyer, was selected from thousands of entries submitted to the 2013-2014 theme: Believe, Dream, Inspire. Each year the contests begin in each grade on school campuses across the state. The school campus winners go to their school district contests. This year 1005 entries in 6 categories (photography, dance choreography, film production, literature, musical composition, and visual arts) advanced to Texas PTA. Only 30 of these were awarded Overall Award of Excellence and will advance to the National contest. Max, son of Traci and Cameron Whitney, is the only Austin Area winner in all 6 categories in the entire Reflections Program. Over 100 outstanding student entries are recognized with Honorable Mention, Award of Merit, Award of Excellence, and (Continued on Page 2)

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Davenport Ranch IMPORTANT NUMBERS DAVENPORT - CENTRAL WEST DISTRICT OF POLICE DEPT

(Continued from Page 5) the Overall Award of Excellence winners. They will be on display for public viewing at the Texas Education Agency, the Legislative Budget Board, and the Texas Commission on the Arts March 10 through April 30, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. This year’s theme, Believe, Dream, Inspire, was submitted from an elementary school student in East Rockway, New York. Next year’s theme, Let Your Imagination Fly, was submitted by a student in Northwood, North Dakota. Each year a new theme is selected in the National PTA Reflections Theme Search Contest.

NEW BAKER 4 DR SENIOR PATROL OFFICER Darrell Grayson .......................................... 512-947-5242 ..........................................Darrell.Grayson@ci.austin.tx.us EMERGENGY Police and Fire Emergencies.......................................... 9-1-1 Reports/Non-Emergencies................................................311 HOSPITALS South Austin Hospital (10 miles).................... 512-447-2211 901 W. Ben White Blvd Connie Ripley - cripley@austin.rr.com or 512-250-8473 Brackenridge Hospital..................................... 512-324-7000 601 15th Street Seton Hospital (10.5 miles)............................. 512-324-1000 corner of 35th and Medical Pkwy - best choice for serious problems Children's Hospital of Austin (13 miles)......... 512-324-8000 I-35 and 15th Seton Northwest (10 miles)............................. 512-324-6000 11113 Research (183 N just past Braker) North Austin Hospital (8.5 miles)................... 512-901-1000 Mopac and Parmer Heart Hospital ............................................... 512-407-7000 3801 N. Lamar Urgent Care day and after hours: Austin Regional Clinic – FarWest.................... 512-346-6611 6835 Austin Center Blvd Poison Control............................................. 1-800-222-1222 Peel_BC_Middle.indd 1 3/6/2014 4:52:38 PM ANIMAL CONTROL Envirocare Pest Control................................... 512-416-9191 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Animal Pick up (dead animals) ...............................494-9400 Animal Control (pick up stray or injured)...............972-6060 President: Barking Dog ....................................................................311 Larry Eisenberg....................................... Larry@CTXIG.com UTILITIES Vice Presidents: Austin Energy Customer Service..................... 512-494-9400 Joe Thrash, Architectural Review...........jthrash@austin.rr.com Austin Water Utility........................................ 512-494-9400 John Soyring..............................................john@soyring.com Texas Gas Service Customer Service................ 800-700-2443 Marc Alcedo.............................................. Malcedo@me.com Time Warner Cable Customer Service............. 512-485-5555 Shiela Walker..................................... shielagwalker@gmail.com Phone Payments.......................................... 512-485-6500 Treasurer: SBC 24-hr Info Line:................................... 1-888-294-8433 Don Neville................................ Don.Neville@Tatumllc.com Residential Phone Ordering:..................... 1-800-464-7928 Secretary: Residential Phone Repair:......................... 1-800-246-8464 Mercedes Frost............................... mercedesfrost@gmail.com MISCELLANEOUS Association Manager Goodwin Management, Inc........................... 512- 502-7517 Earline Wakefield............... earline.wakefield@goodwintx.com Abandoned Cars......................................................280-0075 Airport- A.B.I.A. Flight Info. .................................530-2242 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION Garbage Collection.................................................494-9400 Goodwin Management, Inc Lost mailbox key, Jim Howe; jimhowe@cox.net......844-4222 11149 Research, Suite 100 • Austin,Texas 78759-5227 Streetlight Problem .................................................505-7617 Office 512 502-7526 • Cell: 512 470-5104 • Fax: 512 346-4873 Street Signs: Bridge & Street, Sam West..................974-8775 Street Sign Replacement..........................................457-4885 PRESIDENT DAVENPORT RANCH Hazardous Waste ....................................................974-4343 NEIGHBORHOOD MASTER BOARD NEWSLETTER PUBLISHER Peel, Inc...........................................................512-263-9181 Meredith Landry.................................................tejas42@aol.com

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Davenport Ranch This past year, a Community Relations committee was organized with new board members dedicated to improving neighborhood communications. To hear about current happening within the neighborhood (social events, meetings, presentations, etc), please join the new Davenport Ranch Neighborhood Association Facebook page at www.facebook.com/austindrna or our Twitter page at www.twitter.com/AustinDRNA. Our main website services can be found at http://hoasites.goodwintx.com/dna/Home.aspx The committee is also trying to build a more comprehensive and accurate database of Davenport residents. This is vital to improving community communications in 2014. If you have not returned the survey mailed to you last month, please consider filling it out and returning it to our management office, see address below. Thanks!

Davenport Ranch Neighborhood Association Survey Resident Information Name(s): __________________________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________________________ Email: __________________________________________________________________________________ Telephone Numbers: Landline: ___________________________________________ Mobile: ___________________________________________ Preferred Communication Method, please circle one · Letter · Email · Phone Areas you would like to hear about or see more of: · · · ·

Neighborhood watch/safety Neighborhood social gatherings or groups Firewise Prevention Program Other, please specify: ___________________________________________________________

Are you interested in volunteering? _____ Yes / _____ No ·

If yes, please specify area(s) of interest: ____________________________________________

Comments, thoughts or suggestions for the DRNA Board: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Together, We Save Forests

Together, we are saving forests from Austin, Texas. This Earth Day, we want to share with you how we are doing this right here in Austin. Rainforest Partnership, an Austin-based international nonprofit organization, has expanded the environmental passion of this city to a globally focused, locally relevant issue just as our city started its transition to its current global significance and attention. Founded in December 2007, Rainforest Partnership (RP) was formed with the idea that the way to protect the “lungs” of the planet is to help the people who live in those “lungs” make a living that allows them to protect their forests. Forest communities know that sometimes the easiest option to earn an income is to cut down their trees. By selling the timber, planting a cash crop, or having cattle, they can eke out an income to pay for health care or education for their children. But, more than anyone else, the people who live in the forests know the damage this does. They know it takes generations for a forest to come back after it's cut down. They know that destroying the forest will destroy their way of life. They're looking for an alternative. That's where Rainforest Partnership comes in. Using a bottom-up approach, we work with local communities to find their needs and

desires and adapt it to their culture, knowledge, and skills. These are then matched to the business opportunities created by each individual rainforest to create a sustainable, workable alternative to slash and burn. It all begins when a community asks for our help. Although they seem far away, tropical rainforests are an important part of our lives and our community. What was once over 12 percent of the landmass of our planet in just a hundred years is now less than 5 percent. These forests play a crucial role in storing carbon, regulating water cycles and temperature, and providing biodiversity. We all directly benefit from the many rainforest plants used in modern medicines and for food. Currently deforestation— the cutting and burning of forests—is responsible for more than 17% of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. What happens to these forests affects us all everywhere. Besides directly partnering and working with indigenous rainforest communities, we partner with local governments, local nonprofit organizations, and businesses. Our work is based on a replicable model that is collaborative and results-driven, and facilitated by these partnerships – international, U.S., and Austinbased. From brooms made from sustainably and legally sourced (Continued on Page 5)

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Davenport Ranch (Continued from Page 4) palm fibers from the rainforest, to artisan products made from forest plants, to an ecolodge for birdwatchers eager to catch a glimpse of the elusive Andean Cock-of-the-rock – we have helped our partner communities create sustainable livelihoods, while saving their forests and their way of life. We are very proud of all our partner communities, but we are especially inspired by the women of Sani Isla, Ecuador. When we first met them in 2009, they were too shy to speak or even meet anyone’s eyes. In Summer of 2010, during their first workshop as part of our project working with them, they barely spoke. That is, until they did. When they started talking, they told us why they had been silent all morning: Nobody had ever asked them what they thought, what their vision was. But they had a vision: To recover the lost arts of making artisan products like jewelry and bags and baskets from seeds, vines and fibers from forest plants. We helped them set up relationship with nearby ecolodges to sell their goods to visiting guests in their Amazon community, and established connections with hotels in Quito for selling their goods. The older women began training the younger women. We helped them work out a plan for sustainably harvesting the raw materials they would need. They used them to create goods of startling beauty. And the goods sold, beyond anyone's expectations.

In four years, the women of Sani Isla went from never having made an income to making a steady and growing income. And today the same women who were too shy to talk to any outsiders have become the strongest voices in their communities against the oil drilling that threatens to destroy their forest. For the first time, these women are at the forefront of protecting their forests – and their future. Today, communities all over Ecuador and Peru are rejecting the old model of forest destruction. They're asking for Rainforest Partnership’s help in coming up with a new way, and we want to help because it's always a joint effort. Not one community has asked for a handout. Rainforest Partnership's projects represent the real-life execution of its working model. By working with forest communities to help them bring their skills, traditions, and values to the marketplace, we have begun to overcome the most powerful driving forces of deforestation. Go to www.RainforestPartnership.org to learn more. This Earth Day, learn more about how you can change a habit and save a forest. Tell your kids about what we do. Every child learns about rainforest ecosystem. Together, we save forests. From Austin, Texas. And, so can you.

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