Travis Country West

Volume 10, Number 6

June 2015

TCW Neighborhood News Official Publication of Travis Country West Community

Fellow TCW Residents As I complete my term as your Board representative, I want to thank you for the opportunity to serve you. It has been a wonderful experience and has given me the opportunity to meet and work with many of you during the last three years. Serving on the board has afforded me the chance to learn more about this community and its residents. The more Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned, the more I feel quite blessed to live here. I look forward to seeing you in the neighborhood. All the best, Lee Jones

Volunteers Needed!

Thank you to all the volunteers that help make Travis Country West a wonderful place to live. Your committees are looking for more volunteers. A little bit of time each month will pay off exponentially for all. Please consider donating an hour a month to your community. Dusty Olson organized a wonderful Easter Egg Hunt, and has good ideas for social events that are budgeted for. But one person cannot do it all. To ensure social events continue, please donate the gift of yourself to the social committee. No committee has as much fun as the social committee. Come have fun, and help create life long memories for all. In fact, if you have a high school student needing volunteer hours, they can earn 2 hours by helping out on July 4th. Just contact Dusty Olson : 512.934.0333 DustyOlson@outlook.com At the annual meeting, residents expressed an interest in having a one-stop social media site for the neighborhood, and in having more pertinent articles in the newsletter. Help is needed on the communications committee to make that all a reality. Please consider helping Barbara Bearden on this increasingly important committee to help keep all of Travis Country West plugged in. A finance committee is invaluable. Duties would include helping establish annual budgets, and reviewing monthly financials. You need not have any accounting experience, just an interest in watching the financial stability of the HOA. Please contact Paul and Melissa Yehl, admin@ascensionpm.com, 512-255-1671, and they will put you in touch with the right people. Copyright ÂŠ 2015 Peel, Inc.

Would you be interested in volunteering to help with the neighborhood 4th of July Party? Assistance with supervising a potential water slide, snow-cone machine operators, and parade planners or leaders are needed. Please call or text Dusty Olson at 512.934.0333 or TCWevents@outlook.com to sign up. If you would like to participate in the parade, please join the neighbors down by the pool around 9:00am. The parade will start at 9:15am in an attempt to beat the heat! We encourage you to be as festive as you would like to be by wearing patriotic colors, decorating your bicycle or any other form of transportation, and waving flags or posters!

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Travis Country West IMPORTANT NUMBERS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY Ascension Property Management Paul & Melissa Yehl admin@ascensionpm.com www.ascensionpm.com Ph: 512-255-1671 Fax: 512-777-4905 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

All That Grows Is Not Good With spring here, foliage is springing back to life. Unfortunately, weeds are thriving as well. Travis Country West is a premiere community, boasting great pride in property upkeep. If there are weeds in your front yard, please treat them. Your lawn will have more success growing if they don’t have to wage battle with weeds.

President.....................................................................Julie Saft Vice-President............................................ Jonathan Gallmeier Secretary........................................................... Tim Shelhamer Treasurer....................................................................Lee Jones Member At Large.................................................... Gary Jones Email........................................ Board@traviscountrywest.com

CITY OF AUSTIN CONTACT NUMBERS Dead Animal Pick up................................................ 947-9400 Abandoned Vehicle.................................................... 280-0075 Pothole Repair........................................................... 974-8750 Street Light Outage................................................... 505-7617

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A lifeguard keeps watch on opening day of the newly renovatd McCarren Park Pool on June 28, 2012, in Brooklyn, New York. The new captain jumped from the deck, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the couple swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his wife. They had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sand bar. “We’re fine; what is he doing?” she asked, a little annoyed. “We’re fine!” the husband yelled, waving him off, but his captain kept swimming hard. ”Move!” he barked as he sprinted between the stunned owners. Directly behind them, not 10 feet away, their 9-year-old daughter was drowning. Safely above the surface in the arms of the captain, she burst into tears, “Daddy!” How did this captain know—from 50 feet away—what the father couldn’t recognize from just 10? Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. The captain was trained to recognize drowning by experts and years of experience. The father, on the other hand, had learned what drowning looks like by watching television. If you spend time on or near the water (hint: that’s all of us) then you should make sure that you and your crew know what to look for whenever people enter the water. Until she cried a tearful, “Daddy,” she hadn’t made a sound. As a former Coast Guard rescue swimmer, I wasn’t surprised at all by this story. Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for is rarely seen in real life. The Instinctive Drowning Response—so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface drowning can be, consider this: It is the No. 2 cause of accidental death in children, ages 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents)—of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In some of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening.* Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this: • “Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs. (Continued on Page 4) Copyright © 2015 Peel, Inc.

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Travis Country West (Continued from Page 3) • Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water. • Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe. • Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment. • From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”

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This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc. Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water: • Head low in the water, mouth at water level • Head tilted back with mouth open • Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus • Eyes closed • Hair over forehead or eyes • Not using legs—vertical • Hyperventilating or gasping • Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway • Trying to roll over on the back • Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.

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FOUR-LINED PLANT BUGS The insects feed on a wide variety of hosts, including fruits and vegetables, annuals and perennials and woody plants. When disturbed, the insects are fairly good at hiding. They either crawl to the underside of the leaves or drop to the ground to hide among foliage. If you feel the need to manage these insects, try insecticidal soap. If that doesn't work, you can try azadirachtin (neem- concentrate, not oil; it's getting too hot to use oil formulations) or pyrethrins. If that doesn't work then try a residual contact product. For more information or help with identification, contact Wizzie Four-lined plant bugs are brightly colored. Nymphs (immatures) are Brown, Texas AgriLife Extension Service Program Specialist at red while older nymphs start to have wing pads with yellow and black 512.854.9600. Check out my blog at www.urban-ipm.blogspot. stripes. Adults have fully developed wings that are yellow and black striped. com. Adults look similar to, and may be mistaken for, striped cucumber beetles. These insects have piercing-sucking mouthparts which they use to suck The information given herein is for educational purposes only. out plant juices. The plant bugs suck out chlorophyll and leave a "window" Reference to commercial products or trade names is made with between the upper and lower epidermis of the leaf. Damage appears as the understanding that no discrimination is intended and no white, dark or translucent spots of foliage and is sometimes mistaken for endorsement by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service or the Texas A&M AgriLife Research is implied. Extension programs serve people fungal damage. Feeding may also cause curling and browning. Fortunately, of all ages regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, damage is mostly cosmetic, but if you are trying to eat the foliage of the disability, genetic information or veteran status. damaged plant it may become a problem.

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