Lakeway - July 2017 by Peel, Inc.

Newsletter for the Residents of Lakeway

Volume 9, Issue 7 July 2017

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IMPORTANT NUMBERS

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Featured Family

Lakeway Big Band Bash

News from Lakeway MUD

LTlove

LTISD Food and Nutrition Services is Hiring

LTISD Board Approved Calender

LTlov Thrift shop

Solid waste bill rate increases

Lakeway 9 hole golf

Linda Wells to Bring Art to Children in East Africa

EMERGENCY NUMBERS EMERGENCY................................................................911

Fire....................................................................................... 911 Ambulance........................................................................... 911 Lakeway Police Department.................................512-314-7590 Sheriff – Non-Emergency.....................................512-974-0845 Travis County ESD No.6/Lake Travis Fire Rescue Administration Office.......................................512-266-2533 Travis County Animal Control.............................512-972-6060

SCHOOLS

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Lake Travis ISD....................................................512-533-6000 Lake Travis High School.......................................512-533-6100 Lake Travis Middle School...................................512-533-6200 Lake Travis Elementary.........................................512-533-6300 Hudson Bend Middle School...............................512-533-6400 Lake Pointe Elementary........................................512-533-6500 Lakeway Elementary............................................512-533-6350 Serene Hills Elementary.......................................512-533-7400 Bee Cave Elementary............................................512-533-6250 West Cypress Elementary.....................................512-533-7500

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Do you take great photos? Do you take great photos? Would you like to see your photo published? We are looking for great cover photos for upcoming issues of the Lakeway Voice. All photos submitted must represent Lakeway. Our deadline for submittals is always the 9th of the month prior to the issue. All photos should be submitted electronically by the deadline date in high resolution (300 dpi) to lakeway@peelinc.com. Portrait (vertical) photos work best. This month's cover photo was submitted by Kristi Gilbert of Jack Gilbert (age 5) and Nixon Collins, (age 4) at the Rough Hollow Marina, after they graduated preschool. By submitting your photo you agree to allow your photo to be published in future issues of the Lakeway Voice or other Peel, Inc. publications. Call 512-263-9181 to find out how to have your business featured on the cover of the Lakeway Voice.

UTILITIES

Travis County WCID # 17...................................512-266-1111 Lakeway MUD....................................................512-261-6222 Hurst Creek MUD...............................................512-261-6281 Austin Energy ......................................................512-322-9100 Pedernales Electric................................................888-554-4732 Texas Gas Service Custom Service..............................................1-800-700-2443 Emergencies......................................................512-370-8609 Call Before You Dig..........................................512-472-2822 AT&T New Service...................................................1-800-464-7928 Repair............................................................1-800-246-8464 Billing............................................................1-800-858-7928 Time Warner Cable Customer Service..............................................512-485-5555 Repairs.............................................................512-485-5080 Progressive Waste Solutions (Trash & Recycle).....512-282-3508 Austin/Travis County Hazardous Waste...............512-974-4343

OTHER NUMBERS

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center..................512-571-5000 Lake Travis Community Library...........................512-263-2885 Lake Travis Postal Office.......................................512-263-2458 Lakeway City Hall................................................512-314-7500 City of Lakeway.......................................... www.lakeway-tx.gov

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Around Lakeway FEATURED FAMILY

Todd, Rita, Kelby & Taylor Radford Q: How long have you lived in Lakeway/Lake Travis area? We’ve lived in Lakeway/Lake Travis area since 2001. Q: What brought you to the area/where did you live before? We were living in South Austin for many years until an opportunity took us to College Station. We moved back to the Lake Travis area in 2001 where we raised our two boys. Q: What do you like most about Lakeway? We love the “small town feel” of Lakeway, while though Austin is so close. We enjoy the outdoors of the Lake Travis area and surrounding hill country. Q: How/where did you meet? We met at a club on Sixth Street. Rita’s friend introduced her to me. About a week later, I kissed for the first time on New Year’s night 1987. We have been together ever since. Q: What are some of your

hobbies? I love to play golf when I get the opportunity. Rita loves being outdoors, so just about anything that includes being outside she loves. We also enjoy doing Bikram Yoga together and working out. Q: Where do you work/what do you do for a living? I am the Police Chief for the City of Lakeway and Rita is the Medical Staff Coordinator for Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Lakeway. Q: What is your favorite thing to do as a family? We just enjoy being with our two sons Taylor and Kelby. It really doesn’t matter what we’re doing, we always have a lot of fun together doing it! We are blessed to have two great boys who enjoy their parents and like to “hang” with us. Q: What is one of your favorite family memories? One of our favorite memories is the last trip we took as a family before our oldest son Taylor, joined the Marine Corps. We went to Kauai, Hawaii for 10 days and had the best time! We went swimming in the ocean, hiking, kayaking and took the most 4

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amazing helicopter tour of the island. We really connected as a family. Q: Do you have any pets/what kind? Yes, we are a dog loving family for sure! We fostered dogs for a little while but had to stop because we kept adopting every dog we fostered. Q: What does family mean to you? Family is about always being there for each other, no matter the circumstance and without judgment. Family is about loving each other unconditionally. Family are those people you can be yourself around, and to feel safe and secure with. Family for us is what life is all about! Q: How would your friends/neighbors describe you? I think friends would describe us as a happy couple who keep each other balanced. I’m the extrovert who is always on the go while Rita is quieter and loves hanging out with our friends and our family. Rita really keeps me grounded. I think that people would also recognize our love of family and country. Q: What is something you would like to share with your neighbors and community members? Be kind and courteous to each other. We never know what someone might be going through. A small act of kindness like saying “Hello” or smiling at someone, could make a difference in someone’s day. Q: What are some of your family traditions? We always eat dinner as a family at the dinner table without television or electronics. We decorate the Christmas tree with our sons and enjoy baking Christmas goodies. On Christmas eve we go to dinner then to church. Q: What is something you would like to do or are looking (Continued on Page 5) Copyright © 2017 Peel, Inc.

(Continued from Page 4) forward to doing in the next year? Taylor, our older son, will be getting out of the U.S. Marine Corps in a little over a year and we are looking forward to having him back home. We looking forward to taking another trip with him and our youngest son Kelby. Q: What is your favorite piece of advice or quote? Do not be afraid to Fail! Don’t worry about failure, worry about the chance you miss when you don’t try! Q: If you could travel anywhere with your family, where would it be and why? We would love to go to Greece, Rome and Italy. The boys have wanted to go there since they were little and we would enjoy the history of the area. It is on our bucket list to go there one day. Taylor, Kelby and I would love to go cage diving with great white sharks, but Rita isn’t thinking that is on “anyone’s list”! Q: Who has inspired you in life and why? I think for both of us, inspiration came from our parents. They had strong faith, work ethic and taught us to honor family, and our elders. They also taught us to do our best, no one is perfect, you will have successes and failures, but the reward is always on the other side of trying!

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Beats to heat up Lakeway’s Big Band Bash in July Seek relief from the heat of mid-summer by going to Lakeway’s Big Band Bash from 8-10 p.m. July 10 at Lakeway Activity Center, 105 Cross Creek. Enjoy a large dance floor in an air conditioned ballroom and tables available for your treats at a place where you may invite your friends without the hassle of reservations. The Lakeway Big Band Bash is on the second Monday of each month. Admission is free, but donations to the band are encouraged. Kent Dugan’s 17-piece orchestra, The Republic of Texas Band, features Lakeway singers David Cummings and Lisa Clark. This band consistently appeals to everyone with a wide variety of favorite tunes, mostly from the Sinatra era, with fresh arrangements. “We welcome everyone to come to Lakeway and have dinner at one of our many restaurants and then come to the Bash at 8 p.m.,” Lakeway Arts Committee chairman Fred Newton suggested. For information, call the Lakeway Activity Center at 512261-1010. Courtesy of the City of Lakeway: A couple waltzes to the sounds of The Republic of Texas Band at a Big Band Bash in Lakeway.

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Around Lakeway News From Lakeway MUD Greetings from Lakeway MUD. We hope all of you are enjoying the spring weather and the beautiful vegetation we enjoy in Lakeway. At Lakeway MUD, we are gearing up for the increased water usage that always accompanies our hot summers. Lakeway MUD furnishes Water and Wastewater to the older sections of Lakeway. We have approximately 4,200 customers that rely on us to ensure their water supply is delivered uninterrupted. We supply Wastewater services to approximately 3200 of these customers. Back when the MUD was first formed in the early 1970’s, there was a group of homes (Old Lakeway) that opted not to connect to our sewer lines. Most of these homes had recently put in septic tanks and did not want the added expense of sewer service so they chose to only use Lakeway MUD for water. We will talk more about what we might be able to do to help some of these customers later in the column. Lakeway MUD is one of 5 separate MUDs that serve the City of Lakeway. We are a separate entity from the City of Lakeway. We are our own self-contained Municipality, governed by a Board of Directors consisting of 5 Directors elected by our taxpayers, who are water and Wastewater customers. These Directors serve 4 year terms, with either 2 or 3 positions up for election every other year. We are also supported by our volunteer committees; 20 citizens who devote time to our Finance, Engineering, Land, and Administrative/Personnel

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Committees. We stress that we are separate from the City of Lakeway partially to educate the citizens where to direct their payments for services. Water and Wastewater payments go to Lakeway MUD. Our District Administrative office is at 1097 Lohmans Crossing, just one block past City Hall on your right, behind the Heritage Center. Many times citizens will drop off their trash payments at our office. These trash payments are collected by the City of Lakeway, and should be directed to 1102 Lohmans Crossing (City Hall). We would like to remind everyone that we are on Stage 1 watering restrictions. Stage 1 has the same watering schedule from May 1-Sept 30 as Stage 2. Those restrictions call for residential addresses ending in Odd numbers to water Wednesday and Saturday. Those residences with addresses ending in even numbers may water on Thursday and Sunday. Commercial customers may water on Tuesday and Friday. As always during the summer months, NO WATERING IS ALLOWED BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 10AM and 7PM. Please check your sprinkler system to ensure you are in sync with the requirements. Our new billing system is fully up and operational now. With a few minor hiccups, the conversion process went extremely well. We would like to thank our Administrative team for a job well done. It was very trying for the staff during the period of time when two systems were running at the same time, but our staff came through and did a terrific job. This is an ideal time to sign up for our paperless billing option. With that option, our customers get an email with their bill attached in PDF format. You don’t even have to sign in to your account to see your bill! Even more convenient is our Auto Pay system where we charge your credit card or your checking or savings account automatically. It saves paper, time, and worry about whether you have paid your bill or not. If you are not interested in Auto Pay, the new system allows you to go to our website and pay your bill by credit card or check without having to sign into your account. Simply enter your phone number or email address (you don’t even have to remember your account number!) and the system will prompt you through making your payment. Over 53% of our customers now use the Auto Pay feature, and over 35% enjoy receiving their bill via email versus US Mail. We expect both participation numbers to grow substantially over the next few months. We would like to thank our customers for their patience as we progressed through the implementation of the new system. I have mentioned in previous articles about the calls I get from out of District customers who have septic tanks and would like to connect to the Lakeway MUD wastewater collection system. I am gathering information from LCRA on septic tanks and what the requirements are for today’s standards. I would like to say there has been a lot of bad information out there. One concern seems to be if you have to hook up to the system. The answer is no and you will never be forced to hook up our system. The decision is yours and/or the new owner’s decision. There will be a lot more information coming and public meetings to get feedback. You can always email me or call to discuss (email: efoster@ lakewaymud.org phone: 512-261-6222 ext. 140). Thank you again for your patience and for conserving our valuable resource: WATER. Copyright © 2017 Peel, Inc.

LTlov Invested $53,454 in Annual Grants and Program Funding for 2017! Each year, LTlov grants funds to other non-profits who share their vision and mission of neighbors helping neighbors to overcome limiting circumstances. The money used to grant funds is collected through a diverse list of individuals, corporations and foundations who believe in the mission of LTlov and trust their organizational efficiency to be good stewards of their donations. This year, LTlov funded grants to 11 organizations totaling $25,454 dollars. In addition, LTlov also reserved funding in the amount of $28,000 dollars for their College Scholarships program, Kids Free Dental Day program and School Supplies’ Project Supply Pack program. Congratulations to the following organizations chosen by the membership of LTlov to receive a 2017 Annual Grant: the Austin School for the Performing & Visual Arts, the Center for Child Protection, Crafting Comfort, Dream a Dream Therapeutic Horsemanship, Helping Hand Crisis Ministry of Spicewood, Lake Travis Crisis Ministry, Lake Travis High School’s Project Graduation, Partners in Hope, Peaceful Dreams, RED Arena and Youth2Seniors. To learn more about LTlov’s Grants Funding program, please visit ltlov.org. Pictured, from left, LTlov's 2017 College Scholarship recipients: Hunter Hundley who will attend TCU with a major in Biology, Huong Nguyen who will attend Texas A&M with a major in Biochemistry and Will Smith who will attend UT San Antonio with a major in Cybersecurity.

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Around Lakeway Approved by Board of Trustees on January 17, 2017

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15-16 Learning Together Conference 19 Professional Development 19 Presidents’ Day

8 End of 3rd grading period (9 weeks) 9 Professional Development 12-16 Spring Break 30 Good Friday/Bad Weather

4/3-4/6 STAAR 27 Professional Development

5/7-5/11 STAAR 24 High School Early Release 25 District-wide Early Release 25 Last Day of School (10 weeks) 28 Memorial Day 29-31 Professional Development

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1-5 Winter Break 8 Professional Development 15 M.L. King Day

Bad Weather day – March 30

LTlov Thrift Shop The Ladies of Charity - Lake Travis Thrift Shop (“Thrift Sh op” ) p rov i de s a u n iq u e shopping experience in Lakeway. We have many customers that donate and shop with us, but there are many things that they and other area residents don’t know. Here are ten things, come

by to find out more. 1) Ladies of Charity – Lake Travis (LOC-LT), by means of the Thrift Shop, is the largest provider of aide in the Lake Travis ISD, having provided over $3,000,000 in financial support and over $3,000,000 in In-Kind donations. 2) This aide is in support of over twenty five (25) local and Central Texas 501(c)(3) charities including 3 local crisis centers: Lake Travis Crisis Ministries, Helping Hand of Spicewood, and St. Vincent De Paul Society of Spicewood. These three are guaranteed monthly support. 3) We provide funding for several shelters for the homeless

including Mobile Loaves & Fishes, Mary Catholic Worker and Saint Louise House. 4) We support the families of our wounded warriors through Air Warriors Courage Foundation/ Project Christmas Hope, another Lakeway organization by providing clothing for the children of warriors at San Antonio Medical Center and by sponsoring Honor Flights to Washington D.C. for our veterans. 5) The Thrift Shop has been supporting the area for 26 years! LOC-LT was founded in 1991 to provide financial support to Lake Travis Crisis Ministries. This is our third location due to continued growth and success. 6) The Thrift Shop is staffed by a very ecumenical group of volunteers from Lakeway and surrounding areas. 7) Our volunteers provide over 36,000 hours of service each year. We continue to welcome new volunteers that have 3 hours a week to volunteer in our shop. 8) We have partnered with local chapters of National Charity League and Young Men’s Service League, who share a love (Continued on Page 10)

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Around Lakeway (Continued from Page 9) of community service and volunteer as mother/child teams in the shop. 9) Our shop offers a boutique shopping experience: Designer Clothes, Fine Jewelry, Purses, Shoes, Housewares, Furniture, Toys, Books, Vintage Items, and even items from the Dallas

Market. 10) We have started a High Noon Auction on the 4th Saturday of the month and offer unique items. The items are available on a Silent Auction or Buy It Now opportunity for 2 weeks prior to the live auction. If you haven’t discovered us yet, please come by. We are located behind the Jack Brown Cleaners at 1508 Ranch Road 620 S, facing High Five. We are open Tuesday – Saturday 10-4 for shopping and Monday - Saturday for donations. We are open late on Wednesdays, from 10-7. Visit our web site at www.laketravisthrift.com, and find us on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Donate. Shop. Volunteer.

SOLID WASTE BILL RATE INCREASES The City of Lakeway is notifying residents of an increase in the monthly rate of their trash and recycling bills to $21 per month, which will result in a quarterly bill of $63. The rate increase will take effect for the July 2017 bills. After requesting bids in January and reviewing three solid waste companies’ bids, the city signed a new service contract with its current provider, Progressive Waste Solutions, that included the increase. “The City of Lakeway chose Progressive Waste Solutions because it submitted the lowest price quote,” Lakeway Assistant City Manager Julie Oakley said. The city’s last rate increase was in 2013. For information, read the Let’s Talk Trash insert in paper bills or online at www.lakeway-tx.gov/solidwaste.

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Meet our new Pastor! We are a joyous church community that inspires, embraces and nurtures all those on their spiritual path. Come and join us Sundays 10:30am at the Old Bee Cave Schoolhouse.

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Lakeway 9 Hole Golf RESULTS FOR THREE PERSON TEAM SCRAMBLE AT LIVE OAK ON 6/14/2017. Chip ins- Martha Macanich: #16 1st 2nd 3rd

Kathy Buss, Joyce Johnson & Marie Rush Vivian Craft, Ann Smith & Kristina Ferguson Judy Gray, Patricia Zepp & Pat Long

25 26 30

RESULTS FOR ACE OF THE MONTH AT LIVE OAK ON 6/7/2017 A C E O F T H E M O N T H : S A N D Y N O RTO N - 2 9 CONGRATULATIONS, SANDY! Flight 1 1st Deane Willis 2nd Vivian Craft 3rd Beverly Burmeier

35* 35 37

Flight 2 1st Cindy Settles 2nd Robin Hargadon 3rd Joyce Johnson

35* 35 35

Flight 3 1st Sandra McCullough 2nd Laurie Hockenberry 3rd Dorothy Boddeker

35 37* *= Won in a card playoff 37

Other Results 54 & Under- Trish Amigh: 53; Deane Willis: 51; Vivian Craft: 55; Melissa Rice: 55; Sandy Norton: 54 Chip Ins-

Joyce Johnson: #9 and Low Putts- Joyce Johnson: 13

RESULTS FOR TOSS ‘EM AT LIVE OAK ON 5/31/2017 Flight 1 1st 2nd 3rd Flight 2 1st 2nd 3rd Flight 3 1st 2nd 3rd

RESULTS FOR ONE BEST BALL OF THE THREESOME AT YAUPON ON 5/24/2017 1st Judy Gray, Cindy Settles & Nancy Gregor 28* 2nd Carol George, Rita Rowe & Carol Lesem 28 3rd Cheryl Whaling, Pat Long & Marie Rush 30* * = Won in a card playoff Other Results 55 & Under- Robbie Riley: 54 Chip ins- Marie Rush: #5 and Beverly Burmeier: #7 Low Putts- Robbie Riley: 15 Putts and Cheryl Whaling: 15 Putts RESULTS FOR THREE PERSON STEP AWAY SCRAMBLE AT YAUPON ON 5/17/2017 1st 2nd 3rd

Robbie Riley, Vivian Craft, Carol Augustine, Marie Rush 24 Pam Rhodes, Ann Smith, Martha Macaninch, Sandy Norton 26 Rita Rowe, Patricia Zepp, Nancy Gregor 27

RESULTS FOR THE COUPLES TOURNAMENT AT YAUPON ON 5/10/2017. 1st

Ann & Steve Smith

2nd

Sandra & Charlie McCullough

29* *= Won in a card playoff

3rd

Carol & Rick Augustine

RESULTS FOR THE ACE OF THE MONTH AT LIVE OAK ON 5/3/2017. A C E O F T H E M O N T H : K a r e n Va u g h a n - 3 6 * CONGRATULATIONS, KAREN! Flight 1 1st Kathy Buss 2nd Trish Amigh 3rd Deane Wills

32 36 38 36 38* 38

Kelly Villareal Cheryl Whaling Melissa Rice

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Flight 2 1st Judy Gray 2nd Diana Hall 3rd Ann Smith

Carol George Robin Hargadon Martha Macaninch

30 31 32

Laurie Hockenberry Nancy Gregor ` Carol Lesem

27 32 32

Flight 3 1st Linda Buikema 36 2nd Marie Rush 37 3rd Carol Augustine 39 *= Won in card playoff

Other Results 50 & Under- Kelly Villareal: 45 55 & Under- Sherry Brown: 55; Cheryl Whaling: 52; Karen Vaughan: 52; Melissa Rice: 52; Pam Rhodes: 55 Chip Ins- Melissa Rice: #9 AND Low Putts- Melissa Rice: 14 and Beverly Burmeier: 14 Copyright © 2017 Peel, Inc.

Other Results 50 & Under- Kathy Buss: 47 and Trish Amigh: 49 55 & Under- Karen Vaughan:53; Pam Rhodes: 54; Deane Willis: 54 Birdies- Kathy Buss: #3 Chip ins- Melissa Rice: #3; Tina Jefferis: #8; Diana Hall: #9 Low Putts- Melissa Rice: 12

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Lakeway Artist to Bring Art to Children in East Africa

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Linda Wells, well known Lakeway artist, is planning an art camp for 200 Maasai children in the village of Lenjani, Tanzania, a remote Maasai area in East Africa. Linda, with help from her friend and fellow artist Lily Davis will engage the children in art activities as she paints murals in the rooms and down the halls of a new Primary School opening in January of 2018. Lily and Linda are both skilled at doing portraits and will be painting a portrait of the two chiefs from the region. The school is a “first” for the Maasai with 22 villages in the area. In April of 2017 Linda traveled to the village where she met with the Chief of the village of Lenjani and some of the most important Maasai leaders in the area. Using her phone to display the art work being planned for the school, she captured the interest and the imagination of the Maasai warriors. While there are 22 Maasai villages in the region, none have a school and this is perhaps one of the most important events that has ever taken place. The school is the result of the Lakeway/Lake Travis Rotary Club having drilled a large clean water well as without water a school would not have been possible. To honor the Maasai warriors, Linda and Lily will paint a portrait of the two warrior chiefs to be hung in a prominent location in the school. In addition the children will participate in filling in the outlines of the various paintings that Linda and Lily will create so that the children will have a sense of ownership of the school. Recognizing that these children have never seen a word of English, and do not read or write in their native language of Swahili, Linda will print the names of the animals in English and Swahili under each animal. Ms. Wells will be beginning the long process of building literacy among this population of children, none of whom have ever attended school. Ms. Wells and Dr. Donna Gunn, Executive Director of Africa’s Promise Village, a local non-profit, will be responsible for selecting the color scheme for the classrooms, dining hall and other facilities. The school is being built by Common Threadz, another non-profit which has Dr. Amin Mery and Dr. Chris Jones, both doctors in the area, as members of their board. Donations for art supplies would be greatly appreciated. Linda can be contacted at 512-963-4630

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Odds are good that you know who Tony Robbins is. If you don’t, he is famous for selling his self-help programs to millions through TV infomercials, and he successfully trains thousands of people who attend his events to walk on fire at the end of the first day. So what in the world does a “self-help guru” know about investing? The answer a few years ago was – not a lot. But when Tony wants to learn something, he doesn’t do it in a small way. Tony decided that he wanted to learn the secrets of investing like the Billionaires do. So he went out and interviewed them. What he learned went into a new book he is releasing called “Money – Master the Game”. For those of you who want the short version, here are four key points: 1. Don’t lose money. Billionaire investors focus on not losing money over everything else. 2. Risk a little to make a lot. Look for the home run, but only do it with a small amount of your portfolio. 3. Anticipate and diversify. Educate yourself so you can be knowledgeable, and when the moment is there, strike! But

make sure you diversify as billionaire investors always assume that they will be wrong. 4. You are never done. Billionaires continue to learn and never stop. You should do the same. If you ask me, I would say those are four great investment points to live by. I would also tell you that reading Tony’s book is a good idea. At Platinum Wealth Advisory, we have had the pleasure of partnering with the organization that supported Robbins on this current book project. As a result, we want to make the book available to our community. We will be providing a free copy of the book to anyone who would like to participate in our Retirement Investment Plan Consultation Process. If you would like further information on this topic or to receive a copy of our report on retirement income planning, please send your requests to the email below. As always, we are here to answer your pressing questions and concerns regarding retirement investment planning. Send your questions and information requests to retirebetter@platinumwealthadvisory.com

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Around Lakeway Lakeway Community Blood Drive The next Lakeway community blood drive will be held at Lakeway Activity Center on July 15th from eight until noon. In the summer, the blood supply is usually critical, with many donors on vacation. If you would like to donate, you can make an appointment by calling Searcy Willis at 512-261-9055. Walk-in's are welcomed, but may longer.

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Lakeway Voice - July 2017