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APRIL 2018 VOLUME 10, ISSUE 4

ANNOUNCING THE FIRST ANNUAL

"SHARKS AFTER DARK" 3K KIDS AND FAMILY GLOW RUN BENEFITING THE SHADOW CREEK BAND!

Shadow Creek Band! April 14, 2018 8:30 PM, Shadow Creek HS Be a part of the awesome new Pearland area glow run designed for kids (and families!) that’s more like a street party! You’ll arrive to enjoy a carnival-like atmosphere with food trucks and activities for kids! At 8:30 pm, our fun run kicks off from the SCHS track complex and winds all around the edge of the campus for 3K of glow-in-the-dark fun. Grownups: you get to run FREE with your registered child! Strollers, wheelchair racers, and walkers are welcome! All registered kids get awesome race swag: t-shirt, glow necklace, and even a medal! Extra t-shirts are only $10 with paid registration. Copyright © 2018 Peel, Inc.

Compete with your Alvin ISD elementary school for the most racers! The school with the most racers will receive a "Spirit Shark" traveling trophy and a donation of recess equipment. All proceeds from the race support the concert and marching activities of the award-winning Shadow Creek High School Band. More race sponsors are needed! Don't miss your chance to put your business name on this new event that is sure to become an awesome community tradition. To sign up or become a sponsor, please visit our race website at http://thedriven.net/sharksafterdark Shadow Creek Ranch - April 2018 1

SHADOW CREEK RANCH IMPORTANT NUMBERS EMERGENCY NUMBERS EMERGENCY................................................................911 Fire...................................................................................911 Ambulance.......................................................................911 Sheriff – Non-Emergency................................ 281-331-9000 Pearland Police Department............................ 281-997-4100 SCHOOLS Mary Marek Elementary................................. 281-245-3232 Laura Ingalls Wilder Elementary..................... 281-245-3090 Manvel Junior High........................................ 281-331-1416 Alvin Senior High........................................... 281-331-8151 Manvel High School....................................... 281-245-2235 Alvin ISD Administration............................... 281-338-1130 Alvin ISD Transportation................................ 281-331-0960 UTILITIES Electricity - Reliant Energy.............................. 713-207-7777 Gas - Center Point.......................................... 713-659-2111 Trash Removal - City of Pearland....................281-652-1600 CITY Pearland City Hall........................................... 281-652-1600 Pearland Utility Billing - Water Dept.............. 281-652-1603 Pearland Animal Control................................. 281-652-1970 Pearland Police Dept - Non-Emergency.......... 281-652-1100 Pearland Public Works..................................... 281-652-1900 OTHER NUMBERS Pearland Post Office........................................ 281-485-2132 Poison Control................................................ 800-764-7661 Brazoria County Health Department.............. 979-864-1484 Animal Control............................................... 281-756-2265 Cable/Internet/Phone...COMCAST............... 713-341-1000 NEWSLETTER Articles.................................shadowcreekranch@peelinc.com Publisher Peel, Inc.......................................................1-888-687-6444 Advertising...................................................1-888-687-6444

Little Armored One by Jim and Lynne Weber Spanish for ‘little armored one’, the armadillo is one of the most interesting mammals in North America. All but one of the 20 different species of armadillo live in Latin America, but the Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) makes its home as far north as Texas (except for the western Trans-Pecos), Oklahoma, and Louisiana. In fact, this armadillo is the official state small mammal of Texas! A cat-sized, insect–eating mammal, armadillos have bony plates that cover their back, head, legs, and tail, protecting them from predators. No other living mammal wears such a shell, but contrary to popular belief, the Nine-banded Armadillo cannot roll into a ball and encase itself with its shell. Only the Three-banded Armadillo can accomplish this, by curling its head and back feet inward and contorting its shell as protection. No amount of armor can protect them from the cold, however, and because of their low metabolic rate and lack of fur and body fat stores, cold weather can wipe out whole populations of these little creatures. Armadillos have a pointy snout and small eyes, and are prolific diggers. They dig for food and dig many burrows, mostly along creekbeds in Central Texas, and they do not survive in areas where the soil is too hard to dig. Armadillos spend up to 16 hours a day digging, mainly active in the dawn and dusk hours, looking for beetles, ants, termites, and other insects. Their eyesight is quite poor, but they use their keen sense of smell to locate food, and utilize their long, sticky tongues to grasp berries, caterpillars, grubs, fungi, and sometimes even carrion. Armadillos are quite fond of water, visiting water holes and streams to drink, feed, and even take mud baths. Their specific gravity is high, which means they normally ride low in the water when swimming. For short water crossings, they often just walk underwater across the bottom, but for deeper and longer crossings they voluntarily ingest air to inflate themselves and increase their (Continued on Page 3)

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SHADOW CREEK RANCH The Traditions of Easter As with almost all “Christian” holidays, Easter has been secularized and commercialized. The dichotomous nature of Easter and its symbols, however, is not necessarily a modern fabrication. Since its conception as a holy celebration in the second century, Easter has had its non-religious side. In fact, Easter was originally a pagan festival. The ancient Saxons celebrated the return of spring with an uproarious festival commemorating their goddess of offspring and of springtime, Eastre. When the second century Christian missionaries encountered the tribes of the north with their pagan celebrations, they attempted to convert them to Christianity. They did so, however, in a clandestine manner. It would have been suicide for the very early Christian converts to celebrate their holy days with observances that did not coincide with celebrations that already existed. To save lives, the missionaries cleverly decided to spread their religious message slowly throughout the populations by allowing them to continue to celebrate pagan feasts, but to do so in a Christian manner. As it happened, the pagan festival of Eastre occurred at the same time of year as the Christian observance of the Resurrection of Christ. It made sense, therefore, to alter the festival itself, to make it a Christian celebration as converts were slowly won over. The early name, Eastre, was eventually changed

to its modern spelling, Easter. The Date of Easter, Prior to A.D. 325: Easter was variously celebrated on different days of the week, including Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In that year, the Council of Nicaea was convened by emperor Constantine. It issued the Easter Rule which states that Easter shall be celebrated on the first Sunday that occurs after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox. However, a caveat must be introduced here. The “full moon” in the rule is the ecclesiastical full moon, which is defined as the fourteenth day of a tabular lunation, where day 1 corresponds to the ecclesiastical New Moon. It does not always occur on the same date as the astronomical full moon. The ecclesiastical “v e r n a l e q u i n o x” i s always on March 21. Therefore, Easter must be celebrated on a Sunday between the dates of March 22 and April 25.

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