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www.stonecanyonoa.org February 2010 Volume 5, Issue 2

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Yard of the MonthBy Kim Parker

We are in search of new members for the Yard of the Month Committee. The program runs from mid-April through September and only takes about 1 ½ hours per month. You can even sign up to be a sub if you cannot commit to every month. The following is some information on how the program works. Stone Canyon is divided into 4 zones and you and a partner nominate homes from your assigned zone during the third week of the month. Then each member goes out individually and grades the homes based on design and maintenance. We have one meeting to kick the program off and make any rule adjustments. Everything is done through email (unless otherwise requested). This is an easy way to volunteer for you community and you will definitely learn all the streets! For more info or to join email Kim Parker at [email protected] or call me at 246-6650.

Don’t commit ‘crape murder’!!! Pruning Crape Myrtles down to little nubs is not the proper pruning method according to leading horticulturists and arborists. Crape myrtles don't need to be pruned to flower. Many grow and bloom excessively in the wild, far from the reach of garden clippers. Wait until early spring to trim. Research shows that crape myrtles cut back in December, January and February suffer greater winter damage. For best results and a prettier form, don't cut wood that is bigger than the size of a pencil.

Congratulations to the Holiday Decorating Winners1st 6004 Bar Harbor Cove2nd 8719 Sea Ash Cir.3rd 8429 Sea Ash Cir.Honorable Mentions: 17916 Box Canyon, 8105 Broken Branch,

7004 Cool Canyon, 7008 Cool Canyon, 8303 Full Moon Trail

CERTIFIED TO VOTE! New Blue Voter Cards

Delivered! Approximately 533,000 registered voters in Travis County

will receive new voter certificates by mail starting today. The content of the new certificates look exactly like the old ones and includes the following:

1.Blue is the new color, replacing the current orange certificate that expires 12/31/09

2.A state-issued identification number, VUID, appears in the upper left corner.

3.“Date of birth” now appears as “year of birth”.

“Two years ago federal and state laws changed what voters see on their certificate,” said Travis County Tax Collector and Voter Registrar, Nelda Wells Spears. “In the upper left corner of the certificate, the state issues the ’VUID’ number, which stands for Voter Unique Identification. When voters move within Texas, the state keeps track of where to add or cancel a record.”

Spears estimates 14% of the first-class mailed certificates (74,000) will be returned as undeliverable because the voter has moved and did not update their address. If a voter moved and provided a forwarding address at the post office, a follow up letter goes out from the voter registration division requesting an address update. If the voter fails to respond, the record is placed in a suspense file. While this action does not prevent voting, it may cause a delay at the polling place on Election Day. Address updates can be made online if the voter has moved within the county. Find the link at www.traviscountytax.org .

Anyone who did not receive a voter certificate and needs to update address may download the form at www.traviscountytax.org or call 854-9473 to order by mail.

See http://www.traviscountytax.org/goNews.do#voters for voter registration statistics and a sample voter certificate.

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Stone CanYon ownerS aSSoCiationBoard of direCtorS:

CoMMittee ChairSACC .................................................................... OPENRecreation .................................................................... OPENSwimming Pool Greg Martinez ........... [email protected] of the Month Kim Parker ............................... [email protected]/Maintenance Cathy Soukup .................. [email protected] Watch - ................................... OPENNewsletter Vicky Lockwood .... [email protected] Neighbor Laura Kouns ...................... [email protected]

keY ContaCtS In an attempt to make things easier to find, we have provided

some key contact information for various organizations that you might need to contact. If you have a suggestion for information to add, please contact the web committee.

hoMe ownerS aSSoCiation:Bob Nardo - Goodwin Management - (512) 502-7510 11149 Research Blvd Suite 100, Austin, TX 78759-5227http://stc.goodwintx.com/

Payment Address: Stone Canyon c/o Goodwin Management PO Box 4785 Houston, TX 77210-4785

Governmental Agencies: Fern Bluff Mud ...........................................(512) 238-0606 ............... 7320 Wyoming Springs, Round Rock, TX 78681 City of Round Rock ...................................(512) 218-5400 .............................. 221 East Main Street, Round Rock, TX Williamson County Commissioners Office .(512) 248-3238 ........... 400 W. Main St., Ste. 216, Round Rock, TX 78664 Williamson County Constable (Robert Chody) 512-248-3239 ...................211 Commerce Cove, Round Rock, TX 78664 Williamson County Sheriff ’s Office (Non-Emergency) .......................................(512) 943-1300 Williamson County EMS (Non-Emergency) (512) 943-1264 Round Rock ISD ............................ (512) 464-5000 - 1311 ....................Round Rock Avenue, Round Rock, TX 78681

Misc. Services: Gas Line Malfunction .... (Business Hours) 1-800-460-3030 ............................................(After Hours) 1-800-817-8090 Street Light Repair - TU Electric at 1-800-242-9113 Texas Utilities (TXU) - 1-800-368-1398 Southwestern Bell - 1-888-294-8433 Time Warner Cable - 512-485-5555 Road Kill Cleanup - Williamson County Road and Bridge ...........512-943-3330

President/Pool/NewsletterRichard Horton [email protected]

Vice President/Recreation/LandscapeJessica Stempko [email protected]

Treasurer/ACC/Publicity DirectorFred Gonce [email protected]

Parliamentarian/Neighborhood Watch/YOM/Website

Chhaya Tripathi ........................................................

Secretary/Capital Improvement/MaintenanceDwip Shah .......................... [email protected]

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each month.

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NATURE WATCHA Bird That Prefers To Run

Spend any amount of time in Texas or the southwestern United States and you’ll undoubtedly spot the Greater Roadrunner, a long-legged, ground-dwelling member of the cuckoo family. It is regionally called ‘paisano’, meaning constant friend or compatriot. This large chicken-like bird, with its long tail and shaggy crest, is fully capable of flying, but usually runs instead, at speeds up to 18 miles per hour. True to its name, a group of these birds is known as a ‘marathon’ or a ‘race’ of roadrunners.

From a behavioral point of view, the roadrunner is a fascinating subject. This signature bird of the southwest slows its bodily functions at night, and conserves body heat by lowering its temperature and becoming lethargic. In the early morning, it can warm itself up without expending a lot of energy. Turning its back to the sun, it erects its feathers to expose an underlying patch of black skin between its wings that helps it quickly absorb more solar energy. When running at top speed, it holds its head and tail flat and parallel to the ground.

The roadrunner is an opportunistic forager, and while it can catch small birds at feeders and nest boxes, more often it eats a variety of fruits, seeds, as well as venomous prey items, including large insects, spiders, scorpions, and even rattlesnakes. Surprisingly agile, two birds will frequently cooperate to kill a large snake, taking turns to distract it, pin its head with their heavy bill, and beat it against a rock or the ground. When alarmed or curious, the roadrunner raises its crest and white-edged tail, and utters a series of coos or

rapidly clatters its beak.Living in dry, open habitats, the roadrunner

has adapted by developing salt glands in front of its eyes to excrete excess salt from its blood. While these glands are more common in ocean-going birds that drink seawater, the roadrunner is able to go without drinking water as long as it eats food with high moisture content, but will drink water if it is available. When courting, many male roadrunners attract a female with cooing calls and then offer her food, usually in the form

of a dead lizard. If the female accepts, copulation occurs, during which the food is often exchanged.

In a small tree, scrubby bush, or a stand of cactus, both parents build a shallow platform of thorny sticks, line it with leaves, grass, feathers, and occasionally shed snake skins. Clutch size can vary from two to six eggs, depending on the food supply. If all the eggs do not hatch at roughly the same time (called asynchronous hatching), and the food supply declines during the breeding season, the parents may eat the younger chicks or feed them to their older siblings. In times of abundant food, roadrunners will double-brood, or raise a second family just as soon as the first is out of the nest.

Greater Roadrunner populations appear stable across their range, and are seen in central Texas year-round. However, like most species, they tend to disappear when their habitat is fragmented by development.

Send your nature-related questions to [email protected] and we’ll do our best to answer them. - Jim and Lynne Weber

Greater Roadrunner


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Stone Canyon Bunco group

Got Bunco?We do!! A neighborhood group is looking for players and substitutes. We play the second week of the month from 7-9 pm in different homes. If you are interested, call Vicky at 246-1843 or email Vicky at [email protected].

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Scheduled Monthly Meetings for 2010

January: .................................................... Wednesday, 6thFebruary: .......................................................Tuesday, 2ndMarch: .................................................... Wednesday, 3rd.April: ......................Tuesday, 6th – ANNUAL MEETING May: .............................................................. Tuesday, 4thJune: ............................................................. Tuesday, 1st.July:.......................................................... Wednesday, 7thAugust: .......................................................... Tuesday, 3rdSeptember: ................................................ Wednesday, 1stOctober: ........................................................ Tuesday, 5thNovember: ............................................. Wednesday, 3rdhDecember: ................................................ Wednesday, 8th

reminder Trash p ick up i s on Monday. P lea se d o not put cans out earlier than 6:00p.m. Sunday night. Trash receptacles and recycle bins should be brought up from the street after pick up on Monday and stored out of street view at all times. Thank you in advance for helping to keep Stone Canyon Owners’ Association a beautiful and clean community.


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THE GIVER By LOIs LOWRy“A Perfect World?”

The Giver by Lois Lowry won the 1994 Newbery

Medal. Considered a young adult book, I purchased it for my nephew, but wanted to preview it

before giving it to him. While I thoroughly enjoyed the book (it is intensely deep and invited more thought and examination than any other book I’ve read in a long time), I don’t think the content is appropriate for young adults. I’ll explain this in more detail, but in preparation for writing this review, I noticed that The Giver is on many middle school reading lists, but it is also on many banned book lists and appeared on the American Library Association’s list of the most challenged books of the 1990’s.

Although I didn’t give the book to my nephew, I think it is an excellent adult read. This book makes you really think. It describes a community that lives in what the author describes as a “perfect” world—one without pain, emotion (including love), color, decisions, surprises, memories, inconvenience and even temperature variations. While this is definitely not my idea of a perfect world, the people of this community of people live their daily lives in a very robotic and extremely organized way.

Each member of this community is assigned a specific role at the age of 12 and the main character, Jonas, is given the role of Giver. He is given all the memories of past generations where there was pain, love, hunger, the brilliance of color and he is responsible for holding all of these memories so no one else has to live through them. The way the Receiver transfers these memories to Jonas and the horrifically hard life that awaits Jonas is extremely interesting and creative.

When Jonas questions things—which he has never been permitted to do—he understands the very hard, but accepted way of life in his community. In particular, the “releasing” of the rule breakers, elders and anyone else who stands out or is an inconvenience to the group is heart wrenching—this is the part that is not for young adults.

The book is extremely creative; from the way the community and each family are structured to the unique role each person is assigned. It begs the question, “What would you give up to live in a more secure world?” and on the other hand, “What would you sacrifice to live life to the fullest?”

I definitely have Gathering Blue and Messenger on my reading list, two other books that are companion reads to The Giver.


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