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From the President:betterment of the community and the country club. In fact, the next ‘town hall’ meeting will take place in mid-October in the new club facility. Watch your mailbox for the announcement. Also, ECOSystems continues to work to improve the common areas of the community, including the park area. Finally, we remain financially strong and will look at diversifying our investments to keep all assets protected.

On a closing note, I personally want to congratulate the community and thank Lisa Randa for the success of our first blood drive. As most of you have heard, the drive was done to honor Miss Stella Vinella, a community resident who suffered a serious accident earlier this summer. The Austin Blood and Tissue center told us to expect between 20-25 donations over the 4-hour period they were present to take volunteers. As it turned out, the center was able to collect blood from 64 donors and asked another 8 to visit the new donation center in Leander on Hwy 1431. The Austin center was ecstatic and so were we with the support that was generated. Again, THANK YOU all who participated as a donor, an organizer, a greeter or someone who baked special treats full of goodness.

I will look forward to seeing you at the town hall meeting later in the month.

Respectfully,David Wasserman

Greetings to all and a much-anticipated welcome to autumn. This is my favorite time of the year. I so look forward to a cup of coffee in the morning and the feel of the cool breeze on my face. As well, I can’t wait for a bowl of chili to warm me on the inside and an afternoon walk without the oppressive heat. This also brings me to the time when I must tie some things up, and pass the gavel on to a new Board.

To begin with, I want to raise interest in the community for volunteers interested in running for the HOA Board. There will be two seats up for election at the annual meeting in mid-January. These positions will be for two years each and will join the three members who have served the past year and will remain in place for one additional year. If you are interested in serving our community in this capacity, please contact any one of the present members. We would love to have you sit in on a meeting, ask questions and learn of the responsibilities. Serving the community can certainly be challenging and will take some time, but is also rewarding. If you are interested in running for a Board position, we ask that you prepare a brief bio (in the form of a Microsoft Word document) and submit to either myself or Rob Shook before November 10, 2008. Your bio will be published in the December newsletter.

As for general updates, the Board and the Dominion Golf Group have had their first meeting. At the end, there was a general consensus that the two groups would work well together for the

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Submitted by Rob AlspaughSenior teams, Coach Kay returning from summer league to coach the Black team, and Coach Carlee who will be moving downtown to be closer to her school and will sub for us time to time. We have a great coaching staff dedicated to our swimmers and their dreams. As we enter the 2008-09 Short Course season we come in energized and inspired by what we have seen at the Olympics, but after seeing so much what do we emulate? It is important to restate the obvious. These are athletes who have physical abilities and technique, which were honed from years and years of focused training. As age groupers they did not look or swim as they did in the Olympics. It is clear though, what they did do as age groupers, and what was clearly displayed at the Olympics, was their attention to the smallest of details: tight consistent streamlines, leg driven strokes, great starts, crisp turns, and practiced finishes. It is in these small details and the dedication to perfecting these skills on a daily basis will we will find success.As I enter my 25th year of coaching swimming and 7th here at Cedar Park, I can’t help but be thankful and in awe of how hard this group is willing to work to achieve their goals and the betterment of this team.

Cedar Park Swimming would like to review the 2008 Long Course season and celebrate what we have accomplished. We started the championship portion of our season with the epic STAGS meet in San Antonio with thirteen of our swimmers making it into finals, 98% who swam faster in finals than they did in prelims. The highlight of STAGS was Josh Artmann winning both the 100 and 50 backstrokes. TAGS, arguably the fastest age group meet in the nation, saw six of our swimmers break into the top 8. They are as follows: Brent Aarons 4th 200 free registering a top 16 time, 4th 800 free, 6th 400 free, Josh Artmann 4th 50 back, Amanda Wu 6th 50 Breast, and our 8th place 11-12 year old Girls 200 freestyle relay of Sheena Wang, Amanda Wu, Amanda Alspaugh, and Abby Artmann. Congratulations to all our TAGS swimmers. Also of note, 37 Long Course records were broken this summer, a real reflection of the hard work and dedication to the Long Course season. The record breakers are as follows: Jay Lenner, Travis Beall, Sheena Wang, Amanda Wu, Cody Sims, Kelli McGhee, Mackenzie Alspaugh, Brent Aarons, Megan Ziemann, and Tom Gerken We would like to also welcome back our coaching Staff: Coach John, who is entering his 25th year of coaching swimming and 7th here at Cedar Park. Coach Chantal coaching the Green and Pre-

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Theriot Receives MillionsSubmitted By Connie Ripley

Bullick Hollow. Our guess is well over 2,000. Couple this with the equipment trucks, many carrying the 9 foot wide pipe, and all the other necessary traffic to and from the site. Only a turn lane at the site is planned… A large part of the lake below Theriot’s house will be roped off during construction of the intake. This could involve some blasting. Water quality will suffer. Hippie Hollow is only about 1,000 feet away. After enduring 3 to 5 years of construction, we will have the lights, security, fencing, traffic, noise and lower lake levels that accompany a huge industrial project like this one to forever change our hill country views and Lake Travis. And Austin will still only have one source of water—the over-stressed, over-promised Colorado River. Austin has started a great conservation and reuse program. What if it works? Will the city be spending $500 million of rate payer money on a project that is not needed for 20 years? For more information on this project, go to www.drainingLakeTravis.org. Click on the Lake Threatened button, then Deep Water Intakes. At the first [Click here for more], you will find drawings and the complete information on the project.

Beau Theriot, owner of the Oasis Restaurant, was recently paid $7,225,000 by the City of Austin for 12.05 acres on Bullick Hollow near Oasis Bluff. The site will house the enormous 18,000 square feet pump stations for Austin’s proposed deep water intake and water treatment plant. This has to be some sort of record for disturbing the Golden Cheeked Warbler! What a price for all those cedar trees! Austin purchased 92 acres at the corner of Bullick Hollow and RR 620 for $32 million earlier this year. 60 acres of it, mostly fronting RR 620, will be covered with a gigantic industrial plant. An electrical power complex will sit on 2 acres of the property. A single entrance is planned just down from where the Dive Shop is currently. No traffic light is planned… Construction is scheduled to begin in 2009. Traffic, noise, dust and blasting will be a constant companion to all within miles and for at least three, and probably five, years. This project will forever change the face of Lake Travis and surrounding areas. The pump station site will also have a shaft about 40 feet wide and 400 feet deep down to the 450 MSL. The shaft will connect a mile long, 9 foot wide tunnel to the intake site below Theriot’s house at Oasis Bluff and Comanche Trail. The City is still “figuring” on the actual number of dump trucks that will travel the steep hills of

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Do your part for Cedar Park’s water source. Water before 10 a.m. or after 7 p.m. as needed on your

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NatureWatchby Jim and Lynne Weber

FabulousFallGrasses - The hill country of central Texas is home to many species of fall-blooming native grasses. These “warm season grasses”, called such as their growth period occurs during our hottest weather and their dormancy period occurs in winter, provide extremely valuable habitat for ground-nesting birds as well as many mammals. They can be very deep-rooted, making for a long-lasting, stress-tolerant, low maintenance plant. The root biomass of native warm season grasses far exceeds that of the introduced, non-native turf grasses, which enables these plants to provide increased organic matter in our soils and allow for more rapid water infiltration rates, both of which are beneficial to soil and water quality. In addition, these native grasses tend to grow in bunches, which naturally allows the inclusion of native forbs, wildflowers, and legumes to further improve the quality of wildlife habitat through species biodiversity. Aside from being highly deer-resistant, the native grasses described below all provide seed for winter birds and are larval host plants for the skipper family of butterflies. Their foliage is used by birds and mammals for nesting material, and they can be very effective at controlling erosion and helping to build soil on steep slopes that are common in central Texas. Growing 2-5 feet tall, Bushy Bluestem prefers the moist soil of

a wetland area, and its’ showy fall blooms on coppery-red stems resemble tufts of cotton candy. Slightly smaller at 2-3 feet tall, Little Bluestem grows in drier areas with sun or part-shade, its’ blue-green foliage in summer turning mahogany-red with white tufts of blooms in the fall. Found mainly in sunny, well-drained areas like the limestone uplands near streams, Lindheimer’s Muhly is a 2-5 foot grass with silvery seed heads that is an excellent soft-textured substitute for non-native pampas grass. The hill country version of Gulf Muhly, Seep Muhly grows 2-3 feet tall on grassy limestone slopes in dense tufts of slender stems and curled foliage, with a frothy pink bloom in the fall. Sideoats Grama, the State Grass of Texas, is not choosy about soils and at 2-3 feet is a good companion for wildflowers. Purplish, oat-like spikelets uniformly line one side of the stem, bleaching to a tan color in the fall. Staying low most of the year at 2 feet then getting tall before

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By Michelle LasherSubmitted by Michelle Lasher

Like most families we have been spending our summer days out in the sun, at the pool, on the lake, or just playing in our yards. The sun can damage our hair just like it can with our skin. Tiny rips and tears actually develop in the outer cuticle of the hair. As hair becomes more damaged it then becomes progressively more porous. The effects of this damage can cause the hair to become dry, brittle and even sometimes cause breakage. For people with color-treated hair you may have noticed that your color has faded Or if you’re a blonde you may be feeling a bit too Blonde. Before you get your next color and/or highlights, you will need to repair the damage… High powered deep conditioning treatments actually penetrate all the way down into the cortex layer of the hair and act as a type of

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Reprinted with permission from the American Council on Exercise

Contrary to popular belief, women aren’t the only ones with biological clocks. We all have them, and heed their ticking on a daily basis. If you are a regular exerciser, you may have already determined your most productive time to exercise and follow a routine that works best for you. On the other hand, if your exercise time varies from day to day, and it’s wearing you out instead of pumping you up, you may be interested in the work of scientists who are studying the proverbial internal clock and how to best determine what time of day you should schedule your workouts.

RHYTHM: IT’S NOTJUST FOR DANCING

The secret appears to lie in circadian rhythms, the daily cycles that our bodies follow. These rhythms originate in the hypothalamus and regulate everything from body temperature and metabolism to blood pressure. The rhythms result from the firing rate of neurons. They have conformed to our 24-hour light-to-dark cycle, and may be regulated and reregulated each day according to the environment.

WARM IS BETTERIt is the influence of circadian rhythms

on body temperature that seems to yield the most control over the quality of a workout. When body temperature is at its highest, your workouts will likely be more productive; when your temperature is low, chances are your exercise session may be less than optimal. Body temperature is at its lowest about one to three hours before before most of

exercise is adaptive to circadian rhythms. In other words, consistently training in the morning will allow you to sustain exercise during a morning marathon longer than if you train in the evening.

THE BEST TIME TO EXERCISEus wake up in the morning, in contrast to late afternoon when body temperature reaches its peak. (To determine your own circadian peak, refer to the box to the right.) Studies have consistently shown that exercise during these late-in-the-day hours produces better performance and more power. Muscles are warm and more flexible, perceived exertion is low, reaction time is quicker, strength is at its peak, and resting heart rate and blood pressure are low.

DON’T FIX IT IF IT’S NOT BROKENFirst of all, don’t change your schedule

if you feel good beginning your day with exercise. Everyone agrees that exercise at any time is better than no exercise at all. In fact, people who exercise in the morning are more successful at making it a habit. And though it has been suggested that morning exercise may put some people at higher risk for heart attack, further research indicates that there is simply a generalized increased risk of heart attacks in the morning. If your schedule favors an early workout, emphasize stretching and a good warm-up to insure that your body is ready for action.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONSIf stress relief is your goal, exercise

always works, all the time. And if you’re wondering when it’s best to train for an upcoming event, it all depends on what time you’ll actually be competing. If an upcoming marathon begins at 7:00 a.m., try training at that time of day. Though training at any time of day will raise performance levels, research has shown that the ability to maintain sustained

Find Your Peak To determine your own circadian peak in body temperature, record your temperature every couple of hours for five to six consecutive days. Body temperature usually fluctuates by plus or minus 1.5 degrees throughout the day. Try exercising during the period three hours before and after your highest temperature. If you are an early bird or a night owl, you may notice that your temperature peaks one to two hours before or after the norm (between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.); you can adjust your exercise time accordingly.

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School is back in session. Please be aware of children walking and biking to and from school. Of course, we want all children to be safe and school buses are relatively safe. However, accidents and injuries involving school buses do happen. More often than not these injuries happen when children are entering or exiting the bus. Here are some safety tips for school bus riders.• Have a safe place to wait for the bus, away

from traffic and the street.• Stay away from the bus until it comes to a

complete stop and the driver signals you to enter.

• Hold onto the handrails when entering or exiting the bus.

• Once on the bus, take your seat and remain seated face forward.

• Talk quietly so that you don’t distract the driver.

• Never throw things on the bus and keep your hands to yourself.

• When you exit the bus, take ten giant steps away from the bus. When you are closer than 10 feet from the bus, the driver might not see you. This is known as the DANGER ZONE.

• If you forget something on the bus, do not return to the bus to get it. The driver might not see you.

• Be aware of the street traffic around you.• If you need to cross the street, cross in front

of the bus never behind the bus. Motorists should follow safety rules around school buses. Yellow flashing lights indicate that the bus is preparing to stop. Motorists should slow down and be prepared to stop. Red flashing lights indicate that the bus has stopped and that children are getting on or off. Motorists must stop their cars and wait until the red flashing lights are turned off.Here are a few more traffic safety tips for motorists.• When backing out of the driveway or

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traffic • Wear clothing with reflective markings or tape • Approach only houses that are lit • Stay away from and don't pet animals you don't know

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Homeowners• Make sure your yard is clear of such things as ladders, hoses, dog

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cars or inadvertently biting a trick-or-treater • Battery powered jack o'lantern candles are preferable to a real

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trick-or-treaters will be walking or standing • Make sure paper or cloth yard decorations won't be blown into a

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