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Vol. 37 No. 45
Website: theaustinvillager.com
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Black Registry
founder passes at age 68
Phone: 512-476-0082
Fax: 512-476-0179
April 23, 2010
Kindhearted Kindergartner Pledges
Proceeds to Help Save Texas Honeybees
RAPPIN’
Tommy Wyatt
Get ready for
Freedom Week
II !
There is a big event coming up next week called Freedom
Weekend. This is the second
annual event and a lot of activity is planned. The organizers are
quite ambitious and invites the
community to share in the activities.
The activities will start on
Thursday, April 29 with a Community Art Show And Performance. This event is for all ages
and will be at the Millennium
Youth Entertainment Complex
from 3:30 to 9:30 p.m.
On Friday night, April 30
the events will move to the Pine
Street Studio Station, 1101 E. 5th
Street from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
There will be a community forum on Saturday, 10:30 to
5:30 p.m.. at the School of Pharmacy , University of Texas, 1101
E. 5th Street.
There will be a Sunday
Service at Huston Tillotson University from 2:00 to 3: 15 p.m..
The theme will be Building the
Beloved Community: May the
Struggle continue. After that
there will be a “People Get
Ready” Community Workshops
from 4:00 to 7: p.m
The planners have included something for everyone.
One of the Special Guest will be
Ajamu Baraka, Executive Director, U. S. Human Rights Network.
He will give an address “From
Civil Rights Back to Human
Rights: Recapturing the Spirit of
Revolutionary Change. His address will be given on Saturday.
The planners of these
event are putting on a very ambitious program and is seeking
the support of the entire community. We all talk a good game,
but when it is time to support
the people who are putting on
these kinds of programs, we
sometimes leave them hanging.
One of the events on
Thursday will be the showing a
film on the struggle for Dignity
from East Austin to Brooklyn.
It is time to produce a whole
new group of leaders. The old
guard is rapidly passing off of the
scene and other leaders must be
prepared before they are all gone.
The young people are asking for
support and guidance. They expect
that support and guidance to come
from us. It will not be the way it was
“in the day,” but there is a whole
new frontier that must be concured.
It will not be done by complaining,
but by action.
The organizers for the Freedom Weekend are to be congratulated for the hard work that they
have put in to this event to make it
successful. And I am sure that with
our support, there are many more
like events that can be brought to
the community. We have to stop
complaining about or neighborhoods being taken over by outsider
and get up and learn how to stop it.
For information about Freedom
Weekend activities, call (877-84626l9 or go to www. blackfreedom
week end.org.
Barbara Empie Wyatt - June 14, 1941 - April 21, 2010
Barbara Empie Wyatt
(68) passed away quitely
Wednesday, April 21, 2010.
Wyatt recently returned to
Austin after spendig years
away in California and Ohio.
She was born in Ft.
Worth, Texas and graduated from I. M. Terrell High
school. She attended
Langston University and
graduated from Tennessee
State University. After
gratuation she came to Austin and enrolled in the Medical Technology School at
Brackenridge Hospital. She
went on to become one of the
first Registered Medical
Technologist in Austin. She
worked at Brackenridge for
several years.
in 1969 Barbara Wyatt
founded the Black Registry
Business Directory, a classified directory of Austin’s
Black Owned and Managed
Businesses in Austin and
surrounding communities.
The Black Registry has been
a continuous publication
since its inception.
Barbara Wyatt was
united in marriage with
Tommie (T. L. Wyatt). The
marriage lasted ten years and
produced one son, Thomas
Lionel Wyatt. She is survived
by her son and two granddaughters, Angela Wyatt and
Raven Wyatt and a host of
friends, who affectionately
called her “Sam.” Final services are pending.
The 2010 Official Lemonade Day is just around the
corner and five-year old entrepreneur, Mikaila Ulmer, is
busy fine-tuning her plans to
sell her uniquely, honeysweetened BeeSweet Lemonade. Although having fun is
at the top of her agenda, On
May 2, Mikaila will skip
away with introductory business skills like counting, customer service and marketing.
For Mikaila Ulmer, Kin-
dergartner at Trinity Episcopal School, entrepreneurship
started at age four when she
created her first product,
BeeSweet Lemonade. The
healthy, home-made, Texas
honey sweetened, freshlysqueezed lemonade drink is
a refreshing natural beverage
for the family. Inspired by the
sad story of the declining bee
population, Mikaila will donate 20% of her profits to the
Texas BeeKeepers Associa-
tion who have been spreading awareness and funding
research for the Texas Honeybee since 1880.
Theo Ulmer, Mikaila’s
father and unofficial spokesman, said, “It is our pleasure
to find exciting ways to teach
Mikaila important real life
skills. She is truly having fun,
while learning how to count
money, work hard and sell a
product.”
COUNTY LACKS
LAND USE AUTHORITY
Travis County has not
been given legal authority by
state to limit potentially harmful industrial developments
near neighborhoods
Austin, TX – The Travis
County’s Commissioners
Court amended its development regulations to require a
plat note that details the lack
of authority Travis County
has regarding the regulation
of land use in unincorporated
areas. Residents routinely ask
the Travis County Commissioners Court to remedy negative quality-of-life impacts that
can arise when commercial or
industrial development locates next to homes and
schools. Unfortunately, although numerous attempts
have been made, Travis
County has not been given
adequate legal authority by
the state legislature to keep
this from occurring.
Travis County Precinct
1 Commissioner Ron Davis
championed the County code
amendment to alert citizens
who desire to purchase land
in the unincorporated areas
about this dilemma. Specifically, it is an amendment to
Chapter 82, Travis County
Code, requiring a plat note regarding the county’s limited
ability to regulate land use in
the unincorporated area of
Travis County.
The Travis County
Commissioners Court is actively pursuing more land
use authority from the State
of Texas. “I’m seeking assistance from the Travis County
state legislative delegation”
stated Commissioner Ron
Davis, “as well as the Austin
City Council and locallyelected officials from adjacent
cities and counties.”
Commissioner Davis is
also encouraging county residents to contact their local
state representatives regarding the issue of lack of Travis
County land use authority.
Buy a Ticket, Please! World Cup Needs You
Buy a Ticket, Please!
World Cup Needs You! Special to the NNPA from the
GIN(GIN) - With less than two
months before the World Cup
of soccer kicks off, FIFA - the
sport’s governing body - and
the South African local organizing committee are pleading with South Africans to
buy the remaining 500,000
tickets that have been made
available.Fewer than the
450,000 foreign visitors initially expected will be coming to the games - Africa’s
first World Cup. “This final
ticket phase is very important,” said FIFA Secretary
General Jerome Valcke at a
press conference in Soweto.
that the killers were aiming
for journalists travelling
with the convoy.
Congressman Lloyd Doggett (c) congratulates the recent inductees to the National Women of
Achievement, (from left-right), Ruth Bullock, Robin Burwell, Crystal Bennett, Dr. Wanda Nelson, Marilyn
Johnson, Samara Cooper, Ida King, Donna Patterson, and LaMonica Lewis. These women embody the
legacy of Dr. Connie Yerwood Conner by rising above obstacles to achieve a higher purpose. “These
strong and successful women are heirs of the work and the legacy of women like Austin’s own Dr. Connie
Yerwood Conner and civil rights leader Dorothy I. Height, who passed away this week. Today, we live in
a nation defined by these incredible women who built their lives on the fight for a nation shaped by
equality and progress, The induction of these women into the National Women of Achievement gives us
hope that the legacy of women like Height and Dr. Yerwood Conner will not soon be forgotten,” said Rep.
Doggett.
Austin unveils innovative community
engagement tool
Austinites out and
about from now until April 29
might just come face to face
with their future.
As part of the first-ever
City of Austin Speak Week,
volunteers will be staffing
kiosks throughout Austin to
get as much input from as
many people as possible for
the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan that will help
chart the development of Austin over the next 25 years and
beyond.
Speak Week is designed to reach residents and
capture their input where
they live, work and play.
“Speak Week is a
complement to the traditional
community forum,” said
Austin City Council Member
Sheryl Cole. “We know that
most people in the City are not
able to attend traditional community forums. There are
time constraints, family constraints, and a variety of other
reasons why they don’t come.
But widespread and diverse
input is critical to this process,
so we decided to take the forum out to the people.”
The Speak Week kiosks
will be set up in locations like
Austin Community College
campuses; Simon Malls properties; Capital Metro Metrorail
and bus stations; City recreation centers and libraries;
and even Alamo Drafthouse
theaters. Volunteers will
guide participants through a
brief series of questions that
follow up on previous input
gathered during the Imagine
Austin process. A complete
list of Speak Week venues can
be
found
at
www.ImagineAustin.net/
events.htm#speakweek.
“In the first phase of
this project, we heard a lot
from the public about what
they want to see in Austin’s
future,” said Garner Stoll,
Assistant Director of the City
of Austin Planning and Development Review Department. “Now, we need them
to show us more about how
they want Austin to grow –
where new neighborhoods,
employment, commercial and
open spaces should be located, for instance. We need
to anticipate that more people
will choose to live in Austin
in the next 30 years and start
planning for their arrival.”
As part of Speak Week,
members of the public will
identify what types of
homes they would like the
City to have to accommodate
population growth and
where those types of housing should go (in Downtown Austin, in outlying areas, near transit stops, etc.).
Participants will also get to
tinker with the Austin
streets they know best and
design their “street of the
future” using interactive
game pieces.
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EDITORIALS/COMMENTARY
Confederate History
is
Supremacy History
The Right
Challenges Financial
Services Reform
By Ron Walters
NNPA Columnist
(NNPA) - Get ready for
the next fight as the President
and the Democratic controlled Congress attempt to try
and fix the mess that nearly
brought down the entire economic system that has placed
millions of people out of their
houses, jobs, savings and etc.
Republicans met with banking association representatives recently about the Financial Services Bills working
their way through the House
and Senate and came away
dedicated to defeating them
any way they could.
The pain caused by the
economic crisis finds most
Americans favoring the need
for financial services reform,
but Republicans have turned
on their message machine to
fight it. For example, a $50 billion fund was put in the Senate version to have banks pay
for their own bailout if they
fail, rather than the U.S. Treasury. You would think that is
a good thing for those who
faulted the government for
bailing out the banks, but the
Republicans have said that it
insures future failures and
bailouts because the money is
there. They have also called
the effort of the government to
regulate banks that are “too
big to fail” extending “more
government intervention into
the private sector.” The lack
of regulation by Republicans
created the crisis in the first
place, but they don’t seem to
care if it happens again. It is
interesting that the Tea Party
folks who are supposed to be
the ultimate fiscal conservatives are so mad at the government bank bailouts but
they haven’t turned on the
Republicans. This is partly
because the latest CBS News,
New York Times poll says
that they are Republicans and
that they hold the Congress
responsible for the crisis
rather than George Bush. Call
it what it is, a convenient
dodge. The same poll found
that about 20 percent of Republicans belong to the Tea
Party and that nearly all dislike President Obama, many
thinking that he is a Socialist,
not born in this Country, and
that he is building a big government, getting away from
their idea of what America
has been – and they want it
back. They also feel that too
much attention has been
given to problems facing
blacks and that Obama’s policies have favored blacks over
whites. However, they must
have been under a rock somewhere and couldn’t hear the
complaint of blacks who say
that, in fact, he has not paid
much attention them and
their needs. So, one wonders
where these beliefs are coming from since, facts are not
important. These beliefs
seems to be coming from a
group that is largely over 45
years old, steeped in the values that privileged traditional
white dominant race-rela-
tions in the past, carrying the
large weight of a Southern resentment toward Blacks.
This was hinted at by
Governor Haley Barbour who
was interviewed about Virginia Governor Robert
McDonnell’s proclamation of
Confederate History Month
that left out slavery. Barbour’s
view was that this wasn’t very
important. This signals that
these beliefs are coming from
key leaders of the Republican
party, helping to embolden
and legitimize the race-haters. The fact is that just like
the Health Care fight, the attitudes of the Right have little
to do with the fine points of
legislation they oppose,
rather what they oppose is a
government run by a black
man. So, the fight takes place
in coded massages like
“smaller government.” Well,
The Wall Street Journal considers the extension of unemployment insurance to be
“welfare” and Tea Partiers
think it means the same thing
as the old Aid to Families with
Dependent Children they
think still exists. The ignorance of this crowd makes it
dangerous. So, the fight over
financial services will liven
up but don’t forget that there
is a Consumer Protection
Agency in the new Bills that
would protect Americans
from unfair and deceptive
practices from financial products. It would create a consumer hot-line and monitor
rates that banks could charge
on mortgage loans and credit
cards, ending secret fees
charged by financial institutions and etc.
By. Julianne Malveaux
NNPA Columnist
(NNPA) - Last week,
Virginia Governor Bob
McDonnell proclaimed April
Confederate History Month
in his state. In fact he proclaimed the date on April 7,
which is the same day in 1865
that Confederate general Robert E. Lee began to negotiate
the terms of surrender with
United States General
Ulysses S. Grant. In some
states, this day is considered
Confederate Memorial Day,
and Virginia is not alone is
celebrating “Confederate History Month”. Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana have
celebrated this month for quite
some time. In the last decade
or so Texas (since 1999),
Florida (since 2007), and
Georgia (since 2009) have
also instituted celebrations of
Confederate History Month.
Virginia celebrated from 19942002 before the commemoration was revoked.
Southerners say there is
no racism in their celebration
of the confederacy. They claim
they just want to celebrate
their ancestors who valiantly
fought for that which they
believed in. What exactly did
these folks believe in, though?
In his famous Cornerstone
speech, delivered in Savannah Georgia on March 21,
1861, Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens
A Call for Education
Equity
By Marian Wright Edelman
NNPA Columnist
(NNPA) - Title I was created
“to ensure all children a fair
and equal opportunity to obtain a high-quality education.” However, the formula
for distributing Title I funds
is stacked against the very
children it was most intended
to help. The current formula
(a complex combination of
four formulas) favors large
districts regardless of their
child poverty rate while children trapped in areas of concentrated poverty in midsized cities and rural districts
are seriously disadvantaged.
The inequities between and
within states are blatant and
must be rectified in this reauthorization cycle.
Why should Mississippi, the state with the highest concentration of Title I eligible students (27.2 percent)
and the highest concentration of child poverty (30.4 percent), get an average allocation of $1,318 for each Title I
eligible student while Wyoming, with the lowest percent
of Title I eligible students (11.6
percent) and a three times
lower child poverty rate (11.6
percent), receives an average
of $3,149 per Title I eligible
student—a $1,831 difference
per child?
And why should
Virginia’s Buchanan County
Public School District, with
over 30 percent Title I eligible
students and a 28 percent
child poverty rate, receive
$1,363 per eligible student
while Virginia’s Henrico
County Public Schools, with
9 percent Title I eligible students and a 10 percent child
poverty rate, receive $1,943—
almost $600 more per eligible
student?
This is simply wrong
and widens the opportunity
gap between rich and poor
districts and rich and poor
children Title I was intended
to help close. This resource inequity denies children in areas of concentrated poverty a
way out and fuels the cradleto-prison pipeline which is
creating a new American
apartheid. Injustice to any
child or group of children for
a single day is morally indefensible, and the five years of
this reauthorization period is
a very long time in the life of a
child.
The Children’s Defense
Fund (CDF) believes that the
most effective way to fix these
inequities is to reform the formula but recognizes that a
complete formula change this
year may not be possible. In
any case, immediate steps
can and must be taken now
to ensure many poor children
a more level playing field including: Supporting early
learning by incorporating the
Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA) Early
Learning Challenge provisions for children 0-5; including 0-5 children in any formula determining funding
allocations to high poverty
districts; and requiring a percentage of these funds to be
directed to support quality
programs for young children.
Providing additional new
competitively awarded monies to those districts and students most in need (as a partial way of dealing with the
funding inequities) by including “poverty concentration”
among the selection criteria;
giving incentives to publicprivate partnerships in those
areas; and ensuring these dis-
tricts the technical support
essential to success.
Providing effective educational support and stability for children in juvenile
justice facilities and foster
care under Title I-D to reduce
recidivism and help children
escape the prison pipeline.
The Department of Education
must require that children and
teens in juvenile facilities receive a high quality education, coordinated with the
public school curriculum,
and that schools facilitate
their successful transition
back to regular classrooms.
Children in foster care also
need stability and equal access to educational opportunity. The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 requires state and local child
welfare agencies to collaborate with education agencies
to promote educational stability for foster children. Reciprocal requirements on education agencies are now needed
in ESEA. Ending zero tolerance school discipline policies and out-of-school suspensions which disproportionately affect minority children. While school safety is
not negotiable, one size fits all
zero tolerance policies contribute mightily to school
drop outs and the cradle to
prison pipeline. School discipline policies too often are
based on the serious misbehavior of 5-10 percent students. Violent and unruly students must be separated from
the rest of the class, and given
counseling to keep up with
coursework in a supportive
learning environment . The
Department of Education
must promote fair discipline
measures that keep students
in school and learning and
focus more on preventing and
re-enrolling school dropouts
building on proven strategies.
stated “Our . . .foundation are
laid, its cornerstone rests,
upon the great truth is that the
negro (this is how Negro was
spelled historically) is not
equal to the white man; that
slavery – subordination to the
superior race – is his natural
and normal condition.”
Anyone who believes in freedom, justice, and equality and
reads these words has to
cringe, not only at the sentiment, but also at the notion
that this sentiment has been
resurrected, nearly 150 years
later, by contemporary governor of a state that is at least 12
percent African American. To
celebrate the so-called confederacy is to celebrate the
words that Stephens despicably uttered, and that ought to
be an anathema to any thinking American.
Governor McDonnell
seems to think that he cleaned
up his contemptible proclamation by adding language
that speaks to the abomination of slavery. He is talking
out of two sides of his mouth.
How can you describe slavery
as “evil, vicious and inhumane” without acknowledging, as Stephens said, that slavery is the “cornerstone” of
the Confederacy that he
wants to celebrate?
This matter has been so
digested in the public space
that it seems almost redundant to address it again. At the
same time, it seems that not
enough can be written or said
about our historical myopia
and its consequences. For all
of our so-called post-racialism, race really does still matter, and this pro-Confederacy
nonsense shows exactly how
much. For some southerners,
the civil war is still really not
over, and there are those who
truly believe that “subordination to the superior race” is
the “natural and normal condition” of Black Americans.
Imagine the chagrin these
folks feel when they realize
that despite their deeply held
beliefs, the elected leader of
our nation is a man of African descent. As Black Americans close social, economic,
and political gaps, the Tea
Party posse and the Confederacy celebrants seem to
clamor for more and more attention. I realize that I write
this with some risk. The Tea
Party folks are so extreme that
they run around threatening
people, like Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen (D)
who raised questions about
their motives. Yet history is
written by those who hold the
pen, and we are all remiss if
we do not remind those who
are thinking about our
nation’s history that the Confederacy was a rebellion
against the United States of
America. Why should this rebellion be commemorated
and celebrated?
Instead of a celebration
of Confederacy, we really
need a repudiation of its principles by all of those rogue
states that were once Confederate. Instead, Mississippi
Governor Haley Barbor calls
the celebration of Confederacy “no big deal”. Too bad
Mississippi voters – 38 percent Black American — can’t
make this man accountable
for his supremacist views.
This Time They Beat
Up White Guys
Harry C. Alford
NNPA Columnist
(NNPA) - Police brutality in Prince George’s County,
Md. is legendary. There have
been scandals after scandals
for at least the last 50 years.
Much of it has spread across
the border into Washington,
DC. It is bad and wide scale
and it is also tinged with
Black and Hispanic inclusion. Most of the abuses are
targeted to these two national
minorities and for good reason. The applicable prosecutors and court systems protect
and shield the dirty cops who
perpetrate brutality. They will
defend the actions of the cops
no matter how heinous their
actions are.
So last week, when the
actions of the Prince George’s
Police Department during a
recent basketball game on the
campus of the University of
Maryland in College Park,
were splashed on television
it was no surprise to my family circle. There they were
smashing the heads of a few
college students who were
doing nothing but mildly celebrating the victory of their
school.
After the beatings they
filed false police reports on
the victims. This is so common to us. We know their
M.O. (modus operandi) too
well. We call it “Dirty Cops
101”. Tragically, it is supported by the judicial system
and to the detriment of innocent citizens, usually young
Black men.
My sons and their close
friends have matriculated
through the University of
Maryland and Georgetown
University. They are good,
productive Black males and
are destined for great careers.
However, there have been
challenges with the local police departments where their
parents have had to get involved and save their futures
through expensive legal representation against heinous
criminal acts by policemen.
Let me give you a few actual
experiences of these students
and what their parents had to
go through to save them from
the wicked, dirty cops.
A few of the guys are
walking down the streets of
Georgetown (Washington,
DC) one Saturday night. They
are approached by DC cops
(Precinct 2) and asked,
“What are you boys doing in
Georgetown?” One replied
we happen to live here. After
a few minutes the cops return
and state, “Your guy is a
smart a__ and now he must
pay.”
They handcuffed him;
picked him up and body
slammed him into their squad
car; picked him up again and
body slammed him to the
ground. They arrested him
and sent him to the lock up
for the weekend and not arraigned until noon Monday.
He had a busted lip, scars on
his face and neck, a broken
watch and money missing
from his wallet. What were the
charges?
They formally claimed
that he charged a parked car
with his head and caused
$400 in property damage.
They actually did this! The
sad thing is his parents had
to hire a top law firm and pay
over $25,000 to convince the
DC courts to throw the case
out. There was no action done
about the false police report
or beat down.
One Maryland student
felt like having a hamburger.
He sees an Athletic Department golf cart unattended. He
jumps in and drives it to a fast
food establishment. Gets his
hamburger and heads back to
campus. The cops were there
waiting and arrested him.
The formal charge is “Grand
Theft Auto” – a serious
felony. So began that family’s
trauma. About $70,000 dollars in legal fees later the
Prince George’s County State
Attorney finally drops the
case.
Another one of the guys
is walking with about 20 others leaving a UM bar and
walking towards the dormitories. He is holding hands
with a white girl and that sent
off alarms with the PG cops.
They arrest both of them;
throw them in a paddy wagon
and lock them up at the local
“tank” until Monday. The formal charges were “Disturbing the Peace”. I guest interracial hand holding is disturbing the peace for a racist.
Here again, the parents had
to hire proper legal representation in order to make this
trumped up charge go away.
The white girl had to go
through therapy from this
racist trauma and her folks
spent big bucks also.
One of the guys was walking
down Rhode Island Avenue
in College Park and was given
a “Jay Walking” ticket. About
a year later he found that it
was entered as a moving vehicle violation and two points
were on his record. He had to
jump through hoops to get it
removed so that his auto insurance rate wouldn’t sky
rocket.
All of the guys have at
least one bad experience during their college days. Life
isn’t easy for Black college
males. The cops are predators
looking for and stalking them.
But this time they beat up
white guys and the world
now knows the deal. Hopefully, we can now remove all
of these dirty cops.
David Chapel to celebrate
86th Anni versary
The David Chapel
Missionary Baptist Church
invites the public to share
in the celebration of their
86th Church Anniversary,
Sunday, April 25, 2010
from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m.. The theme is “God’s
Church: Justified through
Faith and Rejoicing in His
Grce.”
The special guest
for the occasion will be Dr.
Jerry William Dailey, Pastor of Macedonia Baptist
Church in San Antonio,
Texas. He was called into
the ministry at an early age
and was licensed by his
father, Rev. Dr.,Charles
C.B. Dailey.
He has taken the
ministry beyound the
walls of Macedonia by establishing the Macedonia
Community Development
Corporation (CDC), also by
participating in programs
such as Good Samaritan
Food Ministry, Under the
Civil Rights Organizations
Urge End to Separation of
HIV-Positive Inmates
health researcher, told
Reuters.”Like past policies of
racial segregation, segregating prisoners with HIV is discriminatory, and the harm it
causes extends well beyond
the person’s prison term.”
According to the ACLU, prisoners housed in HIV units in
South Carolina and Alabama
must don armbands or other
indicators of their HIV status.
They are also forced to eat
and, in some cases, worship
separately from other prisoners. The ACLU claimed that
those inmates are being denied equal opportunities of
prison jobs and programs
which
help
facilitate
smoother transitions for reentry back into society.
Officials in both states insist
that segregation is a necessity
in order to provide medical
care and to avoid further HIV
transmission. That claim was
rejected by the report, which
cites findings of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention indicating that there
is no medical basis for keeping individuals with the virus
from kitchen or food-service
employment. The report
claims that the practice poses
a threat to inmates’ civil
rights, and negatively impacts the states’ budgets because of the higher cost of
separately imprisoning inmates with HIV/AIDS rather
than mixing them with the
general
population.
Paulette Nicholas, an HIV/
AIDS educator who is HIV-
By Dorothy Rowley Special to the
NNPA from the Afro-American
N e w s p a p e r s
Pastor Joseph C. Parker
Pastor of David Chapel
Bridge Ministry, Meals on
Wheels and Restorative
Justive Ministry.
Dr. DAiley has
been married to his wife
Janice Marie for over 29
years and has 3 daughters
and one grandchild. For
more information call 4729748
Joseph C. Parker is
pastor of David Chapel.
Church news?,
If so, send to
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call 476-0082
WASHINGTON (NNPA) The American Civil Liberties
Union and the Human
Rights Watch are calling on
the state governments of
South Carolina and Alabama
to immediately end their practices of segregating prisoners
infected
with
HIV.
In a new report entitled, “Sentenced to Stigma: Segregation
of HIV-Positive Prisoners in
Alabama and South Carolina” the two groups implore
both states to end their policies of isolating such prisoners from the rest of their inmate populations. The report
claims that the practice,
which only those two states
currently employ, ostracizes
HIV-positive inmates and
prevents them from accessing
resources freely available to
their peers. Mississippi had
also engaged in the isolation,
but ended its long-standing
practice last month after reviewing the report’s findings.
The change in that state now
allows HIV-positive prisoners to participate in training
programs and jobs like
kitchen work. Also, those
prisoners do not have to risk
public disclosure of their HIV
status as a result of being
housed in a separate unit.
”There is no medical or other
justification for separating
prisoners with HIV from the
rest of the prison population,”
Megan McLemore, an HRW
April 23, 2010/The Villager/Page 3
positive and served four years
at Tutwiler Women’s Prison
in Alabama, told the Montgomery Advertiser that the
isolation twice penalizes the
infected
inmates.
She said, “You should not be
given a double-sentence because of your health.”
OAAAC
seeking new
members
Calling all Anderson
Exes, both students and
staff! The Original Anderson Alumni Austin Chapter (OAAAC) is alive and
well and seeking new
members. The goal of the
Chapter is to preserve the
memory of the “Old Anderson” by focusing on community involvement..
The chapter meets the
third Saturday of each
month at 5:00 p.m. at 3403
Cambridge Court (Albert’s
Clubhouse).
If you would like to become a member of this
growing organization or
would like more information you may call James
Alexander at 336-5458 or
472-7813 or Albert Walker
at 294-0171.
IndependenceEra Bishop Abel
Muzorewa Passes
Special to the NNPA
from the GIN
(GIN) - Bishop Abel
Muzorewa, leader of a brief interim administration before being swept away by liberation
movements ZANU and ZANUPF, died in his Harare home at
age 85.
Muzorewa, a Methodist
bishop, joined the government
of the short-lived ZimbabweRhodesia in a deal with Ian
Smith, the last white prime minister. The deal included moderate black leaders who were opposed to the armed in dependence struggle. But the deal was
rejected by liberation movements which continued with the
armed struggle.
The elections also were
not internationally recognized
and the United Nations said the
polls in 1979 were illegal. In
1980, Bishop Muzorewa’s party
won only three parliamentary
seats to 57 won by Robert
Mugabe’s ZANU-PF. Mr.
Mugabe became prime minister
of independent Zimbabwe on
April 18.Bishop Muzorewa was
briefly arrested after independence and accused of plotting
against Mr. Mugabe. He was
later released and the charges
were dropped.
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Sunday Services
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Worship Service
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Sunday Services
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Praise and Worship 10:15 a.m.
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and Praise /Bible Study 6:30 p.m.
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A.W.. Anthony Mays, Senior Pastor
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District was great
By Destini Gorrer
LBJ High School
Well, our District
was last Monday and Tuesday. District means that we
only will have Regional’s and
State left to actually compete
in.
Monday, I did long
jump and ran in the prelims
for the 100 and 200 meter yard
dash. I placed 5th in the long
jump overall, but hey I’m only
a freshman. I got 4th in my heat
in both the 100 and 200 meter
dash. They only take the top
3 to Regional’s to compete. So,
either way I wasn’t advancing because I was already 4th
in my heat and that was just
prelims. We still had finals to
go. I’m not tripping, I still
have 3 years left, and now I
know what the competition
out there is like.
Tuesday, I competed
in the 4 x 200 meter relay. This
time Marvelous couldn’t run
on the relay, because she already had 3 running events
and that’s the maximum
number of events you can
have. Symone Harden ran in
place of her. Big ups to
Symone, because being her
first time running on the relay she ran her leg! I moved to
3rd leg instead of 2nd, Jazmin
was 1 st , Symone 2 nd , and
Kierra was anchor (last leg).
Kierra and I didn’t want the
same thing to happen to us
as did in Texas Relays (we got
disqualified for running out
of the zone), so we were careful. Our handoff ended up
being great, on the other hand
Symone and Jazmin’s
handoff was kind of on the
edge. Symone took off too
early. We got 1st in the 4 x 200
though. Coaches came up to
me letting me know that, I ran
the best leg of all my times this
year.
So, May 4th and 5th if
I’m not mistaken, we’ll be going to compete in Regional’s,
which is held in San Antonio.
Our goal is to win Regional’s
as we did last year. That will
be the 1st time in years that
we’ve done that. I believe in
us. Keep up the hard work
Lady Jags!
March of Dimes Walk 2010
William Purcell, lll
Manor New Tech HS
On Saturday May
8th, the 2010 March of Dimes
Walk of Austin will take place.
This past Saturday, the Top
Teens of America met at the
Carver Library to discuss the
upcoming event. Our guess
speaker, Miss Black Texas
winner, Zakiya Larry spoke
to everyone about the importance of supporting the
March.
Ms. Larry told us about
how pregnant women who
drink polluted water increase
the risks of their babies being
born too early. Some of these
babies are born with birth defects and the March of Dimes
Science Camp prepares
us for TAKS
KAC’s First dance set for May 7
Lexus Wren
KIPP Austin Collegiate
As you know, KAC’s
first dance is Friday May 7,
2010.
There is a program for
African American females, its
called 100 black women 100
actions. It’s were there are
100 black women that submit
an action that describe them
in what they do in their every
day lives. And on Saturday
April 24th we will be acting
out all the actions.
On Saturday May 8th
the KAC band will be going
to Schliterbohn for the band
day competition where we
will compete and then go to
the water park, or go to the
water park and then compete.
So the band is getting ready
for this competition.
TAKS Prep. Tournaments.
Challenges.
By Raven Wyatt
Kelly Lane Middle School
Finally, now only two
more TAKS test till’ we’re
done. Now that math and
reading are out of the way,
science and social studies are
the only ones left. And the
teachers are hosting this really awesome TAKS thing this
Friday. Free pizza, door
prizes, and amazing study
groups to help us pass. Everyone plans on going, well all
us 8th graders of course. I’m
really looking forward to it, I
mean it’s about time we do
something both educational
and fun for a change.
Next on the list are our
school tournaments. You
know how you have the bas-
ketball teams and their tournaments, or the soccer team
and volleyball team and their
tournaments. Well for those
unfortunate people who
aren’t able to be apart of those
team we have special school
tournaments for dodge ball,
volleyball, soccer, and basketball. These are the types of
tournaments where anyone
can participate whether in
teams or singular players. So
far we have had the basketball tournament, where my
brother attended in, of
course. It’s a great place to
hang with your friends, or
even for those bored days, is
a place to have fun.
Last, but never the least,
is our big challenge of the last
six weeks. It’s called ‘I Accept the Challenge’. My
Spanish teacher, Ms. Hello,
thought of it. It’s when our
teachers challenge us for late
work, which ever class turns
up with the least amount of
work receives a party of their
choice. So the question is, do
you accept the challenge?
The Villager is a member of the Texas
Publishers Association (TPA), National
Newspaper Publishers
Association (NNPA) and audited by the
Circulation Verification Council.
Walk raises money to help
women have healthy and
natural pregnancies.
This year marks the
40th anniversary of the
March of Dimes Walk. Each
year people across the country march to raise money for
the research and assistance to
babies born with birth defects.
Ms. Larry is a serious
advocate of this cause and
encourages everyone to participate in the March.
Austin’s march will take
place on Auditorium Shores
(400 W Riverside Drive) and
begins at 9:30 am but, registration starts at 8:30 am. Anyone interested in participating in the March can also go
online to register at
“www.marchforbabies.org”.
Over 1 million people
nationwide are expected to
participate, and I’m proud to
be a part of Top Teens of
America as we march for this
cause.
Jaylon Kinghten
Campbell Elementary
To prepare us for the
Science part of the TAKS test,
my school has been offering a
Science Camp on Saturdays
from 9am -12pm to help us
pass and move onto the next
grade. This Saturday will be
the last one held since we will
be taking the TAKS test next
Tuesday April 27th
May 1st at the Palmer
Event Center my Steel Band
Class will be performing so we
have been practicing on
learning five songs that we
will play.
TEA Miscalculates Linder Elementary’s
Nomination for US Blue Ribbon Award
Education Commissioner Robert Scott this last week notified the Austin School District that the Texas Education
Agency’s nomination of Linder Elementary School to the US
Department of Education as a US Blue Ribbon School was submitted in error.
As acknowledged in the Commissioner’s letter, TEA has
taken full responsibility for the mistake. A programming error in an automated data system operated by TEA performed
incorrectly. Neither Linder nor the Austin School District contributed to the mistake.
“We deeply regret this mistake and any confusion and
embarrassment it may have caused the principal and staff at
Linder Elementary School and the district as a whole,” Commissioner Scott wrote in the hand-delivered letter.
When TEA forwarded the nomination to the US Department of Education for further analysis, it was determined that
Linder met one of the criteria, but not both, for the “Dramatically Improved” category. While Linder met the criteria related to academic growth over the past five years, it did not
meet the criteria that students must also score in the top 40
percent (60th percentile) of schools in the state.
“They have shown continuous, school-wide improvement in test scores over the last five years,” Commissioner
Scott wrote of Linder. “I commend them for the progress they
have made, and I comment the district for its focus on improving school achievement.”
TEA did not discover the error in time for another school
to submit an application, and the US Department of Education says no additional Texas schools can be nominated at
this late date.
“With all the outstanding schools in our District, it’s
disappointing that AISD doesn’t get the chance to showcase
one of them. I’m especially disappointed for the Linder school
community, which submitted a really outstanding application,” Austin Superintendent Dr. Meria Carstarphen said. “I’m
very proud of Linder students, teachers, and administrators,
and their accomplishments. We’re going to find a special
way to recognize the Linder school community for all their
hard work.”
In his letter, Commissioner Scott assured Superintendent Carstarphen that a similar mistake will not happen again.
Linder is located at 2800 Metcalfe Road, in South East
Austin. The campus has approximately 850 students, 60 percent of which are English Language Learners, and 95 percent
of which are Economically Disadvantaged.
It was the only school from Central Texas to be nominated for Blue Ribbon recognition by the Texas Education
Agency last November. TEA nominated a total of 26 schools,
statewide. The US Department of Education is scheduled to
announce the list of winners in September.
In Loving Memory of Halle Brent
Jeremy Henderson
McCallum High School
On Wednesday, April
14, 2010, the McCallum students had a special memorial
for our great knight Halle
Brent. She passed away a
year ago, because of a tumor
in her brain. She had played
volleyball and ran track both
on varsity for the school.
Everyone loved her and
she was a great and a very
hard worker. She worked
hard in the classroom and
she was a great player in both
of her sports and she will be
missed very much.
I never got to meet her
in person, but know that if I
had met her, I would have
met a great person and made
a great friend. She had a great
attitude and she was well re-
spected by her friends and
teammates.
She will be missed very
much. She’s up there with
GOD right now and she
would want us to keep moving forward. I also know that
she is watching over us and
that she will always be in our
hearts.
The memorial was
great, because one student
said a prayer, Halle’s teammates and friends brought
pink, purple and white balloons which were released
into the sky and then everyone said “We Love You Halle
Brent. “ I want to thank
Halle’s teammates and
friends for doing this special
and beautiful memorial and
getting everyone to take part
in this and be able to say a
final good-bye or have any final words to say or just
needed closure.
Once again, Halle
Brent will be missed very
much by everyone and that
she will always be in our
hearts and that she was a
great knight and student and
that she is with us in spirit.
Boys And Men Conferences
Rickey Hayes
Manor New Tech HS
There is a Boys and Men
Conference being held at Gus
Garcia Middle School on
April 24, 2010 from 10 am to
2 pm.. My family and I have
attended the conference before, and it focuses on helping inspire young men and
women. The conference had
a lot of inspirational speakers to motivate the crowd.
Also, there was news crew
coverage to help get the
crowd get into the program as
well.
After the lectures, then
the workshops began. The
workshops taught the young
men and women about
healthy relationships, college prep, drugs and many
other things.
This conference helped
to motivate young men and
women to understand that
they can achieve anything
they put their minds to. This
was a good experience for me
and my family, and I hope
other families can enjoy the
conference as well. Garcia MS
is located at 7414Johnny Morris Road.
PISD gets upgraded Bond rating
Marissa Hornsby
Connally High School
Standard & Poor’s
(S&P) Rating Services recently upgraded Pflugerville
ISD’s bond rating from A+ to
AA-, the highest rating ever
for the District.
District representatives
met with S&P analysts on
April 5 to present the reasons
they felt the District deserved
a higher rating. This meeting
was done as part of the
District’s plan to refund approximately $21.9 million of
bonds that are projected to
have an interest rate of
around 2.5 percent, which is
roughly half the existing rate
of 4.9 percent.
“The higher bond rating
will lower our interest rate
on not only the current bond
refunding, but also on any
future bonds that are issued.
It makes our bonds more attractive to buyers, because it
represents lower risk,” PISD
Chief Financial Officer Dr.
Kenneth Adix said.
“It is expected that the
improved rating will lower
our borrowing cost by 30 to
50 basis points. If we lower
our interest rate by 50 basis
points, we will save around
$500,000 on this refunding
alone.”
The improved bond rating is positive recognition of
the District’s continuing efforts at being fiscally responsible and implementing
strong financial management
practices.
AISD lauches food Composting program
No food goes to waste! Instead of discarding leftover
cafeteria food, students at several Austin schools are learning
to compost it. The Austin School District and Texas Disposal
Systems (TDS) recently launched an educational food wastecomposting program in the cafeterias of several elementary
schools.
The pilot program, offered at no cost to AISD by TDS,
was implemented in Menchaca, Casey, Kocurek and
Baranoff elementary schools, and allows students to
compost leftover lunch food that becomes a natural fertilizer
for local gardens. The four schools combined compost an
average of almost two tons of food per week.
April 23, 2010/The Villager/Page 7
Bringing The Music Home For HAITI
Huston-Tillotson
University
International
Fourth Friday is this Friday,
April 23; Check out all that’s
going on below
Alumni
Association
Announces
Andrea Bridgeman
President
Bluechild
Entertainment
Dear Friends in the Austin community:
While Austin is the
Music Capital of the world, it
isn’t always inclusive. I heard
of several benefits that took
place, none of which any of
the artist that I know were
given an opportunity to participate in. I know that we all
have one thing in common, a
love for the arts, and love for
people. “Bringing the Music
Home for Haiti” is our opportunity to do what we can to
directly benefit and have a
positive impact on the people
of Haiti.
“Bringing the Music
Home for Haiti” will offer
food, fun and live music from
several bands and other artist who will take the stage to
entertain and make a change!
Taking place Sunday, May 30,
2010, at MJ’s located at 6700
Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin,
Texas 78754, to benefit Haitian and Caribbean Americans Organization of Texas
(H.A.C.A.O.T).
H.A.C.A.O.T is nonprofit organization operated
by a small staff of volunteers
that is actively involved and
engaged to assist our brothers and sisters from Haiti.
H.A.C.A.O.T in collaboration
with the 82nd Airborne US
Army was blessed to have a
very successful earthquake
medical relief mission from
January 23 to January 29,
2010. As we enter the recovery phase of the Haitian disaster, HACAOT is in need of
all our help to complete the
October Medical Mission.
The president of
H.A.C.A.O.T., Winner Augustine, gave this statement:
“Thousands of our friends
and family members have
been affected by this catastrophe and our hearts and
prayers go out to them at this
time of great loss.” Many more
will die in the upcoming
months if we do not take action now!
In order for this event to
be a success – we need your
support. Online donations
are
accepted
at
www.hacaot.org.
Our brothers have a
saying “”Men anpil chay pa
lou”, and I believe that “Together We Are Strong!”
Please stand with us to make
a difference.
Sponsorship Levels
Diamond Sponsor:$500.00 donation - One table and
dinner for six; and recognition in all advertising and entry
into the event. Platinum Sponsor: $200.00 donation - One
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and entry into the event. Gold Sponsor: $100.00 donation One table and dinner for two, recognition in event program,
and entry into the event. Silver Sponsor: $25.00 donation Recognition in the event program and entry into the event.
Bronze Sponsor: $10.00 donation - Entry into the event.
We need your prayers! We need your
participation! We need your support!
You may also log onto www.hacaot.com
to donate using PayPal.
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REQUEST
FOR PROPOSAL
A U S T I N - T R AV I S
COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH
AND MENTAL RETARDATION
CENTER, DBA: AUSTIN TRAVIS
COUNTY INTEGRAL CARE (Local Authority) is seeking proposals
for the provision of Resiliency and
Disease Management (RDM), Service Package 4 for Child and Adolescents for the residents of Travis
County, Texas.
The anticipated initial contract period shall commence approximately 30-60 days after the
contract award and continue
through August 16, 2011 with an
option on the part of the Local
Authority to renew for an additional one year period. Notification of the award shall be made to
the selected Provider(s) on or near
August 16, 2010.
If you have any questions
about the RFP or would like a
copy of the RFP, contact Arianna
Ramos, Coordinator of Legal and
Medical Services, by phone at
(512) 440-4062, by email at
[email protected] or in
person at 1430 Collier Street,
Austin, Texas 78704. THE
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL
SUBMISSIONS IS 4:00PM, June
16, 2010.
AMALIA RODRIQUEZ-MENDOZA
Travis County District Clerk
Travis County Courthouse
1009 Guadalupe,
P. O. Box 679003 (78767)
Austin, Texas 78701
By LAEJANDRA MEDRANO CHAPA,
deputy
BIDS/PROPOSALS
Austin-Travis County
Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center dba Austin Travis
County Integral Care is currently
soliciting bids through an Invitation
for Bids process for Bank Depository Services. Bid specifications
will be posted on the State of Texas
Electronic State Business Daily
website at http://esbd .cpa .state.
tx.us/. Bid specifications may also
be picked up between 8 a.m. and 5
p.m. at 1430 Collier St., Austin, TX
78704, beginning Monday, April 19,
2010. Bid specifications may also
be mailed or sent electronically to
interested parties, by contacting
Arianna Ramos at (512) 440-4062
or [email protected]. The
deadline for bid submission is 4:00
p.m. May 7, 2010. Historically
Underutilized Businesses (HUBs),
including Minority-Owned Businesses and Women-Owned Businesses, are encouraged to apply.
Employment
JANITORIAL WORKERS
NEEDED
ISS Facility Services, Inc. has openings for supervisory, floor men, and
general cleaners for part-time evening
employment. Apply at ISS Facility Services, Inc. Austin, M-F, between 4-6
pm, 8101 Cameron Road # 304. ISS
Facility Services, Inc. is an Equal opportunity Employer (EOE) and promotes a Diverse Workforce.
Apply at HR
5930 Middle Fiskville Rd.
6th Floor, Austin, TX 78752
Job Line (512) 223-5621
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Reunion Weekend
2010
Plans are under way for HTIAA
Reunion Weekend 2010. The
following activities have been
planned for alumni and friends.
Thursday, May 6
Registration
3-7
p.m., Sheraton Hotel
Alumni Breakfast 9 a.m., HT
Cafeteria
Opening Reception 7-9p.m.,
Sheraton Hotel
Friday, May 7
Golf Tournament
8 a.m.,
Morris Williams Golf Course
Opening Luncheon Noon- 2
p.m., HT Campus
HTIAA Annual Meeting 3-5
p.m., Sheraton Hotel
Ram’s Gala 8 p.m., midnight –
Sheraton Hotel
Saturday, May 8
Commencement 8:30 a.m., HT
Athletic Field
Maroon and Gold Luau 2-5 p.m.,
Sheraton Hotel
Alumni Awards Banquet 7 p.m.,
Sheraton Hotel
For ticket information, please contact Mary Ashford at 914.5902 or
mary6@ sbcg lobal.net
Kenny Dorham’s Backyard •1106 E. 11th St.
To kickoff our first Fourth Friday! we will showcase the tunes
of the talented Peterson Brothers Band and Lavelle White. Bring
the kids to enjoy the East End Kid’s Corner at Kenny Dorham’s
Backyard. The Kids Corner will include a moon bounce and
free pizza for the kids! Be sure to check out art vendors, organizations and sponsors doing PR and public outreach.
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East Side Yoga •1050 E 11th Street @ Waller
For 4th Friday East Side Yoga offers a 5pm yoga flow class for
FREE, and will be handing out first class free passes to all
those who come visit. Open until 6:30pm
http://www.eastsideyoga-austin.com
Music at the Texas Music Museum •1009 E. 11th St.
The Texas Music Museum presents “The Knights,” an alternative rock band from 7:00-9:30 pm. Tours of their current
exhibit “Roots of Austin Music” will be offered from 5:009:30pm.
http://www.texasmusicmuseam.org
Somalia
Radio Shows
Chafe Under
Total Music Ban
(GIN) – Under orders from the Hizbul-Islam insurgents, all but
two of Mogadishu’s 13
radio stations have silenced their music programming, muting even
the jingles played before
the news, education and
other programs.
The stations said
they had to comply with
the ban or put their lives
at risk.
Islamist militants
control large parts of the
nation’s territory. The
transitional government
(TGF) - backed by African
Union troops and UN
funds - controls only a
small part of the capital,
Mogadishu.
The ban has inspired some creativity
among the radio producers.
Abdulahi
Yasin
Jama, head of radio
Tusmo: “We’re using
other sounds such as gunfire, the noise of the vehicles and birds to link up
our programs and news.”
Sounds of chicken or
horses have replaced
other familiar tunes.
The TFG’s Information
Minister,
Dahir
Mohamud Ghelle, called
the media bans an abuse
against press freedom and
invited affected broadcasters to set up stations
in areas controlled by the
government.
BIDS/PROPOSALS
Austin Community College District is requesting bids from
qualified business entities for Erection of a Prefabricated Steel Frame.
Invitation for Bids
No. 909-10020RW
All bids must be submitted
to the Purchasing Department by
no later than 2:00 p.m., Central
Time, on May 13, 2010.
The Invitation for Bids
document and plans are available on
the ACC Purchasing website at
http: //www.austincc.edu/purchase/
advertisedbids.php. All responses
must be sealed and returned to the
ACC Purchasing Office, ACC Service Center, 9101 Tuscany Way,
Austin, Texas 78754, by the date
and time indicated above. Electronically transmitted responses will
NOT be accepted unless otherwise
stated in the documents. Late submittals will be retained unopened.
A non-mandatory pre-bid
conference is scheduled for Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 10:30am at
the project site.
The ACC Board of Trustees
reserves the right to reject any and/
or all responses and waive all formalities in the solicitation process.
The Peterson Brothers Band is comprised of the talented Alex and
Glenn Peterson ages ten and thirteen.
Evening Under the Oaks at the French Legation •802 San
Marcos
St.
April 23, 6:30pm. Relax and enjoy an evening of soulful, bluesrock with SOUP under the stars. Admission is just $3.00 for
this outdoor event. Gates open at 6:00 for b.y.o.b. picnics (don’t
forget to bring a chair or blanket). Music begins at 6:30 in the
evening. 100% of proceeds benefit the museum (so don’t forget to tip your musicians). For more information about this
event and the historic site, visit
http://www.FrenchLegationMuseum.org
A Western performed by Action Hero (UK) at the Historic Victory Grill •1104 E. 11th St. April 23 8:00pm
A Western is a performance for a bar. Within the space we
locate our valley, our saloon, our empty street. We find our
audience and together we make A Western. The audience cheat
at cards, beg our hero to love them and shoot him down. We
apply the ketchup blood. We wear the cowboy hats. We want
the scene where our Hero walks into a bar and everyone stops
talking. We want the scene where the whore begs to be loved.
We want the scene where our hero dies in a long and drawn
out death. With support from the British Council.
More details and other performance times at:
http://www.historicvictorygrill.org/
The New Movement Theater •1819 Rosewood Ave
April 23, 9:30pm For Fourth Fridays, The New Movement will
give 2-for-1 admission to their 9:30p show that night. Details
on shows at
http://www.newmovementtheater.com
Bydee Art Gallery •1050 E 11th St., Ste. 120
Bydee Art Gallery will be offering a 15% discount on all prints
for 4th Friday.
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Switched
On
•1111
East
11th
St.
Starting at 5pm, Live Music and DJs in the store
http://www.switchedonaustin.com
The
East
Village
•1200
E.
11th
St.
Stop by the model for Happy Hour from 5pm -7pm!
Model open all day.
http://www.eastvillageaustin.com
East
End
Wines
•1209
Rosewood
Ave
East End Wines is now open! Monday - Saturday 10 am - 7
pm, Sunday closed. They offer 10% off of 4 bottles of wine and
15% off of 12 or more. For Fourth Friday, stop by for a free wine
tasting.
http://www.eastendwinesatx.com
Fourth Friday at Soma Vida! •1210 Rosewood Ave.
Free massage, coaching, wellness lectures, art displays, a 30minute yoga class and more. Savor a taste of Soma Vida’s
Social Stew with tasty treats and community connections. We
will be giving away lots of amazing door prizes of everything
from full massages to business coaching sessions and community workspace memberships. It is an exciting free event
you don’t want to miss. Go to
http://www.somavidaaustin.com for more information
and to see the schedule of events.
Peter Staats Photography •1150 San Bernard Ave.
Mother’s Day portraits!
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Trailer Space Record Store •1401-A Rosewood Ave.
10% off on everything for 4th Friday
http://trailerspacerecords.com