outdoors during the daylight hours more; getting to know the names of your neighbors, not just their faces; tell a neighbor if you are going to be out of town for a few days; lock your storm door when you are gone; and many others. We will discuss these ideas and those of the Austin Police Department at the next meeting, Monday, May 16. Come early for coffee and cookies and a little neighborhood networking.
Doug DuBois

I feel that this neighborhood is very safe because people do talk to each other, the regular walkers keep an eye out for anything unusual, and we do seem to keep an eye out for each other and help each other out. In fact, the policeman that I was talking with told me that he thought our area was one of the "best example" neighborhoods – neighbors who did keep an eye out and help each other.

I can think of many examples of why the area is good. There have been two accidents on my corner at Collingwood/Comburg Castleway [both the result of the stop sign being ignored]. Both times, neighbors heard the crash, multiple neighbors called 911 and then raced to help the people involved until the emergency people could get here. When a person walking her dogs had her dogs attacked by loose dogs, her screams at 5:30 am brought two neighbors into the street to help. When a person ran down the street bloody and yelling, neighbors rushed to help and called 911. When we heard a loud explosion, we rushed out to see if someone needed help (it was just a squirrel who had shorted a transformer—which shut off the electricity). When we had flooding problems due to the excessive rain, neighbors helped each other to build dams and rig things to divert the water, and then helped each other with cleanup. When an ambulance or fire truck pulls up on the street, neighbors come to ask if they can do anything to help.

I think the area is great and safe because we do keep an eye out for each other and offer to help when something out of the ordinary happens. We don't stay behind locked doors with the drapes closed, and we aren't afraid to talk to each other and help each other out...even if we don't know everyone's name, we act as neighbors should.

I, for one, am very glad to live here.

the utility work. Motorists will then see work occurring at four locations, if not more. You may visit the 45th Street Project Web site:
cityofaustin.org/publicworks/45th/default.htm. Information includes a description of the project, updates, traffic impacts and other updates as information becomes available.

By now, many of you have seen the wonderful memorial tree and flowers in front of our house, planted with MUCH effort by our good friend, Frank McCarthy, while we were in North Carolina. Yesterday, we located, and purchased a statue of St. Michael, Patron Saint of paratroopers, and God's warrior general, and placed it by the tree. This morning, during a visit to our house, Bishop McCarthy asked for God's blessing over the memorial. The real St. Michael now has a warrior angel with him that will strike fear in the hearts of evil.

As a memorial to Curtis, his family requests that when you wake up, a free person, living in America, you remember Curtis, and the thousands of other brave young Americans who gave you that opportunity.

off a printing press in Madrid on December 20, 1604, and reached the public on Jan 6, 1605. The novel quickly became an international best seller. Four centuries later, it still ranks as the most published and translated book after the Bible.

If you’ve not yet read all of Don Quixote, here’s a striking recommendation. In 2002, Don Quixote de la Mancha was voted the best book ever written by a group of 100 writers from 54 countries, among them Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka, Milan Kundera, John Irving, Seamus Heaney and Norman Mailer, in a survey organized by the Norwegian Book Clubs in Oslo. It beat its closest contender by a 50% margin!