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Grandview Hills Elementary School’s inaugural Family Fit-ness Night brought together over 200 participants last week. “The goal is to help parents incorporate physical activities into their everyday life,” Grandview Hills Elementary School PTSA President Karin Crump Samman said. “It doesn’t have to
be difficult or expensive.” The Feb. 21 event featured activities and booths for the whole family including games, martial arts lessons, sushi samples, fitness and summer camp programs and a not-so-impromptu flash mob dance, Cupid Shuffle. On hand to help out was neigh-bor HEB’s “Buddy” who befriended kids and parents alike. “We’re always looking at ways of bringing the family in, as a community event” said school Principal Brenda Cruz.
Below: Grandview Hills Elementary School parents Dean Slater and Jamyee Pleasant get ‘in step’ during last week’s Family Fitness Night. Slater and Pleasant’s daughter, Jade, is in the first grade at the school.
Left: It was pandemonium as students and staffers at Grandview Hills Elementary School broke into dance at the school’s first annual Family Fitness Night.
Bottom left : And, just one more! Four year old Christopher Rinke gets a workout doing pushups at Tuesday’s fitness event at Grandview Hills Elementary School.
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By LESLEE BASSMANFour Points News
By August of 2001, Sherron Watkins had climbed to the top of the corporate ladder at suc-cessful Enron Corporation; yet, she took a huge risk by alerting CEO Ken Lay about her concerns
over “accounting irregularities” in the company. Watkins’ truth and candor eventually led to the demise of the energy giant as she testified before House and Sen-ate Congressional Committees investigating the wrongdoings of its leaders. On Thursday Concordia Uni-
versity Texas will host Watkins, former Vice President of Enron Corporation, and Stephen Fur-bacher, former president and Chief Operating Officer of Dyn-egy, in a discussion of “Leader-ship & Ethics: Lessons learned from the Enron Crisis”. In a telephone conversation
with the Four Points News, Watkins encouraged Central Texas residents and organiza-tional leaders to hear how “good cultures [can] turn South very quickly”. “My primary concern is if you are speaking truth to power,
Vendors, Booster Clubs to pay royalty on retail
merchandise salesBy LESLEE BASSMAN
Four Points News
Don’t be surprised if that new Viper baseball cap comes with an extra tag dangling from its rim! At some point before the end of this school year, all products sold to the public depicting an LISD logo must be licensed and subject to a licensing fee. In No-vember, LISD contracted with SABRE Trademark & Licens-ing, Ltd. Co. (SABRE) to register each school’s logo with the Sec-retary of State’s office. SABRE also agreed with LISD to require companies like H-E-B that want to sell a product with the logo of an LISD school to pay a 10% royalty fee on the item’s retail sales price to use these trademarked emblems. This will include items with Vandegrift’s Viper, Canyon Ridge’s Eagle or Four Points’ Falcon mascots. Booster clubs will get a break and only have to pay 2.5%, what
SABRE is charging LISD to file the logos and monitor sites for abuse. SABRE’s brochure, obtained from LISD Administration ear-lier this month, states that the school district will receive back 75% of the royalty fee collected with SABRE retaining 25% of the fee. According to LISD Assistant Superintendant Ellen Skoviera, Booster Clubs, student groups and PTA organizations will be required to purchase their mer-chandise from an authorized vendor who has undergone this process with SABRE. Blue or yel-low authenticating tags will be placed on such items for sale and state that the goods are officially licensed products. Booster clubs are learning about these changes now. They expect prices to go up on prod-ucts they sell to raise money for trips. “We’re either going to lose businesses or pay an increased price to help pay for our licens-ing,” said Andrea Fitzgerald who is in charge of Cedar Park High School Football Booster Club’s spiritwear. “Our vendor
that we’ve used for 15 years will have to pay the licensing fee or we’ll have to find someone new. Either way it’s a lose-lose situa-tion.” Viper Basketball Booster Club President Andy Giles under-stands that the “intent [licensing] is not to impact the Boosters but to rein in people and websites who have Viper logos and are selling T-shirts and caps”. How-ever Giles is concerned that lim-iting the suppliers Boosters can use “will drive up costs” and not allow for impromptu spiritwear, such as in a playoff or champion-ship situation. “Typically, we get a shirt with a logo for three or four dollars,” Giles said. “If we work with li-censed vendors, the costs will be passed down and the shirt will cost more. It will cut into our profits or we will have to sell it for more. And it increases the cost to the sponsors who may want to donate those shirts.” “That’s going to be the unin-tended consequence,” Giles said. Skoviera said LISD has been discussing the need to trade-mark its identifying marks for over five years and closely study-
ing the SABRE licensing pro-gram for about a year. Hutto ISD has already instituted the licensing procedure. Skoviera is behind LISD’s similar efforts to protect the district’s logos from potential misuse by unlicensed parties. SABRE will perform the licensing actions, monitor the program and pursue violators. The SABRE program will also provide additional revenue to the district. “We took a $15 million cut in revenue so we need every source of revenue we can get,” Skoviera said. There are numerous high school and middle school Boost-er Club organizations that rely on spirit wear sales to pay for chartered bus trips and extra expenses associated with their athletic, music or academic ex-tracurricular programs. Any product used by the school or its organizations for official school use is exempt such as athletic team use and of-ficial uniforms. All other student groups, PTA organizations and Booster Clubs will be liable for a
LCRA’s Board of Directors last week approved a new Wa-ter Management Plan for lakes Travis and Buchanan that pro-vides LCRA more flexibility to respond to severe droughts. Wednesday’s 10-5 vote was the culmination of more than 18 months of work by LCRA and an advisory committee. The plan determines how water is allocated from lakes Buchan-an and Travis, the region’s water supply reservoirs. It will now be sent to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for final approval. “Board members showed that they can disagree about a weighty specific issue, but dis-agree agreeably,” LCRA Chair Tim Timmerman said. “The people of the basin should be gratified in knowing that the Board, our stakehold-ers and the LCRA staff suc-ceeded in revising a manage-ment plan for lakes Travis and Buchanan that seeks to balance a wide variety of needs,” Tim-merman added. The version of the plan ap-
proved Wednesday contains important changes recom-mended by the advisory com-mittee and from the public dur-ing the public comment period. Nearly 450 written comments were submitted to LCRA and 49 people commented to the Board in person during last weeks meetings. The new plan contains many changes from the current one including:• Using two trigger points dur-ing the year to determine how much stored water from the lakes is available for agricul-ture, mostly downstream rice farming. One trigger point, Jan. 1, would be used for the first rice crop and a second, June 1, would be used for the second crop. The current plan contains only a Jan. 1 trigger point.• Eliminating "open supply," which is the practice of making unlimited water from the High-land Lakes available for down-stream agriculture when the lakes are above a defined trigger point. In the future, the amount of stored water available from
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$10/rideBy LYNETTE HAALAND
Four Points News
Local entrepreneurs, includ-ing the owners of Cups & Cones, have launched a business called Responsible Ride to shuttle peo-ple from Four Points to down-town Austin. “The highways and parking lots are full and there has to be some relief. This was exemplified by getting stuck in a traffic jam at midnight a few months ago,” said Rick Nordin, who owns the Steiner Ranch ice cream shop and eatery with his wife Kristi Lee-Nordin. The Nordins, who live in River Place, are partnering with Ken and Angie Saunders, of Steiner, to bring the new shuttle service to Four Points. Their two Responsible Ride vans come in this week. The goals of Responsible Ride include a safe, affordable trans-portation alternative, reduce the number of cars on the road, eliminate the hassles associated with parking and to be “green”. Ken Saunders is a paramedic for the city of Austin. He ob-serves the impact of traffic and congestion on the city streets every day. Angie Cook-Saunders recently was awarded her PhD and is working at Seton Health-care Family. Responsible Ride’s initial kick-off at the Zilker Park Kite Fes-tival this weekend, will cost $5 each way. Afterwards, the shuttle
to downtown is slated to be $10/ride and events will be deter-mined on a case by case basis. The Saunders and Nordins have known each other for a few years and both have daughters who are juniors in high school. The idea for a shuttle service started as a discussion. “As all good ideas go, we con-tinued talking about it and asked others about the validity of the idea,” said Rick, who also works in the High Tech industry. They then did some market analysis and found a big market in the Four Points area. “We can only assume that the same concepts would fit in many areas around Austin and around the nation,” Rick said. The business will cater to both families and couples. On week-end nights, they expect to shut-tle couples and families during events on weekend days like the Zilker Kite Festival and SXSW. The weekend shuttles runs continuously Thursday through Saturday and the event specific shuttles will run on an event schedule published before the event. Their website www.responsi-ble-ride.com will be up before this weekend.
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LCRA approves new water management plan for Travis and Buchanan
for a 2.5% fee and companies a 10% fee on the sale of their “spir-it wear”. Current merchandise on hand by these groups as well as future spirit wear will be subject to the licensing fee. As a result, Booster Clubs will be faced with the choice of sell-ing their merchandise for more money to make up the new li-censing fee or host additional
fundraisers to generate the same funds they had before the pro-gram went into effect. For now, the licensing pro-gram is only applicable to LISD’s high school and middle schools and will begin as soon as the district receives licensing tags from SABRE. New Booster Club guidelines will reflect the change. “While this was mentioned during the training, the [Booster Club] handbook has not yet been updated because the contract was not signed between SABRE and Leander ISD until this No-vember,” stated Skoviera. “Once it was finalized, our staff began working to update the language and will post the updated hand-book as soon as that is finished”. Skoviera stated that the SA-BRE contract was signed on November 11, and the district held four meetings with Booster Clubs and PTA’s regarding the trade marking process: Septem-ber 14, 2010; November 1, 2010; October 17, 2011; November 15, 2011. However, some LISD Booster Club officers were still unaware that the “proposal [was] moving forward” or “knew that there was talk” but caught off guard that the contract with SA-BRE was about to take effect.
By LYNETTE HAALANDFour Points News
As part of their plan for Wa-ter Treatment Plant 4, Austin Water will lengthen the accel-eration lane on Bullick Hollow Road from the pump station to the top of the hill. This is in re-sponse to complaints that trucks hauling tunnel excavations were slowing traffic, according to the Comanche Trail Community Association newsletter. WTP4 officials say the work is expected to take another couple weeks. Intermittent lane closures are likely with flaggers to direct traffic. The trench construction for a
duct bank along Bullick Hollow Road has been delayed. That part of the project is still in the permitting process and will not start until later in the year, ac-cording to the CTCA newslet-ter. Another road, Quinlan Park Road in Steiner Ranch, will be widened from a two-lane road to include a center turn lane in front of River Ridge Elementary School at 12900 Tierra Grande Trail. Last week Travis County commissioners voted to ap-prove using up to $500,000 in savings from a 2001 bond proj-ect for the road work. The project is slated to start
this summer and will expand an estimated one-third mile sec-tion of Quinlan Park Road, be-tween Tierra Grande Trail and Bella Mar Trail. County officials said the turn lane is needed to reduce traffic congestion during morning and afternoon peak hours. The project is estimated to cost $500,000 for construction and $93,328 for engineering services, according to sources. Traffic has been backing up on that two-lane road, creating a safety hazard. County officials said they want to move that traffic into a safer area so that through traffic can continue un-impeded.
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a school-sponsored, creative problem-solving program open to students in grades three-12. We say that DI is not a program, it’s a process because compe-titions are the culmination of many hours students have spent, often after school and on weekends, creating theatrical scenarios, building props and making costumes, all of which must come together and solve complex problems. Students involved in DI must create and design their solutions, without adult assistance, and include all of the elements necessary to bring it to life. On Saturday, February 18, hun-dreds of students, comprised of 78 teams, competed at the 2012 Destination ImagiNation (DI) Regional Competition at Harker Heights High School. Historical-ly, our students excel at DI, and this year was no different. From
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of both DI and the FIRST Tech Challenge. These programs re-quire students to dig deep with-in themselves to own their own learning, understand the chal-lenges they must overcome, col-laborate and communicate ef-fectively with others, self-assess on their progress, problem-solve to improve their results and use higher-level thinking and cre-ativity to create something that accomplishes their goals suc-cessfully. Success is completely in the hands of the students, which can be one of the most enjoyable aspects of DI and the FIRST Tech Challenge. One of the most important Learning Behaviors students ex-hibit in DI and the FIRST Tech Challenge is that of collabora-tion. It takes a considerable amount of teamwork to success-fully prepare a DI solution or program a robot. Students have
to learn to listen to each other and consider opinions other than their own, which also re-quires a certain level of maturity. At the same time, DI and the FIRST Tech Challenge push stu-dents to plot the course for their own success and learn outside of the classroom setting. Whether students are honing their computer programming skills or mastering costume de-sign, students involved in DI and the FIRST Tech Challenge are gaining skills that they will use throughout the rest of their lives. These programs encourage stu-dents to flex their Seven Student Learning Behaviors muscle— they are what “It” is all about. To all of our state-bound DI teams and regional robotics con-tenders, we wish you the best of luck at the next level of competi-tion. Have a great week!
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Two teams from Grandview Hills Elementary School competed in the 12th Annual Capital Region Competition of the Destination Imagination Competition at Harker Heights High School in Killeen on Feb. 18. Team Pickle placed 3rd in the region for their "The Solar Stage" presentation. "We're really proud of our kids and the outstanding effort that they made in Killeen," said Karin Crump Samman, President, Grandvew Hills Elementary School. Destination ImagiNation, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides educational programs for students to learn and experience creativity, teamwork and problem solving. Every year, 125,000 stu-dents across the U.S. and in more than 30 countries participate. It is an educational program in which student teams solve open-ended Challenges and present their solutions at Tournaments.
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You may think a major acci-dent is taking place at Vandeg-rift High School next week when emergency responders converge on campus, but likely it will be a simulated crash called Shattered Dreams. It will be as close to reality as anyone would want to get in this situation. Travis County Sheriff ’s Office, fire fight-ers, STAR Flight and EMS personnel will be part of the demonstration on March 8 at 9500 McNeil Dr. There will be a mock car crash scene in which student victims will be treated and a drunk driver will be arrested. The event will help emphasize the fact that someone is killed in a drinking and driving-related accident about every 15 minutes. Shattered Dreams is designed to educate students, parents and the community about the serious issue of underage drinking and driving. It encourages teens to make posi-tive choices, just days before Leander ISD’s Spring Break, March 12 - 16. More than 80 VHS students and their parents are involved in Shattered Dreams. “They don’t know what role they will be in,” said Charlie Little, VHS principal. Involvement has not been taken lightly. Students filled out applications and had to write reasons why they want to participate. There have been student and parent meet-
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While reading Four Points of View (Feb. 16 issue), I took pause to a statement one of your readers made regarding the need for traf-fic relief. He suggested the idea of a cut-through road from Steiner Ranch to River Place subdivision. I thought...hmmm ...is that a vi-able option? After a few moments I realized that the idea (though noble) has a couple of fundamental flaws. First, that beautiful stretch of Hill Country separating the Steiner Ranch and River Place subdivisions is known as the Cortana Tract. It is one of the crown jewels in the City of Austin's Balcones Cayonland Preserve. Be warned my friends, that land is home to endangered species in-cluding the infamous Golden Cheek Warbler, the Black-capped Vireo, the rarely seen Tooth Cave Ground Beetle and the lesser known yet just
as endangered Tooth Cave Pseudo-scorpion. For mortal man to enter upon that hallowed ground without a City issued permit, would subject such habitat plunderer to unimagi-nable consequences. To illustrate my point, River Place is currently facing harsh ram-ifications from Citybureaucrats alleging that one of our awesome hiking trails has crossed approximately 10 feet onto the Cor-tana Tract. I am willing to bet the Blind Salamander doesn't even re-alize it! Back to the point...if a dirt walking path has shaken the City of Austin's environmental halls of justice, can one even imagine ask-ing for City blessing of a four lane Highway 620-Alt. cutting through that ecological panacea? Second, I may be going out on a limb, but I will go there anyway. The offer to River Place residents of connecting the two subdivisions and thus allowing 3 to 4 thousand
additional vehicle trips per day through the neighborhood streets ...and I reiterate I am going out on a limb ...might cause a River Place eyebrow or two to be raised. River Place may need some lead time to install a few dozen more sound walls, a couple of stoplights and maybe a Wag-A-Bag gas station before the ribbon cutting ceremony. The silver lining ...it certainly would save time for River Place res-idents getting to the Steiner Ranch Steakhouse. So, as to the traffic relief issue... it will probably remain a topic of discussion for another day. We can, however, take comfort that the Golden Cheek Warbler remains safe in his oasis without the threat of human footsteps. I just wish those Pseudoscorpions would stay out of my backyard without a per-mit.
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Endangered species make connecting River Place and Steiner unlikely
it’s very difficult,” said Watkins. “The messenger does get shot”. In 2002, Watkins was named as a “Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year, The Whistleblowers” as well as honored by Glamour Magazine as one of its “Women of the Year”. Additionally, the former Longhorn was among Barbara Walters’ “Most Fascinating People of 2002” presti-gious list. Recently, Watkins has been tour-ing the globe, warning corporate
leaders of the signs of erosion in their business cultures and speak-ing to the role that faith has played in her decisions. “Eventually truth always wins out,” Watkins said. “The question is, ‘How do you get an organization that has embraced a lie back on the right path?’” Furbacher, whose Dynegy of-fices were just down the street from Enron, had a front row seat to one of Texas’ most notorious scandals
and will address the importance of ethical choices in leadership today. The hour-long free program is part of the university’s “Conversa-tions With… Speaker Series” spon-sored by Regions Bank and begins at 11:30 a.m. in Concordia Uni-versity’s Auditorium, Building A, 11400 Concordia University Dr.. For more information, con-tact the College of Business at 512.313.5302 or [email protected].
The Greater Austin Underage Drinking Prevention Council and the Travis County Sheriff ’s Office will partner with Vandegrift High School on March 8 to offer a parent-only meeting to better equip parents with communication tools to talk to teens about alcohol. “I can tell you that after 15 years as a principal, I have had a front-row seat to the heartbreaking effects of drugs and alcohol on students and their families. From legal issues to funerals, I have seen the devastation and the after-math of the poor decisions made by “good” students,” stated Charlie Little,Principal at Vandegrift High School in an email sent to parents. He went on to state in the email: “We must anticipate that we will have the same prob-lems that all high schools face concerning drugs and alcohol. The strength of our com-munity is that we have the will to ensure that we address this issue with proactive interven-tions on the front-end, and compassionate support when students make poor decisions to guide them back to be successful.” The March 8 seminar includes a presen-tation followed by an interactive Q&A. In attendance will be a panel of experts and professionals: Travis County Sheriff ’s Of-fice, Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission,
Counselors, and other programs will be on hand to answer all questions.The event will cover the following questions and more:• What is the difference between an MIP and an MIC? What do I do if my child gets a ticket?• How are teenage drinking parties handled with law enforcement? Are the owners of the property cited for having underage drinkers on their property? Are property owners lia-ble for underage drinking parties even if they don’t know about it? • What impact does 911 Lifeline Legislation have which grants immunity for illegal ac-tivity if calling for help when someone is in danger?• If law enforcement shows up to a party where there are some teens drinking, will ev-eryone get a ticket even if they haven't been drinking? Will minors caught drinking be taken to jail? How can kids have a "Safe" party and what can parents do to ensure this?• Why is alcohol poisoning so hard to iden-tify? How do I reduce my child's risk of being a victim (or perpetrator) of alcohol facilitated sexual assault at a party? Underage Drinking Prevention seminar will be March 8 from 7 to 8 pm in the VHS Gym.
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the lakes for downstream agri-cultural operations would have an upper limit at all times.• Asking firm water custom-ers, mostly cities and industry, to reduce water use consistent with their drought plans only af-ter interruptible water from the Highland Lakes for agriculture is restricted. Current practice can result in LCRA requesting firm customers implement voluntary conservation before agricultural water is restricted. Firm cus-tomers pay considerably more for their water than farmers and other "interruptible" customers.• Using two different projected future demand levels in the new plan to set triggers based on the amount of water used by cities and industry. The current plan is based on a single demand pro-jection looking 10 years in the future. This new approach re-sponds to actual growth in water use and could make more water available for agricultural needs until it is needed by cities and industry. Because of the record hot and dry conditions in 2011, the amount of water flowing into the Highland Lakes last year was the lowest since the lakes were built. This has resulted in some of the lowest lake levels in history and could mean that most down-stream farmers receive no water from the Highland Lakes this year.
“Everyone agrees that we need to develop new water supplies and this is the start,” Timmer-man said. “This is the solution to the competing interests of the upper and lower basin.”
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Steiner Ranch’s 7th Annual Run the Ranch 5K, Kids K, & Health Fair kicks off at 9 a.m. on March 3. The start and finish will be at Towne Square Community Center Come walk, jog, or run through the neighbor-hood and after crossing the finish line there will be
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The Cedar Park Rotary Club Talent Show auditioned over 180 talented Leander ISD students and seven of the 20 finalists are from Four Points. March 2 is the Finals Show Event at 7 p.m. at the Don Tew Performing Arts Center at Leander High School. Advance Purchase Seating Available at: http://www.seatyourself.biz/cedarpark
JUNIOR DIVISION FINALISTS (K-6th grade) Olivia Hellmund: Laura Bush Elementary, 4th grade/vocals-dance Erin Xu: Laura Bush Elementary, 3rd grade/piano Tanvi Siruvuri: Laura Bush Elementary, 4th grade/dance Kevin Kao: River Ridge Elementary, 5th grade/violin Trinh Nguyen: Steiner Ranch Elementary, 5th grade/piano Winston Djonli: Canyon Ridge Middle School, 6th grade/high-speed mathSENIOR DIVISION FINALIST (7th-12th grade) Dale Kuykendall: Canyon Ridge Middle, 7th grade/drums
Twenty-one residents of Longhorn Village enjoyed a week-long cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas during February 12-19. Residents enjoyed tours in Roatan, Hondurus; Belize City, Belize; and Cozumel, Mexico.
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The Lady Vipers traveled to New Braunfels Feb. 21st to face the San Antonio Brennan Lady Bears in the Regional Quarterfinals. The Vipers led 28-27 at the start of the fourth quar-ter; however, the Lady Bears went on a 13-3 run that proved too much for Vandegrift to overcome. The Lady Vipers fell by a score of 40-31. This was the first trip to the playoffs for the Lady Vipers. Their overall record is 23-15.
Vandegrift High School’s tennis team posted strong results at this year’s Westwood Invita-tional held last Friday with top honors going to Dillon Launius (Boys Singles, A Draw), John Jacob and Josh Minor (Boys Doubles, A Draw), Max Nowak and Randell Harold (Boys Doubles, B Draw), Loryn Johnston and McKenna Shuster (Girls Doubles, B Draw). The Mixed Doubles team of Maria Giral and Chris Pleshek defeated Lake Travis for the Runners-Up spot.
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The Lady Viper defense denying Brennan any easy shots - Paige Lichtenberger (#11, senior), Katy Gallien (#32, senior), Tasha Desai (#5, junior) and Jasmine Mobley (#13, senior)
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Four Points Middle School Boys 7th Grade A team won the district championship with a re-cord 9-0 season.
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JV Girls:• 7th place overall out of 15 teams• 100 M hurdles- 5th place-Brittany Brown-time-18.40• 800 M Run-1st place-Caroline Zanot –time-2:42
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Viper Boys Basketball fought hard and played tough against LBJ but lost 68 - 40 on Feb. 21. It was the final game for nine Vandegrift High School seniors.
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Capital City Running is the only specialty store on this side of town which focuses not only on the sport of running but also on the athlete as an individual. Store owners, Steve and Gina Bernhardt, have expanded their philosophy to their Steiner Ranch neighborhood. Every weekend they place water sta-tions for people and dogs along roads in the community. The Bernhardts opened their local full service running shop just over a year ago after selling their first store in Appleton, Wis-consin. Searching for the perfect area in which to raise a family, the couple settled on Four Points where son, Max, currently at-tends Vandegrift High School. Their move to the West Austin area with its growth and active lifestyle was a good choice. With all of the city’s running stores downtown, the couple felt that the Four Points community was under served. “Any good running commu-nity is built around a local run-ning store,” said Steve. Part of Capital City Running’s service includes taking a video of the customer running on a tread-mill in the store. With the”gait video,” the Bernhardts can see the customer’s running style in slow-motion or stop-action. Us-ing this bio-mechanical infor-mation, it’s only a short path for the professional to find the right pair of shoes to keep the runner healthy. “Most runners who get an in-jury will have that injury within
the first 24 months, and it’s usu-ally because of ill-fitting shoes,” Steve said. “We wanted to cre-ate a unique store, and through
our attention to bio-mechanics we can provide a fit that is more in-depth and right for the cus-tomer”. Steve enjoys a running life-style and has applied his experi-ence with injuries into helping other runners.. His prior sales and marketing experience, to-gether with Gina’s ingenuity, has led to the creation of SockGeek.com, an online performance sock company. Capital City Running, located at 1700 RR 620 N. is a sponsor of this weekend’s ‘Run the Ranch’ Fun Run.
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