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Call for Projects – MLK Day of Service1/16/09**Project Registration deadline is December 31, 2009.**Like Dr. King, Hands On Central Texas believes everyone can achieve greatness through service to others. The MLK Day of Service volunteer projects and activities will help volunteers understand how to use Dr. King’s blueprint for civic and social activism to affect social change in our community. It is a day of volunteering to feed the hungry, rehabilitate housing, tutoring those who can't read, mentoring youngsters, and many other projects for building the beloved community of his dream.  Register your volunteer project today! Start the day with a Kickoff entitled “Reflecting on the Dream,” a civic engagement session that will focus on Dr. King’s philosophies and why they are still relevant today.  Date:  Saturday, January 16, 2010Time:  8:30am-3pmContact:  Diana Santos at diana.santos@unitedwaycapitalarea.orgKickoff Location: Huston-Tillotson UniversityDavage-Durden Union Building900 Chicon St, 78702 •Volunteer Check-In: 8:30am – 9:00am •"Reflecting on the Dream" program: 9:00am - 10:00 am •Service Projects: 10:30am – 3:00pm All volunteers are required to check-in at Huston-Tillotson University starting at 8:30am! Project Deadline: Project Registration deadline is December 31, 2009. *Even though you have a few weeks to submit your projects, we're asking you to add them to our site as soon as you can to ensure we can get 100% participation from our volunteers.Click below to open the instructions on how to post your project on Hands On Central Texas (HOT). All volunteer projects should be registered on the Hands On Central Texas website - www.handsoncentraltexas.org. Please print out the instructions, review and register your project.

Event Logistics: All volunteer projects should run from 10:30am – 3:00 pm or until the project is finished. Hands On Central Texas will be hosting an event Kickoff at Huston-Tillotson University from 9:00am - 10:00 am. All volunteers must check-in for their projects at the Kickoff location. Please inform your volunteers about the Kickoff and volunteer check-in. Agency coordinators are invited to attend as well.Keep Austin Beautiful Reminder: Keep in mind volunteers can organize a cleanup of their favorite creek, street or neighborhood at www.keepaustinbeautiful.org/cleanup.  Tools are also available to checkout for any service project at www.keepaustinbeautiful.org/toolshack  

WildBasin Workday 2nd Saturday of Each Month   Like to get dirty, work hard, and have fun? Then join us for trail maintenance, invasive plant removal, revegetation, erosion control, and other land management projects on the second Saturday of each month.   Date: 2nd Saturday of every month Time:  8:30am-12:00pm Location:  Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve, 805 N. Capitol of TX Hwy (West Austin-78746)  Contact:  For more details, email hike@wildbasin.org or call 512-327-7622, ext 17. Note: Wear hiking boots or sturdy shoes and long pants with a long-sleeved shirt; bring bottled water and gloves, plus a day/fanny pack to carry personal items. You need your hands free! Dress for the weather: hat & sunscreen for solar protection; raincoat/light jacket if it's chilly or raining lightly. We don't go out in thunderstorm conditions. Website: www.wildbasin.org

Plant Rescue12/12/09The City of Austin has scheduled a series of three plant rescue dates for a property that will be developed soon.  Native plants will be used around town to restore public spaces, and “rescuers” are also welcome to bring their own pots to take some plants home to plant in their own gardens.  The dates are December 10, 12 and 16 with a rain date of December 18th in case one of the days is rained out.  The rescue times are approximately from 10 AM to 2 PM.  The whole property is fairly large (maybe sixty + acres, although a large section is in a conservation easement which can't be disturbed).  Rescuers will not be allowed in certain areas since the city is preserving several "buffer" zones of trees, etc.   There are large, relatively flat areas as well as slopes and drainage areas.  The property contains heavy ashe juniper/oak areas as well as a mixture of cedar elms, Spanish red oaks, live oaks (even some fairly large ones), escarpment black cherries (a few), evergreen sumacs, yaupon holly, flame leaf sumacs, Mexican Buckeye, redbud trees and Texas persimmons; there are various sized seedlings of most of these, appropriate for hand digging. In addition there are grassy areas.  A sample of other plants might include agarita, twisted leaf yucca, rusty blackhaw vibernum, cedar sedge  (and maybe other sedges), American beauty berry (a few), two-leaf senna, Lindheimer senna, Lindheimer crown beard, a few lantana (horrida), little bluestem, silver bluestem, Indian grass, tall gramma and even a few mountain laurels and lots more including prickly pear cactus.   Date: Saturday, Dec 12Time:  10am-2pmLocation:  After passing the "four points" intersection of 620 and 2222, go west on 620 a very short distance.  The site is on the right after you pass the commercial buildings.  There is a rock driveway, chain link fence and gate.  Drive into the site and park in the cleared area near the registration table. You MUST see the city representatives, sign in, and sign a release form BEFORE proceeding onto the rescue site.   Contact:  dale-bulla@pobox.com