6pm to 7pm    5915 Llano
Grab your bell bottoms and go retro with a 70s Redux at the Garrick’s home.
Serving: Campisi’s Pizza

7pm to 8pm    5745 Velasco
Celebrate October Fest early with a Spring Polka Fest at the Attaways.
Serving: Brats & Pretzels, and plenty of beer!

8 to 9pm     6010 Palo Pinto
Cross the border to the Steckleins home for a taste of Tejano, Palo Pinto style.
Serving: Quesa D’Yas, Shrimp Shooters & Tamales

9pm to 10pm     5832 Goliad
Get back, get back in the BACD with the Beatles Invasion at the Balch home.
Serving: Abbey Road Sliders & John Lennon-ade

10pm on      6000 Belmont
Take a trip to the Rainey’s Louisiana Funkytown, a  blend of zydeco and cool jazz.
Serving:  Jambalaya, Crawfish Dip, Boudain Balls

To offset the cost of the food, beer and wine, we will be asking for some donations. But every donation comes with some fine BACD swag:
$10    Donation gets you a wine glass
$20   Donation gets you two wine glasses and a BACD tote bag
$5     The insulated BACD Tote Bag

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

The annual Lower Greenville St. Pat’s celebration is coming our way on March 17th. For many, this is a fun time to mingle around the neighborhood and get to know your neighbors. For others, its an all-day nightmare forcing them to leave the neighborhood for the day. In an effort to quell the impact of tens of thousands of St. Patrick’s party-goers descending upon Lower Greenville residential neighborhoods, LGNA will once again help with the construction and placement of No Parking signs throughout the neighborhood. In BACD, parking will be limited to the south side of the street for most of our streets. Concho and Delmar will also have one side only parking, but the side varies based on pre-existing permanent No-Parking signs. 

No-parking signs will be placed on parkways Thursday evening (24 hours prior to the event), but parking restriction does not go into effect until Saturday morning. A note to residents: Remove your car from the side of the street with signs before Saturday morning, March 17, and tell your neighbors to do the same. Cars parked in violation of the no-parking plan will be towed. There will be no exception for residents.

Working with the city, LGNA delivered an information sheet and a detailed map of the parking restrictions to all residents in the LGNA area. Click on either of the images below for more information.

We hope you’ll be able to enjoy the day, or at least endure it. This long standing tradition can be a headache for some, but its also a great opportunity to meet your neighbors.   

For full crime reports on the entire LGNA area, see www.lgna.net.

For full crime reports on the entire LGNA area, see www.lgna.net.

The 2012 Porch Crawl committee has kicked off plans for this year’s BACD Porch Crawl. We had a great turn-out for last year’s inaugural event with over 100 neighbors joining in the fun. We will have 5 parties at 5 houses in 5 hours, spending one hour at each home starting on Llano and ending on Belmont. This year, we’ll have a music theme with each street creating a party around a type of music. In addition to food, wine, beer and non-alcoholic drinks, there will be a raffle at each house.

Look for more details in a few weeks, but in the meantime WE NEED YOUR HELP! We need sponsors and donations to defer some of the costs of the party. If you or your company are able to help with donations of beer, wine, food or raffle prizes, please let us know. If we can’t use your donation on your street, we can probably make use of it on one of the others, so don’t hesitate to offer. Donors and sponsors will be listed on our website and in the flyers that will be sent to the entire neighborhood.

We will also have numerous volunteer slots available. You don’t have to work the entire event, but if you could volunteer to work one slot at one house, this would be a big help! We need volunteers to help with setup and clean-up, sign-in, running the raffle and herding folks to the next house. You can also help by joining with your street host and street captain to help plan your streets event. Feel free to drop any of us a note if you’d like to join in:

Chairperson:  Darren Dattalo 
darren <at> homesintheloop(dot)com

Llano Captain: Melissa Kingston
belmontaddition <at> yahoo(dot)com

Velasco Captain: Erin Clark
erin.cloark07 <at> yahoo(dot)com

Palo Pinto Captain: Sara Wick
sarawick2001 <at> yahoo(dot)com

Goliad Captain: Darren Dattalo
darren <at> homesintheloop(dot)com

Belmont Captain: Marla Pittman
mlrhg <at> yahoo(dot)com

For full crime reports on the entire LGNA area, see www.lgna.net.

This year’s Fall Party was one of the best ever! We decided that we didn’t need to do as much fund raising this year, so we skipped the silent auction. Instead, we added a wine pull which sold out in minutes. We hope to have a bigger wine pull next year. Partiers also played “Neighbor Bingo” where they had to find and meet people to fill squares on their board. We’ll bring that back next year too.

The planning team decided that this year, we would donate proceeds to RE Lee, our Exemplary-rated neighborhood Elementary school. In total, we raised $772.31 after expenses. From this we donated $216 to purchase plant markers for the school’s teaching garden project. We also have pledged another $1500 to purchase a trophy case in coordination with the RE Lee PTA.

Winner of the Chili Cook-off this year was Marla Pittman. Second place went to Russ Pate and third to Darren Dattalo. Shoshanna Adelmann won the Sugary Showdown for the fourth year in a row with Harley Cozewith taking second place.

Thanks to all the volunteers, donors and attendees for making it another fun event!

For full crime reports on the entire LGNA area, see www.lgna.net.

For full crime reports on the entire LGNA area, see www.lgna.net.

For full crime reports on the entire LGNA area, see www.lgna.net.