January 10 2018 Issue
Category Archives: Lake Travis
No horsing around-FFA students explain what it takes to care for animals
By NATALIE BRINK, CLAIRE LAWRENCE
Vandegrift Voice
Before the sun rises, some Vandegrift students are already driving to Cedar Park. The school day hasn’t started, but these FFA students are hard at work. Everyday, they can spend more than three hours working with their animals, preparing them for competitions.
“It’s a huge responsibility, but I think it’s really important that our students get involved and do those things,” FFA adviser Magan Escamilla said. “I think it’s important to care for something else besides yourself.”
FFA is a student-led club that prepares students for agricultural careers. Students can choose to raise and show livestock such as chicken, rabbits, hogs, lambs, goats and cattle. In Oct., some VHS students showed their animals at the Hendrickson Lamb and Goat show and the Hendrickson Cattle show. Other stock shows are coming up.
LWBE hosts Google augmented reality event
Augmented reality allows virtual images to be superimposed on real images, so that students can remain oriented in reality. Here 4th grader Amal Madapaty leans on a full moon, virtually.
By SARAH DOOLITTLE, Four Points News
Google demonstrated augmented reality technology to students at Laura Welch Bush Elementary a few months ago
“It’s part of the Google Pioneer Expeditions program,” explained 5th grade teacher Kim Tagge. “I first applied a couple of years ago then I found out we got in this year.”
The event on Oct. 5 was hosted in two science labs on campus, and Tagge was on hand all day to assist students and teachers. Google provided phones, selfie sticks, software and an instructor.
Steiner Houseboat: A place for men to connect and share
Attendees at a Steiner Ranch Houseboat gathering at the SR Lake Club
enjoy a gourmet grilled meal, provided free to all comers.
By SARAH DOOLITTLE, Four Points News
A local resident was inspired to create a men’s g
roup closer to home after experiencing the fun and success of the Lake Travis Houseboat group.
Craig Buchner — who lives in Steiner Ranch with his wife, Suzanne, and their two children, Tyler and Savannah — started attending the Lake Travis Houseboat group several years ago. That group formed over a decade ago and actually meets on a houseboat.
But the long drive to the other side of the lake inspired Buchner to create a Steiner group that could be accessible to more local men. So Buchner started Steiner Ranch Houseboat, a similar gathering for men, in June of 2016. The group meets at the Steiner Lake Club at 12300 River Bend on the last Tuesday of every month.
2011 golf cart accident was a day never to forget
Alli Hindman after her golf cart accident in Steiner Ranch on February 11, 2011. She suffered multiple, deep abrasions and a broken arm.
Hindman family shares story
By SARAH DOOLITTLE, Four Points News
Kaylene Hindman will never forget February 11, 2011.
That evening her then 14-year-old daughter, Alli, was at a party at a friend’s house in the Steiner Ranch golf course community. What Kaylene did not know was that her daughter and several friends at the party — four or five girls and a boy — decided to take the friend’s family’s golf cart for a spin around the golf course neighborhood.
Parts of the community were still under construction at the time. The group decided to take the golf cart down a long, steep hill that was paved but along which there were not yet any houses.
On the way down the hill, rolling in neutral, the cart’s driver turned too sharply and overcorrected, causing the cart to roll over.