Jason and Jaimie Davis with their two sons: Parker, a 4th grader at Laura Welch Bush Elementary, and Luke, 2nd grader. Parker has had diabetes for five years.

By SARAH DOOLITTLE, Four Points News

The Davis family of Steiner Ranch has raised over $150,000 dollars toward diabetes research with the JDRF One Walk since their son Parker was diagnosed five years ago.

The family raises money as a team, named Team Parker, and in 2017 alone collected over $51,000 in donations. Theirs is the first family in Austin to have done so.

Jaimie and Jason Davis first noticed something was wrong with Parker just before he started kindergarten.

“For about a week, Parker was extremely moody, had excessive thirst and urination, and I mean super excessive! Then he started puking, which unfortunately occurred on a Saturday,” when doctors offices are closed, explained Jaimie.

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By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

The Vandegrift team of principals and administrators won the top prize of $7,000 for Project Graduation at the Leander ISD Educational Excellence Foundation 3rd annual gala on Saturday.

LEEF’s executive director, Gloria Gonzales estimates that $125,000 was raised for LEEF programs and initiatives. More than 450 guests filled a ballroom at the Hilton Austin for the sold-out event on Jan. 27.  

The highlight of the gala was the 1970s’ inspired, lip sync battle between the six LISD high school principals and their feeder path middle and elementary school principals and administration.

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The Isidores started 4Points Academy located in Steiner Ranch: Eustace, Nesia, Naome (7), and Etienne (8).

Local founders have passion for education

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Started as an educational vision by local residents, 4Points Academy recently relocated to a larger space in the same Quinlan Crossing shopping center near Randalls.

Eustace Isidore and his wife Nesia Warner Isidore — each originally from the Caribbean and both successful as a patent attorney who owns a law firm and global trade consultant for a worldwide accounting firm — created 4Points Academy in 2016. The private school offers full time kinder through 8th grade, flexible and part-time programs for home-schoolers and athletes, and after school options.

“The new facilities have more space and a nicer feel overall. We plan to put a playscape in back and use some of the green space for instruction,” Eustace said. The school is located at 5145 RM 620.

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By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Laney Lyons of Steiner Ranch was named “Citizen of the Year” by the West Austin Chamber of Commerce last week for the work Lyons does with Community First Village and school children in East Austin.

Lyons — an entrepreneur who owns two small businesses: Hiring and

Empowering, a staffing and coaching company, and Back Office Drafting, a virtual paralegal services company — moved from Tampa, Fla. to Austin almost four years ago.

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