(LR) Alejandro Madrid with triplets Lorenza, Bernardo and Cristobal and grandparents Fernando and Patricia
Parodi, visiting from Peru.
“Pumpkins with Dad” at Steiner Ranch Elementary got kindergarteners in the spirit of the season while learning on Friday, Oct. 26. Continue reading
Grandview Hills Elementary held its 3rd annual Costume Ball with over 200 students on Oct. 26. Students brought a ball or $5 donation to benefit the GHE PE department. Activities included “eat the alphabet” (students sample one fruit or vegetable representing the letters A thru Z), a catapult, pumpkin painting and face painting. Cameron Davis, GHE 4th grader, served as the DJ. A special place was set up for sensory sensitive kids where they could make slime, play with kinetic sand, have a temporary tattoo applied.
Submitted by Nicole Tomaszewski
Ten candidates are running for four positions on the Leander ISD Board of Trustees. Nine of the candidates took part in the second forum on Oct. 15 hosted by the Leander ISD PTA Council. Each candidate answered a variety of questions at the event held at Austin Community College’s Cypress Creek campus. LYNETTE HAALAND
By KAYLA BOUCHARD, Hill Country News
Nine of the ten Leander ISD school board candidates came together at the second forum hosted by the Leander ISD PTA Council on Oct. 15 at Austin Community College’s Cypress Creek campus. They answered questions that were submitted ranging from school safety and mental health support to zoning, debt and special education. Early voting started on Monday.
Board of Trustees incumbent Trish Bode and challengers Bryan Patton and Melissa Glaze are running for Place 1. Gloria Gonzales-Dholakia, Gary Hampton — who did not attend the forum — and Sharyn LaCombe are running for Place 2. Incumbent Aaron Johnson and challenger Mike Fischer are running for Place 6, and Elexis Grimes and Donnie Mahan are running for Place 7.
Starting off the forum, Bode, Patton and Glaze were asked what they see as the district’s role in providing mental health, behavioral and wellbeing instruction while still maintaining excellence in academics.
By LYNETTE HAALAND , Four Points News
In May, the Steiner Ranch Master Association board voted to add some $30,000 worth of landscaping on Quinlan Park Road along Sierra Vista near River Ridge Elementary. But this has raised questions among some Steiner residents because it uses general funds rather than funds from Sierra Vista. Longtime homeowner Jannine Farnum spoke up at the most recent HOA meeting about it and came to the meeting armed with the results of an unofficial survey she conducted.
Farnum launched the independent survey in late September on a public Facebook post and in an email blast for “information gathering purposes only”. Results showed that most of the 100 individuals who took the survey were against SRMA paying for the new landscaping. A large majority also said that this sets a precedent for future such requests.