VOLUME 8, ISSUE 1 JANURY 2017 NEWSLETTER FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THE BEE CAVE AREA Copyright © 2017 Peel, Inc. Bee Cave Messenger - January 2017 1 Around Bee Cave 2 Bee Cave Messenger - January 2017 Copyright © 2017 Peel, Inc. IMPORTANT NUMBERS Bee Cave Community Events EMERGENCY NUMBERS EMERGENCY ...............................................................911 Hill Country Galleria Valentine’s Wine Walk Fire ...................................................................................... 911 Explore retailers at the Galleria while you shop n’ sip Ambulance .......................................................................... 911 Thursday, February 9th 5:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. Police Department ..............................................512-314-7590 Start at Twin Liquors at the Hill Country Galleria to pick up a Sheriff – Non-Emergency ....................................512-974-0845 Wine Walk Map Travis County ESD No.6/Lake Travis Fire Rescue (512) 263-0001 Administration Office ......................................512-266-2533 www.hillcountrygalleria.com Travis County Animal Control ............................512-972-6060 SCHOOLS Lake Travis ISD ...................................................512-533-6000 Lake Travis High School ......................................512-533-6100 Lake Travis Middle School...................................512-533-6200 Lake Travis Elementary ........................................512-533-6300 GO PAPERLESS Hudson Bend Middle School ..............................512-533-6400 Sign up to receive the Lake Pointe Elementary .......................................512-533-6500 Bee Cave Messenger in your inbox. Lakeway Elementary ...........................................512-533-6350 Visit PEELinc.com Serene Hills Elementary ......................................512-533-7400 for details. Bee Cave Elementary ...........................................512-533-6250 West Cypress Elementary ....................................512-533-7500 UTILITIES Travis County WCID # 17 ..................................512-266-1111 Lakeway MUD ...................................................512-261-6222 Hurst Creek MUD ..............................................512-261-6281 COVER PHOTO Austin Energy .....................................................512-322-9100 Pedernales Electric ...............................................888-554-4732 Do you take amazing photos? Texas Gas Service Custom Service .............................................1-800-700-2443 Do you take great photos? Would Emergencies .....................................................512-370-8609 you like to see your photo published? Call Before You Dig .........................................512-472-2822 We are looking for great cover photos AT&T for upcoming issues of the Bee Cave New Service ..................................................1-800-464-7928 Messenger. Our deadine for submittals Repair ...........................................................1-800-246-8464 is always the 9th of the month prior to Billing ...........................................................1-800-858-7928 the issue. All photos should be submitted Time Warner Cable Customer Service .............................................512-485-5555 electronically by the deadline date in high Repairs.............................................................512-485-5080 resolution (300 dpi) to beecave@peelinc. Austin/Travis County Hazardous Waste ..............512-974-4343 com. 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Peel, Inc. .............................................................512-263-9181 Editor .......................................................beecave@peelinc.com Advertising ..........................................advertising@peelinc.com Copyright © 2017 Peel, Inc. Bee Cave Messenger - January 2017 3 Around Bee Cave Hill Country Rolling Bee Cave Library News Sculpture Car Show and Events The Hill Country BOOK CLUB Rolling Sculpture Car Thursday, February 9th 7:00 P.M. Show has been an January Book: Bone Gap, by Laura Ruby institution at the Hill No cost, welcome new members Country Galleria since 2008, with upwards STORY TIME of 200 classic and Preschool Pals Storytime, Thursdays at 10:30 A.M. & 11:15 A.M. collectors cars and Toddler Tales Storytime, Fridays at 10:30 A.M. & 11:15 A.M. bikes on display. Due Free admission to construction at the Galleria, this year's show WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? date has been moved Every First Wednesday – February 1st 12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M. from its traditional February theme is Love Notes Calligraphy with special guest Trina October date to Sunday, Bolfing. No RSVP necessary. Lunch provided, or bring your own. January 15, 2017. All A $5 donation is welcome! proceeds benefit the Friends of Bee Cave Bee Cave Public Library Public Library. Join us for live music and trophy awards and see all 4000 Galleria Parkway the "rolling sculpture!" The event is free for spectators. Visit www. (512) 767-6626 RollingSculptureCarShow.com for full details. www.beecavetexas.com 4 Bee Cave Messenger - January 2017 Copyright © 2017 Peel, Inc. LAKE TRAVIS READS The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer, by Skip Hollandsworth Popular cultural education free and open to the public. Copies of the book will be available for program features bestselling purchase and signing. true crime book LAKE TRAVIS READS is a “One Book, One Community” Now entering its tenth program co-sponsored by Bee Cave Public Library, Lake Travis year, LAKE TRAVIS READS Community Library, and Spicewood Community Library that 2017 will feature the new encourages the community to read the book by Skip Hollandsworth, featured title and then meet the author The Midnight Assassin: Panic, at a special evening event. Copies of Scandal, and the Hunt for the featured book are available at the America’s First Serial Killer. The libraries for checkout in a variety of narrative history details a series formats including print, audio, and of gruesome murders in Austin digital. in the mid-1880s that were For more information, visit www. never solved. Hollandsworth, laketravisreads.org or any of the who lives in Dallas with his wife and daughter, has been praised for participating libraries. his in-depth research and ability to give equal attention to history and the grisly details that make the story so gripping. The murders were sensational at a time when news was beginning to travel faster across the country and the open spaces of Texas were becoming more heavily populated. The killer struck women, mostly with an ax blow to the head. African-American servant women were LAKE TRAVIS READS the first victims, but after a year, the killer began attacking socially prominent white women. Pressure grew on the Austin mayor, Skip Hollandsworth police, and the Texas governor to solve the case. Top detectives from Houston and Chicago were called in to assist and bloodhounds were dispatched, all to no avail. When Jack the Ripper stories began Lake Travis Reads invites you circulating in London, newspapers at the time even speculated that for an evening with award-winning Austin’s killer had moved across the Atlantic. Hollandsworth details writer, journalist, screenwriter and his obsession with the crimes and his relentless search for information executive editor of Texas Monthly, in train records, ship manifests, and prison records of the era, as well as interviews with descendants of the people involved. In an interview Skip Hollandsworth with The Houston Post, the author lamented that we may never know the identity of the killer: “It just seems impossible to believe that there is no way that we will ever know who the Midnight Assassin “An Evening with the Author” was. Austin only had 17,000 people [at the time]; how did nobody Tuesday, February 21 know who he was?” 7:00 pm Hollandsworth also co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film Bernie with Richard Linklater, who directed the 2011 black comedy Lake Travis Community Library that starred Jack Black as Bernie Tiede, confessed murderer of 80-year-old millionaire Marjorie Nugent in Carthage, Texas. He is the Executive Editor of Texas Monthly and has been a finalist four times for a National Magazine Award, the magazine industry’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. The community is invited to hear Hollandsworth speak at the 2017 Lake Travis Reads 2017 is the 10th annual “One Book, One Community” program whose goal is to LAKE TRAVIS READS “Evening with the Author” on Tuesday, bring our Lake Travis communities together through the shared reading and discussion of the works of our favorite