VIRTUAL COMMUNITY WESTSIDE STORIES INSIDE West Austin Dining HAAM Day WATCH LIVE ON Paula Boldt UNDERWRITTEN BY Page 3 Page 2 Sept. 15, 2020 Dear West Austin, Thank y ou for the love and support you have given Austin your musicians today. Our city has a long-standing love affair with gifts and support. You heard musicians tell you that without music - it’s what makes up our very soul. But as wonderful as HAAM they wo today has been, it’s also bittersweet. We miss the sounds of uld not have stayed in here and might have music co ming from our beloved venues and parks. Our city given up playing music altogether. is just not the same without our musicians playing and today reminded all of us just how much we cheri Today was a love song from those musicians - folks who want temporarily lost. We did not realize how much we missed to thank the donors and sponsors them until we enjoyed a full day of rich Austinsh whatmusic. we’ve And our and healthcare providers who musicians are missing us too. Many have lost their livelihoods, support HAAM. Your support is have been challenged to maintain their craft without the ability keeping the music alive and well to gather with their bandmates and friends, most are grieving in Austi the loss of important stages/venues (wrong word), and some n. have even lost their homes. Now, more than ever, musicians Austin, we love you so much. We love our musicians. We love need to feel your love. our music clubs and venues. We love the heart and soul of this Austinites may differ on many th beautiful agree: The Live Music Capital of the World is a name that we city. ings, but on t all are his we can all As we say goodnight Austin, would you be willing to do just proud of. T one more thing? Would you be willing to dig we all hold so dear,o protect we must our band musicians together and to thesupport music our scene just one more time – whether it is $15 or $1,500, HAAM needs musi cians now - when they need us the most. We at the Health your supp deep and give back Alliance for Austin Musicians are working tirelessly to provide ort now more t seen devastation like thishan and eve they have given so much love to musi r. Our musicians have never cians access to medical and dental care, ment you, will you please give back to them by supporting HAAM? For and hospital and specialty care services. But we can’t do it every $100 donated in support of our Austin musicians, HAAM witho al healthcare, ut your support. is able to pr And it’s not just music fans who love Austin. Our musicians ovide $700 in healthcare services to area musicians and their families. Please visit us at myhaam.org/donate to help have missed you just as much as you have missed them. Today keep Austin musi hundreds of musicians declared their love for our city as well. c alive and well. Musicians who played today on Fox 7 Austin, on HAAM’s channels, or on their own social media were all sending love back to HAAM in gratitude for being a literal lifeline to more than 2,600 working musicians. Today you’ve heard from musicians whose lives have been saved by our healthcare partners and Reenie Collins, CEO Health Alliance for Austin Musicians TUNE IN TO #HAAMDAY20 HAAM Day is go in on Tuesday, Septembering virtual! 15 Tune as HAAM is working to ensure the Health Alliance for Austin Austin musi Musicians joins forces with cians have access to affordable healthcare services underwriting sponsors ACL Music including primary and specialty Festival and SXSW to celebrate care, dental, vision, hearing, 15 years of keeping music in mental health and other services. Austin alive and well. Tune in to Every year HAAM has relied on Fox 7 Austin or catch the stream Austin music lovers to support on @myhaam on Facebook live our mission on this unique day of throughout the day. music all over the city. The mission While HAAM Day might look is more important than ever. a little different it’s still the same I love music and I have dear friends who HAAM needs to raise $600,000 celebration of what is best about are musicians, but I know that music has to co Austin - our musicians. ntinue providing access to affordable healthcare for Austin’s helped us define this city as a place that The day includes a low-income, underi of great Austin music. Wewide will have people want to live and companies want to variety musicians, as we havensur fored the working last ico relocate to. And while the live music capi- nic Austin acts and emerging 15 ye artists from multiple genres - all ars. HAAM wants to thank the tal of the world is a little co ming together to celebrate artists listed above plus the Austin music and lend a hand for this is the time for us to stepquieter up and right help now, our countless other local artists and H musicians in any way that we can. AAM’s biggest fundraiser of the HAAM members who year. performing throughout will the be day on Heather Ladage, HAAM Day Committee Co-Chair This year, HAAM and the their own channels. Austin musicians we serve have been hit hard by COVID. For more inform full lineup, go to ation,myhaam.org. including a VOLUME 33 ISSUE 17 WESTAUSTINNEWS.COM September 10, 2020 Generation Serve honors volunteers in fundraising weekend By Alana Moehring Mallard Generation Serve kicks off its annual Growing Up Giving fundraising event this weekend, the organization’s event that provides critical financial support to programs for families and their children to serve our community. “Although we are facing unprecedented and uncertain times, Generation Serve remains committed to our volunteer families and nonprofit partners,” said Generation Serve’s executive director Amy Loar. “We are working hard behind the scenes to adjust programming to create meaningful opportunities for families to serve, while still meeting the ever evolving needs of our nonprofit community. I hope you will join us at our virtual Ignal family Growing Up Giving event to Little Helpers Learn, and that lets families sign up for Jeff Hobbs, Amy Imes, Allison learn more.” Play and Service Learning. volunteer events. Although Kane, Alex Mahan, Kirsten McCaig family Virtual attendees of the The Chapmans are one of almost full, this month’s Matetich, Rachel Montgomery, event will hear from Loar Generation Serve’s original calendar offers opportunities Ami Patel, Valeri Reeder, and Jeff Hobb, president of volunteering families. such as Keep Austin Fed Amanda Ryan, Sara Savarino, Generation Serve’s Board For more than a decade, sandwich delivery, writing Karin and Stan Springerley, of Directors. Generation Generation Serve has Westminster letters at home, Laura Turner, Mindy Webb, Serve’s Volunteer Family offered children ages 8 to 12 making Austin Animal Center and Sarah Wasaff. of the Year, the Chapman opportunities to volunteer for toys at home, filling Operation Go to generationserve.org family – Jeffrey, Robin, Jake, a wide variety of organizations School Bell kits at home, and to sign up for this weekend’s Slade, and Griffin – will the and places: parks and public making upcycled grocery bags event and information about honored. Robin Chapman has spaces, retirement centers and at home for Travis County Generation Serve opportunities served on the board and now hospitals, food pantries and Food Pantry. for kids. And save the date for serves on the expansion and meal programs, animal shelters The Growing Up Giving Family Volunteer Day -- Nov. development committees, and and wildlife habitats. host committee includes chair 21. Family Volunteer Day will the Chapmans helped expand “We are so happy to Jill Hoffman, Courtney Bass, be a curbside event this year, Generation Serve to Houston. have our calendar back,” Tami Blakeney, Anna Covert, letting you and your kids pick up The kids have been involved said program director Lane Lisa Cuddy, Erin D’Andrea, a pack of supplies for at-home in Family Volunteering, Fortenberry of the online tool Cara Fox, Brooke Freeland, volunteering. Stein family Dunleavy family Garcia family Campbell family Virtual 2020 Texas Book Festival Set For October 31- November 15 The First Edition Imagine being able to Dean Koontz, who has exploration of what it means Literary Gala relax in your home and penned more than 100 novels, to connect with others in a The 2020 TBF Literary be joined by authors like will present his latest book, world that constantly throws Gala will be virtual and is suspense novelist Dean “Elsewhere,” a technothriller obstacles against that goal. being held November 6 Koontz; environmental legend about a father and daughter Environmental activist at 7:30 p.m. It will feature Erin Brockovich; National who discover a strange Erin Brockovich will present acclaimed novelist and Medal of Arts recipient Julia device that could reunite her newest book, “Superman's memoirist Nick Hornby; Alvarez; Austin’s nationally them with their departed Not Coming: Our National National Medal of Arts known musician and writer mom. Yaa Gyasi, who won Water Crisis and What We recipient Julia Alvarez; and Kathy Valentine; historian the National Book Critics the People Can Do About It.” Pulitzyer Prize-winning H.W. Brands; “Sex And Circle’s John Leonard First Comedian Michael Ian Black author and former United The City” author Candace Book Prize, will present will present his new book, States Poet Laureate Bushnell; and many others.