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Central Austin Neighborhood Association

Community

Holiday season celebrated

By AustinTalks | December 18, 2011

The Central Austin Neighborhood Association and Third Unitarian Church organized and hosted a free event last weekend.

Community

Austin group receives city-wide honor

By Ron Reid | October 16, 2011

Keep Chicago Beautiful Inc. gave the award to the Central Austin Neighborhood Association.

Opinion

Residents and police need to work together

By Ron Reid | July 23, 2011

One local woman observes stark differences between citizen and aldermanic involvement of two Chicago neighborhoods – Austin and Hyde Park/Kenwood/Oakland.

News

Residents seek answers, accountability in aldermen’s first 100 days

By Sarah Ostman | June 22, 2011

Just one of the four local leaders who represent Austin respond to the chance to detail their plans for the 24th, 28th, 29th and 37th Wards.

Community

Help spruce up the neighborhood this month

By AustinTalks | May 13, 2011

Join the Central Austin Neighborhood Association as it plants flowers this month, and volunteers are being sought for a spring clean-up tomorrow.

Opinion

Still not convinced about staying

By John W. Fountain III | March 23, 2011

Readers respond to John W. Fountain’s last column with hope. Tell us what you think.

Community

Help clean up later this month

By Ron Reid | March 8, 2011

The Central Austin Neighborhood Austin will do spring cleaning, beginning at the corner of Austin Boulevard and Mason Avenue, at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, March 19th.

Opinion

Barbershop hosts forum for 29th Ward

By Patrick Smith | February 9, 2011

Three of the eight candidates on the Feb. 22nd ballot offered their views Monday night on some of the major issues facing Austin.

News

New group tackling crime, clutter in community

By Austin Weekly News | December 15, 2010

An Austin couple started the new organization in August after the police didn’t respond to a fight outside their home. Learn how you can get involved.

News

Learn how to get government officials to listen to you

By Deborah Kadin | December 1, 2010

The Better Government Association continues its free watchdog training Monday, Dec. 6th at Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School.

News

  • Expungement, record sealing event helps West Siders get jobs after leaving prison

    Austin resident Anthony Jefferson has been working over the past six years to expunge his criminal record. With help from the Monroe Foundation, he's moving toward the clean slate he wants to achieve to secure employment.

  • Get free groceries, other help from these Austin groups

    On a recent Thursday, volunteers from What About Us Charitable Enterprises spent the morning filling dozens of grocery bags with fresh food and staples that soon filled the arms of West Side residents in need. Dorin “Pastor Mac” McIntyre, executive director and co-founder of What About Us Charitable Enterprises and pastor of Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, is one of many helping Austin residents struggling with food insecurity.

  • 29th Ward residents invited to holiday events on Tuesday

  • 29th Ward residents invited to propose how to spend $450,000

    Austin residents are invited to participate in this year's participatory budgeting cycle. The annual process lets ward residents ages 14 and up decide how to spend a portion of the aldermanic menu money.

  • Forty Acres Fresh Market marks important moment this week in bringing store to Austin

    Austin moves one step closer this week to getting a new grocery store with the groundbreaking of Forty Acres Fresh Market in the heart of the Soul City Corridor. Another effort to expand food offerings on the West Side continues with the Austin Community Food Co-op, which held a virtual info session last week on its efforts to bring a grocery store to the area.

  • Healing in nature workshop set for Saturday

    The Westside Cultural Alliance continues its "See, Feel and Heal" nature series Saturday at Garfield Park Nature Area, 100 N. Central Park with a workshop on making memory boxes. The workshop sessions focus on art and nature as vehicles of healing through art therapy, which provides wholistic healing for the body, mind and spirit.

  • Illinois residents can apply for help with paying gas, electric bills

    Applications are now open for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for qualified residential customers who are over the age of 60, have a disability or have children under the age of 6 to receive financial assistance to pay their energy bills. LIHEAP is a federally funded bill payment assistance program that helps low- and fixed-income families pay their utility during the winter heating season.

  • West Siders turn out for chili cook off in Austin’s Soul City

    Over a dozen local chefs competed in the second annual "It’s Getting Chili in Soul City" event on Saturday. A team of five who make up the Austin African American Business Networking Association board – Malcolm Crawford, Shirley Fields, Sharmine Rickett, Ronald Smith and Marshawn Felton – created the chili contest last year.

  • Chicago Marathon runner raises money for West Side girls

    Over the last 20 years, Ashley Graham has run 56 marathons - including the Chicago Marathon five times. Several of those marathons she raised money for charity - and this year was no different.

  • Stop by Austin farmers market this week

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