By RICH KEITH, Four Points News

The Vandegrift Viper Band and Vision Dance Company is the new class AAAA state champion marching band in Texas.

On Nov. 12 the band students held a medal ceremony at Austin Baptist Church and each each student received a medal provided by the state of Texas.

Each VHS Band and Vision Dance student received a gold medal from the State of Texas on Tuesday night at Austin Baptist Church.

Showing their state champion gold medals, Vandegrift drum majors Rhea Adhikary, Graham Scott, Lienne Ng and Olivia Schmitz pose with Director of Bands Jeremy Spicer (center) at the formal UIL medal ceremony held on Nov. 12.
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Ann Scott

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By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

The Leander ISD Attendance Zone Advisory Committee finalized its recommendations for elementary attendance zones late Monday. If voted on in December, it will affect nearly 400 projected students next school year from neighborhoods that go to Laura W. Bush Elementary and River Ridge Elementary in Steiner Ranch.

“Fast growing districts that bring in more families and more homes need to accommodate growth. Sometimes that means new schools, other times it means moving people around to accommodate growth where there is density,” said Veronica Sopher, LISD spokesperson.

Veronica Sopher, Leander ISD executive director of school/community relations.

At its Nov 4 meeting, the Attendance Zone Advisory Committee reviewed the comments from the two public meetings conducted in late Oct. All emailed communication and alternate scenarios were shared with the committee. Based on its review of this input and additional discussion, the committee came up with its final recommendations.

LWBE and RRE are the two schools affected in Four Points.

A projected 263 students would move from  River Ridge to Bush from these neighborhoods:

Canyon Gate, Woodland Hills, The Legends, Hunters Green, Eagles Glen, Lakecliff Hills, Granite Bay, The Reserve, Hawk’s Canyon, Red Oak Valley, Shadestone Terrace and Shoreview Estates.

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 By RICH KEITH, Four Points News

Local Four Points and Lake Travis civic leaders met recently to discuss long-term goals and realistic strategies for improving transportation in the area between Lakeline Mall and TX 71. Involved were the Four Points Chamber of Commerce president Ray Freer, the Lake Travis Chamber of Commerce president Laura Mitchell and Cedar Park Chamber of Commerce president Tony Moline.

“We met to discuss common interests surrounding putting together a vision for and seeing plans for development along the 620 corridor,” said Brian Thompto, community relations chair with the Four Points Chamber of Commerce.

Brian Thompto, community relations chair with the Four Points Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Steiner Ranch Neighborhood Association.

Both short term and long term goals were discussed. “Ultimately we want to create a vision for the area,” Thompto said. “We want to build a coalition to influence regional transportation issues including Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization or CAMPO priorities,” he said.

Thompto urges Four Points residents to come out for the CAMPO Mobile Meeting on Wednesday at Lakeway Activity Center, 105 Cross Creek Drive at  6 p.m. This planning meeting invites residents to share concerns, experiences and solutions for traffic planning.

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By LYNETTTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Austin Regional Clinic Wilson Parke in the Trails at 620 is planning to open next summer. The multi-specialty clinic will add to the 18 other ARC clinics in the three-county area.

“ARC Wilson Parke is in direct response to the rapid growth in the 620/2222 area, one of the fastest-growing areas of metro Austin,” said Mark Steiger, ARC regional director.

ARC Wilson Parke is part of a 44,000-square-foot building that will also house Austin Radiological Associates.

ARC will take up just over half of the building with 75 exam and treatment rooms and a full-service lab, with radiology services available at the ARA location in the same building.

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By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Trey Dickerson will not forget his early-morning run last week in River Place anytime soon. That’s when he came face to face with a driver, separated only by her windshield.

The 17-year-old  Vandegrift High School senior took a neighborhood run Oct. 30 around 6:45 a.m.

Trey Dickerson, VHS senior, was near the front of River Place on a run last week when a silver sedan hit him. He was okay from the hit, but the driver did not stop to check on him.

It was dark, rainy and foggy. Trey was not wearing reflective clothing nor did he have earphones on at the time. He had run to the front of River Place and was returning, a path he had been taking for many months, on and off.

“As he was crossing the driveway that leads to the retail shops and medical offices, a car was turning and hit him pretty solidly on the legs,” said Kerry Dickerson, Trey’s mom.

Thankfully he was not hurt, she said.

“(But) as he was hit, he had to brace himself on the hood of the car with his hands, making eye contact with both the woman in the car and her child in the back seat,” Kerry said.

Trey told his mom that the driver had slammed her brakes on, stopped momentarily, and then drove on without speaking to him or checking to see that he was okay.

Kerry was “absolutely furious” when Trey got home and he shared with her what happened.

“I just can’t believe that a mother with a child in the back seat would decide to drive on, and not stop to check the welfare of the person they had just hit,” Kerry said.

The only details that Trey could remember were that the car was a silver sedan, driven by an adult female.

The Dickerson’s have lived in River Place since 1997, minus two years in Tokyo and two years in France. Kerry encourages people to be careful.

“There have been so many hit-and-run incidents in Austin, and so many accidents in River Place,” she said. “After all the accidents in River Place lately, people need to be paying attention.”