From  Lareina Curtis-Wellings’ first grade class at Steiner Ranch Elementary:

Dear Santa,

I hope you can give me a huge stuffed animal. If you can’t that’s fine.

Santa can please give me a iphone five. If you can’t that is fine.

Love, Mira

 

Dear Santa,

All i will want is a hipopudumis. I will want a robot. I will want a xdox three sixde.

I will want a pes of Love.

Love Greyson

 

Dear Santa,

When my sitter Avery is mean to me, I don’t hit her back.

I want a Amircen gril dool. The Big barbie dream house. The sofia the first castal.

Love Presley

Dear Santa,

for Christmas I want a big dog

for Christmas I want a Ipod for Christmas.

Love regan

 

Dear Santa,

I have been very good.

Can you get me a trampaline for Christmas.

Toby has been very good at are house.

Love Devyn

 

Dear Santa,

Thank you Santa for sending the elfs.

Wut I want: I wont a pink bike with traning wellse.

PS: cn it be a Hello Kitey bike?

love: Taylor

 

Dear Santa,

I want a Wii. I want a cat. I want skylanders. I want a RAIN DEER.

I want a TMNT.

love Jamie

 

Dear Santa,

If you come to my home at eight-o-clock I will give you a gift and please give me and my brother all on our list.

Love, Finn

 

Dear Santa,

This time of season means a fun time to me. I would like you to bring me a little hut wher jesus was born, some magical crayons and a nut cracker.

Love, Kjell

 

Dear Santa,

This season means giveing to othvr. So pleas give every buddy a presents this year. I woold lik a ameracen girl doll with earrings.

Thank you, Santa. Love, Ava

From Kelly Killingsworth’s first-grade class at Laura W. Bush Elementary

Dear Santa,

One of your efs are here. He is watching us. We are being good.

Santa this is what I want for Christmas: a card from you.

There will be some mik and cookies on the cowner.

I am going to give presents to other kids that do not have any toys.

Love,

London

Dear Santa,

Thank you for the presents last year you gave me.

I was so exided when I got my secret present the snowman. He was so cute.

This year I am really hoping for my secret polerbear, lots of art supplies, Mario Cart Wii, fureal bunny rabbit, and a stuffed animal crocodill and lion beenie boo.

Our cookies are going to be on the fire place.

Have a very merry Christmas.

love Mia

Dear Santa,

Thank you for the white puppy from last year. I named her Snow Flake.

This year I want a monster high doll with a cat costume, only rainbow loom ruber bans with silver and gold, and more monster high dolls.

love Tyler

Dear Santa,

I would like a rainbow loom, and a puppy stuffed animal, los of art supplies, an American Girl Doll, And a stuff animal Elf.

Be careful.

And a Frbe.

There will be milk and cookies for you on the table by the fire pas.

By Annie

Dear Santa,

One of your elfs has made a rambo loom.

We are making cookies and milk.

Have I been good, write here:______________________________

I want the movie Frozen, a 20 inch bike and a Leap pad.

Merry Christmas!

MV

Dear Santa,

I will leeve ots on my backyard. Your rainder can eat it.

I want a Lego architecture set.

I have been good.

Love,

Ryan M

Dear Santa,

How are the reindeers.

Have I been good or bad?

I want a wii game named Star Wars.

I also want 2 more wii games named wii Resort and wii Sports

The last thing I want is a fat, fat race track.

I want lots of presents.

Dear Santa,

I want a video camera, a pocket knife, and a Jak ad Ane book.

I also want bike, animal dog, and a gold train.

How do you deliver so many presents so fast?

Love,

Wyatt

Dear Santa,

I want one video game called White Out Wii. I want Mario Cart, Wii Sear Horos.

I want the Foorts Police Station the cogo air plane and the blue plane.

Thank you for bringing us presents.

Love:

Weston

Santa can you bring more pony?

I want some carrots for my Bunny.

Can you bring chocolates for me?

I want sqinkes.

Love Miranda

Dear Santa,

I want a stuffed animal Creeper. It is little.

Also I want rainbow looms, iphone, wii, Legos that are city, Skylanders, Swap Fores, Paper, Mario DS game.

There will be reindeer food outside.

love: Carter

Dear Santa,

I would like a T-rex dinosaur for Christmas. I want carrots for my snowman.

Can I also have a super car?

I will leave cookies and milk by the front door.

Love, G

Dear Santa,

Thank you for all the presents.

I want a video game. It is a base ball game.

I want a zomr.

I am going to California.

Love Ethan

Dear Santa,

I want a stuffed Dog and a Bitty Baby and a zipline that you sit on and a train.

Please bring some thing for maya and Toffee.

How do you get the pressents here?

love: Amelia

 

By VAL OLIVAS, Four Points News

The Langevin children who attend River Ridge Elementary are making a difference this year for some Leander ISD families in need.

Nicholas, third-grader, and Harrison, second-grader, offered to sell their own toys, raising money to purchase two new bicycles for children in need.

“Mostly, I had the toys for a couple of years and they were older. I wasn’t playing with them anymore so I sold them to get money to buy the bikes,” Nicholas said.

Chris Langevin, the boys’ father said the idea started about three years ago when he was attempting to clean out some toys and things the kids had outgrown.

“I looked at all this good stuff and couldn’t really give it to be used for Christmas gift donations because it was not new anymore,” Chris said.

After initially donating items to the Salvation Army, the family shifted their focus to helping local families through the River Ridge Elementary giving tree.

“We came up with a plan to sell the toys they’ve outgrown and buy a bike for the RRE giving tree,” Chris said.

Last year they sold enough to buy one bicycle. This year they raised enough money to buy two. Continue reading →

The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) Board of Directors voted unanimously Wednesday to hire Phil Wilson, executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation, as the organization’s 11th general manager. Wilson will begin work at LCRA Feb. 1.

Wilson will replace Rebecca S. Motal, who announced in September she is retiring Dec. 31, ending a 27-year career with LCRA. Deputy General Manager Ross Phillips will serve as interim general manager.

Wilson will come to LCRA from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), where he has served as executive director since October 2011. At TxDOT, Wilson oversaw 12,000 employees and a $10-billion budget. Prior to that, Wilson worked as senior vice president of public affairs for Luminant, Texas’ largest competitive power generation company. In 2007, Gov. Rick Perry appointed Wilson as Secretary of State. He also served as chair of the Governor’s Competitiveness Council and as a member of the Texas Border Security Council. Continue reading →

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Leander ISD is expected to take its final vote on elementary school attendance rezoning tomorrow night but one Steiner Ranch neighborhood does not want the latest recommendation to go through.

The final rezoning vote by the LISD Board is scheduled for Dec. 19 at Reed Elementary.

Many families who live in the Savannah neighborhood strongly disagree with the latest recommendation up for vote which would move 173 students who live in Savannah from River Ridge Elementary to Laura W. Bush Elementary.

“As a parent I’m frustrated and as a community I’m frustrated,” said Samuel Monti, a concerned parent and CFO of a local software company. He is one of the leaders of the group of nearly 100 supporters who do not want to see these latest rezoning recommendations made.

“Rezoning is a very emotional process. It involves emotional attachment to schools, which is a great thing and says they’re (parents are) invested. It’s not done lightly,” said LISD spokeswoman Veronica Sopher.

Continue reading →