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Central Texas Wildfires Relief Benefit

WILL TAYLOR AND STRINGS ATTACHED HOST BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE CENTRAL TEXAS WILDFIRE RELIEF

Partners: KVUE TV and Randalls Neighbors in Need Program

Austin, TX - Saturday, September 10th, 2011, 9:00 pm-12:00 am – The Nutty Brown Café 12225 West Hwy 290, 78737

An All Star line-up & Silent Auction is set to hit the stage at The Nutty Brown amphitheater this Saturday to garner support for the Travis County Red Cross to benefit the families and communities affected by the recent rash of violent wildfires sweeping across central Texas.

The growing line-up features:

Jon Dee Graham
John Pointer
Tameca Jones
Los Texas Wranglers
Karen Mal
Robert Kraft
Strings Attached House of Wills Show
Steve Carter
Mark Utter
Jennifer Jackson
Mike Sailors and more...

The Nutty Brown Cafe hosts up to 3,000 people.

The benefit immediately follows the Strings Attached Tribute to The Police featuring John Pointer show. Donation items will also be accepted at any time during both events. To see a full list of preferred items to bring visit www.stringsattached.org/shows.php..  

Advance Tickets(suggested 10 donation) are available on http://www.eventbee.com/v/stringsattached/event?eid=815730373 and http://stringsattached.org.

**Contact Dianne Preston at 512-567-397 or dianne@mikendi.net to make a gift certificate or item donation.
**Cash is preferred at the door to help prevent credit card fees(An ATM will be available onsite.)
**All ticket sales will go to the Travis County Red Cross to aid the central Texas wildfire relief.
**The Nutty Brown Café is also donating 10% of its total sales on that day.

Central Texas Bloggers Link Up For Relief Efforts

Like most of you in central Texas, I have been completely consumed with the Fires. The thought of anybody losing their home saddens me and the fact that these fires are within our community terrifies me. Our community needs us, but where and how and what can we do??  Missy from www.wonderfriend.com wrote up this wonderfully informative post(read below) that can lead us in the right direction. Thanks Missy for centralizing information among the choas.

Texas Blogger Link up For Relief by Missy@www.wonderfriend.com

It’s dark in Texas right now. We are physically covered in a cloud of smoke, and more significantly, we are looking at a stretch of emotionally dark days. Days filled with too much worry and not enough rain.
And Texas isn’t alone. You need only to click over to CNN.com or turn on any news network to see coverage of flooding, tornadoes. And fires. Alongside these stories are other stories remembering the darkness that blanketed all of us ten years ago. We’re familiar with disaster, aren’t we? Each one bringing its own unique darkness, but something else, too.
Amid the ugly, the destruction, the loss, the snarky politically and religiously fueled comments on news stories, there is something else, something bigger than all of that: we are not content to dwell in the ugly. We are so much more than that.
Right now there are thousands of Texans with no home, no belongings. And very likely, no energy to rise above the ugly just yet. That’s where the rest of us step in. We fill the gap for those who have lost so much.
Austin-area bloggers are working to fill the gap this week. Unfortunately, we still don’t know how far this will go. We have no idea the final reach of the fires. One week from now, one month from now, one year from now the gap will look different than it does today. What we have today is a place to start.
If you want to get involved by donating your time, goods, or dollars, Austin-area bloggers are putting together lists of relief organizations that need your help. There’s something for every schedule and every budget. So take a look at the ideas here, and then visit some of the other blogs for more options (linked at the bottom of this post).
Texas is burning. Most of us can’t do a thing to stop the raging fires, and none of us have the power to make it rain. But we all have the power to help someone else.
As mentioned, this is a partial list. There are countless organizations providing relief, and I’m only listing a handful here. If you know of something that’s not listed, please add it in the comments (or if you’re a blogger, write a post and link up, below).

• Many of the bloggers who are participating in this link-up will also be out to support the LiveMom.com Austin Family Brunch on Sunday, September 11. This brunch will now be a benefit & donation drive for our Central Texas neighbors who have lost their homes. I’ll be there, and invite you to come out & join us!
• American Red Cross of Central Texas is accepting donations and volunteers. This site also links to additional wildfire resources.
• Catholic Charities of Central Texas is taking donations on Tuesday, September 6. Visit the site for details.
• Hill Country Bible Church is accepting donations all week, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Visit the website for more details. HCBC also needs volunteers to help with donation intake/distribution. If you are interested in volunteering at a shelter, this site has information about that, as well.
• Call the Hays County Volunteer Coordinator if you’d like to make donations or volunteer your time: 512.393.7302
• All of the local news outlets have links to ways to help. Some of those outlets: FOX, News Radio KLBJ, KEYE, KVUE, KXAN, Your News Now.
• The readers of Free Fun in Austin are providing information on the Facebook page.
• Chili’s Round Rock is donating a percentage of sales all day on September 6.

For general information about the fires, I suggest taking a look at some – or all – of the following:

• A map of active fires, here. (This page is busy, not surprisingly. You may have to refresh a few times.)

Facebook pages that are providing regular updates:

• Texas Storm Chasers
• Central Texas Fires 2011
• Williamson County Office of Emergency Management
• Lost and Found Pets

If you’re on Twitter, look for these hash tags: #centraltxfire and #centraltxfires, #TXBlogFireRelief.

Now it’s your turn! Link your own post below, or leave a comment with relief information. And thank you. Thank you for joining Texas Blog Fire Relief, and shedding some light here in Texas.

UPDATE: Just a note that most of us (Austin-area bloggers, that is) are kind of new to this whole link-up thing. I believe if you want to add a link, just click where it says “Click to view/add link” (obvious, perhaps?); if you want to see the other posts that are linked up, you just click somewhere on that frog or on the text, and it should take you to a list. As of now there are a few posts linked, but it’s only showing one below… Be patient with us, we’ll figure this out!

Add your link below:

http://www.inlinkz.com/wpview.php?id=81298

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