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Dripping Springs, Texas March 2014 discover LOCAL INFORMATION & ADVERTISING Published by the Hill Country Sun. For advertising, call 512-484-9716 or email [email protected] See TUCKS, page 2 Memorial football game, scholarship benefit The late Coach Keith Tuck LEFT and his daughter Brittany Tuck will be memorialized in two events this month—the 1st Annual Keith Tuck Memorial Alumni Football Game at Tiger Stadium March 1 and the 10th Annual Brittany Tuck Memorial Benefit and Barbecue March 9 at Dripping Springs Ranch Park. Photos courtesy Sandra Tuck. 100 Commons Road, #1 • 512-858-7935 • 512-894-0285 • drippingspringspharmacy.com PROUDLY INDEPENDENT! at Dripping Springs IN-STORE WELLNESS CONSULTANTS Monday thru Friday • 10 am – 2 pm (No Appointment Necessary) Peter McCarthy, ND, Certified Traditional Naturopath Radhia Gleis, PhD, Med, CCN Certified Clinical Nutritionist THANK YOU for supporting one of Dripping Spring’s locally owned businesses! 10% off any high quality supplement WITH THIS AD. NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER PROMOTION. By LAUREL ROBERTSON F or the past 10 years, family and friends of Brittany Tuck (1984-2003) have honored her life and memory by hosting the Brittany Tuck Memorial Bene- fit and Barbecue to raise funds for schol- arships for high school seniors. Together, they have raised over $170,000 to help local high school athletes attend college. This year’s 10th anniversary ben- efit on Sunday, March 9, will include a new, though bittersweet, addition—a donation to the Scholarship Fund from the First Annual Keith Tuck Memorial Alumni Football Game, in memory of Brittany’s dad, Coach Keith Tuck, who died in November 2013. The Alumni Football Game has been played for the past three years between graduates of Lake Travis and Dripping Springs High Schools. Guys ranging in age from 19 to 52 play a full- pad, full-contact tackle football game in a high school stadium with cheerlead- ers and High Steppers, a band and half- time entertainment (with EMS services at hand). This year, organizers of the annual game decided to rename it and dedicate a portion of the proceeds in memory of Coach Tuck, who was a beloved athlet- ic coach at both Dripping Springs and Lake Travis High Schools. Poignantly, those proceeds will go to the scholarship fund for local high school athletes that Coach Tuck him- self created 10 years ago in honor of his 19- year-old daughter Brittany, an outstanding athlete, who was killed in a tragic car accident. Coach Tuck’s son, Jeff, will play on

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Dripping Springs, Texas

March 2014discover LOCAL INFORMATION & ADVERTISING

Published by the Hill Country Sun. For advertising, call 512-484-9716

or email [email protected]

See TUCKS, page 2

Memorial football game, scholarship benefit

The late Coach Keith Tuck LEFT and his daughter Brittany Tuck will be memorialized in two events this month—the 1st Annual Keith Tuck Memorial Alumni Football Game at Tiger Stadium March 1 and the 10th Annual Brittany Tuck Memorial Benefit and Barbecue March 9 at Dripping Springs Ranch Park. Photos courtesy Sandra Tuck.

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THANK YOU for supporting one of Dripping Spring’s

locally owned businesses!

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By LaureL robertson

For the past 10 years, family and friends of Brittany Tuck (1984-2003) have honored her life and memory by

hosting the Brittany Tuck Memorial Bene-fit and Barbecue to raise funds for schol-arships for high school seniors. Together, they have raised over $170,000 to help local high school athletes attend college.

This year’s 10th anniversary ben-efit on Sunday, March 9, will include a new, though bittersweet, addition—a donation to the Scholarship Fund from the First Annual Keith Tuck Memorial Alumni Football Game, in memory of Brittany’s dad, Coach Keith Tuck, who died in November 2013.

The Alumni Football Game has been played for the past three years between graduates of Lake Travis and Dripping Springs High Schools. Guys

ranging in age from 19 to 52 play a full-pad, full-contact tackle football game in a high school stadium with cheerlead-ers and High Steppers, a band and half-time entertainment (with EMS services at hand).

This year, organizers of the annual game decided to rename it and dedicate a portion of the proceeds in memory of Coach Tuck, who was a beloved athlet-ic coach at both Dripping Springs and Lake Travis High Schools.

Poignantly, those proceeds will go to the scholarship fund for local high school athletes that Coach Tuck him-self created 10 years ago in honor of his 19-year-old daughter Brittany, an outstanding athlete, who was killed in a tragic car accident.

Coach Tuck’s son, Jeff, will play on

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TUCKS, from page 2

the Dripping Springs team. The Alumni Game will be held at

Tiger Stadium in Dripping Springs Sat-urday, March 1, at 7 pm.

About 40 players are signed up to play for the Dripping Springs alumni team this year and they have been prac-ticing once a week since last October (even through the sleeting and freezing weather).

The 10th Annual Brittany Tuck Me-morial Benefit and Barbecue is Sunday, March 9, from noon to 9 pm at Dripping Springs Ranch Park. Sandra Tuck, wife of Coach Tuck and mother of Brittany, says the festival will be a “Celebration of Life and Music.”

Live Texas music for the event will be provided by Honeybrowne, Bran-don Jenkins, Texas Renegade, Chad and Natasha Hudson, Michael Myers, Jeff Whitehead, the Jerry Martin Band, the Oilers, and Jake Whitman.

A live and silent auction and sale of food from a barbecue cookoff will raise money for the Brittany Tuck Scholar-ship Fund.

Plus, there’ll be potato salad from the Salt Lick, beans from Railroad Bar-beque, tea from Texas Tea and desserts from Fancy Eats and Sweets to accom-pany the barbeque. Participants are in-vited to BYOB.

There’ll be plenty to bid on, with auction items including a guitar signed by Robert Earl Keen; signed photos of Tom Landry, Joe Montana, Nolan Ryan and Jerry Rice; a baseball signed by No-lan Ryan; football jerseys from Terry Bradshaw, Colt McCoy and Roger Stau-bauch; and football helmets of Reggie Jackson and John Elway.

FYI • The First Annual Coach Tuck Memorial Alum-ni Football Game is Saturday, March 1, at 7 pm at Tiger Stadium in Dripping Springs. Commemorative tickets are available at Railroad Barbeque, Dripping Springs High School and online at www.glory2godinc.com before the game. Regular tickets will be available at the gate.

The 10th Annual Brittany Tuck Memorial Benefit and BBQ is Sunday, March 9, noon to 9 pm at Dripping Springs Ranch Park. Tickets are available in advance or at the door. For more information, visit the web site at brittanytuck.com or call 512-569-4804.

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Brittany Tuck dances with her father, Coach Keith Tuck. Photo courtesy Sandra Tuck.

Coach Keith Tuck with Sam Fosdick following the final game of the 2011 Dripping Springs High School season. Photo courtesy Sandra Tuck.

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DRIPPING SPRINGS H Free assistance with income tax preparation is available through Dripping Springs ISD Community Services, which sponsors the AARP Tax-Aide program, located at the Dripping Springs In-dependent School District Administration building at 510 West Mercer Street.

This local tax assistance group is part of the AARP Tax-Aide program. Each year, the volunteers are trained and certified by IRS. Although AARP focuses on the needs of older taxpayers, the Tax-Aide program has no age limits.

The local site will continue to provide assistance to taxpayers of all ages. Tax-Aide assistance is limited to returns within the scope of the Tax-Aide training.

To have your return prepared by Tax-Aide, you must bring social security cards for all family members, all W-2 and 1099 forms for 2013, your checkbook for direct deposit information, and any other relevant information about 2013 income and expenses. You are encouraged to bring your 2012 tax return.

FYI • Volunteers are available at Dripping Springs Independent School District Administration building at 510 West Mercer Street on Tuesdays through April 15 (except during spring break) from 3 pm to 8 pm. Tax returns will be filed electroni-cally. For more information, or to make an appointment, call 512-858-0954.

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DRIPPING SPRINGS H Historic Phillips Cemetery comes alive with voices from the past, hosted by Heritage Circle. Come meet the ancestors of Dripping Springs on a guided tour of one of the area’s most fascinating cemeteries. Costumed actors re-enact the lives and lifestyles of the Texas revolutionaries, settlers, and Confederate soldiers buried here to help tell the tale of Dripping Springs history.

FYI • The tour of Phillips Cemetery is Saturday, April 5, from 2 pm to 4 pm. Adults are $5, ages 15 and under get in free. Admission is free to Heritage Circle members. For more information, visit the web site at www.heritagecircle.org or email [email protected].

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For the real deal this St. Patrick’s Day, you can’t get any more Irish than the artisan smoked salmon created by

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barbecue is to Texans, explains native Dubliner Sebastien Caillabet, owner and executive chef of Celtic Seafare.

Though his Irish accent has faded in the years he’s lived in the U.S., his love of Irish seafare motivated him to launch his successful new enterprise.

Each week, Sebastien receives more than 120 pounds of fresh salmon flown in from Scotland, British Columbia and Alaska.

To create his many varieties of cold- and hot-smoked salmon requires a sev-eral-day process of salting, refrigerat-ing, flavoring and smoking in his large state-of-the-art AFOS smoker, imported from England.

In an interesting mélange of glob-al/local sourcing, Sebastian flavors his imported salmon with herbs, cheeses, nuts and honey from local producers. Celtic Seafare products all proudly bear the Texas Department of Agriculture’s “Go Texan” label.

The finished product is quickly snapped up by eager customers at Celtic Seafare’s booth at Barton Creek Farmers Market and by a rapidly-growing clientele that have discovered his (unadvertised) production kitchen and small tasting room in Tiger Center on Highway 290 in Drip-ping Springs.

Though he initially envisioned the Dripping Springs facility only as his pro-duction kitchen with limited retail sales, Sebastien has finally acquiesced to repeat-ed requests from local patrons and now provides a Friday and Saturday evening dinner menu starring gourmet seafood

dishes paired with local seasonal vegeta-bles and sauces.

Weekend dinner patrons can expect to find a Prix Fixe menu such as this one from a recent weekend: smoked salmon caprese (featuring a local olive oil); warm chevre salad (using local Pure Luck Or-ganic chevre); beef bourguignon with carrots, baby onions and a side of herbed orzo; Scottish salmon baked in puff pas-try with spinach, feta and chive aioli and new potatoes; Texas pecan and praline chocolate cake with a whiskey orange cream. Diners are encouraged to bring their own libations – glasses provided.

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Artisan smoked salmon created at Celtic Seafare in Dripping Springs. Photo courtesy Celtic Seafare.

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“I do it mainly for fun,” attests Se-bastien about his weekend menu, “and to have a break from smoking and packaging salmon.”

His goal of keeping the weekend din-ner business small may be an uphill battle – already reservations are outstripping table space. “Take home is available,” he suggests.

Sebastien’s obsession with all things salmon represents an about-face from his past profession as a special-effects artist for Hollywood movies, including all three “Jurassic Park” productions.

He and his wife, who worked as a spe-cial effects makeup artist, were eager to get away from the heavy schedule the movie industry demanded after their first child was born.

With a family history in the restau-rant business (he worked with his father and brother in that industry back in Ire-land), Sebastien found the transition a natural move.

“I did research and development in my garage for nine months,” he recalls,

feeding the hundreds of pounds of smoked salmon he experimented with during that time to lucky friends and neighbors.

Temperature, moisture and salt con-tent are critical factors in creating the highest-quality smoked salmon, he dis-covered. Today, even with his state-of-the-art smoking equipment, Sebastien spends long hours in the kitchen, closely monitoring temperature and timing. Slicing and vacuum-packaging take up plenty of time, also.

“I work seven days a week, 14 to 15 hours a day,” he admits. But working close to home and family, in the small town he calls home, at a business he owns and loves makes it all worth it, Se-bastien says.

FYI • Celtic Seafare is located at 2001 Hwy 290, in Tiger Center across from Dripping Springs Middle School. Store hours are Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5:30 pm; Tasting Room hours are Thursday through Saturday 4 pm to 6 pm. For more information, visit the web site at www.celticseafare.net or call 512-354-7610 or 512-626-0899. You can also find them on Facebook.

AUSTIN H The Art Garage is expanding, with new space allowing room to offer even more art projects to customers. Now at The Art Garage: mosaics and “fire and fill” soy candles. These projects are available for walk-in custom-ers and parties.

Included in the expansion is a new camp room and even more offerings for summer art camps. This summer, The Art Garage will of-fer 33 unique art camps for kids ages five to 15. The new space will make it possible for The Art Garage to focus on age groups and specific art media like never before.

FYI • The Art Garage is located at 11190 Circle Drive, Suites 202, 203 and 204. For more information and a complete schedule of classes and summer camps, visit the web site at www.TheArtGarageAustin.com or call 512-852-9900. You can find The Art Garage on Facebook at www.facebook.com/theartgarageAustin.

Expansion at Art Garage means even more summer camps for kids

CELTIC SEAFARE, from page 4

LEFT Ken Sepulveda, partner, and Sebastien Caillabet, owner and executive chef of Celtic Seafare. Photo courtesy Celtic Seafare.

Photo courtesy The Art Garage.

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EVERY SUNDAY• Live Jazz Brunch at the Nutty Brown Cafe. www.nuttybrown.com.SECOND and FOURTH SUNDAY• Drippin’ Dancin’. BYOB and food. Barn at Bell Springs, 4000 Bell Springs Road. 7 pm to 10 pm. Dance lessons 6 pm to 7 pm. $7 cover. www.HotTexasSwingBand.com.EVERY MONDAY• Rotary Club. 11:45 am at Creek Road Cafe. 301 West Highway 290, 512-626-7673, www.drippingspringsrotary.org.• Boy Scout Troop 280 meets at St. Martin de Porres Church Hall. 512-904-0444, [email protected], drippingsprings280.mytroop.us. SECOND MONDAYS• Group of Dripping Springs (GODS) Moms meets at Dripping Springs Methodist Church 9 am to 11:15 am. 512-894-0581.FOURTH MONDAYS• Artists of Dripping Springs. Gatherings at area studios. 512-894-0394.• Gen. Ben McCulloch 2435, UDC meets at the Veterans Hall, 27500 Ranch Road 12 at 7 pm. Call Sharon Hudson at 512-858-7177.MONDAY through THURSDAY• Discovery Day School. [email protected] TUESDAY• Toastmasters Dripping Springs. 6:30 pm. Pioneer Bank Building Conference Room. Call Mike at 214-339-3237.• Dripping Springs Property Tour. 512-579-7711, [email protected].

EVERY TUESDAY through APRIL 15• Free assistance with income tax preparation is through DSISD Community Services. Dripping Springs Independent School District Administration building at 510 West Mercer Street. Tuesdays 3 pm to 8 pm. For an appointment, call 512-858-0954. S E C O N D , T H I R D , F O U R T H TUESDAYS• Dripping Springs Boy Scout Troop 101 meets. Dripping Springs United Methodist Church. 7 pm. Tom Chenault at 512-707-7488.FIRST and THIRD TUESDAYS• Lions Club meets. 6 pm at Flores Restaurant. Call Sharon at 512-858-5159.SECOND TUESDAYS• Friends of the Dripping Springs Community Library. 11 am at the library. Contact Bobbie Hentschel@512-771-3217 or [email protected] for information and volunteer opportunities.EVERY WEDNESDAY• Dripping Springs Farmers Market. The Triangle (Highway 290/ Ranch Road 12) 3 pm to 7 pm. cityofdrippingsprings.com.• Awana. Wednesday. Henly Baptist Church. henlybaptistchurch.org.SECOND WEDNESDAY• Free Alzheimer’s Support Group meets at Arveda Alzheimer’s Family Care, 11013 Signal Hill Drive. RSVP to 512-637-5400. www.arvedacare.com.

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EVERY THURSDAY• Hill Country Jam at Mercer Street Dance Hall hosted by Doug Moreland. Free. 7:30 pm. www.mercerstreetdancehall.com.• Thyme and Dough Bistro Nights with live music, dinners and decadent desserts. 6 pm to 9 pm. 512-894-0001.• Henly Baptist Church JOY (Just Older Youth) Club meets at 9:30 am. www.henlybaptistchurch.org. FIRST THURSDAYS• Dripping Springs American Legion 7 pm. 512-858-5637.FIRST AND THIRD THURSDAY• Lions Club meets at 131 East Mercer Street. 512-858-5159.SECOND THURSDAYS• Knights of Columbus, Council 11695, meets at the St Martin de Porres Parrish Hall on Post Oak Road, at 7:30 pm. Preceeded by a pot luck dinner.THIRD THURSDAYS• Dripping Springs Cookoff Club. Meets at 6:30 pm in the VFW Hall in Dripping Springs. For information, email Michele at [email protected].• Dripping Springs VFW meets. 27500 Ranch Road 12. 7 pm. 512-858-5637.• Thirsty Thursday meets at 7 pm. New Life Lutheran Church at 120 Frog Pond Lane off Highway 290. Poets, musicians, songwriters and storytellers share. 512-858-2024.FOURTH THURSDAY• Photographers of Dripping Springs (PODS). Dripping Springs Community Library. 6:30 pm. 512-524-7897. EVERY FRIDAY• Men’s Breakfast at Fitzhugh Baptist Church. 6:30 am. 512-913-4808.• Free wine tasting and art gallery. 5 pm to 8 pm at Cedar Valley Spirits. www.cedarvalleyspirits.com.FIRST SATURDAY• Low Cost Pet Vaccinations at Tractor Supply. 512-858-7229.EVERY FRIDAY & SATURDAY• Dance Lessons at Mercer Street Dance Hall. 7:30 pm. www.mercerstreetdancehall.com. 512-858-4314.SECOND & FOURTH SATURDAY• Pet Adoption Sponsored by Thundering Paws Animal Sanctuary. Tractor Supply. 512-402-9725.MARCH 1• Keith Tuck Memorial Football Game. (See story, page 1.) Dripping Springs vs. Lake Travis at Tiger Stadium. Kickoff at 7 pm. www.facebook.com/playfortuck.• Clay McClinton CD Release Party at Mercer Street Dance Hall. 7:30 pm. www.mercerstreetdancehall.com. 512-858-4314.MARCH 7• Bracken Hale. Live music at Mercer Street Dance Hal l . 7 :30 p m . www.mercerstreetdancehall.com. 512-858-4314.MARCH 8• Mike and the MoonPies. Live music at Mercer Street Dance Hall. 7:30 pm. www.mercerstreetdancehall.com. 512-858-4314.• Dog Adoption Day sponsored by WAG Rescue. 11 am to 3 pm at Whole Pets Market, 911 Highway 290 West. www.wimberleywagrescue.org.MARCH 9• 10th Annual Brittany Tuck Scholarship Memorial Benefit. (See story, page 1.)Includes a barbecue cookoff. Dripping Springs Ranch Park Event Center. www.brittanytuck.com.

MARCH 15• Fancy Feathers 7th Annual Open Chicken Show. Professionally judged poultry show, with adult and youth classes plus backyard class for bantam and standard sized birds. See more than 40 varieties of chickens, participate in cluck-off, more. Dripping Springs Ranch Park. 9:30 am to 2 pm. www.fancyfeatherstx.org.• Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash. Live music at Mercer Street Dance Hall. 7:30 pm. www.mercerstreetdancehall.com. 512-858-4314.MARCH 21• Tessy Lou and Shotgun Stars. Live music at Mercer Street Dance Hall. 7:30 pm. www.mercerstreetdancehall.com. 512-858-4314.MARCH 22• Finger Pistol. Live music at Mercer Street Dance Hal l . 7 :30 p m . www.mercerstreetdancehall.com. 512-858-4314.MARCH 28• Stephen Chadwick. Live music at Mercer Street Dance Hall. 7:30 pm. www.mercerstreetdancehall.com. 512-858-4314.MARCH 29• Michael Myers. Live music at Mercer Street Dance Hal l . 7 :30 p m . www.mercerstreetdancehall.com. 512-858-4314.APRIL 5• Tours of Historic Phillips Cemetery. Costumed actors re-enact lives and lifestyles to tell the tale of Dripping Springs history. 2 pm to 4 pm. Adults $5, free under 15. Free to Heritage Circle members. www.heritagecircle.org, [email protected] 5• Heritage Gala to benefit the Dr. Pound Historical Farmstead Museum on the Museum grounds the evening of April 12. Tickets for the dinner, dancing and auction are available at drpoundhistoricalfarmstead.org or by calling 512-858-2030.APRIL 25-27• 27th Annual Founders Day Festival. Enjoy a grand parade, carnival, music, street dance, barbeque cook off, arts and crafts and more. Downtown. 512-858-4725. FYI • For information on any calendar event, call the Chamber at 512-858-4740.

Stephen Chadwick plays Mercer Street Dance Hall March 28. See the complete lineup at www.mercerstreetdancehall.com. Photo courtesy Stephen Chadwick.

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