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The San Marcos summer air will vibrate with the sound of ancient drums and rattles as students line up for Native American camp activities that include traditional Native traditions and culture, flute playing, regalia painting, danza and theatre. The Native American Summer Camp, sponsored by local nonprofit Indigenous Cultures Institute, is scheduled for July 8 through the 12 at the Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos at 211 Lee Street.

Vikcy Boone Casting is conducting a search for boys in Austin and the surrounding areas with great imaginations and natural wit for lead roles in “Sweet Cheeks,” an upcoming film shooting in the Austin area in August. The film is directed by Todd Rohal (“Nature Calls”) and produced by Lacey Leavitt.

Welcome to May, a great month for birds and birding. You should be seeing new migrants this time of year, and many “winter” birds should be leaving. For example, the hordes of pine siskins I have been treating to expensive niger seeds have finally headed back north. And I haven't seen an American goldfinch since May began – although lesser goldfinches are still around.

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Hands of Hope has been actively helping women in the San Marcos area for more than eight years now and recently celebrated its latest class’ graduation.
Organized in 2004 with their first class completing a 10-week session in January of 2005, Hands of Hope was formerly known as the Christian Women’s Job Corps, one of 215 sites in the United States and 68 in Texas.
In 2008, the local group, which meets at First Baptist Church on McCarty Lane, changed their name to Hands of Hope to avoid confusion name-wise with Gary Job Corps.

Last week the San Marcos Runner's Club had Ana Johnson as a guest speaker for their monthly meeting.

Ana is a Trigger Point Yoga instructor and gave the members and guests a few tips on how to use her techniques to help them in running, or just general alignment and release of tight muscles.

I have had the opportunity to take a few classes from Ana and give this Trigger Point Yoga a try. I was a little hesitant at doing yoga stances that you think about when you see yoga instructors in some very strange contortions.