Mueller has Austin written all over it A ceremony Wednesday honored Austinites whose names will grace streets in the Mueller community at the former airport site in East Austin. "They are names that make us proud to call Austin home," said state Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin. Descendants of those honored were given replica signs bearing their relative's name. Diana Casteñeda, left, receives one from Celia Ruiz that is named after her great-aunt Consuelo Mendez, the first Mexican to teach in the Austin school district. Dukes' aunt, teacher/writer Ada Simond, also was honored.

Mueller street names to honor locals 8/9/2007 12:24 PM By: News 8 Austin Staff   Mueller's street namesakes include local musicians, sports stars, teachers, business leaders and public servants who were identified with the help of the Austin History Center. State Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, is the great-niece of street namesake Ada Simond and Danny Camacho is the son of street namesake Lorraine Fuentes Castro Camacho.

ROBERT MUELLER MUNICIPAL AIRPORT REDEVELOPMENT State Rep. Dawnna Dukes (far left), greatniece of street namesake Ada Simond, and her family received a commemorative street sign for Simond Avenue in Mueller. Family members include Josephine Dukes, Audrey Marie-Ada Dukes Fontenot, along with Ben Dukes (back left) and Aundre Dukes.

Naked City Austin Stories BY Erica Barnett May 4, 2001 State Rep. Ron Wilson may get his own private airport after all, but it won't be the former Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. The Houston Democrat had floated a bill to create a state-owned general-aviation facility with a specific eye to Mueller, which Wilson tried in 1999 to keep open for the state's use. That didn't fly, but on April 25 he and our own Rep. Dawnna Dukes, in whose district Mueller is located, amended the sunset bill for the State Aircraft Pooling Board to create a new small-plane airport, open to the public, in Central Texas -- but only with the approval of the relevant city or county, and not on "any property owned by the most populous municipality in the region if the property was previously used as an airport." Rep. Fred Bosse of Houston tried to table this amendment, and then tried to amend it himself to strike the Mueller protection clause, but failed both times…

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Community Concert with Motown Artist KEM Time Warner Cable Austin, TX Time Warner Cable Austin collaborated with State Representative Dawnna Dukes to coordinate a concert with the Motown artist KEM in March of 2006. More than 1,000 community members attended the concert, which was promoted through various outlets in the African-American community. The concert gained positive media coverage in local African-American community publications, the Austin American-Statesman and the Austin Business Journal. During the concert, Dr. Larry Earvin, President of Huston-Tillotson University, accepted a contribution of $25,000 to the Huston-Tillotson University Scholarship Fund, which was made possible through proceeds from the KEM concert.