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Spring blooms

At North Haven Gardens’ annual Rose Weekend, the experienced staff ensures you pick out the perfect roses

From a lush, striking peachorange ‘Rosie the Riveter’ to a classic red ‘Legends’ hybrid tea rose, North Haven Gardens’ Rose Weekend features a bloom for everyone. With more than 100 varieties, you’ll find a wide selection of roses in all shapes and colors.

A tradition for over 68 years, NHG’s Rose Weekend has been instrumental in keeping Dallas rose gardens vibrant.

Originally, this popular weekend event was held in October. In those days, original rosarian Ira Duncan and founder Ralph Pinkus trekked to the Tyler rose fields, selecting the rose varieties that would be displayed instore for customers to browse. Bareroot canes were brought in after orders were placed. North Haven Gardens grew the shrubs over the winter in recycled food cans, and customers returned in March to pick up their shrubs.

By the mid-1970s, commercial rose growing in the U.S. was largely centered in California, but today, North Haven Gardens continues the tradition of bringing in several thousand bare root roses each winter to grow out for the next spring. Bare rootstock comes from several reputable wholesale rose growers from around the country, says

general manager Cody Hoya. Rose bushes typically start trickling into the nursery just as the holiday season is in full swing.

Now the last full weekend of March, North Haven Gardens sells an average of 1,000 roses during Rose Weekend — almost one-third of NHG’s yearly rose sales. It’s one of a handful of Texas nurseries that features fan-favorite David Austin English Roses.

The best way to select the perfect rose for your garden?

“Visit North Haven Gardens during Rose Weekend. Our garden advisors are ready and waiting to help select the best rose for you and your garden,” Hoya says.

Rose Weekend: March 25-26, 2023, 9am-6pm (opening 8am on Saturday)

ON THE COVER Beauty inside and out

At North Haven Gardens, enthusiasts can find a large variety of roses, attend classes such as Chic Home Plant Care, How Not to Kill Your Indoor Houseplant and “Swap and Sips” – opportunities for interested parties to trade cuttings and seeds with others.

Front cover: Roald Dahl Roses (apricot) are extremely robust and have a lovely fruity Tea scent. Named to mark the centenary of Roald Dahl’s birth. Image courtesy of David Austin Roses.

Left page: A ‘Benjamin Britten,’ bred by Davis Austin Roses, is a shrub known for its highly saturated color. Image courtesy of David Austin Roses. Right Page: Rosarian Ira Duncan with the canned roses in front in 1959. An ad for Rose Weekend from 1967. Images courtesy of North Haven Gardens.

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PLAYING BY HER OWN RULES

Clover the Violinist puts a jazzy, modern spin on her classic instruments ›

Clover is just as likely to be seen playing a wedding on a Swiss Avenue lawn as an Erykah Badu cover on TikTok.

Interview by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

Photography by JULIA CARTWRIGHT

Clover, who goes by “just Clover, or Clover the Violinist,” almost quit the violin altogether at 18. Years at an elite music school and a rigorous practice and competition schedule led to burnout, says the East Dallas resident born Gabrielle Clover.

Today her classic-meets-contemporary vibe is in demand around town and abroad. Fans flock to YouTube and TikTok to hear her violin covers of Chris Brown, Kid Cudi or Lil Nas X tracks. Neighbors might catch her playing a spring wedding on a Swiss Avenue lawn or a fundraiser at the Dallas Arboretum.

Now a full-time working musician, Clover the Violinist’s first EP is due to drop this summer. She spoke with the Advocate about irons in the fire and how she rekindled her love for playing music by making it her own.

IN SOME OF YOUR POSTED VIDEOS, YOU HAVE NAMES FOR YOUR INSTRUMENTS. CAN YOU INTRODUCE US?

I feel like every instrument has a different personality. Naming them helps me to connect with each instrument that I play. The main instrument that I use in most of my videos is this abstract-looking brown wooden electric violin. Her name is Dulce, like dulce de leche. She has a sweet sound and a caramel color. And I got a new carbon-fiber instrument that looks really cool, all black, decked out. I’m still trying to figure out a name for that one, trying to learn its personality and texture. It’ll come to me.

HOW MANY INSTRUMENTS DO YOU PLAY?

Mainly the piano and the violin. I did choir and percussion when I was young and was one of the first female

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snare drummers in my high school drum line. I’ve been dabbling lately in music production, so I’m playing with different sounds on the electronic side.

WHERE WAS HIGH SCHOOL?

I had a music scholarship to play the violin at a well-known prep school in Florida called North Broward Preparatory School. I joined their orchestra, and that was a really cool experience and an opportunity to get a great education.

WHY DIDN’T YOU DO A MUSIC PROGRAM IN COLLEGE?

Growing up, I took private lessons with a really great, and intense, instructor in Florida. Everything was fundamental classic. I loved it, and I am so thankful for it, but by age 18, I think I was burned out. It was a lot — half my high school classes were music, I was competing and rehearsing, and I was hard on myself. My inner critic told me it was not realistic for me to sustain those rigors and live as a full-time musician. Anyway, I decided to study psychology at Fordham University in The Bronx, New York, and I took a long break during that time from music. Every six or eight months I would pick up the violin, play around a little bit, then put it back. Maybe it was something I would do as a hobby. I struggled with that confidence factor.

WHAT REIGNITED YOUR PASSION FOR PLAYING MUSIC?

At 25, I had moved to Dallas and was doing paralegal work, but I was feeling dissatisfied. The 9-5 lifestyle did not feel very me. I started thinking about what brings me joy. I took up my violin and started playing around with it again, thinking it might be cool to

play my favorite songs instead of just continuing to play classical. That is when I started playing by ear. At first it would take me maybe three weeks to learn a single song, and now I’ll pick it up right away — repetition and practice.

WHO INSPIRES YOU?

One of my favorites is Regina Carter. She plays jazz violin. Hearing someone play that style sparked my interest in wanting to do something similar. Another is Stéphane Grappelli. He’s old school, but he was one of the pioneers of that jazz violin wave.

R&B is my favorite genre to play. One of my most-covered

Clover names her instruments but is still trying to discover the “personality” of her newest violin.

artists is Chris Brown. I really enjoy playing Daniel Caesar. I also like to go old school with the neo soul like Soulchild or Erykah Badu.

ARE YOU FULLY MAKING YOUR LIVING WITH MUSIC NOW?

This is in my first year of being a full-time musician. I never saw myself actually doing this, but here I am. Before this, I was an orchestra director for middle and high school students at a Dallas charter school, and I thought that I was going to go the teaching route.

SPEAKING OF TEACHING, WHY DO YOU THINK IT’S IMPORTANT FOR KIDS TO HAVE MUSIC EDUCATION?

I liked to tell my students music is like learning another language. There is structure within it, especially if you learn the classical route, but I tried to show my students there’s more than one way to play an instrument. They can take what I teach but still be creative and turn it into something that suits them, something they love. And I think they like having that creative outlet in the middle of the day.

WHAT DO THE DAYS OF A FULL-TIME VIOLINIST LOOK LIKE?

I’ve been doing quite a few private events — anniversaries, birthdays, engagements at homes — I really like private events, like playing weddings. I think a lot of brides enjoy the idea of my playing her favorite

song as she’s walking down the aisle. I get comparisons to Bridgerton Brides seem to like that vibe.

WILL YOU REMAIN IN DALLAS?

That’s the big question. I’ve been in Dallas for seven years. Just since this year started, I’ve seen huge opportunities come up for me. I’ve worked with Dallas City Hall, Dallas Arboretum, the African American Museum. Dallas has shown me so much love and allowed my music side to blossom. But, also, having had an opportunity to travel — like playing resorts in Mexico, things like that — I am thinking more about splitting time.

WHERE DO YOU LIKE TO HANG IN DALLAS?

For music, I love Revelers Hall in Bishop Arts. I love The Free Man and wandering around Deep Ellum. I like the culture there.

WHAT’S NEXT?

I’ll release my first EP by early summer. Finally I’ll be getting my own creations and content out there for streaming and downloading. It’ll include some of my popular covers and a couple original singles. That’s one thing I’m most excited about.

As of publication, Clover didn’t have a name picked out for this black, carbon-fiber instrument.

Story by RENEE UMSTED

A 110-bed hospital would be built as an addition to the Doctor’s Medical Center on Garland Road, the president of the White Rock Chamber of Commerce announced. The cost was estimated to be $1 million. When completed, the hospital would offer medical and surgical services, outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment, a communications system, air conditioning and a parking lot to accommodate 200 vehicles.

What exists today is a 218-bed medical center near the intersection of Garland Road and N. Buckner Boulevard operated by California-based Pipeline Health. Inside the ground-floor lobby, the hospital displays certificates marking its 50th anniversary, celebrated in 2009, along with a plaque representing the patent presented in 1993 to Paul J. Durfee, a cardiac catheter technician at Doctors Hospital, for the Durfee Catheter.

Many East Dallas neighbors have stories to tell about the facility now named White Rock Medical Center. More difficult to explain is how a small, independent hospital functions in a city with plentiful medical resources, including the most-awarded not-for-profit health system in Texas, the top scientific health care research institution and the No. 10 hospital system in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report, Nature Index and The Lown Institute, respectively.

The Doctors years

Over the years, the facility has been under different ownership and names, but it began in 1959 as Doctors Hospital, a nonprofit.

It transitioned to a for-profit hospital in early 1984, when National Medical Enterprises bought it, says Gene Ward, who began working at the hospital as the director of finance in 1967. NME acquired American Medical International in 1995, and the company’s name became Tenet Healthcare.

“One of the strengths of Doctors Hospital, always a strength in my opinion, was that the original members of the medical staff, they were good doctors,” Ward says. “They were very ethical folks.”

Around 1971, the hospital began searching for a new location, Ward says. Hospital leaders decided on a nearby property, went through the rezoning process and began construction in 1975. Also around that time, Ward’s work focused on the development, and his former responsibilities were delegated to a new director of finance.

East Dallas resident Carolyn Farmer started working at the hospital in 1979 as a nurse in the emergency department. Less than two years later, she was promoted to night house supervisor,

and during her 37 years at the hospital, she was also the day house supervisor and supervisor of the day surgery department.

“It felt like a family,” Farmer says. “There were a lot of us that stayed there for a very long time.”

When issues arose, it usually had to do with leaders and employees having different styles, ideas and personalities, Farmer says, but that could be said of any working environment.

Farmer has also been a patient at Doctors Hospital, where she had knee surgery and received great care, she says. Her sense of the hospital’s reputation during the time she worked there was generally favorable; she says she didn’t hear many bad reports or rumors.

But other patients describe different experiences.

About 40 years ago, East Dallas resident Kathy Powers was riding her bike around White Rock Lake. She had an accident, went over the handlebars and landed on her head. A police officer took her to the hospital, but Powers says a football player with a broken pinky finger was seen before she was. She says she still has a bump on her head.

Adrianne Allen took her daughter to the hospital about 15 years ago, having trouble getting the fever to drop. There were two or three others in the waiting room, and Allen says she waited at least seven hours before

“The search for a hospital to service the White Rock area is over,” reads the lead of a June 1958 story from bygone weekly newspaper The White Rocker.

her daughter was seen. Inside the patient room, she saw blood and chunks of hair, she says, but the staff declined to transfer them to another. Her daughter was eventually given some antibiotics, and they left after about 10 hours.

Lucy Fulls was a recruiter at the hospital for a year, starting in 2013, and was responsible for hiring clinical staff. At the time, Fulls had been a recruiter for about six years and accepted a job from Tenet Healthcare, not having any hospital experience. Her motherin-law had told her about a bad experience she had while getting a knee replacement several years earlier, but Fulls trusted the positive reviews provided by company employees.

Her own experience, she says, couldn’t have been more different. She was trying to fill up to 90 positions at a time, all by herself — scheduling and conducting every interview, giving every tour. One of the roadblocks to keeping hires was compensation, and Fulls says nurses left the facility once they finished their residency.

“It is to this date the most stressful job I’ve ever had,” Fulls says.

The Baylor years

In March 2015, Baylor Scott & White and Tenet Healthcare, the owner and operator of the hospital, announced a partnership to jointly own five medical facilities in North Texas, including Doctors Hospital at White Rock Lake.

As part of the deal, the name of the East Dallas hospital changed to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - White Rock, and Baylor took a majority ownership interest in the hospital, but Tenet continued to manage operations. Current hospital leaders remained in place, and the companies expected min -

imal changes for employees.

Brett Lee, the CEO of Tenet’s Dallas market, says in a 2015 news release that the partnership would better enable the hospital to care for patients.

(Baylor Scott & White Health could not be reached for comment.)

The Pipeline years

Baylor’s ownership didn’t last long. In 2018, Pipeline Health purchased the hospital, and it became City Hospital at White Rock Lake. Jane Brust, the vice president for marketing and communications at Pipeline, says the company was looking to expand beyond Los Angeles, and Baylor was looking for a buyer.

As with Doctors Hospital, patient feedback for City Hospital at White Rock Lake is mixed.

In 2018, Powers — who had been treated for a head injury there decades earlier — was taken to the hospital by ambulance, believing she was having a stroke. Powers says she was left on a gurney in the hallway for hours before undergoing any tests. She spent days at the hospital and had months of speech, physical and occupational therapy. When she resumed work as a receptionist at a veterinary hospital, a job she had for decades, she noticed her performance had declined following the stroke, she says.

But Allen, who had taken her daughter

to the hospital when it was Doctors, had physical therapy there about a year ago, and she says she didn’t have any issues that time. Another patient, Megan Polakoff, says the staff took good care of her when she needed an emergency appendectomy in August 2020.

(White Rock Medical Center can’t disccuss details of a single patient experience without patient consent because of privacy laws. However, Melissa Grych, the director of marketing and communications for the hospital, says the hospital’s top priorities are always patient safety and quality care.)

Brust says market research revealed that some people found the hospital’s name confusing. Plus, when Pipeline acquired it, there wasn’t a comprehensive branding implementation plan.

To remedy this, Pipeline announced a rebranding in January 2022. The facility became White Rock Medical Center and took a new logo, and ownership launched a revamped marketing strategy to better describe its services.

“If we had been perceived as sort of asleep, we wanted to let the community know, this was a new day for White Rock Medical Center, and Pipeline was making investments in surgical robots and other things to really improve the facilities and enhance patient care,” Brust says.

Those investments went toward technologies that provide minimally invasive procedures, enabling customization to patients’ needs. The hospital

also has a four-arm da Vinci system and a ROSA knee system, White Rock Medical Center CEO Matt Roberts says in a statement. These computer-assisted surgical technologies offer benefits such as a lower risk of infections and scarring and a shorter recovery time. They also allow surgeons enhanced vision, dexterity and control.

The hospital offers bariatric, cardiology, orthopedic, women’s health and emergency care services, Roberts says. Its bariatrics program is one of 11 throughout the country and the second in Texas to earn elite accreditation.

It also has an outpatient rehabilitation program that includes physical therapy, medically supervised cardiac rehab and aquatic therapy with a heated, indoor pool.

White Rock Medical Center opened a primary care clinic at Mockingbird Commons, at the corner of East Mockingbird Lane and Abrams Road, in July.

In October, Pipeline announced it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing industry-wide challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as increasing labor and supply costs, delayed payments from insurance plans and decreased ability to generate revenue.

The clinic at Mockingbird Commons closed in late December, and services were moved to the main campus near White Rock Lake, Roberts says, because it was a financially prudent move to

manage available resources. The two doctors who had been at the Mockingbird Commons location and specialize in family and internal medicine began caring for patients at a building on Poppy Drive right next to the hospital.

Pipeline shared news in January that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas confirmed the company’s Chapter 11 plan, which included the sale of two hospitals, evaluating vendor contracts, developing a business plan to balance the budget and forming financial agreements with stakeholders who wanted to support the company in the future.

In addition, a few of the company’s top leaders said they would be “stepping away”; their replacements were announced in February, along with news that the company was officially emerging from bankruptcy.

The local hospital is different from others nearby because it is a community-focused medical center that handles a range of health concerns and cares for patients in their neighborhood, Roberts says.

Following the company’s exit from bankruptcy, White Rock Medical Center is focused on expanding key services. It plans to grow its home-based therapy program, which takes physical, occupational and speech therapy and wound care to patients.

The hospital also expects to open a new pulmonology clinic this summer, where patients can receive care for interstitial lung disease and other abnormal findings in their lungs. People with sleep apnea could also benefit from the pulmonologists, who will work alongside the hospital’s sleep center.

And no, the hospital’s name isn’t changing, and neither is the ownership.

up, up and away

THIS

NEIGHBOR TAKES TO THE SKY LIKE A BIRD IN FLIGHT

Story by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

kevin Sayre can fly anywhere in the world without leaving his garage.

This feat is possible because Sayre, a longtime East Dallas resident, has constructed a Boeing 737 flight simulator over the course of many years and hundreds of hours.

The actual building project can be traced back to a joystick and CDROM his wife, Peggy, purchased for him about 20 years ago while they were living on the east side of White Rock Lake.

“I think Peggy probably regrets that purchase,” Sayre says. Peggy, coincidentally, was a flight attendant for 40 years but does not share her husband’s hobby.

But Sayre says he has loved aviation since he was 8 years old, when he first rode on an airplane. The trip was from Rochester to New York City.

“They’d put a jacket and a tie on me,” Sayre says. “It was like a big deal. It was like a glamorous kind of thing. You’d get dressed up, and you’d be on your best behavior.”

He wanted to be a pilot, but poor vision prevented him from joining the military, which was the main pipeline to becoming a commercial pilot — though he did log some hours while taking flying lessons in his late 20s at the Addison Airport.

So when Peggy came home with the joystick and CD-ROM, it didn’t matter that the visuals were cartoonish. He could fly.

“That kind of got me hooked,” Sayre says.

The simulator occupies the bulk

of the Sayres’ detached garage — outside the house, Sayre says, because he values his marriage.

The door to the cockpit opens to reveal about a million doodads, seats for a pilot and co-pilot from a real 737 and, of course, the view “from the air,” which is provided by three curved monitors. It takes seven computers, several speakers and at least five software programs to run the operation.

Sayre’s software uses satellite imagery and allows him to customize the starting point, weather and time of day for his journeys. His favorites take him over San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and Florida.

The existing simulator is not the first iteration of Sayre’s work, but it’s the most thorough he’s ever had. The cockpit sits on a wheeled platform Sayre built.

That kind of got me hooked.

He commissioned a Canadian company to build the shell of the cockpit, and he bought component parts of the mock 737 from different companies.

Putting together the simulator was a self-taught process; there’s no how-to book for this. He consulted YouTube videos and websites of hardware manufacturers and spent days tending to details. Once, he says, it took a weekend to get the color on the head of a screw just right.

“It’ll always be sort of a work in progress,” he says.

Learning how to use the simulator took a while, but Sayre says it’s not as difficult as one might think. Flight is controlled with a throttle and yoke, the steering wheel of the plane, and foot pedals steer the plane when it’s on the ground.

The amount of time he spends in the garage varies. Sometimes he’ll fly for hours, days in a row. Other times, he’ll ignore the simulator for a month. But he always goes back to it, working to make it just a little bigger, a little better.

“I’m just obsessed with it.”

Meyboom Brasserie offers beer and cheese pairings. The “European fromage” cheese board comes with four cheeses, crostini and a side of fruit and almonds.

BRING ON

THE BELGIAN

BEER IS THE NEW WINE AT MEYBOOM BRASSERIE

Story by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by KATHY TRAN

CUSTOMERS

WHO

ORDER a beer at Meyboom Brasserie won’t get a glass filled to the brim with a golden or brown liquid, topped with a thin layer of foam. They won’t get something in a bottle, either. Instead, the bartender will pour

the beer into a glass, paying close attention to the head, the bubbly layer that sits atop the brew.

That’s because April Segovia and Jeff Karetnick, the owners of the Lowest Greenville bar, have an appreciation for and understanding

of the Belgian way of enjoying beer. Without about two fingers’ worth of head, the beer won’t taste the way it really should. It won’t be as fresh for as long.

The married couple first experienced the culture around

The m-shaped bar at Meyboom Brasserie fosters conversation.

the beverage during a 2019 trip to Belgium.

“For lunch, we’d see people having a beer with their meal,” Segovia says. “And we also noticed that they respect how it’s poured.”

At the time, they were both working in the corporate world. Karetnick, who has an MBA from SMU, minored in hospitality and had an interest in opening a bar. He also has a sommelier certificate and Wine & Spirit Education Trust Level 2 awards in wine and spirits and a WSET Level 1 award in sake. Segovia, another SMU alumnus, was confident that her background in corporate retail and category management would prepare her for business ownership.

They hadn’t seen anything in

the United States like what they experienced in Europe, so on their way home, they formulated the idea to bring a Belgian-style bar to Dallas. Both received their Cicerone Certification, and they took a second trip overseas, where they met glassmakers, visited breweries and tasted.

Originally, they wanted to open in the old San Francisco Rose on Greenville near Marquita. But they ran into issues with parking, so they moved south to the old Ragin’ Crab, which came with a patio, more foot traffic and a parking lot.

They didn’t know when they decided to lease the property that they would have to gut the place. The renovation project resulted in new

air conditioning units and ductwork, along with an expanded kitchen.

While construction was ongoing inside, the owners set up shop outside, selling to customers on the patio.

The interior opened in September 2022, about a year after Segovia and Karetnick began their sidewalk service. Front doors open to an m-shaped counter meant to foster conversation among those bellied up to the bar. The owners decorated the space with items they purchased in Europe — copper lamps, a coat hanger, a waffle iron sconce and some pictures, for example.

Despite the visual interest of the Old World artifacts, beer is the main attraction at Meyboom. There are nine varieties on tap, with styles including

Left: The Liege waffle, a traditional Belgian waffle, is made with pearl sugar and served with a choice of toppings, such as strawberries and Dutch chocolate sauce. Right: About a year after the Karetnicks began serving customers outside, they opened the inside of Meyboom Brasserie, the major renovation project finally finished.

golden ale, pale ale, triple and quadruple.

Belgian beers are served in particular glasses and poured to a particular level. Some of the glasses have a nucleation point, a laser etching at the base that helps keep the beverage fresh by producing carbon dioxide bubbles. Though some customers may think they’re not getting enough beer based on how the drink looks in the glass, Meyboom’s owners beg to differ.

“We’ll do it the proper way that’s been going on for centuries over there,” Karetnick says.

The Delirium Tremens beer, which has a pink elephant on the label, is one of the most popular orders. At 8.5% alcohol by volume, it’s not meant for chugging, and its alcohol level isn’t unusual for the Belgian beers, which start at $8.

Meyboom was the first bar in Texas to offer St. Bernardus Wit, a white beer made at the St. Bernardus brewery in Watou, Belgium.

The bar treats beer like others treat wine (though, in February, Meyboom did launch an online wine store, Kenny’s Wine Shop, to sell rare bottles and honor Karetnick’s father, Kenny Karetnick, who died in February 2015). Some of the beer varieties can be aged; there’s a Trappist beer and cheese pairing, and there’s a beer club, where participants get a beer and its glassware each month, along with a discount on the beer of the week. Not to mention, Segovia and Karetnick developed the food menu around the beer.

Bitterballen, fried Dutch meatballs, are a great accompaniment to the fermented drinks, Segovia says. Beer-battered cod is a commonly requested item. Also offered are Belgian waffles, which are sweeter than what diners might expect, and Brussels sprouts served with beer cheese.

Many foods often eaten in Belgium are stews or come with heavy sauces, made for a climate much cooler than Texas’, Segovia says. So she and Karetnick decided to incorporate Belgian flavors into items such as the marinated chicken tenders.

Yet some traditional dishes remain, including one on the new dinner menu: moules-frites, mussels with french fries. It’s Belgium’s national dish, and Meyboom prepares it the authentic way.

“What they do over there is, it’s hand-peeled, hand-cut, fried twice,” he says. “So that’s what we do.”

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THE STATE OF THE

NEIGHBORHOOD

Whether it’s criminal or municipal, these are the trends and updates every East Dallasite should know

Story by RENEE UMSTED | Illustration by LAUREN ALLEN

Once a year, the president of the United States delivers a speech known as the State of the Union. The address is prescribed in Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which states that the leader of our country should “from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”

The Advocate is not held to such a standard. But we thought we’d share how things are going in our neighborhood anyway.

CRIME

News of shootings, people found dead in vehicles and bodies floating in White Rock Lake generated plenty of attention last year. But those are outliers when it comes to crime trends.

To get a handle on the acts committed in our neighborhood in 2022, we considered Dallas Police Department data from the five sectors that cover the bulk of Advocate’s neighborhood delivery areas:

• Sector 110: Junius Heights, Munger Place, Hollywood/Santa Monica, Mount Auburn

• S ector 140: M Streets, Lower Greenville, Lakewood Heights, Swiss Avenue, Cochran Heights, Vickery Place

• S ector 150: Old East Dallas, Deep Ellum

• S ector 220: Reinhardt, Casa View

• S ector 230: parts of Lakewood, Forest Hills, Little Forest Hills, Lochwood, Old Lake Highlands and Casa Linda

Simple assault occurred most often in sectors 110, 230 and 220. For sectors 140 and 150, theft from motor vehicles was the most common crime reported, and for sector 140, motor vehicle theft was the second-most common.

Of the five sectors, sector 110 had the fewest recorded crimes overall, at 2,367. Sector 150 had the most, at 4,561. All but sector 220 had more crimes in 2022 compared to 2021.

Aggravated assault was among the top five types of crime committed in sector 220, but in the other neighborhoods, it wasn’t as common. Overall, reported crimes committed last year in these five East Dallas sectors comprised 16.1% of total crimes in Dallas, according to police data.

SECTOR: 150

Old East Dallas, Deep Ellum

4,561 crimes in 2022

868 Theft From Motor Vehicle

596

Drugs/Narcotic Violations

SECTOR: 220

Reinhardt, Casa View

3,557 crimes in 2022

641 Simple Assault

389

Destruction/ Damage/ Vandalism of Property

SECTOR: 140

M Streets, Lower Greenville, Lakewood Heights, Swiss Avenue, Cochran Heights, Vickery Place

3,116 crimes in 2022

665 Theft From Motor Vehicle

511

Motor Vehicle Theft

SECTOR: 230

parts of Lakewood, Forest Hills, Little Forest Hills, Lochwood, Old Lake Highlands and Casa Linda

3,724 crimes in 2022

528 Simple Assault 503

Theft From Motor Vehicle

SECTOR: 110

Junius Heights, Munger Place, Hollywood/Santa Monica, Mount Auburn

2,367 crimes in 2022

346 Simple Assault

287

Motor Vehicle Theft

PERMITTING

As if the supply chain issues weren’t bad enough, businesses, contractors and individuals throughout Dallas have complained about the permitting system. Delays were really cramping their style.

But District 9 City Council member Paula Blackmon, who was one of the people tasked with finding solutions to the problem, says things are getting better.

In June, the city hired Andrew Espinoza to lead Development Services. There were 58 new hires in the department last year, which exceeds the 42 lost to attrition, and the department will continue recruiting and onboarding, Blackmon says.

Upgrades have also been made to relevant technology, including the ProjectDox software, an electronic system used to submit and process permits.

But Development Services has also noticed that some of the problems can be traced back to members of the public who fail to complete applications properly. To remedy this, the department is pursuing public education and outreach. Staff have been hosting monthly pop-up events at the Oak Cliff Municipal Center, where people can obtain permits for small projects and repairs. These pop-ups will continue throughout the year, along with a “lunch and learn” series, where staff explain development topics.

Key metrics also show signs of improvement. In the last quarter of 2022, the department was issuing more single-family residential permits than were being submitted, though the number of permit applications was decreasing. Over the same period, Development Services was reviewing applications faster and within its 15-day goal more often, according to Espinoza’s presentation at a recent Government Performance and Financial Management committee meeting.

“I think what’s happening as a whole is that there’s better communication and there’s awareness on the city’s part that we need to fix this at the staff level and not just at the council level,” Blackmon says.

75206

$334

Price by Square Foot

623

Number of Sales

75218

$303

Price by Square Foot

380

Number of Sales

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$215

Price by Square Foot

591

75214

$366

Price by Square Foot

576

Number of Sales

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$266

106

Number of Sales

Number of Sales

REAL ESTATE

There were fewer home sales in 2022 than in 2021 across the ZIP codes in our coverage area: 75206, 75214, 75218, 75223 and 75228. In 75223, only 14 fewer homes were sold in 2022, but in 75206, 228 fewer homes were sold.

Consider a longer time span: In 75206, 75214 and 75218, the number of homes sold decreased from 2013 compared with 2022. But in 75223 and 75228, the number of homes sold in 2022 was slightly higher than the number of homes sold in 2013.

With the exception of 75223, homes in our neighborhood sold faster on average in 2022, compared to the previous year. But when 2022 data is compared to 2013 data, the numbers are much more stark. The amount of time it took for homes in East Dallas to sell was about half as many days last year compared to 2013.

Homes in our neighborhood are becoming more expensive, too. That’s particularly true in 75228, which includes Casa View. In that area, the price per square foot of homes was nearly 50% higher in 2022 than in 2018. Even in the ZIP code that includes Hollywood/Santa Monica and Mount Auburn, which saw the area’s smallest increase in price per square foot, the value has increased $49 per square foot, or about 22%, since 2018.

TRANSPORTATION

Gaston Avenue, Abrams Road and Ferguson Road are neighborhood arteries. Instead of blood clots, transportation professionals must address issues of traffic congestion, speeding and crashes. Left unchecked, the cells — drivers — could cause a heart attack.

Blackmon says a consultant has reviewed a list of improvements along Ferguson Road between Loop 12 and I-635. The list covers items such as replacement of four traffic signals, improvements at 19 intersections and updated lighting and signs. That list is being refined and, when completed, will be shared with Blackmon’s office, as well as other relevant council members, before a period of public input.

For much of the past year, the consultant also has been considering data, existing infrastructure and potential improvements along Ferguson from I-30 to Loop 12, Blackmon says.

As far as a study of the Abrams Road corridor, Blackmon says she expects a contract to be put in place with a consultant in the coming months.

The Dallas Department of Transportation hosted a community meeting in July to discuss recommendations for the Gaston Avenue corridor, a 3.7-mile stretch from Washington Avenue near Baylor Hospital to the Gaston-Garland-Grand intersection.

Proposed improvements throughout the corridor included traffic signal upgrades, better sidewalks and dedicated turn lanes. Members of the public had the opportunity to respond to the proposals in an online survey, which was open for several weeks.

A spokesperson with the City of Dallas says staff are finalizing recommendations and developing cost estimates and an implementation plan. The stakeholder steering committee for the project, made of residents appointed by council members, will be able to review the proposed plan before it’s finalized, and that will happen later this spring or early summer.

FALL 2023 Estimated Triple-G project completion

DREDGING

White Rock Lake needs a good dredge, and over the past few months, the city has been taking steps to make that happen.

Last fall, during a meeting where Blackmon wore a beaver outfit decorated with trash commonly found in the lake, the City Council approved a contract with an outside firm to conduct engineering design services. After a kickoff meeting between the city and consultant Freese and Nichols, the firm has 18 months to provide the study and be 30% complete on conceptual drawings.

But the city still has to find a way to pay for the whole thing.

Primary sources of funding being considered are the 2024 bond and federal and state dollars. The dredging feasibility study from 2020, also completed by Freese and Nichols, estimated that the cost would be $50 million to $88 million.

Dredging can’t begin until the engineering design is complete and funds are identified, so that means we’ll be waiting until 2024 or 2025.

Courtesy of Maestri Architecture and Design

Photography by Michael Cagle Courtesy of Maestri Architecture and Design

A Beautiful Life

RODERICK

MACELWAIN LISTENED TO AND ADVISED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF WHITE ROCK LAKE VISITORS

Story by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | Photography by FAY STOUT

ONE OF TWO MEN FAMOUS for delivering free advice at White Rock Lake for 20-something years, Roderick MacElwain died Jan. 15 following what his family and friends say was a heroic battle with cancer.

Though he’s best known around here for his kindness, wit and sage wisdom offered from lakeside lawn chairs, MacElwain led an altruistic and adventurous existence long before the day in 1996 when he and his buddy Neal Caldwell pitched their “Free Advice” sign at Jackson Point.

“Roderick impacted the lives of virtually every person he encountered, often profoundly,” his friend Nathan Crow says.

Because of his unique approach to life, MacElwain embraced a grim diagnosis, which he received in 2017, that most would find devastating.

“For Roderick and his wife Lisa, their experience with his cancer was not so much a battle against the

disease, but more an invitation to open their hearts, to love life and to love others,” Crow, with input from other loved ones, wrote in his friend’s obituary. “Despite the pain and challenge of his illness, Roderick would often say that cancer was the ‘best thing that ever happened to him,’ because it affirmed the importance of God and close relationships with family and friends.”

A Miami native, MacElwain spent summers with his grandmother in Minnesota where he developed a love of the outdoors and adventure.

He moved to California’s Bay Area during high school, played a little football and graduated from Berkeley before embarking on a promising business career in New York.

But while still in his 20s, according to his friends, he had a profound spiritual awakening and set out on a cross-country journey.

“Without money, food, a change of clothes or even a passport, and with a self-imposed rule that he would not beg or ask anyone for help, Roderick left home to see where and how far his faith, grit and wits might take him,” Crow wrote, based on acquaintances’ memories. “He would often refer to his trip around the world as a formative experience, and he would share countless tales — both harrowing and heartwarming — of his travels through several continents.”

Once he settled in Dallas, MacElwain’s remarkable intuition and logical problem-solving skills made him a sought-after freelance business consultant.

But this was “a man of unique and constantly evolving interests,” his friend says, a guy who did a stint as a taxi driver in 1970s Miami primarily out of curiosity about human nature.

He didn’t care about money, lived modestly by choice and, for many of his adult years, drove around in a 1960s Volkswagen Bug.

He periodically pursued interests in dream analysis, race walking and improvisational singing, “always marching to his own drum,” Crow says.

FREE ADVICE

Almost every Sunday, weather permitting, Caldwell

and MacElwain set up on a picnic blanket close to T.P. Hill, inviting passersby to sit and chat. They shared a desire to become better communicators, MacElwain told the Advocate in 2004, adding that the first hour and a half was “horrendously uncomfortable.”

Caldwell recalls people yelling at them to “get a job” and a general mistrust at the outset of “the experiment.”

But on the other side of intense awkwardness was a giddy sense of possibility and wonder, he says.

“At the end of the day, we were laughing so much. It was such great fun,” Caldwell says. “That is the best word to describe it. Fun in a challenging way, not just entertainment.”

As anyone who frequented White Rock Lake in the past 20 years knows, the Free Advice Guys became a fixture.

“We were consistent and stubborn,” Caldwell says.

Those close to them guess the pair advised tens of thousands of people.

Although most who went to Free Advice were strangers, many became repeat visitors. Some became lifelong friends, Caldwell says.

People were drawn to MacElwain’s ability to listen, understand and guide them, he says.

“He can show you your gifts, your qualities and your bad qualities,” Caldwell says. “He believed if you identify and focus on the good qualities, you can propel your life forward easier and more clearly.”

As MacElwain told the Advocate , sometimes they just listened.

“A lot of times we’ve helped people not by having an answer or an interesting way of looking at it, but just by letting them talk and being as supportive and neutral as possible. Many times, you can just see them open up and realize things. And we really didn’t do anything, but just be decent, respectful human beings.”

The Free Advice experiment and friendship with MacElwain had an enormous positive effect on Caldwell, who tells the Advocate he is back to offering free advice, now Sundays at Turtle Creek Park.

Everyone who met MacElwain — via Free Advice or elsewhere — remembered the experience, his friend Nathan Crow says.

“Simultaneously traditional but iconoclastic, passionate but incisive, caring but brutally honest, a conversation with Roderick was like no other,” he notes.

Friends say MacElwain remained a spiritual person throughout his life.

During his illness, he embraced his Christian faith and more openly shared it with those around him. He was non-denominational and had no interest in imposing his beliefs on others, they add.

At the time of his diagnosis, doctors told MacElwain he had approximately six months to live, but as his wife Lisa puts it, “Roderick took on cancer in a way that was both Herculean and quintessentially his own.”

A vegan committed to a healthy lifestyle, he pursued conventional and alternative treatments for his illness, a combination to which family and friends attribute the extension of life.

While the final days were challenging, his family shares, MacElwain continued to communicate his experiences to help others struggling with cancer.

“Roderick’s friends and family were in awe of his strength and resolve in the face of cancer,” Lisa says, “while his physicians were stunned by his remarkable survival for nearly six years following his initial diagnosis.”

Roderick died surrounded by loved ones and is survived by wife Lisa Oglesby Rocha, sister Eva Narten, niece Michelle MacElwain Leon and great nephew Jorge Taño Leon, as well as countless spiritual family members and close friends.

A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. March 4 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 848 Harter Road. A celebration of Roderick MacElwain’s life will follow.

In lieu of flowers, those wishing to honor MacElwain’s memory are encouraged to do two things: First, do a kind, loving act for someone else. Second, ask themselves how they can live their life in the way that is truest to their innermost self.

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

By PATTI VINSON

GET OFF MY LAWN

The do’s and don’ts of dealing with squirrels

“Squirrels R Evil. Change my mind.”

That was the message

Lakewood neighbor Linda Marie Ford recently displayed in her window, then posted on social media. In the photo of the window, she stands nearby, her arm in a sling.

So many questions. Let’s start with: Why the anti-squirrel campaign, Linda?

“My husband and I were dog sitting for our son and his wife,” Ford says.

While working in her home office, she noticed Winnie the granddog going back and forth at the window.

“The squirrels were taunting her.”

So off they go for a walk, chasing four squirrels in the process.

“But I didn’t see the fifth one. Winnie made a break for it. I flew over the neighbors’ lawn chairs and crashed to the ground like an NFL player.”

“My only wish,” she says wryly, “was that one of our neighbors caught me sailing over their Adirondacks on their Ring doorbell, but alas, no footage exists.”

Ford’s famous sense of humor is intact, even if her humerus is not.

Judging from the Facebook comments she received, many in East Dallas have issues with these ubiquitous little creatures whom one commenter deemed “just rats with fuzzy tails.” Another commenter suggested Ford deal with the offender by taking it for a one-way ride to the taxidermist.

It’s a conundrum.

Squirrels are entertaining to watch, but they can wreak havoc, be it a destroyed flower bed or a broken arm.

Brett Johnson, an urban biologist for Dallas Park and Recreation, can help us get inside the heads of these inscrutable animals.

Johnson says the little guys running wild in our neighborhood are fox squirrels. They are native to this area, slightly larger than other tree squirrels and, surprisingly, spend more time on the ground than most tree squirrels.

And there is some truth to the wisecrack about “rats with fuzzy tails.” Squirrels are members of the rodentia family of mammals.

Like all animals, they play an important role in the ecosystem.

“They’re important for seed dispersal and may help influence forest succession, which is the changing of plant species over time,” Johnson says. “They bury a lot of seeds and acorns and forget about a lot of them. This can help kick-start getting new trees in the ground.”

You’ve likely seen them in your yard or at the park, frantically digging. That’s because they frequently find

and rebury their stashes, Johnson says. However, they also create fake stashes to safeguard their acorns from thieves.

They might be chuckling to themselves as they set up a pile of debris with no nuts or acorns underneath, but it’s a ploy that is rarely successful.

No doubt you’ve heard their chatter, maybe even been on the receiving end of it. It’s not your imagination: You are indeed being cussed out by a squirrel.

“These squirrels have been taunting me for decades,” Johnson says. “They are the early warning system of the woods, and very vocal.”

Most of their vocalizations are with each other, but they will most certainly give you, a perceived predator, an earful. They usually chatter from high in a tree or on a rooftop.

“If they are where they think they are safe, they will chew out a person or dog,” Johnson says.

And they’re likely to punctuate their comments with an annoyed or angry twitch of the tail.

Photography courtesy of DeWaun Simmons.

Speaking of annoyed, what are we to do about their stashes in our gardens and flowerbeds? How to stop the digging?

Johnson offers a couple of tips.

“Keep their favorite foods — acorns, nuts, berries — out of the garden. You can try the assorted predator scents, but keep in mind, once they get used to the scent, they don’t care,” he says.

He also suggests trying a motion-activated water sprinkler.

And birdfeeders? It seems squirrels dine there often, crowding out the intended customers. Johnson recommends the 5-7-9 rule.

“They can’t jump up more than about five feet, they can’t launch more than about seven feet and don’t like to drop more than nine feet,” he says. “So keep that in mind when placing the feeder.”

Caged feeders or feeders with perches that squirrels are too heavy for are other options.

“You can also look at one of the caged feeders,” he says. “There are also feeders with perches that squirrels are too heavy for. They will either tip or in some cases trigger the perch to spin.”

As far as feeding squirrels, Johnson advises against it.

“They get used to being around humans, and then they may go looking for a handout,” Johnson says.

Someone — probably not the squirrel — could get bitten.

He also says March is baby squirrel season, which means an uptick in calls to the DFW Wildlife Coalition hotline about injured and orphaned squirrels. Longtime hotline volunteer and rehabber Julie Cassidy says baby squirrels are identified by their unique black nails. If the baby has no apparent injuries, all efforts should be made to reunite it with its mother, who is likely nearby, foraging for food.

Cassidy strongly encourages neighbors to avoid using rodenticides to

control the rat and squirrel populations. Squirrels are part of the food chain for coyotes, bobcats and raptors such as hawks and eagles.

“I wonder how our neighborhood would feel If one of the eagles at the lake ate a poisonous rodent and died,” she says.

Johnson offers this perspective.

“We probably have more squirrels now than in the past. Keep in mind most of the Dallas area was prairie. The only places we had squirrel habitat was down along the creeks,” he says. “As we built up the city, we planted trees everywhere, especially oak trees. Fox squirrels are a species that has adapted quite nicely to living in urban settings.”

For more information, visit dfwwildlife.org

PATTI VINSON is a guest writer who has lived in East Dallas for more than 20 years. She’s written for the Advocate and Real Simple magazine.

Photography courtesy of Barbara Taeger Photography.

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