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Justin Bieber is one sad dude: rich, talented and famous but seemingly not too happy.

He had a rich, talented and famous girlfriend at one time; maybe he still does. It’s hard to follow all of the plot twists in their lives.

Neither is much more than a kid. But that hasn’t stopped us from hearing about them and reading about them and watching them and criticizing them from the get-go.

They make pretty easy targets, too, always saying and doing cringe-worthy things, despite their wealth and fame.

They’re good examples of how difficult it is to be young these days. Wealth can’t protect anyone from exposure, or overexposure, when we all carry cameras in our pockets. Thanks to new technology, any of us can shoot and broadcast video to the internet simultaneously.

That’s right: Before we even have a chance to think about the implications of what we’re doing, we’re done.

A college buddy and I had lunch recently, and we started talking about our first years out of school and on the job. It wasn’t uncommon for us or our friends to do some pretty dumb things.

Had any of us back then had the capability to constantly video people’s every step or misstep, instantly slap it on the internet where it would still be visible today, lives would have been permanently altered and history (with a small “h”) would be different.

Back then, we were protected from ourselves by the luck of the times — there was no easy way to forever record what was happening around us or what mistakes we made. For that, I and plenty of

others are eternally grateful.

Flashing forward to this month’s cover story about high school seniors who have turned tough situations to their advantage, the state of the world makes me admire them even more. They are succeeding in a time where it’s more and more difficult to avoid temptation or walk the straight and narrow. They are successful without the support and benefits so many of us have enjoyed in our lives.

Growing up has never truly been easy for a lot of folks, but I can’t imagine growing up in a more difficult time than today. Any mistake can be recorded forever, and there are more than a few people out there willing to cast stones.

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And as for Justin Bieber, I felt sorry for him recently during a “roast” of his career by fellow tabloid luminaries. After sitting through a pretty brutal dissertation about everything he had done wrong in his life, he stood up to have the last word.

“There was really no preparing me for this life. I was thrown into this at 12 years old and I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into,” he said. “There’s been moments I’m really proud of and a lot of moments I look back, and I’m pretty disappointed in myself for.

“But the things I’ve done really don’t define who I am.”

Sadly, Justin, the things you’ve done really do define who you are. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

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Reunited

W.T. White High School celebrates 50 years

High school is both enduring and fleeting.

“You’re caught in between living in the moment and growing up,” says 1979 W.T. White alumna Marty French.

W.T. White celebrated its 50th anniversary last month with a golf tournament, pep rally and gala. Hundreds of alumni and retired teachers returned to walk the halls and reminisce about the brief yet seminal moments that shaped their lives.

Above: John Valentine, Class of ‘77, takes a photo of his old football team. Top: Current and former drill team members reminisce. Photos by James Coreas

A live longhorn named Dub-T greets guests at W.T. White: Photo by James Coreas

The building opened in the 1964-65 school year, graduating its first class the following year. At the April 11 pep rally and assembly, nearly every decade was represented, filling the seats of the auditorium. One group, however, stood out from the crowd — the 1970s.

“There was this whole post-Vietnam war thing going on and just a craziness of freedom,” French says.

The W.T. White band, choir and cheerleaders performed at the assembly, and returning educators were honored. In a surprise ending, the man of the hour became David Shepherd, or “Coach Shep” as he’s affectionately known. The legendary W.T. White baseball coach took the team to 33 consecutive playoffs. Shepherd sat in a chair on stage, surrounded by several of his former players, some who knew him as coach of the Marsh Middle School Matadors before he began at W.T. White more than 30 years ago.

Shepherd came to Dallas from East Texas, landed a job coaching baseball for Dallas ISD and never left.

“God has a plan for everyone,” Shepherd says, “and he certainly gave me a great plan.”

Over the years, W.T. White has produced notable graduates including former White House communications director Karen Hughes (1975), philanthropist Susan Dell (1982), Olympian Dennis Bowsher (2001), Detroit Tigers catcher Bryan Holaday (2006) and Dallas Cowboys receiver Terrance Williams (2008).

Now, more graduates are settling in North Dallas and raising their families here.

“We’re reaching that point where we’re going to have third-generation students,” says French, whose children also graduated from W.T. White. “That’s typical of a small town, but you don’t usually see that in a big city.”

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Neighborhood fitness group Women with Balls raised $3,500 at its annual fun run and breakfast last year to help beautify the track area at W.T. White High School. Now the women want to build on that goal for an even bigger project, says neighbor and group leader Patsy Shropshire.

With more community donations and a corporate sponsor, she hopes to create a public wellness area near the W.T. White track, supplying workout equipment, seating and a water fountain.

“The prime goal of this wellness area is to make motion and exercise all the more accessible and convenient,” Shropshire says. “I’d love to help develop an incentive-based program that encourages students to use the wellness area before and after school.”

She presented the idea to the Schreiber Volunteer Neighborhood Association and W.T. White principal Michelle Thompson, and received positive feedback from the community.

Shropshire says the project would

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May 2015

May 8 Grace Pettis

Singer/songwriter Grace Pettis, from Lookout Mountain, Ala., has songwriting in her blood. She brings her straightforward style to Uncle Calvin’s for an 8 p.m. show. Uncle Calvin’s Coffee House, 9555 N. Central Expressway, 214.363.0044, unclecalvins.org,  $15-$18

MAY 3

Kraftykids

Atmos Energy and the Dallas Public Library offer craft time every Sunday at noon in the Dallas Public Library branch at NorthPark.

Bookmarks, 8687 N Central Expressway, 214.671.1381, dallaslibrary.org, free

MAY 3

Chamber recital

The Lovers Lane United Methodist professional soloists and sanctuary choir presents a recital on the theme “Seasons of God’s Handiwork,” featuring classical chamber music, art songs, oratorio, opera, Broadway and worship music.

Lovers Lane United Methodist Church, 9200 Inwood, llumc.org/ music, 214.691.4721, free

MAY 10

Bagel Run

The 29th annual JCC Bagel Run starts at 8:15 a.m. and includes 5k and 10k courses.

Jewish Community Center of Dallas, 7900 Northaven, 214.239.7178, jccdallas.org, $8-$25

MAY 14

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This third-annual conference from the Dallas Parks Foundation offers a day of speakers on parks, trails, bike infrastructure and urban planning. Dallas City Performance Hall, 2520 Flora, 972.803.1555, dallasparksfoundation.org, $13

MAY 19

Storytime

Storyteller Melody Bell shares the story, starting at 10:30 a.m., of Wangari Maathai, known as “Mama Miti,” the Kenyan environmental activist who received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Preston Royal Library, 5626 Royal, 214.670.7128, dallaslibrary.org, free

MAY 23

Walt Longmire

Find out what’s up with Sheriff Longmire before it comes to Netflix. Author Craig Johnson, creator of the Longmire series, brings his new book, “Dry Bones: A Walt Longmire Mystery,” for a 3 p.m. book signing.

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The Meadows Museum celebrates its 50th anniversary with “50 Years of Spanish Art in Texas,” a look at how oil company founder Algur Hurtle Meadows began collecting works that would become the heart of his namesake museum, which houses the largest collection of Spanish art outside of Spain.

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Thefirst thing you’ll notice about Bowl & Barrel in Shops at Park Lane is that it doesn’t look like your typical bowling alley. There’s no sticky black carpet and flashing neon lights. Instead, Bowl & Barrel, from the creators of The Rustic and Mutts in Dallas, features slick wood floors, faded whitewashed brick walls, reclaimed wood ceilings, large industrial windows, chandeliers with Edison bulbs and black leather seating. “It has the feeling that it was something before. Like we found this old warehouse,” says director of operations Eric Salzer. “Everything in Shops at Park Lane was new and shiny. We wanted to kind of turn it down and do something different.” Bowl & Barrel also doesn’t serve food you’d expect to find at a bowling alley. “One of the things we’re really proud of is the quality of food,” Salzer says. “We’re restaurant guys first and foremost.” They brought on James Beardnominated chef Sharon Hage, who worked with them on the menu and created all the recipes. The menu is primarily upscale American food with a little extra mixed in. Bestsellers include the plate-sized pretzel, the veggie plate served with green goddess dipping sauce, the jumbo lump crab cakes and the chicken apple club sandwich. And the cocktails are a musttry with vodka, rum, gin, tequila and whiskey options. Don’t miss the 3-6 p.m. happy hour.

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Patio

And the winner is Celebration Restaurant

Neighborhood regulars flock to Celebration Restaurant (4503 W. Lovers) for its home-cooked chicken fried steak, pot roast, casseroles and other comfort foods. Throughout spring and early summer, diners congregate on the spacious outdoor patio, which readers voted the best in Preston Hollow.

Celebration opened in 1971 and is known for its traditional take on American food the kind you’d cook at home if you had the time, says Leah Ferraro, who runs the Celebration Market across the parking lot.

The rustic patio resembles a small-town, country scene with a double-sided waterfall and wood-burning fireplace. Misters keep the area cool even in the heat of summer.

Runner up: Inwood Tavern

Third place: True Food Kitchen

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Fancy dessert recipes tend to scare us out of the kitchen, but with only a few ingredients, no oven and no water bath, stovetop crème brulee makes it easy to recreate a favorite restaurant dessert at home. With its rich and silky texture and crunchy caramelized sugar topping, this will be your go-to dessert.

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1 ½ cups heavy whipping cream

1 vanilla bean, split

4 large egg yolks

½ cup granulated sugar

2 Tablespoons corn starch

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In a medium saucepan, combine cream and vanilla bean (scrape seeds out of pod) and bring to a simmer.

While cream is heating, whisk egg yolks,

sugar and cornstarch in a bowl. Slowly add hot cream to the egg mixture and continue whisking until fully combined.

Pour mixture back into the saucepan and cook until it starts to thicken (do not bring it to a boil).

Once the custard is thick, remove the pan from the heat and transfer to a bowl. Continue whisking for 2-3 minutes to make the custard extra silky Spoon custard into individual glass ramekins and refrigerate for 1 hour.

When ready to serve, sprinkle the top of the custard with sugar and torch until sugar is caramelized. Serve immediately.

Kristen Massad writes a monthly column about sweets and baked goods. The Preston Hollow resident graduated from the French Culinary Institute in New York City and owned Tart Bakery on Lovers Lane for eight years. She blogs about food and lifestyles at inkfoods.com.

An Education

Sometimes the toughest lessons are learned outside the classroom

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High school and our experiences there often leave lifelong memories. Or scars. Imagine navigating those formative and frequently frustrating years while bearing an extraordinary burden — illness, disability, poverty, homelessness, parental abandonment or death, for example. The graduating seniors featured herein have endured a lifetime’s worth of adversity in their 18 years. In spite of, or possibly partly because of these challenges, they have managed to shine.

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Both of his parents live in a homeless shelter

JerDadrianHenderson, Jay to his friends, is calm, polite and articulate. He opens doors for people and responds to his elders with, “yes, ma’am” and “no, sir,” and he’s been described as “especially mature” compared to other kids his age. In a word, he’s a gentleman.

The Hillcrest senior’s impressive demeanor reveals nothing about his childhood, which was full of emotional and psychological instability.

When he was little, JerDadrian woke up in the night to his mother opening and slamming doors, and screaming at things that weren’t there. That was her first schizophrenic episode that he remembers.

“I was scared,” he says. “My mom wasn’t always like that.”

Add to that his father’s bipolar disorder,

“That’s where I’ve struggled,” he says. “Ever since then, I’ve had to build myself back up.”

He attended the Dallas ISD alternative school, Barbara M. Manns Education Center, before arriving at Hillcrest his sophomore year. He has kept his struggles mostly to himself.

“I know some people don’t like to hear about other people’s problems. It’s like you’re making excuses. There are not too many people who are going to care. It’s hard.”

He found a mentor in George Robinson, a retired special agent and criminal investigator for the U.S. Department of Treasury, who now works as an educational aide/security monitor at Hillcrest.

“I’m the eyes and the ears for the principal,” Robinson says. He immediately noticed

and JerDadrian spent a lot of time in his room, trying to tune out his parents’ arguments, which sometimes turned violent.

This type of conflict followed him to elementary school, from which his parents were banned. Other students laughed and joked.

“It’s just a rough environment,” he says. “It’s hard for me to make friends. Some of my friends didn’t turn out to be my friends.”

Today, JerDadrian’s parents live in a homeless shelter, and he now stays in a onebedroom apartment with his 28-year-old brother, who has had to become a surrogate parent.

“He’s my father figure. He’s the only thing that I have to keep me going.”

JerDadrian spends about two hours commuting to Hillcrest each day by bus. Aside from working part-time at Studio Movie Grill on Royal Lane, he channels all of his energy into school. He has to work harder than his peers to catch up after three years of inadequate homeschooling.

JerDadrian’s positive presence. “He stands out almost like a sore thumb because he’s such a gentleman. That’s not what most young men 16 to 18 are like.”

Robinson leads a mentoring group called Aburoni, geared toward at-risk African American boys, teaching them everything from how to respect women to how to develop a firm handshake.

The biggest lesson he has imparted to JerDadrian is the value of education regardless of circumstances.

“There is a direct correlation between potential success and your ability to keep your nose in the books. The education is your avenue out. You can break the cycle.”

JerDadrian is working to do just that, with hopes to attend Texas Southern University, but not just for his own sake. He wants to make his parents proud.

“I don’t blame them for my situation,” he says. “I learn from it. I wish I could help my parents. I know that going to school is the only way I can help them.”

“There is a direct correlation between potential success and your ability to keep your nose in the books. The education is your avenue out. You can break the cycle.”

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At 7 years old, Evelyn Romero and her family packed everything they could carry and left their hometown of Berlín, El Salvador, for what she thought was a vacation to neighboring Guatemala. They arrived but kept heading north. Evelyn remembers crossing rivers and deserts and always feeling thirsty, but she wasn’t scared.

“My mom didn’t really tell me what was happening,” Evelyn says — that the course of her entire life was changing forever.

Instead of quitting school and marrying by age 12, she’s graduating from Hillcrest High School with a full college scholarship and ranks No. 1 in her class.

“I’d probably have kids by now,” she says of life back in El Salvador. “Girls were never really encouraged to get an education.”

Her father secured a work visa before bringing the family into the United States illegally in 2001. After the journey across the border, Evelyn — a once chatty and outgoing kid — found herself beginning second grade in Farmers Branch ISD unable to relate to anyone around her. She learned English with the help of ESL classes and afternoon cartoons such as “Dragon Tales” and “Arthur.” Today, it is hard to tell English is not her native language, but she says the transition did change her.

“I never knew how to express myself,” she says. “I never pronounced things right. I became a quiet person.”

The confidence she lacked socially she made up for academically. She moved to Dallas ISD in fourth grade en route to Hillcrest, and her grades soared. She kept qui-

et about her story and tried to blend in.

“I thought I was just like everybody else.”

She set her sights on college as early as eighth grade, and that’s when she felt the full impact of her disadvantage. She was excited to learn about opportunities such as the Gates Millennium Scholars program until she read that only U.S. citizens are eligible. She found this to be the case again and again as she planned her future.

The top students at Hillcrest often go on to attend ivy league schools, but Evelyn’s immigration status prevented her from joining that elite group.

“That hit her really hard,” says Trey Bush, Evelyn’s chemistry teacher in 10th and 11th grades, with whom she has re-

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mained close. “I think she was embarrassed. She was thinking, ‘I’m supposed to be going to these schools, too.’ ”

Even as she was outperforming most of her peers, she accepted her fate.

“I didn’t expect to go to college,” she says.

Still, Evelyn kept her grades up throughout high school, taking AP courses. Bush often found her waiting at his classroom door for tutoring early in the morning. She became active in the Hillcrest Biomedical Research Group and The Hillcrest Hurricane newspaper. Her journey came full circle when she volunteered at the Vickery Meadow Learning Center, teaching English to children in the refugee community.

Things began to change when Evelyn learned of QuestBridge, a scholarship program that matches high-achieving, lowincome students with one of 35 partner universities, and it accepts immigrants. The rigorous process takes into account GPA,

test scores and class rank. Applicants must write an essay about obstacles they have overcome and obtain recommendation letters — which is when her teachers first became aware of her background.

Thousands of students vie for this scholarship every year. Evelyn went for it, but “I didn’t get my hopes up,” she says.

Her determination paid off. She became one of just 501 students across the country to receive a full scholarship. QuestBridge matched her with Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., and she wears the navy and gold T-shirt with pride.

She excels in math and science but doesn’t know exactly what kind of career she’ll pursue, and she doesn’t need to decide right away.

“I told her, don’t rush into anything. Go with your heart,” Bush says. “I really think she’ll do something in the medical field. She’s a very caring person.”

Her desire for an education has always taken priority.

“She’s kind of an old soul. She knows why she came here, and she’s taken advantage of it.”

“She’s kind of an old soul. She knows why she came here, and she’s taken advantage of it.”

Thefirst thing people might notice about Lissette Robles is her cheerful disposition. She wears glasses, a braided side ponytail and a contagious smile.

“I’m always smiling,” she says. “A smile can make all the difference.”

It keeps her from focusing on the fact that, unlike most of her peers, she does not go home to the same house every day. When we spoke, she was staying with a family friend.

“I keep some clothes there. I like helping out with their kids.”

These stints last for about two weeks at a time, or “until I feel like I’m outstaying my welcome,” she says. “You’re not as comfortable as you are with family.”

Lissette is essentially couch surfing her way through high school at W.T. White while maintaining a B average. She hopes to complete her basic courses at Brookhaven College before heading to the University of South Florida to pursue a career related to her favorite subjects, math and science.

“Math is easy to understand,” she says. “It would get me a good job.”

Lissette’s father is a truck driver and traveling most of the time. Her mother is a house-

keeper who lives with Lissette’s brother and his family. Lissette is the product of an affair; her parents have never been a couple. She remembers, at age 5, meeting her dad’s wife. “When she saw me the first time, she was mad,” Lissette recalls.

They aren’t close, but her stepmom does provide one of her many temporary residences.

Lissette doesn’t say much about what it feels like to be an illegitimate child without a home, only that “it’s hard.” She speaks fondly of her dad and other friends and family members but knows she is basically on her own.

At school she is shy, and in group settings she often feels left out.

“You can be around a lot of people and still feel lonely,” she says.

She was brave enough to combat her shyness by enrolling in theater, something way outside her comfort zone.

“That helped me come out of my shell a little bit.”

W.T. White theater teacher Lisa Cotie has had Lissette in her class for two years.

“She’s very quiet, she’s very reserved, but she’s really positive,” Cotie says. “She wants to

do well. They all encourage each other. That’s been a huge help for her. It’s kind of like a little family.”

Lissette also feels at home in W.T. White’s Yu-Gi-Oh Club.

Yu-Gi-Oh is a Japanese trading card game that can get pretty intense, she says. The club comprises students like her who don’t quite fit in. They meet on Fridays after school and hold tournaments on the weekends.

“There are a lot of awkward people there,” she says. “It’s where we go to get away from all our problems.”

Lissette doesn’t seem to dwell on her problems much because, as Cotie points out, “This is normal life for her.”

“I don’t know many other people who can make it through the situation she’s making it through. Some students have a victim attitude. She does not. She doesn’t begrudge others for having an easier path. She knows somewhere deep inside her that’s she’s going to be OK.”

Lissette wants a good career and, someday, a family of her own — but after she gets her master’s degree, she says. And, she is ready for the challenges ahead.

“Easy would be boring,” she says, “but I

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Above and beyond

Junior League grants fund neighborhood teachers’ pet projects

Story by Emily Toman | Photos by Rasy Ran

Many elementary students in our neighborhood public schools have never seen a solar panel. So explaining renewable energy can be tough, says Michelle Curtis, who teaches fifthgrade science at Preston Hollow Elementary.

“That’s a hard thing to teach kids,” she says. “It’s hard for them to understand how powerful the sun is and how much energy we get from it. Once kids have hands-on, it means more to them.”

That’s why this year Curtis launched a solar car project, challenging her students to design and build model cars powered by the sun. Since the classroom budget doesn’t include funding for such a project, she applied for the Junior League of Dallas’ Grants for Innovative Teaching (GFIT) program, which awards Dallas ISD educators up to $2,000 for special projects.

The grant program began in the early 1990s, and the Junior League raises around $100,000 annually with the help of a sponsor. This year Texas Instruments helped the league provide grants to 62 DISD teachers, pared down from 145 applications, including several in Preston Hollow and North Dallas.

“It’s a great way for teachers to go above and beyond in their classroom and get some extra support for those pet projects,”

says Beth Lloyd, Junior League’s GFIT chair.

The projects address subjects including reading and literacy enrichment; diversity; special education; science, technology, engineering and math (STEM); and arts and culture.

“What’s great about this program is that there are very loose parameters,” Lloyd says. “It’s only limited by the teachers’ imaginations.”

Curtis’ imagination ran wild after she learned about kits that provide all the parts and tools students need to build their own solar cars. The GFIT grant provided $1,958.60 to buy the kits. Curtis enjoyed seeing the girls get just as excited about the project, if not more, than the boys.

“My girls love it,” she says.

To increase the fun factor, the students built custom frames for their cars and raced them Kentucky Derby-style to celebrate Earth Day.

“We’re trying to gear them up to thinking clean,” Curtis says. “I’m teaching them the future.”

MORE: The deadline to apply for the 2015-16 Grants for Innovative Teaching program is 5 p.m. May 18. Visit jld.net.

Preston Hollow Elementary science teacher, Michelle Curtis: Photo by Rasy Ran

Several Preston Hollow-area teachers and their students benefited from the Junior League’s Grants for Innovative Teaching program this year. They include:

Thomas Jefferson High School: Chinese Chatter

Gail Perry bought headsets that allowed students in her Chinese language classes to access “Audacity,” a free open-source recording and editing software, to record verbal instruction and responses. The students heard and evaluated their own pronunciation and syntax.

Hillcrest High School: Cloning, Over-Expression, Purification and Crystallization of Master Regulators Involved in the Developmental Cascade of Pancreas Development

Dr. Ward Coats led 30 students in the Hillcrest Biomedical Research group in conducting research at the school and UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The students studied the key regulator of pancreatic development and presented their research at the 2015 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology convention.

Hillcrest High School: It Really Bugs Me When

This yearlong senior research project allowed Diane Combs’ Engineering Design and Development students to develop an original solution to a common problem, working with a panel of local engineers. The presentations became part of the students’ portfolios as they applied for university programs.

Hillcrest High School: There is a Wetland in Dallas!

Theresa Oriabure led 11th- and 12thgrade students in learning how to become good stewards of the earth, traveling to the Bunker Sands Wetland Center to collect water samples and analyze their quality.

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CLAIRE’S CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL

8202 Boedeker Dr., / (214) 368-4047 / clairesdayschool.com At CCDS, we encourage a child’s sense of exploration and discovery in a loving, nurturing, and safe environment. We offer a parent’s day out program with a play-based curriculum fostering socialization, motor skill development, and an introduction to academics for children aged 4mo – 3yrs. Our preschool for children aged 3-5 further develops these skills, along with a more focused approach to pre-math and prereading. At CCDS, we have developed our own science, math, and reading enrichment classes to ensure kindergarten preparedness for every child. We make learning fun!

HIGHLANDER SCHOOL

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Founded in 1966, Highlander offers an enriched curriculum in a positive, Christian-based environment. Limiting class size affords the teachers the opportunity to develop the individual learning styles of each student. Our goal is to insure knowledge and self-confidence in academics, athletics, and the creative and performing arts. Highlander offers a “classic” education which cannot be equaled.

THE KESSLER SCHOOL

Pre K – 6th Grade / 1215 Turner Ave, Dallas TX 75208 / 214-942-2220 / www. thekesserschool.com The Kessler School offers an innovative academic environment that gives students a solid foundation, confidence, and a love of learning. Located just minutes from downtown Dallas; The Kessler School’s mission is to “educate the whole child,” and provides an individualized approach to teaching – meeting the student where their needs are. Students are educated socially through community time, physically through daily PE, academically through a wellrounded curriculum, and spiritually through a fostering of awareness and individual growth.

LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Leading to Success. 2720 Hillside Dr., Dallas 75214 / 214.826.2931 / lakehillprep. org Kindergarten through Grade 12 - Lakehill Preparatory School takes the word preparatory in its name very seriously. Throughout a student’s academic career, Lakehill builds an educational program that achieves its goal of enabling graduates to attend the finest, most rigorous universities of choice. Lakehill combines a robust, college-preparatory curriculum with opportunities for personal growth, individual enrichment, and community involvement. From kindergarten through high school, every Lakehill student is encouraged to strive, challenged to succeed, and inspired to excel.

SPANISH HOUSE

4411 Skillman 214-826-4410 / 5740 Prospect 214-826-6350 / DallasSpanishHouse.com

Spanish Immersion School serving ages 3 month - Adults. We offer nursery, preschool, elementary and adult programs at two Lakewood locations. Degreed, nativeSpanish speaking teachers in an “all-Spanish” immersion environment. Call for a tour today!

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

848 Harter Rd., Dallas 75218 / 214.328.9131 / stjohnsschool.org Founded in 1953, St. John’s is an independent, co-educational day school for Pre-K through Grade 8. With a tradition for academic excellence, St. John’s programs include a challenging curriculum in a Christian environment along with instruction in the visual and performing arts, Spanish, German, French, and opportunities for athletics and community service.St. John’s goal for its students is to develop a love for learning, service to others, and leadership grounded in love, humility, and wisdom. Accredited by ISAS, SAES, and the Texas Education Agency.

UT DALLAS CHESS CAMP

800 W. Campbell Rd., Richardson 75080 / (972) 883-4899 / utdallas.edu/chess ) 2014 Summer Chess Camp Campers learn while they PLAY. Chess develops reading, math, critical and analytical skills, and builds character and self-esteem. Just don’t tell the kids…they think chess is fun! Join beginner, intermediate or advanced chess classes for ages 7 to 14 on the UT Dallas campus. Morning (9am-noon) or afternoon (1-4pm) sessions are available June 8-12, June 15-19, July 13-17, July 20-24 and extended playing classes. Camp includes t-shirt, chess board and pieces, trophy, certificate, score book, group photo, snacks and drinks. Instructors are from among UT Dallas Chess Team PanAm Intercollegiate Champions for 2010-2012!

THE WINSTON SCHOOL

5707 Royal Lane Dallas, Tx 75229 / 214691-6950 / www.winston-school.org If your bright child struggles with things like Attention and Concentration, Executive Functioning and Dyslexia, The Winston School may be able to help. The Winston School has a robust academic program which prepares a student for college while at the same time developing the whole child. We understand bright children who learn differently and recognize their unique gifts and talents. Celebrating and validating these assets with our students enables them to discover who they are, and empowers them to be consistently successful. The Winston School brings hope for today and a road map for tomorrow.

ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL

6121 E. Lovers Ln. Dallas / 214.363.1630 / ziondallas. org Toddler care thru 8th Grade. Serving Dallas for over 58 years offering a quality education in a Christ-centered learning environment. Degreed educators minister to the academic, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of students and their families. Before and after school programs, Extended Care, Parents Day Out, athletics, fine arts, integrated technology, Spanish, outdoor education, Accelerated Reader, advanced math placement, and student government. Accredited by National Lutheran School & Texas District Accreditation Commissions and TANS. Contact Principal Jeff Thorman.

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BAPTIST

PARK CITIES BAPTIST CHURCH / 3933 Northwest Pky / pcbc.org

Worship & Bible Study 9:15 & 10:45 Traditional, Contemporary, Spanish Speaking / 214.860.1500

PRESTONWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH / “A Church to Call Home”

Sundays: Bible Fellowship (all ages) 9:15 am /Service Time 11:00 am

12123 Hillcrest Road / 972.820.5000 / prestonwood.org

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

Pastor George A. Mason Ph.D. / Worship 8:30 & 11:00 am

Bible Study 9:40 am / www.wilshirebc.org

BIBLE CHURCHES

NORTH HIGHLANDS BIBLE CHURCH / www.nhbc.net

Sunday: Lifequest (all ages) 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am

Wed: Student Ministry 7:00 pm / 9626 Church Road / 214.348.9697

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST

EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / Worship 8:30 am - Chapel

10:50 am - Sanctuary / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

LUTHERAN

FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH / 6202 E Mockingbird Lane

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org

METHODIST

LAKE HIGHLANDS UMC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com

Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee

Worship: 8:30 am & 10:50 am Traditional / 10:50 am Contemporary

UNITY

UNITY OF DALLAS / A Positive Path for Spiritual Living 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230 / 972.233.7106 / UnityDallas.org

10:30 am Sunday - Celebration Worship Service

UNITY ON GREENVILLE / Your soul is welcome here!

3425 Greenville Ave. / 214.826.5683 / www.dallasunity.org

Sunday Service 11:00 am and Book Study 9:30 am

FIELD OF DASHED DREAMS

Our failures often pave the way for bigger things

The recent start of the baseball season and this issue’s inspirational stories of kids overcoming adversity have me thinking back to my own dashed baseball dreams, and what they taught me.

When I was growing up here in North Dallas, I fantasized that I would become a major league ball player. I was decent at the game, but the truth is that I wasn’t even good enough to make my own high school team.

During the summers, many of us boys would ball with the Spring Valley Athletic Association (SVAA). Despite the fact that I hadn’t made my school team and there seemed little hope of my playing ball in SVAA beyond my senior year, I still had some kind of magical thinking going that I’d one day be the next Pete Rose. (Yes. He was my high school idol. Don’t judge me.)

A part of what kept that dream alive, I suppose, was that our SVAA team was amazing. During our junior year, we destroyed all the competition. We made it to the championship game where we faced off against a senior team with a pitcher who was headed to Texas A&M University on a baseball scholarship.

We lost the championship game that year. But even in the loss, we felt confident.

Next year would be our year.

Sure enough, it was. Our senior year, we mowed down all opponents in the regular season. Creamed them. It wasn’t even close. We were supremely confident. We were good, and we knew it. We were the Yankees of the ’30s. The Reds of the ’70s.

Then came the playoffs, and the unthinkable happened. We lost in the first round to a team that wasn’t nearly as good as we were.

There would be no triumphant return to the championship game. “Our year” wasn’t to be. After the game in the dugout, we bowed our heads in stunned silence. A few

guys even cried.

I was home alone that night, and as I walked through the doors of our empty house, my magical thinking suddenly fell away into the shadows. I realized something seminal was about to happen.

I was about to take off a baseball uniform for the last time in my life.

I did. And I cried buckets of tears, alone. A few weeks later, we had a final party with the guys at one of their houses. We nursed our wounds, we talked about college. Then we all went our separate ways. I see a few of those guys on Facebook now and then, and many of us still live in Dallas. But we’ve all kind of lost touch.

My own daughter is about to be a high school senior. What I’ve learned as a father is that I hate to see her hurting or in pain over anything. My own paternal instinct is to save her from sufferings like I endured that night.

But looking back now, it’s clear that losing an early dream like that, even as improbable as it was, was a gift. In baseball, the greatest of the greats fail 65 percent of the time. That loss taught me something. In a small way, it reminded me that even when you lose a dream or suffer a pain, new doors open, and a new life is possible.

We’ve just celebrated Easter in the Christian tradition. And the primary metaphor of that powerful story is “life conquering death.” Easter is the belief that whatever pain, evil or suffering we encounter in life, God can transform it into something new, holy and beautiful.

Ultimately, it was losing my baseball dream early in life that helped me realize that we always have far more options than we think we do. Even when big dreams fall away, there’s always so much more ahead. (It also taught me how to be a good Texas Rangers fan but that’s another story.)

Eric Folkerth is senior pastor of Northaven United Methodist Church (northaven.org). The Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

People

Methodist Health System Foundation appointed Robin Daniels as vice president of development. Daniels, who lives in Preston Hollow, will lead key capital campaigns and work with North Texas leaders to further the mission of Methodist Health System. She joined the system in October 2012 as director of community and public relations for Methodist Dallas Medical Center. Daniels was promoted to assistant vice president of external relations in October 2014. Daniels graduated from SMU with a bachelor of fine arts and an MBA. Prior to joining Methodist, Daniels served as president of SONUS, a Dallas-based integrated marketing agency.

The Park Cities Quail honored conservationist Katharine Armstrong with its 2015 T.Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award during the organization’s ninth annual dinner and auction at the Frontiers of Flight Museum. Armstrong accepted the award from T. Boone Pickens himself, and her longtime friends President George W. and Laura Bush had prepared a surprise video, congratulating her.

Giving

Nancy Nasher and David Haemisegger recently donated $5 million to Temple Emanu-El’s “Our Temple Our Future” campaign, which will update buildings and upgrade technology, among other projects. The gift brings the campaign’s total to $35.6 million, and the temple is seeking another $2 million from congregants. The Nasher-Haemisegger gift allows the temple to fund projects that previously had been eliminated, including an atrium and garden. The couple also asked that the new chapel be named after Rabbi David Stern, who is in his 26th year with Temple Emanu-El.

Development

The Cooper Aerobics Center unveiled its millior dollar renovation on the Cooper Hotel, Conference Center & Spa in late March. The new facility features 61 guest rooms, 12 suites, an outdoor pool and eight meeting rooms. The unveiling marks the end of the second phase of the Cooper Center’s multi-million renovation.

BUSINESS BUZZ

The lowdown on what’s up with neighborhood businesses

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New restaurants, fancy Starbucks

New retail tenants are rolling into the expansion of the Shops at Park Lane The fast-casual Mediterranean restaurant Zoës Kitchen opened last month. Crisp Salad Co. , which arrived last year on Lower Greenville, will soon join the mix as well. A “ flagship” Starbucks , which opened in April, is the company’s first location in North Texas to serve beer and wine in the evenings. Other retailers on the way include discount stores for Forever 21 (yes, there’s an even cheaper version, called F12 red ) and J. Crew Factory . They’ll join the Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s outlets that already exist in the shopping center. Construction began last year on the three new buildings, adding 160,000 square feet of new retail and a five-story office building, with a park plaza at the center.

Charter school takes bank

The Primrose School of Preston Hollow opened in March in the Chase Bank building at Preston and Royal, which had sat empty for about a decade. Julia and David Shelton opened the school, which focuses on early childhood education and features curriculum that blends teacher-guided and childinitiated activities with an emphasis on character development for children 6 weeks to 6 years old. This is the first Primrose School inside the Interstate 635 loop, serving families in Preston Hollow, Park Cities, Lakewood, Lake Highlands and Uptown. The school features 12 private classrooms with wireless technology and four secure, age-appropriate Primrose School of Preston Hollow

playgrounds to promote the children’s early development. There’s also a garden on site — the Primrose Patch — for monthly gardening and nature studies.

When will Costco or HEB come to Dallas?

Costco backed out of a deal to buy land on Coit between Forest and Interstate 635 because the landowner, the Texas Department of Transportation, wanted too much for it, The Dallas Morning News reported. That would’ve been the first Costco inside Dallas. HEB, like Costco, is in no rush to enter the Dallas market. The grocer has been buying up quite a bit of North Texas land outside the city limits, according to another recent Morning News story. In Houston, the company is second only to Walmart in the market share. HEB executive Scott McClelland credited that success to using different store formats to target different demographics, and to a lot of research and analysis before opening anything. “A new store is a big investment, and we can’t afford to make a mistake,” McClelland says.

New at Preston Hollow Village

Pakpao Thai is set to open at the end of May with menu items such as pineapple fried rice and braised pork belly made popular at its Design District location. Tangerine Salon, an Aveda lifestyle company, opened in April. Products used for hair treatments are derived from plant power instead of petroleum chemicals.

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Pork belly at Pakpao Thai

Fundraising for children

The Ronald McDonald House of Dallas held its fundraiser, Under the Moonlight, at Trinity Groves recently. Funds were raised for this home-away-from-home for families of seriously ill and injured children. Pictured are Vera Bangs of Preston Hollow, honorary co-chair and former board chair; Cecilie Holman of Greenway Parks, honorary co-chair and community leader; Jill Cumnock, Ronald McDonald House of Dallas CEO; Lauren Swann, event co-chair and community leader; and Cate Ford, event co-chair and community leader.

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Excellent teachers

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Elementary teachers Julie Bowles and Amanda Marietta won the Mirabeau B. Lamar award of excellence for personal achievement from the Dallas Masonic Lodge 760. Also pictured are Paul McLin, Melissa James and Mark Fisher.

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Trex Decking & Fencing, trex.com All Wood Decks, Arbors & Patio Covers

Business Resources

TO ADVERTISE 214.560.4203

FENCING & DECKS 214.692.1991

EST. 1991 #1

COWBOY FENCE & IRON CO.

SPECIALIZING IN Wood Fences &Auto Gates

cowboyfenceandiron.com

FLOORING & CARPETING

ALL WALKS OF FLOORS 214-616-7641 Carpet, Wood, Tile Sales/Service Free Estimates

CLIFTON CARPETS 214-526-7405 www.cliftoncarpets.com

DALLAS HARDWOODS 214-724-0936

Installation, Repair, Refinish, Wax, Hand Scrape. Residential, Commercial. Sports Floors. 25 Yrs.

FENN CONSTRUCTION Full Service Contractor. www.dallastileman.com Back Splash Specials! 214-343-4645

HASTINGS STAINED CONCRETE New/ Remodel. Stain/Wax Int/Ext. Nick. 214-341-5993. www.hastingsfloors.com

LONGHORN FLOORS LLC 972-768-4372. www.longhornflooring.com

N-HANCE WOOD RENEWAL. No Dust. No Mess. No Odor. nhance.com. 214-321-3012.

WILLEFORD HARDWOOD FLOORS 214-824-1166 • WillefordHardwoodFloors.com

CARPET HARDWOODS CERAMIC Quick, Reliable Installation John: 972.989.3533

john.roemen@redicarpet.com

REDI CARPET

Reinventing the Flooring Experience

Restoration Flooring

25+ Years Experience FOUNDATION REPAIR

GARAGE SERVICES

GARAGE ORGANIZATION / Design / Remodel DFWGaragePros.com 303-883-9321

ROCKET GARAGE DOOR SERVICE -24/7. Repairs/Installs. 214-533-8670. Coupon On Web. www.RocketDoorService.com

UNITED GARAGE DOORS AND GATES Res/Com. Locally Owned.214-826-8096

GLASS, WINDOWS & DOORS

LAKE HIGHLANDS GLASS & MIRROR custom mirrors • shower enclosures store fronts • casements 214-349-8160

ROCK GLASS CO Replace, repair: windows, mirrors, showers, screens. 214-837-7829

HANDYMAN SERVICES

A R&G HANDYMAN Electrical, Plumbing, Painting, Fencing, Roofing, Light Hauling. Ron or Gary 214-861-7569, 469-878-8044

ALL STAR HOME CARE Carpentry, Glass, Tile, Paint, Doors, Sheetrock Repair, and more. 25 yrs. exp. References. Derry 214-505-4830

BO HANDYMAN Specializing In Historic Home Renovations & Pro Remodels. Custom Carpentry, Doors, Kitchens, Baths & more. 214-437-9730

FRAME RIGHT All Honey-Dos/Jobs. Crown mold install $125/rm. Licensed. Matt 469-867-9029

GROOVY HOUSE Is A Different Handyman Experience! Find Out Why At www.groovyhouse.biz 214-733-2100 • 19 Year Lakewood Resident

HANDYMAN SPECIALIST Residential/ Commercial. Large, small jobs, repair list, renovations. Refs. 214-489-0635

HOMETOWN HANDYMAN All phases of construction. No job too small 214-327-4606

HONEST, SKILLED SERVICE With a Smile. General Repairs/ Maintenance. 214-215-2582

WANTED: ODD JOBS & TO DO LISTS

HOME INSPECTION

KITCHEN/BATH/ TILE/GROUT

STONE AGE COUNTER TOPS

Granite, Marble, Tile, Kitchen/Bath Remodels. 972-276-9943 stoneage.dennis@verizon.net

TK REMODELING 972-533-2872

Complete Full Service Repairs, Remodeling, Restoration. Name It — We do it. Tommy. Insured. dallas.tkremodelingcontractors.com

HOUSE PAINTING

1 AFFORDABLE HOUSE PAINTING and Home Repair. Quality work. Inside and Out. Free Ests. Local Refs. Ron 972-816-5634 or 972-475-3928

#1 GET MORE PAY LES

Painting. 85% Referrals. Free Est. 214-348-5070

A+ INT/EXT PAINT & DRYWALL

Since 1977. Kirk Evans. 972-672-4681

A1 TOP COAT Professional. Reliable. References. TopCoatOfTexas.com 214-770-2863

ABRAHAM PAINT SERVICE A Women Owned Business 25 Yrs. Int/Ext. Wall Reprs. Discounts On Whole Interiors and Exteriors 214-682-1541

ALL TYPES Painting & Repairs. A+ BBB rating. Any size jobs welcome. Call Kenny 214-321-7000

BENJAMIN’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work At Reasonable Prices. 214-725-6768

MANNY’S HOME PAINTING & REPAIR Int./Ext. Sheetrock. Manny 214-334-2160

RAMON’S INT/EXT PAINT Sheetrock, Repairs. 214-679-4513

TEXAS BEST PAINTING • 214-527-4168

Master Painter. High Quality Work. Int/Ext.

TONY’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work

Since 1984. Int./Ext. 214-755-2700

VIP PAINTING & DRYWALL Int/Ext. Sheetrock Repair, Resurfacing Tubs, Counters, Tile Repairs. 469-774-7111

BRIAN GREAM

PAINTING & RENOVATIONS LLC

• Interior/Exterior

•

Drywall

Gutters

TOM HOLT TILE 30 Yrs Experience In Tile, Backsplashes & Floors. Refs. Avail. 214-770-3444

WE REFINISH!

• Tubs, Tiles or Sinks

• Cultured Marble

• Kitchen Countertops

214-631-8719

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

A BETTER TREE COMPANY • JUST TREES Complete tree services. Tree & Landscape Lighting! Mark 214-332-3444

A BETTER TREE MAN Trims, Removals, Insd. 12 Yrs Exp. Roberts Tree Service. 214-808-8925

A&B LANDSCAPING Full Landscape & Lawn Care Services. Degreed Horticulturist. 214-534-3816

AYALA’S LANDSCAPING SERVICE Call the Land Expert Today! Insured. 214-773-4781

CHUPIK TREE SERVICE Trim, Remove, Stump Grind. Free Est. Insured. 214-823-6463

DALLAS K.D.R.SERVICES • 214-349-0914 Lawn Service & Landscape Installation

469.774.3147

Hardwood Installation · Hand Scraping Sand & Finish · Dustless restorationflooring.net

972-288-3797 We

Allen’s Handyman & Home Repair 214-288-4232

Handy Dan

The Handyman “ToDo’s” Done Right Save $25 on Service Call of $125 or $50 on Service Call of $250 handy-dan.com 214.252.1628

Your Home Repair Specialists

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Small & Odd Jobs And More! 972-308-6035 HandymanMatters.com/dallas Bonded & Insured. Locally owned & operated.

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KITCHEN/BATH/ TILE/GROUT

FENN CONSTRUCTION Full Service Contractor. www.dallastileman.com Back Splash Specials! 214-343-4645

MELROSE TILE Repairs.James Sr., Installer 40 Yrs. Exp. MelroseTile.com 214-384-6746

GREENSKEEPER Winter Clean Up & Color. Sodding, Fertilization. Lawn Maintenance & Landscape. Res/Com. 214-546-8846

HOLMAN IRRIGATION

Sprinkler & Valve Repair/ Rebuild Older Systems. Lic. #1742. 214-398-8061

LSI LAWN SPRINKLERS “Making Water Work” Irrigation system Service & Repair. Specializing In Older Copper Systems. LI #13715. 214-283-4673

ORTIZ LAWNCARE Complete Yard Care. Service by Felipe. Free Est. 214-215-3599

RONS LAWN Organic Solutions. Not Environmental Pollution. Landscape & Maintenance 972-222-LAWN (5296)

TAYLOR MADE IRRIGATION Repairs, service, drains. 30+ years exp. Ll 6295 M-469-853-2326. John

TRACY’S LAWN CARE • 972-329-4190 Lawn Mowing & Leaf Cleaning

MOVING

AM MOVING COMPANY

Delivery.469-278-2304 ammovingcompany.com

PEST CONTROL

A BETTER EARTH PEST CONTROL Keeping the environment, kids, pets in mind. Organic products avail. 972-564-2495

MCDANIEL PEST CONTROL Prices Start at $85 + Tax For General Treatment.

Average Home-Interior/Exterior & Attached Garage. Quotes For Other Services. 214-328-2847. Lakewood Resident

PEST CONTROL

Pest-Free · Hassle-Free

PLUMBING

CAMPBELL PLUMBING Repairs, Fixtures, Senior Discounts. 214-321-5943

HAYES PLUMBING INC. Repairs. Insured, 214-343-1427 License M13238

M&S PLUMBING Quality Work & Prompt Service. Jerry. 214-235-2172. lic.#M-11523

NTX PLUMBING SPEC. LLLP 214-226-0913

Lic. M-40581 Res/Com. Repairs & Leak Location

UPTOWN PLUMBING. Serving Dallas 40 + Yrs. 214-747-1103. M-13800 uptownplumbing.com

POOLS

ADAIR POOL & SPA SERVICE

1 month free service for new customers. Call for details. 469-358-0665.

ROOFING & GUTTERS

A&B GUTTER 972-530-5699 Clean Out, Repair/Replace. Leaf Guard. Free Estimates. Lifetime Warranty Allstate

BERT

ROOFING & GUTTERS

Residential • Commercial (214) 503-7663

www.scottexteriors.com

SKYLIGHTS

Installing Since 1995

972-263-6033

www.skylightsolutions.com

• Respectful service

• State-of-the-art applications 4-340-6969 fehavenpest.com

• Careful methods p f e S s 214306969 saf h

PLUMBING

A2Z PLUMBING 214-727-4040

All Plumbing Repairs. Slab Leak Specialists. Licensed & Insured. ML# M36843.

ANDREWS PLUMBING • 214-354-8521

# M37740 Insured. Any plumbing issues. plumberiffic69@gmail.com

Sewers • Drains • Bonded 24 Hours/7 Days

*Joe Faz 214-794-7566 - Se Habla Español*

ARRIAGA PLUMBING: General Plumbing

Since the 80’s. Insured. Lic# M- 20754 214-321-0589, 214-738-7116, CC’s accepted.

roofs completed • Seven NTRCA “Golden Hammer” Awards • Free Estimates www.bertroofing.com 214.321.9341

Roof Repair Specialist

•Exterior Repair & Re-Roofing

•Insurance Claims

• Custom Chimney Caps

• Licensed & Fully Insured Jeff Godsey 214-502-7287

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HIT AND RUN

A 31-year-old man turned himself into police last month after they issued a warrant for his arrest in a hit-and-run death.

The Victim: Paul Miltenberger

The Crime: Hit and run

Date: April 5

Time: 2:30 a.m.

Location: Mockingbird Lane

Jonathan Redmond was released on a $50,000 bond in April after being formally charged with accident involving death, a second-degree felony.

Redmond is accused of accidentally running down 20-year-old college sophomore Paul Miltenberger of Southlake around 2:30 a.m. on Easter. Miltenburger, who was visiting home from the University of Missouri, was with friends walking across Mockingbird Lane to an apartment complex near Greenville Avenue.

Witnesses described a 2011 black Dodge Challenger. A Dallas Police Department officer found a car at Redmond’s home near Marsh and Interstate 635 to fit the description with damage fitting with the accident.

If convicted, Redmond could face two to 20 years in prison.

—Rachel Stone

04.14

Time of day on April 8 when a woman was robbed at gunpoint in the 5500 block of Harvest Hill

Block of Forest Lane at Central Expressway where an unknown suspect stabbed a man in the in right hand around midnight on April 4 11 p.m.

Date when an unknown suspect broke into a car in the 5000 block of West Lovers, stealing furs and other clothing

SOURCE Dallas Police Department