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Senior living

Edgemere , a senior living community off of Northwest Highway between Preston and Hillcrest, is receiving a $36-million expansion. The renovation will add about 75,000 square feet to the property, including a 6,000-square-foot performing arts center, eight new assisted living apartments, 12 new memory support suites and 15 new skilled nursing private suites. Its developer, Senior Quality Lifestyles Corporation , expects demand for high-end senior living to grow over the next few years. The new two-story performance hall will have a bar and lounge, arched ceilings with exposed wooden beams “and a stage fit for world-renowned speakers and performers.” Construction is expected to begin in August, and it could be completed in early 2018.

Outstanding immigrant

Ahn Vo of Cindi’s New York Deli was given the Immigrant Entrepreneur Award at the 2015 Immigrant Journey Awards at Prestonwood Country Club. Vo fled Vietnam in the ’70s with her husband and newborn baby. They had nothing when they arrived, but they began working in restaurants and eventually saved up enough to buy their own place. She started Cindi’s in 1989, and the restaurant now has five locations in the Dallas area.

Pierce Hardware moves

Pierce Hardware, the high-end home fixtures and cabinet hardware retailer, has closed its Snider Plaza store and relocated to a showroom on Mockingbird at Maple. Pierce opened in 1939 and was one of the original retailers in Snider Plaza. The company now has three locations in the Dallas area and national distribution. Its new space on Mockingbird is bigger, allowing for more showroom space so that customers can experience more products before they buy them. Browse their selections at pinterest.com/piercehardware.

More tacos

Taco Joint, the San Antonio-style Tex-Mex place, is expanding from its East Dallas locations to a spot in Preston Center this summer.

More salads

Crisp Salad Co. expanded to our neighborhood last month. The build-your-own salad restaurant that opened its first location on Lower Greenville last year is the newest addition to the Shops at Park Lane, across from the flagship Starbucks.

Big boxes

A new Walmart store is expected to open July 15 on Midway at LBJ Freeway. An adjacent Sam’s Club opens July 23. The retailer demolished the strip center previously there, except for the neighborhood bar Midway Point and the new In-N-Out Burger.

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

9120 Plano Rd. Dallas / 214.348.3220 / www.highlanderschool.com 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.

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.

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!

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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.

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.

Education

Fourth-grade students at The Lamplighter School raised $955 for UNICEF through Lamplighter Layers, a chicken-raising and egg-selling enterprise that donates its proceeds to charity. The program was designed 46 years ago by Judge Robert Porter to teach students the importance of entrepreneurship and philanthropy. This year’s class sold more than 3,500 eggs.

Parks

The temporary dog park imagined for an empty lot on Forest at Nuestra could become reality if fundraising efforts are successful. City Councilmembers Lee Kleinman and Jennifer Staubach Gates are pushing for the park, but it would cost around $230,000; that money needs to come from companies or individual donors. If the funds are not raised, the green space will remain unused until 2020 or later when the city plans to begin building the new Preston Royal Library. Those interested in supporting the project should call Gates’ office at 214.670.7057 or Kleinman’s office at 214.670.7817.

City

Following a lawsuit from plastic bag manufacturers, the Dallas City Council voted in June to repeal the new carryout bag ordiance after just five months of implementation. Shoppers no longer have to shell out 5 cents for a disposable bag.

Nonprofits

of our 200,000+ readers with average income of $146,750 want more info about private schools.

The Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas named Preston Hollow resident Kit Addleman its new board chair for 2015-2017. Addleman is a partner at Haynes and Boone, LLP and a proud Girl Scout herself. She is the former regional director at the Atlanta regional office of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a frequent speaker at national, international and regional conferences on trends in the SEC’s enforcement and examination programs. For the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, she has served as the chair of the alumnae association, was on the committee for community engagement and leads young women as a troop leader. Addleman also shares a special connection with the Girl Scouts. her great-great-grandmother Mary Gale Carter was lifelong friends Juliette Gordon Low, who founded the Girl Scouts in 1912.

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