2016 October Preston Hollow

HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF OUR CITY'S EVER-IMPROVING TRAIL SYSTEM

NOT MY PROBLEM

WHAT IF TRASHY STREETS REVEAL A SAD TRUTH ABOUT OUR CIVIC VIRTUE?

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld tells a funny story about the unwritten pact between movie theaters and those who attend movies.

Movie theater operators, he says, understand that people who attend movies aren’t going to clean up after themselves. We’ll leave candy wrappers, half-eaten bags of popcorn and sweating soda cups strewn about the theater after a movie.

Why?

According to Seinfield, we do it because we know and the movie theater operators know that’s our deal with each other: They’re “ripping us off” with movie and concession pricing, so when we finish whatever we’re eating or drinking in a theater, we’re going to just “open our hand and let it drop.”

That’s the pact. We’re getting ripped off, so we aren’t going to clean up after ourselves.

It’s a funny story because it’s based on truth. The prices of theater tickets and concessions seem to be skyrocketing, so creating extra work for the low-paid kids cleaning up after us is somehow OK.

I wonder if we’ve let these thoughts trickle into our relationship with Dallas?

Crossing a city street the other day, I noticed two things: People were everywhere, and so was trash.

The trash wasn’t just lying there, either: It was blowing everywhere. Not the cotton-candy-creepy-gooey kind of trash, but plastic grocery bags and recyclable food packaging and empty plastic soda bottles.

As for the people, we were blowing

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everywhere, too — and always away from the trash. No one made any attempt to do anything about the trash, probably because we believe we aren’t the ones who created the problem.

That says something about the “ownership” we take in our “home,” doesn’t it? We’re willing to live with it because we just don’t feel like picking it up.

Maybe that’s our pact with Dallas: We think we’re being stiffed with higher taxes and crappy streets, so if we feel like dropping something when we’re done with it, so be it. It’s the city’s job to keep our home clean, not ours.

It’s great that people are flocking to Dallas these days, great that we’re building apartments and homes and offices to accommodate everyone.

But if our fundamental response to growth is that it’s the city’s job to take care of everything, this story isn’t going to have a happy ending. Too many new people are going to emulate those of us who don’t care enough about the place, and they’ll think that’s the way to act, too.

And not just with trash, but with civic involvement, volunteering and making a difference elsewhere in Dallas.

I could have picked up some of that trash in the street. It wouldn’t have taken much extra time to grab something while walking to my destination; there was a garbage can right along the way.

But I thought to myself: I’m paying plenty of taxes; I’m doing my share. If Dallas is the world-class city everyone keeps saying it is, why do I need to be the one cleaning things up — isn’t that someone else’s job?

Maybe that’s our unwritten pact here.

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THE GHOSTS OF SPARKMAN-HILLCREST

FAMED NAMES WHO MADE THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACE IN PRESTON HOLLOW

Our neighborhood is studded with celebrities, from political powerhouses to high-profile athletes to reality television stars. But some of Preston Hollow’s most famous residents aren’t living alongside us, but 6-feet underground at Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery.

With graves dating back to the 1850s, it is one of the oldest cemeteries in Dallas, which in 1893 became the George W. Loudermilk Undertaking Company. That same year, Will R. Sparkman got his start in the undertaking business a few states away in Jackson, Tenn. It would be 24 years before Sparkman relocated to Dallas, with plans to

purchase Loudermilk.

Sparkman relocated the business to one of Dallas’ most well-known properties, the Belo mansion on Ross Avenue, in 1926. But it was 1934 when the Sparkman name gained fame, and notoriety, across the city.

When legendary Dallas criminal Clyde Barrow was on the run from

From Left: H.L. Hunt, Mary Kay Ash and Mickey Mantle

the law, his father knew it was only a matter of time before he was caught and killed. According to the 2011 obituary of Bill Sparkman, grandson of Will Sparkman, the Barrow patriarch asked the family to handle the bank robber’s funeral, whenever it should occur. After Clyde Barrow died in a shootout with police, the Sparkmans sent a hearse to pick up his bullet-riddled body in Louisiana. Thousands came to see the criminal’s corpse in an event covered around the nation.

While Barrow’s body was laid to rest at Western Heights Cemetery on Fort Worth Avenue, many other famous names can be found among the tombs of Sparkman-Hillcrest on Northwest Highway.

MICKEY MANTLE

This Triple Crown winner needs no introduction as one of the most

decorated players in baseball history, who still holds the record for the most home runs (18) hit in a World Series. Considered the greatest switch-hitter of all times,

Most of his time in Dallas was spent between the greens and the bar at the exclusive Preston Trail Golf Course just north of our neighborhood. His struggle became public during an interview with sportscaster and friend Bob Costas. It was a disease he spread to his four sons, who each fought their own battle with addiction.

Mantle was born in 1931 and was a highlight of the New York Yankees roster from 1951-68. The next year, the team retired his jersey, No. 7, placing him alongside greats like Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. By 1974, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

But once his ball career dried up, Mantle fell on shaky times, fighting a losing a battle with alcoholism.

Although a successful stint at the Betty Ford clinic in 1994 left his mind clear, his body was ravaged by years of drinking. The next year, he died at Baylor University Medical Center after a quick but vicious bout of liver cancer.

More than 1,000 people crammed into Lovers Lane United Methodist Church, selected not because Mantle practiced his faith there, but because it could hold the overwhelming crowd expected for his final goodbye on Aug. 15, 1995.

When legendary Dallas criminal Clyde Barrow was on the run from the law, his father knew it was only a matter of time before he was caught and killed.

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His gravesite at Sparkman-Hillcrest still draws the occasional fan, who comes to pay respects to one of America’s greatest athletes.

MARY KAY ASH

Long before flashy pink Cadillacs were synonymous with success, Mary Kay Ash was a woman frustrated in a man’s world. Sick of being passed over for promotions that went to her less-qualified male counterparts, she set out to level the playing field on her own terms. Ash launched one of the most successful cosmetics companies of all times and created a way for fellow women to build their own financial future.

Born in 1918, she grew up working class in a Houston suburb and watched her mother put in long hours at a restaurant. Ash was a young Girl Scout pushing cookies when she discovered her knack for sales. She found her way working for home goods stores but was never able to ascend the ranks. Unfulfilled, she left her career in 1963 with plans to write a book to help working women. Instead, at age 45, she wound up with a business plan. The home-sale makeup business wasn’t new, but Ash used a $5,000 loan to build an empire designed to help women establish their own wealth.

She stayed involved in the company until a stroke in 1996 made it difficult for her to work. She was a neighbor with a custombuilt pink mansion at 8915 Douglas Ave., in Old Preston Hollow. When she died Nov. 22, 2001, her company was worth $1.2 billion and had more than 850,000 sales reps in 37 nations across the globe.

Her gravesite at SparkmanHillcrest often is adorned with flowers in her signature color: pink.

H.L. HUNT

For years, he held the title as the richest man in the world. Haroldson

Lafayette “H.L.” Hunt’s oil empire helped put Dallas on the map, while simultaneously serving as a battleground for the many branches of his storied family tree that includes three wives and 15 children.

Hunt was born a lucky man in 1889, a point he proved over and over at gaming tables across the country. The story goes that a hand of five-card stud won him the dollars needed to buy up his first oil field in Arkansas. He later secured the East Texas Oil Field, one of the largest oil deposits in the world, a spring of near-endless fortune.

But like so many stories, great wealth led to a legacy of secrets. He married his first wife, Lyda, and had seven children in a house on the shores of White Rock Lake

The story goes that a hand of five-card stud won him the dollars needed to buy up his first oil field in Arkansas.

crafted after George Washington’s Mount Vernon, but then he took another wife and had four children who were tucked away in Florida. He later had another four children with a woman in Louisiana, who he would marry after his first wife’s death.

Despite his bigamous lifestyle, Hunt’s funeral took place at First Baptist Church of Dallas after he succumbed to cancer in November 1974. It sparked the first of many battles over his enormous net worth, a war that is still being fought in federal court today.

But Hunt would live beyond his years on earth, in a way. In the 1980s, the breakout soap opera “Dallas” spun a dramatized version of the Hunt’s family tale, with lead character J.R. Ewing based on the Dallas oil tycoon who also went by his initials. — EMILY CHARRIER

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Oct. 5

RUNNING THE CIA

Learn about what it’s like to run both the CIA and NSA with Gen. Michael Hayden, who ran both agencies. His experiences also are chronicled in the novel “Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.”

George W. Bush Presidential Center, 2943 SMU Blvd., 214.200.4300, bushcenter.org, $30-$45

Oct. 15

PARKTOBERFEST

If a plane ticket to Germany isn’t realistic this Oktoberfest, head to the craft beer and music festival Parktoberfest from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. A portion of the event’s proceeds will be donated to the Wilkinson Center, an agency that assists families in poverty. The Shops at Park Lane, 8020 Park Lane, 214.365.0222, shopsatparklane.com, $10-$30

Oct. 17

YOU’RE FIRED! YOU’RE HIRED!

Want to know who the next commander in chief might be? Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU, will predict the upcoming election’s outcome at noon. Park City Club, 5956 Sherry Lane suite 1700, 214.232.1034, dpalc.com, $35-$40

OCTOBER

Sept. 28-Oct.2

SHAKESPEAREAN NIGHT

Travel to the early 1600s for this rendition of the Shakespearean tale “Twelfth Night.” Performances are at 8 p.m. WednesdaySaturday and 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. SMU, 6101 Bishop Blvd., 214.768.2787, smu.edu, $8-$14

Oct. 1

GARDEN TOUR

See some of the most well-tended yards in our neighborhood during the 2016 Garden Tour, hosted by the Dallas County Master Gardeners. Master Gardeners around Preston Hollow and beyond will showcase their work at home, with proceeds benefitting the group to tend school and community gardens across the city.

Various locations, 214.904.3053, dallascountymastergardeners. org, $15-$20

Oct. 1

MODERN MILE DALLAS

Explore the best of Preston Hollow’s architecture at this home tour, which features mid-century homes within 1 square mile. Food trucks will be available at Walnut Hill Elementary School. Walnut Hill and Midway, 972.584.7688, modernmiledallas.com, $20

Oct. 19

PLATINUM PANTHER CELEBRATION

Hillcrest High School alumni will celebrate its recent graduates and honor past classes. The event begins with a reception at 6 p.m. before dinner and a presentation later in the evening. Prestonwood Country Club, 15909 Preston Road, HHSAA@ hillcrestalums.org, $65

Oct. 29

STAR WARS HALLOWEEN

May the force be with you at Trick or Treat “Star Wars” Day. There will be a Red Carpet Costume Contest, appearances from sci-fi figures and more.

Frontiers of Flight Museum, 6911 Lemmon Ave., 214.350.1651, flightmuseum.com, free for children under 12

Oct. 29-30

AIA DALLAS TOUR OF HOMES

Four Preston Hollow homes will be featured on this two-day tour of some of the most architecturally interesting houses of Dallas. Various locations, 214.742.3242, hometourdallas.com, $10-$100

DID YOU KNOW: The black and white bowpattern in the hallway was hand-drawn with Sharpie, lots and lots of Sharpies.

Roasted oysters with bacon, breadcrumbs and red pepper butter.

Pictured:

(Photo by Kathy Tran)

THE THEODORE

It’s hard to say what namesake Teddy Roosevelt would think of The Theodore, but it certainly looks like somewhere he’d hang out. With its dark-paneled bar, over-stuffed blue velvet arm chairs and hunting-inspired décor, it’s a bit like stepping back in time.

“It’s all about creating an atmosphere, an energy,” says chef/owner Tim Byres. “We set up the story of the place and then fill in the details of the menu.”

Byres is one of Dallas’ wunderkind chefs who has cooked at the White House and seems to have the Midas touch with his Smoke barbecue brand in Oak Cliff and Plano. But it wasn’t always that way. Before Smoke, he was divorced and had just shuttered his restaurants Standard and Standard 2706. He was disenchanted.

“I decided I was either going to be a food stylist, or I’d make soap and sell it at the farmers market,” he laughs. But then he felt the spark of his childhood passion for what he calls “the spirit of hospitality,” the reason he became a chef.

“I wanted to make a place where people could just hang out,” he says. And so he and some partners built his rustic and wellreviewed Smoke, where meat is cooked over an open flame.

His success there had the folks at NorthPark Center calling. They were looking for a new restaurateur to bring some culinary flair to the chain-based mall’s eatery options. It was a different community from laid-back Oak Cliff, a chance for Byres to explore a new side of his eclectic personality.

You’ll find dishes that Byres describes as “the classic American food story,” including pot pies, beef tenderloin and a plethora of pizzas. Cocktails are crafted from fresh fruit and herbs, each named for different national park in honor of Roosevelt’s work.

The restaurant opens like Pandora’s box to expose space after space, from a private dining room tucked into a hidden bookshelf to the gold-dusted celestial room. Nearly everything you see on the walls was handpainted with painstaking attention to detail.

“I really like the idea of smells when you first walk in, so that’s where the bakery comes in,” Byres says of the attached fullproduction bakery.

ST CAFÉ ROCK CAKE

When Hans and Clare Van Loenen blew into the White Rock Lake area from Europe in 1991, they brought with them many culinary sensations that delighted our palettes during their nearly 20 years in business.

It began with Sweet Temptations bakery, which became known for its sumptuous cakes and savory kolaches. It proved so popular, they added on ST Café, serving comfort food with European flair like pecan-crusted chicken and pork loin with sun-dried apricot sauce.

In 2010, the couple lost their lease at 9090 Skillman, and the bakery and restaurant quietly closed. But the flavors live on in this forgotten recipe, first published in the Advocate in 1998.

CHOCOLATE SPONGE:

½ cup flour

2 tablespoons cocoa

4 large eggs

½ cup sugar

4 tablespoons butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees; grease 9-inch round cake tin. Sift together the flour and cocoa, and set aside. Using wire whisk, mix eggs and sugar in a bowl set over a pan of hot water. Continue whisking until the mixture is light and creamy. Remove from heat and whisk until cold. Gently fold the flour-cocoa mixture into egg mixture, then fold in melted butter. Pour batter into prepared cake tin. Bake 30 minutes or until middle springs back when touched.

CHOCOLATE MERINGUE:

4 egg whites

1 tablespoon cocoa

1 ½ cup sugar (divided use)

Preheat oven to 325 degrees, and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. By hand or mixer, beat egg whites until foamy, add 1 cup of sugar gradually and continue beating until egg whites are very stiff. Sift remaining one-third cup sugar and cocoa together. Fold into the meringue mixture by hand.

Spread onto cookie sheet. Bake until puffy, turn off oven and leave overnight.

RUM SYRUP:

1 cup water

2 cups sugar

1 tablespoon rum or to taste

In saucepan, bring water and sugar to a boil. Let boil 3 minutes. Leave until cold, and add rum.

CHOCOLATE MOUSSE:

¾ cup butter

6 ounce semisweet chocolate

6 tablespoons cocoa, sifted

4 egg yolks

1 ½ cups powdered sugar

1 pint cream

In the top of a double boiler or over a hot water bath, melt butter and chocolate. Whisk to blend, then whisk in the cocoa powder. In a bowl, whisk yolks and powdered sugar until smooth. Pour the butter-chocolate mixture into the bowl and mix well, then gently fold in the whipping cream.

ASSEMBLY:

Use plastic wrap to line a 9-inch sponge tin with sides 2-inches high. Cut sponge horizontally into two pieces. Put one in the bottom of the tin, and soak with rum syrup. Pour half of chocolate mousse over sponge, and then top with another layer of sponge and remaining rum syrup. Top with remaining mousse, cover and refrigerate overnight. Just before serving, break the meringue chunks and place them on sides and top of cake. Dust with powdered sugar.

ST Café Rock Cake. (Photo by Mark Davis)

Tapestry oil painting by Debbie Smith in the Gallery

BLAZING TRAILS

WHAT IF YOU COULD WALK OR BIKE TO ALL OF THE BEST NATURAL AMENITIES IN THE METROPLEX?

STORY / Emily Charrier PHOTOS / Danny Fulgencio

IT’S AN AMBITIOUS DREAM FIRST BIRTHED IN THE 1960S when Park Director L.B. Houston pushed for a greenbelt plan that emphasized parks and walkability. “Let’s not be small about this,” he urged in a 1969 Dallas Morning News article, which outlined his plans for a 40-mile loop that would connect up to 70 miles of public parkland.

BLAZING TRAILS

Houston’s plea has been heeded in recent years as the city puts added attention and resources toward a green space plan. That plan includes 300 miles of trails that loop Dallas and connect into neighboring cities — twice the 149 miles currently on the city’s trail map.

“We want everyone to be able to walk 10 minutes, half a mile, and be able to be on a trail,” says Peter Bratt of the city’s Park and Recreation Department.

Head west from Preston Hollow, and you could eventually bike to Irving’s expansive parks like Bird’s Fort and Sam Houston. Head east, and you can walk right over Interstate 75 to White Rock Lake. Sounds nice, right? Like all things, it comes down to money. But the city’s creative partnerships with other government bodies mixed with an uptick of private donor dollars makes the dream seem more within reach than ever before.

NORTHAVEN NIRVANA

We live in a virtual park desert. While southern Dallas is studded with green space every few blocks, as shown on the map on page 22, our neighborhood has only a small splattering of pocket parks — not much to write home about. This could be because many of the city’s parks were funded during a large push for public gathering places in the early 1900s, years before Preston Hollow was incorporated into Dallas in 1945.

It wasn’t until the Northaven Trail opened in 2012 that our neighborhood became walkable. Considered a critical part of the city’s eastwest trail connection, the $10 million needed to build the first stretch of the trail from Preston Road to Valleydale Drive was covered by bond funds. The city’s 2008 plan to connect dozens of city trails and parks hinged on Northaven and was bolstered by the ease of acquiring trail access via an easement already secured by Oncor.

But that was just the beginning. Plans to expand Northaven were in the works before the first section was even built, heading west to the Walnut Hill/Denton DART station and east to link into the White Rock Creek and Cottonwood trails. Both of those expansions are now underway, thanks largely to financial contributions from Dallas County, which has been using roadway dollars on trail projects ever since the majority of its territory became incorporated into cities.

“[The county] said if the city comes up with the money, we’ll match it,” says Preston Hollow councilman and longtime trail supporter Lee Kleinman.

While the eastern expansion will add just one mile to the trail, at $14 million, it will be the costliest section to build. That’s because it involves a bridge over a major highway, one that is being designed by the Texas Department of Transportation, with funding split between the city and county.

“There’s probably an outside shot we could see [the eastern expansion] completed by the end of 2018,” Kleinman says optimistically. Currently determined cyclists can take the muddy makeshift path under I-75, but soon there will be safe passage over the freeway. The trail will not only offer a straight shot to White Rock Lake but also will stitch into a patchwork of other trails offering access to nearly any part of the city.

MY PARK DAY

Get your hands dirty during this Oct. 1 work day to enhance and enjoy the trail. The day also includes bubble soccer, yoga, rescue dogs and the Hamburger Man. Get the details at northaventrail.org.

NORTHAVEN NIRVANA

To the West, the $8 million expansion will add 6.25 miles of trail from Preston Road to the Walnut Hill/Denton DART station. Currently, the city plans to break ground next year with the trail completed some time in 2018.

Eventually, dependent on funding, the western edge of the trail could link into the Elm Fork Trail at the Moneygram Soccer Park, which connects to the Campion Trail in Irving that loops through a variety of scenic parks. Another proposed, but un-

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funded, addition would expand the Elm Fork Trail to connect into the Trinity River Greenbelt, with its myriad trails and natural beauty.

As far as city projects go, Northaven Trail is an example of one of the most seamlessly built and funded, largely because it had widespread neighborhood and city council support. The demand for walkability is evident in local development discussions, as more people prefer to have the option to walk or bike.

“We’re trying to make the streets more accessible to all users,” Kleinman says. “If we can get people walking or biking more, it helps our transportation system.”

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MORE TRAIL UPDATES ON PAGE 22

“We’re trying to make the streets more accessible to all users. If we can get people walking or biking more, it helps our transportation system.”

1. Pedestrian bridge planned across 75 2. Butterfly Garden 3. The expanded trail will end at the Walnut Hill/ Denton DART Station 4. Little Free Library

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YOU GOTTA HAVE FRIENDS

Ever since the Northaven Trail was proposed, neighbors have rallied behind it. Friends of the Northaven Trail formed to take care of necessary evils on the trail, like weeding, while also creating a place for residents to gather.

“It’s a place to meet your neighbors and be able to connect to your community,” says Jeff Kitner, president of the 13-member Friends board, which also includes councilman Kleinman’s wife, Lisa Umholtz.

Bratt says when a group of citizens is interesting in assisting with park or trail maintenance, they can sign a one-year agreement with the city that will be renewed if all goes well. Friends of the Northaven Trail is one of the city’s most active volunteer groups, organizing regular work days to keep the trail pristine. They also host free community events like movie nights in addition to fundraisers, bringing in the dollars needed to enhance the trail. Those donations have funded dog bags and waste stations, and seed bombs of wildflowers that bring beauty to the trail. When local Girl Scouts wanted to build a butterfly garden and a Free Little Library on the trail, the Friends stepped in to assist.

“It’s all for the betterment of the trail,” Kitner says.

Friends also serves as a reporting party, ensuring the city knows about any safety issues that need to be addressed. That’s now included better crosswalk striping and signage at busy intersections, lighting and other amenities.

“It’s good on all fronts when you have active citizen engagement,” Kleinman says.

The Butterfly Garden and Little Free Library were two projects forged by the Friends of the Northaven Trail with community members, The group has also built respites and other enhancements along the path.

THROUGH THE LOOP

The City of Dallas began making comprehensive plans for a citywide trail system about 14 years ago. Since then, the city has built almost hundreds of miles of trails, with another 37 currently under development. A total of 300 miles of trails have been proposed across the city, but so far much of that is unfunded.

While many are disconnected, there is a plan in the works to create The Loop, a $56-million project that would create one 50-mile loop connecting North Dallas, White Rock Lake, South Dallas, Oak Cliff and West Dallas, spanning all 14 City Council districts. The Loop is the idea of pals Jeff Ellerman, a real estate executive, and oilman Larry Dale, who became frustrated one

day while riding bikes on the dead-end Trinity Skyline Trail in Oak Cliff.

“We were saying, ‘This is so frustrating because there’s no trail to get here. Once you’re down here, it’s unbelievable, but it doesn’t go anywhere,’” Ellerman recalls. “‘The Great Trinity Forest is amazing, but you can’t get to it. Wouldn’t it be great if these trails connected and they were longer?’”

With encouragement from Mayor Mike Rawlings and Katy Trail mastermind Philip Henderson, they created a

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nonprofit, the Circuit Trail Conservancy; about two years ago, they began working with the city’s Park and Recreation Department and Trinity Watershed Management on a plan to connect the trails. Now plans for The Loop are complete, and the nonprofit already has raised about $17 million, including $5 million from Dallas County.

The city’s portion is $20 million, and if approved, The Loop could open in the next four years.

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BEING NEIGHBORLY

HOW CERTAIN NEIGHBORS GO ABOVE AND BEYOND TO BUILD COMMUNITY

Look around any neighborhood and most likely you’ll see at least 4-to-7-foot privacy fences on the sides and the back of the houses. We seem to wall ourselves off.

That can’t be said of Joe Weaver’s house near Jesuit College Prep. He intentionally keeps an open fence on the back of his property for one reason: visiting with neighbors.

“I like my fence because I can actually have conversations with neighbors and can meet others,” Joe says. He also gives neighbors the ability to cut through his side yard to shorten the walk towards Inwood Road. Now that’s neighborly.

Joe’s name may sound familiar to some — years ago he was the person responsible for paying for and planting 77 oak and crepe myrtle trees that line the alleyway along the west side of the channel that runs behind Jesuit. Today, it seems more like a peaceful, tree-lined pathway thanks to Joe’s contribution. His accessible fence and plantings help to build community.

Kiki Paschall, with Northaven Park Neighborhood Association, also helps keep residents connected by organizing events, including My Park Day to clean up the parks, an annual picnic and a backyard garden tour and plant sale, to name a few. Neighbors there also get together to clean and maintain the seven community flowerbeds.

Building a strong sense of community and making life-long friends is what makes Carla McClanahan happy to live in Melshire Estates. Neighbors on her block of Ridgetown Circle host a number of yearly activities including an outdoor movie night, Christmas party and fish fry. Neighbors there watch out for each other, and they even have an

ongoing group text to warn of any suspicious activity or share community news.

According to Schreiber Crime Watch Chairman Bob Kelly, hosting community activities and getting to know neighbors better can lead to safer communities. Beverly Pryor of Glen Meadow says her neighborhood association participates in National Night Out (NNO), an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships to make neighborhoods safer. “For those living in the Glen Meadows Estates area, the association offers a small reimbursement of $75 to help offset the cost of throwing a NNO block party within our neighborhood,” Pryor shares.

It’s a great way to get to know your neighbors. For the past several years, Amy Mentgen has arranged for Ruthie’s Food Truck to park in her driveway during the night of Halloween where invited guests may order and pay for a dinner on the run. She says, “We had little kids that wouldn’t make it far trick-ortreating, so we wanted to do something that would make Halloween

fun for our kids, extended family and friends.”

Mentgen suggests if you want to host something similar in your own neighborhood to start small.

Holiday-inspired events run the gamut. Cheri Gambow runs the neighborhood association in Walnut Ridge where she has lived for nearly 13 years. Back in 2005, a group of women came up with an idea to get their kids thinking about community. In early December, they sent their kids door-to-door to sell luminaries — white paper bags filled with sand and candles. “The kids love packing on our driveway and look forward to it every year…and we let the kids lead the process,” Gambow says.

Luminary events are popular in the Southwest during the Christmas season. Gambow said the first year they had between 30-40 houses participate but now, 11 years in, about 90 percent of the neighborhood participates. The cost is $20 for the candles, bag and sand. After caroling at homes, participants meet for an easy dinner at a neighbor’s house, price included.

Rachel Hobbs, who once lived

Luminaries light up

Walnut Ridge every holiday season. (Photos by Lauren Law)

in the Walnut Ridge neighborhood, says the luminaries were so beautiful she brought the idea to her new neighborhood, which now has its own seasonal display. “There are some people who have kids who go to different schools or the kids were older, so for me, I wanted the event to be about us getting to know each other better,” says Hobbs.

Coming out from behind your fences is a great way to enjoy all our community has to offer. Let’s make a pre-New Year’s resolution to put down our electronics and get to know our neighbors. Remember, you can start small but the most important thing is to just start.

LAUREN LAW is a former health care marketing executive, and is a neighborhood resident, marketing consultant, writer, wife, mom and volunteer. She writes about neighborhood issues or community areas of interest. Her opinions are not necessarily those of the Advocate or its management. Send comments and ideas to her llaw@advocatemag.com.

Much of Preston Hollow hides behind tall fences.

WHO ARE ‘THE PEOPLE’?

DEPENDS ON WHOM YOU ASK: GOD OR AMERICANS

Are you ready yet to hear about something other than politics?

As the quadrennial presidential election cycle nears conclusion and we are all alternately hopeful and hopeless over the prospective outcome, it might be well to remember that our national life togeth-

WORSHIP

BAPTIST

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

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

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

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

GRACE UMC / Diverse, Inclusive, Missional

Sunday School for all ages, 9:30 am / Worship, 10:50 am 4105 Junius St. / 214.824.2533 / graceumcdallas.org

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

GATEWAY CHURCH / we’re all about people

12123 Hillcrest Road, 75230 / 469.801.7250 / gatewaydallas.com

Saturdays: 4:00 pm / Sundays: 9:00 & 10:45 am

PRESBYTERIAN

PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 9800 Preston Road

Services: 8:15 am Chapel, 9:30 and 11:00 am Sanctuary

Senior Pastor Matthew E. Ruffner / www.phpc.org / 214.368.6348

UNITY

UNITY OF DALLAS / A Positive Path for Spiritual Living

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Sundays: 9:00 am Early Service, 11:00 am Celebration Service

er has held together for more than two centuries in times of woe and weal both. We survive and thrive somehow, because of and despite our politics.

It’s well to remember what politics is and isn’t. American politics is merely about governing our life together in communities large and small by the Constitutional principle “of the people, by the people and for the people.”

Sadly, we continue to have a national conversation about who the “people” are.

This conversation has taken many forms. Slaves and women once could not vote: The former actually counted as three-fifths of a person in one political compromise, and their black descendants only gained legal protections in the Voting Rights Act of 1965; the latter finally gained the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

Are the people all the people, or are some people more people than other people? A federal court has ruled that some state voter registration laws, which were claimed to protect against voter fraud that there is no evidence of, were deliberately meant to suppress the voting access of those who would likely vote for the opposing party (read black and Hispanic citizens voting for Democrat candidates). This is a form of saying that some people are more American than others. When we group recent legal immigrants with undocumented

immigrants and call them all aliens, we are “alienating” them all. We are saying that some of us (whose ancestors may have simply immigrated earlier and from Europe instead of Central America) have a greater purchase on peoplehood than others. When we treat corporations as people and allow elections to be driven by enormous, impersonal economic interests, we have reduced what it means to be people to market definitions.

Jewish and Christian tradition locates our human dignity in our capacity to work,

to rest, to name things, to care for creation, to relate to one another intimately, to procreate, to make things, to choose between good and evil and so on. In other words, politics is something but not everything, and each of us is more than a political creature. We are made in God’s image, and God is blessedly inscrutable.

W.H. Auden famously said, “Poetry makes nothing happen.” He meant that to be suitably ambiguous. Poetry decries the use of words only for political purposes. Art loves what is good for goodness sake. We should value people for their own sake as well. The best of life is not subject to manipulation or management. But poetry also makes nothing happen the way God made the world by a word. Nothing became something. Wondrous.

Breathe, read a novel, listen to music, walk your dog, worship, pray, catch a ballgame, wonder aloud, wander about, love your neighbor. Life is more than politics.

George Mason is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

We are made in God’s image, and God is blessedly inscrutable.

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DANCING DYNASTY

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MCCLELLAND GUN SHOP Clean, Repair, Restore. New/Used Guns. 214-321-0231 McClellandGun.com

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LEGAL SERVICES

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

ACCOUNTING, TAXES Small Businesses & Individuals. Chris King, CPA 214-824-5313 www.chriskingcpa.com

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SQUARE NAIL WOODWORKING

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CLEANING SERVICES

A MAID FOR YOU Bonded/Insured.Park Cities/ M Streets Refs. Call Us First. Joyce 214-232-9629

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MESS MASTERS Earth friendly housecleaning. 469-235-7272. www.messmasters.com Since ‘91

COMPUTERS & ELECTRONICS

BILL’S COMPUTER REPAIR Virus Removal, Data Recovery. Home/Biz Network Install. All Upgrades & Repairs. PC Instruction. No Trip Fee. 214-348-2566

CONCRETE/ MASONRY/PAVING

BRICK & STONE REPAIR

Tuck Pointing / Crack Repair. Mortar Color Matching. Windows,Doors, Cracks Etc. Don 214-704-1722

BRICK, BLOCK, Stone, Concrete, Stucco. Gonzalez Masonry. 214-395-1319

BRICK, STONEWORK, FLAGSTONE PATIOS Mortar Repair. Straighten Brick Mailboxes & Columns. Call Cirilo 214-298-7174

CONCRETE REPAIRS/REPOURS

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CONCRETE, Driveway Specialist Repairs, Replacement, Removal, References. Reasonable. Chris 214-770-5001

EDMONDSPAVING.COM Asphalt & Concrete Driveway-Sidewalk-Patio-Repair 214-957-3216

FLAGSTONE PATIOS, Retaining Walls, BBQ’s, Veneer, Flower Bed Edging, All Stone work. Chris 214-770-5001

ELECTRICAL SERVICES

ANTHONY’S ELECTRIC Master Electrician. TECL24948 anthonyselectricofdallas.com

50 Yrs. Electrical Exp. Insd. 214-328-1333

BRIGHT LIGHT ELECTRIC • 214-553-5333 TECL 31347 Brightening Homes and Businesses

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LAKEWOOD ELECTRICAL Local. Insured. Lic. #227509 Call Rylan 214-434-8735

TEXAS ELECTRICAL • 214-289-0639

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TH ELECTRIC Reasonable Rates. Licensed & Insured. Ted. E257 214-808-3658

WHITE ROCK ELECTRIC All Electrical Services. Lic/Insd. E795. 214-850-4891

EXTERIOR CLEANING

G&G DEMOLITION Tear downs, Haul. Interior/Exterior. 214-808-8925

FENCING & DECKS

#1 COWBOY FENCE & IRON CO. Est. ‘91. 214-692-1991 www.cowboyfenceandiron.com

4 QUALITY FENCING Call Mike 214-507-9322

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FENCING & WOODWORK oldgatefence.com charliehookerswoodwork.com 214-766-6422

HANNAWOODWORKS.COM

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KIRKWOOD FENCE & DECK

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FLOORING & CARPETING

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GARAGE SERVICES

GARAGE DOORS & OPENERS 972-521-6567. install, Repair, Service, Sales.

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

EAST DALLAS WINDOW CLEANING Power Wash. Free Est. Dependable. Derek. 214-360-0120

LAKE HIGHLANDS GLASS & MIRROR frameless shower enclosures • store fronts replacement windows • mirrors 214-349-8160

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

HANDYMAN SERVICES

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

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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

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General Repairs/ Maintenance. 214-215-2582

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HOUSE PAINTING

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

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

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

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KITCHEN/BATH/ TILE/GROUT

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

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TK REMODELING 972-533-2872

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LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

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MOVING

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1. For laminate or hardwood floors, begin by dry mopping.

2. Follow up with a cleaner designed specifically for hardwoods or laminate.

3. Keep it dry — never wet mop or use products that require water.

4. Carpet lovers, vacuuming is key to preserving the carpet’s cushiness and shape.

Remember, quick, routine cleaning saves hours on heavy cleaning, giving you more time to enjoy the holiday season.

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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

PLUMBING

A2Z PLUMBING 214-727-4040

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

AC PLUMBING Repairs, Fixtures, Senior Discounts. Gary Campbell. 214-321-5943

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LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

A&B LANDSCAPING Degreed Horticulturist. Landscape & Stone Work. 214-534-3816

AYALA’S LANDSCAPING SERVICE

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CHUPIK TREE SERVICE

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DALLAS K.D.R.SERVICES • 214-349-0914

Lawn Service & Landscape Installation

HOLMAN IRRIGATION

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LIGHT IT UP DALLAS

Your lighting specialists. 972-591-8383

Parties, Weddings, Patios, Landscape.

LSI LAWN SPRINKLERS “Making Water Work”

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TRACY’S LAWN CARE • 972-329-4190

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LAWNS, GARDENS

Sewers • Drains • Bonded 24 Hours/7 Days *Joe Faz 469-346-1814 - Se Habla Español*

ARRIAGA PLUMBING: General Plumbing

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

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

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

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POOLS

LEAFCHASERS POOL SERVICE Parts/Service. Chemicals/Repairs. Jonathan. 214-729-3311

REMODELING

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TEMPLE EMANU-EL completed its $38 million renovation and expansion project. Improvements to Northern Texas’ first Jewish congregation include a two-story addition for offices, an Early Childhood Education Center wing and gathering space. The synagogue also was expanded to include a chapel with seating for more than 500 people.

THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL is looking to move into the 3.9-acre property that Walnut Hill Lutheran Church occupies at 3202 Royal Lane. In July, the property was listed for sale by the church for $2.7 million. The site carries residential zoning, and the Christian private school filed a request to amend the zoning designation so that it can operate there. “Although there is a request in to zoning, we would prefer to wait until the process concludes before we do any interviews,” saysEmily Eber,

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director of communications and community development, when asked for comment. “We are still in early stages and don’t want to rush anything.”

COMING SOON

Preston Hollow neighbors won’t have to drive to Casa Linda or Lower Greenville much longer to cure their STEEL CITY POPS cravings. The ice pop shop is slated to open its third Dallas location this month at the Preston Royal retail centerat 6025 Royal Lane. The business, founded in 2012, now has 14 locations in three states.

The fast food giant CHIK-FIL-A came to the neighborhood with a new location at 12795 Midway Road. Chicken lovers camped, as is almost always the case at new Chik-Fil-A openings, for a chance to win one year’s worth of free food.

PEOPLE

Police Chief DAVID O. BROWN serves his last day with the Dallas Police Department on Oct. 22. After 33 years of service, he announced his resignation this past month. Brown, whose career began in 1983, gained support from members of both the department and the community while serving as the commander of the northeast division, which includes Preston Hollow. In July, he received nationwide media attention for his leadership after five police officers were killed by a lone shooter downtown. “Their memory will remain with all of us forever,” Brown says.

Philanthropist Nancy Shutt hopes to protect her Preston Hollow home so that it can be admired for generations to come. She applied to the Landmark Commission seeking a historic overlay district for the property at 5310 Park Lane, which was designed by well-known Dallas architect Charles Dilbeck and constructed in 1939.

EDUCATION

Despite support from Preston Hollow representative Dustin Marshall and North Dallas representative Erwin Flores, a 13-CENT TAX RATIFICATION HIKE benefitting Dallas ISD will not be on the ballot this November. Only five of the six trustees needed voted in favor of the tax, which would have raised the state’s cap on operational expenditures from $1.04 to $1.17 in Dallas. The $100 million generated from the tax would have been used to fund collegiate academies, prekindergarten and Accelerating Campus Excellence programs.

CITY

After Dallas City Council scrapped a plan to build a sky bridge between a city-owned garage and a retail building at Preston Center, councilwoman JENNIFER STAUBACH GATES says an underground parking garage may be a better option, perhaps one topped by a park.

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