2016 July Preston Hollow

ODD JOBS

OF THE PAST

YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND

BUT WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN ANYMORE?

You would expect a neighborhood to be a friendly place.

Isn’t that how we select our homes, to some extent, because eventually we hope to feel some type of kinship with the people who already live there? We may not know them yet, but the architecture and the lawns and the cars and the landscaping tell the story of future neighbors, people we hope will become our friends over time.

It doesn’t always work out that way, though. Friendship is elusive, and mere proximity isn’t necessarily enough to make what starts as a random connection turn into something more meaningful.

Someone said something interesting to me the other day: “I really don’t like my friends.”

It started me thinking about friends and friendship: Is it possible to have a friend you don’t like? Isn’t “liking” someone kind of elemental to calling them a friend?

Something else got me thinking about friendship, too: A recent study published by the Public Library of Science concluded that only about half of the people most of us call friends would say the same thing about us.

That’s right. If you identify 20 people as friends, only about 10 of them will tell someone else they’re friends with you. And if we knew which half didn’t really like us that much, we probably wouldn’t like them much, either — not exactly a great way to build a stable of friends.

Who is defined as a “friend” and what is defined as “friendship” are admittedly vague concepts, and those

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concepts change with times and technology. Some of us have hundreds of Facebook friends and LinkedIn connections, but how many of those people can we count on to bail us out of a problem at 3 a.m.?

It all comes down to what we expect out of friendship. Are we satisfied calling people “friends” who know our names but not much else about us? Or do we believe a friend is someone who knows us inside-out, and vice versa?

It’s pretty easy these days, when checking out other peoples’ online accounts, to read the glowing snippets and watch fun-looking photos and videos and see the myriad approving responses from “friends” to convince ourselves that friendship is something everyone else has in abundance even as we struggle to find it.

It would be easier if neighbors or even co-workers were automatically friends, but it doesn’t work that way, either. We all have our lives to live, and for the most part, our priority is not usually someone else.

Perhaps the ultimate lesson in friendship is one I heard recently during an interview with NPR radio host Diane Rehm. She was talking about her late husband, and as a wife and presumably a friend, she seemed to have his need for friendship figured out: “He would rather have had lunch with The New Yorker magazine than any human being. Including me.”

Apparently, her husband identified the one friend he knew he could count on, and he married the one friend who helped him live his life as he wanted.

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‘HOUSEWIFE’

IN THE HOLLOW

THE DRAMA IS OVER AND CARY DEUBER IS BACK TO LIFE AS USUAL

Until the final two episodes, Preston Hollow surgical nurse Cary Deuber was arguably the most boring cast-mate on “The Real Housewives of Dallas,” which ended its rocky inaugural season last month. She didn’t throw wine at anyone, she had very little to contribute to the fecal-based discussions that consumed the other characters, and she largely avoided the fray.

“It’s kind of embarrassing, a little bit,” she says of the infighting. “For the most part I tried to stay out of it. ... I’m just too good for that. Not to be an uppity whatever, but that’s just not me.”

Then fellow Preston Hollow charity organizer LeeAnne Locken attacked her marriage to plastic surgeon Dr. Mark Deuber, claiming she stole him from another woman. That’s when Cary’s claws really came out.

“I’m an opinionated girl, I’m from the East Coast,” where, apparently, people are more opinionated.

Despite the deluge of drama, Cary says, it was one of those oncein-a-lifetime opportunities she had to take, or she’d always wonder “what if.” It was something she would always have to look back on, a moment captured forever under reality-TV glass.

“I don’t feel like Bravo comes knocking on your day every day,” she says.

And maybe that’s a good thing. While a decent 1 million viewers tuned in to the first episode, that number steadily declined each week, making it the proverbial poop hat (only those who watched will understand) of the “Housewife” franchise. Are we perhaps reaching the point of over-saturation with reality shows about pretty people being awful to each other? Bravo has showcased iteration after iteration of this formula, and

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perhaps is now seeing diminishing returns — several of its programs have had a drop in viewership in recent years.

In fact, Cary says the cast members didn’t know they were a part of the “Housewives” chain until the show had nearly wrapped filming. They were initially told the show was focused on women of the city’s elite charity scene, with lavish events and big donors. Seemingly, the “Housewives” brand was too marketable to resist.

“It hasn’t been as torturous as I thought,” Cary says of watching the show. Like all cast-mates, she got a screener a few days before each episode aired so she could prepare blogs that rebutted whatever claims were thrown her way that week. Since she was squarely on the sidelines most of the season, she didn’t have to defend her character too frequently, and is proud of her overall portrayal.

“I just decided I’m going to be myself 100 percent so I wouldn’t have any regrets,” Cary says. “Pretty much, what you see is what you get with us.”

If nothing else, it will likely be good for the Deuber family’s surgical spa business, where they specialize in 24-hour breast augmentations. “The very next day you can be driving or up and walking around,” she beams. “People fly in from all over for it.”

She says that business was always good, and they didn’t see any meaningful uptick after the show debuted. If the Beverly Hills “Housewives” cast is any indicator, it could be very lucrative — two castmates’ plastic surgeon husbands landed their own show, “Botched,” on the E! network. And Dr. Mark Deuber, with his one-liners and affinity for spoiling Cary with large boxes from Roberto Cavalli, seems like good fodder for reality TV.

“We wanted to see where it would take us,” Cary says of the family’s decision to do the show.

But whether more time in the limelight is in the Deubers’ future remains to be seen. She hasn’t decided whether she’d sign on for another season of cattiness and couture.

“We’ll have to sit down and evaluate the positives and the negatives,” she says.

For now, she’s happy to get back to her business, her family, her charity work and her favorite Preston Hollow hangouts, without a camera crew. She hits up Meso Maya sometimes twice a week because it’s a favorite of her children, which include a 19-year-old stepson, 15-year-old stepdaughter and her 3-year-old daughter.

“What else? I love True Foods [Kitchen], TJ’s Seafood, oh, and the Gem, I could live off the food at the Gem,” she laughs. “They have $10 juices but whatever.”

Key Story

When it comes to the seemingly endless stream of snark cast-mates faced in both the media and the message boards, Cary is not weighed down. She doesn’t think she, or the show, is meant to represent the City of Dallas, but is more about capturing a small slice of its colorful life.

“I mean, who does represent the women of Dallas?” she asks. “I went on to represent myself.”

EMILY CHARRIER

“I mean, who does represent the women of Dallas?” she asks. “I went on to represent myself.”

Delicious

The chicken, bacon and waffle plate is topped with cream puffs. (Photo by Kathy Tran)

MAPLE LEAF DINER

What’s so Canadian about Canadian food? Debra Delaurier, co-owner and chef at the Maple Leaf Diner, says, “I don’t understand what people think Canadian food is? It’s all North American. We have burgers and chicken, we just do them our way.”

It may be their “flag ship chicken sandwich” with three mozzarella sticks towering over the bun, their blueberry scones oozing with a cream cheese filling, or even their fries drenched in gravy and cheese.

Her nephew and co-owner, Mike Delaurier, moved here nine years ago from Windsor, Ontario. Debra followed, but it took her seven years to go through immigration. She notes, “It takes a long time when you do it the right way.”

The Delauriers, who were one of the first families to settle in Canada way back when, are restaurant people. Debra and her five siblings grew up in the business at a family-run pizza

joint. Debra was sent to culinary school and later made it big when she was featured on Food Network Canada’s “You Gotta Eat Here!” and Cooking Channel’s “Donut Showdown.”

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She brought all of those Canadian favorites to Preston Road. “We make everything from scratch,” Debra said. “All of the pita bread, our burger buns are all made in house. Our pancakes are a homemade recipe we’ve had for life.”

When it comes to Canadian staples like pierogies, cabbage rolls and poutine, the two owners say that the food has been very well received. They’ve only added a few “Southern staples” to the menu, like chicken fried chicken, since opening last September.

The cozy atmosphere has proved welcoming for the neighborhood, especially for 750 Canadians living in the metroplex, who have sought out the restaurant for an authentic taste of home.

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DID YOU KNOW:

One of the Maple Leaf Diner’s openingday customers was the Canadian Consulate-General in Dallas.

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Poutine (Photo by Kathy Tran)

July 11

OLYMPIC ART

In honor of the Olympics this summer, it’s your kid’s opportunity to go for gold in art. Come learn about and create artwork inspired by the Olympic Games from the Dallas Museum of Art.

Preston Royal Library, 5626 Royal Lane, 214.670.7128,dallaslibrary.org, free

July 15-31

PARADE OF PLAYHOUSES

Who doesn’t love the giant playhouses at NorthPark?

In its 21st year, Dallas CASA has provided many opportunities to see these works of art, which bring awareness to their important work with children in need.

NorthPark Center, 8687 N. Central, 214.827.8961, dallascasa.org, free

July 16

MOON DAY

Come celebrate the biggest expo on space in the entire state, which takes place at the Frontiers of Flight Museum. The featured speaker is Walt Cunningham, a lunar module pilot of the Apollo 7 mission. The Frontiers of Flight Museum, 6911 Lemmon, 214.350.3600, flightmuseum.com, $7-$10

July 4

FOURTH OF JULY PARADE

The neighborhood comes together for the annual Fourth of July parade beginning at 9 a.m. The parade begins on Stichter Avenue, travels north on Tibbs to Mimosa, then east to Edgemere, and south back to Stichter. Various streets, prestonhollow4thofjuly.blogspot.com, free

July 4

INDEPENDENCE DAY

The Hillcrest Forest Neighborhood Association and the Kramer Elementary PTA host their annual Fourth of July parade at 10 a.m. It proceeds down Midbury between St. Michael’s and St. Jude, and ends in a carnival. Kramer Elementary School, 7121 Midbury, hillcrestforest.org, free

July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

FARMERS MARKET

Fresh produce will be available all month. Every Saturday in July, come out and support your local farmers at the Saint Michael’s Farmers Market. Saint Michael’s Church, 8011 Douglas Avenue, saintmichaelsmarket.com, free

SUMMER SWEETNESS

A classic French dessert that might seem intimidating to make will surprise you with its simplicity. Pâte á choux is the dough that creates the airy and crisp shell that can be filled with your favorite ice cream or custard and garnished with powdered sugar, a decadent chocolate sauce or fresh fruit. Bite size and full of ice cream and fruit, profiteroles will win over the hearts of your guests and keep you cool during the summer heat.

RECIPE: PROFITEROLES

Makes 24

PÂte Á Choux:

1 cup water

1/2 cup butter, unsalted

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

4 eggs

Filling:

Ice cream flavor of your choice (vanilla bean is recommended)

Fresh strawberries, sliced

Directions:

Heat water, butter and salt in a medium sauce pan and bring to a boil.

Once the butter is completely melted, reduce the heat and add the flour. Whisk until the flour and butter mixture form into a paste that pulls away from the sides of the pan. Take mixture off of the heat and pour dough into a mixer with paddle attachment.

Mix on medium speed for 2 minutes to release the steam from the dough. Slowly add the eggs, one by one, and beat until the dough is smooth and all ingredients are fully combined. Pipe or scoop dough into 2-inch balls on a baking sheet.

Egg-wash the top of dough for a golden brown finish.

Just Solds

Bake at 425 °F for 10 minutes and then reduce the heat to 375 °F for about 15 minutes or until profiteroles are a light golden brown.

Allow the profiteroles to cool completely before filling.

Cut profiteroles in half and add one scoop of vanilla bean ice cream and fresh cut strawberries.

Garnish with powdered sugar. 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.

Jesse Brin, “All the News,” page 18

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SUMMER

IS

HERE , and most of Preston Hollow’s youth is basking in three months of unadulterated freedom. But for the industrious ones looking to pocket some extra cash, it means trading in schoolbooks for job applications. From lifeguards to lemonade stands, kids at all different ages seek seasonal work to save up for everything from candy to cars. Here, some of our prominent and longtime neighbors share their memories of working hard for the summer, why they did it and what they learned.

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YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS

You wouldn’t think the business of selling roses would be life threatening, would you? Well, then you haven’t heard about Brent Herling’s first job as an industrious 13-year-old growing up in Preston Hollow in the 1970s.

You may know Herling’s name, he is a lifelong Preston Hollow resident who spearheaded the restoration of the mural on Forest Lane in 2014. Lately, he’s been painting a new mural along Marsh Lane at 635. He’s a man who always has to be doing something, it seems — sitting still is not his style.

So as a new teenager with a healthy dose of moxie, he set out to make his way in the world — largely without his parents’ permission. One day, he saw a guy with a bucket of roses in the old FedMart parking lot on Forest Lane, which he peddled to passing cars for 75-cents a dozen. Herling knew he could handle the job, and walked up to the man to ask about work.

Despite his age and lack of a parent, he was hired on the spot. It’s a move indicative of the time, before work permits signed by parents were a requirement. In the early 1970s, Herling wanted a job, they wanted to sell more roses — the deal was done.

“I’m sure it was against child labor laws,” he laughs.

For his first day, men in a truck picked him up one Saturday morning and left him on the corner of Forest and Hillcrest with a sandwich board sign and a bucket of roses. But they weren’t just any roses, they were Tyler roses.

Known as the Rose Capitol of the World, the City of Tyler and the surrounding county put itself on the

map rose-growing recorded took Texas and there.

shipped state, eventually the country, by train. Business boomed around the turn of the century after years of drought and disease destroyed the area’s peach industry, when orchards were ripped out in favor of roses.

In 1933, Tyler launched the Texas Rose Festival, with its colorful displays reminiscent of the famed New Year’s Rose Parade in Pasadena and the annual crowning of the Rose Queen. Today, visitors flock by the thousands from all over the world to

something special those roses grown in Texas.

“There must be something in the soil in Tyler,” Herling says. “They smelled like nothing else.”

He said the product was easy to move. He sold 50 to 80 dozen a day, mostly to men who were cruising up the Lane on their way to a date or home to their wives. It was a romantic impulse buy, that at 75 cents (about $4 in today’s dollars), seemed too good to pass up.

“I usually wouldn’t come back

home until after dark,” he recalls.

It wasn’t easy work — standing out on the corner in the beating Texas sun. But Herling got to keep about 10 cents of every dozen he sold, plus most people paid their 75-cent bill with $1 and let him keep the quarter in change, boosting his daily take. He made about $18 a day, when minimum wage was $1.10 an hour, so clearly the money was good. It gave him the pocket change needed to buy Burger King meals and trinkets at M.E. Moses toy store, two essentials for a young teen in Preston Hollow.

It was a pretty easy first job overall, up until the aforementioned near-death experience. That happened one

LADY LOVE

Jennifer Staubach Gates grew up in one of the most high-profile families in the neighborhood. The 1984 Ursuline Academy graduate — as everyone in the neighborhood knows — is the eldest daughter of football great Roger Staubach, who earned the Heisman Trophy in 1963 before spending 11 seasons as the Dallas Cowboys quarterback, including five Super Bowls.

But despite that prestige, Gates did not grow up a princess. A strong work ethic was instilled in all five Staubach children at a young age. While she definitely defines her childhood as “idyllic,” she was tasked early with responsibilities to ensure she knew the value of hard work.

day when two cars collided, careening directly into Herling’s path.

“I had to run for my life,” he says.

But it was his parents who eventually put the kibosh on his rose-selling days. They finally got sick of some strange guys in a truck picking their adolescent son up every Saturday.

“One day they showed up and my dad just told them to leave,” he laughs.

Herling kept working all his life, eventually becoming a successful engineer who also makes quirky art out of found objects that can be seen all over his Glen Meadow lawn.

“We had a cleaning lady, but she wasn’t ever allowed in our rooms. We always cleaned our own rooms and bathrooms. We always had summer chores,” Gates remembers. “We always had a lot of responsibilities at home, but we were also expected to work.”

So when Gates was a high school student, probably a sophomore, she says, she jumped at the opportunity to work at Lady Love Inc., a Mary Kay-style competitor famous for its aloe vera skin care line, which had a distribution center in Addison at the time.

Gates was approached by a teacher at Ursuline who sold Lady Love products on the side. There was a job available at the distribution center, and Gates would be perfect for it, she said.

Never one to miss out on an opportunity, Gates applied.

“I worked in their stock room. The sales reps would drop off their

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Jesse Brin is pragmatic when looking back at his work ethic in his younger years.

“It’d be nice to say I was always made to work, but, I wasn’t,” he says. “Being the baby, I got away with a lot.”

No, it wasn’t a shining need to prove himself, but an opportunity to get something he desperately desired that launched Brin into the working world. He was maybe 12, and like most boys in Preston Hollow the mid-1960s, he liked comic books. There, he found an ad for a classic business style of the era, in which children would sell greeting cards or seed packets in exchange for prizes.

“They didn’t pay you in money, they paid you in goods,” Brin recalls.

There on the page, he saw it: a Red Rider air rifle, just like the one Ralphie coveted in the iconic film “A Christmas Story.” Soon, he was schlepping door-todoor putting on his best sales pitch for neighbors, who bought greeting cards by the boxes.

“I wanted a BB gun really, really bad,” he laughs.

“It taught me all about leadership and how to work with people,” she says.

Lady Love was the perfect first job, she says, because it allowed for flexibility in schedule to account for her extra-curricular activities. Plus, like most teenage girls, she was stoked to get to try all the products.

“That was a good perk,” she remembers.

Another perk was, of course, the paycheck, which Gates was allowed to spend on whatever she liked. She coveted Lancome

She stayed with Lady Love through high school. Once she began nursing school, she spent her summers working at the Cooper Clinic and in the nursery at Medical City

Gates eventually became a registered nurse and, obviously, a city councilwoman representing Preston Hollow in the 13th district. But she fondly remembers her Lady Love days when asked to look back.

“It was really friendly and I learned a lot about business there,” she says.

Brin was as basic a kid as you could imagine, growing up in Preston Hollow before it was a neighborhood dotted with celebrities and the politically powerful. He held every kid job you could imagine, from mowing lawns to tossing Dallas Morning News papers. It was another impulse buy that inspired his paper route.

“They had these Italian mini bikes that we would just lust over,” he says. After his buddy got one that they “rode the wheels off of,” he had to have his own. Soon, a friend was selling a motorcycle, a rung above mini bikes on the danger, and thus cool, scale.

“My mother was very against it,” he remembers. “I asked her, ‘If I get a job, can I buy it myself, with my own money?’ She said, ‘Sure.’ She didn’t think I could do it.”

It took a year and a half, but he did it.

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He says more than a dozen of his friends had their own paper routes that snaked across the neighborhood, but his territory was the roughly 30 blocks between Stitcher, Preston, Lakehurst and Hillcrest. He earned 75-cents per month for each house he covered, a decent wage for the day.

But the work was not easy. He never got used to the blare of his alarm in the pitch darkness of 3:30 a.m. Or the cold winter mornings when the frosty wind would slap his cheeks as he rode his route. He did get used to rolling newspapers, which is harder than you may think, especially on Sundays when the editions were extra thick. Like any new job, there was a learning curve, especially when it came to tossing papers.

At the time, he says a path spanned neighbors’ yards, used by mailmen and pa-

per boys who needed access to the home’s porch but who did not want to endlessly crisscross from the sidewalk up the walkway and back. Brin was riding down the path, tossing papers when he heard the crash.

“I broke a window when I first started,” he laughs. “Like most kids, I acted like I didn’t hear it break, and just kept riding.”

It was a friend’s house, so he did go back to make amends. He paid to replace it himself, which cost him about a halfmonths wage.

But it was all worth it, because owning a motorcycle became a huge part of Brin’s identity. He went on to ride for decades, up until earlier this year when he had a bad crash.

“I broke my back in three places, now

I’m retired,” he says.

But not before having some really amazing times. As a crusier of Forest Lane (for more on that, see last months cover story), he was intimately entangled in the local car culture. After the paper route earned him a motorcycle, he learned his way around an engine, and soon was fixing up other teens’ cars for extra cash.

“I had a lot of rich friends who wanted cars that went fast,” he laughs.

Preston Hollow looks very different now from when Brin was a boy, but that paper route from Preston to Hillcrest taught him skills he still taps into today, as a success in the tech field.

“We learned to be independent at a very young age,” he says. “It was great preparation for life.”

“I broke a window when I first started. Like most kids, I acted like I didn’t hear it break, and just kept riding.”

SOCIAL BUTTERFLY

Nancy Smith has such a bright disposition it’s hard to believe she began her career at The Dallas Morning News by writing obituaries.

“The Sparkman-Hillcrest person would come in every afternoon –this man in black – and give me all the obituaries,” she remembers. “Sometimes I’d be there until 8 o’clock at night writing … After I did that for about three months they promoted me to weddings.”

She poured herself into the work and quickly became society editor, which she says was commonly thought to be “the fluff job of all time.” But Smith wasn’t interested in writing about “what color dress someone wore to a party.”

“It was never like that with me,” she explains. “I was always zeroing in on whatever news value there was in any event I covered.”

She once spotted William Masters and Virginia Johnson at a fundraiser

for the Junior League of Dallas. For those who don’t watch the fictionalized Showtime series about their life, “Masters of Sex,” Masters and Johnson conducted some of our country’s first research into human sexuality. They also had a torrid love affair, making them great media fodder.

“I spent half the party interviewing them,” Smith laughs.

Her eye for interesting news paid off. In the early 1990s she leveraged her connections and began publishing a paper of her own called High Society. Contributors included big names in the Dallas social scene, like Caroline Rose Hunt, Julia Sweeney and Wendy Reeves, who had just donated several impressionist paintings to The Dallas Museum of Art. These days Smith prefers to write books. She’s penned five, including “Dallas Celebrity in the Glamorous 1980s Era of Ronald and Nancy Reagan,” which came out earlier this year. The book is

hefty – 778 pages to be exact – and includes chapters on everything from the development of the Dallas Arts District to the revitalization of the Adolphus Hotel to the 1984 Republican Convention.

“This is the generation that made Dallas an international city,” Smith says, explaining why she chose to write about this decade over any other. “I feel like I’m kind of a cheerleader for the whole generation.”

History is a passion of the author’s – her other books explore life in mid-19th century France. She also appraises and deals antiques. Her shop, Preston Royal Consignments & Appraisals, opened recently in the Preston Royal Southwest Shopping Center, where she showcases her favorite heirlooms.

“We’re very future-oriented [as a society],” Smith says. “We should honor and revere the past.”

– ELIZABETH BARBEE

Opposite: Nancy Smith; Above: Preston Royal Consignments & Appraisals. (Photos by Rasy Ran)

IS YOUR ANGER RIGHTEOUS OR

SELF-RIGHTEOUS?

THE ANSWER IS IMPORTANT IN OUR CURRENT AGE OF RAGE

Anger seems to be all the rage now. Political pundits see seething masses behind the presidential campaign success of candidates in both parties. Each in his or her own way taps into frustration with the way people feel the world is organized

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LUTHERAN

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UNITY

against them, and/or with the direction of social mores, and/or inequality in economic outcomes — for the middle class especially.

Feelings are rooted in facts that give rise to them. Change is the one constant in life, and the speed of change is hard to keep up with. Information travels in nanoseconds now. We are bombarded by news we don’t need along with news we need, and culling through the one to get to the other is a chore. Stories sensationalize the silly and banal. Long form pieces provoking thought are rare. Sources are increasingly dubious; hence emails are rife that spread half-truths and reinforce a culture of complaint.

opportunity have been sawed off. Unions have been broken up; jobs have been offshored for cheap foreign labor. Higher education costs have exploded. At the same time, they believe those beneath them in the socio-economic strata receive benefits denied to them. They feel squeezed in both directions.

The anger is real, but is it good? It can be. Anger can motivate action. It can mobilize people to seek change.

It can also do more harm than good.

“Be angry but do not sin,” the Bible says. “Do not let the sun go down on your anger.”

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Whether the subject is samegender marriage or the right bathroom for transgender persons to use, the question of whether black lives matter enough to shape respectful relationships by or for law enforcement, or equal pay for equal work for women, the social stasis is in flux. This produces, on the one hand, anxiety in those who feel a loss of what they have known as standards they could count on, and, on the other hand, boldness in those who see an opportunity to move from the margins to the center.

The shrinking middle class wants to be heard. Their grievance with the rich goes to their sense that the traditional rungs on the ladder of

George Mason

I haven’t made many good decisions in the heat of anger, have you? I regret most of what I said or did in fits of rage. Anger should give us pause before it drives our behavior. It should alert us to what’s wrong, but then enlist our spiritual reason to address how to right the wrong.

Frederick Buechner puts it pithily: “Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back — in many ways it is a feast fit for a king.

“The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.”

As the summer temperature rises in all sorts of ways, we would do well to cool down with more than lemonade. Raw emotion needs the partnership of considered thought to bring about a beloved community where everyone feels at home and no one lacks hope.

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

SWEET TREATS

Society Bakery opened the doors to a third location in the Preston Hollow shopping center at the end of May. The bakery is taking over Toni Rivard’s Cakeballs’ old space, which is now newly located in NorthPark Center. The space, which is right next to Kidville, is another reason for the bakery’s opening. Owner Roshi Muns says, “We have been extremely successful creating all of the custom birthday cakes for Kidville, which will be our neighbor at this location, so families in the area are familiar with our talented pastry team.” The bakery is open Monday-Saturday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The store is home to a new recipe, the Fruity Pebble cookie.

HOSPITAL EXPANSION

Medical City Dallas Hospital continues to grow with the addition of 123 private patient rooms at the end of May. On June 1, the Inpatient Rehabilitation Center and Joint Restoration Institute opened. In addition, there is a gym, dining room and more for the patients in Building E. By putting all of these elements together in Building E, it “brings our vision of an orthopedic and neurosciences hospital on the campus of Medical City to life,” says Troy Villarreal, president and CEO at Medical City Dallas Hospital.

NOW OPEN

Carlens Luxury Optical is set to open July 1 at the Shops at Park Lane. The high-end eyewear retailer is owned by Stephany Carmona. Learn more at facebook.com/carlensoptical.

Fine footwear and accessories manufacturer Cole Haan opened a new store at the NorthPark Center in June.

EDUCATION

In May, the students at Cabell Elementary placed third in Destination Imagination in Nashville, Tenn. The mission of Destination Imagination is “to develop opportunities that inspire the global community of learners to utilize diverse approaches in applying 21st century skills and creativity.” Along with the creation of the balsa wood structure, the Cabell Chargers wrote a story and performed a skit. The team sponsors were Abby Farmer and David Bates.

The fourth-grade students at The Lamplighter School continue to put work and charity first with Lamplighter Layers, a chicken-raising and egg-selling corporation, which provided the kids with business skills while giving back in the process. After selling 5,800 eggs, the students gave both the American Cancer Society and the Great Plains Foundation $800 checks. In addition, they gave $90 to the school. Dr. Joan Hill, head of school, says, “The kids don’t just think they can do something… they know and believe that they can do anything.”

The Vickery Meadow Summer Academy is in need of tutors and youth leaders this summer (July 7-Aug. 4) to help immigrants and refugees with basic English and phonics. In addition, the tutors would teach them “how to obtain basic nutrition and be able to navigate their surroundings.” For more information, contact Dalene Buhl at dalenebuhl@gmail.com.

Keylime cupcakes from Society Bakery (Photo by Mark Davis)

Society Bakery

CLASSES/TUTORING/ LESSONS

ART: Draw/Paint. Adults All Levels. Lake Highlands N. Rec. Ctr. Days: Mon & Wed. Students bring supplies. Nights: 1xt month workshop, supplies furnished. Jane Cross. 214-534-6829,

CREATIVE ARTS CENTER More than 500 adult art classes/ workshops from metal to mosaic! www.creativeartscenter.org

FARMERS BRANCH AQUATICS CENTER Visit our new natatorium. Begin swim, fitness classes & open swim. fbh2o.com

EMPLOYMENT

PET SITTERS, DOG WALKERS reply to http://www.pcpsi.com/join

SERVICES FOR YOU

AT ODDS WITH YOUR COMPUTER? Easily Learn Essential Skills. Services include Digital Photo Help. Sharon 214-679-9688

COMPUTER HELP! Viruses, Data Recovery, Upgrades, WiFi Problems, Onsite Tech. 214-533-6216 WebersComputers.com

CONFUSED? FRUSTRATED? Let A Seasoned Pro Be The Interface Between You & That Pesky Windows Computer. Hardware & Software Installation, Troubleshooting, Training. $60/hr. 1 hr min. Dan 214-660-3733 / stykidan@sbcglobal.net

KILL ROACHES Guaranteed-Harris Roach Tablets with Lure. Available: Hardware Stores, The Home Depot, homedepot.com

LICENSED PHYCHOLOGIST Academic, behavioral, ADHD, emotional testing. Children, adolescents, adults. Therapy. Dr. Katherine Pang 214-531-7624 lighthousepsychtesting.com

NEIGHBORHOOD ENERGY EXPERT Helps you earn rewards for free energy, travel points & more. Call Elaine today for a free electric bill review. 214-500-3667 Make the Switch & Save!

LEGAL SERVICES

A FREE CONSULTATION Wills/Probate/Guardianships. MaryGlennAttorney.com 214-802-6768

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

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

BOOKKEEPING NEEDS? Need Help Organizing Finances? No Job Too Small or Big. Call C.A.S. Bookkeeping Services. Cindy 214-577-7450

PROPERTY TAX PROTEST laurenmedel.com. 972-773-9306 Mobile. SEO Friendly. Maintainable.

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MIND, BODY & SPIRIT

OAKCLIFF-LMT.COM Between Kessler & Stevens Park. Swedish & deep tissue massage. LMT Renee, 214-704-8193.

PET SERVICES

DOGGIE DEN DALLAS Daycare, Boarding, Grooming, Training. 6444 E. Mockingbird Ln. 214-823-1441 DoggieDenDallas.com

POOP SCOOP PROFESSIONALS Trust The Experts. 214-826-5009. germaine_free@yahoo.com

FOR THE LOVE OF ‘WHO’

Super “Doctor Who” fans from The Lamplighter School landed on the cover of Celestial Times, the official publication of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society. The magazine published the kids’ 5,000word (and growing) episode guide that chronicles all of the episodes they’ve watched. They are all a part of the “Who Is Doctor Who” fan club at the school, run by drama teacher Jeff Peck.

PET SERVICES Society Pet Sitter,Inc.

BUY/SELL/TRADE

SHARE FRONT ROW

Texas Rangers, Stars & Mavs seats. Tickets are available in sets of 10 games (sets of 2 or 4 tickets per game available). Participants randomly draw numbers prior to season to determine a draft order fair to everyone. Call 214-560-4212 or rwamre@advocatemag.com

ESTATE/GARAGE SALES

CLUTTERBLASTERS.COM-ESTATE SALES Moving & DownSizing Sales, Storage Units. Since 2001. Ph/Txt Donna 972-679-3100

ORGANIZEANDREJUVENATE.COM

Declutter/Files/Feng Shui. 972-816-8004

OVERWHELMED? CALL All Points: “A Solutions Company” AllPointsEstateServices.com • 214-802-2781

WANT TO MAKE MONEY? Richardson Mercantile is looking for dealers who want to join one of the best antique malls in DFW. Need details? Go to richardsonmercantile@gmail.com

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Submit your photo. Email a jpeg to editor@advocatemag.com. (Photo courtesy of Lamplighter School)

AC & HEAT

WINDOW AC TUNE UP Repair, Cleaning, Etc. Buy/Sell 214-321-5943

Family Owned & Operated

Serving the Dallas area for over 30 years

972-274-2157

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APPLIANCE REPAIR

JESSE’S A/C & APPLIANCE SERVICE

TACLB13304C All Makes/Models. 214-660-8898

CLEANING SERVICES

CINDY’S HOUSE CLEANING 15 yrs exp. Resd/Com. Refs. Dependable. 214-490-0133

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

TWO SISTERS & A MOP Move in/Out. Reliable/Dependable 20 Yrs Exp. 214-283-9732 twosistersamopmaidservice.com

WANTED: HOUSES TO CLEAN Great Prices $$. Family owned business. 15 years exp. Reliable. Excellent Refs. Call Sunny @ 214-724-2555

WINDOW MAN WINDOW CLEANING.COM

Residential Specialists. BBB. 214-718-3134

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 Lighting and Electrical Services

EXPERIENCED LICENSED ELECTRICIAN Insd. Steve. TECL#27297 214-718-9648

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

TEXAS ELECTRICAL • 214-289-0639

Prompt, Honest, Quality. TECL 24668

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

FLOORING & CARPETING

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

HASTINGS STAINED CONCRETE

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

Restoration Flooring

CABINETRY & FURNITURE

SQUARE NAIL WOODWORKING

Cabinet Refacing, Custom Built-ins and Entertainment/ Computer Centers.

Full Kitchen and Bath Remodels. For information, contact Jim @ 214-324-7398

Licensed Contractor proudly serving Lakewood/ East Dallas since 1995 squarenailwoodworking.com Visa/MC accptd.

CLEANING SERVICES

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

AFFORDABLE CLEANING Insd./Bonded. Move

In/Out. Routine Cleaning. Reliable. Dependable. Residential/ Commercial. References. 28+yrs. Delta Cleaning. 972-943-9280.

AFFORDABLE, PROFESSIONAL CLEANING

$100 off 1st clean for new weekly/bi-weekly clients. Staff trained by Nationally Certified Cleaning Tech. Chemical-free, Green, or Traditional Cleaning. WindsorMaidServices.com 214-381-MAID (6243)

ALTOGETHER CLEAN

Relax ...We’ll Clean Your House, It Will Be Your Favorite Day! Bonded & Insurance. Free Estimates. 214-929-8413. www. altogetherclean.net

AMAZON CLEANING

Top To Bottom Clean. Fabiana.469-951-2948

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

ALL CONCRETE RESTORATION & Decorative Designs. Staining 214-916-8368

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

Demo existing. Stamping and Staining Driveways/Patio/Walkways

Pattern/Color available Free Estimates 972-672-5359 (36 yrs.)

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

FENCING & DECKS

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

4 QUALITY FENCING Call Mike 214-507-9322

Specializing in Wood, New or Repair.

AMBASSADOR FENCE INC. EST. 96 Automatic Gates, Fences/Decks, ambassadorfenceco.com 214-621-3217

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

HANNAWOODWORKS.COM

Decks, Pergolas, Patio Covers. 214-435-9574

KIRKWOOD FENCE & DECK New & Repair. Free Estimates. Nathan Kirkwood. 214-341-0699

LONESTARDECKS.COM 214-357-3975

Trex Decking & Fencing, trex.com

All Wood Decks, Arbors & Patio Covers 214.692.1991

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COWBOY

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SPECIALIZING IN Wood Fences &Auto Gates

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Northlake Fence and Deck

Locally owned and operated by the Mccaffrey family

www.northlakefence.com

25+ Years Experience

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

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hardwood floors

Superior Quality: Installation • Refinishing Repair • Cleaning & Waxing Old World Hand Scrape 214-824-1166

FOUNDATION REPAIR

OPTIMUM FOUNDATION SERVICES

Reliable, cost-effective foundation repair. We are dedicated foundation specialists who bring customized solutions. Free estimates and transferable warranties. Contact us for an easy, no-obligation consultation. 214-500-0351 Info@optimumfoundationservices.com

• Slabs • Pier & Beam

• Mud Jacking • Drainage

• Free Estimates

• Over 20 Years Exp. 972-288-3797

We Answer Our Phones

GARAGE

SERVICES

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

A R&G HANDYMAN Electrical, Plumbing, Painting, Fencing, Roofing, Light Hauling. Ron or Gary 214-622-7488, 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

G & P HANDYMAN Plumbing, AC, Electrical, Painting, Roofing, Fix Appliances. 214-576-6824

HANDY DAN The Handyman. ToDo’s Done Right. handy-dan.com 214-252-1628

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

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

Your Home Repair Specialists

Drywall Doors Senior Safety Carpentry Small & Odd Jobs And More! 972-308-6035 HandymanMatters.com/dallas

HOUSE PAINTING

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

A+ INT/EXT PAINT & DRYWALL Since 1977. Kirk Evans. 972-672-4681

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

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

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

TOP COAT 30 yrs. exp. Reliable, Quality Repair/Remodel Phil @ 214-770-2863

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

• Exterior Painting • Interior Painting • Cabinet Makeovers

• Fence Stain

• Fence Repair

www.CertifiedPaintersCo.com 214-500-1021

KITCHEN/BATH/ TILE/GROUT

BLAKE CONSTRUCTION CONCEPTS LLC

Complete Kitchen And Bath Remodels. Tile, Granite, Marble, Travertine, Slate. Insured. 214-563-5035 www.blake-construction.com

FENN CONSTRUCTION Full Service Contractor. dallastileman.com 214-343-4645

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

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

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

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

#1 WHITE ROCK TREE WIZARDS

Professionals, Experts, Artists. Trim, Remove, Cabling, Bracing/Bolting. Cavity-Fill Stump Grind. Emergencies, Hazards. Insd. Free Est. 972-803-6313. arborwizard.com

A BETTER TREE MAN Trims, Removals, Insd.

12 Yrs Exp. Roberts Tree Service. 214-808-8925

A&B LANDSCAPING Degreed Horticulturist. Landscape & Stone Work. 214-538-9625

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

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Lawn Service & Landscape Installation

LAWNS, GARDENS

& TREES

YOUR TREES could look like a WORK OF ART, I Guarantee It.

JULY

Just Trees

Call Mark Wittlich 214-332-3444

1. Change the filter monthly during the cooling season.

2. Install a programmable thermostat.

3. Insulate, insulate, insulate!

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LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

HOLMAN IRRIGATION

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

LIGHT IT UP DALLAS

Your lighting specialists. 972-591-8383

Parties, Weddings, Patios, Landscape.

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

TRACY’S LAWN CARE • 972-329-4190

Lawn Mowing & Leaf Cleaning

U R LAWN CARE Maintenance. Landscaping. Your Personal Yard Service by Uwe Reisch uwereisch@yahoo.com 214-886-9202

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

The dog days of summer are here. Keep your AC blowing all through the hot months:

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

ANDREWS PLUMBING • 214-354-8521 # M37740 Insured. Any plumbing issues. plumberiffic69@gmail.com

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

NTX PLUMBING SPEC. LLLP 214-226-0913

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

214-328-7371

MetroFlowPlumbing.com

Lic.# M16620

POOLS

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

REMODELING

BLAKE CONSTRUCTION CONCEPTS, LLC Complete Remodeling, Kitchens, Baths, Additions. Hardie Siding & Replacement Windows. Build On Your Own Lot. Insured. www.blake-construction.com 214-563-5035

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

FENN CONSTRUCTION Full Service Contractor. dallastileman.com 214-343-4645

O’BRIEN GROUP INC. Remodeling Dallas For Over 17 Years www.ObrienGroupInc.com 214-341-1448

RENOVATE DALLAS renovatedallas.com 214-403-7247

ROOFING & GUTTERS

GUARDIAN ROOFING & SOLAR

Roof Repair & Solar Installation. Project Mgr. John Beasley 214-772-7362 guardianroofingandsolar.com

BERT ROOFING INC.

Family owned and operated for over 40 years

• Residential/Commercial • Over 30,000 roofs completed • Seven NTRCA “Golden Hammer” Awards • Free Estimates

www.bertroofing.com 214.321.9341

Jeff Godsey Roofing

Roof Repair Specialist

• Exterior Repair & Re-Roofing

• Insurance Claims

• Custom Chimney Caps

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

Replacement,

Installing Since 1995 972-263-6033

30+ Yrs. in Business • Major Additions Complete Renovations • Kitchens/Baths

214-341-1155

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PH issue

CRIME NUMBERS 12121

Coit Road. The location of the Extended Stay America Hotel where Demonte Laderrick Scaife allegedly shot Paris Marquell St. John.

9:05 p.m.

The time police received the call about the shooting.

$1 million

Demonte Laderrick Scaife’s bail after he was captured in Nolan County.

Source: Dallas Police Department

THE market

VICTOR L. HALL

Area Manager/ Loan Officer

BancorpSouth Mortgage

Cell: 972.352.7648

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“As a 15-year mortgage professional, you can count on my expertise and knowledge to help you make the right choice for your new home construction, purchase or refinance needs.”

ADVOCATE ORNAMENT

Home decor email: foundation@advocatemag.com or call 214.292.0486

TRUE CRIME

What happened in Ira Tobolowsky’s final hours, before his burned body was found in his home, remains a mystery. But police suspect foul play.

It was May 13 when Dallas Fire-Rescue rushed to his Kenshire Lane home on report of a fire. Police told Dallas’ NBC 5 that they believe the prominent local attorney was murdered. Dallas Fire-Rescue confirmed that the fire, which started in the garage, was “suspicious.” Whether the Dallas County Medical Examiner has been able to determine his cause of death has not been revealed publicly.

PH 7-16

Members of the Hillcrest Forest Neighborhood Association issued the following request:

“If you live in the vicinity and have a camera on an alley, street, or anywhere in the neighborhood, the police would be especially interested in vehicles between 7 and 8 a.m. on Friday, May 13, but the perpetrators may have been researching prior to that date.”

Those with information should contact Dallas Police Detective Robert Laurence at 214-671-3704 or robert.laurence@pd.ci.dallas.tx.us.

If you have information but wish to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 877.373.TIPS.

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the Advocate Foundation’s limited-edition, numbered, and hand-painted ornament; perfect gift for the new home owner or long time resident.

I hadn’t given this question much thought until recently, just like I haven’t pondered whether I am sufficiently “on fleek” or appropriately “woke.” (Yes and most definitely.)

But for the last few weeks, I’ve been mulling over the concept of “haters” — specifically civic haters — ever since I found myself on a short list of people categorized as such by a certain Dallas City Councilmember.

Last month, it was discovered that Lee Kleinman, who represents parts of northern Dallas, had created a list called “Haters” on the social media platform Twitter, ostensibly for those he had weighed in the balance and found, well, hating.

Among others, the list includes councilmembers Philip Kingston and Scott Griggs, City Hall watchdog and anonymous internet commenter “Wylie H.,” Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze, and D Magazine publisher Wick Allison. (The respective publications of the last two are likewise included on the “Haters” list, apparently tainted by Schutze’s and Allison’s extreme animus.)

I am going to make a giant assumption here and presume that this list represents people who — according to a certain worldview — “hate” our city. These are people who are happier criticizing Dallas than celebrating it, who would rather tear down our city than acknowledge its greatness. These are people who do

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not, who cannot, truly love Dallas.

Only, that’s not what I see when I look at this list. Now, since I myself have been condemned (or honored) as a “hater,” some might dismiss my perspective as biased — “haters gonna hate,” as it were. But hear me out.

Among those who have been maligned as “haters,” I see two incredibly smart and relentlessly hardworking councilmembers who fight for neighborhoods, urbanism and common sense. I see a prolific and insightful online commenter who regularly brings to light complex municipal problems. I see a city columnist who’s spent the last 30 years uncovering and interrogating the deep racial divide in our city, and a publisher who has used his glossy magazine to focus on critical 21st century issues like transportation and the environment.

One thing you can’t say about any of them is that they hate Dallas. Quite the opposite. It’s their passion for our city that pushes them to critique and analyze and speak out and try to make Dallas a much better city tomorrow than it is today.

Despite its fundamental flaws, this “Haters” list provides great insight into a very particular way of thinking about our city, a way of differentiating Dallas’ tribes — the old guard and the new. It gives us a glimpse into two distinctly different, fundamental philosophies about civic leadership.

On the one hand is the group that has been identified as haters, sometimes known as aginners, almost always considered impolite in polite Dallas society. The people on this

so-called “Haters” list don’t see eye-to-eye on every issue, but here’s what they have in common: They are typically fiscal watchdogs who are skeptical of big-ticket projects as a panacea for all that ails our city.

They don’t like government waste and cronyism and aren’t afraid to call it like they see it. They believe in transparent, democratic government. They think that “world class” ought to be a descriptor used exclusively for dog shows and pro-wrestling.

The other group includes those who believe that one must be a relentless cheerleader in order to truly love our city. That our city must kowtow to the business elite because they know best. That Dallas must stick to the old ways of doing things, however outdated and antiquated, because that’s how things have always been done.

But why on earth would we want cheerleaders running our city? Aren’t they the ones who stand on the sidelines while the game is played and jump for joy, even when their team is losing?

No, we don’t want cheerleaders. We want city leaders who are dedicated to finding fault in our city government, who will uncover corruption and ineptitude and work to right the ship. Because the first step in fixing a problem is acknowledging you’ve got one.

ANGELA HUNT is a former Dallas City Councilwoman. She writes a monthly opinion column about neighborhood issues. Her opinions are not necessarily those of the Advocate or its management. Send comments and ideas by email to ahunt@advocatemag.com.

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