2017 January Lakewood

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By RICK WAMRE

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This is supposed to be the time when we review what happened last year, evaluate the progress (or lack thereof) we’re making in our lives and come up with a plan to make this upcoming year better.

But does anyone actually do that?

We talk about things we’ll do differently in the new year, resolutions we’re making to lose weight, find a new job, volunteer somewhere, try religion again, be more kind and attentive to others, and on and on.

It isn’t that difficult to identify things we can do better. But it’s trickier to actually do things differently in our lives.

The message of a movie I saw recently was this: If you could see your whole life laid out from start to finish, would you change even a minute of it?

The movie basically taunted New Year’s resolutions — if we knew what was ahead for us in life, would we really change the way life would unfold?

In this movie, the star’s future included having a daughter who would die at a young age of an incurable disease. Armed with the knowledge that her as-yet unborn daughter was going to die anyway, should she still become pregnant?

Her future also included a divorce, followed by a life of what appeared to be lonely solitude. But the soon-to-die daughter, created through her failed marriage, also opened the door to an important breakthrough in linguistics that would make her famous and, since this was a movie, save the world.

Now, all of that is more information — and a more tempting conclusion — than we typically have to work with while contemplating our own futures. We’re more likely stuck with less sexy issues: If

Generally, to get from Point A to Point B, something has to take a back seat. Job success involves working harder, and that usually comes at the expense of family and friends. Leaving behind a bad spouse is mentally and often financially wrenching, and it’s easier just to be mildly content as opposed to actually happy.

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If we knew our precise future, it might make today’s decisions easier to make. But I wonder if that precise knowledge of the future would simply weigh us down with doubts about other decisions we could make and other paths we could take — resulting in the same life-in-quicksand we’re already pretty good at living.

I’m starting to think planning too far ahead is just going to give me a headache, just as making a bunch of resolutions I won’t keep anyway will lead to just another disappointing year.

I don’t think this would make a scintillating movie plot, but maybe it’s just a better idea — or more realistic — to keep our heads down, trudge on and hope we’re faced with the same issues a year from now.

At least that would mean we’re able to put another notch on our belts for surviving, if not actually thriving. And there’s something to be said for surviving.

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CABINETS

Cabinets are typically a big ticket item when remodeling and need consideration.

Solid wood cabinets are typically more expensive, very durable and longer product life, fairly inexpensive to repair cosmetic damage. Other options, such as a veneer on plywood or particle board are typically less expensive, can show scratches more easily, can peel or separate from the wood backing over time, and can be costly to

COUNTERTOPS

With so many different options for countertops, it can be overwhelming to make a choice. The location and use can help you make more informed decisions about a material.

Natural stone, while beautiful, can chip on impact, is porous which

Synthetic materials can be more durable, and come in a variety of

TILE

The surface of lower quality tile selections can crack and chip, causing frequent and costly repairs.

When choosing a tile, look for one labeled as integral color, which means the color is the same throughout, versus surface color. This will help hide any impact and abuse the tile may encounter, and lessen frequency of repairs.

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JAN. 19-28

DANCE PERFORMANCE

The Danielle Georgiou Dance Group showcases its latest work,“War Flower,” which revolves around the themes of time, nature, ritual and human survival. Performances are scheduled at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday until Jan. 28.

Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther Drive, 214.670.8749, dallasculture.org/bathhouseculturecenter, $15

Out & About

JAN. 8

POLAR PLUNGE

Dive into icy water for a good cause at the Hypnotic Donuts Polar Plunge, hosted by the doughnut shop and the Dallas Fraternal Order of Eagles 3018. The fundraiser, which includes a raffle and heated Tiki bar area, raises money for the Greater Dallas Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.

Dallas Fraternal Order of Eagles 3018, 8500 Arturo Drive, hypnoticdonuts.com, $10

JAN. 9

WILDLIFE CLASSES

Explore the outdoors with hands-on activities and songs during Growing Up Wild — Wildlife is Everywhere, a class for children ages 3-5 and one parent. The class, held at the Wyatt-Wold Education Center classrooms, begins at 10 a.m. Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Road, 214.515.6615, dallasarboretum.org, $40-$50

JAN. 20-FEB. 26

CHILDREN’S THEATER

Based on the Junie B. Jones children’s books, the production brings the antics of the loveable troublemaker to the stage. An American Sign Language performance is slated for Jan. 29 and a sensory friendly performance is Feb. 18.

Dallas Children’s Theater, 5938 Skillman St., dct. org, 214.978.011

JAN. 26

SILENT AUCTION

Bid for your chance to receive a Kaycee Pool membership, restaurant cards and more at the 8th annual Winter Silent Auction from 6:30-9 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Lipscomb Elementary PTA. Times Ten Celler, 6324 Prospect Ave., lipscomblions.com, free

JAN. 26

OSCARS NIGHT

Celebrate the best movies of the year with plenty of wine at A Night at the Oscars: Films, Wine & Winners. Hosted by journalist Gary Cogill and Hayley Hamilton Cogill, the event, from 6:308:30 p.m., matches each Oscarnominated movie with a different type of wine.

Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Road, 214.515.6615, dallasarboretum.org, $59-$65

JAN. 28

1980S PROM PARTY

Grab your neoncolored sweatshirts and put on your parachute pants for this Sixteen Candles 80s Prom Party, benefitting JL Long Middle School. Besides the food and bar, there will be 80s music, a contest, an auction and more. Lakewood Country Club, 6430 Gaston Ave., foldallas.org, $80

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OLD GUY ON THE BLOCK

The 78-year-old shopping strip in hipster central

By RACHEL STONE

PHOTOS BY DANNY FULGENCIO

All gentrified roads lead to Ross and Greenville.

Punk rock left Deep Ellum, where swanky restaurants are now taking hold.

Luxury condos are replacing neglected apartment buildings in Old East Dallas. Ross Avenue east of downtown is Uptown, Jr. And the street improvements on robust Lower Greenville are just about complete.

At the crossroads of all that progress is a 1938 shopping center that’s having a renaissance.

“It’s the apex of the triangle to where development is leading,” says Stephen

Schwartz, who bought the vintage retail strip at Ross and Greenville in 2013. “It’s a confluence of all the redevelopment meeting at that corner.”

Schwartz and his partners are only the second owners of the 78-year-old shopping center that still houses beloved dive bar Ships Lounge.

The property’s new owners spent about $2 million renovating it — new roof, bathrooms, water and sewer lines, with environmental remediation eating up most of that.

Pints and Quarts, a cute beer-burgers-and-dogs place, was the first new business to open, replacing the used tire shop that formerly occupied a building on the property’s hard corner.

Opposite page: While the outside of the building has hardly changed, the interior has been more than modernized.

Ross Avenue east of downtown is Uptown, Jr. And the street improvements on robust Lower Greenville are just about complete.

All except one of the previous tenants uprooted.

The Rec Shop moved to East Grand, and Monterrey restaurant closed. The paint store had time left on its lease, so Schwartz and company didn’t begin renovating the main building until summer 2014.

Ships got new bathrooms and new owners, but it still has the same old jukebox and tattered bar stools.

All of the shopping center’s new tenants are very hip.

Milk • Cream serves ice-cream-filled doughnuts, a trend known as “milky buns” that California birthed in 2014. There’s a cross-training gym on the Munger Avenue side.

Then came artisanal toast.

Longtime East Dallas resident Bob Sinnott and business partner Joel Roldan brought the pinnacle of food trends to this union of hip neighborhoods. Their Toasted Coffee + Kitchen, a San Francis-

co-style artisanal toast shop, opened in a space that used to be part of the paint store (see more on page 28).

“Our space here is beautiful. It has, like, an industrial lofty San Francisco feel,” Sinnott says. “We want it to be a place that people come for lunch and dinner, but also hang out and work on their laptops and have a great cup of coffee.”

The shopping center for ages was home to Sammy’s Terrace Restaurant, the first in a string or five or six Sammy’s restaurants operated by the Messina brothers from the early 1940s through the late ’60s.

Later, that unique space with the terrace housed a Freed’s Furniture showroom. It was an art gallery before Monterrey’s moved in.

Even though the cross-training gym now takes part of that terrace space, there is still a restaurant for lease that has access to the terrace and a downtown view.

“It would be a really cool feature for somebody,” Schwartz says. “We’re trying to find just the right tenant.”

“Our space here is beautiful. It has like an industrial lofty San Francisco feel,” Sinnott says.

PHOTO BY DANNY FULGENCIO

WHAT GIVES?

HOUSING HELP

SMALL WAYS THAT YOU CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE FOR NONPROFITS

It’s a monthly tradition but Interfaith’s Second Saturday is one not to be missed. The event is a way for volunteers to help prepare apartments for local families in need. From 9 to 10 a.m., families and individuals can help the organization’s Housing and Facilities staff with a number of tasks, including cleaning, decorating and sorting donated goods. This month’s volunteer opportunity takes place on Jan. 14.

LAKE CLEANUP

There’s no question residents love White Rock Lake. And what better way to show that love than by helping to keep it looking its best? On Jan. 14 you can join other neighbors by participating in the Second Saturday Shoreline Spruce-Up to help keep the lake and the land that surrounds it clean. The monthly tradition takes place from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

KNOW OF WAYS that neighbors can spend time, attend an event, or purchase or donate something to benefit a neighborhood nonprofit? Email your suggestion to launch@advocatemag.com

THE ANNEXATION OF EAST DALLAS

By JOHN SLATE

A map of property owners in East Dallas in 1889, one year before it was annexed into the City of Dallas.

Jan. 1, 1890 was the beginning of a happy New Year for the City of Dallas. Through an unusual turn of events, Dallas briefly became the largest city in Texas, while closing the door on the short but lively history of a town called East Dallas.

It all started with a Dallas pioneer named William H. Gaston.

A Civil War veteran and a banking and real estate entrepreneur, Capt. Gaston gambled on Dallas’ future and purchased 40 acres of land adjacent to the eastern boundary of the city and proclaimed it East Dallas. It was incorporated as a municipal government in 1882 and expanded to 1,429 acres that stretched from the Baylor Hospital area south to what’s now Fair Park. It was also attractive to

business; it encompassed the junction of Dallas’ first two railroads – the Houston and Texas Central and the Texas and Pacific – and had a waterworks that was eyed with envy by the City of Dallas.

With little doubt, a consolidation of Dallas and East Dallas benefited both cities. In March, 1889, State Sen. R.S. Kimbrough introduced a bill to repeal East Dallas’ charter and merge with Dallas, adding three new wards to Dallas and strengthening its tax base. The result was not only a win-win for everyone, but by making it legal on New Years’ Eve 1889, it bumped Dallas’ population to 38,067, making it the largest city in Texas in the 1890 census.

John Slate is the city archivist for Dallas who pens pieces on local history for the Advocate.

Certificate for shares in the East Dallas Water Supply Company, signed by Thomas Marsalis, developer of Oak Cliff.

WINDOW PATROL

If you live on Longview, you probably know your neighborhood’s most vocal protectors. With a constant eye on the window, Gumbo and Stella are the self-appointed patrollers of the neighborhood, who make sure their human knows about every passerby, whether it be friend or foe. “If you walk down Longview you will see them at their post at the window barking at people, dogs, squirrels, motorcycles and cats,” says the dogs’ owner.

DALLAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

Dallas ISD’s Transformation Schools offer specialized academic programming, similar to Magnet Schools, because all children deserve a best-fit school that taps into their individual interests, learning styles, and aspirations.

Transformation Schools are open enrollment for all students, regardless of academic ability. Transportation will be provided districtwide within certain parameters.

Solar Preparatory School for Girls

• Single-gender STEAM school accepting new Kindergarteners; will grow to a full K - 8 th grade

• Secured prestigious $450,000 national grant from NewSchools Venture Fund

Eduardo Mata Elementary

• Montessori school accepting new Pre-K3, Pre-K4, and Kindergarteners

• Recognized as “Best Dallas ISD Innovation” by Dallas Observer in 2015

D.A. Hulcy STEAM Middle

• Project-based learning STEAM school accepting new 6th graders

• Earned 4 state distinctions for student performance

CityLab High School

• Brand new high school accepting new 9th graders with a focus on Urban Planning and Architecture

• Located in renovated downtown Dallas building

Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Academy (IDEA)

• Personalized Learning and Entrepreneurship high school accepting new 9 th graders

• Earned 2 state distinctions for student performance

PAWS & CLAWS

SERVING NEIGHBORHOOD PETS SINCE 1924

WHITE ROCK AIRPORT

WHEN A schoolteacher crash-landed in a cotton field at Buckner Boulevard and John West Road, it inadvertently launched White Rock Airport in 1941. With the beginnings of a runway already carved out, Curtis Parker and M.D. Reeves created a 120-acre facility that housed a 2,450-foot runway and dozens

of hangers filled with single-engine planes. Many neighbors learned to fly there, including Curtis Musgrove Sr., pictured here with his son Curtis Musgrove Jr. in the 1970s. The airport closed in 1974, after which Fox & Jacobs bought the land to build homes, many of which are still standing today.

1970s 2016

DELICIOUS

Toast of the town

A West Coast-inspired eatery is bringing artisanal toast to Lower Greenville—and they’re just getting started.

By NICHOLE OSINSKI

Toasted Coffee + Kitchen is one of those places that, 50 years ago, would have received more than a few questioning stares in Dallas. But in today’s foodie culture, it just works.

Though still new — it only opened in early November — the eatery has pushed past the hearty meals the city is known for to offer a lighter fare that’s right on trend. One might even say Toasted was plucked from a popular street in San Francisco and set down at its current location on Ross.

Actually, Bob Sinnott, who co-founded the place with business partner Joel Roldan, is one of the first to say that they want to create that West Coast atmosphere. This is where artisanal or gourmet toast has become increasingly popular, he points out, leading cities like New York, and now Dallas, to catch onto the trend. But when the fad first started, the two men realized Dallas didn’t have anything that offered this kind of

PHOTO BY KATHY TRAN

This page: Many of the items on Toasted’s menu come from looking at California’s food trends

DID YOU KNOW: If Bob Sinnott’s name sounds familiar, it’s likely because he’s the godfather of our neighborhood’s biggest social media obsession: the Lakewood, Dallas Facebook page.

food. So of course it was decided to open a spot that did just that. The location was a no-brainer as it’s near the area both founders live and, as Sinnott describes it, Ross has become the corridor between East Dallas and downtown.

“We wanted to be the first toast-centric restaurant in DFW,” Sinnott says.

But for the owners, it’s more than just coming in to eat. It’s a show bakery where patrons can watch as their toast creation is made and smell the aroma of the bread being warmed. Sinnott is quick to point out that what goes on that bread, once toasted, leads to creations that are more than just your average grilled cheese — it’s sweet goat cheese with pear slices and honey drizzle; it’s ricotta with basil and strawberries; it’s brie, pecans and avocado-chocolate ganache. Then there’s always the option for coffee or even a specialty cocktail from the bar. There are plans to expand the menu with brunch options and more protein.

For now though, it’s about keeping that bread toasted and making sure stomachs are satisfied.

“People think of toast as a breakfast item or a snack item; we want people to come in for lunch and dinner and enjoy the homemade bread,” Sinnott says, adding that this venue isn’t your everyday Starbucks but that “it’s a restaurant that’s different from any other.”

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DELICIOUS FORGOTTEN RECIPE

Terilli’s roasted red bell pepper dressing

TERILLI’S ROASTED RED BELL PEPPER DRESSING

(makes about 10 cups)

5 cups mayonnaise

4 cups roasted red peppers

3 tablespoons garlic (minced)

2 tablespoons shallots (minced)

½ cup balsamic vinegar

Juice of two lemons

½ cup extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon salt

1 tablespoon white pepper

3 tablespoons fresh dill

To roast the red peppers, coat them with olive oil and place on a baking sheet under the broiler until the skin blackens. Cut open and remove seeds and outer layer. Blend all of the ingredients together in a food processor. Refrigerate.

Terilli’s is one of Lower Greenville’s signature restaurants, surviving longer than most on the increasingly hip block. When Jeannie Terilli first opened the business 31 years ago, she wanted to blend her Texas upbringing with her family’s deep Italian roots.

“My recipes are my dad’s recipes,” she told the Advocate in 1998. “I had three brothers and my mother and father worked. It was my job to have dinner ready when everybody got home. That’s how I got into food.”

Serving up classic Italian with a Texas twist proved a popular practice for the East Dallas eatery. The dish that put her on the map was “Italchos” and it’s easy to see why — the Italian spin on nachos is like a deconstructed pizza with chips made from dough topped with cheeses, meats and veggies.

Fans of the fusion flavors were briefly devastated in March 2010 when a four-alarm fire rang out at the Lower Greenville complex that housed Terilli’s. While the restaurant suffered extensive damage, it rose like a Phoenix the following year, this time with a rooftop deck. Today the classic dishes on which the business staked its reputation remain in heavy rotation.

That includes several dishes that feature Terilli’s signature roasted red bell pepper dressing, a creamy and tangy blend that goes with just about everything. You’ll find it on the restaurant’s warm grilled chicken pasta salad, but Terilli says it also can be used as a pasta sauce or as a marinade.

2016: A look

The photos you never got to see and the stories we never got to tell

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By Emily Charrier

Photography by Danny Fulgencio

SHOTS HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLD

LIFE IN DALLAS stood still on July 7, the day a mass shooter targeted police officers at a Black Lives Matter rally downtown. This did not happen in our neighborhood, but every person in the city was touched by the violence as we prayed for the safety of our men and women in blue. In all, 14 officers were shot during the violent night, and five heartbreakingly lost their lives. In the days and weeks following the massacre, Dallas showed its true colors by coming together, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the affected officers and surrounding the force with as much love as we could muster. Neighborhood groups flooded the Northeast Division on Northwest Highway with flowers, treats and homemade cards. Blue ribbons adorned trees and homes across the neighborhood showing their support for law enforcement. Here, hundreds join hands during a peace rally downtown.

We spent 2016 like we spend every year in East Dallas: Collecting the stories and photos that paint the picture of what makes this neighborhood great. But our readers only get to see a fraction of what we do; we are limited by how much we can put in print — which is yet another reason to follow us online at lakewood.advocatemag.com to see enriched magazine content and daily community news blog posts. Here, we’ll share the very best that you didn’t get to see in our pages, along with updates about the people and issues we covered. Before you fully start 2017, look back at the wild, wet and often tense year that was 2016.

AFTER SEVERAL years of drought, 2015 and 2016 brought plenty of wet weather to satiate the dehydrated water tables. In August, 5.69 inches of precipitation fell, matching the 1914 record as the wettest August on record. It was par for the course, with Texas averaging 75.25 inches per year in 2015-16, the wettest 24 months in the state’s history, according to the National Weather Service. White Rock Lake “crested” 23 times in that two-year period, which means water rose above the 84-foot flood level (about 70 feet is average for the lake). That’s when we captured the spillway overflowing last March.

2016: A look back

WE IN OUR neighborhood truly love our four-legged friends, which is why each September the Advocate celebrates pets and the joy they bring to our lives. After seeing the rampant problem of loose dogs in our city, this year we broke from tradition to spotlight some of the potential pets in our neighborhood. While they didn’t have homes yet, these pooches are all well loved by a network of dedicated volunteers who spend their time and resources improving life for the most vulnerable creatures in our area. We checked in on our featured pups to see if they found their forever families. Of the four dogs from White Rock Dog Rescue that we featured, sadly, only yellow-lab mix Shasta found a home. Lolita, Spencer and Cassidy are still looking for the right families, says volunteer Lilia Hollis. Meet them at whiterockdog.org or call 214.507.4016.

Over at Dallas DogRRR (Rescue, Rehab, Reform), volunteers scoop up the saddest cases they can find — most dogs have medical issues and were rescued from local euthanasia lists. Our coverage focused on eight dogs being fostered in our neighborhood, and we’re happy to share that seven of them — Faith Hill, Miriam, Spirit, Shirley, Ace Ventura, Leonard (pictured) and Gatsby, all found homes. Glory, who was left with scars across her face after being hit by a car, was moved to a sister shelter in New York where she awaits her happy ending.

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2016: A look back

HELPING TO HEAR

PATTY PACE and Adam Palmer’s love story reads like a romance novel. After a random attack behind the Aldredge House left Palmer’s future in question, Pace stepped in to mend his wounds, both physically and emotionally. And while the two have forged a strong path toward healing Palmer, the financial realities of recovering from a serious head injury will haunt the couple’s future. Palmer’s care has been determined by what he can afford, and hearing aids, which cost several thousand dollars, was something he planned to do without. When Woodrow Wilson grad and neighborhood audiologist Dr. Jay Miller read the story, he was compelled to help. He contacted the Advocate, who connected him with Palmer so the good doctor could arrange free hearing aids to help in Palmer’s recovery.

THE OLD MAN Skate

Cartel are the originals, the kids who cut their knees skating anywhere they could find in the 1980s and 90s, before skate parks were a regular urban amenity. East Dallas neighbors Tracy Weller and Jimmy Coleman have been skating since the early days of the sport, and today help to keep the skater culture alive in a time when screens draw more eyes than skate parks. When Guapo Skate Park closed this April, it felt like the end of an era in Dallas, and Advocate Photo Editor Danny Fulgencio was on hand to capture the finalé. But Dallas skaters rejoiced at the end of the year when Guapo Skate Park reopened at 4000 Elm St.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

ONE THING NEIGHBORS love most about life near White Rock Lake is its robust natural amenities, particularly when it comes to wildlife. Coyotes, bobcats, owls and beavers all add to the magic of our neighborhood. All year long we spotlighted several residents who help the animals living among us, from Erich Neupert, who rehabs winged creatures at Blackland Prairie Raptor Center; to Barbara Turner, who monitors the frog population at White Rock Lake for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. We had to share this unseen image — ‘cause who doesn’t love a baby owl?

END OF THE ROLL

WHEN WHITE ROCK SKATE CENTER owner Chuck Connor sold his property, a 20,000 square-foot, 43-year-old building his dad built, the neighborhood’s heart seemed to break. Gone were the retro nights of skating, the limbo contests and hokey pokey games. But not before one final blow out in October, when it seemed like the whole neighborhood came out for the community party of the year. What will happen next at the long-loved location is a question we have yet to answer. Developer Stuart Jones of LLC Shoreview Viola who purchased the 2-acre property has remained tight-lipped about his plans for the future, but has continued to buy up properties in the area, including Antioch Church.

WHEN WE BECAME THE NEWS

WHILE WE ALWAYS strive to tell the story without putting ourselves into it, that became impossible in June when our photographer made news across the world for being in the right place at the wrong time. Photo Editor Danny Fulgencio found himself in the thick of the Republican-Democratic divide when he covered President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign visit to Dallas. Fulgencio climbed up onto a bench to get a better vantage point of the raucous crowd. Without warning, he felt a sharp crack to his head as blood trickled into his eyes. A rock, thrown by an unknown person in the crowd, would make him a viral sensation over the next 24 hours. While he was patched up on scene and got right back to shooting, news media feasted on several social media posts that depicted our bloodied photographer. His Facebook

exploded with interview requests. At an otherwise uneventful rally, this was the gory drama that most media led their coverage with, inspiring many inaccurate, and often hilarious, headlines. But conservative pundit Pat Dollard’s site took the cake by proclaiming, “Typical Anti-Trump Protester Bashes Gay Journalist In The Head With Rock.” We assume they confused the Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate with the gay men’s magazine of a similar name, while also assuming Fulgencio’s sexuality, causing still unknown damage to his love life (he’s straight and single, ladies).

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Founded in 1966, Highlander offers an enriched curriculum in a positive, Christian-based environment. By limiting class size, teachers are able to build a strong educational foundation to ensure confidence in academics, athletics, and the creative and performing arts. Highlander offers a “classic” education which cannot be equaled. Monthly tours offered; call for a reservation.

HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL

3815 Oak Lawn Ave., Dallas 214-526-5113, htcsdallas.org For more than 100 years, Holy Trinity Catholic School, has been committed to the religious, intellectual, emotional, social and physical growth of each student. This commitment is carried out in a nurturing atmosphere with an emphasis on social awareness, service to others, and religious faith in the Catholic tradition. The Immaculate Heart Program at Holy Trinity School was initiated to fully realize our school’s mission of developing the whole child by meeting the needs of one of the most underserved and underperforming groups in catholic schools, children with dyslexia.

LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

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

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ISCOPAL SCHOOL

848 Harter Rd., Dallas 75218 / 214.328.9131 / stjohnsschool.org

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

WHITE ROCK NORTH SCHOOL

9727 White Rock Trail Dallas/ 214.348.7410 / WhiteRockNorthSchool.com

6 Weeks through 6th Grade. Our accelerated curriculum provides opportunity for intellectual and physical development in a loving and nurturing environment. Characterbuilding and civic responsibility are stressed. Facilities include indoor swimming pool, skating rink, updated playground, and stateof-the-art technology lab. Kids Club on the Corner provides meaningful after-school experiences. Summer Camp offers field trips, swimming, and a balance of indoor and outdoor activities designed around fun-filled themes. Accredited by SACS. Call for a tour of the campus.

ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL

6121 E. Lovers Ln. Dallas / 214.363.1630 / ziondallas. org Toddler care thru 8th Grade. Serving Dallas for over 65 years offering a quality education in a Christ-centered learning environment. Degreed educators minister to the academic, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of students and their families. Before and after school programs, Extended Care, Parents Day Out, athletics, fine arts, integrated technology, Spanish, outdoor education, Accelerated Reader, advanced math placement, and student government. Accredited by National Lutheran School & Texas District Accreditation Commissions and TANS. Contact Principal Jeff Thorman.

MINI DONKS OF MYSTERY

SOMETIMES, you’re out looking for one thing and stumble on something miraculous. That’s what happened when we sent Danny Fulgencio to capture the trails for our October cover story on the ever-expanding walking paths of our neighborhood. Deep on the Santa Fe Trail, he saw them, at first not believing his own eyes. There, standing unattended among the wildflowers, was a pair of miniature donkeys. One was tied to a nearby fence, one was left to graze in the grass. With no other humans in sight, Fulgencio photographed the mini donkeys hoping their owner would wander up. It never happened, leaving us to wonder, who walked the two mini-donks down the trail?

2016: A look back

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

By PATTI VINSON

The good fight

These neighbors put their lives on the line to stand with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these words, and every Jan. 16, we honor him. His non-violent activism in the Civil Rights movement played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens, and in the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He led the charge in these hardfought battles, inspiring and enlightening folks along the way — and some of your neighbors are among those who joined him in the fight for justice.

Longtime M Streets neighbors Mark and Donna Herbener remember those turbulent times. Mark was a young, green minister just a few years out of divinity school in 1961, pastoring a church in Richardson. He and Donna, who are

white, attended a lecture by Ralph Lord Roy, author of “Apostles of Discord,” a treatise on bigotry in the Christian faith.

They could talk of nothing else on the drive home that evening. Then and there, they made the decision to volunteer their services at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, a struggling, historically African-American congregation in South Dallas, which had been without a pastor for more than a year.

They promptly moved into the parsonage next door to the church and got to work. Word soon spread that Mt. Olive was a “safe place” for Civil Rights groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to plan sit-ins, freedom rides and other protests. And, despite a tight budget, the church always found a way to bail out

Rev. Peter Johnson was the youngest staff member to serve under Martin Luther King Jr. at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

PHOTO BY RASY RAN

those arrested fighting for justice and help pay their fines.

The Herbeners participated in more marches, protests and picket lines than they can count and even met Dr. King in 1962. They also found their own ways, within the church, to challenge the status quo. Donna remembers a hot summer day in the early 1960s when she took a youth group from church to the pool in Tenison Park. Up until then, no one else had had the courage to integrate the public pool. Police quickly arrived, surrounding the pool, expecting trouble. They found none — all was peaceful — and a point was made.

Mark led the church for 26 years, leaving when he was elected bishop. But the activism continued, including their participation in the Forsyth County Civil Rights march in 1987. Two years later, Mark and his wife led a group of Lutheran bishops and spouses to the banks of the

Trinity River where three slaves had been hanged in 1863 following a slave revolt.

Shoulder-to-shoulder with the Herbeners was the Rev. Peter Johnson, a man whose Civil Rights roots run deep. At age 17, he headed up the youth chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Plaquemines, La., and then became a student organizer for SCLC under King. He would be Dr. King’s youngest staff member, working closely with Jesse Jackson and John Lewis.

Johnson participated in all the major protests — Albany, Birmingham and Selma, among others — and at age 18 led three busloads of people to hear King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C. “I was at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial,” he recalls, “when Dr. King delivered his speech.”

Under James Farmer, Johnson served as youth organizer for Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). He describes the days when CORE established “freedom schools,” at which blacks were taught how to pass a literacy exam, a voting requirement at the time. “And we taught how to have the courage and dignity to walk into the courthouse and register

“We had to fight this city’s leaders to open the theaters for this movie.” But open they did.

to vote.” It was not an easy task. “The fear was real, the intimidation was real.”

After King’s assassination in 1968, Hollywood producers created a documentary of King’s life. It was to run for one day in 800 cities. Only one city refused to open its theaters to the film: Dallas.

Johnson was dispatched by CORE to Dallas to attempt a resolution. “I was reluctant,” he remembers, because he had been “warned” about our city. “We had to fight this city’s leaders to open the theaters for this movie.” But open they did.

His job done, Johnson was ready to return home when local black leaders approached him for his help with a housing crisis in the Fair Park area. Many were losing their homes as the city exercised eminent domain. Attempts at negotiations failed until Johnson, along with the Herbeners and other Civil Rights activists, threatened to block the city’s New Year’s Day Cotton Bowl Parade.

Johnson received a call on New Year’s Eve from then-mayor Eric Johnson, who left a party to meet with the activists in his office. They eventually reached an agreement. “Nonviolence prevailed,” smiles Johnson. Still, Johnson understood the danger of the climate and went into hiding for a spell.

Now well-known, Johnson was again approached by black neighborhood leaders. This time the issue was unfair hiring practices at Safeway, the dominant grocery chain at the time. “Folks couldn’t get jobs where they spent their money.”

Meetings with the CEO of the chain produced no results. A boycott of Safeway ensued. All day, every day for eight months, picketers showed up with their signs. “We were able to mobilize the community,” says Johnson. “There were African-Americans, whites, Christians, Jews ... it was a marvelous rainbow coalition.”

When Johnson’s life again was threatened, he went back into hiding, organizing the boycott under the radar by sending out messages and instructions on local radio stations.

The chain eventually began to lose business and multiple locations closed. Other grocery stores expanded and improved their hiring practices.

Johnson’s activism continues to this day, not only with Civil Rights but also touching on homelessness, hunger and gun violence. And always with King’s calm and loving approach of nonviolence. Johnson reflects, “Your methodology to achieve your goals should be as pure and dignified as the goals you hope to achieve.”

BIZZ BUZZ

WHAT’S UP WITH NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESSES

ABANDONED IN EAST DALLAS

Another grocery store will not breathe life into the vacant Minyard Sun Fresh Market at Mockingbird and Abrams after all. While some speculated H-E-B would occupy the space after the company bought six Sun Fresh Markets in September, the grocer decided to open two Central Markets in Preston Hollow and Uptown instead. “We purchased the entire package of properties in order to acquire the Midway Road and McKinney and Lemmon Avenue locations,” said Mabrie Jackson, director of public affairs at Central Market. The Mockingbird-Abrams store then was sold to Dallas-based developer Lincoln Property Co.

FOOD NEWS

Seven Five Patio Bar is scheduled to open in February in the spot Nodding Donkey occupied until this past spring. The college hangout’s menu will be modeled after owner Aaron Morrison’s previous venture, Plano-based bar Lantern St. Grill. Pizza, wings and two dozen beers on tap will be available until 2 a.m.

Sasa Sushi is replacing Jerry’s WoodFire Dogs, which shuttered in September because of rising rent costs. An opening date has not yet been announced as of press time.

Smoky Rose , a “chef-driven smokehouse,” has found a home across from the Dallas Arboretum on Garland Road. Its grand opening will take place on Dec. 22.

C’Viche Tequila Bar just entered the local restaurant scene this past February, but it already closed its doors because of “economics,” according to the restaurant’s Facebook page. The Latin bar and restaurant prided itself on its fresh, fast meals and indulgent cocktail menu.

NEW TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD

The vacant space at the Medallion Center on Northwest Highway will soon be housed by a CVS pharmacy. As of press time, an opening date had not yet been

set, but Venture Commercial says construction is expected to take no more than six months

The $15 million assisted living facility Simpson Place opened at Simpson Street and North Hill Avenue this past November. Geared toward low-income residents, the 95,000-square-foot facility has 150 units. That same month, senior living community The Vista, a 10-story complex overlooking White Rock Lake, also opened its doors.

A new boathouse at White Rock Lake is in the works, and former opponents of the plan finally have given their seal of approval. “It sounds too good to be true, but it is, more or less, true,” says Michael Jung, the White Rock Neighborhood Association president who is part of both the White Rock Lake Task Force and the Dallas Plan Commission and who strongly opposed the former boathouse proposal. The 8,300-square-foot structure with a metal roof would cost approximately $350,000 to construct and has received widespread support. The previous plan, which many felt was too gaudy, was to construct a 9,000-square-foot, $4 million boathouse.

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Lisa Lovato, principal of Dan D. Rogers Elementary, received Dallas ISD’s Principal of the Year Award, given to one leader from the district’s elementary, secondary and magnet schools, respectively. “I think it means a lot to me professionally and personally,” she said. “I am the first to graduate from college in my family. I took all seven of my family members today, because they were so proud of me … I really felt loved today. I feel like people were celebrating how much I’ve grown over the years.”

Woodrow Wilson’s football team was named the 2016 district champions this year, finishing with a 10-2 record. The Woodrow Wilson coaches also received the title of Staff of the Year for District 12-5A. Junior Cade Fennegan was named all-around MVP, and sophomore Xavier Gipson was named the special teams MVP.

PLACES

The future of Flag Pole Hill is an ongoing debate, and community members met at a master plan community meeting in November to give their often impassioned feedback. “Flag Pole Hill is an asset to our Dallas community,” said District 10 City Council member Adam McGough.“The day after I was elected, I went to the park to spend some quiet time in prayer and reflect on the campaign. It is important part of our entire community and city.”

Elizabeth McIlrath and Philip Neely — representing the landscape architecture firm Dunaway — also presented potential improvements, such as restoring the original Works Progress Administration buildings, conserving area nature, improving trails and making the outdated playground accessible to those with disabilities. “The commonality seems to be to keep the park natural and celebrate the rustic natural beauty, like an oasis in this big city,” longtime neighbor Patti Smith said. “If we had destination amenity improvements, it would increase traffic and noise and would disturb the natural beauty. People come here to feel like they are out in the country.”

WORSHIP

ANGLICAN

ALL SAINTS EAST DALLAS / allsaintseastdallas.org

Sunday worship 5:00 pm / Live in God’s Presence. Live Out His Love. Meeting at Central Lutheran Church / 1000 Easton Road

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 & 11:00am 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

CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

Sunday School for all ages 9:00 am / Worship Service 10:30 am

Pastor Rich Pounds / CentralLutheran.org / 214.327.2222

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

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

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

Worship: 8:30 am & 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Contemporary

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

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Classic Service at 9:30 & Contemporary Service at 11:00 am lakepointe.org / 9150 Garland Road

PRESBYTERIAN

NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Welcomes you to Worship

8:30 & 11:00 am / Church School 9:35 am / Childcare provide d.

ST. ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN / Skillman & Monticello

Rev. Rob Leischner / www.standrewsdallas.org

214.821.9989 / Sunday School 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am

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

UNITY ON GREENVILLE / Your soul is welcome here!

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

The crisis of the ‘common good’

If there is one admonition from St. Paul that I pray will distinguish 2017 from 2016 it is this: “Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others” (Philippians 2:4).

We have seen the divisiveness that self-interest alone plays in our society. Whether individualism or group-ism, the spirit of “me and people-like-me” is fraying the fabric of the rich tapestries of our nation and communities.

Demographics now drive decisions as big as a presidential election. We know what left-handed, lesbian, Latina Libertarians care about and how they are likely to affect the vote (probably not much … yet). Pandering to voter power blocs shifts attention from the good of the whole to the benefit of some over against others.

Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann channels the Hebrew prophets in his diagnosis of our disease and its prescriptive cure: “The great crisis among us is the crisis of ‘the common good,’ the sense of community solidarity that binds all in a common destiny — haves and have-nots, the rich and the poor. We face a crisis about the common good because there are powerful forces at work among us to resist the common good, to violate community solidarity, and to deny a common destiny. Mature people, at their best, are people who are committed to the common good that reaches beyond private interest, transcends sectarian commitments, and offers human solidarity.”

We are told that Donald Trump’s election was partly a reaction to social forces that had diminished the sense of dignity of working-class white people in America. Extending the benefits of marriage to gay citizens felt threatening to the traditional institution of the marriage

By GEORGE MASON

between a man and a woman. The Black Lives Matter movement felt threatening to supporters of law enforcement. The presence of undocumented immigrants from Mexico felt threatening to those without college educations, white and black alike.

It goes the other way, too: blue-collar, white Christians were equated with the oppressing class that kept all minority groups from prospering, even though they felt equally as powerless and deprived in an increasingly high-tech workforce that left them behind with stagnant wages and little to hope for.

Instead of seeing this as an opportunity to see themselves in the struggle of others and learn empathy that might lead to the common good, they (name the group) retreated into camps pitted against others by elevating and privileging their own suffering, while ridiculing, denying or ignoring that of their neighbors. The way forward can only be to break out of our packs and form new friendships across dividing lines.

Call it “enlightened self-interest,” if you need the promise of your own well-being to motivate your advocacy of the interest of others. But in the end, there will be no lasting peace and no enduring prosperity that is not broadly shared.

The politics of resentment may win an election, but it will not build a country or bind a community. Only a commitment to the common good can do that.

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.

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TRUE CRIME

BANK ROBBERY ON GASTON

A man donned in unusual attire robbed a Wells Fargo at 6301 Gaston Ave. in late November. Wearing a black coat with “what appears to be a Batman patch” and a black hat with shiny beads, the man approached the teller at 4:15 p.m. and demanded money, according to a security notice passed out to all Lakewood Tower tenants, which includes Advocate Media. The teller followed the man’s orders and simultaneously triggered a silent alarm. Three minutes before police arrived at the scene, the man left the bank with an undisclosed amount of money.

The man, described as roughly 45 years old with brown hair, had not yet been located as of press time.

CRIME NUMBERS

Package thefts were reported on one early December day.

O’clock in the morning was when the first package was taken.

Block of Madera Drive is where one package was stolen from a front porch. The other, taken by the same man, was reported at the 1600 block of Glenlivet Drive.

By ANGELA HUNT

Fresh year, fresh blood

And reason to have hope in our city government in 2017

I’m a bit giddy about 2017, and it’s not just a residual effect of my New Year’s Eve bacchanalia that included some very comfortable pajamas, an even more comfortable sofa and a temperate amount of sparkling cider.

No, I’ve got a really good feeling about this year. I don’t want to overstate it, and I don’t want to jinx it, but I feel like this year could be a game-changer for our city.

The last few weeks of 2016 gave us what even the Scroogiest among us would have to admit are a couple of Christmas miracles.

First, the Dallas City Council voted 12-3 to appoint a guy who actually rides DART to the DART Board. It’s unheard of. I mean, who would imagine that someone who rides buses and light rail would be a good candidate to oversee the operation of an agency responsible for buses and light rail?

East Dallas Councilmember Mark Clayton, along with Oak Cliff’s Scott Griggs, nominated Patrick Kennedy to the DART Board, with a strong push from Lakewood representative Philip Kingston. You may remember that I spoke with Kennedy last month about regional transportation issues. He’s a smart, young urban planner who has smart, young urban planning ideas like making our bus system run more efficiently, increasing the frequency of transit to increase ridership, spending less on highways farther and farther from our urban core and working to make our bus/bike/rail network work together as a seamless system.

The DART board doesn’t have any transportation experts, so Kennedy will be a great addition in that respect. And I like that he knows so much about transportation. I really do. But what I really love is that, until recently, Kennedy had given up his car for nearly a decade. He was carless in Dallas, totally dependent on the very public transit system that he will now oversee.

But shouldn’t that be mandatory? Shouldn’t all DART board members have to use public transit for at least half their commutes? That should apply to DART management as well. I am certain we’d see a sea of change in how DART functions if the decision-makers also were riders.

So we’ve got great new blood on the DART Board as we ring in the New Year. Perhaps an even bigger and more surprising change for our city was the Dallas City Council’s selection of a new city manager.

For decades, Dallas has chosen an insider to serve as our city’s top administrative official. In a weak-mayor system like Dallas’, the role of the city manager is incredibly powerful. But every time, the council has voted for our next city

manager to be someone who has been working within the Dallas city government for years. And, not surprisingly, we don’t get change agents but flag bearers of the status quo. For some reason this comes as a surprise – every time – to the council members supporting the insider. They never understand what went wrong.

But not this time. Nope, this time, the council zigged. They could have zagged, gone the insider route, in fact they were poised to go the insider route but they zigged. They chose an outsider, T.C. Broadnax, most recently the city manager of Tacoma, Wash., and before that, a highly regarded assistant city manager of San Antonio.

Mr. Broadnax is coming in to our city at a time when we’ve got some serious fiscal challenges, not the least of which is the Police/Fire Pension Fund crisis. He may not have all the answers, and in fact, I’m sure that he won’t, but he’ll bring fresh ideas, new insights, and new ways of doing things. He won’t have pledged fidelity to the Dallas Citizens Council, and he won’t be supremely loyal to City Hall’s old guard. Like Kennedy, he’s a much needed breath of fresh air.

It’s going to be a great year.

Angela Hunt is a neighborhood resident and former Dallas city councilwoman in East Dallas. 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 to her ahunt@advocatemag.com.

In a weak-mayor system like Dallas’, the role of the city manager is incredibly powerful.

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