2016 November Lakewood

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IN THIS ISSUE

GOING THE DISTANCE

DO YOU HAVE TO BE CRAZY TO RUN A 500K MARATHON?

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AN EAST DALLAS SCHOOL IN UPTOWN WHY DO ONE-THIRD OF STUDENTS AT A TOP-TIER DISD MAGNET SCHOOL COME FROM TWO LOCAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS?

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GIVING THANKS BRINGING THE NEIGHBORHOOD TOGETHER TO BREAK BREAD.

East Dallas through the eyes of a Syrian teenager.

(Photo by Danny Fulgencio)

THE COVER: Aiya Al-Mzayen at Woodrow Wilson. (Photo by Danny Fulgencio)

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White Rock Skate. (Photo by Danny Fulgencio)

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CIRCLE UP

FACING EACH OTHER MAKES IT MORE DIFFICULT TO RUN AWAY

By the time you read this article, we will either be just days from, or days following, one of the greatest migrations in human history.

All of the millions of people on social media who have promised to move to Canada if their presidential candidate loses should be getting ready to cross the border right about now.

What will this mean for the rest of us?

I guess things will be more peaceful here, and we’ll have more room to stretch out. I suppose our traffic problems will diminish, since so many cars will no longer be on our roads.

Who knows: Maybe the Trinity Toll Road will finally be deemed unnecessary since there will be no need for a Downtown bypass route anymore.

Surely, social media will become the place of bonding and peace we thought it would be when we started spilling our secrets to each other so many years ago. And the government will begin operating efficiently, too, and we’ll all be proud of it again ...

Yeah, right.

Let’s try this again.

In church the other day, the pastor spun his sermon around this phrase: “We need to live in circles rather than rows.”

His contention is that when people attend church, they’re typically sitting in rows, and they’re listening but not personally interacting with the pastor or each other.

There’s nothing wrong with living in rows: It’s efficient, and it tends to maximize space utilization since straight lines are easier to pack in as opposed to circles.

But when we’re sitting in rows, it’s harder to interact with each other.

Rick Wamre

We can speak with one or two people at a time, but everyone must twist uncomfortably to engage in lengthy conversation. So typically we don’t. We just sit there, facing forward, fairly oblivious of what’s happening to our left and right.

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Compare that with a circular setting: We sit facing each other, and whether we like it or not, interaction is more immediate and almost inevitable. When you’re staring right at someone, it’s hard not to get a better understanding of what she or he is thinking, and it’s hard for that person not to see our perspective more easily, too.

In rows, we can speak past each other. In circles, that’s just about impossible.

In rows, our individual perspective can become isolating, and sometimes it can seem a lot more reasoned and reasonable than it really is. In circles, it’s easier for others to speak directly to our concerns, and it’s easier for us to understand their concerns, too.

In this country, thanks to social media and its unending gulping of our time, we tend to live in rows. That’s why so many people think it’s OK to talk about leaving the country if things don’t go their way.

Somehow, we need to figure out a way to circle-up and take another shot at this thing.

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When you’re staring right at someone, it’s hard not to get a better understanding of what she or he is thinking.

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• Prepare for your shopping trip by taking only the credit and debit cards you plan to use.

• When parking to shop, choose a well-lit space as close to the entrance as possible. Leave no valuables in your vehicle and lock your doors. Be aware of your surroundings, both inside and outside a store. People loitering in a parking lot may be a potential threat.

• When leaving the shopping outlet or mall, observe the parking lot and the area around your vehicle. If there is anyone loitering and you feel apprehensive, go back inside the store and request a security escort to your vehicle. They will be happy to oblige.

• When approaching your vehicle, have your keys or remote handy to avoid having to fumble for it. Do not use your remote to unlock the doors until you reach your vehicle.

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ROAD WARRIORS

500-KILOMETER RUN, FOR FUN?

People who run often have goals — weight loss, cardiovascular health, bragging rights or valuable prizes are all reasonable rewards sought by marathoners and distance athletes.

Then there are runners of a more extreme variety — ultrarunners, those who trek for days on end across the length of multiple southern states in mid-summer.

Their ambitions tend to be unique.

“I have always wanted to have a hallucination,” says White Rock area resident Novle Rogers.

To become weary and sleep deprived to the point of delirium would be but a by-product of the paramount physical, spiritual and mental experience.

Pain and exhaustion-induced visions are a common side effect

of tackling a 500-kilometer run — that’s 314 miles — something Rogers and his friend Oak Cliff resident Steven Monté did this past summer.

The race lasted in excess of a week for them and most participants, beginning with a ferry ride across the Mississippi River, from Missouri to Kentucky. Once there, the race director, an eccentric Tennessean

White Rock area resident Novle Rogers tackled an insane 314-mile race, and he isn’t stopping. (Photo by Rasy Ran)

named Gary Cantrell, better known as Lazarus Lake, signals the start by lighting his cigarette.

Cantrell recently became famous with the release of a popular Netflix documentary, “The Barclays Marathons,” about his crazy, secretive 100- (well, maybe 130-) mile footrace through the Cumberland Mountains of eastern Tennessee — the course offers a cumulative elevation gain of 60,000 feet (equivalent of climbing Everest twice from sea level). To date, just 12 men, of 800 competitors since 1985, have completed The Barclays Marathons. Mystery shrouds its registration process, just a forshadowing of the complexities of the actual event.

“There is no website, and I don’t publish the race date or explain how to enter,” Cantrell told the New York Times. “Anything that makes it more mentally stressful for the runners is good.”

There is a glimpse into the brain behind Monté and Rogers’ quest, titled The Last Annual Vol State Road Race (it’s not the last, this time, but someday it will be — that’s Cantrell’s reasoning behind the tongue-in-cheek name).

By comparison, Cantrell’s 314mile Last Annual Vol State — “on foot, along highways and back roads, from one small town to the next, over hills and across rivers, up mountains and down long valleys, all the while accounting for all of their most basic needs such as food, water and sleep,” as he describes it — it is the gentler endeavor.

“Oh absolutely it is easier [than Barclays],” Monté says.

Both Monté and Rogers are experienced ultrarunners who have tackled multiple 100-mile races through hills, extreme weather and mud, but running 314 miles was like nothing previously imagined, they agree.

With each passing year, the Vol State race’s popularity increases,

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and residents of the towns along the course help out the so-called “screwed” runners, like Rogers and Monté, who do not have a crew helping them. (Entrants assisted by a crew, “crewed” runners, are not allowed to accept any outside help).

“Every year they say more and more people are popping up to help,” Monté says. “They are called ‘road angels.’”

Still, the super-long-distance runners often are a strange sight, and scent, to observers.

“We were resting outside a convenience store when a little kid asks his dad, ‘What’s that smell?’ and that gave us a good laugh,” Rogers recalls.

One fellow participant, a woman prone to roadside naps, was called in as a dead body to police, they recall.

“Twice,” Monté adds with a chuckle.

There were no visions, unfortunately, Rogers says, but the experience was transformative nonetheless.

“I had built preconceived ideas and notions on what to expect as I entered this race. I set out with a plan of action on what to do and a specific time in mind. I didn’t even come close,” Rogers says. “But by the time I finished, not only were these assumptions shattered, they were replaced with a new philosophy. By the time you finish, as Lazarus [Cantrell] predicted, you have new notions about success and failure.”

Monté learned his own lessons on the road.

“Vol State taught me that there is a way to break anything down, make it doable.”

So do they plan to take on the famous, weird and wonderous Barclays Marathon next?

Just to get accepted into that field could take three to five years, Monté guesses, especially now that the movie is out.

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“I hope so, because I need the time to prepare,” he says, adding that all the training he does now — such as running circles around his neighborhood park dragging a tire tied around his waist, and regularly registering for 50 and 100-mile trail runs — is in preparation for a future Barclays attempt.

Rogers — who also does the tire-dragging thing, up and down the hills at Norbuck Park — says he would not turn down the opportunity to try if he ever finds out how to enter. (And, no, he won’t simply ask

Cantrell, fearing he might lose the man’s trust).

Meanwhile, both plan to run Vol State again next summer.

“Apparently you don’t do this just once. A lot of the people there had done it multiple years,” Rogers says.

Most people would not find this to be fun, they both acknowledge, but they say, for them, it is that and more.

“The lure of this race is there’s a certain subculture of trail running that is pure, do-it-for-thefun type deal and you see a lot of those people at this race,” Monté says. “The oldest finisher was a 75-year-old race veteran … he was clipped by a car a few days into the race but finished anyway,” Rogers adds.

None of it makes much sense when you try to put it into words.

Maybe it’s just knowing that “anything can happen in any given race,” as Monté says, and the longer the race, the broader the scope of possibilities.

— CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

“By the time you finish ... you have new notions about success and failure.”

GET TO KNOW EAST DALLAS FOREFATHER JUNIUS PEAK

Some Dallas folks leave big footprints. Junius “June” Peak was a larger-than-life figure whose adventures are closely connected to East Dallas and Texas history.

Born in Kentucky in 1845, June moved as a 10-year-old with his family to Dallas, where his father, Jefferson Peak, purportedly built the first brick house in the county. The elder Peak was one of Dallas’ earliest developers who owned land from Elm Street to Capitol Avenue to Haskell Avenue. Peak’s Suburban Addition in Old East Dallas was one of the city’s earliest subdivisions. The Peak children are immortalized in a number of East Dallas streets: Junius, Worth, Victor, Carroll, Flora and Juliette Fowler.

June joined the Confederate Army at age 16 and fought in Indiana, Ohio, the Indian Territory and finally Tennessee where he was wounded at the Battle of

Chicamauga. He served out his time as a scout for the Eight Texas Cavalry and returned to Dallas in 1865, where he was made a deputy sheriff.

In 1872 he was employed by New Mexico Territory ranchers to eliminate cattle rustling. He served as Dallas city marshal from 1874-78, and for a few

months as Dallas’ city secretary. Still restless, Peak was commissioned as a Texas Ranger and between 1878 and 1880, when he helped drive famed outlaw Sam Bass from North Texas, fought Indians in West Texas and mapped potential water sources.

After a detour providing construction and supply services for the Mexican Central Railroad Company, he ranched in Shackelford County from 1884 to 1899. City life beckoned and Peak moved his family back to Dallas where he followed in his father’s footsteps by delving into real estate. Nearing retirement, he served as superintendent of White Rock Lake from 1919 to 1924. Peak died in 1934 and is buried in Grove Hill Memorial Park.

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Junius Peak lived in the house at 4409 Worth St., a street named for his brother. (Photo by Danny Fulgencio)

PAST & PRESENT

HIGHLAND PARK PHARMACY

It was 1912 when Highland Park Pharmacy first opened its doors, back when a trolley called “Dinkie” shuttled students from SMU up a dirt road for burgers and shakes. In 1923, it moved to its current location, the one pictured below, at 3229 Knox, where it became Dallas’ first drive-in, complete with carhops. The business, now known as Highland Park Soda Fountain, still serves up classic comfort foods 100 years in the making. It may not be East Dallas exactly, but if you’re into nostalgia, it’s definitely worth the short drive.

1920s 2016

Last month, a mix-up caused us to incorrectly identify the original Lakewood Bank site; the correct location is the Wells Fargo Building on Gaston, not the Bank of America next door.

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LIGHT IT UP

You’ve likely seen Casa View Estates aglow with the lights of dozens of luminarie bags in recent holiday seasons. The soft flicker of candlelight carries a heavier message, however, as the event doubles as a fundraiser for those in need.Now in its third year, the neighborhood is again raising money for police and firefighters via Guns and Hoses.

This year’s event will take place Dec. 10 and 11. Donations to offset costs are being collected this month. To contribute, mail a check to CLENA, P.O. Box 180817, Dallas, 75218, or visit casalindaestates.com. Volunteers are also needed to help place the bags on Dec. 10 and pick them up on Dec. 12. Get involved by contacting Kam DeLeo at 214.923.9773 or kamdeleon@yahoo.com.

RUN IT OUT

The nonprofit Dallas Running Club holds its annual Half Marathon at 7:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, at Norbuck Park, at the corner of Northwest Highway and Buckner. Runners will tackle a 13.1-mile course over rolling White Rock area terrain. Or, for those who want to help and not run, e-mail volunteer@dallasrunningclub.com for a spot passing out race packets pre-race, handing out water or Gatorade to runners on the course, setting or cleaning up, or helping out at aid stations — like the runners, volunteers also get a T-shirt. Race proceeds benefit the Tal Morrison Scholarship Fund, which helps fund higher education for Dallas public high school cross country runners. Visit drchalf.com to register.

WILDCAT PRIDE

Cheer on the Woodrow Wilson Wildcats when homecoming hits this month. The parade and pep rally are set for Nov. 3 at 5 p.m., with the big game on Nov. 4. Last year, the parade caused serious traffic jams for commuters around the Gaston/Live Oak intersection, so you may want to avoid the area unless you’re on foot.

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.

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12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

Stroll through the arboretum to admire a dozen festive Victorian gazebos decorated in honor of each of the “The 12 Days of Christmas.” The 25-feet-tall gazebos will be on display throughout the holiday season.

Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Road, 214.515.6539, dallasarboretum.org, $12-$15

Nov. 10

CELEBRATE HOPE

Support the Grief & Loss Center of North Texas at its Celebrate Hope Dinner and Live Auction. Proceeds from the event fund services such as children’s support groups and community presentations.

Lakewood Country Club, 1912 Abrams Road, 214.452.3105, mygriefandloss.org, $60

NOVEMBER

Nov. 6

PRAISE THE LAKE

The fourth annual Praise the Lake fundraiser includes a brunch, Bloody Mary bar and silent auction. Members of the Booker T. Washington High School choir will perform at the event, held from noon-3 p.m. White Rock Lake Filter Building, 2810 White Rock Road, 214.725.9300, whiterocklakefoundation.org, $100

Nov. 6

NEIGHBORHOOD PARTY

Several independent businesses are participating in the Smoke’n Craft’n Fest, held from 1-6 p.m. Enjoy free food from OneNinety meats, browse craft tents by artists at Makers Connect and sample beer from local brewers at this free event. Lake Plaza shopping center, E. Northwest Highway and Easton Road, 972.803.8890, free

Nov. 6

TEXAS CHILI FEST

Listen to Americana and country music while taste-testing chili from several North Texas chefs. Other food options, vendors and interactive games also are included.

Granada Theater, 3524 Greenville Ave., 214.824.9933, texaschilifestival.com, $15-$58

Nov. 12

RUNNING WILD

Bryan Adams High School’s fourth annual Cougars Running Wild 5k and 1-mile fun run kicks off at 7:30 a.m. Event proceeds will go toward school projects that the district is unable to fully fund.

Bryan Adams High School, 2101 Millmar, 972.502.4900, dallasisd.org/bryandams, $10-$35

Nov. 18

‘A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS’

Charlie Brown, Linus and Snoopy pay a visit to the stage for Dallas Children’s Theater’s rendition of the beloved kid’s movie. The performance is recommended for children ages 5 and older. Dallas Children’s Theater, 5938 Skillman St., 214.978.0110, dct.org, $23-$30

Nov. 18-20

ART MART

The three-day event showcases work of local artists in a plethora of styles from painting and photography to jewelry and pottery. Founded in 2003, Art Mart benefits the nonprofit Friends of the Bath House Cultural Center.

Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther Drive, 214.675.6573, dallasculture.org, free

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Crab is obviously king at Ragin’ Crab. (Photo by Kathy Tran)

RAGIN’ CRAB

For several years, the site was a hookah hipster hangout known as Kush, but in January the smoky stench was replaced by a salty brine when Ragin’ Crab opened its doors. With a menu built around big Cajun flavors and freshly flown in seafood, it offers a little taste of Louisiana on Lowest Greenville.

“You’ll savor the flavor for a long time, that’s what I want,” says owner Steve Sohn. “No shallow flavors.”

Sohn has spent nine years on the Dallas restaurant scene and is also the proprietor of Hibashi Teppan Grill in Far North Dallas by the Galleria. He says he was inspired to open Ragin’ Crab when he saw the popularity of Cajun flavors in Dallas, but his signature spice comes with an unusual Asian twist.

“It’s a fusion of flavors,” Sohn explains. “It’s something different than what everyone else does.”

And standing out is important — Greenville Avenue is littered with Cajun joints from Shuck ‘n Jive to not one but two Dodie’s. Ragin’ Cajun is hoping to carve out a niche with a mixture of family establishment and sports bar — somewhere you can watch the game but wouldn’t be afraid to take the kids. The cocktail list includes Bourbon Street favorites like a super boozy Hurricane, alongside popular Texas beer brands like Deep Ellum Brewery and Revolver.

The menu is stacked with Southern staples. Start with a vodka oyster shooter, a hot cup of gumbo or a sweet plate of hushpuppies. Crab, of course, is king and comes five different ways: classic Louisiana, lemon pepper, garlic, garlic butter, Cajun or the house blend known as “Ragin’ Bang” that includes three levels of heat. All shellfish is sold at daily market price. Crab options include king, Dungeness, snow and sometimes blue depending on the season, flown in fresh from Alaska, San Francisco, Boston and Maryland.

“To me, personally, snow crab is the best because it has juicy and sweet crab flavors,” Sohn suggests.

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FORGOTTEN RECIPE: BACK COUNTRY BARBQ SAUCE

It was 1975 when Back Country BarBQ first started smoking its signature flavors in Dallas, before moving its operation to Upper Greenville 18 years ago. But in all that time, the restaurant has stood by a sauce recipe first developed back when bellbottoms were still in fashion. It’s served on the side, so you can add as much or as little as you like.

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BACK COUNTRY BARBQ SAUCE

(Makes approximately 3½ cups)

16 ounces Heinz ketchup

12 ounces water

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon black pepper

½ teaspoon cayenne pepper

½ teaspoon granulated garlic

1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce

1 teaspoon mustard (French’s)

2 tablespoons brown sugar

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 tablespoon liquid smoke

Combine ingredients in a saucepan. While stirring constantly, bring to a boil. Reduce heat and let simmer 15-20 minutes. Refrigerate leftovers.

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THE SYRIAN REFUGEE NEXT DOOR

FROM BOMBINGS AND GUNFIRE TO WOODROW WILSON HIGH SCHOOL

“I WAS VERY CLOSE WITH HIM, AND WAS LOW-KEY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEATH.”

THE SYRIAN REFUGEE NEXT DOOR A

LOT HAS BEEN SAID BOTH GOOD AND BAD — about the 4.8 million Syrian refugees who fled near-daily violence seeking peace in whatever nation would take them. Their plight is so frequently used as political fodder, it is sometimes hard to find the humanity through the rhetoric. Syrians remain a rare minority of the refugees who have found sanctuary in our city — Myanmar, Afghanistan and Iraq being the largest strongholds. But Texas has resettled more Syrian refugees than any state in the nation, a total of 41,647 between 2010-15, with more coming every month. Only a handful have made homes in East Dallas, where they’re doing their best to carve out a new life in a foreign country, all while knowing loved ones still face danger back home. It’s not an easy task, especially when you’re a 16-year-old girl who is more used to the crack of gunfire than the silence of a peaceful street. But despite moments of longing for the country she once called home, she is thriving in her final year at Woodrow Wilson High School. True, it can be hard for her to connect with classmates — with a perspective forged in violent flames, how could anyone who hasn’t walked the path understand a journey quite like this?

‘I DIDN’T FEEL LIKE I STUCK OUT’

Aiya Al-Mzayen doesn’t look like a young woman who has faced death over and over in her young life. Walking into her prestigious summer internship at the Perot Museum, she is ostensibly a young professional beginning her day as a curator or guest services coordinator. With her fair skin and blonde hair, she’s not the picture most have in their minds when they hear “Syrian refugee.”

The daughter of two dentists, Aiya has a mixed heritage unlike many of her peers. Aiya’s mother, Kira, was born in Kazakhstan, formerly the Soviet Republic, and met her father, Sameer, when she was his professor at dental school. Aiya and her older sister Dasha were born in Kazakhstan while her parents practiced there, but after facing discrimination, the family moved to her father’s homeland in Damascus, Syria.

“School in Syria was very different,” Aiya says. “We went to class from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day, and every day was a different subject. We didn’t get to pick our classes like we do here, and after seventh grade the genders are split apart for class.”

Aiya, who also speaks Russian, French and English,

learned Arabic alongside her Russian-speaking mother upon moving to Syria. Even though she was a fair-skinned transplant, Aiya felt right at home in Damascus. “I didn’t feel like I stuck out, there was a lot of diversity.”

Aiya’s parents ran a dental clinic that was open late into the night, a community service they offered so patients didn’t have to miss hours at work to receive dental care. “Many times they would not charge their patients if they couldn’t pay,” Aiya remembers.

While she calls her childhood normal, it brimmed over with experiences that set her youth apart from most East Dallas teens. “Once I was walking down the road, and a woman spoke to me from a car, asking if I would like to marry her son who was a doctor. When I told them I was only 13, she asked if I had an older sister.”

‘WHAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT WOULD KILL KIDS?’

She was 11 when violence begin to envelop her country. “I remember seeing a story on the news about a boy who was tortured and killed because he wrote on a school wall that he didn’t like President Bashar Al Assad,”Aiya remembers. “People came out and protested

and asked, ‘What kind of government would kill kids?’ ”

But still even then, the unrest seemed far away, not something she lived alongside. “This was out in the country, and didn’t really impact life in Damascus,” she says.

It didn’t stay that way for long. Six months later, tension between the government and its protestors reached fever pitch, with violent results across the nation. “The shootings and helicopters all became closer,” she says. “I started to hear gunshots in the streets and see tanks blowing up rebels who were fighting in Damascus.”

Buildings in her neighborhood shook from the explosions, and clouds of smoke became omnipresent along the horizon, signifying the deadly war’s steady creep toward the city.

The family’s Soviet heritage made them a target. Russian forces supported Assad’s government, and rebels became suspect of anyone with ties to that region. Despite the rising danger, Aiya remained a calming force

in the family.

“I never feared death,” she says, “I just tried to calm my mother down when she would be freaking out.”

As bombs dropped and bullets whizzed across the city, it was difficult to keep track of who had been killed that day, creating perpetual anxiety. Lists of the dead were posted around the city and shared via Facebook. The city was a powder keg.

When the violence finally struck close to home, it shattered the family’s attempts at normalcy. Aiya was at a park with her mother and younger sister, Alya, when they heard the sharp crack of gunfire followed by a deafening boom. “Right before the shooting, my sister ran over to ask for a drink of water,” Aiya says. “Right where my sister had been playing, a man dropped a box near a trash can, and it was a bomb that exploded as the car drove away.”

The homemade explosive was full of metal and nails that left cuts and bruises on Aiya and her mother as they shielded her sister from the shrapnel.

The family’s home was in a geographically precarious position, between the warzone brewing across the highway and the Russian Embassy that rebels were set on destroying. Violence surrounded the family. When a rebel threw a bomb into a neighboring apartment, the whole building shook, Aiya says casually.

At her middle school, students were forced to attend pro-government protests, regardless of their position on the conflict. “I would say my school was about 50-50 with supporters of the government and supporters of the rebels,” Aiya estimates. At first students and faculty could openly discuss the conflict at school, but the violence had a chilling effect on free speech. “If anyone said anything at school, parents who worked for the government would be told and then you are dead,” Aiya says.

The war hit home for the Al-Mzayen family around Aiya’s 13th birthday. Her paternal grandfather decided he’d give her what every teen craves: cash. He was shot dead by sniper fire as he walked to the bank to get her gift. “I was very close with him, and was low-key responsible for his death,” Aiya says with a completely blank face.

Tragedy would soon strike again following her family’s generosity in the face of desperation. Many residents

The Al-Mzayen family’s neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, was largely leveled after they fled the area in 2014. (Photo courtesy of the Al-Mzayen family)

were forced to live in a park near the family’s apartment after their homes were bombed. They tried to help by bringing food to those displaced, an act the Assad administration saw as a sign of support for rebel forces. In response, government officials came to the family home and took Aiya’s father away.

He was tortured while in custody for several days, she says — whipped and electrocuted. While he was gone, armed men broke into their apartment and held Aiya, her mother and her sisters in the bathroom. “They held guns to our head and they took everything,” Aiya says, adding that she believes they were affiliated with the government. The men stole gold, jewelry, cellphones, laptops and money. “We never really put money in the bank, and had everything in the house. They took everything that was easy to carry. “

It took a hefty bribe to get Aiya’s father back to the family alive. One of his friends was cut up and returned piece by piece to his mother, a fate they avoided by handing over their remaining valuables. “When he came home, he was hardly alive, and I was like, ‘OK, wow,’ ” Aiya says.

The family knew they needed to flee Syria to survive. They left behind their home, their dental clinic, as well as Sameer’s mother and brother. Sameer’s brother would later be killed at the age of 23 with an iron rod, Sameer says. His mother remains in Syria. “She doesn’t want to leave, and wants to die where her husband and son died,” Sameer says.

‘YOU WILL GO TO AMERICA’

They packed three bags between five people, and began the 37-mile walk to Lebanon, which proved especially difficult due to the family’s mixed bloodline. Aiya’s family was seen as the enemy on both sides of the conflict. Their Russian passports seemingly aligned them with the Assad administration in the eyes of the rebels, and their aide of the displaced victims colored them as rebels to the government. To avoid persecution, the family traveled over the countryside as they escaped Damascus, avoiding checkpoints along the roads.

They found their way to the Kazakh Embassy in Beirut, which helped them escape back to Kazakhstan. They lived with her mother’s parents while Aiya attended eighth grade and learned Russian. When asked to look back, Aiya starts to sound like a typical teen. “It was annoying being at my grandparents because I had to cook, and they are farmers and my grandparents were too critical of the young people,” she chides.

The Kazakh government would not extend her father’s visa, because of his Syrian background. He was told to go

back to his country and fight, Aiya says.

Without visas, the family instead applied for refugee status, a decision that came with a painful consequence. Because Dasha was over 18 and considered an adult, she was not included in the family’s refugee application and was left behind to apply on her own. Dasha now lives in Dubai, but Aiya has not seen her in three years.

The family didn’t have any say in where the United Nations placed them. It took nine months and intensive background checks before they were approved as refugees. “They call you and then they say you can come,” Sameer says. “They said, ‘You will go to America,’ and we didn’t have a choice. It wasn’t a big problem.”

Sameer adds, “We talked to people who were waiting, just waiting. A lot of people are waiting for over a year to be approved. They choose people, and not every person gets chosen. Maybe it’s random, maybe it’s because of background checks, I don’t know.”

They were placed in Dallas in summer 2014 and have built a home on Garland Road. For Sameer, a dentist for 20 years, adjusting to life here has been especially difficult. “He lost his clinic, his home, everything,” Aiya says. He first worked in a warehouse before he was able to find work here as a dental assistant. He now works days and spends his free time studying to pass the board exams required to become an oral pathologist.

“When we arrived, there were no organizations to help us,” Sameer says. “Now there are plenty who help refugees get apartments and other things. We didn’t have any of that.”

Though frustrated with having to take jobs below his level of education, Sameer remains a hopeful and lifelong servant of his community. The Al-Mzayen living room is full of furniture they have collected and will pass on to other refugee families who relocate. “When we arrived, we had an empty apartment and sat on the floor. We want to help others so they don’t have the same problem,” he says.

“IF ANYONE SAID ANYTHING AT SCHOOL, PARENTS WHO WORKED FOR THE GOVERNMENT WOULD BE TOLD AND THEN YOU ARE DEAD.”

When Aiya first arrived, she attended summer school at Rusk Middle School near Love Field Airport to help her learn English, but she did not find what she expected. “I thought everyone would be white in America, because of movies. When I walked in the cafeteria to see people of all different colors, I was shocked.”

Aiya was preemptively nervous about settling into America.

“I thought there would be a fancy group of girls who bullied everyone, that’s how y’all make it seem in the movies,” she says in her adopted dialect. “I had already accepted the fact that I would be made fun of and bullied for not knowing English. I was like, ‘I am going to be a loser,’ but that never happened. I was never made fun or bullied at all.”

Aiya has flourished in her new life in the states, though she misses the busy late nights of Damascus. “Life is over at 6 p.m. here,” she laments.

She’ll graduate from Woodrow Wilson this spring after just three years, due to her rigorous class load. Then it’s off to college to study medicine. She hopes to be a forensic pathologist with the FBI, one who determines the cause of death at crime scenes. It is a

profession that is both fitting and haunting for a young woman who has come of age surrounded by violence and death.

Aiya’s experiences make her more confident and mature than most of her peers, but she has had trouble developing deep friendships. “People were always friendly, but I would only be interesting for a week. People will say that I am their friend because I am new, but I don’t really feel like I am friends with them, and there is no bond,” she shares.

Aiya’s best friend also is a transplant, though she is from Garland, not Damascus. “We get each other, and she lives close by. We are the same Zodiac sign and have the same characteristics, so I feel like we can actually talk.”

She’s found new life as an average East Dallas teen whose worries have shifted from homemade explosives and political tyranny, to mean girls and upcoming exams — albeit one with added perspective.

“Life has taught me to enjoy every day,” she says. “High school rumors still hurt, but whenever I look at the big picture, I am like, really? I am letting this affect me after a war that I have been through?”

At 16, Aiya Al-Mzayen is a thriving senior at Woodrow Wilson High School, where her class schedule is stacked with Advanced Placement classes. She also ran track and takes part in the school’s internship program.

ROLLING AWAY

STORY BY CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | PHOTOS BY DANNY FULGENCIO

White Rock Skate Center owner Chuck Connor says he sold his property — a 20,000 square-foot, 43-year-old building built by his dad sitting on about two acres — to a developer that’s been asking him to sell since about 2009.

“We had been thinking about it over the years,” says Connor, who is known among other things, for his 40-year never-missing-a-day-of-work streak.

There was that one time, when he was 28 and he and his wife, Laura, went on their honeymoon. “But my dad was still here at that time; it was before I took over,” he says.

Connor is something like the Sam Rothstein (a shrewd casino operator portrayed by Robert De Niro in a 1995 movie) of the roller rink, overseeing the center’s day-to-day

operations, sometimes from the floor, often on the security monitors that line the wall of his office. Sure, he would never put a person’s head in a vice, but he has been known to ban cardinal rule breakers for life.

One of the most important lessons he learned from his father: keep the rules the same for everyone.

“And, it doesn’t happen often, maybe one in a million, a kid breaks a rule — steals or fights — and when that happens, they are out.”

His wife, co-owner Laura, chuckles at the De Niro comparison.

Seriously, though, the place has meant everything to Connor and his family. Their daughter, Leslie, grew up at the rink, and worked there while she was a teenager.

“She actually had her first gig here when she was about 4 or 5 years old,”

he recalls. “We paid her a dollar to hand out fliers. I still remember her first pair of tiny purple skates.”

A wall outside the offices contains a massive collage of photos snapped over the years. Both Connors point out images and recall names of just about every young person who has ever worked here.

The understanding that they will be gone from there forever soon brings tears — from Laura, definitely, and they even seem to brim in seenit-all Chuck’s eyes; especially when they talk about all the old friends and employees who have contacted them since the Friday in September when the Advocate reported the imminent closing.

“My phone blew up that night,” Laura says, speaking the lingo of so many neighborhood high

It’s off to the races at White Rock Skate.

schoolers with whom the couple works closely.

But Laura is ready to spend a weekend night with her husband for once, a New Year’s Eve even.

They plan to hop on their HarleyDavidson or sporty convertible — already acquired — and travel the countryside.

They’ll head to Disney World in Orlando, because their talented Leslie has a fulltime job there now.

As so many neighborhood residents lament the loss of the rink, others are more concerned about what will become of the property and the one-tenantoccupied (at time of publication) shopping strip beside it.

Connor pleads ignorance on those matters.

“I’m not in the loop on that,” he says. He just knows he sold to a guy who offered years ago to purchase the rink.

He means Stuart Jones, who also owns the strip center land.

Advocatemag.com readers might recall that in 2008 Jones’ American Brownfields Corporation requested a zoning change from commercial retail to mixed use on the roughly four acres at the corner of Shoreview and Ferndale. Jones asked to replace the shopping center with an upscale, mid-rise apartment complex plus some 60,000 square feet of retail or office space. The L Streets and Lake Ridge Estates homeowners associations at the time supported the proposed change, and the City Plan Commission passed it unanimously.

As more neighbors became aware of the plan, many voiced concern, but it was too late for that. The Dallas City Council passed rezoning to Planned Development 779 that year. And it allows for everything from multifamily and single-family residences to ambulatory services, nursing home, schools, alcoholic beverage establishments (that

would require a special use permit), other types of restaurants and entertainment facilities.

At the time, after rumors of a high-rise condominium building surfaced, the developer via comment on the Advocate website assured the neighborhood that the PD includes height restrictions: “All structures must comply with the Residential

Proximity Slope. This is a 3:1 slope that protects single-family property from having tall buildings tower over their homes. The PD, as proposed, will restrict the allowable heights to specific areas and restrict the overall height of any structure to 95 feet.”

In 2009 the same developer, now under the name LLC Shoreview Viola, requested, as a “potential

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buyer” to amend and expand the zoning to include the land that occupies White Rock Skate Center and a neighboring credit union.

At the time of Jones’ 2009 rezoning request, Connor said he had no intention of selling the family business.

Since the Connors decided to do “the hardest thing they have ever done,” according to Laura — sell (for an amount they did not wish to disclose) — redevelopment could finally be on the horizon.

Zach Daniels, pastor at Antioch Church, the last remaining tenant in that 4-acre Shoreview strip center owned by Jones’ LLC, says his church soon is moving north to a space in the Catholic Charities building off the I-635 service road.

The timeline is loose, he says, and his official reason is that the congregation has outgrown the space on Shoreview. He says he knows no more than us about what will happen to the properties. He does know that the members of Antioch are devastated by the news of White Rock Skate’s closure.

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“White Rock Skate is near and dear to everyone born and raised in Lake Highlands,” he says.

At the time of publication, Jones had not returned multiple phone

calls or emails; his assistant did tell us he was out of the country.

Several community members, including members of a group that managed to save and designate as a historical site the old Lakewood Theater on the opposite side of White Rock Lake, have inquired about buying the rink in order to save it, but that was not an option, according to Connor.

White Rock Skate closed at 5 p.m. Oct. 16, followed by a private affair for family, current and exemployees and police/security guards who have helped them over the years.

Hundreds from our neighborhood and beyond packed the rink last month for one final roll, one closing couple skate, one parting Hokey Pokey and bye-bye balloon pop, a so-long limbo and a farewell fall (or few).

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Leslie Connor shows a photo of herself as a child with father, Chuck Connor.

White Rock Skate arcade.

“I had several birthdays there and even landed my first boyfriend there. It was the pinnacle of my sixth-grade year when he asked me to ‘go with him.’ We, of course, had no idea where we were ‘going,’ but it sounded cool and he even held my hand. He was such a gentleman — or scared silly,” says Amanda Kelley.

Love blooms at the roller rink.

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This May, four students at Merriman Park Elementary celebrated their birthdays at White Rock Skate. From left, there’s Mason Busch, 8, Taylor Kellogg, 7, Jack Bowlin, 8, and Hayden Cassidy, 7.

“They got to invite the entire first grade class of Merriman Park and they loved every second of it. It was one of the best parties we have had and the staff was beyond amazing,” says Jenny Kellogg, Taylor’s mom.

Ramie Jennings (right) laps the rink as a child in the 1980s at White Rock Skate.

“Honestly, there is not a lot I remember from my childhood. However, I’m pretty certain I could draw you the floor plan of how the skating rink was laid out. I have fond memories of the hokey pokey, hundreds of birthday parties and wishing the cute boys would ask me to a couple’s skate. From a little kid to a young preteen, I spent some of my best days at White Rock Skate,” she says.

Sophia Rodriguiz (left) and Bella Hill (right) helped Sofia Fundaro (center) celebrate her ninth birthday at White Rock Skate in 2014.

“This is so sad. My grandkids have gone there every Friday and Saturday night since they were 5 and 6 years old. I used to go also to chaperone them until they were old enough to stay there by themselves. This place, to me, is like a big family,” says Isabel Alcantar.

Mason, Taylor, Jack and Hayden in 2016

Sophia, Bella and Sofia in 2014

Ramie in the 1980s

TOURING THE NEIGHBORHOOD

GLIMPSE INSIDE SOME OF EAST DALLAS’ MOST UNIQUE PROPERTIES WITH THREE HOME TOURS THIS MONTH

Story by KERI MITCHELL and EMILY CHARRIER

Photos by RASY RAN

East Dallas artist and resident Ann McCann painted watercolors of the properties featured on the Vickery Place Home Tour. (Photo by Rasy Ran)

We all do it. Walking or driving the neighborhood, with its plethora of unique architectural styles, your mind starts to imagine what might be inside. Exposed beams? Original flooring? Those of us who can’t get enough HGTV can’t help but wonder.

If you have always wanted to see inside some of East Dallas’ more iconic homes, this is your lucky month. Three home tours — Lakewood, Junius Heights and Vickery Place — provide a peek inside a wide swath of home styles, from new construction to classic craftsman. This is the month to let your nosy-neighbor flag fly.

Not only do the home tours support nonprofits ranging from local schools to homeless pets, they also bring the community together. Organizers agree that the events double as an opportunity to get to know neighbors, in addition to learning about East Dallas’ architectural history.

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It was 1911 when the first 500 plots sprouted up, creating Vickery Place. Neighbors love that it’s within walking distance of hotspots like Knox-Henderson and Lower Greenville but still offers a tightknit neighborhood feel.

“There’s a real sense of community here,” says Debbie Simurda, chair of the home tour. “When you’re out walking your dogs, people say hello to each other.”

It’s also a neighborhood dedicated to preserving its character, which is why residents fought to establish a conservation district in 2006. By regulating setbacks, height and other design details, they ensure that the craftsman, Tudor and colonial styles that make the neighborhood unique will forever be part of its landscape.

It was these designs that artists Ann McCann set out to capture as a new offering at this year’s home tour.

“It was tricky because it was not my usual,” McCann says, explaining that she prefers more free-form contemporary impressionist painting. The houses were all angles, so she put aside the oil paints in favor of pen and watercolor.

“In some ways it’s almost the opposite,” she says. “In oils, you start dark and then add your lights. In watercolor, you have to protect the white space because you can’t get it back.”

It took her nearly eight hours to paint each of the six homes, which will be on display during the tour, and then presented to the homeowners as a thank you. Money raised during the Vickery Place Home Tour will benefit the SPCA of Texas, Robert E. Lee Elementary School PTA and neighborhood improvements, including new sidewalks.

“We did our first home tour five years ago in honor of our centennial anniversary,” Simurda says. “We want to show how much the neighborhood has changed.”

VICKERY PLACE HOME TOUR

Cost: $20 in advance (online) or $25 the day of the tour at 5555 Vickery, 5520 Richards or 5219 Goodwin

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JUNIUS HEIGHTS

Sunday, Nov. 6, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. With its historic district designation, Junius Heights will remain one of East Dallas’ most charming neighborhoods for generations. Most of its 700 cottage-inspired homes were built from 1906 into the 1940s, many by East Dallas forefather Junius Peak (read more about him on page 26).

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But the home at 1523 Abrams was a different story. Its design began as a Frank Lloyd Wright architectural plan printed in Ladies Home Journal. At the turn of the century, the famed architect would advertise designs like “A Fire Proof House for $5,000” or “A Home in a Prairie Town,” complete with blueprints.

It was 1907 when Dr. John J. Trible and his wife, Bessie, selected one of Wright’s “Two Homes for Servantless Families” design for their property that then sat on Tremont Street. He practiced in the Wilson Building downtown, while she was an editor at The Dallas Journal and a clerk at The Dallas Morning News. They liked the quiet neighborhood that at the time bordered a cornfield, which is why

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Bessie Trible vehemently, although unsuccessfully, fought efforts to bring a streetcar down their serene street.

Donned in a French crepe charmeuse gown with a fishtail train, the Tribles’ daughter Irene married Earl Metcalfe on the property in 1913. The couple moved into the home right after the wedding. In the 1960s, the city built Abrams Parkway, changing the home’s address from Tremont to Abrams. With its original floors, woodwork and lighting, it’s one of six properties you can see on the Junius Heights Home Tour.

The day also includes an arts and crafts fair and raffle at the Lakewood Library. “This year we also are featuring Woodrow Wilson High School and collaborating with them as they celebrate their 60th anniversary of the annual spring musical with an alumni reunion of past participants,” says organizer

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Bill Williams, adding that a musical performance takes place at 3 p.m. at the high school’s auditorium (bring your home tour ticket).

Proceeds from the day’s events benefit William Lipscomb Elementary School as well as neighborhood improvements. The neighborhood hopes to add painted street numbers, solar-powered streetlights and gardens in the triangle parks along Abrams.

JUNIUS HEIGHTS HOME TOUR

Cost: $15 in advance (tickets at Whole Foods or Buzz Brews) or $20 at any home the day of the tour. Tickets and more: juniusheights.org

LAKEWOOD

Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 12-13, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

As soon as Tony Ruggeri saw the real estate listing for 6935 Lakeshore, he told his wife, Ashley, “I want this house.”

The young couple had a 9-monthold son and had just finished remodeling a home on Kenwood. Tony had wanted to stay put for a while, but he knew the circa 1927 Dutch colonial house on the market was uncommon, “even in this neighborhood.” Not to mention that, originally, it was the home of Lee Kraft, part of the Dines and Kraft team that developed much of southern Lakewood as well as the Lakewood and Skillman Live Oak shopping centers.

“We figured it was probably built well if it was built for the boss,” Tony says. And indeed it was. “For this

1900s photo of 6935 Lakeshore.

kind of project, for a house that’s almost 100 years old, there weren’t a lot of issues we came across.”

The Lee Kraft home is one of six featured in this year’s Lakewood Home Festival, marking the 40th anniversary of the home tour, which raises money to benefit neighborhood public schools.

Tony works for a company that develops master-planned communities. He was immersed in a research project of local and national historic neighborhoods when they bought the Lakeshore home. Like every year, the tour features a range of architectural and decorative styles.

Dutch colonial was one of the many architectural styles Dines and Kraft welcomed into their development. That’s why Lakewood “doesn’t seem sterile like some parts of Dallas,” Tony says.

“Most of the diversity in architecture you see in old neighborhoods is because people have torn down homes,” he says. “The fact that Dines and Kraft developed this neighborhood with the intent of bringing different architecture styles together is what make it unique.”

The Ruggeris updated the home from top to bottom. They replaced the downstairs patio with an office and the upstairs balcony with an expanded master bath and closet, then added a fourth bedroom and an upstairs laundry room. For the most part, though, the bones

of the home remain in tact, and its charming characteristics — detailed trim, arched doorways, a curved staircase — have been restored and enhanced.

The stained glass windows and broken tile floor, which are common elements in Lakewood homes of that era, no matter their architectural style, meld with Ashley’s colorful and cozy décor. Her pink accents, including the home’s front door, complement the pink in the kitchen windows’ stained glass tulips. Photos of the couple’s large Italian and Middle Eastern families are the focal point in the front room.

Right after the Ruggeris moved in, as design firm The Burke Company was drawing up plans, Ashley asked of one bedroom, “Can we hold off on paint?” Another baby was on the way — a girl, they later discovered. The Ruggeris will welcome their third child in December, but this one isn’t going to be accompanied by a new house, they laugh. They’ve settled in to their new-old space.

“Coming home is a reminder that, if you do it right,” Tony says, “100 years later, it still looks beautiful.”

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DO DISD’S SMARTEST KIDS LIVE IN EAST DALLAS?

THE DISTRICT’S PREMIERE MAGNET SCHOOLS ARE CLOGGED WITH NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS. IS IT BECAUSE THEY’RE THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST? THE TRUTH IS MORE COMPLICATED.

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East Dallas is a unique area of the school district, one where families take great pride in their neighborhood public schools and simultaneously take full advantage of the other options Dallas ISD makes available. A good chunk of students at the district’s top magnet schools come from our neighborhood.

The most extreme case is at Uptown’s William B. Travis Academy & Vanguard for the Academically Talented and Gifted where, last year, students from East Dallas’ Lakewood and Stonewall Jackson elementaries claimed onethird of the seats.

The sought-after magnet school for DISD fourth- through eighth-graders offers rigorous academic curriculum that aims to “address the unique social and emotional needs of the gifted child,” according to its website. Travis opened in fall 2000, and since then, its popularity with neighborhood parents has skyrocketed.

Travis was the final Dallas magnet school to open during the school district’s court-ordered desegregation process, which began in 1971 and lasted 33 years. At first, it had the racial makeup the law required: roughly one-third white, one-third black and one-third Hispanic.

That makeup began to change after 2003, when Dallas ISD was released from federally mandated desegregation. The district, as part of its promise to the courts to continue to diversify its magnet schools, devised a new admission process that

accepted the top applicants from six different areas of town.

Areas later gave way to learning communities, which gave way to high school feeder patterns, but the admission process for magnet schools today essentially is the same as it has been since desegregation: The top 30 percent of applicants are accepted to each magnet school according to their GPA, test scores and admission exams, and then the district awards the remaining 70 percent of spots to each high school attendance zone’s top applicants.

Such a system should yield a roughly even number of students from each area of town at any given magnet school. It doesn’t.

If qualified students from a particular high school zone don’t apply or decide not to attend, those vacant TAG spots go to the next-highest-ranking students from the pool of district-wide applicants, says Keisha Crowder-

Davis, the district’s director of postsecondary success, who oversees the magnet schools.

“I tell everybody, whatever is in the pool is what’s going to come out,” she says. “If we have more students applying from the Bryan Adams feeder pattern, for example, then you can almost bet that more Bryan Adams kids are going to come out of that.”

It’s evident from the numbers

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that East Dallas students dominate the pool — from Lakewood Elementary especially, followed by children zoned to Stonewall and several other neighborhood schools.

Another cause for the disparity is the district’s so-called “siblingrule,” which trustees were addressing at press time.

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“[Parents] told us, ‘I need my kids to go to the same school. I can’t drop them off at five different schools and get to work by 8 o’clock,’ ” Crowder-Davis says.

Area private schools use such preference in their admission policies, she says. The board bought into this approach, formalizing the policy in 2010 and giving siblings an edge when applying to elementary and middle school magnets. The policy decrees that famililial ties factor into TAG and Montessori admission decisions — trumping both scores and feeder patterns.

This is a problem in the eyes of Dan Micciche, an East Dallas trustee who brought the sibling policy before the board last spring.

“A lot of people think it’s just a tiebreaker for kids with exactly the same scores,” Micciche said at the meeting. “It’s actually more than that — it’s a preference.”

To some of his colleagues on the board, however, the problem was not a broken admission process but a lack of seats.

“Why not replicate it?” asked trustee Joyce Foreman, who represents Southwest Dallas and favored keeping families together. “Those schools have all of that interest because it’s working.”

At the heart of their debate lay the issue of why, and especially for whom, Dallas ISD’s magnet schools exist.

Are they for the district’s best and brightest children who may languish at their neighborhood schools but excel in a different academic setting?

Are they for families seeking a different option who want to invest in a single school community?

Are they for students of

THE EFFECTS OF DISD’S ‘SIBLING RULE’ IN 2015-16

all ethnicities, classes and backgrounds to mingle together and find equal footing, which is the reason Dallas’ magnet schools formed in the first place?

At press time, trustees were planning to discuss and possibly change the sibling rule. The overarching question, however, seems far from being settled.

Populations of particular home schools have been compounding quietly at magnets for years. What triggered the more recent awareness was a board policy tweak in June 2015 based on the complaint of a Lakewood

parent. One of her twins had been accepted to Travis. The other was first on the waitlist because other students’ siblings had taken precedence. The board responded by expanding preference to siblings who apply simultaneously.

Last spring, Dallas ISD Chief of School Leadership

Stephanie Elizalde presented the consequences to the school board: of 66 available seats for fourthgraders at Travis, the board’s policy required that 50 spots go to siblings. At George B. Dealey Montessori, another sought-after kindergarten through eighth-grade

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HOW MANY TRAVIS SPOTS DID LAKEWOOD AND STONEWALL JACKSON STUDENTS CLAIM LAST YEAR?

admission. In contrast, a large number of the accepted sibling applicants had scores in the midto low-80s.

Havlick later entered the race for Dallas ISD District 2 Trustee, which represents both the Lakewood and Stonewall communities, as well as several affluent areas of Preston Hollow whose residents often pursue spots at Dealey or Travis. She didn’t win the election; the seat went to Dustin Marshall, who says he didn’t take a stance on sibling preference. Havlick, however, vocalized her disagreement.

The purpose of a magnet school, she says, is to give children who have displayed a need for academic rigor the opportunity of a different academic learning environment. The argument for giving preference to siblings is that it creates a greater sense of community, but “to me, that’s why you go to a neighborhood school.”

In a way, a magnet school lopsided with East Dallas students solves problems for the district. Lakewood and Stonewall Jackson are both overcrowded elementary schools, so siphoning off 150 or so fourthand fifth-graders eases the burden. Lakewood has eight classrooms of third-graders but drops to six in fourth-grade and five in fifthgrade. So many Lakewood children attend Travis that it requires two school buses to ship them back every afternoon.

Plus, one of the district’s goals is to attract the middle class back to its schools. As Elizalde said of magnet school parents at the spring board meeting: “We have lost populations we don’t want to lose. They have options, and they’re choosing DISD.”

That’s the population the board is catering to with its sibling policy — middle- and upper-class parents who likely have the option to send

their kids to private schools. These are the families who dominate the district’s top magnet schools, and the trustees, as stated in one of their goals this year, are eager to keep them in DISD.

Micciche also believes in the power of middle-class parents and the importance of schools that attract them.

“When you have an active PTA and parents who are active in the school, they lift the whole school up,” he says. “They contribute to the success not only of their own children but all the children in the school. They supplement the educational and extracurricular activities that go on in the school, and it makes a huge difference.”

That statement, however, was made in reference to Alex Sanger Elementary, a 68 percent Hispanic and 81 percent economically disadvantaged neighborhood school in East Dallas that is gaining traction with middle-class families.

By comparison, Travis is 58 percent white and 20 percent economically disadvantaged. It’s also full of students and families who compete to attend the school, and it offers top tier educators and additional resources due to its magnet status.

Interestingly, taking away sibling preference altogether may not significantly alter Travis’ population. On the waiting list last year behind 30 accepted Lakewood and Stonewall students, many of them siblings, were another 26 Lakewood and Stonewall students, none of them siblings.

In contrast, 111 of the district’s 152 elementary schools didn’t send a single fourth- or fifthgrader to Travis last year. This year’s incoming class of fourthgraders represented only 28 home schools.

That number increased to 32 when Elizalde made the decision

over the summer to admit half the students on the waiting list. It was a stopgap measure until the board weighed in with an official vote. That decision ballooned the school’s population from roughly 400 to 500, which likely eliminated the possibility of future students testing in as sixth-graders — a longstanding Travis tradition that tends to cast a wider net than its fourth-grade applicants.

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The dynamics that led to Travis’ present-day make-up aren’t black and white. It’s a complex issue that can’t be solved with a simple policy change, and the conclusion could have a large impact on Dallas ISD’s future and how the district is perceived with middleclass families.

“A magnet school should be a meritocracy,” Havlick says. “They are coveted spots, and to reserve them because of birthright, it’s not equitable.”

TIS THE SEASON

THANKSGIVING LAUNCHES THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR IN EAST DALLAS

“A good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time,” wrote Charles Dickens of the holiday season.

His was a simpler time, true. He had no NorthPark Center crowds to fight, no VISA card to max out. Sigh. The onslaught of holiday stressors is enough to bring out the inner Scrooge in us all.

But before you mutter your first “Bah humbug,” consider how our neighborhood celebrates the season. Shared Thanksgiving dinners and toy drives help make it the best time of year.

Want to grab a bite and meet your neighbors? Each year on the Tuesday before turkey day, Skillman Church of Christ along with neighborhood associations, such as the Lakewood Heights Neighborhood Association as well as those in Wilshire Heights and Lower Greenville, host a community meal, providing all the turkey and ham you could ever want. It falls on Nov. 22 this year, and all you have to do is show up with a side dish or dessert if you are able, along with a monetary donation for North Texas Food Bank.

A tradition since 2003, the gathering was the brainchild of Lakewood Heights resident and community activist Karen Blessen.

“Since Thanksgiving is a non-religious holiday, I thought it would be the perfect holiday for us all to gather together,” she says. “And who doesn’t love Thanksgiving food? My first visit was to Dwight Robarts, then a new pastor at Skillman Church. He was enthusiastic, and once the SCOC team got involved, it began to operate like a Swiss watch.”

Former LHNA president Melanie Vanlandingham says the neighborhood grows stronger through such community events. “Just the act of

gathering communicates this power of what we can do together, this belief in something greater than ourselves, and that there are so many who are willing to make sure our vision and protection of our each other, and our homes and neighborhoods is shared by many.”

The dinner is open to any and all, but organizers always extend a

“That original basket has grown to three large cartons filled with not only homemade treats, but purchased candies, chips, salsas, cookies, movies, games, gift cards and an assortment of supplies.”

And the generosity has spread, according to Carr who noted, “residents of Edgemont Park Conservation District and Lakewood Heights Neighborhood Association bring items for the firefighters as well.”

Carr remembers a kind neighbor who was determined to show her gratitude. “One elderly lady brought a bag of canned goods — tomatoes, beans and other staples. She explained that her husband had just returned home from a hospital stay and she’d not had a chance to shop.” The station’s designated chef, “with a wink and a grin,” assured them they could put all of the items to good use.

special invitation to local firefighters and police officers.

Speaking of first responders, Lower Greenville Neighborhood Association makes sure they’re well taken care of during the holidays. LGNA president Pat Carr recalls, “Ten years ago LGNA Crime Watch coordinator Darren Dattalo thought it be would be a good idea to thank the firefighters at Station 17 [Belmont and Skillman] who protect our neighborhood.”

They quickly filled a large basket with homemade goodies.

In 2011, LGNA also launched a Toys for Cops campaign after learning that Dallas police officers routinely keep stuffed animals in their patrol cars to give to frightened children they encounter on domestic violence calls or vehicle accidents. Neighbors donate piles of gently used stuffed toys, which they drop off along with the other donations.

But even more toys are needed, says Carr. “When we delivered 2013’s collection of 250 toys, we asked Chief Gary Tittle how long the supply would last. He smiled ruefully and said, ‘Maybe six months.’ That’s a lot of distressed children.”

Folks in surrounding neighborhoods hear of the toy drive and have stepped up. Greenland Hills NA, Vickery Place NA, and Edgemont Park have all answered the call to help out LGNA’s toy drive.

PATTI VINSON is a guest writer who has lived in East Dallas for over 15 years. She’s written for the Advocate and Real Simple magazine, and has taught college writing.

Pulitzer-Prize winning illustrator Karen Blessen designed the event’s logo.

BUSINESS BUZZ

WHAT’S UP WITH NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESSES

RESTAURANT RENAISSANCE

used to stand. The Massachusetts-based chain offers both local and international beers to go, as well as a taproom of rotating draught beers.

Ross Avenue’s TOASTED COFFEE + KITCHEN continues the Ross Avenue renaissance when it opened next to Milk•Cream this past month. The gourmet toast and sandwich eatery is the brainchild of East Dallas neighbors Bob Sinnott and Joel Roldan, and also boasts a full bar with make-your-own mimosas and bloody Marys.

Not far away, comfort sandwich shop HAYMAKER opened on Greenville at Hudson. The establishment first launched in Austin three years ago and is known for its take on the Canadian classic poutine.

In just a month, a plethora of eateries and bars have opened in East Dallas and hope to wow neighbors with their eclectic fare.

Polyphonic Spree member Julie Doyle officially opened LOUNGE HERE at 9028 Garland. With its retro vibe and creative cocktails, the lounge has the perfect formula to be every hipster’s haven. It’s opening night packed the neighborhood in October.

SUGARBACON PROPER KITCHEN opened at the Lakewood Shopping Center for lunch and dinner during the week, as well as brunch on weekends. The site used to house Dixie House. First launched in McKinney, the restaurant’s Dallas counterpart is led by chef Andrea Maricich, who came from the The Second Floor in the Westin Galleria.

FOOD NEWS

Just up the street on Gaston, beer enthusiasts will have a multitude of options at CRAFT BEER CELLAR , where Papa John’s

LAKEWOOD GROWLER is expanding to Preston Hollow with the construction of BLUFFVIEW GROWLER at 3850 W. Northwest Highway. The bar and filling station’s younger sibling is scheduled to open its doors in December.

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The building that houses THE ELBOW ROOM dates back to 1933, but the Texas A+M University system wants to demolish the building to expand its dental school. Because the popular dive bar is in danger of being taken by eminent domain, it made Preservation Dallas’ 2016 list of most-endangered historic places.

private garages, apartments and even a dog park on 3.6 acres.

A plan to build an apartment complex on three lots at Gaston and Glasgow has been met with pushback from neighbors who hope to preserve the singlefamily character of the area. Developer MAGNOLIA PROPERTIES , which has built complexes all over Dallas, is still working with the city on how it can build its 3638 unit development without violating the strict tenets of the neighborhood’s planned development district.

Good Records seeks to spinoff a boutique record store named GOOD PAGODA near the Lounge Here.

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CELEBRATING LONGEVITY

Located at 2025 Abrams Parkway, antique store CURIOSITIES is celebrating its 10th anniversary Nov. 5 with a daylong event that includes live music, food and more.

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LUCKY DOG BOOKS sold its East Dallas location, and depending upon recent sales, the shop may permanently shut down (as of press time, it was still open). The used bookstore has been part of the neighborhood for four decades, but its sales plummeted the past four years. “Until thelate ’90s, your choices for what to do in the evening besides read a book weren’t that great,” owner John Tilton says. Now, “people spend hours on the internet instead of reading a book.”

DEVELOPING EAST DALLAS

Developers seek to transform undeveloped property on Live Oak at Collett into 54 town homes and 32 apartments. Without public financing or zoning changes, LARKSPUR CAPITAL plans to construct the detached town homes with

Rockers like Rise Against the Machine and Hard’s Day Night lent their talents at Long City Limits, the annual funraiser for the JL Long school band in October. In total, more than $9,000 was raised to keep music thriving in the local middle school. “We have created a music festival that not only raises necessary funds for our program, but also provides our students access to local live music, which helps them gain an appreciation for and a love of the arts,” says band director Caitlin Schmidt.

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contests — whether contests of ideas or sport.

The Republican Party is going through an agonizing season right now, searching its soul in light of Donald Trump’s nomination and all the chaos that has attended to it. Many Democrats also lack enthusiasm for their candidate. Whether they are unhappy with Hillary Clinton or with the way she has been caricatured by others, there isn’t much liftoff in her constituency. One will win, the other lose. Some hopes will rise and others fall.

The Texas Rangers had an outstanding season, winning 95 games — the most in the American League — and setting records for come-frombehind and one-run margin victories. It was thrilling, until it wasn’t. The Toronto Blue Jays swept the Rangers in the first round of the playoffs. Our baseball team has given us great effort and entertainment, but in every sport only one eventually wins and all others lose.

Brad Sham is the longtime radio voice of the Dallas Cowboys and sports broadcaster extraordinaire. Brad grew up a Cubs fan, and he has called play-by-play for the Rangers, his adopted team. He recently posted on Facebook a reminder that should add sensible perspective. This is for not only my fellow Rangers and Cubs fans, but all sports fans.

But these teams’ fan’s especially. These teams do not owe us results.

For our money and emotional investment, they owe us their best effort. These two teams have already over-delivered this year. We should thank them and congratulate them. Be very happy if they win. Be as sad as we wish if they lose. But they’re doing their best against other professionals, as they have since February. Let there be no sniping or acrimony from us. We have struck out no one, we have delivered no hits nor run down one screaming liner in the gap. We have sat and cheered. Thank you Rangers. Thank you Cubs. You are examples and inspirations whatever happens next.

The word fan is short for fanatic, which the dictionary describes as “a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.” Or sports. I would quibble with the word uncritical; hypercriticism is often the problem. But the larger problem is the degree of devotion and emotion we invest in our parties and teams. We make what is supposed to be functional or fun fundamental.

Politics is important because it has real effect on everyday lives. It shouldn’t be elevated to religious ultimacy or trivialized to banal entertainment. Sport is meant to entertain us. But when our lives rise and fall with our teams’ results, we should check our values to see if they have drifted too far.

Spiritual wisdom warns against putting anything at the center of our lives that is transitory. Only God is eternal.

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.

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

Gary Neil Gross

Dallas Allergy and Asthma Center

5499 Glen Lakes Dr, Ste 100 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-691-1330

William Raymond Lumry

Allergy and Asthma Specialists

10001 N Central Expy, Ste 100 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-373-7374

Michael E. Ruff

Dallas Allergy and Asthma Center

5499 Glen Lakes Dr, Ste 100

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-691-1330

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

Martin R. Berk

Cardiology and Interventional Vascular Associates

Greenville Medical Tower, Ste 500

7150 Greenville Ave

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-369-3613

Tony S. Das

Cardiology and Interventional Vascular Associates

Greenville Medical Tower, Ste 500

7150 Greenville Ave

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-369-3613

John Frank Harper

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas

Cardiology Consultation

Main Bldg, 8th Fl East

8200 Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-345-6458

Khanh Lan Hoang North Texas Heart Center

8440 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 700

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-361-3300

Jodie Hurwitz

North Texas Heart Center

8440 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 700 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-361-3300

Alfredo Jimenez

North Texas Heart Center

Wadley Tower, Ste 851 3600 Gaston Ave

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-826-6044

Susan Joseph Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Center for Advanced Heart and Lung Disease

3410 Worth St, Ste 250

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-6856

Darryl Lindsay Kawalsky North Texas Heart Center

8440 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 700

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-361-3300

Charles Brooks Levin

Cardiology and Interventional Vascular Associates

Greenville Medical Tower, Ste 500 7150 Greenville Ave

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-369-3613

Benjamin Levine Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine

7232 Greenville Ave, Ste 339

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-345-4617

William C. Reardon

HealthCore Physicians Group

Professional Bldg I, Ste 230

8210 Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 972-284-7000

Jack Wolf Spitzberg

Cardiology and Interventional Vascular Associates

Greenville Medical Tower, Ste 500

7150 Greenville Ave

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-369-3613

John Tan

North Texas Heart Center

8440 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 700

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-361-3300

Carlos Velasco

North Texas Heart Center

Wadley Tower, Ste 851

3600 Gaston Ave

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-826-6044

COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY

R. D. Dignan

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Surgical Services

Barnett Tower, Ste 1209

3600 Gaston Ave

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-824-2573

James W. Fleshman, Jr.

North Texas Colon and Rectal

Worth Street Tower, Ste 600 3409 Worth St

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 469-800-7600

Philip J. Huber, Jr. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas

True Surgical Partners

Margot Perot Bldg, Ste 306

8160 Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-345-8060

Warren E. Lichliter

North Texas Colon and Rectal

Worth Street Tower, Ste 600 3409 Worth St

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 469-800-7600

Floyd Clark Odom

Texas Colon & Rectal Specialists

Medical Office Bldg II, Ste 205

8220 Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-739-5758

CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Randall Lee Rosenblatt

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas Center for Advanced Heart and Lung Disease

3410 Worth St, Ste 250

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-6856

Dan Schuller

Pulmonary and Critical Care Specialists of Dallas Wadley Tower, Ste 651

3600 Gaston Ave

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-3275

DERMATOLOGY

Jennifer Cather

Modern Dermatology

9101 N Central Expy, Ste 160

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-265-1818

Melissa I. Costner

North Dallas Dermatology Associates

8144 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 1300

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-420-7070

James H. Herndon, Jr.

Dermatology Center of Dallas

Professional Bldg 3, Ste 500

8230 Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-739-5821

Peter D. Hino

Dermatology Center of Dallas

Professional Bldg 3, Ste 500

8230 Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-739-5821

M. Alan Menter

Texas Dermatology Associates

Baylor Medical Pavilion

3900 Junius St, Ste 145

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 972-386-7546

Lynne J. Roberts

8144 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 360

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 469-232-9300

Frank C. Saporito

Dallas Skin Cancer Center

411 N Washington Ave, Ste 1200

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-396-5227

ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Steven G. Dorfman

Endocrine Associates of Dallas

10260 N Central Expy, Ste 100 N

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-363-5535

Jonathan D. Leffert

North Texas Endocrine

9301 N Central Expy, Ste 570

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-369-5992

Richard A. Sachson

Endocrine Associates of Dallas

10260 N Central Expy, Ste 100 N

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-363-5535

GASTROENTEROLOGY

James Steven Burdick

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Advanced Endoscopy Consultants of Texas

Worth Street Tower, Ste 600 3409 Worth St

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-8899

John Kent Hamilton

Digestive Health Associates of Texas

411 N Washington Ave, Ste 6000

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-821-5266

Katherine H. Little

Digestive Health Associates of Texas

712 N Washington Ave, Ste 200

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-545-3990

Peter Mayer Loeb

Texas Digestive Disease

Consultants

Professional Bldg 3, Ste 610

8230 Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-345-7398

William Edward Stevens

Texas Digestive Disease

Consultants

Professional Bldg 3, Ste 610

8230 Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-345-7398

GERIATRIC MEDICINE

Diana R. Kerwin

Texas Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders

Jackson Bldg, Ste 100

8198 Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-345-4449

HEPATOLOGY

Jacqueline G. O’Leary

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Liver Consultants of Texas

3410 Worth St, Ste 860

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-8500

Robert Peter Perrillo

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Liver Consultants of Texas

3410 Worth St, Ste 860

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-8500

James Trotter

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Liver Consultants of Texas

3410 Worth St, Ste 860

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-8500

INTERNAL MEDICINE

Phillip M. Aronoff

8210 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 710

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-692-5229

Lisa H. Clark

8220 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 110

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-739-0772

David P. Hominick

Dallas Diagnostic Association - Park Cities

9101 N Central Expy, Ste 300 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 469-800-7100

Mitchell L. Huebner

Dallas Diagnostic Association

- Park Cities

9101 N Central Expy, Ste 300 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 469-800-7100

Jeb Stuart Miers

North Dallas Internal Medicine

8210 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 812 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-696-1118

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY AND HEMATOLOGY

Joanne Blum

Texas Oncology

Baylor Charles A. Sammons

Cancer Center

3410 Worth St, Ste 400

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-370-1000

Joseph W. Fay

Texas Oncology

Baylor Charles A. Sammons

Cancer Center

3410 Worth St, Ste 300

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-668-9492

Thomas E. Hutson

Texas Oncology

Baylor Charles A. Sammons

Cancer Center

3410 Worth St, Ste 400

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-370-1000

Robert G. Mennel

Texas Oncology

Baylor Charles A. Sammons

Cancer Center

3410 Worth St, Ste 400

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-370-1000

Joyce Ann

O’Shaughnessy

Texas Oncology

Baylor Charles A. Sammons

Cancer Center

3410 Worth St, Ste 400

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-370-1000

Estil Vance Texas Oncology

Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center

3410 Worth St, Ste 300

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-370-1500

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PEDIATRIC UROLOGY

David H. Ewalt

North Texas Pediatric Urology Associates

Woodhill Medical Offices

8315 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 205

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-750-0808

PEDIATRICS/ GENERAL

Debra Lou Burns

Clinical Pediatric Associates

8355 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 105 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-368-3659

Ernesto Miguel Fernandez

Clinical Pediatric Associates

8355 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 205

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-987-0117

Joseph Arthur Hanig

Clinical Pediatric Associates

8355 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 105

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-368-3659

J. Patrick Hieber

Clinical Pediatric Associates

8355 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 105

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-368-3659

PHYSICAL

H. Steve Byrd

Pyramid’s Medical Center Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute

9101 N Central Expy, Ste 600 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-821-9662

Fred L. Hackney Hackney Plastic Surgery Center

8315 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 225 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-346-9222

Robert S. Hamas

8345 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 120 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-363-1073

Sam T. Hamra

4131 N Central Expy, Ste 950 Dallas, TX 75204

Phone: 214-754-9001

Patrick Lynn Hodges Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas

North Central Plastic Surgery Management Group

Professional Bldg 2, Ste 206

8220 Walnut Hill Ln Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-739-5760

Patrick H. Pownell 7115 Greenville Ave, Ste 220 Dallas, TX 75231

PULMONARY MEDICINE

Robert D. Black

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Texas Lung Center

Barnett Tower, Ste 806 3600 Gaston Ave

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-824-8521

Randall Lee Rosenblatt

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Center for Advanced Heart and Lung Disease

3410 Worth St, Ste 250 Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-6856

Dan Schuller

Pulmonary and Critical Care Specialists of Dallas

Wadley Tower, Ste 651

3600 Gaston Ave

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-3275

RADIATION ONCOLOGY

Jerry Lee Barker, Sr. Texas Oncology

Presbyterian Cancer Center Dallas

8196 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 100 Dallas, TX 75231

Frank J. Rivera

Dallas Nephrology Associates

Vascular Center

3604 Live Oak St, Ste 300

Dallas, TX 75204

Phone: 214-826-4224

RHEUMATOLOGY

Stanley Bruce Cohen

Rheumatology Associates

8144 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 800 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-540-0700

Kathryn Dao

Arthritis Care and Research Center

9900 N Central Expy, Ste 550 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-373-4321

Sharad Lakhanpal

Rheumatology Associates

8144 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 800

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-540-0700

Alex Limanni

Arthritis Centers of Texas

712 N Washington Ave, Ste 300

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-823-6503

Dianne Petrone

Arthritis Centers of Texas

712 N Washington Ave, Ste 300

SURGERY

Ernest Beecherl

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Annette C. and Harold C.

Simmons Transplant Institute

3410 Worth St, Ste 850

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-2050

Walter Lee Bourland

Texas Breast Specialists

8160 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 113

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-345-7374

Robert M. Goldstein

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Annette C. and Harold C.

Simmons Transplant Institute

3410 Worth St, Ste 850

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-2050

Goran B. Klintmalm

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Annette C. and Harold C.

Simmons Transplant Institute

3410 Worth St, Ste 950

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-1786

G. Thomas Shires III

Southwest General Surgical Associates

G. Thomas Shires III

Southwest General Surgical Associates

Professional Bldg 3, Ste 414

8230 Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-369-5432

UROLOGY

James S. Cochran

Urology Clinics of North Texas

Professional Bldg 3, Ste 700 8230 Walnut Hill Ln Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-691-1902

Joshua K. Fine

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Urology Clinics of North Texas

Barnett Tower, Ste 1002 3600 Gaston Ave Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-826-6235

Steven M. Frost

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Urology Clinics of North Texas

Barnett Tower, Ste 1205 3600 Gaston Ave Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-826-6021

MEDICINE

AND REHABILITATION

Rita G. Hamilton

Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation

Physiatric Medicine Associates

411 N Washington Ave, Ste 5000 Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-1501

Amy Jo Wilson

Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation

Physiatric Medicine Associates

411 N Washington Ave, Ste 5000 Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-1501

PLASTIC SURGERY

Alton Jay Burns

Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute

9101 N Central Expy, Ste 560

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-823-1978

Phone: 214-368-3223

Bryan H. Pruitt 8315 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 125

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-363-6000

PSYCHIATRY

Rob (Robert) Garrett

5477 Glen Lakes Dr, Ste 210

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-855-1303

Cindy D. Marshall

Baylor AT&T Memory Center 9101 N Central Expy, Ste 230 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-818-5765

Leon D. Rosenthal Sleep Medicine Associates of Texas

5477 Glen Lakes Dr, Ste 100 Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-750-7776

Martin H. Schaffer

9400 N Central Expy, Ste 1212

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-373-3031

Phone: 214-345-7394

William I. Dittman Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas

Radiology Associates of North Texas

8200 Walnut Hill Ln Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-345-7770

RADIOLOGY

Paul Harris Ellenbogen

Southwest Diagnostic Imaging Center

Professional Bldg 3, Ste 100 8230 Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-345-6905

Chet R. Rees

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas Texas Interventional

Radiology

712 N Washington Ave, Ste 101

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-827-1600

Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-823-6503

Scott Jeffrey Zashin

8230 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 614

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-363-2812

SLEEP MEDICINE

Philip M. Becker

Sleep Medicine Associates of Texas

5477 Glen Lakes Dr, Ste 100

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-750-7776

Leon D. Rosenthal

Sleep Medicine Associates of Texas

5477 Glen Lakes Dr, Ste 100

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-750-7776

Professional Bldg 3, Ste 414

8230 Walnut Hill Ln

Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-369-5432

Giuliano Testa

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Annette C. and Harold C.

Simmons Transplant Institute

3410 Worth St, Ste 850 Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-820-2050

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

Michael Daniel Grant 3900 Junius St, Ste 220 Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-826-7300

Warren E. Lichliter

North Texas Colon and Rectal Worth Street Tower, Ste 600 3409 Worth St Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 469-800-7600

Pat Fox Fulgham Urology Clinics of North Texas

Professional Bldg 3, Ste 700 8230 Walnut Hill Ln Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-691-1902

Keith Troy Kadesky Urology Clinics of North Texas

Professional Bldg 3, Ste 700 8230 Walnut Hill Ln Dallas, TX 75231

Phone: 214-691-1902

Robert C. Schoenvogel Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas Urology Clinics of North Texas

Barnett Tower, Ste 1205 3600 Gaston Ave Dallas, TX 75246

Phone: 214-826-6021

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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

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EMPLOYMENT

AIRLINE MECHANIC TRAINING Get FAA Certification. No HS Diploma or GED. We Can Help. Approved For Military Benefits. Financial Aid If Qualified. Job Placement Assistance. Aviation Institute Of Maintenance. 866-453-6204

LOVE TO KNIT OR CROCHET? New yarn boutique seeking part-time instructors. Flexible hours. Competitive compensation. Send a short resumé to: instructorsknitshop@gmail.com

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

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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 WILL? THERE IS A WAY! Estate/Probate matters. maryglennattorney.com 214-802-6768

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

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

BOOKKEEPING NEEDS? Customized To Your Needs. Payroll, W-2,1099. C.A.S. Bookkeeping Services. Cindy. cascastle@sbcglobal.net 214-577-7450

LEGAL ISSUES? The Law Office Of Lauren C Medel, PLLC. LaurenMedel.com. 972-773-9306

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

Don’t let Holiday treats weigh you down

This time of the year there’s temptation with cookies, cakes and candies at every turn, but here are some helpful tips to eat healthy this festive season.

1. Eat before you go to the party.

2. Be careful with beverages, especially alcohol — they can lower inhibitions and cause mindless eating.

3. Manage portion size and eat slowly, so you know when you’re full.

4. Keep up with exercise. Don’t try and lose weight, try and maintain.

5. Remember, everything in moderation. Enjoy the holidays!

PET SERVICES

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

HOUSE CALLS OF DALLAS Personalized Care For Your Pet/ Home. Everything from Traveling/or away for the day. Insured. 214-704-6621.housecallsofdallas.com

BUY/SELL/TRADE

CARS/TRUCKS WANTED!!! All Makes/Models. 2000-2016. Any Condition. Running Or Not. Top $$$ Paid. Free Towing. We’re Nationwide. Call Now. 1-888-985-1806

RANGERS, STARS & MAVS

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.

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

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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

AC & HEAT

CLEANING SERVICES

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

CLEAN FREAKS Fall Special 20% Off! DallasCleanFreaks.com Call Today! 214-821-8888

Family Owned & Operated

Serving the Dallas area for over 30 years

We raise

972-274-2157

www.CrestAirAndHeat.com

APPLIANCE REPAIR

JESSE’S A/C & APPLIANCE SERVICE

TACLB13304C All Makes/Models. 214-660-8898

USED APPLIANCES FOR SALE Washer $125. Dryers $89. 1 yr. Warranty. Repair. 972-329-2202

CABINETRY & FURNITURE

SQUARE NAIL WOODWORKING

Cabinet Refacing, Built-ins, Entertainment/ Computer Centers. Jim. 214-324-7398 www.squarenailwoodworking.com

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

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

WINDOW MAN WINDOW CLEANING.COM

Residential Specialists. BBB. 214-718-3134

COMPUTERS & ELECTRONICS

BILL’S COMPUTER REPAIR

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

CONCRETE/ MASONRY/PAVING

BRICK & STONE REPAIR

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

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

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

CONCRETE REPAIRS/REPOURS

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

ELECTRICAL SERVICES

ANTHONY’S ELECTRIC Master Electrician. TECL24948

anthonyselectricofdallas.com

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

BRIGHT LIGHT ELECTRIC • 214-553-5333

TECL 31347 Brightening Homes and Businesses

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

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

NORTHLAKE FENCE Locally owned and family operated. Celebrating 36 years of service. 214-349-9132 northlakefence.com

EST. 1991 #1

COWBOY

FENCE & IRON CO.

214.692.1991

SPECIALIZING IN Wood Fences &Auto Gates

cowboyfenceandiron.com

FLOORING & CARPETING

DALLAS HARDWOODS 214-724-0936

Installation, Repair, Refinish, Wax, Hand Scrape. Residential, Commercial. Sports Floors. 30 Yrs.

FLOORING & CARPETING

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

WOOD FLOORING SPECIALISTS

serving DFW since 1999 Install Refinish · Repair Wax Clean 214-543-7404 · dfwwoodfloor.com

Restoration Flooring

469.774.3147

GLASS, WINDOWS & DOORS

EAST

CLEANING Power Wash.

GLASS, WINDOWS & DOORS

JIM HOWELL 214-357-8984 Frameless Shower Enclosures/Custom Mirrors. Free Estimates

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

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

HANDYMAN SERVICES

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

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

Bonded & Insured. Locally owned & operated.

HOLIDAY DECORATING 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

HOUSE PAINTING

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

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

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

AYALA’S LANDSCAPING SERVICE

Call the Land Expert Today! Insured. 214-773-4781

CHUPIK TREE SERVICE

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

DALLAS K.D.R.SERVICES • 214-349-0914

Lawn Service & Landscape Installation

HOLMAN IRRIGATION

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

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

TRACY’S LAWN CARE • 972-329-4190

Lawn Mowing & Leaf Cleaning

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

NOVEMBER SPECIAL

$200 OFF 4 man crew/4 hours

Call Mark Wittlich 214-332-3444

MOVING

AM MOVING COMPANY Specialty Moving & Delivery.469-278-2304 ammovingcompany.com

PEST CONTROL

A BETTER EARTH PEST CONTROL

Keeping the environment, kids, pets in mind. Organic products avail. 972-564-2495

MCDANIEL PEST CONTROL

Prices Start at $85 + Tax

For General Treatment.

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

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

THE PLUMBING MANN LLC

All Plumbing! Since 1978. RMP/Master-14240 Insured. 214-FAST-FIX/ 214-327-8349

WE REFINISH!

• Tubs, Tiles or Sinks

• Cultured Marble

• Kitchen Countertops

214-631-8719

www.allsurfacerefinishing.com

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

IRISH

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

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

ROOFING

O’BRIEN GROUP INC. Remodeling Dallas For Over 17 Years www.ObrienGroupInc.com

RENOVATE DALLAS renovatedallas.com 214-403-7247

ROOFING

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OBITUARIES

Jack Lee Brown loved competition from the day he was born to Cora Mae [Sing] and Homer Lee Brown on Jan. 8, 1929 in Fort Worth to his last, Sept. 17, 2016. Whether it was making pocket money off of retirees at Buckner Park in Dallas as a child, making a name for himself as an All-American basketball play-

er at SMU, or playing bridge with the Lake Highlands North Thursday Bridge Club later in life, Brown was constantly challenging himself physically or mentally while building relationships with family and friends. In his high school basketball career, Brown led his team to a state 2A championship in 1946, where he scored 10 of his teams 32 points, earning him an All-State Tournament Team nod. Following his high school career, Brown moved a few miles away to SMU, where he played from 1947-1951 on full scholarship. When he graduated in 1951, he held SMUs career points record with 827. After his tenure at SMU, Brown toured with the Harlem Globetrotters as a member of the opposing college All-American team, then began his final career as a safety consultant for underground

utility companies. He is survived by his wife of 63 years Ann LaVonne Dickard Brown; children Melinda Lindy Kay Brown Kurtz (Jim), Jack Lee Brown, Jr. (Karen), Charles Dickard Brown (Melanie) and Meredith Ann Brown Hill (Brenden); grandchildren Erin Adriane Kurtz (Jamieson), Justin Glen Kurtz, Travis Luke Brown, Melyssa Elizabeth Brown, Nathan Dickard Brown (Sarah), Corbin Anthony Brown (Katherine), Jordan Matthew Brown (Lucy), Lauren Alison Hill and Courtney Ann Hill; great grandchildren Olivia Kay Wrobel, Brayden Owen Kurtz, Barrett David Brown, Ephraim Allen Brown, Jensen Edward Brown and Morgan Rose Brown. Services were held at 10:30am on Friday, September 23, 2016 at East Dallas Christian Church at the corner of Peak and Junius in Dallas.

JACK LEE BROWN

There’s something deeply satisfying about helping people find the perfect home for their current season of life. That place to start “adult” life, settle down as a couple, grow a few kids or host the grands. Lakewood is one of very few Dallas neighborhoods that appeals to everyone. It’s more than 134 years old, but keeps pace with the times and boasts some of the city’s finest, most architecturally significant homes, like the ones on tour. Because we’ve helped you and your neighbors buy and sell 574 homes worth over $300 million in Lakewood since Jan 2016 (through Sept 30), we know every mature tree, rolling hill and lake view in the area. So we get why you live here. It’s also why we work here. Thank you for choosing to do business with us.

We are proud to sponsor the 2016 Lakewood Home Festival. Come and see us on tour at:

6527 Anita $1,195,000

The Jackson Team 214 827 2400

5501 Ridgedale $399,000 The Jackson Team 214 827 2400

6858 Tokalon $2,299,000 Nancy Johnson 214 674 3840

6643 Yosemite · $1,145,000 Kim & Taylor Gromatzky 214 802 5025

6722 Santa Maria $865,000 Amy Malooley 214 773 5570

6223 Victor $615,000 Susan Johnson 214 502 7291

Sponsored by: The Jackson Team

6935 LAKESHORE

Sponsored by: Nancy Johnson

6723 SUNNYLAND

Sponsored by: Nancy Johnson

6521 BOB O LINK

Sponsored by: Heather Guild Group

7208 DOMINIQUE

We’re in Lakewood because Lakewood is in us.

5819 Ellsworth · $665,000 Harry Morgan 214.769.3303 & Justin Moore 469.730.4850

8335 San Benito · $1,149,000 Mary Rinne, RHD Group 214.552.6735

1035 Tipperary · $339,900 Susan Nelson Wheeler & Wes Wheeler 469.878.8522

3208 Sperry · $649,000 Heather Guild, Heather Guild Group 214.563.2385

6726 Lake Circle · Price To Be Determined Kim & Taylor Gromatzky 214.802.5025

8371 San Leandro · $795,000 Harry Morgan 214.769.3303 & Justin Moore 469.730.4850

2508 Andrea · $210,000 Susan Nelson Wheeler & Wes Wheeler 469.878.8522

1631 Loree · $294,000 Amy Malooley 214.773.5570

7217 Wabash · $699,900 Nancy Johnson 214.674.3840

6124 Victor $449,900 Amanda Davidson, RHD Group 214.914.7277

6702 Ellsworth · $1,175,000 Nancy Johnson 214.674.3840

6711 Lakewood · $1,299,000 Nancy Johnson 214.674.3840

6623 Lake Circle · $1,150,000 The Jackson Team 214.827.2400

7039 Coronado · $1,195,000 Heather Guild, Heather Guild Group 214.563.2385

6317 Annapolis · $519,000 Mysti Stewart 214.213.3537

6021 Mercedes · $650,000 The Jackson Team 214.827.2400

6625 Bob O Link · $899,000 Nancy Johnson 214.674.3840

6301 Mercedes · $1,049,500 Susan Nelson Wheeler & Wes Wheeler 469.878.8522

4636 Chapel Hill · $6,995,000 Kim & Taylor Gromatzky 214.802.5025

5315 Mercedes · $779,900 The Jackson Team 214.827.2400

Proud Sponsor of the 2016 Lakewood Home Festival