Community

Already this season, more than 12,000 people have attended the Dallas Arboretum on a single Saturday. To accommodate the weekend crowds, the Arboretum has been opening the lower floors of its not-quite-finished parking garage across the street. Visitors who park there cross beneath Garland Road via the newly constructed underground walkway and resurface at the children’s garden. The garage adds 1,150 parking spaces, giving the Arboretum a total of roughly 2,000.

Doctors Hospital at White Rock Lake hosted its inaugural flag raising ceremony on Veterans Day. The ceremony featured two new flag poles that proudly flew the American and Texas flags, organizers said. Marine corps veteran and Texas State Representative Kenneth Sheets led the event with the pledge of allegiance. Veterans from John Franklin Sprague VFW Post 6796 were in attendance.

Education

Michelle Pasillas, who we featured in Advocate’s May issue, is this year’s recipient of the Gustavo Ipiña Memorial Scholarship Taly Haffar, the founder of the Gustavo Ipiña Memorial Scholarship Fund says the fund was “pleased to award him $5000 towards his education in memory of Gustavo Ipiña.”

In December, Austin-based Green Mountain Energy Sun Club awarded Stonewall Gardens a $20,000 grant to install solar panels in its garden, and the club awarded Dallas Academy $30,000 toward the cost of solar-paneling the school’s roof. In August, builders from Native, Inc. were on campus installing Dallas Academy’s new solar array, and the school was connected to the grid by October, the school announced. Dallas Academy installed a 289-panel, 73 kilowatt solar array, which will produce 118,280 kWh of solar power annually. According to estimates, this will eliminate 79.25 tons of CO2 emissions every year. Dallas Academy’s array is also one of the largest arrays of any private school in the state. It will not only power Dallas Academy but will support neighborhoods surrounding the school. Its solar installation is also the largest Sun Club project in the history of the program.

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WEDNESDAYS IN DECEMBER

Soup Supper 6:00 PM – Advent Vespers 7:00 PM Fellowship Hall

CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS PROGRAM

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