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OPENING REMARKS

By RICK WAMRE

Between the lines

Fret not over facial wrinkles, (Mom), for they tell our stories

Without fail, every time I see my mom, she apologizes to me.

“I’m so sorry that I didn’t know to put tanning lotion on you kids when you were little,” she says. “I just didn’t know the sun could cause wrinkles and cancer back then. I was so dumb!”

Now, I haven’t had skin cancer yet, although she has faced down a couple of bouts. So I assume she’s talking about the wrinkles she sees sprouting effortlessly on my face.

I like to think I’m aging pretty well and that the wrinkles she apparently can’t avoid seeing aren’t that big of a deal. And to be honest, I doubt my many days in the sun as a kid caused the problem.

I have a feeling they’re of my own doing.

A co-worker has been telling me for years that my constant frowning risked turning my forehead into something akin to a striped crosswalk. I listened, politely of course, but it’s not as if I can control my facial expressions all that much after years of practice perfecting them just so.

But sure enough, she has been proven correct: I have a bit of a creek bed growing deeper and wider up there, and I catch myself in the mirror looking for the bottom from time to time.

I don’t think sun damage and facial expressions alone have caused my mom to be disconsolate, though. I have slackened and tightened my face enough times over the years relatively unprompted, if you consider stress and worries to be unprompted.

It seems easy to say: “Don’t worry about things. They take care of themselves.” And, of course, that is probably the truest statement of them all.

But the “getting there” part of the pro-

cess claims most of my attention and energy, and somehow my face becomes the focus for all of that needless angst.

I’ve wondered how things would be different if I simply dropped everything and everyone (except my lovely wife, of course) and headed to a Greek island, where the natives and tourists alike are as brown as coconuts and seemingly as healthy as can be.

The sun doesn’t seem to be causing alarm there, and their lives seem simple

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and quiet. There may not be a whole lot to do on a remote island in the middle of the ocean, but maybe that is a good problem to have, as opposed to being too involved in too much with too many?

Of course, the skin is always tanner and less wrinkled on the other side of the fence, so I’m probably just envying something not meant to be for me.

Maybe you can see where I’m going with this: Mom, I earned this face, and unless something drastic happens, I’m not done with it. And no matter how it turns out, don’t blame yourself.

I will take care of that on my own.

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with a stadium for Woodrow’

“Hate the idea. The neighbors would have to endure stadium lighting, parking insanity on Fridays for a 5,000-person capacity, the noise from marching bands (and not just Fridays, they’d be practicing through the week as well), and all of that just to satisfy the few who play football at the expense of the a multi-sport, family friendly park space. Thumbs down!”

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“Love the idea, but please don’t pave the current field, we don’t need that much parking.”

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“Woodrow needs so many more parking spaces. Visitors are only allowed to park in the strip across the front of the school, but with the ‘teacher lot’ and ‘senior lot’ overflow, a lot of those spaces are taken by students, as well as the parking across the street at Randall. If this thing gets built, there will be no need for the current field or track. Yes to the athletic complex and more parking!”

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Out & About

APRIL 12

WINE NIGHT

The Dan D. Rogers Early Childhood PTA connects families who are interested in sending their children to the Ridgewood Park elementary school. Mom’s Night Out Wine Out is held from 6-8 p.m. and is one of the organization’s most popular events.

Bodega Wine Bar, 6434 E. Mockingbird Lane, suite 109, rogersecpta.wordpress.com/events, free

APRIL 22

LAKEWOOD HOUSE PARTY

The celebration and auction from 7-11 p.m. benefits Lakewood Elementary. Find a babysitter for the kids, grab a drink (or two) and dance the night away at the Barley House. Barley House, 5612 SMU Blvd., lakewoodelementary.net/events1.html, $50-$75

*Also on April 22: White Rock Home Tour, see p. 64

APRIL 22

ART SHOW

From 10 a.m.-4 p.m., the Lakewood Library will be accepting entries for the 53rd annual Lakewood Art Show, which takes place each May. Any artists interested in taking part can bring a piece down for consideration.

Lakewood Library, 6121 Worth St., 214.670.1376, dallaslibrary2.org/branch/Lakewood, free

APRIL 27

Tea Party

APRIL 28

AUCTION NIGHT

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The whimsical event raises funds for the Women’s Council of the Dallas Arboretum and A Woman’s Garden.

Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Road, 214.515.6615, womenscouncildallas arboretum.org, $350-$50,000

The Hollywood Home Tour is celebrating its 26th year with an auction party from 7:30-11 p.m. Listen to live music and bid on high-end items at the Dallas Arboretum.

Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Road, hsmna. wildapricot.org, $60-$75

APRIL 28-30

HOLLYWOOD HOME TOUR

The 26th annual event kicks off with a candlelight tour Friday from 6-7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at Curiosities, 2025 Abrams Parkway.

Hollywood Heights area, hsmna.wildapricot.org, $15

APRIL 29

LAKE-A-PALOOZA

The Bath House Cultural Center partners with the Texas Musicians Museum for an afternoon filled with live music and activities. While you’re there, grab a snack or drink and view Texas Musicians memorabilia at an art exhibition.

Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther Drive, 214.670.8749, dallasculture.org/ bathHouseCultureCenter, free

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60 YEARS OF MUSIC

‘Seussical’ opens this month at Woodrow Wilson High School

By EMILY CHARRIER

While we live in an era where Broadway hits like “Hamilton” make waves across the country, that wasn’t always the case. Musical theater as we know it today is a relatively new American art form.

“It all started in the 1920s with ‘Show Boat,’ ” says John Beaird, theater teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School for 15 years, who knows a thing or two about musicals. “We were one of the first schools to do musicals regularly.”

It was Woodrow teacher Helen Eckelman who gets credit for inadvertently starting a beloved East Dallas tradition. While classics like Shakespeare were the norm for student thespians in the 1950s, she wanted to do something bigger, something splashier and something that had never been done in Dallas ISD: a Broadway musical. In the spring of 1957, she directed the young actors in a rousing performance of “Oklahoma.”

An institution was born: the Woodrow Spring Musical.

Sixty years later, this annual singing and dancing extravaganza is something students and parents look forward to all year. For this milestone year, Beaird selected the whimsically sweet show “Seussical,” which tells a new story using some of Dr. Seuss’ most beloved old characters, from the Cat in the Hat to Horton to Gertrude McFuss.

Beaird says he selects each musical based on the students in his elective class, making sure to pick a show with plenty of rich roles. He also considers what other shows the students have done, with an eye on providing a good range of performance opportunities.

“The seniors who have performed for all four years have done ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ ‘Funny Girl’ and ‘Annie,’ ” says Beaird, adding that “Seussical” was a light and silly complement to some of the more dramatic shows in recent years. “It’s important that we give them a varied experience.”

Around 100 student performers will take the stage in the cartoonish romp this month. The school spends months preparing for this annual theatrical endeavor, which thrives thanks to a lot of help from parent volunteers, who build sets, make costumes and learn meticulous lighting cues.

“The hours we all commit to this are huge,” Beaird says.

Running April 20-23, the show takes place at 7:30 p.m. nightly, with a 2:30 p.m. matinee on Sunday. General admission is $10 in advance ($12 at the door), while reserved seating is $15 ($18 at the door).

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An open door at ROBERT E. LEE ELEMENTARY

A new principal with a long history in East Dallas wants this historic neighborhood school to grow into its potential

By KERI MITCHELL

an I tell you about the Fibonacci sequence?” asked a petite 9-year-old at Robert E. Lee Elementary, who held a flower in her hands. She proceeded to count its petals by layer, demonstrating the mathematical order present in nature.

Her father, Luke Rice, stood nearby, helping another group of students look through microscopes. “She loves the Fibonacci

sequence,” said the biophysicist. All around them in Lee’s gymnasium were experiments engaging students and their parents — making slime, churning butter, catapulting popsicle sticks.

It was International Baccalaureate (IB) science showcase night at Lee, a chance for families to see the types of work their children are doing in classrooms. The event was right up the alley of Rice and his wife, biochemist Jen Kohler, who both have labs at UT Southwestern. Rice and Kohler live in Vickery Place, and their choice to send their third-grade daughter to Lee still is somewhat of a rarity for homeowners within Lee’s boundaries.

But perhaps not for much longer.

New Robert E. Lee Elementary Principal Bert Hart makes a point of keeping his office door open.

Lee, situated near Lower Greenville at Matilda and Vanderbilt, is a neighborhood school that more neighbors opt out of than into. Only 217 students zoned to Lee attend the school; another 53 transfer to other Dallas ISD schools or charter schools, and a whopping 526 students opt for private or home school.

“There was some loss of faith in the school by the parents. Once you lose that, it is hard to get it back,” says Principal Bert Hart, who took the helm of Lee last summer. “It happened over a period of years, not just one year. People became disillusioned and left.”

Hart has a long history at schools in our neighborhood, dating back to the ’90s when he began teaching sixth-grade at nearby Stonewall Jackson Elementary.

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He returned to Stonewall as assistant principal in 2004, right after its parents successfully fought a boundary change that would have zoned more families from overcrowded Stonewall to underutilized Lee.

“I’ve been watching Lee for a long time,” Hart says. “I kept watching the school get smaller and smaller, and I thought, ‘Well, the school can be much bigger than that.’ ”

After two stints as Stonewall’s assistant principal, Hart moved to Lakewood last year and went from assistant principal to interim principal mid-year after Principal Toni Goodman assumed a DISD central office position. Many Lakewood parents campaigned for Hart to be the school’s permanent leader, but Tracie Fraley, who oversaw both Lakewood and Lee as the Woodrow Wilson High School feeder pattern’s executive director, asked Hart to consider interviewing at Lee, which also was without a leader after Principal Bridget Ransom moved to a different DISD school.

Soon after he was hired, Hart began making small but significant changes to mend fences — literally. Parents were heartened over the summer when they saw Hart on the campus grounds overseeing the replacement of the school’s leaning chain-link fence with an upright wrought-iron version, a beautification

“There was some loss of faith in the school by the parents. Once you lose that, it is hard to get it back.”

project funded by the school’s Project Refresh Campaign.

Hart began the school year by opening a door, both literally and metaphorically. The door between his office and the main office stayed closed in prior administrations, but unless he’s having a private conversation that door now remains open.

“I want people to realize they can come in and ask a question,” Hart says. “When someone asks a question or wants to learn, it drops the barrier between the principal and teachers or parents.”

Hart knows that rebuilding trust is just as crucial as the many academic advantages Lee offers. The school expects to be a fully authorized International Baccalaureate campus this spring. Native English and Spanish speakers who enrolled in Lee’s dual-language immersion program as kindergartners are now in third-grade, and a new crop of kindergartners start each year. Lee even has bilingual pre-K classrooms open to tuition-paying parents. And starting next year, all of its students will learn conversational Spanish as part of the IB curriculum.

Lee parent and PTA board member

Jenn Dawkins describes the school as “coming out from under the shadow of previous administrations’ legacy of not encouraging parent and community involvement.”

“This has been a hard legacy to outgrow. A school easily can get labeled, and those perceptions die hard,” she says. “It’s been a challenge to build up any longstanding traditions like other neighborhood schools in our area. That process takes time and, thankfully, we believe the foundation is set for years to come.”

Lee’s campus could educate roughly 600 students, but it’s only half full. When Hart interviewed, he told parents, “My goal is not to have Robert E. Lee be a school in the neighborhood but to be the neighborhood school.” Hart would like to see Lee grow to more than 500 stu-

“When someone asks a question or wants to learn, it drops the barrier between the principal and teachers or parents.”

dents — “to get to 600 would be great,” he says — but he knows that growth is dependent on pulling in students at pre-K or kindergarten.

A new early childhood PTA, deftly named “Pre-Lee,” should help. It brings together parents of infants to 5-year-olds living within Lee’s boundaries. Mothers on the board refer to their children as “future Cougars,” Lee’s mascot.

“It’s amazing how hungry people are to know their neighbors, to stay where they are,” Pre-Lee board member Jami Kalmbach said at a Vickery Place Neighborhood Associaition gathering last August where Hart was introduced. “If you like living where you live, it’s OK — you can stay. We’re trying to build a community school.”

Hart has attended two of Pre-Lee’s social gatherings this year, and with his history in the neighborhood, he has seen some familiar faces.

“At the Pre-Lee meeting in November, I was talking to one dad and he said, ‘Oh by the way, you were my wife’s sixthgrade teacher.’ I looked and there she was, pregnant,” Hart says. “I keep running into people that, over the years, I’ve either known them, taught them, or known their parents. There are two children here [at Lee] whose parents I taught.”

He plans to stick around long enough to see children of his former students make it through Lee. Hart says people not just in the neighborhood but also around Dallas are starting to take notice — “there is a buzz out there that we’re up and coming and going to be one of the top elementary schools in the district.”

His ultimate goal is to make Lee a Blue Ribbon school, a U.S. Department of Education distinction that Stonewall received in 1999 when he taught there. Lakewood received the honor in 2008 and Hexter Elementary in 2009. Bonham Elementary on Henderson Avenue, whose students were folded into Lee after DISD closed the school in 2012, received the honor in 2010. Hart is hopeful that Lee will be East Dallas’ fifth Blue Ribbon school.

“If you look at the state accountability, it’s confusing, it really is. It’s hard for the layperson to follow exactly what all that means,” Hart says. “But once you get a Blue Ribbon, that’s something people can relate to.

“I’ll know when we get there, we’re where we need to be.”

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PUPPY LOVE

Lakewood’s Girl Scout Troop 713’s spring fundraisers are for the dogs

By EMILY CHARRIER

The members of Troop 713 have been through a lot together in their young lives, most of the 10 and 11 year olds started in pre-K at St. John’s Episcopal School, where they are now in fifth grade. They grew up camping, making fires, decorating cakes and learning to give back as Girl Scouts. Now they’ve set their collective sights on earning a Bronze Award with a fundraiser that will help critters big and small.

“I think people should know we’re not

doing this for our own satisfaction, or for the award,” says Riley Breedlove, 11. “We want to give back, we want to help the animals.”

But earning a Bronze Award is no small feat: each Girl Scout must contribute 20 hours of their time toward researching a community problem, finding a way to help and executing an action plan as a troop. All animal lovers, Troop 713 decided to raise funds for the SPCA of Texas and the Dallas Zoological Society.

“The money we make will help endan-

gered species,” says Maggie Coleman, 10. “And we’re also helping animal shelters.”

The girls will be hand-making dog toys and treats, which they plan to sell at White Rock Lake Dog Park on Sunday, April 9 and May 7, from 1-4 p.m. They’ll host a third fundraiser April 23 from 1-4 p.m. at Klyde Warren Park. Not only will the fundraiser help critters, the learning process is helping these young ladies grow.

“I know these skills we’re using, we’ll definitely need them in the future,” says Susie Fagelman, 11.

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The members of Girl Scout Troop 713 (left) will make dog toys (right) to raise funds for homeless pets and endagered animals this spring.

GOFORTH TO FLAG POLE HILL

While we now know it as Flag Pole Hill, the 107-acre plot of land originally belonged to the Goforth family according to the book “White Rock Lake” by historian Sally Rodriguez. When the photo on the left was taken, the area was known as Doran’s Point Overlook, named for city commissioner William Doran who, at the turn of the 20th century, pushed the city to purchase land around the

lake for the public good, which by 1910 included a total of 2,292 acres for a cost of $176,420. In the 1930s, Civilian Conservation Corps spruced it up by adding a pictured picnic pavilion along with the flag pole that proved so iconic, the area was later renamed Flag Pole Hill. As one of the highest points in Dallas County, it now also includes a playground, barbecues and a variety of walking trails.

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ON IT LIKE BLUEBONNET

Lucas has been a showstopper since his little fury feet first landed in Texas when he was just 8 weeks old. Owners Sherry Smith and Robert Righter flew in the cream-colored English Setter from Whidbey Island, Wash., 13 years ago this month, and he quickly completed their family. “He attracts so many compliments from strangers for his elegance and good looks,” Smith says. “But what makes him special to us is his laid-back, sweet personality.” Every spring, his people celebrate his birthday by photographing Lucas in a field of bluebonnets.

DILBECK’S EAST DALLAS DYNASTY

The architect’s works are disappearing everywhere but here in East Dallas

Story by ELISSA CHUDWIN

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Often considered the city’s most prolific architect, Charles Dilbeck’s legacy is best represented in East Dallas.

In nearby neighborhoods like Preston Hollow and the Park Cities, Dilbeck’s small-statured houses are regularly reduced to rubble and replaced with more extravagant abodes. The residences that remain usually undergo extensive modifications or additions.

But dozens of the renowned architect’s works still stand throughout East Dallas, says Willis Winters, director of the city’s Department of Park and Recreation. At least 44 homes are scattered throughout Lakewood, Hollywood-Santa Monica, Casa Linda and Cochran Heights.

Winters has spent the past 20 years researching Dilbeck and is writing a book about the architect’s works. It’s a colossal undertaking because it’s estimated that Dilbeck completed 600 projects across the city between 1932-70.

“I don’t know if anybody else did that many projects,” says Donovan Westover, events and development coordinator at Preservation Dallas. “That reason alone makes him very, very prominent.”

Dilbeck’s success is an anomaly in many ways. Growing up in Arkansas, he worked alongside his father, a carpenter and builder, Winters says. He dropped out of Oklahoma A&M after two years, according to “The Drawings of Charles Dilbeck,” written by Jan Patterson, then a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas. With limited formal training, Dilbeck dreamed up designs for Tulsa’s affluent oilmen when he was only 20 years old.

But his vision changed after the Depression rattled the nation. He relocated to Dallas in the early 1930s, where he spent most of his career creating homes for middle-class families instead of building estates for the city’s elite.

His lack of formal education became Dilbeck’s greatest asset. Instead of following the guidelines of classical design, he played by his own rules, Winters says.

Dilbeck drew inspiration from French, Spanish and English architecture, but his most common designs were French Norman and Texas ranch. He often incor-

porated found materials, such as natural stone and wood, sporadically into each project. Because his style was so eclectic, his designs nearly are impossible to categorize.

The best way to describe Dilbeck’s work is idiosyncratic, although each project contains overarching characteristics, Winters says. His creations often included asymmetrical floor plans, oversized fireplaces, elaborate turrets and balconies.

“Most houses, even old houses, require a little bit of work to make it charming and make it something that’s reflective of who you are,” says Katherine Seale, chair of the Dallas Landmark Commission.

“With Dilbeck’s, there’s so much charm you don’t have to work as hard.”

Dilbeck’s work is admired by local architecture enthusiasts, but there have been few efforts to preserve his meticulously crafted homes. Winters doesn’t believe any of the residences in Hollywood-Santa Monica or Casa Linda are at risk, but he hopes Cochran Heights homeowners make an effort to preserve their character by seeking a conservation district or historical overlay protection from the city.

“He’s one of the most distinctive residential designers of houses I’ve ever come upon,” Winters says.

Although this home at 6748 Lakewood Blvd. is commonly regarded as a Dilbeck design, Willis Winters has yet to find proof he’s the architect.

Located at 6820 Avalon Ave., this home is one of Dilbeck’s most noteworthy designs, which is also pictured at left.

10 STORIES AT THE LAKE?

The project that, miraculously, no one protested

By EMILY CHARRIER

Building anything near White Rock Lake can be a political minefield — where opinions run hot and consensus is notoriously hard to find.

C. C. Young seemed to break that curse.

The Vista, a new 10-story assisted living complex, is currently under construction. Unlike other lake-side developments, it’s a project that no one seemed to mind too much. That’s likely because of the nature of the nonprofit’s mission;

C. C. Young has supported the elderly since the operation first opened in 1922.

“Who would be against this project? Support for seniors is really important to us, especially nonprofit care,” says Carol Walters, an East Mockingbird neighbor for 22 years. “[C. C. Young has] been here forever and they’ve always been a good neighbor to us, so it was easy to get behind this.”

C. C. Young’s mission is so varied it’s almost hard to define, but it describes itself as a “continuous care facility for people age 55 and older.” Programs

range from medical, like memory care and skilled nursing care, to more social, such as the myriad classes and activities offered to keep seniors busy every day, both those living in the facility and those who live in the neighborhood.

“About 95 percent of our programs are open to the public,” says Denise Aver-Phillips, vice president of community outreach and a bundle of energy who knows every resident by first name.

“We are always inviting people in to enjoy the campus.”

But the needs of seniors in our neigh-

An architect’s rendering of The Vista.

borhood are growing and changing, C. C. Young CEO Russell Crews says. More want to live independently and are eager to move in for the sense of community. Currently, medical care is spread across four buildings, but in 2013 the team had a vision to consolidate all of it into one space that could flex to the needs of the community. It would be easier on patients and staff to keep the high-touch services under one 10-story roof. The other buildings will be reallocated to independent living.

“This will allow us to be dynamic,” Crews says.

Flexibility makes good financial sense. Traditional units are defined as memory care or assisted living or skilled nursing, meaning facilities are limited to the number of beds they have for each. At The Vista, all beds will be approved for any level of care, so that rooms can be allocated as needed if the demand for memory care is higher than skilled nursing, for example.

“I think we’re the only ones in Texas who are doing this,” Crews says. “But I am guessing you’ll see it more in the future. It just makes sense.”

It also made sense to the neighbors, the plan commission and the city council, who all signed off on the 325,000-squarefoot project, which will be adjacent to the existing Blanton Assisted Living center. Its location, tucked into a hill with underground parking, means it won’t be too visible from the lake, although residents will have some breathtaking views. To build The Vista, C. C. Young secured a $130 million loan in the form of bond.

“It was the third largest tax-exempt bond issued in 2016 in Texas,” Crews says.

White Rock Lake neighbors Grant Warner and Josh Williams of D2 Architecture are overseeing the project with builder Hill & Wilkinson. Construction should be complete by summer 2018, at which point clients can start moving in. In all, the addition will up C. C. Young’s capacity from 474 to 730 residents, who will have added services in the form of a new gym and pool for physical therapy, a rehabilitation garden, a meditation chapel and more.

“It will allow more people to age in their own neighborhood,” Aver-Phillips says.

C. C. Young offers tons of free activities, from movie nights to art classes to Wii bowling — find them all at ccyoung.org/ lifestyle-dining/campus-activities-calendars/

WHAT

GIVES? SMALL WAYS THAT YOU CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE FOR NONPROFITS

EATING FOR SCHOLARSHIPS

Foundation for C.H.O.I.C.E is dedicated to helping at-risk youth find their way in college. The program provides professional mentorship, guidance and scholarships to help students who might otherwise slip through the cracks. The third annual “College Scholarship Fundraiser” is set for Tuesday, April 11, and this year will take place at Terilli’s, 2815 Greenville Ave. The night includes cocktails and wine in addition to a silent auction with exciting offerings such as court-side tickets to the Dallas Mavericks. Tickets are $50 and all proceeds help provide scholarships for Dallas youth. Get all the details at foundationforchoice.org.

LAKE CLEANUP

White Rock Lake is our neighborhood’s crowned jewel, but it takes the whole community to keep it clean. On April 8, you can join other neighbors in the Second Saturday Shoreline Spruce-Up , hosted by For Love of the Lake. Interested volunteers can meet between 8-9 a.m. at the FTLOTL office in Casa Linda Plaza, and plan to pick up litter until noon. The nonprofit provides breakfast and all the clean-up supplies. Get more details at whiterocklake.org.

HELPING THE HOMELESS

Interfaith Family Services also hosts a second Saturday volunteer event, but this one is to assist homeless families in our community. From 9 a.m.-noon, volunteers are needed at the facility, 5600 Ross Ave., to clean up the children’s room, sort donations of food and clothing, and help out with other odds and ends that ensure the nonprofit run smoothly. Get more details at interfaithdallas.org.

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

DELICIOUS Hops and dreams

Craft Beer Cellar is bringing beer bliss to Lakewood

By EMILY CHARRIER

PHOTO BY KATHY TRAN

DID YOU KNOW: Stan Nauman collected beer cans as a child, which he tucked away at his parents’ home for decades. When he opened Craft Beer Cellar, he fished them out to decorate the shop.

asa Linda resident Jim Waskow and his partner Stan Nauman are living the post-recession American dream. After years in the corporate world, Waskow at Sherwin Williams and Nauman at General Electric, they hung up their suits to pursue their real passion: beer.

Friends since they were students at Newman Smith High School in Carrollton, the pair has been interested in beer their whole lives, so they decided to make it their profession. Last year, they opened Craft Beer Cellar, the first Texas franchise for the East Coast chain, and have been serving up the suds ever since.

“We’re just a couple of corporate guys looking to do something fun,” Waskow smiles. “On our worst day, at least we’re working with beer.”

The business model is part specialty beer shop, part taproom. On the shop side, customers have hundreds of styles of beer to peruse and can mix-and-match their own six-pack. Craft Beer Cellar specializes in rare

and European brews, but if you don’t see the one you want, just ask. They’re happy to order it for you. On the tap side, there are 16 beers on draught, which are switched with a new brew every time a keg runs dry.

“We do have one tap dedicated to German beers and another for Belgium beers,” Nauman says.

The partners consider themselves a bottle shop first and say 70 percent of the business is retail shoppers, versus customers who belly up to the bar. They also offer growlers for those who want to take fresh beer home.

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The shop regularly offers beer education events, inviting in brewers from all over the world to talk suds and offer samples. On April 7, attend the free beer-and-cheese pairing with Real Ale Brewing Company, or come down April 14 when Founder’s Brewing releases its cult-followed KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout for those not in the beer-know). While getting the business off the ground took longer than either Waskow or Nauman imagined, now that it’s up and running, they’re thrilled with the first six months. “It’s a chance to enjoy coming to work for the first time,” Waskow says. “That’s a welcome change.”

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Did the mention of Gershwin’s bring back a flood of memories and, perhaps, the faint taste of its famed mushroom soup? The restaurant was an icon of the neighborhood for nearly two decades at the corner of Walnut Hill Lane and Greenville Avenue. It first opened in 1985 as one of the pioneers of new American cuisine in Dallas, and it quickly became a neighborhood hotspot.

It was the often considered the “fancy place” to eat in East Dallas — where you’d go to celebrate an anniversary or graduation, perhaps, and undoubtedly end your meal with Gershwin’s signature “chocolate sack” filled with fresh berries, white chocolate mousse and whipped cream.

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It shut down in early 2000, only to be re-opened again a few months later by John and Nick Natour, the team behind Enclave. The Natours kept their vow to keep it the same, but it wasn’t enough to keep the restaurant alive.

For the fans, here’s the recipe for one of Gershwin’s most popular dishes, first published in the Advocate in August, 2000.

Combine all ingredients and cook for one hour. Process in blender and finish with ½ cup of cream. Thicken with cornstarch as necessary.

Gershwin’s served this dish with fresh vegetables and shrimp ravioli.

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THE HEART OF LAKEWOOD

H“Heart” is a word often heard when asking a Lakewood resident to describe the neighborhood they call home.

Yes, it’s frequently referenced in association with the lush green space, sparkling lake and world-class Arboretum cradled in the “heart”

of Dallas, offering a peaceful and welcome respite from the rest of the bustling city.

But the word is also used to describe something much less concrete – the essence of the neighborhood.

Though it’s not necessarily tangible, it is truly felt by those who live here and is as real a part of the area as the rolling hills, mature trees and iconic historic homes. One gets the sense it’s been around just as long –being cultivated, strengthened and shared year after year by residents, new and old.

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We recycle less than most major cities, and that has to change

DIRTY DALLAS

BY RACHEL STONE

PHOTOS BY DANNY FULGENCIO

Chucking recyclable materials is easier, too. It’s the status quo.

In the bigger picture, however, failure to recycle will cost the City of Dallas one of its biggest non-tax revenue sources, the McCommas Bluff Landfill. Municipalities all over Texas pay to send their trash to our landfill, which earns $22 million for the city every year. That offsets the $54 million the city spends on trash and bulk/brush disposal annually. At the rate the landfill is filling up, its life could end as soon as 2062. If that happened, the city would have to consider whether to build a new landfill or pay to have our garbage shipped at high cost to a landfill elsewhere.

There’s also the environmental concern: Plastic pollution alone kills as many as 1 million sea birds and 100,000 ocean mammals every year, for example. Take a walk out to any creek in Dallas to see our city’s own overwhelming plastic pollution firsthand.

Plastic is only one part of the picture. Dallas also lacks recycling efforts for food and yard waste, construction materials, glass and more.

Dallas is far behind the curve, even by the standards the city set for itself in 2013. But a brand-new $20-million recycling center and new efforts from city leaders show promise for the future.

FALLING BEHIND

Most homeowners recycle, but apartments and businesses typically do not. About 80 percent of single-family homes in Dallas have blue recycling bins.

And an ordinance went into effect last year that allows small apartment complexes to receive up to 10 blue bins for around $20 a month each, making it easier for tenants to recycle.

The city’s sanitation department also has reached out to small businesses to offer recycling plans.

But the recycling rate in Dallas has not improved since the city passed its “zero-waste plan” in 2013.

At that time, the city had a 20 percent

It’s cheaper to throw it in the landfill.

“diversion rate.” That is the percentage of the city’s waste that doesn’t end up in the landfill. In 2013, City Council set a goal of increasing the diversion rate to 40 percent by 2020. This “zero-waste plan” included a voluntary recycling program for high-use clients like apartments and businesses.

As of March 2017, however, the city’s diversion rate remains stagnant at 20 percent.

“It’s pretty clear that there’s been littleto-no progress,” says Murray Myers of the city’s sanitation department.

Because the rate hasn’t increased, City Council may consider making recycling

mandatory for apartment complexes later this year. About half of Dallas’ population lives in the city’s 2,300 apartment complexes. Only about 30 percent of those offer recycling.

“We’re going to be woefully short by 2019,” East Dallas City Councilman Philip Kingston says.

The Apartment Association of Greater Dallas hasn’t come up with a plan to increase participation, Kingston says.

In 2013, the message to apartment owners was, “Come up with something you guys can live with, or we’re going to hammer you,” Kingston says. But nothing apparently has changed.

Rinse out containers for milk, yogurt, juice and soap.

Don’t put this in your blue bin

Food waste

Styrofoam and plastic utensils

Clothing Yard clippings

Wires and cables

Garden hoses (Hoses, tubing and electrical wiring can become entangled in machinery and cause plant shutdowns.)

Hazardous materials including aer osol cans, propane tanks and batteries (Even empty, they can explode or start fires.)

Medical waste (The FCC plant collects a 50-gallon dr um of “sharps,” hypodermic needles, every week, putting workers at potential risk of blood-borne pathogens.)

There are some larger apartment owners, such as Lincoln Property Co., Camden and Gables Residential, that do a good job with recycling, says Kathy Carlton, director of government affairs for the Apartment Association of Greater Dallas.

Those operators offer recycling dumpsters to residents, and they recycle materials such as old carpeting and padding, Carlton says.

“We don’t believe anything is accomplished by mandating it,” Carlton says. “It needs to be something that people do willingly.”

Offering recycling dumpsters to apartment and office tenants could have zero

HOW RECYCLING WORKS

The Spanish company FCC built a $20-million recycling facility adjacent to McCommas Bluff, in partnership with the City of Dallas.

The new recycling plant, which opened Jan. 2, comprises 60,000 square feet and has the capacity to process 500 tons a day. It is FCC’s first American plant and its biggest.

Currently, the plant receives about 190 tons of recycling every day from the City of Dallas, and it also has agreements with Garland, Mesquite and University Park. Altogether, the plant currently receives about 225 tons of recycling per day.

Here’s how it works:

Trucks arrive at the plant’s bays carrying 12-13 tons of recycling, which are dumped onto the concrete floor.

An earthmover shovels the materials into a drum feeder equipped with 10-inch metal teeth.

As the drum turns, it “fluffs” the material up onto a conveyor belt, where it’s fed up into the first of the facility’s climate-controlled sorting cabins, which are about 30 feet above the floor.

Inside the first cabin, with the conveyor belt moving about 200 feet per minute, four workers perform an initial sort, pulling out trash, scrap metal and large pieces of colored plastic, such as cat-litter buckets, and send them down the appropriate chutes.

The material then moves to two other cabins, where workers pull cardboard and paper.

As it moves down the line, the material is further sorted. Plastic film and glass are pulled.

Plastics are sorted by their value. The least valuable, plastics 3-7, are kept together. Cartons also are separated.

An optical sorter can recognize the molecular structure of plastic water bottles and then shoot puffs of air to separate them out.

“Natural” plastics such as milk jugs are the most valuable. Those and dyed plastics, such as laundry-detergent bottles, each are separated.

An eddy current can pick off aluminum cans, and a magnet can pull steel cans.

There is still a dizzying amount of hand sorting, with workers separating aluminum, steel and plastic coming down the line all day.

The plant is capable of sorting up to 33 tons of materials in one hour.

Recyclable materials are baled and stacked until trucks haul them off to buyers in the United States. Even though China is one of the biggest buyers of recyclables in the world, FCC is committed to selling to American companies.

cost to building owners if their tenants actually use them. It divides the same amount of waste between garbage and recycling pickups, which should keep costs flat. But requiring apartments to offer recycling without any education could result in empty recycling dumpsters that cost building owners while their trash dumpsters still fill up, Carlton says. Education has to be a major component of any recycling plan, City Councilwoman Sandy Greyson says.

ELCYCER RECYCLE TIP

Oils can contaminate recycling and should be kept out of blue bins.

But the sanitation department’s marketing budget is only $200,000 a year, compared to its payroll budget, which is more like $45 million annually. They have radio spots and print ads, but they can’t afford TV commercials or other big media buys.

Their marketing dollars also go toward the Art for Dumpsters competition in Deep Ellum, now in its second year, in which local artists paint recycling dumpsters as a way to raise awareness. The department has demonstration gardens and other educational opportunities at its headquarters, Eco Park, in southeast Oak Cliff, where schools are invited for field trips.

The city’s new recycling facility, owned and operated by FCC Environmental Services, has an onsite classroom and recycling plant observation deck that schools will soon be able to visit.

“Kids are the ones who really need to get the message,” says Darrell Clemons, general manager of the Dallas FCC plant.

THE CADILLAC OF BULK-AND-BRUSH PICKUP

Most municipalities would not pick up, say, a refrigerator, a car engine or part of a boat in regularly scheduled bulk trash pick-up.

But Dallas does. There are some who figure that Dallas has the most permissive bulk trash pick-up of any major city

OTHER CITIES: DIVERSION RATE COMPARISON

The lid of a pizza box can be recycled, but the greasy bottom portion should go in the trash

*Based on the 2012 EPA MSW study

Opposite page, clockwise from top left: An earthmover shuffles a mound of materials that trucks have dumped on the floor of the FCC plant. Recycling materials make their way up a conveyor belt. Workers in one of the plant’s cabins perform the initial sort. Below: Marcos Estrada, left, the city’s waste diversion coordinator, and Darrell Clemons, the FCC plant’s general manager.

About half of Dallas’ population lives in about 2,300 apartment complexes. Only about 30 percent of them offer recycling.

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in the United States. Even things that bulk trash technically is not supposed to take — parts of fences and construction materials, for example — are collected in the interest of neighborhood cleanliness.

Our bulk trash practices also contribute to our recycling woes. That’s because bulk and brush are picked up together.

“We think we have clean brush, but then there’s a TV mixed in,” Myers says.

Last year, the department picked up about 170,000 tons of bulk and brush, about half of that is brush, and virtually none of it is recycled because of contamination.

If more had been recycled, the city could either sell the resulting mulch and compost or offer it free to Dallas residents, Myers says.

City Council could consider changing the bulk and brush pick-up later this year, and there are a couple of suggestions.

They could keep it virtually the same but push for residents to separate bulk and brush. Or they could pick up bulk and brush on alternative months.

If the bulk/brush problem is solved, the city could increase its diversion rate by up to 10 percent, Myers says.

Electronics: A landfill’s deadliest enemy?

Electronics take up the least amount of space in the 996-acre McCommas Bluff Landfill, yet they are the most detrimental to the environment.

These devices contain hazardous mate-

Recyclable

rials such as lead and mercury. When used technology is tossed in the landfill, the toxic chemicals can leak into the soil and seep into the water supply, Myers says.

The city manages four drop-off e-cycling locations to deter residents from dumping electronics in the trash or on the curb. Neighbors can leave items ranging from batteries to flat screen TVs at Bachman, Fair Oaks and Oak Cliff transfer stations, as well as McCommas Bluff’s Customer Convenience Recycling Center.

In 2016, the city collected 527,118 pounds of used devices.

Some residents aren’t aware of Dallas’ e-cycling program, Myers says, so the city plans to launch a media campaign this summer. It also is installing secure storage pods at each location to quell residents’ fears about dropping off cellphones and laptops with personal information.

But unpredictable changes in cost may be detrimental to Dallas’ efforts.

Electronic recycling companies struggle to earn a profit because the value of the materials they collect have decreased.

“When a recycler can’t sell materials, then they start to charge whoever is dropping it off money,” Myers says.

It’s a conundrum for many municipalities, including Dallas, which could pay anywhere between $31,000 to $148,000 a year for e-cycling companies to collect and recycle items. Four months ago, the city contracted with the company URT Solutions after ECS Recycling estimated its services would exceed $100,000.

“It is utilized, but if the cost of the program goes up, we may have to look at transitioning to another program,” Myers says.

There are other options, but they’re not as convenient as a drop-off location. The State of Texas now requires manufacturers to take back TVs and computers, and many businesses like Best Buy also have their own trade-in programs.

PLASTIC FILM, SUCH AS BAGS

materials are commodities, so their market values fluctuate, and listed here as the March 2017 rates.

*Glass is not biodegradable and should be kept out of the landfill, if possible. FCC does sell the glass it collects, but its market value is so low, and glass weighs so much, that the cost to transport it are about equal to its price, resulting in no profit.

**Plastic film, such as grocery sacks and bread bags, comes through the facility by the ton and is baled. But it has a market value of zero. FCC has not yet found a viable buyer for plastic bags, but the ones that make it into bales are being kept out of the landfill.

A wasteful problem

In a world where one out of every nine people is starving, according to The Hunger Project, it’s distressing to think that here in America 40 percent of our food ends up in the garbage. The City of Dallas estimates that 30 percent of all materials in its landfill are compostable material, and it’s working to do something about that.

“Last month, we attended a U.S. Composting Council conference and have

returned with a few new ideas that we’ll be working on,” Myers says.

He would love to offer citywide compositing, but it is cost prohibitive and, unlike recycling, doesn’t have much potential to make money, allowing the program to cover its own expenses.

“We’ve evaluated organics recycling at Dallas ISD, sending food waste to the water department’s anaerobic digester and other programs, but we haven’t found a path forward,” Myers says.

The department does encourage res-

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9020 Garland Road (Between The Arboretum & Casa Linda) Dallas, TX 75218 214.370.4444

Exciting New Spring Arrivals Daily! Upscale resale -unique gifts-designer consignment-hand picked vintage work by local artists and artisans.

LAKE HIGHLANDS ACUPUNCTURE

Bryan Ellett, L.Ac. 10252 E. Northwest Highway 214.267.8636

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The World Health Organization recommends acupuncture for: chronic pain, high blood pressure, depression/anxiety, digestive problems (IBS, heartburn), common cold, allergies and more! Come see why! Now accepting insurance!

ROB WATKINS

Residential Mortgage Lender

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Medical Residents, Fellows, and established Medical Physicians may be eligible for the BancorpSouth Mortgage Physician’s Loan. Up to 100% financing, with no PMI, on loans up to $650,000 is available for the purchase or refinance of the Physician’s primary residence. Mortgages are subject to approval. Call Rob for more details!

Juliette Fowler Communities is the perfect balance of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Stately trees and gardens coupled with today’s design trends and welcoming neighbors create a rich retirement experience.

cle Revolution offers composting bins and coordinates pick-ups every week or month, depending on the need. They specifically target apartment complexes and restaurants, where large quantities of organic material end up in the landfill.

Cool to compost:

Kitchen waste (e.g. egg shells, vegetable and fruit scraps)

Leaves Straw

Wood chips or sawdust (untreated wood only)

Yard trimmings

Shredded paper, cardboard or newspaper

Coffee grounds

Never compost:

Meat, including fish and poultry

Dairy products

Grease or oils

Pet feces

Treated wood

Ashes

Glossy paper

Red Sun Landscapes

Beautiful, Functional, Affordable

Recycling star: Times Ten Cellars

It killed Kert Platner to throw away hundreds of perfectly recyclable wine bottles every week when he first opened Times Ten Cellars on Prospect Avenue in 2005. But that was his only option at the time; the City of Dallas did not offer a way for businesses to easily recycle.

“There really wasn’t anyone doing recycling out there when we first opened,” he says. “For the first three years, we were throwing away every bottle we opened. It was terrible.”

Then Recycle Revolution launched in 2008 with the goal of improving green options for businesses across North Texas. Times Ten Cellars was one of the first to sign on for the new service, and today it has a Dumpster exclusively dedicated to wine bottles, which is diligently picked up weekly, keeping about 3,000 wine bottles a month out of the local landfill.

“It’s completely full, and it’s only wine bottles,” Platner says. “Obviously, that’s not free. You might think so because they make money off the recycling. But we pay for that [recycling bin].”

It was a worthwhile expense, Platner says. He and partner Rob Wilson are committed to being good stewards of the planet.

EASTFIELD COLLEGE CAMP HARVEY

3737 Motley Dr., Mesquite, 75150 / 972.860.7114

4SummerCamp@dcccd.edu / Ignite your kids imagination by keeping them connected to big ideas through critical-thinking and creative play. Camp Harvey is a series of STEAM-based youth camps where kids experience meaningful learning while also having fun. Camp classes include: Math and reading practice, Improvisation, CSI/Forensics Academy, Debate, Swimming Clinics, Girl Gamers, Star Wars Stop Animation, Minecraft, Nature Appreciation, and more! Registration fee waived through April 15. Discounted registration through May 15. For youth ranging in age from 5-17.

HIGHLANDER SCHOOL

9120 Plano Rd. Dallas / 214.348.3220 / www.highlanderschool.com Founded in 1966, Highlander offers an enriched curriculum in a positive, Christian-based environment. By limiting class size, teachers are able to build a strong educational foundation to ensure confidence in academics, athletics, and the creative and performing arts. Highlander offers a “classic” education which cannot be equaled. Monthly tours offered; call for a reservation.

LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Leading to Success. 2720 Hillside Dr., Dallas 75214 / 214.826.2931 / lakehillprep.org

Kindergarten through Grade 12 - Lakehill Preparatory School takes the word preparatory in its name very seriously. Throughout a student’s academic career, Lakehill builds an educational program that achieves its goal of enabling graduates to attend the finest, most rigorous universities of choice. Lakehill combines a robust, college-preparatory curriculum with opportunities for personal growth, individual enrichment, and community involvement. From kindergarten through high school, every Lakehill student is encouraged to strive, challenged to succeed, and inspired to excel.

“That’s the way we grew up, in small towns where you conserve things,” Platner says. “For us, it’s a matter of principle and a matter of philosophy. This is important.”

That philosophy includes other green business practices. Now with a new kitchen, the restaurant is considering its options for composting, but it already recycles its cooking oils. When it comes to cardboard, the staff individually breaks down all of the business’ boxes, stacks them in a truck and transports it to Garland to be recycled every week — all at the winery’s expense.

“You simply can’t throw all of that away,” Platner says. “It’s shocking how much already ends up in landfills, we don’t want to add to that any more than we have to.”—EMILY CHARRIER

SPANISH HOUSE

Four East Dallas Locations / 214.826.4410/ DallasSpanishHouse.com Spanish Immersion Program in East Dallas! Nursery, Preschool, Elementary and Adult Programs available. Our new dual-language elementary campus is now open at 7159 E. Grand Ave. Please visit our website at DallasSpanishHouse. com for more information.

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

848 Harter Rd., Dallas 75218 / 214.328.9131 / stjohnsschool.org Founded in 1953, St. John’s is an independent, co-educational day school for Pre-K through Grade 8. With a tradition for academic excellence, St. John’s programs include a challenging curriculum in a Christian environment along with instruction in the visual and performing arts, Spanish, German, French, and opportunities for athletics and community service.St. John’s goal for its students is to develop a love for

learning, service to others, and leadership grounded in love, humility, and wisdom. Accredited by ISAS, SAES, and the Texas Education Agency.

UT DALLAS CHESS CAMP

800 W. Campbell Rd., Richardson 75080 / (972) 883-4899 / utdallas.edu/chess ) 2016

Summer Chess Camp Campers learn while they PLAY. Chess develops reading, math, critical and analytical skills, and builds character and self-esteem. Just don’t tell the kids…they think chess is fun! Join beginner, intermediate or advanced chess classes for ages 7 to 14 on the UT Dallas campus. Morning (9am-noon) or afternoon (1-4pm) sessions are available June 13-17, June 20-24, July 18-22, July 25-29 and extended playing classes. Camp includes t-shirt, chess board and pieces, trophy, certificate, score book, group photo, snacks and drinks. Instructors are from among UT Dallas Chess Team Pan-Am Intercollegiate Champions for 2010-2012!

WHITE ROCK NORTH SCHOOL

9727 White Rock Trail Dallas/ 214.348.7410 / WhiteRockNorthSchool.com

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

ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL

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

“For us, it’s a matter of principle and a matter of philosophy. This is important.”

BATTLE AT THE BATH HOUSE

It’s the only public building at White Rock Lake, and everybody wants a piece

Story by EMILY CHARRIER | Photos by DANNY FULGENCIO

With its elegant posts and art-deco design, the Bath House is easily the most iconic building at White Rock Lake. Old timers will tell you about swimming there to escape the summer sun, back when admission was a quarter (15-cents for children). Today’s youth use the space to draw, paint and build sculptures out of twigs during its packed art camps that take place every summer.

Aside from the few decades it was left fallow, the building has been a community gathering space of one sort or another since it first opened in 1930. In its recent history, it has been neighbors who con-

sistently breathed new life into the Bath House. It was neighborhood fundraising that transformed the building into a cultural center in 1981. The community rallied again in 2004 to overhaul an old storage closet into White Rock Lake Museum, a celebration of the lake’s textured history. When the city lacked the funds to maintain the center’s staff, the neighbors responded by forming the Friends of the Bath House Cultural Center in 2008 to collect donations and save a job.

Its value as the sole public building on the lake cannot be overstated. Neighbors have a sense of ownership over the beloved space after their years of support,

which can conflict with the city’s direct ownership of the bath house. As was the case this February, when the Office of Cultural Affairs sent an eviction notice to the community-built museum that has occupied about 300 square feet of the bath house for the past 13 years. The space would be better used to showcase emerging artists, OCA said. It set off a heated reaction, leading to a he-said, she-said debate between the city and the museum board.

It sparked the question: As one of just four cultural centers in the city, and the only open building at the lake, what is the best use for the Bath House? And who should have a say?

Artwork awaiting installation at the Bath House.

BUILDING THE BATH HOUSE

It was mayor J. Waddy Tate who pushed forward the vision of a sandy beach at White Rock Lake where families could host picnics and take a dip in the cool water. It was the 1920s and the lake was becoming a recreational paradise that would eventually include boats, barges, sea planes and beaches. All of that activity needed a hub, a place with proper facilities where families could park and change clothes.

Tate called for plans to build the $48,100 Municipal Bath House, an ambitious project that would bring electricity and running water to the eastern bank of the lake for the first time. Carsey and Linske Architects were behind the pioneering example of art-deco design in the Southwest. With its sweeping deck and direct access to the recently engineered beach, the Bath House was a hit from the day it opened on Aug. 9, 1930. For 23 summers, it was a place where memories were made in our neighborhood. Almost any student who attended Woodrow Wilson High School in that era will tell you about spending weekends on the shore, and the honest ones will tell you it’s where all the teens went to make out. By 1953, the drought-ravaged state needed clean water more than it needed bathing beaches, and the boats and swimmers were banned. The lake would supplement the city’s drinking water supply.

The Bath House doors were locked and there it sat, collecting dust, for decades.

In 1978, the neighbors wanted something more for the historic building. With the city’s blessing, they gathered support from the community in the form of donations and volunteers, who transformed the facility from a beach-side hub to a place where art would thrive. Gallery spaces and a 116-seat theater replaced the changing rooms and concessions area when the Bath House Cultural Center officially opened on Aug. 22, 1981. The building would showcase thousands of artists over the next three decades and serve as the birthplace for beloved neighborhood traditions like Diá de los Muertos/Day of the Dead and the Festival of Independent Theater.

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

When the city invested in cultural centers in the 1980s, it was part of a growing community-driven movement to support the arts in all their forms. By 1989 the interest was so strong, the city created the

Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA), which branched off of the Park and Recreation Department with the express purpose of building partnerships with and support for artists in Dallas.

“Our priority is theater and arts,” says Jennifer Scripps, director of the OCA and herself a lake resident.

Today, her department oversees 23 centers including neighborhood hubs like the Bath House and the Latino Cultural Center, along with major sites like the Dallas Museum of Art, the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and the Hall of State at Fair Park. In all, OCA has 1.5-million-square-feet of cultural space, although most of that is operated by partners. OCA only manages functions at nine of those centers, including the Bath House.

Art has been the focus at the Bath House since it became a cultural center, where today more than 600 pieces of art are shown in an average year, and

hundreds of artists have the chance to be discovered.

“The solo show for an emerging artist is huge,” Scripps says, adding that many who apply for shows have nowhere else to display their work. “That’s what keeps them from creating art full-time. I hear that from artists all the time and it is heartbreaking.”

While preference is given to local creatives, artists from as far away as Paris have shown their work in the Bath House. And its black box theater has fostered the premieres of award-winning shows such as “Wedding Belles,” which was licensed by the famed Samuel French, Inc. in New York City. Scripps says OCA is not only dedicated “to helping artists make a living,” it also is fulfilling the desires of the community.

“What we are hearing again and again is that people want more places for art,” she says.

OCA officials agree it is the department’s duty to respond to the needs and wants of the residents whose tax dollars fund much of the department’s operations.

“The Bath House, like the OCA, has evolved to be reflective of the commu-

“The Bath House, like the OCA, has evolved to be reflective of the community.”

nity,” says David Fisher, assistant director of OCA, who used to serve as manager of the Bath House.

Such was the case when a group of neighbors wanted to celebrate the lake’s history by building a museum in an under utilized storage closet next to the theater. The city was supportive of the efforts, as long as they were self-funded. Led by boardmembers Kurt Kretsinger, Jeannie Terilli, Michael Jung and Rick Wamre (Advocate Media president), it took around $100,000 in cash donations and another $100,000 in sweat-equity labor to build White Rock Lake Museum, which opened in 2004. It told the story of the lake, from its history with German POWs during WWII to the Miss White Rock contests of the 1950s. It also highlighted the lake’s environmental significance, including the local wildlife that make their home there.

“We wanted to build something that honored the lake,” Kretsinger says. “It’s a huge part of our neighborhood’s culture.”

After installation, the museum displays sat, largely untouched, for 13 years. OCA staff said the text-heavy panels did not engage readers in the digital era, and on the whole, the museum failed to draw visitors.

“Nobody comes here and says ‘Where is the museum?’ ” Bath House manager Marty Van Kleeck says of the more than 30,000 annual visitors, according to theater ticket sales and self-reported event attendance. “People stumbled in there on their way to see the arts.”

With more interest from artists than the OCA could possibly meet, the staff decided the museum space would be better used as a third gallery. In February, they sent the museum a 60-day eviction notice.

“After more than a decade, we feel the museum has lived its useful life,” Fisher wrote in an email to the museum board. “In addition, the number one resource we hear that is needed by the cultural community is more gallery space for emerging artists. Hence, we are requesting that you remove the museum panels so that we can replace them with an emerging artist space. This helps the Bath House and Office of Cultural Affairs

further their missions of supporting the arts and artists in Dallas.”

It did not go over well.

The museum board, passionate about preserving history, took the issue to the White Rock Lake Task Force, a board with no direct power over the Bath House but a lot of influence over lake politics. It

became a debate about the meaning of culture and who should define it.

“It’s a cultural center; it is not the Bath House art center,” said historian Dr. Steve Butler, whose book on White Rock Lake helped inspire the museum. “I don’t think we should tear [the museum] down, it would be like tearing out a piece of our hearts.”

Teresa Bond, president of the Friends of the Bath House Cultural Center, said her group was “here to support the arts,” before adding that the group would not take a position on the conflict.

Smith, cultural affairs commissioner appointed by District 9 Councilman Mark Clayton, recommended the

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“What we are hearing again and again is that people want more places for art.”

Built in 1930, the Bath House was one of the first art-deco designs in the Southwest.

eviction, saying he supported efforts to bring in more artists.

“My job is to make recommendations about the best use for cultural space,” Smith said at the meeting. “They could do a lot more with arts and artists in that space.”

But other task force members pointed to the Bath House’s significance to the lake. They questioned the logic of removing the history from such a historic space.

“[The museum] is the only thing that has to do with the lake in that building,” said task member Chip Northrup, adding that the art offerings “could be in a windowless building somewhere else, they don’t need to be in a building on the lake.”

The eviction notice was so poorly received, the city rescinded it, agreeing to more negotiations with the White Rock Lake Museum board before making any decision.

“We got the impression that, come hell or high water, the museum was going to stay,” Fisher says.

FUTURE HISTORY

Despite the dispute over 300 square feet, everyone agrees that the history of White Rock Lake should be celebrated at the Bath House Cultural Center. Van Kleeck says the building doubles as a de facto visitor’s center for anyone who wanders in.

“People always have questions,” she says. “They’re curious about what all this is about.”

There is a need to inform, both those familiar with the lake and those who are visiting for the first time, about this neighborhood gem and its lasting impact on East Dallas.

The disagreement, which was marred by poor communication, boiled down to a question of how history should be presented and whether the museum was living up to its mission.

“Is this the best way to convey that information?” Scripps asks. “We [at OCA] all agree there is a better option.”

The museum board wasn’t opposed to new ideas for sharing the museum’s message with the modern visitor. They wanted assurances, however, that the original display would stand while they figured out how to spruce it up. While no paperwork had been signed at press time, the two sides were working to find common ground.

“We came to an agreement of reconciliation and compromise by addressing the OCA’s wish to have the museum updated and agreed to put a lease agreement in place through December 2018 with the understanding the White Rock Lake

Museum can stay intact as it was originally designed while an interpretive plan for White Rock Lake is developed,” Kretsinger said in a statement.

The task force echoed sentiments that the community should be given a voice in the future of the Bath House.

“It is the only place at the lake open to the public,” says task force member Becky Rader, who is also the District 9 Park Board appointee. “It’s important that it reflect the whole community.”

OCA still hopes to dedicate the museum space to the arts in the near future.

Scripps thinks the history could be better presented in a walking tour around the building, perhaps — leaving room for more gallery space inside.

“We need this space to be flexible, not stagnant,” she says.

When asked about the Bath House Cultural Center’s original purpose, to celebrate the lake through arts, Scripps says it all comes down to finding the right partner. They are but the facilitator of culture; it is up to community partners to provide the lake inspiration.

“No one has come forward and said, ‘I have a collection of White Rock Lake photos I’d love to show’, ” Scripps says. “If anyone wants to come forward as a partner, we’re all ears.”

COMING UP AT THE BATH HOUSE

March 31-April 1: WingSpan Theatre Company presents the staged reading “Rose,” the story of an 80-year-old woman’s remarkable life.

April 8: Teatro Flor Candela’s 10th anniversary fundraising show, where proceeds will support the arts for our Spanish speaking neighbors.

April 22: Lake-a-Palooza, a free day of music and art with beer and wine for the adults and fun activities for the kids from 2-7 p.m.

On display in the Bath House galleries through April 22: “In This Day and Age,” a look at motherhood and parenting through photography; and “Por La Femme,” the photography of Angilee Wilkerson and Jana C. Perez.

“I don’t think we should tear [the museum] down, it would be like tearing out a piece of our hearts.”

ESTATE of the ARTIST

Inside the home, and mind, of an unapologetically whimsical fabric designer

Story by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB I Photos by DANNY FULGENCIO

At right, jacka-lope “Poots” keeps watch over a long hallway.

A pad’s worth of prescriptions for psychiatric medications, scribbled by doctors in the 1950s, mounted on a faintly smudged white canvas, underwrites a stop-inyour-tracks entryway. The outré design is one of homeowner Erin Michael’s own creations. But even as admirers express curiosity, she dismisses that sort of art as hobby and moves along to the next thing — a lanky cut of driftwood that resembles a headless eunuch who, she says, casts an eerie shadow across the blank wall at dusk.

“Art can be expensive,” which is her reason for self-producing a portion of the fantastical items that adorn her mid-century contemporary-style abode. “Most of [the décor] is just what I like and what makes me happy.”

Rooms are festooned with a combination of unique collectables and remarkable derivatives of famous, otherwise unattainable, items: a version of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica,” a violent depiction of suffering and death during the Spanish Civil War, spans one master-bedroom wall. Above the bed is a reproduction of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s “Nude.” A drawing in a children’s book inspired a mural in her 9-year-old son’s quarters.

Color, irony and nostalgia, employed with precision, symmetry and disaffected whimsy, influence the home’s every element — strung together, it all looks like a Wes Anderson storyboard.

The room-roaming dog, donning a plaid bowtie collar, only adds to the effect.

A jack-a-lope called “Poots” overlooks the hallway (“That was Hank Williams’ nickname,” she explains); an entire guest suite imitates a 1950s motel room complete with “bad art” and a vintage TV set; shelves of records, an old Crosby player and vintage cameras fill one nook; a Joseph Cornell-esque assemblage (in a glass dome rather than a box) showcases a mouse wearing a scarf riding a saddled partridge. “That one creeps some people

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Above: Michael’s home embodies her witty, charmingly deranged sensibilities. A replica of Picasso’s “Guernica” monopolizes one wall in the master bedroom, where a cartoonish anatomically correct heart of gold serves as an accent pilliow. Opposite: The mouse in a scarf riding a saddled quail? She concedes there is no real explanation for that one.

out,” Michael says, “so I keep it off in the bedroom.”

Michael works as “right-hand man” to renowned photographer Laura Wilson, who, though famous in her own right, also is mother to actors Owen, Luke and Andrew Wilson (all of whom have starred in at least one movie directed by the aforementioned Anderson).

But that isn’t Michael’s actual job either, she says.

“I’m there mostly to learn from her and have a mentor. She is an amazing woman.”

Michael suffers from a touch of what she calls “Artistic Attention Deficit Disorder.”

Her main gig, if you must pin her down, is as designer for Moda, a Dallas-based fabric company that her family owns.

Her line shines in its quirkiness — bucking horses, sock monkeys, cats, geometrically shaped cats, cats wearing the cone of shame, all in bold colors and often representative of pop culture throughout the decades. She’s in an equine-loving, Texas-proud phase right now, she explains, pointing to a paint-by-numbers pinto, left drying in her workshop. (Note: That paint-by-numbers smell may produce an intense rush of childhood memories.) Her customer, in general, is the quilting community. “It is a small but passionate industry, with loyal and

“That thing creeps people out, so I keep it in the bedroom.”

The guest room (above) resembles a dive-y 1950s motel room, right down to the old analog alarm clock. Left, Finn’s bedroom is a shrine to “Star Wars,” circa Jar Jar Binks, Legos and outer space.

lovely buyers,” she says. Moda sells only to brick-and-mortar stores, so in Dallas, items are available at Urban Spools in Casa Linda.

Michael purchased her home in 2011. Before construction even wrapped, she knew it was perfect.

The Lake Highlands Drive development where she lives originally was built to hold four 2,000-square-foot homes, but now will feature three slightly larger dwellings; construction has yet to commence on the third. East Dallas-based architect Cliff Welch’s “small and specialized” firm designed the entire enclave. He also advised Michael as she added a garage and studio behind the home, as well as a back wing including a bedroom and play area for son, Finn, whose clear affinity for vintage Star Wars, dinosaurs and astrology plays well off his mom’s sensibilities.

Welch says he draws architectural inspiration from modern structures of the last century — “regional materials, local climate, and surrounding context ... natural light, clarity of form ... honesty of materials” are fundamental to each project.

“Our hope is that the architecture we are creating today may someday be worthy of restoration by future generations.”

Michael previously occupied a mid-century built home in an older East Dallas neighborhood, but maintenance became cumbersome for the hardworking single mother. Her current abode gave her the style she craves (“Can you tell I love the 1950s?” she asks rhetorically. “It always comes back to that.”), with modern materials.

It is always a work in progress, she says. Though the big things, like the studio and other expansions, are complete, her affinities are ever evolving. Therefore, the tapestry that surrounds her will continue to morph.

“My house is my sanctuary, my identity,” she says.

Taking a risk, she agreed to participate in the White Rock Home Tour this month, where ticketholders will be allowed to explore her abode (plus five others).

“It’s terrifying letting people into your most vulnerable space,” she says, “but I also want to share it, and it’s for a good cause.”

Find more details about the April 22-23 White Rock Home Tour, which benefits Victor H. Hexter Elementary School, and pre-order your $15 tickets at whiterockhometour.org

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DEVELOPMENT

The one-story Teter’s Faucet Part building, serving Lakewood since 1947, could be replaced with a six-story retail and 140-apartment complex (top). Southern Land Company sought public input about the proposed project on Oram Street from neighbors last month. The land is currently zoned for a five-story mixed-use project, but developers hope to increase density higher than Planning District 281 allows. It’s estimated that the project would bring 2,682 cars per day onto the street.

The Village on Northwest Highway is one of the largest North Texas apartment complexes, and it’s planning to become even bigger.

Lincoln Properties Co. filed for a $40-million project permit to add 300 more units to the development and a parking garage to the north side of the property. The 300-acre property already houses 7,000 units.

Casa View shopping center is getting a facelift, with new sidewalks, overhangs, signage,

lighting and parking. The Dallas City Council agreed to match a $1 million investment from property owner Waymon Levell with an economic development grant to fund the project. Gus Thomasson also is shrinking from six to four lanes near Ferguson Road.

SCHOOL UPGRADES

The next wave of funding for Dallas ISD bond projects received the green light from trustees, including three schools in our neighborhood. Trustees unanimously voted to approve 23 construction projects that are part of the $1.6 billion 2015 bond program. Mata Montessori, Sanger Elementary and Lakewood Elementary all are slated to receive renovations.

ANNIVERSARY

Monster Yogurt in Casa Linda marked its fifth year in business. The frozen yogurt shop plans to celebrate by looking for opportunities to expand the chain in the metroplex.

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Top, an architect’s rendering of the new Oram complex. Below, the site as it stands today.

Realtors

Recognizing the real estate professionals who promote our neighborhood with the Advocate’s annual Top Realtors in Lakewood/East Dallas.

ROBERT BLACKMAN

NXT Home Realtors

KYLE BRINKLEY

Brinkley Property Group

DAVID BUSH

David Bush Realtors

JENNY CAPRITTA

RE/MAX DFW Realtors

SCOTT CARLSON

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty

Scott Carlson Real Estate

DAVID COLLIER

David Griffiin & Company Realtors

Collier + Rice

JILL FARISH

New Summit Realty

LAUREN VALEK

FARRIS

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty

Farris McMahon Group

HEATHER GUILD

Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate

Heather Guild Group

EVE HOLDER

Keller Williams

Eve Holder Homes

SCOTT JACKSON

Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate

The Jackson Team

NANCY JOHNSON

Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate

The Nancy Johnson Group

LEE LAMONT

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

BRITT LOPEZ

Dallas City Center Realtors

East Dallas Real Estate

KELLEY THERIOT

MCMAHON

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty

Farris McMahon Group

NADINE KELSALL MEYER

The Meyer Group

BRADY MOORE

Keller Williams

Laguna Residential

JACOB MOSS

Keller Williams

Modtown Realty

RICK ROBLES

Keller Williams Park Cities

Modtown Realty

MICHAEL SCHMITT

White Rock Lake Real Estate

MYSTI STEWART

Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate

ROBBY STURGEON

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty

Mast Sturgeon Real Estate Group

BRANDON TRAVELSTEAD

Dallas City Center Realtors

Travelstead Luxury Properties

KATE LOONEY WALTERS

Allie Beth Allman & Associates

VICKI WHITE

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty

Vicki White Homes

By GEORGE MASON

Won’t you be my neighbor?

How well do you know your neighbors?

I don’t know mine well enough. But neighbors are more than just the people who live on your block. They are people you work with, whose kids go to school with your kids, who share your humanity yet maybe not your ethnic origin or skin color or buying power.

The elections last fall were just more evidence of our isolation from each other. In my own church, a vote last fall on a matter that proved controversial also proved we didn’t know one another as well as we assumed.

What is happening to us and what is the remedy?

When sociologist Robert Putnam wrote the book “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community,” he pointed out the loss of social subgroups in the rhythm of our week that once provided sympathy for our neighbor and satisfied our need for belonging. We used to bowl in leagues; now we bowl alone (or only with friends and family). We used to have strong civic organizations like Kiwanis Club, Lions Club, Exchange Club, Masons, Shriners, etc. These still exist, but they find it harder to attract new members these days, especially younger ones.

When participation declines in groups that bound us together across demographic lines (yes, I know they once were bastions of segregation but credit efforts over time to change that), the tendency is to fulfill our need for community virtually instead. We spend more time on Facebook than we do face to face.

Facebook knows this and wants to be part of the cure, even as it acknowledges it has contributed to the disease. Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has issued a lengthy manifesto laying out the ways it will seek to promote physical social

encounters. “[L]arge percentages of our population lack a sense of hope for the future. It is possible many of our challenges are at least as much social as they are economic — related to a lack of community and connection to something greater than ourselves. As one pastor told me: ‘People feel unsettled. A lot of what was settling in the past doesn’t exist anymore.’

“Online communities are a bright spot, and we can strengthen existing physical communities by helping people come together online as well as offline. In the same way connecting with friends online strengthens real relationships, develop-

WORSHIP

ANGLICAN

ALL SAINTS EAST DALLAS / allsaintseastdallas.org

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

BAPTIST

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

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

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

Pastor George A. Mason Ph.D. / Worship 8:30 & 11:00am

Bible Study 9:40 am / www.wilshirebc.org

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST

EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / Worship 8:30 am - Chapel

10:50 am - Sanctuary / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

LUTHERAN

CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

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

Pastor Rich Pounds / CentralLutheran.org / 214.327.2222

FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH / 6202 E Mockingbird Lane

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org

METHODIST

GRACE UMC / Diverse, Inclusive, Missional

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

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

Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee Worship: 8:30 am & 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Contemporary

ing this infrastructure will strengthen these communities, as well as enable completely new ones to form.”

I was not the pastor he mentioned, but I might have been. The church sees this unsettling and feels its effects, too. But religious communities continue to be places of belonging that can be a laboratory for community as unity-in-diversity. That is, if we don’t all hunker down only with “people like us.”

Genuine faith leads us toward others, not away from them. If we are moving away from people, it follows that our faith itself is weakening. If you want a vital faith, get engaged in a spiritual community that challenges you to “love your neighbor as yourself.”

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.

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

LAKE POINTE CHURCH – WHITE ROCK CAMPUS

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

PRESBYTERIAN

NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Welcomes you to Worship 8:30 & 11:00 am / Church School 9:35 am / Childcare provide d.

ST. ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN / Skillman & Monticello Rev. Rob Leischner / www.standrewsdallas.org 214.821.9989 / Sunday School 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am

UNITY

UNITY ON GREENVILLE / Your soul is welcome here! 3425 Greenville Ave. / 214.826.5683 / www.dallasunity.org

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

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PEOPLE

A Far East Dallas 5-year-old almost lost his life because his mother, Meredith (name withhed to protect medical privacy), couldn’t reach 911. The young boy, who has an aggressive form of epilepsy, had a severe seizure and wasn’t getting proper oxygen. When Meredith called 911, a technical glitch seemingly caused by T-Mobile put her on hold. Her son started to turn blue. After 4 minutes, she scooped up her son and rushed him to the hospital, where he stayed for several days. Meredith isn’t the only Dallas resident that the technical glitch has impacted. There were 360 emergency callers on hold Monday, March 6, waiting to speak to dispatchers, the city reported. Several city officials have said they are working with T-Mobile to correct the problem, which also has impacted emergency services in Denver.

EDUCATION

After winning the District 2 seat by 42 votes last spring, Dustin Marshall is fighting to retain his spot on Dallas ISD’s board of trustees. The Preston Hollow resident and CEO of Hazel’s Hot Shot is running against Lori Kirkpatrick , a Hillside resident, Lakewood Elementary parent and physician’s assistant at Parkland Hospital. “The main thing that hit me in the last year is that public education is under attack — nationally, at the state level and certainly, I feel like, here locally as well,” Kirkpatrick told the Advocate. Richard D. Young also is vying for the District 2 seat. Young is a former DISD employeewho now worksat Gateway Charter School.

ARTS

One Thirty Productions celebrated its 10th anniversary season this year. The Bath House Cultural Center’s only in-residence theater group has produced eight original shows, two of which were published by Samuel French, Inc., the prestigious licensing house in New York City. Bath House manager Marty Van Kleeck established the group in 2007 to provide local seniors with an artistic outlet. “For a little company that you think is doing little theater for seniors, we’ve been very well regarded,” Van Kleeck says.

WHITE ROCK HOME TOUR

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BENEFITING BLUE RIBBON HEXTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CLASSES/TUTORING/ LESSONS

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

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STOLEN MEMORIES

For Love of the Lake built Celebration Tree Grove back in 2005 as a place for people to honor lost loved ones with a plaque by the lake. Last month, someone stole 33 of those memorials, ripping the plaques right off the rock. To help replace what was taken, write a check to the nonprofit For Love of the Lake and mail it to PMB 281 – 381 Casa Linda Plaza, Dallas, Texas, 75218.

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GLASS, WINDOWS & DOORS

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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

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

A WORLD CLASS CLEANING SERVICE

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AFFORDABLE CLEANING Insd./Bonded. Move

In/Out. Routine Cleaning. Reliable. Dependable.

Residential/ Commercial. References. 28+yrs. Delta Cleaning. 972-943-9280.

AMAZON CLEANING

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

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

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

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

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

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 Service. 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

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FLOORING

DALLAS HARDWOODS 214-724-0936

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

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

Restoration

Hardwood

CONSUMERS CHOICE AWARDS 2007-2016 Making

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EXTERIOR CLEANING

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

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

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

HANDY MANNY PAINTING/HOME REPAIR Int./Ext. Manny 214-334-2160

HANDYMAN SPECIALIST Residential/ Commercial. Large, small jobs, repair list, renovations. Refs. 214-489-0635

HOME REPAIR HANDYMAN Small/Big Jobs + Construction. 30 Yrs. Exp. 214-875-1127

HOMETOWN HANDYMAN All phases of construction. No job too small 214-327-4606

HONEST, SKILLED SERVICE With a Smile. General Repairs/ Maintenance. 214-215-2582

WANTED: ODD JOBS & TO DO LISTS Allen’s Handyman & Home Repair 214-288-4232

Your Home Repair Specialists

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

HOUSE PAINTING

1 AFFORDABLE HOUSE PAINTING and Home Repair. Quality work.

Inside and Out. Free Ests. Local Refs. Ron 972-816-5634

A+ INT/EXT PAINT & DRYWALL

Since 1977. Kirk Evans. 972-672-4681

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

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

TONY’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work

Since 1984. Int./Ext. 214-755-2700

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

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TK REMODELING 972-533-2872

Complete Full Service Repairs, Remodeling, Restoration. Name It — We do it. Tommy. Insured. dallas.tkremodelingcontractors.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

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

TAYLOR MADE IRRIGATION Repairs, service, drains. 30+ years exp. Ll 6295 469-853-2326. John

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

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

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The sun is out and spring is here. Time to get your grass that luscious green — the color of envy, or rather, lawn envy.

Make your yard stand out this season:

1. Rake your lawn to wake it up.

2. Re-seed any bare patches — use plenty of water.

3. Apply a layer of mulch around your plants, trees and shrubs — 2-3 inches is plenty.

4. Fertilize growing plants with compost, including those in containers.

5. Get things growing by thoroughly watering new plants. Remember to stay cool and drink plenty of water yourself while out in the sun.

MOVING

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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

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CHUPIK TREE SERVICE

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HOLMAN IRRIGATION

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REMODELING

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TRUE CRIME

A drug deal-turned-robbery led to the death of Jerell Dilworth on March 8, police say. Jacolby Hill, 21, and Ashton Hill, 23, are in custody for the crime. Dilworth planned to meet the Hill brothers, reportedly to buy or sell drugs, at a tobacco shop at 7303 Ferguson.

After Dilworth entered the Hills’ white Buick, they drove to White Rock Hills Townhomes a few blocks away, where a struggle ensued. A witness said it looked like Dilworth was fighting with someone to escape the car. The witness then heard two gunshots and watched Dilworth’s body fall out of the vehicle.

Crime Stoppers agreed to pay $5,000 for tips leading to an arrest, which caused someone to report the two Hills. Records show the pair were arrested in December driving a white Buick, the same model as the vehicle used during the murder. Homicide detectives traced the last call made on Dilworth’s cellphone, leading them to a public Facebook page they connected to Jacolby Hill, where he regularly posted about drug transactions.

Police then released warrants for Jacolby Hill and Ashton Hill.

CRIME NUMBERS

11:39 a.m.

was the time Jacolby and Ashton Hill met the victim, Jerell Dilworth

$500,000 1

day after police released capital murder warrants for the two Hills, they were arrested

each suspect’s bond

OUR CITY

By ANGELA HUNT

How to pick a winner

Trinity Park is the canary in the Dallas City Council coalmine

Mark your calendars for May 6. Dallas City Council elections are just around the corner.

Only a handful of people vote in our local elections. I’ve got a theory about why that is and it boils down to this: People are busy. They don’t know whom to vote for. They don’t know all the issues, they don’t know all the candidates, they may not even know their current council member. They don’t have time to figure it all out. And I don’t begrudge anyone, nor do I want them to feel guilty for not voting.

But you need to vote. Really. It’s important. So let’s make this easy.

A couple of years ago, I helpfully suggested that knowing a candidate’s position on the Trinity Toll Road could illuminate a whole host of other issues. If candidates were madly enamored with the road, if they truly and deeply loved that damned road, well then, you could count on them to fall in line with the mayor and Citizens Council on most other things, to not look too deeply into complex issues, to prefer big shiny objects over boring old things like streets and police, to eschew transparency for opacity, and so on.

Well, I’ve got a new litmus test for all you time-constrained, would-be voters, and it has nothing to do with the Trinity Toll Road.

This time it’s the Trinity Park.

Now before you disregard this sage advice as the ravings of an obsessive, let me say this: I readily acknowledge I have a certain “fascination” with the Trinity. Possibly unhealthy. Setting that aside, let me also say that I recognize that there is a large population of Dallasites who doesn’t

give one whit about what happens to the Trinity. Toll road, no toll road; park, no park. Whatever. It’s about streets and public safety and schools (which even this obsessive prioritizes over the Trinity). I agree that the Trinity is not the most important issue in our city, nor should it be. It’s just that no other debate gets to the fundamental ethos of a council candidate like the Trinity.

Here’s what you need to know about

d’etre. But they’ve suddenly decided the approved park design isn’t good enough; they want a brand new park design, one which will cost another $10 million and conveniently take another 10 years to get designed and approved. Perhaps just enough time to get the toll road started.

The mayor is trying to “Fair Park” the Trinity, attempting to hand the project off to a friend of his and form a private “local government corporation” to construct and manage the park. He claims it takes the politics out of the issue, but it’s really about taking the public out of it. The local government corporation would be the supreme rulers of the Trinity. There would be no debate when they start building the toll road, no elected officials to turn to, no one answerable to the people.

the Trinity Park: It took 12 long years and $14 million to get the park designed, engineered and approved by the feds. We’ve got the money to start building it (and no, the funds can’t be used to fix the police pension, house the homeless or pave the streets). We can start building the park right now — today — with a focus on creating park access and “re-wilding” the natural habitat. We would have a 2,300-acre nature preserve on the edge of our downtown. It could be amazing.

You’d think the Trinity nonprofits would be whooping and hollering about getting started on the park, the one they’ve claimed for years as their raison

So, in this round of council elections, ask your candidates: Will you vote to oppose a local government corporation and start building the approved Trinity Park, right now, without equivocation? If they say no, that will tell you that generally, they like it when things are done behind closed doors, with no pesky windows to let in the light, and no boisterous public knocking on the door. If they say yes, then grab a yard sign and slap a bumper sticker on the minivan. You’ve found yourself a winner.

Angela Hunt is a neighborhood resident and former Dallas city councilwoman in East Dallas. She writes a monthly opinion column about neighborhood issues. Her opinions are not necessarily those of the Advocate or its management. Send comments and ideas to her ahunt@advocatemag.com.

They want a brand new park design, one which will cost another $10 million and conveniently take another 10 years to get designed and approved.

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