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week. Plus, there’s no added charge for latenight visits. To accommodate the new hours, Dr. Kyle Smith was hired at Hillside as the primary veterinarian for the graveyard shift.

Green Grocer grand opening

Green Grocer Dallas hosted its grand opening party Jan. 26. The newest entrant to the neighborhood grocery scene originally had planned a fall 2012 opening, but ran into some parking permit issues that held up construction for weeks, according to owner Cassie Green. The 3,500-square-foot store is the company’s second; its original is in Chicago. Like the Chicago store, the Dallas store’s emphasis is on local and organic offerings. Green Grocer is already with some of our neighborhood’s artisans, for example, collaborating with Wackym’s Kitchen and Carnival Barker ice cream.

Centennial

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Hillside Veterinary Clinic

6150E.MOCKINGBIRD

214.824.0397

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Green Grocer 3614 GREENVILLE

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Jason’s Deli

5400E.MOCKINGBIRD

214.821.7021

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Allegiance Title Company 214.373.3500

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1 The Jason’s Deli on Mockingbird, which was closed for renovation, will re-open this month.

2 Allegiance Title Company will open its 20th office in Lakewood shopping center this month. Jill Lydick is the senior vice president and branch manager, and Glenda Webb is the branch escrow officer. 3 Construction on the new Austin-based coffee shop Houndstooth should begin sometime in February. Until then, the space at the southeast corner of Skillman and Oram will be fully occupied by framing store Gallery Central.

More than 160 people attended the eighth annual Gustavo Ipiña Memorial Scholarship winter party and silent auction in December, which raised more than $8,500. In May a $5,000 scholarship will be given to a Woodrow Wilson High School ESL student. Scholarship funds are raised each year in memory of Gustavo Ipiña, a native of Monterey, Mexico, who attended Woodrow Wilson High School and was killed in a road rage incident his senior year. Ipiña would have been the first in his family to attend college. Neighborhood resident Taly Haffar, who was the Dallas County assistant district attorney assigned to Ipiña’s case, founded the scholarship and organizes the fundraisers.

The Lakewood Northridge Estates Community Association (LNECA) formed as a Texas nonprofit in December. LNECA board members hope to lessen the burden of government by taking independent action in the community. Board Members hope the LNECA will soon becoming a tax-exempt 501(c)3. Differing from a neighborhood association, homeowners’ association or community development corporation, the goal of LNECA is to further charitable

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