2012 October Lakewood

GOING FOR THE BLUE

(RIBBON) AT THE TEXASSTATE FAIR

Photo by Can Türkyilmaz

for Home Buyers and Remodelers

The Constitution’s Bill of Rights protects you from unreasonable search and seizure, and from double jeopardy. The Airline Passenger’s Bill of Rights keeps you from being stranded on the tarmac for more than four hours while the passenger next to you coughs his boredom away. But what protections do you have when you purchase a new home or hire a contractor to remodel your own? These are the rights you’re entitled to as a Bella Vista customer:

1. The right to the best value for your investment.

We will educate and inform you, to help you make the choices that result in getting the most utility, the most enjoyment, and the most value from your new home or remodeling budget.

2. The right to be secure and confident with your investment.

To ensure the longevity of all of our work, we use only high quality materials, and we cut no corners in installation and workmanship. Furthermore, we explain, in full detail, all of your warranty coverages, from appliances to shingles, and how to activate these protections.

3. The right to a speedy, but thorough and meticulous process. Only acts of God, customer delays, or shortages of materials may prevent us from completing your project within your contract’s time frame. Otherwise, we guarantee your project will be completed on time, per contract, and to your complete satisfaction.

4. The right to lasting satisfaction. No design respecting the establishment of a passing trend shall be created by Bella Vista Company. We will build and remodel, using the best of today’s architectural and design standards. Our designs will always combine modern utility, efficiency, and amenities with a classic, enduring beauty that reflects your personal tastes. A Bella Vista home will never go out of style.

5. The right to a universal standard of beauty.

The homes we create and remodel are a testament to universal, proven standards of what constitutes a gorgeous home in our area. We pledge to combine universal standards with yours to maximize your pride in ownership for as long as you own your home.

6. The right to consistent communication.

Your right to be informed of the nature and cause of any issues as they arise shall be respected. Your right to transparency and dependable communication shall be honored. We will never end a conversation with unanswered questions, unless you remain silent. The more you understand about your home and the building or remodeling process, the happier you will be with the end result. And your happiness is our greatest concern.

7. The right to the highest level of builder qualifications.

We pledge to live up to the highest standards of the trade associations to which we belong. These are the standards by which the elite professionals in our industry hold themselves accountable: standards for technical expertise, continuing skill development, professionalism, and integrity.

8. The right to a well-regulated, energy and cost-efficient home. We promise to build a home or complete a remodeling project that will not only give you immediate and lasting value in its quality, but also in its energy efficiency. By using the best practices in green building and materials, we will help to minimize the cost of owning your home for years to come.

9. These rights shall not be construed to deny other rights generally understood as rights to professionalism.

We will uphold your right to the highest expectations of professionalism, and strive to exceed those standards in every meeting, in every conversation, and in every contact we have with you, our valued customer.

10. The right to know your builder will be there for you.

Bella Vista Company has been a mainstay in this neighborhood for years, and we continue to grow as our customers tell friends and family about their experiences with us, and their satisfaction with our work. We are stable, and we intend to be here for you and your children for generations to come.

Darin Breedlove, CR, CGR, CGP, CAPS & Lance Tyler

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ALL’S FAIR Tradition is the gravity that pulls us to the State Fair

If you’ve ever attended the State Fair of Texas, even once in the event’s 126-year history, you know the talking points.

There’s the landmark spectre of Big Tex calling out “HOW-dee” to passersby while talking up fair activities and, in general, just being a super-huge mascot.

There’s the acreage-eating car show, which doesn’t feature every car and truck made for passengers, but it certainly feels like it walking through the two auto buildings.

There’s the livestock, which city folks treat as curiosities even as the people who know animals marvel at the specimens in their stalls and cages.

There’s the Midway, with row after row after row of fun-looking games that can be tough to win and scream-inducing rides that can be tough to stomach.

And there’s the fried food, which by reputation spreads Texas’ name farther and wider each fall as vendors scramble over each other to come up with new things to fry that are even more over-the-top than cactus, Coke, beer and cookies.

But when you talk with people about the fair, all of that stuff isn’t really what they remember, particularly if they’re longtime attendees who make the trek annually to the country’s most attended fair.

Sure, they talk about the fried food they ate or the stuff they heard Big Tex say, but that’s not what brings them back. Instead, they’re wandering the fairgrounds year after year because it’s a tradition, one maybe that was started by a grandparent or a parent, maybe begun in high school or college, or maybe kicked off themselves when

they were married or had kids of their own.

Most people don’t attend the State Fair of Texas because it’s the sexiest, coolest thing going. They show up at the fair because it’s a part of their lives, something they can’t miss any more than they can miss birthdays or anniversaries or first days of school.

Our story in this month’s magazines chronicles some of our neighborhood’s biggest fair-lovers, people who spend the fair’s entire off-season thinking of ways to cook or sew or build their way to glory in Creative Arts contests. But it’s the rare person who sits in a darkened room working on his or her fair plans alone; most of these people, as you’ll note from the story, make this a family affair, with daughters joining mothers and sons helping fathers, and

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grandparents throwing in their 2 cents, too.

It doesn’t really make any difference to these people if the weather is hot, if the grease has been around awhile, if the corny dog line is too long, or even if they win a coveted ribbon for their efforts.

They’re not coming to the fair for something to do; they’re coming to the fair because it’s what they do.

And I’ll be there, too.

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People show up at the fair because it’s a part of their lives, something they can’t miss any more than they can miss birthdays or anniversaries or first days of school.

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Lakewood Service League

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Texas Health Resources

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“Like”

“East Dallas continues to rock.”

—Eliot Landrum commenting on a story about new restaurant Whiterock Abbey opening next door to goodfriend and Good2Go

“Just happy it’s opening next to My House!”

—Jennifer Stanton Hargrave commenting on the news that “Lake House” is taking over the Bicycle Café at West Lawther and Northwest Highway

Read the full stories at lakewood. advocatemag.com, and “like” us to stay on top of the neighborhood’s latest restaurant and business news.

“My Great Dane and I enjoy walking under the tree every day during our morning constitutional.”

—Carolyn Davis commenting on a story about Munger Place’s “giving tree”

Read the giving tree story from new Advocate writer Talya Boerner at lakewood. advocatemag.com. Boerner writes about slices of neighborhood history, and her stories are published every week. Email her with ideas at tboerner@advocatemag.com.

“We all know Woodrow Wilson High School is nearing the end of a lengthy remodeling, but here’s a portion of the school that is up and running already: the newly remodeled cafeteria which until now had featured early 1950s design and now looks like it’s the poster child for a new fast-food franchise.”

Read Advocate publisher Rick Wamre’s full post and find more photos of the updated cafeteria at lakewood.advocatemag.com.

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LETTERS & COMMENTS

Do trails and alcohol mix?

Oh, great. Just what we need: alcohol and cars mixed in with runners and cyclists! (“Update on Lake House restaurant and bar, Northwest and Lawther,” Sept. 18 at lakewood.advocatemag.com)

—Bruce

Is there a great problem with people getting soused at the Katy Trail Ice House and then running down joggers and cyclists? I haven’t heard of any. Just like I didn’t see any big uptick in cyclists and/or runners getting run down in front of the Bicycle Cafe after it opened.

Garland Road or Arboretum Drive or … ?

—Wilson !

—Los_Politico

I wonder how it would have been perceived pre-pave-the-lake (“Residents react to Garland Road-to-Arboretum Drive name change suggestion,” Aug. 28 on lakewood. advocatemag.com). I know I’d much rather be associated with the Arboretum than Garland any day.

I agree. We chose to live inside the loop, and often friends think Garland Road is in some far out suburban neighborhood. White Rock (Blvd, Pkwy, etc.) makes more sense to me, but Arboretum is fine.

—Parker

I say we rename Garland Road the Garland Expressway and build an elevated freeway above it from Fair Park to Wylie (“Starbucks, grocery in the works for Gaston/Garland redevelopment,” July 11 on lakewood.advocatemag.com). Our traffic is ridiculous out here because you guys like moving around at 20 mph down there.

—Not made o’money

Tooting our curmudgeon horn

The Dallas Observer named Advocate contributing editor Jeff Siegel the city’s best columnist this year, and Siegel — who was too modest to ask anyone else at Advocate to write about it — gave his humble thanks on lakewood.advocatemag.com.

The Observer does a Best of Dallas every year, and picks a best columnist as part of the process. This year, for some reason completely unknown to me, they picked me.

Which is not to say I’m not flattered, because I am. The citation said so many nice things that I had to double check to make sure it was about me, since my writing here and in the magazine usually elicits the other sort of response. Don’t believe me? Then just ask Wamre. Rick asked me to write the column when we started this adventure, and has put up with me ever since. Frankly, given Dallas, that hasn’t always been easy for him.

If I may quote: “Beneath all that writing and attitude beats the heart of an old-fashioned newspaper reporter.” Believe it or not, that’s all I ever wanted to be, from the minute I was old enough to be aware that one could write and get paid for it. So thank you, Observer I appreciate this more than you know.

—Jeff Siegel

Read Siegel’s latest cantankerous column, in which he pledges he won’t be as cantankerous, on page 70.

White Rock Boathouse — the big and little of it

While many neighborhood residents are buzzing these days about plans to build a new boathouse near the lake’s north shore, White Rock Boathouse, Inc., in place on the other side of the lake for nine years now, is steadily growing.

Danny Fulgencio

The non-profit organization has made rowing accessible for students and adults, and it has changed much of the face of White Rock Lake. Executive director and head rowing coach Mark Wilson and member Thomas Carr gave us a tour of the facilities and filled us in on the following facts about their organization:

The White Rock Boathouse, Inc. facilities include the original White Rock Boathouse at Tee Pee Hill and a large boathouse nearby.

The original small art-deco style boathouse was built on the shore/water in 1930.

In 2004 the White Rock Boathouse group self funded the effort to refurbish the original boathouse, which was suffering from neglect, deterioration and gang-related graffiti. Today it is back in use. Rowers nicknamed it The Boomerang.

In 2007, White Rock Boathouse raised $2.5 million to turn the dilapidated, abandoned, vandalized Water Works building, next to the lake’s Filter Building, into the big boathouse. Rowers nicknamed it Big Boathouse.

The White Rock Boathouse, Inc., in collaboration with the Park Department and Dallas Water Utilities, also renovated the Filter Building at White Rock Lake for use as an entertainment venue that garners funds for boathouse facilities’ maintenance and rowing programs.

The renovation projects received design recognition from American Institute of Architects, Preservation Dallas and the Texas Historic Commission.

The modern era of rowing on White Rock began with the Dallas Rowing Club formation in 1980. It disbanded in 1982.

Said Dallas Rowing Club rebooted at Bachman in 1983 and occasionally held events at White Rock.

A MessAge FroM representAtive Kenneth sheets

Dear Neighbor,

Growing up in a military family and serving in the United States Marine Corps, I was taught to work hard, stand up for what you believe, and always try to do more with less. This is the same approach I take as your State Representative.

We need to grow our economy and create good-paying jobs here in Texas. We can do this by getting government out of the way of small business owners and entrepreneurs. Texas families need to keep more of what they earn so they can save and invest for their future. We need to keep taxes low and reduce government spending because the bigger government grows, the more our freedoms are eroded.

Most importantly, we must improve education for our children and grandchildren, our children deserve a quality education so they can be prepared for the future.

It is an honor to serve as your state representative, and I will never forget that I work for you.

Sincerely,

Voted #1 Realtor

(by my staff:)

Johnathan Ling 214.504.8896

In the late ’90s, the Southern Methodist University women’s crew began rowing on White Rock, from the Bath House Cultural Center.

With the opening of the Big Boathouse, programs such as the WRB Juniors, a rowing program for students from a variety of Dallas high schools, and the WRB Masters, open to anyone over age 18, emerged.

SMU crew teams, along with Jesuit High and Highland Park Crew, moved into the new boathouse.

Rowing is an excellent exercise for adults, Tom Carr says. He says he started rowing to complement his running, but now rowing is his primary passion. Not only is it easier on your body, because it is no-impact, but it also works your arms, core and legs — your whole body, really, he says.

It also can be mesmerizing: “I know it’s goofy, but some mornings the seagulls group up and fly up behind me, right over me, and you can almost look them in the eyes. Pelicans sometimes do close flybys. You don’t know exactly when these moments are going to happen, but when they do, it’s really neat.”

White Rock Boathouse has taught more than 500 adults to row.

Boathouse members can reserve clubowned boats online after passing an initial skills test and have open access to facilities. Learn more about membership at whiterockboathouse.com.

As for the juniors, rowing is the ultimate team sport, coach Mark Wilson tells us. “It’s not a sport where you have one superstar,” he says. “They have to really work together. You are only as good as your weakest link. For kids, this is an important lesson to learn.”

About 35 percent of students in the juniors rowing program receive financial assistance.

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The juniors rowing team is open to any high school student in the Dallas area.

So far, 19 Dallas-area schools are represented.

Among participants, 25 percent are ethnic minoroties.

The boathouse also offers opportunities for middle-schoolers, summer camps for beginners and elites, and college recruiting seminars.

In 2011 Woodrow Wilson High School’s Eli Brown represented the USA on the U.S. Rowing’s Junior Development Team. He now rows for the University of Washington.

Bishop Lynch High School graduates Hallie Chambers, Morgan Henry and Kevin Cadell are rowing on their college teams this season.

The U.S. Paralympics office of Dallas recently has selected White Rock Boathouse as the site for adaptive rowing programs in Dallas. Adaptive rowing is a special category of racing for people with physical disabilities. As of summer 2012, there is an active group of 10 adaptive rowers training twice a week.

This year, the Highland Park Crew team changed its name to the United Crew and announced plans to build a new, bigger boathouse on the opposite end of the lake from the Big Boathouse.

Carr says that the separation of White Rock and United rowing clubs was necessary because both groups are growing exponentially. “Our masters program, just for example, went from 20 rowers to 252 altogether. Juniors in camp last summer went from 16 the previous year to 117 this past summer. Rowing is growing.” For that reason, he says, “another facility that supports rowing is a good thing.”

—Christina Hughes Babb

FOR NEWS ON THE NEW BOATHOUSE, visit lakewood.advocatemag.com and search “Dallas United Crew.”

Shoes, baby

Luvy Amaya has a shoe obsession. Before she had kids, she amassed about 500 pairs, buying at least two new pairs of shoes a week, she says. After her daughter Sophia was born five years ago, Amaya’s passion shifted to children’s shoes. Before she knew it, her baby had 20 or 30 pairs of shoes. “I could never find baby shoes that were as fun and playful as the dresses are,” she says. So Amaya, who is a pharmacist for Texas Health Systems, put her love of fashion and footwear to work earlier this year with a line of baby shoes called Luv Choo. The name Luv Choo comes from text message conversations Amaya has with her sister. That’s their way of saying “I love you,” she says. Amaya sought advice and mentorship from Dallas women she knows in the fashion business. She designs the shoes at her dining room table, and she has them made in China. “I really wanted to have them made here, but I would send things out to a hundred people and get nothing back,” she says. “If you send 10 emails to China, you get 10 emails back.” So far, the shoes are available in about 30 boutiques in Texas and elsewhere. They retail for around $40 a pair and also are available at labellaflorachildrensboutique. com. The shoes come in three styles: Beatrice, Bloom and Rose, the latter of which is named for Amaya’s younger daughter. Next, she would like to start a line of toddler shoes as Rose has grown out of the baby shoes. A pharmacist by day and a shoe designer by night, Amaya says she likes using both hemispheres of her brain. The whole family, including Amaya’s husband, Chris, offer their opinions on Amaya’s designs. “It’s just so much fun,” she says. “We do this as a family.” —Rachel Stone

PERUSE AMAYA’S SHOES AT lovechoo.com.

One of the Good Guys

• Improving our schools by drastically reducing the impact of standardized testing

• Supports term limits and abolishing legislative retirement

• Backing police and neighborhoods to protect our families

• I want to restore seniors’ security. They built this country, so it’s the least we can do.

Fancy feet

Socks are the new tie, says Kelly Largent. “It’s another way to express yourself.” Add the element of surprise, and you’ve got Foot Cardigan. Largent is one of the five founders of the subscription-based sock-of-the-month club that launched in June. Customers sign up to receive a randomly chosen pair of “delightfully unusual” socks in the mail for $9 a month. “Who gets cool mail anymore?” says Lakewood resident Bryan DeLuca. “It’s like playing the lottery, but you always win.” DeLuca came up with the idea for Foot Cardigan during a three-month trip to Europe where he forgot to bring enough socks. “All they had in the store were really weird socks. I bought 10 pair, even though I only needed two. I fell in love with very weird, funny socks.” He pitched the idea to Largent. “He said, ‘Dude, I’m in.’ When Kelly latches onto an idea, you know it’s good. He’s kind of quiet, so when he says something,

Political

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Robert Miklos is married to his high school sweetheart, Kathy. Their threes sons attend public schools.

Does your lawn and landscape need CPR?

With the record heat and drought, you must act now to restore your lawn. Aeration helps reduce compaction and compost helps add back the nutrients that our extreme heat has depleted. The two combined have shown to improve moisture retention and reduce water consumption by 50%. Restoration Special Liquid Compost Application: $25 per 1000 sq ft.

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it matters.” They added to the team Matt McClard, who developed the website, creative genius Matt Fry, who also lives in Lakewood, and Tom Browning, who recently quit his day job to focus on Foot Cardigan full-time. In September, the guys moved from buying socks wholesale to designing and manufacturing their own. Their first project is Sock the Vote, which features two pairs of socks — one embroidered with a Barack Obama image and the other with Mitt Romney. Foot Cardigan ships socks all over the country and has started receiving requests internationally. “For the price of two lattes a month, you get something fun,” Browning says. “You can wear them with uniforms, pants, shorts and, unfortunately, sandals. We neither judge nor condone that.” —Emily

FIND YOUR SOCK FIX AT footcardigan.com.

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Kelly Largent, Bryan DeLuca, Matt McClard, Tom Browning and Matt Fry of Foot Cardigan have a thing for socks. Photo by Danny Fulgencio

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YOGA MART

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T.HEE GREETINGS

Scare up some great finds at T. Hee Greetings! Opening our 3rd store in October, just in time for Halloween! Lake Highlands, Lakewood, & Preston Center. t-heegifts.com

BEL AIR STUDIO & DESIGN

Calf hair clutch with optional wristlet or shoulder chain. $115. Choose from royal, yellow, orange, red, black, and brown. OPEN Tuesday-Friday 12-5 and Saturday 12-4. 2802 Greenville Ave. 214.827.7420

WACKYM’S KITCHEN

Wackym’s Kitchen bakes delicious cookies and treats from original recipes using fresh, natural ingredients like real butter and cane sugar. Visit our website to order or find a retail location. wackymskitchen.com

ONCE UPON A CHILD

Spooky to think that Halloween is just around the corner. Come see our SPOOKTACULAR Halloween Costumes before they’re all gone!

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MARIPOSA IMPORTS

Discover the best collection of Day of the Dead folk art around! Flamboyant Katrinas to DIY sugar skull kits await you now at 2813 N. Henderson Ave. 214.826.0069 lamariposaimports.com

MINIME

These adorable storage bins are tough enough to hold whatever you throw in them, but cute enough to complement the best dressed home. 6719 Snider Plaza minimedallas.com 214.346.5401

THE goods

what gives?

Wilkinson Center celebrates 30 years with Black and White Gala

IN LAKE HIGHLANDS

IN LAKE HIGHLANDS

LISETTE L’s pant Fit-Clinic – Tues. Oct. 2nd! Giving away a pair every hour!!! These are the ‘Must Have’ pants that flatten and flatter and make you look fabulous! Mon-Sat 9:30-5:30. 214.553.8850 10233 E. NW Hwy., #410. TheStoreinLH.com

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THE HOSPITALITY SWEET

THE HOSPITALITY SWEET

Come taste our fall sweets at the London Café inside Timothy Oulton at Potter Square. 4500 N. Central Expressway. 214.534.2241 thehospitalitysweet.com

Come taste our fall sweets at the London Café inside Timothy Oulton at Potter Square. 4500 N. Central Expressway. 214.534.2241 thehospitalitysweet.com

PINOT’S PALETTE

PINOT’S PALETTE

Paint Your Own House (deadline 10/12)

Paint Your Own House (deadline 10/12)

Great Gift for Christmas!

Great Gift for Christmas!

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ADVOCATE ORNAMENT

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The Advocate Foundation’s limited-edition, numbered, and hand-painted ornament; perfect gift for the new home owner or Dallas transplant. Sales benefit neighborhood organizations. 214.292.0486 foundation.advocatemag.com

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Pearnetta Perry lost her job when her employers learned she couldn’t read or write and did not have a GED. Out of work, the East Dallas woman, for the first time in her 50 some years, sought a handout in the form of food from the Wilkinson Center pantry. It was there that she saw an announcement with these letters: GED. She asked someone to read it for her. It was a notice about a pre-GED class. Perry enrolled later that week. That is how the Wilkinson Center works, by offering people ways to help themselves. Wilkinson Center opened after Rev. Clayton Lewis of the former Munger Place United Methodist Church saw a child rooting through garbage for something to eat. Since then, Wilkinson Center has grown into an organization that helps individuals and families pull themselves out of poverty. The center serves about 40,000 people a year with emergency food and shelter, counseling, after-school programs and adult education. Many out-of-work people in our neighborhood wind up at the Wilkinson Center food pantry, where they can take home food when grocery money has run out. Others, like Perry, say the organization has changed their lives. At the annual Black and White Gala, Saturday, Nov. 3 at Dallas Contemporary, 161 Glass, The Wilkinson Center celebrates 30 years. Guests will enjoy music by James Fabriano and Elizabeth Farrell, dinner by Wendy Krispin Catering and a live auction. Individual tickets start at $175, and all probenefit the Wilkinson Center programs. Purchase tickets and learn more at wilkinsoncenter.org.

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The cap and gown way

When Miguel Gonzalez took a job overseeing student retention at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, he went looking for a self-help book he could show students. “There were some things on what universities can do to help students graduate, but there was not manual, no how-to for the average student,” Gonzalez says. So Gonzalez decided to write the book, Finish In 4: 10 Steps to Graduating College in 4 Years. “There’s a lot of energy and resources to help students get to college and make the transition from high school to college,” he says. But not much is available to help guide students through college. Only about half of students who enter college as freshmen graduate in four years. Gonzalez himself had 143 credits upon graduation, when he only needed 120. Those extra 23 hours were time and money wasted, he says. Gonzalez started writing the book while he was still in Pennsylvania, but then his wife’s job took them to Arizona and then Dallas. He finished the book last year and published it in March under the company he already owned, Muckraker Media, which had published promotional materials and websites. Gonzalez is planning four other titles in the “Finish in 4” series. Next are books for veterans and students who are parents. He also plans books specifically geared toward first-generation college students and minorities. So what are these 10 steps for graduating in four years? Gonzalez clued us in on a few of them. First, have a plan for graduating in four years. In high school, everything is prescribed. Students go to class, and if they show up and do the work, then after four years, they graduate. Many incoming students don’t realize they need to plan how many classes to take each semester to graduate on time. Next, students should take advantage of counseling and find a mentor in college. “Most people don’t seek a guide,” Gonzalez says. “You don’t want to go on safari alone. You hire a guide to take you because you’ve never been there before.”

—Rachel Stone

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A wheelie good cat

As a kitten, Nick fell from the wheel of a van making a turn on a busy street. Someone scooped him up and brought him to a shelter, where she found Lisa and Wally Williams of McCommas, who had gone to look for a cat. “He never made it inside the shelter,” Lisa says. Nick is still missing a little patch of fur on the side of his head. He’s 3 years old and “the main squeeze for our three kids,” Lisa says.

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Twenty years of studio tours

The White Rock Artists Studio Tour started 20 years ago, when pals Marty Ray and Michael Obranovich decided to have studio openings on the same weekend. At the time, Ray was an art teacher at Bryan Adams High School, and she wanted her students to be able to see where artists worked. Obranovich is a potter who had taught Ray at East Field College, and they asked their mutual friend, sculptor David Hickman, to open his home and studio as well. There were only four studios on that first tour. This year, there are 39. “There are so many that most people don’t get to see them all in one year,” says Lottie Minnick, whose studio has been on the tour for many years. “You have to pick your spots and use your time wisely.” Hickman’s studio, and the home he shares with wife Linda, is the “preeminent” stop on the annual tour, Ray says. And it is easy to see why. The Hickmans bought their house about 30 years ago, and they added David’s studio a few years later. Over the years, the home has become a

“I not only look better, my whole jaw feels better. And I thought the way it felt before was just normal!”

— Carl, 38

showcase for David’s sculptures and their extensive art collection. “We call it ‘Nasher lite,’ ” David says of the garden. Linda is the gardener, and a few years ago, David built her a greenhouse entirely out of discarded doors. Everywhere you look, there is some clever thing, some beautiful creation. “You get to see where the artists work, and you also get to see where you live,” Ray says. “Many times, you even get to see them at work.” Minnick says the tour always falls on her birthday weekend, and it’s her favorite weekend of the year. “To me, it’s a party. It’s a big, two-day party,” she says. “My backyard is full of people, and we have a great time.”

—Rachel Stone

THE WHITE ROCK ARTISTSSTUDIO TOUR is from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 13-14. It is a free, self-guided tour. Maps are available at whiterockartists.com, the Bath House Cultural Center, the Creative Arts Center and other neighborhood businesses.

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See more studios on the tour. Visit lakewood.advocatemag.com/photos

Michael Obranovich, Marty Ray and David Hickman started the White Rock Artists Studio Tour in 1992.

Out & About

October 2012

Oct. 4

16th annual Long Run

Choose the 1-mile fun run at 6 p.m. or take the 5k challenge at 6:30 p.m. to help boost students’ funding for technology, uniforms, college visits and more.

J.L. Long Middle School, 6116 Reiger, 972.502.4700, jlong.com, $10-$20

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OCT. 2

National Night Out

The Lower Greenville, Lowest Greenville West and Lakewood Heights neighborhood associations have teamed up to put on a night of fun and education about crime and drug use. Their familyfriendly party will feature games and prizes from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at the south end of the park. This year marks the ninth for one of Dallas’ largest National Night Out events.

Tietze Park, 2700 Skillman, free

OCT. 3

Homecoming parade

The procession starts at 5:45 p.m. at Woodrow Wilson and ends there, too, with a post-parade pep rally and cookout. Continue the festivities on Oct. 5 with the homecoming game on Franklin Field.

Woodrow Wilson High School

972.502.4400, 100 S. Glasgow, www.woodrowwildcats.org

OCT. 11

Santa Fe 5k

Friends of the Santa Fe Trail are raising money to improve new trail sections. Pick up packets at 5:15 p.m. and stick around for music, beer and food trucks afterward.

Lindsley Park, 722 Memorial runproject.org, $25-$40

OCT. 13

Spruce-up and picnic

This month’s Second Saturday Shoreline Spruce-Up gives neighbors the chance to keep White Rock Lake beautiful and eat a tasty lunch. Arrive at the For the Love of the Lake office at 8 a.m. to grab supplies for the cleanup. Then stick around at noon for the annual volunteer appreciation picnic. Adults should accompany volunteers under age 18. For the Love of the Lake 1152 N. Buckner Ste. 123, 214.660.1100whiterocklake.org

OCT. 19

Sanger Stampede fall carnival

Find food, bounce houses, an obstacle course, games and even a pumpkin pie–eating contest from 4-8 p.m. Alex Sanger Elementary Schook 8410 San Leandro, 972.749.7600 alexsangerelementary.org

$10-$20 for wristbands

OCT. 20

Fall family carnival

Drop by from 1–5 p.m. for music, a cakewalk and a ropes course. Tickets for rides, games and food can be purchased at the event.

Stonewall Jackson Elementary School, 5828 East Mockingbird, 972.749.7200, stonewalljacksonpta.org, free

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Oct. 4-20

‘Children’ performance

Loosely based on a John Cheever short story, the production explores a wealthy family’s unfolding drama in New England circa 1970. Artistic director Susan Sargeant chose to mark WingSpan Theatre Company’s 15th season with a play that resonates with her childhood. The Bath House has housed all but one WingSpan performance, and Sargeant attributes the company’s success in part to the Bath House’s support.

Bath House Cultural Center 521 E. Lawther, 214.670.8751 wingspantheatre.com

$18-$20, pay what you can Oct.4, 5, 11

OCT. 27-28

Arboretum family fun

Trick-or-treat at the Small Houses of Great Artists exhibit from noon-4 p.m. A magician, a petting zoo and a facepainting station add to the fun in the Pecan Grove from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland, 214.515.6500, dallasarboretum.org, $9–$15

OCT. 27-28

Klyde Warren Park opening

Celebrate the new Klyde Warren Park with free admission to the Nasher Sculpture Center Saturday and Sunday. Saturday will feature extended hours, live artist demonstrations, scheduled tours exhibitions. The Polyphonic Spree headlines a free concert Saturday, and the festivities culminate the Dallas Arts District’s Art in October events.

Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora, 214.242.5100, nashersculpturecenter.org, free

Delicious

Southern food

Walking into Sissy’s feels like coming home — or at least that’s Lisa Garza’s hope for customers. “I want you to come here and feel loved and taken care of,” Garza says. The Memphis-born chef and owner, who grew up watching Julia Child and cooking for her family, is creating a culture through finely crafted, homey details like delicate dishware and in-house canning, which the restaurant plans to start this fall. The restaurant, which opened in late February, may have initially been most famous for its fried chicken, but Sissy’s also showcases its healthy dishes. “Southern food has become this stereotype that it’s not,” says Garza, who wants her restaurant to resonate with Southerners and be a “true reflection of the beauty of the South.” Sissy’s, at heart, is a family restaurant born after the death of Garza’s brother — her “bubba,” the male equivalent of “sissy.” After experience working in high-end cuisine, including a stint as the cook for the Dallas Superbowl’s VIP tent, Garza realized that what people often liked most was simple food. “It clicked for me. It doesn’t have to be so pretentious and really, when you get to that level, it’s not fun anymore,” Garza says. If you can’t decide what to order from Sissy’s menu, Garza says you can’t go wrong with chicken and champagne.

—Lauri Valerio

SISSY’S SOUTHERN KITCHEN AND BAR

2929 Henderson

214.827.9900

sissyssouthernkitchen. com

AMBIANCE: WARM

PRICE RANGE: $14-$24

TIP: THE NEW LUNCH MENU FEATURES FRESH DISHES AND OLD FAVORITES.

ABOVE/ Pickled vegetables line the bar. LEFT/ Heirloom tomato mozzarella salad.

Photos by Mark Davis

1 Garden Café

In the spirit of healthy home cooking, the Garden Café grows its own vegetables and aims to join the slow food movement. While its cheese grits and sweet potato pancakes win over taste buds, its poetry dinners and art installations speak to customers’ creativity.

5310 Junius 214.887.8330 gardencafe.net

2 Chicken House Plus

For hearty fried food, try the Chicken House’s chicken and fries. A local favorite, the mainly drivethrough restaurant also features catfish and fried apple pies. It might be the greasy grub you’ve been craving.

909 N. Fitzhugh 214.370.0800

3 Alligator Café

The New Orleans–inspired eatery treats customers to acoustic blues Thursday through Saturday. The Cajun and creole menu includes gumbo, fried catfish and alligator.

9540 Garland, Ste. 362 214.821.6900

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Hacienda On

Pickled gulf shrimp with onion, tomato, red pepper and seasoned saltines.

Fermenting questions

Castellar brut cava ($10) Spain

The wine business is in flux, with forces dragging it in all sorts of directions. Will prices go up, or will they continue at near decade lows? Will consolidation continue on the producer and retail side of the business, and what will happen to prices if they do? Will Texas wine continue to be better made and more easily available? And what’s with the tremendous increase in the popularity of sweet red wine?

The good news for consumers, despite this uncertainty, is that the wine most of us drink will still be well priced, and we’ll have more places than ever to buy it. What’s happening here, with the addition of Spec’s, Total Wine and the soon-to-arrive Trader Joe’s, is happening elsewhere in the United States. And, yes, sales of sweet red wine are approaching levels never seen before — ask anyone who tells you that their favorite wine is Cupcake’s Red Velvet or E&J Gallo’s Apothic.

This month, three wines that reflect what’s going on:

sold close to cost, thanks to increased competition in Dallas and a recession in Spain that has cut demand there. Cheap cava doesn’t get much better than Casteller (around $10), which makes brut and rosé. Both have lots of tight, firm bubbles and long mineral finishes.

and the Texas Legislature, seems to think that local wine is a good idea. Texas growers and producers, who may have had the best harvest ever in 2012, are demonstrating their skill with wines like Llano Estacado’s Viviano (about $26), a red blend that includes sangiovese and has gotten better with each vintage.

Bogle, perhaps the best cheap wine producer in the United States, continues to hold the line on price. Ryan Bogle, whose family still owns the winery, told me earlier this year that they want to make sure their customers get their $10 worth. Check out the sauvignon blanc (about $9), with its citrus and tropical fruit flavors, and you’ll see what he means.

—Jeff Siegel

JEFF SIEGEL’S WEEKLY WINE REVIEWS appear every Wednesday on lakewood.advocatemag.com

with your wine

Everyday lentil soup

Lentils, unlike most other dried beans, don’t require pre-soaking or hours to cook. You can get the entire thing done in less than hour, which includes chopping the vegetables. If you want a heartier soup, consider adding sliced smoked sausage or browned Italian sausage. Red wine would pair best, but any wine you like should work.

GROCERY LIST

6 c chicken or vegetable stock

1 c lentils

1 onion, chopped

1 carrot, diced

1 stalk celery, diced

DIRECTIONS

2 cloves garlic, chopped

1 bay leaf

2 tsp cumin

salt and pepper to taste

1. Brown the vegetables in a couple of teaspoons of olive oil until the onion is soft. Add the garlic, bay leaf and cumin and mix well.

2. Add the stock, bring to a boil over high heat, reduce to a gentle simmer, cover, and cook until the lentils are done, 30 to 45 minutes. Check for salt just before the lentils are cooked. And, if the soup is too thick, add more stock.

Makes 6 cups, takes about 1 hour

Ask the wine guy

Q. Do wine glasses make a difference?

A. Surprising l y, t h ey d o. Th is d oesn’t mean that you need to spend $100 on a wine g l ass, b ut t h e b etter qua l ity t h e g lass, the more you’ll taste of the wine (including any f laws). One rule o f thumb: Spend $1 on a g lass for each $1 y ou s p end on wine, so that i f y ou drink $10 wine, use g lasses that cost $10.

—Jeff Siegel

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Well-removed from Big Tex and the Midway, past the Cotton Bowl, sits the Creative Arts Building at Fair Park. While it’s not the State Fair of Texas’ sexiest attraction, the sweeping structure is a hub for a relatively unknown subculture: the competitors.

Competitions at the State Fair are aplenty. Among the arts and crafts contests: painting, sketching, needlepoint and Lego architecture. Food-contest categories feature baking with KARO syrup, chili, chocolate, relish, jam, SPAM creations, bread baking and cooking with cheese, to name a few. Collections contest categories run the gamut from apothecary items and thimbles to sports memorabilia and pipes. There are fashion-design contests and diorama competitions. The list goes on and on. We tracked down several neighborhood residents who, through experience, understand the spirit of State Fair rivalry.

Story by Rachel Stone | Photos by Danny Fulgencio and Can Turkyilmaz

bob reagan

Bob Reagan’s New Year’s Day tradition with wife, Martha, is to watch the sun rise near the Spillway at White Rock Lake. They’ve been doing it for about 15 years, and afterward they have breakfast at John’s Café.

That serene New Year’s sunrise over White Rock is depicted in Reagan’s photo contest entry at the fair this year. Last year, he “won” a green participation ribbon for his photo of the February 2011 ice storm, and he hopes to score a more exclusive color this year.

“I saved my pennies to buy a Leet reflex camera, single lens,” while still in college, he says. “And it’s always been a hobby.”

While walking the Creative Arts Building a few years ago, he

says, he realized that his pictures were good enough to compete. So he entered the following year.

Nineteen-fifty-two, the year Big Tex debuted, was the first year Reagan attended the fair, or so his mother tells him. He grew up in the Love Field neighborhood known as Love Dale Addition and attended Jesuit High School. He was a Dallas police officer in the 1970s and went through the police academy at Fair Park, when it was there. He remembers riding the monorail and the old Swiss Sky Ride at the state fair.

He missed a few years of the fair while in law school in Houston, but that’s where he met his wife. They went together when they were dating.

“She can’t wait to go to the fair every year,” he says.

jeff mason

Jeff Mason enters picante sauce and barbecue sauce in the fair’s creative arts competition every year.

But that’s no way to win a ribbon.

No. The easier path is to find a niche. Banana butter turned out to be that niche for Mason. And he is the reigning blue-ribbon holder, two years in a row.

But Mason, who is also a “real-beard Santa,” is not impressed. Even though he strategizes, identifying which categories garner the fewest entries and then enters those categories, he really wants a big one.

“I make about 40 quarts of salsa every year,” he says.

Friends request it for birthdays and Christmas. He says his nephews went ape over the stuff one Christmas, which gave him the boost to enter the fair for the first time.

“This year, I did a smoked version of the salsa,” he says. “It’s a two-day adventure when I’m making salsa.”

He also cans whole squash, okra, whole yellow tomatoes and pineapple. All of those are judged solely on appearance. The judges never taste them.

Mason won five blue ribbons last year.

PUPPY MILL OWNERS ARE DECEPTIVE.

They pose as caring breeders when you buy puppies online, at trade days, or in parking lots. They don’t want you to know the truth. They’ll never invite you cages, producing litter after litter until they die of neglect or disease. You’ll never see behind the scenes. But we have, and if you knew what we know, you’d never support this cruel industry. Don’t buy it.

phyllis rodriguez

Phyllis Rodriguez’s daughter pushed her to make her famous strawberry jam while she was recovering from an illness about eight years ago.

The batch tasted so good that she decided to enter it at the fair, and Rodriguez won a first place blue ribbon.

That was Rodriguez’s first entry into the fair.

“All it takes is one ribbon, and it hooks you,” she says.

Now she enters cookbooks and salt-and-pepper shakers in the collections competition. A blender cookbook from 1932 is among this year’s entries. Her cookbooks usually win ribbons.

She also entered salt and pepper shakers in the likeness of babies in diapers.

“My son had a baby this summer, and my daughter had a baby last year,” she says.

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Kathy Rohrer thinks about the fair all year. Once it’s over, she’s planning for next year. She practices her recipes and tries things out on her friends.

She has entered jams, jellies and canned vegetables in the creative arts contest every year for the past 15 years.

Every year, that is, except this one.

Rohrer visited a friend in Seattle the week before the deadline to submit fair entries. On the Saturday she was to fly back to Dallas, an August thunderstorm here caused her flight to be canceled.

“No flights were available on Sunday because everybody goes home on Sunday, and that was the final day to bring things in,” Rohrer says. “I had it all ready, and when I called them, they had closed the books.”

So her fruit cocktail, cucumber relish and peach barbecue sauce will go unjudged this year.

The Hutchinson, Kansas, native grew up going to the Kansas State Fair, where her mom used to enter the knitting competition. She started entering the State Fair of Texas after her Aunt Neva, who was in her 80s, died, leaving Rohrer her plastic bag full of canning recipes.

“I started screwing around with her recipes, and I figured I would find some mojo,” Rohrer

She’s kind of superstitious about the whole thing. If cucumbers, she assumes they will make her lucky, for example.

Rohrer has won ribbons every year she has entered.

That could also be because she’s exacting. One year, she won a blue ribbon for canned green beans, which are judged solely on how they look in the jar.

“I spent hours measuring each bean and putting them in the jar just so,” she says. “I thought ‘if anyone saw me doing this, they would think I am crazy.’ It was so much trouble, but I won.”

barbara michaels

Barbara Michaels is a founder of the Forest Hills Garden Club, and her garden is an inspiration for her fair entries.

This year, she made a loquat-peach jam infused with basil, a pear jam infused with sage and an orange marmalade.

A few years ago, she read a book called Blue Ribbon Preserves, and that gave her a lot of ideas. But she tweaks the recipes with herbs from her garden.

Michaels also is a member of the Lakewood Knit-Wits, who are known for “yarn bombing” the Lakewood Branch Library. She first entered the fair with a christening gown she made for her granddaughter in 1996, and that won third prize. This year, she’s entering a knitted scarf and shawl, along with the jellies.

Last year, she entered four things in the fair and won four ribbons — first, second, third and runner up.

“It’s become my own little competition for myself,” she says. “I’m competing with myself to see what can I think of next year to do.”

vinson family

Patti and Jonathan Vinson have been married 13 years, and it was at the State Fair of Texas she told him she was pregnant with their first child.

“We were in the food court area, near the Cotton Bowl, and I remember seeing the booth for Jack’s French Fries and Fletcher’s Corny Dogs,” she says.

On a lark, they took photos “in one of those goofy photo booths” that day. And the next year, they took another photo with their baby daughter, Claire. Now it’s a family tradition.

“It’s a fascinating record of how we’ve all changed,” Vinson says.

The family started entering the creative arts competitions five years ago. Patti entered two photos, and while she was at it, she submitted artwork from Claire, who was 7 at the time. Claire’s was a self-portrait, and she won the purple ribbon for best in show.

“She has considered herself an artist since that day,” she says of Claire, who is now 11.

Claire’s brother, 8-year-old Will, also submits artwork. Will’s first word, uttered while pointing at a refrigerator magnet depicting Big Tex, was “howdy,” Patti says.

The fair is a favorite family activity for the Vinsons, and it’s a big deal to them every year. But last year “was the most thrilling,” Patti says, because they were asked to be judges for the chili cook-off. Fair judges are given season passes and parking passes.

“We didn’t do it for that. We didn’t even know we would get all these perks,” Patti says. “We were just so happy to be part of the State Fair. It’s so interesting, and there’s such a great crowd of people.”

Will, Patti, Jonathan and Claire Vinson, with dog Dexter, consider the fair a family tradition.

CHASING THEIR TRAIL

Friends of the Santa Fe Trail plan to deck it out, East Dallas style

Along the White Rock Trail, west of the lake and just north of its spillway, a somewhat freshly paved path forks south.

It is, so far, the road less traveled. Where does it go? It is unmarked, which could explain why relatively few runners or cyclists veer o on it. When they do, the

trail takes them over Garland Road, across a bridge that was constructed in September 2010, through the Hollywood/ Santa Monica neighborhood, past Lindsley and Randall parks and Woodrow Wilson High School, and, if they continue, to the Deep Ellum area. Eventually it will stretch to Fair Park.

Story by Christina Hughes Babb

Photos by Can Türkyilmaz

This 12-foot-wide Santa Fe Trail, like all public parks and paths, is maintained by the Dallas Park and Recreation Department. But, if this sporadically populated, shade-deprived concrete swath is to evolve into a source of neighborhood pride, it will require the help of friends. Not fickle friends, but rather a stalwart, dedicated and loyal band of buddies bent on turning the Santa Fe into an aesthetic, user-friendly space that reflects the unique sensibilities of East Dallas.

In response to that need, the nonprofit foundation Friends of the Santa Fe Trail, comprising East Dallas homeowners and trail users, evolved a few years ago.

Today, as members prepare for the second annual Friends of the Santa Fe Trail 5k fundraising run, they are fired up about all the possibilities.

They aim to do for the Santa Fe Trail what another strong nonprofit, Friends of the Katy Trail,

OPPOSITE PAGE/ The Santa Fe Trail merges with White Rock Trail west of White Rock Lake. TOP/ Among ideas for the Santa Fe Trail design are a modern trellis and functional art. ABOVE/ A contemporary wall could eventually line portions of the path.Images courtesy Good Fulton & Farrell

Lawrence Mendive is an enthusiastic Friend of the Santa Fe Trail.

did for Katy Trail, near the Park Cities, “but East Dallas style,” board member Lawrence Mendive says.

“Like Katy Trail, we want to add amenities, fountains, rest areas, trail heads, lights.” But East Dallas has a di erent character than the neighborhood that surrounds Katy Trail, he says and therefore the plan for Santa Fe Trail is distinct.

“We see the Woodrow [Wilson High School] community getting involved with the planning, contributing ideas bike rental places, public art, a representation of the various neighborhoods it goes through. People use the Santa Fe for di erent reasons — exercise, walking, commuting to or from work or from Downtown, and kids use it to get to and from school. There is a more diverse group of people who go through,” Mendive says.

We want to set new standards.

In August, Friends of the Santa Fe Trail commissioned award-winning architects at Good Fulton & Farrell to do a design study; they say it is the first major step in planning the Santa Fe project.

“We told them to think big. Think outside the norm,” Mendive says. “We want to set new standards.”

The firm came up with some ideas not often, or perhaps ever, seen around Dallas.

One of the suggestions the friends really liked, Mendive says, is a wall made from durable, contemporary looking materials that lines the trail. It would complement the functional art that lines and arches over portions of the trail.

Another favorite idea is a vine-lined overhead trellis that shades a portion of the trail, allowing for travelers to stop for snacks at hypothetical food trucks.

Dog park, skate park, learning garden, artistic lighting, a sail boat canopy, a separate runners’ trail and benches that look like long, brightly colored ribbons are among ideas floated by the designers.

The early stage ideas are merely that, says Greg Shelton, president of the Friends of

We told them to think big.

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Friends of Santa Fe Trail envision playgrounds and obstacle courses lining the East Dallas trail.

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Santa Fe Trail. The friends plan to seek input from the community and the schools.

“There is still room for neighborhoods to make suggestions,” he says.

And, of course, they note, in order to progress with any of it, they will need to raise the funds.

Once they have an official design plan in place, they will set goals and commence more fundraising campaigns.

A visual presentation of the most up-todate plans for the Santa Fe Trail will be unveiled, amid appropriate fanfare, at the 2012 Friends of the Santa Fe Trail 5k.

Race chair Chris Angarola says he expects a big turnout. The first race last year was a hit, he says. People turned out in droves. This year, there is even more awareness and more enthusiasm for the event, he says.

“I got an incredible amount of positive feedback from runners,” he says. The friends raised about $8,000 last year, which they put toward the design studies.

THE FRIENDS OFTHESANTA FE TRAIL

5k is Thursday, Oct. 11 at 6:15 p.m. at Lindsley Park, 722 Tenison Memorial. Register online at runproject.org/santa-fe-5k or beginning at 5:15 p.m. race day.

THE BIG PICTURE

Completion of the Santa Fe Trail to Fair Park is expected to start in the fall and spring of 2013. Meanwhile the approved Dallas Bike Plan includes a Santa Fe-Katy trail connection via Downtown. In all, the city plans to increase the total number of city trail miles from 111 to 284. Dallas has, and will have, a lot of great trails, city leaders say. Once that happens, how can the city make the trails easier to use and encourage people to use them? A team of designers, engineers, city leaders and other creative minds tackled this question through the GOOD Ideas for Cities effort. No studies have been conducted on how trafficked the trails are already, according to Michael Hellman, manager of Park Planning and Acquisition for the City of Dallas, but this team is looking to get people out of cars and onto trails. After two months of thinking and spending time on the trails, the Connect the Dots/Bike Hike Trailsteam offered solutions. Their main idea includes creating an umbrella brand to market the trails, which would connect the Katy, White Rock, Santa Fe and other individual trails with an overarching identity. Other ideas are to put up signs to clearly mark intersections, and design an app that would allow users to map journeys via trails and alternate transportation.The app, which still needs a developer, would also help you track your progress and find nearby amenities such as bike repair shops. The team is hoping to gain approval from the Dallas Park Board soon so they can put their ideas into action. Samuel Stiles, director of development for the Dallas Parks Foundation, says he hopes the umbrella brand will not overshadow the existing trails but instead simplify messaging and ease marketing. For example, you might see more ads for the example brand GO: Get Outside Dallas, rather than individual ads for each trail. Though he has not heard from representatives of all the existing trails, Stiles says several have given him positive feedback.

— Lauri Valerio

‘For the grands to come’

Neighborhood startup designs Gullah/Geechee heritage museum

Story by Rachel Stone

The last black-owned property on the southeastern coast of the United States, Pin Point, Ga., is actually three tiny islands. Pin Point native Herman Haines explains this in the opening scenes of “Take Me to the Water, The Story of Pin Point.”

The 30-minute film was co-executive produced by neighborhood resident Travis Hopper and his business partner, Brian Owens.

Hopper and Owens, who had worked together for years at the Richards Group, started up their own firm, O&H Brand Design, last year. Two months later, they were hired to help create the Pin Point Heritage Museum, whose aim is to preserve the town’s heritage, and

Left / The typography and colors for the museum’s logo were inspired in part by the Pin Point Brand Oysters can. Below / The agency found old pictures and artifacts to use in the museum.

Photos courtesy of O&H Brand Design.

“We’d have to walk from the church down to the yard, singin’ a song about goin’ to the baptism,

& Son Oyster and Crab Factory, history of the Gullah/Geechie community of Pin Point, Georgia.

picking crab, 1940

Exhibit utilizing vintage oyster tins as viewing devices

thereby, that of the Gullah/Geechee people of the coastal southeastern United States.

Gullah/Geechee is a culture that can be compared to the Creoles of Louisiana. The Gullah and Geechee are descendants of African slaves. The white masters of those slaves lived elsewhere because of mosquito-borne illnesses. Their indigo-growing plantations and fisheries, amid the marshy islands from North Carolina to southern Georgia, were run entirely by Africans.

That resulted in an isolated culture that combined traditions from West Africa with New World ones. The Gullah/Geechee have a language, musical tradition and culture all their own. “Michael Row Your Boat Ashore” is one song that comes from the coastal culture.

Freedmen bought the three islands that comprise Pin Point more than 100 years ago. Every other piece of coast that once belonged to Gullah/Geechee, such as Hilton Head, N.C., has been gobbled up by developers.

Harlan Crow, the Dallas real estate magnate, financed the Pin Point Heritage Museum. It is housed in the former A.S. Varn & Son oyster and crab company, a long white building with a red roof on the banks of the Moon River. The building is iconic in the area, south of Savannah, Ga., having served as the main source of income for Pin Point until it closed 1985.

Part of O&H Brand Design’s charge was to find stories and artifacts for the museum and then use those to design the museum’s spaces.

Linguists and other academicians have studied Gullah/Geechee culture for years. But not much was available in the way of true stories from everyday life, Hopper says.

“People who had lived through the golden age of [Pin Point] were getting old and dying,” Hopper says.

So he and Owens spent months traveling between Dallas and Savannah, visiting with and interviewing the residents of Pin Point.

Initially, they encountered some distrust. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is from Pin Point, and in 1990, when he was accused of sexual harassment, the media portrayed Pin Point as backward, Hopper says.

“We had to gain the trust of the community,” Hopper says.

Telling the story 18 months later at his renovated mid-century modern home in Lochwood, Hopper notes that he has the cell numbers of most Pin Point residents programmed into his phone now. Even though the project is over, and the museum opened last month, they still keep in touch.

Hopper and his wife, Desiree, named their first baby Savannah Pearl, when she was born in May of last year. Baby Savannah was like a mascot at a Pin Point screening of

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“Take Me to the Water” in August, Hopper says.

The firm designed the interior of the museum to look as close to the original canning factory as possible.

“We wanted it to feel familiar to the people who came in and saw it,” Hopper says.

Throughout the museum, they use a typeface that was inspired by the typography of the oyster cans. The museum’s logo is the profile of a man rowing a small boat. And the colors, washed out blues and greens, were inspired by the water and marshes.

There are community artifacts, a recreation of the crab-picking room and other parts of the factory in the museum.

There are enlarged black-and-white photos of community members and their unique Pin Point nicknames — Nerve, Peaches, Pig, Manny, Dooky Dooky — along with audio outtakes from the film.

Hopper and Owens produced the film because they realized early on they could never tell the story of Pin Point as well as its residents and natives themselves.

Director Je Bednarz shot 250 hours of film over 15 days, and it was edited into a fascinating, funny, tear-jerking, feel-good 30 minutes.

“It was fortunate for us to start this proj-

ect when (our company was) just starting up,” Hopper says. “We were able to get fully immersed in it.”

Since O&H Brand and Design started, the firm has tripled in size. That is, from two to six employees. Their clients now include Raising Cane’s, Atmos Energy and the Center for Brain Health at UT Dallas.

Their work in Pin Point is done, but they

left part of themselves there.

Hopper says Pin Point residents were pleased with the film.

“Having them say we got it right,” Hopper says, “that was the validation we needed.”

As John Henry Haines Jr., aka Pig, says at the end of “Take Me to the Water,” he prays that the heritage and the town of Pin Point itself will be preserved, “for the grands to come.”

“Having them say we got it right, that was the validation we needed.”

Hopper and business partner Brian Owens co-executive produced “Take Me to the Water,” a documentary about Pin Point, Ga.

Club makeover

The Boys & Girls Club of East Dallas is headed toward a $200,000 renovation

Story by Rachel Stone

Around 4 p.m. every school day, vans pull up to the Boys & Girls Club of East Dallas, and noisy children spill out.

For employees of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Dallas, whose offices are next door to the club on Worth Street, it’s a better pick-me-up than an afternoon latte.

“It’s like, ‘They’re here!’ ” says Tosha Di Iorio, the nonprofit’s vice president of marketing and resource development. “It’s a beautiful sound.”

Since the club is adjacent to the headquarters, Di Iorio calls it their “show club.”

When potential donors and community leaders visit their o ces, they often tour the East Dallas club. But the club hasn’t been exactly showroom material. The after-school program moved into the former Minyard grocery store on Worth at Prairie in Old East Dallas in 1976. Since then, thousands of kids have clamored o those vans, and updates have been piecemeal and infrequent.

But an initial $60,000 grant from the Real Estate Council earlier this year set the Boys and Girls club on the way to total renovation. About five years ago, the club got a new gym floor and a mural. But much more work was needed. The first phase of reno-

vation, currently underway, includes new air conditioning units donated by Lennox, leveling the floors, new lighting, new bathrooms and a reception area. Gensler Dallas architects is donating the design. The architecture firm started its work by interviewing the club’s members.

“You would’ve thought we were their top client,” Di Iorio says of the pro-bono job.

In all, 25 organizations have donated to make the first phase a reality, including the real estate development firm Jackson Shaw, which matched the Real Estate Council’s grant.

“We’re designing it to budget,” Di Iorio says of the renovation. “If we get a $10,000

donation for a reception center, then it will be a $10,000 reception center.”

The nonprofit also has plans to renovate its kitchen and create a café and community garden where kids can eat their snacks and learn about nutrition. Di Iorio says she hopes updates to the building s façade will make the club more of a focal point in the neighborhood.

Part of the nonprofit’s current mission is to change perceptions. The Boys & Girls Club is not “a bunch of kids that need to be kept off the street,” says executive director Greg Robinson.

It’s not just basketball and foosball, although there is some of that. Families pay $20 annually per child for after-school care from 3-7 p.m. That includes transportation and snacks.

More important, the clubs provide tutoring — any student who receives a 79 or lower in any class is required to attend tutoring — as well as art and reading lessons. The clubs also enforce strict rules of conduct.

Di Iorio says they hope the makeover, particularly the new façade and the garden, will help to bring the club closer to neighbors. They are planning a brick campaign, where neighbors can purchase engraved bricks, which would go in the building s façade.

“This is their club, and these are their kids,” Di Iorio says.

So far, the nonprofit has raised more than $100,000 in cash, goods and services for the renovation, which is expected to cost about $200,000.

The Boys & Girls Club of East Dallas is the first club in the Dallas area to receive a total makeover. Once it is completed, a fundraising campaign will start for the club in Oak Cliff.

The East Dallas club is “a flagship location for the Boys & Girls Club,” says Robin Minnick, foundation director for the Real Estate Council. “If we can help them to create this sense of hope, then it is our hope that they would also be able to attract dollars for their other locations and help impact more neighborhoods and more kids.”

BUSINESS BUZZ

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California firm buys (most of) Henderson Avenue

East Dallas’ Andres family, which has owned parts of Henderson Avenue and lowest Greenville for almost 40 years, has sold its Henderson Avenue holdings to a real estate investment firm in Los Angeles. The Andres have been instrumental in redeveloping Henderson. Read columnist Jeff Siegel’s take on the sale on page 70.

Green Beans now toy boutique

Green Beans at the northwest corner of Mockingbird and Abrams opened as a resale boutique in 2009, but recently reopened as a toy boutique. The consignment and resale concept “just wasn’t really working out for us,” says Green Beans employee Quinn Coffman. But the toy section of the store was more successful, so that’s where Green Beans decided to refocus. It is now Green Beans Toy Boutique, selling toys for children from newborns up to 13 years of age. The store no longer carries clothes, but still has hair bows and such.

Sunflower completes conversion to Sprouts

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Sprouts Farmers Market 1800NORTHHENDERSON 214.826.2937 SPROUTS.COM

Walmart opening under Lower Greenville coalition recommendations

The Walmart Neighborhood Market store on Lower Greenville, set to open Oct. 17, will follow wishes expressed by a coalition of six neighborhood associations. The city just spent around $1.3 million to gussy up Lower Greenville from Richmond to Lewis, giving it a more pedestrianfriendly feel. Walmart agreed to create a landscaping plan with evergreen trees and shrubs. Plans call for replacing the sidewalk and adding multicolored pavers to jibe with the streetscape along the improved stretch of Lower Greenville. Walmart also committed to using the latest lighting technology available to reduce light pollution, and the retailer vowed to hire a security firm to keep the parking lot safe at night.

More business bits

Sprouts Farmers Market acquired all Sunflower Farmers Markets including Sunflower, the allnatural grocery store at Henderson and Ross. Sprouts’s acquisition increased it to a $2 billion dollar company in eight states. Also, as Sunflower and Sprouts merged, the corporations auctioned off excess equipment and donated $100,000 of the earnings to the victims of the Aurora, Colo., shooting victims.

Moreno family plans upscale concept

The Moreno family of La Popular Tamale House is planning an upscale new restaurant they hope will help revitalize the Old East Dallas neighborhood. The restaurant, Peak & Elm, is expected to open at 132 N. Peak this coming February. Peak & specialize in contemporary cuisine and feature locally sourced ingredi-

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1 WingSpan Theatre Company, which performs regularly at the Bath House Cultural Center, is celebrating its 15th anniversary. 2 The new Tommy Terrific’s Carwash opened at 5021 Ross. Tommy Terrific’s has another location on Forest near Marsh. 3 Adjust Chiropractic opens in early October in the White Rock Lake Plaza near Hypnotic Donuts 4 Urban Spools opened a sewing lounge on North Buckner in the Lake Highlands Village shopping center and is now offering sewing classes and holding a Friday night stitching club. 5 Alfonso’sItalian restaurant, also in Lake Highlands Village, celebrates 30 years in business this month. On Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 1 and 2, owner Pete Columbo will roll back the prices to his original 1982 menu. 6 After 70 years on North Henderson, Alamo Glass is moving. The neighborhood mix has changed from neighborhood services to a vortex of trendy restaurants and nightlife spots. 7 The Londoner Pub is opening in the space where Korean-inspired eatery Rohst used to be, at 2817 Greenville. This new Londoner joins existing ones in Uptown, Addison, Frisco and Allen. 8 Lakewood shoppingcenter children’s boutique Bebe Grand has closed, and is expected to open in October as a new concept. 9 The former Bicycle Café, located at Northwest Highway and West Lawther, will reopen in November under new ownership and the name Lake House.

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education GUIDE

SCOFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

3K through Grade 6 / 214.349.6843 / scofieldchristian.org

WHITE ROCK NORTH SCHOOL

9727 White Rock Trail Dallas / 214.348.7410 / WhiteRockNorthSchool. com.

community

The Oak Hill Book Club begins its 56th year on Tuesday, Oct. 2. Members grab lunch monthly at the Lakewood Country Club and listen to presenters talk about the book of the month. This year’s lineup includes actresses, authors, singers and comediennes. To become a member, contact oakhillbookclub@yahoo.com.

Dallas Summer Musicals’ 2013 season will feature seven touring Broadway productions including “Wicked” and “The Lion King.” Season tickets, now on sale at the box office at 5959 Royal, range from $125-$710.

SPANISH HOUSE

5740 Prospect Ave. Dallas / 214.826.4410 / DallasSpanishHouse.com

ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL

6121 E. Lovers Ln. Dallas / 214.363.1630/ ziondallas. org

Casa Linda AARP Chapter 3880 will hold a program, “You and Your Trees,” at 10 a.m. on Oct. 1. The event takes place at the Community Life Center of Casa Linda United Methodist Church at 1800 Barnes Bridge. For more information, call 214.321.1705.

people

Neighborhood Girl Scouts Anne Marie Bogar, Becca Jones, Kristian Michel and Ashley Nicole Stansbury recently earned Gold Awards — the highest award for high school Girl Scouts who research and implement projects they are passionate about. They all graduated this past spring from either Ursuline Academy of Dallas or Bishop Lynch High School.

ST. CHRISTOPHER’S MONTESSORI SCHOOL

7900 Lovers Ln. / 214.363.9391 stchristophersmontessori.com

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

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

James Kohn, chief of surgery and director of the Wound and Vein Center of Doctors Hospital at White Rock Lake, was voted Instructor of the Year by Naaman Forest High School students. The Garland school has partnered with the hospital for nearly 20 years to give students a taste of medical professions.

The movie “His Name is Bob,” which chronicles the life of Robert Crawford, our neighborhood’s most recognizable wanderer, is now on DVD. Moviemakers Lisa Johnson and Heather and Sebastian Lee are selling them on hisnameisbob.com. Bob will receive 20 percent of the net profits of the film.

education

Kaye Brookshire is the new Lakewood Elementary School principal. She follows the exit of principal Michelle Thompson, who has taken over as W.T. White High School’s principal.

Dallas County schools are now using cameras to identify cars that do not stop at school bus stop arms. Those identified can be fined $300.

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BAPTIST

LAKESIDE BAPTIST / 9150 Garland Rd / 214.324.1425

Worship — 8:30 am Classic & 11:00 am Contemporary

Pastor Jeff Donnell / www.lbcdallas.com

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

DIS C IPLES OF C HRIST

CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 4711 Westside Drive / 214.526.7291

Sunday Worship 11:00 am ./ Sunday School 9:45am

Wed. Bible Study 5:00 pm./ www.cccdt.org / ALL are welcome

E AST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / THE TABLE Worship Gathering 9:30 am

Worship 8:30 & 10:50 am / Rev. Deborah Morgan / www.edcc.org

E PISCOPAL

THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. MATTHEW / 5100 Ross Ave.

Sunday Traditional: 8:00 & 10:30 am / Christian Education 9:30 am

Servicio en español: 12:30 / 214.823.8134 / episcopalcathedral.org

L UTHERAN

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

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL / 6121 E Lovers Ln.

Sunday: Sunday School 9:15 am, Worship 8:00 am, 10:30 am, & 6:00 pm / 214.363.1639 / www.ziondallas.org

MET HODIST

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

9:30 – Sunday School / 10:30 – Fellowship Time

10:50 – Traditional & Contemporary Worship

WHITE ROCK UNITED METHODIST / www.wrumc.org

1450 Oldgate Lane / 214.324.3661

Sunday Worship 10:50 am / Rev. George Fisk

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

DWELLING PLACE CHURCH Being the church in every day life experiences / Sundays at 10:30am / www.dpclife.com

Magnolia Theater / 3699 McKinney Ave. / 469.438.5405

SHORELINE DALLAS CHURCH / 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane

ShorelineDallas.com / 469.227.0471 / Pastor Earl McClellan

Everyone’s Welcome at 9:15am / Children’s & Youth Ministry

PRESB Y TE R IAN

KING’S PARISH ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBY TERIAN CHURCH

kingsparish.com / Rev. David Winburne / Worship at 10:00 am

Meets at Ridgewood Park Rec Center / 469.600.3303

NORTHPARK PRESBY TERIAN CHURCH / 214.363.5457

9555 N. Central Expwy. / www.northparkpres.org

Pastor: Rev. Brent Barry / 8:30 & 11:00 am Sunday Services

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

8:30 & 11:00 am / Church School 9:30 am / Childcare provided.

ST. ANDREW’S PRESBY TERIAN / Skillman & Monticello

Rev. Rob Leischner. / www.standrewsdallas.org

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

UNIT Y

UNITY OF DALLAS / A Positive Path For Spiritual Living 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230 / 972-233-7106 / UnityDallas.org

Sunday services: 9:00 am & 11:00 am

DIVIDING OURSELVES IN GOD’S NAME

How can we say we’re one nation, indivisible?

When preachers start meddling in politics, they rightfully venture with trepidation. The principle of church-state separation should give us pause, but the line is hardly straight and there is also error in not venturing.

Religion touches the entirety of life, of which politics is one part. Church-state separation does not mean separation of God and government or religious convictions from public policy. It means people are free to practice their faith without interference from government, that government shall make no laws to favor or disfavor religion, and that religious groups may not endorse parties or candidates and at the same time retain their tax-exempt status — which presumes principled but not partisan advocacy.

With that then, this: Since many these days think government should be run more like a business, my question is, which business? A friend of mine is the managing principal of a local firm that is highly profitable and at the same time voted one of the best companies to work for in Dallas. Their three operating values are worth considering for government, too.

One, institutional excellence. It’s long past time we reject the axiom “close enough for government work.” Good government should mean well-managed, wellworked and well-accounted government. How government works is as important as whether government works. Taxpayers are shareholders in government. They pay for public business to be conducted on their behalf. Whatever size government you want, you want excellence. And if you have excellent government, the debate over size is less rancorous.

Two, entrepreneurial attitude. Businesses thrive when they look for better ways to do things. Sometimes that involves risk that government cannot afford to take with taxpayers’ money. For example, cities have gone broke recently because they invested

money from public employee pension funds in high-risk mortgage-backed securities. That’s not entrepreneurial; it’s foolish. But government should pilot new approaches. It should modernize technology to be more efficient at delivering services to citizens. It should not become complacent just doing the same thing again and again, expecting different results.

Three, and most important, the Golden Rule. My friend’s company operates with a corporate credo that says that everyone who works there — from the owners to the custodians — should be treated the way investors would expect to be treated. As a result, they provide the same benefit plans for health care, disability and life insurance, and retirement funding for all employees. This isn’t socialism; owners and managers still make more than rankand-file employees, and owners still make unmandated decisions for their company. But they ask themselves how they would want to be treated if they were in another’s position.

The Golden Rule says, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Every religion has its own variation on this that amounts to the same ethical standard.

Some people will vote this fall based on their religious convictions about issues like abortion, gay marriage and the freedom of religious institutions to opt out of government mandates that violate their moral convictions. Well and good, regardless of what side you are on. But demonizing neighbors of opposite viewpoints, demeaning the wealthy or poor for being wealthy or poor, or voting only for “people like us” violates the Golden Rule principle of public faith.

We will be “one nation under God indivisible” when we stop dividing ourselves in the name of God. We are a diverse people politically, but under God we are the same — sinners all, striving together to benefit all.

George Mason is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church. The Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and by the neighborhood business people and churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

Green: the new pink

Pinkalicious, also known as actress Emily Lockhart, traded pink for green (metaphorically) when she gave students the “Pinkalicious Green Team Award” at gardens tended by Stonewall Jackson Elementary. Pictured with Lockhart are Stonewall Gardens instructor Mark Painter, Dallas City Councilman Sheffie Kadane, and Stonewall firstgrade teacher Sarah Jane Rust and her class. The award recognizes the students for “bravely growing healthy greens,” a big acknowledgment coming from a character who learns to stop eating so many pink cupcakes and find the fun in green foods. The Dallas Children’s Theater production of “Pinkalicious the Musical” runs through Oct. 21.

CLASSES/TUTORING/ LESSONS

ART: Draw or Paint. All Levels. Lake Highlands N. Rec. Ctr. Jane Cross, 214-534-6829. Linda, 214-808-4919.

ARTISTIC GATHERINGS

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Lockhart sang a song from the show with the Stonewall firstgraders as they walked by the okra: “We’re gonna be brave and eat our greens.”

CHILDCARE

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

CONFUSED? FRUSTRATED? Let A Seasoned Pro Be The Interface Between You & That Pesky Computer. Hardware & Software Installation, Troubleshooting, Training. $60/hr. 1 hr min. Dan 214-660-3733 or stykidan@sbcglobal.net

DINO LIMO Yours For All Special Occasions,Casino Trips. 40 Yrs Exp. dino-avantilimousines.com. 214-682-9100

SIGNS: Nameplates, Badges, Office, Braille. A&G Engraving. 214-324-1992. getasign@att.net agengraving.vpweb.com

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

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

BOOKKEEPING NEEDS? Need Help Organizing Finances? No Job Too Small or Big. Call C.A.S. Bookkeeping Services. Cindy 214-821-6903

ESTATE/PROBATE MATTERS Because every family needs a will. Mary Glenn, J.D. maryglennattorney.com • 214-802-6768

HOME ORGANIZING & Senior Moving Plans/Solutions. Refs avail. Donna 860-710-3323 DHJ0807@aol.com. $30 hr.

TRANSLATIONS English, Spanish, & French at affordable rates. LenguaTutoringAndTranslation@yahoo.com or 214-331-7200.

A colorful tradition

Woodrow Wilson High School seniors carried on the tradition of painting their parking spaces before school starts.

BBULLETIN BOARD

Website Design

Flash Demos

Graphic Design

RibbitMultimedia .com 214.560.4207 MIND,

LYONS FITNESS & STRENGTH 469-744-3214

Personal Training at a Private Studio in East Dallas.

PETS

POOP SCOOP PROFESSIONALS Trust The Experts. 214-826-5009

Business buffs

The Greater East Dallas Chamber honored Nick Chamberlain (left) of Chamberlain Studios of Self Defense with the group’s Hensarling Business of the Year award on Aug. 21. U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling (right) presented the award. The Chamber honored two other neighborhood businesspeople as part of the group’s annual business awards luncheon: Entrepreneur of the Year honors went to Shea Boothe-Wood of True Beauty Rx, and Dr. Chuck Kobdish with Backmenders Chiropractic with Care was presented with the Chairman’s Award.

TO ADVERTISE CALL 214.560.4203

PETS

In-Home Professional Care

Customized to maintain your pet’s routine In-Home Pet Visits & Daily Walks

“Best of Dallas” D Magazine Serving the Dallas area since 1994 Bonded & Insured www.societypetsitter.com 214-821-3900

BUY/SELL/TRADE

OLD GUITARS WANTED Gibson, Fender, Gretsch, Martin. 1920s-1980s. Top dollar paid. Toll Free 1-866-433-8277

TOP CASH FOR CARS Any Car, Truck. Running or Not. Call for Instant Offer. 1-800-454-6951

ESTATE/GARAGE SALES

CLUTTERBLASTERS-ESTATE/MOVING SALES

De-Clutter/Organize www.ClutterBlasters.com Donna@ClutterBlasters.com 972-679-3100

ESTATE SALES & LIQUIDATION SERVICES

Moving, Retirement, Downsizing. One Piece or a Houseful. David Turner. 214-908-7688. dave2estates@aol.com

Photos by Kyle Rains

AC & HEAT

CHAMNESS SERVICES A/C & Heat Sales & Service. Res/Com. Serving Dallas 21 yrs. 214-328-0938 TACL003800C

DVO HEATING & AIR Sales, Service, Repair

TACLA26823E Mr. Vargas 214-460-3239

FOR QUALITY, QUALIFIED SERVICE CALL 214-350-0800 ABS AC & Heat TACLA28514E

LAKEWOOD HEAT & AIR Servicing Dallas

20+ years. 214-682-3822 TACLA28061E

S&E A/C & HEATING, LLC 214.912.7900

Half off svc fee w/repair. 10% off repair w/ maintenance pkg. Res/Com. #TACLA00029455E se-ac-heat.com BBB approved CCs Accepted

APPLIANCE REPAIR

Serving your Neighborhood Since 1993

Repairing: Refrigerators •Washer/Dryers

• Ice Makers •Stoves • Cooktops • Ovens 214✯823✯2629

CARPENTRY & REMODELING

ATLANTIS DESIGN-BUILD, LLC

Complete Remodeling. 40 Yrs Exp. Additions. 1 & 2 Story. Kitchens, Baths. Small Jobs To Entire House. Renovation & Design. Full Time Supervision. Licensed/Insured. Free Estimates. 281-761-4648

BLAKE CONSTRUCTION CONCEPTS, LLC

Complete Remodeling, Kitchens, Baths, Additions. Hardie Siding & Replacement Windows. Radiant Barrier, Insulation. Bonded & Insured. www.blake-construction.com 214-563-5035

CARPENTRY & REMODELING

TACLA28514E

CLEANING SERVICES

A

469-951-2948

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

LAST MINUTE House Cleaning. When no one else will clean I will. Bonded. Leslee 214-438-7790

MAID 4 YOU Bonded/Insured. Park Cities/M Streets Refs. Call Us First. Joyce.214-232-9629

MESS MASTERS Earth friendly housecleaning. 469-235-7272. www.messmasters.com Since ‘91

Building Services

American GENERAL CONTRACTOR Air Conditioning & Heating Sales, Service, All Brands. ONE SOURCE — ALL YOUR NEEDS 214-350-0800

At Crest, your family comes first.

Ser vice • Sales • Repair

0% FINANCING AVAILABLE

972.274.2157 crestairandheat.com

TACLB29169E

BLUE RIBBON

Heating & Air Conditioning 214-823-8888

972-216-1961

www.SherrellAir.com

TACL-B01349OE

APPLIANCE REPAIR

APPLIANCE REPAIR SPECIALIST

Repair, Sales. 214-321-4228

JESSE’S A/C & APPLIANCE SERVICE

TACLB13304C All Makes/Models. 214-660-8898

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

HANDY DAN “The Handyman” To Do’s Done Right! www.handy-dan.com 214-252-1628

KITCHEN AND BATHROOM SPECIALISTS

JCI Remodeling: From Simple Updates to Full Remodeling Services. Competitive Pricing! JCIRemodeling.com 972-948-5361

O’BRIEN GROUP INC. Professional Home Remodel. Shannon O’Brien. 214-341-1448 www.obriengroupinc.com

PREVIEW CONSTRUCTION INC.

James Hardie Cement Siding. Energy Star Windows. Kitchens-Baths-Additions & More. 214-348-3836. See Photo Gallery at: www.previewconstruction.com

SQUARE NAIL WOODWORKING

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

THE CLIENT’S CONTRACTOR www.CuttingEdgeRenovationsLLC.com

THE MAIDS Angie’s List Award! Deep cleaning specialists, Eco-friendly supplies. 972-278-6000

WANTED: HOUSES TO CLEAN

20 yrs. exp., Reliable, Great Prices, Excellent Refs., Free Estimates. No Crews. Sunny 214-724-2555

WINDOW MAN WINDOW CLEANING.COM

Residential Specialists. BBB. 214-718-3134

Residential Commercial Construction Remodel Cleans make-readys windows carpet

$25.00 Off – 1st Full Detail Clean Complimentary quotes! lecleandallas.com

214.750.4888 20 years in business!

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

COMPUTER PROBLEMS SOLVED

Hardware/Software. Network. 20 yrs exp. Great Rates! Keith 214-295-6367

IQUEUE MEDIA COMPANY 214-478-8644

TV Installation, Computer Repair, Security.

CONCRETE/ MASONRY/PAVING

BRICK & STONE REPAIR

Don 214-704-1722

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

CAZARES CONCRETE Concrete retaining walls, Patios, Driveways, Removal, Sidewalks. 214-202-8958 Free estimates.

CONCRETE/ MASONRY/PAVING

CONCRETE REPAIRS/REPOURS

Demo existing. Driveways/Patio/Walks

Pattern/Color available

972-672-5359 (32 yrs.)

CONCRETE, Driveway Specialist Repairs, Replacement, Removal, References. Reasonable. Chris 214-770-5001

EDMONDSPAVING.COM Asphalt & Concrete

Driveway-Sidewalk-Patio-Repair 214-957-3216

FLAGSTONE PATIOS, Retaining Walls, BBQ’s, Veneer, Flower Bed Edging, All Stone work. Chris 214-770-5001

ELECTRICAL SERVICE

LIC#17141

PC ELECTRIC

214.533.5949 call.text.email

EXTERIOR CLEANING

BLOUNTS HAULING/TRASH SERVICE

blountsjunkremovaldfw.com 214-275-5727

FENCING & DECKS

#1 COWBOY FENCE & IRON CO. Est. ‘91. 214-692-1991 www.cowboyfenceandiron.com

4 QUALITY FENCING Call Mike 214-507-9322

Specializing in Wood, New or Repair.

FLOORING & CARPETING

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

STAINED & SCORED CONCRETE FLOORS

New/Remodel. Res/Com. Int/Ext. Refin. 15 Yrs. TheConcreteStudio.com 214-321-1575

SUPER QUALITY WOOD FLOORS

Jim Crittendon, 214-821-6593

WILLEFORD HARDWOOD FLOORS

214-824-1166 • WillefordHardwoodFloors.com

WORLEY TILE & FLOORING

Custom Marble Install. 214-779-3842

Restoration Flooring

Swimming Pool Remodels • Patios Stone work • Stamp Concrete 972-727-2727

Deckoart.com

ELECTRICAL SERVICE

ANTHONY’S ELECTRIC Master Electrician. TECL24948 anthonyselectricofdallas.com

Family Owned/Operated. Insd. 214-328-1333

DIRECT ELECTRIC Inc. New, remodel, res/com. Insured. Call 214-566-8888. Lic # TECL27551

EXPERIENCED LICENSED ELECTRICIAN Insd. Steve. TECL#27297 214-718-9648

LAKEWOOD ELECTRICAL Local. Insured. Lic. #227509 Call Rylan 214-434-8735

MASTER ELECTRICIAN Lic #TECL 55703. Resd/Comcl. Bonded. Contr Lic# TECL23423. Trinity Electrical Services. David 214-802-0436

TEXAS ELECTRICAL • 214-289-0639

Prompt, Quality Services. Days, Evenings & Weekends. 34 Yrs Exp. 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

A FATHER, SON & GRANDSON TEAM Fences, Gates, Decks. Haven 214-327-0560

AMBASSADOR FENCE INC.

Automatic Gates, Iron & Cedar Fencing, Decks. Since 1996. MC/V 214-621-3217

ARTDECk-O.COM 20 Year Warranty! Decks, Fences, Pergolas 214-435-9574

CREATIVE METAL SOLUTIONS LLC

Automatic Gates, Fence, Stairs, Stair/Balcony Railings, Wine Cellar Gates. 214-325-4985

kIRkWOOD FENCE & DECk New & Repair. Free Estimates. Nathan Kirkwood. 214-341-0699

LONESTARDECkS.COM 214-357-3975

Decks, Arbors, Fences, Patio Covers Trex Decking & Fencing.

STEEL SALVATION Metal Art, Unique Crosses, Funky Fire Pits. steelsalvation.com

Local Resident 40+Yrs. 214-283-4673

EST. 1991 #1

COWBOY

FENCE & IRON CO.

214.692.1991

SPECIALIZING IN Wood Fences &Auto Gates

cowboyfenceandiron.com

’07, ’08, ’09, ’10, ’11 CONSUMERS CHOICE AWARDS

Making Homes Safer One Call

972-926-7007

FIREPLACE SERVICE

CHIMNEY SWEEP Dampers/Brick & Stone Repair. DFW Metro. Don 214-704-1722

FLOORING & CARPETING

BEAR FOOT HARDWOODS 214-734-8851

Complete Hardwood Flooring Services

CUTTING EDGE FLOORING Hardwoods, Carpet, Tile. New/Repair. 972-822-7501

DALLAS HARDWOODS 214-724-0936

Installation, Repair, Refinish, Wax, Hand Scrape.

Residential, Commercial. Sports Floors. 25 Yrs.

GLASS, WINDOWS & DOORS

THERASA’S SPECIALTIES Creates Unique Custom Window Treatments: Drapes, Valances, Cornice Boards, Roman Shades & More 972-271-6484 To Schedule Free In Home Estimate.

Energy-Efficient Windows Quality Workmanship, Quality Materials, Reasonable Prices, since 1987. 214.319.8400 fosterexteriors.com

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25+ Years Experience

469.774.3147

Hardwood Installation · Hand Scraping Sand & Finish · Dustless restorationflooring.net

Taking pride in our work

since 1975

WHITE ROCK FLOORS Hardwoods New/Refurbished Ceramic Tile

wrfloors@sbcglobal.net

Old fashioned work ethic.

214-293-7039

FOUNDATION REPAIR

• Slabs

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972-288-3797

We Answer Our Phones

GARAGE DOORS

GARAGE DOOR & SPRING REPAIR

972-672-0848 TexasGaragePros.com

20% off with “Advocate Magazine”

ROCKET GARAGE DOOR SERVICE -24/7. Repairs/Installs. 214-533-8670. Coupon On Web. www.RocketDoorService.com

UNITED GARAGE DOORS AND GATES Res/Com. Locally Owned.214-826-8096

GLASS, WINDOWS & DOORS

A FATHER, SON & GRANDSON TEAM Expert Window Cleaning. Haven 214-327-0560

CLEARWINDOWSANDDOORS.COM

Replacement Windows & Doors Free Estimate 214-274-5864

LAkE HIGHLANDS GLASS & MIRROR custom mirrors • shower enclosures store fronts • casements 214-349-8160

PELLA WINDOWS & DOORS

Specializing in Replacement Windows & Doors. Dan Cupp 972-742-6011 cuppdw@pella.com

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

1350 N. Buckner Suite 216 premium quality custom shower doors & enclosures 214-530-5483 showerdoordallas.com frameless and framed shower doors & enclosures • many glass & hardware options

HANDYMAN SERVICES

A HELPING HAND No Job Too Small. We do it all. Repairs /Redos. Chris. 214-693-0678

A R&G HANDYMAN Electrical, Plumbing, Painting, Fencing, Roofing, Light Hauling. Ron or Gary 214-861-7569, 469-878-8044

A+ HANDYMAN KARL Home Repairs, Remodels & Restoration. 214-699-8093

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

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

FRAME RIGHT All Honey-Dos/Jobs. Crown mold install $125/rm. Licensed. Matt 469-867-9029

HANDY DAN “The Handyman” To Do’s Done Right. www.handy-dan.com 214-252-1628

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

HARGRAVE CONSTRUCTION Kitchen, Bath, Doors, Tile & Handyman Services. 214-215-9266

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

NO JOB TOO BIG. NO JOB TOO SMALL. 40+ years exp. Ron Payne 214-755-9147

TW SERVICES Home Repairs and Yard Care. Contact 214-531-1897

WANTED: ODD JOBS & TO DO LISTS

Allen’s Handyman & Home Repair 214-288-4232

Your Home Repair Specialists Drywall Doors Senior Safety Carpentry Small & Odd Jobs And More! 972-308-6035

HandymanMatters.com/dallas Bonded & Insured. Locally owned & operated.

HOLIDAY DECORATING

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

Installation

HOUSE PAINTING

1 AFFORDABLE HOUSE PAINTING and Home Repair. Quality work.

Inside and Out. Free Ests. Local Refs. Ron 972-816-5634 or 972-475-3928

#1 GET MORE PAY LES

Painting. 85% Referrals. Free Est. 214-348-5070

A + INT/EXT PAINT & DRYWALL

Since 1977. Kirk Evans. 972-672-4681

A QUALITY PAINTING SERVICE

Interior & exterior plus small repairs. First two gallons free! 214-824-6112

A TONY’S PAINTING SERVICE Interior & Exterior 972-234-0770 mobile 214-755-2700

ABRAHAM PAINT SERVICE A Women Owned

Business 25 Yrs. Int/Ext. Wall Reprs. Discounts

On Whole Interiors and Exteriors 214-682-1541

ALL TYPES Painting & Repairs. A+ BBB rating. Small jobs welcome. Call Kenny 214-321-7000

BENJAMIN’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality

Work At Reasonable Prices. 214-725-6768

BLAKE CONSTRUCTION CONCEPTS, LLC

Complete Painting Interior/Exterior, Stain Etc. Custom Finishes, Custom Texture, Custom Trim www.blake-construction.com

Fully Bonded & Insured. 214-563-5035

RAMON’S INT/EXT PAINT

Sheetrock, Repairs. 214-679-4513

TOP COAT Professional. Reliable. References. TopCoatOfTexas.com 214-770-2863

VIP PAINTING & DRYWALL Int/Ext.

Sheetrock Repair, Resurfacing Tubs, Counters, Tile Repairs. 972-613-2585

WHITE ROCK PAINT & REMODEL References. Mark Reindel 214-321-5280

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Painting · Remodeling

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INTERIOR DESIGN

A LADY’S TOUCH WALLPAPERING Free Estimates. 972-832-3396

CUSTOM DRAPERY Window Treatments, Blinds,Shades,Upholstery. Designer Workroom. 15% seniors & New Homeowners. Linda 214-212-8058 dblinda86@msn.com

FURNITURE PAINTING Tired of old Kitchen or Bathroom Cabinets. Let us make them over in a hot new paint treatment. Jamie or Kay 214-773-7221

TLC DESIGN INC.Remodeling Interiors. tlcdi.com Local & national. No budget limits. 972-922-6483

YOUR DREAM HOME COME TRUE!

Exp’d. Design Pro. Call Carolyn 214-363-0747

KITCHEN/BATH/ TILE/GROUT

ALL SURFACE REFINISHING 214-631-8719. Tub/Tile/Refinishing. allsurfacerefinishing.com

BATHTUB, COUNTERTOP & TILE Resurfacing: Walls, Tub Surrounds, Showers. Glaze or Faux Stone finishes. Affordable Alternative to Replacement! 972-323-8375. PermaGlazeNorthDallas.com

BLAKE CONSTRUCTION CONCEPTS LLC

Complete Kitchen And Bath Remodels Tile, Granite, Marble, Travertine, Slate Bonded And Insured. 214-563-5035 www.blake-construction.com

BRIAN WARD STONE & TILE 972-989-9899

LH Dad & Firefighter. 12 years of Tile Experience.

FENN CONSTRUCTION Any Tile Anywhere. www.dallastileman.com 214-343-4645

HANDY DAN “The Handyman” Remodels Done Right. handy-dan.com 214-252-1628

TOM HOLT TILE 30 Yrs Experience In Tile, Backsplashes & Floors. Refs. Avail. 214-770-3444

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

Complete tree services including Tree & Landscape Lighting! Call Mark 214-332-3444

A&B LANDSCAPING Full Lawn Care, Landscaping, Tree Trimming, Fireplaces & Stonework. Lic #0283917- Degreed Horticulturist 214-534-3816

ADVANCED TREE SERVICE

Quality Tree Trimming & Removal. 214-455-2095

ALTON MARTIN LANDSCAPING Spectacular

Curbside Appeal! Excellent refs. 214-760-0825

ARBOR WIZARDS Professionals, Experts, Artists.

Trim Rmv Cable Repair Cavity-Fill Stump Grind Emergency Hazards . Insd. Free Est. 972-803-6313

AYALA’S LANDSCAPING SERVICE

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

BLOUNTS TREE SERVICE Spring Special 20% Off Tree Work. 45 yrs exp. Insured. blountssodinstallation.com 214-275-5727

CASTRO TREE SERVICE Quality Work at Great Rates. Free est. Insured. 214-337-7097

CHUPIK TREE SERVICE

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

Quality Service with a Personal Touch.

Lawn Service & Landscape Installation

GREENSKEEPER Fall Clean Up & Color. Sodding, Fertilization. Lawn Maintenance & Landscape. Res/Com. 214-546-8846

HOLMAN IRRIGATION

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

White Rock Landscaping 214-415-8434

ORTIZ LAWNCARE Complete Yard Care. Service by Felipe. Free Est. 214-215-3599

RONS LAWN Organic Solutions. Not Environmental Pollution. Landscape & Maintenance 972-222-LAWN (5296)

SPRINKLERS, LANDSCAPING, Stone Work, Drainage. Installed and Repaired. Call Kevin at 214-535-3352,Lic#7840. www.bigdirrigation.com

TAYLOR MADE IRRIGATION

Repairs, service, drains. 27 yrs exp. Ll 6295. Backflow Testing Cell-469-853-2326. John

THE POND MAN Water Gardens

Designed & Installed. Drained & Cleaned. Weekly Service. Jim Tillman 214-769-0324

TREE WIZARDS Trim Surgery. Removal. 15 Yrs Exp. Insured. Free Est. 214-680-5885

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

www.TexasXeriscapes.com 469-586-9054

WE’LL

214-763-0492

MOVING

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O ce Showroom/Dead Storage

500Sf -10,000Sf

10840 Sanden Dr (Miller Plano Rd), Dallas Call Ian Russell 214.213.9299

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

ANDREWS PLUMBING • 214-354-8521 # M37740 Insured. Any plumbing issues. 24 Hours/7 Days. plumberiffic@yahoo.com

Sewers • Drains • Bonded

*Joe Faz 214-794-7566 - Se Habla Español*

ARRIAGA PLUMBING:

Faucet, Sewer, Sink Repairs. Water/Slab Leaks. Shower Pans. Gas Testing. Remodels, Water Heaters, Stoppages. Insured. Lic 20754 214-321-0589, 214-738-7116

BLOUNTS PLUMBING REPAIR Rebuild or Replace. 45 yrs exp. Insured. 214-275-5727

JUSTIN’S PLUMBING SERVICE

For All Your Plumbing Needs. ml#M38121 972-523-1336. www.justinsplumbing.com

M&S PLUMBING Quality Work & Prompt Service. Jerry. 214-235-2172. lic.#M-11523

REPAIRS, Fixtures, General Plumbing, Senior Discounts. Campbell Plumbing. 214-321-5943

Slab Leak Specialists – inquire about reroute instead of jackhammering

• All Plumbing Repairs • Licensed/Insured

214-727-4040

ML-M36843

POOLS

ADAIR POOL & SPA SERVICE

1 month free service for new customers. Call for details. 469-358-0665.

LOCK’S POOL SERVICE - 469-235-2072

Dependable repairs. Pool Electrical TICL #550

MICHAEL’S POOL SERVICE Maintenance & Repair 214-727-7650

LEAFCHASER’S POOL SERVICE

Parts and Service. Chemicals and Repairs.

Jonathan Mossman FREE ESTIMATES

214-729-3311

ROOFING & GUTTERS

A&B GUTTER 972-530-5699

Clean Out, Repair/Replace. Leaf Guard. Free Estimates. Lifetime Warranty

A+ BBB RATED ROOFING CO.

Ehlers Roofing. New/Repairs. 214-699-8093. Est. 1960

GUARANTY ROOFING 214-760-3666 Re-Roofing/Repairs/Green Options. Free Estimates. www.guarantyroof.com

NATIONWIDE ROOFING,FENCING,GUTTERS

BBB member. 214-882-8719

Allstate Homecraft Roofing

• Roofing & Remodel • Additions • Licensed/Insured Over 1,000 Satisfied Customers in the Lakewood, Lake Highlands, Preston Hollow, Park Cities Areas

– M ETAL S PECIALIST –• Free Estimates 214-824-0767 allstatehomecraft.com

SERVICE, QUALITY AND INTEGRITY. It's Roofing Done Right.

When working with Aspenmark, you can expect:

• Expert insurance claims assistance

• FREE inspections and estimates

• Promptly returned phone calls

• Scheduled appointments

• Clean and timely installations

• Factory Certified materials

Aspenmark is the clear choice when it comes to quality workmanship, customer care and expertise. Call for an estimate TODAY! 214.823.7663

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BERT ROOFING INC.

IT WAS A HAIL OF A THEFT.

Like many North Texans, Andrew Wages’s home was hammered by hail in the series of storms that ripped across the area recently. Hail caused roof damage, roofers were called, and a delivery of shingles sat in his front driveway to be attached to his roof the next day.

The Victim: Andrew Wages

The Crime: Theft

Date: Friday, Aug. 9

Time: Between midnight and 4:45 a.m.

Location: 2400 block of Hillside

“This whole Lakewood area got hit by the hail pretty good,” he says. “I haven’t seen many roofs in this area that haven’t been replaced.”

The night before his roof repair, a pallet of shingles was stolen from the front yard of a neighbor across the street. Wages says he asked police what he should do protect his own shingles, and was told to pull his car up close to the pallet and keep an exterior light on near them.

Wages did just that, but came out the next day to see that 75 percent of his shingles had been stolen. He estimates the roofing company lost around $6,000 in shingles. And while the loss didn’t hit him directly (the roofing company was responsible for the shingles), he says it’s a creepy feeling knowing someone just came onto his property and stole something.

Despite the crime, his new shingles are now in place, and his roof looks fine.

Dallas Police Sgt. Keitric Jones of the Northeast Patrol Division says the recent hailstorms caused a massive increase in roofing repairs throughout the city resulting in a greater number of construction workers, supplies and equipment in the area within the last six weeks.

“At no time should supplies, equipment, or anything of value be left unattended or unsecured. The crime of theft is a crime of opportunity. Reducing or eliminating the opportunity for theft is the most effective way to prevent theft.”

Sean Chaffin is a freelance writer and author of “Raising the Stakes”, obtainable at raisingthestakesbook.com. If you have been a recent crime victim, email crime@advocatemag.com.

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Estimated value of a GMC Safari Van and the cleaning equipment it contained that was stolen from the 1200 block of Abrams at 8 a.m. Aug. 20

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Time on Aug. 30 when a 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt valued at $7,000 was stolen from an apartment complex on the 7000 block of Gaston

Number of violent sexual attacks that happened in a two-week time frame:

On Sept. 10 an assailant knocked on the apartment door of a woman on the 5800 block of Martel, forced her inside at gunpoint, raped her and stole her property; on Sept. 2 a very similar event took place at an apartment in the 5400 block of Gaston

SOURCE: Dallas Police Department

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HOLY HENDERSON

A jaw-dropping amount of cash is about to transform this up-and-coming avenue — in a good way

COMMENT. Visit lakewood.advocatemag.com and search Henderson to tell us what you think.

The deep-pockets California developer that bought the Andres family properties on Henderson Avenue may well have given me one less thing to complain about. Frankly, it’s about time.

For more than 20 years, I’ve written and pleaded and nagged, trying to figure out why this part of town never got any respect from the people who run Dallas, and specifically from the City Hall elite and the big-money business types. And, since I’m neither a City Hall elite nor a big-money business type, they ignored me. They knew best, throwing tax breaks and development everywhere but our neighborhood, while we waited,

lands, while we’re looking at what may be tens of millions of dollars of development headed for Henderson and lowest Greenville. That the money is coming from out-of-state companies — the Los Angeles group that apparently paid top dollar for the Andres properties between Ross and Central Expressway, and from Trader Joe’s and Walmart, whose out-of-state headquarters decided to set up shop on Greenville — is just one more reason to enjoy the delicious irony.

placed Matt’s in the Lakewood center. He was too modest to take credit for it when I talked to him about the Henderson deal, but what he said a year ago and reiterated this time is worth noting.

“Trader Joe’s and Walmart put the neighborhood on the map,” he said. “No one likes to be first in an area, but when they see who is there, that’s when they make the decision. The businesses are there. The consumers are there. All it needs is someone to come in and finalize it.”

patiently, knowing we had something no other part of Dallas did.

So much for the City Hall elite and the big money business types. They’ve got deserted and abandoned shopping malls in North Dallas and a town center without a town or a center in Lake High-

If it was big news that Dallas’ Lincoln Properties bought the Lakewood shopping center and the corner at Gaston, Grand and Garland roads — and it was — then the Henderson deal makes that look as ordinary as a sale on lettuce at the grocery store. The new owners, if they have as much money as I’ve been told they have, have the potential to just not finish what the Andres family started when they began their Henderson redevelopment in 2009, but to take it to the next level. And don’t you think, if and when that happens, that they’ll be able to bring in all the local money that always thought we were too funky and too colorful (read that anyway you want) to waste their time with? And that would be delicious irony No. 2.

Darrell Hernandez, who leases bigtime real estate projects and lives in the neighborhood, actually predicted all of this last summer, when Mi Cocina re-

That means two things. First, we’ll see (theoretically, anyway) fewer undercapitalized businesses opening in the area. One of the problems with the current development — and not just here, but elsewhere in the neighborhood — is that the businesses that moved in weren’t able to survive unless business was absolutely terrific. And the past four years have hardly been that.

Second, and even more important, is that we’ll have more business to choose from. This doesn’t mean we’ll get chains and national brands, the Chili’s and Starbucks that we don’t necessarily want, but more careful local names who might have shied away in the past, as well as more upscale companies from outside the area. It’s the difference between the West Village and upper Greenville, and Hernandez is convinced that it will be much more of the former and not the latter.

So, perhaps, no more bellyaching about how our neighborhood isn’t appreciated. Which, believe it or not, I’m looking forward to. We live in a neighborhood that deserves better than that.

If it was big news that Dallas’ Lincoln Properties bought the Lakewood shopping center and the corner at Gaston, Grand and Garland roads — and it was — then the Henderson deal makes that look as ordinary as a sale on lettuce at the grocery store.

Je Siegel, a neighborhood resident, writes a monthly opinion column about neighborhood issues. His opinions are not necessarily those of the Advocate or its management. Send comments and ideas to him at 6301 Gaston, Suite 820, Dallas 75214; fax to 214.823.8866; or email editor@advocatemag.com.