2014 January Lakewood

A COLLECTION OF COMPELLING PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE STORIES BEHIND THEM

Remodeling and New Construction Talk...

What to Expect as Remodeling or Construction Begins

Last month, we talked about “What to Expect as We Complete the Final Design”. This month, we’re ready to begin the remodeling or new construction of your home. We’re out of the design center and on site. To review, when we completed the final design, we prepared all documents for construction and permits, and signed the construction contract. Our collective vision is ready to take shape.

On-site construction kickoff meeting

The day begins with a kickoff meeting in the home or on site. We review all the plans with you, the project management group, and the construction team, then walk through the home or lot to go over every detail of the space. The plans have been handed off prior to today, but this is the first time you will meet the construction team. There’s a certain excitement as you witness the trades – each with unique skills and responsibilities – review the plans as they set to begin.

Setting expectations for satisfying your needs

If you’ve been reading our column for a while, you know two of our recurring themes are open communication and no assumptions. Every client is different and has different needs and expectations for how we will work together, how we will communicate, and how we will handle the details of working on your property.

You may want us to update you at the end of every day, or maybe three times a week if you’re busy. You may prefer a call, an email, or

even a text message. We believe you deserve to choose how and when we communicate, so that you can enjoy the process as much as the finished result.

We try to anticipate your needs and take all requests into careful consideration, to ensure a smooth process. Would you like our construction team to enter through the garage, side door, or front door? Where would you like us to park our vehicles? Would you like us to store tools and materials in a certain room of the home? If there are alarms in the house, should they be disabled? Would you like a plywood path for access to the home? Are there any plants that can’t be touched or furniture that can’t be moved?

We even try to meet the neighbors before we begin to let them know that in case anything blows into their yards, they can call us to remove it.

Less experienced builders tend to lack foresight, and problems frequently arise as a result. At Bella Vista Company, we do our best to anticipate issues and ensure your satisfaction, every step of the way.

Want to learn more about creating the perfect remodel or a new home? Email jan@ bellavistacompany.com for our design questionnaire and we’ll let you know about your options.

For more information on Remodeling or Custom Homes, read our blogs at www.bellavistacompany.com.

A healthier community

wellness partners

Doctors Hospital at White Rock Lake is excited to be the official wellness partner of YMCA at White Rock and offer a series of nutrition classes to the east Dallas area. Together, we are committed to helping people live longer, healthier lives by providing programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. We are proud to collaborate with such a strong organization that shares our passion for health, wellness and strengthening of our community.

To learn more about the real basics of better health that include eating healthy, exercising regularly, and following healthful lifestyle habits, visit DoctorsHospitalDallas.com/WellnessMadeEasy.

Think big

The International Baccalaureate program at Woodrow and Long helps broaden student perspectives. 48

Feeling flighty Neighbors say there's been a change in air traffic over East Dallas; the City of Dallas says otherwise.

16 Bus load

An East Dallas artist spent decades riding the bus lines and sketching fellow bus riders. 22 Crossroads

Art creates connections for struggling Vickery Meadow. 24 Stamp Act

An East Dallas illustrator created a portrait for the U.S. Postal Service.

Saucy

Two neighbors cooked up the perfect way to simplify traditional Mexican meals.

only in EastDallas

Mere hours after the Dallas Marathon was canceled, the Facebook group “2013 Icepocalypse Marathon” was born. Many of its likers were marathon registrants who weren’t quite ready to say uncle. Marathon runners are stubborn that way. So, some 25 runners gathered outside the 7-11 on Elm Street on the icy overcast morning. Some ran the full 26.2 miles, others the 13.1 half-marathon equivalent. In this photo, East Dallas neighbor

Kristin Colaneri Campbell cheered them on: Danny Fulgencio

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CAREER ADVICE

How to behave in an interview, from a guy who’s been doing them for 23 years

My son is looking for a job now; he’s a college senior hoping to snag something before he graduates in May.

There are a lot of people he could talk with to figure out what employers look for in new hires.

One of them isn’t going to be me.

I understand. I’m his father. How much can I really know?

Let’s not forget I’ve held this job for nearly 23 years, which these days seems like a real career buzz-kill. How much can I really know about finding employment when my entire career encompasses three jobs?

So he’s not asking for my advice. But as a parent, that’s not going to keep me from doling it out.

For example, I recently suggested it’s a good idea to leave for interviews at least 15 minutes, maybe even 30 minutes, earlier than you expect it will take to get there, just in case traffic is bad or something unexpected slows you down.

“Why do I need to leave that early?” he asked, speaking as someone who thrives (and always delivers) on lastminute heroics.

“Because no employer likes to be kept waiting by someone who wants a job,” I told him, speaking from experience.

Over the years, it seems as if half of the people who showed up for interviews here were late and, making matters worse, many were unapologetic. Presumably, they’re working somewhere else now.

And then there are the gum-chewers

who smack away while talking about themselves during the interview. Hey, why not pull out a bag of potato chips and a couple of beers to share while talking about your education and experience?

Be prepared for each interview, I’ve told my son. Research the person and the company before you show up. Have some intelligent questions to ask. Know something about the business.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve opened an interview with this initial statement “What questions do you have for me?” — and been greeted with a blank look and absolutely no response. None.

Sometimes, I’ve responded the same way — silence, just waiting to see what would happen — and the result has been more than a few five-minute interviews.

Don’t forget to ask about money, I’ve suggested to my son.

“Isn’t that kind of pushy?” he said.

“Don’t you want to know how much you might be paid?” I told him. “And don’t you want to make sure you don’t get excited about an opportunity you can’t afford to accept?”

“Yes, Dad,” he says, clearly indicating he’ll do no such thing.

And then there’s the most important element of a job interview, the one thing every potential employee needs to do, and yet most don’t: You have to ask for the job if you want it.

Employers want to hire people who are enthusiastic about working with them. It’s that plain and simple, or so I’ve told my son.

“Yes, Dad. I know all of this,” he told me while informing me he had just sewn up the internship he has been trying to line up.

“I know. I know.”

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Lottery-based Mata Montessori would not be a magnet school

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Lottery-based Mata Montessori would not be a magnet school

Dallas ISD released details about the new Montessori proposal for Eduardo Mata Elementary that could provide relief for the overcrowded schools that feed into Woodrow Wilson High School, namely Lakewood and Stonewall Jackson elementary schools, which are more than 150 percent over capacity.

Pending approval from the DISD Board of Trustees, Mata, which is only at 34 percent capacity, would become a PreK through eighth grade Montessori campus with an emphasis on fine arts and dual language. It would begin incrementally in the 2014-15 school year.

However, Mata Montessori would be lottery-based and serve only neighborhood students Search “Mata Montessori” on lakewood.advocatemag. com for the full story about what the program offers and who’s eligible.

Correction: An image accompanying the Día de los Muertos announcement in the November 2013 East Dallas Advocate calendar was not credited to the artist, Melissa Hayes.

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Q&A: Arthur Blanchard

Arthur Blanchard, 87, is an artist who has lived in East Dallas — in the same house, no less — for almost 50 years. He and his wife, Louise, moved to Dallas in the mid-’60s for his flourishing law career, and everywhere he went, he sketched people — in the courtroom, at church, at the doctor’s office. He also began riding the bus lines, and sketching fellow bus riders became a favorite pastime. Once he retired in 1984, Blanchard began seriously pursuing his art. He set up in a studio near Fair Park and even took a handful of art classes at Southern Methodist University and El Centro. His work has gone largely unnoticed in Dallas, but recently he met Bob Schutze, the owner of Beaux Arts framing studio in the Design District. Schutze was impressed with Blanchard’s work, particularly because it’s not “hyper-realistic.” Blanchard’s work is on display in Schutze’s gallery, where it’ll stay until around mid-January, Schutze says. The display features a wide variety of Blanchard’s work, including a sampling of his “bus people” sketches.

Why do you draw and paint primarily people?

Who knows? That’s almost like me saying, ‘Why do you speak?’ It’s what I do. I’ve always done it, for as long as I can remember. It’s just what I’ve always done. I couldn’t even say I’ve always wanted to do it; I’ve just always done it.

When did you begin the "Bus People" series?

When we moved to Dallas, I really didn’t want to drive the commute. I didn’t like driving in the city, so I took the bus by choice, and fortunately my practice did not require me to use a car very much. I don’t know when I began drawing the people

on the bus — fairly early on, but I didn’t save stuff. I’d just do little squiggles, and heaven knows how much of it I’ve thrown away, because I never really took any of it seriously until after I retired.

I have these little sketchbooks, and I would draw people on the bus. I have books and books and books. It’s not just bus people; they’re all kinds of people, but I have hundreds of drawings of bus people in these sketchbooks. I’d make drawings, make notations as to the colors, and then I’d go back later and paint it in. None of them are very big.

So they are almost like little snapshots of people?

Yeah, a little bit. The buses are not an ideal place to draw because people are getting on and getting off. You spot someone you want to draw, and poof — they’re gone. So you have to be adaptable and quick.

Who do you draw?

Sometimes there’s somebody who catches my eye, but generally it’s a simple availability of who’s around me. If I had my druthers, I’d rather paint someone who is overtly interesting or has something interesting about them. If I’ve been particularly caught by the face, I might weigh heavily on that. I like interesting-looking faces, but often there aren’t people with interesting faces around. A lot of them, you don’t see any face at all. You just see the form. They’re like compositions, really, rather than portraits. You’ll see a lady carrying a baby, or a woman with her groceries on the seat beside her, and you have a group of shapes, and it’s a totally different kettle of fish. It’s almost like a still life.

Your drawings have a lot of personality. Do you find that you have to make assumptions about people in order to make them that way?

I view each drawing as a sort of challenge. Not only is it a challenge to get a decent likeness, but it’s a challenge to get a decent picture out of it, because there are certain principles of composition, so that takes over pretty early on. But people are mysterious, because we know that our

Arthur Blanchard: David Leeson

judgments about people are often flawed. We still make them. We make assumptions about people, and I think you can’t help doing that, but I don’t think it’s so much about the inner psychology. That’s a feature, but it comes from the process of drawing itself. You see these people, and you look at them more intently than you would ordinarily look at someone in passing, and I think it’s almost impossible to sit and look at somebody for a while and not begin to make some assumptions about that person.

At the gallery, Bob Schutze says he thinks you are figuratively speaking —“colorblind” because you paint people of every social class, shape, color and size.

Everybody is grist for the mill. If you’re terribly sensitive and you’re looking for grounds for taking offense, I’m sure you could find plenty of it in my sketchbooks. But it’s really just about amusing subject matter, as far as I’m concerned.

The paintings at the gallery called “Moving Africa,” those are very moving pieces. When did you do those?

I did those from newspaper clippings. Over and over in the newspaper, I saw news clippings of these poor African people, parades of them. I became interested in Africa because of an old World War II buddy of mine. His stories sort of provoked my interest in what was happening there, and these scenes are so tragic these pitiful people, carrying their mattresses and their cans of water, or whatever they have, with them. In all of them, you have these people on the move; that’s the unifying thought throughout the whole series. So that’s the genesis of it.

Schutze also mentioned you originally didn’t want to label your paintings when you first brought them to him. Why is that?

Well, I still feel that way. Anytime you start naming this stuff, you’re dictating to the viewer what he or she has to think about it. You have the artists, and you have the viewers, and they’re participants in the whole business when they view the art. If somebody wants to come along and see whatever they want to see, why should I tell them what they’ve got to see?

—Brittany Nunn

The art of philanthropy

A 12-year-old girl creates art to help her neighbors

Twelve-year-old Kate Langley, a seventh grader at Lakehill Preparatory School in Lakewood, has been reading the newspaper since she first learned how to read before preschool.

Which, she figures, is why many of her paintings and mixed-media art pieces focus on current events, including a piece she recently created for Art Conspiracy (Art Con) 9 in Dallas.

Art Con is an annual, grassroots art event that has raised more than $150,000 for Dallas-area charities. Every year, hundreds of artists apply to participate in Art Con, but only around 140-170 are granted acceptance, as decided by a juried panel. During the event, artists gather in a warehouse to create unique works of art on site on a single 18-by-18-inch piece of plywood. Afterward, the pieces are auc-

Kate Langley: Brandy Barham

tioned, and the proceeds go to an annually selected charity. This year, Art Con raised funds for My Possibilities, a Plano-based nonprofit that helps adults with autism, Down syndrome, Asperger’s, Prader-Willi, head injuries and other disabilities.

This was Langley’s seventh year to participate in Art Con. Yes, you read that right: Langley first participated in Art Con 3 as a 6-year-old. Often her pieces are the offshoot of a news story or political issue she read about in the paper or saw on the news. This year, when brainstorming her piece beforehand, she originally planned to depict the government shutdown.

“I was going to paint the White House and have the doors with chains on them,” she explains, “but then they opened back up, so I couldn’t do that anymore. So I did Kennedy because there’s so much stuff about him on the news.”

After lots of internet research, she decided to create a Warhol-esque piece of President John. F. Kennedy. First, she

lined the 18-inch plywood with reproduction newspaper clippings from the day after the Kennedy assassination. Then she fitted her portrait of Kennedy on top of it, bordered with a quote from JFK himself:

“Man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on,” it reads.

The painting sold for $400 at Art Con 9, and it has since been gifted to the Sixth Floor Museum Downtown.

Every piece that Langley has created publicly has been for charity, she says. She’s never sold a piece for profit. Charity and community service are very important to her. “I guess just because it was something I was raised doing, helping people,” she explains.

At Lakehill Prep, she serves on the student council as the community service chair and is also highly involved in community service outside school. She has received the Bronze and is working toward her second consecutive Gold Level President’s Volunteer Service Award, a

national award given by the President of the United States to honor children and adults who clock in more than 100 hours of service in a year.

Not only does she have time to serve her community, but she’s also a straightA student at Lakehill Prep and has made the Headmaster’s High Honor Roll since enrolling at Lakehill in the fifth grade. Her favorite subjects are math and science, which she says “come naturally” to her.

As for her future: “I want to go to [the University of] Notre Dame and get my undergrad in anatomy, and then go to Drexel [University] and get my master’s in forensics,” she says.

She figures she’ll keep painting, but she’s not sure whether or not she’ll begin to sell some of her art or continue to donate it all. Sometimes it’s hard to give them up, she admits.

“I’ll donate it, if it’s for a good cause, but I don’t like selling them,” she says. “I like keeping my art.”

—Brittany Nunn

Big brother

Eleven-year-old pug Farley went to live with his human parents, Lorilei and Tory Cronin, as a wee pup. When his brother Killian was born, Farley took losing his place as the baby of the family like a champ. He always wants to be near Killian and is very sweet to him, Lorilei says.

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Culture shift

How art is changing the way a neighborhood sees itself

A familiar conversation has changed: the one about Vickery Meadows, the immigrant-heavy stretch bordering East Dallas, the one that starts with cultural diversity, with a rapid segue into crime and poverty. But what if something else were part of the dialogue, part of the neighborhood’s fabric something like art?

“We’ve made our mark there,” says Houston artist Rick Lowe. Lowe is one of 10 artists commissioned by the Nasher Sculpture Center to install public art throughout the city for Nasher Xchange, a celebration of the center’s 10th anniversary. Lowe’s project, Trans.lation, takes place in Vickery Meadow, where a large portion of the population is made up of refugees from Burma, Bhutan and Iraq.

Since February, Lowe has teamed with volunteer artists, educators and Vickery Meadow residents to offer free art workshops, bringing together people of different cultural backgrounds and ages to learn from each other. Word of mouth from the workshops has increased participation there, and

also at the monthly pop-up markets along Ridgecrest Road that are another key element of Trans.lation. The Oct. 19 market, held in conjunction with the official opening of Nasher Xchange, featured about 30 vendors, most of them local residents who had taken part in the workshops. The November market was hampered by wet, frigid weather, but still had a strong turnout to what was recast as an Open Studio afternoon, with people opening their homes and sharing hot tea and Iraqi dishes.

All the activities, large and small, involve “finding a place for people to gather and make new friendships and learn from each other, learn about different cultures,” Lowe says, describing how Trans.lation has helped ease the barriers of “self-segregation” commonly found.

“I love sitting around in workshop and hearing people trade language,” says Cynthia Saathoff, an MFA student at University of Texas at Dallas who coordinates multiple workshops each week. Hindi speakers learn greetings in Arabic. Two women share their differ-

Residents of Vickery Meadow gather for a Trans.lation event: Scott Lumley

ent approaches to crafting paper flowers, one from Mexico and one from Iraq. Spanish speakers take painting lessons from Iraqi artist Abdul Ameer Alwan, well-known in his native land, who gets his points across despite limited English.

In addition to having great respect for the artistry and craftsmanship she’s seen demonstrated by Trans.lation participants, Saathoff also has developed friendships with many. There have been home visits, shared meals of goat meat, and one trip to the hospital with Um Qutaibah, whose daughter was going into labor.

“I drove them, and when we go to Parkland, I thought how I would not leave my mother in a foreign country in a waiting room,” she says. “I just stayed, and we got to know each other really fast.”

An additional facet of Trans.lation launched at the December market. Three white cube galleries have been built and will serve both as an entrance to the markets and also as freestanding exhibit space. Lowe explains that “we wanted to provide a space and opportunity to show the work in a way that honors the work,” similar to display in a museum or gallery space. Thus, the simple 12-by-12-foot cubes, which put the focus on the art.

Upcoming market dates are Jan. 18 and Feb. 22. The Nasher XChange concludes in February, but this shouldn’t mean the end of Trans.lation. The challenge, Lowe says, is in leveraging the involvement of the arts and cultural community in this neighborhood without relying exclusively upon the Nasher. There is a strong presence of traditional social services and church groups, and artists should have a similar presence.

“We are retooling our efforts as a community effort,” he says. “There is a great team here. The community itself, the project has been about them, about people connecting.”

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Cap Pannell: Brandy Barham

Stamp of approval

Cap Pannell, an award winning freelance artist in East Dallas, was sitting at his desk one day when an art director from Bethesda, Md., called to ask if he’d like to create a portrait for a U.S. Postal Service stamp.

The art director, Ethel Kessler, said she found his website and thought his work was impressive. She was looking for someone with a distinctive style to create a portrait of William Sydney Porter, who wrote short stories under the pen name “O. Henry” in the Ohio State Penitentiary after being found guilty of embezzlement. Pannell’s unique style, which combines drawing, inking and computer illustration, seemed like a perfect fit.

“I call it a combination of drawing and monoprint technique,” Pannell says. “I take a drawing and lay it down on an inked surface, and redraw it. Then that gets scanned, and sometimes it’s just a mess. You’ve got to erase blotches of ink. Then I color it in the computer.”

Pannell agreed to illustrate a portrait, and began working, sketching several test pieces for Kessler. Finally, they decided on a drawing of Porter against a backdrop of New York City, where Porter published most of his short stories. In 2009, Pannell finished his illustration, but it didn’t come out until 2012, the 150th anniversary of Porter’s birthday.

Pannell’s background is in graphic design, but he deviated from that and began doing more illustrating and painting later on in life. He started playing around with the style years ago on a portrait of his sons, and liked it. His painting even was accepted into prestigious art magazine Communication Arts.

“I figured, ‘Wow, maybe I should do this,’“he says.

Sometimes it’s hard to predict the endgame when working with ink, he says.

“But sometimes there will be a happy accident, and there will be something you weren’t expecting. And sometimes I think, ‘Well, this is a real mess. What am I going to do?’ But by and large, it always turns out.”

—Brittany Nunn

Holy Mölli

Although Rodrigo and Leticia Salas don’t consider themselves to be “foodies,” you don’t have to hang out with the Lakewood couple for long before it becomes apparent they know a thing or two about food.

The couple recently launched Mölli Sauces, a brand of cooking sauces designed to help amateur and professional chefs alike prepare tasty, flavorful meals in less than 20 minutes.

Originally from Mexico City, the couple met in college, married and then both worked in marketing before eventually moving to Texas. They landed at the University of Texas in Austin to earn their MBAs, hoping to eventually get into general management.

“That’s when our love for cooking started,” Leticia says. “When I got to business school, I had no idea how to cook.”

“When you got married, you didn’t,” Rodrigo cuts in. “She would try to boil water, and she would burn it.”

“Well, yes, that is true,” Leticia admits, laughing.

“And that’s pretty hard to do,” Rodrigo says.

But the change in working in the fast-paced business world to once again being students allowed more time for hobbies. They also discovered the advantages of being in a city with so much diversity, Leticia says. Plus, they had access to ingredients they didn’t have in Mexico.

“So we started experimenting with Chinese, Thai, Indian, Vietnamese,” Leticia says. “And believe me, we made some mistakes, but we just ex-

Rodrigo and Leticia Salas: David Leeson

perimented for a long time.”

They also joined a group full of food adventurers like themselves, which was comprised of people from all over the world who regularly met to swap tricks of the trade. '

After graduation, they both landed jobs with the same company in Dallas. When they had their son, they wanted to cook for him, but who has time for that? So they started brainstorming. How could they simplify their lives and continue cooking from scratch? In the end, the perfect solution seemed to be to combine the two goals.

“One of the concepts that we explored was creating a business that was completely sauce-based,” Leticia says. “It was the need to figure out how you simplify how you cook meals every day, if you have a full-time job, or you have kids and you don’t have a lot of time. How do you create good, complex meals in about 20 minutes?”

So they started gathering original, traditional Mexican recipes and building sauces from there. Using her background in business, Leticia created panels of people to test the sauces and give feedback on how easy they were to use.

“We found some that were very unfriendly and difficult to make, so we erased those from the list,” Leticia says. “We wanted the sauces to be very flexible.”

After months and months of rigorous testing, polling and going back to the drawing board, the Salases found what they were looking for. They launched their startup business, Mölli Sauces, with two sauces, Mexico City and Morelos.

Both are made with a specific variety of chili pepper and a unique blend of allnatural ingredients that provide the same flavors of traditional from-scratch cooking. Each also comes with multiple easyto-make recipe recommendations, but the Salases have found that many people have come up with various other uses.

They have been selling the sauces at area farmer’s markets, and it’s also available at Rudolph’s Market & Sausage Factory in Deep Ellum and Deep Ellum Postal & Grocer, as well as online at artizone.com, which is a virtual farmer’s market of sorts.

The couple is in the process of developing new cooking sauces and pastes, so watch for progress on their website molliauces.com.

—Brittany Nunn

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Out & About

January 2014

Dec. 31

NYE at Granada Theater

Join Dallas-based indie-rockers Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights, along with Quaker City Night Hawks and the Roomsounds, for a New Year’s Eve bash at the Granada Theater. Doors open at 7 p.m. Preorder tickets online.

Granada Theater, 3524 Greenville, granadatheater.com, 214.824.9933, general admission $24, VIP $80

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DEC. 27—JAN. 5

Children’s circus

Dallas Children’s Theater, in conjunction with Lone Star Circus, for the first time ever presents a Season Special circus extravaganza. An international galaxy of acrobats, aerialists, hand balancers, jugglers, clowns and dogs performs together to create a sensational and joyous circus spectacular.

Dallas Children’s Theater, 5938 Skillman, dct.org, 214.740.0051, $20-$46

JAN 8

Beer Dinner

Join The Libertine Bar for its sixth Vegan Beer Dinner, starting at 7 p.m. Not only are all the featured beers vegan, but they’re also local Texas brews.

The Libertine Bar, 2101 Greenville, libertinebar.com, reservations are required and can be made by calling 214.824.7900, $60 (plus tax)

JAN 15

Book Reading

Texas author and historian Irene Sandell will offer a free presentation about her historical novel “The House on Swiss Avenue” at the Lakewood Branch Library. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. for seating and light refreshments. The program begins at 2 p.m. The Lakewood Branch Library, 6121 Worth St., lakewoodlibraryfriendsdallas.org, 214.670.1376, free

JAN 19

Gallery Concert

Bass-baritone Kyle Siddons and Biliana Dimitrova on piano perform the music of Johannes Brahms and Daniel Pinkham at 4 p.m. St. Matthew’s Episcopal Cathedral in the Justus Sundermann Gallery, 5100 Ross, cathedralartsdallas.org, 214.887.6552, free

Jan 24 – Feb 23

'Go, Dog. Go!'

“Big dogs and little dogs. Dogs in cars.” Join Dallas Children’s Theater for their adaptation of the book “Go, Dog. Go!” by P.D. Eastman. Enjoyed by ages 4 and up.

Dallas Children’s Theater in the Rosewood Center for Family Arts, 5938 Skillman Street, dct.org, 214.740.0051, $20-$46

THROUGH JAN 25

Wildlife art

View the exhibit “Forest, Feathers, and Fur,” which features acrylic paintings by Roxanne Mather that beautifully portray animals, birds, and other creatures that live and thrive around White Rock Lake.

Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther, dallasculture.org, 214.670.8751, free

JAN 25

Art for Kids

From 10 a.m. to 1 pm, join art museum educator Amy Hofland, Executive Director of the Crow Collection of Asian Art, as young artists explore creative and engaging projects through diverse media and techniques. Supplies included. Ages 5-18

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Cathedral in the Justus Sundermann Gallery, 5100 Ross, 214.887.6552, free when you register online at cathedralartsdallas.org

JAN 26

Choral Evensong in the Cathedral

Mostly unchanged since the 16th century, Evensong continues to be one of the most treasured liturgies of the Anglican tradition. The event starts at 4 p.m. with a reception following in the Justus Sundermann Gallery.

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Cathedral, cathedralartsdallas.org, 214.887.6552, 5100 Ross, free

JAN. 28

Memory loss presentation

Join Juliette Fowler Communities for the seminar, “The Basics: Memory Loss, Dementia & Alzheimer’s,” presented by Frances Vasquez with Family Services for the Alzheimer’s Association, Greater Dallas Chapter, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Schneider Chapel at Juliette Fowler, 1234 Abrams Road, fowlercommunities.org, RSVP to 800.272.3900, free

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Chris Dahlander, the founder and owner of Dallas-based Snappy Salads, worked for Brinker International as the marketing director for Romano’s Macaroni Grill for eight years. After a while, all the discounted food with Brinker started taking a toll on his waistline. “I was getting heavier and heavier, and I looked at myself in the mirror one day and thought, ‘Oh my God, I don’t want to be that way,’” Dalander explains. So he started eating salads, but most places made it difficult, if not impossible, for customers to customize their salad orders. “That really irritated me,” he says. Other places felt too “girly” or too aged, he says. Nothing seemed to fit his needs. Finally, while stuck on a flight, both hungry and frustrated, he began to brainstorm, jotting down things he wanted in a salad joint — create-your-own, high quality, fast. After plenty of research and more brainstorming, he finally took the plunge. In 2006, he opened his first location at Preston and Forest, followed by several others, including his latest location at Greenville and Southwestern. The stores are focused on being eco-friendly, from recycled tables and countertops, to hanging lights that use less than 350 watts of electricity in the entire dining area. The location on Greenville is cozy and comfortable, yet masculine enough to lull the salad-skittish male population. That, of course, shouldn’t be surprising, given the restaurant’s tagline: “So good, even guys like our salads.” The beauty of the create-your-own salad is that each one is whatever guests want it to be — heavy, light, generous, sparing, healthy, nutritious, flavorful. But one thing is standard: The salads are always fresh. Lettuce and other produce is cut daily. “Anything that looks like it’s been chopped, we chopped it,” Dahlander says. Each location also has a culinary manager who cooks fresh batches of soups every day. Perfect for cold, wintery days. —Brittany

Nunn

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1 Crisp Salad Co.

Crisp is the new kid on the block of Lower Greenville, having just opened in December. It offers makeyour-own salad options as well as wraps, plus an open, airy space to eat your greens.

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2 Garden Cafe

Garden Cafe takes the whole garden-to-table concept to the max with its on-site garden. And of course, it'd be hard to live up to the name "Garden Cafe" without offering a few salad options.

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3 Whole Foods Market

The Whole Foods Market in Lakewood at Gaston and Abrams has a makeyour-own-salad bar full of fresh produce and topping options.

2118 Abrams 214.824.1744 wholefoodsmarket.com

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Eat a health, balanced diet – Good nutrition is essential for overall health. A healthy diet improves your immune system and helps you ward off pesky bacterial infections, including those that involve your teeth and gums.

Quit smoking or using other tobacco products – Not only does tobacco cause staining of the teeth, but it also increases the risks for cavities, gum recession, and lung and oral cancer.

Brush at least twice a day – Brushing removes food particles from around the teeth, which would otherwise feed the bacteria in your mouth, commonly known as “plaque”. This sticky substance builds up on teeth everyday. Removing it helps to prevent decay and gum disease.

Floss daily – Brushing removes plaque from around teeth. Flossing removes plaque from between teeth, and essential to keeping your gums healthy.

See your dentist every six months – By visiting your dentist regularly, you can avoid dental problems before they cause pain or require a more comprehensive and expensive fix.

Have your teeth straightened – Straight teeth not only look great, but they are also easier to keep clean and fit together better. Cleaner teeth are less likely to have cavities or gum disease, and are more likely to last a lifetime. Also, teeth that fit together properly experience less wear than those that don’t. We can help you with this resolution! Call us for a complimetary exam, and we’ll help you cross this one off your resolution list!

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What’s new in neighborhood eats

Grub Burger Bar

opened in November on the ground floor of Energy Square on Greenville at University to long lines of meat eaters. Grub originated in College Station and also has a Houston location. They serve upscale burgers ground daily from brisket and Angus chuck on buns baked hourly in-house. Homemade toppings and sauces include peanut butter Thai, tequila lime aioli and ghost chili pepper. The setting is casual chic with rusted-wire light fixtures, repurposed black subway tiles and raw wood two-by-fours. The joint’s best features are its epicenter square bar and its giant glass windows overlooking Greenville Avenue. The Front Porch, Grub’s standard house burger, runs $6. Variations include the Guacapotle burger, topped with chipotle aioli, guacamole ($7.50) and the Lockhart Legend with Applewood smoked bacon, Dr. Pepper barbecue sauce and Shiner Bock battered onion rings ($7.75). There also is the Burger of the Sea option, Ahi tuna with sprouts, arugula, pickled ginger and wasabi-teriyaki dressing, ($11). Top it off with a salted-caramel milkshake. The bar features Texas beer and wines, signature cocktails and spiked milkshakes. Unlike most Greenville Avenue retailers and restaurants, Grub has plenty of painfree parking in the Energy Square lot.

—Carol Toler

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BonChon restaurant and bar

opened in December on Upper Greenville in Old Town Shopping Center. General manager Stewart Murray says the staff worked relentlessly to open doors before the winter holidays. Though BonChon has restaurants all over the world, there never has been one in Texas — or in the entire south central region, for that matter, Murray notes. BonChon’s chicken-centric Korean fusion fare is a worldwide hit. The chain, whose chicken wings Food & Wine magazine called the best in the U.S., also intends to gain the favor of craft beer connoisseurs, Murray says. “We have 18 draft beers. Two are regular domestics; the rest are craft beers.” The eatery serves not only an innovative style of fried chicken, but also Asian-inspired salads, potstickers and pancakes, to name a few. BonChon originated in Korea and has grown to include 30 U.S. stores and 70 scattered about Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand. —Christina

5500 Greenville 214.346.WING (9464) bonchon.com

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The three people he’d have dinner with are Jesus, Pope Francis and Rudy Ruettiger. Would rather be sleeping.

Thinks Jerry Jones the owner should fire Jerry Jones the general manager.

Ran the Boston Marathon.

Can’t find his girlfriend, who is the only reason he subjects himself to this running stuff.

NOTES ON A PHOTO

More about the people, locations and situations in our pictures

Every year, Advocate photographers capture thousands of neighborhoodrelated scenarios. We publish the images in this magazine or on our website, advocatemag.com, and most inevitably land on the cutting-room floor. This month, we dug through piles of pics, mining them for interest-piquing peripheral details about the subjects, places and events depicted.

2013 Dallas Turkey Trot: Danny Fulgencio

Dreams of fronting a Dave Matthews cover band. Got a late start on the ‘Movember’ thing.

February 2013

Parasailing Lake Ray Hubbard

By: Danny Fulgencio

Up, up and away

For two years, East Dallas neighbor Rance Rudy spent his summers by the shores of beautiful Lake Ray Hubbard, or soaring above it with his parasail.

Rudy started the business Parasailing the Harbor in early 2012, and Advocate staff had the chance to join him for an afternoon of boating and parasailing last June. From more than 200 feet above Lake Ray Hubbard, we got an only-slightly-nerve-racking adrenaline rush and a breathtaking view of the Dallas skyline.

Unfortunately, however, we never got to share the pictures in the magazine because Rudy shut the business down a couple of weeks after the outing. After weighing the expenses, he decided the business wasn’t lucrative enough to justify the costs.

Rudy started the business after he was laid off with a full year’s pay from his bigtime corporate job, but not before he traveled the country to soul-search and figure out his next move.

“I rented a motor home. My girlfriend and I took our five dogs, stuck my Harley on the back, and we went all over the western United States, just talking to people, asking them, ‘What’d you do? How’d you make your money?’” he explains.

Rudy considered his skills and passions and decided to give parasailing a try.

“I’ve always loved both boats and aviation,” he says, “and this combines what I love about flying and what I love about boating, and it brings them both together.”

There are no other parasailing opportunities in the area, so Rudy is hoping someone will buy the business and keep it going. He’s had some possible buyers scope it out.

For now, he’s back to weighing his options. And we’re waiting to see if he needs any guinea pigs for the next venture.

—Brittany Nunn

Viva Dallas Burlesque

By: Danny Fulgencio

Simply smashing

If you’re wondering what is happening to the poor chap in this photo, don’t worry; it was entirely consensual.

Well, it was mostly consensual. He consented to being handcuffed and blindfolded; we’re not so sure about everything after that.

The man goes by Jerry Fedora, but the glamorous folks at Viva Dallas Burlesque in Lakewood call him “The Mayor of Burlesque.”

During the show Dirty, Sexy, Funny, in June — which Advocate staff attended in the name of research for our feature “Who holds the power of sex?” — the emcee called Fedora to the stage.

It was Fedora’s birthday, the emcee announced. And boy, do the people at Viva know how to throw a smashing birthday bash.

Burlesque dancer “Courtney Crave” handcuffed Fedora’s hands behind his back, and then three girls fed him cupcakes from various parts of their body. After each bite, Fedora had to guess where on the girl’s body the cupcake was located.

One girl wedged the cupcake in the crook of her arm, which was hilariously misleading to the blindfolded man. Another situated hers snugly in her bra.

But we all saw that one coming.

In retrospect, Danny Fulgencio, the Advocate photographer who took the photo, has some inner conflict about it.

“On an intellectual level, this photograph could be political satire about temptation and illusions of power,” Fulgencio says. “While the photo’s carnal value appeals to my inner-bro, decapitating women admittedly draws ire from my inner-feminist.”

—Brittany Nunn

July 2013

6IX Confessions

By: Brandy Barham

Blackboard Confessionals

Danny “Weso Knarly” Sellars smeared globs of paint across a giant canvas as part of the grand finale for the multimedia show 6IX Confessions.

An audience watched as he and five other artists worked quickly, slapping paint onto the canvas and dabbing or smearing it into a blur of color that glowed dramatically under a black light.

At the same time, six poets chanted verses about the significance of the number six.

“And on the sixth day God created humans, and we are living creativity,” they said.

6IX Confessions was hosted by Dallas actress-poet-fashionista Rhianna Mack at the Bath House Cultural Center in July. There were several components to the show: spoken word poetry, music, shadow puppetry and paintings, all done by local artists.

To kick off the finale, Mack asked three random audience members to each draw a line, shape or squiggle on the blank canvas. Then the artists used those lines as reference points to shape the rest of the painting.

“Having someone from the audience come up and start it off, that was important because it symbolized that all of us are creators,” Mack explains.

The canvas comprised 50 small 10by-10 canvases, which allowed audience members and artists to take a section home with them as a reminder of the event.

—Brittany Nunn

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April 2013

Opening of the Bush Presidential Library

An arresting act

Wearing prison stripes and giant papier-mâché bobble heads, two men portraying George W. Bush and Dick Cheney deliberately got themselves arrested at the opening of the Bush Presidential Library in April 2013.

Police arrested Dennis Trainor (Cheney) of Massachusetts and Gary Egelston (Bush) of Fort Worth and charged them with misdemeanors.

Egelston served in the Air Force and is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Trainor is an activist and filmmaker who makes short documentaries for Acronym TV. —Larra Keel

By: Danny Fulgencio

August 2013 Hottest Half Marathon and 10k

By: James Coreas

Holy, half-marathon, Batman!

It took a little work, but Advocate sleuths discovered the true identity of this Batman (hint: looked up that number on his chest in the official race results).

The Hottest Half Marathon and 10k launched from Norbuck Park and went around White Rock Lake one late-August morning. Because of searing temperatures, participants generally don as little clothing as the law allows.

Hence, Michael Edelstein — dressed as Batman and carrying a substantial American flag and accompanied by his girlfriend Merissa, the partially obscured Wonder Woman — turned heads and elicited spectator cheer.

A week after the Boston bombings, Edelstein tells us, he carried the flag in the Oklahoma City Half Marathon.

“I was already registered to run Oklahoma City when Boston happened. I wanted to run with Old Glory to show strength and motivate others. I have run with it in every race since.”

Also around the time of the Boston bombings Edelstein joined Team Red White and Blue, a running group that supports American military transitioning to civilian life, he says.

“I run despite physical pain and push myself because I’m not a quitter. My friends weren’t killed so I could be lazy on a couch and whine about my problems.”

It’s not all so somber. Take the costumes, for instance. That idea, he says, came from a trip to Six Flags, where the superhero getups were on sale at the gift shop.

“Merissa said it’d be funny to run a race in those. Usually I run in my Team RWB T-shirts, but I figured, ‘Why not?’”

—Christina Hughes Babb

IB proven

Woodrow begins fourth year of International Baccalaureate, J.L. Long is on its way

Story by Brittany Nunn | Photo by Danny Fulgencio

In August, Woodrow Wilson High School embarked on its fourth year of being the only public school in Dallas ISD to offer the International Baccalaureate program as one of four college prep academies. And right next door, J. L. Long Middle School is nearing the end of its journey to become designated an official IB Middle Years school.

Woodrow has a new IB coordinator this year, and with three years of experience, the Woodrow staff is feeling good about its fourth year as an IB school, when graduating seniors will have gone all the way through the program.

“It’s going pretty smoothly,” says IB coordinator Kelly Ritchie. “We’ve been addressing some gaps, particularly gaps

of communication. I feel like we’ve made really good progress there.”

But it hasn’t always been such smooth sailing for the program. As with anything new, it has taken a while to iron out some of the kinks.

“There have been some growing pains with people getting the hang of what this really is,” says Woodrow’s SBDM chairperson, Susan Schuerger. “We’ve been gearing up, but I think having Kelly here helps, and I think we’re ready for it.”

Before coming to Woodrow, Ritchie worked at Imagine International Academy of North Texas, a charter school in McKinney that teaches IB from kindergarten to graduation.

“IB is highly effective,” she says. “It’s good that Dallas has made this investment in order for Woodrow to offer this, especially as a public school.”

International Bacca-what-a?

The educational system is riddled with acronyms — PTA, SBDM, ADHD, APR, EC. So, if you’ve never bothered to ask, “What is IB?” don’t feel bad; you’re in good company.

“Most people don’t know what it is, or they have a very basic idea,” Ritchie says.

“IB is a program that offers students a curriculum and a framework that allows them to take in information and process it themselves, so we’re teaching a way of thinking. We’re teaching to think versus just filling students up with rogue knowledge. That’s really the core of the program.

“The other piece, of course, is the international-mindedness,” she says, “bringing in awareness about our place in the world, the fact that there is a larger world out there and how to connect to that —what is our role in it? It’s really teaching kids to be proud of who they are and where they come from, but also to extend themselves to learn about other nations, environments and cultures.”

IB does all this through six different learning avenues: language acquisition, studies in language and literature in the first language, individuals and societies (history and geography with a global

Woodrow’s IB coordinator Kelly Richie.

perspective), mathematics, performing arts and science.

“And it’s set in a background of interconnectedness,” Ritchie says. “Ideally what you’re learning in these subjects will bleed over into the other subjects. It’s intended to be a very holistic approach.”

Woodrow IB students also take Theory of Knowledge, which Ritchie calls the “reward class” because it’s the fun class students can take in the midst of all the work and requirements the IB program entails.

“It’s the class where you really get to sit and converse about big topics,” Ritchie says, “like how do you know what you know? How do you know the facts you’re receiving are truthful and honest? How do we look at statistics and what are the ethics involved in different situations?”

By end of senior year, each student must write a 4,000-word essay, similar to a college thesis on a high school level. Students also have to take a test at the end of the year, which determines whether they receive an IB diploma.

And finally, students also have extracurricular activity requirements. They have to spend time outside of school “doing things they’re passionate about,” Ritchie says.

If the pathway fits

At Woodrow this year there are more than 35 seniors in the IB program, about 80 10th-graders and about 100 ninthgraders.

One of the biggest hurdles Ritchie has had to overcome in her short time as Woodrow’s IB coordinator is communicating to parents and students that, while there are many positive aspects of the program, the requirements and expectations can be sobering for even the brightest student.

The workload is both larger and harder than that of a traditional classroom setting because teachers challenge students on an analytical level, Ritchie says.

“It’s hard. You’re losing sleep and not getting to spend as much time with friends or doing the other things high schoolers enjoy,” Ritchie says. “But that’s what makes it such great college prep,

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and for the most part, parents have been very on board with the extra work,” she explains.

However, IB isn’t just for the smart kids.

“It can be for anybody, but it’s not for everybody,” Ritchie says. “There are students that lend themselves to this type of learning. There are very successful students who you might not identify as the most academic in their class, but they find a way to really connect with this, and it opens something they haven’t really gotten anywhere else. It really ignites a passion for learning, and that’s the point of the program, is to really tap into that.”

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In the end, students have to want an education that’s interdisciplinary and interconnected. They also must be able to handle the rigor that comes along with it, she says.

“So for students who are not up for that, that’s OK; there are other pathways, but this provides an outlet for kids who want that kind of education.”

The IB Middle Years program

This year, J. L. Long Middle School is on the threshold of becoming an IB Middle Years Program, which helps to ease students into the IB philosophy.

Applying to becoming an IB school is a three-year process, says Long principal Danielle Petters.

First, schools must apply to be a candidate, and once accepted, the school must implement the program as part of its curriculum. Teachers have to be trained, and the school has to pay a fee to the International Baccalaureate Organization. At that point the school is assigned a consultant who tours the school and makes recommendations.

Then there’s the authorization visit, which Long received on Oct. 14 and 15. During the visit, representatives from the national IB organization hosted intense interviews with groups of Long leaders, teachers, students and parents.

“It’s been an extremely rigorous transition,” says Long’s IB coordinator Dora Renaud, “but everybody’s on board.”

In November, Long met 32 out of the 33 requirements.

“The one matter that our school needs to address before the final recommendation and authorization is for our action plan to reduce the number of students not receiving 50 hours of instruction in all eight subjects,” Renaud says, “including an avenue for students to engage in both visual arts and performing arts.”

Renaud says the Long staff immediately began planning how to meet the remaining requirement to submit an action plan to IB nationals before Christmas break. Once everything is approved, Long will be named an official IB Middle Years school, and staff members hope to host a ceremony in the spring.

There are some distinct differences between the IB Middle Years program and the high school level or “diploma program” at Woodrow.

The Middle Years program is a more philosophical approach, a framework for the school, Petters says. Also, while students must opt in at the high school level, middle school students automatically become part of the IB program.

Long now hires teachers who fit the IB criteria, and the school has eight subject areas instead of seven, following the IB guidelines. Because of that, Long offers some courses that traditional middle schools might not, such as Chinese.

The core of IB stays the same at all grade levels.

“It’s about perspective,” Petters says. “So, how do you connect theater to life? To math? To science? To reading/ language arts? Where are those connections? It’s connections within those subject areas, and it’s also connections across cultures. It’s cross-discipline and cross-cultures.”

The hope is that the Middle Years program prepares students for the diploma program down the road, Petters says.

Petters’ daughter, a freshman at Woodrow this year, chose the IB academy, and all summer she was mentally preparing herself for the workload, Petters says.

“So if nothing else, I didn’t think of high school that way,” she says. “We also talk a lot about college, and a part of going to college is going to Woodrow. So they’re thinking about it.”

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s another plane.

Story by Brittany Nunn

Several East Dallas neighbors are concerned about increased air-traffic noise over their homes within the last year, saying that the Federal Aviation Administration has changed the flight patterns of planes leaving Love Field.

However, Mark Duebner, the director of aviation with the City of Dallas, says there has been no recent change in the patterns over East Dallas.

“That’s not to say that I’m disagreeing with the residents in the White Rock Lake area who believe it’s noisier,” he says, “but

I can only provide the numbers and show them what we see as far as activity.”

Earlier this year, the number of airplanes flying out of the Lemmon Avenue runway increased for a few months when the airport was opening its new terminal, and that did affect East Dallas, he says. However, he says that shift in traffic has subsided almost back to normal, and the commercial traffic is once again going to and from both the Denton and Lemmon runways.

Still, neighbor Mary Guenveur says

there has been a noticeable change in the amount of airplane noise over her home.

“You cannot deny there’s an increase, because too many people have noticed it,” she says. “Something has changed. You cannot walk out on my front porch and be there for 30 minutes without hearing at least two very low-flying airplanes back-toback, and it is so loud.”

READ MORE ONLINE Search “flight patterns” on lakewood.advocatemag.com for a more in-depth look at Love Field’s air traffic, and leave a comment or answer our poll.

This graphic shows air-traffic patterns, which have remained mostly the same from 2011 to 2013. The green lines show airplanes below 3,000 feet, the yellow lines show planes between 3,000 and 6,000 feet, and the red lines show planes above 6,000 feet. The blue box outlines White Rock Lake. (provided by Mark Duebner, aviation director)

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“I have emailed through the Love Field website numerous times about this. They responded that it would be passed on to the proper department but have never given me a direct connection. It is definitely much worse. More traffic. Lower and louder takeoffs/landings and at very early and late hours. It is extremely noticeable. Thank you for addressing this topic.”

RAF

“Haven’t noticed it at all. It seems like they approach a little lower when the cloud deck is low, maybe it’s a seasonal thing.”

Bob Loblaw

“Noise? From Love Field? Really?? People have forgotten what REAL airplane noise was — I just wonder what it was like 40 years ago when Love Field was still the major airport with jets from at least two (much louder) generations ago! Some people REALLY need more things to do IMHO.”

Glenn

“When wind blows from north (prevailing wind is from south) airplanes are directed over Lakewood and White Rock Lake to land at Love Field coming in from the south into the wind, thus more traffic. Need to see traffic patterns with separate colors. Larger volume of higher-flying planes (red) obscure colors of low flying planes (green and yellow). Low flying planes are the problem over Lakewood with north wind and coming in from southeast destinations with south wind. Can shine a strong flashlight on underbelly of planes and light them up they fly so low over White Rock/Lakewood.”

— Golly

“Talk about first-world problems. News flash: you live in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country. There will be airplanes overhead. Or maybe all this whining really is a call for the FAA to divert air traffic more toward south Dallas, where those poorer people won’t care as much since their properties are worth less. White Americans can be so obnoxious sometimes ...”

No, Not Planes

48 percent of readers answered “yes” to the question, “Do you think there has been a recent increase in air traffic noise in East Dallas?” Thirty percent said “no,” another 18 percent, “Couldn’t care less,” and 4 percent chose “other.”

Contrary to neighbors’ concerns, the number of aircraft operating from the Lemmon runway, which diverts traffic toward East Dallas, has decreased over the past three years, according to data provided by Mark Duebner, City of Dallas aviation director.

Special report: Lakewood Shopping Center roundup

Last year, the Lakewood Shopping Center, which is wedged between Gaston and Abrams at the center of Lakewood, saw major changes

Story by Brittany Nunn

Lincoln Property Company bought a portion of the Lakewood Shopping Center a couple of years ago, and since then several old tenants have gone and new tenants have come. Last year, Lincoln also purchased the old White Rock YMCA and Far West nightclub property at Gaston-Garland-Grand, with plans to overhaul it.

In the meantime, we’ve watched major transformations happen at the Lakewood Shopping Center. Some of it has been good, like new columns, a new roof, and an entirely new surface. Other parts have been a little more bittersweet, such as when Lincoln took the clock above Dixie House down, until neighbors flooded their social media pages and email inboxes demanding that it be put back. Lincoln responded to the concern quickly, saying they were cleaning the clock and would put it back up at a later date.

Lincoln also majorly reconfigured the south end of the shopping center to make room for a brand-new breezeway. Lincoln also commissioned an artist to paint several paintings around the building.

Neighbors often ask about the future of Dixie House, which has been a staple in the Lakewood Shopping Center for 35 years, but corporate says it’s been smooth sailing for the restaurant. There are no plans of moving — amicably or otherwise. “Dixie House has been here more than 30 years, and we’re not going anywhere,” says Wes Oliver with marketing and operations.

Ace Hardware is, indeed, leaving its longtime spot in the Lakewood Shopping Center at Gaston and Abrams, but we’re not losing it altogether. Ace is moving down the street to the soon-to-begin-construction Arboretum Village at GastonGarland-Grand. Last we heard, Khando Nagar, the owner of Ace Hardware, isn’t sure when Ace will be moving to its new location, or what will take its place.

20/20 Sight, an optometrist and eyeglassframe store, opened in the back end of Lakewood Shopping Center in November. This is their third location. The practice was started in Grand Prairie in 1999, and they expanded to Forney in 2006.

Last summer, at the same time as the construction on the breezeway, Lincoln also gutted the space between Liberty Burger and Ali Baba, making it into three spaces instead of two. One of the spaces became 20/20 Sights, and one became Unleashed by Petco. The third is still vacant.

Unleashed by Petco opened at the end of September. Unleashed by Petco is basically a Petco with a smaller footprint. The company’s website, which says Unleashed hit the scene in 2009 with a location in San Diego, says, “Our concept is simple — provide the same knowledge and know-how offered by Petco in a unique, smaller package.”

The owner of Beads of Splendor, Diana Thatcher, requested that she be allowed out of her lease when construction on the shopping center began. She says that at first she was told it wouldn’t be a problem, but that once it came down to the wire, Lincoln told her she wouldn’t be able to leave after all.

construction. At this point, we don’t know what it’ll be.

The former spaces of the School of Contemporary Ballet Dallas and Catalina 5G Boutique were completely overhauled in 2013 to make room for Liberty Burger and a new breezeway. Lincoln spent months knocking out walls, tearing up the floor and making several other major changes to the space. Then Liberty Burger started their part of the construction, dressing the bones to make it “look like a Liberty Burger.”

The breezeway was completed first, and in early November, Liberty Burger revealed its end result — a spacious room lined with massive floor-to-ceiling windows. They also took special care to make sure everything was as handmade as possible, from the tables and chairs to the hand-welded light fixtures.

Greek restaurant Organicity was locked out of its building in the Lakewood Shopping Center. In September, the lights were turned off and the doors were locked tight. A notice on the door stated that the reason for the lockout and termination of lease for the restaurant at 1906 Abrams was “nonpayment of rent.” Organicity is owned by Gino and Olina Nikolini, who, according to their website, are from Thessaloniki in the Macedonian region of Greece. They pulled from their own Greek heritage for the menu, and they also prided themselves on serving organic dishes. Olina Nikolini said after the fact that they were planning their next move, but she wouldn’t elaborate. The space is currently vacant, and we don’t yet know what might go there.

Floss Dental replaced the UPS store at the beginning of the year.

A new vacant space was created during the

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Pearl Cup out, Houndstooth in

The Pearl Cup announced it plans to close its flagship location on Henderson due to escalating rent, and Houndstooth Coffee — yes, the same coffee shop that once titillated us with the idea of setting up a location at Skillman and Like Oak — plans to take its place. The Pearl Cup will still have its three other locations, but the Henderson location’s last day was Dec. 23. Houndstooth already signed a lease.

Change of plans for Snuffer’s

Pat Snuffer will no longer be associated with Snuffer’s Restaurant Inc. Last March, Snuffer’s Restaurant Inc. filed for bankruptcy. Then in July, it was bailed out by Firebird Restaurant Group, according to a press release from Firebird owner Mike Karns. Now, Firebird — which also owns El Fenix, Meso Maya and Taqueria La Ventana — will be taking over operations of all six Snuffer’s Restaurant & Bar locations. However, Pat Snuffer and his team will hold onto the original location, which is under construction on Lower Greenville. Snuffer planned to make the location a Pat’s Burger & Cheddar Fries, but after Snuffer announced his intentions to the public, Firebird filed a lawsuit against him, saying he has launched a “last-minute, desperate, and unlawful conspiracy... for the purpose of launching a new and substantially identical chain of restaurants under the name ‘Pat’s Burger & Cheddar Fries’ — based on the goodwill, business opportunities, intellectual property, and confidential and proprietary information that is Snuffer’s.” Originally, Snuffer hoped to open the Greenville location around this time, but Firebird was granted a temporary restraining order until things are sorted out.

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Wine Therapist + Bodega Bar

In early November, The Wine Therapist moved from its location at Skillman and Live Oak next to the Mecca across the street into the space previously occupied by Lakewood Consignment. Later, owner Phillip Nikpour announced he is teaming up with with Amier Taherzadeh of the former Bodega Bar for the new space.

Bakeries moving, expanding

The folks at Society Bakery left their location at 3426 Greenville for greener pastures at the beginning of November, and Unrefined Bakery left no time before swooping in to scoop up the empty spot. Taylor Nicholson, who co-owns Unrefined with her mother Anne Hoyt, hosted a soft opening for the Greenville location in December. Society Bakery is offering curbside cake delivery service while they set up shop a couple blocks down the way at 3610 Greenville near the Granada Theater. Once they open, we can expect an “expanded menu that will include espresso drinks, breakfast sweets, sandwiches, soups, salads, vegan and gluten free items,” according to their website.

—Brittany Nunn

1 At the beginning of December, Chip’s Hamburgers opened in Lakewood at the corner of Skillman and Live Oak. 2 Doctors Hospital at White Rock

Lake built an urgent care center in Casa Linda Plaza in the old Blockbuster at 9540 Garland, which opened Dec. 4. 3 Baker’s Ribs on Northwest Highway is open. They moved from a Greenville Ave. location in September. 4 At the time of publication, the Chipotle at Abrams and Richmond was still unopened, missing its Dec. 7 hoped-for opening date.

5 Crisp Salad Company, a new build-your-own-salad or wrap restaurant, hosted a soft opening Dec. 4 at its Lower Greenville location between Teppo Yakitori Sushi Bar and the Char Bar. 6 Power Properties has revamped the crumbling apartment complex, called The Greenhouse, at Gaston and Munger into an appealing attraction, complete with faux topiary and giant silver sculpture.

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The St. Thomas Aquinas fifth grade, JV and Varsity Wildcat football teams made history the weekend of Nov. 23 by capturing championships in all three divisions as part of the Dallas Parochial League (DPL) Catholic Bowl. The DPL is comprised of almost 30 Catholic schools in the Dallas area, and the Catholic Bowl was held at Roffino Stadium at Bishop Lynch High School on Saturday, Nov. 23. In the 53-year history of the DPL, no school has ever won all three championships in the same season. For the St. Thomas Aquinas Varsity squad, the victory represented the first Varsity championship since 1975. The fifth grade team, head coached by Steve Ramos, defeated St. Rita by a score of 12 – 6 to cap its championship season and finish with a record of eight wins and two losses. The JV team, head coached by Mike Davis, defeated St. Mark by a score of 32 – 0, which completed a perfect season of 11 victories and no losses. The Varsity team, head coached by Mike Simmons, rallied from behind in the final moments of the game to upend St. Rita by a score of 14 – 12, thereby preserving their own perfect season with 11 victories and no losses.

The Volunteer Center of North Texas (VCNT) is pleased to announce Tammy Richards has been named new CEO. Richards is a community leader with management, educational, business and nonprofit experience, according to a press release. Richards also has deep experience in nonprofit boards. VCNT Board Chairman Cheryl Alston hopes Richard’s leadership experience in the corporate, education and nonprofit sectors will help as VCNT launches its Voly.org initiative. According to the press release, former CEO Julie Thomas is stepping down from her dayto-day responsibilities as CEO. However, she will continue to cultivate major gifts to VCNT.

The YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas is pleased to announce the Texas Bar Foundation has made a $5,500 contribution to support the YMCA Texas Youth & Government Program. The YMCA Youth & Government program’s mission is to help teenagers become responsible citizens and future leaders of our nation. The goal is to create an environment in which students can increase political awareness and understanding, while learning the meaning of social action through actual experience in government. This year nearly 1,900 students from around the state of Texas have participated in local Youth & Government programs.

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THE KESSLER SCHOOL

Pre K – 6th Grade / 1215 Turner Ave, Dallas TX 75208 / 214-942-2220 / www. thekesserschool.com The Kessler School offers an innovative academic environment that gives students a solid foundation, confidence, and a love of learning. Located just minutes from downtown Dallas; The Kessler School’s mission is to “educate the whole child,” and provides an individualized approach to teaching – meeting the student where their needs are. Students are educated socially through community time, physically through daily PE, academically through a well-rounded curriculum, and spiritually through a fostering of awareness and individual growth.

LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

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

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

SPANISH HOUSE

5740 Prospect Ave. & 4411 Skillman / 214-826-4410 / DallasSpanishHouse.com

Spanish House is a Spanish immersion school with two Lakewood locations for children ages 3 months - Kindergarten. We offer half-day and full-day programs, with extended care available from 7:30am - 6:00pm. We also offer after-school and Saturday classes for PK and elementary-aged students, both on- and off-site. Additionally, we have an adult Spanish program for beginning, intermediate and advanced students.

ST. BERNARD’S

1420 Old Gate Ln. Dallas / 214.321.2897 / stbernardccs.org St. Bernard of Clairvaux School has educated children in Forest Hills, Casa Linda and White Rock neighborhoods since 1948. We encourage each student to develop an inquisitive mind, strong moral character and a love of learning that lasts a lifetime. The experienced teaching staff is dedicated to academic excellence with a challenging curriculum and individual attention. We offer affordable tuition, PK through 8th grade, wireless slate technology, extracurricular activities, and after-school care. Please call to schedule a tour.

ST. CHRISTOPHER’S MONTESSORI SCHOOL

7900 Lovers Ln. / 214.363.9391 stchristophersmontessori.com St. Christopher’s Montessori School has been serving families in the DFW area for over a quarter of a century. We are affiliated with the American Montessori Society and our teachers are certified Montessori instructors. Additionally our staff has obtained other complimentary educational degrees and certifications, including having a registered nurse on staff. Our bright and attractive environment, and highly qualified staff, ensures your child will grow and develop in an educationally sound, AMS certified loving program. Now Enrolling.

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

848 Harter Rd., Dallas 75218 / 214.328.9131

/ stjohnsschool.org Founded in 1953, St. John’s is an independent, co-educational day school for Pre-K through Grade 8. With a tradition for academic excellence, St. John’s programs include a challenging curriculum in a Christian environment along with instruction in the visual and performing arts, Spanish, German, French, and opportunities for athletics and community service.St. John’s goal for its students is to develop a love for learning, service to others, and leadership grounded in love, humility, and wisdom. Accredited by ISAS, SAES, and the Texas Education Agency.

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WHITE ROCK NORTH SCHOOL

9727 White Rock Trail Dallas / 214.348.7410 / WhiteRockNorthSchool.com

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

ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL

6121 E. Lovers Ln. Dallas / 214.363.1630 / ziondallas. org Toddler care thru 8th Grade. Serving Dallas for over 58 years offering a quality education in a Christ-centered learning environment. Degreed educators minister to the academic, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of students and their families. Before and after school programs, Extended Care, Parents Day Out, athletics, fine arts, integrated technology, Spanish, outdoor education, Accelerated Reader, advanced math placement, and student government. Accredited by National Lutheran School & Texas District Accreditation Commissions and TANS. Contact Principal Jeff Thorman.

WOODROW WILSON HIGH SCHOOL

100 S. Glasgow Dallas 75214 / 972-502-4400 / woodrowwildcats.org A proven college preparation program and a true high school experience. Woodrow graduates attend, year after year, our state’s and country’s finest colleges including Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, TCU, Tech, West Point, Georgetown, Duke, North Carolina, Princeton and Yale, often with meaningful scholarships. With academic programs equaling the best private and magnet schools, Woodrow’s diverse student body also enjoys a traditional high school offering arts, music, dance, theater, math and science clubs, debate and writing competitions and a broad, inclusive and successful sports program, with cheerleaders and drill team. “It’s all at Woodrow and it works”.

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BENDING OAKS HIGH SCHOOL

11884 Greenville Avenue, Suite 120 / 972.669.0000 / bohs.com Bending Oaks is a limited-enrollment private high school located in Dallas, Texas. For over 29 years Bending Oaks High School has provided a supportive learning environment that can rebuild a student’s confidence in their abilities, get them on track to graduate from high school, and off to college. Visit bohs.com to learn more, late enrollment is available.

CLAIRE’S CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL

8202 Boedeker Dr., / (214) 368-4047 / clairesdayschool.com At CCDS, we encourage a child’s sense of exploration and discovery in a loving, nurturing, and safe environment. We offer a parent’s day out program with a play-based curriculum fostering socialization, motor skill development, and an introduction to academics for children aged 4mo – 3yrs. Our preschool for children aged 3-5 further develops these skills, along with a more focused approach to pre-math and pre-reading. At CCDS, we have developed our own science, math, and reading enrichment classes to ensure kindergarten preparedness for every child. We make learning fun!

GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

11110 Midway Rd, Dallas TX 75229 gsesdallas.org / 214.357.1610 Located on the corner of Midway and Northaven, GSES provides each student the kind of dynamic, vigorous school experience parents should expect in Dallas. GSES is the preeminent Prek-8th grade Dallas school where 98% of our graduates get into their top two high school choices! Inquire and imagine the infinite possibilities!

HIGHLANDER SCHOOL

9120 Plano Rd. Dallas / 214.348.3220 / www.highlanderschool.com Founded in 1966, Highlander School offers an enriched curriculum in a positive, Christian-based environment. Small class sizes help teachers understand the individual learning styles of each student. Give us a call for more information.

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How faith can guide our New Year’s resolutions

The new year brings New Year’s resolutions to do better and to be better this year than last. These resolutions normally have undergirding assumptions that become familiar clichés (a moment of silence for the clever motivational speaker from Dallas, the late Zig Ziglar, along with his prudent ilk):

•If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

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•A goal properly set is halfway reached. •Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

•Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.

There’s nothing wrong with resolutions. In fact, if you make them, I recommend keeping them modest and achievable, and enlisting support from others to reinforce you beyond Jan. 1.

But we have just come off the Christmas season in the Christian faith, in which Mary plays a prominent part. Her role begins with wonder at the way things happen to you more than the things you make happen. Can you imagine her sitting down on that New Year’s Day before the angel Gabriel arrived and saying “I resolve to become a mother this year by a divine act of love alone”? Like so many things in life we could never anticipate, the course is not what we chart but how we navigate.

Mary’s life was altered for good and for good the day the angel brought her the good news. She could never have conceived it on her own. “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor human mind conceived what God has planned for those who love him,” St. Paul said in paraphrasing the prophet Isaiah. What she could do was consent. She could agree. She could cooperate with God in welcoming the Christ and bearing God’s love into the world.

“Let it be unto me, according your word,” Mary said. Let it be. What a lovely way of

seeing our way forward. Instead of striving to do something for God, we allow God to strive within us to do something through us. Faith is first a letting-be. It’s letting God have God’s way with us.

The prayer journal of the wonderful Southern short-story writer Flannery O’Connor was published this year. In her early 20s, she wrote: “I do not know You

God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.” How very Mary of her!

One of the hazards of resolutions is the temptation to preoccupation with oneself. The more you think of yourself, the harder it is to think of anything or anyone else. Which is why the French mystic Simone Weil would say: “It’s not my business to think of myself. It’s my business to think of God. It’s [God’s] business to think of me.” And God is good at God’s business.

So the first thing to do this year might be to leave your heart open to the unexpected divine appointment that you don’t get to schedule for yourself. The next is to let it be, to allow God to work in you so that God can work through you.

But Mary’s initial “let it be unto me” had to be followed by acts of obedience to that call that would call forth her best efforts, too. So be it resolved that first faith leads to lasting faithfulness this year.

One of the hazards of resolutions is the temptation to preoccupation with oneself. The more you think of yourself, the harder it is to think of anything or anyone else.

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.

ANGLICAN

ALL SAINTS DALLAS / 2733 Oak Lawn / 972.755.3505

Radical Inclusivity, Profound Transformation. Come and See! 9:00 & 11:00 am Sunday Services. www.allsaintschurchdallas.org

BAPTIST

LAKESIDE BAPTIST / 9150 Garland Rd / 214.324.1425

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

Pastor Jeff Donnell / www.lbcdallas.com

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

All services & Bible Study 9:15 & 10:45. Trad. & Blended (Sanctuary), Contemporary (Great Hall), Amigos de Dios (Gym) / 214.860.1500

PRESTONWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH / “A Church to Call Home”

Sundays: Bible Fellowship (all ages) 9:15 am /Service Time 11:00 am

12123 Hillcrest Road / 972.820.5000 / prestonwood.org

RIDGECREST BAPTIST / 5470 Ellsworth / 214.826.2744

Sun. Life Groups 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am / Wed. Nights 6:00 pm

Pastor Greg Byrd / www.rcbcdallas.org

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

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EAST 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

HIGHLANDS CHRISTIAN CHURCH (Lake Highlands) 9949 McCree Rd. 214-348-2805 / www.highlandschristianchurch.com

Sundays: School 9:45 am / Worship 11:00 am / Rev. Paul Carpenter

ECKANKAR

HU CHANT CLASS / A Love Song to God / expand awareness, experience divine love, bring peace and calm / January 9, 7:15 pm

Lakewood Library / 972.820.0530 / meetup.com/Eckankar-Dallas

EPISCOPAL

ST. MATTHEW’S CATHEDRAL / 5100 Ross Ave.

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

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

LUTHERAN

CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

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

Pastor Rich Pounds / CentralLutheran.org / 214.327.2222

FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH / 6202 E Mockingbird Lane

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

METHODIST

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

Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee

Worship: 8:30 am & 10:50 am Traditional / 10:50 am Contemporary

MUNGER PLACE CHURCH / Expect Great Things.

Worship Sundays, 9:30 and 11:00 am / 5200 Bryan Street 214.823.9929 / www.mungerplacechurch.org

RIDGEWOOD PARK UMC / 6445 E. Lovers Lane / 214.369.9259

Sunday Worship: 9:30 am Traditional and 11:35 am Contemporary

Sunday School: 10:30 am / Rev. Ann Willet / ridgewoodparkchurch.org

WHITE ROCK UNITED METHODIST / www.wrumc.org

1450 Oldgate Lane / 214.324.3661

Sunday Worship 10:50 am / Rev. George Fisk

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NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

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After being inspired by the Starbucks culture and idea of the “third place,” East Dallas artist Shannon Kincaid embarked on Project Starbucks, in which she paints locals who, like herself, haunt the Lakewood location on a regular basis.

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ALL AGES: LEARN PIANO WITH WADE COTTINGHAM LakewoodPianoLab.com Since 1998. 214-564-6456

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

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Casa Linda Plaza. Art Classes & Drop In Pottery Painting For All Ages. 214-821-8383. Tues-Sat 10am-6pm

DRUM & PIANO LESSONS Your location. UNT Grad. BucherMusicSchool.com or call 214-484-5360, 469-831-7012

GUITAR OR PIANO Fun/Easy. Your Home. 11 Yrs Exp. Reasonable rates. UNT Grad. Larry 469-358-8784

WRITING. ENGLISH. GRAMMAR. Grade School through University and Beyond. 20+ yrs. exp. 469-263-7004

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LOVING, CHRIST-CENTERED CARE SINCE 1982 Lake Highlands Christian Child Enrichment Center Ages 2 mo.-12 yrs. 9919 McCree. 214-348-1123.

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AIRLINE CAREERS begin here. Get FAA approved maintenance training. housing & financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Aviation institute Of Maintenance Houston 877-846-4155 or Dallas 888-896-8006

PET SITTERS, DOG WALKERS Email Recruiting@pcpsi.com

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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. $50/hr. 1 hr min. Dan 214-660-3733 or stykidan@sbcglobal.net

GRAPHIC DESIGN BY SOZA DESIGN Logos, Brochures, Posters & More. wsoza@yahoo.com 214-287-6499

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA FROM HOME 6-8 Wks. Accredited. Free brochure. No computer needed. 1-800-264-8330 Benjamin Franklin High School www.diplomafromhome.com

VAPOR MART ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES 214-321-1944. Across from Highland Park Cafeteria. 9533 Losa Drive #2

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

A WILL? THERE IS A WAY Estate/Probate Matters-Free Consultation. 214-802-6768 MaryGlennAttorney.com

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

HOLLOWAY BENEFIT CONCEPTS Benefit strategy for area businesses. www.hollowaybenefitconcepts.com 214-329-0097

REED & RIORDAN PLLC Dallas Family Law Attorneys 10000 N Central Expy Dallas, Tx 214-570-9555 reedriordan.com

TRAVEL

CRUISEONE DALLAS Doug Thompson bigDcruises.com Plan your cruise vacation today! 214-254-4980

TO ADVERTISE CALL 214.560.4203

Dawn Grunnagle , a 35-year-old East Dallas/ M Streets resident who coaches the youth running club at Merriman Park Elementary, placed first overall female at the Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot with a time of 46:24. About 1,500 women and 2,100 men entered the eight-mile timed race. Photo by Andy Reine.

POOP

Teachers of the year

Six teachers from neighborhood schools were honored by the East Dallas Chamber of Commerce recently as part of the group’s annual Teacher of the Year Awards luncheon sponsored by Doctors Hospital. Among the honorees are Elizabeth Dry, Alex Sanger Elementary; Rochelle Rasheed and Julie Ann Riggs, Lakehill Preparatory School; Juli Powers , Gaston Middle School; Amy Solorio , Bryan Adams High School; and Andy Zihlman , Bishop Lynch High School.

Local BULLETIN BOARD

BUY/SELL/TRADE

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front row seats. Share prime, front-row Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars tickets (available in sets of 10 games). Prices start at $105 per ticket (sets of 2 or 4 tickets per game available) Seats are behind the plate and next to the dugouts for the Rangers: seats are on the glass and on the Platinum Level for the Stars. Other great seats available starting at $60 per ticket. Entire season available except for opening game; participants randomly draw numbers prior to the season to determine a draft order fair for everyone. Call 214-560-4212 or rwamre@advocatemag.com

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ESTATE SALES & LIQUIDATION SERVICES

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

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THE CABINET CONCIERGE

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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

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

D SQUARED Design, Build, Remodel, Additions 214-213-2716

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SQUARE NAIL WOODWORKING

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• 1 & 2 Story Additions

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•Complete full service

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- Design, Build, Remodel

- Kitchens & Baths

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Many references available

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CLEANING SERVICES

AMAZON CLEANING

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

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

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

MAID PRISTINE House Cleaning For Perfectionists. Reliable. Leticia. maidpristine.com 972-971-1571

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

THE MAIDS Angie’s List Award! Eco-Friendly Products. www.maids.com 972-278-6000

WANTED: HOUSES TO CLEAN

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

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Residential Specialists. BBB. 214-718-3134

YOU HAVE IT MAID SERVICES 972-859-0287 bonded/insured. Youhaveitmaidservices.com

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 Great Rates! Keith 214-295-6367

CONCRETE/ MASONRY/PAVING

BRICK & STONE REPAIR

Don 214-704-1722

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

BRICK, STONEWORK, FLAGSTONE PATIOS Mortar Repair. Call George 214-498-2128

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

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

ELECTRICAL SERVICES

4 U ELECTRICAL SERVICE, LLC We will be there 4 U. 972-877-4183

ANTHONY’S ELECTRIC Master Electrician. TECL24948 anthonyselectricofdallas.com Family Owned/Operated. Insd. 214-328-1333

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

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

MORIN ELECTRIC New/Remodel.Com/Res. Panel Changes/Full Services. All Phases. All Service Work. 469-230-7438. TECL2293

TEXAS ELECTRICAL • 214-289-0639

Honest, Quality. TECL 24668 CCs accepted. TH ELECTRIC Reasonable Rates. Licensed & Insured. Ted. E257 214-808-3658

WHITE ROCK ELECTRIC All Electrical Services. Lic/Insd. E795. 214-850-4891

Business Resources

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ELECTRICAL SERVICES

FLOORING & CARPETING

HANDYMAN

SERVICES

HOUSE PAINTING

LIC#17141

PC ELECTRIC 214.533.5949 call.text.email

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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.

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

KIRKWOOD FENCE & DECK

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

LONESTARDECKS.COM 214-357-3975

Trex Decking & Fencing, trex.com

All Wood Decks, Arbors & Patio Covers

EST. 1991 #1

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FENCE & IRON CO.

214.692.1991

SPECIALIZING IN Wood Fences &Auto Gates

cowboyfenceandiron.com

FIREPLACE SERVICES

CHIMNEY SWEEP Dampers/Brick & Stone

Repair. DFW Metro. Don 214-704-1722

FLOORING & CARPETING

ALL WALKS OF FLOORS 214-616-7641

Carpet, Wood, Tile Sales/Service Free Estimates

BEAR FOOT HARDWOODS 214-734-8851

Complete Hardwood Flooring Services

DALLAS CARPET OUTLET Carpet/Wood/Tile. dallascarpetoutlet.com 214-342-1100

DALLAS HARDWOODS 214-724-0936

Installation, Repair, Refinish, Wax, Hand Scrape. Residential, Commercial. Sports Floors. 25 Yrs.

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

N-HANCE WOOD RENEWAL. No Dust. No Mess. No Odor. nhance.com. 214-321-3012.

WILLEFORD HARDWOOD FLOORS 214-824-1166 • WillefordHardwoodFloors.com

Restoration Flooring

Your Home Repair Specialists

25+ Years Experience

469.774.3147

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FOUNDATION REPAIR

• Slabs • Pier & Beam

• Mud Jacking • Drainage

• Free Estimates

• Over 20 Years Exp. 972-288-3797

We Answer Our Phones

GARAGE DOORS

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

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Replacement Windows & Doors Free Estimate 214-274-5864

LAKE HIGHLANDS GLASS & MIRROR

custom mirrors • shower enclosures store fronts • casements 214-349-8160

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

HANDYMAN SERVICES

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

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

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

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

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

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

WANTED: ODD JOBS & TO DO LISTS

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

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

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HOME INSPECTION

KITCHEN/BATH/ TILE/GROUT

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

FENN CONSTRUCTION Any Tile Anywhere. www.dallastileman.com Back Splash Specials! 214-343-4645

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

A1 TOP COAT Professional. Reliable. References. TopCoatOfTexas.com 214-770-2863

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. Any size 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

MANNY’S HOME PAINTING & REPAIR Int./Ext. Sheetrock. Manny 214-334-2160

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

ROMEO’S PAINTING INT/EXT. Drywall, Damage Repair. Prep House To Sell. 214-789-0803

TONY’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work Since 1984. INT/EXT 214-755-2700

VIP PAINTING & DRYWALL Int/Ext. Sheetrock Repair, Resurfacing Tubs, Counters, Tile Repairs. 469-774-7111

WHITE ROCK PAINTING

References. Mark Reindel 214-321-5280

BRIAN GREAM

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

MELROSE TILE James Estrello Sr., Installer 40 Yrs. Exp. MelroseTile.com 214-384-6746

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

• Tubs, Tiles or Sinks

• Cultured Marble

• Kitchen Countertops

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

25% OFF TREE WORK Trim. Roberts Tree Svc. Insd. 10 yrs exp. 214-808-8925

A BETTER TREE COMPANY • JUST TREES Complete tree services. Tree & Landscape Lighting! Mark 214-332-3444

A&B LANDSCAPING Full Landscape & Lawn Care Services. Degreed Horticulturist. 214-534-3816

AYALA’S LANDSCAPING Firewood for Sale! Call the Land Expert Today! Insured. 214-773-4781

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

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

COLE’S LAWN CARE • 214-327-3923 Quality Service with a Personal Touch.

COVINGTON’S NURSERY & LANDSCAPE CO. 5518 Pres. George Bush Hwy. Rowlett 972-475-5888 covingtonnursery.com

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

DALLAS K.D.R.SERVICES • 214-349-0914

Lawn Service & Landscape Installation

FOREVERLAWNTEXAS.COM George Berre. Quality Synthetic Grass, Free Est. 214-263-0828

GREENSKEEPER Winter 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

PLAN AHEAD FOR SPRING Get your designs completed. Beds prepped. Trees planted. Walton’s Garden Center 8652 Garland Rd. 214-321-2387

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

SERIOUSLY METICULOUS Verdant Grounds. 214-763-0492

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

THE POND MAN Water Gardens Designed & Installed. Drained & Cleaned. Weekly Service. Jim Tillman 214-769-0324

TRACY’S LAWN CARE • 972-329-4190

Lawn Mowing & Leaf Cleaning

WHITE ROCK TREE WIZARDS Professionals, Experts, Artists. Trim, Rmv, Cable Repair, CavityFill Stump Grind. Emergency Hazards. Insd. Free Est. 972-803-6313

PEST CONTROL

A BETTER EARTH PEST CONTROL Keeping the environment, kids, pets in mind. Organic products avail. 972-564-2495

McDANIEL PEST CONTROL

Prices Start at $85 +Tax for General Treatment Average Home, Interior, Exterior & Attached Garage Quotes for Other Services

214-328-2847

Lakewood Resident

PLUMBING

A2Z PLUMBING 214-727-4040

All Plumbing Repairs. Slab Leak Specialists. Licensed & Insured. ML# M36843.

ANDREWS PLUMBING • 214-354-8521

# M37740 Insured. Any plumbing issues. plumberiffic69@gmail.com

Sewers • Drains • Bonded 24 Hours/7 Days *Joe Faz 214-794-7566 - Se Habla Español*

ARRIAGA PLUMBING: Faucet, Sewer, Sink Repairs. Water Leaks. Water Heaters, Gas Testing. Remodels, Shower Pans, Stoppages. Insured. Lic 20754. Since the 80’s 214-321-0589, 214-738-7116,CC’s Accptd

HAYES PLUMBING INC. Repairs. Insured, 214-343-1427 License M13238

JUSTIN’S PLUMBING SERVICE

For All Your Plumbing Needs. ml#M24406 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

SPECK PLUMBING

Over 30 Yrs Exp. Licensed/Insured. 214-732-4769, 214-562-2360

POOLS

ADAIR POOL & SPA SERVICE

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

DFWPOOLCHEMICAL.COM Never Pay Retail Again. Chemicals, Parts, Motors, Etc.

LEAFCHASERS POOLS

Parts and Service. Chemicals and Repairs. Jonathan. 214-729-3311

LOCK’S POOL SERVICE - 469-235-2072 40 years experience. Pool Electrical TICL #550

MICHAEL’S POOL SERVICE

Maintenance & Repair 214-727-7650

ROOFING

A&B GUTTER 972-530-5699

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

NATIONWIDE ROOFING

Fencing, Gutters BBB member. 214-882-8719

TAILGATE GONE.

Aaron Pickell did not expect what he saw that morning as he headed out the door of his Lakewood-area home for

The Victim: Aaron Pickell

The Crime: Auto accessory theft

Date: Friday, Nov. 22

Time: Between 2 a.m. and 7 a.m.

Location: 7200 block of Meadow Lake

work: The tailgate to his 2013 Ford truck was gone. The truck was a nice vehicle to haul things around for his children and got plenty of use.

“It kind of makes you want to police the neighborhood more,” Pickell says. “This is my first time to be victimized.”

Replacing the tailgate is a bit more expensive than it would be for an older truck. The tailgate was pretty high-tech, with a backup camera and a step built in, adding to the replacement cost. In all, he expects the replacement to cost more than $2,000. The crime has been a real frustration to say the least.

“Tailgates are a hot commodity right now,” says Sr. Corporal Monica Almeida of the Northeast Patrol Division. “De-

pending on the tailgate, thieves can get as much as $4,000 for one. This is because nowadays you have cameras installed on tailgates as a safety feature for backing up.”

Using tailgate locks can prevent them from being stolen, she says; she adds that a cheap way to deter thieves is to use a zip tie or a hose clamp to help secure tailgates. The added hassle might make a thief move to another vehicle instead.

“I know it’s not the best fix, but at least it slows a thief down from running off with your tailgate. A tailgate lock is the best bet and protects the taillights from being stolen, too.”

Chaffin

THE POWER POSITION

In the search for a new city manager, neighborhood groups should have a voice COMMENT. Visit lakewood.advocatemag.com and search “City Manager” to tell us what you think.

Selecting Dallas’ next city manager is the most important decision the city council members will make while in office. In our “weak mayor/strong city manager” system, the city manager calls the shots, recommending how to spend the city’s $2.5 billion annual budget, allocating resources to our streets, parks, libraries, police, fire and code compliance departments as well as setting the priorities of city staff.

Given the direct impact our city manager has on our neighborhoods’ day-to-day quality of life — and how

So far, the search firm hired by the city to find our next city manager has not met with a single neighborhood group. Not one. But they have found time to meet with the Dallas Citizens Council. And the Dallas Regional Chamber. And the Real Estate Council. And other business groups.

Don’t get me wrong. The consultants should reach out to Dallas business leaders. Our business community plays an important role in the economic health of our city, so it’s reasonable for the consultants to want that perspective on the city manager search. The problem lies in seeking counsel only from the business community. Its perspective is important, but limited.

to be a great city to live in, not just to visit or to do business in, and who want City Hall to be more responsive to residents. That means engaging with Dallas neighborhoods.

Luckily, several pro-neighborhood council members, including Philip Kingston, Scott Griggs, Adam Medrano and Sandy Greyson, have demanded that the consultants reach out to us. The search firm can streamline the process by meeting with umbrella organizations such as the Dallas Homeowners League, the North Dallas Neighborhood Alliance, the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League and others that represent neighborhood interests.

critical strong neighborhoods are to our tax base — you would think Dallas neighborhoods would have a significant voice in the selection of our city’s next CEO. You would be wrong.

The fact is, many in the business community don’t experience Dallas in the same way you and I do. Many of them don’t reside in our city. They don’t depend on trash pickup from the City of Dallas, and they don’t call our 311 system when they have a problem. They aren’t visiting our neighborhood parks or worrying about how quickly the Dallas Police Department will get to their homes in an emergency. Their business life may be here, but they haven’t made their lives here. It’s an investment of a different order, and the people who have made Dallas their home deserve at least an equal voice in the conversation about our next city manager.

The search firm responsible for vetting city manager candidates needs to understand the issues that matter most to the people who live and breathe Dallas, who want Dallas

But if the consultants wait until the end of the process to seek neighborhood input, my guess is that — like many city-sponsored meetings — the “neighborhood involvement” portion will just be window-dressing, and the real decisions will have already been made.

But let’s be optimistic, shall we? Let’s imagine the search firm does meet with neighborhood groups, and the neighborhood groups say, “Here are the questions we want you to ask the city manager candidates.” And suppose the consultants actually pose those questions to the candidates, with the last one being:

“Quick! You have to choose between building an expensive designer boondoggle and fixing crumbling neighborhood streets. Who is the first person you call to help you make that decision?”

That last one will tell the tale.

So far, the search firm hired by the city to find our next city manager has not met with a single neighborhood group. Not one.

Angela Hunt is a neighborhood resident and former Dallas City Councilwoman in East Dallas. She writes a monthly opinion column about neighborhood issues. Her opinions are not necessarily those of the Advocate or its management. Send comments and ideas to her at 6301 Gaston, Suite 820, Dallas 75214; FAX to 214.823.8866; or email editor@advocatemag.com.