2011 March Lakewood

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Matt Kieffer, 37, just finished his first half marathon when his heart suddenly stopped. Trainers from Baylor SportsCare were stationed at the finish line and were able to act quickly and restart his heart using an automated external defibrillator. “Baylor literally saved my life,” he says. As a preventative measure, Matt had an internal cardiac defibrillator implanted at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. The device monitors his heart and will shock it back into normal rhythm if an abnormality is detected. “Luckily it hasn’t had to trigger yet, but if it does, I know I’m protected.” Matt has resumed running, lifting weights and playing with his two young children. “I’m living life to the fullest. Thanks to Baylor, I can.”

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Five square miles

A story of a life lived within these parameters

My grandmother died a few days ago. She was almost 99 years old, and other than noticeably shrinking in height, even at the end she looked and acted about the same as she had throughout her life.

She was one of 991 females living in Hawley, Minn., where the total population is 1,880 and has been for quite a few years. Hawley is what many of us wish our neighborhood could be: It’s a place so small that people truly know you and everything about you, for better or worse.

She grew up there, went to school there, was married there, gave birth to her three children there, buried her husband there about 25 years ago, and finally died there.

Virtually her entire life took place within an area of about five square miles, give or take a mile or two.

By the time it’s our time, how many of us do you think will be able to say that? And how many will want to?

Although I wasn’t her confidante, I don’t know that spending her entire life in a little town without a stoplight bothered her. She never seemed to worry about what might have been or what should have happened; she generally just played the cards she was dealt without flinching much on the “fold” hands or getting too excited when she drew a flush.

She seemingly had no regrets other than outliving her husband. For years after he died, even though she was surrounded by friends and relatives, she signed the letters she sent to me in Texas “Your Lonesome Grandma”.

She didn’t work what you or I would consider to be a “regular” job, in the sense that she packed her lunch and headed to a business to earn a buck. She and my grandfather were farmers, and although I don’t recall seeing her driving a tractor or handling a pitchfork, I never doubted she could do either of those things.

Instead, she managed the house and fed my grandfather and any number of other farmhands working the fields and barns. During a late summer harvest, it wasn’t uncommon to have eight or 10 hungry guys out in the field during the grain threshing, haying and corn silage-filling operations. When it was break time, my grandmother drove out to the field in

a pickup, dropped the tailgate and produced a seemingly endless buffet of sandwiches, cookies, dessert bars and water or lemonade.

Then she packed up the remains, headed back to the house, and began preparing the next meal.

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I never knew her to be sick. Ever. She was the original Energizer Bunny, moving at a constant speed without needing much attention. Even into her 80s, she led a bowling team and had no problem cracking 150.

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Even into her 80s, my grandmother led a bowling team and had no problem cracking 150.

A food trailer park along two blocks of Greenville Avenue is in the works, and it could be up and running by the end of this year. Advocate blogger Ashley Hudson analyzed the food truck trend in a recent blog series. To read the blog excerpts below in full and to comment, search: food trucks.

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2.8.11 One argument for the Greenville food trailer park, which would run roughly from Daddy Jack’s north to the Dodie’s strip center, is much lower operation costs for small businesses. That can translate to lower prices for customers. Chef Tai’s Mobile Gourmet serves everything from tacos and burritos to Korean BBQ short ribs throughout the streets near Texas A&M University. Chef Tai Lee, also the executive chef at a bistro, told the Bryan/College Station Eagle that he is able to charge 15 percent less for his menu items when they’re sold out of his truck.

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2.10.11 Maybe you’ve heard of vehicles that travel to homes to groom pets or perform car repairs? In Georgia, the state is working to allow trucks that would house haircuts for humans. “If old Fido can get a trim in front of the house, the owner ought to be able to do the same,” Georgia State Rep. Al Williams told the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

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2.11.11 In the National Restaurant Association’s “What’s Hot in 2011” survey of more than 1,500 professional chefs, 30 percent agreed that mobile food truck restaurants would be the hottest operational trend in 2011.

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BLOCKBUSTER ON LOWER GREENVILLE TO CLOSE

Today I saw “store closing” signs at Blockbuster at Skillman and Abrams, too. People talk about Walmart driving out mom-and-pop businesses. I feel Blockbuster was guilty of that as well. I canceled my membership to Blockbuster in 2004. It was to a store in Richardson that was one of the first ones to close, long before Blockbuster ran into all these financial problems. Good riddance, Blockbuster. —THOMAS

One of the best movie rental stores in the USA is located in East Dallas — Premiere Video. They have adapted to changes in the industry, expanded inventory and have a loyal customer base. If only they would loosen up on their latefee charges! —CITIZEN

KANE

DEVELOPER PITCHES PLAN FOR TRINITY CHURCH PROPERTY

I just saw your blog and wondered who you were. The neighbors on Clayton that I’ve talked to are very much against the rezoning that will bring in too much density and therefore traffic to our end of the neighborhood. The future owner of the property needs to think of high-quality singlefamily homes that reflect the character of the neighborhood. Wonderful neighbors are the best reason for living where we do. We want to keep it that way. —SUSAN

HAMILTON BOLT

Why should Lakewood, Forest Hills or Lakewood

Hills give up 3.8 acres of low-density single family for 44 townhouses? The buildings on the property need to be torn down and that would make a nice park until the economy gets better. Whatever is built will be the last thing built for most people’s lifetimes. —TONTO

ANGELA HUNT SAYS SHE WON’T RUN FOR MAYOR

I am pleased to know Ms. Hunt will not run for mayor. Perhaps the new mayor will not indulge in smallness; perhaps a new mayor will appoint her to the chairmanship of at least one council committee. —GAY

HOPKINS

Iaman ardent Hunt supporter, though we’ve never met, so I am disappointed. But I also think this is not the right time and agree with her decision. —LEE

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—CITIZEN KANE

I don’t see any special talents in Hunt that lead me to believe she would be better or worse than mayors in the past. She is a lawyer (I think), and the last thing government needs is more lawyers! I’d rather see Kunkel. I can’t think of any big city mayors who were previously chief of police.

FOOD TRUCKS COMING TO DALLAS, EVENTUALLY

It’s just laughable, sad, infuriating that it takes more than a year to get these permits in Dallas. What looks like a good, creative solution to the economic crisis won’t be in place here until after the economy is expected to improve.

—LAKEWOODHOBO

Austin is packed with these trucks. My relative took me down South Lamar and showed me at least 4 or 5 areas which had anywhere from 1 to 5 trucks in each location. We are way behind the times. —ANN

ICE AND SNOW

The city is completely incompetent in dealing with it — closed for 3-4 days for an inch of snow and ice? Have they not heard of sand? Have they not heard of salt? What is embarrassing and contemptible about North Texas is how such a comparatively mild storm has made so many roads completely treacherous. —JASON M

I almost wish I was back in Chicago myself, even with 2 feet of snow, because at least I’d be able to walk to the store, or the el, to get more food. Papa John’s isn’t delivering, and I’m down to half a leftover Stouffer’s lasagna for dinner tonight.

—MONTEMALONE

Kurt Warner said it so clearly last night on Channel 8: “Where’s the sand trucks and plows?”

—MATT

The answer to “Where’s the sand trucksand plows?” is — wait for it ... wait for it — “Where’s the money?”

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DURIYE NASUHOGLU of Munger Place learned to play conga and bongo drums when she was 29 and still living in her native Istanbul. About 14 months ago, she took time off from school to record an album, “Dreamscapes”. Now 41, she’s taking more time to promote her album and tour. That is, when she’s not working as a bookkeeper, web designer and music teacher. You can catch her sitting in with the Arthur Riddles Jazz Band at the Balcony Club most Sundays.

You were almost 30 when you learned the drums. Did you play an instrument before that?

My passion is music, and I always played instruments when I was younger, but as I got older, I don’t know what happened. I stopped playing music for years.

AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED?

I started learning Afro-Cuban music in Istanbul. I liked it so much that I wanted it to be a bigger part of my life. So five or six years ago, I had a mid-life crisis if you will. And I tried to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. And I know music was a part of it. I had studied information systems in Istanbul because I thought it would help me find a job, but I started thinking, ‘Maybe that’s a mistake.’ So I wound up studying sound design at UTD.

HOW DID THE IDEA FOR YOURALBUM COMEABOUT?

I was fascinated with sounds, so I started collecting sounds everywhere I would go. I’m a dream interpreter, so I started analyzing the sounds in my dreams. As a final project for one of my classes, I used sounds to describe my dreams. After that class was over, I kept working on the project for two years. And I released my album in August.

YOU RELEASED THISALBUMINSEVEN MONTHS.HOW DID YOU DO IT?

Not being in school gave me time to do it. I learned a lot about music and songwriting and publishing and financing. I just made it happen from scratch. I was highly motivated and passionate about it. Now the challenge is, how do I reach people?

DO YOU HAVEA PLAN FOR THAT?

Well, I took it to Turkey, and I was on national TV there. The newspapers did stories about me, and I had a lot of very successful gigs. I tried doing the same thing here, but it’s a different story. I hired a radio marketing company, and now [my music] is playing at over 200 stations around the country. It’s a very slow process, and it’s time consuming. You’re introducing yourself to new markets and new people.

HOW DID YOU FIGURE THAT OUT?

I read a book called “Indie Bible”. It gives you step-by-step instructions, almost, what musicians can do to promote their music. I found this radio promotion company in New York City. And my hands were shaking when I decided to go ahead with it because I wasn’t totally sure about this company, and it’s very expensive. But I went with my gut, and it’s turned out good.

WHAT’S NEXT FOR YOU?

I’m working on licensing now, trying to get my music into commercials, TV shows and movies. Other projects are in my mind, but I can’t move on to that because this on isn’t finished yet. I have to see through the whole process before I can move on to the next thing. Next year, possibly I’ll have a different insight about that. —RACHEL STONE

artists in residence

They definitely look the part in their Converse All Star shoes and plaid shirts. But the girls from local rock band We’re Not Dudes can actually play, too. “When I was a baby and it was Easter, I would take two eggs and bang them together, and they said, ‘She’s got rhythm,’ ” says Mahrly Murphy, the band’s 8-year-old drummer who attends Lakewood Montessori School. She has also appeared in plays, including male roles such as Tiny Tim in “A Christmas Carol” at the Dallas Theater Center and, most recently, Richard Duke in “The Executioner’s Son” at the Bath House Cultural Center. When Mahrly started scoring 90-100 percent on the Rock Band video game, it was time for a real drum set. About a year ago, We’re Not Dudes formed, comprising Mahrly on drums, Alex Belland as the lead singer and keyboard player, Kaia Brown on bass, and the oldest, 13-year-old Molly McNulty, on lead guitar and vocals. They all attend the School of Rock in East Dallas, and local singersongwriter Sarah Jaffe recently asked them to open for her show in Fort Worth. “At first, I was kind of nervous. But once I started playing, I was like, ‘This is awesome,’ ” Mahrly says. Kaia, an East Dallas resident, comes from a musical family. “I chose the bass because no one really plays just the bass,” Kaia says. “It’s challenging when you have to play really fast.” Last month, the girls recorded their first original song, called “Someday You’ll Thank Me for This”, at Klearlight Studio. At the School of Rock, the girls are learning more about what it means to be a popular band, but for Mahrly, the best part is hanging out with her bandmates every week. “I love being able to interact with each other. We have a good chemistry.” —Emily

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It all started with a day of antiques shopping with her parents in Tennessee a couple of years ago. Neighborhood resident Kimberly Moore kept coming across lovely old costume jewelry — brooches, shoe clips, hat pins. “I thought, ‘People don’t really wear these anymore, and it’s too bad because it’s such beautiful work,’ ” she says. So she bought a few pieces and started thinking about how she could reuse this jewelry, from the ’20s through the ’50s, in a modern way. Cocktail rings were in style, and that’s how she came up with the idea for her eponymous jewelry line. Moore, who is a personal trainer, made one of her vintage pieces into a cocktail ring. “I wore it to an event, and someone asked me where I got it,” she says. “I told her I made it, and she offered to buy it off my hand.” Moore knew she was on to something. She went to gemology clubs and her jewelrymaking friends to learn as much as she could about the craft. “I learned all about adhesives and epoxies,” she says. Now she sells her rings and cuffs, which she makes from larger vintage pieces, at The T Shop in Lakewood Shopping Center, as well as Mallie in Snider Plaza and Stephanie Ann in Highland Park Village. They cost $85-$95. Moore says marketing herself and her jewelry to retailers came naturally to her after her years as a self-employed trainer. “I’ve had my own business for 17 years,” she says. “I’ve had to market myself.” She also makes custom jewelry for people who bring her their favorite old pieces, typically from a mom, grandma or aunt. “I love the custom stuff because it’s so sentimental,” she says. “There were some amazing jewelers in the era I work with.” Moore still considers the jewelry a hobby. She works on it mostly at night, after her workday. “This is what I like to do, so it’s really fun for me,” she says.

—Rachel Stone

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Spring Rose Festival

March 5th & 6th

Looking for Texas Pioneer Roses? These tough, gorgeous, antique roses are perfect for the modern rose garden. Their blooms are big and their beauty even bigger. You’ll find them all during Spring Rose Festival, March 5th & 6th at North Haven Gardens. We'll offer hundreds of rose varieties, FREE education, early shopping hours and the best rose garden advice. Don't miss a special presentation by Mike Shoup of Antique Rose Emporium on Pioneer Roses.

Be one of the first 50 people to join us each morning beginning at 7am on Saturday and 8am on Sunday during Spring Rose Festival and when you check out, you’ll get to choose between a FREE rose plant or a FREE bag of Vital Earth Ready Rose Mix!

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Sun, Mar 13th 1pm Beautiful Spring Lawns

Wed, Mar 16th Noon-1pm Raise Backyard Chickens

March 19-20 : Eco-friendly Festival FREE programs on growing veggies, bees & vermicomposting. View a FREE screening of “Vanishing of the Bees” and shop our local organic market. Details at www.nhg.com

Wed, Mar 23rd Noon-1pm Organic Pest Control

Sat, Mar 26th 1pm Succulent Container Gardens

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smoked meat obsession

So much bad barbecue is in the world that, occasionally, Daniel Vaughn has to replenish his barbecue soul. That’s when he finds a friend and drives to Central Texas, the heartbeat of Texas barbecue. One recent Saturday, he and a coworker drove 600 miles and stopped at 10 barbecue joints, tasting a couple of brisket slices and ribs at each. Vaughn reviews and provides addresses and operating hours for hundreds of barbecue joints on his website, fullcustomgospelbbq.com. Since 2005, the blog has gained respect among foodies. He calls himself a barbecue snob, a prophet of smoked meat. And he can tell the difference between meat smoked with wood or gas. His goal is to taste and rate every barbecue place in the Dallas area — roughly 160 — and as many as possible throughout the state. The thrill of the hunt inspires him. “It’s fun to be first, especially if it’s really good,” he says. “There’s nothing better than that good find.” Meshack’s Bar-B-Que in Garland is one of his famous finds. And he was the first to review Pecan Lodge at the Dallas Farmers Market, which he says has the best brisket in Dallas. Vaughn is an architect by trade, and he’s honed his writing skills reading books such as “Will Write for Food”. But he’s a natural at reporting. To find the newest barbecue places, he searches certificates of occupancy that businesses have to file with the city before they can open. And he’s willing to go way out of his way to taste barbecue. “My dream trip is to start in Dalhart and drive to Brownsville,” he says. “It’s like 900 miles.”

—Rachel Stone

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THIS MONTH,SUPPORTSTYLE ... and attend a fashion show at Dallas Elks Lodge No. 71, 8550 Lullwater, Sunday, March 12. The Elks’ spring style show, “Accessorize Your Style”, will feature ensembles from Draper’s and Damon’s, makers of classic women’s apparel. The show is $16 per person and includes wine and lunch. Proceeds benefit the Elks, who provide scholarships for neighborhood students, support for veterans, drug education and community improvement programs, to name a few. Wine is served at 11:30 a.m., lunch starts at noon, and the show kicks off at 1 p.m. Reserve your seat by March 7 by calling 214.348.2648.

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... at the Half Marathon to Benefit Susan G. Komen Marathon for the Cure program. The race, which starts at 8 a.m. Sunday, March 27, begins at Dallas City Hall, winds through White Rock-area neighborhoods and ends at Fair Park.Registration is $75 at dallas.competitor.com/register, and entrants will have an opportunity to join a fundraising team. Organizers say 84 cents of each dollar raised will go toward breast cancer research and community outreach programs. To learn more about Susan G. Komen for the Cure, breast health or breast cancer, visit ww5.komen. org or call 1.877.GOKOMEN.

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THROUGH 03.26 PAJAMA ToPS

$10-$18 The Pocket Sandwich Theatre presents “Pajama Tops”, a comedy about a husband who becomes trapped on a weekend trip with his wife and his mistress. Performances run ThursdaysSundays at 5400 E. Mockingbird, Suite 119. The show includes adult content and is rated PG-13. For reservations, call 214.821.1860.

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RA iSe TH e W oo F PUP RA llY $5 White Rock Lake Dog Park will transform into a canine carnival during the Raise the Woof Pup Rally, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. For a $5 donation to the park, neighbors can browse scores of vendors and local rescue organizations, plus the Dallas Agility Working Group (DAWG) will perform. Beth Bowers of Power to the PawZ Pet Services will demonstrate CPR techniques for dog owners, offering insight on what to do in a pet emergency. Other groups plan to provide dog training tips, low-cost vaccinations and microchipping on site. The fundraiser also features a cookout and live music from ’90s cover band Grand Theft Audio. Since the dog park has limited parking, a shuttle bus will pick up participants and their pups starting at 9 a.m. at Dallas Bike Works, 6780 Abrams. For details, visit whiterockdallas.org. To volunteer at the event, call Lisa Stabler at 214.448.7860.

—EmiLy TOmAn

03.05-12.31 FAiRY TAle CASTle

e XHiBiT $12 The Dallas Arboretum presents an outdoor exhibit by local architecture firms, featuring castles from classic fairy tales such as “The Princess and the Pea” and “Beauty and the Beast”. Visitors also can view the floral festival, Dallas Blooms, March 5-April 10. Park hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.

Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 and older, $8 for children age 3-12 and free for Arboretum members and children under 2. For details, call 214.515.6500 or visit dallasarboretum.org.

03.13 CHeFS FoR FARMeRS

$85 Chefs celebrate local farms during a benefit dinner at 4 p.m. at Highland Park Cafeteria, 1200 N. Buckner. They will prepare farmfresh meals, and DJs Jennifer Miller and Paul Paredes will provide music. A portion of proceeds will go to The Family Place, a nonprofit that supports domestic violence victims. For details, visit chefsforfarmers.com.

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03.04-03.05 SPRING

The Dallas Black Dance Theatre II presents the annual Spring Fiesta 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Latino Cultural Center, Live Oak. The performances feature choreography Millicent Johnnie and works by DBDT II director Nycole Ray. For details, call 214.880.0202 or visit dbdt.com.

03.04-04.03 THE FROG PRINCE $12-$23

The Dallas Children’s Theater presents “The Frog Prince”, which adds a twist to the popular fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. Performances run at 7:30 p.m. March 4 and 11, and 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays at the theater, 5938 Skillman. For details, call 214.740.0051 or visit dct.org.

03.04-03.06

NORTH TEXAS IRISH FEST

$10-$30

The Southwest Celtic Music Association will present a weekend of Irish culture at Fair Park, 1121 First Avenue. The event features worldfamous Celtic bands, educational workshops, crafts, food and vendors. Festival hours are 6-11 p.m. Friday, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Sunday. For details, call 972.943.4616 or visit ntif.org.

03.15-03.20 STEPS IN TIME $27-$89

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The Music Hall at Fair Park presents “Steps in Time”, featuring Broadway singer and dancer Tommy Tune. Performances run at 8 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 909 First Avenue. For details, call 214.421.5678 or visit dallassummermusicals.org.

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ARTSCAPE $12 Nearly 100 artists will display and sell their artwork at the Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Road. The sale spans all mediums such as sculpture, woodwork, paintings and jewelry. Park hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, $8 for children and free for Arboretum members and children 2 and younger. For details, call 214.515.6539 or visit dallasarboretum.org.

03.20 WRITER’S BLOCK FREE The Writer’s Garret, a neighborhood club that fosters reading and writing education, hosts a 1-3 p.m. event at Paperbacks Plus, 6115 La Vista. The group is still confirming speakers and topics. Admission is free, but donations are welcome. For details, visit writersgarret.org.

03.23 LAKEWOOD LIBRARY FRIENDS BOOK REVIEW

FREE The Lakewood Library

Friends present Rose-Mary Rumbley, who will speak 1:303 p.m. about “Brooklyn: A Novel” by Colm Tolbin. For details, call 214.670.1376.

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The Dallas Children’s Theater presents the classic story of a young girl who meets a family with a big secret. Performances run 7:30 p.m. Fridays and 1:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. For details, call 214.740.0051 or visit dct.org.

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A guide to dining & drinking in our neighborhood

Mai’s Vietna M ese Restau R ant

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wHen A rest A ur A nt HA s B een A round for 28 ye A rs, it has to be good. That’s true of Mai’s Vietnamese Restaurant in East Dallas, which has become a lunchtime staple for neighborhood residents. “Customers just keep coming back. They tell their friends. That’s why we’ve been open so long,” says owner Mai Nguyen, who moved to the area from Vietnam. He says about 60 percent of his customers are loyal ones, meaning they’ve been coming in for at least 10 years. Mai’s biggest seller is the combination clay pot, a steaming bowl of shrimp, chicken and veggies on rice topped with coconut curry sauce for just under $10. Nguyen says it’s a wholesome alternative to dining out since Mai’s does not use any fatty oils. “We have healthy food for people,” Nguyen says. Mai’s hasn’t changed a single thing about the restaurant or its menu since opening in 1982. “I ask for feedback. Everything is good, so I don’t change anything.”

three more spots for asian fare:

This chic, Lower Greenville restaurant fuses Japanese and Thai cuisine, serving tapas, sushi and indulgent entrées such as Chilean sea bass with ginger tamari glaze.

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—EmiLy Toman

This neighborhood favorite has menu items to satisfy Thai connoisseurs with stars indicating the degree of spiciness for each dish — from the lowest, “very careful”, to the highest, “native Thai”.

Bry An & Pe Ak 214.824.6200 BA nG kokcityrest A ur A nt.com

food And wine online. Visit prestonhollow.advocatemag.com/dining.

For late-night Chinese food cravings, Betty’s offers all the traditional favorites with fast delivery.

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ASIAN MINT $$ODFBWB Our Highland Park location, The Mint, offers an array of Asianfused cuisine, specializing in Bangkok style dishes. We feature farm fresh ingredients, beautifully presented, coupled with a chic atmosphere and friendly service. Happy Hour is 5pm-6:30pm Mon.-Fri. – all beers and house wines are $3; $2 off appetizers, soups & salads. 4246 Oak Lawn Ave. 214.219.6469. The Asian Mint, along with its fused and sushi menus, also offers one of the best dessert bars in Dallas. 11617 N. Central Expwy. 214.363.6655. www.themintdallas.com

BACK COUNTRY BBQ $WB Over 30 years of Texas-style BBQ. Family dining – 8 different meats, variety of homemade vegetables. Complete catering & custom cooking. Beer, wine, margaritas. 6940 Greenville Ave. 214.696.6940.

PIZZA LOUNGE $$ODFB Voted Dallas best late night restaurant 2010 ! Pizza LOUNGE offers their own unique, made-from-scratch recipes featuring fresh made pizza dough and sauce. Appetizers, salads and deserts are also an option in their eclectic, funky atmosphere as you listen to off beat tunes. Open 11am. 7 days a week till late late night at 841 exposition ave, Dallas. 214.887.6900. Pizzaloungedallas.com and on facebook.

TILLMAN’S ROADHOUSE $$ODWB

Tillman’s is a place for really good food, drinks, and music in a fun, casual, come-as-you-are environment. An update on the classic Texas roadhouse with regional menu favorites, familiar tunes and no-one is a stranger hospitality — all energized with a modern take. A combination of both rustic and lush in everything from the menu to the décor make Tillman’s a good-time anytime destination. Bishop Arts District 324 W. 7th St. 214.942.0988. www.tillmansroadhouse.com

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BECKER VINEYARDSVIOGNIER ($15) TEXAS>

Texas wine has never been more popular or of better quality.

So what’s the Legislature about to do? Eliminate the state’s funding for wine research and marketing as it attempts to solve $27 billion budget deficit.

The savings? About $3 a Texan a year for the next two years, which won’t make much of dent in the deficit.

It will, however, seriously damage the progress Texas wine has made over the past several decades. Texas wine is not some effete pastime enjoyed by a bunch of outsiders who don’t like to drink Lone Star and eat chicken fried. It’s Big Bidness.

Texas wine sales increased 6 percent in 2010, with consumers buying almost 240,000 cases of wine from grocery and liquor stores, according the Nielsen survey company. Texas wine outsold Argentine and Chilean wine — combined — in the state in 2010, reported Nielsen, and four Texas eries were among the top 100 brands in the state.

So buy a bottle of Texas wine, toast Legislature, and hope it does the right thing:

($15). This is the best-selling viognier in Texas, outselling viogniers from California and France. Which is exactly the point of the $3 a person tax, since it pays for the research necessary to find out if a grape like viognier will make quality wine here.

$10). Yes, I always recommend this wine. And why not? It’s cheap and well-made, and, though pink, manly enough for any member of the Legislature.

($13). Texas chardonnay has always confused me. But Texas is going to make chardonnay, this is a good start — unoaked, with lots of tropical fruit and balance.

—JEFF SIEGEL

220 — a 300 percent increase since 2000. Texas is the fourth biggest wine consuming state in the country, and the fifth biggest producer. —JEFF SIEGEL

WITH YOUR WINE

Pot-roasted pork loin

Pork gets short shrift as a roast, which is too bad. It can produce wonderful results. Serve this to celebrate the last cold day of this unending winter, and a Texas wine like the Becker viognier would be a great pairing.

Serves 4-6, takes 3 to 3 1/2 hours

4 lb boneless pork loin

2 onions, sliced

2 Tbsp carraway seeds

3-4 cloves garlic, chopped

6 carrots

1/2 head cabbage, sliced

1 c mixed dried fruit

2-3 Tbsp red wine vinegar

salt, pepper and red pepper to taste

1/4 tsp dried sage

2 bay leaves

1 bottle fruity red wine

Also may need: olive oil, rice or noodles

1. Preheat the oven to 325. Season the loin with salt and pepper, and brown on all sides in a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in a large Dutch oven or oven-proof casserole dish.Remove the loin to a plate.

2. Sauté the onions in the Dutch oven until they start to brown. Add the garlic and carraway seeds, and cook for 30 or 40 seconds, until the garlic is fragrant.

3. Slice the carrots lengthwise to produce 3-inch sticks. Add the carrots, cabbage, dried fruit, sage, bay leaves, and salt and pepper, to taste, to the Dutch oven. Add the wine and red wine vinegar, and bring to a boil.

4.Add the loin (with any accumulated juices) to the Dutch oven. Cover and place in the oven for 2 1/2 hours. Check after an hour or so. Flip the roast and add liquid if it seems dry.

5.Remove the loin from the Dutch oven, and cook the liquid down for a few minutes if you want. Thinly slice the pork, and serve in a bowl with rice or noodles, the vegetables and dried fruit, and the liquid.

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RESTAURANT TALK

Advocate editors serve up restaurant news every Monday in “Restaurant talk” on the Back Talk East Dallas blog. Read post excerpts below, and for the full posts, visit lakewood.advocatemag.com and search: Restaurant talk.

RESTAURANT TALK: LATTE ARTTHROWDOWN

02.11 Monday night was the first of many “Latte Throwdowns” for Dallas baristas. I was honored to not only attend the event but also to be asked to judge. The organizers, Jonathan Meadows and Nathan Shelton of Cultivar Coffee, were ecstatic with the turnout at Stir Coffee, located inside the new Good 2 Go Tacos space. “This is big for Dallas baristas. We wouldn’t have had this turnout of contestants or onlookers a year ago,” Meadows says. Contestants came from all over the Metroplex, including two from Houston and three from Austin. There are sure to be many more competitions in the future. Meadows hopes to host these events monthly at various coffee shops in the area. Admission is free, and you might happen to grab a free latte after they are judged. Around 30 were passed around that night. We all left a little jittery and massively entertained.

—CANDANCE THARP

RESTAURANT TALK: SALADS ATTHE PORCH

01.31 In the February dining section, editor Emily Toman wrote about The Porch on Henderson and its mouth-watering comfort food the smoked ham mac and cheese casserole, for example. What she didn’t have room to mention was the salads at The Porch. My fave is the relatively simple Porch salad with ample mixed greens, crunchy smoked almonds, juicy white grapes, red tomatoes, parmesan and, for an extra little kick, pickled red onions. It’s enormous and comes in a big bowl adequate for properly tossing the ingredients and it’s just $7.

—CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

RESTAURANT TALK: NEW SUB SHOP OPENS

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LA CALLE DOCE

Since 1981 La Calle Doce has been serving the Dallas area delicious seafood and Tex-Mex made with the freshest ingredients. Enjoy the rich culture of Coastal Mexico through our flavorful cuisine.

01.17 There’s a new sub shop open in the White Rock area. At this point, I can only tell you that it’s called BG’s Classic Subs, that it’s at 10118 Garland Road near Peavy and, according to the sign outside, that they are accepting applications. Oh, and it’s closed after 8 p.m. on Sundays. (I tried to get a sandwich last night, but the chairs were already on the tables). Years ago, the spot was a Great American Hero sub shop, and from what I remember, it was a favorite of known sandwich fans and high school kids (dozens of my school mates worked there in the ’90s).

—CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

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AbbieChesney

An eating disorder can be like a person. Like a deceitful, controlling, jealous, very bad best friend whose secret plan is suicide.

At least, that’s the way Abbie Chesney talks about her disease. Chesney, 34, grew up in LakeHighlands and lives in Lakewood. Now she is a counselor specializing in eating disorders.

“I strongly believe the connection I have with my clients maintains because I have spent a lot of time in their shoes,” she says.

She knows what it’s like to be afraid of pain and failure. And she knows what it’s like to be afraid of eating.

Her struggle started as a middle school misfit, where she learned at the lunch table that eating less and being thin was “better”, so she challenged herself to eat less than her lunch mates.

She always judged thin, boyish figures to be “better”.

In high school, she says she dated “the bad boy” just to fit in somewhere, lost her virginity and then was dumped.

She says she was devastated, full of guilt and self-loathing. So she tried drinking to numb the pain, but that didn’t catch on.

Soon, she found that if she didn’t eat, she thought about how hungry she was instead of how she felt about herself.

And by not eating, she earned compliments for being enviably skinny.

“I was also doing what I learned at the lunch table every girl should want to do,” she says. “Every girl should want to lose weight. Smaller had to be better.”

Sometimes, she would eat enough so that people weren’t suspicious.

“Snuffer’s cheese fries were safe as long as it was a few bites,” she says.

That was at first, but the “rules” of her eating disorder kept changing.

By the time she was really sick — her senior year of high school — she sometimes ate a bowl of rice with parmesan cheese for the day.

“I’d even go through the drive-through of Taco Bell to create some evidence to show my parents I had already eaten,” she says.

She was so thin, she had to wear two pairs of pants to keep warm.

At 5-foot-3, her weight dropped to 76 pounds within a year. By the time she started getting help for anorexia, her body was deteriorating so rapidly that all four of her heart valves were leaking.

“I was headed for a very slow suicide,” she says. continued on page 41

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Thanks To Tabloid and reali Ty TV, we know that people are sometimes prone to self-destruction. Watching it can be morbidly entertaining, but more intriguing than the train wreck is the rare story of one who manages to pull himself out of his pitiful existence — the drug abusing, jailbird celebrity who finds lasting sobriety and subsequent success or “Biggest Losers” who shed hundreds of life-threatening pounds. These are the stories that move us, and you don’t need to turn on the TV to see them. These true tales of redemption are being lived, and touching lives, right here in our neighborhood.

“I was headed for a very slow suicide.”

Bobby Wheeler

Bobby Wheeler spends each workday counselingadultprobationerswhoare court mandated to drug treatment.

The neighborhood resident counsels a roster of 120 female clients, almost all of whom don’t want to be there.

It’s mostly a thankless job.

But Wheeler, 42, does it with enthusiasm because he knows that drug addiction is a prison.

Wheeler says he grew up with a sweet mom and a friendly dad who was a functioning alcoholic. As a kid, he would fetch his dad beers from the fridge, always taking a sip or two on the way.

In 1988, he started experimenting with drugs.

“I always felt like an outcast,” he says. Sometime in the early ’90s, he tried crack.

“It was off to the races then,” he says.

Soon, he had a $1,000 a day habit. Even though he held down a job, he had to support his habit by stealing and, eventually, prostitution.

Always a “mama’sboy”,heremembers stealing the grocery money out of his mom’s purse at night, then going to the grocery store with her the next day, “knowingshedidn’thaveanymoney because I stole it.”

He was in and out of Lew Sterrett for prostitution, drug possession and other complaints. And he was in denial about his problem, never admitting he used crack.

“I would always say I did weed or I drank,” he says. “I would never say I was a crack head.”

Allthosechargesfinallycaughtup with him. And the day he went to court

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“I would always say I did

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I would never say I was a crack head.”

after that, her parents did not allow her to drive, go to school, ride horses or do any other activities. She was either with them or she was in a treatment center.

She gained weight and was able to attendSMU(insteadofTexasa&M as planned). She struggled with eating throughout college.

“What I didn’t know through my initial treatment, but soon discovered, was that what I wanted was to disappear,” she says. “For me, to be seen meant getting hurt. I never wanted to be hurt again.”

She realized she was afraid of men and of being attractive to them.

She lost much of her identity in the disease. It cut her off from friends and family and most of the joy in life.

But slowly, she started to realize that some men are OK, and one of them fell in love with her.

“I stumbled into a relationship with someonewho I wantedtobewith more than I wanted to be with the eating disorder,” she says. “You can’t have both. It’s impossible to be in an intimate relationship with an eating disorder and a boyfriend.”

So she spent much of this romantic relationship just observing — how to eat normally, how to interact with friends, how to enjoy sitting on the couch watching television on a Saturday afternoon.

“I had gotten tired enough and seen through most of its lies by then,” she says of anorexia. “all the hurt it claimed to keep me from really just kept me from life.”

her whole self needed restoration. Like a jigsaw puzzle, she took pieces she liked for the picture of herself, and she left behind the ones she didn’t. She got back in the saddle, literally, and returned to things she liked before the eating disorder. That’s when she decided to get a master’s degree in counseling.

Eating disorders are tricky, she says. You can’t take your eyes off for too long, or “it’s gonna get ya”.

“So, I decidedtomakeitmylife’s work,” she says.

She knows what it’s like to lose herself in an eating disorder. But now she is restored, and that gives her clients hope. They can believe in her before they can believe in themselves.

“They can see I’m not any different from who they are. I’ve just worked at it longer.” t

for a crack possession charge on Aug. 6, 1994, he knew he was going away. Before that, though, he had started praying for God to help him.

And he kept praying during a one-year stay in county jail.

“I was a praying dope fiend,” he says. “I prayed ‘God, take this away from me.’ ”

After that, he went to “Safe-P”, a prison that focuses on intensive drug rehab, in San Diego, Texas. A friend of his, Randall Pearson, was transferred from Lew Sterrett to Safe-P at the same time as Wheeler.

Pearson was an illiterate heroin addict whose health was so bad that he had a massive heart attack. Wheeler was there to watch him die.

A few days later, Wheeler says, Pearson “came to me in a dream”.

In the dream, he asked, “Would you live for me?”

That changed everything for Wheeler.

When he got out of prison, “I came home running because I knew how much a white substance could hold you for years.”

He found comfort in the Winner’s Circle Peer Support Network, a meeting space and clubhouse of sorts for recovering substance abusers. It was a place he could go and talk about his feelings, fears and experiences and not be judged.

Now he’s executive director of Winner’s Circle Dallas chapter. He’s in his 17th year of sobriety. He even quit smoking 10 years ago.

He’s a licensed counselor with Texas Department of Criminal Justice clearance, and he visits prisons throughout the state, speaking to drug addicts. He’s working toward clearance for federal prisons. He takes night classes at El Centro College; next, he intends to earn a bachelor’s degree.

He attends AA meetings regularly, and he makes no predictions about his future sobriety, but he still has no desire to go down that road again. He still feels like an outcast, he says, “but come to find out, that’s not such a bad thing.”

Through his job, he has counseled more than 3,000 women. Sometimes, they curse and yell at him. But eventually, most graduate from court-mandated rehab.

“It’s rewarding to call their names at graduation, and their faces light up,” he says. “And they say, ‘Thank you for working on me’. Helping other people is what helps me.”

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MicheleDerrington

There is an old brick two-story building in a residential White Rock neighborhood where women go to heal. It’s called the Magdalene House, and those who end up there are alcoholics who have, in most cases, lost their families, jobs, homes and dignity.

By the time they meet Michele Derrington, who runs the place, they are often dirty, sick and broken, yet she welcomes each new arrival with marked compassion. After all, it wasn’t so long ago that she was in the same dismal spot.

At 43 years old, Derrington has a commanding yet gentle presence — residents and workers at the

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MagdaleneHouselistentoherintently when she speaks. It comes as some surprise, then, when the well-spoken, smartly dressed director shares that she has spent more than a few days in jails, treatment centers and psyche wards.

She says she grew up in the White Rock area in a sporadically violent home where she remembers having her first alcoholic drink at age 5.

Throughoutheryouth,drinkingand dabblingindrugswasnormal.When she was in her late 20s, Derrington tried cocaine. From that point on, she says, she just couldn’t get her head straight.

“Once I [tried cocaine], it was all I ever thought about.”

Untilthen,shehadbeenworking toward a promotion at her job, but since she was hooked on drugs, she could no longer function.

“I left the job, spent all my savings, and things got really bad,” she says.

The addiction landed her in perilous places, including the scene of a murder.

“I witnessed someone getting shot over $20 worth of drugs,” she says. She was subpoenaed to testify against the gunman and showed up in court wrecked after a night of cocaine use.

“Fortunately, I was never called to testify,” she says.

Seems like that would be rock bottom, she says, “but I had many bottoms … I would tell myself, ‘I am never doing this again,’ but by the next night, I was doing it again. I couldn’t hold any type of job — call centers, restaurants, the simplest of tasks — I just couldn’t work.”

In 1999, she entered rehab for the first time, but there was “still a lot of denial going on,” she says.

Therehabilitationcenterpopulation included burglars and homeless people, she says.

“I was not like them. I wasn’t willing to do what [the counselors] told me to do. I just didn’t get it.”

She soon relapsed, and things became worse, she says.

“I resorted to desperateacts. I did whatever I had to do to feed the disease looking back, I should be dead today.”

Derringtonexperiencedperiodsof sobriety; she even landed a job with the DallasSymphonyOrchestraforsome time, but she couldn’t hang on. She says she just wanted to be normal — have a

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drink now and then. She didn’t understand why she had to be different.

Finally, family members intervened.

“My mom told me we were going to the Arboretum. I knew something was up.”

They were actually staging an intervention, after which they drove Derrington to the 24-HourClub on Ross.

“I cussed at them the whole way, and when they dropped me off, I looked at the director and said, ‘I hate this place.’”

The24-HourClub,whichprovides transitionallivingforalcoholics and drug addicts, is located inside a dusty, well-worn hotel.

“It is the last house on the block,” Derrington says. “I was pretty disturbed to be there.”

Again, she looked around at her bedraggled new dorm mates. Only this time, rather than saying to herself, “I’m not like them,” she said, “I am like them; this is me.”

Once you make it to this point, you basically have to choose to change or die, Derrington says.

So she changed.

For awhile, she worked in the kitchen at the 24-HourClub.

“I sat there thinking about how my mom used to say, ‘Get an education so you don’t wind up flippin’ burgers,’ and there I was, in my late 30s, flipping burgers at the 24-HourClub.”

But it was better than the alternative; she was sober.

Today she loves the dusty old 24-Hour Club, where she says she realized that the key to staying sober was helping others.

In 2007, she took a job at Magdalene House, where she is now executive director. When women come in with feeling like trash, she says she helps them understand that they are worth saving. That they aren’t bad, but sick. And she is living proof, for them, that recovery is possible.

She says her job gives her the opportunity to stay connected to the recovery community and the 12-step recovery program on which the Magdalene program is based.

“I’m not actually doing service work here, because I get paid, but it gives me the unique opportunity to be among women who have been where I have been.”

Work with alcoholics isn’t always happy a day earlier, Derrington received a call about a former Magdalene House resident

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who relapsed and died.

It’s a reminder of the seriousness of alcoholism and addiction, she says.

“You can’t take this lightly. If I don’t stay connected, that could be me. With this disease, you are either working at living or dying. I still have to work every day to maintain my serenity and sobriety.”

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DaleRettman

Dale rettman has keys. Keys to every door in the Jubilee Park community center, keys to his church, keys to his apartment and keys to his truck.

he pulls them from his belt, holds them up like a bell and makes them jingle. The key that most astonishes him, he says, is the one to the police substation a block away from Jubilee

Park, where rettman is facility asset and security manager.

“They hired me to empty trash cans a year and a half ago,” he says. “It was my second job out of prison.”

It was in prison where rettman learned what he says are the keys to a successful life: consistency, dependability and being christ-like.

rettman was a lifelong criminal, addicted to methamphetamines for 17 years, and he manufactured meth for about six years.

he held down a job making $75,000 a year at a collision repair shop, but he spent all of his money on drugs. Once his two daughters grew up and left the house about 10 years ago, he says he went wild, dealing drugs and doing them nonstop.

Finally, he decided it was time for a change.

“I was tired of it,” he says of the drug-addict life. “I was tired of the lifestyle, the people, everything.”

rettman had a rap sheet “this long” for unpaid tickets, possession of drug paraphernalia, trespassing and lots of relatively minor offenses.

he was on probation for drug possession when he finally was charged and sentenced to 18 months.

“I prayed that I would be in there long enough to get better,” he says.

he decided to turn his life around and learn the Bible even before he was sent to hutchins Unit, south of Dallas.

his wife left him, his adoptive parents were dead, he lost contact with his children. he had no one. and he says he had no contact with the outside world during his sentence. But he was placed in faith-based dorms at hutchins, one of the first residents in a new rehabilitation program.

In prison, he says he learned to become a leader and to watch his language, which was peppered with curse words. and he learned those three keys.

“It’s the best thing that ever happened to me,” he says of prison.

“It took that controlled environment to help me. You have nothing but time to work on anything you need to work on.”

The day of his release, he had nothing but the clothes and

shoes he was wearing — not even a toothbrush. But he was placed in transitional housing, a group home exclusivelyfor themen from the faith-based dorm, in South Dallas.

Whenhearrived,membersofan EastDallaschurchwerethereto help, at least to give him a toothbrush and toiletries. And this group, fromSkillmanChurchofChrist, would become his new family.

“Ihadn’tbeentochurchin35 years,”Rettman says. “But there was a huge amount of love there.”

His comeback was a struggle. He earned less than the minimum wage in a collections call center. It took him more than an hour to get there on the bus, but he was always the first one there in the morning, and soon, he had the keys to the building.

Slowly, he saved money and bought a truck.

A churchmemberrecommended him for the job at Jubilee Park, whose staff was willing to try out one more ex-convictafterseveralhadbeen fired.

His job was to pick up trash, but Rettman took a sense of ownership of Jubilee Park, which has a park, communitycenter,teencenterand offices.

Hecreated a communitygarden andstartedteachingneighborhood kids about nutrition and how things grow.

His part-time gig turned into a fulltime job, and he rented an apartment near Mockingbird and Central.

Now he’s in charge of the $6 million community center and all of Jubilee Park’s assets.

He has all those keys, a $48,000 salary and a debit card he uses to buy things the center needs.

“They trust me with that,” he says. “It’s amazing.”

Rettman hopes he is an example for employers, showing that ex offenders canbegreatemployees.About75 percentofprisonersreturntojail, butRettman has made it.

He’s reconnected with his daughters.And the greatest joy of all: he has six grandchildren.

“I’m not here to get anything,” he says. “I’m here to give something.”

LEFT//Mark Hearne, coowner of Random, which recently opened at Hillside Village, describes his store as a place to buy “locally crafted, handmade, unusual, fun, funky gift ideas.” Hearne has lived in Lakewood for 30 years, and says that he saw “the movement” taking place at Hillside Village, and wanted to get in on the ground floor before all the retail space was taken. BELOW/ Shawn Phillips, operating partner at Fuzzy’s, carries food to a customer. Phillips says Lakewood residents have a lot of civic pride. “Everybody who lives in Lakewood chose it over somewhere else in Dallas they could have lived in,” he said.

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Hillside Village Shopping Center is making a comeback

Story by Rachel Stone & Keri Mitchell · Photos by David Leeson

The announcement of a local coffee shop opening its second location in hillside Village was the first indicator of change in the air.

Before White rock coffee Express finished construction on its double drivethrough kiosk on the northeast corner of abrams and Mockingbird, two more restaurants had staked claims in the shopping center — Fuzzy’s Taco Shop and Pizzeria Venti. Both hailed themselves as “quick-service” concepts, and both would have patios facing Mockingbird.

Then the dominoes began to fall.

Within a matter of months last year, hillside Village welcomed seven new tenants, most of them mom-and-pops based inDallas. allof a sudden,thearea referred to as “the shopping center at

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Sarah and Chris Rogers make a first-time visit to the Pizzeria Venti, a restaurant that opened recently at Hillside Village. Sarah Rogers says she and her husband “never really had a reason to come here” until new businesses began to open at the center.

the northeast corner of Mockingbird and Abrams” once again became known by its original name, the one dubbed by the late Dallas developer W.W. Caruth when he built the shopping center in the mid-’50s.

Caruth already had developed Inwood Village and Park Cities Village, the strip of shops on Mockinbird west of Central. ButHillside Village was to be his greatest yet, serving a burgeoning area of Dallas that, at the time, was the fastest growing with the highest income bracket. Caruth must have had dollar signs in his eyes as he announced an eventual 300,000 squarefeetofretailspreadacross30 acresnorthofMockingbirdandspanning both sides of Abrams. The shopping center’s original tenants included “Dallas’ largestsupermarket”with a whopping 15,000 square feet, and a slew of neighborhood shops with quaint monikers such as Mrs. Northcutt’s Dress Shop and Fritz’s Paint Store.

Fast-forward five decades, and the picturehadchanged.Theagingcenter’s anchorstorescomprisedDollarTree, Steinmart and a party supply shop, with Blockbuster, which was quickly becoming a technology dinosaur, occupying prime real estate on the corner of Mockingbird andHillside.

That was the state of Hillside Village in 2007 when Jim and Rebecca Tudor of Twinrose Investments bought it. The husband-wifeteamforesawwhatwas coming — the loss of both Blockbuster andthe25,000-square-footpartysupply store in the corner where the much smaller Tuesday Morning now sits.

Losinganchortenantslikethese especially Blockbuster, a mega-corporation that, in the past, guaranteed a substantial rent check each month — could havemeanttheendoftheshopping center’s viability.

In this case, however, it signaled the beginning.

After the coffee shop and two restaurants made their announcements, PK’s Wine and Spirits, a Dallas-based company with locations in Highland Park and Preston Hollow, signed a contract to open its third store in the center.

Random, a boutique selling home décor items,art,antiquesandgifts and ownedby25-yearLakewoodresidents

Shelley and Mark Hearne — moved to the center from Inwood Village.

T. Hee Greetings, a stationery store that originated in Lake Highlands, opened a

Hillside Village

SHOPPING CENTER

SERVING EAST DALLAS SINCE 1954

RESTAURANTS

Lakewood’s 1st & 10

Fuzzy’s Taco Shop

Pizzeria Venti

White Rock Coffee

Romano’s Bakery

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Stein Mart

Ditto Boutique

FOOD & CONVENIENCE STORES

PK’s Fine Wine & Spirits

Mike’s Discount Liquor

Dollar Tree

7-11

PERSONAL SERVICES

Custom Cleaners

Crest Tailor

Hillside Shoe Service

GIFTS, STATIONARY, ART, HOUSEWARES

Tuesday Morning

T-Hee Greetings & Gifts

Random

Lakewood Lighting

FAMILY FITNESS

Lady of America

The Little Gym

Mockingbird Swim & Total Fitness

HEALTH & BEAUTY

EyeMasters

Sally Beauty Supply

Lakewood Salons

Model Nails

Hillside Beauty Salon

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second location at Hillside Village. Anupscaleclothingconsigner,Ditto Boutique, relocated from North Dallas.

Tuesday Morning, a longtime Hillside Villagefixture,relocatedto a corner space with 3,000 square feet of additional breathing room.

“Because of the recession, some tenants that we thought might not make it in the long run went out earlier,” Rebecca Tudor says. “It freed up more space for us to be able to make a bigger impact all at once with tenants that we felt deserved to be in the center and would really serve the neighborhood.”

Before Twinrose bought the shopping center, it had changed ownership three times in fewer than 10 years. The Tudors purchased it with the backing of mostly local investors, and “when we bought it, our investors understood that we felt that this center needed a hands-on owner that would stay with it for a while,” Jim Tudor says. Their goal is for Hillside Village to “be relevant to the neighborhood,” he says.

That’s how the shopping center started out, after all.

“It was really one of the first strip shopping centers for the post-World War II families that were building homes out in the suburbs,” Rebecca Tudor says.

These days, it’s hard to imagine our neighborhood as “the suburbs”, but when it opened in 1955, Hillside Village was intended to be for our neighborhood what a newshoppingcenteristonorthern Frisco today, she says.

Now,Hillside Village and shopping centers of its era are experiencing revitalizationasrealestateinvestorsrenovate properties and pursue desirable tenants,

Jane DeNike, owner of Ditto Boutique, a new store that opened recently at Hillside Village, says, “Lakewood has a different vibe than any other part of the city.” She decided that Hillside Village offered an opportunity to create a new shopping experience. “Why not create our own bubble?” she asks.

says Ian Pierce, director of corporate communications for The Weitzman Group, a commercial retail estate brokerage firm leasing 41 million square feet of retail properties throughout Texas.

“We’re finding that properties inside the loop are seeing a lot of interest, mainly because they do offer the density, and they offer the stability,” Pierce says.

A look at the 3-mile radius around the Mockingbird-Abrams intersection shows a population of 166,452 with 72,576 households and an average household income of $91,450 — “that’s a strong income,” says Pierce, citing Pitney Bowes business insightdemographicsrunthroughThe Weitzman Group.

Those kinds of numbers benefit shops with a more boutique-y feel, Pierce says. Plus,Hillside’sVillageoriginalmakeup also tends toward mom-and-pop shops becauseinthe1950s,anchorstores weren’t nearly as large as anchors today.

“HillsideVillagedoesn’thave a true community center anchor, so it’s more of a neighborhood-type center,” Pierce says.

Theothersignificantdemographicis 80,718 — the number of people working in a 3-mile radius of the shopping center during the daytime, “which is really important for restaurants,” Pierce says.

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Thishelpsexplaintheburgeoning little restaurant scene created by Fuzzy’s and Pizzeria Venti, as well as Lakewood’s 1st and 10 bar and grill, which reopened under local ownership in 2009.

Popularneighborhoodeateriesare nothing new for the shopping center: In the ’50s and ’60s, it had Charco’s, the hamburger drive-in that was the No. 1 hangout for bobby-socked Woodrow students. Later came Pancho’s Mexican Buffet.

The original occupant of the Tuesday MorningcornerspacewasReed Hardware,“areallygoodhardware store” which was owned by three siblings, says Sue Sinclair of Lakewood Lighting, who has been in business at Hillside for 33 years. And Jim Tudor fondly recalls visiting Jo Jo Toys as a child when his mother took him along on errands to Hillside Village.

In the decades since Charco’s, Reed and Jo Jo, many mom-and-pops gave way to national corporations, such as the Drug Emporium that took over the ReedHardware space. Then as the center aged, it became more attractive to discount retailers looking for a deal on prime real estate in urban areas.

When Twinrose took over, the Tudors determined to be more selective about tenants, which for them meant turning down some of the discount retailers that came calling.

“Theneighborhoodstillwantsdiscount [stores] to be available to them, but I think that there was a shortage of tenants that were just a little more eclectic,”Rebecca Tudor says.

A drive-through coffee shop was on

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Cindy Taylor is the third owner of Hillside Beauty Salon at Hillside Village. Unlike other shopping center stores, Taylor says the salon has changed little since its opening in 1954. Many of her customers. who range from age 75 to 100, have been getting their hair done at the salon for more than 50 years.

the wish list, and Jim Tudor knew White rock coffee owner Nancy Baker from their high school days. When he called her, he learned that the business was looking to expand.

“Things on the east side and north side of the lake are connected in attitude, so it was a logical extension for them to move to that intersection,” he says.

at the top of Twinrose’s list were restaurants, and to make that happen, “we were very patient with what we put into a space,” Jim Tudor says. “We really wanted some restaurants to put on the street, but we didn’t take the first restaurant that came along, and we didn’t take things that weren’t restaurants.”

The restaurants needed to be able to utilizepatiosandappealtonotonly residentsoftheimmediateLakewood area “but also a youthful customer that comes from a fairly wide area around that intersection,” he says. “certainly, Fuzzy’s matchesthat.Peoplewhohavenever been to our center will eat there, and then notice other stuff.”

That’s why the Tudors wanted to place the restaurant’s main door on the west side, encouraging people to park in the core of the shopping center. So when the taco shop has lines every day for lunch

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“CONSTRUCTION STARTS THURSDAY ON HUGE NORTHDALLAS CENTER”

DALLAS MORNING NEWS, JUNE 27, 1954

Hillside Village was announced as “the largest shopping center in North Dallas or the Park Cities under one ownership, developer W.W. Caruth Jr.” The original village was built on both sides of Abrams north of Mockingbird (the west side of Mockingbird is now called Mockingbird Commons), and included300,000square feet of space plus parking. The larger section on the east side was built to accommodate 35 stores, including two supermarkets, a large independent drug store, and a super service station on the corner.

The areaaroundHillside Village was “in the highest income bracket in Greater Dallas, and one of the fastest growing,” according to the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Caruth estimated thatthe village would eventually serve 25,000area residents north to Northwest Highway and east to White Rock Lake.

“HILLSIDE TO OBSERVE FIRST YEAR”

DALLAS MORNING NEWS,APRIL 12, 1956

Hillside Village’s 30 merchants celebrated the shoppingcenter’s firstanniversaryin April 1956 with a Saturday night drawing of merchant prizes, each worth $25 or more. The prizes ranged “from paint to mattresses, from movie cameras to ice cream.” Within the first year, the stores were spread over 12 acres with 130,000 square feet of retail space, and T.B. Timbs, assistant to Hillside developer W.W. Caruth, noted that “to date, there are no building vacancies in the center.”

Hillside Village businesses participating in the celebration included: John Cobb’s Hillside Village Drugs; Fritz’s Paint Store, Community SewingShop;Direct MattressCompany; A&P Super Market; Owens Brothers Jewelry; Super Tex Camera Store; Ches-Lee; Conkling’s Youth Fashions; Davenport’s 5 cents to $1 Store; Home’s Hillside Store; Williams-Logue Carpets; Reed Hardware; Beck’s Fried Chicken;Village Man’s Shop; Polly Dupont; Clinton’s Shoes; Jo Jo Toys; Flowers Galore and Garden Center; Ford’s Ben Franklin Store; Hillside Village Barbers; Linda’s Beauty Shop; Evan’s Food Mart No. 2; Lee’s TelevisionRecords Shop; Eames Ice Cream; Village Grill & Restaurant;White Star Laundry; Drew’s Supermarket; Pat Carbone’s Humble Station; and Mrs. Northcutt’s Dress Shop.

“CITY’SBIGGEST SUPERMARKET SCHEDULES OPENING TODAY”

DALLAS MORNING NEWS,MARCH 1, 1955

When Hillside Village A&P opened in the shopping center, it was “Dallas’ largest supermarket” at the time with 15,000 square feet. The new store was “designed to serve shoppers west of White Rock Lake and in the Lakewood, Skillman and Greenville Avenue neighborhoods.”

“CARUTHSCHEDULED TO OPEN HILLSIDE”

DALLAS MORNING NEWS,MARCH 31, 1955

When Caruth envisioned Hillside Village, he had already developed Inwood Village and Park Cities Village on Mockingbird at Central. A profile on Caruth soon after Hillside opened noted that “his Inwood Village has long been regarded as a model among the nation’s shopping centers, and in 1952 his Park Cities Village won the national award from the home builders’ organization.” When completed, Hillside Village was “expected to surpass any of the others in size and perfection because of improvements dictated by knowledge gained from the development of the earlier shopping centers.”

The profile also describes Caruth as “a champion of proper zoning” but “he nevertheless realizes that too often certain zoning legislation is enacted with little forethought to its eventual effect on development of specific areas within a community, and sometimes, development of the community itself.”

and is crowded on weekends from open ’til close, customers are more likely to notice the shoe repair shop next door, which should result in more business.

And it has. Heather Green, who coownsRicoHillside Shoe Service with her husband, Francisco Rico, says their shop is getting new business because of restaurant and retail traffic.

“The shopping center is always full, so it attracts attention to other businesses that have been around awhile.”

Adding casual restaurants with patios onthatcornerhaspushedtheretail center into a new era, the Tudors say. It’s a focal point that draws people driving or cycling to and from White Rock Lake. Brokers have begun paying attention, too the Twinrose phones ring every day with calls about the center, they say.

That’s good news for the investors, who regularly contact the Tudors with their two cents.

“Some of our investors live in Lakewood, and many of them live in the city of Dallas,” Rebecca Tudor says. “They shop at this property, and they call us and tell us what they like and don’t like. It really makes it much more personal.”

The local ownership contributes to the retail strategy, such as the push to open the shopping center to more local entrepreneurs. Judging by the profile of new tenants, that strategy has been successful.

Butluckalsoplayed a partinthe shopping center’s recent revival. And in Hillside Village’s case, luck showed up in the form of an unlikely helper — the recession.

Visitors to Hillside Village may attest to the center being busier now than it was three or four years ago.

“Some of my customers have a hard time finding a parking space,” says Cindy Taylor, who owns Hillside Beauty Salon, which opened with the center in the ’50s.

Buttheshoppingcenteris86percent leased today, compared to 100 percentleasedwhenTwinrosepurchased it.However, only 19 of the 34 tenants occupying the center in 2007 still remain. Many of the stores that vacated “were just a casualty of the economy,” Rebecca Tudor says, “and allowed us to accelerate our plan, which was to re-tenant it slightly over time.”

Newretailconstructionscreechedto a halt after the 2008 bank failures, and Twinrose waited out 2009, which “was just not a leasing year,” Jim Tudor says.

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By the following year, however, retailers and restaurants had begun focusing on existing shopping centers with open space.

The result at Hillside Village was “lemonade out of lemons,” Rebecca Tudor says.

Theysqueezedmoresmall-business space out of the center as part of the transition.Roughly half of the party supply store became Tuesday Morning; the other half was divided into two spaces that may someday become a bike shop or some sort of furnishings store, Jim Tudor says, or perhaps be split up into multiple service shops.Theoriginal9,500-square-footTuesdayMorningspacewilleventually be carved into multiple spaces, too, they say, just like the single Blockbuster store became three spaces.

Large spaces are usually sought after by large companies, which have an easier time paying the corresponding rent. But national companies have become less aggressive because of the recession. And in a central city area such as our neighborhood, the value of space goes up, Jim Tudor says, and “there are a lot more local tenants that can get into a location if you make it smaller.”

The Weitzman Group has leased several former Blockbuster spaces, and “there definitely is a trend to reworking some of these spaces” with more than one tenant, Pierce says.

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The former Blockbuster space in Hillside Village is “right there on the street, great visibility,”Piercesays.“Alotofthose Blockbuster spaces tended to be one of the best spaces in any given shopping center, which explains why you’re seeing some really strong tenants backfill them.”

Smaller tenants also give Hillside Village “more diverse offerings, a little more congestion,” and “a much more urban feel,” Rebecca Tudor says.

Certainly, the Tudors and other Hillside investors are pleased with what has happened in such a short amount of time, especiallyconsideringhowsomeother real estate investors have fared in recent years. But “we do still consider it a work in progress,” Jim Tudor says. Twinrose is interested in one more restaurant adjacent to either Abrams or Mockingbird and is on the lookout for other shops that would bring something new to the center.

“We’retryingtoanticipatenotjust where Lakewood and Lake Highlands and the Greater East Dallas area is today,” Rebecca Tudor says, “but where it is going to be in 20 years.”

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If you haven’t stopped by yet, be sure to welcome the UPS Store 1 on Mockingbird and Greenville. Owner David Jones and his wife, Nicole, are active in the community — David Jones is a marathon coach at Run On and volunteers on the board of directors for the Lower Greenville Neighborhood Association, and Nicole Jones volunteers at Paws in the City. Jones has worked for UPS in various roles, from driving the packing trucks to management, and finally to working for the corporate office. About a year ago, he decided he wanted to make a change and work for himself. “I remember hearing a lot about the UPS store, so I just inquired,” Jones says. He wanted a location that was close enough to home that he could ride his bike to work. He asked the corporate office if it had any locations nearby, and eventually it had an opening on Lower Greenville. Jones says the new store is “on a very busy corner, but it’s a good location for a lot of people.” 214.824.5400, theupsstore.com, 5706 E. Mockingbird.

Look for the new Subway next door to the UPS Store, which opened in February. 214.887.1433, 5706 E. Mockingbird.

Mextopia and Times Ten Cellars have joined forces to bring neighbors discounted wine on Wednesdays. Mextopia will offer half off bottles of Time Ten Cellars wine or $1 off per glass every Wednesday. A word to the wise: The Times Ten cabernet and Mextopia brisket-stuffed chile relleno are one tasty combination. 214.824.9400, mextopia.com, 2104 Greenville.

After a successful joint venture on Valentine’s Day weekend, neighborhood businesses Legal Grounds and Grace Café are teaming up again to host a Mardi Gras dinner on March 4. Chef Deb Crabb will serve a five-course meal beginning at 7 p.m. The prepaid dinner is BYOB and $50 a person, which

includes tax. The café can seat only 45 people at a time and the dinners fill quickly, so early reservations are recommended. The dinner will be outfitted with candlelight, white tablecloths, glassware and New Orleans-style jazz music. Anyone interested in attending the event is also encouraged to wear beads and masks in honor of the holiday. To place a reservation, call 214.683.8312, 2015 Abrams.

White Rock Dental recently welcomed Dr. Lynette Page to its team. Page is a Lakewood native who still lives in the White Rock area. Page joined the practice after searching for a position close to home. “I heard about White Rock Dental’s reputation for great dentistry and comprehensive care, and I met the owner, Dr. Edward Lutz, and we got along great,” Page says. Aside from her dental work, Page also is an accomplished triathlete and enjoys working close to the lake so that she can continue her training. She says she will be competing in two upcoming Iron Man 70.3 challenges, one in Puerto Rico and the other in Las Vegas. 214.321.9191, whiterockdentalgroup.com, 8940 Garland Road.

Backyard Beach Bar is under the new management of David Mitchell and Jose Perez. With the change in management comes an upgrade in the bar’s atmosphere, they say. “We’ve got all new patio furniture outside,” says Monique Benavidez, bartender and bar manager. “We had a courtyard room that was open to the outside, and they enclosed it, and it is insulated and air-conditioned now.” Other additions to the bar include new barstools and tabletops, a dart room and foosball tournaments. Keep an eye out for volleyball season, which begins this month. 214.327.3866, backyardbeachbar.com, 7530 E. Grand.

Good 2 Go Taco 2 recently moved to a new location in our neighborhood on Peavy and Garland, across from Walgreens. The restaurant is open Tuesday-Saturday, 6 a.m.-3 p.m. and Sunday, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Owners Colleen O’Hare

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Stir Coffee , located inside the same facility as Good 2 Go Taco, is a new neighborhood shop owned by Rip Rowan and Vanessa Peters, and takes a traditional approach to coffee brewing. “We focus on making traditional drinks for the most part: espresso, cappuccinos and all of our house coffee are made with French press — we don’t use drip coffee or any machine-made coffee,” Rowan says. The couple, who are friends of the Good 2 Go Taco owners, were highly influenced by Houndstooth Coffee in Austin, which sits next door to Tacodeli. While Stir Coffee does not make blended drinks such as frappuccinos, Rowan says that its iced coffee, made with a cold brewing technique, has a chocolate, bold taste perfect for the spring and summer months. 214.556.1394, stircoffeedallas.com, 1146 Peavy. —ElizabEth KnightEn

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M EASURInG IMPACT In d OLLARS RESULTS In A STAGGERInG vALUATIOn

How much is your church worth to the community?

It seems almost impossible to put a value on everything, but economists try. For instance, ever wonder about those numbers they throw around every time we’re asked to consider a bond election to build a new sports arena? They claim that the number of jobs added, concessions sold, hotel and rental cars arranged, advertising booked, merchandise purchased, and restaurants frequented all add up to some enormous number — much more than the zero that would be the case if we didn’t do it at all. Then subtract the amount it costs us in tax abatements to bribe a billionaire to build it in our town — from which he gets all the profit — and there’s your number.

Well, a University of Pennsylvania professor and a secular research firm have now figured a way to measure the economic impact of religious communities on their wider communities. They devised 54 categories to measure the value of what they call the “halo effect” of churches, synagogues and the like.

What’s the worth of one marriage saved? One suicide averted? One addiction conquered? One teenager taught right from wrong? Interesting. But they took it even further: They added up the money generated by weddings and funerals, festivals, counseling programs, preschools and elder care. They tallied salaries of staff, and the wages of roofers, plumbers and even snow shovelers. They put dollar signs on intangibles, such as helping people find work and teaching children to be socially responsible. They even measured the diameter of trees on church campuses.

After analyzing 12 churches in the Philadelphia area, the results are in: The economic benefit exceeds $50 million dollars. The numbers, culled from clergy and staff interviews, “just blew us away,” says Robert Jaeger, executive dire ctor of the research group Partners for Sacred Places.

They don’t blow me away. I expected a number far beyond what most people would think.

A skeptic about the church and its doctrine once approached a pastor colleague of mine.

The man asked if the pastor really could imagine hell. My friend answered, “Sure, all I do is think of our own city and take out every church, every synagogue, every hospital that cares for the indigent, and every community benevolence institution that tries to help the homeless and the hopeless. That would be hell.”

I don’t know how you put a value on avoiding hell, but the exercise in assigning value to the presence of a religious organization in a community revealed to researchers something they didn’t anticipate. They found that churches did far more than simply conduct worship services and other religious rites. They hosted dance classes, senior citizens programs, childcare centers, youth sports activities, self-defense classes, grief and addiction recovery programs, small non-profit businesses, computer classes for the elderly, job search classes for the unemployed and job training for the underemployed.

The array of services offered by churches is a reality of social good that hides in plain sight.

One pastor, whose church was part of the study, put it this way: “Our mission is not just to get people into heaven,” he said, “but help them maneuver through the trials and troubles of life.”

The church is an easy target for critics, since it is composed of only sinners who are more or less aware of our need for God’s grace to become more than we are now. It’s also true that the church sometimes forgets its mission for God to the world and turns out to be just another social club or tax-exempt business that fails to give back as much as it receives. Hypocrisy tarnishes whatever halo effect social scientists may calculate.

But when you consider the positive impact of religious congregations in the lessening of misery and the elevating of human dignity, there’s reason to give thanks for good neighbors as you drive by buildings with steeples that point your eyes upward.

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.

community

AN OVARIAN CANCER SUPPORT GROUP meets 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mondays in the Virginia R. Cvetko Patient Education Center on the basement level of the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center, 3535 Worth. For details, call 214.820.2608.

THE GREATER LAKEWOOD REPUBLICANWOMEN’S GROUP holds its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. March 28 at Commonwealth Title Company, 6465 E. Mockingbird Suite 450. For information, call Kelly Nolan at 214.728.7301.

education

STONEWALL JACKSONELEMENTARYPTA hosts the Urban Cowboy 2011 Auction 7 p.m.-midnight April 16 at Eddie Deen’s Ranch, 944 S. Lamar. The school’s biggest fundraiser of the year helps fund computer technology, classroom supplies, music program enhancements and resources for the outdoor science lab and Stonewall Garden. To find out how to donate items or services to the auction, contact Kate Simpson at katesimpson@sbcglobal. net.

LIPSCOMBELEMENTARY HOSTS ITS KINDERGARTEN ROUND UP at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, March 4 in the school cafeteria, 5801 Worth. For information, call Pauline Mayfield at 214.827.5859 or email pmayfield@sbcglobal.net.

people

AUSTIN KRISADABOONYACHAI, an East Dallas resident and student at the Episcopal School of Dallas, received a nomination to attend the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y. Candidates must undergo a rigorous selection process and be nominated by a member of Congress, the vice president or from the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps.Nominations are determined based on academic performance, college entrance test scores, physical aptitude, medical certification, extracurricular activities and demonstrated leadership potential.

DIANAMARQUIS was appointed director of development for the neighborhood nonprofit the Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind, which provides support for the visually impaired in North Texas. Marquis leads development and communications, overseeing fundraising, events, marketing and organ donations. Kathleen Ernst was appointed the National Industries for the Blind Fellow for Leadership Development to serve through August 2011. For information about Dallas Lighthouse, visit dallaslighthouse.org.

DIRECTOR CLAY LIFORD’S NEWEST FILM, “WUSS”, premieres at the SXSW Film Festival March 11-19. East Dallas filmmaker Eric Steele produced the movie with partners Barak Epstein and Adam Donaghey.“Wuss” is about a high school teacher bullied by his students, and the movie was shot in Dallas and Garland. For information, visit wussmovie.com.

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SEArchiNg for A curE

tom and c hristine Warrick of Lakewood recently traveled to San Francisco, Calif., to deliver a $50,000 check on behalf of the TeamConnor Cancer Foundation to the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital. The donation will help fund research in pediatric cancer. Pictured from left: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology specialist Dr. r obert g oldsby, c hristine Warrick, Dr. Sarah tasian, tom Warrick, Dr. m ignon Loh and m ichelle h ermiston.

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Literacy Love

The English Language Ministry, which provides literacy support for East Dallas, received a $15,000 community grant from the Verizon Foundation and 15 percent of a day’s sales from Fish City Grill. Founded in 1994, ELM is sponsored by East Dallas Christian Church, First Community Church, Northridge Presbyterian Church and St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. Pictured from left: volunteer Jackie a ndrews, ELM executive director e llen m ata and ELM board president Janie a utz at the Fish City Grill benefit.

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cLoSing the gap

The YWCA of Dallas and CitiBank launched a new resource in financial security, YW Self-Sufficiency Calculator, which matches families with appropriate benefits to mend financial gaps. Pictured from left: Debbie taylor of Citi, Councilmember Jerry a llen, Councilwoman a nn m argolin and Jennifer Ware, YW CEO at the City Hall announcement.

Pets

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FENCING & DECKS

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THE DOGS JUMPED OUT, AND THE CAMERA VANISHED.

Jessica Listi loves her two dogs and really enjoys time outdoors with them. With its open green spaces, the White Rock Lake Dog Park is perfect for an afternoon out with her pets.

“The dog park is awesome. It’s very wellmaintained,” Listi says. “People just bring their dogs out there and let them out and run around.”

The Victim: Jessica Listi

The Crime: Theft

Date: Wednesday, Jan. 19

Time: Between 1:30 p.m. and 1:40 p.m.

Location: 8000 block of Mockingbird

The dog owner frequents the park and had planned on being at the park for a couple hours. Before venturing out, Listi pulled her car into the parking lot across the street, ready to let out her anxious dogs. She brought along her camera for some pictures of her beloved pooches.

Unfortunately, the camera didn’t make it to the park. Instead, it became easy target for a criminal in the area.

As she exited her car, Listi had trouble letting down her seat to let her anxious dogs out of the backseat.

“I don’t know if the camera fell out of my purse or I left it on the hood,” she says. “I realized pretty quickly I didn’t have it, and came back and it was gone. I know it had to be taken pretty fast.”

The camera was new, and Listi had still not downloaded the photos on the camera to her computer.

“It’s just frustrating, and I just got it for Christmas,” she says. “I still had some pictures on it from Christmas. I really just want the pictures.”

The camera was a Red Nikon in a black and gray case. She is hoping a Good Samaritan may have found it and will return it. She was also able to give the serial number to police and hopes it might turn up at a pawnshop.

“It happens,” she says of the theft. “I probably should have been more careful, and not paying so much attention to just the dogs.

Dallas Police Lt. Mackie D. Ham of the Northeast Patrol Division says this kind of “basic theft” is common and could have happened anywhere in the city.

“When residents fail to properly secure their property, the chances of it being taken are increased,” Ham says. “The WhiteRock Lake area is not a ‘hotbed’ of crime. We do experience some burglaries of motor vehicles in the area, but it is not really anything off the scale. We have assigned officers that regularly patrol the lake to prevent theft and other such offenses, and generally we do a pretty good job of keeping the crime down.”

Ham says victims like Listi who store serial numbers of their property can have it entered in the DPD crime database. If the item is pawned, Ham says police have a good chance of recovery.

—SEAN CHAFFIN

VALUE OF THE ITEMS STOLEN FROM AN APARTMENT UNIT IN THE 3500 BLOCK OF NORTH BUCKNER; THE TENANT LOST A COMPUTER, DVD PLAYER, BLU-RAY PLAYER, NINTENDO WII, JEWELRY AND A SHOEBOX FULL OF PHOTOS

DATE WHEN SOMEONE

BURGLARIZED FUZZY’S TACO SHOP AT MOCKINGBIRD AND ABRAMS, STEALING MORE THAN $8,000 FROM THE SAFE

BLOCK OF LOVERS WHERE ANAPARTMENT UNIT WAS BURGLARIZED WHILE THE TENANT WENT TO THE LAUNDRY ROOM; THE SUSPECT STOLE MORE THAN $650 WORTH OF VALUABLES

SOURCE: Dallas Police Department

The ex fac Tor

Former Dallas police chief David Kunkle wants to be mayor.

This is intriguing enough news, given Kunkle’s reputation as an effective chief who worked diligently to bring community policing to the city. In this, he was a neighborhood kind of guy, which is something we haven’t seen in a mayor for four years.

But that’s not the most intriguing thing about Kunkle’s candidacy. It’s his campaign treasurer, former state Rep. Steve Wolens. Wolens, by himself, is an interesting choice — a politically connected lawyer who was a populist, neighborhoodoriented legislator.

But Wolens doesn’t come to the Kunkle campaign by himself. Whether he wants to or not, and whether Kunkle wants it or not, Wolens brings his wife with him.

And his wife is former Dallas mayor Laura Miller, perhaps the most controversial political figure in Dallas in the past 30 years.

Or, as almost everyone I talked to about this said: “She’s ba-ack!”

No one knows for sure if Miller will be involved with the campaign, and she hasn’t said anything. But it doesn’t matter. Miller is such a polarizing figure that even her presence by marriage will flavor the campaign.

A quick primer on Miller’s six-year tenure

as mayor, and why so many people still disagree about what she did and how she did it:

• Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says Miller cost Dallas the team’s new stadium, and a lot of people believe him. Miller didn’t want to spend taxpayer money to benefit someone she considered annoying and fabulously wealthy, a decision that has not played well with a sizable part of the electorate.

The obvious question, given Miller’s reputation and that she will almost certainly become a campaign issue, is why Kunkle picked Wolens as treasurer. It could be completely innocent. Miller was mayor when Kunkle was hired to replace the legendary Terrell Bolton, who was fired for incompetence here (and then in Atlanta) and whom Miller actively disliked. It’s perfectly logical to assume that they know each other and like each other, and that Miller and Wolens want to help their friend become mayor.

Having said that, Kunkle told the Dallas Observer he thought that Wolens could help him raise money — which does seem more than a little disingenuous. A lot of people who aren’t married to Miller could do that, and it’s a statement that has left even those of us who don’t believe in conspiracy theories looking for shoes under the bed.

• Miller was the driving force behind the city’s smoking ban. This may not seem like a big deal today, but five years ago the nicest thing she was called by people who opposed the ban was Communist.

• The city’s African-American community disliked Miller even more than the antismoking ban people, and they still feel that way. No one wanted to talk about Miller and the mayoral campaign on the record, but off the record? The muttering under their breath is getting louder.

My favorite? That Miller is out to even the score with someone, and that could include almost anyone she dealt with during her tenure as mayor. That could be city manager Mary Suhm, who was an assistant city manager when Miller feuded with city manager Ted Benavides. It could be Far North Dallas city councilman Ron Natinsky, who is more or less the frontrunner in the mayor’s race and who has had his disputes with Miller. Or maybe Miller knew Park Board president Mike Rawlings was going to run, and she doesn’t like him? Who knows?

Regardless, Miller’s presence will liven up what looked to be a decidedly dull mayoral campaign. If nothing else, we should be grateful for that.

Former Dallas mayor Laura Miller is such a polarizing figure that even her presence by marriage will flavor the campaign.

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Raise the Woof Pup Rally: White Rock Lake Dog Park

The Comerica White Rock Lake Centennial Celebration is a marathon of events and activities to celebrate the 100th birthday of one of Dallas’ signature parks. Kicking off in March and culminating in a grand finale weekend in June, proceeds from the Comerica White Rock Lake Centennial Celebration will help fund ten capital projects and improvements, including improving hike and bike trails, completely renovating the White Rock Dog Park and restoring the park forests.

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