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Emeritus at Vickery Towers is working to relocate its 243 residents with plans to close the facility on July 15. The retirement home, which includes assisted living, independent living and memory care, has operated off Lower Greenville and Belmont since 1968. Spokesperson Summer Hammerle says they wanted to provide a more modernized community (larger commons areas, a movie theater, etc.), but the cost to renovate the old building is just too great. “It’s almost impossible for us to do,” she says. “It’s the right thing to do for our residents.”

Temporary move

Ace Hardware moved out of its location in the Lakewood Shopping Center. Although it’s not coming back to Lakewood Shopping Center, it hasn’t left the neighborhood. Ace has moved to a temporary location while it

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waits for its new building in Arboretum Village to be finished, says owner Khandoo Nagar. Ace moved to Lakeview Shopping Center (another Lincoln property) at Gaston-Garland-Grand, which is the shopping center where Cane Rosso and the White Rock YMCA are located. Ace is temporarily operating in the space where Premium Title Lending used to be.

Henderson Happenings

Black Forest Biergarten, the latest beer joint at Henderson and McMillan, opened in March next to the old Pearl Cup location. Right next door, The Slip Inn on Henderson hosted its last party in April before it closed its doors for good, and right around the corner, Annie’s Culinary Creations, a boutique-style custom bakery, opened on Henderson at the end of February in the old V Spot location.

—Brittany Nunn

1 Steel City Popsicles is coming to Lower Greenville, offering flavors such as blood orange, pineapple jalapeño, cherry sour cream, chocolate, chocolate chili and hibiscus. 2 Knot Standard , a new fashion showroom on Knox-Henderson, opened in early April. 3 Hope Clothing and Consignment, at 9440 Garland between Starbucks and Natural Grocers in Casa Linda Plaza, is now closed. The shop, which was operated by Austin Street Center, one of the city’s biggest nonprofit homeless shelters, opened in February of 2013. 4 Lakewood sisters Amelia and Leah Starr — a licensed massage therapist and a licensed esthetician, respectively — created Lakewood Body Care on Greenville. 5 Rollngo, the new Vietnamese fast-food restaurant created by the folks who run Bistro B, is now open on Upper Greenville, next door to Humperdink’s.

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Emeritus at Vickery Towers 5619 BELMONT AVE 214.452.2359

EMERITUS.COM

Ace Hardware 7330 GASTON 214.821.5680

Black Forest Biergarten 1804 MCMILLAN

214.826.2437

GLASSBOOTBIERGARTEN.COM

Annie’s Culinary Creations

1908 N. HENDERSON

214.328.2253

ANNIESCULINARYCREATIONS.COM

Knot Standard 5207 BONITA

855.784.8960

KNOTSTANDARD.COM

Lakewood Body Care 1811 GREENVILLE 214.998.6735

214.395.8491

LAKEWOODBODYCARE.COM

Rollngo 6110 GREENVILLE 866.765.5123

FRESHROLLNGO.COM

LAKEWOODOAKCLIFF.ADVOCATEMAG.COM/BIZ

Does your congregation have a heart for weaving?

Faith Inclusion Network of Dallas

Building Inclusion in Our Faith Communities

We’re here to help faith-based communities FIND ways to weave inclusion of individuals with special needs into our North Texas congregations.

The Faith Inclusion Network of Dallas (FIND) is a collaborative network of community leaders, organizations and service providers committed to impacting change within faith-based communities and congregations in the ways individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families find opportunities to fully engage socially, emotionally, academically, spiritually and in service to others.

WEAVING INCLUSION INTO OUR FAITH COMMUNITIES Free Symposium | June 19th and 20th

Julie Chapman | Project Director | Faith Inclusion Network of Dallas 469.206.1657 | jchapman@JFSdallas.org

Anglican

ALL SAINTS DALLAS / 2733 Oak Lawn / 972.755.3505

Radical Inclusivity, Profound Transformation. Come and See!

9:00 & 11:00 am Sunday Services. www.allsaintschurchdallas.org

Baptist

LAKESIDE BAPTIST / 9150 Garland Rd / 214.324.1425

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

Pastor Jeff Donnell / www.lbcdallas.com

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

All services & Bible Study 9:15 & 10:45. Trad. & Blended (Sanctuary),

Contemporary (Great Hall), Amigos de Dios (Gym) / 214.860.1500

PRESTONWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH / “A Church to Call Home”

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

12123 Hillcrest Road / 972.820.5000 / prestonwood.org

RIDGECREST BAPTIST / 5470 Ellsworth / 214.826.2744

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

Pastor Greg Byrd / www.rcbcdallas.org

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

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

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

Disciples Of Christ

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

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

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

Episcopal

ST. MATTHEW’S CATHEDRAL / 5100 Ross Ave.

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

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

Lutheran

CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

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

Pastor Rich Pounds / CentralLutheran.org / 214.327.2222

FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH / 6202 E Mockingbird Lane

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

Methodist

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

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

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

MUNGER PLACE CHURCH / Expect Great Things.

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

RIDGEWOOD PARK UMC / 6445 E. Lovers Lane / 214.369.9259

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

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

WHITE ROCK UNITED METHODIST / www.wrumc.org

1450 Oldgate Lane / 214.324.3661

Sunday Worship 10:50 am / Rev. George Fisk

Presbyterian

NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr.

214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Welcomes you to Worship

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

ST. ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN / Skillman & Monticello

Rev. Rob Leischner. / www.standrewsdallas.org

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

Unity

UNITY OF DALLAS / A Positive Path For Spiritual Living

6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230 / 972.233.7106 / UnityDallas.org

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

UNITY ON GREENVILLE / Your soul is welcome here!

3425 Greenville Ave. / 214.826.5683 / www.dallasunity.org

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

Get Out Of Dodge

Are you going places?

Summer plans often include vacations away from home. Whether you board a plane for Europe, a train for Chicago, or a minivan for grandma’s house, taking a trip gets you out of your comfort zone.

Turns out that if you are going places, you may end up going places. Travel not only takes you places, it stretches you in ways that are good for you.

The Bible tells of one journey after another that ends up being soul travel. God called Abram to leave his home in Mesopotamia to go to a land God would show him. So Abram went. That’s all we hear about his decision to leave everything and go. The payoff of that answered call to travel was that he became the father of multitudes and the forebear of the three great monotheistic religions — Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Jesus forsook a quiet life among kin in Galilee for a showdown with demonic powers that needed defeating. He knew in his bones he had to travel to Jerusalem. It wasn’t vacation; it was vocation. His sacrificial journey taught his followers not to settle. Each of us, too, has to risk security for salvation.

St. Paul’s missionary journeys across the Mediterranean broke the church out of its provincialism. Christianity thus began 2,000-plus years of adaptation to culture. Faith truly is at home in the world only when it refuses to make itself at home in any part of the world.

Homer’s “Odyssey,” Virgil’s adaptation of it called “The Aeneid,” and Dante’s spiritualized rendering of the same theme in “The Divine Comedy” all employ this motif of life as a journey. Great things are learned on the move.

The peril of meeting up with people who live differently from you, who look and dress and eat differently from your folk, who think and work and play differently from the clan you were reared in, is more promising than the opposite peril of staying put. Never venturing far from home, you breed fear of outsiders, reinforce walls of prejudice, and pass on only local knowledge. When you encounter a wider world, you find that kindness takes you far, that hospitality to strangers is in your self-interest, and that God is bigger than your tribe.

Travel teaches flexibility. It tests ingenuity. It expands the soul.

Of course, you can travel like you never left home: insulating yourself from the foreigners you visit by staying inside the resort the whole time and never interacting with the people. You can eat at McDonald’s almost anywhere and miss the flavors of foods you would never taste otherwise. You can carry the ugly American brand with you instead of showing off our national spirit of discovery. But what would be the point of leaving home if you don’t really leave home at home?

In the last of his “Four Quartets” called “Little Gidding,” the poet T. S. Eliot hints that it is the God who made us who beckons us to embark on this spiritual journey. “With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling/ We shall not cease from exploration/ And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time.”

You have to leave home in order to know it.

Schools

Woodrow Wilson High School has been searching for a new school logo for several months, due to a copyright infringement complaint concerning the earlier logo. The wait has ended: A father of two from New York submitted the winning bid after coming across the online request for entries from the Woodrow Wilson High School Community Foundation, which sorted through 185 entries from 150 individuals before selecting Michael Condello’s for the $500 first prize. The money was donated by the school’s Alumni Association, the Woodrow PTA and parents Mindy Fagin and Susan Schuerger. “I wanted to create a modern Wildcat that looked different from all the others out there and one that would give Woodrow a unique, sleek identity,” Condello says. “Plus, I wanted to be sure your football team will have a great logo for their helmets.”

Lakewood Home Festival announced the fundraising results for 2013. It was a record year, bringing in $150,000, which was then disbursed among three Lakewood schools: $95,000 to Lakewood Elementary, $40,000 to Long Middle, and $15,000 to Woodrow High.

Community

A year after the terroristic and deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon, members of the White Rock Running Co-op said they were grateful return to the 2014 race. Last year, Lochwood resident James Ayers departed the race grounds an hour or so before hell broke loose. He left Boston last year grateful for he and his wife Amber’s safety (she was waiting for him near the finish line), impressed by Boston’s swift resilience and determined to return. But, like the rest of the day’s marathoners, bafflement and depression trumped a wide range of other feelings. A sub-three hour marathoner, James handily qualified for the 2014 marathon, and the couple decided returning to this year’s race would be a privilege. “Being a part of this year’s race is important to me because of its significance. This particular race seems to epitomize overcoming adversity. The belief that we press forward in life despite difficult situations and circumstances is something that is important to me,” Ayers says. “To see the way the city came together after last year’s horrific events was incredible. I don’t doubt that this year’s race and the events that surround it during Patriot’s day will serve as another chance for the city to move on and become stronger. It will be a special day for the city and one that I am very proud to be a part of.”

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WALTON’S LAWN & GARDEN CENTER

Great gifts and home accents for any style or taste. From picture frames, vases, to candles, artwork and wind chimes, you’re sure to find something special for any occasion. 8652 Garland Rd. 214.321.2387 waltonsgarden.com

The Store In Lake Highlands

For family celebrations, for gala affairs, for holidays, for everyday… HAPPY EVERYTHING celebrates all of life’s occasions in style. 10233 E NW Hwy @ Ferndale (near Albertsons) 214.553.8850 Mon-Sat 9:30-5:30 TheStoreinLH.com