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a short video (between 30 seconds and 3 minutes) that showcases the uniqueness of our neighborhood in the theme: “All local, all the time”.

Deadline: Videos must be submitted by YouTube/ web link or on DVD to our offices no later than 5 p.m. July 11, 2010;

Video winner will be chosen by online viewers.

Grand prize for winning video: An air-conditioned luxury box for 16 people, three parking passes, and $300 worth of food credits for the sought after Texas Rangers vs. the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday, July 25 (or comparable game, at our option). (Package worth $3,450) Great prizes for the three runners up. (Seriously, we don’t joke about great prizes at the Advocate) finished at about 1 p.m., he says.

Corner Market on Lower Greenville has been a location for a national Ford commercial and a Texas Lottery commercial. And owner Chuck Cole added to the building’s showbiz resume when he rented it to “The Good Guys” for a night in April.

The size of the show’s operation was a surprise to him too.

“They have a huge production crew that took up two streets,” Cole says. “They rented our parking lot, and that was just for part of them.”

But it was fun to be inside a film set, he says. Actor Bradley Whitford had his dog on set, and he bought some goodies from the new pet store, Avenue Barket, which is on the same block.

And of course, “The Good Guys” gives Dallas actors and film crew workers new opportunities.

It allowed Lake Highlands resident Melissa Adami to fulfill her

Television crews are working all over our neighborhood. PHOTO BY

New Year’s resolution “to be on a TV show.” Adami is a certified public accountant who works in real estate development. But she has acted since high school.

She enrolled in an email list for Dallas casting calls, and when an agency asked her to show up for a 6 a.m. call at Fair Park, she decided to take a day off and check that resolution off her list.

She was in the scene with the pharmacy robbery at Expo Park as a passerby on the street. Then she donned a cop uniform and was “background” at the police station.

“That was fun,” she says. “I just walked around and talked to the other extras.”

Later, she put on some business clothes and was in the background of a legal office.

“I worked from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., I think,” she says. “It was rugged.”

Adami, who has acted in independent films, says she was impressed with the scope of the operation. The agency asked her back, but now that she has crossed off that resolution, she’s already onto the next one.

Film commissioner Burklund says she has seen snippets of the show so far, and she’s “extremely optimistic” that Fox will pick it up for a second season.

“We encourage everyone to watch,” she says. “Particularly if you’re a Nielsen family.” —RACHEL STONE

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Up In The Air

For her European travels, she invented her own language — Springlish, an amalgamation of English, French, Spanish and Italian. She has a favorite seat on 763, 777 and MD80 airplanes, and if it’s not available, she sometimes changes her flight. And she once packed for a weeklong business trip in seven minutes. That’s why Caryn Carson is American Airlines’ American Way magazine’s 2010 Road Warrior.

Just making it into the final five was a thrill, the Tenet Healthcare attorney says. (Entrants had to write reasons why they are “Road Warriors”, as well as a rock-album based travel essay). “It is a pretty well-publicized contest, so there was a lot of competition,” she says.

When American Way let her know she was a finalist, they told her to get her campaign together. They weren’t kidding. In order to win the grand prize 2 million Hilton HHonors bonus points, 1 million AAdvantage bonus miles, a BlackBerry Storm smartphone and a $100 Verizon Wireless gift card — she would have to procure more online votes than the other four finalists.

“I thought about past successful political campaigns when determining my strategy,” she says.

East Dallas-based director David Blood helped her shoot and edit clever You Tube commercials — one a political campaign parody and the other a contest headquarters breakin farce — to attract votes. “I basically had two ideas, and those were the two ideas we used for the videos,” she says. “I would not have known how to do any of this. I couldn’t have done it without [David’s] help.”

Blood says it was a team effort. “I was super psyched when I found out she’d won,” he says. “I hope the videos helped, but I think word of mouth helped as much.”

For the photo shoot, American Way dressed Carson as Steven Tyler from Aerosmith, based on the theme of her travel essay. “It was a little embarrassing, but I thought to myself, ‘Caryn, you did all this work. Who cares if it’s embarrassing?’ ”

Carson donated a portion of her winnings, 200,000 airlines miles, to the Stewpot, a Dallas-based resource center for the homeless, and though she ran an incredibly successful campaign, she says she doesn’t have much in the way of political aspirations. The experience did cause her to consider new possibilities.

“The contest awoke a few things in me. I tapped into different parts of myself. It made me think about other things I might enjoy doing in my life,” she says.

She not exactly sure how she’ll make sense of it all, but the sky’s the limit.

—CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

Signs Of Love

Jeannette Crumpler’s new novel draws from the life of her deaf son

Lakewood author Jeannette Crumpler’s new book, “Cumberton’s Gold”, is a novel with a charitable mission.

She wrote the book as a gift to the Lakewood nonprofit Disciples of Trinity, known to most as D.O.T., which helps terminally ill people with everyday struggles like buying groceries, paying the water bill, or throwing a birthday party for their kids. All proceeds from the book go to D.O.T., which raises money through private donations and D.O.T.’s Closet thrift store at Skillman and Live Oak, but doesn’t apply for government funding.

The book is more than just a fundraising tool, though. Crumpler also sees it as a vehicle for human understanding.

“Cumberton’s Gold” is about people living in a small town in Oklahoma between 1930 and 1970. And it addresses the struggles of people who are “different”, as Crumpler puts it.

It’s a novel, but it’s not all fiction. Crumpler draws from the life of her son, Dean, who was born deaf and brain damaged in 1958. She also uses stories from the life of the mother of her friend, Jim Davis. Davis founded D.O.T. in 1990 in response to friends who died of terminal illness after demoralizing struggles to make ends meet in their last days.

Davis’s mother was born deaf to an east Texas farming family in the 1920s. Doctors told her parents she was mentally retarded and to put her in an institution.

She grew up an outcast in her own family, and was sent to the Texas School for the Deaf in Austin as soon as she was old enough. She stayed there through holidays and Christmas break, coming home only when her family needed her in the fields.

“I could write two books full of stories about how Mother was mistreated,” says Davis, who writes the book’s foreword.

But she went on to marry Davis’s hard-of-hearing father, whom she met at school. For years, they ran a successful upholstery and interior decorating business in east Dallas. But her own family never accepted her, and her sisters even tried to take her children away and cut her out of her parents’ will.

Doctors told Davis’s parents to always talk and never use sign language with their children because at the time, they thought signing would somehow hinder a hearing child’s learning ability. So even

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Sign language was frowned upon in general because of the idea that deaf people should assimilate into the hearing world.

“The deaf had no voice in their treatment and education,” Crumpler says.

When her son was in public school in Dallas in the ’60s, teachers would make him sit on his hands to discourage signing. The school district had no teachers who could sign, even in classrooms with students who all were deaf.

Crumpler tells a story about one teacher who was proud that her students used a sign name for her. When Crumpler asked the students to show her what it was, they signed, “bitch”.

“They used to call me to translate in the schools because they didn’t have anyone who could sign,” Crumpler says.

After she found out Dean was deaf, Crumpler became an advocate for the hearing impaired. She learned sign language as quickly as possible and taught it to her husband and two sons. She reached out to parents of other deaf children. And she became a sign language interpreter for schools, hospitals and the police department.

“I was determined that he would be as independent as he could be,” Crumpler says of her son, who eventually learned to drive, held down a job, and lived on his own.

He died in 1993. And one day when she was still in mourning, Crumpler walked into D.O.T.’s Closet, where she first met Davis, and found a new way to give back to some of the most isolated members of our community.

For the cover of “Cumberton’s Gold”, she used an image of Davis’s hand, his fingers folded into their message for all those “different” people of the world, the sign for “I love you”. —RACHEL STONE

“CUMBERTON’S GOLD” is available online only at cumbertonsgoldbook.com or xlibris.com.

DALLAS CHILDREN’S THEATER’S SHOWBIZ SUMMER AND TEEN CONSERVATORY runs June 1-Aug. 13 in one- and twoweek sessions. Tuition ranges from $150-$550. Contact Terry Feagin at 214.978.0110, ext. 139 or terry.feagin@dct. org. For more information or to enroll, visit dct.org.

FINALISTS FOR THE DALLAS ISD Assistant Teacher of the Year Award include educators from two East Dallas schools. Rosemary Costello of Hexter Elementary School and Nancy Martin of Gaston Middle School are among the five finalists.

GINA PRIOLO of East Dallas, a senior at Ursuline Academy, won the People’s Choice award in U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions’s annual Congressional High School Art Competition. Priolo’s mixedmedia piece, “Austin City Limits”, was selected from 89 entries.

U.S.REP. PETESESSIONS, who represents our area, received a Silver Mouse award from the Congressional Management Foundation for having one of the best websites in Congress. The award is given based on five principles: knowing the audience, providing timely and targeted content, making the site easy to use, fostering interaction both on- and offline, and adding value through innovation. View the website at sessions.house.gov.

THE VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER is seeking volunteers for its June 7-July 1 summer program. The center needs an adult ESL teacher Monday through Thursday from 9-11 a.m., an activity club teacher Monday through Thursday from 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., and a preschool assistant Monday through Thursday from 9-11 a.m.. Contact Amy Glover at aglover@vmlc.org or 214.265.5057, ext. 12.

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Ty Underwood of SLJ Co. real estate says the old Tipperary Inn 1 space at Live Oak and Skillman has been leased. The Tipp has been empty since its owners of five years closed it in May 2009. Co-owner Ricky Woolfolk says he and two partners expect to open Molly Maguire’s, an “authentic Irish pub”, as early as the first week of June. They’re creating an all-new Irish menu and updating the building’s patio area, but leaving the interior as is. Expect live music on the weekends, and the place will be open seven days a week from 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Woolfolk has 22 years of experience in the bar business, and used to own the Dolce Lounge. Another business partner, Hallie Clayton, has 18 years in the business and used to own Glo Lounge. Lakewood residents are already stopping by to see what all the hubbub’s about. “Everyone seems really excited about it,” Woolfolk says.

After almost five years in business, owner Gretchen Bell is expanding her unique antiques mall, Dolly Python. Bell leased the space next door to the existing store on North Haskell, and workers recently took down the wall between the spaces. The store currently has 25 vendors, and Bell is adding seven more for the new space. “We’re focusing more on furniture,” she says. “Just crazy, campy, over-the-top stuff.” Along with furniture, the store will have even more boots, including cowboy, motorcycle and ’80s trendy boots. Dolly Python is known for its eclectic mix of goodies from almost every decade, including funky ’60s dresses, vintage cowboy boots, unusual costume jewelry, old taxidermy, new art and all sorts of one-of-a-kind items. Check out the Advocate’s Back Talk East Dallas blog (advocatemag.com) for more details on the grand re-opening.

Chuck Cole, owner of Corner Market 2 on McCommas and Greenville, has a new set of wheels, thanks to Mike Rowe of The Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs” and Ford’s “Swap Your Ride” campaign. Visit our Back Talk blog (advocatemag.com) to find out how Cole came to own his new black delivery truck with neon decals, which you may have seen driving around our neighborhood. Cole’s deli/bakery/florist is housed in a building that was once a pharmacy, and it has a com- fortable, nostalgic feel to it. It’s a great place to grab a tile-topped table, order a hot or cold sandwich (yummo pulled pork), and watch all the passersby on Lower Greenville.

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A few doors down from Corner Market is a new pet store, Avenue Barket. 3 The store, next to Buffalo Exchange, is a “holistic and natural organic dog boutique with intentions of bringing the community closer,” says coowner Jennifer Livingston. Livingston was a private chef who owned Another Roadside Attraction, the Deep Ellum restaurant housed in an Airstream trailer, in the late ’80s. Her business partner, Cindy Embrey, worked for a food supplier. “We want to have SPCA pet adoptions on the weekends and bring in speakers to encourage people to take care of pets in the natural way,” Livingston says. Neighborhood shop Green Living (greenliving.com) and neighborhood resident Howard Garrett, aka “The Dirt Doctor” (howardgarrett.com), announced a new collaboration they hope will provide customers with a single destination for social networking and information on environmentally sound products for those seeking out a “more natural lifestyle”. Green Living sells recycled, organic, natural and fair-trade products for the home, and Garrett hosts two nationally syndicated radio shows: “Green Living” on Saturday mornings and “Dirt Doctor” on Sunday mornings, which air in more than 100 markets across the country. Initially, Green Living and Garrett will adopt a common navigation on their respective websites, allowing customers to access all content and merchandise from either site. Over the coming months, they will work together to introduce a new website that integrates content, community and commerce for the customer. Got specs? A couple of local businesses are drop spots for OneSight, 4 a family of charitable vision-care programs dedicated to improving vision through outreach, research and education. OneSight collects gently used prescription eyewear and non-prescription sunglasses to recycle and hand-deliver to clinics in the United States and developing countries. So if you’ve recently had Lasik, or just happen to have lots of old prescription eyeglasses lying around, take them to Target Optical Center (in the Skillman and Abrams Super Target) or Pearle Vision, 8989 Skillman.

Potter Art Metal Studios, longtime neighborhood designers and fabricators of ornamental metalwork and lighting, is celebrating 90 years of custom creations. Not familiar? You’ve probably unknowingly seen some of Potter’s work on high-end residential and commercial projects, including the famous Clifford Hutsell and Charles Dilbeck houses in Lakewood, as well as the Hunt Oil Building Downtown, the Stoneleigh Hotel and Highland Park United Methodist Church. The studio’s heritage dates back to the 1920s, when Henry Cornwell Potter turned his hobby of making small wrought iron lanterns in his East Dallas garage into a thriving business. In 1924 Henry established his commercial studio on Henderson, where the business flourished for 80-plus years. (Drivers heading north on Central Expressway toward Henderson can still view the faded Potter sign on the former exterior.) After outgrowing this space, the shop moved to its current 12,000-square- foot operation at 4827 Memphis near Inwood in 2007. Richard Potter, Henry’s grandson and current owner, continues his grandfather’s legacy, and often involves his 20-yearold triplets during the summer months in hopes that they may one day carry the family torch. For information, call 214.821.1419 or visit potterartmetal.com.

I need longer mornings.

Seems like everything important that should be done should be done first thing in the morning. But there’s only so much morning.

The late and legendary pastor of First Baptist Church, W.A. Criswell, used to advise young preachers to “give your morning to God and your afternoon to the people.” So the first thing in the morning, I know I ought to begin my day with some devotional time of Bible reading and prayer. And then I should get straight to reading and study for the Sunday sermon or the Wednesday Bible study. There’s not enough morning for all that.

If you want to maintain good health and fitness, you really need to do it first thing in the morning. Fitness trainers agree that you can do your workouts any time during the day, but if you put them off until later, the demands of work and family tend to get in the way and squeeze out your run or swim or bike or whatever. Maybe if I do that before sunup

I have undertaken to write a book, and I am finding that life and work keep getting in the way of my attempts to write. The best advice I have gotten so far is — you guessed it — to get up a little earlier and give your first hour each and every day to writing. You can accomplish more than you know by just disciplining yourself to write for an hour a day before the telephone starts ringing or some emergency strikes.

A few years ago someone who knows my secret loves gave me a book of daily selections from great literature, and then another with a daily snippet of American history. You can learn a lot about a lot if you just dedicate a little time first thing each morning to nurturing the mind.

They say that if you start your day with a math problem of some sort, it’s really good for brain health. Journaling is good for your soul. Those art books on my shelf keep telling me that the visual arts shouldn’t be neglected, that just looking at pictures of great art (or listening to great music) for a little time first thing in the morning

A good breakfast is crucial for a good day.

Breakfast is, they say, the most important meal of the day. You ought to sit down and eat it slowly. I like to do that with coffee and the morning paper — right after all the other things I should have done but slept too long to do first.

Oh yes, that reminds me, getting enough sleep is also very important. You can even lose weight just by getting eight to nine hours. That’s my excuse.

We all suffer from unfulfilled good intentions. We make promises to ourselves we can’t keep, and then we carry around selfcontempt on account of our laziness.

Here’s the thing: when you die, there will still be things to do on your to-do list. People we call great are often incredibly accomplished at what they do because they do almost nothing but that. They lack the kind of balance that allows for love and friendship, for recreation and renewal.

We can only make a start at it all in this life. But thanks be to God for the faith that eternity picks up where time leaves off. The poet Robert Browning said, “Man’s reach must exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”

Maybe heaven really is an everlasting morning when we can get to all those things we ought to have done first thing.

Baptist

GASTON OAKS BAPTIST / Greenville Ave & Royal Lane

Sunday Worship 10:45 am / Bible Study 9:30 am www.gastonoaks.org / 214.348.0958

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

Churchofchrist

SKILLMAN CHURCHOFCHRIST / 3014 Skillman St.

Sunday School 9:30 am / Sunday Worship 10:30 am

Grace Café & Bible Study Wed. 6:00 pm / 214.823.2179

Disciplesofchrist

EASTDALLASCHRISTIANCHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

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

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

Episcopal

CHURCH OFTHE INCARNATION / 3966 McKinney Ave / 214.521.5101

Sunday: Traditional 7:30, 9:00, 11:15 am and 5:00 pm

Contemporary 9:00, 11:15 am and 6:00 pm / incarnation.org

ST. JOHN’SEPISCOPALCHURCH / 848 Harter Road, 75218

Sunday Worship: 8:00 & 10:30 am / Christian Ed. 9:00 am 214.321.6451 / www.stjohnsepiscopal.org

THE CATHEDRALCHURCHOF ST. MATTHEW / 5100 Ross Ave.

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

Hispanic Service 12:30 / 214.823.8134 / www.episcopalcathedral.org

INTER-DENOMINATIONAL

GRACEHILLCOMMUNITY / www.gracehill.cc

10:00 am @ Dallas Children’s Theater / Skillman & NW Hwy.

Awesome Kid’s Ministry / Use Entrance Facing Home Depot

Lutheran

FIRSTUNITEDLUTHERANCHURCH / 6202 E Mockingbird Ln.

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

ZIONLUTHERANCHURCH & SCHOOL / 6121 E Lovers Ln.

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

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

WHITE ROCK COMMUNITYCHURCH / 9353 Garland Rd /214.320.0043

Sun. Bible Study 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am / Wed. Bible Studies

10:00 am & 7:30 pm / event facilities for rent / whiterockchurch.org

Presbyterian

NEW ST. PETER’S PRESBYTERIANCHURCH / 214.438.0120

Meet at Dallas Children’s Theater – Skillman at NW Hwy

Worship: 9:30 am / www.newstpeters.org

NORTHPARK PRESBYTERIANCHURCH / 214.363.5457

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

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

NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIANCHURCH / 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

UNITYCHURCH OFCHRISTIANITY / www.dallasunity.org

11:00 am Sun. Worship & Sunday School; 9:30 am adult class.

3425 Greenville Ave. @ McCommas Blvd. / 214.826.5683

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Dr. Dunagin and the other board-certified physicians at Wade-Huebner Clinic are committed to providing advanced medical care while adhering to traditional doctor-patient values. We treat most acute and chronic illnesses and focus on prevention by offering wellness and preventive examinations. We are on the medical staff at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, and we strive to make our patients’ experience a rewarding one that leads to better health and well-being.

Comprehensive Dentistry

Dr Cothern is one of a small distinguished percentage of dentists who have invested in postgraduate training at one of the world’s premiere continuing education institutes, The Pankey Institute for Advanced Dental Education. We care about you as a unique individual and examine you in a way that together we can understand every aspect of your oral health. In our office we love what we do. NOW THAT IS SOMETHING TO SMILE ABOUT!