2014 July Lakewood

Robotic Surgery IN EAST

DALLAS OFFERS MORE OPTIONS

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with a condition that may require surgery, you owe it to yourself to learn about all your options, including some of the most non-invasive surgical treatments available using robotic surgery. Potential benefits of robotic-assisted surgeries may include significantly less pain, decreased blood loss, less scarring, fewer complications, shorter hospital stay and recovery time, faster return to normal daily activities, and better clinical outcomes.

To learn more about some of the least invasive surgical treatments available using robotic surgery in the East Dallas area, call 866-764-3627 or visit DoctorsHospitalDallas.com/RoboticSurgery.

All surgery presents risk, including da Vinci® Surgery and other minimally invasive procedures. Serious complications may occur in any surgery, up to and including death. Examples of serious and life-threatening complications, which may require hospitalization, include injury to tissues or organs; bleeding; infection, and internal scarring that can cause long-lasting dysfunction or pain. Temporary pain or nerve injury has been linked to the inverted position often used during abdominal and pelvic surgery. Patients should understand that risks of surgery include potential for human error and potential for equipment failure. Risk specific to minimally invasive surgery may include: a longer operative time; the need to convert the procedure to an open approach; or the need for additional or larger incision sites. Converting the procedure to open could mean a longer operative time, long time under anesthesia, and could lead to increased complications. Patients who bleed easily, have abnormal blood clotting, are pregnant or morbidly obese are typically not candidates for minimally invasive surgery, including da Vinci Surgery with Single-Site Instruments. Research suggests that there may be an increased risk of incision-site hernia with single-incision surgery. Potential risks include conversion to other surgical techniques and multiple incisions. Patients should talk to their doctors to decide if da Vinci is right for them. Visit www.davincisurgery.com/safety for more detailed safety information. The implementation of a da Vinci Surgery program is practice- and hospital-specific. Results will vary. Past customer experience does not imply any guarantee of results in practice or program success. Unless otherwise noted, all people depicted are models. © 2014 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. All rights reserved. Product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. PN 1003049 Rev B 5/14

SavingServing Dallas. Lives.

Charles A. Sammons Tower

At Methodist Dallas Medical Center, we are on a mission to save and improve lives. The newly opened, one-of-a-kind Sammons Tower expands our ER and trauma capacity tenfold. When time is critical, more than 3,900 lifesavers stand ready with innovative technology, highlevel trauma and orthopedic services, advanced neurosurgery and neurocritical care, one of the area’s leading organ transplant programs, and above all, compassionate quality care. In critical moments, Methodist Dallas is here for life.

MethodistHealthSystem.org/DallasEmergency

All the interesting facts you never knew you wanted to know about East Dallas chefs.

Dreamers and achievers

Juliette Fowler Communities opened the Ebby House in hopes of giving young women a chance to achieve their dreams. 58

The squeeze

These East Dallas youngsters took the old proverb to turn life’s lemons into lemonade very literally.

Flag bearers

We caught up with the neighbors responsible for the longstanding Lakewood tradition of flagging yards.

Green thumb

Dallas has a secret weapon behind some of its most successful backyard gardens: neighbor Lori Martinez.

Building a brand

With a little luck and a lot of blood, sweat and tears, a team of ambitious Dallasites are turning a small publication into a brand.

Justin Holt: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

Showing RESULTS to the WORLD

From Left to Right: David M Bookout, MD • Jane Nokleberg, MD • James K Richards, MD • Julie M Hagood, MD Jeffrey M Thurston, MD • Lauren A Murray, MD • Hampton B Richards, MD • John D Bertrand, MD

Radiation oncologist Dr. Robert Timmerman and colleagues changed the standard of care for lung cancer when they demonstrated that patients with inoperable disease could still be effectively treated with a newer, more potent form of radiation. Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy is a technology that was pioneered at UT Southwestern and is now being adopted worldwide. It’s another example of the specialized care available at UT Southwestern, where scientific research, advanced technology, and leading-edge treatments come together to bring new hope to cancer patients.

To learn more, call 214-645-8300 or visit UTSWmedicine.org

Find us on Facebook

This is where lung cancer patients are beating the odds

WHEN GOD SPEAKS

What do we hear?

Does God talk directly to you?

I don’t think he talks to me, as in, “Rick, that was a pretty stupid thing you just did. Drop and give me 20.”

No, I’ve always figured God has enough going on in the world that he’s not hyper-focused on every little thing I do or say. That’s not to say he shouldn’t be super-focused on me, given my propensity to mangle things. I just don’t think he is, because there are enough other people and issues out there that seem more deserving of his time.

Worrying about climate change, for one. The 300 kidnapped girls in Nigeria, for another. The various Kardashians’ lives, for sure. Maybe the fate of the Trinity Tollroad, although perhaps even God can’t make that thing just go away.

I bring this up after listening to a Sunday School lesson a while back. At the time, this idea didn’t register, but the more I thought about it (meaning the teacher did a great job), the more I wondered what I actually had learned.

The lesson in question involved the teacher sitting next to a woman during a lengthy musical performance. The woman had soaked herself in a perfume the teacher didn’t enjoy, resulting in what the teacher described as akin to an existential problem: If the perfume was as overwhelming to everyone else as it was to the teacher, shouldn’t someone step up and say something?

On the face of it, it makes sense: Why should the many suffer because of the ignorance of the few (or, in this case, the one overly perfumed woman)? And so the teacher told the class she said a prayer asking what to do, and then she decided to man up, telling the woman at intermission (as the teacher left to find a scentless seat) that maybe the woman should be more considerate of others next

time and not slather on so much perfume.

That isn’t the comment that later troubled me. The next statement is what drew my attention, after I had mulled the scenario:

The teacher said she was doing God’s work in letting the perfumed woman know her thoughts, believing that by speaking up, she was giving the woman an opportunity to learn from her mistake. The teacher said she was glad God empowered her to make a dif-

DISTRIBUTION PH/214.560.4203

ADVERTISING PH/214.560.4203

office administrator: JUDY LILES

214.560.4203 / jliles@advocatemag.com

display sales manager: BRIAN BEAVERS

214.560.4201 / bbeavers@advocatemag.com

senior advertising consultant: AMY DURANT

214.560.4205 / adurant@advocatemag.com

senior advertising consultant: KRISTY GACONNIER

214.264.5887 / kgaconnier@advocatemag.com

advertising consultants

SALLY ACKERMAN

214.560.4202 / sackerman@advocatemag.com

CATHERINE PATE

214.292.0494 / cpate@advocatemag.com

NORA JONES

214.292.0962 / njones@advocatemag.com

FRANK McCLENDON

214.560.4215 / fmcclendon@advocatemag.com

GREG KINNEY

214.292.0485 / gkinney@advocatemag.com

EMILY WILLIAMS

469.916.7864 / ewilliams@advocatemag.com

MICHELE PAULDA

214.292.2053 / mpaulda@advocatemag.com

classified manager: PRIO BERGER

214.560.4211 / pberger@advocatemag.com

director of digital marketing: MICHELLE MEALS

214.635.2120 / mmeals@advocatemag.com

EDITORIAL PH/ 214.292.2053

publisher: CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

ference in the lives of others.

So would God really take the time to intervene in a situation like this one? Would he use divine inspiration to induce one person to tell another that her choice in perfume should be reconsidered? And just how could the teacher be so sure she was acting as God’s instrument?

That’s one of the great wonders of life for those who believe in a higher authority, and surveys show that more than 90 percent of us still do. Those who believe in a God tend to believe their actions are governed by the beliefs their God has set forth. And as we know from history, people who believe they are doing God’s work — correctly or otherwise — aren’t easily dissuaded or defeated, because they believe God is on their side. After all, he told them so.

All of this brings me back to that original question: Do you believe God talks directly to you?

And if you do, how do you satisfy yourself that you’re hearing him correctly?

I like to believe I know the answer, but most of the time, I’m not so sure.

214.560.4204 / chughes@advocatemag.com

senior editor: EMILY TOMAN 214.560.4200 / etoman@advocatemag.com

editors:

RACHEL STONE

214.292.0490 / rstone@advocatemag.com

BRITTANY NUNN 214.635.2122 / bnunn@advocatemag.com

senior art director: JYNNETTE NEAL 214.560.4206 / jneal@advocatemag.com

designer: KATHRYN ROCHA

214.292.0493 / krocha@advocatemag.com

designers: LARRY OLIVER, LISA DUDLEY

contributing editors: KERI MITCHELL, SALLY WAMRE

contributors: GAYLA BROOKS, SEAN CHAFFIN, ANGELA HUNT

GEORGE MASON, BLAIR MONIE, ELLEN RAFF, PAM HARRIS, KRISTEN MASSAD, WHITNEY THOMPSON

photo editor: DANNY FULGENCIO

214.635.2121 / danny@advocatemag.com

photographers: JAMES COREAS, MARK DAVIS, DAVID LEESON, KIM LEESON, ELLIOTT MUÑOZ, JENNIFER SHERTZER

copy editor: LARRA KEEL

interns: SAMMI BRAUN, VALIRIE MORGAN

As we know from history, people who believe they are doing God’s work — correctly or otherwise — aren’t easily dissuaded or defeated, because they believe God is on their side. After all, he told them so.

and

DIGITAL DIGEST THE DIALOGUE

Consider the chicken: When a type of animal becomes our friend, do we stop eating it?

I can’t eat anything that has the capacity to experience joy. I stopped eating chicken before I began keeping them, but people I know have stopped eating chicken after meeting my birds. They have such big personalities.

—Kimquat

We don’t keep chickens, but ducks. Before we got them — two years ago — roast duck was my son’s favorite food. We haven’t eaten it since. I would eat it, but whenever I suggest it, either my wife or my now 11-year-old son suggests something else.

—Jason M. Fitzmaurice

Those folks who told you they wouldn’t eat little Fluffy in the backyard are still likely the same folks who frequent the local chickenbased fast food restaurants. So I don’t think not-eating-your-backyard-chickens is a matter of principle, it’s a product of our disconnected, convenience-oriented, ignorant culture.

—Amy

Chickens, cows and pigs were domesticated as a food source. Our deal with them is that we will feed them and protect them from predators, and in exchange when their useful life is over as milk-givers/egglayers/breeders, they get slaughtered.

—James_the_P3

I can’t give up the chicken gumbo at the Alligator Cafe, but other than that I’ve quit eating chicken for the very reasons you mention, even though I’m not a chicken farmer. We should all go as meatless as we possibly can, and not just chicken, either.

—Lee Gibson

Should Dallas repeal the bike helmet law?

So let me make sure I understand this… If I drive a motorcycle, a helmet is an option! However, if I ride a bicycle, a helmet is required by law … Yep, makes sense to me! I, for one, ride a bicycle and will continue to wear a helmet. I certainly don’t need a law to dictate this …

—Matt

My husband is an avid cyclist. He wears his helmet. Our kids see daddy wearing his and they wear theirs. It’s not an option, it’s just what we do. Like brushing teeth or wearing a seatbelt. Adults set an example. “Uneven” application is setting a rule only for 16 and under. City council needs to move on to the many more pressing issues in Dallas and leave a functioning safety regulation in place.

—Erin Barnes Johnston

Yeah, lets spend more cop power on this rather than finding who broke into my house. #revenuestream

—Robert Kelly

If the people who ride bicycles in Lakewood actually obeyed the laws then I would say “yes.” BUT, since 99.9% of them do not obey the laws and I have seen two bicyclists splayed out on the rode (both on Abrams, one at Belmont and the other at Richmond) after being hit by a car, I’m against repealing the helmet law.

—Donna Mann

all of us at Coldwell Banker.

We live in a privileged nation and we are all blessed to have our independence.

We are also blessed to live in and work in LAKEWOOD/EAST DALLAS. HAVE A HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

Patient Quote of the Month:

WHAT YOU’RE MISSING

Blind Butcher receives nod for late nights despite neighbor

opposition

Will HEB, Market Street replace Albertsons, Tom Thumb?

Body of drowned man recovered from White Rock Lake

Video: Is that boat a … car?

Vagabond eyes coveted title of ‘neighborhood bar’

THE DIALOGUE

Are neighborhood families making the switch to Mata Montessori?

Two words, Alex Sanger! No one mentions the school. It needs restructuring. What about allowing students from AS to go to Mata? In fact, AS is right down the street from Mata, in Forest Hills. —Geexo

My son is scheduled to start kindergarten at Lakewood next September, and we are seriously considering Mata. He has been in Montessori preschool for the last three years, and we have been very pleased with the results. —James_the_P3

Prediction: ZERO students with the choice to attend Stonewall or Lakewood will enroll at Mata in the fall. —No overcrowding help to be had

Do you know what parents do to get their kids into Dealey? Give it a chance, and it could become another great school for East Dallas. I used to take the bus from Lakewood to Dealey, imagine that. Things do change for the better sometimes. —Ben

“This is the kind of dental care experience everyone should have. I know I’m going to be treated kindly and carefully by this team.”

— Jim Tartaglione

Q&A: The faces behind the flags

EveryFourthofJuly,hundredsof small flags start showing up around our neighborhood. They don’t pop up out of thin air, so who’s behind this long-standing patriotic tradition?

Dick Clements has been in real estate in Dallas since 1955, and in 1988 he and his wife, Chloie Clements, assembled a team of Dick’s employees to help plant flags in neighbors’ yards. In 2009, he passed the baton to his

former employee, David Bush, who continues the tradition to this day.

How’d the tradition start?

Dick Clements: We had a marketing girl, and she came to us and said she thought it would be a good idea. The only thing I really remember is that we started with just a few hundred.

David Bush: Y’all probably just did it along the [Lakewood] parade route.

Dick Clements: Yeah, we may have. It was accepted so overwhelmingly, just in the few streets that we did, that we expanded. We kept expanding it every year, and the last year that we had it before we gave it to David, we had 8,000.

Were you surprised by the reaction?

Dick Clements: Oh, yes.

Chloie Clements: Remember that bulle-

David Bush and Dick Clements: Photo by Kim Leeson

tin board in the office? We just got lots of thank you notes and phone calls.

What was it like at the beginning?

David Bush: We would meet up at Dick’s office at like 5 in the morning — phew — to start passing them out. We’d have one driving, and then one jumping out to pass them out. We’d reconvene at the office and usually have a picnic-style breakfast. After that, you’d have people jumping up to run hotshot deliveries because people would call to say, ‘I didn’t get my flag.’ I’ve sold houses before where you’ll see them all rolled up in people’s garages because on the 4th of July they’ll grab those and put them out in the yard. We did it together from like 2000, and we collaborated until 2009.

And, David, you took over from there?

Dick Clements: David asked if he could take it over, and I said, ‘Sure, take it.’

David Bush: It’s kind of one of those things like, ‘Golly, I don’t know if I want to pay for all

this,’ but it’s one of those things that people expect. People enjoy it and it kind of adds to the whole small-town, slice-of-Americana feel that Lakewood has. It just seemed like something that you couldn’t not do anymore. It’s part of our Fourth of July.

How has it changed over the years?

Chloie Clements: It really took a lot of planningasfarasmakingtheassignments to the agents, but now David hires a man to put them out.

David Bush: Yeah, apparently Dick is a better salesman than me, because he talked his agents into being foot soldiers to put these out when it’s 100 degrees outside. I couldn’t convince my agents to do it. They said, ‘Why don’t we just pay someone?’

Has that made it easier?

ChloieClements:Well,it’smoreexpensive. It’s not as fun because you don’t have the camaraderie. But you know, we were younger and it was just fun.

David Bush: Yeah, that was just a part

MAKE A STATEMENT

Get noticed at First Baptist Academy

FBA provides a Christian environment, where children from diverse backgrounds thrive spiritually, academically and socially. We’re a Biblically-integrated, college preparatory school offering classes for Pre-K through 12th grade.

Our students study in the midst of the downtown Dallas Arts District. Our classrooms include the Perot, Dallas Museum of Art, Meyerson and Winspear, all within walking distance.

We’re small, but mighty. A small school means your family is part of a larger family. One where everyone cares about one another. It also means seeing your child get in the game.

FBA offers high academic standards. But we’re also fierce competitors. As a member of TAPPS, the Saints made the playoffs in nearly every sport last season, landing a state championship in football.

Give FBA a look. Then make a statement you’ll never regret. For information about enrolling for the 2014-15 school year, contact the Admissions Director at 214-969-7861 or visit us at fbacademy.com.

Meet Ryann

Class of 2014

• All State pitcher, led team to state softball final

• National Honor Society

• Cheer captain

• Incoming freshman, University of Oklahoma

of it — the camaraderie. It was something you kind of cussed in the morning, but then once you’re done, you just have that great feeling. We would knock it out in a few hours, in about a three-hour window. Now with one individual walking around, it takes about four days for him to get them out.

How much does it cost to do this every year?

David Bush: It costs about $2,500 for the cards, the flags and the labor. We put out about 3,500 flags.

So people can expect to starting seeing them around the neighborhood starting July 1?

David Bush: Yep, around that time.

What areas do you cover?

David Bush: It’s everything east of Abrams, north of Gaston, south of Mockingbird. And the Cloisters, and the area around Hillgreen.

*This interview was edited for clarity.

—Brittany Nunn

Garden guru

Lori Martinez may have spent 25 years asamanicurist,butthesedaysshe spends lots of time getting dirt under her nails. That’s because she traded in her emery boards for gardening tools about six years ago when she started Backyard Produce, her edible garden business.

“I just wanted to start doing something else,” the East Dallas resident says of her rather successful — and sudden — career change. She had been working on her own garden and showed some pictures of it to one of her manicure clients, Cindy Rachof-

sky, who lives in Preston Hollow area with her husband, Howard. “She said, ‘I want a garden,’ “Martinez recalls. “First I did 15 pots, then I did the whole backyard.”

The Rachofskys, who are prominent Dallas art collectors and philanthropists, were thrilled and quickly spread the word. Martinez’s business took off from there — so quickly that, she says, “practically overnight I was having to say no.”

With Backyard Produce, Martinez designs,installsandmaintainsgardens, mostly in raised beds, that provide their

Lori Martinez: Photo by Kim Leeson

ownerswithavarietyoforganicvegetables. She also does consulting for DIY gardeners.Martinez’sspecializationin edible gardens came about organically, sotospeak.Gardeninghadbeenher hobby for years, but when she started working for others, she found out they wanted to grow their own food. “Before, I had very few vegetables,” she says. She taught herself through experimentation, by using internet resources, and by talking to her gardener friends. But mostly, she says, “I just keep working at it until it works out.”

So what grows best in the Texas heat? “Everyonewantstomatoes,”Martinez says, “But the biggest surprise is that fall and winter gardens are the most successful.” In the fall, she says, “there’s every lettuce you can think of. There’s no reason to buy it. Also broccoli, kale, spinach big, green leafy things — and root vegetables do well.” She says asparagus is another vegetable that loves the Dallas climate. “You don’t have to do anything,” she says. “If you never wanted to touch it, it would come back.”

MostofMartinez’sclientsareinthe Park Cities/Preston Hollow area, with one on Swiss Avenue. Her clients “are very healthy — they eat every single thing out there. If they don’t get to eat it, they’ll juice it.” Several of them have chicken coops, too. Martinez highly recommends chickens: “They have great personalities, and they’re easier than cats and dogs,” she says. Her husband, Trini, designs and builds the coops in his free time.

Martinez is thrilled with her success, even though the isolation of gardening can be lonely for a person whose previous job was so social. “But when I put [the gardens] in, I grab everyone I know to help,” she says. That includes friends and her three children — two teenagers and a 7-year-old.

Martinez feels extremely lucky that she was able to make the transition to gardener so successfully. She says that without the help of her generous clients, she couldn’t have done it: “The good part of my story is that these people just trusted in me.”

FOR MORE INFORMATION, visit thebackyardproduce.com.

—Larra Keel

Underground THRWDown

Javier Valadez, Lee Escobedo, Renzo Pancorvo: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

Two years ago, Javier Valadez approached East Dallas neighbor Lee Escobedo with an idea that had been tumbling around in his head for a while.

Both Valadez and Escobedo were heavily engrossed in the arts underground of Dallas, and Valadez wanted to give their creative friends a boost. He wanted to start an independent publication that featured artists, musicians, fashion designers, actors and the like who hadn’t managed to garner the attention of major Dallas publications.

“So we saw a niche,” Escobedo says. “We saw an opening.”

Valadez is a graphic designer and Escobedo had experience writing for Dallas publications, but neither had truly had creative control over their work. So together they formed THRWD, with Valadez as creative director and Escobedo as editor.

They started THRWD as a zine (a smallcirculation, self-published magazine), which consisted primarily of essays about the arts — most of which were written by Escobedo.

At first they had trouble focusing the content, but as the magazine picked up momentum, they began taking the publication more seriously. A shift happened with the third issue. The content was tighter, more professional, more focused. They changed the stories from essays to features, Q&As and op-eds.

“We took more of a journalistic-type mentality,” Escobedo says. “That’s also when we decided to up the ante and make THRWD a brand.”

THRWD hosted its first event — a poetry night at Lucky Dog Books — and the people who showed up were exactly the type of audience Escobedo and Valadez envisioned.

“It was kind of confirmation, like, ‘Wow, we can actually take this and make it an event — an experience,’ ” Escobedo says.

They began throwing monthly events, which were well attended by hundreds of Dallasites and artists of all stripes.

“There’s something for everyone,” Valadez says. “You’d see musicians with fashion designers with high schoolers, all hanging out in the same atmosphere.”

Now, the magazines are limited edition and can be purchased only at the issue-release parties. Every issue also is available online from cover to cover on thrwd.com.

—Brittany Nunn

Melodic memories

“She made me a better person,” Michael Cox says of his late wife, Lindy, and his eyes fill with tears. “She was a phenomenal woman.”

As Cox talks about Lindy, and his life after her, it’s hard to not compare their tale to a particularly poignant Nicholas Sparks novel. Everything about their story — the flirtatious first meeting, the onagain-off-again love affair, the diagnosis, the wedding in Italy and the brain tumor that took Lindy away too young — seems made for print.

But Cox struggles to put the magnitude of her influence on his life in black and white. Except perhaps in song.

Cox, the former lead singer of the Dallas band Speedtrucker, explains in an online bio that he’s “happy that God has

Michael Cox: Photo by Kim Leeson

given me the gift of expressing my true thoughts through music, even if it only sounds good to me.”

Please check your PROOF CAREFULLY for accuracy (address, phone, website, coupons, expiration dates, etc.) as

cannot be held responsible for any error not marked. Indicate any changes and return this

After Lindy passed away in February 2013, Cox wrote the album “L” in her memory, and it was released in midMay. The first two songs are about his childhood, and the third song is about the first year of their marriage, when he didn’t quite understand what marriage meant. The rest are about her, including a cover of Leonard Cohens’ “Hallelujah,” which Cox feels perfectly describes their marriage.

Part of the proceeds from the CD go to the National Brain Tumor Society, which is an organization Lindy was passionate about. For four consecutive years after her diagnosis, she was the No. 1 fund raiser.

Cox met Lindy in 2005 when he was the lead singer for Speedtrucker, a band that Lindy made no secret of hating. Despite her lack of affection for his profession, the two formed a close friendship, which eventually blossomed into romance.

Not long after their relationship grew serious, Lindy had an MRI scan to try to find the source of a splitting headache. The doctors didn’t find the source of her headache, but they did find a brain tumor. In August 2009, they told her she had a year to live.

Even though neither of them truly believed Lindy was going to die, they decided it was now or never for wedding bells.

“I mortgaged my life to give her everything she wanted because she didn’t have much time left,” Cox says.

The couple tied the knot in Italy and spent months traveling and enjoying life. Lindy loved horses, so they bought her a horse.

She lived 41 healthy months before she passed away in February 2013.

After she died, Cox went to Spain to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, which is a pilgrimage to the shrine of the apostle St. James the Great in Galicia in northwestern Spain.

“I didn’t know anything about this walk. I just went and did it,” he says.

He spent 21 days walking 250 miles in the dead of winter. As he walked, he wrote songs and prayed.

“L” is the heartfelt result. —Brittany Nunn

TO LEARN MORE, or to buy a copy of Michael Cox’s CD “L,” visit michaelpaulcox.com.

Out & About

July 2014

July 4

Lakewood parade

Put on some patriotic colors and join the neighborhood for the Lakewood Fourth of July Parade. Every year, thousands of spectators line Lakewood Boulevard to watch elaborate floats roll by. This year the theme is “Lakewood Loves the Beach.” Parade participants should arrive at 9:15 a.m. The parade begins at Lakewood and Cambria at 10 a.m.

LAKEWOOD.ADVOCATEMAG.COM/EVENTS

JULY 4

Fourth of July parade

Little Forest Hills is celebrating with its 12th annual July Fourth parade, starting at 9 a.m. The event will feature musicians, fire engines, wagons, strollers, bikes and lots of kiddos in red, white and blue. This year’s theme is “Happy Birthday, America,” so put on a party hat and join the fun. Lineup will be at the Promise of Peace Imagine Garden at 1435 San Saba at 8:45 a.m.

Little Forest Hills Neighborhood Association, 1435 San Saba, email LFH4thofjulyparade@gmail.com

JULY 13

Film screening

Join La Vie Theaters, a nonprofit media company, as it debuts its film “The Truth Behind the Chords” and other works by Dallas filmmakers at an upscale screening event that is open to the public at 4:30 p.m.

The Historical Aldredge Property, 5500 Swiss, lavietheaters.org, $10-$30

THROUGH JULY 13

‘Stuart Little’

Dallas Children’s Theater performs ‘Stuart Little.’ It’s big excitement for a little mouse when Stuart leaves his human family in New York and travels across the country in search of the bird that helped save his life. Enjoyed by ages 5 and up.

Dallas Children’s Theater, 5938 Skillman, dct.org, 214.740.0051, $17-$26

JULY 13

Too Hot to Handle

Join the Too Hot to Handle 5k & 15k at Norbuck Park for fun in the summer sun. The race began in 1995 and continues to be a crowd pleaser. So which will it be — the 15k or the 5k? Packet pickup at 6:30 a.m., start at 7:30 a.m. and awards at 9 a.m. Packet pickup also available at Run On! Dallas at 5400

E. Mockingbird through July 12.

Norbuck Park at White Rock Lake, $30-$75

July 1-Sept. 27

Life at the lake art

The White Rock Lake Museum in the Bath House Cultural Center presents Refreshing Journey, an exhibition of drawings inspired by White Rock Lake from Dallas artist Jenny Hong DeLaughter. The exhibition depicts scenes from life at the lake — images of family gatherings, landscapes, wildlife, and other special moments. Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther, dallasculture. org/bathhouseculturecenter, 214.670.8749, free

2013 Lakewood Fourth of July Parade: Photo by Katie Bernet

“Cardinal” by Jenny Hong Delaughter

Through July 19

‘Much Ado About Nothing’

Grab a blanket and join Shakespeare in the Park for its rendition of one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, “Much Ado About Nothing.”

Samuell Grand Amphitheatre, 1500 Tension, shakespearedallas.com, 214.559.2778, $7-$10

JULY 16-JULY 18

Junior Golf Tourney

Join the East Dallas Exchange Club for the club’s 90th annual Dallas Junior Golf Tournament, part of which takes place at Tenison Golf Course on East Grand. dallasjuniorgolfchampionship.com, 214.670.1403

THROUGH AUGUST 2

Mayor’s Summer Reading Club

In an effort to encourage the whole family to read, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is hosting the Mayor’s Summer Reading Club, an eight-week program powered by community participation and featuring weekly incentive prizes. All 29 Dallas Public Library locations as well as the Dallas Public Library’s Bookmobile will participate, dallaslibrary.org, 214.670.1671

ROLLNGO

6110 Greenville, Suite 100

866.765.5123

freshrollngo.com

AMBIANCE: TRENDY

PRICE RANGE: $5-$10

HOURS:

10 A.M.-11 P.M. MONDAY-FRIDAY

11 A.M.-11 P.M. SATURDAY-SUNDAY

DID YOU KNOW?

—Whitney Thompson

Driving along Upper Greenville after dark, it’s hard to miss the newly opened Rollngo. The fastcasual, Asian-fusion hole in the wall is decked out with so much neon that you’re bound to spot it. Owner Michael Dang wanted to create a more modern, grab-and-go concept similar to his other restaurant in Lake Highlands, Bistro B. “It’s just like a night club!” Dang says. Even the ceiling twinkles with LED lights reminiscent of those found inside a limousine. However, the customers don’t come to dance; they come to eat well-executed staples of Asian cuisine, from what is likely one of the thickest menus in the neighborhood. There are the usual suspects — Bahn Mi sandwiches served on airy baguettes and steaming bowls of pho noodle soup — but there are other standout menu items based on generations-old family recipes from Vietnam. The shaken beef platter is juicy and tender, with so much tomato, rice and vegetables that having leftovers is inevitable. And don’t miss the restaurant’s namesake — the rice paper rolls. With sticky rice paper, crispy grilled pork and a tangy dipping sauce, the rolls are the crown jewel for Dang. “You won’t find the recipe for these on the internet. It’s a secret.” Dang does reveal that the cooks wait to cut the daikons, cucumber and carrots to ensure that each ingredient stays fresh. By day, customers keep cool on Rollngo’s shaded patio while sipping on a sweet drink from the smoothie bar.

PER CUSTOMER REQUEST, OWNER MICHAEL DANG SAYS THAT HE PLANS ON ADDING MORE GRILLED AND VEGETARIAN DISHES TO THE ROLLNGO MENU THIS SUMMER.

Pork and shrimp patty rice paper rolls: Photo by Mark Davis

1 Urbano Cafe

Eat your way around the world at Urbano Cafe. It’s American with an Italian twang ... and Vietnamese and Hawaiian and pretty much everything else.

1410 N. Fithugh

214.823.8550

urbanodallas.com

2 Good 2 Go Taco

Tacos are super trendy right now. If you’re looking for a laid-back joint with lots of options, Good 2 Go Taco is your place.

1146 Peavy 214.519.9110 good2gotaco.com

3 Jimmy’s Food Store

This hidden gem in East Dallas might be small and a bit untidy, but don’t be deceived; some of the best sandwhiches in Dallas come over those counters.

4901 Bryan 214.823.6180

Park Cafeteria

NEW! Online ordering!

Our famous homemade pies, cakes, cookies and muffins can now be made to order in any quantity for take out! Open every day 11am–8pm.

EASY AS PIE

Triple-berry hand pies

A perfect little pie is a great alternative to a traditional slice and completes any outdoor barbecue or picnic. Tripleberry hand pies are made with flaky cream cheese pastry dough and filled with thick fruit compote in every bite. There is so much to love about these fruit-filled pockets. Hand pies are portable, need no utensils and give you the perfect excuse to head to the market for an assortment of fresh, seasonal fruits. Happy summer baking!

Triple-berry filling

GROCERY LIST

1/2 cup fresh strawberries, diced

1/2 cup fresh blueberries

1/2 cup fresh raspberries

3/4 cup granulated sugar

3 tablespoons cornstarch

1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Bring all ingredients to a boil in a saucepan. Allow the fruit to boil for 3-4 minutes or until thickened. Remove from pan and allow to cool completely before using.

2. Fill hand pies and bake according to cream cheese pie crust recipe.

Cream cheese pie dough

GROCERY LIST

6 tablespoons butter

4 tablespoons cream cheese

2 tablespoons sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 tablespoons ice water

Egg wash: 1 egg, whisked together with 2 tablespoons water

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Beat cream cheese, butter, sugar and salt with mixer until smooth. Slowly add the flour and beat on low until combined. Add ice water and beat until mixture forms a ball and pulls away from the side of the bowl.

2. Wrap dough and chill for 1 hour (prepare filling now, see recipe on previous page).

3. Preheat oven to 375 F. Roll dough out to 1/8-inch thick on a slightly floured surface. Cut into 16 rounds or square pieces, 3 inches each.

4. Place 8 of the rounds on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper. Place 1-2 tablespoons of filling in the middle of each pie crust. Brush egg wash onto the edges of the dough.

5. Place another pie crust on top of filling and seal dough so the filling cannot get out. Create slits on the top of the hand pies. Brush egg wash onto the entire tops of the hand pies and bake at 375 F for 20-25 minutes or until lightly golden.

6. Allow the hand pies to cool before serving.

Kristen Massad writes a monthly column about sweets and baked goods. The professional pastry chef graduated from the French Culinary Institute in New York City and owned Tart Bakery on Lovers Lane for eight years. She blogs about food and lifestyles at inkfoods.com.

Secrets of a Chef

Peek inside the heads and homes of neighborhood culinary masters

What do all these East Dallas chefs have against cooking shows? We picked the brains of food geniuses who live and work in our neighborhood to learn what else they have in common. Or what they don’t.

Jill Bates can’t resist a good glass of wine: Photo by Kim Leeson

Interested in an Arts Metal class?

The Art Metals program opens up employment opportunities within the art industry.

Fine arts may include metal sculpture among other techniques.

Cost: $249 for 48 HRS.

For more information call 214-860-5900.

Jill Bates

When neighbor Jill Bates was a 19-year-old student at the University of North Texas, she was trying to nail down a major. “I would cook for my roommate all the time,” Bates says. “I didn’t know what I wanted to do, and I thought, ‘I think I want to cook.’ ” Her dad advised her to earn a bachelor’s degree first. She agreed and decided that if she was still interested in cooking after receiving her bachelor’s, then she’d go to cooking school. “And I did, and I was still interested in cooking, so I finally went to cooking school in San Fran,” she says. “Then I got really homesick, plus I was really broke, so I came back to Dallas.” Although she didn’t have a lot of experience with pastries at the time, she walked into The Mansion on Turtle Creek and met Dean Fearing, who spent 20-plus years at The Mansion before he opened Fearing’s Restaurant at The Ritz-Carlton in 2007. Bates followed Fearing to The Ritz-Carlton, where she works as the pastry chef.

What first piqued your interest about cooking?

When I was younger, there was always a party in the kitchen. We were always standing around in the kitchen. Everyone was talking and enjoying cocktails. Everyone was just so happy, so I always looked forward to those events.

Which reality TV cooking show do you hate the most?

All of them. I’m not a big fan because these kids come out of school, and they’re like, ‘I’m going to be on ‘Top Chef,’ and I’m like, ‘No, this is not reality.’ At first I watched them because I had friends on them, so it was entertaining. But then I was just like, ‘Why would you want to be around a camp fire, with a stick and a piece of chocolate and something else and try to figure out what else you could come up with?’ Working in a restaurant is stressful enough. I don’t think I’d want to be a Survivor Chef.

What do you think is the worst food trend in Dallas right now?

Somebody just kill the s’more dessert. I can’t stand it. Anything that’s a s’more dessert drives me crazy, and that’s been going on for like 10 years in Dallas. I know everybody is all ‘farm-to-table,’ and that annoys me. Is it really farm-to-table, or are you guys just saying that?

What’s the most essential tool in your kitchen?

You have to have a mixer and a scale.

What’s the best piece of wisdom or advice you’ve received about food/cooking?

I was in California, and I was roundsman at the time. My chef said to me, ‘You just have a knack for desserts.’ She said, ‘You’re really good at it. Master it and perfect it. If you go on this path, you will do very well.’

What is your favorite kitchen item?

When it’s cherry season, we have this awesome cherry-pitting machine. Instead of pitting one cherry at a time, we can de-stem them, throw them in there, and it pits them all at once. I only get to use it seasonally.

What is the least-used thing in your home kitchen?

I have this beautiful glass cake stand that just sits on my counter. I think I’ve used it twice this year.

What is your ideal comfort food?

Anything one-pot-wonder with braising liquids, like lamb shanks, when it’s cold outside. In the summer, I like fresh heirloom tomatoes with salt, pepper and olive oil. I love to grill steak in the summer. And of course, red wine is definitely my favorite friend. Nothing like a glass of red after a crazy day.

“I didn’t know what I wanted to do, and I thought, ‘I think I want to cook.’ ”

Bill J. Priest

If you could cook for anyone, who would it be and what would you make?

I would definitely cook for Julia Child. What would I make? I have no idea. I’d try to make her the perfect sou é. A savory sou é because she’d appreciate that. She’d probably be the only person who would appreciate that. I’ve met her. I met her a couple of times when we were at The Mansion, and she was a fun lady. And hilarious.

Opposite question: If you could have a meal prepared by anyone, who would you have cook for you?

Same thing. Because it would be killer. I’d probably want her to make me something like coq au vin out of her French cookbook. But actually, I wouldn’t care; I’d love it. She could put anything in front of me. You know who else I’d like to cook me a meal? My grandmother. If they could get together and cook me a meal, I’d really be happy with that.

It’s your birthday and you are stuck in the neighborhood. What would you like to do?

I’d probably go to the FOE [Fraternal Order of Eagles]. I’d probably go swim for a bit and have drinks by the pool. Probably have dinner at the Seafood Joint because it’s BYOB, and then finish up with wine at Times Ten. There’s got to be a cocktail in there, but I love wine. I’d definitely like to be outside.

What is your favorite local wine? Times Ten. I love those guys.

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever cooked?

Oh man, we tried to make a vegan cheesecake. So we tried to use tofu, and it was awful. I also had to make a cherry cobbler for this football party. So, I’m trying to do this on the fly, and I don’t have the right flour, so I’m using rice flour. I was so embarrassed. It’s so bad; you just have to laugh.

What is the strangest thing that has ever given you inspiration as a cook?

Assess Bite and Alignment Issues Early

Early orthodontic treatment, if needed, can help minimize treatment at a later date.

when: Age 7

Seek treatment earlier than age seven if your child has: difficulty chewing, open-mouth breathing, jaws that click or pop, biting of cheek or into the roof of the mouth, speech problems, grinding or wearing down of teeth, and/or an obvious abnormal bite.

how: Bite Down Early Test

front teeth alignment crossbite

What is more beautiful than your child’s smile? To assure the healthiest teeth and the best looking smile, an early orthodontic screening is recommended — around age 7. In fact, there are seven warning sign of problems to come that are very easily identified in seven-year-olds. While most kids don’t need treatment that early, some problems are best treated before all the permanent teeth are in. By doing so, we can more easily address a mis-match between the size of the upper and lower jaws, and possibly avoid removing permanent teeth in the future. Call our office if you have concerns about your child. We’d be happy to schedule an “Age 7 Exam” and let you know what we find.

Patricia A. Simon, DDS 1809 Skillman St., Dallas 75206 214.826.9000 · lakewoodortho.net

LakewoodOrtho @DoctorSimonSays

I have dreams a lot about what — like I’ll picture a plate or a design in my head. Sometimes I’ll wake up and go, ‘Oh my god, I can’t wait to put that on a plate today.’ I’ll go write it down immediately. I look at recipes a lot before I go to bed, so that has to be what triggers it.

—Brittany

Nunn

Ivan Pugh

Chef Ivan Pugh, who owns Alligator Café in Casa Linda Plaza, has always loved cooking. “I’ve been cooking since I was a little kid,” he says. His passion led him to cook for several big-name Dallas Cowboys, including Emmitt Smith and Troy Aikman. He has always enjoyed soul food, he says. These days, he cooks a lot of Italian food at home with his wife, Caterina Costante. He also likes to experiment with flavors and spices.

Which reality TV cooking show do you hate the most?

‘Hell’s Kitchen’ — I hate it. He’s just an abusive jerk.

Are there any that you like?

I like ‘Top Chef.’ That’s probably the one I watch the most. ‘Anne Burrell: Secrets of a

Restaurant Chef.’ I get forced to watch some of the cooking shows, just for being married.

What’s the worst food trend in Dallas right now?

The worst food trend — not just in Dallas but in the nation — is the on-the-go food. Every once in a while, sit down and enjoy your food.

What’s the most essential tool in your kitchen?

My Scanpan. I cook probably 80 percent of my food on it.

What’s the best piece of wisdom or advice you’ve received about food/ cooking?  ‘Cook what you love to eat.’ If I didn’t enjoy the cuisines that I make, there wouldn’t been a passion there.

What is the least-used thing in your home kitchen?

The hamburger patty maker. I think I used it the first day I got it and then realized it was taking way too long. It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

“I’ve been cooking since I was a little kid.”

Ivan Pugh proudly shows off his brand new kicthen: Photo by Kim Leeson

What is your ideal comfort food?

It changes, but I would say chicken pot pie. But from scratch. I make a damn good chicken pot pie. That’s something I make when I have friends coming over.

Your wife’s family is coming in for the weekend — what do you cook?

Pasta, salad, good bread. Typically her mom will bring a bunch of Italian baked goods. She’s an amazing baker. I probably cook Italian more than anything while I’m at home. We’ve actually talked about opening an Italian restaurant.

If you could have a meal prepared by anyone, who would you have cook for you?

Paul Prudhomme. I’d let him choose what he wanted to make. He’s really the one who boosted Cajun cooking in this country. He was basically the originator of blackening, which you see everywhere now.

What would you have for your last meal on earth?

A really, really good macaroni and cheese. Ribs, mac and cheese, and mashed potatoes and gravy. No vegetables because it’d be my last meal, so I wouldn’t need them.

What dish have you created that you’re really proud of?

My crawfish enchilada.

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever cooked? Well, there are two answers to that question: There’s failed recipes, and every chef has a hundred of those. And then there’s the ‘you screwed up and you’re embarrassed about it.’ That’s usually early in your career. One time, I cooked swordfish for like 250 people, and swordfish can become very dry. I believe I grilled it, and I had done several pans of it. After serving about half of it, I tasted one of the pieces, and it was so dry. The bad thing was that it was for Jerry Jones and a bunch of his friends, and nobody ever told me it was bad. I don’t think I’ve cooked swordfish since then. I’ve never been able to get over that. But those are the experiences you learn from.

What is the strangest thing that has ever given you inspiration as a cook?

Probably eating rattlesnake when I was a kid. Having eaten all the weird things in life — that one thing in particular — I realized everything can be eaten. —Brittany Nunn

Megan Foley

“Eventually

When Megan Foley, the executive chef at HG Sply Co. on Greenville, graduated from high school, she just needed a job. She landed a job as a cook at a small Italian restaurant in Deep Ellum. “I was taking college courses here and there for other things, but I just kept getting sucked back into the kitchen,” she says. “Eventually the job became a career and a passion. I think it chose me.”

Which reality TV cooking show do you hate the most?

I think ‘Hell’s Kitchen.’ I think the contestants are under-qualified, and I think they pick under-qualified chefs so that they can make them look stupid.

What’s your favorite food trend in Dallas right now?

I like the food truck trend. I think that’s cool.

What is a food you love, and what’s the trick to making it perfectly?

I love wild mushrooms. Every summer I go up to Colorado and forage for wild mushrooms, morels being my favorite. I grew up mushroom hunting with my family. We used to travel a lot, and that was our family vacation — hunting mushrooms. The trick is to sauté them in salt and butter. Don’t overdo it.

What’s the strangest request or complaint you’ve received from someone dining at your restaurant?

I have honestly been asked for an eggless omelet. Or, ‘I’m allergic to the color yellow.’ I could probably think of more. People are funny.

What are some things that are always on your grocery list?

Cilantro and scallions.

So do you cook a lot at home?

I do, actually. In general, I enjoy cooking at home.

What is your favorite kitchen item? A hand-held immersion blender.

What is the least-used thing in your home kitchen? The microwave.

What would you have for your last meal? Morel mushrooms. Back to that again. As a hobby, I really enjoy going up to the mountains to forage mushrooms. It reminds me of my dad. And they’re the most delicious things ever.

It’s your birthday and you are stuck in the neighborhood. What would you like to do?

the job became a career and a passion. I think it chose me.”

Probably just meet some friends at the Truck Yard. Just catch up, grab drinks, have a bite.

Is there something you don’t enjoy cooking?

I can’t stand cooking pig heads. I’m not squeamish about anything, but cleaning a pig head … it’s just gross.

What is the strangest thing that has ever given you inspiration as a cook? A Styrofoam cooler. I MacGyvered a cold smoker out of a Styrofoam cooler.

You just received a $1,000 bonus and two consecutive days o . What’s on the agenda?

I’d go to the lake house, and I’d buy some good steaks. My in-laws have a lake house. It’s a really nice house, and every once in a while I get some time o and I get to go out and enjoy it. I’d go fishing.

—Brittany Nunn

Megan Foley whips up a bite to eat: Photo by Kim Leeson

health & wellness

Justin Holt, originally from Paris, Texas, but now an East Dallas resident, began his culinary career at Nonna. He then worked at Lucia for two years, and he made a big impression on Oak Cli with his pop-up ramen shops at Ten Bells Tavern. After a stint running the kitchen at Driftwood, he has returned to Lucia as co-sous chef.

What is in your fridge right now?

Leftover Chinese food, tare [Japanese soy basting sauce] from my last ramen pop-up, Champagne, and beer and butter.

What are your staple groceries at home? I don’t cook enough at home enough to have

staple groceries. You go to the store for a reason. I don’t go to the grocery store to shop for a week.

What is your favorite kitchen item? My pasta extruder.

What’s that?

It’s like this big clunky piece of equipment that mixes dough and pushes out pasta that has this texture that’s similar to dried pasta, but it’s fresh pasta.

What is the least-used thing in your home kitchen?

Microwave.

What is your ideal comfort food? Ramen.

If you had to eat the same lunch every day for the rest of your life, but it could be anything in the world, what would it be? I don’t eat lunch. This is lunch, energy drink and cigarettes.

Justin Holt

“Do it to the best of your ability, and then go further.”

Justin Holt stares down a fork-full of spaghetti: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

What is your favorite local beer? The Hammer [Peticolas Velvet Hammer].

Have you created a dish that you’re really proud of?

No, they’re all works in progress.

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever cooked?

I used to sear hamburger patties in a skillet and boil them in beer for my buddies, before I went to [culinary] school. In hindsight, I am sure it was terrible, but at the time, I guess we thought it tasted pretty good.

You’ve just received a $1,000 bonus and two consecutive days o . What’s on the agenda?

Get out of town and go eat somewhere. Spend it all.

What’s on your DVR right now?

I watch like B-movie horror all the time. The worse it is, the better.

What is your favorite major-league sports team?

I don’t watch sports.

What is your opinion of reality TV cooking shows?

They’re caustic. They’re creating a false environment. They’re making all the younger cooks have these false expectations of what they should get and what life as a cook is. People are not expecting to have to sacrifice anything for the guest and for hospitality as a whole. You’re giving up your life, your social life, to surround yourself with miscreants and all these shady individuals who are just getting o work at midnight.

What’s the best piece of wisdom or advice you’ve received in your career?  Go as hard and as fast as you can. Really push yourself and really leave everything out there. Do it to the best of your ability, and then go further. You’re always setting your own pars. The business will always expect more from you than you can deliver, which is good. That keeps you pushing.

—Rachel Stone

YOU TAKE CARE OF business. YOU TAKE CARE OF others LET US TAKE CARE OF you.

You give a hundred percent to everything you do At Lakewood Women’s Center, we share your high standards. You’ll see this reflected in the quality healthcare we provide and the upscale, yet comfortable, environment we’ve created.

Our skilled physicians, Dr. Jennifer Denning and Dr. Julie Goodwin, are passionate about helping women feel their healthiest at every age and stage. Whether you come to us for wellness visits, pregnancy care, or other health concerns, we’ll take the time to get to know you. Then we’ll provide care that’s personal, professional, and focused on what matters most to you.

To make an appointment, please visit lakewoodwomenshealth.com or call 214-624-9674

Julie Goodwin, M D Jennifer Denning, M D., F A C O G

Mike Gibson

Neighbor Mike Gibson worked at the Dallas Country Club for a year and a half following the Air Force and culinary school. He’d heard about David Uygur’s Lucia, where every two weeks, they break down a whole 350-to-400pound hog and make it into charcuterie. He wanted every part of that. So he knocked on

the back door of the restaurant and o ered to “stage,” the culinary tradition of volunteering in a kitchen until a cook has proven himself. “What people don’t know is that every one of his days o , he was working over here for free,” says Gibson’s co-sous chef at Lucia, Justin Holt. Gibson says he was waiting for Uygur to “tell me ‘never come back’ or ‘you have a job.’ ”

What’s in your home fridge right now?

Out-of-date milk, butter, lots of butter, bacon, biscuits and beer.

What is your favorite kitchen item at home?

If I had to answer that question, it would probably be my co ee maker, but I don’t want to answer that question.

What is your ideal comfort food? Chicken and dumplings.

Your significant other has family coming in for the weekend — what do you cook for them?

Has to be chicken. Her dad doesn’t eat anything but chicken. We roast chicken, and I

“Don’t chase a paycheck. Work for places you want to work.”

did a pan-fried chicken before … I got him to eat collard greens for the first time in like a decade, he said. But it’s always chicken.

If you had to eat the same lunch every day for the rest of your life, but it could be anything in the world, what would it be?

Ham sandwich. It’s got to be the spiral-cut ham with white bread.

Mayo?

No mayo, just really good ham.

What is your favorite local beer?

That’s tough. My favorite beer is Lone Star … I’m being serious.

What is the worst thing you’ve ever cooked?

Back in college, we used to eat a lot of brisket, and it’s college, so you’re always broke. Sometimes all the meat from the brisket would be gone, and we would eat brisketfat sandwich.

You just received a $1,000 bonus and two consecutive days o . What’s on the agenda?

I could easily spend it all in two days [in restaurants] and Underberg [herbal bitters].

What’s on your DVR? ‘SportsCenter’

What is your favorite major-league sports team?

The Texas Rangers although not this year.

What is your Starbucks order?

Oh, I don’t know. Have you ever heard of Green Beans Co ee? [Editor’s note: This is a co ee shop chain that serves military bases.] They have a drink called the M.O.A.C., mother of all co ees, and it’s a black co ee with four shots of espresso.

What is the best advice you’ve received in your culinary career?

So far in my career, it’s a sous chef at the club who told me, ‘Don’t chase a paycheck.’ Work for places you want to work. Don’t go for the money. —Rachel Stone

Win an iPad!

Roger Kaplan shows off mad grilling skills (and balance) while standing on his boat at White Rock Lake: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

You probably wouldn’t know it if you ran into him at our local Asian grocery store, but Roger Kaplan is a kitchen legend. In the ’80s and ’90s he was a quintessential celebrity chef, sporting wild, curly hair and appearing in classic cooking programs such as “Great Chefs, Great Cities” and numerous news shows, magazine features and cookbooks. He attended the Culinary Institute of America; landed the pastry chef post at The Ritz in D.C.; launched the iconic Old Ebbitt Grill near the White House as executive sous chef and later executive chef; and opened Atlanta’s City Grill, which, as owner and chef, he molded into a five-star, Beard-award-winning establishment. Later he worked as a corporate chef to some 50 restaurants, training, consulting and creating menus for companies across the country. He joined Boston Market in the business’s infancy (“they were making real food, good food, and were like little gourmet grocery stores at the time,” he says), learning all about the manufacturing of food, before taking a position with Ruth’s Chris steakhouse in Dallas, where he turned his attention to front-of-the-house operations, rounding out his knowledge of the industry. Today Kaplan works mostly behind the scenes, owning shares in multiple restaurants and creating menus and advising restaurateurs through his company Restaurant Innovations. Much of his gastronomic alchemy occurs inside his White Rock-area home’s kitchen.

What’s in your refrigerator right now?

Some products for restaurants I work with but that I cannot mention [there are confidentiality agreements with some of the restaurants he consults]. Ten to 12 hot sauces. Some things from my garden — herbs — cider, beer, homemade pastrami, prosciutto, cheeses, avocado.

What type of beer?

Negro Modelo, Fireman 4, Lawnmower.

Roger Kaplan

“All good food is science and art and a certain amount of technology.”

What are the essentials that you must always have on hand?

Extra virgin olive oil, garlic, shallots, fresh herbs, vinegars, citrus — lemon, limes, grapefruit — for flavor, a whole library of spices and grains, lentils, flax, hemp. I am into making vegetable protein shakes right now, in the interest of health. My wife, Carolyn, and I have started working out at Peak Zone Fitness in East Dallas. I’ve lost about 15 pounds. She had cancer [years ago] — lost a lot of weight, put on a lot of weight. She is in the best shape ever now. We love it. We force each other to work out and eat right. I am also making protein bars.

Where do you buy your groceries?

I am all over the Asian markets. I love La Michoacana meat market — there’s one right up the street on Greenville. Sometimes Central Market or Whole Foods, depending on what I’m doing. I also like the Herb Mart — in Medallion Center — for hemp seeds and hearts, chocolate hibiscus. It is great.

OK, you’re into health food now, but what’s your go-to comfort food? Well, any old chef will tell you all good food is comfort food. You can see it in trends around Dallas that we keep veering back to comfort food — you’ve got the Blind Butcher, sausages, steak, potatoes, mac and cheese is back. All humans are driven by salt, sugar and lipids. That is why we want potato chips. That is why we want ice cream for dessert — sweet and fat. For me, what are the ultimate comfort foods? Soup dumplings, onigiri, which is a Japanese food —triangle-shaped rice with fish or plumbs in them — they are the most comforting thing. In fact, when we came back on the plane, we brought them with us so we could avoid the airplane food. We also like mashed potatoes, pizza …

Favorite pizza place around here? We probably eat at Grimaldi’s [Shops at Park Lane] more often than anywhere else. They seem to be more consistent with the type of pizza I grew up on, up north.

What’s your most essential gadget in your home kitchen?

Right now, other than a stove, it is my Anova re-thermalizer. This is a sous vide pressure cooker. [Sous vide works by regulating the temperature of water so that the food cooks very slowly. The water is held

at the same precise temperature until the food is cooked through, and allows the inside and outside to cook together].

Favorite neighborhood restaurant? We love Latin Deli. The Lomo Saltado sandwich, Cuban sandwich, red chicken salad. It is a staple for my wife, Carolyn, and me. Our place. We’ll go there all the time.

Cooking shows. Do you watch them? I used to when they were about food. The shows now are not teaching. They are about celebrities now. If I had to watch, it would be Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives because I like hearing the guys in the diner talk about their food, their wa es and ice cream, comfort food. And don’t get me started on Paula Deen, who’s diabetic and telling people to eat blubber …

The ones where they are screaming?

That’s not a good method of teaching? No. Those upset me the most. Just perpetuating a stereotype. Yeah, it’s a hot environment and busy and frustrating, and tempers can flare, but usually when someone is reacting like that it is because they are blaming themselves for something, seeing themselves in the guy they’re yelling at. The walk-in [the big refrigerator in a restaurant] is a great place for a reprimand for someone who needs his butt kicked, but in public, that’s where you compliment.

What country would you travel to just for the food?

Peru. Lima is a hotspot. I want to get there and try the markets, restaurants, see what’s happening at the farm.

Family/friends are coming for dinner without much notice — what do you make for them?

It’s mostly going to be what I have in my refrigerator. But I do have a lot of food here in the two refrigerators — I’ve got a fridge out back filled with ingredients for work recipes. But maybe I make smokedbrisket burritos; there’s always something fun you can throw together. If I know they like something specifically, I’ll make that, even if I have to run up to the store.

Do you entertain at home a lot?

No, but we did have my daughter’s wedding here.

you know all things digital?

What did you serve there?

It was very eclectic — we had vegetarian food, Mediterranean, shrimp, short ribs the band played in the corner. The wedding cake was a cupcake wedding tier cake that I did not make. It was very good.

Where was the cake from?

Crème De La Cookie. It’s in Preston-Royal and Snider Plaza.

Have you ever had to cook for a big star who made you nervous?

I have cooked for two presidents and was part of a team that cooked for Queen Elizabeth. I’ve cooked for Bill Cosby, Ted Turner, Jane Fonda almost all of congress when I was in D.C., but really, they are not the ones who are important, really, to me. The people who I most want to impress is, say, the couple who appreciates food, who worked hard, saved up to go have this one really special meal. They are all important, but that is the most important. I look at it, every single time someone walks into a restaurant, that I don’t know what’s going on in their life, and meals are a covenant. As restaurateurs we should be giving the best quality food and the best service. Making sure this person has the most awesome time. When people go into the restaurant they should only have to make two decisions. What am I drinking? What am I eating? Anytime you involve them in any other part of the process — do you need me to move this plate? Or they have to get the waiter’s attention for another drink — that’s a failure to me.

What presidents, and what did you serve the presidents and the queen? There was Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan — I served Reagan a bomb. Haha. An ice cream bomb. That is when I was the pastry chef at Ritz. Also, I had to taste it before he could eat it. The Secret Service said, ‘Did you make this?’ And I said, ‘Yes.’ And they said, ‘We need you to taste it.’ Jimmy Carter, that was for a dinner to raise money for Habitat for Humanity when I was in Atlanta — I cooked alongside Alice Waters and Stephan Pyles. And Queen Elizabeth, I was part of a big team of chefs with Dean Fearing. I really don’t remember the exact meal. I do remember Bill Cosby dragging a bartender into the kitchen to show her how to make a proper cappuccino.

Begin

Top

•

PreK - 6th Grades

PreK - 6th Grades

WE EDUCATE THE WHOLE CHILD

Low Teacher Student Ratio SACS/CASI Accredited

We Educate the Whole Child

After School Enrichment Programs

Before & After School Care Art, Music, Library Time, Daily Spanish, Reading Lab 1215 Turner Ave. Dallas TX 75208 214-942-2220 TheKesslerSchool.com

Low Teacher Student Ratio SACS/CASI Accredited After School Enrichment Programs

Before & After School Care Art, Music, Library Time, Daily Spanish, Reading Lab THE

1215 Turner Ave. Dallas, TX 75208 214-942-2220 eKesslerschool.com

programs

• Traditional educational curriculum blended with integrated technology

education GUIDE

CLAIRE’S CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL

8202 Boedeker Dr., / (214) 368-4047 / clairesdayschool.com At CCDS, we encourage a child’s sense of exploration and discovery in a loving, nurturing, and safe environment. We offer a parent’s day out program with a play-based curriculum fostering socialization, motor skill development, and an introduction to academics for children aged 4mo

3yrs. Our preschool for children aged 3-5 further develops these skills, along with a more focused approach to pre-math and prereading. At CCDS, we have developed our own science, math, and reading enrichment classes to ensure kindergarten preparedness for every child. We make learning fun!

THE KESSLER SCHOOL

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

OUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN SCHOOL OF DALLAS

7611 Park Ln, Dallas, TX 75225 / 214368-1371, ext 238 or carolb@orlcs.com www.orlcs.com At Our Redeemer Lutheran School, your child will receive more than academic excellence and a creative, individualized approach. For over 50 years, our caring, dedicated faculty has introduced positive Christian values—giving students a solid foundation to grow in love and commitment to God, family, community and individual excellence! Our affordable tuition is possible through the loving support of our sponsor congregation, Our Redeemer Lutheran Church. Call for a private tour and see why students and their families love our school! Limited spaces available for Fall. See ad for more details.

SPANISH HOUSE

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

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

69%

ST. CHRISTOPHER’S MONTESSORI SCHOOL

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

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

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

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

WHITE ROCK NORTH SCHOOL

9727 White Rock Trail Dallas / 214.348.7410 / WhiteRockNorthSchool.com

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

ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL

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

of our 200,000+ readers with average income of $146,750 want more info about private schools.

Chef or mentor whom you would want to cook for you (alive or not)?

Probably Ferran Adrià. He is a Spanish chef and the father of molecular gastronomy and innovative cooking.

Cooking disasters you care to confess?

Oh, there are a lot. I mean, most great things happen because no one would think of it, and a lot of times getting to the point of the brilliant idea, you wind up with a lot of bad tastes. There was a rosemary chick-

All good food is science and art and a certain amount of technology. Stand at the center and some crazy great stu comes of that ... It is a misnomer that baking is precise and cooking is not precise; everything is a ratio.

en — it would have been fine, but it was cooked in air in altitude and that made the rosemary stronger, and when it came out, it was medicinal. All good food is science and art and a certain amount of technology. Stand at the center and some crazygreat stu comes of that. Perfecting a sauce can take six months, and it’s as simple as adding a small percent each day until you find it can’t get any better. It is a misnomer that baking is precise and cooking is not precise; everything is a ratio.

What is the perfect ratio of a sandwich?

In a good sandwich, everything is properly rationed by weight. Ratio of the burger to the bun to the crunchy goodies like the lettuce and fresh things, to the sauce, to the cheese. That proper ratio, when it’s met, is really good. When it’s not, it’s an OK burger or sandwich. It has to do with everything — the texture of the bun, all the way in. Precision. Ideally you don’t use volume measurements at all; everything, almost everything, would be by weight.

—Christina

Hughes

Babb Questions and answers have been edited for brevity

Women with vision

Half of the children who age out of foster care end up unemployed or homeless, but a new East Dallas program aims to change that

Story by Brittany Nunn | Photos by Kim Leeson

When Sabrina Porter became the CEO of Juliette Fowler Communities in January 2012, she had high aspirations for the future of the organization.

Although Juliette Fowler Communities was founded in 1892 as a home for women and children, today it is best known for its assisted and independent living, as well as its nursing care and rehab therapy. But Porter didn’t want to focus solely on business matters. She wanted to work with the faculty and sta to revive the original vision of the organization — serving women and children.

Porter hit the ground running by immediately establishing a partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters to provide mentorship opportunities with the residents and sta at their facility. She also struck up a partnership between Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services to serve children and youth who need short- or longterm placement in foster care.

Just three months later, Porter presented the board with a new mission: to help young women who are aging out of the foster care system.

The statistics on life after foster care are staggeringly bleak, a fact Porter wanted to help change.

“The girls, they can’t wait to get out of foster care. Then they’re out at 18, and they’re pregnant within two years,” Porter says.

According to the Foster Care Alumni of America, 84 percent of young men and women become a parent within two to four years after leaving foster care.

Not only that, 51 percent are unemployed, 50 percent are homeless, 30 percent are receiving public assistance, and 25 percent are in prison.

“Then they’re on the street, and the babies are in the system nine months later,” Porter says. “It’s a vicious cycle. All I can think is, ‘We’ve got to do something here.’ ”

Porter witnessed this “vicious cycle” time and time again at Hope Mansion Maternity Home in Cedar Hill, a home for girls in crisis pregnancy that Porter established five years ago.

“We thought if we just had a place for them to come, then we

Juliette Fowler CEO Sabrina Porter gives real estate legend Ebby Halliday a kiss during the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Ebby House in May.

could impact change, and maybe change that pattern and change that path,” she says.

Two years after Hope Mansion opened its doors, Porter realized something.

“We’re getting these girls reactive. We’re getting them after they’ve made these choices,” Porter explains.

“There’s a need to get to these girls and impact their lives before they make those choices that are lifetime-impacting choices.”

Porter hoped to take a di erent approach with Juliette Fowler Communities by establishing a residential home where a group of young women ages 18-22 could live for a year or two under the supervision of a house mom to learn basic life skills.

The intent is not to “baby or coddle them,” Porter explains. “They’re young women. We want to mold, mentor and equip them.”

Porter knows from personal experience how much impact a mentor can have on the life of a young woman.

She began working at Cantex Senior Community at 13 years old as a nurse aide and quickly became very close with the elderly people she worked with.

“The elderly people that I served, they’re beautiful people. The wisdom, the work ethic, the values, the promises made on a handshake,” she explains. “They became my family. I know what a di erence they made in my life.”

As the survivor of child abuse and other childhood di culties, Porter credits a coworker — another nurse aide who became something of a second mother for her during her growing-up years — as the person who taught her she could “do anything she put her mind to.”

Porter stayed with the company for 15 years, cutting her teeth on business and management as she worked her way up the proverbial ladder to chief operating o cer.

After a five-year career pause during which she had three children, Porter became vice president of resident relations at Presbyterian Communities and executive director at Grace Presbyterian Village at the same time. She did that until 2012, when she became the CEO of Juliette Fowler Communities.

Juliette Fowler Communities approached her to see if she would be interested in taking over when the former CEO

Faith Inclusion

retired. The board hoped she’d help the community restore its original mission to help children.

The idea to help young women aging out of foster care was already stewing in her mind because of her experience with Hope Mansion. She approached the board with the idea, and after months of research and meetings, the community decided to proceed.

For months Porter referred to the program as “a program for helping girls who age out of foster care,” until Dallas real estate legend Ebby Halliday got wind of the

“We’re doing what Juliette Fowler, the young girl with the dream, wanted to do. She had a dream to help young children and elderly. That legacy is here. It’s my job, ultimately, to carry out that legacy.”

vision and decided she wanted in on the action.

“Before I knew it, we were naming it the Ebby House,” Porter says. “She was thrilled to be a part of doing something more and getting to be a part of that.”

They decided to restore a building on the grounds, which was once a nurse dormitory before it became o ce and storage space. At the time it was just a building full of junk, and it took almost a year to restore.

Today, the outside of the Ebby House, which sits on the edge of the Juliette Fowler property at Abrams and Fulton near the entrance, is the picture of tranquility.

A wooden bench rests under a large tree in the front yard. A pathway leads to the front door, and turquoise shutters give the home dollhouse-like character.

The interior, which once was covered in 1970s-style wood paneling, is wrapped in calming grays, blues and greens.

A few months ago, Dwell with Dignity, a Dallas-based nonprofit made up of interior designers whose collective goal is to “bring good design to those less fortunate, inspiring them to maintain a standard of living

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.

Network of Dallas

Does your congregation have a heart for weaving?

they can be proud of and thrive in,” asked to help with the finish-out.

Dwell with Dignity completely reworked the downstairs living room. The designers painted over the wood paneling and then mixed-and-matched solid gray and brown couches with colorful, patterned throw pillows, a giant rug and various knick-knacks. A few DIY projects later, and viola! Juliette Fowler Communities has a perfect room for hanging out and heart-to-hearts.

“They got the donations and completely furnished this room,” says Ann McKinley, the director of marketing. “It’s all volunteer work, and they come up with ways to do things on a dime.”

Dwell with Dignity also helped turn the boxy community kitchen into a warm and inviting space with kitchen-themed artwork, colorful curtains and large chalkboards.

The bottom floor also has a spacious computer room, ADA-compliant bedrooms, and meeting rooms.

On the way up the stairs, a giant handpainted, floor-to-ceiling design reads, “Girls with Dreams become Women with Vision,” a phrase that has been adopted as the Ebby House tagline.

Immediately at the top of the stairs is a smaller living area, which Kristen Mazza, the executive director of the Ebby House, describes as the “pile up in our pajamas and watch TV” room.

Also upstairs, there is a bedroom suite and o ce space for the house mom, as well as several dorm-style bedrooms, which are each set up for double occupancy.

“Each room has its own color scheme,” Mazza says. “I guess the only goal here was for it to be bright and individual and comfortable.”

Starting this fall, the Ebby House will begin accepting young women. The women must be recommended by partnering foster care centers as good candidates for the program, and they must also apply and interview with the sta . Up to 16 women

can live there for 12-24 months.

“We start with the basic needs — shelter, food, safety — and statistics show that then they can thrive,” Mazza explains.

The Ebby House sta will work with the girls to help them learn life skills such as health and wellness, personal finance, communication and technology. They also will receive career guidance, opportunities for education beyond high school/GED, job training and volunteerism.

“We consider this group a family,” Mazza says.

McKinley credits Porter — Juliette Fowler Communities’ “visionary CEO,” as she put it — with making this dream a reality, but Porter says she’s picking up where Juliette Fowler left o .

“We’re doing what Juliette Fowler, the young girl with the dream, wanted to do,” Porter says.

“She had a dream to help young children and elderly. That legacy is here. It’s my job, ultimately, to carry out that legacy.”

Mutual benefit

Neighborhood children take time this summer to serve, and they learn things they don’t teach in school

Story by Christina Hughes Babb | Photos by James Coreas

On a late-May Monday morning in downtown Dallas, it is sunny and pushing 80 degrees. Afternoon temps might hit 90. And real Texas summer hasn’t even started. Over the next few months, Dallas weather will rise

from uncomfortable to potentially dangerous, especially for anyone without access to housing, say experts who work closely with Dallas’ homeless. In addition to the heat, those who are homeless are exposed to sun-

burns, dehydration and mosquitos, which can spread diseases such as West Nile Virus.

Inside the Stewpot resource center, a building on Young Street where the thermostat is set at 75, people who have nowhere

Little Stewpot Stewards Elle Madres and Alexis McNamera set up a benefit for Dallas’ homeless outside T. Hee Greetings & Gifts.

Small gestures make a big impact

Evenbefore a memberdonated the Stewpot building in the ’70s, the First Presbyterian Church was serving large amounts of food to Dallas’ homeless. For the next 20 years the Stewpot served meals — up to 1,500 a day. When The Bridge, Dallas County’s homeless assistance center, opened five years ago, meal services transferred there, but the Stewpot still provides the food.

Today the foundation also has extended its aid and, in myriad ways, assists some 14,000 people a year.

Downstairs near the Stewpot entrance, clients can access basic services — hygiene supplies, medical and dental care, employment and pre-employment assistance (that might mean acquiring identification or a mailing address, essential to obtaining work).

There are 6,000 homeless people in Dallas, says Stewpot director Bruce Buchanan. Ten percent of those are chronic; the other 90 percent are episodic.

“And there are 6,000 scenarios of how they got there, with some common denominators,” he says.

“The majority of the people who are here are from Dallas, have spent their lives here. There are issues related to choice — drugs, alcohol and untreated illnesses. There also can be domestic violence, aging out of foster care, mental illness or changes in the economy that cause a trickle-down e ect.”

The second floor of the Stewpot features more-advanced programs — Street Zine (a system through which clients can sell and make a small profit selling newspapers), a children-and-youth program, and the Open Art Program, the Stewpot’s most beloved program, representative Amy Desler says, pointing to walls lined with colorful artwork created by the Stewpot clients.

The Stewpot is on the cusp of building a colossal new downtown center complete with an art studio, community garden, recording studio, amphitheater and athletic center.

But it is back at that fundamental level — basic safety and comfort, especially during the summer heat — that the Little Stewpot Stewards come in.

THE market

CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS

Create Art+Build Community

2830 Laughlin Drive Dallas, TX 75228 214.320.1275

www.creativeartscenter.org

Discover the artist within at the Creative Arts Center of Dallas (CAC). CAC offers more than 500 art classes and workshops each year in everything from metal to mosaic!

UNREFINED BAKERY

Restaurant

718 N. Buckner Blvd. #154 Dallas, TX 75218 3426 Greenville Avenue #150 Dallas, TX 75206 www.UnrefinedBakery.com

Beat the heat! Stop by our White Rock location for a delicious iced coffee and cupcake. All organic and delicious, & gluten free as always.

CREATIVE CONSTRUCTION & REMODELING

Home Improvement

Barry O’Brien 972-342-7232

ccrbarry.com

Creative Construction has specialized in bathroom and kitchen remodels, as well as room additions in the Dallas area for over 20 years. Customer references available. Call us

FOSSIL RIM WILDLIFE CENTER

Tours

2299 County Road 2008 Glen Rose, Texas 76043 254.897.2960

fossilrim.org

Book a guided family tour to get the full experience on one of Fossil Rim’s open-air vehicles. Sit back, relax and enjoy the scenery of over 1000 animals on our 1800-acre preserve.

else to go make themselves relatively comfortable in plastic chairs or on the white tiled floor or at a table near an older-model television. They are sleeping, reading, chatting or waiting for a caseworker to call on them.

The nonprofit, which is associated with First Presbyterian Church, has been innovating ways to help Dallas’ homeless since before 1975.

Last summer, Stewpot development associate Amy Desler — a Lakewood resident and mother of two — teamed up with Lake Highlands mom April Gorman to launch Little Stewpot Stewards. Their mission? To ease the seasonal struggles of Stewpot regulars.

The Stewards, some 60 kids from around Dallas, raise money and assemble “summer survival kits” comprising water, sunblock, sanitizer and bug spray, which they deliver to the Stewpot each Tuesday morning during summer break.

In summer 2013, Little Stewpot Stewards earned more than $3,500 by selling lemonade, and they distributed more than 600 kits to Stewpot clients.

“It is a two-hour commitment each week distributing the packs, assembling packs for the next week, and then a lesson,” Desler says. “It has gotten so big. It started as a passion for April [Gorman], and I think she was completely amazed by how many wanted to participate. Our challenge has been to create those opportunities that are both meaningful for them and useful for the [clients at the Stewpot].”

Danny Mitchell is tall and sinewy and looks healthy and clean. His appearance offers few and subtle clues that he is homeless he carries a bag and wears multiple layers of clothing including a T-shirt, long-sleeved top, lightweight jacket and a cap, despite the day’s heat. He is well spoken and matter-offact when describing his failed marriage and cocaine addiction.

“I had a wife and an apartment in Pleasant Grove, but our relationship ended, we divorced, and I turned to drugs. Crack.”

He attends Narcotics Anonymous meetings now and has been clean for a few months, but he has a hard time staying o

DOVETAIL SHUTTERS

Custom Shutters

11649 Chairman Drive, Suite 2 Dallas, TX 75243 214-342-0889 dovetailshutters.com

SMALL PLANET eBIKES

Hello Fun, Hello Fitness!

www.smallplanetebikes.com

Bishop Arts District 330 W Davis Street 972.773.9611

alcohol, he says. If he really wants to get better, he has to quit all of it, he acknowledges. He says that though his situation is tough, programs at the Stewpot o er hope.

“I have slept in the [homeless] camps, and I have been mugged and beaten while I was asleep. It is dangerous. But here, I have been able to see a Metro Care doctor, received medication for depression and bipolar disorder. I am applying for housing. And I have realized that there is a god and that I can turn to him. He keeps giving me blessings. I keep messing up. But I keep going back for forgiveness.”

Asking for help is not easy for 50-year-old Mitchell. His 26-year-old daughter and his mother both live in the Dallas area, but he does not ask them to support him.

“There is bad shame and guilt,” he explains.

He doesn’t feel it as much at the Stewpot, where there is a welcoming vibe, he says.

“They respect us. They are not judging. Many of them are here volunteering. I think that is an indicator of God’s love.”

FLOWERS 214-826-8283

www.cornermarketdallas.com

The rooftop garden is in full bloom! Various types of peppers, corn, tomatoes, zucchini and blueberries, fresh for you. Herbs, Sunflowers, Zinnias and Lavender. Fresh food and florals, all at The Corner Market.

Hand-crafted by Louis Wiggins for 45 years, In-house fabrication, Hand-crafted dovetail construction, Individually assembled units, Custom color or stain match, Professionally installed

“The heat, the mosquitos. You get thirsty,” he says.

The thoughtfulness of the Stewpot and the Little Stewpot Stewards, which will deliver summer care packages to Mitchell and others who need them, does not surprise him, but it fills him with gratitude, he says.

“They always know what you need, and they do not make you feel bad about it. I feel grateful for that. It makes me want to get better so I can come here and volunteer. I don’t want to keep missing out. I want a relationship with my family. I have grandkids. I want to help the way they helped me.”

Last Memorial Day weekend, Gorman (and her children John and Rory Kate) and Desler (and her two oldest children, Ariel and Cassidy) along with a dozen or so other families, launched the summer 2014 LSS program.

Throughout the summer, White Rock area residents will see the young philanthropists, more than 60 of them, around the neighborhood — each Steward family has committed to hosting one summertime lemonade stand.

The group will also be represented at both the Lake Highlands and Lakewood July 4 parades. Their respective goals are to raise funds

GOLIAD

BED / 3.1 BATH / 2 STORY $475,000

1927 EUCLID DUPLEX - 100% OCCUPIED $245,000

3

WEDGEWOOD LANE

5

7016 LUPTON 4 BED / 5.1 BATH / POOL $799,000

and

for the care packages and to let the neighborhood know about the program, which Gorman says teaches “empathy and compassion at such young, impressionable ages.”

Jackson Reagan, 9, and his brother Blake, 6, were two of the original Stewards. Jackson says the Stewpot is “an interesting place” that he finds a little sad, but he says he feels better knowing he is doing something to help.

“It is always good to think of others’ needs, especially if they are homeless.”

He says he believes gestures such as the summer packages and handmade gifts the Stewards sent last Christmastime, for example, are appreciated. “They also need someone to pray for them,” he adds. “We each got assigned a person to pray for.”

Just like the hardworking sta at the Stewpot, the Stewards’ families “are trying hard to understand the plight of the clients,” Gorman explains, “and our children are making a di erence in the lives of our homeless neighbors and friends,” she says.

Desler is confident the clients at the Stewpot will appreciate the children’s contribution.

The Stewpot, she says, “is a nice place. Nice in the sense that people feel welcome here. They express gratitude to us. There are a lot of please and thank yous and bless yous. That is what the Little Stewpot Stewards are going to hear.”

Little Stewpot Stewards operate neighborhood lemonade stands to support people who are homeless.

BIG LOVE

The story behind our neighborhood’s most popular yard art collector

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

Not to alarm you, but there appears to be pirates in the neighborhood.

Or maybe that’s just Gary Isett’s yard.

You know the one: corner of Abrams and Trammel, flying the Jolly Roger next to a star-shaped flowerbed.

And, oh yeah, Big Boy’s home.

Admitit:Wheneveryoudrivedown Abrams, you glance over at Isett’s property, wondering if Big Boy is back. But, no, you spy him at the back of the property, relegated to a shady spot near the garage.

It’s now a closed chapter for Isett, but what was it like to live The Big Boy Brouhaha? How about his other creative, quirky choices of yard art? And what will appear next?

Incaseyoumissedit thoughhow could you? — a 7-foot-tall Big Boy statue, he of Kip’s restaurant fame, appeared on Isett’s lawn in March of last year. Isett, who owns White Rock Landscaping, was on a job in North Dallas when he spotted it in a customer’s backyard, gathering dust. An undisclosed sum later, and the burger boy was headed east in Isett’s pickup truck.

NeighborstooknoticebeforeIsetthad even finished installing the fellow. “About 30 people stopped and watched” as he carefully secured the statue, Isett recalls.

Word spread, and soon folks were slowly driving by or even stopping, some taking photos.

“I’d estimate I’ve had over a thousand people stop by,” Isett says.

Alas, city code inspectors also noticed, and soon Isett, at the city’s request, moved Big Boy back from the street.

Big Boy’s appearance and abrupt disappearanceapparentlytouched a nostalgic nerve in our neighborhood.

“Love it!” was a common sentiment expressed online when he first took his place on the corner. “Fun is forbidden,” grumbled

a commentator when the city intervened.

Isett admits with a smile that, yeah, the statue was creating a bit of a traffic situation. He says he’s more than happy to comply with the city and, after all, Big Boy is still visible on his property; he’s just not hoisting the burger on the highly visible and noticeable corner near Abrams.

For a while during the controversy, Isett’s doorstep became something of an altar to Big Boy. Folks left appreciative notes (“You are a Rock Star!”), platters of cookies, and Big Boy memorabilia such as tin signs and vintage matchbooks from Kip’s.

Quite a numberhavestopped by, knocked on Isett’s door, and asked him to take their photo with the statue. And one mom came by with a rather unusual request. Her son was about to turn 1 year old and the party theme, appropriately enough, was “Big Boy.” When she spotted the statue in Isett’s yard, she whipped in and asked if she could bring over the little party guests for photo ops with the star statue. But Isett did one better: On party day, he kindly and generously loaded up the popular icon in his pickup truck, and Big Boy made a guest appearance at the little boy’s home, much

Gary Isett: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

to the delight of the children and adults celebrating the birthday.

Big Boy may have been sent to the corner, but don’t count him out just yet. He might make an appearance around Christmastime when code restrictions relax a bit. Look for him to be wearing a Santa hat and holding a giant present, as he did last year. And he might once again ride a float in the St. Patrick’s Day parade down Greenville Avenue.

What to do when the big guy had to move? Replace him with another treasure Isett found at another customer’s place. In the middle of the star flowerbed — in honor of the Dallas Cowboys, by the way — now sits a Billiken. A what? Imagine a cross between a Buddha and a Kewpie doll, but up the creepy factor. It debuted in 1908 as a good-luck figure, oddly enough.

Isett paints the Billiken silver and blue during Cowboys season, then he pulls out the red and blue paint when the Rangers are playing. The rainbow hat atop his head? Just for fun.

So what’s up with the pirate flag? Is Isett a pirate? “Only the Jimmy Buffett kind,” he laughs. “I just wanted something out of the norm.”

His latest acquisitions include a vintage Green Stamps sign (are you old enough to remember the Green Stamps store?) and a 9-foot-wide Dairy Queen sign, which Isett plans to mount on his garage wall with a bit of artful backlighting. Isett says he is always in the market for more “big statues” but is mum when asked about specifics or plans for more yard art. He simply smiles his easygoing smile and says, “Stay tuned.”

Patti Vinson is a guest writer who has lived in East Dallas for 14 years. She’s written for the Advocate and Real Simple magazine, and has taught college writing. She is a frequent flier at Lakewood branch library and enjoys haunting neighborhood estate sales with husband Jonathan and children, Claire (12) and Will (9). The family often can be found hanging out at White Rock Lake Dog Park with Dexter, a probable JackWeenie.

PAINTING WITH A TWIST

Express your inner artist! Instructors lead attendees in creating paintings with a featured piece of art. Bring your imagination and beverage. Perfect for private parties and complimentary valet parking. 5202 W. Lovers Lane 214.350.9911 paintingwithatwist.com/dallas

CITY VIEW ANTIQUE MALL

It’s our July 4th Storewide Tent/Tag Sale from July 2-6th. Stop by July 4th to enjoy hot dogs and lemonade from 11:30am-1pm. 6830 Walling Ln. (off Skillman/Abrams) 214.752.3071 cityviewantiques@homestead.com

GET IN CONTACT

Knife 5300 E. MOCKINGBIRD 214.520.7969

KNIFEDALLAS.COM

Zoës Kithen 2009 ABRAMS 214.887.6330

ZOESKITHCEN.COM

Steel City Pops 2012 GREENVILLE 972.807.9062

STEELCITYPOPS.COM

Ginger Man Pub 6341 LA VISTA

GINGERMANPUB.COM

YOGA MART

Stop by and see new clothing styles and colors for yoga, Pilates and the gym. Men’s clothing also available. Yoga Mart 6039 Oram (at Skillman) 214.534.4469 yogamartusa.com

GECKO HARDWARE

Mid-century sizzle with this colorful Weber charcoal grill including gas starter and built-in prep table. FREE assembly with ad. Like us on Facebook for specials and classes. 10233 E. NW Hwy @ Ferndale (near Albertsons) 214.343.1971 GeckoHardware.com

The Whistling Pig 8786 FERGUSON 214.324.3186

THEWHISTLINGPIGDALLAS.COM

Hawken Acupuncture 6162 E. MOCKINGBIRD 972.804.9113

HAWKENACUPUNCTURE.COM

Greenville Avenue Pizza Co. 1923 GREENVILLE 214.826.5404

GAPC.CO

THE STORE IN LAKE HIGHLANDS

One gift...every occasion. Nora Fleming platters and minis bring joy to every event. Pick your tray, platter or bowl and adorn with celebratory minis! Many wonderful choices!!!

10233 E NW Hwy @ Ferndale (near Albertsons) 214.553.8850 Mon-Sat 9:30-5:30 TheStoreinLH.com

Call 214.292.0486 or email foundation@advocatemag.com

BUSINESS BUZZ

The lowdown on what’s up with neighborhood businesses

Send business news tips to livelocal@advocatemag.com

New barking grounds

National pet store giant PetSmart has signed on with Lincoln Property Co. to be a part of the Arboretum Village at Gaston-Garland-Grand. The director of the PetSmart at Greenville and Lovers, Tom Turner, confirmed that PetSmart “will definitely be there.” He wasn’t sure exactly when the store would open but figures probably in the fall, which is when the other retail stores and restaurants in the Arboretum Village plan to open as well. The location will be 15,397 square-feet, right next to The Fresh Market. PetSmart is a store that carries pets and tons of pet supplies. It also provides grooming, training and many other pet-centric services. So far, we know of five other secured tenants for the new shopping center: Starbucks, Fresh Market, Luke’s Locker, Ace Hardware, and Digg’s Taco Shop.

Newest noms

Zoës Kitchen, Steel City Pops, and Knife all picked May 15 as the day they wanted to host their grand opening. The night before the grand opening, Greenville was crawling with folks on their way to Steel City Pops for the soft opening. Steel City Pops, a new gourmet popsicle joint on Lower Greenville, sent out more than 300 invites to people in Dallas, requesting their appearance at the invite-only soft opening. It took a while for Zoës Kitchen to start construction on the old Snow Pea location off Abrams, but once it did, the Mediterranean-inspired, fast-casual res-

More business bits

taurant chain made short work of turning the dingy space into a bright, colorful hummus haven. It also met its hoped-for deadline and opened on May 15. Finally, Knife, the new steakhouse that replaced Central 214 in hotel Palomar, also picked May 15 as its projected opening day. Knife hosted a soft opening that evening and it opened for lunch later that month.

On tap

Ginger Man Pub managed to meet its selfimposed opening date of May 19. Although it hasn’t done a lot of official announcement work, the general buzz has brought plenty of curious neighbors through its doors. “It’s been very steadily busy,” general manager Jacob Bedford says. Like other Ginger Man Pubs, it has more than 100 bottled beer selections, plus 65 brews on draft and a few wine and cider selections as well. Its hours are from 1 p.m. to 2 a.m. every day. Happy hour is from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

1 The owners of Cock and Bull introduced a new concept in the Ferguson-Lakeland shopping center called The Whistling Pig It’s basically a Cock and Bull — except bigger. 2 In July, Ramesh and Sumathi Sundaram, a husband-andwife duo, hope to open Shivas Bar & Grill on Greenville to bring East Dallas some much-needed Indian food. 3 In May, CVS posted a sign in front of the vacant space in Lakewood Shopping Center announcing that they are coming soon. Looks like the construction has already started. 4 Hawken Acupuncture is celebrating 10 years in business. It’s also moving from its location at 4912 Greenville to the Wilshire O ce Building at 6162 E. Mockingbird, Suite 224, between Skillman and Abrams. 5 The front of Greenville Avenue Pizza Co. on Lower Greenville has been tiled with stark white tile, and the long awning had been taken down and replaced by two smaller yellow awnings. Also, the windows have been redone, and there is a large sign that reads “PIZZA” above the entrance.

Steel City Pops

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

Summer Worship: May 25 - Aug. 31 / 10:00am / 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

TRUE PATRIOTISM

To love one’s country means to love others

With the Fourth of July upon us, let’s ponder patriotism.

I will wave an American flag on Independence Day. Waving the flag is a simple gesture of love for country.

It should be enough to trust that if you fly your flag from your front porch or wave it at a neighborhood parade, you are bound with others as a true American partisan. Nowadays, though, flag-wavers are challenged left and right by the left and the right.

Critics on the left say that flag-waving betrays a spirit of nativism that elevates national pride to a vice. They point to the sins of our nation’s treatment of Native Americans, our history of racism, and our exploitation of other peoples for the sake of our empire as evidence of patriotic excess. Their cosmopolitanism wishes to love every human being with equal love to what we show toward Americans. Borders are unnatural boundaries imposed by powerful politicians and protected by powerful armies. Waving a national flag is therefore inherently inhumane. It asserts a claim of superiority that is blind to moral failings.

The witty British journalist G. K. Chesterton called these cosmopolitans to task in his own day. They love humankind in general, he said, but have a hard time loving any humans in particular. They love the whole world with a cold idealism, but that makes them equally cool toward those closest to them. In contrast, those who love those nearest to them most will have greater sympathy for those farthest from them. A wife believes most in marriage when she loves her husband with whom she lives. If she loves marriage more than her imperfect husband, she undermines the institution of marriage as well as her own.

A patriot loves his country because it is his, but he understands that those who live in other countries feel the same about theirs, and this gains his respect. He understands that he

might have to fight and die for his flag against those who do the same under theirs, but because he is self-aware of the perils of war he refuses to turn his enemy into an animal to justify his fight.

Critics from the right too often equate patriotism with nationalism and militarism. If you love your country you must think it exceptional. The term exceptionalism was first

used by Alexis de Tocqueville to describe a country built on principles rather than historical circumstance. America is unusual in being built upon ideals like freedom and opportunity for all. America cares less about where you come from and more about what you amount to. When, however, these exceptional qualities provide a mask for imposing our will on others because we are better than others, we undermine the principles we claim to live by.

The same is true for those who equate patriotism with military service or unqualified military support. If you didn’t serve, you will never understand. If you don’t see military action as the solution to every international problem, don’t bother unfurling your flag.

Patriotism is not a competition. Patriots love their country by loving their countrymen; and they love the rest of the world by loving their country first. What makes America exceptional just may be our capacity to see our flag-waving neighbors as fellow patriots, even if they don’t vote the way we do.

A patriot loves his country because it is his, but he understands that those who live in other countries feel the same about theirs, and this gains his respect.

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.

Lakewood Brewing Company, owned by neighborhood resident Wim Bens, was awarded a gold medal for its Till & Toil ale at the 2014 San Diego County Fair’s beer competition and festival. With more than 900 entries from 13 countries and 19 states, the festival is one of the largest in the country.

The Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center, which is located in East Dallas, recently launched the DCAC Research Institute, for which Jeff Wherry was named director. DCAD hopes the research institute will help them better understand some of the complex issues surrounding child abuse — such as the effectiveness of interventions, investigations, long-term outcomes, and prevention services for child abuse victims. The institute is funded by a grant from RGK Foundation and Hillcrest Foundation, and it is intended to be a catalyst for nationwide, systematic and transformative change.

Neighbor Gary Cogill, former movie critic on WFAA, has shifted his focus to producing films with his company Lascaux Films, and his first film “Words and Pictures” debuted at Landmark Magnolia pictures in June. “Words and Pictures” is a witty romantic comedy featuring Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen about a one-time literary star whose job is on the line because he hasn’t published in years. He meets his match with a new art teacher, an abstract painter, and declares war between words and pictures, in an attempt to prove words have greater meaning that pictures. He ropes in the students and battle lines are drawn.

Dallas filmmakers and father-daughter duo Fonya Mondell and Allen Mondell are making a documentary about the rapid changes in the Henderson Avenue area. They are looking for those old photographs, films and postcards that will provide a personal and historical picture of the street and the neighborhoods. If you think you can help, contact Allen at allen@mediaprojects.org or by phone at 214.826.386, between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. during the week.

The Lakewood Library Friends is seeking donations of gently used books, paperbacks, audio books, CDs, DVDs and other media items for its Annual Book Sale to be held in September in conjunction with LibraryFest. All proceeds from the sale will benefit the Lakewood Branch Library. Donations may be brought to the Lakewood Library Tuesday though Saturday during regular business hours. The Lakewood Branch Library is located at 6121 Worth. Call 214-670-1376 for more inforamtion, or go to lakewoodlibraryfriendsdallas.org.

HAVE AN ITEM TO BE FEATURED?

Please submit news items and/or photos concerning neighborhood residents, activities, honors and volunteer opportunities to editor@advocatemag.com. Our deadline is the first of the month prior to the month of publication.

Cool things down this summer with the Safari Nights concert series at the Dallas Zoo. Free with regular admission. Featuring A Hard Night’s Day, The O’s and more!

For more information, visit DallasZoo.com or text “SAFARI” to 47464.

SELLING DALLAS... ONE PORCH AT A TIME!

FRONT ROW Kay Caughron, Amy Malooley, Debbie Marino, Ellen Myers, Sherryl Wesson, Cece Case, Cathy Hadd, Mary Mobley

BACK ROW Terri Raith, Laurie Welch, RoseMarie LaCoursiere, Amanda Davidson, Edwina Dye, Kim Le-Henderson, Courtney Molina, Terri Briggs, Ali O'Halloran, Amanda Talbot, Katherene Hough, Maureen Jackson, Margot Strong, CJ Prince, Shannon Foster, Mary Rinne, Denise Lowry, Kim Sinnott

6441 E Mockingbird Lane (214) 826-0316

WOmEn In BUsInEss OUTSTANDING

Steps to Success: How local women turned passions into profit

Let’s face it, Lakewood and East Dallas are pretty hot right now. Home prices are soaring, schools are improving and the economy is thriving. Just last year, CNN Money dubbed Lakewood the 9th “best big-city neighborhood” in the country.

It takes a lot for a business to stand out in this competitive environment.

This month, we’re getting up close and personal with some of the successful businesswomen who stand out in our community. These women have remained dedicated to their craft, prioritized their time and built key partnerships over the years to experience the level of success they now enjoy.

For Realtor Meg Skinner, the first step towards career success was to find a mentor.

“I have a close friend who was in the business a long time, and I called her regularly to walk through ideas with me when I was first starting out,” Skinner says.

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Realtor Jill Carpenter says she’s had many mentors and wouldn’t be where she is today without them.

“My integrity, business acumen, communication skills, service levels and doing my best to treat people how I want to be treated, all come from the examples my mentors showed me.”

Stacy Huston, owner of the home repair franchise Handyman Matters, says her mom taught her a good work ethic and instilled a value of philanthropy in her.

“I spend as much time weekly doing volunteer work as I do at my business,” Huston says.

The Jackson Team at Dave Perry Miller — which includes Scott Jackson, Lauren Moore, Ashley Rasmussen and Wendy Nevitt — all say their business thrives as a result of referrals.

“It is important to really connect with each client for success,” Rasmussen says. Realtor Wendy Nevitt adds,

“Our success comes from each Realtor working with and for each other as a team.”

As the first female franchise owner of the home repair service Handyman Matters, Huston says if you are good at what you do, it doesn’t matter if you are a man or a woman.

“I was driven to change the home-repair industry into being more customer-service oriented. That passion, plus my excellent staff, have been the keys to my success,” she says.

Realtor Nancy Johnson, Dave Perry-Miller, says she believes that as a woman, she offers a unique perspective, and that is part of what contributes to her success.

“I once had a client that was logically committed to purchasing a home but emotionally he wasn’t sure, and I was able to help him work through that. It’s a huge investment, and women can help smooth out that transition because we are creative, nurturing and businessminded. As a general rule, women look at the bigger picture,” she says.

Johnson has lived in Lakewood since 1983, and now that her daughter is a part of her real estate team, her

business will continue for years to come.

Realtor Allie Beth Allman says that establishing those nurturing relationships is vital.

“Women like to establish relationships, and that’s the key to the real estate industry.”

Allman says she learned at a young age that selling requires follow-through and trust.

“My father had a furniture store, and often I would go there and watch him treat customers as friends. I admired him, so I would help customers, too. I still enjoy making friends of clients and the thrill of making a deal work. A typical homeowner may buy three to five houses in a lifetime, so staying in touch with clients on a professional and personal basis is simply beneficial for all.”

Dallas City Center’s Kevin Caskey thinks the women in his office have an edge in the market.

“Many women have the patience that it takes to assist clients with the ups and downs of real estate transactions. You really have to have a sympathetic ear to help them through the process.”

Ebby Halliday Realtors Lakewood office manager Sherryl Wesson says her success has hinged upon her

ability to control her calendar when work and family life get hectic.

“My family has always been so loving and supportive. Real estate is not a 9-5 job. You really have to be flexible and have family that understands that.”

Wesson finds it satisfying to help real estate agents start their career at Ebby. “Not only do I help agents find success, but I also get to connect homebuyers with just the right agent that will help them make one of the most important financial decisions in their life.”

Throughout Wesson’s real estate career, she’s found it rewarding to empower other realtors with her expertise. “It is an honor to have been the past president of the MetroTex Association of Realtors and past director for both the Texas Association and the National Association of Realtors in my career,” Wesson says.

For White Rock North principal Amy Adams, balance is great in theory, but it’s a challenge.

“Let’s be honest, having four of my own kids plus 375 kids at White Rock North, I have to work pretty hard at separating my worlds.”

Farmer’s Insurance agent Kelly Harris says sticking

whiterocknorthschool.com 214.348.7410

In 1992, Amy Adams brought her Masters degree and her love of children to White Rock North School. Her parents, Mary and John Adams, founded the school in 1964 and Amy attended this unique school, just as her own four children did, through the 6th grade. Amy, a 1987 Lake Highlands High School graduate returned from Baylor and brought with her a unique philosophy of education that values the importance of being a child. “I believe kids should work hard and play hard, but our students are de nitely embracing a progressive education environment. All students, Kindergarten and older have tablets they use daily, blog with their teachers and de nitely love their BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) time! On the ip side, the students work and harvest food from the school’s Outdoor Learning Center that the school chef then prepares for their meals!

“At White Rock North, we believe it is possible to balance working hard for an education with time to breathe.”

Amy Adams Principal White Rock North School

Ranked as one of Dallas’ Top 10

Ranked as one of Dallas’ Top 10 Realtors.

Nancy and Alex Johnson are known for specializing in East Dallas, Lakewood, Park Cities, Preston Hollow, and surrounding areas. Our success has been built on a reputation for straight talk, hard work, creative vision, knowledge of the market, and most importantly a caring spirit. We have the experience you need and deserve when it comes to helping you find a place to call a home.

Nancy and Alex Johnson are known for specializing in East Dallas, Lakewood, Park Cities, Preston Hollow, and surrounding areas. Our success has been built on a reputation for straight talk, hard work, creative vision, knowledge of the market, and most importantly a caring spirit. We have the experience you need and deserve when it comes to helping you find a place to call a home.

to helping you find a place to call a home.

to routine at home helps.

“Living close to my parents and my husband’s parents has helped a great deal with the kids.”

For Handyman Matters’ Huston, work and home life have always been intertwined.

“My daughter was born in 2009, the same year I opened my business. It’s been amazing,” she says.

Skinner says it’s important to take care of yourself while working and raising a family. “You need to feed your soul with family time and spiritual nurturing.”

Realtor Jill Carpenter makes it a priority to take time for herself daily — even if it’s only for 30 minutes.

“Real estate is 24/7, so you have to be picky with your time. Luckily, my background in technology has helped me considerably to find ways to work smarter.”

Realtor Ashley Rasmussen also finds it difficult to balance home and work life, so she makes sure the time she spends with family is quality time.

“Volunteering at church also helps me to stay balanced.”

For dentist Dena Robinson, dentistry, home and work life constantly overlap.

“It can be frustrating, and you can experience some ‘mommy guilt’ a lot. But I think my children enjoy having me as a working mother, and I am a better mother for it.”

Success isn’t just all work and no play, though. For many of these women, the rewards of their careers far surpass what they sacrifice.

White Rock North’s Adams knew she wanted to be a principal ever since she was five years old. Her current position is the fulfillment of that dream.

“I attended White Rock North as a child. At the time, both of my parents were the principals, and I am so thankful for their example. One of the most rewarding parts about my job is getting visits from students, both past and present.”

Realtor Allie Beth Allman says that working with colleagues who share values and work ethic is stimulating for her.

“Industry surveys note that clients look for integrity above all other traits — more so than technical skills. Successful women in our industry know how to listen, how to care, how to go above and beyond,” Allman says.

She says that the relationships not only with clients, but other professionals in the real estate industry are also energizing.

“Many of us are mentors to younger professionals and have friends of many years who still love what they do,” Allman says.

Dena Robinson says she knew early on that her dream was to be a dentist. Now that Robinson is living her dream, she says being able to detect oral cancer in her patients is one of the most rewarding aspects for her.

“I found oral cancer in a 50-year-old man in its very early stages. He received treatment and is doing very well today. I love to rebuild smiles, too. Simply changing out a discolored old crown or straightening teeth with Invisalign can make a big impact on a person’s self esteem.”

Kelly Harris says that the most rewarding part of her work with Farmer’s Insurance is using her knowledge to help people through difficult situations.

“Once, a client called to tell me that her husband has passed away several months before, and she was just getting around to removing his name off their home

and auto insurance. When I pulled up her name, I saw that he also had a life insurance policy that she had not known about. It was nice to be able to tell her the good news during such a hard time, and it was really going to help her.”

Dallas City Center’s director Kevin Caskey says he’s proud that his business is constantly attracting new agents who want to build their business under the Dallas City Center umbrella. And many of these agents happen to be successful women.

“Our female brokers at Dallas City Center are not only market-savvy, but exceptional communicators,” Caskey says. “They have attracted customer loyalty, and that’s a huge part of what it takes to succeed in this industry.”

Realtor Lauren Moore finds her contentment from working in the community that she lives in.

“The homes in Lakewood are historical and unique, not cookie cutter, and the people match that aspect. You can’t find this anywhere else.

“It is rewarding to be given such a huge role in a client’s future, helping families choose the schools that their children will go to and the communities that they

will be a part of.”

Dee Moore, owner of Dee’s Doggie Den, says customers have become close friends, and there’s even been a few love connections among her customers.

“Since I have been open so long, I now have the pleasure of getting to know the children of long-time Dee’s Doggie Den customers; it has truly created a neighborhood, family atmosphere that I treasure!”

For some women, work achievements have been a pleasant surprise — “an encore” of success in a completely different industry.

In 2004, Realtor Jill Carpenter had taken a severance package and left a 19-year career in sales and operations management for a global electronic components company.

“I was interviewing for a similar position at a competitor and had contacted the Realtor who sold me my home. I was going to sell and move to Ft. Worth for the new job.

“He said he needed a part-time office manager, and I volunteered to help for a month or so before starting my new job. My first day, I decided the owner of the firm needed an assistant, and that was the day I decided to get my license. We did $13 million in sales

in seven months, and that was it.”

Kelly Harris says she didn’t plan to be an insurance agent.

“I went to school to study anthropology!” she says. “But my Dad got into insurance later in life and thought it would be neat if I joined him to get it off of the ground. We became partners in 2011, so it became a family business. Now I love it so much that I want to have my daughter join the business when she grows up.”

Dee Moore of Dee’s Doggie Den worked long hours in hotel and restaurant management before she discovered a business that was her true passion.

“While I was at work, my dogs were home alone for long periods of time. It occurred to me that they needed a sitter or a day care. After some research, it turned out that Dallas had no such thing as daycare for dogs in 1990, so I had to create it on my own.”

Realtor Lauren Moore left a career in marketing and advertising and found success in a completely different industry. “I was so impressed by my real estate experience with Scott Jackson as my Realtor that I followed in his footsteps and joined his team, and haven’t looked back since.” ◆

Ashley Rasmussen

Wendy Nevitt

Lauren Moore

For the love of art

During the Retail as Art Exhibition, United Commercial Reality announced the 12 winners of its sixth annual retail as art photography scholarship competition. Uriel Paulin, who lives in East Dallas, received the Teresa Gubbins award for his photo, “Peppermint.” Left to right: Mickey Ashmore , Uriel Paulin and Teresa Gubbins. SUBMIT

Local BULLETIN BOARD

EVENTS

STAMP COLLECTING!!

Remember the fun of stamp collecting? Dallas Philatelic Society meets the 2nd and 4th Weds at 7:30 pm at Edgemere Retirement Center. 8523 Thackery St Call Joe Baker 972-390-2648

CLASSES/TUTORING/ LESSONS

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

ART: Draw/Paint. Adults All Levels. Lake Highlands N. Rec. Ctr. Yearly fee. 18-59 yrs-$15, 60+$10 Mon-1-3: Wed 10:15-1:15, Jane Cross, 214-534-6829.

ARTISTIC GATHERINGS

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

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

CLASSES/TUTORING/ LESSONS

LEARN NEW TESTAMENT GREEK Beginners intermediates; Rice, TCU, DTS ex; John Cunyus 214-662-5494 www.JohnCunyus.com

MUSIC INSTRUCTION Especially For Young People Aged 5-12. Guitar, Piano, Percussion. ChildPlayMusicSchool.com. 214-733-1866

TUTORING: Writing coach. Manuscript Editor. 20+ years exp. 469-263-7004

Learn to draw this summer with Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain ®

Visit

Classes

www.PerceptionDrawing.com

Brenda Catlett Certified Instructor (972)989-0546

CHILDCARE

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

CHILDCARE

EMPLOYMENT

PET SITTERS, DOG WALKERS Email Recruiting@pcpsi.com

SERVICES FOR YOU

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

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

DISH TV RETAILER Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 months) & High Speed Internet starting at $14.95/month (where available) Save. Ask about Same Day Installation 1-800-615-4064

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

Local Resources

TO ADVERTISE 214.560.4203

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

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

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

BOOKKEEPING NEEDS? Need Help Organizing Finances?

No Job Too Small or Big.

Call C.A.S. Bookkeeping Services. Cindy 214-821-6903

FARMERS INSURANCE CALL JOSH JORDAN 214-364-8280. Auto, Home, Life Renters.

OSTEOPATHY—CRANIAL OSTEOPATH For structural or internal problems, head & body, newborn, young child, all ages. Liz Chapek, D.O. 214-341-8742. www.chapek.doctorsoffice.net

PROFESSIONAL PERSONAL TRAINING To Suit Your Specific Training Needs.Terry 214-206-7823. teryrjacobs@outlook.com

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

Moving out, moving up

When Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) moved to its new building at 2757 Swiss, it sold its former building at 2815 Gaston to Educational First Steps. EFS moved into the building on May 12. Left to right: John Breitfeller , Educational First Steps Executive Director; Bob Appel , Educational First Steps Relocation Committee Chair; Eliza Solender , Solender/ Hall; Cindy Warner , Dallas CASA Director of Finance & Administration; Beverly Levy , Dallas CASA Executive Director & President.

Cleaning house

In May, the annual Preservation Achievement Awards were presented by Preservation Dallas Board President Nancy McCoy. The Aldredge House, which is the headquarters of The Dallas County Medical Society Alliance, received the award in the “Commercial or Institutional Adaptive Use” category. Over the last three years, DCMSA members undertook a massive cleanup after the 2012 hailstorm that swept through the Swiss Avenue Historic District.

Left to right: Nancy McCoy , Barenda Hino and Sheri Miller

Local BULLETIN BOARD

TRAVEL

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

JOURNEY WITH JANE for a unique travel experience. Travel dreams become reality. 469-662-5212. journeywithjane.com

PET SERVICES

DEE’S DOGGIE DEN Daycare, Boarding, Grooming, Training. 6444 E. Mockingbird Ln. 214-823-1441 DeesDoggieDen.com POOP SCOOP PROFESSIONALS Trust The Experts. 214-826-5009. germaine_free@yahoo.com

In-Home Professional Care

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

“Best of Dallas” D Magazine

Serving the Dallas area since 1994 Bonded & Insured www.societypetsitter.com 214-821-3900

BUY/SELL/TRADE

GROUND FLOOR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Unique Opportunity for Residual Income. A Legacy Company Which Affords You and Your Family Guaranteed Income. 401-741-7596 healthandwealthct@gmail.com

BUY/SELL/TRADE

TEXAS RANGERS AND DALLAS STARS

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

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

ESTATE/GARAGE SALES

CLUTTERBLASTERS.COM-ESTATE SALES

Moving/DownSizing Sales, Storage Units. Organize/De-Clutter Donna 972-679-3100

ESTATE LIQUIDATORS DALLAS Prof service since 1981 Call Ruth. 972-818-3000. 214-566-3861 estateliquidatorsdallas@yahoo.com

ESTATE SALES & LIQUIDATION SERVICES

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

All Makes/Models. 214-660-8898

972-523-3996

WWW.AROTX.COM

We at AROTX repair all major appliances. Visit our website or call us. WE DO SAME DAY SERVICE

CARPENTRY & REMODELING

KITCHEN AND BATHROOM SPECIALISTS

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

O’BRIEN GROUP INC. Remodeling Dallas For Over 17 Years www.ObrienGroupInc.com 214-341-1448

RENOVATE DALLAS

renovatedallas.org 214-403-7247

RONALD L. SIEBLER

Remodeling & Historic Preservation www.Siebler.com 214-546-7579

TK REMODELING 972-533-2872 Complete Full Service Repairs, Remodeling, Restoration. Name It- We do it. Tommy. insured. http://dallas. tkremodelingcontractors.com

BRIAN GREAM RENOVATIONS LLC

• 1 & 2 Story Additions

• Complete Renovations

• Kitchens/Baths

• Licensed/Insured 214.542.6214

CLEANING SERVICES

INGRID CLEANING SERVICES Reliable, Dependable. Habla Español 214-395-1190

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

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

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

WANTED: HOUSES TO CLEAN 20 yrs. exp., Reliable, Great Prices, Excellent Refs., Free Ests. No Crews. Non-Corporate. Sunny 214-724-2555

WINDOW MAN WINDOW CLEANING.COM Residential Specialists. BBB. 214-718-3134

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

PayPal ®

WWW.BGRONTHEWEB.COM

BRIANGREAM@YAHOO.COM

TK Remodeling

Serving your Neighborhood Since 1993 Repairing: Refrigerators •Washer/Dryers

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

BLINDS, SHADES & DRAPERIES

SMARTLOOKS WINDOW & WALL DECOR

Window Treatments & Repair. 972-699-1151

CABINETRY & FURNITURE

SQUARE NAIL WOODWORKING

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

THE CABINET CONCIERGE

The Art of Storage. Call 214-821-5900

Email jin@thecabinetconcierge.com

CARPENTRY & REMODELING

ATLANTIS DESIGN-BUILD, LLC

Complete Remodeling. 40 Yrs Exp. Additions. 1 & 2 Story. Kitchens, Baths. Small Jobs To Entire House. Renovation & Design. Full Time Supervision.

Licensed/Insured. Free Estimates. 281-761-4648

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

CUSTOM CARPENTRY BY RON 214-674-1604

Trim Specialist - Mouldings, Cabinets, Hardware. Misc. Projects & Repairs. No Job Too Small

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

AUGUST DEADLINE JULY 9 TO ADVERTISE CALL 214.560.4203

Your neighborhood remodeler

•Repair •Remodeling •Restoration

•Complete full service

Name it— We do it

http://dallas.tkremodelingcontractors.com

Tommy 972-533-2872 INSURED

Unique Home Construction

- Design, Build, Remodel

- Kitchens & Baths

- New Construction or Additions

Many references available

- Licensed, Insured, Member of BBB www.uniquehomebuild.com 214.533.0716

CARPORTS

Don't lift a finger... We'll give you a hand! 214-324-1794 CitywidePersonalMaid.com

COMPUTERS & ELECTRONICS

ALL COMPUTER PROBLEMS SOLVED MAC/PC Great Rates! Keith 214-295-6367

BILL’S COMPUTER REPAIR Virus Removal, Data Recovery. Home/Biz Network Install. All Upgrades & Repairs. PC Instruction. No Trip Fee. 214-348-2566

CONCRETE/ MASONRY/PAVING

BRICK & STONE REPAIR

Imported from Japan

Carports, Patio & Pool Covers

JET OF TEXAS 214-288-6242

JetofTexas.com

NEW TO TEXAS NO UV,

HAIL, NO RAIN

CLEANING SERVICES

AMAZON CLEANING

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

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

Don 214-704-1722

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

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

CONCRETE REPAIRS/REPOURS

Demo existing. Stamping and Staining Driveways/Patio/Walkways

Pattern/Color available

Free Estimates 972-672-5359 (32 yrs.)

CONCRETE, Driveway Specialist Repairs, Replacement, Removal, References. Reasonable.

Chris 214-770-5001

EDMONDSPAVING.COM Asphalt & Concrete Driveway-Sidewalk-Patio-Repair 214-957-3216

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

Business Resources

TO ADVERTISE 214.560.4203

CONCRETE/ MASONRY/PAVING

FIREPLACE SERVICES

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

HANDYMAN SERVICES

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

HOUSE PAINTING

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

TONY’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work

Since 1984. INT/EXT 214-755-2700

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

Deckoart.com

ELECTRICAL SERVICES

4 U ELECTRICAL SERVICE, LLC

We will be there 4 U. 972-877-4183

ANTHONY’S ELECTRIC Master Electrician. TECL24948 anthonyselectricofdallas.com

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

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

GOVER ELECTRIC Back Up Generators. New and Remodel Work. Commercial & Residential. All Service Work. 469-230-7438. TECL2293

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

TEXAS ELECTRICAL • 214-289-0639

Honest, Quality. TECL 24668 CCs accepted.

TH ELECTRIC Reasonable Rates. Licensed & Insured. Ted. E257 214-808-3658

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

EXTERIOR CLEANING

G&G DEMOLITION Tear downs, Haul. Interior/Exterior. 214-808-8925

FENCING & DECKS

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

4 QUALITY FENCING Call Mike 214-507-9322

Specializing in Wood, New or Repair.

AMBASSADOR FENCE INC.

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

HANNAWOODWORKS.COM Decks,Doors, Carpentry, Remodeling 214-435-9574

KIRKWOOD FENCE & DECK

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

LONESTARDECKS.COM 214-357-3975

Trex Decking & Fencing, trex.com

All Wood Decks, Arbors & Patio Covers 214.692.1991

EST. 1991 #1

FENCE & IRON CO.

SPECIALIZING IN Wood Fences &Auto Gates

cowboyfenceandiron.com

FLOORING & CARPETING

ALL WALKS OF FLOORS 214-616-7641 Carpet, Wood, Tile Sales/Service Free Estimates

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

DALLAS HARDWOODS 214-724-0936 Installation, Repair, Refinish, Wax, Hand Scrape. Residential, Commercial. Sports Floors. 25 Yrs. HASTINGS STAINED CONCRETE New/ Remodel. Stain/Wax Int/Ext. Nick. 214-341-5993. www.hastingsfloors.com

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

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

Restoration Flooring

Hardwood Installation · Hand Scraping Sand & Finish · Dustless

25+ Years Experience

469.774.3147

restorationflooring.net

FOUNDATION

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

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

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

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

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

WANTED: ODD JOBS & TO DO LISTS

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

Your Home Repair Specialists Drywall

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

BRIAN GREAM

PAINTING & RENOVATIONS LLC

• Interior/Exterior • Drywall

• Rotten Wood • Gutters All General Contracting Needs

PayPal ®

214.542.6214

WWW.BGRONTHEWEB.COM

BRIANGREAM@YAHOO.COM

Exterior & Interior

INTERIOR DESIGN

CUSTOM DRAPERIES, WINDOWS. Upholstery, Shutters, Blinds, Wallpaper. All Interior Design. Serving Lakewood For Over 15 Yrs. Lara. 214-718-7281.

HOME INSPECTION

KITCHEN/BATH/ TILE/GROUT

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

D.R. TILE SERVICE

972-288-3797

We

GARAGE DOORS

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

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

GLASS, WINDOWS & DOORS

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

DOVETAIL CUSTOM SHUTTERS Louis Wiggins 214-342-0889 dovetailshutters.com

LAKE HIGHLANDS GLASS & MIRROR

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

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

HOUSE PAINTING

1 AFFORDABLE HOUSE PAINTING and Home Repair. Quality work. Inside and Out. Free Ests. Local Refs. Ron 972-816-5634 or 972-475-3928

#1 GET MORE PAY LES

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

A+ INT/EXT PAINT & DRYWALL

Since 1977. Kirk Evans. 972-672-4681

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

ABRAHAM PAINT SERVICE A Women Owned Business 25 Yrs. Int/Ext. Wall Reprs. Discounts On Whole Interiors and Exteriors 214-682-1541

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

BENJAMIN’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work At Reasonable Prices. 214-725-6768

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

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

Free Estimates•Wood•Marble•Tile•Travertine Kitchens & Baths•Countertops. 214-536-0045

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

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

STONE AGE COUNTER TOPS Granite, Marble, Tile, Kitchen/Bath Remodels. 972-276-9943 stoneage.dennis@verizon.net

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

•

•

ADVOCATE PUBLISHING does not pre-screen, recommend or investigate the advertisements and/or Advertisers published in our magazines. As a result, Advocate Publishing is not responsible for your dealings with any Advertiser. Please ask each Advertiser that you contact to show you the necessary licenses and/or permits required to perform the work you are requesting. Advocate Publishing takes comments and/or complaints about Advertisers seriously, and we do not publish advertisements that we know are inaccurate, misleading and/or do not live up to the standards set by our publications. If you have a legitimate complaint or positive comment about an Advertiser, please contact us at 214-560-4203. Advocate Publishing recommends that you ask for and check references from each Advertiser that you contact, and we recommend that you obtain a written statement of work to be completed, and the price to be charged, prior to approving any work or providing an Advertiser with any deposit for work to be completed.

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

A BETTER TREE COMPANY • JUST TREES

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

A BETTER TREE MAN Trims, Removals, Insd. 12 Yrs Exp. Roberts Tree Service. 214-808-8925

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

ALL YARD SERVICES Fertilization, Trim, Edge, Color. Com./ Res. 30 Yrs. Exp. Call Brooks. 972-279-3564, 214-923-5439

AYALA’S LANDSCAPING SERVICE

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

CHUPIK TREE SERVICE

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

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

DALLAS K.D.R.SERVICES • 214-349-0914

Lawn Service & Landscape Installation

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

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

HOLMAN IRRIGATION

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

IRRIGATION SYSTEM REPAIR Call Carl.

972-948-4335.Texas Irrigation Lic # 8708

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

PEST CONTROL

A BETTER EARTH PEST CONTROL

Keeping the environment, kids, pets in mind. Organic products avail. 972-564-2495

McDANIEL PEST CONTROL

Prices Start at $85 +Tax for General Treatment

Average Home, Interior, Exterior & Attached Garage Quotes for Other Services

214-328-2847

Lakewood Resident

PLUMBING

A2Z PLUMBING 214-727-4040

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

ANDREWS PLUMBING • 214-354-8521

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

Sewers • Drains • Bonded 24 Hours/7 Days

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

ARRIAGA PLUMBING:

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

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

JUSTIN’S PLUMBING SERVICE

For All Your Plumbing Needs. ml#M24406 972-523-1336. www.justinsplumbing.com

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

NTX PLUMBING SPEC. LLLP 214-226-0913

Lic. M-40581 Res/Com. Repairs & Leak Location

972-222-LAWN (5296)

RONS LAWN Organic Solutions. Not Environmental Pollution. Landscape & Maintenance

SERIOUSLY METICULOUS Verdant Grounds. 214-763-0492

SPRINKLER REPAIR SPECIALIST $25Off. 972-226-1925 www.rainmakertx.com LI#7732

TAYLOR MADE IRRIGATION Repairs, service, drains. 30+ years exp. Ll 6295

M-469-853-2326. John

THE POND MAN Water Gardens

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

TRACY’S LAWN CARE • 972-329-4190

Lawn Mowing & Leaf Cleaning

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

WATER-WISE URBAN LANDSCAPES www.TexasXeriscapes.com 469-586-9054

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

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

SPECK PLUMBING

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

POOLS

ADAIR POOL & SPA SERVICE

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

LEAFCHASERS POOLS

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

LOCK’S POOL SERVICE - 469-235-2072

40 years experience. Pool Electrical TICL #550

ROOFING & GUTTERS

A&B GUTTER 972-530-5699

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

ACE ROOFING

Roof Repair Specialist. Call Tom. 972-268-4047

MEDRANO ROOFING Resd/Comm. Quality Service & Craftsmanship. Free Est. 469-867-2129

SOMEONE STRIPPED THE TRUCK.

will cost the family about $4,000 to replace everything.

The Victim: Liz Smith

The Crime: Auto accessory theft

Date: Friday, May 13

Time: Between 5 p.m. and 8 a.m.

Location: 8100 block of Forest Hills

Liz Smith’s daughter loves horses. Before going to barrel racing competitions, she loads her horses into a trailer and hauls them with her 2009 Chevy Silverado pickup truck. Then she saddles up and charges around the barrels at a blistering pace.

Hauling her prized horses was made a little more difficult recently, however, when a criminal targeted their Forest Hills home.

“We didn’t hear a thing,” Smith says of that evening.

During the night, someone removed all four wheels and rims as well as the tailgate from the truck. The frustrating crime

Smith says her family has lived in the area for more than 20 years and has experienced hardly any crime save for one stolen bike.

Dallas Police Sgt. Keitric Jones of the Northeast Patrol Division says these types of crimes still occur regularly in East Dallas. He says a good way to prevent wheel thefts is to buy locking lugnuts.

“If you have a new vehicle, most tailgates have a lock, and the citizens just need to make sure they lock them,” Jones says. “As for older-model trucks, there is really no good way to secure your tailgate. You may search the Internet to see if there are aftermarket devices that secure your tailgate.”

The suspects work very fast and can take property in a short amount of time, Jones adds. Since there are no witnesses to most of these offenses, it is difficult to catch a suspect.

Tax Tip

Best tax advice you will ever receive: Max out on your 401-K! Traditional or Roth ... you’ll be glad you did

• Tax Preparation

• IRS Audit Representation

• IRS Notice Resolution

cpa jlewis@jlewiscpa.com

• 26 years in the White Rock Lake Neighborhood 6301 Gaston Avenue, Suite 800 214-821-0829

Jack F. Lewis Jr., CPA

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

The day in May when a woman was taken from a convenience store against her will.

The block of Belmont where more than two dozen Dallas police units and SWAT teams were involved in a standoff after the suspect shot the victim and barricaded himself in a house. The victim was rescued and taken to the hospital.

the age of Richard Calderon, the suspect involved in the standoff, who was found dead when police entered the house.

SOURCE: Dallas Police Department

CONCRETE PROBLEMS

How outdated transportation models stifle growth and damage our neighborhoods

What makes a city grow? Ask regional transportation planners in North Texas, and they’ll tell you that one of the primary drivers of economic growth is concrete. More and more of it, by the laneful. If only we could add enough highways to solve our city’s congestion problems, Dal-

las’ economy would flourish, residents would flock here, and our air would sparkle. Without those precious additional lanes of freeway (and toll roads), Dallas is doomed to stagnation.

But building more freeways is like loosening your belt to solve a weight problem. Between 2001-2010, many lane miles were added to Dallas’ freeway system, yet our population growth was flat. The North Texas region, however, grew substantially. Bigger freeways encourage sprawl and push more people out to the suburbs. Those new lanes make it easier to move through our city, past our city, away from our city.

Regional transportation planners are inclined to ease suburban

commutes at the expense of Dallas’ quality of life. You’ll notice that the word “Dallas” appears nowhere in their titles — they are regional planners. Their priority is regional mobility, not the prosperity of Dallas and our neighborhoods. They talk a good game of expanding alternative transportation options, of creating more walkable communities, of encouraging denser mixed-use development in our city center. But take one look at the state and federal dollars they funnel toward regional transportation projects, and you’ll see the vast majority of it goes toward massive freeway construction.

A couple of months ago, I spoke with Michael Morris, Director of Transportation for the North Central Texas Council of Governments. Morris is one of the most powerful voices in the region when it comes to transportation decisions. He guides policy and directs the flow of funding for large-scale transportation projects. He has been a stalwart advocate for the Trinity Toll Road, so you could say we haven’t always seen eye-toeye when it comes to transportation issues. But I was still surprised by a statement Morris made in The Dallas Morning News about East Dallas.

Morris had written an op-ed in the paper against tearing down and boulevarding Interstate 345 — the stretch of I-45 between Woodall Rodgers and Central Expressway. In it, almost as an aside, Morris wrote that, “Consideration should also be given to a new ‘inner loop’ study that would address how to move traffic from I-35E to the

Hospital District to Love Field, and on to the Dallas North Tollway, Central and I-30.” Take out a map, and he’s talking about building a freeway through East Dallas. After I picked up my jaw from the floor, I called him.

When I expressed my incredulity about such a proposition, Morris assured me that he wasn’t talking about an elevated freeway at all; he was thinking about a big tunnel. When I pressed him about where the tunnel would go and reminded him of the failed proposal to tunnel underneath Mockingbird in Highland Park, he quickly disabused me of the notion that the route would go through Highland Park: more likely through Oak Lawn. Farther east, Morris envisioned the tunnel running somewhere south of Mockingbird, north of I-30, west of the lake, and east of Central. That’s East Dallas, I told him. We don’t take kindly to massive transportation projects slicing through our neighborhoods (Haskell Avenue Alignment Project, anyone?). And it’s not hard to imagine a prohibitively expensive tunnel devolving into an elevated freeway to cut costs, leaving a massive, concrete scar through East Dallas and irrevocably damaging our neighborhoods.

By the end of the conversation, Morris assured me that I had persuaded him, and that he would drop the idea altogether. I’m not convinced. Our regional transportation model is stuck somewhere in 1954. Dallas needs progressive transportation planners who will stand up to the regionalists and focus on mobility options that will make our city a better place to live, not drive through.

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

Building more freeways is like loosening your belt to solve a weight problem.