2021 November Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate

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7806 GLEN ALBENS | $1,235,000 3 Bed | 4.1 Bath | 3 Liv | 2 Car | 3,796 SF Marilyn Pailet - 214-692-0000 NEW LISTING

2239 PECAN GROVE | $630,000 3 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Car Denise Larmeu - 324-336-6687 NEW LISTING

8706 GROVELAND | $995,000

4 Bed | 3 Bath | 3,077 SF New Listing Paula Streiff - 469-231-7170

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4545 RUSK | $625,000 3 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Car | 2,122 SF Peter Loudis - 214-215-4269

4701 WHITEHALL | $595,000 5 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 3 Liv | 2 Car | 3,577 SF Janet Brown - 214-692-0000

PENDING PENDING

4111 NEWTON #23 | $545,000

240 PALISADE LOOP | $540,000

2009 FAIRWAY BEND | $539,900

5616 MEMORIAL | $425,000 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Liv | 2 Car | 2,344 SF Brown-Qualls & Schrickel Group 214-801-1795

5609 SMU #407 | $312,000

2723 RIPPLEWOOD | $300,000

2 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 Car | 1,977 SF Paula Scofield - 214-232-0562

LAKEWOOD | LAKE HIGHLANDS | 214-826-0316

3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Liv | 1,684 SF Jessica Wantz - 713-299-1546

2 Bed | 2 Bath | 1 Car Denise Larmeu - 214-336-6687

PRESTON CENTER | 214-692-0000

5 Bed | 4 Bath | 2 Liv | 3 Car | 3,305 SF Natalie Alfrey - 214-692-0000

3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Car Streiff, Williams, Gall & Sliva 469-231-7170

EBBY’S LITTLE WHITE HOUSE | 214-210-1500

Let’s talk turkey. 6045 PROSPECT | SOLD 4 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 2 Car | 3,262 SF Peter Loudis - 214-215-4269

2205 CANTON ST. #123 | $659,400

3 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 2 Car | 2,917 SF Mary Rinne - 214-552-6735

It’s that time of year when our thoughts start turning to seasonal decorating, family gatherings, out of town guests and entertaining. If your current home just won’t 2407 RESORT | $580,000 4 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Liv | 3 Car | 3,146 SF Jini Rosenbaum - 214-692-0000

722 HUNTLEY | $575,000

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5964 HIGH POINT | $485,000 4 Bed | 4 Bath | 2 Liv | 2 Car | 2,837 SF Valerie Heaton - 214-692-0000

5925 E UNIVERSITY 132 | $250,000

7801 ROYAL | $134,900

2 Bed | 2 Bath | 1,153 SF The Chris Hickman Group 469-569-1106

1 Bed | 1.1 Bath | 782 SF Jorge Goldsmit - 214-245-5357

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contents NOVEMBER 2021 VOL.28 NO.11

16 CLICKWORTHY All the web news 18 PROFILE Christine Allen 26 PEACE PANTRY Giving back to Woodrow students 30 FAMILY LEGACY Evelyn Goldstein 40 DINING O’Riley’s Billiards, Food & Bar 44 WHITE ROCK LAKE HISTORY Events of past Novembers

Gardeners plant flowers and vegetables at the Worth Street Community Garden. Read more on page 52. Photography by Yuvie Styles.

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DALLAS | $645,000 Liliana Ornelas 214.808.0242 lili.ornelas@cbdfw.com

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DALLAS | $375,000 Evelio Flores 214.707.9168 evelio.flores@cbdfw.com

FORNEY | $375,000 Jorge Villalpando 214.336.3060 jorge.villalpando@cbdfw.com

FATE | $359,900 Lorene Viquez 972.343.8380 lorene.viquez@cbrealty.com

DALLAS | $359,900 Zenidah Vasquez 972.322.3668 zenidah.vasquez@cbrealty.com

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Meet Taxy, aka Pookie To most people, her name is Taxy. But to her owner, Steve Levin, her name is Pookie. Months after his wife died in April 2015, Levin decided to make some changes in his life. He did some renovations at his home, and he was anxious to get a pet. That’s where Taxy, so named because she was born on Tax Day, came into the picture. “She keeps me responsible in a big way, but it keeps me grounded, too, with that responsibility,” Levin says. It didn’t take long for Taxy to make the home her own. She’s found lots of hiding places inside and in the yard, which Levin has had to “cat-proof,” patching up any holes whenever Taxy escapes. Taxy spends most of her time outside but still comes inside to use her litter box. Don’t mistake her tendency to be outside as a sign of antisocial behavior; she’s a good travel companion and sits on Levin’s lap almost the whole time in the car on their trips to Florida to visit Levin’s family. Another unusual thing about Taxy is that her teeth are very clean. Levin suspects it’s because she has an affinity for chewing on plastic straws, which he keeps in cups throughout the house. — RENEE UMSTED GOT A PET YOU WANT US TO FEATURE? Email your photo to rumsted@advocatemag.com.

coming & going [+] F45 TRAINING is opening this fall at Hillside Village Shopping Center. Owner Kari Garrick has lived in East Dallas since 2007. [-] Manpuku delayed the opining of THE NIKU BAR, its outdoor spot for Japanese tapas and drinks, because of exposure to COVID-19 and as an extra precaution. [+] ANISE, a new dining concept at The Village, is now serving

EDUCATION NEWS n LEONARDO PAINEVILO, a teacher at Alex Sanger Preparatory School, teaches

wine and food inspired by the Mediterranean. It spans 3,200

Spanish, technology, coding and robotics.

square feet at the Drey Hotel.

Originally from Argentina, he was featured in a video for Hispanic Heritage Month.

Notes from City Hall The three-member Ethics Advisory preliminary panel voted to move to a full commission hearing on an ethics complaint filed against Council member Paul Ridley. The complaint was filed by District 14 neighbor Kristen Scholer, who was removed from the Redistricting Commission by the City Council at the request of Ridley.

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into the curriculum for certain science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics students in Dallas ISD. When the show comes to town in November and December, the students will see it live. Visit lakewood.advocatemag.com for more.

Thankful for Our Lakewood Community Proud Continued Supporters of Our Neighborhood Schools and Sponsors of the 45th Annual Lakewood Home Festival

Sponsoring 6921 Westlake at the 2021 Lakewood Home Festival Lauren Valek Farris 469.867.1734 Kelley Theriot McMahon 214.563.5986

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Ark of the Rainbow co-founders Christine Allen, Latha Kuttiyan and Dana Allen work to help a community. Photography by Matt Hawthorne.

K N OW L E D G E I S P OW E R How this neighbor’s nonprofit combats poverty with education Interview by RENEE UMSTED

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anting to learn about and help alleviate poverty and human trafficking, Christine Allen took a sabbatical from her corporate job at Frito L ay and connec ted with a n o r ga n i z at i o n i n In d i a , a c o u n t r y w h e r e h e r husband’s family had been medical missionaries. The experiences she had there — rescuing children from traffickers and witnessing how education kept kids off the streets — convinced her to leave the business world. She started a nonprofit, Ark of the Rainbow, and partnered with Indian organizations to set up a school in a rural area near Bangalore. They ser ve a community of about 10,000. Many of them lack running water, while just an hour away, the city houses a thriving tech industr y. Over time, our neighbor and her husband, Dana, c ultivated donors to support the nonprofit. They educate children and families and provide jobs for Indian people. The Allens, who have lived in Lakewood for seven years, have five children ages 3-10. WHAT WERE SOME CHALLENGES YOU FACED STARTING OUT WITH THE NONPROFIT?

Chromebooks and things like that. And in India, we really have to be more creative about it. Each week, our teachers will print out worksheets and different things for the students. And then they’ ll go and literally distribute them outside each of the homes of all the students in the school. And then oftentimes, we’re working with families that don’t have internet or anything like that. But parents might have one cell phone, and WhatsApp is prevalent in India. So our teachers will WhatsApp student lessons, and then the parents will pick up the worksheets outside their home and work through them with their kids. But because we’re dealing with a lot of uneducated parents as well, that ’s not al ways easy. An d so our teachers in India have been able to bring in students kind of one by one for tutori n g , a n d t o m a ke s u r e t h at t h e y ’r e c a u g h t u p w i t h o u r lessons and to really try to retain as much knowledge as possible.

We employ local people who have grown up in these communities. And so now, they’re turning around and trying to help their own communities.

A l o t o f i t h a s b e e n e d u c at i n g people on how education can actually help prevent human trafficking and poverty and why i t ’s a n i m p o r t a n t p i e c e o f t h e puzzle as you’re tr ying to attack a broader social issue. But the more you can give people kind of l o ng -t er m, b e tt er job op p or tu n itie s , as we ll as keep vulnerable children off the stree ts, it really d o e s m a k e a h u g e d i ff e r e n c e . Tr y i n g t o r u n a nonprofit that ’s halfway across the world while we h ave fi ve k i d s, th at ’s be e n tricky. HOW HAS THE PANDEMIC AFFECTED THE NONPROFIT?

Sixth grade and above is able to be open right now. But for the last year and a half to two years, all the lower schools have been closed, which is really impacting students in India. So we’re doing virtual school, but virtual school with a very poor community is very different than what you would see in Lakewood. So here, everyone was able to access WiFi, and they’re given their laptops and their

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HAS THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN THE U.S. CHANGED?

We started the nonprofit in India first, and then we became a foster family here because we had a heart for vulnerable children. The problems we see with human trafficking don’t translate the same way from India to the U.S. So in India, you see a couple of things. You see families that have no job options, ver y little education. They’re struggling to just feed their families. There are times when they’re either tricked into selling their children into human trafficking or sometimes they even willingly will sell their children because they’re so desperate to feed their families. In the U.S., you’ ll see there’s just a lot of vulnerable teenagers who succumb to human trafficking, whether they’re runaways or foster children or things like that. It’s a little bit different, I think, the population that it affects, and probably the way to address it is a little bit different. HOW DO YOU SEE ARK OF THE RAINBOW MAKING A DIFFERENCE?

The area that we work in India, there are no other

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A student learns at Ark of the Rainbow’s school near Bangalore, India. Photography by Angela Weedon.

quality education options. We have very long waiting lists for our services. And we know that families really appreciate the high-quality education that we’re able to provide, in addition to the fact that our school teaches in three languages, but one of them is English, which really opens up a lot of doors that would not otherwise be open for these children. I think the other thing is, we do a lot of prevention and awareness on human trafficking. And we’ve seen that play out in multiple situations where our student population has been able to protect themselves, or we’ve been able to rescue and retrieve students who have actually been trafficked and kidnapped because of being able to be aware of the situation early and being trained and know what to do. Also, we do provide college scholarships to students that continue with their studies. And we’ve seen children come from uneducated families, go through our program, and then come back as teachers in our school one day. They’re changing the lives of the next generation of students and their community.

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W H O I S O N T H E G ROU N D, RU N N I N G T H E N O N P RO F I T ?

We employ local people who have grown up in these communities. People have believed in them and sent them on for education. And so now, they’re turning around and tr ying to help their own communities. They’re ver y well-trusted and really understand the needs of the people. WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU DONE THIS YEAR?

We’ve had to do a lot of emergency food and medicine for families who just can’t afford it. We’ ll feed a family if they don’t have food, and sometimes their families are divided, because they have to send their children away because they can’t feed them. And that brings the family back together. We’ve paid for kidney transplants for people or whatever comes up, and so we know that we’re saving lives every day. Interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

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Amber Duke’s functional living students work in the pantry each morning.

T H E WO O D ROW CO M M U N I TY Peace Pantry had been providing uniforms and food to students at the high school for years. Leaders had even formed a nonprofit and opened pantries at J.L. Long Middle School, four elementary schools in the feeder pattern and a few schools outside the community. All of that was possible because the nonprofit’s volunteers could access the pantry to sort donations and assemble bags for students who needed them. But when the pandemic emerged, visitors weren’t allowed on campus. One Woodrow teacher and her class saw an opportunity to help. “It saved our pantry because we weren’t allowed in the building,” says Kippy Clapp, who manages the pantry. The teacher, Amber Duke, volunteered her functional living skills students to take the lead on managing the pantry. In the past, they helped out occasionally, including by organizing clothes. But the pandemic provided Duke the o p p o r t u n i ty t o m a ke t h e p a n t r y part of the students’ curriculum. “They are focusing on work skills, things that’ll help them in their future that aren’t necessarily academic but work-related so that they can

hold jobs,” Duke says. Four to six students spend 30 minutes in the pantry each day. They take inventory using a Google form. They stock, organize and clean shelves. They wash and fold clothes. They help put together backpacks that are distributed to students once a week. And when items are running low, the class takes a trip to Walmart to replenish supplies. “I didn’ t realize how much the moms were doing behind the scenes until they weren’t able to come in,” Duke says. In addition to teaching the students practical life skills, working in the pantry gives them a chance to get out of the classroom and feel a little less isolated. Initially, some of the students didn’t understand the significance of the bags they were assembling. Once they realized they were making them for someone else, the work in the pantry became unique. It is unlike many other tasks the students are asked to complete, which are often just ways to practice various skills, such as filing. “The pantry just creates opportunities where they can give back to the community,” Duke says. “They can feel a part of the community.” NOVEMBER 2021

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GOOD GRIEF Andrea Davis uses art to help people process through issues Story by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

ANDREA DAVIS had been an art therapist for six years when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer. It was stage 2. Her treatment included a double mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy. “That really does a number on you, when you go through an experience like that,” she says. “And I had a lot of thoughts about what would I do differently in my life.” She founded Dallas Art Therapy in

2017. It’s a place for therapists to work when they settle in Dallas, and it helps fulfill businesses’ need for art therapy services. Davis moved to Little Forest Hills when she was 9 years old and attended Alex Sanger, St. Bernard, Bishop Lynch and Bryan Adams. She received her bachelor’s in psychology from The University of Texas at Dallas and then went to The University of West Georgia to get her master’s in humanistic psychology. She moved back to Dallas but couldn’t

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find a job in psychology, so she started teaching — at St. Bernard, St. Thomas and St. Rita’s. After five years, she was burned out. “I literally sat down at my school computer and just typed in ‘art’ and ‘psychology’ because I’m like these are the two things I love the most,” Davis says. “And I hit enter, and the Art Therapy Institute came up, and it was in the same ZIP code that I lived in.” Her curiosity was sparked. She had first been introduced to art therapy

when writing her undergraduate thesis. Her professor had briefly mentioned the topic, but Davis never investigated it. She called the Art Therapy Institute. The school’s founder answered the phone and invited Davis to an art therapy exhibit. She went. “I had that happen to me, where I already had earned a master’s degree in psychology and I’ve read all of these different writers and different theories,” Davis says. “But this is what hit me as, oh my gosh, this is it, this is what I have to do.” She saw a hand-sewn doll wearing a tattered dress. Pinned to it was a note from the doll’s creator, who promised to take care of the doll, feed it and make sure it was clothed. The power in the message, which represented an adult having a conversation with their child self, moved Davis to tears. She signed up for classes and earned a second master’s degree. Art therapy can be beneficial for people of all ages dealing with all sorts of problems. Participants have an intent, or an issue they want to work on; it could be an argument with a relative, a death of a loved one, addiction, trauma or suicidal thoughts. They work with an art therapist to select materials to create a visual representation of the issue. No art skills are required, Davis says, because the focus is on the process. As a nonprofit, Dallas Art Therapy offers free art therapy sessions for adults a couple of times a month. It partners with The Meadows Texas to help people dealing with addiction and trauma, and is working on a contract with Texas Health Presbyterian to offer art therapy for the elderly. Dallas Art Therapy also has a program for girls in middle school and high school who have ADHD. “We don’t need to just rely on the language center for expression and processing through things,” Davis says. “It can happen in so many different ways.”

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velyn Goldstein stayed up drinking wine and listening to Miles Davis to write her dad’s eloquent obituary for the Jewish Post earlier this year. She called David Goldstein the last of the Deep Ellum Jewish pawnbrokers. “I’m not a writer,” she says. “People have tried to write a book on my family so many times, that I’m like, ‘You know what, I’m going to write this’ ... because dad was everything to me and to a lot of people.” Her great-uncle was Honest Joe, aka Rubin Goldstein, whose pawnshop, with its glorious jumble of hand-painted signs, was a fixture of Deep Ellum for generations. Honest Joe grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and dreamed of owning a pawnshop like the ones lining Delancey Street in the early 20th century. In 1931, he moved to Dallas, where he had relatives in the pawn business, and at age 23 opened Honest Joe’s at 2524 Elm St. Once he was established, his kin started moving here, including brother Rocky Goldstein. That was Evelyn’s grandfather. Rocky’s Pawnshop was at 2018 Elm St. Evelyn’s dad worked there star ting in childhood and later co-owned it with his dad. The place was crammed with stuff, an organizer’s nightmare. One of Rocky’s signs read, “Stop dropping cigarette butts on the floor, the cockroaches are getting cancer.” They did business with wise guys and petty criminals, but also musicians, housewives and working stiffs. “When I was a kid, I always wanted to be at my dad’s shop,” Evelyn says. She grew up in Garland and graduated from Dallas Academy in Lake Highlands. David Goldstein worked all the time and never took days off, so Evelyn and her brother, Jordan, have tons of childhood memories from the shop. “There were gangsters in there all the time,” she says. Guys she knew as East Dallas

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Louie and Johnny Tomato used to pick her up from school. Rocky put her into business around age 12 with gumball and candy machines. She had several in East Dallas, like at laundromats and Garland Road Thrift Store, and those drivers would take her around to collect her profits and refill them. The Goldsteins received national attention for a couple of presidential incidents. Honest Abe helped the FBI with tracing the rifle Lee Harvey Oswald used to assassinate President Kennedy in 1963. The pawnbroker reportedly had ridden in JFK’s motorcade, and he is mentioned in the Warren Commission Report. In 1981, Rocky Goldstein sold a .22-caliber handgun to Highland Park’s own John Hinckley, who used it in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Ever y media outlet in the countr y wanted to interview him about that. The notoriety he received over it was so intense that they moved Rocky’s from Deep Ellum to East Grand about a year later, Evelyn says. She remembers vividly the time, when she was 7 years old, that the shop on East Grand was held up. “I was put into a back room,” she says. “That kind of stuff was very common then.” David Goldstein, who was a staunch Republican his whole life, moved the shop to Garland Road at Peavy around 1990. He turned it into a police supply store, selling uniforms, holsters and vests to cops, while his dad also ran a small pawnshop inside the store. “Have you ever heard of a pawn shop inside of a police store?” Evelyn says. “You had the police rubbing elbows with the criminals.” The Garland Road store was safer than the two previous locations, she says. Evelyn started working there when she was about 15, mostly helping with inventory. In high school, her friends always wanted to hang out there, even when they could’ve been at the mall or Wet and Wild. The magnetism was in her dad’s stories of old Dallas, and he also gave them candy. David Goldstein, who grew up in East Dallas and graduated from Hillcrest High School, practiced painting and music and loved to romance beautiful women. He was married four times, and his final marriage, to Laura Levy, lasted 17 years. He was known as a Jewish matchmaker and even introduced his ex-girlfriends to his buddies. In 1986, he started a club with his three best friends, Bernie Schuster, Larry Strauss and Howie Miles, called the Weiss Guys. “Ever y Thursday night, they would go out — women weren’t invited — and they’d have a dinner,” Evelyn says. The Weiss Guys grew to include about 200 men, and 40 or 50 would often show up to the dinners. “My little brother was working in a restaurant, and he didn’t want to wait on them,” she says. “Separate checks, Diet Cokes, coffees with cream ...” About once a year, they’d have a big party at the Stoneleigh and invite the wives, she says. After her

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Opposite page: Rocky and David Goldstein in their Deep Ellum pawnshop in the 1960s. Above: Honest Joe’s as it looked in the 1970s. Photos courtesy of Evelyn Goldstein. Top: Goldstein near the site of Rocky’s in Deep Ellum. Photo by Jessica Turner.

dad died in May, they held the last Weiss Guys dinner. “They invited me and my brother and had us sit at the head of the table,” she says. “Almost all of them came. It was very touching.” Evelyn still has two cousins who worked at Rocky’s back in the day. But so many of David Goldstein’s close friends and family members have died, she says. It’s a shame nobody wrote that book. Life behind the bar

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didn’t set out to be a bartender my whole life,” Evelyn says. She’s lived all over Dallas, completed college courses and worked in several industries. But she always comes back to slinging drinks. She recently started at Al Biernat’s, a restaurant her dad loved. Her first job was working as a bar back for the owners o f D e s p e r a d o ’s M e x i c a n Restaurant, who were friends of her dad.

But her favorite job of all time was at the Granada Theater. “I was the first bartender they hired,” she says. “I have so much love from that family, it’s unbelievable.” She worked there until 2013, when she had to quit because she was near death before receiving a kidney transplant. “I was working a shift there one night, and it was real busy, and I thought I was going to have a heart attack,” she says. “I’ve never felt anything like that before.” She went home and then drove herself to an urgent clinic, which rushed her to the hospital because she was minutes from stroking out. At age 28, she was diagnosed with a rare genetic kidney disease. First, she took nine months of chemotherapy, followed by six-anda-half years of “grueling” dialysis. By the end, she weighed 70 pounds, and the dialysis, “felt like it was sucking the insides of me out.” She received a kidney transplant Sept. 23, 2014, on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year. After that, she returned to work at the Majestic Theater, an easier job with fewer dates, and over the years has worked her way back into the restaurant business. Eater interviewed her last year for their national publication after she contracted COVID-19 at work in a Dallas restaurant. The virus attacked her kidney and put her in the hospital. Working in restaurants during the pandemic has been among the most stressful times of her life, she says. At a previous job, a customer threw a glass at her (and missed) because she told him to put on a mask. Around that time, “things were going on in Israel,” and she received antisemitic harassment from a customer who noticed her Star of David charm. “Everyone was in a bad mood. No one wanted to be there,” she says. “It was a horrible time.” And then her father died. A few days before, he told her he thought she should be working at Al Biernat’s. “He knew,” she says. “He was just a character.”

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THIS YEAR’S LAKEWOOD HOME FESTIVAL WILL BE A “STREET-VIEW” tour with a twist. “While the Home Tour Festival weekend will again look different this year, our focus and goal of raising critical funds for our local schools remains steadfast,” says Shannon McKie, president of the Lakewood Early Childhood PTA, which presents the Home Tour Nov. 13. This year’s 45th annual home tour is bowing to the realities of the pandemic in making tour-home interiors off-limits. But in a new initiative to engage visitors, each of the six selected neighborhood tour homes will have family-friendly activities on the front lawn, Saturday, Nov. 13 and

will include food trucks, games, crafts and activities for kids and adults. “We are excited to feature activations outside each of the homes,” McKie says. “We know it will be a fun and safe experience that will continue to rally our community in helping our East Dallas schools.” Homes featured on this year’s tour include: • 6827 Lakeshore Drive, sponsored by the JacksonSells Team and Lawyers Title. • 6818 Lakeshore Drive, sponsored by the Nancy Johnson Group/Compass. • 7575 Benedict Drive, sponsored by the Heather Guild Group and Veritex Community Bank. • 6944 Lakewood Boulevard, sponsored

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Funds raised from last year’s home tour and other LECPTA fundraising efforts were distributed to Lakewood Elementary, $125,000; Long, $65,000; Woodrow, $45,000; Mount Auburn Elementary, $5,000; Lipscomb Elementary, $5,000; and Geneva Heights Elementary, $5,000. “Our feeder-pattern schools each have unique needs, and this upcoming spring we are proud to introduce a new grant application that will enhance our giving to better equip those schools in addressing areas of need,” McKie says. Lakewood Elementary principal Brittany Thompson agrees that LECPTA’s contributions make a huge difference in educating neighborhood children. “The support our school has received from fundraising efforts of the LECPTA has empowered our ability to address specific needs that we likely would not have been able to otherwise,” Thompson says. “And even last year amidst a pandemic, the LECPTA raised a total of $250,000 and was able to also distribute a significant portion of those funds to other schools within our feeder pattern. This alone demonstrates their commitment to serving all of our East Dallas schools — all of our neighborhood children.” Join in on the fun by purchasing Home Tour Guidebooks, Family Activation Packs and Candlelight Tour wristbands. New Family Activation Packs are $50 and include wristbands for two adults and two kids and provide unlimited access to activations outside tour homes from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13. A candlelight tour is scheduled later that night from 6-9 p.m.; a limited number of candlelight tour tickets are available for $30. The annual auction party, which will be held outdoors at Marie Gabrielle Restaurant & Gardens in the Hardwood District near Downtown Dallas, is sold out. The weekend is funded in part by Home Festival presenting sponsor Comerica Bank, Auction Party presenting sponsor Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate, and media sponsor Advocate Media. Gold sponsors include Skylar Champion Real Estate Group, the Nancy Johnson Group/Compass, PlainsCapital Bank, Harwood Group, Lawyers Title, McKie Family Foundation and Melissa M. Burns, Attorney. For information and tickets, visit lakewoodhomefestival.org. Top: This modern home located at 7575 Benedict Drive has backyard views of the lake. Right: The airy kitchen at 6818 Lakeshore Drive features an original wood support beam.

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TED BREWSTER JR. used to stop by O’Riley’s Billiards, Food and Bar in the mornings when he worked for Texas Instruments Incorporated next door. “My wife, she worked as a waitress and a bartender … when we were dating,” Brewster says. “And then one day I heard (O’Riley’s) was for sale and I just asked her, ‘You want to buy it?’ And she was like, ‘Yeah,’ so we did.” It’s been 18 years since then, and O’Riley’s is keeping up with its regulars from 7 a.m.-2 a.m. every day but Sunday. “That’s because of the law,” says Brewster, who’s lived in Lakewood for 25 years. On Sundays, they open at 11 a.m. Most nights of the week, there’s some kind of event taking place at O’Riley’s on Forest Lane: Sundays are for pool competitions; Mondays are for karaoke; Tuesdays are for open

mics. On Fridays and Saturdays, O’Riley’s hosts three live bands a night, starting at 8:30. For the days when there are no mic’d up tunes, a jukebox is always available. On open mic and band nights, any level singer or player is welcome to step on stage. “I have a reputation for a long time that I let all bands play here. All new bands come through here pretty much. I let everybody play,” he says. Signing up to play is just as relaxed. Brewster advertises his phone number and an online calendar. If there’s a spot open, a single call will get a band signed up. His wife, Karina mans the door on live performance nights. Those walking in indicate which band they’re showing up for, so she can tally up how the cover should be distributed. The bands receive the complete cover at the end of the night, split by those tallies.

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For those just looking for a drink or food, there’s no cover. O’Riley’s food menu is a little on the smaller side. In the way of appetizers and snacks, it has mini cheeseburgers and queso, chips and salsa. But the real winner that keeps everyone coming back is sub sandwiches. “ You wouldn’t even believe how many sandwiches we sell,” Brewster says. And regarding the short menu, he believes that’s the way to do it. “They’re really good. I mean, it’s a big old hoagie,” he says. “Like I tell everybody, ‘If you only serve one thing, you better be damn good.’” Hoagies are ser ved hot with a choice of roast beef, turkey or ham, plus cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo, mustard and a pickle spear. Sliced pickles and jalapeños are available upon request. If you’re lucky, you’ll come across a

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The Joe E. Lawther dredge boat, named for a Dallas mayor and park supporter, hit a snag in 1937.

November 1937: Sinking of the Joe E. Lawther dredge boat Every 18-20 years, buildup of lake-floor sludge necessitates an expensive under taking that involves excavating excess sediment and debris using massive vacuum-like machinery. The inaugural White Rock Lake dredging launched Nov. 5, 1937, and involved a craft worth more than $6 million in today’s money. Likely considered unsinkable as it left its port on the northeast side of the pond, the vessel would, within a few days, become ensnared in one of our burg’s costliest maritime disasters. White Rock Lake was in its mid-20s

when buildup began causing offensive odors and unsanitary conditions, explained a report by Civilian Conservation Corps, a contingent of young Americans and their officers, who, following Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, had been working the previous two years to transform the park into the urban oasis we know today. Relentless Texas sun caused rapid evaporation in the northeast creek, where hundreds of trapped fawning fish died and rotted, according to the report. It was not a good look, or smell, for a Dallas attraction then riding a reputation as The People’s Playground, with all of its private fishing cabins, dance pavilions and speedboat racing.

The report proposed “reclaiming shallow marshlands that had formed at the mouth of Dixon’s Branch,” the creek that flows into Sunset Bay, which at the time was called Dixon Bay, author and Dallas historian Sally Rodriguez says. She clarifies, “Sunset Inn overlooked Dixon’s Bay and at some point it mutated to Sunset Bay.” To do the job, the City of Dallas procured a $31,973 shallow-draft hydraulic boat and called it the Jo e E . L aw t h e r f o r t h e f o r m e r mayor who championed park preservation. Although slated to begin Sept. 15, the effort did not get underway until Nov. 5, and at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 17, Lawther sprung a leak, sending crew members Jesse

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Perkins and F.H. Luttrell “scrambling to escape” as the craft sank into six feet of water, as told in the text, Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas. “This book has a colorful way of describing Dallas’ history,” says Rodriguez before reading passages about the ill-fated voyage aloud. “At first no one was sure who to blame for the accident. For a while it was rumored drunken CCC workers were at fault, a story that proved unfounded. After W. J. Redman, a professional diver from Galves ton, refloated the Lawther, it was discovered that manufacturing defects, including a lack of hard timbers to overcome vibration of the engines caused four leaks in the hull.” Later that winter, the Lawther was repaired. The dredging resumed and eventually reclaimed nearly 90 acres, 20 at Dixon’s Branch and 68 at the northern end. CCC and City workers used some 500,000 tons of removed silt, according to City of Dallas archives, to fill marshy areas around the lake. The last dredge was in 1998, and another is expected following a feasibility study, which was approved last year and is underway to determine project goals, risk factors, possible alternatives and associated costs.

Top: In 1938, oil tycoon H. L. Hunt purchased the Mount Vernon mansion on White Rock Lake’s shoreline, where he would live with seven of his children and his first wife. Above: City of Dallas archivist John Slate says this image from 1938, in which Mount Vernon can be seen in the distance (“the big one in the middle,” he says), hung on the Park Department wall for many years.

November 1937: Purchase of Mount Vernon, White Rock Lake version, for $69,000 While Texas oil tyc o o n Ha r o l d s o n Lafayette Hunt Jr. — more commonly, H.L. — did not move his family in until New Year’s Day 1938, he purchased Mount Vernon on White Rock L ake i n N o v e m b e r o f t h e p r e v i o u s y e a r, records show. According to a 2010 Forbes article, H.L.’s younges t son, Ray L ee Hunt, inspired the creation of the TV show Dallas and J.R. Ewing. The elder was a character in his own right. He and his first wife Lynda B u n ke r s h a r e d Mo u n t Ve r n o n w i t h their seven children. Texas lore holds H.L. married his second wife Frania Tye before Lynda’s death, and they had

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four children. H.L. and his secretary Ruth Ray, whom he married following Frania’s demise, had another four. In 1999, Lakewood resident Robert Barnett, who built his family’s home in 1926, told The Advocate about his encounter with the Hunt household in January 1938. “My horse, Firecracker, ran away. I got on my bicycle and started riding around the lake searching for the horse. I finally found him grazing on the lawn of a family just moving into their new house overlooking the lake,” Barnett recalled. It turned out to be his only encounter with the owners of the mansion modeled after George Washington’s Virginia estate. Its facade does not look much different today than it did back then, but owners over the years have renovated the interior.

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Civilian Conservation Corps officers were stationed at Winfrey Point before World War II, after which the program ended and most CCC members enlisted in the military.

November 1944: POWs come to town On Nov. 20, 1944, 300 skinny, sunburnt, battle-beaten, khaki-clothed veterans of the German Africa Corps rolled into East Dallas and set up camp among the White Rock CCC’s unoccupied wooden barracks. American workers no longer needed the beds, after all. Pearl Harbor meant the end of that particular park-improving program, as all the able-bodied young men joined the war effort. The new arrivals hailed from Hitler ’s prized e xpeditionar y force in North Africa, which fell to Allied forces in spring 1943. The United States took 400,000 of these POWs, and 200,000 came to Texas. Mexia, a Hill Country town of 6,000 at the time, received more than 3,000 prisoners, notes author and historian Ronald H. Bai-

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ley, who described townspeople lining up to watch the captives detrain, wearing “large bill-cloth caps and goggles that symbolized Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s infamous Afrika Korps.” A total of 403 of the Mexia prisoners relocated to White Rock. Each afternoon during the Mexia camp’s 11-month tenure, the internees rode a bus to work at the Dallas Regional Quartermaster and Repair Shop at Fair Park, where they mended clothing and equipment. “In one large room ventilated by three six-foot-high wall fans, 95 men sit at sewing machines repairing G.I. uniforms,” according to a 1940s Dallas Morning News article. Geneva Convention rules afforded even Nazis humane conditions — Texas was a popular locale for POWs due to its climate, which would save the War

Department on heating bills and keep prisoners comfortable. Rules allowed POWs to work, provided the labor did not relate directly to the conflict and was safe. Dallas historian and author Sally Rodriguez describes the prisoners’ first order of business. “Upon arrival, they constructed their own enclosure, an eight-foot tall barbed-wire fence around the camp’s perimeter, because there was no fence, no need for a fence, before,” Rodriguez says. She says the prisoners enjoyed relatively pleasant conditions and had no ostensible reason to abscond or rebel. In fact, she points to an interview with the era’s Park Director L.B. Houston, who considered many of them “artisans.” In Houston’s transcript, the late director discusses how “artistically inclined” and “brilliant” the POWs appeared. “They developed stencils and

stenciled a mural around the walls, you know, flowers and animals. It was really an attractive place. They had gardeners. They wanted seeds, which we furnished. They made it a real attractive place,” Houston said. Neighbors in the 1940s were, as now, concerned then with lake-area goings on, to the extent that one could be during wartime. In fact, at one point the army wanted to use these same barracks as a medical facility to treat women with venereal disease who were associated with, or “followed,” American soldiers, Houston explained. “You can imagine how unpopular that thought was to the people of Lakewood and Dallas generally,” Houston said in the transcribed interview. “ That argument ended shortly with the army deciding not to use it for that, but they did assign it to the Fifth Command. A lot of men, young men, right in the Dallas area, were inducted and did their boot training right at that location out there at White Rock Lake (prior to the POWs).” As for the later military use for captured Nazis, Houston reported, “If you drove by outside, if you just looked through the barbed wire and saw men in there, you probably wouldn’t have realized what it was.”

From the top: 1. Military barracks long occupied the land behind Winfrey Point.

2. Young CCC workers — aka The Boys in Green — along with some Park Department staff filled the marshy areas around Dixon Creek with an estimated 500,000 tons of sediment that the Joe E. Lawther boat dredged from the lake’s floor.

3. Construction of the dam and reservoir that would become a water source for Dallas — White Rock Lake — occurred all through 1910, hitting its peak during the fall and winter. 4. Before the lake and dam existed, much of the terrain was a sheet of chalky white rocks.

Photo courtesy Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot/Patrick Curry. Organizers of the event say Curry donated the certificate in 2017 when The Trot was celebrating its 50th anniversary.

November 1968: T h e Tu r k e y Tro t becomes Thanksgiving tradition It was a cold morning, temps in the low 40s, ideal by runner standards. The Cowboys would play the Redskins that afternoon, but first, 107 competitors toed the line at the f i r s t o f f i c i a l D a l l a s Tu r k e y Tr o t a t W h i t e Rock Lake. A t r a d i t i o n a t Fa i r Pa r k t h r o u g h o u t t h e 1920s and 30s, Dallas dropped the event d u r i n g t h e D e p r e s s i o n , a n d t h e Pa r k B o a r d r e v i v e d i t N o v. 2 8 , 1 9 6 8 . R a l p h W. Tr i m b l e a n d N a n c y N o r v e l l w o n t h e m e n ’s a n d w o m e n ’s r a c e s r e s p e c t i v e l y that Thanksgiving, and all finishers earned a certificate showing “completion of a prescribed eight mile run on the shores of White R o c k L a k e .” To d ay t h e r a c e , w h i c h r e l o c a t e d t o C i t y Ha l l in 1979, draws more than 40,000 entrants and is tradition for many Dallas families. Old n e w s c l i p p i n g s i n d i c a t e i t ’s a l w a y s a t t r a c t e d competitive broods. A 1970 Dallas Times

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Herald article by Steve Israel profiled the Buckinghams — mom, dad and six adolescent children — who reportedly trained together and were known to take division awards. The p r e v i o u s y e a r, a l l e i g h t t o o k h o m e t r o p h i e s in their respective age and gender groups. A l s o i n t h e r a c e ’s t h i r d y e a r, 2 9 - y e a r o l d M i k i H e r v e y, l a t e r M i k i S n e l l , a B r a n i f f a i r l i n e h o s t e s s , w o n t h e w o m e n’s r a c e . Ye a r s back, she told The Advocate it was at that Tu r k e y Tr o t o n t h e W h i t e R o c k L a k e t r a i l that she met her husband, the famous New Z e a l a n d O l y m p i a n t u r n e d D a l l a s d o c t o r, Pe t e r S n e l l . A n e w s p a p e r a r t i c l e n o t e s t h a t H e r v e y, w i n n i n g a g a i n t h e f o l l o w i n g y e a r, w a s a crowd favorite. The couple was married for 36 years until Pe t e r ’s d e a t h i n 2 0 1 9 . Sally Rodriguez’s books White Rock Lake (2010) a n d W h i t e Ro c k L a k e Revi s i ted ( 2 0 1 4 ) a r e a v a i l a b l e t h r o u g h Ar c a d i a Pu b l i sh i n g , a r c a d i a p u b l i sh i n g . c o m .

TIMELINE OF NOVEMBERS PAST Nov. 15, 1910 Seven workers were injured in a derrick accident at the White Rock Lake dam construction site. City Archivist John Slate says the City of Dallas planned the reservoir as a municipal water source and many of the historical photos of its construction were taken in the fall of 1910. White Rock Lake was established in 1911 . Nov. 5, 1937 A boat named for Dallas Mayor Joe. E. Lawther began and ended a few days later in a costly maritime disaster. Nov. 17, 1937 Oil tycoon H.L. Hunt purchased Mount Vernon, a replica of George Washington’s estate, on the shore of White Rock Lake, for $69,000 — the equivalent of about $1.3 million today. He moved in with his first wife Lyda Bunker and their seven children early the next year. Nov. 5, 1944 Three hundred prisoners of war arrived at the army barracks located near Winfrey Point where they lived for almost a year.

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uring the pandemic, Margaret Barrett often walked around her neighborhood in Peak’s Suburban Addition. Along her route was the East Dallas Christian Church and the community garden across Worth Street. “I emailed the church and said, ‘Hey, what’s going on with the garden? I’d love to help,’” she says, “And they said ‘nothing, do you want to run it?’” Barrett was introduced to gardening by her husband a while ago. But she didn’t really pick it up until she started spending more time at home with her three young children and wanted to invest in her property. When she took over managing the community garden, only one of the 10 raised beds was being used. But it was pretty easy to find community members — many of whom live within walking distance of the garden — to rent out the rest. Each bed is available for about $50 per year, and gardeners are allowed to use the beds however they want, as long as they keep it organic. The church started the garden in 2015 in one of its parking lots that usually sat unused. Members had been looking for a way to beautify the area and were approached by a group now called the Lemon Tree Trust. The organization wanted to create an urban farm on the property, says says the Rev. Deborah Morrgan-Stokes, the pastor at East Dallas Christian Church. A farm wasn’t possible, but a community garden was. They developed a plan for one that

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would bring together neighbors and groups wanting to produce food and be a space for beauty, where art could be displayed. “We are committed to doing what we can to help bring life to our earth,” Morgan-Stokes says. “And in the midst of the city, the garden is the place where we can see life, health and beauty in a time and in a place where maybe it’s hard to find.” The original partners, including Grace United Methodist Church, Literacy Achieves and The Agape Clinic, helped set up irrigation, secure permits for watering and purchase the lumber needed to make the beds. The outdoor area has served more purposes than just a place to garden. Over the pandemic, it was a safe space to hold memorial services. And now, with Barrett at the helm, the garden is growing again. Volunteers met in early October to begin planting a food forest, which involves packing a small space with food-producing plants. It is also related to permaculture, which mostly disregards aesthetics and focuses on food sustainability. “It’s an emphasis on being as nature-like as possible,” Barrett says. They planned to plant 17 fruit- and nut-bearing trees, which will shed leaves that will decompose and add nutrients to the soil. They also plan to add shrubs, leafy and herbaceous plants, root plants and vines.

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n a wall at Sally and Chris Skoog’s Belmont Avenue home hangs a photo of Murray the Cat, a big orange tabby with a human-like cry and a nub of a tail that would whip around when he allowed human hands to stroke his fur. It was his untimely death at the paws of a coyote that inspired the Skoogs to formally establish a feral cat colony — one that now thrives and gives Murray’s compadres a better life. Murray was one of many cats who hung around a little white house on Cecille Avenue, not far from the Skoogs. The resident was a “generous and kind cat lover,” remembers Sally, one who took good care of his own cats and ended up feeding feral cats who discovered the food source. The cats would eventually number about 25, with continuous litters of kittens. Neighbors, the Skoogs among them, wanted to help, but were at a loss since the cats were cautious and fearful of humans. After the trauma of Murray’s death, the Skoogs got busy, with Skoog — Chris Skoog is widely known by his last name — diving into research to find out how they could lend some help to these cats. “We really wanted to thwart the colony expansion, and we struggled with the best way to do that,” he says. “Many times, people think that these strays can be adopted, but growing up in a community cat colony, many are not good adoption candidates. The

Ferral cat colony. Photography by Danny Fulgencio.

best way to keep them healthy is to vaccinate and spay and neuter to avoid colony growth.” According to the SPCA, spaying and neutering cats is the most humane and effective way to limit the populations of free roaming cats. Bonus: The cats control the rat population. Ultimately, the Skoogs connected with Tina Hoskins at Dallas Pets Alive. “She taught us everything we know about trap, neuter, return, aka TNR,” Skoog says. Cats are humanely trapped, neutered by a veterinarian

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and, once healed, returned to their familiar territory. The trapping is fairly tricky, as the Skoogs soon learned, and they became known in the neighborhood as “The Cat Stalkers.” Many an evening, they would quietly set up traps, baiting them with canned mackerel, which they called “the most malodorous food you can ever imagine.” Then they waited nearby — sometimes in lawn chairs, sometimes hiding. When the unsuspecting cat succumbed to the temptation of the fragrant fish,

the trap door would slam shut. The Skoogs would toss a cover over the trap to calm the cat and cart the feline to their home to fast overnight before surgery the next day at SPCA. Within a year, they were able to achieve 100% colony spay/neuter status. Word spread, and they have been involved in fixing about 50 other area cats. The Skoogs stress that lots of neighbors helped out initially and continue

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have volunteered to bring food and even shelter if needed. The neighborhood has been absolutely wonderful.” Count Allie Goetz as another neighbor who has tended to the cats for many years, even at one point making an attempt at TNR. “But we were floundering until Skoog and Sally stepped in,” she says. “ They spent hours getting the cats used to them, trapping them, giving them a safe place to stay while they recuperated, etc.” “When the little (white) house was

still standing across the street,” Goetz recalls. “I used to watch all kinds of people stop to interact with the cats, ready to fly across if anyone was going to be hurtful. I never saw that. I saw surprise at the number, concern about their care, and joy in their presence. The neighborhood is their home, and we are their protectors.” PATTI VINSON is a guest writer who has lived in East Dallas for more than 20 years. She’s written for The Advocate and Real Simple magazine.

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Christian Education 9:45 a.m. / Worship Service 10:55 a.m. Pastor - Rev. Dr. Michael L. Gregg / www.royallane.org

aving recently returned from a trip to Europe, I can honestly say I am thankful every time I return to our city. Dallas is not just where my house is; it’s where my home is. What makes a house a home? And what makes a city home? Heart, in both cases. In the heart of Dallas is a special enclave called Thanks-Giving Square that symbolizes the heart of the city. It’s situated adjacent to civic, commercial and arts districts giving a spiritual pulse to our streets. It seems extraordinary that a municipality defined over time more by business interests than anything else should have something like a soul in the middle of Downtown to remind us that transcendence is not transactional. Designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson more than 40 years ago under the watchful eye of visionary founder Peter Stewart, this unique urban setting inspires wonder and provides respite amid the noisy pursuits around it. The interfaith chapel features a stained-glass spire, the grounds feature water features and shade, and the walls sport murals and scriptures that celebrate gratitude as a spirit that unites people of all faiths and none. Thanks-Giving Foundation sponsors interfaith dialogues, hosts Faith Forward Dallas (an interfaith coalition of faith leaders promoting justice and compassion), and builds bridges between government, police, business, education, law, medicine, religion and nonprofits. It’s a place of grace, and grace is the gift that gives rise to gratitude. When tragedies strike our city, like the police shootings in the summer of 2016, people from all walks of life gather in its welcoming spiritual space to mourn and pray.

Ky l e O gd e n , t h e p r e s i d e n t o f Thanks-Giving Foundation, reflected last month about the Toyota commercials that ran during the Summer Olympics with the phrase: You don’t have to be amazing to get started, but you do have to get started to be amazing. Noting the vibrant engagement of Dallas people in the volunteer sector, he applied the sports analogy to service. The people who make the greatest difference for the welfare of the world aren’t the greatest people to begin with; they are just people. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King said: “Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” In truth, the soul can’t be generated by anything but love. If we were to try to feed our soul with anything else, it would wither. In my three decades in Dallas, I have seen expansion in the social conscience and the moral consciousness of our city. I have witnessed growing respect and collegiality among faith leaders of various religions as they pursue the common good together. Thanks-Giving Square — the people and the place — in the heart of our city keeps the heart of our city healthy. Like being amazing, you only have to get started to be thankful. GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons and host of the “Good God” podcast. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

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WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

Pastor George A. Mason / Worship at 9 & 11 a.m. Sunday School at 10 a.m. / wilshirebc.org

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / Worship 8:30 am - Chapel 10:50 am - Sanctuary / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

LUTHERAN EMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH /corner of Peak & San Jacinto/English Worship 10:00 am/Sunday School 11:00am-Noon/Spanish Worship 12:15pm/ church.emanueldallas.org CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

A Welcoming and Affirming Church / Rev. K.M. Truhan Sunday School 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am / CentralLutheran.org FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA) / 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 & 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Contemporary LAKEWOOD UMC / 2443 Abrams Rd. / 214.823.9623 Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 am / mylakewoodchurch.org Messy Church for Children and Families Sunday 5:00 pm MUNGER PLACE CHURCH / Come & See

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Sunday Service at 10:30am / Spanish speaking Service 12:30pm / Pastor Travis Endsley / 214-484-1055 / tcjh.org

PRESBYTERIAN ST. MARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH/ 9999 FERGUSON RD. saintmarkchurch.org / Sunday School 9:15am / Worship I0:30am/ 214.321.6437/ Rev. Rick Brooks NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Sunday Worship 10:00 am Church that feels like church and welcomes like family. PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH/ 4124 Oak Lawn Ave Sunday Worship 9:00 & 11:00 A.M. To all this church opens wide her doors - pcpc.org

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