2019 June Lakewood

LAKEWOOD/EAST DALLAS

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A PA R AT R A N S I T P I O N E E R

3601 TURTLE CREEK #504

$1,239,000 2 Bed | 3 Bath | 3 Car | 2,070 Sq. Ft. Mary Poss - 214-738-0777

7315 CASA LOMA | $1,199,000

6936 KENWOOD | $1,150,000

4 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 2 Car | 4,298 Sq. Ft. Bernice Edelman - 214-384-7700

4 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 2 | 3,941 Sq. Ft. The Chris Hickman Group - 469-569-1106

7522 AZALEA | $699,000 3 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 2 Car | 3,031 Sq. Ft. Rob Schrickel - 214-801-1795

6776 PATRICK | Sold 2 Beds | 2 Baths | 1,694 Sq. Ft. Denise Lowry - 214-228-1622

NEW PRICE

9431 NORTHCLIFF | $699,000 3 Beds | 2 Baths | 1,868 Sq. Ft. Denise Lowry - 214-228-1622

PENDING

6933 VISTA WILLOW | $519,900 3 Beds | 2.1 Baths | 2 Car | 2,640 Sq. Ft. Alison O’Halloran - 214-228-9013 SALE PENDING

1812 BELLE | $380,000 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 1 Car | 1,684 Sq. Ft. Jessica Wantz - 713-299-1546 LAKEWOOD | LAKE HIGHLANDS | 214-826-0316

5019 HOMER ST | $495,000

3 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 | 2,136 Sq. Ft. Streiff, Williams, Gall & Sliva - 469-231-7170

8614 SAN LEANDRO | $470,000 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 | 1,958 Sq. Ft. Kelly Nolan - 214-728-7301

NEW PRICE

2015 PEAVY | $375,000 3 Beds | 2 Baths | 2 Car | 1,816 Sq. Ft. The Hardt Group - 214-924-7577 PRESTON CENTER | 214-692-0000

8630 SANTA CLARA | Sold 2 Beds | 1 Bath | 1,440 Sq. Ft. Dennis Coleman - 214-498-4136

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

NEW PRICE

5601 MILLER | $999,000 5 Bed | 4 Bath | 2 Car | 4,359 Sq. Ft. Shelby James - 214-533-7650

7239 LAKEWOOD | $975,000 3 Beds | 3 Baths | 2 Car | 2,803 Sq. Ft. Mary Rinne - 214-552-6735

NEW PRICE

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11024 CREEKMERE | $569,900

4 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Car | 2,551 Sq. Ft. Jan Evans - 214-802-7777

4539 ASHFORD | $545,000 3 bed | 2 Bath| 2 Car | 2,000 Sq. Ft. Rob Schrickel - 214-801-1795

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501 CORDOVA | $450,000 3 Beds | 2 Baths | 1 Car | 1,428 Sq. Ft. Peter Loudis - 214-215-4269

4140 MANORVIEW | $399,000

1122 JACKSON #816 | SOLD 1 Bed | 1 Bath | 1 Car | 1,066 Sq. Ft. Jorge Goldsmit - 214-245-5357

LOT 31 MARINA PT | $75,000

4 Beds | 3 Baths | 2 Car | 3,283 Sq. Ft. Steven Cairns - 972-740-2517

1.001 Acres Jessica Wantz - 713-299-1546

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CONTENTS JUNE 2019 VOL.26 NO.6

UP FRONT 24 The Que Pastas Cooking up kid songs 28 Color the cafeteria Lunchtime = fun time 30 DART art Think of it as street art 34 Marketing masters Fighting crime one commercial at a time 38 Untold history White Rock Lake’s past

FEATURES 44 Take pride Meet LGBTQ activists 62 Annie Jones Her fight for access

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PHOTO BY OWEN JONES june 2019

BELLAV I STA FINISHING TOUCHES

Jarrell and Bella Vista guide you through the world of plumbing.

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The details make the difference.

Whether remodeling or building from the ground up, we all know the basics are non-negotiable: foundation, framework, electrical wire, sheetrock, plumbing pipe and ductwork. Neighbors trust the design veterans at Bella Vista Company to make their dream homes structurally sound, as well as visually stunning.

Bella Vista’s team also pays attention to the details on specs for the fun finish-out items, such as sinks, faucets and custom shower systems. And when it’s time to select alluring plumbing fixtures, Bella Vista guides its clients to the local experts at Jarrell Company.

According to Jarrell’s plumbing and hardware specialists, the company represents more than 40 major plumbing brands and specializes in helping homeowners navigate the often overwhelming process, from selecting brass versus bronze to acrylic versus stone.

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Leading the pack today, Jarrell says, is DXV, the luxury product line by American Standard.

“DXV is only available through a showroom, not a big-box store,” Jarrell says. “We follow along with Bella Vista’s process and design for both routine and one-of-a-kind installations. We often recommend DXV products because they are easily serviceable and have a lifespan of 20-plus years, compared to big-box store brands that aren’t meant to last, often can’t be repaired and can wear out within five years.”

Jarrell says when it comes to plumbing, the little things aren’t so little. Trending now in plumbing details are DXV fire clay sinks and bathtubs—more popular than cast iron products among today’s homeowners, since cast iron’s enamel finish can chip and be costly to repair. Fire clay is a dense porcelain, glazed and fired at high temperatures for maximum durability.

DXV is a green manufacturer, evidenced in its eco-sanitary glaze on toilets and basins, and eco-flushing capabilities for controlled water-flow options.

“Our clients at Jarrell are relieved to discover how we simplify the process,” Jarrell says. “We look at their plans from Bella Vista and work with their wishes—contemporary or traditional— and provide an itemized quote.”

Appointments are encouraged but aren’t required at Jarrell.

Bella Vista partner Sara Haley says, “We like to send our clients to Jarrell for its professional services; with them, all the dots get connected.”

Jarrell, like Bella Vista, is locally owned and operated—you can find the owners on the job just about every day.

DETAILS YOU CAN FEEL: Quality plumbing fixtures aren’t just nice to look at, they’re the part of your home that you interact with the most. Investing in quality here will make your home enjoyable for the long run.

“When a client realizes how extensive plumbing selections can be, it’s dizzying,” Haley says. “That’s why we partner with the Jarrell Company.”

Adorn your bathroom accessories by calling Bella Vista Company and Jarrell Company for ideas today.

Bella Vista’s close partnership with Jarrell Company makes the process easier and the final product even more beautiful and functional.

Morris Wells, one of the owners at Jarrell Company, is ready to bring your build to life.

THINKING SMALL: When designing for small spaces like a powder bath every square inch matters. Details like integrating fixtures to maximize usable space can make a big difference. The Maris wall hung toilet by Toto pictured here can give you extra floor space. Top it off with a floating cabinet to open up the room with even more visual space.

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The iconic Lakewood Theater, which has been vacant since 2015, will become a bowling alley this summer. New owners Craig and Jennifer Spivey, who are Lakewood residents and avid bowlers, converted the theater into a 10-lane bowling alley. The theater seats are gone, but the Spiveys kept the murals in the lobby, the original bathroom tile and the mirrored ceiling in the shape of a grand piano. The stage behind the bowling lanes also remains and may be used for live performances and karaoke. The Spiveys say a projection screen behind the stage could be used to show movies and music videos.

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The masked man returns

Making history

Lakewood eighth-grader Eliane Spalding was the first student at her school, Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School, to win a national essay contest on the Civil War. Her essay for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History compared the leaders of the Union and the Confederacy. She received $300 and a paid trip to New York City.

A masked mystery man who haunted the White Rock Lake area earlier this year is back at it again. In May, a woman working in her yard on Kirkwood Drive reported being confronted by a man wearing a camouflage mask.

The woman told Dallas police that the masked man pointed a handgun at her and said something that she couldn’t understand because the mask muffled his voice. Police describe the man as either white or Hispanic, in his 40s or 50s and about 5 feet, 10 inches with a “beer belly.”

The breakfast club

First Watch, a national chain known for its sumptuous breakfasts and heart-healthy lunches, will open a new café in August at High Point Crossing, located at Abrams and Northwest Highway.

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9318 Sorrento | Sold $215,000 3 Bed 2 Bath 1,568 sqft

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6918 Hammond Avenue | $629,000

JOE KACYNSKI

6202 Vickery Boulevard | $975,000 SOLD Represented Buyer

EMILY ALFANO

214.850.7195 | joe.kacynski@alliebeth.com

214.675.1134 | emily.alfano@alliebeth.com

6342 Anita Street | $575,000 SOLD

5908 Ellsworth Avenue | $510,000 SOLD Represented Buyer

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4912 Worth Street | $582,500

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5656 N. Central Expy #704 | $685,000

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EVENTS

JUNE 20

A LOCAL LUAU

Watch hula performers as they tell a story through dance. Then learn to hula so you can wow your friends at the next summer luau.

Where: Lakewood Library, 6121 Worth St. Cost: Free Info: dallaslibrary.org

5 things to do in East Dallas this June JUNE 1

A scholastic summer

Celebrate the mayor’s Summer Reading Challenge with games, crafts, face painting and more at this family friendly party.

Where: Lakewood Library,

6121 Worth St. Cost: Free Info: dallaslibrary.org

JUNE 14

A bug’s diary

Meet Worm, who eats his homework, and Fly, with 327 siblings, in the debut of this rock ’n’ roll musical.

Where: Dallas Children’s Theater, 5938 Skillman St. Cost: $23-$30 Info: dct.org

10420 Solta Dr. $395,000 David Collier 214.536.8517

9805 County Cork Dr. SOLD David Collier 214.536.8517

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JUNE 22

Catch the “Leading Ladies” finale. Watch what happens when two Shakespearean actors are trapped in 1950s Amish Pennsylvania and scheme to receive money from a dying heiress.

Get your nature and tech fix simultaneously at this outdoor gaming event with five interactive screens.

Where: Pocket Sandwich

garden admission Info: dallasarboretum.org

Leading Ladies

Theatre, 5400 E. Mockingbird Lane Cost: $12.50-$27.50 Info: pocketsandwich.com

Garden games

Where: Dallas Arboretum,

8525 Garland Road Cost: Free with children’s

1327 Casa Vale Dr. $195,000 David Collier 214.536.8517

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April-May Under Contract & Sold 5949 Burgandy - $1,799,500 2928 Southwestern - $1,675,000 6551 Winton - $1,349,500 3808 Stanford - $1,299,000 6826 La Vista - $1,150,000 6848 Velasco - off market 6447 Velasco - $899,000 6431 Velasco - $899,000 2840 Peavy - $725,000 6215 Penrose - $715,000

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UP FRONT

Untiisque estis rerum rehent quiatem facearibus, aut ad modisci entotaest Simon Flory, left, and Gene Davis, right, travel across the country as The Que Pastas.

KINDIE COOL HOW A ‘HIGH-ENERGY WEIRDO’ FROM LITTLE FOREST HILLS IS CONQUERING THE MUSIC MARKET Story by JAIME DUNAWAY | Photography by OWEN JONES

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LITTLE FOREST HILLS neighbor Gene Davis didn’t think the pack of middle schoolers stuck in the library would appreciate his usual setlist about butterflies, llamas and bubbles.

Instead, he freestyle rapped Drake for half an hour as the students shook their heads.

As the lead singer of the “kindie” band, The Que Pastas, Davis is more accustomed to toddlers on a sugar rush than brooding teens.

But after eight years and 400 shows, a tough crowd doesn’t faze him.

“It’s hard to get ‘shook’ anymore,” Davis says. “That was the all-time-low show, but it was also kind of hilarious. We entertain ourselves.”

By day, Davis works as the communications director at Dallas ISD. On the weekends, he lives his Guns N’ Roses dream with his music partner Simon Flory.

Together, they travel across the United States performing kid songs at birthday parties, libraries and festivals. And they did it before Chris Pratt made it cool as Johnny Karate on the comedy sitcom “Parks and Recreation.”

“With kid songs, you can write about anything you can possibly think of,” Davis says. “It’s a fun, magical door to go through. You can be inspired by anything.”

Davis wrote his first kindie song in 2010 after performing a late-night show with a local alt-country band in Colorado.

When he got home, he played a riff on his guitar that he can only describe as “piratey.” He then stayed up until 3 a.m. writing a song about a pirate fighting a robot cowboy.

Inspiration struck again when he watched “Encino Man,” a 1990s film about a teen who finds a caveman in a block of ice. Davis swapped the caveman with a pirate and featured the plot in his song “Pirate from the Past.”

The Que Pastas have also cooked up originals about White Rock Lake, playing hide-andseek in IKEA and the Wednesday night enchilada special at El Fenix. The goal is to write songs that delight children without making parents want to stick their head in a blender.

A month after Davis wrote his first kindie song, a stroke of luck helped get The Que Pastas off the ground. While on vacation in Colorado, he won $8,300 off a slot machine.

The Austin Chronicle charged them with starting a “tot mosh” during a show in 2016.

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He used a small chunk to record his songs, build a website and make a music video.

He later met Flory through a Craigslist ad, and they released their first album, “Sunglasses,” in 2013. Their second album, “Meet You

By The Moon,” followed in 2016.

Despite stiff competition from bounce houses and costumed Disney characters at gigs, The Que Pastas have learned to capture young spectators with lots of clapping, singing and audience participation. They’ve been so successful, The Austin Chronicle charged them with starting a “tot mosh” during a show in 2016.

The band plays more than 100 shows a year at small venues in small towns, which allows the performers to build relationships with the audience when they return in subsequent years.

“The best thing in the world is when you play a show with kids and families from all different backgrounds, all different ethnicities, all different belief systems, and they’re all just being goofy,” Davis says. “It’s priceless.”

As The Que Pastas’ onstage success grew, it caught the attention of John Dufilho, a Little Forest Hills neighbor who is the lead singer in the Dallas-based rock band, Deathray Davies. Dufilho helped the duo film a pilot episode for a potential TV show, “Go Camino, Go!” The idea is to combine “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown,” “Flight of the Conchords” and “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” into a children’s show. Each episode will feature an interview and song with two everyday kids who are brave enough to try extraordinary things, Davis says.

In the pilot, The Que Pastas travel in Davis’ 1987 El Camino to the Dallas Zoo to interview the junior zookeepers. Then they’re off to meet 10-year-old orator and Dallas ISD student Skye Turner at Davis’ alma mater, Bishop Lynch, to learn about public speaking.

Where will the El Camino take them next? Dufilho’s production studio is distributing the pilot to different broadcasting services like Netflix and KERA, Dallas’ PBS station. If picked up for a full season, the pair could be hitting the road again.

“In the adult music world, there’s so much ego,” Davis says. “In this kindie world, it’s like, ‘How can I help you out?’ It’s such a kind community of like-minded, high-energy weirdos.”

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MIR A C UL OU S MUR A L S How art inspired elementary students to come to school and clap

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Muralist Sarah Reyes finishes the solar system on Lesli Marshall’s design.

T WAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, but a wellinformed Lipscomb Elementary student couldn’t wait to come back to school Monday. When her classmates returned from the weekend, they understood her excitement.

Seven brightly colored educational murals had been painted in their cafeteria.

“Amazing,” the kids said as they beheld the murals depicting the water cycle, the solar system and states of matter. It was just the reaction neighbor Nyda Faith had hoped for.

“I had tears in my eyes,” she says. “Some of them were clapping, and they came in saying, ‘Look, look, look.’ It was worth everything.”

“It makes a huge impact to bring color to a space and also be educational.”

The real estate agent had previously donated to Lipscomb through the school’s annual silent auction, but she wanted to help the students more directly. She teamed up with Lora Owens, the advocacy chair for the parent-teacher association, and began talking with educators about potential projects.

When the principal recommended brightening the cafeteria with educational murals, Faith knew she wanted to commission Lesli Marshall. The mixed-media artist has completed several murals in Dallas, including the one on the back of Pecan Lodge in Deep Ellum.

The only problem was that Faith recognized

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Marshall’s work but didn’t know her name at the time.

“I was at home when (Lesli) came on TV,” Faith says. “It was divine intervention. I was like, ‘That’s the girl.’ I called her, and she said, ‘Let’s do it.’”

In May, Marshall and a team of two other artists spent 14 hours over the weekend painting the murals on the tile walls of the cafeteria. Getting the paint to stick on the old surface was a challenge for the Junius Heights artist.

Tile and grout prevented crisp, clean lines, so Marshall kept the designs bold and blocky.

For example, the fan-favorite solar system mural depicts eight orbs facing the sun on a black background filled with other galaxies. A visual series showing different habitats features a sea turtle swimming through coral in the ocean and a polar bear traveling across the arctic alongside two friendly penguins.

“It makes a huge impact to bring color to a space and also be educational,” Marshall says. “We made (the murals) reflective of their age. I mixed colors and added vibrancy and did all the descriptions so they could see the visuals and relate it to what it’s representing.”

The volunteers hope that by bringing creativity to the curriculum, students will receive a more holistic education that sticks with them for years to come.

“It helps them think about the things they discover in the classroom year round,” Owens says. “When they’re at lunch, they may start conversing about the different topics and help them make those connections.

Anytime we’re enriching their environment, it helps them bring everything together.”

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QUICK DRAW HOW A 15-YEAR-OLD TURNED HER DART COMMUTE INTO AN AWARD-WINNING WONDER WHILE MOST OF US try to avoid eye contact with the stereotypical “oddballs” on public transportation, 15-year-old Sarah Thigpen keeps her eyes wide open for inspiration.

The Casa Linda student rides the DART every day to school at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. She knows the regulars, and contrary to popular opinion, they’re not oddballs. They’re chefs, nurses, students and construction workers. They’re also the subjects of her “Best of Show” piece at the transit agency’s annual student art contest.

Thigpen’s work features commuters inside a DART train riding away from the Dallas skyline at night. They sit under a sign that reads, “The Next Stop is My Future.”

“I like realistic stuff and drawing real people and what they actually look like,” Thigpen says. “Then I add extras to make it more like an art piece than just a drawing.”

Thigpen’s winning piece was selected in February over entries from nearly 900 students. DART officials publicly announced the winners in April.

Over the next year, her design will be featured on DART buses traveling across the agency’s 13-city service area. Dallas Contemporary also awarded her a $1,000 prize, which she’ll use to buy a car.

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“I filled out the submission form and then completely forgot about it,” Thigpen says. “When I won, I was a little bit confused. I was like, ‘What did I win?’ I didn’t think too much about wining, but I was proud of it because it took a long time. I’m glad my work paid off.”

The colored pencil, gel pen and ink drawing took Thigpen about 20 hours to complete over several weeks. The majority was done at the hospital, where her 13-year-old sister was recovering from cardiac arrest. On a rolling desk in the corner of a hospital room, Thigpen added several layers of color, shaded faces and put the finishing touches on her work.

It was the first time a Booker T. student had won in six years.

“Teachers and people around school I never talk to come up to me and say congratulations,” she says.

Besides drawing, the freshman is learning painting, ceramics, photography and electronic media at Booker T. Thigpen is seeing improvement in her work, which she admits was poor just a few years ago. Before attending the performing and visual arts school, she took art classes twice a week for a year to build her portfolio.

She was accepted to Booker T. Then she won her first art contest with DART. The next stop is her future.

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Fireworks: All Fun and Games ’til Your Pet is Frightened Summer’s beginning, and in our petfriendly neighborhoods, people enjoy taking pets on summer escapades. But there’s one time each year dogs should stay at home: July 4th is the highest “lost pet” day of the year! The culprit: fireworks.

Since July 4th can be a stressful time for animals, we at Rutherford Veterinary Hospital advise against taking pets to fireworks shows or even leaving them outside at home L a kewo o d re s i d e n t if you’re near Teri Rowan, DVM such events.

If your pet is prone to anxiety, use anxiety products and techniques such as Adaptil, the ThunderShirt, and also cover kennels with blankets. Audio and visual resources, such as those found with RelaxMyDog or icalmPet products, can be effective. For severe anxiety, Sileo can be used for noiseaversion treatment.

In case the unthinkable happens and an animal breaks out, ensure your pet’s collar lists contact name and phone number.

More importantly, make sure the pet is microchipped. The City of Dallas now requires microchipping on all pets.

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HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS GUS Gus may not be one of Queen Elizabeth’s pets, but his breed still has the royal seal of approval. The 1-year-old Pembroke Welsh corgi lives like a king in his White Rock home. “He’s a super fun little guy,” owner Rhonda McGaughey says. “He always looks like he’s smiling.” Gus, named after Gus Gus from “Cinderella,” gets the royal treatment with lots of walks around the neighborhood and plenty of chew toys, which he destroys in about five minutes, McGaughey says. He also has the run of the house after his sibling, an aging shih tzu, began a self-imposed exile in the bedroom because of Gus’ high energy. “He’s social. He loves people, and he loves other dogs,” his owner says. “Sometimes he’s just too enthusiastic.”

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Neighbor Chuck Curtis is revolutionizing Crime Stoppers’ marketing department with three national commercials.

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CHUCK CURTIS wanted to help the police. But he never envisioned running down an alley, tackling a bad guy and shackling him with handcuffs. Good thing he’s a talented TV advertiser.

“That’s my answer to everything — do a TV commercial,” he says.

The Crime Stoppers USA secretary is transforming the nonprofit’s marketing department with three TV commercials shot in East Dallas. Curtis hopes the spots will empower neighbors to report suspicious behavior via Crime Stoppers’ anonymous hotline. If they provide information leading to an arrest, they’re repaid with a cash reward.

Viewers may recognize Bryan Street Tavern and homes on Lower Greenville when the commercials air nationally this summer. One major cable company with 16 million subscribers has already expressed interest. The spots will also be distributed to local TV stations via more than 500 Crime Stoppers chapters across the United States.

The commercials depict real-life scenarios that have prompted residents to call the Crime Stoppers hotline.

Callers are often relatives, neighbors or bargoers who overhear critical information. But as the commercials show, the ability to report anonymously means identity is kept hidden, even from call responders.

“Hopefully the viewer will go through these spots thinking it’s one person who is making the phone call,” says director Dan Curtis, an East Dallas cinematographer at Be Content Media. “Then at the end – because we’re trying to stress how anonymous it is – you’ll realize it’s someone else entirely. It’s a classic case of misdirection.”

The commercials are a new marketing strategy for Crime Stoppers, which previously relied on tabloid publications filled with mugshots and weekly crime re-

East Dallas filmmaker Dan Curtis, right, directs a Crime Stoppers commercial at a Lower Greenville home. (Photo by Jaime Dunaway.)

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Crew members prepare the set for filming one of the Crime Stoppers commercials. (Photo by Jaime Dunaway.)

enactments for publicity. As print circulation decreased and surveillance footage advanced, the organization had to look for other ways to advertise.

“A lot of people don’t know about us,” Chuck Curtis says.

“We still have an awareness problem all across the country.

We have operations down really well, but we don’t have marketing down so well.”

Last year, the local Crime Stoppers chapter, which works with more than 90 law enforcement agencies in Dallas, Collin and Grayson counties, provided 148 tips that led to arrests, says East Dallas board member Jean Maier Dean. The chapter, which operates under the North Texas Crime Commission, includes several other neighbors, who hope to see that number grow when the commercials air.

“It’s to get awareness out there,” board member Jim Hughes says. “We put out wanted posters, and occasionally the news will pick up an interesting case, but to get that much exposure would be very helpful in a lot of these unsolved cases.”

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WHITE ROCK LAKE’S DEEP SECRETS UNCOVERING THE ODDITIES OF ‘THE CROWN JEWEL OF DALLAS’ WHITE ROCK LAKE has been a source of recreation, history and folklore for more than a century. The Lady of the Lake, who reportedly drowned in the 1930s or late ’40s, is a local legend. Reader’s Digest named the lake one of the world’s most haunted bodies of water, thanks to the tale of the ghost dressed in white.

Some of White Rock Lake’s history is as quirky as its legends. A few hundred German prisoners of war were housed in barracks at Winfrey Point during World War II. A riot between hippies and police in 1977 culminated in 49 arrests and a few hospitalizations. Some of the lake’s lesser-known history can be found in documents from the 1920s and ’30s, which we uncovered at the Dallas Municipal Archives.

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1. WHITE ROCK LAKE AS A SUMMER RESORT. Most residents cringe at the thought of privatizing the lake, but it seemed like a viable option in the 1920s. An anonymous letter dated May 21, 1921, proposed transforming White Rock into a resort.

“You could not hit upon a more popular plan than that of making White Rock a summer resort for persons of moderate means,” the letter reads. “Properly equipped, White Rock Lake would not only furnish Dallas with Club Lake facilities, but it would also pay for itself. Rustic Inns, camping grounds, restaurants, pavilions, etc. coupled with a street car line to the lake (a short extension to the Junius Hts line will fix it) would give Dallas some ark.

“A small fish hatchery should be maintained to assure an ample supply of game fish. A few other improvements would make a summer resort for rich as well as poor.”

A Lake Dallas Bathing Beach postcard from “Images of America, White Rock Lake.”

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2. CITY PRISONERS WORKED AT THE LAKE. City prisoners worked at the lake, and it didn’t always go well. Several City of Dallas office memorandums detail injuries prisoners obtained while working at the lake. On August 6, 1941, prisoners were patching asphalt on Lawther Drive. One man’s face was severely burned after another prisoner turned a barrel over and splashed hot asphalt on the man’s face, according to an archived memorandum. Another memo, written in February 1942, describes a prisoner with seizure-like symptoms who fell and hit his head.

“On the morning of February 25, City Prisoner William Stewart was helping load brick on a city stake truck at White Rock, main office, and just as I looked up he was standing at (the) side of the truck, blinking his eyes rather fast,” truck driver George Trotter wrote. “At first I thought he had something in his eyes, but just then he fell over backwards and began to kick and struggle. When he fell, the side of his head hit the running board, which cut a small gash.”

3. THE DALLAS BEACH CLUB’S DREAMS OF A BOATHOUSE WERE DENIED. The club requested to construct a boathouse and pier on 132 acres in 1930 so its members could participate in water sports. The City of Dallas, unsurprisingly, denied the organization’s request.

“Inasmuch as White Rock is a public lake and playground and as it is against the policy of the Park Board to permit its property to be used for private purposes, it is necessary that the Board deny your request,” according to a City of Dallas letter.

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CHEF DIEN NGUYEN of Wabi House isn’t fazed by the new ramen restaurant opening across the street. The competition makes him proud.

Nguyen opened Wabi House about four years ago when there wasn’t much of a ramen scene in Dallas. Now the ramen revolution is blossoming into something special.

“I went to a lot of cities to get ideas: New York, LA, San Francisco, Seattle,” Nguyen says. “When I travel, ramen restaurants have a lot of Asian customers, but Wabi is so diverse. I’ve seen everybody. People bring kids and older people — people of all races and backgrounds.”

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What makes ramen a labor of love?

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Nguyen thinks the effort is worth it.

“We don’t shortcut a lot of steps,” he says.

“That’s why customers enjoy it. If you do it the right way, it translates.”

The menu at Wabi House hasn’t changed much in the four years it’s been open, partially to keep the quality consistent, but also because customers have been receptive to the dishes.

“People try almost everything,” Nguyen says. “When I first did it, there were a lot of things I thought people wouldn’t eat, but they try everything.”

Wabi House has been popular enough for owners to expand to Fort Worth, but Nguyen is arguably more excited about the competing ramen restaurants in the neighborhood.

“I just really wanted people to know ramen,” he says. “I never did it for money or anything. I just wanted to make Dallas a thriving ramen scene.”

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allas observed its first gay pride celebration in June 1972, and the next parade wasn’t until 1980.

While cities across the world observe pride in June to commemorate the Stonewall Riots in New York City, Dallas Pride was always in September to honor a 1982 court ruling against Texas’ anti-sodomy laws. The ruling was later overturned, and consensual sodomy was illegal in Texas until 2003, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on it.

The September tradition stuck, however.

While New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. got their pride on every June, Dallas collectively experienced FOMO, the fear of missing out.

But not anymore.

The Dallas Tavern Guild, the collective of Oak Lawn business owners who took over what is now the Alan Ross Texas Freedom

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Parade in 1982, handed the parade over to Dallas Pride, a newly formed nonprofit, last year.

This year, Dallas Pride is in June, and it’s moving from Cedar Springs to Fair Park.

The new setup allows for more parade entries. Previously, Dallas police restricted the parade to 100 because there is a limit on how long the street can be closed.

And Fair Park can accommodate more vendors than Reverchon Park.

The 2019 celebration commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots with the theme “Stonewall strong, Dallas proud.”

In a nod to the new Dallas Pride, we talked to neighbors who were around in the early days of pride and the local LGBTQ struggle.

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SHERRY BRIGGS DOCUMENTARIAN East Dallas neighbor Sherry Briggs never thought she’d be able to marry her partner.

But in 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states. The ruling was followed by a slew of milestones for the LGBTQ community. In 2016, former President Barack Obama designated a national monument to LGBTQ rights. And in 2017, a federal appeals court ruled that LGBTQ employees are protected from workplace discrimination under the Civil Rights Act. Despite the freedoms won in the last decade, Briggs remembers the fear of growing up a lesbian woman in the 1970s and ’80s. As she and other openly gay people continue to live and write the story of their movement, Briggs hopes to preserve the community’s past. As a former board member for The Dallas Way, she worked to gather, document, store and present the untold stories of the city’s gay community.

Since 2011, the nonprofit has collected hundreds of written and oral stories that are published online for public access.

Eventually, they will be preserved in an archival collection at the University of North Texas for future study.

“It’s important that we document the players, the fights, the progress and the results because our leaders are getting older,” Briggs says. “You have to capture those stories and gather up their history and paraphernalia.

“In 100 years, it’s going to be amazing to see somebody young and say, ‘Look what Dallas did.’”

Just 30 years ago, the LGBTQ community was rarely discussed in Dallas. When a woman came out as a lesbian to Briggs in the early 1970s, she had to ask a friend what that meant. She’d never heard the term.

The community existed underground at gay nightclubs. But the fear of police raids remained. Customers always knew the location of the backdoor, and they knew to travel in packs to avoid being mugged.

“It’s been interesting to see the movement come up from underground and into society,” Briggs says. “People ask me if I’m married, but I still sometimes have that knee-jerk reaction

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because I don’t know how they’re going to act. When you grow up having to hide who you are, that never really goes away.”

Through her work at several Dallas nonprofits, she hopes to ensure that members of the younger generation never have to hide their sexual orientation. In addition to serving on The Dallas Way board, she has volunteered at HIV and AIDS organizations and helped create a local Human Rights Campaign chapter to lobby for LGBTQ legislation.

“The very first time I walked into a gay bar, I had the feeling that I was home,” Briggs says. “That feeling, even during the most difficult times of being a lesbian woman in a society that thinks there’s something wrong with you, that’s the feeling I hold on to.

“That’s my tribe, and we will fight to hold on to that.

If you can find that community, you’re damn lucky. I feel lucky.”

n IT’S IMPORTANT THAT WE DOCUMENT THE PLAYERS, THE FIGHTS, THE PROGRESS AND THE RESULTS BECAUSE OUR LEADERS ARE GETTING OLDER.

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DOUGLAS SHAFFER PASTOR Douglas Shaffer was given six months to live when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996.

Despite doctors’ instructions to get his affairs in order, Shaffer continued working at the restaurant he owned while completing nearly 10 weeks of chemotherapy. The cancer never returned.

After living cancer free for the next two years, Shaffer’s oncologist couldn’t explain why he was still alive.

“As a person of faith, I said, ‘I have an idea,’” he says.

Shaffer’s doctors were quick to assume the disease would kill him – considering he is HIV positive.

“HIV and lymphoma – HIV and anything – are not a good mix,” he says. “My immune system was obliterated.

The cancer was aggressive in its growth, and they thought it would be quick and messy. You don’t tool up for your next dream or your next career move.”

After living his life on hold for four years, restarting life was a challenge for Shaffer. When he moved from Iowa to Dallas in 2000, he wanted to get back to the business of living.

Within five months of joining the neighborhood, he found White Rock Community Church. The East Dallas congregation was born in the LGBTQ community at the height of the AIDS crisis to meet the health needs of the community.

Shaffer, 55, got involved singing in the choir, becoming a deacon and volunteering at the church’s HIV outreach service, White Rock Friends. The organization provides counseling, meal assistance, hygiene products and cleaning supplies to those who are impoverished because of illness.

Shaffer calls the service “trench work” because volunteers work face to face with those devastated by a fresh diagnosis.

“I remember one man who was processing a new reality,” Shaffer says. “I told him to find a new normal. Find what’s possible. In my experience as a clergy person, some of the darkest, most shadowed parts of our lives can become the most empowering

n SOME OF THE DARKEST, MOST SHADOWED PARTS OF OUR LIVES CAN BECOME THE MOST EMPOWERING.

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because we can pass wisdom along to someone else.”

When the church’s pastor resigned in 2009, the search committee nominated Shaffer as the lead pastor. Since then, he’s expanded services to more than 7,000 clients and increased programming to neighbors outside the LGBTQ community.

Shaffer, who graduated seminary at Texas Christian University, returned to ministry decades after first starting his career as a children’s pastor in Iowa. Ministry is a family business for the Shaffers, who are members of the conservative Assemblies of God denomination. His spiritual background made Shaffer a good fit at White Rock Community Church, which was founded by theological conservatives with an evangelical bent.

The church has become a sanctuary for all – gay and straight – who have felt wounded and abandoned by religion.

“I’ve been told many times over the years, ‘I’m so glad your church does this because if my church knew I was HIV positive, they’d kick me out,’” Shaffer says. “History has fought against allowing samegender-loving couples and Christianity to coexist, but I know they can coexist because they coexist here.”

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is a lesson he says he learned from his former wife. Shaffer was openly bisexual when he married his wife at 19. For more than a decade, they had careers, great friends and a nice house. But Shaffer knew he would never feel deeply for his wife.

“My wife used to say, ‘Our life would be perfect if you were just straight,’” Shaffer says. “One day she looked at me and said, ‘You’re a gay man, and I love you for who you are, not this pretense.’”

One year after they divorced, Shaffer moved to Dallas, where he met his longtime partner Daniel.

They shared their life together for 18 years and have been legally married for more than five years.

A few years into their relationship, Shaffer came out to his parents.

He was 40 years old, but he feared it would be the last conversation they’d ever have. When he spoke the words, they showed him the same unconditional love as his ex-wife and the same unconditional love as Christ.

“There’s nothing extraordinary about my life from my perspective,” Shaffer says. “I just take each day as it comes. If I flourish, hopefully I can help those around me to flourish.”

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DON MAISON ATTORNEY+ADVOCATE The 1979 police raid on the Village Station nightclub was just one of many along Cedar Springs Road during that time. But it was a turning point in uniting the gay community against police harassment and unfair charges.

Don Maison’s involvement was accidental. The former civil rights attorney hadn’t heard of the bust — in which the police department’s vice squad arrested 12 men doing a bunny hop on charges of public lewdness. But when an old law school classmate asked him to represent a client, he couldn’t refuse.

In the past, most gay people charged with public lewdness had pleaded guilty. They feared publicly fighting the charges would alienate their family or cause them to lose their jobs. When the group of arrested men decided to stand up to the police, it marked a significant step in the city’s movement for equal rights.

“That event was really the first time the Dallas gay community stood on its feet and said, ‘This is enough,’” says Maison, who has lived in East Dallas for 37 years.

Maison knew the layout of Village Station well, and he knew the testifying officer was lying when he claimed to have seen lewd behavior from where he was standing. Maison called the nightclub’s owner and told him to bring the bar’s floor plan to the courtroom. It was enough evidence that the judge acquitted Maison’s client.

But Maison’s role in this tale wasn’t over. At the trial of another defendant, he asked people to dance in the courtroom to the song “Enough is Enough,” which was playing at Village Station when police made the arrests. Groups of gay supporters and opposing evangelicals added to the circus.

The Dallas Morning News reported the case with the frontpage headline, “Bible totters watch a parade of perverts.”

The judge found the defendant guilty, but an appeals court later reversed the ruling.

“It isn’t the job of a prosecutor to get convictions.

It’s to get justice,” Maison says. “They take advantage of vulnerable situations, which I don’t

n THAT EVENT WAS REALLY THE FIRST TIME THE DALLAS GAY COMMUNITY STOOD ON ITS FEET AND SAID, “THIS IS ENOUGH.”

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think is right. I feel like things have changed a great deal.”

After the trials, Maison served on a committee of several gay lawyers that met with police personnel to create better understanding between the communities. As a result, the police department appointed a liaison to the gay community, and the LGBTQ nonprofit, the Resource Center, began training officers to treat gay people with respect.

As proud as Maison is of his legal work, he’s most pleased with his advocacy as CEO of AIDS Services of Dallas. The Oak Cliff nonprofit provides affordable housing and support services to low-income individuals and families living with HIV and AIDS. When Maison first started in 1989, he faced hostility from demonstrators who protested the nonprofit’s entry into the neighborhood with placards that read, “No gays/AIDS colonies.” The post office wouldn’t deliver mail to its address.

Despite no previous nonprofit experience, Maison grew a staff of four into more than 70 people.

He increased a budget of $25,000 to $4.8 million. When no one else wanted to care for AIDS patients, his staff developed services that today include access to homehealth aides, home-delivered meals and transportation to medical appointments.

Maison served at the position for more than 30 years. He retired in 2018.

“I made a difference in many people’s lives,” he says. “To read the comments on Facebook and the emails when people found out I was leaving, it made me extremely proud. It made me realize how many people were affected.”

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HARRYETTE EHRHARDT ‘FAIRY GODMOTHER’ It never hurts to have a friend in your corner, especially a politician.

Former state Rep. Harryette Ehrhardt has fought to save historic neighborhoods and to improve Dallas public schools. But perhaps she is best known as a supporter of gay rights. Despite the risks of being one of the first public allies in Dallas, she worked to pass anti-hate crime legislation and opened the home she shared with her late husband Jack to openly gay politicians running for office. Her advocacy earned her the nickname “Fairy Godmother of Texas” in the gay community. “It’s been an honor and a privilege and a lot of fun,” she says.

How did you first get involved with LGBTQ advocacy?

Nolan Estes, who was the DISD superintendent, was interviewed by the newspaper and said (the district) would fire any gay teacher in Dallas. Asked how he’d know if they were gay, he said the students or the principal or the parents could tell him. That would have been a Spanish Inquisition. I was on the school board. My husband brought me a cup of tea with the newspaper under his arm while I was still in bed. He said, “We have a problem.”

What happened next?

All the way to my office at Mountain View College, I was gripping the steering wheel, saying, “All right God, you’ve given me this ball. What am I supposed to do?” I called a friend, Milton Tobian, and he said, “If you touch this, you’ll be through politically.” I said, “Will you help me?” We went to every board member, but it got taken care of because the business community didn’t want such an issue in Dallas. We changed the personnel policy.

Were you worried it would ruin your career?

Oh, I didn’t care. I never gave that a thought. I wasn’t interested in being a politician. I was interested in doing something that was right.

What other advocacy stories stand out?

One of the gay bars had an arson, and it burned all the clothes of the female impersonators. I had evening dresses that I never wore, so I just donated them. When it opened again, they invited Jack and me to come as their guests. I took the opportunity to thank Dallas teachers and administrators for what they did for our children.

I got a phone call the next morning from a reporter at the Dallas Morning News. She said, “Tell me you weren’t at a gay bar last night. Tell me you didn’t thank the teachers. My editor says if it’s true, we’ll have to print it.” They ran it in the paper — a whole third of the front page with my picture in it. That’s when it hit the fan.

Was it dangerous to be an LGBTQ ally?

We got calls. We got death threats. It was terrible. My son was beat up. Our daughter had to have a police officer attend kindergarten with her. We had police in front of our house 24/7. If that’s what happened to me, think what

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it must have been like to be gay back then. That’s when I realized how awful this was. What a terrible, discriminatory thing. We got very involved. The ball just came to us, and we had to accept it.

How did you help in the state legislature?

I represented the largest gay district in the U.S. outside of New York and San Francisco. I was elected with their help. I tried to get the anti-hate laws passed, and it took all eight years I was in the legislature. I’m delighted for the first time this session there’s a gaylesbian caucus. That’s great progress, but we need to stop this ridiculous talk about bathrooms. We need to get 21.06 off the books. It’s an unconstitutional Texas law that says any sexual activity between members of the same sex is a criminal act.

What are you most proud of?

I think it was that the gay community knew that an elected official, respected physician and their family believed in them, supported them and believed they deserved to be treated with respect and equality.

n I WASN’T INTERESTED IN BEING A POLITICIAN. I WAS INTERESTED IN DOING SOMETHING THAT WAS RIGHT.

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SPOTLIGHT STORIES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD

BOOKER T. BROKEN HOW SUBURBANITES CHEAT THEIR WAY INTO BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

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“I absolutely see evidence of students who misrepresented their real residence to gain admission to our magnets.”

— Stephanie Elizalde, Dallas ISD chief of school leadership who oversees instruction at DISD’s 230 campuses

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LIE ABOUT YOUR HOME ADDRESS. Compel co-workers or friends to put your name on their utility bill. Or just rent an apartment in Uptown for your son or daughter, even if the kid never actually lives there.

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, the nationally renowned public magnet school, is known for funneling dancers to The Juilliard School, churning out Presidential Scholars in the Arts and grooming music stars, such as Norah Jones and Erykah Badu. Dallas Independent School District taxpayers fund the high school reserved for students who live in the DISD attendance zone, according to school board regulations.

But Advocate research shows neither campus nor district officials make much of an effort to verify that applicants live where they say they do. And once kids cheat their way into a magnet school, DISD generally doesn’t review their residency again.

Meanwhile, talented DISD hopefuls who live within the district’s attendance boundaries are denied entry to the school and left wondering what might have been.

In the wake of the “Aunt Becky” national college cheating scandal, take a look at this year’s freshman recruits to the Booker T. dance conservatory.

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“They get a friend and ask if they can pay their phone bill, and nobody goes deeper. They aren’t paying any taxes. That is not fair. That is straight-up fraud.”

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on their middle school transcripts.

Yet as part of their application paperwork, 53 of the 55 dancers turned in utility bills purporting to live in Dallas.

In fact, all but three of the 227 freshmen in Booker T.’s dance, music, theater and visual arts academies used a Dallas address when they applied. Yet 100 of those students, including 39 who attended public middle schools in the suburbs, have never attended a DISD middle school.

Juxtapose that with the 56 DISD students who applied to attend the school and were denied entry in spring 2018. Another 144 DISD students were rejected as “unqualified” by the magnet school audition judges.

Based on DISD numbers, children from suburban families who ignore the district’s rules have a better chance of gaining access to Booker T. than DISD’s own students.

Sure, it makes Dallas taxpayers proud that one of their public schools annually ranks among the best in the country.

But how proud should we be knowing that every suburban kid taking a spot at our nationally ranked magnet school could be stealing that opportunity from a deserving Dallas kid who played by DISD’s own rules?

And lost.

Where do Booker T. Washington applicants come from?

Applicants DISD neighborhood school 101 DISD magnet/lottery school 114 Charter 58 Private 74 Online/homeschool 16

Total number of applicants 516

Suburban ISD 121 Unknown 32

“It’s my job to pull (talent) out of them.

They all have it. They just don’t all have the opportunity to have the private dance lessons and tutors and coaching.”

Qualified (at least 70/100 audition score) DISD neighborhood school 46 DISD magnet/lottery school 92

— Stephanie Elizalde

Charter 23

Total number qualified 336

Private 54 Online/homeschool 13 Suburban ISD 88

“We’ve just followed the district policy, and we’re checking the utility bill as it’s presented.”

Unknown 20

Neighborhood kids vs. suburban ISD kids 65

Applied

60

Qualified

Scott Rudes

55 50 45 40 35

“It makes Booker T. a school for rich kids.”

30 25 20

— Kristen Jackson, longtime

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art teacher at DISD’s

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K.B. Polk Elementary

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Suburban ISD middle school students with outof-district addresses

64/43

Suburban ISD middle school students with DISD addresses

57/45

Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy

52/42

J.L. Long Middle School

32/18

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Source: DISD records, based on eighth-graders’ spring 2019 applications

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A DISD mom remembers an information session at Booker T. in 2013, when parents were told in-district students take precedence. She also recalls a gathering where the head of the theater academy said, “We don’t check addresses.”

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— Andrea Ramirez, whose two sons were theater students at Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy, a DISD middle school, before attending Booker T. She met families who drove to Booker T. daily from Little Elm, Garland and Greenville.

Her sons ultimately returned to their neighborhood high school, Sunset.

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A C T I V IS T A NNIE

SPOTLIGHT STORIES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Annie Jones has spent a lifetime on the frontline of disabled rights

East Dallas resident Annie Jones has advocated for the rights of people with disabilities in public transportation since the 1980s.

ANNIE JONES just wanted a nice dinner at the Spaghetti Warehouse. But she wasn’t about to relegate herself to the back entrance, where the restaurant’s only wheelchair ramp was located. Instead, she and her friends sat outside the downtown eatery in their wheelchairs in front of folding tables, complete with a candle in the center. After their nondisabled friends went inside and ordered takeout, they ate their pasta outside in front of onlookers and police officers.

The protest worked. A few weeks later, the Spaghetti Warehouse installed a wheelchair ramp at the front entrance thanks to supporters like Jones who fight for greater access for people with disabilities.

Jones, an 84-year-old resident at Juliette Fowler Communities, has been a fierce advocate for the disabled community since arriving in Dallas in 1971. As a doctorate student at the University of North Texas, she had hoped to become a professor. But those plans were dashed when she was hit in the back by a basketball while walking her dog. The impact shattered her back and reinjured her spinal cord. She was in

a wheelchair at 36 years old and would never work again.

Jones’ bones were weak from years of radiation exposure.

After earning her master’s degree in biochemistry from Syracuse University, she worked at a cancer research lab in New Jersey. It felt like a calling after her mother had died of breast cancer years before.

But in the 1960s, doctors knew little about the effects of radiation, and researchers wore only white lab coats for protection. Three years into her job, she developed osteoporosis, spontaneous spinal fractures and a spinal cord injury.

She collapsed at work and lost the use of her legs for two years.

After the second injury, she wouldn’t walk again for 10 years. During that time, Jones struggled to navigate Dallas in her wheelchair. Sidewalks didn’t have curb cutouts, DART buses didn’t have wheelchair lifts and most restaurants didn’t have accessible ramps. So she joined a local chapter of Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit, a national group that organizes disability rights activists to

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My Ride Dallas, a service that provides transportation to people with disabilities, named its most prestigious award after Jones.

engage in nonviolent civil disobedience.

“I had all this education and all these goals, and the Lord opened doors so I could do something else with my life,” she says. “I didn’t stop. I’m happy we got so much going in Dallas.”

She led her first demonstration in 1988 to protest the lack of accessibility on public transportation. After negotiations for greater access on Greyhound buses failed, Jones and other ADAPT members chained themselves to the front of the vehicles.

They weren’t up there long before police came to remove them. Jones and her friends refused to hand over the key, so officers cut the thick, heavy chains with a saw. Authorities encountered another challenge when their van broke down. They had to transport the protesters to the county jail in, ironically, a DART bus. Jones spent 10 hours in jail and was given a $120 fine for public disturbance.

“I wish I could be sorry, but I’m not. I hope you don’t evict me,” Jones told Juliette

“I didn’t stop.

I’m happy we got so much going in Dallas.”

Fowler administrators after her arrest.

She didn’t get evicted, and she didn’t let the arrest end her advocacy. Next, Jones pushed for more curb cutouts on city sidewalks and helped start DART’s Paratransit Service. The service specifically serves the elderly and riders with disabilities who are unable to use fixed-route buses and trains.

Her work caught the attention of My Ride Dallas, a program that helps people with disabilities understand their transportation options. In 2013, the organization named its most prestigious award in her honor. The Annie Jones Driver Excellence Award celebrates drivers who go above and beyond to make riders feel safe, comfortable and valued.

“Annie is very humble. She says ‘we’ a lot, but the ADAPT group didn’t get an award named after them,” Juliette Fowler Chief Advancement Officer Ann McKinley says.

“Something tells me she was a pretty big leader in all of this. I think Annie stirred the pot pretty good.”

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OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

By PATTI VINSON

Sober milestone The Dallas 24 Hour Club celebrates 50 years of service

S

teve is an East Dallas boy who first tried marijuana at age 8, got drunk at 9 and later used meth. He lost relationships and saw the inside of a jail many times along the way. Then one day he woke up in a seedy motel in Richardson and was ready to quit.

It was in his old neighborhood where he found help through the Dallas 24 Hour Club, an organization that has provided safe, sober transitional living for homeless men and women since 1969. The organization will host a community event celebrating 50 years of service June 8.

If you’ve driven down Ross Avenue, heading downtown, you’ve passed it. It’s the new two-story building at 4636 Ross Ave. next to Popeye’s Chicken. The original facility was a crumbling, 100-year-old structure, housing up to 67 people in its small space.

Developers, contractors, architects, attorneys and others stepped up, free of charge. The old, dilapidated structure was bulldozed and, in February, the new facility opened with double the space.

The building includes separate dorms for men and women, plenty of bathrooms and showers, recreation areas, meditation rooms, a community room for 12-step recovery meetings and a commercial kitchen where residents learn culinary skills and serve renowned pancakes at The Hubcap Café.

CEO Marsha Williamson says most find the 24 Hour Club via word of mouth, although some are referred by police, firefighters, the courts, hospitals and mental facilities.

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The 24 Hour Club provides sober transitional living for the homeless seeking a drug-free life. (Photography by Danny Fulgencio.)

Seventy percent of residents at the 24 Hour Club have a problem with alcohol, 14 percent struggle with methamphetamines and 10 percent are addicted to heroin. The facility has seen an uptick in heroin problems, perhaps because a heroin high mimics the effects of opioids, drugs that can be difficult to obtain legally, Williamson says.

What’s it like to walk through these doors, ready to get your life back on track but clueless how to make it happen?

Steve’s story provides a glimpse.

After waking up in that seedy motel, Steve walked five hours to his uncle’s

home. “My uncle was the only person I knew in my whole life who was sober,” he says. The two immediately set off to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

“We asked a bunch of the old-timers where a homeless alcoholic/drug addict could go and get some help,” Steve says. He vividly recalls seven of the old-timers chiming in at once: “The Two Four!”

“The old-timers had a go-to place for washed up drunks like me,” Steve says.

After completing the 24 Hour Club program, Steve maintains his sobriety and works in the substance abuse field,

helping others. He’s grateful for the 12-step meetings and the fellowship, as well as “the strongest $1 cup of coffee in the metroplex.”

David can also tell you about the “Two Four.” He grew up in the Park Cities in an alcoholic home and began drinking and drugging in high school.

He lost a university football scholarship and was thrown out of several colleges for drinking. Jail, multiple rehabs and psych wards followed. Seven years ago, he decided he’d had enough, but he had no money or insurance for treatment.

“The 24 welcomed me, fed me and held me accountable,” he says. David is now a father, a college graduate and a sponsor to others struggling with addictions.

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The routine is the same for everyone at the Two Four. New residents rise from their floor mats at 6 a.m.

After completing assigned chores, they eat breakfast, then grab a sack lunch as they head out the door to look for a job for a few hours. The rest of the day is devoted to attending AA and NA meetings — 30 meetings minimum in the first 30 days — and working the program.

Once they have established a strong recovery program and found employment, residents enjoy extended curfews and fewer chores but are still required to regularly attend 12-step meetings. They eventually transition to independent living in the community.

Since 1969, the 24 Hour Club has helped about 20,000 people get sober and become self-supporting, contributing members of society. David says, “There is not a better place in the world to get sober than 4636 Ross Ave.” For more information about services, donations or volunteering, visit dallas24hourclub.org.

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WORSHIP

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By GEORGE MASON

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T

here are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t.

The temptation to see the world in binary code — all “ones and zeroes” — seems to be growing. Maybe it’s like the shift in music from vinyl to digital recordings.

Vinyl is warmer, the sound more blended. Digital music is brighter and cleaner, allowing you to better hear the discrete instruments.

“Who’s right? Conservatives or progressives? Those with eyes on the past or those with eyes on the future? ” We see this tendency in other realms, even while new knowledge makes maintaining binaries dubious. Scientists used to argue over whether light was a particle or a wave. Now they understand it’s both — depending upon the conditions under which it is viewed. Similarly, we have divided the world into male and female.

But the transgender experience and its biological and psychological foundations point to gender being more on a spectrum than two opposite poles.

The world is infinitely complex. We talk about light and dark and day and night. But part of every day includes times we call dawn and dusk, when we are in a twilight zone that could be early morning or evening when light encroaches or fades.

Whenever you hear someone say there are two ways to understand something, they are setting up an either/or that would better be framed as a both/and. This is not relativism, as some fear. It is realism.

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We may want life to be a choice between absolutes, but our human vocation is to discern among many possibilities to find ways that lead to a fuller life, rather than those that divide and destroy us.

In matters of faith and politics, binary alternatives of conservative or progressive are unhelpful too. None of us fits neatly into one category. We need to account for one another to have a robust faith that is grounded in the past and blazes new paths.

Conservatives face life with an eye to the past. They believe the future will be brighter only by the recovery of original beauty now marred. Hope is memory more than aspiration.

Progressives long for a destiny that is greater than our origin. God is still creating, still speaking. They believe God isn’t finished with the world yet, and we are invited to join the project of making more of it, not just repairing it.

Who’s right? Conservatives or progressives? Those with eyes on the past or those with eyes on the future?

What T. S. Eliot called “permanent things” keep us grounded in what endures.

Love and kindness, as much as gravity and magnetism, hold the world together as change threatens to pull it apart. At the same time, imagination and innovation, as much as energy and momentum, drive the world forward against the desire for things to stay the same.

Respecting what has been good in every age and longing for what is still to come will help us walk together in one peace, instead of leaving us in many pieces.

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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OUR CITY

By MITA HAVLICK

Four mayoral priorities in a single block Our candidates care about the same issues.

Who’s going to get the job done?

I

t’s exciting in Dallas because we are on the cusp of electing a new mayor.

The June 8 runoff will decide who will lead us through improving our streets, living in safer neighborhoods, addressing homelessness and solving the affordable housing crisis.

What gives me comfort about this race is the candidates’ focus on local issues.

Yes, we want international companies to make their headquarters in Dallas, but we have to be intentional about not marginalizing those who are here. Yes, we want convention traffic, but not at the sacrifice of fixing our streets. Yes, we may be the ninth largest city in the United States by population, but we want to remain a community woven together by neighborhoods.

When I reflect on these four areas of concern — streets, safety, homelessness and affordable housing — I think about the 4300 block of San Jacinto, where they all intersect.

Driving down that block of San Jacinto is like playing a game of chicken between your car and the potholes, the sofas strewn on the side of the road and the bulldozers waiting to demolish what’s there.

This is where the Emanuel Community Center, the nonprofit for which I volunteer, lies in an area of Old East Dallas that hasn’t been “desirable” for quite some time. It’s down the street from the Ross-Bennett grid, which has long been a magnet for armed robberies and drug sales. More than once it made the list of most dangerous neighborhoods in Dallas.

The ECC lies a half mile south of Ross and Bennett, a respectable distance away to not bear the brunt of the melee, but close enough to not be immune to the chaos.

For years, the low-rise apartment complexes across the street from the ECC were poorly managed but were home to those with lower incomes. Today, it’s a magnet for commercial real estate developers.

The area borders Lower Greenville to the north and Bryan Place to the south, so the blocks surrounding Ross between Henderson and Haskell are having a boon.

Driving down that block of East Dallas is like playing a game of chicken between your car and the potholes, the sofas strewn on the side of the road and the bulldozers waiting to demolish what’s there.

But a boon for some is a travesty for others. Residents, many of whom receive food assistance from the ECC, were told to vacate. Most had no place to go, at least not in this area of the city. The ones who remained are our homeless clients — faithfully coming to the ECC every Tuesday for a bag of food and, once a month, for a hot meal and medical services.

The buildings have been boarded up for months. After they were stripped of the A/C window units, they are now brick, windowless shells that serve as a home to drug dealers, vandals and those who have nowhere else to go. On our side of the

street, a fire destroyed our 1890s Parish House last year, and this past winter, we found a homeless man lying dead in our community garden.

Bad roads, public safety concerns, lack of affordable housing and homelessness — all in one block that is in the midst of gentrifying.

Until now, I’ve experienced gentrification only at an arm’s length by moving into areas that have already gone through the process. Sometimes when I’m driving, I’ll notice that what was there yesterday is gone the next. Gentrification is not pretty, often causing more problems than before.

I don’t doubt the sincerity of either mayoral candidate in wanting to address our city’s afflictions, but sincerity doesn’t solve problems. Arguably, it’s a great place to start.

I want our next mayor to not sit in an ivory tower but drive down the 4300 block of San Jacinto and see firsthand 530 feet of bad roads, high crime, nowhere to go and nowhere to live.

I am listening for plans and details. I’m evaluating whether proposed solutions are attainable or merely populist rhetoric. I’m listening for metrics and accountability so we can look back and see if there has been improvement. I’m trying to gauge the ability of our next mayor to work with not just large organizations, but community leaders and residents.

I’m also voting. And I hope you do too.

MITA HAVLICK is a neighborhood activist. She wrote this column before the two runoff candidates were determined by the May 4 general election. Find her commentary regularly in the back pages of our print edition and online at lakewood.advocatemag.com.

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