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feb 22 contents

LAKE HIGHLANDS ADVOCATE VOL.29 NO.2

PROFILE 6 Viola Delgado’s reassuring public art DINING 12 Mario Bros Tacos FEATURES 8 Black history: Little Egypt 18 Love stories from our neighborhood 24 Chris Miller and the LHHS alumni baseball game COLUMNS 28 Book talk: Love through many lenses 31 Worship: The best is yet to be

Viola Delgado’s mosaic at the Dallas County Government Center in Oak Cliff features the Trinity River’s Caddo name, Arkikosa. Photography by Jessica Turner.

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Viola Delgado’s art adds encouragement to public spaces › Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

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xcept for those skipping to the courthouse with a marriage license, the new Dallas County G overnment Building in Oak Cliff can be an unpleasant place to go. It ’s where evictions are filed and truants are punished, for example. But a little comfort is provided visually. The building is filled with natural light and comprises a galler y of Latino art, inside and out, c urated by Jor je Baldor, the Dallas Housing Authority board chairman who owns Mercado369. “Right now, things are just so hard for ever ybody,” artist Viola Delgado says. “If we can have art like this that reminds people of a happier time, why not?” Delgado has three mural-size paintings on canvas in the building, featuring vibrantly colored landscapes and women wearing shawls. T he paintings were supposed to be a tr yptic, titled Purple Mountain Majesties, although they’re not all placed toge ther. “ T he women are the ancestors that suppor t us and go before us and come after us,” Delgado says. “ T hose women just want to go ever ywhere,” because they keep popping up in her work, through inspiration or by request from commissions. Delgado, who has lived in Vicker y Meadow since 1998, has kept busy over the past 15 years or so creating public art for DFW International Airpor t and DART. Her piece at DFW ’s Terminal D, gates 8-10, is a tile mosaic inlaid to the floor depicting eight blue hands and eight infinity symbols. “ T here’s some thing ver y mystical about that,” she says. “ T hey didn’ t put it at gate 8 intentionally. It was supposed to be gates 1-3 originally.” T he piece honors her father, who died before it was comple ted. “He and my mom planned to travel when he retired, and then my mother got Parkinson’s, so I did all that in his honor so that he’ ll always be at the airpor t going somewhere,” she says. T hat commission also je tted her into public art. Her mosaics at DART stations include six deeply colorful mosaics at L ake June Station, installed about 10 years ago. All of those have to do with agric ulture. The builder independently commissioned her to tile the station’s columns as well. Baldor asked Delgado to create a tile mosaic depic ting the Trinity River at the Oak Cliff government building. Oak Cliff-based artist and West Dallas native

Angela Faz suggested putting the river ’s Caddo name, Arkikosa, in the piece. All of Delgado’s mosaics star t with paintings, and the rest is produced industrially in Cuernavaca, Mexico. A studio there makes Byzantine glass tiles using old techniques, but its computers match the colors and work out the math — how many tiles of each color are needed and where each one of thousands should be se t. T he result is tiles in vibrant colors that exude Delgado’s Latino c ulture. When Delgado, who’s 6 8, star ted in the late 1980s, there were few spaces available to Latino ar tists, unlike now, she says. “People would ge t tired of being invited to Cinco de Mayo and things like that,” she says. “But it didn’ t matter to me, because I figured exposure of any kind was be tter, and I star ted selling small pieces through that.” Delgado grew up in Sinton, Texas, and her family moved to Plano when she was in high school. She graduated from Dallas Baptist University and worked for Dallas ISD’s migrant education program for about seven years. She later took art classes at El Centro, now Dallas College, and then enrolled in the Ar t League S chool in Alexandria, Virginia, where she lived with a friend, and learned printmaking. An allerg y to chemicals forced her to pivot to painting. She moved to an apar tment off Matilda Stree t around 1987, and her next-door neighbor was ar tist Filber to Chapa, who died in 2019. “A lot of writers and ar tists used to live all through there at that time,” she says. “ We were ver y poor. S ome times Filber to would pay the electric bill and I would pay the water bill, and we would just share.” T hey ran extension cords be tween the two buildings and carried water in jugs back and for th. “ We did what it took to continue doing what we loved to do,” she says. “Now my career is taking off, but it took a lot.” Public ar t commissions can take 2-5 years from star t to finish. “ To be a public ar tist, you really have to have a lot of patience,” she says. “I listen to what they say and put visuals to their words. That ’s the easiest par t to do. If you just listen, they tell you what they want.” Delgado is not represented by a gallery, but she can be contacted directly through her website, violadelgado.com.

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Living above freedom Prior to commercial development, this was a freedmen's town. Story by RAVEN JORDAN

Photography courtesy of Dallas Municipal Archives. Map courtesy of Dallas Morning News Historical Archive.

NORTHLAKE SHOPPING CENTER and homes to the west, east and north of the strip center sit along the streets of Shoreview and Ferndale; that’s where the core of Little Egypt existed for nearly 100 years. Little Egypt was one of Dallas’ eight freedmen’s towns, neighborhoods where newly freed slaves lived after the Civil War. “Just a couple of years after Little Egypt was gone, I actually lived in Lake Highlands,” says Clive Siegle, a Richland College professor leading the ongoing excavation of an empty lot that was Little Egypt. “My parents bought a house about half-a-mile from the house that I’m in now.” A freedmen’s town is a historically Black community, typically located in the South and“founded via cash purchase or adverse possession, often in flood-prone bottomlands on the edges of plantations and city boundaries,” according to the Texas State Historical Association. Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, formerly enslaved African-Americans sought places to live and raise their families. Few of these communities survived Dallas’ transformation into a bustling metropolis, except for some churches and cemeteries.

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“When it comes to freedmen’s towns, usually you’ll find a cemetery, especially a Black one, and you’ll find an older congregational Black church,” says Dr. George Keaton, a genealogist and historian. “Even though they may not be there, like Little Egypt, the congregation that’s there still exists when they moved in the mid-‘60s. And then you’re going to have some evidence of some type of business because [residents] had to be self-sufficient.” Little Egypt was a pocket that was once a small, yet significant, part of Lake Highlands. The name of the community alludes to the slaves finding freedom from Egypt in Bible stories. The 35-acre land was deeded by former slave owners to freed slaves Jeff and Hanna Hill in 1865 for $300. One of the original buildings was the Little Egypt Baptist Church. The community grew to about 200 as residents built their own houses. The Hill family pioneered the community, but the McCoy family also was influential. Theirs was the only house in Little Egypt with a telephone line. The community was centered around the church and had no running water nor electricity, Siegle says. Though

lack of city services was often a characteristic of Texas rural communities at the time, it was especially common in freedmen’s towns because they generally were established away from city centers and more valuable developments. “Take a look at the landscape in 1930: It’s pretty deserted land, but you’re looking at the same land that pioneers were looking at in the 1850s,” Siegle says. “There was no plumbing anywhere in that development. [Residents were] still using outhouses,” Siegle says. “If you are familiar with the sticks in rural Texas, you’ve got these water tanks up on stilts kind of behind the house. That’s what they’ve got here. It was still rural, in its own way.” On a single day — May 15, 1962 — all of the Little Egypt residents moved

out of the neighborhood, and the entire community was bulldozed. A year earlier, the residents had agreed to sell their homes and community to a developer for a few thousands of dollars apiece, and they looked forward to life in a neighborhood with utilities. “It was commercial real estate development that took over the neighborhood,” says Collin Yarbrough, a Lake Highlands resident and author of Paved A Way. “It was a little more peaceful than some of the others.” The Little Egypt exodus made national headlines. An archived clip from New York’s Oneonta Star newspaper says William Hill, 87 at the time, was concerned about something other than his future: “The community’s patriarch, William Hill … worried about his long unused sets of mule harness.”

The Little Egypt Church relocated to Oak Cliff in 1962, because that’s where the church congregation and many of the former residents moved, taking a piece of their former home with them. The McCoy house was built on the now-empty lot behind East Lake Veterinary Hospital, Yarbrough says. “That’s where their family home was, and it’s the only hub that was never built on top of,” Yarbrough says. “So, it’s kind of the only last vestige of Little Egypt facilities.” Surviving McCoy family members in the Dallas area helped Richland students working on the excavation find more “Egyptians” and descendants to interview. Jerry McCoy and his siblings gave students contact information for other residents who grew up in Little Egypt. The McCoys also drew a map of the area and provided more family names. Richland students excavated the McCoy lot from 2015-2019, but the project slowed significantly as a result of the pandemic. The technological part, including building a virtual reconstruction of the McCoy house, is still in progress. There’s now a historic marker for the site that has yet to be put up due to health and safety protocols created by the pandemic, Siegle says. “There’s a ceremony that goes with it. It’s a state historical marker; it’s a big deal,” he says. In the future, Siegle also hopes a museum can be established to showcase excavation finds, articles and other items related to Little Egypt and McCree Cemetery, where many residents are buried. “What we’re trying to do is keep going … and eventually have it to the point where we reach a critical enough mass that we could actually have a museum exhibit.” For more information about Little Egypt and other freedmen’s towns in Dallas, visit Freedmen Towns of Dallas County: An insight Presentation and Discussion on Facebook.

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Havilland Voss, right, and a friend in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photo courtesy of Havilland Voss.

WORK+PLAY HAVILLAND VOSS TAKES REMOTE WORK TO THE SKY AND SEA Story by RAVEN JORDAN

hy work remotely from home when you can be on the coast of Spain or hike up the mountains and work at the same time? Havilland Voss doesn’t trek the globe in her free time or as a vacation. This 29-year-old Lake Highlands grad takes work along and couchsurfs with friends and family when home for a week or two. As the lead data analyst for Podsights, a podcast data and advertising company for brands and agencies, Voss has

the flexibility of full remote work. In August 2021, Voss joined Remote Year. This program of 3,000 adventurers between the ages of 21-77 allows anyone with a remote job that grants approval to participate. Remote Year has sent her to five countries, including Spain and Portugal, so she can be in a different country every month. ”I was actually on a program previously. I had originally started on one in January 2020,” Voss says. “I was seven weeks into it when COVID hit. I finally got to restart in August.” The Europe portion wrapped up

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in November; next was Africa. After that is Latin America for four months. And the best part? With Remote Year, anyone with a remote job, whether it’s part-time or full-time, can travel with a monthly fee starting at $2,850. That’s for a one-month excursion, but there are also four- and 12-month trip options. “Basically, you just sign up, and then you’re paying a monthly fee, and they provide apartments, co-working space, book flights,” she says. “They also have a bunch of events and activities in those cities. We have a local person who lives there who helps kind of coordinate those things.” Of all the places she’s seen so far, Croatia sticks out in memories because she spent a lot of time with the locals. “They had this couple who was pretty old, and they made soparnik, which is a Croatian traditional dish (pie typically filled with chard, onion, parsley and flaky dough), and it’s only supposed to be homemade,” Voss says. The dish originated in what was once the Republic of Poljica in Croatia. “It’s not supposed to be good if you get it at a restaurant, so they invited us to their home and made the soparnik for us,” she says. “It was really cool because it was something pretty authentic, and they also didn’t speak English.” Another memorable travel moment is when she and some friends went from Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina, a neighboring country to the south. The first stop was Dubrovnik, Croatia, featured in The Daily Beast for its unique rental houses. From that point, they drove more than two hours from the coast of Croatia through Bosnia and Herzegovina to get to the city of Mostar. “I think it’s like the most predominantly Islamic country I’ve ever been to,” she says. “I haven’t really been to that region of the world. Just kind of something I didn’t even expect, getting to go to a place like that.” In previous work as a consultant, she was going across the country on assignments. But she’s always had an interest in the history and cultures of other countries. “No matter where you go, you can find a way to make a connection with someone even if you don’t think you have anything in common,” she says.

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REAL ESTATE REPORT a r e a h o m e va l u e s SOLD DEC ‘21 10 6 7 16 10 0 7 1 7 12 2 1 10 5 6 100 6.66

Year-To-Date Sales ‘21 114 78 81 269 94 26 69 33 91 104 29 35 127 34 82 1,266 84.40

Year-To-Date Sales ‘20 100 73 69 218 83 44 104 20 87 93 28 17 121 48 112 1,217 81.12

Avg Days on Market YTD 45 22 33 38 29 18 35 29 23 36 30 62 26 11 27 464 30.93

Avg. Sales Price YTD ‘21 $470,880.00 $322,426.00 $322,412.00 $213,104.00 $388,152.00 $574,661.00 $586,659.00 $498,318.00 $546,493.00 $225,254.00 $643,186.00 $611,703.00 $525,011.00 $530,782.00 $489,051.00 $6,948,092.00 $463,206.13

Avg. Sales Price YTD ‘20 $322,205.00 $296,919.00 $302,095.00 $182,117.00 $336,437.00 $490,520.00 $509,456.00 $472,475.00 $436,804.00 $264,639.00 $538,980.00 $562,283.00 $484,437.00 $441,274.00 $460,464.00 $6,101,105.00 $406,740.33

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PREVIOUS SPREAD: Tacos with bacon-wrapped jalapeño pepper and charro beans. RIGHT: Mexican hamburger. OPPOSITE PAGE: Regio dog with fries.

MARIO MONTOYA SR. IS THE DESIGNATED CHEF OF THE FAMILY. M a r i o B r o s Ta c o s i s a f a m i ly-owned business in Town Creek Shopping Center, between Dallas Ballet Center and MD Kids Pediatrics on Abrams Road. The restaurant has been in Lake Highlands for the past se ven years, but the cooking has gone on longer. Montoya Sr. and his wife, Nancy, immigrated to Dallas from Allende, Nuevo Leon — about 30 miles from Monterrey, Mexico — in 1995.

Twenty years later, he and his son, Mario Montoya Jr., opened their first brick-and-mortar restaurant on Northwest Highway. Montoya Jr. handles the behind-the-scenes operations of the restaurant, like s o c i a l m e d i a , m a r ke t i n g a n d l o gistics, and considers himself a “rookie” in the kitchen. Before they were selling out of trompo tacos and tacos al carbon at their restaurants, Montoya Sr. and Nanc y sold food from out of th e ir apar tment when the y wer e 24 an d 23 year s ol d.

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“ We make a gr eat team. I t o o k se veral jobs in res taurants where I gained mor e e xper ience,” Mo n toya Sr. says. “My wife and I also sold hamburgers and tacos al vapor from our apartment on the weekends. We would sell out ever y weekend. We had the line out the door and ar ound the b uil din g .” Fa s t f o r w a r d t o t h i s y e a r, a n d the famil y s til l has its l oyal c ustomers in Lake Highlands from their fir s t l ocation. It ’s foo d an d conversation that keeps customers coming b ack .

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The restaurant is famous beyond our neighborhood for its trompo tacos, tacos al carbon a nd Me xi c a n h a mb u rge rs . Ta c os a l va p or, a n oth e r d is h , are s te ame d like tamales. An order includes four shredded p o rk an d on e r e f r i e d -be an s tacos on s in gle corn tor tillas, ser ved with menudo or pozole — a nd i s on ly ava i l able on we e ke n d s . Tr o m p o i s s e a s o n e d p o r k s h av e d f r o m a rotisserie rod onto tacos and other menu i t e m s . T h e y go t h r o u gh 1, 000 p ou n d s e ach week. S ome times, Montoya Sr. is even called t h e “ Tr omp o K i n g .” “ You can have trompo on tacos, on quesadillas, on burritos, on tortas, on hamburgers, on stuffed baked potatoes,” Montoya Jr. says. “Coming in close second is our Mexican hamburgers. Our most popular burger is t h e h a mb u r g u e s a e spe cial, wh ich is a d ou bl e - m e at , ha lf - p ou nd bu rge r with h am an d t ro m p o.” I t h a d b e e n t h e s e n i o r Ma r i o’s d r e a m t o o p e n a r e s t a u r a n t s o m e d a y, b u t h e d i d n’ t k n o w h o w o r w h e r e t o b e g i n . He t o o k u p work in construction, truck driving and other jobs years before heading down the ro a d o f s t a r t i n g a r e s tau ran t. B a c k t h e n , w e e k e n d s w e r e f o r f a m i l y, f r i e n d s a n d w a t c h i n g s p o r t s . Mo n t o y a S r. w a s t h e “d e s i g n a t e d g r i l l m a n” a n d w o u l d cook for everyone. This was also around t h e sa me t i me t he Mon toyas s old tacos an d h a m bu r ger s ou t s i d e th e ir ap ar tme n t. “ My f r i en d s a n d family wou ld always te ll

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ABOVE: Owners Mario Montoya Sr. and Mario Montoya Jr. RIGHT: Trompo, or seasoned pork on a rotisserie rod.

me th at my food was re ally good and that I should open up a restaurant because it would be ver y successful.” Montoya Sr. says. “ We moved to a suburb outside of Dallas in 2 0 00. My n eighbors — and later on when my son (Mario) was a teenager and had his friends over for the cookouts — they also would urge me to open up a restaurant because the rest of the world was missing out on my cooking.” It was Montoya Jr. who, after graduating college in 2013, urged his father to take the leap into finally starting his own restaurant. The next summer, he spurred his dad once again, but the cash investment and financially supporting his family made him hesitant. So, Montoya Jr. had two food carts shipped to them and posted ads on Facebook. The first step on their path to restaurant ownership: catering. “I convinced him that we would start off by just catering. The catering business blew up and we were booked with multiple events throughout the week, especially on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,” Montoya Jr. says. “After working a

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year at my corporate job, and with the money I saved up, I finally convinced my father to leave his job and for him and I to go 110% into his American Dream.” A year later, in April 2015, the original yellow, red and blue Marios Bros Tacos building opened. Either of the Marios, Nancy and Montoya Jr.’s siblings can be found behind the counter. The Montoyas want to remain family-owned and credit the Lake Highlands community to their continued success. Their motto is “Peace. Love. Mario Bros Tacos,” which they demonstrate through charitable acts and service. They sponsor events for local schools and churches and gave food where needed during the big freeze last February. “All of our menu items take time and love to prepare,” Montoya Sr. says. “People taste this love when they have our food. We prepare and serve each order like we were preparing it for a family member at our dinner table.” Mario Bros Tacos, 8420 Abrams Road, 469.450.0360, themariobrostacos.com

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husband was performing at a nightclub-restaurant. His wife was planning their divorce. And she had the perfect woman in mind for her soon-to-be ex-husband — Amy Martin, an entertainment writer for the Dallas Times Herald. “And when I showed up to this dinner that she had invited me to, [her husband] Scooter was at the table,” Amy says. “I was a little taken aback.” Amy had seen Scooter at some of the shows she covered. His almost ex-wife had already moved to Denton. “They didn’t see each other much. He and his exwife were on really good terms,” she says. When she met Scooter, Amy had every intention of remaining single. “You know, I was one of the heartbreakers. I was dating musicians,” Amy says. “And musicians are not always a long-term project.” But Scooter was different. He was a musician with a day job. She continued to deflect his dating requests, until the day he called while she was planting shrubs. She said she was busy in the yard, and he asked if he could come over and help. “That did the trick,” Amy says. “Plus he looked really sexy in his shorts working a shovel.” They dated for a while before Scooter moved into Amy’s Lakewood Heights House. They lived together for over a decade before they figured they should make it official in 2006, right around Valentine's Day. A justice of the peace officated the wedding, after which the couple hosted a lunch and reception at the Eastwood home they live in today. By the day of the nuptials, everyone already thought of Scooter and Amy as husband and wife. “What really worked is that we became friends first — I think he knew I was the one before I knew he was the one — and because I had to let go of a lot of assumptions about what my relationship life would be,” she says. She advises, “Allow things to grow. Don't expect to be knocked off your feet by a thunderbolt.” But a little falling is OK, she adds. “He has that darkhaired look that I just love. And fell for.”

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— w ritten by Jehadu Ab shi ro

y l ove story may be d i ffe re nt t h an most ot he rs. S i nce I was a l i tt l e g i r l, I a l ways ha d a love fo r b o o ks ; I l ove d t he way t h ey fel t, h ow so m e of t h e m s me l l e d . Be i n g rea red by my gra n dmot he r, a 5- fo ot- ta l l wo m an w ith o n ly a se con d - g ra d e e d u cat i on , s h e in stille d in me t hat eve r y t h i n g a ro u n d yo u is a lea rn in g op p o r tun i ty i f yo u a l l ow i t to b e, a n d eve ry b oo k i s a va cat i on i f yo u are w illin g to trave l . He r n a m e wa s Ze l ma M i tc h e l l B rewer (p ic tu re d a b ove) . S he wa s f ro m Mob il e, A la ba m a . The o l d est c h i l d of he r pa re nts, s h e h a d to stop he r e d ucat i on i n t h e seco n d gra d e to a ss i st he r mot he r, Fra n c i s M itc h e ll, w ith h e r you n ge r s i b l i ngs. W hen my gra n d m ot h e r wa s of a ge, s h e sta r ted c lea n in g h o u ses i n Mob i l e, unt i l s h e saved e n o u gh m o n ey to move wi t h h e r two s mal l c h ild re n to Texa s i n t he l ate 19 4 0 s.

Sett l i n g h er fam i l y i n N aco gdoc h es, sh e wo u l d m eet t h e l ate g reat L.V. Brewer. To get h er t h ey sh ared fi ve c h i l dren , reari n g seven total. My g ran dm ot h er wo u l d u se m e to read bo o ks to h er, an d I h ated it at t h e t i m e. I wanted to go o u tsi de an d pl ay wi t h my co u si n s, o r j u st s it an d do n ot h i n g l i ke a n o rm al c h i l d. I rem em ber m any days readi n g to my g ran dm ot h er, t h en l o o k i n g up wo rds i n t h e di c t i o n ari es an d en cyc l o pedi as to h el p h er u n derstand wh at t h e wo rd m eant o r h ow to u se i t i n a senten ce. It got to a po i nt wh ere sh e wo u ld ask , “Wh ere are we go i n g to day?” I wo u l d g rab a bo o k an d say, “Lo o ks l i ke we are go i n g to Kan sas.” Th at was The Wi zard of Oz. I wo u l d read to h er an d sh e wo u l d j u st ro c k i n h er c h ai r, of ten wi t h h er eyes c l osed. I wo u l d ask h er i f sh e was sl eepi n g; sh e wo u l d say, “No, j u st i m ag i n i ng wh at Do rot hy ’s h o u se l o o ked l i ke. I h ave n ever been t h ere befo re.” I wo u l d sm i l e an d keep readi n g . I h ad n o i dea sh e was prepari ng m e fo r a rel at i o n sh i p wi t h bo o ks t h at I wo u l d n eed t h ro u g h o u t my l i fe. My g ran dm ot h er was n ot a go od reader, an d t h e wo rds t h at sh e did k n ow I tau g ht h er! Wh at a feel i n g to k n ow yo u tau g ht yo u r g ran dm ot h er h ow to read. I carry t h e rel at i o n sh i p we sh ared wi t h m e to t h i s day. My fam i l y wo u ld l i ke to say t h ey owe m e fo r teac h i ng h er h ow to read, bu t I want to say I owe my g ran dm ot h er fo r g i v i n g me so m et h i n g I can g i ve bac k to t he wo rl d. Du ri n g t h e pan dem i c I h ad t he u rgen cy to pu t l egs to my E L Stat i o n v i si o n . Last Ju l y, I star ted h er fi rst Li tt l e Free Li brary, devel o pi ng par t n ersh i ps wi t h t h e Ci ty of Dal l as Rec reat i o n Depar t m ent, Th e Dal l as Pu bl i c Li brary, R i c k S m i t h wi t h The Real E state Bo o k , an d To dd Bo i wi th Th e Li tt l e Free Li brary. In a sh o r t t i m e, we h ave pl aced a bo o k i n t h e h an ds of m o re t h an 1 ,000 peo pl e i n t h e Dal l as- Fo r t Wo r t h m et ro pl ex. Not yo u r aver age l ove sto ry, bu t i t i s o n e t h at h as bl azed t h ro u g h o u t m any h o m es, bei n g t h e escape m any l i ves n eeded du ri n g a t i m e of h o pel essn ess. — a s told by Erika Leigh Noble february 2022

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our months after Sarah Foster Arbaiza divorced, she had a girls’ night out with her sister in Uptown. That’s when she met Ivan Arbaiza. He drove her home, where they sat on the porch and talked until sunrise. Turns out Ivan was the uncle of one of Sarah’s office assistants at Pinkston High School. Sarah’s coworker told her, “Oh, he’s a great guy. He loves the Lord,” Sarah says. “I just heard all the signs that pointed to us being together.” Dating as a single mother with a full-time job meant late-night FaceTime, texting and sometimes waiting two weeks or more before seeing each other. Sarah waited more than six months before introducing her two daughters to Ivan. They planned a family playdate with Ivan’s sisters and nephews. “Both of my girls loved him,” she says. “They call him Pops and they know they can count on him.” Sarah and Ivan had been dating for for more than two years when, for Christmas 2018, Sarah’s family planned an extended-family cruise. She describes a grandiose affair.

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The trip included Sarah’s father’s first, second and third wives, children, grandchildren and grandmother. One of her stepmothers made sure all the women had their nails done. Everyone in the family was instructed to wear black and silver to coordinate for a photo shoot on the deck before dinner. Each couple posed together for a portrait. Sarah and Ivan went last. Ivan proposed just as the sun set. “I just lost it, you know, and he said I was the love of his life and he couldn’t imagine himself with anyone else,” Sarah says. “And our girls ran out and they were screaming up and down and crying.” It was captain’s night, she recalls. “So the ship was all lit up. It was just gorgeous.” Six months into the engagement, on a Tuesday — after considering a Guatemalan destination wedding — they opted to marry the coming Saturday at White Rock Lake. They ordered a few things from Amazon. Sarah purchased a white department-store dress and recruited a friend to perform the ceremony. “It was very intimate, beautiful, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything,” Sarah says. They would save Guatemala for the honeymoon. In Febuary 2020, they started trying to have a baby and endured a few failed rounds of fertility treatments. “That’s when we prayed about it,” Sarah says. “And we said, you know, if this is God’s will, and this is what’s meant to be, then we will have a baby.” They quit the infertility treatments in the winter of 2020. By April 2021, Sarah was pregnant with their baby boy. — w ritten by Jeha du Ab shi ro

abor Day weekend 1981 in Glorieta, New Mexico — that’s when Steve Maxwell met Sharon Maxwell. He was from Monroe, Louisiana. She was from Dallas. They were at a Christian singles conference. Both had attended the same event once before, just never the same year. This time Sharon was sitting right behind Steve during the first session called “Be My Friend.” The couple leading the group told them to get in smaller groups. “She taps me on the shoulder,” Steve says. “She made a very, very good impression. Her eyes kind of sparkled. And that was what attracted me to her.” The conference schedule was interrupted when the building’s power went out. They spent the rest of the weekend getting to know each other over a fire in the common room. They were both 25 and ready to find The One. Steve was an accountant, just like Sharon’s father. They loved the same type of music. They shared a passion for the Christian faith. After two months of letter writing, Steve came to Dallas with an engagement ring. They were married in March 1982. “God just gave me peace and love for him that’s still growing,” Sharon says. After a couple years in Louisiana, the Maxwells relocated to Dallas for jobs. They made their home in Lake Highlands, where Sharon had grown up. Soon after, they attended a marriage retreat where they renewed their vows.

“We started looking deep into each other’s eyes. And we just started laughing and giggling,” Steve says. “It was kind of a serious thing. We pretty much laughed through the whole thing.” In the last 40 years, the Maxwells have lost jobs, raised a child, buried parents and battled cancer. But they can still look into each other’s eyes and start laughing. “It’s important as a married couple, as we have gone through life, that we’ve been able to be an example to younger couples,” Sharon says. “And teach them to cherish every minute they have, because we’re not guaranteed even the next breath, only the breath we just took.” — written by Jehadu Abshiro

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n 2004, when I met Alan at a party in Mainz, Germany, what I knew about Dallas was mostly derived from the TV series with the same name. I did not even want to know more, as I had no intention to fall in love with this IT guy from Dallas, who was on a work assignment in Germany and would leave again after two years. I had a good life in Mainz, a career in fiction- and TV-movie writing, a great group of friends, my family, lots of travels and a house right on the Rhine River. But intentions and destiny clashed. I just loved to hang out with this guy who was nicknamed “The Dude” by his friends. I learned that we shared views and core values which was comforting, while being different was the excit-

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ing part. Even my dog, who didn’t like many men, loved him. When I accompanied Alan on a work trip to Dallas, I realized that my TV-induced conception of the city was quite wrong: There were no oil pumps but trees, diverse neighborhoods and a bustling creative scene. We both agreed that if we ever lived in Dallas together, it should be close to White Rock Lake. But that was a big IF at that time. So Alan kept delaying his move back. After three years, he gave me a diamond ring and after five years, he was still in Mainz, and we got married. After seven years then, when his company´s patience wore out and urged him to come back to Dallas, I knew I would follow him. In the German language, there is the idiom “Don´t replant grown trees,” which some of my friends quoted, warning that I would never grow new roots in Texas. But I didn’t listen. I had this melody in my head, an old song by Gladys Knight. The lyrics, “I´d rather live in his world than live without him in mine,” seemed to be composed for me. So I had my car shipped to Port Authority and took a plane, my dog in its freight belly. From New York, I drove the whole 1,500 miles to Dallas. I wanted to physically conquer the distance between the world I knew and the American Southwest, not just jump in and out of an aircraft and be catapulted in the unknown. When one night, I stopped at a dog-friendly motel in Alabama and found myself right in the aftermath of a gigantic tornado, I admittedly got nervous again, but didn’t have second thoughts. I arrived in Dallas, and there was Alan with a bouquet of roses — and also a bit-nervous smile in his face. Ten years later, I can say that I did grow new roots in Dallas. I found friends, favorite hang-outs and restaurants, favorite book stores and favorite Texan destinations like Enchanted Rock and Big Bend. I had my first book in English published, the thriller Island of Dead Gods which, of course, is another huge favorite. But most of all,I am with my favorite man.

— as told by Verena Mahlow

y wife, Jenna, and I met in seventh grade at church in Kansas. We started officially "going out" in ninth grade, when she was 14 and I was 15. Her parents wouldn't let her date until 16, so we didn't have our first official date until 16 months after we got together. That's been the story of our relationship — slow and steady. We were married after seven and a half years of dating (summer after college) and celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary this summer. There have been highs and lows, but mostly highs, and in the 24 years we've been a couple, we never even came close to a breakup. We moved to Dallas on a whim after school, knowing nobody, and have had a life's worth of adventures — especially for a nurse and a CPA — a couple of years living in Europe, traveling the world together (52 countries and counting), trials of infertility and eventually, trials of parenthood. But through it all, we've remained devoted to one another and our marriage. And even though I definitely wouldn't advise that anyone get together as early as we did, I wouldn't change a single thing. — as told by Aaron Stapleton

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ffable, athletic Chris Miller was the last guy people imagined might die at age 49. The Lake Highlands High alumnus and father of three more LHHS grads played baseball for the Wildcats before signing on to pitch for Texas Tech. He and his wife, Carrie, were on a trip to Kansas to watch their son, Samuel, play for Seward College when they were in a car crashSeptember 2020. Carrie’s injuries were minor, but Chris fell ill on the drive home and was hospitalized in Oklahoma City. A brain bleed required emergency surgery, and several other serious issues followed. After two months he was released to a medical center in Dallas. He died two days after Christmas.

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Chris was a law partner at Hallett and Perrin in Dallas, but his real passion was supporting his children’s activities at LHHS. In 2018, he helped create the school’s Alumni Baseball Game, which became a sort of annual reunion for former players from all over the country. Besides being a fun day in the sunshine, the event has provided mentorship and networking opportunities between current students and graduates now working in real estate, law, education and other fields. This year’s alumni game, to be held Feb. 12 at LHHS, will be a fundraiser for the new “Chris Miller 90 Feet Forward Foundation,” set up to honor his memory and provide educational and athletic scholarships. The effort is the brainchild of Ethan Everett, Brandon Moore, Clayton Duncan and Steven Miller, Chris’ brother. Everett and Moore became buddies with Miller in junior high and graduated LHHS with him in 1990. Duncan joined the group when they arrived at Texas Tech. “Chris was a super lovable guy,” Everett says. “Everyone that knew him would agree that he’d do anything for you. He had a big reach and was active in the local community, the legal community and his church. When Chris loved you, you knew it because he told you. He was a lovable, huggable, emotional guy. The top five times when I’ve laughed the hardest, Chris Miller was next to me. “The ultimate goal of the foundation is to honor Chris,” Everett explains. “No one will ever forget him, but this will be an ongoing way for us to tell his story.” Funds raised will provide needbased college scholarships and pay club baseball fees for kids whose families cannot afford them.

If you’d like to pitch in, you may donate via the website at 90feetforward.org. Checks may be sent to Veritex Community Bank at 2101 Abrams Road, Dallas, TX 75214 c/o The Chris Miller 90 Feel Forward Foundation.

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lub baseball gets pretty expensive, and we’ve found that some kids have to drop out,” Everett says. “We’d like to find neighborhood kids who are passionate about the game and have the ability to play at the higher level. Chris would just love that down to his core.” The community’s outpouring of love for Miller through the foundation is already helping his children see their dad in a whole new light, Everett says. “Chris was a highly communicative guy, real and purposeful with his kids, so they already have a handle on who he is,” Everett says. “What they’ve seen here is the impact he had, and will continue to have, on others.” Miller’s oldest daughter agrees. “This foundation is meant to bless others, and we love that dad will be honored at the same time,” Jordan Miller Frederiksen says. “Katie, Samuel and I want everyone to know how special our dad was and how much he loved the community, but through the community’s contributions we

can help students achieve their goals. That’s what dad would want. He loved watching us grow up in Lake Highlands, and he loved seeing kids work hard.” Though their dad’s life was far too short, they view it, in a way, as a “full circle.” He participated enthusiastically in the kids’ activities at LHHS, attended Samuel’s 2020 graduation and cheered his entry into the world of college baseball. “When I was a Highlandette, dad loved performing in the Bob and Susie (father/daughter) halftime show,” Miller Frederiksen says. “Our director told the dads it was okay if they messed up, but dad went home and moved the furniture to practice. He never missed my performances or Katie’s when she was a cheerleader and Wrangler. He was also Katie’s softball coach and led her team to its only championship. He never missed one of Samuel’s baseball, basketball or football games growing up. When he and mom became the Wildcat Club baseball reps, he worked to clean up

the field, get new uniforms and boost support for the team. He was a great mentor of faith to us, and that was a huge part of who he was to us and to the community.” Samuel is now a student at Texas Tech, but he’ll be back to play in the alumni game. Among the many cheering from the bleachers will be Carrie, Katie, Jordan and Jordan’s husband, Lars. They say they’ll never be able to adequately thank those organizing and donating to the foundation. “We are blown away by this opportunity to share how awesome our dad was,” says Jordan. “Your money will go to something bigger than ourselves, and it will last forever in someone’s academic career.” Ninety feet is the distance between each base on a baseball field, and the foundation takes its name from the way Miller encouraged teen players, young lawyers and his own kids to keep moving forward – one “base” at a time. In sports, academics, law and life, he prompted others to keep looking for the positive in themselves and others.

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BOOK REPORT

By CLAUDIA VEGA

Every day’s the 14th Ce l e b ra te Va l e n t i n e ’s Day w i t h t h ese rea d s

ou can’ t escape it. T he aisles are lined with nylon balloons, bouquets of flowers, cellophane-wrapped chocolates and plushies of all sizes. Retailers beckon us to share and proclaim our love for each other. I like to think of it as a time to share and connect with people closest to us. Instead of hearts and flowers, let’s celebrate enduring reads, new and old, that explore love from all angles and for all ages. As you reflect on what love is and those you love this month, I invite you to share the love of books. A great book is perfect for cuddling up with little ones before bedtime, sparking a conversation with growing teens, or sharing with the special someone in your life who brings you joy. Books give us the opportunity to connect and grow together.

Love Makes a Family, a brightly illustrated board book, is sure to capture the imagination and hearts of little ones. Author and illustrator Sophie Beer uses vivid colors and shapes to bring to life a day full of love. Love shows up in a walk outside on a rainy day, a helping hand when things don’t go as planned, and getting tucked into bed with a goodnight kiss. This makes a perfect bedtime read.

Tweens and early teens will love Planet Middle School. It’s written in short poems that give an authentic voice to the chaotic and crazy feelings of adolescence and first crushes. Award-winning author Nikki Grimes has crafted a delightful, often hilarious, heart-tugging story. A great book to read alongside middle schoolers, it opens the door for meaningful conversations about all the changes that come with those formative years.

In young adult reading, Blackout: A Novel is a must read. Six award-winning authors come together to weave a heartfelt, unforgettable set of joyful love stories. A summer heat wave hits New York, leaving the city blanketed in darkness. A new kind of electricity begins to spark as six love stories unfold. Love blossoms, friendship transforms, and new possibilities take flight.

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I Love You Because I Love You, written by Muon Thi Van, tells the story of how unconditional love shows up in the biggest and smallest ways. The vivid illustrations bring this tender readaloud story to life with breathtaking scenes that represent and celebrate diversity in all its forms.

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Pablo Neruda’s Love Poems caused a scandal when they were first published anonymously in the 1950s. Today, they are some of the Nobel Laureate’s most celebrated works. Love Poems pairs the original Spanish poems with a translated version on the opposing page. The perfect gift for the romantic at heart.

Texas author Colleen Hoover’s new book Reminders of Him has romance fans in a flutter, describing it as tear-jerking yet heartwarming. It’s a contemporary emotional romance that tells the story of a mother trying to rebuild her life and reconnect with her daughter after five years in prison, while a relationship with a local bar owner that no one will approve of begins to surface. It’s a page turner that will take you on an emotional ride.

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By GEORGE MASON

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

Bible Study 9:15 / Worship Services 10:45 Traditional, Contemporary, Spanish Speaking / 214.860.1500

Do not be afraid

ROYAL LANE BAPTIST CHURCH / 6707 Royal Lane / 214.361.2809 Christian Education 9:45 a.m. / Worship Service 10:55 a.m. Pastor - Rev. Dr. Michael L. Gregg / www.royallane.org

T i m e wa i ts fo r n o o n e, so p re pa re

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

he BlackBerry became obsolete last month. Not the fruit — the handheld mobile device favored by technology adopters for a dozen years or so at the beginning this century. Just eight years ago, there were 85 million users worldwide. But the advent of Android and Apple devices took the market by storm. On January 4 of this year, the proprietary platform was turned off, and the BlackBerry was no more. It may be that the BlackBerry company rested on its laurels and didn’t adapt to new technology, thinking it would always be relevant. Like the buggy-whip carriage industry before it that faced the invention of the automobile, that industry forgot it was in the transportation industry, not the horse-drawn wagon business. It may be that BlackBerry forgot it was in the personal communication industry, not the BlackBerry business. I’ve been thinking about the BlackBerry development in light of my announced retirement from the pastorate just two days afterward. It’s a reminder that time waits for no one, and change is the nature of reality. Whether we’re ready or not, time marches on, and sooner or later our time is up. Whether life itself, careers or parenting, life is full of transitions. It’s best if we know that every step of the way and continue to grow day by day. Every seven years or so, cellular mitosis completes a cycle in our bodies making us new people, whether we know it or not. If we understand what’s happening and accept it as the way we are made, we can adapt with the times and thrive through them. Embracing transition with enthusiasm for

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

what comes next, rather than regret for what was, is a strategy we are wise to lean into. I am grateful for what has been in my calling. The church I have served has changed over the more than three decades I served it. I changed with it. It’s the same church, yet different. I am the same person, yet different, too. Thank God on both accounts. Someone told me years ago that we should all prepare for the next chapter of our lives before the end of the one we are writing now. Professionally and personally, it’s smart to have something to go to, not just something to go from. I have tried to follow that counsel. I am a minister for life, but I have been a pastor for only a season of it. I have more to do and am excited about what’s next. The poet Robert Browning wrote these memorable lines: “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, ‘A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!” Someone has counted the times the words “do not be afraid” occur in in the Bible in one form or another — 365. Apparently, we need to be reminded at least once a day. 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

BIBLE CHURCHES NORTH HIGHLANDS BIBLE CHURCH / nhbc.net / 9626 Church Rd.

214.348.9697 / Sun: LifeQuest 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am / Sun: Youth 6-8 pm/Wed: AWANA 6-8 pm

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

E P I S C O PA L ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH / stjd.org

Worship: Sat 5:30 pm, Sun 8 & 10:30 am / Christian Ed Sunday Morning & Weekdays, see calendar on website / 214.321.6451 / 848 Harter Rd.

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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 Ln.

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

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Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee Worship: 8:30 am & 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Contemporary

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8525 Audelia Road at NW Hwy. / www.lhpres.org 9:00 am Contemporary, 9:55 am Christian Ed., 11:00 am Traditional NORTHPARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 11:00 am Sundays on YouTube

9555 North Central Expressway / 214.363.5457 / northparkpres.org / Welcoming Seekers, Thinkers and Doers. 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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