2018 November Lake Highlands

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Here are four more restaurants opening at The Hill shopping center

A few weeks after Snooze, an A.M. Eatery and Civil Pour started serving customers at T he Hill, four more restaurants announced that they were joining the shopping center’s lineup. They are:

Empire Baking Company, a Dallas-based artisan bakery

Pokeworks, which serves Hawaiian-style poke

Sauce Pizza and Wine: a pizzeria that also serves pasta, salads, wine and beer

Sushi de Handroll: a fast-casual joint that serves sushi and tempura

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Bringing old-school traditions back to Lake Highlands High

Lake Highlands High School student council sponsor Erin Chesal and cheer sponsor Alan Kirby are on a mission. They want to uncover favorite student body events and traditions from the past, and work to rebuild the customs that helped make LHHS great. But they need your help. If you have ideas, email Erin.Chesal@risd. org or Alan.Kirby@risd.org.

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PSW Real Estate is one step closer to constructing single-family homes on White Rock Trail. The City Plan Commission made a recommendation in suppor t of the development during its Oc t. 4 meeting. The developer plans to construct 38 houses on the about 4.6-acre property, which was obtained under contract from Richardson ISD. T he contract price is $5.7 million. Designed with young and middle-age families in mind, the homes will be about 2,600 square fee t and cost about $625,000. The development includes guest parking, a shared-access drive and a .4-acre common area, where a swimming pool may be built.

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5 things to do in Lake Highlands this November

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NOV. 3

RISD Spirit Run

High school drill teams and drum lines perform for participants of the 5k, which benefits Richardson ISD education programs.

Where: Galatyn Park, Central Expressway near Lookout Drive

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Praise the Lake Sip a Bloody Mary, savor brunch and bid on your favorite items, all while supporting the White Rock Lake Foundation.

Where: White Rock Lake Filter Building, 2810 White Rock Road

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NOV. 10

Health and Safety Fair

Geared toward children with special needs, the fair features health screenings, games, giveaways and free coats for kids.

Where: Lake Highlands High School, 9449 Church Road

More info: Email bervin. smith@dpd.ci.dallas.tx.us

NOV. 25

Light Up the Highlands Thanksgiving is over, so it’s time to bust out the Christmas decorations. Start the holiday season off right with a Christmas-tree lighting.

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THE WONDERFULLY WACKY WORLD OF DAMON EPPS

Reality TV is rooted in Lake Highlands 

Interview by ELISSA CHUDWIN / Photography by BRIAN ROSS

Damon Epps’ phone rings. The 1979 hit “Good Times” radiates through the kitchen of his childhood home in Lake Highlands.

The song’s title is his nickname, earned because of his nonchalant nature working as a producer on “America’s Got Talent.”

“My boss would be freaking out, and I’d be like, ‘good times,’ ” he says. “Everybody ended up calling me that. It was funny. So now the nickname’s propelled me through the years.”

Goodtimes USA is his brand.

After years as a producer, Epps traded the drama-fueled hijinks of reality TV for equally eccentric documentary series. Epps partnered with Texas billionaire Gary Evans and his wife, Ashley, to create “American Oil,” a show chronicling the oil industry. Another he’s shopping to networks is about a black collegiate cheerleading squad. And he somehow persuaded Homeland Security to let him film at the border.

“To me, it’s the same job no matter if it’s ‘A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila,’ or it’s going after the cartel, or you’re telling a cheerleading story,” he says. “It’s really about what are the people doing, how did they get there, what’s their back story. Everybody is who they are because of where they came from.”

Between filming and editing, he made it home one August weekend for the opening of Steam Theory Brewing, where TV host Chris Harrison, a childhood friend, is an investor.

Harrison and Epps are reality-TV titans. While Harrison rose to fame hosting “The Bachelor,” Epps was behind the scenes, developing shows like “Wedding Wars” and “Friend Zone.” Like Harrison, Epps’ introduction to reality TV was accidental. Epps was a stand-up comedian in Los Angeles with a knack for videography. He scored a few gigs filming music videos including Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot.” Around the same time, a friend asked him to help produce A&E’s “Inked.” Two years later another friend, SallyAnn Salsano, formed 495 Productions, the self-proclaimed “most formidable hit factory” for the genre.

“People are telling me the shows I produced are their childhood shows,” he says. “I was like wow, that’s crazy. A whole generation I tainted. It makes me feel old, but I have to appreciate it. They’re great shows. They’re fun. They’re loud. I’m not ashamed of them. I should be.”

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10 questions with Damon Epps

Tell me about “HSI: Laredo.”

The things I’ve learned that Homeland Security does, it’s terrifying. I can’t say his name. But this guy was the head agent for HSI in Mexico when they busted El Chapo. Now he runs the entire stretch of border from Laredo to the Gulf. I’m really just following the agents of the department.

How did you get that access?

I did a show called “Blue Collar Millionaire” for CNBC. On the show is Mickey Redwine, a hysterical redneck. In his retirement, he decided to do drug busts and become a sheriff.

He called me up and said, “Damon, so I’ve been chasing down the cartel nowadays.” I’m like, “Of course you are, Mickey.” He’s like, “We’ve been doing these things called controlled drug busts … You think somebody would want to watch that on TV?” I was like, “Yeah Mickey, but I’d have to get a hold of Homeland Security.” He’s like, “They’re coming out to the ranch. Come and talk to them.” I didn’t believe it was going to be true, but I ended up meeting them.

As a reality TV producer, did you manipulate people?

I would say that I was the guy manipulating the situations. I was the guy in the field trying to make stories happen. Back then it was a much different system. Cast members hadn’t seen any reality TV, so you had all these tricks you could play. I would never lie to anyone. You plant seeds. You do things that can instill stories and drive things. You never can tell someone else their secrets because they have to be able to trust you as a producer. It’s a very delicate game, but it’s a very fun chess match.

Did that get tiresome or annoying?

I never feel bad because I never have done anything mean. I was always like a dad on set. If anything bad happened, I was the first one there. Even “Tool Academy”— I had a very cool, funny job.

All the guys came in thinking they were going to a different show. I came in with an alias. I would tell them, “I’m Carlos, and I’m a billionaire. I just want to let you know we’re going to tear up the town. I’m going to need you to be sure you’re wild and crazy.” These guys would say anything and everything.

“You like it? You’re watching it? Don’t feel guilty about it. Whatever. ”

What’s one of your favorite on-set moments?

On “America’s Got Talent” season one, I always wanted all the crazies. I had people like Boy Shakira. When he walked in, he was this very innocent guy dressed like Shakira. It was great working with him, building up his confidence and then having him get a standing ovation.

What was “Jersey Shore” like?

I produced one season of “Jersey Shore.” I didn’t want to do “Jersey,” but of course it became the biggest hit ever. My job was to go have fun and make sure everybody else had fun. I was supervising producer. There’s just nothing bad I can say about any of them. A great cast is exactly what you see. It’s like lightning in the bottle. They all just naturally have their own role.

What’s the strangest situation you’ve experienced?

I remember being in Jersey with everyone. There was a point where the kids were famous by now. A big group of people started gathering around us, and the cops were pushing these people back. The sheriff looked at me and said, “You need to jump in the car right now. This is the Russian mob.”

On “Party Down South,” I was in the middle of a party, and I’m interviewing all these people. The people surrounding us, I realized I’m in the middle of the KKK. You’re out there by yourself with a camera. Those are a few scary moments.

Why is reality TV a guilty pleasure?

Here’s the thing: I think everybody says that, but it’s just pleasure. It’s not even guilty. You like it? You’re watching it? Don’t feel guilty about it. Whatever.

What were you like at 16?

I’m the same. I was always the loudest guy in the room. I still talk more than anybody else. I think people think I’m funny. I genuinely love people, and I like what they have to say.

So many famous people grew up in the neighborhood. Why is that?

It’s a really lovely place to grow up. I feel like I had support from the neighborhood and friends and parents. I think it’s a place where if you want to chase your dreams, you can come back as a failure and it’ll be fine. I still have a little time to fail, so we’ll see.

Interview edited for clarity and brevity

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BISTRO B OWNERS TAKE THE CAKE WITH VIETNAMESE FLAIR

KELSEY NGUYEN gets a little misty-eyed when she talks about her customers’ loyalty.

When she and her husband opened their first restaurant, Bistro B, they worried because there wasn’t a large Asian community in the area. But with a little faith, they built a business with a dedicated following. Now customers support them at their bakery next door, B Bahn Café.

Everything about Nguyen’s business centers around the customer. Prices are kept low so that the students at nearby Richland College can afford them. They experiment with

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different baked goods and take them off the menu if customers disapprove. The couple even serves freshly-pressed juices at half price so people have a cheap, healthy option.

One of the most talked-about items on the menu is the house coffee made with condensed milk and sea salt.

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the things I create,” Nguyen says. “I just know I like them and my kids like them. They are still a big hit.”

Nguyen never saw herself in the restaurant industry. She says her husband is the chef in the family, and so it was his idea. Over the years, though, Nguyen fell in love with cooking. She loves the rush of making something her customers enjoy. Lake Highlands isn’t a hotbed for tourism, so she’s built her own community by pleasing her customers. They keep coming back, and for Nyguyen, that’s all that matters.

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Lake Highlands: An entertainment destination?

HOW CREEKSIDE IS CHANGING SKILLMAN AND ABRAMS’ LACKLUSTER REPUTATION

Moving from East Dallas to Lake Highlands shouldn’t be a big deal.

But Tyler Isbell didn’t appreciate SkillmanMockingbird’s proximity to restaurants and retail until he left.

“We moved up here with great schools but no amenities,” he says. “Grocery stores were nonexistent. Restaurants were nonexistent.”

The timing of the Isbell family’s 2013 move wasn’t ideal.

Construction continued to stall at the Lake Highlands Town Center at Skillman and Walnut Hill. Several businesses shuttered down the road at the Skillman Abrams shopping center. After Tom Thumb vacated the intersection’s northeast corner, 7-Eleven, Sigel’s Liquor, Big Lots and Liquid Zoo followed suit.

Neighbors complained about the number of service

Story by ELISSA CHUDWIN | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

businesses and lack of recreation options, former City Councilman Jerry Allen says.

Despite the complaints, Skillman and Abrams is a gateway to Lake Highlands. At least that’s the way our neighborhood’s current City Councilman, Adam McGough, sees it.

“When you start looking strategically at the entire run of Skillman, I-635 all the way to Abrams … that becomes the backbone of our entire district,” he says.

If that’s true, are we making the best first impression? And is the newly developed Creekside the catalyst for change?

Too few restaurants, too many loan agencies

Skillman and Abrams is a geographic anomaly. Touching Merriman Park, University Manor and Vickery Meadow, three Dallas City Council districts converge at the intersection. District 10’s McGough, District 13 Councilwoman Jennifer Gates and District 9 Councilman Mark Clayton share ownership of the area, although McGough is spearheading development initiatives.

At the northwest corner, Super Target attracts neighbors from both East Dallas and Lake Highlands. Habitat for Humanity Resale and Harbor Freight Tools populate the southeast corner, along with a laundromat and other service businesses.

Vibrant loan agency signs dot corners of the intersection. When Allen was

Lake Highlands’ city councilman, he vehemently fought against payday lenders. He led the city council to pass an ordinance limiting the number and location of future lending agencies, which he says take advantage of lowincome customers.

“It makes you think your neighborhood’s going downhill,” he told the Advocate in 2011.

Isbell — the vice president at SRS Real Estate Partners and chair of

McGough’s City Council District 10 economic development committee — agrees.

“My wife and I aren’t going to spend date night at a cash store or payday loan,” he says.

Even without the loan agencies, neighbors’ consensus was the intersection needed several upgrades, Allen says. That perception hasn’t changed much since he left office in 2015.

“My wife and I aren’t going to spend date night at a cash store or payday loan.”

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“The center where Habitat for Humanity is — one of the irritations is the parking lot,” Allen says. “It’s not well taken care of. That speaks volumes about the landowner. If they can’t take care of the parking lot, they can’t take care of the building.”

The only center exempt from grumbling is Creekside, a 111,254-square-foot development at the northeast corner of SkillmanAbrams that has spurred the intersection’s makeover.

“What we’re seeing is, this is what our community wants and needs,” McGough says.

When Creekside came to town

The vacated Skillman Abrams shopping center was deemed an eyesore until Retail Plazas Inc. bought the property in 2016. The Dallasbased developer says its niche is making ramshackle shopping centers profitable. RPI’s properties include Lakeside Village at Walnut Hill and U.S. 75 and Belt Line Square in Addison.

Finding a high-profile anchor that wasn’t a typical big-box store was RPI’s first priority. They signed on Alamo Drafthouse, a high-end movie theater that McGough initially hoped would become part of the Lake Highlands Town Center.

Alamo Drafthouse houses Vetted

Well, a bar and pizza joint with an outdoor patio overlooking White Rock Creek Trail. Its proximity to the trail is intentional, says Cory McCord, RPI’s director of leasing. He points to Katy Trail Ice House as an example of how amenities can increase a trail’s foot traffic.

“We’re creating something for people to walk to,” he says.

A new trail segment connecting Lake Highlands Trail to White Rock Creek Trail is in the works. By October 2019, neighbors should be able to walk or bike from the Lake Highlands Town Center to Creekside.

The new path crosses under the Skillman bridge, where lighting will be added to increase safety.

Besides Alamo Drafthouse and Vetted Well, restaurants like Fireside Pies, Fuzzy’s Tacos and Burgerim slowly are moving into the center. RPI is actively pursuing craft coffee, breakfast, barbecue and Asian eateries, but nothing is finalized, McCord says.

In a few months, signage and landscaping will be incorporated to the Skillman median. “Lake Highlands” will be engraved in a

stainless steel box on top of a low brick wall. Live oaks, lit at night, will be planted around the median.

The signage also is planned at Northwest Highway and Audelia, and Walnut Hill near Greenville, as part of the Lake Highlands Public Improvement District’s plan to make the neighborhood more inviting.

Creekside may have persuaded surrounding developers to up their game, as well. The Habitat for Humanity shopping center recently was purchased, according to Isbell and McCord.

Allen, the self-proclaimed Lake Highlands cheerleader, cautions that a total overhaul may be detrimental to some residents who need service businesses. For instance, some neighbors rely on loan agencies because banks won’t serve them, he says. He doesn’t want to discount

the diversity in Lake Highlands, which is reflected in its retailers.

“What I’ve experienced is that all of the businesses, they all have a niche about them when you go in there,” Allen says. “...You have to enjoy what you have.”

Additional reporting by Carol Toler

“If they can’t take care of the parking lot, they can’t take care of the building.”

Creekside II: (Maybe) coming to you soon

Constructing a shopping center in a floodplain is complicated and expensive. But that’s Retail Plazas Inc.’s next endeavor — if the developer behind Creekside can woo the City of Dallas.

RPI plans to construct a retail center on the 6.6-acre property at 6800 Abrams Road northeast of Park Lane. The development’s aesthetic and tenants would be similar to the adjacent Creekside shopping center at Abrams and Skillman. Called “Creekside on the Trail,” the center would consist of three two-tenant buildings with restaurants and perhaps a bicycle store.

“I’m seeking the type of tenant that would like Deep Ellum — urban and cool,” says Trey Hodge, vice president of acquisitions and development.

RPI has a handful of major hurdles to clear before Creekside on the Trail could come to fruition. The 6.6-acre property is zoned for single-family homes. The developer first must convince the City Plan Commission to recommend rezoning the vacant land to community retail.

If RPI wins the commission’s favor, the next step is creating engineering plans that mitigate potential flooding and requesting Dallas City Council’s approval.

One challenge is the economic viability of the center, says Cory McCord, RPI’s director of leasing. They’ll need to find tenants willing to pay rent that’ll support the cost of construction and maintenance. Because of the property’s small size, plans will be both tedious and costly. Hodge himself is skeptical of how realistic the concept is.

“We had to agree to certain standards, but if we can pull it off, it could be a oneof-a-kind destination,” Hodge says.

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FAREWELL, THE VARSITY

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The days of ordering a double double or avocado swiss burger at The Varsity Grill are no more.

The old-fashioned burger joint closed mid-October after nine years serving customers at 9310 Forest Lane. The good news: it will reopen after the staff, including owner Thom Turnock, has some downtime.

The bad news: it’s relocating to another neighborhood.

Turnock was reluctant to give the Advocate details about its new location until the deal is finalized. He plans to tweak the menu and renovate the space, as well as offer beer and wine.

“I’m pleased with where it’s going,” he says. “It’s relatively close.”

The Varsity Grill’s customer service and consistency set it apart from dozens of similar Dallas restaurants. The spot was voted the best burger in Lake Highlands in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Turnock told the Advocate in 2013 that the secret was in the buns, which are made fresh daily. Varieties include jalapeno-cheddar, sweet sourdough or whole wheat.

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Pumpkins PUMPED ABOUT

by ANDY SHAW

PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANNY FULGENCIO

Four 18-wheelers turn off Garland Road and enter the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden at sunrise. A fleet of forklifts and horticulturists feverishly offload their cargo in the Pecan Grove. Dozens of cardboard crates are everywhere, bursting with 90,000 pumpkins and gourds.

It will take a team of 40 horticulturalists and volunteers two weeks to unload and organize them for Autumn at the Arboretum, which runs through Nov. 21. This year’s theme for the Pumpkin Village is “Adventures in Neverland,” complete with ships, a treasure chest and a plank.

“Everything used to be themed around pumpkins, and now it’s what you can build with pumpkins,” says Jennifer Wang, Arboretum horticulture manager. “You start to run out of stories that have pumpkins in them.”

Expect Captain Hook and Tinker Bell sightings.

“It’s a lot of hard work,” Wang says. “But as soon as we’re done, we all stand back, and we’re amazed at how wonderful it turns out.”

For more information, go to dallasarboretum.org.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Paula Pyle says the best way to preserve a pumpkin is to keep it out of the sun. The Fairytale and Porcelain Doll varieties last the longest, especially if you keep them in the house, because they are dense. “I had one that I threw out in March,” she says.

Pumpkin PURVEYORS

When the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden needs 90,000 pumpkins pronto, who you gonna call? The Pumpkin Pyle of Floydada, north of Lubbock.

The family farm has been supplying the Arboretum for eight years. This three-generation enterprise started growing pumpkins in 1991, when Louis Pyle gave his 16-year-old grandson Jason 10 acres of land. “Paw-Paw” asked him what he wanted to grow, and Jason said pumpkins. That year the teen, parents Paula and Robert Pyle, and grandfather Louis raised 10 acres of pumpkins each. They started selling them off the road in front of their home.

Now the family has 660 acres, employs about 150 workers and loads between 15 to 20 semi-trucks a day during the season. The family mainly sells pumpkins in Texas and Oklahoma, but they also send trucks to Arizona, New Mexico, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.

“It’s been a really good supplement to our farming,” Paula says. The family’s main crop is cotton.

Paula and daughter-in-law Lindsey take orders and run the office. The most popular pumpkins, she says, are the Jack-o-Lantern, the minis and the pie pumpkins. After that they receive the most orders for the Crystal Star, a large white pumpkin, the Fairytale, which is green and turns buckskin, and the Cinderella.

Her favorite pie? Pumpkin, of course. She says the best pumpkin to cook with is the Cheddar variety. Unusued pumpkins are good for fertilizer and cows.

Their website is done by the Pyles’ son-in-law, a software engineer. “We try to keep it in the family,” Paula says. “I pay him in babysitting.”

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‘God-talk aimed at the common good’

George Mason celebrates 20 years of Advocate columns with 20 excerpts

Wilshire Baptist Church senior pastor George Mason writes monthly missives meant to provoke.

He was a father of three Lake Highlands High School teenagers when the Advocate worship column commenced. He is now a grandfather. Through seasons of life, and even shifts in his own neighborhood congregation, Mason has continued the practice of “public theology” — “God-talk aimed at the common good,” as he explained in his September 2014 column.

“I have tried with this column to challenge and chide, encourage and exhort neighbors of all stripes to draw upon the better angels of their nature and the highest ideals of their own faith traditions by doing the same from mine. I hope that has come through.”

Advocate editor Keri Mitchell has identified 20 excerpts highlighting Mason’s broad range of topics over the last 20 years, from observing holidays to surviving parenthood, from national politics to civic duties, from the pew to the classroom to the front porch.

October 1998: “I know, I know — I’m a preacher, and this is the devil’s holiday, but I can’t help myself — I love Halloween.”

September 1999: “My kids are sure that my wife and I conspire against them. They are right. We stay up nights thinking how we might make their lives miserable by deeds as pernicious as refusing telephone privileges after 10:30 p.m., denying them one more pair of Abercrombie and Fitch over-priced, washed-out wrinkly baggy chinos, or insisting on their presence at family dinner more than one night per week, thereby starving their all-consuming social life.”

November 1999: “Sports dominate our culture in ungodly ways today. When

people learn that I was a quarterback for the University of Miami (more than 20 years ago!), they suddenly pay more attention to me. They may even listen more intently when I preach.”

February 2000: “I see them in the pews: John and Jane Doe, with their children, Jack and Jill. God knows who they really are. They duck the ushers, act like they belong, dodge invitations to join in. They are there to browse, maybe to consume a tasty choral piece or feed on a meaty sermon. When they’ve had their fill, they beat it to the safety of the parking lot. … That’s like trying to make love with your clothes on. You go through the motions, but it never gets too intimate.”

October 2001: “My grandfather helped start Little League in Staten Island. He used to say in his opening day speech: In Little League, parents are to be seen and not heard.”

November 2002: “When you last went to church or temple or mosque, were you more occupied with the lights, cameras and action of worship or with the God it is designed to rouse and bless?”

October 2003: “Men fly airplanes into buildings with the phrase ‘God is great,’ and a Christian minister is executed in Florida for murdering an abortion doctor, saying he expects great rewards in heaven. These are not isolated incidents or recent phenomena. They are the fruit of an overripe understanding of God.”

October 2004: “A few chronic charlatans give hurting people a bad name and undermine community welfare. Don’t reward them. … Every dollar given on a street corner could be better given to a benevolence agency.”

March 2005: “ ‘Why don’t you ever preach on hell?’ one woman has asked me more than once. My reply is cute but curt: ‘I’m too busy bringing down heaven

to raise hell.’ ”

June 2007: “I get to perform two weddings this June and one on the first day of July. I expect to cry at all of them. The last one will challenge my composure most. That day I will walk down the aisle alongside my oldest pride and joy and give her away to a man I grudgingly admit to being worthy of her love and loyalty.”

July 2008: “Taxes are the secular and compulsory sibling of voluntary, religious tithes. Both involve love and duty. Both have their place in the spiritual spectrum of how God’s will is done on earth as it is in heaven.”

April 2009: “I closed my prayer as if I were praying over a covered dish meal in the fellowship hall of our church: ‘… in the name of Christ we pray, Amen.’ Opening my eyes, I awakened from my prayer stupor to where I was and where I wasn’t. My rabbi friend, Asher Knight, sat across the table. I realized instantly that he wouldn’t be able to include himself in my “we”. [Later] Asher offered to offer the benediction. Seizing the moment, I pleaded with my Jewish colleague to remember where he was and not end his prayer inappropriately for an interfaith gathering.”

September 2010: “The pastoral office gives me a close-up view of the church as it is, not as I want it to be. I see its warts, its hypocrisy, and its fearfulness that sometimes overcomes its faithfulness.”

July 2011: “Religious liberty is greater than religious tolerance. Tolerance says

Clockwise from far left: George Mason played quarterback for the Univerity of Miami. Mason finishes his Advocate column while holding granddaughter River. Interfaith relationships, such as Mason’s friendship with Temple Emanu-El Rabbi David Stern, appear frequently in columns. Mason’s three children, Jillian, Cameron and Rhett, were teenagers when the column began in 1998, and now he and Kim have five grandchilden. (Photos courtesy of Wilshire Baptist and Kim Mason.)

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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

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

Pastor George A. Mason Ph.D. / Worship 8:30 & 11:00 am

Bible Study 9:40 am / www.wilshirebc.org

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

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Wed: AWANA and Kids Choir 6:00 pm / Student Ministry 6:30 pm

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EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / Worship 8:30 am - Chapel

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that one religious group is in charge and allows others to exist. Liberty says no one is in charge so that all may live together freely.”

October 2012: “We will be ‘one nation under God indivisible’ when we stop dividing ourselves in the name of God.”

June 2013: “Career Day brought doctors, engineers, firefighters, businesspeople and at least one Baptist pastor to the elementary school. … I got to tell them about the things pastors/priests do. We marry people, bury people, baptize people and generally help people. We’re in the people business.”

November 2014: “Looking around the room filled with mainly Anglo senior adults, the television reporter wondered if we had pulled a switch on her. She was looking for the Sunday school class attended by Louise Troh, the Wilshire Baptist Church member who was the fiancée of Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan. ‘I expected to see a class for immigrants,’ the reporter explained. The Wilshire member accompanying the

reporter quickly replied: ‘We don’t have any of those kinds of classes. We only have classes for people.’ ”

October 2015: “The State Fair of Texas is one of the few remaining places in our society where we mingle freely and happily with one another across all dividing lines of race, ethnicity, geography and class. Where else do Neiman Marcus shoppers and Wal-Marters stand together in a corny dog line?”

July 2016: “Dallas took a sucker punch in the gut with the hate-inspired, racially motivated murder of five police officers. We were knocked down, but not knocked out. … Why? Dallas has been hard at work in recent years facing its lingering heritage of racism and inequality.”

August 2017: “I have witnessed friends, like Paula Davis and Carol Toler in Lake Highlands, whose hearts didn’t close when they left their own houses; they opened wider. They were our neighborhood moms, women always ready to do whatever the community needed.”

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