2017 July Lake Highlands

OPENING REMARKS

By RICK WAMRE

Death by 1,000 bites

If the constant computation of our culinary choices doesn’t kill us first

Ifirst learned about killer foods on the Fourth of July in our backyard as I sweated over a sun-soaked grill cooking hot dogs and hamburgers for hungry party guests.

“You know that charring on the hot dogs causes cancer, right?” asked a helpful attendee, smiling as he twisted his verbal knife.

“No, I didn’t know that,” I said, parsing my words as carefully as James Comey, just in case some of the guests were recording my response for their class-action lawsuit.

He yammered on, explaining in detail about how a chemical reaction during the grilling process somehow turned a normal hot dog into a deadly tube of poison. Or something like that.

I have to be honest here: My consumption of grilled hot dogs and hamburgers diminished decisively as I pondered whether any hot dog (even an all-beef one hand-fed in its formative years by Nolan Ryan) was worth expediting my personal expiration date.

Eventually, I concluded that if eating an occasional charred hot dog was going to shorten my life by 15 minutes, I would accept that penalty.

And over time, that decision has led me to pull out my calculator any time I consider consuming one of the many foods on the “death” list.

Diet soda, for example: A new study determined it accelerates dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. I learned this only after consuming literal tanker-trucks full of Diet Dr Pepper over the years, so what to do? Was I so far gone already that continuing to slurp diet drinks was inconsequential to my future? Or like quitting smoking, would my body attempt to heal itself if I gave it better hydration?

One or two diet sodas a week, I fig-

ured, probably wouldn’t cause much more damage.

Burgers: I don’t eat that many, anymore, and if the meat stays away from the grill, maybe each patty only knocks 10 minutes from my life. Adding cheese, though — that’s another 10-minute subtraction, since my doctor says I’m one of those people who absorbs cholesterol from the atmosphere.

Same with cheesecake and key-lime pie — who knew each slice bursting with cholesterol and calories is probably costing me 30 minutes of life?

I started eating quinoa before I knew how to pronounce it because I heard it was good for us; I’m hoping every helping adds 10 minutes to my life.

I mentally weigh the pluses and minuses of substituting tater tots for french fries (minus 15 minutes) at every opportunity, and I’ve concluded that skinny fries are less deadly than the fat ones (skinny fries have less surface area to absorb grease) but that tater tots are probably 10 minutes more deadly still because their tasty protective batter seems even more absorbent.

Add in some milk (five minutes of fat), orange juice (10 minutes of brain shrinkage), red meat (20-30 minutes less life, depending on the cut), as well as the occasional salad (20 minutes to the good), fruit (I can’t decide if the sugar negatively outweighs the antioxidants) and the occasional alcoholic beverage (five minutes of good blood-thinning versus 10 minutes of worthless calories).

Time for a tally, I guess: One hotdog (-10), two beers (-10), a double-order of tater tots (-50 minutes) and some cheesecake (-30), and a meal I can consume in about 20 minutes may be shortening my life by 100 minutes.

Multiply that by 52, assuming I only step out of line once a week, and it turns out I’m only hastening my demise by about four days a year.

By my calculations, I can live with that.

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Q&A: CITY OF DALLAS ARCHIVIST JOHN SLATE

By CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

Photos by DANNY FULGENCIO

allas’ city archivist grew up in Austin, spending much of his youth on the University of Texas campus. John Slate’s mother was an associate dean, his father an English professor for 45 years. Slate, perhaps as a result, is a self-proclaimed “lifelong culture nerd.” As a high school student during the tail end of the punk era, Slate launched a fanzine. Using the pseudonym Control Rat X, the young publisher and writer specialized in music criticism. Despite a trajectory that parallels the early career of Cameron Crowe (a comparison he insists is ridiculously exaggerated), Slate never became a reporter for Rolling Stone (he rolls his eyes at the thought; it was too mainstream),

In the archives, you have direct access to the documents, the images and the roots of some of the craziest, often untold, stories.

and despite his degree in radio/TV/film, he did not become a moviemaker, either. That’s not to say he isn’t a diehard movie buff. He is — simply one drawn to a quieter, less cutthroat industry. He prefers his profession underground, literally, surrounded by historical treasures — documents and images with stories to tell cataloguing, preserving and protecting the past. One of the best at what he does, Slate recently was elected by his peers as a fellow of the Chicago-based Society of American Archivists, which is kind of like getting an Oscar, for archiving.

Seems you could have gone into music journalism or filmmaking, so why did you choose to pursue library and information sciences with a concentration in archival enterprise, which, to be honest, sounds slightly less, um, cool? Oh no. The answer to that is easy. I love history. Truth is stranger fiction or someone else’s interpretation of the truth. In the archives, you have direct access to the documents, the images and the roots of some of the craziest, often untold, stories. Working around primary sources is so much more interesting. Also the journalism programs and, of course, the film programs at UT were highly competitive and selective. The film program at UT is heralded, but but I just couldn’t see

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myself working in the film, TV, or journalism industry. I instantly took a liking to archives. While working in the UT archives, author James A. Michener had a temporary office in our building while he was doing his research for “Texas.” I delivered books to his office regularly. I met many writers and historians in my years there.

Share an interesting untold story from the archives.

Well, for example, we knew Sam Houston was married several times and had marital troubles, but why? There are hints in some of the letters between Sam and his last wife. Turns out in the Creek Indian War he got an arrow in his groin and the wound never quite healed. Eww. Now that might put a strain on a marriage.

I’m sorry for saying it wasn’t cool — beginning to see things differently. Now can you tell us more about this magazine you started when you were a teenager?

My budding journalism career, yes, this started just before the Austin Chronicle. The only music reporting was the Austin American Statesman and it was pretty sanitized. My fanzine, Xiphoid Process, was Xeroxed and stapled; one side effect was that it did get me into clubs underage so I could cover the bands. Note: He donated a set to Texas State University library.

Did you ever seek advice from Lester Bangs, like the kid in “Almost Famous”? Actually I did meet Lester in Austin. He guest edited an issue.

What? Are you kidding? I was kidding. No he did. I mean we weren’t best friends or anything, but he liked talking to people, especially about music history. He was so, so nice to me. I published one of his poems.

What’s the best punk band you covered?

I’d say both Black Flag and Minor Threat. They both gave great interviews.

You did not ultimately become a journalist, but you’ve written a lot, right?

I do write. I’ve published articles on archives, photography, music, Texas history, author or co-author on multiple Arcadia Images of America series books including “Historic Dallas Parks,” “Lost Austin,”

Historical archives might not be sexy or are they?

“Dealey Plaza” and “John F. Kennedy Sites in Dallas-Fort Worth.” And co-authored, with Kaye Lannin Minchew, “Managing Local Government Archives.” That last one makes “Gone With the Wind” look like a comic book [chuckle].

Will you maybe make a documentary sometime?

I am an extreme movie lover and really interested in how films are made. My father taught the adaptation of books to film. But making movies is — I’ve watched friends I know in the industry — it is so difficult in so many ways. But, who knows?

What was the most influential film of your youth, the one that made you appreciate the craft?

Oh, “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” by Werner Herzog. It’s one of the most visually arresting I could watch it over and over.

You recently moved to Lake Highlands, which is really different from where you lived, Oak Cliff, historically speaking, for one thing …

Yes, we are near the Merriman Park area. I like the diversity of Lake Highlands, and I like that you see that in the schools

I have twins who will be in school in a few years. As for its history, I have not dug into Lake Highlands much yet. It’s definitely on my list.

We will check back with you once you have.

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HISTORY MYSTERY: ‘THE COLD SPOT’

By CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

1. Part of Miller Road (renamed Fair Oaks)

2. Greenville Avenue/ Richardson Road

5. Abrams Road

10. ‘The Cold Spot’ (area on Greenville Avenue with 10-degree average lower temperature than the surrounding area)

11. White Rock Creek

12. Deuback Skating Rink Not mentioned is the visible outline of a horse racing track. More on that on p. 26.

Omitted numbers are due to cropping of the original image.

Aerial image of the northern White Rock Creek Area, created in the 1930s or 40s by Lloyd M. Long, provided by the Edwin J. Foscue Map Library, Southern Methodist University.

There is evidence that a microclimate — which might be explained by meteorology or the mystical, depending on your proclivities — has existed, maybe still does, near White Rock Creek in Lake Highlands.

In our search for historical images to support this month’s cover story, we came across a labeled aerial of the north White Rock Creek area, taken in the 1930s or ‘40s. One in a collection of 41 miscellaneous aerial photographs of Dallas, created by photographer Lloyd M. Long, it’s stored at a Southern Methodist University library. On the photo we located what we were looking for — evidence of an ancient racetrack on the Harry S. Moss Park land (see p. 25).

But that was not the only captivating item on the image — the key shows a little area that traverses Greenville, south of

(what is now) Royal Lane, identified as “The Cold Spot.”

In parenthesis, the legend notes, “Area on Greenville Avenue near White Rock Creek with 10 degree average lower temperature than the surrounding area.” The notation left more questions than answers. We asked our city archivist (more on him on p. 12), two local meteorologists and a climate studies professor at a nearby university if they knew anything about it. Among those who called us back, none had an answer, for the record.

Native prairie and nature experts Mark Bulloch and Roger “Plant Man” Sanderson, go-to sources for past Harry S. Moss Park articles who grew up in the area, say they vaguely recall an “eerie” part of the grounds that frequently was especially foggy and, now that you mention it, chilly.

According to various published papers and articles, a cold spot is what scientists

call a “microclimate.” As small as a rooftop garden or large as a city subdivision, a microclimate differs by at least 10 degrees from bordering areas. Woodlands can be cooler and less windy than surrounding grassland, therefore have the potential to produce microclimates. Certain soil conditions also can affect the air temperature. Other meteorological explanations (coastal causes, high elevation) do not apply in this case.

There is another possible explanation. In his book, “Paranormal Chronicles,” Neal Clark writes, “In paranormal research the prevailing theory is that when an entity is trying to manifest itself, it draws on many sources of energy. One of those sources is the heat energy in the air. As the entity draws the heat out of the air, the area in that specific location becomes cold, at least 10 degrees lower than the surrounding area.”

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AKE HIGHLANDS offers an ever-changing landscape. Developments rise and crumble, street names change, glam condos become code-violating catastrophes. Bulldozers raze modest mid-century built homes, making way for McMansions. Schools expand and multiply to accommodate a growing population. In moments of nostalgia, some reflect on changes witnessed. But there lie deeper memories beneath this ground now called Lake Highlands. Those who dig have uncovered a few.

History happened here

ARDELIA

1 Forest Lane and Audelia

The Forest-Audelia intersection today is home to Big Mama’s Chicken and Waffles. But long ago, the grounds housed a tiny general store, post office and gin mill called Ardelia and owned by pioneers James Everts and John Fredrick West. The proprietors were father and (second) husband, respectively, to Ardelia Ellen Jackson. The Jackson family lived on the future Richland College acreage. They built Jackson School across the street from the store; Ardelia taught and her brother, C.W., was a trustee. Audelia, the road, is named for Ardelia — it’s just spelled wrong. This information comes

struments engineer who lacked vacation privileges enjoyed by his senior coworkers — while fiddling around with wires and transistors and glue — created the life-changing integrated circuit, or microchip. Kilby later received the Nobel Prize in Physics, and TI opened the Kilby Center in 1997. He kept an office there almost until the time of his death in 2005. “He was an inspiration to the young engineers,” TI spokesperson Kim Quirk has said. “We called him the gentle giant. He was very tall and a very kind and brilliant man. He’s pretty much a legend around here.”

LITTLE EGYPT BORDER 3 Ferndale and Shoreview

primarily from Mary Jackson Sutherland (deceased), who is Ardelia Ellen Jackson West’s niece and her contribution to the Garland Genealogical Society.

THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE

2 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

Texas Instruments TI Boulevard at I-635

The foundation for smart phones and a thousand other modern electronic devices was crafted one summer day in 1958. Jack Kilby, a young Texas In-

As Lake Highlands was emerging as an upper-middle class residential area, the post-Civil War black community known as Little Egypt sat in its midst, atop dirt roads and sans running water or sewage systems. Freed slaves Jeff and Hannah Hill acquired the land in 1865 and built the Little Egypt Baptist Church. The Northlake Shopping Center and residences occupy the land today (an apartment development is in the works). In spring 1962, the entire population of Little Egypt, some 200 people, exited in a single day. “Its dirt, deep-rutted streets are clogged with moving vans today,” reported a newscaster for WBAP. “A shopping center syndicate decided Little Egypt was in the way of progress.” The developers paid property owners $2.50 per square foot for their land and a minimum of $6,500. Elders such as William Hill (grandson of Hannah and Jeff) would miss their homes, but most residents told reporters they were looking forward to better lives with indoor plumbing and actual streets. Once the 37 trucks and several passenger cars used to complete the move were gone, bulldozers rolled in to demolish what was left of Little Egypt, WBAP reported. Today the only indication of Little Egypt’s border is a

A sliver of germanium glued to a glass slide served as the prototype for the first integrated circuit, created here in Lake Highlands.

noticeable change in the pavement on Shoreview Road. (Visit lakehighlands. advocatemag.com and search Clive Siegel for more on the Little Egypt project).

TINY TOWN: BUCKINGHAM

4 Abrams at Centennial/Buckingham Buckingham, a road at the northernmost border of Dallas’ District 10, once was part of a quarter-square-mile town; it almost became a high-density destination for Dallas’ thirsty yuppies. Budding Lake Highlands High graduate and businessman C.W. Kendall, in the 1980s, almost turned the area into a hotbed of high-rise apartments, offices and retail. “The Boy Who Put Buckingham on the Block,” as Dallas Life Magazine dubbed him in a 1984 article, brokered

the deal to buy land from 64 owners in the affected area, some who had lived there since the ’40s. All except two lots sold at more than $500,000 per 2-acre parcel. After a vote by Buckingham officials to allow the sale of liquor brought tons of traffic to the area, Kendall and developer Michael Block were ready to realize their vision. Then the 1987 stock market crash crushed it to smithereens, bankrupting Buckingham and turning the sector into an abandoned, half-flattened ghost town. On the bright side, Kendall, a bit of a prodigy, was only 19 during his involvement, and today he owns a commercial real estate investment company. And the Buckingham area is still home to a good share of the area’s liquor stores.

Basketball hoop at Hamilton Park, April 6, 1968

History lessons

DALLAS COWBOYS

5 PRACTICE FACILITY

Forest Lane and Abrams

“The Dallas Cowboys practice facility on Forest Lane is special. Their clubhouse, modeled after the one at Yankees Stadium, exudes class.” So reads a Dec. 1967 Life magazine story about quarterback Don Meredith. But even a Dallas Cowboys star, in the late ’60s, could not live anywhere near practice headquarters if his skin was black. Instead, as receiver Bob Hayes put it to author John R. McDermott, “after a game the white players head north and colored players head south … umpteen trillion miles from the practice field and from where everybody else is.”

Before his death, Pete Gent, a player and the author of “North Dallas Forty,” a book and movie based (albeit exaggeratedly) on the Cowboys, told ESPN, “I was shocked that in mid-60s America, Dallas could have an NFL franchise and the black players could not live near the practice field in North Dallas, which was one of the reasons I titled the book ‘North Dallas Forty.’ I kept asking why the white players put up with their black teammates being forced to live in segregated south Dallas.”

In 1969 defensive back Mel Renfro won a lawsuit against a builder and Realtor after he was rejected the day he and his wife showed up to sign a lease in the Lake Highlands area. The outcome sparked change, Gent has said.

6

HAMILTON PARK

12225 Willowdell

The 1950s were turbulent times for black families dreaming of home ownership. South Dallas homeowners regularly faced deadly violence, bombings even. A black neighborhood near Love Field was leveled to accommodate the airport. A white oilman named Jerome Crossman and the Dallas Interracial Association gained funding from white philanthropist Karl S.J. Hoblitzelle to develop a safe, desirable black neighborhood, but

strong opposition from white landowners erupted anytime a site was considered. In 1954 they procured a swath of farmland north of Forest Lane, and Hamilton Park was born. When this “civic undertaking to help Dallas’ negro population,” as a WBAP newscaster described it, occasioned a dedication ceremony, the event was attended by City Councilman W.C. Miller, Dallas banker and Chamber of Commerce president Ben Wooten and Marshall T. Steel, pastor of Highland Park Methodist Church. The choir of St. John the Baptist Church provided the day’s music. The neighborhood this year received a historical marker.

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7 ‘HILLTOP’ RACETRACK

Moss Park, north

For a stint while pari-mutuel betting was legal, from 1933-35, a horseracing track doomed by hubris existed on the Moss Park land. Back in the footpaths today, you might stumble across a fossil of an antique structure that some parkgoers believe was part of the stables. An aerial photo from the 1930s shows a circular trajectory on the spot (see photo p. 16). SMU professor and historian Ted

He was supposed to meet Joy at their Kaufman ranch; instead, two assailants showed up and endeavored to gun him down. He narrowly escaped with the understanding that Joy wanted him dead.

Today Joy Aylor, the homicidal housewife of Lake Highlands, lives in Gatesville, Texas at the Mountain View prison, where she is serving a life term. She is 67.

Campbell verifies — it was called Hilltop Stables. Promoter R.B George in 1933 assured a Dallas Morning News reporter that “there is no guesswork to this at all. We are going to have one of the greatest racing stables in this country.” Campbell jokes that the name Hilltop Stables “ranks among dumb place names that must have seemed fanciful to developers.” The track was right in the flats along White Rock Creek, he says, “which we all know regularly floods the entire area.”

A history of violence

HOMICIDAL HOUSEWIFE

8 Arbor Trail Drive

In the early 1980s, Joy Aylor lived with her husband, Larry, in a classy home on Arbor Trail, near Forest Meadow Junior High. Larry struck up an affair with a Richardson woman named Rozanne Gailiunas. In October 1983, a man named Andy Hopper broke into the mistress’ rental home on Loganwood Drive, attempted to rape her and shot her in the head. Gailiunas’ 4-year-old son, napping during the attack, discovered her brutalized body. The murder went unsolved for years. That is, until, after some time had passed, hit men tried to kill Larry. He was supposed to meet Joy at their Kaufman ranch; instead, two assailants showed up and endeavored to gun him down. He narrowly escaped with the understanding that Joy wanted him dead. He realized she was probably responsible for Gailiunas’ fate as well. Police didn’t believe it. But a reporter burrowed into his story, supported by Joy’s sister, and unearthed the truth. Arrested but released on bond, Joy fled to France, where she ultimately was apprehended. For the murder of Gailiunas, Hopper was executed in 2005. True crime author Carlton Stowers wrote the best seller “Open Secrets” about the events, and Cybil Shepherd played Joy Aylor in the film version “Telling Secrets.”

THE LUNCH LADY MURDER

9 Lake Highlands High School

On May 16, 1983, the cafeteria worker everyone called Katie was in a back office counting the day’s receipts when a masked man walked in, shot her and fled with $1,600. Katie, given name Thelma Row, died 11 days later. Investigators revealed that a fellow LHHS staffer told her husband about lunchroom cash procedures, so he invited a friend, Billy

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Conn Gardner, to help him rob the school. It seems the cafeteria coworker and her husband, who admitted to driving the getaway car, were given immunity in exchange for testimony. Gardner was executed for the killing in 1995.

ZODIAC KILLER AT 10 THE LAKE? Lawther Drive

In the late 1960s, Northern California was terrorized by the Zodiac Killer, who claimed five known victims but was suspected in multiple other murders between 196874. But in 1973 he went quiet, leading some to question whether the killer, or perhaps killers, were on the run. That same year, White Rock Lake was the scene of a vicious crime that drew the attention of West Coast investigators. Labor Day weekend, a pair of 16-year-olds from Farmers Branch were most likely making out in a sports car by the lake when two unknown men approached. They shot Robert Milam in the right eye, and one raped his girlfriend before fleeing in the luxury vehicle. Milam died a few days later. It was a similar M.O. to the Zodiac Killer, who targeted young couples at lakes, at the same time some detectives theorized that the still unknown serial killer may actually be two people. The White Rock Lake murder was flagged for investigation by the California cops before Dallas Police identified the killers as two men suspected in a string of robberies.

TRAVELING GANG FIGHT 11 Flag Pole Hill

The rumble was a major-fail. The Lakewood Rats crew and an Exall Park gang — about 150 high schoolers altogether — met “by appointment” on Greenville Avenue (wearing taped or handkerchief-bound knuckles) “where they proposed to mop up the streets with each other,” according to a June 30, 1942 Dallas Morning News article. When police informed these real-life Outsiders that they could not fight within city limits, the boys hopped in cars, bikes and skates and headed to Flag Pole Hill “followed by a gallery of grownups who wanted to see the fun.” Police again interfered to advise the brawlers that Flag Pole Hill also is within city limits. Again the kids relocated — now to

Richland Community College enrolled its first two students, Dave McPeek and Kathy Carnathan, in April 1972.

Buckner and Garland Road (outside Dallas proper at the time), where they “promptly began slugging rival gang members. A major free-for-all was well underway when deputy sheriffs, tipped off by Dallas police, halted the action with a few stern words.” Gang leaders talked with deputies and agreed to call it off for the night. Why the bad blood? “It grew out of football rivalries.”

Historic remains

12

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Nestled between an apartment complex and a neighborhood of single-family homes — unnerving and intriguing generations of neighborhood children — lies a 3-acre swath of land that serves as a final resting place for early farmers and settlers to northeast Dallas. Whites on one side, blacks on the other. Several Jackson family members are buried on the white side (see Ardelia p. 24). A freed slave named Bonner rests on the other — he is known to have purchased little pieces of land as he could afford them, and he became a millionaire after Medical City Hospital compensated him for certain

The Lakewood Rats crew and an Exall Park gang — about 150 high schoolers altogether — met “by appointment” on Greenville Avenue (wearing taped or handkerchiefbound knuckles) “where they proposed to mop up the streets with each other.”

TURNING A ‘DISASTER’

INTO A TREEHOUSE

An eco-friendly home improvement store could be the saving grace of a shopping center once synonymous with a gigantic Condoms To Go sign.

The Hill Shopping Center’s business has been inconsistent over the years, despite its high-profile location at Walnut Hill Lane and North Central Expressway. Passersby were taken aback by the massive adult store sign facing the highway. The family who owned the development from 1980 to 2014 never invested in its upkeep, and the buildings slowly deteriorated.

“It certainly hasn’t been a place that people have been shopping,” says Todd Minnis, president of Capref Manager LLC, who is overseeing the center’s redevelopment.

The Dallas-based partnership bought The Hill three years ago. It’s in the midst of an approximately $90 million makeover that replaces concrete with ample green space and revamps each storefront façade. For the mixed-use development to survive, Capref needed to attract busi-

nesses that weren’t offered in nearby places such as Preston Hollow Village.

Austin-based building supply store TreeHouse was the first company to take a chance on the under-developed site.

“It was a disaster,” says CEO Jason Ballard. “There were few to no open businesses. There were a lot of old abandoned buildings. The parking lot was in bad shape.”

The property’s shortcomings made it the right spot for the store’s second location.

“It was sort of intentional and goes back to the mission of the company The idea for a home or for a development or a city is that when TreeHouse comes to town, things get better,” Ballard says. “We sort of picked the derelict intersection on purpose.”

Founded in 2011, TreeHouse markets an unconventional approach to home improvement. It strives to sell eco-friendly, sustainable products, in addition to offering installation services and parklike spaces to hangout.

The success of its Austin store surprised even Ballard. In four years, the company’s revenue increased 300 percent, he says.

TreeHouse’s neighborhood location already attracted nationwide media attention as the first energy-positive retail store in the US. It runs entirely on a Tesla battery backed by solar power, so it actually adds power back into the grid.

The company’s dedication to preserving the environment is a component of The Hill’s transformation, but it’s not Minnis’ focus.

“You have to lead with experience-based retail, activity-driven retail,” he says.

Restaurants like Hat Creek Burger and Tacodeli have announced plans to open at the development. Both started in Austin, like TreeHouse.

The Hill’s overhaul won’t be complete until summer 2018, but TreeHouse opened to shoppers last month. In the meanwhile, Capref is determined to erase the center’s former reputation — and the now-demolished Condoms To Go sign — from the public’s memory.

“If we get the right mix of retail and restaurant, health and fitness, spa and beauty, it will become the center point. It’s so well located.”

TreeHouse launched in Austin and sells sustainable home and garden supplies.

Story by ELISSA CHUDWIN | Photo by RASY RAN

ANGLICAN

ALL SAINTS EAST DALLAS / allsaintseastdallas.org

Sunday worship 5:00 pm / Live in God’s Presence. Live Out His Love. Meeting at Central Lutheran Church / 1000 Easton Road

BAPTIST

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

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

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

BIBLE CHURCHES

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

Sun: LifeQuest 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am / 214.348.9697

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

LUTHERAN

CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

Sunday School for all ages 9:00 am / Worship Service 10:30 am

Pastor Rich Pounds / CentralLutheran.org / 214.327.2222

FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH / 6202 E Mockingbird Ln.

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule.

214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org

METHODIST

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH RICHARDSON

503 N Central Exwy / fumcr.com / 972.235.8385 / Dr. Clayton Oliphint

8:45, 9:45, 11:00 am sanctuary / access modern worship 11:00am

LAKE HIGHLANDS UMC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com

Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee

Worship: 8:30 am & 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Contemporary

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

LAKE POINTE CHURCH – WHITE ROCK CAMPUS

Classic Service at 9:30 & Contemporary Service at 11:00 am lakepointe.org / 9150 Garland Road

PRESBYTERIAN

LAKE HIGHLANDS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 214.348.2133

8525 Audelia Road at NW Hwy. / www.lhpres.org

9:00 am Contemporary, 9:55 am Christian Ed., 11:00 am Traditional

NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Summer Worship 10:00 am

Church that feels like church and welcomes like family.

The freedom of religion

Religion is supposed to be a cure to what ails us. So, why does it too often seem to make us sicker instead?

The world is beset with divisions — national and international, local and global, human and natural, male and female, young and old, straight and gay, black and white, conservative and progressive, rich and poor, white-collar and blue-collar, urban and rural, ad infinitum. Even those binaries don’t tell the whole story because there are splinters as well as splits between them all. Added to these is brokenness within each of us: sins committed against us that mar our sense of self, and sins we commit against ourselves that rob us of our potential. We can fail to reach high enough and we can fail to be grounded enough.

Politics, social science and therapy can contribute to the healing. Religion brings God into the fray. Or better, God comes into the fray and religion names the divine direction where hope and healing are found.

The word religion comes from the Latin combination of re- and ligere: to bind or fasten or tie again. Like ligaments that hold our bones and organs in place, religion — when it functions rightly — is the tissue that knits us back together when we are broken. It makes the invisible visible, mending us inside and out.

When religion becomes too authoritarian and conformist or, on the other side, when it becomes too permissive and individualist, it deepens the problem by layering it with a spiritual dimension. God is then on the side of the oppressor or the oppression.

Religion is unifying and healing when it leads us on the path of liberation that includes both freedom from external masters and freedom of internal

By GEORGE MASON

self-mastery. Grace and self-discipline are spiritual friends.

God delivered the children of Israel from slavery to the Pharaoh in Egypt. The same God delivered the Law of Moses to those freed slaves in order to teach a new way to live in the world. Jesus lived and died and was raised, so that we might know “the truth that sets us free” and then live “the life that really is life.”

The common answers to our problems as a society tend to emphasize one side of freedom at the expense of the other. Our best religious leaders call us to both: by fixing both the social structures and personal struggles that thwart the full participation of all in the community. They will address inequities of education

and economics and political participation, and the destructive habits of mind and heart that tear us apart within.

When you are tempted to join the band of those in the church house or the statehouse or the courthouse who invoke the name of God with their agenda, ask yourself whether their message creates more unity or division, more healing or sickness. Religion touches on all areas of life, but only when it calls us all to what is good and true and beautiful can it refasten the ties that bind.

George Mason is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church. 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.

Only at its extremes does religion oppress us

Like ligaments that hold our bones and organs in place, religion — when it functions rightly — is the tissue that knits us back together when we are broken.

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ARREST MADE IN CAR WASH MURDER

Dallas police last month arrested Jeryll Dewayne Smalley, 39, for the May murder of Christopher Carraway, 36, who was left for dead in a neighborhood parking lot.

Smalley is the brother of the victim’s girlfriend (unnamed in documents); she ostensibly cooperated with investigators, helping them bring murder charges against her brother.

Just past 11 p.m. May 5, first responders found an unconscious Carraway in the darkest reaches of a car wash at 9601 Plano Road in Lake Highlands. He was “badly injured,” Dallas Police information officers stated at the time, and he was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at Presbyterian Hospital.

When detectives arrested Smalley in Sulpher Springs June 2, he admitted to killing his sister’s boyfriend, though we do not know the specific motive.

According to the arrest warrant, homicide detectives concluded that on May 5 Smalley stabbed Carraway and dumped the dying man in the rear lot of the Gator Car Wash. The confessed killer might have known pretty quickly that he was in trouble. Both security cameras and employees of the adjacent Sonic Drive-In observed Smalley’s black Dodge Durango, lights off, pull up alongside a dumpster past the last car wash bay. A man exited the vehicle, walked to the passenger side, then returned to the driver side to reposition the vehicle, blocking the view of Sonic workers and cameras, the report notes. After one employee moved his own vehicle the security camera field of vision improved, revealing that after lingering several minutes, the Dodge driver pulled away; at this point a motionless body was visible alongside the dumpster. The Dodge driver moved slowly and stopped, as if he noticed the employees inside Sonic watching him (and “as if he is watching them”), according to the warrant. He idled for a moment or two, then, exactly one minute after exiting the lot, he called 911 to report a body.

When a Dallas Police Department homicide detective spoke to Smalley on the phone at 1:27 a.m., Smalley could not offer a good reason for leaving the crime scene prior to the detective’s arrival. Smalley also claimed he did not know the victim — a lie. Police on May 8 interviewed Smalley’s sister who was Carraway’s girlfriend. In fact, she told police, her brother, Smalley, and her boyfriend, Carraway, left her residence together the night of Carraway’s death; she let them drive her vehicle, the Dodge Durango.

She did not see her car, boyfriend or brother again.

The Dodge later was found in Arkansas with fake plates and has been impounded as evidence. Smalley is in Lew Sterrett Jail on a $250,000 bond. Christopher Carraway’s family and friends are still mourning his death.

Smalley has a history of felony charges: one for possession of a controlled substance, two for possession with intent to distribute and one charge of evading arrest.

MIGHT THIS IDEALISTIC OASIS TRANSFORM NORTHERN LAKE HIGHLANDS?

There is a woodsy 9-acres tucked between two office parks near the I-635 service road and Forest Lane. For years the overgrown brush and patches of grass have provided, essentially, a clandestine camp for homeless people, as well as the dumping of unwanted junk. But a much brighter future is in store for the land now that the Dallas Plan Commission has unanimously approved a remarkably unique plan for a new Woonerf-style neighborhood called Urban Commons. (It’s a Dutch term — roughly translated as “living streets” and pronounced VONE-erf meaning a kind of pedestrian-friendly, low-speed street.)

The development — conceived by Diane Cheatham, the woman responsible for nationally renowned Urban Reserve neighborhood where she also lives — could prove transformative for our area, with its “low maintenance, low velocity, low impact, low stress, low pressure, low fumes, high design” living for a relatively affordable investment (that is, compared to Urban Reserve whose abodes approach the million dollar mark in some cases).

Constructed amid the thicket of trees, a thin creek trickling through, and just a skip north of the picturesque Richland College campus, Urban Commons will include 75-80 single-family homes ranging from 600 to 2,800 square feet.

It takes a certain level of confidence to promise “minimal modern homes that exist in harmony with our environment” (as the website introduction does) at a location across the street from a low-budget, extended stay motel and one of the region’s busiest highways.

But that is essentially what Cheatham accomplished almost a decade ago with Urban Reserve. Where most people, if they noticed anything at all, saw a densely overgrown patch of uninhabitable earth separating Lake Highlands from Central Expressway, she saw 14 acres of opportunity to build a vanguard village of modern and sustainable homes.

Since the Dallas City Council approved the plan in January, the grounds have been cleared of overgrowth and trash. The recent commission approval allows for commencement of upward construction, notes publicist Rita Cox, adding that a groundbreaking ceremony will take place in the next couple of months.

Carraway, above; Smalley, below.