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TRUE ROMANCE

A co-worker says Valentine’s Day killed two of his dating relationships; he says he broke up with his then-girlfriends on the day itself when he realized he just didn’t care enough about these women to keep dating them.

From a guy’s standpoint (or at least this guy’s standpoint), what he did was a noble gesture. Rather than pretend to think something he didn’t, he told the truth on a day when the truth should count for something.

From the women’s standpoint, I imagine the feeling wasn’t necessarily mutual, at least not at that date and moment in time, because who wants to hear the truth about a relationship just prior to some expected wining and dining?

My own Valentine’s Day history is checkered with less-than-romantic incidents, so I know of what I speak.

After my wife and I were married, I became obsessed not with turning Valentine’s Day into a personal romantic showcase, but with avoiding friendly fire on that day for not being romantic enough, something that just seems to come naturally to me.

Scheduling a wildly expensive dinner at a dress-up restaurant initially seemed like a safe bet, and our first Valentine’s Day as a married couple was spent under the twinkling lights of a tree growing partially inside said restaurant.

The setting was romantic, the company divine, but another known shortcoming of mine reared its ugly head during the appetizer. My wife can tell you now that the more expensive the meal, the more antsy and disagreeable I become as I watch food masquerading in my mind as $20 or $50 bills floating in on a plate and then just as quickly floating away from the table and from my wallet.

And when I became antsy about money, I became distracted from conversation. When

that happened, my wife wanted to know what was wrong, and I resisted telling her for her own protection. She asked again, and I resisted again because I didn’t want to make her mad or spoil her fun. Then she dug deeper because she didn’t know why I wouldn’t tell her, and I started to grump because I couldn’t believe I was spending all this money just to have a bad time, so I told her what I was thinking. And then she figuratively reached across the table with her eyes and tried to strangle me because she knew the pricey dinner was my idea.

On this particularly memorable night, we made it to the car without bloodshed, although my grumpiness provoked her to grumpiness during the meal. And then somewhere on the drive home, as we continued discussing the meal, I said something that double-grumped her enough that she ordered me to stop the car so she could get out and walk home.

I kid you not.

Even as a self-anointed loving and supportive husband, I admit that my first thought wasn’t to roll down the window and beg her to hop back in the car, even though I’m sure she was justified; instead, I was hacked enough to consider speeding away to see how much of the hockey game I could catch on TV.

But again, that was only my first thought. And after some silent obscenities and after pondering various scenarios — all of which seemed to end with me impaled on a broom handle — I lowered the car window while creeping down the street, and like a good and chastened husband, I begged her to get back in the car.

After some more lively discussion, she eventually agreed, and I’m pleased to say that after many happy years and more mature behavior on my part, we’ve never again celebrated a Valentine’s Day with one person in a moving vehicle and another walking beside it.

Over the years, regardless of what has or has not been spent on a holiday seemingly invented by greeting card companies and florists, the ones we’ve enjoyed the most are the ones where we’ve just been together, period.

And she’s just fine with that. So far.

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Remodeling & New Construction Talk...

8 Critical Safety Concerns to Discuss with

Your Contractor

In our area, we see many homes built and remodeled without regard for critical safety concerns. We recommend discussing these concerns as they apply to your new construction or remodeling project.

Electrical Panels:

Many homes in our area were built with Federal Pacific Electrical. These panels work well for years, but after an overcurrent or short circuit, they can fail to trip, overheat, and catch fire. Ryan Paschall of Pegasus Electric advises, “If your home has an older electrical panel, or one known for not tripping properly, it should be replaced.”

Grounded Wiring:

Older homes were not designed for today’s electrical consumption. Today’s homes must have a ground connection to ensure that the current will flow through the ground system and trip a breaker rather than through an electrical appliance, causing a fire or electrocution. Contractors shouldn’t simply work around outdated wiring, but should bring it up to code.

GFCI Interrupters:

In all wet areas, GFCI interrupters should be installed. These prevent electrocution and fires when liquids inevitably come into contact with electrical currents.

Furnace Heat Exchangers and Carbon Monoxide:

Cast iron heat exchangers inside the furnace tend to become brittle and crack after ten years of use. Barry Martin of Bel-Air Mechanical warns, “This causes carbon monoxide to leak out into the home through the vents. It’s one reason why you should have your furnace and carbon monoxide detectors regularly checked.”

Furnace Gas and Exhaust

Connections:

Furnaces more than ten years old were

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not built to today’s safety codes. We often find leaking gas connections, putting residents at risk for fire, and leaking exhaust connections which blow carbon monoxide into the attic, closets, and the air you breathe.

Venting of Hot Water Heater:

After storms, we’ve seen many slightly dislocated hot water heater or furnace vents. If the housing shifts even slightly, the vent may not work, subjecting residents to carbon monoxide poisoning. It’s something to check after any roofing job, and once every three years regardless.

Tempered Windows:

Low windows and door windows should be tempered glass. If you or your child runs or bumps into a tempered window, it will crumble in thousands of pieces, rather than fall in a sheet.

Water Cutoff:

Older homes aren’t set up to enable easy water shutoff in the event of a pipe leak. We’ve seen this result in flooding, as residents are powerless to do anything but watch the water destroy their homes. Proper water shutoffs are part of every new home we build, and a consideration in many remodeling projects.

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Q&A: Jeremy Velasquez

Once the new residences at Lake Highlands Town Center, Haven Lake Highlands, finally got off the ground, Jeremy Velasquez from US-EcoLogic Inc. became involved. He works as a green consultant to ensure the project is approved by LEED for Homes (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), a voluntary certification system that promotes green construction for residential buildings. Here’s what the Lake Highlands North resident has to say about the LEED certification of this highly anticipated project.

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What does a LEED certification encompass?

LEED covers the whole breadth and depth of the environmental impact from construction. So it looks at the building’s impact on the site and use of materials and resources and considers the total electrical and water usage. Another important component of LEED is the indoor air quality for residents.

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It also looks at things like trying to reduce the tenants’ carbon footprint. LEED promotes and awards points for building in urban and semi-urban areas like the Lake Highlands Town Center location. Access to community resources and mass transit are crucial components of making a project green. Prescott Realty is trying to create a walkable community. I think that’s kind of what the whole goal is, that ultimately, when Lake Highlands Town Center is done, residents don’t have to get in their cars and drive. They can walk where they need to go or catch the DART to nearby city hotspots.

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In terms of energy efficiency, there are a lot of factors that you have to consider: windows, HVAC and water heater efficiency, the insulation in the walls, the performance testing results, the percentage of high-efficiency lighting that you use, and so on.

PAINTING WITH A TWIST

Express your inner artist! Instructors lead attendees in creating paintings with a featured piece of art. Bring your imagination and beverage. Perfect for private parties and complimentary valet parking. 5202 W. Lovers Lane 214.350.9911 paintingwithatwist.com/dallas

What does a LEED consultant do?

We get involved during the design process. We work with the design teams early on to try to integrate all of the green measures. We sit down and we generate a checklist with the owner, the architect, and engineers, and we develop a consensus on the most appropriate measures to pursue to achieve certification.

As part of the design process we generate an energy analysis model of the building to approximate the actual energy usage and make sure they are meeting the protocol’s requirements. During construction we perform inspections to ensure compliance with all of the credits and requirements. A lot of our role, outside of just certifying the building, is quality assurance.

rocker, air sealer and the insulator and the rest of the pertinent trades, just to make sure everyone’s on the same page about what it is that we’re doing and what makes this project special versus your standard codelevel project.

How will Haven Lake Highlands be different from the area’s other multifamily residences, and what part does LEED play in that?

I think it’s different because it’s more about creating a community than it is just building another building full of tenants. LEED [is important] because it promotes connectivity and walkable communities. This community has prompted a lot of change in the area [such as] a new DART station and connection to surrounding hike and bike trails. Lake Highlands Town Center should be a resource for the surrounding residential areas, not a burden or an eyesore. I don’t know what their full plans are for the entire development at the moment, but it seems like it’s going to be mixed-use development with resources for the surrounding communities, so they don’t have to branch out to do shopping outside of our community.

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So you were involved from the beginning of construction?

Early on in construction, usually about the framing stage, we go out and perform a trades training, where we sit down with the general contractor, HVAC contractor, sheet-

And with LEED, the units are healthier. All the units have fresh air systems installed. There’s continuous fresh air that’s pumped into each unit. We have higher filtration requirements for the HVAC system. There are more tangible things, like you can say to someone, your utility bills will be lower than this guy down the street that’s not in a LEED project. There’s reduced water usage and more efficient HVAC systems. You’re saving money because you live in a green project.

So as a Lake Highlands resident, you want to this to be a great place, right?

I think there’s been a lot of anticipation for Lake Highlands Town Center for a long time. People got kind of tired of waiting and are curious about what’s going to happen. Obviously it’s moving forward, and from what I understand this is just one small piece of the whole development, but the residential component of the development makes the whole project work, I think. The residents will have access to the resources once they become available, and the resources will be fed by the residents. So it kind of seems like a win-win to me.

—Lara Keel

Please don’t go

Lake Highlands pup Eliza laments the departure of human momma

Hannah Payne , a piano teacher who lives in the L Streets neighborhood. Hannah’s mom Phyllis Payne — that would be Eliza’s person-grandma — who also lives in Lake Highlands with husband, Darwin, snapped the photo. Darwin says he and the rest of the family are touched by the unconditional love of man’s — make that woman’s — best friend captured in the photo. “It seemed so striking,” Darwin adds.

Out & About

February 2014

Feb. 2

Too Cold To Hold race

Runners and walkers can ring in February with this 10-mile, 5-mile or 5-kilometer race. It starts and ends at Norbuck Park near White Rock Lake and benefits The Family Place, a nonprofit that serves domestic-violence victims. Billed as a chilly affair, temps are not guaranteed. It is Texas, after all; it could be 17 or 70 degrees. Pre-race registration begins at 7 a.m. and the races start at 8 a.m. Early online registration is discounted.

Norbuck Park, Northwest Highway at Buckner, runontexas.com, $20-$65 (depending on distance and registration date)

FEB. 4-25 (TUESDAYS)

Meditation for health

From 7-9 p.m., join Lake Highlands Acupuncture owners as they guide students through a practical and secular approach to meditation, which they say can reduce pain and anxiety and relieve chronic health problems. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

Lake Highlands Acupuncture, 10252 E. Northwest, 214.267.8636, lakehighlandsacupuncture.com, free (donation requested)

FEB. 7

Willy Porter

This month, guitarist and singersongwriter Willy Porter showcases his strumming prowess on Uncle Calvin’s stage. Porter boasts an extensive performing background, including touring with Tori Amos and Jeff Beck. Martin Swinger will open.

Uncle Calvin’s Coffeehouse, 214.363.0044, unclecalvins.org, $15-$18

FEB. 14, 16, 20, 21, 22

‘Guys and Dolls’

Artists of Christian Talent (ACT) presents the beloved musical about gambling, sin and soul saving at Lake Highlands United Methodist Church’s fellowship hall. All shows are at 7:30 p.m. except one Sunday matinee, Feb. 16 at 2 p.m. Visit the church’s website for prices and tickets.

Lake Highlands United Methodist Church, 9015 Plano, 214.348.6600, lhumc.com, $TBA

FEB. 14-23

‘Little Women’

The Teen Scene Players at the Dallas Children’s Theater present a spirited musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic tale. Sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy celebrate life, love and hope against the backdrop of the American Civil War in this all-teen production. Dallas Children’s Theater, 5938 Skillman, 214.740.0051, dct.org, $12

Through Feb. 22

‘Her Song’

This Echo Room theater presentation at the Dallas Bath House Cultural Center celebrates early-20th-century women composers and lyricists and takes place in an old-fashioned supper club setting. Shows are at 8 p.m. most Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays throughout the month. Visit the website for details. Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther, dallasculture.org or echotheatre.org, $15-$25

FEB. 15

Heart and Sole 5k

Run your heart out in the 5k and one-mile fun runs. The post-race party includes a bounce house, live music and refreshments. Proceeds benefit Attorneys Serving the Community and Hope’s Door, which helps families affected by domestic violence.

Winfrey Point, 950 E. Lawther, runontexas.com, $10-$35

FEB. 15

Backyard chicken sale

Dan Probst of Bageniece Farms visits North Haven Gardens to answer your questions about how to get started and maintain your very own chicken coop. Purchase hens, organic feed, hay and more from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., or until supplies last.

North Haven Gardens, 7700 Northaven, 214.363.5316, nhg.com, free

FEB. 19

‘The Neverending Story’

Bring the family to a screening of the hit 1980s film “The Neverending Story” at 7 p.m. Studio Movie Grill, 11170 N. Central, 214.361.2966, studiomoviegrill.com, $2

FEB. 21-MARCH 29

‘Lend Me a Tenor’

The Pocket Sandwich Theatre presents this Tony-winning comedy about opera, mishaps, drugs, deception, confusion and ladies in lingerie. Through it all, the show must go on. Times vary, but generally are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. with an optional pre-show dinner at 5 p.m. Late-night and discount performances may be added. Check the website or call for details.

Pocket Sandwich Theatre, 5400 E. Mockingbird, 214.821.1860, pocketsandwich.com, $10-$29

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Tuckedaway behind the AMC theater on the second floor in NorthPark Center, a space once inhabited by Starbucks has undergone quite a transformation in recent months. A restaurant with an all-white interior — a clean and crisp palette — immediately draws attention to the fiery colors of freshly chopped grapefruit, golden beets and butternut squash on display in the salad case. In the center of the restaurant, executive chef Ben Hutchison sautés meat and warms bread baked by local Village Baking Company for panini and ciabatta sandwiches.

“The whole idea that we want to promote is that people should know where their food is coming from — we should be able to go see our cows and chickens and look them in the eyes,” says owner Michael Siegel. He and his wife, Robyn, opened Green House Market in December after the success of their Green House gourmet food truck, which also emphasized fresh, local and seasonal ingredients. Michael says that instead of expanding to three food trucks to meet customer demand, the couple opted to swap the food-truck biz for a brick-and-mortar location. Keeping in line with the philosophy of their food truck, the flank steak comes from Local Yocal farms in McKinney, and the chicken breast and fish come from Texas as well. Menu items at the restaurant are made to order and served fast-casual. Robyn adds that they now offer breakfast, lunch and dinner, which they couldn’t do with the food truck. There also are several pieces of artwork on display inside Green House Market. Robyn is an art advisor and says that she selects pieces for the restaurant that explore the themes of form and function, pertaining to food. So if the vibrant colors of your meal aren’t exciting enough for you, there’s some cool modern art to look at, too.

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Here, the focus is fresh fish and organic, sustainable, healthful ingredients. One of the first things you’ll see is the outdoor garden growing cabbage and other greens. It’s just a precursor to the goodness that waits within.

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2 Green Spot Market and Café

It looks like a gas station. And that it is. But it’s also so much more. The so-called “ecovenience” store stocks fresh produce and frozen yogurt and serves up breakfast, lunch and dinner in the form of tacos, burgers and sandwiches from vendors promising humane and organic practices.

702 N. Buckner 214.319.SPOT greenspotmarket.com

3 Highlands Café

This little slice of heaven, which is owned by neighbors, serves up plenty of healthy and vegetarian options including a veggie burger, hummus and vegetables and myriad salads and pastas. Finish it off with locally baked desserts at the counter. 9661 Audelia 214.349.CAFE highlandscafe.com

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Captured m ments

A photo album featuring touching, refreshing, long-lasting and true love found in our neighborhood

Story by Christina Hughes Babb | Portrait by Kim Leeson

Most of you romantics out there have a favorite photo of your Valentine. Some keep those treasured images close to their heart, maybe in a locket. Others proudly display them in a pretty frame on the living room wall. And some of those photos are so darn heartwarming or hilarious that they must be shared with the audience of the neighborhood’s most popular magazine (that’s us, right?). To the subjects and senders of said snapshots we offer a hearty “Cheers!”

Pat ’sPhillip

Pat Metcalf Jackson’s favorite photo of her husband shows him wearing some silly headgear. This is why it means so much:

When Pat runs around White Rock Lake on a Saturday morning, she talks to some 50 people. A popular longtime member of the Dallas Running Club, she seems to know every jogger and cyclist on the road. Phillip Jackson moved to Dallas from Waco in 2008 to be closer to his grandchildren. A marathon runner, he joined the DRC for the training program. The polar opposite of Pat, Phillip speaks softly and trains, with seriousness, under the radar.

“We met but did not run in the same group, so we didn’t talk much at first,” Pat recalls.

At 46, Pat says, she had all but given up on the idea of marriage.

“I called myself a freak of nature, to mean that I was unusual, not that I was weird,” she says. “I didn’t always like it, but I was pretty happy and OK with staying single.”

Then she and some friends decided to train for an Olympic-distance triathlon. Pat says she casually asked Phillip if he wanted to join. He did. And then they were together seemingly all the time.

“When you are training for that big of a race, you spend a lot of time training. Three-hour runs, five-hour bike rides. You really can bond with a person.”

Pat liked Phillip and, as she got to know him, was becoming more interested, she says, but it wasn’t until last Oct. 31 that she felt the sting of Cupid’s arrow.

“The running club met on Halloween, and they said we should wear costumes,” Pat recalls. “I’ll wear anything. I was ready with a Goldilocks getup worn in a [previous themed] race. And I had a spare set of bear ears.”

When Phillip agreed without hesitation to don the bear ears and wore them throughout the 10-plus-mile run, she knew he was the one.

“Yeah. When he put on those bear ears, I knew it was true love.”

After that the relationship moved swiftly. He proposed the next March (at White Rock Lake) and they married at Winfrey Point the following November. Both performed well in the triathlon and honeymooned in Costa Rica.

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Dale ’sAnne

Dale Conwell’s favorite photo of his love, Anne, under different circumstances could have been his least favorite and most embarrassing picture. Let us explain:

In 1984, Dale leased a billboard overlooking Greenville Avenue — above the

“I used her last name and only my first just in case she said no, to avoid any further embarrassment and humiliation.”

old Bowley & Wilson, across from Ozona and ordered the words “Anne Fletcher will you marry me? Love, Dale” scrawled across it.

The billboard idea was fun, though nerve-wracking. For one, it took two drive-bys before Anne noticed the sign.

“It came as a surprise to her, since we never talked about marriage before this,” Dale says.

As for him, “I used her last name and only my first just in case she said no, to avoid any

further embarrassment and humiliation.”

She said yes. But Dale had one more unforgettable nuptial antic up his sleeve. Enter bonus photo no. 2 (see it on the Table of Contents, p. 6).

For the actual wedding, Dale’s big responsibility was securing transportation via limousine from the chapel to the reception.

“At the time, my co-workers and I dined religiously at the now-defunct Mr. Chicken restaurant. I asked the owner, Buddy, if I could rent the Mr. Chicken mobile (in lieu of a limo). It took some convincing, but he finally let me. No one but the two of us knew about it,” Dale recalls.

“To say the least, everyone was quite surprised when this unique automobile showed up outside beautiful Perkins Chapel on SMU’s stunning campus to cart us away.”

To prove he was both witty and intelligent, Dale also hired a real limo and driver, much to the relief of the bride (and her mother, who decidedly was not a Mr. Chicken fan).

“This was the right move, since the chicken mobile was used to deliver food and the interior smelled like chicken. Of course.”

Jack ’sTerry

There are much better pictures of Terry, husband Jack Reed says, but he loves this one the most.

“It’s the way she looks when she is asleep,” says Jack Reed about his favorite photo of his wife of 27 years, Terry. He keeps the snapshot in a frame on his nightstand. In it, Terry’s face is damp and red, her eyes are tightly shut and her lipstick is a little splotchy. She’s glowing.

“It so perfectly represents this beautiful woman I love. She is relaxed, happy and at peace, which is the very state of mind I strive to put her in whenever I can,” Jack says.

The photo was taken the first time Terry joined Jack at his favorite live-music event, The New Orleans Jazz Fest, he says.

“It was a hot and crowded day, and we had just walked through the spritzing tent where they cool the crowd down with sprays of cool water.”

Jack had been attending the festival annually for years and was elated that his soul mate enjoyed the event almost as much as he does, he says.

“I am hopelessly in love with her smile and this beautiful face,” Jack says. “I count my blessings that she has agreed to grow old with me.”

Sally ’s David

In 1970, Sally Russell and David Grinsfelder were elected Mr. and Miss Lake Highlands High School by the student body.

The honor of Mr. and Miss LHHS was significant, made more so by the fact that David was up against his twin brother — a member of the Wildcat student council, which tallied the votes — Sally recalls with a laugh.

The young lovebirds married at Christmastime during their junior year at college, had five children and are grandparents to six.

Sally Grinsfelder says that in ninth grade she dated a boy who was sort of jealous all the time and not all that happy.

“It was at a very early age that I decided dating or being in a relationship — we didn’t do much actual dating at that age — should be fun.”

David was shy, kind, loving soul with a sense of humor, and he was easy to get along with, she says.

She never had a problem with the fact that he was the only love she ever knew, she says, adding that their home has been filled with warmth and love through the years.

“Hopefully he hasn’t questioned it either!”

Voted Miss and Mr. Lake Highlands High School in 1970, Sally and David Grinsfelder married in 1972.

Open spaces or lakeside commerce?

Developers float the idea of a White Rock Lake restaurant, but to those who love the natural landscape, it is going to be a tough sell

In a decades-long series of proposals for commercial development at White Rock Lake, the latest idea involves building a restaurant on a 12-acre lot at Boy Scout Hill southwest of Mockingbird and Buckner.

“The idea of a destination restaurant at White Rock Lake is going to be a hard sell,” says Michael Jung, chairman of the White Rock Lake Task Force.

Local architect Lyle Burgin and attorney Richard Kopf presented their idea to the task force in December to test the waters and gather public input before pursuing an official proposal.

Few details are known about the exact size and scale, the menu, the price point, parking or street reconfiguration. There’s not even a rendering yet, but Burgin says the design of the restaurant would fit in with the surrounding atmosphere.

“My vision is something similar to the stone tables — a lodge type of feel,” he says, referring to the pavilion near the Bath House Cultural Center off East Lawther.

This early and open dialogue came at the suggestion of Willis Winters, the director of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department. When Burgin and Kopf approached the city with the idea, Winters recommended they gather community input before drawing up

any presumptuous, detailed plan.

“It was important to me that we do it that way,” Winters says.

The idea for a restaurant at Boy Scout Hill won’t move forward without enough community support.

“They’re doing it the right way,” Jung says about the process, but when it comes to commercial development at the lake, “I don’t think the feelings have changed.”

The general attitude of the task force leans toward conservation and away from development that may upset the natural setting of the lake.

The idea for a restaurant at Boy Scout Hill was met with “open-minded skepticism,” Jung says.

So, what’s different about this idea? The location, for one. Gerry Worrall, the city’s park board representative for the White Rock Lake area, says increased traffic may not be a huge concern as it often is. The area has easy access points straight from the already busy thoroughfares of Mockingbird and Buckner, so neighborhood streets wouldn’t see much impact. “This is probably the one location at the lake where [the issue of traffic] would not be as relevant,” Worrall says.

Many questions remain, particularly

how the restaurant would operate. Winters says an ideal scenario is as a nonprofit similar to the Klyde Warren Park restaurant, Savor, which is run by the Woodall Rogers Park Foundation, sending revenue back into the park. He says no such foundation around the lake has approached the city on the idea yet. The other scenario is one in which the city issues a public request for proposals from private developers — if the idea gets that far.

“We see this as a process for public input before we even start putting lines on the paper,” Burgin says. “In order for a restaurant to be successful at the lake, it has to have the community support. Otherwise, it isn’t worth doing.” Emily

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The open space on Boy Scout Hill at White Rock Lake is being considered for a destination restaurant — that is, if neighbors will support it: Danny Fulgencio

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A place where anyone at all can find warmth, kindness, food and more

Story by Christina Hughes Babb

Late afternoon the day after New Year’s, pedestrians bundled in coats and scarves enter The New Room, a small construct next door to CiCi’s Pizza on Skillman Street near Royal Lane. Some 30 minutes later they leave with a bag of groceries, informational pamphlets on health care services and financial literacy classes and, in some cases, a Christmas toy or a few pieces of clothing.

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“It is proof that there are still people who care about you,” says 48-year-old Sally Guinn, a grandmother who has lived in a two-bedroom apartment with her sister and five children since losing her nursing assistant job. “You do have to want help, and you have to be respon-

sible enough to get it, but these people are so kind, they just give you that hope.”

The New Room, home of the Feed Lake Highlands food distribution (as well as after-school programs for children and weekly worship services), is a satellite of Lake Highlands United Methodist and is located in an area known by police for its problems. No. 13 on the Dallas Police Department’s crime hotspots list, the Skillman-Royal area is home to about 10,000 people. About 70 percent of them live in the area’s lowrent apartment communities. Police have attributed most of the area’s crime to the population density.

That didn’t scare the associate pastor of Lake Highlands UMC, Pamela Clark,

The Advocate’s ongoing series about poverty-related suffering in our neighborhood and the effort to end it.

A volunteer loads food for the Feed Lake Highlands program: Jun Ma

who first took Sunday services into those apartment communities in the mid-1990s. It was there, while delivering a sermon at the Sonora Palms Apartments, that she met Norman Madawo and Edgar Moyo, immigrants from Zimbabwe who today are spiritual leaders at The New Room.

During the Feed Lake Highlands food delivery days — a collaboration with the North Texas Food Bank and Crossroads Community Services — both the Rev. Clark and Madawo, along with other volunteers, can be found washing plates, stacking supplies or unclogging the toilet — whatever needs doing in the oldish building, they say.

Clark still laughs about that first meeting.

“These two guys came in, sat in the back. Afterwards I tried asking some questions — about their families and such. I was curious about what they were doing there. Turns out they were checking us out. They wanted to make sure we were doing things right before bringing their families. I guess we were, because they later brought their families.”

Madawo and Moyo were friends in Zimbabwe, where they practiced Catholicism, Madawo explains. In the United States the Catholic services were different, he says. During one Catholic mass, a fellow churchgoer pulled Madawo out of the communion line and asked him, in so many words, if he was sure he should be there, Madawo says.

“I guess this person thought that since I did not look like everyone else I was not Catholic. That isn’t really what bothered me. It was more an overall sense

“It is proof that people still care about you. You do have to want help and be responsible enough to get it, but these people are so kind. They just give you that hope.”

that it wasn’t what I was looking for, for my family,” he says, in perfect English but with a heavy Zimbabwean accent.

One must be careful when leading your family into a church, he explains, because a wrong move is like “throwing your family to the wolves.”

“There are so many places called churches that aren’t really churches,” he says.

Gradually Madawo, Moyo and their respective wives and children became essential members of the satellite church, welcoming new churchgoers, leading services and study groups and helping to found The New Room, Clark says.

“We work well together,” Clark says. She explains that each member of the church has certain gifts. Madawo is a community pastor (an un-ordained pastor serving under Clark’s direction) and certified lay speaker. Being male, he can relate to the male members of the church in a way she cannot, she says.

“I 100-percent thought I was going to sit there in the back row forever,” Madawo says with a laugh.

Clark says Madawo is the type of person who “cannot not help” when help evidently is needed.

Sally Guinn, the aforementioned outof-work grandmother, says she was having pizza at CiCi’s with her boyfriend — he cleans windows for a living, she says when they saw a pamphlet for a credit-counseling class at The New Room.

Guinn says she was injured in an accident, lost her job as a nursing assistant and has been living with various family members ever since. She took out loans in an effort to return to school for a nursing degree. But Guinn had committed to caring for her grandchildren, nieces and nephews in return for a place to live, and she soon realized school would have to wait. She was stuck with more debt, no degree and no job, she says.

So she and her boyfriend — they eventually plan to marry — attended the class. While there, Guinn learned about Feed Lake Highlands and signed up for the program.

“It was easy. I showed my proof of residency, filled out some paperwork,

agreed to come at my assigned time.”

After picking up her first round of free groceries, she says, she began attending the Sunday worship service. “No. It is not required,” she says. “But I like it. I feel relaxed. I feel stronger when I come to the church.”

She brings her 11- and 10-year-old nephews. “They beg to come,” she says.

John Chappell is a freshman at Berkner High School who just joined The New Room youth group. When he and mom Denise show up to collect their January food, John immediately approaches community pastor Madawo, who is stacking items on a shelf, and offers to help.

“This place came along at the right time for us. It was a godsend,” Denise says. She recently left an “unhealthy relationship” and moved herself and John from Texarkana to the Beacon Hill Apartments.

“We were unanchored in this big old world, just me and John, and this is like a starting point for us, to get to know people.”

Despite being the only male and the only Berkner student in the youth group (the rest are Lake Highlands High School students) John, urged on by Denise, makes it a point to attend the twice-monthly teen gatherings, which offer social and spiritual activities.

Denise says her goal is to save money and buy a house.

Before Denise leaves, one of the ministry leaders, Jill Goad, hands her information about upcoming financial literacy classes offered at The New Room. Classes offered by Crossroads and other organizations are recommended but not mandated for Feed Lake Highlands clients. Topics include nutrition, parenting, home buying, managing emotions

“There are so many places called churches that aren’t really churches.”

and a variety of others.

Denise Chappell promises to attend. Feed Lake Highlands runs smoothly, and recipients of the food seldom have to endure long lines or major inconveniences, but it doesn’t happen without dedicated volunteers. Gwen Crain, who is not a member of the church, volunteered after seeing something about The

New Room on the news, she says.

“It was months after I saw it, and I decided I wanted to help. I couldn’t remember the church associated with it, so I called Lake Highlands Presbyterian. Wrong church.”

But they knew she was looking for The New Room by way of Lake Highlands United Methodist.

Goad points out, citing Crain, that this is a community organization, not just a church effort. That the entire neighborhood suffers when people are hungry and that any member of the

“We were unanchored in this big old world ... and this is like a starting point for us, to get to know people.”

Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, retirees, moms with children old enough to work they all have a role. Some interview new clients, others pick up, transport, sort and deliver the food. Katy Jensen, a LHUMC member and registered nurse, attends each Feed Lake Highlands distribution day and offers some type of health service. This time she is taking blood pressures.

“One man who was here a little while ago had very high blood pressure. He says he doesn’t have a doctor or insurance, so I gave him information on Healing Hands Ministries, where he can get help for free, right down the street. He didn’t know about it,” Jensen says.

The main goal, says Madawo, is to not let anyone who walks through those doors slip through the cracks. “Some of them have spent enough time feeling invisible,” he says. “Here, they will find love. They are wanted.”

THE SOLUTIONS SERIES Monthly in 2014, the Advocate will share a story about people in our neighborhood struggling with poverty, unemployment or other disadvantages, and we will examine efforts made to improve those difficult situations. We also will write about individuals and groups dedicated to making a difference. If you have a story to share, email chughes@advocatemag.com and write “solutions” in the subject line.

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LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Leading to Success. 2720 Hillside Dr., Dallas 75214 / 214.826.2931 / lakehillprep. org Kindergarten through Grade 12 - Lakehill Preparatory School takes the word preparatory in its name very seriously. Throughout a student’s academic career, Lakehill builds an educational program that achieves its goal of enabling graduates to attend the finest, most rigorous universities of choice. Lakehill combines a robust, college-preparatory curriculum with opportunities for personal growth, individual enrichment, and community involvement. From kindergarten through high school, every Lakehill student is encouraged to strive, challenged to succeed, and inspired to excel.

SPANISH HOUSE

5740 Prospect Ave. & 4411 Skillman / 214-826-4410 / DallasSpanishHouse.com

Spanish House is a Spanish immersion school with two Lakewood locations for children ages 3 months - Kindergarten. We offer half-day and full-day programs, with extended care available from 7:30am - 6:00pm. We also offer after-school and Saturday classes for PK and elementary-aged students, both on- and offsite. Additionally, we have an adult Spanish program for beginning, intermediate and advanced students.

ics and community service.St. John’s goal for its students is to develop a love for learning, service to others, and leadership grounded in love, humility, and wisdom. Accredited by ISAS, SAES, and the Texas Education Agency.

WHITE ROCK NORTH SCHOOL

9727 White Rock Trail Dallas / 214.348.7410 / WhiteRockNorthSchool.com

6 Weeks through 6th Grade. Our accelerated curriculum provides opportunity for intellectual and physical development in a loving and nurturing environment. Character-building and civic responsibility are stressed. Facilities include indoor swimming pool, skating rink, updated playground, and state-of-the-art technology lab. Kids Club on the Corner provides meaningful after-school experiences. Summer Camp offers field trips, swimming, and a balance of indoor and outdoor activities designed around fun-filled themes. Accredited by SACS. Call for a tour of the campus.

WOODROW WILSON HIGH SCHOOL

100 S. Glasgow Dallas 75214 / 972-502-4400 / woodrowwildcats.org A proven college preparation program and a true high school experience. Woodrow graduates attend, year after year, our state’s and country’s finest colleges including Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, TCU, Tech, West Point, Georgetown, Duke, North Carolina, Princeton and Yale, often with meaningful scholarships. With academic programs equaling the best private and magnet schools, Woodrow’s diverse student body also enjoys a traditional high school offering arts, music, dance, theater, math and science clubs, debate and writing competitions and a broad, inclusive and successful sports program, with cheerleaders and drill team. “It’s all at Woodrow and it works.”

YORKTOWN EDUCATION

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CLAIRE’S CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL

8202 Boedeker Dr., / (214) 368-4047 / clairesdayschool.com At CCDS, we encourage a child’s sense of exploration and discovery in a loving, nurturing, and safe environment. We offer a parent’s day out program with a play-based curriculum fostering socialization, motor skill development, and an introduction to academics for children aged 4mo – 3yrs. Our preschool for children aged 3-5 further develops these skills, along with a more focused approach to pre-math and prereading. At CCDS, we have developed our own science, math, and reading enrichment classes to ensure kindergarten preparedness for every child. We make learning fun!

HIGHLANDER SCHOOL

9120 Plano Rd. Dallas / 214.348.3220 / www.highlanderschool.com Founded in 1966, Highlander School offers an enriched curriculum in a positive, Christian-based environment. Small class sizes help teachers understand the individual learning styles of each student. Give us a call for more information.

ST. CHRISTOPHER’S MONTESSORI SCHOOL

7900 Lovers Ln. / 214.363.9391 stchristophersmontessori.com St. Christopher’s Montessori School has been serving families in the DFW area for over a quarter of a century. We are affiliated with the American Montessori Society and our teachers are certified Montessori instructors. Additionally our staff has obtained other complimentary educational degrees and certifications, including having a registered nurse on staff. Our bright and attractive environment, and highly qualified staff, ensures your child will grow and develop in an educationally sound, AMS certified loving program. Now Enrolling.

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

848 Harter Rd., Dallas 75218 / 214.328.9131 / stjohnsschool.org Founded in 1953, St. John’s is an independent, co-educational day school for Pre-K through Grade 8. With a tradition for academic excellence, St. John’s programs include a challenging curriculum in a Christian environment along with instruction in the visual and performing arts, Spanish, German, French, and opportunities for athlet-

Education is an independent, academically challenging school for grades 1-12. With a customized Do What You LoveTM curriculum, students are educated with higher standards at earlier ages. Education is personalized based on performance and not on age or grade levels. Yorktown graduates are in the top 1% of the country for SAT & ACT results and have a 100 percent college acceptance rate, with an average of $150,000 in college credit and scholarships. Enrolling first through 12th grade for the 2014-2015 school year.

ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL

6121 E. Lovers Ln. Dallas / 214.363.1630 / ziondallas. org Toddler care thru 8th Grade. Serving Dallas for over 58 years offering a quality education in a Christ-centered learning environment. Degreed educators minister to the academic, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of students and their families. Before and after school programs, Extended Care, Parents Day Out, athletics, fine arts, integrated technology, Spanish, outdoor education, Accelerated Reader, advanced math placement, and student government. Accredited by National Lutheran School & Texas District Accreditation Commissions and TANS. Contact Principal Jeff Thorman.

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ALL SAINTS DALLAS / 2733 Oak Lawn / 972.755.3505

Radical Inclusivity, Profound Transformation. Come and See!

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BAPTIST

LAKESIDE BAPTIST / 9150 Garland Rd / 214.324.1425

Worship — 8:30 am Classic & 11:00 am Contemporary

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

All services & Bible Study 9:15 & 10:45. Trad. & Blended (Sanctuary),

Contemporary (Great Hall), Amigos de Dios (Gym) / 214.860.1500

PRESTONWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH / “A Church to Call Home”

Sundays: Bible Fellowship (all ages) 9:15 am /Service Time 11:00 am

12123 Hillcrest Road / 972.820.5000 / prestonwood.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

BIBLE CHURCHES

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

Sunday: LifeQuest (all ages) 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am

Student Ministry: Wednesday & Sunday 7:00 pm / 214.348.9697

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

Sunday School 9:30 am / THE TABLE Worship Gathering 9:30 am

Worship 8:30 & 10:50 am / Rev. Deborah Morgan / www.edcc.org

HIGHLANDS CHRISTIAN CHURCH (Lake Highlands) 9949 McCree Rd. 214-348-2805 / www.highlandschristianchurch.com

Sundays: School 9:45 am / Worship 11:00 am / Rev. Paul Carpenter

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

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 & 10:50 am Traditional / 10:50 am Contemporary

WHITE ROCK UNITED METHODIST / www.wrumc.org

1450 Oldgate Lane / 214.324.3661

Sunday Worship 10:50 am / Rev. George Fisk

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

LAKE HIGHLANDS CHURCH / 9919 McCree / 214.348.0460

Sundays: Classes 9:30, Coffee 10:25, Assembly 10:45 Home groups meet on weeknights. / lakehighlandschurch.org

PRESBYTERIAN

LAKE HIGHLANDS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 214.348.2133

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

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A NEW BIRTH

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address united secular and spiritual ideas

The rightful remembrance last November of the assassination of John F. Kennedy 50 years ago overshadowed the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Lincoln delivered his speech on Nov. 19, 1863, for the consecration of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, where Union forces had defeated the Confederates four and a half months earlier. The estimated death toll of the combined armies was between 46,000 and 51,000.

Lincoln’s 272-word speech remade America. It wasn’t the scheduled main address of the day. The renowned orator Edward Everett spoke majestically for two hours before Lincoln tossed off “a few appropriate remarks.” The president’s 10 sentences usurped Everett’s soaring rhetoric and became the true Gettysburg Address.

What Lincoln achieved in words was, as author Garry Wills put it, nothing less than the intellectual completion of what the guns of war had intended. You can still hear in the South echoes of resistance in phrases like “The War Between the States” or, more provocatively, “The War of Northern Aggression,” but the Gettysburg Address all but settled the meaning of the Civil War. As one newspaper editor claimed, Lincoln “undertook a new founding of the nation, to correct things felt to be imperfect in the founders’ own achievement.”

Before the war, the common way of talking about the Union was by using the word these — as in “these United States.” Lincoln’s profound underscoring of the one nation in the speech reshaped the way we speak of the country. Henceforth it would be “the United States,” shifting our understanding from severalty to unity.

Lincoln’s secular speech had spiritual

overtones. He said, “… that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom ….” Lincoln scholar Ronald White points to the significance of the biblical allusions: “Under God” pointed backward and forward: back to “this nation,” which drew its breath from both political and religious sources, but also forward to a ‘new birth.’ Lincoln had come to see the Civil War as a ritual of purification. The old Union had to die. The old man had to die. Death became a transition to a new Union and a new humanity.”

Some roundly criticized Lincoln’s remarks as a betrayal of the letter of the Constitution. Men had died to preserve the intent of the founders, they claimed an intent that included the proposition that African slaves were not men who were created equal. As St. Paul says, though, “the letter kills but the Spirit gives life.” Lincoln extended the phrase from the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” to include all men, not just free men. It was a short step from there to the idea that all men are also created free and always must be.

Whether in law or religion, there remains abiding tension between word and meaning, text and context, letter and spirit. The words of Constitution of the United States and the words of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible are never dead letters — they live anew as they are read and spoken in each new generation.

Lincoln aimed at forming “a more perfect union,” and people of faith are ambitious to see “God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” It’s a beautiful thing to behold when both of those lofty goals entwine.

Let’s have more such beauty.

George Mason is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church. The Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and by the neighborhood business people and churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

Notable people

Jake Gaba, the 2012 Lake Highlands High School senior class president and Dartmouth sophomore, recently returned from a semester studying Mandarin in China. A video he made abroad has gained him Internet notoriety. It features Gaba dancing at 100 different locations in China including the Forbidden City, Great Wall, tiny villages and town squares. “The point of the dancing is just to make people smile,” Jake tells the Advocate. “I’ve always loved theater and getting a reaction from the crowd. The locals always seemed to smile and like it, and now all of my friends seem to enjoy watching the final video.” Jake and a Dartmouth classmate, Devon Koch, started a video production company, Symbiotic Studios, to film campus events.

Two former Lake Highlands High School football players battled for a win at the National Football League’s Ice Bowl at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis., last month. Phil Dawson kicked the winning field goal for San Francisco to shut Marshall Newhouse and the Green Bay Packers out of the playoffs. Dawson, 38, kicked for the University of Texas before joining the NFL. Newhouse, who graduated from LHHS in 2006, played at TCU and earned a Super Bowl ring in 2011 with the Packers.

Oklahoma Sooner Austin Woods, number 50, is the son of former Lake Highlands High School football coach Don Woods.

In 2012 Austin was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. After months of chemotherapy, he is in remission, and his teammates have been amazed by his tenacity and courage, according to an Associated Press interview. Despite his struggles, Austin continued football and played all 12 games during his chemotherapy year, during which he also made the Academic All-Big 12 First Team. Austin graduated from Rockwall High after attending elementary and middle schools in Lake Highlands. He was, however, a constant presence at Wildcat practices and games, a former coach, Lynn Jensen, tells the Advocate. “Austin was always hanging around the coaches’ office and always had a smile on his face. He took being one of the official Wildcat ball boys very seriously. We gave him an old game jersey to wear, and he had an ear-to-ear smile. He just could not get enough football,” Jensen says.

Lake Highlands alumnus Desmond Roland enjoyed a successful season with the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Known at LHHS as D-Ro, Roland was a standout running back who graduated in 2011. Since he began starting for OSU this year, he has been named Big 12 Player of the Week and was the only Big 12 player this season to earn 200 rushing yards in one game.

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For the “roller coaster” that is infertility treatment, Dr. Satin Patel believes in personalized, guided care that fully supports patients and their partners.

Dr. Patel is the medical director for the Assisted Reproductive Technology Services program at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. He also founded North Texas IVF, a Texas Health Physicians Group practice,which constantly evolves to provide the latest fertility treatments to give patients the best possible chances of having a baby.

“Part of our mission is to hold the hands of our patients throughout, and education is a big priority before we move on anything,” Dr. Patel says. “I personally see all my patients, so there is continuity of care. I’m always available to them. It’s seven days a week.”

One such treatment is pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, which involves a biopsy of embryos to screen for abnormalities, a lifeline for those who are at risk of transmitting a genetic disease to their children.

Overall, PGD can be used in conjunction with in-vitro fertilization to improve the odds of conception and lower the risk of miscarriage or multiple births.

Treating infertility isn’t only a medical process, but one that can be full of psychological distress, often straining relationships and resources. Dr. Patel and his staff reassure and inform throughout a journey that typically includes multiple procedures and exams. One-on-one conversations, demos, apps and videos all play a part in helping patients understand what is happening and inviting them to be active participants in their care.

Prospective parents of all backgrounds are welcome at North Texas IVF, including singles and same-sex couples. Newborn portraits by Dallas photographer Kimberly Wylie line the walls of the practice, highlighting why Dr. Patel believes his field is a “unique, special facet of medicine.”

“The gratification is unparalleled,” he says. “Patients and their families never forget. That gratitude is priceless.”HCA

Hear! Hear!

Lake Highlands-based Hearing Professional Center last month sponsored a holiday hearing-aid donation program, through which 22-year-old Shawnett Viani , a victim of Larsen Syndrome who lost her hearing at age three, received desperately needed help.

Running cold

The Dallas Running Club held its first race of 2014, the Frigid 10k race. The overall winners were Enoch Nadler (31:49) Richardson and Emily Field (37:41) Dallas. Find more photos from the race at terrelldailyphoto.com.

SUBMIT YOUR PHOTO. Email a jpeg to editor@advocatemag.com.

Local BULLETIN BOARD

CLASSES/TUTORING/ LESSONS

ALL AGES: LEARN PIANO WITH WADE COTTINGHAM LakewoodPianoLab.com Since 1998. 214-564-6456

ART: Draw or Paint. All Levels. Lake Highlands N. Rec. Ctr. Jane Cross, 214-534-6829. Linda, 214-808-4919.

ARTISTIC GATHERINGS

Casa Linda Plaza. Art Classes & Drop In Pottery Painting For All Ages. 214-821-8383. Tues-Sat 10am-6pm

DRUM & PIANO LESSONS Your location. UNT Grad. BucherMusicSchool.com or call 214-484-5360, 469-831-7012

GUITAR OR PIANO Fun/Easy. Your Home. 11 Yrs Exp. Reasonable rates. UNT Grad. Larry 469-358-8784

CHILDCARE

LOVING, CHRIST-CENTERED CARE SINCE 1982 Lake Highlands Christian Child Enrichment Center Ages 2 mo.-12 yrs. 9919 McCree. 214-348-1123.

EMPLOYMENT

AIRLINE CAREERS begin here. Get FAA approved maintenance training. housing & financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Aviation institute Of Maintenance Houston 877-846-4155 or Dallas 888-896-8006

PET SITTERS, DOG WALKERS Email Recruiting@pcpsi.com

SERVICES FOR YOU

AT ODDS WITH YOUR COMPUTER? Easily Learn Essential Skills. Services include Digital Photo Help. Sharon 214-679-9688

CONFUSED? FRUSTRATED? Let A Seasoned Pro Be The Interface Between You & That Pesky Computer. Hardware & Software Installation, Troubleshooting, Training. $50/hr. 1 hr min. Dan 214-660-3733 or stykidan@sbcglobal.net

DISH TV RETAILER-SAVE Starting $19.99/mo (for 12 months) Free premium movie channels. Free equipment, Installation & activation. Call. Compare local deals. 1-800-309-1452

GRAPHIC DESIGN BY SOZA DESIGN Logos, Brochures, Posters & More. wsoza@yahoo.com 214-287-6499

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA FROM HOME 6-8 Wks. Accredited. Free brochure. No computer needed. 1-800-264-8330 Benjamin Franklin High School www.diplomafromhome.com

VAPOR MART ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES 214-321-1944. Across from Highland Park Cafeteria. 9533 Losa Drive #2

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

A WILL? THERE IS A WAY Estate/Probate Matters-Free Consultation. 214-802-6768 MaryGlennAttorney.com

ACCOUNTING, TAXES Small Businesses & Individuals. Chris King, CPA 214-824-5313 www.chriskingcpa.com

BOOKKEEPING NEEDS? Need Help Organizing Finances? No Job Too Small or Big. Call C.A.S. Bookkeeping Services. Cindy 214-821-6903

EDITING. All written genres, all levels. Ph.D Professional Communication, NMSU. University writing instructor 20+ years. 469-263-7004

HOLLOWAY BENEFIT CONCEPTS Benefit strategy for area businesses. www.hollowaybenefitconcepts.com 214-329-0097

OSTEOPATHY—CRANIAL OSTEOPATH For structural or internal problems, head & body, newborn, young child, all ages. Liz Chapek, D.O. 214-341-8742. www.chapek.doctorsoffice.net

REED & RIORDAN PLLC Dallas Family Law Attorneys 10000 N. Central Expy. Dallas 214-570-9555 reedriordan.com

Counterattack on cancer

Merriman Park Elementary students will collect spare change as part of the Pasta for Pennies campaign, a fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Beth Lyons (far left), a MPE teacher, was diagnosed with leukemia last May. Second grader Hannah English (alongside Lyons) was diagnosed in the fall. Hannah’s dad, Jeff English, with Pasta Queens — also MPE teachers — Debbie Davis, Beth Lyons and Catherine Barnette (right) rally the neighborhood for support.

Local BULLETIN BOARD

BUY/SELL/TRADE

TEXAS RANGERS AND DALLAS STARS

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION SOLUTION New Year, New You!! Reduce Dependency On Prescriptions. Lower Health Costs And Correct Your Metabolism To Loose Weight For Life. Over 30 Years Of Research. 401-741-7596 healthandwealthct@gmail.com

front row seats. Share prime, front-row Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars tickets (available in sets of 10 games). Prices start at $105 per ticket (sets of 2 or 4 tickets per game available) Seats are behind the plate and next to the dugouts for the Rangers: seats are on the glass and on the Platinum Level for the Stars. Other great seats available starting at $60 per ticket. Entire season available except for opening game; participants randomly draw numbers prior to the season to determine a draft order fair for everyone. Call 214-560-4212 or rwamre@advocatemag.com

TOP CASH FOR CARS Any Car, Truck. Running or Not. Call for Instant Offer. 1-800-454-6951

ESTATE/GARAGE SALES

CLUTTERBLASTERS.COM-ESTATE SALES

Moving/DownSizing Sales, Storage Units. Organize/De-Clutter Donna 972-679-3100

AROTX

972-523-3996

WWW.AROTX.COM

website or call us WE DO SAME DAY SERVICE

CARPENTRY & REMODELING

CLEANING SERVICES

New Construction • Renovations Roofing • Additions

David Hughes • 214-202-2333

COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL RENOVATION & REPAIR

214.341.1448

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Serving your Neighborhood Since 1993 Repairing: Refrigerators •Washer/Dryers • Ice Makers •Stoves • Cooktops • Ovens 214✯823✯2629

CABINETRY &

FURNITURE

THE CABINET CONCIERGE

The Art of Storage. Call 214-821-5900 Email jin@thecabinetconcierge.com

CARPENTRY & REMODELING

ATLANTIS DESIGN-BUILD, LLC

Complete Remodeling. 40 Yrs Exp. Additions. 1 & 2 Story. Kitchens, Baths. Small Jobs To Entire House. Renovation & Design. Full Time Supervision. Licensed/Insured. Free Estimates. 281-761-4648

BLAKE CONSTRUCTION CONCEPTS, LLC

Complete Remodeling, Kitchens, Baths, Additions. Hardie Siding & Replacement Windows. Radiant Barrier, Insulation. Bonded & Insured. www.blake-construction.com 214-563-5035

BO HANDYMAN Specializing In Historic Home Renovations & Pro Remodels. Custom Carpentry, Doors, Kitchens, Baths & more. 214-437-9730

D SQUARED Design, Build, Remodel, Additions 214-213-2716

HANDY DAN “The Handyman” To Do’s Done Right! www.handy-dan.com 214-252-1628

KITCHEN AND BATHROOM SPECIALISTS

JCI Remodeling. From Simple Updates to Full Remodeling Services. Competitive Pricing! JCIRemodeling.com 972-948-5361

RENOVATE DALLAS

renovatedallas.net 214-403-7247

SQUARE NAIL WOODWORKING

Cabinet Refacing, Built-ins, Entertainment/ Computer Centers. Jim. 214-324-7398 www.squarenailwoodworking.com

BRIAN GREAM RENOVATIONS LLC

• 1 & 2 Story Additions

• Complete Renovations

• Kitchens/Baths

• Licensed/Insured 214.542.6214

COMPUTERS & ELECTRONICS

ALL COMPUTER PROBLEMS SOLVED

MAC/PC Great Rates! Keith 214-295-6367

BILL’S COMPUTER REPAIR

Virus Removal, Data Recovery. Home /Biz. Network Install. All Upgrades & Repairs. PC Instruction, No Trip Fee. 214-348-2566

PayPal ®

WWW.BGRONTHEWEB.COM

BRIANGREAM@YAHOO.COM

• Bathrooms

• Kitchens

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redoguys.com 214 / 803. 4774

TK Remodeling

Your neighborhood remodeler

•Repair •Remodeling •Restoration

•Complete full service

Name it— We do it

http://dallas.tkremodelingcontractors.com

Tommy 972-533-2872 INSURED

Unique Home Construction

- Design, Build, Remodel

- Kitchens & Baths - New Construction or Additions

Many references available - Licensed, Insured, Member of BBB www.uniquehomebuild.com 214.533.0716

CLEANING SERVICES

AMAZON CLEANING

Top To Bottom Clean. Fabiana.469-951-2948

CINDY’S HOUSE CLEANING 15 yrs exp. Resd/Com. Refs. Dependable. 214-490-0133

MAID 4 YOU Bonded/Insured. Park Cities/M Streets Refs. Call Us First. Joyce.214-232-9629

MAID PRISTINE House Cleaning For Perfectionists. Reliable. Leticia. maidpristine.com 972-971-1571

MESS MASTERS Earth friendly housecleaning. 469-235-7272. www.messmasters.com Since ‘91

THE MAIDS Angie’s List Award! Eco-Friendly Products. www.maids.com 972-278-6000

WANTED: HOUSES TO CLEAN

20 yrs. exp., Reliable, Great Prices, Excellent Refs., Free Estimates. No Crews. Sunny 214-724-2555

WINDOW MAN WINDOW CLEANING.COM Residential Specialists. BBB. 214-718-3134

YOU HAVE IT MAID SERVICES 972-859-0287 bonded/insured. Youhaveitmaidservices.com

CONCRETE/ MASONRY/PAVING

BRICK & STONE REPAIR

Don 214-704-1722

BRICK, BLOCK, Stone, Concrete, Stucco. Gonzalez Masonry. 214-395-1319

BRICK, STONEWORK, FLAGSTONE PATIOS Mortar Repair. Call George 214-498-2128

CONCRETE REPAIRS/REPOURS

Demo existing. Stamping and Staining Driveways/Patio/Walkways

Pattern/Color available

Free Estimates

972-672-5359 (32 yrs.)

CONCRETE, Driveway Specialist Repairs, Replacement, Removal, References. Reasonable. Chris 214-770-5001

EDMONDSPAVING.COM Asphalt & Concrete Driveway-Sidewalk-Patio-Repair 214-957-3216

FLAGSTONE PATIOS, Retaining Walls, BBQ’s, Veneer, Flower Bed Edging, All Stone work. Chris 214-770-5001

Swimming Pool Remodels • Patios Stone work • Stamp Concrete 972-727-2727

Deckoart.com

ELECTRICAL SERVICES

4 U ELECTRICAL SERVICE, LLC

We will be there 4 U. 972-877-4183

ANTHONY’S ELECTRIC Master Electrician. TECL24948 anthonyselectricofdallas.com

Family Owned/Operated. Insd. 214-328-1333

EXPERIENCED LICENSED ELECTRICIAN Insd. Steve. TECL#27297 214-718-9648

GOVER ELECTRIC Back Up Generators. New And Remodel Work. Commercial & Residential. All Service Work. 469-230-7438. TECL2293

Business Resources

TO ADVERTISE 214.560.4203

ELECTRICAL SERVICES

LAKEWOOD ELECTRICAL Local. Insured. Lic. #227509 Call Rylan 214-434-8735

TEXAS ELECTRICAL • 214-289-0639

Honest, Quality. TECL 24668 CCs accepted.

TH ELECTRIC Reasonable Rates. Licensed & Insured. Ted. E257 214-808-3658

WHITE ROCK ELECTRIC All Electrical Services. Lic/Insd. E795. 214-850-4891

LIC#17141

PC ELECTRIC 214.533.5949 call.text.email

thepcelectric.com

EXTERIOR CLEANING

BLOUNTS HAULING/TRASH SERVICE

blountsjunkremovaldfw.com 214-275-5727

FENCING & DECKS

#1 COWBOY FENCE & IRON CO. Est. ‘91. 214-692-1991 www.cowboyfenceandiron.com

4 QUALITY FENCING Call Mike 214-507-9322

Specializing in Wood, New or Repair.

A FATHER, SON & GRANDSON TEAM Fences, Gates, Decks. Haven 214-327-0560

AMBASSADOR FENCE INC.

Automatic Gates, Iron & Cedar Fencing, Decks. Since 1996. MC/V 214-621-3217

KIRKWOOD FENCE & DECK

New & Repair. Free Estimates.

Nathan Kirkwood. 214-341-0699

LONESTARDECKS.COM 214-357-3975

Trex Decking & Fencing, trex.com

All Wood Decks, Arbors & Patio Covers

EST. 1991 #1

COWBOY

FENCE & IRON CO.

214.692.1991

SPECIALIZING IN Wood Fences &Auto Gates

cowboyfenceandiron.com

FIREPLACE SERVICE

CHIMNEY SWEEP Dampers/Brick & Stone

Repair. DFW Metro. Don 214-704-1722

FLOORING & CARPETING

ALL WALKS OF FLOORS 214-616-7641

Carpet, Wood, Tile Sales/Service Free Estimates

BEAR FOOT HARDWOODS 214-734-8851

Complete Hardwood Flooring Services

DALLAS CARPET OUTLET Carpet/Wood/Tile. dallascarpetoutlet.com 214-342-1100

DALLAS HARDWOODS 214-724-0936

Installation, Repair, Refinish, Wax, Hand Scrape.

Residential, Commercial. Sports Floors. 25 Yrs.

FLOORING & CARPETING

HASTINGS STAINED CONCRETE New/ Remodel. Stain/Wax Int/Ext. Nick. 214-341-5993. www.hastingsfloors.com

N-HANCE WOOD RENEWAL. No Dust. No Mess. No Odor. nhance.com. 214-321-3012.

WILLEFORD HARDWOOD FLOORS 214-824-1166 • WillefordHardwoodFloors.com

Restoration Flooring

HANDYMAN SERVICES

HANDYMAN SPECIALIST Residential/ Commercial. Large, small jobs, repair list, renovations. Refs. 214-489-0635

HOMETOWN HANDYMAN All phases of construction. No job too small 214-327-4606

HONEST, SKILLED SERVICE With a Smile. General Repairs/ Maintenance. 214-215-2582

WANTED: ODD JOBS & TO DO LISTS

Allen’s Handyman & Home Repair 214-288-4232

HOUSE PAINTING BRIAN GREAM

25+ Years Experience

469.774.3147

Hardwood Installation · Hand Scraping Sand & Finish · Dustless restorationflooring.net

FOUNDATION REPAIR

• Slabs • Pier & Beam

• Mud Jacking • Drainage

• Free Estimates

• Over 20 Years Exp.

972-288-3797

We Answer Our Phones

GARAGE DOORS

ROCKET GARAGE DOOR SERVICE -24/7. Repairs/Installs. 214-533-8670. Coupon On Web. www.RocketDoorService.com

UNITED GARAGE DOORS AND GATES Res/Com. Locally Owned.214-826-8096

GLASS, WINDOWS & DOORS

A FATHER, SON & GRANDSON TEAM Expert Window Cleaning. Haven 214-327-0560

CLEARWINDOWSANDDOORS.COM

Replacement Windows & Doors Free Estimate 214-274-5864

LAKE HIGHLANDS GLASS & MIRROR custom mirrors • shower enclosures store fronts • casements 214-349-8160

ROCK GLASS CO Replace, repair: windows, mirrors, showers, screens. 214-837-7829

HANDYMAN SERVICES

#1 AT BIG JOBS. NO JOB TOO SMALL. 40+ years exp. Ron Payne 214-755-9147

A R&G HANDYMAN Electrical, Plumbing, Painting, Fencing, Roofing, Light Hauling. Ron or Gary 214-861-7569, 469-878-8044

ALL STAR HOME CARE Carpentry, Glass, Tile, Paint, Doors, Sheetrock Repair, and more. 25 yrs. exp. References. Derry 214-505-4830

BO HANDYMAN Specializing In Historic Home Renovations & Pro Remodels. Custom Carpentry, Doors, Kitchens, Baths & more. 214-437-9730

HANDY DAN “The Handyman” To Do’s Done Right. www.handy-dan.com 214-252-1628

Your Home Repair Specialists

Drywall Doors Senior Safety Carpentry Small & Odd Jobs And More! 972-308-6035 HandymanMatters.com/dallas

HOME INSPECTION

KITCHEN/BATH/ TILE/GROUT

ALL SURFACE REFINISHING 214-631-8719. Tub/Tile/Refinishing. allsurfacerefinishing.com

BATHTUB, COUNTERTOP & TILE Resurfacing: Walls, Tub Surrounds, Showers. Glaze or Faux Stone finishes. Affordable Alternative to Replacement! 972-323-8375. PermaGlazeNorthDallas.com

FENN CONSTRUCTION Any Tile Anywhere. www.dallastileman.com Back Splash Specials! 214-343-4645

HOUSE PAINTING

1 AFFORDABLE HOUSE PAINTING and Home Repair. Quality work. Inside and Out. Free Ests. Local Refs. Ron 972-816-5634 or 972-475-3928

#1 GET MORE PAY LES

Painting. 85% Referrals. Free Est. 214-348-5070

A+ INT/EXT PAINT & DRYWALL

Since 1977. Kirk Evans. 972-672-4681

A1 TOP COAT Professional. Reliable. References. TopCoatOfTexas.com 214-770-2863

ABRAHAM PAINT SERVICE A Women Owned Business 25 Yrs. Int/Ext. Wall Reprs. Discounts On Whole Interiors and Exteriors 214-682-1541

ALL TYPES Painting & Repairs. A+ BBB rating. Any size jobs welcome. Call Kenny 214-321-7000

BENJAMIN’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality

Work At Reasonable Prices. 214-725-6768

BLAKE CONSTRUCTION CONCEPTS, LLC

Complete Painting Interior/Exterior, Stain Etc. Custom Finishes, Custom Texture, Custom Trim www.blake-construction.com

Fully Bonded & Insured. 214-563-5035

MANNY’S HOME PAINTING & REPAIR Int./Ext. Sheetrock. Manny 214-334-2160

RAMON’S INT/EXT PAINT Sheetrock, Repairs. 214-679-4513

ROMEO’S PAINTING Int/Ext. Drywall, Damage Repair. Prep House To Sell. 214-789-0803

TONY’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work

Since 1984. INT/EXT 214-755-2700

VIP PAINTING & DRYWALL Int/Ext. Sheetrock Repair, Resurfacing Tubs, Counters, Tile Repairs. 469-774-7111

WHITE ROCK PAINTING References. Mark Reindel 214-321-5280

HANDY DAN “The Handyman” Remodels Done Right. handy-dan.com 214-252-1628

MELROSE TILE James Estrello Sr., Installer 40 Yrs. Exp. MelroseTile.com 214-384-6746

TOM HOLT TILE 30 Yrs Experience In Tile, Backsplashes & Floors. Refs. Avail. 214-770-3444

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

25% OFF TREE WORK Trim. Roberts Tree Svc. Insd. 10 yrs exp. 214-808-8925

A BETTER TREE COMPANY • JUST TREES Complete tree services. Tree & Landscape Lighting! Mark 214-332-3444

A&B LANDSCAPING Full Landscape & Lawn Care Services. Degreed Horticulturist. 214-534-3816

AYALA’S LANDSCAPING Firewood for Sale! Call the Land Expert Today! Insured. 214-773-4781

BLOUNTS TREE SERVICE Winter Special 20% Off Tree Work. 45 yrs exp. Insured. 214-275-5727

CHUPIK TREE SERVICE Trim, Remove, Stump Grind. Free Est. Insured. 214-823-6463

COLE’S LAWN CARE • 214-327-3923 Quality Service with a Personal Touch.

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

COVINGTON’S NURSERY & LANDSCAPE CO.

5518 Pres. George Bush Hwy. Rowlett 972-475-5888 covingtonnursery.com

DALLAS K.D.R.SERVICES • 214-349-0914

Lawn Service & Landscape Installation

FOREVERLAWNTEXAS.COM George Berre. Quality Synthetic Grass, Free Est. 214-263-0828

GREENSKEEPER Winter Clean Up & Color. Sodding, Fertilization. Lawn Maintenance & Landscape. Res/Com. 214-546-8846

HOLMAN IRRIGATION

Sprinkler & Valve Repair/ Rebuild Older Systems. Lic. #1742. 214-398-8061

ORTIZ LAWNCARE Complete Yard Care. Service by Felipe. Free Est. 214-215-3599

RONS LAWN Organic Solutions. Not Environmental Pollution. Landscape & Maintenance 972-222-LAWN (5296)

SERIOUSLY METICULOUS Verdant Grounds. 214-763-0492

TAYLOR MADE IRRIGATION Repairs, service, drains. 30+ years exp. Ll 6295 M-469-853-2326. John

THE POND MAN Water Gardens

Designed & Installed. Drained & Cleaned. Weekly Service. Jim Tillman 214-769-0324

TRACY’S LAWN CARE • 972-329-4190

Lawn Mowing & Leaf Cleaning

WALTON’S GARDEN CENTER

Spend $100. Get a $25 gift card with this ad for regular-priced merchandise to be used by Feb.14. 214-321-2387. 8652 Garland Road

WHITE ROCK TREE WIZARDS Professionals, Experts, Artists. Trim, Rmv, Cable Repair, Cavity-Fill Stump Grind. Emergency Hazards.

972-803-6313

MOVING

ALL-TEX MOVERS Free Estimates. 11Yr. BBB Member. www.all-texmovers.com 214-869-6566

PEST CONTROL

A BETTER EARTH PEST CONTROL

Keeping the environment, kids, pets in mind. Organic products avail. 972-564-2495

McDANIEL PEST CONTROL

Prices Start at $85 +Tax for General Treatment

Average Home, Interior, Exterior & Attached Garage Quotes for Other Services 214-328-2847

Lakewood Resident

PLUMBING

A2Z PLUMBING 214-727-4040

All Plumbing Repairs. Slab Leak Specialists. Licensed & Insured. ML# M36843.

ANDREWS PLUMBING • 214-354-8521 # M37740 Insured. Any plumbing issues. plumberiffic69@gmail.com

Sewers • Drains • Bonded 24 Hours/7 Days *Joe Faz 214-794-7566 - Se Habla Español*

ARRIAGA PLUMBING: Faucet, Sewer, Sink Repairs. Water Leaks. Water Heaters, Gas Testing. Remodels, Shower Pans, Stoppages. Insured. Lic 20754. Since the 80’s 214-321-0589, 214-738-7116,CC’s Accptd

HAYES PLUMBING INC. Repairs. Insured, 214-343-1427 License M13238

JUSTIN’S PLUMBING SERVICE

For All Your Plumbing Needs. ml#M24406 972-523-1336. www.justinsplumbing.com

M&S PLUMBING Quality Work & Prompt Service. Jerry. 214-235-2172. lic.#M-11523

NTX PLUMBING SPEC. LLLP 214-226-0913

Lic. M-40581 Res/Com. Repairs & Leak Location

REPAIRS, Fixtures, General Plumbing, Senior Discounts. Campbell Plumbing. 214-321-5943

SPECK PLUMBING

Over 30 Yrs Exp. Licensed/Insured. 214-732-4769, 214-562-2360

POOLS

ADAIR POOL & SPA SERVICE

1 month free service for new customers. Call for details. 469-358-0665.

DFWPOOLCHEMICAL.COM Never Pay Retail Again. Chemicals, Parts, Motors, Etc.

LEAFCHASERS POOLS

Parts and Service. Chemicals and Repairs. Jonathan. 214-729-3311

LOCK’S POOL SERVICE - 469-235-2072

40 years experience. Pool Electrical TICL #550

MICHAEL’S POOL SERVICE

Maintenance & Repair 214-727-7650

ROOFING

PADLOCK CUT.

CRIME NUMBERS $800 REWARD

The 10-foot flatbed utility trailer had been locked to a fence post beside the driveway of the Ouellettes’ Highland Meadows home for 11 years. It certainly got plenty of use. Her husband used it to haul equipment for their daughter’s Indian Princess camping trips through the years to places like Possum Kingdom Lake and Beavers Bend, Okla. He also used it for hauling a grill, canopy and other stuff to the Texas Motor Speedway for a few days of NASCAR racing and hanging out with friends.

The Victim: Lisa Ouellette

The Crime: Theft

Date: Thursday, Dec. 19

Time: Between 10 p.m. (Dec. 19) and 11 a.m. (Dec 20)

Location: 8600 block of Bacardi

“We also loaned it out to neighbors and friends,” Lisa Ouellette says.

But that handy trailer is now gone. Someone cut through the padlock that secured it and wheeled it away. Ouellette says she first noticed it as she left the house to run some errands and at first thought a friend or relative might have borrowed it, but not this time. She is still holding out hope that it might get returned.

Dallas Police Officer Mitchell Gatson of the Northeast Patrol Division says trailer locks that lock onto a wheel can possibly prevent trailer theft, but he adds that there are no foolproof plans to secure such items. The more difficult it is to steal something, the more likely a criminal is to move on to an easier target.

Neighbors have pooled cash in hopes of finding the person who shot and killed Lily, a beagle from the Whispering Hills area of Lake Highlands. At 10 p.m. On Dec. 23, Lily’s owner Myra Canterbury heard the dog yelp. It appeared someone popped her with a pellet gun through one of the slats in the fence, she says. Though Canterbury ran up some $2,000 in vet bills over the next couple days Lily eventually was euthanized due to her injuries. The entire neighborhood was saddened by the event and many offered to contribute to the reward for evidence leading to the prosecution of Lily’s shooter. Neighbor Richard Pruitt, who contributed to the reward, says he thinks the animal cruelty was committed by a misguided kid who needs help now.

LH= FOSSIL RIM, CREATIVE CONSTRUCTION & ROUNDTREE

Sean Chaffin is a freelance writer and author of “Raising the Stakes”, obtainable at raisingthestakesbook.com. If you have been a recent crime victim, email crime@advocatemag.com.

BUSINESS BUZZ

The lowdown on what’s up with neighborhood businesses

Send business news tips to livelocal@advocatemag.com

White Rock Abbey becomes The Local Pour

Last summer James Orr bought White Rock Abbey restaurant and bar at the Peavy-Garland Road intersection from Weylan McAmally, a pharmacist from Red Oak, who opened the place in December 2012. The most visible alteration of the restaurant’s facade is a recently erected sign sporting the eatery’s new name, The Local Pour. The new owner has remodeled the kitchen and hired a new chef/kitchen manager who has designed a stellar new menu, according to the restaurant’s Facebook page.

Chipotle opens at NorthPark

Chipotle Mexican Grill has confirmed that it will open another location in Dallas this spring in NorthPark Center. Already near Lake Highlands is one location at 75 and Forest. The fast-food chain makes its hefty burritos with naturally-raised meat and no trans-fat cooking oil and boasts healthier offerings such as brown rice instead of white. Chipotle spokeswoman Danielle Winslow says to expect the new Chipotle early next spring.

Credit classes

Long-time Lake Highlands resident Ginger Greenberg is Director of Communications at Consumer Credit Counseling Services, which recently won a grant from United Way to help focus on educating families in Lake Highlands who struggle with personal financial issues. CCCS partners with Richardson ISD to host monthly classes for people aiming to achieve financial stability at Forest Meadow Junior High, beginning Jan. 28, at 6 p.m. Episcopal Church of the Ascension is hosting an upcoming class on February 9 with tips on comparison shopping at the grocery

More business bits

store and coupon-clipping. For more information on personal financial counseling classes call 214.540.6837.

Oncor explains restoration methods

An Oncor representative recently answered a pressing question for the Advocate: During a region-wide power-killing storm why are some people and places up and running inside an hour while others spend days in darkness? Oncor prioritizes its restorations by those with the biggest need, says spokeswoman Jeamy Molina.“During all restorations of any kind, we make sure we can address the emergency facilities first — police, hospitals and other care centers. That’s our first priority.” The next priority is set by density, and Oncor continues its work from there. “We look at the maximum number of people we can restore at one time,” Molina says. Visit advocatemag. com for the full story and search “Oncor.”

—Christina Hughes Babb

1 The Dallas Arboretum’s Children’s Garden closed midJanuary for a few weeks for “winterizing”. 2 A traffic jam on Skillman at Whitehurst in Lake Highlands occurred when a truck and trailer carrying campaign signs for republican state house representative candidate Ann Hodge spilled its load in the road. 3 The Dallas Bar Association offers free legal advice every second and and third Wednesday of the month. The LegalLine phone number is 214.220.7476.

LITERALLY AMAZING

Little libraries are a magnificent idea in miniature form

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Some people predict that books printed on paper will soon be extinct, but I believe books have more staying power than people realize. Little Free Libraries is a perfect example of how a new twist can make an old invention new again.

When it comes to good ideas that promote community, all roads eventually lead to Lake Highlands, so it shouldn’t surprise you to learn that

loved reading. The structure is bigger than a mailbox — about the size of a dollhouse. He filled it with books and put it on a post in his front yard with a sign that read “FREE BOOKS”. His neighbors loved it. Soon afterward, at a seminar promoting green practices, Bol met Rick Brooks, who was interested in social enterprises.

The two teamed up to launch the Little Free Library idea, hoping to increase community interaction and to promote literacy at the same time. Anybody can borrow a book on the honor system, day or night, and either return it or replace it with another title. By August of 2012 they had reached their original goal of establishing more than 2,500 Little Free Libraries. Currently, there are more than 10,000 worldwide.

children’s section, but as time has gone by, we no longer have to do this,” Hicks says. “We do add a few new ones at times, but the quantity does not go down much.”

Hicks says she had hoped to be the first in Dallas but was surprised to learn of the existence of another Little Free Library just a few blocks away. Hicks lives on Seagrove, and the other steward, who hasn’t contacted me, is north of Whitehurst. Exact locations are listed on the map section of littlefreelibrary.org. According to the website there are ten Little Free Libraries currently registered in Dallas, plus another in Garland, and one in Richardson. Some are located on private residential property but others are located near schools and businesses.

we have two Little Free Libraries here. What might surprise you is how close they are to each other. Both are located in the Moss Farm area, bounded by Forest and Royal, between Greenville and Abrams.

According to the national website, littlefreelibrary.org, the idea was born in 2009 when Todd Bol of Hudson, Wisconsin, built a model of a one room schoolhouse, as a tribute to his mother, a former school teacher who

One of our Lake Highlands mini library stewards, Carolyn Hicks, told me how she learned about the idea. “I get a daily e-mail from ‘Daily Good’ that led me to the article about Little Free Libraries, and their website,” Hicks says.

Hicks says, “My husband, Jack, and I thought it would be a great way to encourage others to read, and what better people to encourage but our own neighborhood?”

She especially likes that the idea benefits all ages.

“There are three levels of shelves,” Hicks says, “for small children, older children, and adults.”

She says all three shelves get used, with plenty of turnover.

“When we first opened the little library, we had to replenish the

I set out to visit our neighborhood locations and was delighted to find an assortment of kids’ books plus adult thrillers, how-tos and even a couple cook books. I ended up borrowing a fun novel (which will be returned by the time you read this.) The libraries can also be a destination for neighborhood walks and bike rides. In fact, the couple who stewards the location in Cedar Springs wrote that they spent their second date visiting an assortment of Little Free Libraries. (Does this sound romantic? Update those e-dating profiles!)

One glaring disadvantage of electronic books is that you can’t pass them on to friends when you finish. Little Free Libraries gives us a way to recycle books and interact in the real world, and that counts as excellent news, in my book.

“My husband, Jack, and I thought it would be a great way to encourage others to read, and what better people to encourage but our own neighborhood?”

Ellen Raff, a neighborhood resident, writes a monthly opinion column about neighborhood issues. Her opinions are not necessarily those of the Advocate or its management. Send comments and ideas to her at 6301 Gaston, Suite 820, Dallas 75214; FAX to 214.823.8866; or email editor@advocatemag.com.