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POMP, CIRCUMSTANCE AND REGRET

The silly graduation moment with a serious impact

I remember two things about my high school graduation ceremony, which is one more than I remember about my college graduation.

Our high school commencement speaker was a guy none of us knew, and to this day, I can’t remember his name. I don’t remember what he said, either, which was par for the course back then since he was old and outof-touch, and I was young and wise.

But I recall the guy’s high-pitched cackle, registered over the rigged-up sound system on the football field, when a group of fellow grads went through with our preplanned “spontaneous” toss of mortarboards high into the air after the last of us crossed the stage.

The other thing I remember? My mortarboard, clutched in my hand the whole time, failing to join its compadres in the air.

I had been told of the celebration plan right before the ceremony, and I figured lots of classmates would participate. But I was concerned and spent too much time pondering the repercussions.

What if my mortarboard didn’t come straight down to me? What if a classmate trampled it in the inevitable scramble? What if I didn’t see that ultimate collectible again?

A decision of that magnitude just can’t be made on the spur of the moment, and something like a graduation mortarboard requires proper care.

So my mortarboard went from head to hand and back to head again, destined for what I assumed would someday be an honored place in my life and home.

I’m not sure why this relatively meaningless story came back to me this month, other than the story about high school grads overcoming difficult odds got me thinking (naturally) about myself.

These students were dealt a losing hand, but they haven’t let things such as AWOL parents, drug dependency or lack of money stop them from getting where they want to go.

There’s something to be said for figuring out what you want to do and then just doing it — no overthinking, no hand-wringing, no regrets.

That’s a two-part equation, though, with the first part difficult and the second part nearly impossible.

More than once, we’ve all been where these students stood, facing a crossroads and needing to make a decision about which leg of the multi-pronged road of life to take. And most often, most of us stick with the direction we’re already headed rather than taking the road seemingly less traveled, which often is the road we really want to take in the first place.

In fact, there have been precious few decisions I truly regret, while the decisions I regret most are the paths I didn’t take because I was afraid of taking a chance.

Luckily, there have been few of those, too, in large part thanks to the mortarboard incident. Immediately after the ceremony, I knew it would have been fun to take a chance, cut loose and do something with no real consequences.

But it was too late; I had missed the moment, and there was no do-over.

Graduation was the last time I saw that mortarboard. It’s probably in our house somewhere, but the cap itself means nothing to me now. What I could have done with it — what I should have done with it, though that’s something to regret.

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“Design to a Number”

Remodeling for Your Budget

Home remodeling projects often exceed customer budgets, and it’s usually a matter of these all-too-common issues in our industry:

Outsourcing Architects and Designers:

Typically remodelers, architects, and designers collaborate on a project as separate businesses. When an architect is employed separately by the homeowner, he doesn’t have access to the remodeler’s expertise in costing. He simply provides a blueprint with the features the buyer wants. Similarly, separately employed designers also create plans without the remodeler’s cost expertise.

At Bella Vista Company, we “Design to a Number”, as we call it. We have our own architects and designers, and we work together as a team from the outset. Before we create the architectural and design plans, we work together to balance your budget with your wishes. The centralization of “Designing to a Number” – that our cost expertise is a prominent factor in every discussion – ensures your project won’t go over budget. Our collaboration also prevents the inefficiencies of competing visions. When an architect sees something differently in his mind’s eye than a remodeler, costly mistakes arise. The design isn’t cohesive. Time is wasted. The way to avoid this is to avoid outsourcing. Hire a team that works well together.

Non-Transparency of Costs:

In a well-intentioned, but misguided attempt to always be polite, some remodelers don’t talk about costs when they should. Many remodelers give round number estimates without itemization. Or they don’t provide up-front pricing, buying time to first discuss their profit behind the scenes before they tell you about their costs. What results is an inflated estimate and no ability for you to make lineitem cost decisions.

During the design process, if you ask about adding a feature, we’ll gladly tell you the incremental cost, rather than politely saying “no problem”. Costs matter, because a remodel is an investment, and at Bella Vista Company, we believe it should be an informed one.

Chihuly by the numbers

The Chihuly exhibit opens at the Dallas Arboretum on Saturday, May 5. These numbers, demonstrating both the pressure and potential impact on the gardens, first appeared on lakehighlands.advocatemag.com in April.

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Areas of the gardens that will house Dale Chihuly’s famed glass sculptures

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People needed to assemble the largest of the sculptures

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Evenings from May through October that the gardens will open after hours for Chihuly Nights

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Light fixtures requested by Chihuly’s lighting specialist to illuminate pathways to the art pieces

100

Percent increase in attendance when the Chihuly exhibit visited Nashville’s Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in 2010

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John Shorter, Lake Highlands High School Class of ’08

In Lake Highlands’ have-or-have-not landscape, John Shorter and his family were “definitely the have-nots,” says his father, John Simien. That never stopped Simien and his wife Retta from feeding scores of >>

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drop-ins from around their apartment complex. “We don’t have a lot,” Retta says, “but we have food and we love to cook.”

That warmth, generosity and reliability might have played a large role in the success Shorter had during his years at Lake Highlands High School, where he was on the starting lineup his sophomore, junior and senior years, was named a top 100 area prospect by the Dallas Morning News, was named to the Super List on texasfootball.com, earned first team all-district as safety and was an all-district 9-5A selection as a junior, all while performing well academically.

Inside Lake Highlands’ dense apartment communities lies the area’s most concentrated crime, drug and violence problems, police have said. But his home was always a safe place for young people, Shorter says.

Some of Shorter’s friends took a different path — drugs, gangs. “It was an easy way out for some kids in our neighborhood,” he says. Physically, the guy is tough, but he gets a little teary eyed when he talks about his parents. “They supported me no matter what. My dad introduced me to football, gave me the discipline I needed … Mom was mom to all of my friends no matter what.”

When John graduates from the University of North Texas this month, he will be the first in his family to earn a college degree. His brother Desmond and sister Dominique also are following in his footsteps. Shorter’s post-high school years were bumpy at times. In college he went from being a big fish in a small pond to a small fish in a big one. “There were some ups and downs,” he says, and he had to work hard for playing time. “I had to keep striving, keep pushing,” he says.

The family has post-college hopes, too. Shorter’s life has revolved around football since age 6 — he played at Wallace Elementary and Lake Highlands Junior High and with Wildcats Select. So he will do his best to get drafted into a professional league. In fact, John Sr. consistently says “when he makes the league” rather than “if.” Whatever happens, the family agrees, he will have that college degree, and that means a world of opportunity.

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Team Thomas

VisionWalk supports the Foundation Fighting Blindness

Thomas Martinelli comes bounding through the house like a pre-k hurricane, no different than any kid his age. But at school, the 4-year-old is learning to read Braille and walk with a cane. He is preparing for blindness. Thomas’s parents, Kim and Brent Martinelli, learned their son has Retinitis Pigmentosa when he was 19 months old. The disorder causes gradual tunnel vision and eventual blindness in severe cases. Doctors experimenting with stem cells, culled from the patient’s own skin, are close to finding a cure, says Kim Martinelli, who is chair of the Dallas VisionWalk. “We believe one of two things will happen,” she says. “Either Thomas will never go blind because we’re finding a cure, or he will benefit in his lifetime because of genetic research. That carrot is right there.” The Martinellis are raising money through “Team Thomas” for this month’s fifth-annual VisionWalk, supporting the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Their goal is to raise $5,000. The walk is a 5k, and festivities include a bounce house, face painting and food. Attendees can try on glasses that simulate how the world looks from the perspective of someone with a retinal degenerative disorder. Thomas was diagnosed very young through screenings when he was a baby. Most people don’t show symptoms of the disorder until they’re teenagers. In a way, the Martinellis see that as a positive. “We really are lucky that he’s so young because he doesn’t know any different,” Kim Martinelli says. “He laughs and smiles his whole way through every trip and bump and bruise.” In the daytime, Thomas’s vision seems normal, but tunnel vision causes him to trip a lot. He is totally blind in the dark, and his eyes take a few minutes to adjust from dark to light. So the Martinellis are used to living with every light in the house on all the time. Even though Thomas has a terrific personality, Martinelli says it can be gut wrenching to think of her child going blind. “You would trade in a heart beat so they wouldn’t have to go through that,” she says.

VisionWalk

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Susan Hyde

All her life, Susan Hyde heard only whispers of the 1936 murder trial that rocked her small, sleepy town of Cooper, Texas. Most of the court records were lost over the years, she says, and no one really knows the truth. It provided the perfect backdrop for “A Listing Wind,” Hyde’s historical fiction novel based on real people, juxtaposing a murder mystery against a tragic love story. One narrative follows the case of a woman, Arley Mae Dodgen, accused of poisoning her children to death. Hyde’s uncle served as the defense attorney who led the jury to find her not guilty. After the trial, Dodgen lived quietly amid cold stares from townsfolk who were certain of her guilt. “I probably passed her on the street,” Hyde says of her years growing up in Cooper. The other story chronicles the relationship between her cousin, Clayton Dade, a doctor who moves to Cooper to start his own practice. He meets Frances “Frankie” Garner — the love of his life. Their union meets a heartbreaking end when Frankie dies unexpectedly. “I wanted to pose the question to readers, ‘Why do some people die and some people don’t?’ ” Hyde says. “That’s interesting to me.” Hyde had moved away from Cooper to build her own life in Irving and later Lake Highlands, where she has lived for 12 years. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history and two master’s degrees in urban affairs. Now, she’s working on a children’s book, inspired by her 4-year-old granddaughter, about taking better care of the environment. She’s also writing part two of “A Listing Wind.” So, how did Hyde’s uncle free a woman who was widely dubbed an emotionless sociopath? He argued that the arsenic found in the children’s bodies after they were exhumed was probably from farming chemicals that had seeped into the ground and through the coffins. “You don’t know,” Hyde says. “The jury knew something or felt something that we’re not privy to.”

Dave Amman of Melbourne, Florida, enjoys running, biking and swimming. But when a heart arrhythmia started to seriously compromise his active lifestyle, he looked into having an ablation. Research showed there was an advanced technique called cryoablation that uses cold or freezing energy to selectively destroy the abnormal heart cells that are causing the irregular heartbeat.

When Dave and his wife learned Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital in Dallas had participated in the clinical trial and was one of the first hospitals to offer the procedure, there was no question they would make the thousand-mile trip. At Baylor, Dave was the second person nationally to undergo the new procedure. “I’m back to doing exactly what I want to do. I’ve never felt better.”

—Emily Toman

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Moss Haven moms have a reputation for being a force to be reckoned with. So when the Moss Haven Elementary PTA’s initial requests for a new outdoor learning garden were repeatedly rejected by Richardson ISD, unsurprisingly, the PTA didn’t take “no” for an answer. It wasn’t that the district’s associate grounds director, Phil Lozano, wasn’t interested in an outdoor garden. He championed the first RISD effort at Mark Twain Elementary, where condensation from air-conditioning units waters the school’s garden. “We have more water than we actually need,” Lozano points out. The challenge for Moss Haven was how to accomplish something similar. The solution is a 1,000-gallon galvanized steel tank with rainwater captured from a storage unit roofline. Lozano likes this setup because students will have to grapple with the fact that “when it’s done, it’s gone — what are we going to do?” Sustainability is key, not only the rainwater necessary to grow herbs and vegetables, but also the PTA essential to the garden’s creation and maintenance. RISD was so adamant about this that par-

ents had to create an exit strategy for the garden in case Moss Haven parents who follow don’t have the energy to keep it going. (Not likely.) Parent Tiffany Walker is chair of the Moss Haven “farm” — a name that nods to the former Moss Haven Farm where the school now sits — and is ecstatic that teachers and students will have more time outside the classroom to stretch their minds and bodies. “[Teachers] don’t get to think outside the box very much because they have so many boxes to check off,” Walker says. She already has plans for an accompanying chicken coop, which will also require an exit strategy — one that includes putting the chickens down. But Walker says she and other parents are determined to make it happen within three years. Mark her words. —Keri Mitchell

of Moss Haven Farm’s first day of planting at lakehighlands. advocatemag.com/video.

Moss Haven kindergartner Dylan Teague smells the rosemary held out by Marta Cordell, an American Heart Association volunteer. The Moss Haven garden is one of 68 American Heart Association teaching sites in the country.

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Here at Walnut Hill our tradition of family continues as we announce the hiring of Dr. Jennifer Muller

peak performance

Morgan Muller’s first mountain climb was during her sophomore year at Lake Highlands High School. Her most ambitious to date was a 13,000-foot climb with the Young Life Wilderness Camp. That’s high, but still a far cry from the 17,500-plus-foot Himalayan peaks she aims to scale this month in the name of charity. “I am nervous about the strenuous altitudes,” she says. Nevertheless, the 2006 LHHS grad, who earned her degree from University of Southern California in 2010 and got a job at KPMG in New York City, will this month tackle the Peaks Foundation Himalaya 2012 Challenge, comprising three climbs in Nepal to raise funds for three of the country’s charities: A Small World, which provides water and sanitation to rural villages; Classrooms in the Clouds, which builds schools and provides teachers and dZi Foundation, which advances health and education in remote areas. Muller has exceeded her fundraising goal of $5,000. She views the challenge as not only a physical journey, but also a spiritual trek. “I’m traveling to an impoverished foreign country without knowing anyone, while pushing myself physically. I hope to refocus on what matters and how I want to spend my own resources, my money, mind and body, to make a difference,” she says. “I want to discover what I’m capable of and how I can translate that to a sustainable life of giving. Growing up, so many of our school activities incorporated community service as a requirement, which is an excellent foundation for demonstrating its importance. I want it to now be my choice and way of life.”

Toler LEARN MORE ABOUT MULLER’S ADVENTURE or make a donation to the project at firstgiving.com/fundraiser/morganmuller.

Jennifer’s mom Evelyn Scott, RN is our nurse manager and has been employed at Walnut Hill for 23 years. Dr. Muller will open her schedule for appointments in June 2012.

—Carol

2006 LHHS grads Megan O’Neal and Morgan Muller

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repairing brick walls

You see them all over Lake Highlands — once pristine brick walls turned into rubble by crashing cars. The city maintenance crews usually will come to clear out the debris, leaving a gaping hole between noisy, arterial streets and quiet, residential neighborhoods.

q: How can we get the city to repair our brick walls?

A: The city won’t. It’s the homeowners’ responsibility.

These walls sit on private property behind residential homes. If the city opened up funding for the repairs, it would have to do so in any other similar situation that occurs on private property. City officials just aren’t willing to risk it. Homeowners must fix the walls themselves, which is easier said than done, considering that most associations are voluntary. The repair can cost several thousand dollars, and with about 20-30 percent homeowner participation, it’s hard to raise that kind of money. A less expensive option is to replace the brick with wrought-iron posts and shrubbery.

—Emily Toman

Out & About

May 2012

THROUGHOUTMAY Concerts at the Arboretum

May 5–Nov. 5

Chihuly at the Dallas Arboretum

The highly anticipated Chihuly exhibit opens this month with dramatic, colorful glass sculptures in more than 15 locations throughout the garden. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings are “Chihuly Nights,” a rare opportunity to stroll the garden at night and enjoy these illuminated works of art. Artist Dale Chihuly’s spectacular sculptures have been showcased in 97 exhibitions in seven countries in the last decade.

Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland, 214.515.6500, dallasarboretum.org, $9 (child)–$15 (adult); Chihuly Nights $9–$20

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MAY 5

Wine on the Roof

East Lake Pet Orphanage’s “Wine on the Roof” fundraiser kicks off at 7 p.m. The event features a silent auction, dinner with wine pairings, raffle items and more. All proceeds benefit the homeless pets at East Lake Pet Orphanage.

East Lake Pet Orphanage, 10101 Northwest Hwy., 214.349.ELPO, elpo.org, $65/$75 (at the door)

MAY 12

Motherhood Matters

Dallas Arboretum’s beloved concert series is back again for 2012. This month’s lineup includes Spazmatics, Max Stalling, A Hard Night’s Day, Tuxedo Junction, Emerald City, M80s, Kraig Parker, Cuvee, Dan Whyms, and Fast Lane. Visit the website for dates and times, and to purchase tickets.

Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland, 214.515.6500, dallasarboretum.org, $9–$22

MAY 5

Red & White Game

Get a first glimpse at the 2012 LHHS Wildcat varsity football team at the annual Red & White Game. The game begins at 1 p.m.

Wildcat-Ram Stadium, 9449 Church, $8

Wings for Wellness, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness of postpartum depression, hosts the “Motherhood Matters” pregnancy expo from 10 a.m.–2 p.m.. The event will feature 25+ vendors related to pregnancy, motherhood and babies.

Fellowship Dallas, 9330 N. Central, wingsforwellness.org, free

MAY 19

Dallas VisionWalk

With a mission to raise funds for sight-saving research, Dallas’ walk has been named the top VisionWalk in the country. The 5k moves back to White Rock Lake this year. Registration begins at 9 a.m.; stage presentation and walk at 10 a.m.

Winfrey Point, 950 E. Lawther, 972.378.3555, visionwalk.org, free (donations welcome)

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May 4–June 3

Diary of a Worm, a Spider and a Fly

Children ages 4 and older will enjoy this play at Dallas Children’s Theater. Based on the popular books by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss, this story of a bug’s world is full of humor and fun.

Rosewood Center for Family Arts, 5938 Skillman, 214.740.0051, dct.org, $20–$26

May 20

White Rock East Garden Tour

The 11th annual garden tour, from 10 a.m.–5 p.m., will showcase nine unique local gardens near the lake. A plant sale will be held from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Proceeds benefit neighborhood programs.

whiterockgardentour.org, $10

May 26

Howl at Hillside

Hillside Village Shopping Center hosts a benefit for White Rock Lake Dog Park from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. White Rock Dog, DFW Rescue Me, Animal Allies of Texas and Dog & Kitty City will have dogs available for adoption.

Hillside Village, Mockingbird and Abrams, 214.989.4151, free

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Delicious Pizza

The pizza at Atomic Pie can’t be categorized. “I call it Long Island, Sicilian, grandma-style, Midwestern, all-American pizza,” says owner Tim Allen Cole. “I just threw them all together.” Cole has been in the pizza business for 35 years, having previously worked with Campisi’s. About a year ago, he embarked on his own venture with a new concept for Lake Highlands, a neighborhood with a lot of roofs but not much retail, he says. “I took the chance, and it worked out. We’ve been here a year, and we’ve met a lot of great people. That’s the best part of staying in business.” The pizza is oval-shaped with catchy and peculiar names such as “the white extremist,” an Alfredo pizza topped with gourmet cheeses; and the “the mama mafia,” a simple tomato, basil and feta pie. Meat lovers should go for “the power of the people,” which comes with sausage, pepperoni, salami, Canadian bacon, hamburger and breakfast bacon. You also can build your own pizza.

ATOMIC PIE

9660 Audelia 214.553.5733 atomicpie.com

AMBIANCE: TAKE-OUT

PRICE RANGE: $7-$20 FOR PIZZAS

TIP: THE HOUSESLIDERS ALMOST OUT-SHINE THEPIZZA.

Above: Sliders and crinkle-cut fries. Left: Spinach, ricotta and tomato pizza. Photos by Lori Bandi

—Emily Toman

1 Lover’s Pizza and Pasta

Here, you can get Neapolitan thin crust or Sicilian thick crust with most pizzas ranging $9-$14. Prices are higher for gourmet items such as the white pizza, an elegant combination of Alfredo sauce, baby spinach, red bell peppers, garlic, broccoli and mozzarella.

9440 Garland 214.321.2223 loverspizzeria.com

2 Tony’s Pizza and Pasta

For delicious pies on the cheap, you can’t beat Tony’s. A large one-topping pizza costs less than $10.

10233 E. Northwest Highway 214.503.0388 tonyspizzapasta.net

3 Picasso’s

Six pizza sizes range from extra-small to super with a large selection of house pizzas as well as the buildyour-own option.

7215 Skillman 214.553.8100 picassospizza.com

Above: Atomic Pizza cook Louis Collazo

try something new

Handley Cellars Pinot Noir ($30) California

One of the most enjoyable things about wine is getting other people excited about it. Mother’s Day, whether for a gift or at dinner or brunch, presents a wonderful opportunity to do just that. Does Mom like sweet wine, but is tired of what she usually drinks? Does she like red wine, but is feeling adventurous and ready for something new?

Using these the guidelines — helping Mom branch out, but not foisting something on her she may not like — here are three wines that fit those criteria:

Gascon white wines like this deliver tremendous value. Look for some citrus fruit and less grapey-ness than similar wines from this part of France. It’s the kind of wine to keep around the house for the summer.

Moscato, a sweet white wine, is all the rage these days, but a lot of the wines aren’t much more than sweet and don’t taste much like moscato. The LangeTwins, though, is clean and fresh, with orange blossoms and lime.

This is among the best California pinot noirs I’ve tasted in years — authentic, peppery and not too much fruit or vanilla flavor from too much oak. A fine gift (even for Dad, next month).

—Jeff Siegel

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with your wine

Grilled catfish with pecans and croutons

This is as quick and easy as fish dishes come, and tastes much more sophisticated that it seems. Pair this with any of the wines mentioned above. (Adapted from Jacques Pepin)

GROCERY LIST

1 c pecan halves

1 c fresh bread cubes, cut about the same size as the pecans

6 catfish fillets, about 6 oz each

DIRECTIONS

1. Heat a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil in a large, non-stick skillet. When the oil is hot, add the pecans and bread cubes, and sauté for a couple of minutes until nicely browned on both sides. When done, remove to a plate.

2. Salt and pepper the fish on both sides. Heat a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in the same skillet. When hot, add the fish

4 garlic cloves, crushed

1 /4 c chopped fresh parsley

1/4 c water

salt and pepper to taste

and cook for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes on each side, or until just cooked in the center. Remove the catfish to a serving platter. Add the parsley and garlic to the drippings in the skillet and cook for 15 seconds, and then add the water. Stir all, and dissolve all the bits in the bottom of the pan.

3. Pour the pan sauce over the fish and then sprinkle with nuts and croutons. Serves six, takes about 15 minutes

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High school seniors who have beaten the odds

GrowinG up is seldom easy, but for a few Lake Highlands students it has been especially tough. Violence, poverty, terminally sick siblings or a parent dead from alcoholism — these things we wish on no one, but they are all elements of the stories that make these high school seniors’ successes so remarkable. As the saying goes, “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” Meet the fighters.

Story by Christina Hughes Babb | Photos by Danny Fulgencio

SarahDossou

Sarah Dossou’s homeland, Togo, Africa, made headlines this year when it was designated the “least happy nation in the world” in a comprehensive United Nations survey on national mood.

Despite the fact that Sarah moved to Dallas from the depressed, poverty stricken and politically chaotic sub-Saharan African country just a few years ago, she is arguably the most cheerful person on the Lake Highlands High School campus, speaking rapidly in a variety of languages, and with a perpetual smile on her youthful heart-shaped face.

Sarah’s father shielded his family from the emerging violence in Togo and looked for ways to relocate to a better place. The same day Sarah graduated from her African junior high school, her father learned that he had won U.S. residency through a program he had entered called the Diversity Visa Lottery.

“It was the best night ever. I passed the test to graduate from junior high, my brother passed the test to graduate his elementary school, and we learned we were moving to America,” Sarah says.

The news was good, but the road would be difficult.

“The process was slow and complicated, and everyone was stressed because you only get a certain frame of time before the visa expires.”

The sheer act of traveling to the United States posed great challenges for the then 13-year-old Sarah, who had never traveled. Her father and older sister had already arrived in the states, and they warned her that there would be obstacles and she would need to be strong.

For example, “In Libya, they tried to stop me, take my passport. They questioned me,” Sarah says. On the earlier advice of her older sister, she stood her ground, defended herself and was eventually allowed to go on.

In all, she took four planes from Togo to Dallas, and when she got lost at the London airport, she could find no one who spoke her language, French, and nearly missed her connection. She says that, once settled on the plane, the passenger beside her actually spoke French (much to her shock and elation, for she likes to chat).

By Christmas 2007, the family was reunited here in Lake Highlands. The following se-

mester, Sarah started school. When it hit her that she would need to learn a new language, she panicked. She desperately wanted to excel in school. Her father’s determination to provide educational and career opportunities to Sarah and her siblings had fueled the family’s daring move, and she would not let him down.

“I said to myself, ‘OK, Sarah, if you want good grades here, you have to learn the language.’ ”

She worked hard, watched TV with closed captions to learn pronunciation and spent untold hours in the library with books and dictionaries.

In the ensuing months, Sarah not only picked up English but she also learned Spanish.

“In the ESL (English as a second language) classes, I made a lot of friends, and most of them spoke Spanish. I really wanted to learn.”

As a senior preparing for graduation, Sarah places in the top 30 students academically with a 97.55 GPA. She works part time braiding hair at Georgia’s salon on Forest and Audelia, is president of the French club, a peer mediator, and a tutor and mentor to elementary students. Recently she won the Character Counts award from the Exchange Club of Lake Highlands, which recognizes strong student contributors to the community.

“My family came to see me receive the award. They were so proud. It was so great.”

In the fall, Sarah will attend Texas Women’s University and study physical therapy.

“It’s a miracle to help someone get back from injury,” she says. “When I help people, I feel my own strength.”

Her parents have both gone into similar fields since moving here — dad Kuassi, trained as an electrical engineer in Africa, went to school and became a nurse at C.C. Young near White Rock Lake. Mom Marie Claude is on staff at Walnut Place, an assisted living facility in Lake Highlands.

Those who know Sarah say her gentle nature belies her unrelenting spirit.

“Sarah exudes peace, but underneath that quiet exterior is a very determined young lady. She is focused on her goals and is intrinsically motivated to learn and grow,” LHHS teacher Beverly York says. “Sarah does not limit herself to seeking her own success,” York adds and mentions Sarah’s work as a tutor and peer mediator. “She takes a genuine interest in the needs of others and is always willing to sacrifice her time to help her friends.”

StephanieEyocko

Stephanie Eyocko is cheerful and self-assured, confident that she’ll someday hold a political office — after she finishes law school, that is. The high school senior, 17, says she may not have a political voice now, but she wants to improve education policies and work for the advancement of African Americans, starting with this community.

“I will come back here and run for District 107,” she says. (That’s the Texas House district that includes Lake Highlands.) Though she says this through a sparkling smile, she’s completely serious.

Such ambitions would be admirable in any teenager, but as each detail of Stephanie’s life story unfolds, her accomplishments and goals seem more impressive.

When she was 7, her family moved to Lake Highlands from Marseille, France. She didn’t know a word of English, and unlike the other kids in English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, she didn’t know Spanish either.

“I had a lot of friends back home, but here, there was not anyone I could talk to. Everyone looked at me weird and I just didn’t at all know what to do.”

The second-grader begged her mother to send her to a “French school,” arguing that she couldn’t “miraculously” learn a new language. Once she got past what she describes as a now-laughable idea of attending French school in Dallas, she got to work and learned English rather quickly. In third-grade, the Stults Ele-

mentary staff was so impressed with her progress they named her Student of the Year.

But life had more challenges in store: When Stephanie was about 9, her mother, Sabine, gave birth to premature twins, Bradley and Tony. Tony had life-saving surgery the first week of his life; Bradley developed cerebral palsy within the first year.

“I was used to being the baby, having my mom’s attention, and then everything changed,” Stephanie recalls. “For years, my mom spent much of her time at the hospital, and everything in our lives began revolving around Bradley — from special strollers and car seats to needing everything around him to be sterile all the time …”

She says her mother put on a brave face, but Stephanie knew, even at her young age, it was time to grow up and help out.

Now in her last year of high school, Stephanie has adjusted to a grueling schedule that includes honors classes, 20-hour work weeks at In-N-Out Burger, and rising before dawn daily to help bathe and feed Bradley, now 8. He “eats” via a gastronomical tube and takes eight medicines. After feeding Bradley, she wakes Tony and helps him get dressed and on the school bus. Because Sabine works a night shift, Stephanie has taken on many earlymorning mothering duties.

When does she sleep?

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on now, and usually I can stop them from escalating by going back to bed and resting for a while. If I don’t, they can escalate into a fullblown grand mal seizure.”

In addition to monitoring daily habits, Yoel has changed his attitude. Instead of feeling self-pity, as he had as a small child, he has learned to be upbeat. “Not just as it pertains to my condition,” he says, “but I can use it in life overall.”

“As I matured, I learned I can only control what I can control, and I can’t be concerned about what I can’t control. That attitude has helped me in my health, academics and in general.”

Once he started high school, Yoel had great hopes for the future. He wanted to enroll in Advanced Placement classes, but he was a little worried about how the schedule and extra work (more stress and less sleep) might affect his health. Sophomore year he tried taking one. That worked out, so the following year he registered for all AP classes. “Overambitious, maybe,” he says. “But I did it.”

Yoel, who never was able to travel as a kid,

YoelZehale

Though he was just 5 when it happened, high school senior Yoel Zehale vividly remembers the day he woke up in the ambulance.

“I was watching TV at home, and I just blacked out,” he says. “Next thing I knew, I was riding in an ambulance, and my parents were hovering over me, looking very scared.”

At the hospital, doctors diagnosed Yoel with epilepsy. That seizure, the summer before Yoel was to begin kindergarten, would be the first of hundreds. Over the next several years, Yoel and his parents, Abeba and Zehaie Tewolde, lived knowing that a seizure could strike at any moment.

“I would have them multiple times a week and sometimes three or four times in a day,” Yoel says.

His mother was so worried that she volunteered at his elementary school for years, just so she could be near her son.

Yoel recalls the torment of not being allowed to play like the other kids.

“I loved sports and just running and having a good time. You see your friends playing, and you just want to join. My sisters went on vacations, and I had to stay home … I felt

sometimes like I was being robbed of my childhood.”

Then, when Yoel was in third grade, the seizures ceased, at least for a while.

In fifth grade, after he had settled into a relatively normal existence, strange things began happening again.

“We were taking a test, and I just turned it in unfinished. I got a zero and I didn’t know what had happened.”

This occurred a few times. Teachers, Yoel’s parents and Yoel himself were confused.

“I got in trouble. Even I didn’t know how to explain it. Finally a teacher recognized that I was having seizures.”

This time the epilepsy didn’t manifest itself in episodes of falling and shaking, as it had before, but in a subtler, more internal attack.

Initially, it was devastating for Yoel and his family to admit that the problem had resurfaced, but soon they learned to deal with it.

Medication didn’t work as well for Yoel as it does for some epileptic patients, so he had to learn what triggered the attacks and try to control them.

“Lack of sleep and stress are two of the main triggers. I can anticipate them coming

last summer participated in the Texas Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., for qualified high school students, and he plans to study political science then law.

He wants to attend Baylor, he says, but plans to start next semester at University of Texas at Arlington because of a free-tuition program offered at the school.

Yoel’s charasmatic personality and diligence do not go unnoticed, teacher Beverly York says. “He accepts all types of people as friends and shows genuine concern for others. He is well-liked by students and teachers. In the classroom, he works diligently and instigates lively discussions. His gregarious personality brightens everyone’s day.

We were taking a test, and I just turned it in unfinished. I got a zero and I didn’t know what had happened.

“Usually from 1 or 2 a.m. until 5:15 or 5:30. I don’t need much sleep, and I have learned to love coffee,” Stephanie says. “I’m sure one day, the bags will show up under my eyes.”

Her sense of humor and optimism are impenetrable. She doesn’t simply endure taking care of her brothers. In fact, she cherishes the close bond they share.

“Bradley and I, we both love country music,” she says. “I love the Zac Brown Band. He’s more Kenny [Chesney]. He can’t speak well, but he knows who I am. They say he can’t see, but I am pretty sure he can see.”

Referring to her brothers, mother and herself, Stephanie says, “Us four are tight.”

Through it all, she excels academically and looks forward to studying political sci-

ence and Mandarin Chinese (because of the strong Chinese financial market, she says) at Oklahoma University in the fall. Teachers rave about her “tenacity and perseverance”

“I admire her courage to not only finish what she begins, but to finish well and complete each task, whether big or small, with excellence,” says past LHHS teacher Molly Gittemeier. “Stephanie’s goals, talents, and noble character combine to make a young woman brimming with potential. I can’t wait to see where she ends up.”

Perhaps foreshadowing her future in politics, Stephanie is already a good public speaker. She recently delivered an “amazing” lecture to a group of parents about becoming involved with the school, principal Peggy Dillon says.

“She is incredible. This was a high school student speaking to this room full of adults,” Dillon says. “She just inspires you.”

Stephanie also works as a peer helper and mediator at LHHS, which entails helping fellow students and mentoring a youngster from Lake Highlands Elementary. She says her relatively rough road has made her a more compassionate person.

“I wouldn’t at all be as good of a mentor had I not been through all the things I’ve been through,” she says.

“People helped me get to where I am today. I want to do that for someone else.”

People helped me get to where I am today. I want to do that for someone else.

YordiCalix

One of Yordi Calix’s pieces hangs in the Young Masters exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. It is a Día de los Muertos-esque drawing, sans the color. A torso in a T-shirt and zipper jacket under a cross choker necklace gives way to a skinless head with exposed muscle and skull. Feathers, like those in a traditional Indian headdress, jut from a space that should house the brain. The work, titled “Absence of Flesh,” reflects a family consumed by alcoholism, Yordi says, but the necklace represents hope.

“It’s never too late,” he says.

Many of Yordi’s family members have suffered from alcoholism, he says, but the most tragic case, at least through the eyes of the high school senior, is that of his father.

“My dad always loved me and tried to show it. He tried to help me, but he was sick.”

Yordi was born here, but his father, a Honduran, recently was deported.

“When he left, he seemed ill. You could see yellow in his eyes, which I am pretty sure is related to liver damage. Part of me hoped he would stop drinking and start a new life there.”

But things didn’t turn out as Yordi hoped. His father’s health deteriorated, and in Honduras he did not receive the medical care he might have received in the States. At the beginning of Yordi’s senior year, his father died.

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Feeling mostly angry, Yordi threw himself into athletics — wrestling and weight lifting — and also into art and academics.

He emerged from his grief with a fierce resolve to take a decidedly different path than his father and other relatives.

“Not only my dad, but some of my uncles and the older generation of my family have [succumbed to alcohol], but my cousins and I have decided that the younger generation will not go down that road and instead will make smart decisions.”

To that end, Yordi plans to study biology and become a doctor.

“I am fascinated by how the body works, and I want to help people,” he says.

He wants to medically and financially help people in struggling countries such as Honduras, where he lived from age 2 to 5.

Today the teenager — olive-skinned and muscular with deep-set eyes and a white smile — has a profound stillness about him. It is not pain or sadness, as one might expect in such circumstances, but rather an intense concentration on finding his place in life. His strong character shined during this past wrestling season, says John York, a Young Life leader who is married to Lake Highlands teacher Beverly York. York, a self-described “wrestling fanatic,” says Yordi was among the best and was bound for district and state competitions.

“Here’s what happened that made me an even bigger Yordi fan: He became injured and couldn’t compete anymore. Rather than feeling sorry for himself and walking away, he took the next kid in line under his wing and worked with him night and day to help him compete more aggressively,” York says. “To me, that showed a tremendous amount of character.”

Yordi doesn’t talk much about his current home life, but says he doesn’t live with his mom. He is staying with a relative through the school year, and he works part time to support himself.

York says few people know about Yordi’s struggles because he never complains.

“He is a gentleman and a super kid. Something has gotten to him at a deep level. He has so many licks against him, but he stays steady and has so much potential,” York says. “I don’t know if he’s exactly what you’d call a Renaissance Man, but he is close.”

by Rachel Stone

The days of kids staying home all summer watching “Days of Our Lives” and eating popsicles are over. Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean students should stop learning.

You don’t have send your kid to a camp far away. Here are details for some of the summer camps available in our neighborhood.

for the artsy kid: STUDIO ARTSDALLAS

Dates: June-August

Location: 10051 Shoreview

For Ages: 4-teens

Tuition: $195-$395

Sign up: studioartsdallas.com

Studio Arts Dallas offers weeklong classes in art, wildlife, drawing animation and more. Horse camp includes horse-themed art projects, and at the end, students get to paint on a horse.

ARTZY-SMARTZY

Dates: June-August

Location: 9102 Locarno Drive

For ages: 5 and older

Tuition: $135-$145

Sign up: artzysmartzy.com, 214.384.2780

Enroll early because classes are restricted to 4-6 students per session. Weeklong classes include mosaics, art history, nature painting and more.

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for the nature lover: DALLASARBORETUM

Dates: June-July

Location: 8525 Garland Rd.

For ages: 3-12

Tuition: $99-$250

Sign up:dallasarboretum.org

Many of the arboretum’s half-day and fullday camps sell out, so sign up early. “Little Critters,” for 3- to 4-year-olds, explores squirrels, spiders, frogs and toads. Fossils, garden investigation and the connection between art and nature are among topics for 4- to 6-year-olds. Dale Chihuly’s glass art is one subject for kids 5-7 and 7-10. Campers explore the life and times of Texas pioneers while studying native plants and animals at Lone Star Overnight Adventure Camp, open to 8- to 12-year-olds. That weeklong camp culminates in an overnight trip to the Trinity River Audubon Center.

for the well rounded kid: LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Dates: June 4-Aug. 10

Location: 2720 Hillside and 7401 Ferguson

For ages: 4-18

Tuition: $220-$295 per week

Sign up: lakehillprep.org

Almost anything your kid wants to try, this camp teaches. The kiddos can dabble in chemistry, engineering, hiking and survival, wildlife, arts and crafts, puppets, photography , volleyball, disc golf and too many subjects to mention. Childcare before and after camp is included. Some camps are held at the school’s main campus, and some are at the Alice and Erle Nye Family Environmental Science Center.

YMCA

Dates: May-August

Location: 8920 Stults Road

For ages: 5-12

Tuition: $125-$200

Sign up: whiterockymca.org

Our neighborhood YMCA offers Camp Maranatha for 5- to 12-year-olds. Swim lessons for 6- to 12-year olds are offered at various times. And Camp on the Lake at Lake Lewisville is open to neighborhood residents.

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for the musician & thespian: DALLAS CHILDREN’S THEATER

Dates: June-August

Location: 5938 Skillman

For ages: 4-18

Tuition: $70-$400

Sign up: dct.org

“Showbiz Summer and Teen Conservancy” has to be the greatest name for a camp. Kids as young as 3-and-a-half can enroll in the mid-morning Pre-K Drama Days for $70. Acting, improv, musical theater, movie-making for teens and technical theater are among the offerings in the $250 range. Slappy’s Circus Camp is a weeklong clown class for $265. The twoweek musical theater camp costs $400.

JUNIOR PLAYERS

Da tes: July 9-20

Location: Lake Highlands North Recreation Center, 9940 White Rock Trail

For ages: 7-14

Tuition: Free

Sign up: 214.670.7793

Our neighborhood rec center offers a two-week theater camp, and classes are limited to 25 on a first-come, first-served basis. Instruction includes performing and theater arts. Classes culminate in the Festival of Plays, uniting rec centers all over Dallas.

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Water week

A young entrepreneur turns a babysitting business into a wildly popular family-run summer camp

Mark Heger is not a professional wakeboarder, but wakeboarding is his profession, he explains gleefully. The 26-year-old Lake Highlands High School graduate started waterskiing at age 5, wakeboarding at 10 and turned it all into a summer camp business by 15.

As kids, Mark and his older sister Lauren babysat for extra money. “We figured we could make more money with more kids,” he says, so they began mass-sitting, starting with “mom’s-week-outs” at their parents’ Lake Highlands home.

Once the sit-ees were a bit older, the Hegers moved the party to the family’s Cedar Creek Lake house.

“The first summer at the lake house we had 22 or 23 campers. These days we get about 200 kids.”

Mark says summer camp is an important hallmark of childhood.

“I am a firm believer in summer camp. Kids remember their time at camp their whole lives — the stories, the songs, the activities — and I love sharing that with people.”

He especially loves teaching them how to stand on skis, and twist, turn and flip on the water, he says. Kids and parents rave about the family-run camp. One mom

told Heger her daughter claimed to be “lake sick” upon returning from the week-long camp.

“I think that’s like homesick, meaning she wished she was still there,” she explains.

The Heger Water Camp Facebook photo album showcases kids of varying ages jet- and water-skiing, flying and flipping over the water, wakeboarding and smiling. A whole lot of smiling.

The Hegers’ lake house hosts 18 students at a time, with two-camper bunk rooms and four-camper bathrooms, plus a pool table, ping pong and other activities for down time or rainy days. Heger’s mom, Marcia, serves as camp mom. She supervises safety, cooking and communicating with parents about how the week is going.

“She’s the ever-present Mother Goose,” Heger says.

The worst time of year is when it’s not summer, Heger says, explaining that he doesn’t particularly care for administrative tasks. Off-season isn’t all dull paperwork, though. He teaches lessons year round, even in the winter for those hardcore water athletes. Plus, he adds, “The summer makes the administrative work worthwhile.”

In 2004, Heger was a finalist for the Texas Youth En-

Mark Heger and mom Marcia, who live near White Rock Lake, prepare to launch a summer water sports camp held each year at Cedar Creek Lake. Photo by Can Türkyilmaz

trepreneur of the Year Award for his vision in creating the camp.

“I feel like I have learned almost all my life lessons from doing camp,” Heger says. “Starting a business when I was 12 and watching it grow into something that I could never have imagined has been the most incredible journey ever. Camp has taught me moral lessons like patience, kindness and persistence. It has taught me practical business lessons like entrepreneurship, building and maintaining relationships, and treating your employees well. It revealed to me what my true passions are. I consider myself incredibly blessed to have been able to turn a passion into a career.”

—Carol Toler and Christina Hughes Babb HEGER WATER CAMP SESSIONS start in June, but space is limited, and spots are filling fast. Learn all you want to know and register for camp or classes at hegercamp.com.

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Former Glen Lakes AMC will be Dave and Buster’s

The old AMC Theater at Central and Walnut Hill has been vacant since 2006 when the chain relocated to NorthPark Center. Now, the empty 35,000 square-foot space will be demolished to make way for a Dave and Buster’s flagship restaurant. Construction on the new complex is scheduled to begin within the next nine months, transforming the barren shopping center. The new restaurant will incorporate more games and an extended menu. Dave and Buster’s will close its current location on Walnut Hill near Presbyterian hospital when the new restaurant is complete.

Bowling alley rolling into Park Lane

Touted as an upscale bowling alley, Bowl & Barrel is expected to open this fall in the Shops at Park Lane. The concept, created by SMU alums Josh Sepkowitz and Kyle Noonan, is to provide the “cosmopolitan demographic” with an “upscale yet comfortable atmosphere.” The 15-lane, 3,000 square-foot bowling alley, which will open across from Bailey’s Prime Plus, will feature a full-service restaurant and bar with craft beers and handcrafted cocktails.

Wine superstore to open next to Babies R Us

Total Wine and More has announced plans to open its first Texas superstore in the Best Buy shopping center at Park and Central in early summer. This will be the first Texas location for Total

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Wine, a chain with 79 locations nationwide. The store carries wine, beer and spirits and features a walk-in cigar humidor.

Olivella’s pizzeria opens in Hillside Village

Charlie Green, who owns Neo’s pizza in Victory Park and another Olivella’s near SMU, also owns this Olivella’s location at Mockingbird and Abrams.The menu includes sandwiches and salads, but is best known for its Neapolitan-style pizza. Cooked in a wood fire oven, the pies live up to the Olivella’s reputation. USA Today named it one of the 50 great pizzas in America, Zagat called it “The First Real Pizza in Dallas” and Rachel Ray called it “the most delicious pizza you’ll ever eat.” Green has made extensive updates since Pizzeria Venti occupied the space, most ostensibly to the patio. The remodeled outdoor area holds 40-50 guests, he tells us.

1 A new Italian restaurant, Verona’s, has opened on Garland near HypnoticDonuts and Barbec’s. This is the third location for Owner Zeqir Lokaj who has aVerona’s in Plano and Alba. 2 Also on Garland, Deaton’s Gift Shop has closed; the DallasArboretum has purchased the property. 3 MoMo Italian restaurant will move this month from its Forest Lane location to another Forest Lane address, in the former Top Cat restaurant space.

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Anti-wAr but pro-soldiers

The organizers of Carry the Load might be befuddled by my endorsement. They might scratch their heads like politicians who get the blessing of dubious public figures and then wonder what they’re doing wrong that their endorsers think is right.

After all, I never served in the military. I am a tenaciously softhearted preacher, always answering for my preachments about Jesus’ command to love enemies, do good to those who hate us, and practice nonviolence resistance toward those who hurt us. I pray for swords to be turned into plowshares.

I believe war should only be a last resort after every means of seeking peace with justice is exhausted. Even then I struggle to feel joy over victory that costs human life. Violence begets violence. Every time we kill an enemy, we seem to create three new ones. Too many noncombatant deaths are justified now as “collateral damage.”

In addition I am for handgun control and assault rifle bans here at home. I think our allegiance to handguns for self-protection ends up with too many tragedies that come from the law of unintended consequences. Our obsession with personal security drives us further from our neighbors, and makes it harder to find common humanity with strangers.

So why am I telling you that on Memorial Day Weekend you will find me on the Katy Trail walking, running, and carrying a pack for some part of the 24-hour event I am commending to you?

I will be there with many others in memory of and in honor of soldiers, police officers and firefighters who have lost their lives in service to our country and communities or who are now on the front lines in harm’s way — whether their theater of operation is a mountain range in southern Afghanistan, or the streets of Dallas, or a burning house next door. I will be there to help raise money for the families of the fallen and wounded who gave life or limb

for you and me. I will honor their bravery, their skill and their sacrifice. I will pray for peace while I do.

Our country needs to grow up. We need to stop demonizing those with different points of view, counting peaceniks unpatriotic or military supporters the only patriots. We may need more flowers, but those who weed the bed and protect it from predators are helping the garden grow as much as those who fertilize and water. We are all in this together.

Our nation was conflicted over the justness of the cause in Vietnam. It led to shameful disregard for veterans of that war. We must never be guilty of that again. Those of us who think it politically and nationally unwise to send troops here or there, for this reason or that, should not blame those we send. They are not just serving those who sent them against our will; they are serving us all with all the will they can muster. They deserve to be honored.

We are fighting wars abroad now that we have delegated more to specialists than general troops, the net effect of which is that we are not as broadly or personally affected. World War II defined national service and sacrifice. Fighting fascists with imperial ambitions required everyone’s effort. Nowadays we assume that the pursuit of peace requires a constant state of war, and we have hired professionals to carry that load for us.

Carry the Load seeks to reengage disengaged spirits. It calls us to restore the meaning of Memorial Day.

So, consume grilled hot dogs and a distilled spirit or two. But remember spilled blood, too. Honor those who serve us still, and those whose sacrifice is a load now carried by families and communities across our nation.

Let’s be a country worthy of their service and sacrifice.

For inFormation on Carry the Load, visit carrytheload.org.

BAPTIST

ForeST Me Adow / 9150 Church Rd. / Welcoming the mosaic of cultures living in our neighborhoods / www.fmbcdallas.org

Worship 10:50 / Bible Study 9:30 / Tim Ahlen, Pastor / 214.341.9555

LAKeSIde BAPTIST / 9150 Garland Rd / 214.324.1425

Pastor Jeff Donnell / Worship 10:30 am & 10:31 am www.lbcdallas.com

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

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

BIBL e CHU r CH eS

NorTH HIGHLANdS BIBLe CHUrCH / www.nhbc.net

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

Wed: Student Ministry 7:00 pm / 9626 Church Road / 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

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THe ePISCoPAL CHUrCH oF THe ASCeNSIoN / 8787 Greenville Ave.

Sunday School 9:00 am / Worship 8:00 & 10:15 am 214.340.4196 / more at www.ascensiondallas.org

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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

ZIoN LUTHerAN CHUrCH & SCHooL / 6121 E Lovers Ln.

Sunday: Sunday School 9:15 am, Worship 8:00 am, 10:30 am, & 6:00 pm / 214.363.1639 / www.ziondallas.org

Me THodIST

L AKe HIGHLANdS UMC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com 9:30 – Sunday School / 10:30 – Fellowship Time

10:50 – Traditional & Contemporary Worship

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L AKe HIGHLANdS CHUrCH / 9919 McCree / 214.348.0460

Sun: Assemblies 8:45 & 11:30, Classes 10:10, Coffee 11:10

Home groups meet on weeknights. / lakehighlandschurch.org

SHoreLINe dALLAS CHUrCH / 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane

ShorelineDallas.com / 469.227.0471 / Pastor Earl McClellan

Everyone’s Welcome at 9:15am / Children’s & Youth Ministry

PreSB yT erIAN

L AKe 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

NorTHPArK PreSByTerIAN CHUrCH / 214.363.5457

9555 N. Central Expwy. / www.northparkpres.org

Pastor: Rev. Brent Barry / 8:30 & 11:00 am Sunday Services

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UNIT y oF dALLAS / A Positive Path For Spiritual Living 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230 / 972-233-7106 / UnityDallas.org Sunday services: 9:00 am & 11:00 am

Being a peacemaker doesn’t mean shunning those who sacrifice for us

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.

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HIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL

3821 University Blvd. Dallas / 214.525.6500 / www.hppds.org

We are proud of our rich heritage as a fully accredited co-educational Christian school serving children 3 years old through 5th grade. Small classes allow for emphasis to be placed on the academic, spiritual, emotional, creative, social, and physical needs of the young child through a developmentally appropriate approach to learning. For a scheduled tour or more information, please contact the admissions director.

JANIE

SCHOOL OF DANCE

9090 Skillman, Ste. 299A Dallas 75243 / 214.343.7472 / janiechristydance.com

This is Janie Christy’s 19th year teaching children to dance in Lake Highlands!

LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Leading to Success. 2720 Hillside Dr., Dallas 75214 / 214.826.2931, lakehillprep.org

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

848 Harter Rd., Dallas 75218 / 214.328.9131 / stjohnsschool.org

Design/Build New Installations Fine Gardens Outdoor Rooms Plus Patios Paths Walls

Pergolas Trellises Water/Fire Features Tree Work Drainage Solutions Lighting Total Makeovers ConcreteWork Art Installs

SCOFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

3K through Grade 6 / 214.349.6843 / scofieldchristian.org

WHITE ROCK NORTH SCHOOL

9727White Rock Trail Dallas / 214.348.7410.

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SPANISH HOUSE

5740 Prospect Ave. Dallas / 214.826.4410 / DallasSpanishHouse.com

ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL

6121 E. Lovers Ln. Dallas / 214.363.1630/ ziondallas. org

Samuell Grand Tennis Center 6200 E. Grand Ave., 75223 214-670-1374

ST. CHRISTOPHER’S MONTESSORI SCHOOL

7900 Lovers Ln. / 214.363.9391 stchristophersmontessori.com

community

Lake Highlands residents will be assuming new duties on behalf of the Lake Highlands Exchange Club, one of the neighborhood’s pre-eminent volunteer groups. Among those recently elected to leadership positions: John Alspaw, president; Tate Gorman, president-elect; Bryan McCrory, past president; Doug Rabe, treasurer; Travis Shahan, secretary; Mark Holmes, vice president of fundraising; Justin Bono, vice president of programs; Ronda Moreland, vice president of youth; Kelly Jones, citizenship and Americanism; Patrick Brown, membership director; John Waters, community service director; Brian Huddleston, community events director; Bob VanAmburgh, communications director; Steve White, newsletter director; Tracy Cox, scholarships director; Tommy Bailey, member involvement director. Not listed among those elected but incredibly active is longtime member Don Lee, who regularly circulates information to neighbors and media about the club.

education

The Lake Highlands High School theater department has been nominated in three categories for the prestigious Dallas Summer Musicals High

School Musical Theatre Awards. LHHS’ production of “25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee” was nominated for Best Musical Direction, Best Scene Design and Best Lighting Design. The winners will be announced May 5 at the Fair Park Music Hall in a Tony Awards-style event. Comerica Bank is sponsoring the awards, including nine $3,000 college scholarships for the winners.

Ten Richardson ISD teachers were honored as STAR teachers, and five of them teach in Lake Highlands schools. The STARs (Superior Teaching Achievements in RISD) are selected by a committee, including Superintendent Dr. Kay Waggoner and representatives from the RISD Excellence in Education Foundation. Alisa Bettega teaches third-grade at Merriman Park Elementary; Kyle Griffis is a Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) Mentor and Texas History instructor at Forest Meadow Junior High; Katy Phinney teaches pre-kindergarteners at Skyview Elementary; Ashley Rich teaches fifth-grade at Moss Haven Elementary; and Hunter Wood is a Debate and AP English instructor at Lake Highlands High School.

sports

Reagan Dunk, Murphy Short and Mason Miller, seniors at Lake Highlands High School, led their club soccer team Solar Chelsea to the under-19

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championship April 8 at Dallas Cup, defeating Arsenal FC 3-1. The boys are long-time Solar teammates.

Lake Highlands High School senior Will Moomaw has been named to an elite list of local scholar-athletes by the National Football Foundation’s Gridiron Club of Dallas. Moomaw was one of 58 students from schools around North Texas honored at the club’s fourth annual awards banquet April 16 at the Marriott Quorum in Addison. He is the only scholar-athlete from Richardson ISD on this year’s list.

volunteer

Maggie’s House, a nonprofit in the White Rock Lake area, helps women overcome alcohol and substance abuse addictions and offers volunteer opportunities. Attend a foundation meeting the first Sunday of each month to learn more about the program and ways to help. For information, call 214.324.9261 or visit magdalenhouse.org

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Star volunteer

Scott Manis , Doctors Hospital at White Rock Lake’s CEO, presents volunteer J.C. Reneau a balloon bouquet on Reneau’s 90th birthday. Reneau started volunteering at the hospital 11 years ago and has put in more than 3,300 hours of service. He works as a patient ambassador, among other roles, and is famous for his buttermilk pecan pralines. Reneau also is a crime watch volunteer in his Lake Highlands North neighborhood, often manning the midnight-3 a.m. shift patrolling the community.

Senior success

Lake Highlands High School senior Stephanie Eyocko received a $20,000 Dell Scholarship ($5,000 per year for her four years at the University of Oklahoma), plus a Dell laptop. She will major in political science and minor in Mandarin Chinese. Pictured: Eyocko , right, and Shameka Brackens from the LHHS counseling office.

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

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Accredited Private School SEEKING EXPERIENCED TEACHER for toddler thru Kindergarten. Fax or email resume to info@whiterocknorthschool.com or 214-348-3109

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Adventure in Spain

A group of 12 students and eight adults from Dallas Lutheran School spent their spring break in Spain March 9-17. The group traveled to Madrid, Segovia and Toledo. Highlights of the tour included visits to the Prado Museum, the Royal Palace, a Spanish high school and Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home of professional soccer team Real Madrid.

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A CAT BURGLAR POUNCED.

Just the thought of the crime creeps out Kaye Partridge. While she and her family slept in their Lake Highlands Estates home, a burglar entered their back door,which she says had been a bit faulty and tough to close. Sometime that night a burglar grabbed her keys off an end table, entered the garage and stole her purse from the car.

Strangely, Partridge found lights on in the living room and garage the next morning, and the door to the garage was

The Victim: Kaye Partridge

The Crime: Burglary

Date: Tuesday, March 20

Time: Between 11 p.m. and 5:30 a.m.

Location: 10300 block of Ferndale

open. Also strange, she says the burglar left behind more expensive electronics in the house that were right in the vicinity of the keys.

“The police said this was a very rare case of a cat burglar,” she says. “These people just like the thrill of you know-

ing that you know they’ve been in your house.”

She believes that is why the burglar left the lights on and took only her purse. Police at the scene told her they have worked cases where this type of criminal has actually awoken homeowners intentionally just so they would know he was there, and then escaped without being caught. She says there have been other burglaries in the area recently.

Partridge says the family plans on being much more diligent and has already fixed the back door.

Sr. Cpl. Anthony Allen of the Northeast Patrol Division says these types of cases are unusual, but it is possible the burglar thought no one was home — or was just bold.

“In security prevention of the home, it is very important to bring all belongings, including your purse, inside the home,” Allen says. “Even though a garage is attached to the home and supposedly secure, in today’s age of technology, garage door openers use radio signals and can be manipulated.”

CRIME NUMBERS |

8900 03.30

Age of Jonathan Ramsey, a Lake Highlands child who police believe was starved to death by his father and stepmother; they admitted to the crime, saying they dumped his body in Ennis

Block of Clearwater Drive where the family lived and where Ramsey was locked in a room without food

Date when Ramsey’s grandfather reported him missing; at press time, authorities had not located the body

Sean Chaffin is a freelance writer and editor of pokertraditions.com. If you have been a recent crime victim, email crime@advocatemag.com.

White Rock Lake isn’t c ent RaL Pa Rk

Is our city’s gem a haven for nature or enterprise — or both?

Comment. Visit lakehighlands.advocatemag.com and search Central Park to tell us what you think.

Recent speculation on the local blogosphere (both Dallas Morning News and Advocate) about the possibility of bars or eateries at White Rock Lake has piqued the interest of outdoor enthusiasts who use and enjoy White Rock Trail and the lake.

Before becoming too alarmed about potential pitfalls, I called longtime Lake Highlands resident Joan Walne, who is president of the Dallas Park and Recreation Board, to clarify whether the city is seriously entertaining notions of development near White Rock Lake. Walne put some of my fears to rest.

“The lake itself is all park land,” she says. “You can’t just go in there and have a private enterprise.”

recent history is any indication.) Even so, Walne says. “I think people are always looking for new opportunities. The lake is a beautiful area, and we want to make the best possible use of it.”

Given that there is no imminent threat of development on park property, we have some breathing room to think about how the lake and surrounding park might be enhanced.

One thing I’ve often lamented is the barrier between the lake and the Dallas Arboretum (also overseen by the park board). When I’m inside the arboretum, I feel unfairly separated from the lake, and when I’m on the trail, I feel like an outcast. The separation between the two seems artificial. Unfortunately, opening access from the trail could draw more cars to the lake.

“If people knew there was another way to get there, it might be a parking problem,” Walne says.

is that the best parking spots are reserved for bicycles. Not that I’m anti-car (I’ll probably drive there, when I go), but I applaud attempts to cater to cyclists. Back at the lake, one idea that might be win/win would be redevelopment of some of the privately owned land nearby. It’s hard to imagine any objection from neighbors if someone proposed a restaurant at the south side of the lake near the spillway.

Another possibility might be to allow food trucks, which have the advantage of being temporary in case they don’t work out. My problem with food trucks is that, sadly, Frank Lloyd Wright never got around to designing a food truck that looks beautiful in a park.

Furthermore, she confirmed that the park board has not addressed any actual business proposals. Even if discussions get that far, community groups would have to be included before any plan could be set in motion.

“I’m pretty sure I know what the reaction [from the community] would be,” Walne says. (Negative, presumably, if

In another scenario, imagine you are a family living in Lake Highlands, and you want to ride bicycles down to the lake, grab breakfast, and then ride home. A neighbor once told me she had done this, with Barbec’s on Garland as the breakfast destination. But when I asked how she got to Barbec’s from the trail, she had difficulty putting it into words.

“I’m not really sure,” she admitted. “It’s not easy.”

The Ice House at the end of the Katy Trail is the type of business that might work well at White Rock Lake — in fact, we already have the new Dallas Bicycle Café, which opened this year at West Lawther and Northwest Highway. One of my favorite elements about the café

What about the idea that White Rock Lake ought to be more like Central Park, where New Yorkers enjoy both green space and food service in the middle of Manhattan? For one thing, the lake is not in downtown Dallas; in fact, it isn’t even adjacent. Soon we will have the Klyde Warren Park over Woodall-Rodgers if we want an urban park experience — together with the nearby Trinity Riverfront project, both of which were conceived to generate a more pedestrian-friendly downtown.

In contrast, during a recent weekday visit to White Rock Lake, I couldn’t help but appreciate the open space, relative quiet, and sunlight reflecting on water. If there is any other location in Dallas where I can go to get that peaceful feeling, I haven’t found it.

That’s why I hope the city will preserve White Rock Lake in its present form. Despite its man-made origin, the lake is our one precious link to natural beauty inside the beltway.

My problem with food trucks is that, sadly, Frank Lloyd Wright never got around to designing a food truck that looks beautiful in a park.

EllenRaff, a neighborhoodresident,writes a monthlyopinioncolumnaboutneighborhoodissues. 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.

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