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Senior Living Near White Rock Lake

the Comforts of home

They don’t come without toil, good tools and acceptance

We’ve lived a good portion of our lives in our no-particular-style brick and wood house.

When we first saw it, after slogging through lots of others, my wife took one step past the front door, surveyed what little she could see from that vantage point and blurted: “This is the one we have to buy.”

She said that right in front of the Realtor. So much for negotiating.

My parents helped us move in one hot Memorial Day weekend. Everything we owned fit into a couple of cars and a minivan. Everything.

Once we had things organized, two of the house’s six rooms remained empty. The place seemed so large, I wondered why we would ever need to fill it up.

We brought our first son home from the hospital and set him in a bassinet next to our bed. We moved him to the crib we assembled in one of the empty rooms when his younger brother came home 18 months later.

Pretty soon, we didn’t have any empty rooms.

The white and wood-grained refrigerator that greeted us when we bought the house still chills yogurt, juice and frozen dinners, but it now holds court in our office after my wife decided 10 years ago the kitchen needed a redo and the house an add-on. Our new stainless steel appliances aren’t new anymore, but we still use that word to describe them.

The door to the water-heater closet beneath the stairway has an individualist streak. I can open it by firmly pushing down on the knob while leaning slightly against

the frame and quickly pulling outward. My wife can never get the door open, although I’ve never understood why — it almost always works for me the third or fourth time.

There is no cracked grout in the tile floor my dad and I installed one weekend in what was a pretty dicey laundry room at the time. Neither one of us knew how to do tile work. After squishing gray grout between the first couple of tiles, I thought the color looked too faint, so I put some additional grout in one spot and waited. I was wrong. I still see that two-inch double-dark-gray spot in the middle of the room every day when I walk to and from the garage.

everything.

I can say with certainty you need to be slender to shimmy around the crawl space under the floorboards. You can’t even roll over under there. I spent several early weekends crawling through that dirt, waiting to face down a varmint as I rocked back and forth stringing speaker wire where it’s no longer needed. WiFi and Bluetooth probably were invented by someone else who didn’t want to get back into a crawl space.

A door on our kitchen cabinet sticks every morning when I pull it open to retrieve a juice glass. Every morning, I tell myself to pick up a new spacer pad at the hardware store. Every day I forget. And tomorrow morning, that cabinet door is going to stick again.

With the market for single-family homes hotter than a mouth full of Tabasco these days, I’ve been wondering if it’s time to pack up half our stuff, downsize, pocket some cash and see what else is out there.

There will be other options available in terms of houses. It’s hard to imagine any other place as “home,” though.

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Remodeling & New Construction Talk...

Home $ellers are Remodeling for Quick Profits and a Quick Sale

It’s a seller’s market in Dallas, driven by a national rebound in home prices and an influx of thousands of new residents each month.

Whether your buyer comes from out of town or out of state, one thing is almost certain. He’s not looking for a project. He wants a home that is move-in ready. Today.

Local realtor David Bush says, “Buyers want homes that are newlyremodeled and in perfect condition. They don’t have the connections to remodel homes and they’ll pay a premium for quality homes that offer everything they need, now.”

“They want spacious, open floor plans, remodeled kitchens and bathrooms, and drive-up appeal. These aren’t expensive remodels. We work with Bella Vista to help home sellers invest in the remodeling projects that pay off at resale. We could have sold our last client’s home for $200,000 as it was. Instead, for a $30,000 investment in the floor plan, bathrooms and kitchen, that home sold for $279,000.”

It’s not just about extra profit according to Bush. “An updated home can sell up to 75% faster. Time on market after these updates is typically two weeks instead of three months. That means less carrying costs and an easier transition for the sellers, who need the funds to purchase their next home.”

Metroplex seller Marlene Coffman says “I was able to raise my asking price well beyond the plus-$20,000 cost of my remodels. My first

showing resulted in an offer at my price. So did the next. Our contract is pending now well over the asking price, and my house was on the market for just three days.”

Seller Kenna Rosen had similar results, remarking that “Our house wouldn’t have sold as quickly, or for as much without the job that Bella Vista did on remodeling our master suite.”

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The May Lake Highlands Advocate featured stories of graduating high school seniors who overcame bleak circumstances to succeed and light the way for others. Via lakehighlands. advocatemag.com, a teacher shared about featured student Jonathan Garza, who she taught in the eigth grade.

Jonathon Garza was one of my students my first year as a teacher. My first impression of Jonathon was “Oh Lord, this kid looks like he is about 18-years old in the eighth grade. He does not look like he cares too much. What am I going to do with him?” Boy, was I wrong. I learned about his stint in jail in an assignment he wrote for my language arts class. I knew it was too early to ask him about it because we did not know each other well. But when the time was right, I did. (I still have the passage hanging in my classroom as a reminder to never give up on a kid.) Jonathon opened up to me about his past and as time went on we became friends. At the end of 8th grade, after he received commended scores on his reading TAKS test, only missing one question, we made a deal that if he stayed out of trouble the rest of his years in school that I would help him get into college. He definitely kept up his end of the deal. There is so much I could say about this young man and his journey. His story should inspire educators to never never never give up on a kid. His story shows kids that they can make it, and that their decisions now will shape their future. He will testify that it is hard work. He has had battles along the way and times where he wanted to give up, but he didn’t. I know that life will bring him great success. Jonathon, Miss Lane is tremendously proud of you! —Katie Lane

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Saturday June 15 Backyard Chicken Sale / Q&A 11am

Saturday June 22 Salsa Saturday! Salsa Contest. Enter your best salsa to win!

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On May 8, Advocate contributor Keri Mitchell wrote a piece for lakehighlands.advocatemag.com about apartments at Walnut Hill-Audelia and their impact on retail development. Former councilman Bill Blaydes is quoted within:

“Everybody that I have talked to about coming [here] said they would consider it — and they were much better retailers than what exist today — but the type of retail we wanted ... would not agree to come until something is done about the multifamily on the north side of Walnut Hill,” Readers had varying responses. Visit lakewood.advocatemag.com and search “Blaydes” to read them in full.

As someone who has worked with many of the people in the mentioned apartments — a reminder that not all people who live in multi-family units are criminals. It would be interesting to know the stats on how much money is spent in the shopping center by homeowners and by renters. Why can’t we have both and practice more crime education and prevention. Poor retail? It’s the economy. —Jan

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Q&A Deputy Chief Andrew Acord

The Dallas Police Department recently reassigned Deputy Chief Andrew Acord to the Northeast Police Division, which patrols Lake Highlands and much of East Dallas. Before the move, Acord oversaw the Dallas Police Narcotics Division. During his first week on the job, two major manhunts launched in the White Rock area — one, for the perpetrators of the violent murder of an elderly homeowner in the Dixon Branch area and the other for a serial rapist in the Lake Highlands area.

A lot of drama during your first few weeks, huh?

After the immediate chaos settled, it became a joke of sorts because the staff originally had told me that it was a good place to work, that things were relatively routine around here. Not too much action. But the work came fast and didn’t let up for the first month or six weeks or so.

Is it surprising that the suspects in these cases were apprehended relatively quickly?

In the case of the sexual assailant, we felt confident that he was still in the area. We had some very capable people working the case — several different divisions — and we had the cooperation of the citizens. There was a sense of urgency, wanting to protect the community from further assault, so there was a confidence there. There was a different dynamic to the homicide case. For one, of course, the homicide unit oversaw the investigation, though we did put resources into that investigation.

It seems as if social media was beneficial in both these cases. How has new media affected police work?

Social media is beneficial in two major ways. It allows us to push out information quickly. [Suspects in the Dixon Branch ho-

Acord: Danny Fulgencio

DALLAS CITY COUNCIL & ELECTION RELATED MATTERS

2013-2015 DALLAS CITY COUNCIL OFFICIALLY TAKES OFFICE JUNE 24, 2013

Runoff Election

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Place 5 Rick Callahan

Jesse Diaz

Early Voting Schedule for Runoff Election

Place 14

Philip T. Kingston

Bobby Abtahi

EARLY VOTING AND ELECTION DAY VOTING LOCATIONS

June 3 – June 8 8 AM – 5 PM (Monday through Saturday)

June 9 1 PM – 6 PM (Sunday)

June 10 – June 11 7 AM – 7 PM (Monday and Tuesday)

Election Day Voting Schedule

June 15 7 AM – 7 PM (Saturday)

General and Special Elections

Place 1 - Scott Griggs

Councilmember-Elect

Place 2 - Adam Medrano

Councilmember-Elect

Place 3 - Vonciel Jones Hill

Councilmember-Elect

Place 4 - Dwaine Caraway

Unopposed, Councilmember-Elect

Place 6 - Monica R. Alonzo

Councilmember-Elect

Place 7 - Carolyn R. Davis

Councilmember-Elect

Based upon the statement of returns for the City of Dallas Special Election also held May 11, 2013, Propositions 1 and 2 authorizing

The most current list of voting can be found by contacting the City Secretary’s Office at (214) 670-3738 or accessing the City Secretary’s Office website at http://www.ci.dallas. tx.us/cso/electUpcoming. html, as well as contacting the Dallas County Elections Department at (214)819-6300 or accessing their website at http://www.dallascountyvotes.org/.

May 11, 2013 - Duly Elected

Place 8 - Tennell Atkins

Councilmember-Elect

Place 9 - Sheffie Kadane

Unopposed, Councilmember-Elect

Place 10 - Jerry Allen

Unopposed, Councilmember-Elect

Place 11 - Lee Kleinman

Councilmember-Elect

Place 12 - Sandy Greyson

Unopposed, Councilmember-Elect

Place 13 - Jennifer Staubach Gates

Councilmember-Elect

the sale of Joey Georgusis Park and Elgin B. Robertson Park received sufficient votes to allow the sale of these park properties.

micide were apprehended following both a social-media based call for information and a YouTube video showing the suspects using the victim’s credit card]. It also allows us to tell the public about various accomplishments of the police department.

[Editor’s note: A recent study named Dallas Police most social-media friendly police department. See lakehighlands. advocatemag.com, search “media savvy police” for the story].

How long have you been with DPD? Thirty three years.

Did you always want to go into law enforcement?

Yes. Since high school.

Did you grow up in Dallas?

No. Houston. I attended Sam Houston and planned to join the Houston Police Department. But then I met my wife. She lived in Richardson. So I followed her here.

Why law enforcement?

I didn’t want to be behind a desk and I wanted to positively impact the community.

What divisions have you worked? Patrol in the southeast division, communications, SWAT, which wasn’t called SWAT then but the tactical division — it was before Dallas SWAT was famous — internal affairs, then narcotics.

So, leading narcotics, you were like Hank from the AMC’s “Breaking Bad”?

I haven’t seen the show.

You should.

I’ll check it out ... the [real-life] narcotics office consisted of disrupting and dismantling drug traffic. Dallas is a hub for distribution.

Why did they move you around so much? It seems you guys move around every few years.

Yes. I think it is so that we are more experienced and well rounded.

Sale of Joey Georgusis Park and Elgin B. Robertson Parks

When was the last time you chased someone?

It has been a long time, since I was on patrol, which was back in ’87. In fact, the chase wound up at LBJ and Skillman. The suspect got out of the vehicle near there and we chased him on foot. Found him coming out of a manhole cover behind Tom Thumb.

The northeast division has two of Dallas’ highest crime areas. What are your plans for handling that?

This is a large and diverse area. Larger than most surrounding suburbs — it’s an 86-square-mile area with a population of 286,000. It presents more challenging crime areas, but this is an exceptional police division here. This area also has, I believe, more active crime watch and homeowners groups working with police than any other. We are initiating programs with cooperative apartment managers and residents to combat and prevent crime by forming crime watch groups within those communities.

It seems as if there is always a helicopter over Lake Highlands ... The helicopter unit is out of police headquarters. They are very responsive about assisting patrol in capturing crime suspects. There are also preventative patrols.

Do they focus on Forest-Audelia, or how are they designated for preventative patrol?

You would have to ask that department about that.

—Christina Hughes Babb

Writer in residence

Victoria Scott

Over the years, while working as an account executive for an advertising agency, Victoria Scott saw her passion for reading flourish. “I was an avid reader of the ‘Hunger Games’ and the ‘Twilight’ series,” she says. Her hours spent reading helped her to write engaging copy and commercials, but she says she felt something was missing. Scott’s husband encouraged her to pursue writing her own book, and soon after, Scott completed her debut novel, “The Collector.” The novel — the first book of a paranormal trilogy geared toward young adults is based loosely on people Scott has encountered and what she felt was missing in the young-adult genre. “Popular books for teenagers have these 17-year-old guys that are selfless and always say the right thing,” Scott says. “I knew it was a risk, but I want-

ed my main character to be the cocky jerk, and the lead female to be an unattractive nerd.” In the plot, the arrogant protagonist, Dante Walker, is a “soul collector” who is asked to steal nerdy Charlie Cooper’s soul to gain a ticket out of Hell. Scott says, “So many times, cocky guys in books are one-dimensional, but from my experience I know that guys like this often are acting out for attention and are deeply insecure, and I enjoyed being able to convey those different facets through Dante.” Scott says she loved her own high school years — she was a cheerleader in New Braunfels, Texas — which is part of what motivates her to write for young adults. “Teenagers are fun to write because they are able to engage in adult activities without all of the

adult baggage that comes with a mortgage or a career, so the story is fast-paced and engaging,” Scott says, adding that these days teenagers are tough critics because they’ll immediately put their book down and pick up their iPad if they lose interest. Last year Scott and her husband moved to Lake Highlands after several years living in downtown Dallas and a brief time living in Frisco. Scott says she is thrilled to live where there is a strong neighborhood feel in such close proximity to the city. She says the natural beauty of the lake, trees and wildlife inspires her writing and helps her to be more creative. Many days during the week, Scott can be found writing at White Rock Coffee. The next book in Scott’s Dante Walker trilogy, “The Liberator,” will be available August 27.

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—Whitney Thompson

“So many times, cocky guys in books are onedimensional, but from my experience I know that guys like this often are acting out for attention and are deeply insecure, and I enjoyed being able to convey those different facets through Dante.”

Out & About

June 5-8

Book sale fundraiser

Peruse a huge selection of books, CDs, movies, greeting cards, magazines and more at the Skillman Southwestern Library Friends used media sale. Starts Wednesday at noon until 7:45 p.m. and runs 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. ThursdaySaturday. All materials remaining on the last day of the sale will be half price.

Skillman Southwestern Library, 5707

Skillman, 214.670.6078, sslfriends@aol.com, free entry

June 1

Lake Highlands Peacock Walk and White Rock Lake Bike Ride

Take in the scenery around White Rock Lake by choosing from two events hosted by The Dallas Trekkers Walking Club. Bicyclists can take a 16km or 25km ride around White Rock Lake together. For a milder adventure, keep an eye out for peacocks and take a 6km or 10km stroll. Walkers will stop by the Lake Highlands Community Garden, the White Rock Stables and Flag Pole Hill. Both events will meet up at the Lake House Bar and Grill and start at 7:30 a.m.

Lake House Bar and Grill, 7510 E. Northwest Highway, dallastrekkers.org, free

June 5

‘A Southern Belle Primer’

Longtime Dallas resident and Southern humorist Maryln

Schwartz passed away in 2011, but her classic book, “A Southern Belle Primer,” lives on. Hear Karen Kelly, a dear friend to Schwartz, review the legacy of her friend’s book at Lochwood Library from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Lochwood Branch Library, 11221 Lochwood Boulevard, 214.670.8403, free

June 8, 22

White Rock

Local Market

From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., join local farmers, artisans and more for a neighborhood market featuring food and craft vendors, as well as produce from local farmers.

Green Spot Market & Fuels, 702 N. Buckner, free

June 22

You Can Pickle That!

White Rock Local Market’s summer workshop series continues this month with a class on pickling from instructors Kathy Neumuller from JJ&B Jams and Karen Phelps from In a Pickle. Students will learn about the process of canning and will pickle their own vegetables and preserves. A light lunch is included, and reservations are required.

First Unitarian Church of Dallas, 5700 Preston, 214.797.4989, $50/$40 for members

Through June 29

Nature in My Art

The Bath House Cultural Center presents nature-inspired artwork by Pavlina Panova Tuesdays through Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m.

Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther Drive, 214.670.8749, dallasculture.org/ bathhouseculturecenter, free

June 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30

‘The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs’

The Dallas Children’s Theater gives us the wolf’s side of the story in this nationally acclaimed adaptation of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s book. Performances run at 7:30 p.m. Fridays, and 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

Dallas Children’s Theater, 5938 Skillman, 214.740.0051, $16-$27

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After retiring, Thom Turnock wanted to get into the restaurant business and use his knowledge from a career in marketing to give patrons a quality experience. “I’m a little bit of a control freak,” he says. When you step into Varsity Grill, his efforts are immediately visible. The place is immaculate. Turnock says that when he opened up in Lake Highlands three years ago, he didn’t do any advertising; most people discovered the restaurant by word of mouth. The consistency of the food and the service attracts a large lunch crowd from neighborhood businesses, and Turnock makes it a priority to learn the names of all his customers. He also enjoys working with local schools for various fundraisers. Turnock says that although the restaurant is family friendly, it will never be one of those noisy places where the kids run amok, unattended by their parents. “The food here is madeto-order, our Blue Bell ice cream shakes are hand-dipped, the patties and wings are never frozen the big groups with really little kids just need things to be a little more instant.” The menu includes a variety of salads, wraps, and appetizers, but the burgers are top-notch. There are dozens of burger places around Dallas, but Turnock says his buns set him apart. Made fresh daily, customers can choose from jalapeno-cheddar, sweet sourdough or whole wheat. The buns don’t fall apart or overwhelm the flavor of the grilled patty. The final product is a good old-fashioned burger that satisfies. —Whitney Thompson

Double double burger: Mark Davis

1 Keller’s Drive-in

This drive-in has been a neighborhood institution since 1965, with the customer service, cheap prices, and eclectic regulars to prove it. Order an ice-cold longneck to drink in your car with some tater tots and the popular No. 5: a juicy double cheeseburger with special sauce. Just don’t forget to stop by the ATM on your way, since it’s cash only.

6537 E. Northwest Hwy.

214.368.1209

2 JG’s Old Fashioned Burgers

Be sure to check out the condiment bar where you can fancy up your burger any way you please at this restaurant that’s been in our ‘hood nearly 30 years.

12101 Greenville

972.644.8628

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3 Jake’s

Turn up the heat at this Lake Highlands establishment by trying a spicy black bean veggie patty or a “jalapeno bottle cap” burger.

6606 Skillman

214.349.1422

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Torchy’s Tacos

This hot spot is complete with a grand patio for a Torchy’s-inspired picnic. Have a taco (or four!), then wash it down with a specialty cocktail from our Firewater Menu.

5600 SMU Blvd, Suite 102 972.993.TACO (8226)

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Think pink

Charles & Charles Rosé ($10) Washington

This month marks the 11th annual Advocate rosé column where we celebrate pink wine that costs $10, pairs with almost any kind of food you can think of, and — despite what the wine snobs say — isn’t sweet or unpleasant to drink.

In this, rosé is pretty much the perfect cheap wine. That it’s not more popular is a function of its color — it’s too often confused with white zinfandel (or white merlot or whatever), so wine drinkers shy away from it because they think it’s sweet. In fact, most rosés are bone-dry and combine the best qualities of red and white wines.

What should you drink? This will get you started:

• Rene Barbier Mediterranean Rosé ($6). Maybe the best cheap rosé on the market, consistent and varietally correct. This version has a little more fruit (strawberry) than usual.

• Goats do Roam Rosé ($10). This South African wine is very nicely done and a fine value, with flavors of strawberry and cranberry. It’s more like a European rosé — crisper and less fruity than its New World cousins.

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• Charles & Charles Rosé ($10). The quintessential New World-style rosé, with lots of fruit (mostly strawberry), as well as style and structure. One of my favorite rosés every year.

—Jeff Siegel

Ask the wine guy

Why is rosé pink?

Rosés are made mostly with red grapes, and they get their color from the skins. The skins are left in the fermenting grape juice just long enough to color the wine and are then removed.

—Jeff Siegel

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With your wine

The ultimate chicken salad

Forget everything you know about chicken salad. This version doesn’t resemble the mayonnaise glop that most of us are familiar with; instead, it’s a summer dinner for four that doesn’t involve any cooking (save for boiling water). It’s also the ultimate rosé dinner.

Grocery List

1 whole roasted chicken, about 3 ½ to 4 lbs (a roasted grocery store chicken is perfect), cut into pieces

16 oz thin noodles, cooked (Asian soup or rice noodles are good, but any long thin noodle works)

4 c shredded lettuce

Assorted raw salad vegetables, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, red onions and radishes

Best-quality vinaigrette

Alligator Café

Angelo’s Italian Grill

Bangkok City Barbec’s BG’s Classic Subs

Good-2-Go-Taco

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1. Assemble the salad and vegetables in a large bowl and dress lightly with the vinaigrette.

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Forget the latest culinary craze — loyal diners dish about the standbys that keep them coming back, and back, and back

It’s a challenge to keep up with the trendy and innovative restaurant landscape in Dallas. Every day, it seems, brings the announcement of a new upscale taco joint or slow-food gastropub or microbrewery. Amid the blur of media clamoring to cover the city’s latest and greatest foodie hotspots, it’s easy to forget the neighborhood restaurants that have stuck with us over the long haul.

But the regulars don’t forget.

They patronize their favorites week in and week out, sometimes daily. Their allegiance isn’t just about the food. They tend to be loyalists and creatures of habit, in contrast to those of us who have restaurant attention deficit disorder.

The neighborhood eateries with established regulars aren’t typically the ones enjoying Twitter and blogger buzz. If we lost them, however, they would leave gaping holes in the fabric of our community.

While most of us play the restaurant field, we salute the regulars who make sure our neighborhood’s dining staples will be around when we crave them.

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Scott Bodell had gone out to pick up pizzas from Tony’s, a once-aweek (or more) ritual for the Bodell family. In the five minutes between his leaving the restaurant and arriving home, Sylvia Bodell received a phone call.

It was Tony’s.

“Before I heard the garage door open, they were calling me saying, ‘We’ve got your husband’s credit card.’ ”

She was thankful, but not surprised. This is the kind of over-the-top customer service the Bodells have come to expect from the family-owned Italian restaurant at Northwest Highway and Ferndale.

The Bodells started eating at Tony’s when their 21-year-old son Cameron and 17-yearold son Carter were 8 and 4, “when you could still walk in and sit down at a table,” Sylvia Bodell says, adding that Tony’s is now so popular that it is perpetually packed with a line out the door.

They loved that it was BYOB and that the waiters handed their sons dough to play with while they waited for food. Sylvia remembers one instance when they had to wait longer than usual for their food, and the boys were “starving and complaining.” When it was time to pay, Tony’s wouldn’t let them.

“They told us, ‘We’re not charging you for this. You had to wait too long.’ And the next time we came in to have dinner again, they wouldn’t let us pay,” she says. “We’ve been loyal customers ever since.”

So loyal, in fact, that Scott has forgotten his wallet a couple of times

when picking up food, and was told, “No problem, Scott, we’ll get ya next time.”

“They know us, and there’s a comfort that they know us. If there were a neighborhood ‘Cheers’ restaurant, they would be it. They have your name and phone numbers,” Sylvia says. “There’s a small-town atmosphere about that. It’s a nice perk to have when you live in a big city.”

The family hasn’t eaten a sit-down dinner at Tony’s in years. The boys grew up, and “our schedule got crazier,” Sylvia says. But it was the first restaurant she added to her cell phone years ago, and though “our family eats out a lot and frequents many restaurants,” she says, “once a week, we make it a point to order Tony’s.”

And she makes a special trip when Cameron, a Texas A&M junior, comes home.

“He has to have his Tony’s fix,” Sylvia says.

Soon enough, she’ll be making such trips for Carter, currently a LHHS junior.

“Now that they’re older, [Scott and I] will probably have time to go back and sit down,” Sylvia says.

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Sylvia’s favorite for “at least 12 years” is the veggie pizza. The trick, she says, is adding eggplant and spinach. “Years ago, I think Tony asked me, ‘Do you want eggplant and spinach?’ ” She didn’t even know to ask, but after that, she was hooked. “I have found that people who have eaten at Tony’s for years have never tried it, and love it!” Another Bodell family favorite is the “modo mio” pasta with pink sauce. What’s in the pink sauce? “You’d have to ask Mama,” Sylvia says. “It’s her recipe.”

The Bodell family has frequented Tony’s since Scott and Sylvia’s teenage son, Carter, was 4.

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Order like a regular Because Rachael Deer doesn’t eat meat, and Jim Deer says he “needs to watch [his] waistline,” they stick to the healthier fare at Highlands Café. “I’m sort of a soup guy, and I also get the chicken Caesar wrap or quesadilla,” Jim Deer says. Rachael Deer sticks to the veggie burgers. “They’re just as good here, if not better than most places,” he says.

Bottom/ When Jim and Rachael Deer are in Dallas, they dine at Highlands Café four or five times a week.

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When Jim Deer walks in the door of Highlands Café, the staff begins guessing what he’s planning to order.

“The cook sees me in the back of the line, and I’ll mouth which choice I’m going to want, so he goes ahead and gets it started,” Deer says.

That’s the perk of being a regular, and Deer and his wife, Rachael, are definitely that, at least half of the time.

About six months of the year, the Deers reside in Crested Butte, Colo. Deer is an avid road and mountain biker, and “the summertime exertion on my bike in Dallas is not a particularly good idea,” he says.

The months they do spend at home in Merriman Park, the Deers dine at Highlands Café four to five times a week, he says. This practice started about six months after the restaurant opened in 2004.

“We don’t cook much anymore, and I got tired of cleaning up my wife’s messes when she cooks,” Deer jokes. A neighbor told his wife about the place. “I really liked the neighborhood restaurant concept,” he says. “It’s not real trendy, and I see people I know.”

They were pleased with the food — “good, healthy, convenient and quick,” Deer says — and after years of frequenting the place, they like being on a first-name basis with the staff as well as the managing partners, Lake Highlands residents Anita Siegers and Kathy Stewart, who were among the 20 financial backers who opened the restaurant believing

our neighborhood needed a casual family dining spot.

“I like to be a loyal customer. It’s sort of a personal philosophy,” Deer says. “I appreciate the fact they took the risk to put a neighborhood restaurant in. I don’t know if Anita or Kathy make any money, but they put a lot of time in.”

Deer also appreciates that the restaurant solicits feedback — and listens.

“I came back from Colorado and the soups tasted funny, and the chef told me, ‘Yeah, they changed the recipes,’ ” Deer says. “I told him I didn’t like them, and it wasn’t long before they changed them.”

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Eleanor and John Birch originally are from Canada, but moved to Lake Highlands in 1984.

“We didn’t have parents in the city where, when it’s been a long day, we say, ‘Let’s go to Mom and Dad’s for dinner,’ ” Eleanor says.

Instead, for the last 24 years, they have found themselves saying, “It’s been a long day. Let’s go to Momo’s.”

The tradition began in 1989 after the family went to northern Italy for six weeks while John, an orthopedic surgeon at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital, studied a new technology. The couple brought along their children, 2-yearold Craig and 4-year-old Cailin, and being in a hotel for the first three weeks, they ate out quite a bit.

“All of a sudden we realized that, yes, we could take our children to restaurants,” Eleanor says.

They had noticed Momo Italian Kitchen when they moved to Lake Highlands, but thought, “We have small kids; we’ll go later,” she says. “When we got home from Italy, we thought, ‘We’ll go now.’ ”

It became a Sunday-evening tradition. The restaurant was quiet, with good food (“They’re fastidious in their preparation,” Eleanor says). Plus, Momo’s has always been family-oriented, she says, and “let the kids practice their restaurant manners in a nonthreatening area.”

Cailin will turn 28 this summer, and Craig just turned 26. They both left home to pursue education and careers, but “when the kids come back, the first night we always go to Momo’s,” Eleanor says. “It’s been a big part of our life.”

Craig is preparing to move back to Dallas for an orthopedic residency. “He was saying, ‘I can get back to the Momo’s routine!’ ” Eleanor says.

“It’s kind of like home,” she says. order like a regular

The Birches don’t order the same dish every Sunday night. “We shake it up,” Eleanor says. Over the years, they’ve tried everything on the menu. For someone who likes white sauce, she suggests the capelli d’angelo with asparagus; anyone partial to red sauce should try the shells with modo mio sauce.

The ladies who lunch

It’s easy to track down Paula Davis. Just head to Picasso’s for lunch on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Her tradition started 14 years ago with a group of 10-15 Lake Highlands moms. All of them had children in the ninth grade who were in the class of ’03, the year Davis’ daughter Meredith graduated. They attended a weekly Bible study at North Dallas Community Bible Fellowship, and began eating lunch together right afterward.

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Davis typically sticks to the salads at Picasso’s. “Every salad I’ve ever had was absolutely delicious,” she says. When she orders home delivery, it’s usually a pizza, most often the chicken Florentine. “And that was one I thought, ‘Chicken and spinach and tomatoes? That’s crazy.’ But it’s my favorite.”

Debbie Douglas, Fran Patterson and Paula Davis still enjoy themselves each week at Picasso’s after 14 years of dining together on Wednesdays.

“It was easier to go to the same place,” Davis says. And if anyone missed the Bible study, “you knew we’d be there by 11:15.”

That was back when Picasso’s was on Skillman just north of LBJ. Most of the business was carry-out pizzas, but customers could also eat in and pay at the counter.

To this day, 20 or so women attend the Wednesday lunches on occasion, and “four or five of us are there every week,” Davis says. Some of the attendees’ children wound up marrying each other.

Both Davis and another Wednesday luncher attend the Tuesday lunches, too. That’s a group for class of ’07 moms, the year Davis’ son Oz graduated.

When their kids were growing up, after a football game the families would head to Picasso’s, which sometimes even stayed open late. Davis remembers one night when about 100 people packed into the former spot at Skillman and LBJ.

Owner Jennifer Albert was their waitress in the early days, and Davis is still close to Albert and her husband, Andrew.

“Jennifer and Andrew are incredible community members,” she says. “I have never asked them to support something in the neighborhood that they said no to.”

These days the restaurant is at Skillman and Walnut Hill, and their waitress is Sylvia, who has Davis’ drink on the table before

she walks in.

“Because we go twice a week, we have the same waitress, we sit at the same table, I sit in the same chair, and for months on end, I eat the same food,” Davis says.

Right now, she’s on a chicken tender salad kick.

“Sometimes I don’t even look at Sylvia, and she’ll go, ‘OK, you’re having the chicken tender salad today,’ ” Davis says. “She knows which ladies like lemon, which ones like Sweet’N Low, and which ones like apricot tea.”

Not only that, but their table is kept open until the women arrive each week, and if they feel too hot or too cold, or think the music is too loud or too soft, or want the TV channel changed, the staff quickly accommodates them.

“We are treated like queens because we’re regulars there,” D avis laughs.

Davis also takes advantage of Picasso’s takeout and home delivery, and says her record is dining there five times in one week. She also has eaten there twice in one day, “but never three times,” she says.

She could win a contest for most loyal Picasso’s customer, especially if measured in Yelp check-ins.

“My daughter works for Yelp,” Davis says, “and over three years I have 150 check-ins at Picasso’s — and sometimes I even forget to check in!”

Father to many

Two careers, happy marriage, eight children, 23 grandchildren, loads of friends — by age 60, Josef Vollmer-König seemed to have it all.

Then his life, as we know it, began.

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In the 1940s Josef Vollmer-König and his family lived a week in a forest, avoiding Allied forces after World War II. A child, he knew nothing about the war, except that the thing “bombed out” his school, a tiny one-classroom structure in the middle of the small German town where his father owned a sprawling farm.

Vollmer-König — now in his 80s and serving as the pastor at St. Patrick’s in Lake Highlands — shares photographs of his hometown that he shot with his iPhone 5 on a recent visit. The crisp little image does justice to the expansive green prairies interrupted only by a few quaint farmhouses and old towering trees — against a shadowy, mountainous backdrop. The Catholic church was the only church in town. Everyone in town was Catholic, Vollmer-König confirms. War ended and as time passed, life — for his family, at least — started its journey back to normal. The town was rebuilt and young

Josef learned to cook, became a skilled chef and got a job in a restaurant. He was a good kid, but one itching for adventure. Doesn’t every young person have the itch? Vollmer-König says he thinks so.

He came to the United States to work as a chef in San Antonio, Texas. “I went because I wanted to see the world,” he says. “I planned to stay for a year.” He had a few problems in America, not the least of which was that, at the time, he spoke little English and no Spanish (a hindrance in a Texas kitchen, he learned).

The cooks would good-naturedly tease him and lie to him about the meaning of words. The only one who helped him was a pretty waitress named Ernestine. It did not take long for Josef to fall for Ernestine and she for him. They married in ’61. He joined the Army and remained in the reserves for 25 years. They started a family, which eventually included

Josef Vollmer-König became the pastor of St. Patrick’s in Lake Highlands in the summer of 2001.

“He is always loving, always guiding and always giving of himself.”

eight children.

But a sort of revolution — he calls it the “hamburger revolution” of 1966 — would shift the tide for the Vollmer-Königs.

“When cars became popular, drive-ins and drive-thrus and car hops became popular. A chef couldn’t take care of his family anymore. So I decided to change professions.”

He went to machinist school and took a job at General Motors in Dallas, where he worked for 30 years. Around their Oak Cliff neighborhood, Josef was known as the guy with all the kids. “I was the man with the five girls, because my wife didn’t feel like taking them all over the place with her, so I often kept [the girls] with me.”

Josef became a deacon at Blessed Sacrament Church in Oak Cliff; he visited and delivered communion to retirement and nursing homes. This is what he loved to do, he says. Help the hurting and ailing, participate in the Catholic tradition, sing with the choir. Whether in Germany, Rome or Dallas, the Catholic mass was always understandable each calendar day the mass is rooted in the same Biblical scripture at every Catholic church in the world.

He introduced the art of making gingerbread houses, a remnant of his culinary past, to his offspring and his neighbors. A clipping from a 1969 newspaper shows Josef with one of his prizewinning gingerbread houses. He has a white apron inscribed with “The Gingerbread Man” that he says he bought from a tailor shop two blocks away from the Vatican in Rome.

By the early ’90s, he had a slew of grand-

As a young man, Father Josef worked as a chef.

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But in the summer of 1994, Ernestine became sick. She died of heart failure in 1995. Josef says, “I had to decide what to do with my life.” But first, he says, he had to decide who he was by himself.

He felt the priesthood tug at his heart, he says. But wasn’t that irrational? A 60-yearold man entering the seminary? Becoming a Catholic priest? After all, most Catholic priests were single men who had devoted their whole adult lives to Christ, not retired mechanics with 23 grandchildren.

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“But God wouldn’t let go of me,” he says. There was this particular Catholic hymn that, it seemed, played each time Josef entered a church, whether in Dallas or overseas. “Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord?” goes the song. “I will go, Lord, if you lead me.” He recalls traveling to Germany for a child’s baptism. “First, there was the song, as usual. Then I opened the missal and there were the words again, in German: ‘Whom shall I send? Here I am, Lord.’ ” So, against the wishes of some of his eight children and 20-plus grandchildren, who really just wanted him around, he joined the seminary, which also included returning to college for basic courses alongside students his grandchildren’s age.

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Since he already had taken the necessary preparations to be ordained a deacon at Blessed Sacrament, he spent just four years, rather than the typical seven or eight, in the seminary. “It is not an education,” he notes, “but priestly formation. You are changing your whole life. Priesthood is not a job or career. It is a vocation,” he says. “The other day I had a funeral, a wedding, a confirmation and a baptism — a whole lifetime in one day. I am a part of all of those families.”

Today Josef, who lived most of his life in Oak Cliff, right up the street from Blessed Sacrament, lives in the rectory at St. Patrick’s. His office overlooks the school and contains both live fish and flourishing plants some of which he brought home from Ernestine’s hospital room almost 20 years ago. Images of holy figures adorn the walls. Jesus, looking unusually happy, is not just smiling, but “excited,” Josef says.

A plaque that reads, “This is the day the Lord has made!” hangs over his desk. Some days he can still hear Ernestine ask, “Just what are you doing here?”

“I still sometimes question what I am do-

ing,” he says. Once you enter the priesthood, you don’t have all the answers, he explains. You are always learning. He says he knows his mind is not entirely capable of understanding the supernatural. “God is a mystery. There is more than I can ever imagine. When do you stop learning? Never.”

He joined St. Patrick’s in 2007, when he was 70, when most people are retiring, he says, smiling as thoroughly as Jesus in the picture on the wall behind him.

He still manufactures gingerbread houses, and rightly shows off a few photos — they are majestic structures bursting with color and shimmering sugar crystals. A couple of Christmases ago he was paid a few thousand dollars to build gingerbread houses. Of course the earnings went to Catholic Charities.

Having lived a long life already, the German Shepherd (a nickname parishioners gave the priest) understands the value of each day. He knows what is important, member Jennifer Hurt says. Her son was admitted to the hospital last St. Patrick’s Day with appendicitis. Though the church was celebrating its 50th anniversary that day with a massive event attended by several bishops and past pastors, Hurt says, Father dropped it all for her family. “My daughter was at the mass that day and asked a few friends to pray for [her brother]. Father Josef overheard and left the celebration to come to the hospital. He is an extraordinary man.”

But that, says Josef, is his purpose — to share God’s love with those who are suffering, scared or unsure. That comes before anything else.

“He is always loving, always guiding and always giving of himself, “ Hurt attests.

And it is that simple: make life better for someone. “If I go to bed at night knowing I have done that,” Father Josef says, “I know I have done my job.”

Josef Vollmer-König married Ernestine in the 1960s and the couple raised eight children.

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City View Antique Mall opened in the fall and held a grand opening event in May. The popular shop, owned by Lake Highlands resident Ellen Paulsen, relocated to Lake Highlands from the Design District. More than 50 independent dealers scour estate sales and antique markets to fill City View’s 13,000 square feet with furniture, art, glassware, primitives, and European and American antiques.

Single-family home development

The property at the corner of Church and Skillman has been sold to Lake Highlands resident Stephen Davis of MasterPlan Development. Davis plans to build single-family homes on the property. The land has been a source of contention over the years as neighbors loudly expressed an unwillingness to allow the construction of more multifamily development there — based on the zoning of the property, which essentially called for multifamily use, it looked like more apartments, or at least a multifamily senior living community, was going to be inevitable. But several Lake Highlands residents, who also happen to be experts in certain areas concerning real estate and zoning, fought hard for something else and were successful. Both Prescott Realty Group, developer of the Lake Highlands Town Center, and Forest Meadow Baptist Church owned the land before Davis purchased it. The sale to him was based hugely on the ability to get the land rezoned for single-family residences,

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which was no easy feat. Bill Blaydes, the former District 10 councilman who represented Davis in the purchase, says resident Realtor Peggy Hill and her team at Nathan Grace Realtors, also based here, served as “the catalyst that got this five-year journey over the hump and made it happen.” Hill says Davis is a great guy who already has builders lined up to begin construction on 37 single-family homes.

Loved ones remembered

Faith Presbyterian Hospice hosted a butterfly release to honor the memory of lost ones. The event was held in the picturesque setting of the future home of the T. Boone Pickens Hospice and Palliative Care Center on Merit Drive. Speakers included Godwin Dixon, president and CEO of Presbyterian Communities and Services; the Rev. Dr. Charles R. Traylor; Valerie Sanchez, director of bereavement and integrated therapies; and Mary Izak, chaplain.

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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

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

wILSHIre BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

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

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

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GrACe BIBLe CHUrCH / www. gracebiblechurch.org

Sunday Worship: Traditional 9:00 am; Contemporary 10:30 am

Adult Bible Classes both hours /11306 Inwood Rd./214.368.0779

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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CeNTrAL CHrISTIAN CHUrCH / 4711 Westside Drive / 214.526.7291

Sunday Worship 11:00 am ./ Sunday School 9:45am

Wed. Bible Study 5:00 pm./ www.cccdt.org / ALL are welcome

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

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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

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L AKe 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

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Sunday Worship 10:50 am / Rev. George Fisk

NoN- de NoMINATIoNAL

L AKe HIGHLANdS CHUrCH / 9919 McCree / 214.348.0460

Sundays: Classes 9:30, Coffee 10:25, Assembly 10:45

Home groups meet on weeknights. / lakehighlandschurch.org

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Meets at Ridgewood Park Rec Center / 469.600.3303

LAKe HIGHLANdS PreSByTerIAN CHUrCH / 214.348.2133

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

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

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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Sunday services: 9:00 am & 11:00 am

OccupatiOn vs. vOcatiOn

One keeps you busy, and one is a calling

Career Day at Lakewood Elementary earlier this year brought doctors, engineers, firefighters, businesspeople and at least one Baptist pastor to the school.

Teacher Lisa Harris-Jones invited me to her class. I got to talk about what I do and why I do it to kids who might not otherwise wonder their way into my work.

A week or so later, I received a manila envelope with thank-you notes from the kids. Love that. Many drew pictures to add to their words. Their thanks were sprinkled (not immersed) — one was even glittered — with echoes of what I told them.

Most Career Day speakers came with props from their job. I chose a Bible and clerical stole (even though Baptist pastors don’t usually robe). I got to tell them about the things pastors/priests do. We work for God in and through the church. We marry people, bury people, baptize people and generally help people.

We’re in the people business.

We do a lot of talking — sermons, of course; teaching, too; and counseling with people who are in crisis or looking for spiritual direction. We talk about God mostly. We tell God’s story and how we each of us can find our place in it. The Bible is a meeting place where we can hear from God and from other people who lived a long time ago and who also heard from God about what to do with their lives.

Which leads back to career.

The word vocation comes from the Latin vocare, which means to call. It implies a caller. The caller could be your mother who wants you to do this or that so that she can say her son or daughter does this or that. The caller could be Mammon — the lure of making a lot of money. If it’s a spiritual vocation, the caller will be God.

You can do a job and be occupied with your work. We call that an occupation. But if you have the sense that you are not so much choosing to do a certain kind of work but instead being chosen to do it, then the work that you do is a vocation more than just occupation. To be called feels like

To be called feels like something you can’t not do. You are summoned. You are answering a voice that addresses you personally.

something you can’t not do. You are summoned. You are answering a voice that addresses you personally.

All of us are called to do what we do with the highest ethical standards — to treat others with respect, to put people before profit, to look out for the common good. The voice of vocation points you to what you do even more than how you do it. A vocation is a preoccupation before it’s an occupation. It closes the gap in your soul between who you are and what you do. It’s as much about making a life as making a living.

The call of God may be to ministry in the church or to ministry for the church in the world. God doesn’t only call preachers, while all others are left to figure it out for themselves. The world is full of altars on which to make your offering to God.

Frederick Buechner’s adage is hard to beat: “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”

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.

Schools

celebrities will judge the final rounds of the national competition. Winners will earn more than $200,000 in college scholarships.

Nonprofits

The Exchange Club of Lake Highlands made a $4,000 donation to the Lake Highlands Area Early Childhood Parent Teacher Association, a continuation of their ongoing collaboration. The nonprofit association was an early supporter of the Exchange Club’s annual Oktoberfest event, helping the Exchange Club to organize and run the Kid Zone, solicit sponsors and recruit vendors for the past two years. Donated funds help the PTA in various ways, including club activities, kids’ play groups, service opportunities, parent education sessions, adult interest groups and donation drives.

service. At the awards presentation, Merrill was praised for “demonstrating superior leadership qualities in the planning and execution of a Davidson College Red Cross blood drive, as the Cadet First Sergeant during leadership labs, and most recently being selected as the top Advanced Cadet at the annual Joint Field Training Exercise. He has exhibited great moral character both in and out of uniform in his election to the prestigious Davidson College Honor Council. He is also a member of the Dean’s List.”

Father-daughter duo Stuart and Bradyn Smith shaved their heads and raised $10,970 for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation for childhood cancer research in May. Bradyn Smith is a fourth-grader at Highlander School; Stuart’s company, Markit, also is a large contributor to the foundation.

Isabel Pask, Jared Barton, Jason Barton, Arjun Nair and Justin Rice of the Lake Highlands High School Debate Team will be traveling to Birmingham, AL, on June 14 to compete in the National Championship Tournament of the National Forensics League. Jared Barton says, “This is a larger-than-average number for a team to send to the National Tournament across the nation. This is unprecedented, not only in the history of Lake Highlands, but also in RISD.” Former White House cabinet members, corporate CEOs, and stage and screen

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Daniel Merrill, a Lake Highlands resident and junior at Davidson College, received the James Baker Woods III Award. Merrill was selected for being a rising senior military science cadet who has displayed outstanding qualities of leadership, moral character, academic achievement and aptitude for military

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OrthOdOntists bridging the generatiOn gap

New technology continues to streamline the once arduous experience of aligning teeth, both for doctors and their patients. Frequently, when parents of teenagers learn how much less onerous braces have become, they find themselves thinking about enhancing their own smiles.

Dr. Greg Greenberg and his associate Dr. Benito Benitez have seen families go through the process time and again. “Parents put their kids through treatment first, then they go into treatment,” Dr. Greenberg says. “With the advent of Invisalign, the clear liner, it’s more popular now than it ever has been for parents to enter into treatment.” In fact, it’s hard to imagine anything more streamlined than the clear plastic aligners (Invisalign) that a patient can remove for eating and brushing.

Clear aligners are not the only example of how old-fashioned hardware has become more like software. “The days of taking a plaster model and sending it to the laboratory are gone,” says Dr. Greenberg. “Now we take a digital im-

age we can attach to an e-mail, and it’s sent immediately. There’s no mail time.” In fact, the “goop” once used for impressions is close to becoming obsolete. The digital scan is taken with a wand that does not even touch the

teeth. “It’s almost like taking a toothbrush head and waving it over the tooth,” says Dr. Greenberg. “As you wave

“With the advent of Invisalign, the clear liner, it’s more popular now than it ever has been for parents to enter into treatment.”

Greg Greenberg D.D.S.

it, the image begins to form on the screen, and the patient can see it.”

Dr. Michael Ragan has also treated entire families. “We had a family of six kids, and both parents went into treatment at the same time,” he says. He’s excited to treat his patients with today’s new digital equipment and 3D x-ray capabilities.

“One big deal for the next generation is not having to use head gear,” Dr. Ragan says. Instead, he uses a new product called the Carrière Distalizer. “It’s small, it’s easy, and it’s a big improvement over head gear. For people that need it, it’s absolutely awesome.” The device, which was developed by a Spanish orthodontist, is not an exterior accessory. It accomplishes the work of head gear much more simply and elegantly, with small brackets that fit inside the mouth. Adults who remember the old head gear are especially impressed when they learn it is no longer needed.

Dr. Ragan’s practice truly spans all generations. His youngest patient is five years old. And the oldest? “My oldest patient is seventy-eight,” Dr. Ragan says.■

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If you’re an adult who is considering orthodontics, you are not alone. Today, one in five orthodontic patients is an adult. Many adults prefer the lnvisalign® system which eliminates unsightly metal braces. Awarded to the top 1% of lnvisalign providers nationwide, Dr. Greenberg is an “Elite Preferred Provider” because of his significant level of experience and education with the lnvisalign system.

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Family values are key in dental health

Of course genetics determine basics like the size and shape of teeth, durability of tooth enamel and even the chemistry of saliva. Parents begin parenting as soon as they pass on their genes, but according to the latest research, when it comes to healthy teeth, nurture really does outrank nature.

Researchers learned that even when a mother’s attitude toward the dentist visit is positive, a father’s negative display of emotion can carry more weight with a child. The lesson is that fathers should realize how important it is to model healthy behavior and a positive attitude toward dental checkups.

Pediatric dentist Diane Colter says this parental influence extends to choice of snacks. “In our practice we see a strong connection between, parents, kids, and what they choose as snacks,” she says. “Even though a lot of parents pick healthy snacks for the kids, if they actually see their parents eat something different, they will want that snack. Children want to be like their parents.”

Dr. Colter says that in her practice, she takes time to educate parents on issues that are unique to each child. “We tailor each appointment to the individual child, and we want a caring, fun, relaxing environment here, where we can address the issues they came to us for, and touch on some other tips that might improve things.”

Families also share the oral microbiome, the accumulation of bacteria that begins to form as soon as a person is born. Not all bacteria are bad for teeth, but some are more harmful than others, especially when food is trapped between teeth.

“If we just kiss our babies we can pass on bad bacteria,” says Dr. Ashly Cothern of Dallas. But she isn’t recommending we keep our kisses to ourselves. “We want to keep our mouths clean and healthy for our own well-being, but also so we don’t pass it on to our children,” she says.

Dr. Cothern believes family values extend to her office

“We tailor each appointment to that individual child, as opposed to the overall population. We

as well. “We pride ourselves in being a small-town practice in a big city,” she says. “Relationships are important.”

The good news is, although we can’t control genetics, we can take positive action to fight harmful environmental factors. Minimizing sugary treats, brushing, flossing and even maintaining a positive

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attitude toward visits to the dentist all contribute to your own health and your family’s health. ■

Sources:

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International Journal of Pediatric Dentistry Genome Research genome.cshlp.org

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“In our practice we see a strong connection between, parents, kids, and what they choose as snacks.”

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Wallace’s got talent

Fifth grader Kameron Badgers emceed, along with classmate Haley Chronister , Wallace Elementary School’s spring talent show. Badgers (bottom right) also performed a circus-worthy spinning routine. Kay Meh and Angel Toto showed off hip-hop contortion prowess (below) and Elicia Govea impersonated Michael Jackson (right). See more photos and video from the show on Kameron’s blog (yep, the kid does it all) at kameronbadgers.com

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Don’t

Someone burglarized the car.

By day, Sean Langford has a pretty cool job at Green Grass Studios producing visual effects and animation. But the crime on the night of April 29 was no special effect. It was reality — and knowing someone has rifled through your stuff gives you a pretty sick feeling.

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The Victim: Sean Langford

The Crime: Burglary of a motor vehicle

Date: Monday, April 29

Time: Between midnight and 9 a.m. Location: 9300 block of Larchwood

Langford and his wife had just returned home that Sunday night after spending the weekend away with family members. After unpacking, they may have forgotten to lock the car doors. In the early-morning hours, someone opened the car and found his wife’s wallet, which she had forgotten to take inside, in the center console. While this was a bit disheartening and a pain, the crime could have been worse.

“My wife initially thought she left her laptop in there and was freaking out,” Langford says. “Luckily I had taken it out the night before without telling her.”

Dallas Police Sgt. Keitric Jones of the Northeast Patrol Division says it is always important for residents to remember to remove absolutely anything of value from a vehicle. Anything can cause a criminal to break in.

“A locked door or a clean interior is often enough to deter someone from entering your car and rummaging around,” he says. “It may be inconvenient to lock or unlock the door if you are only going to be away for a moment, but it is more inconvenient and costly to replace a window, stereo, GPS, etc.”

Serious work, amusing award

Neighborhood resident and activist Bill Vandivort II hosted an appreciation breakfast for Northeast Division police last month at Chubby’s in Lake Highlands. Several officers, including Police Chief David Brown (a former northeast commander) and new commander Deputy Chief Andrew Acord attended. Vandivort presented Brown with “The Kitchen Sink Award,” an actual kitchen sink, reasoning that the capture of the suspected Lake Highlands serial rapist required police to “throw everything including the kitchen sink” at the manhunt. An inside joke, the kitchen-sink idiom reportedly is an old favorite of Brown’s.

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.

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What is ‘vaping’and why should you care?

Comment. Visit lakehighlands.advocatemag.com and search “vaping” to tell us what you think.

Good Vapes is an attractive store located at the shopping center anchored by Kroger at Northwest Highway and Plano Road. Because I shop at Kroger, I’ve passed the store many times and never given it a second thought, beyond gratitude that it’s not a payday loan operation.

Recently, friend and Lake Highlands neighbor Carol Toler blogged on Advocatemag.com about the products of the store. Good Vapes sells electronic cigarette kits and flavored e-juice that may (or may not) be laced with nicotine, depending on the purchaser’s preference. The vapor produced is more like water vapor and dissipates more quickly than smoke. Toler wanted to alert parents that some teens in Lake Highlands have discovered “vaping.”

Unlike most blog posts on advocatemag.com, this one generated 241 comments (at last count) — the overwhelming majority defending the practice they call “vaping”.

Before I go any further, I want to bring up all the positive information I have learned about the shop and vaping over the past couple of weeks. I’ll begin with a statement from the shop-owners, who responded in part, “E-cigarettes are a completely legal alternative to smoking traditional combusted tobacco cigarettes ... Good Vapes is a privately owned small business. We specialize in electronic cigarettes. That is all that we sell ... We believe in the benefits of

e-cigs because they have helped us as well as the people that we serve.”

The statement refers to the many testimonials from vapers who say using ecigs has helped them quit smoking cigarettes and reduced their exposure to the toxins in smoke. Although there is no federal or Texas law prohibiting the sale of e-cigarettes or e-juice to minors, most

I began to wonder if that was true. If it doesn’t have to smell terrible or require a spittoon, is a nicotine addiction worth avoiding?

shops, including Good Vapes, choose to limit sales to people over 18.

But a strange twist in tobacco regulation prohibits vendors from marketing e-cigs as a therapy to help smokers quit, because then it would be a “drug” and require more testing. A federal court ruled the FDA can only regulate the product the same way it regulates cigarettes.

I’ve never tried smoking, but I admit I have a knee-jerk negative reaction. Both my parents smoked heavily and ultimately suffered health problems. Also, I just really hate the smell. So when I saw so many emotional comments defending vaping on the blog, I entered the discussion to point out that vaping can still be a nicotine delivery system (if the user chooses to use nicotine), and nicotine addiction is not a good idea.

For my trouble, I was called a puritan, a hypocrite and a probable addict, since the vapers presumed (rightly) I am a coffee drinker. Many asserted that nicotine, when divorced from smoke, is no worse than caffeine.

Both substances are stimulants that increase the heart rate and blood pressure, but caffeine is derived from a bean, while nicotine is actually a natural insecticide developed by the tobacco plant. It would take 10,000 milligrams of caffeine to kill a human being (according to the National Institute of Health), but it would take only 50 to 60 milligrams of nicotine to do the job (Centers for Disease Control). Bottom line: nicotine’s toxicity is higher than caffeine’s. Does nicotine cause cancer without the noxious chemicals found in smoke? Research shows that even without the smoke, nicotine causes changes in cells that contribute to harmful mutations and increase tumor growth. Caffeine research has not uncovered any connections between caffeine and cancer, heart disease or stroke.

Caffeine restricts blood vessels in the brain, so when caffeine addicts quit, they suffer from headaches when the blood vessels in their brains dilate. But nicotine affects the brain’s “reward system,” the neurotransmitters that give us positive feedback. That’s why quitting nicotine feels worse than a headache and is harder to kick.

My conclusion is that caffeine actually is the more benign substance, and although a fix at Starbucks can be expensive, it’s still cheaper than a nicotine addiction. On the plus side, vaping may be healthier than smoking (so far, there aren’t enough tests to know for sure), and tobacco growers may have found a new market.

Parents of teens, draw your own conclusions.

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

For my trouble, I was called a puritan, a hypocrite and a probable addict, since the vapers presumed (rightly) I am a coffee drinker.