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“The Dallas Fire and Police Associations are proud to be jointly endorsing Paul Reyes for Dallas City Council in District 10. Paul will be an advocate for the citizens and taxpayers in his district while promoting quality economic development, first-rate public safety, and an environment where our families and schools can thrive.”

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Judging the books

Little Free Libraries are a life-affirming, adorable and possibly illegal trend.

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Campaign: To be continued

Paul Reyes and Adam McGough vie for City Council District 10 in a runoff election.

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Hip hops

Neighborhood dads raise Lake Highlands’ cool quotient by building our first brewery.

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The best place in D-Town for authentic Latin-fusion fare

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You’re off to great places. Today is your day. Your city is waiting, so get on your way!

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It’s a deal!

And the first signed and sealed tenant at the Lake Highlands Town Center is

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Notes on some crimes

Overall crime down, violent crime up, graduation scheduled at a crime scene

View of northeast Dallas from a Sky Helicopters R44: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

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WORLDS COLLIDE — OR DON’T

I was sitting in the left-turn lane, waiting for the green light that would allow me to start moving again.

As I rotated my bored gaze through the intersection, I saw potholes (of course), as well as a car facing me and waiting to cross. The light turned green for that driver, and as she made her way through the intersection, a white flash blew through a red light and missed the back of the woman’s car by what seemed like the width of an iPad.

The woman came rolling past me with her eyes bulging and her hand covering her mouth as she looked into her rear-view mirror, contemplating what had just happened.

Or more to the point, what had just not happened.

By the narrowest of margins, she had missed being destroyed by another driver. Even though she hadn’t seen what was happening as things unfolded, she appeared painfully aware of it all now.

The woman had done nothing wrong, but that wouldn’t have made much difference had she been at the joint of a T-bone crash.

I’ve been involved in my share of fender-benders over the years, none my fault as I like to tell my wife; each had damage enough to cost $1,000 to repair but none bad enough to cause a lucrative crick in my neck.

But I’ve also been involved in two pretty major crashes.

Once, a semi-truck pulling out of a driveway T-boned my car as I drove past, spinning me completely around and nearly into a huge electrical pole.

Another time, I was driving north on Central Expressway when an uninsured and speeding drunk driver pounded the back of my car.

Both times, I saw what was going to happen just before it did, not that there was anything I could do about it. Things unfolded, it was over, and I was fine.

And at the same intersection where I saw the woman barely escape a collision, virtually the same thing had happened to me years earlier.

Why me? Or maybe a better question: Why not me?

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BRITTANY NUNN

As I drove through the intersection’s green light, for some reason I happened to look right, down the street across the passenger seat. And there, barreling toward me was a huge SUV. The driver was speeding, and he clearly wasn’t stopping.

For whatever reason, I didn’t freeze. Instead, I jammed the accelerator to the floor, and my car slipped through the intersection just before the SUV.

No damage. No panic. Until, of course, I had rolled a block or so down the street, and I found myself breathing quickly and felt my skin go cold.

Why me? Or maybe a better question: Why not me?

That’s my question of the day: Why do bad things happen to anyone, and given how many of us there are continually drifting into each other’s paths, why don’t they happen more often?

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Sometimes catastrophe cruises right by, leaving nothing but a chilling reminder of its imaginable impact

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WHAT YOU’RE MISSING THE DIALOGUE LITTLE FREE LIBRARIES ARE FABULOUS,

POPULAR AND … A CITY CODE VIOLATION?

Read the full story on page 18.

“It’s sad that one person can ruin this wonderful project.”

—Sallie Buntenbah

“As an educator, I loved how these little libraries promoted a love of literacy. This is so sad.”

—Angela Zamora Carballo

“Can I assume the city’s next stop will be to enforce this code at all of the apartment complexes where various ‘indoor materials’ are stored outside on balconies?”

—Nicole Grove Montgomery

“I hope this story encourages people to build more little libraries, that it spreads like wildfire.”

—Rebecca Hernandez

CHEERING ARTISTIK EDGE’S MOVE TO LH TOWN CENTER

Read the full story on page 50.

“Hooray! You’ve always been a wonderful asset to our community and once again shown this by being the first long-awaited tenant in the Town Center. I hope that many others will join you soon!”

—Leigh Ann Hicks

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Learn about your personal risk factors for stroke at a free screening on Saturday, June 6 from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. Call 866-764-3627 today to make your reservation.

The plot thickens

Can Stacy Holmes’ Little Free Library withstand Dallas’ City Code and its enforcers?

Building the front yard library on Lynbrook was difficult work, but Stacy Holmes’ passion for the project never faltered. The result: a Lilliputian sidewalk-side structure — think a doghouse on stilts filled with books, but stylish, with rustic-looking dark wood walls and distressed-silver knobs — in which her neighbors seemed to delight.

They borrowed books and left others in return. Her toil had paid off, thought the mother of three.

Then an anonymous protest, backed by city ordinance, threatened to undo everything.

Someone filed a complaint about Holmes’ library through the city’s 311 line, records show, and the city responded with a notice of violation and orders to remove it.

Little Free Libraries are increasingly popular in Dallas, but many of them violate various sections of Dallas’ City Code. That was not a problem until someone complained. City spokesperson Sana Syed says this is the first complaint she’s heard of in Dallas about a Little Free Library.

Neighborhood city councilman Jerry Al-

len says he foresees eventual change to ordinances that prevent the proliferation of front-yard lending libraries, but will the amendments come soon enough to save this particular structure?

“It takes three months, six months, a year to get an ordinance changed. It has to go through committees, sometimes several of them, before they even go to council for a vote,” Allen says. “This will be changed because it’s common sense. It’s on the radar, but it is going to take time.”

Meanwhile, Dallas’ libraries director Jo Giudice is working with the Holmes family to bring its little library into compliance.

“We are not ogres. We don’t want to tear it down. We are looking at the code and exploring ideas,” Giudice says.

The nonprofit group Friends of the Dallas Public Library has offered to help pay for any expenses related to moving the Holmes’ library into compliance, should that become an option, she says.

“This family has put so much into this already,” Giudice says. “We don’t want them to have to pay more.”

Little Free Libraries first began popping up in Dallas a few years ago. During a trip to Minnesota, 10-year-old Hannah Wahl, a White Rock area resident, spotted dozens of Little Free Libraries — cute, dollhouse-sized structures placed in homeowners’ front yards. Inside them were rows of books. Outside, a tiny sign: “Little Free Library. Take a book. Return a book.”

Back home in East Dallas, as a birthday gift,

Little librarian Stacy Holmes: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

Hannah’s family helped her build her own. The trend took off — there are at least five in the Lake Highlands area, according to lfl.org, but none have received violation notices (because no one has complained about them).

Holmes’ violation notice instructed that the “book drop erected in the front yard setback” be removed. A setback, as it applies to land use, means the distance that a building or other structure is set back from a street or road. Because they violate parts of the code related to outside storage, and sometimes setback, once someone complains about a little library, the city’s hands are tied, Allen explains. They have to respond.

“I was completely distraught,” Holmes says of the removal order, “especially since we put so much time, effort and resources into it. I wasn’t even done decorating it.”

She says she and her daughter built the library last winter after years of planning and designing. A mother of three (twin toddlers and a 10-year-old girl), Holmes added her kids’ favorite books, and her mother donated some novels, Holmes says. And people left their favorites in return.

“Someone left ‘Wild,’ a book recently

made into a movie, which I had been wanting to read,” Holmes says.

It wasn’t just about the books.

“Neighbors I did not know were coming over. They would introduce themselves. We were getting to know each other, and might not have ever talked if not for the library.”

The Holmes’ library is popular, and many neighbors have shown support for the family during weeks spent fighting for their right to keep their LFL.

L Streets North resident Laura Stead says she loves the little library and was surprised to hear about the violation notice.

“Promoting literacy and reading while bringing the neighborhood together is such a neat concept,” Stead says. “I am shocked that the city would waste time and money pursuing the removal of such a positive structure. It’s hardly larger than a birdhouse.”

While Holmes enjoys widespread support, the complainers are not alone either.

As little libraries’ popularity increased nationwide, so have instances of objections and forced removals.

In Kansas, a 9-year-old boy’s fight to keep

his front yard library drew intense media coverage. (He eventually persuaded his city to place a moratorium on laws that prohibited Little Free Libraries.)

In February, The Atlantic magazine published an editorial shaming Los Angeles and Shreveport, La. — cities that, according to the writer, despite persistent crime, homelessness and infrastructure woes, have chosen to crack down on Little Free Libraries.

Councilman Allen, whose term ends this year, says the volume and content of neighbor-on-neighbor complaints regularly amazes him, yet the city frequently has no choice other than to address them.

“The code people aren’t out there looking for this kind of thing by any means. Unfortunately, people see things in different ways, and citizens complain about other citizens all the time, and they find and use these code violations,” Allen says.

“This will be changed at the ordinance level. We are starting the process of getting this to committee. We need to see that whoever takes my place continues to carry that ball.”

—Christina Hughes Babb

Last month’s local election resulted in no definitive winner among the three candidates vying for Jerry Allen’s District 10 place on the Dallas City Council. Instead, the top two candidates, Paul Reyes and Adam McGough, return to the campaign trail until a June 13 runoff election. In the May 9 general election, Reyes won a plurality vote of 40.9 percent. McGough earned 36.4 percent of the vote.

James White finished third with 22.8 percent. In order to be elected, a candidate must secure at least half of the total votes cast. So, overtime it is. Reyes and McGough are similar in ages, professions and families. Both have previous political experience and both are endorsed by prior District 10 councilmen

Alan Walne supports Reyes while Jerry Allen and Bill Blaydes back McGough.

Lake Highlands is not alone. Runoff elections will take place in three other Dallas districts — District 3 in southwest Dallas, District 7 in southern Dallas and District 8 in far southern Dallas. In East Dallas’ District 9 — a race that seemed destined for a runoff — Mark Clayton won outright with 57.9 percent of the vote. Mayor Mike Rawlings won another term with 73 percent of the vote over Marcos Ronquillo. Registered voters may vote in the June 13 runoff election, even if they did not participate in the May 9 election.

—Advocate staff

Adam McGough: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

Paul Reyes: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

What gives?

Small ways that you can make a big difference for nonprofits

Get your game face on … and gear up to play hard for the second year of Voly in the Park on Saturday, June 6, from noon-4 p.m. at Klyde Warren Park at 2012 Woodall Rodgers Freeway. It’s a celebration of volunteerism organized by Volunteer Now (formerly Volunteer Center of North Texas). It will feature booths with games and interactive information for more than 75 Dallas-area nonprofits, including several based in and near our neighborhood Kids-U, Vogel Alcove Childcare Center for the Homeless and Refugee Services of Texas, to name a few — plus music, entertainment and family-friendly fun. It’s free and open to everyone. While you are there, learn about volunteer activities available for you and your kids in Lake Highlands and nearby this summer.

Run in the sun … with the local nonprofit Dallas Running Club, which promotes fitness and donates annual scholarships to high school runners. Members enjoy a free race the first Saturday of each month. The Bloomin’ 4-Mile is June 6 at 7 a.m. at White Rock Lake’s Winfrey Point. Register online at dallasrunningclub.com or at Winfrey Point on race day between 6:30-7:30 a.m. Nonmember registration is $10. DRC races are put on by volunteers. Fill out the volunteer form, found on the website, if you are interested in helping out.

Feed Lake Highlands ...

is a faith-based program that helps to provide food and other assistance to Lake Highlands-area residents in need. Volunteers, in-kind donations and gifts are appreciated. Visit feedlakehighlands.com and click on “How You Can Help” to learn more.

KNOW OF WAYS

that neighbors can spend time, attend an event, or purchase or donate something to benefit a neighborhood nonprofit? Email your suggestion to launch@advocatemag.com.

Out & About

June 2015

June 6

Dog Day Afternoon

Operation Kindness, the no-kill shelter, holds its 21stannual Dog Day Afternoon celebration from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. The event includes vendors, contests, low-cost microchipping, “ask the vet” and “ask the trainer” tents, performances and more.

Flag Pole Hill, 8015 Doran Circle, 972.418.7297, operationkindness.org, free

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JUNE 4, 11, 18 AND 25

Cool Thursdays

The concert offerings at the Dallas Arboretum this month include tributes to Bruce Springsteen; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; and Buddy Holly. The gates open at 6 p.m. for picnicking, and the shows start at 7:30 p.m.

Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Road, dallasarboretum.org, 214.515.6520, $10-$27

JUNE 4-20

‘Precious Little’

This play by Madeline George is about a linguist who’s obsessed with a dying language and communicating with an ape at the zoo.

Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther, 214.904.0500, echotheater. org, free

JUNE 5, 12, 19 AND 26

Movies in the park

The Shops at Park Lane breaks in its new park with a series of outdoor movies every Friday in June. The movies are “Pitch Perfect,” “Jurassic Park,” “Zoolander” and “Despicable Me 2.” The movies start around 8:30 p.m. Coolers and alcohol are not permitted. The Shops at Park Lane, 8080 Park, 214.365.0222, parklanedallas.com, free

JUNE 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 AND 28

Good Local Market

The White Rock market is open 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. The Lakeside market, at 9150 Garland Road, is every first and third Saturday. And the Vickery Meadow market, behind Half Price Books, is from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. every Sunday.

Good Local Market, 702 N. Buckner, goodlocalmarket.org, free

June 25

Book signing

Salon.com editor Sarah Hepola, who lives in our neighborhood, releases a memoir this month about her destructive past, “Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget.” She will read from the book and sign copies starting at 7 p.m.

Barnes and Noble Lincoln Park, 7700 W. Northwest Highway, 214.739.1124, barnesandnoble.com, free

Photo by Danny Fulgencio

JUNE 12

Ray Bonneville

New Orleans-influenced blues singersongwriter Ray Bonneville brings his song-and-groove style to Uncle Calvin’s. Ganey Arsement opens.

Uncle Calvin’s, 9555 N. Central, 214.363.0044, unclecalvins.org, $15-$18

JUNE 14

Concert for CASA

This Dallas Symphony Orchestra Concert benefits CASA, a nonprofit that advocates for children in foster care. Enjoy Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola conducted by Gerhardt Zimmerman along with soloists Angela Fuller-Heyde and Ann Marie Brink, who also serve as CASA volunteers. The concert is free and donations go directly to CASA.

Southern Methodist University

Meadows School for the Arts, 6101 Bishop, dallascasa.org, free

JUNE 15 AND 17

Kids movie

The third Monday and Wednesday of the month are “family rewind” days at Studio Movie Grill. This month’s selection is “Rio 2.” The shows start at 11 a.m.

Studio Movie Grill, 11170 N. Central, 214.361.2966, studiomoviegrill.com, $3

JUNE 20

Bottle cutting

Join Emily Riggert from Oil and Cotton for a class to learn how to cut glass bottles to make planters, vases and drinking glasses.

The Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Road, dallasarboretum.org, $72-$80

June 19-July 12

Flat Stanley

This production returns from a national tour for a month-long run at home. “The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley” follows the adventures of a 10-year-old boy whose wish is granted to be flattened and mailed around the world.

Dallas Children’s Theater, 5938 Skillman, 214.740.0051, dct.org, $22-$28

OAK HIGHLANDS BREWERY

10484 Brockwood

oakhighlandsbrewery.com

Therise of craft and micro-breweries —

“small producers best known for India pale ales and other decidedly non-Budweiser-esque beers,” as The New Yorker describes them — has been well documented over the past several years. There are some 3,464 breweries in the U.S. and 119 in Texas, according to the latest Brewer’s Association stats, and dozens are slated to open any day. A neighborhood brewery/taproom is a hipster status symbol of sorts, and two Lake Highlands dads are putting our area on the brew map. Brad Mall started making beer in his dorm room at Sewanee. “It tasted terrible,” he says. “Still, it was gone the same day it was ready.” Throughout the years — as he studied, attended law school and became a husband, father and successful commercial litigator — he continued tinkering with his recipes and creating better beer. Many of his college buddies remained consumers of, and later, became investors in Oak Highlands Brewery, a 16,200-square-foot venue that Mall and his business partner Derrin Williams aim to open in a corner space of a Lake Highlands industrial park this summer. Williams, a father of three and geologist by trade says he always has enjoyed cooking and gardening. Brewing was an extension of his interest in science, flavor, hops, herbs, grains and such. “Making beer is like cooking in the kitchen,” he explains. The initial beermaking process is extremely regimented and precise, he says. Then you tweak for taste. Mall and Williams met about 10 years ago and started OHB as a fun side business. Soon, their Freaky Deaky (“a smooth, highgravity Belgian Tripel,” Williams says) and other standout ales started winning awards at festivals and competitions. Plans to open a storefront have been a long time coming. “We’ve been working on this for several years,” Mall says. “We both have families to support. This is a well-planned venture. Half of our investors are Lake Highlands residents.” In other words, this is going to work, whatever it takes. Their plans call for a three-vessel, thirty-barrel brewhouse and a taproom with about 20 taps available

daily. Using a small pilot system that looks like something out of Breaking Bad, they intend to keep producing smaller batches of new beers. They say they hope to become a destination for craft beer aficionados. Code restrictions prevent the sale of food at production breweries, so the guys hope to partner with food trucks to provide eats. They also have enough room for live music shows and other big events, parties or fundraisers. Every month they plan to feature a charity beer, the proceeds from which will benefit a local nonprofit. When you enter OHB this summer, expect five beers on tap with rotating specialty beers. Look for a stylish bar and lounge area on which Brad’s wife Leigh, a professional designer, is consulting. Stock up on cool swag — OHB T-shirts, koozies and stickers — at the merch counter. Follow Oak Highlands Brewery on Facebook for upto-date information on opening and special events.

—Christina Hughes Babb

Brewers Derrin Williams and Brad Mall: Photos by Danny Fulgencio

IT’S THE CHERRY ON TOP

Pouring silky custard into a churning ice cream machine will be the start to one of the most rewarding recipes you make in your kitchen. Begin with the perfect ice cream base, and the flavor combinations are endless. This recipe will bring out the creative side of your whole family with flavors of lavender and honey or traditional cookies and cream. You will be enjoying your favorite frozen treat all summer long.

ICE CREAM BASE

GROCERY LIST

2 cups heavy whipping cream

1 ½ cups whole milk

¾ cup granulated sugar

5 egg yolks

1 vanilla bean, halved and seeds scraped

DIRECTIONS

In a medium saucepan whisk together cream, milk, half of the sugar and the vanilla bean seeds; bring to a boil. While the cream mixture is heating up, whisk the egg yolks and remaining sugar in a bowl until thick and pale in color.

Once the cream mixture has come to a slight boil, add about 1/3 of the mixture to the egg mixture and whisk until fully combined.

Slowly add the egg mixture to the remaining cream and stir until mixture becomes thick (do not bring cream/egg mixture to a boil); immediately strain custard.

Cover and allow the ice cream base to cool at room temperature and then refrigerate for at least four hours or overnight.

Pour ice cream base into ice cream machine and churn (follow manufacturer directions).

Once ice cream is frozen, slowly add your choice of ingredients.

FLAVOR ADD-INS

Cookies and cream: Add 1 cup crushed chocolate cookie sandwiches.

Birthday cake: Add 1 cup crumbled baked vanilla cake and ½ cup rainbow sprinkles.

Honey lavender: Remove ¼ cup granulated sugar from recipe. Once ice cream is frozen, drizzle in ¼ cup of honey and 2 Tbsp dried lavender.

Salted peanut butter crunch: Add 1 cup creamy peanut butter to the egg and sugar mixture. Once frozen, add ½ cup crushed pretzel pieces and 1 cup mini peanut butter cups.

Mint brownie chunk: Once cream/milk mixture has come to a boil, add in ½ cup fresh mint leaves and allow the cream to steep for 30 minutes. Pour the mint-infused cream into a blender and then bring back to a boil before tempering into egg mixture. Fold 1½ cup of baked brownie chunks into mint ice cream.

Kristen Massad writes a monthly column about sweets and baked goods. The professional pastry chef graduated from the French Culinary Institute in New York City and owned Tart Bakery on Lovers Lane for eight years. She blogs about food and lifestyles at inkfoods.com.

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Best Tacos

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the winner is

IN LAKE HIGHLANDS

Taqueria Latina’s Lake Highlands readers know a quality taco when they taste one, as evidenced in the Advocate’s recent best taco poll, in which Taqueria Latina’s street style offerings placed numero uno. The Skillman-

Abrams taqueria opened to high expectations, because proprietor Fernando Barrera also owns the highly rated Latin Deli at Abrams-Northwest Hwy. Tacos here are served Mexican/street style on thick homemade corn tortillas with cilantro, lime and radish. Barrera says his original chorizo

Dugg Burger

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Come see why Dallas voted us Best Seafood Dallas & Top Ten Best new restaurant 2014. Experience our special flavorings & recipes from Mexico’s seafood capital Sinaloa. Enjoy our Happy Hour 4-7pm on one of our Palapa patios.

taco recipe seemed like it was missing something, so he added Peruvian pork, which produces that savory smoky smack. His successful fusion of Latin American flavors, he says, is the result of working many years in the restaurant industry with friends from Miami, Colombia and Peru.

Runner-up: Rusty Taco

Third place: Green Spot

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ADVENTURE!

CULTURE! ROMANCE!

YOU ARE THE STAR OF THESE SUPER-AWESOME SUMMER DAYCATIONS

It’s summer, and it seems all your friends and acquaintances are enjoying lavish vacations. You can’t click on your favorite social media site without images of their surfing and seaside lounging slapping you in the eyes. You wonder: “Am I the only person with a job and a budget in

this world?” For starters, you are not alone. Furthermore, you don’t have to travel far for relaxation, entertainment and excitement.

For the landlocked Lake Highlands dweller, follow our story for four tailored-to-your-taste itineraries, each less than 30 minutes from home.

Profiles by BRITTANY NUNN • Photos by DANNY FULGENCIO

STORY BY CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB • AERIAL PHOTO BY DANNY FULGENCIO, PROPELLED BY SKY HELICOPTERS

WEST

A THROWBACK KIND OF DAY

Head slightly west of our neighborhood for a day of nostalgia and whimsy with a dash of spice and action.

IT IS

AN OVERCAST,

BREEZY MORNING. The heat, at this early hour, is not yet oppressive. It’s your day off, and you are feeling sentimental and venturesome. “Let’s do something meaningful,” you think. Now, before you get going, are you one of those wake-up-hungry types?

YES, I MUST FEED. GO TO #1. NO, I PREFER TO WORK UP AN APPETITE. GO TO #2.

ONEYou take the Royal exit off Central Expressway and find a comfy booth at Cindi’s NY Deli, a tried-and-true institution featuring fluffy flapjacks and hearty omelets plus Jewish staples such as Challah breads and Matzo ball soup. You praise the staff for the all-day breakfast offerings and generosity with the coffee refills. Man, those pancakes hit the spot! Now, do you jump right into physical activity or ease into your day with a quiet shopping excursion?

LET’S GET PHYSICAL. GO TO #5.

SHOPPING SOUNDS LIKE ADEQUATE EXERCISE FOR NOW. GO TO #2.

TWO

You travel back in time — that is, to Forest Lane at Inwood — arriving at Forestwood Antique Mall, which specializes in sports memorabilia, folk art, collectables and rare jewelry. After scoring a Battle

Armor Skeletor Evil Lord of Destruction action figure for your vintage toy collection (fist pump!), you enjoy lunch at the mall’s Garden Tea Room it opens at 11 a.m. and serves classic comfort foods including casseroles, soups and chicken fried steak until 2:30 p.m. Maybe Forestwood merely whet your shopper’s appetite, or perhaps you met your antiquing quota for the week — which is it?

I COULD SHOP SOME MORE. GO TO #3.

I AM ONE PARCEL AWAY FROM HOARDERS BURIED ALIVE; LET’S JUST LOOK AT SOME COOL OLD THINGS. GO TO #4.

THREE

You cruise along Forest until you arrive at the North Dallas Antique Mall, nestled in a shopping park at Marsh. You feel giddy and proud, discovering treasure after treasure including mid-century modern, Mad Menera knick-knacks, old

records and eighttracks. Nothing can stop you now that Linda Rhonstadt’s Greatest Hits is in your possession. Your reusable shopping bags are full, but is your tummy?

NO, LET’S EAT. GO TO #6.

I’M STUFFED AND READY TO CONTINUE MY DAYLONG ESCAPE FROM REALITY. GO TO #4.

FIVE

As you enter the cardiovascular exercise paradise known as Jump Street, off Central Expressway at Royal, you immediately revert to childhood. You are 10 again as

FOUR

You go back. Way way back. Like 2,000 years back. The Museum of Biblical Art, located at Park Lane and Boedeker, offers all the adventure you can stomach — births, death, war, gore, peace, passion One kindly docent explains that in 2005, a fire destroyed the museum and some 2,500 works inside, but that from the ashes rose a more magnificent venue of 30,000 square feet featuring biblically themed art that, be you devoutly religious or not at all, fuels the soul. Your soul might be filled, but is your gut?

THAT LOAVES AND FISHES STORY MADE ME HUNGRY. GO TO #6.

I’M NOT HUNGRY, BUT I AM INSPIRED. LET’S CARPE THIS DIEM! GO TO #5.

you bounce and test your trampoline-dodge ball (yes, that is all one thing) and arcade game skills, or ride the mechanical bull. Now you’ve worked up an appetite. Are you down for a quick margarita and pulledpork fajitas or do you prefer something a little less heartburn inducing?

BRING ON JALAPENO FLAVORED EVERYTHING. GO TO #6.

BUT MY ULCER IS ACTING UP. GO TO # 7. SIX

Tupinamba restaurant is new to Preston Hollow Village, at Walnut Hill just west of Central Expressway, but this institution has been serving up tacos, fajitas, rice, beans, margaritas and the gamut of Tex-Mex staples for

almost 70 years. In other words, the staff here knows its stuff, and that serves you well. Yum! You are pumped full of tacos

and Jose Cuervo. As the psychiatrist would ask, “how does that make you feel?”

TEQUILA MAKES ME SLEEPY. I’M CALLING IT A NIGHT. [THANK YOUR DESIGNATED DRIVER, AND GO TO BED.] [END]

THE NIGHT IS YOUNG — WHAT ELSE IS THERE? GO TO #8.

Enter familiar territory NorthPark Center

Tucked inside Neiman Marcus department store, you discover the fabled Mermaid Bar, which opened at the same time as the mall in 1965. You admire whimsical murals by Danish artist Bjorn Wiinblad — Stanley Marcus commissioned them in the

1960s. Reliably good food, service and the “nostalgia effect” has kept customers coming back throughout the years, general manager Chad Boyle tells you. “This is the destination of ladies’ lunches in Dallas — grandmothers brought the mothers, and the mothers brought the daughters, and that’s how it’s been for 50 years,” he says. You smile and try The Mermaid Sampler, which includes a cup of soup, fruit and half a chicken salad sandwich. Now that you’ve had a light meal, do you feel like socializing or sitting in a dark theater where someone else provides the entertainment?

I ENJOY LIVE MUSIC AND POTENT POTABLES, AND I DON’T HAVE ANY CHILDREN WITH ME. GO TO #9.

I’M FEELING ANTISOCIAL, YET ODDLY IN THE MOOD FOR AN OLD, FEEL-GOOD MOVIE. GO TO #8.

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Every third Wednesday of the month, Studio Movie Grill (at Central Expressway and Royal) takes audiences back in time with its Family Rewind series, featuring favorite childhood movies at retro prices — $3 a

ticket. It is July, so you grab a soda and settle in for a screening of “The Neverending Story.” You leave with thoughts of luckdragons and childlike empresses dancing in your head, not to mention that catchy theme song. “Dream a dream, and what you dream will be eee ah eee eee …” Speaking of dream, are you ready to hit the pillow or up for more activity?

NEVERENDING STORY? MORE LIKE THE NEVERENDING DAY. I’M DONE. [END]

I COULD DO MORE HOW ABOUT LIVE MUSIC AND ADULT BEVERAGES?

GO TO #9.

NINE

Velvet Elvis, the deliciously divey lounge you discover at 3720 Walnut Hill (near Marsh) draws a mixed crowd, and you feel totally cozy inside its walls. You like to lounge, play pool and have eclectic, but not persnickety, musical taste, which makes this place, which offers live mainstream rock music from just about every decade, perfect. Oh, and cheap, strong drinks you appreciate those too. It’s the ideal way to wind down your pleasant and fulfilling day. [END]

EAST

[INSERT YOUR NAME HERE]’S DAY OFF DAY

Travel 10-20 minutes east of our neighborhood, give or take, to the Garland area, for a day of out and indoor adventure, and tantalizing tourism with splashes of refreshment along the way.

AS SUNLIGHT PEEKS THROUGH your bedroom blinds, you hear the TV weatherman report it’s going to be clear and hot today — but not 105 hot. More like 90 hot. Not too bad! You guzzle your coffee and think, “I am ready to take on the world! I am going to get so much work done today!” But then you remember you have the day off. Even better. Today, you are going to make Ferris Bueller look like a hack. Is your stomach growling or should you knock out your al fresco exercise before the mercury rises?

I AM FAMISHED. GO TO #1.

LET’S START WITH A SCENIC HIKE. GO TO #2.

TWO

ONEHead east of Lake Highlands to downtown Garland, where at the corner of Main and 9th you find Hubbard’s Cubbard, a country diner that serves up gargantuan gravy-drenched biscuits. You opt for a pancake sampler. The breakfast menu, with its dense starches, fluffy eggs, crispy bacon and endless stream of stout coffee has drawn diners from far and near for more than 35 years. Now, are you ready to work off some of those calories, or do you need some quiet, indoor time to digest?

LET’S GET PHYSICAL! GO TO #2.

I COULD WALK, BUT PREFER TO DO SO INDOORS. GO TO #5

Head just a few miles east/northeast of our neighborhood and downtown Garland

to the Rowlett Creek Preserve, at 2525 Castle near Centerville. This wooded single-track trail system offers more than 16 miles

THREE

You swing into TC Shaved Ice for the smoothest, sweetest, snowiest cones around. You are familiar with the White Rock Lake area location and are happy to learn there is one perfectly situated on today’s route, at 503 S. Garland, across the street from Garland High School. The only inconvenience is the mind-blowing plethora of flavors — do you order the bubble gum, amaretto or wedding cake? Or something more traditional, like pina colada or peach? Heck, you are feeling adventurous make it a Tiger’s Blood and Tutti-Fruiti knockout (that is, shaved ice with creamy vanilla ice cream on top and bottom). Now let’s take advantage of that sugar rush — you have energy to burn. Up for some low-impact exercise, want to geek out at a hat-making factory, or would you like some adrenaline with that energy blitz?

of path-pounding options for adventurers on foot or bike, plus scenic picnic areas and open greenbelt spaces. Before heading in, you check the Dallas Off Road Bicycle Association’s trail guidelines, posted near the trailhead. This helps you determine the proper trail flat or bumpy, longdistance or short loop for your skill level and intentions. This trail has something for everyone. Bet you are hot and thirsty now, huh?

YES — BRING ON ICY COLD REFRESHMENT. GO TO #3

YES — BUT I COULD USE SOMETHING WITH A LITTLE PUNCH. GO TO #4

FOUR

White Rock area resident Wim Bens founded Lakewood Brewing years before he finally, recently opened the Lakewood Brewing Company taproom, which happens to be located smack dab in the middle of your Garland daycation, at 2302 Executive, near Jupiter and Miller.

“It’s fate,” you think, as you hunker down with an award-winning lager such as Temptress or the American style wheat beer Rock Ryder. If your tummy is rumbling, one of the food trucks frequently parked outside the venue shuts it up in no time. You check out the merchandise booth where you pick up a cool LBC trucker hat and a keychain that opens bottles, and spot a sign promoting taproom tours. You like tours, so you have a look around. At this point, you are totally chill. Do you want to stay that way?

SURE, GOT ANY MORE TOURS? GO TO #5.

mind, if nothing else). Garland, in many ways, is that Texas of the movies — the one in which characters don steel-toed boots, bulky silver belt buckles and 10-gallon hats. Fully embracing your day as a tourist in your own backyard, you partake in this truly Texan excursion — a tour of the Resistol and Stetson factory, the largest man-

A RELAXED GAME OF GOLF SOUNDS NICE. GO TO #7.

I’D LIKE TO TOUR THE COUNTRY’S BIGGEST HAT-MAKING FACTORY. GO TO #5.

I AM READY FOR SOME HEART-PUMPING ACTION — BRING ON THE WATER SLIDES! GO TO #9.

MY HEART WANTS TO PUMP, BUT I FORGOT MY BATHING SUIT. GO TO #6.

FIVE

Garland — it’s so close, yet it sometimes feels like a different state (of

ufacturer of hats in the country, at 721 Marion near Forest and Garland. You might not own a cowboy hat, but you still find the process of making one fascinating — collecting and felting the fur of beavers, rabbits and minks; pressure rolling; dyeing and customizing and are surprised at the number of craftsmen and women who touch one hat from start to finish. You are so impressed that you visit the Resistol Outlet Store, which flanks the factory. Now hang on to that new cowboy hat, because it’s time for some real action and adventure. The only question is, can you handle heights?

I GET A KICK OUT OF HIGH PLACES, WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN MIND? GO TO #6.

I AM A BIT OF A DAREDEVIL, WITHIN LIMITS. GO TO #9.

I PREFER TO STAY GROUNDED. GO TO #7.

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A Lake Highlands couple was following their passion when they opened Sky Helicopters in the early ’90s, and you are psyched that they did, because now you are reaping the benefits. Connie and Ken Pyatt operate the heliport, at 2559 S. Jupiter. A large portion of their business comes from photographing news footage for local broadcasts, but that, while a groovy side note, does not concern you today. The skyline tour — which flies passengers over landmarks including White Rock Lake, Downtown Dallas, Cowboys stadium and the Rangers’ ballpark — is a little out of your price range at $375 for a half hour (you’ll come back in the winter for the holiday lights tour, you promise yourself), but the flight simulator lesson/ flight combo is right up your alley. For $159, you receive 30 minutes of instruction followed by 30 minutes in-the-air practice in a controlled environment. You believed you could fly, and now you have. This is the best day ever. Are you hungry or too hyped for food?

STARVING. GO TO #8.

I SPOTTED SOME INTENSE-LOOKING WATERSLIDES FROM THE AIR, AND I AM INTERESTED. GO TO #9.

SEVEN

While you are no Jordon Spieth, you can hold your own on the green. Heck, even a novice or new student of the game can have a blast at the Firewheel Golf Park, which is where you find yourself on this summer day (fortunately, you called ahead to book your tee time: 972.205.2795). The park includes three regulation courses; Avid Golfer magazine rated one of them number two among highly competitive “midpriced courses ($50-$59)” class. Green and cart fees are even lower after 1 p.m. If you worked up an appetite on the course, stop by the Branding Iron Restaurant and Patio, a full service eatery overlooking the rolling topography. If you’d rather ditch the fancy and get down and dirty with some barbecue, that’s also an option.

BARBECUE SOUNDS GOOD. GO TO #8.

I’M NOT HUNGRY, BUT I AM ALSO NOT READY TO CALL IT A DAY. GO TO #10.

EIGHT

No Texas daycation is complete without some real barbecue on your plate. You happen upon Meshack’s Bar-B-Que, at 240 E. Avenue B, and you just aren’t sure — “This place is a shack,” you think. You observe the weeds overtaking the parking lot, the few stumps ostensibly for sitting, the rudimentary pictures of meats and sandwiches and almost bolt, but something stops you in your tracks — the aroma of pecan smoke. As you eat your ribs — dark, tangy sauce

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adhering to your fingers and the corners of your mouth — you realize that it is all about the meat and nothing else matters. You are utterly satiated, but there is still fun to be had. You could do something active, adventurous — a thing that also will wash away all traces of barbecue sauce on your body — or you could sit in a cool, dark room and watch someone else’s adventures.

IF YOU MEAN A WATERPARK, BRING IT ON. GO TO #9.

I’M ALL FOR ACTION, AS LONG AS I DON’T HAVE TO DO THE ACTING. GO TO #10.

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Inside Hawaiian Falls, you enjoy water-soaked adventures — streak down towering slides with names like The Torpedo, shoot along winding tunnels, pseudo surf the Hawaiian Halfpipe, swim among the waves and splash your way around gushing play areas (with or without your kiddos). Or just soak up some rays on Breaker Beach or relax on a float as you attempt to drown-out the noise of the ecstatic children who surround you. An adult ticket costs $23. (Kids and seniors are $16). What a deal! By now you are likely pretty pooped, right?

YES, I THINK I AM SNORES. [END]

I COULD WATCH SOMEBODY ELSE DO SOMETHING. GO TO #10.

Do you feel pretty? You sure do after your night at the Garland Summer Musicals inside the fabulous Patty Granville Arts Center at 300 N. 5th in Downtown Garland. It’s June, which means West Side Story runs the 12th-24th of the month. (Secure tickets in advance by calling 972.205.2790). Rumbles, romance and regret softened with singing and choreographed dance numbers — what a way to polish off a great day! [END]

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This big cat sanctuary, while outside the 10-20 minute daycation parameters, is worth a trip in its own right. Located at 3430 Skyview, in Wylie, just east of Garland, In Sync is home to tigers, lions, cheetahs, cougars, bobcats, ocelots and one coati (an “honorary cat”) in need of rescue and veterinary care. In Sync doesn’t buy, sell or breed animals. They do offer educational tours of the facility and allow self-guided tours daily from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. For more information, give them a roar at 972.442.6888.

MY BIG FAT FAR NORTH DALLAS ADVENTURE:

Food, flight, culture, comedy — it all awaits you, just few miles north.

IF YOUR KIDS ATTEND Richardson ISD schools, you might frequently find yourself driving north for ball games and choir concerts. But today is special, because you realize there is actual fun to be had in this oft-forgotten land. This day promises weird and wonderful experiences, so with which do you want to begin — the weird or the wonderful?

LET’S EASE INTO THIS WITH THE WONDERFUL. GO TO #1

I EAT WEIRD FOR BREAKFAST. GO TO #2

ONEHead north on I-635 and take Hillcrest to an artistic oasis, hidden away from the busy intersections. The intimate Valley House Gallery at 6616 Spring Valley showcases regionally and internationally recognized artists in various mediums. You find your moment of Zen in the outdoor sculpture garden lush with plant life, canopy trees and a tranquil pond. You’ll forget you’re in Dallas at all. Now, are you hungry for action or for food?

BRING ON THE ACTION. GO TO #2

I CRAVE ADVENTURE, THE EDIBLE KIND. GO TO #3

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TWO

You played the video game Room Escape back in the day, regularly putting your investigative and problemsolving skills to the test — and dominating! So you are over the moon to learn that this is a real-life thing. You arrive at Escape Expert The Experience, located in an industrial park at 13663 Floyd Circle, where you immerse yourself in scenarios such as Attic Panic, Secret Vault or the uber-challenging Mind Matrix. The goal once inside the room is to escape by finding and using clues, thinking creatively and responding quickly to stressors. While it is popular for parties and corporate circles, you find Escape Expert, at $28 per person, to be a groundbreaking mind-and-soul-sharpening exercise — other individuals and couples, those fortunate enough to know this place exists, agree. That got the tummy growling, but is your stomach as adventurous as your spirit?

YES, LET’S TRY OUT SOME HOLE-INTHE-WALL ETHNIC EATERIES. GO TO #3.

NOT EXACTLY, MINE IS A MEAT AND POTATOES KIND-A BELLY. GO TO #4.

THREE

More choices! The sharable Mediterranean dishes at Pera Wine and Tapas at 6006 Belt Line; those heaping mounds of densely flavorful dumplings and pad Thai at charmingly rustic Thai Soon at 101 S. Coit; or the upscale Indian fare at Mughlai Restaurant at 5301 Alpha — you finally settle on one, and make a mental note to come back for more. Now, when you take a vacation, you always bring home souvenirs. A daycation should be no different. Do you like your shopping high end or chicly shabby?

UPSCALE, BABY. GO TO #5.

KEEP TODAY FUNKY. GO TO #6.

FOUR

Neighboring Addison offers a dining Mecca full of coma-inducing comfort food. Do you order the adult mac ‘n’ cheese at Kenny’s Wood Fired Grill at 5000 Belt Line? Try the famous chicken and waffles at Buttons Restaurant at 15207 Addison? Or some New England clam chowder and Maine lobster at Lefty’s at 4021 Belt Line? You pick one and waddle, dazed and satiated, back into the blinding sunlight. You decide to walk it off. But indoors, of course. You have two choices. Both are malls. Both are old, but loved. Both offer fun attractions for kids. Do you prefer a more traditional mall experience or one that is a little rougher around the edges but loved by local artists?

THE ALL-AMERICAN MALL. GO TO #5.

OK, YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION. THE ARTSY ONE IT IS. GO TO #6.

FIVE

At the Galleria, off I-635 at Dallas Pkwy., you find four levels of shopping staples such as Nordstrom and Belk plus tourist favorites including Field of Dreams baseball memorabilia shop —

dining and entertainment. The ground floor is dedicated to ice skating and eating slip, slide, spin and work up an appetite for Tex-Mex at Mi Cocina You score major points with your daughter when you take her for afternoon tea at the American Girl Bistro, where dolls are treated like kids, and where they provide dolls if you happen to have left yours at home. It is not at all creepy! Are you up for more shopping?

SURE! GO TO #6.

NO, I’M UP FOR SOME DOWN TIME A RELAXING PLACE WITH SOME FOOD, PERHAPS. GO TO #7.

NO, I’M UP FOR SOME UP TIME! GO TO #9.

SIX

The once declining Valley View Center is making its comeback even before the $3 billion redevelopment turns it into Dallas

Midtown. Scores of local artists have moved in to create the Gallery at Midtown, hosting free art walks

6-10 p.m. every third Saturday of the month. You chill out while the little ones wear themselves out on the ground floor bounce house, then maybe you catch a movie at AMC Theater Your next move will rely on your level of energy, enthusiasm, bravery and expendable income.

I AM FIRED-UP, DARING AND RICH. GO TO #9.

I’M FUN, BUT ON A BUDGET. GO TO #8.

I’VE HAD ENOUGH FOR ONE DAY. LET’S WIND DOWN. GO TO #7.

SEVEN

You cozy up with a bottle of wine and a cheese plate at Mercy Wine Bar at 5100 Belt Line. The warm, low-lit atmosphere and live jazz music help you

NINE

wind down after your exhausting journey to the center of the mall. Are you done?

I’M DONE. [END]

I FOUND A SECOND WIND. GO TO #8.

EIGHT

Stand-up comedy, can be awkward — it’s hit or miss, but that’s part of its appeal. Addison Improv hosts famous and unknown comedians. It’s June 18-20, so you see John Witherspoon, who has starred in movies including Friday, Next Friday, and Friday After Next as well as alongside the Wayans brothers in sitcoms. You arrive early for dinner before the show — the menu has a little something for everyone, from steak to fried catfish. You make a mental note to bring the kiddos back to the Sunday afternoon all-ages comedy and magic show. As the comics say, “Good night, [Far North] Dallas!” [Drops mic.]

[END]

SOUTH

YOUTH-GONE-WILD DAY

You booked your best babysitter for this one, because today is about recapturing your youth.

You are embarking on the ultimate daycation denouement — all it took to get here was clear skies, a daring spirit and $500-$700. Epic Helicopters operates out of nearby Addison Airport. You custom plan your Dallas landmark tour or romantic sunset tour or aerial fireworks watching, available on certain summer nights. You can even pipe your own music through the helicopter speakers. Talk about ending on a high note. [END]

YOU

DON YOUR OLD Trippin’ Daisy T-shirt and Dr. Martens, and you bring your favorite flannel in case the air conditioning at the brewery becomes uncomfortable. (What? You’re still hip. Just older and better prepared these days.) The first tribute to your carefree youth? Sleeping late. Leisurely sip your coffee. Heck, watch the third hour of the Today Show, a broadcast the Daily Beast recently called “a tense mess the atmosphere weird the conversation a barrage of inanity and interruptions.” It’s fascinating, you think. Like a car crash. You zoom 20 minutes south of the Lake Highlands nest for your Deep Ellum-ish daycation. Your first destination is lunch it’s about the time Deep Ellum wakes up. The neighborhood’s restaurants routinely make local and national headlines, so your choices are exciting and abundant. But how long are you willing to wait in line?

AS LONG AS IT TAKES! THE LONGER THE LINE, THE SWEETER THE REWARD. GO TO #1.

LESS THAN HALF AN HOUR. GO TO #2.

ONE

You arrive at legendary Pecan Lodge at 2702 Main well before its 11 a.m. opening, because the line forms early. You enjoy chatting with an eclectic group of fellow lunchers as you wait — it’s all part of the charm. You thought you knew what to order, but by the time you reach the counter you are struggling — the brisket, the handmade smoked sausage or the “hot mess,” which combines barbacoa, chipotle cream cheese, sea salt-crusted sweet potatoes, butter and green onions? Oh heck, you just throw caution to the wind and scarf down the whole lot of it, with all apologies to those at the back of the line, who might go without because of your gluttonous ways. A cold beer on the spacious patio washes away all traces of shame. “Now,” you think to yourself, “I should walk off some of those delicious calories, but how?”

STROLLING ART GALLERIES. GO TO #3.

SHOPPING. GO TO #4.

TWO

So much to do, so much to eat! Maybe you’ll have the Chinese noodles at Monkey King Noodle Co Or a gooey grilled cheese at Uncle Uber’s Or fresh seafood at Deep Sushi Or chicken fried steak at All Good Café You wind up choosing the Chicago-style dogs at Luscher’s Red Hots — after all, owner Brian Luscher is your Lake Highlands neighbor. Next, how to best walk off those meaty calories?

STROLL NEARBY ART GALLERIES. GO TO #3.

SHOP. GO TO #4.

THREE

The power of the Dallas Arts District often overshadows the small, indie galleries that showcase emerging or lesser-known artists. A quick hit list includes: The Kettle Art Gallery at 2650-B Main, 500X Gallery at 500 Exposition, Barry Whistler Gallery at 2909 Canton, and Kirk Hopper Fine Art at 3008 Commerce — and that is just the few you can cram into this arts-and-entertainment packed day. They say the best art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable. The abstract prints and ingenious installations along your gallery tour have you teetering on the fence between comfortable and borderline basket case. Selfmedication arguably is in order — is stimulation or relaxation your indulgence of choice?

CHILL OUT WITH A COOL BREW. GO TO #7.

PEP UP WITH COFFEE. GO TO #8.

FOUR

No vacation is complete without the procurement of knick-knacks, clothing and accessories. Daycations deserve gratuitous memorabilia too! You snag one-of-a-kind souvenirs at In Accord, a fair-trade gift shop at 2719 Main stocked with handmade goodies from

local artists. You score a used book and limited edition stamps at Deep Ellum Postal & Grocer at 3100 Main (it’s part post office, part thrift store). And you hunt treasures at Lula B’s Antique Mall at 2639 Main. Are you hungry now, or in the mood for further exploration?

I ATE A WHOLE COW FOR LUNCH. LET’S EXPAND MY MIND, NOT MY GUT. GO TO #3 OR #5.

I COULD GO FOR A SNACK AND A CAFFEINE BOOST. GO TO #8.

SIX

Stepping into the Black Swan Saloon feels like a hug from Eddie Vedder, kisses on the cheek from Siouxsie and all of her banshees. Framed Toadies and Rev. Horton Heat posters line clean, shellacked walls. Vintage Pac Man and Donkey Kong screens occupy tabletops above shiny hardwood floors, near a stylishly curved bar. But the product here is all grown up — Bloody Marys and

spirits made with fresh mixes and fruits from nearby Dallas Farmers Market and signature cocktails such as the Four-Leaf Clover or weirdly wonderful fourpepper tequila infusions. If the choices become overwhelming, start with old favorites like Shiner and Dos XX or one among a rotation of seasonal brews. If this did not get you in the mood for further exploration of revitalized Deep Ellum, nothing will, so how do you envision today’s finale?

DANCING AND DRINKING UNTIL THE WEE HOURS. GO TO #9.

LOUD, LIVE MUSIC. GO TO #10.

HINT: IF YOU NEED A PICK-ME-UP, SWING BY #8 FIRST.

SEVEN

For a $12-$15 admission ticket, you receive a souvenir pint glass and three beers at Deep Ellum Brewing Co Tours and tastings are noon-3 p.m. Saturdays — you

missed that window, so you hang out on the patio and sip craft brews, play board games and snack at one of the many food trucks parked outside. Should the day end here?

YES, TIME TO STOP PRETENDING I’M 21. IT’S PAST MY BEDTIME. [END]

I CAN GO ALL NIGHT LONG. GO TO # 9 OR #10.

thought groovy mind trips belonged to children of the 1960s. today’s visit to the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art at 3109 Carlisle expands your whole inner universe. The MADI movement cannot be put in a box. It is a way of thinking. It is color and playful complexity. It is free-form poetry, theater, performance, books, music and bold manifestations. OK, those manifestations — of which the museum showcases some 800 — consist of geometric shapes and, yes, boxes, but utterly delightful boxes that frequently spill rebelliously out of their conventional frames. The whole refreshing thing about MADI is that the pieces are what they are, and you need not read into them. “MADI artists refuse to make the object representative, but rather focus on the object and the colors themselves,” notes the museum owner. “One does not have to look for meaning behind the art. Just enjoy each piece for itself.” Oh, and it is free. (But you are so uplifted that you leave a $5 donation.) The museum has the distinction of being the only permanent one in America dedicated exclusively to MADI art. Anyway, getting your mind blown makes you thirsty. You need a place with icy cold beverages in an interesting setting — do you go old school/modern twist with a basic brewery, or for craft cocktails served in a whimsical setting, summoning memories of glory days?

COULD NOT AFFORD THEM IN THE 90S, I’LL TAKE A CHANCE FANCY COCKTAILS. GO TO #6.

I LIKE BEER. GO TO #7.

EIGHT

After consuming an espresso and a sweet snack at the spacious and friendly Murray Street Coffee Shop at 103 Murray, you are totally recharged. So what’s your idea of the best way to cap off

TEN

this daylong adventure?

DANCING AND DRINKING UNTIL THE WEE HOURS. GO TO #9.

LIVE, LOUD ROCK AND ROLL. GO TO #10.

NINE

You absolutely tear it up on the dance floor at Adair’s Saloon at 2624 Commerce, a Deep Ellum honkytonk with live music every night. You don’t divulge your secret, which is that you

previously snuck in a few blues and swing dancing classes, taught Tuesdays and Wednesdays by Dallas Swing Society at nearby Sons of Hermann Hall, at 3414 Elm.

[END]

Trees on Elm Street and The Bomb Factory on Canton — whose stages supported the likes of Kurt Cobain and Radiohead before they were household names — were elemental to Dallas’ music scene in the 1990s. Thanks to one Lake Highlands couple, the venues are thriving today, and that thrills your live-musicloving soul. Clint and Whitney Barlow re-opened Trees a few years ago, and more recently, The Bomb Factory, where grand opening week hosted Erykah Badu and The Toadies. It’s June, so you catch rapper Tyler, The Creator at The Bomb Factory on the 5th or D’angelo — the R&B singer whose first album in 14 years, Black Messiah, has garnered a massive amount of buzz — on the 16th or blues/boogie/soul singer Benjamin Booker at Trees on the 9th. Or all of the above — because this daycation is like the 90s movie Groundhog Day, you live it over and over all summer with slight variations each time. [END]

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Runners high

In the budding fringe sport of ultrarunning, two White Rock area women are rising stars

Story by Christina Hughes Babb | Photos by Rasy Ran

That someone from Dallas’ flatland would dominate a sport that involves running insane distances across rugged terrain tens of thousands of feet above sea level seems unlikely. But two White Rock-area women are doing just that — claiming records, breaching usual gender barriers and winning races that cover mileage most of us find wearisome to drive.

Nicole Studer, a 33-year-old attorney, recently clocked the fastest time ever recorded by a female in a 100-mile trail race.

Nicole Studer and Shaheen Sattar, who will compete in the Western States 100-Mile Endurance run this month, are honorary queens of ultrarunning.

Shaheen Sattar, a 30-year-old Bryan Adams High School graduate, two years ago was the second female finisher at the Leadville 100, a race through the Colorado mountains made famous by the 2009 bestseller “Born to Run” (Matthew McConaughey recently was cast as the lead in the movie version).

Later in 2014 Shaheen placed among the top 10 women at Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run. Few humans ever even meet the standards to enter Western States (entrants must first place among the top finishers at an approved qualifying 100-mile or 100k race, one “of significant difficulty”; others can secure a place via the Western States lottery). It is the race to which the world’s best ultrarunners flock. Both Nicole and Shaheen will toe the line there this month.

They will start running before dawn June 27 in Squaw Valley, Calif., climb more than

holder, she too has a target on her back.

Nicole and Shaheen are so good that they frequently rival the sport’s best men.

Take, for example, last April’s Possum Kingdom Trail Run, which included both a 56-kilometer and 52-mile event.

Typically, the winner of an ultramarathon is a sinewy, bearded male. But at this event, Shaheen was the first to emerge from the woods; her dark ponytail bounced as she waved at her sister, Shama Sattar, who cheered at the finish.

“I did not know she was leading. She had been running with a pack of guys. When I saw her, I was so excited,” says Shama, who also is a runner.

Later that day, Nicole won the longer race, beating the first-place male by more than 18 minutes and the second place female by three and a half hours.

David Hanenburg, who directs the Possum Kingdom trail races and other ultrarunning events, says it is unusual for a female to win outright over all males. But these women regularly defy the odds.

“They are doing amazing things and helping raise the bar of excellence for all runners,” he says. “They are both badasses on the trail with huge hearts.”

So how is it that these two women from our sea level neighborhood are killing it on the trail-running scene?

18,000 feet, descend 23,000 feet, cross a cold and rushing waist-deep river and, after 20-something hours on their feet, finish on a high school track in Auburn.

Nicole and Shaheen are friendly rivals who admire one another. They sometimes run together; at a Western States training camp they logged 30 miles side-by-side one day and really got to know each other.

But on June 27, it will be every woman for herself.

Each is close lipped about her specific goals. Shaheen says she hopes to beat her time from last year. Above all, she races against the clock and her own past performances, she says. Her bib number is F9, indicating to all that she placed ninth last year, so she knows they’ll be gunning for her.

Nicole qualified for last year’s Western States, but an injury prevented her from competing. However, as the 100-mile record

Both are crazy tough and competitive with a freakish immunity to the typical effects of fatigue, averse weather conditions and high altitude.

Both will go mad if they can’t run at least 80 miles a week. Both, like the sport itself, seem on the cusp of being discovered by the more-mainstream athletic world. But how they arrived at this point, for each, is different.

Nicole picked up running in middle school after the basketball coach denied her a spot on the team and introduced her to cross-country.

The young Chicago native was fast enough to earn a scholarship to Northwestern University, but she was no Olympian, and once she graduated, she did not expect to continue her athletic career.

“I figured that I was retiring from running when I finished school,” she says.

Shaheen only tried it while working the early shift at White Rock Athletic Club

“They are doing amazing things and helping raise the bar of excellence for all runners. They are both badasses on the trail with huge hearts.”

(now Gold’s).

“You know that inside track? It takes like 11 laps to make a mile. That’s where I started running.” She says a group of senior citizens eventually persuaded her to run with them outside.

Nicole finished law school at Baylor, where she met husband Eric Studer, joined the consulting firm Towers Watson and adopted a dog, Stella. “My running changed a lot when we got Stella. She was so hyper, so we ran all the time.”

To satisfy her competitive streak, Nicole entered races. Without considerable effort (she had tossed the watch, the training log and the pressure that went along with competitive running) she qualified for the Boston Marathon, won the Fort Worth Cowtown Marathon and broke the elusive three-hour barrier at the Houston Marathon.

Shaheen entered races too, her performances a bit more pedestrian.

She was thrilled to finish the Chicago Marathon in just over four hours. When she ran the White Rock Marathon in 3 hours 41 minutes, someone told her she was a minute from qualifying for Boston. “That was the first point where I thought about a qualifying time,” she says. After that she focused on speeding up.

Almost every serious runner suffers setbacks and injuries, but Shaheen’s was more harrowing than most.

On an early morning run, a car struck her, hurling her over a 6-foot fence.

“I was running on the sidewalk. I could see it coming. It just hit me head-on and knocked me into someone’s backyard.”

She was hospitalized with a punctured lung, broken ribs and a fractured fibula.

She ran the White Rock half marathon three weeks later.

“The doctor said it would be painful but that I couldn’t further injure myself. I was already registered and the race was sold out, so I went.” By that time she had proved capable of running a half marathon in 1 hour 26 minutes. It took her 2 hours 6 minutes to run one with a broken calf bone and ribs.

Both Nicole and Shaheen arguably could improve at traditional distances (5ks to marathons), but neither is interested in the type of training that would take (intense

speed intervals on a track, weight training, regimented mileage — something similar to the rigorous schedule of collegiate athletes, Nicole explains).

Both embrace and thrive in the looser atmosphere of trail and ultrarunning, where instead of trying to get necessarily faster, you go farther.

Nicole’s 5:30 a.m. runs grew longer.

“It got to be 10, 11 a.m., and she still would be gone,” her husband Eric says.

Shaheen started rising at 3:45 a.m. to fit in her daily run.

Because ultramarathoners run 14, 24, 30 hours at a stretch, they sometimes rely on a crew to assist them during competition with food, drink and clothing changes.

In the past few years, Eric has learned — from trial, error and the advice of trail veterans — how to support his wife.

“My job is to be at the aid station when she comes through. I have a kit (bandages, clean socks, water bottles), but she is low maintenance. Sometimes I am just there to tell her to keep going. Tell her if someone is gaining on her.”

Shaheen and Nicole both raced the Leadville 100 in 2013 — that’s when Shaheen placed second. Nicole, having a “bad day,” placed ninth.

Eric admired Shaheen’s support crew at Leadville — which included Shama, her mom Sian, brother Shahid and boyfriend/ runner Steve Henderson. “They were like a well-oiled machine,” he says. “And I have to hand it to Steve — he knows what he’s doing.”

In order to train for alpine races like Leadville and Western States, Nicole and Shaheen seek out the hilliest parts of our neighborhood. Lakewood’s Loving hill is a good one, Nicole says. Eric cringes and says he remembers trying to follow her up Loving on his bike. Shaheen says the streets of Lake Highlands, north of Flag Pole Hill, offer surprisingly challenging hills. She adds that northerners don’t benefit from Texans’ heat training.

The real secret might be our area’s running community. “Dallas has some of the best people to run with anywhere,” says Nicole, who is a member of the White Rock Running Co-op (a club open to runners of all levels — see thewrrc.com). “My

training partners are so great and such nice people. It makes it fun.” (Stella the dog isn’t so enthusiastic about running during the summer months.)

Shaheen does much of her training solo, but she also has formed relationships rooted in running, like the one with aforementioned Steve Henderson, which began a few years ago when she accepted an invitation to join a co-ed relay racing team. Today they are totally in love and live together in a house on White Rock Lake.

And if you ask most any ultrarunning aficionado — race organizer David Hanenburg, for instance — it is that romance,

those friendships and camaraderie, that shared experience on the trail, rather than the qualifications, records, times and trophies, that define the sport.

To him and other ultrarunning diehards, it’s about more than just trying to prove you can complete some “deranged distance.”

“The win is a small part of this sport — community and encouragement are the more predominant themes,” says Hanenburg (who blogs about ultrarunning at endurancebuzzadventures.com).

On the trails you will see frontrunners cheering on the back of packers, he says. He has witnessed Nicole and Shaheen doing so — in fact, he says, they have cheered him on, even in races that they finished far ahead of him. It is their hearts that make them good at ultrarunning, he says, and it is ultrarunning that makes them (and him, and other runners, too) better humans.

SEE RESULTS from the Western States Endurance Run at wser.org

“The win is a small part of this sport — community and encouragement

are the more predominant themes.”

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A tenant for Lake Highlands Town Center Artistik Edge, the hip and high-end hair studio owned by the charismatic Terri Hoover, will soon occupy the space on the ground floor

of the Haven Lake Highlands apartments at Lake Highlands Town Center. While not a grocery store or an anchor tenant, this is a big deal, especially to those who have been

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FOSSIL RIM WILDLIFE CENTER

Tours

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It’s a girl! On Friday, April 17th, a giraffe calf was born at Fossil Rim. Visit our 1800-acre preserve for a chance to see the new calf with the rest of the herd.

LAKE HIGHLANDS ACUPUNCTURE

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watching and waiting for something to happen at the town center for six or seven years. Hoover signed a lease in May and expects to move around the end of July.

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MAKERS CONNECT

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Butch Cassidy couture

Do you derive fashion inspiration from the outlaws of the Wild West? There’s a store for that. Founded by Robert Redford in 1989 after the iconic 1969 film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” Sundance Catalog features American Weststyle clothing, accessories and home furnishings, and Redford is to open the first Texas location at NorthPark Center in November. The store operates in Colorado, California and Utah with a focus on artisan communities with many products designed exclusively for Sundance. Other stores on the way to NorthPark Center within the next year or two include: shoe designer Sam Edelman, affordable fashion retailer Zara, and the beachy collections of Lilly Pulitzer.

Cheers, Steak and Ale

Though Steak and Ale restaurant reportedly is staging a comeback, it will not be returning to the location off Interstate 635

and Abrams, which a demolition company razed last week. A nearby lot has been rezoned for townhomes.

DUTCH ART GALLERY

49 Years of Custom Framing & Fine Art 10233 E. Northwest Hwy Dallas, TX 75238 214-348-7350 dutchartgallery.net

On June 6th from 9:30-5:30 come enjoy our Spring Show, “It’s A Small World”, presenting miniature original paintings. Meet the Artists - Free

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CLAIRE’S CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL

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

DALLAS ACADEMY

950 Tiffany Way, Dallas 75218 / 214.324.1481 / dallas-academy.com

Founded in 1965, Dallas Academy’s mission is to restore the promise of full academic enrichment to students with learning differences in grades 1-12. A meaningful connection with each student is established to overcome barriers to success. Dallas Academy offers students an effective program and strategies to meet the special educational needs of bright students with learning differences, while including the activities of a larger, more traditional school. Classes are small, with a student-teacher ratio of 6 to 1 where students are encouraged, praised, and guided toward achieving their goals. Diagnostic testing is available to students throughout the community.

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FUSION ACADEMY

8128 Park Lane Suite 125 Dallas 75231, 214.363.4615 / fusionacademy.com Fusion Academy is a revolutionary, accredited private middle and high school where positive relationships unlock academic potential. With one teacher and one student per classroom we personalize curriculum and teaching to students’ individual strengths and learning styles. Flexible scheduling allows students to enroll and take classes at times that work for them. Our campus includes a state-of-the-art recording studio, mixed media art studio, and a Homework Café® where students complete all homework before going home. Fusion students are all unique but have one thing in common: traditional school doesn’t work.

HIGHLANDER SCHOOL

9120 Plano Rd. Dallas / 214.348.3220 / www.highlanderschool.com Founded in 1966, Highlander offers an enriched curriculum in a positive, Christian-based environment. Limiting class size affords the teachers the opportunity to develop the individual learning styles of each student. Our goal is to insure knowledge and self-confidence in academics, athletics, and the creative and performing arts. Highlander offers a “classic” education which cannot be equaled.

LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

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

SPANISH HOUSE

4411 Skillman 214-826-4410 / 5740 Prospect 214-826-6350 / DallasSpanishHouse.com

Spanish Immersion School serving ages 3 month - Adults. We offer nursery, preschool, elementary and adult programs at two Lakewood locations. Degreed, nativeSpanish speaking teachers in an “all-Spanish” immersion environment. Call for a tour today!

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

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

Founded in 1953, St. John’s is an independent, co-educational day school for Pre-K through Grade 8. With a tradition for academic excellence, St. John’s programs include a challenging curriculum in a Christian environment along with instruction in the visual and performing arts, Spanish, German, French, and opportunities for athletics and community service.St. John’s goal for its students is to develop a love for learning, service to others, and leadership grounded in love, humility, and wisdom. Accredited by ISAS, SAES, and the Texas Education Agency.

UT DALLAS CHESS CAMP

800 W. Campbell Rd., Richardson 75080 / (972) 883-4899 / utdallas.edu/chess ) 2014 Summer Chess Camp Campers learn while they PLAY. Chess develops reading, math, critical and analytical skills, and builds character and self-esteem. Just don’t tell the kids…they think chess is fun! Join beginner, intermediate or advanced chess classes for ages 7 to 14 on the UT Dallas campus. Morning (9am-noon) or afternoon (1-4pm) sessions are available June 8-12, June 15-19, July 13-17, July 20-24 and extended playing classes. Camp includes t-shirt, chess board and pieces, trophy, certificate, score book, group photo, snacks and drinks. Instructors are from among UT Dallas Chess Team PanAm Intercollegiate Champions for 2010-2012!

THE WINSTON SCHOOL

5707 Royal Lane Dallas, Tx 75229 / 214691-6950 / www.winston-school.org If your bright child struggles with things like Attention and Concentration, Executive Functioning and Dyslexia, The Winston School may be able to help. The Winston School has a robust academic program which prepares a student for college while at the same time developing the whole child. We understand bright children who learn differently and recognize their unique gifts and talents. Celebrating and validating these assets with our students enables them to discover who they are, and empowers them to be consistently successful. The Winston School brings hope for today and a road map for tomorrow.

ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL

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

BAPTIST

LAKESIDE BAPTIST / 9150 Garland Rd / 214.324.1425

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

Pastor Jeff Donnell / www.lbcdallas.com

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

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

PRESTONWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH / “A Church to Call Home”

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

12123 Hillcrest Road / 972.820.5000 / prestonwood.org

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

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

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

BIBLE CHURCHES

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

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

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

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST

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

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

10:50 am - Sanctuary / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

LUTHERAN

CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

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

Pastor Rich Pounds / CentralLutheran.org / 214.327.2222

FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH / 6202 E Mockingbird Ln.

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org

METHODIST

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

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

Worship: 8:30 am & 10:50 am Traditional / 10:50 am Contemporary

WHITE ROCK UNITED METHODIST / www.wrumc.org

1450 Oldgate Lane / 214.324.3661

Sunday Worship 10:50 am / Rev. Mitchell Boone

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

LAKE HIGHLANDS CHURCH / 9919 McCree / 214.348.0460

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

PRESBYTERIAN

LAKE HIGHLANDS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 214.348.2133

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

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

NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Welcomes you to Worship

Summer Worship: May 24 - Sept. 6 / 10:00am / Childcare provided.

UNITY

UNITY OF DALLAS / A Positive Path for Spiritual Living

6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230 / 972.233.7106 / UnityDallas.org 10:30 am Sunday - Celebration Worship Service

‘WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHURCH ?’

From creativity and innovation to caution and fear

“What happened to the church?“

That was the question a Duke Business School professor, Greg Dees, asked the former dean of the Duke Divinity School, Greg Jones, one day.

“What do you mean?” Jones replied.

Dees: “The church used to be the source of much of the innovation and entrepreneurial work in the world. But, sometime in the 1970s, the church seems to have stopped trying to be creative and innovative with regard to healthcare, education and poverty. You gave that role up and lost your imagination. You abdicated creative imagination to corporate interests and other non-profits. Now, the church is seen as the yellow light and red light people. Rather than being people who imagine and improvise and encourage progress, the church appears to decelerate progress.”

Dees’ metaphor of traffic lights is suggestive. Being a yellow-light church implies caution as an operating motif. It pays close attention to all the threats and dangers around it the way a driver does when the light is yellow. A red-light church internalizes those fears and hunkers down for survival. It loses its imagination for its role in society.

Yellow light and red light churches are more internally than externally focused. And if they turn outward, it is mostly for the purpose of trying to appeal to outsiders to come and save them.

Churches are under stress these days. Stores and sports no longer defer to our Sunday schedule. Politicians no longer look to us for guidance. Belief is no longer a starting point for intellectual pursuit; the very plausibility of believing is questioned.

Churches with green-light mentality once founded hospitals, schools and benevolent institutions. They didn’t seek to dominate

the public sphere so much as serve it.

One sterling example was the late, great pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, George W. Truett. In 1903, at a time when health care was segregated and available mainly to the wealthy, he issued this challenge: “Is it not now time to build a great humanitarian hospital, one to which men of all creeds and those of none may come with equal confidence?”

Baylor Hospital exists today to serve everyone because of that moral and social vision that emanated from the church; likewise, Presbyterian and Methodist hospitals, SMU, the University of Dallas, Dallas Baptist University, to name just a few. Catholic Charities, the Wilkinson Center, Jewish Family Services and a slew of other religiously-inspired organizations to aid the poor were birthed by churches and synagogues.

Just because we have lost social clout doesn’t mean we have lost our mission. We still have enormous power to do good, and should. Recent examples of social entrepreneurism include the remarkable CitySquare organization that addresses poverty and opportunity. Healing Hands Clinic provides medical and dental services for the uninsured and underinsured. Gateway of Grace tends to refugee resettlement. The Stewpot feeds the homeless.

The need is ever present. And the church knows what to do.

Another great preacher, Fred Craddock, died recently. In one of his last interviews, he was asked if he worried that the church in America was dying. No, he said, because the church is founded on a story of dying and rising again. He was more concerned about what we were dying for.

Green-light churches die to self in order to live for others.

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.

Athletics

Lake Highlands High School named a new head football coach and athletic coordinator last month. Lonnie Jordan previously was head coach at 3A Lone Oak High School. Before that, he was Lake Highlands’ offensive coordinator and JV head coach under Scott Smith. Jordan still lives in Lone Oak with his wife, Laura, and their three children, but they are looking for a house in our neighborhood. Jordan says the head coaching job is “a dream come true.”

Two Lake Highlands High School athletes, Elizabeth Hurt and Madison Monzingo, were named academic all-Americans by the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association. Several Lake Highlands High School soccer players made the all-district team. Mallory Hale, Mackenzie Jones and Savannah Breedlove earned spots on the first team, and Erin Moudy, Ellie Ratliff, Caroline Leal and Arianna Barrett made the second team. Coach Don Tatum was named District 10-6A coach of the year. On the men’s side, Aaron Volkert earned first team honors, while Brennan Addison and Juan Vargas made the second team. Ceu Sang and Darian Ernst earned honorable mention.

Education

The Lake Highlands Women’s League awarded $90,000 in scholarships to 29 students. The scholarship recipients are: Mary Arrey, Kayla Banks, Brittany Beck, Derrick Boateng, Tennessee Bonner, Jean Dossou, Hannah Gray, Semien Hagos, Thalia Harnett, Susporiea Harris, Rahel Harrison, Fredrickia Jackson, Genice Johnson, Esther Kariuki, Alex Little, Allyson Livingston, Caroline Livingston, Diana Monyancha, Katie Norris, Claire Parry, Jeffrey Reyes, Adriana Rodriguez, Abighail Seghid, Tyler Squires, DeMarkus Taylor, Reed Thomas, Madison Wachel, Symone Watson and Dara Wemida.

Nonprofits

The Lake Highlands Women’s League also awarded $95,000 to neighborhood charities. The recipients were: Audelia Road Library, Gateway of Grace, Forest Green Library, Healing Hands Ministries, Kids-U, Lake Highlands Junior Women’s League, Lake Highlands North Recreation Center, Network of Community Ministries, The Warren Center, Aiken Elementary, Hamilton Park Pacesetter Academy, Lake Highlands Elementary, Merriman Park Elementary, Moss Haven Elementary, Northlake Elementary, Skyview Elementary, Stults Road Elementary, Thurgood Marshall Elementary, White Rock Elementary, Forest Meadow Junior High, Lake Highlands Junior High, Lake Highlands Freshman Center and Lake Highlands High School.

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School board service

Richardson Independent School District board member Adam Meierhofer retired from the board’s service last month. “Adam’s tenure on the board has been marked by leadership,” Richardson Superintendant Kay Waggoner said. “His commitment and dedication are without question. He has supported our kids and our community and our staff and our recommendations and our initiatives 150 percent. He has given it his all plus some.” Pictured from left to right: Kim Quirk, Lanet Greenhaw, Kay Waggoner, Adam Meierhofer, Karen Ellis, Karen Holburn and Kim Caston.

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CLASSES/TUTORING/ LESSONS

ART: Draw/Paint. Adults All Levels. Lake Highlands N. Rec. Ctr. Days: Mon & Wed. Students bring supplies. Nights: 1xt month workshop, supplies furnished. Jane Cross. 214-534-6829,

ARTISTIC GATHERINGS

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

GUITAR OR PIANO Patient Teacher. Your Home. 12 Yrs Exp. Reasonable rates. UNT Music Grad. Larry 469-358-8784

MAKERS CONNECT Craft Classes & Workshops. Led by & for Local Makers. Check Schedule: makersconnect.org/classes

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CHILDCARE

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

EMPLOYMENT

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SERVICES FOR YOU

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

CONFUSED? FRUSTRATED? Let A Seasoned Pro Be The Interface Between You & That Pesky Computer. Hardware & Software Installation, Troubleshooting, Training. $60/hr. 1 hr min. Dan 214-660-3733 or stykidan@sbcglobal.net

DISH NETWORK Get More For Less. Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 months) Plus Bundle And Save. (Fast Internet for $15 more/month) 1-800-615-4064

SERVICES FOR YOU

FUNCTIONAL ART BY MD SOLIS

Metal & Wood Artworks for the home or office. 214-727-7957

MY OFFICE Offers Mailing, Copying, Shipping, Office & School Supplies. 9660 Audelia Rd. myofficelh.com 214-221-0011

LEGAL SERVICES

A SIMPLE WILL. Name a Guardian for Children. Katherine Rose, Attorney 214-728-4044. Office Dallas Tx.

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

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

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

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

FARMERS INSURANCE CALL JOSH JORDAN 214-364-8280. Auto, Home, Life Renters.

MIND, BODY & SPIRIT

PERSONAL FITNESS TRAINING To Suit Your Specific Training Needs. Terry 214-206-7823. terryrjacobs@outlook.com

UFC GYM WHITE ROCK Workout Blues? Train Different. Power/ endurance/results. 469-729-9900 ufcgym.com/WhiteRock

PET SERVICES

ADORABLE GROOMS PET SALON New Salon. Grooming, medicated/flea baths. 11111 N. Central Expy 972-629-9554

DEE’S DOGGIE DEN Daycare, Boarding, Grooming, Training. 6444 E. Mockingbird Ln. 214-823-1441 DeesDoggieDen.com

HOMEGROWN HOUNDS DOG DELI / BAKERY Healthy homemade dog food/treats. 100% goes to rescue. hghdogs.com

POOP SCOOP PROFESSIONALS Trust The Experts. 214-826-5009. germaine_free@yahoo.com

SKILLMAN ANIMAL CLINIC Is Your Friendly, Personal, Affordable Vet. 9661 Audelia Rd. #340. 214-341-6400

In-Home Professional Care

Customized to maintain your pet’s routine

In-Home Pet Visits & Daily Walks

“Best of Dallas” D Magazine

Serving the Dallas area since 1994 Bonded & Insured www.societypetsitter.com 214-821-3900

A standing ogre-vation

The Dallas Lutheran School performed “Shrek The Musical” in April. From left to right, Ed Schwieterman as Shrek, Will Clow as Lord Farquaad and Hannah Isett as Fiona. Photo by Matthew

BUY/SELL/TRADE

FOR SALE 2015 Dallas Cowboy Club Tickets - Section C132, Row 9, Seat 4-5. Parking Pass, Bond, Tickets Available. Call Steve 214-369-8389

TEXAS RANGERS AND DALLAS STARS

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

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

CLUTTERBLASTERS.COM

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

Boyer

Local HOME SERVICES

APPLIANCE REPAIR

CLEANING SERVICES

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

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

• Cooktops • Ovens 214✯823✯2629

CABINETRY & FURNITURE

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

CARPENTRY & REMODELING

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

FENN CONSTRUCTION Full Service Contractor. www.dallastileman.com Back Splash Specials! 214-343-4645

GREENGO Vinyl Siding,Windows & Doors. 903-802-6957, 25 Yrs Exp.

O’BRIEN GROUP INC. Remodeling Dallas For Over 17 Years www.ObrienGroupInc.com 214-341-1448

RENOVATE DALLAS renovatedallas.com 214-403-7247

Unique Home Construction - Design, Build, Remodel - Kitchens & Baths - New Construction or Additions Many references available - Licensed, Insured, Member of BBB www.uniquehomebuild.com

214.533.0716

CLEANING SERVICES

AFFORDABLE, PROFESSIONAL CLEANING A Clean You Can Trust Staff trained by Nationally Certified Cleaning Tech. Chemical-free, Green, or Traditional Cleaning. WindsorMaidServices.com 214-381-MAID (6243)

ALTOGETHER CLEAN

Relax ...We’ll Clean Your House, It Will Be Your Favorite Day! Bonded & Insurance. Free Estimates. 214-929-8413. www. altogetherclean.net

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

CALL GRIME STOPPERS • 214-724-2555 Wanted: Houses to Clean • 20 years experience. Dependable. Efficient. Great Prices. Excellent Refs.

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

DELTA CLEANING Insd./Bonded. Move In/Out. General Routine Cleaning. Carpet Cleaning. Refs. Reliable. Dependable. 28+yrs. 972-943-9280.

WINDOW MAN WINDOW CLEANING.COM

Residential Specialists. BBB. 214-718-3134

COMPUTERS & ELECTRONICS

ALL COMPUTER PROBLEMS SOLVED

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

BILL’S COMPUTER REPAIR

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

IT SOLUTIONS/SUPPORT For Home & Small Business. Parental Controls Speciality. 8 Yrs. Exp. Husband & Wife, Licensed Minister called to His Work. Texas Tech Guru. 214-850-2669

CONCRETE/ MASONRY/PAVING

BRICK & STONE REPAIR

Tuck Pointing / Crack Repair. Mortar Color Matching. Windows And Door Cracks Etc. Call Don 214-704-1722

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

BRICK, STONEWORK, FLAGSTONE PATIOS

Mortar Repair. Call George 214-498-2128

CONCRETE REPAIRS/REPOURS

Demo existing. Stamping and Staining Driveways/Patio/Walkways

Pattern/Color available Free Estimates 972-672-5359 (32 yrs.)

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

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

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

ELECTRICAL SERVICES

ANTHONY’S ELECTRIC Master Electrician. TECL24948 anthonyselectricofdallas.com Family Owned/Operated. Insd. 214-328-1333

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

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

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

TEXAS ELECTRICAL • 214-289-0639

Prompt, Honest, Quality. TECL 24668

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

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

EXTERIOR CLEANING

G&G DEMOLITION Tear downs, Haul. Interior/Exterior. 214-808-8925

FENCING & DECKS

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

4 QUALITY FENCING Call Mike 214-507-9322 Specializing in Wood, New or Repair.

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

FENCING & WOOD WORK oldgatefence.com charliehookerswoodwork.com 214-766-6422

HANNAWOODWORKS.COM Decks, Fences, Pergolas, Patio Covers. 214-435-9574

KIRKWOOD FENCE & DECK New & Repair. Free Estimates. Nathan Kirkwood. 214-341-0699

LONESTARDECKS.COM 214-357-3975

Trex Decking & Fencing, trex.com All Wood Decks, Arbors & Patio Covers

EST. 1991 #1

COWBOY FENCE & IRON CO.

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

Deckoart.com

R&M Concrete

Concrete Retaining Walls Driveways Stamped Concrete 214-202-8958

214.692.1991

SPECIALIZING IN Wood Fences &Auto Gates

cowboyfenceandiron.com

FLOORING & CARPETING

ALL WALKS OF FLOORS 214-616-7641 Carpet, Wood, Tile Sales/Service Free Estimates

CLIFTON CARPETS 214-526-7405 www.cliftoncarpets.com

FLOORING & CARPETING

DALLAS HARDWOODS 214-724-0936

Installation, Repair, Refinish, Wax, Hand Scrape. Residential, Commercial. Sports Floors. 30 Yrs.

FENN CONSTRUCTION Full Service Contractor. www.dallastileman.com Back Splash Specials! 214-343-4645

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

THE TEXAN FLOORING SERVICES

Wood, Laminate. Remodel Showers, Bathrooms. thetexanflooringservices.com 214-680-0901

CARPET · HARDWOODS · CERAMIC Quick, Reliable Installation

John: 972.989.3533 john.roemen@redicarpet.com

REDI CARPET

Reinventing the Flooring Experience

Restoration Flooring

25+ Years Experience

469.774.3147

GLASS, WINDOWS & DOORS

LAKE HIGHLANDS GLASS & MIRROR

frameless shower enclosures • store fronts replacement windows • mirrors 214-349-8160

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

HANDYMAN SERVICES

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

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

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

FRAME RIGHT All Honey-Dos/Jobs. Crown mold install $125/rm. Licensed. Matt 469-867-9029

GROOVY HOUSE Is A Different Handyman

Experience! Find Out Why At www.groovyhouse.biz 214-733-2100 • 19 Year Lakewood Resident

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

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

floors

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

WANTED: ODD JOBS & TO DO LISTS

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

24-HR EMERGENCY SERVICE Thompson Industries

Local HOME SERVICES

HOME INSPECTION

Certified·Licensed·Insured

Lead-based Paint · Infared · Termite · Radon · Mold

HOUSE PAINTING

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

#1 GET MORE PAY LES

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

A+ INT/EXT PAINT & DRYWALL

Since 1977. Kirk Evans. 972-672-4681

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

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

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

BENJAMIN’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work At Reasonable Prices. 214-725-6768

MANNY’S HOME PAINTING & REPAIR

Int./Ext. Sheetrock. Manny 214-334-2160

RAMON’S INT/EXT PAINT

Sheetrock, Repairs. 214-679-4513

TEXAS BEST PAINTING • 214-527-4168

Master Painter. High Quality Work. Int/Ext.

TONY’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work Since 1984. Int./Ext. 214-755-2700

AC & Heat Plumbing Electrical Services

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IT ALL

TACLB64882e / TDR25284 Handy Dan The

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Exterior & Interior Painting Professionals Call Local (Toll Free) NOW For a FREE estimate 877-212-4076 www.protectpainters.com

KITCHEN/BATH/ TILE/GROUT

TK REMODELING 972-533-2872

Complete Full Service Repairs, Remodeling, Restoration. Name It — We do it. Tommy. Insured. dallas.tkremodelingcontractors.com

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

REFINISH!

• Tubs, Tiles or Sinks

• Cultured Marble

• Kitchen Countertops

214-631-8719

www.allsurfacerefinishing.com

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

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

A BETTER TREE MAN Trims, Removals, Insd. 12 Yrs Exp. Roberts Tree Service. 214-808-8925

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

AYALA’S LANDSCAPING SERVICE

Call the Land Expert Today! Insured. 214-773-4781

BLOUNT’S TREE SERVICE

Trees, Landscaping, Sod. 45 Yrs. Exp. Insured. blountstreeservicedfw.com 214-275-5727

CHUPIK TREE SERVICE

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

DALLAS K.D.R.SERVICES • 214-349-0914

Lawn Service & Landscape Installation

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

HOLMAN IRRIGATION

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

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

KITCHEN/BATH/

TILE/GROUT

FENN CONSTRUCTION Full Service Contractor. www.dallastileman.com Back Splash Specials! 214-343-4645

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

STONE AGE COUNTER TOPS Granite, Marble, Tile, Kitchen/Bath Remodels. 972-800-8130.stoneage.mike@verizon.net

LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS Neighborhood Services • Education • Pets & More LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS Neighborhood Services • Education • Pets & More LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS Neighborhood Services • Education • Pets & More CLASSIFIEDS.ADVOCATEMAG.COM

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

LIGHT IT UP DALLAS

Your lighting specialists. 972-591-8383

Parties, Weddings, Patios, Landscape.

LSI LAWN SPRINKLERS “Making Water Work” Irrigation system Service & Repair. Specializing In Older Copper Systems. LI #13715. 214-283-4673

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

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

TRACY’S LAWN CARE • 972-329-4190

PLUMBING POOLS

ADAIR POOL & SPA

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

ROOFING & GUTTERS

A&B GUTTER

PEST

972-564-2495

MCDANIEL PEST CONTROL

Prices Start at $85 + Tax For General Treatment.

Average Home-Interior/Exterior & Attached Garage. Quotes For Other Services. 214-328-2847. Lakewood Resident

PLUMBING

A2Z PLUMBING 214-727-4040

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

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

Sewers • Drains • Bonded 24 Hours/7 Days

*Joe Faz 214-794-7566 - Se Habla Español*

ARRIAGA PLUMBING: General Plumbing

Since the 80’s. Insured. Lic# M- 20754 214-321-0589, 214-738-7116, CC’s accepted.

CAMPBELL PLUMBING Repairs, Fixtures, Senior Discounts. 214-321-5943

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

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

NTX PLUMBING SPEC. LLLP 214-226-0913

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

UPTOWN PLUMBING Serving Dallas 40 + Yrs. 214-747-1103 M-13800 uptownplumbing.com

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VIOLENT CRIME IS UP IN DALLAS.

While overall crime is down about 2 percent so far this year compared to the first four months of 2014, that’s due to a drop in property crimes such as burglary and theft. Overall violent crime from January-April was up about 9 percent over the same period in 2014, according to a Dallas Police Department briefing for City Council in May.

Murder is the only violent crime category that has seen a drop. Twenty-seven people have been murdered in Dallas this year, compared to 37 in the first four months of 2014. The biggest jumps have been in sexual assaults and business robberies. There have been 191 rapes so far this year compared to 154 in the same period last year, a 29 percent increase. And businesses have been held up 236 times compared to 197 in 2014. That’s an increase of about 11 percent.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown told City Council that violent crime is flat in highcrime areas of the city, and it’s up in low-crime areas. Brown told Council members the department plans to be more aggressive in fighting violent crime. “Our officers will be put more in harm’s way to reduce violent crime,” he said. “But we will be careful to do our job in a way that respects citizens’ civil rights.”

Brown says the department plans to shift schedules to have more officers on the beat in high-crime areas at times when violent crimes statistically are more likely to happen. The department also could make more traffic and pedestrian stops and serve warrants on violent criminals, Brown said.

Last year, Dallas had the lowest murder rate since 1930.

—Rachel Stone

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gunmen allegedly aiming to attack participants at the Muhammad Art Exhibit in May were shot and killed by a Garland police officer 5 officers were on duty, providing extra security at the controversial event, which took place at Garland’s Curtis Culwell Center

June 7, 2015

— Lake Highlands High School seniors will graduate at the same events center

SOURCE: Garland Police Department and Richardson ISD

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Oversized Rooms | Hardwood Floors

Plantation Shutters | High Ceilings

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