2013 August Lake Highlands

An explorAtion of the force thAt lights, comforts, entertAins And connects us

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The heroes around us

I’ve had a busy summer so far.

Jamie Foxx, Channing Tatum and I figured out a way to prevent world nuclear annihilation, although the White House and D.C. in general didn’t fare too well.

Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer and I tried to eliminate crime and robber barons from the Old West. We did pretty well, although as I think you know, our efforts to stamp out corporate greed in America really only slowed things down a bit.

Spock, Kirk and I also traveled somewhere light-years away to prevent Earth from being destroyed. That was pretty fun, too.

Superman and I haven’t gotten together

They weren’t putting their lives on the line because it was their “job” or because their boss told them to get in there and do it or because their shift hadn’t yet ended.

No, a sense of civic duty or corporate responsibility wasn’t the driving force behind their super-human efforts. Instead, they were motivated by something more personal.

Channing Tatum wanted to rescue his daughter from criminals, and he wanted to redeem her view of him as a father.

Armie Hammer wanted to avenge the death of his brother and rescue his brother’s wife and son, while Johnny Depp was motivated by a mistake he made as a child that he needed to rectify.

The Star Trek guys had all messed up in the past, and they were motivated to show everyone they really could do the right thing at the right time.

You could argue they performed their crazy feats of heroism because they believed in the greater good, or they felt as if they owed their neighbor a better life, or they simply were willing to risk their lives so the rest of us could live in peace and freedom.

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yet, although I feel as if I already know the guy and his story. And I haven’t seen any of those touch-feely foreign language films yet. Maybe next month.

What have I learned from my summer adventures? Well, I know they’re only movies, but I was struck by the fact that the heroes weren’t getting shot and stabbed for the love of country, although there was a lot of flag-waving during the action scenes.

And you wouldn’t be all wrong. But every hero (real and celluloid) has a back story, as they say in the movies, and every back story begins with some driving personal motivation or ambition, the need to impress someone or prove something to someone else.

The good news is that the movies aren’t the only places for back stories or heroism or honor.

We write about neighborhood heroes breaking free of the daily grind here in our magazine and every day in our online daily news update at advocatemag.com. We can see them all around us every day, if we just pay attention.

And if we look really hard, even without 3D glasses, we can even see a little bit of heroism in ourselves every once in awhile.

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Summer blockbusters aren’t the only place to find people fighting for the greater good

You could argue they performed their crazy feats of heroism because they believed in the greater good, or they felt as if they owed their neighbor a better life, or they simply were willing to risk their lives so the rest of us could live in peace and freedom.

Remodeling & New Construction Talk...

How to Present Remodeling Ideas

to a Designer

One of the most enjoyable phases of any remodeling or construction project happens before you set foot in a design studio. It’s the creative process of discovery, of finding what inspires you, of collecting images, narrowing down, and prioritizing what matters most. By doing this, when you meet with specialists in design and architecture, you’ll provide the tools they need to execute your vision to your satisfaction.

Build a Portfolio of Images Online:

Houzz.com is an amazing repository of over 1,500,000 beautiful and inspiring images of homes, inside and out. Start by creating an “Ideabook” for your upcoming project. Search by room, and then by related subcategories. Add each image you like to your Ideabook.

Pinterest is another great source of inspiration and images. Search by key words, find an image you like, then “Pin it” to your board. You’ll be guided by Pinterest to other boards with the same picture. That will often lead you to similar images, and as your collection builds, cohesive design themes will emerge.

HGTV.com keeps getting better. Check under “Rooms” in the navigation bar. You’ll find not only images, but videos, guides, articles and more to inspire and inform your next project.

Take Your Own Photos:

You’ll be surprised how many quality photos you can accumulate with your own camera. There’s

nothing like being present in a home to see the impact of design in 3-D and to experience the functionality of each element. Note the features you may want and snap away. You can start by visiting model homes in our local area.

Create a Digital Photo Binder: Try applications like Google’s Picasa, Apple’s iPhoto, or set up a free account with Flickr. Each has innovative methods for collecting, organizing, and sharing your photos. Don’t worry; they’re all easy to figure out and fun to use.

Create a Real Photo Binder: You’ll want a keepsake to remind you of how your dream came to be. So why not get pictures developed and put them in a physical binder? You can clip magazine images to go along with the ones you’ve taken. Many of our customers even draw their own sketches.

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Should you pay that red-light camera ticket?

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Investigations have indicated that money not safety prompts the use of red-light cameras at traffic lights, writes Advocate publisher Christina Hughes Babb. Some near our neighborhood, including Forest Lane-Plano and Mockingbird-Central, are big moneymakers. Thus, disputing a ticket is quite the hassle.

Excellent article. These things are typically funded entirely by for-profit third parties, who then split the revenues with the cities, so the cities don’t have any capital cost in implementing the revenue stream. I’m not sure if this applies to Dallas or not, but I’d be surprised if the city pays a dime to install new cameras. —Colin1497

Just as your home will be a reflection of your personal preferences, so will the way you present remodeling ideas to your designer. No matter which methods you choose, the more you enjoy the process, the more likely you are to love the final outcome.

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I’ve noticed the yellow light at Casa Linda — the Buckner and Garland Road crossing, when turning left on Buckner from Garland — is actually too short to clear the intersection. If the car enters the intersection just as the light turns from green to yellow, the light will be red before the car is able to go through the crossing. —Fhresident

Lake Highlands native gains fame

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Joining the growing list of Lake Highlands High School informal Hall of Famers, 1995 graduate Amy Acker is the female lead in “Much Ado About Nothing,” released nationwide in June.

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What can I say all of us LHHSs simply rock right about now :). Izabela Wojcik Wade Smith, LH Class of 1999, is a guard for the Houston Texans and played in the ProBowl this year. He also has his own foundation benefiting children.

—K. Thomas

Commentary: Ellen Raff on improving Skillman-LBJ

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In the July issue, Advocate columnist and Lake Highlands resident Ellen Raff wrote about possible improvements to the dangerous and dismal corner of Skillman and LBJ Freeway.

Thank you for the update. I hope this goes well. Then, we can focus on Skillman-Abrams. Again, not the homeowners driving it but fly-by-night predators like title loans and cash stores. We are the only state in the union that does not regulate them ... hence seven on a corner. Just my voice again — please focus on owner condos, patio homes and single-family homes. We deserve better than a corner filled with title loan stores. We are in for the long haul. —Bneighborhood

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Bobby Autry: Danny Fulgencio

A fighting chance

Each generation has a slick fictional martial artist embedded in its popular culture — Chen Zhen, Mr. Miyagi, Beatrix Kiddo. But in real life, the sport is relatively down-to-earth, essential and utilitarian. take Dallas Academy of Martial Arts in Lake Highlands, a taekwondo-rooted outfit. the boxy no-frills studio opened on Plano Road 16 years ago, long before the CrossFit craze made such spaces trendy. the owner, Bobby Autry, is an understated man with a head of thick white hair and a kind smile; he seems to listen more than talk. He says things like: “ ‘sensei’ is the Japanese word for instructors, and ‘Xiansheng’ is the Chinese word, but I am from East texas, so I call them ‘instructors.’ ”

His wife, Diane, works in the office, assisted by their 8-year-old daughter, Emily. It’s a sweet setup, but not how it was supposed to be. Some 10 years ago, Bobby retired and turned the operation over to his son, Shayne Autry. Shayne was the type you might find playing a badass in a Tarantino flick. Students recall his confidence, his sublime intuition and his cowboy hat. Over the past couple of years, Shayne suffered bouts of unexplained illness, his father says, but nothing that

seemed too serious. Student Audrey Sequenzia says she sent Shayne Autry a text in early December: “Wanted to make sure you are feeling OK.” He responded that he was “better.” But on Dec. 18, when one of the other instructors went to check on the 37-year-old Shayne, she discovered his lifeless body.

Since he was 5 years old, Shayne Autry had been a constant presence at Dallas AMA, which first opened near its current location in 1980. “I stepped back and let

him take over,” Bobby Autry says, when Shayne was about 28, after he became a master instructor.

Sequenzia, a Lake Highlands High School grad, says that the first time she visited the studio and met Shayne, she knew the place was for her.

“I was always athletic, but after I had a baby, I really needed to find a way to get in shape, and I didn’t just want a gym membership,” she says. “As a teenager, I once was attacked. Because of that I had always considered learning some form of self-defense. But because of involvement in other sports, I never had time.”

When she met Shayne, she says, “he was like a magnet. I knew this was where I was meant to be — the students, the instructors, the art — I got this inspiration.”

That was two years ago, and she has been attending faithfully — four nights a week, three hours a night — ever since. The color of her belt progressed from white to yellow and eventually red She expects to earn a black belt within the next few months.

“I am completely different. I feel in control and powerful. I really feel that I could physically defend myself.”

Max Sanders, a student of Bobby then Shayne Autry, was almost a black belt when a brain tumor and subsequent radiation in 2005 practically incapacitated

him. The Autrys visited him in the hospital, he says, and when he returned to class months later, using a metal walker, Shayne Autry helped him with his recovery. Today, Sanders is working out with the intermediate class and appears physically strong. He attributes his comeback to both the exer-

cise and the camaraderie.

Sequenzia and Sanders both say Shayne Autry played a key role — through his teaching — in strengthening their bodies, minds and spirits.

“He was our master,” Sequenzia says. “He was someone we looked up to and wanted to be like. He always seemed intune with each of us. If you were hurting one day, he could spot it right away. He was amazing. So, when he passed so suddenly, we were like: ‘What do we do now?’ The close-knit group of students and instructors reacted to Shayne’s death as they would have reacted to the loss of a close family member, Sequenzia recalls. There was shock and distress followed by logistical concerns. The business had been getting by, but with Shayne gone, there was a real chance that the studio would close.

Two weeks after his son’s death, the elder Autry called a member meeting. He told the group that he planned to return to work so that the studio could stay open.

The students were grateful; they under-

Bobby Autry and student: Danny Fulgencio

stood the magnitude of the commitment. “Under such heartache, he decided to take back over the gym, which would require a lot of hard work,” Sequenzia notes. The instructors — Steve Campbell, Garvin Garcia, Bob Via and James Smith — and students rallied together to help paint, reorganize and spruce up the studio.

“Shayne put together a terrific core of people here,” Bobby Autry says. “They are not just a staff [or members], but a community. And what’s great is that they are people from all walks of life who never would cross paths if not for this shared interest.”

With the help of the Dallas AMA community and his family, Bobby Autry has been able to sustain the business. In fact, the school has added kickboxing sessions, self defense workshops and circuit training, and classes are regularly filling. Parents steadily enroll youngsters in lessons that, according to students and instructors, increase fitness and balance, not to mention self-confidence and discipline.

Losing Shayne was a big blow to so many Lake Highlands families, Sequenzia says, but his dynamic influence lingers.

“It is still so hard to believe that he won’t be moseying on into the gym with his cowboy hat and bare feet, ready to show us his awesomeness,” she says. “But the things he taught me are always going to be with me. And now getting to learn from [Bobby] Autry — I am learning in a new way. It is such a privilege to have had them both as masters.”

Christina Hughes

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In order to get the most out of a martIal arts program, call 214.343.3000 and set up a consultation. You can also visit a class anytime and/or attend a fitness or kickboxing session. Just prior to publication, the school announced a new series of self-defense workshops. The schedule is available at dallasama.com. The studio is located at 9644 Plano, at the Plano-Walnut Hill intersection.

Bobby and Shayne Autry

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Dallas Children’s Theater rooftop solar panels: Chris Arrant

Solar array at Dallas Children’s Theater: Chris Arrant

Back to School Special

Power players

Based on the ringing laughter, singing and frenetic movement onstage or inside the classrooms at the Dallas Children’s Theater, any visitor can ascertain that its scores of students generate a massive amount of energy. It’s not so obvious, but just as true, that the building itself produces more than 21,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a year by converting sunlight into pollution-free electricity. The solar array atop the Rosewood Center, where the Dallas Children’s Theater performs, covers more than 1,100 square feet of roof and offsets 27,800 pounds of carbon dioxide each year. The 60 giant solar panels were installed three years ago by Green Mountain Energy when theater board members applied for a grant from the energy company’s Texas Sun Club. Green Mountain customers can sign up for the club and donate $5 a month that goes toward sponsoring solar panel installation for nonprofits. Since 2002, funds from the Texas Sun Club have been used to install solar arrays at more than 40 nonprofits, most of which are located in Texas. “We wanted to go green at the theater but were limited in options being a nonprofit, so the grant was the best way for us to get some momentum going,” says Robin Flatt, executive artistic director and co-founder of the Dallas Children’s Theater. Last year the children’s theater installed a new R-30 roof with 5 inches of insulation to continue making the building more energy efficient. “Before that,” Flatt says, “the building was doing a phenomenal job of cooling off the air outside of the building.” Longtime Lake Highlands residents may recall that the building once housed the Don Carter Bowling Alley, where years ago Flatt would drop off her children after they got out of school from Hamilton Park Elementary. Flatt is pleased with how far the building has come along since then and says the theater is in the process of switching to more energyefficient HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) units. So far seven of the 22 units in the building have been converted, and there are plans to convert an additional five units this summer. In contrast to the building’s reduced carbon footprint, the flurry of active feet on the stage increases as the children perform and attend classes all year long. “The train keeps going every day,” Flatt says, “and we have not found a way to slow down.”

—Whitney Thompson

Out & About

August 2013

Aug. 10

Trees please

Members of For the Love of the Lake, an organization benefitting all things White Rock Lake, need volunteers to help prepare a site and plant a crop of new trees as a part of its reforestation initiative. Participants should arrive before 7:30 a.m. at the Big Thicket area of White Rock Lake. Wear work clothes and bring gloves and something to drink. The Peninsula Neighborhood Association will serve lunch.

Big Thicket at White Rock Lake, 430 E. Lawther, free

AUG. 2

Cathy’s Critters

Pet and interact with snakes, tortoises, birds and more at the Audelia Library from 10:30-11:30 a.m. as teachers from Cathy’s Critters explain how animals adapt to their environments. All ages welcome.

Audelia Library, 10045 Audelia, dallaslibrary2.org, 214.670.1350, free

AUG. 3

Digestive Difficulties: Gluten, Milk, Nuts, Sugar ... and You

Casa Linda Plaza’s Natural Grocers hosts a free seminar led by Dr. Aldo D’Aversa covering topics such as the rise of food sensitivities in the general population, new diagnostic testing and corrective actions for food allergies from 10-11:30 a.m.

Natural Grocers, 9440 Garland, 214.321.4777, naturalgrocers.com, free

AUG. 10-24

White Rock Local Market

The twice-monthly market at Green Spot Market & Fuels features local food and products from 8 -1 p.m. Green Spot Market and Fuels, 702 N. Buckner, whiterocklocalmarket.org, free

AUG. 19-23

Chicken Run

Studio Movie Grill will show “Chicken Run” at 11 a.m. daily Monday through Friday for the final week of its Children’s Summer Movie Series. Tickets sold at the box office only.

Studio Movie Grill, 11170 N. Central Expressway, studiomoviegrill.com, $2 adult tickets, $1 child tickets

Through Aug. 31

Dollar Days at the Arboretum

Instead of the usual $12 for adults and $8 for kids, admission to the Dallas Arboretum is only a buck all month long. Be prepared to pay extra for parking and drink plenty of water to stay cool in the August heat. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Road, 214.515.6500, $1

AUG 21

Daylight to Darkness

The 5-mile Daylight to Darkness race at White Rock Lake starts at 7 p.m. in the parking lot of the Bath House Cultural Center. Register at Run On Texas at 5400 E. Mockingbird Lane, #114. Registration closes 10 minutes before the race.

Bath House Cultural Center, 500 E. Lawther, White Rock Lake, 972.231.1111, $25

AUG. 25

Hottest Half

Race a half marathon or a 10k, beginning at Norbuck Park, on a sizzling summer day during which temps are likely to top 100 degrees. Register early online or on race day until 7:10 a.m. Norbuck Park, 200 N. Buckner, hottesthalf.com, $45-$75

AUG. 25

Good Mood and Melodies Evening of Jazz

Join some fellow hip cats for an evening of jazz performances honoring the late musician John Singleton. Music kicks off at 7 p.m.

Willie B. Johnson Recreation Center, 12225 Willowdell, 214.670.6182, free

GECKO HARDWARE

Find Deet-free mosquito repellents and other eco-friendly solutions for your home at this unique hardware store in Lake Highlands. From functional to funky – they make green living fun! 10233 E. NW Hwy @ Ferndale (near Albertsons) 214.343.1971 GeckoHardware.com

PAINTING WITH A TWIST

Express your inner artist! Instructors lead attendees in creating paintings with a featured piece of art, bring nothing more than your imagination, wine or beverage. Perfect for Private Parties as well. 5202 Lovers Ln. 214.350.9911 paintingwithatwist.com

ONCE UPON A CHILD

Parents got those summertime Blues? Back to school is already at your Dallas-Lake Highlands Once Upon a Child. Don’t forget tax free weekend 8-9-11. Store hours: 9am - 7pm M-F, 10am - 7pm Sat and 1pm - 6pm Sun 6300 Skillman St #150 214.503.6010 onceuponachildlakehighlands.com

THE STORE IN LAKE HIGHLANDS

VERA BRADLEY Back-to-School! From grade school to college, we have what you need. Campus Backpack shown in Heather, Cocoa Moss & Lola. 10233 E NW Hwy @ Ferndale (near Albertsons) 214.553.8850 Mon-Sat 9:30-5:30 TheStoreinLH.com

BRUMLEY GARDENS

Beautiful glass in colors, shapes and sizes you will love, all 25% off in August.

Lake Highlands: 10540 Church Road 214.343.4900 Bishop Arts: 700 W. Davis 214.942.0794 brumleygardens.com. Shop Local

ADVOCATE ORNAMENT

The Advocate Foundation’s limited-edition, numbered, and hand-painted ornament; perfect gift for the new home owner or Dallas transplant. Sales benefit neighborhood organizations. 214.292.0486 foundation.advocatemag.com

Delicious

Cool treats

There is no place quite like Frutería Cano. The locally owned chain of fruit markets sells whole fruits and veggies, plus fruit plates and cups. But there is so much more. Liquados ($5), the Mexican version of a smoothie, is a blend of milk, ice, fruit and sugar. It’s a drink served only for breakfast in Mexico, owner Jose Cano says, but he found that Americans like it any time of day. The mangonada ($6) is a slushie made with fresh mango. The “Russa” ($5) is made with grapefruit soda and ice, topped with chopped pineapple, jicama and cucumber, plus a dash of chile to accentuate the sweetness of the fruit. But to really go big, try the non-alcoholic piña colada ($5) served in a whole pineapple. They use hand drills to carve the fruit out of its husk and serve the drink with whipped cream and a cherry on top and what else? — a little umbrella. Frutería Cano started out as a small shop in Old East Dallas 13 years ago and became so popular that the owners have expanded to seven stores in Dallas, Garland and Irving. They also have concession stands that operate on weekends at Traders Village flea markets in Grand Prairie, San Antonio and Houston, and at Summer Adventures at Fair Park. “Fruit is cheap and healthy,” Cano says. “And people of any age love it.” Frutería Cano also serves sandwiches, elotes, sno cones, energy smoothies, strawberries and cream, banana splits and “mango sticks,” pieces of mango placed artfully on a stick to resemble a flower. Cano’s son Luis Cano says the menu is expanding constantly. “We think of something new all the time,” he says.

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(Right) non-alcoholic piña colada. (Top) fruit plate with kiwi, mango, cucumber and jícama: Eliott Muñoz

THREE f R os T y f Inds

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Just west of our neighborhood, a gem of a shaved-ice bar is nestled inside a bare-bones shopping center. Despite the clandestine location, the coconut ice and off-menu, lemony “Mag Dawg” have a loyal following.

7813 Meadow

214.315.5589

Kazy’s Gourmet

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Known as a sushi spot, Kazy’s also offers unique sweet treats such as mango tapioca, fruity mochi ice cream, and “Hawaiian sun”— a tropical fruit nectar drink that tastes like summer in a can.

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this gourmet shaved ice food truck frequently finds its way to Lake Highlands; it might park at the Walgreens at Audelia and Walnut Hill or the Nathan grace Real Estate offices across the street, and often graces neighborhood events. For current details on where to grab mouthwatering watermelon or crave-worthy cotton candy sno cones, follow Enticed on Facebook or twitter. getenticed.com

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Mangonada slushie with fresh mangoes: Eliott Muñoz

August

Summer sips

Pepi California Pinto Grigio ($8)

This is the time of year that requires wines that are lighter, whether red or white, and that can be served cool or sometimes colder — even with an ice cube or two. In other words, porch wines, which are perfectly suited for summertime sipping, whether you’re on a shaded porch or indoors, with the air conditioning on and glad you’re not on the porch.

Porch wines don’t have the big alcohol or tannins (that puckery feeling in the back of the mouth) that heavier wines do. In this, they’re more refreshing and don’t make you feel even more uncomfortable than the heat already does. Doubt that premise? Then taste one of the ones suggested below, and then taste a cabernet sauvignon with 14.5 percent alcohol. You’ll be amazed at the difference.

• Grocery store pinot noirs that cost about $10, such as Mark West from California or the Chilean Cono Sur Bicicleta, are soft, fruity red wines with lower alcohol, and chilling them a little doesn’t ruin them either.

• Italian producers churn out millions and millions of cases of cheap pinot grigio, most of indifferent quality. But some are more than that, including Bollini ($10). Pepi ($8), from California, also is a fine value.

• Vinho verde means green wine in Portuguese, and these wines have a greenish tint (and a little fizz, too). Most are $8 or less, with low alcohol and sweetish green apple fruit. This year, the Sonalto was one of the best, and you may also see it labeled Santola (made by the same producer, but for a different retailer).

—Jeff Siegel

Ask the wine guy

What does it mean when a wine is hot?

That the alcohol is not in balance with the fruit, acid and other parts of the wine. Both red and whites can be hot; you’ll notice an unpleasant feeling in the back of your mouth or even in your nose. —Jeff

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Chickpea burgers

Serves four, takes about 20 minutes

Chickpeas, also called garbanzos, are one of those things that much of the world loves (hummus, falafel) but aren’t as popular here. These are light and easy to make, and they’re a nice change from burgers or hot dogs on a hot August evening. Serve on buns or in pitas. A vinho verde would pair quite well.

Grocery List

2 cups cooked chickpeas (well drained if canned)

4 green onions, trimmed and sliced

1 egg

2 tablespoons flour

3-4 tablespoons chopped cilantro

1 clove chopped garlic

1 teaspoon ground cumin

salt and pepper to taste

2 tablespoons olive oil

Directions

1. Place chickpeas, green onions, egg, flour, cilantro, garlic, cumin, and salt and pepper in a food processor. Pulse, stopping once or twice to scrape down the sides, until a coarse mixture forms that holds together when pressed. It will be moist, but workable. Form into four patties.

2. In a large nonstick skillet over mediumhigh heat, warm the olive oil. Add patties and cook until golden and beginning to crisp, 4 to 5 minutes. Carefully flip and cook until golden brown, 2 to 4 minutes more.

POWER PEOPLE TO THE

Story by Keri Mitchell • Photos by Danny Fulgencio

Most of us don’t think about electricity outside of two scenarios: our monthly bill is due, or our power goes out.

We’ve lived with power lines so long that they’ve become a part of the landscape. We no longer notice them running down our streets or along our highways.

Our entire modern lives rely upon the energy grid, yet we don’t know anything about it, even though it runs right through our neighborhood.

What is it? Where is it? What if something happens to it? c ould we run out of power?

this month, while our air-conditioners are running full blast, might be a good time to find out.

Where exactly is the energy grid?

We’ve heard about it and vaguely knoW it’s responsible for ensuring that our DVRs record our favorite shows, our laptops and mobile phones can be recharged, and our air-conditioners continue humming to stave off the summer heat. (Plus it powers our lights, refrigerators and other such minor things.)

But where is the energy grid? It sounds obscure, but it’s actually in plain sight all around us.

“It’s not a grid in a sense of square grid,” says Bill Muston, manager of research and development for Oncor, which delivers electricity to Dallas homes. Muston instead describes the grid as “radial.”

Those giant high-voltage transmission lines around the city, the ones on Audelia between Church and Royal, for example? Power generated by gas, coal, wind and other sources at 550 plants throughout the state travels through lines like those and into Dallas.

The high-voltage transmission lines carry up to 345,000 volts and can transmit anywhere between 50 and 500 megawatts of energy at a time, which power between 10,000 and 100,000 homes at peak demand. That power then “goes through transformers to step it down to 12,500 volts, and those are called substations,” Muston says. Neither Oncor nor other electrical entities publish maps of the grid flow or substations for security reasons, but “there’s no secret,” Muston says. A large grouping of metal poles and wires in a gated area is hard to miss.

For example, there’s a substation by the boat houses at White Rock Lake, and one west of Audelia near the high voltage transmission lines between Church and Royal.

Where did Texans’ energy come from in 2012?

NaTural gas 44.6 percent Coal 33.8 percent NuClear 11.8 percent WiNd 9.2 percent Hydro, biomass, solar aNd sTorage 0.6 percent

Source: electric reliability council of texas, Inc. (ercOt)

The substations then transmit the power to various “districts” around the city and deliver it to the transformers and utility lines near our homes. One transformer — what looks like a cylindrical tube attached to a utility line — serves between four and eight homes, Muston says. The transformers convert the electricity into either 240 volts, powering electric stoves or dryers, or 120 volts, powering just about everything else in a home.

The high voltage transmission grid is networked across the state, so “if you lose one segment of it, it just keeps going,” Muston says.

“The outages occur more at the district level where you have trees fall onto lines or drivers hit poles.”

t he texas grid is called ERCO t and is run by the Electric Reliability Council of texas. Why does texas have its own grid?

Read our web story at lakehighlands.advocatemag.com.

How to make the electric company pay you

L StreetS North reSideNt Weston Brown didn’t install solar panels on his roof for environmental reasons. He saw it as an investment.

Brown spent $25,000 on the panels four years ago, “but the economy was in the pits,” he says. “You could make over $150 a month for six or seven months. You couldn’t earn that kind of money if you invested $25,000 in stocks.”

He’s talking about the money he made through an energy buy back program, which paid him for solar power generated by his house. Before the panels, Brown paid $400 to $500 a month on his summer electric bills.

“And that’s just my wife and I, no kids running in and out, and keeping the drapes pulled,” Brown says. After the panels, however, “I got credit for everything I produced subtracted from my bill. The neighbors were spending $400, $500, $600 a month during the summer months, and I was spending $150.”

Energy buy back plans have evolved over the years, and of the companies that offer such plans to Dallasites now, Brown feels TXU Energy has the best offer. Through the program, the energy created by the solar panels on his house are first used to power Brown’s home. When his home isn’t using all of the solar energy created, it goes back into the grid, and TXU tracks and credits him for that energy.

It’s a lower credit than it used to be,

he says, more like $40 or $50, “but it still helps,” Brown says. “I mean, everything helps.” His summer electric bills now hover around $70 to $80, with winter bills more like $30 to $40, he says.

The energy overhaul of Brown’s home began with a tornado that came through 10 years ago and forced him to replace his roof, he says. He paid a little extra to install sheets with aluminum on one side to reflect sunlight away from his home, plus added a “blanket” under the roof for extra installation. Around the same time, he replaced all of the windows in his circa 1959 house with low-E glass, which also reflects sunlight.

“All that stuff helps. Our house is more thermally efficient,” Brown says. “You’ve got to spend some money to save money.”

He says his roof “is not the very best” for solar panels. Brown lives in a one-story home with a peaked roof. Oak trees shade the front, so the panels are on the back of his roof, which aims west, and they generate the most energy between noon and 3 p.m., he says.

“If somebody had solar panels [that received sunlight] from 9 in the morning until sun goes down, that’s the ideal situation,” Brown says. “A flat roof would make out pretty good because the sun is hitting directly on the panels all day long.”

Even though Brown doesn’t have the “ideal situation,” he doesn’t have any regrets about installing the solar panels.

“I would do it again,” he says.

Hello, sunshine

2 texas’ ranking among u s states for rooftop solar potential

10

texas’ ranking among u s states for actual solar panel installations

13,000

Homes powered by the 64.1 megawatts of solar panels texans installed in 2012

20

Percentage of u.s. annual electricity needs that could be met if every eligible home and business rooftop installed solar panels

$12,938

Incentives offered by Oncor when a residential customer installs an 8.3 kilowatt solar panel system in 2013; visit takealoadofftexas.com for information

Sources: Solar Energy Industries Association, Green Mountain Energy and Oncor

The 48 contiguous states have only three electric grids — EASt, WESt And Texas.

Q. Whom should I call when the lights go out?

A. 1.888.313.4747. That’s the Oncor Electric Delivery number. Oncor delivers all of the electricity to Dallas, Fort Worth and many surrounding areas.

Q. If I sign up for a ‘green’ electricity plan, does that ensure the power reaching my house is produced by wind, solar or another renewable energy?

A. Nope. Coal, natural gas and nuclear power are still being pumped through your transmission lines and into your home, most likely. But you are guaranteeing that the amount of renewable energy you are paying for will be piped into the power grid.

“Regardless of which retail electricity provider a customer chooses, there is no way to separate electricity on the power grid based on how it was generated,” says Juan Elizondo, a spokesman for TXU Energy. “When a consumer purchases a retail electricity plan with renewable electricity, that amount of renewable energy is put onto the power grid. It may or may not be the power that reaches that customer. Those consumers are ensuring that renewable power is put onto the grid, and they are supporting the further development of renewable resources.”

“Think of the electric grid as a giant bathtub that is constantly being filled from many different faucets, and each one represents a different electricity generation source such as coal, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.,” says Katie Ryan, spokeswoman for Green Mountain Energy. “Each time you use electricity, you drain a little water from the bathtub. As the demand for electricity from renewable sources increases, more of the clean water goes into the tub — and less of the dirty water from fossil fuel sources is needed.”

Q. Is there any way that renewable energy could grow so popular in Texas that customer demand would overtake supply?

A. Yes, in theory.

“The demand for renewable energy is what makes it grow,” Ryan says. “When demand exceeds supply, renewable energy gets built.”

16,000

Are renewable energy plans the easiest way to be green?

6,000

Pounds of CO2 emissions avoided in a year by someone who participates in a 100 percent renewable energy plan and uses an average of 1,000 kilowatt hours per month

Pounds of newspapers that would have to be recycled to equal avoiding 16,000 pounds of CO2 emissions

Source: Green Mountain Energy

Power-hungry parakeets

The towering, high-voltage electrical equipment near the Filter Building at White Rock Lake is home to one of Dallas’ biggest monk parakeet colonies. Indigenous to balmy South America, the birds are drawn to the heat radiating from this substation, experts say. Read more about our neighborhood’s monk parakeet colony at lakehighlands.advocatemag.com.

Monk parakeet: Robert Bunch

A new kind of ‘fuel’ station at restaurants and movie theaters

Two years ago, iT was difficulT to find an electric car charging station in Dallas. These days, they’re all over the place.

Some of the more common are Blink charging stations, installed by parent company Ecotality. The company has installed more than 350 chargers in DFW in a little over two years, says area sales manager Dave Aasheim.

“We try to find locations where people are going to park their cars for an hour, maybe two hours,” Aasheim says. “We’re not putting them in places like gas stations. We’re putting them in places where you want to be.”

Shopping centers, libraries and parks are some of the spots Ecotality has chosen. The company began seeking out locations in 2009 when it was awarded a $99.8 million EV Project grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help build the charging station infrastructure. Ecotality has spent $115 million on infrastructure in addition to the grant, Aasheim says.

One of the deterrents to people driving electric cars is “range anxiety,” or fear of running out of charge in the middle of a drive. The electric Nissan Leaf, for example, can travel only 75 miles on a full charge.

So one of Ecotality’s goals is to provide plenty of charging spots for current customers.

“Most people are going to get a majority of their charge at home, but [charging stations]

give them some range,” Aasheim says. “Every hour you’re plugged in puts about 12 to 15 miles of range back onto your battery — similar to if you see your cell phone getting low on charge, you plug it in for a few minutes to give it a boost.”

Blink station customers spend $1-$2 per hour to charge their cars.

Two Blink stations were installed in April at the Lake Highlands YMCA, one of five metropolitan Dallas YMCAs that is now electric car-friendly. Ecotality approached the Y about adding stations to some of its parking lots, believing that people might find it handy to charge their cars while they work out, Aasheim says.

In the first couple of months, the Lake Highlands Y stations had only two “connections,” or cars that plugged into the stations, says Stan Thomas, YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas vice president of properties and facilities. But at the McKinney Y, one couple joined the Y specifically because of its charging station.

Half Price Books on Northwest Highway was the first retailer in Dallas to install a charging station in September 2010. It purchased its own before the grant money was more widely available.

“We’ve always considered ourselves a very green company, and when the Chevy Volt was

first coming out, we thought people obviously need incentives to use these cars, so we decided to lead the way and hope other retailers in Dallas would follow suit,” spokeswoman Emily Bruce says.

Thirty people used its charging station in 2010, Bruce says, “and so far this year, we’re up to 409. I think that now more electric vehicles are readily available, so there’s more of a need for it.”

Half Price Books doesn’t charge customers to use its station. It takes four hours for an electric car to charge completely, Bruce says, and most Half Price Books customers aren’t shopping that long, “but they can stay for an hour and get enough of a charge to get home or wherever they’re heading.”

Ecotality is collecting data on its Blink chargers to find out which chargers are used most. Right now, it appears that restaurants, movie theaters, grocery stores and similar “destination locations” are most popular, Aasheim says.

Ecotality is seeing an overall 11 percent increase in usage of public stations since this time last year, he says, and that number will only rise. For the last couple of years, only two electric cars — the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf were major players in the market, Aasheim says, but by the end of 2013, drivers will be able to choose from 23 electric cars.

(Above left) Electric car charging station and (above right) electric car engine

Oncor’s tree trimming practices

Bob Curry, chairman of the city’s Urban Forest Advisory Committee, spends his life protecting trees from developers. Like many residents of old, tree-lined neighborhoods, Curry probably cringes when Oncor staffers come around to chop branches away from power lines, right? Wrong. Find out why this die-hard tree advocate is perfectly satisfied with our electric provider’s pruning practices on lakehighlands.advocatemag.com.

Plant a tree for free

Because Oncor sponsors the Arbor Day Foundation, Oncor customers (that’s all of us) can sign up for up to two free trees to plant in their yards. Starting Aug. 19, visit energysavingtrees.arborday.org to qualify for the trees, which are first come, first served. The site also advises where to position the trees on your property to avoid power lines and maximize the energy efficiency potential of the tree.

What’s the benefit of a smart meter’s ‘intelligence’?

3 million

smart meters Oncor has installed since March 1, 2009, replacing 50-year-old technology with meters that show electricity use in real time (view your usage at smartmetertexas.com)

7 million

service orders Oncor has completed remotely, such as meter re-reads, service disconnects or reconnects, because smart meters automatically alert utilities to service disruptions

35 million

Driving miles Oncor employees have consequently avoided, saving 2.9 million gallons of fuel and preventing more than 28,500 tons of CO2 from being released into the environment

14 million

Annual reduction in driving miles Oncor expects

23

Percentage of power outages Oncor has restored during non-storm periods since March 2012 without a customer ever reporting the outage Source: Oncor

Cutlin here.

Photo by Can Türkyilmaz

Drawing from experience

In this young artist’s case, creativity is key to a beautiful life, even after tragedy

Story by Christina Hughes Babb | Photos by Kim Ritzenthaler Leeson

Lauren Buntenbah, the youngest artist to have work on display at the upscale Dutch Art Gallery in Lake Highlands, flashes a magnetic smile and offers a hearty handshake upon introductions. She is standing among the sculptures, itching to talk art. As she speaks, her fantastic imagination fills the surrounding air. When she draws, it spills onto her notebooks.

Her productivity, charisma and animated monologues about, among other things, the brilliance of Spongebob Squarepants, make it difficult to believe that her life, of late, has been incredibly sad.

In January 2012 Lauren’s brother Riley Rawlins was struck and killed by an unlicensed driver. The tragic news came during Lauren’s 8th birthday party. Riley and Lauren’s mom, Monica Rawlins, took the call. “They told me he had been in a horrible accident and was at the hospital,” she says.

Then she began screaming.

“I know I scared all of those little girls,” Rawlins recalls, “but I was not in my right mind. The news was just too shocking.” The family fled from the birthday party to Baylor hospital, where, a few hours later, doctors pronounced the 17-year-old Lake Highlands High School junior dead.

The case of Riley Rawlins’ death is infamous around Lake Highlands.

Those who witnessed the accident told police the speeding beige ’95 Lincoln struck Riley as he stepped into Royal Lane near Audelia. He hit the windshield, rolled over the top of the car and was dragged behind the vehicle for some 400 feet.

Driver Soraya Villanueva, 18, told officers at the scene that she was en route to work and was trying to “beat the yellow light.” She was traveling in the middle lane but swerved into the right lane to avoid a vehicle that already was stopped for the light. She estimated she was driving about 70 miles per hour when she hit Riley. That is double the speed limit there. She possessed no driver’s license, no

insurance. She told police, according to their report, that getting a driver’s license was “too expensive.” Officers at the scene did not arrest Villanueva, and have not responded to our inquiries regarding the incident.

Riley’s family, friends and the community at large grew increasingly frustrated as weeks passed with no arrest. Almost 1,000 people signed a petition urging the prosecution of Villanueva. TV stations broadcast stories. Finally, in February 2012, police arrested Villanueva and charged her with criminally negligent homicide.

At the time of publication, Villanueva is out on $125,000 bond, has hired a defense attorney and is awaiting another hearing, and she and her attorney have not responded to a request for an interview.

Most of Riley’s friends and family members are angry and hurting, and until the person responsible for this pointless death is punished, Monica says, they cannot heal.

Lauren, however, seems unburdened by resentment.

As a kindergartener, Lauren began earning recognition for her entries to student art contests. A portrait of her family advanced to the state level of a national competition. This past year she struggled with an assigned theme, she says. “It was supposed to be ‘This Magic Moment,’ and I

(Opposite page) Lauren Buntenbah works in her studio/room where she produces (above) notebooks full of drawings.

Riley Rawlins with sister Lauren

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had no idea what to draw.”

But when she attended the State Fair with her grandmother, Sallie Buntenbah, she paused at the foot of Big Tex, awestruck.

“My grandma said, ‘This is your magic moment,’ and then I knew that, yep, this was my drawing.”

Lauren worked tirelessly three straight days illustrating a meticulously detailedfair scene that, on the day we meet, stops gallery browsers in their tracks.

Her art teacher at Lake Highlands Elementary, Christen Zajac, was was ecstatic about the piece. With its intensely intricate scene, it looked like something you would see in a book like “Where’s Waldo,” Zajac told Lauren.

Lauren spends several minutes describing the components of the drawing:

“There’s Victoria Justice — the grand marshal at the parade, and here is the parade behind her. And, oh, here is her security. There are Boy Scouts, and the Fletcher’s stand. You can’t have the state fair without Fletcher’s. Mrs. Zajac says that there is a family having a picnic And here’s Big Tex,” she concludes. “He burned down just a few days after.”

Lauren adored her brother, says her grandmother, with whom Lauren spends most of her days. They found immediate help for her following the accident, enrolling her in a North Dallas-based program called GriefWorks, a counseling service for children ages 5-18 who have lost a loved one. There Lauren processed her feelings through creativity. Therapeutic art — among other exercises such as drama, reading and simple sharing — has lifted Lauren’s spirit and propelled her through emotional pain and confusion, Sallie Buntenbah believes. “Everyone who goes through something like this needs to know about GriefWorks.” Even as unrest and sadness surround her, Lauren finds joy in reading, writing and letting her imagination run wild. She penned and illustrated a book set in Hawaii about mermaids and about a big brother who saves his sister from evil, she says. “At the end they turn into mermaids and swim away together.”

She has a knack for comics too.

“I get my funniness from Spongebob,” she says. Indeed, much of her artistic inspiration derives from the boy sponge and his

sea-dwelling cohorts, Lauren says, as well as from playfully complex graphic artist Mary Engelbreit.

Now 10 and entering the fifth grade, Lauren already has formed well-thought-out opinions on art. She is unapologetically vocal, as we peruse the gallery, about what she likes (exhaustive realism) and what she doesn’t (abstract oil paintings).

Dutch Art Gallery owner Pam Massar says one of Lauren’s pieces sold for $10 to a collector, a gallery regular. The buyer also gave Lauren’s grandmother $100 for supplies, which they put to immediate use.

Massar occasionally likes to showcase very young artists, she says, and has been successful doing so. She notes that Sharon Hodges, a popular painter, sold her first piece at Dutch Art Gallery when she was 12. Sallie and Lauren are fixtures and have been visiting the gallery together for years, Massar says.

When asked about her future as an artist, Lauren is clear that she intends to explore her options — she is obsessed with styling furniture (“rearranging,” Grandma calls it), meteorology (she is especially fond of WFAA’s Pete Delkus), and Egyptology (we are not sure why, Sallie says, but she is transfixed with Egypt). She wants a dog but hates cats, but she wouldn’t be averse to designing homes for cats.

Though the older members of Lauren’s family painstakingly are fighting for justice and grappling with grief, there appears to be no shortage of love — from her mom, dad Chris Buntenbah, grandmother, big sister Gillian Rawlins, baby brother Lucas Buntenbah, who was born just weeks after Riley died, and her teachers, especially her art teacher. Lauren misses her brother “so much,” but she almost seems to know something we do not.

Following a lengthy conversation, one might surmise the following: Somewhere in that vast imagination of hers, Lauren Buntenbah can conceive of an existence in which happiness does not depend on the behavior of others or the rulings of the criminal justice system. A world where death does not necessarily mean the end of a relationship. Where it just might be possible to turn into a mermaid and swim away with your big brother.

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Sarah Stoeber is the new Lake Highlands High School Highlandette director. She most recently was assistant director of Plano East Senior High Golden Girls and the director of the Clark High School Cougarettes. Stoeber is a native of San Antonio, where she received professional dance training for 12 years at Earle Cobb Dance Studio. While attending San Antonio’s Clark High School, Stoeber was Top Cat Dance Team co-captain her junior year and captain her senior year. Stoeber has a master’s in education from Southern Methodist University and a BS in communications from the University of Texas at Austin.

Politics

Lanet Greenhaw won reelection to the RISD school board by a vote of 3,463 to 1,100. This will be her sixth term on the board.

Sports

Michael Ketchmark: Doug Williams Lake Highlands High School senior Michael Ketchmark has been named MVP of the Dallas all-district 9-5A team after another stellar year playing for the Wildcats. Ketchmark is headed to Dartmouth to study economics and play baseball in the fall. As the Cats’ closing pitcher, he allowed only one earned run all season and collected five saves with a 0.66 ERA. Playing third base, he earned 26 RBIs, 20 extra-base hits and 42 runs scored. “My dad has taught me everything I know about baseball,” Ketchmark says, “and if he isn’t at work, he is at the baseball field with me helping me become a better baseball player. He is my biggest role model.” Beau Barnes was awarded Defensive MVP, and joins Ketchmark and fellow Wildcats Hudson Taylor, Colton Bradley and Chris Dyer on the 2013 team. —Edited by Whitney Thompson

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Half Price takeover

Half Price Books plans to develop the property around and including the Starbucks at the northeast corner of Northwest Highway and Shady Brook into a brand-new, bustling shopping center. The company, which operates 113 stores in 16 states, had been buying up the land in pieces for several years, and it secured the entire six acres with the purchase of the Starbucks in 2006. The time wasn’t right in 2006, but now that the economy is picking up, Half Price Books executive vice president Kathy Doyle Thomas says they’re ready to move forward with the development. Thomas and her team have been talking with national retailers and restaurants about options for the space, although she says she isn’t ready to reveal which stores her team and Lincoln Properties Co., who is their broker for the project, are talking with just yet. She does say that they’re not interested in cheap fast-food joints, and that they’re open to talking with local retailers or restaurants. Visit lakehighlands.advocatemag.com for the whole story. Search: half price books —Brittney Nunn

Dallas Arboretum parking expansion

In White Rock Lake news, early plans are in the works for the Dallas Arboretum’s parking garage on Garland Road adjacent to Kwik Kar. The location, which is zoned to be a parking garage, is now a paved lot that the Arboretum uses for employee and volunteer parking. The Arboretum hopes to build a parking structure with the capacity for about 1,200 cars. The building will include two levels underground and four levels above ground, and will peak at 34 feet, which is below the maximum height allowed by the Planned Development District. A 100-by-150-foot surface lot adjacent to the garage also will be used for parking. All the Arboretum must do now is file an application with the city for a special-use permit to build an underground walkway linking the garage with the park.

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Garland Road is a state highway, and TXDOT has indicated support for the project. The Arboretum’s new Children’s Garden, set to open Sept. 21, has a capacity for about 1,500, turning over twice a day. Right now, there are 1,260 parking spaces throughout the grounds. “We have a critical need for parking,” says John Armstrong, the Arboretum’s vice president of property development. “This handles the occasional surge, so there’s not a chance that parking could bleed into the neighborhoods.” The project will be privately funded, in part by using revenue from the paid parking garage to repay a private loan, and the estimated cost of the garage hasn’t been officially released. The Arboretum will file that permit application “in the near future.” The project will then go before the City Plan Commission and City Council, where nearby residents will have opportunities to voice support or opposition.

—Emily Toman

First Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson Heights shopping center

The first DFW location of the Austin-based Alamo Drafthouse will open Aug. 9 just northwest of Lake Highlands in the Richardson Heights shopping center. The theater boasts a restaurant with a patio and seven auditoriums, with one featuring a 60-foot screen — the largest in the franchise’s history. Since opening its first theater in Austin in 1997, the company expanded to 28 theaters nationally. “Just because you get bigger, it doesn’t mean you have to lose that community feel,” chief operating officer Bill DiGaetano says of Alamo’s expansion. Plans are under way for the theater to be involved in upcoming film festivals, including underwriting the Arts Incubator Richardson, a non-profit festival dedicated to fostering local creativity, later this year. Read the full story at lakehighlands.advocatemag.com. Search: alamo.

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From the mouths oF babes

Maybe we’ll all be ‘better’ when we grow up

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

It was the kind of question you ask a 3-year-old granddaughter. Her answer wasn’t the kind of you expect from a 3-yearold granddaughter who loves dressing up as fairy-tale characters and dreams of all things Disney.

“I want to be a better person,” she said.

No, really. I know you think I am putting words in her mouth to make a better story the way preachers are wont to do. Or you may think it’s the kind of answer an oldest child, parent and grandparent-pleasing kid gives when she knows that her father, mother and grandfather are all ministers. But, honestly, she did.

I imagine my spiritually-intuitive, morally-advanced granddaughter has no real idea of what becoming a better person entails. It may have to do with being more like Cinderella than her conniving stepmother and stepsisters. It may involve becoming more like the beauty, Belle, who is so sweet to the ugly Beast that he becomes the handsome prince he was always meant to be. Maybe there is a Jesus story behind it something about a little boy who shares his five loaves and two small fish so that other hungry people can eat, or returning kindness to someone mean.

Who knows?

It was on the Fourth of July that I asked. Which made me think not only of how we all might become better persons but how we might become better Americans by becoming better persons.

An adage always misattributed to the French observer of early American culture, Alexis de Tocqueville, is nonetheless true enough of this country and any: “America is great because she is good; when she ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.” Becoming a better person means to grow in goodness, something that is far too

low on the list of usual dreams of children and adults alike.

We dream too much of status, stuff and security. We want to distinguish ourselves from others by becoming famous or important. We want to have enough possessions to live in comfort until we lie down for good under green pastures. We want to keep away anyone who would take our stuff or threaten our life of leisure. We call

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these things freedom — freedom from the masses, from want and from danger.

But be careful what you want, Emerson once said, for you shall surely get it. Becoming good is partly about training our desires to worthy ends. Since we will all die one day, and on that day our status, stuff and safety will be no more, we might consider what will endure. What remains, St. Paul said, are faith, hope and love — each of which is focused outward.

In philosophies and religions alike, the answer to what it means to be good can only be found in seeking your neighbor’s good. Goodness is never a solitary virtue; it is only found in relation to others. This is why President Kennedy was right in calling us to “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

When our deepest joy is found in the gladness of another, we are on our way to fulfilling a 3-year-old’s ambition, our Maker’s intention and America’s vision.

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I know you think I am putting words in her mouth to make a better story the way preachers are wont to do.

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

Lake Highlands-style Fourth

Photos by Brandy Barham

Hundreds of families, local business leaders and dogs descended on Church Street for the annual Lake Highlands Exchange Club July 4 Parade. Even the Northeast Division police (below) stepped out of the station or patrol car, and onto a float.

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The BB chipped T he pain T and Broke T he window.

The crime seemed so unnecessary, but it is nothing new for her area of Church Street, says Michelle Seddelmeyer, who has lived in her home for 10 years. In one instance, someone driving by began shooting toward her home with a pellet gun while her family was in their yard with their kids and neighbors — certainly a startling experience.

“It scared us all to death,” she says. “We’ve had all kinds of weird things happen on this street.”

The Victim: Jonathan and Michelle Seddelmeyer

The Crime: Criminal mischief

Date: Sunday, June 23

Location: 10300 block of Church

The most recent weird crime involved someone shooting a BB at her husband’s truck, scratching some paint and breaking a window. It was expected to cost about $400 to repair and was quite a hassle to deal with. That same night, four other neighbors in the area experienced the same type of vandalism. Seddelmeyer called police, but admits there is not much they can do unless someone is able to get a license plate number.

“It’s a bunch of jerks,” Seddelmeyer understandably says of the culprits.

Officer Joe Schultz of the Dallas Police Northeast Patrol Division says that to reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim of criminal mischief, it is strongly recommended not to park on the street, which makes your car a more likely target.

“Parking in a garage would be ideal, but if there isn’t garage space available, park close to your residence, and always park in a well-lit area,” he says. “Citizens are continuously reminded to call 911 to report suspicious activity, which will help prevent criminal mischief and aid in the apprehension of the suspects of illegal activity.”

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Age of Guillermo Rayas, a Latin man found one midnight in July — he was sprawled out on Arbor Park Drive and suffering from bullet wounds 2

Bullet casings, possibly more, were discovered near the victim 1

Source Dallas Police Department

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

Person from a nearby apartment complex was taken in for questioning after Rayas described to police the suspect’s vehicle and plate numbers