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REAL ESTATE REPORT a r e a h o m e va l u e s Year-To-Date Sales ‘21 103 72 74 252 84 26 62 32 83 92 27 34 117 29 76 1,163 77.53

Year-To-Date Sales ‘20 95 68 61 208 73 42 93 18 79 78 26 12 111 44 100 1,108 73.86

Avg Days on Market YTD 47 20 32 37 27 18 34 30 23 38 32 63 24 10 26 461 29.20

Avg. Sales Price YTD ‘21 $484,349.00 $312,385.00 $318,330.00 $211,244.00 $380,742.00 $574,661.00 $590,946.00 $503,891.00 $554,698.00 $236,311.00 $639,533.00 $597,341.00 $534,337.00 $534,020.00 $480,833.00 $6,953,621.00 $463,574.74

Avg. Sales Price YTD ‘20 $321,250.00 $294,235.00 $287,239.00 $180,140.00 $332,717.00 $490,500.00 $513,006.00 $474,417.00 $438,076.00 $280,968.00 $538,171.00 $521,237.00 $484,815.00 $432,322.00 $462,443.00 $6,051,536.00 $403,435.73

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oviemaker Cameron Bruce Nelson f ell f or fi lm wh ile traveling Africa with a camera that was a gif t from his d a d . S i n c e t h e n h e ’s b e e n a ro und t he g l ob e — A ppalachia, Australia, Ne w York C i ty — i m m e r s i n g h i m s e l f i n va r i o u s c u l t u r e s , l e a r n ing, teaching and making movies that utilize location as charac ter, as critics have p o i n t ed ou t . But it all began at Lake Highlands High School, where Nelson was delinquent to the extent that h e sp en t h i s s e n i or ye ar in boarding school. T he rebellious streak was short-lived. His restless spirit just neede d a pla c e t o s hi n e. By the time he arrived at T h e Un i ve r s i ty o f Te x as at Austin, where he double-majored in cultural a n t h r o p o l o g y a n d h i s t o r y, he was focused and driven be yond his years. It was duri ng c ol l ege t h at h e s e ttled in and allowed himself to learn. “I realized that the world was so big and that there is so much out there,” he says. Visual arts and music had long captured his imagina tion, and while photographing South Africa’s capes and coastlines, he realized movi e s c o u ld b e a c onve rge n ce o f bo t h l ove s . He c ou l d “s e e a film, th e s c o re a n d t he i ma ge s , as a s y m p h ony.” Ye t y o u n g C a m e r o n d i d not cut a direct path to movie making. He and a friend first went to work on a farm in southwest Virg i ni a . “ We w a n t e d t o make an d save a lot of money and have an experience,” he says. “ We

formed an art collective and tried some different things — live music, makin g mu s ic videos, tour ing with a ban d .” T hat farm would provide the se tting for his first full length film, S ome Bea sts, r el eased in 2018. Indie music and film critic Grant Phipps described the picture as a “tender meditation on provincial A p p a l a c h i a n l i f e ,” c o m p a r i n g i t t o th e e arly works of Ter r ence Mal ick (Tree of Life). Other indus tr y pundits mention him in the same breath as Dallas-native directors David Lowery (A Ghost Story and The G re e n K n i g h t ) a n d S h a n e C a r r u t h ( Up s t r e a m C o l o r ) w h i l e p o i n t i n g ou t wh at s e ts Nel son’s wr iting and direc tion apar t from those contemporaries. He “avoids elements of criminality and revenge to focus

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most honestly on a couple weathe r i n g p hy s i c a l s e p a r a t i o n ,” P h i p p s wr ites. Some Beasts delivers viewers, a little off kilter, into a lawless world o f l o n e l y b e a r d e d m e n i n C a r h a r tt overalls. T he raw, authentic-feeling script and acting, a symmetry of sounds (music and sawmills) and silence, and sparklers, in small doses, conver ge and draw us in. “In film, you have the oppor tunity to e xplore be tween subjec tivity and p e r c e p t i o n . I t ’s o n e o f t h e g i f t s o f the ar t for m,” Nel son say s. Available on Amazon, Some B easts gives good reason to anticipate Nelson’s ne xt cr eation. Today he’s in Melbourne, Aus tralia, teaching at Collar ts, a collegiate ar ts academy, whil e hel ping t o devel op and co- pr oduce wife Han n ah

OPPOSITE PAGE: Comforter, Cameron Nelson’s short flick about a woman who becomes so stoned that she disappears into a duvet, made the rounds at film festivals last year. TOP: The LHHS graduate’s recent coming-of-age short, Pillars, offers a glimpse into the life of a Mennonite woman who adopts a secret language when her friend begins marriage rites.

BOTTOM: Nelson’s latest feature-length movie Some Beasts received unanimous critical acclaim and is available on Amazon Prime.

M o o r e ’s f e a t u r e m o v i e Fe a r o f Songs along with fellow Columbia University graduate film program a l u m n u s Mu n i r A t a l l a . He a n d Moore launched a produc tion company called Aleatoria. But h e ’s h e a d i n g h o m e — t o D a l l a s a n d A u s t i n — i n 2 022 to s h oot t h e ne xt f eat u r e. Nelson had two short films that made the rounds at film festivals l a s t ye a r. Comforter, about a stoned

woman who disappears into a duve t, is on the Slamdance YouTu b e c h a n n e l . P i l l a r s , a b o u t a Me n n o n i t e w o m a n w h o r e v e r t s to a s e cre t l anguage as her b es t friend begins the rites of marriage , will b e r el eased on V imeo late r th is year. Film fe s tival s that had the r es ou rce s went vir tual dur ing the pandemic. But Nelson says he an d h is tri b e wer e e xcited to r et u r n t o i n - p e r s o n s c r e e n i n g s at

Dallas Independent Film Festival in 2021. “ We ’ v e b e e n r e a l l y a m a z e d a t h o w t h e f e s t i va l d i r e c t o r s , p r o grammers and staff have pivoted and created virtual environments that fos ter the l ove of fil m, an d a community of fil mmaker s an d c i n e p h i l e s ,” h e s a y s . “ B u t w e ’r e super excited to return to in-person events because watching fil ms toge ther on the b ig screen is ideal .” january 2022

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Some of The Village’s menu concepts are casual, like this Roundhouse Food Hall chicken sandwich and fries. Photography courtesy of The Village.

ining is a luxury experience at The Village, with three full-ser vice restaurants driven by chef Junior Borgas, Meridian and Anise. La Mina, a subterranean restaurant, is the latest. These new eateries are part of a major overhaul of The Village, a walkable community that’s a city within a city. With the addition of The Drey Hotel, new shops, 10 dining spots and a reopened golf club, The Village now offers lifestyle amenities available to the public and its 10,000 residents. Only the fitness center and country club remain exclusive to residents. Casie Caldwell, The Village’s vice president of food and beverage, has lived in Lake Highlands for 16 years. She provided a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into this fledgling dining scene.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU WORKED HERE? I ’ l l b e g o i n g o n m y f o u r t h y e a r n e x t y e a r. S o , I came on board when we were very much still under construction. The basic buildings were done and t h e s t r u c t u r e b u t , e s s e n t i a l l y, t h e d e s i g n d e t a i l s o r the finish-outs were not anywhere close to being completed. And then, of course, COVID hit. And that was a big challenge not only for construction, but for the restaurant business. But the entire Village is open as of Sept. 1.

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GIVE US A RUNDOWN OF WHAT GOES INTO YOUR ROLE. The Village, as an ownership team, sort of knew what type of concepts they wanted. My job was to come in and help refine designs, execution of the front-of-house and back-of-house kitchens, things of that nature. And of course, hiring and selecting smallwares, tablescapes and things like that.

H O W M U C H S TA F F D O YO U T Y P I C A L L Y MANAGE? We had to go out there and find 500 people that wanted to work. We are not immune to the labor shortages that are going on across the country. That’s been my No. 1 issue across the board, just finding good people. I have a great team, and we’ve been very fortunate to find good people. Like I said, it’s a constant, constant issue every day. I feel like it won’t stop. We’re constantly hiring.

H O W D O YO U D E C I D E O N T H E D I N I N G EXPERIENCES? I can tell you that a lot of research and development went into what the villagers wanted. So, at the time, our teams were very involved in polling our villagers and really looking into what their habits were. The demographic of course, is a little bit younger. So there was a lot of polling

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BEFORE THE BOOM V I C K E RY M E A D OW ’S T E E N H A N G OU T S P OTS P R I O R TO T H E A PA RT M E N T CO M P L E X ES Story by RAVEN JORDAN | Portrait by EMIL LIPPE

erry Holley, an antiques auctioneer at Dallas Auction Gallery, attended school and grew up near the northwest corner of Greenville Avenue and Walnut Hill Lane, where his grandmother owned a farm. In the 1940s, the town of Vickery was an incorporated rural area north of Dallas including a few stores, a church and acres of farmland and woods sprinkled with single-family homes on large lots and roughly bounded by what are now North Central Expressway, Walnut Hill Lane, Royal Lane and Harry Moss Park. “It was just open country,” Holley says. “And to me, you know, looking back on it, I always felt like it was kind of the best of both worlds.

“I mean, we lived out there kind of isolated from the big city, but we were close enough to the big cities and all the other things.” Ev e r y o n e k n e w e v e r y o n e , a n d graduating classes were small. There wasn’ t much crime, and children roamed freely and spent time as they pleased. In 1945, the town of Vickery was annexed into the City of Dallas. Not much changed for Vickery-area residents until the 1970s, when a series of apartment complexes were built in the area to accommodate new residents as Dallas grew. But the mainstay hangouts and roads that made Vickery a go-to spot for teens and families in the 1950s and ’60s remained.

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THE TEENAGE DREAM

Spring and summer nights in Vickery were spent either playing roller hockey, swimming or camping at White Rock Creek or enjoying music and picnics at Vickery Park, Holley says. “You go down the hill and over the creek, and there was Vickery Park,” Holley says. “It was huge. It claimed to have the biggest swimming pool in Texas. They would have music down there on weekends and dances and things like that.” Vickery Park was located on Greenville Avenue and Pineland Drive. That area is now the American Heart Association, Northwest Community Center and Texas Health Cardiovascular. Plumber Doug Saffel moved to the neighborhood as a child in 1949 with his family.

“They had a Ferris wheel, they had several rides,” Saffel says. “And in the front, they’d have an annual picnic at Vickery Park. There was a big swimming pool, but I don’t know when all of that went away.” The swimming pool and park — an area located roughly at Greenville Avenue and Pineland Drive on 28 acres — was redeveloped in 1973 as apartments, according to a Dallas Morning News article. A portion of the site ultimately became headquarters for the American Heart Association. Some other teen hot spots at the time were Deuback’s skating rink at 7800 Greenville Ave. near Harry Moss Park, a restaurant called Mr. Chicken on Shady Brook Lane (later moved

to Greenville Avenue. at Milton) and White Rock Creek where they’d spend the nights swimming in the portion of White Rock Creek in Moss Park between Greenville Avenue and Walnut Hill Lane. At Deuback’s, a family-owned spot that eventually burned to the ground, teens roller-skated and hosted championship roller-hockey teams. Deuback’s was owned by John Deuback’s parents before he and his brother Victor took rink ownership in 1954. “My mother grew up with that skating rink,” Holley says. “She used to go there when she was a kid. They went out of business, but you had that kind of basic entertainment around there.” january 2022

PHOTOS COURTESY OF JERRY HOLLEY. TOP: Vickery Meadow School, which went from pre-K to 12th grade in the 1960s. BOTTOM LEFT: Holley’s childhood house. BOTTOM RIGHT: Holley’s mom, Betty, and her friend at Vickery Park Pool.

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AFTER SCHOOL

Holley’s mother, Betty Brown, was a member of Vickery Meadows High School’s first graduating class in 1939. The school opened in 1938; seven years later, the school’s name was changed to Hillcrest High School. At age 99, Brown still remembers life in Vickery Meadow. From Walnut Place Living Facility, she and Christine Holley, Jerry’s wife, reminisce about their time in the neighborhood, separated 30 years between 1939 and 1969. Brown and the Holleys are Vi c ke r y Me a d ow s / Hillcre s t High alumni. There were other schools in the neighborhood, such as Vickery Grade School on Holly Hill Drive at Ridgecrest. which went up to 12th grade at one point, and Ben Franklin Junior High. But it was Hillcrest High School where Jerry and Christine met. In the late 1960s to early 1970s, the couple began to notice the shift from small family homes and acres of vacant land to slowly being filled with apartment complexes. Flipping through the pages of a Vickery Meadows Class of 1939 yearbook, John Deuback’s photo is one row above Brown’s photo on the same yearbook page. The two knew each other from nights spent at the skating rink. “I was there ever y night,” Brown says, something of a skating whiz herself at the time. “(The Deubacks) had a place on the side where they’d sell root beer.” Mr. Chicken, a chicken and burger restaurant, and Melody Lane were frequented for lunch and dinner and racing, respectively. Me l o d y L a n e w a s a d a r k stretch of road in the woods between Park Lane and Shady Brook Lane. It’s now a residen-

Jerry Holley is an antiques auctioneer at Dallas Auction Gallery.

tial area lined with apartments and runs past the Walmart and Sam’s Club on Retail Road. Thrill seekers who knew cars well enough to take them apart and reassemble them crowded the road, which was a well-known meeting spot for drag races. “Well, Jerry had a ’57 Chevy, and it was the fastest car around,” Christine says. “And he could take it apart and put it back together. He and the other guys would go out there on Melody Lane, which is now all singles apartments.” Meeting in person was a necessity if anyone wanted to socialize. Christine says the shared phones, or “party lines” at home, eliminated private or long conversations outside of school. “So, roller skating rinks, church, fastfood parking lots, drive-in movie theaters and school were our social media,” she says.

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D r i v e b y V i c k e r y M e a d o w t o d a y, and the shopping environment is d iffe re n t. Former hot spots are now fast food

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and re tail chains. Vicker y Feed Store on Greenville Avenue and Park Lane is now a sandwich shop and Mr. C hick en, which is gone, was across from wher e Henk ’s Bl ack For es t B aker y is now. T he numb er of dr ug s to r es an d smal l gr ocer y s tor es that onc e lin ed those s tr ee ts of Gr eenvil l e an d Par k L a n e a r e n o w V i c ke r y Pa r k L i b ra r y, T he Shops at Park L ane and fast food and c ul tural r es taurants. “The only thing in Vickery that I still recognize is the church I was baptized in and the feed store that is now a Great Outdoors Sandwich shop,” Saffel says. So what happened, and when did people start to move? The shift began when the first apartments took root. By this time, Jerry and Christine were in college. The younger people who remained during the 1960s wanted a taste of the big city and moved elsewhere. “In a way that’s what happened there,” Jerry says. “ You know, the kids in my generation, they started midway through college, moving off to other places.“

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M U LT I - I N ST RU M E N TA L I ST Erin Doyle uses her talent for a higher cause Story by RAVEN JORDAN | Photography by YUVIE STYLES

t 27, Erin Doyle already leads a whole congergation. A Kansas transplant, she has spent the last eight years in Dallas — three of them in Lake Highlands — after moving here for college. Last year, she became music director for Saint Michael the Archangel Church in Garland. She plays the organ at two masses every week, directs the choir, plans all the music for services, weddings and funerals. Anything music related, that’s her job.

At 5 years old, Doyle was already playing piano, thanks to her parents who enrolled her in lessons. She wasn’t completely sold on playing instruments until grade school when she was drawn to a new instrument. It was flute.

PATH IN MUSIC Though piano wasn’t something she enjoyed at first, she soon grew to embrace both that and flute once she was old enough to join the school band. “It was like fifth grade when I could

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start band, and I started playing the flute,” she says. “And I just learned it a lot faster than the other kids at school. That’s when it was like, ‘OK, I might be good at music.’” In the past year, she’s added a few more instruments to her roster, including the organ, which she plays for church. She also sings and dabbles in woodwind instruments, like clarinet and saxophone. “That’s pretty much it,” she says. “I started learning electric bass during the pandemic, so I’m not, like, good

at it, but I can mess around on a bass a little.” Flute is Doyle’s main instrument. It’s what she went to school for, but she emphasizes she is more than just a flutist. When Doyle was in high school, she spent a summer at a Catholic retreat. There, her experience as the music leader drew her closer to church music. “I enjoyed leading music on this retreat,” she says. “Then that geared me toward thinking maybe this is something that I want to keep doing.” The Catholic retreat led to studying flute at SMU for her bachelor’s and UNT, where she received a master’s.

DEDICATION She spends hours each day practicing instruments, whether it’s flute, organ or piano. Those around her have all witnessed her dedication. Her mom, Nancy Doyle, says her daughter is determined in anything she does. “She’s very dedicated to her music, always works hard,” Nancy says. “She’s very focused and sets goals. And then she, you know, has complete determination to meet her goals, and she sticks with it. She never quits.” That determination and dedication carries over into Doyle’s work life, too, and the church finds the time she puts into practice impressive. John Sharp, her manager at Saint Michael the Archangel Church, says despite her shy and soft-spoken nature, he knew she’d be a great asset to the church. “She’s very quiet, very reserved, very shy, but there was something about her that just struck me that she would fit in really well,” he says. “We’re very impressed with her. I know the pastor is very happy with her.” Though Doyle isn’t one to brag on her talents, she has even turned the heads of other musicians and singers. Sharp says his dad was a Fulbright scholar for organ and heard Doyle play at church once. Sharp says his dad applauded her work and was impressed at her skill level, being so new to the instrument. “Thumbs up for her, because he was

quite an accomplished organist,” Sharp says.

ALL IN THE FAMILY Music runs in the Doyle family. From her dad to her two younger brothers, everyone except her mom plays at least one instrument. Her dad is a self-taught pianist and guitarist; her two brothers are musicians; her youngest brother is a singer and studies musical theater in college. To Nancy, family makes music meaningful in her life, but one thing the whole family has in common is the Catholic faith. “And, yeah, church is very important in our lives,” Nancy says. “I just feel like music is important in my life because my family are all musicians.” Music even found a way into Doyle’s love life, and it came in the form of her fiance Christian Nguyen. The two met in band at SMU in 2016. Nguyen moved from Vietnam for college and decided to stay once he found a passion in fitness. In contrast to Doyle’s calm and reserved personality, Nguyen is cheerful and full of energy, yet still relaxed inside Peak Fitness where he’s both sales manager and a personal trainer. “She’s very reserved but speaks her mind when she needs to,” Nguyen says. “She’s pretty talented on all her instruments and has been improving a lot. She’s getting

a lot better.” Though working out and fitness is his full-time job at Peak Fitness, exercising is another thing they enjoy as a couple. With a few friends, they also have a band that plays on and off. Since the pandemic and with their individual commitments, they haven’t played as regularly. “When we first started, we’d play every weekend or so, but now it’s like once a quarter,” Nguyen says.

ORCHESTRA DREAMS Aside from that, Doyle still teaches flute and piano classes to four students but is stepping away from it to focus more on other endeavors. One of those pursuits is orchestra. There are only a few orchestras in the country. They’re very competitive and difficult to break into, but Doyle’s biggest supporters — Nguyen and her parents — witness how serious she is about realizing her dream as an orchestra member. “The level of performance is so high to get into a professional orchestra, that it can be discouraging sometimes,” she says. “I’m not just a flute player. So I can take solace in that and know I can still do music, even if I don’t get into an orchestra.” She enjoys the variety of being more than just a flutist. Otherwise, she says, it wouldn’t be as fun if it were her only focus. “It’s just more fun,” she says. “I think I’d lose my mind just playing the flute.”

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PRETTY & SWEET Robert Kent’s fine chocolates are the result of a sweet life. His dad funded his entrepreneurial dreams as a child and his mom got him in the kitchen. Though he doesn’t have a brick-andmortar shop up, he’s done well with online sales and personal delivery.

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Another year is done. We’re still thinking about the real estate craze in Lake Highlands. And Better Block showed us what a park could look like at ForestAudeila. It’s crazy to think all of that and more happened. Here are 22 moments that captured neighbors’ attention in 2021.

CITY OF REFUGE Neighbors and City Councilman Adam McGough hoped an Atlanta-based nonprofit would realize the dream of a 12-acre urban farm at 12000 Greenville Ave., which would also provide resources and opportunities for homeless and low-income neighbors. The proposed project eased through City Hall until November, when concerns arose in City Council. The nonprofit, City of Refuge, has backed off the project but McGough says he still wants to make the concept a reality.

$4.35-BILLION DALLAS CITY BUDGET: The city proposed the largest part of the budget for infrastructure and transportation. Of the budget’s eight strategic priorities, the least money is set aside for housing and homelessness.

HEY, HEY! A new concept from the owners of Cedar & Vine opened quietly in November in the Lakeridge shopping center. Hei Hei offers traditional American Chinese stir fry, noodles and fried rice alongside batch cocktails and a straightforward beer and wine menu.

TERRIFYING ORDEAL A Lake Highlands family was shaken up but uninjured after finding a man in their sons’ playroom closet in July. The man left valuables untouched, only asking for food and claiming the family were the intruders. Police arrived within 3 minutes and removed him.

LHHS STUDENTS PROTEST LHHS students protested outside school after a teacher was caught using racial slurs. The teacher claimed she was showing students how to overcome racism at work. Photography by Carol Toler.

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HOUSING PROJECT A proposal to build 200 apartments with a 50/50 mix of low-income and market-rate units proved unpopular with residents of Hamilton Park. The city’s Housing and Homelesness Solutions Committee voted in February to move forward with the project near Home Depot at Forest Lane.

URBAN INFILL Stillwater Capital plans to build 34 single-family homes on the site of the Hollywood Overhead Door Co. on White Rock Trail, after the City Plan Commission granted a zoning change in July. The developer agreed to share the cost of a traffic signal upgrade at Walnut Hill Lane and White Rock Trail, a portion of which must be paid before building permits are issued. Photo courtesy of Baldwin Associates.

WHITE ROCK SKATE REMEMBERED ON THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW Lake Highlands High School 2004 grad Leslie Connor’s grandfather Charles built White Rock Skate Center in 1972, always playing Frank Sinatra’s songs at the rink. He passed away in 2018 after a battle with cancer. During a March episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, Kelly sang Sinatra’s “My Way” at Connor’s request. Chuck Connor. Photography by Danny Fulgencio

KAREN CLARDY RESIGNS FROM RISD SCHOOL BOARD When RISD School Board President Karen Clardy resigned in September, she didn’t give a reason. She left before the May 2022 expiration of her term. Photography by Jessica Turner

COMFORT THROUGH CAREGIVING Andy Celis is basically a kid at Brookdale White Rock. The 20-year-old is a caregiver, something he’s honed his skills in for the past six years. Helping residents stay positive throughout the pandemic has brought him comfort. Photo

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CALL IT A COMEBACK The pandemic brought dine-in options to a halt in 2020, including at Wok Star Chinese, but the beloved neighborhood spot eased back into the swing of things last year with takeout before reopening its doors for indoor service on May 28.

Dallas has many restaurants, but where else can you find Hawaiian food? Mo’Bettah’s Hawaiian Style Food brought authentic island food to our neighborhood in November. Among the offerings from the Utah-based chain, founded by brothers Kimo and Kalani Mack, are plate lunches with tempura shrimp or katsu chicken served with macaroni salad. Teriyaki chicken and steak plate.

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UPSCALE & EFFICIENT StoryBuilt Homes broke ground on 36 new, energy-efficient homes in White Rock Valley. It’s near the DART Red Line, White Rock Lake, trails and parks. The threeand four-bedroom homes will comprise 2,200-2,800 square feet with prices starting around $750,000.

ATOMIC DAYDREAM A mid-century modern Ju-Nel home at at 9023 Capri Drive hit the market for $600,000 in October. Someone bought the five bedroom, three bathroom house on Dec. 2. Photo courtesy of Redfin.

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VIRAL SENSATIONS Paxton Smith’s unapproved valedictorian speech on reproductive rights garnered national attention. New Orleans artist Ashley Longshore painted a portrait of the teen. Smith will be writing some chapters in the upcoming book A War on My Body, A War on My Right. Photography by Patrick Dunn.

LHHS grad Justin Hamilton served as director or filmed several stars’ musical projects this year. His most standout pieces of the year were for Finneas, who also happens to be Billie Eilish’s brother, and Olivia Rodrigo.

REDEVELOPMENT David Weekley Homes plans to build 29 single-family homes priced $400,000-$500,000 on vacant land owned by the YMCA on Greenville Avenue. The sale of the land will give the YMCA much-needed cash to complete an expansion project begun in 2020. Photo courtesy of David Weekley Homes.

RISD STUDENTS ARE DINING OUTDOORS Concerned parents helped come up with a plan for more outdoor dining spaces for students to stay connected in the time of COVID-19. Dining outdoors was meant to lessen the risk of COVID-19 transmission as students ate without masks on.

PANHANDLING A tent city took root at Central Expressway and Forest Lane, which is one of the areas the City has been cleaning up since July. The Office of Homeless Solutions discouraged neighbors from donating to panhandlers because it might prevent them from seeking placement in shelters.

LIFE-SAVING CUTIES Dr. Lauren Ortega, Chris Fulmer and Will Dusek saved one softball parent’s life. The dad seemed to be asleep, but he was actually in dire need of CPR.

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A LOOK AT CRIME IN LAKE HIGHLANDS Crime hit a high in the spring but calmed toward the end of July. In Lake Highlands, the most common crimes were property crimes.Data from 2019 shows Dallas had 2.26 police officers per 1,000 residents.

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Time Travelers

SELL ANTIQUE ITEMS WITH A THEME FROM A LONG-AGO ERA Story by RAVEN JORDAN | Photography by EMIL LIPPE

alking through City View’s Antique Mall’s 65 vendor booths is like maneu-

vering a maze. The sisters-owned business is one of the largest and oldest antique shops in Dallas. Joan Williams and her younger sister, Ellen Paulsen, have coowned the antique mall since its opening in 1990. Three decades later, they’re still drawing customers interested in traveling through eras of time by moving from one vendor booth to the next. Williams was brought up in the

world of auctions and antiques. Both parents were collectors who traveled through Michigan to auctions with Williams and her siblings. Antiquing turned into a personal interest when she moved to Austin. “I had been interested in an antique mall down in Austin, where I lived,” Williams says. “And one day, my dad called me up and said, ‘Oh, I’ve got a great building I just rented on Greenville Avenue for an antique mall.’ And I said, ‘Well, dad, it’s gonna be hard for me to run it from Austin.’ How’d he think I was gonna do this?” Paulsen took an interest in their

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dad’s offer, which eventually led to opening Lower Greenville Antique Mall. That was 31 years ago. Williams doesn’t just co-own the antique mall business — she also operates a booth and sells antiques. Most of the antiques in Williams’ booth come from Europe and from furniture left over from her estate sales managed by her brother. “I very rarely shop other antiques stores because they’re hard to buy, unless you happen on a sale where somebody is going out of business or something like that,” she says. “But a lot of our stuff we get from Europe.” Robin Crawford, one of City

Robin Crawford, whose antique style is “minimalism,” has been a seller at City View for the past nine years.

View’s longest-standing vendors, works at t h e sto re tw i ce a m o n t h a n d v i s i t s we e k l y to re a r ra n ge o r a d d i te m s to h e r b o o t h . C raw fo rd s h o ps a t f l e a m a r ke t s t h ro u g h o u t Texa s ; t h e o l d es t i te m s h e h a s ow n e d , a p i e ce of f u r n i t u re, i s f ro m t h e e a r l y 1 9 0 0 s. “ W h e n my l a st c h i l d we n t to co l l e ge, I wa s a n e m p ty - n es te r a n d k i n d of wa s i n a s p o t w h e re I wa s l i ke, ‘ n ow w h a t? ’ Yo u k n ow, I h a d b e e n so i n vo l ve d i n t h e i r ( h e r k i d s’ ) s t u ff, so I k i n d of h a d to re i n ve n t m yse l f. W h e n C i ty Vi ew m ove d ove r to t h e l o ca t i o n i t ’s i n n ow, I we n t i n a n d s aw t h ey h a d so m e s pa ce ava i l a b l e. Th e n I wa s l i ke : Yo u k n ow w h a t? I t h i n k I ’ l l d o t h a t.” K n ow n a s t h e l a rges t f l e a m a r ke t i n t h e co u n t r y, C a n to n’s Fi rs t M o n d ay t ra d e d ays h a s a l a rge se l e c t i o n of ve n d o rs w i t h o l d e r,

m o re u n i q u e f i n d s, a n d t h a t ’s j u s t w h a t C raw fo rd l o o ks fo r. “ I go to C a n to n a l o t , o n ce a m o n t h ,” s h e s ays. “A n d t h e n I go to a h u ge f l e a - m a r ke t k i n d of t h i n g i n S o u t h Texa s n e a r H o u sto n ca l l e d Ro u n d To p a n d f i n d m o re t h i n gs t h e re. “ S o m e t i m e s p e o p l e j u s t ca l l a n d s ay, ‘ I d o n’t wa n t t h i s a n ym o re, wo u l d yo u l i ke to h ave i t ’ o r go to a n e s t a te s a l e a n d p u r c h a s e i te m s,” C raw fo rd s ays. “ S o j u s t eve r y w h e re, a n y w h e re yo u ca n f i n d t h e m .” W i l l i a m s s ays s h e h u n t s fo r i te m s t h a t f i t h e r E u ro p e a n a n tique theme. “ I t ’s l i k e y o u ’ re o u t t h e re , a n d y o u ’ re l o o k i n g f o r s t u f f, b u t t h e re ’s a l l t h i s j u n k a n d e v e r y t h i n g ,” W i l l i a m s s a y s . “A n d t h e n a l l o f a s u d d e n , t h e re ’s a t re a s u re , y o u k n o w, t h e re ’s

s o m e t h i n g f ro m t h e 1 9 t h c e n t u r y t h a t ’s re a l l y o l d a n d re a l l y v a l u a b l e . A n d i t ’s h a v i n g t h e s k i l l , h a v i n g a c q u i re d t h e s k i l l to d o t h at. I m ea n , I ca n go to some place, and I know what I ’ m l o o k i n g a t .” C ra w f o rd , o n t h e o t h e r h a n d , e n j o y s t h e re s t o ra t i o n p a r t o f acquiring and selling antiques. I n h e r w o rd s , s h e “ b r i n g s t h e m b a c k t o re l e v a n c e .” “ Yo u k n o w, a l o t o f p e o p l e t h i n k , o h , i t ’s o l d , t h e y ’ re n o t i n t e re s t e d i n i t a n y m o re ,” she says. “But just a little bit of polish or paint or glue can m a k e i t l o o k f a b u l o u s a g a i n .”

City View Antique Mall, 6830 Walling Lane near Skillman and Abrams behind Jake’s Hamburgers, is open daily. Visit cityviewantiques.com for more information.

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t’s resolution season and I already feel defeated. You? How will this year be different? My daughter and her husband manage expectations with their three young girls at Christmas. Learning from the wedding tradition of “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue,” they limit the presents they give (not Santa) to “Something to read, something to wear, something needed, something wanted.” Less poetic, maybe, but it gets the job done. W h at i f we a d o p t e d a s i m i l a r scheme for New Year’s resolutions and slimmed down our list? It might bone up our resolve. Here’s a suggestion: Something holy, something good, something beautiful, something true. More reason than rhyme, but at least it highlights spiritual virtues. And since this column often connects the private and the public in faith, consider resolutions in these realms that account for social networks and institutions, not just personal improvement. Something holy. Participate in, serve with and give to a religious congregation. The widespread notion that you can be “spiritual but not religious” suggests you can be close to God and be a good person without engaging with other people in rituals of worship and communal life. That’s a little like learning a foreign language from a book or an app and never conversing or sharing everyday life with people who speak that language natively. Strengthen a church or synagogue by your involvement this year. Something good. The next three will have similar themes. This one is ethical. Pick one subject or issue you care about personally and that affects others, too. Neighborhood watch, street

and sidewalk improvement, cultural intelligence in schools, environmental justice. Find out who else is doing something about these things and join them. There are a handful of nonprofits for any of these issues who would love to help check this resolution off your list. Something beautiful. Ugliness is a blight on the soul as well as the community. Cultivate beauty as an act of resistance to our throwaway society and lift our collective spirit at the same time. Beauty involves harmony, things fitting together well, like a row of pansies, a clump of crepe myrtles, treble and bass clefs, a clean car or a colorful mural. Join the Arboretum or one of our amazing museums. Buy season tickets to Dallas Summer Musicals or the Dallas Theater Center. Something true. Limit social media if you find yourself being entertained by fake news just because you like it, whether it meets standards of truth or not. Support real journalism and the institutions that foster it. Subscribe to the Dallas Morning News and D Magazine. Read The Advocate (check). Give to the Dallas Free Press. It can’t be said often enough: “You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.” We will not heal what divides us as a nation if we don’t have a common commitment to the truth. Old habits may die hard, but new ones like these give life to us all. GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons and host of the “Good God” podcast. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses

Pastor George A. Mason / Worship at 9 & 11 a.m. Sunday School at 10 a.m. / wilshirebc.org

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

214.348.9697 / Sun: LifeQuest 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am / Sun: Youth 6-8 pm/Wed: AWANA 6-8 pm

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

E P I S C O PA L ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH / stjd.org

Worship: Sat 5:30 pm, Sun 8 & 10:30 am / Christian Ed Sunday Morning & Weekdays, see calendar on website / 214.321.6451 / 848 Harter Rd.

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A Welcoming and Affirming Church / Rev. K.M. Truhan Sunday School 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am / CentralLutheran.org FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA) / 6202 E Mockingbird Ln.

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

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503 N Central Exwy / fumcr.com / 972.235.8385 / Dr. Clayton Oliphint 8:45, 9:45, 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Modern 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 & 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Contemporary

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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 NORTHPARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 11:00 am Sundays on YouTube

9555 North Central Expressway / 214.363.5457 / northparkpres.org / Welcoming Seekers, Thinkers and Doers. NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Sunday Worship 10:00 am Church that feels like church and welcomes like family. PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH/ 4124 Oak Lawn Ave Sunday Worship 9:00 & 11:00 A.M. To all this church opens wide her doors - pcpc.org

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