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LAKE HIGHLANDS ADVOCATE VOL.30 NO.1

PROFILE 6 Youth Believing in Change founder Vince Gaddis DEVELOPMENT 8 Parkland's newest clinic DINING 10 Burger Schmurger FEATURES 12 Gambling in Dallas 16 Ballet North Texas breaks barriers 21 Jerry Jensen

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FROM PRISON TO PREACHING Vince Gaddis, founder of Youth Believing in Change, transformed his life to help others Story by SIMARAN SIRA | Photography by VICTORIA GOMEZ

very day, buses pick up nearly 150 students from Vickery Meadow-area schools and bring them to a Vickery Baptist Church program – Youth Believing in Change – for tutoring and after-school meals. For the children, it is more than tutoring and supplemental education it’s the mentorship that's setting them up for success. Youth Believing in Change, also known as YBC, is a nonprofit that focuses on giving children a spiritual and educational foundation in order for them to succeed in life. It was created by Vince Gaddis on June 6, 1995. Gaddis’ upbringing landed him with “the wrong crowd,” he says, leading him to deal drugs at a young age. In and out of prison for years for drug-related arrests, Gaddis was denied parole multiple times after his last arrest. Before his last parole hearing, however, something changed. He realized that he wanted to dedicate his life to his faith. “I had an epiphany or an awakening with Christ Jesus,” Gaddis says. “I began to speak and I just said, ‘I want to get out of jail, settle down, go back to school, become a lawyer, get married, have a family and start going to church every Sunday.’” According to Gaddis, the judge looked at him, rang the gavel three times and said, “Mr. Gaddis, for some strange reason, the court is going to have mercy upon you and release you into the custody of your aunt and uncle.” Following his release, Gaddis started going to church, which led to him going to college to pursue pastoral work. “God is calling me into ministry. And so I said, ‘OK, well, I need to go to school and get my degree,’” Gaddis says. Gaddis went on to get his four-year degree at Paul Quinn College and then continued at Dallas Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s in Christian education. During this time, he began to work with children and teens who had committed offenses related to drug dealing. “My stepfather was a teacher and I grew up with a strong educational and biblical foundation,” Gaddis says. “(The children in the program) didn't have that.

So I thought to myself, ‘I need to catch 'em younger.’” Soon after, he discovered AmeriCorps, which had a program working with children in the inner city. Although he had doubts that he would be hired because of his criminal record, he didn’t lose hope. “I went down, I told 'em my story. They had a meeting that same day, and they called me back and they said, ‘We think you'll be a good fit for our program,’” Gaddis says. ‘“You're in college. You have had a good foundation and a lot of the children right now, you can relate to their parents.’” In 1995, Gaddis considered resigning to pursue the creation of Youth Believing in Change full time. However, an interaction with a little girl in the AmeriCorps program encouraged him to stay for another year. “A little girl came in with an envelope full of thank you letters that day. And this one envelope that she gave me, it was a thank you card,” Gaddis says. “When I got that card, I'm telling you, my heart literally shook. And I sat down and I felt a sense of affirmation that money, drugs, nothing ever gave me.” In 2021, Gaddis began working with Vickery Baptist Church. He had a plan to create new programs focused on at-risk children. After sharing his idea with donors, the church raised a million dollars to rebuild the church's site to accommodate the 7,500 kids in the neighborhood as well as children who “are struggling with getting on the right path in life.” “I understand those people because I was from that life. So I said, ‘Well, we can have a full-scale ministry here. We're not going to ignore those people, but the children are still going to be first,’” Gaddis says. After successfully reaching 3,000 people a year, the organization is looking to expand further. Gaddis hopes to raise enough money to accommodate more children in their after school and summer programs as well as add a program specialized for teens. “We don't do it for the money. We do it because we want to make a difference,” Gaddis says.

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THE CLINIC CAMPAIGN Parkland brings a clinic to Richland College campus, reduces strain on Vickery Meadows location

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fter years of community meetings, zoning battles and site planning, Parkland Health is set to open a new clinic next year on the Richland College campus, a step toward reducing strain on the Vickery Meadow location and providing lowcost health care to the North Lake Highlands area. According to a representative from Parkland Health, Vickery Health Center is oversubscribed, with over 18,000 visits per year. With the population growing and outpacing the size of the current clinic, many patients are seeking primary care in Parkland’s emergency department, a costlier visit for all involved. To mitigate this issue, Parkland Health has allocated part of the 2024 budget to expanding Vickery Health’s clinic and creating additional clinics. “Many of our patients have to carefully decide between going into work to support their families or missing pay to attend their medical appointments,” James Perez, community-oriented primary care operations administrator at Parkland, said in a news release in 2020. “It’s the cost of time. We help combat those barriers to care by ensuring the health center remains within walking distance of public transit and providing telehealth options for our patients.” Some of the biggest barriers going to regular medical appointments are access to health insurance, long wait times for appointments and conflicts with work schedules, according to Parkland’s most recent Community Health Needs Assessment. With 21% of Dallasites uninsured, access to Parkland Health services is often the only option when seeking health care. To increase availability of services and ease transportation concerns, Parkland aimed to open a clinic in

the northeast region of Dallas that was within walking distance of public transportation and could serve the preventive health care needs of the community. The health network first aimed its sights on a new Community Oriented Primary Care clinic (COPC) in the Forest Lane and Stults Road area on the location of the Greater Cornerstone Baptist Church property. When the hospital group applied to rezone the property, many Lake Highlands neighbors and Hamilton Park-area residents opposed the development, saying that they “would like a development that better fits into the neighborhood” and that “there is no room for more traffic,” the Advocate reported in 2021. Without community support and due to the area’s highly residential nature, the zoning case was denied. Going back to the drawing board, the Parkland development team applied for a different rezoning case in February — this time to add a clinic to the Dallas College Richland Campus. “[The previous zoning case being denied] turned out to be a blessing in disguise,” Beal Carothers, director of real estate development for Parkland Health, says. “I think we have a better site at the Richland College campus.” The partnership with the college will allow Parkland to utilize the 30,000-square-foot space with a longterm lease and provide Parkland with a clinic within walking distance of nearby DART bus stops on Walnut Street. “It’s not just hospitalization, this is a community clinic which will treat chronic conditions … podiatry … diabetic neuropathy … There are a host of things that this is really the only opportunity for a population that really needs

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this health to get this care,” Jonathan Vincent, a representative of Parkland Health says. Several Dallas County residents came to support the clinic, citing its significance to community health care. “[Richland College] is a very integral part of [North Lake Highlands] with the beautiful campus and walking trails, and we very much want to maintain the quality and beauty of our neighborhood,” neighborhood resident Bernie Butler says. “The Parkland reps did represent that and engaged with the community on that initial designation as the planned development.” Parkland Health sought a Planned Development district from the rezoning case, which aimed to limit the site use to a medical and ambulatory clinic — something that public meetings in January made clear to Parkland’s development team that was important to the community. The new clinic will be about five miles from the Vickery Health site, and will allow around 15,000 visits per year, Carothers says. Once fully-staffed, the clinic will offer services in adult care, children’s health, infant care, women’s care, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy,

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CULINARYNO Burger Schmurger brings the cookout to you Story by SIMON PRUITT | Photography by LAUREN ALLEN

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“The one I’ve been doing forever,” says Culwell. “It’s a double-smashed patty cheeseburger, grilled onions, house made dill pickles and our housemade burger sauce. This is our best-selling burger by far.”

“I ALWAYS COOKED AS A HOBBY. I never thought about it being a career path,” Dave Culwell, owner of Burger Schmurger says. The musician-turned-cook grew up in Southern California, experiencing a vast food scene and cooking on the side as much as he could before moving to Dallas in 2016. “When COVID hit, I started doing backyard cookouts with the attempt of keeping the village together,” he says. “It was that time that my then 13-year-old daughter suggested we take food on the road.” Culwell called a contact at Oak Highlands Brewery (OHB),

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a neighborhood staple north of Interstate 635, and took his daughter along to run a monthly pop-up outside the brewery. Today, you can still find Burger Schmurger at OHB, slinging two of its award-winning signature burgers every Wednesday night. Those delicious burgers aren’t the only things that set Culwell’s crew apart. “We at Burger Schmurger are unique in that for the most part, we shop up and cook for you on your turf,” he says. “We become part of the party and we have a really good time. We love every aspect of it and I believe that it shows.” That fun-loving spirit has made the brand known through-

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GETTING A POKER ROOM IN DA L L AS WAS N ’ T E ASY. Texas Card House was on the forefront of the Texas gambling wave when it opened in 2014, and the company was able to pave the way for poker clubs opening throughout the state by navigating the murky legal waters that the business treads in. While gambling is illegal in Texas, the card houses say that because poker is a game of skill it does not fall under the legal definition of gambling. And, because the card houses do not claim a portion of each game pot, or a “rake,” they say there is no profitable benefit to the establishment through the game. Instead, money is earned through membership dues or hourly club access fees. Texas Card House opened the doors of its first Dallas location in early 2020, following months of negotiation between the card house, city staff, the city attorney’s office, the board of adjustment and the Dallas Police Department. The city population was “clamoring” for poker, Texas Card House CEO Ryan Crow says. Not long after opening, the city changed their minds and revoked the certificate of occupancy that had been issued to Texas Card House, telling the business they were operating illegally. “There's just so much demand in (Dallas.) And the reason clubs haven't popped up all over is just because of the legal challenges that we face here,” Crow says. “Obviously, everyone in the industry is watching. And when we start getting these legal challenges … no one really wants to open.” Crow credits City Council member Cara Mendelsohn as an outspokenly hostile opponent of card houses in Dallas. After a July 2021 incident in a District 12 illegal poker room left one man with a slashed throat and in serious condition, Mendelsohn told constituents that she was working with State Representative Matt Shaheen to shut down all poker rooms in the district. Mendelsohn has since staved off

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the opening of several poker rooms in District 12, and made it clear to potential operators they “are not welcome.” Throughout several lawsuits and counter lawsuits — which the city spent $550,000 on as of January 2023 — Texas Card House and the two other card houses involved in the suit, Shuffle 214 and Poker House of Dallas, have been allowed to remain open. Mendelsohn has said that if laws have loopholes, like those that currently allow card houses, the gray area needs to be clarified rather than taken advantage of. “If you read the state law, it seems clear that the business model of the poker rooms is illegal since they are receiving a benefit,” Mendelsohn wrote in a constituent newsletter shortly after the 2021 incident. “Poker rooms are making millions of dollars annually. If it is deemed the poker rooms are illegal, the City of Dallas should not be issuing a certificate of occupancy for an illegal business.” In January 2022, City Council member for District 1 Chad West made a “business-friendly” proposal that he hoped would put an end to the litigation stalemate. “The city manager confirmed that staff will work with the city attorney’s office to craft a land use category that considers current penal code restrictions on card houses and also provisions that will protect neighborhoods, such as proximity limitations,” West said in that month’s city council meeting. In the last 12 months, no such land use category has been drafted. City Staff did provide a brief update at the Dec. 12 Government Performance and Financial Management Committee meeting, after being pulled in “kicking and screaming,” West says. In the briefing, Bertram Va n d e n b e rg , i n t e r i m c h i e f o f general counsel for the city attorney, said the Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee, who will be tasked with developing the land use category, would consider limiting clubs to certain entertainment districts in the city. Vandenberg declined to say whether a new land

use ordinance would eliminate the current litigation with Texas Card House, Shuffle 214 and Poker House of Dallas. Just getting an update on the possible land use category was a “very painful process,” West says, in part because a lack of urgency from constituents has left city staff “content” with waiting on the courts to decide on the legal legitimacy of card houses. Homelessness was one of the most urgent issues on the city council’s agenda in 2023. There was a city council election in May, and preparation is underway for a $1.1 billion bond in 2024. Despite the proposed solution in January, poker was not the talk of 2023. “Why would staff put their necks out on the line to provide a legal path when the courts are going to figure it out for us,” West says. “There's not people clamoring for these card houses other than the owners.” Crow disagrees. The Las Colinas poker room is the highest-performing location for Texas Card House, which operates in six cities. The North Dallas location isn’t far behind. On an average night, he estimates between 500 and 1,000 people visit the two locations. Those people didn’t learn how to play poker overnight when Texas Card House opened, Crow says. They were playing underground, or traveling to Oklahoma. Ea c h p e rso n w h o t rave l s to Oklahoma represents taxes that Texas has lost, he says. In 2022, Texas Card House brought over $1.1 million in property and sales tax revenue to Dallas. And underground games can quickly turn dangerous because of the hesitation to call the police when there is a threat, a “very common story in the community” Crow says. “If something happens, we have armed security, and if something major happens, we call the police. A lot of those games that are running illegally, they're not going to call the police because they're running an illegal game and they're going to get arrested,” Crow says. “It happens

all the time. It doesn't get reported, unless it devolves into a shooting, or somebody getting stabbed.” It’s a danger that West acknowledged in his 2023 plan, where he warned shutting down the Dallas card houses would only push more games underground. As a small business owner, West says he is sympathetic to the poker rooms that opened under the pretense of operating legally, before the city “changed the rules” on them. He now plans to propose a resolution that will allow the card houses that opened prior to the city’s change of heart to continue operation until a state-wide decision on gambling is made. “These businesses came in, they invested capital and time and effort, in some cases they bought land and buildings,” West says. “I'm hoping to find a path to legalization for them, and then everyone else can wait until after the state figures out.” The state-wide perception of gambling is a tricky one, Crow says. The lottery and bingo are forms of gambling that have been deemed acceptable, but he doesn’t think the taboo of games l i ke p o ke r o r p l a c e s l i ke c a s i nos will be going away anytime soon. It’s going to take people from around the state becoming more comfortable with different types of gambling to legalize it in Texas, he says. I t ’s a c o n ve rs a t i o n t h e Texas legislature has been tossing around for years. A conversation that has been stirred even more s i n c e t h e re c e n t p a r t n e r s h i p between Dallas billionaire Mark Cuban and Miriam Adelson, the owner of a mega-successful Las Vegas casino and resort company. And a conversation that Crow says will not end overnight. “ We wa n t to b e f r i e n d s w i t h the city of Dallas, we want to be wanted here. We've tried to have the conversations when they're willing to,” Crow says. “(In Texas) I think (legalization) is a five to 10 yea r p ro j e c t , b u t I d o t h i n k u l t i m a t e l y i t ’s w h a t e n d s u p happening.”

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ballet balancé Ballet North Texas makes dance more accessible

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t started started years ago when Nicolina Lawson, founder of Ballet North Texas, was traveling three times a week from Wichita Falls to Dallas in order to continue dancing professionally. Before starting a career in ballet, Lawson watched her mother, Cindy Michaels, ballet master and resident choreographer of Ballet North Texas, who had been a professional ballerina for 26 years. In awe of her mother’s passion, she began dancing as a young ballerina in California and continued in ballet for years, performing in various cities, states and studios around the world. Despite her worldwide background, Lawson had no choice but to move to Wichita Falls where her husband would be stationed. It wasn’t “too far” from Dallas and Lawson wanted to continue a career as a professional ballerina in a big city. However, through her routine commutes to Dallas she found herself wanting more professional opportunities as a dancer and there weren't many companies to choose from. If the opportunities weren’t going to present themselves, she knew she’d have to create those opportunities for both herself and other dancers. Ballet North Texas is located at 10675 E NW Hwy Suite 2400 across the road from East Dallas Arts. Since its founding in 2017, the company has continued to grow, bringing in dancers from across the nation, live television appearances and performances in various theaters across the metroplex. What started as a single woman looking to continue a career in ballet has flourished into a well-

known dance company of 14 fulltime dancers. Colleen Reed, professional ballerina at BNT and Netflix star of season three of Love is Blind, says one of the most notable differences between Ballet North Texas and other studios was how diverse the dancers were and the progressive efforts the company made to include as many individuals in their show and audience as possible. Reed says in her experience at BNT everyone gets a chance to showcase their talent. No dancer is limited on roles, or opportunities to be in the company based on physical appearances. In previous showings of Ballet North Texas, like The Nutcracker, there have been dancers who were in wheelchairs, individuals both young and old, some people who’d been dancing since they took their first steps and some who had never danced before. When you include more dancers who look different, dance differently, have disabilities or varying heights and body types, it makes a huge impact for the audience and the children who watch these performances, Reed says. It gives people the opportunity to identify with the dancers and say “I can do that too.” Ballet is an art form, an expression of movement and an experience for all lovers of dance. With a vision to increase inclusivity, Lawson says there’s no limit to who can be on stage. “In the same sense that I was looking for opportunity, I also want to present opportunities for dancers, people that think they want to be dancers … I really do think

Dancers rehearse the waltz of the Snow Flakes for The Nutcracker.

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that dance is for everyone,” Lawson says. “There’s always something that you can do and if you want to be on stage, then I want to be able to make that happen.” One of the many additions Ballet North Texas is incorporating to enhance inclusivity in ballet is its sensory-friendly performance. Sometimes there are lights, sounds or costumes of a show that can trigger individuals with autism, PTSD or anxiety. Further efforts have been made to prevent excessive stimulation, this includes reducing sound levels for loud aspects of the show, half-lit house lights to allow guests to use electronic devices and trained staff to assist guests. Additionally, people are encouraged to move around and talk if needed, adding to a relaxed atmosphere. The sensory-friendly performance allows all individuals to attend the performance who may not otherwise be able to connect with the show. But Lawson isn’t quite done enhancing her company to make the forefront of Dallas’ dance scene, there’s still a lot of work to be done, she says. She looks forward to the day the company can do pre-and-post-show tours for people to get to know the dancers, feel the costumes, see where they’re going to be seated and experience the theater before performance day. Regardless of the show you're performing, the job as a dancer is to connect with the audience, Lawson says. Ballet is an art everyone should be able to experience and through sensory-friendly performances allows the opportunity for more individuals to enjoy ballet, she adds.

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t seems like Jerry Jensen has seen it all, and he can’t wait to share it. He’s a larger-than-life figure, standing tall with a gravelly Texas accent and a long, gray beard. He spent the '80s working in the oil industry, traveling Asia and using his status to soak up a wholly unique view of international culture. “Living in Thailand, I got to see things normal people can’t,” he says. “I went to Northern China before they opened it up to foreigners. Living overseas, the world was my playground.” Amid his travels, Jensen met a nurse named Heidi in the Philippines. “I turned on the old Texas charm,” he says. “It was love at first sight.” Jensen didn’t waste any time. Only a few months later, the couple packed their bags and moved into their new home in Dallas where he’d join the fire department, a job he’d keep for 30 years until his retirement in 2017. Jensen was happy, working a steady job and living with the love of his life. But settling down wasn’t in his nature. “One of my supervisors was featured in several woodworking magazines,” he says. “He took me out to his house and taught me on an old-fashioned lathe.” Inspired, Jensen began to challenge himself with different styles of woodwork. It started out with bowls and picture frames, some of them ending up in featured art exhibitions and auctions. “I just did it as a hobby to keep myself busy,” he says. “Money is in the background; that’s not my priority.” He’s taken home awards from the State Fair of Texas and other local festivals for his work, but he continues to add more to his repertoire. Lately, his projects have become far more ambitious, including projects like transforming scrap parts into a functioning banjo and forging metal to make his own blades. “I will see something on the internet or talking to my friends and collaborators that sounds like a challenge,” he says. “I want to add this to my next one or do something just a little different.” Jensen has begun to fuse some of the Asian culture he picked up from his travels into his work. “I probably incorporate it more subconsciously than consciously,” he says. He’s currently working on a katana sword made out of scrapped parts and forged metal. Jensen will only admit that his craftsmanship is a hobby, but his peers label him as an artisan. Even though his work is good enough to merit the distinction, Jensen insists upon giving it all away for free. “There’s literal blood and sweat poured into that,” he says, holding up a cooking knife made from scrap metal, flaunting the cuts up his arms and the singes on his beard. For Jensen, his projects help him interact with his surroundings in the most natural way he can. In the same way that he soaked up international culture and met his wife along the journey. Decades later and thousands of miles away, Jerry Jensen remains the same.

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