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8 MAKING MUSIC Neighbors unleashing their talents 12 CLASS REUNION They waited 50 years for this 18 DINING O’Riley’s Billiards, Food & Bar 22 CONNECT TO MUSIC Acts and producers from Lake Highlands 42 MARCH ON LHHS’ band returns

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HE LAKE HIGHLANDS JUNIOR WOMEN’S LEAGUE donated $55,000 to faith-based nonprofit Feed Lake Highlands as the beneficiary of the 17th-annual Run the Highlands event. Feed Lake Highlands offers food, resources, relationships and educational support to our neighbors.

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IMPACTFUL LEADER Lake Highlands High School senior Will Hutton received the Dave Campbell Impactful Leadership Award. The honor is given each week to a Texas high school senior who exemplifies leadership on and off the field.

Hutton is a receiver, punter and linebacker who’s serving as a captain for the second year for the Wildcats. In addition to football, he is captain of the Wranglers country and western dance team, secretary of the Student Council and co-founder of the bass fishing team.

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MARKET IN THE MEADOW CANCELED AGAIN Market in the Meadow was canceled for the second year in a row.

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MUSICAL MOMENT

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FIVE TIMES LAKE HIGHLANDS WAS REPRESENTED IN THE INDUSTRY

Nelly Furtado says she’s like a bird, but she didn’t fly away. In 2016, she decided to film most of her music video for “Pipe Dreams” not in a Hollywood studio, not in the woods, but in a house in our neighborhood where she had stopped for a spontaneous estate sale run. The home was owned by a woman named Edna Sue, who had lived in Lake Highlands since the 1950s. Photo courtesy of Nelly Furtado.

Meredith Alloway impressed Lake Highlands audiences as a young actor in dramas and musicals. Then she acted in college and even in Hollywood. But she really found her stride when she made the switch to working behind the camera. Last year, she directed a music video for Paris Jackson’s “Let Down.” Must have been a thriller.

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“Africa” by Toto might make a crowd go wild, but for Joslyn Taylor, the daughter of the band’s saxophone player, living as a musician isn’t living the dream. Don’t get it wrong — she enjoyed some great memories while her dad, Jon Robert Smith, was on tour. But when she grew up, she took more stable jobs for herself, in marketing, as a magazine editor and in interior design.

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It doesn’t matter that you’re a rockstar. School drop off and pickup come first, even if you’re Ken Bethea of the Old 97’s.

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the pawnbroker’s daughter EVELYN GOLDSTEIN GREW UP AT THE END OF AN ERA Story by RACHEL STONE

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velyn Goldstein stayed up drinking wine and listening to Miles Davis to write her dad’s eloquent obituary for the Jewish Post earlier this year.

She called David Goldstein the last of the Deep Ellum Jewish pawnbrokers.

“I’m not a writer,” she says. “People have tried to write a book on my family so many times, that I’m like, ‘You know what, I’m going to write this’ ... because dad was everything to me and to a lot of people.”

Her great-uncle was Honest Joe, aka Rubin Goldstein, whose pawnshop, with its glorious jumble of hand-painted signs, was a fixture of Deep Ellum for generations.

Honest Joe grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and dreamed of owning a pawnshop like the ones lining Delancey Street in the early 20th century. In 1931, he moved to Dallas, where he had relatives in the pawn business, and at age 23 opened

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Honest Joe’s at 2524 Elm St. Once he was established, his kin started moving here, including brother Rocky Goldstein. That was Evelyn’s grandfather.

Rocky’s Pawnshop was at 2018 Elm St. Evelyn’s dad worked there starting in childhood and later co-owned it with his dad.

The place was crammed with stuff, an organizer’s nightmare. One of Rocky’s signs read, “Stop dropping cigarette butts on the floor, the cockroaches are getting cancer.”

They did business with wise guys and petty criminals, but also musicians, housewives and working stiffs.

“When I was a kid, I always wanted to be at my dad’s shop,” Evelyn says.

She grew up in Garland and graduated from Dallas Academy in Lake Highlands.

David Goldstein worked all the time. He never took days off or went on vacation, so Evelyn and her brother, Jordan, have tons of childhood memories from the shop.

“There were gangsters in there all the

time,” she says.

Guys she knew as East Dallas Louie and Johnny Tomato used to pick her up from school. Rocky put her into business around age 10 with gumball and candy machines. She had several in East Dallas, like at laundromats and Garland Road Thrift Store, and those drivers would take her around to collect her profits and refill them.

The Goldsteins received national attention for a couple of presidential incidents.

Honest Abe helped the FBI with tracing the rifle Lee Harvey Oswald used to assassinate President Kennedy in 1963.

The pawnbroker reportedly had ridden in JFK’s motorcade, and he is mentioned in the Warren Commission Report.

In 1981, Rocky Goldstein sold a .22-caliber handgun to Highland Park’s own John Hinckley, who used it in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

Every media outlet in the countr y wanted to inter view him about that. The notoriety he received over it was so intense that they moved Rocky’s from Deep Ellum to East Grand about a year later, Evelyn says.

She remembers vividly the time, when she was 7 years old, that the shop on East Grand was held up.

“I was put into a back room,” she says. “That kind of stuff was very common then.”

David Goldstein, who was a staunch Republican his whole life, moved the shop to Garland Road at Peavy around 1990.

He turned it into a police supply store, selling uniforms, holsters and vests to cops, while his dad also ran a small pawnshop inside the store.

“Have you ever heard of a pawn shop inside of a police store?” Evelyn says. “You had the police rubbing elbows with the criminals.”

The Garland Road store was safer than the two previous locations, she says. Evelyn started working there when she was about 15, mostly helping with inventory. In high school, her friends always wanted to

hang out there, even when they could’ve been at the mall or Wet and Wild.

The magnetism was in her dad’s stories of old Dallas, and he also gave them candy.

David Goldstein, who grew up in Preston Hollow and graduated from Hillcrest High School, practiced painting and music and loved to romance beautiful women. He was married four times, and his final marriage, to Laura Levy, lasted 17 years.

He was known as a Jewish matchmaker and even introduced one of his ex-wives to the man she would marry and have kids with.

In 1986, he started a club with his three best friends, Bernie Schuster, Larry Strauss and Howie Miles, called the Weiss Guys.

“Every Thursday night, they would go out — women weren’t invited — and they’d have a dinner,” Evelyn says.

The Weiss Guys grew to include about 200 men, and 40 or 50 would often show up to the dinners.

“My little brother was working in a restaurant, and he didn’t want to wait on them,” she says. “Separate checks, Diet Cokes, coffees with cream ...”

About once a year, they’d have a big party at the Stoneleigh and invite the wives, she says. After her dad died in May, they held the last Weiss Guys dinner.

“They invited me and my brother and had us sit at the head of the table,” she says. “Almost all of them came. It was very touching.”

Evelyn still has two cousins who worked at Rocky’s back in the day. But so many of David Goldstein’s close friends and family members have died, she says. It’s a shame nobody wrote that book.

Life behind the bar

“I

didn’t set out to be a bartender my whole life,” Evelyn says.

She’s lived all over Dallas, completed college courses and worked in several industries. But she always comes back to slinging drinks. She recently started at Al Biernat’s, a restaurant her dad loved.

Her first job was working as a bar back for the owners of Desperado’s Mexican Restaurant, who were friends of her dad.

But her favorite job of all time was at the Granada Theater.

“I was the first bartender they hired,” she says. “I have so much love from that family, it’s unbelievable.”

She worked there until 2013, when she had to quit because she was near death before receiving a kidney transplant.

“I was working a shift there one night, and it was real busy, and I thought I was going to have a heart attack,” she says. “I’ve never felt anything like that before.”

She went home and then drove herself to an urgent clinic, which rushed her to the hospital because she was minutes from stroking out. At age 28, she was diagnosed with a rare genetic kidney disease.

First, she took nine months of chemotherapy, followed by six-and-a-half years of “grueling” dialysis. By the end, she weighed 70 pounds, and the dialysis, “felt like it was sucking the insides of me out.”

She received a kidney transplant Sept. 23, 2014,

Opposite page: Rocky and David Goldstein in their Deep Ellum pawnshop in the 1960s. Above: Honest Joe’s as it looked in the 1970s.

Photos courtesy of Evelyn Goldstein. Top, Goldstein near the site of Rocky’s in Deep Ellum. Photo by Jessica Turner.

on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year.

After that, she returned to work at the Majestic Theater, an easier job with fewer dates, and over the years has worked her way back into the restaurant business.

Eater interviewed her last year for their national publication after she contracted COVID-19 at work in a Dallas restaurant. The virus attacked her kidney and put her in intensive care.

Working in restaurants during the pandemic has been among the most stressful times of her life, she says. At a previous job, a october 2021

customer threw a glass at her (and missed) because she told him to put on a mask. Around that time, “things were going on in Israel,” and she received antisemitic harassment from a customer who noticed her Star of David charm.

“Everyone was in a bad mood. No one wanted to be there,” she says. “It was a horrible time.”

And then her father died.

A few days before, he told her he thought she should be working at Al Biernat’s.

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a reunion made all the sweeter LHHS CLASS OF 1970 RETURNS FOR A BELATED 50TH REUNION

Story by LIESBETH POWERS | Photos courtesy of LAKE HIGHLANDS CLASS OF 1970

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a r b a r a Ya r b o r o u g h L o w n plans to spend her reunion night on the dance floor with the Lake Highlands High School Class of 1970.

“Music is such a remembrance, it really takes you back to that place,” Lown says. “I plan on getting all of my class and myself on the dance floor.”

The event, originally planned as a fall homecoming celebration and spring prom night, has been delayed several times and is now going on its four th rescheduled date. T he reunion is planned as a three-day event centered around an Anniversary Gala Nov. 6.

Lown says her high school days were consumed by the Highlandettes, and she has had a chance to relive some of those high-kick memories while helping plan the reunion.

“When we had the reunion committee meetings, we talked about a lot of the funny things that have happened at the school, and that helps motivate us as to the things that we want to incorporate,” Lown says. “It’s just kind of getting us together, let our brains just go back to those happy days, so to speak, and

then work on things from there.”

Classmate Maggie Riley-Hagan is traveling from San Diego, California, to attend. Riley-Hagan took home the State 3A championship for tennis while at LHHS. She also danced with the Highlandettes, and she remembers rushing to a drill team show after hours of playing tennis.

“My mother said of my routine that there were seven proper ladies and one very sunburned, red-faced girl,” Riley-Hagan says.

Now a world-traveling triathlon athlete with her husband, Rob, Riley-Hagan says she’s eager to visit longtime friends at the reunion.

“It might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see, catch up with and have fun with fellow classmates,” she says.

Videos and memorabilia commemorating the class will be displayed. Alumni will also get together for photos with fellow elementary classmates and those involved in specific student groups.

Alumni are also invited to take the stands toge ther at a Wildcat home game, tour the recently remodeled LHHS building and attend Sunday brunch before heading home.

Reunion Committee chair Robert Grinsfelder hopes to see at least a quarter of the 500-or-so 1 97 0 g r a d u a t e s , a s w e l l a s s o m e faculty members from that period.

Grinsfelder says he spent much of his high school days taking part in student government, eventually becoming class president. He remembers being on the student council when LHHS was integrated. Students from Ha m i l t o n Pa r k b e ga n a tt e n d i n g L H H S , a n d t w o Ha m i l t o n Pa r k students joined student council, G r i n s f e l d e r s ay s .

“Our goal on the student council was to help make that work a s e ff e c t i ve l y a s i t c o u l d ,” G r i n sfelder says. “I think all of the fi v e s t u d e n t c o u n c i l o ffi c e r s a r e planning to come, and that would b e a v e r y f u n r e u n i o n f o r u s .”

A l u m n i f r o m ye a r s b e f o r e a n d af ter 1970 are welcome to join in any ac tivities, including the gala, G r i n s f e l d e r s ay s .

T h o s e i n t e r e s t e d i n att e n d i n g can register at at lhhswildcats. com. Tickets to the gala at the Westin Park Central Hotel are $85 per person until Oc t. 1, when the price increases to $95.

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ME & GRANDPA PAUL Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by KATHY TRAN

aul English put the outlaw in country.

He dressed like the devil, with satin-lined capes and pointed sideburns. He carried a gun, hung out with Hells Angels and was not afraid to bust skulls to make sure beer joints and honky-tonks paid his boss at the end of the night.

English saw the world looking at the backside of Willie Nelson for 54 years, keeping rhythm for songs we all know by heart. Before he was Willie’s drummer, English led a life of crime. Yes, he was a

pimp. Yes, he did a little time in the Ellis County jail as a teen. He was a Cowtown hoodlum who looked up to gangsters like Benny Binion and Herbert “The Cat” Noble. Later, he had interests such as used car lots in Houston and Fort Worth, and he funded some of Willie’s early career.

After Willie hired him in 1966, he led the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle and never left it until days before his death.

What most of the world never knew before English died at age 87 in February 2020 is that he also attended Jesuit football games, basketball games at Parish Episcopal and more recently, grandparents day at his grandson’s preschool.

This hellraiser who was Willie Nel-

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son’s best friend and protector was married for 41 years to Janie English, a l i c e n s e d c o u n s e l o r w h o h a s tw o master’s degrees. She is currently a school counselor at St. Rita, and she also works nights at a private counseling center.

Her husband always loved this about her. When they first started dating, he would introduce her by saying, “This is Janie. She has a job, and she goes to college.”

1977 They met at the Black Eyed Pea Festival in Athens, Texas, the year Elvis Presley died.

She was at a gathering at someone’s

home in Oak Lawn, and Mickey Raphael was there. Raphael, Willie’s long-time harmonica player, is from Dallas.

“He said, ‘I’ve been playing in this band, and I’m trying to get a ride to Athens,’” Janie says.

She had bragging rights from seeing the Rolling Stones the first time they played the Cotton Bowl, but she says, “I actually had no idea who Willie Nelson was.”

When they arrived, Raphael told her to hang out and let him know if she needed anything.

For some reason, the band’s old bus, which they called The Tube, was out of commission, and she saw this guy wearing red boots and a vest with patches all over it getting out of his car. She thought he looked so interesting.

“So I said, ‘Well as long as I’m going to be hanging around, I’d like to meet that guy,’” she says.

Back then, they kept in touch by writing letters and long-distance phone calls.

But soon Paul rented a place in Oak Lawn with tour manager David Anderson, whose girlfriend also lived in Dallas. Paul, who was then in his 40s, threw Janie’s 22nd birthday party at a strip club on Lower Greenville that one of his “character friends” owned.

Janie, who graduated from Berkner High School in Richardson, also went on the road with the band when she wasn’t working at her job in a psychiatry practice at the old Garland community hospital.

Once, after she flew out for a show in Tahoe, Paul wanted her to stay, but she had to get back to work.

“He said, ‘Why don’t you quit that job? We’re going out to Los Angeles,’” Janie says. “I said, ‘Well, if I’m going to quit my job, I think I need a ring.’”

41-year quickie marriage They had a double wedding in Las Vegas with bassist Bee Spears, who died in 2011, and was married to Julia until then.

“We just decided we would get married and see where it went,” she says. “He said later he thought it would be six months, and it was 41 years.”

They bought a house off Audelia Road in the Lake Highlands area. It became the party house where all of Paul’s “character friends” hung out alongside bikers, roadies

and musicians.

That house burned down on Palm Sunday in 1987 while Janie was at mass, and they lost nearly everything they owned, including priceless memorabilia like song lyrics Willie had written on scraps of paper. Also, their dog, Coco, had died before the fire. And their car was stolen.

This was also around the time that Willie got in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, and the band was off the road for a couple of years. family life The Englishes took all of that as a tap on the shoulder that maybe it was time to settle down. Paul was 55 when they bought a house on a golf course in Garland.

“I tell you, they were all so obsessed with golf that I thought quitting it would be the downfall of the band,” Janie says.

Buddy Prewitt, Willie’s lighting director

“I T E L L YO U, THEY WERE ALL SO OBSESSED WITH GOLF T H AT I T H O U G H T QUITTING IT WO U L D B E T H E D OW N FA L L O F T H E BA N D.” of 44 years who is known as “Budrock,” says they “had a brotherhood of golf,” that kept them together all the time. When they weren’t playing music together, they were swinging clubs.

Prewitt, who is from Dallas, fathered two of the Willie Nelson family band’s “IRS babies,” born as a result of their time off the road. His two daughters were born around the same time as Willie’s sons Micah and Lucas, and the English boys Paul junior and Evan.

“We just had too much time on our hands, I guess,” Prewitt says.

The Englishes moved to North Dallas about 15 years ago to be closer to their sons’ schools.

“We didn’t start out to have these private-school educated children, because we were just a couple of poor kids, you know?”

Janie says. “But it was the only way we could

take o u r kids out of school whenever we wanted so they could travel. You couldn’t do that in public school.”

Social Justice Paul English was a dustbowl baby born in Vernon, Texas. He grew up in a “holy roller” household in Fort Worth, and his mother would speak in tongues. Because of that, he never wanted to have anything to do with church.

Janie is Catholic and a child of the ’60s.

They intersected at social justice.

He served on the board of Farm Aid until his death. She believes her faith calls her to right injustices.

Paul was not highly educated, but he was well-read and genius-level intelligent.

He read The Dallas Morning News, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times on Sundays. He was constantly playing chess online with Willie, often while simultaneously working a sudoku puzzle.

Janie still keeps her TV locked on CNN because that’s how Paul always had it. By the way, he hated Trump.

“Sometimes I still expect to hear him saying, ‘Janie come here and look at this!’ and he’d be all worked up about something Trump did,” she says.

Grandpa Paul Paul English Jr. and wife, Mandy, lived with the Englishes for about a year after their son, Paul English III aka Trey, was born.

Mandy took up crossword puzzles because of her father-in-law.

“We would be sitting in the kitchen at breakfast, and Mr. English would be there doing his puzzles,” she says.

She always says he was an angel in disguise.

Leather tooling and sketch art were among his talents, and all of his siblings are artistic. His younger brother Billy is now the drummer in Willie’s band. His older brother Oliver was a multi instrumentalist

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Top: Paul and Willlie in Florida in 1981. This hat was lost in their 1987 house fire. Photo by Red Morgan. Above: left to right, the English family: Mandy, Paul Jr., Paul III, Janie, Evan and Taylor.

who also played in The Family band for a time.

Paul’s “baby boy,” Evan English, married his wife, Taylor, in December 2019. They were high-school sweethearts — he graduated from Jesuit and she from Ursuline in 2013, and they both went to The University of Oklahoma.

Janie says her husband loved taking road trips to visit him in Norman.

“It was just like being on the road,” she says.

Paul looked great in a tux, and although he typically hated formal events, he was so happy at Evan’s wedding and ledhis sister, Nadine, around the room on his arm the

whole day, family members say. He was also a great dancer, and so is Evan, who looks so much like his dad.

Paul’s son Darrell, from a previous marriage, lives in Glen Rose and is very much part of the family, Janie says. larger than life After he died, English’s family found out just how many fans he had, and it wasn’t necessarily a pleasant discovery. But old guys have come up to the son Paul to say they remember a joke their dad told on some random tour stop decades ago, he says.

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“That shows you the pull he had on people,” the younger Paul says. “He just had a presence.”

He could suck all the air out of a room just by stepping into it. He could intimidate the toughest dudes with a word or a look.

He once broke his hand on a guy’s face after the guy threw a bottle at the band in a roadhouse in Houston, and he still played the next night, shoving a drumstick into his plaster cast.

Someone once gave him a little antique gun, and it went off while he had it in his pocket and shot him in the back of the leg. They bandaged it up at the hospital, and he still went into the studio that night to work on the Stardust album.

“We were so shocked when he died, and I think what shocked us the most was that something could actually kill him,” Janie says. “Because you think he just couldn’t end. And of course, he hasn’t, because we have Paul and Evan and Trey.”

Made famous or infamous in Willie’s song “Me and Paul,” he was always a gentleman, friends say. He took Bobbie Nelson by the hand and walked her from the bus to her piano and back every night.

He kept the books and did payroll for the band until the end.

He was tough, but he was never mean, friends say.

“He was honest and fair and one of the best people I ever knew,” Budrock says. “If you ever needed anything or had any kind of problem, you could always go to Paul.” backyard dad Once his sons were born, they were the focus of his life, Janie says.

“They can remember dad getting home off the bus, and no matter how long he’d been out or how tired he was, going out and throwing the football,” she says.

The younger Paul, who graduated from Parish in 2007 and later received a degree from UT Austin, says it never felt like his dad was absent, even though he was on the road six or seven months of the year. He commanded respect, but

he wasn’t scary, his sons say.

“I think it was remarkable the job that he did,” Paul says. “It always felt like there was a fatherly presence in the home.” life after paul Paul the dad recovered remarkably well from a stroke in 2011. But two years later, he sustained a concussion and a broken hip when his tour bus crashed into a bridge at 75 miles per hour on icy roads. He didn’t talk as much after that and was never quite the same, although his mind remained sharp for the rest of his life.

His memorial service at Billy Bob’s took place a week before the coronavirus shut everything down. Janie moved out of their 5,000-squarefoot house earlier this year. “It was excruciating,” she says. And she recently moved into a 2,500-squarefoot house near St. Rita, where Trey is a student.

Evan works in commercial real estate, and Paul English Jr. is a TV writer who has worked on Cruel Summer and is now at work on an HBO series that hasn’t been titled yet. By the way, he got his start on the MTV series Jackass, and the elder Paul loved Johnny Knoxville and the other knuckleheads on that show.

Evan and Paul are both musicians as well, and Trey is learning drums and piano. Mandy is in venue management and event planning, and Taylor works in marketing. They both refer to their father-in-law as “Mr. English,” to this day, even though they’re on a first-name basis with Janie.

English kept his home life separate from his life in that band of gypsies going down the highway.

This was the first interview Janie’s ever done, except for talks with Paul’s biographer.

Now she’s trying to figure out what life is without Paul and how to keep his legacy alive. She just wants her husband to be proud of her.

“When you’ve been a background player in someone else’s story for almost your whole life, how do you write your own?” she says.

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O’Riley’s hosts three bands every Friday and Saturday night, giving neighbors the opportunity to hear live music from six acts.

TED BREWSTER JR. USED to stop

by O’Riley’s Billiards, Food and Bar in the mornings when he worked for Texas Instruments Inc. next door.

Brewster’s wife had experience working as a server when they were dating, and he heard the place was for sale. “I just asked her, ‘You want to buy it?’ And she was like, ‘Yeah,’ so we did.”

It’s been 18 years since then, and O’Riley’s is still keeping up with its regulars.

Most nights, there’s some kind of event taking place over at O’Riley’s. Sundays are for pool competitions. Mondays are for karaoke. Tuesdays are for open mics. On Friday and Saturday, O’Riley’s hosts three live bands, starting at 8:30 p.m. For the days when there are no mic’d up tunes, a jukebox is always available.

On open mic and band nights, any level singer or player is welcome to step on stage.

“I have a reputation for a long time that I let all bands play here. All new bands come through here pretty much,” Brewster says. “I let everybody play.”

Signing up to play is just as relaxed. If

there’s a spot open, a single call will get a band signed up.

Brewster’s wife, Karina, mans the door on live performance nights. Those walking in say which band they’re showing up for, so she can tally up how the cover should be distributed. The bands receive the complete cover at the end of the night, split by those tallies. For those just looking for a drink or food, there’s no cover.

O’Riley’s food menu is a little on the smaller side. For appetizers and snacks, they have mini cheeseburgers and queso, chips and salsa. But the real winner that keeps everyone coming back is the sub sandwiches.

“You wouldn’t even believe how many sandwiches we sell,” Brewster says.

And in regard to the short menu, Brewster believes that’s the way to do it.

“It’s a big old hoagie,” he says. “Like I tell everybody, ‘If you only serve one thing, it better be damn good.’”

Hoagies are served hot with a choice of roast beef, turkey or ham, plus cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo, mustard and a pickle spear. Sliced pickles and jalapeños

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If you’re lucky, you’ll come across a coupon for a buy-one-get-one sandwich.

Brewster hasn’t ever been able to figure out how the coupons came into circulation, but he always honors them.

It’s been like that since Brewster can remember. He’s had just about the same nine staff since opening. He and his wife do whatever is needed of them on a daily basis, and their family friend and manager Kelly Yanko takes care of any office work.

“We’re like family here,” Brewster says.

O’Riley’s was closed for a year starting in 2020, and Brewster made some renovations. The bar got some upgrades, including new sets of LED lights, and the stage received a full makeover.

Anyone 21 and up is welcome to come check out O’Riley’s and say ‘hi’ to the Brewsters.

“We’ve managed to run this place and raise three kids doing it,” Brewster says.

“Believe it or not.”

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Finding a way back home BLACKWOOD DRIVE HOSTS PRODUCER DAN STRINGER AND MUSICIAN JORDAN BROOKS

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lackwood Drive is where Dan Stringer and Jordan Brooks grew up in Lake Highlands.

It’s also the name of their studio space in Brooklyn, New York.

For Brooks, Blackwood Drive is a place to rehearse with his percussion gear. In Stringer’s world, the space is his production studio, a home away from home for artists to work on their music.

They reconnected as the pandemic

set in. They pooled resources to purchase the studio with plans to build it up and share it for their separate and combined arts.

“It’s become almost like a WeWork for Jordan and I,” Stringer says.

Inside Blackwood Drive is a professional vocal booth, as well as an open recording space with windows overlooking the street.

Blackwood Drive brings with it a sense of Lake Highlands community in New York. Their co-owership even stems from Stringer’s little brother being childhood friends with Brooks.

“I think that we definitely have that personality and like friendliness and kind of open mindedness that we get from Lake Highlands, and I think that’s something that definitely sticks out in New York,” says Stringer.

Stringer and Brooks made their way to New York in different ways, but started off similarly. Both took part in the Lake Highlands High School jazz band and headed north for college.

Brooks and Stringer even place credit on where they are now from the support of their LHHS music teachers.

Brooks spent his high school years on the drumline and in the concert and jazz bands. He went on to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and in the master’s program at New York University, earning two degrees

Photos courtesy of Dan Stringer and Jordan Brooks.

focusing on percussion performance.

In 2016, Brooks auditioned for STOMP, an internationally known percussion group, and earned a place on the cast. He worked the New York show for three years before joining the touring cast in 2019. By 2020, Brooks and the rest of the cast had been laid off due to the pandemic.

Now, Brooks is back on the road with STOMP as rehearsal director, and he’s booked to tour until May 2022. In his role, he runs each rehearsal, creates the casting for each show and helps with the direction of the show.

“From night to night, show to show, it changes quite a bit. A lot of the humor is improv. There are a lot of solo moments in the show, which is typically the performer’s discretion on how they improvise that musical moment,” Brooks says. “I screen all of that and comment and make sure that the show has the integrity that it needs to have as we tour.”

On breaks from STOMP, Brooks expects to work drum gigs with up-

and-coming artists and continue rehearsing at Blackwood Drive.

For Stringer, the space gives artists a return to the studio age.

He got his start producing with an internship at Electric Lady Studios in New York after getting his degree in music and studio production from the State University of New York at Purchase. At Electric Lady, Stringer loved to see artists walk in for a studio session, stay in the booths all night and only leave when a song or album had been finished.

Shortly after he started producing, studios began to close.

“The technology was kind of shifting to where everyone was kind of working from home, and studios weren’t making as much money. So I’d kind of been on the tail end of that,” Stringer says.

Stringer freelanced awhile, working with Ex Ambassador while they were still in college. After getting their first album out, he began working with singer-songwriter Lauryn Hill. He continued working with those artists

and others for the next 10 years. In that time, he produced for the most part from his home.

When the pandemic hit, Stringer felt the need to have a studio space and found a new home at Blackwood Drive.

Even with the brick-and-mortar setup, Stringer says he still has the freedom to move around. Thanks to technology updates, he can remote into his studio desktop to work on production. Wherever he is, he’s able to collaborate with others, like when he paired the musical group Loyalties with artists across the world.

Stringer says he focuses on serving as a mouthpiece for the musicians he works with at the studio.

“What I really like to do as a producer is not so much to try to make whatever thing it is that I want. But it’s to find an artist and figure out sort of what their vibe is or how they are and really get a feel for how they are as a person and empathize with them,” Stringer says. “Like how do I translate this person who I’m in the room with to all these people?”

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Where music meets film JUSTIN HAMILTON EXPLORES THE WORLD OF MUSIC VIDEOS AS A FILMMAKER

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p-and-coming artist Finneas has one rule for each of the music videos that Lake Highlands alum Justin Hamilton works on: They must be recorded in one take.

Hamilton has nailed it about 8 times now as director of photography for Finneas, and he plans to continue taking on these creative challenges with director Sam Bennett.

In the making of a music video, the director and artist agree on a creative concept or story. It’s then up to the director of photography to execute it visually.

This requires lots of technical skill and creativity, including lighting and choreography behind and in front of the camera, as well as the occasional need to build a contraption for carrying the camera through certain frames.

For a Finneas song called “Shelter,” Hamilton used a crane mounted to a Ford F-150 Raptor truck that drove through the Los Angeles River. He operated a

Hamilton went on to the University of Southern California to study film after graduating from LHHS. Straight out of college, he began working as an assistant for a commercial director and took on personal projects on the side. Eventually, this led to documentary and nonprofit work that required a lot of travel.

“After a long stint in Dubai, I decided I just wanted to focus on cinematography and doing more things like commercials and music videos,” Hamilton says.

Through those projects, he met Bennett, who heads up Finneas’ music videos.

Hamilton also recently worked on rising star Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour Prom concert video. Rodrigo rose to fame during the pandemic and hadn’t been able to give an in-person performance Photo courtesy of Justin Hamilton. of her debut album, making the concert video the concept of choice. The remote head with the camera on it while 28-minute film had multiple cameras riding in the vehicle. Shot at “blue hour,” running on a single take, with live vocals just after the sun has gone down but and specially designed lighting setups continues to brighten the sky, Hamilton made by Hamilton. says they had one take to get it right.

He likes to mix some of those skills “We rehearsed, and we got it,” he into his ongoing film and commercial says. “Everyone was very excited when projects as well. we pulled it off.”

“When it comes to narrative filmA train also happened to cross over making, feature films, short films like storytelling, I do always enjoy films that the bridge at the end of the video, makuse the camera to edit the film, rather ing for an unexpectedly perfect ending than cut between different shots,” he says. frame, he says.

An indie film of Hamilton’s, The Alleys, Hamilton says he and childhood friend James Daniel used to run around recently premiered in Switzerland and is Lake Highlands making movies. He knew working its way around the festival circuit from that age that he was all about film. before being released for distribution.

He also spent some time in the band The Arabic language film was filmed in Jordan in 2019. He is looking for his next FTTR while attending Lake Highlands feature, but they’ve been harder to find High School.

“I’ve always had a love for music, so it’s since the pandemic. A possible future film been fun to merge my love for filmmaking might even land Hamilton back in Lake and my love for music,” Hamilton says.

Highlands next year, he says.

Hamilton says his background in docMusic videos also have a special place umentary film prepared him for these in Hamilton’s heart and will likely continue to be part of his journey as a filmmaker. projects.

“It’s always a creatively rewarding “You have to very quickly figure out genre of filmmaking to work in … There’s the best lens choices and what the best no product to sell other than just the imcamera position is to tell the story,” he age of the artist, and you get to be pretty says. “It helps you think on your feet experimental,” Hamilton says. “It’s a fun quicker, and that serves you in almost space to work in.” every shooting situation I can think of.”

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Staying true to their sound

PENNY & SPARROW CREATE GRASSROOTS ALBUM WITH LAKE HIGHLANDS ROOTS

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ake Highlands alumnus Kyle Jahnke found his musical counterpart in Andy Baxter when they shared a one-bedroom with a third roommate at the University of Texas.They started as a

cover duo, providing free entertainment for their college friends and organizations. At each event, they’d dub themselves whatever sports team they could think of, going by the “Dallas Cowboys” or “Utah Jazz.”

“Eventually, we played one that was a little more official, and our friend was like: ‘No you have to come up with an actual band name because you can’t embarrass me,’” Jahnke says.

Their third roommate wrote under the pen name Penny & Sparrow, so they took that on as the official band title.

Both Jahnke and Baxter treated playing and writing music as a college pastime.

Jahnke had played in a punk band during his years at Lake Highlands High School, but he didn’t start experimenting seriously with sound and songwriting until he roomed with Baxter.

“It just snowballed from there,” Jahnke says.

As Penny & Sparrow, they first went on the road for a national tour in two Prius cars, wives in tow. They made their way through New Mexico and all the way to Washington state, sometimes playing for crowds as small as five. And it didn’t deter them.

They say they were determined, or maybe just dumb. “Jury’s still out,” Jahnke says.

Since their college days of living together are behind them, Jahnke and Baxter have learned a new way of writing music.

States apart, they share ideas and edits through voice memos and text, sending new versions back and forth until songs come together.

“We just collaborate back and forth, sending each other text messages and

Photo from Facebook @pennyandsparrow.

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slowly writing songs that way, which works kind of as a slow, foreign way of cowriting,” Jahnke says.

The group now has eight albums out and is anticipating dropping another next year. Their recently released single, Adeline, will be featured on the upcoming album.

“We’ve got a lot of different sounds for us personally that I’m excited for people to hear,” Jahnke says.

He and Baxter also produced this album themselves. Their recording sessions were held in any space they could fit a microphone, including their bedrooms and friends’ living rooms.

“It’s a very grassroots album, which is really fun. It felt about as true to form to me and Andy that we could get,” Jahnke says.

“This is like just truly who we are. I mean, producing our own stuff and working with our friends will get you there.”

Just this month, the duo rented a space to start working on new songs and are looking to the future for touring opportunities.

Since their first tour, they’ve played at star-studded venues such as the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and the Paramount Theater in Austin. Their dream is to land a European tour, but first, the two want to reschedule a canceled national tour from more than a year ago.

“The last couple of years, we’ve just essentially put our heads down and kept making music,” he says.

Jahnke says he’s cautiously optimistic for a spring return to touring. With a master’s degree in public health, he has a straightforward outlook on the pandemic.

“We’re just trying to be on the cautious side. I’d studied epidemiology and worked in epidemiology before doing music, so it definitely has been helpful with the prediction of what’s going to happen throughout this pandemic,” Janke says.

When the tour finally happens, he looks forward to seeing some Lake Highlands residents in the Penny & Sparrow crowd.

“I get to see them out in the crowd while we’re playing,” Jahnke says. “It’s a pretty fun thing to see that and to feel support, even from some people I haven’t seen in years.”

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SC H O O L O F RO C K Lake Highlands School of Music hits the covers Story by LIESBETH POWERS | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

THE LAKE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL OF MUSIC BAND is making some noise at Oktoberfest Dallas this year.

T he group prac tices ever y Saturday with direc tor of music Mic h a e l B o s s . He j o i n e d t h e t e a m i n 2 017, w h e n t h e m u s i c s c h o o l transitioned to a brick-and-mortar setup. The company has since moved to the Creekside shopping center at Abrams Road and Skillman Stree t.

Boss me t owner and e xec utive director Zach Galindo as part of a failed country band. After hearing Bos s play, Gal indo b r ought him on as the person to take over his roughly 40 students when he transitioned to a more administrative role. The Lake Highlands S chool of Music now enrolls nearly 200 students, with a growing staff to match.

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diate and a few advanced levels available to students. T hey largely play covers on guitars, drums, keys and vocals, using sheet music written by Lake Highlands School of Music staff. “ These kids practice together week after week after week,” says Corey Bowe, the director of operations. “ They function as a group.

They play gigs. They handle some o f t h e i r o w n l o g i s t i c s . I t ’s v e r y much a musician-training program.”

T he school al so offer s on e-o n one and group training for piano, guitar, drums and voice.

G a l i n d o b e ga n t e a c h i n g m u s i c lessons while touring as lead guitarist with countr y band Rodne y Pa r k e r & 5 0 Pe s o R e w a r d f o r a little over a decade. He taught just about e ver y instrument he could to have some supplemental income flowing. “ They all sor t of work together to form, I would call it, a mildly impoverished existence,” Galindo says.

The school has had to adapt, a n d s o m e o f i t s b i g ge s t c h a n ge s took place over the last few years.

Galindo tackled the pandemic with a variety of innovations, including online schooling and sound tunnels within the school for distanced learning.

Now, calls are rolling in to ge t students into music lessons. Kids as young as 3 and adults as old as 70 make their way in on a regular basis.

Each student who walks in the door has different goals and learni n g s ty l e s , a n d w i t h a v a r i e ty o f teachers and teaching techniques, the school has a fit for them. Even those who don’ t stay long enough to master an instrument get to begin to learn the language of music and have a new skill and appreciation that lasts a life time.

“I think music can be really beneficial for ever yone,” Galindo says.

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I LIVE UNITED BECAUSE... it gives me the opportunity to create and lead change.

Inia

Giving back to the community has always been part of my DNA. When I found out United Way works to create change in three areas that I’m passionate about— education, income and health—I knew I had to get involved. As part of the Live United movement, I have the opportunity to not only create change but to lead it.

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I don’t think we can take a back seat anymore.

Tyler

Growing up in Dallas, I saw a community divided. I had always admired how United Way works to tackle local social issues, and after trying a few volunteer events, I was hooked. Today, I encourage other young people to look at what’s not working in their community, stand up and be part of the movement to make it right.

TYLER’S STORY

Hannah

I want to break down barriers.

When I moved to Dallas, I started searching for a passion project. After attending a United Way event, I realized it felt like a grassroots organization—small and welcoming. Today, I’m a dedicated supporter, helping engage other young people with the Live United movement to find an outlet for their passion for improving our city.

HANNAH’S STORY

Together we can improve access to education, income & health for all North Texans to thrive.

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We believe a RIGOROUS EDUCATION goes hand in hand with a childlike sense of WONDER. Our campus gardens, media center, barn, and farm animals help educate our students through EXPLORATION, PLAY, COLLABORATION, and COMPASSION.

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The Lamplighter School is dedicated to igniting the potential of each child.

Focused on students in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade, young children are engaged in the joy of learning through intellectual discovery in a nurturing, inclusive, and collaborative environment.

At Lamplighter, the student is central and our faculty is extraordinarily skilled at working side by side to nurture each child’s natural curiosity. Lamplighter offers limitless possibilities for learning, including opportunities to solve real problems, develop STEM skills, and benefit from our innovation lab, barn, and gardens. Through age-appropriate intellectual, creative, and physical challenges, our students learn to both lead and work together to support one another. Students at the School emerge as risk takers, problem solvers, and confident leaders. Founded in 1953, today’s 12-acre educational campus has an enrollment of 450 students.

Lamplighter delivers serious education wrapped in the wonder of childhood.

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Since its inception in 1972 as Parish Day School to the expansion to a PreK – 12th grade program in Parish Episcopal School to the new addition of the beautiful Noble Family Performing Arts Center, after 50 years, the School remains focused on the whole child, helping students thrive and reach their potential in a loving, supportive and collaborative environment where the possibilities are infinite.

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

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Every day and every way

ROYAL LANE BAPTIST CHURCH / 6707 Royal Lane / 214.361.2809 Christian Education 9:45 a.m. / Worship Service 10:55 a.m.

Pastor - Rev. Dr. Michael L. Gregg / www.royallane.org

We n e e d u n f l a g g i n g l ove fo r o n e a n o t h e r

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

W

e are living through an extraordinary time, what with the persistence of pandemic pestilence and its successive COVID-19 variants. Then there’s wildfires in the West, hurricanes in the South, floods in the Northeast, and citizens of Earth poles apart on any and every issue, it seems.

Makes the idea of starting over on Mars appealing.

Curiously, that’s something NASA is preparing for with its 1,700-square-foot Mars Dune Alpha habitat at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The climate-controlled environment will simulate life on Mars in a life-imitates-art way that recalls Matt Damon’s role in “The Martian.”

NASA is seeking four intrepid souls to spend a year with one another while isolated from the rest of the world. They will need to be exceptional people between the ages of 30-55 (I’m out) with master’s degrees in math, engineering or science (out again), physically fit and emotionally strong (well, never mind).

“Attitude is the key,” says former Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. Those chosen must be “super competent, resourceful and not relying on other people to be comfortable.”

NASA is hoping that the superior profile of these human “lab rats” will bode well for the experiment. The Russian version of the pretend Mars mission didn’t go so well, Hadfield says, because “the people were too much like everyday people.”

Apparently, it’s the everyday-ness of people that gets in the way.

We have learned a lot about ourselves as earthlings from our exploration of space, including how wondrous and fragile our planet is. If we can learn how to live together here by means of an experiment elsewhere,

Pastor George A. Mason / Worship at 9 & 11 a.m.

Sunday School at 10 a.m. / wilshirebc.org

I’m all for it. But why not consider just such a real-time exercise among everyday people here and now?

We have the laboratories of incubation: smaller social environments like families of flesh, communities of faith and neighborhood blocks. Siblings of blood and spirit, along with proximate neighbors. We can look out for one another while respecting the individuality of each kind of kin.

Former U.S. House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill used to say: “All politics is local.” By that he meant that people don’t vote for politicians for their big ideas or abstract ideals; they vote for leaders who care about them and their lives on a micro scale.

Learning to forgive your brother, reconciling with your mother, making peace with the chair of deacons, praising the president of your neighborhood association, apologizing to your daughter, complimenting your son, kneeling at the Communion railing next to someone who gossiped about you, assuming the best from someone you suspect might wish you ill, asking questions more than making statements, sharing your goods with those in need, seeking to serve rather than be served: These are just some random everyday practices that everyday people can do to live together well.

We don’t have to go to Mars to learn survival skills. And we don’t have to be anything other than everyday people.

What we must have is only this — unflagging love for one another.

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 and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

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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.

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9555 North Central Expressway / 214.363.5457 / northparkpres.org / Welcoming Seekers, Thinkers and Doers.

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MARCHING TO A COMPETITIVE BEAT UIL season returns for LHHS marching band Story by LIESBETH POWERS | Photography by KATHY TRAN

THE SOUND OF THE CROWD, cramming onto a bus to travel for games and marching to a fully planned, competition-ready show are just a few things that were sorely missed by Lake Highlands High School’s band.

Met with tons of crowd support at LHHS’ first home game Sept. 10, the band is energized and focused on making it to their first competition in October. They performed about 75% of their show that night, including head drum major Carson Iltis’ favorite part, where the band collapses in a triangle shape at the 50-yard line to play a loud melody.

“It’s just this big blast of energy, of sound, that just blows me away every time,” Iltis says.

T h e g r o u p b e ga n p ra c t i c i n g i n July, with rehearsals all day. They’ve since transitioned to hourly practices in the morning before school starts.

The band’s new head director, Reagan Brumley, joined only a month before rehearsals started. Brumley is a returning staff member to LHHS and most recently served as the fine arts director at Irving ISD. The combination of a new director and a return to a regular marching band season sparked a new energy among the band, parents, staff and

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students. The start was not without its challenges — a third of the band was new to competitive marching after an off season, and the show had to be planned in a matter of weeks. But the spirit coming from the students made all the difference, Brumley says.

“I think we’re just chomping at the bit to come back and get to do what caused them to fall in love with the activity in the first place, which was going to away games and going to contests and getting the entire rich experience that comes with being in a in a great high school band,” says Brumley.

The show is called Assimilated and

pulls from different films including the original Terminator, Ri m o f t h e World and Tron: Legacy. T he color guard act as robots or androids, slowly assimilating the human band into th eir kin d.

This role is fun for the color guard, captain Destini Williams says, although showing off their rifle tossing skills as a group is the best par t of the show routine. Even the simp les t p a r t s o f b e i n g i n th e marching band are exciting this y e a r, i n c l u d i n g g o i n g t o h e r fi r s t pep ra lly in tw o yea r s .

Looking forward, everyone is excited to see how the first full p e r f o r m a n c e w i l l go . Fr o m t h e r e , the band will dive headfirst into compe tition season, with four consec utive weekends of regional, area and inv it at io n al co mp e ti ti o n s .

Hitting the road with them each game and compe tition are the L ake Highlands Area Bands Club pare n ts , w h o pro vide mea ls, dec o rate p r o p s , s e t u p t h e fi e l d a n d c h e e r th e m o n . S inc e the firs t ga me this season, the parents felt touched by the response of the crowd, both af ter their per formance and as the ga m e c a m e to a c lo se. “ What has happened is the football team has walked intentionally over … (to) stand down right below where the band is, while the b a n d i s p l a y i n g t h e a l m a m a t e r,” says LHABC co-president Leigh Ann Murchison. “I think it is just a ver y visual indication of how happy they are all to be there together a n d s u p p o r ting ea c h o ther. A nd it s e e m s s m a ll, bu t it ’s no t. It mea ns s o mu c h to e ver y o ne. A nd it rea lly

is a recognition of how much work the band does and how grateful the y are to have the band out there su ppo r ting them.”

Fo r Bru mle y, it ma rk s the s t ar t o f a great sea so n w here the goal i s not to reach a specific achievement, bu t to pu t their a ll into the sh ow a nd in representing the ba nd . “ T he y can just say we did e ver ything within our possible potential, a nd no w the c hips fa ll w here t h e y w ill,” say s Bru mle y.

For head drum major Iltis, being a c o n t e n d e r at t h e s t at e c o m p e t i tio n is s till at the fo re fro nt of h i s mind, but directing the full show has de finitely been wor th the wait.

“L ast year was rough but I think it’s actually made this year so much be tter,” say s Iltis. “It ’s given us a

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