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THE ONE WITH A DANCING BAKER

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Jennifer Pedersen’s “Friendsgiving” baking class filled up in just five minutes. Read about her business on page 30.

THE WORD

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ABOUT THE COVER

— Sucile Jeffery

If you already live here, then you get this. Like all of us, you were probably drawn to the mature trees and topography, the proximity to downtown, White Rock Lake and The Dallas Arboretum, the abundance of locally owned retail and restaurants and the wide variety of options for great schools. And you stayed for the neighbors who became friends, the small-town feeling and the sense of belonging to something bigger and greater.

Because Lake Highlands is in us, our job helping buyers and sellers is easy – our passion for this place is heartfelt and genuine. So whether you’re moving in, moving up or moving on, work with the No. 1 real estate brand in East Dallas.

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COMING AND GOING

Eight new tenants have been added to the list of shops and restaurants that will occupy space in The Hill shopping center at the northwest corner of Walnut Hill and North Central Expressway:

[+] HELLO DUMPLING restaurant serving dumplings, noodles and various brewed teas

[+] POP FACTORY artisanal popsicles shop

[+] CASA VERONA combo Greek and Italian

n JUDY AND MIKE MCILWAIN have volunteered more than 7,500 hours at the Dallas Arboretum. Together they co-chaired Autumn at the Arboretum, the garden’s fall festival.

n MAX HARTMAN has been stealing the spotlight since his days performing in school musicals at Lake Highlands High School and ACT [Artists of Christian Talent] productions at Lake Highlands United Methodist Church. He starred in the world premiere of “A Love Offering” last month to kick off Kitchen Dog Theater’s 29th season.

n LHHS students DREW HARMAN and TURNER STONE linked up with friends JACKSON MARBURGER and DREW DUBUSLET to organize the Wildcat Fishing Club. The club meets most Tuesdays and is open to all students. They have 16 members and counting.

n THE LAKE HIGHLANDS GIRL SCOUTS volunteered at the Villages of Lake Highlands Retirement Center for a “reading pals” program. It allowed the girls to practice reading skills with a partner, or a pal at the retirement center to read to the girls who are too young to read.

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[+] CAMP interactive toy store

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

n Mia Barnett, a student at Dallas Lutheran, won two awards in the State Fair of Texas’ Creative Arts Competition; second place in “Junior Oil, Acrylic, Pastel” and the “Junior Charcoal or Pencil” competition.

n The Lake Highlands High School Drumline performed its 2019 program “Sol” at the Plano Drumline Contest. The ensemble won first in class with the captions of “Most Outstanding Front Ensemble” and “Most Outstanding Tenor Line.”

n The Lake Highlands High School Music and Video Production Club participated in the 24 Hour Video Race and won second place and the Joel Rosenzweig Storytelling Award in the 16-mm competition for 11th and 12th graders.

PIECE OF THE PAST

HIGHLANDETTE UNIFORM

The original Lake Highlands High School’s Highlandette uniform included a long-sleeved field jacket, a button-on Lake Highlands shield, a pressed circle skirt, top hat with elastic band, bloomers, white gloves and white boots. The Western hat was added to the uniform in 1986-87. The 1980s version of the round skirt had to be starched each week. It took a half bottle of liquid starch and two days to dry. That was retired after the 1996 homecoming game. Read more Highlandette history on lakehighlands.advocatemag.com at “LHHS Highlandettes: 50 years of history.”

WE CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT

FULL DAY PRE-K. Richardson ISD is ahead of other Texas public school districts and the new state law requiring an expanded pre-K program. The district had decided to convert its existing half-day program to full day prior to the signing of House Bill 3 in June. All public-school districts in Texas are required to offer free, full-day pre-K to qualifying 3- and 4-year-olds. Currently, children qualify for RISD’s program only if they meet certain language and income requirements. It will be universal by 2025.

Read more on lakehighlands. advocatemag.com at “RISD begins full day pre-K program.”

$266,000 PIES, TARTS, TURNOVERS

$3,026,000 POULTRY

$705,000 POTATOES

$1,704,000 CANNED VEGETABLES

$746,000 PREPARED SALAD

$2,577,000 WINE

WHO’S THAT GIRL?

Read more about Tateno’s late-night sushi restaurant and culinary background on page 20.

If you’ve visited the Lake Highlands High School gym for a basketball game or kids camp, you may have wondered about those larger-than-life wall photos of high-kicking Highlandettes. Those are pics of the drill team’s “poster girls,” and this year’s honoree is Megan McClendon. Every August, the squad votes on a senior they believe has the highest kick with the best form. Being chosen is a big honor, McClendon says, because her name is announced as the ’Dettes take the field for each football performance, her photo is shared on their social media and her poster will remain in the gym for three years. “Being poster girl has always been something I’ve aspired to,” McClendon says. Read more on lakehighlands. advocatemag.com at “Who’s that girl? That’s Highlandette Poster Girl Megan McClendon.”

I don’t want to go to iHop, so I decided to open late so that my [industry] friends can come here to eat and have some drinks.

SHIGEKAZU TATENO, OWNER OF YAMA SUSHI

Source: U.S. Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics based on ZIP codes 75218, 75231, 75238 and 75243. Numbers are derived from 2010 U.S. Census data with projections to be accurate as of Jan. 1, 2017.

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UP FRONT

CALL TO ACTION

Mary Pat Higgins leads the Holocaust museum into its next chapter 

Interview by MARISSA ALVARADO | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

Mary Pat Higgins has lived in Lake Highlands since 1990. She and her husband raised their sons in the neighborhood. “Lake Highlands has so much to offer, from family owned businesses to friendly neighbors to a community atmosphere that very few places have,” she says. Higgins is the President and CEO of the new Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.

What is the most impactful part of the museum?

In my view, the most impactful part of the museum is our Call to Action Gallery at the end of a tour through the permanent exhibition. After learning about what happens when ordinary people choose not to take action — from the horrors of the Holocaust to the American slave trade — visitors are given a chance to reflect on these lessons and strike a different path. Visitors can connect with local, national and international organizations and activities to start making a difference in our community and world.

Why is it important to preserve this history?

As our local Holocaust survivors and other eyewitnesses fade into blessed memory, the need to preserve this history is more urgent than ever. We must continue to tell their story over and over again because every generation needs to hear it. As we know, Holocaust denial is all too prevalent in our world, and the shocking images we’ve seen in the past few years of white supremacy on public display have demonstrated that the battle is not over. We must continue to stand up to hatred and intolerance, and

Artifacts from the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum will preserve the history during a time when it is more urgent than ever.

we believe the museum is not only leading the way in this ongoing fight, but providing something even better, a positive vision of the future.

What is the importance of this museum in today’s political climate?

We are increasingly divided in our world, which is why our museum makes every effort to be an inclusive place where people can come together and talk about difficult subject matter, to think critically about issues facing our society today, and to be inspired to become a part of the solution.

How does this relate to North Texas?

The Museum was formed in 1984 by 125 survivors who made their homes in North Texas after the Holocaust. We’re continuing the legacy they started by showcasing their personal testimonies in our brand-new permanent exhibition. In our Pivot to America Wing, we’re placing an emphasis on the context of North Texas during the Civil Rights movement to show those in our own community the ways in which North Texans have historically fallen short or risen to the occasion by exhibiting incredible upstander behavior. We want North Texans to learn about these amazing role models whose positive contributions are still being felt in our community to this day.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

“We must continue to stand up to hatred and intolerance, and we believe the museum is not only leading the way in this ongoing fight, but providing something even better, a positive vision of the future.”

HOUSE IT GOIN’?

TAKE A SNEAK PEEK AT THE HOMES FEATURED IN THE 2019 HOLIDAY IN THE HIGHLANDS HOME TOUR

THE LAKE HIGHLANDS WOMEN’S LEAGUE hosts the 41st Holiday in the Highlands Home Tour.

The home tour is Friday, Dec. 6, from 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Tickets are available from members, and online sales begin Nov. 15. Here are the homes featured in this year’s tour:

• 9455 Estate Lane: Traditional home located in the Lake Highland’s North neighborhood that has been totally remodeled

• 9336 Shoreview Road: Custom brick Tudor-style home located in White Rock Valley and is a new build by Robert Elliott

• 6833 Sherburne Drive: Transitional home built in 1957 and has had three major renovations, in the Merriman Park Estates neighborhood

• 9963 Capridge Drive: Elegant transitional style with lots of detailed visuals in the Highland Hills neighborhood

For more information on the 2019 Holiday in the Highlands Home Tour, contact hometourchair@lhwl.org.

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6833 Sherburne Drive

Top: 9963 Capridge Drive Bottom: 9336 Shoreview Road

HOLIDAY IN THE HIGHLANDS HOME TOUR BY THE NUMBERS FOUNDED IN 1969 ACTIVE MEMBERS 100 SUSTAINING MEMBERS

200 HOURS OF SERVICE IN THE COMMUNITY

5,000 THIS ONE-DAY EVENT RAISED $207,000 FOR THE LAKE HIGHLAND’S COMMUNITY, INCLUDING 14 SCHOOLS 17 NONPROFITS AND 32 COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS TO HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS THIS PAST SPRING.

Source: The Lake Highlands Women’s League

9455 Estate Lane

YUMMY YAMA SUSHI

LATE-NIGHT SUSHI, SAKE AND TAPAS

EVER HAD LATE NIGHT CRAVINGS for sushi? Yama Sushi has you covered.

Shigekazu Tateno came to the states in 1997 and began working at Dallas sushi spots like Blue Sushi and Yutaka Sushi Bistro. He often found himself getting off work late without a decent place to eat.

“I don’t want to go to iHop,” Tateno says. “So I decided to open late so that my [industry] friends can come here to eat and have some drinks.”

When Tateno first started Yama Sushi, he

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worked alone behind the sushi bar, making what he says is “traditional” and “straight from Japan” cuisine.

Tateno’s parents own a restaurant in Japan serving noodles and tempura, and he doesn’t limit himself to cold items at his own place.

Popular dishes include the sashimi platter, an assortment of raw fish, and yakitori, grilled chicken skewers.

“This is sushi a restaurant, but also we have lots of different kinds of tapas-style small dish, hot food. They go with sake or beer or

Story by MARISSA ALVARADO | Photography by KATHY TRAN

The sashimi platter features an assortment of raw fish including salmon, tuna, yellowtail and squid.

DID YOU KNOW?

The yakitori is just $3.75 for two chicken skewers.

whatever,” Tateno says. Also popular is the seafood creamy udon noodles with squid and shrimp in a white sauce. The Robata grill has other items like short rib and mackerel, but Tateno says the grilled squid is the hottest item from the grill.

Serving 12 varieties of sake, Yama Sushi has $2 hot sake on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Tuesday’s happy hour has $1 sushi, and Thursday’s has $3 rolls.

The success of the original location in Lake Highlands led Tateno to open three other locations, two in Plano and one in Carrolton.

Giving thanks

THESE NEIGHBORS GIVE THEIR TIME TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF LAKE HIGHLANDS’ YOUTH. FROM AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS TO MENTORING AND PROVIDING MEALS, THE CHILDREN OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD RECEIVE THE COMPASSION AND SERVICE THEY NEED.

Story by MARISSA ALVARADO | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

God’s little grocery store

FEED LAKE HIGHLANDS NOURISHES MINDS AND BODIES

Aconvenience store robbery turned violent in 2005 when a worker was shot and killed. The owners shut down the store, and the building remained abandoned.

Every day, the pastor of Lake Highlands United Methodist Church drove past the yellow tape and thought about what God was trying to tell her; she was called to bring forth life from a place where tragedy struck.

The Rev. Jill Jackson-Sears prayed with members of her church that they would find a way to buy the building for a ministry that

would give support to their neighborhood.

A church leader read the story of Jericho and how the people walked around the city seven times before the walls fell down. He told the congregation they needed to walk around the abandoned building, just as the people of Jericho, to ask God to drop down any obstacles that would keep them from getting the space and growing the ministry. They drove to the building and walked around, sang and prayed.

Now called the New Room Community Center, they started an after-school program. And through that, they found that most of their after-school kids were on free or reduced lunch. Seeing that food insecurity inspired them to start Feed Lake Highlands.

Feed Lake Highlands serves 200 households and over 700 people, once a month; about 50 families are on the waitlist.

“We wanted to feed the bodies physical food, but we also wanted to feed the minds of these after-school children,” executive director Jill Goad says. “Hunger is a community-wide problem and it requires a community-wide solution.”

A volunteer coined the term “God’s little grocery store,” for the New Room, where family members wear nametags, wait in the “conversation pit” and

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receive a “personal shopper” to help pick out groceries.

“We want to build relationships more than anything because it’s relationships that are going to change the world. It’s relationships that are going to change the community,” Goad says.

Each family member receives about 15 pounds of food, and the New Room also provides a nurse station providing blood-pressure checks and other resources for things like smoking cessation and dental checks.

Feed Lake Highlands found that a majority of mothers in their program lacked a high-school education. That led them to reshape the afterschool program to emphasize entrepreneurism.

The kids participate in lessons such as a lemonade stand that raised $1,500. They’ve made cat toys for a pet orphanage, prayer blankets for a chemo center and place mats for a prison ministry.

Feed Lake Highlands also sends the children to summer camp.

The change bus

YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE IS A NO-FLUNK ZONE

In 1970, Nina Simone released the song, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black.”

Those were the words Vince Gaddis grew up on. His schoolteacher mother had these words in her classroom, and the neighborhood where he grew up had high expectations.

“We were taught that, and we believed that,”

Gaddis says. “That’s what drove us, and so regardless of what happened, we would go back to that.”

Now he drives the “Change Bus” for the nonprofit he founded in 1995, Youth Believing in Change.

The bus picks up children from school, brings them to tutoring and feeds them. The nonprofit has provided 28,000 after-school meals and 110,000 summer meals over the past 24 years. They serve 150 kids of varying ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds about 310 days a year.

Youth Believing in Change almost wasn’t.

Gaddis was working for the Greater Dallas Community of Churches in 1995, when two national tragedies struck: The Oklahoma City bombing and the death of Tejano star Selena.

“I want to help people, and they’re just killing people en masse,” he recalls thinking.

“This is it; I can’t do this anymore.”

That week, a little girl named Laura Flores gave him a thank-you letter for coming to her school.

“I had never felt that feeling of affirmation in my entire life,” he says.

“It was really what I had been living for, but I had never found it, never felt it.”

That’s when Gaddis decided to devote his work to helping children.

“There was like this seed inside of me that begin to swell up even more and more,” Gaddis says.

Youth Believing in Change is a “no-flunk zone,” he says.

He wants all of them to graduate from high school and enter vocational school, community college, university or the military.

Gaddis says the program’s students have gone to work in ministry, public service and armed forces. Some have gone on to pursue master’s and doctorate degrees.

Some former students have come back with their own children. Gaddis keeps scrapbooks on his desk that look like they’re straight from the ’90s. He flips through them and recalls field trips, events and students.

“If you don’t have something that makes you toss, turn, toil and labor through the night, then you probably have nothing to look forward to the next day,” he says.

You can mentor

FORERUNNER MENTORING GIVES SUPPORT TO FATHERLESS CHILDREN AND SINGLE MOTHERS

Zach Garza had a tough childhood.

In his podcast, “You Can Mentor,” he’s open about his parents’ split and abandonment struggles, such as being unable to tie a tie for his eighth-grade dance and not knowing how to shave properly until he was 25.

Garza was on a path without direction or anyone to guide him. Fortunately, he gained a mentor in college who changed his life by showing up and speaking truth.

For the first time, a male figure was open and honest about the things he saw in Garza, good and bad. He gave Garza someone to look up to.

“Sometimes we like to make mentoring a whole lot more complicated than it actually is,” Garza says. “Mentoring is really just investing into the life of someone in an intentional way.”

As a coach at Lake Highlands Junior High, many of the kids reminded him of his former self; they had a lot of potential, they were good kids, but they could benefit from some guidance, attention, love and acceptance. So he created Forerunner Mentoring in 2009, received nonprofit status in 2011 and went full-time in 2015.

“One of the main questions that we ask ourselves here is, ‘If a boy grows up in a home where there’s no positive role model, then who is going to teach that child how to become a successful person?’” Garza says.

Forerunner has expanded to include an after-school program that serves students from every elementary that feeds into LHJH. The day is split into three sections: fun, character and academics.

“We focus in on something new each month, so this month we are talking about how to take initiative, so we talk about that. We talk about how to be respectful, how to

care for others. They’re just the soft skills to help our kids look more like Jesus,” Garza says.

While the Forerunner after-school program is open to all boys, the mentoring program is specifically for boys without a father figure. Mentors are encouraged to spend time with their kids at least every other week.

The group also provides a network for mothers.

“It is of the utmost importance that we be on the same page as mom and that we are doing everything that we can to help her flourish as she leads her family,” he says. “We believe that it is not good for a person to be alone, so we try to just provide friendships for our moms, we try to provide community for them so that they don’t feel like they’re doing this whole thing by themselves.”

Socials for single mothers offer a chance for them to meet and mingle, eat dinner together and talk about life and parenting.

“I have a lot of compassion for my mom as I look back at my childhood. I just can’t imagine how difficult it was to not only provide for the family but also to try to turn a boy into a man,” Garza says. “That really is what I see with these moms is that they have sacrificed so much just to give their kids the best opportunity for them to fulfill their potential.”

A DANCING BAKER, WHISK TAKER

She creates Instagram worthy cookies

Have you heard the one about a baker who couldn’t eat gluten? Jennifer Pedersen can’t taste her cookies, but she knows they’re delicious.

Tequila shots, beer Olympics, Harry Potter underwear and Notorious B.I.G. baby cookies are just some of the many whimsical and unique cookies that Pedersen has created for customers.

Pedersen is a self-taught baker, who says “stubbornness” got her where she is.

“Some of those first batches were awful, they tasted fine but looked terrible because I had no idea what I was doing,” she says.

Pedersen mastered baking and now teaches cookie decorating classes in Oak Cliff and Highland Park. Her “Friendsgiving” themed class sold out in five minutes.

Most recently, Pedersen designed Jimmy Choo cookies for Neiman Marcus in North Park Center, and she still does custom work for businesses like Chili’s restaurants and Bleu Ciel Real Estate. She also makes a mean gluten-free cookie.

On starting her business: I love it, so I get to be creative. I get to call the shots and have something that gives me some pride. You give that up when you’re a stay-at-home mom. You don’t feel like you’re contributing as much, and I struggled with that quite a bit, so it felt good to have something of my own that I built and show my girls.

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Hardest part of cookie decorating: It’s a lot about getting the icing consistency right which is hands down the hardest part of cookie decorating. Figuring out when you need a stiffer icing or a looser icing. I mean I could mess that up almost every day, just a little too much water, not enough water and it doesn’t settle the way you want it to.

How she chose her business name: I listen to a lot of music, but I also danced for about 18 years so just trying to think of something different, something that applied to me more than anything — background in dance and dancing in the kitchen listening to music [as I bake].

Lake Highlands’ support: The moms have been insanely supportive,

Jennifer Pedersen’s monochromatic turtleneck sweater cookie is just one example of her attention to detail in cookie decorating.

by MARISSA ALVARADO | Photography by KATHY TRAN

“I get to be creative. I get to call the shots and have something that gives me some pride.”

lots of word-of-mouth referrals. They are the ones that have built it. A lot of them I’ve been doing birthdays for the last three to four years or baby showers or bridal showers. I would like to think my hard work, too, but mostly, them.

Weirdest cookie request: This was pretty early on in my cookie making, so that’s probably why it sticks out. I had a friend whose lifelong best friend was turning 40, and she is an avid bird watcher and traveler. I guess she really likes hot dogs, so I had to do a hot dog on safari bird watching. It was a hot dog in tall grass with a safari hat on and binoculars.

Her daughters’ involvement: They are dying to help me. The oldest just learned this past year how to make the dough, so she’ll make the dough. I pay her, and she’ll help with packaging but, no, I don’t have them decorate. It’s mostly just for fun, I mean my 12-year-old is dying to get in there and do it on a regular basis. She kind of rolls her eyes when I ask her to make dough. She’s like, “That’s not fun.” Tell me about it; that’s why I’m asking you to do it.

Neighborhood pop-ups: Pop-ups are my absolute favorite because I can make whatever I want, how many of whatever I want. Those tend to be the ones where you will see my spin on things more than the client’s spin on things. Those sell out in about 10 minutes usually. The girls get a kick out of seeing the line go down the walkway to the streets. I don’t know if my neighbors love that all these strangers come to our neighborhood for pop-ups. No one’s complained. It’s a bunch of young families so they get a kick out of it.

Find more information at adancingbaker.com and see the latest cookie designs at @ADancingBaker on Instagram.

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Jennifer Pedersen decorates an Air Jordans 1 cookie in our time-lapse video.

HE WAS THERE:

Professor Darwin Payne reported on the JFK assassination 

Interview by CAROL TOLER | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

DARWIN PAYNE WAS A 26-YEAR-OLD REPORTER for the Dallas Times Herald the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

Assigned to the rewrite desk, Payne dashed to Dealey Plaza and wound up being one of the first to speak to Abraham Zapruder about the home video that vividly froze the assassination in time.

Now professor emeritus of communications at SMU, Payne is author of several books, including the university’s recently published history with a mouthful of a title: “One Hundred Years on the Hilltop: The Centennial History of Southern Methodist University” and “Big D: Triumphs and Troubles of an American Supercity in the 20th Century.” He was one of the researchers who helped create the Old Red Museum of Dallas, and he occasionally speaks about the assassination at the Sixth Floor Museum and the Dallas Historical Society.

His recollections of Nov. 22, 1963, actually begin in October.

THE STEVENSON INCIDENT

“We expected something might happen because we’d had all these right-wing extremists for more than a decade making trouble in the city. One month before Kennedy came to Dallas, [then-U.N. Ambassador] Adlai Stevenson came, and I went to hear him. A lot of the right-wingers were there, members of the National Indignation Convention. I’d seen in the paper the night before that leaflets had been distributed announcing

Kennedy’s visit, and I told my wife, ‘Something’s going to happen. We’ve got to go down there tonight.’

“There was a huge crowd of people who took command, and they wouldn’t let Stevenson speak when he was introduced by [Neiman Marcus legend] Stanley Marcus. The leader of the group had a bullhorn and shouted, ‘Mr. Ambassador, we demand answers to these questions.’ About half the people supported the protestors and half supported Stevenson. The police had to come drag the organizers away. They had upside down flags and would cough incessantly while he spoke.

“After the speech, he went out a side door to Stanley Marcus’ car, and there was a gang of protestors waiting outside with signs, who started rocking the car, trying to turn it over. Stevenson got out of the car and was hit with a sign. He asked, ‘What kind of animals are these?’”

The attack made national news, and Stevenson reportedly warned Kennedy the atmosphere in Dallas was too dangerous for his upcoming trip.

“Zapruder said, ‘No, he’s dead. I was watching through my viewfinder. I saw his head explode like a firecracker.’”

Framed photos in Darwin Payne’s home depict people buying the Dallas Times Herald after the JFK assassination and Kennedy speaking in Fort Worth the day he died.

“City officials were terribly worried,” Payne recalls, “and passed a new ordinance regulating how many people could gather. The city tried to make everything safe in the month before he came, and the right wingers didn’t really show up.”

“I admired Kennedy and had voted for him,” says Payne. “He was the first president I had voted for.”

NOV. 22, 1963

Payne wasn’t at Dealey Plaza but was taking reports on the rewrite desk at the Times Herald.

“I was going to do a color story based on what two women reporters were going to tell me. One at Love Field was going to tell me about Jackie — what she was wearing and how she interacted with the crowd. We were past deadline — the Times Herald was Dallas’ afternoon newspaper, and the president’s arrival time at Love Field was about 11:30, so we were holding up the presses. I had taken notes from Val Imm, the society editor who described Jackie’s pink suit, and I was waiting for Connie Watson at Dealey Plaza to tell me what happened there. I was having trouble coming up with a [lead sentence].

“Our city editor and our city reporter were closely monitoring the police radio. They said, ‘Code 3 Dealey Plaza’ which

indicated sending police with lights and sirens. When I heard, ‘The president’s been hit,’ I wondered ‘What with?’ I thought of Adlai Stevenson being hit with that sign.”

Payne and Paul Rosenfield, editor of the Herald’s Sunday Magazine ran four blocks to Dealey Plaza.

“It was terrific bedlam there — people not knowing what had happened, and many who saw him hit, of course. I started interviewing eyewitnesses and found several women who said, ‘Our boss took pictures, he was filming. We’ll lead you to him. He’s in the next building.’”

The women took Payne next door to the Dal-Tex Building, where Abraham Zapruder owned and operated Jennifer Juniors, a clothing manufacturing firm.

“Zapruder was frequently in tears. His camera was sitting on top of a filing cabinet in his outer office, and he had the TV set going. I talked to him and tried to get him to go to the Times Herald office to get it developed. I had no idea how good it would be.

“We were watching TV and we heard Walter Cronkite say, ‘The president has been shot, perhaps fatally.’ Zapruder said, ‘No, he’s dead. I was watching through my viewfinder. I saw his head explode like a firecracker.’”

Payne may have been a cub reporter,

but he was a dogged negotiator. He stayed at Zapruder’s office for 45 minutes trying to secure the video, but Zapruder wanted to give it to the FBI or the Secret Service instead.

“I called the Times Herald office and said, ‘Get me Chambers, this man has film.’ James F. Chambers Jr., publisher of the Herald came to the telephone – I’d never met him, I’d only been there a few months. I suggested he send a car with Dallas Times Herald on the side so Zapruder would feel comfortable and also offer to pay him, but Chambers was noncommittal.”

COMPETING FOR ZAPRUDER FILM

Soon, three or four men from the FBI and Secret Service showed up with veteran Dallas Morning News reporter Harry McCormick.

“Harry was legendary. He’d covered Bonnie and Clyde, and when he had a secret lead on their location, he didn’t think anyone would believe him, so he got Clyde to put his hands on the windshield to collect fingerprints to prove it.”

When the men all began walking into a private room, they blocked Payne from entering.

“I said, ‘There’s Harry McCormick of the Dallas Morning News, and I’m with the Times Herald. If he’s in there, I’ve got to be in there,’ so they kicked McCormick out. Then they took Zapruder down to Kodak to have his film developed.”

Payne went back to the Texas School Book Depository and interviewed more people. Amazingly by today’s crime investigation standards, he was allowed to walk through the building and tour the sniper’s nest on the sixth floor.

J.D. TIPPIT AND ‘O.H. LEE’

“[Reporters] John Schoellkopf and Joe Sherman were saying they heard a policeman had been shot in Oak Cliff, but I didn’t want to go out there. I wanted to stay where the action was. I didn’t connect the police shooting with the assassination.”

Later in the day, Times Herald city editor Ken Smart got a lead on the killer’s address and sent Payne to 1026 N. Beckley to gather information on the assassin, known to his neighbors as O.H. Lee.

“It was a rooming house, and I spoke to roomers staying there and to the manager and the owner and her husband. They described him as a standoffish sort of person who got on the telephone and spoke in a foreign language – they thought it was German or Russian. They didn’t know

Darwin Payne’s notebook from the day of the JFK assassination has Lee Harvey Oswald’s Oak Cliff address, 1026 N. Beckley, written at the top of one page, he later interviewed residents.

who he was talking to, but it must have been Marina [his Russian-born wife]. They said he didn’t mix and mingle with the rest of them in the evening when they watched TV in the living room during the six weeks he was there. On the radio, I later heard he’d been identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, and he’d spent time in Russia.”

BACK IN THE NEWSROOM

By the time Payne returned to the Times Herald offices, it was dark and reporters were busy working on the Saturday edition.

“Dick Hitt was a prized columnist at the time, and he was going to do the main story on Oswald, but they gave it to me because of all the info I had. I worked until very late and expected to see my byline, but when the first editions came off the press, my story on page one didn’t have a byline. When Ken Smart saw that, he put my byline in, so later editions have it, but microfilm copies do not.”

Saturday was Payne’s regular day to cover the police station, and he was there with a gaggle of journalists when Oswald was brought in for questioning. Only two reporters were still there at midnight when they heard police might have an eyewitness who could identify Oswald as the assassin.

“We needed to confirm it, but [Dallas Police Chief Jesse] Curry had already gone home for the night. It was 1 a.m., and I hated to call him at home after all he had been through, but it was getting close to our deadline. His wife answered the phone, and she was obviously sound asleep. She handed him the phone and he was too asleep to comprehend what I was saying. I tried to take notes, but they made no sense.”

In the end, rumors of an eyewitness turned out to be untrue.

Payne went on to earn a master’s degree from SMU and a PhD in American Civilization from the University of Texas, to write biographies and histories about people and subjects in Texas and to teach journalism for 30 years at SMU. Many of his students never knew about his close connection to the assassination of JFK because he rarely mentions it if he isn’t asked. But he still remembers after 56 years.

“I recall, as I stood in Zapruder’s office looking out onto Dealey Plaza, feeling depressed. I really liked Kennedy. It was painful. I knew it was a huge moment in history I was participating in.”

MEET THE CANDIDATES

MAKE YOUR CHOICE FOR THE NOV. 5 SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION

Story by MARISSA ALVARADO | Photography Courtesy of CANDIDATES

DISTRICT 4:

Experience:

• Founder and director of the nonprofit organization the Salome Foundation; helps underserved communities and populations with a focus on Hamilton Park, Forest-Audelia

• Belongs to the Hamilton Park Civic League, the Hamilton Park InterOrganization Council and District 10’s Collective Impact Public Safety team

If elected, what policies will you advocate?

• Gain more resources and bilingual teachers to teach English Language Learner, provide additional training for current teachers on effective ways to teach ELL

• Advocate for schools most in need to receive help from nonprofit organizations that focus on education, alternative learning, increasing pay and/or incentives for educators

What changes are you hoping to make?

“I bring the millennial view to the table. Because I am a teacher, I bring the teacher’s voice to the board. I am not that far removed from being a student myself, so I bring the student voice as well. I know my voice has power, and I am not afraid to speak up for the voiceless. I really hope to change the perspective that the community has on the school board. Not many people within District 4 have ever been interested in school board elections until now because they have four candidates that look like them running for the position; that is change in perception in itself.”

Experience:

• 30 years working in corporate America, for Coca-Cola, Yum! Brands and Pizza Hut. Currently works for a technology company, Webvent Inc.

• RISD PTA member for over 10 years, served on the PTA’s executive boards and on the executive board of the RISD council of PTAs

• Cub Scouts co-den leader and Junior Beta Club sponsor

• Currently serves on the RISD Equity, Diversion and Inclusion committee

If elected, what policies will you advocate?

• Equity policy, along with many policies in RISD.

What do you like about RISD?

“There are many things that I like about RISD. I like the culture that RISD is reaching for. RISD is on a great journey, and I believe they will eventually get there. Along with the culture, I appreciate that RISD sets high expectations for academic achievement. Along with that, RISD has a very strong PTA, and there is a high level of student participation in sports, band and other activities.”

PATRICIA PRICE HICKS

Experience:

• Selected by the Texas Education Agency to conduct test analysis for Pearson Publishing Co. in Austin

• Co-op teacher for student teachers attending Texas Woman’s University and the University of North Texas

• Mentor teacher, lead teacher and facilitator for professional development and staff development

If elected, what policies will you advocate for?

• Full-time resource officers in every school due to the massive senseless violence, and notification of sex offenders in the neighborhood

• Antibullying needs to be addressed and dealt with before the bullied take manners into their own hands

• The district’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion policy to ensure all students have access to all opportunities to achieve their goals of receiving the best education

What would you like constituents to know?

“I am a graduate of Lake Highlands and a second-generation descendant of original Hamilton Park homeowners. The love for the neighborhood led me to conduct the research for the Texas Historical Marker that has been bestowed upon the Hamilton Park community. I followed my retired RISD mother’s passion as an educator. I am a mother and grandmother of three school-age children and devoted educator with a belief that all children can learn.”

TALER JEFFERSON

REGINA HARRIS

Experience

• Teacher at DISD’s Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy

• Advocated for policy changes, helped shape the recent state-wide school finance legislation through the Teach Plus policy fellowship

• Member of the Leadership ISD fellowship, and evaluating/crafting policies, working with decisionmakers on behalf of students

If elected, what policies will you advocate?

• Increase access to quality, full-day pre-K for all 3- and 4-year-olds

• Create a standing racial equity community council, enact anti-racism training for all district employees

• Passing policies that ensure access to high-rigor courses [Algebra 1, AP/ IB classes and college-credit bearing courses], bring highest-performing teachers and principals in lowestperforming schools, and pay them extra for doing so

What, in your opinion, is the culture of RISD?

“I think that your perception of the culture of RISD largely depends on your race, class, neighborhood and even what schools you have interacted with. While many students are having a great experience at RISD schools, I have also talked to students, parents and teachers who don’t always feel represented. I’m excited to have the opportunity to invite more of those stakeholders into the conversation and work together to create a more inclusive culture.”

SAKENNIA REED

ERON LINN, INCUMBENT

Experience:

• Appointed to the Zoning Board of Adjustment and then to the City Planning Commission

• Six years on the Richardson Chamber of Commerce board, twice as chair of its public policy committee

• Two years on the board for the Richardson YMCA, where he volunteers as a youth sports coach

• Graduate of Inside RISD and Leadership Richardson

If elected, what policies will you advocate?

• Community engagement process for capital projects. RISD, students, neighborhood and community leaders now work side-by-side to design projects based on the needs of the school, the neighborhood and the community before a project is considered by trustees

• Recommendations made by the 2017 strategic plan for RISD to adopt a neighborhood schools policy, metrics to help determine when it’s appropriate to modify school attendance boundaries or expand a campus

• A policy that ties the percentage increase of the first-year teacher’s salary with the annual pay raise for existing teachers and staff

VANESSA PACHECO

Experience:

• MBA in Global Leadership, from the Naveen Jindal Business School at UT Dallas

• Graduated as a scholar with distinction and inducted in the Phi Kappa Phi honor society

• Experience in commercial real-estate acquisitions, divestitures and capital requests

• Professional translator providing a unique understanding of the needs of language learners

• Children attend RISD schools

• PTAs [currently a Golden RAM member], fundraisers, volunteered for various causes and arts initiatives

If elected, what policies will you advocate?

• Reducing inefficiencies in school operations with increased planning, lower classroom size and extend class time

• Increased support to programs that contribute additional opportunities that help students thrive

• Diversity, Inclusion and Equity policy with ongoing training and education

• Awareness of student mental health and campus safety by strengthening our programs, including improved training to the support teams

DISTRICT

KAREN CLARDY, INCUMBENT

Experience:

• Employee of RISD’s Lake Highlands High School for 25 years

• Mentor for teachers and students and a community member

If elected, what policies will you advocate for?

• Salary compensation, curriculum and professional development support and special education support for classroom teachers

• Additional teacher allocations may also be necessary to keep class sizes at a reasonable and teachable level

W hat is your favorite part about our neighborhood?

“Our community is a treasure trove of servant leaders who love Lake Highlands. I have witnessed over the years some very inspiring acts of kindness and goodwill. The dedication of this community to support our schools and each other is unique. We have something very special in Lake Highlands.”

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WORSHIP

By GEORGE MASON

How to mix religion and politics

Faith should prompt us beyond charity into systemic change

WORSHIP

BAPTIST

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

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

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

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

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

You’ve heard the old saying: “Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will eat for a lifetime.”

All around Dallas we have individuals and organizations doing both. Usually it starts with an observed need. Someone sees a kid who comes to school hungry or an elderly person who can’t drive to the doctor. Suddenly, a goodhearted soul comes to the rescue. The child is offered breakfast and the homebound person a ride.

The more organizations take root, the more systemic analysis is done. Why is the child not eating breakfast at home before school? How will the elderly receive medical attention if they can’t arrange transportation? Now we’re talking about the kind of changes that alter the way we live together for good.

We get the idea of moving from direct service charity to transformative empowerment — from giving a fish to teaching to fish. But what about someone who builds a fence around the pond and locks the gate? If you don’t recognize how hard it is for people to put their fishing skills into effect because they can’t access the fishing hole, what have you done?

This is the move advocates urge from charity to social justice. Social justice is simply making sure that all the good work done with individuals is not undermined by the invisible fences that lock out people who are willing and ready to do their part in caring for themselves and others.

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BIBLE CHURCHES

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

Sun: LifeQuest 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am / 214.348.9697

Wed: AWANA and Kids Choir 6:00 pm / Student Ministry 6:00 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

EPISCOPAL

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LUTHERAN

CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

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

The charitable statistics can be staggering — the number of meals served, the amount of clothing donated, the total dollars in scholarships provided. All good. It comes from generous hearts. It’s a transfer of wealth that aims not so much to equalize outcomes, but to improve opportunity by taking away deficits that defeat the human spirit.

Most people who engage in this kind of charitable work tire of it quickly if it doesn’t produce lasting results. That is why nonprofit organizations are created. They scale up the work. They create systems that share the load, involve more people in the cause and generate philanthropy to keep the work going across time.

We love the parable Jesus told of the Good Samaritan. We celebrate the man who noticed the stricken soul on the side of the road. We see that he didn’t just offer him help in the moment. He came back and made sure the man had what he needed to move on when he healed.

What if we were to provide a safer road to Jericho so no one else would suffer that fate?

Now we’re talking about politics. In the interest of helping people, religion and politics ultimately do mix.

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.

METHODIST

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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

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

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PRESBYTERIAN

LAKE HIGHLANDS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 214.348.2133

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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.

“But what about someone who builds a fence around the pond and locks the gate?”

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