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The details make the difference.

Whether remodeling or building from the ground up, we all know the basics are non-negotiable: foundation, framework, electrical wire, sheetrock, plumbing pipe and ductwork. Neighbors trust the design veterans at Bella Vista Company to make their dream homes structurally sound, as well as visually stunning.

Bella Vista’s team also pays attention to the details on specs for the fun finish-out items, such as sinks, faucets and custom shower systems. And when it’s time to select alluring plumbing fixtures, Bella Vista guides its clients to the local experts at Jarrell Company.

According to Jarrell’s plumbing and hardware specialists, the company represents more than 40 major plumbing brands and specializes in helping homeowners navigate the often overwhelming process, from selecting brass versus bronze to acrylic versus stone.

Leading the pack today, Jarrell says, is DXV, the luxury product line by American Standard.

“DXV is only available through a showroom, not a big-box store,” Jarrell says. “We follow along with Bella Vista’s process and design for both routine and one-of-a-kind installations. We often recommend DXV products because they are easily serviceable and have a lifespan of 20-plus years, compared to big-box store brands that aren’t meant to last, often can’t be repaired and can wear out within five years.”

Jarrell says when it comes to plumbing, the little things aren’t so little. Trending now in plumbing details are DXV fire clay sinks and bathtubs—more popular than cast iron products among today’s homeowners, since cast iron’s enamel finish can chip and be costly to repair. Fire clay is a dense porcelain, glazed and fired at high temperatures for maximum durability.

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DXV is a green manufacturer, evidenced in its eco-sanitary glaze on toilets and basins, and eco-flushing capabilities for controlled water-flow options.

“Our clients at Jarrell are relieved to discover how we simplify the process,” Jarrell says. “We look at their plans from Bella Vista and work with their wishes—contemporary or traditional— and provide an itemized quote.”

Appointments are encouraged but aren’t required at Jarrell.

Bella Vista partner Sara Haley says, “We like to send our clients to Jarrell for its professional services; with them, all the dots get connected.”

Jarrell, like Bella Vista, is locally owned and operated—you can find the owners on the job just about every day.

“When a client realizes how extensive plumbing selections can be, it’s dizzying,” Haley says. “That’s why we partner with the Jarrell Company.”

Adorn your bathroom accessories by calling Bella Vista Company and Jarrell Company for ideas today.

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Bella Vista’s close partnership with Jarrell Company makes the process easier and the final product even more beautiful and functional.

Morris Wells, one of the owners at Jarrell Company, is ready to bring your build to life.

DETAILS YOU CAN FEEL: Quality plumbing fixtures aren’t just nice to look at, they’re the part of your home that you interact with the most. Investing in quality here will make your home enjoyable for the long run.

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Exchange Club gives $153,000 in scholarships

The Exchange Club of Lake Highlands awarded 46 graduating seniors with scholarships totaling $153,000 to help students with tuition. Students recognized excelled in academics, extracurricular activities, community service and even work while overcoming obstacles in their lives. Some students received multiple scholarships at the May 10 awards banquet. Funds used to provide scholarships were raised by the Exchange Club through its Oktoberfest event and auction.

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Wildcat College and Career Academy

Lake Highlands High School will establish a Wildcat College and Career Academy to allow students to earn up to 60 hours of college credit and an associates degree or certification before they graduate. The program will begin with 100 incoming freshmen in the fall of 2019, with 100 students added with each successive class. Students will be able to select from programs specializing in business, criminal justice, education or construction technology.

We Love LH winners

The Lake Highlands Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of its annual We Love Lake Highlands awards May 14. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema earned the title of Business of the Year; The Store in Lake Highlands earned Small Business of the Year; and RM 12:20 Bistro won New Business of the Year. Cedar & Vine picked up the honor of Restaurant of the Year while ClickIt4Life was named Nonprofit of the Year. Lake Highlands United Methodist Church’s Rev. Pam Clark received the Legacy Award for her ministry work throughout the neighborhood.

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HOW A SCREENPLAY WRITER GOT HIS MOJO BACK IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

YOU KNOW HOW THE STORY ENDS. The young, struggling artist is discovered by a stroke of luck and skyrockets to the top. Or there’s the singer who’s fallen from grace and is reborn after leaving behind a volatile lifestyle.

But what about the performer who never makes it? That’s what director Josh Jordan explores in his first feature film, “This World Won’t Break.” The production, which premiered in April at the Dallas International Film Festival, follows broke-down, middle-aged Texas troubadour Wes Milligan as he pursues his musical dream. He longs to be remembered as a country legend, but his failings and self-doubt frustrate his career.

The storyline was personal for Jordan, an actor at the Ochre House Theater who has also appeared on “Scrubs.” After years as an actor, Jordan turned to writing and direct-

ing. He produced numerous video shorts like “The Boxer” and “Sam and Gus.” But when he turned 40, he realized his career hadn’t turned out the way he’d hoped.

“I got in a funk,” he says.

Jordan found consolation in his friend, Houston country singer Greg Schroeder. While the pair filmed a music video in New York, Schroeder echoed Jordan’s sentiments, and they started working together on the film.

“He said the exact same thing I was feeling, but it looked more poetic coming from him, especially in the snow and in his cowboy hat,” Jordan says. “Nobody wants to see a movie about a struggling screenplay writer, so I started writing how I felt with him as a vessel.”

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“He said the exact same thing I was feeling, but it looked more poetic coming from him, especially in the snow and in his cowboy hat.”

Director Josh Jordan’s first feature film, “This World Won’t Break,” premiered in April at the Dallas International Film Festival.

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several Dallas stars, such as Matthew Posey, who appeared in “The Magnificent Seven,” and George Dunham, a sports radio personality for The Ticket.

“All my friends are in the movie,” Jordan says. “We became so close. The last day of shooting, we felt like we were all leaving summer camp. When you don’t shower for a couple days, we were all sunburnt and smelly. But every day was a blast.”

It took the small crew about a year and a half to film, despite numerous mishaps that caused Jordan to doubt if he would ever finish. Shortly after funding fell through, Posey was shot in

the face leaving a Deep Ellum brewery in January 2017. Then Jordan tore his ACL stage diving. A few months later, he lost two teeth biting into a frozen Snickers bar.

But the community rallied around Jordan by lending props, acting as extras and providing meals for the cast. (The director thinks he’s finally returned everyone’s Crock-Pots.)

Lake Highlands neighbors will recognize White Rock Lake and One Nostalgia Tavern in the film. Yet many of the set locations, such as Doug’s Gym in downtown Dallas, are no longer open as new developments sprout

up throughout the city.

Despite such changes, Jordan hopes to make the film timeless with no clothing brands or technology to reveal a particular timeframe. Instead, viewers will see old cars and rotary phones that remind Jordan of moving to Dallas in the ’90s while his dad worked as a traveling evangelist.

“It’s 100 percent set in Dallas,” Jordan says. “If you’re from here, you’ll know in the first 30 seconds where you are. If you’re not from Dallas, there’s no skyline. There’s no Reunion Tower. It’s nostalgic. That’s how we see Dallas.”

“All my friends are in the movie.”

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PICASSO’S PIZZA REINVENTS ITSELF, RIGHT BEFORE ITS 30TH BIRTHDAY

PICASSO’S PIZZA is one of the few restaurants in Lake Highlands that has lived past its teenage years.

The restaurant is approaching its 30th birthday, although it’s relocated from its original home on Audelia Road to Skillman Street. Owner Andrew Albert started as an employee when it opened in 1990. He moonlighted as a pizza delivery guy between cross-country tours with the hair band Sahara Rain.

When he was ready to settle down, he bought Picasso’s in 1993. Now Albert is spearheading Picasso’s first makeover, one that he hopes appeals to regulars and new custom-

ers alike. He and his wife became caretakers for their parents three years ago, so he’s less involved in the restaurant’s day-to-day operations. The quality of Picasso’s service declined, Albert says, but he’s determined to remain a neighborhood staple.

“I’m a perfectionist by nature,” he says. “If 99 people are happy and one person is unhappy, I’m absolutely thinking about the one.”

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so’s has increased the quality of the ingredients. The free-range chicken is a millennial’s dream, Albert says, and the staff tested dozens of mozzarella cheeses.

“We’ve tried to grind down on the details and say, ‘Can we make this better?’ and if so, ‘How?’” Albert says.

The menu is being condensed to four pages, but there will be plenty of new pastas, gourmet pizzas, desserts and healthy options, such as grilled artichoke hearts.

“Every section of the menu is getting an upgrade of some kind,” Albert says.

The changes are being rolled out in phases, and customers can taste test some of the new offerings. Albert says to expect an entirely new menu by the end of this summer.

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IN THE AFTERMATH OF A SCHOOL BOARD LAWSUIT ABOUT RACE, HAMILTON PARK NATIVES REFLECT ON HOW DESEGREGATION SHAPED THE NEIGHBORHOOD

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FROM LEFT: Hamilton Park High’s 1961 State “A” championship team. Hamilton Park second graders. A girl scout troop attends a 1970 worship service at Mount Zion Baptist Church. (Courtesy of Patricia Price Hicks)

amilton Park agents didn’t approve Dymris McGregor and her thenhusband Jimmy Johnson’s application to buy a home the first time they applied in 1959. At only 20 years old, McGregor didn’t meet the minimum age requirement.

“I was so worried they were going to build them all, and I wasn’t going to get any,” she says.

The day of her 21st birthday, the couple drove to a small office at the intersection of Schroeder Road and Campanella Drive. They perused five floorplans before choosing a three-bedroom model on the last available lot on Glen Regal Drive.

“For most of us, this was the first house we ever owned,” she says. “We were so proud. We worked so hard and saved our own money. To be able to buy your own house was a dream come true.”

Named after Dr. Richard T. Hamilton, a prominent African American physician, the neighborhood was Dallas’ first planned black subdivision. The Dallas Interracial Committee and the Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce (now the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce) created a joint committee to establish the neighborhood.

The growing African American population in the 1940s was squeezed into a handful of residential developments, including Bonton in South Dallas, a predominately white neighborhood at the time. The white residents were hostile to their new neighbors, and a bomb campaign targeting blacks soon emerged — with projectiles thrown from cars and porches and onto roofs of black family homes. The neighborhood often was referred to as “Bombtown.”

CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM: Hamilton Park boys at recess. Dymeris McGregor, former office secretary at Hamilton Park School. Hamilton Park second graders on the playground. (Courtesy of Patricia Price Hicks.)

Hamilton Park’s creation was two-fold. It solved the black housing crisis, but it also kept families from moving into white neighborhoods.

For Hamilton Park’s residents, the subdivision was a piece of the American Dream, historian William H. Wilson wrote in “Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas.”

The neighborhood marked “the dawn of a new day in Dallas,” former Mayor R.L. Thornton announced at its 1954 dedication, according to Dallas Morning News archives. Five developers sold about 750 houses. The 179-acre neighborhood also featured a shopping center with a grocery store, radio shop, drugstore and beauty salon, as well as three churches.

Hamilton Park’s primary source of pride was its school, which served elementary, junior high and high school students.

Although the school had fewer resources than its white counterparts, the school felt like a family. Students didn’t call teachers Mr. or Mrs.; they called them “Aunty” or “Uncle.”

But the lifespan of the

school at Hamilton Park was short. The same year Dallas applauded its own efforts to provide black families with segregated housing, the United States Supreme Court ruled segregation in schools was unconstitutional.

Richardson ISD ignored the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) guidelines were put into action. Racial attendance zones were banned entirely. Because Hamilton Park was the only black school within the district, students were separated, even within their own families, and sent to schools throughout RISD.

The district considered shuttering Hamilton Park entirely, but neighbors fought back, Curtis Smith says. He served on a biracial committee tasked with desegregation.

“Being in it and being more or less neutral, my job was to desegregate the school district and have a school district at the same time,” he says.

Instead, in 1969, the high school closed, and students were sent to Richardson and Lake Highlands high schools. The junior high shuttered the following year. In 1975, Hamilton Park transformed into Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet, a school whose student body was required to be 50 percent white and 50 percent black.

“They moved all the black teachers out of the black school. … They made it a school that has everything so white people would drive over and bring their kids here,” longtime neighbor Ladell Jernigan says.

“They did enough to pacify the federal government.”

TOP LEFT : Hamilton Park second graders. BOTTOM LEFT: A girl scout troop, led by Deloris Price, enjoys a picnic while on a camping trip. (Courtesy of Patricia Price Hicks)

As Hamilton Park residents reflect on the school’s closure, they recognize that, in some ways, desegregation’s effects contradicted its intent to treat all students equally. The plan not only curtailed the school but unraveled the tight-knit neighborhood. Families stopped attending football games and activities together. Children weren’t close to their neighbors because they no longer went to school together.

Now, 50 years later, Hamilton Park is once again at the center of discussions about race and education. Former school board member David Tyson filed a 2018 lawsuit stating RISD’s at-large school board violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

RISD settled the lawsuit with Tyson in January, and now two minoritymajority districts will elect a representative from Hamilton Park for the first time in the district’s history.

“We’ve had ups, and we’ve had downs. … This is the best ‘up’ that I could ever see, and I’m so glad to be a part of it,” Hamilton Park civic leader Thomas Jefferson said during January’s community meeting.

As the effects of desegregation linger, we asked longtime neighbors to reflect on the process — what was lost, what was gained, and what could’ve been done differently.

he day that Dymris McGregor bought her house on Glen Regal Drive, she told her then-husband, Jimmy, that she was never leaving.

“I meant it, and I still mean it,” she says.

Now 85, McGregor never moved from the yellow threebedroom house that the couple bought in 1959. McGregor met Jimmy at a high school football game in South Dallas. They married when he returned from the U.S. Air Force. They later split, and she fell in love with Willie McGregor, who had two children of his own. They married in 1963 and raised the boys on Glen Regal Drive.

Dymris McGregor started her career as an assistant at James Madison High School before becoming a secretary at Hamilton Park school. When the court order came down, she was sent to Lake Highlands Junior High to work in the attendance office. She retired a decade later.

McGregor made lifelong friends with her Lake Highlands coworkers — who ensured she was included — but her sons were separated, bullied and ostracized by their peers. Hamilton Park families stopped meeting for football games and attending school events together. For McGregor, the loss of camaraderie was the biggest consequence of the school closure.

I knew all the kids because all of them lived right out here. Where Medical City is, there used to be houses. Everybody knew everybody. You didn’t have to worry about your children. It was

Dymris McGregor

interesting because if some parents had to work late, all they had to do is call. ‘Dymris, I have to work late tonight. Can you take so and so until I get home?’ I’d say, ‘Yeah.’ We always looked out for each other.

I was there until they integrated. Then, they sent me to Lake Highlands Junior High. When I went there, they had no black kids, no black teachers. There was nothing in that school black but me.

I didn’t even know where Lake Highlands Junior High was. When they sent the letter telling me where I was going, I had to get in my car and go find it. When I went over there, everybody over there did not know I was a black lady.

I lucked out because the principal and the kids and the people all accepted me. It was not hard for me. But a lot of my friends did not fare well. Their kids didn’t either. I will not lie about that.

Ever since I’ve remembered, the four girls who work in the office gave me a birthday party. I retired, and they were still working. We’d meet once a month for lunch. They would always pick somewhere I’d never been and places I shouldn’t have been. Whatever was going on, they included me and made sure I went with them. I was never excluded.

[Desegregation] really surprised us. We had heard it was coming. We just never figured RISD would do it because they

never had anybody black here but us.

I cried a lot because my kids would come home, and they didn’t want to go back. It soon got better, but it was not good. When you’ve grown up a certain way and were treated a certain way, you were never made to feel that you weren’t good enough, you weren’t smart enough. They didn’t have any good friends when the going got tough. It was a whole new adjustment for the kids and the parents. You had to worry about your kids getting on the bus. Then if the bus didn’t pick them up, you’re at work and your kids are at the corner waiting on someone who may not show.

They would say ugly things to them. They’d go to sit down and pull the chair out from under them and call them names. It just was not a very good environment.

I was so glad when they graduated. I probably was the loudest of any parent in there. And I said, ‘Thank you, God. They didn’t kill my kids.’

Patricia Price Hicks

atricia Price Hicks smiles as she remembers the cake walk at Hamilton Park Elementary School’s carnival. She loved school even though it was rigorous.

Hicks grew up in Hamilton Park with her mother, Delores, father, Robert Earl Price, and two siblings. The namesake of the Forest Lane post office, her father was pastor of New Mount Zion Baptist Church and worked for Lomas and Nettleton Mortgage Banking Corporation.

When Hicks was a fourth-grader in 1969, Richardson ISD desegregated its high schools. Hamilton Park High School shuttered, and its students were sent to Richardson and Lake Highlands high schools. One year later, U.S. District Judge William M. Taylor demanded that the junior high also close.

Taylor’s order came down at 6:30 p.m. Monday, according to the Dallas Morning News archives. By Tuesday at 8:30 a.m., 250 students gathered at the school’s auditorium before they were bussed to three RISD junior highs — Forest Meadow, Northwood and Lake Highlands. The process felt hurried, with both students and parents unsure of what school students would attend. Hicks began junior high at Forest Meadow in 1971.

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A lot of the parents did not find out until the last minute that their children were going to be bussed out, particularly when the junior high school was closed. That was ’70. I went to Forest Meadow in 1971. They didn’t know that they were going that first year to Forest Meadow. When they went to Hamilton Park school, they found out. They put them on busses. One girl told me there was an announcement made as they got off the bus, and they were walking into the school. They said, ‘They are here.’

The white students were already sitting in classrooms in their seats when the black students were bussed over to Forest Meadow. Here’s a culture shock for us. We’d been exposed in shopping centers and stores and libraries, but we’d never been in a classroom setting with white students.

What they did is send Clayton Bell, who was at Hamilton Park, as an assistant principal to Forest Meadow. They sent Frances Money. Ms. Money had worked

at Hamilton Park for a short time in the home economics department. That was it.

They did not send any math teachers, any English teachers. That’s what I was needing. I needed a role model. I didn’t have them at Forest Meadow. I didn’t have them at Lake Highlands. We were having to maneuver on our own and then go home and complain to our parents. We depended on our parents to do whatever they could to help us.

Some chose not to go. Their parents chose to transfer them out, in other words, to other Dallas ISD schools instead of Richardson. They did not want them going to white schools.

The teachers at Hamilton Park, they protected us. They were very nurturing, very loving. They were strict, and they would call our parents. At Forest Meadow, the people didn’t know our parents, didn’t care if they knew our parents or not.

It tore down selfesteem. It tore down self-worth because people were insensitive to our customs and our culture. We were like guinea pigs. You understand? It’s like you’re in a test tube, and somebody’s experimenting. That’s how I saw us. The teachers did not know how to teach us. They knew

nothing about African American history. And so when they taught it, they taught it in a very negative manner. When I say that, I can distinctly remember one of my teachers. She is deceased now. She said African Americans had big lips. They had big ears, they had babies, they had Cadillacs, and they did not have garages to put the Cadillacs in. Sitting in a classroom and having to listen to this nonsense, I didn’t know people who she was referring to. Who do you turn to? In Hamilton Park, that was not the case. I’ll never forget it.

In the ’60s and ’70s, the teachers did a lot of lecturing. But they really needed to be sympathetic and try to guide us. There was not a lot of guidance from counselors. They didn’t tell you what subjects you really needed to take. After you finished a year, they tried to tell you what you should’ve taken. When it came time for me to graduate, I didn’t take any foreign language, and I should have. Had I known, I would’ve taken extra math, extra science. We were thrust into this new way of schooling. There was fear and frustration.

I learned you grow from all these hurdles. You learn to maneuver your way. I’ve had to applaud myself for my successes.

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WHITE ROCK LAKE’S SUMMER RESORT

Most residents cringe at the thought of privatizing the lake, but it seemed like a viable option in the 1920s. An anonymous letter dated May 21, 1921, proposed transforming White Rock into a resort.

“You could not hit upon a more popular plan than that of making White Rock a summer resort for persons of moderate means,” the letter reads. “Properly equipped, White Rock Lake would not only furnish Dallas with Club Lake facilities, but it would also pay for itself. Rustic Inns, camping grounds, restaurants, pavilions, etc. coupled with a street car line to the lake (a short extension to the Junius Hts line will fix it) would give Dallas some ark.

“A small fish hatchery should be maintained to assure an ample supply of game fish. A few other improvements would make a summer resort for rich as well as poor.”

WHITE ROCK LAKE has been a source of recreation, history and folklore for more than a century. The Lady of the Lake, who reportedly drowned in the 1930s or late 1940s, is a local legend. Reader’s Digest named the lake one of the world’s most haunted bodies of water, thanks to the tale of the ghost dressed in white. And some of White Rock Lake’s history is as quirky as its legends. A few hundred German prisoners of war were housed in barracks at Winfrey Point during World War II. A riot between hippies and police in 1977 culminated in 49 arrests and a few hospitalizations. Some of the lake’s lesser-known history can be found in documents from the 1920s and ’30s, which we uncovered at the Dallas Municipal Archives.

Story by ELISSA CHUDWIN

Lake Dallas Bathing Beach post card from “Images of America, White Rock Lake.”

White Rock Lake photo by Desiree Espada

CITY PRISONERS WORKED AT THE LAKE

City prisoners worked at the lake, and it didn’t always go well. Several City of Dallas office memorandums detail injuries prisoners obtained while working at the lake. On August 6, 1941, prisoners were patching asphalt on Lawther Drive. One man’s face was severely burned after another prisoner turned a barrel over and splashed hot asphalt on the man’s face, according to an archived memorandum. Another memo, written in February 1942, describes a prisoner with seizure-like symptoms who fell and hit his head.

“On the morning of February 25, approximately at 11:40 a.m., City Prisoner William Stewart was helping load brick on a city stake truck at White Rock, main office, and just as I looked up he was standing at (the) side of the truck, blinking his eyes rather fast. At first I thought he had something in his eyes, but just then he fell over backwards and began to kick and struggle,” truck driver George Trotter wrote. “When he fell, the side of his head hit the running board, which cut a small gash.”

THERE WAS ONCE A DALLAS BEACH CLUB, WHOSE DREAMS OF A BOATHOUSE WERE DENIED

The club requested to construct a boathouse and pier on 132 acres in 1931 so that its members could participate in water sports. The City of Dallas, unsurprisingly, denied the organization’s request.

“Inasmuch as White Rock is a public lake and playground and as it is against the policy of the Park Board to permit its property to be used for private purposes, it is necessary that the Board deny your request.”

Image courtesy of the Friends of Camp Hearne

CINEMATIC CRIME FIGHTERS

HOW ONE NEIGHBOR IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE WITH CRIME STOPPERS COMMERCIALS

Story by JAIME DUNAWAY

Photography by OWEN JONES

LAKE HIGHLANDS NEIGHBOR Chuck Curtis wanted to help the police. But he never envisioned running down an alley, tackling a bad guy and shackling him with handcuffs. Good thing he’s a talented TV advertiser.

The Crime Stoppers USA secretary is transforming the nonprofit’s marketing department with three TV commercials shot in Dallas. Curtis hopes the spots will empower neighbors to report suspicious behavior via Crime Stoppers’ anonymous hotline. If callers provide information that leads to an arrest, they’re paid with a cash reward.

Viewers may recognize Bryan Street Tavern and homes on Lower Greenville when the commercials air nationally this summer. At least one major cable company with 16 million subscribers has already expressed interest. The spots will also be distributed to local TV stations via more than 500 Crime Stoppers chapters across the United States.

The commercials depict real-life scenarios that have prompted residents to call the Crime Stoppers hotline. Callers are often relatives, neighbors or bargoers who overhear critical information. But as the commercials show,

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the ability to report anonymously means identity is kept hidden, even from call responders.

The commercials are a new marketing strategy for Crime Stoppers, which previously relied on tabloid publications filled with mugshots and weekly crime re-enactments for publicity. As print circulation decreased and surveillance footage advanced, the organization had to look for other ways to advertise.

“A lot of people don’t know about us,” Chuck Curtis says. “We still have an awareness problem all across the country. We have operations down really well, but we don’t have marketing down so well.”

Last year, the local Crime Stoppers chapter, which works with more than 90 law enforcement agencies in Dallas, Collin and Grayson counties, provided 148 tips in 2018 that led to arrests, says chapter board member Jean Maier Dean. After the commercials air, Curtis hopes to see that number grow as neighbors become more aware of the organization.

“That’s my answer to everything — do a TV commercial,” Curtis says.

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WORSHIP

By GEORGE MASON

Both/and

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t.

The temptation to see the world in binary code — all “ones and zeroes” — seems to be growing. Maybe it’s like the shift in music from vinyl to digital recordings. Vinyl is warmer, the sound more blended. Digital music is brighter and cleaner, allowing you to better hear the discrete instruments.

We may want life to be a choice between absolutes, but our human vocation is to discern among many possibilities to find ways that lead to a fuller life, rather than those that divide and destroy us.

In matters of faith and politics, binary alternatives of conservative or progressive are unhelpful too. None of us fits neatly into one category. We need to account for one another to have a robust faith that is grounded in the past and blazes new paths.

Conservatives face life with an eye to the past. They believe the future will be brighter only by the recovery of original beauty now marred. Hope is memory more than aspiration.

Progressives long for a destiny that is greater than our origin. God is still creating, still speaking. They believe God isn’t finished with the world yet, and we are invited to join the project of making more of it, not just repairing it.

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Bible Study 9:40 am / www.wilshirebc.org

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We see this tendency in other realms, even while new knowledge makes maintaining binaries dubious. Scientists used to argue over whether light was a particle or a wave. Now they understand it’s both — depending upon the conditions under which it is viewed. Similarly, we have divided the world into male and female. But the transgender experience and its biological and psychological foundations point to gender being more on a spectrum than two opposite poles.

The world is infinitely complex. We talk about light and dark and day and night. But part of every day includes times we call dawn and dusk, when we are in a twilight zone that could be early morning or evening when light encroaches or fades.

Whenever you hear someone say there are two ways to understand something, they are setting up an either/or that would better be framed as a both/and. This is not relativism, as some fear. It is realism.

Who’s right? Conservatives or progressives? Those with eyes on the past or those with eyes on the future?

What T. S. Eliot called “permanent things” keep us grounded in what endures. Love and kindness, as much as gravity and magnetism, hold the world together as change threatens to pull it apart. At the same time, imagination and innovation, as much as energy and momentum, drive the world forward against the desire for things to stay the same.

Respecting what has been good in every age and longing for what is still to come will help us walk together in one peace, instead of leaving us in many pieces.

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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