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12 URBAN LOOP Meet Poonam Patel 16 DINING First look at Wok Star Chinese 20 CREATIVE VENTURES From medical illustrations to watercolor 22 PERFECT PETS Furry neighbors 28 OKTOBERFEST The Lake Highlands event returns

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c l i c k- w o r t hy RISD SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION RESULTS —Karen Clardy has been reelected president of the Richardson ISD school board. The representative for district 5, which surrounds Lake Highlands High School, joined the board in 2017 and served as president last year. —Regina Harris, a resident of Hamilton Park and representative for single member district 4, was chosen to serve as vice president.

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—The board voted Debbie Renteria as secretary, Eric Eager as delegate to the Texas Association of School Boards and Chris Poteet, elected in May, as TASB alternate.

The Northeast Dallas Skillman Target opened a “shop-inshop” concept with Ulta Beauty products in August. The Lake Highlands location at 6419 Skillman St. is one of the first 100 stores to incorporate Ulta Beauty in the nation. The Ulta shop planned to be placed near the existing Target beauty section and will have its own displays and trending seasonal products.

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coming & going [+] Squishies is now open at Lakeridge Village off Audelia Road. The shop offers tapioca ball teas, smoothies, slushies, juices and milkshakes. [+] Clean Juice expects to open in September at The Hill shopping center. Menu options at the spot will include cold-pressed and fresh juices, smoothies, açai bowls, wraps, soups and toasts.

RECOVERING FROM THE STORM White Rock Stables was struck by lighting during an August storm. The stables enlisted volunteers for an all-day cleanup, helping clear out downed trees littering the property and fixing damage to one of the ranch hand homes and the roof of the main farmhouse. Search “White Rock Stables” at lakehighlands.advocatemag. com to read more.

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t’s 2 a.m., and a figure in dark clothing slips through an unlocked gate into a backyard in Lake Highlands. He finds the expected envelope of cash and leaves a package behind. The transaction is complete. The person who slinks away doesn’t consider himself a “drug dealer.” He’s selling vaping products, and his customers are Lake Highlands High School students. Dealers make their deliveries to bedroom windows or home mailboxes at an agreed-upon hour. In addition to hardware, many packages include hemp-derived Delta 8 and dab weed, a form of concentrated marijuana, both consumable via vape pen. The Lake Highlands mom who shared this story last week echoed a dad who came to the Advocate in 2013 pleading for help. Kids at the high school were using then-new products called e-cigarettes in campus bathrooms, their cars and their bedrooms at home, he said. He wanted to bring awareness to parents, teachers and other authorities, and he wanted students to understand the risks they were taking. Back then, teens on campus admitted wide use of what are now commonly called vape pens. None wanted their names used but said vaping products were easy to purchase legally as 18-year-olds, or illegally using fake IDs or with the help of older friends. Unlike the days when smoking in the parking lot was reserved for teens with a risqué reputation, kids in every sport and leadership group on campus

tain nicotine, which is highly addictive and harmful to adolescent brain development, they say. They recommend not using vaping products containing THC, the L H H S P L A N S TO TAC K L E VA P I N G chemical responsible for marijuana’s psychological effects, and not obtaining Story by CAROL TOLER vaping devices from informal sources Illustration by JESSICA TURNER such as friends, family or online dealers. Young vapers are more likely to smoke cigarettes in the future, they say. “These kids hang out at the LHHS parking lot, the rec center parking lot, B.B. were vaping, they told me. Owen Park and White Rock Elementary,” Students at Lake Highlands High one mom says. “Snapchat is used to adverSchool today say vaping is as prevalent tise fake IDs and drugs. Drinking, dealing now as it was in 2013, although the age to legally purchase vaping products was raised drugs, fighting, depression and substance to 21 in 2019. Stress and isolation due to abuse are very difficult subjects, and they the pandemic only added to their search come with plenty of judgement when a for anxiety relief, some say. kid gets a reputation.” In addition to concerns about addiction “It’s kids across the board doing it,” says and physical harm, parents say they’re one student, who asked not to be named. worried teen users are jeopardizing their “You could be on A honor roll or the worst future if they’re caught by RISD officials kid in the school. I don’t think there’s a at school or by local law enforcement in a category for it. I just think if you like it, you’re going to do it, and if you’re in a group public place. Unlike many other states, the of people, you are going to join in. I think THC oil often used in vape pens is illegal most parents know it’s going on, but I don’t in Texas. Marijuana possession of less than think they are aware of how bad it is.” 4 ounces is a misdemeanor in Texas, but “Seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds want THC oil is a penalty group 2 controlled to do what they want to do,” the student substance, so possession of any amount continues. “Usually when kids are caught, is a felony. Possession of less than 1 gram they go to CMLC (Richardson ISD’s alternacan result in two years in county jail and a tive school, the Christa McAuliffe Learning fine as high as $10,000. RISD recorded 22 Center). Kids know it can be dangerous and arrests during the spring of 2019. harmful to their bodies, but they think they “We started working on this challenge know what they are doing.” during the 2019-20 school year,” explains Dr. Matthew Gibbins, chief executive direcAnother student agreed that vaping tor of RISD Student Services. “Before that, is common at LHHS but took issue with the mom’s account of dark figures we had difficulty tracking vaping data. If sneaking around at night to deliver fora student was caught with a vape on their bidden packages. campus, it was put into the system as a “Most of the time the dealers will just prohibited item.” give it to people out in the open and get In the spring of 2019, RISD assembled paid via Venmo,” the student says. “Many an anti-vaping committee comprised of representatives from high schools and junior do not consider it a big deal.” highs across the district. They dove into Research has improved since 2013, and numbers and trends, and in 2020 they the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) created an informational video for parents now says e-cigarettes are unsafe for kids, and students. teens and young adults. Most e-cigs con-

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“The THC vapes are especially serious,” says Gibbins. “That gets beyond even our jurisdiction into ‘felony drug on campus’ charges. We also put ‘No vapes allowed’ signs around all our high schools and junior highs, and we really hit the message hard across our campuses.” Last year was “a little different,” admits Gibbins, and educating students during the pandemic took precedence. His team was ready to reinforce their message on the dangers of vaping when students returned Aug. 17. “We look at the vaping trends, we hear from our school administrators, we have a parent who’s a vaping cessation specialist with one of the hospitals in the area, we have a nurse on the committee – we try to keep it at the forefront of what we’re doing,” says Gibbins. “We also work with the American Heart Association. They are working on a guidebook, and they asked us to review it. Honestly, I think we are one of the leaders in the state in what we’re doing on vaping.” The district has also amended how it disciplines students caught with vaping products. When a student was found with a vape pen on campus in the past, RISD issued a three-day in-school suspension (ISS). This year, first offenders won’t be removed from the classroom. Instead, the focus will be educational intervention to share the dangers of use and addiction. Even if THC is discovered in the pen, the goal will be to keep the student in an RISD classroom. School resource officers (SROs) will determine whether the student is arrested. Then, instead of being sent to a juvenile justice alternative education placement (JJAEP) as before, he or she will go to class at CMLC. After completing an all-day Saturday class on the dangers of THC, they’ll return to their home campus almost a month early. “In 2019, the number of THC arrests caught us off guard,” says Gibbins, “and we expelled quite a few kids that year. We had to stop that. We had to change that. “We’ve really prepared, and I think our principals are prepared across the district, to welcome the students back with more of a social-emotional mindset than ever before, allowing time for kids to adapt and get back into the campus culture.”

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Poonam Patel takes on every step of her projects, including the design phase.

n elective course in college sucked Poonam Patel into the world of architecture and design, leaving behind a biology degree and thoughts of being a doctor or lawyer. Patel spent years in the industry, working on a range of projects and teams in the Dallas area before branching out on her own as the owner and sole architect at Urban Loop Studio, a Lake Highlands-based architecture firm.

ativity I had and apply myself to the fullest at other firms. I needed a platform where I could exercise my full potential. To be able to bring feminine aspects to a project, I think, is so valuable because we are detail oriented, and a lot of my clients love that. Especially when it comes to aspects of the home. When clients are spending the most amount of money they’ve ever spent, which is on a house, I think they deserve that.

HOW SHE CREATED URBAN LOOP STUDIO I was still in college when I bought the domain, so it was inevitable. In the beginning, work was more of a buffet, just gaining experience wherever I could. Eventually I realized I want to work on smaller projects because they’re quicker, and they’re also a little bit more personal as opposed to trying to convince a board of people whose main interest most of the time is the bottom line of cost and budget.

FAVORITE DESIGN PROJECTS It’s usually certain aspects. One client gave 100% trust in me, the autonomy to really design some custom stuff for them. And I really appreciate that, when I get to. It could also be a material that I got to use. It could be like this one custom cabinet piece I designed that probably nobody else has in their house, because it’s custom designed. It slides out and can tuck into the island. It can be moved to the dining room and be placed next to the dining table to seat more people. In a way it is as simple as a table on wheels, but at the same time, the solution was through design and meeting the client’s need in a minimalistic way.

If I have the choice to be a creator or destroyer, I want to be a creator.

THE WORK I like to stay focused on residential, because it’s smaller and more personal. My work includes exterior stuff like the foundation, walls, exterior doors, windows, roof, all that. Interior stuff is more like cabinets and showers and kitchens. And then the decor stuff is more like furniture and art, and I do all of that. So it becomes a seamless design, when you have one person doing everything.

WHAT HER PERSPECTIVE BRINGS TO THE INDUSTRY I’m a female, I’m a minority and petite, so I had to really figure out how to survive. And I had to lose a little bit of my femininity in doing that. I did not feel that I could fully express all of the cre-

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FEELING A COMMUNITY CONNECTION Just driving here, I passed by a project of mine. And I think it’s just really cool because, if I have the choice to be a creator or destroyer, I want to be a creator, right? If I have the choice of being a positive force, neutral or having a negative impact on the world, I’d like to have a positive one. And sometimes, you get so caught up in the todo list and the weeds, and you get so busy that sometimes it’s hard to take a moment and be grateful. So when I drive by a project, it’s an affirmation: you’re a creator, you’re having a positive impact in this world, that you’re providing shelter, you’re providing a place for people to work, a place for people to go to work and make money and feed their families. You are creating a place of safety from the elements of the Texas heat. And to be able to see that and drive by, it’s so gratifying.

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EVERY CHRISTMAS DAY, David Romano and his family used to eat Chinese food in New York City. The president of Local Favorite Restaurants group and a legacy restaurant creator, Romano found a special place in his heart for Chinese food and culture, which he experienced in Chinatown. There was one thing Romano felt was missing from those Chinese restaurants. “They’re not that fun,” he says. Following that thought, Wok Star Chinese was born. It combines Chinese cuisine with a fun atmosphere and American-style service. Intense rock ’n’ roll-inspired pop art covers one wall of the restaurant, while Chinese artifacts sit on shelves and hang nearby. From the dining room, guests can view chef Charlie hand pulling noodles. He learned how in China, studying for six months under another chef. He often dances while he pulls the noodles. On Wok Star’s opening night, the chef was placed in the center of the dining room, dancing as he worked the dough.

“If you come and you don’t get the Charlie show, then you need to make sure that you come back the second time and get the Charlie show,” Romano says. The music that plays at Wok Star comes from an ever-growing, 34-hour, private playlist on Spotify that’s run by Romano’s 13 year-old daughter, Mia. During a meal, guests can hear everything from Nirvana and Grandmaster Flash to Taylor Swift and Usher. The menu is authentically Chinese, Romano says. There are four hand pulled noodle options. Chef Charlie’s favorite is the Dan Dan La Mian. Classic chicken, pork, beef and seafood options are sprinkled throughout the menu in the forms of fried rice, moo shu and sweet-and-sour. Bao buns and handmade dumplings are also stars of the menu. “It would be a travesty if people came to Wok Star and didn’t order at least one version of dumplings,” says Romano. The menu focuses on full-size entrees, but Romano is looking into incorporating dim sum cart service. Wok Star has also figured out its cocktail

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menu, with musical references packing the drink lineup. The gin-based Radioactive comes with smoke bubbles. The I’m Too Sexy is made with Deep Eddy Lime and Sour Patch Kids. And the Like a Virgin Mocktail is made with strawberry, club soda and heavy cream. Romano was hesitant at first to bring Wok Star to The Hill. The Preston Hollow resident was skeptical of its pull from neighborhoods on the other side of Central Expressway. But even before the restaurant opened, those fears were put to rest. Hype surrounding Wok Star was built almost purely from shared Facebook posts among Lake Highlands residents, and when the restaurant opened for delivery only, there were nights when they had to stop taking orders because there were too many, Romano says. When the doors finally opened in July, the restaurant was flooded with guests. “I underestimated the Lake Highlands community on how much they support a new restaurant,” he says. Wok Star Chinese, wokstarchinese. com, 972.961.1168, 8041 Walnut Hill Lane

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painting with passion A M E D I CA L I L LUST RATO R F I N DS C R E AT I V I T Y I N CO M M U N I T Y Story by LIESBETH POWERS | Photography by KATHY TRAN

NEIGHBOR SCOTT BODELL combined his love for science and art in college to launch a career as a medical illustrator. Now he’s separating those two worlds again, focusing on watercolor paintings. The shift has been a long time coming, he says. “My whole career as a medical illustrator, everybody would look at my medical art, and they’d say, ‘What kind of art do you like to do in your spare time?’” Bodell says. “And I’d say, ‘Well, I don’t have any spare time.’” The pandemic brought the lull he needed. Bodell primarily creates medical illustrations digitally. In that medium, mistakes can be erased with the flick of a pen or the addition of layers to hide an imperfection. Bodell figured he could pick up watercolor painting easily but instead found that it requires a different understanding of the brush and colors. “I put myself back in school to relearn a lot of things,” he says. A cactus flower was one of the first paintings that helped Bodell see the beauty in his imperfect watercolor paintings. After working on it for a bit, it landed in a drawer, just one move away from the trash bin. A few weeks later, he found it and tried again. Bodell still wasn’t convinced, but his wife encouraged him to enter it in a Utah art show, where it won a prize. “Changing your expectations for fine art versus commercial digital stuff is something you have to work pretty hard to do,” Bodell says. Next, friends and family began requesting pet portraits as birthday gifts, and social media shares brought more and more requests. “It became a lot more personal,” Bodell says. He was first struck with emotion when

the wife of a veteran asked him to paint her husband with his dog, which had recently died. She said the dog helped him walk through some dark times. In the painting, “Looking Out for You,” purples and dark colors swirl behind the man, becoming more peaceful and lighter as the eye moves toward the dog. Both look off to the horizon. “That backstory fueled all these decisions about the art,” Bodell says. “I was just so inspired to paint that because I really had a heart for the guy and what he went through.” Bodell began taking on more portraits of people, painting babies and pet parents with their dogs by starting with a picture, which at first he thought was cheating. “All the great purist artists would never do that,” Bodell says. But then he painted the portrait of someone who had died, and it changed his perspective. Bodell has since decided to paint his grandfather’s portrait from a small black-and-white photo. Getting better means something different to Bodell than it did when he started painting with watercolors. It now means painting more loosely, more expressively, rather than fine-lining details. “The watercolor needs to do what the watercolor wants to do,” he says. “Sometimes you just need to let it run. Being loose means you’re going to try to capture an impression of what you’re trying to depict.” Bodell says he’s also planning to add acrylics back to his portfolio. And as doors continue to reopen for medical illustrations, he expects his work to take on a new light after gaining so much insight from his work with watercolors. “We’ll see how it goes,” he says. “That’s what artists do, they keep exploring.”

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Paw patrol PRINT-WORTHY PETS THAT BRING PILES OF SMILES

Stories by RACHEL STONE and LIESBETH POWERS Photography by JESSICA TURNER

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Neighborhood celebrity: ‘Baby’ Milo Butterfinger

ne thing about Milo Butterfinger: He’s a scene stealer. When Aimee Ives walks him with her 9-month-old baby, Isla, people say, “Oh, you have such a cute ...” “And I think they’re going to say ‘baby,’” she says. “But then they’re like, ‘... dog.’ You have such a cute dog.” Ives and her husband, Alan, got the Cavalier King Charles spaniel about two and a half years

ago. The dog is obsessed with his very adorable human sister. When Isla rolls on the floor, Milo will roll on the floor. It’s cuter than a box full of kittens. Milo is popular with the neighborhood kids, who call him “Baby Milo.” “They draw him pictures and want him to come to their birthday parties,” Aimee says. The Iveses, who moved to Lake Highlands about three years

ago, have found their perfect pet sitter, Gabi, whose own Cavalier King Charles, Gertie, is Milo’s “girlfriend.” Aimee’s mom also has a dog of the same breed, Juju, who is Milo’s “BFF.” He’ll perch on his owners’ shoulders like a parrot while they’re sitting on the couch. “This is our usual work-from-home position,” Aimee says. He bellies up to the freezer door handle to beg for ice, which he prefers to be crushed. And he failed doggy daycare. “We signed him up because he has lots of energy and I thought he’d enjoy playing with the other dogs,” Aimee says. “Turns out he likes people better and followed the worker around the whole time.” september 2021

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Canine angel: Nelson

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know I’m biased, but he’s perfect,” says Allison Sheffieck of her family dog, Nelson. She and her parents found him at a Plano animal shelter in 2012. Nelson was sitting there, completely chilled out, like he was just waiting. “He was the only dog we looked at,” Sheffieck says. “We took him home that day.” His graceful demeanor landed him the role of Sandy in a production of Annie at The Shelton School a few years ago, but he found the actor’s life too boring after one or two rehearsals. “I think he prefers modeling,” Sheffieck says. Sheffieck, a school nurse in Richarson ISD, was raised in Lake Highlands with siblings Sarah, who is a teacher, and Caroline, who recently graduated from Texas Tech. Their mom, Diane, is a teacher, and their dad, Andrew, is an engineer. Nelson came into their lives after the death of their 6-year-old dog, Clovis. He had a ruptured tumor in his spleen and died while the Sheffiecks were away on vacation. Nelson even looks like Clovis, and they can’t imagine a more perfect pet. “He’s the same dog today that he was at the shelter,” Sheffieck says. “He’s 10 years old now, but he’s always acted like he was 10 years old.”

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the eyes have it: Lucky

t was love at first sight. Karen Clardy showed up early for an Operation Kindness adoption event two years ago at Whole Foods in Plano. She and her husband, Floyd, had recently lost their white husky and still

had an aging rottweiler at home. “I saw this awesome dog,” she says. “And I just grabbed him and said, ‘I want this dog.’” Lucky, picked up by Dallas Animal Services and rescued by the nonprofit, september 2021

had been fixed, but he had heartworms and pinworms. Human and canine connected right away, and now they’re inseparable. Clardy, the Richardson ISD Board president who lives in Lake Highlands, says Lucky has become her Zoom buddy. She’d tell her husband, “OK I’m getting ready to go on my Zoom,” and find Lucky already in his place on the loveseat in her office. He’ll sit politely through a four-hour meeting, and he knows not to bark, she says. They love taking walks together, and Clardy thinks the companionship has added years to rottweiler Coco’s life. They got along from the get-go. “Coco’s a huge, big dog,” Clardy says. “He gave her a little kiss on the side of the cheek, and Lucky became the head dog.” Lucky is protective, and he loves barking at the garbage truck. He’s smart, but he doesn’t do tricks. And he’s found the perfect companion. “I felt very lucky, so that’s why I called him Lucky,” Clardy says. “There were a lot of stars that had to line up for us to be together. He’s my emotional support dog.”

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Host with the most: Wilson

t’s a grill only a mother could love. Wilson, a pure-bred Lakeland terrier, was a show dog. “But they discovered that he had bad teeth, and he wasn’t able to be shown anymore,” says Cheryl Zreet. She and her husband, Alan, adopted Wilson after he hung it up,

about nine years ago, and it was serious business. “They visited our house,” Cheryl says. “They wanted to make sure he was the only pet in the home.” Wilson lives large in his postshow biz life. He loves to sit on a float in the pool. A vanilla pup-cone from Andy’s Frozen Custard is his fa-

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vorite treat, and he’s been known to sneak a sip of beer. A recent vacation to Marfa found him stargazing at the McDonald Observatory and on a hiking trip across the Rio Grande. He also enjoys visiting 94-year-old Grandma Zreet at a nursing home in Georgetown, Texas. Besides that, sleeping is his favorite. As a terrier, he despises varmints and chases squirrels with a vengeance. Although he doesn’t like dogs or other animals, he always greets human guests at the door and makes them feel welcome. But ladies have to be warned to zip their purses because otherwise Wilson will nose around and steal their Chapstick or lotion. His original name was Jerry — from a litter of puppies named after the Seinfeld TV series — they had to change his name because their across-the-street neighbor is named Jerry, and that would be awkward. The Zreets have lived in Lake Highlands since 1991. Their son, Collin, and his wife, Taylor, are co-owners of Funky Picnic Brewery & Café in Fort Worth. And their daughter, Rachael, is a nurse practitioner and newlywed in Houston. She and her husband, Thomas Wright, have a one-eared cat named Van Gogh.

lab rat to lab dog: cosmo

osmo was born and bred to be a laboratory “specimen” for experimental studies in Memphis, Ten-

nessee. Knowing life only from the confines of a cage and having a number for a name, Cosmo made his way from incarceration to freedom and to a family that loves him.

Born in 2014 as test subject A-370771, Cosmo was set to begin testing when activists fought the pharmaceutical company that held him and four other beagles. The rescuers were told the dogs could be adopted rather than euthanized when testing was finished. Instead they were dumped in the nearby woods. september 2021

Cosmo survived for a month in the wilderness and was found malnourished and disheveled. He had been infected with heartworms, and many of his teeth were rotting. Maurice and Jule Aguirre were not planning to get another beagle. They had just lost one of their older dogs to liver cancer and were still grieving. One of their pups has a Facebook following and had shared posts about the loss of her brother. Fans started to point to adopting another beagle, Cosmo, originally named Shiloh. “His story made me open up and say, ‘Well maybe it’s some kind of cosmic thing,’” Jule says. Cosmo came to them traumatized. He would jump and hide, and he had to be treated for his drug-resitant heartworms. Cosmo was too scared to leave his cage most days after he was brought home from the Blytheville Humane Society in Arkansas. One kind encounter from another of the Aguirres’ dogs helped change his direction. The dog leaned into the cage and nuzzled Cosmo’s neck. After that, Cosmo began to give and receive love. Nearly five years later, Cosmo is still skittish sometimes, but he’s found comfort in his sister Kali, their 11-year-old rescued beagle. He started following her around years before she accepted their friendship. Now, they’re always together. “He’s like a sponge that wants to soak her in,” Jule says. “You often find them lying right next to each other.” Without an aggressive bone in his body, Cosmo absorbs love and attention from anyone. “He’s just a walking ball of love,” Jule says.

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a decade of beer and beats Oktoberfest returns with its 10th anniversary festival

Story by LIESBETH POWERS | Photography courtesy of LAKE HIGHLANDS EXCHANGE CLUB

ktoberfest Dallas is back, and it’s bringing a 10-year history with it. It all started with some trips to Wurstfest in New Braunfels. Tate Gorman and Adam Meierhofer, The Exchange Club of Lake Highlands’ youngest members at the time, were enjoying the atmosphere, rife with beer, brats and fun music. The two had attended the more than 50-year-old festival a few years in a row. “We started thinking, ‘How could we do something like that in Lake Highlands as a fundraiser for the Exchange Club?’” says Gorman. The two also found it “bizarre” that there wasn’t already an Oktoberfest in Dallas. They pitched starting their own to the Exchange Club and were placed in charge of mobilizing the event. In a month, the first Oktoberfest came together. A big win for the event was landing Kuby’s Sausage House, a staple German restau-

rant in Dallas. The owner, Karl Kuby, heard about it through the grapevine and wanted to be a part of it. Kuby’s, about five other vendors and some live German music set up at the Lake Highlands Town Center in the late afternoon. People couldn’t get enough. “We stopped early before it even got dark, and everybody wanted us to keep going,” says Gorman. “And then every year it’s grown and grown.” Oktoberfest has gradually become a concert event, with headliners and bands performing into the night. Past headliners include the Old 97’s, Charlie Robinson and Bob Schneider. Lively traditional music still accompanies daytime events, which include a cornhole tournament and a kids zone with bounce houses and obstacle courses. Special offerings from Oak Highlands Brewery will be featured at the 2021 festival taking place Oct. 2. There will also be traditional German and domes-

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G ROW I N G U P TO G E T H E R Forerunner expands programs for boys and mothers ›

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ason Sudan built a relationship with Riley McNally, his 10-year-old mentee, through morning car rides to school and trips to Sonic, plus homework and hangout time at our neighborhood’s Forerunner Mentoring program. The two had an undeniable bond from the beginning, says Riley’s mom, Sarah McNally, who found out about the program from church friends. “She was so excited that someone cared enough about her son to invest in him,” says Sudan, 36, who co-owns building company Marable Homes. Sudan and Riley have touched on everything from YouTube to Minecraft, and they’ve dealt with bullying and worked on a drywall project together during the past two years. Forerunner Mentoring, Walnut Hill Lane and I-635, is a Christian nonprofit that matches Lake Highlands boys who need a positive male role model with men who invest their time and attention in the kids. The nonprofit encourages long-term

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father/son-like relationships. Mentors are chosen through interviews and after meeting application requirements. The matches speak to each other once a week and spend time together at least every other week, plus occasional outings and quarterly family dinners. Founded by Zach Garza a decade ago to serve elementary-age children, the nonprofit is expanding its work to higher grade levels as the current mentees age. Forerunner recently launched a high-school program that includes kids who started out as mentees in elementary, as well as students who are new to the program. “We want to see them flourish into great young men here in society,” says Darius Person, the group’s junior and senior high school coordinator. Forerunner is working to further its reach in Lake Highlands. “In the last 10 years, we’ve really only been serving the south side of Lake Highlands,” says Beth Winter, Forerunner’s director of programs. “Our vision is to be accessible for all the

schools that feed into Lake Highlands High School.” The nonprofit plans to offer mentorships in all schools that feed into Forest Meadow Junior High within the next couple of years. And it plans to add a second Forerunner location in Lake Highlands, Winter says. Sudan says he and Riley “are definitely having fourth-grade conversations now,” but he plans to shepherd the boy through

his middle school and high school years. “It’s family, that’s the only way I can describe it,” says Riley’s mom. “I’m blessed to be in the middle of it, and I’m so grateful that Riley and Jason are together.” Forerunner Mentoring, 972.656.8252, www. forerunnermentoring.com

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By GEORGE MASON

BAPTIST

Co n g re ga t i o n of t r u t h

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

G o o d c i t i ze n s h i p sta r ts w i t h ‘ l ove t hy n e i g h b o r ’

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

friend who is not a member of my church posed a hypothetical to me that I continue to ponder: “Your church is hit by a meteor and completely destroyed and can’t be rebuilt. News media come in from all over the nation and start asking the community about the church. What do people in the community tell them your church did?” He wasn’t being critical. He was stripping things down to the essential. It is a critical question every faith community should ask itself. The current pandemic has pulled back the veil on religious congregations and nonprofits alike. Instead of just moving from year to year, taking our mission for granted, we should take a sounding now and then to ask whether our presence does anyone enough good to compel support. We can argue we don’t need to defend our existence to anyone outside our communities of faith, since our validation comes from heaven, not earth. But most religions talk more about earth than heaven, more about this life than the next. So, what’s our role? Some think it’s social welfare. Let the churches take care of the poor and vulnerable, they say. Implicit in our tax-free status is the hope that some of that will happen. But government can do all that without us if it has the will to and is willing to tax us enough to do it. Some think it’s a society for the promotion of good morals. We hope that’s true, but people of faith aren’t always successful at that, as the news almost daily testifies. A good classical education in public schools could do almost as well.

The surge of the delta variant of the COVID-19 virus has polarized America between those who claim their freedom to reject the vaccination and those who want it mandated. We have deep suspicions of authority and trouble thinking about our behavior beyond self-interest. These challenges go beyond left and right. At their best, religious congregations are voluntary communities that model for the wider society what it looks like to trust the truth wherever it may be found and to act on behalf of the common good more than individual freedom. We willingly commit ourselves to each other in covenantal relationship, not just claiming our rights but living up to our responsibilities. We say, in effect, I will not become myself without concern for you. Families do this out of familial affection. But congregations rooted in their faith stories are mediating institutions between the individual and family on the one hand and civil society on the other. We practice neighborliness by our filial love for and deference to one another. One vital purpose of religious congregations is to be a reminder to the wider world of what might be true for all of us if we cared for neighbors and strangers as we do for siblings of blood or spirit. We hope to be influencers for good, avatars of the possible, harbingers of the world of God’s promise. 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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Bible Study 9:15 / Worship Services 10:45 Traditional, Contemporary, Spanish Speaking / 214.860.1500

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

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

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

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

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / Worship 8:30 am - Chapel 10:50 am - Sanctuary / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

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

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

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

METHODIST FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH RICHARDSON

503 N Central Exwy / fumcr.com / 972.235.8385 / Dr. Clayton Oliphint 8:45, 9:45, 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Modern LAKE HIGHLANDS UMC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com

Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee Worship: 8:30 am & 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Contemporary

N O N - D E N O M I N AT I O N A L LAKE POINTE CHURCH – WHITE ROCK CAMPUS

Classic Service at 9:30 & Contemporary Service at 11:00 am lakepointe.org / 9150 Garland Road

PRESBYTERIAN LAKE HIGHLANDS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 214.348.2133

8525 Audelia Road at NW Hwy. / www.lhpres.org 9:00 am Contemporary, 9:55 am Christian Ed., 11:00 am Traditional NORTHPARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 11:00 am Sundays on YouTube

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

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