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By RICK WAMRE

Training your mind on the train

The beauty of seeing nothing on the Heartland Flyer from OKC to Fort Worth

In the midst of reading yet another ponderous article about how North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un believes the U.S. is disrespecting him, and then laboring through the writer’s admonitions about how Kim represents an existential threat to America because of the list of cities he’ll obliterate with the nuclear bombs he may or may not have, I look out the window.

I’m in a train traveling from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth called the Heartland Flyer, which is a clear misnomer since OKC to Fort Worth isn’t “heartland” and the train isn’t flying down the tracks. But as I tear myself away from the latest goings-on in Washington, D.C., and big cities elsewhere, I saw something interesting.

Nothing.

When I say “nothing,” I mean nothing of note, which is not the same thing as saying there’s nothing to see. Instead, I see nothing that matters to me.

If you haven’t ventured outside our city’s breathlessly growing urban playground lately for a train ride through the countryside, I can tell you what you’re missing in one word: Trees. Lots and lots of trees.

We hold trees sacred in Dallas, and they can’t be replaced or altered in any way without drawing someone’s wrath.

In the country, trees line the train tracks like so many birthday candles on grandpa’s cake.

There are other things to see gliding through the country, too. Fields of green and brown and black. Cattle and horses. Worn, old farmsteads abandoned long ago and beaten down by the heat and wind. Mostly deserted downtowns. The occasional oil rig. Mo-

bile homes you can practically reach out and touch. Rusted fences and rusted storage bins and rusted fence posts and rusted cars with bashed-in windshields.

The people getting off and on the train at these remote outposts don’t appear particularly remarkable, either. Parents with small kids who can’t afford to fly. Oilfield workers. Old-timers who can no longer manage the drive up and down Adventure Road’s I-35. Large families traveling together.

They don’t seem worried about Kim’s nuclear arsenal. They likely don’t care about road construction issues in Dallas, or what’s going on with the city’s plan to privatize Fair Park.

To a person, though, people on the train are helpful, if for no other rea-

son than the people running the train aren’t. Helping old people lug heavy bags up and down the train’s narrow, spiraling staircase. Pointing out how to open doors leading from car to car. Commiserating about the inevitability of the train’s late start, late arrival or, more likely, both.

Traveling on a train through forgotten outposts — forgotten, at least, by us city people — is a reminder of how the lives we lead, the concerns we cry about, matter so little to so many.

If North Korea blew Dallas clean off the map, life would go on everywhere else in those places the train glides by.

People in the country are living lives so far from the news — fake or otherwise — they don’t seem to even notice the few minutes it takes the train to lumber by.

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5 THINGS TO DO THIS OCTOBER

AIA home tour

Tour architecturally significant homes all over Dallas, including one on Casa Loma and another on Trammel in East Dallas.

When: Oct. 20-21

Where: Various locations

More info: hometourdallas.com

Pirates on stage

Explore the high seas with swordfights, acrobatics, magic and puppetry, at “Treasure Island Reimagined.” This production is recommended for children 7 and older.

When: Sept. 23-Oct. 21

Where: Dallas Children’s Theater, 5938 Skillman St. More info: dct.org

Time travel

Guests will follow three Victorian travelers through space, time, history, geography, feminism and fashion in WingSpan Theatre Co.’s “On The Verge or The Geography of Yearning.” by Eric Overmyer.

When: Oct. 4-20

Where: Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther Dr. More info: dallasculture.org

Garden tour

See some of the best-tended yards in Dallas when the Dallas County Master Gardeners showcase their work. All proceeds benefit the organization, whose members tend school and community gardens in our neighborhood.

When: Oct. 13

Where: Various locations

More info: dallascountymastergardeners.org

Inside the studio

The 26th-annual White Rock Studio Tour highlights the workspaces and art of more than 50 artists in the area.

When: Oct. 13-14

Where: White Rock Lake area

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UP FRONT

QUIET CONFIDENCE

A teacher empathizes with her deaf students 

By WILL MADDOX / Photos by DANNY FULGENCIO

UP FRONT

Julia Manincor applied for jobs in biotechnology after graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

She received plenty of interest, but her need for a sign-language interpreter dampened prospective employers’ enthusiasm, she says.

Some companies flat-out turned her down. Others accommodated the interviews, but no one hired her.

Manincor did find her calling, though. She is now a teacher of deaf students at James Hogg Elementary in Oak Cliff, but her journey began in East Dallas.

Manincor grew up near and attended Stonewall Jackson Elementary, which was a regional school for the deaf in Dallas ISD. While many deaf students fall behind in elementary school, Manincor managed to stick with her peers. Her sister also is deaf, and their hearing parents learned to sign. They fought for their daughter to stay in high-level classes and receive the accommodations she needed.

About 90 percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents, most of whom don’t learn to sign, according to the National Institute of Health. The median reading level for deaf high-school graduates is equal to an average fourth-grade student, according to a 2012 report in the Journal of Deaf Studies.

education staff in Dallas ISD, only six are deaf or hard of hearing. “There are not a lot of deaf teachers, but I am deaf just like them.”

She teaches kindergarten through fourthgrade students who are deaf and have special needs. Many of them are on the autism spectrum and have language delays. Manincor helps them learn to sign and communicate beyond pointing. “I have seen them slowly improve over the last four years,” she says. “I am excited to see them use language and words and trying to communicate with other friends in class.”

She knows how far deaf people can go in life.

The desire to push herself academically led her to move to the Texas School for the Deaf in Austin, where she boarded through high school. Being surrounded by high-achieving deaf students was a boon to her confidence, and Manincor excelled there while playing soccer and other sports.

After graduating from Rochester and losing interest in biotechnology, she began substitute teaching. Other teachers and administrators encouraged her to become a teacher, so she earned a master’s degree in deaf education at Lamar University in Beaumont before an internship and full-time job at Hogg, one of the deaf education schools in Dallas ISD.

Manincor’s

parents’

commitment to learning helped her develop the vocabulary she needed.

“I don’t know where I would be without that communication,” Manincor signed through an interpreter.

Manincor is profoundly deaf, meaning she hears almost nothing at all on her own. She received hearing aids in elementary school, but they didn’t have much impact. She says she had to work harder than other students to keep up, and there weren’t many deaf students in her classes.

But as a teacher, her hearing loss is an advantage.

“I feel like I can connect with them,” she says of her Hogg students. Of the 102 deaf

Manincor eventually received a cochlear implant and was amazed to hear the rain falling and her steps on the pavement. One day, sitting alone in her house, she realized she could hear the ticking of a clock. “That is so annoying! How do you ignore that?” she says.

Her husband Jeremiah is also deaf, and they have two sons (Caleb, 9, and Joshua, 4) who have normal hearing but know sign language. The family strategically set up mirrors in their house so they can see what the boys are doing behind their backs. She says she enjoys being immersed in the deaf community while existing in a hearing world, and her last four years of teaching have been an important part of that.

“I felt very isolated and alone, but now I feel more involved socially,” she says.

“There are not a lot of deaf teachers, but I am deaf just like them.”

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“Not the Senator” GRAHAM FOUND HIS VOICE

He was running an audio company when a startup called Wondery offered him a gig. The rest is history.

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UP FRONT

Back in high school, Lindsay Graham aka “Not the Senator” was your standard geek with a penchant for listening to, writing and making music. His genre partialities run the gamut — Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Tom Waits — and inspired his life’s soundtrack.

He launched a local music podcast long before Ira Glass made the medium mainstream. Graham played (primarily) guitar in Timmy and the Sinister Clan, a teenage “circus-y rock band” that coined seven original songs and played exactly two shows, Graham says. These ventures, propagated little popularity or prosperity, but his passion-driven pursuits put him on a path leading there.

Serendipity and imprecise preparation proved pivotal to Graham’s current success as the host of the hit podcast “American History Tellers.”

Perhaps it arose with Comedy Central’s “Drunk History,” wherein a cast of celebrities reenacts historical events while an inebriated guest-star narrates, or Lin-Manuel Miranda’s portrayal of Alexander Hamilton as plucky, sharp-witted, rapping/singing, swaggering badboy romantic.

Whatever the root, history went hip.

“I hadn’t thought about the history-as-beingtrendy angle,” Graham says, considering the suggestion. But he was aware of a closely related societal shift: “The acceptance of nerd culture.”

He expounds, “You can be as geeky as you want today. We have license to publicly show enthusiasm for history” … or science and topics once reserved for dudes who sat alone at lunch.

Then there was the great podcast craze of 2014. It came some years after Graham graduated University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia (the town fueled his fascination with American lore).

Graham’s aforementioned audio outfit operated in a Junius Heights home and secured work for Wondery, a podcast network started in 2016. Today it claims some of its industry’s biggest buzz building shows.

But this was before Wondery became the “prominent podcast producers,” as USA Today puts it. Eventually the Wondery crew beckoned Graham and his inviting baritone voice to narrate “American History Tellers.” He could compose the score, an essential piece of podcast production, too. He recognized the catchiest podcasts “possessed a certain musicality,” proper pacing, he says.

A paid opportunity to combine his foremost obsessions and skills? “I grabbed it,” he says. Graham dubs the series “pop history, rooted in entertainment.”

Its stupendous reception is a testament to powerful storytelling.

“Imagine you’re a tavern keeper in Liverpool in year 1776 …,” “Imagine it’s 1794. You’re a Scottish immigrant …,” — this is Graham’s trademark intro. What follows is an examination of critical events, eras, and people that shaped the United States, delivered by your coolest-ever and most sanguine professor. He maintains this infectious faith that we still can learn from our past and live better.

Graham — and his relatively small team of researchers, writers, editors — turns lessons about the Cold War, space race and prohibition, for example, into dramas with complex characters, binge-worthy plots. Storytelling sans imagery can be challenging, he says. For example, he feared the National Parks episode might be a bore, without those majestic visuals Ken Burns had at his disposal. He was wrong. Now a six-part series, “It turned out amazing.”

He voices episodes out of the East Dallas studio and lives in Lochwood with wife Libby and 3-year-old daughter.

He doesn’t plan to move to LA seeking superstardom, he says, though he did fly there once to meet the Wondery team. “That was a great experience,” he says. “It upped everyone’s motivation.”

A new podcast, “American Scandal,” is on the horizon. “The format will be similar [to AHT], but we dive deeper into scandalous, salacious events,” Graham says. Think steroids corruption, Eliot Spitzer, Iran Contra.

“I got in early,” he says. “It’s been a ride.”

“You can be as geeky as you want today. We have license to publicly show enthusiasm for history.”

By WILL MADDOX

This Maltese just loves to say “cheese.” EBONY is DIANNE RAMOS’ furry friend who has never met a camera she didn’t like. When she hears “Instagram” or “Facebook,” she smiles and poses just so. Ramos agreed to foster Ebony when the pup was just six months old, but she foster-failed, and they have been together ever since. Neighbors can find Ebony strutting her stuff to the Lakewood Starbucks or chasing ducks at White Rock Lake. She is not even 2 years old but always makes her opinion known when she isn’t getting her way. She loves trips to the beach and isn’t afraid of big waves, but is just as happy in her own doggie pool at home, where she sports her doggo bikini in summer.

5731 Swiss Ave. and Harryette Ehrhardt have many stories to tell

HARRYETTE EHRHARDT AND HER HUSBAND, JACK, bought the house at 5731 Swiss Ave. in 1970, when the neighborhood was nothing like the pristine row of mansions it is today. The homes were in disarray, and Ehrhardt called it an inner city slum. Parts of the street had been purchased by developers and were set to become apartments. But it was a neighborhood where her children could go to integrated schools in very segregated Dallas, and they made the street their own. Built in 1919 for Theodore Marcus,

brother of Herbert Marcus (of Neiman Marcus), the home’s next owners were the Van Winkle family, who owned a Pontiac dealership. The Ehrhardts were the third owners, purchasing the house for $30,000, with the adjacent empty lot running them $35,000. They discounted the lot with the house, as it was assumed the home would be torn down. As a teacher, SMU professor, Dallas ISD school board trustee and state representative, Ehrhardt made it her home, and it has quite a story to tell.

1 THIRD FLOOR APARTMENT

Originally home for the live-in maid, the efficiency apartment hosted numerous foreign exchange students over the years, as well as recent graduates and political operatives on many of the campaigns that Harryette Ehrhardt helped coordinate over the years.

2 GUEST BEDROOM Glen Maxey, the first openly gay member of the Texas legislature, would often stay at Ehrhardt’s home while in Dallas. It also housed political volunteers who would camp out and sleep on the floor while working campaigns here.

3 SECOND FLOOR OFFICE During a 1984 event for Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice presidential candidate in history, Ferraro came down with an eye infection. Ehrhardt’s late husband, Jack, was an eye surgeon, and treated her infection right in the office.

4 DINING ROOM Meeting with famous Dallas oilman H.L. Hunt’s wife Helen Hunt, Ehrhardt helped form the Dallas Women’s Foundation, which is the largest regional women’s foundation in the country and helps raise money to support women and improve opportunities for women in North Texas.

A plan to keep East Dallas students in the neighborhood was born during the integration of Dallas schools. The plan said naturally integrated neighborhoods like East Dallas could not be split apart to integrate other segregated areas of town. It became the law of the land after the Supreme Court ruled in their favor.

By WILL MADDOX

5 LIVING ROOM Nancy Pelosi held an event while running for Congress, and a stage was built for her to help mask her short stature. In 1982, then future governor Ann Richards attended a meeting of the Dallas Women’s Political Caucus, which was formed in the home after the Equal Rights Amendment failed to be ratified. 1984 Presidential candidate Walter Mondale’s wife Joan also hosted an event here, and the decorations were hustled down the street to decorate a neighbor’s house hosting an event for Mondale’s opponent’s wife, Barbara Bush.

With the help of former Dallas mayor Wallace Savage, the Historic Preservation League (which became Preservation Dallas) was formed to try and protect Dallas’ architectural history in 1972. The Swiss Avenue Historic District was also part of the process, protecting the historic estates in the area.

6 CARRIAGE HOUSE Originally home to the cook and manservant (whose job was to shovel coal into the furnace all day in the winter), a group of flower children inhabited the space when the Ehrhardt’s moved in. They had been squatting in the main house, painting it saffron pink, and cut holes in the doors so that they could check on each other during their drug trips.

7 SOLARIUM After sitting next to each other at a Turtle Creek Chroale performance, Ehrhardt and former first lady Laura Bush scheduled a private lunch in the addition. Bush was Ehrhardt’s student when she attended SMU, and the two remain friends despite political differences. Laura Bush honored Ehrhardt by dedicating the library at Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Middle School to Ehrhardt.

WHEN ABRAMS WAS GREENVILLE

At what was once the edge of town in the 1920s, the train tracks ran parallel to what was then Greenville Road, not to be confused with Greenville Avenue. The cross street looks to be about where Richmond Avenue crosses Abrams, between the Whole Foods and Chipotle in modern day Lakewood. A sign warns commuters of a road closure ahead, and how they would have to find another way to Garland Road. Greenville Road was eventually changed to Abrams, named after a developer who helped build homes in the area. Storefronts, a streetcar

and a couple vintage vehicles can be seen up the road, with two water tanks beyond. The water storage tanks were known as the Twin Standpipes and were built to provide water for the exploding neighborhood in the 1920s. They stood at the corner of Greenville and what was then Aqueduct Avenue, Goliad and Abrams today. The standpipes were each 100 feet tall and 60 feet wide. A 1923 Dallas Morning News article details how the new towers would ensure adequate water pressure for the Lakewood area. —WILL MADDOX

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WHAT GIVES

East Dallas loves to keep its dollars local, including charity. Here are a couple ways you can give back to the neighborhood this month while exercising and appreciating the unqiue chatacter of the neighborhood.

Short run for Long

The family friendly Long run will start and end at J.L. Long Middle School, and will run down Santa Fe Trail and East Dallas neighborhoods. There will be 5k and 1k routes, starting at 5 p.m. to benefit J.L. Long Middle School. Afterward, enjoy food, refreshments and entertainment at the school. Entry fee includes T-shirt and a meal. Proceeds from the race have benefitted the International Baccalureate program, instruments for band and orchestra, entrance fees for competitions and new science labs.

When: Oct. 18

Where: J.L. Long Middle School, 6116 Reiger Ave.

More info: jllong.com

Price: $25

Party on the porch

Dallas PorchFest is an old-fashioned block party with live music and artist showcases, plus food and drinks for sale. Walk the historic neighborhood from house to house, listening to live music, purchasing drinks and food along the way. This year, 16 local bands perform on historic front porches. All proceeds benefit Peak’s Addition neighborhood programs and beautification. Last year, the event raised $18,000 for the neighborhood. They are always looking for more musicians and artisans, so check out the website below to get more involved.

When: Oct. 20

Where: 4300 block of Junius Ave.

More info: dallasporchfest.org

Price: free

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Neighbors can enjoy LDU’s toasted pumpkin bread and flat white along with an energetic atmosphere.

Owners Mark and Adam Lowes want LDU Coffee to feel more like a sports bar than a study hall.

They blast hip-hop over the speakers Saturday mornings. They memorize customers’ names and orders. Laptops certainly are allowed, but they’d prefer you bring your friends instead.

“We want to feel a pulse,” Adam says.

LDU is the Lowes brothers’ first foray into the American coffee scene. They ran espresso bars for a decade in Western Australia, where, incidentally, Texans often ventured in. One

suggested they open up shop in the Lone Star State. The Lowes already loved the blues, craft beer and tacos.

“We legit feel like we were born here,” Mark says.

For six months, they scouted locations in Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Dallas before choosing a space below a Fitzhugh Avenue apartment complex. The area of East Dallas met all of their requirements: walkable, near a major highway and without an independent coffee shop.

“We never talked about anywhere but Dallas,” Mark says.

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“We liked the feeling and general optimism of the city.”

LDU’s menu follows a simple formula: find something people enjoy and do it right every time, Mark says. They offer lattes, flat whites, cappuccinos and mochas made with White Rock Coffee beans, although they speak fluent Starbucks and will customize anyone’s order. Grilled sandwiches include the vegetarian Beam Me Up, Scotty ($7) and the turkey-cheddar-and-aioli Sí Sí ($7).

“We just make good coffee,” Mark says. “We’re not going to win people over doing lavish lattes.”

Australian coffee culture borrows heavily from Italy, where grabbing a cup is a social endeavor. Mark hopes LDU brings a slice of that culture to East Dallas and serves as a grab-and-go alternative to Starbucks.

“We’re hoping to bring something more vibrant and with a little more movement to the scene,” he says.

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How East Dallas neighbors are shaping the park between the levees

BY WILL MADDOX PHOTOS BY DANNY FULGENCIO

rom the ashes of several iterations of Trinity river design, a nonprofit organization called the Trinity Park Conservancy is leading the charge in fundraising, designing and seeking public input about what a park between the Trinity River levees should be. The park will be developed in a public-private partnership between the city and the conservancy, called a Local Government Corporation.

Trinity Park Conservancy President, CEO and East Dallas neighbor Brent Brown has been involved with the Trinity project for years, and now he is leading the charge for a park between the levees.

Brown says he wants to turn the green space into something that stitches the city together and entices Dallasites from both sides of the Trinity. “The park is a vehicle,” he says. “Yes, we are building a park, but we are also building a city.”

Brown founded bcWorkshop, a nonprofit design firm that sought to improve life in Dallas. He also worked for CityDesign Studio, where he helped guide design for the City of Dallas from 2011-2017.

Designing a park in a flood plain will require a unique sensitivity to nature. “There is a tension between the natural forces surrounding our river and the physical construction and management of the space,” he says. “Nature is fighting to have it be less manmade. We are going to build a park, and it is going to flood.”

But there are opponents to the very idea of the Trinity Park Conservancy who have other visions

RIGHT: Brent Brown

the TRINITY?

for the space, including rewilding.

HISTORICAL CURRENTS

On May 24, 1908, Biblical rain soaked Dallas with devastating consequences. A 1957 Dallas Morning News article described it. “The leaden heavens continued to send down torrents of rain as the day wore on,” causing the Trinity River to crest at 52.6 feet. It knocked out the city’s power and water supplies and displaced 4,000 people from their homes. A police horse drowned on McKinney Avenue, and three people died when the rushing water took out the railroad viaduct where they were watching the raging flow. The waters paralyzed the city for days.

Since the 1800s, the river has both frustrated and captured the imagination of Dallasites. In 1910, urban planner George Kessler designed a plan to unbend the river and build levees to prevent such a flood from happening again.

In the 1920s, engineers straightened the river, allowing it to flood between the levees and flow quickly downstream, protecting a Downtown that regularly flooded. Today, the Trinity runs in a straight southwest path just

“Harold Simmons Park will deliver the opportunity where the community can really engage and experience true urbanism as a park.”

west of Downtown, dividing it from Oak Cliff. Most of the year, it remains a small band inside its banks, with expansive floodplains on either side and levees rising beyond. Every so often, heavy rains will cause the river to flood its banks, at times making its way up the levees.

Dallas leaders once envisioned a highway in the flood plain. Over a couple decades, Dallas and the infamous Trinity Toll Road were the Ross and Rachel of North Texas development. Voters approved it twice, but after East Dallas Councilwoman Angela Hunt led a charge against putting a highly trafficked road in a flood plain, public opinion and leadership turned against the toll road. The toll road plan had one last fling and finally was put to bed last year.

Other than simple trails along the levees and down near the river, the area remains relatively undeveloped. At one point there was an ill-fated $4 million “standing wave” installed into the river. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers determined that feature made the river unnavigable, and the city removed it earlier this year at a cost of $2 million.

The latest vision is Harold Simmons Park, a 200-acre flood-friendly park between the le-

REID SLAUGHTER D.D.S.

vees, running from the Ron Kirk Pedestrian Bridge in the north to the Margaret McDermott Bridge in the south. The Simmons family donated $10 million toward the development of the park, with $40 million more to come if the organization meets governance and fundraising goals.

IF HOUSTON COULD DO IT…

The East Dallas neighbors who play key roles in the park’s development and direction don’t always agree what $200 million should pay for along the banks of the river.

What should a park that floods look like? There are precedents. Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston is made to flood and managed by a government and nonprofit partnership, though it is smaller. Buffalo Bayou includes nature trails, a dog park, a skate park and more, running along the floodprone bayou near downtown.

World-renowned landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh’s firm will be the landscape architects for the park, but the exact elements and design are still unclear and open to input from Dallas residents.

East Dallas neighbor Cris Jordan sits on the conservancy’s CommunityEngagement Committee, which has

representatives from all over Dallas. Jordan says her role is about inclusivity for all of Dallas and getting the community to participate in the design and enjoyment of the park. “Harold Simmons Park will deliver the opportunity where the community can really engage and experience true urbanism as a park,” she says. “We get the message out and invite people into the process.”

Jordan knows that even though the park is not in East Dallas, the neighborhood appreciates the preservation and enjoyment of natural spaces. “We treasure our treasures,” she says.

The conservancy is seeking input with a series of events throughout the fall to ask the city how they use the space now and what they would like to see in the future. Hikes, bike rides and community meetings throughout the fall

“For rewilding, the money is already there. That would be so low-cost.”

SCOTT GRIGGS CITY COUNCILMAN

provide opportunities for attendees to share design ideas, better understand the timeline and learn how to get involved.

IS REWILDING THE WAY TO GO?

Not everyone is sold on the idea. District 14 City Councilman Philip Kingston has been a vocal opponent of the toll road from the beginning of his time on Council, and he doesn’t trust that the Trinity Park Conservancy is the right organization for the job.

Kingston says Brown’s CityDesign Studio showed support for a toll road. As proof, he notes that CityDesign Studio selected a plan for a contest, The Connected City Design Challenge, by a Spanish firm that included a toll road in its renderings.

“Brent Brown has no more cred in that job than Harold Simmons would have,” he says, referring to the businessman and philanthropist who died in 2013 and made millions storing and destroying radioactive waste. “It is in the hands of the same people.”

But Brown is proud of his connection to the Trinity plans. He says he never personally advocated for a toll road and is against one now. He is building out a team of local firms to advise on the construction of the park, including hydrologists and experts in blackland prairies.

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Kingston says the group’s working vision is coming from the wrong place, and he leans in favor of “rewilding” the Trinity. “They have a negative history of not being in favor of a vibrant natural space.”

City Councilman Scott Griggs of Oak Cliff says a simple park with a natural landscape doesn’t have to cost $200 million. “For rewilding, the money is already there. That would be so low-cost.”

Kevin Sloan, a local landscape architect on the park’s design committee, advocates for rewilding in other places, which he says is “any project that begins first by identifying the program of natural life” and would “accommodate permanent and migratory wildlife, wetlands and blackland prairie.”

Rewilding begins with the natural order of things rather than prioritizing humans. Sloan already is working to rewild an adjacent section of the river, which he sees as a good partner for Simmons Park. “Cross pollination between the two projects is happening.”

Brown wants to create access to the river bottom while connecting it to the community, balancing natural existence with recreational

enjoyment. “It has to work in the context of flooding. Our approach is the most pragmatic to date.”

Brown says there will be urban access points, as well as natural parts of the park, including rewilding the wetlands and prairie. “To assume those approaches would be absent from Harold Simmons Park is false,” Brown says.

Over the next few years, neighbors will see whether the river that once paralyzed Dallas can transform into a green space for everyone. Brown says his organization wants to finish the design and break ground by 2020, completing the park in 2022.

“Trust is a huge factor,” he says. “We don’t expect people just to trust us. We don’t earn it by telling people, but by doing things, listening and evolving.”

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GASTON-GARLAND-GRAND

The intersection needs a redesign, but that’s about all neighbors can agree on

A CAR HEADING NORTH ON GRAND AVENUE IN EAST DALLAS cruises through the rolling green hills around Tenison Park Golf Course, moves to turn left on Gaston Avenue toward downtown. The driver is met with a convoluted situation.

When the left turn arrow indicates it is time to move, the vehicle proceeds onto westbound Gaston and toward Lakewood. But wait. A yield sign appears. Surely it can’t be for the turning vehicles; there are others behind it in the middle of the intersection. The yield must be for the cars turning right from Garland Road onto Gaston. Right?

Wrong. That yield is for the left-turn vehicles, causing confusion and accidents to reign at Gaston-Garland-Grand.

More than 30,000 vehicles pass through the intersection each day, according to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), and it desperately needs a redesign. Because

Garland and Grand are Texas State Highway 78, the redesign project is a collaboration between the City of Dallas and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), which is providing most of the funding for the project. The intersection also connects three city council districts, two Texas House districts and two Texas Senate districts, further complicating the matter.

TxDOT began holding meetings about the $5.3 million project in May 2016 and presented six options in a consensus building meeting

Story by WILL MADDOX / Photo by DANNY FULGENCIO

NEIGHBORS AGAINST OPTION 2

NEIGHBORS FOR OPTION 2

later in the year. Attendees chose the “Reverse T,” which creates crosswalks, removes the protected right-turn lane from Garland to Gaston and does away with the straight-away lane that transitions from Grand to Garland, curving parts of the intersection to slow down traffic.

Advantages

Row Needed Existing Row Proposed Construction Proposed bridge Widening Proposed Overlay Proposed Sidewalk Possible Landscaping

Favors

Three lanes

The City of Dallas is contributing $1.1 million toward the project as well, and the staff submitted a letter of preference for the Reverse T, or Option 2. But no sooner had the design been chosen than neighbors started offering alternative options and complaining about what the plan would do to traffic in their neighborhoods.

NEIGHBORS AGAINST OPTION 2

Advantages

Grand/Garland

Gaston Avenue, asking neighbors to “Say no to Option 2” to keep children and streets safe. A group called the Lakewood Citizens for Responsible Traffic (LCFRT) is behind the effort. They are lobbying for a more traditional T intersection, which they say will maintain current traffic flow toward Gaston Avenue from Garland Road rather than increase it. LCRFT’s website encourages neighbors to write TxDOT and their local and statewide representatives in order to choose another option. A public vote is not part of the process, but the effort drew the attention of TxDOT and local leaders.

First, representatives of a group called the East Dallas Coalition of Neighborhoods showed up at a public meeting, distributing materials about how much traffic the design would push onto Gaston and through East Dallas. They offered an alternative design that had one right turn lane from Garland to Gaston, hoping to guide traffic toward I-30 rather than through their neighborhood.

Swiss Avenue neighbor Virginia McAlester helped organize the coalition and described their perspective. “Both Garland Road and East Grand are State Highway 78, and both have six lanes, medians and left-turn lanes. East Grand even has wide grassy medians and shoulders for additional safety. Gaston only has four lanes and it is a residential collector to serve local residents and businesses – not highway traffic, even though that is where most of it goes even today.”

Months later, red, white and blue yard signs appeared on

Gaston/Garland traffic pattern

 Advantages

“It has been a sham of a public process from the beginning,” Philip Kingston, City Council member of District 14, says of TxDOT’s path toward choosing the design. He and Mark Clayton, City Council member of District 9, say they are working toward finding a compromise.

Some traffic gaps on Garland Rd

Continuous route Arboretum Provides traffic gaps on Garland Rd.

By the City of Dallas’ own measures, Gaston is already over capacity. According to the city’s T horoughfare Plan, Gaston Avenue is designated as a “Community Collector,” which is supposed to max out at 14,000 vehicles per day but actually bears the weight of over 20,000 cars each day. Garland/Grand is considered a six-lane principal arterial, which is meant to hold 21,000 vehicles per day. For LCFRT, it doesn’t make sense to continue to overload Gaston with Option 2, whose path makes it easier to turn onto westbound Gaston and requires a left turn to stay on Grand from southbound Gaston.

WHY OTHERS PREFER THE REVERSE T

But representatives of TxDOT says that neither of the options will increase traffic. In an email, TxDOT’s public information

“It has been a sham of a public process from the beginning.”

”They mean well, but they aren’t looking at the entire area.”

TxDOT presented several options at early Gaston-Garland-Grand meetings, and Option 2 (above right) came out on top.

officer Michelle Raglon wrote that the traffic assumptions underlying LCFRT’s main argument are incorrect. “Option 2 doesn’t push more traffic onto Gaston, because Gaston is not being widened,” Raglon wrote. “It only helps with reducing intersection delay.Since this project is not adding capacity, a significant change in the traffic pattern is not expected. The traffic analysis performed assumes that both options have the same traffic volumes.”

Other neighbors who have been involved from the beginning think the Option 2, or the Reverse T, is the right choice. John Botefuhr is an East Dallas neighbor, business owner and former president of the Friends of the Santa Fe Trail. He helped jumpstart the intersection redesign several years ago and has been involved in all the public meetings about the area.

As businesses arrive in the area and East Dallas becomes denser, he wants the intersection to be safer and more efficient for everyone, not just for those who live on Gaston. As a result, he favors the original Reverse T plan. He says the shorter crosswalks and reduction of commercial traffic attempting to use Garland-Grand to get to I-30 will have an impact on the safety of the intersection. “They mean well, but they aren’t looking at the entire area,” he says of the opponents to Option 2.

TxDOT representatives believe the Reverse T is the most efficient way to manage traffic at the intersection and say the project has evolved. “The tweaks that have been made have come from several sources.”

Another public hearing is planned sometime this fall. No date had been announced as this magazine went to press. Neighbors and elected officials may comment from a microphone and provide written feedback at that time, potentially leaving open the possibility of changes and continuing to leave the project in a state of limbo.

“Staff will make the best engineering decision on the project with the least amount of impacts on the community,” TxDOT representatives say. “Voting on road projects is not a part of the public involvement process.”

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MORE THAN A MEAL

WHEN JESSICA MARTINEZ WAS YOUNG, her family didn’t always have enough food to eat. Now she’s helping others with the same challenges.

Martinez came with her mother to the Emanuel Community Center (ECC) food pantry, which distributed meals to working families in Old East Dallas. A group of Swedish immigrants had founded Emanuel Lutheran Church in 1906.

Martinez and her mother received food, and ECC was a safe place for her. “We used to come for the food and at Christmas. I liked it. It felt calm,” she says. But her mother’s limited English meant Martinez acted as a translator. She remembers having to look up every word in a dictionary, but the college student doesn’t need to anymore. “Now I am basically a dictionary for my mom,” she says.

But language isn’t all that has changed since the college freshman came to the community center with her mother. She now volunteers there once a week in between her

classes at El Centro College. She interviews families to assess their needs. She asks about their food insecurity, income, family size and other demographic information.

The interview is part of a tool ECC implemented with UT Southwestern nutritionists. This includes generating unique shopping lists for individual families based on their needs and providing information about how to prepare the food.

ECC serves dozens of families a month in this way, but it is much more than a hand out. The institution has partnered with

“We used to come for the food and at Christmas. I liked it. It felt calm.”

Story by WILL MADDOX / Photos by DANNY FULGENCIO

Jessica Martinez used to receive food from Emanuel Community Center, but she now volunteers to help others.

Crossroads Community Services to provide more fresh fruits and vegetables than one might expect at a food pantry. One Tuesday morning this fall, about 15 volunteers arranged large sacks of carrots, spring mix salad and other fruits while soul music played on the church’s back porch. “We wanted to expand what the food pantry could be,” says ECC Board Member and volunteer Andrea McCauley.

The center connects clients with Agape Clinic’s dental services and other medical assistance. It also coordinates with other area churches to optimize distribution. In addition to the perishable groceries distributed to the families, the group sends food to homebound elderly and packages that don’t need to be cooked or refrigerated to individuals experiencing homelessness.

The church’s neighborhood has changed several times since 1906, and the encroaching development is pricing out many of the lower-income families that used to populate the area. But ECC’s doors are open to everyone. The center also runs a back to school fair, summer reading program, neighborhood carnival and more. “We need to evolve to face the changing needs of the neighborhood,” McCauley says.

Pat McDonald has been a member in the church for more than 50 years and remembers when the food

EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER BY THE NUMBERS

EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER SERVES

88

HOUSEHOLDS EACH MONTH AND

253

INDIVIDUALS. IN MARCH, THE CHURCH RECEIVED

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pantry started in the 1980s. Over the years, ECC has partnered with other churches such as Munger Place and Greenland Hills United Methodist Church to help provide volunteers and resources. She is a team leader for the food pantry and has been volunteering with her husband for 10 years. “We love being around people and we love helping people,” she says. “The big question is, ‘Where do we go from here?’ We want to help uplift and make life better for others.”

One place to go is the cooking class for community members, using the church’s kitchen to help teach families how to cook in a healthier manner.

As is often the case with volunteer organizations, those who give to the organization often get just as much out of the experience as the clients. Martinez remembers being on the other side of the conversation when she was little, and it helps her appreciate how fortunate she is.

THE AVERAGE MONTHLY INCOME PER CLIENT HOUSEHOLD IS

$872.78

Source: Emanuel Community Center

“I feel responsible, more mature,” she says of her role as a volunteer. “There are people who have less than what I do, and I should do something for them. I plan to be here for many years.”

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By PATTI VINSON

The haunting in historic Junius Heights

The Carroll family claims so many unusual happenings in their homes that they have padlocked and avoided rooms

If you live in the historic Junius Heights neighborhood, you may need to stock up on bundles of sage and cans of blue paint for the fall. The spirits are restless, according to Shawn Carroll, who has lived on Tremont Street his entire life and owns almost 50 properties in the area. Carroll continues to experience ghostly occurrences and unexplained events. He and his family members, as well as folks renting his properties, have tales to tell. Creepy ones.

“Time to pull the sage out,” he says, laughing, as he explains that he sees a definite increase in paranormal activity from September through November. Adopting the Native-American practice of burning sage, he ritually cleanses his home with the herb at least annually, sometimes more often. He believes that burning sage rids people and spaces of negative energy and spirits.

Carroll also adds “haint blue” paint to the ceiling of his porch and the porches of all his properties. “Haint” is a corruption of “haunt,” and the light blue shade and belief in its power derive from African slaves, he says. Legend has it that ghosts cannot cross water, and the blue is thought to trick the spirits, warding them off.

But some spirits are stubborn, Carroll says. Since moving into their Craftsman cottage, Shawn and family hear disembodied cries at one window. Even visitors to the home have heard the cries and ask about them. A bit of research by the family revealed that two young boys died in a fire and were found huddled by that window.

Carroll and his wife, Mary, can offer no explanation for an energy that seemed to

linger in a back bedroom. The room served as a nursery for their oldest daughter, Macy, whom they often found watching and babbling with someone in the room. When they later put another daughter’s crib in the room, she, too, followed something with her eyes, but she often cried out in terror. Family pets refused to enter the room. As a result, Carroll tore down the room. “Down to the dirt,” he says. “But it didn’t work. It moved upstairs.”

Daughter Grace, now 15, tells several stories about the room. When she was 7, a closet door facing her bed often opened by itself, revealing a little girl or a tall man wearing a top hat. One morning, she found three deep scratches on her chest and three on her arm. Grace tells the stories matter-of-factly.

“You grow up with them,” she says.

Directly above that space is a bedroom, which is now padlocked from the outside and unoccupied. The family says it frequently hears chairs rolling around, drawers and closet doors opening and closing and heavy footsteps.

Another bedroom downstairs has become “The Room No One Will Sleep In.” Several of the Carroll children who slept in the room years ago reported seeing orbs of light every night.

Macy remembers an incident she calls “The Ax Man.” She was 13, when she began waking up every night at about 3 a.m. One night, she heard a sound like “a rake on concrete,” followed by “an ax chopping wood.” As the noises traveled higher on the outside wall, she screamed, went outside and found no one. A few weeks later, Macy had a friend over for a sleepover. The friend, who knew nothing of the incident, woke Macy up during the night, terrified. She described the same sounds.

“I had seen my dad being nonchalant about the experiences, so I had the same attitude,” Macy says.

After purchasing and beginning renovation of a house on Victor Street, Carroll was sitting in the kitchen one day when he says he saw “a milky-colored, see-through woman, about 5 feet

Another bedroom downstairs has become “The Room No One Will Sleep In.”

Carroll says this headstone was found on one of his Juius Heights properties (Photo by Danny Fulgencio).

tall, peering around the kitchen doorway. Then I saw her floating across the living room.” He called out, “I saw you!” and the figure “darted back across my view quickly.” A while later, he heard knocking at the door, and as he approached the door, it opened by itself. “I must admit this scared me a bit,” he says.

Upon completing renovation, he rented the house to Ryan Rynbrandt and Jessi Kennedy, never mentioning the ghostly woman. A few months later, Kennedy asked Carroll if anything had ever happened in the house. “When we first moved in,” Kennedy says, “I would see things out of the corner of my eye — like someone was moving very quickly across the room. It always seemed like it was a small-framed shorter person. It never felt uncomfortable, just eerie.” They have also heard noises coming from a downstairs room. “Many times, I hear something that sounds like the entire shelf just fell over, but when we go in nothing has been disturbed,” Rynbrandt says. “This happens frequently.”

Eeriest of all, however, was a sighting by Rynbrandt at a party held at his home. Carroll attended, and Rynbrandt says he was sober. It wasn’t a scary or menacing feeling. Quite the opposite. She seemed very happy. But it was definitely disconcerting.”

PATTI VINSON is a guest writer who has lived in East Dallas for more than 15 years. She’s written for the Advocate and Real Simple magazine.

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Won’t you be my neighbor?

Acouple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary was asked the secret of marriage. She replied, “When he proposed, he got down on a knee, looked me in the eyes and said, ‘Will you have a conversation with me for the rest of our lives?’ ”

Twenty years ago this month I started a conversation with you about our life together in these parts of Dallas. It may seem to you that you are reading the musings of a minister as if listening to a sermon preached to no one in particular. But that isn’t how I have written these 240 columns thus far.

Each month, I have imagined you on the other end of a conversation, the Advocate in your lap, nodding in agreement or shaking your head in disagreement with my prose or my pose of this idea or that.

A favorite experience across these years has been bumping into you in the neighborhood and hearing your appreciation for the pieces. These columns have been a free gift, an expression of my love for our community and my desire for it to be all it can be.

It’s also been an exercise in public theology; that is, how religious convictions can contribute to the common good — how belief and community are tied together, even when beliefs conflict. Religion, after all, comes from a root meaning “to tie together, to refasten or rebind” what has been separated, broken or frayed.

Some people ironically and tragically use faith to dominate others and diminish them. Faith should drive us toward, not away from, one another. “Love your neighbor” is a universal religious duty. Faith is a way of seeing the world as it should be, and then it’s the courage to act with God to bring it to pass.

Too often faith is viewed as something strictly private. We wrongly assume the separation of church and state means we are on the polite side of the law only when

we keep our faith to ourselves. Authentic faith is always personal but never private. It fires our imagination about public life, about how we live with people on our street, in our state and across all borders. It expands the soul to embrace greater difference. It works to turn the other into another.

WORSHIP

BAPTIST

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Christian Education 9:45 a.m. / Worship Service 10:55 a.m.

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WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

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

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

LUTHERAN

CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

A Welcoming and Affirming Church / Pastor Rich Pounds

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METHODIST

GRACE UMC / Diverse, Inclusive, Missional

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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

MUNGER PLACE CHURCH/ Come & See

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Faith teaches us that a flourishing life begins with divine gift, rather than human achievement. As the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins put it, “There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.”

There is enough for all of us. We don’t have to compete to live well; we only have to cooperate. Faith reaches out a hand to hold in comfort, to lift up in aid, or to shake in friendship.

Thanks to a recent documentary, we have been blessed by a revival of the spirit of Fred Rogers, who, through his PBS television show, helped children and parents alike learn the meaning of quiet kindness. His signature phrase is a good summary of my aspiration for these columns: Won’t you be my neighbor?

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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PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 9800 Preston Road 8:15 am Chapel, 9:30 & 11:00 am Sanctuary, 5:00 pm Founder’s Hall Senior Pastor Matthew E. Ruffner / www.phpc.org / 214.368.6348

ST. ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN / / 3204 Skillman St. Rev. Rob Leischner / www.standrewsdallas.org

214.821.9989 / Sunday School 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am

UNITY

UNITY ON GREENVILLE / Your soul is welcome here! 3425 Greenville Ave. / 214.826.5683 / www.dallasunity.org

Sunday Service 11:00 am and Metaphysical Bible Study 9:30 am

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AC & HEAT

Air Conditioning

Foam Encapsulation • Insulation

Smart Home Solutions Service & Sales

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A MAID FOR YOU Bonded/Insured.Park Cities/ M Streets Refs. Call Us First. Joyce 214-232-9629

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MAC/PC Great Rates. Keith. 214-295-6367

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CONCRETE/MASONRY/PAVING

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Tuck Pointing / Crack Repair. Mortar Color Matching. Don 214-704-1722

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CONCRETE, Driveway Specialist Repairs, Replacement, Removal, References. Reasonable. Chris 214-770-5001

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FLAGSTONE PATIOS, Retaining Walls, BBQ’s, Veneer, Flower Bed Edging, All Stone work. Chris 214-770-5001

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4 QUALITY FENCING • 214-507-9322 Specializing in Wood, New or Repair.

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UNITED GARAGE DOORS AND GATES Res/Com. Locally Owned. 214-251-5428

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LAKE HIGHLANDS GLASS & MIRROR frameless shower enclosures • store fronts replacement windows • mirrors 214-349-8160

PRO WINDOW CLEANING prompt, dependable. Matt 214-766-2183

ROCK GLASS CO Replace, repair: windows, mirrors, showers, screens. 214-837-7829

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ALL STAR HOME CARE Carpentry, Paint, Doors, Sheetrock Repair, and more. 25 yrs. exp. References. Derry 214-505-4830

BO HANDYMAN Specializing In Historic Home Renovations & Pro Remodels. Custom Carpentry, Doors, Kitchens, Baths & more. 214-437-9730

HANDY DAN The Handyman. ToDo’s Done Right. handy-dan.com 214-252-1628

HANDYMAN SPECIALIST Residential/ Commercial. Large, small jobs, repair list, renovations. Refs. 214-489-0635

HOME REPAIR HANDYMAN Small/Big Jobs + Construction. 30 Yrs. Exp. Steve. 214-875-1127

HOMETOWN HANDYMAN All phases of construction. No job too small 214-327-4606

HONEST, SKILLED SERVICE With a Smile. General Repairs/ Maintenance. 214-215-2582

FLOORING & CARPETING

CALL EMPIRE TODAY To Schedule A Free In -Home Estimate On Carpeting & Flooring. 1-800-508-2824

DALLAS HARDWOODS 214-724-0936

Installation, Repair, Refinish, Wax, Hand Scrape. Residential, Commercial. Sports Floors. 30 Yrs.

FENN CONSTRUCTION Manufactored hardwoods. Stone and Tile. Back-splash Specials. 214-343-4645

HASTINGS STAINED CONCRETE New/Remodel. Stain/Wax Int/Ext. Nick. 214-341-5993. www.hastingsfloors.com

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MINTON HOME REPAIRS Handyman & Remodeling Services. 214-862-1019

ONE CALL WEEKEND SERVICES Contractor & Handyman. Remodels, Renovations . Paint, Plumbing, Drywall, Electrical.469-658-9163

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HOME SECURITY

SAFES For Guns, Home or Business. We Offer a Large Selection Plus Consultation & In-Home Delivery. Visit Our Showroom. 972-272-9788 thesafecompany.com

HOUSE PAINTING

1 AFFORDABLE HOUSE PAINTING and Home Repair. Quality work. Inside and Out. Free Ests. Local Refs. Ron 972-816-5634

A+ INT/EXT PAINT & DRYWALL

Since 1977. Kirk Evans. 972-672-4681

BENJAMIN’S PAINTING SERVICE Professional Work At Reasonable Prices. 214-725-6768

RAMON’S INT/EXT PAINT Sheetrock, Repairs. 214-679-4513

TONY’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work Since 1984. Int./Ext. 214-755-2700

TOP COAT 30 yrs. exp. Reliable, Quality Repair/Remodel Phil @ 214-770-2863

VIP PAINTING & DRYWALL Int/Ext. Sheetrock Repair, Resurfacing Tubs, Counters, Tile Repairs. 469-774-7111

JUNK REMOVAL

JUNK LEADERS Complete Junk/Trash Removal Service. junkleaders.com 903-742-5865

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BLAKE CONSTRUCTION CONCEPTS LLC

Complete Kitchen And Bath Remodels. Tile, Granite, Marble, Travertine, Slate. Insured. 214-563-5035 www.blake-construction.com

FENN CONSTRUCTION Full Service Contractor. dallastileman.com 214-343-4645

MELROSE TILE James Sr., Installer, Repairs. 40 Yrs. Exp. MelroseTile.com 214-384-6746

STONE AGE COUNTER TOPS

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TK REMODELING 972-533-2872

Complete Full Service Repairs, Remodeling, Restoration. Name It — We do it. Tommy. Insured. dallas.tkremodelingcontractors.com

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

#1 WHITE ROCK TREE WIZARDS

Professionals, Experts, Artists. Trim, Remove, Cabling, Bracing/Bolting. Cavity-Fill Stump Grind. Emergencies, Hazards. Insd. Free Est. 972-803-6313. arborwizard.com

A BETTER TREE MAN Trims, Removals, Insd. 12 Yrs Exp. Roberts Tree Service. 214-808-8925

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ANDREWS PLUMBING • 214-354-8521

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By MITA HAVLICK

Gentrification’s squeeze

Living in a ‘cool’ neighborhood comes with consequences

Iconfess to uttering a mild expletive when my phone rang and I saw that it was Faulkner’s Cleaners on Lower Greenville. I forget a lot, and I wondered what dry-cleaning items I had forgotten about this time.

I’d been David Faulkner’s customer since 2003, when we moved to Dallas, and because I follow the old adage, “anything that has to be ironed has to be dry cleaned,” I was one of his better customers — though more than once, I’d failed to pick up my cleaning after asking for a rush job. I hate when I do that, but his calls were never a reminder to get my stuff; they were a sincere concern confirming that everything was all right.

But when he called this time, he sounded different. His voice was emotional.

“Mrs. Havlick, I just wanted to personally let you know that I’m closing my business.”

Always striving to be an optimist, I asked, “Oh! Are you retiring?”

“No, I’m not,” he replied, “I’ve been asked by my landlord to leave.”

Faulkner’s on Lower Greenville (not to be confused with Faulkner’s Fine Dry Cleaning in Lakewood) was the only cleaners in Dallas I had ever patronized. I first went to him because his shop was conveniently down the road. Soon David knew our family by name, and our relationship progressed to the point that I never had to take an inventory slip of what I dropped off because I trusted it would all be there when I picked up.

Faulkner’s storefront had been a

fixture for decades. David built his shop from the ground up, and he established a long list of committed clientele. Like most small business owners, he cared about the people he served because they were the ones who sustained him.

He was there when the M Streets wasn’t the most desirable neighborhood. And what’s his reward now that it is?

for families well into the evening (yet still an opportunity for drunken debauchery after nightfall).

I can’t help but feel a deep sense of hypocrisy as I think about David Faulkner’s fate.

As much as I enjoy our cool new local establishments, I don’t want the old ones to go. What brought many of us to this part of town is the character and intimacy these businesses offer. They’re owned and run by our neighbors and friends and parents at our kids’ schools. If we didn’t know them before, we’ve made friends with those who opened their doors to us. They care about our community, and we care about them.

It’s ironic that the very fabric of the neighborhood that made us want to live here in the first place is unraveling. Perhaps it’s the natural consequence of capitalism and a free market, but it’s still difficult to witness.

The landlord nearly tripled his rent. He relayed that, after a lengthy negotiation, the two couldn’t come to an agreement, and he was told to vacate. He had no choice but to close his shop, sell his equipment and find a job.

Like our neighbors throughout East Dallas, I’ve enjoyed witnessing our property values steadily appreciate. Yes, we’re still waiting for many of our roads to be repaved courtesy of the 2017 bond, but the crime rate continues to drop, and we’ve seen spotty areas get cleaned up, with Lowest Greenville being a great example. Thanks to former City Councilwoman Angela Hunt, the strip is no longer solely a den for drunken debauchery but is today a destination

I don’t know what could have changed things for David Faulkner. Our community did everything we were supposed to — we consistently frequented his small business, and we stayed committed when more options became available.

There are postings on NextDoor echoing my sentiments and asking, “Now where do we go?”

I don’t have the answer. I’m asking, too — where do we go from here?

As much as I enjoy our cool new local establishments, I don’t want the old ones to go.

MITA HAVLICK is a neighborhood activist. Find her commentary regularly in the back pages of our print edition and online at lakewood. advocatemag.com.

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