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renna Elliott’s fascination with history began at Dallas cemeteries.

“Somehow, don’t ask me, I don’t know, I got into studying cemeteries — going to cemeteries, filming, taking pictures and making slideshows and putting music to it and then learning about everybody I had just filmed,” Elliott says.

She had already retired when she began diving into local history. As a student at Stephen F. Austin State University, she had taken some flying lessons and decided she wanted to be a commercial pilot. But her parents said no.

Her first real job was back in Dallas, her hometown, working three years for an edible nut broker whom Elliott says was the first person in the city to have an automobile phone. There, she learned about sales and marketing and how to deal with everyone from a businessperson in New York City to a farmer in San Saba.

By then it was the late ’70s, and Elliott relocated to Houston. She was hired at an employee-placement firm, M. David Lowe, where she worked for two years.

“I learned the most outstanding basics of recruiting and headhunting, the most honorable and the way it should be,” Elliott says.

But she really missed Dallas, so she moved back.

With support in the form of a $6,000 loan from her father, she opened her own firm, Lusk & Associates. Her client list included Trammell Crow and Raymond Nasher, who was also the landlord of her office, which was located in NorthPark Center. Later, Elliott opened a temporary division, “which can turn you into a serial killer overnight,” she says, because of the intense pressure to fill spots on short notice with quality candidates that would fit a company’s needs.

She had the same employees during the 25-year run of her company. Then she joined a friend and started a retain-search business called SearchScience. Part of the appeal was that she would be paid a retainer up front; she had been working on commission since she was 28 years old.

For the last seven or eight years of her career, she was doing about four deals annually in the retain-search industry, mostly finding candidates for C-suite positions.

Then she retired, and that’s when she began studying cemeteries across the city. Once, she was chased by three doberman pinschers in a South Dallas graveyard.

Cemeteries got her hooked on history, and she started getting acquainted with neighbors who had a breadth of knowledge on the subject.

Having spent some of her childhood living on Easton Road in East Dallas and teenage years on Princess Lane in Sparkman Estates, Elliott already had a feel for the city.

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But she joined the Dallas History Facebook group and met Debby Massie Lacy, the group’s founder who became Elliott’s mentor. After Lacy died, Elliott didn’t immediately create her own history group. But she was at the car wash one day, and “Live and Let Die” started playing on the speaker. Lacy was a huge fan of the Beatles, and hearing that song gave Elliott the confidence she needed to establish her own group.

She founded Dallas History Guild in 2015 with the goal to educate, preserve and discover. It now has 11,000 members. She hopes to one day have a brick-and-mortar museum.

“I formed Dallas History Guild because I wanted to be a voice when I have a petition going for something that’s being destroyed that I can take before the Landmark Commission, or somebody can, and push that forward,” Elliott says.

Until the pandemic started, the guild also hosted events. Once, they visited the Dallas Police Department Museum and then were loaded in paddy wagons to go to the Mounted Unit in Fair Park.

“We’re not a memories group. We’re not a shoutout group,” Elliott says. “It’s like you’re in a classroom but you’ve got a good professor and you’re having lots of fun.”

In 2018, Elliott, who lives in Casa View, was appointed to the Dallas Historical Commission by Judge Clay Jenkins, and she served a two-year term. During that time, she was part of the effort to approve historical markers for Little Egypt and Martyr’s Park.

Over the years, she’s met some of Dallas’ most notable movers and shakers. She interviewed the widow of Henry Beck of The Beck Group, a construction and architectural firm. She attended a family reunion of the Buhrer family, dairy farmers whose land was in East Dallas.

And she interviewed members of the Goforth family. The City of Dallas acquired more than 400 acres of land from them during the construction of White Rock Lake. Elliott has known Teresa Goforth since elementary school and also spoke with her father, David.

“They would drive their jalopies up to Flag Pole Hill and square dance up there,” Elliott says. “And then to make the jalopy go, they’d make it go down the hill so it would gain some speed so it would go back up the hill, all the time playing some kind of square-dancing music on the radio. Because they had to keep the radio going so they had to keep the car going so they could dance.”

And she became friends with Beverly Orris, who had ties to Casa Linda Plaza and Estates. It was developed by her father, Howard Brown, who was following the vision of her grandfather, Carl Martin Brown.

“We’ve got to continue the awareness,” Elliott says.

“And it’s not what you remember that, for us, is critical.

It’s the history.”

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rom a lush, striking peachorange ‘Rosie the Riveter’ to a classic red ‘Legends’ hybrid tea rose, North Haven Gardens’ Rose Weekend features a bloom for everyone. With more than 100 varieties, you’ll find a wide selection of roses in all shapes and colors.

A tradition for over 68 years, NHG’s Rose Weekend has been instrumental in keeping Dallas rose gardens vibrant.

Originally, this popular weekend event was held in October. In those days, original rosarian Ira Duncan and founder Ralph Pinkus trekked to the Tyler rose fields, selecting the rose varieties that would be displayed instore for customers to browse. Bareroot canes were brought in after orders were placed. North Haven Gardens grew the shrubs over the winter in recycled food cans, and customers returned in March to pick up their shrubs.

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general manager Cody Hoya. Rose bushes typically start trickling into the nursery just as the holiday season is in full swing.

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Casa Linda Plaza in the early 1950s. Photo courtesy of Beverly Orris.

HOW CASA LINDA GOT ITS NAME Story by RENEE UMSTED

Casa Linda was dreamed up by Carl Martin Brown a n d d e ve l op ed by h is s on , Howard Brow n.

C a r l , a D a l l as e n tre p re n e u r an d lan d buyer, env i s i on ed a on e -s top s h op p in g ce n te r th at was ped e s t r i a n - a n d family-frie n d ly.

Work on the development was paused while Howa r d w a s s e r v in g in th e militar y d u rin g Wor l d War II. When he re turned, progress resumed, with the h e l p o f h i s w i f e , M a r y R e i d B r o w n , a n d s i s t e r, C or i n n e B r own Walton .

S o m e o f t h e fi r s t t e n a n t s at t h e s h o p p i n g c e n t er i n c lu d ed Tom T h u mb, Mott ’s , C& S Har dwar e, S k i lle r n’s d r u g s tore , R e yn old s Pe n lan d , El Fenix, Z en i t h , A s hb u rn’s Ice Cre am an d more .

East Dallas neighbor Brenna Elliott, who founded Dallas His tor y Guild on Facebook, got to know Be verly Orris, the daughter of Howard Brown and granddaughter of Carl Mar tin Brown, be fore Orris d i ed s e ve ra l ye ars ago.

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And Orris shared with Elliott some history ab out how Casa Linda, a pr ojec t managed b y her famil y, got its name.

Or r is said Howar d l oved the Spanish l an g uage.

In the l ate 1930s, he and his wife travel ed t o S an Antonio to visit his wife’s sis ter and her husband.

A s he was dr iving ar ound, Howar d no t ic ed t he h o m e s t y l e s a n d s t r e e t n a m e s . Ho w a r d k n e w h e wanted Casa Linda to b e a pl ace fil l ed w it h b eautiful homes. S o he found out the word for “ house” in Spanish (“casa”) and star ted looking for Spanish w o r d s f o r “ p r e tty ” o r “ b e a u t i f u l ” a n d d e c i d e d o n “ l inda.”

Or r is’ aunt sent some e xampl es of s tr ee t n am es in San Antonio to Howard, and he and Carl selec t ed some for the r oads in Casa Linda. T he y added “Drive” to the end of the names because they wanted people to feel like they were touring something lovely while they cruised around the neighborhood.

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THIS SMALL TEAM OF LEGAL PROFESSIONALS IS DEDICATED TO ONE CAUSE — COMPELLING DALLAS COUNTY JUDGES TO FOLLOW THE RULES WHEN ALLOWING RENTERS TO BE EVICTED — “NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS.” Story by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB Photography by JESSICA TURNER

One day near the end of 2021, attorney Mark Melton sat in a Dallas County Justice of the Peace courtroom, where he had spent untold hours that year.

He had four clients on a docket of 30 or 40. It was a typical schedule for the transactional tax lawyer who became Dallas’ most prolific eviction specialist during the pandemic.

He watched a young woman approach the judge. She shakily said she didn’t think her landlord had given her proper notice before evicting. The judge said he was sure she did not know the law, and he would not accept this defense. Before ruling for the landlord, he told her to be less stupid the next time she was in his court, Melton recounts.

“She was 100% right,” he says. “They didn’t give her the proper notices.”

Melton knew as much because he had already won three cases on the same argument for other defendants living in her complex.

This was a particularly frustrating example, Melton says, but people with a valid defense are evicted every day. They wind up on the street because they do not have anyone to advocate on their behalf.

“We have these laws that are supposed to protect landlords and tenants, and the landlord seems to get the benefit of those protections almost every time,” Melton says. “And the tenants get the benefit of

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those almost never.”

Evictions are a necessary part of property management, and landlords are entitled to be paid or get their property back, but they also should follow the law, Melton says.

Since founding the Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Melton and his team have recorded a 96% rate of success in keeping clients facing eviction in their homes. In most of those cases the landlords and justices of the peace had not followed rules related to notices, Melton says.

“The difference between having two weeks to find new housing because you were given proper notice and having two days — that’s a significant amount of time that will keep a lot of people off the streets and bridges,” Melton says. “I view our role as a group of attorneys making sure that the law is being followed. Nothing more, nothing less.”

They couldn’t look the other way In early 2020, eviction filings in Dallas County were 15% to 20% above historic averages, a trend consistent with much of the country, according to researchers at Princeton’s Eviction Lab. As part of the effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention enacted a moratorium that March temporarily preventing nonpayment evictions.

Eviction filings dropped dramatically, but Melton realized people struggling to pay rent were still receiving eviction notices. Desperate tenants were posting about it on Facebook.

Regular work at the international firm, where he is a partner and transactional tax-law expert, was slow, so he started responding to some of them.

Melton’s wife, Lauren, has worked in hospitality most of her life, and the couple previously owned a restaurant. So Mark’s “little blurbs” of advice were going viral among their service industry connections.

“It just took off from there,” Lauren says.

Mark was soon inundated with emails and messages— spending some 15-18 hours a day answering them.

So Lauren jumped in to help.

“I adore my husband,” she says. “I figured if I helped it would free him up.”

She set up a Google line, a Facebook page and email address for what would become the Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center (DEAC) and began fielding requests. At first it was answering a lot of questions about the eviction moratoria and tenants’ rights. She created spreadsheets for hun-

dreds of volunteers, and when Mark held weekly Zoom training sessions for them, she attended.

“I am no lawyer. I am a restaurant manager and a mom,” Lauren says.

“I can delegate. I can organize. I can read and learn as much as I can from the training.”

As they began going to virtual and in-person hearings and observed more courtroom interactions, the Meltons began collaborating with nonprofits such as City Square and United Way that provide wraparound services for struggling renters.

“If you save someone from eviction but then they are in the same spot the next month, it doesn’t do much good,” she says.

In rare cases the Meltons have footed a hotel bill, helped families find a new apartment or offered other types of support outside the realm of the DEAC. “I never would have expected this if you told me years ago, but we’ve made an impression on these justices and clerks, and they might call when they come across someone they think we could help,” Lauren says. “For a while I was talking to one clerk every week.”

She describes a 79-year-old widow who landed in eviction court, for example.

“We basically adopted her. She had lost her husband who she’d been married to since she was probably 18. Well, she has us now,” Lauren says with a smile.

‘Too many cases are flat out 100% wrong’ Mark has been quoted and featured in almost every recent news story about evictions in Texas. The DEAC has garnered grants and funding to hire a staff of two additional lawyers — Stuart Campbell and Jessica Vittorio — and an administrator, Stephanie Cross.

The DEAC does not take government funds because, according to Lauren, that would slow them down.

“There’s a lot of red tape that comes with government funding,” she says.

“It can limit who we can help and how quickly we can help them.”

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funding are godsends in many cases, but the process to become a client can take two weeks or more, Lauren guesses, and DEAC clients often need same-day help.

Government funded outfits also are limited to serving only the lowest income bracket.

As Lauren points out, there is an ocean between poverty and ability to afford an attorney.

The DEAC has utilized government rental assistance funds to negotiate resolutions on behalf of clients.

The federal government allotted $50 billion for housing relief through the federal Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act. It’s been up to local governments to get those funds to organizations and people who need them.

In December The Advocate reported that almost any tenant in Dallas County facing eviction for nonpayment could receive rental assistance, and property managers and The Apartment Association of Dallas were involved in the effort to get this information to tenants.

As those funds dry up, that path to preventing evictions will dissolve. But the number of “bad rulings” in Texas justice of the peace courts won’t, Mark says.

“There are too many cases that are flat out 100% wrong on the law,” he says.

While waiting for one of her two or three clients on a given day, DEAC staffer Jessica Vittorio says she might watch 30 people get evicted — “people we could have helped because the proper notices were not given.”

Over the months, Dallas justices of the peace have become accustomed to seeing Vittorio, Stuart Campbell and Melton in court. Judge Juan Jasso, Precinct 5, says he’s happy to see the DEAC associates.

“Even if there is a person (Mark Melton) isn’t representing, he’ll pipe up and say, ‘I can talk to him afterward,’” Jasso says. “Or say someone’s having trouble with the rental assistance they applied for, and I will crane my neck and say, ‘Mr. Melton, do you think you can assist this person?’”

Jasso says he sees both sides. Landlords must continue to pay their mortgages, taxes and utility bills, he says. He has been heartened by their willingness to work with tenants, helping them with paperwork. “Of course they realize it is to their benefit,” the judge allows.

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DEAC lawyers today say they are handling a lot of appeals. They point out that even with a pauper’s affidavit, defendants have to pay one month’s rent to stall an eviction through appeal.

That makes appealing an eviction financially impossible for most defendants, including the young defendant who lost her case because she was unfamiliar with the particulars of the notice-to-vacate law.

Mark Melton says that after the judge told her to “be less stupid,” the woman had turned on her heel, muttering “I think you’re stupid” under her breath. He followed her out of the courtroom and offered to help. Campbell is handling her appeal.

Justice in ‘normal times’ Gathered around the kitchen table at the Meltons’ East Dallas home in early January, the DEAC team jokes that Campbell is the group’s most-likely-to-be-thrown-in-jail on contempt.

“Stuart almost went to jail last week because he had the unmitigated nerve to show the judge a copy of the statute and say, ‘here’s the law,’” Mark quips.

“Yeah, he told me he was quite familiar with the law and still decided against me because ‘he can,’ and when I asked him to explain he said he ‘didn’t have to,’” Campbell says.

Mark Melton half-jokes that he plans to write a book entitled Injustice of the Peace.

The group is discussing next steps and the growing need for their services.

Someone recently asked the Meltons what would happen if, post COVID, people did not need their help. After all, the couple — parents to four children — had invested a good portion of their lives in this pandemic-prompted nonprofit.

Their response: If it ever got to a point where landlords and judges were following protocol and evictions were all by the book, they would be thrilled. And shocked.

Initially they thought it would last a few months and life would return to normal.

But that did not happen. Meantime, Mark Melton says he’s realized the issue is not specific to the pandemic.

“The thing that I’ve learned in the last eight months was the vast number of tenants that get railroaded inside eviction courts,” he says.

The whole group agrees that too often not following the right procedure is industry practice, and they feel a responsibility to change that.

“Just in general, there is a complete miscarriage of justice,” Mark concludes.

“I think our role in this is not just to stand in during a worldwide pandemic, but just in normal times.”

For help or to volunteer with the Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center, visit dallaseac.com, email info@dallaseac.org or call 469.436.2704.

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BIKE LANE VS. SMALL BUSINESS City decision squeezes Paciugo and Jarams Donuts

BY SAM GILLESPIE

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t’s a bike vs. business battle, right here in the heart of Lakewood.

The fate of two small neighborhood businesses teeters on a decision the City made two years ago, a decision that doesn’t appear to be consistently applied throughout the City. Now that the problem and the contradictions have been brought to the City’s attention, however, there’s seemingly no appetite to right what could be an expensive wrong for the family owners of Paciugo and Jarams Donuts.

Cement-curb-protected bike lanes installed in front of these neighborhood businesses during last year’s Abrams Road reconstruction replaced customer parking spaces the businesses’ customers have used since the 1950s.

The City’s design decision, placing bike lanes over parking, is crushing these small businesses, the owners say. Paciugo remains closed as a result of the bike lanes, and Jarams’ owners say it’s making a hard business harder.

In 2008, April Walding opened Paciugo Gelato at 2115 Abrams, across from Whole Foods Market. Paciugo seems a perfect fit for the neighborhood — a small, locally owned business serving a community that loves supporting small, locally owned businesses.

On top of owning and operating the gelato store, Walding and her husband

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bought a partial interest in the building in 2014. They doubled down in 2018, becoming the full owner of the real estate that housed Paciugo and the then-closed Glo Dry Cleaners next door at 2117 Abrams.

Today, the Waldings are the landlord for both Jarams Donuts at 2117 Abrams and the empty space next door that Paciugo once occupied. In September 2020, when Walding’s newborn was five months old, the pandemic was searing the economy, a potential buyer had moved on, and it looked like the upcoming winter was going to hurt her seasonal business.

“It seemed a good time for me to close the store, take a breath and focus on my new daughter,” Walding says.

February of 2021 rolls around. It’s early onset of spring fever. And Walding says she began to think about re-opening her store. Work on Abrams had been going on for several months, and she drove to the shop to watch the roadwork.

“Like lots of 7-year-old boys, my son is fascinated by construction equipment,” Walding says.

Walding notices what looks like curb construction in front of her building. Then she sees it’s not a curb in the conventional sense, but a raised concrete barrier between her existing sidewalk and vehicle lanes on Abrams. And then the gut punch: The lane reserved for bicycles has replaced

her only available customer parking.

According to the Dallas Central Appraisal District, the building at 2115 Abrams was built in 1954, but other evidence exists that it may be even older. As far back as records can be found, parking has always been available in front of the building for customers who patronize the small businesses located there. Prior to gelato and donuts, neighbors remember a flower shop and dry cleaners. For a few years, the building housed a casket company with a showroom. Long-timers even remember a liquor store in the 1970s.

Whichever businesses have occupied the buildings, they all have utilized customer parking directly in front of them.

For more than 65 years, patrons have been able to park for a few minutes, buy a six-pack, get the dry cleaning, pick up a mum, enjoy a gelato, or buy a Halloween donut with a green witch on it.

Here’s the rub: Sixty-five years or not, the parking utilized by owners and customers is in the public right of way. That little piece of real estate has always been owned by the building owners but legally reserved for use by the City to expand Abrams … or in this case, to add bike lanes.

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aren’t blameless here, and they acknowledge it. But 65 years of history just cast aside by the City?

After Walding saw the bike lane construction already underway last year, she hit the panic button. She considered selling the building. She set up a meeting at the site and gathered District 9 Council member Paula Blackmon (who represents the area where Walding lives), District 14 Council member David Blewett (who at the time represented the area where the business is located) and several members of the City staff.

Walding says she received lots of sympathy but was offered no solutions.

Blackmon recalls the meeting and — seeing the consequences of the bike lanes — says she supports bikes lanes in the City but now says “I do support looking at these again.” Blewett, who lost his re-election bid to Paul Ridley in 2021, goes further, calling the bike lane a “mistake.”

Blair Ji and her family are caught in the squeeze, too. Her Korean parents immigrated to the United States 20 years ago and opened the first Jarams Donuts near the University of Texas at Dallas in 2012.

They expanded their version of the American Dream to Lakewood in 2019.

The loss of parking is “hurting our business a lot,” Ji says.

“It’s a donut shop. Customers come and go at a quick pace,” Ji says. “Now they have no idea where to go. Veritex Bank and 7-Eleven (both are adjacent businesses) have been gracious, as our customers will often park in their lots, but they are not going to give up parking for us.”

Ji has also seen customers become confused (or feel entitled), park in the bike lane and wind up being ticketed by the City for illegal parking. She says customers online rave about her donuts but drop a few stars because of the parking predicament. Her family is frustrated and worried about the future of the business, Ji says.

Walding says she has had several conversations with Dr. Robert Perez, the City’s director of Public Works, and suggested possible solutions while noting inconsistencies in how the City has installed bike lanes elsewhere. Walding says she’s willing to give up the necessary real estate to try and accommodate bike lanes while also maintaining some parking for her building

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and retaining a safe walking space.

“No can do,” the City says.

Meanwhile, there’s a bus stop in front of Juliette Fowler Communities, which is south of Walding’s building on Abrams near where the street winds east and changes to Columbia. It’s the same stretch of roadway where the City installed bike lanes on both sides of the street.

How did the City resolve the conflict of a continuous bike lane that blocks vehicle access to the front of a DART bus stop?

At that Fowler site, the City terminated the bike lane at the bus stop, put up a sign that says “Bike Lane Ends” and provided plenty of room for a bus to park and pick up passengers.

Can the City do the same for three parking spaces in front of Walding’s building?

“Nope,” the City says.

Walding says there’s a theme to the City’s efforts: “If the City wanted to help, they could find a way to help.”

Walding says she reached out to District 14 Council member Paul Ridley, who represents the area where her building is located. Despite several emails she shared with The Advocate showing multiple attempts at communication, Walding says Ridley has not spoken with her personally on the phone or as part of a meeting about the issue.

Instead, she has heard from Ridley’s staff, who she says told her that Ridley “stands behind” Perez’s decision. Max Sanchez, the council liaison for District 14, said in an email to The Advocate that since taking office, Ridley has met with Public Works and Transportation to “explore any options for Ms. Walding.” Later, we followed up with Ridley and his office, and he has no further comment.

In a Dec. 10, 2021, email Perez reminded Walding that prior to beginning construction on the bike lane, the City held four public meetings seeking community input about the Abrams reconstruction: • Aug. 7, 2018 — Public Meeting at Boys and Girl Club • Aug. 14, 2018 — Public Meeting at Lakewood Branch Library • Oct. 23, 2018 — Public Meeting at Boys and Girls Club • July 29, 2019 — Public Meeting at Boys and Girls Club Notices were sent to 386 property

owners regarding the improvements and encouraged neighbors to attend the meetings. Walding says she wasn’t a full building owner for the first three meetings and wouldn’t have received a notice. And she says she didn’t receive a notice for the final meeting in July 2019.

The City clearly met requirements for reaching out to neighbors and impacted business owners about the proposed changes.

In a Dec. 21, 2021, email to Walding, Perez says: “Furthermore, we cannot put bicyclists in the vehicular lanes of a major thoroughfare to allow for use of the public right-of-way for a private purpose.”

Walding says that’s exactly what the City is constructing on Richmond Avenue today. Construction has started on a Richmond Avenue configuration that has a bicycle lane in the middle of a vehicular lane, with parking for private vehicles on both sides of Richmond in the public right of way.  Hoping to raise awareness and save her business and Jarams, Walding started a petition on Change.org to organize opposition to the bike lanes as built. At press time, six days after publishing the petition, over 490 people have signed it.

Melanie Vanlandingham, a resident of Lakewood Heights, is a professional urban designer and talked with the City’s Public Works and Transportation department staff during the planning and construction of both the Richmond and Abrams improvements. An advocate for bike lanes and road diets, Vanlandingham says she doesn’t like the current design and believes the City can right the wrong in front of Paciugo and Jarams.

“Now that the Richmond work is underway, the City can make a change and balance the Abrams and Richmond solutions to provide bike lanes and return the parking for these unique Lakewood small businesses,” Vanlandingham says.

“Eliminate these bike lanes and the concrete barrier, and connect Richmond and Abrams using a route of Alderson and Prospect. Return the use of right of way to parking for Paciugo and Jarams.

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THE SON OF TWO CHEFS, Casey La Rue was born into the restaurant industry. He never went to culinary school but always enjoyed working in kitchens, especially because it kept him busy.

His skills developed as a stagiaire, or a stage, which is a kitchen intern.

He started out at several Michelinstar restaurants in New York. Then he went to excellent restaurants across the country including Clio in Boston and Robuchon in Las Vegas — all in pursuit of working for the best.

About seven years ago, La Rue was between jobs in Arizona and found work at a bakery, where he met his wife, Amy. L at e r, t h e L a Ru e s w o r ke d at a small inn on a farm in New Hampshire, about two hours north of Boston.

“It was beautiful to be there,” La Rue says. “New Hampshire’s actually really nice for a good part of the year.

Then it’s very bad.”

Ultimately, they realized the inn wouldn’t be sufficient as a year-round business, so they moved to Dallas.

They opened Carte Blanche last June, following several years of thinking about what their own restaurant would be like.

Lowest Greenville was appealing because of its smaller streets, which reminded the La Rues of New England. And they wanted to avoid other parts of our city that “are a little more pretentious.”

Carte Blanche is in the former Mudsmith on Greenville. Some of the central architectural features of the coffee shop, like the wooden door at the entrance and a bar in the middle of the room, are still there. Otherwise, the space has been transformed into a fine dining establishment.

The sturdy front door is flanked by two large windows. Inside, the bar, which is now used as a prep station for dinner, is the first thing in eyesight. Dining tables of various

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sizes are situated to the left and right, enough to seat 55 people at peak weekend hours. All the way to the back of the restaurant lies the kitchen, offering guests a clear view of the five chefs preparing meals and a spiral staircase leading to a storage area.

New walls were added to cover the old ones, which were damaged and painted yellow. A moss wall was installed as a decorative feature where there was a coffee window.

Carte Blanche multitasks. On four mornings of the week, pastry chef

PAGE 26: Smoked halibut with celery root puree, celery root chips and black sesame beurre blanc.

OPPOSITE PAGE: Carte Blanche opened in 2021 in a former coffee shop on Greenville Avenue.

LEFT: Casey La Rue worked in Michelin-star restaurants before establishing Carte Blanche.

ABOVE: The valrhona chocolate mousse with strawberry ganache, raspberry glaze and pistachios.

Amy and her team prepare dozens of varieties of baked goods — everything from chocolate almond croissants to boar-in-a-blanket to several kinds of doughnuts. And in evenings, LaRue and his team ser ve 12- and fivecourse set menus.

Both menus rotate — the bakery m o n t h l y a n d d i n n e r b i w e e k l y, though there are some staple items that remain. Foie gras stays, but everything around it changes.

T h e r e ’s u s u a l l y a fi s h d i s h , b u t accompaniments are altered. Plus, only half of the dinner menu is swapped out at a time to allow staff to understand each ingredient.

“We try not to leave anything on the menu for too long, that way if a guest comes now, next month they can

come back and have a different menu, different experience,” La Rue says.

New dishes are developed as La Rue is inspired. He’s always searching for new ingredients — most of them sourced locally — which usually become available as seasons change.

The restaurant incorporates a lot of wild boar, which is common in Texas, as well as venison and elk.

But one of the most quintessential Texas protein sources is missing: the cow. La Rue avoids it primarily because of environmental concerns and also because beef is served almost everywhere.

In addition to chefs and wait staff, Car te Blanche employs two wine experts — a full-time sommelier and the general manager, who is also a

sommelier. This is to help with the restaurant’s optional wine programs, which allow diners to enjoy a drink paired with each course. For those who prefer to skip the booze, there’s a similar option but with tea instead of wine. Most of it is cold-brewed and comes from small farmers. And like the alcoholic version, the tea is served in wine glasses, with a specific glass for each tea.

“Each glass is designed a certain way for certain wine, just depending on sparkling, aroma, olfactories,” La Rue says. “And we took the same kind of consideration into the tea as well.”

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A child’s legacy. A family’s mission.

Cancer couldn’t stop the Pampels from making a difference.

Story by RENEE UMSTED

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ne day at the Ashford Rise School, director Maude Pampel received a visit from her son, Sam. His teacher wanted him to show Maude a bump on his face.

Maude and Tony, Sam’s dad, took their son to the doctor, who prescribed antibiotics. Because the bump was around Sam’s neck and ear, they hoped it was a swollen lymph node.

When the antibiotics didn’t have any effect, doctors thought Sam might have a bad ear infection, so he was given stronger medication.

“It’s kind of one of those things. You hope to treat it.

It’s going to go away,” Maude says. “But we took him back, and then we took him back again.”

That bump was the start of a four-year health crisis for this neighborhood family that led them across four cities in two states to find doctors and hospitals offering specialized, and usually invasive, treatments.

Through it all, they were met with an outpouring of support from nonprofits, neighbors, strangers, friends and family. Whether it was delivering meals, mowing the lawn or expressing verbal and emotional support, neighbors never stopped caring.

Weeks after the teacher first spotted the bump on Sam’s face, they were back at the doctor’s office. The doctor prescribed a different kind of antibiotic and said she would call other physicians to see if they had any ideas.

Maude was in line at Walgreens when the doctor called, instructing her not to give Sam the prescription.

T he doc tor wanted Sam to see an ear-nose-throat specialist the next day. If Sam took the medication, it could have masked symptoms.

Tony drove Sam to the appointment. T he doc tor asked Sam to lie down for the examination. He was surprised, Tony says, because he pulled a glob of dried blood out of Sam’s ear. “ That’s not supposed to be there,” the doctor said.

He was looking at Sam’s ear using a tool connected to a monitor.

“Mr. Pampel, I need you to come over and look at this,” the doctor said.

On the screen, Tony saw a pic ture of some thing hanging down in Sam’s ear canal: a tumor.

Over those weeks, the family had been clinging to hope. Slowly, with each new piece of information, hope was being taken away. Maybe it was just a swollen lymph node. It wasn’t. Maybe it was a benign tumor. It wasn’t.

They took Sam to the hospital’s oncology floor, to a nice room with big couches. That’s where doctors explained the situation. They didn’t yet know the cancer was neuroblastoma, Maude says, but something had to be done. Treatments had to begin.

With the initial “intermediate risk” diagnosis, Sam started chemotherapy and other treatments at Medical City Children’s Hospital.

The Pampels were gifted a photo session at White Rock Lake by Emmie’s soccer team. Photography by Megan Moates.

But while he was undergoing therapy, Sam relapsed and was given a “ high risk” diagnosis. This time, doctors found a 2-centimeter mass between his brain and skull.

They were clued on to something being there when Sam woke up one day, screaming in pain because of a severe headache.

Tony drove Sam to Las Colinas Proton Center, where every weekday for four weeks, Sam was sedated and given radiation treatment. And when the cancer was small enough, a surgical procedure removed it.

“Imagine a 4-year-old at this point, tr ying to run around with a surgical drain out of his head,” Tony says.

“We did chemotherapy again — harsher, bigger drugs, some of the platinum-based drugs that at that point actually knocked out his hearing in one of his ears.”

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The Pampel family in 2022. Photography by Corrie Aune.

Fort Worth. An apheresis catheter — or a “soda straw,” as the Pampels named it — was inserted into Sam’s neck, allowing doctors to collec t blood and har vest stem cells. Once enough cells were gathered, Sam was given a lethal dose of chemotherapy, enough to kill all the red blood cells in his body.

T he only thing keeping him from dying was the s tem cells, which kickstarted bone marrow production after they were i n j e c t e d b a c k i n t o h i s b o d y.

Without bone marrow, Sam had no immune system.

Sam lived at Cook Children’s about a month. Tony stayed with him during the weekdays, and Ma u d e c a m e o n t h e we e ke n d s .

T hough he didn’ t see his older sister, Emmie, at all while he was there, Sam set a record for the fastest recovery time — 24 days. “ That was Sam. Even amongst all these special kids we got to

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meet, he was a special kid,” Tony says.

Fo r 1 8 m o n t h s , S a m w a s i n remission even as he continued t r e a t m e n t s . O v e r t h e s u m m e r, he played on soccer and tee-ball teams. But around Christmas, the toxicity of the immunotherapy treatment he was undergoing pre vented him from breathing on his own. He also developed a respirator y virus and had to be placed in an induced coma for about two weeks so a breathing machine could help his body to recover.

Sam came out of the coma and had to regain the strength to walk and talk again. But his b o d y w a s n’ t t h e s a m e , a n d h e never was able to keep up with other kids. “ T hat ’s the stuff I remember, was being proud of seeing him out there but then also feeling f o r h i m ,” To n y s a y s . “A n d h e didn’ t care. He didn’ t care that

he couldn’ t keep up. He would do everything he could until he got tired, and then he would just plop down wherever he was.”

Being cancer-free meant he could start kindergarten. When he was first diagnosed with cancer, Maude feared that was something he would never be able to do.

At Lakewood Elementary, Sam — smart and curious — found new independence. He walked around campus, hung out with his friends and was proud to go to school.

During that year, they realized Sam had some hear ing lo ss as a result of an earlier treatment, but there were plenty of accommodations. Sam had a hearing aid, he sat at the front of the classroom, and his teacher used an FM sys tem to amplify her voice.

To w a r d t h e e n d o f t h e y e a r, Maude was pregnant with Ben, their third child, when Sam, now 6, relapsed again. A 4-centimeter m a s s w a s p r e s s i n g a ga i n s t h i s optic nerve.

They met with a neurosurgeon to talk about treatment. Should chemotherapy be administered to try to shrink the cancer? Should surgery be done first? Radiation?

Sam calmly sat up and said he couldn’t see out of his eye. Surgery fi r s t , t h e y d e c i d e d , a n d b e ga n discussing when it would happen.

“L e t ’s not talk about it. L e t ’s just do it,” Sam said.

“He was always ready to take whatever that next step was, and let’s just get it done, and one step after another one,” Tony says. “He was my action kid, is what I called him.”

Because the cancer o us m ass was so close to Sam’s brain, they decided to take him to a place where he could ge t specialized t r e a t m e n t — Me m o r i a l S l o a n Kettering Cancer Center in Ne w Yo r k C i t y. D o c t o r s p u t a catheter in Sam’s skull, allowing chemotherapy to bypass the

blood-brain barrier and go directly into his brain and spine.

To n y a n d S a m c o m m u t e d t o and from New York and Dallas.

W h e n e ve r S a m w a s n’ t ge tt i n g treatments, an organization called Candlelighters of New York arranged special activities, like a personal tour on the Hudson.

A r o u n d C h r i s t m a s i n 2 01 9 , when Tony’s family was in town, the Pampels noticed Sam seemed to have particularly low energy.

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was Sam. “EvenThatamongst all these special kids we got to meet, he was a special kid.

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T h e n o n Ja n . 2 , S a m w o ke up screaming in pain again.

They went to a Dallas hospital and learned he had bacterial meningitis. The port in his head, which was allowing medication to treat the cancer, had become infected.

T h a t b e g a n S a m’s l o n g e s t stay in a pediatric ICU. Doctors administered antibiotics and put a shunt in his head to allow fluid to be expelled from his b r a i n , w h i c h w a s n’ t p r o p e r l y balancing the correc t amount of cerebrospinal fluid.

O n e d a y, To n y w a s a t t h e hospital with Sam and the neurosurgeon, who was meeting with them to disc uss how the shunt was working. But there was something else.

“He showed me where the cancer was making a very, very a g g r e s s i v e r e t u r n ,” To ny s ay s .

“And he also explained to me that because of the damage caused by the bacterial meningitis, all of our treatment options were blocked, and that there was

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Sam with his kindergarten teacher at Lakewood Elementary. Photo courtesy of Maude Pampel.

nothing fur ther the y could do for Sam.” Sam had maybe weeks, probably days left to live. Tony and Maude initially hoped to take him home, but they realized it wasn’ t possible, and they were transferred to a different floor, o u t o f t h e I C U. S a m h a d t h e biggest corner room, with two beds pushed together, familiar faces in the nurses caring for him and every day, a view of the sunset.

“I think you start to change your mind, and you realize as you walk through it the best decision for your family and for him, what was going to be the best,” Maude says.

The family spent the next six days with Sam. Though he was receiving a lot of pain medication, h e w a s c o h e r e n t . He a t e o n l y one dish, crunchy pudding — chocolate pudding with Honey Nut Cheerios — and was always making jokes.

Once, when everyone thought Sam was asleep, he popped up, held open his eyelids (because he lost the ability to open his eyes normally after the surgery) and said: “He y, dad. What did the nacho say to the taco?” “ I d o n’ t k n o w, b u d d y,” To ny replied. “What did he say?”

“That’s nacho cheese.”

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Another time, a priest came to the hospital to deliver last rites.

As he was putting chrism oil (holy anointing oil) on his forehead, Sam said: “Not yet.”

Sam died Jan. 23, 2020.

At his funeral service, the cathedral at Church of the Incarnation was “packed to the gills.” “ I w i s h we c o u l d fi n d a w ay for e ver y kid that was dealing with this and every family that’s s u p p o r t i n g t h e m t o h ave t h at level of support,” Tony says.

In September 2020, to honor his son, mark National Pediatric C a n c e r Aw a r e n e s s Mo n t h a n d raise money for Alex’s Lemonade Stand, Tony decided to make a daily ¾-mile walk around the n e i g h b o r h o o d . I t ’s t h e s a m e distance he and Sam walked every day while they were in New York from the Ronald McDonald House, where they were living, to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and back.

Armed with a selfie stick and needing a way to share his s t o r y, To n y l i v e - s t r e a m e d t h e neighborhood walks. He talked to Facebook followers about Sam, his family’s experiences and the organizations that helped them.

On one of the last days of the month, Tony walked out of his house and saw about 20 friendly faces waiting to walk with him.

As they headed to the alley, where the walk began, another 50 people were there to join them.

“We received so much from the community, people we didn’t even know …” Tony says. “Community became just such a huge part of our life and helped us in so many ways.”

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Sam Pampel’s story didn’t end Jan. 23, 2020, when the 7-year-old neighborhood child died of brain cancer.

And it still hasn’t.

His parents, Tony and Maude Pampel, wanted to give back to the tremendous support system that had helped their family over the past four years and still does today: organizations dedicated to supporting patients and their families; the Pampels’ own family; friends; Emmie’s godfather, who’s a pediatric oncologist; and Maude’s colleagues, who are physical and occupational therapists. The Lakewood Elementary community eve n s t e p p e d u p, w i t h a l m o s t everyone wearing “Sam Strong” T-shirts on Superhero Day. “I wish we could find a way for every kid that was dealing with this and every family that’s supporting them to have that level of support,” Tony says.

They created the Samuel Allen Pampel Foundation in September 2021, though they started talking about doing something while Sam was still alive.

“The community that followed Sam and everybody that touched Sam — that Sam touched, too — they always wanted to know how they could help,” Maude says.

“And they were always involved in supporting us. And we just felt that this was a continued way that we could help ensure Sam’s legacy and support these organizations.”

The community kept asking for more opportunities to help, and t h e Pa m p e l s s u p p o r t m u l t i p l e organizations. It was hard to focus on raising funds for just one group at a time, so rather than trying to raise money for several all at once, the Pampels decided to establish their own foundation and distribute funds themselves.

Sam’s nanny wanted to host a 5K race to benefit one organization, and that event became the first f u n d ra i se r, w h i c h t h ey h e l d a t Bachman Lake on Sam’s birthday,

Nov. 6. They figured 50 or 100 people would participate. But 384 registered, and the race generated $35,000 for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer, Candlelighters of New York, Camp iHope, and the Grief and Loss Center of North Texas.

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W h e n Sa m wa s s i c k , A l ex ’s Lemonade Stand helped cover the Pampels’ travel expenses. Camp iHope has been a fun place for Emmie to go to camp, along with other siblings of kids who have cancer. And the Grief and Loss Center helped the whole family after Sam died.

The Pampels hope their work will spread the word about these a n d s i m i l a r o rga n i z a t i o n s t o people who probably have never heard of them.

“If we can make life just a little bit easier while we try to find the research and answers — because the cancer, no matter how much money we throw at it, is not going away tomorrow — and so we want to support research and get rid of that,” Tony says.

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IN BLOOM WHAT TO EXPECT FOR SPRING IN EAST DALLAS Story by RENEE UMSTED

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p ring is a time of new beginnings.

Perhaps there’s no better place to see this manifested than in the garden. And after last month’s freeze, neighbors are especially ready for blooms.

But colorful flowers won’t appear magically. It takes work and preparation to get gardens looking great.

Dave Forehand, the vice president of gardens at the Dallas Arboretum, says planning begins a year before neighbors are invited to see the spring display.

“You can’t just decide that you’re going to plant something and order it,” Forehand says. “You have to have it grown and ready.”

The Arboretum’s spring season, named “Dallas Blooms,” is expansive. More than 500,000 bulbs — including tulips, azaleas and more — come to life. And that’s not including the 125 Japanese cherry blossoms.

Plugs are delivered in August and September and planted in November and December so they’re blooming in February.

Forehand, who has been at the Arboretum for 21 years, says they have a bulb distributor who has the right credentials to purchase bulbs in the Netherlands. They’re ordered in spring, shipped across the Atlantic and are placed in a cooler for six weeks to chill.

The supply chain issues haven’t affected the Arboretum’s ability to acquire bulbs, but there is a shortage of seed and plastic, which is used in containers.

“Finding those is like the golden moment when you get your supply of containers,” Forehand says. “Because when you’re going to grow 150,000 pansies, you’ve got to have 150,000 little pots to put them in.”

There’s a shortage of plants in general, Forehand says, because gardening grew in popularity during the pandemic.

That was intensified after last year’s freeze, which killed plants and forced people to replace them with new ones.

And it’s still an issue to find large plants because people bought them up before they had a chance to grow.

Josh Addison has been the manager at Redenta’s Garden Shop on Skillman Street for 13 years. He says popular purchases for spring are annuals like geraniums and petunias. The shop also specializes in native Texas plants, such as blackfoot daisies and salvias, which are common buys this time of year.

While plants are in stock at Redenta’s, Addison says there’s a shortage of pottery and some bottled products, such as fertilizers and sprays.

“There’s a few things that have been out of stock that aren’t normally out of stock this time of year because of supply chain issues,” he says. “But everybody’s telling us that it should get better in a month or two, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed.”

Tips from Josh Addison of Redenta’s Start preparing soil for spring plants several weeks in advance. Add compost, greensand, fertilizer and earthworm castings now. “That way when you do go to plant, you’ll have a good base to start with.”

Get a good rose and flower food and add it about once a month throughout the season.

“You’ll have a lot better bloom, a lot better growth, a lot prettier plants.”

When replanting or cutting plants back, add a light layer of compost to help replenish the nutrients in the soil.

Tips from Dave Forehand of the Dallas Arboretum “Spring is one of those really forgiving times.

It’s not too hot yet. We typically get a decent amount of rain. So it’s just when everything is going to look good because Mother Nature is helping you at that time of year. But we do water and fertilize as needed and just keep all the grounds really well-groomed.”

Forehand recommends visiting the Arboretum on March 16. “It’s my birthday,” he says.

“But it’s almost always when tulips are peak, cherry trees are peak, azaleas are peak, right around that time.”

Spring at the Arboretum “Birds in Paradise” is this year’s theme for Dallas Blooms. From Feb. 19-April 10, find large peacock topiaries scattered throughout the garden, in addition to many other flowering plants.

One special event is the fifth-annual food and wine festival, March 24-26.

And there are recurring activities at A Tasteful Place, the Arboretum’s 3.5-acre potager garden.

Daily: Samples of the hero vegetable Mondays at 11 a.m.: Dallas College cooking demonstrations Tuesdays at 11 a.m.: “Tasteful Tuesdays” floral demonstrations Wednesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m.: “Chef-tastic” cooking demonstrations with local pros Fridays at 11 a.m.: “Learn to Grow” Fridays with master gardeners, the Arboretum’s horticultural staff and local experts Redenta’s: 2001 Skillman St., redentas.com, 214.823.9241 Dallas Arboretum: 8525 Garland Road, dallasarboretum.org, 214.515.6615

PA I N T T H E T RA I L Woodrow art students to paint mural on Santa Fe Trail bridge Story by RENEE UMSTED

Wo o d r o w W i l s o n Hi g h S c h o o l a r t s t u d e n t s h av e b e e n a s ke d t o paint a mural on the bridge near t h e i n t e r s e c t i o n o f t h e S a n t a Fe Trail and N. Brookside Drive.

The project is being led by Hollywood/Santa Monica neighbor Alex O’Neil, with help from Amanda Domaschk.

When it’s done, “Welcome to the Santa Fe Trail ” will be color fully painted on the side of the bridge.

Each letter of “Santa Fe Trail ” will h ave a d i ff e r e n t d e s ign .

D oma s c hk , wh o u s e d to be on the board of Friends of the Santa Fe Trail, says neighbors have been talking for a long time about doing some thing with the bridge.

T h e r e ’s a l r e a d y a m u r a l o n t h e other side, but this side needed some t hi n g , t oo.

O’Neil and Domaschk had collaborated on other projec ts in the past, so it was natural for them to work toge ther on this one. T he

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id e a ac tual l y was fl oated ar ound Woodrow’s art department a while ago, but the timing seemed right now, O’Neil says, with the progress being made on the trail master plan. He had a contact at Woodrow in economics teacher Anthony Pa c e , w h o c o n n e c t e d h i m w i t h s t u d i o a r t t e a c h e r Je s s i c a R a ff .

She has been coordinating with t h e In t e r n a t i o n a l B a c c a l a u r e a t e students, who are taking charge of the project, and she’s planning for professional mural ar tists to visit her class to teach the students abou t cr eating mural s.

R a ff , w h o h a s b e e n a t e a c h e r a t Wo o d r o w f o r s e v e r a l y e a r s , formulated the mural concept. But each student will be responsible for designing and painting one letter.

The IB program requires that s tu d e nts compl e te ser vice hour s, and the students participating are u s i n g t h i s o p p o r t u n i ty t o f u l fi l l th at req uir ement.

“Students are excited to share what they’re passionate about with this neighborhood,” Raff says.

Woodrow gave some funds needed for the project, and it was up to the community to provide the rest. O’Neil and Domaschk posted an Eventbrite link on social media one night and a s ke d n e i g h b o r s t o s u p p o r t t h e project by sponsoring letters for $100 each. Within 12 hours, they had the $1,200 needed to purchase paint supplies.

Project organizers are working with District 14 Park and Recreation Board member Rudy Karimi to get City approval for the mural.

And eventually, when the mural is comple te (the y expec t it to be fi n i s h e d s o m e t i m e t h i s s p r i n g ) , O’Neil and Domaschk want to invite the community to a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Domaschk says she and O’Neil want to see other murals done along the trail.

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A pooch named Polly Tavia and Travis Post adopted Polly in August 2020 from Mutts and Runts Rescue, which is run by a friend of Tavia’s and is based in Bakersfield, California. They already had two dachshunds at home, but when Tavia was tagged in a social media post, a photo of Polly, she inquired about adopting the dachshund/papillon mix. “She just likes to be with me,” Tavia says. “She’s attached to my hip.” But she also loves playing, messing with her dachshund brother and sister and pulling squeakers out of toys. When she goes on walks, Polly — who will be 2 in June — always tries to be in the front of the line. “She’s a spunky little thing,” Tavia says. “She’s a total diva.” In November, Polly escaped from the Posts’ backyard. The Posts made frequent updates on social media, asking neighbors to keep an eye out for Polly. They put signs around the neighborhood, too, offering a reward, and expected someone to catch her, bring her to the vet and be reunited with her owners. But whenever someone began to approach her, she would run away, afraid of strangers.

Days later, after a few nights of cold temperatures, someone called the Posts, asking for the reward for Polly’s return. “She just wouldn’t let anybody catch her, and she was out there the whole time, which I think is crazy because she’s 6 pounds and nothing,” Tavia says. — RENEE UMSTED

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LEVELING THE FIELD HOW A LOCAL CONSULTING GROUP IS HELPING DALLAS GET ITS EQUITY AGENDA IN ORDER Story by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | Photography by CORRIE AUNE

HAROLD HOGUE AND LAUREN COPPEDGE have much in common. They both began their careers as public school educators, witnessed the inner workings of Dallas ISD and have seen, up close, social inequities and opportunities for change. What’s more, both have a record of acting on those realizations and improving the worlds they occupy.

Their differences, however, make them an especially effective team.

He lives in southern Oak Cliff. She lives in Preston Hollow.

Last December the City of Dallas’ office of equity and inclusion announced a collaboration with their small, albeit established, social impact consulting firm,

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Cospero, to create our city’s first racial equity plan.

Hogue lightheartedly complains about delayed recycling pickups in his neighborhood. Coppedge smiles when the room jokes that sanitation services in her Sparkman Estates subdivision, located in a pricier part of the city, are probably on time, every time.

And while that is a quip, an assumption, the Resilient Dallas study — a touchstone document in creating Dallas’ racial equity agenda — shows that white Dallasites earn more money and live in more affluent neighborhoods with better services and amenities than their Black or Hispanic counterparts.

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“That we’re telling two stories, or a story from different angles, makes our partnership work. You need the heart and the head — and the different lived realities — every day,” Hogue says.

Whether Coppedge or Hogue is the heart or the head varies from day to day, they say.

Hogue started as a teacher and later moved up to Dallas ISD’s central offices. He coached youth football in the Fair Park area after school.

That’s where “the light bulb went off,” he says. He saw the disconnect between the administrators’ efforts and the needs of the parents and students he engaged with on the field.

“Most of those working at DISD were well-intentioned — I was inside and never felt malicious intent — but they were dealing with systems, structures and barriers that keep them from delivering on the mission for families.”

He wanted to package all the things he was learning, try to repair things at an institutional level. He joined nonprofit boards and entered a fellowship program at a nonprofit called Leadership ISD, which focuses on racial equity in public schools.

That’s where he met Coppedge. As a teacher in St. Louis, she saw lowerincome families deprived of quality classroom experiences.

Attempts to do better for her students were thwarted by administrative policies. The same realizations, frustrations and ideologies that motivated Hogue drove her to the nonprofit sector.

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Hogue was the first of the two to strike out on his own, quitting his job right after his wedding day and giving himself 90 days to start earning a living as a consultant.

“It was a common entrepreneurial story,” he says.

He sold his car, continued hustling and proved himself working with United Way, Fair Park and other well-established local organizations. He recruited Coppedge in part because she excelled at design and marketing.

Cospero, with a staff of fewer than 10 employees, had a number of projects in its portfolio prior to submitting its racial-equity-plan bid. To name a few, they led United Way’s Grow South Grow Strong initiative, worked alongside Teach.org to devise recruitment strategies for Texas Woman's University, and they facilitated a joint program venture between Leadership ISD and The Concilio, which empowers Lantinx families with students in public schools.

The racial equity plan is slated to be presented to Dallas City Council in summer 2022 and will help the City prioritize and establish measurable short- and long-term goals and accountability metrics.

Racial equity plan development relies heavily on input from residents. To that end, Cospero has launched in-person and virtual engagement strategies. At the center of that is the WeareoneDallas.org, a website, that explains the effort and allows Dallas residents to weigh in.

There is no shortage of ideas and input, but people don’t trust that things will actually happen, Hogue says.

Many feel this way, even some City Council members.

Within the City’s numerous departments exist an array of commissioned plans and presentations — there are transportation plans, digital broadband equity plans, human rights plans, public arts plans, and the list goes on. Many of those have hit roadblocks and delays when it comes to implementation.

During a recent subcommittee meeting, in response to an audit on the housing department’s comprehensive housing plan, District 1 representative Chad West (while pointing to the plan’s reported lack of racial equity goals) said, “Numerous strategic plans have been created by housing task forces and consultants over the years, but when staff and council are left to their own devices to implement them, little has occurred and goals were not met.”

It is one of the things that keeps coming up, Hogue says.

“One of the things that I'm trying to get the word out about is, yes, there are a lot of plans in the city, but what we are doing actually has not been done before, involving every one of the City’s 40-plus departments. We've read through dozens of plans, and we want the racial equity plan to be a driver of all those other plans, the

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Coppedge describes the effort as creating a table of contents, making previous work more accessible and implementable.

“It’s going to be the one place that people can go to see how disparities are being addressed,” Coppedge says.

Interdepartmental cooperation is unique to the creation of this racial equity plan, says City of Dallas equity officer Dr. Lindsey Wilson. It’s different from anything that has been done in the past.

It is more accurate to describe the plan as a “strategic framework” than to look at it as a new plan, Wilson says.

“And the beauty of it being collective is that it gives us the opportunity to look at plans that are either in place or have been created and ask, ‘Where does the equity show up here?’”

She believes every department at City Hall has a part to play when it comes to achieving racial equity.

“In spite of how either internal-facing or communityfacing our departments are,” Wilson says, “everyone literally has a critical role to make this happen.”

The Cospero consultants are meeting one by one with those City departments. In fact, Hogue says, he’s meeting with the sanitation department this week, which is “so funny” considering the flyer he just received about the delayed recycling pickup in his Red Bird neighborhood.

“It’s too much,” he says, laughing. “But it shows how real it is for us. The thing that excites me is that we're working internally to shift external practices that actually impact the day-to-day lives of all residents.”

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By PATTI VINSON

Wayne’s world T h e m a n w h o b ro u g h t t h e fa r m to h i s A b ra m s ya rd

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ust down the street from Gary Isett’s place sits another spectacular yard, though there’s nary a Big Boy nor Peggy the Pegasus in sight. If you travel down Abrams between Mockingbird and Lovers, you’ve seen it: the one with a multitude of arbors, colorful bird houses, yard art and a pretty amazing array of plants and flowers. This, neighbors, is Wayne Grisham’s world.

Though Wayne brushes off any praise for his yard when it’s not in bloom, the fact remains that it’s eye-catching year round. While his backyard is a lush, peaceful wonderland of ponds, gardens and walkways, the side yard next to Abrams is most visible to passersby.

It’s obvious Wayne, a retired pharmacist, takes great joy and pride in his yard work, all of which he does himself with no help, with the exception of the support provided by Honey, his terrier mix, and Patches, his elderly Chihuahua mix. Both tend to stay close by as Wayne works outside, Honey barking at the occasional walker and Patches begging to be picked up.

About 30 years ago, Wayne purchased this unusually large corner lot, not so much for the house but for the spacious yard where he could pursue his passion for gardening. It was kindled during his years growing up on the family farm in De Leon, a small town about 130 miles southwest of Dallas.

As a youth on the farm, his chores included helping with cattle, pigs,

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The swing is the focal point of this part of Wayne Grisham’s yard. Photography by Jessica Turner.

commercial eg g-laying hens and peanut production. He also picked peaches every summer at a large fruit orchard and had a job budding fruit trees at neighboring Womack’s Nursery, still in operation today and always a must-stop when visiting home.

But somewhere along the way as a young man, Wayne decided to spread his wings. “Working on farms was enjoyable but made me realize that I didn’t care to make it a career choice unless they could figure out how to air-condition the outside,” he laughs.

“However, it did give me a good work ethic and a passion for gardening and yard work. So I essentially brought the farm to my yard in Dallas.”

In retirement, Wayne finally has the time to garden as much as his heart desires — and that would be daily, weather permitting. “I tell people I’m fortunate to have a full-time

gardener,” he says with a mischievous twinkle. “Unfortunately, it’s me.”

On the contrary, it’s apparently fortunate, for he appears to be in his element. Wayne is a kind soul whose crystal-blue eyes light up as he gives a visitor a grand tour of the yard. The front features a large oval flower bed and several trees, including what remains of two palm trees, both of which perished in last year’s winter storm. Wayne has made the best of it and installed a whimsical, wide-mouthed frog on the trunk of one and several birdhouses atop the other.

Most eye-catching, though, is the iron fence-enclosed “garden room” created to the side of the home. Step right this way through the screen door, which is framed by an arbor topped with birdhouses of red, orange, blue and green. On either

side of the arbor is a picket fence, salvaged from a trash bin at a nearby church. “ The fence was in bad shape, so I repaired and stained it,” he says. “As they say on TV garden shows, it made separate rooms,” a process he has repeated throughout his yard.

Raised flower beds crafted from found lumber will soon bloom with zinnias, dwar f marigolds and daisies. A row of blackberry vines, perennial hibiscus and pomegranate bushes grow nearby, sharing space with plum, peach and Bradford pear trees.

The focal point of this “room” for many who pass by is the charming little seating area, complete with a Caribbean-blue swing that conjures Key West breezes.

It is essentially a room within a room, as the swing is framed by sections of picket fence on either side and backed by a discarded/ repurposed door and pair of shutters. Potted plants and a blue and white outdoor rug complete the cozy space.

A tour of Wayne’s place includes multiple references to recycled and repurposed items, practices he’s embraced, though not habits he learned on the family farm. “I can’t say recycling was a part of growing up,” he says. “Farming was mainly about putting food on the table.” He says repurposing found items is one of his most rewarding practices/projects, and he’s a big recycler, even encouraging the practice with Honey on their four daily walks “She runs to pick up any disc a r d e d p l a s t i c b o tt l e s o n o u r walks. Later I put her stash in the recycling bin,” he says. ”When people see her carrying the bottles they usually laugh and say she is carrying her own water. I say ‘no, she is an environmentalist.’”

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as he recalls the “many kind responses I’ve gotten from people,” one of whom documented his yard.

“I had one gentleman who was obviously a professional photographer who spent one whole morning taking pictures,” he says. “I was surprised when I received a package with incredible photos.”

He says he’s also had several folks driving by who called out praises, as well as a good number who left notes telling him his yard brightens their work commute. But his most surprising response came from a group of college boys walking to the St. Patrick’s Day parade who were all saying, “what a cool yard.”

Not one to rest on laurels, Wayne’s yard work is never done: “I enjoy perfecting it.” But all his work really boils down to one simple reason, he says: “I just enjoy being out in nature.”

PATTI VINSON is a guest writer who has lived in East Dallas for more than 20 years. She’s written for The Advocate and Real Simple magazine.

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Finding middle ground We have to rectify our past with our future to live in the present

W

e live between memory and hope, between what has been and what will be, between the past and future. But do we live there, really?

Much of our time is taken up either hallowing or being haunted by the past. For some, there was a golden era we can’t seem to let go of. Those high school days on the cheerleader squad or football team when popularity was a given and our bodies worked for us instead of against us.

For others, eating alone at a school lunch table or smelling the breath of our assaulter never seem to go away.

The past has a grip on us for good or ill that prevents us from living in the present.

Likewise, the allure or foreboding of the future can tug on us powerfully and prevent the full experience of life now. We may long for the day when we can get our driver’s license and have a measure of freedom, or feel our health come around at last, or find our one true love. The yearning for a golden age to come or a better future at least can inspire action and motivate us to work hard, but we might also dread what tomorrow may hold in a way that immobilizes us. Again, for good or ill, preoccupation with the future can diminish our experience of the present as a gift we will never get back.

The Buddhist monk and spiritual teacher Thich Nhat Hanh died last month. We classify Buddhism as a religion alongside Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, to name the main belief groups; Buddhism, Thich reminded us, is more of a practice of mindfulness that can

be followed by people of any faith.

Thich warned against attachment to views of the mind too focused on the past or the future. Washing dishes or brushing teeth or taking a walk are experiences that shouldn’t be missed by having your mind on something else when you do them. Preoccupation means we aren’t fully alive in the moment.

I have been thinking about this a good deal since announcing my retirement from the role of senior pastor of the church I have served for more than three decades. The months between the announcement and that new stage of life ahead are easily occupied with what has been or could have been on the one hand, and what may or may not be on the other. Gratitude and expectation aren’t wrong, so long as they aren’t totalizing.

Being mindful in the moment is part of what I think Jesus had in mind when he talked about coming to give us “life, and that more abundant.” The only way to experience abundant life, I believe, is to embrace it fully in the only time we have — which is right now!

An adage comes to mind here: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift — that’s why we call it the present.”

That’s making more sense all the time.

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SQ. FT. | $615,000

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3 BEDROOMS | 2.1 BATHS | 2,300 SQ. FT. | $615,000

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