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out of him being in Toto when I was a teenager.”

—Joslyn Taylor, daughter of saxophonist Jon Robert Smith

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WHITE ROCK CREEK SEWAGE

Another 100,000 gallons of wastewater headed toward White Rock Lake last month after sewage overflowed from a golf course in Plano. Officials worked to contain the spill. It started at Gleneagles Country Club, which abuts the lake-feeding White Rock Creek. The last time this happened, in late June, it was 10 times worse. That was 1 million gallons, which overflowed 12 miles up creek. The City of Plano managed to contain that spill within a mile of its origin. Water activities at White Rock Lake ceased for a weekend as a precaution.

BUSINESS NEWS

Constructing a shopping center in a floodplain is complicated and expensive. But that’s Retail Plazas Inc.’s next endeavor — if the developer behind Creekside can woo the City of Dallas. RPI plans to construct a retail center at 6800 Abrams Road near Park Lane. The development’s aesthetic and tenants would be similar to Creekside shopping center at Abrams and Skillman. Called Creekside on the Trail, the center could consist of three two-tenant buildings with restaurants and perhaps a bicycle store. RPI has a handful of major hurdles to clear. The 6.6-acre property is zoned for singlefamily homes. The developer first must convince the City Plan Commission to recommend rezoning the vacant land to community retail. If RPI wins the commission’s favor, the next step is creating engineering plans that mitigate potential flooding and requesting Dallas City Council’s approval.

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Join For the Love of the Lake every second Saturday at 8 a.m. for the shoreline spruce-up at White Rock Lake Park. Volunteers collect litter along the shoreline and park. Where: FTLOTL office in Casa Linda Plaza. More info: whiterocklake.org

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THROUGH NOV. 21

Autumn at the Arboretum

Enjoy Pumpkin Village with the “Adventures in Neverland” theme. Plus, live music every weekend.

Where: Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens

Cost: $10-$15 More info: dallasarboretum.org; 214.515.6615

NOV. 10-11

Lakewood Home Festival

Tour seven distinctive and historic neighborhood homes between 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, or take a candlelight tour Saturday night, 7-9 p.m.

Proceeds go to Lakewood Elementary, J.L. Long Middle School, and Woodrow Wilson High School.

Where: Various locations

Cost: $20-$30

More info: lakewoodhomefestival.com

NOV. 13

Drivin’ N Cryin’

Expect big guitars and booming drums as well as acoustic country and folk.

Where: Granada Theater, 3524 Greenville Ave.

Cost: $19

More info: granadatheater.com; 214.824.9933

NOV. 16-18

Art Mart

Shop for works created by local and regional artists. Proceeds benefit participating artists and the Friends of the Bath House Cultural Center.

Where: Bath House, 521 East Lawther Drive

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THE DAUGHTER OF A FAMOUS MUSICIAN, JOSLYN TAYLOR WENT LOOKING FOR ANYTHING BUT THE ROCK STAR LIFE

AS A TEENAGE DAUGHTER of the saxophonist for the ‘80s rock band Toto, neighbor Joslyn Taylor dreamed of a 9-to-5 job, and wanted to wear business suits, have health insurance and invest in a retirement plan. If she had the opportunity to go on the road to be a rock star or head to Hollywood to be an actress, she would have passed it up for a chance to stay home and get to know her neighbors.

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In Toto’s 1982 hit “Africa,” the song ends with, “Gonna take some time to do the things we never had.” The hit, which has resurfaced as a viral meme and as a Weezer cover, also echoes Taylor’s pursuit of the things her childhood lacked. Her father, Jon Robert Smith, played saxophone for Toto among many other bands through the years, resulting in a less-than-average childhood for Taylor. She says she moved 17 times and never stayed in one place more than two and a half years. The moves took her and her twin sisters from California to Texas to Louisiana and back again.

Smith grew up in Louisiana listening to Fats Domino, Little Richard and Big Joe Turner, and learned to play the saxophone in garage bands. One night after playing a show in New Orleans, he hopped in a car with some older musicians and drove to New York City. As his reputation grew, he played with Dale Hawkins and Edgar Winter, who had three gold albums in the early 1970s.

Smith met Taylor’s mother, JoLynn, when she caught his eye from the front row at a music festival in a South Carolina cornfield. He talked to her after the show. She met him later at a show in Atlanta and then flew to California to meet him again. They are still married 45 years later. While living in California, Smith booked jobs with bands such as the Doobie Brothers and Randy Newman, but he always felt the need to protect himself and his family from the hard-partying rock culture of the 1970s. At one point, he turned down an offer to play for War, which would go on to be one of the biggest bands of the 1970s. The drugs and drama that surrounded the band worried him, but still. “I could have kicked myself,” he says of his chance to be in War.

Top: Swoon’s Josyln Taylor, a creative editor, showcases her home. She is now raising her children in our neighborhood. Left and above: Her father, Jon Robert Smith, played saxophone for Toto among many bands. She attributes her creativity to his artistry. (Photographs courtesy of Joslyn Taylor).

Taylor remembers that many of the moves were to find the best school systems. “It had a lot to do with not wanting to subject my children and wife to things that I knew I would have to do if I stayed,” Smith says.

But Smith had his time in the spotlight. He met future Toto drummer Jeff Pocaro on a tour, and when they geared up to record Toto IV, Smith was asked to play the saxophone for the album. The album was one of the most successful of the ‘80s, with songs such as “Africa” and “Rosanna.”

For 10-year-old Taylor, seeing her dad in a music video on early MTV brought some memorable moments. Pat Benatar told Taylor she liked her outfit when they

met once backstage. “I got a lot of mileage out of him being in Toto when I was a teenager,” Taylor says. Taylor would grow up to find a stable career. After stints in marketing and as an editor at D Magazine, she is now a partner and principal of interiors at Swoon, a multi-disciplinary design firm. Her work can be found everywhere from Forty Five Ten to the Joule and Adolphus hotels. For Taylor, her job balances the creativity her father experienced and the stability she craved.

Her parents have lived with Taylor and her husband, Bryan, in both East Dallas and Lake Highlands over the years. At age 73, Smith now lives in Louisiana and still plays several nights a week after surviving kidney and bladder cancer.

Taylor’s children, who are now in sixth grade and high school, have the settled childhood Taylor wanted to provide them. “I get to live out the best of both worlds,” she says.

“That would not have happened if I had not been raised by an artist.”

“I got a lot of mileage out of him being in Toto when I was a teenager.”

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EAST DALLAS LAWYER TO THE RESCUE

KERON WRIGHT OFFERS LEGAL HELP TO JUVENILES

The 14-year-old boy sat in the Kansas City holding cell. Its dank and sterile walls providing nothing to distract the young man from assuming the worst about his fate. He had stolen a car with his friends and was being charged with theft and truancy.

ATTORNEY KERON WRIGHT, now a Hollywood Heights resident, walked into the cell and introduced himself to the teenager, who provided a weak and unsure handshake. “Are you a real lawyer?” he asked. The boy doubted that a young black man like himself could also be his legal counsel. Wright worked for Husch Blackwell in Kansas City at the time and was assigned to take the case pro-bono.

Wright handed his client the charging documents. The teenager stared blankly at the document. “He can’t read it,” Wright thought to himself. “He doesn’t know what it says.”

Wright met with him every other week for a couple of months, helping him and other clients understand the proceedings and

advocating on their behalf in court. “I want to give them a sense of freedom around speaking their mind, talking about themselves.”

In Ava DuVernay’s documentary “13th” about the growth of mass incarceration in the United States, viewers learn that one in three black men will end up in prison during their lifetime, compared to one in 17 white men. Statistics such as that motivate Wright to do what he can to help change things.

As a black lawyer, Wright is on the other side of this equation. He feels the burden of working to right what he feels are systematic injustices. He was one of just eight AfricanAmericans in his law school class of 147 at Washburn University. He clerked for a black

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female judge, who told him that when she graduated law school, she could find work only as a paralegal.

Over the years, Wright worked in numerous roles that allowed him to mentor young people who needed a hand up. Wright has been a CASA volunteer, representing the interests of foster children, and also a tutor. He remembers the shame of a high school kid who had a third-grade reading level. “I carry it with me,” he says. “I will never forget his face and that feeling of wanting to get away.”

Wright now works for Stewart Bradbury in Dallas, a woman-owned firm that prides itself on diversity. “We are busy, but part of our busyness is pro-bono,” he says. “That is acceptable around here.”

Wright hopes to impact youth before they end up in the courtroom as well. He partnered with his fraternity brother, who works for KIPP, a primarily black public charter school in Dallas, to establish an after-school program where students can learn about being a lawyer. “They can’t see themselves beyond these stereotypes and stigmas,” he says.

For Wright, the opportunity to find cases where he can represent juveniles in the criminal justice system is part of his mission as a black male professional.

“Whether I can do a good job as a lawyer, I am a confidant for whatever short period of time. I try to give them a sense that someone cares.”

“I want to give them a sense of freedom around speaking their mind, talking about themselves.”

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CLICK BACK IN TIME

In the 1940s, downtown Lakewood was bursting with activity. Lakewood Theater entertained us, Doc Harrell’s drugstore served as the neighborhood’s home base, and the short-lived Lakewood Hotel across the street from the theater provided a neighborhood getaway. Further north on Abrams, Click’s Hamburgers waited for drive-up burger lovers. “Drive in Beer,” the sign beckoned. Otherwise, it didn’t look too different from a Sonic in 2018.

Today, the Click’s address, 2111 Abrams, doesn’t exist, but it was somewhere in the area of Veritex Bank, which replaced the greasy spoon of Dan’s Lakewood Diner some years ago. Dallas once had a robust and well-used streetcar system that reached into our neighborhood. Following World War II, cars began to take over. And businesses like Click’s helped usher in the transition to a car-centric culture. —WILL MADDOX

1940 s 2018

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STELLA TO THE RESCUE

When the Turner family’s Doberman pinscher bit 2-year-old daughter, Zoe, in the face, she hesitated around dogs. It took a special animal to quell her fear, but the family’s new pet, Stella, soothed her soul. The dog is half Goldendoodle and half Aussiedoodle, a mix of golden retriever, poodle and Australian shepherd. Zoe is now 11. Her parents are Calvin and Minah. Stella loves riding to pick up the kids at carpool and playfully chasing the ducks and swans in the Turners’ backyard. Her signature move is howling on command, with her howls rising in frequency the more excited she gets. “She will howl four to five times when I come home,“ Calvin says. Follow her on Instagram at @stella_bella_the_goldendoodle.

GREENVILLE’S TOP SPOT

DESTINATION

THE NAME TOP POT came from an accident involving a vintage neon sign that hung above a Seattle-area Chinese Restaurant.

Brothers Mark and Michael Klebeck came across an amazing find: a used neon sign that once hung above Top Spot Chinese restaurant. They didn’t know what they might use it for, but they had to have it. When they loaded the sign in the back of the truck and drove off with it, they heard a loud “thud” from the truck bed. The “S” fell off while they were driving, and “Top Pot” was born. But they still had to develop the concept, so the sign sat rusting in their parents’ backyard for four years before they finally put it

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During that time, the brothers experimented with recipes that were passed down from their grandmother.

“One recipe in particular was a yeast-raised dough that had a slight sweetness to it,” Mark says. “This could be fried on the stove top, and it was fantastic with jam fillings as well as a variety of simple glazes and icings.”

From there, their recipes improved until they were ready to launch their café concept. When it was time to branch out of their home state of Washington, they knew Dallas was their next stop. They opened three

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locations in the Dallas area: one in Preston Hollow, one on Greenville Avenue and one in Richardson.

The Top Pot in our neighborhood is more of a grab-and-go than the one in Preston Hollow. Doughnuts are shipped from the other Dallas location because space is limited. Coffee is primarily French press since they couldn’t fit an extensive coffee bar, but that complements our neighborhood’s affinity for artisanal coffee.

Not much is different between the Dallas locations and the ones in Seattle. Dallas stores use coffee beans roasted in small batches in Seattle. Dallasites do have particular tastes. Blueberry is a year-round flavor in Dallas because it is so popular, but it’s a seasonal flavor in Washington.

“It’s interesting the popularity of the doughnuts are different in Seattle than they are down here,” district manager Karla Fife says. “In Seattle, maple bars are really popular, and down here? Not so much. Maple’s not a thing in Texas? I don’t know.”

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Racist housing policies impacted East Dallas, but the city wants to change the landscape

East Dallas is a patchwork of the haves and the have-nots. Some are comfortable with public schools, and others drive great distances for private schools. McMansions, neo-modern and historic homes mix with apartments, some high-end and others low-income.

This past May, the Dallas City Council unanimously approved its first comprehensive housing policy, which could increase affordable housing throughout the city and, ultimately, better integrate Dallas. The policy hopes to address residential income gaps by providing new and stable housing, assisting property owners and establishing mixed income communities.

This civic action is an attempt to reverse federal practices dating back to the ’30s, which reinforced the residential segregation that exists to this day.

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Many of Lakewood’s most iconic homes were built in the 1920s, in an architectural style that has transcended time. Can you guess it right away? Some clues: brick and/or stucco walls; a façade dominated by one or more frontfacing gables; a steeply pitched roof that has eaves that may plunge almost to the ground; massive chimneys often topped with decorative chimney pots; and, the most distinctive characteristic of all, decorative half-timbering.

Congratulations if you guessed Tudor, a style with a long and twisty history. It was the final evolution of Medieval architecture in England, during the Tudor period from 1485 to 1603. In the U.S., a medley of Tudorera styles was combined in a building heyday that lasted from the 1890s to the 1940s, especially in affluent suburbs. Why? The materials used for Tudor-style homes were expensive — brick, slate, stone — which telegraphed the financial success of their owners.

In Lakewood and everywhere, Tudor homes are highly desirable. They are popular in movies, too. One famous example? Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, featured in movies and shows including Gilmore Girls and The Fabulous Baker Boys . Other notable Tudors are, in Michigan, the 60-room manor of Edsel and Eleanor Ford and, in Newport, Rhode Island, the late-1800s Fairholme, the oceanfront summer cottage — at 24,000 square feet — of philanthropist Fairman Rogers.

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“People like to think that segregation just sort of happened,” says Miguel Solis, a Dallas Independent School District trustee who chaired a task force on housing policy that made recommendations to the city. “Segregation was manufactured by people, and particularly by policymakers, for racist reasons.”

In the wake of the 1929 Great Depression, the federal government rolled out all kinds of New Deal policies and agencies to try to prevent such a financial crisis from happening again. One was the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), which introduced the practice of

apparent racial and cultural value of a community to determine its economic value,” according to the “Mapping Inequality” project from the University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab. It was nearly impossible for these residents to acquire a home loan, making it more difficult for communities of color to accumulate generational wealth.

The practice of “redlining,” as it became known, officially was outlawed in the late 1960s. But U.S. Census reports from 2009 — four decades later — showed that typical black and Hispanic households had just 6 and 8 percent, respectively, of the median wealth of typical white

WHAT IS “REDLINING”?

The systematic denial of housing services to specific residents, often based on race and ethnicity. The practice was introduced in the early 1930s with the creation of the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), whose “residential security” informed which mortgage loans would be insured by the Federal Housing Authority (FHA). Such practices were outlawed by the 1968 Fair Housing Act, but their effects persist today.

HISTORIC HOME OWNERS’ LOAN CORPORATION GRADES

1930-1940

“BEST”

These new homogenous areas populated by “business and professional men” were in demand, in good times and bad.

“STILL DESIRABLE”

appraising homes for mortgage loans. As part of this, HOLC recruited loan officers, developers and real estate professionals in nearly 250 cities, including Dallas, to color-code neighborhoods’ credit worthiness and risk.

These “residential security” maps were then used by the Federal Housing Administration, HOLC’s successor agency, to determine which residents were “safe” bets for banks and lenders. The better a neighborhood’s rating, the more likely its potential homeowners could acquire a mortgage loan.

The HOLC recruits looked at everything from terrain to public amenities to determine ratings. But as one former FHA appraiser told writer Ta-Nehisi Coates for his June 2014 Atlantic story, “The Case for Reparations,” the top ratings were reserved for areas without “a single foreigner or Negro.”

Neighborhoods with people of color almost always were colored red, or “hazardous” for lenders.

“Real estate appraisers used the

households.

Dallas was no exception. Our modern demographics, from property values to school performance, reflect HOLC’s 1937 residential security map of Dallas, demonstrating the lasting impact of these policies.

Parts of Old East Dallas and the Baylor area were redlined, according to the HOLC maps. What is now Lakewood, the M Streets and Wilshire Heights were rated “best,” while areas to the south were designated “still desirable.” Moving further south and east toward Downtown, the Mount Auburn area was rated “declining.”

Swiss Avenue, according to the 1937 redlining map, is a “best” spot in a sea of “declining” East Dallas properties. The historic district’s old housing deeds still read, “This lot shall be used for residential purposes only and by white persons only,” NBC 5 reported in 2010. Race restrictive covenants like this are unconstitutional and unenforceable today, but their presence reveals the intentions of early developers.

These areas had “reached their peak” but were expected to remain stable for many years.

“DEFINITELY DECLINING”

In general, these were sparsely populated fringe areas that typically bordered black neighborhoods.

“HAZARDOUS”

These low-income neighborhoods, populated by “Negros” and “foreigners,” were considered to be the worst for lending, hence the term “redlining.”

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Sources: University of Richmond

“Mapping Inequality” project, The Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston

“Segregation was manufactured by people, and particularly by policymakers, for racist reasons.”

To create their “security maps” in the 1930s, HOLC recruited loan officers, developers and real estate appraisers in nearly 250 cities, including Dallas, to color-code credit worthiness and risk for neighborhoods within large metropolitan areas.

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RED LINE RATING: Mostly best

TEA ACHIEVEMENT SCORE: 93

WHITE STUDENTS: 59%

LOW-INCOME STUDENTS: 19%

PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT OF HOMES SOLD IN 2017: $267.42

LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY

RED LINE RATING: Mostly best, some desirable

TEA ACHIEVEMENT SCORE: 94

WHITE STUDENTS: 77%

LOW-INCOME STUDENTS: 7%

PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT OF HOMES SOLD IN 2017: $273.04

GENEVA HEIGHTS (LEE)

ELEMENTARY

RED LINE RATING: Mostly desirable, some declining

TEA ACHIEVEMENT SCORE: 73

WHITE STUDENTS: 27%

LOW-INCOME STUDENTS:

58%

PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT OF HOMES SOLD IN 2017: $245.35

LIPSCOMB ELEMENTARY

RED LINE RATING: Mix of declining and desirable

TEA ACHIEVEMENT SCORE: 72

WHITE STUDENTS: 9%

LOW-INCOME STUDENTS: 84%

PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT OF HOMES SOLD IN 2017: $212.72

Sources: Realtor Ron Burch of Coldwell Banker, Texas Education Agency 2018-19 school profiles, Homeowners’ Loan Corporation 1937 maps, Dallas ISD boundry maps

MOUNT AUBURN ELEMENTARY

RED LINE RATING: Mostly declining

TEA ACHIEVEMENT SCORE: 60

WHITE STUDENTS: 2%

LOW-INCOME STUDENTS: 92%

PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT OF HOMES SOLD IN 2017: $109.16

What redlining means today

When today’s demographics are measured against those redlining maps from nearly 80 years ago, there are similar patterns. The areas that the FHA considered “hazardous” are still the areas that have the highest levels of poverty, the largest concentrations of minorities and the lowest property values.

“Everything that comes with a hyper-concentration of poverty, such as healthcare and education, created a set of compounding generational effects that many still live with today,” Solis says.

Segregation still exists in East Dallas. Gentrification means that lower income communities are priced out of areas where they have lived and sent their children to school for generations. In the Mount Auburn neighborhood, where homes historically have been passed to family members or sold for less than $300,000, developers are purchasing lots and building modern homes priced over $600,000.

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IS THE PAST PRESENT?

Read the notations of loan officers, developers and real estate professionals who created Dallas’ 1937 Home Owners’ Loan Corporation “residential security” maps and decide for yourself — do their descriptions of East Dallas neighborhoods in 1937 reflect today’s realities?

“BEST”

Lakewood was “considered one of the highest type residential districts of Dallas, containing several homes costing as much as $60,000. This area is well platted and contains considerable natural beauty.”

Forest Hills boasted of “deed restrictions, location, type of construction and natural beauty” leading the map makers to believe that “present building activity will in all probability rapidly increase.”

In the M Streets area, from Central Expressway to Abrams and Mockingbird to Vanderbilt, homes were “protected by deed restrictions which have several years yet to run. It will continue to be desirable and sales activity will continue to be good.”

Swiss Avenue was a “highly restricted addition” whose homes “could be classed as edifices, occupied by well to do families.”

“STILL DESIRABLE”

North and west of Swiss, in what is now Vickery Place, the Belmont Addition and Lakewood Heights, the homes east of Skillman were considered the “best part of area.” The premiere suburban neighborhood of the early 1900s, Munger Place, was by 1937 considered the “worst part” of the area. The overall neighborhood was “still desirable” even with “apartment houses scattered over [the] entire area.”

LAKEWOOD 94

MOCKINGBIRD (STONEWALL) 93

GENEVA HEIGHTS (LEE) 73

LIPSCOMB 72

MOUNT AUBURN 60

Hollywood-Santa Monica, Parks Estates (Abrams Brookside) and Junius Heights received points for being proximal to a grade school (Lipscomb Elementary), city parks, a community business center (Lakewood Shopping Center) and the Lakewood Country Club, but because of the age of homes, “heavy traffic on Gaston Avenue” and “encroachment of apartment houses,” they were “still desirable” but not “best.”

“DEFINITELY DECLINING”

The Mount Auburn neighborhood, adjacent to HollywoodSanta Monica, was “definitely declining,” with its “mixed type of construction” and “encroachment of commercial and industrial establishments.”

Most everything else in Old East Dallas, including Peak’s Addition southwest of Fitzhugh and Ross, Belmont Park southwest of Henderson Avenue, and the neighborhood around Woodrow Wilson High School, was “definitely declining.” The properties were “old” and in “poor” repair. There were “industrial plants” and “railroad tracks through part of [the] area,” plus “many large apartments houses of varying degrees of desirability.”

Most areas around White Rock Lake and other northern parts of what is now East Dallas hadn’t been developed into neighborhoods yet.

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last year with a mission to “promote greater economic mobility and prosperity by tackling concentrated poverty and segregation.” The organization created a task force to analyze housing policies in Dallas and make recommendations to the city.

One of the task force’s goals was to establish a policy to enhance housing for low-income households and break the cycle of generational poverty.

The task force included representatives from real estate, nonprofits, government, neighbors and developers.

“We had folks who were focused on the bottom line and Section 8 voucher holders in the same room talking about this issue,” Solis says.

“The future is mixed income. But it requires diligence and not losing political will.”

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The city responded by adopting many of the task force’s recommendations. The goal is to build 20,000 new affordable homes and encourage home ownership, protection against gentrification and redevelopment throughout the city. In theory, the new policies could help neighbors in areas such as Mount Auburn. They would be able to purchase their homes and stay put.

‘The future is mixed income’ Jack Matthews, whose firm Matthews Southwest built the Omni Dallas Hotel, is one of the developers promoting mixedincome housing in Dallas. He is working on a 16-story residential tower near the old Dallas High School downtown. Nearly half of the units are for residents earning between 30 and 60 percent of the area’s median income. The Dallas Morning News reports that the

plan is financed with low-income housing tax credits, tax increment finance district funds and debt.

The city’s new policies are pushing for this sort of development, providing tax credits, a city housing trust fund and other incentives to developers.

City Councilman Philip Kingston sees East Dallas as a place where these sorts of developments could have an impact. He points out the Lakewood Shopping Center and Columbia Avenue areas as potential locations for intentional mixed-income developments.

“The future is mixed income,”

“You can’t desegregate a community if you have nowhere else for them to live.”

— Patty Smuland, Daughter of Landon Resident

A STEP IN A NEW DIRECTION

The goals of Dallas’ new housing policy, according to a city memo, are to:

• Create and maintain available and affordable housing throughout Dallas

• Promote greater fair housing choices

• Overcome patterns of segregation and concentrations of poverty through incentives and requirements

he says, “but it requires diligence and not losing political will. No set of rules is so good that it will keep people from doing bad things that they are determined to do.”

Solis is hopeful that the housing policy will have an impact in a variety of areas, including schools. He has seen the desire for many parents who are choosing Dallas ISD to put their children at schools that are ensured to be diverse, such as SOLAR Preparatory School for Girls in East Dallas. But he knows that a comprehensive housing policy’s impact on segregation will be greater than relying on parents to choose diversity for their children.

“Housing is a lynchpin for a thriving city,” he says. “You cannot have a thriving city without quality housing for every citizen. We can’t deal with concentrated poverty without figuring out ways to disperse poverty, and you can’t desegregate a community if you have nowhere else for them to live.”

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LAKEWOOD’S GRAND DAMES

This month’s Lakewood Home Festival features notable houses who are sisters from other Misters

The “Lakewood Three” sit side by side on the 6700 block of Lakewood Boulevard, all fine examples of French Norman architecture, and all built within a few years of each other in the 1930s, when Albert Dines and Lee Kraft developed the Country Club Estates neighborhood.

Some refer to these three houses as the “Dilbeck triplets,” named for the famed architect who made his mark on Dallas with dozens of residences as well as apartment buildings, restaurants and motor lodges. The Lakewood Early Childhood PTA is featuring these “Dilbeck triplets” during their festival and home tour, Nov. 9-11.

But only one of the three is, in all likelihood, a Dilbeck house, says Willis Winters, who has been working on a book about Dilbeck for the past 12 years.

Winters is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, the current City of Dallas Parks and Recreation director, and a former Lakewood resident. He grew familiar with Dilbeck in 1997, seven years after the architect’s death, when

Preservation Dallas hosted a Dilbeck home tour and asked Winters for help.

That was more than 20 years ago, and Winters believes in his attempts to drive around town and document Dilbeck’s work, he ascribed more residences to the architect than Dilbeck designed. But what exactly is and isn’t a “Dilbeck” in Dallas is still somewhat of a mystery, even to Winters. Many of Dines and Kraft’s documents were lost from their offices, and the collection that exists at the library suffered extensive water damage. More recently, Winters partnered with Dilbeck’s family to organize attic-stored documents into an architectural library. He receives emails all the time from people asking, “I think I live in a Dilbeck home — can you help me?”

Sometimes, “a good amount of sleuthing” is the best Winters says he can offer since the documentation is lacking.

In the case of the so-called Dilbeck triplets, Winters has seen the architectural drawings of only one home, 6748

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Lakewood Blvd., and they bear architect George Marble’s name, not Dilbeck’s. However, “I do see Dilbeck all over this house, as opposed to the other two houses,” Winters says.

He knows that Dines and Kraft often commissioned Marble as they developed Country Club Estates, Westlake Park and Gastonwood, much of which is now considered Lakewood. Winters also knows that Dilbeck moved to Dallas in 1933 and worked with Marble for about six months before branching off on his own. Because the exterior features of 6748 are so distinctively Dilbeck, Winters believes that house, the last of the Lakewood Three to be constructed, is likely a Dilbeck design under Marble’s name.

The other two, however, are what Winters describes as “academic eclecticism,” designed by an architect who likely had strong training and ample resources as he drew front elevations. Dilbeck, dissimilarly, lacked formal architectural training which made his work “more picturesque, more idiosyncratic,” Winters says. The symmetry and straight lines of the French Norman structures at 6726 and 6738 Lakewood are “playing by the rules, so to speak, and Dilbeck did not play by the rules,” he says.

Winters believes that 6726 and 6738 Lakewood Blvd. were designed by the same architect, likely George Marble based on his work with Dines and Kraft. The fact that they probably aren’t Dilbecks “doesn’t diminish them at all,” he says.

“These houses are all of the quality that only five or six of the architects in Dallas in the ’20s and ’30s could have designed,” Winters says. “Whoever the architect was, he was just as important as Dilbeck. It’s just a different style.”

Marcus Taylor of English Custom Homes has renovated both 6726 and 6738 Lakewood Blvd. — not once, but twice. Both of the current owners, he says “have done a really good job in updating the home[s] to the 21st century whilst being cognizant of the history of the house. That’s a tricky thing to do.”

6726 Lakewood Blvd.

• The stone around the front door and on the left side of the house is cut stone, put through a saw blade, as opposed to rough, uncut “field stone,” Winters points out. “Dilbeck, in general, did not use cut stone. It was too ‘finished’ for him.”

• The way the massive chimney faces the street, and steps down and toward the street in tiers — “I know this sounds ridiculous,” Winters says, “but this is not a Dilbeck chimney.”

• The straight gable across the house contrasts with the “infinitely more complex and complicated roof”at 6748 Lakewood Blvd. Dilbeck tended not to use simple gable roofs that ran parallel to the street.

Notice

Notice Public Hearing

Public Hearing

State Highway (SH) 78 (Garland Road/East Grand Avenue)

State Highway (SH) 78 (Garland Road/East Grand Avenue)

At Gaston Avenue

At Gaston Avenue

CSJ: 0009-02-067

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Dallas County, Texas

Dallas County, Texas

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), in conjunction with the City of Dallas, proposes intersection improvements to State Highway (SH) 78 (Garland Road/East Grand Avenue) at Gaston Avenue in Dallas County, Texas. This notice advises the public that TxDOT will be conducting a public hearing on the proposed project. The hearing will be held on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at the Dallas Arboretum – Rosine Hall, located at 8525 Garland Road, Dallas, TX 75218. Displays will be available for viewing at 6:00 p.m. with the formal hearing starting at 7:00 p.m. The purpose of the hearing is to present the planned improvements and to receive public comment on the proposed project.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), in conjunction with the City of Dallas, proposes intersection improvements to State Highway (SH) 78 (Garland Road/East Grand Avenue) at Gaston Avenue in Dallas County, Texas. This notice advises the public that TxDOT will be conducting a public hearing on the proposed project. The hearing will be held on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at the Dallas Arboretum – Rosine Hall, located at 8525 Garland Road, Dallas, TX 75218. Displays will be available for viewing at 6:00 p.m. with the formal hearing starting at 7:00 p.m. The purpose of the hearing is to present the planned improvements and to receive public comment on the proposed project.

The proposed project consists of reconfiguring the SH 78/Gaston Avenue intersection to improve traffic operations and mobility. The improvements would modify the intersection to include additional turning lanes, raised medians, adding bicycle and pedestrian accommodations within the project limits, and widening the existing bridges over an unnamed tributary to White Rock Creek. The proposed project would require approximately 0.29 acre of new rightof-way (ROW) and 0.32 acre of temporary construction easements to accommodate the proposed improvements.

The existing intersection has unprotected right turn lanes at Gaston Avenue and offers limited pedestrian and bicycle accommodations. The existing ROW ranges from 54 to 242 feet in width. The proposed ROW would range from 70 to 242 feet in width. Although additional ROW is required, no residential or non-residential structures would be displaced. Information concerning services and benefits available to affected property owners and information about the tentative schedule for ROW acquisition may be obtained from the district office at the address listed below.

The proposed project consists of reconfiguring the SH 78/Gaston Avenue intersection to improve traffic operations and mobility. The improvements would modify the intersection to include additional turning lanes, raised medians, adding bicycle and pedestrian accommodations within the project limits, and widening the existing bridges over an unnamed tributary to White Rock Creek. The proposed project would require approximately 0.29 acre of new right-of-way (ROW) and 0.32 acre of temporary construction easements to accommodate the proposed improvements.

Portions of the proposed project area and construction work would occur in the Federal Emergency Management Agency designated 100-year floodplains of the unnamed tributary to White Rock Creek. The hydraulic design for this project would be in accordance with current Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and TxDOT design policies. Approximately 0.32 acre of waters of the United States are located within the project area; however, no wetlands were observed. Permanent impacts from placement of bridge supports would be authorized under a United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Section 404 Nationwide Permit 14. Approximately 0.32 acre of temporary construction easement area from the Santa Fe Trail property would be required. The proposed project is eligible for a Section 4(f) Exception due to the temporary occupancy of the property.

The existing intersection has unprotected right turn lanes at Gaston Avenue and offers limited pedestrian and bicycle accommodations. The existing ROW ranges from 54 to 242 feet in width. The proposed ROW would range from 70 to 242 feet in width. Although additional ROW is required, no residential or non-residential structures would be displaced. Information concerning services and benefits available to affected property owners and information about the tentative schedule for ROW acquisition may be obtained from the district office at the address listed below.

Environmental documentation, maps showing the project location and design, and other information regarding the project are on file and available for inspection Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. at TxDOT Dallas District Office at 4777 East Highway 80, Mesquite, Texas 75150 and are available online at www.keepitmovingdallas.com under Upcoming Public Hearing/Meeting. This information also will be available for inspection at the hearing. Verbal and written comments from the public regarding the project are requested and may be presented at the hearing, or submitted in person or by mail to the TxDOT Dallas District Office or by email to Lani.Marshall@txdot.gov. Comments must be received on or before Wednesday, November 28, 2018 to be part of the official hearing record.

The hearing will be conducted in English. Persons interested in attending the hearing who have special communication or accommodation needs, such the need for an interpreter, are encouraged to contact TxDOT Dallas District Public Information Office at (214) 320‐4480. Requests should be made at least two days prior to the hearing. Every reasonable effort will be made to accommodate these needs.

Portions of the proposed project area and construction work would occur in the Federal Emergency Management Agency designated 100-year floodplains of the unnamed tributary to White Rock Creek. The hydraulic design for this project would be in accordance with current Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and TxDOT design policies. Approximately 0.32 acre of waters of the United States are located within the project area; however, no wetlands were observed. Permanent impacts from placement of bridge supports would be authorized under a United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Section 404 Nationwide Permit 14. Approximately 0.32 acre of temporary construction easement area from the Santa Fe Trail property would be required. The proposed project is eligible for a Section 4(f) Exception due to the temporary occupancy of the property.

If you have any general questions or concerns regarding the proposed project or the hearing, please contact the TxDOT Project Manager, Lani Marshall, P.E., at (214) 319-6585 or Lani.Marshall@txdot.gov

The environmental review, consultation, and other actions required by applicable Federal environmental laws for this project are being, or have been, carried-out by TxDOT pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 327 and a Memorandum of Understanding dated December 16, 2014, and executed by FHWA and TxDOT.

Environmental documentation, maps showing the project location and design, and other information regarding the project are on file and available for inspection Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. at TxDOT Dallas District Office at 4777 East Highway 80, Mesquite, Texas 75150 and are available online at www.keepitmovingdallas.com under Upcoming Public Hearing/Meeting. This information also will be available for inspection at the hearing. Verbal and written comments from the public regarding the project are requested and may be presented at the hearing, or submitted in person or by mail to the TxDOT Dallas District Office or by email to Lani.Marshall@txdot.gov. Comments must be received on or before Wednesday, November 28, 2018 to be part of the official hearing record. The hearing will be conducted in English. Persons interested in attending the hearing who have special communication or accommodation needs, such the need for an interpreter, are encouraged to contact TxDOT Dallas District Public Information Office at (214) 320-4480. Requests should be made at least two days prior to the hearing. Every reasonable effort will be made to accommodate these needs.

If you have any general questions or concerns regarding the proposed project or the hearing, please contact the TxDOT Project Manager, Lani Marshall, P.E., at (214) 319-6585 or Lani.Marshall@txdot.gov. The environmental review, consultation, and other actions required by applicable Federal environmental laws for this project are being, or have been, carried-out by TxDOT pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 327 and a Memorandum of Understanding dated December 16, 2014, and executed by FHWA and TxDOT.

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DILBECK’S DRAW

Kate Holliday, professor at University of Texas at Arlington and director of the David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture, explains more about why Charles Dilbeck’s work is celebrated in Dallas and in Lakewood.

Why is Dilbeck so significant as an architect?

Charles Dilbeck was a prolific architect who designed hundreds of homes in Dallas during its first oil boom in the 1930s. While much of the nation was in the midst of the Great Depression, Dilbeck churned out romantic, charming homes with eclectic echoes of English cottages, Spanish haciendas and modern Texas ranch houses. His careful attention to craft is evident in every detail of his designs, from the clean lines of the Belmont Hotel to the carefully crafted brickwork of Cochran Heights cottages.

6748 Lakewood Blvd.

• The large round chimney flue off to the left is “a Dilbeck signature element,” Winters says. “I’ve never seen a round chimney flue on a George Marble house, but I can show you 20 on other Dilbeck houses.”

• “The way the roof swoops down and fans out right above the front porch is a Dilbeck hallmark,” Winters says, and “the way the dormer windows interrupt the roofline, it’s different than the way other architects did it.”

• Dilbeck liked to trim windows in a contrasting brick color, “in this case, the orange brick,” Winters says. The half-timbering of wood and brick on the second floor also appears to him like a Dilbeck design.

Why is Dilbeck so significant for the Lakewood community?

Dilbeck designed smaller single-family homes as well as country clubs and grand estates. As more of Dilbeck’s work is demolished and altered beyond recognition, the Lakewood work gives us one of the few remaining windows into the world of 1930s Dallas.

What are the hallmarks of a Dilbeck home?

Dilbeck homes are intentionally quirky. They have changes in materials, changes in scale, and odd little details that make his approach distinct. Something might look out of proportion or like it was added later — but those are all parts of Dilbeck’s approach. He always seemed to be having fun rather than following the rules. —LISA KRESL

• Like 6826, the window dormers don’t vary from one to the other, Winters points out. “There are 20 ways to do dormer windows,” he says. “These are so uniform, and Dilbeck never would have done them the same way. That’s part of the picturesque effect Dilbeck was trying to achieve.”

• Here again, a very simple gable roof runs across the main volume of the house, while at 6748 Lakewood Blvd., “the roof profile, or silhouette, is much more complicated,” Winters says.

• The patterning of the wood against the stucco and the half-timbering area, “that’s not the way Dilbeck did his wood patterning,” Winters says. “This just comes from me looking at and studying hundreds of houses over the years.”

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Pumpkins PUMPED ABOUT

by ANDY SHAW

PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANNY FULGENCIO

Four 18-wheelers turn off Garland Road and enter the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden at sunrise. A fleet of forklifts and horticulturists feverishly offload their cargo in the Pecan Grove. Dozens of cardboard crates are everywhere, bursting with 90,000 pumpkins and gourds.

It will take a team of 40 horticulturalists and volunteers two weeks to unload and organize them for Autumn at the Arboretum, which runs through Nov. 21. This year’s theme for the Pumpkin Village is “Adventures in Neverland,” complete with ships, a treasure chest and a plank.

“Everything used to be themed around pumpkins, and now it’s what you can build with pumpkins,” says Jennifer Wang, Arboretum horticulture manager. “You start to run out of stories that have pumpkins in them.”

Expects Captain Hook and Tinker Bell sightings.

“It’s a lot of hard work,” Wang says. “But as soon as we’re done, we all stand back, and we’re amazed at how wonderful it turns out.”

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Paula Pyle says the best way to preserve a pumpkin is to keep it out of the sun. The Fairytale and Porcelain Doll varieties last the longest, especially if you keep them in the house, because they are dense. “I had one that I threw out in March,” she says.

Pumpkin PURVEYORS

When the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden needs 90,000 pumpkins pronto, who you gonna call? The Pumpkin Pyle of Floydada, north of Lubbock.

The family farm has been supplying the Arboretum for eight years. This three-generation enterprise started growing pumpkins in 1991, when Louis Pyle gave his 16-year-old grandson Jason 10 acres of land. “Paw-Paw” asked him what he wanted to grow, and Jason said pumpkins. That year the teen, parents Paula and Robert Pyle, and grandfather Louis raised 10 acres of pumpkins each. They started selling them off the road in front of their home.

Now the family has 660 acres, employs about 150 workers and loads between 15 to 20 semi-trucks a day during the season. The family mainly sells pumpkins in Texas and Oklahoma, but they also send trucks to Arizona, New Mexico, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.

“It’s been a really good supplement to our farming,” Paula says. The family’s main crop is cotton.

Paula and daughter-in-law Lindsey take orders and run the office. The most popular pumpkins, she says, are the Jack-o-Lantern, the minis and the pie pumpkins. After that they receive the most orders for the Crystal Star, a large white pumpkin, the Fairytale, which is green and turns buckskin, and the Cinderella.

Her favorite pie? Pumpkin, of course. She says the best pumpkin to cook with is the Cheddar variety. Unusued pumpkins are good for fertilizer and cows.

Their website is done by the Pyles’ son-in-law, a software engineer. “We try to keep it in the family,” Paula says. “I pay him in babysitting.”

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

By PATTI VINSON

Peace garden

Woodrow art teachers are planting hope, happiness and produce in an unused campus corner

Woodrow Wilson High School art teachers Miranda Korschun and Jessica Martinez have a vision for a peaceful garden. They are transforming an underused, dumping ground of a space on the campus into “The Art/Peace Garden” that will feed body and soul. And they are counting on East Dallas neighbors to make it happen.

One day as they walked the campus in search of areas to display students’ art, they discovered an unused courtyard just across the hall from one of their classrooms. “It was full of abandoned furniture, big bags of potting soil and piles of lumber,” Korschun says. “I proposed we create a peace garden there.”

Where most would see an industrial space bordered by a giant A/C unit and three tall, weathered-brick walls, these teachers saw potential. Korschun dreams of tall-backed benches to block the lessthan-serene view. Martinez points to a sunny corner as the ideal location for rows of potatoes and cages of tomatoes. Both imagine flowers, vegetables, tables and chairs. Produce will be donated to the Peace Pantry, housed at Woodrow and available to students and their families.

Both expect students to be involved in designing, creating, and maintaining the garden. “We’d like a space where students can work peacefully and safely, outside in the sunshine,” Korschun says. “The garden will give them a beautiful space to create and reflect, while instilling a sense of ownership and responsibility for working to raise produce and other plants.”

Th e space is primarily a project for members of the Art/Poetry/Gardening Club. At weekly meetings, members have the option of working on art, poetry or in the garden, as the club name suggests.

Wood row junior Rolando Bolanos is eager to dig in the dirt. “Ha ving a

garden club will be great,” he says. “I have my own garden at home so I’m extremely passionate about gardening. The idea of having one at school and tending a garden with fellow classmates sounds great to me.” He says he is eager to hone his gardening skills, but he can foresee an added benefit to tending plants. “Teaching patience,” he says, “which my generation seems to lack.”

Other departments at Woodrow are lending a hand. Eng ineering students

might apply their skills at designing raised garden beds and movable shelving.

Korschun and Martinez hope East Dallas neighbors will donate outdoor furniture, pots, containers, gardening tools and more. Equally important is help from experienced gardeners.

While the vegetable garden’s harvest will feed the body, the space is also intended to nourish the soul. Cl ub members may find inspira tion for paintings, drawings and poems. But the

HOW TO HELP: Donations needed

Outdoor furniture, pots and containers, rainwater collection container, watering cans, water hose with nozzle for watering at different intensities, trellises for climbing plants, tomato cages, 10 to 20 pairs of gardening gloves (multiple sizes), gardening tools including shovels, hand shovels, trowels, dowel rods, bamboo rods, drill, saw, staple gun and nail gun, plants in containers, yoga mats, compost bin, lumber, outdoor sculptures, bluetooth/wireless system for music

More information: mkorschun@dallasisd.org

Woodrow teachers Miranda Korschun and Jessica Martinez. (Photography by Danny Fulgencio)

art teachers hope the space will become a popular mini-field trip for teachers of all subjects. “A quiet, serene space would give easily distracted students a better chance to learn to focus,” Martinez says.

Martinez has a personal interest in providing such a space. “As someone who was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in high school, I understand how vital quiet spaces are,” she says. She sites statistics

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from the National Institute of Mental Health, which estimate a third of all teens suffer from anxiety. “Allowing students and staff a quiet place where they can find a quiet moment to do classwork, have lunch or just take a moment to breathe is an important goal for the garden’s use.”

The teachers hope that the garden lifts students’ spirits.

“We’re trying to grow things,” Martinez says. “We’re looking at student growth, not just plant yields.”

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.

“We’re looking at student growth, not just plant yields.”

This underused Woodrow Wilson High School courtyard is set to become the Art/Peace Garden. (Photography by Danny Fulgencio)

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By GEORGE MASON

‘God-talk aimed at the common good’

A look back at 20 years of George Mason’s columns via 20 excerpts

Wilshire Baptist Church senior pastor George Mason writes monthly missives meant to provoke.

He was a father of three teenagers when the Advocate worship column commenced. He is now a grandfather. Through seasons of life, and even shifts in his own neighborhood congregation, Mason has continued the practice of “public theology” — “God-talk aimed at the common good,” as he explained in his September 2014 column.

“I have tried with this column to challenge and chide, encourage and exhort neighbors of all stripes to draw upon the better angels of their nature and the highest ideals of their own faith traditions by doing the same from mine. I hope that has come through.”

Advocate editor Keri Mitchell has identified 20 excerpts highlighting Mason’s broad range of topics over the last 20 years, from observing holidays to surviving parenthood, from national politics to civic duties, from the pew to the classroom to the front porch.

October 1998: “I know, I know — I’m a preacher, and this is the devil’s holiday, but I can’t help myself — I love Halloween.”

September 1999: “My kids are sure that my wife and I conspire against them. They are right. We stay up nights thinking how we might make their lives miserable by deeds as pernicious as refusing telephone privileges after 10:30 p.m., denying them one more pair of Abercrombie and Fitch over-priced, washed-out wrinkly baggy chinos, or insisting on their presence at family dinner more than one night per week, thereby starving their all-consuming social life.”

November 1999: “Sports dominate our culture in ungodly ways today. When people learn that I was a quarterback

for the University of Miami (more than 20 years ago!), they suddenly pay more attention to me. They may even listen more intently when I preach.”

February 2000: “I see them in the pews: John and Jane Doe, with their children, Jack and Jill. God knows who they really are. They duck the ushers, act like they belong, dodge invitations to join in. They are there to browse, maybe to consume a tasty choral piece or feed on a meaty sermon. When they’ve had their fill, they beat it to the safety of the parking lot. … That’s like trying to make love with your clothes on. You go through the motions, but it never gets too intimate.”

October 2001: “My grandfather helped start Little League in Staten Island. He used to say in his opening day speech: In Little League, parents are to be seen and not heard.”

November 2002: “When you last went to church or temple or mosque, were you more occupied with the lights, cameras and action of worship or with the God it is designed to rouse and bless?”

October 2003: “Men fly airplanes into buildings with the phrase ‘God is great,’ and a Christian minister is executed in Florida for murdering an abortion doctor, saying he expects great rewards in heaven. These are not isolated incidents or recent phenomena. They are the fruit of an overripe understanding of God.”

October 2004: “A few chronic charlatans give hurting people a bad name and undermine community welfare. Don’t reward them. … Every dollar given on a street corner could be better given to a benevolence agency.”

March 2005: “ ‘Why don’t you ever preach on hell?’ one woman has asked me more than once. My reply is cute but curt: ‘I’m too busy bringing down heaven to raise hell.’ ”

June 2007: “I get to perform two weddings this June and one on the first day of July. I expect to cry at all of them. The last one will challenge my composure most. That day I will walk down the aisle alongside my oldest pride and joy and give her away to a man I grudgingly admit to being worthy of her love and loyalty.”

July 2008: “Taxes are the secular and compulsory sibling of voluntary, religious tithes. Both involve love and duty. Both have their place in the spiritual spectrum of how God’s will is done on earth as it is in heaven.”

April 2009: “I closed my prayer as if I were praying over a covered dish meal in the fellowship hall of our church: ‘… in the name of Christ we pray, Amen.’ Opening my eyes, I awakened from my prayer stupor to where I was and where I wasn’t. My rabbi friend, Asher Knight, sat across the table. I realized instantly that he wouldn’t be able to include himself in my ‘we.’ [Later] Asher offered to offer the benediction. Seizing the moment, I pleaded with my Jewish colleague to remember where he was and not end his prayer inappropriately for an interfaith gathering.”

September 2010: “The pastoral office gives me a close-up view of the church as it is, not as I want it to be. I see its warts, its hypocrisy, and its fearfulness that sometimes overcomes its faithfulness.”

July 2011: “Religious liberty is greater than religious tolerance. Tolerance says that one religious group is in charge and

George Mason played quarterback for the Univerity of Miami. (Photo courtesy of Kim Mason)

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First 25 patrons receive an original miniature artwork by a show artist.

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TASTE OF FRANCE FALL IN LOVE ALL OVER AGAIN

French-American Chamber of Commerce

Take a journey through the wine, food & fashion of France. Sip Reds, Whites & Rosés. Taste gourmet dishes from area restaurants. Outbid your friends for trips to Europe. Venez voir! Friday, November 16, 2018, 7:00 to 9:30 pm

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

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

ROYAL LANE BAPTIST CHURCH / 6707 Royal Lane / 214.361.2809

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

Pastor - Rev. Dr. Michael L. Gregg / www.royallane.org

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

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

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

Sunday School 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am / CentralLutheran.org

FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA) / 6202 E Mockingbird Lane

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org

METHODIST

GRACE UMC / Diverse, Inclusive, Missional

Sunday School for all ages, 9:30 am / Worship, 10:50 am 4105 Junius St. / 214.824.2533 / graceumcdallas.org

LAKE HIGHLANDS UMC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com

allows others to exist. Liberty says no one is in charge so that all may live together freely.”

October 2012: “We will be ‘one nation under God indivisible’ when we stop dividing ourselves in the name of God.”

June 2013: “Career Day at Lakewood Elementary earlier this year brought doctors, engineers, firefighters, businesspeople and at least one Baptist pastor to the school. … I got to tell them about the things pastors/priests do. We marry people, bury people, baptize people and generally help people. We’re in the people business.”

November 2014: “Looking around the room filled with mainly Anglo senior adults, the television reporter wondered if we had pulled a switch on her. She was looking for the Sunday school class attended by Louise Troh, the Wilshire Baptist Church member who was the fiancée of Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan. ‘I expected to see a class for immigrants,’ the reporter explained. The Wilshire member accompanying the

in 1998, and now he and Kim have five grandchilden. (Photos courtesy of Wilshire Baptist and Kim Mason.)

reporter quickly replied: ‘We don’t have any of those kinds of classes. We only have classes for people.’ ”

October 2015 “The State Fair of Texas is one of the few remaining places in our society where we mingle freely and happily with one another across all dividing lines of race, ethnicity, geography and class. Where else do Neiman Marcus shoppers and Wal-Marters stand together in a corny dog line?”

July 2016: “Dallas took a sucker punch in the gut with the hate-inspired, racially motivated murder of five police officers. We were knocked down, but not knocked out. … Why? Dallas has been hard at work in recent years facing its lingering heritage of racism and inequality.”

August 2017: “I have witnessed friends, like Candy Post and Vickie Thompson in Lakewood, whose hearts didn’t close when they left their own houses; they opened wider. They were our neighborhood moms, women always ready to do whatever the community needed.”

— Compiled by Keri Mitchell

Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee

Worship: 8:30 am & 11:00 am Traditional / 11:00 am Contemporary

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Sunday Morning Worship: 9:30 & 11:00 am 5200 Bryan Street / mungerplace.org

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

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PRESBYTERIAN

NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Sundays 8:30 & 11:00 am Church that feels like church and welcomes like family.

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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By MITA HAVLICK

Election addiction

Consider me your voting pusher

I’m putting out a challenge to all of us: Let’s beat Oklahoma — again. We’ve already done it once this year. As a Longhorn fan, I’m still relishing Texas’ 48-45 victory over OU at the Red River Shootout.

This next potential victory, however, is not about football.

The topic here is voter turnout. Texas ranks 46th in voter participation, and Oklahoma is 44th. What?! Oklahoma? We can totally do better than Oklahoma. Am I right?

We complain about everything from our roads to our fundamental rights, yet a vast majority of us choose not to participate in a contest that decides who will address these concerns. In the March 2018 primary election, voter turnout in Dallas County was less than 8.5 percent. Wow.

However, we in East Dallas have a better story to tell. Between Central Expressway and White Rock Lake, our participation at the polls was more than double that of Dallas County, averaging more than 18 percent. Wilshire Heights and Lakewood Heights in precinct 2040 led the pack with 22.5 percent, and precincts 1076 (Lakewood Hills), 2071 (Lakewood), 2070 (Lakewood North and Hillside) and 1071 (Junius Heights and Abrams Brookside) were close behind. And this is consistent for all elections. Whether municipal, county, state or federal, our East Dallas numbers are far greater than around much of the county.

Still, maybe it’s the Asian mother in me, but I know we can do a lot better than 18 percent.

All of us learned it in school — voting is a privilege, voting is important, fellow countrymen have died to ensure that we have a right to a fair election. We were educated on the women’s suffrage movement and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. So why do we take this privilege for granted?

One of the proudest days of my

existence on this planet was when I was sworn in as a U.S. citizen. I was 18 years old, and my best friend at the time accompanied me on the Metra train from the suburbs of Chicago to downtown. She gave me a small U.S. flag to hold (which I have to this day) and witnessed me renounce my Indian citizenship to become an American.

With hundreds of others just as lucky, I took my oath and, like everyone else in that huge room, I will never, ever forget how fortunate I am. After the ceremony, my girlfriend took me to Bennigan’s for a late lunch to celebrate. A great day indeed!

Perhaps it’s because of that fortune that I am a chronic voter. Becoming

District 9 school board race, May runoff for the March primary, June runoff for the May District 9 school board race, and the November midterms).

By definition, habits are created. They are practices we develop that become an extension of who we are. Some are bad — smoking, drugs, texting while driving. Some are good — eating healthy, exercising, being on time. Bad habits are easy to pick up and hard to break. The good are difficult to adopt and often quick to slip, but are always worth the persistence.

For those who aren’t used to voting, try making it a habit. Start with casting a ballot in this month’s midterm elections. It’s quick and convenient to vote early between Oct. 22 and Nov. 2 because you can do so at any of the county’s 47 polling locations, including the Lochwood Library and the SamuellGrand Recreation Center in East Dallas. On Election Day — Tuesday, Nov. 6 — you’ll go to your specific voting site.

a naturalized citizen afforded me the privilege that many are born with. So if there is an election, I am casting my ballot whether it’s Election Day, early voting or (for presidential races from overseas) vote by mail. What originally started in 1985 as a proud outcome of my being naturalized a U.S. citizen is now a habit.

Whatever the reason for not voting, here’s an out-of-the box idea to change that — perhaps we could increase voter turnout if we made going to the polls a habit.

We have plenty of opportunities. Just as one election is over, the next is always around the corner. By the end of 2018, many in East Dallas will have had five chances to vote (March primary, May

If you’re unsure where to go or don’t know what’s on the ballot, visit dallascountyvotes.org to look up your precinct number and voting location and to print out your sample ballot. It’s chock full of valuable information, though I do find the inordinate number of fonts used on the splash page maddening. (Note to self: Make it a habit to not have so many control issues.) The League of Women Voters publishes a voter guide at vote411. org where you can find specific details on every race and each candidate.

After casting your vote, you’ll get a free “I Voted” sticker you can wear proudly all day. Making it a habit to vote will make you feel really good about yourself.

And it may just help us beat Oklahoma — again. That, I promise, will make us feel really, really good.

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

We complain about everything from our roads to our fundamental rights, yet a vast majority of us choose not to participate in a contest that decides who will address these concerns.

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