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contents LAKEWOOD/EAST DALLAS ADVOCATE VOL.30 NO.12

PROFILE 14 Jim Harris’ 400th victory DINING 26 From airstream to coffee shop FEATURES 12 23 things in 2023 18 A hidden gem for jazz 22 Glencoe skatepark sparks debate 32 The Gift Guide 36 Remembering Bucks 44 Zounds Sounds 44 Crime roundup

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23 THINGS IN 2023 Compiled by SIMARAN SIRA

Pink Pedi, an eco-friendly nail salon, opened a second location in East Dallas with family friend and award-winning drag queen Shawn Cude.

A traffic stop in the Casa Linda area led Dallas police to find more than 7 kilos of methamphetamine and a quarter kilo of crack cocaine.

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Merit Coffee opened its first location in Lakewood on Mockingbird Lane and Abrams Road. This is the fifth Dallas location.

The USA Women’s Half Marathon made a last-minute call to cancel the race after flood warnings and heavy rains.

Missing East Dallas teen Kaylin Rodriguez was found in a North Carolina shed after being abducted by Jorge Camacho, who is facing several felony charges.

Outlets mass shooting, police searched a residence in connection to the gunman on Piper Lane near Bishop Lynch High School.

Two restaurants in East Dallas made Yelp’s list of the Top 100 Places to Eat in Texas this year. Mami Coco came in at No. 10 in the state and Mixtitos came in at No. 94.

11 12 13 14 7 8 White Rock Medical Center laid off 30 employees.

Brooklyn Dumpling Shop, a fast-casual dumpling shop founded in New York, opened a Deep Ellum location.

Buildings that housed the Beauty Bar, Warby Parker and Chubbies, near Henderson Avenue and McMillan Avenue, were torn down.

15 16 According U.S. News & World Report, Dallas ISD high schools are ranked to be in the top 10% of all Texas high schools.

Tietze Park got a $50,000 sand volleyball court.

Minors under 18 received free lunches from 12 Dallas Public Library branches in partnership with the nonprofit Education Potential Verified.

East Dallas resident Brooke Chaney helped seven kids to create a new mural at Owenwood Farm and Neighbor Space.

Three golfers discovered a body at the Tenison Park Golf Course .

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The fourth-annual Festival of Joy was presented by Kalachandji’s at Klyde Warren Park.

Casa Linda resident Steffen Banta became the most decorated brown belt in the United States after wins at an international Jujutsu competition. .

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Antisemitic flyers with names and photos of Jewish media executives were found on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Police responded to calls that a man was trying to enter homes near N. Fitzhugh Avenue. When they arrived at the location, the suspect chased and tackled an officer.

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Four hundred winning games and 20 district championships in 32 years of coaching. For 61-year-old Jim Harris, Woodrow Wilson’s volleyball coach, winning is what he does. A Kansas native and University of Texas at Arlington alum, Harris knew wherever he was, he just wanted to be coaching. “Since I was little, I thought about being a coach or a teacher,” he says. “I don’t know why, but that’s just it.” While running for the college track team, Harris made friends with Lisa Love, a former UTA women’s volleyball coach who needed an extra hand at the time. From then on, he’d spend his free time assisting the team. Later, he started playing men’s volleyball. When Harris started working at Woodrow Wilson High School in 1991, he saw a brochure with a list of past championships and winning coaches. He looked at the six-in-a-row championships won by the previous coach and thought to himself that if these coaches could do it, so could he. Since then, Harris has won over 20 district championships. “ You’re either best or you’re on the bench,” he says. “ That’s how we grew up.” During his time at Woodrow, Harris has coached everything from women’s basketball to men’s varsity soccer. But volleyball is where the fun happens, he says. “I loved it,” he says. “I love the sport.” Harris’ dedication to the girls is unlike most coaches, JV assistant coach Jennifer Garcia says. He attends club games to show support, Photo above: Woodrow Wilson High School’s varsity volleyball team competes against Creekview on Oct. 19, 2021. The team led by three points in the second period.

observes their skills and tactics and always cheers on his players outside of Woodrow, she says During his first year of coaching, not many girls knew about club volleyball. Now, it’s almost necessary to have prior training to have the skills required to make the team, he added. Everyone knows Harris, whether it’s students, staff or Lakewood residents; he’s a beloved coach to the Woodrow community, Garcia says. “He’s been here 30 something years, all the kids know him, he’s the door greeter in the mornings with his music and he’s just very well loved at Woodrow,” Garcia says. In October, the Wildcat community gathered to mark Coach Harris’ 400 th win. T here were cheerleaders, six-foot face cutouts of the coach in the stands, custom-made shirts, performances by the school band and the presentation of a plaque. D o z e n s o f Wo o d ro w Wi l s o n High School alums took to Facebook to congratulate Harris on his achievement. “What a legacy you have created. I’m so glad to have played for him. Some of my favorite times at Wo o d ro w,” C i n dy Po s t co mmented on the 400 th celebration Facebook post. I t ’s s t i l l n o t t i m e t o r e t i r e , Harris says. He’s not really sure when that day will come, but until then he’s just going to focus on winning. “I don’t see him going anytime soon until he just can’ t go anymore,” Garcia says. “ That’s just how he is, he can’t even sit still.” For Harris, it’s like anything else in life — if you feel it’s not something you’re ready to walk away from, then perhaps it’s not the right time for you to leave.

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A CONVERSATION WITHOUT WORDS The Balcony Club: A quintessential hidden gem for jazz aficionados and Dallas’ nightlife Story by KELSEY SHOEMAKER Photography by LAUREN ALLEN

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Musicians with connections to Paul Anka, Snoop Dogg and Stevie Wonder have all walked in or played on the stage at The Balcony Club over time. Students from the University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Arlington have residencies regularly at The Balcony Club.

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And those who are in the know, know it’s the most popular night of the week at The Balcony Club. “Jazz has an identity,” owner and performer David Luckey says. “It's intelligent.” Before The Balcony Club was even a concept, the space was used as an attic by the Lakewood Theater when it opened in 1938. There are still traces of the original staircase behind the walls, but now the only entrance is from the outside. “It’s not a place you find by accident,” he says about the music lounge. When The Balcony Club opened in 1988, the stage was pushed toward the front. Guests would awkwardly make it through the stage area and then through the thick clouds of cigar smoke before finding a table. The Balcony Club, which celebrated its 35th anniversary in October, hosts all genres of music throughout the week.

Blues, rock ‘n’ roll, classic rock and R&B, even open mic nights are on the table. It’s promised its patrons that dayt o - d ay a n d w e e k-t o -w e e k , n o tw o performances will be the same. “ T he Balcony Club has been the linchpin holding the music community together,” Luckey says. “They love that all of us love playing here … I get chills thinking about it.” L e ge n d h a s i t t h at t h e p l a c e i s haunted by past performers. Cocktail glasses have been known to slide and things have been known to move. At this point, it’s part of the character of the place and a running joke amongst the regulars. It’s not uncommon to get a shoulder tap on no-talking nights, which resemble listening rooms in Paris. Guests can focus on the music, each note battling it out or an instrument getting its solo. Luckey describes the exchange between jazz artists as an “ i m p ro v i s at i o n a l

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language,” with each performer building off the other. “You’re dealing with interlocutors or conversation partners of the most skilled variety,” Luckey says. “It’s a conversation with rhythm and harmony, with a great deal of dissonance. They work inside a framework and give one another space to solo over segments of it and pass it around where every musician on the stage gets to articulate their voice evenly.” The BYOF — bring your own food — destination rotates between seasonal cocktail menus. In t h e b a ck , a l a rge w a l l h o l d s caricatures of past and current musicians and previous owner Teddy Davey and his wife, Lorena. Everyone from bassist Chuck Rainey to keyboard players for Michael Bublé and guitarists for Hall and Oates have graced the venue. “It's the craziest thing ever,” says James May, who has performed regularly since the ‘90s. “It's like you'd be sitting

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TO SKATE OR NOT TO SKATE Neighbors continue the debate with skate enthusiasts over $500,000 Glencoe skatepark Story by SAM GILLESPIE

A neighborhood controversy has enveloped Glencoe Park, pitting the Dallas skating community in support of a skatepark at Glencoe against neighbors in opposition to adding the amenity to the 14-acre park. The genesis of the debate goes back to a 2016 recommended level of service study the Dallas Parks and Recreation Department completes every 10 years. “Recommended level of service” is park speak for determining if the ratio of a certain amenity to Dallas’ population meets industry standards. For example, the 2016 study cites that Dallas parks have 206 playgrounds where the population would merit 142 playgrounds. In fact, in a stat that might be surprising to park-goers, Dallas meets or exceeds the industry standards for playgrounds, soccer fields, basketball courts, baseball diamonds, tennis courts, golf courses and square feet of rec centers. Dallas falls below the norm for miles of

trails and offleash dog parks. The amenity where Dallas falls the farthest behind the municipal park threshold is skateparks. The numbers say that Dallas’ population warrants 18 skateparks. Dallas has but one, a conversion of two tennis courts at Lakeland Hills in East Dallas. At about the same time, the 6-year-old son of Clinton Haley, an infectious disease physician at Baylor, was gifted a scooter. Haley, who lives with his family just outside Junius Heights in District 14, began years of weekend trips to Plano, McKinney, Allen and Garland now familiar to families looking to meet their kid’s interest in sports with a wheel. Haley’s experiences with others in the skating community led him to found Skate Parks for Dallas, an advocacy group for skateparks to be built in the city limits. In 2017, Skate Parks for Dallas actively lobbied city and park leadership to include funds

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for the construction of a skatepark at Bachman Lake in that year’s bond election. Construction on the $4.5 million park began this year and the 46,000 square foot facility will open in 2024. More advocacy by Skate Parks for Dallas led to the inclusion of a facility in the early designs of Carpenter Park on the eastern edge of downtown. Disappointed that the final Carpenter Park design omitted a skatepark, Haley re-doubled efforts to educate city leadership about the value of this public amenity. In the fall of 2020 Haley and District 14 Park Board member Amanda Schulz, now a skatepark supporter of conviction, formed an ad hoc committee of skatepark community members. Mostly by Covid-induced Zoom meetings, the committee helped educate staff and Park Board members on what other municipalities were doing, characteristics required for a skatepark’s success and how different sizes and designs of skateparks fit budgets and physical limitations. The short-term goal was to ensure that skateparks got their own masterplan from Park Department staff, a tool that would provide a credible path to more skateparks

in the right locations in Dallas. In May of 2021, the Parks Department staff took on masterplans for soft playground surfaces, dog parks and, thanks to a push by Schulz and the skaters, skateparks were to have their own masterplan. Staff changes at Parks gummed up the machinery and work on the Masterplans fell short of schedule. Two years later the soft surface playground plan was complete, and the dog park plan was close to being finished. The skatepark masterplan? Never started. Haley and Skate Parks for Dallas marched forward, building relationships with District 1 Councilmember Chad West and his Park Board appointee JR Huerta, holding demos and fundraisers in Oak Cliff to build awareness and support for an Oak Cliff location. After Paul Ridley’s election to the City Council in 2021, Schulz transitioned off the Park Board, but not until a get-ya-up-to-speed meeting with Rudy Karimi, Ridley’s appointee to the Board. On the priority list for Schulz was passing the advocacy baton to Karimi for a well-located, purposebuilt skatepark. Fast forward to this fall and the production of a plan for Dallas parks in the 2024 Bond election. Skatepark supporters were thrilled when West and Huerta came out strong for a proposed $1 million facility at Westmoreland Park in Oak Cliff and District 7 Park Board member Daniel Wood helped champion a complete re-do of the existing skatepark at Lakeland Hills. Efforts with Amanda Schulz and Rudy Karimi paid off as well when a $500,000 allocation for a District 14 skatepark in Dallas in Glencoe Park appeared on the 2024 bond wish list. The convergence of the 2016 level of service recommendations for park amenities, the relentless effort by skatepark advocates and the 2024 Bond election resulted in three new skateparks in the City of Dallas on the Park Department’s this-is-what-weneed checklist. City-wide public meetings held by the Community Bond Task Force in August and September were the first

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chance for the public to comment on what the priorities for the 2024 bond should be. Once again, Skate Parks for Dallas rallied the troops to support the Parks and Recreation allocation and the inclusion of new skateparks in Westmoreland and Glencoe and a rebuilt one at Lakeland Hills. If there was opposition to the notion of skateparks in Dallas Parks, none appeared. But if somebody was inclined to oppose a skatepark built in your local park, how would you even know about it? And that’s the rub for some voices in the Glencoe Park and Greenland Hills neighborhoods. Teri Ervin, a twenty-five year Greenland Hills resident, first heard of a “specialty park” ins tallation at Glencoe from Councilman Paul Ridley in a Greenland Hills neighborhood meeting in late September. “I was surprised and disappointed in the lack of neighborhood input at the time,” says Ervin. The “specialty park” was, of course, the proposed skatepark for Glencoe. Two neighborhood meetings around the District 14 parks bond requests were hosted by Karimi in October. Flyers and Facebook posts from Karimi noted meetings on Oct. 2 at Exall Recreation Center and Oct. 11 at Oak Lawn Branch Library. Although appearing in an Aug. 25 Facebook post from Karimi, most neighbors first heard the details about the Glencoe skatepark at these meetings. As the opposition became more vocal, neighbors asked Rudy for a meeting restricted to Glencoe Park, Greenland Hills, Vickery Place and other neighborhoods close to Glencoe. Ervin helped hand deliver 1100 flyers to homes in the area encouraging attendance on Oct. 26 at Unity Church. The Advocate was denied access to the gathering. The only details from the meeting are on Karimi’s District 14 Parks Facebook page. A portion of Karimi’s post: 89 citizens attended from the Greenland Hills and Vickery Place neighborhoods. Mostly, if not entirely all white, older adults and senior citizens. Very few young adults were present. No teenagers. A couple parents brought their very young kids. It star ted with a show- of-hands. 10 citizens were undecided on the recommendation. Of the rest, 4/5 were opposed to the recommendation, 1/5 were supportive of the recommendation. Some of the primary comments and

complaints were: • Uncertainty of outsiders using the park • Skater stereotype • Lack of communication prior to October • Paving green space • Add pickleball instead of skatepark • Athletic field maintenance instead of skatepark On Wednesday, Nov. 1, Karimi hosted his final Glencoe Skatepark meeting,

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returning to Exall Park not to listen to Game 5 of the World Series, but to the passionate pleas from both sides of the simmering controversy. A diverse crowd of 60 people gathered, and an initial show of hands asked by Karimi seemed to indicate 65% in favor and 35% opposed. Karimi opened the mee ting with a PowerPoint, summarizing some of the background work of the Park Department and his reasons for supporting the whole idea—current low number of skateparks, size distinctions of different parks, the 6,000 square feet proposed for Glencoe, why one of two Glencoe ballfields can be replaced and access to the Mockingbird DART station. Karimi brought along two of his Park Board colleagues, JR Huerta from District 1 in Oak Cliff and Daniel Wood from District 7 in far East Dallas. Huerta voiced his strong support for the Westmoreland skate feature proposed in the bond and surprising to him, noted 100% community backing in the meetings he has sponsored. Wood spoke to his positive experience for the existing skating amenity in Lakeland Hills, community support for the $1 million

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re-fresh in the bond and his hopes for more skateparks in Dallas proper. Ted Thompson, 20-year resident of Greenland Hills, rose first for the opposition. “I am not against skateparks,” said Thompson. “Improvements were made to Glencoe from previous bond elections based on the 2002 masterplan in place. This skatepark idea did not come organically from the neighborhood, and it feels like it is being shoved down our throats.” Others stressed that many kids aren’t suited for team sports and have found skating an inclusive, welcoming community that doesn’t judge. An adult skater found the perseverance of learning tricks helped him learn how to overcome obstacles. The thumbs-down group emphasized that their issue is not with the community or culture of skateboarders, but mostly with the process of communicating and neighborhood prioritization. “I apologize to the neighbors who expected more communication during the advocacy and outreach phase,” Karimi said a few days after the meeting. “The park department simply isn’t staffed or resourced in a way to effectively do that at-scale across the thousands of recommendations it had to consider as a part of this process. However you view the process, progress was necessary and a formal set of recommendations needed to be put forward, with the understanding that the required amount of formal community input would occur between October and January.” Also challenging was the absence of a Friends group like those that exist at Willis Winters Park, Tietze Park, Exall Park, Santa Fe Trail and Katy Trail in District 14. It’s an easier path for communication and dialogue with volunteer groups whose mission is park improvements. Greenland Hills Neighborhood Association is a terrific group of neighbors, but a jewel like Glencoe Park could use an active, dedicated Friends group. On November 4th, the Community Bond Task Force delivered the final recommendations for the 2024 bond to the Dallas City Council. The Parks and Recreation Department allocation was $350 million out of the $1.1 billion total and included $500,000 for the Glencoe skatepark. Council debate will occur in December and a January vote is anticipated

if a May election is to include the bond. Where is Paul Ridley, Council member for District 14, on the skatepark issue? Ridley didn’t attend the last two meetings with constituents that his Park Board appointee scheduled. The Advocate made several attempts to contact Ridley’s office and received no response. Will the proposed skatepark at Glencoe Park be on the final list of projects? Also in opposition, Ervin’s experience is that Glencoe is heavily used and often near capacity. In stronger terms she questioned why Rudy and the City are so focused on District 14 as the only alternative for a new skatepark. “My question, which I have never got a satisfactory answer to, is why Glencoe and why District 14? There are other parks with fewer amenities and more space. Why aren’t they being considered? It just seems a little bit political to me.” Karimi answered that amenities complement each other, and District 14 is in the center of the City with DART access. “All of the reasons Glencoe is a great park are the reasons Glencoe is a great choice for a skatepark,” said Karimi. Karimi also addressed concerns about skatepark users coming from outside of the neighborhood noting that the rugby field at Glencoe is one of only two in Dallas and attracts players from all over the metroplex. A few attendees believed the $500,000 budgeted for the park would be better used to repair streets. Another person voiced that $500,000 could build 8-10 Metrocare units to support affordable housing. Karimi, Huerta and Wood didn’t argue the merits of those investments, but as Park Board members they are advocating only for parks in the bond allocation. A host of skateboard supporters spoke passionately about the community of skateboarding and how the negative image of skaters as thugs is misplaced. “We have met so many fantastic people skateboarding,” said Brian Harrison who attended with his wife and three children, all skateboarders. “This is one of the few things I have ever seen that brings everybody together— [despite] gender, age [or] race.”

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ucks Burnett walked me to the back of 14 Records. The shop was the size of a closet, I was seeing the only part of it that was hidden from the average customer. He pulled back a tapestry to reveal a toilet, surrounded by clutter, with a framed golden record resting on top of it. The record was The Who’s 2019 release, Who, gifted personally to Burnett by the band’s frontman, Pe te Town s h en d . It was framed beautifully, and surely worth thousands of dollars just from Townshend’s association with it. Burnett seemed to delight in the juxtaposition created by such a valuable item being haphazardly laid over a toilet, especially in a place that could only be appreciated by him. “That’s rock ‘n’ roll baby,” Burnett said, gesturing to the record with a smirk. I felt clarity. The restroom record had just given me the solution to the Bucks Burnett enigma that I’d been trying to solve since my first meeting with him when I was 16. Burnett told me to meet him at the record store at midnight, “no earlier, no later.” Preparing for my first interview as a journalist, I arrived at the store on the dot. My car and his were the only two on the strip. When the door of 14 Records opened it was a haze of cigarette smoke scored by a Kate Bush song spinning on Burnett’s turntable in the back. He rolled an office chair over to me, and I sat with him until 4 in the morning. He riffed on his life,

sharing stories about his rock star run-ins like it was folklore around a campfire. Like the time that Burnett was attacked by Vanilla Ice at a club because he referred to the “Ice Ice Baby” star as his “nilla wafer.” Or when he was Jimmy Page’s special guest backstage at the historic Led Zeppelin reunion show. I never quite figured out how to weave a lifetime of epic stories into a bite-sized article, but Burnett remained a friend. I’d stop by to see him whenever I drove past the store. At any hour I knew he’d be in there, and that I’d leave with a good story. On Oct. 2, Burnett died at 64. He was a friend to many, and sported an effortless charisma to anyone who would listen. Willy Landers was among those

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who listened. He works at the Dallas Hemp Company, which shares a wall with 14 Records. “ H e wo u l d a l ways come in for coffee and try to pay, but we wouldn’t let him,” Landers says. “Despite my efforts, he would put cash in the tip jar, hang out for a minute, say something weird and leave. He was always in a goofy, good mood. His presence really lit up the room.” I n 20 1 1 , a n Ad vo ca te a r t i c l e dubbed Burnett as the “king of kitsch” and “champion of the chucked,” referencing his numerous offbeat projects that seemed doomed from the start. Just how Burnett liked it. He started a museum dedicated to 8-tracks and organized a music festival called Edstock, dedicated to TV horse Mr. Ed. And he managed oddball talent Tiny Tim in the 1980s until his death in 1996. His sideshows became the sub-

Hope for a weary world ject of heavy coverage from other local publications, even landing him a syndicated column at the Dallas Observer. One time, he used his platform to jeer at a customer who broke an unwritten, unspoken 14 Records rule. That customer was Tami Thomsen, manager for the Toadies. She’d purchased a Sex Pistols 8 track which had been stored in a locked cabinet in the store with a $100 price tag. “I bought it in cash. A few days later, I got a call from an irate Bucks. He was mad because the tape sold and (he) was told by his store employee that ‘some girl with a pink mohawk’ bought it,” Thomsen says. “That was me. Only Bucks would be mad that an item sold at its asking price. Bucks told me he put the $100 price tag on it because he knew no one would be stupid enough to pay that.” Burnett took the incident to Goldmine Magazine, calling the Sex Pistols 8-track the “Holy Grail” that he “looked high and low for.” He claimed that he put the price so high as a joke to “ward off potential customers.” It wasn’t the only tightrope Burnett walked. He was bombastic, yet tranquil. He was predictably unpredictable. Who would toss Pete Townshend’s record over the toilet, so nobody could see it? Who would organize a music festival in honor of Mr. Ed? Who would go from there to orient his entire career around managing Tiny Tim? The same person who gave me the only interview in history that was too good to use. That’s who. That was Bucks Burnett, and that’s rock ‘n’ roll, baby.

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appy Holidays? Not so much, especially f o r t h o se w h o’ v e los t a l o v e d o n e th i s y ear, or for those who simply do too much and find the holiday hoopla stressful. Our culture urges, nay demands, that we be jolly around this time. B u t gu e ss w h at ? Yo u d on’ t h av e to. L i s t e n t o s o me w is d om from some of your exper t East Dallas neighbors. L a u r i e Ta y l o r i s a n e x e c u t i v e d i rec tor and clinician at the Grie f and L oss Center on Abrams Road. A s you would expect, this is a tough time f o r h e r cl i e n t s . “ T h e g re at m a j o r i ty struggle with the holidays because it magnifies the absence of their loved one,” she says. During suppor t group meetings, they talk it through. “Dread and fear of the holidays begin as family plans are being made and holiday co m m erc i a l s b e g in .” S h e a dds , “ T h e day s lead i ng u p to the holidays are often more diffic ult than the holiday itself because of the anticipation of the loved one not b e i n g pre s e n t .” For those facing their firs t holiday w i t h o u t a l o v e d o n e , Tay l o r a dv i s e s that they listen to their emotions, acknowledge any sadness, and know t h at t h i s y e a r w il l b e d i fferent. “It ’s unrealistic to think you’ ll be blissfully h a p p y a n d fi l l e d w i t h h oli d ay ch eer. Grief doesn’ t disappear on holidays.” Ke e p h o l i d a y p l a n s “ m a n a g e a b l e and bite -sized,” she advises. Ask othe rs t o t a ke o n s o m e of y ou r res ponsibilities. Taylor tells of a client who p e rm i tt e d h e r s e l f t o forgo th e u s u al h o s t i n g a n d de co rat i n g d u ti es after

her husband died, relying on other fami ly mem ber s to s tep in. Another option, a perfectly fine one: Do nothing and igno re the holi d ay s . Maybe ge t out o f town and do s ome th i ng co m ple tely different this y ear. It ’s OK . Taylo r recalls a fam ily who lost their husband and father and d eci d ed to take a cr uise dur ing th e h oli d ays to escape for a while. I f y o u ch o o s e t o a ck n o w l e d g e t h e holidays, remember that you can honor y ou r loved o ne by prepar ing their f av o r i t e d i s h o r d e s s e r t , g e tt i n g o r making an ornament or lighting a candle. Or consider this idea from one o f Tay l o r ’s c l i e n t s : “A f a m i ly w h o s e adult son died put up his stocking along w i th their s as the y had always d o n e a n d a s ke d h o l i d ay g u e s t s a n d fami ly mem ber s to put donatio ns in his stocking to be given to his favorite ch ari ty. ” “ We assure our clients that howe ver th e y ch oose to com m em o rate the holidays is the ‘right thing ’ for them,” Taylor says. “ We also emphasize that the decision the y make THIS holiday is not a permanent, lifelong decision. It’s simply what they need to do THIS y ear to ge t thro ugh the ho lidays.” Mark Beal, a Junius Heights neighb o r, i s a n o t h e r E a s t D a l l a s e x p e r t w h o h as w isdom to pass alo ng when i t comes to the seaso n to be j o lly. A s a licensed professional counselor for o v e r t h i r ty y e a r s , h e h a s w i t n e s s e d w h a t w o rk s a n d w h a t d o e s n o t t h i s ti me of y ear for his clients. “Few people decide to go see a therapist because they’re having a good day. Most come to counseling because of a

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change in their life that the y haven’ t been able to manage,” Beal says. “ The holidays are another source of change that can be difficult to manage — and ye t we are e xpec ted to enj oy i t .” Beal urges his clients — and e ver yone, really — to prac tice basi c sel fc a r e , n o m a t t e r t h e t i m e o f y e a r. “Avoid changing your sleep and eating schedule, avoid excess drinking/drugg i n g /d r i v i n g , a v o i d g o i n g o f f y o u r m e d i c a t i o n s a n d a v o i d N o r t h Pa r k Mall the Saturday before C hristmas.” Who needs that le vel o f s tress? Beyond the basics, though, Beal encourages this strateg y: “ Trust yourself m o re than yo u tr us t o ther s. So u n d s selfish. It isn’ t,” he e xplains. “ Yo u k n o w y o u r s e l f b e tt e r t h a n anyone on this planet. You know your s p e n d i n g b u d ge t , y o u r t o l e ra n c e o f social e vents, your ability to p u t u p w i t h y o u r f a m i ly o f o r i g i n , a n d t h e length of time you can spend in Targe t with ho liday m usic playing,” h e s ay s . “ T h i s i s m o re t h a n p ra c t i c i n g having bo undar ies; it ’s about t r u s ti n g y o u r s e l f-k n o w l e d g e e n o u g h t o not get caught up in what is often considered ‘normal’ behavior during the holidays.” Beal also thinks it ’s a good idea to avoid cer tain peo ple: you k now wh o these folk s are in yo ur o wn li fe. A s m u ch a s p o s s i b l e , s p e n d t i m e w i t h “people who ge t you; people who ac cept yo u and lis ten to you and d o n’ t tr y to change you. Avoid people who interrupt you, who minimize what you’re experiencing (“it could be w o r s e” ) , w h o p r e f e r t o g i v e a d v i c e ins tead of le tting yo u talk .”

W h i l e i t m i g h t b e d i ffi c u l t t o co m p l e t e ly av o i d d i ffi c u l t f a m i l y a n d c o -w o rke r s , B e a l advocates for minimizing the amount of time you are e x p o s e d t o t h e m . “ If v i si ti ng family for more than a few ho ur s , I re co mme n d parki ng yo u r c a r o n t h e s t ree t, not i n t h e d r i v e w a y. T h a t w a y y o u can escape or at least have some quie t if the family gathe r i n g ge t s w e i rd,” h e adv i s es . To inject more fun and your own personality into the holidays, says Beal, star t your own ho li d ay t ra di t i o n s . “Common holiday behaviors/ traditions didn’ t fall out of the sky from heaven (or hell),” he reminds us. “ T he y were made u p .” Some ideas: decorate a tree i n y o u r f ro n t ya rd, d onate to charity “instead of buying adults gifts they could buy t h e m s e lv e s ,” m a ke y o u r o w n holiday cards to mail, eat something besides turkey a n d d re ss i n g a n d s pend ti me outside instead of watching football. And Beal has one further m e ssa ge : “ I h o p e duri ng th i s h o l i d ay s e a s o n , y o u c a n f e e l whate ver is happening inside you. And may you e xperience a time that is be tter than surviving and ge tting past. Peace o n E a r t h .” T hi s c o l u m n i s d e d i c a te d to the memory of my sweet mother-in-law, Dolores Vinson. Go hu g y o ur l o v e d o n es today. P AT T I V I N S O N i s a g u e s t writer w h o h a s live d i n East Dallas for more than 20 ye a rs . S h e’s w r i t te n fo r t h e Advocate and Real Simple magazin e.

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ZOUNDS SOUNDS Story by LILLIAN JUAREZ Zounds Sounds School of Music i s celeb ra tin g its 18t h anni ve rsar y w i t h a co n ce r t a t t h e G ra n a d a T h e a t e r N ov. 2 1 . P ro c e e d s f ro m t h e t i c ke t s a l e s s u p p o r t s Wa y I n t o M u s i c , a n o n p ro f i t t h a t o f fers free lessons and instruments to underserved communities. Way In to M u s ic b e gan by of fe r i ng mu sic ed u ca tio n p rog ra ms i n t he Dallas-area Boys & G i r l s C l ubs. I t created a choir at the Lindsley Park Community School, sponsored priv a t e l e s s o n s f o r m o re t h a n 1 0 0 students and collaborated with both the Lumin School and Booker T. Washin gto n High Scho o l M us i c Guild. Fo u n d e d by M a rc So l o m o n a n d h i s w i fe A m y C u r n o w, Zo u n d s So u n d s i s a co l l a b o ra t i ve of p e rformers, composers, educators and producers who come together to bring rhythm and harmony to t h e E a s t D a l l a s c o m m u n i t y. T h e sc h o o l of fe rs g u i ta r, ba ss, d r u m , vo i c e a n d p i a n o l e s s o n s , a s we l l a s a ban d p ro gra m . In the summer of 2004, Solomon figured a good way to pay his rent was to teach music in East Dall as. In 2005, Zo u n d s So und s was founded. By January 2006, Zounds h a d t o re l o c a t e f ro m a s t u d i o i n So l o m o n ’s ga ra ge i n to t h e i r f i rst official stu d io o n Ha s ke l l Ave nue. The company assembled a facu l ty of Da l l a s m u s i c i a n s s u c h a s Chris Holt, Chad Stockslager, Trey J o h n so n , K i n l ey Wo l fe a n d B r ya n Wakelan d .

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DISTRICT 9

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Total Crimes Jan. 989 Feb. 916 1,059 March April 1,080 May 996 June 1,022 July 1,135 Aug.; 1,093 Sept. 1,020 Oct. 1,081

Total Crimes Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct.

492 463 490 517 481 456 574 588 578 481

Total Crimes Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct.

493 470 625 550 731 532 642 554 594 496

Total Crimes Jan. 842 Feb. 731 March 948 April 858 May 890 June 881 July 1,072 Aug. 867 Sept. 935 Oct. 854

Simple assault Jan. 136 Feb. 115 March 123 April 126 May 135 June 122 July 156 149 Aug. Sept. 132 Oct. 137

Simple assault Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct.

52 54 55 66 44 44 61 60 52 49

Simple assault Jan. 86 Feb. 75 March 111 April 84 May 89 June 58 July 97 Aug. 91 Sept. 110 Oct. 68

Simple assault Jan. 85 Feb. 66 March 89 April 96 May 86 June 93 July 119 Aug. 86 Sept. 95 94 Oct.

Theft from motor vehicles Jan. 142 Feb. 140 March 188 April 206 May 157 June 183 July 189 Aug. 158 Sept. 144 275 Oct.

Motor vehicle theft Jan. 83 Feb. 72 March 93 April 107 May 115 June 90 July 22 117 Aug. Sept. 144 84 Oct.

Motor vehicle theft Jan. 61 Feb. 46 March 117 April 114 May 223 June 92 July 102 Aug. 88 Sept. 99 Oct. 88

Theft from motor vehicle Jan. 203 Feb. 174 March 244 April 195 May 241 June 235 July 277 Aug. 210 Sept. 208 207 Oct.

Drug/ narcotic violations Jan. 130 Feb. 111 March 113 April 107 May 67 June 99 July 110 Aug. 109 Sept. 109 Oct. 101

Destruction/damage/ vandalism of property 55 Jan. Feb. 43 March 32 Apri 49 May 38 June 46 July 45 Aug. 54 Sept. 56 Oct. 38

Destruction/damage/ vandalism of property 53 Jan. Feb. 46 March 70 April 56 May 57 June 58 July 65 Aug. 55 Sept. 55 Oct. 56

Destruction/damage/ vandalism of property Jan. 67 Feb. 58 March 101 April 86 May 86 June 83 July 99 Aug. 63 Sept. 73 Oct. 83

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This data is reflective of crimes reported and documented in each district as of November 15 and are subject to change between the time of writing and time of publication. Source: Dallas City Data.

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