2016 October Oak Cliff

HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF OUR CITY'S EVER-IMPROVING TRAIL SYSTEM

WALK THIS WAY

A 50-mile loop could connect all 14 City Council districts in Dallas, and it could happen sooner than you think.

MEET THE TEACHERS HOGG ELEMENTARY IS A NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW.

PRESIDENTIAL GRUB THE THEODORE ISN’T IN OAK CLIFF, BUT OAK CLIFF IS IN ITS DNA.

BONNIE AND CLYDE’S POSTLUDE THE WEST DALLAS OUTLAWS LEFT AN AFTERMATH OF CRIME AND INCARCERATION.

(Photo by Danny Fulgencio)

ON THE COVER: A view, from the top of the west levee, of Dallas and the Trinity Skyline Trail. Thanks to Oak Cliff Bicycle Co. for the loan of a bike used in photographing most of Dallas’ trails. (Photo by Danny Fulgencio)

Celebrate the grand opening of the Blue Line extension to South Oak Cliff!

Celebrate the grand opening of the Blue Line extension to South Oak Cliff!

Community Fun Day

Saturday, October 22, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Camp Wisdom Station

Join us at this fun, informative event where you can learn about health, safety, education and career resources!

Customer Appreciation Day

Monday, October 24, 4 a.m. – 9 a.m.

Camp Wisdom Station & UNT Dallas Station

Celebrate the first day of service with refreshments from DART. It’s our way of saying thanks to you, our riders!

Community Event

Saturday, October 29, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. UNT Dallas Station

Join the UNT Dallas community for a fun-filled celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony!

The Blue Line to UNT Dallas opens on Monday, October 24.

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ONLY IN OAK CLIFF

Gus Hernandez started the Dream Team Cadets in 1998 after years as a dance instructor for quinceañeras.

Girls celebrating their 15th birthdays select friends and family members to stand up as their escorts and ladies — chambelanes y damas in Spanish — to perform for party guests, and they often hire someone to teach them coordinated dances. But convincing a group of teenage boys to take the task seriously and show up in suits is sometimes impossible.

So dance troupes like this one often are hired as chambelanes. They perform traditional and popular dances, and the team captain usually brings the princess of the night to the floor for a spotlight dance.

Jefferson Boulevard is a vortex of the quinceañera business, drawing customers from all over the Southwest. During busier seasons, Hernandez says his dance troupe performs at three quinceañeras on a typical weekend.

(Photo by Danny Fulgencio)

NOT MY PROBLEM

WHAT IF TRASHY STREETS REVEAL A SAD TRUTH ABOUT OUR CIVIC VIRTUE?

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld tells a funny story about the unwritten pact between movie theaters and those who attend movies.

Movie theater operators, he says, understand that people who attend movies aren’t going to clean up after themselves. We’ll leave candy wrappers, half-eaten bags of popcorn and sweating soda cups strewn about the theater after a movie.

Why?

According to Seinfield, we do it because we know and the movie theater operators know that’s our deal with each other: They’re “ripping us off” with movie and concession pricing, so when we finish whatever we’re eating or drinking in a theater, we’re going to just “open our hand and let it drop.”

That’s the pact. We’re getting ripped off, so we aren’t going to clean up after ourselves.

It’s a funny story because it’s based on truth. The prices of theater tickets and concessions seem to be skyrocketing, so creating extra work for the low-paid kids cleaning up after us is somehow OK.

I wonder if we’ve let these thoughts trickle into our relationship with Dallas?

Crossing a city street the other day, I noticed two things: People were everywhere, and so was trash.

The trash wasn’t just lying there, either: It was blowing everywhere. Not the cotton-candy-creepy-gooey kind of trash, but plastic grocery bags and recyclable food packaging and empty plastic soda bottles.

As for the people, we were blowing

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everywhere, too — and always away from the trash. No one made any attempt to do anything about the trash, probably because we believe we aren’t the ones who created the problem.

That says something about the “ownership” we take in our “home,” doesn’t it? We’re willing to live with it because we just don’t feel like picking it up.

Maybe that’s our pact with Dallas: We think we’re being stiffed with higher taxes and crappy streets, so if we feel like dropping something when we’re done with it, so be it. It’s the city’s job to keep our home clean, not ours.

It’s great that people are flocking to Dallas these days, great that we’re building apartments and homes and offices to accommodate everyone.

But if our fundamental response to growth is that it’s the city’s job to take care of everything, this story isn’t going to have a happy ending. Too many new people are going to emulate those of us who don’t care enough about the place, and they’ll think that’s the way to act, too.

And not just with trash, but with civic involvement, volunteering and making a difference elsewhere in Dallas.

I could have picked up some of that trash in the street. It wouldn’t have taken much extra time to grab something while walking to my destination; there was a garbage can right along the way.

But I thought to myself: I’m paying plenty of taxes; I’m doing my share. If Dallas is the world-class city everyone keeps saying it is, why do I need to be the one cleaning things up — isn’t that someone else’s job?

Maybe that’s our unwritten pact here.

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CONSPIRACYTHEORY ON “IS THIS OSWALD MURAL APPROPRIATE?”

“THIS DOES NEED TO BE ADDRESSED. I WAS IN BISHOP ARTS LAST TUESDAY AROUND 3 IN THE AFTERNOON. THE VALET HAD MOST OF THE PUBLIC SPACES BLOCKED. THAT IS RIDICULOUS. I AM OK USING A VALET DURING PEAK HOURS, BUT NOT TO RUN INTO A STORE TO BUY A CARD. AS A RESIDENT OF OAK CLIFF FOR CLOSE TO 25 YEARS, I RARELY GO TO BISHOP ARTS BECAUSE OF THE PARKING ISSUES”

JAY JOHNSON ON “NEIGHBORS PETITION REVIEW OF BISHOP ARTS VALET PRACTICES”

“I WONDER WHAT ELSE OF THE RICH HISTORY OF OAK CLIFF MUST BE TORN DOWN? WHY DO WE FEEL THE NEED TO ENTICE THE RICH TO MOVE TO OAK CLIFF?”

JAMES NUTT ON “THREE LUXURY APARTMENT COMPLEXES UNDER CONSTRUCTION NEAR BISHOP ARTS”

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“I don’t find it offensive at all — lots of commentary to be made here. The man remains a big part of Dallas history, same as The Texas Theatre, his old apartment, the coffin.”

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SMALL SCHOOL, BIG AMBITION

JAMES HOGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EMPHASIZES TECHNOLOGY

Principal Jairo Casco keeps no secrets from the Hogg Elementary School community.

Everyone at Hogg is an insider. Teachers, students and parents are all collaborators.

The school has only 26 teachers, one principal, an office manager and a data clerk. Enrollment is expected to reach about 300 students this year.

It’s a small school, and everyone is on the same page — literally, at times.

Thanks to a private technology grant received last year and funding from Dallas ISD, the school now has a Google Chromebook for every

student in kindergarten through fifth grade. They use Google Classroom, where teachers, students and parents can access shared drives, documents and slides, so students can collaborate on projects even though they might be across the room or at home with a cold.

Because there is so much information available at our fingertips, it can be hard to teach children about plagiarism, educators say. But simply offering them creative and spatial ways to organize their ideas, such as using slides instead of text documents, eliminates the idea to plagiarize,

they say.

“There’s no copy and pasting,” says Spanish reading teacher Minerva Faz. “They just start writing.”

The next step in this collaborative shift is “project-based learning,” where lessons are carried out across disciplines. For example, a fourth-grade module on politics grows out of the social studies realm and branches into language arts lessons, math problems and art projects.

“It’s bringing alive what you’re learning in the classroom,” Casco says.

Hogg teachers are introducing

A Hogg Elementary School student works on a laptop. The school has new Google Chromebooks for every student. (Photo by Danny Fu lgencio)

Your Harvest Begins Here

that concept this year in hopes that it will be fully implemented in the next school year.

A BILINGUAL CAMPUS

Hogg implemented a two-way dual language program last year, so current kindergarteners and firstgraders are in bilingual classrooms. Eventually, Spanish/English duallanguage will be offered across all grades.

Math is taught in English only, but otherwise, dual-language students converse in Spanish on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and in English on Tuesday and Thursday.

Spanish is the first language of more than half of Hogg students, so the program is a way for students to learn language skills from one another.

Besides that, most of the teachers at Hogg are Spanish/English bilingual, and there are several Mexican immigrants among them.

Yolanda Guerrero is a bilingual social studies teacher from the Texas Rio Grande Valley who has taught at Hogg for three years. She lives 25 miles away from the school, in Carrollton, and sometimes her morning commute takes an hour and a half.

“I wouldn’t change it for the world,” she says. “To me, it’s the perfect school.”

She tutors students after school, and she offers to tutor parents as well.

Almost 89 percent of the students at Hogg are “economically disadvantaged,” according to the State of Texas. Many of the parents work long hours, and some lack education themselves.

“If the parents want help with knowing how to do homework or test prep, I do whatever it takes,” Guerrero says.

Aside from academics, Hogg also

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Tapestry oil painting by Debbie Smith in the Gallery

offers club activities, including robotics and chess.

Corina Gomez, who teaches fifthgrade math and ESL, says as many as 20 students show up for chess club every week, and she takes them to tournaments around the district.

The robotics teams just started last year, but they won two judges awards in tournaments, says club sponsor Maria Teresa Gomez de Cortez, who teaches fourth grade.

Cortez also started a garden club last year, growing milkweed and selling it at Oak Cliff Earth Day. And she helped students hatch chicken eggs. Only two hatched, Chicken Nugget and Candy, and they found homes with students’ families. She’s applied for a Real School Gardens grant, which offers garden training for teachers and students. This year they plan to try hatching quail eggs.

Her fourth-graders adopted a lion-head rabbit as a class pet, which helps calm students and teaches responsibility and patience. Cortez also will include the bunny in classroom lessons about genetics.

“It has such an exciting, bright future,” Cortez says of Hogg. “The community supports us with anything we need.”

WE’RE IN OAK CLIFF BECAUSE OAK CLIFF IS IN US.

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Hogg sits on prime real estate near Methodist Dallas Medical Center and has a perfect view of the Dallas skyline. It’s one of the only schools in Dallas that still has its gym in a portable building, and it is slated for a new gym building under the recent DISD bond plan.

It has a federally funded Head Start pre-k program that serves children ages 6 weeks to 4 years old, making it the first public school in Texas with such a program for children that young.

Hogg offers three specialneeds classrooms for students with intellectual disabilities or autism. And it’s one of one of nine campuses within DISD’s Regional School for the Deaf, with two classrooms for 18 hearingimpaired students.

Principal Casco also is working with the school district’s information technology department to offer students wifi at home. By the end of this year, he hopes to make every fifth-grader’s house a wifi hotspot.

“Learning doesn’t happen just within these walls,” he says. “It happens everywhere, all the time.”

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Corina Gomez leads her fifth-graders at Hogg Elementary. The school uses Google Classroom, which offers access to students and teachers as well as parents. (Photo by Danny Fulgencio)

Oct. 1

Oct. 2

LIVELY FEST

Featuring live performances, art and vendors, this reggae-inspired event celebrates diversity in Dallas. Oak Cliff Lively Fest also offers kids’ activities. Kiest Park, 2179 W. Kiest Blvd, facebook. com/DFWLivelyFest, free

Oct. 1

PUMPKIN PATCH

Kids can select a pumpkin to carve while adults choose fall mums from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Kessler Pumpkin Patch and street fair. A pony carousel, petting zoo, face painting and carnival games also will be available.

Kessler School, 1215 Turner Ave., thekesslerschool.com, free

BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS

Celebrate the bond between people and their pets by stopping by this communitywide event. Neighbors who live in zip codes 75208 and 75231 can have their animals blessed, spayed, neutered, vaccinated and microchipped for free. Tyler Street United Methodist Church, 927 W. 10th St., gypsydogops.com, free

Oct. 6

WINE WALK

Sip wine and raise funds for breast cancer early detection at the annual Shop, Eat, Drink, Pink fundraiser from 6-9 p.m. The event kicks off with the Bishop Arts Wine Walk, and funds raised go toward breast cancer early detection programs at Methodist Charlton Women’s Imaging. Bishop Arts District, shopeatdrinkpink.com, $35

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Oct. 15

ART WALK WEST

Explore West Dallas’ best studios and galleries at the second annual Art Walk West. Sponsored by the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce, the event offers live music and art.

Erin Cluley Gallery, 414 Fabrication St., 214.948.1546, westdallaschamber.com, free

Oct. 15-16

HOUSE HUNTING

Explore several neighborhood homes during the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League’s Fall Home Tour. The tour raises funds for neighborhood and local nonprofit projects. Various locations, ooccl.org, $20

Oct. 20-30

LOCAL THEATER

“Ruined” revolves around one woman’s life in war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo. The production is based on a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lynn Nottage.

Bishop Arts Theatre Center, 215 S. Tyler St., 214.948.0716, bishopartstheatre.org, $12-$22

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THE THEODORE

This is not a restaurant in our neighborhood, but it is one that wouldn’t exist without Oak Cliff. Tim Byres was once obsessed with perfection. It was an obsession that propelled him to the White House and beyond, but one that ultimately left him feeling empty and creatively uninspired.

“If my sole purpose is to make a better brisket, well, then I’m an asshole,” he says. He considered walking away from the culinary scene to hand-make soaps and sell it at farmers markets.

His now business partners offered the chance to develop a signature culinary flair to the rebirth at the Belmont Hotel. He wanted to build a place that highlighted

what he calls the “spirit of hospitality,” that x-factor that makes you want to linger somewhere.

“That was going to be my last stand,” he says. “If we flamed out, who cares? We were in West Dallas in the middle of nowhere.”

But as you already know, Byres’ Smoke helped set Oak Cliff’s food scene on fire. It became the talk of the town, and caught the attention of the NorthPark Center, which was looking for a new restaurateur to bring some culinary flare to the chain-based mall’s eatery options. It was a different community from laid back Oak Cliff, a chance for Byres to explore a new side of his eclectic personality.

“It’s all about creating an atmosphere, an energy,” says chef/owner Byres. “We set

The Theodore’s roasted oysters with bell-pepper butter, bacon and bread crumbs. (Photo by Kathy Tran)

up the story of the place and then fill in the details of the menu.”

That story was built around larger than life historical figure Teddy Roosevelt. With its dark-paneled bar, over-stuffed blue velvet armchairs and hunting-inspired décor, The Theodore looks like somewhere Roosevelt would hang out.

You’ll find dishes that Byres describes as “the classic American food story,” including pot pies, beef tenderloin and a plethora of pizzas. Cocktails are crafted from fresh fruit and herbs, each named for different national park in honor of Roosevelt’s work.

“I really like the idea of smells when you first walk in so that’s where the bakery comes in,” Byres says of the attached fullproduction bakery.

The restaurant opens like Pandora’s box to expose space after space, from a private dining room tucked into a hidden bookshelf to the hand-painted celestial room.

— EMILY CHARRIER

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BLAZING TRAILS

DALLAS IS CONSIDERED AMONG THE WORST CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR CYCLING, BUT A PLANNED 50-MILE LOOP COULD CHANGE THAT

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While many are disconnected, there is a plan in the works to create The Loop, a $56-million project that would create one 50-mile loop connecting North Dallas, White Rock Lake, South Dallas, Oak Cliff and West Dallas and include all 14 City Council districts. The Loop is the idea of pals Jeff Ellerman, a real estate executive and oilman Larry Dale, who became frustrated one day while riding bikes on the dead-end Trinity Skyline Trail inside the levees. “We were saying, ‘this is so frustrating because there’s no trail to get here. Once you’re down here, it’s unbelievable, but it doesn’t go anywhere. The Great Trinity Forest is amazing, but you can’t get to it. Wouldn’t it be great if these trails connected and they were longer?’”

With encouragement from Mayor Mike Rawlings and Katy Trail mastermind Philip Henderson, they created a nonprofit, the Circuit Trail Conservancy, and about two years ago began working with the city’s Park and Recreation Department and Trinity Watershed Management on a plan to connect the trails.

Now plans for The Loop are complete and the nonprofit already has raised about $17 million, including $5 million from Dallas County.

The city’s portion is $20 million, and if approved, The Loop could be open in the next four years.

Here we offer an update on our neighborhood’s trails and how they fit into The Loop.

THE CITY OF DALLAS BEGAN MAKING COMPREHENSIVE PLANS for a citywide trail system about 14 years ago. Since then, the city has built almost 150 miles of trails and another 37 are under development. With more that are planned but currently unfunded, Dallas eventually will have some 300 miles of trails.

BLAZING TRAILS

CITY OF DALLAS COMPREHENSIVE TRAIL MAP

CHALK HILL TRAIL

The $6-million trail, funded mostly by Dallas County, could open in 2018.

Construction begins next year on the 3.7-mile path originally cut by the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad. It will begin at the DART station at Wright and Illinois and snake around to West Davis and Chalk Hill Road. In fewer than four miles, it travels through varied scenery, including residential neighborhoods and forested areas, reaching the cliffs above West Davis.

The most expensive piece is a bridge needed to replace an old wooden trestle just north of Jefferson.

When it opens, there won’t be lighting or any other amenities along the trail. Fundraising from private “friends of” groups have paid for those extras on the Katy Trail and at White Rock Lake, for example.

There is a “very preliminary” plan to connect the Chalk Hill Trail with the Coombs Creek Trail, says City Councilman Scott Griggs. The latter would be extended through the Stevens Park Golf Course and then the old Colorado Place apartments where Lincoln Property Co. is planning a development. From there, it would cut a path into Stevens Park Village and to Pinnacle Park to connect at Chalk Hill Road.

COOMBS CREEK TRAIL

The Coombs Creek Trail begins as a soft path from the flood protection levee under Beckley. The paved portion begins near Junior Drive.

When it opened in 2009, the Coombs Creek Trail followed a 1.5-mile path along Kessler Parkway to Stevens Park Golf Course.

The trail recently was extended to Colorado, where it makes a left on Plymouth and goes all the way to Hampton.

There is a very preliminary plan to connect it eventually to the Chalk Hill Trail in West Dallas.

On the Kessler Park end, the trail will connect at Sylvan Avenue to the new Interstate 30 bridge, which is expected to open next year. From there it will meet the Trinity Skyline Trail, a major connector in The Loop.

SKYLINE TO GREAT TRINITY FOREST

The Loop includes a plan to build the 8.7-mile Trinity Forest Spine Trail, between South Dallas and White Rock Lake, which has been planned since about 2010 but as yet is unfunded.

The Trinity Skyline Trail link, near Glendale Park, would connect the Skyline Trail through the Great Trinity Forest and South Dallas to the Trinity Spine Trail.

The Spine trail would traverse through South Dallas and East Dallas’ Parkdale neighborhood to the Santa Fe Trail, which meets White Rock Lake.

“The great thing about [The Loop] is that all that of our rights-of-way, with a few exceptions, are done,” Ellerman says. “It’s all been secured, paid for. It’s done. That is a huge advantage.”

TRINITY SKYLINE TRAIL

They found the funding for it and most of it was built, but there is about a one-mile stretch that is contingent on the completion of the Horseshoe project next year.

Once the Texas Department of Transportation completes that project, which connects interstates 35 and 30, the Skyline Trail will be complete, and it could be a major player in the Dallas trail system.

Dallas is working with the City of Irving to connect the Skyline Trail to Irving’s Champion Trail as part of a plan to build a bike superhighway between Dallas and Fort Worth.

The Skyline Trail would become part of The Loop on one end with a connection to the Design District’s Trinity Strand Trail.

The Strand would connect to the Katy Trail with a $20-million, onemile bridge from the east levee to the Katy Trail. That bridge, traversing Interstate 35 and the Dallas North Toll Road, would be extremely complicated, involving the state transportation department, the North Texas Toll Authority and Dallas Area Rapid Transit, among other bureaucracies.

The Katy Trail, in the next year or so, will connect to the SoPac Trail, another former railway right-of-way, and then White Rock Lake.

The idea to put nearly 6 miles of paved trails between the levees came from former City Councilwoman Angela Hunt and then-first termer Scott Griggs, back in 2012.

EDGEFIELD/KIEST PARK/ KEISTWOOD/GLENDALE

SCOTT GRIGGS PUSHED FOR the completion of trails surrounding Kiest Park, when it was part of his district, early in his city council tenure.

On the southern end, Kiest Park meets the Kiestwood Trail, and that trail could connect to The Loop at Glendale Park eventually.

Earlier this year, Griggs held a grand opening for a $619,781 extension from Kiest Park along Rugged Drive to Elmwood Park, which included a pedestrian bridge over Cedar Creek.

Imagine a future where it would be possible to ride a bike from Elmwood Boulevard to the Great Trinity Forest and on to White Rock Lake and beyond, completely on trails and bike lanes.

Bicycling Magazine in 2012 named Dallas the worst bicycling city in America. The Loop could change all that, says Ellerman.

“We can have something that no one else has,” he says. “A 50-mile bike loop at the core of our city. It’s transformational.”

BISHOP DUNNE CATHOLIC SCHOOL

Contact: Charleen Doan at 214.339.6561 ext. 4020 or admission@bdcs.org

A co-educational, college preparatory school serving students in grades 6-12. We provide a strong faith and valuebased education with high academic standards, encouraging all students to achieve their full potential. Our curriculum emphasizes individualized attention, and is constantly at the forefront of technology integration through the use of laptops, ebooks, and our Online Education Program. Additionally, we provide a full range of extracurricular activities ranging from athletics, to the arts, to clubs and service organizations.

LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Leading to Success. 2720 Hillside Dr., Dallas 75214 / 214.826.2931 / lakehillprep.org Kindergarten through Grade 12 - Lakehill Preparatory School takes the word preparatory in its name very seriously. Throughout a student’s aca -

demic career, Lakehill builds an educational program that achieves its goal of enabling graduates to attend the finest, most rigorous universities of choice. Lakehill combines a robust, college-preparatory curriculum with opportunities for personal growth, individual enrichment, and community involvement. From kindergarten through high school, every Lakehill student is encouraged to strive, challenged to succeed, and inspired to excel.

HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL

3815 Oak Lawn Ave., Dallas 214-526-5113, htcsdallas.org For more than 100 years, Holy Trinity Catholic School, has been committed to the religious, intellectual, emotional, social and physical growth of each student. This commitment is carried out in a nurturing atmosphere with an emphasis on social awareness, service to others, and religious faith in the Catholic tradition.

The Immaculate Heart Program at Holy Trinity School was initiated to fully realize our school’s mission of developing the whole child by meeting the needs of one of the most underserved and underperforming groups in catholic schools, children with dyslexia.

ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL

4019 S. Hampton Rd. Dallas 75224/ 214.331.5139 / www.saintspride.com

At St. Elizabeth of Hungary, our fundamental task is the education of the whole child -- combining learning with faith, Catholic doctrines and moral teachings. We introduce all PK3-8th Grade students to the integrated ways of STEM. This approach to education is designed to revolutionize the teaching of subject areas such as mathematics and science by incorporating technology and engineering into regular curriculum. Over the past 10 years, 95% of St. Elizabeth 8th graders were accepted to their first choice high school. Join us for an informational school tour and see for yourself how easy it is to become a Saint! Call 214.331.5139 for information.

STEM campus, in conjunction with Notre Dame University

BUSINESS BUZZ

WHAT’S UP WITH NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESSES

IN THE WORKS

With so much new development in the neighborhood, we only had space to list all of the projects underway:

• Bishop Arts Melba Townhomes, Larkspur’s Elsbeth Townhomes and 17 modern townhomes are planned in the Bishop Arts Neighborhood

• Construction of a 3.5-story apartment building began near Trinity Presbyterian Church on Zang

• High Grove at West Kessler Heights, a 53-home development, is under construction between St. Cecilia Catholic School and Rosemont Elementary School

• The construction of Bishop High Line apartments on Melba at Bishop will begin Nov. 1.

OPEN NOW

Austin-based JuiceLand recently opened at Sylvan Thirty north of Kessler Park. While the business has one Houston and 16 Austin locations, this is the health-oriented restaurant’s first venture in Dallas. The company’s owner, Matt Shook, says he was born in Dallas, “moved to the country, came back and met my wife here, so we have lots of friends and family in the area.”

A streetcar now carries passengers from Downtown to the Bishop Arts District between 9:30 a.m.-midnight Monday-Sunday. The streetcar is free for passengers but costs the City of Dallas $1 million per mile to operate.

BELOVED

SEVEN LETTERS THAT SAY IT ALL

Toni Morrison wrote a tragic and wonderful novel called “Beloved.” It’s the story of a woman named Sethe caught in slavery in the 1800s who, at one point, flees while pregnant from her slave masters to live with her motherin-law. She gives birth on the run, and

WORSHIP

BAPTIST

CLIFF TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH / 125 Sunset Ave. / 214.942.8601

Serving Oak Cliff since 1899 / CliffTemple.org / English and Spanish

9 am Contemporary Worship / 10 am Sunday School / 11 am Traditional

GRACE TEMPLE BAPTIST MULTI-CULTURAL CHURCH

Sunday Worship: English Service 9:30 am / Spanish Service 11:00 am

831 W. Tenth St. / 214.948.7587 / gracetempledallas.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

OAK CLIFF CHRISTIAN CHURCH / Celebrating 125 Years

Fellowship 9:30 am / Sunday School 9:45 am / Worship 11:00 am

660 S. Zang / occch.org / 214.376.4375

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

TYLER STREET CHURCH / Traditional Worship - 9:30 am / tsumc.org

Tyler Street En Vivo - 9:30 am / tylerstreetenvivo.org / 214.946.8106

Tyler Street Live - 11:30 am / tylerstreetlive.org / 927 W. 10th Street

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

KESSLER COMMUNITY CHURCH / 2100 Leander Dr. at Hampton Rd.

“Your Hometown Church Near the Heart of the City.”

10:30 am Contemporary Service / kesslercommunitychurch.com

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

PROMISE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST/ www.promiseucc.org

Worship: 10:30 am Sundays / 214-623-8400 / 2527 W. Colorado Blvd.

An Open and Affirming Church where everyone is welcome!

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when almost re-captured, her precious child dies. In her devastation, she seeks out the man who carves tombstones. She has little money, but he says: “I’ve got a little sliver of granite left over. It is just the size for a baby’s tombstone. If you can give me seven letters in the next few minutes, I have a little time and I’ll carve the tombstone and give it to you for free.” Sethe couldn’t read or spell; she had no idea how many letters would fit. At the baby’s funeral, the preacher had said over and over the words “Dearly Beloved,” so that’s what she wanted on the tombstone. But the man said that was too many letters. So Sethe said, “Would the word ‘beloved’ be too long?” He counted on his fingers: “B-E-L-O-V-E-D.” Then he carved those seven letters that represented a great love and a crippling loss.

Sometimes people call me “preacher,” and I don’t mind. I prefer to be called “pastor,” or by my first name, but after all, I do preach. It’s a gift to be able to stand before others and share a word that I hope encourages and blesses.

What will I say each week? I hope that as I preach, no matter what topic or theme, people will hear the consistent word underneath the words: “beloved.” I want people to know they are dearly loved. Each person is precious, unique, wonderful. This is not my message; it’s the consistent message of the Bible,

although there are some obscure, confusing parts that get a lot of attention. The long arc of the Bible is love. Across time, continents, cultures and generations, the message is the same: B-E-L-O-V-E-D.

If people could grasp how beloved they are, letting that truth sink deep into their bones, I believe that we would be able to endure most every hardship

in this life. If they could hear that word above all of the painful words pronounced over their lives — no good, a failure, hopeless, ugly — our world would be so much better.

When Jesus was baptized, the story goes that the heavens opened, and the Spirit of God descended on Him like a dove. Then there was a voice from heaven: “This is my Beloved Son; with Him I am well-pleased.” (Matthew 3:17) Sometimes when I baptize people, I remind them that God speaks the same words over them: “Beloved. With you God is well-pleased.”

Wherever you are today, in whatever unyielding circumstance, however great your despair, know that you are the beloved of God. Let that truth be carved upon the stone of your life.

Brent McDougal is pastor of Cliff Temple Baptist Church. The Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and by the neighborhood business people and churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

If people could grasp how beloved they are, letting that truth sink deep into their bones, I believe that we would be able to endure most every hardship in this life.

SCHOOL SUPPLIES

Oak Cliff-based law firm Chad West, PLLC organized the school supply drive Crayons for Kids and donated 50 filled backpacks to students in need at James Hogg Elementary School.

CLASSES/TUTORING/ LESSONS

CREATIVE ARTS CENTER More than 500 adult art classes/ workshops from metal to mosaic! www.creativeartscenter.org

MATH Shouldn’t Get In The Way Of Anyone’s Dreams. I Tutor Algebra To Calculus. Test Anxiety & ADHD Are My Specialties. Jonathan. 626-643-6700 holisiticmathtutoring.com

EMPLOYMENT

AIRLINE MECHANIC TRAINING Get FAA Certification. No HS Diploma or GED. We Can Help. Approved For Military Benefits. Financial Aid If Qualified. Job Placement Assistance. Aviation Institute Of Maintenance. 866-453-6204

MCSHAN FLORIST is accepting applications. Please apply in person at 10311 Garland Rd. 8-5

LEGAL SERVICES

A WILL? THERE IS A WAY! Estate/Probate matters. maryglennattorney.com 214-802-6768

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

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MIND, BODY & SPIRIT

LAURA LOCKWOOD,CERTIFIED HYPNOTHERAPIST 214-232-5752. Hypnosis/Past Life Regression

BUY/SELL/TRADE

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RANGERS, STARS & MAVS

Share front-row Texas Rangers, Stars & Mavs seats. Tickets are available in sets of 10 games (sets of 2 or 4 tickets per game available). Participants randomly draw numbers prior to season to determine a draft order fair to everyone. Call 214-560-4212 or rwamre@advocatemag.com

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AC & HEAT

ELECTRICAL SERVICES

ANNA’S ELECTRIC Your Oak Cliff Electrician Since 1978. tecl25513. 214-943-4890

ANTHONY’S ELECTRIC Master Electrician. TECL24948 anthonyselectricofdallas.com

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We raise our kids here, too!

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APPLIANCE REPAIR

JESSE’S A/C & APPLIANCE SERVICE

TACLB13304C All Makes/Models. 214-660-8898

CABINETRY & FURNITURE

JD’S TREE SERVICE Mantels, Headboards, Kitchen Islands, Dining tables. Made from Local Trees. www.jdtreeservice.com 214-946-7138

CLEANING SERVICES

AFFORDABLE, PROFESSIONAL CLEANING

$100 off 1st clean for new weekly/bi-weekly clients. Staff trained by Nationally Certified Cleaning Tech. Chemical-free, Green, or Traditional Cleaning. WindsorMaidServices.com 214-381-MAID (6243)

CINDY’S HOUSE CLEANING 15 yrs exp. Resd/Com. Refs. Dependable. 214-490-0133

CLEAN FREAKS Fall Special 20% Off. DallasCleanFreaks.com Call Today! 214-821-8888

TWO SISTERS & A MOP Move in/Out. Reliable/Dependable

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WINDOW MAN WINDOW CLEANING.COM

Residential Specialists. BBB. 214-718-3134

CONCRETE/ MASONRY/PAVING

BRICK, BLOCK, Stone, Concrete, Stucco. Gonzalez Masonry. 214-395-1319

BRICK, STONEWORK, FLAGSTONE PATIOS

Mortar Repair. Straighten Brick Mailboxes & Columns. Call Cirilo 214-298-7174

CONCRETE REPAIRS/REPOURS

Demo existing. Stamping and Staining Driveways/Patio/Walkways

Pattern/Color available

Free Estimates 972-672-5359 (36 yrs.)

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

50 Yrs. Electrical Exp. Insd. 214-328-1333

BRIGHT LIGHT ELECTRIC • 214-553-5333

TECL 31347 Brightening Homes and Businesses

TH ELECTRIC Reasonable Rates. Licensed & Insured. Ted. E257 214-808-3658

EXTERIOR CLEANING

G&G DEMOLITION Tear downs, Haul. Interior/Exterior. 214-808-8925

FLOORING & CARPETING

Willeford

hardwood floors

Superior Quality: Installation Refinishing

Repair • Cleaning & Waxing Old World Hand Scrape 214-824-1166

GARAGE SERVICES

GARAGE DOORS & OPENERS

972-521-6567. install, Repair, Service, Sales.

UNITED GARAGE DOORS AND GATES Res/Com. Locally Owned.214-826-8096

Holiday party season is fast approaching!

Keep your floors in top shape for any occasion:

1. For laminate or hardwood floors, begin by dry mopping.

2. Follow up with a cleaner designed specifically for hardwoods or laminate.

3. Keep it dry — never wet mop or use products that require water.

4. Carpet lovers, vacuuming is key to preserving the carpet’s cushiness and shape.

Remember, quick, routine cleaning saves hours on heavy cleaning, giving you more time to enjoy the holiday season.

HANDYMAN SERVICES

Your Home Repair Specialists

Drywall Doors

Senior Safety

Carpentry

Small & Odd Jobs And More!

972-308-6035

HandymanMatters.com/dallas

Bonded & Insured. Locally owned & operated.

HOUSE PAINTING

MANNY’S HOME PAINTING & REMODEL Int./Ext. Sheetrock. Manny 214-334-2160

OAK CLIFF PAINT MASTERS Interior & Exterior - Free quote at no obligation 214-650-3981

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

KITCHEN/BATH/ TILE/GROUT

BLAKE CONSTRUCTION CONCEPTS LLC

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

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

STONE AGE COUNTER TOPS Granite, Marble, Tile, Kitchen/Bath Remodels. 972-276-9943.stoneage.dennis@verizon.net

TK REMODELING 972-533-2872

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

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FENCING & DECKS

#1 COWBOY FENCE & IRON CO. Est. ‘91. 214-692-1991 www.cowboyfenceandiron.com

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

FENCING & WOODWORK oldgatefence.com charliehookerswoodwork.com 214-766-6422

HANNAWOODWORKS.COM

Decks, Pergolas, Patio Covers. 214-435-9574

EST. 1991 #1

COWBOY FENCE & IRON CO.

214.692.1991

SPECIALIZING IN Wood Fences &Auto Gates

cowboyfenceandiron.com

GLASS, WINDOWS & DOORS

EAST DALLAS WINDOW CLEANING Power Wash. Free Est. Dependable. Derek. 214-360-0120

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

HANDYMAN SERVICES

A R&G HANDYMAN Electrical, Plumbing, Painting, Fencing, Roofing, Light Hauling. Ron or Gary 214-622-7488, 469-878-8044

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

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

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

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

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

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LAWNS,

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

HOLMAN IRRIGATION

Sprinkler & Valve Repair/ Rebuild Older Systems. Lic. #1742. 214-398-8061

IRISH RAIN SPRINKLER SYSTEMS TXL#2738 Repair, Stonework & Drains 214-827-7446

LSI LAWN SPRINKLERS “Making Water Work” Irrigation system Service & Repair. Specializing In Older Copper Systems. LI #13715. 214-283-4673

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

YOUR TREES could look like a WORK OF ART, I Guarantee It.

OCTOBER SPECIAL

$200 OFF 4 man crew/4 hours

Just Trees

Call Mark Wittlich 214-332-3444

JD’s Tree Service

RESPONSIBLE TREE CARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Locally harvested wood!

PLUMBING

AC PLUMBING Repairs, Fixtures, Senior Discounts. Gary Campbell. 214-321-5943

ANDREWS PLUMBING • 214-354-8521

# M37740 Insured. Any plumbing issues. plumberiffic69@gmail.com

Sewers • Drains • Bonded 24 Hours/7 Days

*Joe Faz 469-346-1814 - Se Habla Español*

ARRIAGA PLUMBING: General Plumbing

Since the 80’s. Insured. Lic# M- 20754 214-321-0589, 214-738-7116, CC’s accepted.

M&S PLUMBING Quality Work & Prompt Service. Jerry. 214-235-2172. lic.#M-11523

NTX PLUMBING SPEC. LLLP 214-226-0913

Firewood/Cooking Wood Full service trimming & planting of native trees. 214.946.7138

MOVING

AM MOVING COMPANY Specialty Moving & Delivery.469-278-2304 ammovingcompany.com

TREEHUGGER BOXES Eco-friendly Used Boxes & Moving Supplies. Free and Low Cost Delivery www.treehuggerboxes.com 214-384-1316

PEST CONTROL

A BETTER EARTH PEST CONTROL

Keeping the environment, kids, pets in mind. Organic products avail. 972-564-2495

MCDANIEL PEST CONTROL

Prices Start at $85 + Tax

For General Treatment.

Average Home-Interior/Exterior & Attached Garage. Quotes For Other Services. 214-328-2847. Lakewood Resident

Lic. M-40581 Res/Com. Repairs & Leak Location

THE PLUMBING MANN LLC

All Plumbing! Since 1978. RMP/Master-14240 Insured. 214-FAST-FIX/ 214-327-8349

214-328-7371

MetroFlowPlumbing.com

Lic.# M16620

POOLS

LEAFCHASERS POOL SERVICE Parts/Service. Chemicals/Repairs. Jonathan. 214-729-3311

REMODELING

BLAKE CONSTRUCTION CONCEPTS, LLC

Complete Remodeling, Kitchens, Baths, Additions. Hardie Siding & Replacement Windows. Build On Your Own Lot. Insured. www.blake-construction.com 214-563-5035

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

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

O’BRIEN GROUP INC. Remodeling Dallas For Over 17 Years www.ObrienGroupInc.com 214-341-1448

RENOVATE DALLAS renovatedallas.com 214-403-7247

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TRUE CRIME FLOPPY-HAT THIEF

The man who robbed the Family Dollar store at 3100 Forth Worth Ave. may be the same guy who held up a Fort Worth Avenue pawn shop three times between Sept. 2015 and Jan. 2016.

The blue floppy hat and chin hair, captured on surveilance cameras at both places, look similar, and police say the earlier robberies have not been solved.

The man, who is described as 6-foot and 120 pounds, appears to be between 2030 years old. He walked into the Family Dollar store near Westmoreland at 1:15 p.m. Aug. 31 and demanded money at gunpoint from the cashier before fleeing on foot.

AFTER THE AMBUSH

LIVES OF CRIME CONTINUED AFTER THE DEATHS OF BONNIE AND CLYDE

Bonnie and Clyde. The hold ups, the bank robberies, the murders, the getaways, the undying love and their highly publicized end in a storm of lawenforcement gunfire.

Those stories have been told and retold in about every medium possible.

A story less frequently told is the aftermath of their outlaw lives, the family, friends and enemies left behind, the consequences they paid and the crimes they committed.

That January, the outlaw duo had raided the Eastham Prison Farm and freed four; one guard was murdered. After that, a shoot-to-kill order was issued for Bonnie and Clyde.

On Easter, they shot and killed two state highway patrolmen in Grapevine. With them was Raymond Hamilton, who was among the Eastham escapees.

Lawmen put the screws on Ivan Methvin, the father of Barrow gang member Henry Methvin. The older Methvin helped the posse of six, led by Texas Ranger captain Frank Hamer, by faking a flat tire on a quiet country road outside of Gibsland, La. When Bonnie and Clyde stopped to help, the six lawmen riddled their car with bullets.

While the outlaws were on the run, they’d meet frequently with family members, including their mothers and sisters, in the West Dallas woods. After one such rendezvous, Bonnie and Clyde dropped her mother and sister a block from their home in Trinity Heights, a brazen move for two of the most wanted in America.

Twenty-one people were tried in federal court in February 1935, accused of conspiracy for aiding

and abetting the criminal couple. Among them were several members of the Barrow gang as well as both of Clyde’s parents and four of his siblings. Bonnie’s mother, Emma Parker, and sister, Billie Mace, also were accused.

No one closely connected to the Barrow gang escaped incarceration after a blanket trial.

Floyd Hamilton — the brother of Raymond Hamilton, who was on

the run at the time — received the maximum sentence of two years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Barrow’s brother L.C., a lesser known convicted armed robber and career criminal, got 13 months in prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., while his wife was given 15 days in jail. Bonnie’s sister, Billie Mace, was sent to Alderson Prison in West Virginia for a year, probably because of suspicion that she was present

Top: Cumie Barrow is carried into the Dallas County Courthouse for the trial of Baldy Whatley, who was convicted of assault for firing shotgun blasts into her home on what is now Singleton Boulevard. Above: Henry and Cumie Barrow, Clyde Barrow’s parents, at home. Cumie, then 65, lost her right eye to Whatley’s shotgun.

during the Grapevine murders. Clyde’s sister Marie Francis and Floyd Hamilton’s wife, Mildred, were sentenced each to one hour in jail.

The mothers — Cumie Barrow, Emma Parker and Hamilton’s mother — received 30 days in jail.

“I’m going to give you a lighter sentence,” Judge W.H. Atwell told them. “I’m taking into consideration the hard going you have had. They’re your boys, your own flesh and blood. I wish you could make them realize,

bullet caught Cumie Barrow, then 65, in the face. She lost an eye and almost died.

Less than two months later, Clyde’s sister’s apartment was firebombed using dynamite stolen from the Works Progress Administration (no one was injured), and police suspected Whatley, then out from behind bars on $18,500 bail for the shooting. He also was accused of firebombing the Barrow gas station twice.

however, that anybody they hurt has a mother who in turn will be hurt.”

A few days after L.C. Barrow’s release from prison in 1938, he and brother Jack Barrow went into Curly’s beer tavern in West Dallas and started a fight with former Barrow gang member S.J. “Baldy” Whatley.

Earlier that year, Whatley had fired shots at the Barrow family home and gas station on what is now Singleton Boulevard. It is unclear what started the beef between Whatley and the Barrows. A newspaper story from the time described it as a “Kentucky-style family feud.”

At any rate, the fight at Curly’s involved broken chairs and beer bottles as weapons. Awhile later, Whatley drove to the Barrow gas station and fired five or six rounds from a shotgun into the home. “I’ll kill every one of you,” he was alleged to have shouted.

He didn’t kill anyone, but one

Whatley, who once had attacked Barrow gang snitch James Mullen in the Dallas jail, was given 12 years in prison for the assault and attempted murder of Cumie Barrow. In true old-school outlaw style, he escaped from the Huntsville prison about a year later and lived with his wife in Dallas for 10 months before being recaptured. Supposedly he also confessed to robbing several jewelry stores during his liberation, including Lloyd’s on Jefferson Boulevard.

He was out of prison by 1949, when he admitted to burglarizing several Dallas cafés to support a drug addiction and was sentenced to three years. In September 1951, just out of prison, he was convicted of selling drugs and given the max, three five-year sentences to be served consecutively.

The Barrow boys weren’t the only bar brawlers in the family. Their sister Marie was charged with assault in 1940 for shooting at a woman during a bar fight on Maple Avenue.

The same year, Jack Barrow received a 99-year sentence for murder. He shot a man through the heart during a petty argument at a West Dallas café.

He was given furlough in 1942 to attend his mother’s funeral. At the time of her death, all but two of Cumie Barrow’s seven children were dead or in prison. —RACHEL

STONE

A story less frequently told is the aftermath of their outlaw lives, the family, friends and enemies left behind, the consequences they paid and the crimes they committed.