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Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters opening Tyler-Davis shop

The neighborhood coffee supplier is opening a roasting and retail location at Davis and Tyler. Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters began delivering freshly roasted coffee to customers’ doors in 2008 and now supplies coffee to businesses throughout the Dallas area. “Being a wholesaler, we don’t have a venue to interact with customers,” says owner Shannon Neffendorf. “This will give us a chance to be a more visible part of the community and be able to connect with customers.” Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters is renovating old auto body garages and hoping to open around the beginning of next year.

Griggs proposes $6 million Trinity River trail

If voters approve a city bond package on Nov. 6, there could be a trail on the Oak Cliff side of the Trinity River by 2014. City Council members Scott Griggs of Oak Cliff and Angela Hunt of East Dallas are proposing a $6.4 million pathway in the Trinity River basin, which would serve as a hike-and-bike trail. The road would be paid for through a $600-million bond package the city is proposing.

Design studio teaches children to recycle

Oak Cliff–based design-build firm DB Green LLC has launched The Magic Garden Program, which teaches children important lessons in recycling and staying green. Three books, six animations and thousands of square feet of murals portray a young girl’s adventures in recycling and creating new friends out of recycled products. Several more projects are in development stages. A book is expected to release by spring of next year. Paul Warmus, DB Green LLC owner, also hopes to turn these stories into an educational cartoon series one day. “It’s not just about recycling, but about creativity, imagination and art,” Warmus says, “to empower your child to look at the world around them and create.”

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1 Tillman’s Roadhouse turns 20 on Oct. 5. Find anniversary event details on page 10.

2 LaGrange now has a snow cone truck stationed at the residential Dallas West Trailer Park 3 Metro Paws Animal Hospital opened a new location near the Belmont Hotel. Its original location is on Skillman in the Lakewood area.

4 Cigar Arts, which specializes in “micro-blended artisanal cigars,” opened in Bishop Arts. The shop, founded by Russ Hargraves and Marco Cavazos, is an upstart inside business incubator Boomers on Bishop 5 The Cozy Cottage is celebrating four years in business.

Brumley Gardens

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Community

The Kessler Theater will host the inaugural Oak Cliff Music Festival from noon-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3. Acts announced so far are Carolyn Wonderland, Alejandro Escovedo and Joe Ely Band. General admission tickets cost $12 in advance or $20 the day of the show. VIP tickets cost $25 in advance and $35 on the day of the show. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Winnetka Heights Neighborhood Association.

The Dallas Zoo is looking for help for its Halloween Nights events Oct. 25-28. Volunteers will walk around in professional costumes and hand out candy. Contact the Volunteer Services Department to participate.

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son. He has written about historic preservation and urban planning for the Advocate, including a piece about the old Humble Service Station on Zang, which is set to be demolished to make way for a beer-and-wine store.

Oak Cliff’s own Jason Roberts was honored as a Champion of Change at the White House for his work on the Better Block. Roberts and business partner Andrew Howard are exhibiting at the Venice Bienniale of Architecture, which runs through November and is sort of like the Olympics or World’s Fair of design.