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The Spillers Group opens Uptown nanobrewery

The Spillers Group, which owns Eno’s and is a partner in Oddfellows, has opened UnionBear, a nanobrewery in Uptown. The Union Bear menu features seasonal fare by executive chef Jon Kleifgen, including black truffle salami and mushroom pizza, mini short rib sliders and Texas shrimp po’ boy. With 40 taps, the beer selection is touted as “supremely high level without being expensive and pretentious.” One highlight: the top level, 360-degree indoor/outdoor bar that opens to the West Village patio.

Greenling organic grocery service expands to Dallas

Greenling web-based organic grocery delivery company recently launched operations in the Dallas area.The company, which started in Austin and also serves San Antonio, has a new warehouse in Allen. Greenling sells local and organic produce, bread, meat and dairy, as well as “sustainably produced” groceries and sundry items and delivers to homes and offices.

Salvation Army Thrift Store will not re-open

Last summer, a DART bus crashed through the Salvation Army Thrift Store on West Jefferson at Polk. Luckily, no one was hurt in that accident, as it happened at about 6 a.m. on a Saturday.

Salvation Army has decided not to reopen the West Jefferson store; the 6,650-square-foot building is for sale. It is listed, as is, for $550,000. C.J. Dunn Commercial already is negotiating with a potential buyer, says Patrick Patey, a Salvation Army spokesman for the Dallas area. Salvation Army decided to make the thrift store on Village Fair its “anchor” in Oak Cliff. “That was our smallest store,” Patey says. “So it was a good time to go ahead and let the other one be the anchor store in Oak Cliff.”

Community

The Texas Historical Commission approved markers for two sites in Oak Cliff. One will be placed at 10th and Patton, near the site where Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed officer J.D. Tippit after the Kennedy assassination. Another will be placed two and a half blocks away at the site of the original Adamson High School. That will protect the building, constructed in 1914, from being demolished or inappropriately remodeled, as Dallas ISD had considered in 2009. The new Adamson High School is under construction and is expected to open in the fall.

Union Bear WEST VILLAGE 3699 MCKINNEY AVE. 214.245.5330 UNIONBEAR.COM

Greenling 469.656.7913 GREENLING.COM

Methodist Dallas Medical Center 1441N.BECKLEY 214.947.8181

The Foundry 2303 PITTMAN 214.739.1112 CS-TF.COM

Ten Bells Tavern TENBELLSTAVERN.COM

The Dallas Zoo and the Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park are seeking volunteers. Applicants must be 18 or older and provide references, along with proof of a negative tuberculosis test. For more information, contact amy. glover@dallaszoo.com or 469.554.7450.

Development

Construction has begun at West Davis and Rosemont, where Wood Partners is planning Alta West, a 207-unit apartment complex. It is expected to open by April 2013.

A $3.2 million street improvement project on Bishop Avenue will result in bike lanes, fewer lanes for cars, better sidewalks, more lighting, tree plantings and benches. It is expected to be completed in April. Construction started on the project, which stretches from Colorado to Jefferson, this past summer, and it is being funded through a bond program. Crews replaced 50-year-old sewage and sanitation pipes beneath the street, which was the most expensive part of the project.

Education

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The Texas Hospital Association has named Methodist Health System a winner of its 2011 Excellence in Community Service Award. The award is in response to Methodist’s Life Shines Bright Pregnancy Program, which focuses on reducing the number of pre-term births in the Oak Cliff area. The Foundry, a new beer garden from the co-owners of Smoke and bar Belmont, is now open on Fort Worth Avenue. This super-casual spot features live music on the weekends. Next door, ChickenScratch, a family-friendly, homestyle-cooking concept from the same owners, has plans to open this month. Ten Bells Tavern will soon open in the Bishop Arts District. Named after a London pub, Ten Bells Tavern will serve up a Bristish-influenced menu and beers and ciders.

Parents at Greiner Middle School are forming an advisory committee to help with fundraising, grants, publicity and securing public performances for Greiner Arts Academy, which Dallas ISD nearly closed last year. The academy’s budget includes teacher salaries and nothing else. For more information, contact Rebecca Ordinario at 214.418.9043 or rordinario@me.com.

Target recently donated $100,000 to Molina High School to help fund a coffee bar in the school library. A courtyard also will be added to the school’s entrance, for performance art, outdoor teaching and socializing. Both projects are expected to be completed in August, costing $50,000. Molina teachers will submit proposals on how to spend the remainder of the grant.

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Art smart

Emmanuel Ramirez, a seventh-grade student at Greiner Middle School’s Exploratory Arts Academy, won the grand prize in the Trinity River Art contest, celebrating the opening of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Ramirez, his family and his art teacher Joanna Henry will be honored at a reception this month.

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