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Martial arts studio opens new location

Paragon Jiu Jitsu moved into a 7,000-square-foot space at 710 W. Davis after two years on Madison. Owner and coach John Brink hired Rick Garza and RPGA Design Group Inc. to transform a warehouse, near Brumley Gardens, into a martial arts studio. The new facility features three times the “mat space” as the old studio, plus a dedicated kickboxing area and an 800-square-foot personal fitness studio. There are also locker rooms with showers and bleachers that can accommodate 100 spectators for classes or tournaments. Brink says Paragon is now the largest martial arts studio in Dallas.

Cuellar sisters lease restaurant space

Alycen Cuellar and Adrien Cuellar-McGuire, descendants of the Oak Cliff restaurateur family that brought us Tejano Restaurant (see page 6), El Ranchito and La Calle Doce, are planning a new restaurant with their mom, Oak Cliff native Marcia Cuellar. They have leased the building adjacent to IndieGenius, at 409 N. Zang, with plans for the Local Oak The new restaurant will serve Texas cuisine. They hope to open in late spring.

3 Hearts Bakery offers homemade bread

Stephanie Cole moved to Winnetka Heights

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last May from a community farm in Waco. That’s where she learned to bake many types of homemade bread. Now Cole is offering that home-baked goodness to her Oak Cliff neighbors. Her 3 Hearts Bakery offers six varieties: gluten-free corn bread, herb wheat loaf, cranberry walnut, yeast rolls, French bread and an oatmeal-wheat sandwich loaf. All of the 3 Hearts breads can be ordered about three days in advance. Most cost $7 except for the sandwich loaf and the French bread, which cost $6. Cole works out of her home kitchen, so she is following cottageindustry rules, which prohibit selling to restaurants or at farmers markets. So the only way to eat her bread is by ordering directly from her, 3heartsdallas@gmail.com.

1 Ginger Fox Gallery opened in a space adjacent to Oak Cliff Bicycle Co. The gallery represents 11 artists, including its namesake. 2 Bishop Arts Winery, Elías Rodriquez’s venture at Tyler and Davis, has received city approval to manufacture wine. 3 Read Between the Lines, a new stationery line from local owners including Tammy Shugart of Oak Cliff and Melinda Jones, launched last month at home-design store Neighborhood. 4 Café Maya, the Mexican restaurant on Jefferson at Tyler, has closed. 5 Husband and wife business partners Joel and Laura Malone are planning a hard cider distillery in Bishop Arts called Bishop Cider Co.

Volunteers

Kings Highway resident Val Haskell raised money to buy school supplies for Roger Q. Mills Elementary School. She volunteers with the school through the nonprofit Reading Partners and found that the school needed basic school supplies. So she appealed to friends and colleagues for help. They raised enough to give each of the 500 students a box of crayons and a box of pencils, plus tissue, hand sanitizer, dry-erase markers, construction paper, folders, notebooks and other necessities.

Michael Amonett, a pastpresident of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League, has been appointed to the Dallas County Trail and Preserve Program’s board of directors. The board oversees the county’s 21 nature preserves, which comprise 3,366 acres.

Neighborhoods

The Winnetka Heights Neighborhood Association won top honors in the Oak Cliff Mardi Gras parade last month. It is the second consecutive win for Winnetka Heights. They went with a prohibition-era theme this year. Dancers in ’20s costumes surprised parade crowds with a switch from the Charleston to “Gangnam Style.”

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Dashing for beads 2013

The 2013 Dash for the Beads 5k race and 1-mile walk drew some 1,500 people to Kidd Springs Park for race-day festivities. A new course this year featured long uphill stretches, but more neighbors than usual came out to cheer since the race mostly was contained in Kessler Park. The weather was cool and costumed runners, and volunteers at water stops kept the mood festive.

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