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A lot of people seem to enjoy spilling their guts on the internet. I am not one of those people. I am more of an online lurker. I like watching other people make fools of themselves or share advice, but I rarely feel compelled to add my two cents. Generally, if I wait long enough, someone smarter or gutsier will say what I would have said anyway.

For years, my college hosted something called a “listserv” (I don’t know why there’s no “e” on the end of the word). People posted whatever was on their minds about workrelated issues, and other people commented as if they were yelling down the dormitory hall to friends, or sometimes at enemies.

People used their real names on the listserv because that was the rule. If you had something to say, the rest of the group made you stand behind (and sometimes eat) your words. The group offered the ultimate in self-policing, often becoming loud and raucous in an entertaining way, assuming you weren’t caught in the crossfire.

Some of the commenters occasionally became vicious, and there were a few examples of the pack savaging wounded prey. I always think it’s odd that people seem so eager to say seemingly everything on their minds in front of peers; remaining mean and mad takes a lot of energy.

All of this is a precursor to the listserv’s death, which we were told was hastened by the cost of running it. Apparently, it’s expensive to run a listserv, even as Google offers something similar for free. So people were instructed to move over to Google and continue sniping, advising, seeking advice, showing off and lurking there.

An interesting thing happened on the listserv’s death lap, though. One regu-

lar participant suggested that, given the group’s pending demise, it would be a good idea to get to know each other better.

It was a small thought and kind of late in the game considering the savagery some of the commenters had wreaked upon each other over the years. But the commenter forged on anyway, talking about what she has done since graduation: Turns out she is working on a national magazine, starting up an online writing community, freelancing for other online publications and considering a return to teaching. Nothing earthshaking, perhaps, but interesting and admirable nonetheless. She seemed happy, and not in a superior way.

And then a remarkable thing happened: Former combatants chimed in with their personal updates. Some were heartwarming (odds overcome, challenges won), and others were sad (personal issues, lost jobs), but all seemed offered in the spirit of connection and reconnection. As the list of detailed responses passed 100, I learned a lot about what makes people tick by reading how they’ve bounced around and still wound up moving forward.

I’m sure this type of personal introspection wasn’t part of the listserv’s original goal. It was simply an unexpected byproduct of people, most of whom knew each other only through the glow of computers or phones, wanting to reach out and touch others they assumed, or perhaps hoped, were on a similar journey.

The internet was established as a communications vehicle. But we all know that just because we’re communicating online doesn’t mean we’re actually saying anything useful. That was more often than not the case here, too.

But in the end, people wound up being inspired not by technology but by the stories technology allowed them to share.

I didn’t tell anyone my story, remaining a lurker to the bittersweet end. Maybe I should reconsider my engagement quotient, having peeped into the lives of so many others.

Or maybe I’ll just click on over to Google and see what’s happening.

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WHAT YOU’RE MISSING

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THE DIALOGUE

TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE

The leadership and residents of conservation districts who enjoy the protections CD zoning provides their neighborhoods should be screaming mad about these proposed changes! Every couple of years, city staff takes another stab at crippling historic preservation tools, and this is the latest attempt. If this passes, I don’t think you’ll ever see another CD in Dallas, and the existing CDs are at risk.

—Melissa Kingston on “City considering changes to conservation districts”

TIRED DESTINATIONS

I see too many restaurants and not enough supporting retail or residential planned. The park on Continental will be a great complementary public space to this, but without the neighborhood component, this project is just a destination. And Dallas has a history of getting tired of destinations, moving on to the next hot location. —downtown worker on “$3.5 million in TIF money for Trinity Groves’ next phase”

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Dave Reichert: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

Q&A: Dave Reichert

About 15 years ago, “recovering lawyer” Dave Reichert bought one of the oldest continuously running businesses in Oak Cliff. Wirt Davis II was in his 80s and wanted to sell the company his dad started in 1923, Davis Hawn Lumber at Beckley and Louisiana.“It was about a yearlong process where we were trying to figure out, is this a viable business with Home Depot and Lowe’s and big-box stores,” Reichert says. “Does it still make sense to have a hometown lumberyard?”Eventually Reichert and his wife, Darian, decided it did make sense. Since then, they have brought Davis Hawn into the 21st century while keeping in touch with the past.

You’re a licensed attorney; do you still practice?

No. I liked practicing law, but I didn’t have a passion for it that I wanted to spend the rest of my career doing that. I was just looking for something I could throw myself into. As a lawyer, I helped people buy and sell businesses a lot of securities law and contract-based law. I always kind of thought the clients I worked for were having more fun. I was always analyzing risk, but they were the ones that got to take that risk and see what happened. So I started looking for businesses to buy. I was always fascinated with construction in general, and then I found out about Davis Hawn that might be for sale.

So how do you compete with big-box stores?

We’re in a huge market in Dallas-Fort Worth. Everybody competes in Dallas because of all the building we have going on. We have a community hardware store, and that’s what really competes with Home Depot. But we’re like the 7-Eleven convenience store of hardware. We’re very knowledgeable, and it’s convenient, and it’s a very different shopping experience than you would get with those [big stores].

How do you stay competitive with the lumberyard?

The lumberyard caters to people who care about quality they’re building to last. We don’t pursue production builders, apartment-grade stuff. That’s pure commodity lumber. They’re not interested in quality and service price is the main thing they’re interested in. We’re also part of a lumberyard owners’ buying group, LMC. We do about $8 billion in sales among all these lumberyards [that are LMC members]. It allows us to buy lumber really low, even though we’re this small lumberyard. So we’re the best of both worlds. We have a neighborhood feel, like an old-fashioned lumberyard, but then also great price and a great product selection.

How did you find a niche for yourself?

We had to figure out who we are and who we’re not. We can’t be all things to all people. We’re good at taking care of people who have a little bit trickier job or a more high-end job. Attention to detail is what we found is our strong suit. We’ve got our own architectural mill. We make moldings, historic wood siding, doors, window sashes, and that niche is really for the historic preservations people. We have all these great old houses, and when they’ve got a problem, we can make the part for them. People think if it’s not at Home Depot then they don’t make it anymore, and that’s not true. You just have to find the right place.

You

also

throw a lot of barbecues. What’s that about?

It’s just fun. Part of it is trying to get people to the lumberyard, because we’ve got a cool old place that people enjoy. That’s where the barbecue started. We thought, “We’ve got to have some great food to get people down here.” Darian entered me in Blues, Bandits and BBQ without even telling me, and lo and behold, we won best brisket the first year. And then this year won best sausage. But our goal is just to get people down here. We just view it like we’re throwing a party. Get some architects around some builders around some carpenters. We have a big old smoker that we can take to job sites and do cookouts for workers as a thank-you to our customers.

Davis Hawn has been around more than 90 years. Any goals for the future?

You know, people are discovering how cool it is to come over to Oak Cliff and finding new restaurants and places to shop and interesting little pockets. We want to be that kind of place. We’re a best-kept secret, but we’re OK with it not being so secret. —Rachel Stone

Cliff is a place to experience friendship, culture and history all in one! Amazing neighbors, unbelievable landscapes and a classic sense of community is what makes us unique… that’s why I call Oak Cliff home!”

BEFORE & AFTER

SARA AND LUCAS DEPPE RESIDENCE

Shady Lane

BUILT IN: 1950

REMODELED IN: 2013-2014

When Sara and Lucas Deppe moved to Dallas from Kansas City, Mo. for work about a year ago, they knew Oak Cliff was the place for them. So they chose a Kessler Park fixerupper, which turned out to be a little more work than they expected. They had to replace all the boring stuff like electric wiring, plumbing and subflooring from where an indoor koi pond had leaked. But they kept the original floor plan pretty much intact.

Now!

Bill Cates of Peters Cates Design + Studio helped the Deppes with the fun stuff like flooring, paint colors and this modern, functional kitchen. “My husband and I both had similar ideas about what we wanted in a kitchen,” Sara says. “So that was pretty easy.” She says they liked the flat-front cabinets because they’re easy to clean. A large center island with a farm sink made the space more functional. They eliminated recessed lighting and added industrial-style pendulum lamps to complete the modern look. Even though the owners had to eliminate the indoor koi pond, they are renovating an outdoor pond, since they had to leave behind a 10-year-old pet koi when they moved to Texas. The house took about a year to renovate and sits on a double lot, which is what sold them on it. Now they’re busy planning gardens and water features for the backyard.

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Out & About

April 2014

April

12

Oak Cliff Earth Day

Oak Cliff Earth Day returns to Lake Cliff Park from noon-5 p.m. with more than 100 vendors and artisans, food trucks, a petting zoo, pet adoption, the “mutt strut” pet parade and the “pooch smooch” kissing booth benefitting Senior Pet Assistance Network, which helps seniors with pet care and veterinary expenses.

Lake Cliff Park, Colorado and Zang, oakcliffearthday.com, free

APRIL 3

Turner House Salon

Dallas Morning News architecture critic and University of Texas at Arlington architecture professor Mark Lamster is the Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts’ speaker this month. Turner House, 401 N. Rosemont, turnerhouse.org, $15-$20

APRIL 12

Southwest Black Fine Art Show

The sixth-annual Southwest Black Fine Art Show focuses primarily on the original work of African American artists and artists of African descent. The show is from 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Events in the Cliff, 2600 S. Zang, 214.946.2000, free

APRIL 13

‘Stagecoach’

The Dallas International Film Festival presents this classic John Ford movie, the one that made John Wayne a star, at 3:30 p.m. The Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson, 214.948.1546, thetexastheatre.com

APRIL 18

Party Static

Sealion opens for Party Static at The Foundry’s free show at 9 p.m. The Foundry has free concerts every weekend, including Dove Hunter on April 12 and Things of Earth with Nervous Curtains April 25.

The Foundry, 2303 Pittman, 214.749.1112, cs-tf.com, free

APRIL 18-20

‘As You Like It’

The Bishop Arts Theatre Center’s Teens and Theater students present one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays. Bishop Arts Theatre Center, 215 S. Tyler, 214.948.0716, tecotheater.org, $10-$15

APRIL 25

Poetry Out Loud

Lucky Dog Books celebrates national poetry month with an evening of poets and spoken-word performers starting at 7 p.m.

Lucky Dog Books, 633 W. Davis, 214.941.2665, writersblockinc.org, free

April 5

Mural reception

The Sour Grapes artists collective invites the public to the official opening and reception of its city-commissioned mural on the Jefferson Viaduct at 3 p.m. Jefferson Viaduct, Zang at Greenbriar, dallasculture.org/ oakcliffculturalcenter, free

Photo by Ethan Healy

April 27

Les Nubians

Paris-born, Brooklyn-based R&B duo Helene and Celia Faussart have released two albums since their breakout hit “Makeda” hit the American airwaves in 1998. Doors open at 7 p.m.

The Kessler Theater, 1230 W. Davis, 214.272.8346, thekessler.org,

$22-$34

APRIL 26

DADA Bike Swarm

This year’s Dallas Art Dealers Association bike swarm starts at 1:30 p.m. at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center and tours some of the stops on the DADA spring gallery walk.

Oak Cliff Cultural Center, 223 W. Jefferson, 214.670.3687, dallasartdealers.org, free

APRIL 26

Seer Sucker Ride

The spring complement to Bike Friendly Oak Cliff’s Tweed Ride is here. The ride starts at Klyde Warren Park, makes a stop at Sprouts on Henderson and ends with a picnic at White Rock Lake.

Klyde Warren Park, 2012 Woodall Rogers, bikefriendlyoc.wordpress.com, free

Delicious

Resto

Gastro Bistro is the Trinity Groves spot from husband-and-wife team

Linda Mazzei and D.J. Quintanilla. Mazzei has years of hospitality experience with Star Canyon, Lombardi Concepts, Stampede 66, Whiskey Cake and NYLO Plano. Quintanilla, a chef for 22 years, has served the kitchens of Bijoux, Abacus, Jaspers and Common Table. His menu consists of “all French techniques with Japanese influences,” he says. “These are things I know work; all the best things that I’ve done someplace else.” The deconstructed Resto Caesar ($7) is served with a big spongy crouton and delicately fried white anchovies. The cast-iron pork tenderloin ($22) comes with cinnamon-butter sticky rice and a banana-tamarind salsa. And the red chile-honey cured filet ($28) is served atop sour cream potato croquettes and roasted garlic bordelaise. “It’s just me,” Quintanilla says. “This is who I am.” —Rachel

Stone

The red chile-honey cured filet:

Photo by Elliot Muñoz

Resto Caesar: Photo by Elliot Muñoz

Trinity Groves

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1 Hofmann Hots

This hot-dog place from Phil Romano offers German franks or kielbasa on buns that are made daily on site. Try a chili dog or go for something more adventurous, such as “Himalayan dog” with onion chutney and toasted curry aioli. The tater tots are top notch as well.

340 Singleton

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2 Amberjax Fish Market Grille

Amberjax is a restaurant and market. So you can buy fresh fish to take home and cook or order from the menu, which includes tuna tartare, gumbo, big seafood salads, grilled fish entrees and lobster mac and cheese.

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3 Kitchen LTO

Chef Eric Shelton is the current star of Kitchen LTO, which changes chefs and concepts four times a year.

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THE WELCOME TABLE

CITY VIEW ANTIQUE MALL

Not your ordinary Easter Basket! Come Celebrate Spring at City View & be sure to SAVE THE DATE for our April 26th ANTIQUE FLEA MARKET & Storewide Sale. 6830 Walling Lane 214.824.4136 cityviewantiques@homestead.com

CITY VIEW ANTIQUE MALL

A slice of cake and a glass of Champagne are typically the perfect combination to end any celebration, but if you have a love for design and desserts, you

PAINTING WITH A TWIST

Express your inner artist! Instructors lead attendees in creating paintings with a featured piece of art. Bring your imagination and beverage. Perfect for private parties and complimentary valet parking. 5202 W. Lovers Lane 214.350.9911 paintingwithatwist.com/dallas

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will want to spoil your guests with a lovely dessert buffet. Whether it’s for a simple baby shower or an extravagant wedding, you are sure to send your friends home feeling extra special.

Dessert buffets are becoming more popular and provide something sweet for everyone’s taste. Start with a theme such as what you are celebrating or seasonal colors. While deciding on the menu, include baked goods, candies, confections and the perfect cocktail.

Mint green and gold are two of my favorite spring colors, and my favorite item on this dessert table is the toasted coconut marshmallow.

Kristen Massad writes a monthly column about sweets and baked goods. The professional pastry chef graduated from the French Culinary Institute in New York City and owned Tart Bakery on Lovers Lane for eight years. She blogs about food and lifestyles at inkfoods.com.

Dessert table: Photo by Kristen Massad

Toasted coconut marshmallows: By Kristen Massad

Toasted coconut marshmallows

GROCERY LIST

4 envelopes unflavored gelatin

²⁄³ cup cold water

2 ½ cups granulated sugar

½ cup water

²⁄³ cup light corn syrup

½ teaspoon coconut extract

2 cups toasted coconut

DIRECTIONS

1. Brush 9x13-inch baking dish with vegetable oil and line with plastic wrap. Sprinkle ½ cup toasted coconut to cover the bottom of the pan.

2. Pour ²⁄³ cup water into the bowl of the mixer with whisk attached. Sprinkle gelatin over water and let stand until softened, about 5 minutes.

3. In a medium saucepan, stir together sugar, corn syrup and ½ cup water and bring to boil, stirring often. Continue boiling until syrup reaches 238 F on a candy thermometer (soft ball stage).

4. Turn the mixer on low and add syrup to gelatin. Beat on low until slightly cooled and then gradually increase speed to high. Continue beating until the mixture is cool and peaks form.

5. Pour mixture into prepared pan (over toasted coconut). Immediately sprinkle ½ cup toasted coconut to cover the top of the marshmallows.

6. Allow marshmallows to cool and become firm, about 3 hours. Pour remaining toasted coconut into a bowl. Dust a cutting board with confectioners sugar and coat your knife with oil. Cut marshmallows into desired size and toss each piece in toasted coconut to coat completely. Store marshmallows in airtight container for up to 1 week.

Makes 28-30 2-inch-square marshmallows

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CREATING SPACE

By Rachel Stone |

Michna-Bales

How an unispired 1950s rancher became something spectacular

When Jack Hammack and Chas Fitzgerald bought their house on Fouts Lane a few years ago, it had some 1,100 square feet, but they could see potential in its unique lot backing up to Stevens Park Golf Course. Plus, it had two garages. They don’t know why so many car spaces, but they turned the garages into livable square footage, converting one of them into a new kitchen and the other into a master bedroom.

Photos By Jeanine

Opposite/ The house used to end at the top of these stairs. There was a 5-foot drop and then a garage.

Carpenter Rick Triplet built the staircase, which now leads to a master suite.

Hammack is an artist and designer, and Fitzgerald is a land developer with a master’s degree in architecture. The couple completely transformed the 1950s rancher into a home that is chic yet unfussy, modern and beautiful.

The original house was “very compartmental,” Hammack says. The front door led to a boxed-in entryway, which led to a dining room, which led to a kitchen. So they knocked out as many walls as they could and did away with those typical 1950s arched entryways. The only thing room kept in tact is a guest bathroom. Everything else is new from floor to ceiling.

“Chas is as good at space planning as anyone I’ve ever seen,” Hammack says.

A rough, unfinished basement, about 500 square feet, was turned into a cozy TV room. A carpenter built a staircase down into the master suite, formerly a garage 5 feet lower than the house. The bedroom features which features built-in closets and walls of windows overlooking the enormous backyard.

“We wanted it to feel woody and earthy,” Hammack says. “We didn’t want it to feel like Dallas at all.”

There is custom cabinetry and woodwork throughout the home. The couple hired JD Tree Service to create a custom fireplace mantel from an old Oak Cliff tree.

And an art collection 20 years in the making creates points of interest and conversation. Hammack is an artist who paints a lot of enormous abstract portraits, some of which adorn the couple’s walls.

Off the kitchen is a huge screened-in patio for al fresco dining and morning coffee.

“We live here, and we want it to be comfortable,” Hammack says.

The couple also totally reworked the home’s landscaping. Out back, there is a koi pond and the home’s original pool. When they built a new garage, they placed it between the pool and the driveway, and it looks like it could be a cabana.

“It offers a little more privacy that way,” Hammack says.

Hammack and Fitzgerald own another home near Asheville, N.C., which they use

Opposite/ Hammack and Fitzgerald created a kitchen where a garage had been. The cabinetry is all custom, and the light fixtures are recycled.

as a getaway, and they also lease it to vacationers. That home has many touches similar to the couple’s Oak Cliff home. When it was time to build cabinets and create custom millwork, Hammack commissioned them from his Dallas-based carpenter, Rick Triplet, and had them shipped to North Carolina.

Hammack says he’s been using the same carpenter and many other workers for years.

“Once you find someone who is reliable and does good work,” he says, “you make sure you take care of them and keep them coming back.”

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Left/ Hammack and Fitzgerald completely reworked the home’s landscaping and outdoor spaces.

Below/ Brick work from mason Mack Evans adds a unique touch in the kitchen.

Residential resurrection

Story by Rachel Stone | Photos by Danny Fulgencio

No one has lived on the second floor of the building known as Cannon’s Village for decades.

Pigeons, rodents and bats, yes. People, no.

“It’s pretty rough,” says Kacy Jones of Kessler Park, who has plans to convert the 6,500-square-foot space into two apartments

for his family and in-laws.

Jones, his wife, Dana, and her parents, Forrest and Molly Boyd, bought the building, one of the oldest commercial buildings in our neighborhood, in December.

They plan to rehabilitate the ground-floor retail spaces and live on the second floor.

Kacy Jones (center) with daughters Campbell and Harper, wife Dana (left) and her mother Molly Boyd.

Cannon’s Village, at West Davis and Edgefield, was built in 1922 and made the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League’s list of at-risk architecture in 2012.

The ground floor comprises 14,500 square feet, and they will use 3,500 for a residential garage. The remainder could be ready for restaurant or retail tenants as soon as this month.

“We’re going to be very patient,” says broker Nathan Wood of CBRE, who is marketing the building. “We’re not just going to lease it to anyone. It has to be just the right tenant.”

Since the building lies within the Winnetka Heights Historic District, exterior renovations will consist of restoring it to its 1922 look, Jones says.

“It’s easy, because we want it to look just like it did in 1922,” he says.

Kacy and Dana Jones moved to Oak Cliff in 2001. Kacy also is a CBRE broker. They started personally investing in neighborhood real estate with the purchase of a four-unit apartment building a few years ago.

Molly Boyd, Dana’s mom, grew up in Oak Cliff, and the whole family has admired the Tudor revival-style building for years.

“I decided I was going to make it my mission to buy it,” Kacy Jones says. The building was not on the market, but he contacted the New York-based owner and came to a deal late last year.

They originally had planned to create apartments to lease on the second floor, but then decided to live there themselves.

They plan to create two apartments in the 6,500-square-foot second floor. The Joneses will live in one of them with their two daughters, 10-year-old Harper and 8-year-old Campbell. And the Boyds will live in about 2,000 square feet. A 7,000-square-foot flat roof over half of the first floor will be turned into their outdoor living space. They expect the residential project to take about two years.

“We’ve always loved this building,” Jones says. “It’s one of the oldest retail buildings in Oak Cliff, and it’s just a beautiful building.”

New life for an old Oak Cliff building

In 1922, Oak Cliff started to see a building boom. A new retail building with six storefronts went up on Beckley at Jefferson. The 400-member Oak Cliff-Dallas Commercial Association demanded construction of a promised streetcar extension. Existing churches were growing, and new ones were being built. A Piggly Wiggly was planned for Lancaster Avenue.

But all this was happening at least a mile or two away from purely residential Winnetka Heights.

When builder C.S. Mitchell, one of the developers of Kessler Park, bought land at Davis and Edgefield with the idea to build a “mercantile building,” neighbors opposed it.

The city denied Mitchell’s building per-

mit, so he sued in a test of the city’s building code, which broadly stated that commercial buildings could not be constructed in residential neighborhoods. After appeals to state and federal courts, Mitchell won the right to erect his 13,500-square-foot building in November 1922.

Architect Lester N. Flint designed the building in “the old English style of architecture,” according to a 1922 newspaper story from the Dallas Morning News Historical Archives. It was designed to fit into the neighborhood with sidewalks, landscaping and only one sign to announce businesses.

The building would be “one of the most handsome business buildings in the city and will beautify, rather than detract from, the

surrounding neighborhood,” the story states.

It had eight retail spaces on the ground floor, and Mitchell had planned a drug store, grocery, flower shop and tearoom. The second floor was planned as a “biological laboratory by an organization of local doctors,” according to the newspaper story about the building. Later, the second floor would become apartments. In 1937, the intersection was busy enough that stoplights were installed.

The building became known as Cannon’s Village after Cannon’s 5-Cent store became the anchor tenant in the 1950s.

The building housed West Davis Dental for years before that business moved to Davis at Bishop in 2010.

Clockwise from top left/ News clipping from 1922: Dallas Morning News / The building in current disrepair. / The familiar but dlapadated exterior.

Nonprofits

Oak Cliff-based AIDS Arms Inc. won a $2.1-million grant to work as part of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group. The seven-year grant allows the nonprofit to continue to be a part of an international consortium of clinical research sites conducting clinical trials in HIV-infected adults.

People

Kiyundra Gulley, who has served as the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce’s chief operations officer since 2007, is the chamber’s new interim president. Her mentor, Bob Stimson, stepped down as president last month after about seven years in office.

Alice Zaccarello of Stevens Village is the new executive director of The Well Community, a nonprofit based at Cliff Temple Baptist Church that serves people with mental illness. Zaccarello is a financial services broker who has served as executive director in several Dallas nonprofits, including the Ferguson Road Initiative, the Greater Lakewood Shepherds Center and the Southwest Center for Abuse Recovery and Education.

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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 academic 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.

ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

848 Harter Rd., Dallas 75218 / 214.328.9131 / stjohnsschool.org

Founded in 1953, St. John’s is an independent, co-educational day school for Pre-K through Grade 8. With a tradition for academic excellence, St. John’s programs include a challenging curriculum in a Christian environment along with instruction in the visual and performing arts, Spanish, German, French, and opportunities for athletics and community service. St. John’s goal for its students is to develop a love for learning, service to others, and leadership grounded in love, humility, and wisdom. Accredited by ISAS, SAES, and the Texas Education Agency

BUSINESS BUZZ

The lowdown on what’s up with neighborhood businesses

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Fitness start up

A new fitness business, Oak Fit, is expected to open sometime this spring in a 5,000-square-foot space on West Davis between Vernon and Van Buren. Oak Fit will offer cross training, personal training, yoga, running groups and youth camps. “The premise of Oak Fit is based around camaraderie and community,” says owner Ron Incerta, who has worked independently as a personal trainer for nine years. The studio will have one large open space with free weights and only a few endurance machines. “The focus is on measurable and repeatable results as opposed to just paying for access to treadmill,” he says.

Sylvan Thirty fire and update

A fire at Slvan Thirty last month destroyed a two-story retail building that would’ve housed Sync Yoga and Ten, the ramen shop from Tei-An chef Teiichi Sakurai. Nothing else at the under-construction development was damaged in the fire. That building had been scheduled to open in May, and it’s being rebuilt on a fast track in hopes of a fall opening. The fire occurred next door to the future home of Cox Farms Market. That grocery’s owner, Mark Cox, says he can open the store when northbound lanes of Sylvan are finished and there is a connection between the street and the shopping center. Those lanes are expected to open this month, and the entire stretch of sylvan, between Fort Worth Avenue and Interstate 30, is expected to be completed by the end of May.

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Stock & Barrel to open in former Safety Glass building

Chef Jon Stevens is expected to open a new restaurant, Stock & Barrel, in the former Safety Glass building in Bishop Arts by the end of this month. The 2,800-squarefoot restaurant, will feature “an oasis like, dog friendly patio” and a 14-seat kitchen counter where diners can watch the action in the kitchen. “I’ve long felt the rotisserie is vastly underutilized in today’s best kitchens,” Stevens says in a media release. Suckling pig, bone-in rib roasts and exotic fowl will be slow roasting on the spit, he says. Stevens also is planning “hand cut pastas as well as some of my more popular dishes like baked eggplant and goat cheese dumplings.” An entire section of the menu will be dedicated to “the art of fried potatoes,” Stevens says. “French fries are a comfort food for me, and I’ve developed a menu above and beyond sweet potato and shoestring options with different sauces to mix and match with each offering.”

Fire at Slvan Thirty: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

Electric bike retailer Small Planet E Cycles opened in the Oak Cliff Mercantile building in Bishop Arts last month. 2 City Council last month approved a zoning change for Noble Rey Brewing Co. to open in the former Ad Place building at 1400 E. Jefferson. 3 Tulsa-based QuikTrip is building a convenience store on

at Twelfth. It is expected to open in August.

ANGLICAN

ALL SAINTS DALLAS / 2733 Oak Lawn / 972.755.3505

Radical Inclusivity, Profound Transformation. Come and See!

9:00 & 11:00 am Sunday Services. www.allsaintschurchdallas.org

BAPTIST

CLIFF TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH / 125 Sunset Ave. / CliffTemple.org

Building everyday people into everyday missionaries for Jesus Christ.

Sunday School: 9:30 am / Sunday Worship: 10:45 am / 214-942-8601

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST

EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / THE TABLE Worship 9:30 am

Worship 8:30 & 10:50 am / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

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TYLER STREET UMC / 927 W. 10th Street / 214.946.8106

Sunday Worship at 8:30 am and 10:50 am www.tsumc.org

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WHAT IT MEANS TO DIE AND RISE

We can be changed in this life for the better

You may have seen the new ABC show “Resurrection” or the billboards asking the question, “Did I really die?” Eternal life, resurrection and reincarnation (which means “re-fleshing”) were strong themes in the show “Lost” and will surely be a part of the new series. It’s no coincidence that the network premiered the show in the spring, near the celebration of Easter.

Easter is the most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus and held (in the Western Church) between March 21 and April 25, on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. The word Easter is thought to have come from the Anglo-Saxon word “eostre,” a Germanic goddess associated with the dawn, in whose honor a spring festival was held each year. By the eighth century, the spring festival, which incorporated rabbits and eggs as signs of new life, had been replaced by the celebration of Christ’s resurrection, but the name stuck (as did the bunnies and chicks). The breaking of the dawn, the emerging of flowers and the return of birds after a long, cold winter seemed a fitting time to mark the day when Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead.

The essence of Easter is resurrection. From death comes life; from despair springs hope; from ashes, beauty emerges. The concept of resurrection, if you stop and think for a moment, is downright strange and stupendous, even incredible.

Or is it? We believe that life can come from death every time we mulch a garden. We know that communities once riddled by drugs and hatred can be transformed to places of peace and justice. Our bodies demonstrate an amazing capacity to heal after the destruction of cells. And, we know

that from our own mistakes and failures, we can often emerge as stronger and better people. Paradoxically, something has to die in order for there to be a resurrection.

Jesus said of his own death and resurrection, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” (John 12:24)

The Christian message is that Jesus was tortured and killed on a cross, was dead for

We believe that life can come from death every time we mulch a garden. We know that communities once riddled by drugs and hatred can be transformed to places of peace and justice. Our bodies demonstrate an amazing capacity to heal after the destruction of cells.

three days and then rose on the third day. He didn’t sleep off the brutality he endured, suddenly wake up and walk out. He was dead. From death he rose again. The essence of Easter is not resuscitation, but resurrection. It’s a celebration of the belief that we, too, can share in Christ’s resurrection.

So really, Easter is about hope. It’s the hope that there is something beyond the grave, but also that we can be changed in this life for the better. It’s about the here and now. We can live as people who are forgiven and blessed, kind and compassionate. Our lives and communities can rise up from the ashes to become beautiful again, in the breaking dawn of a resurrected 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.

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TRUE Crime

SOMEONE TOOK THE TRIKE .

Maria Ferguson says her elderly uncle Bobby Hedrick’s adult tricycle was his only form of transportation in his neighborhood in Muskogee, Okla. The tricycle was in a bit of disrepair, and Hedrick’s nephew had brought it to Dallas to have the trike repaired. The vehicle was in much better shape after a stint in the shop — fenders repaired, chain guard fixed and a tune-up.

Unfortunately, Ferguson says Hedrick’s nephew had unloaded it in front of the garage and entered his house only a short time before coming back to the garage to move it inside. When he returned, the tricycle had been stolen.

For Ferguson, the loss seems so unnecessary, and replacing the tricycle will cost a hefty $850. The loss has deprived her uncle of at least some sense of independence and joy.

“It certainly has made it difficult for us,” she says of the theft. “That was my uncle’s only way to get around.”

The Victim: Bobby Hedrick

The Crime: Theft

Date: Friday, Feb. 28

Time: Between 12:10 p.m. and 12:30 p.m

Location: 2200 block of Kessler Parkway

Sgt. Kay Hughbanks with the Dallas Police Southwest Patrol Division says most people don’t think about how quickly property left in the open can be stolen.

“The average time it takes a thief to steal a car is 10 seconds,” she says. “For smaller items, you can imagine it is like the blink of an eye. Some of the things a thief will look for are opportunity, a distracted victim, ease of getaway and concealment.”

A UTOPIAN DREAM

How

the La Reunion colony influenced the culture of Oak Cliff COMMENT. Visit oakcliff.advocatemag.com/backstory to tell us what you think.

Most Dallasites have heard the name “Reunion” bantered about over the years. Some identify the name with the former sports arena, while others, mainly Cliffites, also identify it with all the old stories about the mid-19th century La Reunion colony. Although it functioned for only 18 months or so, La Reunion brought more to Dallas and Oak Cliff than most folks realize. It brought culture.

French philosopher Francois Marie Charles Fourier’s utopian ideas on how to create a productive, non-repressive society — free from disorder, strife and chaos — became quite popular following the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. Through unified action and harmonious collaboration, Fourier believed it possible to reconstruct a society on organized agriculture, not industry. He promoted freeing people’s passion to create and believed the cooperation of lifestyle and the elimination of tedious or unpleasant jobs would bring selffulfillment. His way of accomplishing this? Communal associations.

While Fourier wrote and promoted his books, he developed disciples. In 1852, one of his followers, fellow Frenchman Victor Considerant, traveled the United States East Coast before choosing Dallas as the location for a colony. After an advance team set up camp in what is now far West Oak Cliff, the first large group of colonists arrived in Houston in 1855 and migrated northward more than 200 miles to Dallas — some with ox carts full of personal items and some hiring professional haulers. Those without the carts or haulers walked the entire way — many walking in wooden shoes known as sabots. Because the new colonists united with the advance team, and the citizens of Dallas declared a holiday to go out and meet the newly arriving Europeans, the obvious “reunion” theme became the community’s moniker.

Strangely, most members of the group were artisans (watchmakers, shopkeepers, weavers, brewers, etc.) from Belgium, Switzerland and France, but they also were the

first bona fide musicians in Dallas, possibly in North Texas. They arrived with small instruments but also brought an organ and a piano. Singing and dancing were part of the colony’s routine, along with other cultural activities that lured Dallasites to the events. While the colonists set up a candle business, a school, a general store and such, they also brought with them the renowned Dr. Augustin Savardan, an early advocate of accurate medical records and modern hospitals, although he became discouraged with the colony’s leadership and returned to France.

Despite the visual similarity of the West Oak Cliff chalky bluffs with that of their European homes, the settlers soon discovered that this Texas terrain would not grow the crops they had expected. They also determined quickly, as did their ineffective leaders, that not everyone worked with the same enthusiasm, and that the elimination of tedious jobs was not doable. With theft issues among the colonists, the normal jealousies and suspicions, the fact that there weren’t enough veteran farmers in the group (along with having to battle the rough and rugged Texas frontier and weather), and the colony’s obvious financial insolvency, the socialist experiment quickly went south. (Apparently, they had no rattlesnakes or chiggers in Paris or in Brussels or Geneva.)

Discouraged with the collapse of their utopian dream, the bulk of the 350 colonists either returned to France or left for San Antonio or New Orleans. But quite a few remained in Dallas and developed successful lives, mostly through the systems Fournier fought against: industrialism and capitalism.

Acclaimed botanist Dr. Julien Reverchon became, among other things, a professor at Baylor University School of Medicine and Pharmacy. Reverchon Park and Reverchon Drive are both named for him. Benjamin Long of Switzerland served as a Dallas deputy sheriff, the mayor, and as a U.S. commissioner. M. Monduel (the namesake for Monduel’s Bar inside the Dallas Hyatt Regency hotel) opened Dallas’ first brewery, and Jacob Nussbaumer (for which the Dallas street is named) opened the first butcher shop. John Louckx created the city’s public school system, while Emile Remond, who experimented with the white rock on the bluffs, built a small brick- and cement-making business, initiating the industry that operated in West Dallas for more than seven decades.

In 1974, when Ray Hunt developed the southwest edge of Downtown Dallas, he decided to honor the La Reunion colonists. For these early settlers, he named the now demolished sports facility, Reunion Arena;

La Reunion colonists: Photo from “Images of America: Oak Cliff”

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the iconic tower, Reunion Tower (a.k.a. “The Ball”); and the feeder street, Reunion Boulevard. The La Reunion Cemetery, also known as Fishtrap Cemetery, has been recognized with a state historical marker, while the Jane Douglas Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution donated a white granite marker to the colony’s memory off the northwest corner of Plymouth and Colorado. Additionally, the city named Cantegral and Victor Streets for the colony’s leaders: Francois Cantegral and Victor Considerant.

It’s a bit sad to think of these hopeful European colonists traveling all the way to North Texas and then returning home less than two years later. It seems like a lot of wasted time, unrewarded effort, hardship and disappointment. But there’s no doubt about the group’s significant contributions to the nation, state and city.

However, some of them should have stuck around a bit longer — say, for another 150 years or so. In my ever so humble opinion, it seems the three groups could have successfully hawked their native wares and talents and operated a handful of French, Belgian and Swiss restaurants — all in Bishop Arts. I’d be standing in line wearing my sabots.

Longtime Cliffites recount memories and reconnect on oakcliff. advocatemag.com/ backstory Last month, Brooks wrote about the bygone town of Lisbon and the Millermore mansion.

In 1966, Millermore was about to be demolished. However, Bill McCalib and the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce and the Oak Cliff Historical ladies stepped in and the mansion was moved to Old City Park, where it stands today as a beacon of Dallas history. —Bill

Melton

Didn’t they also move the old Miller cabin to Old City Park along with the Millermore mansion? I went to elementary school at W.B. Miller across the street from the home and cabin. They would always take us across the street at Thanksgiving for a tour of the cabin, weather permitting. —Roy

Kronenberg

Roy, the cabin was saved by Mr. and Mrs. Weiss and donated to the VFW. It’s on the VFW property that’s out on Loop 12 at Cockrell Hill Road. —Gayla

Brooks

Gayla Brooks can date her neighborhood heritage back to 1918, when her father was born in what was then called Eagle Ford. She was born at Methodist hospital and graduated from Kimball High School. Brooks is one of three co-authors of the recently published books, “Legendary Locals of Oak Cliff” and “Images of America: Oak Cliff”, and writes a monthly history column for the Oak Cliff Advocate. Send her feedback and ideas to gbrooks@advocatemag.com.

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