BRIDGING CULTURES & HEALING HEARTS
The Cannenta Center is providing mental health services to minority populations
Story by JILLIAN NACHTIGAL | Photography by KATHY TRAN
When Leti Cavazos moved to Dallas from San Antonio, it was a culture shock.
Growing up in San Antonio, Cavazos always fit in. When she began to look into opening a business in DFW, she found that the area was very different.
“Being in San Antonio, which was predominantly Hispanic, and moving to Dallas, which is not, it was kind of a culture shock,” Cavazos says. “When I first got the job at the shelter, they were having a fundraiser, and the lady that was partnered with me … her daughter came over, and she introduced me and said, ‘This is Leti, she oversees the shelter.’ And her daughter looked at me and said, ‘Oh, are you over housekeeping?’”
“That was like, the reality of this is where I am. And I started looking around, and the only other Hispanics I could see were the people serving the food. And so I was like, ‘Oh, wow, this is different. This is not San Antonio anymore.”
But she never let this deter her.
Cavazos is the founder and CEO of the Cannenta Center for Healing and Empowerment. “Cannenta” has Latin origins and means “a woman possessing healing powers.”
Cavazos saw a need for more culturally sensitive services for diverse individuals and marginalized communities. It seemed they lacked a place that truly understood them and could help them with their healing journey while exploring their generational and cultural traumas.
In 2020, she started to visualize an idea to help fill this gap.
In 2021, Cavazos established the Cannenta Center, comprised of a diverse group of minority practitioners who can walk through the healing journey with clients.
“During COVID, everybody was kind of thinking about, what are we doing?” Cavazos says. “And I think it was that realization that I’ve been doing this for other organizations, other people, for so long, and I wanted to do something for me, something that that I believed in, something that I felt was going to impact the community, and something where I can help others.”
Cavazos holds a Doctorate of Social Work from the University of Tennessee, specializing in clinical practice and leadership. She has been recognized for her groundbreaking research on male victims of domestic violence experiencing homelessness and her subsequent contribution to the development of Texas’ first male domestic violence shelter.
She was recently honored as a recipient of the 2024 Leaders in Diversity Awards by the Dallas Business Journal for her contri -
butions to diversity and inclusion in mental health services and the 2023 Quality and Excellence Emerging Business Award by the Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for her innovation, community involvement and dedication to the Hispanic population.
At the Cannenta Center, Cavazos leads efforts to provide mental health services to diverse and marginalized groups, emphasizing affordable, accessible counseling.
The center offers services in English, Spanish and American Sign Language, using evidence-based techniques to empower clients on their healing journeys. Her counselors are trained to address topics such as depression, anger, anxiety, relationships and substance abuse.
Prior to opening the Cannenta Center, Cavazos worked with homeless individuals in San Antonio. This sparked her passion for helping others, specifically concerning mental health.
“There’s always that underlying trauma and mental health issues that goes with homelessness,” Cavazos says. “And so the last program I worked at in San Antonio, it was individuals who were not just chronically homeless, but had a severe mental illness like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia … and so mental health has just kind of been this underlying theme in the work I do.”
The first Cannenta Center location was in Addison, and the second in San Antonio. The Oak Cliff location opened in 2023.
“When we look at the data of where our clients are coming from, we’re serving people from all over Texas. The need is so great that we have clients from Houston, El Paso, The Valley. In Texas, there’s such a huge need for mental health services that are not just mental health services, but that’s culturally aware and speaks their language,” Cavazos says. “We were seeing a lot of people driving from Oak Cliff to Addison just to see us, and so we wanted to come to them so that removed that barrier.”
As far as expanding to more locations, Cavazos says they will take things slowly.
“I keep getting asked to expand to Fort Worth or other places and I think right now, our focus has to be on just building stability, because if we grow too fast, then the likelihood of us not being able to sustain it increases,” Cavazos says. “We have to be very intentional about our next steps.”
Cavazos says one of her favorite aspects of the foundation is not only being able to help clients, but helping each other as well.
“With the foundation, it helps people at different levels,” Cavazos says. “Yes, we’re helping the clients, but we’re also helping the therapists. And so when we elevate everybody, regardless of what position you’re in as a community, we’re all being elevated.”
Left: Leti Cavazos founded the Canneta Center for Healing and Empowerment in 2021 to provide culturally sensitive services to diverse individuals and marginalized groups.
The Madison Hotel was revamped and maintains the original architecture from nearly 100 years ago while using over 300 pieces of found art to decorate the 27-room building.
REVIVING THE MADISON
How Proxy Properties took a historic hotel from ashes to elegance
Story by JILLIAN NACHTIGAL
Photography by YUVIE STYLES
The Madison Hotel at 1159 North Madison Avenue stands as a quiet but significant relic of Dallas’ past. Originally constructed in 1926 as The Wesley Inn, this two-story brick hotel has seen nearly a century of life, from its humble beginnings to whispers of intrigue surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
When Proxy Properties owner AJ Ramler purchased the property in 2022, he knew it would be a challenging project.
“I actually looked at it many, many years ago, but didn’t have the resources to be able to do it,” Ramler says. “Then someone else bought it, and I heard it caught on fire.”
Ramler called the owner to inquire about buying the property. It was barely worth more than the land itself due to the condition of the building.
“It was in really bad shape,” Ramler says. “But we hit the ground running. We kept all the original layout. The whole reason we’re in this business is because we like fixing the whole building. There’s a gazillion ways to make more money if we go up to Dallas North Tollway and do real estate up there, but we like working down here, because it’s fun.”
Proxy’s other current projects include the Oak Cliff Assembly and the restoration of the Oak Cliff Methodist Church. The real estate firm focuses on redevelopment and adaptive reuse projects that contribute to the community.
The Madison Hotel has plenty of history. By the 1930s, ownership of the hotel had changed several times, and it wasn’t until Alice Carter took over in 1939 that the property gained some stability.
Carter had experience managing properties, and after the sudden death of her husband, returned to Dallas to take on the challenge of running The Madison Hotel. Under her stewardship, the hotel thrived as a haven for single women and young professionals, particularly during the years following World War II. Alice was known for fostering a sense of community among her tenants, many of whom stayed long-term.
Perhaps one of the most intresting aspects of The Madison Hotel’s extensive history lies in its possible connection to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. FBI files suggest that Lee Harvey Oswald may have stayed at the hotel in the days leading up to the event in November 1963. The hotel’s proximity to key locations Oswald frequented brought it under investigation, adding a layer of mystery to the hotel’s history.
Despite the building being nearly 100 years old, never renovated, and having caught on fire, Ramler never lost the vision to restore it to the way it once was.
“I really wanted to try and keep like this crazy feeling with the super long corridor that’s a little
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Jen Stevens, David Cervantes and AJ Ramler are part of the team that helped revive the Madison into a flourishing and functioning hotel in Oak Cliff.
skinnier than you would normally see, and the rooms are all different shapes and sizes,” Ramler says. “It kind of feels almost Old Western a little bit. And I really kind of fell in love with that aspect of it. We have an awesome designer, and it was a gift to have someone so talented working on the team.”
That designer is Jen Stevens of Founde Interiors. At no point did she take this project lightly.
“The first thing we did was a walkthrough, and I just got such a sense of excitement from the space. You could just feel the history in there,” Stevens says. “We went to a bunch of local places in Dallas and then tried to kind of distill what it is that they like about it. I think I understood the assignment — moody, you know, kind of cigar bar lounge, but also in a period-appropriate way that makes sense with the age of the building.”
Ramler says that during this outing, they all named three things they do and don’t like design-wise in each place, which gave Stevens the tools she needed to create a design idea.
“A couple of months later, we sat around a table and she was like, ‘This is what I want to do,’ and it was wild, because I just agreed about everything. She just nailed it,” Ramler says.
Stevens was all about the project, and she collected over 300 pieces of found art to make it all come together.
‘I just personally have a big penchant for historic architecture and just history in general, and antiques, so I kind of tend to gravitate towards work like that,” Stevens says. “So when I got connected with AJ, I knew it was such a good fit for me. It’s such a beautiful space, and we’re so thankful and grateful to have the opportunity to bring it back to its glory.”
The 27-room Madison Hotel has been submitted for state and federal historic landmark status and will now operate as a typical hotel. In August, Ramler said about 40 people had stayed so far.
“We have a bunch of bookings in September and October, all the way up till next June,” Ramler says. “It’s gonna be really great. We don’t want to be mistaken for an Airbnb, we’re a hotel.”
H A TOIR STAY
Pressed Roots offers blowouts for textured hair
Story by JILLIAN NACHTIGAL
Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
Pressed Roots in Trinity Groves was developed as a solution for those who have trouble finding quality care for their textured hair.
PIERSTEN GAINES WAS NEVER A HAIRSTYLIST, BUT AFTER ENOUGH SALON HORROR STORIES, SHE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
“I actually went completely bald a couple of times,” Gaines says. “And it happened at salons, like people just didn’t know how to care for my hair.”
Pressed Roots is “a haven for your hair.” Specializing in textured hair, the salon is all about 4C, 3A, fine loops and tight curls. The team learns, nourishes and presses tresses to perfection in a thoughtfully cultivated space.
Gaines thought she was alone in her experience until she got to college, where she found that a lot of women who have textured hair face the same struggles.
“About 50% of women who have textured hair experience hair loss at some point in their life,” Gaines says. “There’s just not a lot of education in cosmetology school around textured hair.”
In business school, Gaines learned about different blowout bar concepts and thought about how some people can walk into a salon and trust somebody to do their hair, because she had never had that.
“I was learning a lot about people starting businesses, and the businesses that we see were created by people who saw an opportunity and saw that there was something missing,” she says. “They saw that there was a problem they wanted to solve.”
“ EVERYBODY NEE DS THIS. THIS NEEDS TO BE EVERYWHERE .”
She started with pop-ups during business school to see if the concept was something that people would actually pay for and if she could bring it to life. The pop-ups lasted for about two years until she was able to open the first Pressed Roots location in Oak Cliff.
Pressed Roots offers a welcoming environment with a clean aesthetic to make customers feel at home.
“Every time we did a pop-up, it was sold out,” Gaines says. “I was trying to test the model, but also raise money to open a store, and it was hard.”
Pressed Roots’ interior features a posh aesthetic with muted tones of pink and brown. The decor is feminine, with rounded edges and natural materials.
Working at Pressed Roots comes with an abundance of training, because Gaines is determined to get it right.
“Training is a huge component of our business, and that’s what sets us apart,” Gaines says. “We do a very intense training for people. Before anyone serves a Pressed Roots guest, they go through an intensive boot camp at Pressed Roots where they learn everything about textured hair.”
From learning about different textures, what products to use, how much heat and how much tension to use, Pressed Roots employees can only get on the floor if they know everything there is to know about textured hair.
Employees also get continued education throughout their time at Pressed Roots.
The salon offers several different services including a signature silk blowout, a hydrating spa package, a mini press, a private press and an express smoothing treatment.
After initially opening a location in Oak Cliff, Pressed Roots has expanded to Arlington, Houston and Plano.
“We’re providing something that, the accessibility, the quality hasn’t existed before for this demographic, and it’s really exciting,” Gaines says. “Everybody needs this. This needs to be everywhere. That’s what drives me is we’re getting DMs or emails every day, like, we really need you in this city. We really need you in Denver. We really need you in Seattle. We really need you in New York.”
For Gaines, seeing the joy on her customer’s faces is the most rewarding part of her job.
“After you get your hair done, you just feel like a new person. You feel like you can take on the world. You have a new pep in your step,” Gaines says. “We opened the first location in 2020 and still, every time I see a customer after their appointment and they look in the mirror and they just look happy, that never gets old.”
for eight years,
After clowning
Ely Sellers has turned to teaching the craft at Flop School of Clown.
PUT ON A SMILE
A night of laughter and melancholy at Flop School of Clown
Story by SIMON PRUITT
Photography by VICTORIA GOMEZ
Aside from the box of red noses, bag of un-blown-up balloons and untied shoes kicked to the floor that look to be a size 25, Ely Sellers is standing in an empty room. In two hours, those rubber noses will be fastened to human noses, those balloons will be blown up, and the shoes will be laced, tied and prancing around during whatever game Sellers has his students playing.
In two hours, this empty room at Soar Creative Studios becomes the Flop Clown School, where Sellers and his teaching partner, Patricia Dos Santos, educate students in the history, practice and philosophy of the clown. The education starts early today though, because his first student, a curious writer from the Oak Cliff Advocate, is already here, and class is now in session.
“You say to a clown, go from A to B,” Sellers explains. “The clown says, ‘Okay,’ and goes over to C.”
To Sellers, this is the essence of the clown. Subvert expectations at all times, and get the audience to pay attention to each step in your journey to doing so. It’s something of a lifetime project for the 44-year-old, who’s owned the “clown” label for quite some time.
“I was a class clown, willing to do anything to get a laugh,” he recalls. “I was avoiding getting bullied. It’s better for them to think I’m funny than weird, right?”
In high school, Sellers turned to music, playing guitar and drums in various local bands. He would invite thespians to act out scenes in front of the stage as he played, and eventually bringing on clowns to perform alongside him. The interest was immediate, in 2017, he acted on it.
He signed up for Circus Freaks, a now-closed clown school that used the same space as the Flop School of Clown.
“My first day in there, they put me through the shit, and I loved it,” Sellers says. “I kept going back and they used to ask me, ‘Are you a crazy person? You just walked in here off the street?’ I didn’t realize at the time, but they were complimenting me. I realized I was a clown my whole life.”
In those first few classes, Sellers was singled out to perform solo comedy in front of a crowd of more experienced regulars. It took a learning curve, but his teeth-cutting paid off with more and more laughs each day.
Circus Freaks didn’t make it out of the pandemic, leaving a clown school-sized hole in Dallas. That’s where Dos Santos came in, and right about when she entered the building for the 5 p.m. interview, 15 minutes late.
She’s a veteran clown of 20 years, first learning the trade while in university in Brazil, her native country. When she’s not a clown, she tends to be accompanied by her 17-year-old son, Kim, who helps translate for her. But when she is, everything is fluid. Facial expressions, props and a healthy physicality communicate everything Dos Santos needs to get across with ease.
“The world is different,” she says. “You need to live in a box. You need to pay bills. You have to have a system. The clown has another.”
With clowning being such a niche, I asked when they felt comfortable enough in their skills to start teaching beginners.
“When? Or what I felt?” Dos Santos asked for clarification.
“Both,” I said.
Sellers let out a chuckle. I didn’t understand why, but then I realized.
Dos Santos’ question gave me two options, an A or a B. I said both. I said C. Was the clown indoctrination working?
WHAT’S GOING ON WITH …?
To Sellers and Dos Santos, clowning is a form of artistic expression. How must it feel to think of something as so beautiful, yet it’s one of many people’s biggest fears?
“When you say clown, they think ‘HONK HONK,’” Sellers says with a flourish of his arms and sounds that couldn’t be made into onomatopoeia. “Those are kind of aggressive, they get really close really fast. Society thinks typically. There’s certain areas where people aren’t awake to possibilities of different kinds of clown.”
But what are the possibilities of different kinds of clown?
Flop specializes in theatrical clown, a more traditional, European style of clowning that bears similarities to the court jesters of olde. The theatrical clown is expression and character oriented, with many students coming to study for upcoming auditions in standard acting roles.
Similar to theatrical, red nose clowning evokes a similar dramatic turn of the clown. The nose is often referred to as a mask, the world’s smallest mask, or the neutral mask, all of which enable the clown to separate themselves from the character.
Influential French acting teacher Jacques Lecoq is famously quoted on this technique, saying “The neutral mask is a way of understanding performance, not a way of performing.”
Theatrical and red nose clowning are older forms of the medium. Contemporary clowning is probably most people’s image of a clown. This form can involve entirely different methods, with a focus on up-close audience interaction, ripe for nightmares.
“I want the students to realize what kind of clown they are,” Sellers says. “I can’t give them any answers, but I can help them.”
Sellers helps guide the budding clowns on their journey with a set of interactive games played during classes.
“I got ‘Sneaky Freeze,’ ‘Mirrors,’ ‘Bug Funeral,’ ‘Go For A Ride,’ ‘Meet In The Park,’ ‘Pose/Repose,’ ‘Where Are You At? There You Are,’ ‘Sing and Look,’ that’s where you could sing or do poetry and you have to look at everyone. If you’re not looking at them, then they slowly raise a ping pong ball and if the ping
pong ball gets above their head, then they throw it at you. ‘Expressions,’ we do different expressions. ‘Bus Stop,’ is fun. It gives everyone a chance to rotate in different characters. They’re all on a bus stop and when I’ll be the bus driver, and I’m like, ‘honk honk’ and then I take one or two of them with me and drop a couple off. It’s a lot of fun. ‘Invisible String,’ ‘Woosh,’ that’s the woosh ball, you know woosh then zap. It’s a weird one. ‘Jump Rope,’ ‘Circle Jump,’ ‘Opposites,’ it’s just weird stuff.”
For a myriad of games, Sellers and Dos Santos take turns leading the students, creating the ultimate teaching yin and yang.
“I’m a stranger, I’m not American,” Dos Santos says. “But I’m very comfortable with him.”
“She’s the funniest one. We were all on stage, and supposed to be doing something, and Patricia gets distracted by someone in the crowd and goes over to the table,“ Sellers recounts. “I’m just like, ‘This is the best part of the show,’ I just want to see it happen.”
When they’re not teaching, the two still make plenty of time to perform. Dos Santos just wrapped up a brief theater tour in South Korea, while Sellers played at an all-clown comedy night at the Stomping Ground Comedy Theater.
Enough talking about old performances, their latest is just about to start. There’s a group of about 10 waiting just outside the door for the scheduled Wednesday night class to begin. The two put on their noses, blow up the balloons and lace their shoes, before greeting their pupils for the evening.
The teachers ask the 10 to sit around in a circle and start getting to know each other before launching into games. Just a few minutes into this, an eleventh arrives and takes her seat in the circle. Sellers decides she should kick things off, and asks her the question that he always starts his lessons with.
“What is the meaning of a clown?” Sellers asks.
She looks puzzled.
“Is this the diva dance class?” she asks.
“No, this is clown school.” Sellers responds.
“Well I can do that too. I’m a nurse, I do that every day.” she says.
The room erupts with laughter. Maybe she’s been a clown her whole life.
Pad kee mow with chicken, Lao sausage, shrimp spring rolls, and yellow curry with chicken and shrimp are among some classic Thai and Lao items on Ly Food Market’s menu.
FROM LAOS, WITH LOVE
Ly Food Market spices up Oak Cliff
Story by JILLIAN NACHTIGAL | Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
LY FOOD MARKET IN SOUTH OAK CLIFF HAS BECOME THE HUB FOR LAO CULTURE IN DALLAS.
Run by the Southammavong family, the hole-in-the-wall store situated in a strip mall in Cockrell Hill is the source of some of Dallas’ best Thai and Lao food.
While the city has plenty of stereotypical pad Thai and curries, the Southammavong family recipes are hugely flavorful and unique, bringing the spicy kick of Lao as the family-run business has its roots in Laos. Dishes are served from a small window in the back of the market, but customers order at the cash register in the front grocery section.
The store is run by owner Kam and his wife Ly, the chef, and their four sons. One of them, Phillip, is the manager.
“We tend to focus on introducing people to our food,” Phillip says. “Lao food is kind of unknown. People would ask what it is, and I would say it’s similar to Thai food.”
On top of its hot food, Ly is a wellstocked Southeast Asian grocery store with a diverse selection of Vietnamese, Thai and Lao pantry goods. The store is small but mighty, and is a perfect place to stock up on noodles, seasonings, sauces and snacks.
After relocating to DFW from Los Angeles in 2006, the Southammavong’s opened Ly Food Market 12 years ago. Since then, they have grown organically solely based on their quality food and customer service.
“We were doing grocery store stuff first, and then eventually we started doing food to get people to come in,” Phillip says. “It’s funny, because a lot of people were always like, ‘Hey, I just walked by your store and I just smelled the food coming out. I had to stop by and see what’s going on.’”
While Laotian food, like the Laotian language and culture, has many similarities to its Thai counterpart, it also has some significant differences.
Thai dishes often need to be
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simmered for hours at a time, while Laotian foods can be prepared far more quickly. Thai dishes often have a coconut milk base, whereas it is more typical for Laotian food to use a type of fermented fish paste called padaek. Thai food is also most often served with white rice, while Laotian food is usually accompanied by sticky rice.
These fresh dishes began to grow the business, and that’s how Ly has become what it is today.
Phillip says they have never used or relied on advertising for their store, and word of mouth paired with social media has been enough to bring them success.
“We never liked the idea of paying for advertising,” Phillip says. “We relied on good word of mouth at first, but then social media was on the rise, so Facebook, Instagram and occasionally TikTok played a part in that.”
On top of that, Ly has overwhelming positive reviews online which has helped to keep business steady.
The store offers daily specials on popular dishes such as pad thai, fried rice, pad see ew, pho or curry. Their traditional Lao dishes include Lao sausage, beef larb and sen khao piak.
“We try to keep the price low, and we don’t want to get fancy and spend a lot more money,” Kam says. “We want to open people’s hearts and minds into learning other cultures.”
The family desires to be the go-to spot in Dallas for the best Thai and Lao food.
“We want to make something that people recognize,” Kam says. “When you want Thai food, you go to Ly. When you want Lao food, you go to Ly.”
Ly Food Market , 4440 W Illinois Avenue, 214.330.9616
Ly Food Market’s shrimp pad thai offers a traditional taste of Thailand while their beef larb — chopped beef in thai lime dressing with red onion, bell pepper, fresh lemongrass, cilantro, scallion and roasted rice powder — offers a traditional Lao flavor.
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GRIDIRON GLORY
How South Oak Cliff established themselves as one of the best high school football teams in the state, boosting academic success along the way
JILLIAN NACHTIGAL
When Jason Todd arrived at South Oak Cliff as a coach in 2014, it was what Principal Willie Johnson called a “shitshow.”
With a grass field that flooded every time it rained, a disaster of a locker room, outdated facilities, and a pitiful weight room, the SOC Golden Bears football team was doing the best they could with what they had.
“The building was in shambles,” Todd says. “Everything just needed to be renovated, remodeled, completely torn down, to be honest.”
The team was never below average. In Todd’s first year as an assistant coach, SOC made it to the fourth round of the playoffs where they lost to the eventual champions. Since then, they had been a fairly consistent second-round team, but never were able to finish the job.
Renovations on the school finally began, and things got even harder.
“We just had to find different ways,” Todd, who is now the head coach, says. “The nights were long because we had to bus to different stadiums around the city. Those kids really bought into just the hard work principles.”
And when the renovations were done and the team was awaiting a brand new turf field and fancy new facilities, COVID hit.
“So you go through two and a half years of all that transition and moving, you finally get home, and then it’s a national disaster that happens,” Todd says. “What you thought you were going to be doing, it changed completely. We weren’t even having school. Everything was remote. So then you lost the interaction with the kids, which was another setback.”
That season was shortened due to the pandemic, and the team ended up falling in the second round of the playoffs. But that was part of the turning point.
“We were up with 18 seconds left, the other team returned the kick,” Todd says of that game. “That loss was kind of our rally cry going forward into the future.”
NEW LOOK
After working so hard with limited resources, things took off when the team finally had facilities that accommodated the level of play they were trying to reach. And when the pandemic calmed down, of course.
The school’s major renovation project was completed in 2020 where approximately 90% of the school was renovated and a pair of additions totaling approximately 60,000 square feet were built.
The renovation included a 2,000-seat competition gym/storm shelter, new administrative offices, an expanded cafeteria, remodeled weight and locker rooms, new roofing, and interior and exterior renovations throughout the campus.
“When we were having to bus to different locations, the kids wouldn’t get home till 10 p.m., 10:30 p.m., but they were still competing,” Principal Johnson says. “We didn’t even have a home practice field, but we were still building.”
Going through that rough time of transition ended up making SOC even stronger.
“All that work kind of carried over when we came back and everything fell back into place,” Todd says. “We came back to a turf field, new locker rooms, new weight room. Everything was modified and kind of evened up the playing field a little bit.”
The improvements made things a bit more attainable for SOC, which had already established a culture of hard work and discipline.
“The one thing I always said is that it’s been consistent, no matter from what we didn’t have to what we do have now, it’s always been about the kids and hard work,” Todd says. “We’ve always had our foundation of hard work.”
CHAMPIONS
The 2021-22 season for the Golden Bears changed everything.
“We’re consistent in what we do, we kind of always believe in doing what puts them in the best position,” Todd says. “Football is a trend game. People follow trends. What we try to stick with is we get trendy with some things we do, but we stick with old school principals — running the football, playing great defense and playing special teams. You know, if we can do those three things, we have a chance to win and be successful.”
In their first championship season, SOC played competitively against Duncanville during their non-district slate, which showed them the potential they truly had. The Duncanville Panthers were, and still are, one of the best 6A schools in the state as they won back-to-back titles in 2022 and 2023.
“We felt like, man, we have a chance to be really good,” Todd says.
The season was building up to Aledo, the powerhouse in 5A.
“We were able to pull [the Aledo] game out, and once we won that game, the kids just felt like there’s nobody that could beat us,” Todd
I would say the first year was more like being in a sports car. We were just on the highway, just cruising with it. The second year we were more in the ATV type of ride. It was more bumpy. People gunning for you. You got to overcome some injuries and different things like that. So the second year was more bumpy, but we got to the same destination.
says. “Now, it was more of a mental thing. We got over that hump. The only way we lose this thing going forward is if we just slip up and don’t prepare for somebody.”
The team battled their way through the playoffs and made it to the championship, where they defeated Liberty Hill 23-14 for their first state title in school history. With this win, SOC became the first Dallas ISD school to win a state championship in football since 1950.
The team went on to win their second consecutive state championship in 2022 by defeating the Port Neches-Groves Indians 34-24, becoming the first Dallas ISD high school to win back-to-back football state championships.
“Once you’ve actually been into a place and walked into a particular place that you know how the rooms look, you know how to maneuver yourself through it,” Todd says of their second championship.
But getting there wasn’t quite as easy as the year prior.
“It wasn’t the same type of ride,” Todd says. “I would say the first year was more like being in a sports car. We were just on the highway, just cruising with it. The second year we were more in the ATV type of ride. It was more bumpy. People gunning for you. You got to overcome some injuries and different things like that. So the second year was more bumpy, but we got to the same destination.”
Last season, the Golden Bears cruised to the championship game yet again, but fell to Port Neches-Grove in a controversial championship game. Principal Johnson joked that they “got cheated.”
In a rematch of the previous year’s title game, PNG scored a late touchdown to beat SOC.
Before that touchdown drive, PNG, trailing 17-12, recovered an onside kick at SOC’s 47-yard line. SOC seemingly stopped PNG on 3rd-and-11, but SOC was penalized for pass interference and that moved PNG up to the two. The call drew plenty of boos from the SOC side of the stadium.
But the team is not dwelling on the loss, Todd says. They are taking it as a lesson.
“PNG actually performed better and they coached better than we did in the fourth quarter, and they came out victorious,” Todd says. “They were the better team at the end of the day. And you know what we got to do is rebound and say, okay, that loss, that’s a lesson. We’re going to learn from that and use it to prepare us for the next time when we’re in that moment again.”
AN IMPETUS OF CHANGE
The success of the football program influences the entire school, Principal Johnson says.
SOC is on the map, and the students have pride.
“For three years in a row we’ve played from before school to semester break,” Johnson says. “It’s ingrained in our culture. We believe that we can win athletically and academically. It’s infectious, so everyone wants to be the winner. The teachers, of course, are not on the field, but they can win in their classrooms. So it raised the expectation for our whole staff.”
When Johnson first got to the school, the student population was at about 800. It has now grown to 1,600.
“Our kids are coming back. They don’t go to the suburb schools. They don’t go to the charter schools,” Johnson says. “It’s a culture shift, and it’s intentional. We’re in the papers, we’re downtown, we’re in the lights, we’re at the airport, we’re everywhere. People want to see that. They want to be a part of that.”
Academically, the growing student population has also stepped up.
”When you start talking about 1,600 kids at a school built for 1,350 and they’re performing at a B level, that’s unheard of,” Johnson says.
Johnson first started as a coach for SOC in 1992. This was his first school, and he’s been here to see it grow and thrive throughout the years.
When Johnson was coaching, the team never made it past one or two rounds. Seeing his team win championships is a pleasure, and Johnson is on the sidelines at every game.
“No one ever predicted that South Oak Cliff, the African American inner-city school, would be in three consecutive state championship games and win two,” Johnson says. “It’s been a transformation, and it’s infectious. We’re winners here, and everyone wants to be champions. That is why the football team is the impetus of change.”
CONTINUING THE LEGACY
First home matchup of 2024. Duncanville, the reigning 6A Division I Champions. SOC is coming off a shutout loss to North Shore, 35-0. Duncanville has won this matchup the last five years.
Damond WIlliams flips the field on the first play as he runs 46 yards to the Panthers 29 yard line. Quarterback Carter Kopecky throws a series of incomplete passes and the Golden Bears settle for a field goal on the first drive.
SOC draws first blood. Not the ideal outcome, but promising for playing against the reigning 6A champions. All the little victories count when you’re playing at the caliber of SOC.
A Duncanville receiver is wrapped up on an open tackle on their first play for a gain of two as the SOC defense begins to flex its muscles. The defense was victorious as Duncanville was forced to punt on their first possession.
Mikail Trotter takes after WIlliams as he rushes for 44 yards, but the Golden Bears ultimately settle for a field goal attempt. Wide right. Duncanville scores on the next drive and SOC will need to step it up.
Unfortunately, the Golden Bears’ efforts fell short as the Panthers took control of the game and cruised to a 34-12 win.
But it wasn’t a total loss for SOC. They have established a tradition of scheduling a very difficult non-district slate. By squaring off against the best squads in the state, they see what they are truly capable of and where the gaps are.
“We feel like we play the most physical schedule, probably in the state of Texas,” Todd says. “When you see North Shore, that’s probably the most physically dominant team that’s coming out [of] Houston for the last 10 years. When we play Duncanville, that’s the most dominant team that’s coming out of DFW. And then when you look at Longview in East Texas, that’s the most consistent, dominant, physical football team coming out of East Texas.”
The first three games are a challenge before gearing up for their district matchups, the ones that truly matter in terms of playoffs. Todd says nobody else is as physical as the teams they play in the first three matchups.
“Once we figure that out, and I see how we adjust to that, I know going forward, nobody won’t be able to kind of replicate what I’m seeing at these first three games,” Todd says. “We throw them in the fire.”
Kopecky came to the school as a sophomore when the team won its first championship. He trusted that he would get his turn at quarterback, and his time has come. For him, losing the championship game again is not an option.
“The feeling after that game, I don’t want to do that again,” Kopecky says. “Losing. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I hate it more than I like winning.”
Handling the pressure as the quarterback for one of the best teams in the state is no easy feat, but Kopecky says he relies on the confidence gained from practice.
“The way I look at it is, I’m just playing the game I love with a bunch of guys that also love the sport. So we go out there and just show off,” Kopecky says. “When we practice five days a week it’s just routine at this point, like we practice against the best of the best in our defense. So when it comes game time, it’s nothing new.”
LIFE OF THE TRAIL
We had lived in Stevens Park Estates for over 30 years, but it wasn’t until I had surgery that I began walking the Coombs Creek Trail every day. At first, I walked just for the exercise, but I quickly discovered the other joys to be gained from walking the trail.
The Coombs Creek Trail begins underground west of Jefferson, surfaces just east of Davis and then runs east until it empties into the Trinity River. The trail follows and parallels the creek from Davis to the Trinity, passes through and around the Stevens Park Golf Course and then follows the Kessler Parkway through treelined areas.
In the parkway’s open spaces, large and mature trees make the area home to a wide variety of birds and wild animals. Hawks, owls and other birds of prey live here as well as many different varieties of songbirds. Raccoons, opossums, squirrels, coyotes, foxes, even beavers, all make their homes in the creek. It’s amazing that although we are only five miles from the center of Dallas, we still have quite a lot of nature to spot, hear and enjoy.
The real joy of walking the trail, though, has been the many people I’ve met and gotten to know on my walks. Young and old, men, women, boys, girls, and babies in strollers. People running or walking; out with their kids or with their dogs. You get to know them.
For the most part the dogs are well behaved. I came close to being bitten once — and the dog was on a leash. A rather large dog broke away from the boy who was walking him, jumped at me and tried to bite me. Fortunately, I was wearing some very baggy sweatpants and all the dog got was pants and not me.
You see the highs and lows of life on the trail. All the dog owners who have walked the trail with their pets have developed a great bond of love and affection, so when a pet passes it can be the same as a loved one passing. We have had several people go into a notable depression after losing a pet. It isn’t until they get another pet and get back on the trail that they can return to their old self again. All of this plays out on the trail.
Texas seasons also play a big role in the life of the trail. Hot summer months…walkers and runners move their schedules to early morning just before or just after sunrise as that is the coolest time of day. Fall…the heat retreats and walkers and runners hit the trail later in the morning, later in the afternoon or evening after work. Winter months see walkers later in the day because it’s warmer then.
There’s always something to see on the trail. Look for future articles on the subject, or better yet, check out Life of the Trail for yourself.
Illustrations
by George Peters
The stories of Coombs Creek Trail
Story by MONTY AYERS
HALLOWEEN AT HOME
Inside the Kessler Park home turned Halloween wonderland
Story by DANIEL ROCKEY | Photography by KATHY TRAN
Our homes transform and change throughout the year. They’re a reflection of our daily habits, our personalities and beliefs.
While Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years tend to take the majority of our decorating efforts throughout the year, Laura Hagan focuses on the spookiest holiday of them all, Halloween. Where others may set out a jack-o’lantern or maybe a few ghost decals — she has spent the last 30 years building up an army of spiders, skeletons, and all manner of horror decor.
While many of us enjoy hanging a few cobwebs, Hagan’s devotion to Halloween goes far beyond the ordinary.
A longtime resident of Kessler Park, she has amassed a collection of decorations so large that it must be contained in its storage unit for the other 11 months of the year. Come October, though, all limits are off, and she spends about two full weeks shuttling her decor into her home to bring her vision to life.
“I love fall, and it’s a huge part of fall for me,” Hagan says. “I love dressing up for Halloween. I love the scary movies, and I just like getting to have the experience of living Halloween in my house and a reminder of the season every day.”
It’s not just for the trick-or-treaters though — although they certainly enjoy it — it’s just for her love of the holiday, through and through.
“I totally do it for me.” Hagan laughs. “Some years I have a Halloween party, but a lot of years I haven’t. It’s 100% for my enjoyment on the inside.”
The first indication of Hagan’s obsession is the outside. An array of tombstones litters the yard, draped in cobwebs and bathed in purply blue light that gives the entire scene an eerie glow. Ghosts peek through windows, rattling chains click across handrails, and it’s all tied together with flickering jack-o’-lanterns lining the walkways. But it’s when you first take a step inside that the full extent of Hagan’s Halloween spirit becomes clear.
The front door opens into a living room that has been completely overtaken by Halloween decor. Black cat statues perch on her mantle, underneath them a crackling fire licks around a stone skull. Cobwebs cover every surface they possibly could, and a mummy hangs upside down from the ceiling, looming over all guests.
This isn’t, however, some cheap House of Horrors. Hagan has taken the time to actually decorate and make cohesive scenes that come to life without the sense of unease. Hagan knows this feeling very acutely, saying, “It’s not a haunted house. It’s Halloween decorations, but it’s not scary.” It’s much more a “Tim Burton Goes to Pottery Barn” than a true horror show.
No surface is left untouched. A glass cabinet near the entrance might house some cut china pumpkin plates, but a quick look closer reveals that they share the space with severed fingers resting in wine glasses. It’s this blend of kitsch and macabre that sets Hagan’s home apart.
As Hagan points around to all the different objects, she remarks on how it all came to be.
“When I was thinking back on it, it was like the first Halloween items that I got, I started collecting them from Pier One. And then Target started doing more Halloween, and the next year I started buying their stuff,” she says. “It just started with a couple items, then I got more and more.”
Even the bathroom doesn’t escape the full Halloween treatment. As odd as it sounds, the bathroom wound up being one of her favorite spots in the home to decorate. The scene inside is one of ritualistic horror with fake blood streaking across the mirror with strange runes and candles forming a circle around the tub, inside which is a human-shaped body bag.
Every inch of the house feels completely alive with Halloween energy, and every turn reveals something new, right down to the bloodied butcher knives dangling from the kitchen ceiling, and a massive silk and paper spider stretching its legs over the dining table.
Hagan, of course, embraces the theatricality of it all. Each year, she puts on her costume to match her home’s haunted style. While she may get a bit of help and direction here and there from friends and family, the vision is uniquely her own.
After living in this home for over 20 years, her collection has only grown larger and more elaborate with each passing year. Hagan remarks that one of her favorite items in the entire assortment is a set of black vases.
“My mom bought me some black McCoy vases,” she says. “She didn’t buy them for me for Halloween, she just knew that I liked black. I found a way to really utilize them with my decorations, and now that my mom has passed away, it’s like she’s a part of my Halloween decorations.”
Although this was to be Hagan’s last Halloween in this house — she’s moving to a new space — she’s already planning her next big decorating project. She’s enthusiastic about having some new spots and spaces to fill. Wherever she goes, one thing is certain: Halloween will follow.
Each year, Kessler Park neighbor Laura Hagan spends about two full weeks decorating her home for Halloween.
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