2019 February Oak Cliff

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LUPE VALDEZ

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CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2019 VOL.13 NO.2

UP FRONT 6 Up Front: Lupe Valdez 10 Spotlight: Boxing trainer Derrick James 14 Food: Taco y Vino

FEATURE 16 By the numbers: The Advocate rounded up some cool stats on Oak Cliff.

COVER PHOTO BY DANNY FULGENCIO

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EVENTS

FEB. 9

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO

Oak Cliff made the lead sentence of an October story in the New Yorker about Alejandro Escovedo’s new album, “The Crossing.” Escovedo, who calls our neighborhood home when he’s not on the road, “crafted a rock-and-roll epic poem,” Salon wrote in September. Catch the home stop of “The Crossing” tour with the band Don Antonio opening.

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Flex your drinking agility while stretching those shopping muscles at first Thursday wine walk. Buy a glass (it’s cheaper in advance) and make your way through the shops for pours and bites. $15$25

Now is the time to join the six-month David Foster Wallace book club, which is moving on to his essays and short stories, with a group reading of “Infinite Jest” beginning this summer. Free

The SNL alumnus and star of “Portlandia,” also a rockand-roll drummer, arrives in Oak Cliff bringing “Comedy for Musicians But Everyone is Welcome,” a show that describes itself. $38

Fabric artist/poet Jas. Mardis and calligrapher Andrea Tosten present “Written and Witnessed,” fabric and paper quilting works, up through March 29. Free

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Calligraphy and quilting

Where: Oak Cliff Cultural Where: The Texas Theatre, 231

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UP FRONT L UP E GE T S MAD Former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez ran for governor because somebody had to do it 

Interview by RACHEL STONE / Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

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upe Valdez moved to Oak Cliff in 1980. She lived on Ravinia Drive and Ivandell before moving to North Edgefield in about 1992. “I bought quite economically because it was so drug infested in the ’90s. It wasn’t about schools and families and children like it is now,” she says. “I always said, ‘I have a dog, and I have a gun.’ The dog will let me know you’re coming, and I’ll greet you.” Valdez, 71, worked as a jailer and then a federal agent before she was elected to Dallas County Sheriff in 2005. She was the first woman, the first Latina and the first lesbian to hold the office. Last year, she ran as a Democrat for governor of Texas, losing to Republican incumbent Greg Abbott, although Valdez had more than 3.5 million votes. She and her partner, Urban Hippie Chiropractic owner Lindsay Browning, recently renovated and moved into a smaller house next door to their old one.

Why did you run for governor? I wanted to lead Texas. The leader is the one who changes the tone and direction. When I was sheriff, I led the department, and other people changed it. In my naïve way, I wanted to do the same thing for Texas. What are you proud of as Dallas County Sheriff? When I took over the Sheriff ’s Department, it was a good-ol’-boys club. And we changed it. We changed from hatred to respect. If you could see a picture I have that shows the showers in the jail before and now. They were grody. It gives you a visual of what I took over. It was a mess. Our mentally challenged folks, all they were doing was being held. Nothing was being done for them. They had an obsession with their body systems, so they would urinate and poop all over themselves, and there was nobody there to run in and clean it up. If you walked into the first floor, you could smell it up on the eighth floor. We made teams to clean [the jail] up over four or five years. Within 10 years, it wasn’t even the same jail. The department had some corruption. The Sheriff ’s Department had people making a lot of money, and they were not working. They were taking care of their friends and themselves. I sent correctional officers to a correctional officers conference, and they were amazed because they never got to go before. The heads always went, and all they wanted to do was party. The conference didn’t mean anything to them. A privileged few got everything — hunting trips, five or six conferences a year. Why are we taking care of 10-to-12 people, and there’s 800 more that need help, that need to fix a jail that’s unsanitary?

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“Texas is huge. Why couldn’t I have run for governor of Vermont or Rhode Island?”

How did that experience shape your run for governor? I saw the same things happening at the state level that I encountered here. Texas has 4.3 million people without health insurance. Texas is the most uninsured state in the United States. Our public education system is suffering because they keep taking money away from local schools. And look at what some of [Abbott’s] buddies are doing. They’re getting richer by the minute because they’re taking contracts from him. I saw all of this, and I said, “If I can do this for the Sheriff ’s Department, then I can do it for the State of Texas.” Why is education so important to you? Education is an equalizer. I came from the poorest neighborhood in San Antonio. Sixty years ago and even now, it’s still the poorest ZIP code in San Antonio, and I was able to make it and get out alive because of our parents. My mother figured out that education is the gateway, and she pushed my brothers and me to get our education. If we look at what our current folks are doing with education and healthcare, they’re making people rich, and they’re not helping anyone else. They keep taking away from education and dumping on the local communities, and if local communities want quality education, then your property taxes keep going up and up. Criminal justice obviously is important as well. When I was sheriff, we started so many inmate programs to help people get out of crime. Not everyone’s going to take advantage of that, but I believe that more than 70 percent of people who are in jail could be helped and rescued if we only did things differently. Jail is for people we’re afraid of, not for people we’re upset with. Too much of our modern society is vengeance.

What surprised you about running for governor? Knowing how hard I had to work to win an election in Dallas County, I had a really good idea about what was coming. A lot of people approached me and said, “You know you can’t win.” Well you can’t just sit there and do nothing. You can’t say, “We can’t win.” We got our message out so much. In the last two months, I spent a day and a half at home. Texas is huge. Why couldn’t I have run for governor of Vermont or Rhode Island? The other side won by 1 million votes, and they had more than 100 times the money. They had money to buy TV, so … I would be home, and it would say, “Colin Allred: believes in open borders and wants to raise your taxes. Too liberal for Texas.” Then I would go to Houston, and it would be, “Lizzie Fletcher: believes in open borders and wants to raise your taxes. Too liberal for Texas.” Every market, the same thing. Yet not a single one of those folks ever said, “Open borders” or “Raise your taxes.” You’ll never find it anywhere. But the [GOP] made up their own message, and they put it out. So you can’t quit. Don’t give them the opportunity of

taking over with their lies. You have to say “No, that’s not the way it is.” And you have to put light on the fact that they’re lining their pockets like you wouldn’t believe. What about your campaign are you most proud? How hard we worked. It is a journey that I’ll never regret. I met so many people who are also interested in doing the right thing. There are people out there who are not selfish and don’t just want to get rich. They want to do well, but they also want other people to do well. I had about 18 employees, mostly millennials. It gave me hope for millennials because they were such hard-working folks. We were on the road at 5 or 6 in the morning. Often our last function would last until 11 at night, so it was long days. I was so proud. I don’t like the results, but I will never regret it. What’s next for you? I have no idea. There never was a plan B. My partner decided we were going to downsize, so we went from a 3,500-square-foot house to a 1,200-square-foot house. For the past two months, I’ve been organizing and cleaning the house next door. I’m

starting to get speaking engagements, and I’m not sure what to do. I have two ideas: civility in politics, and something that will help re-entry for female inmates. About 90 percent of women who commit crime are following a man. It was all around “who’s going to take care of me?” So I started helping train them for jobs such as welding, machinists, commercial printing, stuff you can get out there and get a job. What do you do to relax? The last five years that I’ve known my partner, everything has been focused on my time. So whenever there’s any free time, it’s whatever she wants to do. She likes to hike. We go to Oak Cliff Nature Preserve, Twelve Hills Nature Center and the levees. We walk three or four miles a day with our dogs. Or, she likes to be by the sea. We just came from Costa Rica. In all fairness, it’s whatever she wants. We went to Big Bend. We went to Colorado. We’re watching movies now, too. Last week we watched movies for about four hours and ordered food in. She owns her own business, so anyone who owns a business works a lot. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. february 2019 oakcliff.advocatemag.com

SPOTLIGHT STORIES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD

PRIZED FIGHTER THE COOPER FITNESS CENTER’S DERRICK JAMES IS BOXING TRAINER TO THE STARS

Dodge.

Duck.

Nabbing some quality time for a round of questions with one of boxing’s most dynamic trainers proves as difficult as trying to land a punch on one of his fighters. James balances training blue-chip boxers with shaping white-collar celebrities as one of Dallas’ most successful fitness gurus. He’s at the chic Cooper Fitness Center in Dallas. He’s at his newly opened Derrick James World Class Boxing Gym in a repurposed warehouse along the Trinity River. He’s making calls to Dallas’ rich and famous. He’s a married father of three. After winning “Trainer of the Year” from Ring magazine in 2017, he’s now nominated for a similar award by the Boxing Writers Association of America. He’s also squeezed in time to be in the corner for one of his two champion boxers as Jermell Charlo defended his 154-pound super welterweight belt. “It’s amazing,” James says. “When I got started, I never imagined winning an award like this once, much less twice. I just grind away one day at a time and try to keep the bills paid. But now that I’m here and established, with these fighters I have coming up, maybe we’ll be talking about a three-peat next year.”

James’ career was at the crossroads of fighter and trainer when he first laid eyes on Errol Spence Jr. At a local amateur event, James noticed and noted – out loud – that the Desoto teenager was “doing the same thing over and over” and was “too predictable.” The observations resonated with Errol Spence Sr., who asked after the fight if James could help his son become a better boxer. The younger Spence is in the process of launching one of American boxing’s most promising careers. “Look at us now,” James says. “I’ve got the most talked about fighter in the world.” James worked on Spence’s fitness, craft and fundamentals, nagging the boxer about footwork, hand positioning and listening. The result? Spence made it to the 2012 Olympics in London, where he lost the bronze medal bout. He hasn’t lost since returning home and turning pro. Today he is boxing’s welterweight champion with a 24-0 record, 21 knockouts and, at 147 pounds, the reputation as one of the best fighters in the world. On March 16, Spence will make his pay-per-view debut in a fight against undefeated Mikey Garcia at AT&T Stadium. “He was already a great athlete with amazing determination and will,” James says. “I just refined him a little, pushed him past his limits — past where I ever went as a fighter.”

“Have to catch you later,” reads the text from Derrick James, responding to an interview request. “Getting on a plane.”

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Story by RICHIE WHITT february 2019

“Sorry,” says James frantically on the phone, “about to jump in the ring for training.”

Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

Bob.

Weave.

“Man, bad timing,” James says. “I have to train a client right now. Try me again later?” As a kid learning the sport at the Oak Cliff Boys Club, James never dreamed of being Errol Spence Jr.’s trainer. Because he wanted to be Errol Spence Jr. “I was going to be a fighter, not somebody’s trainer,” James says. “I wanted to make the Olympics. Win a belt. Whole thing.” The problem was he was good, but not good enough. James was a two-time Golden Gloves champion in Texas and turned pro at age 20 in 1992. He traded punches with Floyd Mayweather Jr. and rubbed elbows with Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler. He made it into the top 10 of his 168-pound weight class, but lost in the 1992 Olympic Trials and amassed a modest record of 21-7-1 in 16 years as a pro. “I gave it my all,” James says. “But I’m enjoying training more than I ever imagined I could.” In addition to his new job as director of boxing at Cooper, James took Spence Jr. and Charlo under his wing around 2009. He started renting ring time at Dallas’ Maple Avenue Boxing Gym and later at R&R Boxing on Harry Hines. On Nov. 1 James, now 46, opened his own gym. The nondescript old furniture space next to the metal junk yard may not look like much from the outside. But inside it’s home to the best trainer in boxing and two championship fighters.

“Sorry again, busy time for me,” James says. “I’ll hopefully have some time around 5 today.”

James’ client list includes Ross Perot Jr., Emmitt Smith Jr., Daryl Johnston, Clarice Tinsley, Dez Bryant and Michael Dell.

Most days for James involves the thunderous collision of heavy gloves in a musty, sweaty gym oozing testosterone. Often, it’s the faint pittypats of Parkinson’s patients, reaching out to make their pink gloves tap his hands inside his glass-encased studio. Somedays it’s both. “I’m working seven days a week,” James says. “I need the balance. I need the boxing. I need the clients. I need the reality of working with Parkinson’s patients. It gives me that humility and peace and patience I can take into the ring with me.” While the patients at Cooper use boxing to slow the decline of their motor skills due to the disease, there are also those that summon James to their house at $130 per hour and up. His client list includes: Ross Perot Jr., Emmitt Smith Jr., Daryl Johnston, Clarice Tinsley, Dez Bryant and Michael Dell. James estimates he works 12 hours a day with his base of 40-plus clients. The at-home personal training business is built on word of mouth and good experiences. “They all bring unique challenges and different goals. It keeps things interesting.”

Knockout.

“Hello, yes, now is a good time. Finally, right?” James says. “Got some time here before appointments and events and all this stuff. Shoot. Thank you for your interest in interviewing me. What’s so interesting about me?”

Above: Derrick James trains a client at the Cooper Fitness Center. His clients include professional boxers, celebrities and Parkinson’s patients. february 2019 oakcliff.advocatemag.com

to be a chore. If you find exercise to be boring or not enjoyable, then find something you enjoy. For example, if you know you do not want to be on a treadmill because it’s boring, find an enjoyable activity. Do you like being outside? Do you like to dance? If you’re OK with the treadmill but get bored with same speed, same 30 minutes, ask, “How can I change my treadmill routine? Can I do intervals? Is it safe for me to increase speed or incline?”

FIT BIT TIPS FROM A NEIGHBORHOOD FITNESS EXPERT Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

GINNIE EMMOTT is the manager of Folsom Wellness Center at Methodist Dallas Medical Center. She is also a certified exercise physiologist, and she answered some questions about fitness. What is your advice for someone who is starting with zero fitness? Get started. The first thing is to speak with your doctor about starting anything new. But aside from that, it would be just to start. If you’re currently sedentary and not really doing anything, then maybe start with a 10-minute walk. Or stand up and down from your desk chair. Anything that you start will be more than you’re currently doing if you’re sedentary. One caution is not to do too much too soon. Don’t overdo it in the beginning. Start with 10 to 20 minutes and then move on from there. How can people start to change their mindset? Ask yourself, “Have I been active today?” or “What activity have I done today?” or “When can I be active today?” Try to use the word “active” or “activity” versus “exercise” or “workout,” especially if you are one to find it

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“One caution is not to do too much too soon.”

How would you respond to someone who says they don’t have time to exercise? You can find time for what’s important to you. Anybody can find 10 minutes to do something. If you have an hour lunch, use part of it to take a walk. Instead of sitting down to watch a kid’s practice, try walking around the field. When people say that, it’s usually because they’re trying to do too much, which is understandable. What about someone who is in pretty good shape but wants to lose a little weight? Reach out to someone for advice, someone in the professional field who can give you advice. If you’ve been doing the same 30-minute walk for two months, your body is probably used to that. Of course, nutrition is a big part of weight-loss. But as far as exercise, sometimes it’s changing it up so that your body keeps guessing. Strength training is also important. If you’re not currently doing anything to strengthen your muscles and maintain your muscle mass, that plays a role in weight-loss and weight-maintenance.

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What other tips do you have for weight loss? I would encourage people who have a weight-loss goal to steer away from the everyday step on the scale and instead focus on the habit changes. Because if you’re making some healthy habit changes, then you will lose weight. That is, if you have weight to lose and without other health conditions playing a role. Looking at the scale can be discouraging because 0.5 to 2 pounds per week is healthy weight loss. What other questions do people commonly ask? As far as physique goes, it’s the tummy area and the arms. What exercises can I do for those areas? The truth is that wherever you hold your body fat, that’s where your body is going to lose it from. There’s no spot reduction. Doing 100 crunches won’t reduce your midsection any faster. That’s a misconception about how to get rid of the tummy faster. It’s a mix of total activity and taking a look at your nutrition. What is your best advice about nutrition and weight-loss? Portion control. Especially when eating out. You don’t have to say “no” to any treat you might want. But take into mind those portions — the sweets, the added sugary beverages or foods. What size portion are you eating? Also try and focus on adding the good things rather than taking away the unhealthy things. Maybe you add a couple of servings of fruits and vegetables rather than telling yourself, “I can’t have a cupcake for the rest of my life.” You’re going to end up overdoing it once you allow yourself to have it. Moderation is key.

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FOOD

TIPSY TACOS TACO Y VINO IS A TACO JOINT THAT’S ALSO A WINE BAR AND A KILLER PLACE TO HANG

BEFORE-TIMES KANYE, “The College Dropout,” blares at Taco y Vino as employees readied for lunch on a recent weekday. “Yeezy’s not the same as the old Kanye,” says co-owner Jimmy Contreras. He flipped the record and turned it down before service started and tables began filling in. The shelves of albums at the bar are part of what makes this place feel like being at a friend’s really cool house. So cool, in fact, that there are tacos and wine. “Just because of the name alone, I think half the people who come in here don’t know whether to take it seriously,” Contreras says.

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Taco Y Vino Address: 213 W. Eighth St. Hours: Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. More info: tacovinodallas.com

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“If you’re going to open a taco shop in Oak Cliff, you’ve got to be legit. You’ve got to come correct.” Contreras, a hospitality lifer who worked in corporate wine sales for years before becoming a restaurant consultant, opened Taco y Vino with a partner, chef Sharon Van Meter, in June 2018. Chef Juan Villanueva helms the kitchen, which offers a simple and unique menu of tacos that includes two vegetarian choices, fried avocado and pibil-style jackfruit. Other fillings are cochinita pibil, carnitas,

Photography by KATHY TRAN

carne asada, barbacoa, chicken tinga and catfish. There’s even a crispy taco. Villanueva resisted, but Contreras insisted. The threetaco “Tex-Mex combo” comes with one picadillo in a light crispy shell. “Now we’re thinking about doing a double-decker taco because it fell off the menu at Taco Bell,” Contreras says. “That’s the running joke right now.” We hope that’s not just a joke.

DID YOU KNOW? Taco y Vino sometimes hosts pop-ups from guest chefs on Sunday nights when they are closed.

Opposite page, clockwise from left: Tex-Mex trio, seafood-stuffed jalapeño, chicken chilaquiles and spicy tamale bites. Above: The spicy tamale bites come three to an order for $6.25, and they’re like little tamal muffins stuffed with savory pork.

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IT’S ALL IN THE NUMBERS. FROM CRIME TO REAL ESTATE TO EDUCATION, HERE’S WHAT THE STATISTICS SAY ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. BY ADVOCATE STAFF EDITED BY ELISSA CHUDWIN GRAPHICS BY ASHLEY DRAKE

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VOTING DEMOCRAT

REPUBLICAN 2016 VOTING

11.6%

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WE BROKE OUR neighborhood down to its most simplistic terms: How many we are, male versus female, how we voted, how we fair in love and other data drawn from Census data (2010 being the most recent year available) and Dallas County Voting Records. To find these numbers, we pulled from the six ZIP codes to which the Oak Cliff Advocate covers: 75233, 75224, 75208, 75211, 75203 and 75216.

SQUARE MILES: 8 DATE ANNEXED: 1903

86.77%

2018 VOTING

10.97%

POPULATION: 137,351

88.45%

MARRIED: 6,854

DIVORCED: 3,518

209 people

voted for the Green party in 2016 50.7% MALE | 49.3% FEMALE

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AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY: 77.18 YEARS

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CRIME

FROM shoplifting to sexual violence, we looked at local crime to see which are most prevalent, and how it’s shifted over the past few years. We received data from the Dallas Police Department’s Crime Analysis Unit for reported nonviolent and violent crimes in ZIP codes 75208, 75211 and 75224. The numbers encompass all crimes from Jan. 1 to Nov. 30.

2017 VIOLENT CRIME

462 71

581

NONVIOLENT CRIMES 2017

2018

2018 VIOLENT CRIME

1,301

BURGLARY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE

453

1,180

760

BURGLARY 631

631

599

582

599

OTHER THEFT

620

123

SHOPLIFTING

152

KEY 300

600

900

1200

1500

In 2017 • 37% of robberies were to businesses

Robbery Aggravated assaults

Sexual violence Murder

• 32% of aggravated assault was family violence

Sexual violence decreased by 11.3% since 2016

In 2018 • 34.2% of aggravated assault was family violence • Sexual violence was reported 71 times in 2017 and in 2018

Burglary of a motor vehicle: 1,180 burglarized in 2018

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REAL ESTATE

THE DALLAS REAL ESTATE market could be heading for a swift cool-down, some experts say. An academic report by Florida Atlantic University warned in December that Dallas and Denver, which have strong economies and rapidly increasing real estate values, are in a bubble that could burst soon. Other experts say there’s nothing to panic about as the market is expected to grow 4 percent in 2019.

TOP FIVE HOME SALES BY PRICE

ZIP CODE

75208

$1,295,000

$1,426,500

$1,450,000

$1,550,000

$1,890,000

75224

$409,000

$425,000

$495,000

$515,000

$540,000

75211

$379,000

$388,000

$410,800

$420,000

$475,000

*Multiple Listing Service, courtesy of Ron Burch of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

ZIP CODE 75208 MEDIAN SALE PRICE $395,000

ZIP CODE 75224 MEDIAN SALE PRICE $205,000

ZIP CODE 75211 MEDIAN SALE PRICE $185,000

Home values have increased almost 70% in Dallas since the recession.

HOME VALUES IN THE DALLAS AREA LAST YEAR EXCEEDED

$510 BILLION, ADDING

$14.6 BILLION

IN ONE YEAR, A RECORD GAIN.

MOST EXPENSIVE HOUSE SOLD IN OAK CLIFF WAS

$1,890,000

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DON’T THINK of clean eating as just a trendy diet. The places you eat should prepare your food correctly — with washed hands — on clean surfaces. We analyzed restaurant inspections from ZIP codes 75208, 75211 and 75224 to see how many restaurants didn’t make the grade. To see specific grades at your favorite restaurants, check out the Food Inspection Scores database on the City of Dallas website.

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF FOOD INSPECTIONS IN 2018: 1,573

FOOD INSPECTION SCORE:

• 100-80: Meets Consumer Health Division standards • 79-70: Requires follow-up inspection within 30 days • 69-60: Requires follow-up inspection within 10 days • 59 and below: Requires followup inspection within 24 hours

TOP 5 RESTAURANTS AND HOW THEY FARED We’re bringing you the food inspection scores from Oak Cliff’s best-rated restaurants on Yelp.

GRASSROOTS KITCHEN

POTPOURRI OF SILK 1,487

PICOLE POPS

CHEESESTEAK HOUSE

KOOKIE HAVEN

THE FIVE WORST RESTAURANT SCORES: MET HEALTH DIVISION STANDARDS

REQUIRED RE-INSPECTIONS

LOS 3MAS TAQUEROS

TAQUERIA LA VICTORIA

PERFECT SCORES: 25

FAILING GRADES: 15

METRO DINER

SUPER MERCADO MEXICO

REQUIRED RE-INSPECTION AND WERE NOT RE-EVALUATED WITHIN THE PROPER TIME FRAME: 63

FAILED AFTER RE-INSPECTION: 1

LA GUADALUPANA

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THE REASONS we choose the schools our children attend is difficult to quantify, but the results of our choices are evident from data we’ve collected. These numbers are based on 2010 U.S. Census data and updated with projections as of Jan. 1, 2018. Using data from the Texas Education Agency’s 2017-2018 Texas Academic Performance Report, we created a snapshot of Dallas ISD’s Sunset, Adamson, and Kimball high schools. See breakdowns for Kimball, Molina and South Oak Cliff high schools at oakcliff.advocatemag.com.

SUNSET HIGH SCHOOL

STUDENTS KEY African American

Hispanic

1,900

White

Asian & Pacific Islander Two or More Races American Indian

TOTAL ENROLLMENT: 1,983 | ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS: 1,899

STUDENTS KEY African American Hispanic

1 2

1,412

White

Asian & Pacific Islander Two or More Races American Indian

TOTAL ENROLLMENT: 1,480 | ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS: 1,364

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STUDENTS ATTENDING PUBLIC SCHOOLS

1,108 STUDENTS ATTENDING PRIVATE SCHOOLS

1% OF STUDENTS AT SUNSET HIGH ARE WHITE

66.6% OF ADAMSON’S STAFF ARE MINORITIES

ADAMSON HIGH SCHOOL

12,054

45.5% OF ADAMSON’S STAFF ARE WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES

Who will run Dallas?

Three Oak Cliffers are in the race for Dallas Mayor — current City Councilman Scott Griggs, On Target Logistics CEO and Dallas Regional Chamber chairman Albert Black Jr. and former Dallas City Attorney Larry Casto. Besides those, another six candidates from other parts of Dallas had entered the race for the May election as of press time. Get to know them during a candidate forum, sponsored by EcoLatino Radio and LULAC, at the Texas Theatre from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12.

FOR SALE IN HIGHLAND OAKS 1504 RUSSELL GLEN LN. 2150 SQFT 4 BEDS 4 BATHS 2 CAR $348,000

Enjoy yourself, Alice

One of Methodist hospital’s longestserving employees retired in January. Alice Madden started as a nurse’s aide at Methodist Dallas Medical Center on Jan. 11, 1971. She retired exactly 48 years later as the lead surgical tech for cardiac surgery. Madden was beloved by hospital employees and patients alike. She often prayed or sang with patients to calm their nerves before going into surgery, and it was common for patients coming out of anesthesia to ask, “Where’s Alice?” Now 69, Madden was born in Louisiana and grew up picking cotton for $2 a day. Surgeons at Methodist helped pay her way through college. She says learning to sleep late will be her first challenge in retirement. “I automatically get up at 4 a.m.,” she says. “I don’t even own an alarm clock.”

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Preserve this

A 112-year-old wall in Oak Cliff and the oldest intact freedman’s town in the United States made Preservation Dallas’ list of endangered places, released in December. The nonprofit, which advocates for the preservation and revitalization of historic structures in Dallas, included the Tennessee Dairy Wall in Elmwood and the Tenth Street Historic District just east of Interstate 35. The wall was built in 1907 as part of the 640-acre Tennessee Dairies Inc. City of Dallas demolition orders threaten Tenth Street, where many houses were hand built by descendents of slaves. —RACHEL STONE

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WORSHIP

By BRENT MCDOUGAL

Choose joy There’s no escaping everyday disappointments, but to rejoice is a choice

t was one of those days. My daughter Emily and I were running late to school and found ourselves in agonizingly slow traffic. The stress grew in my back and neck and stayed with me through the morning. Then, our dishwasher decided that like God on the seventh day, it was time to rest from all the work it had done. That evening our microwave died as well. In his book Spiritual Depression, Martyn Lloyd-Jones writes about “the tyranny of circumstances.” The day-to-day grind of life, small crises and disappointments and challenges, can rob us of our joy. They compound over time and can cause us to feel a low-level despair.

The day-to-day grind of life, small crises and disappointments and challenges, can rob us of our joy. Those are easy compared to the awful times of unexpectedly losing a job or getting a bad diagnosis or hearing the words “I don’t want to be married anymore.” In times like that, people can wonder, “Will I ever be happy again?” One of the hardest things to accept is that we don’t often have control of our circumstances. Step one of the 12-step program is, “We admitted we were powerless.” There’s a lot about life we can’t choose. We don’t choose our parents or how we’re treated as children. We don’t choose when illness comes. We don’t choose trauma.

But here’s what I have come to believe: To rejoice is a choice. We have the power to choose whether to dwell on life’s hardships or think on the good. Philippians 4:8 counsels, “whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.” We can give thanks for what we have or lament what we don’t. Really, joy is a series of incremental choices, one step after another in the same direction: to believe and not doubt, to be happy rather than despondent. Suffering is inevitable, but misery is optional. When the dishwasher died, we had to get the old dishwasher out before the installers arrived with the new one. I thought it would take 15 minutes at the most, but an hour later we were still wrestling with the appliance. We removed the bolts. It wouldn’t budge. We pulled and rocked it back and forth. Finally, when it dislodged, even though we had turned off the water, some remained in the hoses and ran all over the kitchen. In the middle of that mess, I was faced with a choice. I could choose to deal with it happily, or I could bitterly do the work. I chose joy. Immediately I felt a lightness, like a weight lifted. I even heard myself laughing at the chaos. We can choose joy. Maybe the hardest part is admitting we have a choice at all.

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E P I S C O PA L CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH / ChristChurchDallas.org Sunday School: 11:15am /Mass: 9am & 10am English, 12:30pm Español Wednesday Mass: 6pm English, 8pm Español / 534 W. Tenth Street

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TRUST YOUR HEART. TRUST METHODIST.

“I’m getting the best cardio care possible, and I have confidence things are going to work out for me and my heart in the long run.” — Implantable defibrillator patient Reneé Mackie

The Sam & Anne Kesner Heart Center at Methodist Dallas Medical Center offers advanced cardiac care and the latest in cardiology services. From minimally invasive cardiac procedures to hearthealth services and support, you can trust your heart is in the right place at Methodist Dallas. Trust. Methodist. Are you looking for a trusted physician for a heart concern? Let us connect you. Call 877-637-4297.

MethodistHealthSystem.org/DallasCardio Texas law prohibits hospitals from practicing medicine. The physicians on the Methodist Health System medical staff are independent practitioners who are not employees or agents of Methodist Health System or Methodist Dallas Medical Center. Methodist Health System complies with applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.