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underperforming.”
—Nicky Niewinski, Marsh Middle School principal, on the plan for a new personalized learning initiative to boost academic achievement, which also includes a name change: Thomas C. Marsh Preparatory Academy
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over again, and our kids are
“When I touched it, at first it felt like a roll of carpet. Then I realized it was him. There was a rush of anxiety but then the training kicks in, and you go right into action.”
—POLICE DIVER JOHN BOUCHER ON LOCATING A DROWNING VICTIM
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Four years ago, our family cat died, and our son desperately wanted a replacement. I knew that a neighborhood veterinarian took in injured pets, nursed them back to health gratis, and then adopted them out.
We checked it out, and there in a small cage was a tiny, couple-month-old threelegged kitten, clipped by a car on a big street. How only its tiny left front leg was injured is beyond me, but the vets amputed the leg and sewed it up.
Today, that cat runs circles around its four-legged adopted brother, and out-eats the bigger cat, too. I guess it takes more energy for three-legged life than four?
And when that cat wants some attention, we’ll feel a tiny bit of pressure on the back of our leg or shoulder, and there it will be, on its haunches, its one good front leg elevated as high as it can reach, beckoning us for a little love.
Without being ground up by a vehicle, this street cat never would have come to live with us. Why it didn’t just die out there goes back to the person who ran over it, the person who found it, the vet and staff who took care of it — everyone’s life impacted by a cat and its injury, and the cat’s life impacted by everyone else.
I thought about this cat when we received an invitation to a party celebrating the doctor who, 40 years ago, cured my testicular cancer. I’ve written about my cancer experience before, so I won’t bore you again with most of the details.
But being invited to a dinner honoring Lawrence Einhorn, the guy who solved the disease, seeing his picture on the card
with no great detailing of his accomplishments, just a “come celebrate with me” note, made me think back to the two times his life intersected with mine, and how my life (and yours) is different because of him.
Had I been diagnosed a few years earlier, I would have faced months of chemo and radiation and then an incredibly invasive surgery involving a cracked chest and hand inspection of my lymph nodes. Back then, I saw a guy who had this surgery a few years after the fact, and he still looked like death warmed over. He lived, but his life was diminished and changed. Forever.
even higher. And again. Still higher.
Normally, testicular cancer doesn’t show up 10 years later, but the oncologist I was sent to in Dallas said that even though CAT scans and X-rays couldn’t find any cancer, we should assume I probably had brain cancer and get started on chemo immediately.
Even as I reached for the consent form, my wife snatched it away. She said we needed to contact someone else.
I didn’t know Einhorn. Had never talked with him. Neither had my regular doctor.
But in the middle of the night, limping along on mental fumes and pretty much convinced I was a goner, I found Einhorn’s email address and sent him a plea.
The next morning, there was an answer.
“That doesn’t sound like testicular cancer to me,” he said. “Send me your tests.”
I did. He looked at them immediately.
In the middle of the night, limping along on mental fumes and pretty much convinced I was a goner, I found the doctor’s email address and sent him a plea.
“I think you need to come up here,” he responded.
Einhorn’s cure meant that 80 percent of those diagnosed didn’t need the chemoradiation-surgery routine; we just needed two years of monitoring, and if we were lucky, we were done. So I spent two years convinced I was dying, even though at the end of the day, the medical facts said otherwise.
It wasn’t fun, but thanks to Einhorn (whom I didn’t meet then), the ordeal was mostly mental. I still had my health and my energy, and I decided I wanted to get into magazine publishing with my life.
Ten years later, results of an annual blood test to make sure I was cancer-free came back elevated. Significantly.
Over the course of a couple of months, I took the test again. The numbers were
“I think you need to come up here,” he emailed. “Let us test you. Let’s be sure.”
So we flew to Indiana, met Einhorn, and he ran a blood test and took a chest X-ray.
His conclusion?
“Some people just have odd test results from time to time. I think you’re one of them. I wouldn’t do anything if I were you.”
I didn’t. No cancer materialized. Einhorn took a nearly mentally broken guy and saved my life.
As it turns out, I would have been “cured” of brain cancer had I taken that chemo regimen, since I didn’t have it anyway, but imagine what that would have done to my body. This job. My family. My life.
Just like our three-legged cat, who knows how many lives would be different today had Einhorn not responded to my email, or had he been too busy to take a look?
We’ve seen Einhorn once since then. He was in Dallas and wanted to have dinner.
We bought.
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U.S. News & World Report examines hospitals for their annual “Best Hospitals” report. We’re proud to announce that for 2014-15 Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas was the #1 ranked hospital in Dallas/Fort Worth and was nationally recognized for excellence in six specialties, including: Diabetes & Endocrinology, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Pulmonology. Baylor Dallas also received “High Performing” recognition in six specialties: Cancer, Cardiology & Heart re-earn this reputation every day, with every patient.
U.S. News & World Report examines hospitals for their annual “Best Hospitals” report. We’re proud to announce that for 2014-15 Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas was the #1 ranked hospital in Dallas/Fort Worth and was nationally recognized for excellence in six specialties, including: Diabetes & Endocrinology, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Pulmonology. Baylor Dallas also received “High Performing” recognition in six specialties: Cancer, Cardiology & Heart re-earn this reputation every day, with every patient.
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U.S. News & World Report examines hospitals for their annual “Best Hospitals” report. We’re proud to announce that for 2014-15 Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas was the #1 ranked hospital in Dallas/Fort Worth and was nationally recognized for excellence in six specialties, including: Diabetes & Endocrinology, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Pulmonology. Baylor Dallas also received “High Performing” recognition in six specialties: Cancer, Cardiology & Heart re-earn this reputation every day, with every patient.
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U.S. News & World Report examines hospitals for their annual “Best Hospitals” report. We’re proud to announce that for 2014-15 Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas was the #1 ranked hospital in Dallas/Fort Worth and was nationally recognized for excellence in six specialties, including: Diabetes & Endocrinology, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Pulmonology. Baylor Dallas also received “High Performing” recognition in six specialties: Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Ear, Nose & Throat, Geriatrics, Gynecology and Urology. And we realize, we have to re-earn this reputation every day, with every patient.
U.S. News & World Report examines hospitals for their annual “Best Hospitals” report. We’re proud to announce that for 2014-15 Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas was the #1 ranked hospital in Dallas/Fort Worth and was nationally recognized for excellence in six specialties, including: Diabetes & Endocrinology, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Pulmonology. Baylor Dallas also received “High Performing” recognition in six specialties: Cancer, Cardiology & Heart re-earn this reputation every day, with every patient.
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Kim Kamen has an iPhone app called Red Alert that notifies her every time Hamas launches a missile into Israel. She downloaded the app for extra security while leading a group of American Jewish Committee members on a trip to the country in July. Weeks later, back in her Preston Hollow office thousands of miles away, she still receives the Red Alert notifications; her phone vibrated three times during our hour-long talk. “There’s
another one,” she says, solemnly shaking her head, as if in some small way she had brought the war home with her. Kamen is the associate director of the regional offices for the AJC, an organization with a strong neighborhood presence. During a recent trip to Israel, members met with leaders and civilians on both sides of the months-long conflict between Israel and Hamas, witnessing first-hand its effects on everyday life.
First, can you tell me a little about the American Jewish Committee?
We’re not a religious organization, though the name might seem that way. We do have a vested interest in protecting Jewish communities. We are very often standing up for any religious minority that is in crisis. AJC is often dubbed the state department of the Jewish people, and by that I mean we have top-level relationships with diplomats and consuls general on a local level. Our D.C. and New York offices, where the different headquarters are, work very closely with ambassadors, foreign ministers, presidents and prime ministers. Every year in September we have what’s called the diplomatic marathon, and it sort of runs on the sidelines of the U.N.
There was a case about five years ago of a Native American boy who was entering kindergarten in the town of Needham, Texas. This young boy was asked by the school district to cut his braid, and the family didn’t want to do that because it would be an affront to their religion. The school district wanted to fight it. It went to the Supreme Court, and AJC worked closely with a few other national organizations to protect the rights of this particular boy and won. So, that’s the kind of work that we do.
What prompted the trip to Israel?
It was through a special program of AJC called Project Interchange. It has brought over, I think, 6,000 high-level officials in targeted careers. We’ve brought governors, mayors, presidents of universities and provosts, we have brought media, we have brought Latino leaders from the U.S. There were media members from Scandinavia
last year. There were Muslim leaders from India. The speakers are not simply Israeli Jews who talked about things from their perspective. We met with Arabs, Arab Christians, Arab Palestinians. We met with people who were brutally honest about the positives and negatives of Israeli society. It was as raw and real as you could get. It’s not all flattering of Israel. It’s not dissimilar to someone talking about the U.S. We had never come face-to-face with some of these issues that we are working on 24/7.
What was it like being there amid a war, in terms of daily life?
It was surreal. During our first few days we were in Tel Aviv, which is a modern city a la New York. It’s also on a beach, so it is breathtakingly beautiful. The very first day, we were in a conference room in the hotel. You could see surfers outside just having a great time on the beach. It was the one and only time that there was a loud alarm where we had to get up, move into a stairwell, wait about five minutes and then come back and continue. Surfers got up, left the waves, moved to a rock embankment and kind of lay down for a few minutes and then got up and went back into the surf. People in a coffee shop, for example, left their coffee and went into the back of the shop. A few minutes later they came back to their coffee. The rockets that keep coming in and coming in tend to be more in the southern part of Israel. They’re pretty close to the Gaza border. We were in Tel Aviv for about 24 hours when we heard the Iron Dome intercepting rockets [the defense system breaks up rockets before they land in Israel].
During the second portion of the trip we went up to the northern part of Israel, and what was fascinating was that while we were receiving fewer sirens, we could actually stand in the Golan mountains and hear the fighting in Syria, which blew my mind because you’re reading about the awful things that are happening with [President of Syria] Assad and the civil war going on. We could hear the gunfire.
We could hear the cannons. We couldn’t see it, but we could hear it, and it brought everything to this incredible reality.
Is it strange to see that way of life become rote over there?
It became normal because you know the Iron Dome is there to protect you. It is different, but when you think about how traumatized we were shortly after 9/11, and we saw armed guards at airports and all the security, it felt strange. It was very upsetting. We’re now used to it. That’s how they live their lives all the time. But it is sad. If you go down to Sderot, one of the cities on the Gaza border, they have an entire indoor playground. They’ve painted a ceiling of sunny skies. But in Sderot, if a siren goes off, they have 15 seconds to seek shelter. Where we were, in Tel Aviv, we had 90 seconds. That can make a huge difference.
What was the overall sense of public opinion about the conflict?
They often would point out that if Canada or Mexico were to lob rockets in the U.S. would you, the U.S., sit by idly and let that happen? They have done that. They have been very patient. About 100 rockets had come into Israel and [Israel] waited and waited patiently. It was when those three teenagers were kidnapped and killed. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. They said they could not abide any longer and allow their country’s innocent civilians to be subjected to this.
What is the most important message you received from people there that maybe we aren’t hearing over here?
The diversity of Israel is both a blessing and a curse to the country, but predominantly a blessing. Whether you stand on the Palestinian side or on the Israeli side, most — not all — but most people at the end of the day want to live in harmony with one another. Time and time again we found that people want peace. It was ultimately an optimistic message. —Emily
TomanOct. 4
October 2014
Raise awareness for healthy living while raising funds for Withers Elementary at an 7:30-11 a.m. community event benefiting the PTA. Registration includes a T-shirt, race bib and chip timing. Withers Elementary, 3959 Northaven, wildcatprowl5k.org, $10-$25
OCT. 3
Mayor Mike Rawlings provides an update on the state of the city and other issues at a 7:30-9 a.m. event hosted by the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce.
Doubletree by Hilton DallasCampbell Centre, 8250 N. Central, 214.368.6485, ndcc.org, $40-$60
OCT. 4
Carmen Goldthwaite, Southern Methodist University writing teacher and author, greets readers and signs her book, “Texas Ranch Women: Three Centuries of Mettle and Moxie,” at 3 p.m.
Barnes and Noble, 7700 W. Northwest Highway, Suite 300, 214.739.1124, barnesandnoble.com, free
OCT. 4
Run a 5k or mile shoeless; raise funds for Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls, which provdies new shoes and socks for vunerable children. Beginning at 8 a.m., the event features races, games, live music and food trucks. Bachman Lake, 3500 W. Northwest Highway, barefootrun.com, $15-$30
OCT. 11
The internationally acclaimed organist performs from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
St. Monica Catholic Church, 9933 Midway, 214.358.1453, stmonicachurch.org, adults $10/ free for students and children
OCT. 7, 14, 21, 28
Unwind every Tuesday night at Fatin Awad’s meditation class from 7-8 p.m. Awad is a guest teacher from the Kadampa Buddhist Center. Drop-in students are welcome.
Churchill Recreation Center, 6906 Churchill Way, 214.670.6477, dallasparks.org, $10 with recreation center membership.
OCT. 11
Create a fairy-sized garden display for a chance to win a North Haven Gardens gift card at this annual contest, featuring several miniature gardens. Entries must be submitted between 9 a.m. and noon on contest day. Winners will be announced at 1 p.m. North Haven Gardens, 7700 Northaven, 214.363.5316, nhg.com, free
OCT. 15
Kick off homecoming and honor distinguished alumni with fellow Hillcrest High School graduates from 5-8 p.m. A cash bar and dinner are included at the event, hosted by Friends of Hillcrest. Email Betsy Nelson at bbn50@ aol.com by Oct. 11 to register.
Crossroads Diner, 8121 Walnut Hill, hhspanthers.com, $35
OCT. 26
St. Michael’s fall festival
The church hosts a trunk-or-treat in the parking lot from 10-11 a.m. followed by a chili cook-off and other family-friendly activities.
Saint Michael and All Angels
Episcopal Church, 8011 Douglas, 214.363.5471, saintmichael.org, free
OCT. 26
Walkers and advanced runners alike can participate in the Fired Up 5K race from 7-10 a.m. Food and bounce house fun await at the finish line.
Town North Family YMCA, 4332 Northaven, 214.357.8431, $10-$40
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Hotel restaurants don’t have to try too hard. Overnight guests provide a captive audience. But when new ownership took over Hilton Park Cities in 2012, its hotel restaurant at the time, Opio, received a welcome overhaul, getting upgraded from a breakfast buffet to a neighborhood retreat. The restaurant reopened later that year as Grain, adding dinner service and a slew of farm-to-table dishes sourced from Texas. With his Philadelphia upbringing, chef James Music may seem like an unlikely candidate to execute the concept, but he channels his inner Texan to serve what he claims is the best short rib in town. Sourced from Windy Meadows Farm in northeast Texas, the dish is topped with crispy fried Texas 1015 onions — a type of sweet onion grown in South Texas and served with fresh vegetables. The bacon barbecue shrimp is another favorite. “I would never dream of wrapping Gulf shrimp in bacon and frying it, but people love it,” Music says. The menu changes with the seasons depending on what’s available, which means that a new fall menu is in the works. Popular meat and seafood dishes will stick around refreshed with seasonal sides. Music says to expect more beans, squash and asparagus — or whatever looks best at the Dallas Farmers Market.
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Advocate asked readers which spa in Preston Hollow offers the best place to relax. The votes are in, and Facelogic Spa (4518 Lovers) took the title.
Preston Hollow clients have frequented the Lovers Lane spa since it opened seven years ago. Owner Christy Celli Freddo says that’s likely because the spa takes skincare very seriously — and because of the accessible pricing.
“It is realistic for people to come in regularly and achieve desired results,” she says.
For only $49 a month, you can get a 50-minute signature facial that includes a double cleanse, lavender aromatherapy hot towels, extractions, exfoliation, mask and massage.
As the spa’s name suggests, its expertise is in facial skin care. The most popular service, according to Freddo, is the microdermabrasion. The treatment lessens acne scars and cleans clogged pores, all while fighting signs of aging and hyperpigmentation.
Other spa services include specialty massages, airbrush spray tan, eyelash extensions, teeth whitening, and waxing.
Freddo adds that Advocate readers can enjoy half off any service in October as a special thank you for voting for Facelogic Spa. —Whitney Thompson
Runner-up: Cooper Spa
Third place: Hiatus Spa + Retreat
NEXT UP FOR THE 2014 BEST-OF CONTEST: Best dessert. Vote for your favorite at prestonhollow.advocatemag.com/bestof
Halloween is hands-down one of the sweetest holidays of the year and truly one of the best times to bring out your creative side. Sweet treats, healthy snacks, fizzy drinks and the cutest packaging around top off any Halloween party. Here are my top eight ideas to get you started.
1. WITCHES’ STEW
There is nothing fancy about this recipe. Actually, there is no recipe. Just mix together whatever snacks you have in the pantry — such as pretzels, goldfish, candy corn, marshmallows and chocolate chips to satisfy the hungry witches in your family.
2. COOKIE CRITTER POPS
These chocolate-dipped Oreos on a stick will surely spook your guests. Decorate them with black licorice to create spider legs, or add a candy eyeball to make a cute one-eyed monster.
3. CANDY CORN PRETZEL STICKS
Old-fashioned candy corn is a childhood favorite, but with a month full of sugar, you might want to throw something salty into the mix. Candy corn pretzel sticks are dipped in white chocolate with yellow and orange food coloring.
4. TANGERINE PUMPKINS AND BANANA GHOSTS
Halloween gives everyone an excuse to eat endless amounts of candy. Throw in a healthy twist with tangerines and bananas
decorated to look like pumpkins and ghosts, a recipe courtesy of weelicious. com. The kids will never miss the sugar.
5. MARSHMALLOW APPLE CHOMPERS
This recipe, from Lindsay Weiss’ BabyCenter blog, is the perfect DIY craft with simple ingredients: apples cut to create a mouth, marshmallows arranged as the teeth and peanut butter sticking it all together.
6. HALLOWEEN WATERMELON PUNCH
This Frankenstein-green watermelon punch, from the food blog Design Eat Repeat, will satisfy the thirsty monsters roaming around your house on Halloween.
7. FIZZY PUMPKIN PUNCH
This recipe from House of Smiths mixes orange juice, lemon-lime soda, pineapple juice and orange sorbet. You might skip the candy and just sip on this sweet drink.
8. DIY BROOM BAGS
So many wonderful treats need the perfect packaging. Martha Stewart does it with “witch’s broom” party favor bags made with paper lunch bags, sticks and a ribbon of your choice. Simple and sweet.
THE FORGOTTEN, OVERLOOKED AND TAKEN-FOR-GRANTED BUSINESSES THAT WE WOULD MISS TERRIBLY IF THEY DISAPPEARED
Story by Emily Toman // Photos by Kim Leeson
The latest development here,rumors of a new restaurant there,and closures every other week — such is the typical fodder for business-news talk. But what about those oft-forgotten institutions — the ones that do not beckon with novelty or glamour but, rather, persist quietly, like a patient grandparent, waiting for us to visit? When we do, we are reminded why they endure: because they are genuine, loyal, sturdy and loved. They are a constant in a perpetually changing environment. Periodically, pay a visit to our neighborhood’s oldies. It will make you feel warm and a tad nostalgic. (Oh, and you should probably visit your grandparents, too.)
A Tex-Mex tradition on the move
WHEN TUPINAMBA SETTLED INTO the old Crystal’s Pizza space on Inwood just north of Forest in 1996, the shopping center bore no resemblance to the bustling neighborhood development that exists today.
“There was nothing out here,” owner Eddie Dominguez says. “But, from day one, we had great business.”
Over 67 years, the family-owned Tex-Mex restaurant has survived four location changes; another one is coming soon. In December, Tupinamba will occupy the southwest corner of Walnut Hill and Central Expressway directly across from Preston Hollow Village, which is one of the most high-profile intersections in Dallas.
The move will usher in a new era for the old-fashioned establishment, which has built its reputation on the basics — tacos, enchiladas, and rice and beans — amid the wave of trendy dining options flooding our neighborhood.
“It’s always been about food and service,” Dominguez says. “People will come to you if you have those things.”
The first Tupinamba opened in 1947 in Oak Cliff and operated there for 10 years before moving to various locations around Preston Hollow and North Dallas. Its previous homes include Lovers Lane; Northwest Highway across from Bachman Lake during the area’s 1960s economic boom (the building later housed the first Taco Cabana in Dallas); and on Midway at LBJ. Dominguez, who graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, says he tried to stay in the neighborhood with each move.
Tupinamba’s origin, as Dominguez tells it, is an immigrant success story full of drama, love and betrayal. During the Mexican Revolution, his father, Papa Froylan Dominguez, known here as “Sonny,” fled the country at just 9 years old. The notorious Francisco “Pancho” Villa was recruiting an army, causing many families to separate. Sonny spent his early life working odd jobs in Texas and its border states until he landed a gig as a dishwasher at Dallas’ original El Fenix.
“That’s the way he learned the kitchen,” Dominguez says. “The cook took him under his wing.”
During that time, Sonny fell for Consuelo, a waitress working at another pioneering TexMex restaurant, El Chico. They married and together began building their business, open-
ing The Acapulco right across the street from El Fenix — to much success. So much so that Sonny began to hear rumors that his business partner was plotting to murder him in an attempt to keep the restaurant’s profits to himself. The couple didn’t stick around to find out what would happen next. They immediately left The Acapulco and launched Tupinamba.
The restaurant became known for its fried Tupy tacos, which still are the biggest seller and appear to hold their own against new taco crazes that have hit the area over the past several years.
Dominguez doesn’t try to replicate the popular items of his neighbors Rusty Taco or Torchy’s, but he still pays attention to trends. He recently added to the menu his version of the puffy taco made famous in San Antonio.
Dominguez expects Tupinamba’s new location to attract a more diverse crowd, but he doesn’t underestimate the value of his regulars.
“I have customers who I used to put in high chairs,” he says. “You create relationships. This is a family that you have.”
“Tupinamba” is the name of an allegedly cannibalistic South American Indian tribe that inhabited Brazil during the 16th century.
Eddie Dominguez’s mother, Consuelo, first encountered the word on a restaurant in Mexico City, liked it, and decided it would become the name of the family business.
Pull around to the back of the Lovers Lane restaurant on a typical Monday night, and you’ll see a nondescript entrance leading to a dark hallway. At the end, past the “employees only” kitchen, a door opens to a back-room bar full of oldDallas elites — most of whom would not want their names in this article.
“In the early ’80s, this was the gathering place for men from the Brook Hollow and the Dallas Country Clubs,” says Chad Dunston, who operates the restaurant with his wife, Anna.
The nostalgic ritual stuck. And Dunston’s old-school steakhouse tradition remains relevant 45 years later in today’s neighborhood, even as many young families are trying to avoid fatty, over-processed meals.
“The perception is that people don’t think Dunston’s is healthy,” Anna says, noting that everything is homemade without additives or giant hunks of butter plopped into every dish. The salad bar is fundamental to the operation, and over the years, the menu has been updated to include fish options, vegetable skewers and healthier sides such as grilled Brussels sprouts. There’s even a nutritionist on staff.
However, make no mistake: the Mesquite-grilled steak is the staple at Dunston’s.
Chad’s father, Gene Dunston, opened the first iteration of the restaurant on Harry Hines in 1955. It was known then as
The Wheel-in Drive-in, but when Gene turned his focus to the dine-in concept, he renamed it Dunston’s Steakhouse. The Lovers Lane location opened in 1969, followed by six other branches that have since come and gone (including the spot at Forest and Marsh now home to Cindi’s NY Deli).
Dunston’s and Kirby’s reigned as the two main steakhouses in Dallas until the early to mid-‘90s, when upscale concepts such as Del Frisco’s entered the scene. Dunston’s steaks are cheap by comparison. But even in a neighborhood full of highend clientele, the restaurant has thrived on its regular customers.
“You go to the high-end steakhouse once a month,” Chad says. “You come here once a week.”
When Chad and Anne took over the Lovers Lane restaurant from Gene, who is now 83 and still operates the Harry Hines location himself, the regulars reacted with a resounding request: “Don’t change anything.”
Most of the updates have been subtle but necessary to attract younger patrons. The restaurant started carrying craft beers, for example, and Anna and Chad have worked hard to improve the wine list, catering to connoisseurs who wouldn’t mind having a fancy bottle of wine with their low-cost steak.
And they don’t have to try too hard to achieve the oldschool, kitschy atmosphere that many new restaurants attempt to replicate. Dunston’s is the real thing.
“By default, we’re sitting on mid-century modern chairs from the ’50s,” Anna says. “This is an easy place for us to be.”
Via a lottery system, Dunston’s Steakhouse was the first restaurant in Dallas to receive a liquor license in 1971.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD BARBERSHOP is never just a barbershop. It’s a meeting place, a bulletin board and a search engine.
“Before there was Google, there was the barbershop,” says KK Atkinson, the co-owner of Lovers Lane Barbershop, which is all that remains of the original businesses that opened in 1938 on the “miracle mile” between Douglas and the Dallas North Tollway.
Our neighborhood is home to a slew of sleek salons offering the latest hair and nail trends, but Lovers Lane Barbershop has hung on in the same location for more than 76 years as new boutique shops and a massive toll road sprang up around it. The Mayberry-esque main street is now part of the big city, but the small-town attitude hasn’t changed.
“We’re a small town in a big city,” Atkinson says.
Her father, Norbert “Red” Mikulec, bought
the barbershop from the original owner in 1958, and it became like a second home for the family.
Having grown up in the shop, Atkinson knew the last thing she wanted to do was cut hair. Instead, she opened the barbershop’s nail salon in 1989 in what used to be a dark, creepy storage room with a single light bulb hanging from the ceiling.
“I was scared to death of that room when I was little,” she says.
Today the small back room is buzzing with chatter as clients sit in close quarters, receiving manicures and pedicures and catching up on each other’s lives. There are no TVs, just a few seldom-read magazines stashed in the corner. You can learn a lot by just listening to the women “gossip responsibly,” prefacing their stories with, “I don’t know, but I heard …”
The talk of the barbershop these days is about how the city of University Park plans to update the miracle mile shopping center to improve traffic flow and beautify the area. It would include new landscaping and light fixtures, along with redesigned parking. A petition against the plan hangs on the wall behind one of the manicure tables at the barbershop.
Atkinson says she’s worried about the potential negative impact it could have on business, particularly if she loses parking spaces or if the updates result in higher rent
a blow that has closed some of the old Lovers Lane businesses. It’s hard for Atkinson to imagine the barbershop going away along with all the good it brings to clients’ lives.
“We’re still a community around here,” she says. “The manicure is just a bonus.”
According to folks in the barbershop, there are two theories about why the stretch of Lovers between Douglas and the Dallas North Tollway was dubbed the “miracle mile.” Some say it was named after the Miracle Mile in Los Angeles. Others say it was simply thought that it would be a miracle if anything ever survived on the undeveloped farmland miles from the city center.
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THESE DAYS, ALMOST EVERY shopping center in our neighborhood has a CVS or a Walgreens, sometimes both, right next door to each other. So, how does Dougherty’s Pharmacy, which turns 85 years old this month, compete? The answer is simple. It doesn’t.
“They dedicate 80 percent of the store to 20 percent of the most profitable items,” Komuves says.
On the surface, Dougherty’s has a similar setup at its Preston Royal Village store, but behind the pharmacy counter, much more is happening. Namely, drug compounding. There are two labs — one sterile and one nonsterile — where white-coated technicians are making medications from scratch to better suit patients’ needs.
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“We don’t really consider CVS, Walgreens and Walmart to be direct competitors,” says Dougherty’s CEO Andy Komuves. “The chain stores have all become about selling other things.”
Many shoppers might duck into a chain store in search of a greeting card, some last-minute Halloween candy or a cheap bottle of wine, vaguely aware of the pharmacy in the back.
“It’s sort of how pharmacy began,” Komuves says.
Nearly all drugs were created in local pharmacies from plant extracts until manufacturing companies took over the industry in the 1950s and ’60s, making the pharmacist simply a dispenser.
Dougherty’s, however, never abandoned its original role and is now the largest drug com-
Dougherty’s iconic neon sign includes “Airway” in the name because the store once had a location near DFW Airport called “Dougherty’s Airway Pharmacy.” When it moved to Preston Royal Village in 1967, there was a debt owned to pharmacy. The owners worried that changing the name would legally void the debt, so they kept the name.
pounding pharmacy in the Southwest. The privately held company makes about $25 million a year, compared to the $3.5 million of an average chain store.
Our neighborhood mom-and-pop pharmacy has been defying the odds since its beginning. Bill Dougherty opened the store, originally in Oak Cliff, in October 1929. Two weeks later, the stock market crashed. With little competition at the time, the pharmacy survived. In 1967, the business moved to Preston Royal Village and now has another location at Forest Park.
Another large component of Dougherty’s sales is medical equipment such as mobility aids and bathroom safety products that cater to our neighborhood’s older demographic. But Komuves says the pharmacy is just as relevant to younger adults who might be caring for an aging parent while also raising a healthy family.
“We realize that the focus is going toward young moms,” he says. “You can take them through the family’s life.”
For the police officers whose work takes them to the murky depths of Dallas lakes, a successfully completed job usually involves a horrific discovery.
In the summer of 2010 several Dallas police officers, clad in thick dry suits and heavy scuba gear, descended on the shore of a pond in the 6700 block of Northaven in Preston Hollow. Day after day for weeks on end, they took turns searching the inky water for a piece of evidence linked to a 27-year-old cold case. And while they had little luck locating clues related to that particular crime, they did turn up other items, recalls dive team commander Jack Bragg.
“In that little pond, we found six or eight motorcycles and motorcycle parts, a metal safe, several weapons including assault rifles and a handgun,” recalls Bragg. “None, by the way, were what we were looking for.”
The job of a police diver demands painstaking levels of patience. It requires a deeply rooted understanding of procedure and the critical thinking skills necessary to apply it to an infinite variety of high-stake situations, Bragg explains. Team members pride themselves on operating pragmatically even in the most outrageous situations.
“We are very methodical. We are grandmas when it comes to collecting evidence slow and meticulous. We aren’t going to be the reason some guy gets off because evidence was mishandled.”
The Dallas Police Department Underwater Recovery team is made up of about 22 police officers who also are specially trained divers. Team commander Jack Bragg, Captain Jack to most, works full time as the coordinator of the dive team, a DPD fieldservice unit that falls under the SWAT department.
The rest of the divers are posted elsewhere fulltime; two work as patrol officers at the Northwest, others at Northeast, South Central, and Southwest subdivisions, respectively. Others work narcotics or Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR).
When divers are needed typically for the recovery of evidence in a crime, a drowning victim or a submerged vehicle — Bragg rounds up available team members. Calls can happen as often as three times in one day or as infrequently as three times in as many months.
Essentially, Underwater Recovery Team members investigate and gather evidence at underwater crime scenes. They dive in 2060 minute intervals, depending on conditions. They must be as meticulous and clean as an officer at any other crime scene, even though the environments in which they work are filthy and unforgiving.
“You want to know what it looks like under that water?” asks diver Daniel Hale. “Here you go.” He holds up a “blackout mask.” The lenses have been painted opaque black. “That’s what you see down there.”
Low-to-zero visibility, one of myriad challenges faced by underwater investigators, forces officers to feel for the targeted object.
“When you are down there, it is difficult to tell the difference between a foam seat cushion and a human body,” notes Northwest patrol officer/Senior Dive Officer Scott Harn. And there are a lot of foam seat cushions in Bachman Lake, remarks another officer.
The dive team often is called out following a drowning, after Dallas Fire and Rescue workers have exhausted live-recovery efforts.
The first dive, technically, is treated as a rescue, says Bragg, but they have never saved anyone.
“We are looking for bodies.”
When the job calls for recovering a body, Bragg says, the team also must exercise discretion and compassion for the public.
Last May, for example, a man jumped into White Rock Lake and never resurfaced. Even with the aid of side scan sonar equipment, Bragg’s team searched some 16 hours before locating the body. By that time, the
drowned man’s bereft parents as well as local media were gathered at the shore.
The divers “bagged and tagged” the young man’s body at the bottom of the lake before bringing him to surface, explains Bragg. They also positioned their small boat in a way that would shield the excavation from onlookers.
It is protocol. “We have a job to do, but we are also thinking about protecting the loved ones, trying to be as respectful as possible,” Bragg says.
Success is always bittersweet, the officers concur — imagine a job in which getting your hands on a dead body or a body part means success.
For our benefit, Bragg asks the group, which also includes Lewisville divers, how many dead bodies they had touched.
“I lost track,” one says. “Too many to count,” another notes.
Logistically, training for public safety diving is formulaic and precise.
On a Wednesday morning in August dive-
team members gather at a Lewisville Fire Department scuba pool for class. Lewisville is home to one of the country’s more-sophisticated dive teams, due to the proximity of Lake Lewisville, Bragg explains. Dive officers are learning to use new equipment including surface-supply air tanks, which, compared with scuba tanks, will allow longer dives, and a communication box that allows divers to speak with and hear an operator on land. Until now, communication between diver and his colleagues on the boat and shore has been conducted via a coded system of rope pulls — one pull means, “all is well” while three means, “we found the body,” for example.
Before applying to Dallas’ dive team, an officer must be, at minimum, an International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD)-certified rescue diver. Police divers-in-training then follow a strict curriculum of schooling and certification that is in line with national standards.
Every dive-team member learns every position.
“Everyone knows every step of every operation,” Bragg says, “and it has to happen the exact same way as it will in the field.”
The team formed less than 10 years ago and operates on a limited budget. “We are not a dedicated unit so we get about $5,000$7,000 of the SWAT budget and beg for grants and money,” Bragg says. Over the years, usually through grants or donations, they have acquired advanced equipment, but they cannot dive with new gear until they are properly trained and certified to use it. So they continually are brushing up on their skills and learning new practices.
“The dark side of why we have to do all this training is that [police departments nationwide] have killed so many divers,” Bragg says. “The last thing I want to do as a dive team commander is send a live person after an inanimate or lifeless object and lose him. Guys have been hurt. One of our dive captains had a lung embolism that ended his diving career. We do everything we can [to narrow every chance of injury], even though sometimes you can do everything right and still have something go wrong.”
Bragg lifts his pant leg to reveal a severe burn-like scar, the result of a cut that became infected in contaminated water.
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8202 Boedeker Dr., / (214) 368-4047 / clairesdayschool.com At CCDS, we encourage a child’s sense of exploration and discovery in a loving, nurturing, and safe environment. We offer a parent’s day out program with a play-based curriculum fostering socialization, motor skill development, and an introduction to academics for children aged 4mo – 3yrs. Our preschool for children aged 3-5 further develops these skills, along with a more focused approach to pre-math and prereading. At CCDS, we have developed our own science, math, and reading enrichment classes to ensure kindergarten preparedness for every child. We make learning fun!
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Founded in 1966, Highlander School offers an enriched curriculum in a positive, Christian-based environment. Small class sizes help teachers understand the individual learning styles of each student. Give us a call for more information.
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.
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The psychological demands of police diving, one could argue, are as grueling as the physical requirements.
Senior diver John Boucher is smoking a cigar. He says he finally quit smoking cigarettes, but he still likes the occasional cigar, and sometimes a drink or two, to help quiet his mind, especially after a tough underwater search.
“The worst, for me, was the first body I personally found. It was a few years ago at Lake Ray Hubbard. Party Cove. The guy jumped off a boat and never came up. I was the second diver and I found the body. When I touched it, at first I thought it felt like a roll of carpet. Then I realized it was the kid. There was an initial rush of anxiety but then the training kicks in and you go right into action.”
Sometimes, due to the darkness, divers experience what they call “mind monsters”
that is, the anxiety and dread that threatens rational thinking, Boucher says. Only a large dose of mental toughness can slay these beasts.
Usually, because of their high levels of skill, experience and training, divers like Boucher are able to launch into action even in the face of horrific circumstance — this Dallas dive team has located a murdered baby, drowned children and a bucket containing a human head, to name a few particularly disturbing cases, and all of these operations were handled perspicaciously and by- the-book, Bragg says.
Sitting at home, alone with his thoughts after long hours in dark waters looking for a body or a murder weapon, however, Boucher sometimes feels haunted.
“I’ll tell you, it messed with my head,” he says recalling the drowned man at Lake Ray Hubbard.
Like war buddies, divers often turn to one another for support.
“There are always two divers that bring up a body,” Boucher says. “That night we texted each other back and forth.” It doesn’t take much, he says, because each understands what the other is feeling.
Captain Jack’s worst day has to be the day, last May, when the dive team got the call about former assistant police chief Greg Holliday.
“Greg was a friend,” Bragg says. “I worked with him for 35 years. That’s about as close as you can get to having to look for your own family.”
Holliday, 63, had been missing for days. Police, in a Critical Missing Person alert stated that Holliday was possibly suicidal.
Bragg’s men, along with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department divers, found Holliday’s body, with a self-inflicted gunshot to his head, in a shallow creek near the Preston Trails Golf Club.
“Of course every guy out here has a different worst day, but I’ve gone through some of our police photos from that day, and you can see the stress on our guys’ faces. That day was hard.”
“The police department has psych [-ological counseling services], but this work is not typical,” Bragg says. “Regular patrol officers, they don’t really understand exactly what our guys go through.”
Several members of the team concur that the bonds they share among themselves are therapeutic.
“We are all friends. They have to be comfortable with and trust the other guys they are down there with,” Bragg says.
“Body recovery is stressful,” Boucher says, “and you get home and try to talk to your girlfriend about it, she doesn’t want to hear it. So you text the guy who was [on the job] with you. That’s sometimes how you get through the night.”
PRIVATE DONATIONS Captain Jack Bragg says he works hard to secure grants and donations and that the team frequently borrows necessary equipment from Dallas Fire-Rescue or from other nearby departments such as Lewisville. He says private donations — which go directly toward purchasing equipment and training that makes public-safety diving more effective and less dangerous — are always welcome. For more information, email jack.bragg@dpd.ci.dallas.tx.us.
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the market-restaurant combination provides a more varied selection. There also is a full bar, with beer, wine and cocktails selected to complement the menu. Stop by 3-5 p.m. Sunday-Friday for half-price specials.
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Thai food joins the Preston Hollow Village dining scene
Pakpao Thai Restaurant will open a second location sometime in 2015 in Preston Hollow Village, the new mixed-use development under construction at the northwest corner of Walnut Hill and Central. Expect a menu with bold flavors and reasonable prices, plus a colorful, cozy interior similar to that of Pakpao’s Design District location. Executive chef Jet Tila has an extensive culinary background and has appeared on shows such as “No Reservations” and “Chopped.”
Pakpao Thai Restaurant, Walnut Hill and Central, pakpaothai.com
Three new places to shop at the Plaza at Preston Center
Pure Barre, a national franchise offering classes combining ballet and Pilates, was set to open last month in Preston Royal Village. Preston Hollow resident Elizabeth Lindberg opened a second location of her Preston-Forest workout space Studio 6 in The Shops at Park Lane, focusing on Pilates with strength and cardio training rooted in the Lagree Fitness Method.
Pure Barre, 6025 Royal, Suite 203, purebarre.com
Studio 6, 8180 Park Lane, Suite 343, 469.458.2200, studio6fitness.com
Preston Hollow Emergency opened a 24-hour clinic last month at the northeast corner of Walnut Hill and Central. Owned by the same company that operates Highland Park Emergency on Lemmon, the upscale clinic offers X-rays, CT scans, ultrasounds and blood work in-house, promising a 10-15-minute wait for results. The ER speeds up the process and avoids crowded waiting rooms by accepting only private insurance or cash payments.
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After 25 years as a successful fish market in our neighborhood,
TJ’s Fresh Seafood added dining service to its new Preston Royal Shopping Center location. Third-generation owner Jon Alexis says
Arkansas-based women’s clothing boutique RiffRaff was set to open its first Dallas storefront Sept. 26. Anteks Home Furnishings moves from the Design District this fall. It previously operated on Lovers for 20 years. Women’s tailored shirting store Double R by Ravi Ratan comes to the plaza this fall.
Plaza at Preston Center, southeast corner of Preston and Northwest Highway, theplazaatprestoncenter.com
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1 Prego Express Italian at the northeast corner of Preston and Forest closed at the end of August. 2 The Juice Bar is slated to open in spring 2015 inside NorthPark Center. 3 The new Vickery Meadow Local Market is open for the season 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundays in the Half Price Books parking lot on Northwest Highway.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the loss of loved ones. This year at Northaven we’ve experienced the deaths of several key leaders. First, there was Charles Delphenis, who was known for welcoming visitors for years and years. There was Mike Pybas, who was “Mr. Volunteer” at several Dallas nonprofits. Bill Warrick, our head usher for 35 years, who never missed a Sunday, died suddenly. And, finally, there was the Rev. Bill McElvaney, our emeritus pastor and my friend and mentor.
That’s a lot of losses in our congregation. And they’ve moved us all into a season of both mourning their passing and giving thanks for their gifts
For the past several months I’ve been reflecting on the important lessons that each of these men taught me. But even more than what I’ve learned from them, I’ve been reflecting on the whole idea of mentors and teachers. No matter who we are, no matter how much we grow or how old we become, we need them.
On the first Sunday of November, many churches celebrate All Saints Sunday. For some, it’s a time to look back at the genuine saints of the Christian tradition. For others, it’s a time to celebrate, give thanks and remember the saints of our personal lives.
None of us are “self-made.” That phrase is perhaps the most unrealistic description of a human being ever penned. Rather, all of us are dependent upon parents, teachers, coaches, clergy, neighbors and others. We begin life as babies — little more than helpless loaves of bread — and we would never make it into adulthood without the constant guidance, help and support of others.
Doctors and nurses we will never know cared for us when we were infants. Teachers and neighbors who are distant memo-
ries watched over us through early childhood. Coaches, scout leaders and clergy helped us navigate our teen years. And even as adults, those who have already walked our path — whether that path is business, civic or family leadership — continue to give us guidance and light our way.
Therefore, the idea that we become who we are purely on our own merits is nonsense. Everyone is the beneficiary of “saints” and mentors who shepherd them along the way. Only the greatest of fools believe they’ve achieved everything purely on their own skill and wisdom. Conversely, truly great leaders understand their weaknesses and seek out the guidance of others throughout their lives.
“Communion of saints” might be too theological or sectarian a term for some. Another image for this comes from author Joyce Landorf Heatherley in her book “Balcony People.” Heatherley encourages us to imagine that our lives are lived on a stage with a large upper balcony. Perhaps like the Majestic Theatre downtown.
She says all of us have people in that “balcony” who cheer us on as we move through each stage of our lives. Some are living. Some are dead. Some are great historical figures. But all of them make possible the lives that we have.
Whether you celebrate All Saints in your faith tradition or not, spend some time this fall reflecting on your own balcony people. For those of them who are still alive, perhaps it’s time to write them a note or tell them what they have meant to you. Or maybe you are at a season of life where you are a mentor to others, and the question is: Who shall I be a light and help to in the next generation?
Give thanks for your personal saints and balcony people. They help to make you who you are today.
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
PARK CITIES BAPTIST CHURCH / 3933 Northwest Pky / pcbc.org
All services & Bible Study 9:15 & 10:45. Trad. & Blended (Sanctuary), Contemporary (Great Hall), Amigos de Dios (Gym) / 214.860.1500
PRESTONWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH / “A Church to Call Home”
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WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100
Pastor George A. Mason Ph.D. / Worship 8:30 & 11:00 am
Bible Study 9:40 am / www.wilshirebc.org
NORTH HIGHLANDS BIBLE CHURCH / www.nhbc.net
Sunday: Lifequest (all ages) 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am
Wed: Student Ministry 7:00 pm / 9626 Church Road / 214.348.9697
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
MIDWAY HILLS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 11001 Midway Road
Sundays: School for all ages 9:30 am / Worship service 10:50 am 214.352.4841 / www.midwayhills.org
FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH / 6202 E Mockingbird Lane
Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org
LAKE HIGHLANDS UMC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com
Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee
Worship: 8:30 am & 10:50 am Traditional / 10:50 am Contemporary
UNITY OF DALLAS / A Positive Path For Spiritual Living 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230 / 972.233.7106 / UnityDallas.org
Sunday Services: 9:00 am & 11:00 am
UNITY ON GREENVILLE / Your soul is welcome here! 3425 Greenville Ave. / 214.826.5683 / www.dallasunity.org
Sunday Service 11:00 am and Book Study 9:30 am
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ARTISTIC GATHERINGS
Casa Linda Plaza. Art Classes & Drop In Pottery Painting For All Ages. 214-821-8383. Tues-Sat 10am-6pm
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RAMON’S INT/EXT PAINT Sheetrock, Repairs. 214-679-4513
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TONY’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work
Since 1984. Int./Ext. 214-755-2700
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TOM HOLT TILE 30 Yrs Experience In Tile, Backsplashes & Floors. Refs. Avail. 214-770-3444
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ALL YARD SERVICES Fertilization, Trim, Edge, Color. Com./ Res. 30 Yrs. Exp. Call Brooks. 972-279-3564, 214-923-5439
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HOLMAN IRRIGATION
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IRRIGATION SYSTEM REPAIR Call Carl. 972-948-4335.Texas Irrigation Lic # 8708
ORTIZ LAWNCARE Complete Yard Care. Service by Felipe. Free Est. 214-215-3599
RONS LAWN Organic Solutions. Not Environmental Pollution. Landscape & Maintenance 972-222-LAWN (5296)
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SPECK PLUMBING
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POOLS
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LEAFCHASERS POOLS
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Virginia Clarke had an appointment that afternoon, but she decided to drop by her neighborhood grocery store first to pick up a few items. As she shopped, a man who she thought worked at the store offered to help her, but 1 p.m. was approaching, and she decided to go ahead and check out.
While at the self-check, Clarke again noticed the man, who then offered to carry out her bag and put it in the front seat. A block away, she pulled into a gas station and filled up her tank. As she attempted to pay, Clarke realized her wallet was gone. The station wouldn’t let her leave without paying the $31 she owed, so she called the police. Her daughter later met her at the police station to help her.
Clarke found out the mysterious man
The Victim: Virginia Clarke
The Crime: Theft
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 13
Time: Between 12:15 p.m. and 1 p.m.
Location: 11900 block of Preston
had taken her wallet and used her credit card five times that day before it was canceled. The bank later removed the charges, but the crime has really struck her emotionally.
“The worst part is, I’ve had a hard time dealing with it. It’s unsettling. It’s been just
such a bad couple of weeks,” she says. Clarke does a lot of work with charities, and she adds, “The sad thing is, if he had said, ‘I need some money for food,’ I’d have given it to him.”
Detectives investigating the crime said she was in the perfect spot to capture the man on video for identification and saw him lifting her wallet from her purse. The store manager also recognized her on her next trip, Clarke says, and was very nice in apologizing to her. Clarke warns women to always secure their purses and pay attention to their surroundings.
Major Edwin Ruiz-Diaz of the North Central Patrol Division agrees. He says this is an unusual way for a thief to steal someone’s property, but not unheard of. Residents should always be alert to their surroundings and report any unusual activity to store management if possible and to police as soon as practical, Ruiz-Diaz says.
“In this particular case it is understandable that the victim accepted the offer of help from what turned out to be the suspect,” he says. “If the man was blending in with other employees inside the store and was dressed like an employee, then it is harder for an unsuspecting victim to be on alert.”
If you feel uncomfortable in a similar situation, ask to speak with security or a manager, he says. The manager should be able to vouch for any employees or contact police if the situation calls for it.
Sean Chaffin is a freelance writer and author of “Raising the Stakes”, obtainable at raisingthestakesbook.com. If you have been a recent crime victim, email crime@advocatemag.com.
4100 $5,000 4 a.m.
Block of Lively Lane where a man broke into a home and, upon being caught, shot at the homeowner
Value of the items the man stole before being arrested the following day
Time of day the crime occurred
SOURCE: Dallas Police Department
Dallas ISD met all four of the state’s accountability standards, according to results released by the Texas Education Agency. A handful of neighborhood schools earned additional distinctions from the agency. E.D. Walker Middle School was named the highest-ranking inclusive school in DISD to earn TEA distinctions in seven performance categories, including reading, English language arts, mathematics, science and social studies. W. T. White High School and Nathan Adams Elementary also performed exceptionally, receiving distinctions in five categories.
Bradley Laye became president and CEO of the Preston Hollow-based Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas He had served as interim president since July 2013 and was the Federation’s chief operating officer in October 2010.
Preston Hollow native Sam Horowitz whose viral Bar Mitzvah video landed him interviews on “Good Morning America” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” last year — is back with a new fashion-themed web series, “Sam Says,” airing on YouTube at 4 p.m. Sundays. The show features fashion tips and trends, plus interviews at neighborhood stores such as Celebrity Café & Bakery, Clothes Circuit and Tootsies.
Missy Payne, Preston Hollow resident and founder of Cheer 4 Your Life, is competing alongside her daughter, Baylor Wilson, in the current season of “Survivor” on CBS. Along with coaching and training more than 200 athletes at her cheerleading gym, Payne created the Park Cities Pee Wee cheerleading program and formerly coached at several neighborhood schools, including The Episcopal School of Dallas, The Covenant School and Hillcrest High School.
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Preston Hollow has always had a special place in the heart of Dallas. Ours, too. We’ve been living and working here for over four decades–and no one knows this neighborhood quite like we do. If you’re looking for something exceptional here in Preston Hollow, start with an exceptional team of Realtors. Visit virginiacook.com.
$1,189,000 Superior amenities, open design 4 bedroom, 4 bath home! Sleek kitchen with quartz countertops! Walking distance to schools!
Lori Sparks 214.680.6432
$639,000 Gorgeous, updated 5 bedroom home with over 4,000 sq ft! 3 living areas! Super location!
Lori Kircher 214.789.4060
$584,000 Top quality remodeling in this sensational 5 bedroom home! Huge landscaped backyard with updated pool and large flagstone patio!
Lori Kircher 214.789.4060
$539,000 One owner custom, quality built! Great proportions & layout! 3 bedroom suites! Master has his & her baths! 3 car garage!
Lori Sparks 214.680.6432
$516,000 Fabulous 4 bedroom home with extensive updating! Terrific gourmet kitchen! Gorgeous updated baths!
Don Thomas 214.641.7001
$515,000 Surrounded by trees, this light and bright home boasts an open feel, an updated kitchen and lush landscaping!
Lori Kircher 214.789.4060
$500,000 Special 5 bedroom home with beautiful wood floors! Sun room with 4 skylights! Upstairs gameroom!
Don Thomas 214.641.7001
$460,000 Lovely 5 bedroom home on large corner lot! Family room with built-ins and wet bar! Electric gate! 3 car garage!
Soozie Bul 214.673.6259
$395,000 Spectacular, updated 4 bedroom charmer! Beautiful wood floors! Great landscaping!
Don Thomas 214.641.7001
