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If you’re in your mid-40s and haven’t had your colon checked, it might be time. Screening guidelines have changed. The American Cancer Society’s guidelines for colon cancer screening now recommend that adults at average risk get screened starting at age 45 instead of 50. Getting screened is the first step in prevention. Talk to your doctor about which screening option is best for you. Methodist Dallas Medical Center providers offer personalized healthcare services for every stage of life and every state of health. Trust. Methodist.
Take a free colon cancer risk assessment. Visit www.methodisthealthsystem.org/ColonHRA or for a physician referral, call 877-637-4297. 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 Dallas Medical Center, Methodist Health System, or any of its affiliated hospitals. 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.
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7 CLICKWORTHY Our neighborhood online 10 RHOD Tiffany Moon, M.D. 14 FRIED DRAMA Home to the nameless corndog 17 PORCH PORTRAITS Surviving the past year as a family 22 FAST & FURIOUS Tired of street racing? 28 PBS AND HOCKADAY Mental health from a student perspective
CornDog with No Name serves up a modern take on funnel cake. Photography by Kathy Tran.
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BACK TO NATURE For North Haven Gardens’ 70th anniversary, grow-your-own is back in style retailers in advance to secure high-demand plants”, Hoya says. That’s good news, since the indoor plant-collecting craze has exploded. Being eternally stuck at home has heightened interest in buying and caring for houseplants among longtime and newbie collectors. “There’s something new here every day,” Hoya says. “Around every corner is a tactile, visual and flavorful experience. It’s a perfect destination to delight all your senses this spring.”
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orth Haven Gardens celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, and it has become the yearround destination for gardeners and plant enthusiasts, whether they’re interested in growing edibles at home or adding a unique houseplant to brighten up a living space or patio. “The pandemic has increased people’s desire to grow their own food and to get back to nature,” says Cody Hoya, general manager of North Haven Gardens. According to Hoya, tomatoes are at the top of the home gardener’s wish list. Plant 4-inch transplants in the cooler part of spring (late February to early April) to establish a deep root system. Available in many varieties, there are tomatoes for both large garden spaces and more compact patio containers. North Haven Gardens patrons also flock to other early spring transplants like broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage, as well as to seeds for summerfruiting veggies that can be started in early
spring, like watermelons, carrots, and spinach. North Haven Gardens has also earned a reputation for sourcing the most soughtafter herbs in Dallas. Varieties of mint, thyme, and lavender are definite crowd pleasers. While you’re deciding what to take home, North Haven Gardens’ helpful staff can suggest proper planting seasons for herbs of all types. North Haven also now offers two on-line kits available for in-store pickup. One is a windowsill micro-greens starting kit, ideal for a sunny window; the second is an herb garden bowl with five common and popular easyto grow herbs. These kits come complete with everything you need to start your own edible herb garden.
TOP: North Haven Gardens’ sign beacons garden lovers and novices. Below (PHOTO BY KATHY TRAN): The new North Haven Gardens Herb Bowl Project Kit, providing everything you need to succeed with herbs at home including 5 Blue Label Organic Seasonal Herb Transplants 4”, organic fertilizer and container suitable for indoor or outdoor planting by beginners or seasoned gardeners (Windowsill Micro-Greens Starting Kit also available).
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GARDENS Interior plant lovers know that the new greenhouse North Haven Gardens will always have a unique botanical addition for their collections. “We are signing agreements with growers and
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CITY HALL The Dallas City Council recently approved creating a Veterans Affairs Commission. The 15-member advisory body will evaluate programs, policies and practices meant to help veterans acquire housing, employment and mental health assistance.
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coming & going [+] DOUGHERTY’S PHARMACY is moving to a new location in Preston Royal Village and is set to open in mid-March with an oldfashioned soda fountain, state-of-the-art clinical laboratories and a drive-thru. [+] Chef Ivan Orkin brought his famous
EDUCATION DIGEST
ramen to BLUE SUSHI SAKE GRILL in
—The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees approved new calendars for the 2020-2021 school year to limit learning loss. Each school will choose to adopt the intersession, school-day redesign or updated base calendar.
Preston Hollow Village. The dishes, including the tonkotsu and spicy red chile ramen, became available as takeout in mid-February. [+] The Friends of the Dallas Public Library is asking for donations in honor of Hillcrest
— Ursuline Academy celebrated its 147th anniversary
High School alumna Karen Blumenthal, the
in February. The Preston Hollow school opened in 1874,
journalist and author who died last year.
with six sisters from the Galveston Ursuline community
Donations will help fund the NEW FOREST
teaching seven students in a four-room house.
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Pest control THE BEETLE COMING FOR OUR TREES This striking insect could wipe out tens of thousands of trees in Dallas. The emerald ash borer, which has a 99.7% mortality rate for ash trees once infestation takes hold, has cost other cities millions of dollars. Chicago, for example, is spending at least $95 million to deal with destruction the bugs caused there. The pernicious beetle has reached Tarrant and Denton counties, and while it hasn’t been detected here yet, the City of Dallas is planning for its arrival.
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The emerald ash borer is native to northeastern Asia and was first detected in the United States in 2002. Since then, it has reached 35 states. The bug can annihilate virtually 100% of ash trees within five years. Losing thousands of trees could have a warming effect on our city, already a “heat island,” where an overabundance of paving can cause temperatures to be 10 degrees higher than nearby areas, says Brett Johnson, an urban biologist for the City of Dallas. Besides that, thousands of dead trees would create increased risk of fire and destruction from
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timber falling onto homes and businesses. The Texas Forest Service has recommendations to slow the spread and mitigate damage. The city must inventory all of its ash trees before deciding whether to remove and replace as many ash trees as possible over five years, or take a reactive approach and cut down trees after they die. There’s also the possibility of treating the trees with insecticide. City Council could create a plan of attack by the end of this year. —By Rachel Stone
history
Dallas-reared blues icon Aaron “T-Bone” Walker prepares to drive at Hilliard Golf Course for Blacks in 1952.
WEDGING IN ELM THICKET R E M E M B E R I N G DA L L AS ’ F I RST B L AC K G O L F COU RS E
The Dallas Park Board unceremoniously announced in 1954 that the city’s municipal golf courses were desegregated. L.B. Houston, who was the city’s parks director, told Leo Shead, who was president of the Dallas Negro Golfers Association, that there was no rule prohibiting Black residents from hitting the links. We don’t know who was first to try it at Stevens Park, Cedar Crest and Tenison golf courses, but previously, Black people were not permitted to play them except on occasionally designated days. Golf already was very popular among Black residents thanks in part to the city-owned Hilliard Golf Course on Lemmon Avenue, which opened with nine holes in 1950. Previous to that, Black Dallasites could play on the six holes added to Moore Park in the 1930s. But Hilliard was billed as the first municipal golf course
for Blacks in the South when it opened. The 65-acre course was never meant to be permanent, and it only lasted about four years. The city built the course on land it had acquired for expansion of Love Field airport. Prior to 1954, there was still Elm Thicket Park, which separated Highland Park from Elm Thicket/ North Park, an almost entirely Black neighborhood that started as a freedmen’s town around the end of the 19th century. That neighborhood is quickly vanishing due to a frenzy of teardowns and new homebuilding. The city took back Elm Thicket Park and Hilliard Golf Course in 1954, after reducing the course from nine holes to five, to expand the runway at Love Field. And only then was it decided that Black folks were allowed to play any of the municipal courses.
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hen Tiffany Moon was six years old, she took a solo flight from Beijing, China, to reunite in the United States with her parents, who had immigrated three years earlier. Moon graduated from Cornell at 19, then graduated with her medical degree from UT Southwestern in 2008, completing her residency in anesthesiology at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Now a board-cer tified anesthesiologist and professor at UT Southwestern, the 36-year-old Moon has been published in more than two dozen medical publications. Moon meet husband Daniel Moon, of the Sam Moon Group, in 2008. Married for eight years, their family includes two seventeen-year-old twins from Daniel’s first marriage, Nathan and Nicole, and six-year-old twins Chloe and Maddie. Moon also serves on the board of The Family Place. She recently launched a product line of masks, scrub caps, “Aromasthesia” candles and jewelry. A portion of proceeds benefit the Family Place. Oh, and she’s the newest cast member of the Real Housewives of Dallas. H O W WA S YO U R 2 0 2 0 ? WAS T H E R E A L E S S O N YOU LEARNED THIS PAST YEAR? I can’t say it was a great year, but I did learn a lot. The upheaval really helped me see what was important to me, who my real friends are, and what I need to focus on going forward .
W H Y A N EST H ES I O LO GY ? Anesthesiology combines the perfect daily physiology and pharmacology experiment because every patient is different. They have different diseases and different ways their body reacts to medications, so it always keeps me on my toes. I love the fast pace of the operating room and working with different surgical subspecialties and people each day. W H AT I S T H E R E S E A R C H P R OJ ECT YO U A R E M OST P ROU D O F ? The “Airway Study” is a prospective clinical trial of over 3,000 patients that I am writing up right now. We are trying to ascertain what makes some people more difficult to intubate than others. It took almost five years to complete and involved about 20 other people, so it was a big collaboration and I’m really looking forward to getting it published. W H Y D I D YO U S E L ECT YO U R R E S E A R C H FO CUS ES ? My research focuses came about naturally because I take care of a lot of really sick patients including l u n g c a n c e r p at i e n t s , t ra u m a patients and obese patients .
“I think the greatest thing we can do is to teach and inspire our next generation.”
W H AT ’ S N E X T I N T E R M S OF YOUR MEDICAL R ES E A RC H ?
I have an ongoing randomized, double-blind trial looking at
H O W H A S T H I S PA S T YEAR BEEN LIKE ON THE FRONTLINE OF CO RO N AV I RUS ?
two different medications that are used to reverse neuromuscular blockade in patients with endstage kidney disease. This is the first study of its kind in the United States, so I’m really excited about it.
It’s been very tough. Doctors and other first responders have been through so much this past year. In all the years I’ve practiced medicine, this one has by far been the hardest because of the devastation and emotional toll coronavirus has caused us.
WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO GO INTO TEACHING? I think the greatest thing we can do is to teach and inspire our next generation. I love teaching, guiding and empowering my medical students and residents .
WHAT WAS IT LIKE GRADUATING COLLEGE AND M E D I CA L SC H O O L SO YOU N G ? I don’t have anything else to compare it to and it was a very natural progression for me. I never felt “younger” than my peers or that I couldn’t do the work. I don’t think a lot of my peers realized that I was younger than them until it was time to go to a bar and then I was like, “Ummm, guys — I can’t get in.” WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO GO INTO MEDICINE? I wanted a career where I could make an impact in people’s lives and be proud of what I do each day. It’s extremely rewarding to be able to help others through their most difficult times.
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W H AT ’S I T L I K E T E AC H I N G W H E R E YO U G OT YOU R M E D I CA L D EG R E E ? I love UT Southwestern, having graduated from here over a decade ago, so it really was like “coming home” for me when I finished residency in California. I came back to the same department that inspired me to go into anesthesiology, so that hopefully I can inspire others to pursue this wonderful field of medicine. Sometimes I’ ll see old surgeons that were attendings back when I was a medical student and they’ ll say, “Oh, you can call me John,” and of course I’m like, “Yes, Dr. Smith. ” WHEN DID YOUR LOVE OF FASHION DEVELOP? I’ve always had a love for fashion. Even when I was young, I
in. The longest I’ve owned a pair of shoes? Probably my Ugg house sandals I’ve had for 10 years and refuse to throw away. My favorite place to shop in Dallas is Avara, a cute little house on Lovers Lane that features super chic pieces at affordable prices. My favorite wine is definitely Three Moons Wine, a private label Napa Valley cabernet that my husband and I blend each year.
H OW D I D YO U E N D U P O N T I KTO K? By accident! During quarantine my 16-year-old daughter was on TikTok and I decided to give it a try and well… now almost 300K followers later, I’m still not sure what just happened. It’s something fun that my entire family can do together - like performing the latest dance video – and a fun way for me to interact with my followers. I love making other people laugh, so if I can do that, I’ll keep going!
W H AT ’ S Y O U R FA V O R I T E THING ABOUT THE P L AT FO R M ? Mostly that it makes me laugh and gives me the opportunity to make others laugh. I truly believe laughter is the best medicine.
W H Y D I D YO U D E C I D E T O JOIN THE REAL HOUSEWIVES CAST ? It was an opportunity to push myself to do something completely out of my comfort zone. I mean, waaaay outside! Tiffany, Daniel, 6-year-old twins Chloe and Maddie, dogs Milo and Mindy and a rescue bunny Mochi.
would beg my mother to let me pick out my own clothes (usually from Goodwill) and I would look through the fashion magazines at the checkout stand while she shopped for groceries. I believe that fashion is a form of self-expression and creativity and that it should be fun.
would be fun to showcase my fashion and also my love and admiration for the women that I feature on “Woman Crush Wednesday.”
W H Y D I D YOU STA RT D O I N G YO U R I N S TA G R A M S E R I E S WOMAN CRUSH WEDNESDAY?
FAV O R I T E PA I R O F S H O E S ? PA I R O F S H O E S YO U ’ V E H A D T H E L O N G E S T ? FAV O R I T E P L AC E TO S H O P I N DA L L AS ? FAVO R I T E W I N E ? My f av o r i t e p a i r o f s h o e s a r e t h e Swarovski Louboutins that I got married
W H O’S YOU R ST Y L E I CO N ? Victoria Beckham.
WHAT ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT IN THIS SEASON OF REAL HOUSEWIVES OF DA L L AS ? Seeing our friendships blossom and each of the women go through their personal journe ys and change in different ways. WHAT CAN VIEWERS EXPECT?
My friends would occasionally text me pictures of celebrities in dresses and say, “Hey don’t you have this dress?” So, one day it occurred to me that it
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D E E P- F R I E D D RA M A CornDog with No Name moves past the pandemic and a Fletcher family lawsuit A CORN DOG PAINTED IN GOLD. A funnel cake on
fire. Fried corn on a stick. And yes, you can eat it all. “What if we had a modern corn dog concept, modern funnel cake concept, and we just really elevate everything about it?” says Jace Fletcher, co-founder of CornDog
with No Name. So they did, and it’s working. CornDog with No Name, the self-proclaimed “purveyors of fine stick food,” recently opened their second Dallas location at 6030 Luther near Hopdoddy Burger
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Opposite page: The Bonfire, a funnel cake topped with powdered sugar, chocolate, marshmallow and a graham cracker cookie that is lit on fire when served and The Nutty Nana topped with powdered sugar, bananas, salted caramel, whipped cream and crushed peanuts. Above: CornDog’s elote on a stick, called the Texican Cob. It comes topped with Tajin mayo, Valentina and lime.
Bar in Preston Center. The tale of the business hasn’t been all sunshine and roses, though. The beginning was plagued by both the pandemic and dramatic legal issues. Mother-daughter duo Vickie (Vic) and Jace Fletcher are of Fletcher’s Original Corny Dogs family origin, the famous State Fair of Texas staple. After Skip Fletcher, Jace’s grandfather and then-owner of Fletcher’s, died in 2017, Vic and Jace wanted to open their own corn dog business under the name Fletch, Jace’s nickname since birth. Jace says they met with GG Fletcher, Skip’s wife and the new owner of Fletcher’s, about the proposition. Jace has told other publications that she understood she had GG’s blessing. But when Jace went to open her restaurant, GG filed an injunction to stop Jace from using the name Fletch in business. Lawsuits and counter lawsuits followed, delaying Vic and Jace’s business from opening. Last year, after getting permission from a judge, Vic and Jace opened without a name Vic and Jace were serving corn dogs with “No Name” signs plastered over the originals. “I could no longer use the original name, so I let the community vote,” Jace says. “Everyone loved ‘CornDog with No Name,’ so it stuck.”
The two sides recently settled, dropping all lawsuits and agreeing not to comment further. Now, Vic and Jace say they’re trying to put the whole thing behind them. Vic helped oversee the sale of millions of corn dogs at the State Fair for more than 30 years and has been involved in catering and events throughout her career. Jace worked in finance previously and sees herself as the creative force. When establishing their own restaurant, Vic and Jace say they are focusing on product quality, starting with ingredients. They use pure peanut oil, all-beef franks and no preservatives in the mix, and Jace says that is part of what elevates the food. A sign hanging on the wall reads: “The secret ingredient is always love.” Jace points to it laughing. “ The secret ingredient is always love, but really, the secret ingredient is peanut oil,” she says. The two follow the wisdom of Jace’s great-grandfather Neil Fletcher, who was one of the original founders of Fletcher’s and who is credited with inventing the corn dog in the 1940s. “‘Corn dogs are simple, but they ain’t easy.’ That’s what my great-grandfather said, and it’s so true. You can really mess things up,” Jace says. To maintain simplicity, the corn dog batter only has seven ingredients:
wheat flour, corn flour, milk, eggs, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Once the basics were down, Vic and Jace got creative. The menu features an array of fried foods, from jalapeno- and cheddar-infused sausages to a frank enveloped in a dill pickle, along with fried corn, deluxe funnel cakes and deep-fried Oreos. “This year has been a breakthrough. We’ve gone from a classic corn dog with a hot dog in the middle, to now we’re rolling it in bacon and we’re painting on the 24-karat gold, and we’re layering in the poblano peppers,” Jace says. That mix of classic recipes with a modern spin comes through in the place’s ambiance too. The space is stylish with a distinct modern blackand-white theme. A “Step Right Up” sign hangs over the cash register, and pictures of classic Texas venues line the side wall. Caricatures of Vic and Jace, and renderings of corn dogs from local artists pop out. Reggae is playing and a couch sits next to a table set up with games such as Tic-Tac-Toe, Pick Up Stix and Jenga. “We wanted the vibe to be very vintage fair and local, but personal, but also a little side of freak,” Jace says. She points to a photo of white cowboy boots, and then to an antique-style painting of her in a Wild West cos-
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DAILY DALLAS NEWS The antique-style painting of Jace Fletcher holding a bouquet of corn dogs overlooks the restaurant. Photo by Connor Henry.
tume. “I’m known for my white cowboy boots. Also, we did when I was 18 the old-timey photo booths where you like hold the revolvers and guns and stuff. I found a local artist, and she replaced the revolver with a bouquet of corn dogs.” Once the pandemic hit in full force, Vic and Jace had no intention of opening a second location until restrictions were lifted. They already had a catering van and survived because they were able to work birthday parties and pop-ups. But when business struggled in the original location, Vic and Jace kept an eye out. “When this opportunity presented itself, we couldn’t pass it up,” Jace says. Now, the original location, 10220 Technology Blvd., ser ves as the main frying center for events, and Preston Center is the main dine-in location. In addition to doing pop-ups, the range and use of Jace’s prized catering van allows CornDog with No Name to help the community when disaster strikes.
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“We did our first emergency meal program when the tornado hit last year. We drove to Walnut Hill, parked and fed first responders all day and residents whose homes had been completely torn apart,” Jace says. The restaurant operates on a generator, so even if there is an electrical outage, CornDog with No Name can fry batches of food to feed hundreds. Jace estimates they fed close to 500 people after the tornado ripped through North Dallas. Jace credits thinking of corn dogs as more than just a business to her grandfather. Reminded of his influence, she says she became inspired to start her business at his funeral. “I was delivering the eulogy at my granddad’s funeral, and I was talking about him and his legacy, and I was imagining his boots walking down the middle of all of these hundreds of people,” she says. “I just had this, like a truck hit me. I was like, ‘Oh. Oh, this is my future. I’m gonna do this. I’m gonna do it and wear the boots proudly.’” MARCH 2021
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porch portraits A year ago, wearing a mask in public would’ve raised some eyebrows. The pandemic has changed almost every aspect of life: how people shop, how people go to work, how people go to school. Now, mask-wearing has become as mundane as morning coffee. These experiences have held constant for families in our neighborhood. Story by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by JULIA NEWMAN
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his time last year, Kyle and Sarah “SS” Baugh were spending their Sunday evenings at Drake’s. They used to leave their son Jackson, who’s almost 2 years old, with their babysitter, and head to the restaurant to munch on honey truffle chicken, with live music in the background and people perched on red leather seats all around. But their weekend plans changed when the pandemic started. The Baughs, who have lived in Preston Hollow for about 1.5 years, lost access to childcare. Daily activities for Kyle and SS shifted to include taking care of Jackson and Foxy, their 12-year-old Pomeranian, while continuing to work in residential real estate from home. Initially, the Baughs were concerned about how the real estate market would fare, especially during the typically busiest months. “Everything got put on hold for about two months,” Kyle says. Their concerns eased in mid-May, when the housing market started to heat up again. Existing home sales in 2020 reached the highest point since 2006. “We feel, and we are, very fortunate and lucky to be in an area and in our business where everything is doing well, and we obviously know that a lot of people aren’t in that situation,” Kyle says. Motivated by the circumstances brought on by the pandemic, the Baughts gave back to the community by donating Campisi’s pizzas to nurses in the emergency unit at UT Southwestern. “We owe everything to the medical
field right now,” SS says. Like many other families, the Baughs have been spending more time together, walking to Bluff View Park in the mornings and some afternoons to enjoy the views and give Foxy some exercise. Being at home has taught Kyle and SS about their relationship. Instead of holding on to grudges or frustration, they “take a step back.” “The other part is not working too much, making time for family. Honestly, that’s probably the biggest strategy,” Kyle says. “With the pandemic, it’s allowed us to really see what’s important, not worry or focus too much on just working too much.” Their co-parenting skills have also improved, which comes as the couple is expecting their second child. “If one of us needs to take a nap or go do something else for a little while, we have each other’s back and can make time,” Kyle says. The Baughs aren’t too worried about what their work-life balance will look like in the coming months, even though they’ ll have to juggle raising two kids, caring for an older dog and managing a growing business. “I think we’ ll be busier for sure, but I’m excited for our son to have a sibling,” SS says. When things are back to what they were a year ago, the Baughs might find themselves traveling, “probably somewhere warm.” Or they may just decide to wander back to Drake’s, to catch up with some friends over live music and honey truffle chicken.
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he pandemic brought all the Wiegands back to the house. Luke, 7, missed the excitement of finishing up his basketball season and had to complete the school year at home. Philip, who works in commercial real estate, had to stop going to the office for a while. Activities the Wiegand family did together came to a halt when they couldn’t make it to services at Northway
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Church on Sundays. Philip and his wife, Melissa, tried to preserve some elements of normalcy by moving home groups outside. Those didn’t last. Though virtually connecting with other people works sometimes, Melissa says, it’s not always easy. “There’s a little bit more of an awkwardness to it, I feel like, for me at least, not knowing where to look for the camera, and you know, if the computer’s at a funny angle, or my dog’s barking,” she says.
At home, Philip and Melissa carried his desk out of the office space and upstairs to a room with doors so he could muffle some of the background noise. That space lost a computer, but it gained blocks their younger children – Davis, 4, and Emma, 2 – played with while Luke did his schoolwork at the kitchen table. “I think figuring out how to do school, with him [Philip] working and with two younger kids was very challenging, I’d say the first few months, until we kind of found our new rhythm,” Melissa says. Part of that new rhythm was discovering activities to do at their home in Preston Hollow, where they’ve lived since December 2019. Davis and Emma spent much of their time playing outside to let Luke focus on his schoolwork. “We just got a little bounce house, and that has really been used every day, and we bought a little zip line off Amazon, which has been a hit,” Melissa says. And Melissa, who has been leading the kids in gymnastics classes in their yard, didn’t forget to make time for herself. She decided to learn to play piano, something she’s wanted to do since she was a child. Using a computer and the keyboard her husband gave her as an anniversary gift during the pandemic, Melissa practices learning songs like “Ain’t No Sunshine.” “I feel like it’s such a good way to get out maybe feelings you can’t express in words, like a catharsis,” Melissa says, as Charlie, the Wiegands’ dog, barks in the background. The Wiegands have learned to appreciate their time together as a family, Melissa says, and she’s thankful her children have each other’s company. “I think the family time has been great, and learning that we have what we need here in our house together,” Melissa says. With Luke back at school and Philip back at the office, the Wiegands are experiencing a snippet of what life was like a year ago. But the family is waiting to do more, like visiting Disney World, where they had planned a trip last spring. Until they can, the Wiegands will be happy to go somewhere closer to home: inside Chick-fil-A.
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T H EY ’ R E FAST, W E ’ R E F U R I OUS How street racing and intersection takeovers became a neighborhood problem Story by CONNOR HENRY
YOU CAN HEAR IT FROM MILES AWAY. Engines roaring, tires screeching and spewing clouds of smoke, spectators yelling and cheering. Sometimes fireworks and gunshots ring out. Reports of street racing from the Dallas Police Department (DPD) shot up in 2020 — from 4,867 in 2019 to 8,441 — and 911 calls related to speeding and racing have increased every year since 2016. Metrics from the first part of 2021 show no signs of reports decreasing. “Tuesday night (Jan. 26), from 9:35 (p.m.) ’til 1:30 (a.m.), there were 11 incidents (of reckless driving) in my distric t,” says Councilwoman Jennifer Staubach Gates. “The officers, they made five arrests, four for illegal spectating, and they gave another eight citations … had seven total stops … and then two vehicles were towed. That was just Tuesday night.” Street racing and car stunts are by no means new phenomena, but
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last year, intersection takeovers, excessive speeding and extremely loud vehicles started to infiltrate the downtown area. People noticed the problem, and DPD patrols increased; lane reductions at key intersections and temporary stop signs were also implemented to calm traffic. “Curbing street racing in the city became a priority, and it worked,” says Councilman Chad West. “But since it worked, it got pushed to the neighborhoods.” The DPD’s limited resources mean officers find it hard to keep up. West says on any given weekend, there are anywhere from 1,000-2,000 street racers in the city, but only 800-1,000 officers on patrol. Also hampering the DPD is a strict policy on high-speed pursuit that was revised in 2011 after the determination that high-speed chases, often over misdemeanor offenses, result in increased injuries and deaths. Now, officers can only engage in pursuit when they can identify a threat of physical force or violence.
And like almost ever y other aspect of life, the pandemic has played a part. “I do think the isolation, the COVID quarantine has contributed to it,” Staubach Gates says. “Especially the youth that are involved, because there are just less activities. There are less organized activities for anybody.” At points, crashes related to racing and drifting in intersections have resulted in property damage, injury and even death for both participants and bystanders. Recently, Preston Hollow resident Marybeth Ruchlin took a video of cars doing donuts at Preston Road and Northwest Highway. In the video, a truck crashes into a pole that explodes in a white flash. Preston Hollow resident Jessica Shaw says these types of events happen virtually every weekend. “The races are becoming bolder and more reckless,” Shaw says. “Beyond the frustration from the lack of sleep and infrastructure damage, it’s just a matter of time before they increase their recklessness and someone dies.”
STREET RACING VS. INTERSECTION TAKEOVERS Labeling it all as “street racing” is an oversimplification. “There’s actual street racing, and then there’s the parking lot takeovers, highway-takeover group,” says a professional hot rod shop manager who did not want his name used. The shop manager was into cars when he was a kid, but he first became involved with street racing when he was a teenager. “ I u s e d t o go o u t w i t h my friend’s dad,” he says. “We’d go out to the track, and then after, go out to the street and try to find street races.” The shop manager says street races originally happened in a controlled environment, off the main roads and usually late at night. He became serious about racing when he turned 16 and had his own car. “That’s what I would spend my money on,” he says. “I’ve done every aspect of it: the paint, chassis, motors, interior.” To him, street racing is nothing like the intersection takeovers. “That’s more of a gathering of people with cars, and those are the ones that end up giving everyone a bad name. Those are the ones that are out of control,” he says. The takeovers (also known as slideshows) involve cars blocking an intersection or parking lot. The events attract people mostly under the age of 25. Drivers swing cars around in circles, burning rubber and often coming close to spectators. These events tend to draw larger crowds. A Lake Highlands resident who sometimes goes to takeovers tells a different story. “ T he y don’ t le t just anyone go in the pit (the middle of the group, where drivers do donuts),” says the neighbor. He also did not want to be identified. “It’s only extremely good drivers. They go and practice all the time,” he said.
A car peels out at a blocked intersection by U.S. 75 while a passenger hangs out the side window holding a flag.
He stumbled across his first takeover by accident, when he was out late one night. “I was curious about it, so I looked on social media, and I saw some accounts. You have to message proof that you saw street racing, or something that proves you’re not gonna rat them out to get in some groups,” he says. “I’m not a car guy myself. I just get bored and want to go watch it.” Takeovers are typically organized on social media. Private Instagram accounts, like the one the neighbor joined, post scheduled events, and people can communicate through direct messaging about which cars will block off which streets and who will be posted where to watch for police. “It’s organized. It’s also widespread,” Staubach Gates says. “Those initiatives to try to get intel related to how they’re communicating through social media is definitely a way to try to stop it before it happens.” Since DPD reporting doesn’t differentiate between street racing and sliding, it’s hard to say which is more prevalent or more dangerous. Taken together, though, reckless driving has taken over Dallas. In a recent public safety town hall meeting, assistant city manager for public safety Jon Fortune said citywide in 2020, DPD
issued more than 4,000 hazardous citations, 10,000 regular citations and 600 spectator citations and made more than 1,200 arrests related to reckless driving. Police towed nearly 700 vehicles and recovered 34 stolen vehicles during that period. In May 2020, City Council passed an ordinance to impound cars and ticket spectators. “Unfortunately, I don’t think it has had much impact, because we continue to see it throughout the city,” Staubach Gates says. With the DPD’s policy on pursuit, drivers typically aren’t caught. Even when they are, they face relatively low fines. While their vehicles are impounded, the perpetrators have to be convicted for their cars to be seized, and it can take multiple convictions for that to happen. Staubach Gates and other city lawmakers want state legislators to change laws so cities can more easily seize cars and punish offenders. “ They’re expensive cars, and we’re hoping that if the punishment becomes severe enough that it will potentially curtail some of the activity,” she says. Still, some of the issue goes back to the disparity between the number of offenders and the number of police officers on call on a given night.
“Even if we focused every officer, we cannot police our way out of it,” Councilman West says. “We have to come up with other solutions.”
OTHER SOLUTIONS The shop manager and the neighbor agree street racing and sliding come with unavoidable risks. A solution they both propose is finding a space where people can do it more safely. That’s a view shared by Ricardo Anderson, a self-identified swinger. Anderson sent an email to Councilman David Blewett last year asking for the City’s help in creating a “special spot” to get swingers off the streets. “ Trus t me, we ge tting tired of running from y’all,” he wrote. “Us swingers want to be safe as well, left alone in peace… we previously had a secret spot that DPD found and decided to raid it a few months back… we just want our spot back.” There’s a petition on Change.org from TSNLS Dallas, an Instagram account that posts videos of street racing, requesting “a legal lot to slide so NOBODY gets hurt.” The petition had 1,452 signatures as of mid-February. In theory, designating a spot where people can race and slide without endangering residents sounds promising, but endorsing a space like that is problematic for the City from a liability standpoint, Blewett says. Staubach Gates sees some merit to the idea, but she doesn’t think creating a space would be a cure-all. “I think some of the thrill of it is that it’s risky and that it is illegal. I understand that there’s a lot of juveniles involved, and I think we all can recognize that when you’re going through your juvenile years, there’s a propensity to want to engage in risky behavior,” she says. “Giving juveniles an opportunity to experience risk in a healthy environment is really, we are lacking that. But taking the step that we need to give these racers a location … I just don’t think that’s government’s role.”
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Street racing is currently a priority two call, which means a 12-minute response time for officers to get to the scene.
Even if designating a spot relieves the problem, there’s no immediate relief. One strategy that has had some success was implemented on Lower Greenville, where the street was reduced from four lanes to two. The average speed on Greenville Avenue dropped by about 15 mph, and all crimes fell by 80%. Road dieting, another term for lane reduction, was also temporarily implemented in Oak Cliff along Hampton Road, a popular thoroughfare that sees excessive speeding and intersection takeovers. Using traffic cones, the six-lane road was reduced to four lanes on the weekends, which pushed traffic together and effectively slowed drivers. With the road diet, Hampton saw about a 75% decrease in 911 calls related to street blockage and a 65% decrease in calls related to street racing. Traffic calming via road diet has worked in some areas to decrease street racing and intersection takeovers, but it’s not a one-size-fits-all. “Most of the intersections where it’s happening in (my district), there’s MARCH 2021
not really that opportunity,” Staubach Gates says. “(Deputy Chief Rick Watson of DPD’s West Division) has looked for it, but I don’t think they’ve identified areas where they could utilize that.” Meanwhile, DPD is exploring the expansion of intel and surveillance techniques, and the City is conducting traffic studies in the City to diagnose problem areas. The Neighborhood Traffic Management Plan, Traffic Management Toolkit and the Connect Dallas Strategic Mobility Plan all aim to comprehensively tackle Dallas street safety. “We’re trying, and we’re experimenting in different parts of the City to see which (strategy) works where,” said Ghassan Khankarli, assistant director of the transportation department, in a recent meeting about racing on Skillman Street. “One treatment in one area works, but it might not work in another area, or we might need a hybrid. We’re trying to come up with the best solutions.” You can report street racing by calling 911 or on the City’s 911 iWatchDallas app.
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The world is rigged for goodness We n e e d to re m e m b e r o u r go o d n ess, es p e c i a l l y t h ese d ays
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believe all the great spiritual teachings reveal the expansiveness of God. They point us beyond ourselves to a bigger God than we could imagine. It can be overwhelming. How do we connect with the vastness of the divine? How do we know these truths deep in our bones? One of my spiritual teachers says: “The universal has to become particular, so the particular can become universal.” I think it’s a perfect time to remind you of the spiritual truth that the universe is rigged for goodness. No, really it is. No matter your faith tradition, when God creates, God calls God’s creation good. In fact, when God gets to humankind, the rhythm of the creation poem skips a beat, and God looks upon humankind and says, “They are very good.” We need to remember our goodness, especially these days. I encountered this universal truth in particular ways in our neighborhood recently. A few weeks ago, my wife and I walked through our own neighborhood when two dogs darted out of a yard to greet us. A teenage boy ran after them; when he approached, he said to us, “I’m sorry, I can’t get too close to you because of COVID.” We asked, “Oh, do you have the virus?” He replied, “I don’t have it, but my grandpa has cancer, and if he got the virus, it would be really bad. I’m just extra careful because of him.” A teenage boy who knew his life was bigger than his own — a teenager who could see beyond himself and took extraordinary measures to ensure his grandpa’s health. The whole thing is rigged for goodness. Just last month, my daughter and I ventured out in the rain to go to my
office to pick up a stack of books. As we walked into the building, we talked about 2020 and how much we were looking forward to 2021. When we emerged from the building, we were greeted by a complete double rainbow. We rolled our windows down and lifted our eyes to the sky in wonder and amazement. We drove down extra streets in search of the end of the rainbow. I’ll always remember that drive and the rainbow over our neighborhood and city, reminding us that not only are we going to be OK, but that we are held in
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A MAKING OF A FILM Hockaday student explores mental health in national PBS program H O C K A DAY S C H O O L S T U D E N T Ava Thigpen was one of 10 students from throughout the country selected to participate in the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs workshop. The program, a part of nonprofit Close Up’s civic engagement program, paired 10 students to create videos that explore societal issues. Thigpen was paired with eight-grader Laila Gheis from Maryland. They were tasked with making a video profile about each other discussing a topic they cared about. Gheis, whose family is originally from Egypt, shared how immigration has impacted her family, and Thigpen explored mental health issues. “I hope my video just helps people realize it’s a very important issue,
and it shouldn’t just be like shoved aside,” Thigpen says. “If you do struggle with your mental health, you shouldn’t be looked down upon. It’s a very real issue. It’s not something that makes you weak, it’s completely normal. It’s okay to talk about it, I hope people realize that they do.” Thigpen found out about the project through her teachers. Interested in filmmaking and activism, she thought the workshop was a good way to experience both. “I feel like there are a lot of things that are important to me and that I’d like to change, but I’m not the best at like expressing my opinions to other people. I thought that it’d be an opportunity to get better at that and to learn important skills,” she says. Between coronavirus and social media, mental health has been an issue for Thigpen and her friends. One of her friends, who has asthma, hasn’t been able to attend school in person and hasn’t seen any of her friends in months. “It’s easier to feel sad and tired because it’s harder to do things with people because there aren’t as many opportunities. It’s easy to feel isolated,” Thigpen says. “Sometimes if you feel like sad or upset, you feel ‘I’m the only person who feels like this.’ But really a lot of people feel that way.”
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FENCES AND OUTDOOR LIVING Read the Lakewood Advocate this century? You’ve probably seen an ad for Charlie Hooker’s Old Gate Fence Company. Charlie is a Master Carpenter and has built artisan fences and pergolas in Dallas for over 25 years. This year, Old Gate joined forces with Charlie’s son Cahill’s company, Veritas Roofing. The Father-Son duo are proud to be working together and want to talk with you about designing your outdoor entertainment space. From: Cahill Hooker cahill@veritasroofingtx.com Subject: Old Gate Fence Ad Date: February 12, 2021 at 4:53 PM To: Prio Berger pberger@advocatemag.com
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Read the Lakewood Advocate this century? You’ve probably seen an ad for Charlie Hooker’s Old Gate Fence Company. Charlie is a Master Carpenter and has built arDsan fences and pergolas in Dallas for over 25 years. This year, Old Gate joined forces with Charlie’s son Cahill’s company, Veritas Roofing. The Father-Son duo are proud to be working together and want to talk with you about designing your outdoor entertainment space. Phone number
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ROOFING & RESTORATION Veritas Roofing, owned by Bishop Lynch alumni Cahill Hooker & John Koepp, serves commercial and residential clients in the greater DFW area providing storm restoration, roof repairs, & roof replacement. Veritas prides itself on its commitment to quality and unmatched Lifetime Labor Warranty. Check out their Google reviews, then call Veritas to know the TRUTH about your roof! veritasroofingtx.com 214-432-2134 817-455-0117
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UNDER COVER
Our neighborhood’s ground roots efforts Don’t let empty grocery shelves happen to you. Sustain yourself with North Haven Gardens’ grow-at-home veggie plants, herbs and greens-producing options, either in a garden or inside your home. Right now is primo time for planting a cornucopia of edible possibilities. Gardening is organic therapy with a prize at the end: Getting to reap (and eat) what you sow. Start digging and enjoy! This page and cover photo by Kathy Tran. If your iconic neighborhood business would like an opportunity to collaborate with us on our cover photo package, please contact publisher Jehadu Abshiro at jabshiro@advocatemag.com.
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