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Advanced Heart & Vascular Care

Your heart is uniquely yours. At Texas Health Physicians Group, your heart and vascular care begins with a plan that’s customized for you. And with locations across North Texas, our care is close to you. Schedule an appointment today and discover our compassionate, comprehensive approach. From proactive prevention and diagnostics to advanced bypass and valve surgery and more, we’ll get you started with a plan for your heart health. Convenient appointments are available, and we accept most insurance.

Shopping Moment

You’re going to want to buy one of these silk scarves by Dallas artist MIONE PLANT at Tootsies. The collection is called “Kiss My Sass” and features animals. Plant worked as an engineer for 10 years before leaving to pursue her art. She began painting and donating her work to the families that Dwell with Dignity serves. “I loved witnessing the impact that joyful paintings, with a positive underlying message, can bring to children and their parents,” she says.

Good news of the day

n Fourteen-year-old twins JACK AND EMMA YURICH planned a slime hoedown event to raise money for their charity “Karing 4 Kliptown” in South Africa. In lieu of gifts for their B’NaiMitzvah, they asked for monetary donations to the project. Their goal was to raise $15,000, but they exceeded the target by raising $27,000.

n St. Mark’s eighth-grader BAXTER PERRY-MILLER is going for the “Olympic Medal of Scouting” Conservation Award. Since 1975, only 114 scouts have earned the rare Hornaday Silver Medal. Baxter must complete four conservation projects to be eligible. He just submitted one to the Trinity River Audubon Center. Baxter’s idea was to design and construct wooden bins for trash and recyclable products.

n When Tom Landis opened HOWDY HOMEMADE, he hired employees with Downs syndrome and autism. The result? ABC News came calling. Plus: golfer Jordan Spieth is a fan.

Celeb Roundup

n DIRK NOWITZKI hosted the fourth-annual Dirk Nowitzki Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic Sept. 15 at SMU, featuring silver medalist Tommy Haas; Mark Knowles, Grand Slam doubles champ and five-time Olympian; actor Boris Kodjoe; and Steve Nash, former NBA All-Star. Proceeds benefitted the Dirk Nowitzki Foundation.

n TOMMY LEE JONES is an eighthgeneration Texan who attended Harvard. He played polo and was Al Gore’s roommate. After all of his success, the St. Mark’s graduate (Class of 1965) plays Brad Pitt’s dad in a new space movie, “Ad Astra.” n Ursuline alumna MELINDA FRENCH GATES launched “Equality Can’t Wait” to draw attention to gender equality by making fun of it. Gates’ campaign calls on stand-up comics to apply the power of their humor to the issue, recording short videos and tweeting them on the hashtag #EqualityCantWait. “I think comedians can sometimes speak the truth to society about the things that are truly going on and that we don’t want to face.”

Maintenance moment

The Real Housewives of Dallas returned, and we are obsessed with LeeAnne and Cary’s lashes. Here are three places to get lash extensions in our neighborhood: n Amazing Lash Studio, Preston Royal, 6025 Royal Lane Suite 231, 214-740-6890. n Lash.i.Candy, 6211 W Northwest Highway, Suite 200, 214-293-0353. n Lash Avenue, 5934 Royal Lane,Suite 214, 214-843-1963.

Fierce female update

exas Women’s Foundation named A. SHONN BROWN (an Advocate magazine “fierce female”) as chair, serving from 2019-2021. Brown, vice president and deputy general counsel at Kimberly-Clark, has served on the foundation’s board since 2015, cochaired the annual luncheon in 2017 and helped establish The Village Giving Circle at Texas Women’s Foundation.