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Hillcrest award

Hillcrest High School was recognized as one of the top performing high schools in the Dallas County Promise Program, a partnership aimed at ensuring every high school graduate – regardless of GPA or financial status – attends college. Hillcrest earned the award for the top school of its size for enrollment performance and growth. Sixty-one percent of seniors were enrolled in college, marking a 12 percent growth. Hillcrest joined the program in 2018 and is one of 43 participating high schools. Hillcrest High Assistant Principal Derinda Hunter and Principal Joseph Sotelo accepted the award.

Northaven Trail update

The Northaven Trail is 85 percent complete, according to Dallas City Council member Jennifer Staubach Gates. Construction will be completed by November 2019. HAWK signal installation will begin in early summer and is expected to be done by November. This will help pedestrians and cyclists cross major streets.

Carpool crime

Melinda

Gates’

Moment

Ursuline Academy alumna Melinda

French Gates is on tour for her book

“The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World.” In the book, she shares her story along with tales of women who she has met around the world. She recalls Ursuline teacher Susan Bauer, who advocated early for personal computers for students. “She believed that girls could code when hardly anybody was coding, girls or boys,” Gates told the Dallas Morning News.

A neighbor was on her way to afternoon carpool with her young daughter in the car when she saw a sedan make an erratic U-turn in an intersection. After the woman tried to take a photo with her phone, the driver of the sedan chased her down, boxing her in at a stop sign next to Preston Hollow Park. The sedan’s passenger leaned out the window, yelled and pointed a weapon at the neighbor, then threw a large unidentified object at her car. “I was terrified,” she told CBS 11. “I was in fear for our lives.”

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