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Politics equal profits for Dallas

By Shelley Kofler and Eric Aasen KERA News

Dallas hosted two big events in recent days — the New Cities Summit, which attracted hundreds of scholars and planners, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, which brought in more than 200 mayors from around the country. KERA’s Shelley Kofler recaps a big week for Dallas — and what it means for the Big D.

Photo courtesy of the City of Dallas

The City of Dallas, Friends of Fair Park and the State Fair of Texas invite everyone to celebrate America with a day of family fun at the City of Dallas’ official Independence Day celebration, Fair Park Fourth.

Enjoy live music, water features and access to rides, games and concessions within the State Fair of Texas Midway starting at noon on July fourth.

Access to food trucks will be available throughout Fair Park starting at 6 p.m. Free and open to the public, the family-friendly event will feature patriotic performances, “dancing water” shows at the Esplanade Fountain, entertainment, concessions, plus a spectacular fireworks show at approximately 9:30 p.m.

View the fireworks show from inside the Cotton Bowl, on the State Fair of Texas Midway or from various locations throughout the Fair Park grounds. For more information on Fair Park festivities, including museum information and the “Dallas 7/4 Race,” visit FairPark.org. — Karissa Schuler

Vanity plates available for HP supporters MyPlates, the company that produces specialty license plates for Highland Park Independent School District and many Photo courtesy of Highland Park ISD other organizations, announced it has renewed its contract with the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. As part of the renewal, MyPlates has announced several changes, including a minimum threshold of 200 sold plates for each organization to keep its plate on the market. As of March 2014, Highland Park ISD sold 66 plates.

The deadline to reach the threshold is Nov. 19, 2014.

MyPlates is offering the following rebates to those who order an HP plate by Oct. 31. A one-year plate earns a $25 rebate, a five-year plate earns a $50 rebate and a 10-year plate earns $75. To order your blue and gold HP Scots plate today, visit myplates.com/go/hp.

The sale of the plates benefits the HPISD Central Dads Club. — From Staff Reports

In This Issue

Classified .......................................................... 11 Community Calendar ....................................... 4 Fashion Trail .....................................................11 Fitness on the Trail ............................................ 8 Letter from the Editor........................................ 2 History on the Trail............................................ 8 Meet Your Neighbor .......................................... 2 Restaurant Directory ......................................... 9 Restaurant Review ............................................. 4 Scene Around Town......................................... 10 Shop the Trail .................................................. 10 Trail Mix ............................................................ 3 Find us at facebook.com/KTWeekly

What’s the impact of these two events? One result is a nice boost to the Dallas tax base. The Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau said the events brought 2,500 people into the city. They spent several million dollars while they were here and that generated about $330,000 in local tax

Photo by Katherine Welles, courtesy of KERA News

Dallas has benefitted in recent days after hosting two big events — the New Cities Summit and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. revenues, which isn’t bad for a week’s worth of work.

A chance to show off the city. Dallas Mayor Mike

Rawlings has said it was a great opportunity to show off the city. He was especially excited about the international journalists here for

the New Cities Summit. He wants Dallas to become a global destination, like Paris

see DALLAS on page 5

OAK LAWN

Scottish Rite Hospital playground redesigned

By Manny Mendoza Allan Shivers Park, the patient and community playground on the campus of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, reopened last week after a $1.9 million renovation.

The hospital is planning a celebration later this summer.

The redesign replaces the park’s 22-year-old structures with multiple state-of-the-art play areas and adds a sidewalk along Welborn Street that complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The park is named after a former Texas governor who served as chairman of the TSRHC Board of Trustees.

“Not only has the park

Photos courtesy of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children

Ann Marie Keierleder, a 4-year-old TSRHC patient from Beaumont, enjoys a new slide in Allan Shivers Park.

served as a recreational haven for children and a welcome respite during their time at the hospital, but it has also been a venue for birthday parties, Easter egg hunts, family gatherings and casual Saturday afternoon play dates for community members,” said Robert L. Walker, TSRHC president and chief executive officer. “We hope to continue enriching the community by providing a welcoming place where families can spend quality time together and where children can play in a safe environment.”

New park features include increased shading, improved sight lines so parents can keep an eye on more than one child at

a time and an inclusive play principle that allows children with or without disabilities to enjoy the park.

A Hex Hat Shade covering the top of the “Playscape” provides protection from the sun, along with three towers with punched steel, carnivalstyle roofs. The park also has been re-graded, has a new entrance and signage and two new gazebos.

The multiple textures, colors and sounds of the new structures encourage cognitive growth through imaginative, interactive play. For example, the circular, electronic NEOS 360 features eight games designed to improve peripheral vision and auditory and spatial awareness skills.

see PARK on page 11

UNIVERSITY PARK

Survey conducted ranks SMU Meadows in top 10

By Victoria Winkelman SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts has been named No. 1 among the top 10 music colleges in the U.S. by College Factual, an organization that ranks colleges in multiple categories to help parents and students with college choice decisions.

College Factual cites Meadows for its financial aid, number of music majors, individual attention to students and for focusing on “fostering artists’ abilities as both musicians and community influencers in a concentrated environment.”

“We are thrilled that Meadows is receiving

Photo by Nan Coulter

Dr. Paul Phillips, professor of music at the Meadows School of the Arts, conducts the Meadows Symphony Orchestra. well-deserved recognition for its music program,” Sam Holland, director of the Division of Music and interim

dean of the Meadows School of the Arts said. “Our diverse music degrees and internationally acclaimed faculty attract

top students from around the globe, who enjoy the best of both worlds – conservatoryquality training and an outstanding liberal arts education that prepares them to ‘make a difference’ in the world.”

Other universities on the list include Boston College, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Cornell, Brown, Duke, Columbia and the College of William and Mary.

College Factual considered a number of factors in the rankings, including early and mid-career earnings, number of graduates, percent of graduates in that major at the school, related majors offered and best overall college quality.

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Saving lives is close to Durfee’s heart

By Lucy Higginbotham If you were having heart surgery, wouldn't it be amazing to have the guy who invented the device that helps heal your heart actually use it in your procedure?

At Doctor’s Hospital, you can.

In fact, for anyone who has had an angioplasty or a stent put in their heart in any hospital anywhere for the past 25 years or so, it’s a pretty safe bet the doctor used Paul Durfee’s invention or a device based on his theory.

It is called a guide catheter, and its job is very specific.

Cardiologists use the 40inch long device to push stents up through the femoral artery in the leg, up into the heart to the site of blockage — the clog in an artery. The stent allows the blood to flow so you don’t die of a heart attack.

Durfee’s catheter was the first device to make that technique possible. Up until then, no instrument could keep the stent from slipping. Doctors had a hard time consistently getting the artery-opening device to its point of need.

While it’s not unusual for inventors of medical implements to labor in obscurity, there are two things that make this situation rare.

First, the inventor is actually in the room using the device he created on a regular basis. Second, he is not from the medical community’s Ivory Tower.

“He is not a PhD, but he is an extremely bright, inventive, imaginative guy whose mind is always going,” said long-time friend and associate Dr. Greg Redish, an interventional cardiologist at Doctor’s Hospital.

“I mean, a bunch of us here are doctors, but we didn’t invent a catheter!” he laughed.

Paul Durfee is a cardiovascular technician (CVT) in the cardio-cath lab at Doctor’s Hospital. He has more than 25 year’s experience in cardiology and has worked with well-known heart surgeons in Baylor, Presbyterian and Methodist hospitals.

He created the guide catheter when he was 25 years old after a particularly frustrating day at work during his tenure at Baylor. He was assisting Dr. Michael Donsky in late 1991, and both men were getting angry because the stent kept slipping. The catheter at the time just couldn’t do the job. Finally, according to Durfee, Donsky yelled in exasperation, “Well if you’re so dang smart, Durfee, you come up with one!”

So he did.

He went home with several existing catheters, got a coat hanger (for shaping) and a hair dryer (to create heat to make the wire more pliable) and started working in his garage to shape a new one — a shape he envisioned that would back up against the aorta but still allow room for blood flow.

Many nights he tinkered, convinced he could make it work.

He showed the final version to all the doctors at Baylor. They were eager to see if it could be successful.

He received the patent on April 20, 1993. Three months later, Durfee’s catheter was first used at Baylor Hospital

by Dr. Michael Schumacher with Durfee standing right beside him, coaching.

“It was exciting! It was scary! I had two boys, and this was like my third baby!”

Durfee exclaimed. “I kept thinking ‘Oh God, please don’t let it kill this person!’” he said.

But it didn’t. Not only was the intervention a great success, but Durfee has since

another rock star of the cardio world, Dr. Michael DeBake, who also worked closely with Cooley.

So Durfee has personal connections with three of the biggest stars in the cardio firmament and a special love for fellow technician Thomas.

Both men have been largely ignored for their contributions because they were Photo by Lucy Higginbotham “just technicians.”

Spend just a few The doctor’s choice is Durfee’s catheter minutes with Durfee … coming soon to a heart near you. and it’s hard not to catch his passion and talked with hundreds of patients who benefitted from his humor. He absolutely loves working in the “cath lab” device. with its crisis and energy and Ironically, it does not life-or-death importance. bear his name nor does he “I’ve never been to ‘work’ receive substantial royalties — I do this because I love it! I from it. The pharmaceutical want to be the guy there. They company that produces the say your life flashes before equipment, Medtronic, simyou when you die. If that’s so, ply calls it “Doctor’s Choice.” then I’ll be in the cath lab a “Durfee’s catheter is quite an exciting device,” said lot!” he jokes.

He is highly valued by his Charles Hosch, an intellectual property attorney and partner peers, such as Bruce Davis, RN, who manages the lab, at Strasburger & Price, the and Dr. William G. Jones, firm that represents Durfee. a cardiothoracic surgeon “Patents exist to say ‘Teach us something we don’t at Doctor’s who has known Durfee for many years. already know.’ If it is novel or “With the team in the useful, it gets a patent. What was extraordinary here is that lab, he is very polite, even tempered and is always Paul has the gift of inventhinking with you how to tion. He has the ability to see make things go right. He is through the forest to simplicalso goofy — in a good way. ity … how can something be He is that rare individual that made better?” he said.

Durfee now holds patents can apply what he knows and on two more heart-related de- realize his potential to create something no one else has,” vices and has one pending.

He has a unique empathy he explained.

From his ponytail (a nod for heart patients because he, to his Chippewa Indian herihimself, was born with a hole tage) to his camouflage rain his heart. diation apron to his uncanny He suffered from a conability to remember names, dition called “blue baby” dates and all manner of inbecause the hole created a formation, Durfee is a breed mix of the oxygen-rich and apart. oxygen-poor blood, turning He enjoys the familiarity the baby a shade of blue. with patients not possible at His heart was initially larger hospitals. He, himself, repaired in Houston by the lives within a stone’s throw of famous heart surgeon Dr. the campus.

Denton A. Cooley, known for “I put two pacemakers in implanting the first artificial my neighbor. I see him walkheart in a human and founding by and say ‘Hey! How’s it ing the Texas Heart Institute. tickin?’” he said.

Cooley used a device Durfee has two sons, called a Blalock-Taussig (BT) Barrett and Payton. But he Shunt, which was pioneered lost his older son, Barrett, to a in the 1940s by surgeon Dr. Alfred Blalock and his techni- brain aneurysm in 2009 when he was 18. cian, Vivien Thomas.

A bronze plaque in the But because Thomas was Doctor’s Hospital display case black and only had a high in the lobby shows a copy of school diploma, he was not the official patent. It is dedicredited with his critical role cated to Barrett’s memory. in the invention.

Barrett is never far from Cooley was a young intern at John Hopkins Medical Durfee’s mind even, perhaps especially, in the operating School when he assisted his mentor, Blalock, with the first room.

“I feel I get a chance to give operation using the BT Shunt, back to someone else’s boy,” an event Cooley called “the he said. “These people are in a dawn of modern heart surgery,” according to utmb.edu. major crisis of their lives, and I get to help give them back to When Durfee was seven years old, his final open-heart their families. I am thankful I get to be a part of that.” surgery was performed by

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Local beer makers have a case of the brews

By David Mullen

other brands of beer that they didn’t produce and the Dallas david@katytrailweekly.com craft beer scene seemed as The Dallas craft beer flat as a day-old open can of scene is experiBudweiser. encing explosive Texas gave growth, after localus Shiner Bock ly-made lagers were from Shiner, St. greatly lagging.

Arnold’s from I was able Houston, Rahr to attend a beer & Sons in Fort luncheon this Worth and weekend at the Real Ale from Design District’s Blanco, but David Mullen Dallas seemed Meddlesome Moth, a pioneer restaudisinterested in rant in Dallas regarding the brewing quality products. small batch beer market. Real Then, as if over night, Ale Brewing Company prosmall breweries began popvided the beer, paired exquiping up all over town. Deep sitely with small plates, feaEllum Brewery created a nice turing flavors like Full Moon little craft brewery and beer Pale Rye and Brewer’s Cut garden on St. Louis Street.

Hefeweizen. Although they The good folks at Four are based in the Hill Country, Corners Brewing Company Real Ale has helped stimulate built a beautiful facility at the a boon market for craft beers base of the Margaret Hunt in Dallas and nearby areas.

Hill Bridge, and have just Remember when Dallas have opened an alehouse. was almost exclusively a Attorney Michael domestic light beer market Peticolas gave up practicing with an occasion Corona to follow his passion for brewExtra thrown in the mix? ing. Committed to serving Bud Light, Coors Light and just the Dallas area, Peticolas Miller Lite dominated sales. opened a small, non-descript If you wanted a product brewery where the indusproduced locally, you went trial area meets the Design to Copper Tank Brewery in District. His Velvet Hammer Deep Ellum, Two Rows on is a smash hit, recognized as Greenville Avenue, one of one of the finest, and most the Humperdinks around potent, of the local beers. town or maybe headed up Community Beer to McKinney to sample Company, off Interstate 35 Franconia. near American Airlines Copper Tank closed, Two Center, also has an ale house Rows closed, Humperdinks and is producing award cut back the number of brew winning beers. Lakewood pubs and started selling Brewing Company, on the

border of Dallas and Garland, has seemed to have cornered the local market on creative brews. Their chocolate-laced Temptress Imperial Milk Stout is a perfect winter brew.

But at 9.1 percent alcohol, don’t leave one out for Santa on Christmas Eve. These local breweries got the attention of retailers and on-premise accounts alike. Central Market and Whole Foods have jumped on the craft beer bandwagon, as have big box liquor stores like Total Wine, Spec’s and Goody Goody.

Goodfriend Beer Garden on Peavy Road, Bryan Street Tavern on Bryan Street, The Rustic on Lemmon Avenue, Katy Trail Ice House on Routh Street, Gingerman on Boll Street, Common Table on Fairmount Street, Blind Butcher and Libertine Bar on Greenville Avenue, Prime Bar on Cedar Springs Road and of course the Meddlesome Moth all have grown or emerged as the local beer culture grows, committing to making available Dallas-made beer. Other smaller taverns, with limited tap space, will still feature a local brew or two.

Dallas bars committing to 50 or 60 tap handles was unheard of a few years ago, primarily because these local beers didn’t exist. Although a late bloomer, who would have thought Dallas would develop a thirst for quality, locallyproduced beers and ales? And I, for one, am glad we did.

Salud!

DALLAS COUNTY

Recent rains could lead to outbreak Health officials are asking Dallas County date, and we’re almost at the end of June.” residents to help prevent mosquito breeding The health director said the county is conand the potential for the spread of West Nile tinually monitoring mosquito populations by Virus by getting rid of any stagnant water trapping and testing them to find out if they pools that remain after the rains of recent are carriers of the virus. days.

Dallas residents are asked to call 311 “Look outside your home for standto report mosquito problems. Residents of ing water in places such as flower pots and other cities also can call their vector conempty containers,” Zachary Thompson, Dallas trol department or municipality to report County health director said. “It has to be mosquito problems so that their respective eliminated.” neighborhood will be included when areas are Thompson said the rains of recent days fumigated. raise the possibility for mosquito breeding and Health officials also are encouraging the possible spread of the potentially fatal virus. public to wear insect repellent daily, especially He urged the public to stay vigilant so that the if they are physically active. county may continue to be victim-free this “If you are out there walking, jogyear. ging, golfing, you must get insect repellent,” In 2013, West Nile claimed two lives in Thompson said. — From Staff Reports Dallas County, and 16 people fell sick to the virus.

OUR MISSION Thompson said the year Katy Trail Weekly is a community-friendly newspaper designed to inform before it reached an epidemic and entertain the people in many diverse demographics who live and/ level. or work in these neighborhoods. Much like the Katy Trail itself, Katy “It was bad in 2012,” he Trail Weekly is designed to help bring together the neighborhoods of said. “We had 20 deaths and Downtown, Uptown, Cedar Springs/Oak Lawn, the Design District, the 398 people got infected.”

Medical District and the Park Cities, as well as others. The newspaper is “The county has 70 or placed in local businesses, and other locations, for free pick-up by their 80 mosquito traps in various patrons. We support this publication by providing ad space to local busizones that could change daily,” nesses who want an effective and affordable way to reach the Katy Trail the director said. “We’ve only area readers we attract and serve. We welcome participation in the paper had three positive traps to through story and picture submissions, and we hope that you will join us in making this paper the best it can be.

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Tr a il M i x

By Brent Bergner @BergnerBrent

Summer is here! Trail Mix ventured to the colorful Cedar Springs area to ask people about their summer plans. Here’s what they’re saying:

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I plan on staying inside and avoiding the sun. I am, however, going to Ft. Lauderdale soon and in July I’m going to Germany.

Personally, I try to get out of the city as much as possible in the summer months.

Eric De Lemos

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The number one choice of American League ballparks is Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

A trip around the American League ballparks

By David Mullen

david@katytrailweekly.com Last week I ranked the ballparks of the National League, and I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of attention my column received.

Mentioning stadiums around the country brought out emotion from many readers, usually with regard to their particular hometown venue.

Except for a mild assail of the old cookie cutter parks of the 70s and Shea Stadium, I never mentioned the 20 other parks that I had visited where they no longer play baseball like Miami’s Joe Robbie Stadium, RFK Stadium in Washington D.C., Candlestick Park in San Francisco, Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, Mile High Stadium in Denver and County Stadium in Milwaukee among others.

In every case, the new National League ballpark is superior to the older venue.

That is not necessarily the case in the American League.

So, as a support piece to your summer vacation plans that may include a ballpark visit, I rank American League parks from worst to best.

Choosing the worst ballpark is a no-brainer.

Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, home to the Tampa Bay Rays, is the worst park in either league.

Ironically, the experience doesn’t start out badly. The walk-up to the main entrance is a mosaic trail spiced with palm trees and steel drum music. Upon entering, the place looks like a shopping mall, with taverns, shops and even a cigar bar as a tribute to Tampa’s heritage. Then, when you open the doors to the air conditioned domed baseball diamond, the life gets sucked right out of you.

The Rays official web site says that Tropicana Field’s 1.1 million square feet include unique design features and fan amenities found nowhere else in the Major Leagues.

Truer words have never been written. The features and amenities are found nowhere else because no other place would want them.

The field is an ugly moray pattern which I guess is befitting a home team named after a bottom-feeder. Catwalks and wires hang over the field and often come into play.

Catwalks? I’ve seen children construct Lego projects with more ingenuity than the engineers who constructed the Trop. It has the charm of a morgue, although a morgue may be livelier.

I grew up at the OaklandAlameda County Coliseum, now called O.co Coliseum.

My memories are fond and endless. The weather during

Summer is the best time for traveling. I always save my vacation weeks for summer because it’s the best time for traveling. I prefer to go the ocean when I can. I’m going to San Francisco next week and maybe New York at the end of July.

Bryan Kirk

I’m glad it’s summer; I’m overworked! I’m going to Austin in a couple weeks to visit friends so I’m excited for that. Also there are a lot of movies coming out that I’m looking forward to seeing and I have a growing list of restaurants I want to try.

So for summer my plans are to relax more, go to Austin, watch movies, try new restaurants and it’s going to be awesome.

Aria Moss

My plans are uncomplicated: I’m going to hang out at the pool, socialize as much as I can, have some nice drinks and enjoy life. Tank tops, shorts, bathing suits — plus, I have Mondays off so it’s looking good so far!

Photos by David Mullen

A view from the top of Fenway Park's "Green Monster." the day is often the best in baseball. It is convenient to get to via public transportation. The fans are the funniest in baseball. And some outstanding players and teams have run out on that field.

But alas, old age has not been kind to the Coliseum.

There is sewage leaking into the dugouts, power outages in the light banks and the view over centerfield is now dominated by the tarpcovered Mount Davis instead of a panoramic look at the Oakland Hills. And then in August, the football Raiders trod onto the only multi-sport field left in America making it a mess of divots and blurred yard markers.

Go to Jack London Square after an A’s game and stop in for grog at Heinold’s First and Last Chance. Jack London worked there, it survived earthquakes in 1989 and 1906 and you can dream about how great a new ballpark would look there.

U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago and Comerica Park in Detroit qualify as major disappointments. Despite changes throughout the years, U.S. Cellular is a homogenized version of the great Comiskey Park. Souring my first experience there was the alleged parking attendant who ran off with my $20 when I paid him.

The real parking attendant waved me on, saying that it happens all of the time.

Comerica is more of an amusement park than a baseball park. It is huge, has a tiger merry-go-round in left field and has no resemblance to classic Tiger Stadium.

Right field at the Globe Life Park in Arlington is more of a tribute to Tiger Stadium than anything found at Comerica Park. Plus, the players on the Tigers roster may be the only people working these days in downtown Detroit.

Another disappointment is Minute Maid Park in Houston, which is home of NASA and the Astrodome, dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World.” Minute Maid Park has a steam train in left field that chugs back and forth after a home run. “Houston, we have a problem.”

I would have a space shuttle spinning around the field after a home run. I

would have built it off of the ground, had a bullet elevator up to the terrace and made everything look futuristic like an updated Astrodome.

Instead, in a city known for modern thinking, Houston went retro to honor the downtown Union Station.

Plus, left field looks like they ran out of materials.

I would have built the Houston Astros a ballpark that looked like it was designed by George Jetson.

Instead, it looks like it was designed by Elroy (or Astro, pun intended).

Location and innovation rank highly on my consideration list, and that is why Rogers Centre in Toronto rates highly despite being built in 1989. It is located downtown next to CN Tower and was the first stadium to have a fully retractable motorized roof. It was also the first stadium to have a hotel built within the stadium.

A trip to see the Blue Jays would not be complete without a short walk to Wayne Gretzky’s restaurant. You are in Canada, after all.

Progressive Field in Cleveland is also conveniently located downtown.

Progressive is not far from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Flats, an area of town on the Cuyahoga River known for many bars, restaurants and the occasion river fire. The stadium is comfortable, but they wasted good seating space by putting an ill-fitting bank of windows down the left field line.

Well, it is time to gas up the car and head out to the “817.” Why is Globe Life Park in Arlington not higher on the list? It is too far away and not accessible by public transportation. Getting in and out of the parking area is a nightmare, even during a day game.

Nearby chain restaurants do not make for an ideal ballpark experience. There are many blind spots in the stadium, like the right field corner from seats behind home plate. And in the summer, it is just too hot.

The same cannot be said about Angel Stadium in Anaheim and Safeco Field in Seattle. Despite a number of design changes (remember the ‘Big A’ was once home to the Los Angeles Rams), Angel Stadium is extremely

Kobie Castleberry

I plan on keeping busy this summer; I’m planning on working hard and raising money for an event called Life Walk. When that’s over, I plan on going to the lake multiple times. There’s nothing better than relaxing in the sun with friends and family and boating and tubing (and tank tops).

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Kauffman Stadium has remained up-to-date in Kansas City. fan-friendly, spotlessly clean and may be the most pleasant stadium for a night game.

Sitting down the third base line and eating a hot dog one night, I one-handed a sizzling foul ball off of the bat of Angel Rod Carew, which may have been my greatest athletic feat ever.

Seattle’s weather can be unpredictable, but they can always close the roof. It is beautiful inside, and I saw Cal Ripken Jr. hit his All Star Game home run there. It is located down by the railroad tracks in Pioneer Square, which provides plenty of dining options. Go to F.X. McRory’s, immortalized in paint by the late Leroy Neiman.

Expecting to receive a lot of flak for this one, I choose Fenway Park at number five. I know that it is more than 100 years old, Ted Williams played there, has the hand-operated scoreboard and the “Green Monster.” But it is more that 100 years old and shows it. The seats are uncomfortable and there aren’t that many good ones unless you pay top dollar.

Last time I was there, I sat behind a pole. I think his name was Kowalski.

Everything’s up-to-date

in Kansas City. And at Kauffman Stadium, they have kept up with the newer stadiums by constantly modernizing and improving. No bad seats, great local barbeque and nice fans. You can even drive from Dallas and be there in eight hours, or about the time it takes to go from Plano to Arlington for a Friday night Ranger’s game.

Transforming a decaying warehouse area into a vibrant part of downtown Minneapolis, Target Field is the American League’s newest park and one of the best.

The limestone façade is subtle but dramatic, creating an intimate experience despite 39,000 seats. To offset potential outdoor weather issues, the seats and seating area are heated.

No stadium did a better job at replicating its old park and preserving history than the new Yankee Stadium.

Although called the “House that George (Steinbrenner) built” rather than the previous “House that (Babe) Ruth built,” you still get chills that accompany a visit to the home of such a storied

franchise, even if many of the greats never set foot in the place. And Stan’s Sports Bar — a must stop before a game — is still just a block away from the new Yankee.

That leaves the stadium that I believe has been often duplicated, but never replicated. Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore is the best stadium in the American League. No park has transformed a city more. Baltimore became a tourist attraction after having the reputation of a city to avoid. The presence of people downtown allowed the Inner Harbor to expand and allowed the Baltimore Ravens to build a home. The right field area on Eutaw Street is a constant buzz with bars and food kiosks. But take the time to walk down to Baltimore’s famous indoor food barn Lexington Market.

Remember, many of these American and National League ballparks offer tours and are almost always worth it. You can get on top of the “Green Monster,” go in the dugout at PNC Park and tour the Press Box at AT&T Park.

Enjoy your visit.

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June 27

6911 Lemmon Ave. Dallas, 75209 214-350-3600

Frontiers of Flight Museum — See the POW exhibit “Victory from Within.” The exhibit details the American prisoner of war experience from the Civil War to modern conflicts. The visit to the museum will be exhibit’s first appearance outside of Georgia and its third stop in the United States. Tickets $5-$8.

June 27

2400 Flora St. Dallas, 75201 214-880-0202

Wyly Theatre — Dallas Theater Center presents “Les Misérables.” You will be immersed in this beloved story in a way you've never experienced it before: surrounded by the passion of the French revolution; engulfed by the romantic music; and overwhelmed by the experience of hope, redemption and forgiveness. Performances until Aug. 17.

June 28

521 E. Lawther Drive Dallas, 75218 214-670-8749

Bath House Cultural Center — Come and be a part of Annie Benjamin’s new CD! She will be recording a live performance that you can be a part of. Benjamin is a writer, performer and community activist. She has been singing, playing flute and guitar for the better part of 30 years. 8 p.m. $25.

June 29

1717 N. Harwood St. Dallas, 75201 214-922-1200

Dallas Museum of Art — See the exclusive “Nur: Light in Art and Science from the Islamic World” exhibit before it leaves! It displays Islamic art and culture, exploring the use and meaning of light in Islamic art and science.

The exhibit features 150 rarely-seen objects from around the world, including rare manuscripts and scientific objects. $10.

June 29

5622 Dyer St. Dallas, 75206 214-242-9725

Union Coffee House — Media Projects, Inc. presents “Sole Sister Poetry Slam,” a film project created by award winning filmmaker Cynthia Salzman Mondell. This is your opportunity to “bare your sole” and compete to be in a film. 7 p.m. $5.

July 1

2704 Elm St. Dallas, 75214 Three Links

Three Links — Parade of Flesh presents Mini Mansions with Catamaran and Things of Earth. If pure sound had the capability to project images on a blank wall, Mini Mansions would be worthy projectionists. See all three groups perform live. 8 p.m. $10-$12.

July 1

5100 Belt Line Road, Suite 400 Dallas, 75254 214-803-9575

Visit Addison — Visit “Sub:text” before it closes! The exhibit highlights the interplay between the light and dark of identity and memory. Michael Francis's paintings aim to capture a specific moment in time utilizing the sentimentality, perhaps, of an old photograph. 7 p.m. FREE! Fri 6/27

Picture of the Week

Helen Keller, b. 1880 Bob “Capt Kangaroo” Keeshan, b. 1927 H. Ross Perot, b. 1930 Lorrie Morgan, b. 1959 1954 – 1st atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near Moscow.

"North Texas Sunrise"

by Dixie Friend Gay in the main lobby at Dallas Love Field Photo by Nathan Cox

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Sat 6/28

Mel Brooks, b. 1926 Gilda Radner, b. 1946 Robert X. Rodriguez, b. 1946 Kathy Bates, b. 1948 John Cusack, b. 1966 1919 – Treaty of Versailles signed, ending WWI.

Sun 6/29

Antoine de StExupery, b. 1900 Bernard Hermann, b. 1911 Slim Pickens, b. 1919 Gary Busey, b. 1944 Amanda Donohoe, b. 1962 1891 – Nat’l Forest Service organized.

Mon 6/30

Lena Horne, b. 1917 Susan Hayward, b. 1919 David Alan Grier, b. 1955 Vincent D’Onofrio, b. 1959 Michael Phelps, b. 1985 1936 – Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With The Wind” 1st published.

Tue 7/1

Olivia DeHavilland, b. 1916 Leslie Caron, b. 1931 Twyla Tharp, b. 1941 Dan Aykroyd, b. 1952 Princess Diana Spencer, b. 1961 Liv Tyler, b. 1977 1957 – Sony debuted the Walkman.

Wed 7/2

Thurgood Marshall, b. 1908 Richard Petty, b. 1937 Lucy Baines Johnson Turpin, b. 1947 Lindsay Lohan, b. 1986 1947 – An object crashed near Roswell, NM. Weather balloon?

E.T.?.

Thu 7/3

George M. Cohan, b. 1878 Betty Buckley, b. 1947 Dave Barry, b. 1947 Tom Cruise, b. 1962 Yeardley Smith, b. 1964 1863 – The Battle of Gettysburg (Civil War) ended.

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Another Broken Egg falls flat on flavor

By Sara Newberry Another Broken Egg is a chain of breakfast and brunch restaurants that are additional locations of the original Broken Egg café in Mandeville, Louisiana. After his first restaurant established a reputation, a customer asked him if he would open “another Broken Egg” in New Orleans.

He loved the name, and a restaurant chain was born!

The location at Buckner and Garland has been around since 2009 and has been popular enough that the owners opened a second location on Upper Greenville, which has since closed. This has not diminished the popularity of the original, which consistently has a wait on weekend mornings.

The menu at Another Broken Egg is largely inspired by New Orleans and the South; you’ll find beignets, andouille sausage, and the option to make dishes “Bananas Foster” style.

Several dishes include crabmeat or crawfish.

The inspiration is evident, but the execution doesn’t always live up to expectations.

“Indulgence” seems to be the theme of the menu at Another Broken Egg; while there is a small sidebar of “healthy” options, the majority of the menu is loaded with rich sauces or smothered in cheese. And while I enjoy indulging from time to time, it seems like richness has been substituted

sauce gilds the lily a little bit — we didn’t need the extra sweetness on top of the powdered sugar.

A Monster Cinnamon Roll ($2.99) is also served warm, with a pat of butter to add extra richness.

Another example is the Crabcakes Cavallo ($12.99). Two lump crab cakes are topped with poached eggs, andouilleinfused hollandaise and served with country potaPhoto by Sara Newberry toes. On paper, it sounds amazing: sweet crabmeat, for real flavor and interest. slightly spicy hollandaise, red While it is all “filling,” it is bell peppers and green onions not all “satisfying.” Starters adding texture. In practice, all are a perfect example. Biscuit Beignets ($4) are served warm of the components are there, with powdered sugar, just like but somehow the dish falls flat. The crab cakes are bland; those at Café du Monde, but the hollandaise is lemony, a that is where the comparicouple of pieces of sausage but son ends. Honey-marmalade

no hint of heat. The eggs are perfectly cooked, though, and the potatoes are golden and crisp.

The Bacquezo ($9.99) is not for the faint of heart: it is an omelette filled with bacon and cream cheese that’s topped with chorizo, Jack cheese and green onions.

It’s as rich as it sounds, but again, there is no subtlety in the dish. It’s a cheese and meat-bomb that will ensure you won’t get a whole lot done later that day. A more “reasonable” option is the Southwest Scramble ($9.99), which features chorizo, green chilies and cheese, and is served with guacamole, salsa and flour tortillas. The inspiration for the Southwest Scramble is obvious, and it suffers the same fate as the more Creole-inspired dishes.

While it’s filling, it falls a little flat, flavor wise.

There are several nonbreakfast options, mostly sandwiches and salads. One, Nellie’s Delight ($8.29), features a chicken breast topped with bacon and melted Swiss.

It’s fine, but mine was dry and needed a little mayonnaise to help it out.

Service is wildly inconsistent: we’ve had servers that were on top of their game the entire time, and we’ve had servers that disappeared, leaving us with empty glasses and coffee cups for long stretches.

Another Broken Egg is a standby option for breakfast and brunch, but it is not my first choice.

Another Broken Egg 1152 N. Buckner Blvd.

214-954-7182 Open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Every day anotherbrokenegg.com

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

17. Work the land 21. "Star Wars" group 22. Machu Picchu denizen 23. Price tag

24. Dueler's sword 25. Lethargic 26. ISS experience (2 wds.)

28. Waterloo locale

DALLAS cont'd from page 1 or New York. The Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau said the summit generated over 300 global media stories, most of them positive. Officials say that if they had to buy advertising to equate to that type of coverage, it would cost $9.5 million.

Serious policy discussions. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was here. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy discussed climate change. The commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection met with mayors to talk about the wave of unaccompanied children from Central America flooding over the Texas-Mexico border. Cities know it may fall to them to take care of these kids – and perhaps educate them.

Though there’s a lot of pushback against illegal immigration in Texas, Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck told KERA’s Stella Chavez that a humane solution is needed. “We all have to work at it in a logical way,” Cluck said. “These are human beings, by the way, and they do have the same feelings that you have and I have. They do have the same worry about food, health, and we need to help them in a positive way, but yet solve the problem.”

Talking about education. The mayors talked a lot about education, even though they don’t usually run school districts.

They’re frustrated because an increasingly diverse and poor group of teens is dropping out of school. That affects a city’s economy and the available workforce. KERA’s Bill Zeeble covered that issue and heard from a number of mayors, including Boston’s Martin Walsh.

“As mayor I have to push the superintendent,” Walsh said.

“I have to push the school district. I have to push to make sure our quality of education gets better. Generation after generation, there’s been a lot of talk about how we’re going to fix the school system. We have to act because generation after generation of kids have been shortchanged in this country.”

29. Sign before Virgo 30. Movies 32. Tints 33. Genghis Khan, e.g.

35. Put -- in one's ear

CANCER (June 21-July 7) The implementation of your plans depends upon another's willingness to take part and get moving. Conflict may result. (July 8-July 22) – You're waiting for official instructions to be released, but you must be willing to take the initiative.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 7) Your unique way of expressing yourself will surely make an impression. What is inimitable is most valuable. (Sept.

8-Sept. 22) – You may find yourself moving around quite a bit throughout the week, searching for clues to a personal mystery.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 7) You can get something started that puts the final period on an episode that you and others will remember for some time.

(Oct. 8-Oct. 22) – You may receive a "second chance," and, as a result, your pockets may be more full than usual.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 7) Daring and luck will combine to push you forward. When you get where you are going, native ability plays a role.

(Nov. 8-Nov. 21) – Things may begin in a quiet kind of way, but as the week progresses, they are sure to heat up and

7. Shriveled 8. Thin-blooded 9. Get out fast 10. New Mexico town 11. Eur. nation 12. Sentence part 13. Wealthy folk 14. Kimono closers 15. Assembled 16. Famous rock 17. Boxers' ploys 18. Orbit extreme 19. Say another way 20. Lunch and brunch 27. Avignon's river 31. Where Kathmandu is 34. Elevator name 36. Pentagon VIP 38. Londoner's tube 39. Ruse 41. Gave out sparingly 43. Deluge 44. White, in Burgundy 46. Central 47. Batman creator 48. The "March King" 49. Rocky ledges 50. Brief review 51. Canvas cover 53. Hong Kong ship 54. Girl from Baja 55. British prep school 56. Flavor savorers (2 wds.)

57. Hearth residue 58. Reserved 60. Dessert pastry 61. Lingerie material 63. Foundry refuse 65. Encyc. units 66. Garden need 67. Bernard -- of CNN 69. Festive log 70. "No way!" (hyph.)

71. -- chi ch'uan 72. Lump of clay 74. Ditto 75. Coveted statuette 76. Worry 78. Dismiss (2 wds.)

79. Oui and da 81. Bombast 82. New on the job 83. Fedora feature 84. Rope-a-dope boxer 85. Alias 86. Kind of vaccine 87. Low voices 88. Meadow plaints 89. Grind noisily 91. Emery boards 92. Humane org.

93. Eye signal 94. Fragrant tree 96. Aura 98. Juliet's beloved 100. Wimple wearers 101. Oil jobs 102. Electrical units 103. Whichever 104. Far East temple 105. Whiteboard need 106. Hold a grudge 107. Slept over 108. Most immense 110. Social type 111. Harsh experience 112. Every January 113. Showed fright 114. Bike or trike 115. Adversary 116. Turn out to be (2 wds.)

119. Incites Rover 120. Urgent appeal 121. Calculator key 125. Ms. Merkel 126. Freud, to himself 128. Firearms lobby

OFF THE MARK

The minimum wage. Mayors discussed about the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour. It’s hard to feed a family on that, but Congress has resisted raising it. So many cities and 22 states have acted individually to raise their own minimum wages. At the mayor’s conference, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said he wants the Dallas City Council to talk about requiring city contractors to pay their employees more than the federal minimum.

“So many individuals work in entry-level positions of our concessionaires,” Rawlings said. “Do we as a city want to spend the money and make sure they get a leg up? Or are we trying to get it as cheap as possible for taxpayers, for citizens, for the city of Dallas. That discussion needs to be had.”

What happens next? The U.S. Conference of Mayors will take all of these discussions to Capitol Hill. The mayors passed more than 100 resolutions for everything from tax credits for renewable energy to more money for veterans’ services.

Those resolutions become the mayors’ blueprint for lobbying Congress. They believe if they make a lot of noise together they can put pressure on Congress to act.

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed” — Carl Jung

By Stella Wilder

LEO (July 23-Aug. 7) While someone else is spending a great deal of time warming up, you can get started and move well ahead of the pack by the weekend. (Aug. 8-Aug. 22) – A difference of opinion is likely to result in a conflict that lasts quite a while if neither party backs down.

DOWN 1. Flying woe (2 wds.)

2. One-celled being 3. Start to grow 4. Orange seed 5. Guitarist -- Clapton 6. Hired a decorator

Mayors walked away from that discussion with a new tool developed by the Bush Institute. It’s an online education report card that will allow the mayors to compare achievement scores, graduation rates, and programs that are working in other communities.

YOUR STARS THIS WEEK The coming week could give many individuals cause for choosing sides and preparing for conflict, both direct and indirect. It is essential that everyone fully understand the issues at play, and that no one let misinformation, innuendo or outright lies be the motivating factor in their decisionmaking. It may be difficult for some to pinpoint exactly what the central issues are – but this is ultimately less important than avoiding anything that is patently untrue. There is a great danger in promoting gossip, rumor and falsehood this week; anyone who gets in a fight of any kind based on untruth is surely in for a hard time of it.

Many will find strength and comfort by embracing their own ideals and principles – and letting them, in conjunction with instinct, dictate the course they should take. It will be very easy for one person to be controlled by another, so extra effort must be taken by all to avoid such situations.

94. Kitchen appliance 95. Dad's sister 96. Carpentry joint 97. Mongkut's domain 98. Estuary 99. Distress signal 100. Parachute material 101. RN assistants 102. Major artery 104. Reads 107. Doe's mate 108. Muser's mumbling 109. Delight in 113. Family members 114. Fine-cigar producer 115. Kashmir cash 117. Time long gone 118. Andre of tennis 119. "Auld Lang --" 120. Urban nuisance 122. Ms. Lupino 123. Finish last 124. Liquid metal 127. Banquet 129. TV genie portrayer 130. Male relative 131. -- and desist 132. Dreamlike 133. Move quickly 134. Inched forward 135. Puts a stop to 136. Like nacre

involve a great many more besides yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 7) You mustn't let yourself become discouraged. Some mismanagement may cause a setback, but you can devise a solution. (Dec. 8-Dec. 21) – You can't expect to get away with everything, but at least one of your schemes is likely to pay off.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 6) You'll remember a particular high point that inspires you throughout the week, even though you cannot exactly repeat that former success. (Jan. 7-Jan. 19) – You'll find yourself at a significant midway point.

Now, a decision: Go forward or back?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 3) The times are changing once again, and you must change your tactics to match. If you do not, the week will prove a serious hardship to you. (Feb. 4-Feb. 18) – You may develop a fondness for something that others simply do not have a taste for, but it suits you just fine!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 5) Pay attention to the things that are said – not to you, but near you. You may catch hints

Copyright 2014 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. of something important just around the corner. (March 6-March 20) – You may find yourself embroiled in a situation that seems to swallow you up, but by week's end you can devise a way out.

ARIES (March 21-April 4) Your research will tell you one story, but your experience may tell you something altogether different. It's time to find out the truth. (April 5-April 19) – The force of your personality and a bit of courage should give you the advantage all week long.

TAURUS (April 20-May 5) Environmental influences will be deeply affecting all week long; your own personal preferences may not apply at this time. (May 6-May 20) – You're feeling strong and energetic, yet you may not be able to settle on a single, productive line of endeavor.

GEMINI (May 21-June 6) You'll find yourself wishing for that which was not good enough for you in the recent past. Your tastes and needs are changing. (June 7-June 20) – Contact with one who is far from home lends a new kind of poignancy to your week.

Communication takes on a lasting importance.

● Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging) without repeating.

● The numbers within the heavily 6-29-14

outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

● Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

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ACROSS 1. Red-colored quartz 7. Squander 12. Chew noisily

37. Tough fabric 38. Play horseshoes 39. Wobbles 40. Like many fences 42. Delt neighbor 43. Lacoste of tennis 44. Banged up 45. Wanderer 47. Cabbage cousin 48. Gill openings 49. PC monitor 52. Capp's -- Abner 53. Clink or cooler 54. Bus 55. Depot info 59. Gathered crops 61. Fair 62. Attractive guy 63. Hide away 64. Bitter 65. Honeysuckle 66. Kind of brake 67. Like half-melted snow 68. Stare at 69. Egg part 70. Phoenician port 72. "Hare Krishna," e.g.

73. Workout facility 74. Pout 75. Pat Morita show 76. Wave down 77. TV Tarzan, Ron -80. Eurasian mountains 82. NASA outfit (hyph.)

83. It may be knitted 84. Busy as -- -85. Ignited 87. Curved entrance 88. Multiplied 89. Floods the market 90. "Soapdish" actor 91. Kind of collar 92. Expect

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DSM celebrates 75 years on Dallas’ Great White Way

By Shari Goldstein Stern shari@katytrailweekly.com

Overture As “Opera under the Stars,” “Starlight Operettas,” “Fair Park Casino Operettas,” “State Fair Musicals,” “Musicals at Fair Park” or today’s Dallas Summer Musicals (DSM) you can count on it being Dallas’ own Broadway theater in the core of the city, Fair Park. This year DSM kicked off its 75th anniversary on June 12 with its 2014-2015 season announcement. At the event, DSM’s chairman of the board, Richard L. Rogers introduced the new chair elect, Dorsey Baskin.

The anniversary celebration will last through June 12, 2015 commemorating 75 years since the theater’s first opening night, June 12, 1941. The production that night was Sigmund Romberg’s “Blossom Time,” a show based on the life of Franz Schubert, which premiered on Broadway in 1921 and had revivals through 1943.

Photo gallery courtesy of DSM

State Fair Auditorium is now Music Hall at Fair Park.

Act One In 1945, The State Fair Association tapped Meeker as executive director of the Starlight Operettas. Meeker was mentor to two young men in the 1950s, Tom Hughes and Michael Jenkins, who would ultimately succeed him years later.

The man was a visionary, whose

name Dallas will never forget. Under his leadership, Dallas and tourist audiences had their first opportunity to enjoy Broadway musicals deep in the heart of Texas.

In 1951, the musicals moved from the Fair Park Band Shell into the “State Fair Music Hall,” circa

1925. They became known as the State Fair Musicals, but not until after the legendary incident when a bug flew down Nanette Fabray’s dress at the outdoor venue. In 1963, the name was changed to Dallas Summer Musicals, which remains on Dallas’ “Great White Way” today.

Act Two When Meeker resigned from DSM in 1961 to produce shows at the new Six Flags over Texas, he took a young usher and assistant named Michael Jenkins with him. More on that usher later.

Tom Hughes, who was the Music Hall’s House Manager then took over management of the theater in 1961. Hughes followed in some giant footsteps, but he also left a distinct legacy behind. During his tenure, he became nationally recognized as one of the most astute and successful producers of musical theatre in the country. Meanwhile, in Dallas he was branded as an elegant but approachable and likeable gentleman. He left patrons feeling ownership and pride in the summer musicals.

Fair Park Band Shell

Prologue First of all, you should know that since that first curtain in 1941, the organization has only had three leaders managing the operation, which is almost unheard of in the volatile industry of live theater. The triumvirate of Charles R. Meeker, Tom Hughes and Michael A. Jenkins have guided the organization for 75 years.

A group of Dallas businesses, along with the Schubert organization in New York City produced touring theatrical productions, and co-produced the first season in the Fair Park Band Shell. Ten shows, each running a week were planned for the season, which was so successful that two additional shows were added.

The Band Shell had been built for the Texas Centennial Exhibition in 1936. The concrete structure seats 5,000. It was used for a scene in the 1962 film, “State Fair”

Act Three starring Ann Margaret, Bobby Darin and Pat Boone and directed by José Ferrer, who would appear onstage years later. Jim Lowe was Big Tex’s voice in the film, and an unknown named Meat Loaf was an extra.

The 1942 season was cancelled due to the onset of World War II, but the summer theater resumed operation in 1943, when the founders established a nonprofit organization to produce the season under the name Starlight Operettas. A series of ten shows were presented that year and another ten in 1944.

Hold on to your stubs while you wrap your brain around this — ticket prices ranged from $0.30 to $1.10. Yes, the zeroes and decimal points are in the right place.

Although a third of the outdoor Band Shell performances were rained out, the season ended with a profit.

When called on in December, 1994 to try filling the shoes of the late Tom Hughes, Michael Jenkins faced challenges on every front. But he recalls, “I just loved the summer musicals. The musicals gave me one of my first jobs and for Charlie Meeker and Tom as well, I just could not let it expire.”

Jenkins added, “Charlie was a great showman. I don’t know if he’s been given the acknowledgement he deserves. He was a great mentor to both Tom and me.”

Charles R. Meeker

Tom Hughes

Michael A. Jenkins

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Musical Numbers Among Meeker’s first contributions was persuading Fort Worth native, Mary Martin to open her national tour of “Annie Get Your Gun” in Dallas. A record-setting 105,000 people saw the show in two weeks.

This is a remarkable piece of DSM’s history: Meeker brought “Porgy and Bess,” starring Leontyne Price and William Warfield to the Musicals in 1952, a time it may have been risky to stage a show with an all-black cast at a mainstream theatre in the South. Meeker’s gamble paid off, as the production was a hit. After its premiere in Dallas, Gershwin’s famous show went on to a worldwide tour.

Meeker had a knack for bringing big name stars to the Music Hall stage, like Judy Garland, Debbie Reynolds, Maurice Chevalier, Gisele MacKenzie and José Ferrer. He invited top choreographers and major musical directors, like Franz Allers,

Credits who would later conduct “My Fair Lady” on Broadway. Meeker produced national tours, including “Fiddler on the Roof,” starring Herschel Bernardi; “Peter Pan,” starring Sandy Duncan; and “Hello, Dolly!” starring Carol Channing.

“The Jack Benny Revue” in 1954 launched a long series of “personality” shows, which featured stars such as Shirley MacLaine, Yul Brynner, Diana Ross and Tony Curtis. Some enchanted evenings the Music Hall welcomed Mitzi Gaynor and Jerry Lewis.

Ben Vereen was a singular sensation every time he appeared at DSM, as was Santa Baby’s Eartha Kitt. Dallas audiences have had a love affair to remember with Fort Worth’s Tommy Tune, while he’s tapped his way into their hearts many times over the years.

It wasn’t unusual to see a lineup in a typical summer season with names like Carol Burnett, Tom Poston and Juliette Prowse.

Craig Holcomb, former City Councilman and president of Friends of Fair Park said, “The Dallas Summer Musicals is as important to Fair Park as the State Fair, both significant Dallas traditions. The Musicals have succeeded because they work hard at understanding their audience.”

“Certainly it is hard when new venues come on the scene, because everyone wants to see the new kid in town, but Michael and the Musicals have persevered and will continue their tradition of family oriented quality Broadway shows,” Holcomb said.

According to Holcomb, “Michael Jenkins’ first job as a teenager was painting numbers on the seats in the Cotton Bowl.

His personal commitment to Fair Park has never wavered.”

Encore Judy Garland

Intermission According to DSM Guild President Steven Beene, the Guild, which was formed in the early 1970s, has about 200 members. In addition to other volunteer activities like Curtain Call and the High School Musical Theater awards program, one of the Guild’s most significant projects is serving lunch to cast members on the weekends between matinees and evening performances. Food for the buffets is contributed by generous area restaurants. Beene said, “The Guild serves about 24 cast buffets each season. Including casts and crews, DSM security, ushers and other staff, that amounts to about 3,600 meals each season.”

Ensemble According to president and managing director of Dallas Summer Musicals, “Service isn’t everything – Service is the only thing.” Toward the end, Jenkins is the first to credit his staff and crew with making DSM what it is.

Here are few department heads and other staff, who have spent most or all of their careers with DSM. One of those is Ben Perrin, general manager and director of facility services, who just celebrated his 30th anniversary with DSM. His colossal responsibility is keeping everything in the 75,300 sq. ft. building, with a 3,420 seating capacity running smoothly, and he does it with grace and elegance.

During his tenure, he has dealt with many crises, as would be expected. One of his most heroic feats

Shirley MacLaine and Tom Hughes was when he donned his wet suit (along with Jenkins) to rescue cars floating down the river that was one the parking lots during one of the city’s worst rainstorms.

Some others with long tenure are Jenny Cagle, executive secretary, 19 years; Debbie (Debra) Irvin, director of ticket services, 22 years; and Stephen Hotz, senior manager of ticket systems, 20 years.

Paulette Hopkins, director of marketing for 19 years makes sure everyone knows about and loves DSM. Jo Ann Holt, Jenkins’ first new hire in 1994 has kept the media happy for 20 years.

Sharon Adams, also responsible for community relations and DSM

Awareness is part of the team making sure seats are filled by happy patrons. Adams also sees to it that DSM events go off without a hitch, even through major thunderstorms. Adams is always prepared with a Plan B. Jayne Basse, accounting, 18 years; Ben Liles, director of finance and administration (who sees that Michael Jenkins doesn’t spend too much). Kate Finley and Mark Chambless in development go after grants and generous contributors.

Kevin Cook, Denis Kashoid and Ty Lawrence run the DSM Academy of Performing Arts, which gives aspiring singers, dancers and actors the opportunity to

train during summers, while out of school.

Applause for Haley Harrington, DSM’s marketing and customer service associate, for her diligent research assistance in telling DSM’s history.

Tracy Jordan is executive director of the DSM High School Musical Theatre Awards and has been with DSM for six years. Since the program’s first year in 2011, the number of participating schools has grown from 30 to 56. The first best actor recipient, Michael Williams auditions and works in NYC since competing there in the National High School Musical Theater Awards.

The 2013-2014 season will wrap up with the Tony Award winning new musical, “Nice Work If You Can Get It” September 2-14, 2014. With a Gershwin score that includes, “But Not for Me,” “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” “I’ve Got a Crush on You ” and “Someone to Watch over Me,” who can resist?

Jenkins, said, “We will kick off the 2015 season with a hilarious musical straight from Broadway, ‘A Christmas Story’ in December of 2014. Three of our 2015 shows are still playing on Broadway, and one has never been seen outside of Australia.”

He announced that the upcoming season will include, “Kinky Boots,” February 24March 8, 2015; “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I,” March 20-April 5, 2015; “The Illusionists,” April 7-19, 2015; “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” June 9-21, 2015; “Dirty Dancing,” June 23-July 5, 2015; and “PIPPIN,” July 7-19, 2015.

Scenic Design DSM’s history wouldn’t be as colorful without acknowledging the late Broadway designer, Peter Wolf, whose remarkable costume and set designs, graced the Music Hall stage, beginning in 1947 for 100 productions during 35 seasons with the Dallas Summer Musicals. A nationally recognized designer, Peter Wolf Concepts in Dallas also fashioned 50 operas including the Dallas Civic Opera, and then later the Dallas Opera.

Mr. Wolf’s final design was for a show in the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, South Korea.

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By Candy Evans

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Candace Evans Listed by her Iraq — have something to do with it. sister, Allie Beth Still, Dallas-area prices are Allman agent Kari Schlegel about eight percent above Kloewer, Kim’s elegant home where they were before the is a whopping 7,216 square Candace@CandysDirt.com

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they are teens or off at school.

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HISTORY OF THE TRAIL

Back zoning would have set a bad precedent

my involvement with the Cityplace 160 acres starting in 1979. Years later, in 1995, I participated with fellow brokers in the sale of 14 acres including the American General Life building at Central Expressway and Carroll to ACS, completing the 26.447 acre campus for ACS, adjacent to Cityplace.

In early 2006, King Laughlin and I represented a developer in efforts to purchase the entire campus and relocate its data processing operation up north.

Those efforts died. In Photo courtesy of Wayne Swearingen the summer of 2012, King and I met with Aerial view of the Uptown Dallas site slated for a future Sam's Club. a Trammell Crow

By Wayne Swearingen Company representative to discuss and identify urban development sites. Crow had just successfully comFriends sometimes ask what I am doing these days, pleted and sold the Timber Creek Crossing besides writing columns for this weekly. development on Northwest Highway. At that “Retired?” time, there were rumors that an investor was “No,” I tell them. trying to buy the ACS (now Xerox) land. We Twenty-four years ago, I did switch from buildintroduced Crow to Xerox and began the dising my real estate company to becoming a very specussions and negotiations, culminating in the cialized consultant and broker. Today, my card states: sale of 17 acres of the Xerox campus to Crow “SPECIALIST – STRATEGIC ALTERNATIVE URBAN in August 2013. Prior to closing, neighborREDEVELOPMENT.” Most of my clients are developers hood meetings were held by Crow and some and investors.

Wayne Swearingen zoning changes completed.

In my May 30 article for Katy Trail Weekly, I told of

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Recently, I have been following, with obvious interest, the news about neighborhood opposition to a Sam’s Club on the 17-acre site. Last week, as an observer, I attended the Dallas Plan Commission hearing at City Hall with a Trammell Crow Company representative and their consultants, and those in opposition. The matter had been added to the agenda a day or two before the meeting. Here are my observations and opinions.

The opposition was given the first 15 minutes to speak.

More than 100 showed up in red shirts and campaign buttons saying “NO MEGA STORE.” They spoke with passion and conviction and were respectfully given more time by the Commission, which would not allow vilification of Crow or Sam’s.

Then, the spokesman for Crow, attorney Kirk Williams, gave a solid presentation, recapping neighborhood meetings and zoning changes by the book.

The purpose of this hearing was to decide whether a second hearing would be held at a later date to consider a “back zoning” process. That was voted down, but with a courteous thank you to all present for their concern and taking their time to show up. The process was very well handled, and I congratulate all parties.

Now, my opinions and comments. Back zoning could set a dangerous precedent and lower land values. As a 23-year resident of Uptown, I love the area’s blending of cultures and wide range of ages. Everyone in Uptown is not just out of college. There is a large contingent of empty nesters, such as ourselves, who miss the convenience of a real discount retailer, to go along with existing big box retailers Target, Office Max, Big Lots and Ross. But these developments must blend well with our walkable, bikeable neighborhood in plan and design. That is what I see here. And, I see job creation. Maybe, in later years, I will become a greeter at Sam’s Club.

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When the weather is good in Dallas, most of us want to hit the Katy Trail and go for a run. It’s a great way to stay healthy, enjoy the weather and people watch. We put on the headphones and jogging shoes and go for nice slow run for 20 to 45 minutes. But what if there were a better way to run that can burn more fat, build more muscle, require less time and is actually more fun? There is! It’s called sprinting, and it can change your life. Seriously, it can change the way you workout forever. Here is why sprinting

Burn more fat.

There is more to burning fat from exercise than you might think. It’s not about burning fat just during the bout of exercise; it’s about the long-term effect of the workout. For example, when you go on a long slow jog, it’s true that you will burn Rob Lord a high percentage of calories from fat. But for the most part, when the workout is over, the fat burning is over. Sprinting on the other hand, is completely different. When you sprint, your body goes into a shock mode that scientists refer to as “excessive post-exercise consumption” or EPOC. This is when your body is working hard to replenish cell nutrients and recover from the workout. This requires energy which your body supplies from fat. A university study done by exercise physiologist Dr. Angelo Tremmblay compared the after burn effect, or EPOC, of two groups of exercisers. One group completed long slow cardio and the

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Build more muscle.

This doesn’t require a university study to understand. All it requires is a Google image search. Search sprinters versus marathon runner’s bodies. You will quickly see some major differences. Sprinters have the look that most of us want. The men are extremely muscular and lean, and the women are lean and athletic. The reason is that sprinting is largely anabolic (builds muscle) while jogging is more catabolic (breaks muscle down).

Sprinting fast requires your anaerobic energy systems to work as hard as possible, developing the glutes, hamstrings and quads in a way that long slow steady jogging cannot.

It takes less time.

When you sprint as fast as possible, you do more damage to your muscles on a microscopic level. This sounds bad, but it’s not. This damage is actually the catalyst to getting stronger and

faster. When the muscle heals, it gets stronger. The great thing about this process of damage, healing and improving is it requires rest. So instead of jogging Monday through Saturday, you can actually have better results sprinting Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The four days per week you are resting will be what makes you faster and stronger.

Getting Started.

Get a notebook and make a plan. Start small, maybe two days a week and build up to three. Always do a good dynamic warm-up. YouTube can be a great resource when you are coaching yourself.

Search dynamic sprint warmup. Learn how to warm-up so you can avoid pulling a hamstring. Then start small.

Maybe just six sprints of 100 yards or 10 seconds. Record distances, times and rest.

Vary the rest and distances sprinted. You will learn the subtle nuances of your body and what leads to getting better. Give it a shot for six weeks and you may never go for a jog again.

Rob Lord is the owner and head trainer at The AlphaProject.org. He can be reached at 214-557-1588.

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JUST FOUND

This little soccer shop keeps kicking along

By David Mullen

david@katytrailweekly.com “Who would have thought that Americans would embrace World Cup?” Vicente Bustamante, owner of soccer store Deportes Celaya at 2332 Henderson Ave., said.

“I have not seen so much excitement. It has taken me by surprise.”

Since 1999, Bustamante, working with his wife Angeles, has been providing “futbol” apparel and shoes for area soccer teams. But this is the fourth World Cup since he opened and business is booming because of a new found patriotism in East Dallas and beyond.

“I am selling more US jerseys than Mexico jerseys,” Bustamante said. “There is so much euphoria than in prior World Cup tournaments. I think it is because of social media. Everyone is up to the minute.”

Growing up in Celaya, a small town in central Mexico in the state of Guanajuato near the popular tourist resort San Miguel de Allende, provided the inspiration for the store’s name. “We [Celaya] used to be a good team.” Bustamante said of the 50-year-old Celaya FC. “Now we are a second division team.” Bustamante is considering changing the name from Deportes Celaya to something “more

Americanized” he said.

The 1,100 square foot store is chock full of soccer balls and jerseys. “We do the names and numbers for jerseys of local teams,” Bustamante said. Particularly impressive is a wall on the right side of the store that displays the colorful soccer shoes or “boots” that are so much a part of this year’s World Cup. “I have shoes from Mexico,” Bustamante said. “But everyone still wants Nikes.”

“We like to help them,” Angeles said, about providing equipment and jerseys for local youth teams. “We have a little bit of everything.”

“When I moved in here the area was very Hispanic,” Bustamante said, and his business cards for the store are totally in Spanish. “This is a different neighborhood now.

There are sports bars everywhere that pack them in for the games.” Deportes Celaya is located directly across the street from the Capitol Pub on Henderson Avenue which is a very popular bar and restaurant for soccer enthusiasts.

“They come and drink, and then they come in and buy jerseys,” Bustamante said with a smirk on his face.

While soccer is his passion, and his store is one of the few Hispanic-owned businesses remaining in the area, his real source of income is in the real estate market. He has been a licensed real estate

agent for 22 years. On the back wall of the shop are two banners representing his real estate ventures.

“It is our ‘how do you say it?’ bread and butter,” Angeles said. “Pan y mantequilla?”

I said. “Yes!” Angeles said.

Angeles and Vicente have been married for 28 years.

As long as soccer remains as popular as it is currently, Bustamante will keep his small business as a much needed resource in the area

Photos by David Mullen

Vicente Bustamante and wife Angeles run Deportes Celaya.

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for soccer jerseys, shoes and balls. “I plan on staying here as long as I can,” Bustamante said. Or at least long enough to capitalize on another FIFA World Cup or two.

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Scene Around Town

By Society Editor Sally Blanton 40 Symphony Debs Introduced

Launch Party

DSOL Announcement Week Neiman Marcus

James Beard Foundation’s “Taste America” Stephen Pyle’s San Salvaje

Front: Janice Provost, David Uygur, Host Stephen Pyles, Tim Byres, Back: L’Omar Flores, Matt McCallister

Dotty Griffith, Vicki and Jim White

Debbie and Gracie Hayhurst, Sharon McCullough

Boys and Girls Clubs

Kidney Texas, Inc.

Threshold of Opportunities Frontiers of Flight

Reception for committee members Tootsies

Karen Settle, Terri Bumgarner, Jolie Humphrey, Narissa Von Helpenstill

Lynn Dealey, Jan Strimple

Jennifer Sampson, CEO Charles English, Sponsors Karen & Tom Falk

Opeoluwa Bamgdose, Lixsed Gonzales, Carly Jordan, Kim Hong, Jessi Watkins, Ashley Williams

St. Baldrick’s Foundation Fundraiser Supporters go bald for childhood cancer research Alcuin School

Curtain Call

Dallas Summer Musicals Gala Music Hall at Fair Park

Honorary Chairs Barry and Paddy Epstein

Ball Chair Venise Stuart, Tincy Miller, President Dixie Miller

President DSM Guild Steve Beene, Rita Powers-White

Luanne Samuel and volunteer

Students Rocco Renda and Gregory Yared

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MOVIE TRAILER

Not even Mark Ruffalo’s charm can make ‘Begin Again’ a hit

By Chic DiCiccio @Chiccywood

Irish director/screenwriter John Carney caught lightning in a bottle with the 2006 indie hit “Once.” It had charming stars, sincere music, and an overall feel that what you were watching was authentic.

Carney is trying to duplicate that success with “Begin Again.” Instead of a couple falling in love while making music together, Carney wants making music to heal all wounds. Unfortunately, almost every single note is completely off key.

Mark Ruffalo is Dan, a burned out music executive that used to own part of an indie record label with his partner, Saul (Mos Def, using his real name Yasiin Bey in the credits). Dan lives in a crummy, beat down Brooklyn apartment while his wife, Miriam (Catherine Keener), and daughter, Violet (Hailee Steinfeld), still live in the home they shared.

After Dan shows off his stubborn, “get off my lawn” old man attitude towards

Photo courtesy of Weinstein Company

popular music, Saul fires him. Dan, already a borderline functioning alcoholic, goes on a 24-hour bender and staggers into a tiny club where he sees Greta (Keira Knightly) perform an acoustic “emo” number.

The best scene in “Begin Again” happens as Dan watches Greta perform.

While she sits alone on a tiny stage, Dan begins to write instrumental accompaniments to her song in his head. Instruments come to life and begin to play behind her as Dan envisions them.

The scene does a fantastic job of showing how music can

inspire a person.

Sadly, the musical inspiration stops there. All of Greta’s songs are about her recent breakup with Dave (Adam Levine). Greta moved to New York with Dave and since he’s about to be a huge pop superstar, he naturally dumps her. Their story is told via flashbacks which are largely ineffective, mostly because it’s all extremely clichéd and Dave is such a whiny weakling that every audience should be happy that Greta is no longer with such a creep.

Greta agrees to let Dan record her music, but they

need to get very creative since they are both flat broke.

With the help of Troublegum (Cee Lo Green), who is one of Dan’s former label’s stars, they piece together a band and instead of recording in a studio, they go to different places in New York and record every song outdoors.

Carney truly excels at directing these moments, which are more like music videos than anything else. There is no doubt that he has a love of music and everything about it, but the rest of the movie is very pedestrian and Carney could have used some help with the screenplay’s attempts at personal growth.

Keira Knightley, who does all of her own singing, seems comfortable and looks the part, but her vocals don’t move the needle.

So much of “Begin Again” hinges on these songs, but the lyrics sound like badly written diary poetry. It makes it difficult to take much of Knightley’s Greta seriously when her songs sound so juvenile, but then she turns around and seems to be wise

beyond her years.

The two pop stars, CeeLo Green and Adam Levine, are on each end of the acting spectrum. Green is only in two or three scenes but is actually very funny and charming. He may score the biggest laugh in the entire movie.

Levine, on the other hand, is horribly stilted and stiff. He looks the same when he’s happy, excited about one of Greta’s new songs or angry. It doesn’t help that he’s playing a part that is poorly written as a one-note, naive rock star. The songs that he sings are brutally bad as well, sounding like they were specifically written for a 16-yearold girl to swoon over.

If “Begin Again” is anything, it is further proof that Mark Ruffalo can carry an entire movie on his shoulders. There are a few extended moments where Ruffalo disappears from the movie, which seem to go on forever and you’re just waiting for him to show up again.

Other than the fact that he is inspired to work on music again, there is no

Doolittle does a lot at the Magnolia Theater The 1964 classic musical “My Fair Lady” will be shown Tuesday, July 1 at the Magnolia Theatre at 3699 McKinney Ave. in the West Village in Uptown, beginning a new run in the “Big Movie” series. Showtimes are at 7:30 and 10 p.m.

“My Fair Lady” is the musical based on “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw. Starring Audrey Hepburn (Eliza Doolittle) and Rex Harrison (Henry Higgins), this Lerner and Lowe filmed musical won eight Academy Awards including Actor (Harrison), Director (George Cukor) and Best Picture of 1964. Its $17 million production cost was the highest for Warner Bros. at the time.

“Every Tuesday night, we proudly present a classic film on the big screen the way they were meant to be shown and appreciated,” Shawn Mahan, general manager of the Magnolia Theater, said. “This is our fourth complete planned series, even though we have been showing classic films over the past several years.”

The remaining films in the new “Big Movie” series are “Live and Let Die,” “Airport,” “Sweet Smell of Success,” “Pillow Talk,” “Sorcerer,” “All About Eve,” “Valley of the Dolls,” “An Affair to Remember,” “Alien,” “Doctor Zhivago” and “Thoroughly Modern Millie.”

For more information, log on to landmarktheatres.com or call 214-520-0394. — Ken Freehill

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40 artists from nine different This year’s theme - an elabartistic categories showcasing orate circus-themed showcase handcrafted jewelry, personal - was evident in the variety of photography, clothing and snacks available. Cotton candy, paintings. Each artist provided a unique booth with no two art- popcorn and lemonade were available for purchase in a fun ists the same. booth atmosphere. But once the “By connecting our artfashion showcase began, the ists with industry professionals

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reason for Dan’s wife and daughter to really let this drunken, grumpy slacker back into their lives, which is one of this movie’s massive flaws. Fortunately, Ruffalo is so damn charming and good looking that it’s easy to overlook the common sense failures of “Begin Again.”

It’s impossible to not compare this movie to “Once,” which did a much better job of resonating emotionally with music and characters. The problem with “Begin Again” is that Ruffalo’s Dan isn’t performing any of the songs and Knightley’s songs are all about a guy that she shouldn’t be with anymore.

“Begin Again” is a bit of a disappointing second feature for Carney, especially when it tries to wrap everything up all cute and pretty in the end.

It’s a classic example of the sophomore slump, when an artist tries to please everyone and loses the message along the way. This is an album with several skippable tracks, unless they involve Mark Ruffalo.

PARK cont'd from page 1 The structures are designed around activities for two age groups, 2- to 5-year-olds and 5- to 12-years, and include: • Safety-hooded Glide Slide with extended exit • W himsically designed Solar Climber and Silo Climber for younger users • Other climbing equipment, including helix and grid structures • AERO Glider that rocks back and forth in an imaginary lake • Sound panels such as a musical Rhythm Spinner • Sound Garden with chimes, bells and drums • Crow’s nest balcony with aluminum telescope • Outdoor elevator that drops slowly using the passenger’s weight • Lily Pods walk across swaying poles • Cozy Cocoon for escaping or spinning “The park represents an extension of the beliefs we hold here at the hospital – that investing in the well-being of children and families in our community makes a difference,” Walker said.

The project, which took four months to complete, was sponsored by the Tartan and West Texas Golf Classics, KidSwing Golf Tournament, Treasure Street, Annie L. Stevens Fund of the Dallas Foundation, the 2006 James H. Brown Revocable Trust, TSRHC Volunteer Services, Waco Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation, the Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation, Christopher L. Davis, Christopher Nielsen, CH Foundation, Bradley T. Newsom Memorials, Dorothy J. Irons, the Gun Garage, David Thomas, Kevin L. Fuller, Shirley Summerall, Tom Senor and other TSRHC supporters.

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