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TEQUITA DUDLEY
A Life In
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Sharpen Up Those
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Contents JULY/AUGUST 2019
Beauty: Sharpen Up Those Shaving Skills for the Summer
Fashion: Hot Summer, Cool Styles
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Cover Story: A Life in Motion
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Women in Business: Tina Grider Lyon, Tina Grider School of Dance
On the Cover
Sharpen Up Those Shaving Skills for the Summer
Hot Summer, Cool Styles
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Fashion 14
Aprill Brandon: What’s Wrong With Me Now?
Feature: What’s Wrong With Me Now?
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Beauty
Features
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Feature: Tina Grider Lyon, Tina Grider School of Dance
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Tequita Dudley enjoys being in transit, whether that means helping run Longview’s bus system or traveling to Venice, Paris or London.
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HEALTH & BEAUTY
report from “Good Housekeeping” suggested allowing 15 minutes to elapse from shower entry to shaving. Ain’t NOBODY got time for that. Perhaps wash and condition your hair first, allowing for your legs to soften in the meantime.
SHAVE CREAM (OR GEL) I read again and again and again how important it is to use an actual shave cream or gel to shave your legs. I have always thought of shave cream or gel as a luxury, and at least 90 percent of the time I do not have any and just use a bar of soap to lather up. It turns out that products
SHARPEN UP THOSE
SHAVING SKILLS FOR THE SUMMER
designed specifically for shaving work to condition your skin and soften your hair and hair follicles. Softer hair reduces pulling on your skin, minimizing bumps and irritation later. Bar soap is a huge no-no. Oops. In a pinch, a dollop of conditioner is a better substitute.
SHAVE DIRECTION I have always shaved my legs going up, from ankle to knee. However, advice I saw cited many times is to first shave in the direction your hair
Words by AMY MCHANEY
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grows, downward from knee to ankle. On the second pass, shave against the grain. If your skin is especially sensitive, you may want to stick to
t is shorts weather in Texas and many of us fall into one
shaving in the direction of hair growth to reduce the risk of razor burn.
of two categories: those who show off the toned legs they
RAZORS
have been exercising madly at the gym, or the other 99
percent of us who wear short pants simply to keep ourselves from spontaneously bursting into flames in the Texas heat. Regardless of how your gams look — toned and fabulous, or maybe not, one thing we can all control is how close our shave is. The dog days of summer we are in now take me back to my first shave while spending a week with a cousin who was my age. One afternoon she decided to borrow her mother’s razor and her dad’s Barbasol so we could start shaving our legs. We were 12 years old, and I did not have permission from my mother to start shaving. Naturally, I decided the prudent thing to do would be to only shave the backs of my legs so my mother would never notice. Great idea, in theory, until I sliced such a significant cut in my leg that I still have a scar 35 years after the fact! I would be willing to bet that your first shaving experience was similar
to mine — perhaps coached by a friend, sister or cousin; or maybe hidden
Quality counts when choosing a razor, and a multi-blade razor will do a much better job in achieving a closer shave than a single-blade disposable. In addition, you should change your razor frequently — some recommendations say after three to five shaves!?!? I usually cannot remember the last time I changed my razor by the time I get a new one! Dermatologist Dr. Melissa Kanchanapoomi Levin says that there is not a set rule on razor replacement, but that, “You should be doing so if you see any signs of rusting, dulling, tugging the hair or nicking the skin.” I think that monitoring the status of the lubricating strip is probably a good indicator as well – if it looks worse for wear, it’s probably time to replace. I experimented with several shaving products, all while using a brand new Harry’s ($8.34 at drugstores) German manufactured, five blade razor. Harry’s razors are mounted on a flex hinge and include a lubricating strip, common to many razors on the market today.
behind closed doors because you thought your leg hair was unsightly and playground teasing had taken a toll. Whatever the circumstances, I bet there are not many of us who have read an instruction manual on how to properly shave our legs. Ladies, I am here to help. First, the traditional shave.
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$3.38, drugstores The eos shave cream claims to provide 24 hours of deep moisture.
The ideal place to shave your legs is in a warm bath or steamy
The product is delivered via pump, so it is easy to control how much
shower. Not a surprise. What I did find interesting in my research is that
you use. It is creamy, like a lotion, rather than what I think of as a
you should spend a few minutes in the bath or shower before shaving.
traditional, foamy shaving cream. I found it moisturizing and it gave
The warm water will soften your skin, leading to a smoother shave. One
me the closest shave of the products I tried.
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CREMO CONCENTRATED SHAVE CREAM IN COCONUT MANGO
$5.97, drugstores CREMO claims to be “astonishingly superior shave cream.” I liked the fact that this product comes in a tube, ensuring that you will get every last drop of product out. I also like the fact that it is highly concentrated – CREMO recommends using an almond-sized dollop of the crème and that less is often best. Further, the packaging states, “Highly Concentrated: Superior Value – One Tube Can Outlast Several Cans of Gels or Foams.” I have not used CREMO long enough to test that theory, but I like the idea.
NAIR HAIR REMOVER LOTION $4.94, drugstores Finally, I went a little off the beaten path and tried a product that does not require a razor at all. Formulated for legs, underarms and bikini area, the packaging claims that “smooth skin lasts DAYS LONGER than shaving.” DAYS LONGER sounds great to this mom of four. The process is simple — apply the hair remover lotion to your
AVEENO POSITIVELY SMOOTH SHAVE GEL
legs and let it sit for 3 to 10 minutes, wiping a test area with a damp washcloth to check the status of hair removal. Once the hair is easy
$3.88, drugstores
to wipe off, remove all lotion and hair along with it, then rinse in the
I have historically preferred shave gel to creams, and the packaging claim that the “exclusive combination of soy, aloe, vitamin E and skin conditioners have been shown to naturally minimize the reappearance of unwanted hair with continued use so you can
shower. I was surprised at how well this product worked for me, leaving my legs the smoothest of any product (or method) I tried. It might be worth a try for you, too. SIDE NOTE: Dear readers, I am sorry to report that I have
shave less often” sounded like a winning combination to me. In the
slacked on my collagen supplement and do not feel like I can
end, though, it seemed to work as well as any other shave gel. A
accurately report results to you in this issue. I am making a vow to
bonus is that it is dermatologist recommended and appropriate for
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A LIFE IN
Motion Words by ANNTOINETTE MOORE Photos by MICHAEL CAVAZOS & LES HASSELL
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LEFT: Tequita Dudley hands out free day passes for Longview Transit passengers June 15, 2017, for Dump the Pump Day. RIGHT: Tequita Dudley of Longview Transit speaks during an EasTexConnects community meeting being held to discuss the transportation needs of the area, on July 25, 2016, at the Longview Public Library.
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equita Dudley enjoys being in transit, whether that means helping run Longview’s bus system or traveling to Venice, Paris or London.
The 50-year-old dynamo made her first move when she was
“She inspires me to work harder at things. And she does that by example. She’s very organized. She sets goals,” Hollis said. Though Dudley has experienced challenging situations in her life, she found a way through them, Hollis added.
just 3 years old, her family relocating from Henderson, where she
“People use their brokenness to stay where they are. She
was born, to Longview. Then she stayed put for a while, attending
doesn’t do that. Even in the midst of what she’s going through,
McClure Elementary and Foster Middle School, then graduating
she’ll turn around and serve somebody. She turns her tragedies
from Longview High.
into tools,” Hollis said.
Dudley earned an associate degree from Kilgore College and
After joining Longview Transit, Dudley drove shuttle buses
graduated from Texas College in Tyler with a bachelor’s degree in
for more than a year. Later she was promoted to paratransit
business management.
coordinator, supervisor, director of operations, and, most recently,
Soon she was on the move again, as a driver for what was then the Deere Recovery Unit operated by Sabine Valley Center in White Oak. After 13 years, Dudley left Deere and drove for Sabine Valley’s Youth Center for five years. She next worked for a long-haul trucking company. Then she heard about an opportunity that could enable her to achieve her dream: Longview was starting a new bus system.
assistant general manager. She has worked with five different general managers during her 16 years with Longview Transit. “I’ve been the one consistent thing here since the organization started,” she said. Her days are hectic, as the company works to make its routes more efficient for those who use its services. In addition, the transportation center itself is moving, which involves a lot of construction.
“I’ve always enjoyed public transportation. That’s the reason
As assistant general manager, Dudley spends her time
I went back to college to get my business degree. My ultimate
answering questions from the public and helping the paratransit
goal is to run my own transportation company, to become general
service dispatcher. She also ensures that budgets are on track,
manager,” she said.
employees are productive and the transportation system is safe.
Dudley returned to Longview and joined Longview Transit as a driver in 2003, its first year. “I love helping people. It was a good way for me to help people. … It just tugged at my heart. Public transportation is a people business,” Dudley continued. “I’ve always liked working with the public. I like to meet new people. I like to travel,” she said. Stephanie Hollis has known Dudley since they were both sixth-graders at Foster Middle School.
“Anything can happen when I walk in the door. … I make sure every department is running smoothly on a daily basis,” Dudley said. Public transit is “an asset because it allows people to go from welfare to work. … It gives them a sense of independence,” she continued. “We’ve seen people who started walking (to work), then they took transit, now they have cars. We’ve lost ridership because people were successful,” Dudley said. Dudley said her years as a bus driver help her make better decisions as a manager.
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” tragedies tools.” Even in the midst of what she’s going through, she’ll turn around and serve somebody. She turns her
into
- Stephanie Hollis, on Tequita Dudley
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Tequita Dudley and Debra Davis visit the Longview Community Ministries booth, on July 23, 2015, while attending the Greater Longview United Way Pacesetters Luncheon at the East Texas Builders Association and Event Center.
“Being in that seat taught me what that driver goes through on a daily basis. I relate to the drivers better because they understand that I’ve had that experience,” she said. To advance in the field of public transportation, people usually have to move from city to city. It’s rare to stay in one job for more than five years, she said. “I’ve stayed here because of my love for this community,” Dudley said, adding that she routinely receives requests to apply for higher-paying jobs elsewhere. “A lot of people chase money. Money is not my major thing. … I love this community; my family is here,” she said. “I don’t know when I’ll make that move. I’m kind of standing in the waiting room right now.” Dudley also works part-time at the Drug and Alcohol Testing Center, as a front-office person and collector. “All I want to do is work, travel, and see my grandkids,” she said. She recently traveled to Rome; Paris is her “all-time favorite vacation destination.” Dudley, who is divorced, has an adult son, Trymaine, and three grandchildren: Carlos, Chance and T’Liyah. She is on the adult usher board at her church, Red Oak Baptist, and a member of Zonta International and Sigma Beta Delta, a business management honor society. She also serves on the Community Healthcore Foundation Board and the Kilgore Business Advisory Board. Dudley is a co-facilitator for Partners in Prevention and a Forever Friends mentor for a sixth-grade girl at Foster Middle School. In addition, she’s a Court Appointed Special Advocate, or CASA, volunteer and teaches fifth-graders about business as part of a Junior Achievement program. Lyndell McAllister called Dudley “fabulous.” “She’s a wonderful person. She is so capable … and giving of her time and energy,” said McAllister, director of Partner in Prevention’s mentoring and Bridges Out of Poverty programs. “I think it’s kind of rare to see somebody who works such a demanding job, but who is so willing to give her time and energy,” McAllister continued. “She’s seriously investing and spending time with young people who are experiencing very challenging times in their lives.” Dudley said the most important things in her life are her grandchildren and “my faith in God – just living for God. My mother (Gloria Jackson) was a giver, she raised us to be givers. … As part of my legacy to my grandkids, I’m a big giver, not only of my money, but of my time.” She knows she still has much to accomplish in her life. “The love of God gets me out of bed. This job motivates me, the people that I serve motivate me,” Dudley said. “I have an awesome staff whom I work with, in both jobs. … I feel that I get up to go to my second home. It never feels like work to me,” she said. C mycharmonline.com 13
FASHION
HOT SUMMER
COOL
STYLES Photos by MICHAEL CAVAZOS
Charm magazine has a soft spot for Heartisans Marketplace in downtown Longview. This nonprofit organization operates a store featuring gifts and products made in the store’s studios, with sales benefiting Heartisans’ job readiness program for unemployed women in the community. We think this organization is planting seeds that are producing beautiful fruit, which is why it was fitting for this Charm magazine fashion feature to be staged among the beautiful flowers at Ellis Home & Garden in Longview. Thanks to these Heartisans volunteers for modeling four perfect summer ensembles from Morgan Abbigail in Longview: Reneé Robertson, president of the Heartisans board of directors; Marsha Whitfield, who volunteers in the retail store; Diane Wilson, a sewing studio volunteer; and Brenda Thornhill, who volunteers in the monogram/ embroidery studio.
Marsha Whitfield wearing an Uncle Frank Dress, $120; cork tassel earrings, $20; cork cuff, $15; and leopard cork clutch, $45; from Morgan Abbigail.
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ReneĂŠ Robertson wearing an Ivy Jane chambray dress with coral and pink flurs, $149; with an OM coral hand clutch, $22; coral tassel earrings, $18; and coral tassel cuff, $18; from Morgan Abbigail mycharmonline.com 15
Brenda Thornhill, wearing an embroidered high low top, $65; white pants, $89; straw hat, $19; gold clutch, $22; Susan Shaw necklace, $39; and metal floral earrings, $20.
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Diane Wilson wearing an Uncle Frank dress, $129; Sunshine clutch, $20; and yellow tassel earrings, $18; from Morgan Abbigail.
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F EATURE
WOMEN in business: TINA GRIDER LYON Tina Grider School of Dance
Words by AMY PEARSON | Photo by MICHAEL CAVAZOS
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he taught their grandmothers.
put their talents to use in their high
Longtime Longview dance teacher
She taught their mothers.
schools, as dance and drill team members.
Joan Fuller also was a Kilgore College
Now, Tina Grider Lyon is teaching
The school has about 400 students who
her third generation of young ladies the
learn the intricacies of tap dance, ballet,
The Joan Fuller School of Dance in
art of dance.
jazz, lyrical and pointe. The school also
Longview operated for almost 30 years
offers five teams that compete all over
before Lyon got word Fuller wanted to
East Texas and have traveled to Dallas
sell. Lyon joined the Joan Fuller team in
Since 1986, Tina Grider School of
and the Austin area. In 2018, the senior
Dance has instructed Longview girls and
division team took home first place in a
1985 and purchased the school, at its old
boys in the physical, technical and lyrical
national competition.
“That’s what’s special about this place,” she said.
aspects of dance, but executing the perfect pirouette isn’t where lessons end. “Dance
teaches
self-motivation,
discipline, poise, self-confidence and grace,” Lyon said. “Dance teaches so much more than moving to the left or right; it teaches you how to stand up and give a speech in front of
“This really teaches them to work as a team, not as an individual,” Lyon said. “These girls are dancing four to five hours a week; they’re really committed.” Lyon first put on soft, pink ballet shoes at the age of 4. “I just love it. It gives me joy to perform and dance,” she said.
a group, how to walk into a crowded room,
When just a junior high student, Lyon’s
so many good life skills, even if they never
own dance teacher made her an apprentice.
pursue dance after leaving this studio.”
In high school, she worked as a dance
Rangerette and Swingster.
location on North Fifth Street, in 1986. Lyon kept the business at its Fifth Street location until about a year and a half ago, when she moved the 1,800-squarefoot operation to a 4,300-square-foot building on Hoyt Street. The “new” location boasts three dance studios, a dressing room, an office, a kitchen and a waiting area with closed circuit television monitors so parents can watch their tiny dancers in real time. As for the future, Lyon just wants to “continue to teach these beautiful dancers
Yet many of the students who start at
teacher through a co-op program at her
Tina Grider School of Dance at age 3, and
high school. After high school, she earned
leave when they’re 18, do go on to pursue
a dance scholarship to Kilgore College.
dance. Some have gone on to become part
It was then she decided to throw her hat
of the internationally recognized Kilgore
– or boots, if you will – in the ring for the
The secret to her success, she said, is
College Rangerettes. Others have gone to
Rangerettes. She earned a spot on that
her wonderful staff, most of whom have
the esteemed Apache Belles team at Tyler
squad and its elite group, the Swingsters.
been with her for 10 years or more.
the art of dance.” “We’re a family and I get to be part of their lives, part of their family,” she said.
Junior College, the University of North
“I went to Kilgore College for dance,
“My name might be on the building,
Texas drill team and the Texas A&M
but being a Rangerette was a big bonus,”
but it’s everyone else’s hard work that has
Commerce dance team. Current students
she said.
contributed to the success,” Lyon said. C
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What’s wrong with me
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B. Your diet. Which is awful. But which you will not be changing.
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COVER REVEAL PARTY
LONGVIEW | HENRY & MOORE JEWELRY | 4/18/2019 Photos by MICHAEL CAVAZOS
“Charm” and “View” magazines celebrated the release SANDRA & ERIC SKOOG
of the April-May editions of the magazines at a cover reveal party held April 18 at Henry & Moore Jewelry in Longview. “Charm” featured Jenna Yeakley, youth services supervisor at the Longview Public Library, and “View” profiled a group of pastors who started “Theology on Tap” at Oil Horse Brewery in downtown Longview. The monthly event fosters conversations on faith outside of a church environment. Be sure and mark your calendar for the next Cover Reveal Party, from 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 22 at Merle Norman
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in Longview Mall.
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FESTIVAL LONGVIEW | THE GREEN | 4/27/2019 Photos by MICHAEL CAVAZOS
The second annual Longview Wine Festival on April 27 raised more than $105,000 to benefit the East Texas Alzheimer’s Alliance. Held at The Green, a new city park at the Texas 31 entrance to Longview, the event included 17 wineries and 75 vendors. The Alliance will use the funds to support individuals and families with
BRITTANY & JERRY RAMSEY
Alzheimer’s and dementia, including providing caregiver resources and support groups, as well as respite grants to provide a break and assistance for family members caring for someone with Alzheimer’s.
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SHARON & DENNIS PHILLIPS
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LONGVIEW | MAUDE COBB CONVENTION AND ACTIVITY CENTER | 4/6/2019 Photos by LES HASSELL
East Texas Court Appointed Special Advocates throws one of Longview’s best dance parties each year with its Blue Jean and Ball Gowns. The event annually features couples who practice for months before competing with a variety of dance styles. This year’s event on April 6 raised more than $120,000 for the local organization. CASA provides trained volunteers – court appointed special advocates — to represent children in the foster care system.
BETH & MATT HARRIS
MELINDA & HENRY NOE
JEFF & CHELLYE CALLAWAY
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SUSAN & GARY PEARSON
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CARE DAY LONGVIEW | CHRISTUS GOOD SHEPHERD MEDICAL CENTER - LONGVIEW | 4/17/2019 Photos by MICHAEL CAVAZOS
Sheryll Mitchell Ministries and Christus Good Shepherd presented “Your Best Care Day,” a breast cancer awareness event, on April 17, at
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the Maude Cobb Convention and Activity Center. The event is presented each year in honor of Mitchell’s mother, Joan Burns Brooks. The event included panel discussions, music, vendors, and blood pressure and glucose checks. Good Shepherd also provided an opportunity for attendees to receive mammograms on-site with its mobile mammogram unit.
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NICKCO KEMP, SHARMEE PRATT, BARBARA MCCLAIN
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LONGVIEW | ALPINE CHURCH OF CHRIST | 5/26/2018 Photos by LES HASSELL
Family Promise of Longview hosted its Home Again Gala on March 29, with attendees encouraged to wear clothing to fit the fundraiser’s theme — “Havana Nights.” Family Promise of Longview previously was called Longview Interfaith Hospitality Network, but the organization changed its name earlier this year to align itself with its national organization, Family Promise, and better VALINDA & CHARLES CHARGOIS
reflect its work to help low-income and homeless families. The organization consists of a network of churches that provide shelter and other services to homeless families. Havana Nights raised $37,000 for Family Promise of Longview.
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