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Diamond Doctor Fights Claims of Over-Grading NASHVILLE LAWYER WAGES AD CAMPAIGN

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By Britt E. Stafford

People Newspapers University Park-based wholesale jeweler Diamond Doctor has earned a lot of free press over the past eight months. But ask owner and Preston Hollow resident David Blank, and he’ll tell you “any publicity is good publicity” doesn’t apply here. In October, Nashville-based lawyer Brian Manookian launched the websites diamonddoctorlawsuit.com and dallasdiamonddoctorclassaction.com in an attempt to solicit former Diamond Doctor customers who believe they were sold over-graded diamonds to sue the jeweler. And while Diamond Doctor did sell diamonds graded by EGL International — an Israeli diamond-grading laboratory that shut down in 2014 because of claims of inconsistent grading standards — Blank says he has done nothing wrong. Diamond Doctor sells both jewelry and loose diamonds. According to Blank, when a customer makes a purchase, they receive a certificate from the independent grading laboratory marking the diamond's grade. “Diamond Doctor is not the EGL, GIA, or any other rating agency," Blank confirmed. "We disclosed the certificates to the customer at the time of sale and priced them accordingly. We offer a life-

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Preston Road wholesale jeweler Diamond Doctor faces off against Nashville lawyer Brian Manookian. || C O U R T E SY P H O T O S

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time trade-in guarantee." While Blank claims Manookian is solely after a paycheck, Ma-

nookian argues he is trying to do a service for the consumers who bought over-graded diamonds. In response to the accusations, Blank has filed several lawsuits against Manookian, Brian Cummings, and their law firm Cummings Manookian PLC for charges including racketeering, extortion, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, barratry, appropriation of name and likeness, and libel. According to Manookian, Blank’s lawyers contacted Manookian not long after the sites went online.

“Within hours I had gotten a number of voicemails threatening to sue me,” he said. Manookian and the Cummings Manookian firm filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit Diamond Doctor filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in February arguing, “This is merely the latest round in The Diamond Doctor’s ongoing campaign to intimidate Brian Manookian and his law firm … for their efforts to expose The Diamond Doctor’s

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LIVING WELL Snider Plaza chiropractors cater to kids 22

SCHOOLS

FOCUS ON PHILANTHROPY

COMMUNITY

Soldiers and Sailors: HPHS alumni graduate from academies 12

Equal Heart brings meals to hungry homes across Dallas 19

UP resident goes from tech to chef on Gordon Ramsay’s MasterChef 37

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Summer Days Are Here Again

his month is a time for celebrations: graduations and the start of summer and fried chicken. We’re featuring our impressive high school standouts with our graduation coverage on page 10. Summer is about fun, creativity, and exploration — just in time for the new creative space SPARK to open to the public (page 39), while culinary hometown favorite Gene Street opens his new “homey” Street’s Fine Chicken (page 17). Summer is also a time for change, and we have a big change afoot here at People Newspapers: we’re losing our Editor and Art Director Elizabeth Ygartua. Elizabeth is going to work for an international travel company with a mission; how can we compete with that? She has been the perfect blend of talent, with experience in writing and editing, but also real knack for design. She’s got a great work ethic and a wonderful personality. In her short four years here, Elizabeth has made significant contributions both internally with the company and publically with our content for you, our readers. Elizabeth is active in the community with several non-profits. She also grew up here, so I’m sure many of you know and love her too. We wish her a fond farewell and the best in her future endeavors. Pat Martin, Publisher pat.martin@ peoplenewspapers.com

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FOND FAREWELL “It’s with a heavy but happy heart that I leave People Newspapers. I will forev-

er treasure my time at this publication that is so very much at the heart of the community I have loved since birth. Besides my wonderful staff, I will miss our loyal readers most. I have loved getting to know you all in interviews, at parties, on the blog, and at community meetings. You have made waking up every morning, and I do mean every, worthwhile. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.” — Elizabeth Ygartua

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POLICE SKU LD U GGE RY of the M O N T H WH AT A WAT E R-F UL WO RLD At 3:28 p.m. on May 20, assailants threw water balloons at students and adults at McCulloch Intermediate School, causing one victim discomfort and pain on impact.

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here are many things we are supposed to be on the lookout for when we perform the “walk around” we were taught to do in driver’s education – strangers in the backseat, leaking essential fluids, etc. But there’s one very vital detail to a car that can be very easy to miss – the license plates. Recently, we have noticed an increase in the number of license plates reported stolen or swapped out for another. For example, a thief stole the license plate from a black 2012 BMW in the 4500 block of Fairway Avenue and replaced it with another plate between 9 a.m. on May 20 and 9 a.m. on May 25. “The reason [thieves] steal them is they’re putting them on another vehicle to commit another crime,” University Park

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N O TA B L E I N C I D E N T S H I G H L A N D PA R K May 18 At 4:18 a.m., Warren Nicholas Whitlow, Jr., of Highland Park, was arrested in the 5200 block of Edmondson Avenue on a charge of interfering with public duties. May 26 At 8:30 p.m., a man lost a $10,000 Rolex watch in the Starbucks at Highland Park Village. May 29 At noon, a prisoner in the HPDPS temporary holding facility in the 4700 block of Drexel Drive removed the cap from a sprinkler head in a cell, causing $1,000 in damage. The prisoner, Donnie Lee Jordan, 65, of Dallas, had been arrested at 3:48 a.m. for failure to identify. He was transferred

to the Dallas County Correctional Facility. June 6 At 9:30 a.m., a crane driving southbound on Preston Road ran over several barricades, worth $150 each, from the 5000 block of Preston Road to the 4700 block of Preston Road. June 8 Between 11:30 p.m. on June 7 and 1 p.m. on June 8, a vandal shattered the window and cracked the windshield, causing $2,000 in damage to a Ford F250 in the 3400 block of Knox Street.

$47,039 The cost of 124 bottles of wine reported stolen at 5:36 p.m. on May 24 from a house in the 4500 block of Westway Avenue.

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U N I V E R S I T Y PA R K May 19 Between 6:30 p.m. on May 18 and 6:03 p.m. on May 19, a thief stole a package containing $2,600 in household goods from a porch in the 3700 block of Purdue Street. May 23 Between midnight and 8:08 a.m., a burglar broke into two vehicles in the 2800 block of Daniel Avenue and stole $700 in power tools, $1,890 in miscellaneous property, and $4,450 in golf clubs. May 29 At 7:15 p.m., an employee of Tom Thumb in The Plaza at Preston Center reported a shoplifter stole 25 bottles of wine valued at $3,117.37.

June 6 Between 1 and 11:30 p.m., a thief entered a black 2009 GMC truck in Preston Center and stole a $250 laptop and $660 in miscellaneous property. June 8 Between 11:30 a.m. on June 7 and 9:30 a.m. on June 8, a burglar broke into a black 2008 GMC Yukon in the 3900 block of Hanover Street and stole the third-row seat. June 11 Between 10 p.m. on June 10 and 10:30 a.m. on June 11, a scoundrel stole a $5,000 black 1999 Ford F150 from the 3400 block of Normandy Avenue.

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n May 27, 497 Highland Park High School seniors walked across the stage at Moody Coliseum at SMU with some $13.5 million in scholarships in their pockets. Scholarship and academic awards were announced at the Senior Honors Day assembly at HPHS the day prior. You can find a full list of recipients at parkcitiespeople.com. Khai-Leif Nguyen-Hille was the valedictorian and Jack Weakley was the salutatorian. The National Honor Society Blanket Award winners were Kathryn Mootz and Carson Yeager, who each had more than 1,000 hours of community service. Kathryn’s older sisters, Marilyn and Allie, are past Blanket winners. Yeager was also the student body president. Nguyen-Hille is headed to Harvard in the fall to study economics or applied math. He said he’d like to pursue a doctorate and then help craft economic policy. Weakley will attend the University of Texas at Austin, where he plans to study electrical engineering and one day found a start-up. Yeager will be headed to SMU and Kathryn will also be attending UT. Congrats class of 2016! — Elizabeth Ygartua

Blanket Award winner Kathryn Mootz with sisters Allie (left) and Marilyn (right).

Valedictorian Khai-Leif Nguyen-Hille gets his diploma. P H O T O S : TA N N E R G A R A

Senior class president Katie Dalton

The top ten in alphabetical order are: Kevin Chen, Xiaohan Gao, John Herrick, Daniel Huang, Hannah Jane Jurgensmeyer, William Kraft, Hannah Kupferschmid, Khaii-Leif Nguyen-Hille, Alexandra Vallera, and Jack Weakley. | P H O T O : E L I Z A B E T H YG A R T U A

Valedictorians S T. M A R K S

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Salutatorian Jack Weakley addresses his class.

VAL: Dylan Frankl, University of Texas at Austin

Salutatorians URSULINE

SAL: Christian Cole, University of North Texas

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during construction, which Dahlander said would begin with the parking garage. HPISD plans for construction to be finWith Dallas City Council’s unanimous ished and the new school to be in operation approval on May 25 for rezoning the North- for the 2017-18 school year as the new “UP way Christian Church property, Highland Elementary,” while that school is being rePark ISD cleared another hurdle in their built. Students will be at the new campus mission to build a new elementary school for one year. within Dallas city limits. As of press time, UP Elementary was slated first because ground breaking for the campus was set their case was judged to be most urgent: Campus Life/Fast Facts for June 23. HPISD cites how the auditorium doubles • Smallthe classgreen sizes light, as a classroom, and “the Passport to SpanAs soon as they received • Academic rigor HPISD moved forward. They sent out a ish teacher travels from classroom to class• Foreign language beginning in PK3 press release the following day announc- room with her teaching materials on a cart • HTCS graduates continue their ing their ambitious five-year construction because she does not have a dedicated education at college-preparatory high schools the Diocese, including classroom.” plan for the new school and theinrebuildJesuit, Ursuline, Cistercian, ing of three existing elementary schools, as BishopThe following year, 2018-19, is a little Lynch, Bishop Dunne and John Paul II. promised in the November bond package. more complicated. Hyer Elementary stu• Extended Day Academy from Following its construction, the new dents will be transferred to the new school 3:45-6:00 PM on regular school days school will act as a stand-in for students • Nutritious school lunchesfor not one but two years. Meanwhile, provided by a personal chef in Bradfield will go under construction and to be flowed into during the construction an eco-friendly kitchenits students will flow to Hyer, temporarily of UP, Bradfield, and Hyer elementaries, in that order. Only after all construction is “Bradfield.” Subsequently, the Broncos will finished will the new elementary open as a move back to their new campus and Hyer Extracurricular Activities: school in its own right – HPISD’s first since will be rebuilt in 2019-20. • Altar Servers Hyer was built in 1948.• Band This school-swapping was designed City Council’s approval the site plan to alleviate commuting issues for Brad• Book of Club Drama came on the heels of •the Dallas City Plan field students, who live in the southwest • National Junior Honor Society Commission’s recommendation earlier in corner of the district, and would have to • Student Council May – a culmination of months of negoti- get to the far northeast corner, where the • Choir ations between City Plan Commissioner new school will be. • Duke TIP program And while a two-year displacement to Margot Murphy, HPISD, and neighbors • Athletics - Basketball to the property. the new elementary could be a drawback for - Soccer The neighbors, who influenced and Hyer students – or parents – the district be- Softball &size Baseball - Volleyball HOLY TRINITY setback restrictions to the building plans in lieves it is preferable toCATHOLIC have Hyer SCHOOL students - Track & Field EST 1914 the lead-up to the city hall hearings, met making use of the new campus, rather than again with the board in June prior to the having to wait out the three-year interim in groundbreaking. HPISD spokesperson Jon what they say are inadequate facilities. Dahlander says the board is making further Finally, in 2020-21, elementary school adjustments to their plans based on ongo- boundaries will be redrawn to factor in ing conversations with neighbors. not four but five elementaries, and stuIn an effort to keep the community in- dents will attend the as-yet unnamed new volved, the board will also set up a hotline school.

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STUDENTS, ALUMNI GIVE HPMS’ MRS. MCCORMICK ULTIMATE CURTAIN CALL For the past 30 years, Susan McCormick has inspired students to take the stage and love theater as the Director of Drama at Highland Park Middle School. On May 23, students, alumni, parents, and administrators surprised her with a tribute show and reception. McCormick was responsible for many arts programs, including Playbill, Spotlight, Creativity Inc., Think Tank, Odyssey of the Mind, Chinese New Year celebrations, and several UIL competitions. HP alum Hunter Lewis sang “Never Never Land” from McCormick’s first musical at HPMS, Peter Pan. Alum and

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current HPMS choir teacher Katie McDaniel and choreographer Megan Kelly Bates led a cast of McCormick’s current and former students in a medley of some of her most-produced musicals, including numbers from Rent, Wizard of Oz, Annie, Guys and Dolls, and Godspell. —From staff reports

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Bound in Brotherhood

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From left: Myer Ungerman and Blake Gordon recently graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and Hardy Davis graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. Member

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Four years after walking across the stage together at Highland Park High School, Myer Ungerman, Blake Gordon, and Hardy Davis were recently bonded in brotherhood when they all took military oaths. In May, Ungerman and Gordon graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., while Hardy Davis graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Getting into a service academy is no easy feat. Only 9.5 percent of high schoolers that apply to West Point are accepted. The Naval Academy’s acceptance rate is even lower at 7.9 percent. Among other requirements, applicants must meet high academic standards and pass a physical fitness test. They are also required to get a recommendation from a public official, such as a U.S. Senator or Congressman. Davis began preparing for the academy before he started high school. When he was in eighth grade, he learned about naval aviation, and was determined to get into West Point. “I was kind of a geeky jock,” Davis said. “I loved playing football and sports, but I liked reading physics books too.” Davis credits his former Boy Scouts Scoutmaster Rick Owens for telling him about the Navy. “When I got to high school, I knew what I had to do,” he said. While in Annapolis, Davis played sprint football, a version of the sport that requires participants to weigh 170 pounds or less. According to him, days often dragged on into the wee hours of the morning in order to meet all of his obligations. Ungerman began considering a military academy during his sophomore year of high school. During the summer after

his junior year, he spent a week at West Point and Annapolis. “The academy was a good challenge that I couldn’t have overcome without my family, friends and mentors,” Ungerman said. “As I learned more about the options available in the Army as opposed to the Navy, I started seeing myself in the Army.” Of the trio, Gordon may have seemed the most likely service academy candidate. While his father finished his time from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1985, Blake never expressed any interest in the military. After a change of heart, he offhandedly told his parents about his intentions over dinner one night during his junior year. “It was very much a surprise to us,” his mother Melissa said. According to Gordon, he was drawn to the military because of the personal development opportunities. “It was also a chance for me to serve and pay something back to America,” he said. Gordon describes his college experience as mentally exhausting. In addition to a full academic schedule and military training, he served as captain of the fencing team. All three graduates are now obligated to serve as officers in the military. Ungerman will soon head to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri for engineer officer schooling before going to ranger school in Hawaii next year. Gordon is headed to field artillery officer training at Fort Carson in Colorado. Davis will return to Annapolis to coach sprint football before attending flight school in Pensacola, Fla. Before returning to duty, the new graduates are enjoying some well-earned vacation time. Gordon has been traveling across the country, stopping at the Grand Canyon. Ungerman is exploring Europe, and hopes to make a sweep through many countries in the central and southern region. Davis is also traveling in Europe, and plans to learn as much history as possible. “Mark Twain said, ‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,’” Davis said. “I think it’s important for a lot of people my age to remember that.”

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This year, Park Cities native and professional fisherman Alton Jones has 10 tournaments in 10 states on his docket.

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As a kid, Alton Jones used to ride his 10-speed bicycle around the Park Cities, holding a fishing pole in one hand and a tackle box in the other. Forty years later, he might have ditched the bike, but he’s still holding the tackle box and the fishing rod. And Jones hasn’t lost any of his lifelong passion for a sport in which he’s been a professional for more than a quarter century. Jones has been one of the top anglers in the world for the past several years, and he reached the pinnacle of the sport in 2008, when he won the Bassmaster Classic in South Carolina (and was subsequently invited to the White House to meet fellow Texan and outdoor enthusiast George W. Bush). He doesn’t plan to slow down anytime soon. “If you’re 10 years into a career in a physical sport, you’re done,” Jones said. “But fishing gives you some longevity.” Jones credits his maternal grandfather, who taught him to fish at age two. In the years that followed, they fished at

lakes in East Texas almost every weekend. Jones began reading Bassmaster magazine when he was 7. Growing up in the Park Cities, he used to throw bread in the water at Caruth Park to attract carp. And he caught some bass in Turtle Creek. Later, Jones became the president of the field and stream club at Highland Park High School, where he graduated in 1981. Jones went to Baylor University, where he started a small computer business that earned him enough money to buy his first bass boat. Then he joined the Waco Bass Club, entered his first tournament, and was shut out. “That really lit a fire under me,” Jones said. “Everybody caught some fish except me. I dropped out of the club after that because I was so discouraged.” A year later, Jones rejoined the club and had considerably more success. He won some tournaments and became one of the top anglers in the state. After turning pro in 1990, Jones won his first tournament at Toledo Bend along the Texas-Louisiana border. “I thought it was going to be easy, but

I didn’t win another event until 1997,” he said. “There was a steep and long learning curve.” Still, Jones gradually accumulated sponsors, and scored his biggest victory in 2000 at the Bassmaster Megabucks tournament. His schedule this year includes 10 tournaments in 10 different states, culminating in the Bassmaster Elite Mississippi River in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Sept. 8. That amounts to about six months each year that he’s traveling to tournaments and sponsorship events. The rest of the time he’s home with his family in Lorena, Texas. “I love the competitive aspect of it,” Jones said. “It’s a high-stress game and a grueling game and the odds are stacked against you.” However, Jones also still appreciates the more relaxing aspects of fishing that endeared the sport to him in the first place. “We all need hope in our lives, and fishing provides that on every single cast,” he said. “You can get out on the water and leave your troubles behind.”

Hank Kuehne was a mainstay on the PGA Tour for several years. Colt Knost is one of the game’s emerging stars, and Kelly Kraft is becoming a regular at pro events. Could Bryson DeChambeau be the next great golfer to come out of SMU? Like the other three, DeChambeau won a U.S. Amateur title. But during his junior season in 2015, he went one better by earning the school’s first individual national championship. Since withdrawing from school last year, the eccentric California native has made quite a splash, and he doesn’t even have a Tour card yet. DeChambeau, 22, was in contention into the weekend at the Masters in April. The following week, he tied for fourth place at the Heritage in South Carolina while playing on a sponsor’s exemption. “I was trying to prepare myself to be ready, to be patient out there and have a good schedule set, but nothing can prepare me for this,” DeChambeau said. “It’s definitely different being out here and being a professional and people wanting your time. I’ve become comfortable over time

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Defense Shines in HP’s Spring Game By Todd Jorgenson Sports Editor

When it comes to the spring, Highland Park doesn’t mess with success. Regardless of changes in personnel or classification, the Scots stick with their routine during spring drills — trying to install offensive and defensive schemes, building a depth chart, and sorting through position battles. Longtime head coach Randy Allen was pleased with the three weeks of practice, which culminated in an hour-long spring game on May 17. “We got better every week,” Allen said. “We think that, come fall, everybody will be ready and we’ve got a chance to have a good football team.” The Scots finished 10-2 in each of the past two years at the Class 6A level and lost in the area round of the playoffs. They will drop back to the 5A level next season. If the scrimmage was any indication, the HP defense might already be in midseason form. The group includes some experience among the front seven, with returnees including Matt Gahm, John House, and Bennett Brock. “Our defense was way ahead of our offense. They hit hard, and they pursue well, and they’ve got good speed,” Allen said. “We did some good things on offense, but we just need to be more consistent.” Allen said there is an ongoing threeman battle for who will be the new starting quarterback. In the running are seniors Michael Clarke and Jack Fain, along with junior John Stephen Jones. Clarke might have the inside track based in part on his limited action as the varsity backup last year. “We’ll continue to compete going into the fall,” Allen said. “We’ll begin to make

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Cade Saustad (88) runs the ball at Highland Park’s spring scrimmage. After three weeks of spring practices, fall practice will begin on Aug. 8. decisions then.” The HP offense has been shorthanded, with some playmakers either banged up or involved in postseason runs in baseball or lacrosse for much of the spring. But Jack Kozmetsky should be the top running back after impressing in limited duty in 2015. “We got to look at some guys,” Allen said. “That was the main thing. We feel that we made progress in the spring. We look forward to a good summer, and by the time we come back in the fall, we’ll be ready to roll.” Looking ahead, HP will start fall practice on Aug. 8, and will open the regular season on Aug. 26 with a home game against Rockwall. The District 15-5A opener is slated for Sept. 16 against Lovejoy.

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Street’s Chicken Updates Old Family Recipe Black-Eyed Pea family feeds again By Farah Fleurima

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ried chicken, a beloved staple of home cooking, gets a new showplace in a Dallas restaurant brought to life by the family behind the Black-Eyed Pea. Street’s Fine Chicken comes from Street siblings Gene Jr., Marco, Mariel, and Dace, with cousin Tony. It’s situated in the Cedar Springs Road building where patriarch Gene Street’s homey restaurant Black-Eyed Pea was born and housed for decades. Southern home-style favorites reign supreme at Street’s Fine Chicken, but with more attention to craft and fromscratch preparation than the popular chain that Gene helped start. “A Southern chicken concept in Dallas has been a vision in my family for as long as I can remember,” said Marco. “The property is owned by the family, and we feel that its central location and close proximity to Uptown and Highland Park will pay off.” With the new vision came some new decor. No longer is the space dark and a bit clubby-feeling. Walls are bright and accented by old-timey portraits of chickens on one side and

Street’s Fine Chicken features items such as the chicken plate (left), mac n’ cheese (top right), and pimento cheese fritters. || K E V I N M A R P L E splatter paintings on the other, a nod to Marco Street’s love of art. A bar situated near the entrance seems a delightful place to sit and sip a bit. The main culinary focus at Street’s is brined local chicken tossed in French provincial herbs and spices and fried to golden-exterior perfection; the bird also comes in tender and chicken sandwich form. A peri peri version sees the chicken brined in a house-made hot pepper sauce before it’s grilled and served with sides or stuffed into the Sin Killin’ Thigh Sandwich. Chicken even forms the basis of an instantly-popular starter, the smoked and fried

Chicken Lollipops. “Together as a family, we’ve developed a concept focused on serving the best locally-sourced chicken in many delicious ways,” Marco says. To that end, the Streets largely succeed. A recent dinner visit started off swimmingly with panko-crusted pimiento cheese fritters set in a Tabasco-agave jam. The slight heat of the melty cheese filling and the sweet sauce played off each other nicely. Fried chicken arrived wonderfully brown and crisp outside and juicy inside. However, while some pieces were piping-hot, several were lukewarm.

The meat could have benefited from a touch of salt, too. Dotting it with Sin Killer hot sauce, however, pepped things up nicely. The mac n’ cheese, oozing with melted Brie and smoked Gouda, was comfort food heaven. A side of maple-roasted Brussels sprouts with crispy bacon boasted great flavor but none of the promised bacon. Roasted & Toasted Chicken puts the French herb rub at center stage and tasted homey and upscale at the same time. Skin-on fries were simple and addictive. Street’s drink menu is short and sweet, with popular beers and a couple of craft choices on

hand. House wines will set you back only $5, though there are additional selections as well. Handcrafted cocktails make use of expert combinations of fruit, herbs, and spirits. All are perfect for toasting this space’s family-led renaissance with hopes for its continued growth. “This is the neighborhood that Gene Street got his start and where he had a lot of his first success,” Marco Street said. “Over the next several years, we plan to do four or five family-owned and -operated stores in DFW, and hopefully move to franchising beyond that. We have our eye on the second location already.”

Dallas Launch of Todd Wagner’s Charity Network By Claire Kelley

Special Contributor While Dallasite social calendars are filled to the brim with philanthropic events, University Park resident Todd Wagner, CEO and founder of The Charity Network, wants to focus on digital fundraising. Through Charity Network, Wagner has found a way to help charities accomplish the three things they want most: to reach high net-worth donors, access millennials, and get their content out to a wide audience.

On May 17 the organization, which is made up of three platforms – Charity Buzz, Prizeo, and Chideo – celebrated its Dallas launch at the home of Anne and Steve Stodghill in Dallas. Wagner began his remarks by comparing analog and digital spheres to an iceberg. “Ten percent above the water is analog; but digital is the 90 percent below the surface where all the good stuff is that you can mine from,” he said. At the event, approximately 275 people and 60 charities, from United Way to the Boy

Scouts of America, were able to connect. “As a base level [philanthropies] … are always in need of raising money. This is a new way for them to become involved,” said Stodghill, a longtime friend of Wagner. When Wagner and Mark Cuban launched Broadcast.com 20 years ago, Wagner realized that companies were moving to a digital-first landscape. The two knew they could use that transition to their advantage. SHANA ANDERSON

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BMW TEAMS UP WITH DALLAS MARATHON The Dallas Marathon board of directors announced a multi-year title sponsorship with BMW of North America earlier this month. For avid runners planning on racing in the full marathon or one of the “easier” events, there’s plenty of time to start training before ready, set, go on Dec. 11.

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PRESTON CENTER TASK FORCE WANTS OPINIONS Neighbors filled the fellowship hall at University Park United Methodist Church on June 2 to hear members of the Preston Center and Northwest Highway Area Plan Task Force present their preferred vision plan. You can view that presentation at http://bit.ly/ TaskForceJune. During the open house response time, residents shared their anger and approval in equal measure for the plan — which promotes burying the garage and adding a park on top, and exploring mixed-use building projects for the center. The group is incorporating community feedback into a revised plan, which they will meet to discuss on July 7 at 6 p.m. in the ballroom of the Walnut Hill Recreation Center at 10011 Midway Road Dallas, TX 75229. Dallas City Councilwoman Jennifer Gates said they hope to take a final plan to the Dallas City Plan Commission in early fall.

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CONTINUED FROM 17 Wagner studied the way Amazon and Netflix grew with a digital-first mindset. In 2014, Wagner founded Chideo, a content-driven fundraising platform that offers celebrities, nonprofits, and brands an easy way to quickly promote causes through unique and entertaining video content. “Philanthropy has been a big part of my life for the last 15 years. I’ve also been in the media business for most of the last 15 years through 2929 productions. With that experience, what this really comes to is a combination of technology, media, and philanthropy,”

Wagner said. Wagner acquired two giant companies to expand his reach and break into today’s online philanthropic space. The first was Prizeo, a digital sweepstakes platform that enables influencers to use technology to mobilize their fan base to support chosen causes. It offers opportunities for users to donate in amounts as small as $10. He also purchased CharityBuzz, an online charity auction platform that has raised more than $150 million to date for its nonprofit clients. “Only six percent of money is raised online and I see that as really an opportunity to try to change things,” Wagner said.

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EQUAL TO THE CHALLENGE Group feeds hungry at home By Elizabeth Ygartua People Newspapers

On a humid afternoon in late May, residents of the Spanish Creek apartments near Bachman Lake line up patiently while volunteers from Equal Heart’s Mobile Food Access Network [MFAN] set up tables in front of two vans filled with crates of groceries. Each of which will help feed a family for about two weeks. Residents here and at other low-income apartment complexes across North Texas only need a form of ID to sign up to get the much-needed deliveries once a month. Mud from a morning shower doesn’t deter volunteers from wheeling dollies across cardboard boxes to take the heavy crates into the hungry homes. “Even if it’s absolutely pouring, we still come out because it’s about them getting the food,” said Brianna Sanders, an AmeriCorps volunteer for Equal Heart. “If they’ll come out to get the food, then we’ll take it to them. It might be a lot of rain for us, but it might not be a lot of rain for them.” Started last summer by Keven Vicknair, formerly of CitySquare, Equal Heart aims to feed families at their homes year-round with MFAN and feed kids in the summer with its Direct-to-Door meals program. “Most social services are giv-

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Top: Kids enjoy breakfast outside their apartment complex courtesy Equal Heart’s Direct-to-Door summer meals program. Bottom Left: A family receives a monthly delivery of groceries from the Mobile Food Access Network’s mobile pantry. Bottom right: Equal Heart can’t do their work without their team of AmeriCorps volunteers. en and received at a neutral site, so no matter how much we bring a heart of service to that interaction, you’re still in this neutral, sterile environment,” Vicknair said. “If you have to go out of your community to get help, how do you know … that anyone cares about you?” Equal Heart started with the summer program and officially

launched MFAN in December, after receiving a GroundFloor Fellowship grant for $60,000 from the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and $25,000 from Heart of Dallas Young Professional Fast Pitch event last fall. “October to December was the most surreal,” said Jackie Anderson, the Equal Heart AmeriCorps program director.

Anderson explained there’s a lot of need for both food programs, especially in the summer. Not every kid who receives free lunches during the school year is able to participate in Dallas ISD’s summer program, hosted at many schools and parks, sometimes because they simply can’t get to one of the 75 designated sites at the designated times.

This summer, Equal Heart will feed more than 8,000 kids breakfast and lunch daily in Dallas — and Austin, Houston, and San Antonio — at 200 apartment complexes and help fill some gaps in the food map, according to Anderson. To get funding for the summer meals from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Texas Department of Agriculture, Equal Heart must ensure volunteers witness and document meals being consumed, Anderson said. Vicknair’s twin sister created an app to keep track of the required paperwork and make distribution easier. In the weeks leading up to the vans’ deployment, volunteers made piñatas to help entertain kids during meals, keep them in a central area for congregant eating, and show them they care. “The reason I came back [to work with Equal Heart] is mainly for the summer food,” said Sanders, who worked with Vicknair at CitySquare. “We play with the kids when we give them food. And you’ll be surprised. ... The lunch is what we’re there for, but sometimes they don’t even care about the lunch, they just want that time.” Equal Heart hopes to start making MFAN deliveries twice a month and expand the summer food program to more complexes, but they’ll need help, as their slogan puts it, bridging the last mile. “To scale, we need to cover [the cost of ] transportation and we absolutely need to find some more food sources,” Vicknair said. “We’ll go anywhere and everywhere to pick stuff up.”

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 MOBILE GROCERIES Produce companies such as Nogales, JD Rodriguez, and United Fresh, and grocery stores such as Trader Joe’s and Sun Fresh, donate food to the Mobile Food Access Network mobile pantry. Other community partners include Cornerstone Baptist Church, Christian Community Action, Interfaith In Action, and the Juanita Craft Post Office, said Teresa Castañeda, director of food programs for Equal Heart. Recovered or donated food that doesn't make it into the black baskets for the pantry is given to the Stewpot or Cornerstone's Community Kitchen to help feed the homeless.

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By the end of 2016, Equal Heart will have had 58 AmeriCorps members working for them. Each member works 10 to 12 hours a day for 675 hours total. They earn two types of compensation: a cash stipend of $4,300 and a $2,200 education award that can be used within seven years of service, according to Vicknair.

Vicknair couldn't have made Equal Heart work had it not been for fellow philanthropists and groups. For instance, Cornerstone Baptist leases them office and warehouse space, and their start-up grant from Walmart was co-written with Kids U. You can help by visiting igivehere.org/EqualHeart.

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walk around Snider Plaza can sometimes require some investigative window-shopping. What may seem like a retailer might turn out to be an ice cream shop. What looks like an armory is also a book store. Serving Life Chiropractic is no stranger to confused passersby, with its trendy waiting room filled with infants and toddlers. “This location offered an opportunity for us to expand what we were,” Dr. Denisa Weber said of the six-year-old practice, which is celebrating its one-year anniversary in Snider Plaza. “I love being storefront. We get to meet people who just walk off the street who are just curious because they see a whole bunch of kiddos through the window. They peer up at our sign and think, ‘Oh, this is a chiropractic office?’” Weber started the practice when she was pregnant with her child. She wanted to provide a service that would improve quality of life for a wide range of patients. Serving Life’s patient base is 63 percent prenatal and pediatric care — a fact Weber admits people are skeptical about. “A common misconception about chiro-

practic care is that you have to have a hurt back to be seen,” Weber said. “We’re getting referrals from pediatricians and OB’s in our area because they’re seeing how their patients are getting better [with chiropractic work].” The chiropractic process is less about hurt backs and more about how the nervous system is functioning, Weber said. Because the spine is a direct pathway from the brain to the rest of our bodies, it greatly impacts what goes on with the nervous system. Birth can be strenuous on a baby’s body, so working with infants’ nervous systems from the get-go can help put them on a healthy track. According to Weber, another misconception is that prenatal and pediatric chiropractors adjust a child’s vertebrae the way adults’ are adjusted. “That’s not the case. It’s very gentle, safe, and effective,” Weber said. “With babies, it’s about as much pressure as you would use to test the ripeness of a tomato. We’re connecting with these children, giving them the best start possible to life, and making sure their bodies are functioning optimally from the beginning.” Dr. Amanda Zimmerman joined the practice in February, specializing in cranial adjustments. She said infant adjustments are frequently done while the child

is asleep. The child rests in a specialized pillow or lies on its mother during the short visit. “We also host birth talks to expectant mothers to educate women that they do have options with their birth,” Zimmerman said. “Most women don’t really want to have C-sections because down the line, children could end up with more issues. So they come to us because we try to optimize their pelvis so they can get the birth they desire.” Obstetricians who refer women to Serving Life have noticed shorter labor times with women who choose to participate in the optimization they offer, Weber said. And according to Zimmerman, the preparation for labor can start as early as the first day of pregnancy. “It’s a marathon, so you’ve got to start preparing,” Zimmerman said. “The body is always changing.” While they do specialize in infant care, Serving Life sees patients in every stage of life. “Chiropractic is physiology,” Weber said. “It’s how the body was designed to work. If we have interference with how it was designed, then we remove it and we’re giving the body the chance to do what it was meant to do — which is express health.”

For the past eight years, psychologist Dr. Kevin Gilliland and his team at Innovation 360 (i360) have served many Park Cities and Preston Hollow patients struggling with issues such as mental health or addiction with a different kind of treatment. Gilliland started i360 in 2008 in a spot near Preston Center to meet some of the gaps he saw in the outpatient treatment industry. “There were a lot of ends that just weren’t being met,” he said. “You may not need residential when you’re depressed or drinking too much, but you need more than seeing somebody in individual therapy.” Rather than having patients go through more emotional turmoil to take off work for outpatient treatment — which requires patients to live at home and go daily to a clinic for treatment until they complete their program — he wanted to find a middle ground where clients could receive the treatment they deserve and resume everyday life. Each new patient goes through an initial assessment, which helps clinicians map out an appropriate treatment program that can aid each client on a case-by-case basis. According to Gilliland, i360 has

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see when people step into college,” Gilliland said. While the company provides traditional means of treatment — such as individual, couple, and group therapy — it also takes a personalized approach in its life development services. “That’s probably one of the more unique things we do,” Gilliland said. “We started looking at how do we train and equip staff to help people translate the insides of therapy and to behaviors in their life.” Through its life development services, i360 patients learn to foster behaviors that will help them adjust their outlook on life and help them to move in a better direction, similar to how a dietician shops with clients to help them learn how to make healthy eating habits. In September, the outpatient treatment center celebrated the opening of its second location in Austin. “Right now we’re continuing to grow in Dallas,” Gilliland said. “We do a lot of work with college students, with high school students going off to college, and with professionals. We just continue to do more in the community and more work in those areas.” Email britt.stafford@ peoplenewspapers.com

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WELCOME BACK NEW YORK SUB A F T E R T W O -Y E A R H I AT U S , L O C A L INSTITUTION REOPENS By Britt E. Stafford

People Newspapers Almost two years after Ken Harkness closed up shop, Park Cities resident Andrew Kelley revived local institution New York Sub on May 27 in its original digs on Asbury Street. After shuttering in 2014, the space was leased to Project Pie. But when the pizza chain pulled out in 2016, Harkness was once again looking for someone to take over the location. Kelley grew up with Harkness’s son, and ate at New York Sub “nonstop.” So it was only natural that he resurrect an institution of which he had such fond memories. According to Kelley, the opportunity fell into his lap. The process started with a phone call between Kelley and Harkness the day before Thanksgiving last November. When Harkness inquired if Kelley knew anyone who wanted to fill the spot, Kelley decided he had found his next project. After leaving Dallas at age 18 to attend culinary school in Chicago, he returned more than a decade later and has worked with several restaurants in the area, including TJ’s Seafood, the Ivy Tavern, and eatZi’s Market & Bakery. “It’s not a franchise,” Kelley said. “It’s just something that I love, and since Ken and I are such good friends, it was kind

CONTINUED FROM 1 fraudulent business practices. At its root, this is a controversy over diamond grading and a long running scam by certain retailers …” Meanwhile, Blank learned from Howard Solomon of Solomon Brothers in Atlanta, Georgia that Solomon Brothers and other jewelers across the country had encountered similar campaigns from Manookian. A court document filed in March in the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Texas by Diamond Doctor said, “Solomon told Blank he approached Manookian and agreed to pay Cummings Manookian $20,000 a month for a period of five years, totaling $1.2 million.” The document explains that

New owner Andrew Kelley reopened New York Sub in its original location on Asbury Street on May 27. || TA N N E R G A R Z A of, ‘Can I use your brand and make it mine?’” Those who grew up eating at New York Sub will find the classic sandwiches Harkness served. According to Kelley, the menu will remain the same, but the quality will be different. After working for Whole Foods for six years, Kelley is committed to serving food with all-natural ingredients. “But things that people rely on, like the sauce, the white bread recipe, it’ll still be the same,” he insisted. “Just made fresh daily.”

While patrons may notice a few differences in the actual restaurant, Kelley wanted to keep some of the original details, from the old menu boards to the mural on the exterior of the building, which was touched up to include images of people in his life. “I hate when people take things and tear it down,” he said. “I grew up here. I didn’t want to see that awesome light sign go away. It would be sad, like if Bubba’s went away, or Burger House. They’re

What’s the Over-Grading Argument About? The claim revolves around the diamond-grading process, which determines a diamond’s value based on the four Cs: color, clarity, cut, and carat weight. EGL-International (EGLI), an Israeli diamond-grading laboratory, shut down in 2014 due to claims of the lab’s inconsistent grading standards. According to Martin Rapaport, chairman of the Rapaport Group – which owns RapNet, a diamond-trading network – EGLI inflated the value of the diamonds it graded compared to other highly recognized independent grading laboratories, such as the Gemological Institute of America.

the jewelers hired Manookian so the lawyer would be conflicted out of representing anyone willing to sue the retailers. Blank said he decided to reach out to Manookian and discuss the possibility of retaining him to halt the campaign against Diamond Doctor. According to Manookian, Blank begged to have the lawyer represent him. But Blank says

Manookian tried to extort $3 million from him. Finally, Manookian agreed that if Blank paid $25,000 a month over the next 10 years, he would represent the jeweler. But Blank never signed the proposed contract. The campaign broadened to include social media, a temporary advertisement on the homepage of the Dallas Morning News web-

just kind of part of this town.” So, how does Harkness feel seeing his 40-year legacy reopen in the spot where he started it all? According to Kelley, Harkness said in his thick Jersey accent: “I’m as happy as a clam at high tide.”

site, and fliers and door hangers, which were distributed throughout the Park Cities and Preston Hollow area. A court document filed by Blank in Dallas County Court in May says, “Manookian’s Facebook posts targeted the Diamond Doctor’s employees, asking them, ‘Do you work here? Ask David Blank if you could be personally liable for the fraudulent sale [of diamonds].’” While Manookian is spearheading the campaign to amass people to sue Diamond Doctor, fellow Nashville lawyer Mark Hammervold will handle the litigation. Hammervold couldn’t give an estimated date, but said “litigation is going to be starting soon.” While Blank is adamant he is innocent of selling over-grad-

ed diamonds, he also mentioned that there are no legal standards for diamond grading. “The truth of the matter is, there is no statute, no law, no anything,” Blank said. According to Blank, Diamond Doctor, which is the official jeweler of the Dallas Cowboys, has received several letters and emails since the campaign started. “We’ve just got a tremendous outpouring of support from every corner of the community,” he said. “I’m not going to have to clean up my conscious, my morale.” Regardless of whether the case is taken to court, Blank stands firm in his resolve. “We’re not going to settle,” Blank said. “We believe that the further along we go, it just dissipates.”

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Preston Center is anything but lacking in options when it comes to sweets. Since March, three new bakeries have opened — two on the same day — each claiming to offer something different from what neighboring mainstays Panini Bakery, Unrefined Bakery, and Sprinkles Cupcakes offer. So the question remains: what is it about Preston Center and the Plaza at Preston Center that draws these shops like flies to honey? “There’s a market there for [all] of us because I think we appeal to different audiences,” said SusieCakes founder Susan Sarich. Los Angeles-based SusieCakes opened its first Texas location in Preston Center on April 16. “Our angle is really a back-to-basics home style, made from scratch: butter, flour, sugar, and eggs,” Sarich said. “We don’t do fondant, we don’t do statue cakes.” This simplistic style is what Sarich thinks will make the Texas store a hit. “The center is so great because it has a brilliant blend of everyday activities,” she said. “Our whole premise is about connecting for celebrating, including people’s everyday lives.” According to Sarich, the most popular items have been the vanilla celebration cake and the Texas-shaped sugar cookie. Hospitality Sweet founder Meghan Adams knew she wanted to open a second location after the success of the flagship spot in downtown Dallas. The University Park resident also knew she wanted a place close to where she lives. Adams considers her shop to be the “home-town” favorite of the lot. Unintentionally, the shop shared its opening day with Carlo’s Bakery on March 19. Ac-

cording to Adams, that didn’t deter a good crowd from coming in for breakfast. “We do breakfast, lunch, and happy hour,” she said. “We offer really good food, and a good quality.” In terms of cakes, Adams says the shop’s style is more on the sim➊ Carlo's plistic side. Bakery “I just think Dallas ➋ has become such a foodUnrefined ie area,” Adams said. Bakery “The bakery end of the (gluten free) spectrum has become so ➌ Sprinkles much more expensive over the years. It really is Cupcakes a boutique experience.” ➍ The Located around the Hospitality corner from the HospiSweet tality Sweet, Carlo’s Bakery of TLC’s Cake Boss fame found its new home on the corner of Preston Road and Berkshire Lane, replacing longtime tenant La Madeleine. The shop features signature treats, such as cannolis and lobster tails. Customers can also purchase fondant-adorned cakes to go along with the custom cake expertise that has earned national praise for master baker Buddy Valastro. “With so many families in Dallas, I’m looking forward to the bakery being invited into their homes and onto their tables," Valastro said in a press release. Despite the boom in competition, the owners of area stalwart Panini Bakery aren’t worried. “I think people like the idea that [we] are a family business and that it’s been around since the year 2000,” said co-owner Sophie Rotunda, “Mrs. Panini.” “We’re good, and I think Unrefined has their special customers [and] that’s been good for synergy. It’s like all the cool kids wanting to sit at our table.”

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New Creative Space SPARKs Interest By Elizabeth Ygartua

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In a converted Sears distribution center in the Southside on Lamar building, families can now visit the creative learning wonderland called SPARK on Saturdays. For the past year, SPARK’s 11,000 square-foot facility — with its indoor playground, arts and crafts studios, giant Lite-Brite, music studios, stage, and Lego creation area — has been open only for scheduled field trips, events, workshops, and summer camps, co-founder and CEO of SPARK Beverly Davis said. The aim: to foster future generations of arts and culture “appreciators and patrons” by teaching the creative process in a fun and interactive way. “There’s a lot of perceived risk in here,” Davis said. “After this play … after pushing themselves and overcoming fears, we bring them together for their classes and we push them in developing their creativity. … It’s really cool to watch.” Each visit to SPARK centers around “play time.” Reminders of the building’s industrial past have been transformed into creative installations visitors can

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we hear: ‘Full steam ahead!’ and ‘Abandon ship!’ And the other day we heard a young man say, ‘We’re off to Antarctica to visit our brethren the penguins,’” Davis said. From the start, visitors are surrounded by art. From the ship’s deck, kids can peer into

the depths of the ocean — painted on the concrete floor by local artist Rolando Diaz — or up into the far reaches of outer space (an installation that starts on the perpendicular wall and slowly inches its way onto the ceiling). “We’re always kind of working on something around here,”

Davis said. “We like to have a lot of local artists, but we also like to have children in the community [add to the space], so if you look at the columns, these butterflies are made out of recycled cans and painted with Sharpie markers.” A climb through the ship’s porthole will take you to a room filled mostly by a steel “climb and crawl” slide sculpture, that looks like the Tim Burton version of a Chuck E. Cheese plastic play-land. Visitors can take a topsy-turvy trip down a two-story spiral slide with a garden adhered to its underside or crawl through a giant spider web lofted high in the air. “My vision is that [one day] this is really going to be in use from probably 7 a.m. to about 2 or 3 a.m.,” said Davis.

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Heather would whip up fruit purees at home as a way to incorporate produce into their diet. After her daughters’ tastes changed and the purees became old news, Heather said she began making popsicles. “I think what she does so well is her organic fruit puree,” Gavin said. “It’s keeping the fiber, the nutrients in the product because of the way she chooses to make it. It’s easy to want to keep the flavor consistent with additives, fillers, and coloring — but she won’t. And that’s what makes it good.” Heather spent months preparing recipes in her kitchen before opening her tidy storefront. She said she wanted to build the bases of the product on a smaller scale before translating it into a commercial space. She envisioned creating specific “lines” of flavors to group together. For example, the Berrynaked Signature line carries staple flavors such as strawberry and lime; the Berrynaked Luxe line incorporates more inventive ingredients like mascarpone and coconut cream; and the Berrynaked Vitality line features superfood ingredients.

Soon, Heather will be introducing two new lines: Berrynaked Crazy and Berrynaked Beautiful. On average, the store holds about 30 different pop flavors. “I made room to introduce new product lines,” Heather said of her business model. “The flavors we offer change about once every two to three weeks. It all depends on what’s in season.” As for growth, Gavin said they want to remain laser-focused on stabilizing what their product line is before thinking about franchising. For now, they want any prospective new shop to be locally owned and sourced. “We’re very comfortable where we are now,” Gavin said. “The customer niche is growing every day and we want to be careful about not growing too quickly.” Despite their lack of marketing, the shop has garnered faithful customers from word of mouth and social media, Heather said. “We love this place. We live here, work here, our kids go to school here — the community we’re in is important to us,” Gavin said.

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Foodie Earns Spot on ‘MasterChef’s’ Top 40 By Haley Rogers

Special Contributor Out of the yoga studio and into the frying pan, University Park resident Jessica McPhaul has earned a spot on MasterChef ’s Top 40. In August, McPhaul and her husband Jeffrey drove to Austin equipped with Crock-Pots and Tupperware full of gnocchi, osso buco, and cooking sauce. “I had no idea what to expect, but it was such an arduous process,” McPhaul said. For her audition, McPhaul made an Osso buco alla Milanese, which is a Milanese specialty of cross-cut veal shanks braised with vegetables, white wine, and broth. To make it special, she added her own twists to lighten the dish for summer and used flavors that would hold up well in crockpots. “The judges’ feedback was fantastic,” she said. “They loved everything about it, especially the nontraditional touches I made.” Several hours and three shots of tequila later, the former IT network security consultant and self-professed yogi was

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told to come back the next day for another round of auditions. This time, she’d have to answer questions from the judges, one of which was about the worst dish she ever made: a “mixedmeat loaf.” “I’ve made lots of stuff in my life,” McPhaul said. “I was confident that putting together veal, pork, and beef into one loaf would be a great idea. Turns out, it wouldn’t solidify and just looked like cat food. My hus-

band tried it at his own risk. We still get a kick out of it today.” Though her love for cooking and baking dates back to childhood, McPhaul didn’t start honing her skills until she had to survive living as an intern in the ‘90s. Relying on her own culinary instincts, she slowly ate her way through cookbooks, magazines, and textbooks. “My mom couldn’t cook and never taught me, and since I was on my own in L.A., I had to

figure it out,” she said. McPhaul was notified in January that out of 27,000 people who auditioned, she had earned a spot to compete in the top 40. Now was her chance to make all those years of note-taking, sliced fingers, and burnt palms worth it. “I never doubted her once,” Jeffrey said. “I knew the moment she decided to audition that she’d make it.” When she walked onto the set for the first time, McPhaul and the other contestants were warned: “Welcome to the worst experience of your life.” “All I could think about was, ‘How could it get worse?’” she said. According to McPhaul, once they started filming, the contestants felt like roaming sheep, with no idea what to do next. With no cell phone or internet, the experience felt much like sequestered jurors, she said. Getting used to the camera and always wearing a mic was the greatest challenge, other than the actual cooking challenges themselves. “I’m not great with authority and rules,” McPhaul said. “So I would often ask, ‘Who is this

yelling at me?’ I was in trouble all the time.” According to McPhaul, she was known for her colorful language on the show. “One girl said my language offended her, but then one of the producers was like, ‘You’re offended by her language and you want to be on a show with Gordon F****** Ramsay?’ Come on,’” McPhaul recalled. It didn’t matter how far McPhaul made it, because simply speaking to Chef Gordon Ramsay for the first time was the moment that mattered to her most. McPhaul’s culinary career is looking bright after MasterChef, with an offer to be an executive chef, a cookbook in the works, and potential TV opportunities on a different network once MasterChef has finished airing. “I can’t give a lot of details at the moment,” she said. “But I’m totally going pro. It’s so exciting.” McPhaul’s advice for those wanting to learn to cook and seek a culinary career: “Use the recipe as a map, and choose which path you want to take, adding in your own detours and pit stops. Work hard. Be passionate. And eat. A lot.”

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TROOPS NAME NEW EAGLE SCOUTS PATRICK BAHR, son of Jackie and Erik Bahr of University Park, is a freshman at Highland Park High School. His eagle project was the implementation of a recycling program and building of a recycling receptacle for Azure Bay in Streetman, Texas. MATTHEW DORN, son of Ellen and Jim Dorn, is a sophomore at Cistercian Preparatory School. His eagle project involved coordination with the Department of Parks and Recreation and Friends of Northaven Trail for a beautification project and Community Parks Day benefiting Northaven Trail. BECKET HOLMGREN, son of Lisa and Erik Holmgren of University Park, is a sophomore at Highland Park High School. His eagle project involved purchasing books and assembling mobile book carts benefiting Casa del Lago, a Christian ESL school. ANDREW MINICK, son of William Minick III and Dr. Melissa Tonn, attends Highland Park High School. His eagle project was to restore and landscape a garden and cabana for Boles Children’s Home in Quinlan, Texas. BEN RICHERT, son of Darian and Dave Reichert of University Park, is a senior at Highland

Park High School. His eagle project was building bookshelves for Mercy Street’s library, benefiting its afterschool program for neighboring schools. WILL REICHERT, son of Darian and Dave Reichert of University Park, is a junior at Highland Park High School. For his eagle project, he built picnic tables and a sandbox which will benefit the missionary families sponsored by Park Cities Presbyterian Church. WILL SIMMONS, son of Theresa Simmons and Kevin Meyers, and Jeff and Kathlene Simmons, is a junior at Highland Park High School. He built three bird feeders and three bat houses for the SPCA of Dallas for his eagle project. MATTHEW SPICER, son of John and Letty Spicer, is a Highland Park High School senior. For his Eagle Scout Service Project, Wyatt and his team of scouts built two wood classroom shelves (8 feet by 30 inches high by 12 inches deep) for Our Lady of Perpetual Help School. GEORGE WHEELER, son of Wallace and Holly Wheeler, is a junior at Highland Park High School. George designed and built a large workbench for The Nature Conservancy’s Clymer Meadow Nature Preserve.

D I V E I N F O R A F L I C K AT U P P O O L Get your flip-flops, beach towels, and coolers and enjoy a movie at the Holmes Aquatic Center this July and August. Gates will open at 8 p.m. and the movies will start at 9:10 p.m. Don’t forget to mark Doggie Splash Day down for Sept. 11. nInside Out, July 15 nThe Good Dinosaur, July 29 nZootopia, Aug 19

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y the time this goes to press I will be on a well-deserved vacation ... from being good. I’ve been trying to figure out how to eat “right.” I’ve got friends who are gluten-free who don’t have celiac disease, but feel less “bloated.” Others are on the paleo diet, which forbids even gluten-free bread or pasta. Others are on the Mediterranean diet: nuts, olives, and tons of steamed or grilled veggies drizzled with olive oil (cold pressed, extra virgin, from a reliable producer). Nobody my age gives dinner parties anymore because somebody’s dairy free; somebody else can’t eat tomatoes or onions because of irritable bowel; some have developed an allergy to shellfish; others have given up red meat; a handful won’t eat spicy because of reflux; and a bunch are off the sauce or will only drink pinot noir. It’s just easier to just meet for lunch or dinner at a restaurant. I dropped in on a health food store recently to ponder what I might add to ameliorate the vague malaise of living in a slightly worndown body. It seems an entire industry has sprung up to help us aging baby boomers combat our aches and pains, failing eyesight, wrinkled skin, acid reflux, and brittle hair and nails. The demand for organic, non-narcotic life enhancers is dizzying. What in the world does Cat’s Claw do? A clerk assured me it was a great antioxidant. When in doubt, something is always an antioxidant. For my arthritis, I’ve been advised to soak six yellow raisins in gin and take them each morning. Also, turmeric — I should be having more of that. One friend takes vitamin E for skin; another downs beta-carotene to prevent

LEN BOURLAND macular degeneration. Yet another takes milk thistle for liver cleansing. Who knew what milk thistle was for? Calcium is out, as it might cause kidney stones. But vitamin D is in, as is sublingual B. It’s not cold and flu season, so zinc and echinacea can sit on the shelf. Green tea with coconut is all the rage. St. John’s Wort is handy for treating the blues, while melatonin is a must for sleep and travel. I have spied shark’s cartilage,

my Kentucky family, I realized I was not up on probiotics. In fact, I had no idea what they were. Maybe my morning smoothie of yogurt and berries was covering that good gut bacteria, but just to be on the safe side, I’m now throwing in some chia, flax, spinach, and lime juice. Cherries seem like they should be part of my daily diet as well. Ditto celery. Also, it seems kefir is better for me than yogurt. And I thought having Greek yogurt was all I needed to do. It’s exhausting to try to figure out what’s missing in my diet. I could go to a nutritionist or a lifestyle analyst or an herbologist, like some people I know. But let’s face it, if you go to a muffler shop, they’re going to try to sell you a muffler. To be honest, I’ve had a bottle of CO-Q 10 for about six years that I’ve never finished. It sits on my window ledge with the dog’s pills in case I ever get a craving. I hate pills — a relic from having to down some really nasty ones as a child asthmatic. I don’t even like a multivitamin, because it just tastes so vitaminy. My internist made me feel slightly better at my annual checkup. “Food is not medicine and medicine is not food. Eat a balanced diet and watch portion control.” Omega-3 or fish oil tablets? Not if I’m eating salmon — which is all anybody eats anymore. So I’m off the guilt trip and on a real trip. While out of Dallas, I’ll be nibbling on cheese and gluten-filled crackers, or having a hamburger with tomato and onion, while sipping an adult beverage and taking a break from the food police. Eat your heart out.

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