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HOW THE POSTAL SERVICE CAN RECOVER, REDUCE ONLINE CRIME

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he U.S. Postal Service is the most loved federal organization with constitutional roots. In recent years, USPS has struggled immensely. The problem is mail volume. Though a few people advocate privatization, I believe that we should continue USPS as a quasi-federal organization.

Business suffered due to new entrants, such as email services. USPS has Every Door Direct Mail, but it lost ground to email marketing services. For every dollar spent on email marketing, the ROI is $40 on average.

There used to be a strong need for postal services regarding legal correspondence.

That is changing slowly with substitute services, such as DocuSign. Court services are moving online. Most companies offer email updates.

Another area is package delivery. Amazon used to be USPS’s biggest shipper, but that has changed, dealing a severe blow to USPS. In the third quarter of 2019, USPS showed a drop in package delivery volume - the first time that USPS had a decline in every delivery area.

Amazon has Amazon Prime Air with its drone patents. Walmart also has entered the drone patent race, and UPS has started drone deliveries. Such services are going to challenge the USPS’s fundamental business model.

With the increased use of technology,

online crime has skyrocketed. From 2014 to 2019, victims lost $10.2 billion. Another issue is ransomware P R AV E E N attacks, such as C H A PA R A L A WannaCry. The USPS could help fight these crimes by modernizing itself with an email service (where only verified users can email each other) and electronic money transfer services.

USPS would issue an email ID giving you the same privacy rights you have with your physical mailbox. Everything done offline would be done online. Nothing would have changed but the medium. The approach would also benefit the environment.

Mail carriers could be retrained in new areas to ensure they don’t lose their jobs.

If the USPS does not take these steps, all USPS jobs will be at risk.

USPS must start an email marketing service and drone delivery service. With its entrance into the electronic and drone delivery space, USPS would get its profitability back and, in the process, reduce online crime.

Praveen Chaparala, of Preston Hollow, works for DFW Realties and volunteers with the nonprofit Metrocrest Services by providing IT support for their Metrocrest Resource Guide website.

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Crime S KU L D U G G E RY of the MONTH

SO MUCH TO LAMPOON Before 7:18 a.m. Jan. 17, opportunistic crooks made easy pickings of the contents of an unlocked vehicle at a home in the 6500 block of Chevy Chase Avenue.

SOUND LIKE LOOTING?

Reported at 10:57 a.m.

Jan. 25: On Jan. 20, an unwelcome guest entered a vacant, storm-damaged home in the 6200 block of Orchid Lane.

FORGET SOMETHING?

How easy was it to take a vehicle before 8:35 a.m.

Feb. 1 from outside a home in the 4200 block of Willow Grove Road? The 70-yearold owner left the key in the ignition and the engine running.

ACCIDENT PRONE: DALLAS RANKS FIFTH NATIONWIDE Can Vision Zero plan address city’s traffic safety woes?

By Bethany Erickson People Newspapers

C R A S H E S BY C I T Y

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22,188 – Houston 21,818 – Charlotte 19,660 – Los Angeles 16,635 – Austin 14,685 – Dallas 12,846 – Raleigh 12,476 – Oklahoma City 11,313 – Baton Rouge 10,091 – Nashville 9,876 – Phoenix

new national traffic study by a public safety nonprofit has Dallas ranked fifth in the nation when it comes to traffic wrecks last year — something that is no surprise to people like Genesis Gavino.

The latest study, from Go Safe Labs, found that there were 14,685 crashes last year in Dallas — an increase of 3% year-over-year. The group compiled the data from a review of more than 1.8 million accident reports from 2018 to 2019.

Dallas’ interim deputy resilience officer Gavino is tasked with helping the city take a hard look at its bad traffic planning habits, in hopes that it can reduce accidents, injuries, and deaths.

“It is true; we are fifth when it comes to traffic fatalities,” Gavino said.

Go Safe Labs found that traffic accidents across the country increased by 6.8% last year, with 953,630 accidents.

According to the Texas Department of Transportation, Dallas had

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72 traffic fatalities in 2018 (the last complete number available), 86 in 2016, and 73 in 2017.

But Gavino said there are mitigating factors.

“The numbers are increasing.

However, one needs to take into account the increase in the number of new residents to the area as well as the increased vehicles miles traveled (VMT),” she said.

“This is why we are working on the Connect Dallas plan to look at strategies to decrease the VMT and increase the mode split (the number of people taking public

transportation, walking, biking, etc. versus driving a single-occupancy vehicle).”

The city has a couple of plans designed to address that, including the Connect Dallas plan, which will work to develop a transportation system that considers virtually every way one could use to get around the city — biking, walking, public transit, cars, and more.

The second, Vision Zero, is more granular and looks directly at how planning city streets, sidewalks, bike lanes, transit, and other

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Before 10 a.m. Feb. 4, one or more jerks keyed vehicles belonging to a 76-year-old man, a 65-year-old woman, and a 47-year-old man at homes in the 4600 block of College Park Drive.

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modes of travel can either help or hinder the goal of reducing traffic accidents.

The idea is that human error is inevitable, but better design can plan for that error, and therefore reduce accidents.

The city announced last year that it would work toward a Vision Zero plan that it hopes to unveil in December 2021, to reduce traffic fatalities and halve severe injuries by 2030.

The Texas Transportation Commission gave a similar statewide goal to TxDOT last May, asking the agency to cut traffic deaths in half by 2035 and end them by 2050.

The Vision Zero strategy has been adopted by 40 U.S. cities, including Austin and San Antonio.

The city hopes that neighborhoods and other community members will weigh in as it begins crafting the plan.

“As we develop our Vision Zero plan, I’d love for neighborhood organizations and all community stakeholders to actively participate to help us develop solutions,” Gavino said.

JAN. 13

Before 7:33 p.m., a burglar forcefully entered a home in the 5700 block of West Hanover Avenue.

JAN. 14

Before 12:34 a.m., an unwelcome visitor to a home in the 4200 block of Merrell Road just wouldn’t get the message and kept returning despite being asked to leave.

JAN. 15

Reported at 3:46 p.m.: A threatening visitor to NorthPark Center told an employee of Zara, “I am going to kill you.”

JAN. 18

Known shoplifters aren’t welcome at NorthPark Center. Unwelcome guests who refused to leave after being told to go away

received criminal trespassing warnings at 2:22 p.m.

JAN. 20

How bad was a 47-year-old Dallas woman’s Monday? The driver who struck her vehicle before 2 p.m. at Inwood Village didn’t stick around to take responsibility.

JAN. 21

A 39-year-old Garland woman’s visit to Prosperity Bank at Preston Forest Square got a bit messy before 10:44 a.m. She said she didn’t know the stranger who tossed an unidentified liquid on her.

JAN. 24

Overnight before 8:42 a.m., a burglar pried open a side door of a home in the 4300 block of Crowley Drive and made off with tools a self-employed worker had left there.

JAN. 28

Pot hole? Found before 12:16 p.m. at Lemmon Avenue and Inwood Road: marijuana.

JAN. 29

Experience in the locksmithing and security industry wasn’t enough to prevent a vehicle theft in the 7700 block of Inwood Road. A 25-year-old employee of Bee’s Keys reported the caper at 12:40 p.m.

JAN. 30

Feeling lucky? Reported at 10:39 a.m.: a crook stole lottery tickets on Jan. 29 from Wal-Mart at Midway Road and LBJ Freeway.

JAN. 31

A pre-Valentine’s Day disaster?

Arrested at 1:48 p.m.: a 17-yearold boy accused of shoplifting at

Victoria’s Secret at NorthPark Center.

FEB. 1

Before 1:06 a.m., a bully pulled a 27-year-old woman’s hair in an apartment complex parking lot in the 6100 block of LBJ Freeway.

FEB. 3

Before 7:26 p.m., a burglar smashed the window to steal from a vehicle at Inwood Village.

FEB. 4

A bad fellow (or gal) drove off before 11:05 a.m. with a 30-year-old Fate, Texas man’s vehicle from the 4400 block of Goodfellow Drive.

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Taken before 4:03 p.m.: contents from a Plano man’s vehicle at NorthPark Center.

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WHAT’S NEXT FOR THREE DALLAS ISD SCHOOLS AFTER TORNADO? District hopes to build one new school, renovate another by fall of 2022

Thomas Jefferson will get an $82 million renovation, while Walnut Hill Elementary and Cary Middle schools will become a Pre-k - 8th campus.

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t took extra debate thanks to a late-arriving compromise plan, but Dallas ISD is ready to address the fates of the three schools hardest-hit by October’s tornado.

The school board approved the renovation of Jefferson High School and construction of a brand-new pre-k through eighth-grade campus that would replace both Walnut Hill Elementary and Cary Middle School.

Both projects are due to be completed in time for the 2022 school year.

Trustees initially were presented with two options – renovate Thomas Jefferson for $82 million, or demolish and start from scratch for $147 million.

A third compromise option proposed replacing Jefferson’s oldest structures while keeping the newest additions. It would cost $124.6 million. Trustee Edwin Flores had asked staff to come up with that middle option.

We do not anticipate either of these schools opening prior to August 2022, but will keep the community updated as the projects move forward.

Scott Layne

“We were hit by a tornado, these kids are going to be out of their school for basically three years, but we’re going to do something that the city can be proud of,” he said.

Deputy superintendent of operations Scott Layne explained that although staff initially recommended Option 1, the extra demolition in Option 1A would have improved safety by pushing the school back off Walnut Hill Lane and relieving traffic congestion.

Ultimately, the board voted for Option 1, and after the board meeting, Layne seemed confident that Thomas Jefferson could be renovated within that budget.

“Both TJ and Walnut Hill have been secured and debris removed by our mitigation contractor and tarped in order to prevent rain from intruding into the building.

No additional damage from any rainstorm has occurred thus far,” he said. “Contingency dollars have been included in the $82 million renovation for minor unforeseen damages that have not been already identified.”

At a town hall in January, several Walnut Hill parents voiced concerns about the conditions at Field Elementary, where students were relocated.

“We are exploring the ability to do some renovation work at Field over the summer.

However, the scope would be limited due to the short time period,” Layne said. “In the meantime, the maintenance department is addressing some of the concerns related to fencing and the remainder of the exterior.”

Trustee Dustin Marshall said he would be interested in possibly seeing the Walnut Hill and Thomas Jefferson project timelines separated so that any delays on the high school renovation wouldn’t impact the new school project.

“I’ll push to have them kept separate,” he said, adding that it was also why he attempted to separate the two projects at the board meeting. “They need to be different projects.”

“We expect to phase the construction of this project. The first phase will consist of demolition and site grading only. This will take place while the design process is underway,” Layne said. “The Cary school building will be totally demolished, and the Jefferson school will only see limited demolition.

We do not anticipate either of these schools opening prior to August 2022, but will keep the community updated as the projects move forward.”

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STEM To Play Key Role In the Future of Texas

George W. Bush Institute executive director Holly Kuzmich moderates a panel discussion about the future of Texas. (PHOTO: THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER)

By Rachel Snyder People Newspapers

Texas has plenty of opportunity for growth and innovation in health care, but many challenges, as well, as the state nears its 200th birthday in 2036.

One of the challenges University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center president Peter Pisters identified may come as a surprise to residents in and near the Park Cities — getting children vaccinated for HPV (human papillomavirus).

“The reality today is that 30-50% of cancers could be prevented if we could just deploy what we know works, and in Texas, that means, for example, HPV human papillomavirus vaccination,” Pisters said. “The lowest vaccination rates are in the areas of the state with the highest health literacy — in the Highland Park suburb of Dallas.”

By contrast, the highest vaccination rates are in places like the Rio Grande Valley, he said. “We go into the Rio Grande Valley and approach mothers with a vaccine, and they learn… this vaccine prevents against six different types of cancer. Their reaction is, ‘Bring it on. I want my child vaccinated.’”

Pisters was among the panelists at the George W. Bush Presidential Center for a recent discussion on the future of Texas.

Another panelist, Lyda Hill Philanthropies CEO Nicole Small, said her organization is working with MD Anderson and the American Cancer Society.

“If we want our kids to grow up and be healthy and be productive workers, we do need to teach them about prevention,” Small said.

Another theme that emerged from the discussion is the significant role STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education will play in the workforce of the future.

“We need to get kids excited about, enthusiastic, and inspired to pursue careers in STEM,” Small said. “We’ve got to give them visibility into what those careers actually are, so we try to invest across that pipeline from when they’re really young all the way through university.”

She said North Texas has lagged behind Houston and Austin in building a biotechnology sector.

“We’re not doing as good a job building, I

think, a business around medicine here, and so there’s a lot of really exciting opportunity to build a more robust biotech sector,” Small said.

Pisters called for a “massive federal investment in STEM.” “We have a foreign dependency right now for these STEM fields, which is a risk, and it’s also an opportunity,” he said. “We need our kids to really dive in and to be supportive of STEM programs for the future.”

The panel also touched on the future of energy in the state.

Center for Houston’s Future CEO Brett Perlman said he hopes Houston, known for its role in the oil and gas industry, becomes a hub for low-carbon energy also.

“We have the skills, the manpower, the resources, really, to lead in this revolution of creating this next generation of energy,” Perlman said.

Perlman also said Texas is drawing new people from all over the world, and it’s important for Texas’ growth to treat immigrants as a resource and source of strength.

“A lot of those people are coming here for the opportunities to create new drugs, to be part of the medical center we have, and so, really, what we need to do is treat that as a resource, not as a problem,” Perlman said. “If we think about that in a different way, that immigrants are our strength, I think that will be a secret weapon.”

BY THE NUMBERS • 10 million in population growth anticipated in less than 20 years • 8 million new jobs needed by 2036 • 77% of jobs will soon require a college degree or certificate • 28% of Texas eighth-graders complete a postsecondary degree or certificate within six years of high school graduation.

• 6.9% average annual increase in health care expenditures as Texas continues to rank among the bottom half of states in key measures, such as diabetes, cardiovascular deaths, child immunizations, and maternal mortality.

Source: Texas 2036

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The Man Who Won’t Just Give DART a Plan

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For riders who only use DART to take the train to specific destinations — say, the State Fair or Victory Park — bus service issues may seem remote.

But to better serve those who depend on buses for access to shopping, health care, and employment, the Dallas Area Regional Transit board hired consultant Jarrett Walker, a widely known expert in public transportation planning.

In January, he delivered the keynote address at The Death and Life of Dallas Transit Symposium, a morning discussion provided by Coalition for a New Dallas, founded

by Wick Allison, chairman of D Magazine Partners, the owner of People Newspapers.

“I am a consultant who aspires to never make a recommendation,” Walker told the 200 or so gathered at Old Parkland Hospital’s Debate Room.

Instead, he works to help transit systems gather the data and input needed to create their plan.

To Walker, transit is freedom.

“Freedom, access to opportunity, usefulness, enduring ridership potential are all the same thing,” he said.

A map of Dublin projected on a screen above the dais where he stood showed the places a person named Jane, who lives near Dublin City University, can get to in 45 minutes or less.

“She’s thinking, ‘Where can I be in 45 minutes?’” he said. “Now, that question isn’t really a question about transportation because what she’s really asking is, ‘What jobs could I get to? What schools could I

go to? Where could I shop? Where could I worship? Who will I meet?’”

It might even determine who she marries, he said.

Transit’s goal, for Jane and others like her who rely on it, should be to expand her boundaries, give her the freedom of more choices, Walker added.

“Because what is freedom, but the presence of actual options, the presence of actual choices you can make,” he said. “You are not free as a shopper if you can only get to one grocery store, especially a grocery store that only sells one kind of milk.”

To craft a bus system that is useful, Walker said, DART will be forced to make some tough decisions. The real conversation is about tradeoffs and priorities, and being “aware of what you’re saying no to when you say yes.”

The city, he said, will have to choose between increasing ridership and making the bus system useful to the largest number of people who use it, or increasing coverage, which provides equity.

But Walker also had some sobering news. He had a hand in redesigning Houston’s bus system, where eliminating redundancies allowed the city to find the resources to improve service levels. But DART’s planners have already eliminated redundancies, which is good, but bad if you’re looking to free up resources to redo it.

“This is not going to be as happy a story as Houston,” Walker said, adding Dallas may eventually need to create a city bus system to serve best its residents, “because no regional system can do that.”

Freedom, access to opportunity, usefulness, enduring ridership potential are all the same thing.

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PARIS BOUND? ELIZABETH SEITZ HAS A WORKSHOP FOR YOU France for Travelers, taught at SMU, selected for March festival

By Rachel Snyder People Newspapers

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rancophile Elizabeth Seitz loves sharing her knowledge and passion for the French culture with Dallas travelers.

Her France for Travelers workshop at SMU allows students to brush up on their French, learn French customs, and get transportation tips before their trips. Next, it will be among the signature events of the French Cultures Festival encompassing Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.

The festival is a celebration of French culture coordinated by the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston from March 1 to 31. The French language has been celebrated on March 20, which marks the start of the Intergovernmental Organization of French-speaking nations, since 1970.

France seems to be where it’s at when it comes to history, cuisine.

You couldn’t do (everything there is to do) in France in a lifetime.

Elizabeth Seitz

Elizabeth Seitz visits the Place de la Concorde in Paris. She is seen enjoying all things France, including the French countryside. (PHOTOS: ERIC SANDER AND ELIZABETH SEITZ) But Dallas tourists don’t need to go to Houston to prepare for the spring and summer travel season. Seitz’s workshop is available from 7-9 p.m. March 2-4 at SMU, where she’s taught for about 13 years.

Seitz started her firm French Affaires around 2008, but her

interest in the culture began much earlier. She started learning the language as a teenager and student in the Park Cities and first traveled to the country at 18.

“I found the language and the culture are so rich, and there’s so much history,” she said. “I love being an American, but France was

worth a second look.”

Seitz said when she first went to Paris, the pyramids in front of the Louvre museum weren’t built yet, the Musée d’Orsay was a defunct train station, and there were “no McDonalds.”

She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees

in French from Vanderbilt University, which is where she first started teaching the language in 1989. She also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and with Vanderbilt-in-France in Aix-en-Provence in the southern part of France.

She received a French government grant for training of French professors at the Centre of Applied Linguistics in Besançon, France, regarded as the world’s premier institution for teaching French as a foreign language and French linguistics.

After her stint as a French professor, Seitz said she felt compelled to share the knowledge and passion for the culture and l’art de vivre (the art of living) she’d gained during her travels. That led her to start French Affaires to offer language courses, culture lectures, personalized trip design, and insider travel experiences.

“France seems to be where it’s at when it comes to history, cuisine,” Seitz said. “You couldn’t do (everything there is to do) in France in a lifetime.”

She said the castles and gardens of France are a particular must-see.

Seitz said locals might also not know that France is the most-visited country in the world and is about the size of Texas.

She and her husband divide their time between the U.S. and France with their dog, Marcel.

Dallas Sonnier Never Outgrew Love of Film

Recent Stodghill Award winner has big goals for genre movies

By Rachel Snyder

movies including the western Bone Tomahawk, which premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, as well as a series of action movies.

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Dallas Sonnier has fond childhood memories of his father, who was a cinephile and doctor, taking him to see such movies as Predator 2 and Pulp Fiction.

“I was a movie fan from day one,” he said.

“I (soon) started to try to figure out (the business side of cinema).”

The Highland Park native’s lifelong love of movies led him to found Cinestate entertainment studio. He recently received the Stodghill Award from Dallas Film for longterm philanthropic efforts on behalf of the craft.

Sonnier also recalled students in his high school class pinning the locations of where they were going to college on a map and his being the only one on the West Coast.

He started classes at the University of Southern California while still a student at Highland Park High School. He was the first student to graduate with a major in the business of cinema through a joint venture between USC’s film and business schools. The

I was a movie fan from day one.

Dallas Sonnier

Dallas Sonnier on the Bone Tomahawk set and at Dallas Film’s Spotlight Luncheon. (PHOTOS: CINESTATE AND DALLAS FILM) program focuses on the production and representation areas of the entertainment industry and continues today as the Business Of Cinematic Arts program.

Upon graduating from USC, Dallas started work with United Talent Agency.

“I would read all the scripts that came in,” he said. “I met a lot of agents.”

He moved on to represent actors, writers, and directors at The Schiff Company before co-founding Caliber Media with longtime friend Jack Heller. They produced

Dallas returned to his home state in 2015 after more than a decade in Hollywood and founded Cinestate in 2016. Since then, the entertainment company acquired horror film fan publication Fangoria, produced four movies under the Cinestate label, and four under the Fangoria Presents label. Cinestate also has a podcast network and six published novels.

“I built a company here in Dallas to give credit where credit is due,” Sonnier said. Cinestate produces “creatively unfiltered genre movies that don’t pander (or) apologize and don’t create a disingenuous safe space for the audience.”

He said he hopes to grow Cinestate into a full-fledged movie studio that finances, markets, and distributes movies.

March 2020 13

Thinking Big For Texas

Texas is big sky country, and its people are the landscape.

Texans are warm, welcoming, can-do folk.

Nowhere is this more evident than the extremely accomplished DallaLEN BOURLAND site Tom Luce.

He’s not looking at his legacy but trying to ensure future Texans have his same opportunities. His vision: Texas 2036.

What is it?

What it’s not is a political organization, a fundraising organization, or a lobbying group.

Instead, mega leaders from around the state have formed a coalition to make sure that Texas focuses on the problems that lie ahead by its 200th birthday (2036).

Its diverse board, including Ron Kirk and the Hunts, wants people to poke about the website Texas2036.org and get informed and give feedback.

The organization is accumulating data by experts and analysts in six areas to determine where Texas is today and where it’s headed.

Amazingly, in the information age, nobody has done this.

The six policy areas are education and the workforce, natural resources, infrastructure, justice and safety, and drumroll, government performance.

You don’t have to wait for an election or join a PAC to have a voice. Once you join (for free), you can opt in to emails or texts on the data that interests you, and when the time comes to support a legislative initiative in Austin, join in. So far, there are 13,000 followers on social media.

The catchphrase “strategic data” can make the eyes glaze over. Still, Texas has a certain amount of tax money to be allocated to various problems, so helping to determine where to get the biggest bang for the buck to accommodate the 10 million people expected to be added to the population by 2036 is huge.

Some ideas, such as getting broadband to the least populated areas so those residents can stay educated for the jobs ahead, is just common sense, but it needs to be effective.

Data shows only 30% of school children are reading at grade level.

That’s unacceptable.

Remember that Zager and Evans’ song from the 1960s, “In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive…”

Well, in the year 2036, we don’t want a quick fix.

With data-driven planning, we can prepare our children for a good life. It’s the Texas way.

Reach columnist Len Bourland at lenbourland@gmail.com.

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Lawyer Hopes To Serve As Example For Girls

Brown aims to give back to community, show what’s possible for women

By Rachel Snyder People Newspapers

Shonn Brown, 46, started her career as an associate in the Locke Lord law firm and worked her way up to partner.

Brown practiced at Locke Lord for 14 years, then two different litigation boutiques, before transitioning her practice in the last year to serve as an in-house lawyer for Kimberly-Clark. There, she’s responsible for global litigation and public policy issues facing the multinational personal care corporation.

“I was drawn to the company because (Kimberly-Clark) is focused on making strong progress in advancing women in management roles and has targeted programs to recruit, retain, and advance women in leadership,” she said. “I hope to be an example for other Shonn Brown girls growing up in our community, particularly girls of color, to demonstrate what is possible.”

In addition to her day job, Brown serves as a board chairwoman for the Texas Women’s Foundation.

“It is important for me to give back to the community in ways that were poured into me. Additionally, it is very important for me to be involved with the Texas Women’s Foundation because we are both strategic and intentional about the ways in which we engage with the community and the manner in which we impact girls and women,” she said.

She’s lived in the Preston Hollow area since 2001.

What’s your connection to the Preston Hollow neighborhood?

Our family loves the area because it is close to (our) schools. We love the trees

and the close proximity to all of our close friends. We love the neighborhood restaurants, especially the non-chain restaurants like Princi Italia, TJ’s Seafood Market, and we miss the Family Pizza at Preston Royal.

What do you feel is your biggest success?

I hope that my biggest success is yet to come as I think success is a journey and not a destination. To date, if I can say that I was able to launch three adults (now teens) into this world as mindful, caring individuals who want to make a difference, then I will have done a good job.

Biggest inspirations in your professional or personal life?

In my personal life, my grandmother. She was hard working and had so many obstacles, yet she persevered. In my professional life, I have many: women lawyers who not only lead their organizations but also invest in our community with their time and financially. A few who come to mind: Jerry Clements, Julia Simon, and Harriet Miers.

What’s a fun fact about you?

I wanted to be a lawyer or a dancer when I was growing up. I would practice dance routines at home in my room.

There were two things standing in the way of either of those professions requiring extreme attention to either what I was saying or how I was moving — I was extremely shy. So, when I went to college, I was determined to force myself out of my shell and immersed myself into various leadership positions at SMU. For an extended interview with Brown, visit peoplenewspapers.com.

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Marshall Draws Two Challengers for School Board Seat

Nancy Rodriguez, Alex Enriquez tout need for new leadership in District 2

By Bethany Erickson

K E Y D AT E S

People Newspapers

It looks like a three-way race for the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees District 2 seat held by incumbent candidate Dustin Marshall.

District 2, an odd-looking, almost donut-shaped district, surrounds the Park Cities. It encompasses Preston Hollow, Lakewood and parts of East Dallas, and the North Dallas High School feeder pattern, as well as parts of Midway Hollow.

Marshall faced runoffs each of his two previous elections, first winning against now-Dallas Education Foundation executive director Mita Havlick, and then coming from behind in June 2017 against Lori Kirkpatrick.

Marshall announced his re-election campaign in December. In a letter to supporters, he spoke of the successful initiatives he spearheaded or supported, and vowed that a third term would see him “continuing to prioritize improving student outcomes above all else.”

“No matter how far we have come, we cannot forget how far we still need to go,” he said.

Nancy Rodriguez is a Dallas

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Name: Dustin Marshall

Name: Nancy Rodriguez

Name: Alex Enriquez

Background: Incumbent trustee and CEO of Hazel’s Hot Shots freight service

Background: Parent and social worker with Dallas ISD

Fundraising as of Jan. 15: $191,975

Fundraising as of Jan. 15: $1,115

Background: Dallas ISD graduate, education advocate, and executive director of City Year Dallas Fundraising as of Jan. 15: None reported

ISD parent and a social worker with the district’s special education program. In her announcement, she said the district was overly concerned with standardized testing to the detriment of other programs like special education and teacher retention.

“I want to change that. I believe parents care more about whether their child has a teacher instead of a long-term substitute than

whether the District got a ‘B’ or a ‘B minus’ in its state rankings,” she said.

Alex Enriquez, a Dallas ISD advocate and founding executive director of City Year Dallas, is also a Dallas ISD graduate.

“Strong neighborhood schools lead to more stable neighborhoods, a stronger workforce, more jobs in our communities, and greater economic prosperity for us all,” he said.

“We deserve a school system that we all believe in, and we need to send a message that we expect it.”

Marshall also has a sizeable war chest, with more than $150,000 in donations and almost $200,000 cash on hand.

“The Dallas community is more invested than ever in continuing the progress underway at Dallas ISD. I am honored by the level of support our community has shown

to me as I plan for a robust and effective re-election campaign,” Marshall said. “After four years on the board, I now have a track record of success to run on. I believe my history for relentlessly putting the interests of our kids above all else has had a measurable impact on student achievement across the district.”

A District 2 Candidate forum is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. March 24 at the Communities Foundation of Texas.

The District 6 and 8 seats are open also. District 8, which is adjacent to District 2, will get a new trustee with Miguel Solis not seeking re-election. Attorney Joe Carreon and teacher Alicia McClung will vie for the seat.

The filing period for a ballot spot passed on Feb. 14, but the deadline for write-in candidates was Feb. 18, the day after the newspaper went to press.

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‘The Reason Why We’re Here’

Big Thought makes case for importance of imagination

By Bethany Erickson People Newspapers

When the organization you lead is called Big Thought, you’re keenly aware of the implications — people expect big ideas, big goals, and big, well, thoughts.

But big thoughts about what?

“The reason why we’re here is because we believe in creating a world where all youth in marginalized communities are equipped to imagine and create their best lives and worlds, and that requires us to shift systems and, quite frankly, shift power,” Big Thought executive director Byron Sanders said.

In short, through the power of art, social and emotional learning, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) applications, Big Thought aims to give children the tools to succeed.

“Youths need to be elevated as co-designers of that world,” he said. “And that happens if we equip them to be creators — and creators are people who have been able to build their creative muscles, who have been able to build social and emotional well-being based on their own personal health, and also their emotional intelligence.

“So we work on three things — building the creative muscle, building social and emotional well-being, and helping them recognize the power of their own voice.”

The organization utilizes in-

LEFT: Big Thought executive director Byron Sanders interacts with students. RIGHT: students get hands-on experience in STEAM subjects. (COURTESY PHOTOS)

school, out-of-school, and community partnership programs, with the idea that making imagination part of everyday learning can help achieve that.

By making sure students get high-quality learning experiences (often offered at low-cost or free) that promote creativity as well as social and emotional learning, Big Thought starts this three-pronged approach early.

And its Creative Solutions program, which uses performing and visual arts to re-ignite the imaginations of juvenile offenders also helping them develop skills that will assist them in being career and

college ready, has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the state.

We believe in creating a world where all youth in marginalized communities are equipped to imagine and create their best lives and worlds.

Byron Sanders

The latter, Sanders said, is one of the most successful and longest-running programs the organization offers, with an average recidivism rate of 9 percent.

“This last year’s data that we’ve got back shows that that summer’s recidivism rate was only 4 percent,” he said. “Our 10-year average is now 9 percent. The typical good program will get you anywhere between 30 and 40 percent recidivism rate. That’s a good program.”

But the organization isn’t just content to rest on its already successful programs. The organization announced in February that

it is launching Big Thought Institute, a new division aimed at providing professional development, assistance with curriculum design, technical assistance, and other help to various organizations.

Led by senior director Greg Macpherson, the institute will base its consultation services on its own best practices, honed from years of experience to implement programs based on social and emotional learning, experiential learning, and partnerships with the community.

MORE ONLINE Read more of our discussion with Byron Sanders at peoplenewspapers.com.

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Where Pooches Wander, Duck Team 6 Comes to the Rescue Volunteers conduct stakeouts, traipse through mud to save elusive street dogs

By Dalia Faheid

People Newspapers A late-night joke among volunteers likening their weeks-long search for an elusive pet to a Seal Team 6 mission provided an odd name for their dog search and rescue effort.

Deciding ducks were more fitting than seals, the rescuers called themselves Duck Team 6 and the hundreds of loose dogs saved as “Duck Dogs.”

“It’s just an amazing group of people that are out really trying to help this situation in terms of loose dogs and education in the community,” said Lori Stone, president of a five-member board that leads about 50 volunteers.

Preston, wandering near St. Mark’s School of Texas with a leash dragging behind him, was shy at first and rejected Preston Hollow residents’ help. When Preston’s leash tangled in the school gate, he tore down the lock to free himself.

But helpful neighbors Bill and Tommy monitored his whereabouts.

During several weeks of stymied stakeouts, DT6 learned his

LEFT: Lori Stone, Roger Loudermill, and Rosa Monterrosa. TOP RIGHT: Jamie Lesko with pup Princess. BOTTOM RIGHT: Leigh Sullivan with dog Spike.

(COURTESY PHOTOS)

eating patterns. After Preston entered an enclosed feeding station for his 4 a.m. meal, volunteers took him to a foster home.

Now, the 3-yearold Staffordshire Bull Terrier is no longer afraid. He’s a healthy and active people lover.

Fate connected Stone with Sully, a 4-month-old abandoned puppy tied to the door of a Pet Supplies

Plus, where a DT6 volunteer was picking up donations. By the time Sully met Stone, she knew she had to adopt him.

When a volunteer learned that the most dog-related Dallas Animal Services citations were in a South Dallas neighborhood, DT6 expanded its mission. An outreach program helps low-income and

It’s very satisfying to get these dogs off the street.

Lori Stone

homeless families care for their pets by distributing 3,000 pounds of dog food monthly through SoupMobile, sponsoring vet care, and providing fencing and dog houses.

“This is such a passion of all of ours to help with this dog issue in any way we can.” Stone said.

DT6 relies on the help of neighbors who alert them to loose dogs, many in dire circumstances like Coco, a lab mix with a calm disposition who sustained severe injuries, or Bear, a timid cattle lab mix found emaciated.

Search and capture missions can take months, requiring unrelenting attention and dynamic tactics. Owen was near-death when volunteers trudged through miles of mud carrying him to safety near Trinity River Audubon Center.

Once a dog is finally secure, it gets time to decompress and stabilize in a foster home. That break is crucial for recovering from a state of anxiety and heightened awareness on the streets.

When ready to be adopted, dogs find homes with DT6 partner rescues in Dallas like Cane Rosso Rescue, Take Me Home Pet Rescue, and Dallas Pets Alive, or out of

state organizations such as Longmont Humane Society in Colorado and Southwest Washington Humane Society in Washington.

Stone said, “It’s very satisfying to get these dogs off the street,” and particularly rewarding when she witnesses a happy ending, like in the case of pregnant Lucky, who coincidentally delivered eight puppies the day of her rescue.

THE MISSION Duck Team 6, founded in 2010 by Yvonne Ybarra, aims to reduce the street dog population through capture, placement, and outreach.

How to Help: • Adopt dogs ready to find a new home • Donate to assist with boarding costs, vet care, and supplies • Foster a dog who is waiting for a home • Volunteer to help capture, placement, and outreach • Contact Duck Team 6 when you find a loose or stray dog Learn more: duckteam6.org

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Noteworthy Neighbors KNITTING ‘ALL THE RAGE’ AGAIN FOR EDGEMERE NEIGHBORS Women’s group gathers weekly to share, laugh, and turn yarn into gifts of love

and stuffing.

With a closetful of yarn donated from nationwide supporters, they intend to pay forward the surplus to the Colorado Women’s Weaver Guild.

Mead said the Knit Wits serve as a support group in many ways, mentioning an Edgemere resident who had long been confined to her apartment but was now able to learn knitting with her neighbors.

It brings you a lot of peace to be able to be knitting on something, knowing it’s gonna be helpful to somebody.

Pat Londeree

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By Dalia Faheid

People Newspapers

C

onnie Power paused her knitting one Friday afternoon to hold up her hand and observe, “I don’t have any feeling in these fingers.”

“Braver man than I, you just keep rolling along,” friend Joy Ellis responded with a word of encouragement.

For a decade, the Knit Wits have kept rolling along, encouraging one another and turning yarn into gifts to help others.

Co-founder Pat Londeree describes knitting for a cause as an “addiction.” Before completing one project, the Knit Wits are already plotting for the next.

“It brings you a lot of peace to be able to be knitting on something, knowing it’s gonna be helpful to somebody,” she said.

In 2010, Londeree and Marianne Mead decided to support U.S. troops the best way they knew how. They brought together 20 residents of the Edgemere retirement community to knit helmet liners and scarves for Operation Helmet Liner.

Next, the women knitted sweaters for orphans worldwide.

Prioritizing local projects thereafter, they knitted caps and blankets for premature newborns at Parkland Hospital, chemo caps for cancer patients at Presbyterian Hospital, scarves and hats for the homeless served by

SITTING, FROM LEFT: Connie Power and Jane Cherry. STANDING: Nancy Reiter, Doris Katten, Charlotte Test, Rosemary Feorene, Charlotte Radke, Casey Eckles, Marianne Mead, Jean Crow, Dee Tapler, and Joy Ellis. NOT PICTURED: Pat Londeree, Marianne Aitken, and Ann Shaw. (COURTESY PHOTOS) The Stewpot, baby caps for the infant formula program at Fort Worth Methodist Church, and robes and fidget sleeves for Edgemere neighbors in need.

For Christmas Bazaars benefiting the Genesis Women’s Shelter, the group takes

about two years to build up inventory. In 2019, the Knit Wits surpassed all past sales of their handmade items, totaling $7,264.

Recently, the group crafted teddy bears for young patients at Scottish Rite Hospital, dividing efforts to complete the bodies, faces,

When they’re together, there’s “lots of talking, lots of drop stitches” while enjoying tea and cookies and knitting, sewing, crocheting, needle pointing, tatting, or quilting. Because many suffer from arthritis, they often take breaks.

At a recent meeting, Nancy Reiter was making blue cap pom-poms, Power was knitting a pastel blanket for her new great-grandson, and Ellis was creating a lamb doll, using an inspiration photo.

“It gives people who might otherwise stay in their apartments and be lonely a reason to get out and be sociable,” Londeree said.

Members often work on projects individually, describing the hobby as a relaxing and therapeutic way to unwind.

Londeree grew up knitting around her mother and grandmother. “I must have learned when I was born,” she said. “I can’t ever remember not knowing how to knit.”

Mead began in high school when it was “all the rage.”

“It’s a wonderful bond because we help each other solve problems,” Londeree said.

“We are good listeners for our friends’ problems and aches and pains.”

22 March 2020 | prestonhollowpeople.com

Sports

EX-ESD ROWER DOESN’T GO GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM Gildersleeve takes on new challenges at Stanford, sets Olympic goals

The following summer, Gildersleeve spent most of her time training in Oklahoma City with her private coach. That led to a runner-up finish at nationals and an invitation to the World Rowing Junior Championships in Tokyo, where she claimed a bronze medal.

It’s great to go through these intense workouts and challenge each other every day.

Katelin Gildersleeve

By Todd Jorgenson People Newspapers

K

atelin Gildersleeve has decreased her workload from two oars to one, yet her boat is moving faster than ever.

The ESD alumna has achieved international rowing success as a single sculler — which entails going solo. But at Stanford, where Gildersleeve is in the midst of her freshman season, the team only races fours and eights.

That means that instead of having oars in each hand and navigating the boat herself, she rows with both hands on a single oar, and follows steering instructions from a coxswain.

Such an adjustment can be a challenge, but she’s embraced her new role on one of the top collegiate crew programs in the country. Team practices in college, for example, are different than Gildersleeve’s high

ESD alum Katelin Gildersleeve, a freshman rower at Stanford, earned a bronze medal at the World Rowing Junior Championships last summer. (COURTESY PHOTOS) school days when she usually trained on her own in Dallas.

“We all share the same goals, and we’re all at a similar level. It helps you elevate your own racing that much more,” Gildersleeve said. “It’s great to go through these intense workouts and challenge each other every day. You’re surrounded by these incredible teammates who struggle right next to you.”

Gildersleeve grew up as part of an ath-

letic family in Florida, where she was on a youth triathlon team. When she moved to Texas in middle school, she focused primarily on running, then eventually switched to rowing.

Her breakthrough came in 2018, when she won the junior single sculls at the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta in Massachusetts, then finished third in her division at the national youth championships.

“I went into it with very realistic expectations,” Gildersleeve said. “I wasn’t nervous. I was so genuinely excited to have gotten that opportunity. It was so exciting and rewarding.”

Gildersleeve hasn’t decided on her plans for this summer, although she will likely go back to sculling in hopes of qualifying for the United States under-23 national team.

That would earn her a spot in the World Rowing Championships in August in Slovenia.

Further, in the future, her goal is to compete in the Olympics, perhaps in 2024 in Paris or 2028 in Los Angeles.

New Districts Bring New Challengers in Football

Jesuit, after advancing to the 6A Region II final for the first time last season, joins a district with only two other playoff teams. (PHOTO: ROB GRAHAM)

By Todd Jorgenson People Newspapers

A mix of familiar foes will join Jesuit in the new District 7-6A, although perennial powerhouse Allen won’t be among them.

Instead, the Rangers will be grouped with opponents from Irving ISD and Richardson ISD

during the next two years. The UIL unveiled the new pairings in February as the final step in its biennial realignment process.

The complete 7-6A lineup features Jesuit, Irving, Irving MacArthur, Irving Nimitz, Lake Highlands, Richardson, Richardson Berkner, and Richardson Pearce.

It eliminates the grind of fac-

ing Allen and the Plano schools and instead places the Rangers with just two teams — Pearce and Lake Highlands — who made the playoffs in football in 2019.

Meanwhile, Jesuit advanced to the 6A Region II final for the first time in program history.

Elsewhere, W.T. W hite dropped to the Class 5A Division I level, allowing the Longhorns to fit in a nine-team football district that includes powerhouse Lancaster along with five Dallas ISD schools and two Carrollton teams.

WTW will compete in the new District 6-5A (Div. I) alongside Lancaster, Carrollton R.L. Turner, Carrollton Newman Smith, Bryan Adams, Molina, Samuell, Sunset, and Woodrow Wilson. Lancaster should dominate, but everyone else had a losing record last year.

In basketball, volleyball, baseball, and softball, WTW will be in District 11-5A with Newman Smith, R.L. Turner, Carrollton Creekview, Bryan Adams, Conrad, Hillcrest, Thomas Jefferson,

and Woodrow. Once again, such changes generally present an opportunity for the Longhorns to be more competitive in sports, where they have recently struggled at the 6A level.

Hillcrest and WTW will be grouped in a district in several sports for the first time after the Panthers jumped back to the 5A level after spending two seasons in Class 4A because of declining enrollment.

In football, Hillcrest secured a mostly favorable draw in 5A Division II. The Panthers will be in the new District 6-5A with Mesquite Poteet and seven rivals from Dallas ISD (Adamson, Conrad, Thomas Jefferson, Kimball, Seagoville, South Oak Cliff, and Spruce).

Because they are in nineteam districts, both Hillcrest and WTW will only have two nondistrict games in football in 2020 and 2021 and will have their bye week sometime during district play.

NEW FOOTBALL DISTRICTS DISTRICT 7-6A Jesuit Irving Irving MacArthur Irving Nimitz Lake Highlands Richardson Richardson Berkner Richardson Pearce DISTRICT 6-5A, DIVISION I W.T. White Bryan Adams Carrollton Newman Smith Carrollton R.L. Turner Lancaster Molina Samuell Sunset Woodrow Wilson DISTRICT 6-5A, DIVISION II Hillcrest Adamson Conrad Kimball Mesquite Poteet Seagoville South Oak Cliff Spruce Thomas Jefferson

24 March 2020 | prestonhollowpeople.com

Business

A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD FOR NORTH DALLAS Developer begins to move dirt on old Valley View site

MORE ONLINE Read more of what Scott Beck says about the Midtown project at peoplenewspapers.com.

Beck Ventures and Life Time Inc. have partnered to create Life Time Midtown, part of the 173-acre development at the old Valley View Mall.

(COURTESY PHOTO)

By Bethany Erickson People Newspapers

O

nce it was a popular mall and hangout, then it became a ghost town as newer, shinier malls took its place – but as all vestiges of the 46-year-old Valley View Mall are scraped from the 173-acre site it sat on for so many years, a neighborhood will emerge.

Scott Beck, whose Beck Ventures is one of three developers collaborating to create a neighborhood out of whole cloth, said the location is ripe for a cohesive, walkable community.

“I think one of the biggest things to keep in mind is this area

of Dallas is at the center of the population density in Dallas – a third of the population lives within three and a half miles of Preston and 635,” he said. “So we want to make sure what we build is really a neighborhood.”

“And obviously in order to have a neighborhood, there have to be people living in it,” he added. “And right now, it’s substantially commercial - you have Valley View on one side, which doesn’t exist anymore, and the Galleria on the other, and some residential, but it’s substantially more commercial and retail.”

It’s estimated that more than 350,000 cars pass by the Midtown

area via LBJ Freeway and Preston Road.

Beck Ventures has partnered with Life Time Inc. to create Life Time Living – high-end, leased residences with an aim at providing occupants with the tools needed for a healthy lifestyle. Life Time Midtown will include 390 oneand-two-bedroom apartments, with an additional 190,000-squarefoot Life Time Athletic Club and 50,000-square-foot Life Time Work – a coworking space. “(What) we’re starting with from a residential perspective is various price points of housing, all the way up to high rise housing,” Beck explained. “The Life Time Village, one

of our first projects, we’ll be creating a 20-story ultra-luxury high rise, which will be connected to this $250 million Life Time Village.”

tree-canopied Preston Road area.

Beck Ventures has also partnered with Toll Brothers, who will build 266 apartments as part of its holdings at the site. There will also be a hotel with 200 rooms and 40 condos and a new office building that will also be home to a new – and more luxurious – AMC Theater.

“And then as you get towards Montfort, there’s a new park that’s basically situated between our property, a main boulevard, and the Galleria,” Beck said. “And that new park is the Midtown Park, which will be four times the size of Klyde Warren.”

In addition to the apartments Toll Brothers is building with Beck Ventures, the company is also building apartments with Dallas developer KDC and New-York based Seritage Growth Properties, who also has an ownership stake in the Valley View site. Their mixed-use project called Park Heritage will total 300 luxury residential rental units with retail, entertainment, and dining, as well as 3 acres of open space.

(T)his area of Dallas is at the center of the population density in Dallas – a third of the population lives within three and a half miles of Preston and 635.

Scott Beck Beck said that the highlights include a three-acre beach pool amenity deck, and views of the

26 March 2020 | prestonhollowpeople.com

Comings and Goings

Get Schooled About the Lumen’s Upcoming Rebrand

HEIM BARBECUE (COURTESY PHOTOS)

The Graduate Dallas hotel to debut this fall with Mustang touches

By Rachel Snyder People Newspapers

STELLA NOVA

COMING Heim Barbecue

3130 W. Mockingbird Lane The acclaimed “farm-to-smoker” restaurant from Fort Worth will open its first Dallas location in June.

Husband and wife duo Travis and Emma Heim started serving up their bacon burnt ends along with brisket, pulled pork, turkey, ribs, and sausage from a food truck in 2015.

NOW OPEN AYA Medical Spa

6825 Snider Plaza The spa, which opened its first Dallas location in the fall of 2019,

has a team of estheticians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants and offers a wide range of cosmetic treatments, skincare products, and services.

Primo’s MX Kitchen and Lounge

3309 McKinney Avenue The eatery, which offers TexMex and Mexican options, opened in February. The menu draws inspiration from a wide area ranging from the Texas border to Southern Mexico.

Stella Nova

6604 Snider Plaza The coffee shop chain recrently opened its first Texas location. It

offers coffee, teas, and apple ciders, as well as a selection of bakery and lunch items.

Orangetheory Fitness Studio

6065 Forest Lane 5549 W. Lovers Lane The fitness studio, which has 34 Dallas-Fort Worth-area locations, opened two new Dallas locations in February.

JamBox Fitness Lounge

921 N. Riverfront Boulevard The fitness lounge, which recently opened its third location, features disco lighting and surround-sound for music to keep members motivated during workouts.

News of the Lumen’s upcoming rebranding as the Graduate Dallas hotel amused at least a few of People Newspapers’ social media followers.

“The Graduate... Where old women go to prey on young men.

Great name,” joked one Facebook poster in an allusion to the 1967 movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft.

Nevertheless, the company behind the new name promises the new design will have the longstanding hotel at 6101 Hillcrest Avenue exuding sophistication with appropriate nods to the SMU Mustangs.

Adventurous Journeys Capital Partners acquired the Lumen Hotel in 2019. Their Graduate Hotels collection consists of 22 hotels in the U.S. in university-anchored cities.

The four-story building, originally built in 1963, features a mid-century design but will

undergo a renovation that will touch all guestrooms, common areas, meeting and event spaces, as well as the lobby.

The hotel will continue to operate independently as the Lumen while undergoing renovations. The new design is expected to feature natural textures in the lobby and common spaces, antique accents, and nods to notable SMU alumni and Dallas luminaries.

Work should begin around May and continue through the summer with the debut of the Graduate Dallas coming likely in the fall.

The hotel will offer 95 guestrooms, a communal lobby, the Poindexter Coffee shop, a new restaurant and bar, a rooftop lounge, and an upgraded pool courtyard.

Senior vice president of acquisitions for AJ Capital Partners Tim Ryan said, “This storied property is uniquely positioned to serve the SMU campus community, Park Cities, and greater Dallas for generations to come.”

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Real Estate

Real Talk: Rogers Healy

By Bethany Erickson People Newspapers

Rogers Healy owns his eponymous real estate brokerage. When he’s not selling houses around Dallas, he’s the newest host of Selling Mega Mansions on the AWE cable network featuring luxury properties all over the country.

is the people. I heard a quote when I was a child that forever changed the way I operated from that moment on — “A stranger is a friend you haven’t met yet.” I still get chills saying that. I love people. Period.

All of them. I love the ability to help bring joy to someone. I love being able to share my faith in Jesus with our clients. I love talking about music. I love seeing their kids grow up. And sometimes, I love even talking about real estate.

How long have you been in real estate, and what led you to this career?

I’ve been in real estate for my entire life.

That’s almost 40 years, which is just flat out in- Rogers Healy What is your outlook sane to see in writing. on the Dallas market?

The Dallas real esI’ve had my Texas real estate license for almost 20 years… tate market is the economic uniI decided to pursue real estate as corn. We have what every other city my career, while I was an undergrad wants. We have the influx of buyers. student at SMU. I’ve always been We have the demand. Builders lita fan of connecting people and for erally can’t keep up with the pace of creating conveniences, so it really our growth. Dallas has gone from was love at first transaction. the “why would we visit Dallas this weekend” city to “let’s all move to If you could go back in time and Dallas this weekend.” We have give just-starting-out you any ad- gone from forgotten to unforgettavice, what would it be? ble, which is phenomenal for all of Slow down. There’s a reason ad- us in the real estate business. With vice like “stop and smell the roses” are that said, we still need buyers, selltold over and over… it’s because it’s ers, investors, and renters to be realtrue. My obsession from day one was istic… One of our biggest obstacles to be the best in real estate, wheth- is when a prospective client wants er that meant the No. 1 Realtor or to outprice the market. have the No. 1 real estate company.

Let me tell you this — the joy isn’t Can you give us a fun fact about in the end result, it’s in the journey. I yourself? went almost a decade straight withI’ve got the greatest girlfriend out a vacation. I thought I was going on planet Earth… and she’s even an HP girl. I met the incomparable to miss out. I was wrong.

Abby Gans at good ‘ole Mi Cocina, What is the best thing about being and have smiled bigger and bigger a real estate agent? every day since. I also can freestyle The best thing about real estate rap like my life depended on it.

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Schools

DALLAS ISD ASSISTS HOMELESS STUDENTS, FAMILIES

Even those staying in motels or with relatives may qualify for help

By Bethany Erickson

Youth Center. Now a drop-in center that allows homeless students to shower, do laundry, eat, and access resources that will help them find permanent housing, the center will soon also offer a place to sleep, too.

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he count of homeless students in Dallas ISD is a little more than 3,500 – but Ashley Marshall is certain the actual number is much higher.

“As of Feb. 10, the district has enrolled 3,545 homeless students,” said Marshall, who is tasked with managing the district’s homeless education program. “I do believe the district has many more homeless students than the ones that are currently identified.”

Marshall said that many families are reluctant to identify as homeless when they enroll for a variety of reasons.

“There is the misconception that if the district knows that a family/student is homeless that we are going to call Child Protective Services or the police to report them as such,” she said, adding that the department works hard to get the message out there that they don’t penalize families for being homeless.

“We want to assist our families and try to make their transition out of homelessness happen as quickly as possible,” she said. “I always mention in my trainings that most of us are one or two paychecks away from being homeless ourselves.”

And some families also do not consider themselves homeless if they have a roof over their heads, too – if they can afford a hotel room, or have relatives to take them in, they may not realize they actually do qualify for help.

“Students and families that are living in a motel/hotel are considered homeless if they are living there due to an economic hardship

The Fannie C. Harris Youth Center offers services like shower and laundry facilities, food, and other resources for homeless Dallas ISD students, and will soon open a 35-bed shelter. (COURTESY PHOTOS) or emergency situation,” Marshall said. “This applies also to families/students that might be living with relatives.”

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a federal law, provides money for homelessness assistance programs and defines homelessness as “individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.”

Children living in motels, campgrounds, or sharing housing because of economic hardship or eviction are among those covered by the act.

Marshall said her department helps refer families to shelters like Dallas Life, Family

Gateway, and Union Gospel Mission.

“For our homeless youth that are under 18, Promise House offers services for those students as well as CitySquare’s TRAC that runs two drop-in centers,” she said. “The district also has drop-in centers available to our homeless youth and those at-risk of becoming homeless at our high school campuses. These drop-ins provide access to food, hygiene items, school supplies, and services as needed.”

More recently, the district partnered with Social Venture Partners, Promise House, and CitySquare to open the Fannie C. Harris

There is the misconception that if the district knows that a family/student is homeless that we are going to call Child Protective Services or the police to report them as such.

Ashley Marshall “In the next few weeks, the shelter side will open with 35 beds, and it will be managed by Promise House,” Marshall said.

ONGOING NEEDS Travel blankets (ones that fit into a child’s backpack), snacks, hygiene items (soap, deodorant, toothbrushes/ toothpaste, hairbrushes/combs, feminine napkins), and small packs of laundry detergent.

Visit peoplenewspapers.com to learn more and read an extended conversation with Ashley Marshall.

Booked Up

Former Ranger Michael Young Helps Distribute Books to Franklin Eighth-Graders Comerica Bank and its community partner, KPMG’s Family for Literacy Dallas, donated 4,000 new books to Benjamin Franklin International Exploratory School on Jan. 30.

Former Texas Rangers infielder Michael Young also participated in the literacy event, helping volunteers distribute books to more

than 400 eighth-graders.

In January, Comerica’s Snider Plaza location hosted a new book drive to benefit Franklin, which welcomed 350 students from Cary Middle School after the Oct. 20 tornado.

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With Cary Closure, Dallas ISD Makes Plans for Middle Schoolers

To balance attendance zones, some elementary campuses to add sixth-graders

Medrano Middle School will absorb the attendance boundary for tornado-damaged Cary Middle School. (COURTESY PHOTO)

By Bethany Erickson People Newspapers

After the October tornado struck, Dallas ISD found homes for Walnut Hill Elementary and Thomas Jefferson High School in mothballed buildings.

But it was not the same for Cary Middle School, later deemed a total loss.

The district divided those students between Franklin Middle School and Medrano Middle School as a temporary fix.

But even in the earliest days after the tornado, officials knew that Franklin and Hillcrest High couldn’t absorb a continuous flow of additional students.

In January, the board approved about $132 million to renovate Jefferson and build a brand new pre-k through eighthgrade campus that would replace both Walnut Hill Elementary and Cary Middle School. Both projects are due to be completed in time for the 2022 school year.

At February’s board briefing, Dallas

ISD Chief of School Leadership Stephanie Elizalde explained to trustees that the district had come up with a more workable middle school solution moving forward until the new Walnut Hill school is ready.

“Now that we have made a decision with the rebuilding of a K-8 school, I need to redo the attendance boundaries identifying all the students previously zoned to Cary to be zoned to Medrano,” Elizalde explained. “Medrano will be a seventh and eighth-grade campus only to accommodate

all the students.”

So what happens to the sixth graders?

“The elementary campuses in that feeder will become PreK-6 campuses,” she said.

Under the new attendance boundary, Cary Middle School’s boundaries are absorbed into Medrano Middle School’s boundaries. Cary students who began attending Franklin Middle School after the tornado have the option of staying at Franklin, Elizalde said.

“If they want to remain there, and go to Hillcrest, that is allowable,” she said, adding that they will have the option of attending high school at Hillcrest, or going to the repaired Thomas Jefferson when it is complete.

Starting in 2020, Burnet, Cigarroa, Foster, May, and Saldivar elementary schools will include sixth grade. K.B. Polk and Walnut Hill will become pre-K through eighth-grade campuses by 2022, when the new Walnut Hill school opens, with Polk focusing on fine arts, and Walnut Hill focusing on international languages.

MORE ONLINE For more coverage of Dallas ISD and the October tornado, and a complete map of the new Medrano Middle School boundaries, go to PeopleNewspapers.com.

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Take a Walk on The Science Side

Learn about math, engineering by exploring NorthPark Center

By Liliann Albelbaisi Special Contributor

The way Koshi Dhingra, an educator with a passion for science, technology, engineering, and math learning, sees it, “Every kid is a STEM kid.”

But not all children enjoy the same access to STEM learning opportunities nor the same encouragement to pursue STEM careers.

TA K E A T O U R • For a self-guided tour, visit talkstem.org to download activity sheets and maps.

Hey, STEM is really everywhere.

Koshi Dhingra Dhingra, a mother of three and the former director of the Science and Engineering Education Center at UT Dallas, founded TalkSTEM in 2015 to bring such education to underrepresented youths and get them excited about career possibilities.

TalkSTEM offers free curriculum on its website, talkstem.org, and entertainment and educational content on its YouTube channels, TalkSTEM and WalkSTEM. These are useful tools for teachers and parents alike to help their children gain a better understanding of everything that goes into STEM, Dhingra said.

In March 2017, TalkSTEM introduced WalkSTEM, free self- and docent-guided tours where children can explore problems in recognizable places such as the Dallas Arts

• For digital tours, check out the WalkSTEM channel at youtube.com and choose from the playlists of various locations in Dallas.

WalkSTEM tours, whether self- or docent-guided, provide opportunities to explore problems in recognizable places. (PHOTOS: SARAH BRADBURY PHOTOGRAPHY) District, NorthPark Center, and SMU. Bringing in everyday stuff and art shows that, “Hey, STEM is really everywhere,” Dhingra said.

Dhingra said it was important that the tours weren’t just relaying information but instead leading participants to work through problems that people in STEM would encounter.

“We definitely want to highlight that STEM isn’t just about objects,” she said.

Another TalkSTEM program is the

annual Pi Day festival on March 14. This year’s event at AT&T Performing Arts Center runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For the festival, TalkSTEM partners with companies and other organizations that create activities relating to what they do to show children opportunities in STEM. For example, UT Southwestern Medical Center, one year, had had children figure out the dosage each ‘patient’ needed, considering their weight and other technical aspects, Dhingra said.

• For a docent-led tour, contact walkstem@gmail.com.

The aim is to offer authentic and unique activities that the whole family can find interesting while hopefully promoting students to start thinking differently about their futures.

She especially wants to see more girls and other underrepresented groups develop STEM and STEAM (the ‘a’ is for art) mindsets, no matter what career paths they choose to pursue.

“They don’t have to be rocket scientists, but being comfortable and confident was critical,” Dhingra said.

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Camps

SOME YOUTHS GO TO CAMP; THIS ONE CREATED ONE From Eagle project to three-day program, Matt’s Bats keeps growing

France, a former Philadelphia Eagle.

“They, of course, had large bodies, enormous physical presences,” Matt said, “but the kids just gravitated toward them.”

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t age 14, Matt McCall became an Eagle Scout, a rare accomplishment typically achieved by young men three-tofour years older.

He also became founder and CEO of a youth baseball camp for underprivileged youths.

“Matt’s Bats” began as a service project in his quest for the Eagle badge. But excitement from the first camp in 2016 stuck with Matt, now 17, and a senior at Highland Park High School.

Planning is underway for a fourth camp this summer, sharing skills for baseball but also life, including hard work, self-esteem, and goal setting. It’s open to boys and girls, ages 8 to 13.

“The camp has just been taking me along with it,” Matt said. “It has been a crazy ride, but I’m glad I’ve been around for it.”

The first camp was on a single day for 20 youths. Last year it had grown to three days with about 50 campers at the Texas Rangers Youth Academy in West Dallas.

An original partner of the camp was Brother Bill’s Helping Hand, a faith-based non-profit, founded in the 1940s to provide medical care, food, and education for families in need.

Matt volunteered there with his parents, Alden and Judy, and consulted staffers about a possible Eagle project. They suggested a camp to teach soccer or basketball skills, but Matt knew little about those sports.

The camp has just been taking me along with it.

It has been a crazy ride, but I’m glad I’ve been around for it.

Matt McCall

Matt McCall enjoys introducing children to baseball and hopes to continue running his camp here and perhaps elsewhere. (COURTESY PHOTOS) He did, however, love baseball.

“I thought introducing baseball in the West Dallas community would be a wonderful thing,” Matt said.

It hasn’t been without character-building adversity. Torrential rains and a marketing glitch

prevented the second camp from getting underway in 2017, but Matt overcame discouragement, and the next two camps drew even more youths.

Matt also recruited an all-star roster of former and current professional athletes to help coach,

including John Knox, a second baseman for the Detroit Tigers in the 1970s.

Other coaches were Jordan Smallwood, currently a wide receiver for the new XFL’s Los Angeles Wildcats, and his buddy, Anthony Mahoungou of Paris,

Campers also gravitate to Matt, said Wes Keyes, executive director at Brother Bill’s.

“West Dallas is a unique place,” Keyes explained. “When Brother Bill started this ministry, it was still kind of the Wild West. I mean Bonnie and Clyde, for crying out loud, got their start over here. Crime has eased up, but poverty still exists everywhere we look.

“But Matt, interacting with these kids, he doesn’t bat an eye. He gets down to their level. Kids jump on his back, and he rides them around.”

As Matt contemplates where to attend college, and what he’ll study, he’s also trying to figure out how to keep the camp going in West Dallas, and possibly start a similar program in his future college town.

Memories will sustain his vision.

“I just remember all those smiling faces, seeing so many kids happy, playing my sport,” Matt said.

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Hockaday Student Charts Her Course to the Stars

Multicultural Space Camp experiences bolster engineering, science, people skills

Sydney Slay has met astronauts such as Donald Thomas, who flew four space shuttle missions. (COURTESY PHOTOS)

By Jordan Kiefer

Special Contributor Want to go to space? Try starting in Huntsville, Alabama.

Space Camp, a six-day, interactive educational program/camp for people of all ages at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, seeks to get visitors excited about space exploration.

“It promotes science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) while training them with missions based on teamwork, decision-making, and leadership and hands-on activities,” said Patricia Ammons, director of communications for the center.

Space Camp creates a place for kids from all around the world to share their passion for STEM and space with others and allows them to have a community of people who share their interest.

Sydney Slay

Hockaday School freshman Sydney Slay is a repeat camper.

“If you are interested in space and STEM, or if you just want to have an amazing six days with rockets, artifacts, simulators, and people who are truly passionate about space, I highly recommend Space Camp because it is changing my life,” the 14-year-old said.

Sydney said she has always had an intense interest in STEM and became focused on space in seventh-grade.

The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) organization and three years of completion in the FIRST Lego League (FLL) robotics competition encouraged her interest in design and engineering, she said.

Sydney first attended Space Camp two years ago when she was 13 and built on that experience when she returned in the summer of 2019.

“My second Space Camp trip allowed me to experience new aspects of the camp that I was not able to the previous year,” she explained. “I was able to listen to new seminars and speak to different astronaut speakers.

It also allowed me to think of future plans of how I could become involved with STEM and space.”

During this past summer’s camp, she earned the Right Stuff Award, named for Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book The Right Stuff, and given to an outstanding trainee who goes above and beyond in leadership, teamwork,

and technology.

Slay comes from a STEM-focused family. Her maternal grandfather worked for AMF (American Machine and Foundry) as an engineer, and her father’s mechanical skills show in his hobby of restoring classic cars.

Sydney’s mother, Alicia, recognizes the impact Space Camp has had on her daughter.

“What I truly appreciate about the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, home of Space Camp, is the international and cross-culture collaboration environment that each of the students has the opportunity to experience while learning about space,” Alica Slay said.

Sydney also values the cross-cultural experience.

“At Space Camp, I am astonished by the diversity and different cultures that are represented at the camp,” she said. “Space Camp creates a place for kids from all around the world to share their passion for STEM and space with others and allows them to have a community of people who share their interest.”

F U N FAC T Begun in 1982, Space Camp now has almost 1 million graduates, many of whom have gone on to become engineers, scientists, technicians, educators, and astronauts. Visit spacecamp.com.

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Five Myths About Choosing the Right Summer Camp Considering an overnight camp for your child for summer 2020? I’ve compiled a list of myths and accompanying facts to help guide you.

HELENE ABRAMS

Myth: “If I send my daughter to camp with a friend, it will make her more comfortable.”

Fact: A friend can sometimes act as a barrier to your child making new friends. All too often, one of the campers has a difficult time.

The other child then feels responsible for the friend, which can be extremely burdensome. Also, your child may choose his activities based upon his friends’ interests, rather than his own.

Myth: “A one-week session is the best way to ease into an overnight camp experience.”

Fact: Sometimes, it is the parent who sets a child up for an overnight camping failure by offering, “I will pick you up if you are unhappy,” or “let’s just try this camp for one week to see how it goes.” Kids need a chance to feel homesick and get through it with the help of counselors and individual coping mechanisms to feel successful about a camp experience.

One week barely gives a child a chance to find their way around

Helene Abrams recomends letting children help research summer camp options. (COURTESY PHOTO) a camp, much less feel the tinge of missing Mom and Dad (or the family dog).

Myth: “Only I know what is best for my child.”

Fact: While the saying “Mother knows best” is true in many circumstances, input from your child may be the best approach when choosing a camp. Ask your child: Do you want to build on your existing strengths and interests this summer or try something new? Be open to the unexpected.

Myth: “A specialty camp – rather than a traditional camp – is the best place for my child.”

Fact: Specialty sports camps focus on teaching technical skills, not necessarily life skills. Parents should not make the mistake of thinking a specialty camp will provide the framework to care for a homesick child or to ease the child into feeling a part of a community.

Myth: “My son plays sports all year long, so I want to give him a break from the routine.”

Fact: While it is a nice break for some kids to fish and hike at camp, others just want to play ball. I advise parents to look for an option that can provide the sports that the child wants, plus some new challenges that the parents might want for their child. A child who can’t make the select baseball or soccer team at home may shine in a camp environment.

When the time comes for choosing a camp, there are a thousand questions to ask. It is essential to ask the right questions and get the facts so that you can get the right fit for your child. The investment will provide you and your child with lifetime rewards. Happy camping!

Helene Abrams, of the free advisory service Tips on Trips and Camps, helps parents find enriching summer overnight experiences for their children.

Reach her at 214-484-8141 or Helene@TipsonTripsandCamps.com.

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A Parent’s Guide to a Smart, Tech-Savvy Summer Looking for fun and exciting ways to keep children engaged indoors?

Long weekends, winter and spring breaks, and summer vacation can leave time for parents and their children to explore new worlds (virtually) together.

Screen time gets a bad rap, but when used responsibly, the computer, phone, or tablet can become a useful tool to keep children learning.

Kelli Duhaney, director of STEM and technology integration at Trinity Christian Academy in Addison, offered suggestions for using tech as a source for creativity and learning for children while teaching the importance of online safety.

• Take a virtual field trip: Did you know many of the world’s famous museums and popular sites offer virtual experiences? Take a virtual field trip to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History or Scholastic’s Virtual Field Trip to Ellis Island. No matter what your child’s interests, there’s likely a fun virtual field trip that will spark their imagination.

• Help your child become a filmmaker: Need some help getting those photos from the family vacation downloaded? There’s an

RIGHT: Kelli Duhaney, director of STEM and technology integration at Trinity Christian Academy, suggest families use breaks from school to learn together. (COURTESY PHOTOS) app for that. Download one of several movie-making apps available and have your child create movies.

You could have them add in family photos and video clips from trips and other activities.

• Help your sous-chef in the kitchen: You can use technology to help your budding chef sharpen their skills in the kitchen.

Have them create a grocery list and then help you cook, some-

times this is a little messier than helpful, but it’s still fun. These activities can also allow you to teach your children how to navigate throughout the web appropriately as they use search engines to

find information. Here’s another fun activity: Come up with a family food challenge, similar to what you see on the Food Network’s Chopped Junior.

• Start a blog: Does your child love to write? If you don’t have the time to share everything your family is doing with your friends and the extended family, give your children a creative outlet, such as a blog, to share. Writing and publishing online provides the opportunity to discuss what it means to be a good digital citizen as well as internet and safety on social media. Mashable.com has excellent tips on helping set up a blog and includes advice on digital citizenship.

• Learn something new: Try websites such as khanacademy.org that offer hundreds of video-based and educational lessons about topics ranging from science and math to geography and history.

• Teach yourself and your child to code: The website code.org offers a variety of computer science lessons for all ages to learn how to program computers, build apps, and create digital art. Who knows, maybe it could spark your interest or set the stage for your child to become a coder.

— Staff Report

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Society

DALLAS STARS CASINO NIGHT RAISES RECORD $420K

Carmen and Parish Autry, Lauren Henning, and Amy and Scott McGinnis Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn deals blackjack

Dallas Stars Foundation president Marty Turco

Tamra Granberry, Gilbert Daniel, Jennifer Daniel, and Doug Welsch

Mandy Mack, Kale Alberts, and Kajer Boettcher

Dallas Stars Tyler Seguin with Peyton Mabry

Lakeiha Strain and Terry Song

Ann Marie and Hayden Harrison

P H O T O S : R H I L E E A N D D AV I D A LV E Y

Cassidy Clark and Sydney Bedford with Stars mascot Victor E. Green

Grace Copeland and Alex Wells

Laura Wilson and Brianna Boulanger

MacGregor Perkins, Chelsey Lerma with Aiona and Matt Bowman

Nearly a thousand Dallas Stars fans turned out Jan. 30 for the 21st annual Park Place Dealerships - Dallas Stars Casino Night at the Comerica Center in Frisco. The event raised more than $420,000 for the Dallas Stars Foundation, breaking last year’s fundraising record for the most money raised in a single night. The Dallas Stars Foundation focuses its efforts on providing support to the children in the community through youth hockey programs, youth engagement, health, and education.

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AGENCY FUNDS RESEARCH, PROVIDES HOPE, SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES AFFECTED BY ALZHEIMER’S

Patrick Mancenido, Misty Keown, Jolie Humphrey, and Luis Ellis

Janet Broyles and Cassie Crosby

Sharon and Maurice Ballew

Ike Ndukwe, Xavier Alexander, and Aten Williams

Richard Harner and Jack Broyles

Stephanie Zorn, Hillary Cox, and Anna Harris

Stacey and Charlie Angel

AWARE president Jolie Humphrey and AWARE Membership chair and BvB Dallas liaison, Misty Keown, welcomed a crowd of members from each organization in the fall to Bleu Ciel’s Party and Wine Room for a red carpet reception. (PHOTOS: DANA DRIENSKY)

By Mitch Gruen

Special Contributor

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hen Kim McDavid began to have trouble remembering which day of the week it was, her husband, David McDavid Jr., chalked it up to stress.

“We were going to move to Colorado, we opened a business there, sent both kids off to college, and just got done treating my throat cancer,” he said. “We were moving at 100 miles an hour.”

In fall 2015, David and Kim stopped for a bite at an airport restaurant. Kim went to use the bathroom and did not come back.

David sensed that something was wrong and went to look for her, finding her outside of the restroom, disoriented. When she saw David, she started bawling. They knew something was not right.

Two neurologists gave them the same diagnosis: early-onset Alzheimer’s.

What followed was a lot of confusion, a lot of research, and a lot of crying. Not long after Kim’s diagnosis, a friend of David’s shared some wisdom: “Just remember, you’re in it for the long haul.”

As the initial shock of the diagnosis faded, David prepared himself for the long haul of becoming his wife’s primary caregiver.

For most caregivers in these early stages, it is difficult to figure out what exactly you’re supposed to be doing to care for your parent, spouse, or other loved one. For David, and countless other caregivers in Dallas, the support and community provided by AWARE has made a tremendous difference.

AWARE has been dedicated to fighting Alzheimer’s in Dallas since 1989, providing a gateway to education and resources for caregivers and patients and funding for North Texas nonprofits that research cures and prevention.

Kathleen Powell knew that Alzheimer’s ran in her family but was still completely stunned when her mother was formally diagnosed. Kathleen and her family needed help but weren’t sure where to turn.

AWARE connected them with seminars, support groups, and doctors. The assistance provided by AWARE was a huge boost for Kathleen as she worked to step into the caregiver role and develop an effective care program for her mom.

AWARE’s 2019–2020 Grant Recipients include the Baylor Healthcare System and a UT Southwestern program developing a new diagnostic test that will provide earlier and more accurate diagnoses. Casa de Vida, another recipient, uses music, art, and games to engage individuals with Alzheimer’s, providing their caregivers with precious free time.

Stomping Ground Comedy has implemented a free program, Improv for Caregivers, which uses improvisational comedy to teach caregivers effective strategies for communicating with their loved ones. Much of the value in these programs comes simply from helping families affected by Alzheimer’s know that they’re not alone.

I F YO U G O WHAT: The AWARE Affair fundraiser includes a cocktail reception with a silent auction, seated dinner & program, rousing live auction, and dancing.

WHEN: April 3 WHERE: TBA ONLINE: awaredallas.org

ABOUT THE DISEASE · Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, and the third leading cause among seniors. · An estimated 5.8 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease. · More than 16 million Americans provide unpaid care for people with Alzheimer’s or other dementias.

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GREAT ADVENTURE HUNT BENEFITING CHILDCAREGROUP

1st place winners: Anne Bothwell, John Matthews, Charles Glover, Ben Mackey, Kat Matthews, and Melanie Ferguson

Gladys Kolenovsky, Edward Oglesby, Peggy Allison, Mark Plunkett, Lynn McBee, and Lyda Hill

Kate and Alex Knight, Emily and Nick Barker, and Jessica and Bryan Farrington

Sri Vemulapalli and Nitya Nadella with Veera and Sunyamukhi Venigalla

Steve and Cindy Davis with Janice Howry and Karen Owen

Tori Mannes welcomes guests

Greg Lyons, Zack Tobolowsky, Geoff Dunham, Charlie Neil, Ted Gwara, and Jared Sandler

Drew and Kristen Brantley, Sarah and Clayton Kennington, and Elizabeth and Patrick Malone PHOTOS: SERGIO MENDEZ

Macey Davis, Rafael Anchia, Tori Mannes, Matt Coscia, and Melissa Miesse

The 54 teams of 325 western wear-outfitted fierce competitors raced around Gilley’s at the 10th annual Great Adventure Hunt benefiting early education leader, ChildCareGroup. In keeping with the education theme of the event beneficiary, competitors relied on their wits, brain power, and teamwork to become the first to correctly solve eight “Wild West”-themed scavenger hunt puzzles. Event co-chairs and sisters Macey Davis and Meredith Wallace said, “The Great Adventure Hunt is one of the most unique fundraising events in town. We were honored to co-chair it this year and to help sustain this amazing 118-year-old organization.”

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CASABLANCA CELEBRATES 2020

John Curran, Kelsey Higginbotham, Rob and Linda Swartz, Robby and Kiania Calderin, Michael and Cristina Swartz, and Nicki and Paul Stafford

Phillip Alcorn and Christina Boonkue

Lauren Slade and Kayleigh Garcia

Melissa and Nick Bednarz

Monica and John Kirchmer with Ottis Lewis

Carlie and Dan Jordan Jonathan and Christine Bassham

Kelsey Higginbotham, Linda Swartz, Stephanie Rios, and Kathleen M. LaValle

Kendall Filiger and Ranny Randolph PHOTOS: JAMES COREAS, ROSANNE LEWIS, AND ANDY WILLIAMS

Henry Pfirrmann, Nick Hinckley, Nick Edwards, Mark Svoboda, and Jim Tate

Elise Nichols, Bela Cooley, and Megan Sterquell

Jennie and Chris Wideil

Melissa and Nick Bednarz

More than 400 of Dallas’ most fabulous young people gathered at The Hall on Dragon Feb. 1 for Dallas CASA’s fifth annual casino party, CASAblanca. The black tie event hosted by Dallas CASA’s Young Professionals group, was chaired

by Bela Cooley, Elise Nichols, and Megan Sterquell and presented by The Hiduke Foundation. The evening featured casino games, live music by The Special Edition Band, and a room full of guests committed to fighting child abuse. Men wore tuxedos, while the women sparkled in sequins. The young crowd gathered around blackjack and craps tables, enjoying spending their pseudo money to earn chances at prizes.

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Living Well and Faith TWINS COME OF AGE BY HELPING SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDREN Greenhill School siblings mobilize donors with Karing 4 Kliptown

LEFT: The Yurich family and others celebrate at Future Angels Day Care in Kliptown, South Africa. TO RIGHT: Jack and Emma Yurich with preschoolers Nkosana Kalipa and Precious Scott. BOTTOM: Crowds surround the van during soccer ball distribution, and Jonathan Yurich helps pump soccer balls. (PHOTOS: KARING 4 KLIPTOWN)

By Dalia Faheid

Special Contributor

J

ack and Emma Yurich set out to raise $10,000 for Kliptown, an impoverished suburb of Soweto in South Africa.

A year of halva bake sales, GoFundMe donations, and a tennis tournament later, the twins had raised almost triple that amount.

It all started with the pursuit of a long-term philanthropic project for the Greenhill School eighth-graders’ B’nai Mitzvah, a Jewish coming of age celebration. When their mother Joanne, originally from South Africa, returned from a trip to Kliptown in 2016, they found their cause.

Touched by the township’s poor living conditions, where 70% of the 44,000 population is unemployed,

the twins established Karing 4 Kliptown in 2017.

“It ties into our roots,” said Emma, now 14.

After raising awareness of their cause via GoFundMe, Jack planned a tennis tournament that raised $1,000, and the twins sold their mom’s homemade halva sweets weekly. With another $16,700 donations in lieu of B’nai Mitzvah gifts, they vastly surpassed their goal.

“You need the support of your community and your friends and family to be able to reach your goals,” Joanne said. “And you rely on them to make it all come together.”

They partnered with a Kliptown preschool where $27,392 would supply students with three pairs of shoes, a necessity for the many barefooted children roaming the streets, along with two sets of clothing, a

tricycle, toys, costumes, playground turf, and teachers’ scarves and shoes.

Recognizing that expanding opportunities for Kliptown children to play their favorite sport would lift spirits, the sports-loving family planned to distribute soccer balls.

Purchasing the clothing and shoes in the correct sizes and transporting 175 soccer balls proved challenging, the twins said.

In July 2019, the family of seven was welcomed to Kliptown by preschoolers who held signs and sang in Zulu. Driving through Kliptown, the Yuriches tirelessly pumped and distributed soccer balls to meet the growing demand.

Kliptown’s children must often do without access to adequate nutrition, education, health services, or safety measures, the twins said. One of the Kliptown preschoolers drowned in a

nearby river before their arrival.

Despite the hardships, the infectiously happy children appreciated most when the family held them, grabbed their hands, or played with them, the twins said.

You need the support of your community and your friends and family to be able to reach your goals.

Joanne Yurich “It just kind’ve made me think about how grateful I am to have everything I have.” Jack said.

The twins are sponsoring schooling for five students and hope to continue doing so in the future.

A younger set of Yurich twins, Mathew and Jonathan, plan on supporting Kliptown when their B’nai Mitzvah time comes.

Joanne explained that her boys were inspired by seeing “the smiles on these kids’ faces when they handed them soccer balls and realizing that they’re so overwhelmed with thanks for one soccer ball, yet they (the twins) have a room full of toys that they sometimes don’t even play with.”

She suggested other parents can instill a love of giving in their children by finding activities the family can consistently be engaged in together.

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Fort Worth, Texas, It’s Like a Whole Other Destination City

The Sinclair Hotel King Guestroom. TX Whiskey Firestone & Roberston (F&R) uses scraps from Justin Boots to insert into the center of the TX Whiskey caps. (PHOTOS: THE SINCLAIR AND F&R) “Texas. It’s Like a Whole Other Country.”

Remember that campaign from a few years back? It’s a catchy slogan and all, but it’s true.

Texas IS like a whole other country compared to the other 49 states, and within KERSTEN RET TIG the confines of our friendly, anthropomorphic cowboy-shape of a state, there’s still diversity.

Take Dallas versus Fort Worth: a mere 30 minutes apart, there’s a difference – the twang, clothing style, community, the pace. It’s also my hometown, and I’ve long wanted to give readers ideas on how to spend 24 hours there. In honor of Texas Independence Day, I shall do just that.

First Stop: I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Texas agriculture than by spending time at Robertson & Firestone Distillery in Fort Worth, where TX Whiskey and TX Bourbon are made using locally grown corn.

Cowboy boots and hats aren’t cliché here, nor are they required.

Just come and enjoy.

Kersten Rettig Whiskey Ranch is located where the old Glen Garden Country Club opened in 1912 and where legendary golfers Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson practiced, played,

and won championships. Now, the 112-acre spread is home to production and barrel-aging facilities, a boutique, tasting tavern, event spaces, food trucks, and a magnificent view of Downtown Fort Worth. The founders of R&F Distillery created a thoughtful, entertaining, and engaging place to promote their spirits. Everyone over the age of 21 should hightail it over there. Tours are informative and photogenic and include tastings if you’re so inclined.

Dinner Time: Fort Worth has more than a fistful of great restaurants, though most visitors just focus on one: Joe T’s, which is fine, but you’re selling Cowtown cuisine short. One of my favorite restaurants in the world is Ellerbe Fine Foods. Chef/ Co-Owner Molly McCook creates approachable Americana dishes using f resh-f rom-the source, be it farm, field, or ocean, ingredients. The wine program includes bottles from nearly every major wine-producing region with reasonable prices and a wine shop so you can buy more bottles of the wine you loved at dinner.

Located in the burgeoning Near South Side area, which was a positively terrifying place when I was growing up but is now super

hip, Ellerbe is perfect for a date or group.

Night Cap then Night-Night: The Sinclair Hotel – newest (and much needed) luxury accommodations in Fort Worth opened in late fall and held its grand opening in January. The 90-yearold Art Deco building has been beautifully updated while maintaining a keen eye for detail in décor and design. The hotel’s owners lovingly chose craftsmen to restore or replicate details such as period elevator doors, ceiling and floor tiles, and paneling.

The hotel is also sophisticatedly sustainable, powered by Digital Electricity and brimming with high-tech infrastructure and gadgets. Guest rooms are spacious and warm with state-of-the-art fixtures. Another outstanding feature is the roof-top bar, the highest one in Fort Worth. On a clear day (or night), you can see miles and miles.

Cowboy boots and hats aren’t cliché here, nor are they required.

Just come and enjoy.

S O N G PA I R I N G : “Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind” – George Strait

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First Unitarian Church of Dallas Getting New Fellowship Hall

The First Unitarian Church of Dallas is preparing for some major renovations.

By Rachel Snyder People Newspapers

The First Unitarian Church of Dallas is clear to do some significant renovations.

The University Park City Council voted recently to allow the church to revise plans and build a new fellowship hall, choir/music center, a library, and make additional improvements to its campus at 4015 Normandy Avenue.

“What they’ve proposed to do… with the detailed site plan change is to increase the amount of floor area available for the church and the pre-school daycare, and they’re going to increase the size of their existing fellowship hall — almost double — from about 7,000 square feet to just over 15,000 square feet,” University Park Community Development Director

(PHOTO: RACHEL SNYDER)

Patrick Baugh said. “The entire campus will get a refresh along with the new, two-story fellowship hall and office building.”

The church’s senior minister, the Rev. Daniel Kanter, said the church has owned the property since 1944.

“The buildings that we’re looking at have not been renovated for over 25 years,” Kanter said.

“We have members who remember the original building. We also have brand new members who have just joined us. The church is… a vibrant part of University Park.”

Emily Henry, a member of the church who is helping with the building plans, said the fellowship hall is aging and needs improvement.

“We’re excited about replacing this fellowship hall and making it a lot more efficient space than we have today,” Henry said.

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For March 17, Don’t Just Go Green, Go Irish to the Bone With Wings St. Patrick’s Day is the one day of the year when everyone can be a little Irish.

I’ve enthusiastically held that sentiment from the time our children were CHRISTY ROST little. It gave me HOME + KITCHEN an excuse to turn an otherwise ordinary March day into an occasion for our family to celebrate.

The boys went off to school wearing green shirts, knowing that when they returned home, our dinner table would be decorated with green placemats and shamrock paper napkins. Green and white crepe paper streamers would be draped across the ceiling, and freshly-baked shamrock cookies or a cake garnished with buttercream and swirls of green frosting would be waiting for them.

While thousands gathered in bars and pubs to sip green beer, we gathered around our family table for a hearty meal that more often than not included green mashed potatoes – a carryover of a St. Patrick’s Day joke my older sister played on our parents when I was about 8 years old.

To be perfectly honest, I enjoyed our little family celebrations as much as my husband and sons. I’m a party girl at heart, so executing the decorations and planning a fun meal for our family has always been right up my alley. As far as

Guinness Buffalo Wings

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon olive oil ¾ cup sweet onion, peeled and diced 4 large cloves garlic 2 tablespoons honey 2 tablespoons brown sugar, packed 1 tablespoon molasses 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar 2 11-ounce bottles Guinness stout ¼ cup prepared barbecue sauce salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 1 family-size package chicken wings (about 15)

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and cover two large cookie sheets with foil. Trim off tips of wings and discard. Cut through each wing at the joint, and transfer sections to the cookie sheets. Bake 30 minutes, reduce heat to 375 degrees, turn wings

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over, and cook 15 minutes more.

While the wings are cooking, sauté onion in olive oil until it’s soft, stir in garlic, and cook 1 minute more. Stir in honey, brown sugar, molasses, vinegar and Guinness. Bring the mixture to a boil over high heat, reduce the heat to maintain a slow boil, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the mixture is reduced by half. Strain the mixture over a clean saucepan and discard any solids.

Add prepared barbecue sauce, stir, and continue cooking until the sauce becomes very thick.

Brush some of the sauce over the wings and bake 5 minutes. Turn them over, baste, and bake 5 minutes more. Remove wings from the oven, transfer them to a platter, and serve hot or at room temperature. Pour the remaining sauce into a small bowl for dipping.

Yield: 6 to 8 servings

I’m concerned, it’s all about creating special memories for guests, especially when those guests are my family.

Our sons are now grown, so this year we’re planning a small-but-festive, cocktail-time celebration with friends.

Green and white streamers may still be involved, but my buffet menu will be centered around small bites – a selection of Irish cheeses, a charcuterie board, marinated olives, dried fruits, an assortment of crusty breads, and the most amazing Guinness buffalo wings.

The delicious secret to these irresistible wings results from reducing a mixture of Guinness stout, honey, prepared barbecue sauce, and a few other flavorful ingredients on the stove until they form a syrup.

The wings are partially cooked in the oven, brushed with the syrup, and then cooked until the syrup becomes a dark glaze. They can even be prepared one day ahead and reheated briefly in the oven – an excellent option on a busy day. I may only be Irish in my heart, but that’s reason enough for me to hang streamers, display a shamrock on our door, and invite friends to this month’s St. Patrick’s Day party.

Christy Rost is the author of three cookbooks, television chef on PBS stations nationwide, and longtime resident of the Park Cities and Preston Hollow. For additional recipes and entertaining tips, please visit her website at christyrost.com or follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @ChristyRost.

Common Unknown REASONS Why People Experience Dizziness.

You Know, That Dizziness That Just Takes The Enjoyment Out Of Life – Now What To Do About It!

By Leading Balance Expert, Dr. Jeffrey Guild, Physical Therapist Are you worried about losing independence because of dizziness or vertigo? Are you becoming increasingly frustrated with dizziness, unsteadiness, and a sensation of spinning interfering with your life? Here are some common unknown reasons why people can feel dizzy and a SOLUTION to get rid of the problem.

1. Vertigo (An Inner Ear Balance Problem): This is the classic spinning sensation when you roll over in bed, but it’s not always that simple… The symptoms can be a vague dizziness, unsteadiness, fogginess.

This problem is more common with age and often goes unrecognized, but is simple for a specialist to identify and get rid of.

2. Moving Less Over Time: You might notice this if you become dizzy from walking and turning your head (Or maybe you don’t move your head much anymore to avoid the dizziness). Remember when you could ride a roller coaster when you were 10 years old but not when you were 40?

To sum it up simply, if you don’t use it, you lose it. The inner ear balance system takes a lot of use to stay working properly.

3. Time Spent In The Hospital: In order to keep working well, our balance system needs us to be upright, move our heads a lot, and interact in a complex world (Crossing busy streets, bending down and

picking up grandchildren, turning our heads quickly to notice something interesting). Hospital stays do not offer much of these, so it is not uncommon for people to suffer from dizziness and balance problems for months and even years afterwards.

Want more information & solutions?

My new special report about vertigo provides Actionable Tips that will help you keep or regain your independence. And the best thing is it’s 100% FREE, and you’re under no-obligation to buy anything when you call.

IMPORTANT: For obvious reasons, my offer to send you this report FREE must come with a restriction on the number I can mail out… so it’s critical that you call TODAY and request your free report now. What To Do Next?

Call: (214) 712-8242 (Leave a Message 24/7) & Choose: • Option 1: Have your FREE Report mailed or emailed to you • Option 2: Free Report + FREE Balance/Dizziness Testing Author Dr. Jeffrey Guild, Physical Therapist is owner of Optimove Physical Therapy & Wellness.

You can contact him at (214) 712-8242 or email at J.Guild@OptimoveDFW.com

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING CONTENT BRIGGS FREEMAN SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

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9312 Rockbrook Drive, represented by LeeLee Gioia In their own words, the firm of Bodron/Fruit seeks a balance of “impeccable interior design and exceptional architecture to create noteworthy buildings with purpose and function.” 9312 Rockbrook Drive is just that. Sheathed in copper, mahogany and smooth-finish stucco, this 2004 home becomes lovelier with time. The 4,713-square-foot home features a mahogany front pivot door, floors of African Makore wood and a gourmet kitchen with sycamore cabinetry. The kitchen is adjoined by an inviting den with a wood-burning fireplace, a wall of sycamore shelving and cabinetry and expansive windows and doors, the latter which lead to the rear grounds and the infinity-edge pool.

The serene, first-floor master suite is enhanced by stunning Makore wood cabinetry, and its private master bath features expanses of Calacatta marble as countertops and floors. A delightful covered seating area overlooking the rear grounds is found just outside the master suite.

Defined by its gorgeous materials and graceful spaces, this is a home for the ages — at home in nature, with light in every room.

9312 Rockbrook Drive is represented by LeeLee Gioia for $3,100,000.

To explore the exceptional homes, high-rises, ranches and land represented by Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty — across North Texas and around the world — visit the new briggsfreeman.com.

It’s a good time to sell a home in Texas these days. Hous-

Jeremy Whiteker and R.A. Millennium Properties present this sophisticated, new construction residence at 7527 Morton St. (7527morton.dpmre.com) near Inwood Village.

The four-bedroom, five-bath smart home with two-car garage covers 4,037 square feet (per building plan), and is priced at $1,350,000.

Exceptional native landscaping softens the crisp, clean lines. Inside, luxurious qualities such as white oak hardwood flooring, Venetian plaster, Kelly Wearstler lighting, a state-ofthe-art kitchen, Spanish and Italian cabinetry and more, all combine to create a memorable first impression.

The flow is intuitive, and spaces are open yet defined.

Beautiful outdoor views are standard from every room through Quaker windows.

There is a secluded first-floor master bedroom with patio access, and upstairs, a landing living room/game room with reading nook and three en suite bedrooms.

Overall, the home incorporates a bevy of energy efficient and smart home features, including tankless hot water heaters, radiant barrier, Vantage smart lighting system and prewired audio/visual and security system.

To schedule a showing, contact Whiteker at 214-729-1293 or jeremy@jeremywhiteker.com.

Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate (daveperrymiller.com) is a division of Ebby Halliday Real Estate, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, with four locations specializing in Park Cities, Preston Hollow, North Dallas, Lakewood, East Dallas, Uptown, Kessler Park and Farm & Ranch properties.

THE PERRY-MILLER STREIFF GROUP

Traditional Custom in Preston Hollow

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ing sales set new records last fall as steady job growth and low interest rates encourage buyers. Here are some invaluable insights from the Allman experts about your neighborhood.

In the premier Park Cities neighborhoods, where the Allman firm again last year was the leading real estate brokerage firm, there were 133 homes sold in Highland Park with a total value over $300 million. In neighboring University Park, 281 homes sold for a total value of almost $500 million. The average priced home sold was $1,729,632, trending up in recent years.

In sought-after Preston Hollow, which has some of the most expensive estates in Dallas, 690 properties were sold at a total value of $824 million, which is up over last year.

Preston Hollow Estates continued to produce eye-popping sales. Five estates sold for a total value of more than $31 million. The previous year, 31 properties sold for a total value of more than $150 million. The average sales price in 2018 was $16 million compared to $11 million last year.

Contact an Allman expert to help you sell your home or find your dream home in the fast-paced North Texas hous-

Super Bowl Sunday brought a win to the Kansas City Chiefs in a battle of the NFL Titans. If you’re into momentous celebrations with lots of friends and food, this is your day.

Whether you’re a devoted fan, anticipating the halftime extravaganza, or a media-savvy ad critic ready to review the cutting-edge commercials, there is plenty cheer about.

If you’re ready to host the game next year, here are a few homes that are party read.

An open floor plan’s warm flow of guests moves through the spacious kitchen, to an escape outside by the pool, as each team’s fans can mingle, or congregate separately to cheer at 4236 Hanover Street in University Park.

Imagine family and friends, adorned in bright team colors, blending from stylish living areas inside to the lush backyard of this contemporary home in prestigious Melshire Estates, located at 5623 Brookstown Drive.

Football fans can spread out in inspirational living spaces, or huddle in an incomparably airy, open concept kitchen in this breathtaking Lake Forest home at 11828 Brookhill Lane.

Visit alliebeth.com to contact an experienced agent to find you a home for celebrating all important events.

ing market. Visit www.alliebeth.com.

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Ebby Halliday Companies Celebrate 75 Years of Service

Recently Renovated Rosewood

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Allie Beth Allman Names Keith Conlon President of Sales Offered for $2,250,000, 6467 Orchid features 5 bedrooms and 5.2 baths

The Ebby Halliday Companies’ 75th anniversary party featured Emerald City Band.

Offered for $2,995,000, 11595 E Ricks Circle is custom built on approximately one acre lot with pool.

11595 E Ricks Circle is tucked away in a serene setting in Preston Hollow and nestled on a .93 acre lot. Offered for $2,995,000, this beautiful traditional custom built by Geoffrey Grant Custom Homes offers privacy and tranquil living within one of Dallas’ most sought after neighborhoods.

Stately exterior with front circular drive leads to this very special home offering approximately 8,000 square feet of living space with five bedrooms, study, formals, game room, media room, flex spaces and a pool and 3-car garage.

Well thought out floor plan with generous room sizes, open kitchen-family living concept, downstairs master suite, guest suite, and study. Upstairs hosts three additional ensuite bedrooms, media room, and a game room with covered balcony overlooking the enormous backyard with diving pool, and outdoor living area with fireplace.

Quality finishes and design are evident throughout the interior and exterior of this exceptional property.

Contact Laura Michelle (laura@daveperrymiller. com) for more information or visit DPMFineHomes. com.

After consecutive $2 billion sales years and record success in premier neighborhoods, real estate legend Allie Beth Allman has promoted Keith Conlon to President of Sales.

The decision to expand her leadership team was necessitated by unprecedented growth. In two years, the luxury firm expanded to more than 400 agents and opened new offices in Southlake and Lakewood. Conlon has shown a knack for helping agents believe in themselves and achieve their full potential.

“Obviously I’m excited and honored that Allie Beth and Home Services of America think highly enough of me to promote me and give me this opportunity,” Conlon said. “I’m thrilled for the opportunity to further my career here and to have been given the chance to keep growing in a new role.”

Conlon has been with the firm 11 years, starting as multi-million dollar producing agent. His first leadership role was Sales Manager. After two years in that position, he was promoted to General Manager where he continued to strengthen what is widely recognized as the strongest luxury brand in Dallas.

According to him, the Allman culture is not something that can be taught or bought. It’s a mindset of putting family first and giving back to the community.

Recently, the Ebby Halliday Companies held a companywide 75th anniversary celebration. The approximately 1,800 attendees enjoyed a fun-filled evening featuring Emerald City Band.

The legacy of Ebby Halliday, who founded Ebby Halliday Realtors in 1945, is carried out daily in North Texas through 2,000-plus agents and staff across three real estate brands and affiliated mortgage, insurance and title companies. It is now amplified by the Ebby Halliday Companies’ affiliation with HomeServices of America, the country’s No. 1 residential real estate company.

“2020 will be a memorable year for our company as we look back with pride and move forward in anticipation,” President & CEO Chris Kelly says. “While we celebrate 75 years of success, we can’t wait to see what the next 75 years will bring.”

“Ebby Halliday Companies clients benefit from knowledgeable, respected agents and a team of professionals dedicated to making buying or selling a home one convenient experience,” Kelly says. “While our skilled agents help you navigate the market, our family of affiliated core-services companies handle your mortgage, insurance and title needs with the utmost care.”

For more information, visit the award-winning ebby. com.

Extensive 2018 master suite and kitchen updates are just some of the highlights of this stunning Rosewood home built in 2003. Striking millwork, hand scraped hardwood floors, open entertaining areas and a back yard oasis create a space meticulously designed and executed for the best of today’s living. Offered for $2,250,000, 6467 Orchid features 5 beds and 5.2 baths in Preston Hollow.

Handsome double entry doors with beveled glass insets welcome you to the two-story foyer with curved staircase. A formal living room with cast stone mantled fireplace and formal dining room, with barrel vaulted ceiling and French doors to an outside sitting terrace, flanked foyer.

At the center of the home, the large family room overlooks the outside entertaining terrace. Taj. Mahal stone surfaces, quatrefoil back splash detailing, soft close drawers, custom cabinetry island complement the recently renovated gourmet kitchen.

Luxury awaits at the recently renovated first floor master suite. A spa inspired master bath with marble surfaces offers dual vanities, oversized glass enclosed walk-in shower, soaking tub and his and her walk-in closets with custom cabinetry.

With a host of recent updates complemented by the quality construction and design of Rosewood homes, this property offers the ultimate of both informal and sophisticated formal living at a coveted Preston Hollow location close to the finest schools, shopping and dining in Dallas..

Contact Karen Fry (kfry@daveperrymiller.com) more information or visit DPMFineHomes.com.

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Properly Packaged, and Buyer-Ready?

Timeless Greek Revival Estate Home located in the Heart of

photos submitted to MLS. Skillful, well-directed photography makes a difference, creating strong visual advantages. The average buyer decides if they like a home in just 90-seconds.

According to NAR, every $100 invested in staging yields $400 in potential returns. Staged homes net 17% more profit on average.

Allie Beth Allman & Associates Realtors create buzz that makes buyers stop, look… and buy.

First impressions matter, as does drive up appeal. Stand across the street with your agent and envision what the buyer will see before anything else.

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Make necessary repairs now, particularly when it comes to bathroom and kitchen improvements, which have been known to swings deals.

Visit alliebeth.com to find an agent to make your home Buyer Ready.

East TX, Emerald Hill Farm is known for its manicured 48 acres with Private Lakes, Serene Hill-top Views & Abundant Trees & Peach Orchard. Lovingly & Expertly Designed by Highly Respected, Community Stalwarts, Peggy & Howard Coghlan, EHF is Reminiscent of Plantation Homes of the Past, with All the Modern Features, Finishes & Conveniences. Offering over 14,000 sq ft on 3 Floors, Serviced by an Elevator. Two First Floor Master Suites, Grand Entry with Stunning Crystal Chandelier, DR with Venetian Chandelier, Fireplace, Adjacent Silver Closet & Butler’s Pantry, Great Room Emerald Hill Farm | 1035 N Wood Lane, Longview

with 28 x 18 inlaid Savonnerie Rug, Expansive Loggia with Views

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of back lake, deer feeders & grounds. For more information please

Listed At $2,750,000

contact Kyle Crews (214) 538-1310 | kyle.crews@alliebeth.com.

You’re ready to sell your home in the upcoming spring market. But are you buyer-ready?

Experienced Allie Beth Allman & Associates Realtors take an analytical approach to packaging homes through the eyes of the buyer. They are seasoned pros who know exactly how to secure a buyer.

The vast majority of buyers’ first look at a home is online through

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