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AGAINST THE ODDS

Danny Joseph’s triumphant journey on The Voice

During The Voice blind auditions in 2024, Oak Cliff’s own Danny Joseph belted “I Put a Spell On You” by “Screamin’ Jay” Hawkins. He immediately got three chairs to turn, with the fourth coming about a minute into his performance.

If you’re unfamiliar with The Voice , four chair turns is the highest honor. This means each judge was impressed with the performance and wants the singer to join their team, in which they will coach them throughout the show and attempt to guide them to first place.

Joseph had his pick of which coach to choose, and he decided to team up with Reba McEntire.

Originally from London, Joseph moved to the States in 2015 to marry his wife after years of a long-distance relationship. Shortly after moving, he was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. He got surgery to remove his colon just months before going on The Voice

“Last year, the disease flared up really bad, and literally, maybe a few days later, I got a message on Instagram from a casting agent from The Voice ,” Joseph says. “I was like, ‘I don’t really think this is real.’ It turned out that it was real, and then my health got so bad to the point where they had to remove my colon.”

He had the surgery in February of 2024, followed by a difficult and slow recovery.

“I woke up from the surgery and was like, ‘There’s no way I’m going to get on this show. How is this going to happen?’” Joseph says. “It was only a few months away, and my wife was heavily pregnant with our third child. I couldn’t get out of bed for two months.”

Slowly but surely, Joseph started doing shows again and was strong enough to audition for The Voice in June.

“I didn’t think I would be able to make it at all,” Joseph says. “I mean, I had lost an organ. That changes your whole system and muscles and everything. It was a rush to get better and get ready, but thankfully, since the surgery, everything has been OK.”

The blind audition was an out-of-body experience for Joseph. On The Voice , the blind auditions start with all four judges facing away from the performer, so they cannot see them — they can only hear their voice.

“I slept terribly the night before. You know, you’re nervous. It feels like it’s a once-ina-lifetime opportunity,” Joseph says. “I just started playing and kind of closed my eyes, imagined that I was playing a show in Harward Arms in Dallas or The Rustic or something and just tried to pretend I was at my own show. I didn’t really feel like I was actually playing or singing. It was just coming out.”

His wife and three kids were there to support him at the blind audition, which Joseph says was a highlight of his entire experience on the show.

“It was definitely a great moment, great feeling, especially with the year I’d had leading up to it, with all the health struggles and all the issues and then the surgery,” Joseph says. “It was a great feeling to have some kind of light at the end of the tunnel.”

As far as his journey on The Voice goes, Joseph has nothing but positive remarks. He didn’t know what to expect, but he says the people around him made it a smooth experience.

“Everyone was so nice, like every single person I met was so friendly, so supportive, all the contestants, the producers, the coaches. It was a much better experience than I ever could have imagined,” Joseph says. “Everyone looked after each other so much. They did everything they could to look after you, to make sure that when you go on stage, you’re at your best.”

As competitors advance through the show, they compete in battle rounds, knoc kouts, playoffs and live performance shows.

Joseph battled his way through each round and made it to the finals, taking fourth place overall.

Throughout his journey on the show, Joseph performed songs such as The Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun,” Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black” and Luke Combs’

“Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma.” These performances have garnered hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and social media.

After The Voice , Joseph’s life has changed for the better. The exposure gave him a larger following and more fans showing up to his regular shows in Dallas.

“It’s nice that after being a musician for 30 years, there’s a little bit of recognition for all the hard work,” Joseph says. “I’ve probably done over 500 shows in the last three, four years in the Dallas area. It’s nice to actually have some kind of fans that are now showing up and they want to support you. It was a great experience, and I’m very thankful.”

Joseph’s future goals include doing bigger shows and expanding to venues across the state outside of Dallas. He has been recording, producing and releasing a new song every couple of weeks and hopes to maintain the momentum.

His biggest fans will always be his wife and kids.

“My wife supports everything I do and encourages me to continue with this,” Joseph says. “She’s been amazing since day one, encouraging me to continue to do it, because she knows how much joy it brings me.”

Danny Joseph is originally from London and began his career busking in the London Underground before coming to America in 2015.

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE AT AFTER8

THE ORGANIZATION HELPING UNHOUSED YOUTH SECURE THEIR NEXT STEPS

From 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., 365 days a year, After8toEducate is open. Its kitchen, showers, beds, computers and facilities are available to unhoused, unhoused youth, 14 to 21 years of age, in Dallas. The small but mighty staff of six has created a safe space for youth facing some of the most difficult times of their lives.

“We know that there is no one-size-fitsall approach to our work, so people might be surprised to find out that we truly individualize the support we offer our youth in order to ensure each youth can meet their goals,” Executive Director Angela Enciso says.

Case managers help the youth with an array of challenges or logistical tasks they may be unsure of how to approach.

Applying for a job or for housing? Looking to get access to important personal documents or maybe just finding additional resources? The case managers are available to help them finish the goals they set out for themselves.

The organization has partnered with Dallas Independent School District to cater

to the needs of students facing homelessness in schools across the district, including Woodrow Wilson High School and Bryan Adams High School Leadership Academy.

“We work with Dallas ISD to ensure all of the high school campus faculty and staff know that we are a resource for students and will always answer the call when a student is identified as housing insecure,” Enciso says.

After rounding out new construction, After8 is bringing in some new programming and services this year. Art therapy lessons, life skills programs such as financial literacy and resume workshops, grief support groups, cooking classes and more are now on the table as resources for their youth. Alongside the therapy rooms, the kitchen has been newly renovated and is now ready for classes to begin.

Based in the Fannie C. Harris Youth Center owned by Dallas ISD, the After8 space is connected to Jonathan’s Place — an organization that also provides resources to youth but focuses on younger community

Angela Enciso works as the executive director of After8toEducate.

members. Between the two, there are 35 beds available for youth in need.

Between the programming and resources it provides, After8 has been able to offer services to youth across the metroplex, including youth from Fort Worth, Arlington and even some who stop by from out of state as they are searching for their next steps.

“Our focus is on providing our youth with as many opportunities to learn and develop new skills as they continue to work toward housing and financial stability,” Enciso says.

Enciso has spent under a year at After8, but it didn’t take long for the impact of the organization’s work to stay with her forever.

“Some of my favorite memories working with our youth have definitely been witnessing their excitement when they get one step closer to their goals.”

WAKE ’EM UP

AIDEN ANDERSON HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE QUIET KID. BUT WHEN HE’S IN THE BOXING RING, EVERYTHING CHANGES.

Anderson was always getting in fights — but he wasn’t the one starting them. He would get picked on, and his dad encouraged him to pick up boxing to defend himself.

He sparred, a training exercise where boxers practice their techniques by exchanging light blows with a partner, on his first day and immediately fell in love with the sport.

Anderson first stepped in the ring at age 13. Today, the Carter High School junior is ranked No. 1 in Texas in his weight class.

“I really didn’t believe it,” Anderson says of winning his weight class. “I didn’t think I was going to win at 143, because that’s not my actual weight class. I was just so happy.”

Anderson typically competes in the 138-pound weight class but moved up to 143 for the Texas State Silver Gloves Tournament. He earned the No. 1 ranking in Texas after defeating his opponent, who had 67 wins to his 23. This

earned him a spot representing the state in the regional tournament in Arkansas.

His quiet disposition paired with his energy in the ring inspired his nickname, “Wake ’em up.” Because Anderson is a quiet kid, most people are shocked by his performances in the ring.

For a while, his friends didn’t even know he was a boxer — that was how much Anderson kept to himself. His friends have now become some of his biggest supporters.

“I was so confused and shocked when my friends started sending me screenshots from a social media post about me winning Silver Gloves, but I was still happy about it,” Anderson says.

His signature move? Ending with a backflip when he secures a win.

Along his journey, Anderson has met plenty of boxers he looks up to, including Frank Martin, Jake Paul, Shane Mosley, Ashton “H2O” Sylve, The Grandy Twins and more.

“Meeting all these people, it’s been really cool,” An -

Aiden Anderson’s rise to the top of Texas boxing

Aiden Anderson, a Carter High junior, won a Silver Gloves boxing tournament that has him ranked No.1 in Texas in his 143-pound weight class and No. 2 in the country.

derson says. “Some of the best advice I got from them was to keep going, don’t stop and throw more punches.”

Anderson has his sights set on going pro and becoming the next big name in boxing to emerge from Dallas. But first, by his father’s wish, he will graduate high school.

He says his biggest inspiration is his father, who is his coach and the reason he started boxing in the first place. A single dad, Anderson’s father says he is his “pride and joy.”

“My dad was the one who believed I could do this,” Anderson says. “He’s always motivating me and pushing me.”

La Bodega offers whole ($30) or half ($15) birds and uses anything that doesn’t sell in their sandwiches and salads. food

The $30 Rotisserie Chicken

La

brings Mediterranean flavors that have the neighborhood talking

Bodega
Story by JILLIAN NACHTIGAL | Photography by KATHY TRAN

DRAWING ON HER YEARS OF CULINARY EXPERIENCE AND A DEEP CONNECTION TO HER COMMUNITY,

Skye McDaniel is delivering fresh, customizable dishes at La Bodega that have become a local favorite in Oak Cliff.

McDaniel was inspired by a trip to Spain. Her travel companion was a picky eater and developed a habit of ordering a simple dinner — rotisserie chicken and fries — every night from a corner shop near their lodging in Sevilla.

La Bodega opened in 2022 with a concept geared to neighbors who want to pick up weeknight meals for their families. Lunch is served on Friday and dinner on Sunday, but the shop is closed Saturday.

McDaniel has been in the industry since she was 14, and she had her first big kitchen job at Bolsa. She later worked at an underground restaurant called Frank in Deep Ellum run by three Master Chef finalists.

Then, the pandemic hit, and she decided that if she was going to go back to the industry, she would start her own place.

Javier García del Moral, who owns the adjacent Sketches of Spain and the Wild Detectives, was originally a partner in La Bodega. He wound up having to pull out of their agreement but encouraged McDaniel to keep going. So she did.

“It’s Spanish influence, and a lot of the food here is influenced by travel, but also my family’s Sicilian,” McDaniel says. “So I grew up kind of eating a lot of very Mediterranean diet-type things, and it’s what I’m most comfortable making because I eat it all the time.”

The concept of La Bodega is based around rotisserie. The staff runs the rotisserie twice every day, and everything they

don’t sell as a bird or a half bird is pulled and goes into sandwiches and salads.

“It’s very much a concept based around no waste, which is a big factor for me,” McDaniel says. “I’ve worked in so many restaurants, and restaurants are just wasteful by nature. So, I wanted a way to kind of make sure that we weren’t really participating in that as much as possible.”

La Bodega composts all its food scraps for Elmwood Farm, and chicken skins are an add-on for sandwiches and salads. Bone broth is also made in-house.

“I’d say we’re probably a 90% no-waste situation, which is about as good as I could do,” McDaniel says.

With a prime location on West Eighth, McDaniel says she has plenty of regulars.

“We definitely lucked out with this location,” McDaniel says. “Business has been steady and good. We are super happy with the amount of regulars we have. We were raised in Oak Cliff, and that’s why I wanted to do the business here, because it’s my community. I’d say we’re probably 40 to 50% regulars, which is awesome.”

While La Bodega is largely chicken-based, with whole chickens available for $30, many regulars come in for their vegan and vegetarian options.

Everything is customizable — the fryer is gluten-free, there’s no flour in-house and meat is put into products as it is served. McDaniel can accommodate nearly any allergen, she says.

“It’s Mediterranean food, so we’ve definitely filled that void in the neighborhood. I think we’re providing something that the neighborhood wanted,” McDaniel says. “And that feels really good.”

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In addition to its rotisserie chickens, La Bodega offers sandwiches and salads — which can be customized to be vegan, vegetarian or gluten-free.

The art of sending flowers

How DIRT Flowers blossomed into a community gem

As Sonya Worden-Eudaley works in her shop, trimming stems and meticulously arranging flowers, it’s apparent this is what she was made to do.

Without a glance in the direction of her collection of flowers, she grabs a stem and cuts it to the perfect length, shedding leaves and popping them into the display.

Worden-Eudaley is the owner of DIRT Flowers in the heart of Bishop Arts. The bustling little flower shop is open for delivery seven days a week and offers wedding arrangements or flowers for any occasion.

Worden-Eudaley runs the shop alongside her husband Chris. The pair originally met in high school, but they only knew each other casually. They went their separate ways when she moved to Boston and he moved to New York, but both moved to DFW around the same time.

They ended up running into each other and met up for lunch. Within a year, they were married.

“We work well together, fortunately,” she says. “I know it’s a challenge for a lot of people, but we seem to make it work pretty well.”

Worden-Eudaley had been doing flowers for about 10 years before she and Chris opened DIRT in 2010, which was originally run out of her apartment down the street from the current location.

DIRT Flowers in Bishop Arts offers same-day flower delivery to all of Dallas and the surrounding areas within a 40-mile radius.

DIRT Flowers embraces weddings and events with all budgets and offers several options for floral needs.

Her background is theater — starting her own flower shop was risky. But as soon as she started in the tiny apartment space, she knew she could make it work.

“There was no advertising — we just went for it,” Worden-Eudaley says. “The location was everything. The storefront was the advertising.”

DIRT is not your average flower shop. The flowers are hand-selected two to three times a week and are always fresh. Most shops don’t hand-select their flowers, opting rather to order them online or over the phone, Worden-Eudaley says. By hand-selecting, the DIRT team is ensuring they get the freshest flowers.

“A lot of times, if you’re not hand-selecting them, they’ll send you what they’re trying to get rid of,” Worden-Eudaley says. “ We can get the unusual stuff. Sometimes, if something’s only on a list and you don’t recognize the name or you don’t know what it is, you wouldn’t order it. But if you’re going to hand pick out your flowers and you just see something you like, you can get it.”

DIRT takes same-day orders and walk-ins and is open seven days a week, another aspect that sets them apart from other flower shops.

“It’s really hard to find a flower shop that’ll deliver on a Sunday, especially one that will take a same-day order on a Sunday and deliver it, and we do all that,” Worden-Eudaley says.

With a unique, earthy style, the loose and wild arrangements are classified as “airy,” meaning there is negative space around the blooms.

Everything is made to order — nothing is premade.

“We want to know the occasion, we want to talk to you about what it’s for, who it’s for, and we want to design with that person

in mind,” she says. “If you’re going on a first date, I don’t want you to buy a premade bouquet for your first date. I want to know you, and I want to know what you know about this person, and we want to help you get the exact perfect bouquet, so I think that’s very different.”

Going on 15 years, DIRT has been along the journey of several clients in the neighborhood. Building those connections is what makes the job particularly special.

“We’ve done people’s prom flowers, and then we’ve done their wedding flowers, and that’s been really special,” Worden-Eudaley says. “We know when people get married. We know, sadly, when they lose loved ones, and we know about their happy times and when their pets die. You just start to learn about what the community is going through and what they’re doing.”

Additionally, all the card messages are handwritten to add another personalized touch.

“We think it’s special, and reading and writing the card message helps us understand what we’re doing this for. Purpose, I think, is really big with us, and community,” Worden-Eudaley says.

In addition to the flower shop, the pair owns the next-door House of DIRT. The funky and ultra-unique event space is completely customizable for any event, whether it be a Saturday night wedding, Friday graduation dinner or a mid-week corporate luncheon.

“Oak Cliff is really its own community, and it’s really unique,” Worden-Eudaley says. “You have such a wonderful combination of different folks, and it’s neat to see the art of flower giving. It’s kind of an old-school industry — giving flowers, sending flowers. It’s nice to see older people passing the tradition of sending flowers down to younger people.”

The Hidden City podcast records in a cozy studio in Wax Space and releases weekly episodes featuring interviews with prominent figures in the neighborhood.

Story by JILLIAN NACHTIGAL | Photography by YUVIE STYLES

BROTHERS DOUG AND GRANT KLEMBARA ARE DALLAS NATIVES WHO LIVE IN AND LOVE OAK CLIFF.

That’s why they decided to create the first Oak Cliff-centric podcast.

Hidden City is available on all streaming platforms and dives into the stories and people who make Oak Cliff, Oak Cliff.

The brothers grew up in East Dallas before leaving the area for college, but they later both found their way back to Dallas.

“All of our friends and all the people over there were mostly artists and stuff, and they were all just in Oak Cliff,” Doug says. “So I kept coming over here and seeing this place and loved it. We lived downtown for a while, but my wife and I ended up moving over here and haven’t left.”

“I think we just love the vibe, love the crossing of the river and being in your own place — it really feels different,” Grant says. “It’s just not Dallas, and because of that, it feels like a small town.”

The pair say they have wanted to do a podcast for

a while, and something that always came naturally to them is their love for Oak Cliff.

The first official episode was released last September, but the duo first started recording episodes about four years ago.

“We had a makeshift podcast studio … and I think we got a couple of good recordings, but when it came to actually producing an episode, we just didn’t know what we were going to do,” Doug says. “We were eventually like, ‘Hey, we want to pick this back up.’ We met Jason, our producer, and he was kind of able to perform this miracle for us.”

Having a product that they are proud of means the world to the Klembara brothers, and they say they owe a lot of it to their team.

“There’s definitely a little bit of imposter syndrome,” Doug says. “I don’t think anyone knows how to do anything until they do it 150 times, but we are very OK with the idea that it may not be perfect. We just want to do it because it’s fun, and hopefully people enjoy it and we get a little bit better as we go.”

They decided to put some time and money into

building a podcast studio in Wax Space.

“We love stories. We love telling stories. We love good stories in general,” Doug says. “There’s these little pieces of history that exist everywhere, and I get excited about the history side because I want to draw these stories out and tell them.”

Gayla Brooks was a recent guest who unpacked some of the rich history of Oak Cliff, from the postwar boom to the legacy of Stevie Ray Vaughan. She also shed light on lesser-known local figures, the impact of JFK’s assassination on the community and the long-lost hotspots that once defined the area, like Austin’s Barbecue, Wynnewood Theatre and the infamous drag on Hampton Road.

Additionally, the pair has had local figures such as Taylor Toynes of For Oak Cliff, a nonprofit with a mission to provide culturally responsive initiatives in South Oak Cliff to liberate the community from systemic oppression. Local restaurant owners such as Jimmy Contreras of Taco y Vino and Skye McDaniel of La Bodega have also joined the show. April Allen, president and CEO of Southern Gateway Park, and José Ralat, the Texas Monthly taco editor, round out some of the many guests that have made appearances on the weekly podcast.

“Part of the goal is to uncover stories,” Doug says. “It’s to highlight the person you may not have heard about yet, but they’re doing something really special that nobody really knows about yet. It’s also to meet the people who we all know and names we’ve all heard and learn their origin stories and how they started certain things. It’s just fun stories about Oak Cliff that are easy to listen to.”

The unabashed theme, Grant says, is being pro-Oak Cliff.

“We love the neighborhood, but we’re still bringing on people who are honest with the neighborhood and some of the darker history,” Grant says. “But genuinely, we’re fascinated.”

IN A DAY’S WORK

The Oak Cliff

neighbor

that’s sweeping a school off its feet

Miller Wilson is an early riser. The 54-year-old wakes up at 4:30 a.m. every morning, naturally. He doesn’t need alarms or an extra nudge to get going.

The Oak Cliff native travels into Lakewood early. He’s one of the first people to enter Mockingbird Elementary at 5:30 a.m.

He turns off the alarms, he opens up all the doors and turns on all the lights. He runs through his usual checklist, and if he was particularly productive the evening before, he has less to check, clean or prep for.

When he first started, he worked the night shift. Now, by his third year on the campus, he’s been well acquainted with the day shift – a change that opened the door to a new kind of experience for Wilson.

He now gets to greet the students in the mornings, run into parents at drop-off and chat with faculty and staff.

The students affectionately call him “Mr. Miller,” something that caught on and left his adult peers calling him the same.

His daily stroll through the campus makes him seem like quite the celebrity. Around each corner is another child, ready to bestow upon him an eager high-five or a fist bump — a few end with finger explosions from both parties.

Wilson walks through the school’s halls, poking his head into classrooms and raising his eyebrows as he peers into windows. Each silent invitation to engage is responded to

with enthusiasm from the students, who wave and whisper hellos in between classroom instruction.

Wilson lightly jogs up to a classroom door, slowly opening it to reveal a small group of students. Ms. Selee’s DeafEd class. The children have created a sign name, a descriptive gesture for a word or letter that identifies a person, for Wilson. The class begins signing the letter ‘M’ before motioning their hands from their foreheads to the back of their heads, replicating Wilson’s signature cornrows.

Wilson especially enjoys this bunch, as they have been teaching him sign language.

From 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., you can find Wilson on lunchroom duty. In between tidying up the space, he takes a seat and has lunch with the students, continuing their sign language lessons or even catching up with one student in particular, his 6-year-old grandson.

In November, a trip to his office door would reveal a plethora of crayon-drawn messages and letters thanking him for his work during Custodian Appreciation Day. This past holiday season, he received gifts and praise from parents who have heard their students come home with stories of his kindness.

“I appreciate them, and they appreciate me,” Wilson says. “I’m blessed.”

Before this, Wilson worked at Mary Kay for six years. For him, being around children so often has changed his outlook on life. His time at the school has taught him “patience,” “understanding” and the importance of “slowing down.”

“This school’s changed me,” he says. “They don’t look at me just like a custodian, they look at me as a person.”

“I appreciate them & they appreciate me. I’m blessed.”
Miller Wilson, aka Mr. Miller, has lived in Oak Cliff his entire life.

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FENCING, ARBORS, DECKS oldgatefence.co 214-766-6422

HANNAH WOODWORKS

• Decks • Pergolas • Patio Covers Hannahwoodworks.com 469-427-0058 or 214-435-9574

FOR SALE

FOR SALE 6 pc Queen bedroom set (solid wood). Separately or together. Good Condition. $1200 for set. 956-645-1747

GARAGE SERVICES

UNITED GARAGE DOORS AND GATES Res/Com. Locally Owned. 214-251-5428

GLASS, WINDOWS & DOORS

ROCK GLASS CO Replace, Repair. Single,Double Panes. Showers, Mirrors. 214-837-7829

HANDYMAN SERVICES

DANHANDY.NET Repairs Done Right For A Fair Price. References 214-991-5692

HANDY DAN The Handyman. ToDo’s Done Right. handy-dan.com 214-252-1628

HANDYMAN SPECIALIST Residential/ Commercial. Large, small jobs, repair list, renovations. Refs. 214-489-0635

HANDYMAN WANTS your Painting,Repairs, To Do Lists. Bob. 214-288-4232. Free Est. 25+yrs exp.

HOME REPAIR Small/Big Jobs. Int/Ext. Sheetrock, Windows, Kitchen, Bathroom 33 yrs exp. 214-875-1127

HOMETOWN HANDYMAN All phases of construction. No job too small 214-327-4606

ONE CALL WEEKEND SERVICES

Contractor & Handyman. Remodels, Renovations . Paint, Plumbing, Drywall, Electrical.469-658-9163

HOUSE PAINTING

BENJAMINS PAINTING - Professional work @reasonable price. In Advocate since 2007 214-725-6768

TOP COAT 30 Yrs. Exp. Reliable. Quality Repair/Remodel. Phil @ 214-770-2863

RAMON’S INT/EXT PAINT Sheetrock, Repairs. 214-679-4513

TEXAS BEST PAINTING LLC Resd,Interiors 30Yrs. 214-527-4168 INTERIOR DESIGN

KITCHEN/BATH/TILE/GROUT

FENN CONSTRUCTION Full Service Contractor. dallastileman.com 214-343-4645

TK REMODELING 972-533-2872 Complete Full Service Repairs, Remodeling, Restoration. Name It — We do it. Tommy. Insured. dallas.tkremodelingcontractors.com

Locally harvested wood! JD’s Tree Service

ORGANIZATION

A CHARMING HOME

Decluttering + Organizing + Styling acharminghome.co 214-794-6382

PEST CONTROL

RESPONSIBLE TREE CARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Firewood/Cooking Wood Full service trimming & planting of native trees. 214.946.7138

NATURE KING PEST MANAGEMENT INC. Squirrels, Racoons, Skunks, Snakes, Possums, etc. Pest & Termite. Neighborhood Resident 30+ Yrs.exp. 214-827-0090

PLUMBING

AC PLUMBING Repairs, Fixtures, Senior Discounts. Gary Campbell. 214-321-5943

ANCHOR PLUMBING Your trusted Oak Cliff plumber for 30+ years. 214-946-1638.

CeruleanPro.com 214-557-6996

ESTATE HOME NEEDS TO BE SOLD? Facing forclosure? IG Heron Homes Call Ricardo Garza @ 469-426-7839

WRLAKE 2/1 DUPLEX. Hdwds, Appl.

+ NNNs. 713.302-7722.

REMODELING

A2H GENERAL CONTRACTING,LLC

Remodeling, Painting, Drywall/Texture, Plumbing, Electrical,Siding, Bathroom/Kitchen Remodels, Tilling, Flooring, Fencing. 469-658-9163. Free Estimates.

A2HGeneralContractingLLC@gmail.com

FENN CONSTRUCTION Kitchens And Baths. Call Us For Your Remodeling Needs. 214-343-4645. dallastileman.com

RENOVATE DALLAS renovatedallas.com 214-403-7247

S&L CONSTRUCTION All Home Services & Repairs. 214-918-8427

Residential/Commercial

Over 30,000 roofs completed • Seven NTRCA “Golden Hammer” Awards • Free Estimates www.bertroofing.com

SENIOR CAREGIVER Overwhelmed By Senior Living Options? We provide expert no cost guidance

WHERE CAN I FIND LOCAL

SERVICES FOR YOU

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SERVICES FOR YOU

HUGHESNET Finally, super-fast internet no matter where you live.25 Mbps just $59.99/mo! Unlimited Data is Here. Stream Video. Bundle TV & Internet. Free Installation. Call 866-499 -0141

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PROFESSIONAL LAWN SERVICE: Fertilization, weed control, seeding, aeration & mosquito control. Call now for a free quote. Ask about our first application special! 1-833-606-6777

DIRECTV STREAM - Carries the most local MLB Games! ChoicePackage $89.99/mo for 12 mos Stream on 20 devices at once.HBO Max included for 3 mos (w/Choice Package or higher.)No contract or hidden fees! Some restrictions apply. Call IVS 1-866-859-0405

Kitchens, Bathrooms, Windows, Doors, Siding, Decks, Fences, Retaining Walls, New Construction

New Construction & Remodels FiferCustomHomes.com• 214-727-7075

TK REMODELING KITCHEN • BATHS Complete

AGING ROOF? New Homeowner? Got Storm Damage? You need a local expert provider that proudly stands behind their work. Fast, free estimate. Financing Available.1-888-878-9091.

BATH & SHOWER UPDATES in as little as ONE DAY! Affordable prices - No payments for 18 months! Lifetime warranty & professional installs. Senior & Military Discounts available. Call: 855-761-1725

DONATE YOUR CARS TO VETERANS TODAY. Help and Support our Veterans. Fast - FREE pick up. 100% tax deductible. Call 1-800 -245-0398

ELIMINATE GUTTER CLEANING FOREVER! LeafFilter, the most advanced debris-blocking gutter protection. Schedule a FREE LeafFilter estimate today. 15% off Entire Purchase. 10% Senior & Military Discounts. Call 1-855-402-0373

GENERAC Prepare for power outages today with a GENERAC home standby generator $0 Down + Low Monthly Pmt. Request a free Quote. Call before the next power outage: 1-844-334 -8353

GET DISH SATELLITE TV +INTERNET

Free Install, Free HD-DVR Upgrade, 80,000 On-Demand Movies, Plus Limited Time Up To $600 In Gift Cards. Call Today! 1-866-479-1516

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REPLACE your roof with the best looking & longest lasting material steel from Erie Metal Roofs! 3 styles & multiple colors available. Guaranteed to last a lifetime! Limited Time Offer up to 50% off install + Additional 10% off install. (military, health &1st responders.) 1-833-370-1234

SAFE STEP North America's #1 Walk-in tub. Comprehensive lifetime warranty. Top-of-the-line installation and service. Now featuring our free shower package & $1600 off - limited time! Financing available. 1-855-417-1306

THE GENERAC PWRCELL, a solar plus battery storage system. SAVE money, reduce your reliance on the grid, prepare for power outages and power your home. Full installation services WATER DAMAGE

cleanup & restoration: A small amount of water can lead to major damage and mold growth in your home. Our trusted professionals do complete repairs to protect your family and your home's value! Call 24/7: 1-888-872-2809

TUTORING/ LESSONS

GARTH ORR - TUTOR Math & Physics grade 8-12. Private Tutoring that works! garthorr.com

We worked with Bart during one of the hottest housing markets in recent history. Bart stuck with us through several offer cycles, and each new house he found was better than the last. His background in architecture and construction is a huge plus. He always has a flashlight in the car and is ready to crawl down below a house. You won’t be disappointed with his skills and work ethic. Thanks Bart for everything!

-Maggie M.

BART THRASHER Realtor® bartthrasher@dpmre.com 469.583.4819

A Next-Level Real Estate Experience

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