2015 November Lakewood

CUBAN INVASION

ALDREDGE OR ANIMAL HOUSE? BLOODY MONDAY

WAR

Veterans from three generations discuss life on and off the battlefield

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Fighting spirit

East Dallas military veterans remember their time overseas.

Combat medic Colby Smith’s Kevlar body armor is still stained with the blood of the wounded soldiers he treated in the field, despite being washed multiple times: Photo Danny Fulgencio

Lost in the detail

Some of the small items on the Lakewood home tour have big stories.

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House party

The raucous festivities at Swiss Avenue’s only nonresidential mansion may mean the end of an early 20th century home’s open door policy.

Globetrotters

Kimberly Haley-Coleman takes East Dallas neighbors around the world for work and play.

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Beauty in pain

Artist Caroline Oliver’s personal life inspired messy and beautiful works of art.

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So long, farewell Pietro and his family remember 50 years in the restaurant industry and bid goodbye to their lifelong customers.

COVER: A Vietnam War-era combat helmet. Photo by Danny Fulgencio

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THE GOOD FIGHT

Veterans, we cannot thank you enough

Germany. Vietnam. Afghanistan. Korea. These and other far-off countries don’t begin to cover the places many of our neighbors have shipped off to as members of this country’s armed forces.

My dad was too young to suit up for World War II, but immediately after the conflict he spent time in Germany as a military policeman.

My father-in-law was a WWII lieutenant, serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps first in England and later the Philippines. A couple of empty shell casings from those islands sit prominently in our living room as reminders of his duty. He was recalled when the Korean War broke out but had been on the receiving end of a head-on auto collision in East Texas just prior to receiving his invitation. The family informed the army that his leg had been crushed; the army invited him to show up for a physical anyway. When they saw his body cast, he was dismissed.

He died in 1996, and my mother-in-law passed along the flag draping his coffin to their grandson after that young man’s Marine Corps tenure.

My military action ended before it began: My draft number when graduating from college was high enough that I wasn’t drafted. I stayed home and let others do the job.

Our cover story this month honors those neighbors, men and women, who answered the government’s call or simply raised their hands and volunteered. Truth be told, the story offers only a glimpse of their experiences as medics, bombers, intelligence officers and the like.

No doubt the real picture is: “You had to be there.” Even so, most of us are glad we weren’t.

The day-to-day reality of military life is unimaginable for those of us who went about our business unaware. Watching the Dallas Cowboys, kicking back at movies, zoning out on video games, sleeping safely at night: The selflessness of a few neighbors makes these things possible for the rest of us.

They served for our benefit without knowing us, just as we don’t know most of them or their stories. They just went quietly about their business, and then they came home. No fuss. Not enough fanfare.

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Their stories remind me of grizzled warrior Jack Nicholson’s snapback to military desk jockey Tom Cruise in the movie “A Few Good Men”: “You have the luxury of not knowing what I know.”

What I know is how grateful I am to the people I walk by, drive past and live next to who made the life I lead possible.

If you have served, are serving or know a service person on duty now, a few words of thanks ring pretty hollow compared to the debt we owe you.

All the same, though: Thank you.

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contributors: SAM GILLESPIE, ANGELA HUNT, GEORGE MASON, KRISTEN MASSAD, BRENT McDOUGAL

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contributing photographers: JAMES COREAS, RASY

RAN, JENNIFER SHERTZER, KATHY TRAN, ANDREW WILLIAMS, SHERYL LANZEL

Thanks to Curiosities in Lakewood Shopping Center for lending props for our cover story.

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No doubt the real picture is: “You had to be there.” Even so, most of us are glad we weren’t.

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DIGITAL DIGEST THE

Neighbors clash with Medical Society Alliance over use of the Aldredge House

“I live next door to the Aldredge House. It is a beautiful house that unfortunately is being used as a ‘for-profit events venue’ instead of as a social club for the Dallas County Medical Society Alliance, which was the original intent.” — NickyBlues

“It’s like moving next to the airport and then complaining about the noise. If she didn’t do her due diligence before buying her home, that’s her problem, not those of us that enjoy the access and beauty of the Aldredge House. Sorry lady, some things are just not all about you. As long as the Aldredge House adheres to the rules of operation, you should not get a say in this.” — Jeff Sauers

Dallas Landmark Commission initiates designation of Lakewood Theater as an historic landmark

“I’m very happy and there was a great turnout by those who love Lakewood. The owner(s) isn’t ruling out dividing it up in to restaurants, which is disappointing, but is willing to work with the Landmark Commission and neighbors.” — Kyle J. Rains

“If it is divided up into shops and restaurants, what will have been preserved?” —Nicholas Schell

“Now that’s what I call ‘Going East Dallas’ on them!” — Tiffany Leopardi Lambert

“It was the right thing to do. Too many old buildings are torn down in Dallas.” — Marilyn Tinkle

Lakewood Theater owners hire East Dallas preservationist

“At least I’m glad they will protect the murals and hopefully the statues, too. That’s basically what the thousands who were wanting to save the theater exterior and interior hoped for. It would have been nice to have a movie theater, but again, that was not going to happen.” — Materlady

“They chose the right person! I’m feeling much better about the potential outcome now.” — Teresa Musgrove Gibson

Chef Graham Dodds opening a new restaurant in Lower Greenville

“Hibiscus is absolutely fabulous, one of my favorite dining experiences. I can’t wait to see what this chef brings to our old stomping grounds. We must go.” — Celeste Morales

“Bring that lemon icebox pie with you.” — Tami Walker

THANKSGIVING, a very Special time to Give Thanks and Express my Sincere Appreciation to all my Clients, Friends

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“You sound like an old man Ted! ‘You kids get off my lawn or I’m going to call the cops!’” — Shorty Long

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Work hard, play hard

As the Obama administration eases travel restrictions to the long-exiled island of Cuba, millions of Americans are preparing to flock there in the upcoming years. Among those celebrating is Kimberly Haley-Coleman. Haley-Coleman, a multigenerational Lakewood resident, is the founder and director of Globe Aware, an organization that takes groups to countries for short-term, volunteer-centric trips.

Kimberly Haley-Coleman: Photo by Rasy Ran

It’s “voluntourism” at its best, taking people into 17 countries from Costa Rica to Cambodia, and Haley-Coleman is especially excited to add Cuba to her list.

Since the ’50s, when tension between the United States and communism reached its Cold War boiling point, Americans largely have been banned from traveling to the island nation, which sits less than 500 miles from U.S. soil. Cubans, conversely, have been banned from purchasing any American products, which has had a chilling effect on its fragile economy. Conflicts have since cooled, and the Obama administration has worked to lift some of the remaining restrictions, especially allowing for freedom of travel.

“Cuba is undergoing huge changes right now,” she says, “And of course, there are people who don’t like it, but Cuba is crumbling, and it has been crumbling since the Cuban Revolution. Well now the restoration process is happening again.”

Which is exactly what Haley-Coleman wants to be part of, particularly because she understands the importance of cultural sensitivity. To her, work trips aren’t about going into other countries with an egotistical hero complex; they’re about helping in any way possible, while also giving neighbors an opportunity to immerse themselves in an unfamiliar culture.

“We can learn from each other,” HaleyColeman says. “It gives us a chance to look at the beauties and the challenges of our own culture compared to the beauties and the challenges of others.”

In the 15 years since Globe Aware was founded, Haley-Coleman’s give-and-take mindset has attracted thousands of East Dallasites to travel with Globe Aware. Each trip is 10 days long and includes a task, such as assembling wheelchairs for landmine victims or helping schoolchildren.

“In Cuba, we’re fixing up playgrounds, working in elderly homes and working in schools,” she says. “We don’t go into places and tell them what they need. We ask them, ‘What is your challenge? How can we help you?’ And those are the projects that we do.”

Brittany Nunn

INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING in a trip to Cuba or another country? Go to globeaware.org.

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Little dog, big world

Melee the chi-weenie is a lap dog who thinks she’s a great Dane. She lives in East Dallas with her humans, Kiley and Matthew Trent. She has her own Instagram follow her at Lifeofmelee — to match her huge personality, and whether she is walking by the lake, running around the backyard, or working at the T Shop, Melee leaves an impression wherever she goes, Kiley says.

Artist in residence: Caroline Oliver

Growing up in Phoenix, Ariz., Caroline Oliver loved rain but rarely saw it. So it was fitting when the East Dallas artist named her latest project “Acid Rain.”

She uses oil, spray paint and other mixed media elements, such as magazine clippings, to create horizontal and vertical lines and drips.

Beyond her affinity for rain, however, the project also is symbolic of personal growing pains Oliver has been working through.

“It’s like stripping and getting rid of things in my life that aren’t healthy, things that are emotional crutches,” she says. “So I’ve had all these emotional things, and it kind of washes over me.

“Acid rain erodes the surfaces of a rock, and I think with life you can allow things to break you or refine you, like acid rain does to a rock.”

A painting called “It’ll All Be OK” by neighbor Caroline Oliver.

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Oliver’s artistic process is reflective of that philosophy.

In her earlier pieces, she built up layers upon layers of paint, and then chipped away at it to expose the various colors underneath. She repeated the process, adding and taking away paint until she was finished.

Her more recent work is all about the process.

“It’s like I make this big problem for myself compositionally,” she explains, “and so I have to kind of dig myself out of it. I think it makes it a better painting when it goes through this ugly stage because you just have to push through and get rid of stuff you don’t want to get rid of. A part of me really hates it, and another part of me really loves it.” Brittany Nunn SEE MORE of Oliver’s work at carolineoliverpaintings.com

Caroline Oliver at the opening of her exhibit “Acid Rain” at WAAS Gallery: Photo by QC Cong

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Building a mystery

It’s a mystery decades in the making, the likes of which seem reminiscent of the setting for a saccharine made-for-TV movie. It’s a mystery one East Dallas man is hoping Advocate readers can help solve.

Lakewood Realtor Lee Lamont bought a fixer-upper on Cameron Avenue this summer, with plans to flip the property. Shortly after he began construction, Lamont pulled back the carpet, revealing a weathered envelope on the floor. It had never been opened, and carried a postmark from 1927 in Tulsa, Okla.

The home was built in 1947, meaning someone brought the unopened piece of history there two decades after the letter originally was mailed.

In flowing cursive, the letter was addressed to Mrs. Emma Brown Sanders of Ivanhoe, Texas, care of J.P. Windle from John G. Sanders of Gunter, Texas. A bit of online research showed a John G. Sanders, born “about 1890” is named in the 1940 Texas State Census. His wife is listed as Emma Brown Sanders, born 1903, and their son, John Sanwin Sand-

ers, born 1926. In 1940 they lived in Fannin, Texas, on Lamasco Road, and John Sanders lists his occupation as minister. The local newspaper, the Bonham Daily Favorite, published an obituary on Dec. 11, 1969, for John. G. Sanders that read, “His wife, Mrs. Emma Sanders, preceded him in death June 6, 1969. Survivors include a son, John Sanders of Dallas.”

Lamont continued searching the Cameron Avenue home, and discovered a cache of letters, all sent from 1924 to 1929 between John and Emma Brown Sanders and J. P. Windle, who appears to be Brown Sanders’ father. The letters mostly discuss their work with their church, sprinkled with sweet sentiments of how much they love and miss each other.

“Honey, today is the day for you to come, do hope you will, but if you don’t come today, come when you can,” Emma Brown Sanders wrote to her “dear husband” in an April 2, 1925 letter.

Seemingly Lamont was meant to find these letters, one of which even references his name, “Lee,” when mentioning a church parishioner. He’s hoping to reunite the letters with the Sanders heirs.

“I’m not a history buff, but I’m intrigued to return these letters to the rightful owner,” Lamont says. —Emily Charrier

SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE If you have more information on the Sanders family or the letters found on Cameron Avenue, email Lee Lamont at lee@lamontrealestate.com. Visit lakewood. advocatemag.com to read the letters.

— Michael Miller

Out & About

November 2015

THROUGH NOV. 25

Autumn at the Arboretum

It’s your last chance to bask in the feeling of fall at the Dallas Arboretum with 75,000 pumpkins, gourds and squash, plus 150,000 fall blooms, including chrysanthemums and impatiens.

Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Road, dallasarboretum.org, $10-$15

THROUGH NOV. 14

Día de los Muertos

Artists from all over Dallas show Day of the Dead-related artwork.

Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther, 214.670.8749, bathhousecultural.com, free

NOV. 8

Praise the Lake

White Rock Lake Foundation will feature a brunch with a Bloody Mary bar, silent auction and performances by Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Proceeds benefit efforts to preserve and enhance the lake.

White Rock Lake Filter Building, 2810 White Rock Road, 214.725.9300, whiterocklakefoundation.org, $100

NOV. 8

Junius Heights Historic Home Tour

Featuring the former St. John’s Methodist Church plus six craftsman- and prairiestyle homes, the 11 a.m.-5 p.m. tour also includes a backyard art exhibit and two craft beer stops, plus an arts and crafts fair at the Lakewood Library. Locations vary, juniusheights.org, $15 in advance, $20 tour day

NOV. 10

Native American history

Jiaan Powers and her lion puppet, Spike, tell animal stories from Native American cultures, from 6-7 p.m.

Lochwood Library, 11221 Lochwood, 214.670.8403, dallaslibrary.org, free

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Dallas Arboretum: Photo by James Coreas

NOV. 12-15

Patriotic film fest

The second-annual Stars & Stripes Film Festival, produced by Sons of the Flag, features about a dozen films and a lunch with guest speaker U.S. Army Gen. Tommy Franks. Proceeds go to the nonprofit’s mission of supporting military, first responder and civilian burn survivors by providing funding for research.

Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird, sonsoftheflag.org, $250 for a festival pass

NOV. 13-15

Legacy of Lakewood

Get a peek inside some of the most breathtaking and unusual properties in East Dallas during the 39th annual Lakewood Home Festival, which benefits the Lakewood Early Childhood PTA and is sponsored by the Advocate. During the three days of events, attendees can take part in the lavish Auction Night Party on Friday ($125-$250); tour the myriad homes included this year ($15-$20); or upgrade to a candlelight home visit, with a chance to share a glass of wine with the homeowners ($30). Locations vary, lakewoodhomefestival.com

Photo by Rasy Ran

NOV. 20

J.D. McPherson

The rockabilly singer/songwriter from Broken Bow, Okla., performs a 9 p.m. show. Parker Millsap opens the night. Granada Theater, 3524 Greenville, 214.824.9933, granadatheater.com, $16-$25

NOV. 14

The new Buckner Park

Festivities for the groundbreaking of this Old East Dallas park include a bounce house, Ballet Folklorico and Danza St. Edwards performances, music from Restoration Blues, and free hot dogs and chips.

400 N. Carroll, friendsofbucknerpark.org, free

NOV. 13-DEC. 6

Godspell

The musical based on biblical parables comes to the stage for a three-week run. Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, 5601 Sears, 214.828.0094, contemporarytheatreofdallas.com, $30-$40

NOV. 14

Cougars run wild

Join Bryan Adams High School for its third annual “Cougars Running Wild” 5k, at 8 a.m., and 1-mile fun run at 7:30 a.m. Proceeds benefit the Literacy Instruction for Texas and the Cougar Athletic Department.

Bryan Adams High School, 2101 Millmar, 972.502.4900, dallasisd.org/bryanadams, $10-$25

NOV. 14

Apple cider

Sip cider and taste baked treats at a fall benefit for the Stewpot, which supports the homeless of Dallas. Donate new adult-size socks from 10 a.m.-noon.

Greenland Hills United Methodist Church and Preschool, 5835 Penrose, 214.826.2060, greenlandhills.org

NOV. 14-15

AIA home tour

This 10 a.m.-5 p.m. tour of architecturally significant homes all over Dallas includes one on Briar Creek in the Hillside neighborhood. Various locations, hometourdallas.com, $10-$30

NOV. 14 AND 28

Farmers market

Shop Good Local Market’s White Rock market from 8 a.m-1 p.m. The market at Lakeside Baptist Church is from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on Nov. 7 and 21.

702 N. Buckner, goodlocalmarket.org, free

NOV. 20-DEC. 30

Miracle on 34th Street

Get into the season with this play by Valentine Davies, based on the classic 1947 holiday film.

Dallas Children’s Theater, 5938 Skillman, dct.org, 214.978.0110,

$15-$28

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It’s part neighborhood coffee shop, part gastropub with an upscale twist. Expect to find a new take on traditional dishes, such as a classic burger dressed up with jalapeño-pimiento cheese and whiskeysoaked onions, or steel-cut oatmeal with Granny Smith apples, cinnamon and sweet vanilla cream.

Its laid-back atmosphere and rotating menu from breakfast to lunch to dinner makes it a place you can pop in anytime of the day. It doesn’t hurt that owners Ricki Derek and Cary Ballas are from Lakewood. They specifically set out to create a neighborhood hangout that would provide tasty offerings in a relaxed ambiance, whether you want to grab a beer at the bar or grab a cup of Full City Rooster Coffee and dash.

“We modeled it off those neighborhood cafes in Europe that are on every corner,” Derek says, “those places you go to all the time, no matter what time of day it is.”

The Heights features culinary creations by local chef Karin Porter, formerly of The Grape on Lower Greenville, who says she makes food “that she wants to eat.” Her menus will change on the fly based on what’s in season, or what she personally prefers, with products sourced from local farms including Winn Meat and Windy Meadows Family Farm. Most everything, including the decadent Nutella cinnamon rolls, is made in house, except for the breads that are baked fresh daily at La Spiga Bakery in Addison. —Emily Charrier

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The Ginger Man

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The Cock & Bull

This classic neighborhood hangout is a place to have a beer, watch the game and throw down some hearty bar basics like a Rueben with thick steak fries.

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Times Ten Cellars

Get a taste of wine country with plenty of local wines to choose from along with a selection of California labels, all served by the glass or the bottle. Nosh on upscale bar bites.

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RETRO DESSERTS REBORN

Although we are always longing for the newest and trendiest desserts, it’s the old time favorites that never disappoint. Dust off your family recipes and bring back some vintage favorites to share for the holidays. Here is a blast from the past with a few retro desserts.

Ambrosia

A spin on a traditional fruit salad, ambrosia brings a little sweetness to the mix. Ink Foods brings this old favorite back to life by combining fruit cocktail, pineapple, mandarin oranges, marshmallows, nuts and coconut to make a fresh spin on this retro dish.

GROCERY LIST:

8-ounce package of cream cheese

2 cups sour cream

1 cup fruit cocktail, canned

1 cup fresh pineapple, chopped

1 cup mandarin oranges

2 cups marshmallows

shredded coconut, garnish chopped walnuts, garnish maraschino cherry, garnish

DIRECTIONS: Allow cream cheese to come to room temperature before mixing with sour cream; stir until smooth.

Drain juice from fruit cocktail and mix in the chopped pineapple and mandarin oranges before adding to cream cheese mixture.

Once fruit and cream cheese is combined, gently stir in marshmallows. Spoon into serving dishes and top with shredded coconut, chopped walnuts and a maraschino cherry.

Refrigerate until ready to serve.

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ALASKA

A classic ice cream bomb layered over a cake flavor of your choice makes this an all-time favorite. Keeping the ice cream frozen will be the key to covering the top in meringue and baking before serving.

JELLO

MOLD

An American classic, Jello can be found in a vast amount of old-time desserts, including a classic Jello mold. With so many flavor options for every season, this recipe must be brought back to stay. Combining peaches, peach Jello and condensed milk is the perfect way to start.

Kristen Massad writes a monthly column about sweets and baked goods. The professional pastry chef graduated from the French Culinary Institute in New York City and owned Tart Bakery on Lovers Lane for eight years. She blogs about food and lifestyles at inkfoods.com.

WHETHER IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO OR FIVE, many East Dallas neighbors served overseas in the military. Their service delivered them to new corners of the world, introduced them to unfamiliar cultures and people and taught them about brother- and sisterhood. From scouts to medics to commanders, each has a story to tell — or 12.

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Colby Smith

U.S. Army Iraq

Even though neighbor Colby Smith graduated from the Riverside Military Academy in Georgia, he had no intention of enlisting in the military after high school. He had a scholarship to Baylor, where he was going to study pre-med.

He was a senior in high school on Sept. 11, 2001, and in its wake, many young Americans were inspired to join the “War on Terror,” as President George W. Bush dubbed it. Smith was one of them.

“Nine-eleven happened and I got really angry,” he says. “My goal was to join, help out and get out. It was never going to be a career.”

In 2003, he joined the Army and scored exceptionally high on the aptitude test, so the recruiter told him he could do basically whatever he wanted in the military.

“I said, ‘Great. I want a job where no one tells me what to do,’” Smith recalls. “[The recruiter] said, ‘You understand you’re joining the Army, right?’”

But after years in the military academy, that’s what Smith wanted. The recruiter told him, “You know who no one messes with? Their medic.” So that’s exactly what Smith did.

He went to basic training in Fort Knox before heading to the San Antonio at the Fort Sam Houston Military Medical Training Center. He was stationed at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio in the pulmonary unit and burn unit. As the Iraq War gained momentum, Smith worked, trained and studied hard.

In 2005 he deployed to Iraq and immediately stationed at the Forward Operating Base, Saint Michael’s, in the “Triangle of Death,” a Sunni Muslimdominated region south of Baghdad that saw heavy combat. It was night when

“The next morning that prayer comes on. I went outside and leaned against the barrier and thought, ‘This is so beautiful.’ Right when it ends, tracer fire and explosions everywhere. I ran under my cot and thought, ‘Where in the hell are we?’ It was just insanity. They put us right into the hell.”

Smith arrived on base, which prevented him from surveying the landscape until the sun came up.

“The next morning, that prayer comes on,” Smith remembers. “I went outside and leaned against the barrier and thought, ‘This is so beautiful.’ Right when it ends, tracer fire and explosions everywhere. I ran under my cot and

thought, ‘Where in the hell are we?’ It was just insanity. They put us right into the hell.”

For his action in combat, he was awarded a Commendation with a “V” Device (for valor), a medal just under the Bronze Star.

He was on a scouting mission in a Humvee and dozed off in the back during

the drive. Suddenly he woke up to a massive explosion behind them that was so powerful, it pushed the vehicle forward.

“That never happens,” Smith explains. “The vehicle doesn’t just lift off the ground like that. I was like, ‘What the…?’ but I’d been asleep.”

The Humvee behind them was hit hard and rolled.

“My job is to be a medic,” he says. “So I wasn’t thinking, I just grabbed my bag and jumped out, and the Humvee was still driving. I’d just woken up, and so I rolled a little bit and got up and started running. I was kind of zigzagging because I had just fallen out of a moving vehicle.”

When he got to the overturned Humvee, he saw the gunner’s arm had been cut off when the vehicle rolled. Their commander was thrown from the vehicle and landed on his face and chest, and the driver had broken both of his arms.

Smith began by making a tourniquet for the man who lost his arm. Then he saw the commander’s face was crushed

in, which was making it hard for him to breathe, so Smith adjusted the broken pieces of the man’s face to open up his airways. Suddenly Smith felt a hand on the back of his head, and it pushed him down. It was the lieutenant.

“He asked me, ‘What are you doing?’” Smith recalls. “I was like, ‘Um, my job?’ And he said, ‘You’ve been getting shot at this whole time.’ I had no idea. I don’t remember being shot at.”

Despite the severe trauma, all three men lived, and Smith remains friends with them today. It was his first taste of war.

A few months into his deployment, the United States leadership shifted its mentality.

“It really started to click with Washington,” Smith explains. “They started to figure out that it was much better to bring pain on those who were trying to hurt us, but to also bring a lot of aid to those who weren’t trying to hurt us, and that was a new mission plan.”

He’ll never forget when he helped

oversee the first democratic election in Iraq, he says.

“We wanted this election to go off, but we also knew Al-Qaeda wanted a moral victory, so they would slaughter anyone who went to go vote,” Smith explains. “So we shut down traffic, and 83 percent of the country voted.”

Not long after the election, he earned his second award for valor when he aided a nearby mosque after it was bombed.

He and a buddy showed up at the gruesome and chaotic scene after they saw smoke from miles away. There were no doctors or emergency personnel there to assist the men, women and children who

were badly injured. Smith was the only medic on scene, and people rushed to him for aid. He franticly made bandages out of whatever he could find, including his own clothes. “These people were so desperate for something,” he remembers. “Every time I looked up, I saw a wound.”

It was the moment Smith changed the way he viewed his service in Iraq, he says. “My work at the mosque taught me these people were normal and scared and just trying to deal with life as much as we were,” he says.

When Smith and his unit moved south to Scania, Iraq, they opened a burn unit.

“In Iraq they didn’t have central heating or cooling, so they’d build these massive fires in their living rooms,” Smith says. He learned that falling into such fires was a leading cause of death for children in Iraq, so the clinic filled a critical need. Although they didn’t have all the supplies they needed, including morphine, they made an impact.

“I wanted to try my best to make their lives easier,” he says.

Colby Smith’s combat armor. Despite several washes, it remains stained with blood from Smith’s time in Iraq.

“My work at the mosque taught me these people were normal and scared and just trying to deal with life as much as we were.”

Inez Sookma U.S. Air Force Afghanistan

Col. Inez Sookma was born and reared in Lakewood, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, but her parents came here from Thailand.

“As we grew up, our parents told us, ‘You’re going to be all-American children. You can learn to speak Thai later. You can eat Thai later,’” Sookma explains. “So we grew up eating hotdogs and hamburgers. They even wanted us to have an American religion. To this day they’re still Bud-

dhists, but we went to church with our sponsors at Lakewood Baptist Church. They were just proud to be here.”

Her parents were caught off guard when Sookma joined ROTC as a freshman at Texas A&M, but they weren’t hard to convince.

“I think it was a calling,” she says. “From there I was motivated to pursue a contract with the Air Force, and I thought four years, that was it. Just four years.”

Fast-forward to today and Sookma tears up when she reflects on her 27 years of service in the United States Air Force. She retired in 2014 as a colonel after an adventure that took her everywhere from the states to Europe to the Middle East.

“I just kept getting these amazing opportunities,” she explains. “I can never really say I have one particular tour or assignment that was my favorite. I learned from each one.”

Her early years were spent learning in the classroom and the field, where she established herself as an expert in transportation.

Sookma lived in the Philippines running a passenger terminal at Fort Clark Air Base. Later, she moved to the WrightPatterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, so she could earn a master’s degree.

“I think it was a calling. From there I was motivated to pursue a contract with the Air Force, and I thought four years, that was it. Just four years.”

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From there she relocated to England to operate a supply warehouse and had additional assignments that took her to Italy, Alabama and, her favorite, Hawaii.

She was then transferred to Germany and put in charge of all the transportation at Spangdahlem Air Base.

Within a year, Sookma was overseeing the critical departments of transportation, planning, supply and maintenance — a “jack of all trades and master of none” kind of position, she explains. “I was glad I had the experience I had because they picked me to stay and run the squadron, which was now twice as big.”

Shortly after she took that position, 9/11 happened and “all hell broke loose,” she says. “But it made me realize how important it was to have all the logistics under one umbrella. The whole world stopped basically, and we were taking care of all those things.”

Her experience in Germany landed her a job at the Pentagon, where she was able

to share what she’d learned and help shape logistical procedures in the Air Force.

“That was an eye-opener,” she says. “It was my first tour in D.C., and I enjoyed working in the Pentagon. It was fascinating, and I got to see the bigger picture of the Air Force.”

Of course working in the Pentagon was

an experience in and of itself.

“There aren’t any windows in there,” she explains. “It’s like a self-enclosed city underneath the ground. The subway runs right into it, and inside there’s everything you need. Everyone had ‘The Pentagon Look.’ It just drained the life out of people. They’d walk out of the building just look-

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ing down, and get straight on the train. Everyone was very stressed.”

She was then sent across the Potomac River to attend the National Defense University, where she studied with experts in the military, CIA and Secret Service.

(She also volunteered to be the school mascot and run around in a tiger suit.

“I couldn’t tell anyone, so all my friends thought I was a nerd who never went to the games because I told them I had to study,” she laughs. “I tried to do fun things because I didn’t want to get so immersed in work that that was all I did.”)

The hard work paid off when she got orders to go to NATO headquarters in Brussels for a three-year tour.

“I learned a lot about how the different countries interact,” she says.

That was also where she achieved her most important bucket list item: she was promoted to colonel in 2008 and pinned in 2009.

Despite a myriad of military duties, she had never been deployed. She volunteered for a tour in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she advised the Afghanistan National Army and Police in how to create and sustain a national logistics system.

“So it was staying within my career field but taking it to another culture,” she says. “So the government put all my stuff into storage in the states, and I took off with my backpack and three duffle bags and headed to Afghanistan. It was fascinating.”

Her time at NATO included an effort to get more helicopters into Afghanistan, and being in Kabul confirmed the need. “I got to see it firsthand,” she says. “It was like a continuation of what I’d been doing, but from a new perspective.”

“always took time to have tea and small talk,” she explains. “We went out every day into the Afghan community and drank tea with them and built up that trust. They’re very nice people.”

Being a female officer in Afghanistan came with its own set of challenges. “There were two things I always had to plan ahead for: bathrooms and my hair,” she says. “They don’t have bathrooms for women, so they would have to set aside a bathroom that I could go into.”

When she got back to the United States a year later, she was in for a pop culture shock.

“It was so third-world country. I don’t know how else to describe it. We’d hear bombs going off in the distance.”

“I just remember Michael Jackson had just died, and it was like there was nothing else going on in the world,” she recalls.

She went back to the National Defense University, but this time to teach. Then last year she was selected for early retirement, so she moved home to Dallas to be close to her family.

“I look at everything as a bunch of little pockets, but faith and family have always been the underlying themes,” she says, as her eyes well up with tears.

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Her time in Afghanistan was the biggest culture shock she experienced during her time in the Air Force. (Yes, even more than Alabama.)

“It was so third-world country,” she says. “I don’t know how else to describe it. We’d hear bombs going off in the distance.”

“It makes me get all teary because it’s been fun. It was hard at first when they told me I had to retire. I was like, ‘I don’t want to retire because I’m having too much fun.’ But at least I have my family to go back to.”

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But she’d learned some valuable lessons while working at NATO about foreign relations that she was able to apply to her work in Kabul. For example, she

Of course she hasn’t slowed down much since being back in Dallas. She’s been volunteering wherever she can, including working with the alumni association at Woodrow Wilson High School as the communications officer.

“Since I’ve come back to Dallas I’ve said I am going to go back and help all the organizations that helped me,” she says.

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Mark DeCardenas

U.S. Army Vietnam

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take a bamboo stick and take a nail with a projectile on top of it. So when you’re walking on a trail, if you stepped on that, it’d push it into the ground and that nail would make it blow your foot off. A week of jungle warfare training, and they thought we were ready to go.”

He flew to Da Nang, Vietnam, with the 101st Airborne Division, and any hopes he had of avoiding heavy combat were dashed.

‘Sit your duffle bags down. There are 200 body bags over here.’ So we loaded the bodies back into the plane, and then we went to the hanger to spend the night. So that was my welcome to the front lines.” .”

“All the dead bodies went to Da Nang,” DeCardenas explains. “We landed, and we were going farther north. There were probably about 100 of us, and when we got off it was raining. It was in the middle of the night, and they said, ‘Sit your duffle bags down. There are 200 body bags over here.’ So we loaded the bodies back into the plane, and then we went to the hanger to spend the night. So that was my welcome to the front lines.”

Firefights became routine, taking place up to six or seven times a day.

In 1967 neighbor Mark DeCardenas received a letter saying he’d been selected for service, making him one of 648,500 Americans drafted into the Vietnam War.

They called him in for a physical.

“By the end of the day, I was being sworn into the Army,” DeCardenas says.

He went to basic training at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. He took an aptitude test and scored high, so they told him he was going to train as a medic. He was assigned to the Illinois National Guard in Springfield, and he hoped that meant he

wouldn’t be sent to Vietnam.

Then he got another letter.

He was sent to a field hospital in Saigon, Vietnam, at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. When he arrived, he began jungle warfare training, where, among other lessons, he learned to spot booby traps.

“There were hand grenades hooked to trees, and they had white phosphorus inside,” he explains. “White phosphorus is like rock salt, and if it touches your body it starts burning the flesh immediately. Or [Vietnamese soldiers] would

“We ran so many different missions,” he says. “We always took a lot of incoming mortar rounds, but the firefights you didn’t know when they would happen. The Viet Cong mostly stayed in these huge things underground.”

The United States soldiers called in airstikes to throw down Napalm, a highly flammable liquid, that would fall into the underground spaces and drive out the Vietnamese soldiers.

“Viet Cong would come out the other end on fire,” he remembers. “Never even hollering or anything.”

But it wasn’t all bad. DeCardenas also has memories of Vietnam that make him smile.

“ It was the middle of the night and they said,

“When we got to Da Nang, they gave us some boxes of chocolates,” he says. “But these were left over from the Korean War, probably, because there were little Hershey bars in them that were white because they were so old. So we decided to throw them to the little Vietnamese kids that were along the road. But as soon as we’d throw them to the kids, they’d throw them back at us because they knew it was old candy, and they didn’t want it.”

For the second half of his service, DeCardenas left the 101st Airborne Division and became a medical adviser for Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [MACV]. “Medics could only stay in the field for six months,” he explains. So he spent the remainder of his tour of duty with a group of Australian soldiers who drank like they “had hollow legs” and played Poker every night, he says.

After being honorably discharged, DeCardenas returned to East Dallas, near his roots. He grew up by White Rock Lake, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School. After working for 13 years in the grocery business, a friend encouraged him to get involved in the John Franklin Sprague VFW [Veterans of Foreign Wars] in East Dallas. The people he met there quickly became his close friends.

“I could just sit down and talk with them,” he says. “We all had something in common. We’ve all been in a war or a conflict, and that’s our bond. I just love [the VFW]. It gives me a place to come every morning.”

The VFW, which is a national organization that works to secure rights and benefits for military veterans, proved so valuable for DeCardenas that he took on a leadership role as a service officer. So when neighbors call the John Franklin Sprague VFW that’s located on Garland Road, they’ll more than likely be directed to talk with DeCardenas.

He helps veterans and their families with a range of needs, from advocating for veterans who’ve been wounded or who suffer from PTSD, to helping families prepare military funerals.

“If I hadn’t gone to Vietnam, then I wouldn’t have the opportunity to be here,” he says.

Applewhite

Joe Applewhite, who lives at C. C. Young retirement community in East Dallas with his wife, Mary Beth, was a farm boy from Mississippi who’d never been out of the country when he joined the Army.

He’d already seen the Great Depression and World War II as a boy, but it was his time in Korea as a young man that gave him a new take on life and death.

“You become aware of what’s really important when you’re facing death,” he explains. “When you’re in a position where you don’t know if you’re going to live past tomorrow or not, you live differently than if you think you’re going to live for 30 more years. It gives you a totally different perspective.”

Although there are a few moments that stand out in his mind as having come especially close to death, every day was a risk.

Applewhite was a first lieutenant who served as a recon (“reconnaissance” is a military term for gathering information) and field artillery officer, and later as a field artillery forward observer. In both cases, he spent his days as close to enemy lines as possible.

The opposing sides North Korea,

which was backed by China, and South Korea backed by the United States — were pressed against the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which runs along the Han River right at 38th parallel north.

His job was to communicate between the artillery and infantry, so when the infantry made plans to cross the river at night to capture Chinese soldiers and interrogate them, he made sure the ambush patrols were protected in case of a firefight.

“We were as far forward as you could get because you had to be able to see,” he says.

Being that close to enemy lines meant dodging bullets was a daily occurrence.

“You begin to do things without thinking about it,” he explains. “We had this ob-

servation hole where you could see out the front. It had a cover on it, and one day I was having trouble seeing, so I got up on top to have a look around. My buddy says, ‘What are you doing up there, fool? You’re getting ready to get shot.’ So I hopped back down, and sure enough a whole blast of machine fire came across there.”

Applewhite was particularly fascinated by the psychological warfare the Chinese employed. Both the Chinese and the Americans used fliers to send messages to the other side, but they took very different approaches, he remembers.

“The Americans would give out leaflets saying that if they surrendered we’d give them safe passage,” he says. “The Chinese would leave leaflets saying things like, ‘What if someone is fooling around with your girl at home? Wouldn’t you rather be there with her?’

“It was totally different psychology. They were trying to get our morale down. They were working on our minds all the time.”

Applewhite’s division worked closely with the 65th Infantry Division from Puerto Rico, who he claims were “very nervous people” who made “excellent soldiers.”

“Because if they heard something they’d shoot at it or throw a hand grenade at it,” he recalls. “It was not uncommon to find a dead man on the wire out there the next morning.”

One day Applewhite went out with a team to scout for a new location. While driving along they discovered a road that wasn’t clearly marked on their map, so they decided to check it out.

“We drove about a quarter of a mile, and there was a clearing. There was a big farmhouse because it had been someone’s farm, although no one was there then,” he remembers. “We looked around and something told me, ‘You know, we might not ought to be here.’ So we left.”

The next day a platoon was ambushed in that exact clearing, and everyone was killed, Applewhite says. All these years he’s felt lucky.

“Luckily something told me to get out of there, and I did,” he concludes.

He learned a lot in Korea, he says, particularly about leadership, priorities and understanding people.

“It was educational for me to know how the world is.”

Joe

U.S. Army Korea

“When you’re in a position where you don’t know if you’re going to live past tomorrow or not, you live differently than if you think you’re going to live for 30 more years.”

Clift U.S. Army World War II

Gilbert Clift, a resident at C. C. Young retirement community in East Dallas, should have been storming the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, when more than 130,000 Allies (which rose to 1 million by the end of the week) flooded into Western Europe.

But Clift was in a hospital in Paris, Texas, due to a training exercise gone terribly wrong.

During a live exercise at Camp Maxie, a mortar round fell short, killed one man and put a dozen others in the hospital, including Clift, who was injured by shrapnel that went through his boot and into his foot, where it remains to this day.

“No Purple Heart,” Clift says. “Training accidents don’t count.”

Although today he’s both anti-war and anti-gun, Clift believes World War II “was necessary, with Hitler being like he was,” he says. So as a freshman at Oklahoma A&M, Clift enlisted in the Army Reserve with the goal of taking ROTC and serving as a second lieutenant after he graduated with his engineering degree. However, the reserves were called up two weeks before the end of Clift’s freshman year.

He trained at Fort Sill in Oklahoma and then Camp Maxie, where the accident occurred. It took him out of field training for six weeks, but in September of 1944 he sailed to Britain. From there his division made its way through France and into Belgium, straight to the front lines.

“At the front line, in the trees, we could see across an open field to pill boxes and concrete tank traps,” he says. “This was my first view of where the enemy was.”

At times they’d see the German soldiers emerge from their shelters to play in the snow. Although they were instructed not to shoot at the soldiers, one of Clift’s buddies decided to see if he could hit one. He didn’t, but soon afterwards the German soldiers launched three artillery shells back at them.

“This was my first indication that this was just a game, and there were rules to be followed,” Clift recalls.

Most of the action happened when the night patrols crossed the field in an attempt to gather information, Clift explains. Because Clift wore glasses that reflected the light and had a tendency to cough frequently, he was never selected for that job.

“Lucky me,” he quips. “I was real lucky during the war.”

Although not lucky enough to miss the infamous Battle of the Bulge — the Third Reich’s last ditch effort to eject Allied forces from Europe, resulting in about 90,000 American casualties.

“You couldn’t tell which way the shells were going,” Clift remembers. “So I assumed we were shelling the Germans. I didn’t know they were shelling us.”

During the battle, while out scouting with another soldier, Clift was outnumbered by at least a dozen German soldiers. Clift slid into a foxhole and began shouting orders to his buddy, but he soon realized his friend had been shot and he was left fighting alone.

“The Germans were throwing concussion grenades at my position that sooner or later would get close to me,” he realized. “I thought of the only phrase I could recall in German and hollered out, ‘helfen sie mir!’” — help me.

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“That was the end of my soldiering,” he says. “They removed my helmet, an indication that I was out of the game.”

They took him east into Germany and interrogated him in a farmhouse, al-

“At least I wasn’t getting shot at,” he points out.

Eventually they put him in a boxcar and sent him to Stalag 4B, a prison camp near Mahlberg, that contained more than 10,000 British soldiers, but he soon volunteered for a work detail that allowed him to leave the camp.

They sent him to Torgau, Germany, where he and other volunteers loaded barrels and filled craters left by bombs. They made their way into Zeitz to fill more craters, spending their nights in an old monastery in Moritzburg.

On Easter Sunday in 1945, they were allowed to take a shower and “get some sun in a grassy courtyard within the walls of the monastery,” he remembers.

by American troops instead of Russian troops.”

Along the way, however, an American P-47 dropped a bomb on a nearby schoolhouse. Clift tried to take shelter under a wagon, but there was no way to hide from the debris of the blast. A piece of shrapnel sliced through his right side, just above the belt. With a makeshift bandage, he kept walking.

Two days later on April 15, an American tank liberated them and took the Germans captive.

though he claims they knew more about his outfit than he did. He traveled with them a little ways farther, and although food was scarce Clift insists he was in better shape as a prisoner of war than a soldier.

“We knew something was afoot for this kind of treatment. Sure enough, on Friday the 13th of April, we walked from our room and headed west. We were walking to freedom, and our elderly guard… was hoping to be captured

Clift and the other now-freed POWs continued to the next town where they found a chow line and beds to sleep in. The next morning he went to a hospital, where they diagnosed him with malnutrition due to his dramatic drop in weight from 140 to 110 pounds.

They also looked at his wound and determined he’d get that Purple Heart after all. But more importantly, he got to go home.

“You couldn’t tell which way the shells were going. So I assumed we were shelling the Germans. I didn’t know they were shelling us.”

HIDDEN in plain sight

Objects on display in the 39th annual Lakewood Home Tour

It’s a fall tradition 39 years in the making. The Lakewood Home Festival draws neighbors every year to explore unique homes, learn about local history through architecture and perhaps even glean a few decorating ideas. This year, the 39th annual home tour is full of items that offer a glimpse into the interesting lives of local families: a memento from the 2013 Boston Marathon, family heirlooms and a collection of antique fans. Here’s the backstory behind these hidden treasures, so you don’t miss them during the rush.

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In with the old

Lisa and John Moreno love history and all things old, which makes them a perfect match for their historic home at 6915 Lakewood. They’ve learned everything they can about the original owners, Rose and Benjamin Ryan. The sunroom in the front of their house is called “The Rose Room” because Benjamin designed it for Rose. The Morenos believe Benjamin designed — and possibly even forged — the wrought iron fence himself, and the room still contains the original light fixture. The room also contains an old radio made from an early plastic called Bakelite, and a couple of fans from the Morenos’ 1920s fan collection. “We kind of like old mechanical things,” John explains. “What we found out is that there are so many different types of old fans. Those two in the office are really cool because they’re coin operated. So you’d check into a hotel and they didn’t have air-conditioning, so you’d drop in a nickel in there to get it to work. It’d go for like 15 minutes or something.”

Girls and dolls

In the upstairs bedroom of 6915 Lakewood sits Lisa Moreno’s dollhouse, which she built to hold antique doll furniture from the 1920s. “The furniture is from John’s aunt. It’s what she played with when she was a little girl,” Lisa says. “Her grandfather built a [doll]house that was almost exactly like this, but it was completely decrepit, so I built a dollhouse for the furniture.” The Morenos also have cabinets that display toys and books that were passed down from their parents.

Family frameworks

The stunning photos on display in the living room and throughout the house at 2722 Blanch add color and depth to the modern décor. East Dallas photographer Jim Myers, who is the father of homeowner Meridith Zidell, took the photos. At the end of the hallway is a photo of a man holding a gun with several barrels going various directions. “It was supposed to be the cover of Texas Monthly,” Zidell explains, “but the next day [the famous American singer] Selena was shot, and so they pulled that as a cover because obviously it wasn’t very sensitive, and I believe they ran a photo of Selena on the cover of Texas Monthly instead.” Another giant photo in Zidell’s bedroom is both eye-catching and deeply personal. “This was taken in 1977,” she says. “It’s our lake house outside of Philadelphia, Miss. It’s a lake house my family owns, and my granddad left it to all his grandchildren when he passed away. I grew up going there with my cousins, so it has a lot of family memories. We still go there twice a year.”

Remembering the race

In the upstairs office of Jennifer and Sam Polak’s house at 6655 Lakewood hangs a row of more than two-dozen metals. The couple has been collecting them over the years from competing in full- and half-marathons. In 2006, Sam ran his first marathon at White Rock Lake, where he also trains. Since then he has run marathons in Chicago, New York, Washington D.C. and Boston — to name a few. In more recent years, Jennifer picked up the activity as well. Beside the metals is a frame that contains Sam’s number and photos from the Boston Marathon in 2013, which he finished about half-an-hour before the homemade bomb exploded and killed three people and wounded at least 264 others. “I was sitting on Boylston [Street], and I heard the boom and then looked and saw dust and debris,” Sam remembers. “Then the second one, but no one around me really panicked or anything because we didn’t know what it was. Then we started seeing police officers running towards there, and then SWAT. At that point we were like, ‘OK, something bad is happening.’” The royal blue and yellow metal from that race hangs with the rest of the Polaks’ metals.

Keeping it in the family

As a little girl, Jennifer Polak loved to play with the spinning wheel from 1882 that’s now displayed in her house at 6655 Lakewood — although the wheel has one less peg now. “I ate one of the pegs as a kid,” she admits. She inherited the antique wheel from her mom’s side of the family, which is also where she received the old lace tablecloth that hangs in her dining room. Her husband, Sam, has some old family heirlooms as well; namely, an old sword and bandana from his great-grandfather who was a colonel in the United States Army and fought in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. “One of the Filipinos was captured during the war, and my great-grandfather got his bandana and sword,” he says. “He got them in 1898 and brought them back to the U.S. and gave them to my dad.”

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Swiss Avenue’s Aldredge House: Public asset or public nuisance?

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The number of early 20th century Dallas homes in their original condition and open to the public can be counted on one hand. The Aldredge House is one of these, sitting on the corner of Swiss and Parkmont in the city’s first historic district.

It is the only residence among the historic mansions of Swiss Avenue that is nonresidential. Yet neighbors, who use the Aldredge House for meetings, have co-existed happily with their non-residential neighbor for more than four decades.

Until recently, that is, when this chummy relationship experienced a public falling out.

The Aldredge family gifted their home to the Dallas County Medical Society Auxiliary in 1973, the same year the Swiss Avenue

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Top/ The living room; Bottom left/ The front of the Aldredge House; Bottom right/ A donated portrait of Henry Munger

Historic District officially was recognized and became protected by the city. Since that time, the estate has played host to numerous nonprofit and educational gatherings, both for the auxiliary (now the alliance)

and others. It also is a standing feature on the annual Mother’s Day home tour. And in more recent years, it has grown increasingly popular as a local wedding venue.

So popular, in fact, that in 2014, the Al-

dredge house was rented out for 64 commercial events, including 48 weddings. It was enough to send six of the alliance’s closest neighbors past their breaking point. Late this summer, they formally complained to the city that they were tired of the late-night, boozy receptions with blaring music, firework send-offs and “other inappropriate behavior.” Essentially, they told the city, such disturbances “are not appropriate on this historic residential street.”

They wanted the Aldredge House, the only “nonconforming” use in residential Swiss Avenue, to start conforming to the rules.

Anyone can sympathize with the frustration of living next door to a party scene. Whether you live in a stately mansion on Swiss Avenue or a hip apartment on Lowest Greenville, everyone wants a little peace and quiet, not to mention a good night of sleep. There’s the familiar “you knew what you were moving next door

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to” argument, but it’s fair to say that the Aldredge House’s neighbors weren’t acquiescing to a frat house environment when they bought property near an almost century-old nonprofit.

On the face of things, it seems fairly cut and dry: The Aldredge House should forgo its raucous receptions and return to its days as a tea room for the high society women who run the alliance — at least, that’s what neighbors who filed the complaint have insinuated.

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Next, Preservation Dallas added the Aldredge House to its list of “most endangered” Dallas structures, arguing that “the house is one of the few properties in Dallas where the historic integrity has not been compromised and in many ways serves as an opportunity for visitors to step back in time.” It, too, sided with the alliance, hold-

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ing the opinion that weddings held at the Aldredge House don’t just benefit the nonprofit; they also benefit the general public because the money generated is used to maintain the house’s original features and furnishings, and in turn allows the house to remain open for public use.

The City of Dallas Landmark Commission then doubled down on this support from the preservation community with a vote to create a planned development district (PD) for the Aldredge House that would save more than the house’s exterior, which already is protected by virtue of it being situated in the Swiss Avenue Historic District. The commission went one step further by laying out a process for preserving the architectural characteristics of the home’s front rooms as well.

“I felt like I wanted to help declare that this is an important public asset worthy of preservation,” says Katherine Seale, the commission’s chairwoman. “Regardless of a late night party, the building is still a public good; it still provides value to the public.”

So is the Aldredge House a public asset, as preservationists claim, or a public nuisance, as its closest neighbors claim? Perhaps both, and this kind of “frictional adjacency” is a common problem around the country and the world, Seale says, for historic homes located within residential neighborhoods. They have to constantly reimagine and retool so that they can remain relevant to the public and continue to be a

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“If they’re just taking care of their plastered ceilings and polishing their wood, they’re not going to be a good neighbor,” Seale says. “A PD is an opportunity to work out these differences.”

The PD was an attempt to circumvent leaving the Aldredge House’s fate in the hands of the Dallas Board of Adjustment, but it may be too late. At press time, both formal mediation and informal talks were taking place between the two sides in hopes of finding a resolution before the complaint went before the board.

The board comprises Dallas City Council appointees and its role is quasi-judicial; if it decides to grant or deny a request, that decision cannot be appealed to City Council, only district courts, so its vote is pretty much the final say. Plus, unlike the Plan Commission or the Park Board, the Board of Adjustment cannot be lobbied prior to a public hearing.

Most of the board’s decisions concern setbacks, landscaping and parking issues that don’t attract much news coverage. Steve Long, the board’s administrator, says nonconformance applications are rare — the board hasn’t considered one in at least three years — and those that are filed typically involve crime-ridden bars and motels.

“We’ve never considered a use such as the Aldredge House, which is a civic fraternal association use,” Long says. “This is a first.”

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PIETRO’S: A FAMILY AFFAIR 50 YEARS IN THE MAKING

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Pietro’s is that wonderful, old world restaurant on Richmond Avenue, just steps from Lower Greenville. That lovely little place with the red-checkered tablecloths, piped-in Pavarotti and eggplant parmesan like no other.

Sadly though, it’s soon to be no more, no closing date has been announced. Owner Pietro Eustachio plans to lease the property when the right offer comes along.

Until then, he and his family will continue to welcome customers as family, serving up big platters of comfort. If you’ve visited the establishment, chances are you saw Pietro himself wandering around the restaurant, tossing his famous Caesar salad tableside, or chatting with customers in his thick Sicilian accent.

His is an American dream kind of story. A native of Mezzojuso, a small town 20 miles southeast of Palermo, Pietro was 16 when he and his parents and two brothers boarded a ship in 1950, bound for New York City.

“We came to the United States for a better opportunity to make a living,” he says, remembering how the ship was “very crowded with others from Italy.”

Eventually, the family made its way to Dallas to stay with relatives who had already settled here.

Pietro found work making dough in a frozen pizza factory, where he toiled for seven long years. He then made a fateful trip back home to Italy, a two-month visit during which he caught up with family and met the lovely Grazia (Grace) Sciortino, at a dance. “We fell in love,” he smiles, and promised to send for Grace when he was better established.

But Pietro was disheartened to return to his pizza factory job and learn his pay would be cut in half for missing work.

So Pietro, along with parents Salvatore and Rosalia, and brothers Vince and Joe, decided enough was enough and formulated a plan. Pietro approached a friend

with means, presented his case and, based on a handshake, walked away with a $40,000 loan to open his own pizzeria.

The little place that served mostly pizza and sandwiches was located in a storefront near the present-day The Grape. Business was good, and Pietro and family expanded to the current location in 1972, making good use of Mama Rosalia’s recipes.

They built their restaurant with living quarters upstairs, a common practice in Europe. “We raised our kids there,” nods Grace, Pietro’s wife of 52 years. And the children, Pietro Jr., Rosalia and Claudia, all helped out in the restaurant.

Claudia laughs. “The kids at school thought it was cool my parents had a restaurant,” she says.

It truly has been a family affair, with immediate and extended family pitching in. Cousin Santo Spataro is the chef, Grace’s brother Enzo Sciortino serves as sous chef, and nephews wait tables and help as needed. Daughter Rose fondly remembers working in the restaurant. “We had fun running around and working together.”

Pietro and Grace work in the kitchen every day starting at about 8:30 a.m., with Pietro making his coveted red sauce, meatballs, sausage and lasagna, “all from scratch.” Grace bakes bread and makes cheesecake and cannoli. Chef Santo is ever-present in the immaculate kitchen. Almost all the pasta is freshly made onsite.

But five decades in the restaurant business is a long time, and Pietro’s has enjoyed a good run. Pietro has served up chicken parmigiana and spaghetti with meatballs to the likes of Stanley Marcus, former governor Bill Clements, Italian crooner Al Martino and many a Dallas Cowboy. Loyal customers routinely celebrate milestones at this welcoming bis-

Left to right/ Claudia Powell, Grace Eustachio, Pietro Eustachio, Rose Lafferty: Photo by Rasy Ran

tro, and it’s been found to be the perfect venue for engagement parties and other festivities.

Walk into the unassuming lobby, and you’ll see a stately portrait of Pietro from the 1970s and a couple of framed reviews. But on every available tabletop, on the walls and at the bar, you’ll see family photos, almost every one of Pietro and one of his grandsons, Peter, Nicholas and Joseph.

The restaurant business is hard work with long hours, and Pietro and Grace, now in their 70s, are ready for more time with those grandchildren. They beam as they show off photos of their newest grandchild, 15-month-old Grace. “She’s so smart,” boasts Pietro, who is teaching his little granddaughter Italian. “She’s my princess.”

Pietro’s daughter, Claudia, admits she and the rest of family are sad about the restaurant closing. But it’s time. “My parents are the most wonderful, giving, hard-working people in the world. They have worked so hard, not only for them but for their children. They deserve to finally get a chance to relax and enjoy life.”

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She is a frequent flier at Lakewood branch library and enjoys haunting neighborhood estate sales with husband Jonathan and children, Claire (13) and Will (10). The family often can be found hanging out at White Rock Lake Dog Park with Dexter, a probable JackWeenie.

Parks and recreation

The Samuell Grand Park pool would become a $7.5-million “regional aquatics center,” and the Tietze Park pool would get a $3.5-million renovation in the city’s newly revised aquatics plan. An old plan approved by the park board last year called for closing all of the city’s aging pools, including Tietze, in favor of three water parks and five new community pools. This new plan, funded by the sale of parkland at Lake Ray Hubbard, would cost about $52.8 million to implement. The renovations at Tietze could include creating a “beach entry” with a slope instead of steps, a wading pool for small children and an updated bathhouse. The Samuell Grand makeover could include water-park features as well as a lap pool.

The Ferguson Road Initiative presented its feasibility study/master plan for the White Rock Hills Recreation Center in September. The center would be at Ferguson and Highland roads at the northern tip of the future Trinity Forest Spine Trail. The nonprofit’s mission is to “transform Far East Dallas into a safe, beautiful, prosperous and proud community” through economic revitalization.

Students

Troop 2333 based at Alex Sanger Elementary earned their Girl Scout Bronze Award last school year by raising more than $300 to buy a weather resistant metal trash can for the school playground. The school matched the Girl Scouts’ donation to buy a second trash can for the soccer field. The girls were awarded their certificate and patches at the September PTA meeting at Sanger.

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CryoUSA is expected to open its location at Arboretum Village Nov. 19. The place offers cryotherapy, which is a hyper-cooling process that lowers a person’s skin temperature to below freezing for up to three minutes. It is a way to flush the system and quickly remove lactic acid from muscles. Cryotherapy most commonly is used by endurance athletes for recovery, but it also can be used for personal wellness.

Home-selling highlife

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Pollo Tropical opened a restaurant on Upper Greenville recently. The Miami-based restaurant chain, known for it citrus-marinated, flame-grilled chicken and islandinspired sauces and sides, opened its first Texas store in Addison two years ago. The new store, just south of University at 4622 Greenville, is part of a larger Pollo Tropical expansion in the Dallas area. The company expects to add 12 more locations this fall.

Wrap it up

Unleavened Fresh Kitchen, a restaurant specializing in salads and wrap sandwiches, opened in the Lakewood Shopping Center. It is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday. The Dagwood, a wrap with bacon, egg, potato, arugula and cheddar, costs $7.25. The lunch and dinner wraps include several vegetarian choices as well as meaty ones like the Havana, which comes filled with pulled pork, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and honey mustard for $10.25. Any wrap can be ordered as a salad instead, and any breakfast burrito can be ordered on potato hash instead of the wrap. There are also granola, oatmeal and açaí bowls starting around $5.

Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty opened a new office in a renovated space in the Lakewood Towers on Gaston near Abrams. The real estate firm increased sales 300 percent in 2014 over the previous year and doubled its staff. The new office comprises 5,400 square feet, with two conference rooms and accommodations for 40 employees. At the helm is sales manager Craig Sessions who has 27 years in Dallas real estate. A media release from his office states: “The real estate market in Dallas is skyrocketing, with the average price for a home in Lakewood growing to $527,000. Exceptional homes, especially with views of White Rock Lake, sell for more than $1 million.”

Cause for celebration

It was 14 years ago when Elizabeth Mast launched Talulah Belle at 2011 Abrams Street in East Dallas. The girlie gift and clothing store was her passion project outside her fulltime finance job. Three years ago, when the space next door became available, she opened HESS, a home furnishing boutique. This year, she officially merged the two businesses to former Talulah & HESS, and will mark the occasion with a ribbon cutting and reception with the Greater East Dallas Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. The store will be decked out for the holidays and 10 percent of the night’s proceeds will go to The Be Project, a local nonprofit with a mission to fight bullying.

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In today’s youth-obsessed culture, referring to midlife as the “golden years” seems counterintuitive. But think about it: career and family responsibilities have made way for an exciting time where you actually have time to pursue interests you’ve put off for years, such as living a more active lifestyle, volunteering and making new friends.

The time is now for Dallas-area seniors to begin this new chapter of life, and these independent and assisted living communities have the resources to make it happen.

Situated on 20 acres of land near the shores of White Rock Lake stands C.C. Young, a continuing care retirement community where as Russell Crews, C.C. Young president and CEO, says, “People don’t come to retire: They come to live.”

And that they do — the faith-based, not-for-profit community boasts eight buildings and offers services from independent and assisted living to memory care, home health and hospice for those age 55 and better. Since 1922, C.C. Young has been

dedicated to helping seniors enjoy an active, fulfilling lifestyle by providing personalized care and support.

“Beyond providing living and health services, C.C. Young offers a variety of programming intended to educate and enrich the lives of those it serves, both on campus and in the community,” says Jennifer Griffin, director of communications and public relations with C.C. Young.

“One way to see if C.C. Young is a good fit is to participate in activities at The Point, Center for Arts and Education, which offers memberships for residents and non-residents,” Griffin says.

Memberships include discounts for educational programs and computer classes, and free monthly art gallery shows.

A recent lecture, free and open to the public, was titled, “Art and Alzheimer’s: A Personal Journey.” It featured Cognitive Dynamics foundation founder/president, Dr. Daniel Potts; Meredith Pond, a master trainer with the Alzheimer’s Association’s memories in the making program; and Molly Middleton

Senior Living Near White Rock Lake

PRIME LIVING

Meyer, founder of Mind’s Eye Poetry.

But the opportunities for life enrichment at C.C. Young don’t stop there.

“Through a collaboration with over 60 area and national organizations, C.C. Young has enhanced its services so that each individual can grow in body, mind and spirit, no matter their life circumstances or limitations,” says Denise Aver-Phillips, vice president of community outreach.

These partnerships within the local community are a high priority at C.C. Young, connecting seniors to everything that Dallas has to offer. Additional partners include Bass Performance Hall, Dallas Zoo, Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center, to name a few.

Community engagement is further enriched by volunteers of all ages and beliefs from church, youth and school groups, as well as community volunteer organizations.

“Volunteers help out with everything from Mardi Gras parades and Academy Award red carpet makeovers to painting fences, planting and beautifying the campus — generally just spreading the love,” Aver-Phillips says.

Speaking of beautifying, C.C. Young recently unveiled a brand new sculpture pavilion within the community’s central park. The pavilion, which is open to the public, was dedicated at the annual Grandparents Day celebration.

Juliette Fowler is another centrally located retirement com-

munity where Dallas-area seniors can grow.

With its convenient Lake and Garden District location near shopping, restaurants, the Arts District and major medical centers, Juliette Fowler Communities is designed for today’s senior, offering residential and assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing and short-term rehabilitation.

“We tend to get the resident who says ‘I’ve lived in East Dallas my whole life, and I would prefer not to leave,’” says Tammy Vines, director of community relations. “When you know where your grocery store and your dry cleaner is, you don’t want to leave that routine, and you don’t have to at Juliette Fowler.”

Along with the security of familiarity comes a wide range of activities to maintain longstanding interests or cultivate new ones.

Amid 16 acres of park-like grounds and gardens, seniors are invited to participate in frequent and innovative programs that support wellness, such as art, adaptive dance therapy and music classes, to name a few.

“Other offerings include educational programs taught by Dallas County Master Gardeners, wellness lectures and monthly discussion groups,” Vines says.

Since 1892, Juliette Fowler Communities has gone beyond senior care to nurture intergenerational relationships — something that founder Juliette Peak Fowler envisioned from the start.

“Our residents enjoy making connections with their campus

Tammy Vines, Director of Community Relations

neighbors at the Ebby House, which provides housing and assistance for foster children who have aged out of the system,” Vines says.

“I like to say that the Ebby House girls have about 350 grandparents. The older residents can learn and stay current from the younger; the younger can learn life skills and wisdom from the older.”

Additionally, volunteer opportunities bring hundreds of individuals to Juliette Fowler Communities annually to provide thousands of hours of volunteer work at the campus and with the residents.

“Students from Woodrow Wilson High School are frequent visitors, and later this month, children from local churches will come dressed up to trick-or-treat on Halloween,” Vines says.

At Monticello West — another community in Dallas where opportunities abound for seniors to pursue personal development — the recently expanded activities department boasts two fulltime activities directors for independent living and assisted living, plus another one for memory care.

“Our goal is to get residents out in the Dallas area to enjoy marvelous opportunities such as the Perot Museum, Dallas Arboretum, The Meadows and Klyde Warren Park,” says sales and marketing director Nan Mulvaney.

Monticello West has been a leader in senior care and assisted living in Dallas since 1970. The community is operated by Life Care Services, which manages more than 28,000 people resid-

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JENNIFER ASHY OWNER & STATE LICENSED ADMINISTRATOR Visiting Angels

CERTIFICATIONS: Department of Aging & Disability Services Licensed Administrator, Certified Senior Activity Planner, Visiting Angels Palliative Care Certified, Alzheimer’s Life Care Navigation Certified

AWARDS: Only home care agency to ever win Angie’s List Super Service Award.

BBB A+ rated

Visiting Angels is a senior home care agency focused on keeping the elderly safe and independent in their own home. Providing in-home senior care is a 24x7 endeavor. There is no closure to the day as our agency does not use an on-call service. Having the opportunity to impact an entire family makes the mission worth it, and warms my heart.

ing in senior living communities throughout the country.

“Critical to the overall atmosphere is the combined sense of community with high-quality healthcare,” Mulvaney says.

Staff members provide a foundation for the high quality care, which is noted by the industry’s coveted five-star rating. Monticello West provides the full range of care — including all levels of assisted living to advanced memory care — so residents remain in a familiar environment.

Recently Kate Marshall was named the director of memory care at Monticello West, further enhancing the guidance and quality of care available onsite.

“Our team has an average tenure of 13 years, and some employees who have been with us for more than 20 years,” Mulvaney says.

“The special attention we provide to our residents is what sets us apart.”

For example, Monticello West chef Taylor Self works to get to know residents’ food preferences to provide clean, healthy menu choices. Self was trained at the world-renowned Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.

Learn more:

ccyoung.org

fowlercommunities.org

monticellowestLCS.com

COUNSEL FOR THE ‘BELIEBERS’

Justin Bieber says he “just wanna honestly live like Jesus.”

Good for him. Good any who wanna honestly live like Jesus. Justin says: “Jesus created a pretty awesome template of how to love people and how to be gracious and kind.” Yes, and we need more love, graciousness and kindness.

The 21-year-old pop star was reared by a Christian mother but admitted he has veered off course. He couldn’t handle the juxtaposition of faith and fame. That’s hard for anyone, let alone someone as young as he. His often bizarre behavior was good fodder for tabloids and good business for paparazzi.

So let’s applaud this renewed spiritual direction for someone who is refocusing his life and can be a positive role model in the years ahead. The question I have is whether he can sustain his intentions. Like so many others these days, Justin views his relationship with Jesus as personal and individual. He and Jesus are going it alone.

Justin’s take: “You don’t need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell, that doesn’t make you a taco.”

Hmm. Since he opened the analogy, let’s just go with it. You are what you eat. When you consume tacos, you are nourished (or malnourished) by them. Your body changes in response to what you take in. The spiritual principle is the same: When you eat the bread and drink the cup at the Lord’s Table in church, you are feeding on the food of Christ’s eternal truth, goodness and beauty. You begin more and more to reflect what you have consumed.

Our culture has a dismissive attitude toward the church, and the infrequent attendance of many church members reflects at least a “take it or leave it” attitude.

To some degree, the church itself is to blame. We like to draw bright lines about who’s in and who’s out. We are often as sinful within the church as those we point fingers at outside it. Our churches spilt and splinter more than a piece of dry wood. We deserve some disdain.

Nonetheless, where else will you go to find the company that will accompany you

ANGLICAN

ALL SAINTS EAST DALLAS / allsaintseastdallas.org

Sunday worship service at 5:00 pm

Meeting at Central Lutheran Church / 1000 Easton Road

BAPTIST

LAKESIDE BAPTIST / 9150 Garland Rd / 214.324.1425

Sunday School 9:15am & Worship 10:30am

Pastor Jeff Donnell / www.lbcdallas.com

PARK CITIES BAPTIST CHURCH / 3933 Northwest Pky / pcbc.org

Worship & Bible Study 9:15 & 10:45 Traditional, Contemporary, Spanish Speaking / 214.860.1500

PRESTONWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH / “A Church to Call Home”

Sundays at 11:00 am

12123 Hillcrest Road / 972.820.5000 / prestonwood.org

WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

Pastor George A. Mason Ph.D. / Worship 8:30 & 11:00am

Bible Study 9:40 am / www.wilshirebc.org

CATHOLIC

UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS MINISTRY CONFERENCE / udallas.edu/udmc

October 22-24, 2015 / Sponsored by Catholic Diocese of Dallas

Sessions on Faith, Scripture, & Ministry / Exhibitors / Music / Mass

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST

EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / Worship 8:30 am - Chapel

10:50 am - Sanctuary / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

all the way to heaven? “Bad company corrupts good morals,” St. Paul said, quoting an ancient Greek playwright (or was it my mother?). Church is where we help each other persevere in the way of Christ.

Christianity is communal. We need each other. I admit it: I’m a pastor with a vested interest in the link between personal faith and congregational life. But is it really possible to be a Christian for long on your own? Won’t a flaming ember die quickly when blown from the fire?

Jesus is not just a historical figure to be emulated; Christians believe he lives now in and through his body on earth, the church.

A body is not bunch. Take an onion out of a bunch; the bunch will hardly miss it and the onion will still be an onion. But separate an arm or a leg from a body, the whole body will be impaired and the limb will soon die from being cut off from the source of life.

Praying for Justin and all the “Beliebers” out there trying to go it alone in faith. We’re keeping a pew warm for you.

LUTHERAN

CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

Sunday School for all ages 9:00 am / Worship Service 10:30 am

Pastor Rich Pounds / CentralLutheran.org / 214.327.2222

FIRST UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH / 6202 E Mockingbird Lane

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org

METHODIST

LAKE HIGHLANDS UMC / 9015 Plano Rd. / 214.348.6600 / lhumc.com

Sunday Morning: 9:30 am Sunday School / 10:30 am Coffee

Worship: 8:30 am & 10:50 am Traditional / 10:50 am Contemporary

PRESBYTERIAN

NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Welcomes you to Worship

8:30 & 11:00 am / Church School 9:35 am / Childcare provided.

ST. ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN / Skillman & Monticello

Rev. Rob Leischner. / www.standrewsdallas.org

214.821.9989 / Sunday School 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am

UNITY

UNITY OF DALLAS / A Positive Path for Spiritual Living 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230 / 972.233.7106 / UnityDallas.org

10:30 am Sunday - Celebration Worship Service

UNITY ON GREENVILLE / Your soul is welcome here!

3425 Greenville Ave. / 214.826.5683 / www.dallasunity.org

Sunday Service 11:00 am and Book Study 9:30 am

When it comes to faith, don’t try to go it alone

“Bad company corrupts good morals,” St. Paul said, quoting an ancient Greek playwright (or was it my mother?).

George Mason is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church. The Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and by the neighborhood business people and churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

Okrapalooza!

The sixth-annual fundraiser for Promise of Peace Community Garden drew neighbors for a fall day of live music, beer and specialty okra dishes from local chefs.

CLASSES/TUTORING/ LESSONS

ART: Draw/Paint. Adults All Levels. Lake Highlands N. Rec. Ctr. Days: Mon & Wed. Students bring supplies. Nights: 1xt month workshop, supplies furnished. Jane Cross. 214-534-6829,

FARMERS BRANCH AQUATICS CENTER Visit our new natatorium. Begin swim, fitness classes & open swim. fbh2o.com

GET READY, GET SET Get Ahead With Mathnasium. 214-328-MATH (6284) mathnasium.com/dallaslakewood

GUITAR OR PIANO Patient Teacher. Your Home. 12 Yrs Exp. Reasonable rates. UNT Music Grad. Larry 469-358-8784

MAKERS CONNECT Craft Classes & Workshops. Led by & for Local Makers. Check Schedule: makersconnect.org/classes

PIANO LESSONS Experienced, Dedicated Piano Teacher References. Call Pat.214-827-7076

EMPLOYMENT

PET SITTERS, DOG WALKERS reply to http://www.pcpsi.com/join

EMPLOYMENT

SEEKING OFFICE MANAGER for Lakewood Residential Real Estate Co. Peachtree/Quickbooks Knowledge, People Skills Preferred. Flexable 15-20 hrs wk. Depending on Experience Salary $15-$18 hr. w/ 90 day probation. Email resume: hegwoodjamie@gmail.com

SERVICES FOR YOU

AT ODDS WITH YOUR COMPUTER? Easily Learn Essential Skills. Services include Digital Photo Help. Sharon 214-679-9688 CARGO BICYCLES Custom Built, Hand Crafted. For You/ Business In Oak Cliff. 214-205-4205. oakcliffcargobicycles.com

CONFUSED? FRUSTRATED? Let A Seasoned Pro Be The Interface Between You & That Pesky Windows Computer. Hardware & Software Installation, Troubleshooting, Training. $60/hr. 1 hr min. Dan 214-660-3733 / stykidan@sbcglobal.net

DISH TV Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 months) Save! Regular Price $34.99. Ask About Free Same Day Installation. Call Now. 877-477-9659

LEGAL

A FREE CONSULTATION Wills/Probate/Guardianships. MaryGlennAttorney.com 214-802-6768

A SIMPLE WILL. Name a Guardian for Children. Katherine Rose, Attorney 214-728-4044. Office Dallas Tx.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

ACCOUNTING, TAXES Small Businesses & Individuals. Chris King, CPA 214-824-5313 www.chriskingcpa.com

Maintainable. NEED A NEW WEBSITE? AdvocateWebDesign.com

214.292.2053

MIND, BODY & SPIRIT

NEXGEN FITNESS Call Today For Free Session. 972-382-9925 NexGenFitness.com 10759 Preston Rd. 75230

UFC GYM WHITE ROCK Workout Blues? Train Different. Power/ endurance/results. 469-729-9900 ufcgym.com/WhiteRock

PET SERVICES

DOGGIE DEN DALLAS Daycare, Boarding, Grooming, Training. 6444 E. Mockingbird Ln. 214-823-1441 DoggieDenDallas.com

POOP SCOOP PROFESSIONALS Trust The Experts. 214-826-5009. germaine_free@yahoo.com

eBay party

Neighbor Gary Isett’s legendary lawn ornament, a Kip’s Big Boy, now has a sidekick. Isett became neighborhood famous when he bought the original Kip’s Big Boy mascot and displayed it on the corner of Abrams and Trammel. It wasn’t long before the City of Dallas made him remove the statue, but we all know Kip’s Big Boy is still there, even if he’s not on display along the street corner. Isett posted this photo on the Lakewood, Dallas Facebook page with this caption: “Do not, I repeat, do not eBay while intoxicated!”

BUY/SELL/TRADE

BEST TASTING PORK & LAMB from local farmers, no chemicals, hormones or antibiotics. Pasture raised. Heritage Red Wattle.Time to fill your freezer for the holidays. Laraland Farms 214-384-6136

CASH FOR CARS Any Make Or Model. Free Towing. Sell It Today! Instant Offer. 1-800-864-5784

TEXAS RANGERS AND DALLAS STARS

front row seats. Share prime, front-row Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars tickets (available in sets of 10 games). Prices start at $105 per ticket (sets of 2 or 4 tickets per game available) Seats are behind the plate and next to the dugouts for the Rangers: seats are on the glass and on the Platinum Level for the Stars. Other great seats available starting at $60 per ticket. Entire season available except for opening game; participants randomly draw numbers prior to the season to determine a draft order fair for everyone. Call 214-560-4212 or rwamre@advocatemag.com

ESTATE/GARAGE SALES

972-274-2157

TACLB29169E 972-216-1961

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APPLIANCE REPAIR

APPLIANCE REPAIR SPECIALIST

Low Rates, Excellent Service, Senior Discount. MC-Visa. 214-321-4228

JESSE’S A/C & APPLIANCE SERVICE

TACLB13304C All Makes/Models. 214-660-8898 Serving

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CABINETRY & FURNITURE

SQUARE NAIL WOODWORKING

Cabinet Refacing, Built-ins, Entertainment/ Computer Centers. Jim. 214-324-7398 www.squarenailwoodworking.com

CLEANING SERVICES

A MAID FOR YOU Bonded/Insured.Park Cities/ M Streets Refs. Call Us First. Joyce 214-232-9629

AFFORDABLE CLEANING Insd./Bonded. Move In/Out. Routine Cleaning. Reliable. Dependable. Residential/ Commercial. References. 28+yrs. Delta Cleaning. 972-943-9280.

AFFORDABLE, PROFESSIONAL CLEANING

A Clean You Can Trust

Staff trained by Nationally Certified Cleaning Tech. Chemical-free, Green, or Traditional Cleaning. WindsorMaidServices.com 214-381-MAID (6243)

CLEANING SERVICES

ALTOGETHER CLEAN

Relax ...We’ll Clean Your House, It Will Be Your Favorite Day! Bonded & Insurance. Free Estimates. 214-929-8413. www. altogetherclean.net

AMAZON CLEANING

Top To Bottom Clean. Fabiana.469-951-2948

CINDY’S HOUSE CLEANING 15 yrs exp. Resd/Com. Refs. Dependable. 214-490-0133

MESS MASTERS Earth friendly housecleaning. 469-235-7272. www.messmasters.com Since ‘91

WANTED: HOUSES TO CLEAN Windows, too! Great Prices / Refs. Family owned. 20 yrs. Reliable. Call Sunny 214-724-2555. grimestoppershere.com

WINDOW MAN WINDOW CLEANING.COM

Residential Specialists. BBB. 214-718-3134

COMPUTERS & ELECTRONICS

ALL COMPUTER PROBLEMS SOLVED MAC/PC Great Rates! Keith 214-295-6367

BILL’S COMPUTER REPAIR

Virus Removal, Data Recovery. Home/Biz Network Install. All Upgrades & Repairs. PC Instruction. No Trip Fee. 214-348-2566

CONCRETE/MASONRY/ PAVING

ALL EPOXY COATINGS, CONCRETE Countertops, Stamping, Staining & Designs, Floor Demo and Overlays

Landscape Designs Call 214-916-8368

BRICK & STONE REPAIR

Tuck Pointing / Crack Repair. Mortar Color Matching. Windows And Door Cracks Etc. Call Don 214-704-1722

BRICK, BLOCK, Stone, Concrete, Stucco. Gonzalez Masonry. 214-395-1319

BRICK, STONEWORK, FLAGSTONE PATIOS

Mortar Repair. Straighten Brick Mailboxes & Columns. Call Cirilo 214-298-7174

CONCRETE REPAIRS/REPOURS

Demo existing. Stamping and Staining Driveways/Patio/Walkways

Pattern/Color available Free Estimates 972-672-5359 (32 yrs.)

CONCRETE, Driveway Specialist Repairs, Replacement, Removal, References. Reasonable. Chris 214-770-5001

EDMONDSPAVING.COM Asphalt & Concrete

Driveway-Sidewalk-Patio-Repair 214-957-3216

FLAGSTONE PATIOS, Retaining Walls, BBQ’s, Veneer, Flower Bed Edging, All Stone work. Chris 214-770-5001

ELECTRICAL SERVICES

ANTHONY’S ELECTRIC Master Electrician. TECL24948 anthonyselectricofdallas.com

50 Yrs. Electrical Exp. Insd. 214-328-1333

LAKEWOOD ELECTRICAL Local. Insured. Lic. #227509 Call Rylan 214-434-8735

TEXAS ELECTRICAL • 214-289-0639 Prompt, Honest, Quality. TECL 24668

TH ELECTRIC Reasonable Rates. Licensed & Insured. Ted. E257 214-808-3658

WHITE ROCK ELECTRIC All Electrical Services. Lic/Insd. E795. 214-850-4891

EXTERIOR CLEANING

G&G DEMOLITION Tear downs, Haul. Interior/Exterior. 214-808-8925

FENCING & DECKS

#1 COWBOY FENCE & IRON CO. Est. ‘91. 214-692-1991 www.cowboyfenceandiron.com

4 QUALITY FENCING Call Mike 214-507-9322

Specializing in Wood, New or Repair.

AMBASSADOR FENCE INC. Automatic Gates, Iron & Cedar Fencing, Decks. Since 1996. MC/V 214-621-3217

FENCING & WOODWORK oldgatefence.com charliehookerswoodwork.com 214-766-6422

HANNAWOODWORKS.COM

Decks, Pergolas, Patio Covers. 214-435-9574

KIRKWOOD FENCE & DECK New & Repair. Free Estimates. Nathan Kirkwood. 214-341-0699

LONESTARDECKS.COM 214-357-3975

Trex Decking & Fencing, trex.com

All Wood Decks, Arbors & Patio Covers

EST. 1991 #1

COWBOY

FENCE & IRON CO.

214.692.1991

SPECIALIZING IN Wood Fences &Auto Gates

cowboyfenceandiron.com

FLOORING & CARPETING

ALL WALKS OF FLOORS 214-616-7641

Carpet, Wood, Tile Sales/Service Free Estimates

DALLAS HARDWOODS 214-724-0936

Installation, Repair, Refinish, Wax, Hand Scrape. Residential, Commercial. Sports Floors. 30 Yrs.

FLOORING & CARPETING

THE TEXAN FLOORING SERVICES Wood, Laminate. Remodel Showers, Bathrooms. thetexanflooringservices.com 214-680-0901

Restoration Flooring

Hardwood Installation · Hand Scraping Sand & Finish · Dustless

25+ Years Experience

469.774.3147

restorationflooring.net

Willeford

hardwood floors

Superior Quality: Installation • Refinishing Repair • Cleaning & Waxing Old World Hand Scrape 214-824-1166

FOUNDATION REPAIR

• Slabs • Pier & Beam

• Mud Jacking • Drainage

• Free Estimates

• Over 20 Years Exp. 972-288-3797

We Answer Our Phones

GARAGE SERVICES

DFW GARAGE PRO Garage Organize/Reorganize. Painting, Shelving, Cabinets, Storage, Disposal. 303-883-9321

ROCKET GARAGE DOOR SERVICE -24/7. Repairs/Installs. 214-533-8670. Coupon On Web. www.RocketDoorService.com

UNITED GARAGE DOORS AND GATES Res/Com. Locally Owned.214-826-8096

GLASS, WINDOWS & DOORS

EAST DALLAS WINDOW CLEANING Power Wash. Free Est. Dependable. Derek. 214-360-0120

GREENGO Replacement Windows & Doors. 214-755-6258. 25 Yrs Experience.

LAKE HIGHLANDS GLASS & MIRROR frameless shower enclosures • store fronts replacement windows • mirrors 214-349-8160

ROCK GLASS CO Replace, repair: windows, mirrors, showers, screens. 214-837-7829

Swimming Pool Remodels Patios Stone work • Stamp Concrete 972-727-2727

Deckoart.com

FENN CONSTRUCTION Full Service Contractor. www.dallastileman.com Back Splash Specials! 214-343-4645

DEC. DEADLINE NOV. 4

HANDYMAN SERVICES

A R&G HANDYMAN Electrical, Plumbing, Painting, Fencing, Roofing, Light Hauling. Ron or Gary 214-861-7569, 469-878-8044

ALL STAR HOME CARE Carpentry, Glass, Tile, Paint, Doors, Sheetrock Repair, and more. 25 yrs. exp. References. Derry 214-505-4830

BO HANDYMAN Specializing In Historic Home Renovations & Pro Remodels. Custom Carpentry, Doors, Kitchens, Baths & more. 214-437-9730

FRAME RIGHT All Honey-Dos/Jobs. Crown mold install $125/rm. Licensed. Matt 469-867-9029

GROOVY HOUSE Is A Different Handyman Experience! Find Out Why At www.groovyhouse.biz 214-733-2100 • 19 Year Lakewood Resident

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

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

HONEST, SKILLED SERVICE With a Smile. General Repairs/ Maintenance. 214-215-2582

WANTED: ODD JOBS & TO DO LISTS

Allen’s Handyman & Home Repair 214-288-4232

Your Home Repair Specialists Drywall Doors Senior Safety Carpentry Small & Odd Jobs And More! 972-308-6035 HandymanMatters.com/dallas Bonded & Insured.

HOLIDAY DECORATING

HOME INSPECTION

KITCHEN/BATH/ TILE/GROUT

FENN CONSTRUCTION Full Service Contractor. www.dallastileman.com Back Splash Specials! 214-343-4645

MELROSE TILE James Sr., Installer, Repairs. 40 Yrs. Exp. MelroseTile.com 214-384-6746

LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

CHUPIK TREE SERVICE

Trim, Remove, Stump Grind. Free Est. Insured. 214-823-6463

DALLAS GROUNDSKEEPER Comprehensive services designed to meet your needs. 214-504-6788 dallasgroundskeeper.com

DALLAS K.D.R.SERVICES • 214-349-0914

Lawn Service & Landscape Installation

HOLMAN IRRIGATION

Sprinkler & Valve Repair/ Rebuild Older Systems. Lic. #1742. 214-398-8061

LSI LAWN SPRINKLERS “Making Water Work”

“Trees

HOUSE PAINTING

1 AFFORDABLE HOUSE PAINTING and Home Repair. Quality work. Inside and Out. Free Ests. Local Refs. Ron 972-816-5634

#1 GET MORE PAY LES Painting. 85% Referrals. Free Est. 214-348-5070

KITCHEN/BATH/ TILE/GROUT

STONE AGE COUNTER TOPS Granite, Marble, Tile, Kitchen/Bath Remodels. 972-276-9943.stoneage.dennis@verizon.net

TOM HOLT TILE 30 Yrs Experience In Tile, Backsplashes & Floors. Refs. Avail. 214-770-3444

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS 214-632-0372

Call Today for us to handle all your holiday lighting installations!

WWW.6ALARMLIGHTS.COM

A+ INT/EXT PAINT & DRYWALL Since 1977. Kirk Evans. 972-672-4681

ALL TYPES Painting & Repairs. A+ BBB rating. Any size jobs welcome. Call Kenny 214-321-7000

BENJAMIN’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work At Reasonable Prices. 214-725-6768

MANNY’S HOME PAINTING & REMODEL Int./Ext. Sheetrock. Manny 214-334-2160

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

TOP COAT 30 yrs. exp. Reliable, Quality Repair/Remodel Phil @ 214-770-2863

VIP PAINTING & DRYWALL Int/Ext. Sheetrock Repair, Resurfacing Tubs, Counters, Tile Repairs. 469-774-7111

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LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES

A BETTER TREE MAN Trims, Removals, Insd. 12 Yrs Exp. Roberts Tree Service. 214-808-8925

AYALA’S LANDSCAPING SERVICE Call the Land Expert Today! Insured. 214-773-4781

Irrigation system Service & Repair. Specializing In Older Copper Systems. LI #13715. 214-283-4673

THE POND MAN Water Gardens

Designed & Installed. Drained & Cleaned. Weekly Service. Jim Tillman 214-769-0324

TRACY’S LAWN CARE • 972-329-4190

Lawn Mowing & Leaf Cleaning

WHITE ROCK TREE WIZARDS Professionals, Experts, Artists. Trim, Rmv, Cable Repair, Cavity-Fill Stump Grind. Emergency Hazards. Insd. Free Est. 972-803-6313

YOUR TREES could look like a WORK OF ART, I Guarantee It.

NOVEMBER SPECIAL

$200 OFF 4 man crew/4 hours

Call Mark Wittlich 214-332-3444

MOVING

AM MOVING COMPANY Specialty Moving & Delivery.469-278-2304 ammovingcompany.com

PEST CONTROL

A BETTER EARTH PEST CONTROL

Keeping the environment, kids, pets in mind. Organic products avail. 972-564-2495

MCDANIEL PEST CONTROL

Prices Start at $85 + Tax

For General Treatment.

Average Home-Interior/Exterior & Attached Garage. Quotes For Other Services. 214-328-2847. Lakewood Resident

PLUMBING

A2Z PLUMBING 214-727-4040

All Plumbing Repairs. Slab Leak Specialists. Licensed & Insured. ML# M36843.

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

ANDREWS PLUMBING • 214-354-8521

# M37740 Insured. Any plumbing issues. plumberiffic69@gmail.com

Sewers • Drains • Bonded 24 Hours/7 Days

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A BLOODY OCTOBER DAY NEAR WHITE ROCK LAKE

Monday, Oct. 12, shook the White Rock Lake area when four homicides were reported in three separate acts of violence in 24 hours.

Zoe Hastings, an 18-year-old Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts graduate, was found dead of “obvious homicidal violence,” according to police, in her vehicle in the 11700 block of Dixfield Drive that morning. The day before, Hastings left her house about 4:40 p.m. to head to a 5 p.m. class at her church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Lake Highlands Drive, but she never arrived.

Police said they believe she stopped at the Walgreens on Garland at Peavy on her way to church to return a Redbox movie. Police searched for witnesses who remember seeing her or her white 2007 Honda Odyssey in that area on Sunday, Oct. 11. At press-time, there were no suspects named in this case. Anyone with information is asked to call the Dallas homicide detectives at 214.671.3584.

Hastings’ father is a Merriman Park Elementary teacher and her mother is a nurse. They released a statement saying, “Our Zoe was full of life and love and light. She was full of talent. She was happy and joyful ... It pains us to know that her life has been taken, yet we feel comfort in knowing that our family is forever and we will be together again someday.”

In an unrelated crime reported, David Stevens, 53, was hacked to death by a machete-wielding assailant while he was out jogging on the White Rock Creek Trail around 8 a.m. Oct. 12. Police arrested former Texas A&M University football player Thomas Johnson, a graduate of Skyline High School, who was found in blood-stained clothes at the scene and immediately admitted to the crime, according to police reports. “At this time, it appears Mr. Johnson picked his victim at

random,” police say.

Stevens’ widow released a statement saying, “This is a horrible, senseless tragedy and we are devastated with the loss of such a wonderful man. It has created a huge hole in our hearts.”

And in yet another unrelated case, Felicia Jones, 56, and her daughter, Tracy Evans, 26, were gunned down during a family dispute in the 2700 block of Millmar Drive around 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 12. According to arrest records, Jones was in a relationship with the home’s owner, and the two

got into an a verbal fight. When Jones began smashing cars with a hammer and an axe, the man’s grandson, Ronald Bernard Brown, 18, pulled out a 9 mm handgun and fired warning shots into the sky. Jones went back into the house where the situation continued to escalate until Brown allegedly shot multiple times, killing both Jones and Evans. Brown then fled the scene, and at press-time he had not been located by police. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call Dallas police at 214.671.3584. —Emily Charrier

A memorial for Zoe Hastings was established near the site where her body was found: Photo by Danny Fulgencio

DIVING INTO THE CITY’S AQUATICS CENTER PLAN

Neighbors speak up and the city takes notice

COMMENT. Visit lakewood.advocatemag.com and search Last Word to tell us what you think.

One year ago, I wrote about the City of Dallas 2012 Aquatics Master Plan, the blueprint for all pools and spray grounds throughout the city. My concern was that the plan at that time called for closing all neighborhood pools — including Tietze and Lake Highlands and replacing them with a small number of regional water parks. It was a one-size-fitsall plan that failed to take into ac-

save our pools. I concluded my article with the following call to action: “Now is a good time for East Dallas and Lake Highlands residents who care about Dallas’ aquatics system to become engaged and let their voices be heard.”

Lake Highlands facilities constructed years before their counterparts.

count the varying popularity levels of neighborhood pools across the city.

Under the old plan, East Dallas lost out in a big way: Not only did we lose our very popular neighborhood pool at Tietze Park, we didn’t even get a nearby regional water park in return. We lost out coming and going. Unsurprisingly, many residents, especially in East Dallas, were very upset at the prospect of losing their neighborhood pools for faraway amusement parks.

Fortunately, I wrote, there was still time to change the plan and

I’m happy to report that the residents of Dallas did just that. As a result of direct citizen input, the Dallas Park and Recreation Board recently passed an updated version of the Aquatics Master Plan and this version of the plan keeps our neighborhood pools open. It also includes major upgrades for nine of the city’s 17 existing pools. (Full disclosure: My husband, Paul Sims, was appointed to the park board in 2013 by Dallas City Councilman Philip Kingston, and has been a major proponent of keeping our neighborhood pools open.)

Over the past year, residents made it clear that they did not support the old plan’s cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all solutions. Under the new plan, the city will construct three large “regional” water parks, several medium-sized “community” facilities and a number of smaller “neighborhood” pools.

Using money the city made from the sale of Elgin B. Robertson Park, this is no pie-in-the-sky proposal. Implementation of the Aquatics Master Plan will begin next year. Both Tietze and Lake Highlands pools are included in the nine pools slated for upgrades, and both pools are members of a select group set to receive their upgrades in the first of two rounds of funding. This is an important distinction that will see the Tietze and

Of all new facilities slated for redevelopment, replacing Tietze’s 68-year-old pool with a modern facility may prove the most challenging. The first obstacle is limited space, as Tietze is the smallest pool selected for redevelopment. Tietze’s new pool must balance aquatic features that residents and families will enjoy, without building an oversized facility that will strip the park of its neighborhood character or overcrowd the park.

Second is the natural setting at Tietze Park. Numerous large shade trees dot the landscape, limiting the pool’s potential footprint. Some trees will undoubtedly have to come down, but planners have been charged with keeping as many trees intact as possible and integrating the new facility into the existing environment.

The final design challenge is accommodating Tietze Park’s historic buildings. The stone pavilion that abuts the current pool was constructed in 1934, and was an early project of the Works Progress Administration. Fortunately, Willis Winters was appointed as director of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department in 2013. A noted architect and preservationist, Winters has vowed to protect Tietze’s historic buildings.

It’s exciting to see the City of Dallas listen to its citizens and change course so dramatically on one of its signature programs. It’s a testament to both engaged residents and a park department that was willing to listen.

Over the past year, residents made it clear that they did not support the old plan’s cookie-cutter, one-size-fitsall solutions.

Angela Hunt is a neighborhood resident and former Dallas City Councilwoman in East Dallas. She writes a monthly opinion column about neighborhood issues. Her opinions are not necessarily those of the Advocate or its management. Send comments and ideas to her at 6301 Gaston, Suite 820, Dallas 75214; FAX to 214.823.8866; or email ahunt@advocatemag.com.

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Generations in many cases. Since its founding in the early 20th century until today, residents of this thriving neighborhood have taken great pride in preserving its unique history, while simultaneously building on it.

For three decades now, Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate agents have not only represented buyers and sellers seeking to deepen their family’s Lakewood roots, but have put down roots here as well.

If you’d like to leave your own legacy in Lakewood, call us today to learn more about our properties of distinction.

No need to head to your weekend lake house; this is paradise every day. With panoramic views of White Rock Lake from the wraparound porch, this sumptuous home built in 2008 by W2 Studios has it all, including downstairs master suite overlooking pool, subterranean 10-car garage, elevator and more. This house is a dream come true!

Gorgeous two-story home that has been completely renovated, enlarged, and taken to the studs in 2011 by well-known architect and build team W2 Studios for its current owners. The highest attention has been paid to transforming every detail of this home, with the utmost quality and taste in mind. As a seamless blend of the neighborhood’s old and new, this is truly the quintessential Lakewood home.

This is one of More Design’s most coveted projects and was listed in “D” Magazine’s Top Ten Most Beautiful Homes in Dallas. The star of Lakewood’s 2008 Home Tour, this 1941 home was remodeled and expanded for More Design owner’s personal use with no expense spared or detail overlooked. Each subsequent owner has added their personal flair to make this home a house without rival.

Having recently been taken to the studs, this home sits on a prestigious lot in Lakewood’s Cloisters. Ringed by mature trees providing plenty of shade, and surrounded by lush grass, it is truly a testament to craftsmanship and landscape design. When guests enter the glass front door with ornate wrought-iron design, they’ll be instantly struck by the pristine finish-out.

6555 BOB O LINK · $1,399,900

4535 W. LAWTHER · $4,250,000

6708 LAKEWOOD · $1,749,900

7506 BENEDICT · $1,150,000

Proud Sponsor of the 2015 Lakewood Home Tour.

6814

Stunning Georgian traditional home on coveted Avalon Avenue in Lakewood. This home is situated on a one-third-acre lot framed by mature trees. Warm oak hardwoods, crown moldings, oversized windows and large rooms grace this home. Large kitchen and breakfast rooms provide excellent space to create a chef’s kitchen. The oversized den features a fireplace, custom paneling, raised ceiling and views of the big backyard. There are three bedrooms with two baths upstairs and one bedroom downstairs with a bath. Additional amenities include: oversized quarters with living area, loft bedroom, full bath and wet bar, full-size laundry, electric gate, 2-car garage and an open patio.

THE JACKSON TEAM

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This charming and classic Austin stone home was built in 1941. The owners kept their promise to the previous homeowners to retain the original exterior of the home while creating a dazzling interior. Inside is a mix of vintage and contemporary finishes and modern art and wall coverings.

Proud Sponsor of the 2015 Lakewood Home Tour.

AVALON · $959,900

We have been sold on Lakewood for generations. Let us help you make Lakewood your home.

Inspired by a Tuscan farmhouse village concept and designed by noted architect Charles Travis, the home is sited along a beautiful stretch of White Rock Lake on 1.57 landscaped acres. Finely appointed interior spaces, including first floor master, open to and interact with the outdoor loggias, terraced gardens and infinity pool, instilling a sense of place rarely found in an urban setting. Graceful modern living, hand-crafted architecture.

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Farmhouse Modern describes Maplehill Residential’s latest new construction residence, designed by Mark Risser. Backing to a creek and a pristine nine-acre estate, its distinguishing features include exterior hardwoods, transitional interior finishes, outdoor living space, and design that brings views of nature into all main living rooms. Available Summer 2016.

Nestled in deep Lakewood on Loving Hill, this new modern home has dramatic views from the upstairs wraparound game-room balcony. Kitchen, master, and living rooms all overlook a lovely terraced backyard. Built by Maplehill Residential and designed by Mark Risser. Available Winter 2015.

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6726 LAKE CIRCLE · $1,350,000

4636 CHAPEL HILL · $7,495,000

2408 LOVING · $1,200,000

7252 BROOKCOVE · $1,650,000

Stunning new construction by Caruth Custom Homes in Lakewood perfectly placed on a half-acre lot with 5 bedrooms, 5.1 baths, and 4-car garage. Every inch of this 6,250 square foot home is well thought out and features impeccable designer finish-out. The expansive kitchen features quartzite countertops, Thermador appliances, bar with wine storage and separate butler’s pantry opens to a living room with large cathedralstyle ceilings. An entertainers delight, this home offers tons of outdoor entertaining space on the oversized-covered back porch with wood-burning fireplace.

Living, Loving, Listing Lakewood. It’s not just our motto, it’s who we are and what we do.

For us, that means more than just working in Lakewood – we live in Lakewood. We volunteer in Lakewood. We invest in Lakewood’s businesses and send our children to Lakewood’s schools. We work with others to ensure that there is no better place to live in North Texas.

As we look back over 39 years of successful home tours, we want to thank all of those who came before us for all of their hard work and similar dedication – and of course, for the legacy they left.

We simply adore this community, its people, and its homes.

HEATHER GUILD GROUP

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2015 LECPTA Auction Committee Chair

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2015 LECPTA Home Captain Coordinator

Come see us on the Lakewood Home Tour at:

6425 BLANCH CIRCLE

This amazing mid-century modern ranch-style home overlooks a calm, secluded pond. Built in 1941, it was renovated and expanded in 2014. Upon entering the home, you’ll find a modern twist on the retro styles, simple shapes, and sleek lines inspired by the set of “Mad Men.” The home features beautiful photography by the homeowner’s father, as well as exquisite furnishings and art. The homeowners pride themselves on extending outside elements into the light-filled family home.

Proud Sponsor of the 2015 Lakewood Home Tour.

Featuring a guest house with separate entrances, this property is perfect for multi-generational living. Whether you have a senior parent who’s ready to move in or a recent graduate who’s not quite ready to move out, this home provides plenty of space.

6748 LAKEWOOD $2,450,000

With superb drive-up appeal and a prime location, 6748 Lakewood Boulevard was Lakewood architect Albert Dines’ personal home for more than 40 years. As a partner in the famous Lakewood developers, Dines and Kraft, the Dines House anchored Lakewood Boulevard socially and aesthetically. The home’s architecture includes the fine details befitting the premier architect of the era, such as thick plaster walls and moldings, arches, plaster-patterned ceilings, vintage fixtures and stair railings by Potter Iron Works. The Dines House has been included in the Outstanding Homes of America since the list was first created in the 1970s.

Nestled on a quiet street in Wilshire Heights, prepare to be charmed by this unique, artisan crafted home that is the quintessential Spanish-eclectic.

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6267 MALCOLM · SOLD

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“Marissa is an absolute expert in the M Streets/Lakewood/Lake Highlands market. Her market focus, professionalism, creativity, and dedication to her career are a few of the many reasons I hired her. I trust her completely, period. I cannot just recommend Marissa, I have to thank her. Thank you for being such a professional. I hope this post incentivizes others to hire you so they too can benefit – you are the best.”

– Jim Hazard, client

“After 10 years in corporate negotiations, and 10 more in real estate, my passion is connecting people as their trusted advisor to accomplish their real estate goals. I am honored and thankful to say over 90% of my business is repeat and referral clients.”

MARISSA FONTANEZ

Leadership Dallas Class of 2014 · St. Thomas Parishioner · Lakewood Resident

7594 BENEDICT · $1,200,000 · SOLD

4340 CONCHO · $719,900 · SOLD

6719 BOB O LINK · $1,125,000 · SOLD

DAVE PERRY-MILLER REAL ESTATE CELEBRATES “THE LEGACY OF LAKEWOOD”

Tour Times

Saturday, Nov. 14, 10am-5pm

Saturday Night Candlelight Tour, 6pm-9pm Sunday, Nov. 15, 11am-5pm

Friday Night Fever Auction Party

Auction Party Tickets: $125 in advance/$175 at the door

Solid Gold VIP Lounge Tickets (includes swag bags, premium liquor, passed hors d’oeuvres, casino chips and more): $200 in advance/$250 at the door Both tickets include all-weekend pass to home tour and candlelight tour.

Saturday/Sunday Home Tour

Tour Tickets: $15 in advance/$20 at the door

Candlelight Tour Tickets: $30 and include access to the Saturday/Sunday home tour. Regular tickets may be upgraded to candlelight tickets at the door.

Everyone knows the old saying: “If these walls could talk.” For a minute, let’s imagine “these walls” are located somewhere within our muchbeloved Lakewood. Given the rich, nearly 100-year history of the neighborhood, it’s likely they have some very interesting things to say. Dave PerryMiller Real Estate looks forward to helping give several of them voice this November as Underwriter and Title Sponsor of the Auction Party for the 2015 Lakewood Home Festival.

If you’ve ever driven by one of the seven homes on tour this year and longed to know its secrets or even simply admired it from afar the second weekend of the month will be the perfect

6655 LAKEWOOD BOULEVARD

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6913 LAKEWOOD BOULEVARD

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opportunity to satisfy your curiosity. Fall will be in full swing, and the holidays will be on the horizon, making it a great time to enjoy them in all their seasonal splendor.

The theme of this year’s tour is “The Legacy of Lakewood,” honoring 75214’s architectural diversity. The featured homes range from a new build, crafted in a modern Hollywood Regency style, to an early ‘20s tudor, which has been painstakingly preserved down to the original light bulbs. Each and every one is a tangible reminder why so many of us seek to create our own history in this highly coveted corner of town.

Because Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate knows intimately all that makes Lakewood so special to our city, we’re thrilled to once again help make the tour possible.

The disco-themed “Friday Night Fever” auction party we’re sponsoring at the Belo Mansion features both silent and live auctions. Monies raised there and from general admission ticket sales go directly to supporting students of Lakewood Elementary, JL Long Middle School and Woodrow Wilson High School in the form of materials, computers, and enrichment programs. There’s even a special new candlelight tour Saturday night with a chance to meet the homeowners. Last year’s festival was attended by close to 4,000 people and raised $155,000 for the three schools, setting a new record. We’re confident this year will be even more successful.

Please make plans to join us and discover “The Legacy of

we are proud to support:

Lakewood Elementary School

Swiss Avenue Home Tour

Lakehill Preparatory School

St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School

Lakewood Early Childhood PTA

Forest Hills Garden Tour

Dallas Chamber of Commerce

Woodrow Wilson High School

Wilkinson Center

St. Johns Episcopal School

Exchange Club of East Dallas

Wilshire Heights Neighborhood Assn.

Dallas Arboretum

For the Love of the Lake

Lakewood Home Tour

Stonewall Jackson Elementary

Lochwood Neighborhood Assn.

Lakewood Neighborhood Assn.

Dallas Marathon

Hollywood Home Tour

“...DAVE PERRY-MILLER REAL ESTATE KNOWS INTIMATELY ALL THAT MAKES LAKEWOOD SO SPECIAL TO OUR CITY...”

TIMELESS LAKEWOOD MEDITERRANEAN

Beautiful home near Lakewood Elementary is close to Lakewood Village, Arboretum Village, the Arboretum, and White Rock Lake. This home has wonderful hardwoods and millwork, an open floor plan, and stunning formal dining. One bedroom downstairs and four bedrooms up (including the master). The master suite has a fireplace, spacious bath, and oversized closet. The family room leads to a sunroom that opens on to the patio and great backyard.

“My clients receive first-rate personal attention, expertise, and quality.

To me, there is no compromise.”

6840 MEADOW LAKE · SOLD

MARY RINNE

214.552.6735

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Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate is proud to welcome Mary Rinne to our Lakewood office. She joins our office from our parent company, Ebby Halliday Realtors, and we could not be more excited for her to continue her successful career in Dallas real estate with us.

If you’re asking yourself, “What does this mean to me?” – In the short term, not much. Nothing about your relationship with Mary will change except her email address, which is now maryrinne@daveperrymiller.com. She will continue to represent her clients with the same outstanding level of service.

But in the long term, the connections she makes with her new partners at Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate will be a valued resource as she helps you buy and sell property in the Dallas area.

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5123 ALCOTT · SOLD

6969 BOB O LINK · SOLD

6526 Lakewood · $910,000 · SOLD Alex Simpson 214.883.1149

5939 Palo Pinto · $1,095,000 The Jackson Team 214.827.2400

7933 Briar Brook · $470,000 · SOLD Keith Callahan 214.675.6777

5452 Willis · SOLD Kate Walters 214.293.0506

2225 Forest Hollow Park · $489,000 Alex Simpson 214.883.1149

9533 Rocky Branch · $599,995 Suzanne Altobello 214.335.8219

6633 Hialeah · $689,900 The Jackson Team 214.827.2400

7252 Brookcove · $1,650,000 Heather Guild Group, Skylar Champion 214.695.8701

6511 Kenwood · SOLD Kate Walters 214.293.0506

6814 Avalon · $959,900 The Jackson Team 214.827.2400

6214 Goliad · $774,500 Mike Bates 214.418.3443

7102 Lakewood · $1,048,500 Ryan Streiff 469.371.3008

5808 McCommas #301A · $449,500 Nancy Johnson & Alex Simpson 214.883.1149

5825 Oram · $625,000 · SOLD Kate Walters 214.293.0506

6817 Inverness · $470,000 The Jackson Team 214.827.2400 10718 Odair · $575,000 Meg Skinner 214.924.5393

5123 Alcott · $650,000 · SOLD Mary Rinne 214.552.6735

7210 Brookcove · $1,249,000 Ryan Streiff 469.371.3008

7315 Lakewood · $899,000 Kim & Taylor Gromatzky 214.802.5025

3406 Oakhurst · $949,000 Nancy Johnson 214.674.3840