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Big plans get iced

Icy weather in December caused the cancellation of several fundraising events including the Lake Highlands Women’s League Holiday in the Highlands Home Tour, which raises funds for college scholarships for Lake Highlands High schoolers; the Children’s Medical Center Holiday Parade and the Dallas Marathon benefitting the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. The LHWL, despite the weather, hosted more than 300 diners at its tour-day luncheon, which went on as planned Dec. 6. The group rescheduled its tour of four neighborhood homes the following week and reportedly did not suffer significant earnings loss. Both the parade and marathon faced the first cancellation in their respective histories. Neither was rescheduled.

Redemption run

The White Rock Running Co-op and Dallas Running Club together hosted an impromptu fundraising run for the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital. The reason for the event, says Lake Highlands resident and WRRC founder Chris Stratton, was, primarily, that he could not stand the would-be marathoners’ despondency over the Dallas Marathon’s cancellation. “Because doing something productive for others is better than complaining on the internet.” He asked each participant to bring a donation for Scottish Rite patients from the hospital’s needs list.

Clean dogs

Vhea’s Laundromutt, the do-it-yourself dogwashing spot in Old Lake Highlands on Buckner at Peavy closed a few months ago, but a new location reopened in December on Garland Road, next door to the Army surplus store. For about $11 Vhea’s Laundromutt customers can use the facilities, which include elevated doggie showers, grooming tools, shampoo and other necessities. Staffers will clip doggie toenails by request and, best of all, they clean up the grimy tubs and clogged drains.

—Christina Hughes Babb

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