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Music Practice

Dental offices often offer quiet, stuffy, stark environs marked primarily with tidy piles of drab magazines and the occasional framed painting on a white wall. So the player piano in Dr. T. Bob Davis’ Lake Highlands waiting room is striking — even more so when he steps out of his examination room to play a ditty (which he says he doesn’t do as often as he’d like — he’s got teeth to fix, you understand). Pleasant tunes, a fireplace and big comfy swivel rocking chairs keep you atypically cozy while awaiting your root canal. There’s nothing typical about this dentist, in fact — for the past 33 years he has led mission trips to Matamoras, Mexico, to treat children at the Matamoras Orphanage. Last month he led a group of 100 or so dental students and volunteer doctors who treated about 200 children. He loves tinkling the keys for kids at the orphanage or in his office, but he also has recorded seven albums. In 2002 one of them was nominated for a Grammy. “All of my recordings are sacred/ inspirational, but the Grammys don’t have that category, so I was nominated in the ‘pop/instrumental’ category,” he says. “But I like playing anything pop, country and western, the music of yesteryear — and I’ll do banquets, weddings and, sometimes, a funeral.”

—CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

Juliette Fowler Homes

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Nestled near Lakewood, Fowler’s beautifully landscaped 16 ½ acre campus, offers an intimate alternative for gracious retirement living. In addition to having a variety of apartment layouts to choose from, our residents come together for delicious meals in our comfortable dining rooms or take advantage of the beautiful courtyards and gardens. You may enjoy our well appointed club rooms, beauty salon/ barber shop, exercise room, wellness clinic and the campus pool, chapel and libraries. You may also take advantage of a variety of special monthly events and daily activities.

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I’ve got chemical waste, a broken computer, old batteries and other VARIOUS THINGS hanging out in my garage — how do I DISPOSE of them?

No matter what strange things are hiding in your attic, garage or storage space, it’s likely the City of Dallas has provisions for getting rid of them.

Dallas residents can dispose of most of these kinds of waste for free. Here’s how it works:

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Take the following waste to the Home Chemical Collection Center at 11234 Plano Road for free disposal:

Chemical products for home use

·Paint and home repair products

Lawn and garden chemicals

·Aerosol sprays

·Pool Chemicals

Craft and hobby supplies

Cleaners and polishes

Batteries

·Automotive fluids and oil filters

Fluorescent light tubes

Computers and cell phones

Collection center hours are Tuesday, 9 a.m.–7:30 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.; and the second and fourth Saturdays of each month, 9 a.m.3 p.m. Make sure to take your driver’s license and water bill as proof of residence so you don’t have to pay. Residents of all other cities must pay a minimum $95 disposal fee; your water bill proves that you pay City of Dallas sanitation fees.

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Various components of televisions and computers can be harmful to the environment if they are improperly thrown away. Dallas residents have a couple of options when looking to rid themselves of old “e-waste”.

3. If your electronics are still in working condition, consider donating them rather than just giving them away. Most Goodwill locations will accept working televisions and computers. East Dallas residents can take donations to the drop-off center in front of Albertson’s at 6464 Mockingbird. Find other locations at goodwill.org; all Goodwill drop-off centers are open seven days a week from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

If your electronics are not in working condition you can recycle them at any one of Dallas’ four e-cycling locations, also free to Dallas residents. The one in our neighborhood is 7677 Fair Oaks, open Wednesday and Saturday from 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m., 214.670.6126. Residents should bring their driver’s license and water bill to keep from being charged for the service. Non-Dallas residents are charged $21 a ton.

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For nearly three decades our name has been synonymous with the successful marketing of Dallas’ finest modern and contemporary homes.

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For more information, contact the City of Dallas Sanitation Department at 214.670.3555.

—ELIZABETH ELLIOTT

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