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EDUCATION
W.H. Adamson High School
principal Diana Nuñez won a $20,000 scholarship to pursue a doctorate degree. Credit Union of Texas awarded Nuñez its William H. Cotton Scholarship, which is given annually to a Dallas ISD teacher or administrator to pursue a master’s or Ph.D. while continuing to serve their DISD school. Nuñez will use the scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in the cooperative superintendency program at The University of Texas at Austin. A new Dallas ISD secondary school will be named in honor of the Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III, a community leader, social justice advocate and senior pastor of Friendship West Baptist Church in Oak Cliff. The school, which opens this fall, will be located on the campus of Paul Quinn College and serve students in grades 6-12 with plans to become an International Baccalaureate school. Starting next school year, all
DISD courses designated
as “pre-AP” will be classified instead as “honors” courses. Though the name is changing, DISD’s director of Advanced Academic Services Mitch Morken says the course content will stay the same.
Correction: A byline for photos taken at House of Dirt, on page 18 of the February Oak Cliff Advocate, should’ve read, “Photography by Kathy Tran.” The Advocate regrets the error. bLEACHERS, PLAYER BENCHES AND A NEW CONCRETE PAD are coming soon to the Kidd Springs Park basketball court thanks to neighbors who raised $18,000, plus a matching grant from the Home Court Program, a partnership between ESPN and the Local Initiatives Support Corp. The total $36,000 renovation will facilitate Dallas Youth League play. “In the 12 years that our group has been focusing on the park, we’ve been checking off things on our wish list, so it’s great to check one more thing off,” says Augustine Jalomo, president of Kidd Springs Central. “If you look at it, it’s a very sad court. It’s time to show it some love.” Donate to the project at dallasparksfoundation.org. Search “basketball
court” at oakcliff.advocatemag.com to read more.
THEN & NOW
For a building nearly destroyed by the famous 1957 Dallas tornado, she’s holding up pretty well. The Kessler Theater was boarded up when its current owner bought it over a decade ago. Besides extensive interior renovations, the marquee was reconstructed with impressive historic accuracy. Top photo, from the 1960s, courtesy of The Kessler, and 2015 photo courtesy of Jeffrey Liles.
COMING & GOING
[+] Casa del Vegano, a plantbased Tex-Mex restaurant, opened at Jefferson Tower in February, from the local owners of Vegan Food House. Open TuesdaySunday, the restaurant offers Beyond meat birria tacos as well as a menu of margaritas and palomas.
[+] Trinity Groves recently created a beer garden on Singleton Boulevard. A former valet parking lot was fenced in, with a shipping-container bar. Think Katy Trail Ice House and the Truck Yard. It’s not just good for owner Phil Romano’s bottom line, it’s also good ecology. They removed some impervious pavement and are planting 30 trees. The beer garden is expected to open this spring.
ONLY IN OAK CLIFF
Bernie Sanders was the “it guy” of the internet following his casual appearance at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January. And ABC Party knows how to jump on a trend. The locally owned shop, which also runs a produce stand, made national news with its Donald Trump piñatas in 2015, and owners Elvie and Carlos De La Fuente sold thousands of them to people all over the country. The Bernie mittens piñata costs $100, and for $150, it comes with a papier mâché chair.
RIFF ON THIS
Oak Cliff native Stevie Ray Vaughan’s first electric guitar goes to auction in April. A first cousin of Vaughan owned the guitar for many years, according to its Heritage Auction listing. It’s described as a 1957 Gibson ES-125T 3/4 sunburst arch-top guitar with nicks and indentations from heavy use. At least two other pieces of rock ‘n’ roll history are up for grabs in the sale: Dallas-born Rocky Erickson’s 1967 Gibson ES-335TD sunburst semi hollow-body guitar, which he once smashed into a wall and was restored in the 1970s. And the 1965 Fender Jazzmaster sunburst solid-body electric guitar that Jim Heath is holding, as well as the suit he is wearing, on the cover of the Reverend Horton Heat’s 1990 debut album, “Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em.”
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more.
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THE BEETLE COMING FOR OUR TREES
This striking insect could wipe out tens of thousands of trees in Dallas. The emerald ash borer, which has a 99.7% mortality rate for ash trees once infestation takes hold, has cost other cities millions of dollars. Chicago, for example, is spending at least $95 million to deal with destruction the bugs caused there. The pernicious beetle has reached Tarrant and Denton counties, and while it hasn’t been detected here yet, the City of Dallas is planning for its arrival. The emerald ash borer is native to northeastern Asia and was first detected in the United States in 2002. Since then, it has reached 35 states. The bug can annihilate virtually 100% of ash trees within five years. Losing thousands of trees could have a warming effect on our city, already a “heat island,” where an overabundance of paving can cause temperatures to be 10 degrees higher than nearby areas, says Brett Johnson, an urban biologist for the City of Dallas. Besides that, thousands of dead trees would create increased risk of fire and destruction from timber falling onto homes and businesses.
The Texas Forest Service has recommendations to slow the spread and mitigate damage. The city must inventory all of its ash trees before deciding whether to remove and replace as many ash trees as possible over five years, or take a reactive approach and cut down trees after they die. There’s also the possibility of treating the trees with insecticide. City Council could create a plan of attack by the end of this year.
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The Dallas Wings of the WNBA became the first team in league history to hold the top two draft picks in February, after trading Katy Lou Samuelson to the Seattle Storm for the No. 1 pick. The Wings are expected to select Texas native Charli Collier, who is a draft-eligible junior at the University of Texas at Austin.
— ANNEMARIE BRISTOW, READ MORE ABOUT THE WESTERN DIAMONDBACK THAT BIT HER ON PAGE 24.
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