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In The Kitchen

by: Lisa Parelli-Monaghan

The remodeling forecast indicates a continued rise in project numbers throughout the Metroplex. Through the pandemic, kitchens, offices, and home additions were the most requested areas for remodeling. Studies show that contractors are being hired most frequently (89% of the time) because remodels usually involve removing walls and opening spaces. Even though we have somewhat returned to our “new normal,” the supply chain is still a big issue causing contractors’ project backlogs. For example, it is taking nearly six months to get windows! Please be patient with your contractor as it may take up to six months before they can begin your work. As you plan your next remodeling project, consider these trends:

Top Colors: White and gray are still very popular, but warm colors are back! White continues to be the top choice for kitchen cabinets as well as backsplash or walls. Green is said to be the “BIG” color for 2022. Designers are excited about combining warm shades of green with natural wood elements such as oak and walnut. Darker, warm shades of gray will also be a hit.

Kitchen Islands: The open concept, combined kitchen and living spaces with a large kitchen island, continues to be popular. The kitchen island is no longer just for cooking. It has become a workspace. Islands are now stretching more than seven feet in length! Designers are using contrasting colors such as blue, black and green on kitchen islands to bring visual interest to the space.

Room Additions: As a result of the pandemic, homes are becoming multigenerational. Families now have grandparents living with them or children returning home, thereby creating the need for room additions, free-standing buildings and even garage conversions. Home Office: We have all likely done some type of “work from home” over the past two years. For some, it has become permanent and office space is important. The kitchen counter worked for a few months, but real workspace is needed. Remodelers are creating work spaces through closet conversions, splitting bedrooms by adding a wall, converting utility rooms and more. Homeowners are using every inch of space in their homes!

Outdoor Living Spaces: During the pandemic, we found that the only place we could safely entertain was outdoors. Homeowners continue to focus on outdoor kitchens, patios, decks, pergolas and garden beds as ways to create the perfect outside entertaining space.

Wallpaper: Just when we finally removed it all from our walls, wallpaper is back! Bold wallpaper statements create visual interest and colorful accents within a home. They are making great accent walls.

Business of the Month

Canyon Creek Postal

What is your name and the name of your business?

We are Anthony & Charmaine Brewer, and our business is Canyon Creek Postal.

How long have you been in business?

Canyon Creek Postal has been a gem in the community since the 1980's; however, we just acquired Canyon Creek Postal in September 2021.

Tell us about your business.

Canyon Creek Postal is a full-service shipping and packing facility. In addition to our partnerships with USPS, FedEx, DHL and LSO, we also offer a range of other convenient services: postal mailboxes, notary services, key duplication, faxing, scanning, shipping & office supplies, greeting cards and novelty items, just to name a few. We are proud to also partner with local Canyon Creek artisans through our consignment partnerships. We are conveniently located in the heart of the Canyon Creek Community. What inspired you to do what you do?

Our commitment to serving others is ultimately what inspires us most! We love helping the community and providing convenient services to our neighbors and customers. It gives us great pleasure to provide a friendly, calm and peaceful environment. We are inspired when our customers cross our threshold and greet us with smiles and compliments. We are also inspired when we can help our customers leave with the feeling of knowing they are in good hands.

Tell us a favorite story or two about your business.

One of our favorite stories is how we came to acquire the business. The process was seamless, and the business is closely aligned with who we are as people of service. It has been one of the easiest transitions we’ve made in a business endeavor.

Another one of our favorite stories is when we had Santa spend the day with us at Canyon Creek Postal. There was such an outpouring of support from the community. Our neighbors stopped by to take pictures with Santa, and we even had a few furry friends join in the festivities! We appreciated the support from our Canyon Creek community and fellow business owners, and we are looking forward to creating more memories.

How long have you lived in Canyon Creek?

Prior to moving to Sachse in 2020, we lived in Canyon Creek for fifteen years. We absolutely love this quaint, family-oriented neighborhood and have fond memories of our time here in Canyon Creek.

Why did you decide to start a business in Canyon Creek?

This opportunity literally landed in our lap! We were praying and searching for opportunities to continue to build a legacy for our family. When Dino presented us with the news that he was selling Canyon Creek Postal and asked if we would be interested, we were both shocked and excited! Since we were already familiar with the community,

it was a no brainer!

What do you love most about working in Canyon Creek?

We love the familiar faces, we love getting to know our neighbors, and we love that it feels like our home away from home! The spirit of the Canyon Creek Community is reflected in the people that live here! We love and take pride in this community. Our neighborhood is a catalyst and a model for other communities.

Tell us about your family.

Together we have five young adult children (four young men and one young lady ranging in age from 18-27) and one grandson. Anthony is a United States Navy Veteran born and raised in North Texas. Prior to acquiring Canyon Creek Postal, he worked in the environmental waste business. He also owned and operated an indoor

play center in Central Illinois. Charmaine was born in Tucson, Arizona, and raised between Arizona, California and Texas. She is currently the Branch Manager/Realtor® for Coldwell Banker Apex, Realtors. Her office is located in Richardson near the intersection of the George Bush Highway and Custer Parkway. Although our lives sometimes pull us in different directions, we make time to come together as a family.

Anything else you’d love for your neighbors to know about your business or you?

Yes! We want our neighbors to know how much we appreciate them for their continued support! We have received so many nice gestures, warm welcomes and sweet, thoughtful gifts as ways of welcoming us into the neighborhood. We are grateful!

Additionally, we are constantly looking for more ways to bring value and convenience to our friends, neighbors and customers.

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The Lee Family A Canyon Creek Love Story

by Patti Otte

If you or your family members have ever taken Tae Kwon Do or yoga in Richardson, you may have met Jason Lee or his lovely wife Katherine Galligan. Our Canyon Creek family of the month is the Lee family, which consists of Katherine, Jason and their two sons, Michael and Sean Galligan.

Katherine and Jason actually met at a Canyon Creek event! Circa 2010 they both attended the neighborhood II Creeks Festival, at which Jason had a booth for his martial arts school, Sun Lee Taekwondo. Katherine was considering Taekwondo for her two sons, and they all three enrolled a few years after this chance meeting. Katherine earned her black belt in 2017 which, coincidentally, was the same year she and Jason married. Master Jason, as he is known by his students, gave Katherine no free passes in her black belt quest, demanding the same level of perseverance and discipline he requires of everyone he instructs.

Prior to meeting Jason, Katherine moved to Canyon Creek the summer of 2004 with her children’s father. At the time she was expecting their first son, Michael. She’s been in the same house on Shady Brook Drive ever since. Michael and Sean are both teenagers now. Michael, seventeen, attends Great Lakes Academy in Plano as a junior. He loves basketball and is the co-captain of his team. Fifteen-year-old Sean attends Plano’s John Paul II as a freshman and has “found his stride” literally and figuratively running cross country and track for JP II. Both spent some of their elementary years at Aldridge, and Katherine sometimes longs for the sunny days when they would walk the few short blocks to school together.

The Lees love nature and camping, so many of their family vacations involve being outdoors. One summer the family took a trip to Grand Marais, Minnesota, and hit the single track mountain bike trails as novices. Totally out of their element with no cell service

photos courtesy of Kyla Obert

and not as much stamina as they thought, the crew made a wrong turn on a trail and found themselves having cycled an hour in the exact opposite direction of the bike rental shop. The weary group somehow found their way back but marked mountain biking off their list of preferred outdoor activities. It’s probably safe to say that you won’t see the Lee family tromping around the neighborhood in their cycling gear anytime soon…if ever!

Katherine enjoys the many neighborhood circles in which she’s been included: a “manifestation circle,” a yoga circle and an informal book club. Prior to selling the Richardson yoga studio she founded, Yoga Chikitsa (formerly known as Beach Mat Yoga), Katherine belonged to Neighborhood Network Services, a Canyon Creek networking group operated by Sandy Wolfe and her son Jeff Wolfe, a DFW real estate duo and longtime residents of Canyon Creek.

Katherine is now a private Ayurvedic Health Practitioner. Ayurveda is an alternative style of medicine that uses diet as the primary approach to healing, so one of Katherine’s offerings is nutritional guidance to heal and optimize her clients’ digestion. She also provides healthy, weeknight meals.

Similar to naturopathy, Ayurveda uses herbal medicine in lieu of pharmaceuticals for treatment of more serious diseases, which, according to Katherine, helps the body find longer lasting and true, root-cause healing. Katherine is grateful that she has found a way to match her passion for helping people with her career.

Jason owns Sun Lee Taekwondo, located on Campbell Road, and has operated the business since 2006. He grew up in his father’s dojang (TKD school); in his youth Jason competed many times as a junior and gained confidence and strength through both victories and losses. After college Jason looked back and realized that the true power of his martial arts journey had less to do with winning gold medals and more to do with the positive changes which had occurred within him. At that point Jason discovered his calling: to share his knowledge with the next generation.

At Sun Lee Taekwondo, Master Jason teaches his students the character development tools he himself has mastered so that

they, too, can achieve incremental physical and mental goals. Jason credits his success to the amazing teachers who taught him, including his father, and the embracing Taekwondo community.

Jason recently joined the Sumrok group, an organization which provides mentorship and investment opportunities in multifamily assets. The pandemic forced Jason to look at what life would be like if Taekwondo was no longer an option. According to Jason, “Not many people know that owning an apartment building is attainable or have not ventured past stock market and single family investments.” Through the Sumrok group, Jason hopes to again transfer knowledge that has been shared with him.

Katherine and Jason have increasingly realized the importance of allowing time for themselves and their family. They shared, “It’s so easy in our culture to let career totally dominate life; as we get older and wiser, we want to achieve balance and personal enjoyment (not to mention mental health)!” Jason loves to fish, camp and golf. You’ll often find him at Canyon Creek Country Club with his friends from the neighborhood. Cooking, yoga and reading are Katherine’s three favorite activities. She does at least one of the three daily.

As for neighborhood destinations, the Prairie Creek nature trail is easily their favorite. Like so many other Canyon Creek residents, the Lee family has taken a holiday family photo by the Prairie Creek waterfall. They take daily walks with Bagel, their beloved family puggle (a cross between a beagle and a pug), while Penny the pitbull keeps watch at home. They also love to walk the opposite direction to the shops at II Creeks — especially to Sweet Firefly!

In their free time, the family enjoys relaxing together. They all have busy schedules, so “movie nights” are a big treat. According to Jason, what really happens during family movie night is that he, Katherine, and Sean make popcorn “with so much butter [they] could get arrested.” Katherine then falls asleep within the first ten minutes of the movie and, unless it’s a gripping and riveting film, both teens eventually retire to their respective video games.

Like many other folks, the Lee family holds periodic meetings to discuss important matters such as traditions. As a blended family, Katherine, Jason and their boys have let go of some previously held customs while redefining others such as the Korean New Year celebration at Jason’s parents’ home. His mom cooks delicious traditional dishes such as seaweed soup with mandu (dumplings), Korean pancakes, and chapchae (buckwheat noodles with veggies) for the occasion. The most memorable part of the evening occurs when the family, dressed in traditional Korean “hanboks,” bows to their elders. The elders, in turn, review the year and offer encouraging advice for the year to come; all the children get new year’s money!

Most of the Lee family’s other festivities revolve around food. They host at least one crawfish boil in their backyard during crawfish season, partake in major Super Bowl comfort-food “naughtiness,” smoke something in Jason’s favorite pellet grill at least once a week, and often enjoy Katherine’s delicious non-Ayurvedic cookies.

Katherine and Jason have enjoyed the neighborhood’s exciting evolution: the influx of young families, lots of children and plenty of new construction. They deeply cherish being a part of Canyon Creek. States Jason, “The qualities of the collective community, such as support, courtesy, generosity and respect, are ones we strive to teach on the Taekwondo mats. One of the lessons taught in martial arts is the bow. We start class with a bow and end with a bow to emphasize the concept of courtesy, which we believe is key to relationships.” Katherine and Jason feel in comfortable alignment living here, appreciating their kind and considerate neighbors, a refreshing contrast to an “every man for himself” mentality. They continue to be touched by the displays of support people tirelessly give in Canyon Creek and are grateful to live in such an incredible place.

photos courtesy of Kyla Obert

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Merrick Russell

Tell us your name, what school you currently attend, and what year you are in school.

My name is Merrick Russell. I’m currently attending Shelton High School. I’m still a freshman (9th grade).

What other schools have you attended?

Aldridge Elementary School (Kindergarten through 5th grade)

Tell us what sports or activities you are involved in and why you enjoy them.

My sports are Taekwondo sparring at Sun Lee Taekwondo and high school basketball at Shelton.

photos provided by Clarke Russell

Brag on yourself: Tell us your honors and awards in school. 2021 U.S. Taekwondo Sparring Nationals, world-class black-belt division 2021 Sun Lee Taekwondo, earned black belt 2019 U.S. Taekwondo Sparring Nationals, gold, blue-belt division 2022 School Basketball, Varsity Team 2021 School Basketball, Team Offensive Player of the Year 2020 School Basketball, Team MVP

What’s your favorite subject in school?

My favorite subject is Math.

Tell us about your plans after graduation.

No plans yet.

Outside of schools and sports, what do you do for fun, hobbies, work, etc.?

I love playing video games and hanging out with my friends.

How long have you lived in Canyon Creek?

I’ve lived in the neighborhood my whole life.

What do you love most about living in Canyon Creek?

I’ve made close friends in Canyon Creek and know so many people. I like to go to II Creeks for the restaurants, especially Shady’s and Dos Arroyos (Frankie’s). Also, I’m glad Sun Lee Taekwondo is so close because it’s been a big part of my life for the last five years and so many kids from the neighborhood also go to Sun Lee.

Tells us a favorite story or two about a big moment or fun moment playing your sport.

My biggest moment in sports was competing in the 2021 Taekwondo U.S. Nationals as a world-class black belt in the Alamodome in San Antonio. It was my first year to compete at that level, and I was pretty nervous because those are the guys who might be in the Olympics one day. But once the bell rang to start fighting, training kicked in, all my nerves went away, and I did well.

Share with us a funny or awesome story of living in Canyon Creek.

There are so many great neighborhood memories: trick-or-treating in the neighborhood, the 4th of July parade, riding bikes with my friend Cyrus to Starbucks at UTD, meeting friends at II Creeks, swimming at our neighbor’s house all summer, and many more.

Anything else you would love for your neighbors to know about you?

I have two big brothers, Malcolm and Beck, who also grew up in Canyon Creek.

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