A group of peacocks and peahens call the Greenhill School’s campus home. Read more on page 18. Photography by Lauren Allen.
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IN PERFECT HARMONY
David and Vanessa Cain are helping the Dallas Symphony Orchestra celebrate its 125th anniversary as its gala co-chairs
Story by NIKI GUMMADI
Photography by GABRIEL CANO
As co-chairs of this year’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra Gala, Preston Hollow neighbors David and Vanessa Cain are helping the DSO celebrate its 125th anniversary on Oct. 4. With deep Dallas roots and a shared passion for the symphony, the couple is inviting the next generation of music lovers to the Meyerson Symphony Center.
HOW DID YOU TWO MEET?
DAVID : We met in eighth grade. She was at Hockaday. I was at St. Mark’s. Unfortunately, after ninth grade, I moved away. We reconnected when I was 30 years old. I was working for the Richards Group here in Dallas, and I was just working here for the summer between my first and second year of business school in California. We reconnected during that summer, and then I graduated and got a couple job offers, but nothing was as appealing as trying to make it work with this cute girl in Dallas. So, I came back here, and two kids later, the rest is history.
HOW WERE YOU FIRST INTRODUCED TO THE DSO?
VANESSA : My parents were taking me to see the orchestra since before I can remember, before they moved to the Meyerson in 1989. I grew up going to the symphony, then I went away for college, but I’d always come back and go to concerts with my parents. I joined the board in 2021, but yeah, my earliest memories go back to childhood.
DAVID : My parents also took me when I was a young kid, but my first memories were with my class visits. We absolutely love how they get kids involved with the symphony. It’s one of my favorite parts.
WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO GET INVOLVED WITH THE ORGANIZATION AS ADULTS?
VANESSA : I really wanted to bring exposure of the DSO to my friends, my peer group, my colleagues. I wanted to bring some youth to the audience and to get my friend group to know about the community, the community outreach programs that the DSO does, what we’re raising money for at the gala, and so I joined the board.
DO YOU BRING YOUR KIDS TO THE DSO, TOO?
DAVID : We have. I think we did a Harry Potter series where they show the movie on screen, and then they have a live orchestra behind it. The kids paid attention, enjoyed the movie, loved the music. It was a good moment. I felt like a good dad in that moment.
VANESSA : Two years ago, I started booking a block of tickets for the Christmas concerts. One year, it was Polar Express. Last year, it was Elf , and this year, it’ll be Home Alone . I got a block of tickets for my daughter’s friend group at a discount. So, we get a big group of girls and moms and dads, and by the end of the movie, the girls are all singing the holiday songs and everybody’s really happy. So I think I’m going to try and carry that tradition on as long as we have believers.
HOW IS THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DSO PLAYING INTO YOUR GALA PLANNING?
VANESSA : I want to keep some surprises, but we’re going to have a visual element to honor the past and weave it together with the future. The night will kind of progress in a way that we’ll be looking into and celebrating the future of the DSO.
WHAT WAS THE PROCESS LIKE FOR PLANNING THIS GALA?
DAVID : There’s a lot of help with the organization from the administration inside the DSO. We’ve had multiple meetings with designers, accountants, marketing people. The hard part is really asking friends to donate. You know, everybody works hard for their money. It’s not easy, but it’s for a good cause. You have to put your ego aside and just start asking people to celebrate a great organization.
VANESSA : It’s been fun to see people support the gala, support the beneficiaries, support us. I think a big goal is to not just have these people come and support the mission this year and that night but to keep them coming back to the Meyerson.
WHO ARE THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE GALA?
VANESSA : There are two youth programs: the Young Strings and the Young Musicians. What’s really inspiring and what I did not know was that 100% of the kids from Young Strings graduate high school. So then they can really pursue these careers in music that they might not have otherwise been able to do, and it’s a very competitive world to get into. The gala also supports various parks concerts throughout the city, so it brings exposure to the symphony that way.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO STILL BE INVOLVED WITH THE DSO?
DAVID : There’s nothing more valuable than enriching a kid’s life. Inspiring them to the arts is always a noble goal. If kids find a purpose to make beautiful music, it gives them a positive thing to focus on and work on and helps them become a better human being altogether.
VANESSA : Getting to know the beneficiaries really gives us a sense of purpose for what we’re doing. It’s not just a big party. It’s about giving back.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
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SCOUT’S HONOR
How a patch of grass became a place for Parsons House residents to connect with pets
Story by NIKI GUMMADI
When Mason Moore started planning his Eagle Scout Service Project, his mom had one requirement.
“My mom said, ‘You’re going to do a real, meaningful project. Something real that can help,’” Moore says.
The Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas senior took that to heart. After months of planning, fundraising and building, Moore was able to turn a once-empty patch of grass in the backyard of senior living facility Parsons House into a dog park, which is now a favorite gathering spot for residents, their families and their furry friends.
Moore was first introduced to Parsons House by his mother, whose role in the service office at Jesuit gave her a relationship with the facility. He sat down with Lynn Clark Bergman, the director of marketing and communications at Parsons House, to learn more about how he could help the residents.
Bergman shared with him the story of a resident whose family had gifted him a dog to give him companionship after his wife passed away. She said that despite the family’s good intentions, it became stressful for him to care for and let the dog out, as he uses a walker.
“I was like, it would have been so nice if we had a place where he could have sat down on the bench and just relaxed with his dog,” Bergman says.
At the time, the facility’s staff was also considering getting a community dog, but there was no good place to take it outside. Moore says that after this conversation, he decided on building a dog park.
Through fundraising from family and friends, Moore was able to raise $2,000, just enough to cover the $1,930 needed for the park. He constructed a 25-by-30 foot fence around the park and installed two benches for residents to use.
Parsons Paw Park officially opened with a “Rib-Bone” Cutting Ceremony on June 14. The event was sponsored by Raising Cane’s and featured a dog adoption day in collaboration with Dallas Pets Alive! and the Humane Society of Dallas County.
“The opening ceremony was people of all ages, from literally a few months old to many of the residents,” Moore
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says. “It was just still so cohesive. Everyone was together. It was a really cool experience to see everyone just gel as well as they did for an event like that.”
Since the opening of Parsons Paw Park, residents and families alike have felt a difference.
Tim Elsner and Chris Grabowy, whose mother, Helen, lives in Parsons House, have found it easier to bring their dogs for visits, much to the delight of the residents.
“When we come in with the dogs, the residents just light up,” Elsner says.
No current residents own dogs — though Parsons House allows them to if they are able to take care of them — but the dog park has allowed for more visits from therapy dogs, staff members’ dogs and dogs belonging to the residents’ families. Bergman says this can be a help for those still getting used to living in Parsons House.
“Just knowing the dog can come and visit makes it a lot easier for that separation,” she says.
Parsons House resident Susan Shamburger, whose son visits weekly with his dog Bently, says even those residents whose families don’t have dogs have been able to benefit. With only 58 people living in the facility, the residents have gotten to know each other’s families, including their dogs.
“A lot of people that don’t really have that much to do with the dog ask about the dog all the time,” Shamburger says. “They’ll say, ‘Is there anything the dog needs?’ And they’re more than willing to help out in the way that they can.”
Parsons Paw Park fits right in to the dog-friendly culture Parsons House curates. Residents are able to take part in activities like making dog treats or events like Wag & Wine, which was held on Aug. 26 to celebrate National Dog Day. The event was sponsored by Waters Edge Winery, who gave 10% of proceeds from the event’s wine sales to Dallas Pets Alive! and the Humane Society of Dallas County. Bergman says they are currently planning to host another adoption day in the fall.
For now, though, Parsons Paw Park seems to be doing what Moore sought out to do, giving residents a space to relax and spend time with family and furry friends alike.
Photos courtesy of Parsons House Preston Hollow.
Frenchie owner Stephen Courseau says the Provençale Tomato Tart, served with goat cheese and basil, is a classic dish in the south of France.
TRAVIS STREET TAKES A NEW TURN
Frenchie is where Paris meets Preston Hollow
Story by NIKI GUMMADI | Photography by KATHY TRAN
With The Plaza at Preston Center’s newest restaurant, Stephan Courseau is thinking outside of the Knox.
Frenchie is the newest concept from Travis Street Hospitality, the group responsible for some of Dallas’ most popular French concepts like Le Bilboquet, Knox Bistro and Les PasSage. It is the reflection of Travis Street co-founder Courseau’s culinary and personal journey, from France to New York to Dallas.
“Yes, I’m French. I had to adapt, but I’ve been in this country 35 years. I’m also American, and Frenchie is who we became today,” he says.
Frenchie is the first of the group’s restaurants not located in the Knox-Henderson area. It is also, Courseau says, exactly the type of restaurant he has wanted to build for years.
Courseau first got his start in the culinary scene as a waiter in Paris before moving to New York. After a couple of years in the restaurant industry there, Courseau moved to Dallas and brought with him the French bistro Le Bilboquet. The original restaurant was in New York, and the owner — a friend of Courseau’s — let him franchise it.
Though Le Bilboquet was met with success, Courseau says he felt like it was too intimidating for some people, so he sought to create a more laid-back, café-style restaurant with Knox Bistro. After struggling to get enough people in the door for dinner, they were forced to pivot to “something a little bit more established.”
Diners can enjoy some French classics like steak frites, served with a house-made entrecôte sauce.
The idea of doing a Parisian-style café, however, stuck with Courseau. When The Plaza at Preston Center called and asked if he would be interested in opening a restaurant there, he saw it as the perfect opportunity.
“I like that Preston Center, even though it’s in the middle of a very affluent area, it’s also kind of, I don’t want to say laid-back, but it’s more like family-oriented,” he says.
This helped cement the casual atmosphere of Frenchie when the restaurant concept was still being created. It’s a place where you can go for great food, but you don’t have to worry about what to wear. Courseau says he also appreciated the opportunity to branch out from his usual area.
“Being in one neighborhood, you’re always afraid to cannibalize yourself,” he says.
The menu is still very French, but it has an American influence that Courseau gained from his time in the U.S., which he says helped him better understand what American customers want. Still, he was excited to bring in a few dishes that American customers don’t typically see, which he says have been well received.
One such dish is leeks vinaigrette, which Courseau says is a bistro staple in France. At Frenchie, the dish is called Leeks Dijonnaise ($14) and is served with a chopped hardboiled egg and hazelnut on top. Courseau says he is also particularly fond of the provençale tomato tart ($14), which features tomatoes and goat cheese served warm on a flaky pastry, topped with basil and olive oil.
Diners at Frenchie can also expect the high level of service that has come to define Travis Street Hospitality ventures. Courseau says trying to build a company culture where people are happy to come to work is what has helped sustain this culture of hospitality at each of his businesses.
“You never stop, in other words, building the culture. You never stop training people. But as you grow, you get the help of all the people that do care because it’s their culture as well,” he says.
After working in the culinary industry for so long, and holding almost every position one can have in a restaurant, Courseau says he most enjoys making his customers happy and ensuring they enjoy their experiences at his restaurants.
“The way I look at it, I am letting people into my home,” he says.
Frenchie, 8420 Preston Center Plaza, 214.377.8652, frenchiedallas.com
The Frenchie menu was inspired by the cafés of Paris but features an American twist.
MOREATHAN MASCOT
Animals have become part of the community at these local schools
Story by NIKI GUMMADI
Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
If you’re looking for the cheapest eggs in town, you might have to wait in the carpool line.
At The Lamplighter School, a classic red barn houses around 30 chickens alongside a classroom where a group of 10-year-olds runs their own egg-selling business.
The school, where students can start as young as three years old and go through fourth grade, is home to the Lamplighter Layers Corporation, which is entirely managed by the school’s fourth-grade students, or “seniors,” as they are called at Lamplighter. Each week, the seniors collect, clean and package eggs to be sold to the community during Friday carpool. Lamplighter Layers has held prices steady at $5 a dozen since it began in 1970.
Animals have been a part of the campus since the school’s founding in 1953, long before Lamplighter Layers began. Before a 1969 move to the current Inwood Road location, the original campus was a North Dallas farmhouse. Landy Fox, Lamplighter’s director of marketing and communications, says that the old farmhouse continues to shape the student experience today.
“Animals were always present on campus, so the kids always had the joy of watching them grow through the year and kind of building those social, emotional skills,” she says.
Lamplighter Layers offers students a hands-on lesson in running a business. Each year, seniors form committees, including a finance committee and a communications committee, to help manage operations. At the end of the year, profits are either divided among the shareholders or donated to a charity of the students’ choosing, which
Fox says is typically a cause supporting animals.
In the spring, third graders participate in a tradition meant to prepare them for their upcoming leadership role on campus. After spending the year researching chicken breeds, they are able to vote on which chickens they want to care for as seniors. The baby chicks are brought in and housed in an incubator, and in May, the soon-to-be seniors carry the chicks from their incubators to the coop. When the students return to campus in the fall, they officially become part of Lamplighter Layers.
The barnyard isn’t reserved for chickens alone. Each year, the school’s facilities team works with a farm in East Texas to bring five farm animals to live on campus for the year.
Past barn animals have included cows, pigs, goats, donkeys, ponies and llamas, the latter of which was new last year. This year, Lamplighter students are sharing their campus with a llama, two goats and two potbelly pigs.
The barn animals provide an opportunity for the younger students to get involved.
Each November, typically around Election Day, Lamplighter holds a voting day in which the Pre-K, kindergarten and transitional first grade students vote on names for the new animals. Whether the students choose “Fluffy the Goat” or “Spider-Man Lightning,” which Fox says has been a popular name in the past, the tradition is meant to introduce young students to the voting process. After the votes
are tallied, winning names are announced over the loudspeaker to the cheers of the students.
The school’s facilities team takes care of the animals on a daily basis, but students can often be seen spending recess feeding them Cheerios or blades of grass pulled from the ground.
Lamplighter COO Sydney Allen says that beyond being part of tradition, the chickens and other barn animals reinforce the school’s emphasis on a connection to nature. The students take environmental science annually, and the barnyard helps bring those lessons to life.
“It kind of teaches children to get out beyond themselves and watch the progression of an animal growing from a baby to an older animal,” Allen says.
By Friday afternoon, the Lamplighter seniors can look forward to another week in the barnyard running their business. They know that even with their competitive prices, those $5-a-dozen eggs won’t sell themselves.
If you’ve spent any time at Greenhill School, you’ve probably heard it before you’ve seen it: a piercing, unmistakable screech. It’s not a student late to class or a new bell system. It’s one of eight peafowls (plus one chick) who call the campus home.
More than pets but not quite mascots, these birds are full-fledged residents of Greenhill’s campus. The females and babies freely wander around, but the males each have their own “territories” on campus. Toby Row, who takes care of the birds, says the males will sometimes leave their areas to head down to the Lower School, where the younger students may drop their Goldfish or granola bars.
According to English teacher and Associate Head of School Tom Perryman, who graduated from Greenhill in 1981, the peacocks joined the school shortly after its founding. When Greenhill moved from its original location in Preston Hollow to its current campus in 1959, the land was still entirely farmland, complete with horses and goats.
Not long after, in the mid ’60s, a faculty member overheard some construction workers mentioning they needed to rehome a group of peacocks. The faculty member offered to have the birds join the other animals already living on campus. The peacocks found their way to Greenhill shortly after — and never left.
Today, the flock includes five males, three females and a baby. Elvis, Pedro and Luke all have the traditional blue and green plumage of the Indian peacock. They share the grounds with Shadow, who has dark grey feathers, and Piper, whose feathers are multicolored.
Row feeds them daily with a mix of cat food, bird seed, peanuts and fruit.
Despite the open campus, the peacocks rarely stray too far. They will sometimes fly over the fence to explore the surrounding neighborhood, but they always come back. Their presence is
something students likely won’t forget, even years after they graduate.
“It’s just permanently there in your mind,” Perryman says. “You never forget that sound once you’ve heard it, and it just becomes kind of part of the aura, the atmosphere of the place.”
While their presence may seem effortless, maintaining the flock requires some strategy. Because the population is closed, there is ongoing concern about inbreeding. In the 1990s, a repatriation effort led by a Greenhill mom researched different subspecies and helped bring in new birds to restore the diversity of the group.
Today, that care is even more intentional. Facilities and security teams monitor the birds. Each year, about five or six babies are hatched and are donated to farms to avoid overpopulation and crossbreeding.
And while the birds are beloved, they aren’t without their challenges.
“You don’t want to know how much we spend on power washing, seriously,” Perryman says with a laugh.
Greenhill students quickly become accustomed to their school’s most colorful residents, passing by them on the sidewalks on their way to class. For many, like Perryman, the peacocks have become a fact of life at Greenhill.
“I’ve been here since the late ’60s, so these birds are just kind of part of my growing up,” he says.
Lukas Edward Henry may be the most popular staff member at The Episcopal School of Dallas. He can often be found walking around campus, donning his ESD staff badge and Campbell plaid, matching the students in their uniforms. He may wear a staff badge, but he’s not a teacher or an administrator.
He’s a Bernese Mountain Dog.
Last month, Lukas started his second full school year as ESD’s certified therapy dog. He lives on campus with his owner, head of security Jody Trumble, who trained Lukas for his therapy dog certification. Trumble says she has always been a fan of how dog therapy “can help calm the soul.”
The decision to train a therapy dog herself came shortly after the ESD community lost a student and teacher in the same weekend in 2023. In the days that followed, Trumble reached out to a friend at Heart of Texas Therapy Dogs and arranged for several therapy dogs to visit campus with their handlers.
“The kids, they needed it,” she says. “It was really great to see how that helped them through the grieving process.”
After researching different breeds, Trumble traveled to Tulsa to get her new trainee. She originally had a different puppy picked out, but when she arrived, Lukas came over and laid between her feet. She took him home and began his year of training.
To get certified by the Alliance of Therapy Dogs, Lukas had to wait until he turned 1 year old and passed a vet check before he could start his skills tests. These supervised tests happened at busy places like Home Depot and Lowe’s, which provided distracting stimuli that Lukas had to ignore. After completing his final two skills tests at medical facilities, Lukas was officially certified.
In addition to his training, Lukas seems to have a natural inclination to his job as a therapy dog.
“He gets it. I don’t know how to describe it, really, but if a kid’s having a bad day, he knows. And his reaction is different based on how the kid responds to him,” she says.
Since his arrival on campus, Lukas has developed a “cult following.” Trumble says when she does work in the study commons, older students will often settle on the floor next to her and play with Lukas. In the afternoons, she will stand in the hallways with Lukas while students give him what she calls “drive-by pets” on their way to lunch.
“When I walk out into the playground area or anywhere where the kids are at, there’s just a chorus of his name,” Trumble says.
He has his own calendar, which staff can use to request his presence in their classroom or special events. Lukas helps students with academic services, like keeping students company during testing. Lower School students often read to him, especially those who are too shy or have difficulty with reading out loud.
“He really increases their con-
fidence because everybody wants to read to Lukas ... He’s pretty non-judgmental,” Trumble says.
When he’s not on the job, Lukas can be found walking around campus with Trumble, often attending school events like football games.
The school’s director of wellness Cara Holmes says she has noticed a difference in the school community since Lukas joined.
“I just think he brings a shared sense of joy for all people on campus, students, parents, faculty and staff,” she says. “Because he lives on campus, I feel like his presence is always felt, whether he’s actually here that day or not.”
According to Trumble, the response to Lukas has been entirely positive since he was first introduced to the parents board last year.
“Not everyone is a dog person, so I kind of thought, well, someone will probably say that they’re concerned. And we’ve not had any of that. I mean, it’s been so overwhelmingly positive,” she says.
According to Holmes, central to the school’s identity is caring
for the whole student, which includes emotional wellness. She says having Lukas around has helped students embrace this philosophy.
“I think it’s been a great model of empathy and care especially for our younger students,” she says. “How do you approach another living being? How do you care for them? How do you show them kindness and compassion and acceptance? And he does a beautiful job at that.”
Lukas has also helped Trumble in her role as head of security. She says that her goal is that every person on campus knows who she is, so they can recognize her as a trusted figure in case of an emergency.
“To have that trust and rapport that I’m not going to ask you to do something or lead you
somewhere that’s going to be bad. Sometimes that concept for little littles is hard to understand or scary,” she says. “And so he serves a purpose on that, too. Everyone knows who I am because I’m with Lukas.”
Lukas has become an easily recognized figure among the ESD community. The Eagle’s Nest, ESD’s on-campus school store, sells T-shirts featuring Lukas’ face alongside stuffed animals bearing his likeness. This celebrity status is in no small part due to his natural ability to connect with those around him.
Holmes says, “Despite his size, he is the gentle embodiment of kindness and unconditional acceptance. He has the perfect temperament.”
THE ART OF BEING SEEN
Emily McShane is making room for underrepresented voices — one frame at a time
Story by NIKI GUMMADI
Photography by RAE OVERMAN
when Emily McShane’s fifth grade classmates were asked “Which college do you want to go to?” most answered with the expected “UT,” “A&M” or maybe “Harvard.” McShane, however, said she wanted to attend the Ringling College of Art and Design, where she could study at one of the country’s top-rated animation programs.
Now, seven years later, the recent Hockaday School graduate’s love for animation is winning her awards. In October 2024, McShane’s new animated film Crushed won the Emerging Artist award at the All American High School Film Festival in New York City.
Crushed follows the story of Alyvia, a student who develops a crush on her classmate after starting at a new school. The pair grow close, and Alyvia finds the courage to come out to her classmate and reveal her true feelings, only to be met with rejection. After making her first film I Love You So Mush about queer joy, McShane says she wanted Crushed to be about a difficult reality that a lot of queer teens could relate to.
“Even though it’s literally about rejection and one of the tough parts about being queer, which is coming out about your feelings, it’s more than just popping a question about a crush. It could literally make or break a relationship that you have built with people,” she says.
This film is a fitting addition to McShane’s filmography, which is filled with animation and visual designs that aim to show underrepresented and diverse voices. McShane says she started thinking about the social impact her art could have while in middle school. At the time, her mom showed her a virtual gallery opening that featured works that were all about the current state of the Black Lives Matter movement. Ever since then, she says, she has been intentional with her art, especially with Crushed
“It’s very important to me that, like, art is very political, and since I have this platform of making the film, it’s important to me that I use it to make a statement,” she says. McShane has always been a self-taught
artist. She says she has loved making art for as long as she can remember and was always “drawing on scrap paper on every possible surface that I could.” In elementary school, she did her first film festival. Her first art award came in the second grade during a district-wide art competition, which she says affirmed her skills as an artist.
Though there weren’t many opportunities for her to pursue art in middle school, McShane continued to develop her skills at home. When she reached Hockaday for high school, McShane says she was given the opportunity to explore more disciplines. She joined music clubs, the school musical, started taking dance lessons and even joined the drill team. Her passion, however, remained with film and visual design.
McShane began applying for art-focused internships and submitting her work to competitions and festivals. She was a teen ambassador at the Dallas Museum of Art and attended the Ringling PreCollege program. Her art has earned her a number of honors and awards, including the
YoungArts Merit in Film in 2023.
To stay within the film’s budget, McShane did all of the writing, editing and directing herself. For other aspects of the film, she tapped the talents of friends also involved in the arts. After one friend helped her edit the script, others were cast as actors and met with McShane whenever they had free time during the school day to film their lines. A musically-inclined friend from elementary school composed the film’s original score.
The film took McShane six months overall to finish and submit to competitions, but she continued to make small changes on it for a couple of months until she felt it was ready. Though the making of Crushed was time consuming, with McShane sometimes having to work 30-40 hours a week on it, she says, “If you love something so much, there will always be time for it.”
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!!OLD GUITARS WANTED!! Gibson, Fender, Martin, Etc. 1930’s to 1980’s. Top Dollar Paid. 1-866 -433-8277
SALE: FULL SIZE BED. $400. Bed frame, headboard, box spring, mattress, Good Condition. 469-363-2480
CABINETRY & FURNITURE
JD’S TREE SERVICE Mantels, Headboards, Kitchen Islands, Dining tables. Made from Local Trees. www.jdtreeservice.com 214-946-7138
Relax ...We’ll Clean Your House, It Will Be Your Favorite Day! Bonded & Insurance. Free Estimates. 214-929-8413. www. altogetherclean.net
CINDY’S HOUSE CLEANING 15 yrs exp. Resd/Com. Refs. Dependable. 214-490-0133
WANTED HOUSES TO CLEAN. Organize, De-clutter, pack +more. Dependable, Thorough,Honest, Great Refs,15yrs.Exp. Sunny 972-487-6599 / 214-724-2555
WINDOW CLEANING Power washing No Job To Small. 30 Yrs exp. 214-360-0120
COMPUTERS & ELECTRONICS
CONFUSED? FRUSTRATED? Let a seasoned pro be the interface between you & that pesky Windows computer. Hardware/Software Installation, Troubleshooting, Training. $100/hr. 1 hr min. Dan 972-639-6413 / stykidan@sbcglobal.net
NEED HELP WITH YOUR COMPUTER, Smartphone or Smart Home? My Tech Guy Harvey. 214-770-2598. hmccall@mtgharvey.com.
CONCRETE, MASONRY & PAVING
ADVANCE STONE ART CREATIONS
Decorative Concrete Overlays. 214-705-5954
CONCRETE, RETAINING WALLS 25 yrs exp. T&M Construction, Inc. 214-328-6401
#1 WHITE ROCK TREE WIZARDS Professionals, Experts, Artists serving Dallas 15 years.Trim, Removals. Tree Health Care services. Insured. Arborwizard.com. Free Est. (972) 803-6313.
A BETTER TREE MAN Trims, Removals, Insd. 18 Yrs Exp. Roberts Tree Service. 214-808-8925 Lawns, Gardens & Trees
DAVIS LAWN CARE, LLC
580-222-4909 or davislawncare214@yahoo.com Serving Lake Highlands & Lakewood.
PAT TORRES 214-388-1850 Lawn Service & Tree Care. 28 Yrs. Complete Landscape Renovation. New Fence Install & Brick Repair. Concrete Removal and Gutter Cleaning.
RED SUN LANDSCAPES • 214-935-9779 RedSunLandscapes.com
RGC - STORM WATER MANAGEMENT drainage solutions 214-477-8977
TAYLOR MADE IRRIGATION Repairs, service, drains. 30+ years exp. Ll 6295 469-853-2326. John
WALTON’S GARDEN CENTER
Stop in for home decor, candles, house plants, succulents and more. It’s time to plan for spring. Call us for design, prep and plantings! 8652 Garland Road 214.321.2387
WHERE DID YOUR MONEY GO? Bookkeeping Services for small businesses & Personal. Financial organizing. Quicken & other programs. Sharon 214-679-9688
RE AL ESTATE
ESTATE HOME NEEDS TO BE SOLD? Facing forclosure? IG Heron Homes Call Ricardo Garza @ 469-426-7839
FOR RENT Little Forest Hills 2/1 Single Family Home w/fence. $1,600mo. $1,600 deposit. Cheryl. 214-235-1399
GARDEN OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT Walnut Hill @ CENTRAL.3 Smaller Suites Avail. Flexible Terms 214.915. 8886
REMODELING
BO HANDYMAN Specializing In Historic Home Renovations & Pro Remodels. Custom Carpentry, Doors, Kitchens, Baths & more. 214-437-9730
FENN CONSTRUCTION Kitchens And Baths. Call Us For Your Remodeling Needs. 214-343-4645. dallastileman.com
RENOVATE DALLAS renovatedallas.com 214-403-7247
S&L CONSTRUCTION All Home Services & Repairs. 214-918-8427
| Garrett A. Heckman, Esq. Indian Wells, www.heckmalawpc.com, 760.636.3508 ORGANIZATION
A CHARMING HOME Decluttering + Organizing + Styling acharminghome.co 214-794-6382 PEST CONTROL
MOSQUITO SHIELD 972–850-2983
Imagine A Night Outside Without Mosquitoes NATURE KING PEST MANAGEMENT INC. All types of Pest control. Natureking.com Natureking.com. 5 Star rating on Google 30+yrs. Exp. 214-827-0090. "Keeping Children & Pets in Mind" Termite Specialist - Mosquito Mister Systems Licensed · Insured · Residential · Commercial · Organic 214-350-3595 • Abetterearth.crw@gmail.com abetterearth.com
AGING ROOF? New Homeowner? Got Storm Damage? You need a local expert provider that proudly stands behind their work. Fast, free estimate. Financing Available.1-888-878-9091.
BATH & SHOWER UPDATES in as little as ONE DAY! Affordable prices - No payments for 18 months! Lifetime warranty & professional installs. Senior & Military Discounts available. Call: 877-543-9189
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DIRECTV STREAM - Carries the most local MLB Games! ChoicePackage $89.99/mo for 12 mos Stream on 20 devices at once.HBO Max included for 3 mos (w/Choice Package or higher.)No contract or hidden fees! Some restrictions apply. Call IVS 1-866-859-0405
DONATE YOUR CARS TO VETERANS TODAY. Help and Support our Veterans. Fast - FREE pick up. 100% tax deductible. Call 1-800 -245-0398
AC PLUMBING Repairs, Fixtures, Senior Discounts. Gary Campbell. 214-321-5943
staggsplumbing.co
CERULEAN
Kitchens, Bathrooms, Windows, Doors, Siding, Decks, Fences, Retaining Walls, New Construction
New Construction & Remodels FiferCustomHomes.com• 214-727-7075
ELIMINATE GUTTER CLEANING FOREVER! LeafFilter, the most advanced debris-blocking gutter protection. Schedule a FREE LeafFilter estimate today. 15% off Entire Purchase. 10% Senior & Military Discounts. Call 1-855-402-0373
GENERAC Prepare for power outages today with a GENERAC home standby generator $0 Down + Low Monthly Pmt. Request a free Quote. Call before the next power outage: 1-844-334 -8353 GET DISH SATELLITE TV +INTERNET Free Install, Free HD-DVR Upgrade, 80,000 On-Demand Movies, Plus Limited Time Up To $600 In Gift Cards. Call Today! 1-866-479-1516
HUGHESNET Finally, super-fast internet no matter where you live.25 Mbps just $59.99/mo! Unlimited Data is Here. Stream Video. Bundle TV & Internet. Free Installation. Call 866-499 -0141
PROFESSIONAL LAWN SERVICE:
Fertilization, weed control, seeding, aeration & mosquito control. Call now for a free quote. Ask about our first application special! 1-833-606-6777
REPLACE your roof with the best looking & longest lasting material steel from Erie Metal Roofs! 3 styles & multiple colors available. Guaranteed to last a lifetime! Limited Time Offer up to 50% off install + Additional 10% off install. (military, health &1st responders.) 1-833-370-1234
SAFE STEP North America's #1 Walk-in tub. Comprehensive lifetime warranty. Top-of-theline installation and service. Now featuring our free shower package & $1600 off - limited time! Financing available. 1-855-417-1306
THE GENERAC PWRCELL, a solar plus battery storage system. SAVE money, reduce your reliance on the grid, prepare for power outages and power your home. Full installation services
WATER DAMAGE
cleanup & restoration: A small amount of water can lead to major damage and mold growth in your home. Our trusted professionals do complete repairs to protect your family and your home's value! Call 24/7: 1-888-872-2809
TUTOR/LESSONS
WANTED: OBOE TEACHER needed for 14 year old student. Call 214–235-7429
PIANO LESSONS 30 years exp. Also voice & composition. Text (469) 708-6151
