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6 CLICKWORTHY All the web news 14 FULL CIRCLE BAKERY Mother-son duo’s cookies give back 16 STREET RACING Addressing the neighborhood problem 21 PORCH PORTRAITS How it started vs. How it’s going 28 SOPAC TRAIL Upcoming trail updates

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REST IN PEACE Dallas Police officer Mitchell Penton was killed in February when a driver crashed into his squad car near northbound U.S. Highway 75 and Walnut Hill Lane. Penton, who joined the police department in 2019, died at Baylor University Medical Center. DPD Chief Eddie Garcia, Mayor Eric Johnson and Gov. Greg Abbott expressed condolences and support for Penton’s family, including his wife, who is pregnant with their first child. Search“Mitchell Penton” at lakehighlands.advocatemag.com.

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—Richardson ISD will move forward with a $750 million bond election in May. Proposition A totals $694 million for buildings, buses and safety. Around $286 million of that would be for infrastructure and safety upgrades at every RISD campus. About $269 million would go toward rebuilding Lake Highlands Junior High and renovating Forest Meadow Junior High. Around $139 million of Proposition A would go to teaching and student support. Proposition B totals $56 million to refresh technology devices for teachers, students and staff. The two propositions would not increase RISD’s tax rate. —The board authorized a general election to fill the seats of trustees whose terms will expire in May. The expiring terms include Kim Caston for At-Large Place 7 and Jean Bono for Single-Member District 1. —A committee of RISD parents and staff prepared two calendar options for the 2021-2022 academic calendar. Option A: The school year would begin Aug. 18 and end May 27. Option B: The school year would begin Aug. 17 and end May 27, and Nov. 1 would be a student and staff holiday. To offer feedback, email risd@risd.org or call 469.593.0301. The RISD board will vote on the calendar in March. —LHJH counselor Marsha Hardin was one of two winners of RISD’s Counselor of the Year. During National School Counseling Week, RISD administrators surprised winners Hardin and Erin Price of Forestridge Elementary. Search “RISD” at lakehighlands. advocatemag.com

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THE WORD The guys who created the LHHS Fishing Club brought a drive-in theater to Lake Highlands. The drive-in will be open every Saturday night in the parking lot of Lake Highlands Christian Church. Drivers may reserve a car spot online, and tickets may be purchased at the gate. Adult tickets cost $8 (13 and older), and $5 for kids and senior citizens. “This is going to be awesome! We will be there! We love The Sandlot movie! Way to go Jackson and Drew!” — Joe Duffield “Inspired by these young entrepreneurs! Way to go, guys!” — Wendy Rhodes Quenzer “LOVE this. Heather and Tod, good job, mom and dad.” — Jenny Thompson

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LITTLE DIVERSE LIBRARY Bethany Lutheran Church has a new, diverse Little Free Library thanks to the Lake Highlands Area Moms Against Racism. The new Little Free Library at 10101 Walnut Hill Lane offers various books that highlight people from all races, religions, sexual orientations and classes, says Ann Ryan, who headed the effort. She says their goal is to broaden horizons and inspire more peacemakers, advocates and allies. Search “Little diverse library” at lakehighlands.advocatemag.com to read more.

WE CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT.... Maria Viera-Williams, an LHHS English and ESL teacher, was named the World Affairs Council’s International Educator of the Year for 2021. The council’s Global Young Leaders honors an educator who shows exemplary commitment to international awareness for their students. VieraWilliams is the founder and senior cosponsor of the school’s Junior World Affairs Council. She will be honored March 30, and former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis will be a keynote speaker at the event. Read more by searching “Maria VieraWilliams” at lakehighlands.advocatemag.com.

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G E N E RAT I O N A L R EC I P ES How cookies from Full Circle Bakery have given back to the community JUDY COOKIES became popular in the neighborhood long before Full Circle Bakery ever started. Judy Yarbrough made the first batch of her self-named cookies in 1998 for Vacation Bible School at Wilshire Baptist Church. The cookies, which are also known as Texas Cow Chips, are made with chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, coconut, oatmeal and pecans. “Every year since then, they have asked me if I would make the Judy Cookies,” Judy says. Her son Collin Yarbrough says they had always joked about selling Judy’s cookies in the past. “The mother-son duo never seriously considered starting a business until 2012, when Collin came up with the idea to start a bakery that focuses on supporting other local organizations and businesses Collin had graduated from college around this time, but struggled to find work due to lingering effects of the recession. He made the reluctant decision to move back

home with his parents in Lake Highlands. Collin started Full Circle Bakery on Valentine’s Day in 2012 out of the Yarbrough home. The Texas Cottage Food Law had passed the year before and legalized home food businesses. Orders are done online, by email and by calling. Judy and Collin’s partnership began in late 2012 after Collin took on a full-time job while continuing to manage the bakery. “That was when I asked him if he would like for me to join him in the endeavor, and he was kind of like, ‘I thought you’d never ask,’” Judy says. “We’ve been working together since then.” Judy and Collin were back baking in the kitchen together as they had in Collin’s childhood. “I started baking because I grew up in the kitchen next to mom all the time,” Collin says. “I’m the youngest of four, and I was pretty much the only one of us that really took to being in the kitchen with mom.”

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Cookies are Full Circle Bakery’s specialty. With flavors ranging from chocolate chip to oatmeal toffee, the goods come from family recipes or Judy and Collin’s takes on classic flavors. Texas Cow Chips, or Judy Cookies, sit with Chocolate Chocolate Chip and Chocolate Chip Pecan as Full Circle’s best-sellers. Ju d y a n d C o l l i n s o u r c e t h e i r ingredients as locally as possible and they manufacture everything in Texas. They head just south to Oak Cliff for chocolate chips from Five Mile Chocolate. “The proceeds go back to nonprofits here in the state,” Collin says. “So that’s where the full circle comes in. The money starts and ends in Texas.” Judy and Collin had partnered with Dallas-based nonprofit CitySquare. Full Circle Bakery proceeds went to the nonprofit, and Judy and Collin taught classes CitySquare’s culinary

arts training program. “ T h e w ay t h at t h e y a p p r o a c h systemic change for poverty in the city and addressing the root issues around housing, health, hunger and hope just very much aligns with the way we like to work around issues of systemic injustice in our family,” Collin says. Judy and Collin are working with Gaston Christian Center just a few minutes from their home. They leased the center’s commercial kitchen space to gain wholesale clients and expand operations before the pandemic hit. Full Circle Bakery is in a holding pattern right now. The bakery has been closed since the COVID -19 pandemic began last March out of an abundance of caution. “We were getting an order ready to partner with Better Block in Vickery Meadow. I remember March 23, we’re filling that order and as we were boxing it up, the city of Dallas just put in the shelter in place [order]

and the event got canceled,” Collin says. “That was 10 minutes before they came to pick up the cookies. We’ve been shut down since then.” The mother-son duo have used the past year to rethink Full Circle Baker y’s trajector y, with a special focus on giving back to the community. Judy says there are many options on the table for their next step, including potentially teaching classes out of the commercial space at Gaston Chirstian Center or selling cookie jar mixes. While working with family has its ups and downs, Judy and Collin are able to complement each other’s strengths and make up for each other’s weaknesses. “I’m the dare taker,” Judy says. Collin says, “I’m a little bit more cautious, but [Judy sees] into the future in a way that I can’t. I think my engineering background helps build the foundation for whatever vision [she’s] trying to implement.”

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T H EY ’ R E FAST, W E ’ R E F U R I OUS How street racing and intersection takeovers became a neighborhood problem Story by CONNOR HENRY

YOU CA N H E A R I T F RO M M I L ES AWAY . Engines roaring, tires screeching and spewing clouds of smoke, spectators yelling and cheering. Sometimes fireworks and gunshots ring out when the crowd gets especially excited. Reports of street racing from the Dallas Police Department shot up in 2020 — from 4,867 in 2019 to 8,441 — and 911 calls related to speeding and racing have increased every year since 2016. Metrics from the first part of 2021 show no signs of reports decreasing. “I’ve been to some of these events, and they’re fascinating to a certain extent,” says Adam McGough, District 10 City Council representative, in a recent meeting about street racing on Skillman Street. “But when it gets closer and closer to our neighborhoods and ultimately right in the middle of them, it is totally unacceptable.” Street racing and car stunts are by no means new phenomena, but last year, intersection takeovers, excessive speeding and extremely loud vehicles started to infiltrate the Downtown

area. People noticed the problem, and DPD patrols increased; lane reductions at key intersections and temporary stop signs were also implemented to calm traffic. “Curbing street racing in the City became a priority, and it worked,” Councilman Chad West says. “But since it worked, it got pushed to the neighborhoods.” DPD’s limited resources mean officers find it hard to keep up. West says on any given weekend, there are anywhere from 1,000-2,000 street racers in the city, but only 800-1,000 officers on patrol. Also hampering the DPD is a strict policy on high-speed pursuit that was revised in 2011 after the determination that high-speed chases, often over misdemeanor offenses, result in increased injuries and deaths. Now, officers can only engage in pursuit when they can identify a threat of physical force or violence. And, like almost ever y other aspect of life, the pandemic has played a part. “It ’s a problem that has gotten

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worse with COVID,” West says. “I’ve talked to people who say they are just bored. They’re not able to do as much. It’s an outlet for them to get out of the house and do something.” At points, crashes related to racing and drifting in intersections have resulted in property damage, injury and even death for both participants and innocent bystanders. An off-duty police officer died in late 2019 after a racing-related crash near White Rock Lake, and incidents have been reported all over the neighborhood. At Abrams Road and Royal Lane, in the Kohl’s parking lot by Skillman Street and along Northwest Highway, you can still see tire marks. L ake Highlands resident David Shannon took a video of a takeover at the Belt Line and Hillcrest Road intersection north of Lake Highlands and just south of the DPD North Central Patrol station. “These groups shut down the entire intersection and pull these donuts,” Shannon wrote. “This one lasted for 8-10 minutes before they left. DPD never showed up.”

STREET RACING VS. INTERSECTION TAKEOVERS Labeling it all as “street racing” is an oversimplification. “ There’s actual street racing, and then there’s the parking lot takeovers, highway-takeover group,” says a professional hot rod shop manager who did not want his name used. The shop manager was into cars when he was a kid, but first got involved with street racing when he was a teenager. “I used to go out with my friend’s dad,” he says. “We’d go out to the track, and then after, go out to the street and try to find street races.” The manager says that street races happened in a controlled environment, off the main roads and usually late at night. He got serious about it when he turned 16 and got his own car. “ That’s what I would spend my money on,” he says. “I’ve done every aspect of it: the paint, chassis, motors, interior.” To him, street racing is nothing like the intersection takeovers. “That’s more of a gathering of people with cars, and those are the ones that end up giving everyone a bad name. Those are the ones that are out of control,” he says. The takeovers (also known as slideshows) involve cars blocking an intersection or parking l o t a n d a tt r a c t p e o p l e mostly under the age of

A car peels out at a blocked intersection by U.S. Highway 75 while a passenger hangs out the side window holding a flag.

25. Drivers swing cars around in circles, burning rubber and often coming close to spectators. These events tend to draw larger crowds. A Lake Highlands resident who sometimes goes to takeovers tells a different story. “They don’t let just anyone go in the pit (the middle of the group, where drivers do donuts),” says the neighbor, who did not want to be identified. “It’s only extremely good drivers. They go and practice all the time.” He stumbled across his first takeover by accident, when he was out late one night. “I was curious about it, so I looked on social media, and I saw some accounts. You have to message proof that you saw street racing, or something that proves you’re not gonna rat them out to get in some groups,” he says. “I’m not a car guy myself. I just get bored and want to go watch it.” Takeovers are typically organized on social media. Private Instagram accounts, like the one this neighbor joined, post scheduled events, and people can communicate through direct messaging about which cars will block off which streets and who will be posted where to watch for police. “It’s organized. It’s also widespread,” says Councilwoman Jennifer Gates. “Those initiatives to try to get intel related to how they’re communicating through social media is definitely a way to try to stop it

before it happens.” Since DPD reporting doesn’t differentiate between street racing and sliding, it’s hard to say which is more prevalent or more dangerous. Taken together, though, reckless driving has taken over Dallas. In a recent public safety town hall meeting, assistant city manager for public safety Jon Fortune said citywide in 2020, DPD issued more than 4,000 hazardous citations, 10,000 regular citations and 600 spectator citations and made more than 1,200 arrests related to reckless driving. Police towed nearly 700 vehicles and recovered 34 stolen vehicles during that period. In May 2020, City Council passed an ordinance to impound cars and ticket spectators. “Unfortunately, I don’t think it has had much impact, because we continue to see it throughout the city,” Gates says. With the DPD’s policy on pursuit, drivers typically aren’t caught. Even when they are, they face relatively low fines. While their vehicles are impounded, the perpetrators have to be convicted for their cars to be seized, and it can take multiple convictions for that to happen. “When we created the ordinance, I believed we were creating the opportunity to identify the vehicles involved,” McGough says. “City attorneys have interpreted that to mean we have to identify the person, and it has to be the owner of the vehicle. So now there are other qualifiers that make march 2021

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Spectators cluster together while a car spins around them at high speed during this takeover at Noel and Spring Valley.

it where it’s not workable.” McGough, Gates and other city lawmakers want state legislators to change laws so cities can more easily seize cars and punish offenders, but some of the issue goes back to the disparity between the number of offenders and the number of police officers on call on a given night. “Even if we focused every officer, we cannot police our way out of it,” council member West says. “We have to come up with other solutions.”

OTHER SOLUTIONS The shop manager and the neighbor agree that street racing and sliding come with unavoidable risk to participants and bystanders. A solution they both propose is finding a space where people can do it more safely. That’s a view shared by Ricardo Anderson, a self-identified swinger. Anderson sent an email to Councilman David Blewett last year asking for the City’s help in creating a “special spot” to get swingers off the streets. “Trust me, we getting tired of running from y’all,” he wrote. “Us swingers want to be safe as well, left alone in peace… we previously had a secret spot that DPD found and decided to raid it a few months back… we just want our spot back.” There’s a petition on Change.org from TSNLS Dallas, an Instagram account that

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posts videos of street racing, requesting “a legal lot to slide so NOBODY gets hurt.” The petition had 1,452 signatures as of mid-February. In theory, designating a spot where people can race and slide without endangering residents sounds promising, but endorsing a space like that is problematic for the City from a liability standpoint, Blewett says. Gates sees some merit to the idea, but she doesn’t think creating a space would be a cure-all. “I think some of the thrill of it is that it’s risky and that it is illegal. I understand that there’s a lot of juveniles involved, and I think we all can recognize that when you’re going through your juvenile years, there’s a propensity to want to engage in risky behavior,” she says. “Giving juveniles an opportunity to experience risk in a healthy environment is really, we are lacking that. But taking the step that we need to give these racers a location … I just don’t think that’s government’s role.” Even if designating a spot relieves the problem, there’s no immediate relief. One strategy that has had some success was implemented on Lower Greenville, where the street was reduced from four lanes to two. The average speed on Greenville Avenue dropped by about 15 mph, and all crimes fell by 80%. Road dieting, another term for lane

reduction, was also temporarily implemented in Oak Cliff along Hampton Road, a popular thoroughfare that sees excessive speeding and intersection takeovers. Using traffic cones, the six-lane road was reduced to four lanes on the weekends, which pushed traffic together and effectively slowed drivers. With the road diet, Hampton saw about a 75% decrease in 911 calls related to street blockage and a 65% decrease in calls related to street racing. Traffic calming via road diet has worked in some areas to decrease street racing and intersection takeovers, but it’s not a one-size-fits-all. “I’m still of the approach of ‘see what works best,’” McGough says. “Each sort of situation has different areas where different strategies will work.” Meanwhile, the DPD is exploring the expansion of intel and surveillance techniques, and the city is conducting traffic studies in the city to diagnose problem areas. The Neighborhood Traffic Management Plan, Traffic Management Toolkit and the Connect Dallas Strategic Mobility Plan all aim to comprehensively tackle Dallas street safety. “ We’re tr ying, and we’re experimenting in different parts of the city to see which (strategy) works where,” said Ghassan Khankarli, assistant director of the transportation department, in a recent meeting about racing on Skillman Street. “One treatment in one area works, but it might not work in another area, or we might need a hybrid. We’re trying to come up with the best solutions.” You can report street racing by calling 911 or on the City’s 911 iWatchDallas app.

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These four Lake Highlands families got porch portraits taken of them when the pandemic first started last March. Here’s how their lives changed a year later:

Story by ELIZABETH UCLÉS Photography by APRIL BARNES

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Tami &TOm

ami Cannizzaro and Tom Hippman went from a 2,800-square-foot home to a 750-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment when quarantine began. The couple was waiting for construction to be completed on a dream home that Tom, an architect, designed himself. Tami continued working from home as a career coach, and Tom set up shop in the apartment after his company closed its offices. “I set up my computer, and I set up my two TV trays on the chair in front of the TV,” he says. “About 6 feet from me,” she replies. Tom’s setup eventually moved from the living room into the bedroom. As the uncertainty of the pandemic set in, the pair panicked about the home getting built on time. They had broken ground the previous December. “When you build a new house, there’s a construction loan that you have,” Tami says. “And if you don’t have your house built within a certain period of time for the construction loan, you have to pay off that loan in full if it’s not built.” The couple also started to worry about caring for Tami’s 91-year-old mother. Everyday caution followed Tami and Tom like a shadow, she says. “How do I take care of my mom, and care for her, and not only protect myself and Tom, but how do I protect my mom?” Tami says. Other changes around this time included a new hair color for Tami. “Suddenly it comes on, and you’re

going ‘Oh, I guess I’m gonna be my natural gray,’” she says. The couple spent the next few months connecting with friends on Zoom, hosting parking lot visits and getting in the best shapes of their lives with at-home workouts and going to the gym when it reopened. Tami and Tom bonded over rummaging through belongings in preparation for the move. “In order to make this work, we Marie-Kondoed ourselves silly, selling or donating most of our furniture as well as mass quantities of other stuff,” Tami said in a personal blog post in April. By mid-September, the new house was ready, but with no one to show it off to. Tami and Tom could not host a typical party, which usually ranges from 80 to 115 attendees. “We really just can’t wait to be social again and have people over,” she says. It has been difficult for the self-proclaimed “social” couple not to see friends. Tami, who is writing a book, says her network helps spark imagination. “Creativity just dies in routine like this,” she says. Tami and Tom miss spontaneity of pre-COVID life: attending concerts, going on vacations and cheering at LHHS and Aggie football games. For now, they try to keep day-to-day life from becoming too monotonous. “If you don’t have hope, you don’t have anything,” Tami says. “And I think we have to have hope.”

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Lacie, Grant & Granger T

he Judys, with their English sheepdog Chaco and Yorkie-poo Lollee, moved into their first home in Lake Highlands on Valentine’s Day last year. The family planned to ease into the neighborhood living, a lifestyle they had been looking forward to for a long time. “I really feel like the pandemic sped up that entire process,” Lacie says. “We’ve got some amazing friends and neighbors on our street.” The couple says it was easy to lean on the neighborhood during tough times the past year. Lacie’s prior work in the events industry was impacted immediately, and Grant was laid off in his construction role. Little acts of kindness from neighbors really counted for the Judys on rough days. “They wave as we’re driving into our driveway every day,” Lacie says. “That’s a big silver lining for us, still being able to have those connections.” The Judys have been diligent about mask-wearing and remaining socially distant to continue visits with Granger’s grandparents. “We’re trying to make those habits just natural habits instead of things that we have to do,” Lacie says. “Granger has a killer mask collection right now. He will rival any 7-year-old.” Lots of Spiderman and Superman make up Granger’s mask medley. The first-grader attends classes in person at Lake Highlands Elementary after transferring from Highlander Preschool.

“The playgrounds are huge,” he says of LHE, emphasizing “ huge.” The Judys added two new members to the family: two ducks named Riley and Chainsaw. Granger is to thank for the name “Chainsaw.” “It’s very fitting for him as weird as that sounds,” Lacie says. As everything slowed down the past year, the family stayed occupied with home improvement projects. Lacie picked up guitar lessons after Grant got the instrument for her birthday. Granger spent a lot of time in the neighborhood with friends and using a spy kit he got this past Christmas. “I’m trying to spy on the girls, because every day we have a battle,” he says. The pause of the past year also allowed Grant to receive and recover from back surgery. “I know him, he would have been trying to go straight back to work working as a superintendent on construction sites,” Lacie says. Once COVID is over, the family is looking forward to activities they had taken for granted before, such as vacations, dining in at restaurants, going to the farmers market and attending church. Through the ups and downs of the past year, the Judys say they have stayed positive and feel optimistic for what is to come in the new year. “We’re coming into 2021 very grounded and also really grateful for the things that we have,” Lacie says.

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Katy, Jeff, Caroline, Charlie & Ruby

o keep her 9-, 6- and 4-yearolds entertained during a year of quarantine, Katy Ragsdale gave in: “There’s things that I used to say no to that I’m saying yes to, to try to make things better.” Katy, her husband Jeff, their three kids, two dogs and two kittens have been strictly homebound since last March since 6-year-old Charlie has asthma. “We didn’t think we were going to be here in March 2021 talking about it,” she says. “We thought it’d be over in the next month or so. The disappointment that came with that after a few months, that was hard.” Katy and Jeff have worked remotely as lawyers while the kids attend virtual school. It is a change of pace from the family’s preCOVID schedule of taking the kids to gymnastics to dance to soccer to tumbling every day. “I went from that to me being basically a full-time mom again, and also trying to work and do school,” she says. “It was a really big adjustment.” At the beginning of quarantine, the family had four dogs that were all adopted around 15 years ago. Unfortunately, two of their pups,

Suzie Q and Cookie, passed away this past year. The family decided to adopt two kittens recently and named them Taylor Swift and Grogu. Adopting the kittens helped boost morale for the kids, Katy says. The family has enjoyed small victories in Charlie learning how to read and ride a bike without training wheels, and the kids regularly FaceTiming cousins in Austin. “They only saw each other once or twice a year before COVID, so they didn’t know each other very well,” Ragsdale says. “I’m thankful they’ve gotten to be such good friends and don’t think it would

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have happened without the virus.” Due to Katy’s heart condition, she was able to receive both doses of the vaccine earlier this year. The rest of the family doesn’t know when they receive their doses. “When I told Caroline, my oldest, that I was getting my vaccine, she started crying because she couldn’t get hers because she was ready to go back to school,” Katy says. The kids are looking forward to returning to normal, but top of the list is a big trip the Ragsdales had planned before COVID. “We’ve promised our kids a trip to Disney World,” she says. “Now we definitely owe it to them.”

Michelle, Jeff, Reid, Jack, Hunter & Tammy

ichelle, who works in medical device sales, and Jeff Andersen, whose company employs physicians, knew early on that the pandemic wasn’t going to end soon. “We realized real quick we had to go and find something to keep us sane. If we didn’t, it would be chaos,” Jeff says. Jeff ’s office closed, so he set up an office in a spare bedroom. Michelle continued working from home.

Third-grade son Reid, first-grade twins Jack and Hunter, goldendoodle Bailey and live-in caregiver at the time, Tammy were also house bound. “We gratefully learned over the last nine months that we actually all really like each other,” she says. “One of the things that really comes out of us as humans, we really do have an ability to adapt.” Kids, doorbells and barking became common sounds in the background of Zoom calls. “The work/life balance is intertwined more than it was,” Jeff says. “I think it was starting to do that, but this fast forwarded it 5-10 years overnight.” Time outdoors saved the Andersen family’s sanity many times. The three boys had learned how to ride bikes without training wheels before the pandemic began. “A year ago, they weren’t riding bikes, and now we’re riding 16 miles all around the lake and back home,” Jeff says. The family helped neighbors get out of their homes by hosting a few

socially distanced live-music acts on their front lawn. “It really made for something to look forward to throughout the summer,” Michelle says. The boys enjoyed plenty of time on their devices, but Michelle says she saw a new side of her sons when they shut screens down. “They started coming up with games and started creating make believe that I feel like I hadn’t really seen out of them,” she says. Jeff and Michelle came up with a slew of household projects to keep the kids occupied — and subtly put them to work — including painting the house, planting a vegetable garden and chopping firewood. “I was a little nervous, they got a saw for Christmas,” Jeff laughs. The couple says they see an end in sight. “It has to be intentional,” Michelle says. “The laser focus on gratitude for all the things we do have, like our home and community and health and jobs, helps keep the positive spirit and the joy of every day.”

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I M P ROV I N G SO PAC T RA I L N EW L I G H T I N G, PAT H S A N D W I L D F LOW E RS CO N N ECT T H I S T RA I L W I T H SU R ROU N D I N G N E I G H BO R H O O DS

W H AT A R E T H E C I T Y ’S P L A N S FO R T H I S L A K E H I G H L A N DS H I K I N G A N D B I K I N G T RA I L? SOPAC TRAIL and its surrounding areas are receiving major lighting and pedestrian improvements this year. The City Council and the Lake Highlands Public Improvement District approved a partnership agreement, with the City accepting a $122,000 donation from the PID to cover its share of new SoPac Trail lighting. When the trail was first developed, Dallas County built the foundation for lights, but there was no budget to install them, says David Whitley, Lake Highlands PID executive director. “We’ve been working with the City to try and figure that out because that’s something that we feel is important for folks to be able to really use that trail,” he says.

The PID completed design for more than 100 lights, with installation underway and expected to be completed this year, Whitley says. Lights will be added on the trail from Skillman Street to Greenville Avenue. The PID also agreed to take over enhanced trail operations and maintenance, Whitley says, in addition to the baseline work provided by the City. “We’ve got the opportunity to come in and direct some of our capital expenditures toward additional trail improvements, like looking at specifical trailheads and figuring out if we want to put some amenities there to better connect those to the neighborhoods, as well as doing some programming and events,” Whitley says.

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Other projects in the works will further connect the trail and the community. A City bond project will add a wide, multiuse path along one side of Ridgecrest Road to connect SoPac to the Five Points area — Fair Oaks, Park Lane and Ridgecrest in Vickery Meadow — and Jill Stone Elementary School. “It will add desperately needed pedestrian and bike infrastructure in order to complete that connection,” Whitley says. “If you’ve been along Ridgecrest now, you know it’s hard to navigate if you’re on foot or on bike.” The Ridgecrest project is being designed, and construction is likely to begin in 2023. An additional City bond project in the Phoenix Drive and Holly Hill Drive areas is underway to create needed pedestrian infrastructure and a connection to SoPac Trail, Whitley says. “There’s a trail crossing right there at Holly Hill, and this would extend a nice multiuse path on one side of the street,” he says. “We’re really trying to think big picture and think about how all of these investments can work together.” Another partnership with the City and the North Central Texas Council of Governments plans to revamp the Park Lane corridor and untangle the Five Points area, Whitley says. “If you’re a pedestrian, it’s a pretty dodgy place to get across,” he says. “We have two schools right there at that location. We’re making sure that kids have safe access back and forth from school.” A possible public plaza for the Park Lane area also is being negotiated with the City, Whitley says. Later this spring, SoPac pedestrians and bikers should see colorful blooms along the trail. In December, the PID’s Beautification Committee planted wildflower seeds behind Jill Stone Elementary on Holly Hill and Walnut Hill Lane. “We’re starting to think about some quick wins that can make a big difference,” Whitley says. “We’re also thinking about some public art opportunities that we can start to introduce to the trail corridor as well.” Executing these projects will help address some of the surrounding neighorhoods’ needs, Whitley says. “A lot of folks who live and work here might either walk or bike to where they’re needing to go,” he says. “Making sure there’s somewhere safe for them to do that is a priority. It’s very important for the livability of the neighborhood.”

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The failure of empathy Rea d t h e B i b l e to i nvo ke G o d ’s a i d fo r o n e a n o t h e r

ll religions cite their scriptures as authoritative for their engagement with the world. But how? It’s easier said than done. Abraham Lincoln said during his second inaugural address about those with Union and Confederate sympathies: “Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. How could that be?” We find the same challenge today among those who read the same Bible with respect to cultural and political challenges. One group reads the Bible to defend law and order, while the other sees it as inspiration for perpe tual change. T he former sees faith as a stabilizing force to protect l o n g s t a n d i n g va l u e s , t h e l att e r a s impetus for liberation from all forms of discrimination. On any given Sabbath, preachers will hold forth on texts common to everyone in their pews, and yet, they will find different lessons to apply. The faithful struggle to know how to read the Bible when even the faith professionals differ on how to interpret it. Truth is, both are wrong when they r e a d s c r i p t u r e i n a w ay t h a t o n l y conforms to one approach. The Bible is the record of dramatic deliverance of captives, with a bias toward the vulnerable, and a radical assertion of human dignity and equality. It is also a book of blessing, with a vision of quotidian grace and a collection of wisdom for everyday living. It’s about freedom and discipline, salvation and virtue. In her book, Who Stole My Bible, the Rev. Jennifer Butler says that “G od charges us to have historical empathy.” That is, we should read the Bible with a view of divine sympathy for those “at the bottom of the power pyramid — the slaves, the strangers, the immigrants,

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t h e p o o r, t h e w i d o w s .” T h i s , s h e says, “frees us from the deception of inevitability, the naïve idea that humanity is always progressing. Instead, Scripture teaches us to be vigilant so we can help advance God’s vision for humanity.” At the same time, the Bible provides guidance for those in positions of power, privilege and prosperity. They are to use their influence selflessly and resources generously to serve the common good and to create conditions for human flourishing. Wealth and social capital are not themselves

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condemned, but the use of them to game justice and opportunity in their favor while denying it to others is judged harshly. At the root of problems that beset faith communities today, including the ways we participate in the public square and advocate for social and e c o n o m i c p o l i c y, i s t h e f a i l u r e o f empathy, as Butler puts it. But it goes both ways. Demonizing the “other” is ruinous to our communal life and the public good. Whether fueled by envy of those who have much or by denigrating those who have little, if we can’t see ourselves in others, we can’t live together as neighbors or friends. Wouldn’t it be something if we could learn to read the Bible to invoke God’s aid for, instead of against, each other? GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons and host of the “Good God” podcast. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate

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WHERE C AN I FIND L OC AL ...? LAWNS, GARDENS & TREES HELP WANTED Cole's Lawn Care 214-327-3923 Experience & Transportation Required HOLMAN IRRIGATION Sprinkler & Valve Repair/ Rebuild Older Systems. Lic. #1742. 214-398-8061

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STAGGS PLUMBING Water Heaters, Sewer Backups, Water Leaks. All Plumbing Repairs. 972-379-4000

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Rooster Home & Hardware is a locally owned True Value Most Relevant urban farm store offering chicks and feeds, coops, organic gardening, wild bird and pet supplies, beehives, local foods, unique gifts, housewares and more!

With over 27 years of serving the Lake Highlands area, Brumley Gardens is ready to welcome spring by providing Lake Highlands customers with Brumley grown quality plants and knowledgeable solutions for lawn, garden, landscape, maintenance and design services. We look forward to welcoming Spring to your home. Brumley Farms grown direct to Brumley Gardens. . 10540 Church Road 214-343-4900 brumleygardens.com

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FENCES AND OUTDOOR LIVING Read the Lakewood Advocate this century? You’ve probably seen an ad for Charlie Hooker’s Old Gate Fence Company. Charlie is a Master Carpenter and has built artisan fences and pergolas in Dallas for over 25 years. This year, Old Gate joined forces with Charlie’s son Cahill’s company, Veritas Roofing. The Father-Son duo are proud to be working together and want to talk with you about designing your outdoor entertainment space. From: Cahill Hooker cahill@veritasrooﬁngtx.com Subject: Old Gate Fence Ad Date: February 12, 2021 at 4:53 PM To: Prio Berger pberger@advocatemag.com

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Read the Lakewood Advocate this century? You’ve probably seen an ad for Charlie Hooker’s Old Gate Fence Company. Charlie is a Master Carpenter and has built arDsan fences and pergolas in Dallas for over 25 years. This year, Old Gate joined forces with Charlie’s son Cahill’s company, Veritas Rooﬁng. The Father-Son duo are proud to be working together and want to talk with you about designing your outdoor entertainment space. Phone number

214-316-0153 Cahill

214-766-6422 Charlie Website

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ROOFING & RESTORATION Veritas Rooﬁng, owned by Bishop Lynch alumni Cahill Hooker & John Koepp, serves commercial and residential clients in the greater DFW area providing storm restoration, roof repairs, & roof replacement. Veritas prides itself on its commitment to quality and unmatched Lifetime Labor Warranty. Check out their Google reviews, then call Veritas to know the TRUTH about your roof! veritasrooﬁngtx.com 214-432-2134 817-455-0117

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