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6 CLICKWORTHY All the web news 12 PROFILE Ashley FeikCampbell 14 SHOP TALK What to buy at Tyler Station 16 FOOD A coffee lounge in Bishop Arts 19 SKIDMARKS AND GUNSHOTS Intersection takeovers annoy Oak Cliff 24 SIGNS AND WONDERS This snakebit master naturalist didn’t panic

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c l i c kw o r t hy EDUCATION W.H. Adamson High School principal Diana Nuñez won a $20,000 scholarship to pursue a doctorate degree. Credit Union of Texas awarded Nuñez its William H. Cotton Scholarship, which is given annually to a Dallas ISD teacher or administrator to pursue a master’s or Ph.D. while continuing to serve their DISD school. Nuñez will use the scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in the cooperative superintendency program at The University of Texas at Austin. A new Dallas ISD secondary school will be named in honor of the Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III, a community leader, social justice advocate and senior pastor of Friendship West Baptist Church in Oak Cliff. The school, which opens this fall, will be located on the campus of Paul Quinn College and serve students in grades 6-12 with plans to become an International Baccalaureate school. Starting next school year, all DISD courses designated as “pre-AP” will be classified instead as “honors” courses. Though the name is changing, DISD’s director of Advanced Academic Services Mitch Morken says the course content will stay the same. Correction: A byline for photos taken at House of Dirt, on page 18 of the February Oak Cliff Advocate, should’ve read, “Photography by Kathy Tran.” The Advocate regrets the error.

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LEACHERS, PLAYER BENCHES AND A NEW CONCRETE PAD are coming soon to the Kidd Springs Park basketball court thanks to neighbors who raised $18,000, plus a matching grant from the Home Court Program, a partnership

between ESPN and the Local Initiatives Support Corp. The total $36,000 renovation will facilitate Dallas Youth League play. “In the 12 years that our group has been focusing on the park, we’ve been checking off things on our wish list, so it’s great to check one more thing off,” says Augustine Jalomo, president of Kidd Springs Central. “If you look at it, it’s a very sad court. It’s time to show it some love.” Donate to the project at dallasparksfoundation.org. Search “basketball court” at oakcliff.advocatemag.com to read more.

THEN & NOW For a building nearly destroyed by the famous 1957 Dallas tornado, she’s holding up pretty well. The Kessler Theater was boarded up when its current owner bought it over a decade ago. Besides extensive interior renovations, the marquee was reconstructed with impressive historic accuracy. Top photo, from the 1960s, courtesy of The Kessler, and 2015 photo courtesy of Jeffrey Liles.

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COMING & GOING [+] Casa del Vegano, a plantbased Tex-Mex restaurant, opened at Jefferson Tower in February, from the local owners of Vegan Food House. Open TuesdaySunday, the restaurant offers Beyond meat birria tacos as well as a menu of margaritas and palomas. [+] Trinity Groves recently created a beer garden on Singleton Boulevard. A former valet parking lot was fenced in, with a shipping-container bar. Think Katy Trail Ice House and the Truck Yard. It’s not just good for owner Phil Romano’s bottom line, it’s also good ecology. They removed some impervious pavement and are planting 30 trees. The beer garden is expected to open this spring.

ONLY IN OAK CLIFF Bernie Sanders was the “it guy” of the internet following his casual appearance at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January. And ABC Party knows how to jump on a trend. The locally owned shop, which also runs a produce stand, made national news with its Donald Trump piñatas in 2015, and owners Elvie and Carlos De La Fuente sold thousands of them to people all over the country. The Bernie mittens piñata costs $100, and for $150, it comes with a papier mâché chair.

RIFF ON THIS Oak Cliff native Stevie Ray Vaughan’s first electric guitar goes to auction in April. A first cousin of Vaughan owned the guitar for many years, according to its Heritage Auction listing. It’s described as a 1957 Gibson ES-125T 3/4 sunburst arch-top guitar with nicks and indentations from heavy use. At least two other pieces of rock ‘n’ roll history are up for grabs in the sale: Dallas-born Rocky Erickson’s 1967 Gibson ES-335TD sunburst semi hollow-body guitar, which he once smashed into a wall and was restored in the 1970s. And the 1965 Fender Jazzmaster sunburst solid-body electric guitar that Jim Heath is holding, as well as the suit he is wearing, on the cover of the Reverend Horton Heat’s 1990 debut album, “Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em.” Search “guitar” at oakcliff.advocatemag.com to read more.

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caused there. The pernicious beetle has reached Tarrant and Denton counties, and while it hasn’t been detected here yet, the City of Dallas is planning for its arrival. The emerald ash borer is native to northeastern Asia and was first detected in the United States in 2002. Since then, it has reached 35 states. The bug can annihilate virtually 100% of ash trees within five years. Losing thousands of trees could have a warming effect on our city, already a “heat island,” where an overabundance of paving can cause temperatures to be 10 degrees higher than nearby areas, says Brett

Johnson, an urban biologist for the City of Dallas. Besides that, thousands of dead trees would create increased risk of fire and destruction from timber falling onto homes and businesses. The Texas Forest Service has recommendations to slow the spread and mitigate damage. The city must inventory all of its ash trees before deciding whether to remove and replace as many ash trees as possible over five years, or take a reactive approach and cut down trees after they die. There’s also the possibility of treating the trees with insecticide. City Council could create a plan of attack by the end of this year.

Did you know? The Dallas Wings of the WNBA became the first team in league history to hold the top two draft picks in February, after trading Katy Lou Samuelson to the Seattle Storm for the No. 1 pick. The Wings are expected to select Texas native Charli Collier, who is a draft-eligible junior at the University of Texas at Austin.

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pandemic was really tough. There was a period of time when I had to mourn the loss of the dream that I had in my head that went along with having a baby. Although looking back now, I realized those things were not a big deal. Some of them even turned out to be really nice. My husband and I were very blessed in the fact that we weren’t affected financially by the coronavirus. And we had a happy, healthy, normal, beautiful baby boy.

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had no family come to visit. I was really sad about that because it’s our first baby, and I really wanted my parents to be able to be there. In hindsight, it was really peaceful. It gave me a chance to actually read and just bond with my new baby. W H AT W A S L I F E L I K E F O R A M E D I CA L P R O F E S S I O N A L T H I S PAST Y E A R ?

In the beginning, it was really scary because I didn’t know what I was going to bring home. I would come home, take all my clothes off and race off to try to wash work off of me, even though I have no exposure to patients. They have taken all the pharmacists off of the floors. I certainly don’t feel the anxiety that I did in the beginning. I have had an inside look at the types of patients that are getting coronavirus and the way that they’re affected and the treatment strategies. I have been surprised by some of the people we’ve had in our ICU. There’s the typical, elderly, diabetic, COPD, all the stereotypes. Then you’ve got a perfectly healthy, normal 33-yearold on a ventilator in the ICU. WHAT WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE H AV I N G COV I D -19 ?

they said, “you just keep going, take the full 12 weeks, because we’re not scheduling, and we’re cutting hours.” I didn’t go back until he was maybe four and a half months. W H AT W A S I T L I K E T O G I V E B I RT H DU R I N G A PA N D E M I C ?

Giving birth with a mask on was really difficult. I was nauseated. I wasn’t used to the mask back then because it was so new. In all of the pictures of our brand-new baby coming into the world, my husband and I have masks on. You can’t see our faces smiling. We

I would say moderate, for me. I had a low-grade fever, fatigue and loss of appetite. My husband was very similar. He got it a little bit less severe than I did. We assumed our baby also got it, but they don’t test babies that little unless it’s absolutely necessary. It’s dangerous because they can accidentally poke their brain, so the pediatrician said to assume that he probably did get it. He didn’t bat an eyelash. He had absolutely no symptoms. H OW LO N G D I D I T TA K E B EF O R E T H E G R A N D PA R E N T S GOT TO MEET THEIR GRANDSO N ?

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time. Being a new mom, I didn’t have any experience with babies. I was planning on having my mom, my sisters and my mother-in-law to pass down the knowledge. The shutdown happened two weeks before I had him. Nobody was offering classes anymore. Our pediatrician kept saying that we couldn’t have visitors because we didn’t want him to be exposed to anybody yet. My in-laws were chomping at the bit to be here, but at the time we did not know enough about COVID to know if it would affect infants. On the flip side, my parents didn’t see how they could get up here to visit the baby without getting some type of COVID exposure in their 70s. My parents finally came up and met him after he was about six weeks old. W H AT ’S B E E N T H E H A R D EST A DJ UST M E N T ?

I’m an extrovert. I am energized by being around people, and being isolated is very draining for me. Then intensify that feeling with huge hormone changes and shifts. Women that just had a baby often have depression, even if it’s not postpartum depression. It is really common to have the baby blues right after you have a baby, and it typically goes away after a couple of weeks. But those first few weeks, this sudden drop in hormones makes you feel very anxious. HOW DO YOU HOPE TO CELEBRATE HIS FIRST BIRTHDAY?

His first birthday actually falls on Easter. My hope is that the weather will be nice and we can have friends over for an outdoor celebration and just be able to reflect on the last year. Hopefully, we’ ll be on the other side of some of the craziness. Interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

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H A N D M A D E M UG S , a local streetwear line, vintage clothes and bespoke face masks make up the merchandise at Trade Oak Cliff. But mark it on your schedule, because the studio/ boutique currently is open for retail sales from noon-6 p.m. Saturdays only. O a k C l i ff r e s i d e n t C o r rie Pocta, a high-school art teacher, pottery thrower and leather worker, s tar ted the business, which fits the mold of experimental retail and collaboration that the developer of Tyler Station envisioned. Pocta started offering potter y classes to adults over Zoom as a creative outlet after a school year frustrated by the pandemic. She says she coped with that and the death of her father last year “ by being a workaholic.” She opened the collaborative with female and femme identifying artists, all but one of whom live in our neighborhood. They’re also doing occasional mini-markets called Trade & Friends, where they bring in other local artists and makers for socially distanced shopping. “I’m really passionate about

it being from Oak Cliff and having a direct point where you can support the artist directly,” she says. Pocta plans to leave her full-time teaching job at the end of the school year to fully focus on her own art and Trade Oak Cliff. Having taken her students on class trips to Japan and Big Bend in the past, she’s leaning into her talent for organizing people. Oak Cliff is full of creative people, but they don’t always have a connection. “The bigger vision is a community center, a place where artists can collaborate with each other more frequently because they’re in closer contact with each other,” she says. For now, they’re keeping it small. Po c t a c u r r e n t l y t e a c h e s wheel-throwing from noon6 p.m. Mondays. It’s a fourweek series with two throwing classes, one trimming class and one glazing class. Contact her directly to ask for a seat, corriepocta@gmail.com. “I’m ver y good about boundaries,” she says. “I don’t want it to be a free-for-all, because clay can get wild, and I’d like to keep things clean.”

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H E R E A R E S I X M O R E P L AC ES TO S H O P AT T Y L E R STAT I O N . Oa k C l i f f B rew i n g Co . ( 1 ) Tyler Station built a beer garden with a quickness after the pandemic hit, and it’s a charming place to have a socially distanced beer with buddies with a view of the creek. Our namesake brewery also offers contactless curbside beer to go Wednesday-Sunday . Hours: 4-10 p.m. Wednesday-Friday and noon-10 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Website: togo.oakcliffbrewing.com

G re e n Pe t This 13-year-old Oak Cliff business relocated to Tyler Station in 2019. They offer delivery to registered customers and online ordering. Hours: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday Website: greenpetdallas.com

Oa k C l i f f B i ke Sy n e rg y ( 2 ) There is no snobbery at this bike shop, which offers sturdy refurbished bikes as well as affordable new ones. Co-owner Jorge Samano worked as a mountain-bike racing-team mechanic for teams in El Paso and Juarez starting in the 1980s, and he just moved the shop into a much larger basement space with a staff of skilled mechanics. Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday Website: oakcliffbikesynergy.com

Za kt i ( 3 ) Owners Pamela Miller and Janeil Engelstad source loose-leaf tea from small farms around the world and sell it online and to local coffee shops and restaurants. They opened a tasting room in Tyler Station a couple of years ago, and they launched a line of CBD infused bottled tea in 2019. Website: zakti.com

Rose G a rd e n Re m a ke (4 ) T h i s c l a s s i c O a k C l i ff b u s i n e s s relocated to Tyler Station a few years ago af ter 20 years on West Davis. Shopping here and donating items supports the local nonprofit 2000 Roses Foundation, which supports formerly incarcerated women. Hours: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday-Friday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday Instagram: @rosegardenremake

ow n e r 2 ow n e r ( 5 ) A couple of other second-hand clothing sellers are making a go of it at Tyler Station, including this vintage streetwear store, where you can buy,

sell or trade. Hours: noon-6 p.m. Friday-Sunday Instagram: @owner2owner

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B R EW E D LT D I S T H E B I S H O P A RTS COFFEE SHOP you might not know about. That’s because it’s tucked inside the plaza of Novel Bishop Arts apartment complex on the northeast corner of Zang and Davis. Some in Oak Cliff worried that new development would eliminate the small-town feeling of Bishop Arts, but Brewed general manager Jenny Benningfield says their corner is very tight-knit. “I think it’s part of my job to show residents moving here from other countries, other states, other cities how communal Bishop Arts is meant to be” she says. “ The staff is always helping people make connections, and I’ve seen many friendships form here.” When two residents were quarantined las t year, Brewed allowed them to run tabs, and their orders were delivered to their doors. “We would just wave from down the hall and tell them how much we love them,” Benningfield says. This shop is a spinoff of the original on Magnolia Avenue in Fort Worth, but it also has roots in Oak Cliff. It has the same ownership as Eno’s Pizza Tavern. Popular specialties include the Candy Bar Latte, made with caramel and vanilla syrup, and the Thai-licious, with sweetened condensed milk and cinnamon syrup. All of the syrups are made in house, and this location has crafted several of its own recipes, including lavender, strawberry and rose. Along with espresso drinks, Brewed aims to please any style of caffeine consumer, with press pots, pour-overs,

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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 last year, 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. “The number one phone call I get from

people is about street racing,” says City Councilman Chad West. 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,” West says. “But since it worked, it got pushed to the neighborhoods, including Oak Cliff.”

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

DPD’s limited resources mean officers find it hard to ST R E E T RAC I N G VS. I N T E RS ECT I O N keep up. West says that on any given weekend, there are TA K EOV E RS anywhere from 1,000-2,000 street racers in the City, Labeling it all “street racing” is an oversimplification. but only 800-1,000 officers on patrol. “ There’s actual street racing, and then there’s the Also hampering the DPD is a strict policy on highparking lot takeovers, highway-takeover group,” says a speed pursuit that was revised in professional hot rod shop manager 2011 after the determination that who did not want his name used. high-speed chases, which often were He says he first became involved “It was actually quite occurring over misdemeanor offenses, with street racing as a teenager. resulted in increased injuries and “I used to go out with my friend’s terrifying, because deaths. Now officers only engage dad,” the manager says. “We’d go out some cars were getting to the track, and then after, go out to in pursuit when they can identify a threat of physical force or violence. the street and try to find street races.” a little too close for And like almost every other aspect He says street races originally hapcomfort. One wrong of life, the pandemic played a part. pened off the main roads and usually “It ’s a problem that has gotten move and you’re done.” late at night. worse with COVID,” West says. “I’ve “ That’s what I would spend my talked to people who say they are money on,” he says. “I’ve done every just bored. They’re not able to do aspect of it: the paint, chassis, moas much. It’s an outlet for them to get out of the house tors, interior.” and do something.” To him, street racing is nothing like intersection takeCrashes related to racing and drifting in intersections overs. have resulted in property damage, injury and even death “That’s more of a gathering of people with cars, and for participants and bystanders. Last year, one person those are the ones that end up giving everyone a bad died after a racing-related accident on Southlink Drive. name. Those are the ones that are out of control,” the The dangers of reckless driving are a top concern for shop manager says. many Oak Cliff residents. In an Oak Cliff public The takeovers, also known as slideshows, involve cars safety survey created by the City’s Public Safety blocking an intersection or parking lot, and they attract Advisory Committee, 570 people responded, people mostly under the age of 25. Drivers swing cars and 61% put “address illegal car racing around in circles, burning rubber and often coming close and vagrancy” among their top five to spectators. These events tend to draw larger crowds. priorities regarding safe ty. In zip A Dallas resident who sometimes goes to takeovers codes 75211 and 75224, illegal tells a different story. car racing and vagrancy was “ They don’t let just anyone go in the pit,” he says, the No. 1 issue. referring to the middle of the intersection. “It’s only

extremely good drivers. They go and practice all the time.” The attendee, who also didn’ t want to be identified, says he stumbled across his first takeover 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 post scheduled events, and people communicate through direct messaging about which cars will block off the streets and who will watch for police. “These guys are smart,” West says. “They often have radios. They know when cops are onto them so they can elude us.” West did a ride-along with DPD Lt. Eric Roman one night to see the situation for himself. “We only spotted them once, and I wanted to go in, but we didn’t have backup. By the time backup arrived, they were gone,” he says. 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 seems to have taken over Dallas. Assistant city manager for public safety Jon Fortune said that citywide in 2020, DPD issued more than 4,000 hazardous citations, 10,000 regThe Dallas Police ular citations and 600 spectator citations Department made and made more than 1,200 arrests related 1,200 arrests for to reckless driving. Police towed nearly 700 reckless driving vehicles and recovered 34 stolen vehicles during that period. last year. Last May, City Council passed an ordinance to impound cars and ticket spectators. Even with an uptick in citations, there was no noticeable decrease in behavior. With DPD’s policy on pursuit, drivers typically aren’t caught. Even when they are, they face relatively low fines. Their vehicles are impounded, but the perpetrators must be convicted for their cars to be seized, and it can take multiple convictions for that to happen. Some on City Council want statewide legislation to make it easier for cities to seize cars and punish offenders. “Even if we focused every officer, we cannot police our way out of it,” West says. “We have to come up with other solutions.”

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OTHER SOLUTION s Enthusiasts of the illicit hobby agree that street racing and sliding come with unavoidable risk. Some suggest 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 council member 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

2020 SPEEDING/ RACING CITATIONS ISSUED 3,888 hazardous

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swingers want to be safe as well, left alone in peace … cars triggered something in her, she says. we previously had a secret spot that DPD found and “I texted Chad [West] and sent him a video like, ‘Do decided to raid it a few months back … we just want you see what’s going on?’” she says. our spot back.” West asked for Moffett’s help, and she helped create There’s a petition on Change.org from TSNLS Dallas, the Hampton Road Task Force, concentrating on curbing an Instagram account that posts videos of street racing, street racing and traffic-calming tactics. The task force consists of community leaders from requesting “a legal lot to slide so NOBODY gets hurt.” The petition had 1,452 signatures the neighborhoods that line Hampton as of mid-February. Road, and they meet with DPD and But endorsing that would be transportation department represenproblematic from a liability standtatives about solutions. “It got pushed into point. In October, they used traffic cones to the neighborhoods, “Could we find a place for them reduce Hampton from six lanes to four closer to Dallas?” West asks. “We on the weekends, which pushed traffic including Oak Cliff.” have money committed a thoutogether and slowed drivers. With the sand different ways, so is that road diet, Hampton saw about a 75% something we want to focus on? decrease in 911 calls related to street blockage and a 65% decrease in calls I don’t know, but maybe it’s worth related to street racing. looking into.” “We’re also looking at how we could slow traffic in Another strategy that’s had some success was temporary lane reductions along Hampton Road, a busy those areas by enhancing some of the signage, enhancthoroughfare that sees a lot of excessive speeding and ing the road in between school zones,” Moffett says. intersection takeovers. “We’re also looking at a painted area or rumble strips or left turn bays.” One late night in September, while Oak Cliff resident Becky Moffett was temporarily living in a rented home a Traffic calming via road diet, although occasionally anhome in West Kessler, she could hear cars doing donuts noying, worked to decrease street racing and intersection at Davis and Hampton, and she could smell the burning takeovers on Hampton, but it’s not a one-size-fits-all. “One treatment in one area works, but it might not rubber from her yard. The proximity of the swinging

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SUPER VOLUNTEERS TURNING TWELVE HILLS NATIVE Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by OWEN JONES

he snake was minding its business. It struck Annemarie Bristow so hard in the thigh that she stumbled, and she thought for a second that her friend had sneaked up on her while she was collecting Texas native plants on undeveloped land near Mountain Creek Lake, just west of Oak Cliff. But it was a western diamondback rattlesnake striking her from a pile of logs about 6 feet away, and she was alone. “The snake was not at fault, and I was not at fault,” she says. Bristow is a master naturalist who puts in hundreds of hours a year, along with eight or nine other dedicated volunteers, in an ongoing quest to turn Twelve Hills Nature Center into a native prairie habitat. That work brings them to undeveloped lots in Oak Cliff and all over the region scavenging for plants, especially native grasses that can be hard or impossible to find for sale in nurseries. With permission from the landowner, Bristow once worked with earthmovers directly behind her, saving as much liatris, a flower commonly known as “blaz-

ing star,” as possible. “I got all of the liatris,” she says. She’s attended City Council hearings just to meet developers and ask for permission to scavenge land where real-estate projects are planned. “Once they know, then they will call you when they see plants,” she says. Becoming a master naturalist requires 40 hours of combined classroom and field instruction, followed by 40 hours of volunteer service and eight hours of advanced training. That’s how Bristow knew what to do for a snakebite. In master naturalist Roger Sanderson’s class, she’d learned that she had about “two-and-a-half, three hours” to get help, plus a few other tips: To not use a tourniquet. To squeeze the bitten area to remove as much venom as possible (a snakebite doesn’t bleed, and it doesn’t hurt, she says). And to keep it below your heart. “I was not upset,” she says. She walked down the hill back to her car and drove to Dallas Baptist University, where someone called an ambulance.

After two doses of antivenom at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, “I died,” she says. In the moment, she thought being bitten by a snake was not the worst way to go. “I love snakes,” she says. “I handle them. I just really like snakes. I think they’re maligned.” But more antivenom was flown to Parkland Hospital, and Bristow was taken there and given a total of 28 vials, which saved her life. Each vial costs about $3,000, and it has terrible side effects. “I figure the side effects are better than the alternative, death,” she says. Fellow volunteer Don Pierson says Bristow was back at “work,” at Twelve Hills, a couple of weeks later. Texas master naturalist rules prohibit them from organizing workdays during the pandemic, but the Twelve Hills crew typically winds up there together on Sunday mornings on their own. They don’t talk about politics, and they don’t have to go to the gym because hard labor in the nature center is all the workout they need.

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Here are a few of the projects that volunteers including Bristow, Pearson, John Wilt and Marcie Haley have established since 2015. Removal of Johnson grass

Keeping this invasive grass is an ongoing struggle, “a full-time job,” Bristow says. But they pickaxed it in the front of the nature preserve and have managed to keep a handle on it. Removal of King Ranch bluestem grass, known as “K.R.”

Pearson recently tilled up a few thousand square feet of this dominating grass. It’s pretty but lacks nutritional value for insects, which can mean a loss in diversity of the rodents and birds that eat them. Volunteers are planting side oats gramma and Texas bluegrass instead. Chinese Pistache removal

These ornamental trees are still sold in nurseries, but don’t provide nutrition for birds. They drop thousands of seeds every year and reproduce prolifically. Creating tree tunnels

John Wilt is the volunteer to thank for those enchanting tree tunnels at Twelve Hills. He cleared out all of the brush and poison ivy that was around the trees and placed benches and stumps beneath them. Each of the two took him an entire summer, and there are a few more to do. The group is working on another one this year. Planting in the caliche area

The nature center’s hilltop presented an opportunity to showcase plants that thrive in rocky areas. Bristow was driving on Westmoreland Road one day when she noticed that the City of Dallas had piled up a bunch of rocks on undeveloped land. She stopped to take a look and found the roots of 32 western white honeysuckle plants, Texas natives that you can’t buy in a nursery. They’re now thriving at Twelve Hills. Creating a bluebonnet area

“Photographers come here, and people come here to do their pictures,” Bristow says. “When you make a nature center for people, you have to make color for people.”

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By GEORGE MASON

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 longstanding values, the latter as 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 read scripture in a way that only 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 ever yday 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, the poor, the widows.” This, she says, “frees us from the deception of inevita-

bility, 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 condemned, but the use of them to game justice and opportunity in their favor while denying it to others is judged harshly.

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FENN CONSTRUCTION Kitchens And Baths. Call Us For Your Remodeling Needs. 214-343-4645. dallastileman.com

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Bob McDonald Company, Inc. BUILDERS/REMODELERS 30+ Yrs. in Business • Major Additions Complete Renovations • Kitchens/Baths

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DISH TV $64.99 For 190 Channels + $14.95 High Speed Internet. Free Installation, Smart HD DVR Included, Free Voice Remote. Some restrictions apply.Promo Expires 7/21/21.1-833-872-2545

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By RACHEL STONE

Pick ‘n’ mix Befo re t h e re wa s A m a zo n , t h e re wa s Sea rs o n J ef fe rso n

rings, coffee makers and baby stuff. Plus, you could fill a prescription in the drug store and eat lunch at the snack bar. People who grew up in Oak Cliff in the mid-1900s remember having their photo taken with Santa in the basement and recall the spectacular Christmas windows unveiled dramatically on Dec. 1 every year. We also bought school clothes there, savoredthe nut bar that made the whole store smell of roasted nuts, and stopped by the famous candy counter. The U-shaped candy counter Dallas Public Library History and Archives Division

he last remaining Sears store in the Dallas/Fort Worth area — located at Town East Mall in Mesquite — closes in April. The first Sears store in Dallas was in Oak Cliff. Sears, Roebuck and Co. is nearly 130 years old. It started as a mail-order company in Illinois in 1892, and the Sears headquarters and warehouse for North Texas was built in the early 1900s on Lamar Boulevard in the building now called Southside on Lamar. The first Sears retail store opened in Chicago in 1925. The first Dallas Sears retail store opened in 1928 at303 W. Jefferson Boulevard on the ground floor of what is now

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Jefferson Tower. Fo r a l m o s t 5 0 y e a r s , Je ff e r s o n B o u l e va r d w a s synonymous with Sears.The re tailer operated at that location for about 20 years before building a three-story department store on Jefferson at Llewellyn in 1948. It was virtually identical to a store Sears built on Greenville Avenue the same year. Back then, if Sears didn’t have it, perhaps it didn’ t exist. You could buy clothes, s h o e s , t i r e s , t o o l s , b i ke s , paint, hardware, lawnmowers, saddles and bridles, live chicks, sewing supplies, toiletries, sporting goods, furniture, wedding dresses, wedding

For almost 50 years, Jefferson Boulevard was synonymous with Sears. featured cabinets full of candy sold by weight, with a cashier stationed inthe middle. Students at Reagan Elementary walked to the storeafter school just to ride the escalator, the first many in that generation had seen.Sears moved to Red Bird Mall in the mid-1970s, and Rick’s Furniture moved into the building for a few years before it was demolished. Fiesta Mart was built on the site in the late 1990s.

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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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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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