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OAK CLIFF ADVOCATE VOL.16 NO.7

PROFILE 8 Bishop Arts’ sex-positive boutique 16 Oak Cliff’s deck park DINING 20 Beckley 1115 FEATURES 12 Trade Oak Cliff 24 Fierce females COLUMNS 34 The Chelette Sisters 39 Worship

A philodendron and artwork at Trade Oak Cliff. Read more on page 12. Photography by Johnathan Johnson.

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The recovery was painful and stalled plans to continue her education. She decided to make the most of funds from a related insurance settlement to start her own business. She followed trails blazed by her mother, who owned a cleaning business, and her grandmother, who owned Ragwear, a Dallas retro-wear staple throughout the 1990s. As a teen she worked with her mom, soaking up wisdom and ambition. She was 23 when she decided to strike out on her own. “I wanted something that fits me, something I could make mine,” she says. Po t e a t ’s p l a n t o l a u n c h a n “LGBTQ-friendly” and “judgment-free” adult novelty shop began with the right location. Pleasure-toy patrons of the past often were relegated to seedier parts of town where atmospheres failed to discourage behaviors such as leering or intimidating female clientele, she says, so she sought a safe high-traffic retail district. “I looked for areas that maybe did not have a sex shop, or at least not in the way I envisioned it,” she says. When she couldn’t secure a spot in Deep Ellum, she came to Oak Cliff. At the time, the four suites of 428

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W. Davis were mostly empty. Today they’re all occupied by women-owned businesses. She says no one complained about Bad Baby’s when the first sign, “BDSM, toys, lingerie for all” went up in the window. It was the height of the coronavirus by then, so it is possible that local merchants and neighbors were focused on more pressing matters, Poteat says. But her sex-themed shop did not deter more business owners from leasing in the ensuing months. And her neighbors say they like her. “I don’t shop there, but I see Daijah in the hallway between our shops, and she is so sweet and a great neighbor,” says Nataly Medina, owner of Crecer Dallas, a salon and plant shop in the same building. Even as Bishop Arts welcomed Poteat and Bad Baby’s, the credit-card processing company she was using for online transactions dropped her six months into operations, which was a blow. “They sent me an email that said this was a high-risk activity, that the decision was final,” she says. “I had built my whole website around that company, so I had to shut down for three months while I rebuilt. I lost the entire summer of 2021.” Now she subscribes to a reliable point-of-sale company called Lightspeed Retail, and she is back up and running. Online ordering is available, but for an educated guide, one should visit in person, she says. From the latest technology (like panties with a vibrating crotch, remotely controlled) to classic bondage gear (padded handcuffs, faux leather whips) and party supplies (grownup board games, massage oils and CBD “mood enhancers”), Poteat researches every item and stocks only the most popular, high-quality and safest wares. “I am always learning new things,” she says. “When I am selling a product, I am going to know how to tell my customers about it.”

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THE WOMEN OF 428 W E S T DAVIS The quaint, brick, two-story fourplex on Davis houses all womenowned businesses.

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Crecer Dallas is a Latinx/women-owned plant shop and hair salon that Nataly Medina and her stepsister Cynthia Jasso opened in October 2021. A 2020 study by Stoneside Blinds and Shades revealed that 12% of pandemic-era plant purchasers were buying a house plant for the first time. These sisters too “were getting heavily into plants throughout this time,” Medina says. And they had both lost jobs during the COVID crisis. Jasso is a “third-generation, crazy green thumb,” her sister says. So during the lockdowns she started making and selling terrariums to make a little extra cash. Meanwhile, Medina, a hairdresser who suffers from psoriasis, says she was becoming more conscious of what she was using on her skin, “making it a point to only use plantbased and plant-enriched products.” She started making products for herself and selling them for additional income. The idea for the shop just “dawned on us,” she says. “It’s all of our passions and values combined into one space that we can share with the community and while representing the Latino business owners,” Medina says. “Our business was imagined with the generations before us in mind, and there are so many layers to it, that we can’t wait to share with everyone.”

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Silhouettes of bodies working on their fitness appear in 428’s sweeping upstairs window — sliding, stretching and performing rope-and-pulley exercises on machines called reformers. Inside is not the typical Pilates vibe, says owner Amanda Mecsey. “We play gangster rap, we have men and women of all shapes and sizes, we have an eclectic space with a bohemian vibe,” she says. “We want to bring diversity and positive body image to the Pilates world.” Oak Cliff Pilates just marked its first year in the building. Mecsey ran a hairdressing business in Phoenix for 15 years before relocating to Dallas, where she realized how much she loved Pilates — a low-impact style of workout introduced by Joseph Pilates in the 1920s — and teaching it to others. “At one point I even moved into an apartment while my home was under construction, and instead of a dining table I bought my reformer so I could continue teaching private lessons,” she says. Following a few fits, starts and challenges, she found the perfect space near her Oak Cliff home. In a two-week span, she says, she signed the lease, finalized the Oak Cliff Pilates branding and had equipment delivered. She and her team stayed up assembling them all night before their very first class. “Now we have over 200 members, 60 plus classes per week, 15 amazing trainers,” she says. “We feel we are becoming a big part of the Bishop Arts fitness community.”

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This Tyler Station co-op could be a blueprint for women who want to focus full-time on their craft Story by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | Photography by JOHNATHAN JOHNSON

ON A SUNLIT AFTERNOON IN MAY, Tyler Station’s shop doors are open, allowing passersby a glimpse at proprietors peddling books, vintage threads, organic dog food and other wares or services. Among them, Corrie Pocta, co-founder of the all-women artist cooperative Trade Oak Cliff, is preparing for maternity leave. Working on the store’s studio side, she shifts gears (artist to salesperson) when shoppers arrive. Business hours are fluid. The store is open Thursdays through Sundays — and whenever else an artist is in — but that could change when the baby comes. Pocta sells her own creations — ceramic mugs and vases and leather works — and those made by her co-tenants, including business partner contemporary artist Brooke Chaney, whose brand name is Made By Mom. Pocta and Chaney are both former Dallas school teachers aiming to strike the right balance of artist and entrepreneur. They clicked a few years back at an education workshop upon discovering they both had meticulous minds and lofty ambitions, Pocta says. “Though we’re artists, we were both nerdy, with achiever brains,” she says. “The way that both of our minds work is that we create a lot while also being analytical and pragmatic.”

Chaney says this led to a “mutual respect” and friendship. When Pocta quit teaching in 2020, she inspired Chaney to do the same. In order to make art a full-time pursuit, they rented space inside the converted factory adjacent to Tyler Vernon Rail Station — now home to several small retailers, brewers, bakers and hairdressers — and launched Trade. The founders say it took patience and discernment to find others operating at a similar level, but now Trade has a steady team in place — it includes artists Molly Sydnor, Niki Dionne, Charli Miranda and Cat Rigdon. Co-artists pay a share of the rent and work shifts in the shop in return for personal work and exhibition space. They keep 100% of their sales. “We have a crew that’s planning to stay for a while, people that are looking to expand their product,” Pocta says. “The opportunity to showcase means an opportunity to grow.” Trade Oak Cliff at Tyler Station is part studio, part store and part pottery or painting classroom. Chaney and Pocta say teaching is still an important component of their mission. “Giving people an opportunity to be creative and engage with things and understand the process hopefully gives them an appreciation for more sustainable items,” Pocta JULY 2022

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Back row, from left to right: Molly Sydnor, Cat Rigdon, Corri Pocta, Niki Dionne. Front row: Charli Miranda and Brooke Chaney.

says. “Maybe they are going to buy a special piece of art because they now have an appreciation. Maybe they want to buy less, buy local, want things in their life to be a little bit more meaningful.” The chance for artists to sell directly to consumers also is a driving force behind Trade, the women say. That not only keeps prices down but also allows creators to connect with the shoppers purchasing their products. Trade takes this artist-consumer pipeline concept beyond its membership with local markets, where other merchants who do not have storefronts also can sell directly. “For us, it takes six people sharing rent for our space,” Pocta says. “A lot of people don’t have that physical brick-and-mortar spot, so the markets are a part of making that happen for more people.” Chaney — whose vibrant geometric paintings, handmade apparel

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and person-sized fabric flowers (commissioned for immersive art shows like Sweet Tooth Hotel) lend blasts of color to the little shop — says she loves the sense of community that results from the way Trade operates. “A big part of it for me is creating genuine and authentic friendships, not just customers, and the cross pollination that we get at markets or just by hanging out here at the space,” Chaney says. “We have so many people that will just drop by, just saying ‘hi.’” She says visitors don’t need to purchase something or take classes. Sometimes Trade is just a spot for like-minded folks to share ideas or meet their neighbors. “I will talk you under the table,” Chaney quips. Trade’s business model is unique. As the women break new ground they hope to share what they’ve learned with others. There’s a need in the art world, Pocta

says. She wants more artists to use the coop structure. “We are paving a way and would love to spread knowledge,” she says. It is something they plan to do more formally in the future, but for now they invite anyone to drop by and talk shop. That goes for all local business owners, Chaney adds. She has done office design work for women launching companies and thinks sharing what they’ve learned about paperwork, permits and taxes, for example, can help first-time business owners overcome that fear of the unknown. “It’s just been exciting to see how many women are actually out there, starting their own businesses, running their own businesses,” Chaney says. “Just having that community and camaraderie between us is empowering, and I am just excited to see how many of us are out there.” Trade Oak Cliff is located at 1300 S. Polk, Suite 274

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The Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation raises millions for a new park Interview by RACHEL STONE Photography by JESSICA TURNER

onstruction on a deck across Interstate 35, reconnecting neighborhoods east and west of the highway, could be completed by the end of this year. The deck will be a blank slate, and it is up to the Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation to make the park happen. The group has raised more than $62 million, about 75% of the funds needed to plan and build phase one of a park over the interstate. And they’ve spent over a year engaging with surrounding communities and drawing up an inclusivity plan, released last year. Construction on the first half of the park is expected to begin in January 2023, and it could be finished by summer 2024. Phase two, which will expand the deck farther south, is still unfunded. Oak Cliff resident April Allen is president and chief operating officer of the foundation. A native of Toronto, Allen has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. She lived in Atlanta, New York and Boston before earning an MBA from Harvard University and arriving in Dallas to work as a women’s couture buyer at Neiman Marcus.

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“I had a five-year plan for Dallas,” she says. But then she married Oak Cliff native Sean Allen, had two kids, now 8 and 6, and settled in the Kidd Springs Park area. During her “parenting sabbatical,” she became more involved in the community and joined the boards of several nonprofits. That’s how her involvement with the deck-park project began. A couple of years after joining the board, she was asked to lead the organization. WHY THIS BIG DALLAS PROJECT IS DIFFERENT

It’s exciting to have so many people in our community invested in the success of southern Dallas and our city as a whole. It’s easy to be somewhat cynical about the big projects in our city because so many of them have been someone else’s big idea for our city. But ours is one that has been led by grassroots and driven by community members. THE FOUNDATION’S EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT PLAN

WHAT’S NEXT FOR THAT PLAN

We created a community advisory council that will live beyond the equity project. It’s co-led by (former City Council member) Delia Jasso and Libbie Lee of the Golden S.E.E.D.S. Foundation in the Bottom. There’s a pedestrian walkway — we call it the 12th Street promenade — and we want to use it as a history walk, lifting up the stories of people who have made an impact on Oak Cliff, or people from Oak Cliff who’ve had an impact on the world. THE FOUNDATION’S GOALS FOR THIS YEAR

We’re turning that equitable development plan into action with our financial literacy series. Our big goal is to finish raising money. We were at the 75% mark to build first phase. Our goal is to have identified oakcliff.advocatemag.com

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WHAT HER DAY-TO-DAY IS LIKE

There’s no day that’s typical. Last night we had an event at the Perot companies to share our stories with potential supporters. This morning, I hosted a site tour at the park. That was followed by a meeting at the zoo to talk about partnership opportunities with them. This afternoon, I met with the campaign committee for strategizing. Now I’m doing a media interview with you. Then after this, I have another visit with our colleagues at the City of Dallas. We’re in constant contact with stakeholders in the public sector. I love it. Obviously, it’s very important to me. I live here; I’m raising my family here. My entire team lives in Oak Cliff.

“IT’S EASY TO BE SOMEWHAT CYNICAL ABOUT THE BIG PROJECTS IN OUR CITY BECAUSE SO MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN SOMEONE ELSE’S BIG IDEA FOR OUR CITY.”

Early on, the board wanted to center the project in equity. We made sure neighbors had a seat at the table in the design process. Not just in the design of the park, but also in the programming. How can we improve the lives of people who live around the park? How can we be intentional about using this park to improve the community around it? The exhaustive process for community input in design and programming yields a project and park that is for the community, by the community.

those funds by the end of the year because we want to start construction on amenities at the beginning of next year.

THE ASPECT OF THE PARK SHE FINDS MOST EXCITING

It’s going to be a fantastic place to bring our community together. I would love to see the Taste of Oak Cliff there, or it being an end point for the Cinco de Mayo parade. The programming that we’re going to offer, all those things are not readily available on our side of town. Yes, there will be movie nights and yoga, but also being really thoughtful about how we can use the park to be truly a gateway for our community is exciting for me. COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE DECK PARK

I come across people who are like, “Oh, is that actually happening?” Yes! It’s under construction. If you’ve driven on I-35 lately, you’ve driven under the deck park bridge. They’re making fast work of it. WHAT SHE WANTS PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT THE FOUNDATION Rest assured, this is community-led. Our entire team lives in Oak Cliff. This is our neighborhood. We’re raising our families here. We want this to be a success for the community, and we want to do right by the project. Interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

WHAT’S IN THE PLAN? 6 tenets of the Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation’s equitable development plan HISTORY AND CULTURE “Community members expressed a desire to learn and share a comprehensive history of Oak Cliff, including its Indigenous and European settlements, establishment of a Freedmen’s Town, Lake Cliff Amusement Park, the original impact of I-35 and highlights of historical community leaders and entertainers.” HEALTH AND WELLNESS The plan calls for programming such as farmers markets, which can add freshfood options for neighborhoods that lack grocery stores, as well as space for mobile health screenings. EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES “These opportunities could include sharing the history of Oak Cliff, teaching residents how to garden, hosting a mini-library or book exchange, and offering free Wi-FI to help bridge the existing digital divide.” An outdoor classroom, a neighborhood library and business networking opportunities are among the suggestions. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT “Community members have a clear desire for the park to be economically accessible to existing businesses and residents and to serve as a vehicle for upward economic mobility for the community as a whole.” Suggestions include business readiness programming, prioritizing locally owned businesses for opportunities in the park, a business incubator program and accessible pricing requirements, so that neighborhood residents aren’t priced out of amenities or pop-ups. DIVERSE HOUSING OPTIONS “While the park is not a housing developer, it realizes the importance of the park’s potential impact on the nearby housing market and its ability to advocate for community-first housing policies.” The plan suggests hosting title-clearing clinics, a community land trust, home-improvement programs and rent-stabilization plans. SAFE AND STABLE NEIGHBORHOODS The foundation can partner with organizations to provide resources, such as comprehensive social services, neighborhood safety measures, well-maintained infrastructure, public education and art and cooperative ownership.

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RELAXATION IN A GLASS Chill and affordable Beckley 1115 operates on creativity Story by RACHEL STONE Photography by KATHY TRAN

THIS ISN’T THE FRONT PORCH of world master chef Sharon Van Meter’s house on the Big Island in Hawaii, but it’s the closest thing you’ll find in Dallas. The acclaimed chef turns 65 this year, but she’s only about onethird retired, she says. Her corporate event and catering company, 3015 Trinity Groves, stayed open until recently but lost virtually all its business at the outset of the pandemic, and that 10,000-square-foot space didn’t make sense to her in a post-pandemic business climate. Van Meter began menu development for Beckley 1115, her cute, neighborhood wine bar, when restaurants in Hawaii were still shut down. The table on her porch seats 10, so she divided her friends into three sections. Each group tasted two appetizers, three entrees, two desserts and two salads. “I had people calling, like ‘Do you have any openings tonight?’” she says. “I’m like, ‘It’s my house!’” Spanish meatballs, squash toast and many Beckley 1115 dishes were perfected with tasting notes from those dinners, but the menu is constantly changing based on season, pricing and creative urges. The Hilo fried chicken thighs ($24) come three to an order with amazing gochujang rice and are based on a dish that Van Meter liked at Hilo Bay Café. She showed chef Luke Rogers a photo and said, “Let’s do them like this.” This isn’t farm-to-table, but it is seasonal and based on what Van Meter and Rogers are inspired to buy. Everything on the menu is under $30, which can be challenging with fluctuating prices. Rogers wanted to put scallops on the menu, even though they cost $23.99 a pound. “I said, ‘OK, we’ll put that on as a loss leader, and I’ll just raise the price of chicken 50 cents or something,’” she says. The next time they ordered, the price of scallops had gone up to $37.99 a pound. In a 50-year culinary career, she’s never seen anything like that, she says. Staffing is also a constant struggle for everyone in the restaurant industry right now. Silky toffee pudding with caramel glaze, mascarpone crème and toffee bits

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“But we’re having fun,” Van Meter says. “I wait tables when I’m here.” Restaurant profit margins rarely exceed 3%, but Van Meter says she doesn’t mark up the wine as much as she could. Three-ounce pours start at $6, and the most expensive 6-ounce glasses cost $14. Beckley 1115 serves two labels from Checkered Past Winery in Dallas, a tempranillo and a malbec, for $34 a bottle. Order the monthly “burger for better” ($18), and a portion of the proceeds goes to a nonprofit. The special has benefitted Wesley Rankin Community Center, Mammogram Poster G i r l s , 2 4 Ho u r D a l l a s and Mercy Chefs, among others. The beneficiary for July is Promise of Peace Community Garden. The kitchen was gutted and rebuilt for Beckley 1115, but the space is so small that there’s no room for a walk-in freezer. The wine fridge behind the bar also serves as food storage. “You really have to be creative with purchasing,” she says. “These guys from big restaurants can come in and really learn the art of management.” The restaurant is also open for lunch four days a week, with offerings such as a hone y-pecan fried chicken sandwich ($17), smoked-cheddar mac ($13) and salads and small plates ranging from $8-$14. Top: Hilo fried chicken thighs with gochujang rice, sesame bok choy, honey Korean sauce and pickled purple cabbage. Left: Sharon Van Meter of Beckley 1115.

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Weekend brunch highlights include whipped ricotta pancakes ( $ 1 2 ) , a n d a Pa r i s i a n h a m sandwich ($14). There are also homemade desserts every day, such as silky toffee pudding ($9). Ha p p y h o u r i s 3 - 6 p . m . weekdays and includes $5 wine pours along with snacks, such as whipped ricotta with Hawaiian honeycomb, for $4-$7. Van Meter, the only woman in her class at Le Cordon Bleu Paris, wound up in Dallas for her husband’s job and was previously executive chef of Ritz Carlton In t e r n a t i o n a l a n d N e i m a n Marcus. A side career in TV, film and radio production means she knows your favorite TV chef. Van Meter is headed back to Hawaii for a few months (she also has a residence in Plano). But she recently hired a general manager, Greg Watson, previously head of operations for Dugg Burger. Van Meter retired from her position at Food Network in March, but she’s not slowing down. Her company is financing the culinary dream of former Oak Cliff resident and Bolsa opening chef Graham Dodd. “He’s one of the best farm-totable chefs in the country,” Van Meter says. Their restaurant and mini resort, Nosa, has been under construction for about a year and a half in Ojo Caliente, New Mexico. Amid staffing shortages, wild price fluxes and general anxiety in the restaurant industry, Van Meter says she’s finding that highly experienced professionals are more valuable than ever. “I thought I was going to retire, but I guess I won’t,” she says. Beckley 1115 1115 N. Beckley Ave. 214.941.1115 Beckley1115.com Hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. TuesdayThursday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. FridaySaturday and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday

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Woman is King Four fierce females keeping Oak Cliff roaring Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

Meet our 2022 class of Fierce Females in Oak Cliff: A nonprofit CEO with a heart for service, a civic leader who fought City Hall and won, a dance teacher who’s so much more, and a DIY pop singer making a splash with a Disney documentary.

T H E B U I L D E R : ST E P H A N I E B O H A N Stephanie Bohan moved to Oak Cliff the day schools and businesses shut down because of the coronavirus in March 2020. But her contributions to Dallas over the past 17 years make this Nashville native an honorary Texan. Bohan, who lives in Beckley Club Estates with her husband, Michael, was named CEO of Dallas-based adoption nonprofit Hope Cottage in May. She’s also pursuing a master’s degree in theology at the Southern Methodist University Perkins School of Theology. Bohan spent eight days in El Salvador this past semester with Professor Harold J. Recinos and a cohort of SMU seminarians. She met leaders of Pro-Búsqueda, a nonprofit association for families of children who disappeared during the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s. And she says she witnessed “layers of suffering in the world.” “I hadn’t seen anything like that in my life,” she says. “You see military on the streets protecting anything of value. Razor wire on every fence on every building. The most intense poverty I’ve ever seen. No national system for clean water.” Now they are planning service projects for their return to El Salvador. “If you show me suffering, I’m going to fiercely step into a space and do something to help,” she says. “I don’t know how to do much, but I can’t see suffering and not want to do something.” The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum brought Bohan to Dallas in 2005. She also had a job offer at the same time from the Dallas Children’s Theater, which was congruent with her job in Nashville. But when she explained both opportunities to her niece, who was 9 at the time, the girl told her to choose the Holocaust museum, “because something like that should never happen again.” “It just set the tone for my entire time with the museum,” Bohan says. “That started a path

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of choosing organizations that really mattered to me.” Agape Clinic was her next stop. The Old East Dallas-based free clinic was only open four half-days a week when Bohan started as executive director. By the time she left, the clinic was open seven days a week, including some evening clinics, and served 18,000 patient visits per year. She also oversaw “a great expansion of services to include specialty medical care, dental services and a host of women’s health offerings.” No matter how many donors she could find or how much she increased funding, she realized there is a never-ending well of need for free health care. Her husband is a registered nurse at UT Southwestern, and his enthusiasm for the profession also made her realize that health care is not her passion. After 10 years, she wanted to try something different. Bohan spent about a year working for Bonton Farms, which is planning to build a wellness center. When t he posi t i o n at Hope Cottage came up, it spoke to her heart, she says. “I was unable to have children, so I filled my family full of animals and a sweet loving husband and great friendships and service to others in my community,” she says. “I have a deep empathy for people who come to us to create families. It was something I knew I could be passionate about.” Bohan, 50, says she and her husband love their new neighborhood, where they live with an epileptic dog and a three-legged cat. And she’s pleased to be leading a 100-year-old nonprofit in continuing its mission and looking for ways to grow its services. “When you live a life of service, you receive far more blessings than you give. I’ve received so many blessings that I know I never deserved just because I choose to live my life this way,” she says. “Everything I do is so tiny compared to what I receive.”

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T H E A RT I ST : JAC KS H AU P T Jacks Haupt performed in talent shows at Winnetka Elementary as a child, singing songs from Mexican pop group RBD. Next month, she performs in New York City’s Central Park as part of a tour supporting the Disney documentary Mija. Haupt, 22, stars in the documentary about Los A n ge l e s - b a s e d m u s i c manager Doris Muñoz, “whose undocumented family relies on her ability to break pop stars.” Muñoz scouted Haupt from Instagram in 2019. Haupt had already recorded her song “3 AM,” written when she was 17 years old. At the time she was influenced by Mexican American singer Cuco. “He would write songs that tell a story, and I wanted to make songs t h a t te l l a sto r y,” s h e to l d t h e we bs i te M i t ú recently. This year, the song got a whole new life with a v a m p i re - t h e m e d m u s i c v i d e o d i re c t e d i n Los Angeles by Ambar Navarro and filmed on 16-mm. Otherwise, her career has been very DIY. She conceives and creates

her own music videos, and her two EPs were recorded on an iPhone 6s at a time when Haupt was living out of her car. The singer describes h e r s e l f a s “C h i c a n a ,” a n d t h a t i d e n t i ty i s a prominent aspect of h er a rtistr y. Sh e’s i nfluenced by classic R&B and choppedand-screwed Texas rap music. But she also admires Amy Winehouse, which is evident in some of her style and phrasi n g , a s we l l a s Ra d i o head front man Thom Yorke. “Thom Yorke is so intellectual and so specific about his art,” she says. “ I t ’s co m p l e te l y a rtistic. Th at’s w hat I admire about him. He’s unique.” Haupt, who started w r i t i n g s o n g s a t 14 , learned to play electric guitar by watching YouTube, initially because she wanted to impress a boy in high school. Her grandfather, who played in bands in his teens and 20s, taught her some chords and how to tune the guitar. She also plays keyboards. The child of two immigrants, her parents haven’t always been

supportive of her musical dreams because they wanted her to go to college and be a lawyer. “They’re just trying to protect me,” she says. But there’s no other choice for Haupt. “This film is to show that you can do whatever you want,” she says. “As long as you’re passionate about something, and you’re chasi n g yo u r d re a m s a n d looking forward for something, I think that’s what should matter.”

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T H E L E A D E R : L E A H LO N G O R I A H U G G I N S Leah Longoria Huggins knew nothing about ballet folklorico when she became the dance and drill team instructor at Sunset High School 12 years ago. “Anyone in that art form will tell you, it takes decades,” to learn, she says. “Because the information is so vast. Just to give you a little rundown: There are 32 states in Mexico. Each state has a different costume, a different instrument, a different kind of music, and in different regions of that state there might be different costumes, different instruments.” She wanted to provide ballet folklorico experience for Sunset students who couldn’t afford private lessons, so she enrolled herself in a year of one-on-one instruction in the art form. Even though local school districts have ballet folklorico programs, Longoria Huggins noticed there were no competitions specifically for them. So she and her colleagues recently developed one, the North Texas Ballet Folklorico Competition. Next they are working to get the art form recognized as a UIL activity. Many students come into the Sunset dance program with no previous experience. They’re total beginners, Longoria Huggins says. Even so, many have gone on to dance in collegiate programs, or they’ve become dance instructors themselves. One of her favorite success stories is that of Lizette Rivera, who became a Trinity Valley Community College Cardette and is now on the dance team at Texas Woman’s University. Rivera wasn’t enrolled in dance class at Sunset, and she’d never really taken lessons. She just auditioned for the drill team in her sophomore year, and Longoria Huggins could see her potential. Now Rivera is dancing collegiately based only on her three years of training at Sunset High School. “We can say it’s because of our instruction, but it’s be-

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cause of her drive,” Longoria Huggins says. “I mean, she just had no fear, and she worked very hard. I’ve never seen a student work as hard as she did.” Some teachers may have summers off, but not Longoria Huggins. Dance camps begin the week after school ends. There was drill-team officer camp and then the DISD summer dance intensive through the end of June. Then dance company camp begins July 15. Sunset High School is known for its highly competitive marching band, and the dance program is part of that. So Longoria Huggins is there on nights and weekends for band practices and competitions, which are year-round. Besides that, she’s constantly fundraising to give Sunset dance students travel and competition opportunities. It may take six months to raise enough money to bring a troupe to competition in Austin, she says. But it’s worth it to give her students the experience. “About 30% of it is actually teaching dance,” she says. The rest is lesson planning, organizing and ordering costumes, raising money, designing T-shirts, turning in piles of paperwork for field trips, communicating with parents and managing a budget. “People think it’s a teacher at the board teaching,” she says. “That’s the easy part. There are a lot of things we have to do that have nothing to do with teaching.” The relationships she has with current and former students, and seeing them take dance into college or their careers, makes it worthwhile for her and assistant dance director Amanda Longoria Perales, who is not related to Longoria Huggins. Even those who don’t take dance any further than high school can blossom into confidence through the program, she says. Longoria Huggins, 35, is married to husband, Rylie, and they live in Preston Hollow with their kids, 4-yearold Lily and 16-month-old C.J. When it’s time to give financially at the end of the year, they always donate to the Sunset dance program, because they both believe in its power to change people’s lives. “I have taught in other studios, and Dallas ISD has the best kids,” she says. “Put that in writing. The best kids. That’s why I’ve been with DISD for 12 years and I’ve never gone to another school district.”

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T H E F I G H T E R : K AT H E R I N E H O M A N Suing the City of Dallas for violating its own rules had to be done, if you’re Katherine Homan. “I didn’t have a job they could threaten,” she says. “There was nothing that I was going to be sacrificing by putting my name on that lawsuit, and to me, this was about making the city acknowledge that it did something wrong and that it was overreaching its power.” She was gob-smacked during what a newspaper columnist called “the most bizarre” City Council meeting in February 2019. A last-minute shakeup allowed Council to hold a simple-majority vote, winning out against neighbors’ wishes in a

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zoning case related to a planned fitness center at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, which would’ve eliminated an old pecan grove. City Council “took an illegal vote” on the matter, Homan says, and two courts have agreed. Homan sued the City for violating its own rules and won a summary judgment in October 2019. The City appealed, and Homan won again March 31. Attorneys for Dallas didn’t appeal before the clock ran out on the case in May,

meaning the City is under judgment to pay Homan’s attorney fees. But it also puts the city on notice that citizens of Dallas won’t stand for its flouting the rules, she says. “When something like this happens, you can’t just tuck your tail between your legs and say, ‘They have the power; I don’t.’” she says. “We’re supposed to be watchdogs, not lapdogs.” This isn’t her first rodeo as a citizen activist. The Long Island, New York, native moved to Dallas with her husband, Dr. Richard Homan, in the 1980s. Dr. Homan taught at UT Southwestern Medical Center and treated patients at the VA Hospital. He died of a brain tumor in 2003, when he was chair of the department of neurology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. “Can you imagine? He was a neurologist, and he died of a brain tumor,” she says. She was in her 60s when her husband died, and she decided she had to “get a life.” The Advocate first featured Homan in 2009, in a story about her house. Built in 2001, it was the first “green home” in Dallas, and she spent years preaching the gospel of green building practices. That threw her into the realm of urban planning, and she “started to realize how much this representative government of ours involves citizen participation.” A retired history teacher, she joined the League of Women Voters, became its president within three years and was on its board for 16 years. The Fort Worth Avenue Development Group, a neighborhood nonprofit founded in 2001, caught her attention around 2006 with a plan to rezone the West Commerce/Fort Worth Avenue area to attract businesses to the corridor. “It was flophouses and prostitutes and drug dealers,” back then, she says. “They had an amazing game plan to become the stewards of Fort Worth Avenue, and I learned about what a well-designed new development was so we would have a walkable urban corridor that was lined with trees and landscaped and a vibrant mix of retail with restaurants and commercial. What you see now is 15 years’ worth of that work.” Her experience working with thatREQUEST group, “was A transformative” she says. FREE QUOTE! They raised $25,000 for bike lanes, when the City of Dallas had none, 866-643-0438 and brought public art to the corridor. More important, they stopped a plan to tear out the intersection of Beckley and Commerce, including an 7-Year Extended Warranty* old-growth pecan tree. A $695 Value! A new design for that intersection, whichTime preserved thefor tree, was created Limited Offer - Call Details by City of Dallas planner Don Raines, an Oak Cliff resident, and built in qualify, consumers must request a quote, purchase, Special Financing Available *To 2018. install and activate the generator with a participating dealer. Subject to Credit Approval Call for a full list of terms and conditions. Besides that, Homan is always one to stand up for environmental causes, such as the effort to ban fracking in Dallas city parks in Prepare for unexpected 2013. power outages with a And she likes to get involved with big urban planning ideas Generac home standby — she and Oak Cliff resident Paul Carden were the first to raise generator the idea for the Interstate 35 deck park, for example. REQUEST A FREE QUOTE! Even though she’d taken the City to court, Homan was rec866-643-0438 ognized recently during a women’s history month lunch at City 7-Year Extended Warranty* Hall, where she was given the Outstanding Public Service Award. A $695 Value! “If we hadn’t sued, then the rezoning would have gone through Limited Time Offer - Call for Details and been on the books. The pecan-tree grove would’ve been built qualify, consumers must request a quote Special Financing Available *To install and activate the generator with a par over,” she says. “By suing the City and saying, ‘That was an illegal Subject to Credit Approval Call for a full list of terms and conditions. vote that you took,’ it started a halt on the project, which the city had given them the OK for.”

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By CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

Carolyn Monté holds a photo of herself and sisters Judy and Mary Jo — the trio toured the country and shared a stage with Elvis Presley in the 1950s. Photography by Emil Lippe.

Sunshine sister

T h e C h e l e t te S i ste rs h a d h i ts i n t h e d ays of B i g D J a m b o re e

ort Arthur, Texas, radio station KPAC used to sponsor a talent competition early each Saturday morning. If the performances weren’t a draw, the southern made sugar donuts were, so there was quite a crowd that day in 1947 when three Chelette children — Mary Jo (8), Carolyn (5) and Judy (2) — lined up to sing. There were too many contestants, and if all three girls wanted in, they would have to take the stage together. They performed a winning rendition of “You Are My Sunshine,” and a musical trio was born. The Chelette Sisters began appearing on entertainment stages in every major city across the southern United States; became fixtures on radio shows includ-

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ing Big D Jamboree, Dallas Saturday Nite and Shindig Dallas; performed live alongside Grand Ole Opry stars including Hank Snow, Moon Mullican and Lefty Frizzell and toured with Minnie Pearl, Eddie Arnold and Dell Wood. In 1954, the whole family traveled to New York where the sisters performed on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour — an American Idol-style show — and landed a dozen subsequent TV appearances. In ’55, they sang at a Louisiana Hayride (radio show) benefit for the Port Acres fire department, where they were billed equal to a teen Elvis Presley. That’s just for starters. The middle sister, fearless redheaded Carolyn, eventually married a doctor who took a job at Stevens Park Hospital.

“She said, ‘You and your sisters are so lucky!’ You’ve gotten to do so many things — sing on Broadway, make a movie — she went on and on,” Carolyn says. “Well, that person was Janis Joplin.”

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Now Carolyn Monte, she has lived in the same Oak Cliff home since the 1990s. Upon our request, the 79-year-old grabbed her binder of memorabilia and met us at The Salty Donut. The book holds at least 100 pages containing photos and news clippings, a signed headshot of Johnny Cash (“yes, he gave me this,” she says. “Yes, I met June Carter too.”) and a photo of herself, so tiny, bowing before hundreds of smiling fans (“I was 5 years old, it was one of the earliest

things we did after the contest, singing ‘Sugar Blues’,” which was my favorite song, with a big band”). There’s a photo of Minnie Pearl wearing a hat made by Carolyn’s mom. Pointing to black-and-white photos of herself and sisters, she says her mother, Josie Marie Chelette, made all the costumes. “Made and designed them without so much as a pattern,” Carolyn says. “She also built the upstairs to our house … and was an aviatrix who learned to fly in the 1930s … but that’s another story,” she says. The girls’ father was a Port Arthur police officer and also was a pilot. Once, upon returning to school after a summer of touring, a classmate sat beside her, expressing envy. “‘She said, ‘You and your sisters are so lucky!’ You’ve gotten to do so many things — sing on Broadway, make a movie — she went on and on,” Carolyn says. “Well, that person was Janis Joplin.” The last time The Chelette Sisters performed in public was with Fats Domino at a Texas nightclub called The Big Oak,

Carolyn says. She says they stopped performing publicly when one of her sisters “married a guy who, though he was a wonderful person, was very jealous.” The last time they sang together was just before eldest sister Mary Jo died of cancer at 44. “We got the hymnal out and sang everything we opened to. And we were kind of hugging one another. And then all of a sudden a white dove landed on the window sill,” Carolyn recalls. Carolyn is the last remaining Chelette sister. Judy (Thomas) died in 2018. In Dallas Carolyn worked for motivational speakers Tony Evans and Zig Ziglar, won a beauty contest, had children (including two proud sons, Steven and Tom, who drove her to our interview) and is able to look back on a “blessed life.” A couple months shy of 80, she says she is not done finding new adventures. “My dad had a saying, ‘If I think I can do it, I can, no matter what it is’,” she says. “I had aspirations then, and I still have aspirations now.”

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T h o u g h ts a n d p raye rs May God help us to create change in the face of gun violence

attended a town-hall meeting recently where members of our community came to share their concerns, following the horrific school shooting in Uvalde. The gathering was at one of our Oak Cliff elementary schools. It was attended by four of our area state representatives —including Texas state representatives Rafael Anchía and Jessica González — as well as many leaders from DISD security and mental health professionals. One of the themes that kept recurring is that for young children and their parents, the pandemic, followed by this shooting, has truly traumatized families. Families are still trying to find an elusive sense of “normal” and stability. Parents are wrestling with how much information to share with their children about these horrific events. Local leaders — many of whom *truly do want to act* to change our laws in ways that will keep children safer — feel stymied by powerful forces that resist change. I prayed to open the event. But, before I prayed, I spoke about *what* I would pray, and why. I told the crowd that after any number of mass shootings in the United States, leaders often call for “thoughts and prayers.” But, as these shootings continue to happen with troubling frequency, it can feel frustrating to hear this call to prayer, with little or no action that follows. Therefore, I reminded the crowd, there are really two ways people can mean the phrase “thoughts and prayers.” 1.“Thoughts and prayers” can be a wall, to defend leaders against acting for change. 2. “Thoughts and prayers” can be a desperate plea for spiritual comfort and help, but also a call to action. It’s within this second understanding that I prayed. And I thought I’d close this essay by sharing that prayer here: Holy, Compassionate, and Just God,

WORSHIP BAPTIST

Hear the prayers of our broken hearts. Holy One, we know that you are able to bring new life out of heartbreak. Even when nothing is ever quite the same, when hearts overflow with grief, you are planting seeds of new life. But God, we know that you need us to act, not just pray. May our prayers lead us to LISTEN to our mutual and individual concerns for our own children and for their safety. May our prayers lead us to ACT to stand up to powerful interests who seem to place their wishes ahead of the safety of our children. May our prayers lead us to WISDOM that we might not overreact in fear, and by doing so cause more anxiety. Help us to find that challenging middle ground between responding to real threat and living in constant fear. We pray for all the elected and appointed officials here today. We pray for all the beautiful staff and children of all our schools. We pray for the courage to stand up to the powerful who resist change. We pray for our own children. And we confess the fear we have for them, and our helplessness to sometimes know how to encourage and dispel their fears. Amid our confusion, help us to listen to each other as neighbors and friends and move beyond words, to action. For if our prayers are merely words, we know that they are not acceptable to you, O God. So give us courage to listen, to change, to pray, to act. In your holy name we pray all these things. Amen.

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