May 22, 2013
Local News
Photo by Dana Drienksy
Veteran’s day event to honor ‘heroes among us’
Daughters of World War II will honor World War II Veterans at a luncheon on Monday, Nov. 12 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel to be held after the Veteran’s Day Parade in Downtown Dallas. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. and the program begins at 2 p.m. The event will be one of the largest gatherings of WWII vets at a single event, with over 500 expected to be in attendance. The event is free for World War II Veterans and they can bring one guest at the spe...
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Photo courtesy of the Dallas Arboretum.
Successful Chihuly show extended thru Dec.
The Chihuly exhibition has been extended through Dec. 31 as a holiday gift to the City of Dallas from the Arboretum Board of Directors. “The citizens of Dallas will now be able to enjoy the Chihuly exhibition throughout the holiday season because of the generous gift from the Board of Directors,” Mayor Mike Rawlings said. “We thank the board for bringing this exhibition to Dallas and we applaud their efforts in extending the show to ensure it ...
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Award-winning filmmaker to discuss offbeat look at life
Audelia Road Library Friends are hosting Linda Stogner (pictured above), filmmaker, stand-up comedienne and comedy advocate at the Audelia Road Library auditorium on Nov. 8 at 6:30 p.m. One of the founders of the Backdoor Comedy Club, Stogner’s offbeat look at life has been the foundation for her comedy career spanning more than 17 years. Her early childhood involved armed robbery and gangsters on the south side of Chicago. Rather than hide he...
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Children play in the Children’s Park at Klyde Warren Park on the first day of its grand opening Oct. 27.
Park brings new life to downtown
A park that took 10 years to build opened above Woodall Rodgers Freeway Oct. 27-28. Klyde Warren Park, named after Dallas billionaire Kelcy Warren’s 10-year-old son, held its grand opening last weekend. The festivities kicked off Saturday, Oct. 27 with a ribbon cutting ceremony, featuring the Dallas Firefighters Pipes and Drums, the Poteet High School JROTC and speeches from Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation members, donors, Lt. Gov. David Dewhu...
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Pictured above, from left to right, parent Robin Johnston, Dr. Scott Kellermann, Carol Kellermann and Chaplain Michael Mills. Photo courtesy of St. John’s Episcopal School.
St. John’s welcomed missionaries from Uganda
American physician Scott Kellermann and his wife Carol were welcomed as guest speakers during “Focus on the World” chapel service at St. John’s Episcopal School. Since 2001, the couple has served as medical missionaries to the Batwa pygmies in Southwest Uganda. The Batwa pygmies are one of the most impoverished and isolated people groups in the world. To serve this population, Dr. and Mrs. Kellermann founded the Kellermann Foundation to help ...
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Dallas Lutheran football players “cream” teacher John O’Connor during the pep rally. Photo by Liz Krause.
Lion pride heads to the tropics
With “A Night in the Tropics” as its theme, the Dallas Lutheran School community celebrated Homecoming 2012 during the week of Oct. 1 - 6. School days were enlivened by students dressed as tye-dye/tropical day on Monday, Hawaiian shirt day on Tuesday, Twin day on Wednesday, and Hula day on Thursday. At 1:15 on Friday, the annual DLS parade began at the school and wound its way through the local neighborhood, including a special stop at Presby...
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Photo of Skip Hollandsworth by Ashley Collins.
Small town life topic for Dallas Institute talk
The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture will present “BERNIE: Inside the Life of Small-Town Texas” an evening with Skip Hollandsworth on Friday, Nov. 2. Sharing inside stories about the film “Bernie,” Hollandsworth will lead guests in a discussion about Texas from a writer’s viewpoint. Texas country music, Shiner beer and pots of homemade chili will add to the flavor of the full Texas celebration. Skip Hollandsworth and Richard Linklat...
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Young survivor inspires
Seven days after the birth of their daughter Katherine, the Pearsons were told that she had PKU, a rare genetic disorder that is characterized by the body’s inability to break down the essential amino acid phenylalanine. The diagnosis was difficult for the Pearsons to deal with, but they weren’t alone. In 2008, the Pearsons started The PKU Foundation in an effort to raise community awareness and funding for medical research. The team’s motto o...
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Actor Larry Hagman (pictured above, center, with Former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and actress Linda Grey at the opening of the Omni Hotel) will speak at the “FilmMatters” event on Nov. 3. Photo by Nancy Black.
Human rights focus of talk
“FilmMatters,” a film and lecture symposium, will be returning to Dallas on Nov. 3 to raise awareness of facilitating social change through film. EMMY-nominated filmmakers, PBS executives, national media and key leadership for several extraordinary non-profit organizations will come together for a three-part discussion that will explore the common challenges filmmakers, activists and non-profits often face in the long journey to make “a movie ...
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Pack of BA Cougars flock to White Rock
On June 3, 1967, more than 1,000 of White Rock's young citizens were turned loose to face the world. If you’re a Facebook groupie, you may have noticed that a big pack of Bryan Adams High School (BA) alumni settled in Dallas and many of those Cougars are in the White Rock area. Cougars ’67 will convene Oct. 27 for the class’ 45th reunion, thanks to the handiwork of Beverly Parson White, Brenda Wallace Palmore, Julie Bowling, Jennifer Hicks O’H...
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