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Like Mother, Like Daughter: Gracie Hunt Crowned Miss Kansas USA

June 9, 2021June 7, 2021 Maddie Spera 0 Comments Community, Gracie Hunt, Highland Park, Kansas, New Friends New Life, NFL, Nonprofits, pageant, Park Cities, SMU, Sports

Even from Kansas, Gracie Hunt is doing the Park Cities proud. Hunt, 22, was crowned Miss Kansas USA 2021 in April, but her Dallas ties run deep.

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Lewis Family Foundation Puts For Charity

June 4, 2021June 8, 2021 Staff Report 0 Comments Charitable Golf Tournament, charity, Community, FP, fundraiser, GIVINGPEOPLE, golf, society

Preston Hollow residents Jeff and Jill Lewis host charity golf tournament to benefit Merging Vets and Players.

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Groundbreaking Connection

June 3, 2021June 6, 2021 Staff Report 0 Comments Community, construction, Dallas, Dallas Parks and Recreation, GIVINGPEOPLE, Northaven Trail, Real Estate, Texas, TxDOT, U.S. Highway 75, White Rock Creek Trail

A little more than two months after the Texas Department of Transportation approved construction, the pedestrian bridge that will span U.S. Highway 75, connecting Northaven Trail to White Rock Creek Trail and beyond, broke ground.

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Audrey Tweed Still Teaches Painting at 100

May 31, 2021June 18, 2021 Rachel Snyder 0 Comments Audrey Tweed, Community, FP, Highland Park High School, Hockaday, Painting, Park Cities, Park Cities Baptist Choir, University park centenarian, Women’s Auxiliary Ferry Squadron

Audrey Tweed served in the Women’s Auxiliary Ferry Squadron, traveled the world, and won’t stop watering her yard herself at the age of 100.

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HPISD Grows Stronger During Remarkable, Challenging Year

May 28, 2021May 28, 2021 Staff Report 0 Comments Best Comprehensive Traditional High School, Community, education, Highland Park, HPISD, Park Cities, preston hollow, Schools, Tom Trigg

Reflecting on this year as we prepare to celebrate the Class of 2021 reminded me of the vast accomplishments our students and staff achieved in spite of a global pandemic. They started and finished the year with strength, resiliency, and optimism.

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YMCA Opportunities: Get Paid To Go to Camp

May 26, 2021May 25, 2021 Staff Report 0 Comments Camps, Community, COVID-19, Hiring, jobs, summer, summer camps, YMCA, YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas

The YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas is hiring for such part-time positions as lifeguards, swim instructors, and camp counselors and paying retention bonuses to those who work all summer.

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Four Ways to Address Migrant Crisis

May 12, 2021May 11, 2021 Staff Report 0 Comments Community, Four ways to Address, immigrant, Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, Migrant Crisis, SMU, SMU Dedman School of Law

SMU Dedman School of Law’s Natalie Nanasi researches and teaches on issues relating to immigrant women and children and has volunteered at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, which houses more than 1,500 teens apprehended at the southern border.

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The Mad Housewife Returns

May 11, 2021July 9, 2021 Michele Valdez 0 Comments Column, Community, Housewife, Michele Valdez, Opinion, Park Cities, People Newspapers, preston hollow, Voices

For years I wrote for Preston Hollow People – until I went into overdrive as a mom and took some time off.

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Mural Painted by ‘70s Teens Still Unites Neighbors

May 10, 2021May 11, 2021 Bethany Erickson 0 Comments 70s Teens, Community, Forest Lane, FP, Mural Painted, preston hollow, Wall art

A sunny, Texas-warm spring day found Crystal Wilson and Jill Cartwright painstakingly brushing new paint over faded artwork on a wall that stretches along a swath of Forest Lane.

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Want To Make a Difference? Consider a Summer of Service

May 7, 2021May 13, 2021 Staff Report 0 Comments Camps, CDC, Community, community service, COVID-19, Dallas area, Dallas ISD, DISD, GIVINGPEOPLE, Kirsten Brandt James, Project Transformation, Project Transformation North Texas, summer, summer camps, Summer of Service, Volunteer

I clearly remember that feeling of the last day of school and the summer before me — one filled with swimming lessons, Girl Scout camp, and all kinds of fun activities that my mom would find for us.

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Finding Grace at Taco Bell?

April 30, 2021April 28, 2021 William Taylor 0 Comments Bible, Catholicism, Community, faith, Grace, Holy Trinity, Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Matthew 25:40, Taco Bell

The King James Version wording of this text came to mind as I thought about how Deirdre Hairston has described her ejection by police from Mass in March for refusing to wear a mask at Holy Trinity Catholic Church.