Turtle Creek People (Newspaper) - November 18, 2005, Dallas, Texas WEEKEND Sir Paul still rocks WHEELS Texas loves trucks FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18 MAILED FROM ZIPCODE 7521 9 MIXED ADC 752 SOUTHWEST 2627 E YANDELL OR EL PASO TX 79903 VOL 2 ISSUE 46 ie ONE QUARTER Council Approves Overlay Teardown tool puts lid on big building By Peter Simek Staff Writer Over a year ago when resi dents from all over Dallas packed the Jewish Community Center in Preston Hollow to voice their support for a new way of combating the teardown trend no one would have believed that the entire effort could have fallen apart because of something called a load bearing wall But as council members argued into the night on Nov 9 on a final proposal hammered out at the last minute by council members Ed Oakley Elba Garcia and Angela Hunt the ing wail almost sent the overlay back to the drawing board weeks away from approval The wall which holds and displaces the weight of a house became symbolic of possible oversights and loopholes resulting from the hasty drafting of the Neighborhood Stabilization Overlay See Page PHOTO TOP NOTCH The Terrace Suite bedroom at The Mansion Hotel Star Sightings Mansion wins ranking 17 years straight By Shawna Frieze Staff Writer Its five stars again for The Mansion on Turtle Creek For the 17th consecutive year Mobil Travel has rated The Mansion as the only hotel in Texas I am very thrilled to receive the news Shane Krige general manager of See MANSION on Page STAFF PHOTOS MICHAEL AND MAROT WINSPEAR and Charles Wyly and Martha Wyly Miller turn the soil during the ground breaking ceremony for the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Groundbreaking for Ceremony signals beginning of threeyear construction By Shawna Frieze Staff Writer Twentyfive years of waiting came to an end Nov 10 at the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Many of the Million Dollar Donors who contributed million or more to the com of the project attended the ceremony to turn the earth with their commemorative shovels Members of the Foundation spoke about what they have accom and State Rep Dan Brunch Mayor Laura Miller and guest celebrity Tommy Lee Jones talked about how the new complex will posi impact Dallas The T Washington High for the Performing and Visual Arts Concert Choir sang two songs before the finale of moving the Texas dirt which came from every town in the Dallas area because the com plex will not be just for Dallasites but for every one in the surrounding Tommy Lee Jones was the keynote communities speaker Residents Helpless Against Homeless Police initiative to crack down on nuisance crimes By Paige Phelps Society Reporter Customers find that some times they get more than their morning coffee at the Oak Lawn Avenue Starbucks loca tion That business along with several of its neighbors in the Turtle Creek and Oak Lawn areas must deal with dling and solicitation from homeless people living in the area Officers at the Dallas Police Department said they not only know about it but have introduced an initiative to deal with the nuisance issues in the past three weeks resulting in arrests thus far This initiative is not just for Oak Lawn Sgt Breidenich of the Central Interactive Community Policing ICP unit said This was directed by Chief Garcia its a citywide ini We know the mayor is concerned aboutit dling and every community group everyone weve talked to has concerns regarding solicitation Janet Watts a chair of the Turtle Creek Association in charge of its biannual creek cleanup said the homeless cre ate a problem in the area not only because of die dling but also because they generate trash and deter others from enjoying parks and open spaces During her cleanups Watts and her volunteers regularly find evidence of the homeless down by the creek from the occasional sleeping bag to full on encampments with tarps thrown over trees for shelter They also find empty syringes and drug paraphernalia as well When they do they 44 Businesses have to tell us if they dont want homeless on their property 93 Sgt Breidenich Dallas Police contact the ICP unit which sweeps the area and clears it of the homeless But diey ICP have limited resources and they cant really completely eradicate the prob lem without a continual effort Watts said Wendy Cone manager of the Good Eats on Oak Lawn Avenue said many of the pan See HOMELESS on Page An Affair for the Heart Thats Amore Notre Dame School Gala raises more than for students By Shawna Frieze Staff Writer It was a night for helping children as the 22nd annual An Affair of the Heart gala began Nov 11 at the Fairmont Hotel The event benefited the Notre Dame School which currently teaches 122 students ages 621 The evening began with the school choir singing Its a Small World and Thats Amore which was the theme of the evening That was followed by a video presentation that highlighted life at the school including students going to class in Special Olympics going to prom and celebrat ing their graduation As an added touch every dinner table had a gift for prayer boxes that were handmade by the Notre Dame students All of which gave attendees a glimpse of how the proceeds would be used Theresa Francis principal of the Notre Dame School wrote a letter to the guests in the program Students at Notre Dame MAKING MUSIC The Notre Dame School Choir performed at the Fairmont Hotel last week PHOTO have a diagnosis of mild to moderate mental retardation she wrote Offering individu instruction as well as music speech therapy inde pendent living skills and vocational training Notre Dame School is guided by a firm belief in the dignity of each person as a child of God Angela Brodrick and Laura Quinn were the event co chairs Ms Brodrick said she thought the event was very successful I think this event was real ly really super Ms Brodrick said Its so important for the fundraising to keep the school going Ms Brodrick also said that all the work to set up the silent auction items was done by parents and were many silent auction items to bid on but the main event of the evening was the live auction after dinner Among the items for auction were vacation packages restaurant gift cer jewelry and concert tickets Many guests also chose to contribute tuition for one or more Notre Dame School students which is a year The two most items on the auction block though were a puppy and a childs playhouse The puppy a hypo allergenic cross between a Maltese and a Poodle and val ued at became the subject of a bidding war between a man and his sonin law both partners in a law firm After a rigorous back the soninlaw bought the dog for Several items later the bid ding war raged again for the See GALA on Page READER POLL Last weeks question Did Police Chief David Kunkle overstep his bounds by advocat ing for the citywide alarm reform This weeks question Is discount retailer WalMart good for the community Vote online WEATHER Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy 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