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This summer, food writer Kersten Rettig told the story of how Highland Park alumnus Wade Nicolas joined a relief team putting together the World Central Kitchen in Przemysl, Poland, to help Ukrainian refugees and restauranteur Shannon Wynne helped raise $250,000 for World Central Kitchen via his restaurants in Dallas.
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Former longtime director of her namesake Highland Park ISD planetarium, Donna Pierce, went from starring in her final planetarium show when she retired in 2021 to starring as grand marshal in the Rotary Club of Park Cities’ Fourth of July parade this summer.
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After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, People Newspapers deputy editor Rachel Snyder spoke this spring to the Ukrainian-born iconographer whose work adorns the Saint Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral about his take on the conflict and Ukraine’s leader. His answer? Ukraine has “become extremely united.”
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D Magazine senior digital editor (formerly People Newspapers digital editor) Bethany Erickson wrote about how the owner of Ukie Style in the Preston Valley Shopping Center marshaled resources for Ukraine this spring.
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What’s the deal with airline food, am I right? People Newspapers client relations coordinator Maddie Spera took an intro to stand-up comedy class at the Dallas Comedy Club to find out about this and other jokes and wrote about it in a column this summer.
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This fall, sports editor Todd Jorgenson told the story of how Jack Betts, an Episcopal School of Dallas alumnus from the Park Cities, used his business savvy to become a pioneer in the NIL space.
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