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Hockamasks Help Refugees

December 10, 2020December 29, 2020 Kelsey Shoemaker 0 Comments coronavirus, COVID-19, Hockaday, Hockaday School, Hockaday Style, Hockamask Project, Jade Nguyen, PPE, Sew Masks Save Doctors, Support Refugees, Tia Hsieh, Vickery Trading Company

A couple of Hockaday School students responded to the pandemic by creating a nonprofit and giving it a four-word name that tells perhaps half its story.

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Dallas County Reports 2,122 New Positive COVID Cases

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 Maddie Spera 0 Comments charity, COVID-19, event, holidays, Postal Service

As COVID-19 persists and cases continually rise, the Postal Service adopts new strategies to help with the great volume of holiday mail and DART’s “Stuff a Bus” event returns to Mockingbird Station in today’s bullet points.

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Telehealth Replaces Many In-Person Appointments

November 27, 2020November 28, 2020 Rachel Snyder 0 Comments Appointments, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Ann Schroeder, Living Well, Park Cities, Telehealth, Texas Health, Texas Health Aetna

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has prompted more people to use telehealth visits, rather than in-person appointments, for non-emergency medical advice.

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A Very COVID Christmas

November 26, 2020December 29, 2020 William Taylor 0 Comments Christmas, Christmas 2020, Community, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Galleria Dallas, NorthPark Center, Santa Claus, The Christmas Village, Very COVID Christmas

Seeing Santa this year could look a bit like visiting a jailed relative: Expect a transparent barrier to separate guests from the world’s most beloved home invader.

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Thanksgiving and Hozhoji

November 26, 2020November 26, 2020 Len Bourland 0 Comments Column, Community, coronavirus, COVID-19, holidays, Hozhoji, Len Bourland, Thanksgiving, Voices

It’s impossible to predict, but with any luck, November will be bookended by a presidential election and the coming together of families and friends at that uniquely American holiday, Thanksgiving.

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Fundraiser Knows The Color of Money

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 Rachel Snyder 0 Comments American College of Emergency Physicians, COVID-19, Emergency Medicine Foundation, Greater Dallas Chapter of Association of Fundraising Professionals, Health care access, National Philanthropy Day, Remarkable Women, Tanya L. Downing, The Color of Money

Tanya L. Downing’s work as director for the Emergency Medicine Foundation and founder of The Color of Money, a network for fundraisers of color, has taken on new urgency amid the COVID-19 pandemic and renewed focus on racial injustice.

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Homeless Teens Need Happy Birthdays, Too

November 18, 2020November 13, 2020 Shaye Wattson 0 Comments Becky Gould, Community, COVID-19, Homeless Teens, National Charity League, Park Cities, Park Cities NCL, The Birthday Party Project, University Park United Methodist Church

Since 2001, mothers and daughters in the Park Cities have worked together to give back to their communities as members of the National Charity League (NCL).

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Dallas County Reports 808 New COVID-19 Cases, Two Deaths

November 13, 2020November 13, 2020 Maddie Spera 0 Comments AG Paxton, children, COVID-19, Dallas County, Texas

As COVID-19 cases continue a steady rise in Dallas County, here’s what you need to know today.

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Greenhill Teens Launch Students for Happiness

November 12, 2020November 10, 2020 Kelsey Shoemaker 0 Comments Austin Street Center, COVID-19, Greenhill School, Happiness Club, Kelly Meng, preston hollow, Schools, Students for Happiness

Greenhill School student Kelly Meng first founded Happiness Club with her friends to help classmates destress around tests and exams, but the pandemic exposed a need for something more.

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Scottie Scheffler Adds Top Rookie Honors to Breakthrough PGA Season

November 11, 2020November 10, 2020 Todd Jorgenson 0 Comments COVID-19, GA Tour Rookie of the Year, Go Scots, Park Cities, PGA Championship, Scottie Scheffler, Sports

While most of us are ready for 2020 to end, Scottie Scheffler might want this year to keep going.

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Talking Health Care For Texas’ Sake

November 5, 2020December 29, 2020 Margaret Spellings 0 Comments America’s Health Rankings, Community, COVID-19, Health Care, Margaret Spellings, news, Texas, Texas 2036

For years, Texans have known through difficult personal experience that health care in Texas has challenges. Over the last six months, those issues have hit home for millions more.