Volume XIX, Number XXXVIII September 9 - 15, 2010 Y R TO S North Texas Job ER V O C Corps Center in Founded 1991 McKinney Helps to .com Make Students’ Your Paper, Your Opportunity... Dreams Possible Visit Us Online at www.NorthDallasGazette.com 2nd Annual Recessionista’s Closet Family Friendly Clothing Swap Returns to Dallas with a Different Twist (NDG Wire) On Sep - Lavarry, owner and opera - ness about recycling while tember 25, 2010 from 10 tor of Talisa Lavarry giving participants an op - a.m. until 3 p.m. Dallas Lifestyle and Image Con - portunity to rebuild their Texas will host its largest sulting successfully intro - wardrobes free of charge and most unique clothing duced and pulled off this during trying economic swap for the second time concept during the summer times. around; but this time the of 2009. With the current unem - organizers are adding a bit This event was well re - of a different twist. Talisa ceived and raised aware - See CLOSET, Page 12 See DREAMS, Page 9 Eisemann Center’s Family Theatre Series Proposed cuts will impact public safety opens with Lyle, Lyle Crocodile For more information see pg. 7 www.northdallasgazette.com BY CRAIG WATKINS, ney Craig Watkins. the County has proposed to Given that we already DALLAS COUNTY “While I recognize the fi - be cut in the 2011 budget. have a smaller budget than Y DISTRICT ATTORNEY nancial crisis the County is The proposed cuts will Tarrant County, I cannot in R TA Jeopardizing (NDG Wire) “During facing, I also need to point have a direct impact on our good faith accept proposals N E this critical budget process, out that due to budget cuts ability to prosecute certain that limit our office's abil - M M O I want to reiterate the im - over the last two years, types of criminal offenses, ity to continue making C America’s houses portance of prioritizing there is nothing left to cut including gang violence, Dallas County safe. Any public safety as the top at the District Attorney's elder abuse, mortgage additional cuts to positions of worship: church concern for the citizens of office. fraud, human trafficking, within the Dallas County Dallas County,” said Dal - There are currently 25 child pornography and In - foreclosures las County District Attor - positions in our office that ternet crimes. See SAFETY, Page 5 BY CHARLENE CROWELL that the ax could fall on With more than 2.5 them next. Hamilton Park resident recognized million foreclosed homes Historically, severe nationwide and millions economic downturns by three Presidents and a Governor more to come, many fam - draw many people to turn ilies are tightening their to their faith, praying for BY SHIRLEY DEMUS TARPLEY stood out over the years is as Texas. household budgets, delay - the strength to hold on just Mrs. Euphemia Clem- the recipient of four congrat - Mrs. Tinner and her hus - ing major purchases and a little bit longer. But now, ent Tinner, a resident of the ulations and best wishes band, Mr. Eugene H. Tinner paying down debt as best where people pray or wor - Hamilton Park community from Presidents Barack H. were married June 8, 1948 in they can. Unemployed or ship is also being affected in Dallas, Texas is different Obama, George W. Bush Paris, Texas. They are the under-employed heads of by foreclosures. From from most in her neighbor - and William (Bill) Clinton parents of Beverly, Ruena, household hope and pray California, to Tennessee, hood and perhaps all of the of the United States of Rebecca, Regina (Law- for a new job, while those Georgia and other states, Dallas–Fort Worth Metro - America; and Rick Perry, who are still working feel plex area. One way she has Governor of the State of See RESIDENT, Page 16 Mrs. Euphemia Clement Tinner fortunate but also nervous See FORECLOSURES , Page 3 INSIDE... People In The News… People In The News . 2 Op/Ed . 3 Health . 4 Community News . 5 Education . 6 Cover Story . 9 Arts & Entertainment . 10 Business . 11 Career Opportunity . 13 Church Happenings . 14 Frank L. Branson Blair H. Taylor Jefferson Thomas Sister Tarpley . 15 See Page 2 People in the News www.NorthDallasGazette.com learned the value of hard tion, he was already prov - of view. He began the use amazing effectiveness at Frank L. Branson work. His father was the ing himself to be a fine trial of very sophisticated human getting the best results for football coach and later the lawyer when he was asked anatomical models and dis - his clients. He has estab - (NDG Wire) The Dallas announce Frank L. Branson principal, and his mother to try a murder case. Bran - plays of physical evidence lished a standard of excel - Bar Association is proud to as the recipient of the Out - was a teacher and tennis son won the largest civil and 3-D demonstrations. lence which all trial lawyers standing Trial Lawyer of coach. Academics and ath - verdicts in successive Today, between juggling a should strive to achieve.” the Year award, to be pre - letics were a big part of the weeks in Fort Worth and heavy practice, Branson said Ike Vanden Eykel, sented on October 14. This Branson house and Branson Dallas. gives much of his time to President of the Dallas Bar prestigious award is given excelled in history and gov - In 1978, Branson teaching young lawyers his Association. “I am very annually to a Dallas Bar As - ernment which led him to formed the Law Offices of techniques for trying suc - proud to have him in my sociation member who best law. He was admitted to the Frank L. Branson, P.C., cessful lawsuits. profession.” exemplifies the noble prin - SMU Law School on a “3 where he established a rep - “Frank is simply one of Branson has been ciples of the legal profes - and 3” program after his utation as an innovative, the very best there is in the named by Forbes as one of sion. junior year at TCU and has thorough and fearless business and deserving of the 50 most successful trial Branson grew up west been a fixture in legal cir - lawyer. He was distin - this award. He has set an lawyers in the U.S., he has of Fort Worth in the com - cles since his graduation in guished as one of the earli - example of total dedication been listed in Best Lawyers munity of White Settle - 1969. est in the profession who to his craft, consistent per - of America since 1987 and ment. He attended Brewer After only a year in a approached lawsuits from formance and professional - High School where he new job after his gradua - an entirely scientific point ism at the highest level, and See BRANSON , Page 10 parents were tireless com - Taylor’s entrepreneurial marketing and entre - Blair H. Taylor munity servants and in - background includes four preneurial studies fr- stilled in their five sons a years as the President and om UCLA’s Ander - Blair Hamilton Taylor is dent for more than two passion for advancing CEO of COI/ICD, a leading son Graduate School the President and CEO of decades, Taylor was born in causes of the less fortunate. retail franchising company of Management. In the Los Angeles Urban New York as the third of Prior to joining the LA focused on low income August, 2009 and League, a position he has five children. He learned Urban League, Taylor communities in the U.S. again this year, Taylor held since 2005. With a the value of higher educa - served as Executive Vice and the Caribbean. For his was named by the staff of over 300 and a tion at a young age. His fa - President of College Sum - pioneering efforts, Taylor Non Profit Times to budget in excess of $25 mil - ther earned his bachelor’s mit, a national college ac - was named California’s the Power & Influ - lion, the 88-year-old Los degree from Yale Univer - cess initiative with a track Mass Mutual Blue Chip En - ence list, which iden - Angeles Urban League is sity and his law degree from record of nearly doubling trepreneur of the Year in tifies the top 50 non one of America’s largest NYU; his mother earned the college enrollment rates 1999 and was frequently profit leaders in the civil rights entities. her bachelor’s degree cum of low income students. recognized in national pub - ful Franchising Magazine , nation. Taylor is a community laude from Smith College During his tenure, College lications such as USA and Franchise Times maga - With his wife Bridgette servant and coalition and her masters from Yale Summit achieved the fastest Today, Entrepreneur maga - zine. Taylor, Esq., Taylor has builder with nearly twenty University. These were sig - growth in the organization’s zine, National Business Taylor earned his B.A. been a resident of Los An - five years of public and pri - nificant achievements for history, quadrupling its stu - Employment Weekly, For - in economics from Amherst geles for more than 20 vate sector business experi - African Americans of their dent outreach to more than tune magazine, Franchise College in Amherst, Massa - years. The couple have four ence. A Los Angeles resi - era. More importantly, both 6,000 students in 2005. Times, PC World, Success - chusetts and his MBA in children. as an accountant until his up on the curb [at the The ministers talked to the retirement. school]. We made two or guards. The troops said, Jefferson Thomas Thomas vividly remem - three attempts to enter. Each ‘You can’t enter here.’ They On September 5, 2010, family.” bers the first day the Little time, we would be blocked.