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2 students get honorable mention in Advanced Placement exhibition

Steele Burrow may not be planning on focusing on art in college, but his high school work has already proven to be noteworthy.Burrow and fellow Episcopal School of Dallas senior Natalie Maxted both earned honorable mentions Monday in the 11th annual “Young Masters” exhibition, an event honoring Dallas-area Advanced Placement art students. Burrow said just making it into the field was an accomplishment.

“It’s a big honor,” he said. “Students from all across Dallas submit their single best piece of art.”

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Image on right: Natalie Maxted’s Autumn which earned honorable mention.

By Krista Nightengale
A 25-foot tall ship could seemingly take you to Neverland. A humongous, curved structure conjures up an image of a certain fruit featured in James and the Giant Peach. A little hut with whimsical features suddenly transports you to a world of talking trees in The Lorax.

And just a little further down the cheerful  path are two urban homes flanking a little garden. Children are asked to read a synopsis of City Green — a story in which one little girl gathers neighbors to create a community garden in a ghastly gap left behind from a torn-down home. Then the children are invited to take a stroll into another world.

All of these magical creations are part of “Storybook Playhouses,” an exhibit at the Dallas Arboretum that opened last week. Each one was designed by a different architecture firm in an effort to promote literacy and launch the 25th annual Dallas Blooms.

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A Marsh Middle School student takes a photo of three Girl Talk mentors: (from left) Tessie Diaz-Arrastia, Claire Fontaine, and Mallorie Raybon.

High school youths help sixth-graders tackle mature problems

By Michael Hines
Staff Writer

While Marsh Middle School is fairly close to Ursuline and Hockaday, its sixth-graders might as well have been living in a different world compared to Claire Fontaine.

Claire is one of several Ursuline and Hockaday students who meet with Marsh sixth-graders as part of Girl Talk, a national mentoring program. Claire, who attends Ursuline, and Lauren Callahan of Hockaday founded Dallas’ first Girl Talk chapter last fall, and the weekly events have included some eye-opening discussions for both 17-year-olds.

“It’s just down the road, but it’s a totally different perspective,” Claire said. “The things I was going through in sixth grade was just boy problems or a friend had been mean to me. These girls are dealing with things that are so mature.”

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Former pro will be authority figure on gridiron and in carpool lane

By Michael Hines
Staff Writer

Le’Shai Maston brings a different perspective on NFL life as he prepares to help young football players at Providence Christian School of Texas.

“Being in the NFL wasn’t what people think,” he said. “It was pretty humbling.”

Maston, a senior corporal with the Dallas Police Department, became the Lovers Lane school’s new football coach in February.

Maston has been associated with Providence, which serves students from preschool to eighth grade, since 2002. The carpool lane officer at the time had problems with the morning schedule, so Maston — who was friends with P.E. teacher Jim O’Dey — came aboard to help.

“It was a change of pace being here,” he said. “People were happy to see me. I smiled a lot that first year.”

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