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1. Rinse glass bottles, aluminum cans, and rigid plastic cups, plates, and cutlery before putting them right into your City of Dallas blue bin.
2. Remember to keep food-contaminated paper plates and cardboard boxes out of blue bins.
3. Eat local!  Make salsa and

To be eligible for city and area grants, many organizations require grantees to have matching funds on hand at the time the petition for a grant is submitted. With a perpetually low account balance, SPV is essentially leaving free money on the table that could be put to use in our neighborhood. We are now looking for unique and creative ways to raise the money in the kitty to make this possible. Plans are under way to create an SPV neighborhood cookbook for sale at events to generate funds to support neighborhood projects.

Daily Crime Report: If you enjoy reading the "Skulduggery" section of the Oak Cliff People newspaper, you might also enjoy subscribing to a daily Internet crime report. This can be done by going to www.dailycrimereport.com and following the subscrip-tion prompts. In filling out the subscription form, our area is Section 415. You'll receive a daily crime report noting specific events in our area. This is a great and easy way to keep up with our neighborhood crime statistics.

Ah, the Trinity River. Many have said it remains the divider between “Dallas” and “Oak Cliff.” With more than a decade worth of work behind us, we can still see progress. And one day Our Community will no longer face the “crossing the river” syndrome.

The Belmont Motor Hotel was for years a dilapidated wreck. Now it's a stylish urban hotel that's redefining its Fort Worth Avenue neighborhood. by Christine Wilson

Once  the heart of the southwest Dallas community—a  grand, palatial gathering place marked by a brightly lit sign that spelled T-E-X-A-S, touting top-of-the-line acoustics and appurtenances, the Texas Theatre was opened at 231 West Jefferson Boulevard  with fanfare on April 21, 1931, by billionaire  Howard Hughes.  The Texas Theatre was the product of long time Oak Cliff resident and entrepreneur, C. R. McHenry. His dream was  to build a theater with state-of-the-art projection and sound equipment.