Business
Dallas County Schools bought the building formerly occupied by Unleashed Indoor Dog Park, which closed in June. Dallas County Schools plans to use the space for offices, training and technology services.
The Dallas Arboretum and Doctors Hospital are teaming up to give neighbors a discounted price on Arboretum admission every Thursday through Dec. 31. Guests who live in the zip codes of 75214, 75218 and 75228 qualify for a two-for-one admission price. Visit dallasarboretum.org, and click on the “visits and discounts” tab to find the coupon, then present the coupon at the Dallas Arboretum ticket booth along with a valid form of ID that includes current address. The discount does not include the parking fee of $7 per car. For more information, call 214.515.6500.
Community
Casa Linda AARP Chapter 3880 will host a program at 10 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 1 in the Community Life Center of Casa Linda United Methodist Church, 1800 Barnes Bridge. Dallas Morning News columnist Steve Blow will speak. For details, call 214.321.1705.
AARP needs participants for its Tax Aid Volunteer Program, which offers tax counseling and preparation services to middle and low-income individuals, particularly those over age 60. The program requires volunteers to attend a short school in January followed by an IRS-approved test. The program will run Feb. 1-April 15 at the Lakewood, Southwestern and Oak Lawn libraries. For more details, call 214.821.1529.
La Leche League will meet at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 11 at Greenland Hills United Methodist Church, 5835 Penrose. The nonprofit organization provides education and support for women who want to breast-feed. For details, call 214.342.2355.
YWCA Metropolitan of Dallas, 4144 N. Central, has an urgent need for bilingual volunteers to help deliver free financial education workshops and mammogram screenings Call 214.584.2348 or email lhudson@ywcadallas.org.
People
Martin Delabano, an East Dallas native, received the 2010 Distinguished Texas Artist Award, given to an artist every two years. Delabano has been exhibiting his art for 30 years. He taught at St. John’s Episcopal School for 20 years and Brookhaven College for 18. He also has donated 21 gallons of blood platelets.
Bill O’Neil, Woodrow Wilson alumnus 1951, has donated about $6 billion to Southern Methodist University over the past three years. He funded both a chair in business journalism at the Meadows School of the Arts and a professorship in markets and freedom, and established the William J. O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom in the Cox School of Business.
