Toddler playground dedication

St. Alcuin Montessori School dedicated a toddler playground on its campus in honor of a former student who died in December after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. Little Virginia Franklin, at bottom, and Theo Johnson, Veronica Murray, Helena Magee and Maria Delgado came out for the special naming ceremony of the Chloe Simone Shea Toddler Playground Sept. 7.

For what it’s ‘Worth’

Sam Childers, a Preston Hollow resident who authored “Images of America: Historic Dallas Hotels” and is pictured at right, spoke at the grand re-opening of the Worth Hotel at Dallas Heritage Village, and the Junior Historians cut the ceremonial ribbon Sept. 27.

Pride at the parade

Anna Shockley, pictured at right with her husband, Bryan, and daughter, Kathy, at W.T. White’s Homecoming Parade Sept. 27, helped put together the delectable food truck festival that followed. Cheerleader Alyssa Cisneros and cousin Brady Sandoval, above, also showed their school spirit at the parade.