Here we see a group of Kessler School students examining book donations to Goodwill Industries of Dallas during a Friday (Nov. 19) tour of the organization’s 270,000-square-foot warehouse and processing facility on Westmoreland Road.

The kids got the tour after a donation drive at the school Wednesday and Thursday. The drive generated 2,420 pounds of donations from 91 donors, wrote Diane Fullingim, vice president of development for Dallas-based Goodwill.

For more details, see the story in this week’s Oak Cliff People.

Here’s next year’s Jazz season for the center at 215 S. Tyler St.

Feb. 5 – Richard Elliot with Steve Oliver
April 2 – Mindi Abair and Euge Groove
May 13 – An Evening with The Sax Pack featuring Jeff Kashiwa, Steve Cole, and Shilts
Sept. 30 – Jeff Lorber and Warren Hill
Nov. 12 – Alexander Zonjic and Friends featuring Maysa

Season tickets have gone on sale for $475, said Teresa Coleman Wash, executive artistic director of TeCo Theatrical Productions. For that, purchasers get two tickets to each show, complementary valet parking, and preferred seating.

Individual show tickets go on sale Dec. 15, Wash said. Those are $62.50 for a 7 p.m. show and $57.50 for a 9:45 p.m. show, she added.

Barak Epstein is running the revamped Texas Theatre. (Staff photo by Christina Barany)

How are you marking the 47th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination? May we suggest a viewing of Virtual JFK at the Texas Theatre, the very venue where Lee Harvey Oswald was captured on Nov. 22, 1963. The film starts at 7:30, and it will be followed by a 9:30 screening of Strange Powers.

For all you chaps and fine ladies who find it edifying to cycle about in 19th-century garb, Bike Friendly Oak Cliff’s second-annual tweed ride is shortly upcoming.

The ride through downtown starts at Dealey Plaza Sunday (Nov. 21) at 3:30 p.m., with a stop at a North Oak Cliff home for refreshments.

Photo by Aimée Herring

The latest issue of D Home, one of Oak Cliff People‘s corporate brethren, includes a story on Jimmie Henslee’s house in Kessler Park, which he annually transforms into a showcase for his extensive collection of Christmas décor. “He rarely uses any one item in back-to-back years,” Rhonda Reinhart writes, “and some things might even stay packed up for five or six seasons before they get their time to shine.”

Voting for People’s Choice has been extended until midnight Sunday! During this extension, you may vote as many times a day as you want. All ballots have been placed back online for your voting pleasure. Support your favorites in Oak Cliff now!

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Go Oak Cliff and the Bishop Arts District Merchants Association is looking for a few good carolers for their Jingle Bells on Bishop street festival Dec. 4, said local knowledgeable person Amy Cowan.

“We would like to invite all of our local choirs and choral groups to perform carols in the Bishop Arts District on December 4, and if there is enough interest, we’ll also include December 5!” Cowan wrote in an e-mail.

Persons interested in singing can sign up here for a time slot. All ages are welcome, for as long as they wants to sing, Cowan wrote.

The Kessler School is getting ready for a donation drive tomorrow (Nov. 17) for Goodwill Industries.

The school will take collections from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow and Thursday, said school operations manager Marci Adams.

School children will also be touring the Goodwill donations processing plant on Westmoreland Road Friday morning, she added.

“We wanted to get the donation drive to educate the students on how the process works,” Adams said. ” This is the perfect time for people to get together and clean out your closet, and help your community.”

Adams added the school also is conducting a food drive for the North Texas Food Bank through Nov. 22, with donation boxes outside classrooms and the office.