The Trail of the Buffalo

Dallas Security Cameras

Candice Thomas monitors surveillance video from cameras along McKinney Avenue. Eleven cameras have been installed along the Uptown thoroughfare. In downtown Dallas and Jubilee Park, the cameras have been credited for hundreds of arrests.

A system of cameras along McKinney Avenue was officially launched Wednesday afternoon, bringing what backers hope will be an added measure of security to residents and workers in the bustling Uptown area.

“We don’t feel we have a crime problem, but that’s why we want the cameras – as a deterrent,” said Jim Reagan, CEO of Uptown Dallas Inc.

He said the cameras would also aid police in solving crimes.

The $160,000 system, which began being installed in February, stretches along McKinney from Pearl Street north to Blackburn Street. The system of 11 cameras will be paid for by the nonprofit organization but monitored by the Dallas Police Department. Read the rest of this entry »

Man makes own museum out of his
vast collection

Venturan has gathered Native American artifacts

By Amy Bentley, Correspondent October 22, 2004
For all of his life, Edmund Tepper has loved and immersed himself in Native American culture. His mother was part Oglala Sioux and his father was of German descent, so Tepper felt comfortable in both the Native American culture and what he calls the “white man’s world.”

The spry 88-year-old Ventura resident has not only embraced his South Dakota Sioux heritage and learned the Lakota language, but he has also become an Indian historian, educator and storyteller. He has spent many years of his life teaching others about the olds ways of many Native American tribes.

For as long as Tepper can remember, he’s also collected Indian artifacts, books and memorabilia, including scores of antique pieces of clothing and weapons worn and used by Native Americans across the United States hundreds of years ago. He wrote and illustrated a book of short stories called “Legends of Plains Indian Children” for his and his wife’s grandchildren.

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