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Welcome to Strolling Piper Glen
Neighbors, pets, recipes and the businesses that support the neighborhood magazine, now online. Here is what you will find, and how to share your own story.
Meet Your Neighbor: George and Gail McDowell
George and Gail McDowell bought in Piper Glen in 2004 to be near the grandchildren, moved in for good in 2008 and never left. Today they live on the ninth hole, sell real estate as a team, and Gail has made more than 1,000 caesar salads.
Gail McDowell's Famous Caesar Salad
Gail McDowell mastered the caesar salad after a move to Toronto in the early 1980s and has made more than 1,000 of them since. Here is her recipe, with two ways to make the dressing and homemade croutons.
Precious Pet: Jude and Bette, the Mayor and the Rebel
Jude is the social one, the unofficial Mayor of Piper Glen. Bette prefers mischief, swimming and fetch. Candi West's two white English Labradors know which neighbors and which golfers keep treats, and they make their rounds.
Ballantyne's Coffee With a Cop Gets a Birria Taco Truck
Tacos Las Catrina's is parking outside Summit Coffee Ballantyne for the September 25 gathering, with birria tacos on the menu.
Coffee With a Cop Gets a Birria Taco Truck
Tacos Las Catrina's is parking outside Summit Coffee Ballantyne for the September 25 gathering, with birria tacos on the menu.
Partner Spotlight: Modern Legal
Theresa Viera's family law firm handles divorce, custody, support and protective orders, and tries to keep cases out of the courtroom when it can. Charlotte, Gastonia, Statesville and Waxhaw, N.C. A paid Partner Spotlight.
Meet Your Neighbors: The Talley Family
Lauren and Clay Talley lived in five states before Piper Glen. Five years in, with three children, swim team and a Girl Scout cookie booth, they say it is the people who made it home.