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n Research: Amphipods notendangered; suit to stop PurpleLine in Chevy Chase proceeds
BY ELIZABETHWAIBEL
STAFFWRITER
Purple Line opponents say theyare still concerned about the pro-posed light rail’s environmental im-pacts, even though a research teamdid not find an endangered species ofamphipod in its plannedpath.
The Washington Post reportedThursday that the species of amphi-pod — a type of small crustacean —found near where the 16-mile PurpleLine is planned to run through RockCreek Park in Chevy Chase is not anendangered species. Instead, it is thespecies Stygobromus tenuis.
A research team from AmericanUniversity found the amphipods inDecember. The team, with a grantfrom Purple Line opponents, waslooking for the endangered Hay’sspring amphipod and the Kenk’s am-phipod, which is a candidate for en-dangered species listing.
The $2.45 billion Purple Linewould link Bethesda and New Car-rollton.
JohnMacKnight Fitzgerald is oneof two Chevy Chase residents whofiled a lawsuit, claiming federal agen-cies hadn’t done enough to protect
Wrong species, but foes press on
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American University graduate student Jenna Keany (left) and research assistant Shea Caspersen search for amphipods — tinyshrimp-like crustaceans — in a moist area of Rock Creek Park in Chevy Chase in December. The amphipods they found turned outnot to be endangered.
n But administration saysproject is under review
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Gov. Larry Hogan has proposedto continue funding the Purple Line,but his administration has warnedthat the $2.5 billion project is underreview.
When he campaigned for gover-nor, Hogan (R) made clear his con-cernswith theproject’s price tag andemphasized his preference for roadprojects.
Yet Hogan proposed capitalbudget, which was released on Fri-day, keeps a planned $312.7 millionin the Consolidated TransportationProgram— the state’s six-year capi-tal plan for transportation — for theproject in fiscal 2016, according tothe final 2015 program.
The progam also assumes about$923million will come from the fed-eral government over the course ofthe project.
However, Budget Secretary Da-vid R. Brinkley said both the PurpleLine and the $2.9 billion Red Lineproposed in Baltimore are under“review and re-evaluation.”
Montgomery County CouncilPresident George L. Leventhal saidthe governor can reject federal fundsfor the project.
Maryland Transit officials havesaid construction on the 16-milelight rail line to connect Bethesdaand New Carrollton could begin asearly as this fall if it stays on sched-ule.
As Hogan’s administration stud-ies the project, the deadline to granta 35-year contract for a public-pri-vate partnership on the project ap-proaches. Originally in January, thatdeadline for bids hasbeenpushed toMarch 12, Leventhal (D-At Large) of
Takoma Park said.“That’s a fairly near-term go or
no-go decision,” he said.As planned, the rail line is a top
priority forMontgomery County.Del. ShaneRobinson (D-Dist. 39)
of Montgomery Village, the county’sHouse delegation chairman, saidlawmakers know Hogan is pro-eco-nomic development. Lawmakersare working to convince Hogan thatthe Purple Line is a key driver of eco-nomic development inMontgomeryCounty, the economic engine of thestate.
Hogan’s budget includes money for Purple Line
n Longtime head of community groupto ‘re-wire’ in September
BY RYANMARSHALLSTAFFWRITER
As EstherNewmanwent aroundMontgom-ery County in 1989, she began to notice that shewas seeing many of the same people over andover again on various boards and committees.
And notonly were thefaces the same,but they over-wh e lm i n g l yshared twocharacteristics,she said: Theywere white andalmost entirelymale.
Out o fthat experi-ence grewL e a d e r s h i pMontgomery,the organiza-tion Newmanfounded andhas led for 26years.
Last week,she announcedher plans toleave the Rockville nonprofit in September.
A committeewill be appointed tofindLead-ershipMontgomery’s newCEO.
She said she intends to stay active in thecounty and in community service, aplan to “notretire, but re-wire,” she said.
Newman has been a leader since early on.At Roosevelt High School in Washington,
Newmanplans to leaveLeadershipMontgomery
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Esther Newman, CEO of Leader-ship Montgomery, said she plansto “re-wire,” not retire, when sheleaves the Rockville nonprofit inSeptember.
n Hundreds of middle schoolerscompete in Bethesda
BY ELIZABETHWAIBELSTAFFWRITER
A math problem flashed onto a screen andwithin seconds, one of the middle school stu-dents on stage pressed a buzzer and gave thecorrect answer. They calculated percentages,perimeters and areas, competing to get the cor-rect answers and advance to the next round ofcompetition.
The students were pitting their numeri-cal wits against each other Friday in the sixthannual Carderock Math Contest at the NavalSurfaceWarfare Center in Bethesda. About 230students from 30 schools in Maryland, Wash-
At naval facility:Hard problems,smart students
n Bethesda, Rockville caterersprep for the big game
BY PEGGYMCEWANSTAFFWRITER
If you can pick it upwith one hand—under-inflated gameballs excepted— it’s a perfect foodfor the Super Bowl.
Come Sunday, when the Seattle Seahawksdefend theirNFL championship against theNewEnglandPatriots inGlendale, Ariz., the one-handgrasp is what hosts and guests will want for theirgame day snacking, according to local caterers.
“It tends to be mostly finger foods, jerkchicken wings or calypso chicken wings — any-thing that’s easy,” said Roger Hernandez, a salesassociate at Caribbean Caterers in Rockville.
Hernandez said his company is preparing
food for someSuper Bowl parties, althoughmostcustomers want their food dropped off ratherthan opting for full-service catering. Mostly,he said, Caribbean Caterers is preparing fingerfoods for small parties of 30 to 40 people.
Jennifer Lucks of Lucks Caterers in Rockvillesaid her company also is going that route for theSuper Bowl parties it’s catering.
“A lot of people like hors d’oeuvre kind ofthings, things they can set out,” Lucks said.
She mentioned pigs in a blanket and friedwontons as two favorites.
Munehisa Okada at Cafe X press said theBethesda deli and caterer is offering a full menufor football fans who want to entertain and eatbut not spend time preparing. A buffet for 18to 20 people including subs, meatballs, wings,tossed salad, cookies, brownies, chips and soda
Super Bowlmeans super snacking
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Executive Chef Ariel Villatoro (left) and owner Marc Lucksprepare vegetables and meat in the kitchen of LucksCatering in Rockville on Tuesday.
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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support
Group, 6-7 p.m., Brightview Fallsgrove,9200Darnestown Road, Rockville. Discussproblems and solutions, andmeet withothers walking a similar path. Informa-tion, fellowship, support, refreshments.Free, RSVP requested. 240-314-7194.
Raise Your Voice: Poverty in Mont-gomery County, 6-9 p.m., Activity Centerat Bohrer Park, 506 S. Frederick Ave.,Gaithersburg. A public forum and re-source fair focusing on issues affectinglow-income county residents. Hosted byMontgomery County Community ActionBoard. Free; food and child care provided.240-777-1708.
THURSDAY, JAN. 29Nature Tots: Groundhog Day, 10-11:30
a.m., Croydon Creek Nature Center,852 Avery Road, Rockville. A naturalisthelps visitors explore a new nature topicthrough play, crafts, stories and hikes.Ages 2-5 with caregiver. $8-$10, registra-tion required. 240-314-8770.
Create It Club, 3:30 p.m., RockvilleMe-morial Library, 21Maryland Ave. Kinder-gartners through fifth-graders get crafty.Free. 240-777-0140.
Opening of Indian Film Festival, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Sandy SpringMuseum, 17901Bentley Road. “Gandhi,” with guestmod-erator and light snacks for sale from a localIndian caterer. Held in conjunctionwithSanathana, a two-month celebration ofIndian heritage inMontgomery County.$9-$10. 301-774-0022.
Rozansky Real Estate Seminar, 7 p.m.,Bethesda Country Club, 7601 BradleyBlvd. Insights on several key real estatetopics. Free, registration required. 301-230-0045, ext. 300.
Open Mic Night for Teens, 7 p.m.,Olney Library, 3500 Olney-LaytonsvilleRoad. Sing a song, read a poemor play anacoustic instrument. Free. 240-773-9545.
Rachel and Company Presents:Sure-Fire Ways to Get Your Papers Or-ganized, 7-9 p.m., 4216-B Howard Ave.,Kensington. Wine, food, individualizedorganizing tips and take home goods toget started organizing. $40. [email protected].
FRIDAY, JAN. 30Jazz in the Round: Marc Cary, 8-10
p.m., Sandy SpringMuseum, 17901 Bent-ley Road. A solo piano tribute to hismen-tor Abbey Lincoln. $20. 301-774-0022.
David London’s Weekend of Magic,8-10 p.m., Arts Barn, 311 Kent SquareRoad, Gaithersburg, also 11 a.m.-noonand 1-3 p.m. Jan. 31.Magic Outside theBox Cabaret Show on Friday night, Adven-ture to the Imagi Nation Family Show onSaturdaymorning andMagicWorkshopon Saturday afternoon. Combiningmagicwith storytelling, comedy, puppetry, sur-realism and philosophy. $10-$25 depend-ing on event. 301-258-6394.
SATURDAY, JAN. 31Toddler and Preschool Storytime,
10:30 a.m., Rockville Memorial Library,21 Maryland Ave. Stories, finger plays,songs and stretches. Ages 2-6 with care-givers. Free. 240-777-0140.
STEM Club: Modular Origami, 3-5p.m., Quince Orchard Library, 15831Quince Orchard Road, Gaithersburg.How to make octahedral units andother modular origami crafts using so-nobe units; materials will be provided.Sponsored by the Friends of the Library,Quince Orchard Chapter. Free. 240-777-0200.
Israeli Film: Operation Sunflower,7:45-10 p.m., Tikvat Israel Congrega-tion, 2200 Baltimore Road, Rockville. Adramatic interpretation of the creationof Israel’s nuclear weapon program inthe 1950s, and the relationships andscruples of the team David Ben-Gurionordered to build a bomb. $5-$15, RSVPrequested. [email protected].
SUNDAY, FEB. 1Leo’s Run, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., East Silver
Spring Elementary School, 631 SilverSpring Ave. A 5K run/walk in downtownSilver Spring honoring the stillborn sonof Caroline Joyce andMikeMowery. Therun’s path leads through the neighbor-hood Leowould have been raised in. Pro-ceeds benefit Leo’s Garden, a nonprofit tohelp families who have experienced simi-lar losses. $22.50. [email protected].
Climate Change Movie, 12:30-2p.m., Cedar LaneUnitarianUniversalistChurch, 9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda. Fifthepisode of “Years of Living Dangerously,”how theDutch deal with water and and alook at contrasting political processes intheU.S. Light refreshments, with discus-sion. Free. [email protected].
Sunday Afternoon Waltz, 2:45-6 p.m.,Glen Echo Park, Spanish Ballroom, 7300MacArthur Blvd.With Trio con Brio. $10.202-238-0230.
MONDAY, FEB. 221st Century Library eResources,
10:30 a.m.-noon, AspenHill Library, 4407AspenHill Road, Rockville. Use a phone,tablet and laptop to access library re-sources electronically. Free, registrationrequested. 240-773-9410.
TUESDAY, FEB. 3Bethesda Woman’s Club Lecture
and Lunch, 11 a.m.-2:15 p.m., Woman’sClub of Bethesda, 5500 Sonoma Road.With retired Air Force Brig. Gen. WilmaVaught, president of the Women inMilitary Service for American Memo-rial Fund. $14. www.bethesdawoman-sclubmd.com.
Hands-On STEM Fun, 4-5 p.m.,Whea-ton Library, 11701 Georgia Ave. Learn andplay with drop-in science-based craftsand/or experiments. Grades 1-6. Free.240-777-0678.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4Volunteer Open House, 9:30-11 a.m.,
Holiday Park Senior Center, 3950 Fer-rara Drive, Silver Spring. Learn aboutflexible volunteering opportunities withthe Senior Connection. [email protected].
Tu B’Shvat Seder: A Celebration ofEcology in the Jewish Tradition, 6:45-8:30 p.m., North Chevy Chase ChristianChurch, 8814 Kensington Parkway,Chevy Chase. Guests read and singfrom the Neot Kedumim Tu B’ShvatHaggadah. Learn about biodiversityand ecological concepts in the biblicaltradition. $10 suggested donation. 240-292-9450.
Business-oriented Toastmasters,8-9:30 p.m., Potomac Valley NursingHome, 1235 Potomac Valley Road,Rockville. Meetings give membersthe opportunity to present preparedspeeches, give impromptu speeches, of-fer constructive evaluations and practiceconducting meetings. Free for first-timeguests. 202-957-9988.
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tasting event. Guests will sampledomestic and international selec-tions—non-alcoholic beverageswill be available— and hear rivetingdescriptions of each from the con-gregation’s own beer andwine con-noisseurs. $25-$30. 301-469-8636.
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PHOTOS FROM MONTGOMERY PARKS
(From top) Kensington Cabin, built during the Great Depres-sion, was a recreation center from 1934 to 1991; the NoyesLibrary in Kensington is one of the few libraries in the nationspecifically for children; the Warner house was built in 1894and underwent exterior renovations in 2013 and 2014.
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n Public invited to Saturdaybrainstorming workshop
BY ELIZABETHWAIBELSTAFFWRITER
The county’s parks departmentwants residents’ ideas on the bestways to reinvigorate three historicKensington buildings.
The department is hosting aworkshop Saturday to discuss howthe buildings can share space andserve the community.
“We’re very open-minded, andwe’re really interested to hear whatthe community has to say,” said JulieMueller, a cultural resources plannerwith the Montgomery County De-partment of Parks.
The three buildings up for discus-sion at the workshop are the Warnerhouse, built in the 1890s; KensingtonCabin, which opened in 1934; andtheNoyes Library forChildren,whichwas established in 1893.
Mueller said the workshop isdesigned to give the history of thebuildings and then break into brain-storming groups for each building.People who attend the whole work-shop will have time to attend two ofthe three groups. There are some re-strictions onwhat cango in thebuild-ings, so expertswill beonhand togivetheir advice.
Somepotential ideas involvehav-ing the three buildings work togetherto share space or renting space tononprofits,Mueller said.
“There [are] so many differentpossibilities,” she said.
Mueller said the workshop cameout of a discussion about gettingmoney to renovate the interior of theWarner house.
The house was built by thefounder of Kensington. It underwentexterior renovations in 2013 and2014, but interior renovations are notscheduled to begin before 2020 at the
earliest, according to the county’scapital budget. The county estimatesit will spend almost $5 million reha-bilitating the property in the future.
Mueller said the parks depart-ment is trying to get the projectfunded sooner, but it first needs tosettle on a use for the property. Thedepartment is planning to put officesin the building, but County Councilstaff have asked the department toexplore other possibilities and saidthey would consider funding the ren-ovations sooner if the buildingwill beused for the community.
“They would like to have some-thing that has wider public ... ben-efit,” she said.
The other two buildings alsocould see some changes. Noyes Li-brary is not a part of the parks sys-tem, but is looking at renovating toadd space, Mueller said. People alsohave asked the parks department toreopen Kensington Cabin.
“It seemed like there was an op-portunity to have a conversation,”Mueller said, especially before a lot ofmoneywas spenton individual build-ing projects.
Ideas wanted for historic Kensington buildings
n Only Lord & Taylorremains open
BY ELIZABETHWAIBELSTAFFWRITER
White Flint Mall has closedits doors, but Lord & Taylor re-mains open.
The department store is thelast business open at the Rock-ville Pike mall, whose ownershave said they plan to convertinto a town center-style, mixed-use development.
Stores and restaurants in themall had been closing for morethan a year. P.F. Chang’s res-taurant closed this month, ac-cording to blogger Robert Dyer,while Khoury Bros. jewelry storehas moved to the Tysons Galle-riamall inVirginia, a signpostedon the mall’s doors said. Dave& Buster’s closed last summer,and the post office closed inApril and has since moved to anew location nearby.
At one time, besides Lord& Taylor, the mall boasted aBloomingdale’s, Macy’s anddozens of other name-brandretailers.
Lord & Taylor, which wasinvolved in a court fight withthemall owners over its redevel-opment, is expected to remainopen during construction.
The overhaul is part of a na-tional trend towardMain Street-type, mixed-use projects, as theiconicmalls of decades past die.
The property belongs to Le-rner Enterprises and the Tower
Cos., both of Rockville. Plan-ners approved a sketch planfor redevelopment in 2012, butmore detailed preliminary siteand preliminary plans must besubmitted and approved beforeconstruction can begin.
Francine Waters, seniormanaging director of transpor-tation and smart growth forLerner, said Jan. 21 that there isno timeline for demolishing thebuilding and redeveloping theproperty.
After redevelopment, Lernerand Tower have said they planto call the complex simplyWhiteFlint.
White Flint Mallclosed; no timelinefor redevelopment
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Except for Lord & Taylor, White FlintMall on Rockville Pike is closed,awaiting redevelopment.
n Former teacher worked atBethesda-Chevy Chase High
BYDANIEL LEADERMAN
AND LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFFWRITERS
A Montgomery County PublicSchools employee was arrested Fri-day after being indicted on federalchild pornography charges earlierlast week.
Peter Flynn, 61, of Silver Springfaces once count of distributing childpornography and one count of pos-sessing child pornography, accordingto a statement from the office of U.S.Attorney Rod. J. Rosenstein.
Maryland State Police used a war-rant to search Flynn’s home in Sep-
tember, according to his attorney, PaulKemp.
Flynn was a special educationteacher at Bethesda-Chevy Chase HighSchool, but was taken off the job inSeptember when the investigation be-gan, Kemp and the school district said.Flynn had been a teacher for 37 years,Kemp said.
Beginning in early January, afterbeing on administrative leave, Flynnworked in an administrative positionin the school district’s central officewhile school officials waited for the in-dictment, according to Dana Tofig, aspokesman for the school district.
He did not have contact with stu-dents in that position, Tofig said in anemail.
Flynn allegedly distributed porno-graphic material last April 3 and pos-sessed pornographic material on Sept.
30, according to the indictment, whichwas filed Jan. 21.
Kemp said Flynn might havegrounds tofight thedistributioncharge,but the government “may well be ableto show possession” of the materialmentioned in the indictment.
Kemp had no specifics about thevolume of pornograpic material Flynnis accused of possessing because thatinformation was not contained in theindictment.
The allegations do not involve stu-dents in the district or any in-personvictims, Kemp said.
Further details were not available.Flynn faces up to 20 years in prison
for the distribution charge and 10 yearsin prison for the possession charge, ac-cording to Rosenstein’s office.
Flynn appeared in U.S. DistrictCourt inGreenbelt onFriday afternoon,
then was released with certain condi-tions.
He must seek psychiatric treat-ment, avoid minors and not have ac-cess to pornography or firearms. Also,he can’t use a computer or other devicewith Internet access.
Flynn was on administrative leavefrom September until January, accord-ing to Tofig.
“He has not served as a teachersince September while we awaited thecompletion of the investigation,” hewrote Friday in an email.
Flynn is now back on administra-tive leave.
“Now that the investigation has ledto an indictment, we will begin an in-vestigation and determine next steps,”Tofigwrote.
Bethesda-ChevyChaseHighPrinci-pal Karen Lockard sent a message Fri-
day to the school community througha school listserv about the indictmentagainst Flynn.
“None of the alleged illegal activityoccurred on school property, involvedany students, or was related to his jobin any way,” Lockard wrote in themes-sage.
She wrote that the school “took im-mediate action” when it learned aboutthe federal investigation.
“We could not share informationwith you due to the ongoing federal in-vestigation,” she wrote. “Now that theindictment has been handed down, Iwanted to be sure to share the informa-tion that I have with you as quickly aspossible.”
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n Potomac residents,utility clash over needto protect property line
BY KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFFWRITER
State Sen. Brian J. Feldmanis considering introducing leg-islation that would curtail utilitytree-cutting.
Feldman (D-Dist. 15) of Po-tomac said the recent uptick intree cutting in his district hashim considering a way to ad-dress the issue.
“Trying to find a legislativeresponse is, in all candor, com-plicated,” Feldman said.
Residents have complainedabout Pepco cutting and remov-ing trees on their properties. Theutility says it has a 1959 agree-ment that gives it the right to cutor remove trees within 75 feet ofits property line.
While residents have askedFeldman for a bill to preventPepco frombeing overly aggres-sive in cuttingor removing trees,anything he would introduce
would apply to more than justPepco.
“This would be a statewidebill. It would impact all the utili-ties,” he said.
The utility has come underfire for aggressively cutting treesafter years of barely managingvegetation.
In a statement to The Ga-zette, Pepco said its tree-cuttingprogram is “critical to the deliv-ery of safe and reliable electricservice to tens of thousandsof our customers, includingschools and public safety, pub-lic health and other critical fa-cilities.”
In August, a group of Po-tomac residents sued Pepcoafter workers marked trees onprivate property for removal.The residents asked Montgom-ery County Circuit Court toprevent the cutting until a fullhearing could be held on the is-sue.
The residents said they un-derstood Pepco’s need to cuttrees, but argued the utility wasbeing too aggressive in remov-ing certain trees. The residents
lost that case.Since then, other property
owners have had similar run-ins with Pepco as it continues toremove trees along the swath ofland.
Jim Galvin, who lives on Al-dersgate Road, experienced asimilar problem with Pepco inlate December.
Initially, Galvin said he andhis neighbors planned to pro-test and stand between Pepcoand their trees. Ultimately, theyrelented, andPepcocut the treesas planned.
Like the residents who suedPepco, Galvin said he was con-cerned about how the lost or cuttrees would affect his propertyvalue.
Pepco said the state regula-tions were why it needed to cutthe trees and the 1959 agree-ment gave it authority to do so,Galvin said.
Fighting the utility was anordeal, he said.
“It ruined our Christmas,”he said. “We were out havingmeetings,worryingabout it, typ-ing letters and emailing. We lost
that whole week.”Jake Liang, one of the prop-
erty owners who sued Pepco,said at the time of the hearingin the case that the only solutionfor residents might be state leg-islation.
Feldman said he is workingwithCouncilmanRogerBerliner(D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda on a bill,but has not proposed one yet.
“We’ve got tobe smart aboutour approach,” he said.
Feldman authored the 2011law that required the Public Ser-viceCommission todraft regula-tions tomake the state’s electricutilitiesmore reliable.
Pepco was found to be oneof the lowest-performing utili-ties in the state for reliability.
Under the new rules, allelectric utilitiesmust cut trees sothat, in four years, the brancheswill not come within 15 feet ofpower lines. If cutting the treesto that standard would removemore than 25 percent of thetree’s canopy, the regulationssay the treemust come down.
State senator mulling law to rein in Pepco tree-cutting
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Jim and Pam Galvin of Rockville talk behind their home in December witha staff forester from Pepco. The forester explained how a crew would trimlimbs from trees on their property that Pepco said posed a threat to nearbypower lines.
n Resolution asks that usebe a condition of Pepco’spending $7 billion sale
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Allowing for trails onPepco’sproperty is a condition countyleaders and civic activists wanttacked onto the pending acqui-sition of the electric utility.
The Montgomery CountyCouncil voted Tuesday to urgethe Maryland Public ServiceCommission to strongly con-sider recreational use of utilityproperty as a condition of Pep-co’s sale to Exelon.
The resolution echoes a let-ter sent in December by Plan-
ning Chairman Casey Andersonon the same issueand testimonyearlier this month by membersof several groups pushing fortrails on utility land.
Pepco Holdings Inc. plansto sell to Chicago-based ExelonCorp., parent of Baltimore Gasand Electric, for $6.83 billion incash.
The sale would bring to-gether Exelon’s three electricand gas utilities— BGE, ComEdand PECO — with Pepco Hold-ings’ three utilities, Atlantic CityElectric, Delmarva Power andPepco, cementing Exelon’s holdon themid-Atlanticmarket.
The deal requires approvalby the Public Service Commis-sion and opens a unique win-dow for requests like a condition
requiring the utility to considertrails on its land.
Using utility right-of-wayfor recreation is nothing new,Anderson said.
He said Maryland law al-ready insulates utilities thatallow recreational use of theirland from liability for simplenegligence, such as if someonebreaks a leg.
The bicounty Maryland-National Capital Park and Plan-ning Commission has a historyof working with utilities to granteasements for lines onparkland,but Anderson said it has beendifficult to get permission fromPepco to even cross a trail overits land. It took years, he said, tonegotiate permission to cross atrail in Serpentine Barrens Con-
servation Park in Travilah overPepco property.
“It’s frustrating that we havegenerally tried to be cooperativewith Pepco in the past in givingthem the access they need toprovide utility service, but theyare not seeming to be inclinedto reciprocate by giving us ac-cess whenwe need it,” he said.
Pepco spokeswomanCourt-ney Nogas said parties in thecase have raised the issue ofusing utility property for trails.Nogas said the issue “will beaddressed as part of the mergerproceeding.”
If the utility commits as partof the sale to working coopera-tively with park and planningofficials, Anderson said, thereare trails the agency would like
to pursue.Others also have said they
want the trails.A consortium of outdoor
organizations, including TrailRiders of Today Inc. (TROT),Mid-Atlantic Off-Road Enthu-siasts and the MontgomeryCounty Road Runners Associa-tion, have advocated for Pepcoto “share the lines.”
Maria Schwartz, president ofTROT, testified at a hearing onthe Pepco-Exelon deal that notallowing use of the utility’s landis a wasted asset.
Peggy Dennis, past presi-dent of theMontgomeryCountyCivic Federation, called themove “sensible” — it costs theutility little, but is a boon to thepublic.
Councilman Roger Ber-liner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda,lead sponsor of the resolution,said he hopes the pending dealwould allow for progress on theissue, even if it is not as impor-tant as other factors in the case.
“Use of transmission lineright of way for recreationalpurposes: This is not a novelconcept, but it is an importantone,” he said.
Montgomery County, in itsexpert testimony in the pend-ing case, endorsed the idea. Allcouncil members except Coun-cil President George L. Leven-thal (D-At Large) of TakomaPark have co-sponsored theresolution.
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n Teen Track helpsstudents identify issues,
become advocates
BY PEGGY MCEWAN
STAFF WRITER
The Montgomery County Com-mission for Women on Sunday held its35th Women’s Legislative Briefing inRockville. After 3½ decades of the an-nual conference, organizers decided itwas time to foster the next generationof female leaders in the county.
“We really feel like in terms of ad-vocacy we need to be sure our youngwomen are doing advocacy,” saidChandra Walker Holloway, immedi-ate past president of the commission.“Many of our advocates are aging.”
To that end, the afternoon confer-ence at the Universities at Shady Grovea special Teen Track to show how theteens can work as leaders and advocate
for issues important to them.The gathering, which featured
many county lawmakers, also included
seminars on communicating with leg-islators and building support for issues;health care for senior women; getting
more women into leadership positions;immigration reformandchallenges fac-ing immigrant women; economic em-powerment; and women’s health andsafety.
The commission organized the leg-islative briefing in 1980 and, with onlyone exception, has continued it annu-ally. It has grown from an event with 12co-sponsoring organizations to 83 in2014 and from about 200 participantsin 1981 to more than 700 in 2014.
Numbers for this year’s conferencewere not available.
About 50 girls took part in the dis-cussions and workshops designed tohelp them recognize their leadershipskills and map out a plan for bringingissues specific to them to lawmakers.
“It’s all about making sure yougirls can make a change in your com-munity,” Jessica Smith from Girls for aChange told them. “You can do some-thing now.”
Mekala Rajagopol, 15, a student atRichard Montgomery High School in
Rockville, said sheattended thebriefingbecause she cares about a lot of issuesand wants to make a difference. Espe-cially, she said, she is working locallywith a World Bank initiative to elimi-nate extreme poverty by 2030.
One thing she learnedatTeenTrackwas to use her body language to conveyconfidence.
“Girls need to be more confidentwhen they are saying what they think,”she said.
Probably the youngest attend-ees were Nahla and Noura Habona,10-year-old twins from Silver Spring.The girls are fourth-graders at Flora M.SingerElementary School andattendedwith their mother, Haanan Habeb.
Noura wants to be president of theU.S.,Habeb said. “I justwanted themtolearn to build up their confidence.”
She also said that knowingwhat sheis doing will help her daughter keep herdream alive.
Annual briefing empowers women, including next generation
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Participants listen to state Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. (D-Dist. 18) of Kensington during theMontgomery County Commission for Women’s annual Women’s Legislative Briefing on Sundayat the Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville.
n Parents, doctors,educational staff describeeffects from lack of sleep
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFF WRITER
Parent Myron Marlin reada poem Thursday evening toshare his thoughts on schoolbell times with the MontgomeryCounty Board of Education.
“If we were each farmersplowing our fields, not city folksmowing our lawn, then it mightmake more sense to have ourkids rise, one hour sooner thandawn,” Marlin said, reciting“Please Let Our Kids Get MoreSleep.”
Marlin was one of manyparents, doctors, students andschool staff on Thursday urgingthe school district to start highschool later. The district heldtwo public hearings that day onpossible changes.
Some speakers asked for alater middle school start time.
Superintendent Joshua P.Starr recently released a seriesof options to consider new belltimes, so high school studentswould get more sleep.
Starr said at the time thatthe board should consider onlyoptions without cost. He recom-mended the district push backstart and end times at all schoolsby 20 minutes.
The board will decide onpossible changes on Feb. 10.
Many speakers at the sec-ond hearing pointed to effectsof sleep deprivation, such as de-pression, suicidal thoughts, obe-sity and car crashes. Some saidit’s hard for teenagers, based ontheir circadian rhythms, to fallasleep until around 11 p.m.
The circadian system servesas an “internal clock” that con-trols alertness and sleepiness,according to the National SleepFoundation.
Multiple parents describedrousing their reluctant childrenout of bed to meet a bus in thedark.
Testimony fromdoctors andother experts shared researchand personal findings that laterstart times are beneficial.
Karin Chambless of Sil-ver Spring said her 10th-gradedaughter gets six to 6½ hours ofsleep a night during the week asshe balances school work andother activities. She drinks cof-fee and eats “a lot of sugar” tohelp her stay awake, but stillfalls asleep sometimes in class,Chambless said.
Growing research showsa lack of sleep has “enormoushealth and safety impacts,”confirming a long-known fact,said Darrel Drobnich, the for-mer chief program officer atthe National Sleep Foundation.He served on a consulting teamthat helped Fairfax County, Va.,change its bell times.
“Now, school districts thatcontinue to balance their bud-gets on the backs of our kids,without any concern for theirhealth and safety, is nothingshort of gross negligence,” saidDrobnich, who has two childrenin the Montgomery school dis-trict.
Dr. Michelle Seelman, achild and adolescent psychia-trist in the county, said shesupports starting middle andhigh schools at 8:30 a.m. orlater. Chronic sleep depriva-tion causes depression, suicidalthoughts and poor judgment,she said.
“Over and over, I hear ac-counts of MCPS students whoare chronically sleep deprived,”Seelman said.
Meghan Gaffney, aBethesda-Chevy Chase HighSchool sophomore, saidher rou-tine involves getting up shortlybefore her bus arrives around6:30 a.m., on which she some-times continues sleeping. Afield hockey and lacrosse player,Gaffney said that on days shereturns home from a two-hourpractice, she tries to fit in home-work, dinner and family time,
among other things, before bedtime.
“Living on six hours of sleepis awful,” she said.
Pamela Coukos said hermiddle-schooler Ben, who hasattention deficit disorder, expe-riences fatigue, headaches andfrustration from lack of sleep,and she doesn’t know how tomanage high school next year.Ben sometimes has bad days,she said.
“The days he is literallycrawling out of bed becausehe’s too tired to stand up, and I
have to coach him through it,”she said. “Those are the days Iwonder about home schooling.”
Karen Sultan, a WestlandMiddle School teacher withthree sons in district schools,said she sees the link betweensleep deprivation and depres-sion in her class and her family.
“As a teacher, I’venever seenkids so stressed out,” she said. “Ihave several kids who just can’teven come to school any more.”
Speakers appeal for later high school start time
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n Football playersfrom Gaithersburg help
Rockville nonprofit
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDER
STAFF WRITER
The Watkins Mill HighSchool varsity football teamtook time out of their weekendto give back by volunteering atNourish Now, a nonprofit foodrecovery organization in Rock-ville.
“Every year we try to do adifferent community serviceproject,” said assistant coachAndrew Mele.
This year, Mele wantedto bring the team to a soupkitchen or something alongthose lines for their day of ser-vice. Then he learned aboutNourish Now and thought itwould be perfect.
“Five hundred familiesin need come directly to ourlocation,” said Brett Meyers,founder and executive directorof Nourish Now.
Meyers explained that theorganization goes out to res-taurants and catered eventsand “rescues” already preparedfood that normally would havebeen thrown away. A lot of thefood that is going to be thrownout has anywhere from two tofive days before it actually goesbad, according to Meyers, andNourish Now takes it off restau-rants’ hands and puts it into thehands of someone who needsit.
The team came out from 1to 3 p.m. Saturday and repack-aged food that had been re-covered into individual mealsin carry-out containers. TheNourish Now location couldonly hold about 15 players, soMele said the rest of the teamwill be going to volunteer atNourish Now in the beginningof February.
The organization recentlysurpassed 300,000 poundsof food donated around thecounty, including their pack-
aged meals as well as non-perishables that they give tofamilies in five-day supplies.
Meyers said thatwhile thereare many different food recov-ery organizations, there aren’tmany that collect preparedmeals. Nourish Now works inpartnership with nonprofitsaround thecounty thathelpputthe food in their clients’ hands.
“We’re like on-call doctors,but with food,” Meyers said.
High school athletes add service to playbook
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Members of the Watkins Mill High School football team volunteer their time Saturday to package food for theneedy at the warehouse of the nonprofit charity Nourish Now in Rockville (From left) Luis Jimenez, 16, LeonardoMolina, 15, and Antony Zavala, 16, assemble meal containers. The project was the idea of the team’s assistantcoach, Andrew Mele, who wanted to instill in his players the importance of community outreach.
n Council to discuss billagain this week
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFF WRITER
A bill to ban electronic cig-arettes and vapor inhalationdevices wherever Montgom-ery County already prohibitstobacco products has gotten amixed public reaction. The billalsoprevents the sale of the elec-tronic products to minors.
“I’m quite confident we’regoing to enact this,” CouncilPresident George L. Leventhal(D-At Large) of Takoma Parksaid Monday at his weekly newsbriefing. Leventhal noted thatmost people testified in favor ofthe bill Thursday at a Montgom-ery County Council Health andHuman Services Committeehearing.
Councilwoman Nancy Flo-reen (D-At Large) of Garrett Parkproposed the bill, which specifi-cally would add e-cigarettes tothe county’s ban on smoking incertain public places.
The county prohibits smok-ing in bars, restaurants, busi-nesses, workplaces, elevators,hospitals, county buildings, railstations, bus stops and schools,and on county property.
The fine is $50 for a first of-fense and $75 for a second of-fense.
Also known as personal va-porizers or electronic nicotinedelivery systems, e-cigarettesprovide both nicotine and nico-tine-free options.
E-cigaretteshavebeenavail-able in the United States since2007. Use of the devices hasdoubled every year since 2010,with the industry estimated at$1.5 billion, according to infor-mation from the National Insti-tute on Drug Abuse presentedat a council Health and HumanServices Committee briefing.
Opponents of the bill in-cluded people who have usedthe products to stop smokingtobacco.
Mike Shanahan, owner ofMJ Vape in Montgomery Vil-lage, said he quit smoking after30 yearsbyusing vapingdevices.
Shanahan said he fearedbanning public vaping wouldhurt public health by preventing
smokers from being exposed toa more healthful alternative.
“It is my strong belief thatthis legislation is based primar-ily in irrational andunwarrantedfear and it will do more harmthan good to the public healthby discouraging smokers fromadopting a healthier alterna-tive,” Chris Webber, a lifelongcounty resident, testified.
Supporters said it’s morehealthful to keep vapor out ofpublic spaces.
Anne Marie O’Keefe, chair-woman of the Maryland PublicHealth Association’s advocacycommittee, said the vapor is notpure, as it contains “nicotineand other toxic and carcino-genic metals and chemicals.”
American Cancer SocietyCancer Action Network vol-unteer Steven Weiss said thetoxic compounds in the vaporinclude formaldehyde, a prod-uct often used as an industrialfungicide, a germicide and adisinfectant.
Debbie Robbins, presidentof Century Distributors Inc., aRockville distributor of tobaccoand e-cigarette products, ques-tioned why the bill was needed,saying the county should waitfor the Food and Drug Admin-istration to conclude its processbefore acting.
Dr. Ulder J. Tillman, countyhealth officer, said much is un-known about the products, butwhat is known is of concern.
“Use among youth is grow-ing, stimulated by aggressivemarketing and the use of flavor-ings in e-cigarettes that appealto younger consumers,” shesaid, testifying on behalf of thecounty executive. “While theFDA is moving to regulate e-cig-arettes, the rule-making processis a lengthy one and it is likelyto be years before a final rule isadopted.”
State lawmakers also haveproposed to toughen laws forthe products.
“Montgomery Countyshould not wait for the federalor state government to enactneeded protections,” Tillmansaid.
The Health and Human Ser-vices Committee is scheduled todiscuss the bill Thursday.
Reaction to limitson e-cigarettesin public mixed
“Every year we tryto do a different
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n Cabin John middleschoolers volunteer atSilver Spring nonprofit
BY PEGGYMCEWAN
STAFFWRITER
The students pulled clothesfromboxes, sorting themby sizeand checking to be sure eachitem was free of stains or otherflaws. Others sorted games orbooks, again looking to makesure eachwas ingoodcondition,containing all its parts, and notold andworn looking.
They were from Cabin JohnMiddle School in Potomac andthey were volunteering at AWider Circle in Silver Spring onSaturday.
The nonprofit works to endpoverty, one individual and onefamily at a time. It concentrateson providing home goods tothose who do not have them:furniture, bedding, kitchenwareand other essentials.
The condition of each itemgiven to its clients matters, said
founder and Executive DirectorMark Bergel.
“If you have had nothing, I
feel you’ve had the worst,” Ber-gel said. “Now you deserve thebest.”
The Cabin John studentshelped by being sure everythingthey put on the shelves was the
best.Seventh-graders Lauren
Sherr and Sarah Lininger wereamong the game-sorters in thelower level of A Wider Circle’sCenter for Community Service,where clients schedule appoint-ments to “shop” for their needs.
“I really wanted to help peo-ple out who couldn’t do thingsfor themselves,” Sarah said. “I’mhappy it looks like there is a lotof stuff for people to take.”
Sarah’s attitude is exactlywhat Bergel hopes to foster involunteers. Many come to ful-fill their student service learn-ing hour requirements, buthe wants them to leave with agreater understanding of pov-erty, he said.
“I’ve seen kids come hereto volunteer and their liveschange,” he said. “We want tobe their connection to those inpoverty. They aren’t going tomeet people in poverty. Theywalk away with a different un-derstanding of humanity.”
That lesson was not lost onLauren. At the end of the day,she said she learned that people
deserve the best, not just any-thing.
For two hours the studentsworked in the chilly workspace.Even when they took a box ofitems up to the showroom theyhad to go outside, the only placewith steps to the main level.Even the parents who drovethem were put to work, usingtheir smartphones to be surebaby strollers, car seats andhighchairs were not on governmentrecall lists.
Jack Sircus, a sixth-grader,came with his whole family:Mother, father, brother and sis-ter all helped, sorting books to-gether and shelving them.
“We just decided we wouldsupport him in his service,” saidhismother, Janna Sircus.
As the student’s volunteertime came to an end, they allmet with Bergel for a debriefingand question-and-answer ses-sion.
“Poverty is our biggest socialproblem,” Bergel said. “Stay in-volved.”
Potomac students get a lesson in combating poverty
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Sarah Lininger (left) and Lauren Sherr, both seventh-graders at Cabin John Middle School in Potomac, sort donatedtoys Saturday at A Wider Circle in Silver Spring.
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Member sought forBethesda panel
The Western MontgomeryCounty Citizens Advisory Boardis seeking applicants to fill a va-cancy on the Bethesda Trans-portation Management DistrictAdvisory Committee.
The nominee must livein a neighborhood inside theBethesda Transportation Man-agement District, a map ofwhich is at bethesdatransit.org/about-us.shtml.
The committee will adviseBethesda Transportation So-lutions on matters relating totransportation demand, car-pooling, bicycling and walkingtowork, and use of public trans-portation.
Bethesda TransporationSolutions is administered bythe Bethesda Urban Partner-ship through a contract with theMontgomery County Depart-ment of Transportation’s Com-muter Services section.
Members serve three-yearterms without compensationand meet every other monthon the third Friday morning indowntown Bethesda.
Applicants should send abrief resume detailing pertinentexperience, interests and com-munity activities byMay 1 to theWestern Montgomery CountyCitizens Advisory Board, 4805Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda, MD20814.
For more information, con-tact Karen Thon at 240-777-8210, or email [email protected].
C&O Canal seeks educatorsfor student programTheparkworkedwithMont-
gomery County Public Schoolsteachers to develop the pro-grams for elementary, middleand high school students andis trying them out during thisschool year. The programs sup-port national and state curricu-lum standards and encouragestudents to explore their localnational park, according to anews release.
During field trips, studentswill work on science, technol-ogy, engineering and math ac-tivities, while complementaryclassroom and online activitieswill focus on vocabulary, read-ing andwriting.
The C&O Canal Trust, thepark’s nonprofit partner, willprovide a daily stipend to theeducators. A training workshopwill be held in February at theC&O Canal Great Falls TavernVisitor Center in Potomac.
To apply, contact the C&OCanal Education Office at [email protected] or call301-714-2213.
More information on thepark’s education programs,field trip reservations andonlineteacher resources is at nps.gov/choh/forteachers.
Child care center wins$1.4M federal grantThe Reginald S. Lourie Cen-
ter for Infants and Young Chil-dren in North Bethesda won a$1.4 million Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership grant to
provide early learning opportu-nities to more infants and tod-dlers in low-income families.
The grant, from the Depart-ment of Health and HumanServices’ Administration forChildren and Families, encour-ages collaborations betweenEarly Head Start grantees andchild care providers, accordingto the federal agency.
The grant will help 75 ad-ditional children gain accessto the center’s Early Head Startprogram, department SecretarySylvia M. Burwell said in a newsrelease.
The Lourie center, which isaffiliated with Adventist Health-Care of Gaithersburg, received18 percent of its $7.2 millionbudget in 2013 from federalgrants, according to its most re-cent annual report.
Senior Connection hostsvolunteer open houseThe Senior Connection will
hold a volunteer open housefrom 9:30 to 11 a.m. Feb. 4 atthe Holiday Park Senior Center,3950FerraraDrive, Silver Spring.
The group links older adultsto services and resources sothey can live as independentlyas possible.
There are openings for vol-unteers to drive seniors tomedi-cal appointments, help withgrocery shopping and providemoney management supportservices.
For more information andto RSVP for the open house,contact Mary Murphy at [email protected] or call 301-942-1049.
The Senior Connection alsowill hold training sessions forvolunteer drivers and groceryshoppers from 10 a.m. to noonFeb. 11 at the Jewish Councilon the Aging, 12320 ParklawnDrive, Rockville; and 7 to 8:30p.m. Feb. 18 at the Holiday ParkSenior Center.
Expert discussesblack bears in stateHarry Spiker, an expert with
the state Department of NaturalResources, will present “Bearsin the Backyard,” a talk aboutthe black bear’s natural historyand his agency’s managementefforts to monitor and control
bear populations inMaryland.Typically, there are a few
black bear sightings in Mont-gomery County every spring.Last year, one was seen on theBethesda campus of the Na-tional Institutes of Health.
Check-in and refreshmentsstart at 6:45 p.m., with the one-hour lecture at 7 p.m. Feb. 4 atMeadowside Nature Center,5100 Meadowside Lane, Rock-ville.
The program is free and forages 14 and older. Registration:parkpass.org or 301-258-4034.
City seeks student artfor exhibit
Rockville is seeking talentedstudent-artists to submit worksfor a special exhibit in Februaryat Glenview Mansion Art Gal-lery.
The annual student art showwill feature pieces by kinder-gartners through high schoolerswho live or attend school in thecity. Each student may deliverone two- or three-dimensionalpiece. They all will be displayed,with ribbons awarded to thebest art by fourth- through12th-graders.
Artwork can be dropped offat themansion inRockvilleCivicCenter Park, 603 EdmonstonDrive, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.Feb. 15.
A freeopening receptionwillbe held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.Feb. 22, with ribbons awardedat 2 p.m.
Students may pick up theirart from 5 to 7 p.m.March 5 andfrom 2 to 5 p.m.March 6.
More information is at rock-villemd.gov/glenviewgallery orcontact Julie Farrell at 240-314-8682 or [email protected].
Storm Drain Art Contestis announced
Montgomery County resi-dents 13 and older are invitedto submit entries to the county’sinaugural Storm Drain Art Con-test.
Hosted by the County De-partment of EnvironmentalProtection andRockCreekCon-servancy, the contestwill use thewinning art to educate residentsabout the connection betweenlocal storm drains and streams
and the Chesapeake Bay.Submissions should portray
an educational theme relatedto streams or storm drains andthey shouldbe colorful, creative,original and easy to reproduce,according to a news release.Each design should include ashort tagline or message, in anylanguage, related to the chosentheme.
Artists can choose their pre-ferred medium, but the entryshould be a JPG, PNG or PDF ofthe design and can be as simpleas submitting a picture of the fi-nal piece.
Entries are due at 2 p.m.Feb. 23. Two of the winning en-tries will be chosen by a panel,with the third winner decidedby voting on Rock Creek Con-servancy’s Facebook page. Thethree winning selections will bepainted on storm drains in thecounty for Earth Day 2015 inApril.
Storm drain art is now vis-ible at the Aspen Hill and Kens-ington Park libraries. Morecontest information, includingphotos of some storm drain art,is at mygreenmontgomery.org/art.
County offers annualcivil rights bus tourThe Montgomery County
Office ofHumanRightswill hostits annual civil rightshistoricbustourApril 6-11. The tourwill visitGreensboro, N.C.; Atlanta; Bir-mingham, Montgomery, Selmaand Tuskegee, Ala.; Cincinnati;andMemphis, Tenn.
The tour is offered in con-
junction with MontgomeryCounty Public Libraries, theAfrican American EmployeesAssociation, the Lincoln ParkHistorical Foundation and theSouthern Christian LeadershipConference.
Tour stops will include thebirth homemuseum of the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr.; the newNational Center for Civil andHuman rights; the TuskegeeAirfield and National Museum;the Rosa Parks Museum; theFreedom Rides Museum; theSixteenth Street Baptist Church;the Edmund Pettus Bridge; theNational Underground RailroadFreedom Center; and the Lor-
raineHotel National Civil RightsMuseum.
Thecost for a groupof four is$545 per person, which includeshotels, transportation, somemeals and snacks, andmuseumand tour fees. The fee is higherfor smaller groups, according toa county news release.
At least onemember of eachgroup is required to attend ameeting in Rockville about aweek before the tour.
More information is atmontgomerycountymd.gov/humanrights, or contact BeverlyMarshall at [email protected] or240-777-8479.
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The following is a summary of inci-dents in the Bethesda area to whichMontgomery County police respondedrecently. The words “arrested” and“charged” do not imply guilt. This infor-mation was provided by the county.
Commercial burglary• 4800 block of Rugby Avenue,
Bethesda, on Jan. 5 or 6. Forced en-try, took property.
• Unit block ofWisconsin Av-enue, Chevy Chase, on Jan. 8. Forcedentry, took nothing.
• Berkshires at Rock SpringCommunity Center, 6425 Rock For-est Drive, Bethesda, between 1 and 5a.m. Jan. 10. The subject vandalizedthe room and left.
Theft• 4700 block of Sangamore Road,
Bethesda, between noon and 12:30p.m. Jan. 10. Took the victim’s wallet.
• Tommy Joe’s, 4714 Montgom-ery Lane, Bethesda, on Jan. 11. Tookthe victim’s wallet.
Vehicle larceny• Five incidents in Kensington
between Jan. 5 and Jan. 13. Affectedstreets include Parkwood Drive andThornwood Drive.
POLICE BLOTTER
n County trains officers togive anti-overdose medicine
BY DANIEL LEADERMANSTAFF WRITER
As deaths from heroin-related overdoses continue torise across Maryland, police inMontgomery County say they’reresponding with a revised in-vestigative strategy and a newemergency treatment.
Heroin deaths statewideincreased from 392 in 2012 to464 in 2013. Twenty-five peopledied after overdosing on heroinor other opioids in Montgom-ery County in 2014, includingtwo 26-year-old men who diedtogether Dec. 5, according todata provided by county police.That number is up from ap-proximately 16 fatal overdosesin 2013, according to police.
Overdose deaths have tra-ditionally been treated as un-attended deaths, which didn’tusually warrant extensive in-vestigation, said MontgomeryCounty Police Capt. DineshPatil, head of the Special Inves-tigations Division, which inves-tigates drug crime.
But for about a year, po-lice have been trying a newapproach: treating overdosesmore like homicides, Patil said.This means more evidence isgathered at the scene and fromwhoever was present when theoverdose occurred, he said.
It also means pairing druginvestigators with homicide
detectives, as well as workingwith prosecutors to try to linkoverdose deaths to suspecteddrug dealers, Patil said. Even if aspecific charge can’t be broughtagainst a dealer, the connectioncould be reflected by a more se-vere sentence upon conviction,he said.
This new practice has notyet led to specific charges be-ing filed in relation to an over-dose death, but has led to betterinformation-sharing betweendetectives, command staff andprosecutors, according to Patil.
This week, police also be-gan training patrol officers toadminister Narcan, also knownas naloxone, a drug that cancounteract the effects of an opi-oid overdose and is sprayed intothe person’s nose. Twenty-eightofficers were trained Jan. 20,and the department hopes tohave 80 officers trained to givethe drug by March, said OfficerScott Davis of the department’sCrisis Intervention team.
Police in other jurisdictionsin the area, including Annapolisand Frederick County, alreadyuse the drug.
Twelve of the 25 overdosevictims in Montgomery Countyin 2014 were in their 20s, ac-cording to police.
Investigators believe thatmany people turn to heroinafter experimenting with pre-scription drugs like oxycontinand becoming addicted, Patilsaid. Heroin becomes a cheaperand more readily available alter-native than pills, he said.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan(R) said after his election lastyear that he planned to declarea state of emergency regardingheroin use in the state.
“It’s not just a crime prob-lem,” Hogan said in December.“Sixty percent of our jails arefilled with people on heroin.”Hogansaidheplanned togather“all the smartest people in thestate and around the country”to come up with solutions to theproblem, and that Lt. Gov. BoydRutherford would personallyoversee the effort.
Hogan plans to “announcethe first steps in tackling theproblem very soon,” accordingto a statement from his office.
At least one lawmaker fromthe county has personally askedHogan to fund programs thattreat addiction and help reha-bilitate addicts.
“We must begin treatingindividuals suffering from ad-diction as people suffering froma treatable, chronic medicalcondition; not as criminals,”Del. Kirill Reznik (D-Dist. 39) ofGermantown wrote in a letter toHogan in December.
Those who enable addic-tion are the ones who should beprosecuted to the fullest extentof the law, Reznik wrote.
The delegate also urged Ho-gan to invest in infrastructureand treatment facilities, whichhe said are lacking throughoutthe state.
Police apply newdrug, new strategyto heroin problem
They’ve gotgames
Cristian Villalobos of Bethesda andteammate Brigitta Blair of Wash-ington, D.C., work on their video
games Sunday at the Universitiesat Shady Grove in Rockville. They
were among the competitors in the48-hour, round-the-clock Global Game
Jam, an annual, worldwide gamingindustry contest. Participants, fromhigh-school students to industry pro-fessionals, worked with groups fromabout 200 registered sites around
the world to develop game designs.The winning team was from Blake
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Hair Cuttery donateshaircuts to homelessFor every customerwho gets
a haircut on Monday and Tues-day Hair Cuttery salons will givea certificate for a free haircut to ahomeless person.
The certificates will be dis-tributed through homelessshelters and community organi-zations.
Through the Share a Haircutprogram, the salon chain hasprovided free haircuts to morethan 1 million people, accord-ing to a news release.Nationally,the chain, owned by Ratner Cos.of Vienna, Va., hopes to providehaircuts to35,000homelesspeo-ple in February.
The chain has about twodozen locations in MontgomeryCounty. A list is at haircuttery.com/locations.
Quarterly, annual profitsup at Lockheed
Lockheed Martin reportedbigger fourth-quarter and year-end profits Tuesday.
The Bethesda military andinformation technology con-tractor posted a fourth-quarterprofit of $904 million, up from$488 million in the fourth quar-terof 2013, as sales rose to$12.53billion from $11.53 billion.
Its profit last year grew to$3.61 billion from $2.98 billionin2013. Sales increased to$45.60billion from$45.36 billion.
Marriott to buy Canadianhotel brand for $135MMarriott International of
Bethesda agreed to pay about$135million to acquire theDeltaHotels and Resorts brand andmanagement and franchisebusiness from Delta Hotels LP,a subsidiary of British ColumbiaInvestment Management Corp.in Victoria.
The Delta brand covers 38hotels and resorts with 10,000rooms in more than 30 cities inCanada, according to a news re-lease.
The deal will increase Mar-riott’s presence in Canada tomore than 120 hotels and 27,000rooms, making it the largestfull-service hotel company inCanada.
LaSalle pays $350M forseventh San Francisco hotel
LaSalle Hotel Properties ofBethesda reported paying $350million to purchase the WestinMarket Street in San Francisco.
LaSalle renamed the 681-room hotel the Park Central SanFrancisco. It’s LaSalle’s seventhhotel in the city, according to anews release. It was built in 1984and had a $28.3 million renova-tion in 2007.
Bridgewater Wealthnames principal
Bridgewater Wealth & Finan-cial Management of BethesdanamedNinaR.Mitchellprincipal.
Previously, Mitchell co-founded MTX Wealth Manage-ment in Bethesda, where shewas a principal adviser. Earlier,she worked at SFX Financial Ad-visory Management Enterprisesand Falk Associates Manage-ment Enterprises.
Dixon Hughes namesservices director
Dixon Hughes Goodmanin Rockville named StephanieFenner director in private client
services.P r e -
v i o u s l y ,Fenner, ac e r t i f i e dpublic ac-countant ,was a seniormanager atA r o n s o n .She holds a
bachelor’s in accounting fromFlorida StateUniversity.
Germantown credit unionnames new CEO
Mid-Atlantic Federal CreditUnion of Germantown namedAndrew P. Russell president,CEO and chairman of Mid-At-lantic Financial Partners’ CreditUnion Service Organization.
Previously, Russell wasexecutive vice president andhead of the Business Banking
Group ofthe GreaterWash ing -ton, D.C.,area forPNC Bank;execu t i vevice presi-dent, direc-tor of theB u s i n e s s
BankWholesale Group in Geor-gia and Florida for CertusBank;and senior vice president andcorporate relationshipmanagerwith BBVA Compass.
He is a Navy veteran andretired captain in the Army Re-serves. He holds a bachelor’sdegree from theUniversity of theState of New York and amaster’sdegree from Troy State Univer-sity.
E-Management tapsformer White House CIOE-Management of Silver
Spring named Karen Britton se-nior vice president andCOO.
Previously, Britton was chiefinformationofficer of theExecu-tive Office of the President andspecial assistant to PresidentBarackObama.
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Amongst their peers,they’re celebrities, at least fora year. And their owners arethrilled.
Several MontgomeryCounty pets are featured na-tionally in five 2015 cat anddog calendars. They includeWinston, a Lakeland terrierwho belongs to Essex and BethThompson of Rockville.
Winstonwas not yet 2 yearsold when the Thompsons sub-mitted his picture, hoping hecould be in the 365 Puppies aYear calendar.
That was seven years ago.Beth Thompson was excitedto learn several months agothat Winston, now 9, made thepuppy cut for 2015.
The five calendars — 365Puppies a Year, 365 Cats, 365Kittens a Year, 365 Dogs andBad Cat — are all products ofWorkman Publishing in NewYork.
KimPeifleyofGermantownhas three gray cats that got intoBad Cat, even though theyhadn’t done anything particu-larly naughty.
The photo shows the littermates, who turned 2 in August,
clinging to eachother in aheap.Berlioz appears to be gettingattention and protection fromTippy and Chanel, which iswhat the assigned caption says:“Cat insists on two bodyguardsto protect him from toddler.”
Peifley sent the photo to365 Cats, but doesn’t mind that
it was funneled to Bad Cat. “It’sall in fun,” she said.
Other Montgomery Countypets that were published:
• Luna, belonging to Brianand Shauna Weber of TakomaPark, in 365 Cats.
• Sparky, belonging to Al-lison and Robert Schwartz of
Gaithersburg, in 365Dogs.• Toby, belonging to Tina
GermanofGaithersburg, in 365Kittens a Year.
• Pixie, belonging to VivianShaw of Wheaton, in 365 Pup-pies a Year.
County pets featured in calendars
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Winston, a Lakeland terrier belonging to Beth and Essex Thompson, sits with their 17-year-old son, also namedEssex, in their Rockville home. Winston’s photo was included in a puppy calendar. Essex holds an uncropped ver-sion of the calendar image.
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Ruby I. Miller, 88, of Olney, MD entered into rest on Friday,January 16, 2015 at Montgomery General Hospital, Olney.She was born on April 18, 1926 in Milton, PA. On June 21,1947, she married George A. Miller, Sr., the love of her life, whosurvives her and misses her greatly.Ruby dedicated her life to serving those less fortunate throughcountless hours of volunteer work. She was a member of AshtonUnited Methodist Church since 1972, where she served as Chairof Mission Outreach, organizing 42 CROP walks to raise fundsfor Church World Service, orchestrating volunteer work campsin various locations in Maryland and Virginia, and starting a foodpantry which is still active today. She served as room mother atthe Olney Elementary School and volunteered her time as abeautician at Brookegrove Retirement Home. She was a memberof the Board of theArthritis Foundation and helped to implementthe first aquatics program for people with arthritis inMontgomery County. She also was a member of the AmericanLegion Auxiliary, and a founding member of the CherrywoodGarden Club.Ruby enjoyed a lifetime of artistic creativity working in oil,watercolor, tole, and ceramic painting. She was a member of theNational Tole Society.Surviving are two sons and one daughter-in-law, George A.Miller, Jr. of Olney, Carl and Donna Miller of Vero Beach, FL,two daughters and one son-in-law, Patti Robertson ofMartinsburg, WV, Teena and Neil Wilkin, Jr. of Roanoke, VA,eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.Interment was in Lewisburg, PA.A Memorial Service in her honor is set for 11 AM at the AshtonUnited Methodist Church, 17314 New Hampshire Avenue,Ashton, MD 20861, on Sunday, February 1, 2015.In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Mrs. Miller’smemory may be sent to the Missions Team at Ashton UnitedMethodist Church.To share in Ruby’s online remembrance, please visitwww.adamofh.com
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amphipods from the PurpleLine. He said Monday that theresearch team’s findings don’tchange their legal tack.
“It essentially doesn’tchange the litigation,”FitzgeraldtoldTheGazette.
“It might have been a loteasier if [researcher David Cul-ver] had found it waiting forthe Purple Line to run over it,”he said, referring to the Hay’sspring or Kenk’s amphipod, butthe lawsuitwill go forward.
When he, the Friends ofthe Capital Crescent Trail andChristineRealdeAzuraofChevyChase filed the lawsuit in Au-gust, they didn’t know whethertheHay’s spring andKenk’s am-
phipods livednear the route,butthey have been found in RockCreek Park in Washington. Thetrees along the alignment andthe groundwater seeps that areprime amphipod habitat arestill worth protecting, Fitzgeraldsaid.He also is concerned aboutstormwater runoff, hazardouswaste and the loss of trees when
the Purple Line is built, whichcould harm the amphipodsand other species in the area ordownstream.
“The whole area is going tobecomebasicallyuninhabitable,to a large extent,” he said.
The amphipod speciesfound near the Purple Linealignment is in the same Sty-gobromus genus as the Kenk’sand Hay’s spring amphipods.Fitzgerald said that even thoughthe researchers did not find anyendangered amphipods, theydid find habitats where theycould live or where the speciescould expand and recover in thefuture.
“[Thepopulation is] so tenu-ous ... that you can’t really writeoff anything, and you shouldn’twrite off any occupiable habi-tat,” he said.
Becausetheshrimp-likeam-phipods—whichmeasureuptoahalf-inch longandaresightless— spendmost of their time un-derground, they are difficult tofind. Fitzgerald said the Friendsof the Capital Crescent Trail hascommissioned a DNA study tosequence the endangered am-phipods’ DNA, so water in thearea can be tested to check forits presence.
More scrutiny of the PurpleLine’s environmental impact isneeded, Fitzgerald said, espe-cially because the rail line’s de-sign is still beingfinalized.
“At the very least, they needto have a supplemental [envi-ronmental impact statement]before theyturnasinglespadeofdirt or cut a single tree,” he said.
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D.C., she was vice president ofthe student council and editorof the school newspaper.
She got married out of highschool and had two children.But when they went to school,Newman did, too.
She earnedher associate de-gree fromMontgomery College,a bachelor’s degree from An-tioch University and a master’sin applied behavioral sciencefrom Johns Hopkins Universityin 1983.
Newman said she took greatpride in getting her educationwhile also raising a family.
“Somehow, I found ways todo it all,” she said.
She got involved in variousorganizations that found herworking with community lead-ers, and started looking for waysto provide opportunities to in-volve a more diverse group ofpeople in the county.
Montgomery County hassuch a wealth of talent, com-munity involvement and lots ofpeople who care deeply aboutthe community, Newman said.
But she said LeadershipMontgomery has grown be-yond anything she would havethought possible, both in thenumber of programs it can offerand the number of people ableto participate.
Newman sees the organi-zation as a sort of communitytrusteeship, nurturing succes-sive generations of communityleaders fromthebusiness, politi-cal and nonprofit sectors.
“We expect people to giveback,” she said, although theorganization doesn’t tell partici-pants where or how to do it.
The organization providesa range of programs, from itsoriginal coreprogramtoa seniorleadership program for people55 and older, a youth leadershipprogram for high school stu-dents and a one-day executiveprogram.
This year, for the first time,it’s offering an emerging lead-ers program for people 25 to 35years old, Newman said.
Over the years, the organi-zation has grown financially,too. It had revenues of $711,345in the fiscal year ended June 30,2013, finishing the year with netassets of $819,637, according toits most recent available tax re-turn. Most of its revenues werefrom contributions, grants andprogram service revenues.
Leadership Montgomerywas a “fantastic leadership ex-perience,” said Laurie Boyer,executive director of RockvilleEconomic Development Inc.
Her participation gave her achance tomeet people fromdif-ferent areas of the county withwhom she never would havehad the chance to come in con-tact, she said.
Along with having a greatstaff, board and alumni net-work, Newmanunderstands thebig picture and “how everythinginterconnects,” Boyer said.
Montgomery County Coun-cilman Roger Berliner (D-Dist.1) of Bethesda completed thecourse in 2002. He calls New-man an “indomitable force.”
His participation taught hima lot about the county, givinghim a greater understanding ofits diversity and the issues thataffect its residents.
He said the program gavehim a greater appreciation forthe significance of county gov-ernment and how it affects peo-ple’s lives.
It also helped him developrelationships with other leadersin various parts and sectors ofthe county, Berliner said, help-ing to get beyond the superficialand creating a trust.
“You learn and you meetpeoplewhoare important,” Ber-liner said.
Newman said she has per-sonal and professional reasonsto leave, including several peo-ple in her life dealing with vari-ousmedical situations.
She’s also looking forward tohaving more chances to volun-teer, as well as spendmore timewith her husband, children andsix grandchildren.
But as she prepares to leave,Newman is proud of the impactLeadership Montgomery hashad on the county.
“It has changed people’slives in ways that could never beimagined,” she said.
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Asked if the review of theproject was of concern, Sen.Nancy J. King (D-Dist. 39)of Montgomery Village, thecounty’s Senate delegationchairwoman, said, “Well, yeah.Obviously, he hasn’t made up
his mind if he is going to fundit or not.”
Transit advocates werequick to praise the announce-ment of the funding last week.
Stewart Schwartz, execu-tive director of the Coalitionfor Smarter Growth, applaudedHogan’s decision to keep thePurple and Red lines in his firstbudget.
“The Purple Line is a gooddeal for Maryland, good forjobs, good for the economyandgood for commuters,”he said ina news release. “Walking awaywould waste taxpayer money,discourage future public-pri-vate partnerships, and forego[sic] a significant economic de-velopment opportunity.”
While the Purple Line re-
mains on uncertain ground,Leventhal said many of thecounty’s other capital priori-ties were funded in Hogan’sbudget, including $1 millionfor Strathmore Hall in NorthBethesda and $2million for theNational Cybersecurity Centerfor Excellence.
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is on special for the first 10 cus-tomers for $249, with free deliv-ery within 3miles.
Maybe the best deal of all isoffered byDavid “Curley” Corn-blatt, owner of Curley’s Q BBQtruck. He auctioned off a SuperBowl Bash for 30, with the pro-ceeds going to Bethesda Cares,a community outreach programto help the homeless.
Cornblatt said he hasworkedwith Bethesda Cares be-fore and has developed a heartfor the homeless.
“My goal is to raise aware-ness and change the idea of thehomeless,” he said. “I want tohelp them move into a betterplace thanwhere they are now.”
So he offered to bring histruck to the home of the topbidder on Super Bowl Sunday,or another agreed-upon time,and feed 30 people ribs, bris-ket, pulled pork, jerk chicken orgaucho chicken alongwith cole-slaw and crab scampi mac andcheese.
The auction was handledby Rasmus Online Auctions ofArlington, Va., which also do-nated its time to the cause. Theauction ended Monday morn-ing, with a closing bid of $600.There were 19 bids, said MarieJarvis, public relations directorfor Rasmus.
“I’m thrilled. BethesdaCaresgot a lot of publicity,” Cornblattsaid of the auction. “It wasn’tabout themoney, but it’s gettingpeoplemore aware.”
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ingtonandVirginiaparticipatedin the day of written and teamcompetitions that culminatedinanon-stagefinalcompetitionandanawards ceremony.
Tom Luo, an eighth-graderat Chesapeake Math and ITAcademy in Laurel, won theon-stage competition, and Ja-son Lee of Roberto ClementeMiddle School in Germantownfinished second.
Dalton Yu, an eighth-grader at Pyle Middle Schoolin Bethesda, was one of 16 stu-dents to compete in the final.Hesaidmath ishis favorite sub-ject, but he has not yet decidedwhether it will be part of hiscareer. He said he studied extraoutside of class to prepare forFriday’s contest.
Allie Wilson-Henjum, aseventh-grade math teacherat Pyle, said studying for thetimed math contests helps herstudents build critical thinkingskills and strategies.
“It helps them developstrategies for how to approachproblems,” she said.
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Buzzer in hand, Dalton Yu, an eighth-grader at Pyle Middle School in Bethes-da, was one of 16 finalists in Friday’s sixth annual Carderock Math Contestin Bethesda.
“It has changedpeople’s livesin ways that
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David Pham
for a Beer & Light Wine License,Special Salon, On Sale Only, for thepremises known as DX Organic Nails& Spa, which premises are located at:
7811 Old Georgetown RoadBethesda, Maryland 20814
A hearing on the application will be heldin the Montgomery County GovernmentRockville Library, First Floor MeetingRoom, 21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville,Maryland 20850, on:
Thursday: January 22, 2015At: 9:00 a.m.
Any person desiring to be heard on saidapplication should appear at the timeand place fixed for said hearing.
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BUSINESS
n Some residents opposebig-box store there
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY
STAFFWRITER
Residents in Aspen Hill liv-ing near the site of a vacant263,000-square-foot buildingand the developer of the prop-erty are gearing up for a Tues-day public hearing before theMontgomery County Councilabout the future zoning of thatproperty.
The highly visible, 10-acreproperty on Connecticut Av-enue near Aspen Hill Road hashadavacantbuildingsince2010,when military and aerospacecontractor BAE Systems movedout. The site comprises mostof the 14 acres being reviewedby county officials through anamendment process to AspenHill’s master plan.
In December, the Mont-gomery County Planning Boardapproved a plan that recom-mended that the former BAEproperty be rezoned to neigh-borhood retail from its pres-ent office designation. Someresidents fear that will leadto a big-box store, even afterWal-Mart pulled plans for a118,000-square-foot store therelast year.
The issue now goes beforethe County Council, whichscheduled the hearing for 7:30p.m. Tuesday at 100 MarylandAve., Rockville.
Sam Nasios, who lives nearthe site, said he’d like to seesmaller employers, such as ca-fes, pharmacies andmedical of-fices, rather than a big-box storethat could add significantly tohis neighborhood’s traffic con-gestion and noise.
“We know the developer hasto do something with that site,”said Nasios, a steering commit-tee member of the Aspen HillHomeownersGroup,whichmeton the issue on Thursday. “Butwe’d like to have a say in theprocess and help minimize theeffect of change.”
Bruce H. Lee, president ofLee Development Group of Sil-ver Spring, the site’s developer,saidhehas tried for several yearsto find an office tenant withoutsuccess. Wal-Mart expressed in-terest in the property if the zon-ingwas changed, thenwithdrewdue to uncertainty in the coun-ty’s zoning processes.
Before that, Costco wasinterested in Aspen Hill, butwas lured to Wheaton after thecounty offered a $4 million sub-sidy. A Costco opened there in2013.
“It’s been a long road to getto this point,” Lee said. “Wewant to duplicate what we havebeen able to accomplish atNorthgate Plaza.”
At the nearby NorthgatePlaza Shopping Center, Lee’scompany spent millions of dol-lars in upgrades and added aroughly 60,000-square-footKohl’s Department Store in2012.
Lee said hewas pleasedwiththe planning board’s recom-mended zoning for the formerBAE site. He said he can’t reallynegotiate with stores until a re-tail zoning is set, providingmorecertainty in the process.
“There are a lot of opportu-nities,” Lee said, givingexamplessuch as Dick’s Sporting Goods,PetSmart and grocery stores.
Neighborhood retail zon-ing could allow a building up to218,453 square feet, as high asfive stories, said Melissa Ryan,president of the AspenHill CivicAssociation. She supportedcommercial residential neigh-borhood zoning, which she saidallowed up to 50,000 square feetunless the retailer is a grocerystore.
Leesaidthat218,453-square-foot level was the maximumallowed under neighborhoodretail, and by the time parkingandother requirements aremet,such a store will be significantly
smaller than that on the prop-erty in question.
He said he wasn’t going tobuild just small retailers. “Thereis plenty of that there,” Lee said.
Some residents, includinga few from Leisure World, a se-nior citizen community northof the site, said during a hearinglast fall before the MontgomeryCounty Planning Board thatthey would like more competi-tion for grocers and retailers inthe area to lower prices and im-prove selection.
The former BAE build-ing was first occupied by VitroCorp.,which started in the 1950sas a manufacturing company ofmostly slide transparencies foroverhead projectors and even-tually became part of BAE. Vitroonce had two other buildings ina campus there, but they weretorn down in the 1990s to makeway for HomeDepot.
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“There are a lot of opportunities” for the former BAE Systems property in Aspen Hill, says Bruce H. Lee, president ofLee Development Group of Silver Spring, the site’s developer.
EagleBank namesexecutive VP, posts profits
EagleBank of Bethesdanamed Lindsey S. Rheaumeexecutive vice president, com-mercial and industrial chieflending officer.
Previously, he was a rela-tionship executive for JPMor-gan Chase and executive vicepresident and commerciallending manager at VirginiaCommerce Bank, and alsoworked for SunTrust Bank, GECapital and Bank of America.
Rheaume holds a bach-elor’s degree from the Uni-versity of North Dakota and amaster of business adminis-tration from the University ofDallas.
The bank’s parent, EagleBancorp of Bethesda, also re-ported that its fourth-quarterprofit grew to $14.7 millionfrom $12.0 million in thefourth quarter of 2013. Its an-nual profit last year was $54.3million, up from $47.0 millionin 2013. During the year, itsassets rose 39 percent to $5.25billion from $3.77 billion.
Argan promotescontroller to VP
Argan of Rockville pro-motedRichardH.Deily to vicepresident.
Since joining Argan in2007, Deily had been corpo-rate controller.
Legal costs eat intoSandy Spring Bank profits
Sandy Spring Bancorp ofOlney, parent of Sandy SpringBank, reported that its fourth-quarter profit fell to $9.1 mil-lion from $9.6 million in thefourth quarter of 2013. Its an-nual income last year fell to$38.2 million from $44.4 mil-lion in 2013.
Its 2014profitwas reducedby $6.5million in litigation ex-penses, while its 2013 profitwas boosted by $4.5 millionin interest income and pro-fessional fees related to theresolution of a nonperformingloan relationship, according toa news release.
Total assets last year grewto $4.40 billion from $4.11 bil-lion.
Fox Hill namesexecutive chef
Fox Hill retirement com-munity of Bethesda namedQuang Duong executive chef.
Previously, Duong wasexecutive chef at the Ritz-Carlton Georgetown and ex-ecutive steward at the MarriotMarquis, both inWashington.
County firms createWWII museum exhibitsTwo Montgomery County
companiesworked together tocreate a new exhibit at the Na-tional World War II Museumin NewOrleans.
“Road to Berlin: Euro-pean Theater Galleries,” a32,000-square-foot pavilionfocused on America’s role inthe campaign to defeat NaziGermany, opened at the mu-seum Dec. 13. History Asso-ciates of Rockville developedcontent for the exhibit andGallagher & Associates of Sil-ver Spring designed it.
The exhibit shows thedrama, sacrifices, personalstories and strategies of Amer-ica’s campaign to defeat theAxis powers, using artifacts,oral histories, technology and“immersive environments,”according to a news releasefromHistory Associates.
A second exhibit, “Road toTokyo: Pacific Theater Galler-ies,” is to open this year.
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OUROPINIONS LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
I would like to comment onwhat ismeant “greater good” inTheGazette’s “Our Opinions” (“Saveamphipods—atwhat cost?,” Jan. 7).
The editorial ended with astatement imploring everyone toconsider the “greater good” whendeciding about land use. This um-brella phrase has been manufac-tured and advertised to apply toa greater good when actually it ismore appropriately associated witha “greater greed.”
This “greater good” starts with amisrepresentation of undevelopedland as not already serving a greatergood. This can justify developmentstarting, perhaps with a housingcommunity which destroys an areaalready housing a natural commu-nity, stating this development is forthe “greater good.”
From this comes the “need” forclose proximity of abundant shop-ping — i.e., more development. Tosupport merchants supplying thisabundant shopping,more consum-ers are needed and more housing.Consumers have kids, schools areneeded, traffic gets bad and forthe “greater good,” more roads areneeded.Where there are new roads,there can bemore development.
The“greater good” isnowso im-portant, it is apparently appropriateto force property owners living inthe area before the developmentstarted to have a road built rightthrough where they live, like it ornot. This is achieved by the countycondemning the owners’ land andtaking it. Or there’s “alternate trans-portation”— i.e., the Purple Line.
And for the “greater good,” nomatter how valuable the land is tothe lives of the current inhabitants(in this case, maybe species listed
on the federal endangered spe-cies list), we are asked to condemnthe environment and build rightthrough the area for the “greatergood.”
Seemingly as proof that all ofthis is for the “greater good,”CountyCouncil members brag about howproperty values have goneup.Whatthis actuallymeans is that evenpeo-ple who have not improved theirproperty ormoved fromwhere theyhave been living can now pay thecounty higher taxes to support, youguessed it, the “greater good.”
As obviously self-perpetuatingthis circle of nonsense is, if it wereactually working to some degreefor a greater good, perhaps an ar-gument could be considered on itsbehalf. But, Montgomery County isstill facing a revenue shortfall for therest of the current fiscal year and thenext one.
So, let’s unwind this. Highertaxes, from all of this doing for the“greater good,” are not paying forsolutions to the problems createdby the “greater good.”
I can imagine some have come
away with greater goods from thisblind devotion to over develop-ment. But I see every day how themajority of people, plants and ani-mals — which, when in balance,do create a greater good — are suf-fering from the deception. So I ask:What is so good about the “greatergood” from the runaway train thatis over development and greed?Whose definition of what is goodare we being asked to buy into andto what end?
Karon deSilva, Clarksburg
There’s plenty of bad built into ‘greater good’
2014 FILE PHOTO
American University graduate student Jenna Keany holds a vial of shrimp-like amphipods in Rock Creek Park in Chevy Chase.
I take issue with The Gazette editorial on Jan.7 (“Saveamphipods—atwhat cost?). It is illogicalonmany levels. Let’s start with two big ones: tak-ing cars off the road and saving the amphipods.
The MTA “estimated” (without revealing itsmethodology or inputs) that in 2040 (25 yearsfrom now), nearly 17,000 “trips” by automobilewould be saved compared to the “no build alter-native.” That is a drop in trips of less than 1/10 ofone percent for the Metro area, an “estimate” of
trips saved that essentially equals zero.To quote The Gazette, these trips (if the es-
timate has any validity) will be saved “at whatcost?” In this instance, the cost would be about$21 per seven-mile trip saved. That’s too expen-sive.Weneed to seewhetherwecan saveasmanyor more trips with more cost-effective alterna-tives. The state has not done so yet.
Regarding the amphipods, both the federalgovernment and the state have adopted poli-
cies that treat “endangered species” with muchgreater care than other environmental issues be-cause extinction is forever. This policy has heldup (or even blocked) a number of importantprojects around the country. The Purple Linecase is too weak to justify rethinking this policy;the train’s cost would far exceed the benefits. Weneed cost-effective alternatives.
Lewis Leibowitz, Chevy Chase
Purple Line advocates don’t make a good case
Your Jan.7editorial “Saveamphi-pods—atwhatcost?”concludedthatsacrificing one of about five knownpopulations onEarth of two rare am-phipodswould be a fair exchange fora relatively tiny reduction in green-house gases and a smaller reductionin car trips in the distant future, if arecentamphipoddiscoveryalong thepathof thePurpleLinewere tobeoneof the endangeredones.
Amphipods are an indicator offreshwater quality and depend fortheir survivalon leafy forestcoverandstreambuffers.
Eventhoughamphipodsrecentlyfound by Dr. Culver’s team are notone of the three highly endangeredspecies of amphipods of our nation’scapital area, all need thenewly foundhabitat in order to recover.
Even if one does not accept “theCovenant of Noah,” the duty not torisk destroying entire species and the
recognition thatweall dependon thediversity of life,wehumansalsoneedthis area— undisturbed. Thousandsof users of the trail — cyclists andwalkersofallages—comefrommilesaround to enjoy this gentle, shaded,forest-lined trail for commuting andrecreation.
The Purple Line, instead, woulddisplace the current trail, clear-cut48 acres of trees, and create storm-water runoff beyond levels normallyallowed by Montgomery County.In fact, within months, Montgom-ery County plans to force everyoneoff the trail, down narrow streetsthrough the town of Chevy Chase,driving cyclists and baby carriagesacross dangerous intersections, foryears of construction.
As for climate change, neitherThe Gazette nor the Sierra Club havepresented evidence to show that thecoal burned to generate the electricity
required by the Purple Line wouldn’tcreate more greenhouse gases (andother pollution) than the few cars theline would displace. Well-researchedcomments on the Final Environmen-tal Impact Statement countered thestate’s claim of greenhouse gas sav-ings.Thestates’estimatesandthoseofTheGazetteandSierraClubalsofailedto count carbon dioxide and otherpollutants (and stormwater for thatmatter) removedby the trail trees thatwouldbesacrificed foraPurpleLine.
It would be irresponsible tospend $2.5 billion to construct and$50 million a year or more for eachof the next 40 years to run the PurpleLine, asexplained in the followingex-pert analyses:
• Economist Frank Lysy: http://tinyurl.com/k87b7a7
• Professor David Lublin: http://www.theseventhstate.com/?p=4487
• Transportation Policy Expert
Randall O’Toole: http://tinyurl.com/q5f69x9
• The transportation engineeringfirm of Sam Schwartz: http://tinyurl.com/l523dj7
So, with one stroke of the pen,Gov.Hogancansave theamphipods,save our health, helpmore commut-ers and businesses across our twocounties and the state, and save bil-lions in taxes or — lose an irreplace-able trail, ruin fine neighborhoods,loseachance to restoreanddelist en-dangered species, and put Marylandindebt for 40 years.
John Fitzgerald, Chevy ChaseThe writer is an environmental
lawyer among those suing the FederalTransit Administration, seeking toenforce the National EnvironmentalPolicyActandtheEndangeredSpeciesAct in planning the Purple Line.
Evidence shows that Purple Line could be ruinous
Failure to invest in early childhood care andeducation is a huge misstep, especially for a com-munity as educated as ours.
We now know the vast majority of our chil-dren’s brain development happens at 0-5 yearsand ensuring high quality experiences during thisperiod is crucial to school success and beyond.
We know the value of education, which is whywe invest over 50 percent of our county budget inK-12. Yet,we invest less than1percent in child careand early education.
Aseconomists like JamesHeckmanhavenoted,this is fertile ground that can yield great economicreturns. It’s not a handout, but an investment. It
allows parents to work while their kids are beingprepared for success in school and for life.
But child care is expensive. Even where bothparents are fully employed, many families cannotafford it and their children are likely to showup forkindergarten already behind and less equipped forsuccess.
Other jurisdictions have realized this problemand their citizensare supportingdedicated fundingsources to make substantial investments in theiryoungest children who need it most. Wouldn’t itbe wise for us to think ahead on this issue and jointhem?
Shaun M. Rose, Kensington
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Without then-U.S. Supreme Court Wil-liamO. Douglas, wemight not have theC&OCanal National Historical Park.
In 1954, TheWashington Post recom-mended creating a scenic highway out ofthe C&O canal’s remnants. But Douglasprotectively praised the land as “a wilder-ness area where we can commune withGod and nature, a place not yet marredby the road of wheels and the sound ofhorns.”
More than 60 years later, we have amagnificent184.5-milepark, stretch-ing fromCum-berland, Md.,to GeorgetowninWashing-ton, D.C.
The park’ssurvival is nolonger in seri-
ous danger, but the National Park Serviceisn’t flush with cash, either.
Coping with budget cuts, the Park Ser-vice is considering charging entrance feesfor the C&O park and others.
Like anyone else, we balk at beingcharged for something we’re accustomedto having for free. But this ideamakessense, and we support the concept to helppay for staffing, maintenance, amenitiesand restoration projects.
The National Parks Conservation As-sociation says the Park Service, “whichhas long struggled with underfunding, hasbeen crippled by compounded budgetcuts over recent years,” especially as it ap-proaches next year’s centennial.
Currently, the Park Service charges aC&O admission fee ($3 for three days) onlyat the park’s Great Falls Tavern entrancein Potomac. The new plan is to add feeseverywhere outsideWashington, D.C., andimplement a parking fee at the Fletcher’sCove area of the park inWashington.
Park visitors would pay $7 for a seven-day pass. Parts of the park west of SenecaCreek, that fee would be phased in, startingat $3 this year.
A per-vehicle pass would be $15 forseven days, also phased in west of SenecaCreek, starting at $5.
A frequent C&O park user probablywould go for an annual pass for $30, mak-ing this a nominal fee for most people.
In the National Park System, 131 unitsalready charge entrance fees, so this isn’t arash change. The Park Service has 401 parkunits, 23 scenic and historic trails, and 58wild and scenic rivers.
Park Service Director Jon Jarvis is let-ting superintendents consider new or in-creased entrance fees for more uniformity.C&O rates are likely to be for seven days in-stead of three, which some parks use now.
For comparison, AntietamNationalBattlefield currently charges $4 for anyoneat least 16 years old and $6 per family forthree days. An annual pass costs $20. Harp-ers Ferry’s federal park charges $5 per per-son and $10 per vehicle, also for three days.An annual pass costs $30.
Realizing there could be backlash, C&Opark Superintendent Kevin Brandt said: “Ifthere isn’t public support for this, it won’thappen.”
Input is welcome at public meetings,including one at 7 p.m. Feb. 5 at Glen EchoTownHall.
There’s probably room for compromiseand negotiation in the recommended ratesas the details are worked out.
Still, we’re persuaded by Brandt’swords in a Park Service press release: “Thepark is a popular place where people cometo recreate, to learn, to be challengedphysically and to be inspired and renewed;however, the park cannot run itself forfree, and our fee revenue is essential toproviding for public safety, recreation andresource protection.”
A C&Oboost
PROPOSEDENTRANCE FEES
ARE JUSTIFIED,WOULD HELP
NATIONAL PARK
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LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
Brian Benhaim’s calls for“real reforms” in the wake ofthe tragic plane crash near theAirpark in December [Jan. 7 Fo-rum] lack benefits to the com-munity while greatly benefittingMr. Benhaim and any of hisneighbors who chose to moveto a house near the Airpark.
As a pilot for a major airlinewho started his career at theAirpark, I find Benhaim’s “re-forms” overreaching. His plansare not real solutions. They are aveiled attempt by a NIMBY citi-zen to promote a selfish causespringboarded by a tragic ac-cident.
Banning touch-and-gooperations because they are anuisance to “legitimate com-mercial traffic” is like askingMr. Benhaim to drive off to theshoulder of Route 124 wheneverhe sees a commercial truck, bus,or limo in his rear-view mirror.Airplanes already in the patternhave the right of way, and all jetpilots know this and adjust ac-cordingly. After all, they likelybecame jet pilots by practicingtouch-and-goes at the local air-port.
Attempting to ban jets thatdon’t have a qualified copilotis not something that local gov-ernment can police. That’s thejurisdiction of the FAA, whocertifies airplanes to be flown bya single pilot versus two. Single-pilot jet operations have beenin use for more than 30 years.Trust me, because of this acci-dent, the NTSB and FAA will belooking far more closely at thisexemption.
His final proposal to sim-ply close the airport would bea boon for the value of nearbyhomes, perhaps including his.But, municipal airports are apart of the National AirspaceSystem. In the event of disaster,that single runway at the Air-park may serve as a lifeline forMontgomery County residents
as supplies fly in and injured areflown out to safer areas.
And let’s not forget theair-ambulance flights, AngelFlights, pet-rescue missions andmany other good-cause flightsthat take place at the Airpark,but are sadly under reported.
Benhaim also has his factswrong about other issues. First,the traffic at the airport fell pre-cipitously after 2000 because ofthe 9/11 terrorist attacks andthe establishment of highly re-stricted airspace overlying theAirpark. Many operators movedtheir airplanes to get out fromunder the bureaucratic bur-den of the airspace and risk offighter intercepts, not becauseof higher risk factors from over-flying the rampant develop-ment around the Airpark.
Second, Benhaim says emi-nent domain was used to “ex-pand operations at the airport,so bigger jets could land here.”This is flat-out false. The run-way at the Airpark has been thesame length since 1971. If he’sreferring to the development ofthe Webb tract, that is a countybuilding under constructionthere and has nothing to dowith the Airpark.
The reality is that any pro-posal to expand or improvethe Airpark has been reliablyshot down for the last 40 yearsthanks to residents like Ben-haim and their tactics. Com-pared to other small airports inthe area, our Airpark has seenvery little improvement. Fewbusinesses keep airplanes herebecause the runway is too shortand there’s no instrument land-ing system to guide airplanes induring low weather.
Instead of protecting andembracing the airport, politi-cians, developers, and NIMBYresidents have for years at-tempted to strangle the life outof it. So far, it’s working.
Peter A. Bedell, Gaithersburg
Airpark criticism ignoresactual and potential benefits
As a parent of a Montgomery CountyPublic Schools ninth-grader, I would liketo add my perspective on changing to laterhigh school bell times — and as a Montgom-ery County resident, I am very concernedabout any additional cost (or the diversionof current funding) of some of the options.
Changing bell times is very “complex,”as acknowledged by MCPS in its 2015 sum-mary analysis. However, this issue may besimplified by determining: “What’s drivingthis need?”
As reported in internal MCPS reportsand analysis, increasing sleep is the drivingforce. Although not explicitly stated, moresleep leads to greater academic achievementand increases the general health of highschool students since their circadian rhythmresults in a later time when they fall asleep.
However, the independent Hanover Re-port conducted for MCPS states “...there isno conclusive evidence that demonstratesthat later high school start times result inimproved academic achievement for stu-dents.”
While a later bell time facilitates getting
up later, it also means that school ends later.Given the rigors of high school — academ-ics, clubs, sports, jobs — does ending theschool day later “push” these activities backwith no increase in sleep?
To address this, MCPS cites a 2002 studyby Kyla Wahlstrom (“Findings from the FirstLongitudinal Study of Later High SchoolStart Times”) that indicates some increasedsleep. It is based on districts with a total pop-ulation of less than 700 students, with 467students in a later start time (Minneapolis)versus 169 students in an earlier start time(anonymous District B).
However, much has changed since the2002 Wahlstrom study, led by an explosionof electronic devices, streaming video, andespecially social media that high school stu-dents use frequently (much to my chagrin,that’s my daughter!). For MCPS to leveragea decade-old study from a vastly differentinformation/entertainment age — a studywith less than 700 students and an “anony-mous District B,” so that no socio-demo-graphic comparisons can be made — is nota strong business case for change.
My concern is MCPS may be “experi-menting” with later bell times without sup-porting evidence that links greater studentachievement or indicates this provides moresleep. Additionally, given the economicheadwinds for MCPS’ funding, any optionthat carries a cost should not be considered.
Since the board and MCPS are chargedwith optimizing student achievement andbeing sound stewards of taxpayer (funding)dollars, especially as these dollars becomeever-more scarce, initiating a costly changewithout much assurance of student achieve-ment gains and increased sleep is pure folly.All this points to a strong “no-action” byMCPS and the board of education.
Changing bell times is complex given thevarious stakeholder concerns, interests, andthe massive disruption to 154,000 studentsand their families. However, the decisionis simple: Do not change bell times unlessthere is compelling evidence of increasedstudent achievement and increased sleepfor MCPS high school students.
Rob Lao, Laytonsville
Without proof of a benefit,district shouldn’t change bell times
As another year came to aclose, I thought about peoplewho have shaped my path. As aLatina, first-generation Ameri-can, I didn’t have a ton of rolemodels outside of my familywho shared my backgroundsand experiences. But where so-ciety and media came up short,incredible teachers at BlakeHigh School made the differ-ence. Because of them, I mademy way to college. I attendedthe University of Maryland, Bal-timore County. Now, becauseof them, I teach, too.
Allison Finn, Claire Kodan,Rudy Tyrell, Cindy Loveland,Leigh Tinsley, Joseph DuBois,Carole Goodman, Kim Tolbert,Kathy Moore, Denise Ramosand many more recognizedwhat college could do for me,long before I did. They knew itwould stretch me academically
and challenge me personally. Itwasn’t until my senior year thatany of us knew exactly where itwould lead me.
As an undergrad, I volun-teered with disadvantagedBaltimore students — manyof whom had special needs. Igrew increasingly frustratedwith a system that didn’t grantthe same opportunities to allmy students. They strugglednot because they weren’t capa-ble, but because of systems notset up to address their uniqueneeds and situations.
As my time with UMBCcame to a close, I knew I wantedto continue public service work— to create meaningful changeI deeply believe in. I thoughtabout my Blake teachers andknew I needed to get into theclassroom and pay forward allthat those teachers gave me.
I joined Teach For America,which enlists college graduatesand professionals to teach inlow-income communities andadvocate for equity.
I am teaching in Baltimorewith a vow: never let a studentget pushed through an educa-tion system without keys for op-portunities. I set high goals forall my kids and expect them tomeet them. Many students maybe low-income, or first-genera-tion Americans, or have specialneeds, but I refuse to let thosebe reasons they don’t succeed.
My kids and I talk aboutleadership coming from withinand how to see yourself as aleader. For many, this isn’t easy— they don’t see many peoplein positions of authority or in-fluence to whom they relate.As a teacher, I strive to createlessons that not only allow my
students to explore variousleaders, but also develop theirown leadership skills.
I want every kid in Balti-more to have the choice to goto college. I believe every singlestudent in Baltimore has in-credible potential, and I wantthem to believe that, too. Myown teachers showed me ex-cellent teaching, and I want toreplicate that for the next gen-eration. Every morning in theclassroom, I strive to teach asthey taught me: with passion,excitement, humility and un-derstanding.
Together, we can give ourkids the futures they deserve.
Micaela Perez Ferrero,Baltimore
The writer used to live in Ol-ney. She graduated from BlakeHigh School in 2009.
Giving thanks to the teachers who made me one
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Name any sport,and at some pointLarry Hurd has prob-ably coached it dur-ing his tenures withClarksburg and Pool-esville high schools.
I suspect that ifHurdwalked pasttwo students playingchess, he’d stop to ex-plain why theMuller-Schulze Gambit is tooaggressive. He’s currently the Coyotes’ foot-ball coach, but he has a very long resume.
“I’ve coached boys and girls basketball,”Hurd said. “I’ve coached baseball and soft-ball, and I’ve coached football. I’ve done allthese things.”
You’re right, he’s about tomake a point:“There is no preparation for the posi-
tion of head football coach, until you getthe job.”
Hurd’s defensive coordinator from thepast two seasons, DeShawn Anderson, isfinding that out after he was named Blake’sfootball coach last week.
A coordinator can focus on one thing,whilemaybe helping out in other areas. Butwhen you’re the head coach, you have toworry about both sides of the ball and spe-cial teams; you have to deal with themedia;parents asking about playing time; an ad-ministration that tells you it’s out ofmoney;college coaches whowant information onpossible recruits; visitingmiddle schools tolocal kids from going to Springbrook; keep-ing tabs on athletes’ grades; checking tomake sure your players live where they aresuppose to live so you don’t have to forfeita game;making sure a kid isn’t throwingaway a possible scholarship by tweetingsomething wildly inappropriate. And on,and on, and on.
“I don’t have a Twitter account,” Ander-son said. “I guess I’m going to have to getone.”
That list is just the start.“Every year, there’s something new,”
Hurd said. “You’re always having to adapt.But, while no one becomes a head coach forthe first time ready, I do think [Anderson] isas ready as you can be.”
Anderson has been a head coach intrack, at Einstein andWatkinsMill. He saidhewas a four-year starter at linebacker atNorfolk State, and did a coaching intern-ship with twoNFL teams (Indianapolis andJacksonville) for two summers.
He stopped coaching for four years tofocus on his family, but he was back soon asthe linebackers coach at Clarksburg for twoseasons before taking over as coordinator.
What canwe expect fromBlake?“I’m aggressive,” Anderson said. “We’re
going to use track as the basis for our pro-gram, andmake sure our kids are in greatshape because we’re going to run at atempo that’s tremendous.”
The former track coach broke the newsThursday to his football players that he ex-pects all of them on the track team.
Expect a quick-to-the-line, no-huddleoffense and a lot of pressure on thequarter-back tomake the right reads and execute theright options.Ondefense, Anderson saidhe’sa four-linemen, three-linebacker coach.
“You’re going to see speed andaggres-siononboth sides of theball,” Anderson said.
He teaches technology education atClarksburg, but Anderson said he’s beentold they are going to do everything pos-sible to get him in the building at Blake.
For now, he’s just trying to learn what itmeans to be a head football coach.
“When I first got hired for the job,myemail box, there were like 20 emails thatyou’ve got to respond to,” Anderson said.“Forme, it’s about balance, betweenmyfaith, my family and the love that I have forthis game.”
“When he toldme he got the job, I toldhim that his headaches just increased 100-fold,” Hurd said.
Blake footballoff and running
n Watkins Mill girls basketballseniors approaching1,000-point mark
BYERICGOLDWEINSTAFFWRITER
Watkins Mill High School seniorsDominique Walker and Danielle Dur-jan are keeping tabson their scoring to-tals as they eachapproach1,000points.Walker has 905 and Durjan has 950,and with nine regular season gamesremaining, plus playoffs, they’re awaretheyhaveagoodchanceofreachingthemilestone. Andwhen theydo, they’ll beawardedagameball andbe recognizedwith an in-game announcement, pos-siblyduringa stoppageofplay,WatkinsMill coach IvanHicks said.
“It’s very special. It’s very special,it’s very comforting knowing that nightafter nightwehave two individuals thatwill score,”Hicks said.
InMontgomeryCounty,andathighschools across thearea,basketball play-ers like Walker and Durjan are nearingor have already passed the arbitraryscoring mark. On Thursday, Churchillsenior Japria Karim-Duvall becamethe first Bulldog in 11 seasons to reach1,000. Paint Branch senior Daisa Har-ris scored her 1,000th point a year ago,while Eleanor Roosevelt junior KailaCharleshasmore than900.
It’s an impressive accomplishment,coaches said, particularly for publicschool athletes who play 22 regularseason games and at least onemore inthe playoff. On the girls side, it typicallytakes four seasons of consistent, steadycontributions — 10-plus points pergame — without missing any signifi-cant time. It’sevenmorechallengingonthe boys side, where freshmen are lesslikely to make varsity teams, let alonecontribute.
“You need to have a combinationof your team playing well so you get
enough games in, and [you need] toscore pretty consistently on a goodclip,” said Paint Branch alumnus andgirls coach Rochelle Coleman (Class of2001),whoscored1,000at theBurtons-ville school. “Youhave to be consistentall throughhighschool.”
Different county teamshavediffer-ent ways of acknowledging the 1,000points. Some, like coach Kate McMa-hon, publicize when the athletes areclose to 1,000, notifying the athlete’sfamily and even the press. Othersplace less emphasis on the feat andareagainst mid-game stoppages, but willrecognize the athlete at the next gameorafter the season.
It’s not a big deal everywhere. AtRoosevelt — the reigning state cham-pions from Prince George’s County— coach Delton Fuller hadn’t beentrackingCharles’ scoringprogress as ofSunday, despite her beingwithin strik-
County’s scorers celebrated to varying extents
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Watkins Mill High School senior girlsbasketball player Dominique Walker isapproaching the 1,000-point mark.
SPORTS EDITORKEN SAIN
BY JENNIFERBEEKMAN
STAFFWRITER
There are times whenHolton-Arms School seniorswimmer Isabelle Jubin’s alarm clock goes off at4 a.m., and, likemost normal teenagers, her first
instinct istoshutitoffandimmediatelygobacktosleeprather than head to a two-hour training session beforeschool, she said.
But that’s not going to help her achieve her goals,sheadded.
“Tellingyourself togetup [at that time] is reallydif-ficult sometimes and youwant to shut off [the alarm],but that’snot going tohelpyougetbetter,” Jubin said.
Jubin’s drive and work ethic is second to none,longtimePantherscoachGrahamWesterbergsaid,andit’s carried her a long way since her freshman season.Sincededicatingherself tobecominganational-caliberathlete, the Columbia University recruit has becomeoneof the IndependentSchoolLeague’sandWashing-ton,D.C. area’spremier talents.
Fridaynight she ledHolton to its 10th ISL title in12yearswithtwoindividualeventwinsinthe50-and100-yard freestyle— shewas the only doublewinner asidefromOlympic goldmedalist Katie Ledecky fromStone
Ridge.JubinisthedefendingWashingtonMetropolitanPrep Schools Swimming and Diving 50-yard freestylechampion — she finished fourth in that event at theWashington Metropolitan Interscholastic SwimmingandDivingChampionships lastwinter—andwaspartof the 400-yard freestyle relay that still holds ISL andWMPSSDLmeet records.
“If you lookat the swimmer Iwas freshmanyear towhere I am now, it’s completely different,” Jubin said.“Freshman year I was not swimming asmuch as I amnow. I knew I was going to come in and not be one ofthe best in the league butmy goal was to improve as Igot through high school. Andmy dad always says, ‘It’snotwhereyoustart, it’swhereyoufinish.’”
Jubin,wholivesinOldTownAlexandriainVirginia,joined the ISL amid the excitement and expectationsplaced on two other freshmen: her own teammateandUniversity of California, Los Angeles recruit Caro-lineMcTaggart and Ledecky. It’s been easy for Jubin’sachievements—resultsthatWesterbergsaidhavebeenvital totheteam’scontinuedsuccess—tobeovershad-owedby themorehistoricalaccomplishmentsof thosetwo — McTaggart has set numerous individual ISL,
Stepping into limelight
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Holton-Arms School’s Isabelle Jubin swims the 50-yard freestyle during Friday’s Independent School League championships.
Columbia recruit is primed for strong postseason
See SWIMMER, Page B-2
See SCORING, Page B-2
n Top teams face off in Saturday’sscheduled tri-match that could
determine seeding
BYPRINCE J.GRIMES
STAFFWRITER
Withlessthantwoweeksremaininguntilthe end of the wrestling regular season, andregional duals set for just a few days later,three county wrestling teams remain unde-feated:DamascusHigh School,Walter John-son,andWhitman.Iftheseasonendedtoday,thosethreeteamswouldbe locks tocompetein the4A/3AWestRegionalDuals.
On Saturday, things will become a littlemore interestingwhenDamascus plays hosttoWhitman and one-lossNorthwest in a tri-match that has the potential to shake-up thetopof the standings.
Damascus, the two-timedefending statedual-meet champion, is favored tobeatbothNorthwest and Whitman to remain unde-feated.However, it would be unfair to pencilinawinwithoutgivingthoseteamsafightingchance, but most people would say it’s un-likely forDamascus to lose.
Assuming Damascus does defeat bothNorthwest and Whitman, and none of thethree lose prior to Saturday, the match be-tween the Jaguars and Vikings is one to lookout for. Northwest is the team that can leastafford to lose twice on Saturday becausethe Jaguars already have a loss. With a win,Northwesthasa lot togain.
In addition to matching Whitman withtwo losses, again assuming Damascus alsowins, Northwest would be able to gain ahead-to-head win over the Vikings in theevent they’re both vying for the fourth andfinal spot.
Senior leadersDellNgonga (113),MauroBeteta (152), and undefeated TJ Patterson(220) make the Jaguars formidable through-out their lineup.
“We’remotivated,”Northwest coach JoeVukovich said. “We need to run the table toget to the duals. ... We finished 12-2 the lastthree years ina rowandwedidnotmake theduals. So we know that there’s no marginfor error anymore. Only good teams can dothese kind of things, and if we’re going to be
Damascus,Whitman,Northwestset to grapple
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BOYS BASKETBALL: Richard Montgomery atSpringbrook, 7 p.m. Friday. Top two public school boysteams in county meet for the first time.
SWIMMING: Division championships, Saturday.
ICE HOCKEY: Whitman vs. Wootton, 8:10 p.m. Friday.
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WMPSSDL and Metros recordsduring her tenure and multipleworld recordholderLedecky isona level ofherown.
But, admirably, Jubin hasnever been discouraged by thelackofattention, rather she’susedMcTaggart and Ledecky as mo-tivation. Jubin, a former Nation’s
Capital Swim Club teammate ofthe world’s best distance swim-mer, has been training alongsideMcTaggart with All Star Aquaticsforover threeyears.
“RacingagainstKatieandCar-olinehasmademeabetter swim-mer,” Jubin said. “Caroline is areally greatmotivator. Shepushesme past my limits in practiceand helps me be a better swim-mer. Being in that environment, Imight not beat Katie or Caroline,
probablynot, but just tohave thatopportunity toswimagainst themandtrynewthings, is reallygreat.”
After winning the program’sfirst-ever WMPSSDL champion-ship in 2013, edging then eight-time defending champion GoodCounsel by 1/2 a point, Holtondominated the field in defendingthat title a year ago. The reigningISL champion Panthers look tothree-peat Saturday and moveback into the area’s top 5 at Met-
ros, scheduled for Feb. 7 at theGermantown Indoor Swim Cen-ter.
Jubin’s versatility, and will-ingness to sacrifice her bestevents for the good of the team,make her invaluable, Wester-berg said. Though her strengthlies in the sprint freestyle eventsand butterfly, Jubin is uniquelyproficient in every stroke,West-erberg said. At last winter’s ISLsshe finished third in the 200-
yard individual medley andfourth in the 100-yard butter-fly at WMPSSDLs. She said sheis unsure what the rest of thispostseason holds for her butwill swim wherever Westerbergneeds her in the lineup.
“There’s no doubt [Jubin]has grown up, I’ll say that,”Westerberg said. “I think therewas that moment freshmanyear where she realized howmuch potential she had. She
was a member of some reallystrong relays for us and I thinkthat light did go off when sherealized not only how muchfun high school swimming canbe butwhat a huge part shewasgoing to play. ... She’s driven.She sets great goals and sheloves competing for her team.She’s just driven to do what’sbest to accomplish her goals.”
SWIMMERContinued from Page B-1
ing distance. Hank Galotta, whocoached the Paint Branch boysteam from 1973 to 1999 and atDeMatha Catholic underMorganWootten prior to that, said he’sseen the feat acknowledged, butcouldn’t recall a boys game ever
being stopped for it. In fact, whenall-time county great Tracy Jack-son scored his 2,000th for thePanthers in the 1977 state fi-nal, Galotta said he didn’t evenrealize it until he tallied up thepoints at the end of the season.He acknowledged it later at theend-of-seasonbanquet, he said.
“At the end of the game wenever recognized points,” Ga-
lotta said. “The first thing wetalked about was rebounds,leading assist man, leadingsteals. If there was somethingthat was unique about scor-ing, we’d mention that. But wenever ever, and Morgan neverever talked about how manypoints.”
The accomplishment,though, has long been acknowl-
edged in amateur and profes-sional basketball. A 1937 NewYork Times article noted thatLong Island University men’sbasketball player Jules Benderscored his 1,000th point. In1950, when Carl Braun of theNew York Knickerbockersreached the milestone, thegame was stopped and he waspresented a ball, The New York
Times reported.Players and coaches, to
varying extents, are still go-ing after the arbitrary scoringfeat. Walker, who had an ab-breviated sophomore season,said she didn’t think she’d getanywhere near the mark butwas encouraged when Durjantold her before the season thatshe was close. With Walker av-
eraging a county leading 21.3points per game, and Durjan(20.7) not far behind, bothmayonly need a fewmore games toget there.
“I think that it’s prettycool,” Walker said. “... Not thebiggest deal in the world, but itis awesome.”
SCORINGContinued from Page B-1
considered a good team,we needtodo that.”
If Northwest only beatsWhit-man and loses to Damascus, theJaguars would still need help. Attwo losses, Northwest would betied with Quince Orchard, whichowns the head-to-head over
Northwest because of its win inthe season opener. MagruderwouldalsobeaheadofNorthwestwith justone loss.
If Whitman is able to pull outthe win, Northwest would essen-tially be eliminated from the re-gionaldual conversation.
The Vikings would remain inthepicture for theNo. 2 seedwitha match against Walter Johnson
remaining on its schedule — theNo.1seedwouldbeinplayif itcanpull off theupsetoverDamascus.
ThebulkofWhitman’sexperi-ence iswithin themiddleweights,led by last year’s third place statemedalistMitchFenton (145).
The match will be their sec-ond tri-match in a three day pe-riod as the Vikings are scheduledto host North Hagerstown and
ClarksburgonThursday.Saturday will provide Whit-
man and Northwest an oppor-tunity to see how they stack upagainst Damascus in the eventthey see them again in the re-gionalduals.
Despite success in recentyears, Damascus coach John Fer-gusonhasstatedonnumerousoc-casions that the team tweaked its
approach to this season in ordertogettheteamtobeperformingatanoptimal levelby season’s end.
“We’re trying to do somethingsthataredifferent,buthope-fully theoutcomewillbea littlebitdifferent aswell,” Fergusonsaid.
The Swarmin’ Hornets havebeen phenomenal this seasonwith wrestlers at almost everyweight that could potentially win
a county championship. If theyare still improving, it can be adaunting task for anyone tryingto take themdown.WhitmanandNorthwestwill likely get their shot1p.m.Saturday inwhatwillbethetoughest countymatch todate foreachofthethreeteamsparticipat-ing.
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Earlierthismonth,Baronsse-nior NoraMcUmberwas namedGatorade Maryland Girls CrossCountry Runner of the Year fora remarkable fall season duringwhich she won county and statetitles.
Perhaps the state’s best dis-tance runner, who is participat-ing in the indoor season for thefirst time thiswinter,wasmissingat last week’s county champion-shipduetoanofficialcollegevisit,coachChadYoungsaid.
She rejoined the Barons Sat-urday at the Last Track to Phillyhosted by Georgetown Prep,where she anchored the third-place 3,200-meter relay and ranthesecondlegof the fourth-placedistancemedley.
Paint Branch risesThe Panthers certainlymade
astatementwiththeir third-placefinish at last week’s countymeet— up from sixth place a yearago— but the road will only gettougher from here, coach Des-salyn Dillard said. Paint Branchhas the versatility this year to beatopteambut theywillno longerbe able to sneak up on the com-petition.
“We’re not settling, now thatheads are turning, we are goingto have to work harder,” Dillardsaid.“Nowthatteamsknowwhatthey can do, they’re not going tosleepon them.”
Still,DillardsaidPaintBranchhasn’t even shown its full hand.Sprinter Adassa Phillips pickedup two top4 results at thecountychampionship and currently
holds the state’s sixth-best timein the 55-meter dash (7.24 sec-onds), according to athletic.net,and Bethlehem Taye, the countychampion in the 3,200-meterrun, is currently ranked No. 6 inthe state in that event.
Magruder sophomoreregains form
Given Colonels sophomoreStephanie Davis’ success duringa breakout spring outdoor sea-son inwhichshewonfoureventsat the state meet — two indi-vidual, two relays — one wouldexpect her to enter this winterrather confident. But some tur-moil within the program early—threeheadcoachesfromOctoberthrough the end ofNovember—and perhaps external pressureto back up those results, led to a
subpar beginning of the seasonper her standards, coach Rich-ard Bosnic said. After a numberof runner-up finishes, wins inher bothher events at lastweek’sMontgomeryCounty champion-ship — 55- and 300-meter dash— built her confidence back up,Davis said.
Davis’ county title perfor-mances are among the best inthe state and nation. Her time of40.20 seconds in the 300-meterdash is top in thestateandNo.22in the nation, according toMile-Split. Her 7.20-second, 55-meterdash time is Maryland’s third-best.
“[Davis] is a very gifted ath-lete,”Bosnic said.
Bethesda-Chevy Chase runner returnsINDOOR TRACK NOTEBOOKB Y J E N N I F E R B E E K M A N
n Led Falcons to playoffsthree straight years
BYPRINCE J.GRIMES
STAFFWRITER
Poolesville High School isseekinganewheadfootballcoachafter Will Gant submitted his res-ignation,citingfamilypurposesasthe reasonwhy.
“Myoldest [child]will bea se-nior at Walkersville High Schoolplaying soccer. My other one is atenth-graderplayingfootball.AndI’ll have an eighth-grader playingmiddle school soccer,” Gant said.“So just kind of running out ofhours in theday.”
Gant has coached at the
county’s onlyClass 2A foot-ball programsince 2011, go-ing 25-18 infour seasonswith a playoffappearance ineach of the pastthree. Inhisfirstseason, Pooles-
ville was 4-6. Since then, they’vegone7-4eachyear—losing inthefirst roundof theplayoffs.
“I loved coaching [at Pooles-ville],” Gant said. “... It’s a specialplace. It’s a different school com-munity than most of the otherMontgomeryCounty schools.”
Poolesville footballcoach resigns
Will Gant
THE GAZETTEWednesday, January 28, 2015 b Page B-3
BEST BETn Churchill at Poolesville, 7 p.m. Friday: The
Bulldogs will look to keep their momentum goingwith tough matchup against the Falcons.
BEST BETn Richard Montgomery at Springbrook, 7 pm
Friday: Two of the county’s 4A favorites squareoff in what may be the Rockets toughest test thisseason.
BASKETBALL HOW THEY RANK
Also receiving votes: Jewish Day, 1.
The Gazette sports staff ranks the top 10 high school basketball teams inMontgomery County.
Boys
Rank School Record Points
1. Montrose Christian 14-3 60
2. Richard Montgomery 14-0 52
3. St. Andrew’s Episcopal 16-2 49
4. Springbrook 10-2 40
5. Magruder 9-2 37
6. Bullis 13-4 30
7. Quince Orchard 11-2 21
8. Gaithersburg 9-3 16
9. Takoma Academy 14-5 14
10. Georgetown Prep 11-6 10
Girls
Rank School Record Points
1. Whitman 11-0 60
2. Paint Branch 12-1 54
3. Holy Child 12-2 46
4. Good Counsel 13-6 44
5. Wootton 9-3 36
6. Churchill 10-3 30
7. Walter Johnson 11-2 24
8. Magruder 9-5 15
9. Watkins Mill 8-4 12
10. Charles E. Smith Jewish Day 10-1 5
Also receiving votes:Covenant Life, 2;Damascus, 2.
LEADING SCORERSPlayer, school Games Points Avg.Anthony Tarke, Gaithersburg 12 292 24.3Jauvenel Leveill Jr., Northwood 10 221 22.1JonathanMustamu, Kennedy 12 261 21.8Aaron Byrd, Landon 15 323 21.5JoeHugley,Magruder 13 240 18.5Grayson Slover, Sandy Spring 14 256 18.3Teo Fletcher,Wash. Christian 5 90 18.0AndrewKostecka, Clarksburg 5 90 18.0Bryan Knapp, JewishDay* 11 196 17.8AlaniMoore,Montrose Christian 15 256 17.1
LEADING SCORERSPlayer, school Games Points Avg.DominiqueWalker,WatkinsMill* 12 256 21.3DaisaHarris, Paint Branch* 13 272 20.9Danielle Durjan,WatkinsMill 12 248 20.7AbbyMeyers,Whitman 11 202 18.4Daphne Lerner, JewishDay 12 211 17.6Sheri Addison,Wootton 13 224 17.2Khadijah Pearson, Kennedy 10 168 16.8Hope Randolph,Magruder 12 198 16.5Japria Karim-DuVall, Churchill 11 205 15.8Nicole Enabosi, GoodCounsel 19 296 15.6
Coaches and team statisticiansmay email season team statistics to [email protected] before noononMondays to be included.
WhenWhitmanHigh Schooljunior ShaqDiboti-Lobe joinedthe Vikings program in the offsea-son, he had a lot of changing todo. The athletic, talented forwardhad never played aminute of highschool basketball andwas joininga programwhere intenseman-to-man defense and patience onoffense— two things you’d behard pressed to find in AmateurAthletic Union basketball—werethe cornerstones. But, as coachChris Lun noted, Diboti-Lobe hasmade significant progress in trans-forming his style of play. “He’sdefinitely come a longway,” Lunsaid. “He’s certainly a better playernow thanwhen he came to us.”The Churchill transfer is averaging14.8 points per game.
Gaithersburg isback on track
When the Gaithersburg HighSchool boys basketball teamdropped three of four games in a10-day stretch in mid-December,basketball fans around the countyscratched their heads. The Trojans
have one of themost talentedlineups in the county, but as coachTomSheahin pointed out, youdidn’t have to look far to seewhatwas troublingGaithersburg.
In its three losses toClarksburg,Magruder andKennedy, Gaithers-burg shot a combined 37 percentfrom the free throw line. The Tro-jans, as Sheahin noted,were alsostruggling on the defensive end asthey struggled to find their identityas a team—something they’vecertainly rectified as evidenced bythe five-gamewinning streak theircurrently riding.During the streakthe Trojans are shooting 72 per-cent from the line and are exertingthemselves ondefense, accordingto Sheahin.
“I feel like our guyswere justtired of losing,” senior AnthonyTarke said. “Nowwe’re just ridingthis successful wavewithout beingcomplacent .”
Kennedy starout with hip injury
After Kennedy High Schoolsophomore JonathanMustamutook a hard fall in a Dec. 15 gameagainst Churchill High School,Cavaliers coach Diallo Nelsonnoticed his standout guard wasstretching a little more than usualin practice. Once the trainer gota look atMustamu, who hasaveraged 21.8 points per gamethrough 12 contests, the sopho-more was diagnosed with a hipflexor injury. Nelson decided tosit Mustamu for a 10-day stretchat the start of the new year wherethere were no games, givingMus-tamu time to rest. But after watch-ing the 6-foot-1Mustamu limpthrough last week’s games againstBethesda Chevy Chase and Rich-ardMontgomery, the longtimeKennedy coach decided enoughwas enough and pulledMustamufrom the lineup. “He won’t playagain until we get him looked atby a specialist,” Nelson said. “It’snot getting any better, it’s gettingworse.”
Rockville reboundingin Class 3A
In a 3A/2A Division thatRockville High School coachSteve Watson said is “anyone’sgame any night we all play eachother,” the Rams may havefound something they can hangtheir hat on in the form of a58-57 win over Seneca Valleyon Friday. Rockville, who hadyet to string together consecu-tive wins this season, is part ofa multi-team log jam chasingdown Wheaton atop the leaguestandings. But after reboundingfrom a rough stretch where theRams dropped four of six, in-
cluding two losses at the Liberty(Eldersburg, Md.) tournament,Watson’s confident that Friday’svictory could spark a Rockvillerun. “If we can put together arun where we play hard andshare the ball, yes, we can be acontender,” Watson said. “Whenwe get six or seven guys to con-tribute offensively, we’re usuallypretty good.”
Northwest puts togethera perfect week
Just a day after first-yearNorthwest High School coachRob Smith said he could seethe pieces of his team starting
to come together, the Jaguarssnapped out of a three-game los-ing streak, upsetting Clarksburg,69-67 on Jan. 16.
The win lifted Northwestfrom a slump that had seen onlytwo wins (Wootton on Dec. 22and Severn on Dec. 30) in nearlya month. Four days after its winover the Coyotes, Northwest fol-lowed up with a 65-56 win overWalter Johnson and added toits winning streak with a 73-60win on the road Friday eveningagainst Sherwood, bringing itsrecord to 7-7.
Whitman junior forward adjusting just fine to a high school style of playBOYS BASKETBALL
NOTEBOOK
B Y A D A M G U T E K U N S T
When its 3-pointers arefalling, the Stone Ridge Schoolof the Sacred Heart girls bas-ketball team has had a mucheasier time winning games.The Gators (4-10) snapped asix-game losing streak on Jan.15 by hitting eight 3-pointersin a win over Holton-Arms. Intheir three prior wins, they hadnine against Hill School (Pa.)and had eight both times theydefeated Georgetown Day.
The Bethesda school’s topshooter has been sophomoreguard Kathyrn Maloney, whose25 3-pointers rank third inMontgomery County. She’sbeen a “spark off the bench” af-ter playing limited minutes lastseason, coach Michael Thiedesaid.
Watkins Mill finds its wayTwo players account for
nearly all of Watkins Mill HighSchool’s scoring, an offensiveformula that has been problem-atic at times. Playing againstrival Damascus on Friday, thelack of offensive depth nearlycost the Wolverines girls bas-ketball team a double-digitfourth-quarter lead.
Watkins Mill was ahead by10 with about three minutes leftwhen senior and county leadingscorer Dominique Walker (21.3points) fouled out of the game,leaving her senior teammateDanielle Durjan (20.7) in chargeof the offense. The lead got allthe way down to three, coachIvan Hicks said, but the Mont-gomery Village school was ableto hold on for the 55-49 victory.It was a big win for the Wolver-ines, who lost to the Swarmin’Hornets in December.
“I said, as long as we con-
tinue to move the ball, don’tforce the ball, minimize turn-overs, get out in transition andlastly, we must rebound. If wedo that, we win the game. Wedid those several things,” Hickssaid.
Lacrosse star givesSherwood a boost
First-year Sherwood HighSchool coach said he didn’tknow much about Delaney Mc-Menamin prior to the season. AGeorge Washington Universitylacrosse recruit, the Warriorsjunior hadn’t spent much timewith the girls basketball team,playing in only one fall leaguegame, Hobbs said.
But that would be hardto tell based off of what the5-foot-7 forward has done so farthis season. McMenamin hasbeen a steady scorer, averag-ing 8.5 points, while providingSherwood (8-4) with a two-wayplayer in the frontcourt.
“The kid just goes out andplays hard every night,” Hobbssaid. “To have someone withher athleticism and willingnessto compete, it’s just given us anadded dimension.”
Paint Branchstill growing
The Paint Branch HighSchool girls basketball team isallowing 41 points per game onthe season en route to a 12-1
start, but coach Rochelle Cole-man said the No. 2 Panthershave some work to do.
“We’re not playing our bestball yet,” Coleman said. “Westill have to defend a lot better.”
The Burtonsville school suf-fered it first loss against No.1 Whitman on Jan. 20, falling61-51, but the defense has beenconsistent outside of that. PaintBranch rebounded from theloss with a 52-30 win over Blair(Silver Spring) on Friday.
Northwest thinkinglong term
With five new starters andan entire sophomore class thathas never played varsity before,the Northwest High School girlsbasketball team (0-12) is win-less, and has a good chance offinishing the season that way.
Northwest has at times heldits own on the defensive end.Forward Jaden Bynum hasplayed tough inside, while ju-nior Celine Jordan (7.9 points)and sophomore point guard Sa-mantha Sekscienski (6.5) haveled the team in scoring.
“It’s a young team with a lotof courage,” second-year coachNathan Lewis said. “They’rewilling to do whatever it takesto be successful.”
But the Jaguars simply don’thave the basketball experience.That’s why Lewis said he is put-ting together a plan to get theathletes playing year-round.
“There’s potential in eachone of these children as long asthey do what they need to do inthe offseason to be successful,”Lewis said.
Stone Ridge gets a young sparkGIRLS BASKETBALL
NOTEBOOKB Y E R I C G O L D W E I N
Record weekendfor Bullis track
The Bulldog girls continuedto pepper Montgomery County’sleaderboard with record-settingperformances at the Kevin DareInvitational hosted by Penn StateSaturday. Kyla Lewis, Masai Rus-sell, Alexis Postell and AriannaRichards posted the county’s toptime in a runner-up finish in the800-meter relay (1 minute, 40.67seconds). The time tops mo-corunning.com’s “since 2006”leaderboard as well. Postell,Russell, Kyla Lewis and LindsayLewis followed that up with thecounty’s best 1,600-meter relaymark of the season (3:58.16),ranked third in the past nineyears.
While much attention hasbeen paid to the girls’ histori-cal season, the Bullis boys had abreakout weekend in Pennsylva-nia. Freshmen Eric Allen, Orlan-dis Gary, Jr. and Bryce Watsonand junior Patrick Johnson II re-corded this winter’s fastest boys800-meter relay (1:31.72), thecounty’s top time since 2008.
— JENNIFER BEEKMAN
Quince Orchardstandout on the mendAdamMcLean, a former se-
nior defensive lineman for theQuince Orchard High Schoolfootball team, underwent sur-gery on Thursday to repair hisanterior cruciate ligament thathe injured in October, an injurythat kept him off the field for theremainder of the season. The
highly-touted McLean madeheadlines on Dec. 4 when heverbally committed to play atthe University of Maryland, Col-lege Park next season, just twoweeks after decommitting fromPennsylvania State University.McLean said he expects to beready to play at full strength inAugust, but will miss the Terps’summer workouts due to therequired rehab work, a regimenthe 6-foot-2, 290-pound seniorsaid he’s attacking head-on.
“I’m approaching this rehablike I’m attacking the footballgame, charging full [steam]ahead and I am going to workmy butt off every day to getback,” McLean said. “I will be100 percent in no time.”
—ADAM GUTEKUNST
Blake hires football coachBlake High School Athletic
Director Jared Fribush has an-nounced DeShawn Anderson hasbeen hired as the Silver Springschool’s new football coach.
Anderson, previously thedefensive coordinator at Clarks-burg, replaces Tony Nazzaro,who stepped down in Novemberafter 13 years. In addition toClarksburg, Anderson has expe-rience coaching at Watkins Mill,Northwest and Einstein. He hasalso been involved with trackand field.
“For me, it was an opportu-nity to work with a group of kidswho definitely need a presencethat I’m going to bring to thatparticular school,” Andersonsaid. “A group of kids who need alittle more support, a little morestructure to get to another level.
Anderson, a Norfolk, Va. na-tive, said Blake will run a 4-3 de-fense and an up-tempo offense.
— PRINCE GRIMES
Wheaton Ice SkatingAcademy earns honorsTen ice dance teams from the
Washington, D.C. area returnedthis week from the U.S. NationalFigure Skating Championshipsin Greensboro, N.C. The teamscombined for six medals at thejuvenile, novice and junior lev-els.
Lorraine McNamara andQuinn Carpenter won the na-tional championship in juniorice dance and will be represent-ing the U.S. at the world champi-onships in Estonia in March.
The teams train in Rockvilleand Wheaton under coachesAlexei Kiliakov, Elena Novak andDmytri Ilin.
Northwood getssportsmanship recognized
The girls soccer, girls volley-ball, cross country and girls ten-nis teams from Northwood HighSchool in Silver Spring receivedFall Sportsmanship Awards fromMontgomery County PublicSchools. The school with themost Sporstmanship Awardsover the year is awarded $2,000,while second place gets $1,000and third place gets $500, ac-cording to the MCPS website.
— ERIC GOLDWEIN
KEEPING IT BRIEF
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n Black Butte Porter,Mirror Pond Pale Ale, etc.,
available in the area
DeschutesBrewery, oneof the great breweries of thecountry andapersonal favoriteof ours, has finally come to theD.C. areawithdistribution in theDistrict andVirginia and soon inMaryland. Located inBend,Ore.,awinter skiing and summerhikingdestination,Deschutesis namedafter thenearbyDe-schutesRiver andmanyof itsbeers are namedafter regionallandmarks.Deschutes is comingto the area as a result of a collab-orationonZarabanda, their newspiced Saisonbeer,withChefJoséAndrés, owner of severalarea restaurants including theJaleo restaurants inBethesda,northernVirginia, andD.C.
Deschutes is oneof the oldercraft breweries in the countryhaving opened as abrewpub in1988byCEOand founderGaryFish, expanding into a 50-bar-rel productionmicrobreweryin 1993. In 1988 thebreweryproduced a total of 714barrelsof beer. In 2015 they expect toproduce 320,000barrels,mak-ing them the sixth largest craftbrewer in the countrywith apotential current capacity of600,000barrels.Deschutes is in28 states andD.C.,mostly in theWest andMidwest, plus Penn-sylvania.
Thebrewery is the secondlargest user in the county ofwhole conehops rather thanpelletizedhops andbottle condi-tions all of its beers.Deschutesmakesnine year-roundbeersincludingBlackButte Porter, thebest selling craft Porter in thecountry,Mirror PondPaleAle, agoldmedalwinner at theGreatAmericanBeer Festival and
their largest seller, andObsidianStout, the best selling stout in thecountry and voted theWorld’sBest Stout at the 2013WorldBeerAwards.Obsidian is theBrewsBrothers’ “desert island”beer.
Three seasonal beers includeRedChairNorthwest Pale Ale,declared theWorld’s Best Beer in2012 at theWorldBeer Awards,Twilight SummerAle and Jube-lale, a strongholidaybrew.De-schutes also brews six interestingIPAs in their BondStreet Series,including two freshhopales, andhas aReserve Serieswhichpres-ents bigger, bolder beers such asTheAbyss Imperial Stout,MirrorMirror Barleywine,Not The StoicQuadruple, and annual anni-versary versions of BlackButteImperial Porter.
Thebrewery donates $1for eachbarrel sold, to nationaland local charities ranging fromassisting children inneed toenvironmental causes. Someofthese donations are usedby theDeschutesRiverConservancy tobuyonebillion gallons per yearofwater rights to keep the riverflowing. The company is partlyemployee owned.
The initial beers released inthe area inNovemberwereBlackButte Porter andMirror PondPaleAle, the twoflagshipbeers,plus Fresh Squeezed IPA, all ondraft, andbottles ofMirrorMir-ror andBlackButte XXVI, theirImperial Porterwhich changesingredients each year. TheAbyss arrived inDecember andthe spring seasonal RedChairNorthwest Pale Ale is expectedshortly.
Popular Oregon brewerybrings favorites to DMV
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BY KIRSTY GROFF
STAFFWRITER
Olney Theatre Center is beginning its77th season with Steven Schwartz’s “God-spell,” an updated take on Jesus’ parableswith a message almost anyone could getbehind.
Muchlike“ChildrenofEden,”Schwartz’sother Bible-inspired musical, “Godspell”is less about religion and more about thegoodness of humanity and the importanceof taking care of one another. This messageisconveyedthroughsongsrepresentingeachof Jesus’ lessons in theBible.
While themusical isawell-knownclassicgreat for bringing people into the new the-aterseason,OTC’sprimaryreasonforchoos-ing this production was former ChairmanEmeritus of the Board William H. GrahamSr.,whodied in2013.Formore than50yearshe served as a mentor to many in theater,fromhiswork asmanagingdirector andvicepresident ofOTC to chair of theDepartmentof SpeechandDramaatCatholicUniversity.
“His faith guided all of the choices in hislife, and we thought this would be a fittingtribute to his family and to his memory,”said director Jason King Jones, who is alsothe associate artistic director andDirector ofEducation forOTC.
“Godspell”openedoff-Broadwayin1971and has been performed widely ever since,including a 2011 Broadway revival. Thanksto the recent update, Jones and the rest ofthecrewwereable tocombineaspectsof theoriginal production they enjoyed withmoremodernpieces of the revivalmaterial.
“We went back and listened to the newscore and got really excited about how freshthe music sounds,” he said. “It doesn’t feellocked into the early 1970s tones it had ini-tially— that gave us some excitement so wecoulddo itwith fresh eyes.”
Both of the lead actors are relatively newtoOlneyTheatreCenter—RachelZampelli’sfirst production was last season’s “AvenueQ,” and this will be Jordan Coughtry’s first,though he’s worked with Jones previouslyelsewhere. However, both have performed
in “Godspell” before and are familiar withthemusical’smessage.
“It takesChristianityandmakes themes-sage universal in a fun and creative way,”said Coughtry, who plays Jesus. “It doesn’teven really tackle religion. It’s just this mes-sage of love and goodness and moral disci-pline.”
“I liked the story about people in a com-munity following somebody who is peace-ful,” added Zampelli, taking on the role ofJohn the Baptist and Judas, “and the ideathat that’smorepowerful thanevil andtreat-
ing eachother like crap.”The genders of the “Godspell” roles
traditionally aren’t played with much, andSchwartz hasmentionedbefore that he feelstheaters would have to be careful if castingawomanas Judas.However,whenZampelliauditioned, everyone was welcoming of theconcept.
“People don’t name their children Ju-das because of him,” she said. “I was drawnto the idea of playing someone who betrayssomebody he loves, which is a hard thing todo, and people do it all the time.Most of thetime, the people we hurt the most are thepeoplewe love themost.”
Also trying something new is Coughtry,who is appearing in his first musical sincehigh school. While classical and contempo-rary plays typically fall in hiswheelhouse, hewas interested in taking on a role outside ofhis comfort zone and learning about howmusical theaterworks.
“Iwasafraidofbeinganoutsidercomingin and not knowingwhat I was doing, or let-
Dancing through Life
PHOTO BY NICHOLAS GRINER
Olney Theatre Center is presenting “Godspell,” starring Jordan Coughtry as Jesus and Rachel Zampellias John the Baptist/Judas.
GODSPELLn When: Various dates and times
Feb. 4-March 1
n Where: Olney Theatre Center,2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney
n Tickets: $38-$75
n More information: olneytheatre.org;301-924-3400
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The Puppet Co., “Circus!,” throughFeb. 15;TinyTots@10, selectWednesdays, SaturdaysandSundays, call for shows and show times,PuppetCo. Playhouse,GlenEchoPark’sNorthArcadeBuilding, 7300MacArthurBlvd., $5, 301-634-5380, thepuppetco.org.
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Lumina Studio Theatre, “OurMutualFriend,” through Jan. 31. Silver SpringBlackBoxTheatre, 8641Colesville Road, Silver Spring,301-588-8277, luminastudio.org; [email protected].
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ting aproductiondown,”he said.“But thewholecastandcrew,andourdirector, choreographer,mu-sic director, everybody has beenso amazingly positive and sup-portive.”
Jones has worked on makingsure the cast has been in the rightmindset when approaching theirroles. At the beginning of the re-hearsal process, he had everyonewrite down their response to thephrase “I believe” on anotecard.
By getting in touch with theirbeliefs, the cast members canrelate to the musical’s messageinside themselves rather thanfinding externalmotivation.
“For me, faith is incrediblypersonal, it has shaped me in mylife and is hardwired into who Iam, but I don’t expect that whatI believe is like what anybody elsedoes,” he said. “Asking the castto tap into where they are rightnow and what they believe — ifthey believe — puts them in aplace where if they’re confrontedwith issues with faith in this story,they’re coming to it in an honestplace individually.”
In doing so, Jones’ “Godspell”cast has become a close-knitgroup with individually-driventakes on their characters, creating
a supportive environment for allinvolved no matter their own be-liefs. Zampelli recalled aday in re-hearsal when a discussion turnedinto an incredibly personal mo-ment for her, and she felt the loveand support from her cast mem-bersshehadonlymetweeksprior.
“When you form a commu-nity, it doesn’t take long to takecare of each other,” she said. “If Ican take that experience, remem-beringthegoodness inpeopleandour capacity to love each othereven when we had just started afew weeks ago, goodness knowswhen we start making connec-tions with the audience what willhappen.”
Zampelli and everyone elseinvolved hope that message oflove and support shows throughto the audience, reaching beyondthe text of the gospel used in themusical.
“There’sadifferencebetweentelling these stories to a churchcommunity and to the surround-ing region,” Jones said. “We’renot literally preaching to thechoirheredoing ‘Godspell;’we’relooking at exploring the greaterhumanity and examining thelife of an individual who foughtfor what he believed in and chal-lenged authority, and ultimatelyhad todie for it.”
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BlackButtePorter (5.2percentalcoholbyvolume,ABV)has adelicious aromaofchocolate and roast presagingamediumroast andmoderatechocolate frontwhich continuesinto themiddle. The roast ebbsawisp in thefinishwith thechocolate dominating andano-ticeable touchof bitter hops. Thebitter hops grow slightly in theaftertaste and, togetherwith thechocolate, linger.Ratings: 9/9.
MirrorPondPaleAle (5.6percentABV)has afloral,melonandgrapefruit nose. The sub-dued grapefruit front elevatessomewhat in themiddle, allnicely balancedby amalt back-bone,which remains into thefinish. In the aftertaste themod-erate grapefruit character comes
to the front as themalt fades.Ratings: 7.5/7.5.
MirrorMirror (11.2percentABV)beginswith a fruit compotebouquet of raisins, dark fruit andbitter hops. Themediumraisinfrontwithhints of plumandprune are joinedby a light sweetmalt in themiddle. Thefinishadds anote of alcoholwhichincreases in the aftertastewhilethe fruitiness persists. This beerwill improve in complexitywithaging.Ratings: 8.5/8.
Zarabanda (6.7percentABV)has a lime, yeast, pepperand lemonnose. Themodestlemonand lime frontmeldswith amutedpeppercorn andrestrained yeast in themiddle.Theseflavors continue in thefinish and last through the after-taste. Thebeerwould seem topairwellwith a variety of foodsandwouldbring out theflavors.Ratings: 8.5/7.5.
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The last novel Charles Dick-ens ever finished writing, “OurMutual Friend,” combines hu-mor with psychological insightand social commentary.
The folks at Lumina Studiodecided to take the words offthe page and bring them to lifeon stage.
The stage adaptation of“Our Mutual Friend,” will wrapup this weekend at the LuminaStudio Theatre in Silver Spring.
In this look into Victorianlife, several rungs of society col-lide after a tycoon dies and hisfortune passes to his illiterateand kind-hearted employeesthe Boffins. As do the Boffins,a crippled dolls’ dressmakernamed Jenny Wren personifieshuman kindness in the story.
Tickets for the show are $15,$8 for youth and retiree tickets.For more information, visitluminastudio.org or call 301-565-ACT1.
Whoare you?
PHOTO BY LUMINA STUDIO THEATRE
Kelly Newman O’Connor stars asJenny Wren in Lumina Studio’s pro-duction of “Our Mutual Friend.”
David London discoveredthat he was a magician at theage of 7. In his nearly 25-yearquest to understand just whatthat means, he created fiveoriginal theatrical magic pro-ductions.
He’sbringingseveral ofthose to theArts Barnin Gaith-ersburg. Infact, thisFriday,Londonwill pres-ent “MagicOutside theBox.”
The full-length per-formanceis packedwith magic,laughs, mystery and the unex-pected. The show is appropriatefor ages 16 and older.
London has authoredeight manuscripts related tomagic and illusion, includingDaydreams, Borderland State,and Imagining the Imagina-tion, and regularly presents hisshows, workshops and lecturesat theaters, museums, galleriesand festivals across the UnitedStates.
Admission to “Magic Out-side the Box” is $18. For moreinformation, call 301-258-6394.
Castingspells
outside ofthe box
Created by Joseph Shabalalabased on a series of dreams hehad, the all-male a cappella groupLadysmith Black Mambazo fromSouth Africa has been around formore than 50 years.
The award-winning singerswill perform at the Music Center atStrathmore at 8 p.m. Friday.
Ladysmith Black Mambazohas won numerous awards, in-cluding two Drama Desk awardsand four Grammys. They recordedtheir first album in 1973 and havesince gone on to record more than50 — many of those picking upgold and/or platinum certification.
The group is probably betterknown for their work with PaulSimon on his “Graceland” album,or recording with The Winans,George Clinton, and even MichaelJackson.
Tickets for the show are $28-$69. More more information, visitstrathmore.org, or call 301-581-5100.
Graceland, by way of South Africa
PHOTO BY LUIS LEAL
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, an a cappella group from South Africa known for their mix of African and Chris-tian gospel music, will perform at the Music Center at Strathmore on Friday.
From now until to March 1, Visartsin Rockville hosts “Suspension”, an in-ternational juried exhibition featuringthree experimental film/video artistsin a series of solo exhibitions.
“Suspension” provides a series ofcompelling visual, sonic, and environ-mental experiences that illuminate theeye and mind in the dark of winter.
The exhibit showcases the workof artists Andrew Neumann, HoldenBrown and Betty Boehm. Each artist’swork will be featured for 11 days.
Neumann is an artist who worksin a variety of media, including sculp-ture, film and video installation, andelectronic/interactive music. Brown
was born in New Orleans and is cur-rently based in New York. He is arecipient of the Gold Award for theNational Foundation for the Advance-ment of the Arts (NFAA) and, in 2009,was named a U.S. Presidential Scholarin the Arts. Boehm was born in 1979in Reutlingen, Germany. During thecourse of her studies, she gained ex-perience in various artistic disciplines,reaching from drawing, painting andsculpting to video art, acting and ex-perimental sound art.
The exhibit is free and open to thepublic. Opening reception is from 7 to9 p.m. Friday. For more information,visit visartsatrockville.org.
‘Suspension’ of disbelief
VISARTS
Andrew Neumann’s “Double Psycho,” is currently part ofthe “Suspension” exhibit at VisArts in Rockville.
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#526583B, Turbo-Diesel,21K Miles!! Sunroof,Fender Sound, Bluetooth
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2013 VW Jetta TDI Premium
2007 Volvo S80............................................................................. $12,995#526135A, 6 Cyl, Front Wheel Drive, Leather, Premium Sound, 63k Miles
2013 Honda Accord EX-L.......................................... $16,995#G0055,Leather,Heated Seats, Sunroof, Alloys
2012 Volvo S60........................................................................... $20,950#526559A, Certified, Turbo, 100k Warr., 46k Miles
2012 Volvo S60 T5 Sedan......................................... $20,950#P9203, 1-Owner, Automatic, 20k Miles, 2.5L 5-Cyl
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4AT THISPRICE $0 DOWN
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OR
2015 NISSANALTIMA 2.5 S
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OR
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w/Charger Pkg
2015 NISSANPATHFINDER 4X4 S MSRP: $32,430
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