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1930705 The Gazette A&E: Comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade comes to BlackRock. B-4 SPRING FORWARD Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday. Don’t forget to turn your clocks ahead one hour. SPORTS: Transfer wrestler in search of a state title feels welcome at Walter Johnson. B-1 BETHESDA | CHEVY CHASE | KENSINGTON Automotive B-12 Business A-11 Calendar A-2 Classified B-8 Entertainment B-4 Opinion A-12 Sports B-1 Please RECYCLE Volume 4, No. 7, Two sections, 28 Pages Copyright © 2015 The Gazette INDEX DAILY UPDATES AT GAZETTE.NET Wednesday, March 4, 2015 25 cents SNOW DAZE School year may be extended to make up lost time. A-4 SEE HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES INSIDE ADVERTISING INSIDE A SECTION WINTERIZE YOUR WINTERIZE YOUR HOME HOME n Local restaurants, potters donate the makings of a soup lunch BY ELIZABETH WAIBEL STAFF WRITER Artists handcrafted bowls and Bethesda-area restaurants whipped up pots of soup to fill them last week — all to fight hunger in the Washington, D.C., area. The first Empty Bowls Bethesda event Thursday at Bethesda Blues & Jazz Sup- per Club raised money for the Capital Area Food Bank. At- tendees got to enjoy soup and take home a unique bowl to re- member the day. The food bank has held similar fundraisers elsewhere in the Washington area, but this is the first year for Empty Bowls Bethesda. More than 200 people at- tended, raising $5,350, accord- ing to the food bank. Black’s Bar & Kitchen was one of the Bethesda restaurants providing soup or other food for the event. Dane Sewlall, execu- tive chef, said his team brought a Mexican pork stew with slow- braised pork, peppers, onions and hominy. He said the res- taurant tries to participate in charity events such as Empty Bowls whenever it can. “We get a lot from the com- munity in Bethesda ... and we want to give back,” he said. [email protected] Chefs and artisans pitch in for food bank BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE Katherine Allison, a volunteer with the Capital Area Food Bank, serves soup to Sasha Ernest of Arlington, Va., during the Empty Bowls Bethesda fund- raiser Thursday at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club. n Silver Spring gathering draws supporters, foes of light-rail project BY RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER It’s the best of projects, it’s the worst of projects. To paraphrase Dickens, that was the picture painted by a supporter and an opponent of the Purple Line at a forum Mon- day night in Silver Spring on the proposed $2.45 billion, 16-mile light-rail project that would link Bethesda and New Carrollton. On the one hand, the project would be a partial solution to the Washington, D.C., region’s transit problems and a busi- ness generator. But on the other hand, detractors say, it’s too ex- pensive and won’t deliver on the cost to build it. The Purple Line is currently under review by the state De- partment of Transportation. Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said he hopes to make a decision on the project — expected to cost $55 million a year to operate and maintain — by May, according to The Washington Post. While the pros and cons were later heard inside the AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Cen- ter, demonstrators gathered outside before the forum, hold- ing signs and shouting their sup- port for the project. The project will bring eco- nomic stimulus and environ- mental benefits, said Nick Brand of Chevy Chase Section 3, who wore a purple scarf around his neck to fend off the March wind as he waved a sign along Coles- ville Road. Brand said he believes that if the state takes a fair and honest look at the project, it will decide that it’s crucial to Montgomery County’s future. The forum featured a de- bate between Rich Parsons, vice chairman of the Suburban Maryland Transportation Alli- ance, and Randal O’Toole, a vis- iting fellow with the Maryland Public Policy Institute and a se- nior fellow with the Cato Insti- tute. Parsons favors the project, while O’Toole opposes it. About 75 people attended the forum, said Christopher Summers, president of the non- profit Maryland Public Policy Institute, which sponsored the event and cost $45 to attend. Most of the questions from the audience were directed at Par- sons, challenging his assertions. The Purple Line will be good for transportation and the envi- ronment, plus bring economic benefits, and any could damage the viability of the project, said Parsons, a former CEO of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce. “We literally are on the 1-yard line and ready to score here,” he said. The line will lead to more transit riders and faster trips, Purple Line forum plumbs pros and cons n St. Paul Park equipment burned in October BY ELIZABETH WAIBEL STAFF WRITER A Kensington playground has been rebuilt after a fire de- stroyed it. The playground in St. Paul Park, at the intersection of St. Paul Street and Plyers Mill Road, burned down in October. A No- vember report by fire investiga- tors concluded that somebody set a fire under the playground’s slide, but no suspects were found. The town of Kensington, which owns the park, paid about $82,000 to rebuild the playground, according to an emailed announcement from the town. Insurance covered about $41,000 of the rebuild- ing cost, and the town received $31,000 from a state grant. The town’s parks budget covered the remaining cost, including some lighting and security upgrades. [email protected] Kensington playground reopens DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE Sam Beaudet, 4, of Kensington — under the watchful eye of his father, David Beaudet — takes advantage of Mon- day’s break in the wintry weather to climb on the new playground equipment in St. Paul Park in Kensington. n Composers to perform in contest Friday in Bethesda BY ELIZABETH WAIBEL STAFF WRITER A Bethesda songwriter is one of nine finalists set to compete for $12,500 in prizes. This is the first year for the Bernard/Ebb Songwriting Awards. The finalists will per- form their original works Fri- day evening in Bethesda before judges select winners in general and youth categories. Laura Baron of Bethesda, one of the finalists, said she has been writing and playing songs since high school. She used to teach music at the National Child Research Center and has released four albums, including one for children. The Bernard/Ebb contest is different from others she has en- tered because songwriters sub- mitted three songs in any genre. The application also asked what being a songwriter meant to her. “I like putting words to deeper feelings that are under the surface of daily life,” Baron said. “I like very much to write songs that are about second chances and new beginnings and finding new life paths. But I also really like the fun swing of jazz and blues.” Baron said winning the con- test would help her gain more visibility and make connec- tions with the artistic leaders in Bethesda and Washington, D.C. Plus, she could put the money toward recording her next al- bum. The Friday evening perfor- mance will feature two songs by each adult finalist and one song by each under-18 finalist, They write the songs n Officials, principals say schools, students ready for full rollout BY LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER Montgomery County Public Schools students were sched- uled to start taking new state tests early Monday morning, but icy winter weather upset that plan. Instead, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of Col- lege and Careers tests — which will be fully implemented for the first time this spring — had to wait for Tuesday. Suzanne Woertz, supervisor of the school system’s testing unit, said Monday that the lost day isn’t expected to derail test- ing schedules. Some schools will shift back a day; others will take advantage of built-in makeup days, she said. “If we just miss this one day, then we don’t anticipate any problems with having enough days for all of our schools to fin- ish testing,” Woertz said. The school system must follow a state-dictated window from March 2 through March 26. The district doesn’t need to ask to extend that time frame yet, Woertz said, but school officials will re-evaluate if schools close again on a testing day. Schools can choose when to give the tests, as long as students take them within the 20-day window. That flexibility marks a significant change from the stricter schedule for the Mary- land School Assessment tests, Woertz said. The PARCC tests, which the district piloted last year, are aligned with the Common Core State Standards and replace the Maryland School Assessments in reading and math. This month, students will take the first of two PARCC test- ing rounds. The first group of tests are “performance-based assessment” that are longer and more complicated than the “end-of-year assessment” stu- dents will take later this spring. Students in third through eighth grades will take math and English language arts tests. High school students studying Alge- bra 1, Algebra 2 and English 10 will take corresponding tests. The district and individual schools have been preparing for the new tests, both directly and indirectly, school officials and principals said. Most students will take tests on computers, a task made easier by the school system’s technology plan put in place PARCC tests face slight delay after snow day See PARCC, Page A-10 See SONGS, Page A-10 See FORUM, Page A-10

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n Local restaurants,potters donate the

makings of a soup lunch

BY ELIZABETHWAIBELSTAFFWRITER

Artists handcrafted bowlsand Bethesda-area restaurantswhipped up pots of soup to fillthem last week — all to fighthunger in the Washington,D.C., area.The first Empty Bowls

Bethesda event Thursday atBethesda Blues & Jazz Sup-per Club raised money for theCapital Area Food Bank. At-tendees got to enjoy soup andtake home a unique bowl to re-member theday.The foodbank

has held similar fundraiserselsewhere in the Washingtonarea, but this is the first year forEmpty Bowls Bethesda.More than 200 people at-

tended, raising $5,350, accord-ing to the food bank.Black’s Bar & Kitchen was

oneof theBethesda restaurantsproviding souporother food forthe event. Dane Sewlall, execu-tive chef, said his team broughtaMexican pork stewwith slow-braised pork, peppers, onionsand hominy. He said the res-taurant tries to participate incharity events such as EmptyBowls whenever it can.“We get a lot from the com-

munity in Bethesda ... and wewant to give back,” he said.

[email protected]

Chefs and artisans pitch in for food bank

BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE

Katherine Allison, a volunteer with the Capital Area Food Bank, serves soupto Sasha Ernest of Arlington, Va., during the Empty Bowls Bethesda fund-raiser Thursday at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club.

n Silver Spring gatheringdraws supporters, foesof light-rail project

BY RYANMARSHALLSTAFFWRITER

It’s the best of projects, it’sthe worst of projects.To paraphrase Dickens, that

was the picture painted by asupporter and an opponent ofthe Purple Line at a forumMon-day night in Silver Spring on theproposed $2.45 billion, 16-milelight-rail project that would linkBethesda andNewCarrollton.On theonehand, theproject

would be a partial solution tothe Washington, D.C., region’stransit problems and a busi-ness generator. But on the otherhand, detractors say, it’s too ex-pensive andwon’t deliver on thecost to build it.The Purple Line is currently

under review by the state De-partment of Transportation.Gov. LarryHogan (R) said he

hopes tomake a decision on theproject — expected to cost $55million a year to operate andmaintain — by May, accordingto TheWashington Post.While the pros and cons

were later heard inside the AFISilver Theater andCultural Cen-ter, demonstrators gatheredoutside before the forum, hold-ing signs and shouting their sup-port for the project.The project will bring eco-

nomic stimulus and environ-

mental benefits, saidNickBrandof Chevy Chase Section 3, whowore a purple scarf around hisneck to fend off theMarch windas he waved a sign along Coles-ville Road.Brand said hebelieves that if

the state takes a fair and honestlook at the project, it will decidethat it’s crucial to MontgomeryCounty’s future.The forum featured a de-

bate between Rich Parsons,vice chairman of the SuburbanMaryland Transportation Alli-ance, and Randal O’Toole, a vis-iting fellow with the MarylandPublic Policy Institute and a se-nior fellow with the Cato Insti-tute. Parsons favors the project,while O’Toole opposes it.About 75 people attended

the forum, said ChristopherSummers, president of the non-profit Maryland Public PolicyInstitute, which sponsored theevent and cost $45 to attend.Most of the questions from theaudience were directed at Par-sons, challenging his assertions.The Purple Linewill be good

for transportation and the envi-ronment, plus bring economicbenefits, and any could damagethe viability of the project, saidParsons, a former CEO of theMontgomery County Chamberof Commerce.“We literally are on the

1-yard line and ready to scorehere,” he said.The line will lead to more

transit riders and faster trips,

Purple Lineforum plumbspros and cons

n St. Paul Park equipmentburned in October

BY ELIZABETHWAIBELSTAFFWRITER

A Kensington playgroundhas been rebuilt after a fire de-stroyed it.The playground in St. Paul

Park, at the intersection of St.Paul Street andPlyersMill Road,burned down in October. A No-vember report by fire investiga-tors concluded that somebodyset a fire under the playground’sslide, but no suspects werefound.The town of Kensington,

which owns the park, paidabout $82,000 to rebuild theplayground, according to anemailed announcement fromthe town. Insurance coveredabout $41,000 of the rebuild-ing cost, and the town received$31,000 from a state grant. Thetown’s parksbudget covered theremaining cost, including somelighting and security upgrades.

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Kensington playground reopens

DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE

Sam Beaudet, 4, of Kensington — under the watchful eye of his father, David Beaudet — takes advantage of Mon-day’s break in the wintry weather to climb on the new playground equipment in St. Paul Park in Kensington.

n Composers to perform incontest Friday in Bethesda

BY ELIZABETHWAIBELSTAFFWRITER

ABethesda songwriter is oneof nine finalists set to competefor $12,500 in prizes.This is the first year for

the Bernard/Ebb SongwritingAwards. The finalists will per-form their original works Fri-day evening in Bethesda beforejudges select winners in generaland youth categories.Laura Baron of Bethesda,

one of the finalists, said she hasbeen writing and playing songssince high school. She used toteach music at the NationalChild Research Center and hasreleased four albums, includingone for children.The Bernard/Ebb contest is

different fromothers shehas en-

tered because songwriters sub-mitted three songs in any genre.The application also asked whatbeing a songwritermeant toher.“I like putting words to

deeper feelings that are underthe surface of daily life,” Baronsaid. “I like very much to writesongs that are about secondchances and new beginningsand finding new life paths. But Ialso really like the fun swing ofjazz and blues.”Baron said winning the con-

test would help her gain morevisibility and make connec-tions with the artistic leaders inBethesda and Washington, D.C.Plus, she could put the moneytoward recording her next al-bum.The Friday evening perfor-

mance will feature two songsby each adult finalist and onesong by each under-18 finalist,

They write the songs

n Officials, principals sayschools, studentsready for full rollout

BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFFWRITER

Montgomery County PublicSchools students were sched-uled to start taking new statetests earlyMondaymorning,buticy winter weather upset thatplan.Instead, the Partnership for

Assessment of Readiness of Col-lege and Careers tests — whichwill be fully implemented for thefirst time this spring — had towait for Tuesday.

Suzanne Woertz, supervisorof the school system’s testingunit, said Monday that the lostday isn’t expected to derail test-ing schedules. Some schoolswillshift back a day; others will takeadvantage of built-in makeupdays, she said.“If we justmiss this one day,

then we don’t anticipate anyproblems with having enoughdays for all of our schools to fin-ish testing,”Woertz said.The school system must

follow a state-dictated windowfrom March 2 through March26. The district doesn’t need toasktoextendthat timeframeyet,Woertz said, but school officialswill re-evaluate if schools close

again ona testing day.Schools can choose when to

give the tests, as longas studentstake them within the 20-daywindow. That flexibility marksa significant change from thestricter schedule for the Mary-land School Assessment tests,Woertz said.The PARCC tests, which

the district piloted last year, arealigned with the Common CoreState Standards and replace theMarylandSchoolAssessments inreading andmath.This month, students will

take the first of two PARCC test-ing rounds. The first group oftests are “performance-basedassessment” that are longer

and more complicated than the“end-of-year assessment” stu-dentswill take later this spring.Students in third through

eighth gradeswill takemath andEnglish language arts tests. Highschool students studying Alge-bra 1, Algebra 2 and English 10will take corresponding tests.The district and individual

schools have been preparing forthe new tests, both directly andindirectly, school officials andprincipals said.Most students will take tests

on computers, a task madeeasier by the school system’stechnology plan put in place

PARCC tests face slight delay after snow day

See PARCC, Page A-10 See SONGS, Page A-10

See FORUM, Page A-10

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n Robert Saloschin, 95,was instrumental in

Freedom of Information Act

BY ROBERT RANDSTAFFWRITER

Robert L. Saloschin ofBethesda, who as a Departmentof Justice lawyer pioneered theFreedom of Information Act,died Tuesday of natural causesat his home.Hewas 95.

A graduate of Columbia LawSchool, he started his federal le-gal careerworkingwithanurbandevelopment program and theCivil Aeronautics Board in the1950s before joining the JusticeDepartment’s Office of LegalCounsel in 1958.

Saloschin handled a varietyof assignments involving civilrights, racketeering, conscien-tiousobjectors andcommunica-tions satellites. He was creditedby former Attorney GeneralNicholas Katzenbach with help-ing stop the violence against theFreedom Riders in the South by

suggesting use of the InterstateCommerce Commission, whichprohibited discrimination in in-terstate bus transportation. Healso worked on a treaty with theSoviet Union and other nationsto extradite airline hijackers.

In 1970, Saloschin becamechairman of the department’sFreedom of Information Com-

mittee, and in 1978 director ofthe Office of Information LawandPolicy.Headvisedall federalagencies on openness and se-crecy issues under the Freedomof Information Act.

He retired from the federalgovernment in 1981 and laterworked for Lerch, Early andBrewer, a Bethesda law firm.He founded Citizens for Qual-ity Civilization, a nonprofit thatproducedhandbooks to improveeducation,healthcare, transpor-tationandglobalizationpolicies.

Saloschin also was activein his community. He helpedsecure a swimming pool and li-brary branch in the TwinbrooksectionofRockville, according tohis wife, Neita Smith Saloschin.He also was president of theWest Fernwood Citizens Asso-ciation and worked to get a parknearDemocracy Boulevard.

Saloschin recently com-pleted “Government of All thePeople,” a guidebook to citizenaction that uses historical andpersonal stories. It is to be re-leased thismonth.

Saloschin was born in1920 in New York City, the sonof Bruno Benedix and Edna(Schachne) Saloschin. He grad-uated Phi Beta Kappa from Co-lumbia University in 1940 withhonors in economics before at-tending its law school. While atColumbia, he often campaignedfor NewDeal Democratic candi-dates, “standingonasoapboxonstreet corners,” his wife said.

He interrupted his legal edu-cation to serve in the Navy inWorld War II, first in the Bureauof Aeronautics, where he earneda civilian pilot’s license, then as aflyingboatnavigatorinthePacific,covering Japanese-held islandsand the invasion of Iwo Jima. HereturnedtotheU.S.asalieutenantcommander in theNavalReserve.

After two years at a WallStreet law firm, Saloschin mar-ried Neita Louisa Smith, a Navyflight nurse, in 1949 and movedto the Washington, D.C., area,because she was stationed atNaval Air Station Patuxent River.

“Hedidn’tenjoyWallStreet,”his wife said. “It was contrary to

a lot of the things he fought forin World War II. It was all greed,greed, greed.”

Saloschin was a licensedcommercial pilot and flight in-structor. With friends or rela-tives, he skippered the familytrawler on 14 trips on the Intra-coastal Waterway between Flor-idaandMaryland,with side tripsto offshore islands in the Baha-mas andNewEngland.

Besides his wife, survivorsinclude two daughters, MaryAnn Nichols Hubbard and herhusband, Jack Hubbard, ofRaynham, Mass., and Joan Bun-ning and her husband, RobertBunning, of Washington, D.C.;and four grandchildren.

A memorial service will beheld at 10 a.m.Wednesdayat theRiver Road Unitarian Univer-salist Congregation, 6301 RiverRoad, Bethesda. In lieu of flow-ers, memorial donationsmay bemade to Montgomery Hospice,1355 Piccard Drive, Suite 100,Rockville,MD20850.

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Robert L. Saloschin of Bethesda,who died Feb. 24 at age 95, was anaval officer in the Pacific Theaterduring World War II.

n About 95 residentsnotified they have to move

BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY

STAFFWRITER

Two Montgomery Countyassisted and independent livingfacilities are closing by June 1.Residents and family memberswere told in letters that theyhave to find new homes.

Springhouse of Silver Springand Springhouse of Bethesdaare being marketed for sale bythe centers’ property owner,HCP Inc., a health care real es-tate investment trust, accordingto the letters.

“Unfortunately, it is pos-sible that the potential buyersof Springhouse of Silver Springmay not continue to operate theproperty as a senior living facil-ity,” Allison Morrow, regionaldirector of operations for HCRManorCare, wrote in a Feb. 25letter to residents and familymembers of the Silver Springcenter. HCR manages and op-erates the Silver Spring andBethesda facilities, among oth-ers. “Therefore, we will be clos-ing Springhouse of Silver Spring

by June 1, 2015.”Residents and family mem-

bers of the Bethesda facility onBattery Lane received a similarletter.

The June 1 date is “meant tobe a target date to give residentsand their families an idea ontiming,” Rick Rump, a spokes-man for HCRManorCare, wrotein an e-mail. “It is not final andmay need to be adjusted as weget closer. Our residents andtheir families can be assuredthat we will work closely withthem and that we are confidentthey will receive the assistancethey need to find a new home.”

The letter shocked MichaelGreenberg. He had just helpedhis 80-year-old mother, EdithGreenberg, move into Spring-house, not far from his SilverSpring home, last October. Thefacility’s rates were more rea-sonable than most other cen-ters he had reviewed, and hehad been satisfied with Spring-house’s care since his mother,who uses a wheelchair, movedthere.

“No one ever said anythingverbally to us that there wasa possibility they would closewhen we moved my mom

there,” said Greenberg, a copy-writer in the creative servicesdepartment of The WashingtonPost.

The move to SpringhousefromEdithGreenberg’spreviousresidence in an independent liv-ing senior building in Rockvillecost about $3,500, he said. “Andnow we are being forced to paytomove again just a fewmonthslater,” Greenberg said.

The Silver Spring facilityhas 42 residents and the onein Bethesda has 53, said Ei-leen Bennett, a long-term careombudsman for MontgomeryCounty. That program advo-cates for the rights of residentsin such facilities.

For a closure last year in-volving about 30 residents ofSpringhouse of Westwood —another Bethesda assisted livingcenter — residents were offeredmoving expenses if they trans-ferred to another HCR Manor-Care facility, Bennett said. Shedid not know what HCR wouldoffer this time.

HCP of Irvine, Calif., andHCR ManorCare of Toledo,Ohio, “jointly agreed to marketfor sale certain non-strategic as-sets,” HCP officials said in the

company’s recently released2014 annual report.

The list of locations was notmade public, Rump said. “It isvery early in this process,” hesaid.

HCP owns numerous otherproperties in MontgomeryCounty, including Arden Courtsof Silver Spring and ArdenCourts of Kensington.

State regulations require as-sisted living centers and similarfacilities to give residents andfamilymembers at least 45 days’notice when closing a facility.

To Greenberg, 90 days’ no-tice was not sufficient, he said,since it takes time to researchand visit potential new centersin person to review what theyprovide.

“I don’t know if we will beable to find a similar facility forabout the same rate that is asclose to where we live,” Green-berg said. He wondered aboutresidents who may not havefamilymembers to help them.

Bennett said part of her pro-gram’s duties was to help resi-dents in such cases, includingthose without family membersnearby. Such closures involvinglarge assisted living or nursing

centers of at least 30 residentswere unusual in the county, shesaid. The last closure of a simi-lar-sized facility before Spring-house ofWestwoodwas in 2005,Bennett said.

The county office didn’t getany additional notice of the clo-sures, she said. “This was unex-pected to us, too,” Bennett said.

A forum hosted by HCRManorCare for residents, familymembers, independent and as-sisted living providers and geri-atric caremanagers is scheduledat 5 p.m. Tuesday at Spring-house of Bethesda, 4925 BatteryLane. Another is slated at 5 p.m.March 12 at Springhouse of Sil-ver Spring, 2201 ColstonDrive.

Bennett said she thoughtthere were enough vacancies incounty assisted and indepen-dent living facilities to absorbresidents now looking for newhomes. But the problem wouldbe finding a similar center atcomparable rates, she said.

Some Westwood residentslast year moved to facilities thatare to be closed, she said.

“So they will have to movetwice in about a year,” Bennettsaid. “That is a big deal.”

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Middle schoolers inScience Bowl Saturday

Teams from six Mont-gomery County middleschools will compete Satur-day to representMaryland inthe middle school nationalfinals of theU.S.Departmentof Energy Office of Science’sNational Science Bowl.

The local teams that willcompete at Prince George’sCommunity College inLargo are from the LandonSchool of Bethesda; Clem-ente of Germantown; CabinJohn and Hoover, both ofPotomac; Frost of Rockville;and Takoma Park.

The finals will be in AprilinWashington, D.C.

N. Bethesda artist’sreception rescheduled

A reception for the cur-rent exhibit of landscape andstill life drawings and paint-ings by Thomas Xenakis ofNorth Bethesda, an artistand professor of art and arthistory at Georgetown Uni-versity, was rescheduledfrom Feb. 21 because ofsnow.

The reception, at theGallery at the FrameFactory,212DominionRoadN.E., Vi-enna, Va., will be held from1 to 4 and 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.March 21.

“Something Different... Something New” runsthroughMarch 28.

Varied art mediaexhibited at Gallery BSeveral different art

forms are on display at Gal-lery B in Bethesda throughMarch 28.

“Beyond the Surface”features photos by ShelvaGallman, woven art by Jan-ice Knausenberger, abstractpainting by Shelley LeeMarie and graphic designcompositions by MicheleMorgan.

Gallery B is opennoon to6 p.m. Wednesdays throughSaturdays at 7700 Wiscon-sin Ave., Suite E. A recep-tion is scheduled for 6 to 9p.m. March 13, during themonthly Bethesda Art Walk.

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Toby and Joseph Costanzo ofNorth Potomac, MDannounce the engagement oftheir daughter, Amy Beth, toRyan Patrick Small, son ofMargaret and Michael Smallof University Park,Maryland.

In 2004, Amy graduatedfrom the University ofMaryland, College Park with

two Bachelors’ degrees in Government and Politics and Criminologyand Criminal Justice. In 2008, she graduated from the University ofBaltimore School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree. In 2009, alsofrom the University of Baltimore, she received a Masters Degree inNegotiation and Conflict Management. Amy will receive her MastersDegree in Public Policy from Georgetown University in May 2015.Miss Costanzo serves as a Principle Policy Analyst for the City ofBaltimore in the Bureau of the Budget and Management andResearch.

In 2004, Ryan graduated from the University of Maryland, CollegePark with a Bachelors degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice. In2005, he graduated from the Metropolitan Police Academy. Ryan iscurrently pursuing a Masters Degree in Homeland Security Policy andAdministration from the University of Maryland. Mr. Small isemployed by the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department.

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n Calendar might extend toJune 15; more snow in forecast

BY LINDSAY A. POWERS

STAFFWRITER

After a messy ice storm coatedmuch of the area on Sunday, Mont-gomeryCountyPublic Schools studentsgot the day off Monday due to lingeringdicey conditions.

County students, however, couldfind themselves in the classroom an ex-tra day in June.

The school district has four snowdays built in to its calendar. Mondaymarked the fifth.

“So parents and students shouldplan for the school year to be extendedat this point,” Dana Tofig, a schoolsystem spokesman, wrote in an emailMonday.

District officials’ decision to closeschoolsMondaywasmainly tied to roadand sidewalk conditions, Tofigwrote.

“While itwarmedup throughout theday, the conditions this morning werenot good,” hewrote.

Tomakeup for lost instruction time,the district plans to extend the schoolyear by one day to June 15, a Monday.If schools close for any additional snow

days, the system would continue tomake up days in that same mid-Juneweek. That possibility looms, as theNa-tional Weather Service forecast calls forat least some snow Wednesday nightand Thursday.

The state requires school districts tohold 180 instruction days.

The system can ask the state towaive any snow days not built in to thecalendar.

Last year, state Superintendent Lil-lian M. Lowery approved the district’srequest to waive four out of six extrasnow days. The district’s request towaive five dayswas denied.

Tofig said the district will decidewhether to apply for a waiver follow-ing winter’s end, when school officialsknow how many extra snow days theyhad to add.

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n Critics cite impact onthose struggling financially

BYDANIEL LEADERMANSTAFFWRITER

Lawmakers in Annapoliswant tochange thewaysalesandauctions at self-storage sites areadvertised, but some nonprof-its say the measure could meantrouble for the poorer and morevulnerable users of those facili-ties.

Currently, a self-storage fa-cility can sell or auction off the

property in a storage unit if therenter is in default formore than60days and the sale is advertisedin a general-circulation newspa-per at least three days ahead oftime.

Thenewbillwouldgive facil-ity operators the option of eitherputting a notice in a newspaperor advertising the sale in “anyother commercially reasonablemanner specified in the rentalagreement” — such as onlinelistings — as long as the saledrew three “independent bid-ders.” Those bidders must notbe related to or have a shared fi-

nancial interest with each otheror the facility operator, accord-ing to the bill.

Lawmakers say the bill willmake the process more afford-able for the self-storage busi-nesses.

State law currently requiresrenters to be notified of the timeand place of the auction andgivenat least 14days topaywhatthey owebefore the auctionpro-ceeds.

But changing the rules foradvertising thesale is concerningtoMarcelineWhite, executivedi-rector of the nonprofitMaryland

Consumer Rights Coalition.“More notice in a variety of

places is better,” she said.People often put items in

storage facilities because theyare struggling financially andwould then have to repurchaseitems if their property is sold,White said.

But Prince George’s CountyDel. Dereck E. Davis (D-Dist. 25)of UpperMarlboro, chairman ofthe Economic Matters Commit-tee and the bill’s lead sponsor,said the bill is just about adver-tising, and that moving fromprinted notices to online noticeswas more cost-effective for theself-storage businesses.

The Maryland Self Storage

Association did not respond torequests for comment.

Those businesses have al-ways been able to sell the prop-erty if a renter is in default, Davissaid. The issue was brought tohis attention by the owner of aself-storage business, he said.

Montgomery County Del.Benjamin F. Kramer (D-Dist. 19)of Silver Spring, one of the bill’sco-sponsors, said he doubtedthat many people were readingprinted auction notices to findout if their own property wasbeing sold. Most people havecellphones and Internet accessregardless of their economiccircumstances, and may havemore access to the Internet than

they do to printed publications,Kramer said.

Some area self-storage fa-cilities direct callers inquiringabout auctions directly to onlinelistings.

Self-storage facilities are acommonly used service for peo-ple facing financial trouble, saidKim Propeack, chief of politicsand communications for Casaof Maryland, the Langley Park-based nonprofit that advocatesfor immigrants. That populationincludes many Casa clients, soprovisions like those in the billwere troubling, Propeack said.

A bill passed by the Gen-eral Assembly in 2013 that al-lowed storage facilities to notifycustomers via email that theywere in default of their rentalagreement initially contained aprovision similar to the currentproposal.

That provision drew objec-tions from the MDDC PressAssociation, which representsnewspapers in Maryland, Dela-ware andWashington, D.C.

“In an area like self-storageauctions, you needmore notice,not less,” Rebecca Snyder, theorganization’s executive direc-tor, told The Gazette on Feb. 24.“Smaller-circulation newspa-pers, targeted to specific com-munities, can act as a lifeline.”

If a personhas fallenonhardtimes and can’t pay their bills,they may not want to talk aboutit, but public notice might helpfriends and family recognize theproblem and come together toact as a safety net, Snyder said.

The proposed new noticerequirements might allow astorage facility owner to justcall three acquaintances on thephone to round up three inde-pendent bidders, Snyder said.

Kramer toldTheGazette thathe understood that public no-tices were part of newspapers’revenue, and that theremight beconcern from newspapers thatother notices, too, might start tomove online.

A hearing on the House ver-sion of the bill is scheduled for1 p.m. Wednesday before theHouse Economic Matters Com-mittee. TheSenate versionof thebill will be heard at 1 p.m.March11 before the Senate FinanceCommittee.

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for the school year to beextended at this point.”Dana Tofig, school system spokesman

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n Hotel giant eyeing otherlocations in regionnear Metro stations

BY JONATHANO’CONNELLTHEWASHINGTON POST

Marriott Internationalplansto relocate its headquartersfrom its sprawling Bethesdacampus in coming years, CEOArne M. Sorenson said lastweek, prompting what couldbe a high-stakes battle for the

prominentcorporatenameplateamong lo-cal jurisdic-tions.

A littlemore than2,000 peo-ple workat Marri-

ott’s corporate headquarters inmore than 900,000 square feeton Fernwood Road.

Sorenson said last weekthat the global icon would berelocatingwithin the regionandthat he had begun informallydiscussing the company’s op-tions with local leaders. Marri-ott’s lease expires in 2022.

“It’s time to start thinkingabout it,” Sorensonsaid. “We’vegot almost amillion square feetin Bethesda. Obviously youcan’t decide one month you’regoing to move 1 million squarefeet worth of office and movethe next month. This is some-thing that’s going to take someyears to get worked out.”

Sorenson said he consid-ered the Washington area thehospitality capital of the world,with competitorsHiltonWorld-wide, Choice Hotels, Diamon-dRock Hospitality and othersnearby. He praised the area’s“supremely well-educatedworkforce” but said that to at-tract the best talent he neededa location that would appeal toyoungworkers.

“I think it’s essential we beaccessible to Metro and thatlimits the options. I think aswith many other things ouryounger folks aremore inclinedto be Metro-accessible andmore urban. That doesn’t nec-essarily mean we will move todowntownWashington, but wewill move someplace.”

Marriott is housed in a sub-

urban office park, the center ofwhichwasbuilt in 1978, and thelikes of which some companieshave been vacating in recentyears during a rush back intourban areas. Although it is nearInterstate 270 and the CapitalBeltway, the complex is about3 miles from the nearest Metrostop, the Grosvenor station ontheRedLine inNorthBethesda.

Sorenson, 56, the first non-member of the Marriott fam-ily to run the company, wouldnot commit to remaining inMaryland. He said had alreadyhad informal discussions withVirginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe(D) and Washington officialsabout his interest in relocating.He gave a mixed review of theMaryland business climate.

“Maryland has not been

great for business, but it hasn’tbeen aggressively trying to runthem out,” Sorenson said. “Ithink it’s more just in the lastfew years [the state] probablyhasn’t cared about it. I don’tthink it’s been against it.”

Keeping the company mayconstitute a first major test fornew Maryland Gov. Larry Ho-gan (R), who made waves onthe campaign trail about thefact that his state is no longerhome to many Fortune 500companies.

There are now four, as inrecent years Black & Decker,Coventry Health Care, CatalystHealthSolutions andConstella-tion New Energy were acquiredby companies with headquar-ters elsewhere. Another majoremployer, McCormick & Co.,maker of Old Bay Seasoning, isalsomulling a relocation.

“We’vehad the largestmassexodus of taxpayers fleeing ourstate, of any state in our region,and one of the worst in the na-tion,” Hogan said during hisfirst State of the State address,in February.

State officials are workingto make sure the company re-mains, said Karen Glenn Hood,a spokeswoman for the stateDepartment of Business andEconomic Development.

“Obviously Marriott’s aniconic company. It’s a world-class company and we have agreat relationship with them.We are engaged with them ona regular basis. And it’s a com-pany that we clearly want tocontinue tocallMarylandhomeso we are going to work with

them and make sure that hap-pens,” Hood said.

Sally Sternbach, actingdirector of the MontgomeryCounty Department of Eco-nomic Development, saidthe county was taking a “verythoughtful and very thoroughlook at what will help them togrow and succeed.”

“Accessibility is importantand amenities are important.And yes wewill try to work withthem on both and put themwhere they feel they will get agood return for that,” Sternbachsaid.

Spokesmen for McAu-liffe and D.C. Mayor Muriel E.Bowser (D) declined comment.

Marriott’s headquartershave been in MontgomeryCounty since 1955, but if itsproposed relocation promptssomething of a bidding waramong local jurisdictions it willnot be the first time.

In 1999 the company flirtedwith a move to Fairfax County,Va., before Maryland put upan incentive package worth asmuchas$58million,dependingon an array of circumstances.

Marriott has been a darlingof the stock market during thepast two years, and increasedits fourth quarter earnings by30 percent last year. It posted2014 profits of $753 million onrevenue of $13.8 billion. Soren-sonexpects itwill have1millionrooms open or in developmentby later this year.

In all, the state saidMarriottemploys 9,970 people in Mary-land.

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Marriott International plans to move from its headquarters in the Rockledgecorporate section of Bethesda to be closer to a Metro stop.

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n ‘Vaping’ devicesto be barred from stores,restaurants, county land

BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER

The use of electronic ciga-rettes will be prohibited incertain public places in Mont-gomery County.

The County Council unani-mously voted Tuesday to bane-cigarettes in public placeswhere it bans tobacco.

The new law will make itillegal for minors to use e-cig-arettes. It also will require theliquid used in e-cigarettes to besold in child-resistant packag-ing.

Council Vice PresidentNancy Floreen, who proposedthe legislation, said county resi-dents will be better off if vapingis banned from public places,along with smoking.

The county currently banssmoking indoors in publicplaces such as restaurants,stores, offices and governmentbuildings, and on county prop-erty.

“I think this sends an im-portant message to our com-munity and the world at largethat Montgomery County isvery dedicated to addressingpublic health,” said Floreen (D-At Large) of Garrett Park. “AndI really do believe that’s one ofour primary responsibilities aselected officials.”

The ban on electronic ciga-rettes would take effect 91 daysafter the bill becomes law. Thebill becomes law either whenit’s signed by the county execu-tive or returned unsigned.

Also known as personal va-porizers or electronic nicotinedelivery systems, e-cigarettesprovide both nicotine and nic-otine-free options.

E-cigarettes have beenavailable in the United Statessince 2007. Use of the deviceshas doubled every year since2010, with the industry esti-mated at $1.5 billion, accordingto information from the Na-tional Institutes of Health, Na-tional Institute on Drug Abuse,presented at a council Healthand Human Services Commit-tee briefing.

Council President George L.Leventhal, who co-sponsoredthe bill, said it takes the burdenof discerning electronic ciga-rette use from tobacco cigaretteuse off business owners.

“It’s really disruptive andsurprising to people whensomeone pulls out one of thesedevices and begins vaping it,”he said. “Customers don’t knowhow to react. It puts the propri-etor of the business in a difficultposition.”

Business owners bear theresponsibility of enforcing theindoor smoking ban, said Lev-enthal (D-At Large) of TakomaPark. A uniform policy for bothsmoking and vaping, he said, is“just fair.”

Proponents claim vaping isa more healthful alternative tosmoking and is an effective wayto quit smoking, often citingpersonal or anecdotal evidence.

But Councilwoman NancyNavarro said vaping as a smok-ing cessation method has “notbeen established whatsoever.”

“You really don’t knowwhatyou are ingesting,” she said,adding that research showsthere is cause for concern withthe products.

Recalling a time when shewas in a store in Florida next toa person who was vaping, Na-varro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Springsaid that experience reinforcesfor herwhy the law is important.

“It reminded me of why it’sso important that we do what-ever we can to, No. 1, be edu-cated, but No. 2, also establishclear guidelines,” she said.

“Because obviously, overthere, it’s quite acceptable andpeople don’t realize there isdefinitely cause for concernjust being around in public —around children for example,etc. — using these types of de-vices,” Navarro said.

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n New alcohol tax torecoup lost revenueis eyed as an option

BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER

If Montgomery County getsout of the alcohol business, itwould need to add a steep excisetax toavoid losingabout $30mil-lion in annual revenue, a countyofficial said.

The County Council’s newad hoc Committee on LiquorControl is considering optionsfor reforming how the county

handles alcohol, ranging fromcompletely getting out of thebusiness to simply reformingoperations.

At the request of Council-man Hans Riemer (D-At Large)of Takoma Park, the committeechairman, Montgomery’s Officeof LegislativeOversight reviewedthe county’s alcoholic beveragesystem and the Department ofLiquor Control.

“We knew this needed a re-ally focused policy analysis,”Riemer said previously. “Nowwe have the foundation to haveproductive discussions.”

Currently, the county makes

about $30 million annually bycontrolling alcohol sales anddis-tribution.

Turning the business ofbooze over to the private sectorwould cost the county that rev-enue and more, a report by theOffice of Legislative Oversightfound. The county could lose upto $43 million annually, the re-port says.

But the report also found thecounty could recoup whatever itloses through taxes and fees.

George Griffin, director ofthe Department of Liquor Con-trol, cautioned councilmembersat a meeting Friday against im-

posing taxes and fees to “fill this$30 million hole we just volun-tarily dug.”

He said the numbers showthat tofill the$30milliongap, thecountywouldneed to taxalcohol2 cents per ounce on top of whatthe state charges.

It might not sound likemuch, but the 2 cents equatesto $2.56 per gallon or about $6per case for all alcohol — liquor,wine and beer—Griffin said.

“That is a staggering alcoholtax increase in one time and it isonerous,” he said. “And I thinkthat when the licensees find outpeople are even thinking about

raising the price of product $6per case to make up the moneywe are making now, there couldbe a lot of push-back. We’re go-ing to impose an additional $30million on the product at thewholesale level and make thelicensees pay it. That’s basicallywhat these revenue alternativesget to.”

Griffin said the state tax is40 cents a gallon on wine and 9cents a gallon on beer.

Piggybacking a 2-cent-per-ounce local tax would mean thetaxonbeerwouldgofrom9centsa gallon to$2.65 agallon, he said.On a six-pack of 12-ounce bot-

tles, that’s $1.44more.Riemer said Tuesday that he

doesn’t see the council imposingsucha largeexcise taxonalcohol.

“With a statement like that,he’s trying toputuproadblocks,”Riemer said. “I think there arefeasible solutions. We just haveto first figure out howmuch rev-enuewe’re trying to solve for andwe don’t have an answer to thatquestion yet.”

Oneway tomakeup lost rev-enue isopenmorecounty stores,he said.

While the council is monthsaway from any decision, Riemersaid there is emerging supportfor only privatizing special or-ders. That would let restaurants,bars and other license holdersplace special orders directlywithprivate distributors, rather thanthe county.

Leslie Rubin, co-author ofthe report, said the county fillsmost special orders throughother wholesalers and distribu-tors. About 15 percent of ordersare filled directly from produc-ers, she said.

Riemer said getting thecounty out of the special-orderbusiness best solves concernswith product variety and cus-tomer service and isn’t likely tocost the county $30 million inrevenue.

In a letter to the council,Chief Administrative OfficerTimothy L. Firestine said thatincreasing fees or piggyback-ing a tax threatens to reduce thecounty’s competitiveness in theregionalmarket.

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n Pepco says its lines arenot faulty, but Bethesda

residents want more proof

BY ELIZABETHWAIBELSTAFFWRITER

The state Public ServiceCommission has orderedhearings on electrical fires inBethesda that some residentsthink could be caused by faultyunderground electrical lines.

Pepco, the utility that ownsthe lines, says thefires arenot itsfault, according to documentssubmitted to the commission.Some residents in the Carder-ock area want more investiga-tion into an electrical feeder inthe area.

The Carderock Springs Citi-zens’ Association and SusanEastman, who lives on Glen-more Spring Road, asked forthe investigation in 2013. East-man’s house caught fire in 2012,and she is concerned that thefire could be related to a faultyPepco electrical feeder, accord-ing to documents submitted tothe commission.Thecitizens as-sociation says homes in the areahave experienced electrical firespreceded by flickering lights orpower surges, as well as powersurges that have damaged ap-pliances. It listed Eastman’s fireand three other electrical fires inthe area from2004 to 2013 that itwants investigated.

Pepco says it has inspectedits equipment and found noevidence that it was responsiblefor the fires, and the insurancecompany did not contact Pepcoclaiming any wrongdoing, ac-cording to the case files. Pepcoalso said it has replaced cablesand trimmed vegetation in thearea to reduce the number ofpower outages. The residentshave asked for voltage recordsfrom before the fires, but Pepcosays it is not able to retrieve volt-age information after the fact.

Both Eastman and Pepcodeclined to comment becausethe Public Service Commissioncase is pending.

The public utility law judgedivision, which reports to thecommission, is due to report onthe results of a staff investigationAug. 6.

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n Drivers say fees limitincome; cab companies say

ride-booking is to blame

BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFF WRITER

Driving a cab in Montgom-ery County’s heavily regulatedtaxi industry means paying to goto work each day. The county isconsidering capping those costs.

Taxi passengers pay driv-ers, who pay a cab company itsshare.

Taxi companies in Mont-gomery County consider drivers“independent contractors” andcharge drivers to lease cabs, aswell as fees for credit-card pro-cessing and other services, suchaspaying tollson the IntercountyConnector.

With ride-booking compa-nies Uber and Lyft now in themarket for rides, MontgomeryCounty is considering changingits taxi regulations, including feesthat drivers pay.

On Friday, the council’sTransportation InfrastructureEnergy and Environment com-mittee voted to cap two fees: thelease of the vehicles and creditcard processing.

The committee is consider-ing three bills aimed at achievinggreater balance in the market offor-hire transportation services.

Onewouldcreateregulationsfor ride-booking companies en-tering the market, like Uber andLyft, to allow fair competitionwith cab companies. Anotherwould create a central system fordispatching all cab rides. A thirdwould reform the county’s regu-lations on taxis, including whatcompanies charge drivers.

The bills will go to the fullcouncil for consideration.

After meeting with drivers,Councilman Roger Berliner, thecommittee chairman, said theconditions of cabbies need toimprove.

“I do feel that our drivershave gotten a raw deal and it’stime to comprehensively ad-dress them,” Berliner (D-Dist.1) of Bethesda said. “This is thetime and the place.”

TheGeneral Assembly is alsoconsidering legislation relatedto ride-booking companies, butBerliner said itwouldn’t improvecab drivers’ status.

Cab drivers claim the systemis broken and high fees dig deepinto their pockets, leaving themlittle income.

By the time cab companiestake their cut, many drivers earnless than minimum wage, de-spite driving the maximum 12hours a day, said Barwood TaxiService driver Peter Ibik, presi-dent of the Montgomery CountyProfessional Drivers Union,which formed in 2013.

Taxi company owners coun-ter that unregulated ride-book-ing services such as Uber andLyft, not fees, are to blame.

“That is what is killing driv-ers’ income,” Dwight Kines,owner of Sun Cab, said.

Lee Barnes, president andCEO of Barwood, said drivers

can earn $30,000 to $100,000 peryear.

Barwood driver Nelson Bi-ama, a union member, said hemakes $30,000 to $36,000 a yeardriving full-time.

Uber and Lyft have arguedthat they are not taxi services,but companies taking advantageof new technology to connectriders with drivers.

A taxi driver’s income po-tential is limited, in part, bycounty law. County regulationslimit how much cab driverscan charge for rides and limitdrivers to 12 hours per day.Ride-booking companies aren’tsubject to that law and often em-ploy surge pricing, raising ratesat peak or high demand times.

Cab drivers’ income also islimited by what they pay the cab

companies, Ibik said.Biama said he pays $112 per

day to rent his 2011 cab fromBarwood. In gas, he pays about$55 per day. With other fees, heestimates he pays Barwood $800a week.

A chart from the union esti-mates that somedriverspay$950to $1,148 a week, depending onthe cab company.

Barnes said the lease coverseverything from the cost to buyand maintain vehicles to insur-ance and depreciation. He saidhe offers various discounts onthe lease of up to $20 per day.

Sun Cab charges driversabout $550 per week to lease acab, which includes all relatedcosts, Kines said.

Ibik said drivers pay otherfees to the companies. One is for

credit-card transactions.Montgomery County law re-

quires cab drivers to accept pay-ment by credit card.

Kines said he doesn’t chargedrivers to process credit cards.

Barwood charges drivers a7.5 percent “technology, mar-keting, sales and service” fee thatincludes processing credit cardpayments, Barnes said.

He estimated that of the av-erage 14 fares a driver will makeper day, about three are paidby credit card. Barnes said driv-ers earn, on average, 9 percenthigher in tips oncredit-cardpay-ments.

But if drivers could providemachines to take credit-cardpayments, instead of using cabcompanies’ machines, Ibik said,the drivers’ cost would be about3 percent.

The committee voted Fridayto amend the bill to cap fees oncredit-card transactions at 5 per-cent and to let drivers providecredit-card machines, as long asthey meet legal requirements.

The committee also voted tocap how much companies cancharge for leases, but without anumber. The committee told theDepartmentofTransportation toestablish a cap for the council to

approve.KinesandBarnessaid they’re

concerned about their drivers’income because drivers can pickother companies, or drive forUber or Lyft.

Barnes said taxi companieswant legal reforms, so driversand companies can more fairlycompete with Uber and Lyft.

Walking away from a taxicompany won’t solve the prob-lem, Ibik said.

“Somebody has to step upand say, ‘No. This is enough,’”he said.

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Cab drivers were in the audience for a Montgomery County Council meetingabout regulating rental rates and other fees for cabs. The meeting had to bemoved to a larger room to accommodate the crowd.

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The following is a summary ofincidents in the Bethesda area towhich Montgomery County policeresponded recently. The words “ar-rested” and “charged” do not implyguilt. This information was providedby the county.

Armed robbery• 8800 block of Clewerwall

Drive, Bethesda, at 5:30 p.m. Feb.16. The subjects threatened thevictimswith a weapon and tookproperty.

Aggravated assault•Marriott Conference Cen-

ter, 5701Marinelli Road, NorthBethesda, at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 11. Thesubject assaulted the victim andfled.

Residential burglary• 6700 block of NewboldDrive,

Bethesda, between Feb. 11 and 13.Unknown entry, took property.

Vehicle larceny• Three incidents in the

Bethesda area between Feb. 9 and17. Took cash, glasses and an iPad.Affected streets includeMont-gomery and St. Elmo avenues,Bethesda, and Fairglen Lane,Chevy Chase.

POLICE BLOTTER

Free parking endsat new Bethesda garage

After more than a monthof free parking, the county’snew Capital Crescent Garage atthe corner of Woodmont andBethesda avenues in downtownBethesda began charging Mon-daymorning.

The rate is 80 cents an hourfrom 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondaythrough Friday. Drivers inserttheir ticket into central pay ma-chines before returning to theircars. The machines are in allthree of the 960-space garage’slobbies and accept credit cardsand cash, according to a countynews release. Drivers also canpay at the exit with a credit card.

The garage, like others indowntown Bethesda, displaysthe number of available parkingspaces at its entrances and eachlevel.

During thesixweeks it’sbeenopen, the garagehas averaged62percentpeakdailyusage,accord-ing to the county. Officials saidthey expect usage to increaseonce the mixed-use residen-tial and retail projects over thegarage open this year. Besidescondominiums and apartments,the public-private project is tohave a Pottery Barn store, SilverDiner and other restaurants andretailers. A call seeking commentfromdeveloperStonebridgeCar-raswas not returned.

The garage replaces twosmaller surface lots that togetherprovided about 280 spaces.

B-CC studentshost talk on DarfurA group of students at

Bethesda-Chevy Chase HighSchool will host a fundraisingtalk by Niemat Ahmadi, founderof Darfur Women Action Group,from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at theschool, 4301 EastWest Highway,Bethesda.

Ahmadi will discuss geno-cide, sexual violence againstwomen and other crimes in herhomeland, plus her group’s ef-forts to run a women’s shelterthere, according toanemail fromthe students.

Admission is $5 and mer-

chandise will be sold, to benefittheDarfur group’s shelter.

For more information, con-tact [email protected].

STEM contest opento student videographers

Students in middle and highschool are invited to show theirinterest in science, technology,engineering andmathematics inthe national STEM Voice VideoCompetition.

The videos should explainwhy these subjectsare importantto the students or depict theirSTEMhero.

Thecompetition isorganizedby the Coalition of State Biosci-ence Institutes, a group of non-profits that focus on life scienceseducation,entrepreneurshipandworkforce development, accord-ing to a news release.

The Eastern region coordi-nator is the MdBio Foundationof Rockville.

LegalU.S. residents ingrades5 through 12 and younger than18 are eligible. Entries, up to aminute long, can include inter-views, short stories, animationsor performances of drama orsinging, andmust correctly iden-tify and explain the acronym forSTEM or explore the interdisci-plinary nature of STEM.

Six semifinalistswill eachwin$500; two grand prize winnerswill win $1,000. The submissiondeadline is April 17.

More information is at ti-nyurl.com/qhafowq.

Teams will competein grown-up spelling beeThe Montgomery Coalition

for Adult English Literacy hasannounced the teams for its up-coming grown-up spelling bee.

The defending champion,Holy Cross Health, will com-pete against Adventist Health-Care, Burness Communications,MontgomeryCollege,Pepco,andSocial & Scientific Systems Inc.

The spelling bee is a fund-raiser for the coalition.

It will be held 6:30 to 8:30p.m. Thursday at the Montgom-ery College Cultural Arts Center,7995Georgia Ave., Silver Spring.

Tickets are $50 apiece forgeneral admission, $25 for pro-vider organizations and their

employees. They are available athttp://tinyurl.com/nq7fl4m.

A cocktail reception and au-dience spelling competition arepart of the evening.

Delta Alumnae Foundationoffers grants

The Montgomery CountyDelta Alumnae Foundation inRockville isoffering$1,500grantsto county nonprofits for serviceprograms that help youth, low-and moderate-income families,or the elderly.

Application information isat mcdaf.org. Applications, dueMarch 31, may be mailed toMCDAF, P.O. Box 10368, Rock-ville,MD20849-0368.

Fourth-graders invitedto enter essay contestFourth-graders around the

state can enter the MarylandMunicipal League’s annual “If IWereMayor” essay contest.

Essaysof275words, inwhichstudents discusshow theywouldwork with citizens to improvetheir municipality if they weremayor, are dueMarch 31.

Each essay must begin, “If IWereMayor, IWould ...,” andan-swer threequestions thataddressthis year’s theme, “Respect.” En-tries must be submitted by thestudent’s teacher.

Eleven regional winnerswill receive $100 in a ceremonyin May at the Maryland StateHouse, according to a news re-lease.

Sponsors are the MarylandMunicipal League, theMarylandMayors Association and Chesa-peake Employers InsuranceCo.

Application information is atmdmunicipal.org/essay.

Charter Review Commissionseeks members

MontgomeryCounty is look-ing for 11 people to serve ona charter review commission.Members serve four-year terms.

Applications are due at 5p.m.Wednesday.

The commission studiesthe county’s charter and makesrecommendations on proposedcharter amendments. The com-mission generally meets once amonth in Rockville and submits

a report every other year.Letters of interest and re-

sumes may be submitted [email protected]. According to aCounty Council news release,resumes should include profes-sional and civic experience, po-litical party affiliation, home andoffice telephone numbers, andan email address.

March Book Battleis underway

Bibliophiles are invited tojoin the fray during the Mont-gomery County Public Librar-ies’ second annual March BookBattle.

Thismonth, localbook loverscan vote at montgomerycoun-tymd.gov/library for their fa-vorite children’s, teen and adultbooks. The battle will open witheight pairs fromeach category.

Each week, new book pair-ings will be posted for voting.Displays of the titles and au-thors will be featured at librarybranches.Thechampionswill beannouncedMarch 30.

Student groups sellrefurbished cars, computers

Asaleof refurbishedcarsandcomputers on Feb. 21 was cutshort by awinter storm.

The Montgomery CountyStudents Automotive TradesFoundation and InformationTechnology Foundationheld thesale atDamascusHigh School.

A lottery was held to arrangethe sale of 23 cars. Most of thecars were claimed, according toa Montgomery County PublicSchools press release.

Cars and computers thatwere not sold on Feb. 21 will besoldby theFoundationsOffice inSilver Spring.

Interested buyers shouldcontact Mike Snyder at 301-929-2164 or [email protected] for cars and KellyJohnson at 301-929-2197 [email protected] computers.

One more sale will be heldthis school year — at ThomasEdison High School of Technol-ogy in Silver Spring on May 9.Check www.cars2purchase.orgat the end of April for informa-tion about the cars.

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RLJ Lodging sells24 hotels for $240MRLJ Lodging Trust of

Bethesda sold 24 hotels forabout $240 million.

The hotels are in Colorado,Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michi-

gan and Texas.The sale

of the hotels,which wereacquired in2006, is part of

a company plan that so far hasinvolved the sale of 39 hotels forabout $370 million in the past16 months, according to a newsrelease.

The plan entails “enhancingour portfolio’s quality and recy-cling capital into higher-growthmarkets,” CEO Thomas J. Balti-more Jr. said in the release.

RLJ Lodging also reportedthat its profit last year grew to$136.5 million from $114.2 mil-lion in 2013. Revenues rose to$1.11 billion from $970.4 mil-lion. Revenue per availableroom rose 7.2 percent to $118.29from $110.38.

Its fourth-quarter profit in-creased to $34.1 million from$27.7 million in the prior-yearquarter; revenues rose to $280.1million from $242.6 million.

Bethesda software firmsettles overbilling claims

Tangible Software ofBethesda, a military contractor,agreed to pay from $500,000 to$1.05 million to settle federalclaims that it overbilled theDepartment of Defense from2008 to 2011, according to courtdocuments.

The company is now ownedand operated by a holding com-pany, Energy Management andSecurity Solutions of Columbia.

In the settlement, Tangibleadmits no wrongdoing and de-

nies the government’s allega-tions.

Under the whistleblowersection of the False Claims Act,Michael Bradle of Texas, whofiled the original federal suitagainst Tangible, will receiveat least $80,000 from the settle-ment.

The size of the settlementwill depend on the company’sfinancial performance in thenext five years and the result ofa shareholder suit it filed againstits prior management that over-saw the misconduct, federalprosecutors said in a news re-lease.

After loss, BroadSoftturns a profit

BroadSoft of Gaithers-burg, which provides Internetprotocol-based services to thetelecommunications industry,reported a profit last year of $1million, versus a net loss of $8.9million in 2013. Revenues roseto $216.9 million from $178.5million.

Its fourth-quarter profit roseto $9.1 million from $512,000 inthe fourth quarter of 2013; reve-nues grew to $65.8 million from$52.0 million.

Profits climb atUnited TherapeuticsUnited Therapeutics, which

develops and sells treatmentsfor pulmonary arterial hyper-tension, reported that its profitlast year almost doubled to$340.1 million from $174.6 mil-lion in 2013. Revenues rose to$1.29 billion from $1.12 billion.

The Silver Spring com-pany reported a fourth-quarterprofit of $115.9 million, versusa net loss of $30.3 million inthe fourth quarter of 2013, andrevenues rose to $346.4 millionfrom $289.0 million.

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during the last couple of years,said Kara Trenkamp, director ofthe district’s Department of In-structional Technology. The planhas added Chromebook laptopsand other devices in certainclassrooms and expanded wire-less networks in schools, amongothermeasures.

Trenkamp said the districtadded more technology for ev-eryday teaching and learning,but it hashelpedprepare schoolsand students for the PARCCtests.

District officials have consid-ered what assignments studentsshould see in the classroom thatwouldbesimilar to tasks theywillface in the PARCC assessments,

such as writing an essay frommultiple sources, she said.

The district gleaned les-sons from last year’s pilot tests.Schools testedwhat activity theirWiFi could handle and foundthat the version of the Internetbrowser being used was im-portant, Trenkamp said. Somestudents didn’t realize how longit would take to complete whatseemed like a small number ofquestions, including an essay,Woertz said.

“The devil’s in the detailsand that surfaced for us a lot ofdetails,” Trenkamp said.

The district will help schoolsduring testing, including throughan online resource library, tech-nology specialists, and a helpdesk to field calls.

Kyle Heatwole, principal atSinger Elementary School in Sil-

ver Spring, said Friday that the200 to 250 studentswhowill takethe tests are already comfortablewith the technology theywilluse.

The school’s third- and fifth-graders have had Chromebooksin their classrooms since Janu-ary, he said, and the school hashad laptops since the buildingopened two years ago. Studentsare generally “very technologi-cally saavy,” he said.

About two weeks ago, Singerstudents tried a short practiceround, which helped calm thenerves of some younger stu-dents, Heatwole said.

Heatwole welcomes the newtests’ arrival.

“I’m really happy that nowwe’re going to have a test thatdoes align to the curriculumwe’ve beenusing,” he said.

Principal Sean McGee also

said on Friday that his studentsat Wims Elementary School inClarksburgwere familiarwith theChromebooks they’ll use for thePARCC tests, having used themfor classwork.

He said the school also heldpractice sessions to help stu-dents get a feel for how the testslook on the Chromebooks and“the rhythm of it.” Students hadsome small questions during thesessions,butnothing“major,”hesaid.

The school didn’t preparestudents specifically for the testcontent,McGee said.

“We’re not really in the busi-ness of teaching to the test,” hesaid. “We believe the curriculumreally prepares the students forit.”

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n About 30 people evacuated

BY ELIZABETHWAIBELSTAFFWRITER

Abreak inagas line caused roadclosuresand evacuations in downtown BethesdaTuesday afternoon.

Pete Piringer, spokesman for the Mont-gomeryCountyFire andRescueService, said

a construction crew hit a high-pressure gasline on Montgomery Lane between Arling-ton Road andWoodmont Avenue at about 2p.m. About 30 people were evacuated to theBethesda Library nearby, and streets wereclosed in the area while gas company work-ers dealt with the broken line.

“It’s a high-pressure gas line. They haveto reduce thepressure inorder to crimp it, orplug it up,” Piringer told The Gazette.

Emergency responders stood by just incase the gas found a flame, but by 4 p.m. theleak was under control, roads were reopen-ing and firefighters were packing up, Pir-inger said on Twitter.

The leak occurred at 4825 MontgomeryLane, where a condominiumbuilding is un-der construction.

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Gas line break halts traffic in downtown Bethesda

and take nearly 16,800 vehicletrips per day off the region’scrowded roads, he said.

The line also will connectMontgomery, Maryland’smost populous county, withthe state’s flagship universityin College Park and let busi-nesspeople travel from SilverSpring to New York via theAcela train in New Carrolltonwithout having to drive theircars, he said.

Parsons argued that thepublic-private partnershipalsowill lead to redevelopmentaround its 21 stations, with 31projects somehow tied to thePurple Line already underway.

If the state doesn’t moveforward with the project now,it will be missing out on $1.8billion in investments, andevery year it’s delayed will addsignificantly to the cost, Par-sons said.

O’Toole argued that light-rail projects virtually neverachievewhat they’re projectedto and often cost significantlymore than expected.

Buses canmovemorepeo-ple than trains because theycan run more frequently thantrains, he said.

The Washington regionhas some of the least-usedbuses in thecountry, averagingjust more than 10 passengersapiece, he said.

“If you can’t fill yourbuses,why do you need trains?” hesaid.

Parsons argued that theWashington region is differ-ent from other regions thatmight have capacity on theirroads to runmore buses,whilethis region’s roads are alreadycrowded.

He cited maintenance is-sues on the Metrorail system,including ones that led to anincident in January in whicha passenger died from smokeinhalation in a tunnel and a2009 crash on the Red Linethat killed nine people.

A region shouldn’t buildmore rail when it can’t main-tain what it has, O’Toole said.

He also argued that lightrail doesn’t stimulate eco-nomic development, pointingto the struggles of Portland,Ore., to attract developmentaround its system.

Investments in develop-ment around Metro stationshas worked out well for theWashington area, Parsonscountered.

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plus performances of songs written by FredEbb, for whom the contest is named. CaitlinDeerin of Brookeville is among the finalistsin the Young Songwriter category. All thecompetitors are from Maryland, Washing-ton or Virginia.

The contest is organizedby theBethesdaUrban Partnership and was founded byCathy Bernard of Bethesda, president of thepartnership’s Arts and Entertainment Dis-trict Board.

Her uncle is Ebb, who wrote songs forBroadway musicals such as “Cabaret” and“Chicago.”

“He struggled in his life, and it took hima long time to become a success,” Bernardsaid.

Ebb got a big break when he was about40, and Bernard said she would like to helpother aspiring songwriters.

“I would like to help other people realize

their dreams,” she said. “... Breaking in, evenif you have talent, is difficult to do.”

The winner of the adult contest will re-ceive $10,000, and the under-18 winner gets$2,500. Bernard said contest organizers alsoare settingupperformanceopportunities forthe winners in the area.

“We don’t want to do it just like a one-songwonder.Wewant to really further theircareers,” she said.

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Laura Baron of Bethesda is one of the finalists inthe Bernard/Ebb Songwriting Awards. The awardsare to be presented Friday evening, followinga performance by the finalists at the BethesdaBlues & Jazz Supper Club.

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Rich Parsons (left), vice chairman of the Suburban Maryland Transporta-tion Alliance and former CEO of the Montgomery County Chamber ofCommerce, argues for the Purple Line at Monday’s forum in Silver Spring,while Randal O’Toole, a visiting fellow with the Maryland Public PolicyInstitute, argues against the proposed light-rail project.

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Southeast Asian eateryopens in Pike & RoseShopHouse Southeast Asian

Kitchen plans to open SaturdayinPike&Rose inNorthBethesda.

From noon to 7 p.m., therestaurant, at 11584OldGeorge-town Road, will offer a freeentree to dine-in customers, ac-cording to a news release.

The ShopHouse chain,owned by Chipotle MexicanGrill of Denver, sells traditionalThai, Vietnamese andMalaysiandishes, which are all gluten- anddairy-free.

The restaurant will be openfrom11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

Shulman Rogers namesnew business lawyerShulman, Rogers, Gandal,

Pordy &Ecker ofP o t o m a cnamed Mi-chael Fell-erman ashareholderand mem-ber of itsb u s i n e s sand finan-cial services and real estate prac-tices.

Children’s clothing storeopens in Pike & RoseYogaso, a children’s clothing

store for infants to 12-year-olds,has opened in Pike & Rose inNorth Bethesda.

The store, at 11803 GrandPark Ave., also carries children’saccessories and toys.

The company was foundedin Maryland in 2011 by AlemBeshir, who named it for herthree children: Yohannes, Ga-

briella and Sofia, according to itswebsite, yogaso.com.

Bioscience companieswin state grants

TwoMontgomeryCounty lifesciencecompaniesareamongthesix recipients of a total $865,000in grants from the BioMarylandCenter’s BiotechnologyDevelop-mentAwards program.

Eachcompanywill receiveupto $200,000, according to a newsrelease.

• Brain Biosciences of Rock-ville is developing a compactportable positron emission to-mography scanner to evaluatepatientswithsuspectedAlzheim-er’sdiseaseorotherneurodegen-erative disorders.

• Mindoula Health of SilverSpring is developing a telehealthplatform enabling virtual and in-person 24/7 behavioral healthcase management services andcollaborative care.

DiamondRock Hospitalityturns big profit

DiamondRock Hospital-ity of Bethesda, whose holdingsinclude the Bethesda MarriottSuites, reported that its profitlast year soared to $163.4 millionfrom$49.1million in 2013.

Revenues rose to $872.9 mil-lion from $799.7 million. Rev-enue per available room grew to$161.44 from$144.67.

Its fourth-quarter profit grewto $63.6 million from $29.6 mil-lion in the fourth quarter of 2013,as revenues increased to $223.6million from$201.5million.

DiamondRock also reportedbuying the 157-roomShorebreakHotel in Huntington Beach, Ca-lif., for $58.5 million. KimptonHotels & Restaurants will be thenewmanager.

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n Dads from Colesville,Randallstown develop

PocketGuardian

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After hearing news reportsof cyberbullying and sextingincidents that led to suicide,friends and dads James Ryanand Jason France wanted toaddress these issues using tech-nology.

Ryan and France, who eachownadefensecontractingcom-pany, developed an app theyhope will make parents andguardiansmore awareofwhat’sgoing on in their children’s livesand even help prevent suicides.

Their creation, Pocket-Guardian, can track what textmessages are sent with phones.

Ryan, of Randallstown, saidbullying used to happen in per-son, face to face. Now, it oftenhappens electronically, over so-cialmedia.

“But these days the kids arein their rooms, you’re unawareof what’s happening on theircellphones or on their comput-ers,” he said. “There needed tobe a way that parents could bealerted to bullying, the type ofbullying that’s happening inmodern-day times.”

Two versions of the iOS andAndroid app are slated to comeout this year and are meant tobe downloaded on a child’sphone. One version, costing 99cents, will send a text messagealert to a parent when the childreceives or sends a messagewith language or a photo thatlikely indicates cyberbullying orsexting.

Demonstrating a beta ver-sion, France showed an alert onhis phone: “An inappropriatemessagemay have been sent orreceived by your child.”

The app purposely doesn’t

tell the parent the content of amessage or who the other per-son is to protect the child’s pri-vacy, said France, of Colesville.

This feature separatesPock-etGuardian from similar apps,Ryan said, such as those thatsend every text message a childreceives to a parent.

For $1.99, a second versionof theappwill send thealert andblock the message from beingsent or received by the child.

A child can’t uninstall Pock-etGuardian from a phone with-out knowing a password. Theapp notifies a parent when achild tries to uninstall it.

France and Ryan collected

tens of thousands of sampletextmessages,withandwithoutcontent that could be cyberbul-lying and sexting.

Based on this collection,they said, the app doesn’t justanalyze text, but determinesthe probability that a word orphrase is related to cyberbully-ing or sexting. The app will im-prove as it goes through moreexamples, France said.

The app also can breakdown images to determine ifthey contain nudity or are oth-erwise inappropriate,Ryansaid.That analysis happens on thechild’s phone and the companydoes not gain access to any im-

ages.SusanBurkinshaw, aparent

in Montgomery County PublicSchools, said the app soundslike a good way for parents tomonitor behavior and chil-dren’s choices.

Burkinshaw, who is HealthandSafetyCommitteeco-chair-woman of the MontgomeryCounty Council of Parent-Teacher Associations, said shecould see it used as youngerchildren get smartphones. Itcould help parents who aren’twell acquaintedwith socialme-dia, she said.

She said, however, that kidswill find away around barriers.

Sameer Hinduja, co-direc-tor of the Cyberbullying Re-search Center, said the creatorshave good intentions, but anapp isn’t thebestway toaddressthe issue.

He said he didn’t thinkthe app would accurately flagtexts. Kids joke and talk to eachother in “mature ways,” usingsarcasm and double enten-dres, that make it difficult todetermine if a message is trulycyberbullying, said Hinduja, acriminology and criminal jus-tice professor at FloridaAtlanticUniversity.

Kids are innovative, he said,and can use other means ofcommunication if apps screentheir texts.

It’s more helpful, he said,to work with kids on skills suchas empathy, conflict resolutionand handling stress.

Hinduja said he’s con-cerned that parentsmight thinkan app solves the problem.Talking with kids and being in-volved in their lives are impor-tant, he said.

“I don’t want them to wipetheir hands of the problem be-cause they’ve installed a pieceof software,” he said.

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Jason France of Colesville, co-founder of PocketGuardian, shows a text mes-sage alert from a beta version of the app.

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LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR

Chemical debate

As president ofMontgomery County FarmBu-reau, Iwould like to respondtoMichaelTabor’s let-ter (“FarmBureau should sit out pesticide debate,”Feb. 4).Just who is Mr. Tabor? He prides himself as an

organic farmer, using sustainable farming prac-tices.Heclaims toproduce foodona farminPenn-sylvaniawithout using chemicals.Really. Suchclaimsmaysoundprogressive,but

are simply untrue. Without chemicals, there is nolife.Water and soil are comprised of chemicals.Mr. Tabor is quick to advance his values, while

denouncing the values of others. It takes a lot ofnerve to suggest that MCFB, whose membershiprepresents more than 3,500 families, should be si-lent. Mr. Tabor, I remind you that every Americanhas the constitutional right to freedomof speech.Let me be firm:MCFB will not sit this one out.

WebelieveBill 52-14 is abigmistakeand shouldbewithdrawn by its sponsor, Mr. Leventhal. We viewthis bill as unenforceable, and if adopted, in viola-tion of state lawand federal law.Farmers, lawn-care providers and consum-

ers who use pesticides do exercise caution andcommon sense. They don’t need to be denied theright to use a certain product, nor do they need toconsult with someone in Rockville about a permit,special exception or a determination of essential-ity. The EPA-approved product labels advise usersof necessary directions for use andprecautions.

There are dozens of reasons why MCFB op-posesBill52-14.Oneof themainreasonswasstatedbyMr. Tabor: “It is true that the potential harms ofmany pesticides used today cannot be definitivelysubstantiated.” The absence of harm is reasonenough forMCFB to join others in the very seriouseffort tostopMr.Leventhal’sgoal tocreatewhatwe

believe is anunnecessary layer of regulation.We should not create expensive regulations

based on philosophies of a small minority of citi-zens. When councilmen and councilwomen ad-vance the interests of the minority and refuse tolisten to thewill of themajority, confidence in gov-ernment is lost.MCFB believes Bill 52-14 throws our lawn ap-

plicators under the bus without good cause. Theseexperts are knowledgeable about the productsavailable to them to achieve the intended resultsthat homeowners request. Farmers feel a kinshipto thosewho tend to the land, lawns andplants.MCFB seeks to represent all aspects of agricul-

tural practices.We support each farmer’s choice tomanage their business in a manner that fits theirobjectives.Montgomery County farmers fear this bill will

provide the framework for future council actionsthat would interfere with farm business plans,and potentially result in the demise of their familyfarms.Our farmers have huge investments in land,buildings, machinery and human capital. Theywant their children and grandchildren to have op-portunities toassumeownershipof the familybusi-ness.Mr. Tabor should pursue his dreams, but he

shouldnot dream for the rest of us.

Lonnie Luther, Damascus

Council shouldn’t infringe on farmers’ investments

2011 FILE PHOTO

A Chevy Chase resident opposed to pesticide sprayingin her neighborhood put up this sign.

CountyCouncilmanGeorge Leventhal’s pro-posedbanonpesticideuse for public andprivateproperty takes away products rigorously testedand approved by the Environmental ProtectionAgency from professionals and homeowners.Theban is basedon fear, not science, and ignoresthe benefit of reliable weed, insect and diseasecontrols for our community.As former sportsfieldmanager forMontgom-

eryCounty’s acclaimedMarylandSoccerPlex anda current worldwide educator on turfgrass man-agement, my work is focused on creating betterturfgrass at all levels. Progress is made daily to-ward creating solutions to improve local fields.This proposed ban ignores this progress. It

ignores innovation of product technology. Andit removes many tools used to make fields andlawns better while reducing environmental im-pact — tools that removeweeds, reducemowingand reduce irrigation; tools that keep turfgrassstrong and healthy; tools tested and approved bythe EPA.This ban also fails to consider integrated pest

management already practiced by licensed, pro-fessional lawn-care operators and turfgrassman-agers. It uses pesticideminimally to treat specificthreats to healthy outdoor spaces.Let’s not ignore the benefits of EPA-tested

and approved pesticides because ofmisinforma-tion. Ask your council representative to vote noon Bill 52-14.

Jerad Minnick, RockvilleThewriter is the president and founder of

Growing Innovations in Rockville.

Pesticide banignores progressand innovation

The recent letters to the editorfrom the two Girl Scouts promot-ing pesticide-free lawns (“Garden-ers don’t have to use chemicalpesticides,” “The queen’s garden canbeamodel fornaturalpractices,”Feb.4)were truly inspiring.We teach our young people to

take care of their health and the envi-ronment,yetasadultswefail to followthrough and provide even safe lawnsand playing fields for them. Council-man George Leventhal’s proposedBill52-14wouldcorrect thisoversight.The Montgomery County Coun-

cil has passed other acts to protecthuman and environmental health—the most recent polystyrene ban, forexample.The Centers for Disease Control

andPrevention just reported the suc-cess of smoking bans in significantlyreducingourexposuretosecondhandsmoke—another issue onwhich ourCountyCouncil showed leadership.We are all exposed to lawn pesti-

cides,whetherwechoose touse themornot. Theydrift, are tracked intoourhomes on our shoes and pets’ paws(2,4-D can stay in carpets for up to ayear), and runoff into ourwaterways.Bill 52-14wouldrestrict the“non-

essential” (or cosmetic) use of lawnpesticides because the risks of a “per-fect” lawn are not worth the benefits.The pesticide and turfgrass lobby-ists are deliberately exaggerating thescope and intent of the bill: agricul-ture, golf courses and invasiveweeds,for example, are all exempt (and this

lawhas absolutely nothing to dowithindoor pest control).There are safer alternatives, and

grub infestations have not taken overOntario, Canada, which passed a farmore sweeping ban almost a decadeago.Our State House grounds in An-

napolis have been pesticide-free fortwo years.Our kids should be able to prac-

tice and play sports on safe lawns —without pesticides or artificial turf— just simple grass on which manyof us adults used to play. The opposi-tion’s argument that kids will trip onweeds and get concussions is simplynonsense.What isn’t nonsense are the

peer-reviewed studies that suggest

a link between commonly usedlawn pesticides like 2,4-D, dicamba,and glyphosate to cancers (humanand animal), Parkinson’s, autism,endocrine disruption, etc. I chooseto believe the American Academyof Pediatrics that warns us to keepchildren from contact with cosmeticlawn pesticides, not the lobbyinggroups and industries that profitfrom their sale.I urge the council, as stewards of

public health, to support a strong Bill52-14.

Julie Taddeo, Takoma ParkThewriter is amember of Safe

GrowMontgomery, a coalition thatfavors limiting exposure to lawnpes-ticides.

Trust pediatric group, not lobbyists, on pesticide dangers

Pesticides are harmful to people. I am gladsome of our lawmakers are starting to thinkabout people’s health with Healthy Lawns Bill52-14.My little sister and I have asthma. My sister

has been admitted to the hospital a couple oftimes for this. We try very hard to avoid things,like pesticides, that can cause us to have asthmaattacks.Our doctor filled out a sheet to include us on

Maryland’s pesticide sensitivity list. Lawn com-panies are supposed to call my parents beforethey spray pesticides on my neighbors’ yards.On those days, we have to stay inside the wholeday, and maybe longer, if we can still smell thepesticide vapors.Butbeingon the list doesn’t really protectme

ormy family. Inmy community, lawn pesticidesare used a lot. FromMarch to November, when-ever we step outside, we worry about breathingin pesticide vapors that drift around in the air,or playing at places that have pesticides put onthem.When I used to go to elementary school,

many times the nearby neighborhood wouldspray lots of pesticides near our school. Wecould smell the vapors when we were on schoolgrounds. Last fall, when it happened, my sisterand I got asthma for over a week.Kids like me would like to go out to play, ex-

ercise and go to school, without having to worryabout getting sick from breathing pesticides. Ihope more people will ask lawmakers to pass astrong Bill 52-14. A strong bill would finally pro-tect what’s important— our health.

Kate Tan, 12, Germantown

Pesticide vapors affectpeople with asthma

As parents, we fear for our chil-dren’s safety in many ways, whetherit’s walking to school, letting ourteenagers drive for the first time, orexposure to violent content on theInternet.Another concern for parents is

keeping our children safe from dis-ease and illness. A countywide con-versationhasstarted thatcouldmeanahealthier future forourchildren. It’sabout restricting the use of cosmetic,or “non-essential,” lawn pesticidesthat are extremely toxic to humans.What is particularly disturbing

is that we know children are highlysusceptible to pesticide toxicity.Evidence shows clear links betweenearly-life exposure to pesticidesand pediatric cancers, decreasedcognitive function and behavioralproblems. A meta-analysis of recentepidemiological studies indicates

a 50 percent increase in childhoodleukemia risk following routine ma-ternal pesticide use in the home orgarden.Children are also especially vul-

nerable because their daily activitiesincrease their exposure. They spendmore time playing outside on freshlysprayed lawns,playgroundsor sportsfields. Children also breathe morerapidly than adults and are morelikely to put contaminated hands intheirmouths.Furthermore, children’s brains,

nervous systems and organs, includ-ing the liver and kidneys, are stilldeveloping after birth. Exposure tolawn pesticides during this sensitiveperiod of development can lead toirreversible damage.Women’s expo-sure to lawn pesticides during preg-nancy can cause harm to the fetusand can be spread to infants during

breastfeeding. It’s no surprise thatthe American Academy of Pediatricsargues against such practices.The good news is that the detri-

mentalhealtheffectsdue topesticideexposure are completely prevent-able. The simple solution: Eliminatethe exposure via regulation. In fact,pesticide regulation in other U.S.states and municipalities, includingtheprovincesofQuebecandOntario,Canada, has successfully reducedex-posures among these populationswithout negatively affecting the lawncare industry.Unanimous support in the

CountyCouncil for thisbill shouldbea no-brainer, to use an unscientificterm. Since the1950s,wehave seenadramatic increase in the use of toxicpesticides on our lawns.Despite the overwhelming sci-

entific evidence about the dangers

of these pesticides, we have a fighton our hands. The chemical compa-nies are powerful and strongly resistefforts to restrict the use of its prod-ucts. So as we approach the spring,theCountyCouncil will face a choice— should it side with the chemicalcompanies or should it side with thehealthandwell-beingof our childreninMontgomeryCounty?This common sense bill would

targetonly themostdangerouspesti-cides and leaveMontgomeryCountyresidentswithmanysafealternatives.

Stephanie L. Fowler,Washington, D.C.

Thewriter is amember ofChesapeake Physicians for Social Re-sponsibility, a partner in Safe GrowMontgomery, which is a coalitionthat favors limiting exposure to lawnpesticides.

Exposure to lawn pesticides carries dangers

“MontgomeryCounty is a lib-eral and forward-thinking county,”Odessa Shannon, a longtime countyresident, told theCountyCouncil lastweek.Shannonwas oneof a handful of

older black residentswho spokeoftheir experiences growingupand liv-ing throughnot-so-long-agodecadesof segregation andovert discrimi-nation. Itwas part of the council’s90-minute sessionmarkingBlackHistoryMonth in February.However, addedShannon, a

member of the county school boardin the early ’80s: “Wehave a longwayto go.”That observationwas echoed

recently by a six-minute videopro-ducedby a groupofminority teens atBethesda-ChevyChaseHigh School,

which isinwhatmanyof itsresidentsconsiderthemostliberal,forward-thinking

part ofMontgomeryCounty.In the video, called “I, Too, Am

B-CC,” students eloquently tell ofhurtful comments directed theirwaybypeers, includingwell-meaningfriends:

“You’re very smart for a blackkid.”“You’re very pretty for a black

girl.”“You’re thewhitest blackperson

I know.”The studentswere inspiredby

a video called “I, Too, AmHarvard”that challenged stereotypes ofmi-nority students at the Ivy Leagueuniversity.“Most students at B-CCdon’t

necessarily see this problem, are notdirectly affectedby it,” seniorMakdesHailu,who is black andproduced thevideo, toldTheGazette.In recentmonths, race rela-

tions have erupted again into the

nation’s consciousness. Events inFerguson,Mo.; Staten Island,N.Y.;and elsewherehavebeen aharshreminder thatwhile somemay thinktheUnited States becameapost-racial society after President BarackObama’s election in 2008, the sting ofbigotry is still felt regularly bymanyAmericans. That includes black,biracial andHispanic students atBethesda-ChevyChaseHigh School.It’s no coincidence that such a

poignant videowasmadebyMont-gomeryCounty high schoolers.As Shannon told the council, shedecideddecades ago tomovewithher children fromWashington,D.C.,to the county for its high-quality

schools.“Educationwas themost im-

portant thing in our lives,” saidShannon,whoadded that shewasthe only blackmember of her classat SmithCollege inNorthampton,Mass. “Itwas the onlywayout.”Hailu andother studentswho

workedon the video created apow-erful piece—available at tinyurl.com/npg23uj— that drives hometheir painful points. Anyone con-cerned about race relations in our so-ciety and community—orwho canjust appreciatewhat a small groupofinsightful students can createwitha simple camera—should check itout.

Painful legacy lives on

STUDENTS’VIDEO SHOWS

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The letters and opinions inTheGazettediscussingDr.Starr’sdeparture all shared a commontheme: bewilderment.Mr. Faris’s blistering attack

on the school system(“Time forahousecleaningatMCPS,”Feb.11)didn’t relatetomyexperienceasaparent of elementary andmiddleschool students. I’ve heard aboutterrible management issues at acoupleofnearby schools, but ourchildren’s teachers have rangedfromquite proficient to amazing,with only a few rough patches inmiddle school.Everything I’ve seen sug-

gests that badly administeredschools are the exception, al-though surely some struggle toadequately respond to the chal-lenges of a student population

with diverse circumstances andneeds. I do know that my chil-dren’s education is smarter andmore challenging thanmy “elite”private school experience severaldecades ago, and also superior tothe other two very good schoolsystems we experienced else-where.But one thing is definitely

missing: openness and honestyabout policy and leadership dif-ficulties. Perhaps not everythingneeds to be shared, but when itcomes to the top job. I expect theboard to explainwhy it ismakinga change. If not, I hope there willbe highly qualified candidateswho will challenge what I be-lieved to be a pretty good boardin thenext election.

John D. Wilson, Silver Spring

Education is quite good,but openness is missing

As someone who taught inMontgomery County PublicSchools for 34 years, under fivesuperintendents, I have to won-der what on earth this board isthinking.Joshua Starr is a man of vi-

sion, integrity andcourage.He is

a brilliant leader, whom I expectto see on the forefront of educa-tion on a national level.Montgomery County threw

away thebest educational leaderI have yet to see, and it is a sig-nificant loss to our children.

Judy Di Salvo Stenger, Rockville

Loss of Starr was significant

I recently attended a meetinghosted by Equity One detailingtheir plans for theWestbard site inBethesda. Being a resident of theneighboring Springfield neighbor-hood, I am very interested in thefuture of this site.While I realize reality may ul-

timately differ from the drawingsand models, I was impressed withwhat they presented. The planaddresses traffic, increases green

space, includes space for commu-nity events and acknowledges ex-isting retailers.Further, they addressed key

concernsrelatedtobuildingheight,residential expansion and transit.I urge those who are open to

the much needed change at thissite to take a good look at theirplans.

Kim Bishop, Bethesda

Westbard developmentplan shows promise

Wearecominguponthe100thanniversary of the national parksin 2016. Funding is critical to ourparks’upkeep,well-beingandcon-tinuance.I read The Gazette’s editorial

about paying for the C&O Canal(“AC&OCanalboost,” Jan.28)withmuch interest. Since the editorialwas published, it sounds like partof the problemhas been solved.However, I would like to dis-

cuss one additional area of con-cern regarding the C&OCanal andthenearby PotomacRiver.Unfortunately when, I am on

the Potomac River, on its islandsand among the rocks alongsidethe canal, I see scads of trash andI pick it up. However, I should nothave to be doing this. Everyone issupposedtobeconcernedwith theenvironment and aware of issuesrelated to it, including pollution.We discuss global warming/

climate change. We have had tochange to CFC light bulbs. We userecyclable bags instead of plastic.

Yet, people leave fishing tackle,cans, bottles, dog poop and otherjunk along our waterways witha total disregard to the conse-quences of their actions. This is adisgrace.This is not done in ignorance,

but in hubris. People do not care.They just leave it on the ground—it is not their problem.Maybe, since others are paid

to pick up their trash, people donot feel they need to haul awaywhat they brought in. They arenot taking personal responsibilityfor cleaning up their own messes.This attitude andbehavior just hasto change.The C&O Canal and the other

national parks belong to me andtherestof thecitizensof theUnitedStates and we are not taking careof them the way we should. If wepersonally took better care of ourparks, maybe charging user feeswouldnotbebeingdiscussedatall.

Mark Gochnour, Germantown

Treasure national parks;don’t trash them

When it is all said and done, Montgomery CountyPublic Schools has a budget revenue loss of between $15million and$25million, as supportedby the state.In a normal world, you would reduce costs by that

much and that would be the end of it. But this is Mary-land and the maintenance of effort law is so strict, thatnowbecomes a local issue.To be clear, themaintenance of effort law is a finan-

cially irresponsible piece of legislation that discouragesuseof technologyandanyothercost reductions thata re-sponsible institutionwouldperform.If thispoorlywrittenlawwasnot in existence,we couldhave closed the gap inournet revenue andnet expenseswith someeasyfixes.Take the two-plus million dollars in surplus created

by lower fuel costs to reducefiscal year 2016 expenses.Unless fuel costs drastically increase over thenext 60

days, at least $3million could be saved by simply adjust-ing the FY 2016budget for this line item.Choose how to close the last $20million: defer cost-

of-living adjustments, defer step increases, or simplymatchMCPShealthbenefitswithother countyagencies.Butweareunder theridiculousmaintenanceofeffort

law that discourages efficiency indelivering services. It istime for all counties that spend above the average to beexempt frommaintenanceof effort laws.Will our Montgomery County team in Annapolis

do something for the citizens of Montgomery County?Never.

Robert Monsheimer, Silver Spring

Maintenance of effortlaw thwarts efficiency

The Gazette’s Jan. 7 editorial (“Saveamphipods — at what cost?”) argues thatwhile some endangered animal speciesmaypossibly be lost due to the Purple Linelight-rail system, there will be large net en-vironmental benefits due to a reduction ingreenhousegasemissions fromlowerauto-mobile use. You calculate that “9,800 tonsof carbon dioxide that otherwise wouldenter the atmosphere and contribute toglobal climate changewill be eliminated.”But this calculation left out one side ef-

fect of the impact.While theremaywell befewer car trips (the figure you cite is 17,000fewer trips per day), the Purple Line itselfwill use a good deal of energy to operate.The rail vehicleswill run on electric power,and greenhouse gases are emitted to gen-erate such power.While the documents posted on the

official Purple Line state web site do notprovide a figure for how much power willbe used, they do recognize it will be sub-

stantial.One can arrive at a rough estimate of

how much by comparing the Purple Lineto existing light-rail systems in the U.S.wherepowerusefiguresareavailable. Spe-cifically, the light-rail line system operatedas part of the DART system in Dallas uses114 million kilowatt-hours per year, for asystem of 163 light-rail vehicles. The 114million kw-hrs corresponds to 86,700 tonsof CO2 emissions a year.The Purple Line will have 58 vehicles.

Assuming power use will be in proportion,the electric power to operate the PurpleLine will lead to 30,800 tons of CO2 emis-sions per year. This is more than threetimes the tons of CO2 “saved” by fewer cartrips.Operations alone of the Purple Line

would therefore lead to a net increase ofgreenhouse gas emissions of over 20,000tons of CO2 a year.But the overall impact will in fact be

worse. Therewill bemajor greenhouse gasemissions (as well as other adverse envi-ronmental impacts) frombuilding the $2.5billion system. Any such project needs agooddeal of steel, concrete and other suchmaterials, and there are high greenhousegas emissions frommaking each. Runningheavy construction equipment, gettingworkers to their job sites and all the otheractivities required to build a $2.5 billionsystem all lead to significant greenhousegas emissions.We need good public transit systems.

But the low to medium density of mostof the Purple Line corridor means thatenhanced bus service can provide betterservice at far lower cost than constructionof a rail line. The 20,000-ton-per-year netincrease in CO2 emissions is a direct con-sequence of building a rail system in a cor-ridor where therewill be almost no impacton car use.

Frank J. Lysy, Washington, D.C.

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I usedto love thesnow.

Itmeant daysoff fromschool,sledding,snowballfights, hotchocolate,grilledcheesesandwiches and tomato soup.

Now, I just count the days untildaylight savings time resumes.Winter is just a nuisance and in-convenience — dealing with schoolcancellations and staffing resched-uled games can be a major head-ache — and each successive year itseems to get more annoying. I longfor the hot, humid and mosquito-filled days of July and August (Iwill probably complain about theweather then, too).

But with snow, ice and tem-peratures in the 20s on Saturday,thousands of student-athletesthroughout Maryland began try-ing out for spring sports. A quickglance through Twitter revealedthat the majority of teams held in-door practices or delayed tryouts.

Lacrosse, baseball, softball,tennis, golf and track don’t lendthemselves traditionally as indoorsports. They, for the most part, aredesigned to be played on grass un-der the blue skies and the goldensun.

“It’s a huge hindrance and putsus at a disadvantage,” Damascusgirls lacrosse coach Marcus Juradosaid. “It is tough to get anythingaccomplished other than condi-tioning.

“I’m not sure when we will beable to get outside even when weget the snow off the field. Maybenext week?”

Teams may not even be able tohave — or delay — accurate cuts.

“We have several kids on thebubble and you can’t find out any-thing in the gym,” Jurado said. “It’sgoing to be a lot of blind guessesuntil we get outside and into game-like conditions.”

While most teams are in thesame position and will likely lagbehind their expected routine dueto muddy fields, a few schools —mainly those with artificial turf— may enjoy the luxury of gettingoutside sooner (there’s no guaran-tee it will happen). In Montgomeryand Prince George’s countiesWalter Johnson, Gaithersburg,Paint Branch, Wootton, RichardMontgomery and Oxon Hill are thepublic high schools with turf.

When the D.C. Sniper terror-ized the region in the fall of 2002, Iremember having to practice foot-ball inside the gym — sometimesin full pads — for several weeks. Itflat out stunk and was hard to fo-cus. I imagine it is no different nowfor athletes used to playing outside.

But the weather, as it alwaysdoes, will eventually improve. Inthe coming weeks, The Gazette isscheduled to begin profiling stu-dent-athletes and teams with ourspring previews. Jennifer Beekmanis covering softball and gymnastics,Eric Goldwein is handling lacrosseand tennis, Prince J. Grimes willcover baseball and volleyball andAdam Gutekunst will be our go-toguy for track and field and golf.

If you have any story sugges-tions please send them to [email protected].

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to state meet

BY PRINCE J. GRIMESSTAFF WRITER

Two years ago, SherwoodHigh School wrestler AndrewFrumkin placed fourth at the4A/3A West Region tourna-ment to garner a spot at statesthe following week. But in do-ing so, he injured his hand andwas unable to participate in thebig event. Last year, he missedthe cut by one match with afifth-place finish.

On Saturday, in his homegym in Sandy Spring, the106-pounder didn’t cut it closeat all, winning the region cham-pionship to clinch a No. 1 seedin the state tournament, sched-uled to start Friday at Cole FieldHouse in College Park. The top4 wrestlers from each weightclass advance to states.

“It feels absolutely amaz-ing,” Frumkin said. “I finallyget a solid, significant thingthat shows how much effort Iput into the offseason all theseyears. I finally have somethingto show for it.”

Frumkin was one of 11wrestlers to win a region cham-pionship on Friday after win-ning a county title on Tuesday.Northwest’s Dell Ngonga (113)and TJ Patterson (220), WalterJohnson’s Logan Wilson (126),Churchill’s Giulian Groce(182), and Damascus’ ScottObendorfer (120), MichaelWilkerson (132), Cory Oben-dorfer (138), Colin McLaugh-lin (152), Johnny Fischer (160),and Owen Brook (170) also wonconsecutive titles.

The region championshipwas basically a clone of thecounty championship — withfewer participants, and without

Sherwoodwrestler’swait ends

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Sherwood High School’s AndrewFrumkin (top) won his 100th matchby beating Damascus’s TJ Macklin inSaturday’s 106-pound match.

n Bulldogs endstellar season withfew challengers

BY PRINCE J.GRIMES

STAFFWRITER

When kids go to play icehockey for the Churchill HighSchool club team, they likelyknow they’re going to have ashot at winning a state champi-

onship.On Friday, Churchill won

that title for the fourth timein the past decade, second inthree years, and did so in one ofthe most dominating seasonsin Maryland Student HockeyLeaguehistory.

“I don’t know if there’s anyteam that’s ever been betterin MSHL history. I don’t thinkthere’s ever been a champion-ship game 10-0. Not to brag, butI think we proved that we’re the

best,” senior Jacob Arden saidfollowingthe10-0winoverMar-riottsRidge.

He’s right. The next biggestwinning margin in a title gamewas in2004whenSherwoodde-featedPaintBranch, 7-0.

Including playoff gamesand non-conference games,Churchill scored a total of 162goalswhileallowing just22 in21games this season. That’s a ratioof 7.7 to1.

There have been teams in

the past with similar ratios and/or undefeated league records,including Wootton’s champi-onship team of last season andpast Churchill teams, but whatsets thisyear’s teamapart ishowitnot only conquered thepublicschool realmbutalsotheprivateschoolson its schedule.

Churchill won five of sixgames against private schoolswith its only loss of the sea-son — to Gonzaga — comingin November. The contest was

the first game of the season af-ter the death of Gonzaga seniorDominikPettey.AlthoughPetteywas a member of the oppositeteam, it was an emotional gamefor all involved, as many of theChurchill playerswere friends.

“That game was just amess because our guys all wentto school with Dominik andplayed hockey with him. Theirguys obviously went to school

Churchill ices another 2A state title in dominant fashion

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n Junior chases apublic state title

instead of private one

BY PRINCE J. GRIMES

STAFF WRITER

What was once a wres-tling haven for Logan Wilsonand somewhere he accom-plished some of his highesthonors while enjoying thesport he grew up compet-ing in suddenly turned intoa place he no longer feltwanted, the junior said.

So, as the second semes-ter of the school year wasgetting ready to begin thiswinter, Wilson transferredout of DeMatha CatholicHigh School and enrolled atWalter Johnson.

“It’s definitely different.It’s way different, and stuffI’m not used to, but it’s re-ally cool,” said Wilson, whoadded he’s been wrestlingsince before he could evenwalk. “I’ve never been toone of these [region tourna-ments] before, so kids havebeen training all season. Ionly had five matches be-

fore I got [to the countychampionship].”

With limited experiencewrestling against publicschools, Wilson won the126-pound county champi-onship on Feb. 24. Then, onSaturday, he won the 4A/3AWest Region championshipto earn a No. 1 seed in Fri-day’s state tournament.

Earlier in the season,while still wrestling for De-Matha, Wilson eclipsed the100-win mark. The previ-ous two years, he was team-mates with his older brotherShane Wilson — his partnerfrom the age of 4 or 5 — whograduated last spring.

The Wilson brotherswrestled their final matchesas a teammates at last year’sNational Prep tournament.As a sophomore, LoganWilson placed seventh atthe Maryland IndependentSchool state tournamentand was fourth as a fresh-man.

Wilson said he has fondmemories of his time atDeMatha, but when a newcoach took over for long-time DeMatha coach DickMessier this winter, Wilson

said it was no longer a goodatmosphere to be in, so heleft the private school ranksand joined his local publicschool.

“I transferred here andwe’re trying to make itwork,” Wilson said. “I’mhaving a lot of fun though.It’s been great. I’m still par-tying with my brother.”

Wilson was a welcomeaddition at Walter Johnson,as many of his new team-mates were familiar withhim from living in the samecommunity. The Wildcatswere already having a goodwrestling season, as ex-pected, even before Wilsonjoined the team in January.His late arrival just gavecoach Tom Wheeler anotherdangerous grappler to addto the lineup.

“We went to a 16-teamdual meet tournament inBaltimore the weekendbefore he could join us. Iwould have loved to havehim there,” Wheeler said.Even still, Walter Johnsonwon the South Division andset a team record with 29wins this season. “Our kidsknew of him. They went to

middle school with him. Theones that started wrestlingbefore they came to [highschool] wrestled with him,and some of the others havegone to the same camps. ...We’re happy to have him atWJ.”

“[His addition] reallyhelped a lot because he’s areally good wrestler,” soph-omore J.D. Fitzpatrick, the138 county runner-up, said.“He can make some of ourguys better too, by wrestlingthem.”

Even though Wilsonwon’t be competing forthe Maryland IndependentState tournament title any-more, his goal remains thesame; the only difference ishe’ll be chasing a MarylandPublic Secondary SchoolsAthletic Association statetitle.

“My goal has alwaysbeen state champ. It was thesame at DeMatha,” Wilsonsaid. “I’ve been working at itforever. I gave up my wholesummer, really, to wrestle.”

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Walter Johnson High School’s Logan Wilson beat Rockville’s Tomas Carlo in the 126 pound 4A/3A West Region tournament Saturday at Sherwood.

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2A school Poolesville — andas it did at the county cham-pionship, Damascus won inrecord-setting fashion.

On Tuesday, Damascus setthe county’s individual cham-pions mark with seven wres-tlers from one school winning.On Saturday, the Hornets setthe region mark with six indi-vidual champions.

“It’s just something youwork for at the beginning ofthe year,” McLauglin said ofwinning the region tourna-ment. “It’s always in the backof your mind, but you don’treally see it until you get to thetournament.”

Cory Obendorfer, whowon by forfeit, said gettingthe first seed is nice, but thebest wrestler will find a way towin at states either way. “No.1 seed, it’s nice to have but it’snot always necessary becauseto win it you got to be the bestanyways. ... It definitely makesthe path a little easier.”

Damascus’ new recordmight have been set at seven,but in the 113 match, MikeyMaklin was penalized a pointfor what the referee deter-mined was stalling, just be-fore the final period ended.The match went into over-time, and Ngonga scored atakedown for the win as timeexpired.

“I don’t think you makethat call, one second left and

he’s defending himself,” Da-mascus coach John Fergusonsaid. The Hornets will have11 wrestlers compete for statechampionships. “We got onemore fish to fry, and theseguys are setting themselvesup in good position. So, hope-fully we can come out strongagain next weekend, let thechips fall where they may onthat one.”

Walter Johnson, North-west, B-CC, and Woottonrounded out the top 5. Sher-wood was sixth, and Frumkinwasn’t the only home teamwrestler to win first place. At285, Charlie Siarkas earned a1-0 decision over Blair’s Mar-cus Forrester.

“I felt like I had a littledisadvantage [at the countytournament] because not ev-erybody from my team washere to support, but since wegot the hometown, everyone’shere to support and they’rewith you,” said Siarkas, whoplaced second at the countychampionship to Poolesville’sKyle Wilkins.

The other region cham-pions who didn’t win thecounty title were B-CC’s Rob-ert Bridenhagen at 195, whoavenged his lost in the countyfinals to Churchill’s JamesKalavritinos, and Whitman’sMitch Fenton, who wres-tled for the first time in twomonths.

Fenton defeated Kyle Bol-linger of Quince Orchard, whoknocked off county championBrendan Parent of Damascus.

“It’s unbelievable,” Fen-ton said of being able to comeback and compete at a highlevel so quickly. Suffering fromillness, Fenton was unable topractice until the day beforecounties, but with enoughpoints to qualify for the re-

gion tournament and stillfeeling less than 100 percent,he chose not to participate inthe county tournament. “It’sone of the best feeling’s in theworld. I love it.”

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with him,” said Churchillcoach Ray McKenzie, who hadcoached Pettey before and isclose with the family. “Theyjumped out on us 3-0 in the firstcouple periods. We scored two[goals] late ... but everyone justwanted to get it over with.”

Outside of that game,Churchill’s record is flawlesswith 20 wins, including vic-tories over Mid-Atlantic PrepHockeyLeagueteamsDeMatha,Landon and Georgetown Prep,among others.

The captain of this talentedgroup of players was senior RossAllen, who, along with Justin Va-gonis played leader, Arden said.

“They stepped in and theyled the team. I was just there to

screw around,” Arden said.“We really have good team

chemistry from practicing andworking hard,” Allen said. “Ev-eryone has played a two-way

game.”TheChurchillgeographical

region is littered with some ofthe state’s top hockey talent, soateamsuchas theonetheyputon the ice this season isn’t nec-essarily carefully constructed— rather it comes together byluck, McKenzie said.

“We’re no better than anyother school. We just havemorekids thataregoodhockeyplayers,” McKenzie said. “Yourarely get a team that has greatgoaltending, five really solid[defensemen], three lines youcan run with, and then greatstudents. Our GPA this yearwas, I think, 3.7 combined, Ithink.So,nohiccupsthisyear.”

Once assembled, gettingthat talent to perform up to thelevel they did all year requiredhard work and dedication.McKenzie said they might’ve

only missed a couple practicesthis year — relentless practiceshe admitted — and those tookplace at 5:30 a.m.

“I think we deserved it,” ju-nior goaltender Markus Hurdsaid of winning the state title.“We worked all season, gettingup 4:30 in the morning, practic-ing.”

“It’s really rough. Especiallywhen our coach kicks our ass,”Allen said. “At the same timewe all love hockey so much, wedon’t mind it.”

It also took the right blendof personalities to mesh. Sopho-more Andrew Kurapov for ex-ample.

“I just do my thing. I justwork as hard as I can in practice,every shift, try to score goals forthe team,” Kurapov said.

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TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE

Churchill High School’s Ross Allenholds the trophy after defeating Mar-riotts Ridge 10-0 Friday in the MSHL2A title game.

BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE

Whitman High School’s Mitch Fenton won the 145-pound 4A/3A WestRegion tournament’s weight class Saturday at Sherwood in Sandy Spring.

SportsBriefsGaithersburg linebacker

commits toWest Virginia State

Tyrik Etheridge, a formermiddle linebacker and fullbackfor the Gaithersburg High Schoolfootball team, pledged to con-tinue playing at West VirginiaState earlier this week, accordingto his coach’s Twitter account.The 5-foot-11, 210-pound senioralso starts as a shooting guard onthe boys basketball team.

“Officially Committed todayto West Virginia State Univer-sity on a football scholarship. Iwould like to thank everyone forthe support and Thank my fam-ily for being there every step ofthe way,” Etheridge wrote in anInstagram post.

— ADAM GUTEKUNST

Former Good Counselswimmer sets

American recordRockville native Jack Conger,

a sophomore at the Universityof Texas, set a U.S. record in the200-yard butterfly Feb. 25 duringtime trials for the Big XII men’schampionships. Conger dropped1.03 seconds off his previouspersonal-best 1 minute, 40.34seconds, to post a 1:39.31 lastweek.

The previous American mark(1:39.65) was shared by MichaelPhelps, who set it in 2010, andTom Shields, who tied it in 2013.Conger also surpassed SouthAfrican native and Michigan’s

Dylan Bosch’s previous all-timebest 1:39.33. Bosch still holds theNCAA record, however, becausethe association doesn’t allowfor records to be set during timetrials.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Northwood ledby freshman

Northwood High School girlsbasketball coach Tenisha Reidsaid she expected Ali Mikaelewould have an impact in herfreshman season. But not quitelike this.

Mikaele is averaging a team-high 14.5 points per game for theGladiators, who were scheduledto play their second-round play-off game against Damascus onTuesday.

“She can shoot, or dribble,she can even post up dependingon if she has a smaller girl onher,” Reid said.

Mikaele has helped the SilverSpring school improve to 6-17and win its first-round playoffgame, 47-33, against Seneca Val-ley on Friday. The 5-foot-7 guardis one of several underclassmenon Northwood, which went 2-17last season and hadn’t won aplayoff game since about 2009,according to Reid, a second-yearcoach. Mikaele had 23 pointsin the win over the ScreamingEagles.

“[It was] the team that kickedus out of the playoffs last year,”Reid said. “... It was a big gamefor us.”

— ERIC GOLDWEIN

SportsBriefs

n Barons girls basketballteam wins first-round

playoff game by 15 points

BY HARVEY VALENTINE

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

The playoff road getsconsiderably harder for theBethesda-Chevy Chase Highgirls basketball team this week,but Friday night it found a for-mula that could make themdangerous.

Playing smothering defenseand controlling the boards andboth ends of the floor, the Bar-

ons cruised to a 56-41 4A WestRegion opening-round homewin over Blair.

“That was something thatwe preached,” B-CC coachRyan Ingalls said. “We’ve gotto crash the boards on bothends.”

Senior Mariama Tunkaraled the Barons (12-11) with 18points, including nine in thedecisive third quarter when herteam built a 26-point lead.

“We knew that on the of-fensive end we could attackthem inside, but also hurtthem from the outside if we gotthe chance,” Ingalls said.

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n Rockville surprises atthe small schools

state meet

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN

STAFFWRITER

The Rockville High Schoolswim team is not known for be-ing one of Montgomery Coun-ty’s strongest. But at Friday’sClass 3A/2A/1A state meet,which was swept by Poolesvillefor the second time in threeyears, the Rams accounted fortwo of the six total multiple in-dividual event winners.

Junior Griffin Alaniz’s winsin the 200-yard individual med-ley and 100-yard backstrokeand sophomore Alexa Stewart’svictories in the 100-yard but-terfly and 500-yard freestylebrought attention to a programthat often gets lost in the shuffleof bigger and more competi-tive programs. With their singlewins a year ago, both of Rock-ville’s stars have now won threeof their last four individual racesin state competition.

That’s what makes theClass 3A/2A/1A championshipmeet special, Poolesville coachJonny Leong and Rockvillecoach James Castonguay said.While top swimmers from everyschool do relish the opportunityto compete against the Wash-ington, D.C. area’s best atmeetslike the Washington Metropoli-tan Interscholastic Swimmingand Diving Championships,held earlier this month, Alanizand Stewart said, Friday was arareopportunity for thecounty’ssmaller programs to compete asoverall teams on a more levelplaying field.

“Rockville is a small school,we’re in themiddleof thecountybut we don’t have many kids,”Castonguay said. “When we goto Metros there are the privateschools and the big 4A schools,[the smaller schools] pull from asmaller pool of kids. It’s nice tosee what [the kids] can do whenwe’re against equivalent pro-grams.”

Poolesville, which techni-cally has the county’s second-lowest enrollment but is in aunique position since its mag-

net program can draw studentsfrom all over, dominated Fri-day’s competition. The Falconboys clinched their fourth con-secutive state title with a 317.5-181 advantage over Damascus,the county’s smallest school perenrollment numbers. HarfordCounty’s C. Milton Wright fin-ished third with 164 points andSeneca Valley (138 points) andRockville (129) claimed fourthand fifth. Poolesville remainsundefeated in county compe-tition — Montgomery Countyschools onlybeganparticipatingin the statemeet in 2012.

Poolesville’s girls, who se-nior Lindsay Knapp, a winner inthe 50-yard freestyle Friday, saidhad been eyeing Friday’s cham-pionship since coming up justshort a year ago, won 386-181over Talbot County’s Easton. Itwas the Falcons’ second title inthree years and therefore alsothe program’s second sweep inthat time. Frederick County’sUrbanafinished third in thegirlscompetitionwith163points andC. Milton Wright and Worces-ter County’s Stephen Decaturrounded out the top 5.

Other Montgomery Countyteams to finish in the top 10were the Damascus girls (sev-enth) and Seneca Valley girls(10th).

“The great thing with thisboys team is we just have a re-ally great, talented and deepteam and we’re able to use theirstrengths and we’ve just kindof been on a roll,” Leong said.“With the girls, we talked aboutwhat eventshurt us last year andwehad a couple freshmen comein and help us in those events.”

The Falcon boys and girlstook two completely differentpaths to Friday’s titles. Whilethe girls won eight of 11 races,including all three relays, whichare worth more points, Pooles-ville’s boysonlywon two—bothrelays. Many of the Falcon girls,Leong said, finished above theirprojected seedings.

Senior Dorit Song and (100freestyle, 200 freestyle) andfreshmanKatarina Lechner (200individual medley, 100 back-stroke) won two events apiecefor the Falcons. Friday markedSong’s fourth consecutive 100freestyle state title.

Damascus junior RyanO’LearywasMontgomery’s onlyother individual winner Friday,successfully defending his 2014title in the 100 breaststroke.

“The cool thing about hav-ing all the small schools to-gether is youdon’t have to goupagainst [theprograms] that havea lotmore students thanwedo,”

Leong said. “After last year’smeet when [the girls] had it wellwithin their grasp and let it slipaway, I know the group of se-

niors it’s been their resolve fromday one the focus on having afantastic season to get everyonefired up [to go for the title].”

For complete meet resultscheck pvswim.org.

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ScottMathiasClarksburg

Winning thestate titlerequires alotmorethan onestellar athlete. Led small butmighty squad to school’sfirst-ever girls state title.

NorthwestDavino Frazer, juniorJosh Netterville, sophomoreAndrew Daniels, juniorJalen Walker, senior

The state champion relayteam’s top time (1:31.63)was county’s fastest, state’sfifth-best.

Paint BranchOliver Lloyd, seniorHafis Adegun, juniorLorenzo Neil, seniorTaiwo Adekoya, senior

Region and state championowned county’s top time(3:30.29) and rankedNo. 13in the state.

Paint BranchTaiwo Adekoya, seniorLorenzo Neil, seniorRyun Anderson, seniorOliver Lloyd, senior

The county and state cham-pions recorded the top timeinMaryland (8:00.27), top 30nationally.

ChrisSpiessClarksburgJunior,pole vault

County’sbest (12-6)was goodfor thirdat statechampion-ship, alsowon regionmeet.

NoahVernickQ. OrchardSenior,shot put

Finishedfirst seventimes,includingsweep ofchampi-onshipseason andrecordedstate’s sec-ond-bestthrow.

JalenWalkerNorthwestSenior,55

His toptime (6.46)rankedsecond inthe county,sixth instate;finishedfourth atseason-endingmeet.

JaronWoodyardWoottonJunior,300

Statechampionownedcounty’stop time(35.14) inthis eventand the 55dash.

ShyheimWrightNorthwestJunior,hurdles

Versatilehurdler/sprinter/jumperpostedcountry’sthird-besttime (7.27)en route tostate title.

TaiwoAdekoyaP. BranchSenior,500

County’ssecond-fastest time(1:07.24);finishedsecondat countyand regionmeets, fifthin state.

AaronBeidlemanNorthwestSenior,high jump

County’stop jump(6-3)ranked fifthinMary-land, wonthe countyand statechampion-ships.

DorionJonesQ. OrchardSenior,triple jump

Had state’ssixth-bestjump(44-10) inseventh-place finishat VirginaTech; woncountytitle.

AmirKhaghaniWhitmanSenior,3200

Woncounty,regionmeets, fin-ished thirdat states;owned thecounty’stop time(9:25.83).

OliverLloydP. BranchSenior,800

Postedcounty’ssecond-top time(1:57.43)andwasrunner-upin county,region,statemeets.

JoshNettervilleNorthwestSoph.,long jump

Had state’stop jump(22-2) andfinishedtop 3 inall butonemeet,includingfourmeetwins.

RobertYoungbloodNorthwest

He had thestate’smosttalentedandwell-rounded

squad. But his devotion topushing his athletes outsidetheir comfort zones is amainreasonwhy they win.

BullisKyla Lewis, seniorAlexis Postell, sophomoreArianna Richards, freshmanMasai Russell, freshman

Season’s top time (1:40.67)ranks eighth in the country;won private school champi-onship by two-plus seconds.

BullisKyla Lewis, seniorAlexis Postell, sophomoreLindsay Lewis, sophomoreMasai Russell, freshman

Maryland-best 3:52.21 iscountry’s 11th-fastest; wonprivate school championshipinmeet-record fashion.

WhitmanLela Walter, seniorErin O’Connor, juniorLena Feldman, sophomoreClare Severe, senior

The 4AWest Region andstate champions owned thestate’s top time (9:37.80) by4.31 seconds.

KylaLewisBullisSenior,55

Postedcounty-best 7.15in privateschoolchampi-onshipwin (meetrecord),rankedsecond instate.

NoraMcUmberB-CCSenior,3200

She had thecounty’stop timebymorethan nineseconds(11:03.93)andwasgood forstate title infirst indoorseason.

RachelPocratskyG. CounselSenior,500

VirginiaTechrecruitowned thestate’s fifth-best time(1:15.93)andwonthe stateprivateschoolmeet.

MarthaSamBlakeSenior,300

After beingthe runner-up at thecountymeet, shewon herregion andstate titles,posting astate-besttime of39.28.

ClareSevereWhitmanSenior,800

Virtuallyunbeat-able in thisevent thepast twoyears, shedefendedher statetitle withMaryland-best2:15.30.

JustinaAbabioClarksburgJunior, shotput

Countyand regionwinnerled countythrow-ers witha 35-.075;finishedfifth at statemeet.

Lisa-AnneBarrowH.-ArmsSenior,long jump

DivisionI recruitpostedcounty’stop jump(18-7) inwin atBishopLoughlinGames.

Mia DelBorrelloDamascusSenior,pole vault

Regionwinner’scounty-best per-formance(10-06.00)was goodfor fourthplace atstatemeet.

LeondraCorreiaNorthwestJunior,55 hurdles

One ofcounty’sbest jump-ers, sheownedcounty’sthird-besttime (8.42),was key inpostseason.

TyatiannaJohnsonSenecaSenior,triple jump

County’ssecond-best jump(36-11)rankedsixth instate; fin-ished in top2 of all butonemeet.

KiernanKellerW. JohnsonSenior,1,600

Recordedthe state’sbest time(5:01.47)in statetitle run;also wonthe countyand regionmeets.

800 RELAY

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GIRLS’ FIRST TEAM

800 RELAY

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BOYS’ FIRST TEAM

Second Team is available online at Gazette.net

ATHLETES OF THE YEARCOACH OF YEAR COACH OF YEAR

INDOOR TRACK & FIELD

3,200 RELAY

Alexus PylesClarksburgJunior, high jump

This is a rare versatility. Pyles was county championin the high jump, hurdles and triple jump, postingstate-bestmarks in the first two and second-best inthe third. The hurdles state championwas runner-up in high jump at season-endingmeet.

Diego ZarateNorthwest

Senior, 1600

Pardon the cliché but this Virginia Tech recruit’sheart is unrivaled. The state’s second-fastest in thisevent (4:20.09), he swept championship season inboth the 1,600 and 800 in leading the Jaguars totheir Class 4A state title defense.

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Poolsville High School’s Julia Wang took second in the 200-yard freestyle atFriday’s state meet in Landover.

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of 6.3 to 7.2 percent. Somewin-ter bocks have added spicinessor alcohol.Most bocks are bot-tom fermented lagers but some,most prominentlyweizenbocks,are top fermented ales.Maibocks, also calledhelles

(bright) bock todistinguish themfrom thedarkerwinter bocks, areclear anddeep gold to subduedamber inhue.Maibocks have acrispmalty flavor, possibly a lowspicy or peppery quality, amod-erate hop (more apparent thanthe other bocks) anddryfinish.Maibocks have 6.3 to 7.4 percentABVs.All doublebocks stem from

theoriginal of the style calledSalvator and knownas “liquidbread.” Itwas developedbymonks for consumptionduringtheir 40 day Lenten fast preced-ingEaster and the fourweekAdvent fast prior toChristmas.Doublebocks are dark gold todark brown, full-bodiedwithcomplex, deepmalty sweet-ness and aroma, andoftenwithintricate chocolate anddarkfruit flavors. Little or nohopsare evident in these very strong,rich lagerwithABVsof 7 to 14percent.Doublebocks are agedformuch longer than regular la-gers to develop thepronouncedsmoothness,mellowness andhigher alcohol content.Manydoppelbocks havenames end-ing in “-ator,” as a tribute to theoriginal Salvator nowmadebythePaulaner brewery.Tomake amore robust beer,

Bavarianbrewers froze abock,removed the ice and created

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n Touring companywill also conduct workshop

BY KIRSTY GROFFSTAFFWRITER

Communitymembersplanningoncom-ing to theUprightCitizensBrigade’s comedyshows at BlackRock Center for the Arts thisweekendshouldhaveno ideawhat toexpectduring the night — because the performersdon’t, either.UCB focuses on improvisational com-

edy, showcased in the touring company’stwo performances along with an improvworkshop.Unlike scripted comedy, improv is ac-

tionsmadeupon the spot, typically througha prompt of some kind. The UCB TouringCompany uses an interview with an audi-ence member at the beginning of the showto create ideas fromwhich to start scenes.Company member Mike Kelton, who

has officially been with the group for abouteightmonths,didn’toriginallyplanonfocus-ing on improv;much like the comedy genre,his involvement began on the fly based on asituationhe foundhimself in: losingaspot inanactingclasshisagentaskedhimtopartici-pate in.“I wasn’t one of those improv-heads be-

fore I started,” he said. “I had heard of UCBbefore and knew I always wanted to try, soI thought I would just quickly sign up for aclass there so he wouldn’t drop me as a cli-ent. I felt guilty for not being in the otherclass, and then literally fell in lovewith it.”It was during his classes in 2011 that he

got the chance to see his first true improvshow—that experiencehookedhim, even ifit made it hard to go back to class and try toevenget througha simple sceneconfidently.“I remember watching people on stage

having the best time of their life,” he said,“and Iwas like, Iwant in on *that*.Whatever*that* is, Iwant tomakemagic like that.”Kelton’s been making that magic for

almost four years now, working his waythroughUCB’s class curriculum in twoyearsand participating in shows and workshops.He says he became obsessed with the com-edy form, working it into his schedule likesome fitness buffs make time for CrossFit

and SoulCycle (“My body deteriorated, butmymindandheartwere just flourishing”).Through it all, he has been constantly

both instructingand learning,asaremanyofhis companymembers.“We’re all each other’s teacher,” he said.

“While there are rules to comedy, you canlearn from any comedian — you can pickup a trick, some of their style and embodythem.Noone is naturally a great improviser,it takes a million scenes and shows to evenfeel comfortablemaking things up.”There are some key elements of suc-

cessful improvisation that are important forboth newcomers and seasoned vets to keepinmind, such as never saying “no” to some-one’s idea and actively listening to otherson stage in a scene. Kelton will help impart

some of these lessons on interested attend-ees at the comedyworkshoponSaturday.One of the more important aspects to

Kelton is tonotenterascenewithanyexpec-tations or concrete ideas — looseness andflexibility is crucial.“Thebest improvisers areusually kindof

a mess in real life, because they’re obliviousand have no motives,” he said. “That’s thebestway to react naturally in themoment.”Thatelementofsurprise,theunexpected,

is what levels the playing field between per-formers relatively new to improvisation andotherswho have been interested their entirelives.Noone knowswhat to expect, andKel-ton saysmembers of the company regularlylaugh on-stage during performances be-

Making it up as they go

COURTESY OF UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE

Some members of the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company will come to BlackRock Center forthe Performing Arts for improvisational comedy shows and a workshop for adults.

The perfect timeof year for bocks

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UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE TOURING COMPANYn When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; workshop at 3 p.m. Saturday

n Where: BlackRock Center for the Performing Arts, 12901 TownCommons Drive, Germantown

n Tickets: $20 for show, $50 for workshop

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MUSICArts Barn, 311Kent SquareRoad,

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Club, Rare Earth,March 4; SoulcialHourBand,March 5; BernardEbbSongwritingAwards,March 6;MidgeUreplusMargotMacdonald,March

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Lear,March 12 throughApril 12,3766HowardAve., Kensington, 301-922-0162, adahrosegallery.com.

Marin-Price Galleries, EarthlyDelights: TheDeborahBrisker BurkExhibit, 10:30 a.m. to 7p.m.Mon-day throughSaturday, noon to 5p.m. Sunday, 7022WisconsinAve.,301-718-0622,marin-price.com.

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IN THE ARTS

cause the humor in the scenesis genuine andunanticipated.

Kelton does take on somescripted gigs, such as pop cul-ture commentary on VH1;however, for him it doesn’tcompare quite to the feeling of

getting away with somethingas a grown up on stage playingpretend.

“Mybiggest thing is that Ial-wayshave fun,”he said. “You’rean adult making stuff up onstage — if you’re not having ablast, you’re an [idiot].”

[email protected]

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amore concentrated versioncalled eisbock. Legendhas itthat thiswas an accident.Nowsimilar beers are breweddirectly.Eisbocks are deep copper to darkbrown in colorwith rich, sweetmalt and sometimes caramel orchocolate flavors, balancedwithsignificant alcohol and somedryness. Theremaybe somedark fruit tastes and the alcohol(9 to 14percent ABV) is smooth,not harsh, providing a clean la-ger taste.

Troegenator (8.2percentalcoholbyvolume,ABV) isbrewedby theTroegsBrewery inHershey, Pa. It has a very sweetnosewith ahint of caramel.Quite smooth, themoderatesweetmalt front continues intothemiddle. Thefinish adds lightfloral hopswhich slightly bal-ance themalt and segue in theaftertastewhere themalt fadesand thehops andmalt are inbalancewith an addedhint ofcherry. Thehigh alcohol levelis incrediblywell hidden in thisdangerous beer.Ratings: 8/8.

AventinusEisbock (12percentABV) ismadebyG.Schneider andSohn inKelheim,Germany. TheAventinushasan aromaof alcohol anddarkfruit tending toplum.The lightplumand sweetmalt front leadsto amiddlewhere the sweet-ness increases tomediumwitha touchof alcohol present. Thesweetness ebbs in thefinish asthemalt brings in a toffee char-acter. The alcohol reappears andcomes to the forefront in thequite dry aftertaste. The alcoholwill blend into thebeerwithsomeaging.Ratings: 8.5/8.

PikantusWeizen-Bock (7.3percentABV) is brewed inErd-ing,Germany, by theErdingerBrewery. Pikantus has abouquetof sweetmalt, cherry, chocolateand roast. Thequite light sweetfront from the large volumeofwheatmalt in thebrewpresagesa similarmiddle. Thefinish addsa slight roastwhich continuesin the aftertastewhichhas a lin-gering sweetmalt and ahint offloral hops.Ratings: 8/8.

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Victorian LyricOpera Company

Sir Arthur Sullivan &Sydney Grundy’s

HADDON HALLFriday, March 6

at 8:00 p.m.Saturday, March 7

at 8:00 p.m.Sunday, March 8

at 2:00 p.m.

Tickets: Adult - $24;Senior (65+) - $20;

Student - $16

F. ScottFitzgeraldTheatre

603 Edmonston Dr.Rockville, MD 20851

240-314-8690www.rockvillemd.gov/theatre

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TheMarin-Price Galleries inChevy Chase is set to unveil itslatest exhibit, “Earthly Delights,”by Potomac artist DeborahBrisker Burk.The exhibit will run from Sat-

urday through to March 27, withan opening reception set for 5:30p.m. on Saturday.Burk describes her first solo

show as her capturing of the col-ors of the American landscape

— the mountains, valleys andbeaches — in line and shape. Atthe centerpiece of these works isher quest to mix representationwith abstraction.Burk loves color, but also tex-

ture and form. Each work is verymuch alive and fresh.She has been painting since

childhood and has worked in arange of media, including sculp-ture, printmaking, painting, and

drawing.She’s has been featured in

numerous galleries, collectionsand exhibitions in the U.S., Israel,Canada, Russia, Egypt, and India.Burk earned her undergradu-

ate and graduate degrees in artfromGeorge Washington Univer-

sity. For many years, she taughtart at St.Andrew’s in Bethesda,and privately in her studio.

Picturesque view of the world “Firmscapes IV,City Illusion,” willbe on displaystarting Saturdayat the Marin-PriceGalleries as partof an exhibitfeaturing theworks of DeborahBrisker Burk.DEBORAH BRISKER BURK

Olney Theatre Center has extended the run of “God-spell,” until March 15.Steven Schwartz’smusical, an updated take on Jesus’

parables with amessage almost anyone could get be-hind.Much like

“Childrenof Eden,”Schwartz’sother Bible-inspiredmusi-cal, “Godspell”is less aboutreligion andmore aboutthe goodnessof humanityand the im-portance oftaking care ofone another.Thismessageis conveyed through songs representing each of Jesus’lessons in the Bible.The genders of the “Godspell” roles traditionally

aren’t playedwithmuch, and Schwartz hasmentionedbefore that he feels theaters would have to be careful ifcasting a woman as Judas. However, the roles of John theBaptist/Judas in OTC’s version of the show are played byRachel Zampelli, which provides a very interesting takeon the tale.Tickets for the show are $38-$75. Formore informa-

tion, visit olneytheatre.org or call 301-924-3400.

Continuing the love

PHOTO BY NICHOLAS GRINER

Jason King Jones, center, directs JordanCoughtry as Jesus and Rachel Zampelli asJohn the Baptist/Judas in the Olney TheatreCenter production of “Godspell.”

Arts on the Green continues itsSinger Songwriter Series, pairingworkshops with performances, asit welcomes Jon Langford.On Saturday, Langfordwill lead

a workshop at 3 p.m., then performa concert at7:30 p.m., bothat the ArtsBarn at 311Kent SquareRoad in Gaith-ersburg.Best

known for hiswork in theTheMekonsand theWaco Brothers, Langfordhas been a leading pioneer in theassimilation of folk/countrymusicinto punk rock since the genre’sfirst evolutionmore than 30 yearsago. Langford will perform a soloacoustic concert in the intimate,99-seat Arts Barn, with his songchoices reflecting his eclectic takeon Americana, folk and countrymore than straight up punk rock.The afternoonworkshopat-

tendees have the opportunity to getto know the artist andhis process aswell as theperformer andhis com-pletedworks. Theworkshopprom-ises to be amemorable chance formusic students to exercise creativemuscles andhear Langford’s profes-sional perspective.A Renaissanceman, theWelsh-

born Langford is acclaimed as bothamusician and a visual artist and ispresently based in Chicago. Recentaccolades include having his song“What Did YouDo in theWar?”named one of SpinMagazine’stop-40 country songs for 2014.Tickets are $45, for the work-

shop and concert and $25 for theconcert only. Formore informa-tion, visit gaithersburgmd.gov orcall 301-258-6394.

Just a bit ofAmericana

GrammyAward-winning flamencoguitarist Hernan Romero is set to per-form at the Bethesda Blues and JazzSupper Club at 7 p.m.March 11.Recognized as one of the world’s

foremost flamenco guitarists, Romero’smusic is both sophisticated and acces-sible, spicedwith the exotic traditionsthat infuse flamenco-gypsy,MiddleEastern andMediterranean folk inter-wovenwith textures of classical, jazzand Latin rhythms.Inspired by themusic of his family,

Romero became part of their perform-ing ensemble by the age of 4. Romero’smother, popular International singerEstela Raval, contributed to this bysurrounding young Romerowith thebest ofmusical environments. Romerobecame strongly influenced by theflamenco style when his familymovedto Cadiz in Andalusia, Spain; receivingclassical guitar training fromRobertoLara, one of Andres Segovia’s disciples.Tickets are $15 and can be ordered

online or purchased at the door. Formore information, visit bethesdablues-jazz.com or call 240-330-4500.

The powerof flamenco

G.G. PHOTOGRAPHY

Hernan Romero will be performing at the Bethesda Blues and JazzSupper Club on March 11.

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