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TASTETHE TOWNThe Taste of Bethesda festivalis slated to run from 11 a.m.to 4 p.m. this Saturday in theWoodmont Triangle sectionof downtown.
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DigitalovernmentThe first in a two-part series
New chapter looms in fight over required government ads in newspapers
INSIDEn High-speed Internet access
is available to more than nineof every 10 households inthe county, making it one ofthe nation’s most connectedcommunities.
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BY ANDREW SCHOTZSTAFF WRITER
Lawmakers and governmentgroups are resuming a fight withmedia representatives over arequirement to buy newspaperadvertisements.
Known as “legal notices,”the ads are mandatory an-
nouncements of certain gov-ernment proceedings, such aspublic hearings and zoning re-quests.
They are a revenue sourcefor newspapers and a longstand-ing way to inform the public.
The main questions: Arethese ads the best way to pub-licize government workings?
Should government bodies beforced to buy the ads?
The Maryland MunicipalLeague and the Maryland As-sociation of Counties argue thatthe current legal-ad system isinefficient and wasteful; gov-ernment bodies have better,cheaper ways to reach constitu-ents.
But the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, a media
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Garrett Park’s official town bulletin board inside the post office.
n Sides disagree on most efficient waysto get information to the public
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n Planners faced withpossibility of not being ableto tear down building
BY AGNES BLUMSTAFF WRITER
Montgomery County hasreleased renderings of whatthe Bethesda Purple Line Sta-tion will look like if the owner ofthe Apex building in downtownBethesda doesn’t move out. Therenderings show a 92-foot tallventilation tower right outsidethe station, according to a pre-sentation at a planning boardmeeting on Thursday.
This wasn’t what countyplanners wanted, they said atthe meeting, but a lack of co-operation from the Apex build-ing owner may leave them littlechoice to create the “optimal”station for the western terminusof the $2.2 billion light-rail sys-tem.
Not so, said the owner, theAmerican Society of Health-System Pharmacists, throughHolland & Knight, a Washingtonlaw firm. The society was ap-proached late in the game aboutits role and has not had time toformulate its response, said Da-vid Silver, a lawyer with Holland& Knight.
“We feel the pressure. We’retrying to be cooperative,” Silversaid. “We need time to figure outwhat we need.”
To help figure that out, theowner has hired a consultantand plans to hire an architectand engineer to evaluate whatthe best possible developmentat that spot could be, Silver said.
The state has made it clearthat it wants an answer on theApex building by the end of theyear, and Silver said his clientis trying to accommodate thatdeadline.
If the Apex building comesdown, which houses theBethesda Regal 10 movie the-ater, then the “optimal” futureBethesda station could be built,
County wants Apexbuilding for ‘optimal’Purple Line Station
n Town of Chevy Chasehoping expert can helppersuade state to movelight rail’s path
BY AGNES BLUMSTAFF WRITER
Looks like the squeakywheel gets the grease whenit comes to the Purple Line.
In Chevy Chase, the Co-lumbia Country Club haspersuaded the state to shiftthe Purple Line’s proposedroute to protect its golfcourse. In Lyttonsville, resi-dents scored a victory whena Purple Line maintenanceand rail yard facility was re-located away from a residen-tial area.
And now the Town ofChevy Chase wants to seeits wishes incorporated intothe proposed $2.2 billionlight rail’s plans. To that ef-fect, the board has allocated$25,000 to hire Sam SchwartzEngineering to analyze thevoluminous environmentalPurple Line impact study,released by the MarylandTransit Administration thisSeptember.
The same company haddone similar work analyzingreports for the town in thepast.
The town wants anat-grade crossing onLynn Drive, where manyBethesda-Chevy Chase HighSchool students cross the
Propertyownersjoust foradjustments
Sweet memories
Children and families who have experienced the pain ofhomelessness, mental illness, substance abuse or othertraumas may not have many happy memories to draw
on and may not know how to provide them for their children,according to Victoria Karakcheyeva, the program director fora housing program with Volunteers of America Chesapeake.
To help them create happy memories they can keep, andto learn how to care for themselves and their children, Volun-teers of America Chesapeake organized an outing for the par-ticipants of some of its programs to the chocolate store TastyImage in Westfield Montgomery mall in Bethesda on Sept. 27.
— AGNES BLUM
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Mercedes Bendeck, of Washington, D.C., helps Dominic Ximinies, 11, of Laurel, make a chocolate treat at her family’s Tasty Image chocolatestore in Westfield Montgomery mall in Bethesda on Friday.
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n Mass furloughsexpected in Montgomery
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERAND KEVIN SHAY
STAFF WRITERS
Thousands of federal jobs and em-ployees call Montgomery County home,but many were not working Tuesday afterCongress’ inability to compromise on thefederal budget, shutting down most gov-ernment operations.
ExactlyhowmanyMontgomeryCounty
residents were forced to stay home wasunclear, but most agencies in the countywere slashing operations and mandatingthat most employees stay home. Employ-ees who are furloughed are required to notwork and will not receive pay.
Montgomery is also home to manycompanies that contract with the govern-ment. Those companies could see em-ployees furloughed and delays in contractbids and awards.
Eighteen federal agencies and instal-lations are in the county, including theFood and Drug Administration, the De-partment of Energy, the Nuclear Regula-
tory Commission, the National Instituteof Standards and Technology and the Na-tional Institutes of Health.
When Congress failed to pass legis-lation to fund the government Mondaynight in an impasse over the health carereform law, it triggered plans for agenciesto halt all but essential operations.
For the Silver Spring-based Food andDrug Administration, 45 percent of its13,000-member work force was sched-uled for furlough, spokesman Steven Im-mergut said. Most of those reporting to
Federal agencies in county closed
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Public Hearing Draft Bethesda Purple Line Station Minor Master Plan Amendment
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 28, Annotated Code of Maryland, and Chapters 24A and 33A of the MontgomeryCounty Code, the Montgomery County Planning Board of THE MARYLAND-NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNINGCOMMISSION hereby gives notice that it will hold a public hearing on the Public Hearing Draft Bethesda Purple LineStation Minor Master Plan Amendment, being also an amendment to the 1994 Approved and Adopted Bethesda CBDSector Plan, as amended, the General Plan (On Wedges and Corridors) for the Physical Development of the Maryland-Washington Regional District in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties, as amended, the 2010 Purple Line FunctionalPlan, as amended, the Master Plan of Highways within Montgomery County, as amended, and the Master Plan ofBikeways, as amended.
Thursday, November 7, 2013, 6:00 p.m.in the Auditorium of the
Montgomery Regional Office BuildingThe Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland
The Public Hearing Draft Plan seeks to realize the significant public benefits to the County and the community of animproved multi-modal transit station in downtown Bethesda, and makes recommendations for land use and zoning. ThisPlan also makes transportation recommendations intended to improve circulation, pedestrian connections, and the networkof bikeways.
Copies of the Public Hearing Draft Plan are available online at www.montgomeryplanning.org/bethesdapurpleline or onCD-ROM upon request. Reference copies are also available at the Bethesda Library.
The purpose of the public hearing is to provide an opportunity for all interested persons to express their views. Personswishing to testify in person at the public hearing are requested to notify the Commission’s Office of Community Relations at301-495-4600.
Services and facilities are accessible for persons with disabilities (TDD 301-495-1331). Arrangements for an interpreter forthe hearing impaired should be made one week in advance of the public hearing.
Written testimony may be submitted to: Chairman, Montgomery County Planning Board, 8787 Georgia Avenue,Silver Spring, Maryland 20910. E-mail testimony may be submitted to [email protected].
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2Understanding Your BRCA Risk, 6:30-8
p.m., Beaumont House, 9650 Rockville Pike,Bethesda. Learn more about BRCA genetictesting, including who should be tested, what itmeans for family members and how the resultscan explain risk of developing breast, ovarianand other cancers. 301-634-7500.
Laura Burhenn concert, 7:30 p.m., Strath-more Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, NorthBethesda. After drawing rave reviews with herindie band the Mynabirds, Burhenn returns toStrathmore in a solo performance. $17. 301-581-5100.
THURSDAY, OCT. 3Bethesda Green Gala 2013, 6-9 p.m.,
Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club, 7719Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. Honoring the 2013Green Award Winners, businesses, organiza-tions, communities and individuals who areproviding green services. $100. 240-396-2440.
Limit Setting, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Parent Encour-agement Program, 10100 Connecticut Ave.,Kensington. Parents of children age 5-12 willlearn how to set and uphold clear rules andexpectations. $90 for three sessions. 301-929-8824.
FRIDAY, OCT. 4Garden Walk: Autumn Tour of McCrillis
Gardens, 1-2:30 p.m., 6910 Greentree Road,Bethesda. $6. Register at www.parkpass.org.
Jewish Values and Transgender EqualityShabbat, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Temple Emanuel,10101 Connecticut Ave., Kensington. Shabbatservice with guest speaker, Dr. Dana Beyer, aretired eye surgeon and worker for the rightsof transgender and gay people. Free. 301-942-2000.
The Nerd by Rockville Little Theater, 8 p.m.,
F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 603 EdmonstonDrive, Rockville, also 8 p.m. Oct. 5 and 2 p.m.Oct. 6. $16 for students and seniors, $18 forother adults. 240-314-8690.
SATURDAY, OCT. 5Community Indoor Yard Sale, 8 a.m.-noon,
Lincoln Park Community Center, 357 FrederickAve., Rockville. 240-314-8780.
Walk for Food Allergy, 9 a.m., Rockville CivicCenter Park, 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville.Funds food allergy research, education, advocacy,awareness. Free. [email protected].
What’s So “Grand” About Grandparent-ing?, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Parent EncouragementProgram, 10100 Connecticut Ave., Kensington.Grandparents will learn about the special influ-ence they have on their grandchildren and howto use it wisely. $37.50. 301-929-8824.
Summer concert, 10-11 a.m., Howard Av-enue Park, Howard Avenue, Kensington. JanineWilson & Band play rock, roots and blues mu-sic. Free. [email protected].
Whitman Cheer Clinic Fundraiser, 1-4 p.m.,Shockwave Allstars, 20 E. Southlawn Court,Rockville. $35. 301-938-2499.
Yoga Salutes Nonviolence: 108 Sun Saluta-tions, 2-4 p.m., extendYoga, 12106 Wilkins Ave.,North Bethesda. A charity event to raise aware-ness and support for Betty Krahnke Shelter.Free, donations welcome. 301-881-3330.
Fluttering Flutes, 3-4 p.m., Kensington BaptistChurch, 10100 Connecticut Ave., Kensington.Free, suggested $10 donation. 301-320-0832.
Pet Blessing, 5-6:45 p.m., St. Luke’s Episco-pal Church, 6030 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda.301-530-1800.
Haskell Small on Piano, 8 p.m., West-moreland Congregational United Churchof Christ, 1 Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda.Performing the complete Musica Callada, byCatalan Spanish composer Federico Mom-pou. Free. 301-320-2770.
SUNDAY, OCT. 6Pet Adoption Fair and Blessing of the Ani-
mals, 2-6 p.m., St. John’s Episcopal Church,7501 Wisconsin Ave., Chevy Chase. Meetadoptable pets from local rescues. Free. 301-654-7767.
Sunday Afternoon Waltz, 2:45-6 p.m., GlenEcho Park, Bumper Car Pavilion, 7300 MacAr-thur Blvd., Glen Echo. Featuring the ensembleLarry, Elke, & Friends. $10. 202-238-0230.
Bill Engvall, 4 p.m., Music Center at Strath-more, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda,also at 8 p.m. Two performances by the blue-col-lar comedian. $28-$68. [email protected].
Inscape Chamber Orchestra: Songs of theEarth, 5-7:30 p.m., The Episcopal Church of theRedeemer, 6201 Dunrobbin Drive, Bethesda.This ensemble-in-residence explores the useof folk song and poetry in classical music. Free-will offering. 301-229-3770, ext. 16.
MONDAY, OCT. 7Foreign film, 1 p.m., Chevy Chase Library,
8005 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase. Screeningof “My Brilliant Career,” about growing up ona farm in Australia in the 1890s. Free. 240-773-9590.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9Nonfiction book discussion, 2 p.m., Chevy
Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Ave., ChevyChase. “The Uses of Enchantment: The Mean-ing and Importance of Fairy Tales” by BrunoBettelheim. Free. 240-773-9590.
Managing Anger: A Parent’s Guide, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Parent Encouragement Program,10100 Connecticut Ave., Kensington. Partici-pants will learn ways to change thoughts, wordsand actions for more positive outcomes. $90 forthree sessions. 301-929-8824.
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SPORTS UnbeatensGaithersburg, Wootton clash inhigh school football on Friday.
A&E Step out for the blueson Saturday in Bethesda.
A Small gift
SARAH SMALL
The Washington Conservatory of Music will present pianist Haskell Small in concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at Bethesda’s Westmoreland CongregationalChurch. For more information, visit www.washingtonconservatory.org.
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Imagine a rock band fromMaryland’s most diversecounty. What would it look like?
Drop Electric has the an-swer. The four-member bandwhich is releasing an album onOct. 22, self-described as heavyrock meets electric, is made upof children of immigrants fromIndia, Iran, Mexico, Ukraineand Japan.
“We’re all typical children ofimmigrants. We all have grownup with so many different cul-tural influences,” said RamtinArablouei, 31, a graduate ofNorthwest High School in Ger-mantown. “We saw our parentswork hard, trying to build a life.And we work hard; we reallywork hard at music.”
Part of that hard work ismastering more than one in-strument. Arablouei plays thedrums and the piano.
Neel Singh, 30, a graduateof Walt Whitman High School,is a classically trained uprightbass player who can also playguitar. Kristina Reznikov, 26,a graduate of Richard Mont-gomery High School, can playrock, drums and piano, and ShoFujiwara, 27, the only memberwho did not grow up here -- heis from Chicago -- plays thetrumpet.
The band first tasted suc-cess when it was featured onthe National Public Radio show“All Songs Considered.” It hadalso released an instrumentalalbum online in 2010.
The new album, called“Waking up to the Fire” willfeature Reznikov on vocals, butit stays true to the band’s lushelectronic sound.
“A lot of it was written onlaptops, but there are also alot of strings and guitars,” saidArablouei who met bandmateSingh, of Bethesda, when theywere both undergraduates atSt, Mary’s College. The othertwo members were recruitedthrough Craigslist.
Another sign of their im-migrant’s parents views onhard work is that all four mem-bers are gainfully employed,spending their days working innonprofits, in journalism andwaiting tables.
Drop Electric will beplaying at The Fillmore at7:30 p.m. on Saturday. Formore information, visitfillmoresilverspring.com/event/15004B1DDD9473A3.
Deer managementbegins in county parks
Several Montgomery Parkswill be closed intermittentlystarting Oct. 28 through Febru-ary when the deer managementoperations season begins.There is also a proposal to add
Cabin John Regional Park to theprogram.
Lottery-based and coop-erative managed deer hunts,as well as park police-basedsharpshooting, will take placein 27 parks in the MontgomeryParks system. For a completeschedule of park closure datesand times, visit: http://ow.ly/phcUy
All of the deer harvestedfrom the program are trans-ported to a processing facilityand the meat donated to localfood disbursement organiza-tions. Last year, approximately16,000 pounds of processedvenison was donated to the Na-tional Capital Area Food Bank.
For more details on thelottery-based programs areavailable at www.parksdeer-management.org.
Cabin John Regional Parkhas seen an explosion in deerrecently -- a study indicatedthat 125 to 150 deer inhabit the514 acres of parkland locatedwithin the boundary of Inter-state 270, Democracy Boule-vard and Seven Locks Road,which is three times the densityrecommended for the area. Asa result, Montgomery Parks isproposed adding sections ofCabin John Regional Park to theprogram and is accepting pub-lic comment on the proposalthrough October 25.
Comments must includea valid name and address, andwill be posted online at www.parksdeermanagement.org forpublic review. Comments mayalso be submitted by email toMCP-deermanagement M-NCPPC Montgomery Parks,Deer Management Initiatives,
12535 Milestone Manor Lane,Germantown, MD 20876.
Speaker on immigrationat Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase at Home ishosting Joan Churchill, an im-migration judge, from 2 to 4p.m. on Oct. 15 at the ChevyChase Village Hall. Churchillwill speak on the subject of “TheCurrent Status of a Comprehen-sive Immigration Policy.” Formore information, visit: www.chevychasehome.org
Campus CongratsThree local high school
graduates have started at Ham-ilton College this fall.
Allison R. Donahoe, daugh-ter of Diana and Keith Donahoeof Bethesda, is a graduate ofSaint Andrew’s EpiscopalSchool.
Nicholas V. Sobczyk, sonof Jaculine Koszczuk and Jo-seph Sobczyk of Bethesda, is agraduate of Walt Whitman HighSchool.
Sarah M. Sull, daughter ofAndrea Elfin and Allan Sull ofBethesda, is a graduate of Wal-ter Johnson High School.
They were selected from apool of 5,017 applicants to thecollege, and join a class of 492.
‘21 This Week’ turns 2121 This Week with Casey
Aiken plans to celebrate thetalk show’s 21st Anniversary-- and Aiken’s 10 years of host-ing the program -- on Oct. 2 atBethesda Blues & Jazz Supper
Club, 7719 Wisconsin Avenue,Bethesda. The talk show, dedi-cated to the politics of Mont-gomery County, will be tapedlive.
21 This Week is the county’stop rated weekly political newsprogram. Seen on MontgomeryCommunity Media channel 21by nearly 20,000 viewers everyweekend, 21 This Week is themost-watched and longest-run-ning weekly political news pro-gram on community television.For more information about theparty, call: 301-509-4046.
Kensington co-opcelebrates one yearGala Artisan Jewelry & Gifts,
on Armory Avenue in Kensing-ton, celebrated its one-year an-niversary on Sept. 20.
The co-op shop sells jew-elry, art and home furnishings,among other things, all madeby mostly local artisans. Artistmembers staff the store hours,which frees up profits to payrent in a highly visible locationon Armory Avenue in Kensing-ton.
Photo exhibit of D.C.at Glen Echo
Glen Echo’s PhotoworksGallery and PhotographySchool is presenting “The Dis-trict: The Streets of Washington,DC, 1984-1994,” an exhibitionof work by photographer Mi-chael Horsley. The show depictsa different side to the District,one often overlooked by politi-cians and tourists, revealing
the raw character of a city onceravaged by decline, drugs andcrime. The exhibit will be opento the public from 1 to 4 p.m. onSaturdays and from 1 to 8 p.m.on Mondays until Oct. 14. Formore information, visit: http://glenechophotoworks.org.
Walking outof the darkness
Concerned area residentssought to bring suicide out ofthe darkness and into a place toprevent it during a fundraisingin Rockville recently.
The 2013 MontgomeryCounty Out of the DarknessCommunity Walk for suicideprevention took place in Rock-ville’s Town Center Sept. 21.About 350 walkers participatedand helped raise almost $40,000for the American Foundationfor Suicide Prevention.
Jillian Johnson, Miss Po-tomac Outstanding Teen 2013,provided remarks during theopening ceremony. She hasmade suicide prevention theplatform for her reign.
Talent search forMLK Day celebrationMontgomery County is
looking for talented countyresidents to perform at thecounty’s 20th anniversary andtribute to Martin Luther King,Jr. The event will be held on Jan.20, 2014, at the music center atStrathmore in Bethesda.
Performers of the spokenword, musical selections, cre-ative dance, instrumental selec-
tions and skits are all welcometo try out at auditions, whichwill be held from 5 to 9 p.m.on Oct. 11 at the music build-ing’s recital hall at MontgomeryCollege, Rockville Campus, 51Mannakee Street, Rockville.
To schedule an audition,email Rachel Reed at [email protected] by Oct.8. For more information, callCarmen Poston-Farmer at 240-567-5253 or Yvonne Stephens at240-567-4203.
Suburban Hospitalflu shot clinics
Suburban Hospital is of-fering two flu shot clinics thismonth.
The first is from noon to 3p.m. on Saturday at the 23rdannual Come Back to Bethesdaevent, Chevy Chase Acura, 7725Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda.
The second is from 9 to10:30 a.m. on Oct. 15 at theYMCA Bethesda-Chevy Chase,9401 Old Georgetown Road,Bethesda.
No appointment is neces-sary, but only those 18 years orolder can get the shot, whichcost $25. Cash, check and majorcredit cards are accepted. Thehospital cannot bill Medicare/Medicaid. Receipts are availablefor insurance purposes. Formore information, call 301-896-6507 or visit suburbanhospital.org for additional locations andschedule changes.
Send event information,photos and news items for Peo-ple and Places to Agnes Blum [email protected], or call 301-280-3002.
Local band’s eclectic mix
DROP ELECTRIC
Drop Electric is an eclectic electronic band based in Montgomery County made up of Ramtin Arablouei, Neel Singh, Kristina Reznikov and Sho Fujiwara.
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DEATHS
Roger B. GregoryRoger B. Gregory, 79,
of Germantown, died Sept.22, 2013. A memorial ser-vice will take place at 10a.m. Oct. 12 at GaithersburgPresbyterian Church, 610 S.Frederick Ave., Gaithers-burg. Roy W. Barber Fu-neral Home in Laytonsvillehandled the arrangements.
Julia H. MoxleyJulia H. Moxley, 95, for-
merly of Gaithersburg, diedSept. 25, 2013. A memorialservice will take place at 10a.m. Oct. 26 at HomewoodCrumland Farms, 7407 Wil-low Road, Frederick. RoyW. Barber Funeral Home ofLaytonsville handled the ar-rangements.
Shirley L. WhippShirley L. Whipp, 72,
of Rockville, died Sept. 28,2013. A funeral service willtake place at 11 a.m. Oct. 3at DeVol Funeral Home inGaithersburg.
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CCOOMMMMUUNNIITTY NY NEEWWSSCOMMUNITY NEWSThe Gazette
n First bell would ringat 8:15 a.m.
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFF WRITER
High school students inMontgomery County PublicSchools may be one step closerto getting more time to sleep be-fore they wake up for school.
Superintendent Joshua P.Starr announced Tuesday hisrecommendation to move thestart time for the school system’shigh schools back 50 minutes,from 7:25 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
Starr is also recommend-ing adding 30 minutes to theelementary school day to matchthe length of the high school andmiddle school days, and movingmiddle schools’ start time 10minutes earlier to 7:45 a.m.
Start and end times wouldnot change until the 2015-16school year at the earliest, Starrsaid.
Starr said at a press confer-ence Tuesday that the schoolsystem will study the feasibilityand practicality of his recom-mendation, partially throughengaging students, families, staffand the community and par-tially through estimating costs.
“We’ve heard from somebut not all of our community,”he said.
He said there’s “a clear link”between sleep and students’health and well-being, an areaof focus for the school system.
“Anything we can do to pro-mote the well-being and healthof our kids, we will try to do,” hesaid.
In a news release from theschool system, Starr called sleepdeprivation among adolescents“a public health and safety issue.”
After studying the issue for10 months starting in January,the 2013 Bell Times Work Groupdeveloped a report includingdifferent options for the schoolsystem regarding start and endtimes. The work group — whichincludes parents, students, prin-cipals, department leaders andothers — gathered informationthrough meeting with experts,studying experts’ research andexamining what other compa-rable school systems have done,among other methods.
Starr made his recommen-dation based on a combinationof two options.
Starr said in a letter to theschool board dated Oct. 8, 2013,that “data indicating that chang-ing bell times increases studentachievement is inconclusive.”
The school system will askfor feedback to the recommen-dation through avenues in-cluding public meetings, focusgroups and surveys before a fi-nal decision is made. Starr saidin the Oct. 8 letter that inputfrom low-income families andothers who would potentially be“disproportionately affected” bythe changes will be an importantpart of the system’s outreach.
The school system will alsolook into what the changeswould cost and how they mightaffect the system’s operations.
The work group’s reportcites a preliminary figure ofabout $11.5 million as the netannual transportation cost as-sociated with one option Starr isrecommending.
A full cost analysis is ex-pected by spring 2014, accord-ing to the release.
The recommendation tomove middle school start times
earlier would help the systemuse the same buses for severaldifferent routes, Starr said at theconference.
The county school systemcurrently has four different starttimes so it can reuse buses.
Lengthening the elementaryschool day is “not just a logisticalissue,” Starr said, but will alsoadd more instructional time forthe students that currently seethe second-shortest elementaryschool day in the state.
Starr and members of thework group will speak on the is-sue at the Oct. 8 county schoolboard meeting.
About 70 percent of highschool parents who respondedto a school system survey saidthey considered the current highschool start time “too early,” ac-cording to the report. About 69percent of those parents saidthey wanted the start time 30minutes or one hour later in themorning.
Looking at a school systemsurvey of high school students,the report says that students getan average of about 7 hours orless of sleep each night, com-pared to the nine hours thatexperts cited in the report rec-ommend.
“Important brain functionsthat are part of the learning pro-cess—the ability to completeabstract and complex tasks, de-velop working memory, and con-solidate memories of informationgathered during the day — are af-fected negatively by sleep depri-vation,” the report said.
The work group’s report alsosays sleep deprivation is associ-ated with obesity, psychologicalproblems and traffic accidents.
One study of 18 Minnesotaschool districts that the workgroup reviewed said “less afflu-ent” families were more likely tobe affected by school start timechanges in areas such as trans-portation and childcare. Thesefamilies also often needed tochange jobs.
The report continues that,based on a spring 2013 schoolsystem survey, some studentssaid they thought that, if schoolstarted later, it might be harderfor them to get a job and par-ticipate in after-school activitiesand athletics.
John Matthews, the workgroup’s project manager, saidthat, in addition to formingschool start time options, thegroup also recommended theschool system incorporate“sleep education” into its cur-riculum.
Mandi Mader — a workgroup member, a psychothera-pist and a parent advocate forlater start times — said shethinks the recommended de-lay of the high school start timewould make “a huge difference.”
“It gets the high school kidsthat precious 50 minutes,” shesaid.
Starr recommends laterhigh school start time
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Superintendent Joshua P. Starr
n Transit authority saysridership is low, but advocatessay it’s increasing
BY AGNES BLUM
STAFF WRITER
Residents of the Rollingwood area ofChevy Chase, fighting to keep the E6 busgoing, have found an ally in CouncilmanRoger Berliner.
In mid-September, the WashingtonMetropolitan Transit Authority held sev-eral meetings to discuss reducing andeliminating certain bus lines. One wasthe E6, which mainly follows Western Av-enue, the road that separates MontgomeryCounty from Washington, D.C., on its west-ern side. The bus runs from the FriendshipHeights Metro to the Knollwood MilitaryRetirement Residence on Oregon Avenuein Northwest D.C.
The proposal is to cut seven bus tripseach way on the E6. The earliest cut wouldbe at 5:46 a.m. and the latest at 8:50 p.m.
The reason given was low ridership.WMATA says buses are averaging five pas-sengers per trip.
According to WMATA’s most recentridership numbers, more than 350 peopleride the bus each day. There are 34 rideseach way from Friendship Heights andKnollwood, making a total of 68.
But Berliner (D-Dist.1) of Bethesda and
members of the Rollingwood Citizens As-sociation said ridership is up, and whilethe bus never crosses into MontgomeryCounty, it has become an essential modeof transportation for many in the ChevyChase neighborhood.
Fritz Hirst, president of the Rolling-wood Citizens Association, said he got hisnumbers regarding ridership from a D.C.transportation activist’s blog, which can befound at e6bus.blogspot.com/2013/09/e6-bus-under-fire.html.
“Public transportation is only useful if wehave reliable service. We fought this battlewith Ride On. Once you start losing routes,it's hard to get them back,” Hirst said.
Hirst said ridership on the bus line is up25 percent from 2008, citing the blog.
He added that this was the only publictransportation option in his neighborhood.
“Many in the Rollingwood communityrely on the E6 for our daily commute, shop-ping need, doctor appointments etc.,” Hirstwrote in a letter to WMATA on Sept. 18.
In 2011, WMATA proposed cutting thebus line, but the outcry was so strong, it didnot.
Berliner also wrote a letter to WMATAon Sept. 19, asking that the proposed cutsbe reevaluated.
“The E6 line provides access to theFriendship Heights, Rollingwood, ChevyChase and Martin’s Addition communities.Ridership on this route has increased sincethis issue was last visited in 2011, so thereis even less justification for eliminating this
route now than when it was last proposed,”Berliner wrote.
He also wrote of the significant numberof seniors who rely on the bus. Seniors suchas Nadine Mildice-Chaisson, who said ofthe E6 bus, “It’s freedom.”
Mildice-Chaisson has lived at Knoll-wood Military Retirement Residence inNorthwest D.C. since January with herhusband.
Like Berliner, Mildice-Chaisson andother residents dispute the transit author-ity claim that ridership is that low.
Mildice-Chaisson said reducing ser-vice on the E6 line would leave hundredsof residents stranded. The E6 was a largereason why she and her husband choseKnollwood.
Although they are D.C. residents, Mil-dice-Chaisson said they use it to get toChevy Chase, Bethesda and Rockville — tosee their doctors or go shopping.
The proposal will be presented beforethe Customer Service and Marketing Com-mittee in November, said Morgan Dye,a WMATA spokeswoman. The period forpublic comment is now closed, she said.
WMATA did not release the amount ofmoney it hoped these cuts would save.
The Rollingwood Citizens Associationhas started an online petition to try to killthe proposal. About 200 people have signedso far. It can be found at www.ipetitions.com/petition/e6bus.
Chevy Chase residents try to save E6 bus
n Part of BRAC project;planning board objects
BY AGNES BLUMSTAFF WRITER
Behind Henry Levin’shouse in Chevy Chase, past thesmall playset for his two daugh-ters, is a stretch of about 90 talltrees — maples, tulip poplars,oak trees and pines — that willbe chopped down if the statehas its way.
As part of the BRAC Con-necticut Avenue intersectionproject, the Maryland StateHighway Administration plansto widen Jones Bridge Roadwest and east of ConnecticutAvenue, which it claims is nec-essary to reduce congestion.
The state also will gradeJones Bridge Road for an 8-foothiker-biker trail that is in the
county’s master plan, said Bar-bara Solberg the division chiefof Maryland State Highway Ad-ministration’s highway design.
Construction is slated for2015 and the project has a pricetag of $8 million, Solberg said.
The Montgomery CountyPlanning Board objected to themove because it will mean thatLevin and his neighbors willlose that bank of tall maturetrees that buffer their housesfrom the street, said Larry Cole,the county’s lead planner.
“They said, ‘We don’t likethis project, there’s way toomuch impact on the ChevyChase Park people,’” Cole said.
Even though Jones BridgeRoad is a county road, the stateultimately has the ability to dowhatever it wants, Cole said.
“I don’t understand whythey don’t want to preservethese trees,” Levin said as he
gestured toward the stand ofold trees that formed a livingfence to the communal back-yards of his and his neighbors’shouses in Chevy Chase Park.
Chevy Chase Park is a com-munity of single-family houseswith very small front yards butlarger “communal” yards in theback.
If the state’s plans gothrough, homeowners will beleft with very little green space,and property values will godown, Levin said.
In addition, staging of con-struction equipment will takeover their backyards for the du-ration of the project, meaningthat all the playsets and tram-polines visible today — includ-ing Levin’s — will need to beremoved.
To try to kill the project,Levin and his neighbors havewritten County Council mem-
bers, lobbied the state andmet with representatives atpublic meetings, such as onethat was held on Sept. 24 at theNorth Chevy Chase ElementarySchool.
“We’ve been openly talk-ing with SHA since 2009,” Levinsaid. “But I got a call from anengineer saying they had set-tled on their plan and were notmaking any changes.”
The state has made someconcessions to residents, Sol-berg said.
“Initially we had four lanesgoing westbound and now weonly have three,” she said. “Weare listening and we have beenlistening.”
She conceded that the talltrees would have to come down,but said saplings would beplanted in their place if possible.
State to chop down 90 mature trees to widen road
n Event on Saturdayexpected to draw40,000 people
BY AGNES BLUMSTAFF WRITER
What’s the best way to hook40,000 people on the food atyour new restaurant?
If you are the Pietrobonobrothers, who plan to opentheir new taqueria Gringos andMariachis this November, it’sthe Taste of Bethesda festival,which is slated to run from 11a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday inthe Woodmont Triangle sec-tion of downtown Bethesda.
The event, in its 24th year,is the perfect place to showcasethe new Mexican restaurant,said Roberto Pietrobono, whoalso owns the Italian restaurantOlazzo in Bethesda with hisbrother Riccardo. The boothfor the new restaurant will be
next to the booth for Olazzo, Pi-etrobono said, allowing existingcustomers to try the new fare.
“It’s definitely a good wayto introduce the restaurant,”Pietrobono said.
The festival is not just a lo-cal fave, but a regional draw,said Stephanie Coppula,spokeswoman for the BethesdaUrban Partnership, whichsponsors the event.
“People come from as faraway as Frederick and Balti-more County,” Coppula said.
In the early days, there wereabout 20 restaurants, Coppulasaid. This year, there are morethan 50 involved and the crowdis expected to be about 40,000strong.
The participating res-taurants range from the ca-sual — The Barking Dog willhave barbecue pork, beef andchicken on hand — to the moresophisticated, such as MusselBar & Grille’s offering of white
wine mussels.Admission is free to the
event, but food will requiretickets, which will be sold inbundles of four tickets for $5.
In addition to the food,there will be five stages with liveentertainment and activities for
children, such as face paintingand arts and crafts.
For more information orto volunteer, visit http://www.bethesda.org/bethesda/taste-bethesda.
From hot dogs to sushiat Taste of Bethesda
GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Anna Fine (left) and Elizabeth Giaquinto of Bethesda try a sample from TheBurger Joint at last year’s Taste of Bethesda.
THE GAZETTEWednesday, October 2, 2013 b Page A-5
n Homeowners needto replace old smoke detectors,
firefighters say
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDERSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
It’s all about the smoke detectors:that was the message Bethesda fire-fighters stressed at their open houseover the weekend when they weren’tentertaining the children who hadturned out to see the department’s fireengines.
Last week, fires in Chevy Chase and
Bethesda caused hundreds of thou-sands of dollars in damages to twohomes and a 63-year-old woman diedin a blaze in Silver Spring.
“There’s fire safety for the kids, butnow there’s the real meat and potatoesfor the adults,” firefighter Fred Silver-man said of the department’s initia-tive. Named the New Normal of SmokeAlarms Program, the initiative aims toinform homeowners about the dangersof inefficient smoke alarms, he said.
Earlier this year, Maryland updatedits fire safety codes to reflect advicepublished six years ago by the NationalFire Protection Association, he said.
Still, many people live in homes
built before 2007, Silverman said, ex-plaining that the safety regulations forthose buildings are out of date, and thathomeowners’ assumptions they aresafe could be wrong.
“They believe that they are pro-tected if they have a smoke alarm, butthat’s an incorrect assumption,” Silver-man said.
“No smoke alarms over 10 yearsold are reliable because the sensors getdirty,” Silverman said.
On Sunday, a fire on KingswoodRoad caused $750,000 in damage to ahome, but the five people inside — andtheir cat — all escaped without injury.Firefighters credit their smoke alarms
with alerting the occupants to the blaze.The New Normal iniative aims con-
sumers toward alarms with a batterylife of 10 years and an interconnectedalarm system or smoke detectors sothat if one alarm sounds, they all do.
The Bethesda Fire Departmentpartnered with Strosniders HardwareStore in Bethesda to spread the word,and educated the store’s employeesso they could handle any questions orconcerns customers had when pur-chasing new fire alarms.
“Fred [Silverman] did an educa-tional seminar with our employeesjust so everyone was on the same pageand they can help people upgrade cor-
rectly,” said Courtney Simmons, themarketing coordinator at Strosniders.
Strosniders also had a table at thefire department’s open house wherethey displayed an old smoke alarm anda new smoke alarm so people could seethe difference between the two, Sim-mons said.
In 2011, more than 2,000 peopledied in house fires according to theNFPA, and high numbers like that upsetSilverman and prompted him to beginthis program.
“That’s wrong, that shouldn’t bethis way. [We] need to figure out whatyou have, and figure out what youshould have,” Silverman said.
Smoke alarms program makes its debut in Bethesda
n Red bikes ready to roll;unveiled Friday at Rockville
grand opening
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDERSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
Fifteen shiny new bikeslined up, ready to roll, as thecounty unveiled its 14 CapitalBikeshare stations Friday.
The first Capital Bikesharestation in Maryland openedin Rockville with city and stateofficials hosting a grand open-ing event at the station, locatedat the corner of Maryland andMontgomery avenues.
The Rockville station is oneof 14 stations opening in Mont-gomery County Friday with51 total planned to span thearea. The expansion of CapitalBikeshare in Washington, D.C.,marks the first bike-sharing pro-gram in Maryland. The networkincludes stations on both sidesof Metro’s Red Line inside theBeltway, and stations clusteredaround the Rockville and ShadyGrove Metro stations.
“The sturdy red bikes arefinally rolling into Bethesda,Rockville, and Silver Spring,”said Councilman Roger Berliner(D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda, chair-man of the Council’s Transpor-tation, Infrastructure, Energyand Environment Committee.“This is a significant step increating a less car-centric cul-ture. We want an environmentthat encourages healthier andgreener mobility options andBikeshare does just that.”
Steve Friedman, a memberof the county’s Pedestrian, Bi-cycle and Traffic Safety AdvisoryCommittee, biked up to the bike-share launch, saying the advisorycommittee was happy to put itsweight behind the program.
“Wesupportitandrecognizedthe value of it,” Friedman saidwhile sitting atop his own bicycle.
To use the bikes, member-ships for 24 hours or three dayscan be bought with a creditcard directly at the station andmonthly and yearlong member-ships can be purchased onlineor over the phone. Within themembership time, bikes canbe used free of charge as manytimes as necessary for 30-min-ute increments, with longer tripscosting a small fee.
One of the main draws ofthe program is that, unlike tra-ditional bike rentals, bikes don’thave to be returned to the same
place they were picked up. In-stead, renters can leave the bikeat the most convenient stationto their travels.
Maryland Secretary ofTransportation James Smith at-tended Friday’s event, praisingthe county for taking the initia-tive and saying MontgomeryCounty residents and politiciansalways “show up, stand up andpay up” when they want some-thing done.
“[Residents can] use masstransit to get to a location andthe Bikeshare to get to their ul-timate destination,” Smith said.
Safety was another theme ofthe grand opening, with manyof the speakers commentingon bike paths and lanes and thesafety manuals being handedout. Casey Anderson, a mem-ber of the Montgomery CountyPlanning Board, suggested rid-ers attend a $10 bicycle safetycourse being taught at Mont-gomery College.
A group of Richard Mont-gomery High School studentspassing by the Bikeshare cel-ebration were interested in theprogram, but not enough toconsider a membership. Thoughthe teens said they didn’t thinkthey would ever really use it totravel anywhere specific, they
all agreed they would considerusing them as a fun group activ-ity for a day.
To learn more about Capi-
tal Bikeshare or to sign up forone of six different membershipoptions, visit www.capitalbike-share.com.
Maryland’s first Capital Bikeshare stations open
n Organizationrepresents about45,000 employees
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFF WRITER
Service laborers are sup-porting Lt. Gov. Anthony G.Brown in the race to be Mary-land’s next governor.
The Maryland-DC StateCouncil of the Service Em-ployees International Union(SEIU) Monday endorsedBrown (D) and his runningmate, Howard County Execu-tive Kenneth S. Ulman (D).
The union endorsementcomes as Attorney GeneralDouglas F. Gansler (D) con-tinues his first statewidecampaign tour. Del. HeatherMizeur (D-Dist. 20) of Ta-koma Park is also seeking theDemocratic nomination.
SEIU backed Brown forhis work on health care re-form, worker training andincreasing the state’s mini-mum wage, Jaime Contreras,president of the Maryland-DC council, said.
“Also, when we did ourinterviews, he was the mostlikable guy,” Contreras said.
SEIU sent a question-naire to all of the candidatesvying to be the state’s nextgovernor, Democrat and Re-publican, but only the threeDemocratic candidates re-sponded, Contreras said.
Members of each localinterviewed the three candi-dates who responded and themembership chose who to
endorse, he said.SEIU’s Maryland-DC state
council represents about45,000 health care, propertyservices and government em-ployees among six locals.
SEIU’s endorsement willsupply the Brown-Ulmancampaign with union mem-ber as volunteers who willknock doors, make phonecalls, and work the polls forBrown, Contreras said.
“Our members are firedup and ready to volunteeron the weekends to do whatit takes to make sure our en-dorsed candidate wins,” hesaid.
As for the cash it will useto back Brown, SEIU has apolitical action committeethat Contreras said will raisemoney and contribute towardBrown’s campaign efforts.
Brown “enthusiastically”accepted the endorsementMonday at an event in Balti-more, his campaign said in anews release.
In June, Brown made rais-ing the minimum wage one ofhis top priorities. Gansler andMizeur also support increas-ing wages for workers.
SEIU joins a long list ofendorsements for Brown,including the Laborers In-ternational Union of NorthAmerica and the United As-sociation of Journeymen andApprentices of the Plumb-ing and Pipe Fitting Indus-try of the United States andCanada, Maryland StateCouncil.
State Council ofService EmployeesInternational Unionbacks Brown-Ulman
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Silver Spring
3. Colesville Road and WayneAvenues – 19-dock
4. Fenton Street and New YorkAvenue – 15-dock
5. 13th Street and Eastern Avenue– 15-dock
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Dignitaries pose on bikes after a ribbon-cutting in Rockville for the Capital Bikeshare station grand opening.
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n Each time Hoffmanreached a goal, he seta new one
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFF WRITER
When Adam Hoffman grad-uated from Montgomery Col-lege in May, his degree markedthe end of a five-year college ex-perience some said he might notbe able to complete.
Adam, 25, of Rockville hashigh-functioning autism, adisability that made college achallenge for him. But — as heproved by earning a degree — itdidn’t take a college educationout of his reach.
He received an associate de-gree in applied science, major-ing in computer applications.
Adam said he knew hewanted to go to college to learnabout technology.
But others were concerned.According to evaluations
provided by his dad, HowardHoffman of Bethesda, severalexperts said Adam likely wouldfind college a frustrating experi-ence.
“His disability is such thatconceptual thinking is morechallenging for him,” Howardsaid.
But, he said, he saw his sonhighly motivated to attend col-lege. He thought it was betterfor Adam to try and not succeedthan to not try and “lose an op-portunity.”
Howard Hoffman describedhis son as having “a knack” for
learning computer software.“We weren’t sure how far he
could get,” Howard said. “Theidea was to try and see how itwent.”
A psychologist wrote in a2006 evaluation that “due to Ad-am’s significant learning issues,a traditional two- or four-yearcollege program will be highlychallenging, and will potentiallygenerate considerable frustra-tion.”
In 2010 — after Adam hadcompleted lower-level com-puter courses at the college — aMontgomery College guidancecounselor recommended thatAdam use skills he had learnedto make himself a better job can-didate.
“Taking additional ad-vanced courses in the ComputerApplications department willrequire increased conceptualskills that, from what I have readin his records and experiencedin my interactions with Adam,he does not have,” the guidancecounselor’s evaluation said, ac-cording to Howard.
Adam certainly faced chal-lenges, starting with what classesto take when he first started.
“I didn’t know what I wasgoing to do at first,” he said.
A few classes, including ageography course, proved toodifficult the first time around.Adam would drop the courseand take — and pass — it thenext semester.
He needed to take someclasses outside his major, suchas biology and English — eachobstacles in their own right,Howard said.
“It was more of a stretch asthe semesters went on,” he said.
Yet, Adam graduated witha 3.2 GPA and made the dean’slist a few times. Adam said heaveraged about three courseseach semester over the five yearswhile also working part time asan administrative assistant dur-
ing most of his time in college.“I think some other people
may have become discouraged,”Howard said. “He never got thatway.”
Adam’s goals progressed ashe would reach one and take onanother.
After he passed severalcourses, Adam decided to worktoward a certificate. When thecertificate was within reach, hedecided to go for an associatedegree.
“I found out I was headingtoward it,” he said of the cer-tificate. “I thought it would be agreat thing to have.”
He had the same thoughtprocess when he went for thedegree, he said.
Adam worked hard during
his time at the college, but alsohad the benefit of several sup-porters, Howard said.
“It takes a village to send aspecial-needs child to college,”Howard said, putting a spin onthe familiar phrase.
Adam said he received helpfrom several tutors and otherassistance from College Learn-ing Experience, an organizationthat provides support servicesto college students with autism,Asperger’s syndrome and otherdisabilities.
Ric Kienzle, director of theCollege Learning Experience’sRockville location, describedAdam as “a wonderful youngman” who, despite the strug-gles he faced, “worked hardand pressed hard to achieve his
goal.”Kienzle said Adam’s tutors
and others saw him grow overthe five years he attended col-lege.
“He’s one of those guyswho’s driven,” he said. “He re-ally wanted to get it done and hedid.”
Adam said his favorite classwas graphic design, but hedoesn’t know if he wants to workin the field.
He still works as an admin-istrative assistant and said hisnewly earned degree has helpedhim in his job.
“It’s great to have everythingdone and more opportunities,”he said.
Autism doesn’t hold back Montgomery College grad
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Adam Hoffman is pictured Monday afternoon at the Montgomery College Rockville campus.
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n African-Americanstudents’ scores up;Hispanic scores drop
BY LINDSAY A. POWERSSTAFF WRITER
Montgomery County Pub-lic Schools’ 2013 SAT resultsshowed movement in bothAfrican-American and Hispanicstudents’ scores — but in differ-ent directions.
African-American students’average combined score roseto 1397 this year — eight pointsabove last year’s score. From2011 to 2012, African-Americanstudents’ average score in-creased seven points.
Hispanic students’ averagecombined score, however, fell 32points this year after a six-pointincrease from 2011 to 2012.
Both student groups scoredsignificantly higher than theirstate and national peers this year.
The county school system’soverall average combined scorefell three points — from 1651 in2012 to 1648 this year — but wasstill 11 points above the 2011score.
The SAT serves as a collegeplacement exam and has a max-imum score of 2400 across threeareas: critical reading, math-ematics and writing.
African-American students’scores improved in all threeareas of the test. Hispanic stu-dents’ scores fell in all three.
About 61 percent of theschool system’s 2013 African-American graduates took theSAT and about 47 percent ofHispanic graduates took thetest — relatively the same as lastyear’s participation for both stu-dent groups.
Superintendent Joshua P.Starr said in an interview Thurs-day that school system staff willsit down with principals andschools leaders to talk over thescores and evaluate what theydid and did not do.
“I’m concerned, I’m reallyconcerned,” Starr said of thedecline in Hispanic students’scores. “I don’t understand whythat drop exists.”
Addressing the countyschool system’s overall com-bined score, Starr said, “We areessentially stable.”
Starr said the school sys-tem has focused efforts towardhelping students traditionallyunderrepresented in colleges,including African-American andHispanic students.
Montgomery County Boardof Education member MichaelDurso said he and others in theschool system will need to taketime to determine what thesescores mean.
“I think on the surface that’sdisturbing,” said Durso, ad-dressing Hispanic students’scores. “I think deeper down I’dprobably want to talk to someothers and maybe talk to somepeople at the schools to get theirimpression.”
He described “the wholeSAT score phenomenon” as“fluid and unpredictable.”
Durso, a former principal,said that in all three jurisdictionshe’s worked in there were yearswhen SAT scores would changewithout an apparent corre-sponding change of the school’sinstruction.
“Of all the issues we deal
with in education, interpretingthose scores is one of the morechallenging ones,” he said.
School board member Re-becca Smondrowski said shethinks the SAT scores are “onepiece of a lot of different things”and that the SAT data will helpthe school board determinewhat questions it needs to ask.
Smondrowski said theschool system’s Hispanic stu-dents are “our fastest growingpopulation.”
“I’m not confident that wehave the resources totally tokeep up with the growth,” shesaid.
She said the school system isworking hard to target achieve-ment gaps, but that this timethat was not reflected in His-panic students’ scores.
Across the school system,four high schools increased theiraverage combined score by 20points or more, while eight de-creased their scores by 20 pointsor more. Rockville High School’sscore rose 57 points to 1582 withthe greatest increase and SenecaValley High School’s score fell 75
points to 1447 for the greatestdecrease.
Rockville High Principal Bil-lie-Jean Bensen said the schoolformed a team last year thatworked to identify students who,based on their course work andPSAT participation, would begood candidates for the SAT buthad not yet taken the test.
“We’re certainly continuingthat this year,” she said.
Marc Cohen, Seneca ValleyHigh’s principal, said his initialreaction to the decrease in hisschool’s scores was “disappoint-ment.” The school, however,saw a nearly 110-point increasethe year before, he said.
Cohen said he meets withthe school’s SAT and ACT com-mittee on a regular basis andthat over the next few monthsthey will discuss what mighthave changed to affect thisyear’s scores and what interven-tions they believe led to the in-crease last year.
The SAT data, Cohen said,will “push us to ask questions.”
Montgomery SAT scores show rises, falls
n Amazon.com founderalso buys other papers,printing plants
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY
STAFF WRITER
The $250 million sale of TheGazette, The Washington Postand other properties to a privateinvestment company ownedby Amazon.com CEO Jeffrey P.Bezos was completed Tuesday,executives said.
The sale, announced in Au-gust, ends four generations ofownership of the flagship Postfor the Graham family. The dealis “an exciting — and historic— opportunity” for the Post,Gazette and other entities sold,Donald E. Graham, CEO andboard chairman of The Wash-ington Post Co., wrote Tuesdayin a letter to employees.
Besides The Post and Ga-zette, the sale includes the Ex-press newspaper, SouthernMaryland Newspapers, theFairfax County Times, the Span-ish-language El Tiempo Latinonewspaper, the Post’s printingplant in Springfield, Va., theComprint printing plant in Lau-rel and several military publica-tions.
The Kaplan educationcompany and other hold-ings will remain with TheWashington Post Co., whichwill be changing its name.A new name has not yet been an-nounced, and it is not yet knownwhere that company will beheadquartered, Rima Calderon,a spokeswoman for The Wash-ington Post Co., said on Tuesday.
Graham, who will continueas CEO of the new company,wrote that the “future of TheWashington Post Co. is the fu-ture of Kaplan,” calling the com-
pany a worldwide leader that isimproving its profitability while“paying as much attention toimproving student outcomes.”
Graham added that the newcompany will continue to lookfor “good businesses to investin” and “will have a new nameto announce soon.” He saidthe company had a “very, verystrong balance sheet” and “willbe quite a bit stronger in a yearor two when the headquartersbuilding and our Alexandria wa-terfront property is sold.”
Bezos’ investment company,Nash Holdings LLC, is not partof Amazon.com. A spokesmanfor Bezos could not be reachedfor comment on Tuesday.
Bezos, who has a reportednet worth of $25 billion, foundedAmazon in 1994. The companyhad revenue of $61.1 billion lastyear.
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n Urbana teen earnedstudent pilot certificate
BY JENN DAVISSTAFF WRITER
Most teenagers dream ofgetting a car or throwing a bigbash for their 16th birthday. Forhis special day, Youssef Selim sethis sights high: flying an airplanesolo for the first time.
On Monday evening atdusk, the Urbana High Schooljunior flew a PA-28-161 PiperWarrior plane without anyoneelse in the aircraft for two con-secutive takeoffs and landings atMontgomery County Airpark inGaithersburg. The flight, whichincluded two circles around theairport at an altitude of 1,500feet, sealed Youssef’s position asone of the youngest pilots to flysolo in the area, according to hisflight instructor.
Following the flight, morethan 40 friends and family mem-bers waited in the airpark’s cafeto surprise him with a celebra-tory dinner.
“I’m pretty psyched,”Youssef said about his accom-plishment.
After turning 16 on Saturday,the Urbana resident became eli-gible for his student pilot certifi-cate, a document issued to pilotsin training. It is a prerequisite tofly alone in the plane.
To qualify, the pilot must be16 years of age, demonstrate Eng-lish language fluency and pass aflight physical administered byan aviation medical examiner,according to the Federal AviationAdministration’s website.
For his solo flight, Youssef’sflight instructor had to endorsethe student pilot certificate,deeming his student competentto fly on his own and giving writ-ten permission for the event toproceed. The FAA’s website saysthere is no minimum numberof flight instructional hours toachieve the certificate or fly solo.
The certificate carries cer-tain restrictions, such as notbeing able to fly at night or takepassengers.
Montgomery County Airparkinstructor Sharif Hidayat, who
has been teaching Youssef sinceJuly 2013, said he was pleasedwith Youssef’s performance.
“I would not have eversigned off on him if I didn’t thinkhe was ready, and he proved hewas,” he said.
Hidayat said he hopedYoussef’s milestone would in-spire other youths to learn aboutaviation and take advantage ofthe opportunities that the smallairpark offers.
Youssef reached this mile-stone at a young age, but it wasyears in the making. The Inter-national Baccalaureate studentsaid aviation has intrigued himsince childhood. He began tak-ing lessons at age 12 at FrederickFlight Center Inc. Twice a weekduring the summer, Youssef at-tended three-hour training ses-sions that were split into groundand in-flight instruction.
After taking lessons for ayear and a half, Youssef took abreak to make more time forschool and football. He startedtraining again this July, spend-ing about three hours each weekat the Montgomery County Air-park with Hidayat.
“I feel free when I’m flying,”Youssef said. “You can see theworld from up there. You cansee it from a different perspec-tive.”
Learning to fly isn’t a cheaphobby, according to Selim’smother, Hwaida Hassanein. Atwo-hour training session runsabout $200 to $250.
Youssef belongs to the Oc-topus Flying Club, a nonprofitorganization at the Gaithersburgairpark. The group has helpedoffset training expenses, Hassa-nein said.
By paying a monthly fee of
$75, Youssef gets access to threeplanes at the airpark, which hecan fly at any time. There is stillan hourly rate to use the aircraft,but the price is lower because ofthe club membership.
Hassanein said she is proudof her son, but was glad he wassafely back on the ground.
“I am so relieved,” she saidright after the flight. “I wascounting down the seconds un-til he touched back down.”
The young pilot doesn’t planon stopping here. When he turns17, he will be eligible to fly cross-cross country on his own, andcan take another step toward hisultimate goal of making a careerout of his hobby.
“I’d like to become a com-mercial pilot, without a doubt,”he said.
Sixteen-year-old boy pilots plane solo at Airpark
Youssef Selim of Urbana leaves the ground, making his first solo flight.
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Youssef Selim made his first solo flight in a Piper Warrior aircraft over the Montgomery County Airpark on Monday.
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The following is a summaryof incidents in the Bethesda areato which Montgomery Countypolice responded recently. Thewords “arrested” and “charged”do not imply guilt. This informa-tion was provided by the county.
Graffiti• On Sept. 14 or 15 in the
5200 block of Nicholson Lane,Kensington. No further informa-tion provided.
Residential burglary• 10400 block of Snow Point
Drive, Bethesda, between 9 a.m.and 8:30 p.m. Sept. 9. Forced en-try, took property.
• 5400 block of GrosvenorLane, Bethesda, at 10 a.m. Sept.11. Attempted forced entry, took
nothing.• 9200 block of Bardon
Road, Bethesda, on Sept. 11 or12. Attempted forced entry, tooknothing.
• 9500 block of NewbridgeDrive, Potomac, between Sept.11 and 13. Forced entry, tookproperty.
• 2300 block of Michigan Av-enue, Silver Spring, between 7a.m. and 1 p.m. Sept. 12. Forcedentry, took property.
• 4600 block of CheltenhamDrive, Bethesda, at 10:15 a.m.Sept. 14. Unknown entry, tooknothing.
Theft• On Sept. 11 between 9 and
11:30 a.m. in the 5400 blockof McGrath Boulevard, NorthBethesda. Took property from a
construction site.
Vehicle larceny• Four incidents in Friend-
ship Heights between Sept. 9and 17. Took cash, laptops andother small electronics. Affectedstreets include N. Park Avenue,Yorktown Road, S. Park Avenueand Harrison Street.
n Started with company38 years ago as a waiter
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFF WRITER
While earning a business ad-ministration degree at VillanovaUniversity, Robert J. McCarthystarted waiting tables at a res-taurant inside a Philadelphia-area Marriott hotel in 1975.
Little did he know that Mar-riott would be the only companyhe would work for in a 38-yearcareer.
McCarthy, the Bethesdahotel giant’s COO, will retirein February, company officialssaid this week. The 60-year-oldexecutive has held a wide varietyof positions within the companythroughout his career.
“Bob has been an admiredbusiness leader, sought-aftermentor and trusted colleague,both at Marriott and in the hos-pitality community,” MarriottCEO Arne Sorenson said in astatement. “Bill Marriott has of-ten noted Bob’s career successas a credit to his hard work, butalso as an example of the vital-ity of our company culture thatpromotes opportunity.”
From the waiter position,McCarthy advanced to becomeregional director of sales andmarketing for Marriott Hotels,Resorts and Suites by 1982. Hebecame a vice president foroperations and marketing forthe Fairfield Inn and Courtyardbrands in 1991, then senior vicepresident for the Northeast re-gion of Marriott Lodging in 1995.
McCarthy moved up to ex-ecutive vice president for opera-tions planning and support forMarriott Lodging in 2000, whenthe company operated or fran-chised about 2,000 properties.That number has almost dou-bled since then. He eventuallybecame group president acrossthe Americas and global lodgingservices, overseeing operationsat more than 3,000 hotels and120,000 employees. McCarthyhas remained active in his almamater, as he was appointed toVillanova’s board of trusteesearlier this year. He formerly wasa member of the Dean’s Advi-
sory Board at the Villanova Uni-versity School of Business andthe Cornell University School ofHotel Administration.
Last year, McCarthy, whoma spokeswoman said was un-available for comment, made$804,403 in salary and totalcompensation of $4.4 million,which included more that $2million in stock awards and op-tions, according to Marriott’smost recent proxy statement.The compensation was 22 per-cent higher than in 2011.
Rather than appoint anotherCOO right away, Marriott plansto give several other executives
broader responsibilities. DaveGrissen, group president, willfocus on global operations andoversee the Americas.
Stephanie Linnartz, execu-tive vice president and chiefbrand marketing and commer-cial officer, will assume leader-ship of technology.
Marriott COO plans to retire in February ROBERT J. MCCARTHYn Age: 60.
n Position: COO, Marriott International, Bethesda.
n Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, VillanovaUniversity. Advanced Management Program, Wharton School ofBusiness, University of Pennsylvania.
n Professional/community: Board chairman, Avendra LLC. Boardof Trustees, Villanova University. Dean’s Advisory Board formermember, Villanova University School of Business, Cornell UniversitySchool of Hotel Administration. Board member, Autism LearningCenter, ServiceSource Foundation.
n Residence: McLean, Va.
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n ‘There is not a greatdeal of clarity on the law’
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY
STAFF WRITER
Larry Gross has been pre-paring for Oct. 1 for quite awhile.
That day marked the open-ing of Maryland’s new healthcare exchange system, a key partof the federal Affordable CareAct. Individuals and familiescould start shopping for healthinsurance Tuesday, while smallbusinesses with from two to 50full-time employees in Mary-land can start applying Jan. 1.
“We’ve actually been pre-paring for this for a couple ofyears now,” said Gross, execu-tive director of market develop-ment for Rockville-based KaiserPermanente of the Mid-AtlanticStates.
Kaiser is one of severalhealth care companies offeringplans through the exchange,called Maryland Health Con-nection. With the system being
new, Gross expects a few bugsand delays, though it’s hard toknow what to expect.
“We don’t know how manypeople will sign up when openenrollment begins [Tuesday],”Gross said. “The coverage won’tbegin until Jan. 1. … We hopepeople will evaluate the optionsand make sure they make theright choices of what is best forthem.”
Maryland has been ahead ofthe curve in many ways in build-ing its own health insurance ex-change and preparing for openenrollment, Gross said. Mary-land is one of 16 states, alongwith Washington, D.C., operat-ing their own exchanges. Otherssuch as Virginia are allowing thefederal government to run theirexchanges.
“The idea for us is to keepit as simple as possible,” Grosssaid. “Maryland is limiting theplans to make them as simple aspossible, so people can under-stand what they are getting andcompare choices.”
While many employerslimit health plans to one or two
choices, the idea for the ex-change is to increase the pool ofplans and perhaps the costs willdrop. For a 50-year-old non-smoker in Maryland, premiumsrun from $278 a month to $470,
depending on which plan is se-lected. Tax credits and other as-sistance are available based onincome.
Kaiser has trained customerservice employees in case theyare called about the exchanges,Gross said. Individuals can signup for plans directly with Kaiser,but won’t be able to get the cred-
its and assistance in most casesunless they apply through anexchange, he said.
The system will allow formore choices for employers aswell as employees, Gross said.
“Rather than have an em-ployer pick the plan, employ-ees get to select the carrier theywant,” he said. “We think that isa great idea, both for individualsand small-group employers.”
Eric Feldstein, businessbanking market manager forGreater Washington, CentralMaryland and Virginia withM&T Bank, said small-businessclients he deals with in seekingloans are still uncertain aboutaspects of the law.
“It’s a top-of-the-line issuewith clients,” Feldstein said.“There is not a great deal of clar-ity on the law.”
Pregnancy protectiontook effect TuesdaySeveral new state laws
passed by the General Assem-bly earlier this year that impactbusinesses took effect Tuesday.
One will give pregnant em-ployees the same rights in manycases as disabled workers if their
condition is considered a dis-ability.
Maryland employers whoemploy 15 workers or moremust make “reasonable accom-modations” to a woman whoexperiences limitations due toher pregnancy, said GlendoraHughes, general counsel for theMaryland Commission on CivilRights.
Those accommodations canbe as simple as being able to getmore bathroom breaks, or canlead to a change to less strenu-ous job duties, she said.
“It’s up to a negotiation be-tween the employer and the em-ployee as to what is reasonable,”Hughes said. “The law providessuggestions. … The intent wasto provide as much guidance aspossible.”
Employers can require cer-tification from a medical physi-cian to the same extent as anytemporary disability, she said.
The ban on more semi-auto-matic handguns and rifles alsotakes effect Tuesday. A driverholding a cellphone in his or herhand in a vehicle also will be-come a primary offense in whicha police officer can stop a driver.
Area businesses begin preparing for health care changes
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n Money given for stayingin county, adding jobs
BY RYAN MARSHALLSTAFF WRITER
Six Montgomery Countycompanies will receive moneyfrom the state and county to re-main here.
The business-growth loanscome from the state’s EconomicDevelopment Assistance Au-thority and Fund.
They are geared toward ex-pansion or attraction, eitherhelping companies already inMaryland grow or attractingnew companies to the state,said Karen Glenn Hood, spokes-woman for the Maryland De-partment of Business andEconomic Development, whichoversees the fund.
The Montgomery CountyCouncil voted on Sept. 24 toadopt resolutions endorsingthe loans, which include countymoney, to the six companies,part of the process required forthe state to process the loans.
Each loan is conditional, tiedto benchmarks the companymust meet to keep the money,she said.
Among the factors the statelooks at when considering aloan is the fundamental healthof a company, whether it has astrong business plan, the com-pany’s bottom line and strongrevenues, she said.
The county wants to seethat a company will stay in thecounty for a specific length oftime, maintain the jobs it haswhen the agreement is signedand create a certain number ofjobs, said Peter Bang, chief op-erating officer for the county’sDepartment of Economic De-velopment.
Much of the county moneyoften is through tax credits,Bang said.
The county money can beconverted to grants if a companymeets the terms of its agree-ment, he said. State loans areconditional loans.
The six companies to receiveloans were:
• Meso Scale Diagnosticsof Rockville makes biologicaldetection and measurementequipment for the defense andintelligence industries.
It has 435 employees aroundthe world, about 75 percent ofwhich are based in Montgom-ery, according to a county mem-
orandum on the deals.The company plans to in-
crease its local workforce to morethan 438 over the next three years,in exchange for a conditional loanof $1.5 million from the state anda loan from the county’s Eco-nomic Development Fund of upto $1.67 million.
• Social and Scientific Sys-tems of Silver Spring providestechnical, research and manage-ment support for companies inthe health field.
It has 310 employees in thecounty and plans to hire 150more over five years.
The company will receive$650,000 in loans from the stateand $350,000 from the county.
• Sodexo of Gaithersburg, aninternational food services com-pany, employs 900 people in thecounty, according to the countymemorandum.
The company will stay at itscurrent location on Washing-tonian Boulevard for 10 moreyears, and will receive a loan of$2 million from the state and$1.5 million from the county.
• Sucampo Pharmaceuticalsof Bethesda will keep its corporateheadquarters and the accompa-nying 55 employees in Bethesdaand receive $300,000 from the
state and $200,000 from thecounty. Sucampo plans to add 55more jobs by the end of 2017.
• Total Wine and More ofPotomac has more than 90 su-perstores in 15 states and about310 employees in MontgomeryCounty. The company plans toadd about 150 more jobs by theend of 2018.
Total Wine and More willget $850,000 from the state and$500,000 from the county.
•Precision for Medicine,which works to commercializescientific research, has moved itscorporate offices and 16 employ-
ees to a new location in Bethesdaand will look to add at least 59more jobs by the end of 2017.
The company had previ-ously been located in a muchsmaller office in Bethesda, Bangsaid.
The company will receive$750,000 from the state and a$200,000 loan from the county.
While the corporate head-quarters will be in Bethesda, abiolab facility will be in Freder-ick.
All of the companies exceptPrecision for Medicine hadleases expiring and were look-
ing at moving to other areas,Bang said.
The county can’t offermoney to every company think-ing about leaving, he said, butit has databases and processesto determine which companiesthey attempt to focus on.
Often, it comes down towhat the damage would be tothe county or state if a companyleaves, and the opportunity costif a company stays, he said.
“Our job is not just to playthe real estate game,” he said.
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work Tuesday are paid with userfees, money outside the budget,he said.
The last time the govern-ment shut down in 1996, em-ployees were eventually repaidfor the closure. Whether em-ployees will get back pay thistime is up to Congress, said Jen-nifer Huergo, spokeswoman forthe National Institute of Stan-dards and Technology.
Reached Monday, Huergosaid she was among those whowould be furloughed during theshutdown.
During the 1996 shutdown,
which lasted three weeks, con-tractors were not reimbursed.
If all of Montgomery Coun-ty’s residents employed by thefederal government were out ofwork for one day, it would costthe county $500,000 in incometax revenue, County ExecutiveIsiah Leggett (D) said.
Should the federal govern-ment not repay employees fur-loughed by the shutdown, hesaid it will affect actual countyincome tax revenue. To lessenthe blow, Montgomery pre-pared for both federal furloughsby lowering its budgeted incometax revenue $60 million in fiscal2014, he said. Whether $60 mil-lion is enough cushion, Leggettsaid remains to be seen.
In 2011, federal jobs totaled46,020 in Montgomery, accord-ing to county data. The U.S. De-partment of Labor estimated thenumber of federal jobs in bothMontgomery and Frederickcounties at 51,400 in August 2013.
Many county residents workin federal jobs in Washington,D.C., or Northern Virginia. Ofthe county’s 971,771 residentsrecorded in the 2010 U.S. Cen-sus, 72,492 worked for the fed-eral government.
Federal agencies preparecontingency plans
The National Institute ofStandards and Technology
is part of the Department ofCommerce, which will keeponly about 6,000 of its 46,000employees on duty during theshutdown, according the de-partment’s contingency plan.
Most research at NIST wasscheduled to cease as well asmost research as the NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Ad-ministration in Silver Spring.
Officials were meeting Tues-day to discuss closure, expectingthe Gaithersburg office to closeabout 3 p.m.
In Bethesda, the NationalInstitutes of Health will continuepatient care for current ClinicalCenter patients and provide ani-mal care services to protect thehealth of its animals, according
to information from the Office ofManagement and Budget.
It will maintain only mini-mal staff to safeguard facili-ties and infrastructure and willnot admit new patients unlessdeemed medically necessary bythe NIH director, and will dis-continue some veterinary ser-vices.
Contractors could see fur-loughs, bid delays
Lockheed Martin is keepingits facilities open and employeeswill continue to receive pay andbenefits unless directed other-wise by customers, companyofficials said Tuesday in a state-ment.
The impact on operations,work force and subcontractorsduring the shutdown “dependson individual contract terms,”Lockheed spokeswoman Jen-nifer Allen said. In fiscal 2012,Lockheed was the federalgovernment’s largest singlecontractor with $37 billion incontract dollars obligated to thecompany, according to federalfigures.
About $3.7 billion in federalcontractors to companies in theWashington region, which ismore than 20 percent, were ad-versely affected by funding de-lays during the 1996 shutdown,according to a CongressionalResearch Service report.
Nymeo Federal CreditUnion, which has offices inFrederick, Gaithersburg, Ger-mantown and Adelphi, willallow temporary reduced pay-ment for loans and even skippedpayments to customers who arefurloughed due to a shutdown.While its offices in federal build-ings such as at the NationalInstitute of Standards and Tech-nology will likely close, otherbranches will be open and haveincreased staff.
Some contracts awarded byfederal agencies are specifiedthat awardees have the abilityto find private funding for thoseprojects. That’s the case withRockville-based Standard Solar,which builds and installs solarelectric systems, when it was re-cently selected by the U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers, Engineeringand Support Center to developphotovoltaic solar systems onArmy facilities. Standard So-lar was one of 22 companies to
be chosen under the MultipleAward Task Order Contractsprogram, which qualifies thosebusinesses to compete for futuresolar projects.
“The awarded companieshave been qualified by the U.S.Army to have the capacity tobring private sector funding toeach of the awarded projects,so funding is not impacted bygovernment shutdowns or ex-tended sequestrations,” saidJohn Finnerty, director of busi-ness development for StandardSolar.
The Greater WashingtonBoard of Trade recommendscompanies that contract withthe government confirm ar-rangements with regular con-tractors and suppliers in writing,and detailed documentation ofcorrespondence should be keptin case future disagreementsarise.
National park visitorsasked to leave
Visitors to national parks,including the Chesapeake andOhio Canal and Glen Echo parksin Montgomery County, wereasked to leave Tuesday as ParkService employees worked toclose and secure park facilitiesand grounds.
The park service will sus-pend all activities during theshutdown, except those neededto respond to emergencies, andwill furlough 21,379 of its 24,645employees, according to Man-agement and Budget data.
Adventure Theatre MTChad to abandon its site in GlenEcho Park because of the shut-down, moving all activities to itsWintergreen Plaza location inRockville, according to a newsrelease. Adventure Theatre MTCprovides children with theaterclasses, camps and productions.
Michael J. Bobbitt, produc-ing artistic director, said in astatement that the theater wasprepared for the effect the shut-down would have on his organi-zation. But he was also confidentthat lawmakers would find a wayto fund the government beforeit required Adventure TheatreMTC to cancel performances.
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Capital Crescent Trail.The plans now offer two possibili-
ties of raising the train over the trailto create a pedestrian underpass. Itwould mean taking private propertyfrom homeowners on Lynn Drive.
“None of the alternatives areworkable or acceptable,” said townCouncilman David Lublin at a Sept.11 meeting.
About 232 people cross the trailevery day, according to the MarylandTransit Administration.
Initially, the MTA’s conceptualdesign included an at-grade crossing.It was to be the only at-grade pedes-trian crossing on the Purple Line be-tween Bethesda and Lyttonsville thatwas not at a light rail station.
The idea was dropped after thestate cited safety reasons, accordingto documents.
A pedestrian overpass was alsoruled out because it could not meetthe requirements of the Americanswith Disabilities Act. State engineersnixed a pedestrian tunnel over flood-ing fears.
The town hopes that the analy-sis will be complete in time for it tosubmit comments about the envi-ronmental impact study before theMTA’s Oct. 21 deadline, said JohnBickerman, a town council member.
Other requests are likely now thatthe environmental impact study hasbeen released, said Joy Nurmi, specialassistant to the county executive.
“Lyttonsville and the country clubwere early exceptions, because theywere known,” Nurmi said.
She added that the county washappy and willing to “put together ateam to help people” navigate the sys-tem. The proposed Purple Line routeis “not cast in stone,” she said.
The country club’s agreement,signed by the Maryland Transit
Administration and MontgomeryCounty, called for the shift in thetracks in exchange for the club haltingall opposition to the Purple Line, in-cluding filing or funding lawsuits. Theclub also got the the transit authorityand county to agree to meet with themat least every three months. The ar-rangement was made public becauseof a request under public records lawfiled by The Washington Post.
But in a letter written on Sept. 30to County Executive Isiah Leggett,Council members Roger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda and Valerie Ervin(D-Dist. 5) of Takoma Park expresseddissatisfaction with only learning ofthe agreement with the country clubthrough the media.
They urged Leggett to make clearthat the arrangement with the countryclub was in the public interest and didnot reflect any preferential treatment.
“We believe it is important for youto state unequivocally that the fullweight of the County, and your office
in particular, stands ready to assistcommunities along the full length ofthe Purple Line alignment to mini-mize adverse impacts,” Berliner andErvin wrote in the letter.
In response, Leggett (D) wrote aletter dated the same day that the Co-lumbia Country Club was not the onlyplace where property owners’s wisheshave been accommodated.
He cited the Lyttonsville Commu-nity Civic Association’s victory earlierthis year in convincing Purple Lineplanners to move a rail yard facility.
In a letter to the county executive,Charlotte A. Coffield, the president ofthe civic association, thanked Leggettand his staff for their help.
“I wish you could have been thereto witness the smiles, high fives andhugs,” Coffield wrote. “We look for-ward to continuing to work with MTAas the Purple Line project progressesin our area.”
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which would allow access toboth the Red and Purple lines,according to county documents.
Purple Line planners havemade it clear that they wouldneed to sweeten the incentivesfor the owner to get on board.But at the meeting, Elza Hisel-McCoy, a county planner, ad-mitted that even offering the
owner additional density wouldnot be enough to “bring thebuilding down in time.”
Between $5 million and $10million in public money mightbe needed to get the buildingowner to cooperate, accordingto an economic analysis.
Without tearing down theApex building, the station’s plat-form will have to fit into the exist-ing tunnel, Hisel-McCoy said. Ifthe tunnel is rebuilt, it can be wid-ened to make it safer and more
accommodating for passengers.“It’s not a financial thing —
it’s a logistics thing,” said Fran-coise Carrier, the chairwomanof the planning board. “It’s try-ing to create an incentive to teardown the building, so we canhave a better station.”
Planning Board Commis-sioner Casey Anderson askedwhether the station could be builtwithout razing the Apex building,then rehabilitated at a later time.The plan is good, but the timing
seems bad, Anderson said.“At some future date, maybe
the stars will align and they canimplement a different plan,” An-derson said.
But the consensus was thatwas not possible.
The staff draft of the mi-nor master plan was approved,with edits. There will be a pub-lic hearing on Nov. 7 before theplanning board.
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A rendering of what the Bethesda Purple Line sta-tion, complete with a 92-foot ventilation tower,would look like if the owners of the Apex buildingdon’t agree to be part of the redevelopment.
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SSCCHHOOOLOLLLIIFFEESCHOOLLIFEThe Gazette
Andrew Leddy is an English teacherat Springbrook High School in SilverSpring. He was interviewed at theschool Sept. 25.
In an email you sent, you stressedthe importance of reading for highschool students. You wrote, “Simply put,
we are in the midst of a reading andknowledge crisis.” Can you tell me moreabout this?
[The students] are not reading, theysimply don’t read. So I created a Spring-brook Reading List. Last spring I askedevery English teacher: tell me what youthink are the most important books [forstudents] to read in high school. Therewere 18 teachers. This list is limited tonovels. We need another for plays, po-ems and speeches.
So you turned the list into a poster[listing 60 books] and that is in everyclassroom?
The English Department created
the graphic. The larger the type size [onthe poster], the more frequently thenovel title was mentioned by teachers.
This isn’t an absolute, its represent-ing a real nice foundation in literature,a core of books we think are really im-portant.
Have you presented this to yourclass?
Oh yeah! The problem is, it’s asthough they didn’t know these bookswere out there. What I didn’t want wasfor a kid to get out of school and say no-body ever told me to read. If they lookat all the people who made this list andtalk to them about it or ask why, that’s a
start. My biggest problem is boys, theyjust don’t read. As a teacher I know theyare cutting themselves short, stuntingtheir progress.
Do you think the schools are ignor-ing reading for STEM [Science, Technol-ogy, Engineering and Math]?
Sure we do. I really think we needto up our requirements and give themmore reading of the classics and em-phasize writing on what they read.
Do you have a favorite book on thislist?
So much of what I’m into is thingsthat are culturally significant. Whenthey miss reading them they miss outon cultural allusions. Take Franken-stein [by Mary Shelley]. The idea of anexperiment overtaking us. That’s rel-evant when you talk about science, ge-netically modified seed. It seems smallbut I think it’s big, the beginning of in-dustrial agriculture, worries and fears.At the end it’s just a great chase story.Who is the monster? The creator or thecreated?
What is your plan for the list?At Back to School Night get every
English teacher to talk about it. I wantthis to be schoolwide, to get parentsto know the way to get into IB [Inter-national Baccalaureate] and AP [Ad-vanced Placement], you need to read.I only have 45 minutes a day [with thestudents] so it’s about impressing onthe student the need to read.
I read a lot of books, one is “TheShallows” [by Nicholas Carr] aboutwhat the Internet is doing to our brains,
another is “The Dumbest Generation”[by Mark Bauerlein]. The evidence isthat despite all the information [youngpeople] have at their hands, they aren’tsmart.
I don’t want to be Chicken Littlehere, but I don’t want to understate iteither.
So what is the role of parents?I can’t say it enough, parents need
to be impressing upon students howimportant [reading] is. I defy the worldto find a Nobel Laureate that did notstart off with books. It’s about curiosity,it’s of enormous cultural importance,it’s a big deal. Everybody is saying theyare going to college but I can say theywould do much better [in college] ifthey start here.
Is this a new mission for you?In a sense it is. I’m getting really
worried about this generation. We’renot getting the best citizens we couldhave. I would like to challenge otherteachers, other schools, to come upwith their own lists. It would be inter-esting to see [them], every school wouldbe different.
To see the Springbrook Reading Listvisit www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/springbrookhs.
“Voices in Education” is a twice-monthly feature that highlights themen and women who are involved withthe education of Montgomery County’schildren. To suggest someone youwould like to see featured e-mail PeggyMcEwan at [email protected].
VOICES IN EDUCATION
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Andrew Leddy, an English teacher at Springbrook High School, Silver Spring, in his class-room on Friday.
AndrewLeddy
n Age: 53
n Job title: English teacher,Springbrook High School, SilverSpring
n Hometown: Colorado Springs,Colo.
n Education: Bachelor of Arts,Russian Studies, University ofVirginia, 1982; Master of Arts,Slavic Languages and Literatures,UVA, 1986; Masters of Teaching,Johns Hopkins University 2006
n Favorite activity/vacation spot:Avid runner; Colorado mountainclimber
n Lesson to live by: “The imaginationwill not perform until it has beenflooded by a vast torrent ofreading.” Petronius (27-66 A.D.)
EDUCATION NOTEBOOKBaker students get
firsthand career knowledgeEighth-grade students at
Baker Middle School in Damas-cus got a head start makingcareer choices at the school’sannual Career Day on Sept. 27.
Almost two dozen parents,teachers and communitymembers spent the morn-ing at the school talking tostudents about what they doand the training it took to getwhere they are.
Students selected five talksthey would like to attend. Theygot to attend three of theirchoices. Each session lasted 30minutes.
“It was a fabulous day.We had a good bunch of pre-senters,” said Cindy Loweth,counseling secretary at Baker.“They kept the kids involvedand answered lots of ques-tions.”
Among the 21 career pro-fessionals speaking with thestudents were teachers, medicalprofessionals, business people,engineers, public safety chiefs,accountants, contractors andcomputer specialists.
Residents encouragedto participate inWalk to School Day
County’s focus school forthe event will be KensingtonParkwood Elementary School
Students, parents and com-munity members throughout
Montgomery County will cel-ebrate International Walk toSchool Day Oct. 9 by walking orbicycling to school as a healthyway to start the day.
Walk to School Day wasfounded in 1997 as a way tobring community leaders andchildren together to promotemore walkable communi-ties, safer streets for walkingand biking, healthier habitsand cleaner air. It become“International” in 2000, whenCanada and the United King-dom joined with the U.S. tocelebrate. Around the globe,International Walk to SchoolMonth brings together more
than 40 countries in recogni-tion of the common interestin walking to school. Thefirst-ever National Bike toSchool Day took place on May9, 2012, as part of NationalBike Month. Nearly 1,000 lo-cal events in 49 states acrossthe U.S. encouraged childrento safely bicycle or walk toschool.
Last year, 47 schools inMontgomery County par-ticipated in Walk to SchoolDay and this year all schoolsare encouraged to organize anevent. Students who would liketo participate but live too farfrom school are encouraged to
carpool part of the distance andwalk the rest of the way.
This year, the county’s fo-cus school for the event will beKensington Parkwood Elemen-tary School, 4710 Saul Road,Kensington.
For more information aboutWalk to School Day or organiz-ing an event at a local school,contact Nadji Kirby, 240-777-7169 or [email protected] or visit thecounty’s website.
Discussion on mindfulnessto be held at Whitman HS
Walt Whitman High SchoolStressbusters Committee in-vites parents and students of allages to learn about and experi-ence mindfulness and medita-tion at 7:30 p.m. Monday atthe Walt Whitman High Schoolauditorium, 7100 Whittier Blvd.,Bethesda.
Tara Brach, founder of In-sight Meditation Communityof Washington, and U.S. Con-gressman Tim Ryan, (D-Ohio),author of “A Mindful Nation,”will lead a discussion: Cultivat-ing Resilience: How Mindful-ness Training can BenefitStudents and the Adults whoNurture Them.
They will share the grow-ing body of empirical andanecdotal evidence on the ben-efits of mindfulness for youth,educators and parents both inthe classroom and out, as wellas how to use mindfulness tomanifest our full potential and
in responding to life’s stressorswith clarity and balance. At-tendees will be able to exploremeditation practice first-hand.Suggested donation for the eve-ning is $10, cash or check only.No reservations are necessary.For more information call 301-675-3177.
MCPS to host forum onalcohol and drug abuse
preventionMontgomery County Public
Schools, in collaboration withcounty and nonprofit partners,is scheduled to host a commu-nity forum on youth substanceabuse and prevention from6:30-9 p.m. Monday at RichardMontgomery High School,250 Richard Montgomery Dr.,Rockville.
The event, titled “Time toTalk: Alcohol and other DrugAbuse Prevention Forum,” isbeing coordinated by MCPS,the Montgomery County PoliceDepartment, the MontgomeryCounty Collaboration Council,the Montgomery County Al-liance to Prevent Youth Sub-stance Abuse and the Brave andBold Coalition. There will bea resource fair, presentations,and a question-and-answersession.
“Recognizing and prevent-ing substance abuse in our chil-dren is a very important topicfor our schools, our families,and our community at large,”said Superintendent of SchoolsJoshua P. Starr in a statement.
“It is an issue that will requireus to collaborate on solutionsthat will help our young peoplemaking healthy choices, sothey can lead productive lives.”Among those expected to speakat the event are Starr and otherMCPS staff members, as wellexperts in the area of substanceabuse and prevention, includ-ing: Dr. James M. Bjork, pro-gram officer, National Instituteon Drug Abuse; Dr. RaymondCrowel, chief, MontgomeryCounty Behavioral Health andCrisis Services; and Sgt. KeithMatthis, Montgomery CountyPolice Department.
To register for the forumvisit www.montgomeryschool-smd.org.
Norwood to hostSecondary School Fair
The 15th Annual SecondarySchool Fair is scheduled to beheld from 6-8 p.m. Thursdayat Norwood School, 8821 RiverRoad, Bethesda.
Admission representativesfrom more than 100 day andboarding schools will be avail-able to answer questions as wellas provide information on theapplication process, tuition andfinancial aid, curricular and ex-tracurricular offerings, class sizeand what makes their schoolsunique.
Admission to the fair is free.For more information con-
tact Cathy Russo at NorwoodSchool, 301-841-2101, or [email protected].
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n Competition boosts availability
BY LLOYD BATZLERSTAFF WRITER
The suburbs are wired.High-speed Internet access is available
to more than nine of every 10 households inMontgomery County, making it one of thenation’s most connected communities.
“Government [online] services will gowhere the technology enables,” said GaryH. Arlen, whose Bethesda-based researchcompany Arlen Communications LLC hasmonitored industry and government infor-mation-technology trends for more thantwo decades. “We are one of those rare mar-kets with multiple sources for broadband,both wired and wireless.”
The Federal Communications Commis-sion’s annual look at broadband penetra-tion found cable-television services werewithin reach of 93 percent of Montgomery’shouseholds and newer, fiber-optic conduitswere available to 78 percent of the county’shomes last year.
Commercial Internet service providersclosely guard customer subscription data,but analysts say the pace of broadband ac-cess connections is accelerating nationwide.
Seventy percent of adults have an Inter-net connection at home, up 4 percent froma year earlier, according to a survey fromthe Pew Internet & American Life Projectreleased in late August.
As wireless phone companies upgradetheir networks and adjust pricing, morecustomers are expected to access the Inter-net with wireless smartphones, tablets andother portable devices, analysts say.
At the same time, gaps remain becauseof escalating monthly costs, the location ofcables and transmission towers.
“Anecdotally, there are places in myhouse where my wireless service doesn’twork, and I’ll walk 20 feet to another roomand it does,” Arlen said. “Those are infra-structure issues that are beyond the grasp oflocal governments.”
Reliability is improving. A separate fed-eral study published last winter confirmedmost Internet providers were delivering onthe guarantees of speed — about 96 percentof the time, the advertised speed was beingmet during prime-use hours, when demandis greatest.
As performance increases, so do prices,even in markets with fierce competition. Thatposes a problem for government services on-line, since some families have limited access,having to rely on often-crowded libraries orgovernment centers for Internet-connectedcomputers. A springtime Commerce Depart-ment report showed less than half of U.S.households with incomes less than $25,000 ayear had broadband connections.
“Clearly, there is the question of afford-ability,” Arlen said. “The poor can get ex-ploited and can’t get access.”
Maryland is one of six states participat-ing in a test program funded by the FCC toprovide wireless broadband access to thepoor, similar to a generations-old “lifelineservice” that subsidized dial-up telephoneservice. Findings are due within a year.
A region ripefor digitalgovernmentservices
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Garrett Park Mayor Peter Benjamin straightens items on the official town bulletin board inside the Garrett Park post office.
trade group, says newspapers arewidely read and their websites visitedfar more often than local governmentsites.
The debate is destined to rekindlein January, when the Maryland Gen-eral Assembly reconvenes for its 2014session.
Government groups have an allyin Del. Jeffrey D. Waldstreicher (D-Dist. 18) of Kensington, whose 2013session bill would have let local gov-ernments post most legal notices ontheir own websites. Similar bills inthe legislature failed in 2010, 2011and 2012.
Several Montgomery Countystate legislators have signed on topast versions of the bills.
Conversely, Sen. Karen S. Mont-gomery (D-Dist. 14) of Brookevillehelped defeat a proposal in a Senatecommittee in 2011. She said in a re-cent interview that printed newspa-pers are valuable and more reliableresources than the electronic world,especially for older people.
This year, the House Environmen-tal Matters Committee referred Wald-streicher’s bill to “summer study,” orfurther discussion after the session.
Waldstreicher said a compromisecould come by figuring a reasonabletransition from print to online, al-though he wasn’t ready to be specific.
Jack Murphy, MDDC’s execu-tive director, can’t imagine a middleground if it means pulling back onnewspaper notices. The association
firmly believes printed notices are ef-fective in relaying information.
“They just don’t come to gripsthat newspapers have far greaterreadership than government web-sites,” said Murphy, a former editorof The Gazette.
Karen Acton, the president andCEO of Post-Newsweek Media LLC,which includes The Gazette, saidsome rural areas still use dial-up In-ternet access.
Minorities and senior citizens,with less Internet access, would bedisproportionately inconveniencedif they had to get information online,she said.
Legal notices cover an array ofgovernment-related proceedings andproposals, such as annexations, char-ter amendments and zoning regula-tions. They give the public a chance toreact and participate in the process.
Lawmakers who support a shiftin notices have proposed accom-modations for those needing printedinformation. Governments would berequired to mail printed copies of le-gal notices to anyone who signs up,at no charge.
In addition, governments wouldhave to annually buy a newspaper adtelling the public where to find futurelegal notices.
Garrett Park Mayor Peter Ben-jamin backs Waldstreicher’s legal-notice bill. He thinks the currentstructure unfairly imposes a one-size-fits-all requirement.
Residents there have several waysto stay apprised of their government:by email, an online listserv, a townnewspaper, the town’s website, Ben-
jamin said.In addition, Garrett Park, with
a population of about 1,000, has nohome mail delivery. So, people regu-larly go to the post office, where thetown hangs notices, Benjamin said.
He objects to small governmentsbeing directed to spend money on anad buried in the back of a larger re-gional newspaper.
Listservs in small communi-ties “are essentially the digital townsquare that much of the communityis engaged with,” Waldstreicher said.
But Murphy said larger municipal-ities need a good central repository forinformation. Legal notices in newspa-pers reach people who might not evenknow to look for them, he said.
Money is an undercurrent in thebattle.
But Acton said communication,not money, is the driving force. ForThe Gazette, legal notices coveredunder the bill make up less than 2percent of the newspaper’s advertis-ing revenue. They’re sold at a lowerrate than other ads.
Other types of required legal no-tices in newspapers, such as for fore-closure auctions or people legallychanging their name, come from pri-vate entities — usually lawyers — andare excluded from the bill. Those no-tices make up most of the ads in TheGazette’s business and politics edi-tion, known as the Business Gazette.
A Maryland Association of Coun-ties chart shows that 15 counties andBaltimore City spent $1.9 million topublish legal notices in fiscal 2010.Spending from the other eight coun-ties was not available.
Costs didn’t necessarily corre-spond to size. Montgomery Countywas listed at $213,894, about half asmuch as Anne Arundel County, de-spite having about twice Anne Arun-del’s population.
A Maryland Municipal Leaguechart shows total legal-notice ex-penses for some municipalities cov-ering fiscal years 2008 to 2010. Amongthem: Rockville ($41,000), Poolesville($9,792) and Kensington ($4,000).
Waldstreicher said his goal is “tosave my municipalities money.”
Sen. Montgomery, though, saidnewspapers are local businesses,too, and wondered why governmentwouldn’t help them survive.
In written testimony earlier thisyear, Candice Donaho, MML’s direc-tor of governmental relations, won-dered why newspapers claim to bethe best source of information whiletheir circulation drops “drasticallyyear after year” and people turn moreto the Internet.
Media representatives counterthat newspapers also post legal no-tices on their websites, which havemany times more visits and clicksthan government websites get, andon the press association’s website.
The press has an essential civicduty of being a watchdog and ensur-ing transparency, said Acton, a for-mer MDDC board president.
Murphy sees an inherent flaw inthe cost-saving claim driving recentbills: If everyone who reads legal no-tices asks for mailed printed copies,“it would be ferociously expensive.”
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“They just don’t come to grips thatnewspapers have far greaterreadership than government websites.”
[Listservs in small communities]“are essentially the digital townsquare that much of thecommunity is engaged with.”
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As state’s attorney and as sher-iff for Montgomery County we re-view numbers and statistics daily.However, there is no number ofwhich we are more proud thanthe number zero. That’s becausewe experienced zero domesticviolence related homicides in thiscounty in the entire calendar yearof 2010 and the same so far thisyear.
As a long-time prosecutor anda career sheriff, we are both pain-fully aware of the fact that all toooften, if a woman living in thiscounty were the victim of a homi-cide, it likely would have occurredduring the course of a domesticviolence incident.
It is with this in mind, andbecause of our joint concern, wecame together to attack this prob-lem with innovative and holisticapproaches; not only to addressmurders but also to address theassociated problems of domesticabuse.
On April 29, 2009, Montgomery
County opened the doors of theFamily Justice Center and changedthe way we, as a county, respond todomestic violence victims. No lon-ger do victims have to travel fromplace to place, retelling their sto-ries (often with children in tow) inorder to seek protection, counsel-ing, investigations of criminal acts,emergency and legal services. Thenew FJC relocated these services inone family-friendly space.
Domestic violence is the lead-ing cause of injury to women inthe United States. The U.S. Depart-ment of Justice estimates that inmore than half of families affectedby domestic violence, children wit-ness the abuse. These children areat greater risk of entering child pro-tective services, the juvenile justicesystem and later in life; the adultcriminal justice system.
The FJC has served nearly5,000 victims and their children.[“County volunteers provide 24-hour support to victims of sexualassault,” Sept. 4] These survivors
seek a life without abuse. The ma-jority of them return multiple timesfor services. This program is meet-ing the needs of these families.
The Montgomery County FJChas become the model of servicesfor the entire mid-Atlantic regionwith innovations such as videolinks to the courts for protectionorders, collaborations with pri-vate nonprofits and the gener-ous support of more than 1,000donors from the community andthe corporate world to the FJCFoundation.
We realize that the FJC may beour finest example of how publicand private partnerships can to-gether help us build a safer andmore caring community. We wouldlike to extend our appreciation toVerizon and Kaiser Permanente,among others, for their continuedgenerosity and support of our ef-forts through the FJC Foundation.The Annual FJC Foundation’s Ben-efit Gala will be held from 5 p.m. to9 p.m. Oct. 13 at the Bethesda Hy-
att Regency (registration at www.mcfjcfoundation.org). This is thepublic’s chance to see how bene-factors and practitioners collabo-rate to help survivors.
Our daily mission with the FJCremains simple yet challenging —saving lives. We are committed tothat goal.
And with further publicawareness, more resources andcontinued community and cor-porate commitment we can makeevery month (not just October)less about domestic violenceabuse and more about the num-ber zero — zero murders, zerodomestic violence victims andzero tolerance of domestic abuse.
John McCarthy, Rockville
Darren Popkin, Olney
The writers are, respectively,the Montgomery County state’sattorney and the MontgomeryCounty sheriff.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
I refer to the news item, “Montgomeryprogram tries to discourage donations topanhandlers” [Sept. 9]. These panhandlerspace along the median strips for severalhours each day with a cardboard sign inhand.
They are actually working long hourssupporting themselves under difficult per-sonal circumstances. Just look across themedian strip to the sidewalk and one willfind young people twirling signs asking peo-ple to visit a furniture store, or a gold jewelryshop, or some other commercial enterprise.
This second category are paid by the busi-nesses and from the economy point of view,they are contributing to society. Then, how dowe convert the effort of the first category intoan economic activity? The county (or city),businesses, and charities (representing do-nors) form a partnership and do the following:
• Ban panhandling.• Give them jobs doing the same thing,
i.e. pacing while holding a card board sign— but with a different message.
• Pay them wages to compensate theearnings they would have made by theirdiscontinued profession, viz., panhandling.
For example, they can stand about 500feet ahead of a red light camera or a speed-zone camera warning drivers that there issuch a camera. Another cardboard sign mightsay, “stop using cellphones while driving.”
In general, we should look for ways toconvert them into beneficial workers. Hold acontest and people will give ideas on how touse their skills in ways beneficial to the society.
Som Karamchetty, Potomac
Turn panhandlersinto workers
President George W. Bushfamously admonished hispolitical foes, “Don’t messwith Texas.” But Texas nowis messing with Maryland.Texas Governor Rick Perry isfilling Maryland’s airwaveswith 60-second spots aimedat luring many of Maryland’sresidents and business own-ers to the Lone Star state.
What is Texas’s allure?It certainly is not the cli-
mate. Maryland has four realseasons, with glorious springsand unforgettable autumns.Texas has two — hot and hot-ter (and more humid).
It certainly is not theschools. K-12 public schools inMaryland, particularly in Mont-gomery and Howard counties,are some of the top rated in thecountry. Texas’s schools, with afew exceptions, are inferior.
It certainly is not the col-leges. Johns Hopkins and theUniversity of Maryland systemare second to none in highereducation, and they certainlyare not second to any collegesand universities in Texas.
It certainly is not transpor-tation. Maryland is served bymultiple world class airports andinterstate highways that connectthe state with the largest markets
and population centers in thecountry.Marylandhasoneofthebest ports (the port of Baltimore)inthewholecountry,connectingMaryland with the commerce oftheworld.Texas’stransportationsystem does not measure up.
It certainly is not the cul-ture. Maryland’s cultural op-portunities in the arts andsports compare very favorablyto those in Texas. The Rangersand the Cowboys have nothingon the Orioles and the Ravens.
But Texas trumps all ofMaryland’s advantages in cli-mate, culture, transportationand education with a singleconcept: Opportunity. Oppor-tunity to start a business. Op-portunity to grow a business.Opportunity to keep more ofwhat that business earns.
For the past five years,Maryland’s taxes have beenincreasing, and its businessregulations have been multi-plying. This business unfriendlyenvironment has forced thou-sands of residents and smallbusinesses to seek shelter outof state.
Many of Maryland’s over-taxed upper bracket earnershave moved across the riverto more business-friendlyVirginia, saving thousands in
yearly taxes, while reducingtheir businesses’ regulatoryburdens. Indeed, between 2001and 2010, more than 66,000Marylanders fled the “FreeState” (or more aptly, the “feestate,” as Gov. Perry refers toMaryland in his radio ads).
Thousands more Mary-landers are planning to followsuit this year, as some Marylandcounties, like Montgomery, flirtwith even more egregious busi-ness regulations, like a $15 min-imum wage and even highertaxes on upper bracket earners.All the while, Texas’s businessclimate has become increas-ingly business-friendly, and itcharges no state income tax. AsMaryland has lost $5.5 billionin state income, as it has shedthousands of upper bracketearners and their businesses,Texas has gained $17.6 billion.
While Texas understandsthat you can collect the goldeneggs (jobs and tax revenues)produced by the golden goose(business), Maryland is aboutto learn that when you chokethe golden goose, there are nomore golden eggs.
Dan Bongino, Severna ParkThe writer is a Republican
candidate for Maryland’s 6thCongressional District.
Texas has nothing onMaryland, except opportunity
Each year, before “American Idol” kicks itssinging competition in high gear, the show fo-cuses on the people who audition to be a part ofthe show. Though viewers see a number of tal-ented singers progress, the show has capitalizedon the clueless contestants who miss the highnotes, who can’t keep a beat, who don’t know thelyrics.
Something similar is playing out at the Coun-cil Office Building in Rockville. The MontgomeryCounty Council has received a proposal to in-crease the salaries of the county executive andthe nine members of the council. It is, sadly, an
excellent example ofpolitical cluelessness.
Under the pro-posal — submitted by acommission seated toconsider the compen-sation levels of electedofficials — the countyexecutive’s pay would
increase from $180,250 to $190,000 per year, a5.4 percent increase. For the next three years ofthe executive’s term, he or she would get a payincrease equal to inflation. A council member’ssalary would climb from $104,022 per year to$125,000, a 20 percent increase. Likewise, councilmembers also would receive annual inflation-based raises for the remaining years of the term.
The council president, elected by membersof the council to one-year terms, would continueto receive a 10 percent increase over the councilmember’s base pay.
Current officeholders would not see the raisesunless they are re-elected in the November 2014elections. And the raises are not a done deal. Thecouncil can accept the recommendations as theyare, lower them or reject them. They should berejected.
According to the report that came with thecommission’s recommendations, the countyexecutive deserves the raise because of the com-plexity of running the county. It also noted thatthe Prince George’s County executive is paidmore.
“Both counties are part of the Washington, D.C.,metropolitan area and share similar characteristics,but Montgomery County has a higher population;fairness dictates that the salary of the County Ex-ecutive for Montgomery County be comparable toor slightly high than the County Executive salary forPrince George’s County.”
In a perfect world, the comparison mightmake sense. But in this imperfect world, such acomparison just means the two counties will getinto an endless cycle of one executive’s salary in-crease justifying the next one’s.
For the council members, the same panellooked through the opposite end of the telescope.What other jurisdictions pay their legislative bodywas ignored in favor of far less tangible consider-ations: “The Councilmember salary should moreaccurately reflect the scope, complexity, and lead-ership responsibilities of the job and the value andthe demands placed on the position by the com-munity.”
Curiously, while the commission believesMontgomery County Council members deserveto be paid $125,000 a year, it barely acknowledgesthat Fairfax County, Va., pays its supervisors$75,000. That county is a bit larger, and equallycomplex. By its earlier logic, the panel should berecommending the same salary, or slightly lower.
No one should object that a county executiveor County Council member should be well paid.It is a tough job. But such large pay increases now,when the region hasn’t convincingly escaped theGreat Recession, is not much better than a tonedeaf “American Idol” contestant. Except with theTV show, viewers can change the channel and suchsilliness is soon forgotten. These recommendationswill be around, possibly for four more years, andtaxpayers can’t switch them.
Then there’s Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), whoshared last month he felt “stuck” making $172,000a year in Congress. There’s no reason to believeany of our council members feel similarly “stuck,”but Councilwoman Valerie Ervin (D-Dist. 5) of Ta-koma Park did say many people choose not to runfor office because of concerns over whether theycan make it work financially. The salary commis-sion’s report says the county’s median householdincome is $95,000. Anyone interested in serving thepeople of Montgomery should be able to providefor his or her family comfortably.
The council should recognize that they andthe county executive are already paid hand-somely. If they feel compelled to approve anyincrease, leave it to cost of living. That’s a tunealmost everyone can sing.
An off-keysalary proposal
COMMISSIONMISSES NOTESIN EXECUTIVE,COUNCIL PAY
RAISES
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There was considerable rejoicing inBaltimore city this week when GeorgeMason University released a study say-ing that, compared to Detroit, Pitts-burgh, Chicago, Providence and SanBernardino, Baltimore is on “reason-ably solid financial footing” and is dem-onstrating “financial resiliency.”
Of course those other five cities areall basket cases (two are in bankruptcy),so being best of the lot isn’t so hot.
The Baltimore Sun highlightedthe parts ofthe reportcrediting Balti-more’s successto sound citymanagementprovided by astrong-mayorsystem whichlets the city’sBoard of Es-timates (con-trolled by themayor) writethe city budgetand run thecity’s finances without interferencefrom the City Council, which can onlylower the spending levels, not in-crease them.
But if you actually read the GeorgeMason report it tells a much differentstory. What’s really keeping Baltimoreafloat isn’t its mayor or its charter, it’sthe billions of dollars the state of Mary-land pours into the city every year.
Baltimore runs on OPM: otherpeople’s money. Much of what taxpay-ers in Maryland’s 23 counties send toAnnapolis is recycled to Baltimore asdirect and indirect state aid. Thanks tothe city’s political muscle, decades ofgovernors who were former Baltimoremayors (Schaefer, O’Malley) or city pol-iticians (Mandel, Hughes) and a liberalstate legislature, Baltimore now is themost subsidized city in America.
State taxpayers pick up the tab forthe city’s community college (othercommunity colleges are mostly lo-cally funded); for the city’s metrorail,metrobus and light rail operating andcapital costs; for the city jail’s con-struction and operating costs (countyjails are locally funded); 71 percentof the city’s K-12 school budget (thefeds pay another 10 percent); all of thecity’s social services costs; most of thecity’s road/bridge maintenance costs($134 million a year); the operating
and capital costs of what used to bethe city’s port and airport (Friend-ship); annual grants to run the city’szoo, museums, theaters, concert hallsand libraries; and now the city wantsthe state to pay for its courts, as well.
To help boost the city’s economy,the state located a host of state agen-cies and departments in Baltimore;paid for the Ravens and Orioles sta-diums, the Convention Center, theAquarium expansion, the ScienceCenter, the Meyerhoff concert hall,the Hippodrome Theater, the Chris-topher Columbus Center, the Lyric,Center Stage, a new $1 billion schoolconstruction deal ($20 million a yearfor the next 30 years) and a new $2.5billion light-rail system. Meanwhile,the city wants the state to participatein a $900 million convention center/hotel/arena project in hopes that anNBA or NHL team will come if they(the state) build it.
Then there are all the hidden statesubsidies: historic tax credits to rehabcity buildings (the city gets more thanhalf), enterprise zone tax credits (Balti-more gets 61 percent of the state total),a special city cut of the state’s casino tax,a $79 million annual “disparity grant,”special police aid grants and impact aidthat the counties don’t get, using statepolice to supplement the city’s policeforce, rebuilding the city’s failing waste-water treatment plants and scores ofother subsidies embedded in state law.
Ironically, on the same day thatthe George Mason study was released,so was an account of the city’s failedReginald Lewis Museum of MarylandAfrican American History and Culture,which the state built for $30.6 million.The state also pays half ($2 million) ofthe annual operating costs and nowis paying an additional $450,000 ofthe other half because the museum isa dud (the 150,000 estimated annualattendance turned out to be 38,000).
But the city isn’t chipping in, andBaltimore state Sen. Bill Ferguson said,“The state has an obligation to ensurethat the Reginald Lewis Museum con-tinues to function.” An obligation?
That’s the city’s pervasive attitude— the state owes us. When MartinO’Malley was mayor, the city foolishlyspent $305 million building a HiltonHotel that’s now going broke, costingthe city $28 million a year by 2023.
When asked recently about the Hil-ton boondoggle, O’Malley blamed it
on former Gov. Bob Ehrlich. Why? Be-cause, said O’Malley, “You may recall, atthe time, that we asked (and) we weretold ‘no’ by the then-governor.”
In other words, when O’Malleyand the city tried to get the state topay $305 million to build a loser hotelthat private investors wouldn’t touch,Ehrlich dared saying “no.”
You see, in Baltimore’s view, thecity is entitled to special status. Balti-more doesn’t owe the state taxpayersany gratitude; state taxpayers owe Bal-timore more assistance. When stateand city assessors recently miscalcu-lated city residents’ historic tax cred-its, costing them huge new taxes, citypoliticians argued that state taxpayersshould pay the costs.
And the city is lobbying Annapolisto shift city residents’ high auto insur-ance burden to suburban motorists.The audacity is stunning: When De-troit went bankrupt this summer, TheBaltimore Sun editorialized “Why Bal-timore Isn’t Detroit,” citing the city’swillingness “to make difficult deci-sions” without one word about thecity’s massive state bailouts — the realreason why Baltimore isn’t Detroit!
The city has benefited, so far, fromthe largess of liberal Montgomerystate legislators who don’t mind rais-ing Montgomery taxes and cutting itsstate aid to help the city, from P.G.lawmakers with whom the city sharesthe loot and from Baltimore Countylawmakers who feel linked to the cityas long as the city’s problems don’tflow across the county line.
But things are changing: The city’spolitical muscle is dwindling (only 11percent of the state’s population and8.5 percent of the statewide vote), forthe first time in memory there’s no Bal-timore candidate running for governor,and federal spending cuts are squeezingthe D.C.-area counties, which may notfeel so charitable in the future.
Living on other people’s moneyonly works until the “other people”decide differently. When that hap-pens, what’s Baltimore’s “Plan B”?
Blair Lee is chairman of the boardof Lee Development Group in SilverSpring and a regular commentatorfor WBAL radio. His column appearsFridays in the Business Gazette. Hispast columns are available at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His email addressis [email protected].
Why Baltimore is not Detroit
MY MARYLANDBLAIR LEE
LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
I was appalled to read the letter fromMichael Gooden and Margaret Nolanabout Metro’s refusal transfer the valueof unused (and unusable) farecards ofseniors who are medically unable to usethe fares remaining on their paper cardsto the current Smartrip cards. No “freeride” or refund was requested.
The writers obviously understandthat they, or other family members whowould receive such a transfer, would haveto expend it at the going rate for riders ingeneral, with no senior discount. And it isclear that the owners of the unusable tick-ets have no objection to such a transfer.
The most benign explanation forMetro’s response is that some inexpe-rienced staff member simply saw the“no refunds” policy and jumped to anincorrect conclusion. Equally plausible,unfortunately, is the conclusion thatMetro is just looking for a quick windfall
in the form of unused cards. Responseto the writers’ appeals suggests the lat-ter scenario is closer to the truth.
I don’t use public transportationextensively because my ability to walkand drive is, thankfully, fine at this time.My late husband could not drive, andhis ability to get around on foot, Metro,and Ride On was legendary.
I do use and appreciate the SeniorSmartrip card when it is the most efficientor most economical way to get around.Based on Metro’s policy, I have con-cluded that at no time will I carry morethan $10 on my Senior Smartrip card sothat my family will not have to go througha similar frustrating dialogue with Metro.
So I ask: Was Metro’s ruling finan-cially sound, humanely equitable, orgood public relations?
Mary L. Miers, Bethesda
Appalling policy on unusable fares
When considering the merits of therecommendation to raise by 17 percentthe salaries of County Council mem-bers from $106,394 to $125,000, Mont-gomery County citizens might ask thefollowing questions. When they do,they will certainly see that the answeris “no raise.”
• The proposal, in effect, treats coun-cil membership as merely a “job” atwhich someone “works” for a “salary”which must be “raised” if not “adequate.”Is this in our country’s best traditions?Isn’t elected office in these United Statesnot a “job” but a position of trust in whicha citizen is placed by his or her fellowcitizens to represent them? If we treatelected office as something less, are wetrivializing the ideals of democracy andrepresentative government on which ourcountry is built? Will that cause us to losethem? $106,394 is more than enough toserve as our representative.
• When considering the merits of this“raise,” citizens in this miserable econ-omy — assuming they even have a job —should ask themselves when the last timewas that they received a “raise,” a raise of
17 percent no less? If county governmentis so large that council members must de-vote more time to it, might the answer benot to pay them more but to reduce thesize of government?
• Should so-called “constituentservices” be factored into the equationsince they are little more than election-eering on the taxpayer’s dime?
• Finally, given that the council’smembership has been completelyDemocratic since 2006 and that the“citizens panel” which recommendedthe 17 percent increase consisted of sixDemocrats and one Republican, doesit reflect and help maintain a healthy,two-party democracy if Democrats donothing more than recommend moremoney for Democrats? Having suf-fered through Democrats gerryman-dering themselves into control acrossMaryland government at all levels,must citizens also suffer through thembootstrapping raises for themselves inMontgomery County? How much one-party dictatorship is enough?
Paul Schilling, Bethesda
Questions to ask beforecouncil gets pay raise
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n With a strong pedigree, B-CC’sMartin is paving his own soccer path
BY NICK CAMMAROTA
STAFF WRITER
Tyler Martin’s earliest soccer memorytakes him to the backyard of his family’s oldhouse. There, a giant grassy hill featured asmall goal at the bottom. And there, he andhis older brother, Collin, played a game thatwas all their own.
Collin, 18, and a member of Major LeagueSoccer’s D.C. United, is two years older thanTyler. He would start at the bottom of the hilland try to dribble past Tyler to the top of thehill. Tyler, 16, had the far easier task of drib-bling downhill and trying to secure Martinfamily dominance.
“We would play that game all the time,”said Tyler, a junior midfielder on Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School’s boys’ soccer team.“If I didn’t want to play, he would drag me out.If he didn’t want to play, I would drag him out.The dog would be running around and we’d
B-CC soccerplayer startsnew legacy
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Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School’s Tyler Martinplays the ball against Clarksburg during a boys’ soc-cer game last week.
n After multiple knee surgeries,Young-Wiseman starts for Blue Devils
BY KENT ZAKOURSTAFF WRITER
After dealing with nagging knee injuriesand multiple surgeries during his four pre-vious seasons at Duke University, AnthonyYoung-Wiseman, a 2009 Walt Whitman HighSchool, made his second collegiate footballstart on Sept. 21.
The Blue Devils lost the game to the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh, but for the redshirt seniorsafety, the feeling of playing an entire gamefrom start to finish at Wallace Wade Stadiumin Durham, N.C. was a long time coming.
“It had been awhile since I played a fullfootball game,” Wiseman said. “I had a funtime. … I felt like I played well, but there’sroom for improvement.”
Added Duke defensive backs coach DerekJones. “He understands what we’re trying todo and he’s now just able to use his full ability.... When you are hurt it’s hard to execute when
Whitman gradstarts long roadback at Duke
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SPORTSSPORTSBETHESDA | KENSINGTON
NORTHWOOD FOOTBALL COACH USING THIS WEEK’S GAME TO RAISE AWARENESS ON ORGAN DONATIONS, B-3
n Rockville junior goes fromJV scout team to throwing for1,300 yards, 16 TDs in four games
BY DAN FELDMAN
STAFF WRITER
Since last season, the Rockville High Schoolfootball team moved its starting quarterback toreceiver, made the 5-foot-8, 140-pound junior var-sity quarterback the varsity starter and completelychanged its offense.
By halftime of its first game, Rockville had
scored zero points.Rockville coach Seth Kenton said he scanned
the locker room’s many concerned faces until hiseyes met new starting quarterback Chuck Reese’s.
Reese winked, Kenton said.That’s the moxie that convinced the coach to
start Reese, and the junior has rewarded its faith,starting with leading a season-opening comebackwin against Richard Montgomery. Reese is 116-for-179 (65 percent) for 1,306 yards with 16 touch-downs and just four interceptions this season.
“If you were to come to a game or come topractice, you would say which one is Chuck?” Ken-ton said. “It’s not going to be the first person youpick and go, ‘Oh, it’s that guy.’ It’s not that guy.”
As a freshman, Reese joined Rockville’s juniorvarsity team as an undersized and position-lessplayer. He tried slot receiver, safety and even kicker.Eventually, he became the scout-team quarterback.
“He ran our scout team to try to beat our first de-fense every day of practice,” said Jason Lomax, whowasthentheJVoffensivecoordinator.“Andyoucouldsee the fire and the drive. It was just in that little body.
“There were many frustrating days for the first-team defense, because he would go out there, andhe would audible at the line, and he would do thingsthat a normal, prototypical scout-team quarterbackis not going to do. He’s out there literally like he’s
RAPHAEL TALISMAN/FOR THE GAZETTE
Rockville High School quarterback Chuck Reese throws a pass during the first half of Rockville’s game at Wheaton.
Big numbersFROM AN UNEXPECTED SOURCE
n Nolan has made the difference inthree one-goal games for Churchill
BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER
STAFF WRITER
Clare Nolan said she honestly didn’t re-member the first one, the lone goal in a 1-0season-opening win over Quince OrchardHigh School. She did remember the nexttwo, the second against Walt Whitman andthe third to top Poolesville, which ran her to-tal to three game-winning goals in WinstonChurchill’s opening five field hockey games.Simply put, the senior has an undeniable
nose for the goal.“The best word to describe Clare is hus-
tle,” Churchill coach Cay Miller said. “Shealways goes all out and she’s dependable inhigh-pressure situations.”
Keeping tune with Miller’s assessmentof the tireless midfielder, it was Nolan’shustle that landed her in the right place atthe right time against the three teams whichshe struck. Though she claims not to recallthe game’s lone goal when Churchill handedQuince Orchard its first of four one-goallosses thus far, the stats say she took a passfrom Carly Kabelac and Annie Moshyedi,
Surviving on close calls
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Winston Churchill High School’s Clare Nolan and Bethesda-ChevyChase’s Gigi Jones compete during Monday’s field hockey game.
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found a way to get her stick onit and redirected it into the cage.
The next came three gameslater against visiting Whitman,though this one came early, just18 minutes into the first half.Junior forward Isabel Manganfound her so wide open on across that, despite Nolan fum-bling around with the trap for afew seconds, she still managed toget a decent enough drive off tobeat the Viking keeper.
“She’s just on her game all thetime,” said keeper Sophie Ascher,who had allowed just five goals insix games as of Sunday.
Nolan wasn’t quite done yet.Her final clutch moment camevia the rebuilding Falcons inovertime, and she “didn’t evenlook at the goal.”
“I just drove it and it went in,”she said. “I remember when wewere going into overtime. I said,‘We got this. We’re going to getthis.’”
And, as she always has thisyear, she did. Without Nolanworking to get to where her team-mates needed her to be, Churchillcould have just as easily been 2-4as it was 5-1 prior to Monday’smatchup with Bethesda-ChevyChase, which very nearly upsetWalter Johnson earlier in theweek.
“She’s similar to [Churchill
graduate] Jennifer Shim,” Millersaid. “When everybody is out ofgas, Clare keeps going. That’sClare. She hustles as much asany of the best players that I’vecoached.”
Ascher may not have to gothrough a lung-searing workoutevery game like her teammatedoes, but the goalie has been ev-ery bit as valuable to Churchill’searly season success. Therewould have been no Nolan game-winner had Ascher not stuffed ev-ery last one of Quince Orchard’sshots. There would have been noNolan game-winner had Aschernot kept Whitman scoreless. Andthere would have been no Nolangame-winner had she not limitedPoolesville to just two goals after
the Falcons pounded in 16 in thetwo games prior.
“We wouldn’t be the sameteam without Sophie,” Nolansaid. “She’s unbelievable. It’s justsuch a nice feeling to know thatwe have Sophie back in goal.”
The funny thing is that Millerdidn’t know who would be start-ing in goal less than six weeksago. Ascher had transferred fromBrighton High in upstate NewYork, and Miller didn’t know allthat much about her. She siftedthrough a few newspaper articlesonline but that was the extent ofher knowledge. Compiling ontothat was the new heat rules thatprohibit keepers from dressingin full pads for much of the pre-season. But Ascher did enough to
earn the starting spot by the firstgame, and she vindicated Mill-er’s choice with four consecutiveshutouts to open the season.
“Sophie has been incredible,”Miller said. “She’s a very strongplayer and she’s been steppingup this year.”
One of the most impor-tant aspects of goalkeeping thatAscher has brought with her isnot necessarily her ability to keepshots out of the net, but her pen-chant for keeping her defenseconstantly aware of where theyneed to be at all times. WhenAscher first earned her startingspot, her platoon of defendersapproached her and told her tobe vocal, to make sure they arein the right position for the attack
she sees unfolding.“They know I’m not being
mean when I tell them some-thing,” Ascher said. “It’s justwhen I tell them that they haveto move, they know they have tomove.”
Miller, while she said sheis getting better at handlingthe stress of the overwhelmingamount of close games, has ad-mitted that the anxiety has dieddown a bit since the beginningof the year. But, just in case, howmany game winners does Nolanhave left in her?
“I don’t know,” Nolan saidwith a laugh. “I hope enough toget us to 9-1.”
SURVIVINGContinued from Page B-1
playing in a game. He wants towin every day and everything wecover.”
The next year, Reese be-came the starting JV quarterbackwhen classmate Spencer Brig-man moved up to the varsity asstarting quarterback.
During that season, Lomaxmet with his players about theirlong-term goals in the program.Seeing Brigman entrenched infrontofhim,ReesetoldLomaxhe’ddo his best as the backup quarter-back the following two seasons.Lomax admired Reese’s maturity,though he agreed the backup pathlooked inevitable for Reese.
But this offseason, Kentonrealized his team needed anedge after 1-9 and 0-10 seasons.Rockville has a lower enrollmentthan eight of the 10 schools onits schedule. The other two, Da-mascus and Poolesville, madethe playoffs last season.
Kenton promoted Lomax tovarsity offensive coordinator,and Lomax implemented theup-tempo, four-receiver offen-sive he’d used on JV.
During the summer passingleague, Reese earned the start-ing job and since has helped en-gineer a 2-2 start.
Reese’s diminutive buildstands in even starker contrast toopposing defenders now that he’son varsity. Is that intimidating?
“No!” Reese said. “I’m notnormally that easily intimatedperson. I don’t feel that inti-mated, because I trust my offen-sive line and I trust everybodyaround me to do their jobs.”
That trust with teammateslike Brigman, who has becomeone of Reese’s top targets, wasforged while eating lunch to-gether daily in Lomax’s officelast year.
In the summer, Reese hostedteammates at his house for videogames, and they walked to work-outs together afterward.
“At Rockville, we have sucha diverse background. We haveAsian kids, Hispanic kids, blackkids, white kids. And they allcome from different economicbackgrounds. They all come fromall different kinds of religions. It’sjust a melting pot at our school,”Lomax said.
“And Chuck is able to reachinto all those guys and be ableto pull them in together and givethem that family feel. That kind ofquality alone is enough for him tolead our team.”
Said Reese: “I’m just friendlywith everybody. There’s not onetype of person I wouldn’t wantto talk to. For me, it’s always funbeing social with people, mak-ing new friends, joking aroundwith everybody.”
But there was no jokingwhile Rockville trailed RichardMontgomery 25-0. Reese said,
“You could obviously seeour fans putting their headsdown, like, ‘Dang it. Not another0-10 year.’” At that point, Lomaxapproached him and said it wastime to step up.
“He nodded. He said, ‘OK,we’re going to go score rightnow.’ And that’s what he did,”Lomax said. “From there, it wasjust a snowball going downhill. Itjust kept getting better and betterevery time he touched the ball.”
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just be kicking the ball up anddown the hill. Up and down.”
The Martin family providesa pristine example of academicand athletic excellence with Tylerbeing the third boy to play soccerfor the Barons. Collin graduateda year early from B-CC to playfor Wake Forest before signingwith United this July. Trevor, 29,played for the Barons before at-
tending George Washington Uni-versity and then began coaching— even instructing Tyler at theyouth level for the BethesdaRevolution — immediately aftergraduating. Tyler’s older sister,Bethany, played field hockey atRichmond. The holiday partiescan become competitive.
“We have some great ath-letes in the family and that’salways a big argument,” Tylersaid. “You have three Division Iathletes and then you have me,who just plays soccer at B-CC,
but apparently I’m the best ath-lete in the family.”
According to Tyler’s fatherGerard — a pediatric cardiologistat Children’s National MedicalCenter — and the Martins’ oldgym teacher, Tyler bests them all.
“My dad and our [physicaleducation] teacher who taughtall of us, they both always said[Tyler] was the most athletic outof all of everyone,” Collin said.“He was always kind of fast, sohe’d play out wide or up top.He’s probably the most techni-
cal on [B-CC’s] team with pass-ing and distributing to others.”
Despite a busy schedulewith United and taking classesat George Washington, Collinattended B-CC’s game againstGaithersburg earlier this sea-son and cheered on his youngerbrother, who was playing onthe same field he had two yearsago. Conversely, Tyler andhis family frequently head toRobert F. Kennedy Stadium towatch Collin play.
“I could hear Collin in the
stands cheering for me, so thatwas pretty nice,” Tyler said.“It’s cool when you have a D.C.United player coming to yourhigh school soccer games andcheering your name.”
Still, Tyler said it’s some-times difficult attempting to liveup to the unfair expectationsplaced upon him as the youngerbrother of two Division I soc-cer players. Tyler possesses anumber of above-average skills— great distribution, excellentvision, deft touch — but is still
in the process of conversing withcollege coaches and drummingup interest in his game.
“I’ve always been comparedto Collin and Trevor,” said Tyler,who also plays for Bethesda Soc-cer Club.
One of the things Baronscoach Guillermo Melendez saidhe likes most about Tyler is thathe’s able to maintain his indi-viduality despite playing in theshadows of his talented siblings.
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n After kidney failure,Gladiators’ Harris hopes to raiseawareness for organ donations
Football coaches, by nature, tend tobe control freaks who obsess over everylittle detail. Many carefully organize teamactivities to the second.
Northwood High School coach DennisHarris plans to give up some of that care-fully thought-out control Friday night be-
fore his team’s homecoming game againstRockville.
What’s so important to disrupt rou-tine? Organ donations.
Harris intends to wrap up his team’spre-game warm-ups a little early, leavinghimself time to speak shortly before kick-off to the crowd about kidney donations.He’ll tell his own story, how his kidneysfailed him during the 2011 season and howhis wife donated him one of her kidneys inJuly 2012. Most of all, he’ll encourage fansto join the Maryland Donor Registry.
“If you’re able to be a donor, be a do-nor,” Harris said, “because the second
chance that people can get from that. Witha kidney, you can function perfectly withone, so if there’s anybody that you canhelp, whether it’s a person that you knowor don’t know, just being able to providethat person with a second chance is some-thing that you cannot put a price tag on.”
Harris said the National Kidney Foun-dation will be on hand, potentially pro-viding green pom poms for cheerleadersand green wristbands for fans. Most im-portantly, there will be forms provided
for people to register during the game asorgan donors.
“I want to do something to show howthankful I am to have a second chance atlife and to encourage everyone to registeras an organ donor and consider giving aloved one or even a stranger a gift of life,”Harris said in a statement announcing theevent, which he became committed to cre-ating once his own experience taught himabout the issue.
Good Counsel, good defenseDespite its uncharacteristically me-
diocre record, Our Lady of Good Counsel(3-3) has held five of six opponents belowtheir season average for points scored.
During the lone exception, a Sept. 20game against Gonzaga, defensive endJesse Aniebonam, who committed toUniversity of Maryland, College Park, andsafety Kobe Walker (Kentucky) suffered in-juries that knocked them from the contest.
Walker, whom Good Counsel coachBob Milloy called “a great player,” re-turned in a 21-0 loss to DeMatha Catholicon Friday, registering 3.5 tackles.
“He’s a leader back there in that sec-ondary, so I just hope he’s still healthy,”Milloy said.
Northwood coach tackles bigger issue
JenniferBeekman
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KennedySpringbrookRockvillePaint BranchWhitmanB-CCQ. OrchardNorthwestW. JohnsonWoottonDamascusSeneca ValleyGeo. PrepPoolesvilleBullis
Good CounselLandonRiv. Baptist
DanFeldman
59-14122-28
KennedySpringbrookRockvillePaint BranchWhitmanB-CCQ. OrchardNorthwestMagruderWoottonDamascusSeneca ValleyGeo. PrepCatoctinBullis
Good CounselLandonRiv. Baptist
KenSain
59-14121-29
KennedySpringbrookRockvillePaint BranchWhitmanB-CCQ. OrchardNorthwestMagruderGaithersburgDamascusSeneca ValleyGeo. PrepCatoctinBullis
Good CounselEpiscopalRiv. Baptist
KentZakour
57-16114-36
WheatonSpringbrookRockvillePaint BranchWhitmanB-CCQ. OrchardNorthwestMagruderGaithersburgDamascusSeneca ValleyGeo. PrepPoolesvilleBullisMcNamaraLandonRiv. Baptist
NickCammarota
57-16119-31
WheatonWatkins MillRockvillePaint BranchWhitmanBlairQ. OrchardNorthwestMagruderGaithersburgDamascusSeneca ValleyGeo. PrepPoolesvilleBullis
Good CounselEpisopalRiv. Baptist
TravisMewhirter
54-19118-32
WheatonSpringbrookRockvillePaint BranchWhitmanB-CCQ. OrchardNorthwestW. JohnsonWoottonDamascusSeneca ValleyGeo. PrepPoolesvilleBullis
Good CounselEpiscopalRiv. Baptist
FEARLESS FORECASTS
The Gazette sports staff picks thewinners for this week’s gamesinvolving Montgomery footballteams. Here are this week’s selections:
Montgomery County recordAll games
Kennedy vs. WheatonSpringbrook at Watkins MillRockville at NorthwoodPaint Branch at EinsteinRichard Montgomery at WhitmanBlair at Bethesda-Chevy ChaseChurchill at Quince OrchardBlake at NorthwestWalter Johnson at MagruderWootton at GaithersburgDamascus at ClarksburgSeneca Valley at SherwoodSt. Albans at Georgetown PrepPoolesville at CatoctinBullis at Cape Henlopen (Del.)Good Counsel at McNamaraEpiscopal at LandonAvalon at Riverdale Baptist
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
STANDINGSMontgomery 4A South DivisionTeam All Div. PF PAR. Montgomery 1-3 1-0 97 118Wootton* 3-1 3-1 149 34Whitman 2-2 1-1 72 85B-Chevy Chase 1-3 1-2 59 105Churchill 1-3 1-2 36 120Walter Johnson* 1-3 1-2 28 134
Montgomery 4A East DivisionTeam All Div. PF PAPaint Branch 4-0 3-0 153 25Sherwood 3-1 2-0 84 75Blair 2-2 1-2 81 59Springbrook* 1-3 1-2 66 50Blake 1-3 0-1 20 108Kennedy 0-4 0-2 25 96
Montgomery 4A West DivisionTeam All Div. PF PAGaithersburg 4-0 2-0 110 20Quince Orchard 4-0 2-0 140 13Northwest 3-1 2-1 121 52Clarksburg* 2-2 0-2 64 56Magruder 0-4 0-2 38 169
Montgomery 3A DivisionTeam All Div. PF PADamascus 3-1 3-0 147 42Seneca Valley 3-1 2-0 124 55Einstein 2-1 2-1 111 84Watkins Mill 2-2 1-1 78 97Rockville 2-2 1-2 137 149Northwood 0-4 0-2 20 155Wheaton 1-3 0-3 62 164
Montgomery 2A IndependentTeam All PF PAPoolesville 3-1 104 54
Private schoolsTeam All PF PABullis 3-1 92 70Good Counsel 3-3 130 80Avalon 2-3 103 91Landon 1-2 63 49Georgetown Prep 1-3 76 133
* Includes forfeit result
Last week’s scoresSeneca Valley 42, B-CC 20Einstein 41, Northwood 0Damascus 49, Watkins Mill 7Wootton 43, Whitman 20Poolesville 41, Walter Johnson 6Sherwood 28, R. Montgomery 15Quince Orchard 56, Magruder 0Springbrook 26, Blair 6Paint Branch 48, Churchill 0Clarksburg 24, Blake 0DeMatha 21, Good Counsel 0Bullis 37, John Carroll 8W. Wilson (D.C.) 21, Kennedy 7Landon 49, Annap. AC 11Avalon 41, Chavez 6Rockville 54, Wheaton 22Gaithersburg 26, Northwest 6
LEADERSTop rushers
Carries Yards Avg. TDsKhalil Wilson, Einstein 53 809 15.2 8Charles Lyles, Poolesville 89 675 7.6 6Zac Morton, Whitman 89 541 6.1 5Dage Davis, Geo. Prep 59 519 8.8 7Devonte Williams, Bullis 67 472 7.0 7Liam Duffy, R. Mont. 79 454 5.7 2Chris Dawson, G. Counsel 75 448 6.0 6Perry Stefanelli, G. Counsel 89 442 5.0 2Kevin Joppy, Q. Orchard 53 428 8.1 6E. Spottswood, Sherwood 72 424 5.8 5
Top passersCmp-Att. Yards Int. TDs
Sam Ellis, Wootton 93-145 1319 4 13Chuck Reese, Rockville 116-179 1306 4 16G. Cooper, P. Branch 56-100 685 3 7Renzo Farfan, R. Mont. 55-95 676 2 8Mike Murtaugh, Q. Orch. 39-61 633 1 9Evan Smith, Whitman 35-65 516 4 3Nick DeCarlo, G’burg 37-57 671 2 3Raymond Burtnick, Blair 37-78 528 5 5S. Morningstar, Pooles. 34-56 415 4 3C. Hennessey, N’wood 41-77 364 2 2
Top receiversCatches Yards Avg. TDs
Joey Cornwell, Rockville 35 425 12.1 5Jibri Woods, Wootton 31 412 13.3 4Darrell Blue, Blair 31 411 13.3 4Trevon Diggs, Wootton 32 402 12.6 7Anthony Albert, Rockville 23 330 14.3 4Michael Scott, Kennedy 20 281 14.1 0Ryan Stango, P. Branch 18 264 14.7 3Elliott Davis, Q. Orchard 9 226 25.1 4Keon Paye, G. Counsel 8 224 28.0 3Javonn Curry, P. Branch 18 220 12.2 3
Also receiving votes: Whitman 2 points;Sherwood 1 point.
BEST BETWootton vs. Gaithersburg,
6:30 p.m. Friday at RichardMontgomery. Both teams areundefeated on the field andeyeing the playoffs after miss-ing them last season. Sam Ellis,Trevon Diggs and Jibri Woodslead Wootton’s offense. Gaith-ersburg’s Solomon Vault’shealth, who didn’t play lastweek, could be crucial.
FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK
B Y D A N F E L D M A N
HOW THEY RANKThe 10 best football teams in MontgomeryCounty this week as ranked by The Gazette’ssports staff.
Rank School Record Points
1 Quince Orchard 4-0 60Cougars
2 Good Counsel 3-3 54Falcons
3 Damascus 3-1 47Swarmin’ Hornets
4 Bullis 3-1 42Bulldogs
5 Gaithersburg 4-0 37Trojans
6 Wootton 3-1 30Patriots
7 Paint Branch 4-0 24Panthers
8 Northwest 3-1 18Jaguars
9 Seneca Valley 3-1 12Screaming Eagles
10 Poolesville 3-1 3Falcons
FILE PHOTO
Northwood High School football coach DennisHarris rounds-up his team during a practice.
you don’t have full strengthor the ability to be able to run,plant and change directions. It’slight years different now.”
During preseason drillsprior to his true freshman sea-son in 2009, Wiseman tore theanterior cruciate ligament in hisright knee and was immediatelyplaced behind the proverbialeight-ball because his develop-ment mentally and physicallyon the field had to be delayed.He successfully rehabilitated theinjury, but suffered another set-back in the same knee late dur-ing the 2010 season after playingjust 98 snaps off the bench.
In 2011, he played in all 12games (351 snaps) and madeone start against Florida State.Wiseman, who has also had todeal with a cyst in his knee, wasin and out of the lineup duringthe 2012 season, participating ineight games (210 snaps), beforetearing his lateral meniscus, butwas able to return for the BelkBowl (a 48-34 loss to Cincin-nati), Duke’s first bowl appear-ance since the 1995 Hall of FameBowl.
“Anthony’s college careerhasn’t gone as planned, but he’snever complained,” Jones said.“… I’m glad he can go full speedand trust himself playing now.We see the real Anthony now.”
Wiseman, who made justone start in 29 previous gameappearances prior to this fall,totaling 37 tackles (15 solo) andone sack, hopes to make his finalseason in a Duke uniform (3-2) amemorable one.
In five games this fall, the6-foot-0, 220-pound Wisemanhas recorded 28 tackles, includ-ing 12 in his starts.
After all, he was part of coachDavid Cutcliffe’s second recruit-ing class in hopes of turning thestruggling program around.
“I’m feeling healthy and thisis the first time I’ve been able toparticipate … and not have to
hold back some or limit myself,”said Wiseman, who is majoringin evolution anthropology. “… Aweight is off my back and I canfocus on actually playing.”
“I think [coming back
healthy this fall] has just beenkind of a reawakening for him,”Jones said. “As a coach you rootfor your guys.”
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DUKE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS
Walt Whitman High School graduate and current Duke University redshirtsenior defensive back Anthony Young-Wiseman has struggled with injuriesthroughout his career, but he is finally healthy and starting.
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n Magruder’s Argueta earnsexceptional opportunity
It’s five games into the season andQuince Orchard High School girls’ soccercoach Peg Keiller is still a bit unsure of exactlywhat type of team she’s got.
The Cougars’ record is good, of course,as they were 4-0-1 as of Monday night. But
the meatiest portion of QO’s schedule hasyet to hit, which leaves Keiller wonderingwhat will happen during the season’s busi-est stretch.
“It is a bit weird,” Keiller said. “Especiallythat fact that our first game was [a 0-0 draw]against [Walt] Whitman and to have such anincredible opponent and such a nail-bitinggame followed by a bit of cruising throughthe next four games makes it a very odd feel-ing.”
Quince Orchard, which lost to Bethesda-Chevy Chase in the 4A West Regional semifi-nals last season, has scored 18 goals throughthe first five matches and allowed only two(both in a 4-2 victory against Paint Branch).Four of the Cougars’ five games have resultedin clean sheets from the defense — bolsteredby strong performances by center backs SamSullenger and Sarah Gutch and goalkeepersRicki Shultz and Rachel Hollander.
Keiller said the early-season schedulehas allowed her to better evaluate her play-ers’ performances and focus on things thatneed fixing once the matches become moreintense.
“You can tell what’s going to workagainst the higher competition and what’snot,” Keiller said. “We’ve still seen manythings we need to work on and improve andwe definitely know it’s going to be a battlefrom here on out.”
Special honor for Magruder playerThanks to an 11-goal outburst against
Northwood, Col. Zadok Magruder’s boys’soccer team has scored 17 goals this sea-son in seven matches and allowed six. Still,despite the favorable goal differential, theColonels, like so many other teams in Mont-gomery County, are 4-3-0 this season andsitting in the middle of the pack.
One player, however, who’s steppinginto the spotlight is sophomore forwardBryan Argueta. The multi-talented striker inApril was a national finalist with D.C. Unitedin Major League Soccer’s Sueño competition— a program that affords players ages 14-18the opportunity to earn a week-long trialwith their host club’s developmental acad-emy — and two weekends ago, he competedin the national finals of Sueño Alianza at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif.
According to Magruder coach Juan Go-mez, Argueta impressed many onlookers atthe event, which was capped by a scrimmageagainst Liga MX side Club Tijuana’s youthteam. Argueta also piqued the interest ofMLS’s Chivas USA and reportedly has beeninvited to go on trial with the Los Angeles-based club.
“He’s a playmaker and has great foot-work,” Gomez said. “It’s like a lottery. InMaryland, how often do you receive someattention like that? He’s a good student froma humble family.”
Argueta didn’t play last season because
he was recovering from a broken leg, but hasscored three goals and assisted another so farthis year.
400 victoriesThe Our Lady of Good Counsel High
School girls’ soccer team’s 3-0 win over Inde-pendent School League power National Ca-thedral School Thursday was the program’sand 26th-year coach Jim Bruno’s 400th sincethe program’s inception in 1987.
The eight-time Washington CatholicAthletic Conference champion Falcons (6-0-3) have never endured a losing season in thattime and have proved incredibly consistentwith an average of 16 wins in each of the past25 seasons.
Good Counsel achieved Thursday’s
milestone win with relative ease despitemissing one of its best playmakers, mid-fielder Imani Dorsey, who was on her officialvisit to Duke University, where she gave herverbal commitment to play on scholarshipin 2014-15 a year ago. But tthat perfectly ex-emplified what impresses Bruno so muchabout this year’s squad, he said.
WIthoutadominantscorerBrunosaidheexpected more players to get involved, offen-sively. But even he couldn’t predict how trulyspread out scoring would be. Through ninegames, 10 players have two goals or more.Sophomore Nia Dorsey leads the way withsix goals. Sister Imani has five to go with herseven assists. Thursday’s win was also GoodCounsel’s third shutout in four contests.
“I’m a little surprised,” Bruno said. “I feltlike we would be getting contributions froma lot of people but this has surpassed myhopes and expectations. I’m really pleased.”
PerfectionDamascus is the only remaining team
with a perfect record. While the Swarmin’Hornets’ success is often attributed to itsless competitive Montgomery 3A/2A WestDivision, their 7-0 start to 2013 includeswins over five-time defending Class 4AWest Region champion Bethesda-ChevyChase, defending 4A North championSherwood and perennial county powerWalter Johnson. Montgomery CountyPublic Schools’ most productive offensewith 27 goals is lead by Steph Cox and Ka-tie Kirschenmann, who have scored eightgoals apiece.
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Quince Orchard High School’s Sam Sullenger warms up before a scrimmage with the Academy of theHoly Cross in August.
n Quince Orchard fieldhockey spreads it out
Since the first day of vol-leyball tryouts, the overarchingtheme of the 2013 season hasbeen one of parity and questionmarks.
Coaches couldn’t quite pindown what team would be thetop prospect, though the defacto leader in the public ranks
will always be Sherwood HighSchool, the three-time defend-ing state champs, until provenotherwise.
Through the first threeweeks, very little light was shedon how the new hierarchy wouldshake out. Until last week, No.3 Poolesville, Damascus, Col.Zadok Magruder, No. 2 Sher-wood, No. 4 Winston Churchill,and No. 5 Thomas S. Wootton —the relative consensus for whichpublic school teams would likelybe the front runners — hadn’thad much of a chance to provethemselves against opponentsof equal or better talent.
Some of that changed lastweek, when then-No. 4 Pooles-ville came back from down twosets to top then-No. 3 Damascusin the county’s first big clash ofthe season. This week portendsa wave of volleyball equally asexciting.
It begins tonight, whenLizzi Walsh and Magruder hostMakayla Roy and Sherwood. Thetwo have met before, in Magrud-er’s annual early-season tourna-ment, and the Warriors took a2-0 win over the Colonels, butthat was also a three-set match.Had Poolesville and Damascusplayed under that same three-set format, the Falcons wouldn’thave been the ones with the ear-to-ear smiles afterwards.
Then, on Friday, Sherwoodwill match up with newly rankedNo. 5 Churchill, which surviveda 3-2 squeaker against Wheatonbut has otherwise been operat-ing with smooth sailing all year.
“This type of schedule is re-ally difficult because it simulateswhat the playoffs will be like,”Sherwood coach Brian McCartysaid. “It’s good for the players inpractice to prepare for a quickturnaround.”
As he has already playedMagruder, McCarty knowswhere his best blockers will beassigned: Walsh.
But Friday will be hisfirst time seeing undefeatedChurchill, which boasts threetalented hitters in Kaitlyn Hill-ard, Sarah Chang, and OliviaChao.
“They’re tough,” he said.
“They’re really good. They don’thave any holes. They’re a teamthat doesn’t beat themselves.”
So, for the first time all year,there may be some clarity at thetop. Or, depending on what hap-pens, even more confusion.
And it’s not just the elitesthat are getting a crack at trulyestablishing themselves.
Northwest and Watkins Mill,who combine for a 9-4 record,will match up on Wednesdayand the Jaguars host Damascuson Monday for a potential upset.
Field hockeyAnother week, another bi-
zarre scoring line from QuinceOrchard. On Sept. 25, visitingsenior-laden Springbrook, theCougars posted five goals fromfive different players — two be-ing freshmen — for their fourthwin in the past five games.
Dani Tapiero, Skylar Saffer,Ashley Plante, Rachel Feidelmanand Sarah Husted all found thenet in the victory over the BlueDevils.
That type of spread efforthas been the theme all seasonfor Quince Orchard. Four scoredin a 6-1 win over Paint Branch,two did to top Gaithersburg 3-0,and there was a new Cougarfinding the net for each of thethree goals in a shutout againstNorthwest.
“That’s the good thing aboutthis team,” coach Alicia Vin-centy said. “I don’t really haveany superstars. We’re very wellrounded. It’s very hard to defendbecause you can’t just focus onone girl.”
Girls’ tennisThough Thomas S. Wootton
girls’ tennis coach Nia Creshamwas clearly proud of her team’smonumental 5-2 win over Win-ston Churchill, she spent a largeportion of Wednesday’s matchvocally worrying about the twoflights that lost.
No. 2 singles player AishuIyer missed the previous twodays of school with an illnessand still wasn’t 100 percentduring her loss to Hayley Keats.Cresham repeatedly suggestedIyer consider retiring, the worryetched all over the coach’s face,but Iyer had none of it and fin-ished her match.
At No. 4 singles, HannahHwong fell to the court multipletimes with cramps, the last latein the second set.
After a stoppage to stretch,Hwong returned to court neartears as she limped through thefinal points of a lost game thattied the match at one set apiece.
Her opponent, Churchill’sAlissa Le suggested a shortertiebreaker to determine thematch, but Hwong insisted on afull third set. Before they couldcomplete the final set, the matchwas delayed due to darkness asHwong’s teammates rushed toher, clearly impressed by herresolve.
“She’s very quiet. She’s verysweet,” Cresham said of Hwong.“But she’s one of those peoplethat has that inner steel, becausewhen she’s made up her mind,you can’t push her one way orthe other. She just won’t stop.”
Gazette reporters TravisMewhirter and Dan Feldmancontributed to this report.
Volleyball hierarchystarts to take shape
HOW THEY RANKGirls’ soccer
n 1. Good Counsel
n 2. Walt Whitman
n 3. Winston Churchill
n 4. Damascus
n 5. Bethesda-Chevy Chase
Boys’ soccer
n 1. Georgetown Prep
n 2. Northwest
n 3. Walter Johnson
n 4. Montgomery Blair
n 5. Gaithersburg
SOCCER NOTEBOOKB Y N I C K C A M M A R O T AA N D J E N N I F E R B E E K M A N
HOW THEY RANKVolleyball
n 1. Holy Cross
n 2. Sherwood
n 3. Poolesville
n 4. Winston Churchill
n 5. Thomas S. Wootton
Golf
n 1. Walter Johnson
n 2. Winston Churchill
n 3. Walt Whitman
n 4. Thomas S. Wootton
n 5. Quince Orchard
Field hockey
n 1. Thomas S. Wootton
n 2. Sherwood
n 3. Winston Churchill
n 4. Walter Johnson
n 5. Clarksburg
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A NEED FOR SPEED
Bill Engvalland partnerEmma Slaterfinish theirroutine onthis season’s“Dancing withthe Stars.”
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OLNEY THEATRE CENTER
The cast of Olney Theatre Center’s “Rancho Mirage.”
Ron Howard’slatest directorialeffort is certainly a‘Rush,’ but it feelsa little hollow.
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n Puppeteer, actor work together tomake beloved story come to life
BY CARA HEDGEPETHSTAFF WRITER
When describing his works of art, puppe-teer Matthew Pauli resembles a father talkingabout his newborn child.
“There have ac-tually been times inthe past, and I expectit’ll happen again,where I look at it andit becomes difficult tobelieve that I actuallyhelped make it,” Paulisaid.
Pauli’s newestbaby has a head that’s2 1/2 feet wide anda neck that’s 15 feetlong. The puppeteeris the designer andcreator of Mr. B, thebrontosaurus in Imag-ination Stage’s firstshow of the 2013-2014season, “Lulu and theBrontosaurus.”
“Lulu” is the firstbook in a series by Ju-dith Viorst, the authorof “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, NoGood, Very Bad Day.” Viorst also wrote the lyr-ics for “Lulu’s” stage adaptation.
Dynamicdino duo
BLAKE ECHOLS/IMAGINATION STAGE
Casie Platt as Lulu and Vaughn Irving as Mr. B’svoice and puppeteer in “Lulu and the Brontosaurus”now showing at Imagination Stage.
THEATER
LULU AND THEBRONTOSAURUSn When: 10:30 a.m.
Tuesdays throughFridays; 1:30 p.m.and 4 p.m. Saturdaysand Sundays,11 a.m. selectSaturdays, to Oct.27 (special 7 p.m.performance on Oct.25)
n Where: ImaginationStage, 4908 AuburnAve., Bethesda
n Tickets: $12-$25
n For information:301-280-1660,imaginationstage.org
n Local director, playwrightcollaborate on ‘Rancho Mirage’
BY CARA HEDGEPETHSTAFF WRITER
On Thursday, the Olney Theatre Cen-ter kicked off the National New Play Net-work Rolling World Premiere of StevenDietz’s black comedy “Rancho Mirage.”
The network is a cohort of nonprofittheaters dedicated to the evolution of newplays. Their Continued Life of New Plays
Fund allows multiple theaters to producethe same new play within the same one-year period. The program results in a Roll-ing World Premiere where several artisticteams, directors and actors develop thenew work for their respective communi-ties.
“The idea behind it is that if we allagree to do this play before any of the re-views come out, we are taking a real riskand launching it into the cannon of Ameri-can plays,” said Jason Loewith. Loewith
BEST KEPT SECRETS
ill Engvall is aman of manytalents. He’s asuccessful co-median, a lov-ing husbandand a dotingfather. Engvall,
however, is not known forhis dancing prowess.
So why did the 56-year-old entertainer decide tojoin a TV show such as“Dancing With the Stars?”
“I don’t know,” Engvallsaid. “You know what, Ijoke about it but I do know.When they called andasked me I actually said,‘Let me think about it for aday.’ I thought, you know,this is something that I’venever done before andI probably won’t have ashot to do this again. I al-ways like to try things thatI haven’t tried before toprove to myself that I coulddo it.”
Engvall is still dancingon the show, but he’ll taketime away from the dancefloor to bring his standuproutine to Strathmore fortwo shows on Sunday.
“I don’t know how longthis will last,” Engvall said.“If I get bumped on thefirst night of elimination, Iwas proud of what we did.I don’t think anybody ex-pected anything out of us.”
Engvall avoided elimi-nation the first night— former NFL wideoutKeyshawn Johnson waskicked off the show — buthe’s under no illusionsabout his time on the showand knows he’ll eventuallybe done.
“[I don’t worry aboutit] because I know mylife’s not going to change,”
Blue-collarballroomBY WILL C. FRANKLIN | STAFF WRITER
n Comedian set to play inBethesda between dance shows
BBBILLENGVALLn When: 4 p.m.
and 8 p.m.Sunday
n Where: MusicCenter atStrathmore,5301TuckermanLane, NorthBethesda
n Tickets: $28-$68
n For information:301-581-5200;strathmore.org
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See BALLROOM, Page B-9
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“The Body Beautiful,” ajuried exhibit highlightingthe human figure in variousforms, opens Friday at the TheCapitol Arts Network gallery inRockville. Featuring painting,photography and mixed media,October’s featured artist willbe Baltimore’s Jessica Damen,acclaimed for her ability to cap-ture youthful emotion in herimages. An opening reception isscheduled from 6-9 p.m. Friday.The exhibit runs throughout themonth. For more information,visit www.capitolartsnetwork.com.
Celebratingthe human
form
JESSICA DAMEN
Jessica Damen’s “Hold on Tight, Thisis Gonna Hurt Like Hell” will be onview throughout October as part of“The Body Beautiful” exhibit at theCapitol Arts Network in Rockville.
Renowned pianist Haskell Small will kick offhis national tour, “Journeys In Silence,” with a freeconcert at 8 p.m. Saturday at Westmoreland Con-gregational UCC Church, 1 Westmoreland Circle,Bethesda. Presented by the Washington Conser-vatory of Music, Small will perform the complete“Musica Callada,” by Catalan Spanish composerFederico Mompou. This rarely performed work,a delicate set of 28 miniatures, was composed be-tween 1959 and 1967. Its title refers to a poem by theSpanish mystic St. John of the Cross, who expressedthe idea of music as the voice of silence. For more in-formation, visit www.washingtonconservatory.org.
The soundof ‘Silence’
SARAH SMALL
The Washington Conservatory of Music will present pianistHaskell Small in concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at Bethesda’sWestmoreland Congregational Church. For more informa-tion, visit www.washingtonconservatory.org.
The Bach Sinfonia will present“100 Feet of Brass” at 8 p.m. Saturdayat the Cultural Arts Center in SilverSpring. A pre-concert discussion isscheduled for 7:20 p.m. The programwill include rarities from 17th and18th centuries such as Johann ErnstAltenburg’s brilliant concerto forseven trumpets and timpani, solosonatas, and works for four, five andseven trumpets by Biber, Zelenka andothers. For more information, visitwww.bachsinfonia.org.
Sinfoniasensation
BarryBaugass
and the restof Bach
Sinfonia willperform onSaturday atthe CulturalArts Centerin SilverSpring.
BACH SINFONIA
Strathmore will introduce a month-long retrospective AIR Alumni concertseries, celebrating graduates from the venue’s Artist in Residence education pro-gram, now in its ninth season. The series kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Friday with LauraBurhenn of The Mynabirds. Burhenn, who went on to tour with supergroup ThePostal Service, will share new material during Friday’s intimate concert at theMansion. Upcoming performances include Latin American sounds from JamieSalazar and Gato + The Palenke Music Co.; an album release from rock cellist Lo-ren Westbrook-Fritts and Primitivity, and eccentric jazz duo The Mancuso-SuzdaProject. For a complete schedule, visit www.strathmore.org.
DP MULLER
Singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn will kick off Strathmore’s AIR Alumni Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. tonight.
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Jaime Salazar (Gato + The Palenke Music Co.) willfollow Burhenn on Oct. 9 at Strathmore. For moreinformation, visit www.strathmore.org.
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BY WILL C. FRANKLIN
STAFF WRITER
It’s about that time again.The air gets a little chilly andfolks are a little more susceptibleto a good fright. … Boo!
OK, maybe not that suscep-tible, but a good haunted house,field or even hospital can makethings downright creepy for themost stoic of Halloween fans.
This year, Montgomery andPrince George’s counties arefilled with things that go bumpin the night. Here is just a smallsampling of what’s around. Besure to visit our website at ga-zette.net for updated hauntedattractions in the area.
Montgomery CountyMarkoff’s Haunted Forest
(19120 Martinsburg Road, Dick-erson, 301-216-1248, Oct. 4-5, 11-12, 17-19, 24-26, Oct. 31 to Nov. 2,$20 and up) — Much like with thehot sauces with the little skull andcrossbones on the label, you’llhave to sign a waiver to wanderthrough Markoff’s Haunted For-est. You don’t have to be a con-
noisseur of the macabre to enjoyyour time there, however. Mar-koff’s will have a variety of attrac-tions, from zip-lines, strongmanchallenges, concessions, highwire acts, carnival games andflaming flying Frisbees. Care-ful with that last one! markoff-shauntedforest.com
Field of Screams/ScreamCity (4501 Olney-LaytonsvilleRoad., Olney, now through Nov.2, $10 - $84) — One of the greatthings about this time of year isthe selection of different scareshorror enthusiasts get to enjoy.At Field of Screams, folks canchoose from a haunted hayride,a haunted house, a haunted trailor a haunted paintball apoca-lypse with zombies — any wayyou look at it, it’s haunting!screams.org
Fall Frolic (Glen Echo Park,7300 MacArthur Blvd., GlenEcho, 301-634-2222, Oct. 27, ad-mission is free) — While someenjoy the heart-stopping shrieksfrom ghosts and ghouls, othersprefer their spookiness to be asminimal as possible, especially
if there are children involved.Glen Echo Park has you coveredwith its Fall Frolic. Visitors of allages are invited to participate inHalloween activities, crafts andeven a costume parade. Adultsmight enjoy visiting the park’sopen studios and galleries.There is a small fee for pumpkindecorating ($1) and face paint-ing ($1-$2). Otherwise the eventis free and runs from 1 p.m. until4 p.m. glenechopark.org
Halloween at the Medical
Museum (National Museumof Health and Medicine, 2500Linden Lane, Silver Spring, 301-319-3303, Oct. 26 from 10 a.m.until noon, free) — Contraryto what some adults might say,Halloween really is a great timeof year for children. The folksover at the National Museumof Health and Medicine under-stand that some children mightbe intrigued by the “creepiness”of skulls! The museum inviteschildren and family members ofall ages to participate in a morn-
ing dedicated to all things skulls.medicalmuseum.mil
Prince George’s CountySix Flags America Fright
Fest (13710 Central Ave., Largo,$34.99-$49.99, 301-249-1500)— Evil clowns, terrifying rollercoasters and sinister zombies… what else do you need for agreat Halloween? Six Flag Amer-ica’s yearly Fright Fest has moreevents than you could possiblyshake a full bag of candy at —from the time you walk into thepark until the time you leave.The festivities begin on Satur-day and run through Oct. 27, soget your goosebumps before it’sover. frightfest.sixflags.com
Nightmares (4101 CrainHighway, Bowie, $15 in ad-vance, $17 at the gate) — What’sscarier than a haunted house?How about a haunted minorleague baseball stadium? Haveyou ever been inside a base-ball stadium when no one wasthere? It can be a little creepy.Tack on the ghosts that hauntthe place and yeah, you’ll have
nightmares. That’s pretty muchwhat the folks at Prince George’sStadium are going for. The TulipGulch’s Nightmares HauntedHouse, which they rate a PG-13experience, features live actorsand takes about 20 minutes towalk through — 20 minutes ofevil! Gates open at 6:30 p.m. andthe show runs until 11 p.m. Thehaunted house is entirely in-doors so you don’t have to worryabout the rain. The event startson Oct. 4 and runs every Fridayand Saturday from then untilOct. 26, and then Halloweennight until Nov. 2. baysox.com
Haunted Hangar (CollegePark Aviation Museum, 1985Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, CollegePark, 301-864-6029, Oct. 26, $4,$3 seniors 60+, $2 ages 2-18, 1and under free) — Halloweenfun can be had by all at the Col-lege Park Aviation Museum. TheHaunted Hangar event, from 7-9p.m., will have arts and crafts,hayrides and spooky fun for thewhole family. collegeparkavia-tionmuseum.com
Everything’s coming up haunted! Scary sites around the region
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Jason Robinson, 22, of Olney, in the morgue at Field of Screams.
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPSCHICAGO TRIBUNE
It’s big, brash and dramati-cally it goes in circles. The firsttwo may be enough for mostpeople, especially if they’re intoFormula One racing, to overlookthe third.
With “Rush,” director RonHoward brings a long, earnestcareer’s worth of expertise tobear on a two-headed FormulaOne biopic, dramatizing the ri-valry between dashingly loucheEnglishman James Hunt, playedby Chris Hemsworth, and therigid, cautious Austrian aceNiki Lauda, portrayed by DanielBrühl. The Grand Prix competi-tion between Hunt and Laudain the 1976 racing season, full oftense reversals and scary trackconditions all over the world,is more than enough movie fora movie. On a technical and at-mospheric level, Howard andhis collaborators have a ball withthe 1970s-ness of everything,from the hair to the clothes tothe widescreen, supersaturatedimages of blazing color.
For Howard, who startedout directing features 36 yearsago with “Grand Theft Auto,”“Rush” ushers him back intohis own past (he was actingon “Happy Days” on TV dur-ing this time) while allowinghim to exploit his filmmak-ing knowledge. There’s a fairamount of digital effects workin the racing sequences, de-signed to push you ever closerto the high-velocity death lurk-ing around every hairpin curve.
If “Rush” feels a little hollow,the reason lies with screenwriterPeter Morgan, whose play “Frost/Nixon” Howard filmed, to pleas-ing results. Morgan has longprovedhimselfadeptat intertwin-ing, interdependent biographi-cal studies. In “The Queen,” forwhich Helen Mirren won her Os-car, the character of British PrimeMinister Tony Blair (played byMichael Sheen) achieved equalnarrative importance.
In “Rush,” Morgan treatsthe men jockeying for positionthroughout as contrasting pen-cil sketches of ‘70s-era princesbehind the wheel. One is a so-ber, meticulous character, theother a carouser who must betaught, by life and circumstance,to respect his rival. “Twenty-
five people start Formula One,”Lauda explains at the begin-ning, “and each year, two die.What kind of person does a joblike this?”
A gut-wrenching crashplays a major part in this story,by factual necessity, though tobe sure Howard is not mak-ing a documentary here. (Fora terrific Formula One docu-mentary, do yourself a favorand see director Asif Kapadia’s“Senna,” about the BrazilianGrand Prix racer Ayrton Sennaand his rival, Frenchman AlainProst.) By nature a cautiousand tidy dramatist, screen-writer Morgan’s sensibility isat odds with the material. Thewriter doesn’t do much of any-thing with Lauda, establishinghim as a by-the-book prig andleaving it at that. Also, the mul-tilingual Brühl (“InglouriousBasterds”) works hard, but he’spretty dull on screen.
If the film finds an Ameri-can audience, it’ll be becauseof Hemsworth, best known forswingin’ the hammer in “Thor.”
Hunt, a charismatically recklessparty boy, is the kind of guy (ac-cording to the script, if not reallife) who proposes to modelSuzy Miller (Olivia Wilde, in aswank variety of enormous hats)mere seconds after they meet.Hemsworth lives for excess, andjust as Hunt brought a boozysort of panache to the sport,Hemsworth conveys genuineenthusiasm for whatever he’sdoing on screen without goingover the top.
Where the events of 1976took these two is fascinatinghistory. But “Rush,” while neverdull, rarely feels dramaticallyalive; it hits its marks dutifullyand darts onward.
One foot on the brake in Ron Howard’s ‘Rush’AT THE MOVIES
RUSHn 2 1/2 stars
n R; 123 minutes
n Cast: Chris Hemsworth,Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde
n Directed by Ron Howard
JAAP BUITENDIJK
Chris Hemsworth as the charismatic Englishman James Hunt and Daniel Bruhlas disciplined Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda in “Rush,” two-time AcademyAward winner Ron Howard’s spectacular big-screen re-creation of the merci-less 1970s Grand Prix rivalry between Hunt and Lauda.
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603 Edmonston Dr.Rockville, MD 20851
240-314-8690www.rockvillemd.gov/theatre
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RockvilleLittle Theater“The Nerd”
By Larry Shue
Sept. 27 - Oct. 6
Tickets $16-$18
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n Singers King, Parkercelebrate at Bethesdasupper club
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFF WRITER
Blues singer/guitaristCathy Ponton King will returnto perform on Saturday at theBethesda Blues & Jazz SupperClub.
The day will mark her birth-day and it will also be a chancefor her to perform with specialguest, veteran bluesman BobbyParker.
“When management askedme who I’d like to share thestage with, that’s who I named,”said King, who grew up in Hy-attsville and now lives in North-ern Virginia.
“He’s an unbelievable guitarplayer,” King said about Parker,who lives in Upper Marlboro.
The two will perform withtheir respective bands at theclub.
The performance will alsohonor the memory of King’scousin, U.S. Navy SEAL BrendanLooney, who died in a helicoptercrash in Afghanistan in 2010.
Looney’s family has estab-lished a scholarship fund tocover tuition at his alma mater,
DeMatha Catholic High Schoolin Hyattsville.
“There’ll be a big jar in thelobby [for donations],” saidKing.
Born in Louisiana, Parkerplayed lead guitar with BoDiddley and toured with SamCooke, Jackie Wilson, ClydeMcPhatter, the Everly Brothersand Buddy Holly in the 1950s.
In 1961 he recorded the sin-gle “Watch Your Step,” the inspi-ration behind the 1964 Beatleshit song “I Feel Fine.”
Now in his 70s, Parker playsregularly at Madam’s Organ BluesBar and Soul Food Restaurant inthe Adams Morgan neighbor-hood of Washington, D.C.
King said she will be per-forming with longtime band-mates drummer Pete Ragusa,guitarist Andy Rutherford, key-boardist Bill Starks, saxophon-ist Bruce Swaim and bassist JanZukowski.
King, who went to the Uni-versity of Maryland, CollegePark, came under the spell ofMuddy Waters in the 1980s.
She started a blues band ofher own called Rhythmasters,touring the East Coast from 1980to 1986. She currently performsregularly at Flanagan’s Harp &Fiddle in Bethesda.
King, who writes most ofthe tunes that she performs, hasreleased three CDs: “Lovin’ YouRight” in 1993, “Undertow” in2007 and “Crux” in 2012.
She recently released twonew songs on an extended playCD, “Quartet/Duet.”
One song, “That’s Whena Woman Calls the Blues byName,” is a joint effort withfriends Sista Pat, Mary Ann Red-mond and Caz Gardiner.
“It’s four women testify-ing the blues,” King said on herwebsite.
The second song, “Famous
Last Words,” is a duet with JoeTriplett with the Rossyln Moun-tain Boys.
“I never stop writing,” saidKing, who is working on songsfor her next CD, “No Friction, No
Fire.”“I’ll be walking down the
street, and I’ll think of a newsong,” she said.
Birthday bluesCATHY PONTON KINGAND BOBBY PARKERn When: 8 p.m. Saturday.
Doors open 7:30 p.m.
n Where: Bethesda Blues &Jazz Supper Club, 7719Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda
n Tickets: $20
n For information: 240-330-4500, bethesdabluesjazz.com, cathypontonking.com,bobbyparkerblues.net
ALAN GROSSMAN
Singer/guitarist Cathy Ponton King and her band will perform with BobbyParker and his band at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club on Saturday.
A popular student and athleteat DeMatha Catholic HighSchool in Hyattsville, BrendanLooney, class of 1999, gradu-ated from the U.S. Naval Acad-emy in 2004.
Looney, who lived in Owings inCalvert County, was a lieuten-ant with the Navy SEALs anddied in a helicopter crash inAfghanistan on Sept. 21, 2010,at the age of 29.
His family has establishedin his memory the BrendanLooney Scholarship Fund tohelp students cover DeMathatuition costs.
Costs currently run $14,500 ayear, said Thomas Ponton, De-Matha’s development director.
Anyone who would like todonate may contribute cashat the Cathy Ponton King andBobby Parker blues concerton Saturday at the BethesdaBlues & Jazz Supper Club.
Contributors may also senda check to Brendan LooneyScholarship Fund, c/o De-Matha Catholic High School,4313 Madison St., Hyattsville,MD 20781.
Donations are tax deductible.
— VIRGINIA TERHUNE
BRENDAN LOONEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
FROM CATHY PONTON KING
U.S. Navy SEAL Brendan Looney was a 1999 graduate of DeMathaCatholic High School in Hyattsville.
IN THE ARTSDANCESHollywood Ballroom, Oct.
2, free International QuickstepRoutine lesson at 7:30 p.m., SocialBallroom Dance at 8:15 p.m. ($16);Oct. 4, Drop-in lessons at 7:30p.m., West Coast Swing Dancingwith Dance Jam Productions at
9 p.m. ($15); Oct. 6, free Rumbalesson at 7 p.m., Social Ballroomat 8 p.m. ($16); Oct. 9, free Interna-tional Quickstep Routine Lessonat 7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom at8:15 p.m. ($16); Oct. 10, Tea Dancefrom 12:30–3:30 p.m. ($6), 2126Industrial Highway, Silver Spring,301-326-1181, www.hollywood-
ballroomdc.comGlen Echo Park is at 7300 Ma-
cArthur Blvd.Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-
days, 8:15 beginner lesson, 9-11:30p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen EchoPark’s Spanish Ballroom Annex,$8, www.capitalblues.org.
Contra, Oct. 4, Sargon de Jesuscalls to Devine Comedy; Oct. 11,April Blum with the fabulous GlenEcho Open Band; Oct. 18, SteveGester calls to Triple Helix; Oct. 25,Will Mentor with Perpetual Emo-tion, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m.dance, Glen Echo Park SpanishBallroom, $10, www.fridaynight-dance.org.
Contra & Square, Oct. 6, BrianHamshar calls with Larry Ungerand Elke Baker; Oct. 13, Ann Falloncalls with Devine Comedy; Oct. 20,Jean Gorrindo with Crab Apples;Oct. 27, Costume Dance withPerpetual e-Motion, Will Mentorcalling, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo ParkSpanish Ballroom, $12 for general,$9 for members, $5 for students,www.fsgw.org.
English Country, Oct. 2, Caller:Michael Barraclough; Oct. 9,Caller: Dan Gillespie; Oct. 16,Caller: Stephanie Smith; Oct. 23,Special Guest Jacqueline Schwabon piano; Oct. 30, Caller: MarthSiegel, 8 p.m., Glen Echo TownHall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org.
Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10p.m. Mondays, steps and forma-tions taught. No experience, part-ner necessary, T-39 Building onNIH campus, Wisconsin Avenueand South Drive, Bethesda, 240-505-0339.
Swing, Nov. 9, WWII CanteenDance with the Eric Felten JazzOrchestra; Dec. 14, Daryl Davis,lesson at 8 p.m., dancing at 9 p.m.,Glen Echo Park, $15, www.flying-feet.org.
Waltz, Oct. 6, Larry, Elke andFriends; Oct. 20, Gigmeisters,2:45-3:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m.,dance, $10, www.waltztimed-ances.org.
MUSIC & DANCEBethesda Blues & Jazz Sup-
per Club, The Johnny Artis Band,8 p.m. Oct. 4; Cathy Ponton Kingwith Bobby Parker, 7:30 p.m. Oct.5; Perry Conticchio Quintet, 7:30p.m. Oct. 6; Cloudburst, 7:30 p.m.Oct. 9; New West Guitar Group,7:30 p.m. Oct. 10; Lavay Smith &Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, 8 p.m.Oct. 11; The Soul Crackers withTommy Lepson, 8 p.m. Oct. 12;Blue Moon Big Band, 7:30 p.m.Oct. 13; Abbe Buck, 7:30 p.m. Oct.16; Ingratitude: A Tribute to Earth,Wind & Fire, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18; TheFabulous Hubcabs, 8 p.m. Oct. 19;Deaf Dog and the Indictments &Feels So Good Band, 7 p.m. Oct.20, call for tickets, 7719 WisconsinAvenue, Bethesda. 240-330-4500,www.bethesdabluesjazz.com.
BlackRock Center for the Arts,Red Molly, 8 p.m. Oct. 4; Eddiefrom Ohio, 8 p.m. Oct. 5; Buskin &Batteau, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17; Furever(film), 8 p.m. Oct. 18; The SpookyMagic of Joe Romano, 1 p.m. Oct.19; Carolyn Malachi, 8 p.m. Oct.19; Julie Fowlis, 8 p.m. Oct. 25-26,call for tickets, 12901 Town Com-mons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, www.blackrockcenter.org.
Fillmore Silver Spring, Trivium& Devildriver, 7 p.m. Oct. 2; TheVinyl District Presents Drop Elec-tric, Technophia and Honest Halo-way, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3; Chase Rice,8 p.m. Oct. 4; Wild Eyes (Tool Trib-ute Band) with Coda,The Wreck-ing Crew and Clockbreaker, 8 p.m.Oct. 5; All Time Low with specialguests The Wonder Years & RiversMonroe, 8 p.m. Oct. 7; Julieta Ven-egas, Los Momentos Tour 2013,8 p.m. Oct. 10; Lee Brice, 8 p.m.Oct. 11; Atlas Genius, 8 p.m. Oct.13; Rusko - The Lift Off Tour withSpecial Guests Roni Size and Dy-namite MC, 8 p.m. Oct. 18; AaronCarter, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20, 8656Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301-960-9999, FillmoreSilverSpring.com, www.livenation.com.
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Bill Engvall is set to bring hisbrand of comedy to Strathmorein between episodes of Danc-ing with the Stars. “It was justsomething I wanted to see if I
could do,” Engvall says.STRATHMORE
n Gaithersburg women’s groupwelcomes novelist Maggie Anton
BY ELLYN WEXLERSPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
Maggie Anton prefers reading bookswith happy endings. And she writesbooks that appeal to readers with likeminds.
“There’s enough real tragedy in theworld. You can see that in the news,” the63-year-old Los Angeles native said. “Iwant my readers to feel uplifted, happy,and glad to have spent their hours read-ing.”
Each of Anton’s four published his-torical novels — the “Rashi’s Daughters”trilogy and “Rav Hisda’s Daughter: Ap-prentice” is “a combination of a hero-ine’s quest, romance and the Talmud,”the author said. “Rav Hisda,” the mostrecent, was a 2012 National Jewish BookAward Fiction finalist and a Library Jour-nal choice for Best 2012 Historical Fic-tion.
All of Anton’s characters come fromthe Talmud.
“The Talmud is one long conversa-tion between hundreds of rabbis. Some-times they tell stories and sometimesthey argue Jewish law,” she said.
Her process offers numerous sce-narios. “I choose which scenes to use,”Anton said, noting ruefully that toomany must be left on the cutting roomfloor. She then creates “a broad outlineand a historical timeline for each char-acter.”
The “Rashi’s Daughters” trilogy,set in 11th-century France, is about thedaughters — Yocheved, Miriam and Ra-chel — of the Talmud scholar known asRashi. Anton said she was motivated totell their stories upon discovering thatthese women were learned. To her sur-prise, they studied Torah, the first fivebooks of the Hebrew Bible, and taught itto other women in the town. After theirfather suffered a stroke, they transcribedwhat he dictated to them. “I suspect theyanswered the simpler questions them-selves,” Anton said.
“Rav Hisda’s Daughter” is set in thirdcentury Babylonia, after the destruc-tion of Jerusalem’s Holy Temple, wherea handful of rabbis, among them theprominent Rav Hisda, began creatingthe Talmud.
“I chose to write about his daughterHisdadukh after encountering a fasci-nating passage in the Talmud where RavHisda brings his two best students beforeher,” Anton said. “Though she is merelya child, he asks which one she wants tomarry, and astonishingly, she replies,‘Both of them.’ Even more astonishingly,that is what eventually happens. … Any
girl who declares that she wants to marryboth her suitors deserves to have herstory told.”
During her research, Anton learnedthat sorcery was prevalent during this pe-riod. Magic was used mostly for “healingthe sick, protecting children and preg-nant women from harm, and guardingagainst demons and the Evil Eye,” shesaid. As such, her heroine, Hisdadukh,forbidden from reading Torah becauseof her gender, studies instead to becomean enchantress.
Writing is Anton’s second career.Equipped with a degree in chemistryfrom UCLA, she spent 32 years work-ing for Kaiser Permanente. She beganwriting at age 47, while still working fulltime, self-publishing the first volume of“Rashi’s Daughters” eight years later, inJuly 2005.
“I knew I had an audience,” Antonsaid. “[Anita Diamant’s] ‘Red Tent’ [abestselling novel about a female char-acter from the Book of Genesis] had justcome out, and all the women I talked towere interested.”
Her prediction was accurate.“Eighteen months out, the book
had sold 26,000 copies and the publish-ers came a calling,” she said. “I retired[from my job as a chemist] in 2007 whenthe advance check from Penguin didn’tbounce.” The second book had alreadybeen written, and with book three, thenin outline form, due to the publisher in2009, a full-time commitment was nec-essary.
Vocation has not been the only dra-matic change for Anton. Earlier in life,
she also evolved from her secular Jew-ish upbringing into becoming observantas well as a Talmud scholar. Anton saidlearning about the Holocaust inspiredstrong feelings for her heritage. At aboutage 11, she read Leon Uris’ “Exodus,”then William L. Shirer’s “The Rise andFall of the Third Reich.”
“These books had a huge impact onme. I learned that being Jewish is morethan lighting Hanukkah candles,” shesaid. “Everyone I knew would have beenexterminated.”
A second impetus came during col-lege, when she accepted her future hus-band’s proposal of marriage, along withhis promise to convert to Judaism. Real-izing “I would never convert to any reli-gion for anyone,” Anton said the classesshe had to take with him gave her thereligious education she did not get inchildhood.
When the couple relocated to a sub-urb with few Jewish residents, they be-came active in its synagogue for socialreasons. As her husband Dave, a part-ner in a patent law firm, became moreinvolved in his adopted religion, Antonsigned up for a women’s Talmud classled by a feminist theologian. She hascontinued to study since 1992, in classes,with partners and individually.
“Discussion is important, that’s howyou learn Talmud,” Anton said. “Thereare so many voices, arguments, discus-sions. It’s not monolithic: thou shalt orshalt not. We don’t have the answerssometimes.”
Anton works — answering mail, do-ing research and writing — nearly everyday, typically starting in late afternoonand going on until midnight. She hascompleted the first draft of Book Twoof “Rav Hisda,” subtitled “The Enchant-ress,” and is now editing, with an ex-pected release date in the fall of 2014.Readers of Book One can look forward toa resolution to the cliff hanger that endedthe book. “The Enchantress,” Anton said,does not end with uncertainty, but shecould write a third book by proceedingto the next generation. Still, Anton saidshe has several ideas for both fiction andnonfiction projects. With hundreds ofrabbis telling stories, finding compellingnew subjects in the Talmud is likely topose no problem.
The Sisterhood of Kehilat ShalomSynagogue, 9915 Apple Ridge Road,Gaithersburg, will present Maggie Antonon Oct. 13. Check-in is at noon, with apresentation and question-and-answersession at 1 p.m., and a book signing anddessert buffet at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $18,$15 for Sisterhood members. Reserva-tions must be made by Friday. For moreinformation, call 571-276-8142 or [email protected].
Happily ever after for author of historical novels
MAGGIE ANTON
Maggie Anton, author of “Rav Hisda’sDaughter,” will speak to the The Sisterhoodof Kehilat Shalom Synagogue on Oct. 13 inGaithersburg.
was the executive director for the net-work for three years. In February, hewas named artistic director at Olney,and “Rancho Mirage” marks his direc-torial debut with the theater company.
“For the first three days, we had thethree other companies that are produc-ing the piece [at rehearsal] ...” said actorJames Konicek. “They got to hear ourread and our input. It’s really a greatluxury ...”
The New Repertory Theatre in Bos-ton, Curious Theatre in Denver andPhoenix Theater in Indianapolis arethe other three companies that will pro-duce “Rancho Mirage” later this year orearly in 2014.
“Rancho Mirage” follows Nick(Konicek) and his wife Diane (TracyLynn Olivera), as they host a dinnerparty for two other couples and long-time friends. As the night unfolds, each
couple reveals their secrets — whetherit be divorce, adoption or financialwoes.
“These can sort of be seen as ‘first-world problems,’” Konicek said. “Butit’s relative. When you’re in it, they canbe life-ruining. To [the characters], theyare devastating.”
In addition to the $7,000 grant fromthe network as a part of the Contin-ued Life of New Plays Fund, Olney wasalso granted $21,000 from the Edger-ton Foundation New American PlaysAwards for “Rancho Mirage.” The grantallows for an extended rehearsal period.
“The American theater business isvery cookie-cutter oriented,” Loewithsaid. “Doesn’t matter if you’re doinga three-hour play ... or you’re doing atwo-act play. It’s 2 1/2 weeks and thentech rehearsals. It does [new plays] agreat disservice to put them throughthat same cookie-cutter process.”
“A lot of times you get into techweek feeling like you’ve been shot outof a cannon,” added Olivera. “And in
this case ... instead of trying to hastilythrow everything together during techweek, we got to be complete duringtech week ...”
The extra week of rehearsal meantmore time to spend with the represen-tatives from the other theaters and evenmade it possible for Dietz himself to workwith Olney’s cast and artistic team.
“It’s an incredible gift and can onlymake the end result that much better,”Loewith said.
“It made for a much more creativeenvironment for all of us,” added PaulMorella, who plays Trevor. “When Ste-ven spoke to the group ... [he] createdan open, accessible and generous dy-namic.”
As Olney’s production is “RanchoMirage’s” world debut, not even theplaywright had seen his work live.
“He’s only heard it, so it’s a great in-cubator as well,” Konicek said.
According to the “Rancho Mirage”actors, the time to develop a piece ofwork alongside its playwright is rare.
And to do it with a playwright like Dietzis even more rare.
“It was brilliant for me to have aplaywright in the room to help ...” Loe-with said. “It’s like having a living ency-clopedia ... Steven is such a veteran ...he really understood how to be collab-orative without being overbearing.”
“Some playwrights are very protec-tive of what they’ve written,” Olivera
added. “Steven is super open ... he’sup for discussion ... You never have towonder what he meant. He’s right thereso you can ask him your damn self,” shelaughed.
Though the “Rancho Mirage” ac-tors had the luxury to ask Dietz ques-tions, Olivera said the key to his playcan be found in a note on the first pageof the script: “This play is a comedy un-til it is not.”
“Comedy can come out of dire situ-ations,” Konicek said. “It doesn’t neces-sarily have to be farce or what we wouldnormally think of as comedy. There’s afine line between tragedy and comedy,laughter and disaster.”
“If [Dietz] wrote a drama about thissubject, no one would go see it becauseit’s self-indulgent rich people com-plaining about nothing,” added Olivera.“When they fall apart, it means more. Itfalls farther when we’ve all been laugh-ing with them.”
RANCHOContinued from Page B-5
RANCHO MIRAGEn Recommended for ages 15 and
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n When: To Oct. 20, see website forspecific dates and times
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n For information: 301-924-3400,olneytheatre.org
Engvall said. “... If I do get bumped,what’s the downside for me? I getto continue doing what I was do-ing, which is a great career doingstandup and acting.
“If I get to keep going, it’s agreat weight-loss program!”
Engvall is quick to point outhe’s not doing the show for themoney or the silver disco ball tro-phy the winner of “Dancing Withthe Stars” receives.
“It was just something I wantedto see if I could do,” Engvall said.“And obviously, for my partnerEmma [Slater], I’d like for us togo as far as we can. I understand,though, that this is a tough crowdthis year. There are three or fourcelebrities on this show who havedanced professionally. I’m underno pretense that I’m one of thesegreat dancers. I think I did a veryreputable job — I didn’t embar-rass myself. I’m probably the leastknown of anyone in this group.”
While it’s true this year’s“Dancing With the Stars” groupis filled with celebrities such asElizabeth Berkley (“Saved By TheBell,” “Showgirls”), Valerie Harper(“Mary Tyler Moore Show”), Am-ber Riley (“Glee”) and even BillNye (yep, they even got the ScienceGuy), Engvall’s status as a star wasnever in question.
Best known for his work part-nering with Jeff Foxworthy, Larrythe Cable Guy and Ron White,Engvall spent six years touring aspart of the Blue Collar Comedygang. The group was responsiblefor several DVDs, a television showon Comedy Central and a satelliteradio show. The group reached outto millions and sold out auditori-ums everywhere they went.
Be that as it may, the guys areall doing their own things now.Foxworthy has hosted several TVshows, Larry the Cable Guy doescommercials and was the voiceof Mater in Disney/Pixar’s “Cars,”and White is a New York Timesbest seller and created his own re-cord label.
Engvall admits the chances ofthe guys doing a Blue Collar touragain is slim to none.
“I think [it’s over] and I say thatin a positive way,” Engvall said.“We went out on top. You don’twant to go back out — and I thinkthat’s where some artists make themistake — you don’t want to go toa city that you sold 8,000 ticketsand all of a sudden you’re selling2,000 or 1,000. Unfortunately withcomedy, nobody assumes you’vewritten anything new, so it’d belike ‘Oh, we saw him last time. Weprobably won’t see him again.’Why even put yourself in that po-sition?
“It was a wonderful run whileit lasted. It is literally the reasonwhy if I wanted to retire tomorrowI could. I made great friendshipswith the guys — we were alreadyfriends, but we became just like
brothers. Everybody’s got theirown project now and they’re do-ing stuff. Listen, if they decidedthey wanted to get back in, wouldI be in? You betcha. But I wouldn’thold my breath on it.”
Before the Blue Collar tour,Engvall reached celebrity status asa comedian with his “Here’s YourSign” routine. Much like Foxwor-thy’s “You Might Be a RedneckIf …” bit, Engvall made it easy tolaugh at the stupidity of others.Still, he doesn’t get bothered byfans who constantly say to him,“Here’s your sign!”
“The honest answer is no,”Engvall said when asked if hegrew tired of it. “You know why?That’s what got me … to comeinto Maryland and do a show. Ittakes two seconds out of my life.I don’t say this as an artist [beinginterviewed], it’s that I’ve neverunderstood why people get in thisbusiness and turn into jackasses. Idon’t get it. I always say if you wantpeople to stop acting that way, stopasking them for their autograph.Stop buying their records. Stopgoing to their movies. I guaranteeyou they’ll change. When they go,“What’s wrong? Why aren’t peoplegoing to my movies?” Well, it’s be-cause you’re a jackass, man.
“This isn’t going to go on for-ever. I’m under no guise that this willlast. It’s already lasted 25 years lon-ger than I thought it would. When itdoes [end], I don’t want to leave thisbusiness with people saying, “Man,he was a jerk!” I want them to say,‘You know, he was always nice tome. He always signed something forme. Or if I wanted to say hi or take apicture, he did it.’ That’s the legacy Iwant to leave behind.”
Until that day comes, though,Engvall still has comedy andhe’s still dancing with an incred-ibly attractive partner. Luckily forEngvall, his wife Gail doesn’t mind.
“Gail and I have been marriedfor 30 years,” Engvall said. “Shealso knows that I’ve got 32 years onEmma. It’s not even sexual. It’s likedancing with my daughter. I wouldbe like that creepy guy where you’dgo, ‘Oh my god!’ I love Gail — she’sbeen with me from Day 1 of thiscareer and I’m sure not going tothrow all this away just becauseof one little cute girl that I dancewith.”
Engvall does have some wordsof advice to younger guys outthere: If you think girls won’t goout with you because you dance— here’s your sign.
“I was telling my kids the otherday, if I knew then what I knownow, I’d be in a dance class everyday,” Engvall said. “Girls love guyswho can dance. I was always theguy who was like, ‘Oh, guy danc-ing, that’s sissy, whatever.’ I’mgoing to tell you right now — guysthat can dance see girls you and Idon’t see. I tell every young guy outthere to get in a dance class.
“It’ll get you further than a six-pack of beer.”
BALLROOMContinued from Page B-5
Unlike the defeated Alexander, Luluis a spunky little girl who wants noth-ing but a brontosaurus for her upcom-ing birthday. After her parents reject theidea based on its shear impracticality,Lulu heads off into the forest to get thedinosaur for herself.
When she discovers the perfect petin Mr. B, there’s only one problem: thebrontosaurus finds Lulu to be the perfectpet for him.
For actor Vaughn Irving, who voicesand operates Mr. B, the task of playinga dinosaur isn’t so different from anyother, human role.
“The process of creating the char-acter, at the heart, it’s the same,” Irvingsaid. “But then you just throw in otherstuff on top of it like, alright, now I’m thesize of a mountain.”
Irving, who also plays the snake,added he approaches any part the sameway: through the eyes of the other char-acters.
“The first step for me is looking at thescript at what all the other characters sayabout your character,” he said. “Becauseeven if it’s a brontosaurus, he could be 10different kinds ... with any of the anthro-pomorphized animals, it’s always better
to start from the human perspective andthen sort of add those animalistic quali-ties to them.”
As Irving worked to develop a per-sonality for his character, Pauli workedon a puppet that would reflect that per-sonality.
A professional actor, clown and pup-peteer, Pauli spent six years touring withthe Big Apple Circus and is now a mem-ber of the Big Apple Clown Care Unit, acommunity outreach program that visitshospitalized children in 16 pediatric fa-cilities across the country. He is return-ing to Imagination Stage after buildingthe bunny puppet for the theater’s 2004production of “Bunnicula.”
Pauli said the months-long processof constructing a puppet Mr. B’s sizestarts with sketches and lots of meetings.
“You have to think like an actor anddirector and what you want the charac-ter to be able to do as a performer andthen you have to design something thatyou think will be able to do that,” Paulisaid. “Logistically, what will work? Andthen you go through the process of actu-ally building it.”
Once the construction is done, thencomes the ongoing task of adjusting andreadjusting.
“The process of building a puppetis in many ways like an ongoing nego-tiation with reality,” Pauli said. “Once
you’ve got [it] all put together, you get togo back to the beginning and figure out,now that I’ve actually built this thing,what does it actually do?”
According to Pauli, the biggest chal-lenge with the brontosaurus puppet is itsoverwhelming size.
“The easiest description I’ve come upwith is that the brontosaurus is bronto-saurus-size,” he said.
As a result, Pauli used lightweightmaterials such as foam padding andspandex velour to construct Mr. B.
Even after the curtain went up onWednesday, Pauli’s work was still notcompletely done.
“At that point I become essentially apuppet paramedic,” Pauli said. “In thecourse of activity of performance, actorsmay get bumps and bruises and they willheal; puppets will not. So my job is to beon call if the puppet develops any bumpsor bruises so that I can come in and get ittouched up.”
But for the most part, after openingnight, Pauli gets the chance to sit backand watch his masterpiece in action.
“Mostly when the show opens, I getto be the audience,” he said. “Once it’staken on a life in somebody else’s hands,I get to be as amazed by it as I hope therest of the audience is.”
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Seneca WhetstoneCommunity Yard Sale
Saturday October 5th, 9am-2pm. RainDate Sunday October 6th, 9am-2pmGame Preserve Rd off Rte 355. Multi
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MORNING & EVENING CLASSES
We offer Medication Technicianin just 4 days. Call for details.
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EMULTIFAMILYYARD SALE....Lots of items, Dishes,exercise equipment,tools, furniture andmuch more. 8am-2pm.4200 HeadwatersL a n eOlney Md 20832
GAITHERSBURG:Holiday DecorationsYard Sale Sat., Oct5th from 8am til 2 pm.All holidays-inside &outside items. PingPong Table &more. Address: 10Sunnyside Ct,
GAITHERSBURG:Multi Family; Sat. Oct5 8a-3p; wide variety:Belle Grove Rd &Sanders Ln
OLNEY/NORBECKGROVE: 10/5 8-1HH items, furn, toys,games, craft supplies,purses, jewelry 18320Leedstown Way
POTOMAC : HUGESALE - Fri 10/4 , 9am-8pm, Sat 10/5, 9am-3pm, Clothing, Furni-ture, Antiques, More!St. James’ 11815 Sev-en Locks Rd betweenMontrose & Tuck-erman.
POTOMACYard Sale for Charity10th Annual Big Com-munity Event. All pro-ceeds go to Montcounty homeless fami-lies. Sat.10/5 9-312704 Huntsman WayFollow signs frm FallsRoad. Rain Date 10/6
ROCKVILLE: GraceChapel Multi-FamilyYard Sale! 4115Muncaster Mill Road,Sat. 10/5 8am-3pm.Tools, appliances,e x e r -cise equip., toys,games, furniture, babyfurniture, books, jewel-ry, ping pong table, airhockey, drums andmuch more. Refresh-ments.
SILVER SPRING:Multi-Family, Saturday10/05 8-4, HH items,lsrge & small sizeclothes/shoes & muchmore! 14716 Cobble-stone Drive/Stonegate
ADELPHI: 2 JewishCemetary Plots,Mt Lebanon, Total$3000 for both,Call: 410-224-2559(after 11am please)
CARPET INSTAL-LATION TOOLS:Retired Installer sellingPower Stretcher, Iron,Electric Tacker, Kick-er, Roller & more 301-236-5995
FOR SALE: Spapedi chair light blueleather, full facial chair& equip, massagetble/massage heaterstones 301-674-0569
TWO-PERSON HOTTUB HOT SPRINGruns good, new lid,new filter, new headrest. $200. Call 301-349-2468
BURTONSVILLE:Antq oak table/leaves$595, Antq oakpressed back chairs,$169/ea 301-879-0732
FOR SALE 65" Work-ing TV $95 Must havemeans of taking largeheavy TV out ofhouse. 301-602-8920
FREE 2 A/C : workingwindow air condition-ers just come & pickthem up. Call 413-695-4184
FIREWOOD FORSALE
$225/cord$150 per 1/2 cordµ Includes Deliveryµ Stacking Extra
ChargeAsk for Jose301-417-0753301-370-7008
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FIREWOOD FOR SALE$180 a Cord
Delivered & Stacked
Call “Joe the Pro”301-538-5470
Mix Hardwood
BRICKLAYERSMin. 5 yrs commercial exp.Job in Silver Spring, MD.Bilingual a plus. $22.00/hr.
A Drug-free workplaceEOE, E-Verify301-662-7584
CLEANINGEarn $300-$500/wk. M-F,
No nights or wknds.Must have own car & valid.
Drivers lic. Se Habla Espanol.
Merry MaidsGaithersburg 301-869-6243Silver Spring 301-587-5594
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Fashion Eye Glass FittersMeds Techs & Opticians
Exp or will train. Good hand eye, mustown car, F/T including Sat. Salary $12-$24/hr + benefit. Apply in person forlocation call Doctors On Sight,301-540-1200 or 703-506-0000
ADOPT - Lovinghome to provide a life-time of joy & opportu-nity for your baby. Noage or racial concerns.Expenses paid, 1-866-440-4220.
We are looking forlaborers/paintersthat worked for
Dico Constructionin the Baltimore/DC area between1973 and 1974.
Please call888-900-7034
Help us to test an investigationalimmunotherapy tablet for dust miteallergy. Participants may be eligible forthis study if they are 12 years of age orolder and have been taking allergymedications for dust mite allergysymptoms during the past year.Medical history and other criteria willbe reviewed at the first study visit,including a skin prick allergy test andblood test. The study lasts up to 2years and requires 9 clinic visits. Allstudy-related office visits, medicalexaminations, and investigationalimmunotherapy treatment will beprovided at no cost to qualifiedparticipants.
Family Allergy & Asthma CareDr. Jacqueline Eghrari-Sabet
Dr. Gina Dapul-Hidalgo
For more information contact us atwww.familyallergycare.com
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HELPER NEEDEDfor daycare. Friendlyand fun personalitySpk fluent English/Spanish. 301-762-2042
You can care for one or more childrenwhile staying in your own home.
MOMSMOMS
MONDAY MORNING MOMSfor info. 301-528-4616
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Starburst Childcare Lic. #:159882 240-277-2751 20855
Children’s Center of Damascus Lic. #:31453 301-253-6864 20872
Nancy’s Daycare Lic. #:25883 301-972-6694 20874
Little Angels Daycare Lic. #:872479 301-515-3114 20876
Elena’s Family Daycare Lic. #:15-133761 301-972-1955 20876
Ana’s House Daycare Lic. #:15127553 301-972-2148 20876
Affordable Quality Child Care Lic. #:156840 301-330-6095 20886
Holly Bear Daycare Lic. #:15123142 301-869-1317 20886
Filipina Daycare Lic. #:54712 240-643-7715 20886
Kids Garden Daycare Lic. #:139378 240-601-9134 20886
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House CleaningRockville. Looking for 1 FullTime House Maid to join our
Company for ResidentialCleaning. Mon-Fri. 8 am-5 pm.
Must have Drivers License,excellent cleaning experience,
must speak some English and belegal to work in U.S. Pay $10.00
p/hr. 301-706-5550.
LOCKSMITHLiberty Lock & Security inRockville, seeking qualified
technicians. Experience required.Confidentiality assured.
Fax Resume to 301-424-3080,email
LIVE-IN NANNY:Potomac need helpw/3 kids. 5/days /wk.,incl. Sat., must Drive.Call 240-506-4607
AIRLINE CAREERSbegin here - Get FAAapproved AviationMaintenance training.Housing and FinancialAid for qualified stu-dents. Job placementassistance. CALL Avi-ation Institute of Main-tenance 800-481-8974.
MEDICAL OFFICETRAININGPROGRAM! Train tobecome a Medical Of-fice Assistant. No Ex-perience Needed! Ca-reer Training & JobPlacement Assistanceat CTI! HSDiploma/GED & Com-puter needed. 1-877-649-2671
UNEMPLOYED?VETERANS? ASPECIAL TRAININGGRANT is now availa-ble in your area.Grant covers Comput-er, Medical or Micro-soft training. Call CTIfor program details. 1-888-407-7173.
LIVE IN NANNY/HOUSKPR F o rhousehold & children,references are required240-242-5135
LOVING NURSINGASST looking for pvtduty FT. 30 yrs exp.,exc refs, own trans.301-363-8045
OOFFFFEERRSSOFFERSReliable, Insured & Monitored Care in ahome setting for Infants, Toddlers andPreschoolers in Montgomery County
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On Call SupervisorGreat job for students, retirees and
stay at home moms. Work fromhome! Answer and handle phone callsfrom 5pm to 9am two evenings twicea month for staffing agency or one
weekend a month. Must have Inter-net access, and a car. Fax resume to
301.588.9065 or email [email protected]
Restaurant Staffµ Wait Staff µ Buss Persons
µ PM Line CookFull & Part time shifts available
Apply In Person:Normandie Farm Restaurant
10710 Falls Rd, Potomac
ELENA’S FAMILYDaycare
Infants-Up Pre-K pro-gram, computer Lab,Bi-lingual Potty Train.
Lic# 15-133761Germantown301-972-1955
CONVALESCENTCARE Needed PTLive-in/wkends & FTTue-Thur. CPR Cert.202-446-5849 [email protected]
I AM A HOUSE-KEEPER: Live-out,25 yrs exp, exc & localref, reasonable rates,US citizen & spksEnglish well! Pleasecall 240-440-2657
POTOMAC FAMILYASSISTANT:Legal. Educated. DriveCook. PT: morningsMon-Th, Sat. 2 yrs +exp. 301-887-3212
R O C K V I L L E :HSKPR/DRIVERLive-in priv spac apt+ salary in exchangefor several hrs of ltduty for pastors wife,301-871-6565 lv msg
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Careers301-670-2500 [email protected]
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APPOINTMENT SETTERSEarn $750 to $1000 a week.
Come generate appointments for a Top Inc500 remodeling Co.
Ê Daytime & Evening Hours AvailableÊ Gaithersburg location
Call John at 301-987-9828
Concrete Pump Operator,Dump Truck Drivers,
Loader OperatorModern Foundations (Woodbine, MD) islooking for: Experienced concrete pump operator,Dump Truck Drivers, Residential ConstructionLoader Operator. Qualified applicants call410-795-8877.
Clerical
Courtroom ClerkDistrict Court for Montgomery County
Perform specialized clerical work at the advancedlevel assisting the judge in courtroom proceduresand dockets. Prepare/generate paperwork for thejudge’s and/or defendant’s signatures.Responsible for assisting the judge in themaintenance, operation, and organization of thecourtroom. Work is performed with considerableindependence and is evaluated for efficiency,effectiveness, timeliness and compliance withprocedures. Resolve a variety of unprecedentedor unusual problems. Ability to work overtime, asneeded without prior notice. Maybe called induring emergencies, e.g. inclement weatherconditions and staff shortages. For full details andinstructions on how to apply, visit the court’swebsite www.mdcourts.gov EOE
CONSTRUCTIONResidential Builder/Remodeler needs experiencedworking superintendents, carpenters, andpainters to work in the DMV area. Must have
impeccable references. Start immediately! Salarybased on qualifications, plus benefits.
Send resume to [email protected] fax 301-721-9899.
CPA/ACCOUNTANTCPA firm, Olney, MD has multiple positions open.
Tax supervisor/manager - 10+ yrs exp,General ledger accountant - 5+ yrs exp,
F/T, P/T, flexible hours.For immediate consideration please email:
Interior Decorating/Residential Design
Growing national firm seeks experienced salespersonswith passion for decorating. Permanent positions
available; various opportunities in booming market.Send resumes to [email protected]
or call 301-933-7900
MASON TENDERSMin. 1 yr exp. in commercial work. Job in Silver
Spring, MD. Bilingual a plus. $12 to $14/hr.based on exp. Drug-free workplace.
EOE & E-Verify 301-662-7584
Software BusinessSystem Analyst
CYNCZ LLC (Clarksburg, MD & occasional workin Rockville, MD). Dvlp address booksynchronization system. Dsgn, integrate, monitoradvanced d/base mgmt system & complexcommunication network. Position reqs Bachelor’sdeg or equiv in Comp Sci, Comp Applics or rltd &1 yr s/ware dvlpmt exp, utilizing communicationsprotocol, Apple IOS, Google’s Android, Researchin Motion’s Blackberry, & Microsoft Windows’Mobile platform. Mail resume to Jaya Pandey,11905 Kigger Jack Lane, Clarksburg, MD 20871.
DENTAL RECEPTIONISTPeriodontal office (Shady Grove) FT, with at least 2 years ofexperience and excellent communication skills. Benefits andsalary based on experience. Please email resume [email protected]
PayrollSpecialist
Administer payroll & benefits.Opportunity for advancement.
ADP PCPW Payroll &JDEdwards experience
preferred. Send resumes &cover letter to
STYLISTSUpscale salon in
Gaithersburg. Excellentcommission. Booth rentalsavailable. Great work
environment and location.Call 301-693-8504
Dental/MedicalAssistantTrainees
Needed NowDental/Medical
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Job Training& Placement
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TELECOM PROJECT ENGINEER3CLogic Inc. has Telecom Project Engineer positions available in Rockville, MD(8:30am - 5:00pm, Monday - Friday, 40 hrs/wk) Duties: Gather customer require-ments, produce functional designs for product/cross-platform features, write archi-tectural and engineering specifications, provide technical direction, and train/mentorengineers for 3CLogic’s enterprise product offerings development.Participate in Application Design sessions with business and technical teams. driveissue resolution, create test plans and perform system testing to ensure that the of-fered solution meets customer’s business needs. Interface with vendor/partners (car-riers, service partners), as required, to test interoperability, troubleshoot, escalateand resolve problems and/or outages in service. Implementcomplex engineering prototypes, set up and configure changes of enterprise callcenter projects for new and existing customers. Design and configure theInteractive-Voice-Response for contact centers. Configure network devices for net-work interoperability and carrier provisioning between 3CLogic network and custom-er carrier networks. Perform design reviews on an ongoing basis to maximize per-formance, ensure business satisfaction, and alignment with IT strategy. Some do-mestic and international travel required. Job duties can be performed remotely fromhome. Position requires a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree inElectrical/Telecommunication Engineering, Computer Science or related. Knowl-edge of IP suite of protocols, Telecommunications Engineering and web technolo-gies such as HTML gained through experience, training, or course work. Annual sal-ary: $110,989.00/year. (Standard Benefits include: health benefits, sick leave, vaca-tion) Submit resumes to: Recruitment & Employment Office, 3CLogic Inc.,Attn: Job Ref#: CLO42118, P.O. Box 56625, Atlanta, GA 30343.
STYLISTSNew Hair Cuttery SalonOpening Oct 5th! Stylist
opportunities now available!Comp pay and benefits!REQ’D MD Cosmetology
License! Call Heather at 410-374-8760 or apply today at
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Sales
We are looking for AMAZING sales people!!!
The Gazette, a Post Newsweek Media company, is looking forenthusiastic, self-motivated people to take our sales territories to thenext level. If you value autonomy, but can work well in a team thatvalues integrity, respect and growth, this may be the job for you.
The mission of the Advertising Sales Consultant is to develop newbusiness while servicing and increasing existing business. Positioninvolves cold calls, interviewing potential clients, developing andpresenting marketing plans, closing sales and developing strongcustomer relationships. Candidates should possess persistence,energy, enthusiasm and strong planning and organizational skills.
We offer a competitive compensation, commission and incentives,comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, pension,401(k) and tuition reimbursement.
To become part of this high-quality, high-growthorganization, send resume and salary/earnings requirementto [email protected].
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JANITORIAL POSITIONSPrivate School in Rockville seeks:
Janitorial Shift-Leader (PT, Evening).Perform and oversee evening cleaningprocesses.
Janitorial Worker (PT, Temporary)Perform afternoon cleaning processes.
Must have prior experience. Criminalbackground check required. Pleasee-mail [email protected] or callBuilding Services at 301-962-9400x5101.
NOW HIRINGELECTRICIANSResidential/CommercialMin 4 years experience
Call 301-349-2983
RECEPTIONIST/SECRETARYEvening / weekend / holiday part time position availableimmediately. Computer experience a must. Multi-taskenvironment. Call Carolyn (301)929-1700 ext. 3015 orsend resume to fax (301)929-1721. Manor Country Club,14901 Carrolton Road. Rockville, MD 20853
SCHOOL BUSDRIVERS
FT/PT ROCKVILLE area.Must be "EXPERIENCED" &
have a CDL w/PS endorsement.Call 301-752-6551
Warehouse LoaderPart time position available forwarehouse truck loader, Wednesdays.Job responsibilities are to assist driversand carriers loading their vehicles withbundles of newspapers. Must be ableto lift 40 lbs, accurately, count bundlesand able to operate a pallet jack.Wednesday at 4am to 4pm shiftavailable at our Gaithersburg location.
Please contact Ken at 301-670-7350,reference "warehouse loader"position
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Part-Time
Work From HomeNational Children’s CenterMaking calls Weekdays 9-4
No selling! Sal + bonus + benes.
Call 301-333-1900
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