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NEWS: Bowie man mentorsyoung student athleteson the “‘FLYE.” A-7
TASTE OF PRINCE GEORGE’SChefs face off at food and wine festival. A-4
Gazette-StarThursday, August 21, 2014
SPORTS: Bowie State tight endgoes from walk-on to NFLprospect. B-1SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
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n City funds landscapingalong city’s major thruway
BY EMILIE EASTMAN
STAFF WRITER
Bowie officials dug up funds to solve a weed prob-lem along a Maryland highway in Bowie after residentsclaimed the state’s once-a-season landscaping effortswere not enough.
Since the State Highway Administration begancutting back its mowing schedule six years ago, Bowieresidents have complained about weeds and over-growth on the median and edges of Md. 197 in Bowie— a major thruway that brings visitors to Bowie TownCenter and City Hall.
Now city officials plan to use city funds to financelandscaping of the state-owned highway, with regularmaintenance scheduled to begin Aug. 15 at the cost ofapproximately $14,000 per fiscal year, according to citymanager David Deutsch.
“It has become a pattern over the years where thecity has had a higher expectation for the maintenanceand upkeep of the road,” said city planning directorJoe Meinert. “The road really started becoming an eye-sore with the high weeds and the high grass.”
Lenette Vargas of Bowie, assistant manager atHeather Ridge Apartment Homes located right off Md.197, said the overgrowth became worse over the past
Bowie callsfor a waron weeds
BY KIRSTEN PETERSENSTAFF WRITER
Most dogs can sit, stay, and roll over oncommand. But play the bongos?
That’s a trick Stacie Beasley, 36, of UpperMarlboro hopes her keeshond Clancy can dofor more than clicks on YouTube. It’s a talentshe hopes will bring attention to the abuse ofthe breed.
When Beasley and her husband, Jeff, werelooking for their first dog, Beasley said she knewthe keeshond — a playful breed nicknamed the“Smiling Dutchman” — was the perfect poochfor her.
“I used to be a veterinary assistant and acouple of them had come to the pet clinic,”Beasley said. “They were such happy, loving,social dogs with so much personality and it re-ally struck my interest.”
She adopted a keeshond puppy, Clancy,and said she bonded with him by teaching himtricks. Clancy performs for school children andcomforts the elderly as a therapy dog, Beasleysaid.
“He is just this one-of-a-kind dog,” Beasleysaid. “A lot of that comes from the breed. Theyare so happy.”
But when Beasley learned about the abusekeeshonden, the formal term of multiple kees-honds, have endured in puppy mills throughher mid-Atlantic area Capital Keeshond Club,she decided to bring attention to the cause withthe help of Clancy’s talent.
“It is such a shame,” Beasley said. “I can’timagine this breed of dogs cooped up in these
UpperMarlboro
dog lends pawagainst abuse
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Stacie Beasley of Upper Marlboro with her keeshond, Clancy, during a break from appearing at an Aug. 16festival in Bowie. Beasley has been raising money to rescue abused keeshonds.
Helping a breed in need
n Residents hold families,communities accountable
BY EMILIE EASTMANSTAFF WRITER
During the first two weeks of August, PrinceGeorge’s County’s homicide rate matched that of Juneand July combined, which has some residents callingfor more investment in families and neighborhoods.
Five incidents — including a double homicide —took place primarily in the southern portion of thecounty this month, including attacks in the cities ofOxon Hill, Suitland and Landover.
Ron Balfour, 63, of Suitland said he is a formerneighborhood watch member and was concerned tohear of the Aug. 10 shooting of a Suitland woman.
“Any incident that happens like that in your com-munity, you always have concerns. [Crime] will godown, then all of a sudden you have a spike,” he said.“They always recommend more policing, more secu-rity, but all that costs money.”
Balfour said there is only so much law enforce-ment officers can do to promote safety if family mem-bers and neighbors are not taking responsibility foreach other.
“Everything has to start from home. Parents have
County reelsfrom homicidehike in August
n Officials say Upper Marlboro schoolpromotes positive learning
BY KIRSTEN PETERSEN
STAFF WRITER
Students, staff and parents agree — it’s thecommunity at Dr. Henry A. Wise, Jr. High Schoolin Upper Marlboro that makes the school one ofthe best in the country. But now, they have an
award to prove it.The Ford Neighborhood Awards, formerly
known as Steve Harvey’s Hoodie Awards, rec-ognized Wise earlier this month as the best highschool in the nation at a star-studded gala in At-lanta, Ga.
Carletta Marrow, the former principal of Dr.Henry A. Wise, Jr. High School in Upper Marl-boro and assistant principal William Blake ac-cepted the award Aug. 9 on behalf of the Pumas.The winner was determined by a nationwide
online vote. Event producers from the FordNeighborhood Awards said they would not dis-close voting totals to the public.
Dominique Ross, 18, of District Heights isa recent graduate and said the administrationmade school exciting.
“They did a lot to make sure everyone hasthe same opportunity to be successful,” Rosssaid. “They made sure there was something for
Wise honored as nation’s best high school
n Program creates custom blessingsfor Bible studies, individuals
BY EMILIE EASTMAN
STAFF WRITER
A Bowie resident wants to make the an-cient verses of the Biblical Old Testament moreaccessible for modern readers.
Daniel Akintonde, owner of Bowie-basedAnimated Catalogs EduSoft, which creates in-teractive photo books and brochures, has de-
signed software that customizes biblical textsfor individual people and needs.
An ordained Baptist youth minister, Akin-tonde said he was inspired to apply technologyto religious texts three years ago and createdtwo Bible software programs — “VirtuousWoman Powerhouse” and “Psalm 119 Pros-perity Power.”
“In the heart of most people, there is aneed. Something inside people that recognizesprayer — whether in times of need or other-
Bowie man taps digital prayer
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Daniel Akintonde of Bowie showing his automatedprayer app, which reads out specially selected prayersin English and Hebrew.
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AUG. 21The Price is Right — Understanding
Basic Pricing Principles for Cost Propos-als, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Bowie BranchLibrary, 15210 Annapolis Road, Bowie.Participants will be trained on: The dif-ferent contract types, Basic cost andprice principles, Cost allocations andbasic cost elements, Basic estimatingand pricing assumptions, Tools to pricecompetitively and much more. Contact301-883-6480.
Family Night at Annie’s Art Gallery,6 to 9 p.m., Art Gallery, 5814 AllentownWay, Camp Springs. Annie’s Art GalleryFamily Night Poetry Open Mics are freeand open to all. We are encouraging chil-dren to create a poem — more than oneis even better — during their summervacation and share it with us. Any topic isfine. Contact 301-449-9588.
Book Discussion, 7 p.m., South BowieLibrary, 15301 Hall Road, Bowie. TrumanCapote’s “In Cold Blood: A True Accountof a Multiple Murder and Its Conse-quences.” Contact 301-850-0475.
AUG. 22Friday Night Live, 7 to 9 p.m., Bowie
Town Center (Food Court Pavilion),15606 Emerald Way, Bowie. Spend Fri-day evenings with Bowie Town Centerfor live music from Split 2nd and familytime. Contact 301-860-1401 or [email protected].
Xtreme Teens: Summer Cookout, 7 to10 p.m., Huntington Community Center,13022 8th St., Bowie. Come join us for afun-filled evening of food and refresh-ments at the summer cookout. Makesure you grab a friend and get ready tofeast on the best hamburgers and hotdogs. Contact 301-464-3725; TTY 301-218-6768.
Scholarship Crabfeast, 8 p.m. to mid-night at The Show Place Arena, 14900Pennsylvania Ave., Upper Marlboro.Please join the Southern Prince George’sCommunity Charities in partnershipwith Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incor-porated’s Upsilon Tau Omega Chapterat the 15th annual scholarship crab feast.Cost is $60. Comtact [email protected].
AUG. 23Quilting Class, 10 a.m., Spauldings Li-
brary, 5811 Old Silver Hill Road, DistrictHeights. Join us and have fun learninghow to hand quilt. Let’s learn from each
other. Enjoy making new friends whilelearning how to quilt. Please bring half ayard of 100 percent cotton fabric in lightand dark colors to class. Beginner and in-termediate levels. Contact 301-817-3750.
Battle of Bladensburg Commemo-ration, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., BladensburgWaterfront Park, 4601 Annapolis Road,Bladensburg. Join forces with those com-memorating the War of 1812 in PrinceGeorge’s County Start with a dedica-tion of the new monument, followed bya grand procession into BladensburgWaterfront Park. Then conclude theday with a thrilling battle re-enactment.Throughout the day enjoy the festivalactivities from trade demonstrationsto boat rides and live entertainment;even the kids will have fun. This is justa teaser. The day will be filled with evenmore exciting explorations. Contact 301-927-8819; TTY 301-699-2544.
Resumé Start-up using MS Word2010 Templates, 2 p.m., HillcrestHeights Library, 2398 Iverson St., TempleHills. Discuss the different types of resu-més. Learn about different tools to helpyou design one that best fits you, usingMicrosoft Word templates, free resourcesfrom the Testing & Education ResourceCenter and the Internet. Bring your in-formation and a flash drive to create andsave your own resumé. Basic mouse andkeyboard skills required. Registrationrequired. Limit eight. Contact 301-630-4900.
Meet the Author, 6 p.m., Barnes &Noble @ Bowie Town Center, 15455 Em-erald Way, Bowie. J.J. Smith the Authorof the “10 Day Green Smoothie Cleanse-Lose up to 15 pounds in 10 Days” will beat the Bowie Barnes & Noble to sign cop-ies of her book. Contact 301-809-1552 [email protected].
AUG. 24Tucker Road - Your Health and Well-
ness Destination: Health & WellnessZone, 1 to 4 p.m., Tucker Road AthleticComplex, 1770 Tucker Road, Fort Wash-ington. Join us for activities that empha-size healthy living at the Your Healthand Wellness Destination. Participatein activities such as a a hockey clinic,broomball, a golf clinic or yoga. Activitiesare free unless otherwise noted and willtake place rain or shine. Contact 301-203-6000; TTY 301-203-6030.
Undaunted Weekend: The 200th An-niversary of the Battle of Bladensburg,8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Bladensburg WaterfrontPark, 4901 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg.
Bladensburg Races 5K, “Beyond the Bat-tle” open houses, boat rides and walkingtours. Contact 240-619-9400.
AUG. 25Cole Bros Circus, 4:30 p.m., Prince
George’s Stadium, 4101 Crain High-way, Bowie. Come see performersfrom all over the world in the Circus ofthe Stars. Contact 1-800-7796-5672.
AUG. 26Preschool Storytimes: Ages 3-5, 10:15
a.m., Surratts-Clinton Library, 9400 Pisca-taway Road, Clinton. Please pick up freeticket at children’s desk. Contact 301-868-9200.
Teen Gaming Night, 6 p.m., Surratts-Clinton Library, 9400 Piscataway Road,Clinton. Ages 12-17. Contact 301-868-9200.
Teen Advisory Board (TAB): Make aDifference @ Your Library, 6 p.m., Glena-rden Library, 8724 Glenarden Parkway,Glenarden. Participate in TAB and sug-gest programs/materials, plan activitiesand meet new people. We are creating acomfortable space for teen contributionsto your library. Ages 13-17. Contact 301-772-5477.
Speaker Series, 10:30 a.m. to noon atboard room, fourth floor, County Admin-istration Building (CAB), 14741 GovernorOden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro.DVD: “The Story of Sprawl—Part Two.”This two-disc set is an unprecedented vi-sual document of how sprawl happened,told through a series of historic films. Visitwww.princegeorgescountymd.gov.
Science Book Club: “Mastermind:How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes,” 7 to8 p.m., Panera Bread, 3931 Town CenterBlvd., Bowie. Join our group and read apopular-level science book every month.Our August book is “Mastermind: How toThink Like Sherlock Holmes,” by MariaKonnikova. Please RSVP by joining theMeetup.com group, sending an e-mail,or calling the organizer. Contact 301-262-1069 or [email protected].
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War of 1812 Nightat the Bowie BaysoxGame, 6 to 10 p.m.,Prince George’s Sta-dium, Ballpark Road,
Bowie. Family fun with special sing-ing of Star Spangled Banner, specialgames, and 1812 trivia. General Ad-mission tickets cost is $1, reservedtickets $3, box seat tickets $6. Con-tact 301-805-6000.
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n Historic site located nextto MGM National Harborconstruction
BY KIRSTEN PETERSEN
STAFF WRITER
When Quinta Castlestepped into the wooded still-ness of her family’s historicFort Washington cemetery as achild, she said she felt she wason hallowed ground.
“You could just feel thepresence and the history there,”said Castle, 53, of White Post,Va.
Today, only two trees riseabove the chain-link fence thatsurrounds the Addison Fam-ily Cemetery. The 18th centurysite will soon be a neighbor tothe MGM Casino at NationalHarbor, and Castle, an Addisondescendent, said she is con-cerned the casino’s construc-tion and future developmentscould jeopardize the cemetery’spreservation.
The Addisons were a promi-nent family in the 18th centurywho owned the land where theOxon Hill Manor house sitstoday, said Jennifer Stabler, aplanner coordinator with theMaryland-National CapitalPark and Planning Commis-
sion. At least three generationsof Addisons are believed to havebeen buried at the cemeteryfrom the 18th century to themid-19th century, Stabler said.
Castle said the cemetery,which now sits on a 28-foot-tallmound in the corner of an un-developed lot, is overgrown andhas been vandalized. She saidshe believes developers see thehistoric site as a “thorn in theirside.”
“When it comes to the cem-etery I think they should tryto make amends for how theyhave treated it thus far and pre-serve it, respect it, and make apark-like setting surroundingit,” Castle said.
Gordon Absher, the vicepresident of public affairs forMGM Resorts International,said in a statement that jerseybarriers would surround thehistoric site to protect it duringthe casino’s construction.
The undeveloped lot, whichis owned by Virginia-based ThePeterson Cos., currently pro-vides a buffer between the con-struction site and the cemetery,but Andre Gingles, an attorneyfor National Harbor, said thelot has been designated for “in-tense, dense development.”
“The proposal has alwaysbeen to integrate the cemeteryin that urban environment,”
Gingles said.Stabler hopes the final plans
for National Harbor will permitthe cemetery to be an educa-tional space.
“We’re hoping to make itmore of an historic attraction,”Stabler said. “It’s an opportu-nity to teach Marylanders aboutthe early history of not only thecounty but also the state.”
The Peterson Cos. couldrestore the cemetery to a spaceresembling the one Castle vis-ited as a young girl — the de-tailed site plan for the casinoincludes a rendering of thecemetery surrounded by flow-ering trees, large shade treesand evergreens.
Castle said although thecemetery is integral to her fam-ily, she looks at the “biggerpicture” of why it should bepreserved.
“It’s not just about whatI would like or what my fam-ily would like. It’s what manypeople from Prince George’sCounty would like,” Castle said.“It’s representative of the his-tory of Prince George’s County,how we create our historicallandmarks and historical cem-eteries and how we treat ourdead.”
Relatives say casino will disruptFort Washington cemetery
BY EMILIE EASTMAN
STAFF WRITER
When Perry Gordon andGregory Brow of Bowie de-cided to clean up some localtrails this summer, they weren’tjust clearing the path for futurehikers and bikers — they werepaving the way for future lead-ers and empowering others togive back to their community.
Gordon, Brow and Benja-min Fritter of Crofton are theBowie Boy Scout Troop #403’slatest Eagle Award recipients,and received the scouting or-ganization’s highest honoron Aug. 16, surrounded byfriends, family, politicians andcommunity leaders.
Gordon and Brow’s Eagleprojects involved repairingand expanding the trail sys-tems near Nash Woods andHoly Trinity Episcopal Churchin Bowie, while Fritter’s in-cluded painting around 200curbs in his neighborhood.
“When I first joined BoyScouts, that trail was oftenused,” said Gordon, 18, whorepaired the trail near HolyTrinity with the help of about30 volunteers. “I found it wasovergrown and the fence wasin pretty bad shape. [The re-pairs] help out this churchand that’s a major part of this
community, and it helps theschool [located in the church]so they can have their kids ex-plore nature.”
All three students becameinvolved with the Boy Scoutsorganization at a young age— Gordon and Brow startedaround age 6 and both haveolder brothers who completedthe program and received Ea-gle awards.
Brow said there are mis-conceptions about Boy Scoutssuch as it being odd or overlystrict, but that being involvedin the organization helpedhim see the value of the skillsand experiences it offers.
“A lot of people at myschool mock scouting. Theysee it the way they would seethe chess club,” Brow said.“But they don’t pay attentionto the high-adventure andoutdoor things we do.”
Gordon and Fritteragreed, adding their adven-tures have included climb-ing rocks, shooting guns andwhite water rafting.
The Eagle award is a cu-mulative achievement that isearned by as few as two per-cent of boys who enter thescouting program, said JeffKunkel of Bowie, troop 403’sadvancement co-chair.
“There are many skills and
achievements [scouts] have tomeet along the way. The Eagleis the pinnacle of that,” Kun-kel said. “It’s the highest ranka Boy Scout can earn.”
Scoutmaster Jim More-house of Bowie said Eaglerequirements include dem-onstrating leadership and ser-vice skills as well as masteringthings like personal fitnessand financial management.
“They come in as littlekids, who, in some cases areterrified of camping over-night. They can’t cook. Theycan’t put up their own tent,”he said. “To watch them grow[makes me] very proud, andkind of humble.”
The Eagle Court of Honorceremony held to honor thethree new Eagle Scouts in-cluded presentations fromBowie Police Chief John Neskyand Bowie Mayor G. FrederickRobinson.
“It’s so good to come to aplace like this where you cansit back and take in the valuesrepresented by these youngmen,” Robinson said, then ad-dressed the Eagle Scouts. “Yourepresent the best in this com-munity. You should be proudof your accomplishments be-cause we’re very proud of you.”
Bowie’s trail blazers
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Bowie residents Gregory Brow (left), 17, and Perry Gordon, 18, of Bowie Boy Scout Troop 403 each maderepairs and improvements to walking trails in Bowie to attain the rank of Eagle Scout.
n Chapter awarded10 students this year
BY KIRSTEN PETERSENSTAFF WRITER
The Upsilon Tau Omegachapter of the Alpha Kappa Al-pha Sorority, Inc., will host acrab feast Friday at the ShowPlace Arena in Upper Marlboroto raise money for the chapter’sscholarship fund.
The event, which will beheld from 8 p.m. to midnight,will feature a silent auction, adance contest and a 50/50 raffle.Tickets are $60 per person. The
fundraiser is co-sponsored bythe chapter and Southern PrinceGeorge’s County CommunityCharities.
During last year’s crab feast,the Fort Washington-basedchapter raised enough funds toaward $13,000 in scholarshipsthis year, said V’Nell DeCosta,the chapter president.
In June, scholarships wereawarded to eight college fresh-men, one returning student anda Morgan State student for theupcoming school year.
DeCosta said Alpha KappaAlpha has always been focusedon education and is committedto ensuring every child receives
a higher education.“It takes a community to
raise a child,” DeCosta said.“The more people who attendour event, the more scholarshipswe can give out.”
In the last 14 years, the chap-ter has awarded approximately$100,000 in scholarships, De-Costa said.
The Show Place Arena islocated at 14900 PennsylvaniaAvenue in Upper Marlboro. Formore information and to buytickets for the event, visit http://www.akaupsilontauomega.org/.
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n Students to focuson science, math, religion
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A new school for ele-mentary and middle schoolstudents is hoping to givestudents a “presidential” ed-ucation.
Presidential PreparatorySchool is a new, private reli-gious kindergarten througheighth grade school, locatedin Landover Hills.
The school is taking overthe location of the former As-cension Lutheran Day Schoolfacility, but has no affiliationwith the church, said admin-istrator Jiiko Caldwell.
Caldwell of Fort Wash-ington comes to the schoolwith 17 years in education,primarily teaching in Wash-ington, D.C., public charterschools. This is her first ad-ministrative position.
Being “presidential” ispart of the school’s philoso-phy, according to Caldwell.
“When thinking about apresident, we think of some-one who has no limits forthemselves,” Caldwell said.Caldwell said there will be afocus each year on a differ-ent U.S. president, beginningwith George Washington.
The school also is focused
on Science, Technology, En-gineering and Mathematics,or STEM, fields, with roboticsinstruction at all grade levelsand Latin beginning in kin-dergarten, Caldwell said.
“We’re working to getthose minds to be at a levelof higher learning and reallyengage their critical thinkingskills right from the start,”Caldwell said. “We’re en-couraging them to be forwardthinking, to be decision-mak-ers and to prepare them forthe 21st-century economy.”
Part of its STEM programinvolves the introduction ofalgebraic thinking at kinder-garten, said algebra teacherTara Sewell.
“We’ll be working withordinal numbers, additionand subtraction in differentequations,” Sewell said. “Ifyou start in kindergarten andgive them a good base, andbuild on that through thegrade levels, by the time theyget into Algebra I, it’ll be oldhat.”
Anne-Marie Stewart-White of Hyattsville said theSTEM aspect was one of thereasons she decided to enrollher 10-year-old son, KhalilWhite, in Presidential Prep.
“He’s very interested inthe technology, the scienceaspects. He loves comput-ers,” Stewart-White said. “Hereally likes the idea of goingto a school that is going to
cater specifically to his inter-ests.”
Caldwell said PresidentialPrep is a Christian school,but is nondenominational,and does not proselytize.Nonetheless, Christianity isan important aspect, withstudent-led prayer and Bibleclasses.
“We do use Scripture asinspiration and as a moraleguidepost,” Caldwell said.
Caldwell said society hascome to accept mediocrity,but Presidential Prep ex-pects more from its students,whom Caldwell said arecalled “candidates.”
“We want to tell them,you are in the running to bein the top of your business,the top of your industry, thetop of your cause,” Caldwellsaid. “We’re training them tobe future leaders.”
Caldwell said studentswill be actively involvedin the governance of theschool with a student Coun-cil of Governments that willhelp determine school poli-cies, culture and activities,Caldwell said.
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George’s spotlightscounty restaurants
BY KIRSTEN PETERSEN
STAFF WRITER
Chefs Donnell Long andRonald Reid may be formercolleagues at Stonefish Grillin New Carrollton, but thatdoesn’t mean a bit of friendlycompetition is out of the ques-tion.
The two Prince George’sCounty chefs will serve uptheir own versions of barbecueshrimp and grits Saturday at thesecond annual Taste of PrinceGeorge’s food and wine festival.
The festival, which will behosted from noon to 8 p.m. atSix Flags America in Largo, willfeature food and wine tastingsfrom more than 17 restaurantsthroughout the day, said Qui-anne Perrin, the coordinatorand founder of event.
“People should expect awe-some food and unique and ex-clusive tastings that they won’tbe able to taste anywhere else,”Perrin said.
New to this year’s festival isthe fantasy food stage, a spacewhere chefs will prepare dishesexclusively for the festival.
“We’re asking all of thechefs to put thinking caps onand go big or go home,” Perrinsaid.
Long, the former co-ownerand executive chef of StonefishGrill and now the owner of theUpper Marlboro restaurantOlde Towne Inn, said he wouldbe cooking up a barbecueshrimp and grits on the fantasystage.
Meanwhile, Reid, the cor-porate executive chef for Stone-fish Grill in New Carrollton, saidhe will be offering his low coun-try shrimp and grits as a foodtasting.
“When I cook, I cook withlove. If he ain’t coming withlove, he’s going to lose,” Reidsaid.
In addition to food dem-onstrations and competitions,the event will spotlight morethan 17 county restaurants andchefs, Perrin said.
Baruch Ben-Yehudah, theCEO and founder of CapitolHeights vegan restaurant Ev-erlasting Life, said his busi-ness continues to benefit fromparticipating in Taste of PrinceGeorge’s last year.
“The exposure was tremen-dous,” Ben-Yehudah said. “Weconnected with so many cus-tomers and other businessesthat we could network with. It
was really a good event for usand we continue to get a returnwith new visits and people whosaw us at the Taste.”
Ben-Yehudah said the fes-tival is a important opportunityto show residents what kind ofculinary creations can be con-sumed in their own backyard.
“I think the rest of PrinceGeorge’s needs to know whatkind of options we have here inthe county and how important itis to support businesses withintheir county,” Ben-Yehudahsaid.
Tickets to Six Flags Americamust be purchased to enter thefestival. The $27 general admis-sion ticket includes entry to SixFlags, parking, and access to thefestival. “Taste tickets” must bepurchased to sample food, ac-cording to the Taste of PrinceGeorge’s website.
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A bartender competes in the mixology competition at last year’s Tasteof Prince George’s food and wine festival at Six Flags America in Largo.
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n Title the first awardedto a Prince George’sdepartment member
BY EMILIE EASTMANSTAFF WRITER
As a small child, Sara Shaf-fer knew she couldn’t ever fillher father’s shoes — but shedid want to fill his fireman’sboots.
Following in the footstepsof her father and several otherfamily members, Shaffer beganvolunteering at a local fire de-partment at age 18 and said shehasn’t looked back since.
The 31-year-old fromChesapeake Beach is the firstPrince George’s County fire-fighter to receive the “NationalFirefighter of the Year” awardthrough the American Legionveterans’ organization, saidPaul Gomez, fire departmentassistant chief.
“I grew up around it, lis-tening to things my dad said.When I was older I said ‘I cando that too’,” said Shaffer ofEngine Co. 6 — St. Joseph inSpringdale. “I don’t secondguess it at all. I love what I do.”
The award, which will bepresented during a ceremonyin North Carolina on Tuesday,comes months after Shaffer re-ceived the county’s Firefighterof the Year award.
“[Receiving the nationalnomination] was definitely sur-prising,” she said. “You don’texpect awards or anything be-cause it’s your job and you keepthinking ‘they’ll pick someoneelse’.”
Gomez said Shaffer’s awardhelps bring attention to thework of the approximate 800career firefighters and 1,500volunteers who work for firestations across the county
“It’s a tremendous honorfor one of our members to re-ceive recognition at such ahigh level,” he said. “And it’sdefinitely rewarding to seeour members recognized forthe work they do every day onthe streets of Prince George’sCounty. It sheds some light onthe efforts of everyone who par-ticipated in those incidents.”
Shaffer’s county-level titlewas award in combination witha gold medal of valor for assist-ing in saving the life of a fellowfirefighter who was pinned un-derneath a truck after a trafficaccident last January.
Shaffer received her countyaward alongside paramedic Ka-tie Johnson, who also receiveda medal of valor and the de-partment’s “paramedic of theyear” award.
Their award ceremonymarked the first time two fe-male members of the depart-ment simultaneously receivedthe department’s highest hon-ors, Gomez said.
Johnson, who had has beena member of the county fire de-partment for 11 years, said thatshe isn’t surprised two womenclenched both titles.
“It’s a male-dominatedprofession, it has been foryears and years,” she said. “ButI don’t think it should be such abig deal that it was two women[who received the countyawards]. I’m a firefighter/paramedic. I don’t want to belabeled as a female firefighter/paramedic.”
Working 24-hour shifts thatbegin at 7 a.m., Shaffer saidgender stereotypes aren’t thefirst thing on her mind.
“The station gets 30-pluscalls a day,” she said. “You putin a lot of hours, which couldbe challenging. Physically, itcan be demanding. But I don’tthink it’s ever challenging if youenjoy what you do. It’s all worthit in the end.”
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Sara Shaffer, a firefighter at Engine Co. 6 in Springdale, was honored as theNational Firefighter of the Year by the American Legion’s veterans’organization.
n Late state delegateknown for supportof veterans
BY EMILIE EASTMAN
STAFF WRITER
Friends and colleaguesof the late Mary Ann Conroyof Bowie say the former statesenator and delegate will bedeeply missed and remem-bered for her “fiery” tem-perament and advocacy forveteran’s and mental healthpolicies.
Conroy, whose politicalcareer began when she as-sumed her late husband EdConroy’s Maryland Senateseat in 1982, served as a del-egate for nearly 21 years rep-resenting the Bowie area.
A Bowie resident foraround 50 years, Conroy wasa founding member of theBowie Citizens Associationand a charter member of theBowie Women’s Club.
Additionally, Conroyheld leadership roles atUnited Cerebral Palsy ofPrince George’s County andthe American Cancer Society.
Bowie Mayor G. Freder-ick Robinson said both MaryAnn and Ed Conroy were veryinvolved in city and local is-sues, and said she lobbied
in Annapolis for more localcontrol of land-use decisionmaking.
“She kind of became aninstitution in the city,” hesaid. “If it was an issue thatinvolved Bowie, she was agreat advocate for us.”
The Conroys were one ofthe founding families of earlyBowie, purchasing one of thefirst Levitt & Sons homes inthe Belair at Bowie commu-nity, said Gerard Devlin, along-time Bowie resident andformer state delegate.
“They called us the pio-neer families,” Devlin said.“We were very close friends.”
Devlin said Conroy waswitty, and could be hot-tempered at times, but thatshe had a great heart for hercommunity.
“She was a remarkablewoman. Very feisty, very Irishand very funny,” he said.“She spoke her mind all thetime. She was not your typi-cal politician, but she neverheld grudges.”
Bowie Councilman Den-nis Brady (At-Large) said heworked with Conroy whileshe was a state delegate andremembers serving on theBowie City Council with Con-roy’s son, Kevin Conroy.
“She was helpful, she wasfriendly, she could be can-tankerous at times, but that
was her personality,” he said.“She served the city well andbrought things back to us.”
State Del. Jim Hubbard(D-Dist. 23) of Bowie, whoworked with Conroy forabout 12 years in the legisla-ture, said Conroy’s influenceon the area was demon-strated by the residents whore-elected her more than fivetimes.
“Mary Conroy was anexcellent legislator who rep-resented her district well formany years,” he said. “Shehad the Irish temper and shedid have a tendency everynow and then to show that,but it was for all the right rea-sons.”
Conroy is survived byher two sons, Edward Con-roy and Kevin Conroy, fourgrandchildren and two great-grandchildren, according toher obituary.
Her family could not bereached by press time.
A Mass of Christian Burialwas held for Conroy on Aug.14 at Sacred Heart Church inBowie.
Devlin said Conroy’spassing marks a great loss forthe Bowie community as wellas the entire state.
“An era has really endedin Bowie,” he said.
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n Officials: Father shot3-year-old daughter beforebeing shot by officers
BY EMILIE EASTMANSTAFF WRITER
Prince George’s County po-lice are still investigating whatcould have motivated FrederickRoy Miller, 38, of Landover toabruptly take his daughter fromher home on Saturday, shoother caretakers and later stab andshoot his 3-year-old in the head.
The child’s homicide, whichtook place Saturday, resulted ina police chase and then a shoot-out, in which police officers shotand killed Miller.
County police chief MarkMagaw said acquaintances ofMiller gave testimony about cus-tody battles over the toddler aswell as head injuries Miller sus-tained in a recent car accident,but that police are still searchingfor a motive in the case.
“It’s heart-wrenching,”Magaw said. “I’d ask the com-munity to keep these familiesin their thoughts and prayers.As a father, I don’t know howyou deal with the emotional andphysical pain of losing a 3-year-old.”
Around 1 p.m. on Aug. 16,police responded to the reportof a shooting at 4208 FarmerPlace in Fort Washington andfound a man and woman whohad been shot, but were stillalive, said Maj. Jason Johnson,commander of the department’sinternal affairs division.
The two residents were thegrandfather and great-grand-mother of Laila Miller, 3, of FortWashington, he said. They werehospitalized in critical conditionMonday.
Frederick Miller is believedto have carried his daughter toa car, at which point police be-gan a six-minute pursuit thatended with gunfire, Johnsonsaid. Frederick Miller was shotand Laila Miller was found in thepassenger seat of the car withboth knife and gunshot wounds,Johnson said.
“[Officers] provided aidthe best they could,” Johnsonsaid. “They also summoned thePrince George’s County Fire andEMS, who transported Laila to ahospital where, sadly, she suc-cumbed to her injuries.”
Magaw said preliminary au-topsy reports show Laila Millerwas stabbed and shot by her fa-ther. Police discovered an openknife in the car with blood on itand investigations showed thebullet was fired from approxi-mately 3 to 6 inches away fromLaila Miller, Magaw said.
Magaw added that the bul-let was not matched to any kindof gun the police have and wasfired at too close a range.
The officers involved inthe incident have been givenadministrative leave until theinvestigation is concluded, ac-cording to a police statement.
Magaw said the best way forcommunity members to helpprevent domestic violence is tocontact police at the first sign oftrouble.
“What this is about is ask-ing our community for help,”Magaw said. “We’re only asgood as our relationship withthe community. That meansgetting calls and support and in-formation from the communityabout the small things beforethey become large events.”
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POLICE BLOTTER
This activity report is pro-vided by the Prince George’sCounty Police Department asa public service to the com-munity and is not a completelisting of all events and crimereported.
District 2Headquarters, Bowie, 301-
390-2100 Glenn Dale, Kettering,Lanham, Largo, Seabrook, Wood-more, Lake Arbor, Mitchellvilleand Upper Marlboro.
AUG. 11Robbery on commercial
property, 700 block Harry S Tru-man Drive, 1:09 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 15700 blockEbony Court, 8:00 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 8400 blockGreenbelt Road, 8:19 a.m.
Theft, 100 block JoycetonTerrace, 10:23 a.m.
Theft, 600 block JuneberryCourt, 10:55 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 9100block Basil Court, 12:07 p.m.
Theft, 9500 block Queen-sway Road, 12:58 p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 15800 blockAtlantis Drive, 3:32 p.m.
AUG. 12Robbery, 6200 block Gothic
Lane, 2:02 a.m.Vehicle stolen, 2800 block
Foxglove Way, 7:53 a.m.Theft from vehicle, 9400
block Largo Drive W, 8:21 a.m.Commercial property break-
in, 1100 block Shoppers Way,8:55 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 2800block Foxglove Way, 9:04 a.m.
Robbery, 13800 block OldAnnapolis Road, 9:05 a.m.
Theft, 15200 block DunleighDrive, 10:11 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 900 blockSt. Michaels Drive, 1:08 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 4600block Mitchellville Road, 1:40p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 9800 blockLottsford Road, 2:01 p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 3500 blockSuperior Lane, 4:06 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 900 blockLargo Center Drive, 4:34 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 10100block Campus Way S, 9:09 p.m.
Theft, 15400 block EmeraldWay, 10:34 p.m.
AUG. 13Theft from vehicle, 15000
block Marlboro Pike, 6:57 a.m.Theft from vehicle, 11200
block Raging Brook Drive, 7:23a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 15100block Doveheart Lane, 9:09a.m.
Theft, 900 block Largo Cen-ter Drive, 9:34 a.m.
Theft, 12300 block MellingLane, 10:47 a.m.
Theft, 9300 block FontanaDrive, 10:52 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 10200 blockIndian Summer Court, 11:28a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 15500block Marlboro Pike, 12:21p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 16600block Governors Bridge Road,12:23 p.m.
Theft, 3700 block BrownStation Road, 1:16 p.m.
Break-in, 1300 block Wemb-ley Drive, 1:43 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 15900block Excalibur Road, 1:56 p.m.
Theft, 600 block Crain High-way Sw, 3:01 p.m.
Residential break-in, 3000block Belair Drive, 3:58 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 12700block Redgrave Drive, 9:55 p.m.
Residential break-in, 1800block Wetherbourne Court,10:32 p.m.
AUG. 14Residential break-in, 10200
block Prince Place, 12:55 a.m.Commercial property break-
in, 15300 block Marlboro Pike,4:31 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 8800 blockBrae Brooke Drive, 4:33 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 18300block Central Ave, 7:10 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 6200block 93rd Place, 7:12 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 6200block 93rd Place, 8:57 a.m.
Theft, 1300 block BloxhamCourt, 9:43 a.m.
Theft, 3800 block Alta VistaDrive, 10:39 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 16600block Governors Bridge Road,11:37 a.m.
Theft, 3600 block EdwardsSt., 12:30 p.m.
Assault with a weapon, 8800block Greenbelt Road, 4:02p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 1200block Parkington Lane, 5:29p.m.
Robbery, St. Joseph Drive& Double Tree Lane, 6:02 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 1100block Port Echo Lane, 6:38p.m.
AUG. 15Sexual assault, 10800 block
Blk Bennington Drive, 11:17a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 100 blockCrain Highway Se, 1:04 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 9700block Lanham Severn Road,1:31 p.m.
Residential break-in, 5600block Duchaine Drive, 2:11p.m.
Assault, unit block of Cam-eron Grove Blvd, 2:28 p.m.
Theft, 6400 block BrightleaDrive, 3:53 p.m.
Residential break-in, 9700block Westphalia Road, 3:56p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 9700block Summit Cir, 5:11 p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 13200 blockVandine St., 5:34 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 10400block Campus Way S, 6:19 p.m.
Theft, Fernwood Drive/Sansbury Road, 7:13 p.m.
Theft, 1700 block MallardCourt, 10:00 p.m.
Theft, 14800 block Main St.,11:09 p.m.
AUG. 16Commercial property break-
in, 9700 block Good Luck Road,3:40 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 11400block Lake Arbor Way, 8:49a.m.
Theft, 6800 block RaceTrack Road, 9:29 a.m.
Theft, 900 block Largo Cen-ter Drive, 12:15 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 9100block Basil Court, 12:49 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 5500block Glen Ave, 1:02 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 1100block Shoppers Way, 2:44 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 9900block Good Luck Road, 3:39p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 4400 blockCape Cod Cir, 6:30 p.m.
Residential break-in, 18500block Clagett Landing Road,8:54 p.m.
Residential break-in, 9700block Lake Pointe Court, 11:01p.m.
Theft, 6800 block Lyle St.,11:41 p.m.
AUG. 17Vehicle stolen, 4700 block
Cashill Court, 12:15 a.m.Vehicle stolen, 16400 block
Governors Bridge Road, 1:52a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 12100block Rockledge Drive, 1:59a.m.
Theft from vehicle, WhitehallDrive/Welling Lane, 11:00 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 4700block Crain Highway Sw, 11:01a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 6200block Seabrook Road, 11:36a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 13400block Dille Drive, 11:45 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 1000block Largo Center Drive, 11:46a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 800 blockLargo Center Drive, 12:09 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 9700block Annapolis Road, 12:57p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 12300block Winding Lane, 1:18 p.m.
Theft, 900 block ShoppersWay, 3:18 p.m.
District 4Headquarters, Oxon Hill,
301-749-4900. Temple Hills, Hill-crest Heights, Camp Springs,Suitland, Morningside, Oxon Hill,Fort Washington, Forest Heights,Friendly, Accokeek and Wind-brook (subdivision in Clinton).
AUG. 11Commercial property break-
in, 15700 block LivingstonRoad, 2:51 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 6700block Border Place, 5:06 a.m.
Residential break-in, 10700block Indian Head Highway,5:18 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, 2900 blockBrinkley Road, 6:38 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 6500block Suitland Road, 7:01 a.m.
Commercial property break-in, 9400 block Livingston Road,7:20 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 4700block Raleigh Road, 7:22 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 4400block Wheeler Road, 7:48 a.m.
Theft, 4300 block St. Barn-abas Road, 8:24 a.m.
562V, 5000 block WilkinsDrive, 8:32 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 5000block Mercedes Blvd, 8:37 a.m.
Theft, 5400 block StratfordLane, 9:22 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 4200block 28th Ave, 12:05 p.m.
Commercial property break-in, 5400 block Henson Drive,1:12 p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 4500 blockAllentown Road, 1:26 p.m.
Assault, 3100 block GoodHope Ave, 1:40 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 11100block Indian Head Highway,2:12 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 11100block Indian Head Highway,3:00 p.m.
Theft, 100 block PotomacPassage, 3:40 p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 5100 blockIndian Head Highway, 4:36p.m.
Vehicle stolen, 1500 blockSouthview Drive, 4:58 p.m.
Assault, 4500 block St. Barn-abas Road, 5:33 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 900 blockSwan Creek Road, 5:46 p.m.
Theft, 12800 block Jervis St.,5:55 p.m.
Theft, 13300 block FortWashington Road, 6:38 p.m.
Vehicle stolen and recovered,4400 block 23rd Pky, 7:15 p.m.
Assault, 4900 block IndianHead Highway, 7:35 p.m.
Residential break-in, 5500block Livingston Terrace, 9:14p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 1800block Palmer Road, 9:18 p.m.
AUG. 12Theft from vehicle, 1700
block Rhodesia Ave, 7:15 a.m.Theft from vehicle, 4800
block St. Barnabas Road, 8:11a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 3900block 25th Ave, 8:52 a.m.
Theft, 700 block AmerDrive, 9:25 a.m.
Theft from vehicle, 4200block 28th Ave, 11:35 a.m.
Vehicle stolen, SouthviewCourt/Southview Drive, 2:35p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 1000block Marcy Ave, 2:57 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 10700block Featherstone Drive, 4:44p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 3700block Branch Ave, 5:04 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 300 blockWaterfront St., 5:28 p.m.
Theft from vehicle, 4600block Dallas Place, 7:38 p.m.
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STAFF WRITER
A pair of Eleanor RooseveltHigh School alumni are hop-ing to teach students at theirGreenbelt alma mater how tosucceed by learning to “FLYE”right.
Sam Sesay, 30, of Bowieand Cortni Grange, 29, of Ta-koma Park have created thenonprofit Future Leaders andYoung Entrepreneurs, or FLYE,to teach skills such as financialmanagement, self-marketingand gentlemanly behavior tominority male teen athletes.
“They’ll know how to actin an interview, how to talk topeople, how to present them-selves, how to market them-selves positively,” Sesay said.“Even if they don’t make it tothe NFL, they’ll know how toget a job, do an interview andcreate a résumé. They’ll knowhow to be successful and turntheir passions into somethinglucrative.”
The two piloted an eight-week FLYE program last schoolyear with members of the var-sity football team, but thisyear have expanded it to otherschool athletes as well, holdinga kickoff event at the school onAug. 18.
“The reason FLYE workswith minority male athletes isbecause we see that as one ofthe major opportunities in ourcommunities,” Grange said. “Ifthe athlete is the one leadingthe charge in terms of profes-sional development, in termsof how to treat young women,in terms of how to carry your-self as a gentleman, how to bea humanitarian, it will createa ripple effect to the rest of theschool.”
Teke Carlson, 17, of Green-belt said participating in thepilot last year helped him starthis own business, making al-terations to clothes.
“It’s great. They’re teach-ing us that football is not ev-erything you need in life,” saidCarlson, who plans to go intobusiness. “They’ve taught us alot about business, how to de-velop our own business model.They really helped me a lot.”
Joshua Adebayo, 17, of Lan-ham, said his experience in theprogram last year taught himthe value of thinking ahead.
“The program makes youthink about the future; whatyou want to be and how youwant to get there, after highschool,” said Adebayo, whoplans to study physical therapyin college.
FLYE meets with studentsweekly for 15 weeks and bringsin guest speakers to talk on anumber of subjects.
“We have different indi-viduals from different back-grounds coming to speak withthe kids, so they’ll see others
doing something positive withtheir lives,” Sasay said. “Someof them are former athletes, sothey’ll talk about how they tran-sitioned from sports to being anentrepreneur, a lawyer, a doc-tor, a government employee, afather.”
Sesay said he saw a need forsuch a program while he wasstill a student at Eleanor Roos-evelt, where he also worked asan intern with the U.S. Depart-ment of Commerce’s MinorityBusiness Development Agency.Sesay graduated from ERHS in2003.
“I got the full experience ofhow to work in a governmentsetting, how to work in a corpo-rate setting that a lot of my peersdidn’t have,” Sasay said. “Sowhen I looked back, I said, ‘howcan I change that?’”
Grange said they hope toexpand the program to otherschools as well.
The program’s website canbe found online at flye.org/.
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Virtuous Women uses pre-created prayer forms organizedby topic. Psalm 119 createsnew prayers using an algorithmbased on the letters of the He-brew language and the letters ofa user’s name, Akintonde said.
“Let’s say you want to prayfor prosperity or healing forsomeone, you would take theeight verses belonging to [eachletter] of their name and get yourown unique psalm,” he said. “Itis unique to you, and it’s muchmore powerful for getting yourprayers answered.”
Akintonde said he has mar-keted the software to about adozen churches over the pasttwo months and has formedrelationships with churches inLaurel, Silver Spring, Canada,Michigan, Texas and Nigeria.
Manon Gurley, who leadsThe Tabernacle Church in Lau-rel with her husband, GeorgeRandolph Gurley, said she be-came interested in the prayersoftware in June and hopes touse the Virtuous Women pro-gram with her women’s ministryof about 150 members.
“I think that it is inspira-tional and it is something thathelps people to build theirfaith,” she said. “It is a very goodprogram and something thatdoesn’t demand much effort.It’s simply applying the word ofGod to a person’s personal life,and it’s based on accurate scrip-tures from the Old Testament.”
Gurley said names carriedgreat spiritual significance in theOld Testament, so it is appropri-ate that Akintonde’s software
uses a person’s name to formprayers or blessings.
Akintonde said his nextsteps for marketing his pro-grams will be an email market-ing campaign and an event onAug. 30 at South Bowie Librarywhere he will demonstrate thetechnology.
Lisa Smith, executive direc-tor of the Bowie Business Inno-vation Center, said Akintondehas been an affiliate client of herorganization for about a yearand is an example of the diverseskills and passions representedby area entrepreneurs and BICclients.
“I understand that the pas-tors and first ladies in severalof the large congregations inPrince George’s County are veryinterested in the Virtual Womanproduct,” Smith said. “It is an ex-citing new approach to prayer.”
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everyone.”Marrow, who was ap-
pointed this summer to bean instructional director forPrince George’s County Pub-lic Schools, credits the Posi-tive Behavioral Interventionsand Supports program withfostering a positive school en-vironment. The PBIS programrewards students for beingprepared and on-time for classby giving them “puma bucks,”which can be redeemed forschool supplies, gear and dis-counted homecoming tickets.
“It helps you change theculture by getting the adultsand the children to focus moreon the positive and not just fo-cusing on negative behaviors,”Marrow said.
Blake said one the school’sbiggest accomplishments hasbeen decreasing the ninthgrade retention rate. Establish-
ing the ninth grade academy,which helps ninth-gradersmake a seamless transition to10th grade, has reduced theretention rate by 15 percent inthree years, Blake said.
As the ninth grade viceprincipal, Blake said his role isto build a relationship with in-coming students.
“I am here for their instruc-tional needs, but also their so-cial and personal needs as well— how to pick their friendsand how to always do the rightthing and not engage in peerpressure,” Blake said.
The administration hasalso established opportunitiesto showcase student creativity.Freestyle Fridays give studentsa platform to perform, danceand even do stand-up comedyduring lunch.
“Freestyle Friday was a re-ally, really big thing,” Ross said.“You always wanted to be inthe lunch that Mr. Blake wasin because he always did Free-style Friday.”
Ross, who is starting herfreshman year at Ferrum Col-lege in Ferrum, Va., this month,credits the school’s emphasison college and career readi-ness with helping her discoverher college.
“If it wasn’t for Wise bring-ing in representatives fromuniversities, I would havenever found Ferrum and Iwould have never applied,”Ross said.
Doria Boulware, the presi-dent of the school’s PTSO, saidshe was once skeptical aboutsending her daughter to Wise.Over four years, she said shehas seen students and parentseager to be involved.
“The culture has definitelychanged. These students wantto learn and they want to bepart of Wise,” Boulware said.“We were able to grow Wiseinto what we knew it could be.”
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to pay more attention to theirchildren,” he said. “The policeare there to serve and protect,but if it’s not monitored fromhome, if you don’t have anyplace for these young men and
women to go, that’s anotherthing that’s not helping.”
Balfour said there was a lackof summer jobs and recreationprograms for youth in his areathis summer.
Belinda Queen-Howard, acommunity organizer and resi-dent of Capitol Heights — aboutthree miles outside Suitland —
attributes the spike in incidentsto the chaos of summer and un-addressed personal issues.
“The problem is the summeris here, kids are out of school,people are on vacation, peopleare having summer cookoutsand drinking and not thinking,”she said. “Even though we havepolice presence, at this point,
it’s the people with the issuesthat are going to have to be ad-dressed. People with anger is-sues or people who don’t havethe training [to know better].”
Queen-Howard said herneighborhood organized a Na-tional Night Out Against Crimethis year for the first time to en-courage community participa-tion in public safety efforts.
“We wanted to get peopleout to meet each other and learnto respect each other,” she said.“We can’t expect the police de-partment to do everything. Wereally have to start taking it backto the neighborhoods.”
While the spike in deathschallenges the recent downwardtrend of homicide rates acrossPrince George’s County, countypolice spokesman William Alex-ander said the current rate is stillnearly 30 percent lower than thistime last year — with 30 homi-cides so far this year.
“Even one murder in PrinceGeorge’s County is too many,but we have made significantprogress in the last few years,”he said. “In 2013, we had 56murders, the lowest number ofhomicides in Prince George’sCounty since the mid 1980s.Between 2010 and 2013, we had
a 38 percent drop in murdersand a 30 percent drop in violentcrime.”
Alexander said the spike inhomicides in August is concern-ing, but not necessarily unusual.
“The number of murdersebbs and flows across the year,for instance, I recall we hadmultiple murders in January oflast year,” he said. “We still haveroom to improve, but feel we’vemade significant progress onreducing crime and improvingpublic safety.”
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few years.“We’ve heard it from resi-
dents, and we’ve said it our-selves,” she said. “We’re prettyexcited they’re finally going todo something about it.”
Vargas said the area sur-rounding Md. 197, also knownas Collington Road, has be-come the city’s default “down-town” area and that she is gladit will be receiving a facelift.
“It’s kind of the heartbeatof Bowie,” she said.
Charlie Gischlar, a spokes-man with the Maryland StateHighway Administration, saidthe state began reducing thenumber of mowing cycles in2008 from five or more mowingcycles to four mowing cycles ayear. Gischlar said cutbackswere made for financial andenvironmental reasons andthat he doesn’t expect the state
to increase roadside mainte-nance in the near future.
“We are not pursuing achange in policy with regardto maintaining the varioustransportation assets,” he said.“It is important to realize thatgrass is growing rapidly due toa combination of a wet springand summer and seasonaltemperatures.”
There is a long historyof tension between the city,county and state over Md. 197in Bowie, including a stalledplan to widen part of the roadand the city’s current toptransportation priority of anextension between KenhillRoad and Md. 450, Meinertsaid.
The county agreed to funda road widening and land-scaped median project in thelate 1980s, but the plan wasabandoned after stakehold-ers could not agree on projectspecifics, Meinert said.
“It created such a politi-
cal problem, a hot potato, ifyou will,” said Bowie council-man Dennis Brady. “We lostthe funding 30 years ago andwe’ve been lobbying for it[ever since].”
Brady said he hopes thecity’s top priority of wideningof Collington between Kenhilland Md. 450 can be completedin the next three to five years.
In the meantime, Bradysaid the additional landscap-ing efforts along the highwaywill improve the aesthetic ofthe area and maintain a con-stant standard throughout thecity.
“The residents aren’tpleased when they’re forced tomaintain their property whenthe state and county don’t[maintain theirs],” he said.
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cages. It really disgusts me.”When a petition started by
the keeshond community call-ing for the rescue of abusedkeeshonden reached 10,000signatures, Beasley posted avideo on YouTube of Clancyplaying the bongo drums.
“People think it’s pretty funand pretty cool,” Beasley said.“There are not many dogs thatcan do that.”
The video ends with a “spe-cial request for action” thatasks viewers to do their home-work before adopting a dogand discourages them frombuying a puppy at a pet store.
For the next 5,000 and10,000 signatures, Beasleysaid she plans to post anothervideo to bring awareness to thecause.
Deb Brandes, the presidentof the Capital Keeshond Club,said Beasley has been “a greatlittle cheerleader with her fuzzball.”
“She puts out a challenge toget us really motivated, and it’sreally cool,” Beasley said. “Itkind of keeps the movementgoing when it starts to drag.”
Beasley said she has metrescued keeshonden and saidit was like “night and day” forthe breed.
“It’s hard to believe it waseven the same breed as Clancybecause they had so many
sores on them,” Beasley said.“They were so scared and shy.So unlike the personality of thekeeshond.”
David Modine, 59, of High-land, fostered and later ad-opted a rescued keeshond.He said it is heartwarming towatch Beasley’s trick videosand said the work she has donefor keeshonden is commend-able.
“She just goes above andbeyond in getting the wordout about the rescue dogs,”Modine said. “Clancy is givingpeople a tangible understand-ing of how smart and loving thekeeshonden are.”
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n Competition teachesstudents engineering,marketing and teamwork
BY ALICE POPOVICISTAFF WRITER
Only the smell of exhaustand burnt rubber was missingSaturday afternoon in Riverdaleas miniature race cars zoomedby and spun out of control on atrack built out of fire hose andgutter pipe.
For 45 children who com-peted in the Ten80 Race CarChallenge organized by thecommunity-based nonprofitGapBuster, Inc., the eventcapped off six weeks of intensepreparation, organizers said.During that time, the childrenlearned to modify and operatethe radio-controlled cars, de-velop a marketing plan and findsponsors as part of the organi-zation’s Science, Technology,Engineering, Arts and Math-ematics, or S.T.E.A.M, summercamp.
But on the day of the event,some of the young competitorslearned that things don’t alwaysgo as planned.
“My team is struggling be-cause our engines and motorhave problems ... it’s a big mess,”said Nicholas Spicer, 11, of River-dale Park as he and fellow mem-bers of the All Stars Engineeringteam tried to replace the partsof a malfunctioning car halfwaythrough the competition. “But Istill have faith.”
The competition betweensix teams from GapBuster andtwo teams from the Fort Wash-ington-based Metro WarriorsSTEM Organization includeda five-minute speed race, a15-minute endurance race anda pit crew challenge, in whichteams demonstrated engineer-ing projects by taking the carsapart and putting them back to-gether, said Yvette Butler, execu-tive director of GapBuster.
Butler said the idea behindthe Ten80 racing program,which she incorporated intothe curriculum last year, is togive children training in science,technology as well as languagearts.
The program includesworking on the motors of theminiature cars, developing amarketing strategy and raising
money and making presenta-tions.
“In the next decade, the ma-jority of the jobs are going to bein the S.T.E.A.M. fields,” Butlersaid. “We have to make sure ourkids are able to compete.”
And the project doesn’t endjust because summer camp isover. Butler said students arenow trying to raise money tocompete in a national Ten80competition in Anaheim, Calif.in March.
Ten80 Education, whichmakes the miniature cars andholds nationwide races that in-volve about 80,000 participants,is an organization focused onadvancingscienceandengineer-ing education for youth, accord-ing to representatives who werepresent at the GapBuster event.
“I think it’s an awesomeprogram,” said Brittney Palmer,26, of Hyattsville, who came tosee her younger brother, Jor-dan Colquitt, 12, compete. “It’sso great for the kids...to see it inaction and to show it off to theirfamilies.”
Jordan, of Riverdale, whodeveloped a presentation andfound advertisers for the BlackDiamond team, ended up win-ning first place for his team inthe five-minute race event.
“I just calmed down, andwhen I was doing a turn I didn’tturn the wheel completely,” Jor-dan said, explaining his strategy.“I didn’t try to speed through thewhole thing.”
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Abdul Saibow, 10, of Landover,who attends Rockledge ElementarySchool in Bowie, carries his car offthe track Saturday in Riverdale.
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With the school year beginning next week inPrince George’s County, it’s a great opportunity tolook back over some of the challenges, accomplish-ments and announcements that occurred duringsummer break. Here are some of the highs and lowsthat are likely to resurface as classes resume:
Thumbs up: Schools CEO Kevin Maxwell is imple-menting full-day orientation for ninth-graders andsome sixth- and seventh-graders this school year tohelp them prepare for the transition to middle andhigh school. Previously, orientation only took a por-tion of the day. The leap to a higher-level school isan important, and often difficult, transition. It’s defi-nitely worth a full day.
Thumbs down: Prince George’s County publicschools are opening to all students on Tuesday,instead of Monday. For working parents of youngchildren, this means finding day care for a single daybefore school starts — or taking off work. Findingsummer camps that last up until school starts canalready be a challenge; finding single-day help whennearby school districts have resumed can be a night-mare.
Thumbs up: Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School inUpper Marlboro received the title of Best High Schoolin the 2014 Ford Neighborhood Awards. The Aug.9 ceremony, hosted by comedian/radio talk showhost/Family Feud game-show host Steve Harvey,recognized efforts in local neighborhoods by allowingthe community to vote for winners. The school’s aca-demic programs and athletic success were cited in itsnomination, along with the accomplishment of for-mer principal, Carletta Marrow, who was recognizedas the 2014 Washington Post Distinguished Educatorof the Year.
Thumbs down: In the 2013 Maryland Youth RiskBehavior Survey Report, troubling statistics emerged,such as 17 percent of the Prince George’s studentssurveyed reporting they seriously considered at-tempting suicide in the past 12 months or that nearlyone-quarter of county youths surveyed said theyhad their first drink of alcohol, other than a few sips,before they were 13 years old. In many categories,Prince George’s fared better than the statewide aver-age, but clearly there is more work to be done.
Thumbs up: Numerous residents, organizations,faith-based groups, businesses, municipalities andthe county government collected back-to-school sup-plies to help students — especially those who mightnot have been able to afford to purchase supplies— get a strong start this school year. At Bowie’s 11thannual Back to School Bash on Saturday, about 350backpacks filled with supplies were distributed.
Thumbs up: School officials have implementedadditional security measures at all schools, to thetune of $10 million. While there has been someoutcry over the appearance of fences constructedaround temporary buildings to better secure them,it’s good to see a concerted effort being made to pro-tect our children.
Thumbs down: Plans to put cell towers at somecounty public schools may seem like a good idea onpaper — the communications company can increaseservice in the areas and, in turn, schools get thou-sands of dollars — but more informational meetingsand other outreach must be done to address parents’fears before any plans are considered
Thumbs up: Maxwell expanded specialty pro-grams in county schools this year, including the addi-tion of two Spanish-immersion program sites. Moreoptions plus more access equals more opportunitiesfor students; that’s always a good thing.
Thumbs down: Athletic staff at some PrinceGeorge’s schools told The Gazette that field mainte-nance help from the county isn’t reliable. Volunteersand athletic staff pitch in, doing a lot of manual laborto make sure fields are presentable; the county mustfind a way to ensure they can be counted on, too.
Thumbs up: Future Leaders and Young Entrepre-neurs, a nonprofit focused on teaching young minor-ity men succeed by providing entrepreneurial skillsand professional development, will be expandingat Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt. Thegroup — founded by two former Roosevelt students— hosted a pilot program with the school’s varsityfootball team last year, but have opened it to all stu-dents this year.
Thumbs up: Robert Goddard French ImmersionSchool in Lanham recently finally moved into its newhome at the shuttered Greenbelt Middle School. Theschool formerly shared a building with a Montessorischool, and both were in need of more space. Therelocation was initially scheduled to take place lastyear, so it’s good to see the plan finally come to frui-tion.
School newsdidn’t stop forsummer break
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LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
Editor,In [Blair Lee’s] assertions that
Maryland’s personal, businessand estate taxes are the rootsof a net population decrease,Gaithersburg and MontgomeryCounty must buck this trend.Mr. Lee furnishes solid numbersfor the net loss, but I once againchallenge him to show the cor-relation to tax policies.
People, particularly youngfamilies, seldom relocate to otherstates due to taxes. Better job op-portunities, pay increases, familyrelations and education prospectsare far more influential in makingsuch a decision.
Steve Whelan, GaithersburgSteve,Maryland Senate President
Mike Miller sees the correlationbetween Maryland’s high taxesand population flight: “We’relosing to Delaware, we’re los-ing to Virginia, North Carolina,Tennessee. I wish those stateshad not abolished their estatetax, but they have. We’re incompetition to keep our Mary-landers home.” That was Sen.Miller’s testimony on his bill tocut Maryland’s estate tax, whichbecame law this year.
Want more “correlation”?When the 2013 Gallup poll askedMarylanders their top reasonsfor leaving, high taxes came inthird. Maryland was second, be-hind New York, for listing taxesas a reason for leaving. Gallup’spoll analysis said: “Taxes are auniquely important factor inNew York, Illinois and Mary-land.”
Another “correlation:” thebulk of fleeing Marylanders arerelocating to low-tax states, es-pecially states with little or noincome tax. And Maryland, a tophigh-tax state, is also a top popu-
lation loss state. Just acoincidence?
Finally, I offer youthis letter from a Mr.Chris Smith: “As aformer Marylander Ican tell you that taxes— along with a laundrylist of other problems— were the reason Ileft Maryland. It’s notjust that taxes are high.The bigger issue is thatevery month there isa new tax or quasi-tax disguisedas a bag fee, speed camera or redlight fine and they all seem tokeep going up.”
Face it, Steve, taxes make abig difference, especially to bigtaxpayers.
Blair
Mr. Lee,Out-of-control children must
be removed from the classroomand placed in a different schoolcompletely. Their behavior nega-tively impacts all of the other stu-dents.
I returned to teaching this yearafter retiring from another career.The children you described ruinedit for the other students and forme. I left after only three monthsof teaching.
John MaxwellJohn,Sadly, the people who run
today’s public schools are moreinterested in political correctnessand pacifying “activists” than inrunning orderly classrooms. Nowthey’re applying a racial quotasystem to school suspensions toreduce “disparities.”
Instead of challenging youngpeople to meet society’s edu-cational and behavioral norms,the administrators keep lower-ing the bar. Meanwhile, the kids
get a steady diet of“progressive” indoc-trination and “self-actualization” in placeof learning.
Blair
Mr. Lee,Teaching is my
second career. Thefirst was in the Navysubmarine service.You are correct aboutthe administrative at-
titude toward our most disruptivestudents. The only person in theclassroom who is held accountableis the teacher.
G. DavisMr. Davis,At least when you were in the
submarine service, the trouble-makers were outside the sub.
Blair
Blair,I enjoyed your column, but
here on the Eastern Shore, wecount Harry Hughes as a CarolineCounty man. He might have hada Baltimore condo while he wastransportation secretary or associ-ated with a downtown law firm,but he represented the Mid-Shorefor years in the General Assemblybefore that.
Victor Laws IIIVic,Yes, Harry Hughes was state
senator from the Eastern Shore,but he became a Baltimorean.When he ran for governor in 1978,the election ballot listed Balti-more, not Denton, as his place ofresidence.
Similarly, our current gover-nor, Martin O’Malley, was raisedin Montgomery County, butconsiders himself a citizen of Bal-timore, not Montgomery.
Blair
Dear Blair,As the son of a former governor
(Ted McKeldin), as are you (BlairLee III), I really enjoyed your pre-and post-election articles. I’d loveto know what our fathers wouldthink of the present situation.
Ted McKelden Jr.Dear Ted,What would your Dad, who
passed away in 1974, and myDad, who passed away in 1985,make of today’s situation?
My guess is that, in descend-ing order, they’d be most shockedat foreign terrorists flying hijackedairliners into N.Y. skyscrapers, anAfrican-American communityorganizer defeating a white warhero for president, the Internet/cyberspace information age (andthe demise of print media), same-sex marriage, rap music, threewomen on the Supreme Court,death penalty repeal, U.S. energyself-reliance, the fall of the SovietUnion and the rise of China,drones and satellites, Hillary Clin-ton, Maryland’s $39 billion bud-get, baseball back in D.C., the raintax, today’s cost of a college edu-cation, the Terps quitting the ACCand Marion Barry still in office.
Blair
Mr. Lee,Please consider running for
governor. We have lived here for40 years and do not want to move,but the taxes are choking us.
Carol Davis, GaithersburgCarol,According to Steve Whelan,
Marylanders don’t mind payinghigh taxes. You must be the ex-ception. As for the governor’s race— I wouldn’t stand a chance and,besides, I’ve already lived in thegovernor’s mansion. It’s not thatbig a deal.
Blair
I’ve got mail
MY MARYLANDBLAIR LEE
When Blair Lee uses the pejorative term“Gaza slaughter” referring to the desire of85,000 Arabs seeking to leave that enclave(“By heart or by head?”), he fails to considerthe origins of the conflict.
When Israel in 2005 withdrew from Gaza,forcing out 10,000 of its own citizens, it as-sumed that with the resources available,Gaza would turn into a city state, similar toSingapore, and peaceful.
Instead in 2006, Hamas took over Gaza,with its agenda the destruction of the state ofIsrael. To this end, Hamas started to build upits military capabilities through the next eightyears, importing or manufacturing rockets,building a military infrastructure and con-structing tunnels for invading Israel, as wellas storing military equipment. All of this oc-curred with the cooperation and vote of thecitizens of Gaza.
When Hamas chose to attack Israel withshort- and long-range rockets, blanketingall of the major cities in Israel with now over2,400 fired and a like number destroyed, Is-rael had no option but to respond, and it did,with every effort to protect Arab civilians whowere being used as human shields.
Many Israeli soldiers have been lost inthe restrained operation to protect Gazancivilians who are entrenched in areas fromwhich Hamas rocket fire originates — with,incidentally, 10 percent of the rockets firedlanding in Gaza.
Slaughter is an inappropriate term whenone nation faces a terrorist organization in-tent on destroying that nation.
Nelson Marans, Silver Spring
Term misrepresentsIsrael’s fight
I’ve been living in Hyattsvillefor the past 17 years. I know thattimes change but I have thisburning question no one [can]answer. When I moved here, allentertaining was done in yourhome or in your backyard. Everyhome in my neighborhood has abackyard. For the past few years,this form of entertainment hasbecome passe. Nowadays, myneighbors entertain in their front
yard. Their grill is out in the frontyard, including tables and chairs.The families that have small chil-dren, their front yards look likea day care center, littered withtoys that remain in the front yardyear-round. When the weather isgood, the front yard fence is usedto dry the laundry. All birthdayparties are held in the front yard,decorated with balloons andtables for the guests, along with
music, of course.Pets have access to the front
yard, so they can bark at anyoneand everything that goes by. Itfeels like I live in a dog kennel;the chorus of dogs start bark-ing at 6:30 a.m. until they retireat night, which is at no specifictime. My favorite front yard activ-ity is the growing vegetables, withorange construction fencing tokeep the dog out. The plants are
doing quite well; they are at least3 feet tall now. They are doingso well, the cookout today waslimited to 10 people eating out onthe front steps.
My neighborhood has devel-oped into a garden, picnic area,dog kennel and a children’s play-ground. Have backyards becomea thing of the past?
Sharon Billings, Hyattsville
Front yards are not the place to entertain
About 79 people each day receive organtransplants, but 18 people on the waiting listdie each day because there aren’t enough do-nated organs available.
When my father was diagnosed with kid-ney failure in the mid-1990s, I had no idea ofthe impact that kidney disease would haveon me and my family. My sister and I decidedto get tested to see if we could donate a kid-ney to our father, and luck had it that I was amatch. In September 2001, I donated one ofmy kidneys to him, preventing him from go-ing on dialysis. Unfortunately, my kidney wasrejected in 2007 and he went on dialysis untilhis death in 2012. Although my father had oneof my kidneys for only six years, I will neverregret the choice I made to better his qualityof his life and give him the gift of normalcy fora bit longer.
Today, more than 615,000 Americansare living with kidney failure. They have onlytwo options for survival: dialysis treatment orkidney transplant. Because so few kidneys areavailable for transplants, most Americans withkidney failure — more than 430,000 — rely ondialysis treatments three times weekly to stayalive.
A kidney transplant can dramaticallyimprove a patient’s quality of life comparedto being on dialysis; however, there are justnot enough kidneys available to meet thedemand. More than 100,000 Americans arewaiting for a kidney today, and although mi-norities make up just 36 percent of the U.S.population, over half of all patients on the U.S.organ transplant wait list are minorities.
Clearly, among minorities, the need forkidney transplants is disproportionately high,so donations are essential. The likelihood of
finding a match is greater when the donatedkidney comes from someone of the sameracial or ethnic background. That’s becausecompatible blood types and tissue markersare critical for matching donors and recipi-ents, and compatible blood types and tissuemarkers are more likely to be found amongmembers of the same ethnicity. With moreminority donors, there will be greater accessto transplants for all patients.
Our community needs to work togetherto help our friends and family in need. In theD.C. metro area, the rates of kidney failure arewell above the national average, so it’s time toconsider organ donation.
There are two ways to become a donor.First, some people choose to become livingdonors, like I did for my father. We only needone healthy kidney to live a normal life. A liv-ing donor has made the incredible decisionto donate a kidney to a family member, friendor even to a total stranger. The second option,which is simple and straightforward, is to reg-ister to donate your tissue and organs, includ-ing your kidneys, following your death.
Giving a healthy kidney changed my lifefather’s life. I encourage you to visit organ-donor.gov today to learn more about organdonation and register to become an organdonor.
Learn more about kidney disease and itsimpact on minority populations at www.kid-neyfund.org.
Tanisha Ashford is from Upper Marlboro.Her fiance, Tony Simms, also has kidneydisease, and together they fight kidney diseaseas patient-advocates for the AmericanKidney Fund.
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BY KENT ZAKOURSTAFF WRITER
When redshirt senior Khari Lee enrolledas a freshman at Bowie State University, hewas considered a football project: A raw andtalented player that had yet to tap into his fullpotential.
Now, entering what could be his final yearof organized football, the Western Tech HighSchool graduate is considered the best tightends in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic As-sociation (he was named first team All-CIAAin 2013 and a 2014 preseason pick) and oneof the top players in all of Division II collegefootball.
“[Bowie State coach Damon Wilson] gaveme a chance,” said Lee, who added that hestarted playing the sport at age 7 as a runningback for the Pikesville Wildcats. “All my suc-cess — I actually got cut from my high schoolteam freshman year — all the praise goes tomy coaches that stayed on top of me andpushed me to realize my potential.”
Lee, who caught 34 passes for 352 yardsand a touchdown last fall, has improved eachyear in the Bulldogs offense. Listed at 6-foot-4and 235 pounds, Lee, a finance major that isinterested a career in real estate or financialadvising, said he wasn’t heavily recruited outof Baltimore County and chose to walk-on atBowie State due to affordable tuition.
“Khari is the reason you coach collegefootball,” said Wilson, who is entering hissixth season at BSU. “A kid that came here as awalk-on and has developed into an NFL pros-pect — four, five, six scouts have come out tolook at him — and is on track to graduate;good things happen to good people and he’sgoing to be successful in whatever he does.
In addition to Lee, Bowie State has agood stable of playmakers. Workhorse run-ning back Keith Brown (1,174 rush yards, 16touchdowns, Suitland graduate), a redshirtsenior, is expected to carry much of the of-fensive load this fall. Classmate Kendall Jef-ferson (Westlake) and senior Kayvone Sprigs(Woodson) are also expected to contribute inthe backfield.
Juniors Nyme Manns (Patterson) — theteam’s second leading receiver in 2013 with489 yards and four touchdowns — JamalChappell (Baltimore Poly) and Garry Cropper(Arundel) should make significant contribu-tions at wide receiver.
But who will be handing off and throw-ing the ball remains to be seen. Senior TrevonBennett (Riverdale Baptist), junior NyemaWashington (Suitland) and graduate studentMatthew Goggans are competing for thestarting spot under center. The quarterbackcompetition is expected to continue until thefirst week of game preparation, according toWilson.
“We have a number of talented weaponsand we got to get them the ball,” Brown said.“We know, right now, our quarterback situa-
tion is a question mark, but we also know thatall three are capable of getting it done. All ofus, the guys that have more experience on of-fense, have to help them out.”
Bowie State, which is 164-238-6 sincethe program started in 1972, has made thepostseason just twice (1988, 2005). So, if theBulldogs, who went 5-5 last season and re-turn 42 lettermen and 14 starters this year,want to surprise people this fall, the defensewill likely have to be a key component. Wilsonsaid the unit, which allowed 30.6 points pergame last year and 376.1 yards, will improvesignificantly.
Senior defensive lineman Anthony Mc-Daniel (44 tackles, 8 sacks, Henry A. Wise),redshirt junior defensive back Curtis Hum-phrey (51 tackles, 5 interceptions, Atholton),
redshirt sophomore linebacker KevaugnTownsend (33 tackles, Bishop McNamara)and redshirt junior defensive end Cavin Mur-ray (Bell Air) are expected to lead the defense.
“I’m excited about the defense,” Wilsonsaid. “They made some mistakes last year andhave a sour taste in their mouth.”
Senior Mario Diaz-Aviles (Woodrow Wil-son) returns to lead the special teams afterconverting all six of his field goal attempts lastseason and 42 of 44 extra points.
The Bulldogs are scheduled to open theseason on Sept. 6 at home against St. AnselmCollege. For ticket information visit www.bsu-bulldogs.com
Walk-on to NFL prospect
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Khari Lee turns to run after a pass reception during Saturday’s Bowie State University football practice.
n Riverdale Baptist changes soccer coaches
BY TED BLACK
STAFF WRITER
One Prince George’s County private school filled twocoaching vacancies for the upcoming fall sports season,while another private school will have a void to fill nextspring.
Riverdale Baptist athletic director Terry Terrill an-nounced last week that the Crusaders have hired MyronGarnes to take over as the boys soccer coach, while DariusQualls will handle the coaching duties for the girls soccerteam. Garnes takes over for longtime coach Bob Surette,while Qualls, a former men’s soccer coach at PrinceGeorge’s Community College, takes over for Stan Smith.
“I’m really happy with the two new coaches that wehave,” Terrill said. “I can’t say enough about the job thatBob Surrette did for us over the years, but now with hisdaughter in her senior year at [Elizabeth] Seton, he wantsto spend more time watching her play this season overthere and I’m all in favor of that. Myron and Darius areboth going to help us keep these programs going for-ward.”
Qualls has a trio of solid returning starters, includ-ing Christian Hardy, Kimberly McPhearson and TaylorWoods and expects to have a roster comprised largely offreshmen and sophomores. Garnes, who is the techni-cal coach for the Patuxent Football Academy in CalvertCounty, will lean on returning sophomore Brandan Betzfor goals and assists.
While Riverdale Baptist added two new coaches forthe fall, Bishop McNamara is going to have to find a re-placement for Larry Prange, who stepped down as theschool’s baseball coach after seven seasons. Prange, a1981 Potomac High graduate who spent 20 seasons as anassistant coach at DeMatha, had guided the Mustangs to
McNamara’sbaseball coachsteps down
n Oxon Hill, Roosevelt leadcounty’s public golf teams
BY TED BLACKSTAFF WRITER
Seventh-year Riverdale BaptistSchool golf coach Bob Groves ex-pects to have a full complement ofsix golfers this fall while guiding theCrusaders.
But he is unsure of his lineup.His two primary starters are return-ing juniors Cheyenne Nelson andZion Johnson. It will be Johnson’sthird year on the team and Nelson’ssecond. Riverdale Baptist plays inthe four-team Maryland Indepen-dent Schools Athletic League.
“I really won’t know until nextweek how many I’ll have,” Grovessaid. “But I know Cheyenne andZion are back for another seasonand they’ll be our two main play-ers. “We [other schools in theirsmall conference] get to play eachother twice and the teams are get-ting stronger each year. It’s good forthe kids that they get exposed to thegame and the competition at thisage.”
Eleanor Roosevelt returns the
county’s top public school golfer insenior Ishmael Jabbie and the Raid-ers should also have Andrew Hungand Lance Jewell on the course.But 12th-year coach Troy Bradburyhardly considers his squad the fa-vorite to win its sixth straight districtand county title.
“My guess is Oxon Hill has tobe the favorite this year,” Bradburysaid. “I know they graduated De-Markis Cooper, but I think {Clip-pers’ coach] Pua [Ponafala] hasfour or five returning strong play-ers. That’s probably what’s going tomake the difference in the districtand county tournaments. I havethree players who can score, but Idon’t know if my fourth player canbreak 100.”
Prince George’s County golferswill play the first nine holes at a setcourse this fall and those who scorewell on the front nine will have thechance to play the back nine.
“For the first two matches, thecut is 55, but after that it goes to 50,”Douglass coach Jim Woods said.“Usually Roosevelt has four or fiveguys that play all 18 and usuallyBowie and Flowers have one or two,but right now I have nobody.”
Riverdale Baptist seeks title
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Eleanor Roosevelt High School’s Ishmael Jabbie is expected to be one ofthe county’s best golfers this fall.
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFF WRITER
For the second straight cross country season last fall,2014 Largo High School graduate and All-Gazette firstteam selection Devonni Farrar finished the year as the Li-ons’ No. 1 runner with her fifth-place finish at the PrinceGeorge’s County meet (21 minutes, 46.22 seconds). Butall last season, coach Darryl Hamilton said, current seniorCayla Coleman was making a push to replace the NCAADivision I recruit’s spot atop the team’s rankings.
But just as Coleman’s opportunity to break out at thecounty meet arrived, a death in her family put thoughts ofwinning a race on the backburner.
“[Coleman] was probably ourbest runner on the team lastyear,” Hamilton said. “Shewas winning most of theraces. But when countychampionships came,she was at a funeral.She should be one ofthe best runners in
Largo senior pushestoward top of field
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CaylaCole-man isthe topreturningcross countryrunner for LargoHigh School andshould be oneof the top girlsrunners in thecounty.
Hamilton said. “Sheinning most of theBut when countypionships came,as at a funeral.
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n Soccer: Team makes playoffsdespite loss in final regular
season match
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFF WRITER
Emotions were running high for theWashington Spirit in Saturday evening’s1-0 loss to visiting New Jersey-basedSky Blue FC in the team’s NationalWomen’s Soccer League season finale,played in front of 4,282 spectators at theMaryland SoccerPlex in Boyds.
One year removed from a last-placefinish, Washington entered the matchin control of its own playoff chances —a win Saturday would’ve clinched theteam a spot in the league’s top 4. A loss,however, could have marked the finalNWSL appearance for midfielder LoriLindsey, beloved by soccer fans nation-wide, who announced her plans to re-tire on Thursday.
With so much to play for, however,Washington struggled to find its rhythmSaturday. But with a little help from theChicago Red Stars and their tie withWestern New York Saturday, the Spiritwill make its NWSL playoff debut Sun-day in Seattle against the No. 1 seedand Hope Solo-led Reign. The game isscheduled to be televised by ESPN2 at11 p.m. eastern time.
Washington (10-9-5) was in thirdplace after Saturday’s game but wasleapfrogged by then fifth-place Port-land Thorns FC when the Alex Mor-gan-led squad won its season finale.Washington and Chicago were tied with35 points but the Spirit own the seasonseries head-to-head, 3-0.
Lindsey, who was drafted by cur-rent Sky Blue coach Jim Gabarra toplay for the Washington Freedom in2003 and was also with the team from2006-09, was honored in a post-gamepresentation Saturday that includedvideo messages from friends, familyand teammates past and present. Lind-sey is a member of the U.S. Women’sNational Team player pool and waswith the squad during the 2011 WorldCup and was named an alternate to the2012 Olympic team.
“If anything [the emotions] helpedus,” Spirit and USWNT defender AliKrieger said. “We really came out con-
fident, we wanted to play for [Lindsey]and end this game with a win. We werefighting not only for ourselves and eachother, but for her and to end on a goodnote. But [Saturday] wasn’t our day. It
happens. It didn’t go our way. ... I knowwe’ve had our ups and downs but we’vereally worked hard at the end of the sea-son to clinch that spot and I think wedeserve [to be in playoffs].”
Both teams had chances to scoreearly but Sky Blue’s consistent pressurefinally broke the Spirit backline in the27th minute. Forward Monica Ocamposettled an attempted clear to place the
ball just inside the left post and give theNew Jersey team a 1-0 lead..
In between its struggles to link inthe midfield, Washington did showglimpses of what got it into playoffcontention. The Spirit had several op-portunities to tie the game — Sky Blueonly outshot Washington, 9-8, and bothteams had three shots on goal — andeven go ahead. The best opportunitycame in the 38th minute when speedyforward Lisa De Vanna stripped SkyBlue’s goalie, Jillian Loyden, of the balland had a completely open net. But herinitial touch on the ball was too strongand the it rolled out of bounds beforeshe could get a shot off.
USWNT defender Christie Ram-pone also stifled several attempts madeby crafty Canadian National Teammidfielder Diana Matheson into openspace up top. Washington was play-ing without starting goalkeeper AshlynHarris, who has been sidelined withconcussion symptoms for nearly twoweeks, and leading scorer Jodie Tay-lor, who was away on English NationalTeam duty.
“I think just good soccer [is thereason we do well against Washing-ton],” Rampone said. “We play betteragainst teams that want to put the balldown and play. They have a great mid-field and swing the ball and their speedof play is better so we match up wellagainst them. Our counter was on to-night and we were able to stretch them.We got a nice goal in the first half andthen defended more than we wantedbut that’s the game of soccer.”
Saturday certainly didn’t go asWashington had planned but Kriegersaid it’s now important for the team torecover and set itself up for the postsea-son — the Spirit have had some successagainst the top two seeds, Seattle andFC Kansas City.
“We came out confident and col-lective and, you know, we just didn’tget the result we wanted,” Krieger said.“We couldn’t find the net [Saturday], wehad a handful of chances and couldn’tput them away. There was just a littlebit of urgency, we gave too many passesaway, including myself. It just didn’t goour way. ... Now we just really want toget the job done in the next games ofthe season, in playoffs.”
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two Washington Catholic Ath-letic Conference championshipround appearances.
“I really enjoyed my days atMcNamara,” said Prange, whois now focusing his time as thecoach of the Mariacci Stars (VA),a travel team consisting primar-ily of players who have eithersigned or verbally committed tocolleges. “We had a lot of greatgames and we got to the WCACchampionship twice. I wish theoutcome of those games hadbeen a little different, but weplayed with a lot of pride anddid a lot of good things for Mc-Namara.”
Prange had also been theGreenbelt American Legion Post136 coach for nine seasons, lead-ing that squad to three MarylandState Championship berths and
one titlein 2002.T h o s es u m m e rdays in theGreenebeltd u g o u tenhancedP r a n g e ’ sapprecia-tion for topq u a l i t yb a s e b a l land taking
over the Stars has been a pleas-ant surprise.
“Coaching those guys is likea dream job for me,” Prangesaid. “It’s a great organizationand they do everything first rate.I love watching guys play base-ball at a high level and theseguys certainly do that. I’m al-ready looking forward to nextsummer.”
COACHINGContinued from Page B-1
the county this season.”Coleman’s absence from
the county meet a year ago hurtLargo’s attempt at defendingthe program’s first-ever countytitle, which it won in 2012.
The Lions still finishedfourth and with four of their topfive runners back, seem to bein good position to contend forthe championship once again.But while many of the county’stop boys sides are dealing withlarge numbers of graduation ca-sualties, the girls field looks re-markably deep, coaches agreed.
FavoritesGirls: Defending county
champion Bowie and runner-up Eleanor Roosevelt look to bethe frontrunners in preseasonas both return three top 10 fin-ishers from counties, apiece. Inaddition to some of the county’sfastest, both squads boast thedepth necessary to do well as anoverall team. The Raiders hadfive runners in Prince George’stop 15 finishers at states that areback this fall, Bowie had five inthe top 20.
Boys: Charles H. Flowersis in good position to build onlast year’s second-place finishat the county meet as it returnsseveral members of its starting
lineup. That list includes theJaguars’ top finisher, CameronBurgess.
Flowers has five runnersback from its state squad. Lau-rel finished seventh at lastyear’s county meet but with itstop runner, Caleb McCammon,who finished sixth at the countymeet, set to return, along withthe majority of his support-ing cast, the Spartans might beheaded into the county’s upperechelon this fall.
ContendersGirls: Flowers returns the
county’s top runner in AlexisBaynes, who finished in secondplace behind her graduatedteammate Imani Matthewsat the county championship.
While the loss of Matthewstakes away from the Jaguars topspeed, they will be propelled bythe depth behind Baynes. Andit’s typically those fourth andfifth runners that can truly makethe difference in a race. Withlarge returning cores, Largoand Parkdale, which finishedfourth and fifth, respectively,at last year’s county champion-ship — and were separated byonly three points — should benipping at the heels of the top 3.
Boys: Oxon Hill returnsthe county’s top finisher froma year ago in Adel Akalu, whotook fifth at counties, and looksto build on last year’s eighth-place finish. Parkdale trailedOxon Hill by only two pointsand its six returning starters in-cludes Jalend Hill, who was one
of the county’s top finishers atstates. Roosevelt should alsohave a strong season.
DarkhorsesGirls: Elizabeth Seton’s run-
ning programs have historicallybeen more sprint-based butcross country coach Louisa Puf-fet said she is trying to encour-age those runners to build theirendurance in the fall.
As she attempts to build upa distance corps, the Roadrun-ners look to improve on lastyear’s seventh-place finish atthe Washington Catholic Ath-letic Conference champion-ship.
Boys: It’s hard to considerfour-time defending countychampion Bowie anythingother than a favorite but theBulldogs were basically sweptclean last fall. That being said,this is a team that certainlyshould not be overlooked basedon its history.
Frederick Douglass will lookto repeat as a top 5 team with-out last year’s county runner-up Terrell Green. And whileDeMatha Catholic hasn’t beena WCAC power in recent years,the Stags could be in positionto break into the conference’stop 5.
RUNNERContinued from Page B-1
RUNNERS TO WATCHn Girls: Alyson Allen, Eleanor Roosevelt; Vaskia Bailey, Parkdale;
Alexis Baynes, Charles H. Flowers; Saahira Brown, CharlesH. Flowers; Cayla Coleman, Largo; Anne Dickerson, EleanorRoosevelt; Siyana Dottin, Elizabeth Seton; Ashley Gbedo, Parkdale;Alexis Goodman, Largo; Bridgette Manful, Laurel; Ashley Modeste,Bowie; Yve Montiague, Laurel; Anna Schlosnagle, Elizabeth Seton;Knya Smith, Frederick Douglass; Zari Weaver, Bowie; Kayla Wright,Frederick Douglass.
n Boys: Adel Akalu, Oxon Hill; Jason Brandon, Charles H. Flowers;Cameron Burgess, Charles H. Flowers; Timothy Crane, EleanorRoosevelt; Hunter Fagan, DeMatha Catholic; Cheyenne Goldfarb,Bowie; Joe Graham, DeMatha Catholic; Jalend Hill, Parkdale; HyltonIrons, Eleanor Roosevelt; Chris Jeletic, DeMatha Catholic; CalebMcCammon, Laurel; Markese Miller, Bowie; Andrew Sheppard,Bowie
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Washington Spirit player Lisa DeVanna has her shot blocked Saturday by Sky Blue FC goalie Jillian Loyden.
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n Familiar face leadsRoadrunners into newWCAC season
BY ERIC GOLDWEINSTAFF WRITER
Lydia Garcia Mark, thenew coach of the ElizabethSeton High School fieldhockey team, is part of anever-growing family legacy,one that dates back nearly 40years.
Mark, an assistant the pasttwo seasons, is the grand-daughter of the late MaureenLonergan, a former Seton ath-letics director and coach whoworked at the Bladensburgschool from 1977 to 1994.
Lonergan was so highlyregarded that following herdeath in 1995, she becamethe namesake of Seton’sprestigious athletic award(Maureen Lonergan CoachesAward) and its multi-purposefield (Lonergan Field).
Mark’s mother, aunts andcousins attended Seton, andher older sister Lina GarciaMartin (Class of 2001) helpedlaunch field hockey at theschool.
“It’s a family institution.You can’t escape it,” saidMark, a Seton graduate (2007)and ex-Roadrunners fieldhockey player.
Seton fielded a club teamin 2000, when Martin was asenior.
“We didn’t win a singlegame, but we had a lot offun. And we had girls comeout from all [grade] levels,”said Martin, who grew up inBowie and resides in SouthPasadena, Calif.
The club became a varsityteam in 2002 and has contin-ued developing since, reach-ing the semifinals in 2007.
“It was nice to hear thatregular kids at a regular placecould pick up a field hockeystick their freshman year andstill be confident enough toget to a championship level.It was a real testament to theprogram,” Martin said.
Seton is Prince George’sCounty’s lone WCAC fieldhockey team, and the coun-ty’s public high schools donot have any varsity squads.St. Vincent Pallotti in Laurelrecently stopped fielding ateam.
Though the Roadrunnershaven’t made a deep playoffrun since 2007, Mark is hop-
ing the team can get back tothe top of the competitiveWCAC. Mark said that eightvarsity players are return-ing; key contributors for theupcoming season includeMarguerite Matta, MichaelaSchmidt and Megan Kotel-chuck, Mark said.
“We have a really good,strong senior class with goodleaders in it, and I’m reallylooking forward to workingwith them,” said Mark, whoplayed at St. Mary’s Collegeof Maryland.
Mark replaces Delia Barr,who stepped down after oneseason, according to athleticdirector Candy Cage.
“[Mark] is the one whocame to me and said, ‘I wantthis job. I’m ready, I want it,’”Cage said.
Seton relies on family connections
Wise, Bowie to openfootball season in New Jersey
Bowie and Henry A. Wise high schools are set toopen the football season in Palisades Park, N.J. on Sept.6 at the Palisades Park Sportsplex. Bowie is scheduledto play Hackensack at 1 p.m. and Wise meets St. Peter’sPrep at 7:30 p.m. in the I-95 Kickoff Classic.
This is the fifth consecutive year of the event, whichwas created by Bowie resident Tony Kennedy. Kennedysaid he created it as a way for Maryland schools andathletes to gain more national exposure. He plans onexpanding the event to Miami next year.
— PRINCE J. GRIMES
Capitol Christian opensagainst N.C. state champion
Capitol Christian Academy kicks off its footballseason on Saturday in Durham, N.C. The Warriors, whowere undefeated at 7-0 in their first-ever season in 2013,are traveling out of the state to take on Southern, whichis a defending North Carolina state champion andcurrently ranked fourth in the state by the Herald-Sunnewspaper in Durham. Southern went 14-2 last season.
— PRINCE J. GRIMES
Stags set for collegefootball season
DeMatha Catholic High School graduates JaWhaunBentley (Purdue), Cameron Phillips (Virginia Tech) andJamal Robinson (Albany) were named starters for theirrespective college football teams, according to a Tweetfrom Stags coach Elijah Brooks.
The three alumni (Class of 2014) helped the Hyatts-ville school win the Washington Catholic Athletic Con-ference championship last season. Phillips, a receiver,was named Prince George’s County All-Gazette Playerof the Year while Bentley (linebacker, first team) andRobinson (defensive back, second team) also receivedrecognition.
— ERIC GOLDWEIN
Laurel soccer player thrives in HoustonIn 2013 Laurel native Tiffany McCarty was the
Washington Spirit women’s professional soccerteam’s first-ever draft pick. The forward scored twogoals early in the season but was relegated fromstarter to substitute for the struggling team midwaythrough the summer.
The 2014 season, however, has been a completelydifferent story. McCarty was drafted over the winterby the National Women’s Soccer League’s expansionteam, Houston Dash. Though the team has struggled asa whole — Houston was 5-15-3 heading into Wednes-day’s season finale — the speedy McCarty has adjustedto the professional game and been the Dash’s most ef-fective scorer with a team-high five goals.
— JENNIFER BEEKMAN
FEARLESS FORECASTSThe Gazette sports staff picks the winners
for football games involving Prince George’steams. Here are this week’s picks:
St. Vincent Pallotti at Silver Oak Academy
Capitol Christian at Southern (N.C.)
Staff person Picks
Jennifer Beekman Silver Oak Southern
Eric Goldwein Pallotti Southern
Prince Grimes Pallotti Southern
Adam Gutekunst Pallotti Southern
Ken Sain Pallotti Southern
Kent Zakour Pallotti Southern
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KEEPING IT BRIEF
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Elizabeth Seton High School field hockey coach Lydia Mark works with goalies during Monday’s practice.
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Elizabeth Seton High School fieldhockey coach Lydia Mark workswith goalies during Monday’spractice.
YOUTH SPORTS
The Prince George’s Select Blue Sox 16-un-der baseball team won the Metropolitan JuniorBaseball League Inner City Classic national cham-pionship tournament on Aug. 10 at Virginia StateUniversity in Petersburg, Va.
The Blue Sox defeated Bridgeport, Conn. 14-3 inthe championship game, finishing the tournamentwith a 5-1 record.
The players on the team include Riley Horn,Chris Blair, Jimmy May Jr, Tyrone Patterson III,Anthony Velasquez, Joshua Anderson, AdanteRhodes, Nico Brooks, Thomas Mason III, AbrahamHerrera, Derrick Newman Jr., Damani Hamm, Ken-dell Robinson, Izzy Velasquez, and Myles Wolfolk.
The Bowie Blue Jays travel softball is con-ducting tryouts for it 10-Under through 18-U travelsoftball teams. For specific times and more infor-mation, visit www.BowieBlueJays.org, email [email protected] or call (240) 424-JAYS.
The Glenarden Ardmore Springdale boys andgirls club is registering for its fall football, soccerand cheer seasons for ages 4 through 16. [email protected], call 301-322-1866 orvisit www.gabgc.com.
The Gazette accepts youth sports news throughemail, [email protected]. Deadline is 5 p.m. Fri-days for the following week’s newspapers.
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n Show at National Harboruses acrobatics, drama
BY KIRSTY GROFF
STAFF WRITER
Cirque du Soleil has flipped the script withits female-centric show “Amaluna,” currentlyappearing at the National Harbor.
Traditionally, the touring acrobatic spec-tacles have consisted mostly of men; however,“Amaluna” is a first for Cirque, with femalesmaking up 70 percent of the cast and 100 per-cent of the band. The trailblazing show openedin Montreal in April 2012, and has since woundits way through Can-ada as well as Seattle,Denver and San Fran-cisco before arrivingon the East Coast.
“Amaluna” is the32nd Cirque du So-leil production, andthe company’s firstwritten and directedby Diane Paulus. Toensure the originalvision stays intact, ar-tistic director RachelLancaster is workingwith the cast and crewfor the National Har-bor leg of the tour.
“The thing I reallyenjoy is all of the sto-rytelling,” Lancastersaid. “The story is verymuch woven into the framework; that’s onething that’s quite unique compared to otherCirque shows and is similar to previous workI’ve done. I knew it was a show concept I hadto take care of.”
“She really has an eye for the beauty ofeverything and getting everybody’s strengthsout there on stage,” added performer LindseyBruck. “She brings out the best in everybody.”
Beauty and strength is key for this produc-tion, which takes place on an island guided bymoon cycles, led by goddesses and their queen,Prospera. Her daughter, Miranda, will comeof age soon, and when a storm caused by thequeen brings a group of men to shore, one of
Over the moon
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Cirque Du Soleil’s Max Panteleenko (left) and Vanessa Fournier, who perform as the “StormDuo,” rehearse in the practice tent at National Harbor. Performances are scheduled to run everyTuesday through Sunday until Sept. 21.
n Miller tells story ofslain granddaughter
BY ELLYN WEXLER
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
The irrefutable fact is thatAlice Miller’s granddaughterdoesn’t live here anymore.
Irrefutable and horrific.In April 2013, the U.S. Army
sergeant who recruited and se-duced the 17-year-old RockvilleHigh School honor student andstar athlete, murdered her andkilled himself. And, thus, hergrandmother contends, MichelleMiller became “the face of collat-eral damage.”
“To the Army, she is just an-other statistic that they wouldprobably prefer to forget,” Millersaid. “Her family now lives withthe loss … and continues a longjourney through unimaginableloss and grief.”
Miller, a Potomac psycho-therapist who was already apublished author, felt compelled
to tell “thestory ofMichelle’sb r i g h tlife andher tragicdeath… AllI can do issomethingpositive inher name.”
Her book, “All That Bright Light,”she said, is “the story of that sor-row, spirituality and the struggleto reach forgiveness.”
The original edition – printedin Michelle’s memory, and also inhonor of the Wounded Warriors(“of which, she was one,” saidMiller) – sold out at a reading.Proceeds of more than $3,000went to the American Red Cross’Wounded Warrior Program atWalter Reed Military Hospital.
Miller has another importantagenda in telling the story.
“Many of the readers [of the
Physician, heal thyself:Psychotherapist copeswith hole left in her heart
Michelle Miller
PHOTO BY TARA BRADY
Author Alice G. Miller sits in her Potomac home with a copy of her book, “AllThat Bright Light.”
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THEATER & STAGEBowie Community Theatre,
“The Murder Room,” Oct. 31through Nov. 15, call for prices,times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500White Marsh Park Dr., Bowie, 301-805-0219, bctheatre.com.
Clarice Smith Performing ArtsCenter, University of Maryland,College Park, claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.
Hard Bargain Players, “BUG,”Sept. 5 through 20, 8 p.m., call forprices, Theater in the Woods, 2001Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, 240-766-8830, hbplayers.org.
Harmony Hall Regional Center,Blue Magic, Sept. 13, 8 p.m., 10701Livingston Road, Fort Washington,301-203-6070, arts.pgparks.com.
Greenbelt Arts Center, “Mac-beth,” through Aug. 23, call forprices, times, Greenbelt Arts Cen-ter, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, 301-441-8770, greenbeltartscenter.org.
Joe’s Movement Emporium, Vi-sion Contemporary Dance Ensem-ble auditions, Aug. 24, 4 to 7 p.m.Registration starts promptly at2:30 p.m., 3309 Bunker Hill Road,Mount Rainier, 301-699-1819, joes-
movement.org.Laurel Mill Playhouse, “Dis-
ney’s Peter Pan Jr.,” through Aug.24, call for ticket prices, times, Lau-rel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St.,Laurel, 301-452-2557, laurelmill-playhouse.org.
Prince George’s Little Theatre,“Brighton Beach Memoirs,” Aug.29 through Sept. 13, call for ticketsand show times, Bowie Playhouse,16500 White Marsh Park Drive,Bowie, 301-937-7458, pglt.org.
Publick Playhouse, Tiny TotsThursday: Found InstrumentsWorkshop, Sept. 9, 9:30 and 11:15a.m.; Platinum Series for Seniors60 and Better: Movie - “12 Yearsa Slave,” Sept. 16, 11 a.m., 5445Landover Road, Cheverly, 301-277-1710, arts.pgparks.com.
2nd Star Productions, “Chil-dren of Eden,” opening Sept. 26,Bowie Playhouse, 16500 WhiteMarsh Park Dr., Bowie, call forprices, times, 410-757-5700, 301-832-4819, 2ndstarproductions.com.
Tantallon Community Players,“August: Osage County,” Comingin September/October 2014, Har-mony Hall Regional Center, 10701Livingston Road, Fort Washington,301-262-5201, tantallonstage.com.
Venus Theatre, “We Are Samu-rai,” coming in September, 21 CStreet, Laurel. venustheatre.org.
NIGHTLIFENew Deal Café, Mid-Day Melo-
dies with Amy C Kraft, noon to 2p.m. Aug. 21; John Guernsey, 6:30to 8 p.m. Aug. 22; Cold Hard Cash,
8 to 11 p.m. Aug. 22; Jazz Jam withGreg Meyer, 1 to 5 p.m. Aug. 23;John Guernsey, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Aug.23; Cooking With Gas, 8 to 11 p.m.Aug. 23; Deaf Brunch, 10:30 a.m. tonoon Aug. 24; Jack Couldn’t MakeIt, 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 24; The Hum-mingbyrds, 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 26;Cajun Music Jam, 7 to 9 p.m. Aug.27, 113 Centerway Road, 301-474-5642, newdealcafe.com.
Old Bowie Town Grill, Wednes-day Night Classic Jam, 8 p.m. everyWednesday, sign-ups start at 7:30p.m., 8604 Chestnut Ave., Bowie,301-464-8800, oldbowietowngrille.com.
OUTDOORSDinosaur Park, Dinosaur Park
programs, noon to 4 p.m. first andthird Saturdays, join paleontolo-gists and volunteers in interpretingfossil deposits, 13200 block Mid-Atlantic Blvd., Laurel, 301-627-7755.
Mount Rainier Nature Center,Toddler Time: hands-on treasures,crafts, stories and soft play, 11a.m. to noon Thursdays, ages 5and younger free, 4701 31st Place,Mount Rainier, 301-927-2163.
Prince George’s AudubonSociety, Bird Walks, 7:30 a.m.first Saturdays, Fran Uhler Natu-ral Area, meets at end of LemonBridge Road, north of Bowie StateUniversity, option to bird nearbyWB&A Trail afterward; 7:30 a.m.third Saturdays, Governor BridgeNatural Area, Governor BridgeRoad, Bowie, meet in parking lot;for migrating and resident wood-
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ET CETERACollege Park Aviation Museum,
Peter Pan Club, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.second and fourth Thursdays ofevery month, activities for pre-schoolers, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2to 18; Afternoon Aviators, 2 to 4:30p.m. Fridays, hands-on aviation-themed activities for ages 5 andolder, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2 to18, events free with admission,1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, Col-lege Park, 301-864-6029, colleg-eparkaviationmuseum.com.
Women’s Chamber Choir Audi-tions, by appointment for the con-cert season of women’s chamberchoir Voix de Femmes, 7:45 to 9:30p.m. Thursdays, 402 ComptonAve., Laurel, 301-520-8921, [email protected].
War of 1812, Croom events,commemorating the British marchthrough Croom in 1814, Aug. 23.Tours of the historic William W.Duley House at 3 and 3:30 p.m.,8100 Croom Road, Upper Marl-boro; Program at Showell ParishHall at St. Thomas Church, 14300St. Thomas Church Road, UpperMarlboro. Doors Open at 3:30 p.m.- dramatic presentation, light din-ner and dessert party, dancing andstorytelling. Tickets $17.50 in ad-vance, $20 at the door, $5 children5 to 16 each/(younger than 5 free)Proceeds benefit St. Thomas Parish& Community Support Systems.
IN THE ARTS
whom catches the eye of Mi-randa. The young couple mustovercome obstacles through thecourse of the show on their wayto happiness together.
“The message of ‘Amaluna’is a positive one, about love andjoy and creativity,” Lancastersaid. “Audiences should leavewith a sense of the strength ofwomen, but also a sense of com-munity, the connections peoplemake that keep them together.”
If the plot points seem ratherShakespearean, it’s because theshow draws inspiration from“The Tempest,” along withGreek and Roman mythology
as well as Mozart’s work “TheMagic Flute.” Together, thesource material enhances thestory about powerful womencoming together, through thecharacters as well as those per-forming them.
“It’s certainly inspiring tosee the different strengths eachwoman brings to the show,” saidBruck. “It’s a very unique thingto experience night after night,I’m still in awe.”
As a Cirque production,“Amaluna” has little exposition,and relies on acrobatic and gym-nastic work to tell the story. Thisshow uses aerial straps, a teeter-board, juggling and other physi-cally demanding acts. Bruckperforms as the captain of theAmazons, who all perform on
the uneven bars.Bruck has been with the pro-
duction since rehearsal beganin August 2011, but that doesn’tmean her portrayal hasn’t devel-oped over time.
“Once we’ve gotten experi-ence portraying who we are, wekeep evolving — with the actsas well as our characters,” shesaid. “If you saw it when we firstopened and again now, thingshave definitely changed.”
That sentiment holds trueoutside of this particular produc-tion, as well; different produc-tions include different acts andvarying themes, from MichaelJackson and The Beatles tributeshows to the aquatic “O” anderotic “Zumanity.”
“Each Cirque show is incred-
ibly different and has a differentidentity and creative processbehind it,” Lancaster said. “It’snot like if you’ve seen one thenyou’ve seen every show.”
And why would anyone wantto stop at one Cirque du Soleilperformance? The gravity-defy-ing stunts enhancing powerfulstories make for unique experi-ences that affect even seasonedveterans of the company.
“I would have to say, no mat-ter how many times I’ve gone onstage, to see the audience mem-bers’ faces and watch them seeus for the first time,” said Bruck,“just seeing that awe — I cannever get tired of it.”
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original edition] have expressedoutrage that the Army who,months earlier, had launchedan investigation into the mis-deeds of the sergeant, a preda-tor with a history of encounterswith young girls,” she said.“Had the Army acted on thisknowledge, Michelle would bealive today.”
“It is too late to save our Mi-chelle,” Miller acknowledged.“But if we had the amendmentsthat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand(N.Y.) is proposing [on how themilitary prosecutes rape andsexual assault], men like the ser-geant might have been stoppedand Michelle would be with ustoday. … perhaps this is a storythat can save someone else’sdaughter.”
Miller has written threeother books, the third, “On Be-coming A Swan: Gardens Graceand Psychotherapy,” a personalmemoir she said she wrote withher granddaughter “lookingover my shoulder.” The twowere close, living about fourmiles apart, and Michelle’s pro-fessional goal was to emulateher grandmother. Having com-pleted “Swan” just before Mi-chelle’s death, Miller felt unableto look at the manuscript. It satin a box for months until sheself-published via CreateSpace.Miller’s previous titles are “ToEverything There is a Season:A Psychotherapist’s SpiritualJourney Through the Garden”and “A Thyme for Peace,” apsychotherapist’s search for in-ner peace.
Miller’s family moved fromBoston to Kensington when shewas in elementary school. Backthen, she aspired to be a jour-nalist – that is, she said, after acareer as a ballet teacher. In-stead of dance, she proceededfrom Bethesda-Chevy ChaseHigh School to study journal-ism and sociology at Penn StateUniversity. Post-graduation,Miller and her husband be-came youth group counselorsat their church, where they rana coffee house and served on atask force focused on youth anddrugs.
Realizing she “loved work-ing with kids and church
groups,” Miller felt it “madesense to go do something…ev-erybody was studying the prob-lems, but nobody was doinganything.” A rented two-roomapartment across from Mont-gomery Mall became the homeof The Listening Post, a youthcrisis center where anyonecould drop in and talk candidly.She remembers all the tales ofloneliness and isolation. The lo-cal police were supportive, andthe Justice Department gavethem several grants during its 41/2-year tenure.
Miller enhanced her aca-demic credentials by earninga master’s degree in counsel-ing at American University anda doctorate in clinical socialwork at the University of Mary-land. She also took numerouscourses in psychology.
Master’s degree completed,Miller moved on as a therapist,and then director, of KarmaHouse for Girls in Rockville, aresidential therapeutic com-munity for drug abusers. Abouttwo years later, while workingon her doctorate, she brieflywent into private practice andthen spent five or six years asa psychotherapist for Met-ropolitan Psychiatric Group(connected with PsychiatricInstitute), where “the collegialpart was great.” She has had aprivate practice in a convertedarea of her home for about 16years.
“I’m one of those luckypeople who is doing just exactlywhat I want to be doing,” Millersaid. “I love working with peo-ple, being a catalyst for people,guiding them to wherever theyneed to be. It’s work that feelsvaluable and important.”
Her goals now, Miller said,are to continue her practice andtend the woodland garden shecreated; to improve her writingand find a new publisher, andto become a better cellist.
“I have music in my heart,and I need to get it out,” shesaid, acknowledging her impos-sible dream is to be first cellowith the National SymphonyOrchestra.
Alice Miller counts hermany blessings. But she willalways have a hole in her heart.
Alice Miller’s books areavailable at amazon.com.
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The music of JohnnyCash, one of country music’soriginal “outlaws,” spannedgenerations. For almost 50years, the “Man in Black,”entertained folks on the ra-dio, with his own TV show,and even in the movies. It’ssmall wonder people todaystill not only listen to hismusic, but idolize him aswell.
Cold Hard Cash, theDC-area Cash tribute band,will be performing at NewDeal Cafe on Friday from 8to 11 p.m. CHC, led by RobPetrie on vocals, Danny
Stellabotte on guitar, GeffKing on bass and Mark Lucasplaying drums, pride them-selves on not being a flashycover band. They work hardto make sure the music youhear is just as it was when itwas performed by Cash, orBuck Owens, or Merle Hag-gard. They do tend to mix itup from time to time.
There is no cost to seethe show, however, the bandstrongly recommends call-ing ahead for reservations.For more information, visitnewdealcafe.com or call 301-474-5642.
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COLD HARD CASH
Cold Hard Cash, seen here playing at GypsySally´s in Georgetown, will beperforming at the New Deal Café in Greenbelt on Friday.
Something wicked thisway comes — theatricallyspeaking, of course — toGreenbelt. “Macbeth,” isn’tthe easiest of Shakespeare’splays to perform (“Titus An-dronicus” might be a littlehigher up on the difficultly-to-perform list), but whenit’s done right, it can be quitepowerful.
Leave it to the RudeMechanicals to do the Scot-tish Play justice. The group,which has a knack for doingthe works of the Bard, willwrap up its production of theshow at 8 p.m. this Fridayand Saturday at the Green-
belt Arts Center.The story follows Mac-
beth (played by Alan Duda)and his power-hungry wife,Lady Macbeth (played by JakiDemarest). After killing KingDuncan to take the throne,both Macbeth and Lady Mac-beth have to deal with theconsequences of their villain-ous actions. Throw in threewitches and you have your-self a bona fide good time!
Tickets for the showare $17, $14 for students/seniors/military. For moreinformation, visit greenbel-tartscenter.org or call 301-441-8770.
Toil and trouble
JAE ROBINSON
Alan Duda as Macbeth appears with Lady Macbeth, played by Jaki Demar-est, in the Rude Mechanical’s production of “Macbeth” at this year’s CapitalFringe Festival.
You don’t need to be bonked on thehead by Ticker Bell and doused withfairy dust to fly away to Never Land,although if that’s your thing, knockyourself out.
To be safe, though, fly on over tothe Laurel Mill Playhouse, where theSummer Youth Production of “Dis-ney’s Peter Pan Jr.” will run from nowuntil Sunday.
You know the classic Disney tale —Wendy Darling and her younger broth-ers, Michael and John, fly away withPeter Pan to Never Land, where theymeet the Lost Boys. Of course, theyalso have to stay away from the “dan-gerous” Captain Hook and his left-hand man (I had to do it) Mr. Smee!
Tickets for the show are $20, $15 forstudents 12 and younger, active dutymilitary and seniors. For more infor-mation, visit laurelmillplayhouse.orgor call 301-617-9906.
Those Darling children
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Laurel’s Eli Thompson, 6, plays Cubby as children rehearse for their 2014 Summer Youth Production of“Disney’s Peter Pan Jr.” at the Laurel Mill Playhouse Laurel.
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The Consolidated Annual Performance And Evaluation Report (CAPER) provides ayearly accounting of CDBG and other funds allocated towards the implementation of ob-jectives outlined in the FIve Year Strategy Plan, which is included in the ConsolidatedPlan for Community Development. The Five Year Strategy Plan identifies communityneeds and proposed solutions in the areas of Housing, Special Needs, Economic Devel-opment, and Non-Housing Community Development. The City’s CDBG activitiesbenefitted senior citizens through the City’s Senior Citizen "Green" Housing Rehabilita-tion Program.
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2008 Volvo C30 2.0 Coupe
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$20,950
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$12,995
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$24,980
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$24,950
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2012 Honda Accord SE Sedan....................... $19,980#526040A, 1-Owner, 23K Miles, Auto, 2.4L Turbo Engine
2008 Audi A6 Quattro Sedan............................. $20,750#526519A, Automatic, 3.2L V6 Engine
2013 Volkswagen Jetta Sedan TDI........... $21,950#N0488, 10K Miles, Auto, Premium Sedan, 2.0L Turbo
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2014 Jetta Sedan.....#VPR0071, Silver, 1,060 Miles................$20,9952013 Golf.....#VPR0075, Black, 6,137 Miles..............................$21,9952014 Passat.....#VPR0070, Blue, 6,441 Miles...........................$22,6952012 Routan SE.....#VPR097794A, Gray, 33,019 Miles............$22,9952013 Ford Mustang.....#V310901A, Blue, 11,854 Miles..........$22,9952013 GTI...#V102017A, Black, 19,566 Miles.............................$23,9952013 KIA Optima.....#V007888A, Red, 21,885 Miles................$24,9952014 Passat TDI.....#VPR0069, Silver, 4,604 Miles...................$25,9952014 Passat TDI....#V336652A, Silver, 9,171 Miles..................$29,995
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$10,977#P9055A, Auto,Leather, LT SUV
2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer
$19,977#P9007, Automatic,Leather, BackupCamera, Alloy Wheels
2009 Nissan Murano SL SUV
$11,977#446163A,Automatic, 1-Owner,23K Miles
2012 Chrysler 200 Touring$13,977#441543A,
Automatic, 23KMiles
2012 Mitsubishi Galant ES
$17,977#P9016, Automatic,Leather, 27K Miles
2011 Honda Accord EX-L SDN
$14,977#446025A,Automatic, 1-Owner
2012 Nissan Altima 2.5L Sedan
$14,977#P9089A, Automatic,Navigation, 1-Owner,28K Miles
2012 Nissan Sentra 2.0S Sedan
$10,977#P9072A,Automatic, 1-owner,Wagon
2009 Toyota Matrix S
$14,977#440307A,Automatic, 1-Owner,42K Miles
2012 Nissan Leaf SV Hatchback
$16,977#P9021, Automatic,1-Owner, 32K Miles
2012 Nissan Rogue S
MSRP: $23,050Sale Price: $19,995Nissan Rebate: -$500NMAC Bonus Cash: -$500
2014 NISSAN ROGUE SELECT AWD
#29014 w/Bluetooth2 At This Price: VINS: 706165, 706267
$17,495
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#131152 At This Price: VINS: 117385, 117625
2015 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5 S#11155 w/Manual Transmission2 At This Price: VINS: 823814, 812703
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2015 NISSAN VERSA S SEDAN
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#161142 At This Price: VINS: 474864, 474800
$18,995
$22,495
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2014 NISSAN MURANO S
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$22,495
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