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n Lawyers for competingproposal object to increasein center’s retail space
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFFWRITER
The competition betweenproposed fashion outlet com-plexes straddling Interstate270 in Clarksburg shifted frompublic relations campaigns andplanning board hearings to aquasi-judicial hearing room inRockville onMonday.
County Hearing ExaminerLynn Robeson began her re-view of a plan by StreetscapePartners, which wants to build amixed-use centerwithPremium
fashion outlet stores on thewestside of Interstate 270 in the de-veloping Cabin Branch area.
The hearing examiner’s roleis to decide if the developmentplan conforms to theClarksburgMaster Plan, which provides de-velopment guidelines.
The Planning Board —whichmakes recommendationsto the County Council — ap-proved the Streetscape develop-ment plan on July 18, agreeingto its request to increase retailspace from 120,000 square feetto amaximumof 484,000 squarefeet to make room for stores in-stead of offices.
Robeson continued Mon-
Premium outletplan moves onto nuts and bolts
n Road would linkClarksburg to Gaithersburg
Upcounty residents werebriefed last week on plans forMidcounty Highway’s north-ern extension ahead of a publichearing planned for next week.
Montgomery County stafftalked to residents at Rocky HillMiddle School in Clarksburg onJuly 24. The highway, which ispartially complete, will stretchfrom Gaithersburg to RidgeRoad in Clarksburg.
According to county docu-ments, M-83, or the MidcountyHighway, was first listed in thecounty’s master plan in the1960s. Three miles of the high-way have been built between
S h a d yGrove Roadin Gaithers-burg andMontgom-ery VillageAvenue.
“ T h i sis a majormilestone.[Officials]are aboutready tomake a de-cision after nine years of talk-ing,” said Bruce Johnston, chiefof the county’s Transporta-tion Engineering Division, whobriefed about 20 people at themeeting on the status of the
After nine years,decision looms onMidcounty Highway
n Scientists, analysts break downcases in Gaithersburg facility
BY ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH
STAFFWRITER
With tweezers, Leah King takes a pinchout of a small, leafy bud. Shedrops it in a vialand adds a few drops of chemicals.
“It’s going to turn a nice, dark purple,”she predicts, giving the vial a couple ofswirls.
Sure enough, in just a few seconds, thesolution fizzes deep purple, showing thatthe sample is likely strong, high-quality
marijuana.“If youwere looking to smoke, thiswould
be the stuff,” jokedKing, the technical leaderof theForensicChemistryUnit inMontgom-ery County Police’s Crime Laboratory.
The labprocesses evidenceconnected tothe thousandsof arrests police officersmakeand the hundreds of cases they investigateevery year.
The nationally certified lab takes upa swath of the fifth floor of MontgomeryCounty’s new public safety headquarters,tuckedawaynext to abucolic lakeonEdisonPark Drive in Gaithersburg.
The lab—which moved, along with therest of the department, earlier this year from
the department’s old home in Rockville —looks like a cross between a suburban officeand a high school lab on steroids.
Five units — Firearms Examinations,Latent Prints, Forensic Biology, ForensicChemistry, and Crimes Scenes—operate inthe lab, which takes up about 20,000 squarefeet, according to lab director Ray Wicken-heiser.
A sixth unit, Electronic Crimes, also fallsunder the lab’s authority, but operates un-der Montgomery County police’s FinancialCrimes section, said Jackie Raskin-Burns,the lab’s qualitymanager.
Police lab puts crime under a microscope
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Leah King, technical leader of the Forensic Chemistry Unit, works in theMontgomery County Crime Lab, now in its new digs in Gaithersburg.
n Public hearingset for Sept. 10
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFFWRITER
The land debate in Clarks-burg is heating up as mem-bers of the county PlanningBoard on Thursday delved everdeeper into thequestionofhowmuch newdevelopment to rec-ommend in Clarksburg andBoyds, includingaplanbyPulteHomes to build 1,000 houses.
The five-member board iswrestling with how to balancedevelopers’ proposals for morehousing, stores and serviceswith plans to better protect theTenMile Creek watershed.
The watershed drains fromcentral Clarksburg southwestacross fields and woods inBoyds into Little Seneca Lake,a backup drinking water reser-voir for the Washington, D.C.,
region.On Thursday, the board
accepted planners’ draft rec-ommendations that will be de-bated by the public at a hearingscheduled for Sept. 10 in SilverSpring.
After the hearing, the Plan-ning Boardwill hold threeworksessions before sending finalrecommendations byOct. 11 tothe County Council, which willultimately vote on the updateof the Clarksburg Master Plan,probably by next spring.
In their staff report, plan-ners support growth east ofInterstate 270 to completegrowing Clarksburg, while lim-iting growth west of I-270 toprotectmost of the watershed.
Toward that end, they rec-
ommendcuttingaPulteHomesplan for 1,000 housing unitswest of I-270down to about 200units as a way to preserve thecleanest andmost biodiverse ofthe TenMile streams.
They suggest settingdensitylimits, an impervious surfacecap of 8 percent, wider-than-usual stream buffers, new buf-fers for stream channels that
are dry part of the year, andpreservingmoreof the 538-acresite as parkland or open space.
Planners also proposebuilding a winding gravel trailto connect Little Bennett Re-gional Park and Black Hill Re-gional Park, opening up thetract to the public.
“There would be five trailheads and a 10-acre neigh-borhood park with maybe acommunity garden and otherlow-density uses,” said plannerMary Dolan. “Right now it’s in-accessible.”
Board member NormanDreyfuss argued that the 1994Master Plan for the build-outof Clarksburg, the fourth andfi-nal growth area along the I-270technology corridor, called forneeded housing in that part ofthe TenMile Creek watershed.
“It sort of made a commit-ment about how this town was
Board digs into Clarksburg growth
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Above, Diane Cameron (left), conservation director for the Audubon Naturalist Society, speaks at a rally to save Ten Mile Creek held in front of the Mont-gomery County Planning Board offices on Thursday. Below, Rita LaPorta of Germantown speaks out at the rally.
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Business Counseling, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.,WheatonLibrary, 11701 Georgia Ave. Free, by appoint-ment only. 240-777-0678.
Music and Movement: Mr. Skip, 10:30 a.m.,Wheaton Library, 11701 Georgia Ave. Chil-dren’s songs. Free; tickets given out 30minutesbefore the program. 240-777-0678.
The Joy of Rhythm: Luis Garay’s PercussionWorld Duo, 1:30-2:15 p.m., Damascus Library,
9701Main St. Featuring the drum. Free, ticketsrequired. 240-773-9444.
THURSDAY, AUG. 1Concrete Leaf Painting, 10 a.m.-noon,
Brookside Gardens, 1800 Glenallan Ave., Whea-ton. Fee includes a variety of paint colors. $18;$15 for Friends of Brookside Gardensmembers.Register at www.parkpass.org.
Rockville Sister City Dim Sum Luncheon,1:30 p.m., Far East Restaurant, 5055 Nicholson
Lane. Benefits Sister City Exchange Programs.$20, registration required. [email protected].
HearArts Poetry and Music, 7 p.m., VisArts,155 Gibbs St., Rockville. Sean Enright and theNew TimeOrchestra withMichaelWinch. Free.240-899-6514.
FRIDAY, AUG. 2Higher Hands Concert, 6:30 p.m., Rockville
Rooptop Live, 155 Gibbs St. Funky soul fusion.$10. [email protected].
SATURDAY, AUG. 3Germantown Community Flea Market, 8
a.m.-1 p.m.,MARC Parking Lot, GermantownRoad and BowmanMill Drive. Free admission.301-972-2707.
Annual Cactus and Succulent Show andSale, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Brookside Gardens, 1800Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. Free. 301-962-1400
Kensington Summer Concert, 10-11 a.m.,Howard Avenue Park, Howard Avenue. BlueBook Value plays rhythm and blues swing bandmusic. Free. [email protected].
The Block at the Roc, 4-8 p.m., RedlandBaptist Church, 6922MuncasterMill Road,Rockville. Family activities. Free. www.redland-baptist.org.
Coppelia, 7:30 p.m., F. Scott FitzgeraldTheatre, 603 EdmonstonDrive, Rockville, also2 p.m. Aug. 4. $17 for adults, $13 for 12 andyounger and seniors. 240-314-8690.
SUNDAY, AUG. 4Buddhist Empowerments, 10 a.m.-noon,
KPC Temple, 18400 River Road, Poolesville.Traditional ceremony open to public. Sug-gested donation $40. 301-710-6259.
MONDAY, AUG. 53rd Annual Hero Dogs Golf Classic and
Silent Auction, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Norbeck Coun-try Club, 17200 Cashell Road, Rockville. www.hero-dogs.org/golf.html.
Old School Bluegrass Band, 8 p.m., UrbanBBQCompany, 805 Sandy Spring Road, SandySpring. Free. 301-570-3663.
TUESDAY, AUG. 6Montgomery Hospice Drop-In Discussion on
Grief and Healing, 1:30-3:30 p.m.,MontgomeryHospice, 1355 PiccardDrive, Rockville. Foranyonemourning the death of a loved one.Free, registration required. 301-921-4400.
Rainbow Company Interactive Theater Pres-ents Jack and the Beanstalk, 3 p.m., PoolesvilleLibrary, 19633 Fisher Ave., Poolesville. Free.240-773-9550.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7Sciencetellers: The Bugs of Blackwood, 6:30-
7:15p.m.,DamascusLibrary, 9701MainSt. Thescienceofmatter. Ages 5 andolder, siblingswel-come. Free, tickets required. 240-773-9444.
Rockville Lions Club Meeting, 7-9 p.m.,RockvilleMethodist Church, 122W.Montgom-ery Ave. Learn about the community’s needsand how tomeet them. 301-257-5180.
Family Support Group Meeting, 7:30-9 p.m.,ParishHall of St. Raphael’s Catholic Church,1513Dunster Road, Rockville. For the familiesand friends of people with depression or bipo-lar illness. Free. 301-299-4255.
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On their last day of summerschool, two local elementaryschool students received brand-new bikes thanks to their atten-dance the previous three weeks— and toWalmart.
Rising second-graderErik Coronell of DamascusElementary School and risingthird-grader Lily Gamboa ofWoodfield Elementary Schooleach got to take home a newset of wheels Friday at the con-clusion of this year’s summerschool session at DamascusElementary School. The bikes,whichwere donated by the Ger-mantownWalmart, served asmotivation to keep attendanceup during the 14 school days.
Each student received oneraffle entry per day of atten-dance; students with perfectattendance, for example, had14 chances to win the bikes. All55 to 60 students in the sum-mer program—which includedstudents fromCedar Grove,Rockwell, Woodfield, Cedar-spring andDamascus Elemen-tary—were able to pick outa small prize, including cups,water bottles, pencils, gamesand bookmarks. All five schoolsdonated the door prizes.
“We’re trying to have somefun, andwe hope this will be anannual event, having summerschool here for our Damascuskids,” said Rodney A. Isabell,summer school principal andRockwell Elementary assistantprincipal.
Following the bicycle draw-ing, students got a snack whilewatching the animatedmovie“Rio.” The students whowonthe bicycles thenwere ableto challenge either Isabell orDamascus Elementary SchoolPrincipal Sean McGee to a bi-cycle race.
Walmart receivesmanydonation requests throughoutthe year, according toHelenJohnson, community coordina-tor of donations. Since the storeopened 14 years ago, it hasreceived a couple of requestsdaily. Not all can bemet, how-ever, and there are stipulations.Recipientsmust be tax-exemptorganizations, the donationscannot leave the country andJohnson said she likes to keepdonations within the area.
“We don’t usually givemoney out, but they called andasked if wewould bewilling todonate bikes andwe decidedfor this summer, it would benice to do that and gave thema girls bike and a boys bike,”Johnson said. “Usually, underthe rules ofWalmart, we don’tgive out items from the storeor cash— and I think that’sunderstandable. It just so hap-pened that we handled it in thewaywhere it was the same asgiving them a gift card.”
With the potential promiseof a brand-new bicycle in sight,students previously wary aboutattending summer schoolbecamemore enthusiastic, ac-cording to Isabell, an outcomehe hopes continues in futuresessions.
Catholic group honorsRuppert Landscape CEOThe Catholic Business Net-
work ofMontgomery Countyhas namedCraig Ruppert,founder and CEO of RuppertLandscape of Laytonsville, its2013 Catholic Business Personof the Year.
The organizationwill honorhim at its annual gala onNov.22 at theMontgomery CountyConference Center inNorthBethesda.
Ruppert Landscape hasgrown from a small neighbor-hood business in the ’70s toa companywith a presencethroughout themid-Atlanticregion today.
Ruppert, who lives with hiswife in Laytonsville, has workedwith St. Paul Catholic Church’sHonduras Clinic in Damas-cus, Rodgers & Associates inGermantown and the YoungPresidents’ Organization’sWashingtonMetro andU.S.Capital chapters.
He is currently involvedwith groups including the Eas-ter Seals GreaterWashington-Baltimore Region, Food for thePoor, and the Associated Build-ers and Contractors LeadershipDevelopment Program.
Senior centerplans screenings,ice cream social
The Damascus Senior Rec-reation and Activities Centerhasmany upcoming events setup for the first couple of weeksin August.
Shalonda Brown of Affili-ated Santee Groupwill host aweekly drop-in group to helpseniors develop coping skills forchanges while aging. Themeet-ings will take place at 11 a.m.Thursdays in the lounge.
Anyone looking to learnabout current events can stopby at 1 p.m. Aug. 7 for informa-tion about what’s in the news.From 10 to 11:30 a.m. the sameday, a volunteer nurse fromShady Grove Adventist Hospi-tal will stop by to provide freeblood pressure screenings.
OnMontgomery CountySenior Fair Day on Aug. 13, thecenter will provide a free shuttleat 10 a.m. to the fairgrounds.Later, at 11:30 a.m., the seniorcenter will screen themovie“Lincoln.”
People of all ages can attendan ice cream social at 1 p.m.Aug. 15, sponsored by JimmieCone andDamascus SeniorCenter Sponsors. Registra-tion at the front desk is free.A discussion on the spiritualperspectives of aging will follow
at 2 p.m.The senior center is at 9701
Main St. Call 240-777-6995 formore information.
Pianist to perform at cafeLocal pianistMatthew
Schumanwill perform at theMusic Cafe in Damascus from 8to 11 p.m. Aug. 16.
The concert will feature hislatest albumof compositions,“Sailing Away,” as well as previ-ous works. CDswill be availableto purchase.
There is a $5 cover for theshow. TheMusic Cafe will havefood, beer andwine.
The venue is at 26528-BRidge Road. Visit www.mat-thewcshuman.com formoreinformation.
Literacy council hasnew board membersThe Literacy Council of
Montgomery County namedfive newmembers to its execu-tive board.
They are Jim Hastings andRhea Cohn of Silver Spring, Deb-bie Murphy of Rockville, SumaMadapur ofGaithersburg andBarbara Benson of Ashton. Theywill serve one-year termswiththe option of serving up to sixconsecutive terms.
“They all bring an interestin promoting adult literacy andcommunity service and theyall have special skills that willbenefit our organization,” saidShelly Block, a spokeswomanfor the nonprofit.
Before retiring, Hastingswas director of access programs
at the National Archives. Inaddition to his timewith theliteracy council, he is a volun-teer atManna Food Center ofGaithersburg.
Cohn is anassistantprofessorin theGeorgeWashingtonUni-versitySchoolofHealthSciencesandahealthcareconsultant.
Murphy is the owner ofStandard Supplies of Gaithers-burg. She is vice chairwoman oftheMontgomery CountyWork-force Investment Board, a pastRotary assistant district gover-nor and Paul Harris fellow, anda 2012 graduate of LeadershipMontgomery.
Madapur is a technologymarketing specialist at Avnet.
Benson is a retired senior ex-ecutivewith the Federal ReserveBankofChicago. She also is anassistant trainer for the literacycouncil’s tutoringprogram.
The council was foundedin 1963 to help adults living orworking in the county achievefunctional levels of reading,writing and speaking English sotheymay improve their qualityof life and ability to participatein the community.
Nature center hostsfinal camps of summerThe BlackHill Nature Cen-
ter in Boyds will host its finaltwo camps of the summer inAugust.
FromMonday through Aug.9, the nature center will hostSurvival Skills Camp: FollowingAncient Pathways, designedto show how people lived in aworld without technology ormany of today’s comforts.
Participants will learn how
to find and prepare water andfood,make natural shelters andcreate fire withoutmatches.
The camp is for childrenages 12-17, and is held from9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The cost is$275, but extended care is avail-able from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. foran additional $70.
The next week, Aug. 12-16,the nature center will host theRiver Runners Reunion, an ad-vanced kayaking camp.
Participantsmust havecompleted the earlier River Ad-ventures Kayak Camp or havegood river-running skills.
The camp costs $350, andruns from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Parents can join theircampers on Aug. 16 for a dayof kayaking for $50. That dayis also open to kayakers 18 orolder, for $55.
Mommies group to holdBack to School FairA social and support group
formothers inMontgomeryCounty will hold a Back toSchool Fair on Aug. 17 inGer-mantown.
The NorthMetroDCMom-mies event will be held from 2to 6 p.m. at the GermantownBoys andGirls Club at 19910 S.Frederick Road.
The groupwill give awayschool supplies such as pens,backpacks and rulers, said KimMcNamee, the chapterman-ager.
The group ismeant toprovide a free, secure place formothers and their children tocome together and network,she said.
Often, there is no support
network formothers, especiallythose who are new to the area,McNamee said.
Formore information onthe group, visit www.northme-trodcmommies.com.
Portraits of childrenneeding adoption displayed
Gaithersburg’s Depart-ment of Parks, Recreation andCulture is hosting the FreddieMac FoundationHeart Gallery,featuring portraits of children inneed of adoption.
The portraits will be avail-able for public viewing at theactivity center at Bohrer Parkuntil Friday. The center is at 506S. Frederick Ave.
Formore information, visitfreddiemacfoundation.org orcontact the center at 301-258-6350.
Have an event or announce-ment you would like to appearin our People and Places col-umn? Email Staff Writer KirstyGroff at [email protected], orcall 301-670-2070.
Two students cruise out of summer school with a new bikeTHE GAZETTEWednesday, July 31, 2013 d Page A-3
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Erik Coronell, a rising second-grader at Damascus Elementary School, and Lily Gamboa, a rising third-grader at Woodfield Elementary School, won bikes donat-ed by Walmart’s Germantown store. Students received one raffle entry per day of attendance.
PEOPLE & PL ACESKIRSTY GROFF
DEATHS
Thelma V. Evely, 89,of Damascus, died July 24,2013. A graveside servicetook place at 11 a.m. July 27at Laytonsville Cemetery.Roy W. Barber FuneralHomehandled the arrange-ments.
Thelma V. Evely
Andy Marshall of Gaithersburg and his13-year-old stepson Jack check out aCabin John Park Fire Department res-cue boat as they talk with firefighterGeoff Lewis at a safety fair for peoplewith autism Thursday at the Mont-gomery County Public Safety TrainingAcademy in Rockville. Parents and chil-dren wandered around meeting policeofficers, looking at fire engines andrescue boats, meeting Max and Caesar— two search-and-rescue dogs — andhopping around in a moonbounce. Formore, visit www.gazette.net.TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
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The Montgomery County Planning board and planners traveled together in a van to tour the Ten Mile Creek area on July 22. Here, they stop at the Ten MileCreek where it crosses Old Baltimore Road in Clarksburg.
n Lack of upcountyoption is point
of concern
BY RYAN MARSHALLSTAFFWRITER
Early voting accountedfor nearly 17 percent of thevotes cast in MontgomeryCounty in the 2012 generalelection, and some officialsand residents in the northernpart of the county think oneof several new early votinglocations to be set up in thecounty should be in Damas-cus.
After the success of earlyvoting in 2012, the General As-sembly passed a bill this yearthat would give Montgomerythree new early-voting sites inaddition to the five sites oper-ated in the 2012 election —with the possibility of a fourthnew site as well. That wouldmake a total of nine early-vot-ing sites in the county.
The county’s Board ofElections has proposed 17possible sites around thecounty to be considered forearly-voting sites in 2014, in-cluding the Damascus Com-munity Recreation Center.
If the Damascus centerisn’tselectedasoneof thesites,voters insixprecincts therewillbe outside of a 5-mile radius ofan early-voting site, Mark Un-capher, chairmanof theMont-gomery County RepublicanCentral Committee, testifiedat a Board of Elections hearingSaturday.
Uncapher also urged theboard to put one of the sitesin Potomac, to prevent onedistrict there from being out-side the 5-mile radius pre-ferred for early-voting sites.
If the Damascus and Po-tomac sites are included,about 98 percent of Mont-gomery County’s populationwould be within the 5-mileradius of an early-voting cen-ter, Uncapher told The Ga-zette onMonday.
The board has anothermeeting to hear public com-ments on the plan scheduledfor 2:30 p.m. Sept. 16.
The board is expected tomake its final selections atan Oct. 21meeting, saidMar-jorie Roher, a board spokes-woman.
Those selections will beforwarded to the state Boardof Elections, which will makethe final decision on the sitelocations, she said.
In 2012,Montgomeryhad
early voting centers in Ger-mantown, Burtonsville, SilverSpring and Rockville, whichhad two centers.
Roher said it’s likely thosefive sites will be used again in2014, but it’s difficult to sayuntil the selection process isfinished.
The list of potential sitesincludes facilities inBethesda,Brookeville, Chevy Chase,Damascus, Gaithersburg, Po-tomac and Silver Spring.
The possible sites werechosenbased on criteria suchas population centers, geo-graphic balance, access topublic transportation, park-ing, security, access for peo-ple with disabilities and stateregulations, according to a re-lease from the county board.
Nearly 78,000 Montgom-ery County voters cast earlyballots in the 2012 generalelection, part of more than430,000 such voters state-wide.
TheGermantownsitewasthe busiest in 2012, drawing18,196 early voters, accordingto statistics from the county’sBoard of Elections.
Pat Fenati, who has livedinDamascus formore than40years, said she thinks the areawould benefit from an early-voting center.
Fenati said she talked toseveral people who told herit took them up to an hour tovote at the Germantown sitein November.
While she understandsthat the areas in the south-ern part of the county aremore densely populated, Fe-nati said development in theClarksburg and Damascusareas may leave the German-town site insufficient as theonly early voting site in theregion.
“I think that we cannotforget about this upcountyarea,” she said.
County CouncilmanCraig Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Ger-mantown, who representsthe Damascus area, said withtheGermantown site so busy,there’s no question of theneed for another early-votingsite in the upcounty region.
Another upcounty votingsite would help county staffby reducing lines and crowd-ing at the Germantown cen-ter, he said.
ButRice said thatwhetheran additional site is in Da-mascus, Clarksburg or some-where else is up to the Boardof Elections.
Residents, officials urgeDamascus early voting
n Counsel advised planning panelnot to discuss watershed
recommendations away from public
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFFWRITER
When all five members of the countyPlanning Board toured the Ten Mile CreekWatershed on July 22, they rode together ina van, alongwith several planners andboardattorney Carol Rubin.
Under Maryland’s Open Meetings Act,when a quorum, ormajority, of a board getstogether to conduct business, it’s ameeting.Normally, the publicmust be allowed to ob-serve public meetings, with certain excep-tions.
However, the vanwas full and therewereno seats left for the public or a reporter whoasked to go along. The reporter was insteadadvised to follow the van and talk to boardmembers and planners at designated stops.
The state attorney general’s OpenMeet-ings Act Manual says: “A meeting can also
occur in unconventional venues.”For example, if a quorum of a public
body rides together in a vehicle and con-ducts public business while doing so, themembers are holding ameeting.
“If the meeting is one that the public isentitled to observe, the public body has vio-lated theAct, for obviously thepublic cannotgain access to themeeting site.”
However, having a majority of a publicboard in one place doesn’t mean there is ameeting — it depends if members conductbusiness.
Rubin, associate general counsel ofMaryland National-Capital Park and Plan-ningCommission,whoadvises thePlanningBoard, said one reason she went on the vantour was to ensure board members did nottalk to each other in the van about the plan-ners’ recommendations for the Ten MileCreek watershed.
They could askquestionsof theplannersabout what they were seeing, but not delib-erate.
“I can assure you, there were no discus-sions,” Rubin said.
Boardmembers took the tour toprepare
for its meeting Thursday in Silver Spring,when they publicly discussed planners’ rec-ommendatons for development limits in thewatershed.
Rubin said the tour was posted in theboard’s agenda for its July 22meeting, as re-quired under the OpenMeetings Act.
She said the board has invitedmembersof the public to accompany them on bustours when there were seats available, Ru-bin said.
The van, however, was only big enoughto hold the boardmembers, Rubin and sev-eral planners.
Planning Board Chairwoman FrancoiseCarrier also said a reporter was free to callboard members for comment about thetour.
“The idea is to be as transparent as pos-sible,” Rubin said.
AnnMacNeille, a Maryland assistant at-torney general who advises the state’s OpenMeetings Compliance Board, declined tocomment on Tuesday.
Attorney: Board is mindful of meetings law
AutismNight Outin Rockville
n ‘It is hard to reconcilehow planning staff
justifies this outcome’
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY
STAFFWRITER
A recommendation to substantiallyreduce thenumberofhomesallowed ina Pulte Homes development at the TenMile Creek Clarksburg could cost lo-cal retailers several million dollars an-nually, according to a report releasedThursday by developer Pulte Homes.
Pulte officials are upset over a rec-ommendation by the MontgomeryCounty planning staff to limit its planfor 1,000 housing units on its 538-acre
site to as few as 217 to protect the TenMile Creek watershed.
The Pulte plan envisions a mix ofsingle-family houses, townhouses andaffordable units.
Each household in the Pulte de-velopment would spend an average$16,600 annually on retail items andservices inClarksburg, the reportby realestate adviser Robert Charles Lesser &Co. says. If there are 783 housing units,that would translate to about $13 mil-lion in spending by residents annually.
Reducing the number of homes to283 would result in about $4.7 millionin annual retail spending, according tothe report.
“In a community like Clarksburgthat is already desperate for success-ful retail services, it is hard to reconcile
how planning staff justifies this out-come,” said Lewis Birnbaum, presi-dent of Pulte’s mid-Atlantic division,in a statement. “There’s nothing in thestaff report that addresses the realitiesof lost spending and lost jobs, whichare absolutely essential to the vitality ofClarksburg.”
The Montgomery County PlanningBoard reviewed the planners’ recom-mendationsThursdayduringameetingin Silver Spring. The board plans a pub-lic hearing on Sept. 10 and could issuea recommendation by October, thensend the matter to the County Councilfor a vote.
Members of the Save Ten MileCreek Coalition, which include theAudubonNaturalist Society, held a rallyThursday morning on the steps on the
planning board’s headquarters and re-leaseda report that argues theplanners’ideas don’t go far enough to protect thewatershed.
Restrictions are needed to protectTen Mile Creek, which is a back-upsource of drinkingwater in the area, co-alition officials say.
The planning board last week ap-proved a multi-use development ofretail and offices in Clarksburg west ofInterstate 270 called Clarksburg Pre-miumOutlets at Cabin Branch.
The plan calls for up to 450,000square feet of outlet retail.
The plan is slated to go before thecounty hearing examiner on Monday,then the County Council.
Another major multi-use develop-ment called Streamside, with high-end
Tanger outlets stores, stores, restau-rants, offices and housing, is being pro-posed inClarksburg east of I-270byThePeterson Cos. Taylor Chess, presidentof Peterson’s retail division, said thecompany is “in the same ballpark”withplanners’ recommendations.
The Save Ten Mile Creek Coalitionopposes the plan because the 100-acreStreamside site includes the headwa-ters of Ten Mile Creek. Both Pulte andthe Streamside developers claim thatthe latest stormwater managementmethods will protect the stream sys-tem.
Staff Writer Virginia Terhunecontributed to this report.
Developer: Downsizing project would cost retailers millions
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n Fillmore moving forward;band expresses ‘respect’
for gay community
BY KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFFWRITER
Fillmore Silver Spring willnot cancel a performance byMexican rock group Molotovdespite pressure from its land-lord to pull the act for its “anti-gay lyrics.”
Montgomery County Ex-ecutive Isiah Leggett (D) askedthe venue to cancel an Aug. 26performance by the controver-sial band, saying the lyrics of its1997 song “Puto” verge on hatespeech.
“I have serious concernsabout this booking. I am per-sonally offended,” Leggettwrote in a letter to the venue’sgeneral manager, StephanieSteele.
Montgomery leases the Fill-more to Live Nation for $90,000a year. In his letter, Leggettnoted that the lease agreementdoes not allow the county sayin what acts are booked. He alsoacknowledged protection pro-vided the group by law.
“I understand that theFirst Amendment provides forfreedom of speech, and thateven distasteful speech may beprotected speech,” he wrote.“Just because one might arguethat everyone has the right tosay, show, or sing somethingdoesn’t mean they ought to ex-ercise that right. It also does notmean that The Fillmore shouldprovide a forum for such an ex-ercise.”
Leggett said there was con-fusion among the public aboutthe county’s role in the situa-tion. As landlord, some peoplethought the county would havea say in the acts booked, hesaid.
So Leggett said he wrote the
letter to express his position onthe performance and to makeit clear that the county does notcontrol bookings.
While the executive said hehas not gone to such lengthsfor other controversial per-formers, it is because otherperformers, to his knowledge,do not use similarly offensivelanguage.
Among the controversialacts to play the venue recentlyare Marilyn Manson, whosemusic has been boycotted inthe past for his lyrics, and gun-rights activist Ted Nugent, whohas continually come under firefor racist comments.
Jim Yeager, spokesman forHouse of Blues Entertainment,a division of Live Nation, saidMolotov’s performance will notbe canceled.
“The Fillmore presents awide variety of music, comedyand other entertainment for ademographic that makes up adiverse community,” Yeagersaid. “The views expressed byall of our acts are not necessar-ily shared by the venue or staff.”
The band is headlining Jag-ermeister’s 2013 music tour,which concludes Aug. 27 inNewYork City, according to a newsrelease from Jagermeister.
As for the song in question,which is sung in Spanish, it hasbeen interpreted by some asanti-gay and said to use homo-phobic slurs and include calls to“kill” homosexuals.
A petition has surfaced onChange.org calling for the Fill-more to cancel the performanceofMolotov. As of Tuesday, it had181 signatures.
Carrie Evans, executive di-rector of Equality Maryland,said her organization plans tojoin with other “like-minded or-ganizations and individuals andhave an informational picketoutside the concert to edu-cate concert goers on the harmcaused by the anti-gay lyrics of
Molotov.”In a statement emailed by
band contact Julio Arellano,Molotov expressed respect andgratitude for the lesbian, gay,bisexual and transgender com-munity.
Ina statement, thebandsaidthe songwasnevermeant todis-respect the gay community.
“We as a band and as indi-viduals express our respect andsupport to the gay community.We celebrate the freedom of ex-pression, the freedom of choiceand the freedom to love who-ever youwant. As longaswe stayplaying together, the messagefrom our music will always bepositive and committed to ourfans,” the statement read.
Members of the band didnot return attempts for furthercomment.
Leggett wants rock concertcanceled over ‘anti-gay lyrics’
n Girl, 10, died in 2008crash; driver convicted
of manslaughter
BY JULIE ZAUZMER
THEWASHINGTON POST
Bars in Maryland cannotbe held liable for injuries theirpatrons cause after they leave,Maryland’s highest court ruledThursday in a 4 to 3 vote.
The grandparents of a10-year-old girl who was killedwhen a drunk driver hit theirfamily car in 2008 sued theGaithersburgbar that servedMi-chael Eaton, thedriver, 21drinksbefore he hit the road. But theCourt of Appeals ruled that thebar, Dogfish Head Alehouse, isnot liable for thecrash.
In 43 states and Washing-ton, D.C., according to sta-tistics compiled by MothersAgainstDrunkDriving, vendorsof alcohol can be held liable inat least some circumstancesfor accidents that occur afterthey serve drinks to a visiblyintoxicated customer. Mary-land, Virginia and Delaware
are among the seven states thatlack “dram-shop” liability pro-visions, as they are known. Theothers are Kansas, Nebraska,Nevada and SouthDakota.
TheRev.WilliamWarrJr.andhiswife,AngelaWarr,hadhopedto change that in Maryland. InAugust 2008, Eaton ordered 17beers and several drinks of hardliquor, includingashotof tequilaand something called a lemondrop, according tocourt records.
Then he drove between 88and 98 mph along Interstate270. He hit the Warrs’ vehiclefrom behind. Ten-year-oldJazimen Harris was killed, andthe Warrs and another grand-daughter were injured.
Eatonwassentencedtoeightyears inprisonformanslaughter,and theWarrs sued thebar.
The court offered the sameopinion that it gave in 1951 and1981: Bars in Maryland are notliable for accidents their pa-trons cause, even if the bars failto stop serving patronswhoareclearly drunk.
In her dissenting opinion,Judge Sally Adkins noted thatpublic opinion on drunken
driving has changed greatlysince the last time the courtconsidereddram-shop liability.
The court suggested in 1981and in Thursday’s decision thatthe legislature could choose topass a dram-shop measure. ButAdkinspointedout that fourbillson the subject introduced from1987 to2012nevermade itoutofcommittee.
Jason Fernandez, an attor-ney who helped represent theWarrs, said legislators will notconsiderthetopicbecauseinsur-ancecompanies resist the laws.
“At some point in time,some branch of the govern-ment has got to step up andsave lives,” Fernandez said.“The legislature couldn’t, soweasked the court to do so, andthey chose not to.”
In her dissent, Adkins citeda study that found dram-shopliability—the termcomes froma term for a shop where spiritswere sold by the dram — re-duced fatalities by 3 percent to11 percent. She calculated thatin Maryland 14 people wouldbe saved each year by such aprovision.
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Montgomery nurtures school gardensn About one-sixth ofsystem’s schools have
students working the soil
BY PEGGY MCEWANSTAFFWRITER
Fresh food and sound sci-ence are on the menu for agrowing number of Montgom-ery County Public Schools.
Thirty-five county schoolshave gardens, according to asurvey released Thursday byMontgomery Victory Gardens, alocal food education and advo-cacy project.
“There are just so manyreasons for kids of all ages toget involved in gardening,” saidElizabeth Levien, who teacheshonors chemistry and horticul-ture at Montgomery Blair HighSchool in Silver Spring. “Reallylittle kids can work on observa-tion. Older ones can learn to askquestions. ... Gardening is a wayto take control of their health.They learn where their foodcomes from.”
Levien — who with ChrisBrown, horticulture and Ad-vanced Placement environmen-tal science teacher, supervisesthe greenhouse and the outsidegarden at Blair — said the edu-
cational opportunities are end-less.
“Montgomery County re-quires students to take threesciences to graduate and hor-ticulture is historically easy topass, so a lot of the [less serious]students sign up,” she said. “It’sso exciting seeing kids [who are]turned off by science get excitedabout it.”
Gordon Clark, project di-rector of Montgomery VictoryGardens, said the school systemofficially has allowed school gar-dens for about two years.
Schools spokesman DanaTofig confirmed in an email thattherewas apolicy changewithinthe last two years. He noted thatthere is now a section aboutschool gardens on the schoolsystem’s website.
Clark said one reason forpublishing the survey is to en-courage more schools to begingardens and to let them knowof resources to help them getstarted.
“We wanted to see what[schools] were doing and tomake sure they know that gar-dens are allowed,” he said.
Karla Kratovil, PTA vicepresident and main generatorof the garden at Flower Hill Ele-mentary School inGaithersburg,said she was at a Montgomery
County Council of PTAs meet-ing about two years agowhere itwas announced that gardens areallowed.
The35 schoolswith gardens,out of 202 in the school system,include elementary, middle andhigh schools from across thecounty: Silver Spring to Damas-cus, Poolesville to Burtonsville.
Some gardens are just a fewraised beds on school grounds.Others fill courtyards or beginin greenhouses before movingoutside.
The gardens at SherwoodHigh School in Sandy Spring arepart of a science curriculum thathorticulture teacher Jill Couts isdeveloping with teachers fromClarksburg, Damascus andSpringbrook high schools. The
2013-14 school year will be theprogram’s second year.
“This is a three-year pro-gram of study leading to be-coming a certified professionalhorticulturist,” Couts said. “Ihave a 300-square-foot green-house, so we do a lot of edibleplant production. The kids loveto grow plants and they love togrow plants they can eat.”
The growing interest is notjust for students planning on acareer in horticulture, she said.
About 30 students who arenot in the certification programcome to the greenhouse toworkeachweek, she said.
She seesworkingwithplantsas a stress reducer for studentsandaplacewhere they can learna life skill.
“Even though they prob-ably will not go into horticultureor landscaping, it is somethingthey will do for the rest of theirlives,” she said.
Even though a minority ofschools have gardensnow,Clarkis excited by the survey resultsandwould like toworkwith PTAcommittees to create a gardensupport network.
“This is thebestway to teachenvironmental stewardship,”Clark said.
The survey is available byemailing [email protected].
BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
Evelyn Kratovil, 8, and her brother Cole, 5, of Gaithersburg check the carrotsin the vegetable garden at Flower Hill Elementary School in Gaithersburg.
“Even though theyprobably will not gointo horticulture ...it is something theywill do for the rest
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day’s hearing to Aug. 12, afterone of Streetscape’s attorneyswas called away at lunchtime.
In the morning, StreetscapePartners argued that the centerat the southwest corner of I-270and Clarksburg Road (Md. 121)would create stores and restau-rants for retail-starved Clarks-burg by the end of 2015.
Streetscape says it couldmove ahead sooner than ThePeterson Cos. — which has acompeting outlet plan — be-cause property owner AdventistHealthCare, which originallyplanned to build a hospital, hasalready won environmental ap-provals and permission to ex-tendwater and sewer lines.
“It’s ‘shovel ready,’ and it’s amajor step to make Clarksburg[complete],” said real estateagent Ibi Sofillas, whose chil-dren go to Clarksburg schools.
Sofillas was joined by BarryFantle and Kathie Hulley, whospoke as Clarksburg residents infavor of the project, along withformer County CouncilmanMi-chael Knapp and Marilyn Bal-combe, president and CEO ofthe Gaithersburg-GermantownChamber of Commerce.
“These services currentlydon’t exist in Montgomery
County,” Balcombe said aboutfashion outlet stores.
“People have to drive toHagerstown ... and thiswouldbea catalyst for other restaurantsand stores” to serve upcountyresidents, she said.
But lawyers for Peter-son — which wants to build amixed-use center with Tangerfashion outlet stores closer tothe Clarksburg Town Center onthe northeast corner of I-270and Clarksburg Road — chal-lenged the increase in allowedretail space. They argued thatit violates the limit of 120,000square feet set in the 1994ClarksburgMaster Plan, despitea rezoning of the site in 2003 tomixed use.
In addition, Peterson attor-ney Jody Kline said that approv-ing an outlet center on the westside of I-270 would draw awaycustomers and undermine theintent of the Clarksburg MasterPlan, which is to cluster servicesin the Clarksburg Town Centerarea east of I-270.
“It detracts from theway theplan was supposed to work,”Kline said.
Bette Buffington, who co-owns the new Bennigan’s res-taurant in Clarksburg’s historicdistrict, agreed.
“It would draw away fromthe [town] center and segregateshopping,” she said.
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to develop ... and now after thefact, you’re taking it apart,” hesaid.
ButDolancountered, “If youcarry this forward, there’s goingto be more damage than we’dlike to have to TenMile Creek.”
Dreyfuss asked planners toprovide a chart on how manyhousing units could be built un-der each restriction.
Regarding transportation,Dreyfuss and board memberCasey Anderson asked ques-tions about the route of a pro-posed bypass west around theClarksburg Historic District onMd. 355.
The bypass, intended tohandle through traffic and alsoserve as the route for the futureCorridor Cities Transitway, alsowould serve as the entranceto the proposed Streamside/Tanger Outlets site on 100 acresat the northeast corner of Md.
355 and Md. 121 (ClarksburgRoad).
Streamside would includeoutlet stores, restaurants, hous-ing and office space. Plannerssuggest that increasing hous-ing and decreasing commercialspace on the site would be analternative way of also helpingto “complete” Clarksburg.
Board member Amy Press-ley also questioned moving aplanned transit center stationfrom Redgrave Place northto the corner of Md. 355 andClarksburg Road.
She felt it would detractfrom the goal of a walkable,pedestrian-friendly communityand also hurt businesses.
“It would divert foot trafficfrom the town center [commer-cial area] and the historic dis-trict,” she said.
The planners’ 40-page staffreport is posted at www.mont-gomeryplanningboard.org
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Thirty scientists work in thelab. An additional eight, all swornpolice officers, make up the Elec-tronicCrimesunit.
Security at the lab is tight.“Each lab is programmed
to know who has access to thatparticular room,” Raskin-Burnssaid.Only scientists authorized towork in that specific unit can ac-cess labs thatworkwithbiologicalevidence, like the Forensic Biol-ogyUnitor theCrimeSceneUnit.
Topreventcontaminatingev-idencewithforeignDNA,thelab’sscientists wear blue scrubs. TheirDNA is on file, so it can be ruledout if somehowitbecomesmixedwithDNAbeing investigated.
The Forensic Chemistry Unitgets the drugs that police collect.The unit tests the drugs in casesgoing to court, or at the request ofinvestigators, King said.
Marijuana, cocaine andheroin are the drugs the Foren-sic Chemistry Unit tests mostfrequently, King said. The unit’sscientists also identify drugs likeecstasy — sometimes made tolook like candy or cartoon im-ages, suchas theTeenageMutantNinja Turtles or miniature BartSimpsonheads.
One recent case with candy-shaped drugs had about 20 or 30pills, King said.
“If my kids saw those, they’dtotally think they were Swee-Tarts,”Raskin-Burns said.
“Andthey’dbehighasakite,”King said.
In thechemistry lab, therearemicroscopes, pipettes and racksof beakers at each work station.There also are quirkier knick-knacks, like a glass pipe shapedlike an elephant, made for smok-ingmarijuana.
It was evidence from a now-closed case, King said. The labkept it for educational purposesinsteadofdestroying it, she said.
A gas chromatograph-massspectrometer converts drugs intoa gaseous form, then analyzesthem at a molecular level, whichhelps analysts determine exactlywhat kind of drug it is. The ma-chine, one of the most expensivein the lab, costs around $100,000,Wickenheiser said. The lab re-ceives federal and state grants formuchof the equipment, he said.
Breaking the drugs down toa molecular level helps crimelab analysts differentiate cocainefrom procaine, a legal anesthetic,ormarijuana froma series of syn-thetic cannabinoids, like “spice”or “K2,” that flooded the marketseveral years ago, before theywereoutlawed.
“Identifying those was prettytricky,” she said of the can-nabanoids, which mimic the ef-fect ofmarijuana.
King has been working at thelab for almost seven years, shesaid.
“I liked chemistry. I liked theidea of law. It seemed like a niceway of mixing the two of them,”she said.
In 2012, the different unitsin the lab processed a little lessthan 6,000 cases, Raskin-Burnssaid — 420 crime scenes, 170firearms exams, more than 300cases involvingDNAtesting,3,600drug cases, and 1,400 latent printanalyses.
The lab also performs testsfor local city police departments,such as the Takoma Park andRockvillecitypolicedepartments,along with the U.S. Park Police,Metro Transit Police, and theMontgomeryCountySheriff’sOf-fice.
The labalsooccasionally runstests for the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,FirearmsandExplosivesand the U.S. Navy’s Criminal In-vestigationsDivision,King said.
DavidHinebaughhasworkedas a latent print examiner forMontgomery County Police fornearly a decade. He analyzesprints taken from crime scenesby Crime Scene Unit investiga-tors. “What I do is try take thoseprints andmatch them upwith asuspect,” he said.
Hinebaugh said he studied ina forensic identification programatWestVirginiaUniversity.
The first part of his job is tosee if a print is usable, he said.Many that come in are smudgedor smeared, recognizable as fin-gerprints, but too damaged foridentification.
If the print is in good enoughcondition, he said, examinerswillenter it into a regional automatedfingerprint identification systemand look formatches.
That database, which cov-ers Montgomery County, PrinceGeorge’s County, Northern Vir-ginia andWashington, D.C., sup-plies a list of people who mightmatch thefingerprint, he said.
From there, examiners com-pare the two onscreen to see ifthey match with the fingerprintcollectedat the crime scene.
Other times, police alreadywillhaveasuspect incustodyandwill ask anexaminer tomatch thesuspect’s prints against a samplefromthecrimescene—that takesplaceoffscreen, he said.
Comparing the prints usuallytakes 15 minutes to half an hour,he said.
Even thoughHinebaughpro-cesses 20 to 30 cases a month,some cases stick out, like a sexualassault that took place severalyears ago. The attacker assaultedhis victim at knifepoint, then leftthe woman in Prince George’sCounty, he said.
Police recovered a print fromher credit cards — but it didn’tlook like an intact print.
“At first, I didn’t think it wasgood enough to enter in the sys-tem,” he said. However, he gota match on a man who had fledto New York. Police tracked himdown,andheultimatelywascon-victed,Hinebaugh said.
“It was very satisfying that ...I was able to help arrest the indi-vidual and provide some closurefor the victim,”he said.
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project.Residents may give their
opinions about preferredroutes at a formal hearing heldby the Maryland Departmentof the Environment and theArmy Corps of Engineers onAug. 7.
“We’ll have large plansfor each route so you can findyour house,” Johnston said.
Several alternatives havebeen presented for the high-way’s route, including an op-tionwhere no highway is built.The previous list of 11 alterna-tives has been narrowed to six,including the no-build option,named Alternative 1.
Alternative 2 would im-prove 16 congested intersec-tions on Md. 355, the existingMidcounty Highway, SnoufferSchool Road and StedwickRoad.According todocumentsfrom the Montgomery CountyDepartment of Transporta-tion, this option would consistof “low-cost” improvements.
Alternative 4 would widenthe corridor that includesBrink, Wightman, SnoufferSchool and Muncaster Millroads. The corridor would be-come a four- to six-lane high-way with a sidewalk and bikelanes.
Alternative 5 improves onan existing road by wideningMd. 355 into a six-lane high-way.
Alternative 8 follows themaster plan, but the roadwould be truncated atWatkinsMill Road, according to countydocuments. This alternativewould build a new four-lanehighway from Snowden FarmParkway toWatkinsMill Road,but leaves a gap betweenWat-kins Mill Road and Montgom-ery Village Avenue to providespace to the Whetstone Runstream.
Alternative 8 also hasthree divergent options for thenorthendof thehighway. Eachwould end at Ridge Road, butone would enter the Agricul-tural Reserve, one would runalong Ridge Road, and onewould create a new highway
in accordance with the masterplan. The end that runs alongRidge Road “has shown to beundesirable in terms of opera-tion and safety,” according tocounty documents.
Alternative 9 follows themaster plan by building a newfour-lane highway betweenthe existing Midcounty High-way and Watkins Mill Road.At that point, the road’s threeendingoptions are the sameasthose in Alternative 8.
County documents warnthat homes and businessescould be displaced by any ofthe alternatives, except theno-build option and Alternative 2,whichwould widenMd. 355.
Areas such as the I-270Technology Corridor mightbenefit from a few of the alter-natives, since they would de-crease congestionon I-270andMd. 355, according to countydocuments.
State and county officialsand community advocates arepreparing for the Aug. 7 publichearingonM-83at SenecaVal-ley High School. For more in-formation about the meetingor towatch a video overviewofthe project, visit montgomery-countymd.gov/corridor.
Staff Writer Virginia Terhunecontributed to this report.
Riders and drivers ofMontgomery County: stuck incongestion on your morningcommute? Seeing major delayson the Red Line? Send me anote at [email protected].
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plans for eachroute so you canfind your house.”Bruce Johnston, chief of
the county’s TransportationEngineering Division
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STAFFWRITER
Researchorganizations in theGreat Seneca Life Sciences Corri-dor are considering the creationof a commoncyberinfrastructurethat would facilitate sharing andspur innovative ideas.
Anil Srivastava, presidentof Open Health Systems Labo-ratory on Johns Hopkins Uni-versity’s Montgomery County
campus, proposed the idea andheld a meeting Monday withphysicians, university facultyand representatives from CiscoSystems, Montgomery Countygovernment, the National In-stitute of Standards and Tech-nology, MedImmune and otherorganizations.
Srivastava emphasized theneed for a network that fosterscommunication between or-ganizations and transfers largevolumes of data between themin the science corridor.
“All of that has become very,very essential to biomedical re-search,” Srivastava said.
The corridor, west of I-270at the southern border of Gaith-ersburg and northern border ofRockville, is a 900-acre concen-tration of universities, clinicsand biotech companies. Futureadditions are slated to includethe Corridor Cities Transitway,more commercial square foot-age and residential units.
Srivastava said there is“hardly any cyberinfrastructure
in place to support the 21st cen-tury life sciences.” Data analy-sis on a large scale necessitatesmore powerful technology andnetworks with greater capacity,accordingtodocuments fromtheNational Cancer Institute, a newaddition to the Johns Hopkinscampus inMontgomeryCounty.
Moneywill beoneof thefirsthurdles the largely undefinedproject will face.
“There is no funding forwhat we’re trying to do,” Srivas-tava said.
Labs looking into cyberinfrastructure
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It’s been sevenmonths since one of America’s worstschool shootings—Dec. 14, 2012, when a gunman killed 27people in Newtown, Conn., including 20 children.
The instant reaction after any deadly attack is outrageand grief, then:What canwe do to protect our children?
TheNational Rifle Association called for at least onestaff member, armed guard or police officer in every schoolin the country. That way, the group reasoned, a good per-sonwith a gun could fight off a bad personwith a gun.
Remarkably simplistic, such a planwould never workas law-enforcement experts have said. Tomany, an armedguard in a school would be excessive. Arming school staffraises toomany questions of adequate training or liability.
Now that we’re somewhat removed from theNewtownattacks— in time, if not in sorrow—we can thinkmoreevenly and reasonably.
Montgomery County Public Schools is doing its partbymoving aheadwith a plan to install more cameras in itselementary, middle and high schools. The school boardvoted thismonth to commit the district to about half of thefunding for a $9million safety initiative, with statemoneycovering the rest.
James Song, the director of the school system’s Depart-ment of FacilitiesManagement, said there will be interiorand exterior cameras, as well as “physical improvements”to school buildings— visitors will have to check in at ad-ministration offices before proceeding through the school.
Most elementary schools would be getting cameras forthe first time, according to Adrienne Karamihas, the schoolsystem’s budget and operationsmanager.
Some of this ismeant to bolster internal security— cut-ting down on thefts or vandalism or watching for unrulygroups or even fights.
Video surveillance can be helpful in solving crimes.Cameras would supplement the eyes and ears of the peoplealready in charge of our schools.
Overall, there’smuch to like in what the school systemis doing to walk a delicate line between freedomofmove-ment and total restrictiveness.
Locked doors and security cameras at the front doorwon’t thwart a truly determined attacker—nothing can—but they introduce a greater level of awareness and protec-tion that unfortunately has become appropriate for publicschools.
Cameras canhelp protect schools
Another example of how free speech can get awfullymessy is playing out inMontgomery County.
County Executive Isiah Leggett has waded into a debateabout whetherMolotov, aMexican rock band, should per-form at the Fillmore concert hall in Silver Spring on Aug. 26.
Molotov says itsmusic is aimed at those who don’tstand up to power. But, to express thatmessage, the grouprelies on a Spanish word, “puto,” that is commonly under-stood as a slur against gaymen.
Montgomery County owns the Fillmore building andleases it to the entertainment company Live Nation for con-certs. The county doesn’t decide who plays there.
Leggett acknowledged that boundary in a July 18 let-ter to Stephanie Steele, the Fillmore’s generalmanager, inwhich hewrote that he is “personally offended.
“Bringing what I believe to be hateful sentiments intoour County does nothing to contribute positively to our cul-ture, tolerance, or the well-being of our County residents,”Leggett wrote, urging the Fillmore to “reconsider”Molo-tov’s scheduled performance.
In perceivingMolotov’smessage, it’s important to un-derstand culture, interpretation and context. In a statementto The Gazette last week, the bandwrote that it has “respectand gratitude” for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgenderedpeople and insists its lyrics aren’t anti-homosexual attacks.
The statement—which ismurky because of somemiss-ing words— says “Puto” “was conceived as a cathartic songabout our situation inMexico at the time in the late 90’sand dedicated to anyonewho attempts our freedom, to anycowardwho attempts against the people and to anyonewho attempts against humanity.”
Dowe need a referee? Hardly.Who’s “right” should notdictate whetherMolotov plays the Fillmore.
Even ifMolotov is whitewashing its use of an insultto keep protesters at bay, the answer is not tomuffle thegroup. The best response to speech— even hateful speech— ismore speech.
Leggett could turn a tense situation into a productiveone through a forum to discuss the group’s lyrics and,moreimportantly, the story behind them. IfMolotov is open todefending and explaining its work, bandmembers shouldwelcome another platform to express themselves. Aca-demic and cultural experts onMexico and itsmusic couldprovide needed context.
Montgomery County could further establish itself as aplace that promotes tolerance and art, yet protects unpopu-lar speech and expression, equally and vigorously.
Understanddistasteful speech;don’t silence it
A little-known tax was re-cently spawned by the Mary-land General Assembly tocomply with the federal CleanWater Act that requires all statesfeeding into the ChesapeakeBay to clean up their stormwa-ter runoffs. While very few willdisagree with the need to cleanup what many recognize as amagnificent, natural resource,the “rain tax” is another in aseries of good intentions by ourMaryland legislators and weknow where such intentionsusually lead.
This new rain tax focuses onimpervious surfaces — roofs,driveways and parking lots —fromwhich stormwater runsoffinto theBay.Maryland isnot theonly state having stormwaterrunoff feeding into theBay—sodo Virginia, Pennsylvania, WestVirginia and New York. None ofthese states has a rain tax.
Nonetheless our Marylandlegislators have selected ninecounties and Baltimore city onwhich to impose this tax. Theother 14 Maryland counties areexempt.
This is where the logic dis-sipates.
How will 10 jurisdictionsin Maryland stem the advanceof storm water runoff from thenumerous counties in the otherfour states feeding into the Bay?The Susquehanna River alone,flowing through theConowingodam, running less than 20milesinto Maryland before enteringthe top of the Bay, accounts for41 percent of nitrogen and 25percent of phosphorus, yetNewYork andPennsylvania have notproposed a rain tax.
In Montgomery County wehave been paying the rain taxsince 2002. What admittedlystarted as a small Water Qual-
ity Protection Charge — $92.60a year on our property tax bills—will now become a seven-tiersystem. Like all taxes, expectthat to increase exponentiallyover time.
Businesses in MontgomeryCounty are not exempt from the2002raintax.WheatonPlazapays$70,000 a year for its impervioussurfaces. However, state govern-ment buildings, county officebuildings and schools, which to-gether occupy over 1,500 acres ofimpervious surface, are exempt.But churches, synagogues andothernonprofitswith impervioussurfaces arenot exempt.
The state of Maryland ex-pects this impervious surfacecleanup to cost $14.8 billion by2025. Thus it is estimated thatthe 10 jurisdictions will need tocome up with $482 million foreach of the next 12 years. How-ever, our legislators have left the
setting of rain-tax rates to eachof the 10 jurisdictions. So Fred-erick County has voted to tax itsresidents one penny on eachproperty; Howard County $75per residence; Harford County$12.50 per single family home;Carroll County has chosen notto tax its residents.
There is noway this haphaz-ardapproachby10counties canraise $14.8 billion by 2025.
So where do you think ourstate legislators will turn toclose the revenue gap? Andwhodo you thinkwill vote in favor oftappingMontgomery County toclose the gap — very likely ourMontgomery County delegatesto Annapolis, all of whom votedfor the tax in the first place.
Joan Fidler, Bethesda
The writer is the presidentof the Montgomery TaxpayersLeague.
When it rains, it pours ... taxes
Three months into degraded phoneand Internet service fromComcast, andnoend in sight in spite of 30phone calls, eighttrouble tickets, and three visits byComcasttechnicians. The three technicians verifiedthat the problem is in Comcast’s wiringoutside of my house but due to Comcast’smultiple, disjointedand ineffective troubleticket systems, Comcast claims to have norecord of the reports from their servicetechnicians and says the only action theycan take is to send out a fourth technicianto duplicate all the testing doneby thefirstthree technicians—butComcast can’t sayhow the results from a fourth technicianvisit would be treated any different thanthe results from the first three visits.
In the meantime, Comcast’s modemhas to be rebooted to re-acquire the sig-nal whenever I want to use my phone orInternet.
This problem with Comcast’s failinginfrastructure is not limited to my houseand appears to be very widespread, be-cause Comcast makes instructions forrebooting their modems readily avail-able near the top of the automated phonemenu for their service center and claimsmost problems can be resolved by reboot-ing theirmodems.
Comcast is oblivious to thepublic safetyissuetheirproblemiscausingbecauseintheeventofanemergency,phones impactedbythisproblemarenotavailable tocall 911un-til after their modems have been rebootedand reacquire the signals—which can takefiveminutesor longer.
Whatever happened to having phonesthat just workedwhen needed?
Carol Lundquist, Burtonsville
RebootingComcastIt has been a while since I walked on
the trail (Georgetown Branch, CapitalCrescent), but I found myself walkingthere on a recent hot, humid day. I amsure that it was somewhere around 90 de-grees. I started from my home town, theTownofChevyChase.One thing led to an-other, and I ended upwalking as far as thetrestle, which overlooks rocks, water andtrails leading into Rock Creek Park. It wasa stunning view.
With our high temperatures and hu-midity, this day that I took my walk wasreally not the best day to take a 4-milehike. But what made it bearable, evenenjoyable, was the lush foliage of the treecanopy overhead, which provided thecoolness of shade.
To those who would destroy thismagnificent linear park, by cutting down
all the trees and crowding hikers and bi-cyclists together to make way for a com-muter rail line, I would invite you to gotake awalk—along the trail, and see if youstill feel the sameway afterwards.
It is too bad that the planners for thePurple Line project didn’t have the fore-sight to plan for the future for both transitand the environment, by designing thingsin a way that would put the rail line else-where, or locate it underground.
Perhaps if enough local residentswould just take the time from their busylives to do what I did, just go take a walk,thingsmight be different.
Enjoy the trail, while you still can! Bet-ter yet, let’s see what can be done, even atthis late date, to save this priceless trea-sure, our linear park.
Deborah A. Vollmer, Chevy Chase
Save our linear park
On July 9, I boarded an “11” Ride OnBus at Friendship Heights around 3 p.m.Not sureof theexact time, I asked thedriverif the free senior fare (until 3 p.m.) was stillin force (I am a 75-year-old woman).
Contemptuouslyhe snarled that Imustpay my fare. Having done so, I seated my-self directly behind himwhere I witnessed(during a wait of five minutes or so beforethe bus’s departure) his surly encounterwith anyone boarding the bus in less thanan automatic and expeditiousmanner.
At approximately 3:15 as the busheadednorthwardonConnecticutAvenueI got up andmoved forward to tell him thatI wanted to get off at the next stop (Taylor
Street). His response was to snarl that Ishould “Get behind the yellow line,”whichI did. He barreled on past my stop until hehad gone three stops forward, stoppingthen because someone was waiting at thatstop to board the bus.
At this point he said, “What stopdid youwant?” I repeated “Taylor Street.” To whichhe replied “That was two stops back.” I gotoff the bus andwalkedback the three blocksto Taylor Street and continued on my nowthree-block-longer longwalkhome.
Clearly this vicious and unremittinglyhostile driver should not be interactingwith the public in any capacity.
Kirsten Gardner, Chevy Chase
Surly driver doesn’t serve Ride On well
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What’s the difference between theAmerican bald eagle and the MarylandGOP? The bald eagle ismaking a come-back.
Okay, it’s unfair to ridicule Mary-land’s Republican Party; it’s too easy atarget. But if the sole pur-pose of a political party isto win elections and runthe government in accor-dancewith its policies andbeliefs,Maryland’s GOP isan endangered species.
Thanks to a 2-to-1voter registration ad-vantage, favorabledemographics, crass ger-rymandering, closed pri-maries, a corrupt partisanmedia and all the ancil-lary self-perpetuatingprivileges of one-partyincumbency, Democrats rule the roostin Maryland, the nation’s fourth-most-Democratic state.
All Maryland’s statewide electedofficials, including both U.S. senators,are Democrats. So are seven of its eightcongresspersons. Democrats have oc-cupied the governor’s mansion for 57of the last 63 years, and no one can re-member when Republicans controlledthe legislature.
Nearly half of the state’s voters are
represented exclusively by Democrats,from President Barack Obama down tothe county clerk, and Maryland’s fast-est-growing population, Latinos, vote8-to-1 Democratic.
When the Tea Party voter mutinyswept the nation in 2010, itbypassed Maryland. Yes, mostof the state’s rural counties arecontrolled by Republicans, butthat’s merely 15 percent of thepopulation. Only baseball’sWashington Nationals have aworse batting average.
In 2006, Maryland SenatePresident Mike Miller, a Dem-ocratic chieftain, famouslyvowed, “We’re going to gettogether and we’re going toshoot Republicans down.We’re going to put them in theground and it will be ten years
before they crawl out again.” That wasseven years ago, and the Republicansstill remain buried.
So, what to do? Would “Save TheRepublicans” bumper stickers appealto Maryland’s bleeding heart environ-mentalists? Unlikely. Republicans arenot a media-sanctioned victim groupand are less appealing than baby seals.
How about reaching out to inde-pendent voters who, because theydeclined joining either party, can’t
participate in Maryland’s closed pri-mary elections? That’s exactly whatMaryland’s GOP is currently debating:whether to let independents vote in theRepublican primary. It’s a wise idea,because:
First, independents (whoare largelyfallen-away Republicans) are morelikely than Democrats to align with Re-publicans. Letting independents helpnominate GOP candidates will giveindependents ownership and increasetheir likelihood of voting Republican inthe general election.
Second, Republicans need the num-bers. Even if all 636,000 independentsjoin all 959,000 Republicans, they’re stilloutnumbered by Maryland’s 2,073,000Democrats. But, hypothetically, with theindependents on board, aGOPnomineeneeds only 239,000 Democratic cross-overs, insteadof 557,000.
Third, and most important, addingindependents to its ranks will moder-ate the GOP’s platform and candidates.This isn’t a philosophical sellout, it’s arendezvous with reality.
The likelihood that the indepen-dents’ influence will radically liberalizeMaryland’s GOP is nil. But some mod-erating is overdue: The GOP’s messageisn’t selling inMarylandand, inpolitics,when your message isn’t selling, it’stime to change messages. Republican
conservatives who believe that ideo-logical purity is more important thanwinning elections should start a salonor become radio talk show hosts.
Meanwhile, Maryland desperatelyneeds a competitive, self-policing two-party political system, which is whatmakes a democracy work.
Obama’s race problemLiberal pundits andeditorialwriters
were so busy swooning over Obama’s“heartfelt words” delivered last Fridaythat they eithermissed or ignoredwhatwas really going on.
Obama’s performance came fromhis polling, not from his heart. Af-ter wrongly injecting himself into theTrayvon Martin incident before it evenwent to trial (“If I had a son, he’d looklike Trayvon”), which helped inflameracial tensions, Obama was stuck withthe jury’s “not guilty” verdict.
In the verdict’s wake he tried cool-ing racial passions by calling for calmand supporting trial by jury. But, asthe polls showed, that didn’t work: 81percent of blacks demanded Obamabring federal charges against GeorgeZimmerman (only 27 percent of whitesagreed). Evenworse,Obama’s approvalratings sank to a two-year low, down to41 percent in one poll.
So, Obama was faced with the na-tion’s blacks (the Democratic party’s
core constituency) nullifying the juryverdict, ignoring Trayvon’s assault anddemanding something impossible forObama to grant — federal charges forwhich there is no legal basis.
Once again Obama had a raceproblem and, once again, he talked hisway out, just like the Rev. Wright crisisand the “Skip” Gates beer summit. OnFriday he empathized with the angryblacks by recounting the car door clicksand department store profiling he ex-perienced as a young black male whiledelicately changing the subject frombringing federal charges to, instead,ending “stand your ground” laws andcalling for ways to help young blacks.
Last Friday the half-black presi-dent was all black, engaging in a “raceconversation” exclusively with blacksabout a white, racist America. Then, afew days later, he was off on another“soak the rich” speaking tour hopingZimmerman’s federal charges woulddrift out ofmind.
Blair Lee is chairman of the boardof Lee Development Group in SilverSpring and a regular commentator forWBAL radio. His column appears Fri-days in the Business Gazette. His pastcolumns are available at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His email address is [email protected].
Save the Republicans
MY MARYLANDBLAIR LEE
LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
I read with interest the July 2 piece byRep. John Delaney and Johns Hopkins Uni-versity President Ronald Daniels regardingthe proposed Corridor Cities Transitway.[“Corridor Cities Transitway should be apriority forMontgomery County”].
I likewise support the development ofthis public transportation system. However,I strongly oppose the CCT’s planned align-ment near the JohnsHopkins Belward cam-pus.
The CCT is slated to run down GreatSeneca Highway in Gaithersburg, and thenturn right onto Muddy Branch Road beforeturning left into Belward. This route willmake it very difficult for themore than 1,500residents of the Washingtonian Woods andMission Hills communities to enter and exittheir neighborhoods. ...
As a resident ofWashingtonianWoods, Ican attest to the fact that it can take several
minutes to exit my community ontoMuddyBranch during rush hour. If the CCTwere torun down Muddy Branch, it would furtherslow traffic into and out of the community....
Planners do have a suitable alternativeroute for the CCT: it could continue downGreat Seneca Highway past Sam Eig High-
way and turn right into Belward near KeyWest Avenue — possibly along the plannedextension of Decoverly Road. This routingwould take advantage of the wider roadwayafforded by Great Seneca and would skirtresidential neighborhoods. It could alsoprovide aCCT stopon theBelwardCampus,which JHU claims that it must have.
I and others have raised this alternativein several public forums but have not hearda compelling explanation of why it is not aviable option.
I am a proponent of a more robust anduser-friendly public transportation sys-tem in Montgomery County. However, anynew transport construction should takeinto account the designs of the pre-existingcommunities and not impose a significantburden on current residents.
Gary Robinson, Gaithersburg
CCT needs an alternate route
The July 24 letter fromTim Willard [“Wasteful de-fense spendinghurtingMont-gomery”] addressed wastefulmilitary spending and its ef-fect on, among other things,meals for seniors and hous-ingassistance inMontgomeryCounty.
WhileWillard is correct instating that fighter jets mightnot need to cost $200 millionor $300 million apiece, thereal problem does not lie inprojects involving mere mil-lions of dollars.
On his recent $100 mil-
lion trip to Africa, PresidentObama pledged $7.5 billiondollars (of taxpayermoney) tohelp develop electricity proj-ects on that continent. Com-bine that with the $1.8 billiondollars given towhatwas thenEgypt’s Muslim Brotherhoodgovernment andwe’re talkingabout realmoney here.
I totally agreewithWillardthat money is being wastedand yes, $9.3 billion wouldfeed a lot of seniors.
Thomas B. Ferguson,Montgomery Village
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n New health insuranceprogram starts in October
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFFWRITER
The average 50-year-oldnonsmoker in MontgomeryCounty can buy health insur-ance premiums through theMaryland exchange marketstarting Oct. 1, ranging from$263 to $470 permonth.
The lowest monthly pre-mium rate is from CoventryHealthCare ofDelaware, ownedby Aetna, which operates inMaryland,Delaware, Pennsylva-nia and New Jersey. The highestis fromAll Savers Insurance, partof UnitedHealthcare.
State insurance officials onFriday approved the rates forindividuals that were as muchas 33 percent below what insur-ers had requested. All Savers’premium for the Montgomery50-year-old was about 32 per-cent below what the insurer re-quested, while Coventry’s wassome 27 percent below its re-quest.
Under the federal AffordableCareAct, individuals have to ob-tainhealth insuranceby Januaryor pay a penalty of either $95 or1 percent of their annual taxableincome next year. The penaltywill rise to $325 or 2 percent ofincome in 2015 and $695 or 2.5percent of annual income in2016.
Maryland’s largest insurer,
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield,received approval to average$312 in monthly premiums forthe average 50-year-old Mont-gomery resident, only 4 percentbelow what it requested. Rock-ville-based Kaiser Permanenteof the Mid-Atlantic States re-ceived approval for an averageof $381, only about 1 percentbelow its request.
State insurance regulatorsapproved rate changes based oninput from actuaries and otherswho studied the insurers’ sub-mitted plan designs and rates.
Actuaries conducted statisti-cal analyses and tested assump-tions that insurance companiesused to develop rates. Officialsalso made sure the plans com-plied with state and federal
laws, and they considered pub-lic comments in deciding whatlevel to approve.
CareFirst’s offerings are“competitively priced and oftenamong the most affordable op-tions available,” officials said ina statement. “Rate adjustmentsimposed by the MIA were mod-est, and we look forward to thelaunchof the exchange this fall.”
Kaiser “worked with Mary-land officials to ensure our 2014rates are as consumer friendly aspossible.Webelieve all residentsshould have access to high qual-ity, affordable care, and we’reconfident our rates reflect that,”officials said in a statement.
U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Car-din (D) of Pikesville said hewas disappointed that Presi-
dent Barack Obama recentlyagreed to delay until 2015 theemployer mandate portionof the federal health care law,and that he didn’t support asimilar delay in the individualmandate.
“I don’t think a lot willchange in a year,” Cardin saidduring a meeting Friday withGazette reporters and editors.“But I understand the adminis-tration’s desire to want to makesure it’s done right.”
The law will force employ-ers with more than 50 full-timeworkers to pay a penalty if theydon’t provide employees withhealth insurance starting in2015. The penalty would be$2,000 per employee, minus thefirst 30 workers. For example, a
non-providing companywith 50employees would pay $40,000.
Cardin didn’t think a lot ofemployers would switch someof their full-time employeesto part-time to get under the50-worker threshold. “I wouldthink that employers want to of-fer health insurance to remaincompetitive,” he said.
The law will provide medi-cal insurance for thousandsof Marylanders who are notcurrently covered, along withsubstantial benefits to individu-als and employers, includingeliminating exemptions for pre-existing conditions and provid-ing tax credits to businesses andindividuals, Cardin said. “It willbe more popular than peoplethink,” he said.
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n Project seen as way todetect where resourcesare available and where
they’re needed
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
A new online mapping sys-tem could help pinpoint Mont-gomery County’s grocery stores,food trucks, community gar-dens, farmers’markets and foodbanks.
The Maryland-NationalCapital Park andPlanningCom-mission is creating a websitethat will use data to create a va-riety of one-stop maps, the firstof which is for food.
The project was recom-mended by Montgomery Coun-ty’s Interagency TechnologyPolicy and Coordination Com-mittee — which includes repre-sentatives of each county agency,the executive and the legislativebranch — to complement thecounty’s initiative of posting rawdata in a variety of areasonline.
The project will use a geo-graphical information system,or GIS, and information fromsources such asDataMontgom-ery.Using thedata, theplanningstaffwill createmaps thatwill behoused in one central locationonline, project manager andplanning GIS manager Christo-pherMcGovern said.
Data Montgomery is thecounty’s public portal that hasraw county data on salaries,restaurant inspections and per-mits,making it easy for the pub-lic to get.
The Montgomery CountyCouncil provided park andplanning with $70,000 to startthe system.
Many maps are expected;the first will feature food.
The innovative programlooks to use mapping toolsto give better insight on foodresources and demand, DanHoffman, the county’s chief in-novation officer andmember ofthe Montgomery County FoodCouncil, said.
McGovern said a map couldshow a number of food sources,including community gardensand farmers’ markets. Placeswhere people can find or openfood trucks will be plotted on themap.
Hoffman said the countyneeds to continuously improveits GISmapping skills.
“This GIS portal is a greatopportunity for us to developour skills in this area,” he said.“It’s a really important skill thesedays. It makes a lot more infor-mation user-friendly.”
The Food Council hopesto have handy features like theability to enter a ZIP code andfind the closest food source.
Even in wealthy Montgom-ery County, there are pocketswhere people don’t get all of thefood they need. Those who con-nect the hungry with availablefood see the project’s pilot mapas a key resource in that work.
CouncilwomanValerieErvinsaid Montgomery County is thefirst jurisdiction in the nation tocreate anetwork inwhich ediblefood that would otherwise bediscarded is directed to those inneed instead.
“The fact of the matter isthere are a lot of people in thecountywhoare ‘food insecure,’”Ervin (D-Dist. 5) of Silver Springsaid, referring to those residentswho don’t always know wherethey will get their next meal.“We wanted to look at ways to
connect all the food agencies inMontgomery County to servethe thousands of poundsof foodnot being used.”
The general definition of afooddesert is a low-incomeareathat does not have easy accessto healthful, affordable food, ac-cording to the U.S. Departmentof Agriculture. This can includehaving to travel 1 mile to a su-permarket in a suburban area or10miles in a rural area.
That definition doesn’t tellthe full story in suburban areassuchasMontgomeryCountybe-cause it has pockets of lower-in-come residents who don’t showup on a data map, said AmandaBehrens, the senior program of-ficer of the food mapping sys-temat JohnsHopkins Center fora Livable Future.
“Amile is a longway to travelcarrying groceries,” Behrenssaid. “We’re lookingat aquarter-mile, thinking of what’s a realis-tic, walkable distance.”
Ervin said there is enoughfood to go around in the county,but it does not find its way to allof those who need it. She notedthe map will most likely show anumber of food access locationsin the Rockville area, but a veri-table “food desert” in the east-ern part of the county.
“Lots of people who arestruggling to put food on the ta-bledon’t have food readily avail-able to them,” Ervin said. “Theymight find their way to foodbanks, but there’s not enoughfood there for them.”
The map provides a crucialfirst step to geographically iden-tifying food-scarce areas, Er-vin said. Once that is done, shesaid, the council canmove to fillthose voids.
The food map will helpmembers of the MontgomeryFood Recovery Work Groupfind would-be wasted food anddeliver it to those who in need,work group Chair Jacki Coylesaid. Coyle is executive direc-tor of Shepherd’s Table, a SilverSpring nonprofit that serves thehomeless.
“We will be able to betterserve people by providing nutri-tious food that would otherwisebe thrown out,” she said.
Coyle said the map will be“vital for the community tomakesurepeopledon’tgohungry,”andwill show the county’s commit-ment to the recoveryplan.
“[Themap] is a critical pieceof the pie,” she said.
The Center for a Livable Fu-ture has been creating a state-wide food access map since2007, Behrens said. It was pub-lishedonline in 2011 atMdfood-systemmap.org.
Hoffman said the county’smapwill go further.
“We’ve been working withJohns Hopkins to create a lotof maps, but those maps arestatic,” he said. “We’re lookingtomove this to something a littlemore dynamic, with data that’scontinuously updated and re-freshed.”
Maps are only the begin-ning of solving the food accessproblem, said Jenna Umbriac,director of nutrition programsatMannaFoodCenter.Umbriacalso serves on the Food Counciland the work group.
“I don’t think the food ac-cess problem ends with maps,”she said. “It begins withmaps.
“If our maps give us an in-dication that there is food need,we can go in with volunteersand survey people’s perceptionof need. That could be an addi-tional site for Manna or a distri-bution site for food.”
County merging data withmaps, starting with food
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Country rocker Scott Kurt will be one of 55 performers in the BandHouse Gigs tributeto the Rolling Stones on Saturday at The Fillmore Silver Spring.
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MOVIE REVIEW
CALL OF THE WILD
n Montgomery County womanlooks to brighten the days
of senior citizens
BY CARAHEDGEPETHSTAFFWRITER
On a recent Tuesday morning at Ol-ney’s Bedford Court Senior Living Com-munity, the activities room, known asThe Bistro, was packed. Chairs, wheel-chairs and walkers lined the walls. Even-tually, residents who came late had tosettle for a spot in the hallway.Theywere there to see Seniorita Sun-
shine, also known as Andrea Hancockof Rockville. Standing at the front of theroom, at maybe 5-feet tall, Hancock wasdressed in a red and white striped skirtand top, and wearing a blonde wig. Shewelcomed her audience, turned on thesong “Bring Me Sunshine,” and startedmaking her way around the room, stop-ping at each resident to offer a hand-shake, a little dance or just a smile.“At my first show, I went to each
Walking onsunshine
n Interpreting classic hitssatisfying for performers
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFFWRITER
The Rolling Stones came and wentfromWashington, D.C., in June, but fanswill still be able to hear someof their big-gest hits on stage on Saturday.“The great Rolling Stones, but for
$575 less,” joked Ron Newmyer ofBandHouse Gigs, which will present a
tribute to the legendary band on Satur-day at The Fillmore in Silver Spring.Reserved tickets are $25, and stand-
ing room tickets are $20 — a big differ-ence from the $600 tickets available forthe sold-out Verizon Center gig earlierthis summer.Fifty-five performers will present
their interpretations of Stones classicssuch as “You Can’t Always GetWhat youWant,” “Ruby Tuesday,” “Get Off My
Cloud” and “Gimme Shelter.”“A lot of musicians grew up play-
ing the Rolling Stones … they touched achord in a lot of people,” said Newmyer,who said the tribute will focus on songsreleased from 1963 through 1972.“They started as an R&B cover band,
then theymastered the pop sound, thenwhen the Beatles broke up in 1968, theywent back to R&B,” he said.“They had a lot of styles — country,
blues, R&B, rock ’n’ roll, pop, strings and
Rockin’ an’ a rollin’
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Seniorita Sunshine (Andrea Hancock) danceswith Bedford Court resident Arthur Williams.
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PHOTOS BY HEATHER LATIRI
Starting Thursday, OlneyTheatre Center presents “AChorus Line,” the largest mu-sical ever produced in the the-ater’s 75-year history.The show features 24 per-
formers and eight musicians,telling the story of a younggroup of aspiring actors, danc-ers and singers auditioning fora spot on a chorus line.“It’s something that I’m
used tobut it does feel differentin this production because it’stheir biggest one and they’reso excited about it,” said actorJennifer Cordiner, who playsVal. “You can feel the energyat all times from all the peoplearoundOlney.”A New Jersey native and
classically-traineddancer,Cor-diner moved to the Washing-ton, D.C., area in January. “AChorus Line” is the first showshe booked.Director and choreogra-
pher Stephen Nachamie isno stranger to Olney TheatreCenter. He returns after direct-ing “1776,” “Camelot,” and
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MUSIC
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Below, the cast ofOlney Theatre Cen-ter’s production of “AChorus Line,” runningAug. 1 to Sept. 1.
In a preproductionphoto of OlneyTheatre Center’s “AChorus Line,” Cassie(Nancy Lemenager)tries to convincedirector Zach (CarlRandolph) that sheshould be chosento be in his newestshow. Due to injury,Nancy Lemenagerhas left the produc-tion. Michelle Aravenawill replace her inthe role of Cassie.
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Theworks of artist Julie Grosswill be on view throughoutthemonth of August at theMontgomery Art Association’s MAAGallery,WestfieldWheatonMall, 11160 VeirsMill Road,Whea-ton. An opening reception is scheduled for 1-5 p.m. Sunday.The exhibit closes Aug. 25. Inspired by the lines and colors incities and landscapes, Gross boasts a strong sense of linear per-spective and beautiful skies. Her work illustrates well-knownbuildings, as well as obscure city streets and alleys, while exag-gerating colors and abstracting shapes. Gallery hours are 11a.m. to 8 p.m.Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.Sunday. Formore information, visit www.juliegrosspaintings.com. Visit www.montgomeryart.org.
Bright lights, big city
FROM JULIE GROSS
Julie Gross’ “Chinatown.” Gross is the featured artist for August at theMontgomery Art Association’s gallery at Westfield Wheaton Mall.
Nine-time Grammy Award-winner Natalie Cole will perform in concert at 8 p.m. Thursday at theMusic Center at Strathmore. Having sold more than 30 million records worldwide, the singer willperform songs from her new CD, “Natalie Cole En Español,” a tribute to the Spanish songs by herfather, Nat King Cole. A pre-concert lecture, “Like Father/Like Daughter: The Impact of Nat KingCole and Natalie Cole on American Popular Music,” with Saïs Kamalidiin fromHoward University,is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in Education Center Room 402 and is free with a concert ticket. Tickets forthe Natalie Cole performance are $33-$92. For more information, visit www.strathmore.org.
“Shot in the Dark,” featuring photographsfrom theMaster DarkroomClass at the Photo-works Gallery and Photography School at GlenEcho Park, continues to Sept. 3 at the gallery,7300MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. Gallery hoursare 1-4 p.m. Saturdays and 1-8 p.m. Sundays, orby appointment (contact [email protected]@comcast.net). Exhibiting photogra-phers include AndrewCurrie, Molly Donavan,Heather Dorsey, SamanMichael Far, BrendaHanning, AnnHarding,Mike Jones, TomKraly,Bill Mertens, JoanneMiller and AlejandraVallejo. Formore information, visit www.gle-nechophotoworks.org.
Worth 1,000 words
PHOTO BY SAMAN MICHAEL FAR
“Hands,” by photographer Saman Michael Far. “Shot in the Dark” continues to Sept. 3at the Photoworks Gallery and Photography School at Glen Echo Park.
Heavy-metal influenced Spanish guitar duo Rodrigo yGabriellawill perform in concert at 7 p.m. Sunday at theMusicCenter at Strathmore. Renown for their “Stairway toHeaven”cover courtesy of YouTube, the duo’smusic has been heard onfilm scores ranging from “Pirates of the Caribbean: On StrangerTides” to “Puss in Boots.” Tickets are $55-$78. Formore infor-mation, visit www.strathmore.org.
Muy caliente
PHOTO FROM STRATHMORE
Heavy metal-influenced Spanish guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriella will per-form in concert at Strathmore on Aug. 4.
PHOTO FROM STRATHMORE
Natalie Cole will perform in concert at 8 p.m. Thursday at Strathmore. The nine-time Grammy winner will perform songs from her latest CD, “Natalie ColeEn Espanol.”
Unforgettable
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DANCESHollywood Ballroom, July 31,
free International Fox Trot Rou-tine lesson at 7:30 p.m., SocialBallroomDance at 8:15 p.m. ($15),Aug. 2, free Tango lesson at 8 p.m.,Social Ballroom at 9 p.m. ($15);Aug. 3, free East Coast Swing les-son at 8 p.m., Social Ballroom at9 p.m. ($10); Aug. 4, free Fox Trotlesson at 7 p.m., Social Ballroomat 8 p.m. ($15), Aug. 7, free Inter-national Tango Routine lesson at7:30 p.m., Social BallroomDanceat 8:15 p.m. ($15), Aug. 8, TeaDance from 12:30-3:30 p.m. ($6),2126 Industrial Highway, SilverSpring, 301-326-1181, www.hol-lywoodballroomdc.com
Glen Echo Park is at 7300 Ma-cArthur Blvd.
Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-days, 8:15 beginner lesson, 9-11:30p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen EchoPark’s Spanish BallroomAnnex,$8, www.capitalblues.org.
Contra, Aug. 2, Rachel Shapirocalls to Cosmic Otters; Aug. 9, TaviMerrill with the fabulous GlenEchoOpen Band; Aug. 16, RonBuchanan calls to LoveMongrels;Aug. 23, Janine Smithwith InWild-ness; Aug. 30, Louie Cromartiewith Honeysuckle Rose, 7:30 p.m.lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen EchoPark Spanish Ballroom, $10, www.fridaynightdance.org.
Contra & Square, Aug. 4, Ra-chel Shapiro with The CosmicOtters; Aug. 11, Dick BearmanwithRachel Eddy and KristianHerner;Aug. 18, Ann Fallon and theNar-rowmindedNaysayers; Aug. 25,Delaura Padovanwith a GrahamDeZarn Joint, 7:30 p.m., Glen EchoPark Spanish Ballroom, $12 forgeneral, $9 formembers, $5 forstudents, www.fsgw.org.
English Country, July 31, Caller:Anna Rain, 8 p.m., Glen EchoTownHall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org.
Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10p.m.Mondays, steps and forma-tions taught. No experience, part-ner necessary, T-39 Building onNIH campus,Wisconsin Avenueand SouthDrive, Bethesda, 240-505-0339.
Swing, Aug. 10, The Boiler-maker Jazz Band, lesson at 8 p.m.,dancing at 9 p.m., Glen Echo Park,$15, www.flyingfeet.org.
Waltz, Aug. 4, Quartetto ConBrio; Aug. 18,Waverly Station,2:45-3:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m.,dance, $10, www.waltztimed-ances.org.
MUSIC & DANCEBethesda Blues & Jazz Supper
Club, Music Pligrim Trio w/SpecialGuestMary Alouette, 7:30 p.m.July 31, $10;Main Event, 8 p.m.Aug. 2, $10; The Tony Rich Project,8 p.m. Aug. 3, $30; Nadine Rae &The Allstars, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4, $10,7719Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda,301-634-2222, www.bethesdab-luesjazz.com
The Fillmore Silver Spring,Frank Turner, 8 p.m. Aug. 1; TheDillenger Escape Plan, 3:20 p.m.Aug. 2; BandHouse Gigs Tributeto Rolling Stones, 7:30 p.m. Aug.3, 8656 Colesville Road, SilverSpring, 301-960-9999, Fillmore-SilverSpring.com, www.livena-tion.com.
Institute of Musical Traditions— Takoma Park, TBA, TakomaPark Community Center, call forprices, times, Takoma Park Com-munity Center, 7500Maple Ave.,Takoma Park, 301-960-3655, www.imtfolk.org.
Institute of Musical Traditions— Rockville, TBA, SaintMarkPresbyterian Church, 10701 OldGeorgetown Road, Rockville, callfor prices, www.imtfolk.org.
Strathmore, Free SummerOutdoor Concert: Jon ScalesFourchestra, 7 p.m. July 31, Back-yard Theater for Kids: Taikoza(Japanese drums and dance),9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Aug. 1;Natalie Cole, 8 p.m. Aug. 2; Pup-pet Slam, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.Aug. 2; Blair Thomas & Company:The Puppet Tells the Story, 10a.m. Aug. 3; Panel Discussion:Puppetry in ContemporaryAmerican Theater, 3 p.m., Aug.3; Blair Thomas & Company:Hard Headed Heart, 1 p.m. and 4p.m. Aug. 4; Rodrigo y Gabriela,7 p.m. Aug. 4; Strathmore FineArt Camp (Half Day), 9:30 a.m.Aug. 5; Free Summer OutdoorConcert: Carlos Núñez, 7 p.m.Aug. 7, call for venue, Locations:Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike,North Bethesda; Music Centerat Strathmore, 5301 TuckermanLane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, www.strathmore.org.
ON STAGEAdventure Theatre, “Dr. Se-
uss’s Cat in theHat,” to Sept. 2,call for prices, times, AdventureTheatreMTC, 7300MacArthurBlvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270,www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org.
Do or Die Mysteries, “ArtofMurder,” Saturdays, to Aug.26, 6:30 p.m. buffet, 7:30 p.m.show, $47.50 buffet and show,Flanagan’s Harp and Fiddle, 4844Cordell Ave., Bethesda, 443-422-3810, www.flanagansharpand-
fiddle.comImagination Stage, “Peter Pan
andWendy,” to Aug. 11, call forprices, times, Imagination Stage,4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, www.imaginationstage.org
Olney Theatre Center, “A Cho-rus Line,” to Sept. 1, call for prices,times, 2001 Olney-Sandy SpringRoad, Olney, 301-924-3400, www.olneytheatre.org.
The Puppet Co., “Circus!”Aug. 2 to Sept. 1; Tiny Tots @ 10,select Wednesdays, Saturdaysand Sundays, call for shows andshow times, Puppet Co. Play-house, Glen Echo Park’s NorthArcade Building, 7300 MacArthurBlvd., $5, 301-634-5380, www.thepuppetco.org.
Round House Theatre,Bethesda, “The Beauty Queen ofLeenane,” Aug. 21 to Sept. 15; 4545East-West Highway, Bethesda.240-644-1100, www.roundhous-etheatre.org.
Round House Theatre, SilverSpring, TBA; 8641 Colesville Road,Silver Spring, $15 for general ad-mission, $10 for subscribers, pa-trons 30 and younger and seniors,244-644-1100, www.roundhous-etheatre.org.
The Writer’s Center, Poetry andProse OpenMic, 2-4 p.m. Aug. 4;Mariposa Readings, 2-4 p.m. Aug.11; Poets Bateman, Riegel, andSukrungruang, 2-4 p.m. Aug. 18,4508Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, www.writer.org.
VISUAL ARTAdah Rose Gallery, Randall Lear
andEllynWeiss, Aug. 30 toOct. 6,vernissageonSept. 21, 3766HowardAve., Kensington, 301-922-0162,www.adahrosegallery.com
The Dennis and Phillip RatnerMuseum, TBA, hours are 10 a.m. to4:30 p.m. Sundays, noon to 4 p.m.Monday through Thursday, 10001Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda.301-897-1518.
Gallery B, TBA; gallery hoursare noon to 6 p.m.Wednesdaythrough Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3p.m. Sunday, 7700Wisconsin Ave.,Suite E. www.bethesda.org.
Glenview Mansion, Women’sCaucus for the Arts, GreaterWash-ington, Aug. 4 to Sept. 30, RockvilleCivic Center Park, 503 EdmonstonDrive, Rockville. www.rockvillemd.gov.
Marin-Price Galleries, RoseNygaard, to Aug. 2, 10:30 a.m. to 7p.m.Monday through Saturday,noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, 7022Wis-consin Ave., 301-718-0622.
VisArts, Nancy Bullough: NeenaBirch: Retrospective Responseand Reception, Aug. 7 to Sept. 8,opening reception from7-9 p.m.Aug. 9, KaplanGallery;MartyWeishaar, Aug. 7 to Sept. 8, open-ing reception from7-9 p.m. Aug. 9,CommonGroundGallery; “ChingChing Cheng,” Aug. 7 to Sept. 8,opening reception from7-9 p.m.Aug. 9, Gibbs Street Gallery, 155Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200,www.visartsatrockville.org.
Washington Printmakers Gal-
lery, 16th Annual National SmallWorks Exhibition, July 31 to Aug.25, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center,second Floor, 8230 Georgia Ave.,Silver Spring, www.washington-printmakers.com.
Waverly Street, “The Unfold-ing,” Paintings of the people ofBhutan, India and Nepal byMaryEggers, to Aug. 4, 4600 East-WestHighway, Bethesda, 301-951-9441,www.waverlystreetgallery.com.
IN THE ARTS
PHOTO BY ERIK WEISS
Frank Turner will be performing at Fillmore Silver Spring on Thursday as part of the Bud Light Music First 50/50/1nationwide event.
PHOTO BY BRUCE DOUGLAS.
The cast of “Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat” at Adventure Theatre MTC.
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Belgian White beers (calledWitbiers in Flemish and BiereBlanche in French) are a re-freshingandzesty summer treat.White beers have a pleasantsweetness often characterizedwith a tangy orange or lemonfruitiness and notes of honey orvanilla. They are crisp and dryand often have a tartness with
unmalted wheat undertones.White beers are unfiltered
with moderate body and asmooth, light creaminess. De-
spite the creaminess they finishdry and often with a bit of lactictartness. They have an efferves-cent character and a low acidity.The style has a low hop bitter-ness which will suit beer lov-ers who are adverse to the highhop bitterness that is becomingmore prevalent. White beers donot age well and should be con-
sumedwhen fresh.White beers are made with
unmalted wheat, corianderand Curacao (bitter) orangepeel. Some brewers add sweetorange peel and other spicesfor complexity such as chamo-mile, cumin, cinnamon, whitepepper and grains of paradise.These flavors should be subtleand balanced. The unmaltedwheat provides a more grainyand fuller body than Whitebeer’s German wheat beercousins.
These refreshing beers arepale straw to gold in color with adense, palewhiteheadandgoodhead retention from the basewheat.White beers are generallybottle conditioned by addingsome sugar and yeast to the bot-tle prior to capping. This allowsthe beers to further develop butmakes for a cloudy, milky ap-pearance with some sediment.White beers have an alcohol byvolume range of 4.5 to 6.0 per-cent. Recently someWhitebeershave been creatively “imperil-ized” or “doubled” with higherlevels of ingredients, body andalcohol levels of 8 to 10 percentABV.
Witbiers are excellent withsalads and awonderful counter-point to egg dishes and cheeseomelets. They also are greatwithfish, complimenting even themost delicate fish flavors, andsushi, Mexican and Thai foods.Witbiers alsoworkwellwithdes-serts that have lemon, lime ororange flavors.
Belgian’s have been brew-ing witbiers in Hoegaarden(pronounced “who-garten”)east of Brussels since the1500s. By the early 1950sthere were no witbiers beingproduced in Belgium. PierreCelis, a neighbor of the lastwhite beer brewery, whichwas in Hoegaarden, decidedto recreate the style and be-gan brewing in 1966. His DeKluis Brewery popularized thestyle which is now brewed inBelgium, France, Netherlandsand the United States. Celissold his brewery to Interbrew(Now Anheuser Busch-InBev)and moved to Texas where heestablished a new brewery.Another very popular U.S.version is Blue Moon madeby Miller-Coors.
Hoegaarden Witbier (4.9 per-centABV) isbrewedbyAnheuserBusch-InBev at the HoegaardenBrewery in Hoegaarden, Bel-gium. Hoegaarden, which iseffervescent throughout, has abright sweet lemon nose lead-
ing into a light lemon frontwith a hint of wheat, both ofwhich continue in the middle.The lemon ebbs in the veryminimal finish with a slight dulllemon zest in the aftertaste.Ratings: 6.5/6. Note: in the pastHoegaarden Wit has scoredmuch higher.
Allagash White (5.1 per-cent ABV) is made by AllagashBrewing of Portland, Maine.Allagash White has an aromaof bitter lemon and yeast. Theteasing sweet lemon frontsegues in a middle where thelemon is joined by subtle co-riander and light pepper. Thepepper grows in the finish andstill further in the aftertastewhile the lemon fades. Thereis a lingering current of corian-der, pepper and muted lemon.Ratings: 8/7.5.
Blue Moon (5.4 percent ABV)ismadeby theBlueMoonBrew-ing Company, a division of /
Miller-Coors, in Golden, CO.Blue Moon has a bouquet ofcoriander, tartness, and honey.The subdued dry front hastraces of pepper and corianderwhich continue in the middle.The finish brings in a faintsweetness and increased pep-per. The lightly dry aftertastealso displays a touch of orangezest. Ratings: 6/6.
Witte (5.1 percent ABV) isbrewed by Brewery Ommegangin Cooperstown, NY. Witte hasa sweet lemon, coriander, lightpepper and Belgian yeast nosewhich presage a light sweetlemon front. In the middle aslight coriander joins along witha hint of grain and temperedtartness. These continue in thefinish merging with a tinge ofpepper. The moderately dry af-tertaste has a lingering growingpepper flavor with a tart lemonzest. Ratings: 8/8.
White beers satisfy as summer winds down
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Witte (5.1 percentABV) is brewed by
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BYMICHAEL PHILLIPS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“Fruitvale Station” is hugelyeffective meat-and-potatoesmoviemaking, and one hell ofa feature film debut for writer-director Ryan Coogler.
Lean (84minutes), swift andfull of life, Coogler’s picture re-counts a random and needlessdeath, that of 22-year-old OscarGrant, played byMichael B. Jor-dan, a familiar face from “TheWire,” “FridayNight Lights” andthe films “Chronicle” and “RedTails.”
At 2:15 a.m. Jan. 1, 2009, theunarmed victim was shot in thebackby aBayAreaRapidTransitpolicemanonanOakland,Calif.,Fruitvale stationplatform.Therewere witnesses, lots of them,many taking cellphone videos ofthe incident.
ThemoviemakesnosecretofOscar’s fate.Coogler could’ve set-tled for an enraging, full-throttlemelodrama,designedtoboilyourblood frombeginning to end. But“Fruitvale Station” is better,moreheartbreaking, than that.
The script follows a well-worn pattern: We spend ap-proximately 24 hours withOscar before the shooting, ashe skitters from one part of hislife to another. He’s steppingout on his girlfriend, Sophina (asmashingly good and natural-istically attuned Melonie Diaz),but there’s enough glue in theirrelationship, it seems, tomake itstick, and for Oscar to keep their4-year-old daughter Tatiana(Ariana Neal) in the true northposition of his compass.
Oscar’s life in and out ofprison has been a trial for his
mother (Octavia Spencer, note-perfect), whose birthday is Dec.31. In the hours leading up tothe fateful BART ride back fromSan Francisco on New Year’sEve, Oscar spends time with hisdrugdealer associate andswingsby to pick up a cake and someseafood for his grandmother’sgumbo.
“Fruitvale Station” worksbecause Coogler and his lead-ing man present a many-sidedprotagonist, neither saint norunalloyed sinner. He strugglesto find legal work and to keep
it once he’s found it; likewise,and not easily, he juggles his oldhell-raising self with his respon-sibilities as a lover, a father anda son.
When “Fruitvale Station”goeswhereitmustgo,tothattrainplatform (Kevin Durand plays afictionalized version of the tran-sit cop who pulled the trigger),the knot tightens in your gut. Youhope foran impossible resolutionto the scene. You may also findyourself hoping that thefilm itselfdoesn’t blow it — that it doesn’tpush the anguish and outrage
into operatic or phony realms.Coogler does not blow it (thoughthere’s a coda or two too manyin the final 10 minutes). His suc-cesswith thefilmoverall,which is
considerable, lies in his easy waywithextendedtakes,allowing twoormoreactors toactually interactand get a rhythm going. Jordan,Diaz and Spencer, among others,are superb throughout. The filmwas shotquickly, onanextremelymodest budget. The breathless-ness feels right, and true.
“Fruitvale Station” won twomajor awards at last year’s Sun-dance Film Festival and wenton to pick up a prize for its pres-ence in the Un Certain Regardsidebar of the Cannes Film Fes-tival. It remains to be seen what
Coogler can do with differentkinds of stories. But he knowswhere to put a camera, and howlong to hold a shot, and what itmeans to have terrific perform-ers igniting a scene. In the wakeof last year’s Trayvon Martinkilling, and this month’s GeorgeZimmerman trial verdict, themovie carries an added layer ofresonance. But “Fruitvale Sta-tion” didn’t require the killingof another unarmed African-American to make it one of thetruly vital films of 2013.
‘Fruitvale Station’ shows last day of year and life in heartbreaking tale
FRUITVALE STATIONn R; 84 minutes
n Cast: Michael B. Jordan;Octavia Spencer; MelonieDiaz; Kevin Durand
n Directed by Ryan Coogler
MichaelB. Jordanstars in“FruitvaleStation.”PHOTOFROM THEWEINSTEINCOMPANY
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horns — there wasn’t a singlesound.”
Newmyer also gave MickJagger a lot of credit for his songdelivery and stage presence.
“He could do shrieks andhowls that not many peoplecould do, and he has a sense ofphrasing,” he said. “He’s a mes-merizing figure — you couldn’tnot watch and listen to him.”
Singer and actress JuliaNixon said she’s looking forwardto performing “Play with Fire”and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”
Nixon said she can’t guar-antee she’ll do jumping jacks onstage like Jagger, but she’ll putan equal amount of passion intothe song.
“Anybody who knows meandknowshowIsingknows thatI love that raw, rock, in-your-face, hard-driving [sound],” saidNixon, who formerly lived inWashington, D.C., but now livesin North Carolina.
“When I was growing up inthe south in the Bible Belt, rock’n’ roll was something that wasnot permitted,” she said. “[TheStones] were seen as potheadsand forbidden, and I couldn’tsee Jimi Hendrix either.”
After Nixon left home in the1980s, shediscovered theStonesand has seen them on video.
“They’re just free spirits upthere, they all were,” she said.“Their energy level was unbe-lievable.”
LauraTsaggaris,who lives in
Washington, D.C., said she willbe singing a verse of “Sympathyfor the Devil” along with otherperformers and also singingtwo songs on her own — “Let’sSpend the Night” and “She’s aRainbow.”
“‘Let’s Spend the Night’is one of those iconic songs,”she said. “I remember hearingabout them singing it on the EdSullivan show,when they had tochange the words.”
Tsaggaris said she hadn’theard of “She’s a Rainbow” be-fore, and welcomes the chanceto learn and perform it for theconcert
“It’s really an interest-ing, quirky song,” said Tsag-garis, adding that the tribute is“pretty cool,” because both the
artists and the audience dis-cover something new about theStones from hearing some oftheir lesser-known songs.
Country rock singer ScottKurt, who lives in Arlington, Va.,said he learned about the Stonesin the 1980s whenMTV first tookoff.
“They embraced it withsongs like ‘Start Me Up’ and‘Waiting on a Friend,’ whichwere in constant rotation whenI was a kid,” he said.
Kurt said he will be the leadsinger in an acoustic arrange-ment of “Factory Girl,” and hewill also be singing “Happy,”one of his favorites becauseKeith Richards, who wrote mostof it, also sang it on the band’s“Exile onMain Street” album.
“It was high-energy musi-cianship and effortless cool,”said Kurt about the legendaryStones. “I think it was the waytheymoved.”
All three performers saidthey enjoy the chance to singand play with other people inthe tribute concerts, which areknown for Newmyer’s practiceof throwing two or three per-
formers together, giving them alittle time to rehearse with eachother and seeing what happens.
“It’s like flash perfor-mances,” Nixon said. “You just
go out there and turn it on androll. That’s the magic of Band-House.”
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PHOTO BY HEATHER LATIRI
The cast of Olney Theatre Center’s production of “A Chorus Line,” running Aug. 1 to Sept. 1.
“You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.”Nachamie said it was a production of“A Chorus Line” he saw at age 13 thatsolidified his desire to get into theater.
“It’s almost like seeing everyone’scollective experience on stage thatlet me see this is something that canbe pursued,” Nachamie said. “I saw abunch of people on stage doing whatI [wanted] to do professionally ... I re-member a little part of me thinking, ‘Ican do that.’”
Nachamie was later cast in a pro-duction of “A Chorus Line” at 18 and,in 1993,worked as an associate director
on the show’s national tour.Though this isn’t the largest pro-
duction Nachamie’s ever staged —he’s directed productions of “Oliver”and “The Music Man,” both featuringlarger casts — he said there are stillchallenges in tackling such a large-scale musical.
“I think the challenges are makingsure everyone is invested all of the timeand everyone is invested in the situa-tion,” Nachamie said.
“Most of the show, we’re all onstage,” added actor Kyle Schliefer, whoplays the role of Mike. “You really haveto know every number you’re hitting... or else you’ll whack someone in theface.”
While “Chorus Line’s” choreogra-
phy is certainly part of the show’s ap-peal,Nachamie saidhewanted to focushis attention on another aspect of themusical: its text.
After its Broadway premiere in Julyof 1975, “A Chorus Line” was nomi-nated for 12 Tony Awards, ultimatelywinning nine. But according to Na-chamie, what many people don’t knowis that the musical also won the 1976Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
“The reason it won the Pulitzer wasbecause nothing had ever been talkedabout in such a frank manner before,”Nachamie said. “Every story that wastold in this show, it was the first timetelling it ... it was really the start of the‘me’ generation.”
Despite his history with the show,
Nachamie said therewere still things inthe script that surprised him this timearound.
“I’ve been away from the show10 or 11 years and when we first wentthrough the text, I read things differ-ently,” Nachamie said. “Usually with‘A Chorus Line,’ you don’t get into thetext and why it’s there ... but I’ve had alot of time to do one-on-one work withthe actors and exploration of the char-acters.”
Nachamie added that he’s tried toremain absolutely truthful to the origi-nal text, most of which was derivedfrom question-and-answer sessionswith young actors and dancers onBroadway.
“There’s a speech pattern, there’s a
truth and if you try to change it, you’reall of the sudden not in that time pe-riod,” Nachamie said.
Though the “Chorus Line” scriptmay be true to the timeperiod inwhichit was written, the Olney cast said themusical’s stories are timeless.
“There are struggles that they wentthrough in the 1970s that we’re goingthrough now,” Cordiner said. “That’swhat adancer goes through, that’swhata dancer’s life is like.”
“I can play myself in kind of aroundaboutway,” added Bryan Knowl-ton, who plays Paul. “Most of my lifestory is found within Paul. When youidentify with someone, it inspires you.”
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person and connected withthem,” Hancock said. “And that’sbecome something I’ve donewitheach show. It says, ‘I see you, I ac-knowledge you, thank you for be-ing here.’”
For the past four months,Hancock has traveled to seniorliving communities in Montgom-ery County as Seniorita Sunshine,performing a cabaret-style act,featuring songs from the 1930sthrough 1960s, for residents.
A Silver Spring native, Han-cock said she’s always loved toperform.
“The very beginning wascamp,” Hancock said. “I was 9 orsomething; I believe we did ‘Pip-pin.’ And then I performed inhighschool, I was in all the shows. I didsome Montgomery College Din-ner Theatre.”
But after graduating from theUniversity of Maryland, Hancockmade the decision not to pursue acareer in the arts.
“Some people said, if there’sabsolutely nothing else you coulddo or want to do, then you go forit and take the direct line to per-forming, to showbiz,” she said.“I’mblessed that I candodifferentthings ... I was like, ‘Well, I like todo this, and I like advertising andmarketing and that’s what I didafter college.”
Though shewasn’t on stage for
a living, Hancock said she neverabandoned her love of performing.In 1993, after moving to Hawaii,she rediscovered the arts. Over thenext five years, Hancock did every-thing from community theater, toimprov, to commercials and evenlanded a spot as an extra in a scenefrom“BeverlyHills 90210.”
While still living in Hawaii,Hancock subscribed toBackstage,a magazine for people in the per-forming arts industry.
“When I was in Hawaii, Istarted getting Backstage, order-ing it from New York,” Hancocksaid. “And that was the end of it;it was like, that’s where you needto be.”
Hancockmade thedecision tomove to New York where she gotinto stand-up comedy and devel-opedherownmusical-improvact.
“I kind of did comedy andthen my own brand of musicalcomedy,” Hancock said.
She studied at the New Ac-tors Workshop for one summerand said she did what all aspiringperformers in New York do: “Youperform for love, not money,”Hancock said. “But you get yourchops.”
To earn a living, Hancock gotinto the professional organizingbusiness.
“Iwashelpingpeople and I gotinto the relocation and the down-sizing,” she said.
After moving back to Mary-land in 2005 and working for
herself for a few years, Hancockbegan looking formoving compa-nies in need of her services.
“When Imovedhome, I founda company that focused on mov-ing seniors,” she said. “It wasn’treally a conscious decision.”
While Hancock said the deci-sion was not a conscious one, itdid turn out to be her introduc-tion to the senior community. In2009,Hancock startedworking forTransitional Assistance & Design,helping seniors downsize fromtheir homes into assisted living orindependent living communities.
“I moved them from theirhomes of many years, helpingthem shed their stuff and fit intoa senior living community,” Han-cock said. “That was away to con-nect with people one-on-one.They’re making the decisions,you’re not telling them what tothrow away. It was all about reallyempowering the client; itwas theirchoice.”
The professional organizingeventually led Hancock to a salesjob at Sunrise, a company thatruns several senior living commu-nities, including BedfordCourt, inthe area.
But Hancock said she foundherself gravitating toward the ac-tivities roomwhenever she was atwork, and soon, the urge to per-form again started to creep in.
“I met other performers atSunrise who inspired me, whotaughtme ... it’s about connecting
with an audience,” Hancock said.Now working full time as Se-
niorita Sunshine, Hancock said sheapplies the same philosophy to heract that she did to her professionalorganizing: empower the client.
“The opportunity to havesomeone interested and givingthem attention ... that’s huge,”Hancock said.
Hancock said she’s also wit-nessed the incredible power hermusic has.
“I saw firsthand, for themem-ory impaired, how incredibly ben-eficial and therapeutic music is,”she said. “How somebody whomight have difficulty expressingthemselves verbally, once songsare turned on, show tunes orthose standards ... they know allthe words ... They’re enlivened, aswitch goes on and I wanted to bea part of that.”
Looking ahead, Hancock saidshe hopes to take her SenioritaSunshine act to private events in-cluding anniversary parties andmilestone birthdays. Wherevershe performs, she said she’s de-termined to spread her musicalmessage.
“Sunshiny and happy, that’smy message,” she said. “I want toalways stick with that.”
For more information on Se-niorita Sunshine, visit her website,www.senioritasunshine.com.
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Seniorita Sunshine (Andrea Hancock) performs for residents atBedford Court Retirement and Assisted Living facility.
ROLLING STONESTRIBUTEn When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday
n Where: The Fillmore, 8656Colesville Road, Silver Spring
n Tickets: $20 standing; $25reservations (Eight-ticket limitper household)
n For information: 301-960-9999; fillmoresilverspring.com; bandhousegigs.com.
PHOTO FROM DAVID KITCHEN
Guitarist David Kitchen is one of 55 performers in the BandHouse Gigstribute to the Rolling Stones on Saturday at The Fillmore Silver Spring.
PHOTOS FROM BANDHOUSE GIGS
Vocalist Julia Nixon will perform“Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “Play withFire” at BandHouse Gigs’ tributeconcert to the Rolling Stones.
Guitarist and singer Laura Tsaggaris (left, front) will be performing “Let’sSpend the Night” and “She’s a Rainbow” at BandHouse Gigs’ tribute concertto the Rolling Stones on Saturday at The Fillmore Silver Spring.
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BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Every time Hugh Jackman’sup there on screen, dining outon the rage stew that is theWol-verine, I think back to his TonyAward-winning performanceas entertainer Peter Allen in“The Boy from Oz.” It was aterrible musical but a wonder-ful Broadway turn, flamboyantexuberance personified. Eachstrand of this performer’s DNAis about giving the audience agreat time. He’s a strutter, andin “The Wolverine,” Jackman’ssixth and most dominant ap-pearance as the Marvel Comicscharacter, the immortalmutton-chopped loner looks as if he hasbeen spending all his time up inthe Canadian wilderness with a
personal trainer, waiting for hisclose-up.
Logan/Wolverine is notthe only mutant in “The Wol-verine” — Svetlana Khodchen-kova slinks around as Viper,with her flicking tongue ofdeath — but the film is largelyquasi-human, and it burrowsinto its own tunnel, a long wayfrom the previous “X-Men”pictures, which always riskovercrowding.
This time Logan returns to
Japan at the behest of a myste-rious red-haired woman (RilaFukushima). Decades earlier,Logan survived the atomicbombing of Nagasaki while sav-ing the life of Japanese soldierShingen Yashida (played byHiroyuki Sanada). The soldierbecame a powerful and corruptindustrialist. On his deathbed,the dying man is looking to hisold savior for one last favor. Butthe Japanese gangsters knownas yakuza intrude, and Loganhas sworn to protect Yashida’sdaughter, Mariko (Tao Oka-moto), and there’s your plot,distilled from the four-part 1982Marvel saga written by ChrisClaremont and penciled byFrankMiller.
The screenwriter Christo-pher McQuarrie concocted the
adaptation of “The Wolverine”that got this project going. Re-writes ensuedbyMarkBombackand Scott Frank; James Man-gold took it before the camerasin Australia and Japan. The re-sults are quite good— the sameold angst and grandiosity writsmaller than usual, and betterfor it.
The X-Men crew’s inter-sections with real-life wartimehorrors have long been sign-posts of the serious aspirationsof the material. Watching “TheWolverine,” one may resist theleveling and seared flesh of theatomic bombing of Nagasaki asfodder for another superheropicture. But Mangold handlesit well: “The Wolverine” keeps
its characters front and center,and only near the end does itturn into a routine, grindingaction movie. Along the waythere’s a swell battle atop aspeeding bullet train, the film’shighlight. Also we get the occa-sional lyric interlude betweenLogan and the dream/memoryof the woman he loved and lost(Famke Janssen), the source ofall his undying grief.
The last couple of Wol-verine movies provided theirshare of undying grief as well,the wrong kind, the mediocremovie kind. “The Wolverine”won’t change anybody’s mindabout the character, or aboutwhat Jackman can do withit. It’s simply a more focused
scenario than usual, full ofviolence done up with a littlemore coherence and visceralimpact than usual. Mangolddoesn’t bring tons of personal-ity to “The Wolverine,” but hedoes bring a reasonable andhonorable sense of craft, trad-ing in iconography borrowedfrom Westerns and Easternsand all sorts of movies. MarcoBeltrami’s musical score like-wise carries echoes of previousmovie themes, but it’s evoca-tive and lower-keyed than theusual Marvel bash. Who needsthundering music when youhave Jackman glowering andraging and doing everythingexcept tap dancing with thoseretractable claws?
THE WOLVERINEn 3 stars
n PG-13; 126 minutes
n Cast: Hugh Jackman
n Directed by James Mangold
AT THE MOVIES
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Logan’s (Hugh Jackman) adamantium claws are more than a match for ninja steel.
In ‘The Wolverine,’ Jackman is a mutant who plays to balconiesLogan(HughJackman)fights hisgreatestbattle in“The Wol-verine.”PHOTOBY BENROTHSTEIN
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Ryan Reynolds stars as former rising-star detective Nick Walker in the 3D supernatural action-adventure“R.I.P.D.” In the film, Jeff Bridges and Reynolds play two cops dispatched by the otherworldly Rest In PeaceDepartment to protect and serve the living from an increasingly destructive array of creatures who refuse tomove peacefully into the afterlife.
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n McMann became the firstAmerican woman to earn an Olympicsilver medal in freestyle wrestling
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFFWRITER
Most Olympic-level or professional ath-letes spend a lifetime perfecting one craft.That’s what Silver Spring native Sara Mc-
Mann spent the better part of 15 years doing.And at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece,she became the first American woman in his-tory to earn a silver medal in Olympic wres-tling. Other accomplishments in a storiedfreestylewrestling career includewinning goldmedals at the 2003 and 2007 Pan-Americangames and top three finishes at the 2003, 2005and 2007world championships.These days, however, the now South Car-
olina-basedMcMann has immersed herself inbecoming proficient in a multitude of sportssimultaneously. Such is the life of a mixedmartial artist.Mixed martial arts is a combat sport that
uses a variety of fighting techniques, includinggrappling, striking andkicking.McMann is theworld’s fourth-rankedUltimate Fighting
Silver Springnative is risingUFC star
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Silver Spring native Sara McMann celebrates defeat-ing Sheila Gaff by knockout on April 27 in the firstround of their women’s bantamweight bout duringUFC 159 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
n Bulldogs plan to have MalikHarris, Blake Dove split carries
again this season
BY COLIN STEVENSSTAFFWRITER
When it comes to crunching,bone-jarring hits, Winston ChurchillHigh School running backs BlakeDoveandMalikHarriswon’tshyaway.“Malik, he’s a power back. He’ll runyou right over,” said Dove, a risingjunior. “At the same time, I’ll give youcontact and I give you speed.Weboth
know the position really well. We’veplayed football together since wewere young.”Barring ending up at the same
college, thiswillmost likely beDove’sandHarris’s last season together, andtheyplan tomake itmemorable.Withmost of their offensive line returning,the two running backs expect to beone of the top rushing attacks in thearea this fall.Harris, a rising senior, returns as
Churchill’s top rusher after gaining900 yards and scoring eight touch
Churchill runningbacks ready for contact
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Winston Churchill High School running back Malik Harris rushed for 900yards with a 6.2 yard per carry average. The rising senior returns this fall.
n For second straight year, topplayer transfers to another school
BYDAN FELDMANSTAFFWRITER
Seneca Valley High School quarter-back Calvin Reighard suffered through acouple dreary days earlier this summer.Kevin Joppy, one of Montgomery
County’s top returning offensive play-ers, had just texted his plansof transferring to QuinceOrchard High School toReighard.Joppy, whose transfer was
confirmed by Quince Orchardcoach Dave Mencarini, is the secondplayer in the past two years to leave Sen-eca Valley with eligibility remaining afteran All-Gazette first team season. Line-backer Blake Dove transferred to Win-ston Churchill High School last year.Reighard said he sees those as iso-
lated cases, though, and not a reflectionon Seneca Valley.“It’s definitely bothersome, and
definitely you worry about it,”Reighard said, “Butwe know thatwe’re happy at Seneca Valley,and it’s a great program —the greatest in Maryland —andwe’re happy to be hereand don’t want to leave.”By the end of Seneca
Valley’s first workout afterJoppy shared his decision,Reighard was reassuredhis team is still on astraight course.“There’s a lot of the
young guys that wereworried like, ‘What arewe going to do now?’ andall that stuff,” Reighardsaid. “But the team cametogether and followed be-hind its senior leaders, andit’s gonewell so far.”Reighard cited himself, Austen
Herbert, Daniel Appouh, Edward Max-well, Korey Platt and Chris Platt amongthe players who spoke up. The message:“We’ll be fine.”Then, they set out to prove it in the
workout.“It was definitely emotional and hard
without him,” Reighard said of Joppy.“Andwe respondedwell, so it was great. Ifeel like we benefited from themove andbecamemore of a closer team.”
Seneca football looks to futureafter losing star receiver
Seneca Valley High School’s Kevin Joppy (left) told teammateshe was transferring to Quince Orchard this year. It’s the secondstraight season the Screaming Eagles have had a star playerleave to go to another school.
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n Competition is on after injury pushedbackup into starting role last season
BY COLIN STEVENSSTAFFWRITER
In the weight room, the classroom or dur-ing position drills, Neiman Blain and JulianGranby aren’t very far from each other.It’s unavoidable. A year after both received
starting time at quarterback, they’re bothbackand ready to take the spot.And coming off a losing season, it gives
coach Adam Bahr solace knowing he has twoplayers with experience at themost importantposition.“It’s comforting, although theybothhave a
lot of work to do,” Bahr said.Blain, a rising junior, won the starting job
last summer, and Bahr said he has the edgeheading into training camp.But Blain’s sophomore season was cut
short. After starting the season 3-3 andplayingbanged upmost of the time, he suffered a bro-ken leg in a Week 7 loss to Sherwood, endinghis season prematurely. After a scramble to-ward the sideline in which he was pushed outof bounds,Neiman saidhe felt his legbend thewrongway, and knew right away it was bad.“I tried to get up and took one step and
couldn’t walk,” he said. “I just fell to theground.”
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Springbrook High School football player Julian Granby participates in Thursday’s off-season workouts at the SilverSpring school.
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Springbrook High School football player Neiman Blain participates inThursday’s off-season workouts at the Silver Spring school.
Championship fighter.“It can be overwhelming.
There are so many techniques,so many ways to use the rulesfor your body type. Multiplythat by five [martial arts dis-ciplines] and every place youget there are 12 possible waysyou can go. It’s about findingthe best pathways for you,”McMann said. “It’s hard to beproficient [in a number of dis-ciplines]. It would be differentif I grew up doing MMA, if Inever did one individual sport.You can see it, if you grow updoing MMA, you’re used to
being good at three differentsports.”
But that challenge couldalso be McMann’s favorite partof this second competitive ca-reer, she said.
In 2008 McMann retiredfrom freestyle wrestling. Some-where between the toll the gru-eling sport had taken on hermind and body and the USAWrestling “office politics,” Mc-Mann had lost the love she oncehad for the sport.
Within a year — she waspregnant with daughter Bellaat the time — she realized shewasn’t done competing. Jiu-Jitsu seemed like the logicalroute — it is rooted in grapplingand ground fighting. But once
McMann was introduced tostriking, she was hooked.
Within two months of theApril 2009 birth of her daughterwith partner Trent Goodale, thehead wrestling coach at Lime-stone College in South Carolina,McMann was back to elite leveltraining.
“A new start was a reallyexciting thing but there is alsothis humbling aspect. You workso hard to become such a highlevel athlete in a certain sportand then to start from scratchagain, from the basics, it washours and hours of endlessdrilling just to become profi-cient at the basic skills,” Mc-Mann said.
Two years after entering
the world of mixed martial arts,McMann, competing in wom-en’s bantamweight, is 7-0. Shewon her UFC debut in April byknocking out German SheilaGaff in the first round of theirbout.
On Aug. 28 at the secondUFC on FOX Sports1 event inIndianapolis, McMann said shewill face perhaps her toughesttest in former Strikeforce cham-pion Sarah Kaufman.
McMann’s wrestling back-ground was a good platform tobuild on, she said. Her athleti-cism and familiarity with com-bative competition has helpedbridge the gap as she continuesto become more familiar withthe intricacies of mixed martial
arts.McMann had reached a
point in her wrestling careerwhere everything was instinc-tual. Things are becoming morenatural in the cage but the factthat she still has a lot to learn,McMann said, is exciting.
“If I get to the point whereI can’t keep learning and grow-ing and it doesn’t offer as much,then I’ll get bored. It’ll be comeless exciting and I won’t wantto do it,” McMann said. “[TheOlympics] seems like a differ-ent life. For so long I had justbeen completely engrossed inthe wrestling world. I’m in a dif-ferent world now.”
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Seneca Valley coach FredKim reinforced his players’ mes-sage.
“We treat it like if it was a se-nior graduating,” Kim said. “Welose players every year. We losegreat players every year from
graduationorwhateverotherrea-sons. We just get the next guy inandcoachhimupandjustgoandjust move on. We can’t worry toomuch about those things.”
Kim said, as society hasbecome more socially toler-ant regarding diversity issuesand since his players have beenraised in that environment,it has trickled down to them
becoming more accepting ofsmaller issues — such as some-one deciding to transfer.
“The way you put it as over-coming a serious blow, I don’tthink our kids look at it thatway,” Kim said. “Again, the kidshave just been focusing on whatthey need to do to succeed. It’sjust kind of, ‘OK, it happened,but we’re rolling. Good luck. We
still respect you. We still loveyou.’ It’s no big deal. We’re justgoing to keep on rolling.’”
Kim said Maxwell, whoplayed outside linebacker anddefensive end last season, vol-unteered to play receiver andKorey Platt played impressivelyat receiver as well. They’reamong eight players vying toreplace Joppy, who ran for 514
yards and caught 24 passes for316 yards for nine touchdownslast season.
“He’s a great player, andwe’re going to miss him,”Reighard said.
But Reighard and Kim agreethat replacing Joppy’s produc-tion takes a back seat.
“I’m not worried about thefact that I’m losing a great foot-
ball player, because Seneca hasalways had great football players.They come and go, and they getreplaced, and you have new onesthatcomestepin,”Kimsaid.“Theonly thing that the Seneca Valleyfamily is sadaboutwith Joppygo-ing is that we lose a great kid. Welose a great human being.”
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downs on 144 carries (6.2average) last year. Dove wasthe Bulldogs’ third-leadingrusher with 265 yards andthree touchdowns on 65 car-ries.
Coach Joe Allen said theyare different runners whoplay toeachother’s strengths.Harris is all lower body, withthe ability to move a pile onhis own and bully opposingdefenders. Dove’s strengthis his straight-line speed andupper body strength.
“When I have options likethat, it’s certainly somethingwe appreciate and utilize,”Allen said. “We’re going toconcentrate on using thoseguys to the best of their abili-ties and do even more of thatthis year.”
Dove said they aren’tworried about splitting car-ries and said it will benefitboth runners at the end ofthe season. Both players willalso start at linebacker, so thetime to rest during offensivesnaps will be critical.
“We know how to sharethe ball and not be too cockywith it,” Dove said. “I think itshould really help. We bothget tired going both ways, so[splitting carries] is good.”
Allen expects Ali Ka-zemipour and Alec McGeeto anchor the line, and heis excited to see what risingsophomore Reiley Bartinewill be able to do after miss-ing most of last season with aconcussion.
“We’ll be able to poundthe football and throw thefootball as well,” Allen said.“We strive to be balanced,but we have to take time torun the football.”
Dove thinks his com-bining with Harris will helpChurchill, which won the 4ASouth Division title last year,return to the playoffs.
“We’re the dream team,”Dove said. “We both knowwhat we need to do and whatit takes. We know what weneed to do when we need topush ourselves to the limit.”
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Blain said he could have come backfor the end of the season if it was neces-sary, but Bahr made the decision to shuthim down, with two more years of foot-ball to look forward to.
Blain said he is 100 percent healthyheading into training camp, and has been
working on his arm strength and slowingthe game down for him mentally.
“He’s a natural quarterback,” Bahrsaid. “He’s really starting to get the con-fidence of his teammates and is takingcharge in the huddle.”
Blain’s injury left the door open forGranby for the final three games of theseason.
At 6-foot-5, 209 pounds, Granby is atowering presence in the pocket. He said
he’s worked on speeding up his throw-ing motion this offseason, and gainingan overall better understanding of theoffense.
“The job is open for both of us, butwe’re more worried about getting ourprogram to where it needs to be for thisfall,” said Granby, who also is working attight end. “Me and Neiman are just work-ing together to get better at the positionand lead our team down the right path.”
While both players want to be the guyunder center for the opening game, bothsee the bigger picture and will do whatthe team needs them to do, whether it’sthrowing the ball or contributing in otherways, they said.
“Anywhere the coaches put me, I’lltake that job and do my job in that role,”Granby said.
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KEEPING IT BRIEFLedecky wins gold atWorld ChampionshipsStone Ridge School of the
Sacred Heart rising junior KatieLedecky picked a good time tobreak out of her 400-meter free-style rut.
The 2012 Olympic goldmedalist in the 800-meter free-style, Ledecky posted a personalbest and American record timeof 3 minutes, 59.82 seconds enroute to winning a gold medal inthe 400-meter freestyle Sundayon the opening day of the 2013
FINA World Championships inBarcelona, Spain.
Ledecky finished nearlythree seconds ahead of Spain’sMelanie Costa Schmid in sec-ond place.
“I’m still in shock over thetime. I’d been stuck at 4:04 fora while so I was due for a bit ofa drop. I guess this shows whathappens when you get into arace with the best. It was anhonor to be in a heat with thosegirls,” Ledecky said.
As of Monday Ledeckystill had three more events to
contest: 800-meter freestyle,1,500-meter freestyle, 800-meterfreestyle relay.
“The U.S. has such a great tra-dition of distance swimmers, I’mjust trying to do my best to live upto that,” Ledecky said.
— JENNIFER BEEKMAN
Good Counsel runningback picks among
five offersOur Lady of Good Counsel
High School running back Leo
Ekwoge has committed to West-ern Michigan University aftervisiting the school this weekend,he said.
The rising senior alsoclaimed offers from Old Domin-ion, Miami (Ohio), Ohio andToledo.
As Good Counsel’s backuprunning back and a part-timereceiver last season, Ekwogeran for 496 yards and 13 touch-downs on 91 carries and caughtthree passes for 57 yards.
Ekwoge is slated to start atrunning back this season.
“He’s a wonderful youngman, and he’s a talented player,”Good Counsel coach Bob Milloysaid.
— DAN FELDMAN
Shaw tacks on anothertitle at Junior Olympics
A little more than twomonths removed from add-ing two more state titles to herdecorated track and field ca-reer, Thomas S. Wootton HighSchool graduate Gwen Shawwas back at it again on Sunday
in North Carolina. Shaw, a risingfreshman at the University ofLouisville running the summercircuit with Glenarden TrackClub, helped lead the 400 relayteam (45.24 seconds) to a JuniorOlympic Championship, hostedby North Carolina A&T, and the1,600 relay team to a silver medal(3 minutes, 39.32 seconds).
Shaw did not run on Woot-ton’s 400 relay team this past sea-son, though she did anchor thePatriots’ 1,600 relay that took sec-ond at the Maryland state meet.
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n No-hitter, outstandinghitter help Post 171 earnsecond place at state
tournament
BY NICK CAMMAROTASTAFF WRITER
In the seventh inning of Da-mascus Post 171’s AmericanLegion state tournament gameagainst Fort Cumberland Post13, Post 171’s catcher Colin Mc-Mahon experienced a suddenrealization. After catching sixstrong innings from Damascusright-hander Grant Pascoe, hewent out for the seventh and saidit dawned on him.
“Honestly, I didn’t even thinkabout it or realize it until one outin the seventh inning,” said Mc-Mahon, a Sherwood High Schoolgraduate. “I startedtothinkaboutall the innings and how the onlypeople who reached base against[Pascoe] were on walks. Then Iwas like, ‘Oh no, I really hope thisguy doesn’t get a hit.’”
He didn’t. Nor did anyone forFort Cumberland in the open-ing game of the Maryland statetournament as Our Lady of GoodCounsel graduate Grant Pascoespun a no-hit, 11-strikeout gemin a 10-0 win. The game stands asa defining memory in an overallsuccessful tournament for Da-mascus (31-7) — the Montgom-ery County Legion champions— as Post 171 finished in secondplace, two wins shy of a state title.Coach Tommy Davis’ club lostboth of their games in the doubleeliminationtournament toFunk-stown, 4-0 and 6-2.
“The pitching was just out-standing and the whole teamdid what they were asked to do,”Davis said. “We hit the ball well,played very good defense andreceived an awful lot of compli-ments up here. It was a very suc-cessful week for Damascus 171
baseball-wise as well as repre-senting the Legion.”
It’s understandable if notmany people realized what Pas-coe was in the process of ac-complishing on Wednesday.The game started at 7:30 p.m.on Tuesday and didn’t end untilroughly 11:30 on the next morn-ing.AndwhilePascoedidn’tpitchthroughthesunrise,comingbacktofinishhisno-hitbid—ofwhichhe threw two scoreless frames onTuesday — the following morn-ing is still quite impressive.
“It was the first one I hadand it came at a good time,” saidPascoe, who plans to attend theUniversity of North Carolina-Charlotte this fall. “The team wasgreat. There was perfect defensebehind me. All my pitches wereworking, which felt nice. Nobodyreally talked to me much.”
Outfielders Emory McMinnand Alex Salem had the realiza-tion that a no-hitter was possiblein about the fifth inning or so,which led to Pascoe becominga very lonely man in the dugout.At least he had the sight lines ofCumberland’s ballpark-envelop-ing green hills to ease his mind.That and the defense of Salem,a graduate of Damascus HighSchool, in center field.
“Alex was a stud the entireweek incenterfield,”Pascoesaid.“He saved everybody with whathe did out there. Tracking balls,going all out. Him and [short-stop] Casey Bulik were absolutelyamazing.”
Pascoe, who walked two bat-ters in the game, said his curve-ball was particularly effectiveon both nights as the final outWednesday morning came ona roller to Dan Johnson at thirdbase. The game was shortenedto seven innings because of the10-run mercy rule and Pascoefinished with 99 pitches.
“I’ve never been part of ano-hitter before,” Salem said.“That was pretty special. After thegame, we were joking with himthat he was a celebrity aroundtown and calling him ‘no-hitter.’”
Aside from the games againstFunkstown (eventual tourna-ment MVP Colby Johnson hit asolo homer in the sixth inning ofthe championship game to pro-vide the title-winning run) Post171’s offense was solid through-out. Damascus finished the tour-nament with a 3-2 record andMcMinn was named the week’sMost Outstanding Hitter.
Damascus falls short of Legion title
n MPSSAA working to improvehigh school sports officiating
BY JACOB BOGAGESPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
In 29 years as an NCAA Division Ibasketball official, Donnee Gray refer-eed “the big boys,” he said. The Atlan-tic Coast Conference, Big East, Big 12,Conference USA, and the list goes on.But he cuts it off there to save time.
“Anyway,” he said, “in all thoseyears, I’ve only been interviewed once.So now, what can I tell you?”
Gray took over as the MarylandPublic Secondary Schools Athletic As-sociation officials coordinator last year.He can fill in the gaps on the quality ofofficiating around the state. He per-sonally hand-picks officials for statetournament games. He helps delegatewhat referee associations manage whatgames in nearly every jurisdiction.
Gray is the soft-spoken and even-keeled boss whose job it is to dwell ina world built on a second level of ob-jectivity. If game officials often are de-nounced, imagine what the state’s chiefofficial must hear.
“We are the gatekeepers of thegame,” he said in his first interviewyears ago. He repeats the same senti-ment now. “We are beyond reproach.”
A numbers gameReproach is one thing that keeps
potential officials away from the fieldor court, said Bill Harvey, CEO of theWashington Area Lacrosse Officials As-sociation.
New referees usually start theirtraining in youth sports, which has be-come more highly charged and com-petitive. Fresh recruits sometimes shyaway from the assertiveness necessaryto wrangle with fired-up coaches andparents.
“Most of the people who get into itfind out quickly officiating is for me oris not for me,” Harvey said.
WALOA has devised a feeder systemto expand its 500-person membershipto keep up with demand as the sportgains popularity. The group started aprogram to enlist high school lacrosseplayers to officiate youth games. Sev-eral years ago USA Lacrosse, the sport’snational governing body, picked up theinitiative nationwide.
“We feel right now for the first time,we’ve stabilized,” he said. “We groom’em, we grow ’em and we train ’em.Consider the high school player. He’smaking $40 an hour for a game. I don’tknow any entry-level job who’s going tomake more than $12 an hour.”
State lacrosse committee direc-tor Ken Zorbach said many jurisdic-tions purposefully stagger their games,
though — to avoid conflicts with recre-ational or youth leagues, to keep fieldspace available, and to be sure officialsare not busy.
Washington District Football Of-ficials Association Commissioner AlFerraro said the WDFOA completelystopped taking youth league gamesyears ago to avoid the inevitable: nothaving enough members to staff everygame.
“You’d like to get to all the gamesyou can,” Ferraro said. “You’d have bet-ter service for the schools and the com-munity. There’s plenty of area to grow,but not enough people.”
The association’s 295 memberscover varsity and junior varsity footballin seven jurisdictions in Maryland, Vir-ginia and the District.
Ferraro assigns officials to regular-season games and sends recommenda-tions to Gray to assemble crews for theplayoffs. Like many assigners, he tries tofind a balance between putting his bestofficials at every “big game” or ensur-ing referees avoid seeing the same team
multiple times.“If last year Rockville was playing
Kennedy and Quince Orchard was play-ing Damascus, what would you do?” hesaid. There are about two “big games”each week, Ferraro said, that requirethe best crews, but he does his best toassure quality all around the region. “Inever leave a game without what I call a‘number 1 official.’”
Evaluating objectivityFerraro, a man whose job it is to
evaluate those who keep the peace, isblunt.
“Officials are like crabs,” he said.“There’s number 1’s, number 2’s andthere’s shucks.”
Becoming an official means recog-nizing you are flawed, a thought drilledinto your head during training. Learnto work as a team, lesson plans dictate.Let your crew members make the callif you don’t have a good angle. Admityour mistakes and crack down on them.Communicate with coaches and play-
ers. Embrace critiques when you areevaluated.
“Punish the first foul and legislatethe game,” Gray tells officials beforestate tournament matches.
Each year, Gray and each sport’sstate committee director send a posseof evaluators to observe referees in lineto manage playoff games. They returnwith an up or down vote on the offi-cial’s readiness for the big stage withjudgments based on ability, mechanicsand communication. Not everyone fitsthe mold.
Gray said in recent years fewerolder, perhaps more experienced, offi-cials are taking those spots. People withthat much experience may not be inthe best physical shape, he said, whereyounger officials, who have put in thework and are better able to deal with thephysical demands of the job, deserve ashot.
“You want to leave when you areperceived to be at the top of yourgame,” Gray said. It’s the reason he re-tired from officiating NCAA games. “It’s
hard to get people to understand thatuntil it’s a bit too late.”
Chris Sole, secretary of the Mary-land Basketball Officials Association,agrees. Sole, 60, said he blocks out timeto exercise several days a week so hisphysical fitness will not impact his callscome basketball season.
“We get a lot of people who areolder and think that now’s the time tostart reffing,” he said. “Well that’s notthe case. You still have to be able to run.
“When you say officials, we havepeople who are wannabes,” Sole said.“Some people can go work the youthleagues, but not high school. Numbersaside, we need more officials, not justbodies.”
Gray encourages officials associa-tions to diversify age when assemblingcrews. For a football crew, for example,maybe the referee is a veteran, but theback judge is a bit more green.
“The smartest thing you can do isblend the two,” Gray said. “What youcan do is the guy that’s been out therefor a long time, he’s the teaching of-ficial. It’s more than just blowing thewhistle.
“You put experience with youthwho deserve to be there.”
‘We’ve been pretty good’Gray said the state of Maryland’s
officials is strong, but can improve.Numbers-wise, he says, the bases arecovered. Performance-wise, there re-mains a desire to call games fair andclean.
“We’re no better than doctors orlawyers or police officers,” Gray said.“Some of us are better than others, butwe’ve been pretty good.”
Yes, he gets negative feedback, hesaid, but it’s nothing unusual. By andlarge, coaches and athletic directorsare satisfied with performance. At eachpost-term meeting, he said, he’s neverhad a committee member scrutinizereferee performance.
Longtime coach and now AlleganyHigh School principal Mike Calhounsaid rules enforcement and overall of-ficiating has improved greatly in recentyears. The state’s football delegate tothe National Federation of High SchoolSports said officials have done an excel-lent job regarding player safety and inmoving the game along. But there stillis one call that drives Calhoun up a wall.
“I hate the holding call,” he said.“There’s holding that happens on everyplay.”
But his opinion doesn’t matter any-more, he said with a sigh.
“Like I used to tell my players, onceyou kick the football, the refs are incharge. A good official is priceless.”
State says it wants better, not necessarily more, officials
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Damascus High School’s Emory McMinn tries to make a play during a gameagainst Gov. Thomas Johnson. McMinn was named the outstanding hitter atthis weekend’s American Legion state tournament.
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Washington District Football Officials Association (WDFOA) trainer Pat Kepp leads a session Monday for officials at Georgetown Prep.
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n Hilary Moore Hebertearns U.S. Dressage
Federation silver medalafter paralysis scare
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFFWRITER
It was a freak accident.Germantown resident Hil-
ary Moore Hebert, 32, was dis-mounting during an equestriancompetition in mid-May — shewas going for the final scoreneeded to achieveherU.S.Dres-sage Federation Silver Medal— when her horse, Limelight,took a step at the worst possibletime. Already out of the saddle,Moore Hebert fell backwardsabout seven feet to the groundand landeddirectly onher lowerback.She said her mind went to
the worst possible scenario.“[Being paralyzed] was the
first thing that went throughmymind.Thepainwas sobadwhenI fell and it was all in the hiparea, I could not feel part of myright leg. Iwasn’t sure Iwouldbeable to walk again,” Moore He-bert said.Moore Hebert suffered a
bruised L2 vertebra — locatednear the lower curvature of thespine, according to Healthline.com. Injuries to that area cancausenervedamage, loss of feel-ing in the lower extremities anddifficultymoving or walking.The nerve damage was only
temporary.On July 6, after a six-week
hiatus, Moore Hebert earnedthat silver medal with her per-formance at the Potomac ValleyDressage Association SummerShowdown and Adult TeamChampionships at the PrinceGeorge’s Equestrian Center.Riders earn this prestigious
award by achieving requiredscores in two tests at the Fourthlevel and two tests at the Prix St.Georges level. The latter is thefirst level of international com-petition and is one of the testsridden at the Pan-AmericanGames.It took Moore Hebert one
year to do what some peoplespend their livesworking towardbut never achieve, said JannaDyer, a USDF Gold Medalist(Olympic level) and Moore He-bert’s trainer at her Dark HorseDressage facility in Rocky Ridge.
Her remarkably quick rise is atestament to her commitment,work ethic and willingness toimmediately incorporate anyinstructions given to her, Dyersaid. Overall, Moore Hebert hasbeen competing for 13 years.Overcoming the final obsta-
cle for the silvermedal was evenmore impressive given MooreHebert’s injury, Dyer said.“[When something like that
happens] you have to decideif you’re ever going to [ride orcompete] again and if you are,you have to not think about itand control your nerves. Youcannot convey your nervous-ness to the horse because if[Moore Hebert] is nervous, thehorse is going to think, ‘Oh,
what’s wrong?’ Body languageis all a horse can actually readso you have to get on and sepa-rate yourmind fromyourbody,”Dyer said.Moore Hebert said she was
in factmore nervous before thatfirst ride back in competitionthan anything she’s done be-fore. But her relationship withLimelight, any rider’s connec-tionwith her horse, is integral toher success. They must trust ineach other,MooreHebert said.Moore Hebert’s accident in
Maywas her first fall in six years,she said. Frequent falls, brokenribs, broken collar bones, dis-located hips and a plethora ofother injuries were the reasonshe switched to dressage from
eventing, which is commonlyreferred to as the equestrian tri-athlon — dressage, cross coun-try and show jumping.Moore Hebert said she was
drawn to specialize in dressagebecause the focus is more onskill set and less about bravery.It also requires a tremendousamount of fitness and corestrength — think maintainingyour own balance despite whatthe horse is doing.“As you get older, you real-
ize you’re not immortal. I don’tthink a lot of people really think[about getting paralyzed]. But[my accident] was very eyeopening,”MooreHebert said.
Germantown rider earns silver after falln Individual high schoolplayers train on their own
when school’s out
BY COLIN STEVENSSTAFFWRITER
While it seems like there’sa summer program for mostsports, area ice hockey playersare largely left to their own de-vices during the school break.Football teamshaveweight
lifting programs and passingleagues. Summer basketballseemsneverending.Andlegionbaseball continues to thrive.There are no such leagues forhigh school ice hockeyplayers.That hasn’t kept Reid Bibb
off the ice.The forward, who goes to
Gaithersburg High School andplays for the Damascus co-op,saidhespenthissummerwork-ing with a personal trainer andtraveling to Ashburn Ice Houseonceaweek for skating lessons.“I’ve been working on my
explosiveness,” Bibb said. “Justingeneral, trying toget strongerand faster.”While Bibb plays for the
Damascus team, his priority isplayingfor theFrederickFreeze,an Empire Junior HockeyLeague team that plays amuchmore competitive schedulethan the co-op canoffer.His connection to the
Freeze sent him to Johnstown(Pa.) last week for a tryout withthe Johnstown Tomahawks,part of the North AmericanHockey League.Bibb, 17, said hewas one of
the youngest players on the ice,with most players in their early20s.Bibb plans to play ice
hockey in college, so he can’tafford to take the summer off.While he said many hockeyplayers still work on their swingduringtheoffseason,hesaid it’susually their golf swing.“It’s not all hockey. It’s tak-
ing some time off to enjoy thesummer, but you have to keepup with it,” he said. “You can’tjust takeoff twoorthreemonthsand do nothing. You can lose alot if you’renotworkingoutandfocusing onhockey.”Reigning state champion
Winston Churchill High Schoolcoach Ray McKenzie said the
majority of his players take thesummeroff.He said his players will get
on the ice,butwithoutanycon-sistency.The biggest hurdle is that
Maryland Student HockeyLeaguerulesdonotallowforor-ganized team activities duringthe summer,McKenzie said. Inorder for ice hockey players toholdaworkout, itmustbeopentoplayers fromall teams.McKenzie said he has
hostedsomecampsatRockvilleIce Arena, some that includedhis players, but he said thema-jorityofsummerhockeyplayersare fromyounger age groups.“Tenth-, 11th- and 12th-
graders, theydomuch less overthe summer,” McKenzie said.“I’m not sure why, but a lot ofseventh-graders who are com-ing to Churchill in a coupleyears, they do hockey campsand stay busy, but not asmuchfrom10th- and11th-graders.”McKenzie said that the se-
rious players, such as Churchillrising sophomore Ian Kwant,will find leagues to play in andways tostay involvedduringthesummer.“The big time travel guys
do stuff, they probably play alot over the summer,” McKen-zie said. “But most guys don’tdo a lot over the summer. Theaveragehockeyplayer takes thesummeroff, for themost part.”
Summer heat meltsice hockey activity
FILE PHOTO
Reid Bibb, who attends Gaithers-burg High School and plays forthe Damascus Co-op team, warmsup in January before a FrederickFreeze game.
PHOTO BY PICS OF YOU
Germantown’s Hilary Moore Hebert won the silver medal at the July 6 Potomac Valley Dressage Association SummerShowdown and Adult Team Championships at the Prince George’s Equestrian Center. This photo is from an earliercompetition.
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n Pro tennis team honors pair at county tennisfoundation event
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFFWRITER
Olney residents Brian andMark Salewski are the Bryan Brothers— the winningest doubles pair in men’s professional tennis history—ofMaryland Special Olympics tennis.
“We’ve been calling them that for years. They’re similar to theBryans. They’re not quite identical. One is slightly taller than theother. One (Mark) is left-handed,” said Greg Overkamp, who workswith the Montgomery County Tennis and Education Foundationand coaches the county’s Special Olympics tennis contingent.
In June, the 22-year-old Salewski brothers joined forces todefeatteams from counties across the state to win their seventh straightSummer Games gold medal at the Maryland 2013 Summer SpecialOlympic Games, held at TowsonUniversity.
Their performance earned them the opportunity to competeat the National Special Olympics Games, scheduled for June 14 atPrinceton University in New Jersey. The Salewski brothers were se-lected to play both singles and doubles there, Overkamp said.
The brothers were honored for their remarkable accomplish-ments at a ceremony held before the Washington Kastles’ July 24World TeamTennis homematch.
On Sunday the Kastles, led by International TennisHall of Famemember Martina Hingis, whom the Salewski brothers got to meetlast Wednesday, won their third consecutive World Team Tennistitle. The twin brothers fromOlney received their awards in front ofthe sizeable crowd in attendance at theMontgomeryCounty Tennisand Education Foundation’s pre-match Party with the Pros fund-raising silent auction.
Though Montgomery County as a whole ranks in the nation’stop 10 wealthiest counties, according to 2011 Census Bureau datareleased in2012, there aremanypocketswithin the regionwith fami-lies in need that should not be overlooked, MCTEF President PaulSommers said.
“Montgomery County has a million people and it’s very diversein every sense of the word,” Sommers said. “People are mistaken ifthey think people are not in need. And if they’re not in need, theymight not have access to recreation programs. We like to think weare teaching a lot of skills besides tennis; these are skills that these
kids can incorporate into their life like diet and nutrition, ways tohave a healthy lifestyle.”
An extension of the Montgomery County Tennis Association,the MCTEF is a nonprofit organization created in 2006 and aimedat “providing healthy and educational opportunities to underservedMontgomery County youth using tennis as the vehicle to teachsportsmanship, self-discipline and a strong work ethic,” accordingto its website.
One hundred six items, which included everything from aWim-bledon program signed by the world’s No. 1-ranked men’s profes-sional tennis player,NovakDjokovic, to spa treatments,with a valueof $22,000wereup forbid at lastWednesday’s auction. Theproceeds— an estimated $10,000—will benefit theMCTEF programs.
In addition to the Special Olympics program, the MCTEF runsfree after-school classes at four middle school sites throughout thecounty in the fall and spring. Participants are providedwith rackets.
For the sixth summer, theMCTEF sent a group of at-riskmiddleschool-age student-athletes to theweeklongUVATennis andEduca-tion camp inCharlottesville, Va.,where tennis instruction is coupledwith a business leadership course. This year theMCTEFprovided 12childrenwith scholarships to the camp.
Kastles pay tribute to Olney brothers
n Broxton, not Braxton,earns scholarship to play
football at Baylor
BYDAN FELDMANSTAFFWRITER
Jarell Broxton, coming offa lost season due to academicineligibility,was eager tomakean impression during theQuince Orchard High Schoolfootball team’s preseasonpractices his junior year.
But that plan got off on thewrong footwhendefensive co-ordinator John Kelley repeat-edly called him “Braxton.”
“Braxton” this, Braxton”that. Over and over again.
Eventually, the reservedBroxton, who’d hoped to lethis play do the talking, hadenough.
“For the first time ever, Iheard him speak up,” QuinceOrchard coach Dave Menca-rini said. “And he said, ‘Myname ain’t Braxton. It’s Brox-ton!’”
Establishing himself at hislatest stop, Lackawanna Col-lege, has come much easierfor Broxton.
Despite never playing agame on the offensive line inhis life, Broxton committed toBaylor University as an offen-sive guard.
The 6-foot-5, 328-poundBroxton — who earned thenickname “Bunyan,” as inPaul Bunyan — played defen-sive line at Quince Orchard.At Lackawanna, he spent oneseason on the defensive lineand missed another with in-jury.
But he was so impressiveas anoffensive linemanduringspring practice in preparationfor his upcoming third sea-son with Lackawanna, Brox-ton earned scholarship offersfromWisconsin, ArizonaState,UCLA, Syracuse and FloridaAtlantic.
Finally, he could take thelow-key approach he wantedto use as a junior at QuinceOrchard.
“He’s always the first oneto practice, and he works re-
ally, re-ally hard,and hedoe sn ’ tsay any-t h i n g , ”s a i dL a c k a -w a n n ac o a c hM a r kD u d a ,who alsow o r k s
with the team’s offensive line-men. “… You know the kid isgoing to do exactly what youask to the best of his abilityevery day. And that is all any-body could ask for, and that’swhat’s going tomakehimkindof special compared to a lot ofpeople that are out there.”
It’s a marked change fromwhen Broxton became aca-demically ineligible at QuinceOrchard, leaving junior collegehis only route.
“I’m surprised and proudof the fact he made it throughjunior college,” Mencarainisaid. “Because it is not easy.… There are so many reasonswhy he could have given up.But he didn’t do that, andthat’s a testament to his char-acter.”
Duda, whose bio boastsof producing 200 Division Ischolarship players in his 20-year tenure, called Broxtonone the top five recruits he’scoached.
“The kid is the genuine ar-ticle,” Duda said. “… It’s beena pleasure to have him. I knowI’m only going to have him 16more weeks, but I’ll enjoy ev-ery day I have him.”
Broxton said staying onthe right course at Lackawa-nna wasn’t quite as difficult asit seemed.
“Just knowing that thiswasa second chance to do what Iwanted to do, which was goto a good school for football,”Broxton said. “And I used it.”
Then, on the field, it wassimple.
“Yougoall out, andyougetnoticed,” Broxton said.
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Dig In’s Patrick Kemper carries the team’s mascot “The Bear” to the dugoutduring the 2013 Maryland Collegiate Baseball League Championship game.
n Watkins Mill-based teamhands Baltimore only itssecond loss of summer
BYNICK CAMMAROTA
STAFFWRITER
As the Baltimore Chop orga-nized themselves into two linesfor a postgamephoto shoot— its2013 Maryland Collegiate Base-ball League trophy frontandcen-ter—Queen’s iconicmusical hit,“We Are the Champions,” camethrough the speakers at Joe Can-nonStadium.
On the opposite side of thefield, Dig In Baseball’s playersjogged toward the left-field cor-ner of the field for the final timethis season. And, as they congre-gated in a circle, a few of themmockingly raised their arms incelebration and held their indexfingers skyward.
Even in defeat, the team
knewhow tohave fun.Dig In Baseball pushed the
MCBL’s elite club to the brink ofelimination Friday night, win-ningthefirstgameofwhatwoundup being a doubleheader for theleague championship in the dou-ble elimination tournament be-foreultimately losing to theChop.
Our Lady of Good CounselHigh School graduate Cory Cal-lahanpitched a gem in the open-ing game of the night as Dig Inhanded the Chop just its secondloss of the season with a 3-0 vic-tory. Baltimore thenwon the titlewith a13-1performance in seveninnings as Dig In (20-17) simplyranout of pitchers.
“We had to fight just to getinto the playoffs and we reallybattled our tails off once we gotin,”Dig Inmanager PatrickDuffysaid. “We had a lot of things goourway late in thefirst gameandwe needed things to be perfectin [the second game]. We were
gassed. Everybody was tired andsore.”
Beating the Chop was a tallorder regardless of the situation.The odds likely were better thatthe team’s newly-adopted mas-cot — Esteban, a stuffed bear —would come in topitch relief.
EnteringthematchupagainstCallahan, the Chop played 34games this summer and lostonce.
So when the right-handerheld Baltimore (34-2) scorelessthrough 6 2/3 strong innings andleft the ball in the hands of domi-nant reliever Gus Gill to preservethe shutout, the occasion wasrathermomentous.
Thefirst game includeda keysixth-inning hit by right fielderAndrew Hutson as well as a re-markable diving catch in the bot-tom of the eighth inning to robNick Marinelli of a hit. Hutsonsprinted forward and somehowcontorted his wrist in such a way
that he kept the ball from hittingthe ground.
“This was the most fun I’veever had playing on a summerteam before,” Hutson said. “Wehad a ton of guys on this teamwho were always loose and try-ing to have fun. With summerball,when thewholegoal is to getyour work in and have fun, I feellikewewonevery time.”
By blanking the Chop in Fri-day’s first game and followingtheir shutout win against Freder-ick on Thursday, Dig In pitchersran their scoreless innings streakto 19 before Gill surrendered arun in the second inning of thesecond game. Despite being oneof the better pitchers on Dig In’sstaff this season, Gill was liftedwithnoouts in the third inningofthe second game and the Chopmethodically added to its leadfrom there.
Dig In Baseball falls a win short
LACKAWANNA COLLEGE
Broxton
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Maryland 2013 Summer Special Olympic Games gold medalists Brian (left)and Mark (middle) Salewski meet International Tennis Hall of Fame inducteeMartina Hingis before a July 24 Washington Kastles match after being hon-ored by the Montgomery County Tennis and Education Foundation.
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n Westwood wins third straightcounty Dive League all-star meet
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFF WRITER
The Thomas S. Wootton High Schoolgirls’ swimming and diving team had towork extra hard to win its first WashingtonMetropolitan Interscholastic Swimming andDiving Championship since the mid-1990sthis past February.
The Patriots entered the swimming por-tion of the competition in a 76-point holebehind then-defending champion WinstonChurchill after the diving championship washeld earlier in the week.
The Patriots might not have so muchto make up in next winter’s title defense,however. On Thursday at the Manor Woodspool, rising Wootton freshman Regan West-wood won her third straight MontgomeryCounty Dive League all-star competitionand has presented herself as a possible top10 contender next year.
The win came only one week after West-wood returned to practice following a minorright shoulder dislocation that forced her towithdraw from the 2013 USA Diving zonechampionships earlier in the summer.
The 36-year-old MCDL has acted as aplatform for many future high school — andnational — stars.
Patriots coach Jacqueline Emr said shewill gladly welcome any points Westwoodmight be able to add to the team’s divinglineup.
After two consecutive wins in the girls11-12 age division, Westwood won her girls13-14 debut Thursday as one of the young-est in the field, a challenge she will face theentire 2013-14 high school season. But West-wood said she is eager to contribute howevershe can to a Wootton team poised to win itssecond straight Metros championship.
“I’ve heard [that Wootton needed pointsin diving]. I heard from friends who dive inhigh school and I have a couple neighborson the dive team and they were like, ‘We’reso excited for you to come, we needed aboost.’ It’s exciting to know I might be ableto help. It’s nice to know you’re actuallygoing to be able to do something for yourschool,” Westwood said.
Her Patriot Pride puts her mother, Meg,in a bit of a predicament. A 1986 Churchillgraduate and former three-year varsitydiver, the elder Westwood said she will al-ways be a Bulldog at heart but said she canstill fully support Wootton. The youngerWestwood said she and her mother share ina fun rivalry at home.
“I am proud of the Churchill team butI’ll be rooting for Wootton. I guess I have to,”Meg Westwood joked.
Regan Westwood actually comes froma family of divers. Meg Westwood dove forColgate (N.Y.) University and her husband,Mike, competed for Penn State. The twocoached at the college level for several yearsat George Mason (Meg) and James Madi-son (Mike) universities and Mike Westwoodeven traveled internationally as U.S. Na-tional Team coach for several years.
But the two, Meg Westwood said, de-cided they would not put any pressure
on their children to pursue the sport thatbrought them together. They didn’t have to.
When the Westwoods joined the Po-tomac Woods pool when Regan was 7, sheimmediately gravitated toward the spring-boards. Her younger brother, Quinn, hasalso taken to the family trade. He won theboys 9-10 age group at the Division IIIchampionship July 21 and finished seventhat all-stars in his first year out of the 8-undergroup.
“It’s kind of funny, every dive meet I goto, someone will be like, ‘You’re Mike West-wood’s daughter, I’ve known you forever.’But I don’t know half the people who talkto me. It’s really cool, though, to be able tocarry on the family tradition,” Regan West-wood said.
She does that in more ways than one.
Meg Westwood said she sees a lot of herselfin her daughter’s elegant dives. Trainingthese days, which includes a lot more dryland work than it used to, Meg Westwoodsaid, makes for better overall athletes. ReganWestwood combines incredible fundamen-tals and technique with a grace that cannotbe taught.
That foundation could take her far in herfirst year of high school diving and beyond.
“[Regan] is a very elegant diver anda very confident diver. I think that is herstrength. I see her developing real good fun-damentals that I think will give her longevityin the sport. It’s very exciting to see,” MegWestwood said.
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n Hard work pays off forColumbia rising freshman
BY DAN FELDMAN
STAFF WRITER
Jack Foster is trying thisweek to break a record that hecan’t possibly break.
After swimming the 200-me-ter individual medley in 2:09.80at the Coaches Long Course
meet in the Montgomery CountySwim League — narrowly miss-ing the 27-year-old MCSL re-cord of 2:09.17 that was set by afuture Olympic gold medal win-ner, Mike Barrowman — Foster
is again hoping to best Barrow-man’s time at the National ClubSwimming Association SummerChampionships.
Of course, if Foster beatsthe time it won’t stand as theMCSL record, because thisweek’s event is not part of thenow-completed MCSL sched-ule. Foster said he’s more con-cerned with the time, especiallygiven Barrowman’s stature inthe sport, than whether he offi-cially sets the MCSL record.
When he began swimming,Foster frequently lost to oppo-nents who had been swimmingyear-round longer, and that ex-perience still influences his ap-proach.
“In my swimming career,I’ve always been chasing theleader,” Foster said. “I feel likeI’ve always been more con-cerned with my times and keep-ing on improving than I havewith actual placement.”
In the years since, Foster,
a 2013 Montgomery Blair HighSchool graduate who plans toswim for Columbia Universitythis fall, has won more and more.
Jeremy Butler, who coachesFoster at Glenwood in the MCSL,said Foster’s times last year weresimilar to the coach’s peak times.
“I remember watching himswim, thinking, ‘Wow I can’t be-lieve that I ever was that fast,’”Butler said. “This summer, it’snot even close. His times arecrushing my old times. I watchhim just in awe.”
In fact, Foster has brokenmany Glenwood records thatwere held by Butler.
“It’s sort of a cliché thing tosay when someone breaks yourrecords, you say, ‘I’m happy forthem. I wouldn’t want it to beanyone else,’” Butler said. “But Ireally do mean that. Jack is justa really good person, and he’sworked so hard for it, that it re-ally didn’t bother me when hebroke those records.”
Butler said Foster goes aboveand beyond with the swim club,arriving early to set up for meetsandhelpingteachyoungerswim-mers during the week.
“He’s like a superhero tothem,” Butler said.
Because Foster is still just 17,he’ll be eligible to compete in theMCSL next summer, and he in-tends to return from New York toswim for Glenwood once again.
“I definitely do want tocome back, because Glenwoodhas been really a big family tome, and I’ve just grown up withthose people, the friends,” Fos-ter said. “I really can’t imagine asummer without them.”
So, yes, Foster is more con-cerned with besting Barrow-man’s time this week, eventhough that wouldn’t make himthe MCSL record holder. Butdon’t twist Foster’s priorities.
“It doesn’t mean I don’twant to come back next year andget the record,” Foster said.
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Potomac Woods diver Regan Westwood competes in an all-star diving meet Thursday at Manor WoodsSwim Club in Rockville.
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Flower Valley’s Jack Conger won the 50-meter butterfly Sunday at theMontgomery County Swim League All-Star Meet in Rockville. The Our Ladyof Good Counsel High School graduate plans to swim for the University ofTexas this year and was swimming in his final MCSL event.
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It didn’t take long for JackConger to get back into thepool at the Rockville Munici-pal Swim Center after Sun-day’s Montgomery CountySwim League All-Star Meet.
After finishing off his fi-nal MCSL season by breakinghis own league record in the50-meter butterfly (23.94 sec-onds), the University of Texas-bound swimmer posed for afew pictures with some youngfans before getting right backinto the water.
“It’s bittersweet, you know,this is where it all started forme,” Conger said. “It is sadthat this is done for me, butI’m also off to other thingsin my life now — starting offcollege on both an academicand athletic standpoint. So it’stough on one side, but on theother it’s nice.”
Conger, who swims forFlower Valley, also took firstin the 100-meter backstrokein 54.45 seconds. A slip at thestart cost him a chance at low-ering his league record of 53.48seconds.
“The backstroke was alittle annoying, just becauseI slipped on my start and justkind of fell in the water,” Con-ger said. “So it was kind of overfrom the start.”
Other notable finishes inthe 15-18 boys group includeda pair of victories for Old
Georgetown’s Carsten Visser-ing in the 100-meter individualmedley (58.04) and 100-me-ter breaststroke (1:01.41),and Grant Goddard took the100-meter freestyle in 51.42seconds for Palisades.
For the 15-18 girls, Cath-erine Mulquin set league re-cords in both the 100-meterbackstroke (1:01.80) and the50-meter butterfly (28.53),while Mulquin’s Mill CreekTowne teammate, CarolineClark, won the 100-meter indi-vidual medley in 1:06.00. Car-oline McTaggart also bested aleague record with her 57.12second finish in the 100-me-ter freestyle, and Jessica Chentook first in the 100-breast-stroke for host RMSC in1:13.28.
Winners for the 13-14 girlsincluded Maddy Zurchin whowon both the 100-meter indi-vidual medley (1:08.29) and50-meter butterfly (29.25) forLakelands, Audrey Richterwon the 50-meter freestylefor Norbeck Hills in 27.73,Emily Wang took first in the50-meter backstroke for UpperCounty in 31.09, and AshleyPiepol claimed the 50-meterbreaststroke event for TildenWoods in 35.77.
Brandon Cu (UpperCounty) won a pair of events inthe 13-14 boys age group, tak-ing first in the 50-meter free-style (25.55) and the 100-meterindividual medley (1:02.59).Griffin Alaniz (Connecticut Be-lair) also claimed two events:the 50-meter backstroke(28.26) and the 50-meter but-terfly (27.05). Lake Marion’sKenneth Afolabi-Brown wonthe 50-meter breaststroke.
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Liberty Grove UnitedMethodist Church, 15225 OldColumbia Pike, Burtonsville,conducts Sundaymorningworship services at 8:30, 9:30and 11 a.m. Sunday school,nursery through adult, is at9:30 a.m. 301-421-9166. For aschedule of events, visit www.libertygrovechurch.org.
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Participants Needed forResearch Study
Westat, a social science research company, needs childrenages 7 to 11 years, in general good health and normal bodyweight, to participate in a study about how short periods of ac-tivity improve children’s metabolism and attention. Both boysand girls are encouraged to participate in 3 sessions: one out-patient screening visit of about 5 hours and two outpatient vis-its of about 7 hours each visit. The sessions will take placeat the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD and participantswill be compensated for their time. If you are interested,call 1-888-963-5578, include your name, telephone num-ber, email address and the best time to reach you or goonline to clinicaltrials.gov (refer to study 13-CH-0169).This study is sponsored by the National Institutes of Child-ren’s Health and Human Development.
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NEEDED: LookingFor cadillac eldoradoservice tech I am look-ing for a cadillaceldorado service me-chanic to replace astarter. The vehicle islocated in Hyatt Md.Please call George at804-894-0121 any-time.
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ELENA’S FAMILYDaycare
Welcomes Infants-Up Pre-K program,Computer Lab, PottyTrain. Lic# 15-133761Call 301-972-1955
TRYOUTS: RisingU11 Girls’ MSI ClassicTeam Orange Crush isstill holding tryouts tofill our team roster.Tryouts every Thurs-day evening at 6:00-7:30 at the Ger-mantown SoccerplexCricket Field. Contactinfo available atM S I c l a s s i c . d 4 s -portsclub.com
DAYCAREASSISTANTHome daycare inClarksburg, MD
looking for FT daycareassistant to help withthe kids. Green cardand US Citizen. Ifinterested pleasecall 240-668-4139
Licensed Drivers With Voice ControlSystem Needed For Research Study
Westat is seeking participants for a federally-funded research study on driv-ers’ experiences using voice control systems. To be eligible for the study,you must have a voice control system in the car you drive most often. Thestudy involves talking to a researcher about your experiences with yourvoice control system and driving on local roads and I-270 in your own car.The study will take about 1.5 hours. If you are interested in this study,please visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/voicecontrolstudy orcall at 1-888-747-9523 for more details. Participants will receive $100 asa thank you for their time.
What is a voice control system?By "voice control" we mean that as a driver, you can perform certain tasks -like reading a text message and placing a phone call - using the sound ofyour voice. For example, you can make a call to your friend Meghan by say-ing, "Call Meghan." You may also be able to hear your favorite phone appsthrough your car’s sound system and control them with your voice (e.g.,Pandora, Bing, MLB.com, or USA TODAY). Your voice control system mayalso allow you to turn on the air conditioning or tune the radio to your favor-ite radio station.
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Children’s Center of Damascus Lic. #:31453 301-253-6864 20872
Olive Branch Daycare Lic. #:160926 240-277-6842 20874
Ana’s House Day Care Lic. #:15127553 301-972-2148 20876
Miriam’s Loving Care Lic. #:155622 240-246-0789 20877
Zhilla Daycare Center Lic. #:150266 240-447-9498 20878
Holly Bear Daycare Lic. #:15123142 301-869-1317 20886
Blue Angel Family Home Daycare Lic. #:161004 301-250-6755 20886
HOUSEKEEPERNEEDED: FT Tues-Sat, small family inPotomac, clean/cook.Indian cooking ispref’d 240 498 0318
Healthcare
Office ManagerMedical practice looking forfull time office manager withexperien ce. Fax resume to
301-424-8337
Education
TEACHERSSunrise Learning CenterSeeks Pre- School ft/pt
Teachers & Teachers Assistantfor pre-school center inGaithersburg. 90 hrs plus
experience or college credit inECE is needed.
Call 301-208-6948.
Maintenance
CLEANER/ FLOOR TECHNICIANExperienced cleaner to work at multiple commercial properties.Applicant must have knowledge of stripping and waxing vinylfloors. Maintenance experience is a plus but not required.
Applicant must have a valid driver’s license and own transportation .Great compensation package. Please email resume to:
[email protected] or fax to: 301-309-9503. EOE.
SPECIAL NEEDSC A R E G I V E RWANTED: Weekendcare giving for AutisticHigh School Boy,supervised incommunity & pool,Potomac, need car,$14/hr, special needsexperience [email protected]
POTOMAC FAMILYASST: Legal.Educated. Must Drive.Weekends plus flexweekday hrs. Someovernight stay, travel.2 yrs + experienceCall: 301.887.3212.
Executive DataConsultant
Rockville, MD. Conduct healthcare-related data analysis and
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Careers301-670-2500 [email protected]
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COACHES/TRAINERSMD Basketball Academy seeks an energetic & positive
coach/trainer for upcoming youth skill development clinics &programs. Must have prior experience, be dependable,come early, able to stay late if needed and be positive andhelpful. We will provide game/practice lesson plans, rotationguidance, etc. http://marylandbasketballacademy.org for
more information and to apply on our website.
CHAIR SIDE DENTALASSISTANT
Needed FT/PT for our endodonticoffice. We are seeking an experienced, energeticperson that will compliment our team approach toquality centered care. Xray License required
Rockville/Gaithersburg locations.Email: [email protected]
Healthcare
COME GROW WITH USHospice of the Chesapeake, the premier non-profithospice and palliative care provider for Anne Arundel andPrince George’s Counties Maryland, is seeking motivatedand skilled professional for the following positions:
Prince George’s County2 - CLINICAL MANAGERS (RN/BSN/MSN)2 - RN CASE MANAGERS (RN/BSN)
E-mail resume [email protected]. EOE
Management
Experienced Manager &Manager Trainees
Needed for growing Dry Cleaning operation.Responsibilities consist of helping customer atcounter, ability to operate all machinery,assembling orders, checking quality andproduction standards, generating reports, andcontrolling payroll. Excellent organizational andgreat customer skills are a must. If you aredependable, work well with others, detail orientedand a "hands on" person apply today.
∂ Ability to earn $40,000 - $50,000+∂ Quarterly Bonus Program∂ Fortune 500 Benefits including Medical/Dentalinsurance, vision discount program, 401(k)
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Apply at www.crestcleaners.com
MEDICAL RECEPTIONISTFT, Exp. Preferred.
Rockville/Gaithersburg Area & Great BenefitsEmail resume to: [email protected]
EVENTDEMONSTRATOR
If you are an enthusiastic and detail orientedindividual looking for weekend work, join theChampion Windows team! We are looking fora motivated Event Demonstrator to work part-time gathering leads at our retail, event, andshow locations. This position will beresponsible for greeting potential customers,collecting leads, as well as settingappointments.
As an Event Demonstrator, you must behighly self motivated with good interpersonaland communication skills. Strong timemanagement and prioritization abilities are amust for your success in this role.
You will be required to pass a criminalbackground check and drug screening.
Please email your resume [email protected], fax to 301-990-3022, or call 301-880-3001
EDUCATION
ASSISTANTTEACHER
Peppertree Children’sCenter in Germantown needsan assistant teacher. Must havehigh school diploma and some
college classes in EarlyChildhood Education. Hours: 8am - 12 noon AND 2 to 6pm.
Call Debbie at301-540-1170 between8:30am and 2:30pm
On Call SupervisorGreat job for students, retirees andstay at home moms. Work from
home! Answer and handle phone callsfrom 5pm to 9am two evenings twicea month for staffing agency or oneweekend a month. Must have Inter-net access, and a car. Fax resume to
301.588.9065 or email [email protected]
Seasonal DriverCounter SalesPT, Resp for deliveringmerchandise & assisting
customers. Must be able to lift60lbs on a regular basis & havea clean driving record. For
further detail on the position orto apply, go to
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Sales
Business Development SpecialistMedia Sales
We’re looking for a Specialist who has a documented history of driving newbusiness. Post Newsweek Media provides local news and information tocommunities in Maryland and Virginia. We are looking for a skilled salesprofessional to assist small businesses in marketing their products andservices.
This is a inside/outside sales position. You would develop anunderstanding of print, online, mobile advertising with a focus onrecruitment, retail and service business segments. Previous salesexperience needed, enthusiasm, great work ethic and a strong desire tosucceed.
We offer a competitive compensation & comprehensive benefits packageincluding pension, 401(k) & tuition reimbursement.
If you believe this is the right position for your skills, talents and abilities.Please forward your resume to [email protected].
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VET ASSISTANT/KENNEL HELPPart/ Full Time
Busy small animal hospital looking for a motivated individual.Must be able to work weekends and holidays. Some heavy lift-ing required. Please email resume with phone contact attn
Beth at [email protected]
Property Management
Grady Management, a leader in the propertymanagement arena, has the following positionsopen in the Gaithersburg area:
Grounds : PT position is avail. busy apt.community. This position will assist inmaintaining the grounds, outdoor facilities,interior common areas, and will assist heavily insnow removal.
Marketing Consultants: we have a part time(20 hours) opportunity on our team. Previousmulti-family housing experience desired.
All positions require weekend work. Please sendresumes and cover letters with the positiondesired to:
Montgomery Club Apts.Attn: Open Positions
17101 Queen Victoria Court, Apt # 102Gaithersburg, MD 20877Fax: 301-947-4518
Email: [email protected] M/F/D. www.GradyMgt.com
WE’RE HIRINGWEEKEND CNAS,GNAS, AND HHAS!
Provide non-medical care and companionship forseniors in their homes. Personal care, lighthousework, transportation, meal preparation.Must be 21+. Must have car and one year
professional, volunteer, or personal experiencewww.homeinsteads.com/197Home Instead Senior Care
To us it’s personal 301/588-9023Call between 10am-4pm Mon-Fri
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HAIRDRESSERPart time, Proficient in roller sets, blow drying,perms and haircuts in busy "Senior" salon. Sendyour resume to: [email protected]
Home Improvement
FENCE SALES301-366-3734
OPHTHALMIC TECHNICIANP/T Exp. Preferred.
Rockville/Gaithersburg area Email resume to:[email protected]
Part-Time
Work From HomeNational Children’s CenterMaking calls Weekdays 9-4
No selling! Sal + bonus + benes.
Call 301-333-1900
Healthcare
CNAMedication Tech a plus. Musthave own car. 7am - 3pm3pm - 9pm, 9pm - 9am
19120 Muncaster Rd,Derwood, MD 20855
Call Rafiq at: 301-922-0615
Janitorial/Cleaner
NW, DC apartment Buildingseeking an experienced cleaner
for prep of turnoverapartments, common area
cleaning and light landscaping.Please email resume to:[email protected] orfax to: 301-309-9503.
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MECHANICEffective immediately, M.T.Laney Co, Inc will be acceptingapplications for the followingpositions:∂ Heavy EquipmentMechanic (Must haveclean driving record)
Please email resume [email protected] 410-795-9546
Top wages and a great workingenvironment. EOE
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