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John Maher of Poolesville sprays off the area around the 4-H Sheep and Swine pens at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair grounds on Saturday.
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Fair celebrates 60 yearsof The Big Cheese.
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(From left) Gregory Frazier, facilities work leaderfor the Montgomery County Agricultural Center,and volunteers Daniel Herrera and Minh Le, bothof Germantown, roll a 500-pound wheel of cheeseinto cool storage at the Montgomery CountyFairgounds.
BY PEGGYMCEWANSTAFFWRITER
hoose the thrill of the Tilt-a-Whirl, enjoy the beauty of a ripe redtomato or watch themiracle of a calf being born.Those are just a fewof themany activities, exhibits and expe-
riences that make up theMontgomery County Agricultural Fair,which opens its 65th annual run at 3 p.m. Friday.The fair, which is open from 10 a.m. to midnight through
Aug. 17, offers something for everyone and a lot for most, saidMartin Svrcek, executive director.“Weare rated internationally as oneof the top fairs in the country,” Svrcek said. “It’s
clean, well organized and diverse, with foods and attractions for kids of all ages.”The whole operation — which expects to host 200,000 visitors, depending on the
weather — is organized and run with fewer than a dozen full-time employees becauseof the dedication of about 1,000 volunteers, Svrcek said.“Our volunteer cohort is huge,” he said. “During the fair, a thousand peoplewill log
volunteer hours.”
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65 n 200,000expectedfor annualcounty fair inGaithersburg
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n Newspapers will continueas usual for now
BY AGNES BLUMSTAFFWRITER
Readers of The Gazette can expect to con-tinue hearing the familiar thump of the weeklynewspaper hitting their driveways after theplanned sale of parts of the Washington PostCo. to Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeffrey P.Bezos.“This is exciting news.Wewon’t see any im-
mediate change,” said Ann McDaniel, a seniorvice president at the Washington Post Co. whostarted her career as a journalist. “There’s al-ways a future for compelling, accurate journal-ism at the community level.”The sale, announcedMonday and expected
to be completed in 60 days, ends the Grahamfamily’s four-generation ownership of the flag-ship Post newspaper.In addition to The Gazette and the Post, the
$250 million deal includes the Express news-paper; Southern Maryland Newspapers; theFairfax County Times in Northern Virginia; theSpanish-language El Tiempo Latino newspa-per; the Robinson TerminalWarehouse and thePost’s adjoining printing plant in Springfield,Va.; the Comprint printing plant in Laurel; andseveralmilitary-base publications.
Gazette one partof $250M sale toAmazon founder
n All told, Montgomery to receive $1Bin transportation projects
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Montgomery County’s push for transporta-tion investment paid a billion-dollar dividendMonday when the state committed money toeight county road, rail and bus priorities.The lion’s share of funding, $680 million,
will go to thePurple Line, a 16-mile light rail lineplanned to connect Bethesda and New Carroll-ton. Other projects, such as the Corridor CitiesTransitway, Ride On Bus system and road im-provements, will see smaller funding commit-ments from the state.County Councilman Craig Rice (D-Dist. 2)
of Germantown said the funding from the statehelps signal that the Corridor Cities Transitwayproject is ready tomoveahead, although there’sstill a long way to go.Making sure the state is a player along with
the county can help provide leverage to attractprivate investment for the project, he said.“It’s a very promising sign for us,” Rice said.Areas such as Clarksburg and Germantown
have seen both residential and commercialgrowth in recent years, he said.Standing above the Bethesda Metro station
on Monday, Gov. Martin O’Malley announced
Corridor CitiesTransitwayto get $100M
See TRANSITWAY, Page A-11
See SALE, Page A-11
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7Tyke Hikes: Avian Wonders,
10:30-11:30 a.m.,MeadowsideNature Center, 5100MeadowsideLane, Rockville. Hear a story, takea nature hike andmake a craft totake home. $5. Register at www.parkpass.org.
Kid’s Craft Wednesday, 11 a.m.,Seneca Creek State Park, 11950Clopper Road, Gaithersburg.Makeleaf rubbing trees, wind socks andother fun craft projects. Free. [email protected].
Sciencetellers: The Bugs ofBlackwood, 6:30-7:15 p.m., Da-mascus Library, 9701Main St.Learn about the science ofmatter.Ages 5 and up, siblings welcome.Free, tickets required. 240-773-9444.
Rockville Lions Club Meeting,7-9 p.m., RockvilleMethodistChurch, 122W.Montgomery Ave.Learn about community’s needsand how tomeet them. 301-257-5180.
Family Support Group Meet-ing, 7:30-9 p.m., ParishHall ofSt. Raphael’s Catholic Church,1513Dunster Road, Rockville. Forfamilies and friends of people withdepression or bipolar illness. Free.301-299-4255.
THURSDAY, AUG. 8Storytime on the Lake: Turtles,
10:30-11:30 a.m., Black Hill VisitorCenter, 20926 Lake Ridge Drive,Boyds. Come aboard the pontoonboat to hear a story and scout outthe wonders of Little Seneca Lake.Ages 3-6. $5. Register at www.parkpass.org.
Reptile and Amphibian Camp-fire, 6:30-8 p.m.,MeadowsideNature Center, 5100MeadowsideLane, Rockville. Bring hot dogs,buns, drinks, sides. $5. Register atwww.parkpass.org.
FRIDAY, AUG. 9The Mary Shaver Band Blues
Concert, 6:30p.m.-2a.m.,RockvilleRooftopLive, 155GibbsSt., Rock-ville. $10.nicole@rockvilleroofto-
plive.com.Park in the Dark Hayride, 8:30
p.m., Seneca Creek State Park,11950 Clopper Road, Gaithers-burg. Explore themysteriousworld of the park after dark. $2 perperson. 301-924-2127.
SATURDAY, AUG. 10Book sale, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Ger-
mantown Library, 19840 CenturyBlvd., Germantown. 240-777-0110.
SUNDAY, AUG. 11Stream Adventures, 10-11:30
a.m., Little Bennett Regional Park,23701 Frederick Road, Clarksburg.Use nets to find insects, fish, frogsand other animals. $6. Register atwww.parkpass.org.
5th Annual Pachuca Day,noon-4 p.m., Rockville HighSchool, 2100 Baltimore Ave., Rock-ville. A variety of soccer eventsthroughout the day. Free. 240-683-0680.
Make It and Take It: Butterflies,1:30-3:30 p.m., Black Hill VisitorCenter, 20926 Lake Ridge Drive,Boyds. Create a beautiful butterflyto take home. $2 per craft. Registerat www.parkpass.org.
Twilight Walk, 7 p.m., SenecaCreek State Park, 11950 ClopperRoad, Gaithersburg. Learn howthe Civil War touched the lives ofsoldiers, slaves and free people inthe Great Seneca Valley. Free. [email protected].
MONDAY, AUG. 12AAHP Mt. Calvary Dining Club,
6-9 p.m.,Mt. Calvary BaptistChurch, 608 N. Horners Lane,Rockville. Enjoy healthy food,physical activity and learningmore about diabetes prevention.$8. 301-421-5767.
Beyond Words: Grief Expres-sion through Art Making, 6:30-8p.m.,MontgomeryHospice, 1355PiccardDrive, Rockville. A two-sessionworkshop for anyonegrieving the death of a loved one.Free, registration required. 301-921-4400.
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SPORTS Maryland’s topamateur golfers faceVirginia’s in Capital Cup.
POLITICS Puppet exhibitionpulls the strings on thisunique art form.
Be patient — the rain should go awayby the end of the weekend.
Got uke?
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Lil’ Rev will perform with other visiting ukelele players at a free out-door concert on Aug. 14 at the gazebo at the Mansion at Strathmorein North Bethesda. The concert caps a four-day uke and guitar camphosted by musicians Marcy Marxer and Cathy Fink of Kensington. Formore information, see Page A-13 or visit www.strathmore.org.
Ladies Paddle:Early Morningon Little Sen-eca Lake, 7-9a.m., Black HillVisitor Center,20926 Lake
Ridge Drive, Boyds. Basicpaddling experience neces-sary. $26. Register at www.parkpass.org.
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Two local Frostburg StateUniversity students recently at-tended an economic forum inChina.
Eric Paul, a business admin-istrationmajor from Rockville,and Jason Ascher, a politicalsciencemajor fromGerman-town, attended the APECChinaCEO Forum in Beijing July12-14.
The forum is a chance forbusiness leaders from aroundthe Pacific region and the worldto discuss key economic issues.
The groupwas in China July6-15 and lots of sightseeing inthe first few days, Paul said.
He had spent twoweeks inChina last summer as part ofa study-abroad program, andsaid hewas thrilled at the ideaof going back.
Much of the discussionby the keynote speakers andbusiness leaders centered onsustainability, particularly theneed for a realistic approach tosustainability rather than ideal-istic theories, Paul said.
He said that, as someonewho grew up in the GreaterWashington region, he couldparticularly relate to discus-sions on the need to give peoplethe option of living closer totheir work.
Century Boulevard workto run 15 months
Roadwork inGermantownto add an extension to CenturyBoulevard is expected to takeabout 15months.
Crews fromMontgomeryCounty’s Division of Transpor-tation Engineering, part of theDepartment of Transportation,beganwork on the project inJuly.
Work will take place from 7a.m. to 5 p.m.Monday throughFriday and occasionally on Sat-urdays tomake up for weatherdelays.
The project isn’t expectedto result in any lane closures,and alternate routes for pedes-trians and vehicle traffic will beprovided.
Thework covers a half-milesection of road stretching fromthe end of Century Boulevardsouth of Oxbridge Road to the
intersectionwith a future exten-sion of DorseyMill Road.
It also will involve con-structing a bike path, sidewalkand retaining wall, and install-ing street lighting.
Rice to discusshospital, other issuesMontgomery County Coun-
cilmanCraig L. Ricewill holdameeting Sept. 18 at the Da-mascusCommunity Center todiscuss a number of upcountyissues.
Rice (D-Dist. 2) ofGerman-town is scheduled to addressthe progress of the newHolyCross Hospital location on thegrounds of theMontgomeryCollege campus in German-town, as well as developmentin Damascus, the changingnature of retail in the Damascusbusiness district and sidewalkimprovements in Clarksburg,according to a news releasefromRice’s office.
He’ll also likely discuss theCorridor Cities Transitway proj-ect that’s planned to run fromthe Shady GroveMetro stationto Clarksburg.
Themeeting is scheduledfor 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Da-mascus Community Center at25520 OakDrive.
Formore information aboutthemeeting, call 240-777-7955or email Rice at [email protected].
Campus congratsShane Galvin ofGermantown
has received a scholarship toanOhio school to study autorepair.
Galvin received a $1,000scholarship from theUniversityof the Aftermarket Foundationandwill attend the Ohio Tech-nical College to study to be anautomechanic at the PowerSports Institute.
Galvin was chosen frommore than 500 candidates,according to a letter from thescholarship selection commit-tee.
TheUniversity of the After-market Foundation distributesscholarships for the AutomotiveAftermarket Industry Associa-tion.
The automotive aftermarketprovides replacement parts, ac-cessories and other products forvehicles after their original sale.
In 2012, aftermarket salestotaled $307.7 billion, accordingto the association’s website.
• Teressa Harbour of Ger-
mantown received amaster’sin human developmentMay 17from the College of Liberal ArtsandHuman Sciences at VirginiaTech in Blacksburg.
Teenagers invited to joinlibrary advisory groupMontgomery County’s
public libraries are recruitingteenagers for its Teen AdvisoryGroup, which promotes libraryprogramming and services forteens.
Teens ages 14 to 18 wholike to read, write, interviewauthors and public officials forthe libraries’ Teensite page,work with Facebook, and-orproduce YouTube and videosegments may apply at www.montgomerycountymd.lib-guides.com/teensite or at alibrary branch. Applicationsare due Sept. 4.
Qualified candidates willbe interviewed in September.Those acceptedwill serve fromSeptember toMay andwillmeetmonthly, plus work inde-pendently or in small groups.
Formore details, visit thewebsite or email [email protected].
Schools seek donationsfor student backpacksWith the start of a new
school year fast approaching,Montgomery County PublicSchools is seeking donations forits campaign to provide 50,000backpacks filled with schoolsupplies to students who needthem. Each backpack costs $10.
Donors are encouraged tosponsor one student for $10, aclass for $300, a grade for $1,500or a whole school for $6,500.Individual and corporate spon-sors are welcome.
Donationsmay bemade atmcpsfoundation.org/donate/index.php. Checks, payable toMCPS Educational Foundation,may bemailed to OCEP-MCPSGIVE BACKpacks, 850Hunger-ford Drive, Room 50, Rockville,MD 20850.
Formore information, con-tact the Office of CommunityEngagement and Partnershipsat 301-279-3100.
Law affects smoke alarmsTheMontgomery County
Fire and Rescue Service hasissued a “what you need toknow” information sheet on the
state’s new smoke alarm lawthat took effect July 1.
TheMaryland law requireshomeowners to replace battery-only operated smoke alarmswith units powered by sealed-in, long-life batteries. Thelaw also requires residentialbattery-operated smoke alarmsto have a “hush-button” featurethat will temporarily silence thealarm if accidentally activated.
The new law applies to bat-tery-only powered alarms, notthose hard-wired into electricalsystems.
The information is atmont-gomerycountymd.gov/mcfrs-info/news/2013/07162013.html.
Studio dancersto perform at fair
Dancers from theDeniseShores Studio of Dance will per-form at 2:30 p.m.Monday at theMontgomery County Agricul-tural Fair inGaithersburg.
The dance school has loca-tions inGaithersburg, Damas-cus and Poolesville. Its dancersregularly perform locally,including at AsburyMethodistVillage and Shady Grove nurs-ing centers.
Energy-efficiencyinspections availableLow-income homeowners
or owners of small multifamilyrental propertiesmay qualifyfor a state energy-conservationprogram.
The EmPower Low IncomeEnergy Efficiency Program isadministered by the Depart-ment of Housing and Com-munity Development. Forhomes that are eligible, anenergy audit inspection willbe scheduled to identify whichimprovements will suit theproperty. Improvements in-clude attic insulation, high-ef-ficiency lightbulbs, hot watersystem insulation and furnacecleaning.
Formore information oneligibilty requirements and theprogram, call 240-777-3788 oremail [email protected].
If you have an interestingnote or photo to share aboutthe people or an event in thecommunity, please send it toStaff Writer Ryan Marshall,The Germantown Gazette,9030 Comprint Court, Gaith-ersburg, MD 20877, or email [email protected]. Our faxnumber is 301-670-7183. Pho-tos should be 1 MB or larger.Deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday forconsideration for the followingweek. All items are subject tospace availability.
Students from Germantown, Rockville visit China for economic forumTHE GAZETTEWednesday, August 7, 2013 g Page A-3
PEOPLE & PL ACESRYAN MARSHALL
FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
Frostburg State University students Jason Ascher (center) of Germantown and Eric Paul (right) of Rockville, here withan unidentified participant in front of Beijing National Stadium — aka the “Bird’s Nest,” built for the 2008 SummerOlympics — recently attended the APEC China CEO Forum in Beijing.
ElizabethBonifant Hyde
Elizabeth BonifantHyde, 84, ofOlneydiedAug.2, 2013. A Mass of ChristianBurial will take place at 11a.m. Thursday at Our Ladyof Grace Catholic Church,15661 Norbeck Blvd., SilverSpring. Roy W. Barber Fu-neral Home in Laytonsvillehandled the arrangements.
Ethel Read WhiteEthel Read White, 91,
of Rockville died Aug. 3,2013. A service will takeplace at 10 a.m. Thursdayat Christ Episcopal Church,107 South Washington St.,Rockville. Pumphrey Fu-neral Home handled ar-rangements.
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CCOOMMMMUUNNIITTY NY NEEWWSSCOMMUNITY NEWSThe Gazette
n Dickerson plantdischarged nitrogren into
Potomac, suit claims
BY MAX EHRENFREUNDTHEWASHINGTON POST
The Maryland Departmentof the Environment has broughtanother water pollution lawsuitagainst a subsidiary of NRG En-ergy, just weeks after the com-pany agreed to pay millions ofdollars in penalties and mitiga-tion costs to settle a suit relatedto other facilities.
The new suit, filed in June,concerns coal-fired generatorsat two plants, in Dickerson andat Chalk Point in Aquasco inPrince George’s County. Thestate contends that wastewaterreleased into the Potomac andPatuxent rivers, respectively,contained illegal amounts ofnitrogen and, in one instance,phosphorus.
The parties are trying to ne-gotiate a settlement in the case,the latest in a series of legal dis-putes involving facilities thatwere owned by GenOn Energybefore NRG bought the com-pany in December. The lawsuitnames GenOn entities as defen-dants.
Publicly traded NRG ofPrinceton, N.J., reported $8.4
billion in revenue in 2012, andthe company owns dozens ofpowerplants across the country.
David Hill, executive vicepresident and general counselat NRG, declined to commenton the continuing litigation.
According to Maryland’scomplaint, sulfur dioxide scrub-bers and wastewater treatmentsystems were added at the twoplants in 2009 and 2010 to com-ply with the Maryland HealthyAir Act, enacted in 2006. Thetreatment systems includedbacteria to remove pollutantsfromwastewater, but the organ-ismsdied soonafter installation,the state contends.
Citing monitoring datasubmitted by GenOn, the statecontends that the Chalk Pointplant discharged as much as20 times its annual allotmentof nitrogen into the Patux-ent in some years. Nitrogen,like phosphorus, is a com-mon component of fertilizer.Released into water, it can ex-acerbate algal blooms, whichin turn create the oxygen-de-pleted dead zones that haveplagued the Chesapeake Bay.
“It’s what’s killing the bay,”said Scott Edwards, a lawyer atFood andWaterWatch. The ad-vocacy groupwas one of severalorganizations that threatenedto sue NRG this year, prodding
state officials to take action.Another of those organiza-
tions was Patuxent Riverkeeper,which is led by Fred Tutman.He called the alleged violations“part of a persistent pattern ofmisbehavior.”
NRG’s Hill said there is notnecessarily any connection be-tween legal disputes involvingfacilities formerly controlled byGenOn, and he noted that fa-cilities are located in differentstates with varying approachesto enforcement.
Hill also said GenOn andNRG had similar protocols forpreventing pollution. “We be-lieve that GenOn had acted rea-sonably and responsibly beforethemerger,” he said.
Maryland’s previous suit,settled in early May, dealt withthe landfills in Prince George’s,Montgomery andCharles coun-ties that were used to disposeof fly ash from coal-fired gen-erators, including theDickersonandChalkPoint plants. Coal ashcan contain an array of heavymetals and other toxins, includ-ing arsenic and selenium.
As part of a settlement inthat suit, NRG agreed to deter-mine whether pollution fromthe ash dumps has contami-nated drinking water in nearbywells.
In addition to paying a $1.9
million penalty, the settlementrequires NRG to take action tocontrol pollution at the sites.Among other measures, thecompany has agreed to cap theash pits that are no longer inuse with an impermeable layer,which will prevent rainwaterfrom leaching pollutants intogroundwater. NRG has set aside$47 million to install the caps,but it cannot predict the totalcost of implementing the settle-ment, according to a Securitiesand Exchange Commission fil-ing.
NRG maintains that Ge-nOn’s operations were legal,and the company did not admitwrongdoing in the settlement.
GenOn and Maryland set-tled another case in December.The state contended that thecompany, acting without theproper permits, filled wetlandsat the Prince George’s landfillin Brandywine. The companyagreed to a $300,000 fine. In anincident not related to the set-tlement, ash overflowed at theBrandywine site after TropicalStorm Irene in 2011, flooding 18acres of private property.
In May, NRG also settled alawsuit concerning air pollutionfrom a coal-fired plant formerlyowned by GenOn in MountBethel, Pa.
State sues NRGEnergy, alleging water pollution at plants
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The Maryland Department of the Environment has sued a subsidiary of NRG Energy, claiming the company’s coal-fired power plant in Dickerson releasedwastewater into the Potomac River that contained illegal amounts of nitrogen.
n Police say victim andshooter know each other
BY ST. JOHNBARNED-SMITH
ANDRYANMARSHALL
STAFFWRITERS
Police said a man who wasshot at about 1:30 a.m. Mon-day at a Germantown residenceprobably was the victim of ahome invasion by several peo-ple.
Police arrived at the ranch-style house, in the 17400 blockof Onyx Drive, after a report ofa shooting and burglary, saidMontgomery County PoliceCapt. JimDaly.
They discovered a 22-year-
oldmanwhohadbeen shot sev-eral times in the torso,Daly said.As of mid-afternoon on Mon-day, police had not released thevictim’s identity.
Police think the victim andshooter knew each other. “Wedon’t believe this was some sortof random crime,” he said.
According to Daly, severalpeople forced their way into thehouse through the back door ofthe residence.
The shooting occurred inthe basement. Rescue person-nel took the man to a local hos-pital, where he was recoveringfrom surgery, Daly said.
Around noon Monday, po-lice crime scene tape still hungacross Black Rock Road in front
of the Asbury United MethodistChurch, across the street fromwherepolice shuttled in andoutof the house.
A child’s pink toy jeep sat infront of the house, near whereofficers stopped to talk on thefront porch, and a swing set wasvisible in the backyard.
Neighbor Kenneth Greenesaid police activity was very un-usual in thequiet neighborhoodoffMd. 118.
Greene said he was in bedaround2:30 a.m.whenhehearda helicopter flying lowoverheadand saw its lights searching theneighborhood.
The house’s residents hadmoved in less than two monthsago, he said.
The residents never caused adisturbanceintheneighborhood,althoughcarssometimescametoand fromthehome,he said.
Police were not sure what,if any, property was taken fromthe home, Daly said.
Police searched the sur-rounding area with K-9 teamsand a helicopter from the U.S.Park Police, but did not findanyone.
Several other adults werein the house at time of shoot-ing, Daly said. Those peoplehave been identified and inter-viewed, but no onewas chargedor was in custody, he said.
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n Disputes will fall undercounty code rather than
having to go to court
BY RYAN MARSHALLSTAFFWRITER
For thefirst time, landlordsand tenants in Poolesville willbe able to resolve their differ-ences using the MontgomeryCounty code rather than go-ing to court.
The town’s five-memberBoard of Commissionersunanimously passed an ordi-nance Monday night that ad-opted the county’s regulationsfor mitigating landlord-tenantdisputes.
Because Poolesville’s codehad no provisions for dealingwith such disputes, landlordsor tenants in the town previ-ously had to go to court to re-solve their issues.
Complaints can be filedwith the county’s Office ofLandlord-Tenant Affairs, andassigned to an investigatorfrom the office who looks intocomplaints and tries to medi-ate an agreement.
If no agreement can bereached, the complaint is re-ferred to a 15-member com-mission that can issue bindingorders that could range from alandlord receivingup to$2,500in damages or a tenant receiv-ing up to three times their se-
curity deposit.The commissioners had
a public hearing on the ordi-nance at their July 15meeting,at which no residents spoke,and Town Manager WadeYost said Monday that nocomments were received dur-ing the public comment pe-riod leading up to that night’smeeting.
The lack of commentsmakes one wonder whetherthe legislation is really needed,but the town should have aplan inplace to dealwith issuesthat come up, Commissioners’President JimBrownsaid.
Commissioner Jerome Klo-bukowski expressed concernabout the time it will take forthe county to resolve issues,and asked if the town couldget a report from the county onhow many cases they get fromPoolesvilleandhowlongit takesto resolve them.
Brown said the county hasindicated itwouldbewilling toprovide numbers to the town.
Commissioner Vala-ree Dickerson said the townshouldn’t get too involved, oth-erwisethere’snopoint in lettingthe countyhandle the issue.
But she said the townshould adopt the ordinancebecause right now neitherlandlords nor tenants have anadvocate.
New standards forlandlords, tenantsOK’d in Poolesville
n Facility will offerafter-school program,
other services
BY RYAN MARSHALLSTAFFWRITER
Muslims in northernMontgomery County willsoon have a new place to wor-ship, with a groundbreakingscheduled for Wednesday inGermantown.
The Germantown/Boydsarea has more than 600 Mus-lim families, said HwaidaHassanein, a spokeswomanfor the Islamic Society of Ger-mantown, and the new placeof worship will be the onlyfacility of its kind within a 10-mile radius.
The building will consistof nearly 10,000 square feeton three levels, and contain alibrary, classrooms and a re-ception area with a commer-cial kitchen, Hassanein said.
It is also expected to pro-vide after-school programs,educational and vocationaltraining and community out-reach, among other services.
The masjid, or Muslimhouse of worship, is expectedto be completed by the end of2014 and cost about $1.6 mil-lion.
Masjid is the preferredterm to “mosque,” whichsometimes has some negativeconnotations attached to it,Hassanein said.
According to theAmericanCivil Liberties Union, Mary-land has had three incidentsdirected against mosques inrecent years.
In 2006, several shots were
fired into an Islamic centerin Salisbury, although no onewas injured.
In 2008, about 70 paint-balls were fired at the IslamicCenter of Maryland in Gaith-ersburg early onemorning.
And in 2009, a Muslimgroup based in Silver Springabandoned plans to build afacility in Walkersville afterthe proposal drew oppositionfrom some local residents andpublic officials in the Freder-ick County town.
While the process of get-ting approvals to build theGermantownmasjidhas takenabout 10 years,Hassanein saidher group hasn’t encounteredthat type of reaction.
“We’ve been very widelyaccepted by people in thecommunity,” she said.
County Councilman CraigRice (D-Dist. 2) of German-town said he expected to at-tend the groundbreaking andsaid themasjid’sarrival reflectsthe diversity of Montgomeryand the upcounty region.
The community shouldmake efforts to support anyreligious institution, he said.
Sen. Nancy King (D-Dist.39) of Montgomery Villagesaid the large and growingMuslim population aroundGermantown made the mas-jid’s location a perfect fit.
King said she hasn’t heardany concerns from constitu-ents about the facility, likelybecause the area is already sodiverse.
“I don’t think people willevenbat one eyelash at it,” shesaid.
Groundbreaking for new Muslimworship site to be on Wednesday
n ‘This vital tax credit isone of the single most
effective tools to fight poverty’
BY KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFFWRITER
A bill to increase income assistancefor working families has not only di-vided theMontgomeryCountyCouncil,it has found its way into county execu-tive campaign rhetoric.
In a recent email soliciting cam-paign donations, Douglas M. Duncan(D) reminded supporters that duringhis time as executive, he created thesubsidy, known as the Working Fami-lies Income Supplement, a tax creditprovided working families living at ornear poverty. And that if re-elected in2014, he would restore it to pre-reces-
sion levels.“I have always believed that this
vital tax credit is one of the single mosteffective tools tofightpoverty and that’swhy fully restoring it will be one of mytop priorities, because in MontgomeryCounty we care about protecting ourneighbors,” hewrote in the solicitation,a copy of which was provided to TheGazette.
Duncan said in an interview Tues-dayhe created the supplementwith thesupport of County Councilmembers inthe late 1990s, including his two oppo-nents in the 2014 race, current CountyExecutive Isiah Leggett and Council-man PhilipM. Andrews.
“Wewere thefirst local governmentto institute it in the country,” Duncansaid. “It gets money directly into thehands of working people.”
Montgomery passed a bill in 2010giving it leeway to cut the supplement
during the recession froma100percentmatch of the state’s income tax credit.
But a bill introduced in March byCouncilman Hans Riemer would re-store and maintain it to a 100 percentmatch unless a super majority decidedit should be lower.
Leggett (D) said his administrationreduced the supplement as an auster-itymeasure during a difficult economy.
“We suffered an immense reces-sion,wehad todo thingsdifferently anddo itmore efficiently,” he said Tuesday.“I determined that we needed to makesome changes, and we made somechanges in virtually every program youcan name.”
But while the county reduced thesupplement — according to countydocuments it reached a low of 68.9percent state match in fiscal 2012 —Montgomery enhanced programs foraffordable housing, health insurance
and grants to nonprofits, he said.The county found other creative
ways to provide support to its workingpoor, Leggett said.
Riemer (D-At large) of TakomaParksaid he expected grumbling when heintroduced the bill.What he didnot an-ticipate was such strong opinions.
Councilwoman Valerie Ervin (D-Dist. 5) of Silver Spring has openlyopposed the bill, comparing it to thehand-tying of the state’s educationfunding requirement, known as main-tenance of effort. Council PresidentNancy Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of SilverSpring asked Riemer to withdraw hisbill and submit a resolution in its place.
The longer the council keepshis billin limbo, themore interest it is going toattract politically, Riemer said.
“It’s a real issue and it’s not sur-prising that it could be something thatcomes up in the campaign because
this is one of the most important anti-poverty policies that we have; it’s beenone ofMontgomeryCounty’s signatureachievementsonpoverty,”Riemer said.
Leggett’s signature is required forthe bill to become law. Riemer’s billwould not prevent Leggett from pro-posing less than 100 percent. However,the bill does require the council to fundthe full amount.
“It is laudable; I commend him forhis intent and his desire to help thosewho can be assisted by this,” Leggettsaid.
What thecouncil chooses todowiththe supplement will be a “strong state-ment about whereMontgomery Coun-ty’s priorities are,” Duncan said.
Andrews (D-Dist. 3) ofGaithersburgcould not be reached for comment.
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n Health care CEO getseight months in prison
BY RYANMARSHALLSTAFFWRITER
The former CEO of a now-defunct health care servicescompany was sentenced toeight months in federal prisonfor falsifying records and tryingto evade an audit.
Jeannette N. Awasum, 49,of Germantown was sentencedJuly 31 in U.S. District Court forthe District of Columbia.
She pleaded guilty in Aprilone count of falsification ofrecords in connection with afederal investigation.
In June 2008, the U.S. De-partment of Health and Hu-man Services told Awasum itwould audit her company, TriState Home Health and Equip-ment Service of Washington,D.C, to see whether govern-ment reimbursements forhealth care services matchedwhat was provided to patients,according to the plea agree-
ment in the case.Tri State provided care to
patients in Washington to helpthem stay in their homes duringillnesses.
In June 2010, Health andHuman Services asked that TriState provide forms for 130 pa-tients for whom the companyhad been reimbursed byMedi-care and Medicaid. Awasumtold staff to create plans of carefor 62 patients for whom noplans existed, the plea agree-ment says.
Tri State received about$1.88 million for treating those62 patients.
The forms then were signedby a doctor who Awasum knewhadn’t examined any of thepatients, according to the pleaagreement.
Awasum’s lawyer, CharlesMurdter ofWashington, empha-sized that Tri State hadn’t billedthe government for services thathadn’t been rendered or pa-tients that didn’t exist.
The company hadn’t beenkeeping the proper documen-tation, and tried to cover upthat fact when it found outabout the audit, Murdter said.
“Her company got sloppywith the paperwork,” he said.
Awasum likely will reportto prison in the next two to sixweeks, although shehasn’t beentold where she’ll serve her sen-tence,Murdter said.
After her release fromprison, Awasum will be on twoyears of supervised probation,four months of which will be onhomedetention. She alsowill berequired toperform500hoursofcommunity service.
Former Germantown executivesentenced for falsifying records
n Speakers show impactof climate change
BYMARLENA CHERTOCKSTAFFWRITER
About 500 residents, poli-ticians and activists showedsupport for climate-changepolicies at an Organizing ForAction town hall last week atthe Silver Spring Civic Center.
“Cleaner air leads to health-ier families,”saidNeetaDatt, thecountydirector ofOFA.
Thenearly four-hourmeet-ing was the first in a month ofaction for OFA, a nonprofitthat supports President BarackObama’s agenda.
Speakers focused on thepresident’s plan, but also en-couraged action on an indi-vidual level.
“Climate change is themost important issue in ourgeneration,” said DonaldBoesch, the president of theCenter for EnvironmentalScience at the University of
Maryland. “We have a specialresponsibility and opportunityto lead.”
Pushing formore clean en-ergy in the state has the poten-tial to create jobs, Boesch said.
“We don’t need to inventanything, all we need is morepolicy,” said Mike Tidwell, thedirector of Chesapeake Cli-mate Change Action Network.“The fossil-fuel industry is al-lowed to treat our atmosphereas a sewer.”
Becauseof climate change,cases of asthma and heart at-tacks are increasing in theU.S.,said Cindy Parker, an assistantprofessor at Johns Hopkinswho is on the board of direc-tors for Physicians for SocialResponsibility.
“Health is the only thingthat has the potential to en-gage everyone across the po-litical spectrum on climatechange,” she said. “Every-one cares about their health,their family’s health and theirneighbor’s health.”
Katherine Magruder, the
executive director of theMary-land Clean Energy Center,encouraged people to sharebooks they’re reading aboutenvironmental topics withpeoplewho are doubtful of cli-mate change.
Datt told residents to sendletters to the editor to localnewspapers and call their rep-resentatives to push climatechange legislation.
“Maybe with a nudge and apush we can get them to take aside,” she said. “It’s about timethey take a side for or in denial.And OFAwill start holding peo-ple inCongress accountable.”
Datt saidMaryland, and thenation, needs to change the cli-mate change conversation.
“We don’t hear the impactsenough in Congress or the me-dia,” she said. “We’re alreadychanging the conversation byfilling up this room.We get it inMontgomery County, but wehave to reach out and help oth-ers.”
Silver Spring climate change town hallmeeting encourages individual action
“Her company gotsloppy with the
paperwork.”Charles Murdter,
lawyer forJeannette N. Awasum
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n At issue is howfar coops should be
from lot lines
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Some residents are opposedtoMontgomeryCounty’splan torelax zoning regulations, lettingmore people keep chickens intheir backyards.
Montgomery is comprehen-sively rewriting its zoning codeandusing the revision to changecertain policies, among whichare the rules regulating the rais-ing of chickens.
As far back as the county’sfirst zoning code in 1928, resi-dents could have chickens intheir yards, because farmingwaspermitted in every zone, Legisla-tive Attorney Jeff Zyontz said.
But by the mid-1950s, thecode did not expressly allow forchickens, he said.
Sometime after 1955, thecounty adopted its current reg-ulations, which allow chickensin residential zones, so long asthe coop is 25 feet froma lot lineand 100 feet from a neighboringhouse, Zyontz said.
Those rules, he said, werecrafted to keep fowloff small lots.
Planners and council mem-bers want to let those who liveon small lots raise chickens, too.
Within the current rewrite,county planners have proposedto relax the rules for backyardchicken farming, suggesting acoop be at least 5 feet from thelot line. They also proposed al-lowing one hen for every 1,000square feet of a lot, up to eight.No roosters would be allowedand yardsmust be fenced.
Goats also would be permit-
ted, but no more than one goatfor every 2,000 square feet of lotspace.
The council’s PlanningHousing and Economic Devel-opment Committee went for acompromise between currentrules and the planners’ pro-posal, recommending coops beat least 15 feet from the lot line.The committee the planningboard’s other limits.
Councilwoman Nancy Flo-reen, who chairs the committee,said some people did not realizeuntil the rewrite that the countyhas longallowedchicken in resi-dential zones.
“Residents always couldhave chickens. The only ques-tion was the location of thecoop,” Floreen (D-At large) ofGarrett Park said.
Some have cried foul at re-laxing the regulations, even sug-gesting that it would precipitatea major spike in the number ofhens in animal shelters, as resi-dents give up on raising chick-ens in their backyards.
Others have said a 15-footsetback would force many whowant to raise chickens to put thecoop in the center of their yard— in direct sunlight.
Objections to smell andhealth concerns about animalwaste also have been raised,but animal advocates and ag-riculture experts say most areunfounded.
Paul Shapiro, vice presi-dent of farm animal protectionfor The Humane Society of theUnited States, said chickensare intelligent, social, interest-ing animals that canmake goodcompanions.
But when chickens are al-lowed in residential areas orrules are relaxed, there can be aspike inunwantedbirds going to
shelters, he said.Shapiro suggested that those
interested in keeping chickensfirst learn what they are gettinginto. If they decide to go for it,they should rescue a shelteredchicken rather than orderingchicks through themail, he said.
University of MarylandExtension Educator ChuckSchuster agreed that those con-sidering raising chickens dotheir homework.
Poultry sitters are absolutelynecessary if owners plan to goon vacation, as the birds shouldnot be left to fend for them-selves, Schuster said.
Movable coops that provideadequate shelter and room forthe birds to roost at night andlay eggs are also essential. Amovable coop prevents chick-ens from ranging in only onearea and will help cut down onsmell and degradation to yards,Schuster said.
Unfortunately, thoseexpect-ing to raise chickens toget cheapeggs aremistaken, he said.
The cost of buying a propercoop, feeding and caring forchickens breaks down to about$4 to $6 for every dozen eggs thechickens will produce, he said.
Those hoping to get fresheggs, though, can produce foodfor themselves.
Both Schuster and Shapirodoubted that chickens wouldproduce more waste than dogsor cats.
“When we properly managepoultry flocks in the backyardsetting, including moving thestructure, there is not a manureconcentration and once it rains,it is incorporated into the turf,”Schuster said. “I’m less con-cerned about that than I’d beabout some pet waste.”
When questioned by thecouncil, Dr. Ulder Tillman, thecounty’s health officer, said thegreater health risk would behandling the bird, not thewaste.She suggested frequent hand-washing.
The full council has yet todiscuss the zoning rewrite, sothe rules for raising chickenscould continue to evolve.
County may relax rules on owning chickens
n One dead, one injured inDecember vehicle attack
BY ST. JOHNBARNED-SMITHSTAFFWRITER
Billie Jay and James Ge-nies were walking down WestDiamondAvenue inDecemberwhen a car struck them like a“missile,” a prosecutor said incourt Thursday.
The impact knocked bothbrothers out of their shoes, kill-ing 34-year-old Billie Jay, whowas known as B.J., and knock-ing James, 35, unconscious.
“When I think about thepain and grief I caused the Ge-nies family, I think about if myparents were murdered, how Iwould feel. I think they’reprob-ably feeling 100 times worse,”Fernando Valenzuela of Da-mascus said in court Thursday,before a judge ordered him toserve 20 years in prison.
Valenzuela, 21, was theman behind the wheel thenight one died and the otherseriously injured.
The ramifications of his ac-tions left two families shakenand grieving.
“There’s a lot of hurting inthe Genies family,” said EricNee, Montgomery County as-sistant state’s attorney, beforeasking Montgomery CircuitCourt Judge David A. Boyntonto sentence Valenzuela to 20years in prison.
“[Your] actions showedlittle regard for the value of hu-man life. ... That’s what shoutsout to me about this case andthe facts of what happened,”Boynton said, calling Billie’sdeath an “enormous loss,” be-fore sentencing Valenzuela to55years inprisonandsuspend-ing 35 years.
The Genies family was try-ing to work through the utterdisregard for the men’s lives,Nee said.
“Three thousand poundsof steel, glass and hard rubbercame barreling at these two
men who did nothing wrongthat night, and he wiped themout,” Nee said.
Valenzuela pleaded guiltyto second-degree depraved-heart murder and first-degreeassault in May, after many ofthe details of the incident cameto light.
Nee said Valenzuela metthe two brothers the night ofDec. 4 or the early morning
hours ofDec. 5.
A f t e rValenzu-ela got offofwork, heand twof r i e n d sd r a n kbeer, thenwent to aM cDon -ald’s in
Damascus. The restaurant wasclosed; they went to a 7-Eleveninstead, where they ran intothe Genies brothers, who werefromPotomac.
“Thingsbetween the youngmen were very cordial,” Neesaid at the plea hearing. “Therewas no animosity.”
The brothers asked for aride to Gaithersburg, offeringValenzuela some marijuana.But when they got to Gaithers-burg, the brotherswalked awayfrom Valenzuela without pay-ing him.
Incensed, Valenzuela fol-lowed them with his car, andhit them as they were walkingnear the entrance of theAvalonSchool. The impact bent therims of the black Honda Civicand destroyed its windshield.Valenzuela drove away andparked nearby. Billie Geniesdied at the scene; JamesGenieswas knocked unconscious, butsurvived.
Andrew Jezic, Valenzu-ela’s defense attorney, said incourt that Valenzuela did notintend to kill the two brothers,but pleaded guilty because hewanted to take responsibilityfor his actions and because he
was deeply remorseful.Jezic said that Valenzuela
had come to the decision toplead guilty while in solitaryconfinement, where he spent agreat deal of time reflecting onhis actions, reading the Bibleand praying.
But the wounds of the lossand injury of the Genies broth-ers still weighed heavily ontheir family and supporters.
“To know someonedid thison purpose is hard to fathom,”Nee said, bringing a heavy sighfrom JamesGenies, whowas inthe Montgomery County De-tention Center on unrelatedcharges, watched the proceed-ings in his cell via a closed-cir-cuit camera.
Relatives of the Geniesbrothers told Boynton theywere having a hard time for-giving Valenzuela and gettingover the assault and death.They also couldn’t understandwhy Valenzuela didn’t stay atthe scene after hitting the twobrothers.
“Why didn’t they thinkto call police?” asked EvelynGenies, the brothers’ grand-mother.
“The pain today is just asgreat as it was eight monthsago,” an aunt said in court,before addressing Valenzueladirectly.
“If a person does harmwhen they don’t mean to doit, they stay and try to help. ...You just left the scene,” she toldhim.
“It was like roadkill,” saidJames Martin, the father. “Myfamily is definitely going toneed some time to heal.”
The Valenzuela family alsosaid theyweregrieving.Thiswasout of character for him, theysaid, speaking about how heworked hard, volunteered andwas a polite boy with a “gener-ousheart,” one friend said.
“Please forgive us,” saidOscar Valenzuela, Fernando’suncle.
Damascus driver who ran downtwo brothers gets 20-year sentence
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n Wegmans leads the waywith hundreds of hires
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFFWRITER
Despite dealing with federalsequester budget cuts, Mont-gomery and Frederick coun-ties continue to build their jobbase beyond pre-recession lev-els. The counties added almost6,000 jobs in June alone, accord-ing to the latest figures from thefederal labor department.
The counties’ combinedemployment level of 590,500 inJune was more than 7,000 jobshigher thananyprevious June inthe past two decades. The previ-ous high of 583,200 was reachedin June 2006. That level dove to541,900 in early 2010 followingthe recession, but job numbershave risen steadily since then.
Since June 2012, the areahas added 17,000 jobs, the mostin that 12-month period since1999, when about 22,000 posi-tions were added.
In June, most industries inMontgomery-Frederick had in-creases, including administra-tive, up 900; retail, up 800; andhealth care, up 800.
Among the companies thatadded jobs in the area in JunewasWegmans,whichhiredabout330 of the planned 550 local em-ployees for its new Germantownstore by mid-June. The grocerexpects to have the rest hired bymid-August to train for its mid-September opening, said storemanager PhilQuattrini.
Sequestration has not af-fected Bethesda defense giantLockheed Martin as much assome thought at this time, saidLockheed CFO Bruce Tanner.“We sawminimal impact to oursales in the second quarter as aresult of sequestration actions,”he said.
Layoffs involving largercompanies inMontgomeryhavebeen fewer this year, accordingto the state labor department.So far this year, three compa-nies have filed notices of layoffsin Montgomery under the fed-eralWorker Adjustment andRe-training Notification Act, whichgenerally applies to companieswith more than 100 employees.Last year, there were five such
warnings affectingMontgomerythough July.
The latest was Ashburn, Va.-based government contractorMVM,whichwarnedMaryland’slabor department last week thatit might lay off 106 workers inSilver Spring and College Parkby Sept. 30 due to a possiblecontract loss. Executives withMVM — which provides secu-rity services for the NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Ad-ministration’s facilities in SilverSpringandCollegePark—couldnot be reached for comment.
The only WARN notice re-lated to Frederick so far this yearwas by Marriott International,which in April warned of a pos-sible layoff of several hundredworkers byDecember. Last year,onlyoneWARNnotice related toFrederick; that came inOctober.
The unadjusted unemploy-mentrateinMontgomeryCountyrose to 6.0 percent in June from5.4 percent in May, according toa state labor department report.In Frederick County, the joblesslevel rose to 6.6 percent from 6.0percent. Those levels were belowthe statewide unadjusted Junerate of 7.5 percent.
The adjusted June rate was7.0 percent; adjusted rates forcounties were not available.
The jobless rates are higherthan a year ago because morepeople are entering the jobmarket these days, LeonardHowie, Maryland’s labor secre-tary, said in a conference call.About 10,000 more Montgom-ery County residents joined thelabor force in June than a yearago, and 1,600 more FrederickCounty residents did so.
In addition, June typicallybrings higher unemploymentlevels than May because morestudents enter the job market,Howie said.
The Montgomery CountyDepartmentofEconomicDevel-opment also uses jobs data fromprivatefirmEconomicModelingSpecialists International. InMay,thedepartment releaseda reportthat said jobs in Montgomerygrew by almost 25,000, or 3.9percent, between2010and2012,a greater percentage than thegrowth in both Fairfax County,Va., andWashington, D.C.
Despite cuts, area hitstwo-decade job highn State continues
tradition of weekwithout sales tax forcertain purchases
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFFWRITER
Since opening in 1996,Rockville educational supplystore ABC’s& 1-2-3’s has devel-oped aniche for specialty itemswith a strong repeat-customerfollowing, especially amongteachers.
That’s important, as the lo-cally owned retailer competesfor what analysts say are fewershopping dollars this back-to-school season.
“Our clients are predomi-nantly teachers, but we doget a lot of parents who buyworkbooks and supplemen-tal materials,” co-owner LouisKalavritinos said. “And manyparentswhohome-school theirchildren come here.”
Co-owner Lisa Hagestearyis a former teacher.
ABC’s, in the WintergreenPlaza Shopping Center onRockville Pike, stocks its shelveswith workbooks, flashcards, vi-sual aids, learning games andharder-to-find items like pencilgrips and science fair materi-als. The store focuses on prod-ucts for students from age 2 toeighth grade.
The back-to-school shop-ping season is a key time forretailers, with consumers ex-pected to spend some $72.5billion nationwide on supplies,clothes and other items for col-lege-age to younger students,according to theNationalRetailFederation. That total is secondamong shopping seasons onlyto the winter holidays, whichhit $579.8 billion in sales na-tionally last year.
With the economy stillshaky, getting good value re-mains on the minds of manyshoppers, said PatrickDonoho,president of the Maryland Re-tailers Association.
“Shoppers have becomemuch savvier during theseeconomic tough times,” hesaid. “They expect competitivepricing, while also looking foradded value in service, conve-nience and thewhole shoppingexperience.”
Such shopperswill get evenmore value by waiting to buyclothes and shoes priced at lessthan $100during the state’s an-nual tax-free week, Aug. 11-17.That’s when they don’t haveto pay the 6 percent state salestax.
Back-to-school spendingexpected to declineFamilies with students
from kindergarten to highschool are expected to spendan average $635 on apparel,shoes and supplies, while thosewith college students are pro-jected to spend an average of$837, with the increase relatedto the added costs of dorm orapartment furnishings. That isabout 8 percent less than lastyear, according to the NationalRetail Federation.
Last year was a record yearbecause parents were replen-ishing school supplies for kidsafter several years of doingwithout, Matthew Shay, presi-dent and CEO of the retail fed-eration, said in a conferencecall. It also was an extra largeclass of newstudents, henoted.
This year still will be thehighest year for spending onback to school besides lastyear, Shay said. “There were anumber of factors that changedthings and made last year ex-ceptional,” he said.
Unemployment still is aconcern among parents, whoalso are feeling the pinch of anincrease in payroll taxes, Shaysaid. Montgomery County’sunemployment rate hit 6.0 per-cent in June, up from 5.4 per-cent a year ago, while FrederickCounty’s rate reached 6.6 per-cent in June, up from 6.2 per-cent a year ago. Statewide, theunadjusted ratewas7.5percentin June.
The rise in unemploymenthas more to do with more peo-ple getting back into the labormarket than jobs declining,analysts say. In fact, retail em-ployment in Montgomery andFrederick counties rose by 300jobs in the past year, accord-ing to the latest federal laborfigures.
The employment is aidedby new stores opening, includ-
ing Costco in Wheaton in Apriland Kohl’s in Aspen Hill lastfall. Wegmans in Germantownplans to open in September.
New promotionsand partnerships
Retailers that have numer-ous stores in Montgomery andFrederick have begun rollingout back-to-school promo-tions.
Kohl’s Department Stores
is teaming up with office-sup-ply retailer Staples on a newpromotion, said Tami Kou, aKohl’s spokeswoman. FromAug. 4 through Sept. 2, everyKohl’s customer spending $30or more will receive a couponfor $5 off a $50 in-store pur-chase at Staples. Staples’ shop-perswho spend $30will receivea coupon for $10 off a $30 pur-chase at Kohl’s.
Kohl’s also is offering asweepstakes for shoppers togain chances towin backpacks,
gift cards, movie tickets andother prizes.
Other retailers, such asSears, are offering electroniccoupons for the first time. Tar-get has a credit cardwithwhichconsumers can get 5 percentoff every purchase, along withits online coupons. Walmart isoffering more than 250 schoolsupplies for less than $1, aswellas free shipping with onlinepurchases.
Fewer dollars expected during back-to-school season
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Leslie Callaway and daughter Jenna, 20, of Rockville shop for back-to-school items July 31 at the WashingtonianCenter’s Kohl’s department store in Gaithersburg. Below, backpacks are on display at the store.
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n ‘Lip Gloss and a Sander’airing on county station
BY SYLVIA CARIGNANSTAFF WRITER
Every girl has her go-to tool;for some, it’s a flat iron or atrendy pair of heels. For BridgetEdell, it’s her favorite tube of lip-stick and a great sander.
Edell is thehost of “LipGlossand a Sander,” which first airedonMontgomeryCounty’spublicaccess television station in June.The show followsGaithersburg’sEdell as she takes on refinishing,painting and sanding projectsstep by step.
The title comes from twotools that havebecomeessentialfor her handyman hobbies andeveryday life.
“In my garage, I can do any-thing with a sander,” she said.
Growing up, Edell wouldspend time with her father inhis workshop. She didn’t shareher siblings’ interests in sportsat the time. She learned how tostrip furniture of its polish andrefinish pieces to make themlook new.
Edell hosted MontgomeryCountyMedia’s production staffat her home on July 27 to filmthe fifth episode of “Lip Glossand a Sander.”
In that episode, she showedviewers how to create a pubtable out of a whiskey barrel.Edell, an executive assistant atShady Grove Hospital, said theidea came from a friend whowanted to update the wet bar inhis basement.
Edell often takes her guests
on the show to garage sales andflea markets to find affordablefurniture that can be updated orrefinished.
The new host said she hopesthe show will encourage morewomen to take on home im-provement projects.
“It doesn’t necessarily haveto be a man in the garage,” shesaid.
Edell’s husband, Gary Edell,encouraged her to take the leapinto show business and put herPennsylvania State Universitycommunicationsdegree to gooduse.
“Back when I was in collegeand graduating ... there weren’ta whole lot of job opportunitiesfor women” in broadcast jour-nalism, she said.
Edell pitched her idea for atelevision show to MontgomeryCounty Media, which approvedher for a series.
Merlyn Reineke, executivedirector of Montgomery CountyMedia, said the station helpscounty residents and produc-ers get time on the small screen.The number of episodes Edell
will film is up to her, he said.Reineke said Edell’s show
is “a very creative concept”and might inspire other county
residents to start shows of theirown.
“Lip Gloss and a Sander”airs on Montgomery Channel 21
at 10 p.m. Wednesdays and 5:30p.m. Sundays.
DIY pro breaks into television
n ‘It’s a far stretchand gross negligence,’District 15 delegate says
BY KARA ROSE
STAFF WRITER
In his Aug. 3 message to theMontgomery County Republi-can Party, Chairman Mark Un-capher linked District 15 Del.ArunaMiller (D) to theproblemsat the beleaguered Silver SpringTransit Center.
“Voters seeking answersneed not search out a facelessbureaucrat. The ‘Facilities Plan-ning Manager’ heading up theSection is none other than Dis-trict 15HouseofDelegatesDem-ocratic Member Aruna Miller,”Uncapher’s message read.
The message went on tosay that District 15 voters “can
do the entire county a publicservice by asking some pointedquestions of Del. Miller abouttheSilver SpringTransitCenter.”
District 15 includes Boyds,Clarksburg, Darnestown, Ger-mantown, Poolesville andPotomac, as well as parts ofGaithersburg, North Potomacand Rockville.
When asked about the state-ment, Miller told The Gazetteon Tuesday afternoon that shenever had any association withthe transit center. The project,she said, has been in the handsof the Department of GeneralServices, not the county’s De-partment of Transportation.
“It’s a far stretch and grossnegligence to link me to the Sil-ver Spring Transit Center,” saidMiller of Darnestown.
Uncapher clarified his state-ment on Tuesday afternoon,saying that while Miller is not
responsible for the mistakes atthe center, voters should be ask-ing her questions about why theoriginal designs for the centerdid not require adequate rein-forcements.
Uncapher also said he wasunhappy with the “amount ofobfuscation of what went wrongat various times,” noting countyofficials’ “reluctance” to take re-sponsibility.
As a transportationplanningmanager for the Department ofTransportation, Miller said sheand her team justify the need forand comment on projects be-fore they go to the county execu-tiveorCountyCouncil.Once it ispassed on, she said, the projectis out of her hands.
Having served in this capac-ity in the department for aboutsix years, Miller said she neverhad any involvement with thetransit center.
The $120 million transitcenter, at the corner of Coles-ville Road and Wayne Avenuein downtown Silver Spring,was slated to open in 2011, buta series of cracks found in thestructure and disparities in thethickness of the concrete havedelayed theproject’s openingbytwo years so far. It is still unclearwhen the center will be open forbusiness.
Miller said she believes oncethe center is completed andfunctioning, it will be a great as-set to Silver Spring. While sheis concerned about how thisproject might impact taxpay-ers, she said the county and theWashington Metropolitan AreaTransit Authority will resolvetheir issues for what is the bestcourse to take in maintainingthe facility.
Miller fires back at GOP for transit center claims
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Bridget Edell of Gaithersburg, while taping her county cable TV show, “Lip Gloss and a Sander,” helps select a tabletop on July 27 at Thomas Marble & Granite in Gaithersburg.
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CUMBERLAND-John J. DeJoice, Sr.,70, of Cumberland and formerly ofDickerson, Maryland, passed away onJuly 25th at Devlin Manor,Cumberland, MD with his wife at hisside.Born on October 22, 1942, he was theson of the late Joseph and Philomena(Leoni) DeJoice. John was a SystemsEngineer for L.A. Systems, Alexandria,VA. He also served in the U.S. Armyand was a graduate of St. Joseph’s High
School, Renovo, PA. He was a member of Our Lady of the MountainsParish.He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Elizabeth “Betty” (McGlone)DeJoice; daughter Mary Jo DeJoice of Elkins, WV; and son John J.DeJoice, Jr. and wife Rhonda of Cumberland and grandsons, J. JosephDeJoice III and Collin DeJoice, both the light of his life; sister HelenDeJoice Fortson, San Diego, CA; and Julianne Thorson, aunt andClifford Thorson, uncle, Renovo, PA.John’s gentle, kind and loving spirit will be dearly missed by hisfamily. John loved nature and the outdoors and had a real joy forcooking and collecting mushrooms. He was happiest when spendingtime with his family.Friends will be received at the Scarpelli Funeral Home, P.A., 108Virginia Ave. (www.scarpellifh.com) on Saturday, July 27 from 3:00 to7:00 p.m. with a Christian wake at 6:00 p.m.A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Saint Joseph CatholicChurch, 925 Huron Avenue, Renovo, PA on Saturday, August 3, 2013at 10:00am with Rev. Charles C. Ugo as celebrant. Military honorsand interment will be at St. Joseph Cemetery, Hyner, PA.
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n Robocall soundslike real person
BY ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH
STAFFWRITER
Montgomery County resi-dents have been targeted bya slick robocalling scam, thecounty’s Office of ConsumerProtectionwarned Friday.
In the scam, a prerecordedvoice tells the person answeringthe phone that someone theyknow has purchased a “MedicalAlert” device for them and thecompany is trying to schedule adelivery, according toEric Fried-man, director of MontgomeryCounty’s Office of ConsumerProtection.
But the calls are a scam op-eration to try to get personalidentity information or creditcard information from resi-dents, Friedman said.
People getting ripped off bythescamreceivemonthlychargesof $35 and up, said John D. Brey-ault, a vice president at the Na-tional Consumers League. Thescam is similar to one that wasinvestigated by the Federal TradeCommission inMarch, he said.
The call alone is illegal, hesaid.
“If you’ve not given permis-sion for a company to contactyou, they cannot use an autodialer,” he said, explaining thatit was a violation of consumerprotection law.
In that case, a Brooklyn-based company would contactseniors with a similar pitchabout a free medical alert ser-vice, then bill them between$817 and $1,602 with bogus in-
voices, he said. If the person re-ceiving the bogus bill refused topay, the company often threat-ened them, he said.
“The FTC put a halt to thatscam, but there are copycats outthere,” he said.
As for who’s behind it?“Really, it could be practi-
cally anyone. If you have accessto right technology, it’s a fairlysimple scam to run,” he said.Many originate outside of theU.S., he said.
The calls come from a localnumber, but could actually becoming from anywhere in thecountry using a process called“spoofing,” Friedman said.
Keith Watkins, an investiga-tor with Montgomery County’sOffice of Cable and BroadbandServices, said that he receivedone of the calls last week.
“It did not sound like a pre-dictive dialer,” he said. “Thisfella just started talking. I trulythought it was a live caller,” saidWatkins, 56, of Silver Spring.
Then, on the recording, thecaller asked to schedule a deliv-ery by pressing “1,” or to declinea delivery by pressing “5.”
“I’mawareof scams like this,but this sounded so lifelike thatI thought I was talking to a realperson,”Watkins said.
Once he realized it was a ro-bocall, he listened to the rest ofthe recording, then hung up, hesaid.
Friedman advised Mont-gomery County residents tolimit the amount of time on thephone,not to talk to a liveopera-tor, and not to give any personalinformation to operators.
Medical alert scam reportedn Grocery pickup serviceto start at stand-alonesite in Chevy Chase
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFFWRITER
Giant Food and home-de-livery affiliate Peapod are step-ping up their services, as moregrocers and online retailers of-fer customers the convenienceof having groceries delivered.
Starting Wednesday, cus-tomers who order groceriesonline from Peapod can pickthem up at Giant’s first stand-alone site in Maryland, at 8500ConnecticutAve.,ChevyChase.
Customers have been ableto have groceries delivered totheir homes for a fee in Mont-gomery County since 2003,said PegMerzbacher, a Peapodspokeswoman. There is amini-mumorder of $60 for homede-livery, but there is nominimumor fee if customerspickup theirgroceries.
Thefirst pickup locations atGiant grocery stores in Mont-gomery opened in June. Thereare six — two each in Rockville
and Germantown, along withones in Derwood and ChevyChase.
The seventh site in ChevyChase also will have a Giantgasoline station that likely willopen later this week, GiantFood spokesman Jamie Millersaid.
“It’s been well-received,”Miller said of the delivery ser-vice. “Customers like havingthis convenience.”
Landover-based GiantFood and Skokie, Ill.-basedPeapodareboth subsidiaries ofDutch retail giant Royal Ahold.
Pleasanton, Calif.-basedSafeway, which also has nu-merous stores in MontgomeryCounty, has offered home de-livery in theWashington regionsince 2005, said Craig Muckle,a company spokesman. Cur-rently, Safeway only offers de-livery with no in-store pickupfor online purchases.
“There is a pretty strongcore of people who use it,”Muckle said. “Some peoplehave challenges going to thestore, so it fits their needs.”
The minimum order forSafeway’s service is $49. The fee
for purchases of less than $150is $12.95, though first ordersfor new customers are free, ac-cording to the website.
The delivery fee for homeservice with Peapod is from$7.95 to $9.95; the lower fee isfor ordersmore than $100.
Walmart began testing adelivery service for items thatinclude toys and electronicslast year in certain markets,such as Northern Virginia. Theservice is not yet available inMontgomery County, accord-ing to its website.
Services such as Netgrocer.com also deliver groceries tocustomers for a fee. Amazon.com has delivered groceriesin the Seattle area for severalyears and is expanding to othermarkets.
Online grocery shoppingis one of several trends that ischanging the face of supermar-kets, which also face competi-tion from club stores, dollarstores and farmers markets,according to a new report byRockville market research firmPackaged Facts. About half ofshoppers use online or in-storecoupons and two-thirds buy
groceries on sale, according tothe firm.
“Economic, demographic,lifestyle and technologicalchanges have created not onlya fertile environment,” DavidSprinkle, research director forPackaged Facts, said in a state-ment, “but the absolute neces-sity for new concepts to engageshoppers ... and reinvent foodand beverage retailing.”
Giant’s stand-alone siteis formatted like a fast-fooddrive-through, in which cus-tomers remain in their vehiclesas workers load their groceries.Giant has 10 other gas stationsinMaryland,Miller said.
Peapod already has testedstand-alone sites in Illinois andNew York. The company alsohas partnerships with Stop &Shop andGiant-Carlisle.
Peapod does not now havepickup delivery sites at Freder-ick County Giant stores, but thecompanies are “continually re-viewingwhere to put locations,”Miller said. “We do internal re-search todeterminewhere therewill be significantdemand.”
Stores look to make shopping more convenient
The following is a summaryof incidents in the German-town area to whichMontgom-ery County police respondedrecently. The words “arrested”and “charged” do not implyguilt. This informationwasprovided by the county.
Aggravated assault• On July 19 at 5:45 p.m. in
the 13200 block ofWonderlandWay,Germantown.The subjectis known to the victim.
Armed robbery• On July 20 at 3:40 a.m. in
the 18900 block of Quiet OakLane, Germantown. The sub-jects threatened the victimwitha weapon, but did not obtainproperty.
Auto theft• On July 16 or 17 in the
19900 block of Sweetgum Cir-cle, Germantown. No furtherinformation provided.
• On July 16 or 17 in the13200blockofBristleconeWay,Germantown. No further infor-mation provided.
• On July 18 between 6 and8 a.m. in the 20400 block of Al-derleaf Terrace, Germantown.No forced entry.
• Between July 20 and 22in the 18000 block of MatenyRoad, Germantown.
• Between July 20 and 22 inthe 18400 block of Stone Hol-lowDrive, Germantown.
• Between July 20 and 22 inthe 18500 block of CinnamonDrive, Germantown.
Indecent exposure• On July 21 at 2:30 p.m. in
the parking lot of Lotte Plaza,13069 Wisteria Drive, German-town. The man exposed him-self and fled.
Residential burglary• 18500 block of Nutmeg
Place, Germantown. Unknownentry,unknownwhatwas taken.
• 19000 block of WarriorBrook Drive, Germantown, be-tween 7:50 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.July 26. Forced entry, took prop-erty.
• 13600 block of WisteriaDrive, Germantown, between8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. July 16.Attempted forced entry, tooknothing.
Strong-arm robbery• On July 22 at 11:30 p.m.
in the 19500 block of FrederickRoad, Germantown. The vic-tim was walking on GunnersBranch Road when he was ap-proached by six subjects. Thesuspects assaulted the victimand took property.
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n Concession standcelebrates 60 years
BY SYLVIA CARIGNANSTAFFWRITER
At the Montgomery CountyFairgrounds, a man called “TheBig Cheese” is chasing a recordthat could give the WisconsinState Fair a run for itsmoney.
Ed Hogan, who runs thecheese stand at the county’sagricultural fair, wants to makea record-breaking 10,000 grilledcheese sandwiches — morethan the fair has ever seen.
The volunteers who run thestand have come close to theirgoal in past years, but havefallen a few thousand sand-wiches short. About 8,400 weresold at the fair last year.
The Montgomery CountyAgricultural Fair, which kicksoff Friday in Gaithersburg, is
celebrating 60 years of The BigCheese, also the name of Ho-gan’s stand. Blocks of cheesewere first sold there in 1953.
“We started the first yearwith just one wheel of cheese,and just grew from there,” Ho-gan said.
The bread, butter and ched-dar sandwiches made their de-but at the fair in 1986, after fourof the stand’s volunteers sug-gested them.
“When they first started tomakegrilled cheese sandwiches,they had a grill that wouldmaketwo at a time,” Hogan said.“Now,wehave a grill thatmakes20 sandwiches at a time.”
Lines still form in front ofthe stand during the fair, buttheymove quickly. Noonewaitsmore than four minutes for asandwich, he said.
The butter and bread comefrom local producers in Fred-erick and West Virginia. But
the mild, melty cheddar cheesein the heart of the sandwich ispurchased from a factory, Hen-ning’s Wisconsin Cheese, inKiel, Wis.
Company representativeKay Schmitz said the factoryalso sells hundreds of poundsof cheese curds to the Wiscon-sin State Fair, and producescheddar wheels that weigh in at12,000 pounds apiece.
“Those are as wide and ashigh as a semi,” she said.
It took five volunteers to rollone of the six 500-poundwheelsinto The Big Cheese’s walk-inrefrigerator when they arrivedfromWisconsin on July 31.
“We do use some Marylandcheddar cheese, but there’s nocreamery in Maryland that canproduce the amount that weneed,” Hogan said.
The500-poundwheels, agedat least six months, are about2 feet high and 2 feet wide,
Schmitz said.Volunteers at the Mont-
gomery County AgriculturalFair used 1,000-pound wheelsof Wisconsin cheddar in pastyears, buthad todownsizewhenthewalk-in refrigeratorwasbuiltwith a narrow doorway.
Six volunteers were neededto lift one of the 500-poundwheels, which will be on displayina refrigerated shednext toTheBig Cheese.
The sandwiches, which sellfor $3.50, helped the concessionstand bring in a $64,000 profit atlast year’s fair.
Alicia Clugh of Rockville,whoheads theMarylandCheeseGuild, said the sandwiches are astaple of the fair experience.
“I would hope anybody whohas grown up in MontgomeryCounty has had them,” she said.
Hogan said the amount ofcheddar used at The Big Cheeserivals the Wisconsin State Fair’s
total.A representative for theWis-
consin State Fair said its grilledcheese stand bought 4,800pounds of cheddar for sand-wiches last year. Hogan’s standbought 3,000 pounds of cheesethis year.
Hoganhasruntheconcessionstand for 13 years and embracesthenicknameTheBigCheese.
“I’m a vegetarian,” he said.“I don’t eat meat, but I do likecheese.”
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Workers and volunteers hoist a 500-pound wheel of cheese onto a table tobe displayed in a small cooled building next to The Big Cheese concessionstand at the Montgomery County Agricultural Center.
County fair grills up cheesy record
n New building has beenin the works for years
BY ELIZABETHWAIBELSTAFFWRITER
For visitors to the MontgomeryCounty Agricultural Fair, OldMacDon-ald’s Barn is hard tomiss.
“It’s the newest, biggest, reddestbarn on the property,” said MartySvrcek, executive director of the fair.
ThenewOldMacDonald’sBarnhasbeen a long time coming. The old ver-sion of the barn — two buildings thatwere among the earliest structures builtat the fair when it started in 1949—hasbeenafixture fordecades, but thewoodwas old and had started to decay.
Svrcek said volunteers started talk-ing about building a new barn morethan a decade ago, but before raisingthe barn they had to raise the money.That took about eight years. Svrcek de-clined to say how much the barn cost,but said it did come in under budget.
“Two years ago we started gettingreally serious,” he said. “... We savedenough money, and [now] the barn isjust about done.”
Now, one updated structure has re-placed the two old barns. The newbarn— still red, but now made of durablemetal instead of all wood — is almostready to make its debut to the publicwhen the 65th annual MontgomeryCounty Agricultural Fair kicks off Fri-day.
Jack Heller of Frederick said he andhis wife, Grace, oversaw the barn for11 years as Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald.While they gave up the job about eightyears ago, they still try tomake it out tothe fair for adayor twoeachyear.Hellersaid the new barn is a great improve-ment over the old one.
“It was like a step into heaven,” hesaid after seeing the new barn for thefirst time. “That place is gorgeous.”
The newbarn ismuchmore animalfriendly, he said, with brighter lightingand better air circulation.
“That building there is the show-place of the fair,” Heller said. “Every-body comes to the Old MacDonaldbarn— everybody.”
Old MacDonald’s Barn got its startwhen a group of Future Farmers ofAmerica volunteers wanted to build a
child-friendly barn so mothers couldbring their children to see the animalsat the fair, Svrcek said. Now,more peo-ple go through that barn than any otherat the fair.
ThenewOldMacDonald’sBarnwillhouse many of the same exhibits thatpeople have enjoyed at the fair in yearspast, including several different animalspecies, a birthing center where orga-nizers anticipate about six calves willbe born and a milking parlor to dem-onstrate commercialmilkingprocesses.
“[Visitors] get to learn milk doesn’treally come from Safeway — it comesfrom a cow,” Svrcek said with a laugh.
Beth Smith, who serves as the su-
perintendent of OldMacDonald’s Barnwith her husband, Tom, said the barnwill house about 14 animals for fami-lies to view, plus seven pregnant cowsin the birthing center. Although muchwill be the same, the better lighting andviewer-friendly setup is an improve-ment on the old barn, she said.
“Therewill be a lot of the same stuffthat people have become comfortablewith, and it’s in a new environment,”she said.
The fair runsFriday throughAug. 17in Gaithersburg. Visit mcagfair.com formore information.
This year, a new Old MacDonald’s Barn
PHOTOS BY DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE
Nic Schultze of Dickerson puts some finishing touches on the new Old MacDonald’s Barn as it nears completion Friday at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair.
Jack Hellerof Frederick,who was “OldMacDonald”at theMontgomeryCountyAgriculturalFair for 11years, stopsin to seethe new OldMacDonald’sBarn.
SETTING UP SHOP
Ryan Benton greases parts on the Swing Buggy ride Tuesday as workers begin to set up rides for the MontgomeryCounty Agricultural Fair.
PHOTOS BY DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE
Gabino Gonzalez Garcia works to set up the fence around the Ships Ahoy ride Tuesday under the watchful eyes ofthe Pharaoh’s Fury ride.
From left, Shaun Birchardand Brian Cotham carefullyfold an American flag thatwill be retired and replacedwith a new flag on thefireball ride as they setup for the fair.
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Most of those same vol-unteers helped prepare thebuildings and grounds byworking on the four Saturdayspreceding the fair, he said.
Sue Cook of Laytonsvilleworked three Saturdays. Thispast Saturday, she helped pre-pare the 4-H Beef Club barn,where her children will showtheir animals. She spreadmulch in the cattle stalls andprepared empty stalls so vol-unteers have a place to sit.
She said she, her husbandand two children stay in thebarn during fair hours to keepan eye on the animals and an-swer questions from fairgoers.
In the nearby Dairy Baron Saturday, Lions Club vol-unteers were busy scrubbingrefrigerated cases, ice creamscoops, floors and freezers.They were preparing for thedelivery of enough ice creamto scoop more than 50,000servings.
Volunteers from each ofthe county’s eight Lions Clubchapters works during the fairscooping ice cream cones,mixing milk shakes, servingup sundaes and sharing prof-its at the end of the fair, saidGerda and Doug Sherwood ofLaytonsville, superintendentsof the Dairy Bar.
At the Home Arts build-ing, members of the WildWest Wranglers Club, a 4-HWestern horseback ridingclub, were repainting the out-side wall mural, touching upthe 4-H symbol, motto andpledge.
“It needed to be done.We were finished at thehorse barn so we came uphere,” said Jennifer Cloutierof Gaithersburg, the club’sfounder.
Elsewhere, volunteers setbenches in pavilions, plantedflowers, moved mulch, rakedand swept.
Lindsey Carlin of NorthPotomac stood by a box ofcleaning supplies looking overthe tables in the Home ArtsBuilding ready to hold bakedgoods, needlework and furni-ture made by county residents.
“Today is the final setup,”she said.
The fair provides the op-portunity for 4-H and FutureFarmers of America membersto display their work, for resi-dents to show off their hob-bies and learn more aboutagriculture in MontgomeryCounty.
“There is just so much funto be had here,” Svrcek said.
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The 65th Montgomery County Agricultural Fairopens at 3 p.m. Friday at 16 Chestnut St., Gaithersburg.
Starting Saturday, it runs from 10 a.m. to midnightthrough Aug. 17. Animal exhibits open Sunday. Car-nival rides and games are open daily from noon tomidnight.
The theme of this year’s fair is “Plenty to See fromA to Z.”
Admission is $10; children under 11 are free.On-site parking is $10, cash only. Free parking is
available at Lakeforest mall, Lost Knife Road and Oden-hal Avenue in Gaithersburg, with shuttle buses operat-
ing Friday from 11:30 a.m. to midnight, and thereafterdaily from 8 a.m. to midnight.
The fair offers a number of special days such asFamily Day, Senior Citizen Day and Military Day withfree or discounted admission and rides discounts. Visitwww.mcagfair.com for more information.
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the investments, saying theywill bring needed jobs and traf-fic relief.
Led by County ExecutiveIsiah Leggett (D), Montgomerypushed for an increase in thestatewide gasoline tax in the2013 legislative session raising$4.4 billion in new investmentand 57,000 jobs in the next sixyears.
The county sought a cashcommitment from the stateto the $2.2 billion Purple Line,as well as the Corridors CitiesTransitway — a 15-mile busrapid transit line connectingClarksburg to the Shady GroveMetro Station, estimated tocost $545 million.
Over the “last few de-cades,” Maryland stoppedmaking necessary investmentsto build and maintain itstransportation infrastructure,O’Malley (D) said Monday.
“The failure to act, the fail-ure to make those better deci-sions, had a huge cost,” he said.
Time, jobs and the envi-ronment were sacrificed, hesaid.
Flanked by dozens of statelawmakers, local leaders andmembers of the building trade,O’Malley said Montgomery’sshare of that money will in-clude the following:
• $400 million for construc-tion of the Purple Line, whichcomes on top of $280 millionannounced previously to buyland and finish the project’sdesign.
• $125 million to constructa new interchange along Inter-state 270 at Watkins Mill Road.
• $100 million to buy landand design the Corridor CitiesTransitway.
• $85 million for Montgom-ery’s Ride On Bus system.
• $25 million to build andrelocate a section of Md. 97(Georgia Avenue) to bypass thecenter of Brookeville.
• $7 million to build inter-changes at U.S. 29 and Mus-grove Road and at U.S. 29 andFairland Road.
• $3 million to design thewidening of Md. 124 (Wood-field Road) from MidcountyHighway to south of AirparkRoad.
• $3 million for planningto evaluate possible improve-ments in the Md. 28/Md. 198corridor between Md. 97 andInterstate 95.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown(D) shepherded a bill throughthe General Assembly this yearthat became the state’s newpublic-private partnershiplaw. He said the state will de-liver the Purple Line as its firstand largest transit partnershipwith private industry. The statewill seek a private company tobuild and operate the line.
“It’s a project that is go-ing to connect our communi-ties and grow our economy,”said Brown, who is runningfor governor in 2014; O’Malleyis term-limited. “With the ad-ditional $400 million the gov-ernor just announced, we areshowing how serious we areto delivering the Purple Linenow.”
Montgomery looks to add100,000 jobs through its effortsin the Great Seneca ScienceCorridor, Shady Grove, WhiteFlint and White Oak, Leggettsaid.
“However, all of that de-pends on improvement in ourtransportation infrastructure,”Leggett said. “Without that[investment], those jobs maycome to a screeching halt.”
Montgomery leaderswarned last December thatwithout dedicated funding andclear state commitment to theproject, the Purple Line, whichis almost completely designed,would stall in its tracks.
“All of this is about betterchoices,” O’Malley said.
Not everyone gathered onthe Metro plaza supported theprojects, namely the PurpleLine.
Shouting “Bury the rail,save the trail,” opponents ofthe Purple Line frequentlyvoiced their position overthose who spoke.
Deborah Vollmer of ChevyChase said the rail line willlead to incalculable loss alongthe Georgetown Branch of theCapital Crescent Trail, a hiker-biker trail that, at points, paral-lels the Purple Line’s plannedpath. She said she is not op-posed to mass transit, but therail should be buried to avoiddamaging the park-like atmo-sphere of the trail.
StaffWriters SylviaCarignan and RyanMarshallcontributed to this story
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Bezos, whose tech-savvybusiness sense made him oneof the world’s richest men — hehas a reported net worth of $25billion — has said he is com-mitted to quality journalism,McDaniel said. He has givenhis assurances that he will carryon the traditions and values theGraham family have fostered atthe Post.
McDaniel told employeesTuesday at The Gazette that thesale did not mean any majorchanges, such as layoffs.
Keeping the smaller, sub-urban papers that ring Wash-ington makes sense, said JohnMorton, who runs a newspaperconsulting firm, Morton Re-search Inc., in Silver Spring.
“To some extent, the Ga-zettes, and collectively the sub-urban weeklies, are the most
successful part of the company,”Morton said. “It’s more thanlikely Bezos will recognize thatand allow things to continue onas they have.”
The most successful news-papers in the country have a ringof suburban weeklies surround-ing them, Morton said, andthose weeklies pack in the ads.
“For example the OrangeCounty Register has a numberof smaller papers whose ad-vertising is 50 to 60 percent ofthe paper, compared to 30 to40 percent in the ... Register,”Morton said, adding that TheGazettes had an equally impres-sive number of ads. “I’m alwaysimpressed how stuffed with ad-vertising it is, and not just mom-and-pop retailers, but the bigPost accounts as well.”
The most important factorabout the acquisition is that thePost, and smaller papers, will nolonger be owned publicly, Mor-ton said. That will free up Bezos
to make investments in new anddifferent ventures, especially re-lated to the Internet, his metier.
“When you are marchingto Wall Street’s drum, you havegreat restraints on your ability toinvest in anything,” Morton said.“One of the problems with beinga publicly owned company is thatit is pervades almost everythingyoudo. Itkeepsyoufromimprov-ing systems and developing newproducts. You’re lucky if you canhang on to what you’ve got.”
Bezos, who has a full-time jobrunning Amazon.com in Seattle,will become the sole owner oncethe sale is completed. The re-maining parts of the WashingtonPost Co. that Bezos did not pur-chase, which include Kaplan Inc.,Cable ONE and Post-Newsweektelevision stations, will get a new,still undecided name. It will carryon as a publicly traded companywithout the newspapers.
SALEContinued from Page A-1
Employees ofThe Gazette andFairfax CountyTimes questionAnn McDaniel,a senior vicepresident atthe WashingtonPost Co., aboutthe newspapers’sale to JeffreyBezos.DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE
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Montgomery County Public Schoolsevery year touts that they have efforts toclose the gap between the well-performingschools, mostly wealthy, and the other areasof the county. Every year the gappersists andno matter how they talk, the gap will neverbe narrowed given the current ways staff areallocated and allowed to transfer.Several years ago, I did a study of spend-
ing per student from “Schools at a Glance,”a consistent message was clear. When sala-ries of staff were included in the review, youcould predict by spending per studentwhichschoolwas in the red zoneversus green zone,an accuracy point of over 90 percent.
What was MCPS’ response? They sim-ply pulled salaries from the report so thepublic could not see what was really hap-pening.So what does that tell us? We need to
initiate a salary cap to assure that the areaswith lower performance have a fair share atseasoned staff. We need seasoned staff inthe more challenging schools and shouldprovide financial incentive for those sea-soned staff that choose to be in thoseschools.Only when we put more experience in
the lower-performing schools will the gapbe narrowed. We have great staff, they just
aren’t all where they need to be to improvethe performance across the county.So a request to Superintendent Joshua
Starr, Larry Bowers, and the Board of Edu-cation: It is time to end the way we staff ourschools — place energetic seasoned staff toour low-performing schools if you want toclose the performance gap.The model being used today is old and
is a major reason the gap does not improveseriously.
Robert Monsheimer, Silver SpringThewriter is the education chair of the
Montgomery County Taxpayers League.
Schools need to change the way staff is paid
While walking on the Crescent Trail withmy lab-rador, Tim, I meet many other walkers, joggers, run-ners, dogs and bicyclists. The nature trail is enjoyedby all. But the possible loss of this natural forestedpath by five years of Purple Line construction andside-by-side light rail operation is of concern.Trail enthusiasts are trying to prevent the loss of
this valuable community resource by shortening theproposed Purple Line from 16 to 14 stations, endingin Silver Spring’s Transit Center. The transit centerbrings together theMetro Red Line, buses and trains,a logical terminal while continuation to Bethesdadoes not offer the same.The 14-station Purple Line has substantial cost
savings for the state,U.S. government andMontgom-ery County. Besides, the two-station continuationfails to address increasing traffic congestion causedby the National Institutes of Health and the NavyMedical Center, Walter Reed complex. The Navy isexpanding and adding 900 additional parking spacesto the already large number on-site.Wisconsin Avenue, Rockville Pike and Old
Georgetown Road are a mass of slow moving cars inmornings and afternoons.
Robert Posner, Bethesda
End thePurple Line inSilver Spring
Isn’t it timeTheGazettepulled theplugonBlair Lee andhispuerile, reac-tionary, Johnny-One-Note drivel? Hiscolumn of July 31 ends thusly:“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 ...”
As a 50-year journalism veteran Icanassureyouhiscolumnneverwouldhave gotten past me into the paper.Successful op-ed pieces are instructive,informative, well-conceived, well-writ-ten fair commentary. Lee’s screeds failmiserablyonall these levels.Precious trees are cut down for
this? Really?
Ronald E. Cohen, Potomac
Pull the plug on Blair Lee
I’ve just read Carol Lundquist’sletter regarding her problems withComcast [“Rebooting Comcast,” July31.] I don’t think sheknows thatMont-gomery County has anOffice of Cableand Communication Services. Theywill “run interference” with a residentwith Comcast, Verizon or any othercable or communication services.
[TheMontgomery County Officeof Cable and Communication Serviceshas an office at 100Maryland Ave.,Rockville. It can be reached at 311 or240-773-8111.]For a few months several years
ago I couldnot get any sort of satisfac-tion fromComcast. I originally signedup for a special $29.99 permonth ratebut they kept billing me $60. Even af-ter reminding them of my special, Ikept getting bills for $60 and if I didn’tpay Iwouldget several letters insistingI pay $60.One telephone call to an investi-
gator and I got a call from a supervi-sor fromComcast and everythingwasstraightenedout. I also got an apologyfromComcast!
Karoline Dunne, Silver Spring
Office can resolve disputes
A July 22 tour byMontgomery County’s PlanningBoard of the TenMile CreekWatershed serves as a re-minder about open government.The board, alongwith planning staff and the
board’s attorney, rode together in a van for its tour.There was no room in the van for anyone else whowanted to hear the discussion, including a Gazette re-porter, let alone an interested resident.A reporter was told she could follow in her own car
andwas free to talk to boardmembers and planners atstops along the way or to call them later.That’s not the best way to exemplify “open.”Maryland’s OpenMeetings Act prohibits public
bodies fromholdingmeetings in private, unless theyare discussing topics that fit certain exemptions, suchas the performance of a specific employee or a pend-ing lawsuit.Carol Rubin, an attorney who advises the board,
said boardmembers understood that limitation anddid not discuss public business as they traveled.It’s good to hear the boardwas trying, but the pub-
lic shouldn’t have to take public officials at their wordonmatters like that.There didn’t seem to be any exclusionary intent
behind this van tour.More likely, the vanpool was amatter of convenience—why takes several vehicles tothe site when you can take one.This field trip also doesn’t seem to violate the letter
of the OpenMeetings Act, which says it is “essential tothemaintenance of a democratic society that, exceptin special and appropriate circumstances: (1) publicbusiness be peformed in an open and publicmanner;and (2) citizens be allowed to observe.” Having ama-jority of a public body in one place doesn’t necessarilyconstitute ameeting.Still, government bodies should look beyond the
minimal requirements of the law and consider theother extreme:What is themost they can do to beopen and transparent?If a public body is going to ride together, let anyone
who’s interested come along.If that doesn’t work,move to plan B— think cre-
atively about how to remain open.Maybe take pic-tures and video of public places and play them in ameeting room as part of a group discussion. Any boardmember whowants to seemore can do so on his orher own— in anyway that doesn’t involve having aboardmajority gathered together in a confined place.The less the public hears government officials say
“trust us” after talking privately, the better.
No room?Ditch the van
We’ve all heard the stories of howAmerican com-munities once had safe, cheap, reliable public trans-portation, often operated by private companies. Asthe suburbs grew— the story goes—gasoline and tirecompanies banded together to put the trolleys out ofbusiness in favor of the automobile, transforming thecountryside into a car culture.Maybewhenwe’re stuckin a jammedEast-West Highway or a cloggedWiscon-sin Avenue, we thinkwistfully to that time gone by.Gov.Martin O’Malleymight have been thinking
about that eraMonday as he called for a public-privatepartnership to build and operate the Purple Line, the16-mile east-west light rail line planned to connectBethesda with NewCarrollton. The line is expected tocost something on the order of $2.2 billion, and let’sface it, those kinds of samoleons can’t be collectedfrom the pockets ofMaryland taxpayers nomatterhow high the state’s gas tax rises.OnMonday, O’Malley (D) ponied up $400million
toward the project. The rest, he said, would come fromfederal grants, local contributions,more from the state— and private investment.State officials say they envision private companies
bidding to operate the trains at a price low enough towin the contract but a high enough to turn a profit.The contract will include a set of performance stan-dards; don’tmeet the standards and the companyisn’t paid. (Fares would be set by theMaryland TransitAdministration.)The systemmotivates the company to operate as
efficiently as possible. Greater efficienciesmean thecompany ismore profitable. But a question aboutfares looms large, as public transit is heavily subsi-dized.Future Purple Line riders—many of whomwill be
Montgomery County residents—have a right to cockan eyebrow at the set-up. TheMaryland governmentdoes not have a great track record at regulatingmo-nopolies.For the time being, riders can give the state the
benefit of the doubt and dream about an efficient pub-lic transit system that connects the jobs of Bethesdawith the transit hub inNewCarrollton.Whether thedreambecomes a reality will need time.
Purple Linedreams
As a director of clinical ser-vices for dialysis patients in theMaryland, Washington, D.C.,and Northern Virginia region,I oversee care to over 5,000 pa-tients weekly. These patients re-quire four-hour dialysis sessionsthree times a week to rid theirbodies of deadly toxins and toenable them to live full and ac-tive lives.I am writing because I am
disturbed and angered over arecent proposal by the Cen-ters for Medicare and MedicaidServices (CMS) that would cutMedicare reimbursement fordialysis care by close to 12 per-
cent. Considering that Medicarereimbursement fails to cover thecost of dialysis currently, furthercuts will be devastating to thehundreds of thousands of pa-tients ondialysiswhodependonMedicare — and the caregiverswho treat them.The effects of these pro-
posed cuts to dialysis care mayforce reductions in staffing lev-els, reduced access to additionalservices such as social workers,nurses or dietitians and, po-tentially, dramatically reducedaccess to dialysis care in theMaryland, Washington, D.C.,and Northern Virginia regions
altogether. Clinicsmaybe forcedto close or consolidate, requir-ing patients to travel greater dis-tances for their life-sustainingcare.Worse, this may force us to
return to a time in our historywhere community boards wereforced to decide who is worthyof receiving this life-sustainingtreatment.Many dialysis patients are
active, contributing members ofthe community and renal failureknows no boundary — it affectsall age groups, ethnicities andcommunities.It’s important for lawmakers
tounderstand thatwithout readyaccess to dialysis care and ancil-lary services, patients with kid-ney failure will die. I hope yourreaders will contact our mem-bers of Congress and ask themto ensure that CMS maintainsappropriate funding to continueproviding life-saving care for ourvulnerable residents.I strongly encourage each
community member to speakup to these cuts. There are betterways to reduce cost as throughaccountable care organizationsand not compromise the carecurrently being provided.
Deidre Fisher, Olney
Ask Congress to protect life-sustaining care
& The Gazette’s Guide toArts & Entertainment
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In anticipation ofhis new albumout next month,Wayne Brady willperform Saturdayat the BethesdaBlues and JazzSupper Club.BRIDGE ANDTUNNEL ENTERTAINMENT
erhaps best known forhis off-the-cuff musicalstylings on ABC’s improvcomedy show, “WhoseLine is it Anyway?” per-former Wayne Brady is a
man of many talents. Brady will bein Bethesda on Saturday night to pro-mote his new, yet-to-be-named album,out nextmonth. A&E caught upwith himabout his love ofMotown, his passion forlive music and this summer’s return of“Whose Line.”
A&E: When people hear the nameWayneBrady, theyprobably thinkof yourcomedyoryouracting.Butwouldyousay
music is your first love? Itseems to have infiltratedeverything else you do.Brady: Absolutely,
music ismy first love. If itweren’t formusic, I don’tknow if I would be on“Whose Line,” becausebefore “Whose Line,” asa musician being able todo as much touring asI did and be in as manymusicals ... that’s whereI picked up the skills tobe able to hold my ownon “Whose Line” and beable to create those songs
on the spot. It’s definitely a part of me; Ilove music. I could easily give up doingimprov or comedy on stage, but I couldnever give up doing music in any shapeor form.
A&E: In 2008 youwere nominated fora Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Vo-cal Performance for your single, a cover
RenaissanceBRADY:Wayne
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n Sweet sounding instrument risingin popularity
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFFWRITER
How is the sound of a four-string Ha-waiian ukulele different than the sound of abanjo or guitar?“It’s got amuch sweeter quality to it,” said
musician Lil’ Rev (Marc Revenson) fromMil-waukee. “It’s happyand enchanting at thesame time.”Revenson and
other musicians willplay their ukuleles ata free outdoor con-cert on Aug. 14 at thegazebo at the Man-sion at Strathmore inNorth Bethesda.Visitors are in-
vited to bring used in-struments to donateto Hungry for Music,a nonprofit based inWashington, D.C.,that helps bring mu-sic to underprivilegedchildren.The Aug. 14 con-
cert caps an annualfour-day Uke andGuitar Summit orga-nized by musiciansCathy Fink andMarcyMarxer of Kensingtonto teach people howto learn and developtheirmusical skills.Also performing
and teaching morethan a dozen classeswill be Stuart Fuchs,whowill teachBeatlestunes, and GeraldRoss, who also playssteel guitar. The HulaHoneys — Robyn
Kneubuhl and Ginger Johnson — will hosta class about Hawaiian recorded music andhistory.
Ukesno flukes
MOVIE REVIEW
UNDER THE GUN Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg providethe firepower in ‘2 Guns’. Page A-17
MUSIC
PHOTO FROM MARCY MARXER
Gerald Ross, who plays the Hawaiian steel guitar,joins other performers at a free concert at theMansion at Strathmore in North Bethesda on Aug. 14.
UKE ANDGUITARSUMMITn When: Aug. 10-14
n Where: Mansionat Strathmore,10701 RockvillePike, NorthBethesda
n Tuition: $320
UKEFEST 2013n When: 7 p.m.
Aug. 14; 6-7 p.m.pre-show strum
n Where: GudelskyGazebo, Mansionat Strathmore,10701 RockvillePike, NorthBethesda.
n Bring blankets,low beachchairs; no pets.
n Tickets: Free
n For information:301-581-5100,strathmore.org
Africa sings South African singerLorraine Klaasen will
sing songs madefamous by MiriamMakebe as well as
some of her own onSunday evening at thefree FestAfrica event
this weekend inVeterans Plaza in
Silver Spring.PHOTO BY PIERRE ARSENAULT
WAYNE BRADYn When: 8 p.m. Saturday
n Where: Bethesda Blues andJazz Supper Club, 7719Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda
n Tickets: $80-$100
n For information: 240-330-4500, bethesdabluesjazz.com
B E T H E S D A B L U E S AND J A Z Z S U P P E R C L U B
n Bradyproves he’s
a music manat heart
BY CARAHEDGEPETHSTAFFWRITER
man
n Festival celebrates music,dance, food and fashion
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE | STAFFWRITER
LorraineKlaasen recentlywon theCanadian equivalent of aGrammy for her album tribute to singer and social activist Mir-iamMakeba, who brought South Africanmusic to Americain the 1960s.But todayKlaasen putsher ownspinonMakeba’s
songs — a triumphant spin — because in 1994 theblack people of South Africa won their politicalfreedom.“She used to sing songs about the struggle
against apartheid, but now the songs are more incelebration, because we prevailed,” said Klaasen,
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“Neena Birch: Life,Science and Imagination”opens today at VisArts atRockville’s Kaplan Gallery.An opening reception andartist’s talk is scheduledfor 7-9 p.m. Friday at thegallery. The exhibit runs toSept. 8. The retrospectiveexplores Birch’s botanicaldrawings and imaginativeanthropomorphic imagesculled from 30 years ofcreative work. A skilleddraftswoman, printmaker,painter and sculptor, herartwork reflects sensitiveconnections between thenatural world and humanexperience. Formoreinformation, visit www.visartsatrockville.org.
Birch remembered
VISARTS
Neena Birch, “Peony Remains,” 1980,Mixed media.
“A Chorus Line,” the largest endeavor ever undertaken by theOlney Theatre Center, continues to kick things up a notch at thevenue through Sept. 1. FeaturingMarvinHamlish and EdwardKleban’s Broadway hits “What I Did for Love,” “I Hope I CanGetIt” and “One (Singular Sensation),” and directed by StephenNa-chamie, the production follows 17 dancers competing for eightcoveted spots in the chorus of amusical on the GreatWhiteWay.Formore information, visit www.olneytheatrecenter.org.
Kicking it upThe cast ofOlney Theatre
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“Medieval Story Land” will bring swords, sorcery and satireto theGaithersburg Arts Barn thisweekend. Presented byRedKnight Productions, the action-packed, improvisation-fueledparody of the fantasy genrewas originallywritten for theUp-right Citizen’s Brigade Theater. The story follows Todd, a simpleelf, towhom is bestowed amagic sword and a dangerous quest.“Medieval Story Land” casts its spell at 8 p.m. Fridays andSat-urdays and2 p.m. Sundays, Aug. 9-25 at the theater, 311 KentSquare Road,Gaithersburg. Tickets are $16 for general admis-sion, $14 for residents and $9 for students through grade 12. Formore information, visit www.gaithersburgmd.gov/theater.
Once upon a time
RED KNIGHT PRODUCTIONS
“Medieval Story Land” is set to slay them in the aisles at the Gaithers-burg Arts Barn from Aug. 9-25.
Animated fantasy favorite “The Last Unicorn”willscreen at 7:15 p.m.Monday and again at 11:05 a.m.Aug. 17 at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center,featuring an in-person appearance by author andscreenwriter Peter S. Beagle. Produced by animationinnovators Rankin Bass (“Rudolph The Red-NosedReindeer”), the sophisticated fairy tale follows theunicorn Amalthea (Mia Farrow) who, fearing she’s thelast of her kind, travels to the realm of KingHaggard(Christopher Lee) in hopes of finding her lost breth-ren. The film features a voice cast that includes AlanArkin and Jeff Bridges, andmusic by soft-rock legendsAmerica. Formore information, visit www.afi.com/silver.
Childhood Fantasy
AFI
Childhood favorite “The Last Unicorn” is set to screen at the AFI Silver Theatre andCultural Center beginning Monday, with special guest, screenwriter author Peter S. Beagle.
‘Traveler’s’TALESCountry and bluegrass legend Ricky
Skaggs will perform during a specialevent from 7-9 p.m. Aug. 14 at the Ros-borough Cultural Arts Center at AsburyMethodist Village, 301 Odenhal Ave.,Gaithersburg. Presented by the Gaithers-burg Book Festival, Politics & Prose andAsbury Methodist Village, the musicianwill debut his newmemoir, “KentuckyTraveler: My Life in Music.” Skaggs willshare stories from his memoir detailinghis more than 40 years in show business,treat audience members to a few tunesand sign books following his presenta-tion. Tickets to the event are $30 for oneadmission and one copy of “KentuckyTraveler” or $40 for two admissions andone copy of “Kentucky Traveler.” Formore information, visit www.brownpap-ertickets.com/event/428974.
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The exhibition currentlyat the Strathmore Mansion,“Puppets take Strathmore: NoStrings Attached,” capturesthe fundamentally strange andfascinating aspect of puppets.With it, curator Harriet Lesserintends to provoke thinkingabout our reaction to pup-
pets, as well as their artisticvalue. Wandering through thegalleries you can’t help butbe struck by the very thin linebetween puppets and Surreal-ist art made evident here. Thisobservation is, however, notnew. Art historians have longbeen intrigued by the actualuse of puppets and dolls byboth Dada and Surrealist art-ists, especially women, in the1920s and 30s. The connectionis actually not surprising whenwe recall that Surrealists wereconcerned with primal feelingsand ideas, with fantasy anddreams, and the art of children.Paul Klee made 50 handpup-pets that he never exhibited,but Hannah Hoch not onlymade puppet dolls, but alsohad herself photographed withthem. Such toys were attrac-tive because of their ambiguity.Puppets and dolls can have se-miotic ambivalence, as figuresof delight or of horror, and of-ten simultaneously.
The exhibit combines pup-pets of various kinds, includingsome historical pieces borrowedfrom the Ballard Institute andMuseum of Puppetry at the Uni-versity of Connecticut. Amongthese are two leather and ink In-dian shadow puppets on sticks(c. 1900), and threepuppets fromthe 1930s by Rufus and MargoRose, the famed puppet makerswho created Howdy Doody. Anabstract paper and wire maskand puppet is by Heather Hen-son, daughter ofMuppets inven-tor Jim Henson, and founder ofIBEXPuppetry,anentertainmentcompany dedicated to promot-ing the art of puppetry in all of itsvarious aspects. There arephoto-graphs of puppet performances— probably the least interestingelements in the exhibit — and anumber of very loud videos, defi-nitely the most annoying part ofthe show.
On the second floor Gallery2 is completely occupied with aninstallation by Michael Cotter,founder of the Blue Sky PuppetTheatre. This is also accompa-nied by a much-too-loud soundcomponent, perhaps intendedto suggest a circus or carnivalatmosphere. Cotter’s soft pup-pets, much like large stuffed ani-mals, are arranged on stage-likestructures on two sides of thegallery. High up, they leer downat the viewer with large eyes. Thestrangeness of this installationwould confirm the notion thatat the heart of puppet theater is asurreal premise that reaches intoand out from the realm of chil-dren’s imagination and dreams.Also in this gallery is a panel sup-porting 20 paintings by Cotterof hands. “Handscapes” has astrong — and one assumes in-tentional — Surrealist aesthetic.Each painting shows a hand,
some with strings, one behindbars, and one with an open doorin its middle. The allusion to thehand that manipulates the pup-pet, creating various narratives,is evident, but the paintings, andtheir juxtaposition to the puppetinstallation, serve to underlinetheuncanny effect of thewhole.
ArtistElyseHarrison’sinstalla-tion occupies a room on the firstfloor. Ina seriesofwoodencrates,some very small and some aboutthe size of fruit boxes, Harrisonhascreatedaseriesofnarrativedi-oramasinhabitedbypaintedplas-ticfiguresthatareneitherpuppetsnor dolls, but because of their fic-tionalized action, and the storythey play out, resemble a puppetshow in three-dimensional stills.The story is printed out on aneasel in the center of the room,and each box represents anotherscene in this little tale about thetrials of Jack Inthebox and Mar-ion Ette, lovers and actors, with ahappy ending owing to their dogMack. Each diorama functions asan independent work, althoughthey are connected by storyline.Bothcharmingandalittlestrange,this work epitomizes that delicateedginessofthisaestheticthatonceso engaged the likes of Klee andHoch.Harrisonhasbeenworkingon this edge for some time and,not surprisingly, teaches art tochildrenona regularbasis.
PainterArielJ.KleingraduatedfromMarylandInstituteCollegeofArt lastyear.Hehasreceivedquitea lot of press recently because ofhis clever landing of an impro-vised studio and gallery space onthe last block of Georgia AvenueinMontgomery County. Dubbedthe “Purple Coconut Gallery” be-cause of the purple walls in thestorefront space, Klein is exhibit-ingworkfromthepastthreeyears.Thepaintingsareallfigurative,butto different degrees.Having spent15monthsattheUniversityofMa-drid School of Fine Arts in 2010-11, Klein has been particularlyinfluenced by Spanish painting,in addition to generally modern-ist sources. Many of the works inthis early solo bear a clear debt toPicasso, with echoes of Goya andother Spanish masters as well.The chief interest here is seeingthe development of a young art-ist who has had the opportunityto expand his horizons and whois still finding his own voice. Thattrajectory is moving increasingly
toward greater realism and dra-matic narrative. Klein’s most re-centpainting, “ThePark,”paintedjust days before the opening, iswithoutdoubt thestrongest in theexhibit. In it, two figures are con-fronting each other in what lookslike the prelude to a fight. Thework isenhancedbyalterationstotheperspective inthebackgroundthat convey that sense of removalfromrealityduringverytensesitu-ations; that bending of space thatcomeswith fear. That this picturesignals potential is a good indica-tion of Klein’s eventual assimila-tion of his sources and creationofhisownaesthetic.
“Puppets Take Strathmore:No Strings Attached,” to Aug. 17,Mansion at Strathmore, 10701Rockville Pike, N. Bethesda,301-581-5200, www.strathmore.org. Ariel J. Klein: Following the
ThinWoman, to Aug. 18, The
Purple Coconut, 7910 Georgia
Ave., Silver Spring, 301-273-
5628. www.arieljklein.com.
The surreal world of puppetry; a young painter in Silver Spring
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Ariel J. Klein’s “The Park,” 2013.
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Elyse Harrison’s “Jack receives news from his agent about a Hollywood deal.”
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IN THE ARTSDANCESHollywood Ballroom, Aug. 7,
free International Tango Routinelesson at 7:30 p.m., Social Ball-room Dance at 8:15 p.m. ($15),Aug. 8, 15 Tea Dance from 12:30-3:30 p.m. ($6); Aug. 9, Drop-in les-sons from 7:30-9 p.m., West CoastSwing Dancing with Dance JamProductions at 9 p.m. ($15); Aug.10, free Bolero lesson at 8 p.m.,Social Ballroom Dance at 9 p.m.($15); Aug. 11, free Hustle lessonat 7 p.m., Social Ballroom Danceat 8 p.m. ($15); Aug. 14, free Inter-national Tango Routine lesson at7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom danceat 8:15 p.m. ($15), 2126 IndustrialHighway, Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, www.hollywoodballroomdc.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 Ballroom Annex,$8, www.capitalblues.org.
Contra, Aug. 9, Tavi Merrillwith the fabulous Glen Echo OpenBand; Aug. 16, Ron Buchanan callsto Love Mongrels; Aug. 23, JanineSmith with In Wildness; Aug. 30,Louie Cromartie with HoneysuckleRose, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m.dance, Glen Echo Park SpanishBallroom, $10, www.fridaynight-dance.org.
Contra & Square, Aug. 11,Dick Bearman with Rachel Eddyand Kristian Herner; Aug. 18, AnnFallon and the NarrowmindedNaysayers; Aug. 25, Delaura Pado-van with a Graham DeZarn Joint,
7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park SpanishBallroom, $12 for general, $9 formembers, $5 for students, www.fsgw.org.
English Country, Aug. 7, Caller:Bob Farall; Aug. 14, Caller: MichaelBarraclough, 8 p.m., Glen EchoTown Hall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org.
Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10p.m. Mondays, steps and forma-tions taught. No experience, part-ner necessary, T-39 Building onNIH campus, Wisconsin Avenueand South Drive, Bethesda, 240-505-0339.
Swing, 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. 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, Diane Daly & Friends, 7:30p.m. Aug. 7, $10; Mark Mosley w/Cheney Thomas and Percy Smith,7:30 p.m. Aug. 8, $10; Chick Corea& The Vigil, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.Aug. 9, $60; Wayne Brady, 8 p.m.Aug. 10, $80-$100; Nick Colionneand Steve Cole, 7:30 p.m. Aug.11, $35; 7719 Wisconsin Ave.,Bethesda, 301-634-2222, www.bethesdabluesjazz.com
The Fillmore Silver Spring,Panteon Rococo, 8 p.m. Aug. 10,8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring,301-960-9999, FillmoreSilver-Spring.com, www.livenation.com.
Institute of Musical Traditions
— Takoma Park, TBA, TakomaPark Community Center, call forprices, times, Takoma Park Com-munity Center, 7500 Maple Ave.,Takoma Park, 301-960-3655, www.imtfolk.org.
Institute of Musical Traditions— Rockville, TBA, Saint MarkPresbyterian Church, 10701 OldGeorgetown Road, Rockville, callfor prices, www.imtfolk.org.
Strathmore, Free SummerOutdoor Concert: Carlos Núñez,7 p.m. Aug. 7; UkeFest 2013: Ukeand Guitar Summit, 9 a.m. Aug. 10;Uke Summit Open Mic with TheHula Honeys, Cathy Fink & MarcyMarxer, 7 p.m. Aug. 10; Uke Sum-mit Open Mic with Lil’ Rev & StuartFuchs, 7 p.m. Aug. 11; Uke SummitOpen Mic with Maureen Andary &Gerald Ross, 7 p.m. Aug. 12; Free
Summer Outdoor Concert: UkeFest2013, 7 p.m. Aug. 14, call for venue,Locations: Mansion, 10701 Rock-ville Pike, North Bethesda; MusicCenter at Strathmore, 5301 Tucker-man Lane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, www.strathmore.org.
ON STAGEAdventure Theatre, “Dr. Se-
uss’s Cat in the Hat,” to Sept. 2,call for prices, times, AdventureTheatre MTC, 7300 MacArthurBlvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270,www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org.
Do or Die Mysteries, “Artof Murder,” 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.com
Imagination Stage, “Peter Panand Wendy,” 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!” toSept. 1; Tiny Tots @ 10, selectWednesdays, Saturdays andSundays, call for shows and showtimes, Puppet Co. Playhouse, GlenEcho Park’s North Arcade Build-ing, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., $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.
Silver Spring Stage, One-ActFestival, Aug. 9-25, 8 p.m. Thurs-days through Saturday, 2 p.m.Sunday, Woodmoor ShoppingCenter, 10145 Colesville Road, Sil-ver Spring. www.ssstage.org.
The Writer’s Center, Mariposa
Readings, 2-4 p.m. Aug. 11; PoetsBateman, Riegel, and Sukrungru-ang, 2-4 p.m. Aug. 18, 4508 WalshStreet, Bethesda, 301-654-8664,www.writer.org.
VISUAL ARTAdah Rose Gallery, Randall
Lear and Ellyn Weiss, Aug. 30 toOct. 6, vernissage on Sept. 21, 3766Howard Ave., 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, 7700 Wisconsin Ave.,Suite E. www.bethesda.org.
Glenview Mansion, Women’sCaucus for the Arts, GreaterWashington, to Sept. 30, RockvilleCivic Center Park, 503 EdmonstonDrive, Rockville. www.rockvillemd.gov.
Marin-Price Galleries, “Ab-straction,” Aug. 10 to Sept. 10,10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondaythrough Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.Sunday, 7022 Wisconsin Ave., 301-718-0622.
VisArts, Neena Birch: Retro-spective Response and Reception,Aug. 7 to Sept. 8, opening recep-tion from 7-9 p.m. Aug. 9, KaplanGallery; Marty Weishaar, Aug. 7 toSept. 8, opening reception from 7-9p.m. Aug. 9, Common Ground Gal-lery; “Ching Ching Cheng,” Aug. 7to Sept. 8, opening reception from7-9 p.m. Aug. 9, Gibbs Street Gal-lery, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200, www.visartsatrockville.org.
Washington Printmakers Gal-lery, 16th Annual National SmallWorks Exhibition, to Aug. 25, Pyra-mid Atlantic Art Center, secondFloor, 8230 Georgia Ave., SilverSpring, www.washingtonprintmak-ers.com.
Waverly Street, “The Unfold-ing,” Paintings of the people ofBhutan, India and Nepal by MaryEggers, to Aug. 4, 4600 East-WestHighway, Bethesda, 301-951-9441,www.waverlystreetgallery.com.
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Uber-raunchy but pretty interest-ing as sex comedies go, writer-directorMaggie Carey’s “The To Do List,” setin 1993, stars Aubrey Plaza of “Parksand Recreation” as a Boise, Idaho, highschool graduate of sterling academiccredentials and a firmly maintainedimage among her peers as a math whizand a social zero.
With Type A organizational skills,Brandy goes about a crash course in ac-quiring some sexual experience prior tocollege. In her notebook, she compilesa clinical checklist of hurdles to be ...hurdled. Urged on by her pals, playedby Alia Shawkat and Sarah Steele, theheroine hopes that all her intermediatesecond- and third-base scrimmagingwith various boys (Johnny Simmons isthe doting longtime friend and obvi-ous boyfriend material, only Brandydoesn’t know it yet) will culminate inan official deflowering courtesy of thelocal lifeguard stud (Scott Porter), herhotsy co-worker at the pool managedby a hard-partying schlub portrayed byBill Hader.
Brandy’s home life is cut from stan-dard-issue cloth previously used in allsorts of teen sexcoms, dating back tothe days and the likes of “Secret Ad-mirer” in the golden C. Thomas How-ell era. Clark Gregg is the right-wing
dad who reads Rush Limbaugh in bed;Connie Britton is the polar-oppositemom, a nurse, freely dispensing adviceregarding lubrication and stories of herown sexual awakening to Brandy andher insanely snarky older sister (RachelBilson).
As in the “American Pie” films,much of the humor in “The To Do List”depends on humiliation. The movie’sdesigned alternately to heighten and/or soothe sexual anxiety and insecu-rity among teens. As with “Superbad,”though — and this is why Carey’s filmworks, despite a monomaniacal comicquality — the sexual banter amongBrandy and her peers feels and soundshonest and off-formula. This is a wel-come female-centric variation on a fa-miliar theme, not the first to deal with
a teenage girl’s de-virginization project,but certainly a minority report in a fieldcrowded with boys trying to Get Some,be the films good (“Superbad”) or stu-pid and openly cruel toward women(too many to count).
Carey, strictly a newbie behind thecamera but a talented writer, takes thesting out of the most painfully awkwardsequences through the casting. Plaza,
who recently turned 29, is nobody’sidea of a teen, but her deadpan, slightlyfoggy way of plowing through a scenekeeps the timing of the jokes unpre-dictable. Carey’s constant ’90s refer-ences (“Someone’s been using theirAb Roller!”) number in the millions. Iwish “The To Do List” had a little moreconfidence in itself, so that Brandy’sadventures allowed for more in the way
of genuine pathos. But then it’d be anentirely different movie. This one re-quires Plaza’s character to eat humanwaste floating in a pool (she thinks it’s a“Caddyshack” Baby Ruth gag) and, ac-cording to the website parentpreviews.com, contains “approximately 250 in-stances of sexual language.” But who’scounting?
What a girl wantsin ‘The To Do List’
THE TO DO LISTn 2 1/2 stars
n R; 103 minutes
n Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Bill Hader, AdamSandberg, Clark Gregg, ConnieBritton
n Directed by Maggie Carey
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The Silver Spring Stage One Act Festival kicks off this weekend at the theater.
PHOTO BY BONNIE OSBORNE
Aubrey Plaza (as Brandy Klark) stars in CBS Films’ “The To Do List.”
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This year’s summer winerecommendations begin with avisit to northeastern Italy alongits border with Switzerland andAustria. In the Italian Alpine re-gion of Alto Adige visitors canenjoy views of snow-cappedmountains as well as lush vine-yards which produce ideal winesfor warm weather enjoyment.The climate is surprisingly mildwith more than 300 sunny daysannually and the vineyards areprotected from most of the chillynorthern winds by the Alps, yetremain open to the warmersouthern Mediterranean mari-time breezes. The resultingtemperature variations ensurethat their grapes characteristicflavors are well balanced withbright acidity.
Nearly 60 percent of the AltoAdige vineyards produce whitewines and their principle varietalsinclude the familiar Pinot Grigio,Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blancand Gewürztraminer along withsome less well-known, but quiteinteresting grapes such as Müller-Thurgau, Sylvaner, and Kerner.There are more than 60 Alto Adigeproducerscurrentlyimportedintothe US and the number is likely togrow since these wines are flavor-ful, food-friendly and well-pricedfor their inherent quality.
At an Alto Adige wine tastingheld earlier this year the numberof delicious wines offered werealmost overwhelming. Nearlyevery winery had several excel-lent examples with distinguish-ing characteristics that make itproblematic to write about all ofthe deserving producers in thespace available. Some stand-outs include Cantina Terlano,Elena Walch, Cantina Andrianoand Tiefenbrunner but it wouldbe difficult to find an Alto AdigePinot Grigio or Pinot Blanc thatdidn’t work as an aperitif or asan accompaniment to lightlygrilled summer fare.
The Gewürztraminers werealso distinctive with a remarkabledepth of fruit nicely intermingledwithin the spicy frame while theearly-ripening Müller-Thurgauwould be terrific with Asian noo-
dlesormarinated,grilledchicken.Other paring suggestions includea glass of Sylvaner with shellfishand a bottle of Kerner with somespicy Thai cuisine.
And it wouldn’t be sum-mer without Sauvignon Blanc.Among our favorites this yearare from the Dry Creek Vine-yards including their delightfulstone fruit and citrus tasting2012 Sauvignon Blanc and theirsleek, apple and grapefruit fla-vored DCV3 Sauvignon Blanc2012. The Bonterra SauvignonBlanc 2011 is made from or-ganically grown grapes and isbursting with tropical fruit fla-vors with a hint of grassiness atthe end. Napa’s oldest winery,Charles Krug, continues to pro-duce first-rate wines includingtheir 2012 version of SauvignonBlanc that exhibits perfectly bal-anced melon, grassy and citrusnotes. Another California pro-ducer worth seeking out is HessCollection whose 2011 version ofSauvignon Blanc displays entic-ing citrus and spice flavors.
Gruner Veltliner is anotherappropriate summer wine.Gruner has a characteristicfruitiness and signature pep-per accent with enough acidityto make it very food-friendly.Among the better producersfrom their Austrian homelandare Kurt Angerer, Berger, Fami-lie Brandl and Buchegger butalso look elsewhere around theglobe since the varietal is gain-ing popularity. Consider theHess Collection Mount VeederSmall Block Series Gruner Velt-liner 2012 that has loads ofapple, lemon and pear flavorsand the Dr. Konstantin FrankGruner Veltliner 2011 producedin New York’s Finger Lake re-gion which shows more citrusand exotic spices along with theclassic pepper bite at the end.Also from the same region is aslightly sweet version, the ThreeBrothers Stony Lonesome EstateReserve Gruner Veltliner 2011that has a bit of honey mingledwith citrus at the finish. Oregonis also a good source for “Gru-Vee” including the ChehalemRidgecrest Vineyards GrunerVeltliner 2012 and Illahe EstateGruner Veltliner 2012 from aproducer who has been grow-ing this grape in Oregon’s Willa-mette Valley for almost 30 years.
Still time for summer wine
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who will be performing someof that music at FestAfrica thisweekend in Silver Spring.
“[Klaasen] is phenomenal— she’s got a great stage pres-ence,” said Tolu Olumide Ye-boah, director of entertainmentfor the event in Veterans Plaza.
The free outdoor festival onSaturday and Sunday featuresmusic, dance, fashion and foodfrom a diverse mix of Africancountries.
Vendors will be returningthis year selling clothes, jewelryand food, including “suya,” thespicy kebabs of beef, chickenand fish that are so popular inWest Africa, Yeboah said.
“The meat is cut very thin,and it’s grilled with choppedonions,” she said. “It’s like a bitof Africa here in the U.S.”
A health fair is planned andinformation will also be avail-able about traveling to Africa.
“[And] this year we’ll have abit more children’s activities,”said Yeboah.
Headlining at 7 p.m. Satur-day will be Emmerson, SierraLeone’s king of Afro Pop, whosefusion mix of party and politicalmusic has challenged politi-cians to improve conditions forordinary people.
Saturday’s festivities willbe followed by an after-partyat the Society Restaurant andLounge in Silver Spring. Ticketsare available in advance or atthe door.
On Sunday, Klaasen willtake the stage at 6:30 p.m. forthe final performance of thetwo-day festival, which featuresmore than a dozen singers,bands and dance troupes fromthe Washington, D.C., region.
A complete list of perform-ers, DJs and schedules is postedat the website (www.festafri-
causa.com).Emmerson, 36, whose full
name is Emerson Amidu Bock-arie, is a superstar in his homecountry of Sierra Leone.
He has fan bases in otherAfrican countries and is alsobuilding bases in Europe andthe United States.
“I might have Congolesesounds fused with some fromthe U.K. or R&B,” he said.“We’re trying to sell music tothe rest of the world.”
He started out studyingcomputer electronics in collegein Sierra Leone, while some ofhis friends studied law and gov-ernment.
He also had friends in themusic business and after hisschooling was done, he beganto perform, including songsabout government corruption.
“We thought that this isour responsibility and that weshould start speaking on behalfof our people,” he said.
Emmerson sings in krio, acreole language influenced byEnglish, that is widely spokenin Sierra Leone.
His early albums, “BorborBele” in 2003, “2 Fut Arata” in2007, and “Yesterday BettehPass Tiday” in 2010 featuredboth dance tunes and politicaland social commentary.
“I wanted to find a way toexpress [these ideas] and en-courage young people [to getinvolved],” he said.
His most recent CD, “Rise,”released in 2012, is described as“an upbeat collection of AfricanBeat songs of love and call forpositive action from all.”
“I’ve always wanted to in-volve people in making deci-sions, and I’m still doing it,” hesaid.
But he also has a new focus,hoping to build a network ofAfrican musicians that extendsbeyond neighboring countries
like Guinea and Liberia.Connecting lesser-known
performers from smaller coun-tries in other parts of Africawith established stars and ma-jor music events (like the Saint-Louis Jazz Festival in Senegal)would help boost their visibil-ity.
“It would be an opportunityto be seen by the rest of Africa,”he said. “I want to get us all asone family.”
Klaasen, who lives in Mon-treal, won a 2013 Juno award— the Canadian equivalent ofa Grammy — for World MusicAlbum of the Year for her CD,“A Tribute to Miriam Makeba.”
Klassen said she will proba-bly sing Makeba’s famous song,“Pata Pata” (Touch Touch), andalso her “click” song, which in-corporates the clicking conso-nants that are part of the Xhosalanguage.
“White people couldn’t doit, and black people couldn’t doit either, depending on wherethey were from,” laughed
Klaasen.Klaasen also expects to sing
“Lakushonilanga,” one of Nel-son Mandela’s favorite ballads,about people not being able torest until they know that thosethey love are home and safe.
“Where I’m in prison or injail, or dead or alive, I need toknow where my loved onesare,” said Klaasen about themeaning of the song.
The daughter of SouthAfrican jazz singer ThandieKlaasen, Klaasen also writesand sings her own songs basedon her childhood in Soweto andthe endurance of her people.
“The tone of my songs isnot to throw everything out butto remove some of the dark col-ors and brighten them up,” shesaid about looking to the future.
“It’s time to put on yourdancing shoes,” she said.
“The world shares the joyswith us — this is a festive sea-son.”
AFRICAContinued from Page A-13
Portuguese immigrants in-troduced the ukulele to the Ha-waiian islands in the 1880s. Oneof the most famous songs playedon the instrument is “Aloha ‘Oe”(“Farewell to Thee”), written byLili`uokalani, the last queen ofthe Kingdom of Hawaii, whichwas taken over by the UnitedStates in the late 1800s.
Revenson, who plays tenoruke, banjo uke, soprano uke andthe harmonica, among other in-struments, describes himself as“a cross between Theodore Bi-jkel and Woody Guthrie.”
He said his American rootsmusic has been influenced by theblues,old-timemusic,earlycoun-try and folk and Tin Pan Alley.
“I also do a lot of my own ma-terialatconcerts,” saidRevenson,who likes to draw the audienceinto his performances. “I weavestories in and out of my songs.”
Revenson said he startedplaying the ukulele in the early1990s, “long before it was evencool and became popular.”
“I think this is the third timeit’s [risen in popularity],” hesaid. “It was popular in the teensand ’20s, in the ’50s and ’60s andin the last 10 or 15 years.”
Television host Arthur God-frey, who learned to play the ukefrom a Hawaiian shipmate inthe Navy, “nearly single-hand-edly created the huge wave ofukulele popularity that occurredaround the early 1950s,” accord-
ing to the Ukelele Hall of Famebased in West Orange, N.J.
Fueling interest in playing ittoday are teachers like Jumpin’Jim Beloff and performers likeukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabu-kuro; Eddie Vedder, vocalist forPearl Jam, who released a uke al-bum in 2011; groups like Mum-ford & Sons and Dave Matthews;and actors Bette Midler, WilliamH. Macy and Steve Martin.
“Tons of people play theukulele,” Revenson said. “It’s asprevalent as the stars in the skyright now.”
“It’s also all over the CartoonNetwork and in commercials,”he said. “It has a refreshing,happy and lively quality to it. It’sdefinitely in vogue.”
One reason is because theukulele is easy to learn.
“Anyone can pick it up andstrum a few chords,” he said. “Itattracts a lot of people who maynotpickupaguitar,banjoorafid-dle … It’s easy to get started with.”
It’s also a way for people tomake their own music insteadof paying to watch other peopleperform in movies and concerts.
“I think Americans havea real hunger for being par-ticipants,” Revenson about theuke clubs that have sprung uparound the country. “It’s a grass-roots movement — high schoolkids, retirees at senior centers— it runs the multi-generationaland multi-cultural spectrum.”
“It’s becoming a cool andhip instrument to play,” he said.
UKESContinued from Page A-13
of Sam Cooke’s “A Change isGonna Come” off your first al-bum, “A Long Time Coming.”Then in 2011 you released a chil-dren’s album, “Radio Wayne.”What’s the name of this albumyou’re releasing next month?
Brady: I don’t know thename of the record right now,to be completely honest withyou, because I’m still comingup with new material everyother day. So it kind of changeson the fly. I thought I had it fig-ured out at one point and thenI went, “Oh, I’m feeling this” ...it’s unknown at the second.
A&E: But it’s fair to say thenew album has an R&B/soul-feel, right?
Brady: Of course it has anR&B/soul-feel because it’s notgoing to be country and I’mcertainly not doing technodance. I think it’s more specificto say ... it’s definitely in thewheelhouse of like, Sam Cooke,Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding.
A&E: What is it about the
artists you just mentioned thatspeaks to you?
Brady: Nothing travels likemelodies. That’s why we’restill singing Motown songs thatwere written in the late 1950sand early 1960s in 2013 andthey’re just as relevant. It’s themelody. The only thing thatreally changes is the subjectmatter, and even the subjectmatter, love is love and break-ing up is breaking up.
A&E: You’ve already men-tioned some of them, but whoor what would you consideryour musical influences?
Brady: Sam Cooke, AlGreen. Musically, just like I doas an actor or as a comedian ... Idraw from so many sources be-cause of the household I grewup in. My grandparents, theyencouraged me to listen to ev-erything I could ... because themore influences you have, thebigger the palette you have todraw from when you decide tomake your own sound.
A&E: One of the thingsmany people in the countyhope the Bethesda Blues andJazz Supper Club does for the
area is encourage people to goout and hear live music. What’sspecial about the live music ex-perience?
Brady: Live music is justlike when you go out to see livetheater; there’s nothing like it ...The reason people see live mu-sic is it will never be the same.There may be something goingon with the percussion that youdidn’t feel on the record if youdon’t have the right sound sys-tem. There may be a little thinggoing on on the Hi-hat that youmay not realize ... You’re cheat-ing yourself if you don’t go seelive music.
A&E: After a five-year hia-tus, “Whose Line” is back. Whatwas it like to reunite with fellowcast mates Colin Mochrie andRyan Stiles?
Brady: It was like we hadnever missed a step. The coolthing was, it wasn’t like goingback in the past and feeling like,“Oh, I’ve done this already.” Itwas having fun doing that butthen also having the knowledgethat I’ve accumulated since Idid the show; I’m 10 times bet-ter now than when I was whenI first did the show.
A&E: For you personally,what’s been the biggest differ-ence the second time around?
Brady: [“Whose Line”] wasthe first time I’d done comedyon TV in that way ... Now, be-cause that’s so much of whatI do, I’m a heavyweight as op-posed to the up-and-comingwelterweight that I was whenthe show started. Every time Istep up on stage to do an im-prov show, there’s a confidenceI have because I’ve been doingthis [a while].
A&E: What would you say tothose people who know you foryour comedy or you’re actingbut are hesitant to see you sing?
Brady: ... To the skeptic whowill read this article and go,“Why should I go see WayneBrady sing?” Go to iTunes, putin Wayne Brady, “A Long TimeComing,” and check that out.I think in this day and age, ifyou’re a music fan, go check outmy music and go put all of thebiasesandallof thecomedystuffbehind. Just go see some reallygood music from someone thatappreciates good music.
BRADYContinued from Page A-13
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Taken from a graphic novel,“2 Guns” has this much in com-mon with Woody Allen’s “BlueJasmine”: They’re both aboutcharacters hung out to dry.Also, the stars in both films lendpanache and a sense of pur-pose to familiar-seeming mate-rial. Beyond that the differencesare significant. “Blue Jasmine”is the movie with the old-timejazz on the soundtrack; “2Guns” is the one with peoplegetting shot in the leg, the arm,the head, the chest or some-where else, and with Paula Pat-ton in a nude scene that bringsa hush of prayerlike gratitudefrom a mostly male audience.
Denzel Washington andMark Wahlberg provide thestardom. They’re two of themost reliable, relatable actionheroes in American movies to-day. In “2 Guns” the companythey keep on screen is solid,thanks to Bill Paxton as a vi-cious CIA operative after themillions stolen from a NewMexico bank; Edward JamesOlmos as a drug lord, after thesame; James Marsden, as a U.S.Naval Intelligence officer, afterthe same. Paxton in particu-lar registers strongly; with histwitty little mustache, tiny littlehats and blood-curdling inter-
rogation methods, he appearsto be channeling a villainouspassel of character actors (alittle John Hillerman, a lottaWarren Oates) from films past.
The setup: Washington’scharacter, who goes by BobbyBeans (what is this, “Rango”?)may look and act like a garden-variety bank robber, but he’sreally an undercover Drug En-forcement Agency op, trying tobring down the Mexican drugcartel ruled by Olmos’ PapiGreco. He doesn’t realize (andvice versa) that his partner, StigStigman (Wahlberg), is like-wise no common thief. He’s aU.S. Naval Intelligence officerundercover and gunning forGreco.
Already this is gettingtwisty. “2 Guns” comes from aBOOM! Studios series of com-ics written by Steven Grant and
drawn by Mateus Santolouco.In its original form, the story isdiverting, facile stuff. The samecan be said of the film version,adapted freely by Blake Mas-ters and directed by BaltasarKormakur, whose career spansIcelandic-language dramasand English-language thrillers,among them “Contraband,”starring Wahlberg.
He has talent, this direc-tor: “2 Guns” isn’t necessarilymy thing (the jokey sadism is adrag), but Kormakur lays out anaction sequence with a swift-ness and a coherence missingfrom many other pictures. Themovie’s a demonstration of twooverlapping brands of narrativecynicism: Its depiction of a vast,CIA-fueled and drug-fundedconspiracy is pure early 21stcentury, but in many of the par-ticulars, “2 Guns” harks back tothe smaller-scale amoral thrill-
ers of the post-Watergate 1970sstudio era. The 1973 Don Siegelfilm “Charley Varrick” is a ma-jor reference point, with thebank robberies in both filmstaking place in fictional TresCruces, N.M. CinematographerOliver Wood goes for brightlylit compositions, steering clearof faux-documentary realismin his lighting. The banteringstars remain front and centerthroughout. The psychology,if you can call it that, regard-ing the characters’ motivationsand entanglements is paperthin, the Achilles’ heel of thetypical graphic novel-derivedaction film. The actors — in-cluding Patton as Bobby’s DEAcolleague and sometime fling— cannot act what is not there.But with Washington, Wahl-berg, Olmos and Paxton aroundjockeying for dominance, thestandoffs have their moments.
‘Guns’ in sure hands
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Bill Paxton as Earl in “2 Guns.”
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The Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda is again hosting a sum-mer ukulele and guitar camp from Aug. 10-14. Run by Marcy Marxer andCathy Fink of Kensington, the camp will end with a free outdoor concert onAug. 14.
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n Where: Veterans’ Plaza, 1Veterans Place, (corner ofFenton Street and EllsworthDrive), Silver Spring
n Tickets: Free
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n When: 10 p.m. Saturday
n Where: Society Restaurantand Lounge, 8229 GeorgiaAve., Silver Spring
n Tickets: $15 through Aug. 9
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2 GUNSn 2 1/2 stars
n R; 108 minutes
n Cast: Denzel Washington,Mark Wahlberg
n Directed by BaltasarKormakur
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n Most college basketball recruitersnow seek players off high school courts
BY TRAVISMEWHIRTERSTAFFWRITER
Most of America was sound asleep lastweekend when 30 or so college basketballcoaches yawned their way through McCar-ran International Airport in Las Vegas and
crammed onto a red-eye flight bound for Or-lando. As George Washington University’scoach, Mike Lonergan, skimmed the glassy-eyed scene, he said he saw all of the familiarfaces: John Beilein from Michigan, Bob Hug-gins of West Virginia, Purdue’s Matt Painter,Navy’s EdDeChellis.
Unlike the rest of the passengers on theflight, it wasn’t so much a trip from the neonof Vegas to thebeaches of Florida, rather an ex-hausting recruiting voyage from one Amateur
Athletic Union basketball tournament to thenext.
“It was unbelievable,” said Lonergan, whosigned Col. Zadok Magruder High School’sNick Griffin last year. “… I’d say about 90 per-cent of our recruiting is based on AAUbecauseof the time of year and the recruiting is so ac-celerated.”
Hyperdrivemight be themore apt descrip-tor of recruiting when AAU hums into fullswing. Within two weeks last summer with thelocal AAU teamD.C. Assault, Suitland’s RoddyPeters had gathered offers from schools withprestigious basketball pedigrees such as Kan-sas, UCLA, Georgetown, Illinois, Maryland,Cincinnati and scores of others. He said it tookthree years of headlining the Rams for Petersto scrape up one, lonely offer fromSt. Joseph’s.
“I didn’t think that I would have been re-cruited that much,” said Peters, who opted toplay for Mark Turgeon and the University ofMaryland. “I thought I was going to be kind ofsmall time.”
With theAssault, andmanyother elite AAUteams in the area and around the nation, thenotionof small-time recruiting is near comical.SaidAssault generalmanagerDamonHandon,“A high school teammay have one,maybe twoDivision I kids, but every kid in our program isa [Division I] prospect.”
To be on an elite high school team is one
FILE PHOTO
Georgetown Prep’s Michael Wolfe competes during a 2012 summer basketball league game at High Point High School in Beltsville.
n Coach believes no-kicking strategy isGladiators’ best chance for success
BYDAN FELDMANSTAFFWRITER
As the reopenedNorthwoodHighSchool phasedin students annually by class, the school launched itsvarsity football program in 2006without any seniors.
Though that put the team at a significant disad-vantage across the board, the effect was arguably felthardest on the offensive and defensive lines. Unableto successfullyblock theopponent,Northwoodhadacouple of kicks blocked in its first two games.
“Oh, no,” coachDennisHarris said he thought tohimself. “We can’t. Nah. If they’re just going to comethrough here and block it anyway, we might as welltry to get points by doing some other stuff.”
Harris began to experiment with more fake fieldgoals that season. Since, Harris—Northwood’s onlycoach since its reopening — has increasingly es-chewed kicking and punting all together,more oftenfaking or just leaving his offense on the field.
“Just little stuff like that to try to tip the scales ourway a little bit,” Harris said. “All that stuff helps, be-cause typically in the last eight years,we’vebeenkindof undermanned every year. So, we just try to get outthere and have fun, take chances and try to give our-selves a little bit better chance of being successful.”
Northwood has gone just 21-49 in Harris’ sevenyears at the helm, but he is convinced his aggressivestrategy has helped his team.
While tinkering to find the ideal play-calling split,Harris read about Pulaski Academy in Arkansas. Pu-laski, coachedbyKevinKelley,practicallyneverpuntsand almost always onside kicks. Kelley developedthe approach after reading a mathematical study offootball outcomes, which showed coaches hurt theirteams by too easily relinquishing possession.
Northwood’sfootball teamrarely punts
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Northwood High School football coach Dennis Harris oftenleaves his offense on the field in lieu of punting or kicking.
n Bethesda teen named top womanscorer at World Championships after
winning four gold medals
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFFWRITER
Bethesda teenagerKatieLedecky ismiss-ing one staple in the lives of many 16-year-olds, her driver’s license.
But the 2012 Olympic gold medalist inthe 800-meter freestyle can take comfort ina growing list of accomplishments thatmostpeople will nevermatch.
OnSunday theStoneRidgeSchool of theSacred Heart rising junior earned the high-est honor at the 15th FINA World Champi-onships in Barcelona, Spain, when she wasnamed the top woman scorer in a field ofcompetition that included four-time Olym-pic goldmedalistMissy Franklin.
Ledecky won gold in all four events shecontested— 400-meter freestyle, 800-meterfreestyle, 1,500-meter freestyle, 800-meterfreestyle relay— and set twoworld records.
After setting anewAmericanmark in the400-meter freestyle en route toher first gold,Ledecky’s time of 15minutes, 36.53 secondsin the 1,500-meter freestyle July 30 smashedthe previousworld record by 6 seconds held
by Bishop O’Connell (Va.) graduate KateZiegler since 2007.
Ledecky set her second world mark in acome-from-behind win against Denmark’sLotte Friis in Saturday’s 800-meter freestyle—despite trailing by asmuch as one secondthrough the first 600 meters, Ledecky wonthe event by nearly 3 seconds.
Franklinwon a record six goldmedals inSpain but Ledecky surpassed her in scoringdue to a point system that doesn’t includerelay results and awards bonus points forworld records.
Humility, Ledecky’smotherMary Gen
What’s next for Katie Ledecky? Learning to drive
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Bethesda teen Katie Ledecky won four gold medals and set two worldand one American records at last week’s FINA World Championships inBarcelona, Spain.
AAUAAUit’s all about
FOR RECRUITING,
n Spirit has one win,but draws the league’s
fourth-largest home crowds
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFFWRITER
If attendancenumberswere theonlyfactor that determined the inauguralNationalWomen’s SoccerLeague stand-ings, the Germantown-based Washing-ton Spirit would be in good position toqualify for the four-team playoff field atthe end of themonth.
Despitemanaging just onewin in 16weeks, the team has spent the majorityof its first season of existence bounc-ing between third and fourth place on
the eight-team league’s list of averagehome-crowd size.
Twoof the three teams aboveWash-ington boast some of the more recog-nizable names in women’s soccer: No.1 Portland (Alex Morgan and TobinHeath) and No. 3 Western New YorkFlash (all-time international scoringleader AbbyWambach).
Montgomery County and theWash-ington,D.C., area, in general, are soccer-rich communities with a tradition ofsuccess inwomen’s soccer— ledbyMiaHamm, the Washington Freedom wonthe 2003 Founder’s Cup in theWomen’sUnitedSoccerAssociation’s third andfi-nal season.And theSpirit havebeenabletodraw fromthat, ownerBill Lynch said.
Washington draws an average at-tendance of 3,626, which is above the
projected number (3,000) Lynch saidprior to the season as the one necessaryfor the organization to be sustainable.In addition, an average of 3,000 havechecked out each game online, SpiritGeneralManager Chris Hummer said.
“We are thrilled with our atten-dance. Certainly we have a great soccercommunity [aroundus] andpeoplewhoare fansofwomen’s soccer, they supportthe gameand theplayers and the idea ofcomingout andbeingentertained.Morethan winning a championship, this isthe third try of a professional women’sleague, everyone is happy there’s wom-en’s soccer at all. I think the fans aresmart enough about the game to knowgood soccer when they see it,” Hummer
Fans keep the Spirit high through struggles
PHOTO FROM THE WASHINGTON SPIRIT
Washington Spirit fans watch their favorite team play against New York on April 20.
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See NORTHWOOD, Page B-3
See AAU, Page B-3
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n Senior running back readyto lead following graduation of
Ibrahim, Veii
BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER
STAFFWRITER
It was when the big colleges camecalling for JacquilleVeii andRachid Ibra-himat thebeginningof last year’s break-out season for Avalon School that IsaacBoyd said the realization hit him: In lessthan a year, hewould have somemightybig shoes to fill.
As the two Avalon stars succeededon the field, combining for nearly 2,500rushing yards and 29 touchdowns (62percent of theBlackKnights’ scoring) onjust 292 carries, andwaffled through theDivision I suitors, Boyd became a stu-dent of their work.
Now, after a 7-4 season of spong-ing as much football wisdom as hecould from Avalon’s first two FootballBowl Subdivision recruits in the youngschool’s history (Veii committed to theUniversity ofMaryland, Ibrahim toPitts-burg), Boyd saidhe is aspreparedashe’llever be to take over the backfield.
“I knew last year, when all those
schools were talking to Rachid and Jac-quille, that I was going to have to do it,”Boyd said. “My coaches came up andtoldme, too. I was like ‘OK. Yes sir.’”
Boyd, a senior, said he’s going to beused in a similar manner that Ibrahimwas — loads of carries, less demand oncatching passes out of the backfield. Thepromotion will be a significant step upfrom his 24 carries and 141 yards (a 5.88average) from last year, and it’s a rolehe has been preparing his body for thisoffseason. His 6-foot frame has beenbeefed up to 190 pounds from the 175
he was listed at last season and, he said,“physically, I’ve been working out a lot,working on my speed, working on mycuts. It’s going to be fun.”
Added coach Tad Shields, “I thinkhe’s embracing it. I think a lot of kids go-ing from junior to senior year know ‘It’smy team now’ and they kind of take a‘it’s now-or-never’ type approach.”
The running back did say that Ava-lon has designs on throwing the ball abitmore— the Black Knights attemptedjust 80 passes last year compared to 402carries and bring back starting quarter-back Wyatt Karem— but still expects tobe “getting theball nearly everyplay,” hesaid. “It’s going to be a challenge beingbehinda really talentedplayer so I’mgo-ing to have to step up.”
Barring any last minute transfers,injuries or academic issues, Boydwill bespelled in part by several others return-ing in the backfield, including seniorJames Chase and junior fullback AdamMcLean.
“We have some pretty good athletescoming along, skill position players thatwe’re very excited about,” Shields said.“It’s nice when your best players [Veiiand Ibrahim] are your hardest workersand that’swhat I’mhoping for out of thisyear’s crop.We’re kindof feelingourway
out forwhat the leadership is going tobethis season.”
From a college desirability stand-point—whichoftentimes translates intoleadership on and off the field — Boydand senior lineman Bert Mayo seem tohave attracted thehighest stock. Thoughno official offers are on the table, Boydhas cited interest from Maryland, Vir-ginia, PennState,Missouri, JamesMadi-son and Indiana, where his father, John,played receiver. Mayo, meanwhile hasreported interest from Maryland, Syra-cuse andOldDominion.
Veii and Ibrahim’s senior seasons“brought some attention from collegecoaches,” Shields said. “It put us on themap from that point of view. Whenevera student accomplishes something likethat it’s going to bring some attention.”
For now, Boyd’s attention is focusedon the season-opener against Potomac(Va.), whom the Black Knights spoiledhomecoming for last year in a 30-19win.
“Every teamwants to go undefeatedbut the first thing is to win the firstgame,” Boyd said. “So after we beat Po-tomac, it’s going to be fun. I’m excited.”
Senior back steps into Avalon’s big shoes
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Avalon School running back Isaac Boyd worksout Monday in Gaithersburg. Boyd is expectedto be the focus of the Black Knights’ offense.
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Our Lady of Good Counsel HighSchool senior running back LeoEkwoge practices with his team.
n Western Michigan recruithas prepared as reserve in
prior seasons
BY DAN FELDMAN
STAFFWRITER
Leo Ekwoge, accordingto Our Lady of Good CounselHigh School football coachBob Milloy, has worked in-credibly hard in the weightroom the last couple years.
Of course, with DorianO’Daniel (ClemsonUniversity)and Wes Brown (University ofMaryland, College Park) aheadof him on the depth chart,Ekwoge didn’t have many op-portunities to carry the ball.
Not that he looked at it thatway.
“I don’t take it for granted,”Ekwoge, a senior, said. “Justbecause I’m behind those twodoesn’t mean that I don’t haveto work hard.”
And that’s why Milloy hasscheduled Ekwoge, who re-cently committed to West-ern Michigan University overoffers from Old DominionUniversity, Miami University(Ohio), Ohio University andthe University of Toledo, tostart at running back for GoodCounsel this season.
Ekwoge ran for 496 yardson 91 carries (5.5 yards per at-tempt) and 13 touchdowns lastseason, over 200 yards morethan any other returning GoodCounsel player.
“It’s not like he wasn’tready,” Milloy said. “It wasn’this turn yet.”
While biding his time,Ekwoge studied Brown andO’Daniel.
“Like a little brother, Ilearned all this stuff thatthey do and how they excel,”Ekwoge said.
Ekwoge said he was too se-rious earlier in his high schoolcareer, and he sometimestuned out criticism because hecouldn’t take it constructively.But Brown talked with himabout easing up, and Ekwoge’sattitude turned for the better.
At times, Brown forced theissue, pushing Ekwoge intofinishing drills in his place. Inthe process, Ekwoge learnedwhat it took to be the team’sfirst-team running back.
Despite his coach’s pre-vious confidence in him, the5-foot-11, 200-pound Ekwogesaid he has really blossomed inpreparation for a bigger work-load this season.
“Last year, I don’t think Iwas ready,” Ekwoge said. “Thisyear, I think I’m ready to takethe workload and the hits, andI’ve been working really hardafter the season.”
Ekwoge caught just threepasses last season, but Mil-loy apparently plans to makeup for lost time, also usingEkwoge at receiver.
“He’s a terrific pass re-ceiver. Terrific,” Milloy said.“You just can’t take him off thefield.”
Though Ekwoge looks for-ward to following in Brownand O’Daniel’s footsteps atrunning back, he just wants tocontribute in as many ways aspossible.
“I like the fact that I canmove around and be versa-tile,” Ekwoge said. “I know Ican run the ball, but I can be amismatch to the linebacker orsafety. It doesn’t really matterwhich one.”
As long as, this year, he’sthe one causing mismatches.
GC backsays it’shis turn
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thing; to be on an elite AAUteam represents a whole newworld of exposure and op-portunity, where teams playin front of “basically every bigschool,” Peters said, and offersare extended by the handful.Before Potomac’s Dion Wi-ley could get recruited by thebig time schools, accordingto Wolverines coach RenardJohnson, he had to be recruitedby the big time AAU programs.Now, after a few seasons withTeam Takeover, Wiley is themost heralded rising seniorin the state, bound for Mary-land over his chopped downlist of Georgetown, Cincin-nati and Florida State. FormerMagruder standout GarlandOwens, headed for Boston Col-lege this year after a prep sea-son with Massanutten MilitaryAcademy, had created a littlebuzz during his successful stintas a Colonel, but it wasn’t untilhe joined the Mid-Atlantic Se-lect that the high-level offersbegan pouring in.
“It’s pretty much a com-mon thing,” Select coachJames Lee said. “A lot of[college] coaches know the[Washington Catholic AthleticConference] and the [Inter-state Athletic Conference] butthey’re not familiar with kidsfrom Oakdale and some of thepublic schools, so once he getson the AAU circuit his expo-sure, his recruiting stock sky-
rockets.”The first true star to
graduate from the Select wasSpringbrook’s Jamal Olasew-ere, who picked Long Islandover Georgetown, Xavier andseveral others. As Olasewere’sname grew, so did the Select’s.Since the summer of 2010, Leeestimates he has sent “at least”30 to 40 players onto schools,scholarship in hand, with“seven or eight” from last sea-son’s crop alone.
“I think it’s a great oppor-tunity for kids to get exposure,to showcase what they can doand it’s a great avenue for col-lege coaches to see athletesplay,” Lee said. “These tourna-ments have 32, 64 teams youcan see play on a few courts.”
Added Lonergan, “You cango to one event and see 100 Di-vision I players.”
National championshiptournaments hosted in Mil-waukee, Atlantic City, LasVegas and Orlando are the ob-vious hotbeds for scholarshipoffers, but Peters said that evenin the smaller tournamentshe saw dozens of coaches inthe stands. When exactly it isthat AAU became the primerecruiting grounds for basket-ball players is near impossibleto pinpoint — Springbrookcoach Tom Crowell estimatesit to be about 14 to 15 yearsago — but it’s easy to see why.College coaches’ schedules arefreed up for traveling — bothTurgeon and Dalonte Hill, theTerps’ top recruiter, were alsoin attendance in Vegas for the
Adidas Super 64 tournamentlast weekend — they get to seewhat the players can do notonly playing alongside some ofthe best players in the country,but against the best players inthe country.
“That’s huge,” Lonergansaid. “It’s a good level of AAU,it’s not like they’re scoring 18points in a summer leaguegame and the two best playerson the other team are away onvacation. Nearly every playeron the court is a Division Iplayer.”
Not that high schooldoesn’t matter, or that collegecoaches don’t frequent the lo-cal matchups during the winter— Otto Porter, the WashingtonWizards’ recent No. 3 lotterypick in the NBA draft, nevertook a single shot in AAU bas-ketball — but it has becomewhat some coaches are callinga “necessary evil.”
“It’s funny, because allthese guys go around throughAAU ball, but the final deci-sion — they almost alwayscall the high school coaches,”Crowell said. “They want toknow ‘What kind of kid is he?’ Ithink the AAU and high schoolcoaches can go hand in hand.”
In the end, Crowell said,there are ultimately three fac-tors in deciding an athlete’sfuture at the next level: talent,character, and the ability toexpose the two. All it takes, hesaid, “is just one guy to look atthem.”
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Harris isn’t quite ready to goas far as Kelley, but the North-wood coach has bought in to thebasic tenets.
Harris said even good highschoolpuntersandkickers—andhe believes he has one in Chris-tian Reyes — tend to be erratic.Toomanypuntsare shanked, toomany pooch attempts roll intothe end zone and too many fieldgoals have something go wrongintherelativelycomplexsnap-to-hold-to-kick system to justify giv-ing up the ball or going for fewerpoints than possible.
The equation changes basedon distance to a first down andfield position. Fourth-and-short,even deep in Northwood’s ownterritory, Harris sometimes callsfor a run up the middle. Once histeam nears, and especially onceit has crossed, midfield, Harris ismuch more prone to go for it —
no matter how many yards histeam needs to get a first down.
The better a team’s offense,the more effective the strategybecomes for two reasons. 1. Abetter offense is more likely toconvert the fourth-down at-tempt. 2. A better offense ismore likely to score if it convertsthe fourth-down attempt.
Plus, Harris said his frequentfakes and straight attempts keepdefenses off-guard when North-wood actually kicks or punts.He said he recalled a time hispunter picked up the ball aftera bad snap and still got the puntoff, because the opponent didn’trush due to fear of a fake.
Overarching all this is theidea that Northwood’s oppo-nent must dedicate a portion oftheir practice time to preparingfor Harris’ uncommon play-call-ing. Harris hopes that means theopponent is spending less timeon another aspects of the gameand giving Northwood someother advantage.
As logical as Harris’ strategyis, a lot of his choices are basedon feel.
“It’s more of a mentality,”said Harris, who first becamea varsity coach at age 25 in Vir-ginia. “I’ve never been very con-servative as a coach.”
If Northwood scores atouchdown on a big play, Har-ris sees the opponent as par-ticularly vulnerable, becausesometimes, opposing coachesare talking to the players thatjust allowed a touchdown ratherthan setting up special-teamsplayers. That’s when Harris isparticularly likely to go for two.
“When something bad hap-pens to the other team, theytend to be looking around, look-ing for answers, trying to figureout what just happened,” Harrissaid. “And while they’re figuringout what just happened, some-thing else just happened.”
A frequent argument againstHarris’ strategy, at least by thosewho understand the math be-
hind it, is Northwood’s defen-sive players would feel as ifHarris didn’t trust them.
But Harris said, because thestrategy is so ingrained in hisprogram — his twitter handleis @H82puntNhs — that hasn’tbeen an issue. In fact, Har-ris said, sometimes, defensiveplayers get extra fired up whentaking the field after a failedfourth-down attempt, pledging
to get that one back.Of course, the offensive play-
ers love the strategy. Quarter-back Charles Hennessey, as partof his responsibilities, must lineup on punt plays everywherefrom personal protector to long-snapper in order to facilitateNorthwood’s wide array of fakes.
“If it works perfectly, youget the other coaches on thesideline to yell at their players,”
Hennessey said. “There’s noth-ing you can do about it. We justgot you that time.”
Though Harris said he’llstill punt and kick a fair amountthis season, he can imagine hisstrategy evolving to the point henever does either.
“We’ll try a lot of things thatmostpeoplewon’tdo,”Harrissaid.
NORTHWOODContinued from Page B-1
said, has always been one ofher strongest qualities; Ledeckymade sure to praise her team-mate while expressing her ownexcitement.
“Missy deserves [beingnamed top scorer] more than Ido probably. She had an incred-ible week and we’re all so proudof her and she is an amazingperson. It’s so great to be a partof a team with her and all theother swimmers on the U.S.team,” Ledecky said. “I just hadan incredible week and had a lotof fun doing it. I’m really thrilledright now, [this meet] exceededall my expectations and goalsgoing into it.”
In the 12 months since shecame out of relative obscurityto win in London Ledecky, whosaid she plans to continue swim-ming for Stone Ridge this winter,has established herself as one ofthe world’s best distance swim-mers of all time — she isn’t lim-ited to distance events but saidthey will be her focus for theforeseeable future.
Though her recent rise to thetop of international swimmingseems to have happened ratherquickly, it is the result of day-by-day progress over the past365 days, Ledecky said. She wasdriven not to have a letdown fol-lowing her Olympic debut but tobuild on her remarkable break-
through, she added.Ledecky swims 8,000 me-
ters or yards per day, accordingto her USA Swimming bio, andtrains nine times per week. Anintensified dry land regimen hasincreased her physical strength.That coupled with better pa-tience to stick to any game plansshe and coach Bruce Gemmelldiscuss before each race hastaken her to new heights. Shesaid patience early in Saturday’s800-meter freestyle win allowedher to take off in the last 200.
Ledecky said her results lastweek far exceeded her expeca-tions and now she and Gemmellwill have to lift the bar — morerecords are surely on the horizon.
Ledecky has certainly be-come a more recognizablefigure and her fame will likelyonly continue to grow. But shedoesn’t put much thought intohow many times she rewriteshistory, or the number of peoplewho stop her on the street, justthat her performance each dayis better than the previous one.
“I’m just excited to get homeand enjoy the rest of my sum-mer. I’m planning on getting my[learner’s] permit [for driving] inthe next week, maybe next twoweeks. Definitely by the end ofsummer,” Ledecky said.
LEDECKYContinued from Page B-1
said.The Spirit have certainly produced
good soccer. Of their league-high 14losses — it has also tied four times —only four have been by more than twogoals.
Injuries and lack of scoring havebeen major issues. In the initial alloca-tion — the top seven players on eachteam’s roster were allocated by the
three soccer federations backing theNWSL, the U.S., which officially runsthe league, Canada and Mexico —Washington was not dealt a true scor-ing entity.
The team boasts world-class tal-ent, including U.S. Women’s NationalTeam veterans Ali Krieger on defenseand Lori Lindsay in the midfield.
Spirit midfielder Diana Mathesonis the Mia Hamm of Canada, Hummersaid. But Washington has only posted13 goals in 19 games.
In the same sentence in which
Hummer admitted the first thingWashington will go after following itsseason finale against playoff contenderSky Blue FC of New York/New Jerseyare more offensive-minded players,he praised the team’s personnel withbeing just the type of professional ath-letes an organization needs to build astrong fan base.
“You talk about not getting allo-cated certain types of players, but wegot certain types of people. They getit. If not for the fan support, we’re nothere. Literally. How many professional
leagues get a third chance?” Hummersaid.
The Spirit have worked to earntheir loyal fan base, Hummer andLynch said. Every single player hasmade herself available for appear-ances, to run camps — the Spirit hasconnected with Montgomery SoccerInc. among other local youth soccerorganizations — to host pizza partiesfor raffle winners, among other inter-action with fans, Hummer said.
These athletes, women soccerplayers in general, Lynch said, are
uniquely engaged with their fans.They hang around after games and
are honored to be seen as role models,which isn’t always the case in athletics.
Hummer said the team’s prioritynow is to reward its fans with a win-ning 2014 campaign.
“We’re thankful for our fans. Butwe know they’re not going to waitaround for multiple seasons. We ex-pect to be a contender next year,”Hummer said.
SPIRITContinued from Page B-1
FILE PHOTO
Bethesda teen Katie Ledecky said she plans to swim for her high schoolteam at Stone Ridge School for the Sacred Heart this winter after settingtwo world records last week. She is a junior.
FILE PHOTO
Col. Zadok Magruder High School’s Garland Owens (center) said he had a lot more scholarship offers after playingAmateur Athletic Union basketball than he did just playing for his high school.
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n For fifth straight year,Bethesda and Redbirds play for
tournament title
BY NICK CAMMAROTA
STAFFWRITER
For as unpredictable as the CalRipken Collegiate Baseball League’sregular season was during this 2013summer campaign, the League Cham-pionship Series final featured the sametwo clubs for the fifth season in a row:the Bethesda Big Train and the Balti-more Redbirds.
Despite having a remarkable nineof the league’s 12 teamsfinishwith a re-cord above .500, the Big Train won theregular season title for the sixth time innine seasons and the Redbirds cappedback-to-back championshipswith a4-1win against Bethesda on Sunday. Thusendedanother seasonof summerbase-ball — an especially successful one forMontgomery County teams.
“Our goal every year is to win theregular-season championship,” BigTrain manager Sal Colangelo said.“That’s what’s important to us and ourclub and we did it again. And if we canwin the tournament, then we can. Butin the tournament, any timea teamgetshot anything can happen.”
The Redbirds didn’t lose a gameen route to their championship whileBethesda fought through the loser’s
bracket to reach the final. Bolstered bydynamic pitching — fronted by BubbyDerby, who led the league in wins,earned run average and strikeouts —and a balanced offense, the Big Trainfinished the regular seasonwith a 30-14record.
After congratulating his players on
a good season following Sunday’s loss,Colangelopromptly stated, “now it’s re-cruiting season again.” Indeed, the BigTrain have developed a reputation forattracting premiere talent from acrossthe nation— this year’s roster featuredplayers from Washington state to Flor-ida andmany states in between.
While not featuring as geographi-cally diverse a roster, the GaithersburgGiants did quite well for themselves intheir first year in the league. Transition-ing from theMaryland Collegiate Base-ball League to the CRCBL, the Giantsfinished in third place with a record of26-18. Even though they were bouncedin the first round of the LCS, Jeff Rab-berman’s club made quite the initialimpression.
“I felt we could definitely com-pete,” Rabberman said. “Everybody inthe league has talent. It’s those otherthings, those intangibles, that reallymake the difference throughout thesummer. The guys, though, were a joytoworkwith everynight. They really gotalong well and I think we have a greatfoundation for the future.”
Rabberman cited the Giants’ sea-son-opener against the Big Train, thefirst time they beat the Big Train anda 12-inning walk-off win against theVienna River Dogs as his three endur-ing memories from the season. JoshIngham was a force at the plate, whileRobin Mowatt headlined a deep pitch-ing staff.
AnotherMontgomery County teamthat enjoyed success was the RockvilleExpress. Managed by Rick Price in hissecond year at the helm, the Expressfinished 25-19 and secured a play-offs spot with a win on the season’sfinal day. Rockville was eliminated byBethesda in the LCS, but still managedto record its second consecutive win-
ning season with Will Kengor finishingsecond in the league in batting average.
“We had a big turnover from lastyear and we were up against it a lot,”Price said. “These teams were verygood. Itwas a very balanced league, butthe last two years, the Express has wonmore games than anyone else in thisleague.”
A team that’s hoping to soon postthe win totals of the three aforemen-tioned Montgomery County clubs isthe Silver Spring-Takoma Thunder-bolts, who were managed by first-yearcoach Doug Remer. The Thunderboltsranked third in the league in atten-dance (among teams who reportedtheir statistics) and Remer said he wasencouragedbyhis youngballclub’sper-formances en route to a 13-31 record.
“I think there was effort for everygame this season,” Remer said. “Theeffort was there, I just think there weresome key situations where experiencemight have benefitted usmore.”
Overall, local CRCBL coachessounded pleased not only with the per-formance of their own teams, but withthe competitiveness of the league as awhole.
“Every year it’s going to continueto get better,” Rabberman said. “It’snot going to be long before the CapeCod League and the Ripken League arementioned in the same breath.”
Big Train wins regular season for sixth time in nine seasons
n Hawvermale’s versatilityhas been valuable to theUniversity of Maryland
softball team
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFFWRITER
Sometimes a talented highschool athlete makes the dif-ficult decision to opt out of in-tercollegiate athletics to meetthe demands of a rigorous aca-demic course load because onlya select few athletes have a fu-ture in professional sports.
Mechanical engineeringwould certainly be one of thosecollege majors that might re-quire too much time to balancewith an NCAADivision I sport.
But former James H. BlakeHigh School softball third
baseman Bridget Hawvermaledoesn’t know how to do thingshalfway. The junior has alreadytaken enough credits in twoyears to be considered a seniorin program that takesmany fiveyears to finish.
The remarkable diligenceand determination whichHawvermale applies to all as-pects of her life sets her apartfrom the typical student-ath-lete, University of Maryland,College Park coach Laura Wat-ten said.
Fundamentally Hawver-male, who led Blake to its onlystate tournament appearance in2010, is a skilled softball player,Watten said. But most athletesvying for a spot in a Division Isoftball program can throw,catch, hit and run the bases bet-ter than the average player.
Hawvermale, who said she
was the Terrapins’ No. 1 fangrowing up, had something inaddition to her softball prowessthat caught Watten’s attention.
“Bridget is someone we ac-tually knew because she cameto our camps so we got to seeher. You want kids who wantto be part of your programand will do anything they cando to be a part of the program.Bridget always wanted to go toMaryland. She came in with alot of pride and a lot of passionfor helping the team and help-ing the team grow. She has oneof the best work ethics of anykid I’ve coached. She’s just akid that absolutely came in andhad a desire to make an impactin whatever role she’s asked tobe in and those were the thingsthat really [stood out],” Wattensaid.
Breaking into the starting
lineup of an NCAA Division Isoftball team is no easy task, es-pecially for a freshman or soph-omore. When an opportunitypresents itself, it’s imperative totake advantage. Hawvermale,who received the “Terp Award”for having the highest grade-point average on the softballteam, did just that in the latterpart of the 2012-13 season andput herself in position to con-tend for a starting spot again inthe fall.
When injuries forced Wat-ten to shift things around,Hawvermale, whose versatilityhas made her a valuable utilityplayer, presented herself as thebest choice to fill in a vacancythat opened up in the outfield,Watten said.
Hawvermale, who batted.286 with 13 runs scored in 14starts, said she intentionally
focuses on strengthening allaspects of her game in order tothe type of player who can fillin wherever needed. Her workethic and team-first attitudeis contagious and made her aleader even as a freshman,Wat-ten said.
“[Hawvermale] was veryaware of the fact that all sheneeded to do was make it im-possible to take her out of thelineup and that’s pretty muchwhat she did. She’s an athleteand she can step in and fill anyrole we’ve asked and she’ll doit with a big smile on her faceand not question anything orworry about anything.We couldprobably put her in anypositionother than pitching,” Wattensaid.
Hawvermale, who returnedon July 20 froma three-week so-lar engineering class in China,
might have a little more freetime if she stepped away fromsoftball, but juggling the twodemanding entities keep herbalanced, she said. Plus, howmany people realize a child-hood dream?
“Hardwork pays off, I guess.Sometimes I have to take a stepback, this is what I’ve alwayswanted. I feel like my softballcareer has come full circle, frombeing a 6-year-old fan to see-ing young girls and talking tothem,” Hawvermale said. “En-gineering and a Division I sportis like a life commitment. InD-I sports they talk a lot aboutsports psychology and havingan outlet. When I’m tired ofsoftball I have school and whenI’m tired of school I have soft-ball.”
Blake grad uses Terps softball to balance out heavy academic load
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n In its first summer, USA-JA has 67 athletes turn out
for offseason training
BY TRAVISMEWHIRTERSTAFFWRITER
Over the past few years, Des-salyn Dillard was accustomedto 10, maybe 15 kids meander-ing out to James H. Blake HighSchool during summer for someindependent off-season work-outs. Though not a coach forany official summer track club,Dillard, a coach at Paint BranchHigh, would still host workoutsalongside a few other coaches,keeping the handful of athletesnot affiliated with a summerteam in shape for the upcomingfall season.
So imagine her surprisewhen, on her first day as the offi-cial coachof thefledglingUSA-JATrack and Field club, based outof Northwood High, 67 poppedin, ready to be a part of the Silver
Spring-dominated team.“I was expecting 20, 25 ath-
letes,” said Dillard, a 1999 gradu-ateof theUniversityofMaryland,College Park where she com-peted in the400hurdlesandhep-tathlon. “In a week it was a rushof applicants and I was like ‘Oh,wow.’ Itwas very unexpectedbut
awelcome surprise.”The sheer number of ath-
letes was only the beginning ofthe more-than-welcome sur-prises headed Dillard’s way. Atthe season’s bookend event, theJuniorOlympics hosted byNorthCarolina A&T, USA-JA boastedtwo individual All-Americans
(Binyam Tadesse of John F. Ken-nedy, 3,000 meters; Martha SamofBlake, 400meters) andoneAll-American relay team (the boys’17-18 age group 3,200 relay) forfinishing in the top eight.
“I didn’t really have any ex-pectations,” said Sam, a juniorand reigning county champ inthe 100 meters. “It was some-thing I did just because. I wasn’texpecting it to happen, it justkind of did. It was a little over-whelming at first. It was the firsttime I didn’t get first andwas stillhappy.”
Dillard and her team ofcoaches — Shawn Shannon,Darryl Spruill, and Giovanni Re-umante — had long recognizedthe need for a summer track clubfor Silver Spring-area athletes,but nothing official began untilthis year, when the quartet de-cided to apply for certification toget the ball rolling on a travelingteam that could eventually endup in Greensboro for the JuniorOlympics. By the beginning of
summer, the USA-JA had beenfounded.
“There were no options inthis area for kids to get better,”Shannon said. “We decided,‘Let’s go see what this looks like’and it took off.’ Definitely there’ssomepotential for this.”
As for the name, “USA-JA,”it’s a mix between United Statesand Jamaica, a moniker that Dil-lard failed to suppress a fit of gig-gleswhenasked about it.
“We kicked a few namesaroundandthat’swhatweendedup on,” she said. Dillard, a na-tive of Trenton, N.J., is the team’sstrength and endurance coach.Shannon,aformercompetitor forJamaica CollegeHigh, representsthe Caribbean half of the nameand takes care of the sprints andcoachesalongsideDillardatPaintBranch. Spruill, also aNew Jerseynative, heads the jumps and Re-umante, a former Northwoodgraduate who won a state title inthe 800, setting a school recordin the process, is the middle dis-
tance coach.“Realistically, we knew it
would be competitive, but see-ing that the summer track scenewas new for us all, we weren’tsure how the kids would rise tothe occasion,” Dillard said. “Wewere just kind of feeling thingsout, didn’twant to set the bar toohigh.We knewwewould dowell,butwedidn’t knowhowwell.”
Sam’s All-American hat isa testament to just how well afirst-year track club can do. Butthe most satisfying element ofthe inaugural season was theoverwhelming amount of par-ticipantswho, had it not been fortheUSA-JA,wouldnothavebeenable to competewith a teamoverthe summer.
“Theexpectations for thekidswas to get better, to come out onthe track to not just run,” Shan-non said. “Their job the first daywas tocomeready to runandrunthe rightway.”
New Silver Spring track club finds untapped demand
n Brown to forgo his finalhigh school season
BY JORDAN COYNESPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
Transitioning to collegefrom high school can be a dif-ficult process. So, in order tomake next year’s transition tothe Colgate University men’ssoccer team easier, Albert Ein-stein High School student KarlBrown said he has opted tonot return for his senior highschool season. Instead, hehas decided to play for newly-founded Olney-Bethesda BoysAcademy in order to competeagainst the nation’s top play-ers.
“In the long run, I knowthat the academy is going tohelpme as a player a lotmore,”
Brown said during a phone in-terview on July 24 from KansasCity, where his current U-17team, the OBGC Rangers, wascompeting at the 2013 U.S.Youth Soccer National Cham-pionship. “Going into college,I’m going in to a whole newenvironment, so this last yearI really want to get some goodpractice in.”
Starting last season, stu-dent-athletes are only permit-ted to play for an academyteam or a high school team.They can no longer play forboth.
The Olney-Bethesda BoysAcademy was created in aneffort to merge the strugglingMcLean and Potomac acade-mies, according to Brown. Hisclub coach, Matt Pilkington,was sought after to coach thenew academy team, and the
rest of the U-17 Rangers squadcame along. While Brown isexpected to thrive as a mem-ber of the academy team,Einstein will miss him, coachAdrian Baez said.
“He is an awesome player,I can’t replace him,” Baez said.“I still have a pretty good, solidteam, but my gosh that is acrushing blow.”
Without Brown, who hasserved as captain of the Titanssince his sophomore year,Baez is expecting seniors JohnMarc Charpentier and ErikMaradiaga to step up as lead-ers of the squad.
Brown said he will missthe opportunity to serve as aleader on his team.
“Playing high school socceris a lot of fun. You’re playingwith your friends and in frontof your friends, and it makes
you realize why you love soc-cer so much,” he said.
When Brown first startedplaying recreational soccerat the age of 4, his father, JimBrown, was his coach. WhenBrownwas first asked to try outfor a club team at the age of 8,he was unsure if he wantedto play for a team that wasn’tcoached by his father.
“I didn’t know if I wantedto do it, but my dad reallypushed for me,” he said. “Heknew I was a good player, sohe’d always challenge me.”
Brown said his father hassupported him at every game,and especially in his recent de-cision to play for Colgate.
In preparing for his col-legiate career, Brown plans totake the next year to train con-sistently hard.
“When you get there,
you’re playing guys who arebigger, faster and stronger,”he said. “There’s always more
I can do.”
Einstein boys’ soccer star to skip senior season for academy team
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‘Coach D,’ Dessalyn Dillard (right), started the USA-JA track and field club tohelp keep athletes in shape during the summer months and was surprised bythe number of people who signed up.
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n While most teamsparticipate in county
summer league, others goelsewhere
BY TRAVISMEWHIRTERSTAFF WRITER
Montgomery Blair HighSchool boys’ basketball coachDamon Pigrom said he couldprobably recite Clarksburg’sroster and could spit out ascouting report without re-viewing game film. He knowsthe matchups, what defensehis Blazers will likely see, whatoffense they should run. It’s in-formation learned through thefour month-long basketballseason.
To avoid the monotony ofdoing it all over again duringthe summer, Pigrom, and otherMontgomery County coaches,said they take their teams out-side the county, where theywill be tested against unfamil-iar opponents, schemes andstyles of play.
This year’s MontgomeryCounty summer league fea-tured the usual suspects, a mixof private and public schoolsand even one, River Hill, fromoutside Montgomery’s bor-ders.
The Blazers suited up inWashington, D.C. this summer,taking part in two summerleagues in the district wherethey played teams they knewvery little.
“We want to face differentpeople,” Pigrom said. “To playthe same people over summerand over season, it’s just toomuch.
“The teams that we’re play-ing, they’re more athletic thanwe’re seeing in MontgomeryCounty. It’s summer league soI don’t know how many teamsare slowing down and run-ning things, and the refereesare letting the kids play andthey’re getting tougher, whichis good.”
Whether it be shaking upthe Xs and Os or taking his
team elsewhere during the off-season, everything Pigrom hasdone so far seems to be work-ing.
In following up one of themost successful seasons innearly a decade (15-9), Pigromtook his team down to Wood-row Wilson for a summerleague along with Northwood,Wheaton, Theodore Roosevelt,Princeton Day Academy and ahandful of others. The Blazersmade it to the title game, beat-ing Princeton Day in the semi-finals.
“The kids, they boughtin,” Pigrom said. “I think theylooked at the things they ac-complished this past year andwant to keep that going. Fifteenwins is more than we’ve had inalmost a decade. They’re allhungry to expand upon whatwe did last year.”
The vast majority of localteams play in either The Rockat High Point or DeMatha’sBSN as a side to the countyleague.
Some even do all three,essentially seeing the sameschools over and over. That’s
why Sharief Hashim took hisWheaton team to Wilson aswell.
“It’s great, I’m a huge pro-ponent of that,” he said. “It’sjust important. A lot of my kidsdon’t play [Amateur AthleticUnion] so getting out of thecounty is big, getting out of ourcomfort zone is big.”
Hashim and the Knightssplit their time between thecomfort zone of MontgomeryCounty’s ‘B’ division and Wil-son, playing enough gameswhere “it kind of had an AAUtype feel,” he said. “My kidsjust got to play a lot of basket-ball. It was definitely a produc-tive summer. I feel good, it wasa nice summer for us.”
And still other teams, JohnF. Kennedy for example, opt tonot play as a unit over summerat all.
With unavoidable absencesdue to vacations, jobs, AAUtournaments and various othersummer commitments, thegroup put on the floor during asummer league game is barelyrepresentative of the team thatwill be suiting up over winter
for the regular season.“I thought it was a waste
of time with kids out of townwith AAU every weekend,” saidKennedy coach Diallo Nelson,who had the Cavaliers play atThe Rock the past three yearsbut chose not to participate inan official league this summer.“They were gone almost everyThursday, Friday, Saturday orWednesday, Thursday, Friday.As far as getting better as ateam, I didn’t see the benefit.”
So, rather than put togethera haphazardly assembledgroup of junior varsity play-ers and AAU stragglers, Nel-son scheduled circuit trainingand shoot-arounds, keepingthe workouts concentrated onhis players honing individualskills.
“As an ex-player and col-legiate coach, I understand theimportance of the off-season,”Nelson said. “And from Marchto November, you work onyour individual skills. And fromNovember to March, you workon getting better as a team.”
Basketball teams leave the comfort zone
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Montgomery Blair High School boys basketball coach Damon Pigrom said he took his team to Washington, D.C.’ssummer league so that they would be exposed to teams they don’t normally see.
n Basketball: Falconslook for new stars after
five graduate
BY JORDAN COYNESPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
The Our Lady of GoodCounsel High School girlsbasketball team has devel-oped a reputation of beingone of the strongest in theregion, maybe even the na-tion.
So it was rare to see theFalcons lose by 14 pointsduring the Best of Marylandgirls basketball tournamentat Damascus High Schoollast month.
Illinois’s Marian Catholicdefeated Good Counsel 53-36 in the opening game ofthe tournament.
“This is a building pro-cess,” Good Counsel coachTom Splaine said. “We’retrying to rebuild our teamagain.”
The Falcons lost five se-niors off last year’s team,including University of Vir-ginia recruit Amanda Fiora-vanti, who led the team inscoring.
“[This weekend] chal-lenges us and shows uswhere we are. We’ve comea long way, but we’re notwhere we want to be,”Splaine said.
Marian Catholic ad-vanced to the title game ofthe tournament, finishingsecond.
Sophomore KendallBreese led the Falcons as thepoint guard, filling the roleFioravanti played last year.
“I think she’s going toplay a big role. She’s a toughplayer and a great competi-tor,” he said. “She is now ina more prominent role thanshe was last year … nowshe’s trying to figure outwhere can I contribute.”
Breese said she beganplaying at 5 with her fatheras coach.
Her father continued tocoach her teams until shereached high school.
In middle school, shealso began playing for anAmateur Athletic Unionteam that she still plays for
outside of school.She said the team is
looking to improve its 27-6record from last year andreturn to the WashingtonCatholic Athletic Conferencechampionship game.
Personally, she said sheis figuring out her role on thesquad.
“Just cause I’m young Istill think I still contribute alot,” she said. “We all cometogether on the court.”
Even though she is justentering her sophomoreyear, college basketball iscertainly on the radar, ac-cording to Splaine.
Also expected to lead theFalcons this season is ris-ing junior Nicole Enabosiand returning seniors SaraWoods, who is committed toDrexel, and Stacey Koutris,who has received severallooks from colleges, Splainesaid.
During the final minutesof the game, the team wasdown by 15 and Splaine chal-lenged his girls to rise to theoccasion and push throughto the end, noting the morethan 130 college recruiters inattendance.
“They’re going to want tosee how you react,” he said.“Play tough.”
Good Counsel girlsstart rebuilding
“This is a buildingprocess. We’re
trying to rebuildour team again. ...[College recruitersare] going to want
to see how youreact.”
— Good Counsel coach TomSplaine
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n Basketball: Perrowpreviously coached at
Archbishop Carroll
BY DAN FELDMANSTAFF WRITER
When the Bullis School boys’basketball team left town for awinter break tournament twoyears ago, assistant coach Clin-ton Perrow insisted the team eatat Golden Corral, though headcoachBruceKelleywasn’t imme-diately keenon thebuffet.
“He looked at me like I wasout of my mind,” Perrow said.“I said, ‘Coach, I’m telling you,there’s something there for ev-erybody. It’s easy. Youdon’t havetoworry about it.’”
Bullis went to Golden Corralthat night andwon its next game.Again, Perrow insisted the team
eat at his lucky restaurant, andagain, Kelley resisted.
“Througha forceofpersonal-ity and tempting fate, we’re rightback thereat theGC,”Kelley said.“All you can eat.
“It’s bad food. You’ve gottago. You can’t jinx it.”
In all, Bullis has eaten fivemeals at theGoldenCorral in thelast two years while playing intournaments in South Carolinaand Florida. After those meals,Bullis is 5-0 and has won bothtournaments.
Bullis ishopingPerrowbringsthat good fortune— and force ofpersonality — to its girls’ pro-gram, hiring him as its new headcoach.
Prior to joining Bullis’ boys’staff, Perrow served as coach ofArchbishopCarrollHighSchool’sboys’ and girls’ teams at differentpoints.
“Young ladies want to becoached just like you coachguys,” Perrow said. “They don’twant any sugarcoating. Theydon’twantyoutogosoftonthemor anything like that. ... Commu-nication is very key. If you havegood communication skills andyoucan teach thegame, it’s reallynot that big of a difference.”
Kelley believes Perrow’s abil-ity tocommunicatewillnotbeanissue.
“He never has any downdays,” Kelley said. “... The con-nection that he makes with kids—hecanpull andpush, and theyknow that he cares.
“So, he’s able to get out ofthem than theymight have origi-nally thought they can give.”
Kelley first observed Per-row when they coached againsteach other, PerrowguidingArch-bishopCarroll’sboys’ teamin the
BullisHolidayClassic.“I liked the energy that he
brought from the bench,” Kelleysaid. “I liked the energy that theteam played with. Over a three-day tournament, I’m there thewhole time, and it didn’t wane. Iwanted to coachwith that guy.”
ArchbishopCarrolldismissedPerrow during the 2008-09 sea-sonafter twoofhisplayers foughteach other on the bench duringa game. Later in 2009, PerrowjoinedKelley’s staff.
Kelley didn’t set a specificrole for Perrow, letting the assis-tant gravitate toward the area ofhis choosing on thefly.
Soon enough, Perrow beganfine-tuning Bullis’ defense, andthat’s where he said his concen-trationwill bewith the girls.
“We really want to set to thetoneby just being a really aggres-sive, hard-nosed defensive teamthat really gets after you,” Perrowsaid. “That’s justwho I am.”
He said he is hoping to bringidentity to a successful programthat could suddenly use it.
Perrow becomes Bullis’ thirdcoach in three seasons.
“I didn’t take the job to begone in one or two years or threeyears or four years or even fiveyears,” Perrow said. “I took the
job for longevity. I took the job,because I really like the school.”
As Perrow puts his mark onthe program, he hopes to sched-ule out-of-town trips duringwin-ter breaks.
It’s too late to scheduletrips for the upcoming season,and he’s unsure yet about fu-ture years.
But he brings at least somecertainty to the program,which will be seen wheneverPerrow takes his first long tripwith his new team.
“The girls are definitely go-ing to Golden Corral,” Perrowsaid.
Switching sides: Bullis boys’ assistant becomes girls’ coach
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Phillip and Molly Feliciano of Silver Spring announce the mar-riage of their daughter, Erin Inez Feliciano, to William AlexanderOtwell, son of Billy and Becky Otwell of Alexandria, Va., formerly ofMadison, Conn., and Roswell, Ga.
Their childrenweremarried onMay 4, 2013, at St. AndrewApos-tle Catholic Church in Silver Spring with a reception following atManor Country Club in Rockville.
Erin is a graduate of St. John’s College High School in Washing-ton, D.C. She received her bachelor’s degree in studio art from theUniversity of Richmond inRichmond,Va., and certificate inGraphicandWebDesign fromBostonUniversity’sCenter forDigital ImagingArts in Washington, D.C. She is currently employed as assistant artdirector for Science Newsmagazine inWashington, D.C.
Alex is a graduateofDanielHandHighSchool inMadison,Conn.He received his bachelor’s degree in business administration fromThe George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is cur-rently employed as a director of sales, small business, with Vocus inHerndon, Va.
The couple honeymooned in St. Lucia and reside inArlington, Va.
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PLACING ANANNOUNCEMENT
On June 29, Elvira and Jerry Hroblak, whomet as teenagers, cel-ebrated 50 years ofmarriage.
They celebrated withmore than 50 familymembers and friendsduring a party held at Norbeck Country Club. Elvira and Jerry havethree children, Kimberly McDanald, Kevin Hroblak and KristineHodge, and nine grandchildren,Megan andAshleyMcDanald; Ben,Zack and SarahHroblak ;and Emilia, Ellie, Erin and EvanHodge.
Before the guests were served dinner, the best man, EugeneDoria of Pennsylvania, made a speech as he did 50 years ago. Themaid of honor, BernadineWhalen, also flew in fromTexas.
After dinner, Ben performed the anniversarywaltz on the piano.Following,Megan andAshley, the twooldest grandchildrenwho aretwins, played “You’re Still the One” by Shania Twain on the guitar.Elvira and Jerry loved the performances by their grandchildren.
Hroblak
Craig andDenise Plunkett of Burtonsville announce the engage-mentof their daughter, ErinMariePlunkett, to JamesAndrewCamp-bell, son of Charles and Jeanne Campbell ofWoodlawn.
The bride-to-be is a 2005 graduate of Blake High School andgraduated from Towson University in 2009, where she was a mem-ber of KappaDelta sorority. She is currentlyworking as the adminis-trator of a localMontessori school.
Theprospective groomgraduated fromWesternSchool of Tech-nology and Environmental Science in 2002. He is a carpenter, bytrade.
A Nov. 23, 2013, wedding will take place at St. Joseph’s Monas-tery Parish in Baltimore.
Plunkett, Campbell
WandaMarie Thomas and Cornell ClaytonHouston Sr. of Adel-phi will wed in holymatrimony on Aug. 17, 2013, at St. Mark’s Epis-copal Church in Silver Spring.
The couple will also celebrate theirmarriage at Secrets The VineCancun Resort on Sept. 12, 2013, in Cancun, Mexico. Celebratingwith the couple will be their children, Felicia, Stayce, and QuentinThomas II, andMelodyHouston and Cornell Houston Jr.
Thomas, Houston
THURSDAY, AUG. 8Gut Happy, from 1:15-2:15
p.m. at theHoliday Park Com-munity Center, 3950 FerraraDrive,Wheaton. A healthydigestive system begins witha good diet. WendyWeisblatt,registered dietitian at Subur-banHospital, will highlightwhich foods promote healthydigestion andwhich should beavoided. She will also discusswhat probiotics are and howthey can help with digestion.www.suburbanhospital.org.
CPR and AED, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. atMedStarMont-gomeryMedical Center, 18101Prince Philip Drive, Olney.TheHeartsaver class teachesbasic CPR, rescue breathing,and relief of choking for adults,infants and children and Au-tomated External Defibrillatoruse. After successful comple-tion, the student will receive aHeartsaver AED card from theAmericanHeart Association.Note: This class is for the laycommunity and is not ade-quate for individuals who haveor will have patient care re-sponsibilities. This class is notdesigned for healthcare pro-viders. If you are a health careprovider, please register underBLS and CPR for Healthcare
Professionals. $80; Registrationrequired. 301-774-8881, www.montgomerygeneral.org.
MONDAY, AUG. 12Simplify Your Life, from
7-9 p.m. at SuburbanHospital,8600OldGeorgetownRoad,Bethesda. De-clutter for sum-mer. Discussionwill includemore than just cleaning outyour closet. Learn techniquesand skills for decluttering anddestressing your everyday life.$20. www.suburbanhospital.org.
ONGOINGNew Mothers Postpartum
Support Group, 10-11:30 a.m.Mondays atMedStarMont-gomeryMedicalCenter, 18101PrincePhilipDrive,Olney. Everwonder if youare theonlyonefeeling stressedandalonenowthat ababyhas joinedyourfamily?Wasn’t it supposed tobeeasier? If youarefindingyourself feeling sad, anxious,angryor irritable, group sup-port canhelp.Group ledby twotherapistswho specialize in thepostpartumperiod.Babies arewelcome. Free; Registrationrequired. 301-774-8881,www.montgomerygeneral.org.
ONGOINGDamascus United Method-
ist Church, 9700 NewChurchSt., Damascus, offers tradi-tional Sundaymorning wor-ship services at 8:15 a.m., ayouth contemporary worshipservice at 9:30 a.m. and a ser-vice of liturgy and the word at11 a.m. with Sunday school at9:30 a.m. for all ages during theschool year.
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.
Providence United Method-ist Church, 3716 KemptownChurch Road,Monrovia, con-ducts a contemporary serviceat 8 a.m. followed by a tradi-tional service at 9:30 a.m. Sun-daymornings, with Children’sSunday School at 9:30 a.m.and adult’s Sunday school at11 a.m. Formore information,call 301-253-1768. Visit www.kemptownumc.org.
Trinity Lutheran Church,11200 Old Georgetown Road,North Bethesda, conducts
services every Sunday, withchild care from 8 a.m. to noonand fellowship and a coffeehour following each service.301-881-7275. For a scheduleof events, visit www.Trinity-ELCA.org.
Chancel choir auditionsand rehearsals, 7:30 p.m.Thursdays at Liberty GroveMethodist Church, 15225 OldColumbia Pike, Burtonsville.Call 301-421-9166 or visitwww.libertygrovechurch.org.
“Healing for the Nations,” 7p.m. every first and third Sat-urday of themonth at SouthLake Elementary School, 18201Contour Road, Gaithersburg.Sponsored by King of the Na-tions Christian Fellowship,the outreach church service isopen to all who are looking forhope in this uncertain world.Prayer for healing available.Translation into Spanish andFrench. Call 301-251-3719.Visit www.kncf.org.
Geneva PresbyterianChurch, potluck lunches at11:30 a.m. the second Sundayof eachmonth at 11931 SevenLocks Road, Potomac. Thereis no fee to attend. All are wel-come to bring a dish to share;those not bringing dishes arealso welcome. Call 301-424-4346.
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G E R M /DAM 3b r1.5ba 2lvl TH, NS NP$1500 +util W/D NewCarpet, Paint, Deck &Patio. 301-250-8385
GERM:SFH 4Br/2Bafin bsmt, h/w floors,fenced yard, fireplace.Near 270. $2450.301-442-5444
GERM: UpgradedTH 3Br, 1.5Ba $1400+ utils No smk, Nopet Cred Chk & SD,Nr Metro/Shops. Call410-414-2559
MONT VILLAGE:Spacious 4BR, 2.5BATH incls. W/D, dish-washer W/W crpt.Nearbus stop. $1800/mnthMilitary & HOC wel-come 202-251-9022
POTOMAC: lrg 3 br,2.5 ba, SFH, finishedbasement, living rm,dining rm, den w/fp,deck, carport, com-pletely remodeled,close to 270, $3100/month 240-372-8050
QUINCE OR-CHARD PARK(Gaithersburg) Spa-cious inthis quiet neighbor-hood iAvailable Imme-diately. Rent: $2,950per month. Approx3,000 sqft, 3BD, 3.5BA, Fin Basement,2Car Garage, FencedYard. Walk to theKentlands. Com-munity Swimming Pooland Tennis Courts areincluded. Please call240-441-7265
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N . P O T O M A CROCKVILLE: 1 BRApt. $1185 incl util,CATV, Free ParkingAvail now. NS/NPCALL: 301-424-9205
ADELPHI, MDNice, 1BR 1BACondo, 2nd floor, after8/5/13 open forr e n t .Parking space, LargeBalcony, on floor laun-dry, pool, Play area,trails for hiking. 6-mo lease or higher.$250.sec.deposit (Re-fundable ) N / P$1150 plus Utilities (elec only ) Must showproof of work history +2references Contactl301-445-1131 / [email protected]
DAMASCUS: 2 BR,1 Bath, a/c, W/D, dish-washer $1,205 if pd bythe 5th 240-994-2809
GAITHERSBURG/LILAC GARDEN 1Bedroom, $999 + elecAvailable immed.301-717-7425 - Joe
GAITH/MV: 2Br/2BaCondo w/patio, W/DComm Pool $1350/mo+ utils, conv locationCall: 240-477-0131
HYATTSVILLE: HighRise Condo Aprt 2BR1BA Lrg Balcony AllUtils Incld, Avail Now.$1400/mnth 301-528-1011 240-447-5072
ROCK: 1Br, newlyupgraded $1200/moutils incl excpt electric,nr metro & I-270. N/S& N/P Avail NowCall: 301-461-0629
ASPEN HILL: 1tenant, 1Br w/attachedBA, shared kit & livingrm, NS/NP, $600/mnthConv. 301-962-5778
BETHESDA: 1BR in2BR apt, nr Mont.Mall, $550. Female,N/S N/P 301-433-2780or 240-507-2113
BETH: Nr WR NatMed Ctr/NIH & bus!Furn 2 Rm Suite/SFH,priv entr & Ba, shrkit/laun, NS, mustlove cats, $900 inclutils, TV, Int (30 daylease avl) 301-263-1326 (eve) Avl immed
CLARKSBURG 2Huge MBRs in TH$650 ea, utils, cable &inet Included. Ns/Np.Call 240-398 6552
DERWOOD: 1 BR,Shared BA in 5 LVLTH. Fem. Tenant $700/mo incl utils w/6 molease. 240-476-9005
GAITH: basment apt.Pvt entr, pvt kit & BA,$900/mo inclds util &FIOS. Storage. 301-370-7508 Avail 8/1
GAITHERS: 1BR inSFH unfurn. $650 utilsincl. Male NS/NP, 1mile frm I-270. AvailImmed 240-372-1168
GAITHERSBURG:1Br, 1Ba, Shr Kit,cable/int, N/S N/P,$550/month includesutils 240-643-4122
GAITHERSBURG1Br in an Apartment$600/ mo util includedNs Np, Nr Metro, BusShops. 240-603-3960
GAITHERSBURG 1rm in TH, nr Ride On,$550 Sec Dep.Deck/fp. Avl ImmedCALL: 301-440-4189
GAITHERSBURG:Female, 1BR, pvt BAin condo $600 utils inclNs/Np nr Metro Bus240-601-9125
GAITHERSBURG:Male, 1Br $299, NearMetro & Shops. NS.Available Now.301-219-1066
GAITH: M ale/Fem toshare 1 BR in TH.Near bus line. N/s,N/p. $450/m Util incl.301-675-0538
GAITH:M BRs $425+435+475+555+ MaidNs/Np, nr 270/370/Busshops, quiet, conv.SecDep 301-983-3210
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GERM:1 Super Lg Brin Bsmt prv ba $830util, cable, internetinclud. Ns/Np, Femalenr Bus 240-401-3522
GERMANTOWN:Furn 1 Br & Ba in 2Br2Ba apt, modern kit &Ba, W/D, nr MC,$590/mo, SD req240-654-3797
GERMANTOWNMature Male , 1 FurnBR. All utils included.Near 61 Bus Line.Maria 240-671-3783
GERMANTOWN:Rm for rent in TH nrbus & shopping center$550/mo util includeNP/NS 240-715-5147
GERM:Male only 2BRs $400 each + utilsin TH NS/ND. Nearbus & shops. Sec DepReq. 240-476-6224
LAUREL: 1 BR base-ment in TH, prvt bath,share kit $700/monthutils incl. Close to 95202-903-6599
ROCKVILLE: 1Brshare bath in SFH.Male $500 utils cableincl. Near Metro/ BusNS/NP 240-483-9184
ROCKVILLE: NS/NP,part furn nice 2 BrBsmt Apt, with privateentrance $850/mo +utils 301-424-4366
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SILVER SPRING:1 BR furn $600.Access to Metro.Includes utilities.Call: 301-346-9518.
SILVER SPRING:Room for $480/mo,shared kit Ba, W/D,CABTV & Util, PleaseCALL: 301-404-2681
SS: New House 1brApt 1st floor pvt ent,kitch, Bath, parking$1300 utils incld, quiet301-879-2868
TAKOMA PARK:NS room for rent$550/month AC, car-peted, PVT ent, nrshop,bus/metro. UtilsIncld. 301-448-2363
WHEATON: Malepref non-smoker, 1BR,shr BA, near metro,$525/mnth util incl+dep 301-933-6804
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OLNEY: Upscale Es-tate Sale! Sat Aug 109a-noon, Home Fur-nishings include, Pot-tery Barn Black EndTables, Cherry Hi-Boywith Glass front, Coolopen top Bar cup-board, Queen 4 posterbed with rails, NativeAmerican runner, cor-ner cabinet, diningroom breakfront, Handpainted Mirror fromItaly....and more. Allfurniture is in excellentcondition and priced tosell! 19305 MadisonHouse St
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The City of New Carrollton is seeking a detailedoriented Custodial Assistant to perform assignedhousekeeping tasks in the City Municipal Buildingfive nights a week, 12:00 A.M. - 8:30 A.M.,Tuesday - Saturday. Hourly wage is $11.83/hour.The City provides a generous benefits package,covering health, dental, and vision 100% for singleenrollment. A copy of the job description andemployment applications are available in theMunicipal Building at 6016 Princess GardenParkway between the hours of 8:30 A.M. -4:30 P.M., Monday - Friday. For moreinformation, contact 301 459-6100. PositionOpen Until Filled. The City of New Carrollton is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Offer contingentupon a criminal background screening and drugtesting.
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MONT VILLAGE:Multi Family Sale, SatAug 10th, 9-4, CashOnly. HH/collectibles/clothing/toys & games10128 Gravier Courtin Fairidge
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NOTICE OF JOINT PUBLIC HEARING
The Mayor and City Council and the Planning Commission of theCity of Gaithersburg, Maryland, will conduct a joint public hearingon Zoning Map Amendment Z-3136-2013 filed by The HumaneSociety of the United States on
MONDAYAUGUST 19, 2013AT 7:30 P.M.
or as soon thereafter as this matter can be heard in the CouncilChambers at 31 South Summit Avenue, Gaithersburg, Maryland.The applicant requests approval of Zoning Map Amendment Z-3136-2013, to establish a new sketch plan on 10.49 acres of landzoned MXD (Mixed Use Development), in accordance with § 24-160D.11 (Procedures for amendment) of the City Code. The sub-ject property site is located at 700 Professional Drive.
Further information may be obtained from the Planning and CodeAdministration Department at City Hall, 31 South Summit Avenue,between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,or visit the City’s website at www.gaithersburgmd.gov.
Rob Robinson, Lead, Long Range PlanningPlanning and Code Administration
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Work with the BEST!Be trained individually by one of the area’s top offices & one of the area’s bestsalesman with over 34 years. New & experienced salespeople welcomed.
Must R.S.V.P.Call Bill Hennessy
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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)
∂ Paid Vacation
Apply at www.crestcleaners.com
ADOPTION - Happilymarried, nature lovingcouple wishes toadopt a child. Wepromise love, laughter,education, security,and extended family.Expenses paid.www.DonaldAndEster.com 1-800-965-5617
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I AM A NANNY:Raised 6 kids! PT/FTexc ref, live-out, owntransportation, lightcooki/clean, fluent inEng 240-408-6871
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ELENA’S FAMILYDaycare
Welcomes Infants-Up Pre-K program,Computer Lab, PottyTrain. Lic# 15-133761Call 301-972-1955
MED TECHfor Medical practice inGermantown/Rockville.
Salary & BenefitsFax or email resume to
301-947-2811 [email protected]
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On Call SupervisorGreat job for students, retirees and
stay at home moms. Work fromhome! Answer and handle phone callsfrom 5pm to 9am two evenings twicea month for staffing agency or one
weekend a month. Must have Inter-net access, and a car. Fax resume to
301.588.9065 or email [email protected]
HOUSEKEEPERNEEDED: FT Tues-Sat, small family inPotomac, clean/cook.Indian cooking ispref’d 240 498 0318
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]
ResidentialHouseCleaning
Over 11 years exp.Reasonable rates.Free estimates.Call 240-439-7005
ROCKVILLE: lovelyprvt apt in Pastorshome exchange forfew mid day errands +salary, must drive. Callonce only & lv msg.301-871-6565
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Careers301-670-2500 [email protected]
Recruiting isnow Simple!Get Connected!
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.
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NEW Bakery-Café OpeningHIRING ALL POSITIONS
Panera Bread, your neighborhood bakery-café, is currently seeking ALLPOSITIONS for our new Seneca Meadows location (in same shopping centeras Wegman’s). We are looking for cashiers, sandwich/salad makers, prepassociates, dishwashers and dining room crew as well as cateringcoordinators.
Ideal candidates will be articulate and experienced in dealing with the publicin a customer service capacity, bring lots of enthusiastic energy, and capableof multi-tasking. We have flexible full and part-time positions available forshifts ranging from early mornings and mid-days to evenings and weekends.We offer a competitive hourly wage and other employee benefits.
To apply, please go to: www.panerabread.jobs for an application, searchHourly Associate Candidates and specify location 203777 Seneca Meadows.Qualified candidates will be contacted directly by the hiring manager. EOE
WE’RE HIRINGWEEKEND CNAS,GNAS, AND HHAS!
Provide non-medical care and companionship forseniors in their homes. Personal care, light
housework, 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
K-12 TransportationManager
Direct and control all aspects of theschool’s bussing services. This includes
bus driver supervision, publiccommunication, route scheduling, bus
maintenance, and child safety anddiscipline protocols. For detailed job
description and to apply go towww.gazette.net/careers
WAREHOUSEASST.
Responsible person to assist inour growth. Fax Resume to301.948.4113 or email
PreSchool Education
Teacher /AsstTeacher
Head teacher for the 4’s, FT/PT.ECE 4yr degree or equivalent.Asst. Teacher needed PotomacPre-School M-F 8-1pm, to start8/26. Great benefits! Exp a plus!Energetic, warm team playersSend resumes to [email protected]
Restaurant Staffµ Wait Staff µ Buss Persons
µ PM Line CookFull & Part time shifts available
Apply In Person:Normandie Farm Restaurant10710 Falls Rd, Potomac
Warehouse/Logistics -
Project ManagerResponsibility will be to providefull-time oversight of the NIHSCcontract and SoBran personnel.For detailed job description go towww.gazette.net/careers. Apply
via the careers page:www.sobran-inc.com
ACCOUNTINGOFFICE MGR
Contractor seeks experiencedAccounting Rep for a PTposition. If able to performOffice Mgr duties, FT positionalso available. Send resumeto: [email protected] orfax 301.258.7747 EOE
Part-Time
Work From HomeNational Children’s CenterMaking calls Weekdays 9-4
No selling! Sal + bonus + benes.
Call 301-333-1900
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AutomotiveCall 301-670-7100 or email [email protected]
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$$1144,,9988552011 Toyota Corolla LE........$$1144,,998855$14,985#367171A, Sandy Beach, 4 SpeedAuto, 28.8K mi
$$1155,,4488002012 Scion TC..................$$1155,,448800$15,480#350118A, 6 SpeedAuto, 25K mi, Blue
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11 Nissan Rogue
3371 Fort Meade Road, Laurel
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2012 Jetta TDI...............#149435A, Coffee, 22,328 mi.........$20,5912013 Golf.......................#P7616, Red, 4,329 mi...................$20,5972012 GTI PZEV....................#520705A, Gray, 18,514 mi............$20,9912013 Passat SE..................#PR6025, White, 3,677 mi..............$22,5912013 Passat SE..................#PR6024, Silver, 3,912 mi...............$23,3912013 Passat SE..................#PR6027, Black, 3,195 mi..............$23,4912011 Tiguan SE..................#P6004 Gray, 20,118 mi.................$24,6912012 Golf R Nav.................#819675A, Black, 21,246 mi..........$27,794
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BUY FOR$21,999
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