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August 2009Hyattsville’s Community NewspaperVol. 6 No. 8

NOTHIN' BUT A BOOK THINGEditor Sarah Nemeth visits Baltimore's The Book ThingPAGE 2

A BIRTHDAY fOR THE AGESFormer Hyattsville resident visits her old house and gets a birthday surprise. PAGE 3

SLEEPING INNER BEAUTYCassie Johnson lists fi ve easy ways to be happy. The best part? It involves naps. PAGE 5

by Dan Hart

An ongoing traffi c study of Hyattsville’s streets has surfaced some resident dissatisfaction over methods of slowing down traffi c.

“Traffic circles, speed humps, raised intersections, [and] chok-ers are not traffic calming de-vices, they’re traffic infuriating devices,” said David Marshall of 37th Avenue. “People speed from one hump to the next, worse than they would normally.”

Marshall also expressed con-cern about emergency vehicles not being able to negotiate speed humps in a timely manner.

“If you’re having a heart at-tack [and] there’re 12 humps to go over, you’ve got to slow down every time — you’re not mak-ing it to the hospital,” Marshall said. “So I would implore you to erase that from the program.”

Preliminary results of the City-wide Traffic Study and Transpor-tation Plan, were presented to council members and residents at a public meeting last month.

The study is being conducted by Sabra, Wang & Associates, a Baltimore-based engineering firm that specializes in traffic engineering and transportation planning.

The first phase of the study in-volved the collection and analy-

Feedback on traffi c studyprovided

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by Tim Hunt

Discussion about the construction of a new elemen-tary school in Hyattsville -- a change that could af-fect pupils from fi ve local schools -- brought dozens of area residents to Hyattsville Middle School last month to brainstorm about the school, which is to be located adjacent to Nicholas Orem Middle School.

Representatives of the architectural fi rm Hord Coplan Macht, Inc. (HCM) of Baltimore presented the details of the new school building and how it will fi t onto the parcel of land at 3120 Nicholson St. The land was recently purchased by Prince George‘s County Public Schools.

The crowd was a mix of residents, local elected offi -cials and employees of PGCPS, including many of the principals of the elementary and middle schools that could be affected by this new school. Children who

currently attend Rosa Parks, Hyattsville, Lewisdale, Carole Highlands, and University Park elementary schools may be required to attend the new school, which will have a capacity of 790 students and serve grades pre-K through six. The earliest date that the new school could be completed is August 2012.

Prince George’s County School Board members Heather Iliff (Dist. 2) and Amber Waller (at large) welcomed attendees to the meeting, which was held, according to Iliff, to have the community meet the architect, better understand the planning process, and determine the best way to continue the process with the community.

The “H” shaped building will be two stories tall and will total 80,000 to 87,000 square feet -- about the size of two grocery stores. It will be designed as

Pupils from fi ve area schools could be affected

by Paula Minaert

A city resident has filed a civil lawsuit against two Hyattsville officials, requesting access to public records about the actions of a former Hyattsville police of-ficer.

Attorneys for Matthew J. Crouch, who was allegedly as-saulted by former HPD officer Todd O. Prawdzik, said that the police department refused them access to a police report of the incident.

“We had to file suit against the City of Hyattsville to get disclo-sure under the Maryland Public Information Act,” said Philip J. Sweitzer, Crouch’s attorney. The suit, filed July 19, names Mayor William Gardiner and Police Chief Douglas Holland as defen-dants and petitions for judicial review of denial of access to re-cords.

In September 2008, Crouch was involved in a dispute with Prawdzik, who was off duty at the time. The altercation left Crouch, who was taken to the hospital, with stitches and sta-ples in his head, and he later had to return to the hospital.

According to the HPD, certain requests for information legally can be denied to the families of victims.

“The City of Hyattsville takes seriously any request for pub-lic information and attempts to comply fully and timely under the Maryland Public Informa-tion Act,” said HPD Spokesman Sgt. Greg Phillips.

However, the city is forbidden under the Maryland Public In-formation Act and the Health In-

Civil lawsuit fi led against city offi cials

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by Paula Minaert

On one of my walks around Hyattsville, I saw a sign in a store window that

read: “No appointment neces-sary! Walk-in’s welcome!”

It made me cringe. Why? Be-cause the correct usage is “walk-ins” (plural), not “walk-in’s” (singular possessive). The sign means to invite many people to walk in. As written, it is inviting only one person in and implies that that one person has some-thing but doesn’t say what it is.

Most people probably wouldn’t even notice this grammatical mishap, but I did. I usually do. I was called a “grammar Nazi” by a crusty religious brother with whom I once worked.

But it’s more than grammar. I pay attention to what people say and write because I love words.

And I have ever since I was a child. I love the English lan-guage, both for its richness and for its absurdities. I love explor-ing the history of words. Did you know that the word “sarcasm” comes from a word that means “to cut flesh”? It makes sense, when you think about it — after all, what is the purpose of a sar-castic remark?

Fortunately, my husband shares my obsession, which gives us a never-ending source of con-versation. Once when I was scrap booking, my Evangelical friend asked me, “Why do Catholics say St. Michael the Archangel in the prayer? I thought a saint was a holy person, and angels aren’t human.”

I didn’t know, so I called my husband, who said that in Latin the words for holy and saint are related. In the prayer, St. Mi-

chael means holy Michael. “For example,” he said, “In

French, they say at mass, Saint, Saint, where in English we say, Holy, Holy.”

My other scrap booking friend, who is also Catholic, re-marked that was way more than she wanted to know about the whole thing.

Our children have picked up this trait. Our daughter was in fifth-grade when she said to me, “You know, sometimes my friends make mistakes when they speak.”

“That happens, sweetie,” I an-swered.

“But sometimes their parents do, too. Can I tell them?”

I hastened to explain that this was not a good idea.

Recently, she and I were driv-ing into Hyattsville and she saw the sign that announces, “Wel-

come to City of Hyattsville.” “Isn’t that wrong?” she asked.

I agreed that it sounded odd, and it was good for a 10-min-ute discussion. Later I called my sister (my go-to person when I have language questions) and she thought that it was all right. Not common, she said, but not actually incorrect, because the actual name of the city is City of Hyattsville, not just Hyattsville.

I once saw an ad for a com-puter English program that pro-claimed in big letters, “Improve your verbiage!” I couldn’t figure out if it was a mistake — ver-biage means an excess of words, usually of little content — or if the writer was hinting that any reader who accepted this phrase as correct really needed to buy the program.

I get a lot of enjoyment out of this obsession of mine.

by Sarah Nemeth

I have to admit, when my friends and I pulled into the parking lot at The Book

Thing of Baltimore, I thought about asking them to lock the doors and keep on driving.

But there is this saying … that good things often come in unbe-lievably ugly packages.

Unpacking my preconception about the location of our destina-tion, I got out of the car, lugged some books to the drop-off spot, and made my way inside the din-gy corridor and into a room full of treasures:

The Great Gatsby. A Civil War textbook. Huckleberry Finn. Hamlet. The Bible (times about 13). I grabbed them all, and

about a dozen or two others. A book about Marcia Clark. Nor-ton Anthologies. I felt as greedy as a kid on an Easter egg hunt.

The Book Thing is led by Rus-sell Wattenberg who has been giving away books in the Balti-more area since 1999.

“I take books that I find, or that people give me and I give them to people who need or want them,” Wattenberg states on The Book Thing’s Web site. “I hate seeing good books that people can use in boxes in people's basements or collect-ing dust on shelves, especial-ly when there are people who don't have the money to buy a new book or ready access to used books.”

It started when Wattenberg was managing Dougherty's Pub. A group of teachers came to the bar for happy hour on Fridays.

“One Friday I had picked up a load of books earlier and still had them in my van. I gave the keys to the teachers at happy hour and told them to ‘Open it up, take whatever books you

need for your classes or for yourselves,’” Wattenberg states. “To my amazement, they were amazed. Soon, people were bringing me books, for my "book thing ..." or whatever. Hence, The Book Thing of Bal-timore, Inc.”

I did something very similar. Thanks to The Book Thing, I have copies of the classics to fill the yet-to-be-seen shelves of my classroom this fall when I begin my teaching career.

The Book Thing of Baltimore is located at 3001 Vineyard Lane in Baltimore. It is open from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

For more information visit www.bookthing.org.

Editor’s farewell: Thank you Hyattsville for two years of sto-ries. This is my last month as Executive Editor for the HLT. The role will hence be assumed by Editors Paula Minaert and Susie Currie. Welcome them! I leave you in grand hands. -- Sarah

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by Sharmina Manandhar

Mary Ellen Owens Brown just wanted to visit her old Hyattsville house one more time.

What the Glen Burnie resident actually got was an op-portunity to celebrate her 80th birthday in that house.

On May 24, a day after her birthday, Brown sat at the exact place at the dining table where she had sat about 59 years ago on her 21st birthday. The oppor-tunity and a chocolate cake were provided by Amy and Kevin Sturm, the current owners of the house on 42nd Ave. following a request from Douglas Dudrow, Ward 1 City Councilman and Brown’s longtime friend.

“It made me feel so good to go back and re-member what it was like,” Brown said.

Brown also said that she still remembers the time when her house address used to be 32 Wine Ave. and when Gallatin Street, where the munici-pal building is currently located, used to be Spencer Street. Franklin’s Restaurant used to be Hyattsville Hardware, where her father Elmer Owens used to work before he died in 1972.

After the house was sold in 1972, Brown said that she had been back in the house once, when it was turned into a home for runaway children.

But Brown said that she was excited to go back this time because she had learned from Dudrow that the current owners were restoring the house. She said she was anxious to see what they had done so far.

Dudrow, a fourth generation Hyattsville resi-dent, said that Brown has been a family friend for more than 70 years. He also said that at age 19 he had painted the house for Brown’s father, whom he had met while Owens was working at Hyatts-ville Hardware.

“I knocked at the house after I heard that some-body had moved in,” Dudrow said. “When I told them that I knew some of the history of the house, Kevin dragged me in by the arm and started asking all these questions.”

According to Dudrow, the Sturms were very inter-ested in the history of the house and asked what it used to look like.

Amy Sturm said that she and her husband are com-munity and family oriented and were glad to grant Brown’s long time wish when Dudrow asked them.

She also said that at Dudrow’s urging, they ar-ranged for Brown to visit and the most convenient time turned out to be Brown’s birthday weekend.

“It was a great meeting and we had a wonderful time,” Sturm said. “We were thrilled to help her cre-ate another special memory in the house.”

Sturm said that Brown arrived “with her arms heaped with photo albums” and interesting stories like “listening to Roosevelt’s speech after the attack on Pearl Harbor on a radio in the front corner of our living room and getting married in that same room.”

According to Sturm, Brown’s photos gave them the closest picture into what was original to the house and what has been changed over the years.

“Information like that is invaluable as we con-sider what to renovate or restore, what to pre-serve, and what, if any, to remodel,” Sturm said.

“Kevin and I like to think of the

house as a jigsaw puzzle that was assembled and reassembled over the course of about 100 years, and it is helpful to know a rough estimate of what was added or changed, and when.”

Sturm said that it is their first home and they “bought it with the intention of living in it, not neces-sarily restoring it right away.”

She also said that one of the reasons they moved to Hyattsville is “the vibrant community of home en-thusiasts who not only care about homes, but work very hard to protect and celebrate the history of this wonderful neighborhood.”

“We loved the historic features of the house -- the molding, original fireplace, pine floors, etc,” Sturm said. “Our schedules and budget, however, mean that renovation is still a long way off. In the meantime, we are engaging in small projects.”

She said that so far they have stripped the paint off the original fireplace mantle, ripped up the carpet on the second floor, and restored the pine floors and installed a shower in the master bath upstairs.

“Like many homes in Hyattsville, ours is now a work in progress,” Sturm said. “Our intention is to keep and restore or replicate some of the home’s original features, while making it our own.”

Sturm also said that she was happy to learn from Brown about her mother’s garden.

“It was wonderful to hear that where I plan to plant rose bushes, Mary Ellen’s mother had a thriving rose garden,” Sturm said. “Little things like that connect us to the larger history of the house.”

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A uthor and poet James Oppenheim said, “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

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Don’t let yesterday eat up too much of today(Cherokee proverb). How many of us haven’t been touched by hurt or disappointment, loss or anger? It’s our ability to accept these setbacks as lessons and transitional points of reference that enables us to move beyond them with grace. And we become that much better equipped to deal with life on its most contrary terms. Moving beyond also helps re-establish us in the present, the only place where we can successfully grow happiness.

De-clutter your life. Yep, toss old clothes and get rid of things you haven’t used in eons. But don’t for-get to look at the people in your orbit. Are they nur-turing and supportive? Do they always want the best for you? Or are they constantly creating chaos and upsetting your balance? Our happiness doesn’t have to be compromised by attachments to people whose “love” or “friendship” is a source of unease and a det-riment to our growth.

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couraged by good results in the past couple of years but wanting to do better. I heard from so many sources that I ought to mulch that this past spring I put cedar bark on my fl ower beds and vegetable garden. Very few of the seeds I planted came up. Also, I put the mulch around a maple and it seems to be dying in spite of this. Is this coincidence, or did I do something wrong?

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For the same reason that mulch-es are successful in controlling an-nual weeds, they will also keep your annual fl owers and vegetable seeds from sprouting. It's a good idea to plant the seeds separately in pots and set them out later. Or you can do as I do, and delay mulching till summer – after your seeds have sprouted and you have weeded. It's in summer that the mulch is most useful for conserving soil mois-ture and reducing the soil erosion and water runoff that results from the torrential rainfall of our area's thunderstorms and cloudbursts.

Mulching in summer also helps keep the soil from heating up too much as temperatures rise.

The mulch you are using is heavy and should be reserved for trees, shrubs, roses and in perennial beds where the plants are already established. Even so, be careful how you mulch. My mulch adviser, Herr Huber Kru-melschicht, is sure he knows why your maple is dying. He believes you were probably overgenerous with the mulch and piled it up around the trunk of the tree. He inveighed indignantly against the over mulching of trees he's seen perpetrated by municipalities:

"Beautiful trees killed with tax-payer money, I tell you!"

When he calmed down, I got some practical advice for you. Do not put more than two inches of mulch down around the tree or it will keep water from getting to the roots. Above all do not pile the mulch directly against the trunk. This can cause the roots to grow into what they assume is soil and they will surround the trunk and strangle it. In addition, mulch against the trunk is conducive to rot, and insects and diseases are introduced that way. He recom-mends making a little dry moat around the trunk and then spread-

ing the mulch out to the point where the longest branch casts a shadow smoke.

There are lighter mulches for your vegetable and fl ower garden, such as shredded leaves, well-dried lawn clippings and straw. Cocoa-bean hulls are excellent but poisonous to pets. Pine needle mulch is good for such acid-loving

plants as azaleas, rhododendrons and camellias. There is one caveat – add extra nitrogen to your soil when you mulch. As it decom-poses, it draws nitrogen out of the soil. Another caveat is that mulch when dry is fl ammable, so be care-ful if you lay it on beds adjoining a porch where smokers might fl ick their cigarettes over a railing.

To continue the conversation, please come to the next meeting of the Hyattsville Horticultural Society at 10 a.m. on Aug. 15, at the Hyattsville Municipal Center.

Miss Floribunda is the collected wisdom of the Hyattsville Horti-cultural Society, compiled and edited by Victoria Hille.


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Tai Chi is being offered at Rollingcrest Community Center, 6120 Sargent Road, Chillum, beginning in early September. This is for ages 18 and up. Learn this an-cient art of exercise for balance, stretch-ing, muscle tone and flexibility. The fee is $40/residents and $48 non-residents. Call 301.853.2005.

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■ Youth Choir rehearses every Sunday af-ter the 11 a.m. church service. All middle- and senior high youth are invited.

■ HIV/AIDS MinistryMeets once a month and is working on plans to open a monthly test clinic. Also participates in group events. Contact Janet Cochran at 301.927.6133.

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The Hyattsville Farmer's Mar-ket is open for business this season from 2-6

p.m. Tuesdays at the corner of Queens Cha-pel Road and Hamilton Street, behind the Queens Chapel Shopping Center. WIC and Senior FMNP checks are accepted.

Blackberries, squash, radishes, potatoes and other fresh victuals are readily avail-able. In addition, there is a weekly cook-book giveaway.

Free Jazz on the Portico summer concert series

Listen to free jazz concerts at Riversdale House Museum, 4811 Riverdale Road, Riv-erdale Park. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and a picnic, or purchase a dinner on the grounds courtesy of the Calvert House Inn. Concerts run from 7-8 p.m. and include:

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■ Food & clothing pantry for county residents Hours: Wed. & Fri. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. By appointment only 301.927.5620 Ext.19.

■ Sunday services: 8 a.m., 9:15 a.m. & 11 a.m.; Prayer ser-vices: every Wed. at noon & 7 p.m.; Catalyst youth fel-lowship: every Wed. from 7-8:30 p.m. (ages 12-18); Bible study: every Wed. from 7:45-8:30 p.m.

■ "For Girls Only Network" 2009 Mentoring Empowerment Program (ages nine to 18): Group mentoring, educa-tion, fun, support and guidance, interactive discussions. Register your daughter, friend, neighbors today. Contact Pastor Deborah Evans 301.927.5620, Ext. 12 or www.victo-riouslivingnow.org/calendar.asp

■ Register for the spring/summer session of Community Life Groups. We have a variety of social and inter-ests groups for you to enjoy and connect with others. Visit www.crossoverchurch.tv and click on Community Life Groups to register. Contact Pastor Tonya Wil-liams at 301.927.5620, Ext. 20 or [email protected]

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O’Malley gives nod to Arts District Hyattsville

In 2005, former Governor Erlich chose EYA’s Arts District Hyattsville develop-ment for Priority Places recognition. Again on June 28, the community was chosen by Governor Martin O’Malley’s office for designation as a “Smart Site,” encouraging development plans that are “smart, green, and growing.”

Since its opening, Arts District Hyatts-ville has received several awards includ-ing: Best Urban Smart Growth Com-munity (National Association of Home Builders); Best Mixed Use Design (Monu-ment Awards); and Best Green Building (MNCBIA).

For city planners and land develop-ers, Arts District Hyattsville is a scalable model for mixed-use design – incorpo-rating new homes, historic preservation, a walkable lifestyle close to neighborhood retail, community amenities and fitness,

and proximity to employment centers of Washington, D.C.

Almost 90 of EYA’s130 new town homes in Hyattsville are occupied in the commu-nity on the west side of U.S Route 1. Several locally owned retailers have opened at live-work residences and the 1950s Lustine au-tomobile showroom anchoring the site has been transformed into a community fitness center and art gallery. Soon, construction on the east side of Route 1 will begin, fea-turing another 200 town homes, apartment rentals, and a new retail strip including Busboys and Poets and Tara Thai. The com-munity is designed to allow homeowners to spend less time in their cars and more time in their neighborhoods.

Have a love for literature?

Join others from 3-4:30 p.m. on Mondays at the Gwendolyn Britt Senior Activity Center, 4009 Wallace Road, North Brentwood, Md., for discussions about the book of the month.

The book of the month for August is Through It All by Christine King Farris.

The Book Club is for seniors ages 60 and over and membership to the club is free.

For information call 301.699.1238.

Library events and information

■Daytime story times

9-23 Months with Caregiver Mondays, 10:15 a.m., limit 15. Please pick up free ticket at children’s desk. Ages 2-3 Mondays, 11 a.m., limit 25 & Tues-days, 10:15 a.m., limit 25.Ages 3-5 Tuesdays, 11 a.m., limit 25.

■ Story times especially for day care providers. Ages 2-3 August 12 & 26 10:15 a.m., limit 35. Ages 3-5 August 12 & 26 11 a.m., limit 35.

■ Evening story time Ages 3-6 Wednesdays, 7 p.m., limit 25.

■ English-Spanish story time/cuentos para niños en español e inglés

Ages 3-6 Saturdays, 10:30 a.m., limit 25.

Edades 3-6 años Sabados 10:30

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To submit a calendar item, e-mail

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COMMUNITY CALENDARCALENDAR continued from page 6

2008Despite a hiring freeze, Prince George’s County last month cre-ated a new position designed to reduce energy costs for the county and enhance environmental ben-efits through reduced energy con-sumption.

2007Two officers returned to the city police force last month after re-turning from five-month stretches with Bowie’s newly formed police department.

2006Anacostia Hours, a local, inno-vative, alternative currency, was about to be launched in Hyatts-ville, Mount Rainier, Brentwood, North Brentwood and surrounding areas.

2005Hyattsville’s Legacy Trail Task Force was considering four possi-ble historic walking tours through the city.

2004The Maryland Route 450 project, to alleviate traffic at the CSX train crossing, began this fall.

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by Hugh Turley

Ernest Hemingway had secret contact with Soviet intelligence agents, according to a recent book, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alex-ander Vassiliev.

The book is based largely upon newly released KGB records, but it draws upon his FBI fi le to show, as well, that during World War II Hemingway used his fi shing boat the Pilar to hunt for German sub-marines for the U.S. government. He had a weakness for political intrigue, and he leaned heavily to the left.

Although there is no known record of Hemingway ever hav-ing passed along any secrets, one KGB correspondence notes that “… he repeatedly expressed his desire and willingness to help us.” The KGB gave him the code name, “Argo.”

Hemingway’s KGB contacts possibly cast a new light on the violent death of the famous au-thor. FBI records show Hem-ingway was under surveillance, and shortly before his death he checked into the Mayo Clinic us-ing the alias George Sevier.

In a letter to his son Patrick, Hemingway wrote that he was

being treated for high blood pres-sure. Mayo’s Dr. Howard Rome kept the Minneapolis FBI offi ce informed on Hemingway’s con-dition. (Rome is the doctor who later performed a psychological autopsy of Lee Harvey Oswald for the Warren Commission).

On July 1, 1961, the night be-fore he died, Hemingway dined at the Christiania Restaurant in

Ketchum, Idaho. In her book, How It Was, his wife Mary wrote, “As we wedged into the small far-corner table, Ernest noticed a couple of men seating themselves at a small table farther inside and asked Suzie, our waitress … who those men were. ‘Oh, they’re a couple of salesmen from Twin Falls, I think,’ said Suzie. ‘Not on Saturday night,’ said Ernest, ‘They’d be home.’ Suzie shrugged. ‘They’re the FBI,’ Ernest mut-tered.”

The fi rst offi cial report of Hemingway’s death was a joint statement by the coroner Ray McGoldrick and the sheriff Don Hewitt, “Ernest Hemingway died this morning at about 7:30 at his home near Ketchum from gunshot wounds. His wife thinks it was accidental while he was cleaning his gun.”

The UPI reported, “Offi cials did not see any gun-cleaning equipment in the room.”

The following day the UPI said McGoldrick was asked if “self-infl icted gunshot wound in the head” on Hemingway’s death certifi cate meant he killed him-self or died accidentally. McGol-drick responded, “I wasn’t there so I don’t know. Maybe the truth will never be known. No one saw it. The family is willing to let it go that way and that’s all right with me. The wife thinks it was an ac-cident.”

The authorities did not inter-view Mrs. Hemingway until the day after they had reached their ambiguous conclusion. Her state-ment had been given through a friend. There was no coroner’s inquest and no autopsy.

Hemingway was shot in the 5-by-seven foot front entrance hall of his home. Hemingway’s custom-made, .12 gauge, double barreled, Boss shotgun was near his body. Both barrels had been fi red, and Mrs. Hemingway said she was awakened by a couple of banging sounds.

Boss shotguns are highly prized and can sell for tens of thousands of dollars. One known to have been made for Hemingway would have doubtless fetched a large premium. However, according to Carlos Baker in Ernest Heming-way: A Life Story, a family friend “cut the gun to pieces with a blow-torch and buried them in a secret place.”

When Hemingway, himself, was buried on July 5, The New York Times reported “there was still no offi cial decision — and never may be — as to whether the death … had been an accident or suicide.”

Suicide eventually became the popular truth while the reality of FBI surveillance and his meeting with KGB agents remained un-known to the public. Was Hem-ingway paranoid and suicidal, or were those covert operatives with sinister plans at the restaurant that night?

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sis of existing traffic conditions -- including pedestrians and bicycles -- during weekday and weekend commuter rush hours. Data was collected at 57 inter-sections as well as 20 locations between intersections and in-cludes vehicle volume, classifi-cation and speed.

Traffic delays at intersections were given a letter grade based on the average amount of time a commuter was delayed before being able to move through the intersection. The worst delays, where commuters experienced an average of more than 80 seconds, occurred at Route 193 and Adel-phi Road, and U.S. Route 1 and Route 410, during both morning and evening peak hours.

“We have absolutely no recom-mendations to share yet,” said Paul Silverman, of Sabra, Wang & Associates.

He added that the second phase of the study will focus on developing traffic forecasts and network improvement alterna-tives as well as preliminary cost estimates.

The contract for the study, which began in February, was signed for $46,764.

Residents and council mem-bers expressed concern about a lack of sidewalks, pedestrian safety around schools, an exces-sive number of mostly empty buses, the effects of current and planned urban development on traffic, and speeding, particu-larly on hilly streets.

“People build up speed as they come down, and by the time they get to the bottom, they’re flying through there,” said Councilman Matthew McKnight (Ward 3), in reference to roads around Univer-sity Hills and Wells Boulevard.

McKnight suggested the possi-bility of installing traffic calming devices to curb the problem.

Others expressed concerns about proposed traffic calming devices, such as traffic circles.

“There’s one in Takoma Park that I regularly go through, and since it was installed, [I’ve] twice had near misses of a head-on collision with somebody coming the wrong way around the cor-ner,” said Nina Faye of Queens-bury Road.

Others hope to see the vehicle weight policy lowered and en-forced.

“It’s not unusual to see semis [trucks] on our local city streets and not on state roads,” said Krista Atteberry of 42nd Place.

Atteberry also requested a re-evaluation of the “hot-button” Do Not Enter policy on Queens-bury Road at 43rd Avenue.

Silverman said the goals of the study are to “identify defi-ciencies in both the existing and future transportation network

[and provide] recommendations to support the city in their future construction planning.”

Other goals of the study include assisting the city in new develop-ment and effectively directing “visitors, tourists, and workers to key destinations within the city.”

“There was no single issue that prompted the city to pursue a traffic study, but elected officials and staff alike were hearing comments and complaints about traffic on differ-ent streets,” said city spokeswoman Abby Sandel. “We felt that good data was needed to plan for im-provements and determine which areas should be prioritized.”

Full map results of the study can be viewed at www.hyattsville.org. Traffic concerns can be e-mailed to [email protected].

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part of a “campus setting” with Nicholas Orem to include shared athletic and recreational fields because of space limitations. It is intended that the school will meet environmental standards for Gold Certification and may include a vegetative, or “green,” roof for purposes of collecting water run-off and insulation. Photovoltaic panels for electricity generation are a possibility as well.

The new building will be de-signed to be a “village for small learning communities,” according to Chris Elnicki, HCM’s design principal for this project. An up-per school consisting of fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grades will house one leg of the “H,” while a lower school of first-, second-, and third-graders and separate housing for the early child development cen-ter (pre-K and Kindergarten) will form two more legs. The fourth leg will be a multi-purpose room.

There will be a shared courtyard for grades pre-K through third. It will offer natural light and ventila-tion and provide a separate play area for the younger children. Grades four, five and six will have classrooms on the side of the school nearest Nicholas Orem and will share the outdoor recreation fields with the middle school students. Additionally, the school board is exploring whether the wooded area owned by the Washington Metro-politan Area Transit Authority next to the elementary school site could be used for recreation, Iliff said.

It is planned for vehicles to have access to the campus from Nicholson Street, though some are concerned that the small neighborhood street is incapable of handling the extra traffic.

“Nicholson Street is not de-signed for the additional traffic that would be generated by an 800-student school,” said Mayor William Gardiner. “The vehicular entrance should be via East West Highway and Editor’s Park Drive, just like Nicholas Orem.”

For Gardiner, it is also impor-tant to consider how this new school project could assist and enhance the middle school.

“In order for this new school to succeed, we’ve got to find a way for it to be able to lift up Nicholas Orem,” Gardiner said at the meet-ing, adding that he looks forward

to discussing options with Rich-ard Jackson, the new principal at Nicholas Orem.

“The new school could have a shared music and art wing, or other specialized space,” Gardiner said. “We should also look at aca-demic programming and develop programs so that a student could engage in specialized studies in the new elementary school and continue those studies at Nicholas Orem and the local high school.”

Reaction to the new school from area residents is mixed.

“I thought that [the architect’s] planning was thoughtful and pret-ty decent, especially the green roof idea,” said Chris Hinojosa, whose son graduated from Northwestern High School in 2007 and whose daughter will start there this fall. “The design of the building looks great.”

However, Hinojosa, like many Hyattsville residents, said that the decision to place the new school in the proposed location has been rushed.

“There was not enough creative thinking. Why did they only look at that spot?” said Hinojosa of the fact that the site was the only op-tion presented by the school board to the public last year.

Hyattsville resident Jonathan Alexander, father of children ages one and four, is also impressed by

the design of the school. “I love the green features . . . in

fact, why stop at the gold LEED standard? Go for platinum!” he said. “I like the campus idea and the individual mini age-appropri-ate schools [and] I like the super flexible classroom orientation.”

He is concerned, however, about the size and location of the school.

“I do not want an 800-kid re-gional school,” he said. “I think this is pretty much a neighbor-hood wide sentiment. I noticed Heather Iliff and the architects both kept calling this plan a neigh-borhood school . . . but it’s not.”

Alexander is concerned that the school board representatives are not listening adequately to resi-dents’ needs.

“I will be seriously looking into alternatives once election time rolls around,” he said.

Though yet unscheduled, com-munity meetings will be held this fall regarding any special pro-grams or curricula as well as to address how the new school will function with Nicholas Orem as part of the “campus setting” de-scribed by the architect, accord-ing to Iliff and Waller. Commu-nity meetings will also be held in the future when it is time to de-termine whose children will go to this new school.

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“When the city denies access to those items, as it must, the city specifically notes to the re-questor that it is denying access to certain of the records under the law, and notifies the request-or of his or her right to seek re-lief in the Circuit Court,” Phillips said. “The city can only release those documents if specifically ordered by a court to do so.”

According to news reports, Prawdzik allegedly hit Crouch in the head with a gun during the dispute. Crouch and Hyattsville resident Joe Heidenberg called out to Prawdzik after they saw Prawdzik run a stop sign on Queensbury Road.

“It’s been a life-altering expe-rience for Matthew and his whole family,” said Sweitzer. “It’s a very solid, very pro-law enforcement family. On [Crouch’s mother’s] side, there are police officers. For this to happen to them is surprising and eye-opening.”

The HPD suspended Prawdzik’s police powers af-

ter the incident with Crouch, and he stopped working for the Hyattsville police on March 13, 2009. On June 8 he was sen-tenced to three years probation for second-degree assault in an earlier, unrelated incident that took place January 24, 2008, also while he was off duty. The HPD launched an investigation into that incident.

Ramon Korionoff, spokes-man for Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Glenn Ivey, commended Holland for pros-ecuting a former officer.

“The police have a difficult job, and for the most part they serve the public well, while put-ting themselves in danger. The [Hyattsville] department is one of the better ones in the county.”

by Paula Minaert and Kent York

Rev. Todd Thomason says he hasn’t heard the still, small voice of God speak clearly and specifically very many times in his life. But he did when he was trying to decide wheth-er to take the position of pastor at First Baptist Church of Hyattsville, or at a church in New Orleans.

“I was praying for guidance and, one day, I glanced out of my in-laws’ living room window into the beau-tiful spring afternoon and clearly heard, deep in my soul, ‘Hyattsville,’”

he said. “I've never looked back.”Born and raised in North Car-

olina, Thomason attended semi-nary at Mercer University in At-lanta and was pastor at Baptist Temple Church (now Common-wealth Baptist) in Alexandria, Va. before coming to Hyattsville. He also served as interim pas-tor of Brentwood Baptist Church in Norfolk, Va. He and his wife, Kristen, have been married nine years and have 11-month old twin daughters, Mary and Emma.

“The metaphor that I use with the congregation as we seek to discern God’s vision for the fu-ture is living and serving as an embassy of God’s Kingdom,” Thomason said. “The church ought to be an outpost of the

Answering the call Kingdom of God in its communi-ty, because that is where our citi-zenship truly lies as disciples of Je-sus Christ.”

He pointed to the fast-paced, transitory na-ture of life in the Washington, D.C. area, and said he is trying to help the church streamline things to make it easier for members to serve.

“Being a Christian and a church member isn’t about serv-ing on a committee so much as it is about living out the good news of Jesus Christ,” he said. “We need to simplify and refocus church life so that our members feel engaged with their faith and with First Baptist’s mission Sun-day through Saturday.”

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