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HyattsvilleJune 2012Hyattsville’s Community NewspaperVol. 9 No. 6

Life&Times

SCHOOLS ROUNDUPHere’s what’s happening at local schools: sports, awards, summer programs and closings. Page 12

THE WAR AGAINST ROSESAn airborne virus may wipe out every rose bush in the neighborhood. PAGE 4

LIVING IN THE PASTA look at women’s lives in 1812 Maryland at Riversdale, including making cosmetics and sewing by hand. PAGE 7

ARREST continued on page 10

by Susie Currie

Did you miss out on ge� ing a plot in the Hya� Park Com-munity Garden? Just across the street, in the parking lot of 3505 Hamilton Street, you’ll � nd what Southern Maryland farmer Peg-gy Campanella calls “the next best thing.”

If you time it right, that is. � e Hya� sville Farmers Market, featuring produce from Prince George’s and neighboring coun-ties, opened on the grounds of the former BB&T building on June 12. It will continue to oper-ate on Tuesdays from 2 to 6 p.m. through October in this new lo-cation, two blocks east of its for-mer digs at the Queens Chapel Town Center.

It’s the second move for the market, which opened more than 20 years ago in the parking lot of � e Mall at Prince Geor-ges. In 2005, to make room for building � e Olive Garden and Outback Steakhouse, it moved to the parking area behind Queens Chapel Town Center, where it remained through last season.

But this year, when it was time to renew the lease, “we were not

New season, new address for farmer’s market

by Paula Minaert

Here’s the good news: A man is in custody as a suspect in at least two of the six assaults and rapes that took place on and near the Northwest Branch Hiker-Biker Trail earlier this year. Arrested last month, Edwin Rivas, 24, was ordered held without bail for the January 28 and February 23 at-tacks.

Here’s more good news: Our own Hya� sville Police Depart-ment was instrumental in identi-fying Rivas.

Hya� sville Chief of Police Douglas Holland said, “I am proud of our o� cers for their dogged, good old-fashioned po-lice work that led to the arrest of the suspect. � is was de� nitely the result of teamwork between our patrol o� cers and investiga-tors, and our continuous com-munications and partnerships with our surrounding police

Anatomy of an arrestCity o� cer nails trail assault suspect

by Paula Minaert

Soon, city residents and visitors will � nd it easier to park when they go to Elevation Burger, Wet Your Pale� es or any of the other newer businesses that line Route 1.

� e lack of adequate parking in that area has led to many complaints from both shoppers and business owners ever since the resur-gence of that commercial district. � e prob-lem has only intensi� ed with last month’s

opening of Spice 6 Indian restaurant. In response, the city has recently initiated

two plans that will almost double the number of parking places nearby.

“We’re re-entering the street parking busi-ness on Route 1,” said Jim Chandler, director of community and economic development.

Flashing road signs along the busy thor-oughfare alerted drivers to one of the coming changes: on-street parking during o� -peak hours. (Peak hours are weekdays from 6 to 9

a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m.) Already available south of Gallatin Street,

it will extend to include the stretch between Gallatin and Madison streets sometime this month, according to city notices. � is plan will add 61 on-street parking spaces to the 46 already there.

However, the added parking will also mean that drivers will have only one lane in each di-

Tackling the parking problem

PARKING continued on page 13

CATIE CURRIECoach Chris McManes talks Nicholas Pale through his swing at a recent T-ball game. McManes, who is retir-ing this year, has helped dozens of players over the years as he built the HMB program into what may be the regionʼs finest. SEE STORY, P. 14.

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by Susie Currie

“Just imagine if we can become the next [Las] Vegas or Atlantic City in terms of venue and host the next [boxer Floyd] Mayweather � ght at National Harbor.”

— County Councilmember Will Campos, on casinos

(Gaze� e, 3/12/12)

If you, too, are eagerly awaiting the prospect of high-stakes spar-ring coming to Prince George’s County, come on down to city hall any Monday night that the Hya� s-ville City Council is in session.

� e current council, with three new members and a new mayor, has just wrapped up its � rst year.

Mutiny on the Council� ey are in a well-deserved recess until July 16, having checked o� several items on an ambitious to-do list: authorizing speed cameras, approving a redistricting plan, hir-ing a human resources director, appointing acting directors for executive-level positions, and pass-ing a � ve-year plan to improve city buildings and streets, to name a few.

But at what price? When you put 11 personalities

in a room together at least once a week and charge them with mak-ing decisions for the rest of us, some disagreements are inevitable. With this group, though, some observers — and even some of the elected o� cials themselves — think that too o� en, disagreement turns into dysfunction.

Mayor Marc Tartaro tends to downplay the drama. “Two years ago there was open warfare” dur-ing the annual budget process, he recalled recently.

Still, this council’s meetings have regularly included accusations ranging from rudeness to deceit to preferential treatment of one ward over another. � e topic of some councilmembers’ less-than-stellar a� endance record (and its nega-tive impact on morale) is a recur-ring theme. Arguments over par-liamentary procedure frequently erupt, with Timothy Hunt (Ward 3) and Candace Hollingsworth (Ward 1) citing Robert’s Rules of

Order when Tartaro pointedly re-fuses to recognize them. Interrup-tions are common.

� e week a� er one especially acrimonious meeting, longtime resident David Marshall told the council they “were acting like a bunch of kindergarteners” before they began their next meeting. Marshall has been a� ending and speaking at Hya� sville City Coun-cil meetings for 26 years; he’s wit-nessed all sorts of dynamics.

“I’ve seen a lot of them not get along before,” he told me recently. “But this is the angriest council I’ve ever seen. OK, you don’t like somebody: � at doesn’t mean you get to step on his neck at every meeting.”

Longtime councilmember Paula Perry and former mayor Bill Gar-diner, for example, were at odds for years, dating at least from the time they both represented Ward 4.

“It’s no secret that Bill and I didn’t get along,” said Perry. “But we nev-er brought the meeting to a halt because of it.”

She was referring to the Meeting � at Wasn’t, which will likely go down in Hya� sville history as the � rst to be canceled because legisla-tors couldn’t agree on an agenda. (� at’s not to be confused with the Meeting � at (Almost) Every-one Missed on August 1, another quasi-historical event, which was cancelled a� er failing to muster a quorum.)

A meeting can’t begin until its agenda passes unanimously, so any adjustments a member wants are usually made as a ma� er of course.

But that didn’t happen on March 19. Hunt asked that a homeowner’s variance request be moved from the consent agenda to the action agenda, so it could be discussed before vote. Tartaro refused, want-ing to pull the agenda item instead. � at led to recesses and calls to the city a� orney.

Finally, the mayor adjourned the non-meeting and everyone went home.

“We have a problem,” said Shani Warner (Ward 2), when the sub-ject came up at another meeting, “and I think everyone on this coun-cil recognizes it.”

What isn’t clear is how to solve it. On February 27, increasingly public discord prompted Perry to o� er a motion for a team-building council retreat, complete with a proposal from a local vendor.

“I dislike retreats probably more than anyone, because I’ve been to so many,” said Perry, who has rep-resented Ward 4 since 1999. “But this is one that I personally will make sure, if at all possible, takes us in the direction we need to go in. … As some residents have said, we look totally dysfunctional. ”

Ruth Ann Frazier (Ward 5), who with 15 years of service is the lon-gest-serving member, agreed. “� e way we’re communicating and the respect we have for each other is at a very low point,” she said.

But other members wanted to see more speci� cs about the scope of

the retreat, as well as bids from at least two other contractors. � e proposal was sent back to sta� without a vote.

� e budget process for � scal year 2013 began soon a� erwards, and the number of weekly meetings doubled to fast-track the process. Tempers frayed further; even the normally mild-mannered Coun-cil President Ma� hew McKnight (Ward 3) said at one point, “I’m tired of spending every night of the week here tabling things for no ap-parent reason.”

Other sticking points included Tartaro’s introducing the budget as emergency legislation – so it could be introduced and voted on at the same meeting, something the charter forbids as a rule. Much dis-cussion about this tactic ensued, with a beleaguered-looking mayor asking at one point, “Are we debat-ing the content of the budget, or the procedure?”

When the procedure serves as a reminder of the old saying about how the law resembles sausage, maybe things are a li� le too trans-parent. On the other hand, as Prince George’s County residents know all too well, spending too much time in proverbial smoke-� lled rooms does not tend to foster altruism.

Surely there’s a happy medium somewhere. And here’s hoping that our city council � nds it on their return.

Otherwise, perhaps they should add one more job posting to Hu-man Resources Director Chris Vermillion’s lengthy list: referee.

Tim Hunt, Ruth Ann Frazier and Matt McKnight, doing the work of the city in an atmosphere some call dysfunctional.

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Repeated delays, unavailable documents, last-minute dollar estimates and a significant cleri-cal mistake marked this year’s budget cycle for the city of Hy-attsville.

What’s more, residents who watched the proceedings were treated to so much verbal spar-ring that it often seemed more like an overhyped reality show than a deliberative body

“There’s too much bickering that goes on,” said Councilmem-ber Paula Perry (Ward 4). “A lot of it isn’t necessary.”

The budget cycle began in Janu-ary and was scheduled to end on April 23. But it wasn’t until May 21 that the council finally ap-proved the $28.3 million fiscal year 2013 budget, which features $14 million in general operat-ing expenses and $9.1 million in

capital projects. It passed with six votes. Perry

and Ruth Ann Frazier (Ward 5) voted against it, and Timothy Hunt (Ward 3) abstained. Nicole Hinds Mofor (Ward 5) was ab-sent, continuing what amounts to a medical leave of absence due to recent hospitalizations.

So what happened?The budget presented to the

council is called the mayor’s budget, but council members naturally want to have a say in how money is allocated because that is a key factor in driving city policy. This year, they also had to evaluate how staff is allocated, as Mayor Marc Tartaro decided to include three department reor-ganizations in the budget.

Among the changes: Moving responsibility for code and park-ing violations from the police de-partment to a new Department of Community and Economic Development. The council had previously discussed that propos-al without resolution so Tartaro decided to “set the table and put it into the budget,” in a bid to make the council address the issue.

Perry objected to the reorganiza-tion, which was a key reason for her vote against the final budget.

Another ongoing issue is the budget process itself. The budget

2013 budget finally passesis adopted in modules, beginning with employee benefits, and then each module is combined into a final omnibus budget where numbers might vary slightly. This is done because decisions on cer-tain fixed expenses like employee benefits can affect how much money is left for discretionary expenditures, like capital im-provements. Yet it can be a frus-trating process for the council.

“All of the pieces didn’t fit” until April 23, when the capital bud-get was available, complained Hunt, and yet “all of a sudden it was hurry up and pass the bud-get.” Even then, estimates weren’t available on the University Hills street improvement project, which was important to his con-stituency. Given these factors, he chose to abstain.

This year’s spate of delayed and incomplete budget documents was the result of the city’s staff-ing woes, including the lack of a full-time city administrator, ac-cording to Councilmember Da-vid Hiles (Ward 2). “A lot was being done with a skeleton staff … resulting in getting product out later than we want.”

A key staff vacancy was the pri-mary reason for the snafu over the police department’s budget that stalled council action late in the budget cycle. As Tartaro ex-plained, the police department lost the staffer who ordinarily prepared the budget so the task went to a less experienced staffer.

As a result, the omnibus budget contained a different alignment of police officers per rank than the police budget approved in April. Both Police Chief Doug Holland and the Hyattsville Fraternal Or-der of Police protested. Tartaro ultimately resolved the issue with Holland after explaining that the staffer had mischaracterized cer-tain police positions.

Police staffing was one reason why Frazier ultimately decided not to vote for the budget. “I had so many questions,” she said.

Underlying the short-term issues addressed during the 2013 budget cycle are starker realities. The city has managed to stay afloat due to ongoing investments and annexa-tions but it is grappling with some big financial issues, like rising in-surance costs and the specter of an unfunded mandate from re-tiree health benefits.

In this budget, spending will outstrip revenue by $1.4 mil-lion. The city will collect $20.8 million in revenue and $5.9 mil-lion in proceeds from bonds and leases. The difference will be paid for out of the city’s savings fund.

Tartaro says the city is undergoing the growing pains that come when a city moves from being a small to a medium-sized city. “A decade ago

Hyattsville could be run like a fam-ily business — run out of a shoe box,” he explained. “We haven’t developed the procedures we need to make [the] transition.”

This latest budget is a start. It con-tains a variety of new performance metrics that will help guide city decision-making in the future.

“A lot was being done with a skeleton staff ... resulting in getting product out later than we want.”

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Dear Readers,� is month we present a repeat of a past column because the topic is so timely. In June 2010 I was shown a rose bush with “witch’s broom” sprouts. � is is a sign of a deadly wind-borne virus that can wipe out every rose bush in the region. Now another instance has popped up in our neighborhood and others within a few miles. Please see below for what to look for and what to do.

Dear Miss Floribunda,

Enclosed you will � nd a sprig � om my favorite shrub rose. It is weird look-ing, with twisted leaves and sprouts whirling out of other sprouts. Last year the same thing happened but it � ow-ered. Nonetheless, I think something is the ma� er. Could this be a result of it being planted too close to a white haw-thorn? I really love both of them and don’t want to lose either. What do you think?

Perplexed [street name withheld]

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I too was perplexed, having never seen anything even remotely like this except a condition called “witch’s broom” that sometimes appears on trees. It seemed to re-quire a disease expert, so I took it to my Cousin Moribunda.

She took one look, and said, “� is is serious. � is is rose rose� e disease, blown in from the west. It’s deadly and it’s contagious. Tell her to leave the hawthorn alone but dig up the rose bush and burn it. If the city doesn’t allow that, she should bag it and throw it in the trash.”

A rose-lover myself, I asked if there weren’t some way to cut back the diseased part and save the bush, but

Moribunda told me not to be sen-timental: “Remember those old movies, Old Yeller and � e Yearling? Like them, this plant has become dangerous and it’s got to go!”

Next I took it to my friend in the American Rose Society, Citizen Cane, and then to an expert at the National Arboretum, Racine Greenfrond. � ey agreed with Moribunda, but gave me moreinformation.

Rose Rose� e Disease (RRD) is a virus carried by a microscopic wingless mite (eriophyte). It was introduced into the western United States by the USDA in the 1930s to control invasive multi� ora roses, but because it’s wind-borne it came east with tornadoes. It was not sup-posed to a� ect any other rose, but obviously it has sometimes in epi-demic proportions.

� e experts con� rm that your rose bush will not live more than a few more years, though it will � ower. � e mite carries a vector that, once established, is fatal. � e fact that it lingers makes it a menace to every rose bush in your neighborhood, so speedy removal is imperative. Once you dig up the diseased rose bush, carefully removing any pieces of root, you must not plant another rose in its place for two years.

Citizen Cane regrets to say there is no organic control, and the only miticide that works is Avid. Avid is for prevention only there is no cure. He urges you to spray all your other roses with Avid. I’m sincerely sorry, but Moribunda is right. I am with-holding the name of your street so rose growers won’t come looking for you with torches and pitchforks.

� e Hya� sville Horticultural Society will next meet at 10 a.m. on July 21 at the home of Je� and Marsha Moulton, 6122 42nd Avenue.

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� is enforced volunteerism ex-ploits both customers and work-ers. Customers may not realize that by using self-service, they encourage the corporation to further cut sta� hours. One sta� member who did not wish to be named told me that employees with seniority, in particular, have seen a change in their schedules.

It should not be surprising that a company that would take advan-tage of customers by herding them into unpaid labor as cashiers would also cut the hours of its loyal em-ployees. When I tried to contact the public a� airs o� ce of Giant Food to get their view on self-ser-vice, I got a recording. I le� mes-sages, but they were not returned. I never spoke to a person.

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Volunteerism has a proper place in society. But it’s not the check-out line in the grocery store.

At many branches, Giant Food has reduced employees’ hours, com-pelling shoppers in a hurry to use self-service cashier aisles. For some time now, customers have been able to shop at our local Giant, on East-West Highway, without greeting and interacting with the nice em-ployees who work there.

“Welcome to Giant. If you have a bonus card, please scan it now; otherwise, begin scanning,” the disembodied voice says cheer-fully at checkout. If a bar code is unreadable or a label falls o� your fruit, the voice can say, “Please remove all items from the belt. Help is on the way.”

Only then will you have to speak to an actual person. But when employees and custom-ers interact less, they exchange fewer smiles and pleasantries. Everyone becomes less human.

Also, scanning – and o� en bag-ging – one’s own groceries can be a time-consuming and frus-trating experience.

So why would customers choose to work as cashiers? Sometimes the slow self-service is the only alternative to even slower service when Giant does not provide enough paid profes-sional cashiers.

If the lack of human contact dehumanizes a trip to the super-market, too much contact de-humanizes a trip in an airplane. It is time to end the post-9/11 hysteria that has government agents looking under everyone’s clothes.

� e pointlessness of airport screening is illustrated in a recent syndicated column by Paul Craig Roberts, a former Wall Street Jour-nal editor and Treasury Depart-ment o� cial. According to Rob-erts, if terrorists actually wanted to target airplane passengers, they would coordinate simultaneous bombs in several large airports, placing them “in the middle of the mass of humanity waiting to clear airport security.”

“� is would be real terror,” he writes. “Moreover, it would pres-ent TSA with an insolvable prob-lem: How can people be screened before they are screened?”

Ending totalitarian searches of travelers would not only restore every citizen’s right to privacy, but also free Transportation Se-curity Administration guards to do something more productive — like checking out groceries.

People under the age of 40 may not remember that gas-station employees once pumped gas, washed windshields and checked oil levels for their customers. Will we allow grocery clerks to become a thing of the past?

SUSIE CURRIEAt Giant, self-checkout lanes mean shoppers can double as cashiers and baggers.

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“We’ll start preparing for the evening meal at 2:45, with plans to eat at 5:30,” announced Ann Wass, organizer of “� e 1812 Woman of Riversdale” workshop. Held on a May weekend at the Riversdale House Museum, the event was a 19th-century immer-sion complete with a sleepover in the historic mansion.

I looked around. � ere were eight women. Some were dressed in pe-riod clothing with long, beautifully tailored hand-sewn dresses. � e dresses were covered with aprons, indications of a woman prepared for work. � e aprons were pinned with straight pins to blouses and tied tightly around the waist. � eir heads were topped with li� le frilly caps that looked like something out of a movie based on a Charles Dickens novel.

Was it possible it would take over two hours for eight wom-en to prepare a dinner typical of 1812? In a word, yes. One of the women le� the workshop on hand sewing early to start the � re for dinner — not too long a� er the noon meal.

� e menu was long but each dish involved relatively simple preparation: � sh fried in a cast-iron skillet, braised mushrooms, salad with herbs fresh from the garden, steamed asparagus with toast, almond custard and hicko-ry nut cake.

I come from hardy Mennonite stock and am no stranger to the

time it takes to prepare vegeta-bles from the garden and heat my house with wood. But I was in for a shock. In this hands-on work-shop, I discovered that cooking and baking in an open hearth us-ing methods from 200 years ago was time-consuming indeed.

� anks to Rosalie Steir Calvert (1795-1821) — the “Mistress of Riversdale,” as her 1991 biogra-phy is titled — we know quite a bit about women in 1812. Mrs. Calvert wrote extensively to her father in Belgium and in so do-ing chronicled her concerns and day-to-day decisions. Houses of the early 19th century were not centers of consumption, as they are today. � en, household pro-duction was critical to the eco-

nomic success and health of the family.

Women of the era were expected to be “Jacquelines-of-all trades,” versed in best practices in the � eld (although wealthier women were unlikely to work in the � elds); small animal husbandry and butcher-

Charcoal for the teeth: Women’s lives in 1812

ing; sewing, darning, weaving and kni� ing; and the gardening of veg-etables, fruit and � owers. � is list

doesn’t include child care, games and entertainments such as sing-ing and music-making, of which women of Rosalie’s station would also be knowledgeable.

� e work was o� en tedious. Harriet Wynne wrote in 1805, “Of all the miserable dull days

this was the worst — I mended 12 pairs of Stockings holes [sic] as large as my head.”

In the Calvert household, it was up to Rosalie to make sure the children were educated properly. She and her husband George had eight children, � ve of whom reached adulthood, and she homeschooled them when gov-ernesses were in short supply.

Women were also versed in the healing arts — although, considering this recipe for enamel-stripping toothpaste, their knowledge was limited: “Honey mixed with pure pul-verized charcoal is said to be excellent to cleanse the teeth, and make them white,” advises The American Frugal Housewife, published in 1833.

Ladies made their own cos-metics. During an era when the fashion mo� o was “Lilies

and Roses” — i.e., lily-white skin with rosy cheeks and lips — lead was a popular “whit-ener.” By-products of the sperm whale’s intestinal tract were used in perfumes. Katie Cannon, whose business, Ageless Arti-� ce, produces cosmetics using recipes from the time, notes that she has been unable to � nd reci-pes for darker-skinned women, no doubt a result of the era, 50 years before the Civil War.

The message from the wom-en of 1812? Modern women’s lives are in some respects far easier. We do not have to en-dure the heavy labor and te-dium that often typified tasks of the 19th-century. We do not die in childbirth, as earlier generations often did.

However, we also do not work in groups sharing the burdens of work. We do not sit together and spend evenings kni� ing and sewing, talking and visiting. Neighboring, community, and reciprocity are the casualties of a faster-paced life. When’s the last time you borrowed a cup of � our or sugar?

I le� the workshop having learned much about women’s work and musing not only on what we’ve gained as women but also on what we’ve lost.

Kimberly Schmidt is a board member of the Hya� sville Pres-ervation Association. � is is her last Legend & Lore column, as she leaves us to concentrate more fully on a book project.

CASSI HAYDEN/M-NCPPCLeft: Katherine Spivey, portraying Rosalie Stier Calvert, trims a hat. Right: Foodways historian Joyce White turns out a cake in the open-hearth kitchen. Women who came for a weekend at Riversdale got a taste of these skills and others.

Legend andLORE

The message from the women of 1812? Modern women’s lives are in some respects far easier. ... However, we also do not work in groups sharing the burdens of work. We do not sit together and spend evenings knitting and sewing, talking and visiting. Neighboring, community, and reciprocity are the casualties of a faster-paced life.


SAVE THE DATE!National Night Out Against Crime is Tuesday, August 7

Hyattsville City Police Department hosts the City’s Night Out at Magruder Park, 40th & Hamilton Streets

More details coming soon!Questions? Please call the Department of Public Works at 301/985-5032.

Monday, July 2No Yard Waste Collection, City-wide

Wednesday, July 4City Administrative Offices Closed; No Trash Collection, City-wide* If your trash is normally collected on Wednesdays, you will not re-ceive service on Wednesday, July 4. Instead, your trash will be picked up two days earlier, on Monday July 2.

Monday, September 3 No Yard Waste

Collection, City-wide

TRASH SCHEDULE CHANGES

COMMUNITY CALENDARQ: What can a penny buy these days?

A: Your ad, in full color, delivered by U.S. Mail to a Hyattsville-area house-

hold (and with change to spare!)Contact 301-531-5234 or

[email protected] 14Meet your state and county elected officials at the District 2 Town Hall Meeting, where County Councilmember Will Campos will present his 2012 legislative agenda. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Northwestern High School, 7000 Adelphi Road.

June 15 to 17The DMV International Film Festival, now in its third year, will screen 25 films from around the world, including Tin Man, from a Dublin filmmaker, and Chocolate City, which docu-ments the gentrification of Washington, D.C.’s Ward 8. Screenings, held on Friday and Sunday, require a $10 day pass. For details, visit dmviff.tumblr.com. On Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., casting director Winsome Sinclair will lead an acting workshop. Preregistration is required; call 202.413.9408. All events are at Brentwood Arts Exchange, 3901 Rhode Island Avenue. 301.277.2863.

June 16Pitch in and help keep the Ana-costia and Waterfront areas free of debris at Anacostia River Clean-ups. Reservations re-

quired and all ages are welcome. Free. 9:30 a.m. to noon. Blad-ensburg Waterfront Park, 4601 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg. 301.779.0371.

Longtime Riverdale Park land-mark Dumm’s Corner Market has been reborn as Town Center Market, in a building triple the size of (and just steps from) the original location. Today’s grand opening will feature beer and wine tastings, a moon bounce, live entertainment and more dur-ing operating hours of 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. 4705 Queensbury Road, Riverdale Park. 301.277.9271.

June 17Treat your father, father-in-law, grandfather or other special gentleman to a Father’s Day Tour at historic Riversdale, which includes a free guided tour of the house. One free tour with each paid admission; $3 ($2 for seniors, $1 for students). 12:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Riv-ersdale House Museum, 4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park. 301.864.0420.

June 23The New Deal Cafe Crazy Quilt Music Festival will feature a vari-

ety of music styles, from gypsy-folk to Mississippi blues to electronic chamber pop. Free. Noon to 8 p.m. 113 Centerway, Roosevelt Center, Old Greenbelt. 301.474.5642.

June 24Learn how to turn your fresh summer produce into jam at Sea-sonal Selections: In a Jam. Us-ing produce from the garden and orchard, the Riversdale Kitchen Guild selections are inspired by the traditional seasonal cycles of a 19th century farm. Free. Noon to 3:30 p.m. 4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park. 301.864.0420.

Take in the summer sunset over the water while watching Arts on the Waterfront featuring the Kukuwa African Dance Com-pany, who will perform their signature African dance and drums. Free. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Blad-ensburg Waterfront Park, 4601 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg. 301.779.0371.

June 25The final program of the Hy-attsville Film Series showcases work from three local filmmak-ers: Howard Brown, who will screen part of his docudrama series, “Dark City”; Falani Spiv-


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ey, whose work chronicles the African diaspora, and Najma Nuriddin, founder of Nsoroma Films. 7 to 9 p.m. Hyattsville Library, 6530 Adelphi Road. 301.985.4690.

June 27Bring a blanket or lawn chair to enjoy the talents of local jazz musicians at Jazz on the Lawn. You can bring your own picnic or buy dinner from the Calvert House. Rain date will be the next day. Free. 7 to 8 p.m. Riv-ersdale House Museum, 4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park. 301.864.0420.

June 28Play 6-on-6 soccer under the lights at one of the best turf fields around at Safe Summer Drop-In Soccer. Free. Thursdays until August 9. Priority play given for ages 12 to 17 from 8 to 10 p.m. and ages 18 to 24 from 10 p.m. to midnight. Heurich Turf Field, 6001 Nicholson Street and Ager Road, 301.446.6800.

June 29Northwestern High School stu-dents join South African chorus

Imilonji Kantu in a concert of African Freedom Songs. This concert will help raise tour funds for the NWHS Choir’s 2013 visit to South Africa, where they have been invited to sing. Tickets start at $10. 7 p.m. Mount Carmel Baptist Church, 901 Third Street NW, Washington, D.C. Contact 202.842.3411 or www.themcbc.org.

July 4Greenbelt will host its Indepen-dence Day Celebration with entertainment beginning at 4 p.m., including a 5:45 p.m. per-formance by the Greenbelt Con-cert Band. Fireworks will follow around 9 p.m. Free. Buddy Attick Park, 555 Crescent Road, Green-belt. 301.397.2200.

Who needs to go all the way down-town for fireworks? The Univer-sity of Maryland will again host a family-friendly evening com-plete with live music, food and, of course, pyrotechnics. A Fabulous Hubcaps concert starts at 7 p.m.; fireworks, around 9 p.m. Rain date: July 5. Free. Campus Parking Lot 1 (just off Campus Drive) College Park. 301.864.8877.

July 6First Fridays: A Local Arts Ex-ploration includes artist talks, local studio visits and more. The event combines a reception, pre-sentations and the opportunity to meet other local artists and see their work. Light hors d’oeuvres and wine served. Free. 5:30 to 7 p.m. Zinn Room, Busboys and Poets, 5331 Baltimore Avenue. 301.779.2787.

Ongoing Interested in cultivating your in-ner farmer? Go for a Farm Tour of ECO City Farms and see what types of urban farming are being used in your area. Free. Saturdays. 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. 4913 Crit-tenden Street, Edmonston.

Come to the waterfront every Sunday through August 12th for a variety of music and en-tertainment at the 2012 Sum-mer Concert Series: Arts on the Waterfront. Free. 4601 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg. 301.779.0371.

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Park Farmer’s Market is open for the season, with a variety of local vegetables and fruits, honey, baked goods, meat, jams, flowers and more. Free. Thurs-days, 3 to 7 p.m. Riverdale Park, 301.332.6258.

Parents and preschoolers are invited to Rise + Rhyme, an in-teractive morning of storytelling and performance. $5 suggested donation. Mondays, 9:30 to 11 a.m. Zinn Room, Busboys & Po-ets, 5331 Baltimore Avenue.

The Hyattsville Farmer’s Mar-ket is open through October, featuring the bounty of Southern Maryland. Free. Tuesdays, 2 to 6 p.m. 3505 Hamilton Street — a new location. 301.985.5000.

Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month, the Peter Pan Club for preschoolers includes sto-rytime and hands-on craft ac-tivities. Free with museum ad-mission of $4 for adults ($2 for children). 10:30 a.m. College Park Aviation Museum, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park. 301.864.6029.

Continuing through the sum-mer are 45-minute Anacostia River Boat Tours, held Tues-days through Fridays at noon and weekends at 5 p.m. All ages are welcome to join a park naturalist on a pontoon boat to search for birds and other wildlife. Free; reg-istration required for groups of 12 or more. Bladensburg Waterfront Park, 4601 Annapolis Road, Blad-ensburg. 301.779.0371.

Grab the binoculars for a guided birdwatching hike along the Lu-ther Goldman Birding Trail, part of the 38-acre Lake Artemesia. Sponsored by the Prince George’s Audubon Society, the walk is for beginners and experts alike and bird checklists will be available. Free. Held on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month from 6 to 7:30 p.m. through August 6. Starts from the parking lot at Ber-wyn Road and Ballew Avenue in Berwyn Heights. 301.459.3375 or www.pgaudubon.org.

Browse clothing, housewares and more at reasonable prices at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church

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Hyattsville Reporterthe

No. 242 • June 13, 2012www.hyattsville.org • 301-985-5000

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IN OTHER NEWS...

JUNE 2012

CALENDAR

Tuesday, June 19Planning Committee Meeting7:00 - 8:00 PM

Wednesday, June 20Hyattsville Environmental Committee Meeting7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Monday, July 2No Yard Waste collection due to July 4th HolidayIf your ordinary collection day is Wednesday, your trash will be collected two days earlier, on Monday, July 2.

Wednesday, July 4Fourth of July holidayCity Administrative offices closed. No Yard Waste or Trash Collection, City-wide. City Summer Camp is closed.

Friday, July 13Outback Steakhouse Summer Jam Featuring Atomic Swing Club6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Monday, July 16Council Meeting8:00 to 10:00 PM

Tuesday, July 17Planning Committee Meeting7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Wednesday, July 18Hyattsville Environmental Committee Meeting7:30 PM - 8:30 PM @ 4310 Gallatin Street

Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at the City Municipal Building, 4310 Gallatin Street.

JULY THIRTEENTH SUMMER JAM

Who says Friday the Thirteenth is unlucky? If it is an Outback Steakhouse Summer Jam night, that just can’t possibly be true.Held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the second Friday of the month

from May 11 through September 14, this event includes delicious food (burgers, chicken and hot dogs) provided and prepared by Outback Steakhouse of Hyattsville, a beer and wine garden, mu-sical entertainment, the ever-popular moon bounce, and Mandy the Clown and her very talented face painter. The Summer Jam Series is held at the Municipal Building at

4310 Gallatin Street - rain or shine! In the event of inclement weather, the Jam moves into the multi-purpose room. Atten-dance at Summer Jam is free and open to everyone. There is a charge for food and beverages.The schedule is as follows:

July 13 - The Atomic Swing Club brings their unique blend of jazz, lounge, blues, rockabilly and big bandAugust 10 - N2N returns to the Summer Jam stage to per-

form classic R&B, Soul and FunkSeptember 14 - Just Us featuring our own Sgt. Chris Purvis

will close this year’s Summer Jam Series with some good time Rock ‘n Roll.

http://www.hyattsville.org/summerjam

PARENT & CHILD PROGRAM – SUMMER SESSIONS

If you’re a regular at a school year Parent & Child Program, good news! A mini version of the program will be held Wednesdays at the City Municipal Building beginning later this summer. Watch the next newsletter for details, or visit http://www.hyattsville.org/pcprogram.

ON-STREET PARKING COMING TO BALTIMORE AVENUE/ROUTE 1

Parking is coming to the Route One/Baltimore Avenue corri-

dor during off-peak hours beginning in June. New spaces will be created between Madison Street and the Route One Alter-nate Bridge. The City requested the changes from the State Highway Administration to help accommodate the growing retail and restaurant developments in the area. Visit http://www.hyattsville.org/parking to view a map, and please use caution!

ELEVATION BURGER VERTIGO CHALLENGE WINNERS

On Tuesday, May 22, teams from the Hyattsville Volunteer Fire Department, Hyattsville City Police Department, and Hyattsville Department of Public Works competed in Elevation Burger’s Vertigo Challenge to benefit Special Olympics of Prince George’s County. Congrats to the Hyattsville City Police Department – officers Khoury, Nemser, and Parrish took home the trophy! Elevation Burger donated over $850 in proceeds from the event to Special Olympics of Prince George’s County during the June 4 City Council Meet-ing. Our thanks to Elevation Burger’s David and Kathi Wallis, and restaurant manager Monica Estrella, for their support!

WORLD ELDER ABUSE AWARENESS DAY IS JUNE 15

Join the Maryland State Attorney’s office along with several other area organizations to learn about elder abuse and how to prevent it. Enjoy Bingo games, free hearing tests, and tons more.Where: The Mall at Prince George’s (Center Court in front

of Macy’s)When: Friday, June 15, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PMBe sure to stop by the City of Hyattsville’s table!

Families, caregivers and seniors: Do you have any age-related questions or concerns? Please call Hyattsville’s Senior Ser-

vices Coordinator, Emily Stowers at 301/985-5058, or email [email protected].

THIRD ANNUAL MULTICULTURAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS FAIR SET FOR SEPTEMBER

Save the date for the Third Annual Hyatts-ville Community Multicultural Health and Wellness Fair, scheduled for Saturday, September 15, 2012 from 10 AM to 4 PM

at First United Methodist Church of Hyattsville, 6201 Belcrest Road. A free community-wide event of screenings,

demonstrations, education and training, and information dissemination. Questions? Con-

tact Mary Carter-Williams, Ph.D. at [email protected] or 301/927-6113.

PEDESTRIAN ALERT: JEFFERSON & 43RD AVENUE CROSSWALK CLOSED

In preparation for the replacement of the Hyattsville Elemen-tary School retaining wall, as well as other playground im-provements, the crosswalk at Jefferson & 43rd will be blocked for twelve weeks. Lane closures will occur periodically. Watch our website for updates.

REDISTRICTING PLAN ADOPTED; FIND DE-TAILS ONLINE

The City adopted a redistricting plan earlier this month. Find details here:http://www.hyattsville.org/redistricting.

CITY BUDGET DETAILS AVAILABLE ONLINE

The City is expected adopted a budget in May. Residents can view documents online at http://www.hyattsville.org/budget.

Summer Yard Waste/Trash Date ChangesIf your household is served by the

Department of Public Works, there are several important schedule changes to note for the next few weeks. Should you have any questions, please call 301/985-5032.This information is also available

online at www.hyattsville.org, on the City’s cable channel (71 Comcast, 12 Verizon), and in all recent editions of the Hyattsville Reporter.

FOURTH OF JULY

There will be no yard waste collection on Monday July 2nd. Trash collection and yard waste collection will resume its normal schedule the following week.

ATTENTION: WEDNESDAY TRASH PICK-UP DATE CHANGE

The 4th of July is on a Wednesday this year. For this week, if your normal trash

day is Wednesday, your trash will be picked up on MONDAY, July 2nd.

LABOR DAY

No yard waste will be collected Mon-day, September 3. Normal collection will resume the following week.

Questions? Call 301/985-5032.

The Maryland Department of Agriculture, through the Mosquito Control Program, per-forms all mosquito control activities in the state. The City participates in the Mosquito Control Program, which begins in mid-June and contin-ues into early September. State Mosquito Con-trol personnel conduct adult mosquito surveil-lance and, if certain state-mandated thresholds are met, conduct spraying operations.For 2012, adult mosquito surveillance and

possible spraying will be on Tuesday nights. To report a problem area in your neighbor-

hood, please call the City’s Department of Public Works at 301/985-5032 or visit our website: http://www.hyattsville.org/mosqui-tos. We will pass on the required informa-tion to the state MDA. Please report the fol-lowing when you call:

• Your address• Time of day when mosquitoes are the

worst• Any area of stagnant water in the vicinity

The reported areas are relayed to the Mos-quito Control Section on a weekly basis. You may request an exemption from adult

mosquito control services by completing an application. Call 301/985-5032 for an appli-cation, or print one here: http://www.hyatts-ville.org/mosquitos. A program descriptions and details on the insecticides used are also available on the website.Spraying for adult mosquitoes is based strict-

ly on results from standardized surveillance methods and occurs in the early morning or late evening hours. The night spraying for adult populations is ineffective against the ag-gressive Asian tiger mosquito. The majority of complaints about mosquitoes received by the City are about the Asian tiger mosquito. To control this pest there must be an orga-

nized community clean up effort. The Asian tiger mosquito is a very aggressive day-biting mosquito that has become a serious pest in Hyattsville. It is a black mosquito with white on the legs and a white strip down the middle of its head and back. It is very aggressive and will bite whenever people or animals are avail-able, but it is also skittish and hard to swat. Often, you will not feel it biting and it tends to stay near the ground (you may get bitten on the legs only). This mosquito lays its eggs in containers or holes in trees. It is closely tied to human habitation and any container in your yard that will hold even a small amount of water for a week or more can breed the tiger mosquito. Check your yard for water holding containers such as:

• Tires• Wading pools not in use• Buckets, barrels or cans• Wheelbarrows, canoes or boats• Tarps where water can puddle• Flowerpots or saucers under pots• Birdbaths

Either empty or rinse these containers out weekly. Don’t forget rain gutters - these can breed large numbers of mosquitoes if not cleaned so that they flow and drain. The State’s mosquito control program cannot adequately control this species due to its habits. It breeds in containers in peoples’ yards which the State cannot treat and nighttime spray operations are not very effective for the tiger mosquito because it rests in sheltered areas which the spray will not reach. Visit the following website for additional

information about this pest: http://www.mda.state.md.us/plants-pests/mosquito_control/_asian_tiger_mosquito_md.php or call Mosquito Control at 410-841-5870.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

‘Skeeter season

VETERAN SERVICES

Looking for counseling, assistance with veterans’ benefits, or other information? The Prince George’s County Vet Center ser-vices County residents who have served their country. Services are provided at no charge to the veteran. For more information, visit www.vetcenter.va.gov, or call the Prince George’s County Vet Center, located at 7905 Malcolm Rd., Suite 101, Clinton, MD 21735, at 301/856-7173.

NIXLE

The City is now using Nixle to send public safety alerts and in-formation via both email and text message. This system replaces the SafeCity website previously in use. Many of our neighbor-ing jurisdictions also use Nixle to send out information. Please note that Nixle won’t report on every incident – typically alerts are sent when the HCPD needs to alert the public to a poten-tially dangerous situation, or when we are asking for your help solving a crime. In other cases, Nixle messages relate to road closures, power outages, etc.If you have a nixle.com account, there is no need to create a

new one. Simply log in and add the City of Hyattsville to your wire. New to Nixle? Register at www.nixle.com or enroll using the widget online at http://www.hyattsville.org/stayinformed.

FIND US ON FACEBOOK

Are you on Facebook? You can now keep up with City events and happenings at www.facebook.com/cityofhyattsville. When you see Vainglorious, the silver metal bird sculpture at Centennial Park, you’ll know you’re in the right place. He is kind enough to serve as the City’s wall photo.


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Purvis said, “We spent a lot of time on the trails, in both visible and non-visible roles. We looked at people and talked to people. All the police forces did; it was a stepped-up effort on everyone’s part.”

The next part of the saga also happened in Hyattsville. A vic-tim in one of the attacks saw her assailant on Hamilton Street and notified police.

“City police went down and recovered video footage from a store where the victim had been,” said Purvis. The man was gone by then.

Hyattsville Detectives Scott Ratty and Zach Nemser looked at the footage, checked it against the photo taken by Pile and decided it was the same person. So, because of Officer Pile’s making a connection with one of the men he encountered on that unrelated call, they now had a name.

“We had a lead. The case was building now,” said Purvis. The department put out a warrant for Rivas’s arrest.

The detectives put together a series of photographs of possible suspects that included Rivas. When they showed the photos to the woman who had called police, she identified Rivas as her attacker.

All this information was also sent to the other police depart-ments investigating the inci-dents. Rivas then was identified by the victim in the January at-tack, which was in Mt. Rainier.

“Then the woman saw him a second time,” said Purvis. “She called county police because it was a county case. Our guys overheard the call on the scanner and knew we had a warrant out for him. We bolted down there and grabbed him.”

“A lot of time and effort went into this,” said Purvis. “Everyone wanted this case closed.”

The case isn’t completely closed, though. Captain Stanley Johnson of the Park Police said they are still working the case for the other assaults that hap-pened on the trail. Based on the composites, he said, they think they’re looking for two more people.

“We’ve continued contact with the victims and looked at poten-tial suspects but no one’s been charged. There is nothing to in-dicate that Rivas was involved in the cases we’re investigating.”

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This isn’t your toddler’s Sit & Spin. At A Tangled Skein yarn shop, the name refers to fourth-Friday gatherings where drop-spindle and spinning-wheel users can work on individual projects, guided by spinning expert Anne O’Connor. Free. 7 to 9 p.m. And if you need more chances to unwind, come to the twice weekly Sit & Stitch sessions: Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m., and Thursdays, 1 to 3 p.m. They’re open to knitters and cro-cheters of any experience level. Free. 5200 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 101. 301.779.3399.

The Hyattsville library offers a variety of storytimes. Space is limited; free tickets available at the Children’s Desk. Ages 9-23 months with caregiver: Mondays, 10:15 a.m. Ages 2-3: Mondays, 11 a.m. and Tuesdays, 10:15 a.m. Ages 3-5: Tuesdays, 11 a.m. Ages 3-6: Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Eng-lish-Spanish Storytime for ages 3-6: Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. 6530 Adelphi Road. 301.985.4690.

Community Calendar is compiled by Susie Currie and Scarlett Salem. It’s a select listing of events happen-ing in and around Hyattsville from the 15th of the issue month to the 15th of the following month. To submit an item for consideration, please e-mail [email protected] or mail to P.O. Box 132, Hy-attsville, MD 20781. Deadline for July submissions is June 23.

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ment spokesperson, said it all be-gan when a city officer went out on a call that had nothing to do with the attacks.

“It was a roommate dispute. And when Officer Kirk Pile went out on it, something stuck out about one of the roommates. He saw the [composite sketches] in his mind and something clicked.”

The department had passed out sketches of three suspects to all its officers, so the case was in ev-eryone’s mind, Purvis said. Pile took a photograph of the man and gave it to the city’s investiga-

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This time next year, builders should be close to finishing a new elementary school at 3120 Nicholson Street, near Nicholas Orem Middle School. Sched-uled to open in August 2013, it will serve local students as part of the Prince George’s County Public School system. A PGCPS spokesperson said that public hearings on boundaries should begin this fall.

The new slate of PGCPS prin-cipals is expected to come be-fore the Board of Education at two meetings this month. One of them is likely to be as-signed to Hyattsville Elemen-tary School, as Principal Jeanne Washburn retires after eight years. Though some staff cuts are inevitable since the school lost its Title 1 status – and, with it, $200,000 for the coming school year – it looks like the bilingual parent liaison position, which many parents considered crucial, is safe. To avoid other staffing snafus, PTA officers urge parents to register new children early,

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HES celebrated its 95th birthday with a June 2 party for students and alumni. A belated gift from the county should be ready to greet students in August: A new fence and retaining wall that will feature inset panels for mosaics, to be completed in future stu-dent-artist collaborations.

To stave off declining enroll-ment, a nationwide trend among parochial schools, Concordia Lutheran School began the year with a new principal. But Jeff Burkee, who brought 25 years of experience in similar schools to the job, knew he faced long odds. “People are shopping for schools differently today,” he told the HL&T soon after he accepted the job last summer. Now, they have one less option: After more than 60 years, Concordia has closed. A decommissioning of the campus is planned for Sep-tember 16.

Two years ago, the newly re-branded St. Jerome Academy reversed its own trend of sink-ing enrollment by switching to a classical curriculum, the first of its kind in the nation. Since then, the program has spread to schools throughout the country and con-tinues to draw media attention, including a mention this month in a Wall Street Journal article. One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is the Coach Brown Memorial Basketball Camp. Now in its 25th year of serving elementary-school students, it returns to the school gym August 6 to 10.

Most schools empty during the summer months. But St. Mark the Evangelist is already seeing more activity than it has since 2010, when students moved three miles away to the cam-pus of St. Camillus to form St. Francis International School. A basketball camp, for students in kindergarten through 7th grade, runs through June 22. Then a day camp program, co-sponsored by Camp Fire USA, offers three two-week sessions beginning June 25. That’s when morn-ing summer school starts, too, with private tutoring and High School Placement Test prepara-tion available for an extra charge.

As part of a countywide shift, both Nicholas Orem and Hy-attsville middle schools will see a longer day for the upcom-

ing school year. All public mid-dle schools will run from 9 a.m. to 4:20 p.m. Both schools sent students to various competitions this year. HMS narrowly missed tying the record for most wins in the 25th Annual Prince George’s County Science Bowl, defeated by the thinnest of margins (5 points) in the semifinals. Nicho-las Orem had a strong showing in its first year at the Maryland SeaPerch Regionals, where 16 students pitted their remote-controlled underwater robots those from other county middle-schoolers.

At DeMatha Catholic High School, capital improvements continued this year with the instal-lation of solar panels and the open-ing of a new science wing. Sev-eral of the 196 new graduates have scholarships in hand as well as di-plomas, including Hyattsville na-tive Ciaran Cain, one of only two National Merit Scholars in Prince George’s County. The sports pro-gram continued to shine as the soccer team won a national title, the wrestling team landed its 25th WCAC title in 27 years, the new track coach also landed a WCAC title, and the school hosted its first nationally televised event: a bas-ketball game with archrival Gon-zaga on ESPN2.

Nearly a quarter of Prince George’s County Public Schools had new principals this year, in-cluding Northwestern High School. Edgar Batenga seems to have gotten high marks all around; employees there named him Staff Person of the Year, and both stu-dents and teachers have noted “a calmer atmosphere,” according to PTSA officer Christine Cestello Hinojosa. The music program continued its winning streak this year at state and regional competi-tions, as four bands all scored rat-ings of “superior” or “excellent” while capturing first or second place in the contests. The school also took second place in Wash-ington-Arlington Catholic Foren-sic League Metro Championships, earning them a spot in the national tournament. Coached by Curt Somers, the team placed in the top 100 in the nation. A group of 21 honors students will have a few more stamps on their passports when they return in the fall; this month, they will spend 10 days in China as part of the school’s Inter-national Studies Program.

valerie russellHyattsville Elementary School recently marked its 95th birthday as well as the end of the school year. At a party on June 2, principal Jeanne Washburn, who is retiring, shared the stage with rising second-grader Ellis Hollingsworth (top). The program included a performance by the outgoing second-grade class (above).

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The batter from the Beltsville-Adelphi Boys and Girls Club grounded the ball to Hyattsville pitcher Evan Cantelas, who field-ed it cleanly and threw the run-ner out at first. The Hyattsville-Mt. Rainier-Brentwood Boys and Girls Club (HMB) T-ball team had retired the side without giving up a run, and Coach Chris McManes quickly corralled his players into line and led them in a cheer of “Good game, Beltsville!” before sending them out for the customary post-game congratu-lations of the other players.

“We don’t keep score,” said Mc-Manes, now in his eighth year of coaching the HMB Tigers. “It’s designed to help children learn the game and be good sports.”

Although runs aren’t counted, spectators can see that HMB’s team usually plays better. When Michael Hanby, whose son

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One of McManes’ own three children has been on his team every year but one. Now, his youngest, Tyler, is playing his last year of eligibility. And McManes (pronounced “McMains”) is hanging up his cleats.

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tal of 28 children on two teams, McManes relies on head coach Michael Adams and assistant coaches Branden Hall, Chris Davidson and Chris Currie.

Since McManes started coach-ing, the local T-ball league has expanded from four teams to 10 and changed some of its rules to make the game more like baseball. When he started, players could remain on base even if tagged out. That, he says, changed for two reasons: to teach players that they have to run their hardest to stay in the game, and to reward the defense. The next step was to allow runners to take more than one base on a hit.

McManes, who grew up in the area, is no stranger to HMB. In fact, the first time he played baseball was on an HMB team. He later played for the PG Se-lect Blue Sox, which is the Boys and Girls Clubs’ version of an All-Star team, and then at North-

western High School. “Baseball is a great game, and T-

ball teaches basic fundamentals,” said McManes. “I would like to see every child try it for one year.”

He also thinks it is a great game to coach. Even though it is some-times stressful trying to get to games on time from his public-relations job in Washington, D.C., he says, the fun of coaching keeps him going.

His favorite part is the little one-on-one chat he has with each player while warming them up before their time at bat. He says he loves to see them play and tells the team that the better they play, the more fun they will have.

What’s next for Coach Mc-Manes? With his son and several of his other players graduating to baseball — and also being stu-dents at St. Jerome Academy — McManes wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up wearing a coach’s uniform again next year, but for

his A game to T-ballcrosstown rival St. Jerome, which didn’t have a coach this year.

Catie Currie, 13, played on Coach McManes’ first T-ball team. This is her first article for the HL&T.

catie currieFacing page: HMB’s two T-ball teams, the White Tigers and the Gold Tigers, congratulate each other after a game as Michael Adams, the Gold Tigers head coach, looks on. At first base, White Tiger Kieran Padgham keeps his eye on the ball as Gold Tiger Kai Hall gets ready to run.

This page: Coach Chris McManes started playing baseball for HMB when he was a few years older than the kids he teaches. Here, Evan Cantelas is ready to catch and George Currie practices his swing.


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catie currieIn the HMB team picture, some of the 28 T-ball players practice their cheer. Last row, from left: The Gold Tigers were coached by Michael Adams and Branden Hall, while the White Tigers were led by Chris Mc-Manes, Chris Davidson and (taking the picture) Chris Currie. At right: players await their turn at bat from the bench.


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“We were happy to have them,” said Queens Chapel Town Cen-ter co-owner Michael Hollins. “But there was too much compe-tition for the existing tenants. A number of the tenants had issues with the items being sold.”

Hollins declined to identify which of the market’s offerings – all from Southern Maryland – were problematic.

When Campanella spoke with city staff about other pos-

sible locations, she said, “they found a place for us within a week. They really wanted us to stay. Every city wants a farm-er’s market.”

And now, more and more cities have them. Maryland has used some of its $4 billion share of the 1998 national tobacco settle-ment to encourage farmers to convert nearly all land used for tobacco – once the mainstay of the state’s agriculture economy – to other crops.

The money also funded “So. Maryland, So Good,” a cam-paign run by the Southern Mary-land Agricultural Development Commission to promote farm-ing in St. Mary’s, Charles, Cal-vert, Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties.

The Hyattsville market, one of the oldest in the state, is restrict-ed to farmers from that area.

“So you’re keeping it very local,” said Campanella.

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city of hyattsvillePeggy Campanella of Harris Orchard rides in the 2012 Hyattsville Anniversary Parade. She’s the organizer and a vendor at the Hyattsville Farmers Market, which opens the season this month in a new location.


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June 2012 Hyattsville Life & Times