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(Above) McKenzie Glotzbach(center) hugs Nathasha Gonzalez aftergraduates turned their tassels Mondayat the Kennedy High School graduationat DAR Constitution Hall in Washington,D.C. At left is Rahel Girma. About 370graduates heard senior addresses fromKiana Jackson and Nestor Leche and acommencement speech by DeRionne P.Pollard, the president of MontgomeryCollege. (Right) Teacher Joanna Greer(center), who has been out of worksince the fall as she battles cancer,surprised the class by visiting. Sheteaches video production andjournalism.
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n Indictments lead toarrests in Silver Spring
and Forestville
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFFWRITER
After a year of surveillanceand undercover work, law en-forcement officers arrested 17people in the predawn hoursMonday for conspiring to dis-tributeheroin andcrack cocainein Montgomery and PrinceGeorge’s counties, according toauthorities.
The operation backed bysearch warrants began about4:30 a.m. and netted 11 hand-guns, an unspecified amount ofdrugs and more than $70,000 incash as of Monday afternoon,saidMontgomeryCounty police
Chief Thomas Manger during anews conference hosted by theFBI in Rockville.
The blitz of arrests based onindictments by a federal grandjury effectively breaks up a drugring operating in Silver Spring,which had been working witha smaller operation in Forest-ville, according to federal indict-ments.
“They’re no longer there —they’ve been taken out of theneighborhood,” said StephenVogt, a special FBI agent whocoordinated the arrests, at thenews conference.
“This slows the potential forviolence [in neighborhoods] ...and sends a message [to drugdistributors] that you could benext,” Vogt said.
Investigatorsbust drug ringsin two counties
n Governor expectedto make decision on railproject’s future soon
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFFWRITER
As supporters and oppo-nents of the proposed PurpleLine await Maryland Gov. LarryHogan’s decision on the light-rail project, one question thatremains unclear is how manyriders the system is expected tocarry.
Hogan (R) was expected tomake a decision on the projectin mid-May, but he put off do-
ing so until at least this month.A timeline for that decisionhas not been made, ShareeseChurchill, a Hogan spokes-woman, saidMonday.
The proposed $2.45 billion,16-mile linewould linkBethesdaandNewCarrollton, stopping inSilver Spring, College Park andother areas. If approved, thefederal government is expectedto contribute the Purple Line’slargest share at $900 million,with the state kicking in at least$360million. Local governmentsand the private sector wouldpick up the rest.
Ridership datafor Purple Lineraise questions
n Ervin said she will announceher campaign next week
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Kathleen Matthews, a former local TVnewsanchor andMarriott International ex-ecutive, and Valerie Ervin, a former Mont-
gomery County councilwoman, are thelatest Democratic candidates to vie for theparty nomination in Maryland’s 8th Con-gressional District.
From the noisy steps of the SilverSpring Metro station on June 3, Matthewsannounced her campaign, saying shewants to bring an “opportunity agenda” tothe voters of the district.
Ervin saidMonday she plans to launch
her campaign next week.Describing herself as a strong fighter
for opportunity, dignity and equality, Mat-thews said, “those are the values I want tobring to theU.S. Congress.”
“It’s something I’ve spent my lifetimefighting for,” she said.
Matthews said her agenda will focus
Matthews joinsDistrict 8House race
n Proposal includes delayingpurchase of laptops for students
BY LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFFWRITER
Interim Superintendent Larry A.Bowers put forward on Tuesday aplan to cut millions from MontgomeryCounty Public Schools’ fiscal 2016 op-erating budget to align it with county-approved funding.
To help fill a $53 million budgetgap, Bowers recommended the districteliminate about 340 full-time-equiv-alent school employee positions, notbuymoreChromebook laptopsnextfis-cal year and delay by a couple of weeksemployee compensation increases.
The county school board will voteon a final budget on June 16. Boardmembers will consider at the samemeeting whether to include Bowers’changes.
The board faces a $2.32 billion
operating budget for fiscal 2016 thatthe Montgomery County Council ap-proved. The amount leaves the districtwith about $53 million less than whatthe board asked for, according to dis-trict officials.
“There are no easy answers whenyou have to make a budget cut of thissize, especially in an organization likeMCPS, where 90 percent of our budgetgoes toward paying for the people whodo the importantworkeveryday,”Bow-ers said in a school systempress release
Tuesday.Bowers recommended that the dis-
trict eliminate more than 340 schoolemployee positions, including teacher,media specialist and instructional dataspecialist positions. In March, he heldback about 370 such positions becauseof a gloomy budget outlook.
His recent proposed reductionwould trigger class-size increases atall county schools, though less so atschools with higher percentages of stu-dentswho receive freeor reduced-price
meals, an indication of poverty, ac-cording to Dana Tofig, a school systemspokesman.
The school-based positions, com-bined with an earlier cut of about 40central office positions, marks a $25.5million shift to fill the gap, according tothe release.
The proposal would restore about30 positions Bowers had held back tiedto working with special education and
Bowers: Cut 340 jobs to help fill $53M hole in school budget
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Social Media for the Non-Tweeter,2-4 p.m., Silver Spring Civic Building, 1Veterans Place.With PamHolland of TechMoxie. Free. [email protected] or 301-503-7401.
World Elder Abuse Awareness DaySenior Safety, noon-3 p.m., Holiday ParkSenior Center, 3950 Ferrara Drive,Whea-ton. Speakers, demonstrations, exhibi-tors, free blood-pressure checks, music,door prizes. Free. 240-777-6547 or [email protected].
Open mic night, 7-9 p.m., Mid-County Community Recreation Center,2004 Queensguard Road, Silver Spring.Part of June meeting of MontgomeryCounty chapter of the MarylandWriters’Association. Free for members and first-time guests; $5 for others. [email protected].
THURSDAY, JUNE 11Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury
Tales, 7:30 p.m., Takoma Park CommunityCenter, 7500Maple Ave. A documentaryon the history and development of theCanterbury Scene, a sub-genre of progres-sive rockmusic. Followed byQ&Awith thefilmmakers. [email protected].
General Education Meeting: Jail Di-version, 7:30-9 p.m., National AllianceonMental IllnessMontgomery County,11718 ParklawnDrive, Rockville. AthenaMorrow, amanager of adult forensic ser-vice for theMontgomery County Depart-ment of Health, will talk about a possibleframework to help people with behavioralhealth problems in the criminal justicesystem. Free. 316-617-7403 [email protected]
Where & How to Get Financing, 1-3:30p.m.,Wheaton Business InnovationCenter, 11002 VeirsMill Road, suite 700.A counselor will present the spectrum ofresources. $50. 301-403-8300, ext. 22, [email protected].
B’nai Israel Hazak group, end-of-yearcelebrationwith the Classy Jazz Bandand featuring Cantor Josh Perlman, bringlunch at noon, program at 12:30 p.m.,6301Montrose Road, Rockville. For those55 and older. Free. Reservations: 301-881-6550, ext. 575, or [email protected].
FRIDAY, JUNE 12
Amateur Musician Play-in, 7:15-9:30p.m., Living Faith Lutheran Church, 1605VeirsMill Road, Rockville. MontgomeryCounty ChamberMusic Society is orga-nizing small ensembles in two one-hoursessions. All ages and skill levels welcomeexcept beginners.Music is provided orbring what youwould like to play. Groupmeets every Friday night. 301-770-2041 [email protected].
Art Walk in the Park, 6-8 p.m., GlenEcho Park, 7300MacArthur Blvd. 301-634-2274 or [email protected].
Stone In Stone, newworks by GlenEcho Park Stone Carvers, noon-6 p.m.,Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park, 7300MacArthur Blvd. [email protected].
SATURDAY, JUNE 13Rockville Swing Band, 3-4 p.m., Prais-
ner Library, 14910 Old Columbia Pike,Burtonsville. Eighteen-piece bandwithvocalists Barbara Strang and ShariWright.Free. 240-773-9460 or [email protected].
Kensington Summer Concert, 10-11a.m., Howard Avenue Park, Kensington.MysticWarriors will play worldmusicfrom the Andes, across from the farmersmarket at the Kensington train station.Concerts continue each Saturday duringthe summer. Free. [email protected].
Hoop4Heroes 3on3 Basketball Tour-ney, 8 a.m.,McLean School, 8224 Lochin-ver Lane, Potomac. Open to ages 10 andolder, including adults. Different divisionsfor children and adults, male and female.$100 donation per team toWounedWar-rior project requested. 301-922-3603 [email protected].
SUNDAY, JUNE 14Takoma Park JazzFest 20th Anniver-
sary, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 7000 Carroll Ave.More than a dozen free performances.www.tpjazzfest.org.
Spring Festival of Ballet 2015, 2 p.m.,Montgomery College Cultural Arts Cen-ter, 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring. $20.301-593-6262 or [email protected].
Beyond the New Jim Crow: Prevent-ing the Revolving Door, 5-7 p.m., CedarLane Unitarian Universalist Church,9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda. With DonnaRojas and Alisa Smedley, co-directors ofthe “ready-for-release” program at theMontgomery County Detention Center,and Art Wallenstein, former director
of the Montgomery County Depart-ment of Corrections and Rehabilitation.Refreshments. Free. 301-913-0090 [email protected].
MONDAY, JUNE 15Leave No Trace Hike, 6 p.m., Seneca
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Matters, 7:15 p.m., ShriMangalMandir,17110NewHampshire Ave., Silver Spring.Free workshop on Alzheimer’s disease.Registration requested. 800-272-3900 [email protected].
Montgomery County Humane SocietyYappy Hour, 6-9 p.m., Denizens BrewingCompany, 1115 EastWest Highway, SilverSpring. $15 per individual, $25 per couple.240-252-2555 or [email protected].
Meditation, 7 p.m., Praisner Library,14910 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville.JohnDavid Newcombwill demonstratepractical techniques. [email protected].
Proposed Economic DevelopmentCorporation: Good for Business?, 7-9p.m., Council Office Building, 6th-FloorConference Room, Rockville. Montgom-ery County Taxpayers League sponsoringpresentation by County Executive IsiahLeggett. [email protected].
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n Plan would costmore than $1 million
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY
STAFF WRITER
Takoma Park is reviewingits city employee salary struc-ture, considering pay upgradesthat would cost more than $1million over three years.
The plan calls for step in-creases as employees advancethrough grades. This fiscalyear, most employees wereplaced in the system at or justabove their current salary.Next year, most will be raisedhalfway to the market pay andthen are scheduled to be in-creased to the market rate infiscal 2017.
Last year, the city hiredCondrey & Associates to studyemployees’ compensation,comparing salaries in similarpositions in nearby cities likeGaithersburg, Rockville andBowie. Due to the Great Reces-sion and other factors, almostall salaries were below marketlevels, with some “particularlylow,” said City Manager Su-zanne Ludlow.
Takoma Park plans to em-phasize “pay for performance”and not just raise salaries be-cause other area cities are, shesaid.
“Most of the municipali-ties are very cost conscien-tious,” Ludlow said. “We prefernot to have some kind of armsrace on raising salaries.”
The City Council wasscheduled to vote on a salaryordinance Monday, but thatwas delayed to a future meet-ing. Ludlow said she neededto obtain more backgroundinformation and personneldetails before a formal vote.
Several council members,including Seth Grimes andTim Male, said they supporteddoing what MontgomeryCounty does and publicly re-lease what employees make as
part of an “open government”philosophy. Ludlow said shewould like to do that, but of-ficials still were in collectivebargaining negotiations withcity employee unions usingthe findings of the study.
“So it’s premature to dothat,” she said.
For this fiscal year, graderanges for a deputy city man-ager vary from a minimum of$118,326 annually to a maxi-mum of $182,772, accordingto city documents. Grimessaid he couldn’t see payinga deputy city manager at themaximum level and wantedto see a rate cap. Ludlow, whohas worked in various posi-tions for Takoma Park since1993, has an annual salary of$172,000.
The police chief range isfrom $107,198 to $165,582.
On the lower end of the list,the scale for library shelvers isfrom $31,188 to $48,175, andfor school crossing guards,salaries range from $29,686 to$45,854.
Takoma Park’ssalary structureis under review
Blair High clubholds book drive
Two students at Blair HighSchool in Silver Spring led aneffort to collect books this yearto be distributed as part of a na-tionwide literacy program.
Christopher Leung andZachary Williams started a BlairHigh chapter of the Bring on theBooks Foundation, a nationalnonprofit organization.
At schools across the coun-try, Bring on the Books acceptsdonated books, which will begiven to children in “juvenilesystems, health clinics, and ur-ban tutoring programs,” theorganization’s website says.Tattered books are sent to paperrecycling plants.
Bring on the Books also in-cludes motivational speechesand counseling for the studentsreceiving books.
“So many people don’t havethe opportunity to read becausebeing literate is having books,”Leung said.
Leung and Williams justcompleted their junior year.
Their Bring on the Bookschapter took in more than 400books through a collection driveat Blair High.
Leung’s English teacher,Lauren Termini, agreed to bethe club’s adviser and to use herclassroom to store the books. “Ihad barely enough room,” Ter-mini said.
The club, which can bereached at [email protected], plans to doanother collection drive in thenext school year.
Students take secondin writing contest
Two students from SandySpring Friends School teamedup with one from Blake HighSchool in Silver Spring to winsecond place in this year’s Di-verse Minds Youth Writing Chal-lenge in the Washington metroregion.
The contest, organized byB’nai B’rith and sponsored byPepco, “aims to enlighten, in-spire and educate America’syoung people and their familiesin an effort to eradicate preju-dices and strengthen ties amongtoday’s youth,” according to anews release.
Katherine Lentz and JustinWarring of the Friends Schoolworked with Morgan Isabella ofBlake High to write and illustrate“A Boy Named Timmy.” Theywill share a $2,000 scholarship.
Urban gardening tipsavailable at Fenton market
The Master Gardeners ofMontgomery County have cre-
ated an urban gardening pro-gram.
The group, which is a pro-gram of the University of Mary-land Extension, will discussvarious topics at its booth at theFenton Street Market at Veter-ans Plaza in Silver Spring oncea month. Upcoming topics in-clude “Pests and Beneficial In-sects” (July 11), “Houseplants”(Aug. 1), “Lawns and Ground-covers” (Sept. 5) and “Bulbs andWinter Gardens” (Oct. 3).
Also, on June 27, urban gar-dening volunteers will speakabout the program at the newSilver Spring Library.
Go to www.tinyurl.com/nnz8doh for more information.
Takoma Park Lionwill be district governor
A member of the TakomaPark Lions Club will be a districtleader for the organization.
As District 22-C governor for2015-16, Michael L. Bigler willbe the top official overseeing 49Lions clubs in Washington, D.C.,and five Maryland counties, ac-cording to a Lions Club pressrelease.
Bigler, a 24-year memberand seven-term president of theTakoma Park Lions, is the firstTakoma Park club member in60 years to be district governor,the press release said.
Planners to takebike tour Friday
Casey Anderson, chairmanof the Montgomery CountyPlanning Board, along with stafffrom the county planning andparks departments, will leada bicycle tour of downcountycommunities that are the sub-jects of current sector plans.
The group will cycle from11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, mostlyon the Capital Crescent Trailto visit Lyttonsville, downtownBethesda and the Westbardneighborhood of Bethesda.
“The bike tour will allow usto experience the planning ar-eas at a more fine-grained levelof detail,” Anderson said in anews release. “At the same time,it will help us identify the placeswhere a safer, more connectedbicycle network is still needed inthe County.”
The public is invited to jointhe bike tour at the planning de-partment headquarters at 8787Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, at11 a.m. or people can meet thegroup at stops along the way.The 15-mile round trip is forexperienced cyclists, who musthave bikes and helmets. All par-ticipants must sign a form forindemnification and release ofall claims before they begin thetour.
The itinerary is:• 11:25 a.m.: Rosemary Hills
Elementary School, behind theschool at the sign for the futureCapital Crescent Trail.
• 12:30 p.m.: Battery LaneUrban Park in Bethesda.
• 1:30 p.m.: Veterans Park,Fairmont and Norfolk avenues,Bethesda.
• 2:30 p.m.: Giant Foodshopping center in Westbard.
• 3:30-4 p.m.: return to plan-ning department headquarters.
The times are approximateand subject to change.
The tour is also designed tohelp participants understandthe goals of the countywide Bi-cycle Master Plan. This plan willbe launched in July to develop ahigh-quality, low-stress bicyclenetwork reflecting the newesttypes of bikeways, such as sepa-rated and buffered bike lanes,and bicycle boulevards, plus se-cure bicycle storage facilities attransit stations, according to therelease.
Silver Spring group startsnursing scholarshipsThe Family & Nursing Care
Foundation in Silver Spring hasestablished a nursing scholar-ship at Montgomery College.
The foundation said in anews release that $5,000 will beawarded each year for five yearsto help students get a certifiednursing assistant certificate,starting in August for the Fall2015 semester.
The foundation says on itswebsite that it “supports com-munity organizations that pro-vide low-income aging adultswith the dedicated home carethey need to remain in thesafety and comfort of theirown homes” and also supports“home care training programs
for individuals who want tolearn the skills needed to be-come nurses and nursing assis-tants, so that they may care forthis at-risk population.”
Wooster grads includethree from Silver Spring
Three Silver Spring studentshave received bachelor of artsdegrees from The College ofWooster in Ohio:
• Springbrook High Schoolgraduate Georgia Corran, whomajored in sociology
• Blake High School gradu-ate Emily Watt, who majored inEnglish
• Einstein High Schoolgraduate Alissa Weinman, whomajored in anthropology andgraduated cum laude.
Transit task force planspublic forum June 17The Montgomery County
Executive’s Transit Task Forcewill hold a public forum June17 at 6 p.m. in the CountyCouncil’s third-floor hear-ing room, 100 Maryland Ave.,Rockville.
The task force has been re-convened to review legislationand recommend how to orga-nize and finance a bus rapidtransit system in the county.
Those who want to speakmust sign up by noon June 17at 240-777-7165, from 8:30 a.m.to 4 p.m. Monday through Fri-day. Speakers will have threeminutes and are encouragedto submit written remarks, in-cluding additional informationand materials. Comments mayalso be submitted by July 1 atwww2.montgomerycountymd.gov/CEXcontact.
PHOTO FROM CHRISTOPHER LEUNG
Zachary Williams (left) and Christopher Leung started a Bring on the Bookschapter at Blair High School. English teacher Lauren Termini (right) is thegroup’s adviser.
DEATHSMalcolm LawrenceMalcolm Lawrence, 89, of
Chevy Chase died June 1, 2015.The funeral was Friday at Gateof Heaven Cemetery Chapelin Aspen Hill. DeVol FuneralHome of Gaithersburg was incharge of arrangements.
Gary MoultonGary Moulton of Mitchell,
S.D., and formerly of Rockvilledied June 2, 2015. Chapel HillFuneral Home of Sioux Falls,S.D., is in charge of arrange-ments.
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n This year’s festival willinclude Redd, Brulee
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFF WRITER
The first time Chuck Reddperformed at the Takoma ParkJazzFest, he and the late CharlieByrd played through a thunder-storm.
“It was just about rained outand very muddy,” Redd said.“We went on anyway, as therewas a break in the storm. Rightas Charlie was beginning his set,a downpour came. But peoplestuck around. There are a lot ofdiehard jazz fans in this area.”
This year, Redd will be theheadliner of the 20th annualevent, slated for Sunday. Thefree festival runs from 11 a.m. to6 p.m. in the Old Town area ofTakoma Park.
“It’s grown into an impor-tant jazz event,” said Redd,who lives in Takoma Park. “I’vebroughtmanygood friends fromNew York and around the coun-try to this festival to be specialguests. I’mproudof the festival.”
Shortly after moving toTakoma Park from Kentucky,where he produced music fes-tivals and a regional NPR musicshow, festival president BruceKrohmer answered an ad placedby Dave Lorentz, who wantedto start a jazz festival. Krohmerbecameoneof the early organiz-ers and eventually took over asproducer when Lorentz left thearea.
“Jazz music is America’s giftto the world,” said Krohmer, ateacher and musician. “Withthis festival, we’ve been trying tokeepaneducational componentand add something new whenwe can, while keeping jazz freefor the people.”
The event includes freeworkshops. Some jazz-themedfilmswere scheduled inpartner-ship with the AFI Silver Theatrein Silver Spring last week andthis week.
Raising the thousands ofdollars needed to run such anevent can be challenging, butKrohmer said organizers “havethe fundraising thing down.”
Several local restaurants
raisemoneywith special Jazzfestevents, while state and local en-tities provide grants. Supportersinclude theArts andHumanitiesCouncil ofMontgomeryCounty,the Maryland State Arts Council,the city of Takoma Park and theTakoma Foundation.
The number of vendors hasgrown to about 65, while salesof T-shirts and other items helpout, Krohmer said.
The festival is bringingback some of the more popularperformers of the event’s firsttwo decades. Redd — who hastoured with Dizzy Gillespie andMel Torme and will be playingdrums—isbringing in guitaristsand other musicians from citiessuch as Denver and New York.He is also an accomplished per-former on the vibraphone.
The event welcomes a broadrange of styles, including instru-mental, vocal, swing, contem-
porary and vintage sounds fromthe 1920s, Krohmer said. Otherscheduled acts include Veron-neau, the Hokum Jazz Trio, theDave Kline Band and the Ta-koma Park Middle School JazzEnsemble.
Making its debut this yearwill be Brulee, a quintet thatwon the 2015 Jazz Brawl, anevent sponsored by TakomaPark JazzFest to showcase freshperformers.
Members of the UptownVocal Jazz Quartet look forwardto connecting with the TakomaPark audience again, leaderGinny Carr said.
“They engage with us sowarmly. We are proud to cele-brate such an important, joyousmilestone,” Carr said of the 20thanniversary event.
Karen Lovejoy and the Love-joyGrouphaveperformedat theTakoma Park festival since 2006.
“The festival is known forbringing the community someof the hottest local, East Coastperformers on the scene,” KarenLovejoy wrote in an email. “It’san opportunity for folks to bringfriends and family, discovernew music and treat yourself tosomething special.”
Jazz thrives in Takoma Park
PHOTO BY MARK ROBBINS/JAZZ TIMES
Chuck Redd is among the scheduled performers at the 20th annual TakomaPark JazzFest on Sunday.
20TH ANNUAL TAKOMAPARK JAZZFESTn When: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday
n Where: Old TownTakoma Park
n Cost: Free
n More information:www.tpjazzfest.org
A path completed at Wheaton
(Above) Graduate BriaN. Graham is all smilesas the Wheaton HighSchool commencementcomes to a close atDAR ConstitutionHall on Monday inWashington, D.C.Mahlet Moges gave astudent speech. Mathteacher Kolawole Mar-ville and White Houseofficial Jennifer M. Fay,the keynote speaker,also addressed thegraduating class of275. (Right) GraduateKevin A. Torres looksto familiar faces in theaudience.
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The following is a summary of inci-dents in the Silver Spring area towhich Montgomery County policeresponded recently. The words “ar-rested” and “charged” do not implyguilt. This information was provided bythe county.
Aggravated assault• Georgia Avenue and Spring
Street at 4:45 p.m.May 20. During atow dispute, the subject assaultedtwo tow employees.
• 12000 block of AthertonDriveat 1:30 p.m.May 21. Subject was inpossession of a knife andwas threat-ening to kill his parents.
• 8700 block of Carroll Avenue at8:40 p.m.May 23. Two subjects ap-proached and assaulted amanwitha handgun.
Robbery• 12500 block of Georgia Avenue
at 3:15 p.m.May 19. Themale victimwas approached and assaulted bythe subject. Cashwas taken.
Strong-arm robbery• 13000 block of Castle Bou-
levard, between 5 and 5:20 p.m.May 19. A young female victimwasapproached and assaulted by an un-known subject. Cellphonewas taken.
Burglary• Hillandale Swim&Tennis As-
sociation, 10116 Green Forest Drive,in the early-morning hours ofMay24. Forced entry, took property.
Residential burglary• 8300 block of Draper Lane
between 1 p.m.May 16 and 11:26p.m.May 19. No forced entry, tookproperty.
• 13000 block of SerpentineWaybetween 9 a.m. and 3:44 p.m.May18. Forced entry, took property.
• 9500 block of Adelphi Road at10:50 a.m.May 18. Forced entry, tooknothing.
• 800 block of NorthamptonDrive between 6 and 8 p.m.May 18.No forced entry, took property.
• 8600 block of Piney BranchRoad at 11:40 a.m.May 19. Unknownentry, nothing taken.
• 8700 block ofManchester Roadbetween 6 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.May21. No forced entry, took property.
• 9000 block ofManchester Roadbetween 12:15 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.May 22. Forced entry, took property.
• 100 block of Croydon Courtbetween 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.May 24.Forced entry, took property.
Vehicle larceny• 12000 block of Holdridge Road
at 2 p.m.May 18. Unknown entry,took property.
• Five thefts from vehicles oc-curred in the early-morning hours ofMay 20 in the parking lots of KFC at720 Blair Road andWhole Foods at833Wayne Ave. Incidentsmay be re-lated. Forced entry, took property.
• 2200 block of TouchstoneCourt in the early-morning hoursofMay 22. No forced entry, tookproperty.
• 2100 block of AventurineWayin the early-morning hours ofMay23. Forced entry, nothing taken.
POLICE BLOTTER
n Film explores growth,challenges of breweries
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAY
STAFFWRITER
Chip Hiden and Alexis Ir-vin are big beer fans. Making adocumentary on the craft beerindustry was a topic right uptheir alley.
The Silver Spring residents,whogrewup inHowardCounty,have found welcoming fans infilm festivals for “Blood, Sweat,andBeer.” The 70-minute docu-mentary centers on two mainvenues — Backshore BrewingCo. in Ocean City, Md., and theBrew Gentlemen Beer Co. inBraddock, Pa.
Along the way, the coupleinterviewed representatives ofmore than 100 other breweriesacross the country to supple-ment the two main subjects.Those included others in Mary-land, such as Flying Dog Brew-ery in Frederick.
One of the more surpris-ing aspects they learned duringthe two-year project was how
difficult it can be to start andoperate a brewery, said Hiden,27. Recent changes in lawshave allowed craft breweries inMontgomery County to distrib-ute their beer directly to othervenues rather than through thecounty, he noted.
“They don’t just make beerand sell it,” Hiden said. “Thereare a lot of challenges involved,including dealing with legalroadblocks and lawsuits.”
Danny Robinson, founder ofBackshore, changed the name ofhisbreweryfromShorebillyBrew-ing Co. in the midst of a federaltrademark infringement lawsuit.The owners of Teal Bay Alliancesfiled the lawsuit in 2013, claimingthey had trademarked Shorebillyto sell T-shirts.
In January, U.S. DistrictJudgeMarvin J.Garbis ruled thatTeal Bay had “no right to inter-fere” with Robinson’s use of theShorebilly name, according tofederal court records. The caseis under appeal.
The Brew Gentlemen pro-vides a compelling story since thefounders are trying to help thetownofBraddocknearPittsburgh
make a comeback from lean eco-nomic times, said Irvin, also 27.
“It’s a town that lost thou-sands of residents after the steelindustry collapsed,” she said.“The founders hope to providejobs and do their part to revital-ize the town.”
The filmmakers said theyhave learned much of their crafton the fly and through experi-ence.Hidenmajored inhistory atWashington College, while Irvinmajored in journalismat theUni-versity ofMaryland,CollegePark.
They purchased a “decent”
camera andhave foundabig aidthrough technology while han-dling duties such as on-air inter-views, filming and editing. Theyraisedmoney on Kickstarter.
“We have a crew of two,”Hiden said.
The beer film debuted in
March at the DC IndependentFilm Festival. They were greatlypleasedwith the reception.
“It was sold out. There was aline of people who couldn’t getin,” Hiden said.
Screenings followed in othercities, such as Milwaukee, Pitts-burgh, Seattle, Chicago and An-chorage. Others are scheduledthis summer, including at theSouthSide Film Festival in Beth-lehem, Pa., June 11 and 13, andat the Flix Brewhouse in DesMoines, Iowa, June 18. Theyplan to release the film throughvarious platforms in the fall.
In 2010, Hiden and Irvinquit their desk jobs and dida documentary, “The DreamShare Project,” on how certainpeople pursue careers they love.They wrote a book, “Build YourDreams: How to Make a LivingDoing What You Love,” pub-lished by Running Press.
“We have ideas for anotherdocumentary, and anotherbook,” Hiden said. “But rightnow,weare focusingonmarket-ing this current film.”
Silver Spring residents tap beer community through documentary
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Silver Spring filmmakers Chip Hiden and Alexis Irvin (right) spent two years making a documentary about the craftbeer industry called “Blood, Sweat and Beer.” They pose with cameras they used to make their film in the brewery atDenizens Brewing Company in Silver Spring while assistant brewers Chris Surrusco and Kevin Corcoran clean tanks.
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(Above) Kalabe Arefeayne(left) celebrates as the lastof 625 graduates crossthe stage at Blair HighSchool’s commencementat DAR Constitution Hall inWashington, D.C., on June3. The ceremony featured akeynote address by writerand producer George Peleca-nos and a farewell speechby Tigist Tadesse, the seniorclass president. (Left) MollyKowalski hugs PrincipalRenay Johnson after receiv-ing her diploma.
n Center will help childrenprepare for kindergarten
BY KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFFWRITER
When the new Silver Spring Library opensJune 20, it will feature a special section designedto foster pre-literacy skills in children.
A $100,000 earmark, or bond bill, from thestate will help the library with the project.
A section of the new library will be known asthe Early Literacy Center. It will feature interactiveinstallations, ormodules, that target skills childrenneed before entering kindergarten. It will be thefirst of its kind in a county library.
Kathlin Smith, a volunteer with the Friends oftheLibrary Silver SpringChapter, said the goalwasto raise about $220,000 to create the Early LiteracyCenter. Roughly half of that will come from thestate, thanks to the bond bill introduced by Sen.Jamie B. Raskin and Del. Sheila E. Hixson, whoboth representDistrict 20, including Silver Spring.
The rest of the money to create the centerwas raised by the nonprofit Friends of the Librarychapter.
“Weare very grateful for the fundingwe’vegot-ten,” Smith said.
Money raised from the community will allowthe library to open June 20 with some of the EarlyLiteracy Center in place. The state funding will al-low the library to complete the center, Smith said.
State Department of Education data from2014-2015 Kindergarten Readiness AssessmentReport show that about 44 percent of Montgom-eryCounty childrenwere fully ready in the areasoflanguage and literacy to enter kindergarten.
However, the report found children from
certain subgroups — English language learners,children with disabilities and children from low-income families—consistently begin schoolwith-out the skills and behaviors needed to succeed inkindergarten. The differences are part of what isoften referred to as the achievement gap.
Only 21 percent of children with disabili-ties were prepared with the skills and behaviorsneeded to succeed in kindergarten, compared to50 percent of children without a disability, the re-port found.
Among English language learners, only 25percent entered kindergarten with the skills andbehaviors needed to succeed, compared to 60per-cent of their English-speaking peers. Thirty per-cent of children from low-income families enterkindergarten with the skills and behaviors neededto succeed, compared to 60 percent of childrenfrom mid- to high-income families, according tothe report.
TheEarly LiteracyCenterwill be aplacewherechildren can foster the critical skills to prepare forkindergarten, Smith said.
The center will be open to everyone duringnormal library hours. It will encompass about2,000 square feet of the new library’s children’sfloor.
The Early Literacy Center was one of 18Mont-gomery County capital projects the state budgetsupported this session.
The Writer’s Center in Glen Echo was granted$310,000 to add another floor to its Walsh Streetlocation.
Cornerstone Montgomery and InterfaithWorks were given $350,000 to buy, renovate andequip an outpatient mental health clinic in Rock-ville.
Early literacy program will bea part of Silver Spring Library
n Two cars collidedon Muncaster Mill Road
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFFWRITER
The woman who died in afatal collision with another carinDerwood onMay 31 has beenidentified by police as DianeAlice Corrao, 50, of the 18000block of Fertile Meadow Court
in Gaithersburg.Corrao was driving north
on Muncaster Mill Road about11:30 p.m. in a white Ford Tau-rus when she collided with ablack 2014 Ford Fusion drivenby Juan Francisco Diana, 34, ofthe 3000 block of Aquarius Av-enue in Silver Spring.
Based on a preliminary in-vestigation, the southboundFusion crossed the center linefor an as-yet-unknown reason
and hit the Taurus in a locationnorth of Bowie Mill Road, ac-cording to police.
Corrao died at the scene,and Diana was taken to a localhospital with non-life-threaten-ing injuries.
Anyone who saw the crash isasked to call the Collision Recon-struction Unit at 240-773-6620.Callersmay remainanonymous.
Police ID victim in Derwood crash
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Volunteer Delaney Harrington of Silver Spring lets Maya Pitch, 8, of Silver Spring listen to her heart during a playday Sunday hosted by MomsRising and Jews United for Justice at Ohr Kodesh Congregation in Chevy Chase. Theafternoon was an opportunity for the parents to show their support for paid sick days legislation in MontgomeryCounty, organizers said.
n Republican partynow holds majority
on the board
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
Former county executivecandidate JimShalleckwill leadtheMontgomeryCountyBoardof Elections as the board ma-jority shifts from Democraticto Republican.
Shalleck, a Republican,was appointed to the electionsboard in February by Gov.Larry Hogan and confirmed bythe Senate.
Shalleck was unanimouslyelected to serve as president ofthe seven-member board onJune 2.
“I’m very honored by thisand grateful to the governor,”he said.
For the next four years, lo-cal boards of election acrossthe state will be led by Repub-licans.
State law dictates that themajority party — the party ofthe sitting governor — havea majority on local electionsboards.
Montgomery County Re-publican Central CommitteeChairman Michael L. Higgssaid the board of elections isthe only politically appointedboard in the county that willhave a Republicanmajority.
“We’re all looking forwardto open, fair, honest electionsand doing everything we canto ensure the people get that,”Higgs said.
Among the challengesShalleck and the board face arethe rollout of Maryland’s newvoting system.
Starting with the primaryin April 2016, Maryland willtrade its touch-screen votingmachines for a paper-basedsystem.
Montgomery County wasthe last in the state to reportElection Day results in 2014 —aproblem someblamedon the
complicated touch-screen vot-ing system.
During early voting forthe 2014 general election, Re-publicans claimed that votingsystem switched ballots castfor GOP candidates to theirDemocratic rivals, and partyleadership sought a state in-vestigation. Twenty machineswere reported tohave theprob-lem in the state, of which threemachineswere inMontgomeryCounty.
However, election officialscould not replicate the allegedproblem in the county andsaid, locally, themachineswereworking properly.
The new system is a toppriority for the elections board,Shalleck said.
“We have to implementa whole new voting system,so it is a big challenge to, one,educate the voters ... and tomake sure the system workssmoothly,” Shalleck said. “It’sa big challenge and I’m excitedabout it.”
Montgomery County hasstruggled with low voter turn-out and finding enough elec-tion judges. It also has handledcomplaints of unauthorizedswitched voter registrationsthrough the state Motor Ve-hicle Administration.
The county has more than630,000 voters and Shallecksaid he expects turnout to in-crease for the 2016 presidentialelection. MVA has taken stepsto prevent any future unau-thorized switches in voter reg-istrations.
While a shift to Repub-lican leadership should notsignificantly affect the board,Shalleck said he expects somevigorous debate over early vot-ing sites.
“Hopefully, it will be ascongenial and nonpartisan aspossible,” Shalleck said.
Montgomery expandedfrom five early voting sites tonine sites for the 2014 election.The election board selects thesites.
Maryland allowed largecounties such as Montgomeryto operate eight early votingsites, plus one additional site,if officials in the county agreed.Both Montgomery’s CountyCouncil and County ExecutiveIsiah Leggett (D) supportedadding a ninth site, as did thecounty’s board of elections.
The election board also se-lected its other officers on June2.
Nahid Khozeimeh (R) waselected to serve as vice presi-dent and Mary Ann Keeffe (D)— the board’s immediate pastpresident—was elected secre-tary.
Also sworn in to the boardwere newcomer AlexanderC. Vincent (R) and returningmembersDavidA.Naimon (D),Graciela Rivera-Oven (D) andJacqueline L. Phillips (R).
Rivera-Oven and Phillipsare substitute members of theelections board. While bothcan participate in discussions,Rivera-Oven and Phillips onlycan vote if another member oftheir party on the board is ab-sent.
Shalleck to lead MontgomeryCounty Board of Elections
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FREED PHOTOGRAPHY
Rock Terrace School’s graduating class of seven included (from left) Aleksey Tretick of Takoma Park, Gabriel Sala-pare of Silver Spring, Minhaj Molla of Gaithersburg (hidden), James Lynch of Silver Spring, Brian Lopez of MontgomeryVillage and Vonell Bell of Rockville. Joette James, an assistant professor in the departments of pediatrics and psy-chiatry at George Washington University, was the guest speaker.
n State grantwill help replacedisplays this fall
BY KATE S. ALEXANDERSTAFFWRITER
The scoreboards that havetallied baseball and softballgames at Blair High School inSilver Spring for years soonwill be upgraded.
The Montgomery BlairAthletic Association Inc. —a nonprofit that promotesyouth athletics and ath-letic education at Blair HighSchool and in eastern Mont-gomery County — secureda $25,000 state earmark,known as a bond bill, to coverroughly half the cost of a proj-ect to replace the scoreboardsat the softball field and thebaseball stadium.
Both existing scoreboardsare often in need of repairand generally inadequate to
handle the current level ofuse, said Richard O’Connor,president of the athletic as-sociation.
“The current scoreboardsare, at best, marginal,” hesaid. “They sometimes work,sometimes don’t work. We’vehad all sorts of electricalproblems with them. They’reold technology. They’re ananalog system in the digitalage. They’re well beyond theiruseful life.”
The two ballparks areowned and operated by theMaryland-National CapitalPark and Planning Commis-sion and used by the schoolsystem under an agreement.Not only do Blair High Schoolteams use the fields andthe scoreboards, but otherteams also can obtain per-mits to use the fields. Amongthe other teams that play atthe ballfields are the SilverSpring-Takoma Thunderbolts— a Cal Ripken Sr. CollegiateBaseball League team thatplays in the summer.
Despite the condition ofthe scoreboards, O’Connorsaid, there is no money inPark and Planning’s budgetnor in the school system’sbudget to replace the score-boards, so the athletic asso-ciation stepped up to raisethe funds.
With the help of theThunderbolts and the highschool baseball and softballprograms, the athletic as-sociation raised the $25,000matching amount requiredfor the bond bill.
Among the 18 bond billsthat were approved for Mont-gomery County, the earmarkfor the scoreboards was oneof the smallest. But for thosewho attend or play games ateither field, it will be a big im-provement, O’Connor said.
The new scoreboardswill have digital and wirelesstechnology. Both boards willbe larger — 20 feet long com-pared to the current 9.5-footlong scoreboards, he said.
Both will be relocated toright-centerfield, so they willbe easier to see.
The current scoreboardfor the baseball stadiumis eclipsed by the sun andpeople can barely see it,O’Connor said.
The new dugouts for thesoftball field block the currentscoreboard from the view ofsome spectators.
“You literally have to getup and walk out of your seatto see the board if you aresitting on the left side of thesoftball field,” he said.
Actually replacing thescoreboards will be a chal-lenge because it will requireclosing each field for three tofive days, removing outfieldfences and installing newbeams to support the score-boards, he said.
O’Connor said the athleticassociation hopes to have thenew scoreboards in use byearly fall.
New scoreboards coming toBlair High School ball fields
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The baseball (pictured) and softball scoreboards at Montgomery Blair HighSchool soon will be replaced, thanks in part to state funding.
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on higher wages, equal pay,women’s reproductive rights,addressing educationdisparityand ensuring retiree benefitssuch as Social Security.
A political novice, theChevy Chase resident said shebrings experience to the racefrom her 25 years with WJLA,an ABC affiliate in Washing-ton, andher nine years as chiefglobal communications andpublic affairs officer for Marri-ott International of Bethesda,fromwhich she resigned to runfor office.
Matthews is married toChris Matthews, the host ofMSNBC’s “Hardball.”
She is the latest in a stringof Democrats to announcetheir candidacy for the seatheld by Christopher Van Hol-len Jr. of Kensington. The 8thDistrict comprises parts ofMontgomery, Frederick andCarroll counties, stretchingfrom the Washington, D.C.,line to the Pennsylvania bor-der.
State Sen. Jamie B. Raskin(Dist. 20) of Takoma Park,Del. Kumar Barve (Dist. 17)of Gaithersburg, Del. Ana SolGutierrez (Dist. 18) of ChevyChase and lawyer Will Jawa-ndo of Silver Spring also arerunning.
Ervin, who lives in SilverSpring, said shewill launchhercampaign soon.
Ervin said she has been onthe front lines of issues such aseconomic equality for work-ing women and families longbefore it was, as she describedit, an “issue du jour” for candi-dates.
She served from 2006 to
January 2014 on the Mont-gomery County Council. Sheresigned to become execu-tive director of the Center forWorking Families, where sheworked for 14 months. Shenow heads the Working Fami-lies Organization’s Participa-toryDemocracyProject,whichshe said creates a pipeline forwomen of color to run for of-fice.
Since leaving the coun-cil, Ervin said, she has beenengaged in national politics,fighting for changes suchas in-creasing the federal minimumwage.
Running for Congresswas not something on herto-do list, Ervin said, but theannouncement she plans tomake next week has supportfrom people around the dis-trict.
The race for the Demo-cratic nomination began inMarch when Van Hollen an-nounced his campaign for theU.S. Senate to succeedBarbaraA. Mikulski (D) of Baltimore.Mikulski is retiring at the endof her current term.
While theDemocratic fieldcontinues to grow, no Repub-lican has officially entered therace, according to the statecentral committee.
Franklin “Frank” DelanoHoward Jr. (R) of Laytonsville,a former candidate for stateSenate in District 14, said inApril he was exploring a run.
However, he confirmedin a May 11 email that he haschosen to stay out of the raceafter talking withmany peopleand“doingquite abit of home-work.”
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An engineering report fromthe U.S. Federal Transit Ad-ministration forecasts that thePurple Line will see 56,100 dailyriders by 2035.
Meanwhile, a travel forecastreport from the Maryland Tran-sit Administration projects Pur-ple Line ridership at 64,550 by2030 and 69,300 by 2040. About5,000 more riders are added inthe MTA report if University ofMaryland students and specialboardings are counted.
An FTA spokesman saidTuesday he was checking on aresponse.
AnMTAofficial could not bereached for comment.
Robert J. Riker, a ChevyChase resident who worked asa management engineer for 30years with the Port Authorityof New York and New Jersey,reviewed the reports and saidhe believes that even the lowerfigure by the FTA is significantlyhigh.
“That level of ridership can-not be handled by the numberof trains they propose,” he said.
Riker, who also at one timehadhis own transportation con-sulting firm, said the FTA mighthave realized “as they wentalong that the numbers are in-compatible with other technicalnumbers, and they have madesome corrections.”
Ralph Bennett, presidentof the Silver Spring-based ad-vocacy group Purple Line Now,said the ridership projectionswere “conservative.”Opponentsof the project are “using any-thing they can” to try todiscredit
it, he said.“Ridership on these types of
projectsusually exceeds thepro-jection numbers,” Bennett said.
The Purple Line differs frommany other single rail line proj-ects since the ends are connect-ing to established Metro lines,he said.
“There are huge populationand job centers along the pro-posed line,” Bennett said. “Thenumber of people who will logi-cally use this line is gigantic.”
Riker said he knew of pro-jections on various rail projectsthat have turned out to be sig-nificantly high.
The FTA report updated aJuly 2014 evaluation, calling forreducing Purple Line serviceby one early-morning hour onweekdays and by three hours onweekends. But Riker doubtedthatwould account for evenpartof the difference in ridership
forecasts since he didn’t thinktherewould bemany new ridersduring the early-morninghours.
The ridership figures in theMTAreportwerepreparedusingthe regional travel forecastingmodel maintained by the Met-ropolitan Washington Councilof Governments, according tothat document. The model usespopulation and employmentdata, approved zoning andhighway and other transit net-works to calculate the expecteddemand.
Bennett was not happyabout Hogan continuing to de-lay a decision on the project,saying it was costing millions ofdollars to put it off.
PurpleLineNowformally in-vited Hogan on Monday to visitthe projected route in responseto a spokesperson’s commentin a Baltimore Sun story that thegovernor wasn’t aware of being
invited to tour the Purple Linecorridor.
Last week, during a trademission in Asia, Hogan rodea high-speed magnetic levita-tion train in Japan that reachedspeeds of 314 mph and ex-pressed interest in possibly ex-ploring aBaltimore-D.C.maglevline.
“Opponents haven’t comeup with a reasonable alterna-tive that would help alleviatetraffic the way [the Purple Line]would,” Bennett said.
Riker said a more effectiveuse of transportation funds toalleviate traffic would be on im-provements to roadways andbuilding infrastructure, includ-ing rail lines, in areas “that haveproven to have a real need.”
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Former Montgomery County Councilwoman Valerie Ervin said she plans torun for Congress in Maryland’s 8th District.
English for Speakers of OtherLanguages students.
Bowers also proposed thatthe school system not purchasemore Chromebook laptops nextfiscal year, delaying a technol-ogy initiative. The system hadplanned to spend about $3 mil-lionon the laptops infiscal 2016,after adding laptops and otherdevices to some classrooms thisyear.
Under Bowers’ plan, thedistrict’s employees would getcompensation increases in Oc-tober, but one pay period laterthan scheduled. The changewould save the district about $3million.
Bowers recommendedotherways to trim the budget, includ-ing further cuts to proposedmeasures meant to improve
how the districtworks to narrowits student achievement gap.
School board President Pa-tricia O’Neill said Tuesday thatshe anticipates the board willvote for Bowers’ plan.
“This is a hand that we’vebeen dealt,” she said. “Whilenone of us are happy about it, Ithink this is a reasonable way toaddress the shortfall.”
O’Neill said she’s “very wor-ried” about the fiscal 2017 bud-get, which will pose a biggerchallenge. The district will startthat budget process “in a hole.”
“I hopewedon’t get screwedby the state again,” she said.
District officials had hopedto receive $35 million from thestate through the GeographicCost of Education Index. The in-dex provides additional moneyto school systemswhere the costof education is higher.
Gov. Larry Hogan, however,decided to fund the index at 50
percent, signalling a loss ofmorethan $17 million from whatMontgomery County expected.
Doug Prouty, president ofthe Montgomery County Edu-cation Association, said theschool-based positions are thebiggest part of Bowers’ plan.
“It’s going to be difficult,especially if this sort of patternkeeps up for more years than ithas already. Then, it’s going to
be really difficult tomaintain thequality of instructionwe have inthe school system right now,”Prouty said.
The compensation increasedelays are “not ideal,” he said,but are “a good solution” giventhe circumstances.
School system officials havecited a funding gap of about $53million based on the county’sapproved budget and how the
district plans to make use ofavailablemoney.
The county’s final budgetprovides $27.2 million to theschool system from theConsoli-dated Retiree Health BenefitsTrust for paying retiree healthinsurance claims in fiscal 2016.Thatmoneymust beused topayfor health benefit claims, butfrees up to an equal amount forthe school system to use other-
wise in its operating budget.Tofig said Tuesday that the
school board plans to take ad-vantage of the full $27.2million.
The board also plans to re-duce its contribution to districtemployee pensions by about$10million and use thatmoneyelsewhere in the budget, hesaid.
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On June 3, a federal grandjury charged in two indictmentsa total of 18 people, accordingto a release from the U.S. Attor-ney’sOffice forMaryland,whichis prosecuting the case.
Seventeen of the 18 in-dicted defendants were arrestedMonday, wrote Vickie LeDuc,spokeswoman for the U.S. At-torney’s office for Maryland, inan email.
Officers also detained fiveadditional people who werearrested during the course ofexecuting search warrants oflocations associated with theindicted defendants, said Capt.Dinesh Patil, director of Mont-gomery County police depart-ment’s special investigationsdivision. The nature of thecharges against the five arrest-ees was not immediately avail-able Tuesday.
Contact information for anyattorneys who are representingthe defendants and who couldcomment about the cases wasalso not immediately availableTuesday.
Some defendants were dis-tributing and storing drugs intheBel Pre Square area ofMont-gomery County, not far east ofthe Leisure World RetirementCenter on Georgia Avenue.
The Bel Pre operation was
headed by George Earl Gee, 30,of Beltsville, according to anewsrelease from the U.S. Attorney’sOffice.
“Geedirects and/or suppliesseveral local drug distributorsoperating in the Bel Pre Squareand conducts hand-to-handdrug transactions with local dis-tributors,” according to searchwarrant documents.
The Prince George’s Countyoperation was headed by An-thony Niles, 36, of Bowie, whoworked out of the CrookedHouse Entertainment musicstudio on Cryden Way in theForest Center Industrial Park inForestville, according to searchwarrant documents.
The federal indictments seekforfeitures totaling $680,000from those involved, accordingto the release.
“Heroin and crack cocaineare extraordinarily dangerous,”said U.S. Attorney for MarylandRodRosenstein at thenews con-ference.
“The number of overdosesand death continue to increasein Maryland and throughoutthe country. ... [Dealers] bringin drugs [to a community], getpeople addicted and create life-long horror,” he said.
The 18 indicted defendantsinclude seven from Montgom-ery County:
• Amir Bey-Jones, aka“Meano,” 41, of Silver Spring.
• William T. Fergerson, aka
“Fats,” 42, of Silver Spring.• Keenan Jones, 54, of Silver
Spring.• BrandonRichardson, 30, of
Silver Spring.• Frederick J. Davis, 31, of
Gaithersburg.• Sonya Darby Thomas, aka
“Peaches,” 37, of Gaithersburg.• Tiki Harmon, 42, of Bur-
tonsville.Sixdefendantswere indicted
fromPrince George’s County:• George Earl Gee, 37, of
Beltsville.• Sierra Lynch, 37, of Belts-
ville.• Anthony Niles, 36, of
Bowie.• Abdul Hakim Sauda, 30, of
Laurel.• Ryan Snowden, 30, of Lau-
rel.• Vincent Collins, 36, of
OxonHill.Five others were indicted
fromelsewhere inMarylandandNew Jersey:
• Joseph Miles, 62, of West-ernport, Md.
• RayvonWalls, 25, of IndianHead,Md.
• Jovan Brian Lancaster, aka“Juvie,” 30, ofMaryland.
• Alfonso Salazar, 38, ofMaryland.
• Greg Milden, 40, of Cliff-side, N.J.
Manger said the multi-agency investigation beganabout a year ago based onnumerous and ongoing com-
plaints from residents of the BelPre Square townhouse complexabout open-air drug dealing.
Some residents were “toointimidated to go to police ...because of fear of retaliation,”Manger said.
Seven residents in the area,however, participated in thedrug operation, he said.
Manger said his departmentwill take steps to ensure that an-other operation doesn’t moveto replace those indicted by in-creasing the number of patrolsin the neighborhood and boost-ing the police profile in the BelPre Square area.
The investigation involvedthe court-approved tapping ofcellphone conversations, aswellas the use of undercover agentswho bought drugs from thedealer, according to search war-rant documents.
In one instance an agentwas provided with $700 to buy500 grams of heroin, accordingto the documents.
Defendants appearedbeforea federal judge in Greenbelt forbond hearingsMonday.
They face a mandatoryminimum sentence of 10 yearsin prison on drug conspiracycharges, Rosenstein said. Sevenof them also face charges of dis-tributing drugs, according to therelease.
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Carlos Colon said he stolehis first car at age 10. He startedselling them, making a couplehundred dollars a pop, by age11. “A professional thief” is howColon described his then-self.Hedroppedoutofhighschool inninth grade because the moneyfrom stealing cars was so good,and over time he grew evenbolder. In 2012, he stole a BMWafter leaving a D.C. nightclub,just because he didn’t want totake a bus back home to Ger-mantown.
Oh,andthenhecalledupthecops to report the theft.
“There’s a car parked inthis lot,” he remembered tellingthem, “and it’s been here for afewdays.”
But Colon now has a chal-lenge. A guy who was “great” atstealing cars is desperate to findanother job that suits him, andthis time he has far less confi-dence. He’s 32 years old. Uponrelease from jail in August, he’llhavenoplace to live.Hehas littleeducation. And he knows mostemployers will hold his past— which also includes domes-tic violence, burglary and drugcharges — against him. Take alook at the first three paragraphsof this article: This is Colon’s re-cord, much of it publicly avail-able, and he will carry it like ananchor into any job interview.
“I’llhave, like, twominutestoexplain it,”Colon said.
America’s incarceration rate,after skyrocketing for decades,has only recently started to godown — a necessary change inthe nation’s criminal justice sys-tem, President Obama has said.But that has opened a broaderand controversial debate abouthow to prepare inmates for re-
entry, and the degree to which acriminal record should be con-sidered for employment.
A handful of states and citieshave drafted new “Ban the Box”laws that essentially delay em-ployeebackgroundchecks,sore-cordsaren’t immediatelyused toweed out candidates. But thesemoves only help so much. Jobsstill require background checks.For ex-convicts, the job inter-view can be terrifying, and han-dling it thewrongway can lowerthe chances of employment andultimately stunt long-term eco-nomicopportunity.
The Montgomery CountyCorrectional Facility, where Co-lon has been locked up for 1½years, is one of the only jails inthe country that tries to coachinmates onwhat to say and howtosell themselvesbefore theyarereleased. In roomC1.360, on thefirst floor of a building that lookslike a windowless high school,a one-stop job center has qui-etly operated for the last nineyears, funded by the taxpayersof Montgomery County. Postersgive advice on “asking for a fairchance.” Coaches help inmatesput together resumes. Comput-ers —while restricting access tomost Internet sites—offerapor-tal to state and federal jobpages.
Thejail ismaximumsecurity,and inmates in olive jumpsuits,when walking the hallways, arenever out of eyeshot of at leastone guard. But in the job center,there is carpeting on the floors,and plastic chairs lined up tohear motivational speakers.Here, inmates are called “cus-tomers.”
The program in Montgom-ery County has been successfulenough, officials say, to merit abroaderrollout.TheDepartmentof Labor said Thursday it wassupplying $10 million in grantsto set up similar programs in 20other communities throughoutthe country.
“The most vulnerable timesomebody has coming out is the
firstmonth or two, because nowthey have an absence of struc-ture,” Department of Labor Sec-retaryThomasE.Perezsaid inaninterview. “If you start people to-wardworkbehind the fence, youare preparing themwith skills tosucceedwhen theyget out.”
Nationallypeoplewithcrim-inal records are anywhere be-tween 25 to 50 percent less likelyto get call-backs after job appli-cations, according to researchfromDevahPager, a professor ofsociology at Harvard University.The Center for Economic andPolicy Research estimated in2010 that reduced job prospectsamong ex-convicts reduced theoverall unemployment rate by0.8or 0.9percent.
Perhaps the hardest skill tohone, those inMontgomery say,is the interview itself. So inmatesdo mock interviews and thenwatchvideosof those interviews,scanning for ways to improve.They also write letters, intendedfor prospective employers, inwhichtheytakeresponsibility fortheircrimes, talkaboutwhattheylearned from it, and describetheir newgoals.
Colon hasn’t yet written hisletter, but he’s already practiceddescribing the previous decadesof his life, emphasizing morethan his record: He is a fosterkid who spent years acting crazyandnowwantstosettledown,hesaid. Ifheviolateshisparoleafterhis release, he’ll be back behindbars for 15 years. “I’m going tostruggle, beg, scrap, whatever, tonotdo that,”Colon said.
He has held jobs; four arelisted on his still-in-progressresume. He knows how to bufffloors,workwithmarble andde-sign kitchens; two of his kitchendesignswere featured in a homeimprovement magazine. Whilelocked up at at theMontgomeryfacility, right along I-270, he’snever gotten in trouble. He’sworkingonhisGED.
To get previous jobs, Colonsaid he told employers that he
didn’t have a criminal record—or that it only consisted of a mi-nor traffic ticket. But they oftenfound out anyway. At least onefiredhim for lying, he said.
“NowI’m trying tofindout ifI can get a job doing it the rightway,”he said.
So why, Colon was askedrecently, would this time be dif-ferent? Howwould he be able tostay out of trouble after gettingreleased?
“That’s a question I can’t to-tally answer for myself,” he saidafter thinkingforamoment.“I’min here— it was my fault. It wasmyex-girlfriend. Ibeatherup. I’dbeendrinking.”
Donna Rojas, one of the jobcoacheswhoworksat thecenter,interrupted.
“It’s one thing to say you’regoing to change and anotherthing tohaveaplan,” she said.
She turned toColon.“By the time you get out of
here you’ll know what to say.As you’ve been here, you’velearned,” she said.
She tried to demonstrate forhimhowa strong answer shouldsound:
“I couldn’t speak outwardlyaboutwhat I’ddone;now I can. Iwasnotonewhowasable to takeresponsibility.Now I can.”
“We’llworkonsomedraftsofthe letter,” she said toColon.
Court records indicate thatColon’s sentence stems from asecond-degree assault charge.
In Montgomery County,the in-jail job center is linked tothe county’s broader workforcedevelopment system, and in-mates are encouraged to workwith other job center brancheswhen they’re released. Rojassaid roughly 80 percent of theinmates at the jail’s job centerfind employment. Inmates areeligible for the training whenthey’re within eight months oftheir release date — and if theymaintain good behavior. Therecidivism rate among inmateswhogo through the jobprogramis about 25 to 30 percent lowerthan the broader average, saidRobert Green, director of theMontgomery County Depart-ment Of Correction and Reha-bilitation.
“I tell people, about 94 per-cent of the people here [in jail]are going back to the streets ofthecommunity,”Greensaid. “Sohowdoyouwant themback?”
Inmates seek jobs under lock and key
n Law library to host talks
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNESTAFFWRITER
Ever wonder how to find alawyer?
The Montgomery CountyCircuit Court Law Library willprovide some answers dur-ing two free sessions June 17 inRockville.
“Finding and Working witha Lawyer” is scheduled for 12:30to 1:30 p.m. and again from 6:30to 7:30 p.m. in Courtroom 3E ofthe Circuit Court building at 50Maryland Ave.
The talks are part of the lawlibrary’s Everyday Law series of-fered to the public.
A panel of five lawyers willanswer a range of questions,according to a flier from CircuitCourt law librarian Kate Martin,including the following:
•What shouldyou look for ina lawyer?
• What can you expect fromlawyers?
• How do lawyers set theirfees?
• How can you save moneyworking with a lawyer?
• For whom is your lawyerreally working? The law, them-selves or you?
The five panelists will beBruce Avery, Dawn ElaineBowie, Suzy Eckstein, AndrewJezic andDonny Knepper.
The talks are sponsored bythe Circuit Court law library,Maryland Legal Aid and theMontgomery County Bar Foun-dation.
For more information, callthe law library at 240-777-9120.
Need anattorney?Panelistsexplain how
n Health and HumanServices plan
consolidates offices
BY RYANMARSHALL
STAFFWRITER
The U.S. Departmentof Health and HumanServices is planning toconsolidate several lo-cal offices into one officein Rockville’s Twinbrookneighborhood.
The move is expectedto bring agency employ-ees from leased officeson Gaither Road, ChokeCherry Road, TwinbrookParkway and ThompsonAvenue into an office cur-rently being renovated atthe Parklawn Building at5600 Fishers Lane, accord-ing to a document fromthe U.S. General ServicesAdministration.
Once the renovation iscomplete, the change willincrease the number ofemployees at the FishersLane location from about2,900 to 4,500. Among theagency operations thereis HHS University, whichoffers online courses on arange of relevant topics,according to an agencywebsite.
Health and HumanServices officials could notbe reached for commentMonday.
Rich Gottfried, presi-dent of the TwinbrookCitizens Association, saidhe’s concerned about traf-fic from employees goingfrom Fishers Lane ontoTwinbrook Parkway, plusthe impact on Metrorailat the nearby Twinbrookstation.
Beyond the specificproject, Gottfried said, of-ficials need to look at thebigger picture for the areaand create a plan for howpeople are going to get inand out of Rockville.
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Kentlands Kitchen
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIEDERSTAFFWRITER
Largent’s Restaurant andBar will soon be rebranded asKentlands Kitchen by chef Mi-chael Harr, but he doesn’t seesuccess coming without thecommunity’s help.Harr was at FoodWine and
Co. in Bethesda for almost fouryears before leaving in October2014 to pursue a different path.He was brought on by the
current owners of Largent’s asa partner.“I was brought on to turn
it around because there was aneed,” Harr said, comparingthepartnership to the televisionshow “Restaurant Impossible,”where thehost helps failing res-taurants launch a whole newconcept and hopefully a more-successful business.Harr said everything in the
kitchen is made completelyfrom scratch. He is bringingyears of experience andpatron-tested signature dishes to therestaurant including his lambburger, Baja fish tacos andgrilled calamari. He said, how-ever, that he’s open to changedepending on what customerswant.Harr said he has made an
effort to speak with people inthe community and peoplewho came to the restaurant tofigure out what residents of theKentlands wanted in a restau-rant and on the menu. He saidfeedback showed that peoplewanted a restaurant they couldcome to more than once aweek, one with great food andeven better service.In addition to changes to
the menu, the interior of therestaurant received a make-over, distancing it from itsoriginal sports bar model to amore cozy theme. Harr wantscustomers to feel as if they arebeing invited into someone’shouse for a home-cookedmeal with good wine andgood conversation. He gotrid of the TVs that overpow-ered the room and loomedover every table in favor oflocal photographs and art.
Walls were repainted to con-trast chimney-like rockaccents.He added service stationsthroughout to ensure quick ac-cess to diners and conveniencefor servers.Harr decided on the name
Kentlands Kitchen after explor-ing the neighborhood and see-ing its charm as well as howmuch residents enjoy living init.“If I’m bringing in the res-
taurant, why not give it a namethat’s going to identify theneighborhood?” Harr said.The space that Largent’s,
and eventually KentlandsKitchen, occupies has had ahigh turnover rate in recentyears.“There’s a stigma to get
past. It’s what you make outof it,” Harr said about the ideathat the location is “cursed.”“I’vehad success in turning res-
taurants around. This is a hardarea — there’s not that muchfoot traffic.”Harr mentioned a hand-
ful of empty storefronts in thebuildings surrounding himandsaid that without some storesor restaurants todraw residentsinto this area of the Kentlands,everyone is going to stick totheir routine going to the dif-ferent chain restaurants acrossKentlands Boulevard.“I want people to believe
and understand that we areappreciative of their patronageand that we are providing whatthey are asking for,” Harr said.He believes if Kentlands
diners give the restaurant achance, they will want to re-turn. Harr also believes that thearea could become a destina-tion entertainment area withthe revitalization of the movietheater next door and goodfood surrounding it. While hisfocus right now is the groundfloor, he hopes to turn the sec-ond floor into a music venuethat draws acts people wouldtravel to see.“I want to see this place as
successful, and that’s prettymuchwhy I’m here.”
Largent’s Restaurant and Bar to be rebranded
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Chef Michael Harr, formerly of Bethesda’s Food Wine and Co., is creatingnew dishes at Largent’s Restaurant and Bar in the Kentlands.
New dishes — like grilled calamariseen here — will be featured atKentlands Kitchen.
County’s jobless ratehits six-year low
Montgomery County’s un-employment rate in April was3.7 percent, according to federaldata, the first time it’s been un-der 4.0 percent since December2008 during the Great Reces-sion.April’s county rate tied
Howard County’s for the lowestin the state.The state rate in April, not
seasonally adjusted, was 4.9percent.
53 townhousescoming to King FarmStreetscape Partners of
Rockville is teaming up with aLos Angeles company to build53 townhouses in King Farm inRockville.The four-story townhouses
on King Farm Boulevard willrange from 1,800 to 2,250square feet, with three to fivebedrooms, according to a newsrelease. Eachwill have a two-cargarage; some will have decksand rooftop terraces.The project is Streetscape’s
second collaboration with Re-mark Land and Housing, a di-vision of the Resmark Cos., aprivate equity firm. The first is acondominium development inWashington, D.C.
Not Your Average Joe’sopening in BethesdaNot Your Average Joe’s of
Middleboro, Mass., plans toopen its second Maryland res-taurant July 5 in theGeorgetownSquare Shopping Center on OldGeorgetown Road in Bethesda.The casual restaurant plans
to hire more than 100 employ-ees, according to a companynews release.It has 22 East Coast loca-
tions, including one in theKent-lands in Gaithersburg.
Medical society inductspresident, board membersThe Montgomery County
Medical Society recently in-ducted its 2015-16 presidentand executive boardmembers.
Dr. Shannon Pryor, who isaffiliated with MedStar George-town University Hospital, isthe new president. She holds abachelor’s degree fromWilliamsCollege and a medical degreefrom Tulane University’s medi-cal school.The physicians on the exec-
utive board are Stephen Rock-ower, immediatepast president;Lynne Diggs, president-elect;Natasha Herz, vice president;Jesse Sadikman, secretary; andLarry Green, treasurer.
Regulatory lawyerjoins Shulman RogersShulmanRogers of Potomac
named Jeffrey S. Holik a share-holder in the law firm’s finan-cial industryregulatorygroup.P r e v i -
ously, Holikwas chiefcounsel atPNC Finan-cial ServicesGroup andsenior vicepresident for the Financial In-dustry Regulatory Authority. Healso was a financial regulatorwith the U.S. Commodity Fu-tures Trading Commission.He holds a bachelor’s de-
gree from Union College anda law degree from the GeorgeWashington University LawSchool.
Bethesda artgallery moves
Bethesda Fine Art hasmoved to 4931 Cordell Ave.Thenewgallerywill be open
from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday duringthe Bethesda Art Walk.
Enviva Partnersturns quarterly profitEnvivaPartners of Bethesda,
whichprovideswood fuelpelletsto electrical generators, reporteda first-quarter pro forma profitof $5.6 million, versus a net lossof $4.8million in thefirst quarterof 2014.Revenues rose to $114.3mil-
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BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFFWRITER
Hundreds of friends andfamilymembers joined togetherfor a candlelight vigil June 3 fora young Germantown womanwho was fatally shot in a Targetstore parking lot two days ear-lier.
“I cried for three hoursstraight,” said friend BurnettCrawford of Columbia after heheard about the death of hisfriend Mariam Foloshade Ade-bayo, 24, known to her familyand friends as ShadéMarie.
“It didn’t hit me until thewords came out of my mouth,”said Crawford, who graduatedfrom Damascus High School in2005 and was part of Adebayo’sgroup of friends.
“We hung out all the time,”he said. “It is a close-knit group.”
County police arresteda Hagerstown man, Don-ald Wayne Bricker Jr., 27, andcharged him with first-degree
murder, ac-cording to aPolice Depart-ment news re-lease.
Based onpolice inter-views with Ade-bayo’s friendsand family,Adebayo andBricker hadbeen datingfor about sixmonths andthe relationshiphad recentlyended, accord-
ing to the release.Bricker, who led officers on
a chase along upcounty roads inthe rain after the shooting, wasinjured after his pickup truckslid off the road and hit a tree onDarnestown Road, according topolice.
He was released from thehospital, chargedandheld in jailuntil a June 3 bond review.
The daughter of immigrantsfromGhana, Adebayo livedwithher parents in the Churchill Vil-lage neighborhood.
She graduated in 2009 fromSeneca Valley High School,where she was a member of thePoms team.
Four years later, she earneda bachelor’s degree in publichealth from the University ofMaryland, College Park, accord-ing to relatives.
“That was a big accom-plishment for her,” said friendSherel Bowman, who said shehad known Adebayo since theywere classmates at Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Middle School in
Germantown.Bowman remembered with
a laugh that some subjects wereharder than others for Adebayoas she pursued her college de-gree.
“She hated anatomy – she’dtext me and say, ‘Save me!’”laughed Bowman, who remem-bered her friend as “very vibrantand lively.”
“She was always trying tomake situations better,” Bow-man said.
Close friend Stephanie Ev-ans, a classmate at Seneca Val-ley, saidmuch the same.
“She was my sunshine,” Ev-ans said. “Any time therewas anissueor anykindofdrama, she’dput it in away to see the positiveside.”
“That’s so rare,” Evanscontinued. “It’s not often thatsomeone is always positive. Shewas the epitome of what a bestfriend is.”
Evans’ father, Lawrence Ev-ans, said Adebayo would oftencome to backyard barbecues atthe Evans house.
“She had a certain bearing... and conveyed a feeling ofcomfort and a feeling that ev-erything’s going to be all right,”he said.
“It’s incomprehensible howone canhave a young lady in theprime of her life to be taken bybullets,” Lawrence Evans said.
Friends and family alsotalked about Adebayo’s infec-tious laughter and her attemptsto sing.
“She could not sing, but sheloved Michael Jackson — she’dpretend to moonwalk,” said hercousinCrystal Essiawat the vigil.
Adebayo had recentlystartedanew jobasa reimburse-ment specialist at a health carecompany, and her long-rangegoal was to become an occupa-tional therapist, Essiaw said.
She was thinking about ap-plying to a master’s program atTowson University or at GeorgeMason University in Virginia,according to Essiaw.
“She wanted to help people,not sit at a desk,” Essiaw said.
Also at the vigil were twomen—Matt Kamachaitis, 28, ofClarksburg andRickyAshley, 29,fromGaithersburg—whodidn’tknow Adebayo personally butwho tried to help her after shehad been shot.
“They tried to revive her andgive her CPR – they were thelast ones to see her,” said one ofAdebayo’s close friends, JennaSantucci, her voice cracking.Santucci helped organize thevigil.
Santucci asked the two mento come to the center of thegroup surrounding a table withpictures of Adebayo.
When they learned what themenhaddone, severalmembersof the Adebayo family reachedout to themtoshake theirhands.
Kamachaitis and Ashleywere outside the Home Depotstore putting a door into a truckwhen they heard a gun go off.
“We heard shots and wenttowards it,” Kamachaitis said.“It seemed the right thing todo.”
According to police, Ade-bayo got out of Bricker’s truckand was walking away whenBricker followed with a gun inhis hand and shot her. She fellto the ground and he shot heragain, according to police.
“We saw someone thatneeded help,” Ashley said. “It’ssomething you do for anotherperson in need.”
“Someone shouldn’t bealone in that situation,” Kama-chaitis said.
Friends have started acrowdfunding site to raisemoney tocover funeral expensesat Gofundme.com/shademarie.As of lateMonday, 132 contribu-tors had given $7,730.
“I could never say anythingbad about this person,” Craw-ford said. “I can’t think of a sin-gle thing.”
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BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFFWRITER
A Hagerstown man ac-cused of killing his ex-girlfriendin a Target store parking lot inGermantown on June 1 wasordered held without bond onFriday.
Defendant Donald WayneBricker Jr., 27, illegally ordereda gun by mail that arrived onJune 1, said Assistant DistrictAttorney Deborah Feinstein atthe Friday bond review.
Bricker already had pur-chased 100 rounds of ammu-nition for the “black powder”gun, an unregulated replica ofan antique handgun, beforeusing the gun to shoot MariamFolashade Adebayo, 24, as shewalked away from his truck inthe parking lot.
Bricker then walked up toAdebayo and shot her a secondtime, according to police andprosecutors.
“He shother twice inpublic, whichwas caught onsurve i l l ancevideo in theTarget parkinglot. ... She wentto the groundand he shot heragain,” Fein-stein said.
Bricker is aregistered sexoffender dueto a third-degree sex offensein 2008, according to onlinerecords.
“He knew he couldn’tpurchase [a gun through themail],” Feinstein said.
Bricker was arrested sev-eral hours after the shootingafter crashing his car at the endof a police pursuit, and wascharged on Thursday.
Bricker was working in thehome improvement businessand going to college at thetime of his arrest, said AssistantPublic Defender AubreyDillon,who represented Bricker at thehearing.
“In light [of the circum-stances], I have no choice butto hold the defendant with-out bond,” said District CourtJudge John Moffett, who setBricker’s next court appear-ance for June 26.
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Dozens of acoustic per-formers spread outacross Takoma Park
on May 16 for an afternoonof “porch music.” Musicians
were allowed to use somesound amplification, butwere encouraged to leavedrums and electric guitars athome.
Outside jams
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Ukes on the Move students from the Essex House after-school programgather with Jim Fellows, a volunteer ukulele teacher.
Slain Germantown womanremembered by hundreds at vigil
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Molly Gillespie of Germantown (left) is held by an unidentified woman asmourners gather at a vigil for Mariam Adebayo, 24, who was recently killedin Germantown. The gathering filled a corner of the Seneca Valley HighSchool campus on June 3 in Germantown, which Adebayo once attended.
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Mariam Adebayo was shot twice ina Germantown parking lot.
Officials: Killer used mail-order gun
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OUROPINION LET TERS TOTHEEDITOR
The United States Depart-ment of Agriculture announcedthat more than 45 million chickensand turkeys have been euthanizedsince March because the presentvaccines are not effective againstthe highly pathogenic H5N2 virus.Avian flu strains (H5N2, H5N8,H5N1) have been detected in U.S.birds in the past fewmonths.
The question is why, during theworst outbreak of bird flu in com-mercial poultry and wild flockssince 1980, does the Rockville CityCouncilwant to changezoning lawsand allow backyard poultry now.
In Asia and Africa, a form ofH5N1 resulted in human infectionsof farm workers. These health con-cerns, in addition to the endemicproblem of salmonella contamina-tion, are public health issues thatare best monitored by the Depart-ment of Agriculture in a commer-cial setting rather than theRockvilleCity Council, whose expertise is ur-ban rather than rural.
If backyard poultry are al-lowed in Rockville, there must beprotections for the unsuspectingresidents: licenses, education, and,above all, inspections to protect thechickens from abusive treatmentand unclean practices. Refuse fromchickens should be red-bagged asbiohazardous waste and picked upby appropriate haulers.
The infectionpotential of chick-ens should not be underestimated.
TheCenters forDiseaseControland Prevention recommend thatbackyardchickens shouldnot comein contact with children, seniors,pregnant women and those with
compromised immune systems.They should be kept away from ar-eas where food is eaten—patios.
Cities cannot exist withoutstrong public health laws.
If the City Council wants tobring farming practices into thisenvironment, the costs of pub-lic health must be born by those
residents with licenses to maintainbackyard poultry and not thosewho buy their eggs at the super-market. They should also bear thecosts of rodent and pest control incontiguous properties because ofthe chicken coops.
Even the proverbial fox in thehenhouse will become a reality of
concern. Rockville does have foxes,although they usually keep theirdistance.
But, regardless of where we getour eggs, it is important to washour hands after touching raw eggsbecause of salmonella.
Joan Selinger, Rockville
Public health should not be compromised by poultry
The proposal to allow keepingchickens in Rockville backyards, ifpassed, will be one big headache“coming up ‘The Pike.’”
For every neighbor who may“keep chickens” and be everso pleased about their flock ofRhode Island Reds or PlymouthRocks and their five (maybe) eggsa day, there will be several moreneighbors nearby who are not toopleasedwith themanureodor, thefrequent appearance of predators— the friendly neighborhood foxor coyote — or the appearance of
rats (rats like chicken eggs).And then, most surely, Rock-
ville will have to hire a chickencontrol officer to settle disputesbetween disgruntled neighbors.
And, if you go to sell yourhouse, be prepared for buyersto not be very happy about thechicken coop and odor in yourneighbor’s backyard.
And maybe your propertyabuts to three or four yards andyou could have a possible three orfour chicken coops gracing yourview. Most of us do not have large
yards, and chickens in close quar-ters are not good neighbors.
There was a “straw vote” bythe mayor and council, 3-2 in fa-vor of chickens, thoughmost resi-dents are not happywith the idea.
Therewill beafinal voteon theissue on June 15 at the mayor andcouncilmeeting. Please e-mail [email protected] to vote against chickens inRockville.
Elizabeth M. Spano, Rockville
Chickens will mean headaches for Rockville
The Gazette, in its May 6 edi-tion, announced the premiereconcert in the Washington area ofMusic for Food.
Held in Bethesda on May 16,the concert was a rousing success,both artistically and financially.The music was gorgeous, and weraised over $22,000 for the MannaFood Center in Gaithersburg.
We thank the community forcoming out to support this effortto reduce hunger in ourmidst.
Ann H. Franke, Washington, D.C.
The writer helped organize theMusic for Food benefit concert.
Benefit concertwas a success
TheGazette recently posted anopinionon the “banning” of e-cigsindoors by the council, as neededor as “should be,” if I recall.
The so called emperorsThereof Montgomery County donot know the facts.
There are two, yes, two chemi-cals in e-cigs. Propylene glycol is acolorless liquid. It is used in cof-fee, ice cream and soda. Vegetableglycerin is clear, and used in soapsand toothpaste, derived naturallyfrom plants.
And then there is nicotine. Yes,it is bad and yes, it is addictive.
But it is not absorbed throughthe skin, which is a preposterousclaim by the round table (Mont-gomery County Council).
And to get even better, nowthey will tax it. Wonderful idea.Let’s run all the vape stores out ofbusiness in the county.
The thoughts of a few shouldnot influence or control themany.
David Gust, Rockville
Regulations,taxes one-cigarettesare excessive
2013 FILE PHOTO
Betsy Newman feeds wood sorrel to her four chickens in the backyard of her home in Gaithersburg. Newman rented hens and acoop from a local company to decide if she wanted to commit to raising chickens.
This is in response to MichaelHoxie’s letter to the editor (“Notthe finest moments for schoolboard,” June 3), in which he cor-rectly identifies problems createdby theMontgomeryCountyBoardof education— or at least exacer-bated by the board’s actions.
The problems are additionalexamples ofwhat have been char-acterized as “attitudinal” prob-lems.
While Mr. Hoxie’s concludingstatement (“Something is rottenin the county of Montgomery”)may or may not be accurate, as
it stands, it reflects an additionalattitudinal issue quite common inour society— namely, identifyingproblems, butmaking no attemptto propose solutions.
As amember of the First StepsCoalition, I have committed tohelping the board of educationbegin to solve some of its attitudi-nal problems, by providing it withdetailed directives on how to ad-dress three such problems.
One involves the obviousneed for curricular attention to“civics.”
The First Steps Coalition has
no delusions that its actions willsolve all of the ills of our publiceducation system. We have sim-ply chosen to be part of the solu-tion.
Andwe recognize that “even ajourney of a thousandmiles mustbegin with a single step.”
For more information on theFirst Steps Coalition, readers cansend an email to [email protected], and, if theyrequest it, we will send them ourposition paper.
Mark R. Adelman, Kensington
When there are problems, propose solutions
Has anybody noticed? ThePurple Line ridership numbershave been revised downwards.The Federal Transit Administra-tion’s recently released “NewStarts Engineering” highlights aPurple Line ridership forecast for2035 of 56,100 daily trips. This is aremarkable, if insufficient, movein the direction of reality.
The MTA’s August 2013 FinalEnvironmental Impact State-ment calculated a ridership fore-cast for 2030 of 69,300 daily trips,which was increased to 74,160for 2040, assuming the typicaltransit growth rate for the Wash-ington area of 7 percent per de-
cade. These numbers formed thebasis for benefit calculations, likethose of the Sierra Club, whichcited information that said thePurple Line would take 17,000cars off the road.
Using the new FTA-reported56,100 represents a reductionof more than 20 percent in pre-dicted ridership and revenue. Buteven a daily load of 56,000 pas-sengers cannot be distributed onthe Purple Line’s 21 stations dur-ing the time periods predicated.And opening-day capacity, de-termined by peak period op-erations, can never be increasedbecause of right-of-way design
limitations.TheMTAalso reported the fol-
lowing changes: weekday serviceis reduced from 139 to 130 trainsa day through eliminating servicebetweenmidnight and 1 a.m. andreducing other late-night trips.
One estimate going up, how-ever, is the number of 90-foottrolleys required to operate fromopening day onward, now in-creased to 58.Nevermind that thelay-up yard planned and pricedfor the down-sized Lyttonsvillefacility could not possibly accom-modate 5,220 feet of trains.
Robert J. Riker, Chevy Chase
Changes createmore doubt aboutaccuracy of Purple Line projections
There’smuch to like in a recent agreementbetweenMontgomery andHoward counties toinvestigate police-relateddeaths in eachother’sjurisdictions.
If someonedies in the custodyof, or dur-ing an interactionwith, aMontgomeryCountypolice officer, theHowardCounty state’s attor-ney’s officewill review the evidence anddecide
whether criminalcharges are ap-propriate.Mont-gomeryCounty’sprosecutor’s officewill do the sameforHowardCountycases.
It’s a promis-ing sign that bothcounties are striv-ing to be fair and
accountablewhen scrutiny is needed. This es-peciallymatters becausepolice-relateddeathsacross the country— inFerguson,Mo.;NewYorkCity;NorthCharleston, S.C.; Baltimore city;andother areas—have sparkedpublic outrage.
In somecases, there havebeen strong feel-ings in the community that officers shouldhavebeenheld criminally responsible for a death, butweren’t.
It’s commonpractice for a police depart-ment,when facedwith allegations against oneofits ownemployees, to have aneighboring agencyinvestigate.However,Montgomery andHowardprosecutors say their evidence-reviewagree-ment is thefirst of its kind inMaryland.
Jaded critics couldwrite off this extra step asmeaningless symbolism, convinced that policeandprosecutorswork closely enough that theywill watchout for eachother, nomatter the ju-risdiction.
Thenwe see otherwise, such aswhen thestate’s attorney inBaltimorefiled criminalcharges against six officers for thedeath of Fred-dieGray. The skepticism that thefix is in isn’tuniversally justified.
Policework canbe remarkably difficult andfraughtwith grave life-and-deathdecisions.Sometimes, killing oneperson toprotect thelives of others is understandable.
According to aWashingtonPost report aboutaMay 19 encounter inArlington, Va., amanwithametal pole threatenedofficers responding to acall about a disturbance. Anofficer tried touse aTaser, but it didn’twork at first, and themanhitthe officer in the facewith thepole. Theofficertried again touse theTaser and endeduphittinga secondofficer instead.
When theman swung themetal pole again,the officer shot him three times inhis upperbody, killing him, thePostwrote, basedon thelatest information frompolice. If this accountholds true, it’s an example of a split-seconddeci-sion about theuse of deadly force.
If deadly violence isn’t justified, a police of-ficer shouldbeheld accountable, too, just asanyone elsewould.
MontgomeryCounty alreadyhas apendinginvestigation thatHowardCountywill review—theMay12death ofDajuanGraham, 40, ofBurtonsville.
OnMay10,Grahamwas seen acting errati-cally in theBriggsChaney area, according topolice.Whenawoman tried to getGraham tostopwalking in the roadwayofCastle Boulevard,hepunched thewoman in the face, police said.Observers suspected thatGrahamwasunder theinfluenceof PCP.
Grahamreportedly ignoredmultiple ordersbypolice to takehis hands out of his pockets.Anofficer then shockedGrahamwith aTaser.Graham fell downandwas taken to ahospital,where he later assaulted anofficer and securitystaff, according topolice. Twodays later, he died.
MontgomeryCounty police havebeenopenwith information aboutwhat happened and theofficerswhowere involved. That’s a sharp con-trast to inexcusable secrecy from thepolice de-partment in FairfaxCounty, Va., after anofficerthere shot and killed amanwhohadhis handsupduring a call in 2013, according topolice re-cords reportedbyTheWashingtonPost. It tooka court order to force thepolice department torelease details of the call, including the officer’sname, 17months later. The county has settled awrongful death suitwith the victim’s family, thePost reported.
MontgomeryCounty police andprosecutorshavedemonstrated that they canbe transparentand straightforward inhandling cases of police-relateddeaths, giving the community reason tohave faith in their impartiality andprofessional-ism. The reciprocal agreementwithHowardCounty enhances that reputation.
Reciprocationbuilds trust
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n Softball community considersmandatory face masks
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFFWRITER
Germantown native Tori Finucane, who justwrapped up her sophomore season as the Univer-
sity of Missouri softball team’s ace, said she wasadamantly against wearing protective gear in thepitcher’s circle.“I just always thought it would mess me up or
something to have [a facemask] onmy face,” Finu-cane said. “I never really evenwore amouth guard.I never liked anything extra on me when I had tothrow.”Finucane no longer has much of a choice. On
May 24 — on national television — she was struckin the face around her left eye by a hard line driveduring Missouri’s NCAA Softball Super Regionalat the University of California, Los Angeles. Fortu-nately for Finucane, the damage was minimal, butwithworse luck the line drive could’ve resulted in alife-threatening injury. She has since been advised
Incident sparks safety discussion
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Blake High School pitcher Ellie Smethurst throws to firstbase April 28 during the softball game against Wootton.
n Washington remainsunbeaten on its Boydshome field this season
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFFWRITER
Saturday’s 1-1 tie againstthe Boston Breakers at theMaryland SoccerPlex in Boydswas a game of missed oppor-tunities for the WashingtonSpirit women’s professionalsoccer team. But while coachMark Parsons admitted therewere feelings of frustrationamonghisplayers at the endofthe night — the team dictatedplay for much of the game butfailed to convert on numer-ous prime scoring chances —Washington still walked awayfrom the result with a pointtoward its National Women’sSoccer League standing anda good feeling about its gameheading into thenext stretchofthe season.“Basicallywhat I said to the
team was, I know there’s go-ing to be a lot of emotion andthey’ll be upset [with the re-sult] but we played extremelywell and we had opportuni-ties,” Parsons said. “If we playgames like that every singleweek we’re going to win moregames than we’re going to tieandwe’re not going to lose.“We lacked a little bit in
front of the goal, but that is nota problem, we were creating[chances] all game and that issomething we canwork on.”With Saturday’s tie, Wash-
ington (4-3-2) remains un-beaten at home. The Spiritcurrently sits in second place
in the NWSL with 14 points,just one behind Chicago RedStars in first with 15. Boston(3-3-2) is third with 11 points.Washington is scheduled totravel to Chicago on June 27after the league’s two-weekWorld Cup hiatus, a time Par-sons said the Spirit will use torecover, physically and men-tally. Washington has playedthe past two games withoutstalwart midfielder Tori Hus-ter, who has been acting as theteam’s captain in the absenceof defender Ali Krieger, butParsons saidhe expectsHusterto be back at full strength afterthe break.Washington won all three
of its one-goal decisionsagainst the Red Stars a yearago, two of them away in Chi-cago.“I think the break will be
good, we can focus on a fewthings we need to improve,”said defender Katherine Reyn-olds. “It’s been a good start tothe season, and this will be agood chance to refocus.”
Spirit pick upa point in tyingBoston Breakers
“It’s been a goodstart to the season,
and this will bea good chance
to refocus.”Katherine Reynolds,
defender
n Son of former Sherwoodgreat, NFL player readyto shine for Northwest
BY JENNIFER BEEKMANSTAFFWRITER
If Northwest High School footballcoach Mike Neubeiser seemed rather re-laxed following last fall’s second straightstate championship run for someonewhowas losing most of the receiving corpsfrom his pass-first offense, it’s probablybecause he had a secret weapon in hisback pocket.
Last fall, rising Northwest junior widereceiver Reggie Anderson moved to Ger-mantown from Frederick County — heplayed at Oakdale for two seasons. His fa-ther is 12-yearNFL fullbackandSherwoodgraduate, Richie Anderson. The youngerAnderson, already an NCAADivision I re-cruit, was enrolled in time to play for theJaguars by the postseason and Neubeisersaid he “contemplated having him play”but ultimately decided “since he playedat Oakdale earlier in the year, it would beweird to bring a player in, midseason, sowe held off.”But Anderson, who said he is excited
about theprospect of showcasinghis abil-ities in an offensemore geared toward his
style of play, has spent the past six-plusmonths getting to know his new team-mates and the program and it’s alreadybeen paying dividends in this spring’s7-on-7 passing league season — the Jag-uars defeated Clarksburg Thursday atSeneca Valley. Rising senior quarterbackMark Pierce threw for 2,126 yards and 31touchdowns in 2014.“He’s got to know the guys and see
our style of play,” Neubeiser said. “[Dur-ing passing league] you want to work onroutes and runningat thecorrect level andgetting the separation you need betweenthe different offensive players, the timing
Bringing family legacy back to county
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Northwest High School’s Reggie Anderson transferred to the Germantown school lastfall after playing parts of two seasons at Oakdale.
n Panthers football off to faststart in summer 7-on-7 games
BY PRINCE J. GRIMESSTAFFWRITER
Paint Branch High School football’sJovaun Wheeler timed the jump perfectly,catching the pass as if it was intended forhim, and not one of the Huntingtown re-ceivers, in Saturday’s St. Charles Battle ofthe Beltway 7-on-7 tournament againstHuntingtown.
The result of that play was an intercep-tion, but his soft hands and ball instinctswon’t be limited to the secondary this up-coming season as Wheeler, a third-yearstarter on defense, is expected to step in as amajor contributor at wide receiver for PaintBranch.“I’m excited. I get to make plays on of-
fense and defense,”Wheeler said.Wheeler, a rising senior, joins receiv-
ers JD Guerrero and Ivan Nnadi and run-ning back Cedric Content in what will bea new-look offense as the Panthers look toreplace key players such as Ryan Stango
and Darryl Hill.Also stepping back into the starting
lineup is quarterback Armani Ceballos, whobacked upDanonDavis-Cray in 2014.The summer passing tournaments have
aidedPaint Branch’s growthproviding play-ers such asWheeler the conditioning neces-sary to play both sides of the ball for the firsttime, an opportunity to learn the offensiveplays and intricacies of playing receiver anda chance to gain chemistry with Ceballos.“Jovaun, he’s going to be big for us this
Paint Branch gets a passing gradeBILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
Paint Branch High School’s Jovaun Wheeler reaches for the goal line in Sunday’s 7-on-7 football game at Seneca Valley.
SILVER SPRING | TAKOMA PARK | WHEATON | BURTONSVILLE
SPORTSSPORTSGAMES GAZETTE.NET IS STAFFINGPosted online by 8 a.m. the following day.
Gaithersburg, Sherwood boys basketball teams search for scoring. B-3
SUMMER FOOTBALL: Receiver Chris Green (pictured)and his Blair High School teammates are scheduled tocompete this weekend in the Prince George’s CountyPassing League.
BOYS BASKETBALL: Flowers vs. B-CC, 6 p.m., Tuesday.
BASEBALL: S. Spring at C.-Saxon, 5:45 p.m. Tuesday.
See SAFETY, Page B-2
See SPIRIT, Page B-2See PASSING, Page B-2
See LEGACY, Page B-2
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you need. It’s a time to work oncommunication, work onwhereyou need to be and when to bethere, all that little stuff. Reggie isfitting right in, it was definitely aneedy area for us.”Anderson,who saidwhile he
might have football in his genes,his father always taught him tocontinue to work harder for thelittle things no matter what, hasall the attributes of a tremen-dous wide receiver. A lean butsturdy 5-foot-11, 165 pounds,he is extremely fast and quick-footed. He can jump high, hasgood hands and hand-eye coor-dination, Neubeiser said, and isextremely elusive.“He’s a big weapon for
Marky [Pierce] and he is excitedto have him to throw to,” Neu-beiser said.But, aside from the physi-
cal skills, Anderson also bringslargely unrivaled intangibles to
the field. Growing up aroundthe sport at the highest level,he knows all the nuances of thegame, Neubeiser said. He un-derstands the importance of allthe little things, on and even offthe field — diet, preparation —that can add to a player’s suc-cess.Potentially one of the best
players to ever come throughNorthwest, according to Neu-beiser, Anderson’s impact onthe Jaguars’ offense will be feltwhether or not the ball comes tohim.Hewill undoubtedly creatematchup problems — he’s tooathletic not to draw attention,Neubesier said — which willopen up some of Northwest’sother options. Neubeiser saidrising sophomore AlphonsoForayhas shownwell this springand said the two will be able topusheachother duringpractice.There are somemajor perks
to growing up as the son of anNFL player and coach — An-derson’s older brother Richyis a rising junior on the Penn
State University football team— it can also be daunting totry and live up to expectations,the younger Anderson said.But he doesn’t think about thatas much anymore, Andersonsaid, and he is creating his ownidentity, Neubeiser added — ithelps that he plays his own po-sition.“We as a staff talked about
it and made a conscious deci-sion not to say anything about[his dad playing in the NFL],ever,” Neubeiser said. “Reggieis Reggie. I think it helps beinghere and away from where hisbrother went to school [at Gov.Thomas Johnson in Frederick]and he’s not at Sherwoodwherehis dad went. He’s playing hisown position. ... He definitelycame in at an opportune time.We lost most of our starters atreceiver. And hopefully defen-sively hewill establishhimself aswell, he’s too good of an athleteto not have on the field.”
LEGACYContinued from Page B-1
Washington, which relied heavily on goodforward movement from its outside backs tocreate space, controlled play the majority of ascoreless first half — the Spirit outshot Boston,7-3. Per its strategy, according to coach TomDurkin, Boston’s best chance in the first 45min-utes came on a counterattack when midfielderKristieMewis snuck a shot past Spirit goalkeeperKelseyWys but hit the far post.Boston reorganized itself in the second half,
Durkin said, and focused on limiting Washing-ton’s production through themidfield. And for aperiod of time, Parsons said the Spirit did beginto play to Boston’s pace.Crystal Dunn, whom Durkin said he would
have preferred to have been with the U.S. Na-tional Team inCanada,wreakedmuchhavoc for
Boston’s defensewithher speedandathleticism,though she was unable to get the final touch sheneeded. But AmandaDaCosta gaveWashingtona 1-0 lead in the 64thminute when she followedup a deflection from her own pass toward themiddle and buried the ball inside the left post.“[Washington] has some really good play-
ers, they have a fewplayers I wishwould’ve beenin Canada [for the World Cup],” Durkin said.“Dunn and [midfielder Christine] Nairn, I wishthey were in Canada.”TheSpirit’s leadwasshort-livedasBostonan-
sweredwithagoal twominutes later fromMaddyEvans. Washington continued to create — theSpirit had about six quality looks at the net in thesecond half—but settled instead for the tie.“That was a good team performance,” Par-
sons said. “Wegot apoint out of it andnowwe’vegot to build. The future for us is really exciting.”
SPIRITContinued from Page B-1
year,” Ceballos said. “He hasgood route running, goodhands. He’s going to go up andget the ball. [JD Guerrero] ontheoutside, hehas great hands,deep threat. [Nnadi], screensand stuff like that. And Cedrictoo.”So far, everything appears
to be clicking for the Panthers,who finished second at the St.Charles tournament despitemissing several key playerssuch as All-Gazette linebackerJordan Hill. They also won theMay 30 7-on-7 tournament atBlair, defeating Sherwood inthe championship game.“Everyone on the field is
capable of making plays,” Pan-thers coach Michael Nesmith
said. “So, the quarterback’s notfocused on trying to force theball to anybody. It’s just read-ing what the defense is doing,take what they give us, andwherever the ball goes, it’s go-ing to a pretty effective playerthat can make things happenfor us.”Wheeler said his chemistry
withCeballos—they’ve knowneach other 10-plus years — isalready strong, and continuingto grow. Ceballos said the teamjust needs to reach a pointwhere it treats every opponentwith the same level of respect.“When we play teams that
aren’t on the same level, westoop down to their level,” Ce-ballos said. “Wegot to just keepour high intensity.”At this time last year, Ce-
ballos was penciled in as thestarting quarterback but af-
ter suffering a broken foot inthe season opener, he was re-placed by the now graduatedDavis-Cray. Back in control ofthe offense, Ceballos may bemore prepared thanks to thatexperience.“It helped me a lot,” said
Ceballos, who also backed up2013 All-Gazette Player of theYear Gaston Cooper as a soph-omore. “Because I didn’t wantto sit out. Sonow I’m taking ad-vantage ofmy opportunities.”“He’s poised. He’s com-
posed. He’s more experiencedthan it may seem,” Nesmithadded. “I think he didn’t thinkhehadanything toworry aboutlast year. We tell the boys allthe time, your job is not safe,you’re competing year round.… I think he knows that now.”
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by her doctors to wear a face mask moving for-ward.The occurrence, which silenced the packed
stadium at UCLA, brought to light an ongoingdiscussion regarding possible mandatory facialprotection for infielders — primarily for pitch-ers and first and third basemen — at the na-tional but also local level.Blair High School coach Louie Hoelman said
he and other Montgomery County athletes andcoaches were affected by the incident. Whilethe vast majority of the county’s athletes don’twear the protective face masks — Blazers risingsenior third baseman Mildred Devereux andBlake rising junior pitcher Ellie Smethurst aretwo of the exceptions — coaches have broughtup the issue in past meetings, and Hoelmansaid he would not be surprised if a rule was im-plemented at the high school level within fiveyears.Softball has become a faster, more power-
ful game in the past decade, Hoelman said, andit’s important for safety protocol to evolve alongwith a sport. Pitchers stand only 43 feet fromhome plate, and there are situations — such asbunt defenses—when fielders get within feet ofthe batter’s box.Smethurst, a pitcher, said she feels more
confident wearing a face mask and would en-courage infielders to do the same.“I think people would get used to it,”
Smethurst said. “People think you can’t see outof it, but that’s totally not true, there are just twothin bars across the lower half of your face.”Discomfort and vision impairment are two
arguments skeptics have presented. But thesame issue was debated when the NationalFederation of State High School Associationsmandated in 2006 that all batting helmets be
equippedwith a facemask or guard. And it turnsout batters can see just fine. Softball’s compari-son to baseball also plays a role, Hoelman said.“Wearing a safetymask is a pretty good idea,
but whenever it’s brought up, people thinkabout Title IX,” Hoelman said. “It’s like, ‘Base-ball doesn’t have a face mask, why should girlswear one?’ But it’s a different game, girls standa lot closer. To me, that’s not a valid [reason].We should do anything to keep [the girls] safe.”The biggest obstacle at the collegiate level,
NCAA Softball Secretary-Rules editor DeeAbrahamson said, is that there is not yet a per-formance standard for the facial protectiveequipment. NCAA softball uses National Op-erating Committee on Standards for AthleticEquipment-approved helmets and bats, butthere has not yet been enough research to guar-antee protection from the newly developed facemasks. Therefore, Abrahamson said, the NCAAcan’t force its players to wear them.The NFHS, however, does not necessarily
abide by NCAA rules — college softball battinghelmets are not required to have a face guard.And facemasks in the infield seem to be becom-ing more and more popular at the youth level.County coaches said facial protection is a
good idea, but many still believe the decision towear one should be at the player’s discretion.Finucane said she doesn’t disagree, but hopesthat the incident will at least spark a conversa-tion among girls and their families.“It’s not an option for me. For me, it’s man-
datory,” Finucane said. “Ever since I startedthrowing, I was so against it that I think a littlepiece of that is still with me, but it’s not a badidea, I think for the younger kids, to get used toit. I never thought [the ball] would come closeto my head, and then it did. You don’t think it’sgoing to happen to you, and then it does. Takingthe right precaution is never a bad idea.”
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n Olney teen eagerto grow the sport inMontgomery County
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFFWRITER
Four years ago, recent Rich-ard Montgomery High Schoolgraduate Kate Payson was outfor a stroll with her youngerbrother in their Olney neighbor-hood, when she noticed a groupof girls playing rugby in thepark.
“I saw these girls on a fieldpassing the ball backward, andI was like, ‘I need to get intowhatever they’re doing,’” Pay-son said. “I had heard of rugbybefore. I always found it inter-esting because girls and boyshave the same rules. There’s no,‘Girls can’t do that’ or, ‘This istoo harsh for girls.’ It’s alwaysfrustrating tobeunderestimatedbecause of your gender, so thatwas amajor factor.”
While girls rugby is on therise in this area, it is far frommainstream, and teams are al-ways looking for new players torecruit, Payson said. The girls onthe field—Maryland Exiles clubmembers—noticedPaysonandinvited her over.
“They were like, ‘we don’t
know you, but you shouldplay,’” Payson said. “They wereautomatically very welcoming,similar to everyone in the rugbycommunity.”
Last summer, just threeyears after picking up a rugbyball for the first time, Payson,whoplayed three years of varsitysoccer at Richard Montgomery,was one of 50 girls selected fromRegional Cup tournaments na-tionwide to compete in the USARugby Stars and Stripes Game.She is headed toPennStateUni-versity in the fall to play for theeight-time national championwomen’s rugby team and saidshe hopes to continue to flour-ish there in the pursuit of com-peting at an international level.
Third-year Maryland ExilesGirls Under-19 coach ValerieConnelly said she has no doubtPayson, whose work ethic shesaid is largely unrivaled, canaccomplish that feat. She’s pro-gressed at a rapid rate, Connellysaid, because of her dedicationto becoming a true student ofthe game.
She has recently movedfrom fullback — the last line ofdefense and a more structuredposition — to the eight woman,where she has more freedom tomoveabout andcanbemore in-volved in scoring.
While Payson is focused onher own individual goals withinthe sport, Connelly commendedher effort to promote the gamein the community.
“I think rugby teaches thiskind of empowerment, thissense of, ‘You can do it,’” Pay-son said. “It gives girls confi-dence, which is really importantto earn at a young age. As far asthe physical aspect, if they haveconfidence in themselves it willshow in the classroomand in so-cial interaction. But it also helpsto stay fit and really creates afamily within.”
The biggest challenge in re-cruitment is rugby’s stereotypeas a violent sport, Connelly andPayson said. Many parents pro-hibit their children fromplayingbecause of fear of injury, butPayson said the sport is saferthan people think.
“A lot of people tell me, ‘Oh,rugby is like football and soccer,mixed,’” Payson said. “But it’s itsown sport. People only say thatbecause it’s a similar shapedballand you throw it in the air butit’s a much safer sport. For girlsin high school, I actually thinkthe highest concussion sportis cheerleading. In four years Ihaveonly sufferedoneminor in-jury, that’s been less thanpeopleI see who play soccer.”
There is no doubt a majorphysicality aspect of rugby butit’s less about one big hit thanit is about body positioning andcore strength, Connelly said.Heads andhelmets—which arenot even worn in rugby — arenot used as weapons.
Payson was a soccer playerand a soccer player only fromage 5 until she reached highschool. Rugby opened her eyesto a whole new world, she said.Thenext step for theExiles,Con-nelly andPayson said, is to culti-vate youth programs as a feederto the older team and draw ath-letes in early.
“Rugby is a confidence-builder,” Connelly said. “Thechanges people have seen intheir daughters have been pro-found. I don’t think there’s asport that rivals it because a lotof rugby women ... we have thatfeeling that strong women don’ttear eachother down, they buildeach other up. And it gets yououtside of your comfort zonelike you wouldn’t believe. Oncein a while [a girl] will have ameltdownand freakoutbecausethey got hit hard but then theyrealize they’re still alive and getupand then feel likenothing canstop them.”
RM graduate gives rugby a try
n Gaithersburg, Sherwoodlook to replace graduates
BY ADAM GUTEKUNST
STAFFWRITER
Though its purple revers-ible jerseys differed from theirusual navy and gold garb, theGaithersburg High Schoolboysbasketball team looked tobe in regular formWednesdaynight at Jewish Day, flying upand down the court and ulti-mately defeating its opponent,Sherwood, with a heavy doseof points in transition.
In many ways, the Tro-jans 65-55 win looked similarto one authored by last year’sgroup that finished the season17-5. But a closer look revealedjust how much the Trojansprogram had changed in thatshort time.
After two years of patrol-ling the sideline, veteran coachTom Sheahin stepped downover the offseason, openingthe door for longtime juniorvarsity coach Jeff Holda to as-sume control of the varsityteam. But Sheahin’s departurewas just part of the Trojans’offseason facelift. Gaithers-burg lost nearly 50 points pergame to graduation, includingfirst team All-Gazette selec-tion Anthony Tarke (26.3) andGeron Brathwaite (14.3) — aversatile pair that headed theTrojans’ transition attack.
Gaithersburg often suffo-cated opponents last seasonwith their incessant run-and-gun style — a mantra Holdadoesn’t plan to deviate from,even with his relatively freshcrop of talent.
“That’s Gaithersburg bas-ketball,” Holda said. “WhenTom came here he really em-phasized that and set me upand our program with thatstyle of basketball. That’s thestyle I like to play and thekids love it. It’s not careless orreckless. It’s get up the floorand earn yourself a shot … Sowe’re going to play that way.That’s howwe’re going to beatteams.”
When the Trojans occa-sionally slowed things down,instead opting for more me-thodical ball movement, theresults weren’t as favorable.Gaitherbsurgprovednot readyyet to handle the decision-
making of a halfcourt offense— an understandable defi-ciency for a young backcourt.So, they returned to what theyknew, as quick outlet passesand aggressive takes to thehoop saw their lead steadilygrow.
The Trojans’ transitiongame was certainly the keyto knocking off Sherwood onWednesday after both teamsjumped out to sluggish, sloppystarts in the first ten minutes.Gaithersburgmadeup for theirapparent lack of height with atenacity on the defensive endthat continuously openedup transition opportunities.Late in the game, the Trojansforced three consecutive turn-overs, leading to six transitionpoints that pushed their leadto double digits, effectivelyburying the Warriors hopes ofany comeback.
“We’re still quick,” risingsenior Andy Kwiatkowski said.“We like to run and we’re con-ditioned.We’ll befine.We’ll berunning, shooting threes andattacking the rim just like lastyear— just different players.”
The story was similar onSherwood’s sideline, where aroster depleted by eight grad-uating seniors looked to filla significant scoring gap leftbehind by the departure ofguard Xavier McCants (17.5).Assistant coach Walt Williamswasted no time beginning topatch up the hole graduationleft behind however, as he em-ployed the “platoon system”popularized by the Universityof Kentucky. The Sherwoodassistant started the game sub-stituting rotations of five intothe game in an effort to beginidentifying viable replace-ments for the offensive fire-power lost over the offseason.
“It starts right now,” Wil-liams said. “So that’s the basisbehind what we’re doing andthe way I’m running the sum-mer league. We have so manyguys here that are talented.We’ve got to narrow thingsdown, so I just want to give ev-eryone an opportunity to statetheir case here in the summerand get into that live action tosee what kind of player [theyare].”
Basketball teams seeknew scoring options
VALERIE CONNELLY
Recent Richard Montgomery graduate Kate Payson is headed to play women’s rugby at Penn State in the fall.
SportsBriefs
County softball playersselected to all-star team
For the second straight summer, former Pooles-ville High School softball pitcher Patti Maloney wasselected to theMaryland All-Stars team that will takeon theU.S.Women’s National Team.
The exhibition game is scheduled for June 18 atRegency Furniture Stadium inWaldorf. Maloney justfinished her junior seasonwith the FordhamUniver-sity softball team. Also named to theMaryland rosterwas Germantown native Tori Finucane, who recentlycompleted her sophomore season at the UniversityofMissouri. Finucanemissed last year’s gamewhilerecovering from an injury.
— JENNIFER BEEKMAN
Blair, Northwest qualify forRavens’ 7-on-7 tournament
The Blair High School football teammade itsfirst-ever postseason in the fall, and the Blazers havecarried thatmomentum into this passing leagueseason.
On Saturday, the Silver Spring school won atournament atWilliamsport High School, cappingoff the competitionwith a 42-35 win over Allegany(Cumberland) and qualifying for the June 19 Ravens7-on-7 Football Tournament.
Blair, along with two-time defending 4A cham-pionNorthwest (Germantown), are the twoMont-gomery County teams that are slated to play in theeight-team championship tournament held atM&T
Bank Stadium in Baltimore.—ERIC GOLDWEIN
Sherwood graduategets shot a pro lacrosse
Sherwood graduate andMarist College lacrosse playerMike Begley was picked up byMajor League Lacrosse team theOhioMachine via the 2015Un-drafted College Player Pool, ac-cording to a news release by theNew York school.
The seniormiddle fielderfromBrookeville was named tothe Eastern Collegiate AthleticConference All-Star Second Teamon June 1 and also earnedUnitedStates Intercollegiate Lacrosse AssociationDivision IAll-America HonorableMention.
—PRINCE J. GRIMES
Bullis quarterback competes at Elite 11Bullis School quarterback DwayneHaskins com-
peted in the Elite 11 semifinals this past weekendin Los Angeles. Elite 11 is considered the nation’spremier competition for high-level high school quar-terbacks.
Haskins, who committed to play at the UniversityofMaryland onMay 15, already holds a spot in thefinal competition set to take place later this summer.
—ADAM GUTEKUNST
2011 FILE PHOTO
Mike Begley
2011 FILE PHOTO
Poolesville High School graduate Patti Maloney was asked to play in an all-star game against Team USA.
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n Nautical-themed beersare just the tickets for
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Avast, ye landlubbers. Bal-timore’s Clipper City Brewing,now known under its HeavySeas Beer label, is the secondlargest brewery in Marylandand will be celebrating its 20thanniversary in December.Heavy Seas, and its founder/owner and Captain, Marylandbeer pioneer and vision-ary Hugh Sisson, has sailedthrough some rough watersand heavy storms to achievetheir current success.
Clipper City Brewingchanged the names of its beersto Heavy Seas with the grow-ing popularity of the adven-turesome Heavy Seas lines.Sisson was instrumental ingetting state legislation passedthat allowed for brewpubs inMaryland, and opened the firstbrewpub in the state in 1989,leaving it to start the predeces-sor to Heavy Seas Beer.
First out of the Heavy Seasdocks was Winter Storm, animperial ESB, at 7.3 percentalcohol by volume (ABV) brew.Winter Storm was followed bySmall Craft Warning Über Pils(7 percent ABV); Red Sky AtNight, a saison which is no lon-ger made; Peg Leg (8 percentABV), an imperial stout; andLoose Cannon (7.25 percentABV), a triple hopped (in the
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n Parking tickets,trips to tow pound enrichthe New York experience
BY KEVIN JAMES SHAYSTAFF WRITER
In the past decade, I’vevisited New York two or threetimes a year for various reasons,mostly to play the role of tour-ist. I thought I had the parkingthing down until a recent visit.
I’d ignore the garages withtheir $11.95 per half-hour spe-cials and find a gem of a spaceon a side street that would havemade George Costanza envi-ous. In all my previous visits,my system had only resulted inone parking ticket when I re-turned to a metered space a fewminutes too late.
So on a visit in late May tothe Big Apple in which I tookmy daughter, McKenna, to herfirst Broadway show, I was asconfident as ever in my abilityto beat the New York park-ing system. We made it to theNeil Simon Theatre two hoursbefore the show and parkedtemporarily in front of thevenue on West 52nd Street.There was a “No standing ex-cept commercial vehicles” sign,but other noncommercial carswere parked there with peoplerunning in to purchase tickets.Besides, we weren’t “standing;”we were temporarily parking.
We scored some discount“rush” tickets on the third rowfor a mere $35 each. When Ireturned, I didn’t see one ofthose parking ticket experts insight, so I became bold enoughto suggest walking a block tothe Ed Sullivan Theater. David
Letterman had given his finalperformance three days before,and I read stories where crewsplaced most of his dismantledset into dumpsters on West53rd Street, with people takinghome pieces of history from the“Late Show.”
Sure enough, workers werestill there, placing various me-tallic and wooden pieces intolarge dumpsters. They wereblocked off with yellow tapeand orange cones, as if that wasgoing to keep people from ap-proaching. I walked up to oneworker and asked if I could takehome a souvenir. He seemed abit flustered and said they werebusy. I spied one specific metal-lic piece about 6 feet long thatlooked like it could have beenpart of a bridge.
“How ’bout that one?” Iasked. “Is that part of a bridge?”
He realized he wouldn’t getrid of me so easily and handedme the piece. “It could be. Butit’s probably from Paul Shaffer’sorchestra set,” he said.
After having McKenna takea photo of me near the dump-ster and then in front of theLetterman sign with the pieceto help verify its authenticity,we started walking back to thecar. We passed near RupertJee’s Hello Deli, and I couldn’tresist a slight detour. But as Istarted to enter the deli, someguy in shades and a tight T-shirt— who could have been a Let-terman crew union manager,Mafia boss or just some Joefrom the street — yelled at meto stop.
“What are doing with that?”he asked, pointing at my 6-foot-long souvenir. “You need to get
Big Apple takesbite out of visitors
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The brewery has experi-enced about a 20 percent an-nual growth rate in recent years.It brewed 40,000 barrels in 2014and expects to reach 50,000this year.With new fermentersscheduled for installation inOc-tober, the capacity will be about70,000. Their beers currentlyare in 18 states focused on theDelaware/Virginia/Marylandregion, reaching fromMaine toFlorida and as far west as Indi-ana. Because he loves fresh caskbeer and believes that real ale isthe best way to experience thebeer flavors and complexity, Sis-son haswhat he believes is the
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LooseCannon (7.25per-cent ABV) starts with a bouquetof bitter hops and citruswhichpresages a delicious bitter hopfront. In themiddle, the hopsincrease a tad and grow furthertomedium in the finishwith amoderate sweetmalt and tangycitrus presence. The citrus fadesin the aftertaste while the bit-terness,modified by the sweetmalt, continues. Thismediumbodied, very smooth brewhasa lovelymouth feel.Ratings8.5/7.5.
DoubleCannon (ImperialIPA, 9.5 percent ABV) has afaint citrus and pine nose in-troducesDouble Cannon andits smooth,mediummalt frontwithmoderate bitter hops. Thehops increase in themiddle tomediumwith amodest sweetmalt. In the finish the hops in-crease abundantly but arewellbalanced by themalt. This ro-bust bodied brewfinisheswithan aftertaste where the hops lin-ger and come to the front as themalt fades.Well blended and
dangerouswith no noticeablealcohol in this high ABV brew.Ratings: 8.5/9.
Peg Leg (Imperial Stout. 8.0percent ABV).Roast, toast, andburnt chocolate aromas intro-duce amedium roast front. Thissmooth,mediumbodied beerhas a pinch of coffee joining inthemiddle. The finish adds ahint of semi-sweet chocolatewhile the coffee and bitter hopscontinue. The aftertaste haslingering roast and bitter hops.Ratings: 8.0/8.5.
Blackbeard’s Breakfast (10percent ABV), part of the cre-ativeUncharteredWaters serieswhich ages beer in a varietyof spirit barrels, is a bourbonbarrel-aged porter with cof-fee. Coffee, roast, and bourbongreet the nose and segue into afront ofmoderate coffeewith apinch of roast. Both flavors growin themiddle and evenmorein the finish. Tasty vanilla andbourbon flavors appear in thelate finish and into the aftertastewhere they linger. Blackbeard’sBreakfast ismediumbodied andvery smooth.Ratings: 9.0/9.5.
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out of here with that or hand it over. Ifmy boss sees youwalking aroundwithit, I can get in big trouble.”I agreed to leave. Our car had been
fortunate enough to not get ticketed,sowe drove around looking for a betterparking spot.We almost had one on55th Street, but our vehicle would haveblocked part of a driveway. I was expe-rienced enough to know that parking infront of a driveway inNewYork is theultimate sin.Sowe ventured all theway to 60th
Street, finding a few open spaces nearColumbus Avenue. Parking signs inNewYork are designed to be as ambig-uous and confusing as possible. Theyhave stumped better peoplewithmoremagical interpretative powers thanme.Few of them statewhat times permitsare good for, so you have to assume ifthey don’t state times, they are effective24-7. Even if they aren’t.I knew that as our showtime ap-
proached. I didn’t see any large “Nostanding” or “No parking” signs onthat street next to the Church of St.Paul the Apostle. So I parked there,figuring I would return in a few hoursafter the performance andmove it. AsI walked down the block, I looked atother vehicles to see if any had specialpermits. I couldn’t find any, so that wasgood enough forme. It was a Saturdayafternoon, and surely the parking czarswould bemore lenient than on aweek-day, right?“Gigi” was an enjoyable show—
McKenna grewupwatching “HighSchoolMusical,” and VanessaHud-gens is among her favorite actresses.Shewas thrilled to see the action livefrom the third row. Afterward, wewerehungry, sowewalked through TimesSquare and ate at Planet Hollywood.It was a good time until wewalked
back to retrieve our car. Problemwas itwas nowhere to be found. I spied a citytow truck down the street and askedthe driver if he knew thewhereaboutsofmy car. He pointed to a small signpartially-hidden by trees, reading“Doctors parking only.” He toldmemycarwas likely in the towpound.I knew enough not to arguewith
him about that sign being all but hid-den down the street fromwhere Iparked, not stating the times it waseffective and how few other vehiclesparking on that street actually had per-mits. Hewas just a puppet of theNewYork TowingMachine, which involves
Mayor Bill de Blasio, city budget andtransportation chiefs, the unions, theMafia and the remains of JimmyHoffasupposedly buried under the oldGi-ants Stadium inNew Jersey that wasconveniently demolished in 2010.I asked the driver if he had a phone
number for the pound, and he gavemeone and the address. At no time did hetellme to call 311 or check a city web-site where you can actually discover ifyour car was impounded. That wouldhave been extremely helpful. Thereshould have been signs upmentioningsuch awebsite or telling visitors to call311 if their car ismissing.But this is NewYork, remember?At the only other time inmy con-
siderable number of years of drivingthatmy car was towed, therewere ac-tually signs on the Bethesda street withphone numbers on them. AndwhenI called, a human answered and toldmemy carwas towed, not stolen. Thedriver even drove it back tome, releas-ing it after I paid the $200 fee and fine.I tried calling the towpound num-
ber several times and only got lost inrecording hell. I didn’t havemuch cashleft for a cab ride, soMcKenna and Iwalked about 2miles to the pound. Notonly did I not want to give anyone inthat citymoremoney than I had to atthat point, but I needed a longwalk tocoolmy anger. Aswewalked, I couldonly hopemy car was at that poundand not another, or it had not beenstolen.By the time I entered the tow
pound, I was calm enough to just stateexactly what was necessary to retrievemy car. I didn’t questionwhy a poundwould need a copy ofmy insurancecard that I had to retrieve frommy carunder thewatchful eyes of a guard. Ithought the registration and licensewould be enough, but whatever. I didaskwhy I had to sign two receipts.They charge a fee if you pay by creditcard, rather than cash ormoney order.And they don’t take personal checks.I ended up paying about $190 andlater learned I could dispute the ticketonline.We received our car quickly
enough. It helps going in the eveningand not afternoon.McKenna seemedto enjoy our little tour of the towpoundand askedwhy therewas somethinglike 100 tow trucks there. I told herthat’s how theymake a lot ofmoney offpeople like us, and they have to justifythe expense of all those trucks.The bottom line is this experience
soured our visit to the point that I cutit short and just drove the five hours
home toMaryland, rather than find ahotel inNewYork, getting in at 1 a.m. Irealize the safest way to park in that cityis in a garage or lot, but that’s too easyforme.Besides, there have been numer-
ous stories about people’s vehiclesreturning from garages and lots withodd scratches and dents. And thereare hidden rates in fine print on those
come-on garage signs. NewYork ShowTickets, a company that providesmar-keting services to Broadway and televi-sion shows, even advises visitors on itswebsite to not bring a new car to thecity, but an older one “that already hassome bumper damage.”The site also advises people to strap
bumper protectors on their vehiclesand tomake sure they fully inspect
their cars before driving away fromthe garage. Garageswill usually fix anydamage if it’s clearly their fault, but youmay have to take some cases to court,the site says. “Chances are youwon’thave an easy timewinning the battle,”they grimly state.NewYork is the biggestmarket
for parking tickets in theU.S.,makingroughly $542million in parking fines infiscal 2014, an increase of $58millionfrom2013, according to city budgetfigures. Chicago rakes in about half andLA less than one-third of that amount.D.C.— another city known for bloatedbureaucracy— receives even less thanLAwith about $84million in 2014. ButD.C.makes significantlymore thanBaltimore, which “only” collected some$21million in parking fines in 2014.Taken in that context,Montgomery
County’s parking ticket revenue in fis-cal 2014 is barely worthmentioning atabout $10million. That doesn’t includewhat Rockville and other incorporatedcities take in.Towing fees gaveNewYork another
$24million in 2014, parkingmeterrevenue another $204million, and red-light and speed cameras another $30million. On top of that, NewYork tookin about $48 billion in various taxesin 2014, including about $20 billion inproperty taxes and $6.5 billion in salestaxes.And it doesn’t seem that even
0.00000001 percent of those billions gotoward improving signage so out-of-town visitors and othersmight betterunderstandwhere they can and can-not park and avoid spending time andmoney at the towpound. Or addingsigns that inform visitors whose carsare towed to call 311 or check the citywebsite. You’d almost thinkNewYorkofficials want a certain percentage ofvisitors to be ticketed and towed tokeep theirmultimillion-dollar parkingticket and towing scheme going. Afterall, it’s amore significant sum that isbuilt into their budgets than any otherU.S. city.NewYork is a city, like no other I
know, where somethingmagical andsomething tragic can happen at the ex-act same time. I likely won’t return forawhile, but I will return.Like a blackwidow spider, New
York lures you inwith its charms, thenat the zenith of yourmost enjoyablemoment, it bites your head off. Andperhaps that’s precisely theway itshould be.
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benefits. Please visitwww.abilitiesnetwork.org formore details. Resumes to
CarpentersArmentrout’s Construction
a residential homeimprovement Company nowhiring. Hand tools andtransportation required.Min of 10yrs experience.
Call 410-946-7983
OPTICALSURFACING
Optical Company in SilverSpring needs a person for ourfast paced surfacing dept. Willtrain. Only dependable peopleneed apply. Hours ofoperation Mon-Fri 9am-6pm.We are accepting applicationsMon thru Fri 10am-4pm at2401 Linden Lane, SilverSpring, MD 20910.
Do you have a passion for providing outstanding guest service? If you said yes, please visitwww.bfsaulhotels.com and apply for one of the positions we have open at Holiday Inn Gaithersburg,Holiday Inn Express Germantown and Towne Place Suites Gaithersburg.
Guest ServiceAgent – Holiday Inn Express GermantownCustomer Service experience needed, preferably in hospitality
Guest Service Supervisor – Holiday Inn Express GermantownPrior hotel experience required, Holiday Inn preferred
Banquet Server/Bartender/Houseman – Holiday Inn GaithersburgAbility to be on your feet for extended periods of time, good guest service experience
Food&Beverage Supervisor – Holiday Inn GaithersburgServe Safe, TIPS or CARE beverage service certification or ability to obtain certification is required
Restaurnat Servers – Holiday Inn GaithersburgPrior restaurant server experience preferred. Serve Safe, TIPS or CARE certification a plus
RoomAttendants – all propertiesHousekeeping/laundry experience preferred
NightAuditor – Towne Place Suites GaithersburgPrior hotel experience preferred, accounting background a must
Maintenance Helper/Houseman –Towne Place Suites Gaithersburg2+ years of general maintenance experience
All positions begin as part-time with flexible hours/days. Qualified candidates must be availableweekdays, weekends and holidays. The more hours you work the more benefits you are eligible forwhich include health insurance/vacation/holidays/sick leave. Competitive starting salary withpotential for 60 day increase based upon performance.
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Advertising Sales RepresentativeComprint Military Publications publishes military weeklynewspapers, websites and special sections in MD/DC/VA and islooking for an energetic and organized sales representative to selladvertising into our media products. Job requires cold calling/inperson sales calls and maintaining existing advertising customers.Must be able to handle deadlines and pressures of meeting salesgoals. Sales required in the field include Prince George’s County andDC area. Prefer someone with print/online advertising salesexperience. Position is located Gaithersburg office and hours are8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. M-F. Send resume and cover letterwith salary requirements to: Maxine Minar [email protected]. Base salary + commission andbenefits. EOE
Chimney ProfessionalFast growing service business needs a
knowledgeable Chimney Expert to install liners.Call 301-556-5582
Dispatcher/Customer Service RepGrowing Service Company. Looking for positive &professional individual. Admin duties. Competitive wages& benefits. Send resume to [email protected]
REGISTERED NURSEBusy Urology office seeks a full time registerednurse for our Rockville office. Applicant must bewilling to learn our electronic records system andwork independently. Position requires phonetriage and direct patient care in the office. Will
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Press TechnicianThe Gazette, a sister company of The
Washington Post, has an immediate opening for aPress Technician in our Laurel plant. State-of-the-art technology, Mitsubishi printing press. We willtrain individuals with mechanical aptitude andstrong work ethic for a career in the printing
technology industry. Individuals must be computerliterate, a team player, have good verbal and
written skills, printing experience preferred but notrequired. This position is a labor position whichrequires repetitive stacking of newspapers andvery hands on work with the printing press. Aftertraining completion this individual will be assignedto the 2 pm - 10 pm shift. Upward mobility
potential for this exciting career opportunity. Weoffer a benefits package including: medical, dental,
401K and tuition reimbursement. EOE.
Please email, fax or mail resume to:
Comprint Printing13501 Konterra DriveLaurel, MD 20707ATTN: Press Tech
Fax: (301) [email protected]
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Medical ReceptionistP/T, Mon - Fri during the day
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Grounds Person/PorterGrounds Person/Porter needed for busyapartment community to assist in maintaining thegrounds, outdoor facilities & interior commonareas. Duties include, but are not limited to:picking up trash, delivering notices to residents,shoveling snow, assisting in the turnover ofapartments, cleaning halls, painting, etc. Mostwork is outdoors. Walk-ins are welcome duringnormal business hours. Send resume to:
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TEACHER/HELPImmediate opening to work
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Truck DriverBuild your future with Metro Bobcat!We want peoplewith big goals, bolddreams, and excellent work ethics.Our Gaithersburg branch has animmediate opening for a TruckDriver. Class B CDL required.Great pay and benefits!Please email resume to
Parts ManagerBuild your future with Metro Bobcat!We want people with big goals, bolddreams, and excellent work ethics.Our Gaithersburg branch has animmediate opening for a PartsManager. Previous parts sales
experience is required.Excellent payand benefits! Please email resume
Property Management
Leasing Consultant P/TGrady Management Inc. is seeking a part-timeLeasing / Marketing Consultant for a 260+ unitresidential community in Gaithersburg, MD.
Bilingual (Spanish / English) skills, 6 + months ofleasing exp. and customer service exp. is required.
Some weekend work required.
Montgomery Club17101 Queen Victoria Court #102
Gaithersburg, MD 20877Email: [email protected]
Fax # 301-947-4518EEO M/F/D - www.gradymgt.com
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2011 Nissan Sentra...............#V298174B, Silver, 83,127 Miles................$11,791
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2014 Chrysler 200 LX............#VPR0139, Grey, 33,534 Miles...................$14,991
2013 Nissan Altima...............V303606A, Silver, 49,926 Miles..................$15,871
2013 VW Beetle.......................V801398, Yellow, 16,020 Miles...................$16,293
2011 Jetta TDI..........................#V005099A, Black, 71,951 Miles...............$16,991
2013 Passat SE.......................#V080993A, White, 29,626 Miles...............$17,391
2012 CC.....................................#V820490A, Black, 47,400 Miles...............$17,491
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2013 GTI Conv..........................V297056A, White, 31,734 Miles.................$17,993
2014 Jeep Patriot...................VP0134, Black, 9,454 Miles........................$18,692
2013 Beetle..............................#V591026A, Black, 35,857 Miles...............$18,791
2013 Passat TDI SE................V033935A, Gray,28,762 Miles...................$19,955
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2013 Jetta Sportswagen TDI. .V055283A, Black, 30,101 Miles.................$20,992
2012 Chevrolet Equinox AWD...#V099935A, Blue, 38,419 Miles.................$21,991
2014 Routan SEL.....................VP0130, Blue, 18,268 Miles.......................$25,993
2013 CC VR6 4Motion............VP0131, Black, 33,105 Miles.....................$25,993
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