August 2011 Hyattsville Life and Times

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PLAY BALL!

Packed funeral for longtime St. Jerome principal PAGE 3

New year, new leaders at local schools byÊ SusieÊ CurrieÊ andÊ PaulaÊ MinaertÊ

Nearly a quarter of Prince George’s County’s 198 schools are getting new principals this year, due largely to budget cuts that led to slashed positions and staff buyouts for the new fiscal year.

In Hyattsville, Northwestern High School and Hyattsville Middle School, as well as the private Concordia Lutheran School, will have new leadership when they open this month.

Back to the old, old ball game: The Mid-Atlantic Base Ball League plays by 1860s rules at Magruder Park.

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BUSBOYS & POETS

Crowds flock to the Hyattsville location of this famed restaurant for food and fun. PAGE 6

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Vol. 8 No. 8

Hyattsville’s Community Newspaper

HL&T wins national awards byÊ SusieÊ Currie

NORTHWESTERN HIGH SCHOOL At Northwestern, Jerome Thomas stepped down as principal in June following health problems earlier this year. He is now an assistant principal at Bowie High School (which is also getting a new principal).

He’s being replaced by Edgar Batenga, a High Point High School graduate who worked his way up at that school from substitute teacher to award-winning coach to assistant principal, a post he held for six years.

For the last five years, he’s been assistant principal of Columbia’s Long Reach High School, which, he said, has similar demographics to Northwestern but “around 300”

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SAVING THE DAY

More pictures of National Night Out on page 5

Many vacancies among city staff ByÊ PaulaÊ Minaert

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Two key positions in the city staff – assistant city administrator and director of parks and recreation – became open with the recent departures of Vincent Jones and Steve Yeskulsky.

The city has seen a fair amount of staff turnover lately. It has had two parks directors and two treasurers in the last two years. It has not had a director of code enforcement since October 2009; Senior Inspector Chris Guinta serves as act-

ing director. Communications Manager Abby Sandel is serving as acting director of recreation and the arts. Two other key positions were created in this year’s budget, meaning that out of a total of 11 senior staff positions in the city administration, four are currently open.

The two new positions are a chief information officer to provide information technology support to administrative staff and the police, and a human resources manager.

The city council was sup-

posed to discuss engaging a recruiting firm to help with the hiring at its Aug. 1 meeting. But that discussion, and all council business, came to a halt when the council unexpectedly had to cancel the meeting for lack of a quorum (see “Council Absences”, p. 3).

City Administrator Gregory Rose said that the increasing size and complexity of the city organization – it now has about 100 employees – means it needs greater expertise to manage things like human resources.

Council member Tim Hunt (Ward 3) pointed out that the police department in particular has acquired some new programs and technology, such as Safe City and the CAD system, that require more IT support.

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The Hyattsville Life & Times was one of three Maryland publications to win awards in the National Newspaper Association’s 2011 Better Newspaper Contest.

Winners were notified by e-mail on July 19, and will be recognized at a reception next month in Albuquerque, N.M. It was the first year HL&T had entered the contest, and it came away with two awards in its division.

Executive Editor Paula Minaert’s editorial from October 2010, “What’s the definition of ‘neighbor’?” took second place in the Best Serious Column category. Judges called it “thought provoking [and] well done.”

Chris McManes, who wrote this month’s piece on vintage base ball at Magruder Park (see p. 12), earned an Honorable Mention for Best Sports Feature Story or Series with his March 2010 piece “Stags go out with a bang as exalted coach looks on.” Judges said the article, about the last basketball game played in the old DeMatha gym, combined “lots of info and history in a thorough piece.”

The contest drew 2,042 entries in several divisions. Judging was performed primarily by active community newspaper editors and publishers and retired university journalism professors.

Established in 1885, the National Newspaper Association is the voice of America’s community newspapers and the largest newspaper association in the country.

Included: The August 10, 2011 Issue of The Hyattsville Reporter — See Center Section

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If we only look closely...

Through the painter’s brushstrokes, I am present at an outdoor market in Amsterdam, around 1675. A large woman wearing a tall black hat is seated in front of a table of vegetables she is selling: carrots, cabbage, potatoes. Another woman, a customer, argues with her, hands on her hips and her white apron askew.

Behind them a man with a clipped beard hoists a large wooden barrel on one shoulder. To one side a man in a red suit with white ruffles at his throat and wrists leans close to the shoulder of a woman carrying a metal milk bucket.

He is trying to sell her something; she looks away, not interested. In the foreground, a hen sits on the ground and a brown-and-white dog sniffs at a rooster perched on top of an empty cage.

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Gabriel Metsu painted everyday life in seventeenth-century Holland with incredible, realistic detail. I can see the raised pattern of the rich red brocades that appear in so many of his works. I can almost feel the soft fur of the many dogs – who all look like cocker spaniels – that cluster around his subjects’ feet.

I can’t remember when I’ve noticed so many things in paintings. A woman leaning out of a window, a pot lying on the ground, a glass vial of oil hanging on a nail on a wall: this was the stuff of life for people at that time. The men and women themselves may not have paid much attention to everything that

was around them, but Metsu clearly did.

I came away from that exhibit at the National Gallery of Art wondering about my attitude to the stuff of my everyday life. I do notice things that are different, like a rose that’s just bloomed when I wasn’t expecting it, or a new taste, like the yellow tomato gazpacho at Busboys & Poets (which was wonderful).

But as for what’s always there – my eyes tend to skip over them. I categorize them (the dog lying in the doorway, my key on top of the piano) and move on. Now I do think we human

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beings have to be on automatic pilot to some degree; we can’t focus on everything or we’d never get anything done.

But I also think I – we – miss a lot in the process.

So I’ve decided that on my walks, and in my daily encounters with people at the store or the library, or wherever, I will try to focus more, to pay closer attention. Admittedly, we live in a small town, rather than a bustling seaport like Metsu did. And some of us may feel that real life is somewhere else, like at work.

But what’s in our everyday world does affect us, even the seemingly unimportant. For example, this issue talks about goings-on in the city government and in our schools. It looks at our restaurants and our writers and our history.

It’s all part of our world and all grist for the mill.

He put the Hyatt in Hyattsville byÊ KimberlyÊ Schmidt

“The chief business of the American people is business,” President Calvin Coolidge told the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1925.

One might take issue with Coolidge’s rather limited agenda for his constituents.

But in looking back at Hyattsville’s past during this 125th year of the city’s history, it is clear that businesses, mostly small mom-and-pop stores, had a central role in Hyattsville’s early years.

That was by design. City founder Christopher Clarke Hyatt purchased the land that eventually became Hyattsville because of its access to transportation and trade networks, including the Port of Bladensburg and roads that connected Washington to Baltimore and Hagerstown.

Hyatt, whose frowning visage presides over Route 1 from a mural bordering Centennial Park, must have been a fairly astute and clever guy.

His great-grandfather had sailed from England to the New World in 1634 and eventually owned 900 acres of land, some of which was patented from Lord Baltimore. Like his ancestor, young Hyatt had precocious business skills. He purchased “Rich Thickett,” 273 acres of land in Beltsville, from his father in 1807 at the tender age of 8.

He was hired by a Baltimore merchant and was put in charge of the business’s Pennsylvania branch when he was still a teenager. So by the time he focused his energies on this area, he had already honed his considerable business skills.

SUSIE CURRIE ChristopherÊ ClarkeÊ HyattÊ lookingÊ overÊ Hyattsville.

Records show that Hyatt started a trading post in 1832 and, according to Hyattsville: Our Hometown, purchased “extensive supplies for the farm and

household including tobacco, slaves, farm produce and even a bear.” (What use he had for the bear is not found in the historical record.) He was active in civic and church affairs and was also appointed Hyattsville’s first postmaster.

By the 1880s, the town boasted three grocery stores, three butcher shops, a dry goods store, a “notions” shop, post office, blacksmith and tinsmith. There were two wood dealers, two coal dealers, a livery stable, two town fire halls and a land office. These establishments were walking distance from Hyattsville’s core residential area.

Hyatt continued to eagerly purchase large tracts of land – so much so that by the late 1870s he was in debt, owing more than $25,000 to 40 creditors.

Perhaps he was a victim of the economic downturn experienced in the United States at the time. Perhaps his business acumen was better suited to a pre-Civil War world. Perhaps it was a simple case of an ambitious overextension of property. Whatever the case, by 1878 he had sold all his household furnishings and much of his property in order to pay his creditors.

Christopher Clarke Hyatt did not live to see the town incorporated. He died in 1884, two years before the town became “official,” leaving a legacy that could serve either as inspiration or as a cautionary tale.

Kimberly Schmidt is a former president and current board member of the Hyattsville Preservation Association.

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cil cannot conduct business,” said Council President Matt McKnight (Ward 3), who had been scheduled to run the 8 p.m. meeting but instead called it off at around 8:30 p.m.

The meeting agenda – which included Wingard’s swearing in, reports from five city departments and the authorization of several contracts and expenditures – had to be incorporated into the one for the August 8 meeting.

“This is embarrassing,” said Councilmember Tim Hunt

(Ward 3) afterwards, one of five members in attendance.

Some absences were expected.

Mayor Marc Tartaro had asked McKnight to chair the meeting the week before, as he had a family medical appointment that night. Shani Warner (Ward 2) just had a baby the day before. Paula Perry (Ward 4) was traveling.

“When 8 p.m. rolled around and Carlos [Lizanne, Ward 4] and Nicole [Hinds Mofor, Ward 5] did not show up, we began making phone calls,” said Mc Knight. When reached, Lizanne said he was ill; Mofor, reached by the HL&T later that week, also said she wasn’t feeling well.

“I was disappointed, but more surprised than anything,” said Wingard, who had invited family and friends to the ceremony.

“Maybe the swearing in could have been done at last week’s meeting, if people knew they were going to be out, and then I could have been the sixth member for the quorum.”

Instead, he had to go to Upper Marlboro later that week to take the oath of office at the Prince George’s County clerk’s office. He was scheduled to be seated at the August 8 city council meeting.

In the July special election, Wingard captured 65 of 128 votes cast in a race with William Jenne and Scott Matirne. The seat was previously held by Tartaro, who was elected mayor in May.

Archdiocese of Washington, gave one of the eulogies. “It was never a decision – our girls would go to St. Jerome’s,” he told the congregation. “Last weekend, we moved back here so our grandsons could attend St. Jerome’s.”

The throngs of family, friends and former students crowded into the church’s Gold Room for a reception. Set up around the room were photo collages that showed her at weddings, graduations, parties – even playing pinball and doing the “chicken dance.” A bulletin board displayed commendations from the city of Hyattsville, the Archdiocese of Washington, the governor and the Maryland General Assembly.

“Sr. Joyce was the heart of the school,” said Jen Sanderson, who graduated in 1991 and afterwards visited frequently. Her two sons also attended St. Jerome’s.

“No matter how many years it had been, you could come back and she’d always remember your name and had time to talk. I felt like I never left.”

Her classmate, Michael Dice, said, “She had a soft spot for troublemakers.” Sanderson agreed.

“She’d put on that face, and she’d say, ‘That wasn’t the smartest thing you’ll do today, was it?’

Hyattsville resident Sue Lopresti,

who went to St. Jerome and sent her six children there, too, said, “She [was] like an angel. She was so inspirational and always made everyone feel welcome, with open arms.”

The day before the funeral, a tribute page to her on Facebook had 781 “likes” and dozens of postings from family members and former students, sharing memories of how she had touched their lives.

Joyce Volpini entered the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1964. Her student teaching assignment, in 1968, was at St. Jerome’s. She later taught in Ridgewood, N.Y. and at St. Martin’s in Washington, D.C. In 1976, she became principal of St. Jerome.

A graduate of Trinity College, she also had a master’s degree in counseling from Loyola College in Baltimore and a doctorate of education from Nova University in Florida.

Volpini is survived by her mother, Trudy; a sister, former St. Jerome teacher Janice Volpini; three brothers and sisters-in-law; and a large extended family. The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, contributions be sent to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Development Fund, 1531 Greenspring Valley Road, Stevenson, Md., 21153.

marilynn bland FromÊ left:Ê HyattsvilleÊ CityÊ ClerkÊ DougÊ BarberÊ andÊ CityÊ AdministratorÊ GregoryÊ RoseÊ withÊ newÊ WardÊ 1Ê CouncilmemberÊ EricÊ WingardÊ afterÊ hisÊ swearing-inÊ inÊ UpperÊ Marlboro.Ê

Council absences delay swearing in byÊ SusieÊ Currie

Newly minted Ward 1 representative Eric Wingard, who won a special city election on July 19, had expected to take his seat on the dais during the August 1 city council meeting.

But it was canceled when half of the members didn’t show up.

It was the first time in at least a decade that a Hyattsville City Council meeting failed to draw a quorum of six members.

“Without a quorum, the coun-

Farewell to a beloved principal byÊ SusieÊ CurrieÊ Ê andÊ PaulaÊ Minaert

Nearly 1,000 mourners turned out to pay final tribute to Sr. Joyce Volpini, SND, who was principal of St. Jerome School for 33 years.

Known to generations of Hyattsville children as “Sister Joyce,” Volpini, who had battled cancer for years, died on July 31 at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore.

She was 67.

An August 6 memorial Mass at St. Jerome was standing room only; people of all ages filled the pews and the foyer and spilled over into the choir loft. During the offertory, dozens of people lined up with flowers that they put into vases on the altar.

The celebrant, Msgr. Joseph A. Ranieri, recalled that Sr. Joyce had been principal for 14 years when he arrived as St. Jerome’s pastor in 1990.

“We had a wonderful working relationship that developed into a lasting friendship,” he said.

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Most people have success rooting hydrangea, with varying degrees of preparation. Both Mr. Minnowhaven and Dr. Agronomosky recommend using a rooting medium. They say to take a 4- to 6-inch cutting of this year’s wood, stripping off the lower leaves and leaving only a few tip leaves, apply the rooting medium to the end of the stem, and put it in a pot in a combination of vermiculite and perlite. The pot is then covered with a plastic bag to create a mini greenhouse. (Dr. Agronomosky uses this technique in June for rooting boxwood and azaleas as well.) This method will also work for crepe myrtle, and summer is the time to take long

ForsythiaÊ isÊ anÊ easyÊ shrubÊ toÊ rootÊ inÊ gardenÊ soil.

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I know of only one person who has successfully rooted a hydrangea in water and that is Capability Green. She takes cuttings in August, always in the morning, and places them in individual jars of water. She chooses her cuttings from branches that happened not to have flowered. She changes the water every other day and finds roots developing within a month. She waits till fall to put the young plants outdoors in well-prepared soil, and places large glass jars over top of them that she waits till spring to remove. Capability has also divided hydrangeas in fall, and she has grown new crepe myrtle plants from shoots that burgeon from the base of established trees in spring.

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Writers and artists find a niche at Busboys & Poets byÊ SusieÊ Currie

Busboys & Poets has been open less than a month here, but already has a full schedule of events ranging from Senior Open-Mic Nights to private wedding receptions lined up at its newest location on Route 1.

Since its July 18 opening, owner Andy Shallal has often been seen strolling among the restaurant tables in his straw fedora.

“We tend to be picky about where we locate,” he said. “And this is one of the nicest communities we could have come to. Everyone’s been so welcoming.”

When asked how the newest venue would differ from the first three, Shallal said, “I see us as becoming more of a cultural center [since] there’s not a lot here.”

Another difference is that instead of a bookstore, as in the flagship location on Washington, D.C.’s U Street corridor, the retail area will feature art supplies.

It will be a branch of Art Under Pressure, which opened about five months ago in the Petworth area of Washington, D.C. and was described by one blogger as “a local shop serving the graff[iti

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artist] and skate[boarding] community.”

Like D.C., Hyattsville has an ordinance prohibiting the sale of spray paint to customers younger than 18. Store co-owner Cory Stowers, who grew up here, said

they understand and adhere to that policy.

“But you have to understand that most people who start out being graffiti writers end up being celebrated street artists,” he added.

Stowers said the new location will stock “acrylic and oil paint, brushes, wash, colored pencil, paper, spray paint, big markers, spray paint, and tat-

too flash.” Also, he said, “we’ll work with Busboys to stock the authors that they have in for readings.”

So far, those authors have been locals. Todd Kliman kicked off a series of readings on July 21 with a sample of his historical novel, The Wild Vine. On July 28, neighborhood writers Andra Damron, Julia Duin, David Levy, William Loizeaux and Richard Morris

each read from their books and then took questions as a group.

Afterwards, seats started filling up for the weekly open-mic night, held from 9 to 11 p.m. on Thursdays; by 8:20, they were gone. First up was a 10-year-old Cheverly boy who read a poem he had written about taking a standardized test. (He was ushered out by his mother directly; maybe she guessed at the more adult themes to come.)

Performances are held in the Howard Zinn Room, a 150-seat space at the back of the restaurant. As its focal point, Shallal created a wall-length mural based on Langston Hughes’ 1920 poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” with Zinn at the center and several other 20th-century figures, from Bob Marley to Mother Teresa, at various points along the four rivers mentioned in the poem.

Of the artwork adorning the restaurant, much is local. “Rammed Earth Drawing,” which hangs to the left of the main bar, was made

by Mt. Rainier artist Margaret Boozer from clay that came from the construction site. Nearby, plaster-and-metal ceiling medallions form an installment called “Clouds,” by Cottage City artist Joanna Blake.

Other Gateway Arts District artists on permanent display here include Matthew Gifford, Sonia Keiner, J.J. McCracken, Alfredo Ratinoff and Cynthia Sands.

The restaurant began by serving dinner only; now, breakfast and lunch are served Monday through Friday and lunch on Saturday and Sunday beginning at noon. By August 14, earlier weekend openings will mean brunch both days from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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GOING GREEN IN 2011:

IN OTHER NEWS...

Need a tree?

FINAL SUMMER MOVIE TAKES PLACE ON AUGUST 19

This is the seventh in a series of stories about how City residents can make small changes to have a positive impact on our environment. We’ve covered alternative transit, rain barrels, and more.

This month’s installment recognizes a green and leafy way to help the planet.

Join us at Magruder Park for a special screening of The Princess and the Frog on Friday, August 19. Fun begins at 7:30 PM; the movie screens at dark. Don’t know the story? Set in New Orleans’ French Quarter, this return to hand-drawn animation is a modern twist on a classic tale. A beautiful girl named Tina finds a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again and with a fateful kiss, leads them on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana.

Refreshments are available for sale. Bring your own blanket or lawn chairs!

The City of Hyattsville is celebrating our twentieth year as a Tree City. Tree Cities, designated by the Arbor Day Foundation, demonstrate their commitment to urban forestry in several ways. Perhaps the most visible is that Tree Cities designate a minimum of $2 per capita towards forestry.

City residents can plant trees on their own property, of course, and there are many reasons to do so, like: • Providing shelter and food for birds and other animals • Lowering heating and cooling bills in homes and businesses • Offering better control of storm water run-off • Cleaning the air by absorbing pollutant gases and filtering particulates • Absorbing carbon dioxide and release oxygen back into the air Those simple street trees are an important tool in reducing global warming. In just one year, an acre of trees will absorb the same amount of carbon dioxide generated by driving a car 26,000 miles.

It is important to plant the right tree in the right place. How quickly will the tree grow? Will the tree have enough space to continue to grow in the future? Is Hyattsville’s climate a good match for the tree you have in mind? Do we have the right soil? Enough – or too much – sun?

The City of Hyattsville routinely plants trees in the public rights-of-way along City streets. Over the past few years, we’ve planted more than 300 new trees. We are always looking for new locations, especially because we can sometimes acquire trees at little or no cost through the County or State.

If you know of a location that might benefit from a Street Tree, visit our website at http://www.hyattsville.org/trees or call 301/985-5032 to suggest a location.

For more about the Tree City USA program, visit www.arborday.org.

HCPD RE-ACCREDITATION UNDERWAY

Alternative rock band Lovebettie plays on Friday, August 26.

Concert series returns to

University Town Center Looking for more music? Starting last month, University Town Center’s concert series returned to their plaza, most Fridays through October 28. Concerts run from 5:00 to 8:00 PM and admission is free. Weather permitting, the UTC fountain will be on during the performance. Some of their upcoming headliners include: Friday, August 19 R&B from Blu Neffu Friday, August 26 Alternative rock with Lovebettie Friday, September 2 The hip hop stylings of AG Friday, September 16 Powerplay’s mix of dance and pop Friday, September 30 Funk and R&B sounds from Higher Hands

UTC’s Plaza is located on America Boulevard, off of EastWest Highway. One-hour metered parking is available on their surface lot. Staying longer? The parking garage can be accessed from America Boulevard, too.

There are two remaining concerts in the Outback Steakhouse Summer Jam series. On Friday, August 12 JP McDermott brings red-hot rockabilly and vintage honky tonk to Gallatin Street.

Friday, September 9 is the final Outback Steakhouse Summer Jam of the series. Perennial favorites N2N will return with classic R&B, soul and funk. It is also the Police Department Open House, making it the biggest and the best of the Jams! Mandy the Clown will be back, you can get your kids’ mug shots taken in the police station, and don’t forget, September 9 will be your last chance to use your 2011 refillable mug!

The Hyattsville Police Department is scheduled for an on-site assessment as part of a program to obtain re-accreditation by verifying that it meets professional standards administered by the Commission of Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA). The program requires agencies to comply with established standards in four basic areas including the following: Policy and Procedures; Administration; Operations; and Support Services.

Anyone wishing to submit written comments concerning the ability of the Hyattsville Police Department to comply with CALEA standards may send those comments to The Commission for Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. The address is as follows: CALEA, Attn: Karen Shepard, 13575 Heathcote Boulevard, Suite 320, Gainesville, VA 20155.

Questions? Please contact Cpl. Christine Fekete, Accreditation Manager, at 301-985-5064 or cfekete@hyattsville.org.

LABOR DAY TRASH REMINDERS Please remember that the City does not collect Yard Waste on any holiday Monday. There will be no Yard Waste collection on Monday, September 5.

The next Yard Waste collection will be Monday, September 12. All regular household trash collections will take place as scheduled. Questions? Call the Department of Public Works at 301/985-5032.

THANKS TO OUR SUMMER STAFF Our fifth and final Summer Camp session takes place from Monday, August 15 through Friday, August 19. A few spots remain in Camp Tiny Tots (ages 3 – 4) and Camp Discovery (ages 10 – 13) and a waiting list is being maintained for Camp Jamboree (ages 5 – 9). We’d like to take this opportunity to offer a very special thank you to our camp counselors for their hard work making summer fun for our campers. For more information on our Sum-

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Fall Field Permitting Meeting

Aug 12, 6:30 to 8:30 PM

Outback Steakhouse Summer Jam featuring JP McDermott and Western Bop

Aug 15

mer Camp program, contact the Department of Recreation and the Arts at 301/985-5020 or http:// www.hyattsville.org/recreation.

GLOBAL CAREER LAUNCH INTERNS FINISH WORK IN HYATTSVILLE By foot, bike, and Segway, the City’s five interns from China, via the Global Career Launch program, completed almost 1,000 hours of work collecting data for the City’s Geographic Information System. Their efforts helped the City catalog assets like trash cans, crosswalks, and utility poles. After a summer working with the Offices of Community Development and Volunteer Services, Elden Chan, Scarlett Chen, Emma Wang, Aaron Lei, and Ivy Wang will return to complete their studies in China. We thank them for their efforts!

INTRODUCING NEW WARD 1 COUNCIL MEMBER, ERIC WINGARD Council Member Eric Wingard was elected on July 19, 2011 to take the seat vacated by new mayor Marc Tartaro. His first meeting was Monday, August 8.

Find his contact information at http:// www.hyattsville.org/council or contact the Office of the City Clerk at 301/985-5009.

ROAD WORK NEARING COMPLETION ON JEFFERSON STREET The City has completed milling on Jefferson Street and expects to complete paving during the month of August, just in time for back-to-school. Some temporary detours will be in place during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Questions? Call the Department of Public Works at 301/985-5032.

FARMERS MARKET OPEN FOR THE SEASON

Day Camps - Session III begins

Aug 19, 7:30 PM (movie at dusk)

Family Movie Night featuring The Princess and the Frog Magruder Park, 40th Avenue & Hamilton Street

Aug 22, 8:00 PM City Council Meeting

Sep 5

Labor Day – City Administrative Offices closed; No Yard Waste pick-up

Sep 6, 8:00 PM

City Council Meeting (Note: This meeting takes place on a Tuesday)

Sep 9, 6:30 to 8:30 PM

Outback Steakhouse Summer Jam featuring N2N and the Police Department Open House Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at the City Municipal Building, 4310 Gallatin Street.

day, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. Sizes Youth XS to Adult 2XL. Questions?

Call Abby Sandel at 301/985-5031. Traveling to a distant land – or even Ocean City? Snap a pic of you in your tee and send it to us at asandel@hyattsville.org! So far shirts have gone to Afghanistan, China, Croatia, Ecuador, Greece, Ireland, and Japan.

FALL EVENTS Three major events return to the City this Fall! On Saturday, September 24, the Downtown Hyattsville Arts Festival will take place on Jefferson Street at Route One. Hyattsville Cyclocross returns to Magruder Park on Sunday, October 9. And the Hyattsville Volunteer Fire Department’s 5-Mile Run will take place throughout the City on Saturday, October 22. Look for more information about all of these events in the next edition of the Hyattsville Reporter.

PEPCO INSTALLATION NEWS Pepco plans to install new digital electric meters in residential homes and businesses this month. You should receive a letter before installation takes place. If you have any questions, please visit www. pepco.com or call their Customer Care Center at 301/833-7500.

Harris Orchards and other Maryland producers returned for the 2011 season on Tuesday, June 14. Farm fresh produce and artisanal products are available every Tuesday afternoon, from 2 to 6 p.m., at the West Hyattsville Farmers Market. The market is located behind Queens Chapel Town Center, at the intersection of Queens Chapel Road and Hamilton Street. (Parking is available.) WIC and Senior FMNP checks are accepted.

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The City’s Department of Recreation and the Arts offers a yearlong calendar of programs for the whole family. To stay up-to-date, residents can now subscribe to the Department’s monthly eNews.

Packed with details on upcoming events, it is a must-read if you’re looking for affordable family fun in Hyattsville. Visit http://www. hyattsville.org/eNews to subscribe.

Show your civic pride with an I Am Hyattsville tee.

Available at all Outback Steakhouse Summer Jams for just $10, or stop by the City Administrative offices during business hours, Monday through Fri-

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

RECREATION NEWS IN YOUR INBOX

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR August 12

August 14

The Outback Steakhouse Summer Jam series continues this evening, with a moon bounce for the kids and a beer garden for adults. This month, JP McDermott & Western Bop will bring their rockabilly and honky-tonk tunes to the stage. Burgers, chicken and hot dogs will be prepared

by Outback Steakhouse. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Free. Hyattsville Municipal Building, 4310 Gallatin Street. 301.985.5020.

As part of the Sunday-evening Arts on The Waterfront series, Oasis Island Sounds breaks out the steel drums for a performance of reggae, calypso and African music. Free. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Bladensburg Waterfront Park, 4601 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg. 301.779.0371.

August 13 This is your last chance to see Artistic Reflections, a show of works by (and inspired by) nationally acclaimed Hyattsville artist David C. Driskell; it closes today. Free. Weekdays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Brentwood Arts Exchange, 3901 Rhode Island Avenue, Brentwood. 301.277.2863.

During the 16th Annual Battle of Bladensburg Encampment, re-enactors portray camp life on the eve of what would be one of the worst American defeats in the War of 1812. Events include cannon firing, gunnery drills, dress-up stations and more. Free; admission charge for house tours. Noon to 4 p.m. Riversdale House Museum, 4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park. 301.864.0420.

August 18 The season finale of Jazz on the Lawn at Riversdale, a sunset concert series, features the local group Cheek to Cheek.

Free; dinner from the Calvert House available for purchase. 7 to 8 p.m. Riversdale House Museum, 4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park. 301.864.0420.

August 19 Disney’s take on the fairytale classic The Princess & the Frog is the last in the city’s outdoor summer movie series. Begins at 7:30 p.m. in Magruder Park, 40th Avenue and Hamilton Street. Free; refreshments available for sale. Bring your own blanket or lawn chairs. 301.985.5020.

August 20 At 6 a.m., Hyattsville Police Chief Doug Holland, and members of other local po-

lice forces, will climb up on the roof of Dunkin Donuts on Queens Chapel Road – and stay there for a while! Come for your coffee and support this fundraiser for the Maryland Special Olympics. 3030 Queens Chapel Road, 240.696.7363.

Join the book discussion of Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, set in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi. (Or you could cheat and see the movie; it opens August 10.) Free. 3 p.m. Hyattsville Library, 6530 Adelphi Road. 301.985.4690.

August 21 Among the many events lined up at Busboys & Poets is its first-ever Senior Open Mic Night; to take the stage, you must be at least 65. It’s from 9 to 11 p.m., and seating is limited. A 6 p.m. concert by the Foggy Bottom Guitar Orchestra kicks off the evening. Howard Zinn Room, Busboys & Poets, 5331 Baltimore Avenue.

301.779.2787 or busboysandpoets.com/ events.

August 27 Windy afternoons are coming, and you can be ready for them after attending the College Park Aviation Museum’s kite workshop. $8 workshop fee includes museum admission. 1 p.m. 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park. 301.864.6029.

September 3 Bring your wheels for a guided Bicycle Nature Tour of park trails, for ages 10 and up. $2. 9 a.m. to noon. Bladensburg Waterfront Park, 4601 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg. 301.779.0371.

September 7 Join the Hyattsville Coalition for Aging in Place monthly meeting to learn what residents and city staff are doing to create an intergenerational community volunteer network just for seniors. 7 p.m.

Hyattsville Municipal Building, 4310 Gallatin Street. Contact Lisa Walker at lisawalkerdc@gmail.com.

September 10 Put on some old clothes and come to the Anacostia River Clean-Up at Bladensburg Waterfront Park to help clean our local waterways. All ages welcome; adults must accompany children 16 and under.

Free. 9:30 a.m. to noon. 4601 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg. 301.779.0371.

Ongoing On Friday evenings in August, one price buys unlimited train trips, carousel rides and mini-golf rounds during Fabulous

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Jam 2011 The second Friday of every month, May through September, 6:30 to 8:30 PM City Municipal Building, 4310 Gallatin Street Rain or Shine!

Admission is free; delicious food for sale

August 12 JP McDermott & Western Bop September 9 N2N, Police Dept. Open House

Tour the station, get your mug shot taken, and more!

THIS SUMMER, THE CITY OF HYATTSVILLE DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION & THE ARTS PRESENTS

MOVIES AT MAGRUDER PARK The Princess and the Frog Friday, August 19 at 7:30 PM Magruder Park, 40th Avenue & Hamilton Street All events are free and open to the public.

Refreshments are available for sale.

Bring your own blanket or lawn chairs!

Questions? Call 301/985-5020.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR life. Free; registration required for groups of 12 or more. Bladensburg Waterfront Park, 4601 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg.

301.779.0371.

Browse clothing, housewares and more at reasonable prices at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Thrift Shop, Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 4512 College Avenue, College Park. 301.864.8880.

courtesy of brentwood arts center Ò YorubaÊ Couple,Ó Ê byÊ DavidÊ Driskell,Ê isÊ onÊ viewÊ atÊ theÊ BrentwoodÊ ArtsÊ Center.

Fridays at Watkins Regional Park. $5 per person. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro 301.218.6700.

The Hyattsville Farmers’ Market offers just-picked produce, herbs, plants and more. Tuesdays, 2 to 6 p.m. Queens Chapel Road and Hamilton Street.

301.627.0977.

The producers-only Riverdale Park Farmer’s Market is open for the season, with a variety of local vegetables and fruits, honey, baked goods, meat, jams, flowers and more. Free. Thursdays, 3 to 7 p.m. 4650 Queensbury Road, Riverdale Park. 301.332.6258.

At the Mount Rainier Farmer’s Market, browse local wines,

bread, produce, flowers and more.

Free. Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

City Hall Civic Plaza, Rhode Island Avenue and Perry Street, Mount Rainier. 301.332.6258.

This isn’t your toddler’s Sit & Spin.

At A Tangled Skein yarn shop, the name refers to fourth-Friday gatherings where drop-spindle and spinning-wheel users can work on individual projects, guided by spinning expert Anne O’Connor. Free. 7 to 9 p.m. And if you need more chances to unwind, come to the twice weekly Sit & Stitch sessions: Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m., and Thursdays, 1 to 3 p.m. They’re open to knitters and crocheters of any experience level.

Free. 5200 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 101. 301.779.3399.

Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month, the Peter Pan Club for preschoolers includes storytime and hands-on craft activities. Free with museum admission of $4 for adults ($2 for children). 10:30 a.m.

College Park Aviation Museum, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park. 301.864.6029.

The Hyattsville library offers a variety of storytimes. Space is limited; free tickets available at the Children’s Desk. Ages 9-23 months with caregiver: Mondays, 10:15 a.m. Ages 2-3: Mondays, 11 a.m. and Tuesdays, 10:15 a.m. Ages 3-5: Tuesdays, 11 a.m.

Ages 3-6: Wednesdays, 7 p.m. English-Spanish Storytime for ages 3-6: Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. 6530 Adelphi Road. 301.985.4690.

Free, 45-minute Anacostia River Boat Tours are held Tuesdays through Fridays at noon and weekends at 5 p.m. All ages are welcome to join a park naturalist on a pontoon boat to search for birds and other wild-

Community Calendar is compiled by Susie Currie. To submit an item for consideration, please e-mail susie@ hyattsvillelife.com or mail to P.O. Box 132, Hyattsville, MD 20781. Deadline for September submissions is August 20.

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COMMENTARY & OPINION ON HISTORY & POLITICS

Hugh’sNews

First into Nagasaki it was the wrong decision. It was wrong on strategic grounds. It was wrong on humanitarian grounds.”

During the war Zacharias was Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence. He said, “We knew quite definitely by the end of 1944… that important elements in Japan were ready to sue for peace.”

Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal supported efforts to negotiate a Japanese surrender. The Emperor of Japan had asked the Holy See in Rome to intervene, with Pope Pius XII as a mediator.

Tokyo had also asked the Russians to help negotiate a peace.

According to Zacharias, delays by the State Department and the White House in negotiating peace were the result of top-secret decisions reached at Yalta with Stalin. Forrestal had opposed giving Russia the Kuril Islands and postwar influence over China. Russia’s declaration of war on Japan on August 8, 1945, had no effect on the outcome but let the Russians drive into East Asia.

If the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the preservation of the institution of the emperor, the war might have ended earlier.

The bloody battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa could have been avoided and there almost certainly never would have been a Korean War.

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On August 6 and 9, 1945, Paul Tibbetts and Charles W. Sweeney piloted the bombers that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A little-known fact almost stranger than fiction is that they were also the first Americans to go to Japan and see the devastation of their bombs.

Japan officially surrendered aboard the USS Missouri on September 2, and the next day Tibbetts and Sweeney flew from their base on Tinian to Omura, about 15 miles from Nagasaki.

“We did not know the Navy was waiting offshore to get radiation clearance,” Sweeney told Reed Irvine, head of the group Accuracy in Media, in 1995. “We didn’t even know about radiation.”

During World War II, Irvine was a young Marine lieutenant and a Japanese interpreter. He was surprised when Sweeney told him they went in with no interpreters in their group of about 20 men.

In his 1997 book War’s End: An Eyewitness Account of America’s Last Atomic Mission, Sweeney wrote that when they landed at Omura, several bewildered Japanese soldiers met them. The Americans used pidgin English and pantomime to secure some rickety, rusted trucks

for the 15-mile drive to Nagasaki.

They spent the night at a small resort hotel on the outskirts of Nagasaki, which had been a popular tourist destination before the war. Sweeney writes that the English-speaking innkeepers “took care of us as best they could,” despite the drastic food shortages at the end of the war.

At first Sweeney hesitated to sign his name on the hotel register, but did so after Tibbetts boldly wrote “Colonel Paul W. Tibbetts USAAF.” No one knew they were the men who had dropped the bombs.

Both Tibbetts and Sweeney held the popular opinion that the atomic bombs were necessary to force the Japanese to surrender and that the killing of an estimated 200,000 Japanese civilians saved American lives.

Others have said the Japanese had already lost militarily and efforts to negotiate their surrender were ongoing from early 1945.

President Dwight Eisenhower told Newsweek in 1963, “The Japanese were already defeated and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.”

Rear Admiral Ellis Zacharias, in a Look magazine article published on June 6, 1950, wrote of dropping the atomic bombs: “I submit that

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fewer students.

“It was good to get the perspective of being an assistant principal in both Howard and Prince George’s counties,” he said.

In an interview during his first week on the job, he said that he’s “still gathering data” from staff and parents. Incoming PTSA president Chris Hinojosa, mother of a rising junior, said she hopes the new academic year will bring improved communication with parents.

“That aspect really suffered last year, when the parent-liaison positions were cut at the schools,” she said.

CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SCHOOL Incoming Concordia head Jeff Burkee moves here from Battle Creek, Neb., with 25 years of experience as a Lutheran principal.

He replaces David Falkner, who retired in June after nine years.

The school, jointly run by Hyattsville’s Redeemer Lutheran Church and Mount Rainier’s Trinity Lutheran Church, has been at its current location on East-West Highway for

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decades. But, said Redeemer pastor Eric Linthicum, many people don’t know it’s there.

“We’re at the point where we need to rebrand the school and get our name out there in the community,” said Linthicum, who started in November. So he turned to a principal he’d worked with before as pastor of a church in Cincinnati. Burkee, he knew, had experience in both.

“My priority is to build enrollment and stabilize the school,” said Burkee, a father of six adult children.

“People are shopping for schools differently today.”

When he started, he said, parents chose parochial schools largely because they valued the religious underpinnings. “That’s not enough anymore,” said Burkee. “Now parents say, ’That’s cool, but how are you preparing my child for the digital world?’ ” HYATTSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL Kimberly Washington is taking over at Hyattsville Middle School.

Originally from Portsmouth, Va., she taught in Norfolk for eight years before coming to Prince George’s County through a program called

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Two other positions were authorized this year: a part-time senior services coordinator and a second parking officer.

Rose said that getting a director for code enforcement would probably need to wait for an overall restructuring of the city staff, something he said the city council has been considering for some time.

“I’m working with council and staff [to determine] the best structure for this organization. We’ve started the process and will continue to move forward with it. We hope that the HR manager will be hired prior to completing the restructuring.”

Sandel said that any time a long-term administrator leaves, a re-examination of the organization is inevitable. Former Administrator Elaine Murphy left in March after more than 11 years.

Mayor Marc Tartaro said that the city is moving in the right direction in terms of staffing.

“My perception is that in the past the city was run

New Leaders for New Schools.

The program works with large urban school districts to recruit and train principals. Washington was resident principal at Bowie High School and then served as principal in two schools in Baltimore before coming back to this county.

As a goal, Washington said, “I plan to build on the rich history of Hyattsville Middle School and to continue its level of excellence in academics and the arts.”

Some HMS parents talked with Washington in an informal meeting July 27 at the Hyattsville Busboys & Poets. HMS PTA president Errick King was there.

“We were all very impressed so far with some things the new principal is doing,” he said. “We noticed her interest in communicating with parents and she has so far been administering the school very well. She scheduled classes for this year without having to use the temporary buildings and she rearranged the lunches so they are much more organized.”

Communicating well with parents and teachers surfaced as a top priority item at a June meeting where parents and teachers discussed the attributes they hoped for in a new HMS principal.

more like a family-run business. Given the economy and where we are now, we want people to perform at a higher level: smart, empowered to make decisions, and if they make a mistake, they learn from it. It’s a different kind of model,” he said. “My goal is to give people that opportunity and I think all of them would succeed.”

The city council selects department heads with staff input. According to Rose, 11 recruitment firms submitted proposals for the job of filling one position, the CIO. The proposal on the Aug. 1 agenda was to contract with the Mercer Group for recruitment of the CIO person and other services, for a cost not to exceed $50,000.

However, some councilmembers wanted the process to focus on hiring the human resources person first. Ruth Ann Frazier (Ward 5) said, “We’ve needed a good HR person for a long time. We’ve had the appropriation in the budget for the last two years, yet we still don’t have one. It’s ridiculous, the amount of money we’ve spent in the last several years on recruiting for different positions in the city – remember the turnovers? – because we don’t have our own HR person.”

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T-Ball and youth baseball are regular staples at Magruder Park.

But on July 31, the park hosted a contest that likely hasn’t been played in Hyattsville in more than a century.

The Potomac Nine of Washington, D.C., battled the Cecil Base Ball Club of Chesapeake City, Md., in a doubleheader of vintage “base ball.” About 75 people ventured out on the toasty Sunday to see the game the way it was played in 1864, complete with hot dogs, peanuts and Cracker Jack for the fans. (OK, go ahead and finish singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”)

The competition was sponsored by the City of Hyattsville, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Anacostia Trails Heritage Association as part of Hyattsville’s 125th anniversary celebration.

It was played on what was once known as Wine’s Fields.

Potomac’s Howard “Ivy” Berkof – all players have nicknames – became interested in the sport after reading about an upcoming game

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“I went and checked it out and immediately got hooked,” Berkof said. “I said that’s something I want to do.”

Players of that era were called “ballists.” Pitchers were “hurlers” and hitters were “strikers.” The hurlers throw underhanded at an expanded strike zone. A ball that initially lands fair but goes foul is considered fair. A ball caught “on the bound,” or a bounce, is an out. The bases are 90 feet apart, as they are now, and the barrels of the wood bats are a little thinner than today’s.

Probably the most noticeable difference is that the ballists play barehanded; gloves didn’t catch on until the mid-1880s. The ball is a little softer and a little bigger than a modern baseball.

“It hurts when hit hard and struck at you, and it can have spin and move on you, so it’s not as easy,” Berkof said. “But yet you won’t find too many people getting finger injuries or hand injuries.”

Fielders have to field anything from soft fly balls to screeching line drives. Hard throws are often directed to the first baseman.

“It’s tough to be a first base-

man, especially if you get balls in the ground,” Berkof said.

“On a ground such as this, where the bounces can go everywhere, it’s tough. But it’s part of the game, and that’s why we play it out.”

The Potomac Nine are part of the Chesapeake and Potomac Base Ball Club, which includes the Chesapeake Nine of Baltimore. Berkof, the club general manager, said a third team, the Northern Virginia-based Old Dominions, will begin play next season. The teams play in the Mid Atlantic Vintage Base Ball League, which stretches from Southern Maryland to New York. Their uniforms, language and mannerisms are expected to be from the 1860s.

“It’s kind of like a throwback to when baseball first started, what it was all about way back,” Potomac ballist Gene “Pop” Meacham said. “I really enjoy history, and this is the history of baseball, what it was like in the 1860s. So it’s a lot of fun.”

Berkof handed out club flyers between games and answered onlookers’ questions.

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tory and be authentic about how we play and how we talk,” he said.

“It’s a lot of fun and we’re honoring history, too. Baseball is such a great sport and one that is timeless.”

If you’d like to see a game, the club will be playing at Hunting-

ton South Park in Bowie on September 25 at 2 p.m. If you are interested in joining, contact Berkof at hberkof@yahoo.com.

Chris McManes is a longtime TBall coach in Hyattsville.

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