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Bethesda duo create messaging app for children BY

PEGGY MCEWAN STAFF WRITER

Annelise Schiebler had a problem — a First World problem to be sure, but still a problem for the Bethesda 9-year-old. She wanted to be able to chat online with her friends. When she shared her desire with her father, Andrew Schiebler, they looked for an app for Annelise and her friends to use. “We thought it would be easy, but it wasn’t,” Annelise said. That’s because the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 requires companies that make and sell messaging apps directed at children younger than 13 to obtain parental consent. As a result, many app companies don’t want to bother, Schiebler said. Popular with adults are Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, Schiebler said, and, with teens, Snapchat, Instagram and Kik Messenger. But there was nothing for the under-13 crowd. With no apps available for Annelise to chat with family and her friends at Wood Acres El-

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Neatly dressed in suits and ties, high school and college students waited patiently Friday in Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s ofﬁce on Capitol Hill. The group was ready to impress the importance of an issue that weighed on their minds — sexual assault on college campuses. The students were among

County plans to clear Capital Crescent route again next winter BY

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Hikers, bikers and runners can rejoice: Montgomery County’s Department of Parks is making plans to clear snow from the Capital Crescent Trail again next winter. After years of requests from users, the county this winter launched a pilot program to

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“This could make no business sense whatsoever,” says Andrew Schiebler of Bethesda, who with his daughter Annelise, 9, developed a mobile messaging app for children. “But my sweet little daughter wanted to do it.” ementary School, the Schieblers “postponed” ﬁnding a solution, Schiebler said. “Later [Annelise] was asking me about [my career],” Schiebler said. “And she said, ‘Dad, let’s make an app.’” Schiebler, a software engineer and consultant, had created apps before, but nothing fancy, he said. Designing a social media

app was “out of the box” for him. “I thought it was a bad idea, but as a dad I thought I wanted her to get experienced with social media before [she was] 13,” Schiebler said. “To me, that’s the wild west.” Most elementary-age children don’t have their own phones, Schiebler said, but once they get to middle school and

turn 13, most do get phones and are eligible to sign up for social media accounts without parental consent. Having a chat app for younger children that their parents can monitor helps them learn the etiquette of social media. So he and Annelise started

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about 40 that trekked to Washington, D.C., on Friday as part of an effort by Jewish Women International, the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity and Aleph Zadik Aleph, a program under a Jewish teen movement called BBYO. Both the young men in college and those soon headed to campuses participated in the event called “Brother to Brother,” which encompassed training, discussion and trips to the ofﬁces of ﬁve senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Several students hailed from Montgomery County Public Schools’ Wootton, Sherwood, Walter Johnson, Churchill and Richard Montgomery high

schools. Jules Jacobs, a 16-year-old sophomore at Wootton High in Rockville and the event’s founder, said the goal of Friday’s sessions with congressional staff members was to share personal stories to help spur national lawmakers to vote for legislation on the issue. They are not pushing for any particular bill. Friday’s effort was also important, he said, to help the young men involved understand that their voices can be heard by legislators and they can make a difference. “We need to be able to make a voice in what we want change in,” said Jules, president of the

Sammy Davis Jr. AZA, a local chapter. Bryan Pfeffer — president of Zeta Beta Tau at the University of Maryland, College Park — led a group of college and high school students in Warren’s ofﬁce. The young men took turns sharing their thoughts with a staffer. Pfeffer said students don’t feel safe on college campuses. Jules said it’s important that those who have been sexually assaulted “get justice” and help with their recovery. “It really affects the families and friends, further than just the

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clear the popular rails-to-trails route from downtown Bethesda to the Washington, D.C., line. The National Park Service already cleared the Washington section of the trail, which leads into Georgetown by the Potomac River. To run the program, the parks department spent $55,000 for special equipment including a Polar Trac machine, said Bill Tyler, the southern region division chief for parks. The Polar Trac can turn on the spot, run broom and snow blower attachments, and operate as a mower.

Parks crews used the new snow-removal equipment to make the paved trail inviting and safer for users. Ron Tripp, chairman of the nonproﬁt Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail, said trail users appreciated the county’s granting their request to clear snow from the trail. The new equipment does a better job than plowing the snow, which would creates ice patches and form banks, eliminating level snow-covered edges that some trail users prefer, Tripp said. Labor to remove snow 18

times during more than a halfdozen snowfalls along Montgomery’s 3.3-mile stretch of the Capital Crescent Trail cost $6,000, Tyler said. Tripp said the parks department’s work cut the frustration that many users — particularly commuters — faced in winters past when they headed north out of Washington, only to ﬁnd the trail blocked by snow when they hit the Montgomery County line. Tripp said he would like the county to coordinate snow

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On a recent evening in downtown Bethesda, motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists streamed along Woodmont Avenue, enjoying slightly warmer temperatures after weeks of winter chill. At the intersection with Bethesda Avenue, scaffolding covered part of a building with a sign advertising a spring 2015 opening. Outside the building was a blue sign with an electronic display advertising 646 parking spaces available underground. The influx of new spaces in the long-awaited multiuse Lot 31 project comes at time when parking garages in downtown Bethesda are facing questions about their financial viability — although county officials are hopeful that County Executive Isiah Leggett’s proposed budget will solve the problem. The county has four parking lot districts, which provide public parking that’s financed by commercial property owners

who opt to pay a tax to build and maintain public parking rather than include on-site parking on their properties. But according to a January report from Montgomery County’s Office of Legislative Oversight, while the parking lot districts in Silver Spring, Montgomery Hills and Wheaton are in solid economic shape, the Bethesda district, which was established in 1947, faces “serious structural challenges that will cause the fund to fall into deficit unless corrective actions are taken.” A lack of adequate fund reserves has left the district unable to absorb a potential unexpected rise in expenses or downturn in revenue, the report said. The districts’ enterprise funds get revenue from parking fees, parking fines, property taxes and miscellaneous revenue, the report said. While revenues from most of these categories remain fairly stable from year to year, miscellaneous revenue can vary a great deal. For example, the report said, the Bethesda district received a big spike from the onetime sale in fiscal 2014 of $33.5 million in bonds related to the Lot 31 project.

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‘Pain’ art exhibit causes GreenFest discomfort Festival exhibitors moved to keep children from seeing drawings at college

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

Questions about the appropriateness of an art exhibit at Montgomery College’s art center in Silver Spring led to a venue change Saturday at GreenFest. About 30 festival exhibitors were moved from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center to another building after county officials suggested that art on display in the center’s foyer might not be appropriate for the family-friendly event, said Patrick Lacefield, a spokesman for County Executive Isiah Leggett (D). The county originally asked the college to move the art before the entities agreed to find an alternate venue. At issue were drawings by artist Cindi Hron of Pennsylvania in an exhibit titled, “Back Pain.”

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County ofﬁcials said some of the images in the “Cindi Hron: Back Pain” exhibit at Montgomery College “might not be appropriate for children” attending Saturday’s GreenFest in Silver Spring.

Hron’s collection depicts an unclothed female torso — from both the front and back — marked with scars, wounds and more.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 College Savings Plans of Maryland Free Informational Session, 4-7 p.m.,

Montgomery College, 51 Mannakee St., Rockville. Representatives can answer questions, provide information and offer enrollment help for families interested in its two Section 529 Plans: the Maryland Prepaid College Trust and the Maryland College Investment Plan. Free. lshipley@ collegesavingsmd.org.

Child, Adolescent and Teenager Grief Support Group, 6-7:30 p.m., Montgomery

Hospice, 1355 Piccard Drive, Rockville. For children through teens who have experienced the death of a parent or sibling. Free, registration required. 301-921-4400. Zumba, 6:30-8 p.m., 111 Geneva Ave., Silver Spring. Fun and ﬁtness for all ages. $10. cogicsports@yahoo.com. Business Oriented Toastmasters, 8-9:30 p.m., Potomac Valley Nursing Home, 1235 Potomac Valley Road, Rockville. People can present prepared speeches, give impromptu speeches, offer constructive evaluations and practice conducting meetings. Free for ﬁrst-time guests. 202-957-9988.

THURSDAY, APRIL 2 Orientation to Small Business Resources, 10-11 a.m., Maryland Women’s

Business Center, 51 Monroe St., Plaza East, Rockville. Learn about resources in the area to help start and grow a business. Free. donna@marylandwbc.org.

Step Lively, Please, Aboard the Spring Break Special, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m., National

Capital Trolley Museum, 1313 Bonifant Road, Colesville. Tour Street Car Hall, participate in storytime and watch trolley-era cartoons. dctrolley.org. The Grapevine Storytelling Series, 7:30 p.m., Takoma Park Community Center, 7500 Maple Ave. Celebrate the art of the bards with stories of all kinds, including truths and myths. Featuring stories by Jane Dorfman and Jackson Gillman. $10 suggested donation. emilyc@takomaparkmd.gov. Norbeck Toastmasters Meeting, 7:308:30 p.m., Solana Assisted Living Facility, 2611 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. Develop public speaking and leadership skills in a fun, positive environment. Free for ﬁrst-time guests. contact-367@toastmastersclubs.org.

Speechcraft and Meeting Management Workshop, 8-9:30 p.m., Tikvat Israel, 2200

Baltimore Road, Rockville. A four-session workshop to enhance presentation, meeting management and leadership skills. $20. robertkatz37@gmail.com.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 3 Annual Easter Egg Hunt, noon-3 p.m., Bethesda Health and Rehab Center, 5721 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda. Egg and spoon races and sack races for children. Free. maclayton-brady@savasc.com. Drawing Fundamentals, 1-3:30 p.m., Marilyn J. Praisner Library, 14910 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. An eight-week class about the principles of good composition and the basics of drawing. Ages 55 and up. Free, registration for all eight sessions required. anne.seiler@montgomerycountymd.gov.

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You Mean They’re Not True? Busting Media Myths, 1:30-3:45

p.m., Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road. Communications professor, author and blogger W. Joseph Campbell debunks prominent media-driven myths. Free. ncas@ncas.org. montgomerycountymd.gov.

Divorce 101: Finding Support, 7-9 p.m., Montgomery County Bar Foundation, 21 W. Jefferson St., Rockville. A six-week series of public education seminars to help people contemplating or in early stages of divorce. $10 per session. 301-924-4101.

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MONDAY, APRIL 6 Archaeology in Montgomery County, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Sandy Spring Museum, 17901 Bentley Road. Students will have an introduction to the procedures, tools and archaeological processes that allow for interpretation of artifacts through demonstrations and a hands-on “dig” on the museum property. Ages 9-12. $75-$80; $20 for before and after care. info@sandyspringmuseum.org. Book Talk: Scott Miller, author of “Refuge Denied,” 2 p.m., Ingleside at King

Farm, 701 King Farm Blvd., Rockville. Miller will discuss his research and and some of the discoveries he made throughout his 10-year writing process. Free, RSVP required. 240-499-9019.

TUESDAY, APRIL 7 Bethesda Woman’s Club Lecture and Lunch, 11 a.m.-2:15 p.m., 5500 Sonoma

Road. With retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Wilma Vaught, president of the Women in Military Service for American Memorial Fund. $14. bethesdawomansclub.com. ABCs of Starting a Business, 1-4:30 p.m., Maryland Women’s Business Center, 51 Monroe St., Plaza East, Rockville. Learn more about the steps involved and discover the many resources available for support. Questions about legal structures answered by a lawyer. $35. donna@marylandwbc.org. Hands-On STEM Fun, 4 p.m., Wheaton Library, 11701 Georgia Ave. Science-based crafts and/or experiments. Grades 1-6. Free. 240-777-0678. Citizenship Preparation Program, 6 p.m., Westﬁeld South Ofﬁce Building, 11002 Veirs Mill Road, Suite 306, Wheaton. Program through Montgomery College to assist with the test and interview. Free. Izis.Weills@montgomerycollege.edu. African American Book Discussion, 7 p.m., Marilyn J. Praisner Library, 14910 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. Copies of this month’s book are available for checkout at the information desk. anne.seiler@

Sinbad: The Untold Tale, 10:30 a.m., Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda. Learn about Sinbad the Sailor, who has retired from his notorious adventures and is trying to keep his feisty daughter Ittifaq safe from the sorceress Jan Shah. $10 and up. 301-280-1660. Volunteer Tutor Information Session, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Rockville Memorial Library, second-ﬂoor meeting room, 21 Maryland Ave. For volunteers interested in helping adults learn to read, write or speak English. Tutors work one-on-one or with small groups; no foreign language skills are necessary. Free, registration required by April 6. info@literacycouncilmcmd.org. SoulCycle Charity Ride, 12:30-1:15 p.m., SoulCycle Bethesda, 4931 Elm St. All proceeds beneﬁt Washington Humane Society. $30 per bike. 301-980-7331.

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LGBTQ Youth Forum: Movie and Dinner, 4 p.m., 355 Linthicum St., Rockville.

Coalition formed by Equality Maryland, Human Rights Campaign, Rainbow Youth Alliance, Honorary Nieces & Nephews and Rockville United Church. Screening of new movie, “To Write Love on Her Arms,” with dinner to follow. Free. lgbtq.youth. forum@gmail.com. Monthly Sleep Support Group, 6-8 p.m., Sleep Services of Maryland, 15200 Shady Grove Road, Rockville. Educational group on sleep disorders, latest treatments and current sleep equipment available. Open to patients, their families, community. Free. sleepservicesmd2@gmail.com. Wambara Live, 6-10 p.m., Fire Station 1 Restaurant, 8131 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring. Moderator-driven conversations with authors, musicians, entrepreneurs and others. Free. 510-459-5395. Radical Harmonies, 7:30 p.m., 7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park. A full-length documentary that chronicles the Women’s Music Cultural Movement and its evolution from a “girl with guitar” to a revolution in the roles of women in music and culture. arts@takomaparkmd.gov.

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Federal jobs initially believed to be leaving Montgomery County for Utah are staying put, federal ofﬁcials said. The Gazette reported Friday that as many as 100 jobs with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Program Support Center could be moving to

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Bethesda kidney donor participates in fundraiser A Bethesda woman who was part of a six-person kidney exchange with her mother in 2012 is participating for the third year in the Greater Baltimore Kidney Walk on April 19 at Camden Yards. Kelly Gordon, 29, donated her kidney in an operation at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. It went to a recipient at the hospital that day; he was a middle-aged Maryland man, Gordon said in an email. Meanwhile, that same day at the Baltimore hospital, her mother, Terry Enfield, 64, of University Park, who had been suffering from kidney problems for decades, received a donated kidney that was ﬂown in from a Pennsylvania hospital that morning. In 2011 Gordon learned that her mother’s kidneys were functioning below 20 percent and she looked into donating her kidney directly to her mother, but they were not compatible. Nor were other relatives and friends who wanted to donate a kidney to Enﬁeld. “I felt hopeless and wanted to be able to do anything to help my mother,” Gordon wrote. As she researched kidney disease, she learned of the kidney walk and formed a team to show support for her mother. She also learned of the kidney paired exchange program

Utah. But the department said Monday that no jobs will be leaving the region. “PSC has office staff in almost 20 locations nationwide,” says a statement provided Monday by Michael Weiss, director of the Office of Communication for the Program Support Center. “We’re evaluating our options as to where our offices and facilities should be — both within the National Capitol Region (NCR) and beyond — based on a range of factors. As part of this effort we have recently completed a thorough review of the activi-

ties and operations of the PSC employees in the NCR and have determined not to move existing jobs outside of NCR.” “I’m pleased that HHS addressed the concerns of its many hard-working employees in the region and decided against relocating jobs away from the area,” Rep. Christopher Van Hollen Jr. said in a statement Monday. “This is great news for families who faced an uncertain future, who can now live without worry of being uprooted, and can continue to call Maryland home.” Van Hollen’s ofﬁce said he

heard from concerned constituents that the Health and Human Services department planned to move jobs to Utah from its Program Support Center — which has ofﬁces in Bethesda, Rockville and Washington, D.C. Van Hollen (D-Dist. 8) of Kensington wrote on March 23 to Secretary Sylvia Burwell asking for more details, speciﬁcally the status of the relocation plan, a description of any alternatives and an analysis that shows relocating the jobs would save money. “HHS employees are an asset to the region, providing

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Actor Kal Penn was among the celebrities whom Pearl Hoffman-Byer of Kensington met last month at the White House.

Bethesda centenarian honored for needlework PHOTO FROM HARRIET WINNER

Florence Newman, 100, of Bethesda recently won honors for her needlework at the Woodlawn needlework show in Virginia. State Department, teaching English and business skills to employees. Newman said her typical day starts by “working a beautiful piece of needlepoint” in a favorite chair near a window in her condominium.

Kensington girl recognized for library video Pearl Hoffman-Byer, 10, of Kensington recently received honorable mention in the White House Film Festival Contest for her video about Noyes Library in Kensington. Pearl, a fourth-grader at

Kensington Parkwood Elementary School, created, narrated and stars in a three-minute video about the community’s fundraising efforts to save the children’s library. It also features her interviews with several parents at the library. Pearl also discusses her own efforts, ﬁrst as a 4-year-old donating her $8 in change to the library, then setting up a lemonade stand to raise money. She attended a White House ceremony on March 20, where she met with President Barack Obama and had her photograph taken with several celebrities, including actors Kal Penn, Amber Riley and Ken Howard, presi-

dent of the Screen Actors Guild. Pearl’s video is at tinyurl. com/qzocvng In other news, the library foundation is launching a Pennies-a-Page Read-a-thon fundraiser. Per-page pledges from adult sponsors will help fund library renovations. The fundraiser is open to all ages. Participants use the pledge form at noyeslibraryfoundation.org to record their reading through April 21, then collect donations April 21-25. To cap off the drive, a dance party is planned for 3 to 5 p.m. April 25 at Kensington Town Hall, 3710 Mitchell St. All are welcome. Admission is $5 or $20 per family, with free admission to anyone with a completed Read-a-thon form. Children can come dressed as their favorite storybook character and prizes will be given.

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NCR [national capital region].” The Program Support Center is “hosted by” HHS and is “the largest multi-function shared service provider to the Federal government,” according to its website, psc.gov. It was established 20 years ago to reduce HHS spending and improve administrative services. Today, it provides services for administrative operation, financial management, occupational health, real estate and procurement management, the site says. kalexander@gazette.net

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at the Baltimore hospital and signed up for it. On Dec. 18, 2012, they had their respective surgeries. About 2,200 Marylanders await a kidney for transplantation. The Baltimore hospital peforms 15 to 20 paired kidney exchanges a year, accounting for about 20 percent is living donor volume, according to Dr. David Leeser, chief of kidney and pancreas transplantation at the hospital. Gordon’s team is called Momma E. Those who wish to support the team in the April 19 walk, with donations or walking, may sign up at donate.kidney. org/goto/ForMommaE.

Centenarian Florence Newman of Bethesda recently won second- and third-place prizes at one of the nation’s largest needlework shows, at historic Woodlawn plantation in Alexandria, Va. Newman entered two pieces. She won second place for a wall hanging and third place for a large pillow, both in the canvas work-traditional category. Born in Cleveland in 1914, Newman attended Ohio State University through a New Deal program that gave $15 a month to students who wanted to go to college and were willing to work, according to a news release. After moving to the Washington area, she taught business at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, retiring after 13 years. She then volunteered at the

essential services to our community and serving as a strong pillar of the local economy,” Van Hollen said in a written statement Thursday. “They deserve a clear explanation of HHS’s future stafﬁng plans, and I’m making sure the Department is aware of the negative impact that relocating jobs away from the region would have on our community.” In an email obtained by The Gazette dated 8:25 p.m. Friday, Program Support Center Director Paul Bartley told employees that “we have determined not to move existing jobs outside of

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Jacob Wall of Bethesda, a sixth-grader from the British School of Washington, won Friday’s 2015 District of Columbia National Geographic State Bee. Jacob will receive $100 and represent Washington in the 27th annual National Geographic Bee on May 11-13 at the National Geographic Society’s headquarters in Washington. The national champion will receive a $50,000 college scholarship, a lifetime membership in the society and a trip to the Galápagos Islands. Second- and third-place ﬁnishers will receive $25,000 and $10,000 college scholarships, respectively. The National Geographic Channel will televise the bee’s ﬁnal round at 8 p.m. May 15; it will be aired later on public television stations.

DAR honors teacher at Bethesda-Chevy Chase Kirsten Pasquale, a teacher at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, was named Maryland’s Outstanding Teacher of American History by the Maryland State Society Daughters of the American Revolution at its state conference March 21. Pasquale’s teaching skills, knowledge and enthusiasm for her students’ learning of America’s history underlay her administration’s recommendation for this award, according to the Chevy Chase chapter. She has now been nominated for the regional six-state DAR award.

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Higgs’ appointment to Public Service Commission is in limbo Lawmakers not considering choices until after Pepco-Exelon deal is resolved

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

State lawmakers won’t hold hearings on Montgomery County GOP leader Michael Higgs’ appointment to the Maryland Public Service Commission this session. Higgs, of Rockville, was one of Gov. Larry Hogan’s 331 “green bag” appointments made earlier this year. Now, his conﬁrmation is in limbo. Sen. Jamie B. Raskin said the senate’s Executive Nominations Committee, which he chairs, will close its work this session without considering Higgs’s appointment.

Raskin (D-Dist. 20) of Takoma Park said Hogan (R) asked the committee to delay consideration of his appointments to the Public Service Commission. The Higgs other PSC appointee is Jeanette M. Mills of Howard County. Hogan spokesman Douglass Mayer said the governor held the appointments to allow the PSC to rule in the proposed Pepco acquisition by Exelon before the commission’s membership changes. Regina Davis, a spokeswoman for the Public Service Commission, said Tuesday that the commission’s deadline for making a ruling has been ex-

tended from April 8 to May 8. Raskin said his committee’s ﬁnal meeting this session was Monday. As for what happens after the session, Raskin said he didn’t know if Hogan plans to reconsider who he appointed or proceed with the appointments while the General Assembly is on recess. Higgs’ appointment raised eyebrows among committee members after controversial tweets from his since-deleted Twitter account circulated. Higgs — a telecommunications lawyer with Shulman Rogers and chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee — sent several partisan tweets that Raskin called “hardly a youthful indiscretion.” Higgs could not be reached for comment Monday. But how the comments might affect

Higgs’s chance for Senate backing was unclear. “It’s impossible to know if that would be disqualifying in anyone’s eyes without going through the hearing process,” Raskin said. “I’m quite certain that members wanted to ask about it.” Committee members still could have that chance. Even if the Senate doesn’t conﬁrm Higgs by sine die — the last day of the legislative session — on April 13, Higgs still could serve on the commission. Raskin said Hogan can make “recess appointments” while the legislature is out of session, effectively appointing Higgs to the PSC after the session ends. In that case, Higgs would serve until the legislature reconvenes in January 2016, when, Raskin said, any recess appointments must be conﬁrmed by the Senate.

Mayer said Hogan hasn’t made a decision on whether e will make recess appointments to the PSC or leave appointments on hold until the next session. Higgs would have replaced Commissioner Lawrence Brenner, whose term expires June 30. Mayer said if a replacement is not appointed by June 30, Brenner can keep serving on the commission until a replacement is named. The Daily Record in Baltimore reported that Mills’s appointment also met with criticism because her history as an employee of Baltimore Gas and Electric — one of Exelon’s current holdings — would have resulted in two former BGE employees on the commission. kalexander@gazette.net

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POLICE BLOTTER The following is a summary of incidents in the Bethesda area to which Montgomery County police responded recently. The words “arrested” and “charged” do not imply guilt. This information was provided by the county.

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Sexual assault • 7000 block of Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, at 7:15 p.m. March 12. The subject is known to the victim.

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Commercial burglary • Construction site at 8300 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, on March 15 or 16. Forced entry, took property.

Drivers on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda should prepare for some potentially signiﬁcant delays for the next year or so, as a $3.34 million roadwidening project gets underway at the intersection with West Cedar Lane. It’s part of the road improvements related to the Pentagon’s Base Realignment and Closure plan, according to Phil Alperson, the county’s military installations and BRAC coordinator. The intersection is at the northwest corner of the National

Residential burglary • 7000 block of Rollingwood Drive, Chevy Chase, between 10:27 a.m. and 1:01 p.m. March 12. Forced entry, took property. Vehicle larceny • Two incidents in Bethesda between March 9 and 17. Took a computer and cellphone. Affected streets include Dupaul Drive and Stoneham Court.

Institutes of Health. The project, which promises to snarl traffic on a major north-south artery in Bethesda, should be finished by late summer 2016. The plan includes adding right-turn lanes from West Cedar Lane onto Old Georgetown Road and vice versa. Old Georgetown Road — Md. 187 — will be realigned and widened. The project also involves new traffic signals at that intersection — at which Oakmont Avenue enters from the west — and at Center Drive, which leads into NIH just south of the intersection. Preliminary work involves removing some trees, which the State Highway Administration will replace, Alperson said in a news release.

Eventually, the usual road construction work of grinding, resurfacing, leveling, building curbs, gutters, medians, sidewalks, ramps and new storm drain systems will begin. The project also calls for installing a concrete shared use path. Some temporary road closures are planned. • On Old Georgetown Road: Northbound traffic may be restricted from three lanes to one lane from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays and to two lanes from 9 a.m. to 7 a.m. Sunday through Thursday. Southbound traffic may be restricted from three lanes to one lane from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays, and to two lanes 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday. • On West Cedar Lane and Oakmont Avenue: Traffic may be restricted from two lanes to one lane in either direction from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays; from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Sunday through Thursday; and all day and night

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Yeshiva launches kosher dining club fundraiser

This is so not your Jewish grandmother’s gefilte fish. The Yeshiva of Greater Washington-Tiferes Gedaliah of Silver Spring is running a dining club fundraiser, DC Eats — A Kosher Dining Club, that will offer signature dishes from five regional restaurants, prepared in accordance with kosher dietary laws. Starting April 23, Moti’s Grill in Rockville will host the dinners, which will be prepared on five different nights by chefs from Brasserie Beck in Gaithersburg, Thai Taste by Kob in Wheaton, and Blue Duck Tavern, Lincoln and the Red Hen, all of Washington. The fundraiser, which will benefit the Jewish school, “gives us the opportunity to share our cuisine with a community that until now hasn’t been able to join us,” Brasserie Beck’s Brian McBride, executive chef of the Robert Weidermaier Group, said in a news release. “It’s a way of coming together. Anytime that we can do something both innovative and enjoyable and at the same time benefit kids and education, that’s something we can get behind.” Membership in this first cycle will be limited to 100 couples and families. All membership fees — $180 per couple and $360 per family — are a charitable donation; the fees do not include the cost of dinners. More information is at dceatskosher.com.

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Students at Sequoyah Elementary School in Derwood welcomed Chevy Chase author Susan Stockdale on Monday for an assembly exploring stripes, spots and publishing. “I am an author and illustrator of picture books about animals and animal behavior, in particular,” Stockdale said before the assembly. Her most recent book, “Spectacular Spots,” was released at the beginning of March and explores different animals, their spots and why they have them. The book came out as a companion to her 2013 book “Stripes of All Types.” “I find scientific concepts, whether it be stripes on animals, why animals have spots or animals that carry their young, and find a way to express that scientific concept to young children through clear rhyming language and bright bold images,” Stockdale said. During the assembly, Stockdale read two of her seven picture books to the students, explained her writing and illustrating process, told them about editing and showed them some bloopers that weren’t printed. Students participated in the presentation by trying to match the spots and stripes to the animals. The curled up,

Norwood School, a private coed school for kindergarten through eighth grade, will host a Horizons 5K Run/Walk and Fun Run on April 12. Proceeds will benefit Horizons Greater Washington, a nonprofit that develops publicprivate partnerships between private and public schools to provide academic, cultural and recreational programs designed to help low-income students realize their full potential, according to a news release. Norwood has worked with Horizons for five years, hosting students from its partner school, Rock Creek Forest Elementary School in Chevy Chase, for six weeks of academic and other programs in the summer. The certified race will start and finish on Norwood’s 38 -acre campus at the corner of River Road and Bradley Boulevard in Bethesda. The 5K starts at 8 a.m.; the 1-mile Fun Run starts at 9:15 a.m. There will be adult awards in various categories. Registration, at $35, is available online at imathlete.com/ events/Norwood5K and at 7 a.m. on race day. The school also is hosting a tag sale that weekend.

Group wants volunteers to help senior citizens The Senior Connection, which connects older residents with services, is looking for volunteers. Volunteers do tasks such as driving senior citizens to medical appointments and helping with grocery shopping. A volunteer open house will be held 9:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at Holiday Park Senior Center, 3950 Ferrara Drive, Wheaton. Training sessions for drivers and shoppers will be held: • April 8, from 10 a.m. to noon, at the Jewish Council for the Aging, 12320 Parklawn Drive, Rockville • April 22, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at Holiday Park Senior Center. To apply, contact Mary Murphy at mary.murphy@seniorconnectionmc.org or 301942-1049.

Catholic school raises funds through apparel sales St. Jane de Chantal Catholic School in Bethesda is working with Rokkitwear, an athletic apparel company, to sell school apparel to support the school. So far, the school has raised more than $1,600, according to a news release. Under the program, Rokkitwear donates at least 15 percent of its school sales to the school. The apparel includes sweatshirts, T-shirts, outerwear and performance clothing with the school’s team logo. It can be ordered at dechantal.org.

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spotted fawn was a favorite among the students, both the picture Stockdale drew and the photograph she used as reference elicited audible squeals. “It’s really fun to get out and talk about what you do. Being with the kids is just fantastic. I like making them realize that they can be authors and illustrators too,” Stockdale said. Stockdale uses a simple pencil and paper for her sketches and then paints using acrylic paint that she mixes herself in her studio. She mentioned that she hasn’t done any work on a computer, stressing that anyone can draw and that they do not need a computer to be an author.

All of Stockdale’s books are nonﬁction, and she does extensive research to make sure she portrays each animal accurately and places them in the correct habitat surrounded by the correct details. Before anything gets published, she sends her drafts and research to scientists at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington who specialize in the animals she is writing about to verify their accuracy. At the end of each book, she writes a little summary about each animal explaining even more about them. Stockdale said that there’s an academic foundation in what she does visually and

within the stories. She explained that the patterns in her illustrations are a foundation of math. The content teaches language arts and science. Stockdale ﬁrst decided to create a picture book years ago after taking her now-grown children to the zoo and they pointed out one of the birds. “They saw a flamingo standing on one leg, and they were fascinated that it was asleep and standing up,” Stockdale said. From that experience, Stockdale wrote and illustrated “Some Sleep Standing Up,” her ﬁrst book released in 1996. “I’d never written anything of that nature, I just pulled it

out,” Stockdale said. “Now I write entirely in rhyme, I really enjoy it.” Though Stockdale had never written something in rhyme before, her mother was a published author, so she grew up surrounded by prose. “My mother really inspired me by her persistence and her wonderful rhymes. She was always rhyming things together in a really playful way during the day,” Stockdale said. “I think kids really like the music and the rhythm,” she said, noting that we all have the same rhythmic heartbeat. “We are hard-wired for rhythm.” sschmieder@gazette.net

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Meeting in Bethesda bar led to unprotected sex and months of fear BY

DAN MORSE

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She was at work when the third round of blood test results came in. Why else would her doctor’s ofﬁce be calling? But she couldn’t answer right then and would call back in two hours during her lunch break. The harrowing wait set off another wave of worry and regret. Six months earlier, the woman had gone home with a man she’d met at a bar in Bethesda, had unprotected sex

with him, and then found out he had HIV. She scrambled to her doctor’s ofﬁce, reported the man to Montgomery County police, and — on Monday — went to court to tell a judge what Daniel G. Cleaves had done to her. “Every time I go for the [sexually transmitted disease] workup, I have an anxiety attack,” she said. Montgomery Circuit Judge Joseph M. Quirk sentenced Cleaves to 18 months in jail for two counts of reckless endangerment involving two victims — saying that Cleaves should know about such fear. “You have had the personal, in-your-body knowledge of what pain that

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consent. Much of the woman’s account was conﬁrmed by court records, detectives and Cleaves’ attorneys. She agreed to be interviewed to raise awareness of the case in the event that there may be other victims. The activities of Friday night, July 25, were out of character for her. She regularly goes to church and Bible studies, but rarely to bars, and had never left with a person she had just met. But her close friend was having a good relationship with a man she had met a bar. “Maybe I should let my guard down a little,” she remembers thinking. Inside the Harp & Fiddle, Cleaves approached her. They danced. He had an outgoing, seemingly honest bearing. Later, as they became intimate, he asked whether she was on birth control. She said yes. She asked him if he had any sexually transmitted diseases. He said no. They ended up spending the next day together — even as his stories started to change. No, he really didn’t work for the Secret Service. And no, he and his roommate weren’t having an argument. In fact, he was entering an alcohol treatment program that Monday, and needed a place to stay until then. “I felt like I was helping someone,” she said. But the program didn’t work out, and his stay extended another day. On Tuesday morning, a short time after Cleaves left her

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tional footing. Assistant State’s Attorney Jessica Hall, who prosecuted the case, said that it was telling that even after the first victim confronted Cleaves, he had unprotected sex with a different woman. “He can’t control himself,” she said. As the court case progressed, Cleaves’ attorney began submitting scientific papers to the court about medication and risk reduction. A plea deal was reached. The HIV-related counts, which make it illegal to “knowingly transfer or attempt to transfer” HIV to another person, were dropped. Cleaves pleaded guilty to two counts of reckless endangerment. In court Monday, Jezic cited a recent Best Practices Guide from the U.S. Justice Department, questioning whether states should still have HIV laws like the one in Maryland, given medical advances. Cleaves also spoke. At first he was apologetic. “I don’t think I can explain how extremely sorry I am for the victims,” he said. Then he said he didn’t think he belonged in jail. “I didn’t tell her I was positive because I was drinking and doing all this crazy stuff,” he said. It was Quirk, the judge, who had the final word, telling Cleaves he didn’t have the right to withhold his HIV-positive status from women before they made the decision to have sex with him. “You deprived them of that choice,” he said.

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If Maryland establishes a $20 million school construction grant fund for growing school systems, Montgomery County could get about $6 million of the pie. Maryland’s House Appropriations Committee on Friday passed legislation to establish a $20 million capital grant fund for school systems with high enrollment growth or portable classrooms. The Senate’s Budget and Taxation Committee gave the bill a favorable report with amendments on Friday. Both the House and the Senate still

need to consider the bill, but legislative leaders are backing the bill, so lawmakers are optimistic it will pass. “With a new governor and a lot of new legislators and everyone learning and everything moving pretty slowly, for us to get this extra money, above and beyond, is definitely a win,” said Del. Anne R. Kaiser (D-Dist. 14) of Calverton, the House majority leader. The bill, championed by Montgomery County lawmakers, would provide $20 million annually, starting in fiscal 2016, to a capital grant fund to be divided among qualifying growing school systems. Of the $20 million the bill sets aside for school systems, about $5.8 million would make its way to Montgomery County, according to a news release from the office of Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Dist. 20) of Annapolis. In fiscal 2016, five school systems would qualify for funding through the

grant: Montgomery, Prince George’s, Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Howard counties. While the bill is not yet a done deal, it’s not languishing, Kaiser said. “We really thank our Montgomery County senators and delegates,” said County Council President George L. Leventhal (D-At Large) of Takoma Park. “I think they have been vigilant in the defense of our interests. We’re very happy about all the money that’s been restored for the operating budget and we’re optimistic that we’ll get more construction money as a result of the grant bill.” “We are very appreciative of additional funds from the state to address our growing space needs,” school board President Patricia B. O’Neill said in a written statement Friday. “We will maximize the impact of every dollar to provide permanent learning spaces for our students. We thank Senator Nancy

King, Delegate Sheila Hixson, and all those who worked to pass House Bill 923/Senate Bill 490 for their partnership and advocacy on behalf of the students of Montgomery County Public Schools.” Montgomery lawmakers began pushing for more school construction funds last legislative session, citing annual enrollment growth of about 2,000 students, the equivalent of adding a new high school each year. Despite the grant, Montgomery County still will have an enormous need for more school construction dollars, Leventhal said. Latest figures from Montgomery County Public Schools show enrollment is expected to grow to 156,654 students for school year 2015-16. As of October 2014, enrollment was about 154,000. On March 24, the council approved an additional $5 million in capital fund-

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Early Care and Education, which, he said, would help make early child care issues “a real priority.” “[My bill] is trying to focus more on the big picture and, you know, try to really increase the level of ownership and responsibility that the county takes for early care in general,” said Riemer (D-At Large) of Takoma Park. He said the office would conduct research on the county’s child care services, develop a plan to improve services and work toward a long-term goal to establish universal pre-kindergarten and early child care. The office’s specific tasks would include helping providers ﬁnd more affordable space, helping parents navigate the child care system and developing child development goals for providers. A public hearing and a rally on Riemer’s bill were scheduled to have been held Tuesday evening. Navarro said she has “some concerns” about creating a separate county child care ofﬁce. She plans to offer an amendment to Riemer’s bill that would instead create a county position focused on early child care and education issues.

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who speak Spanish and other languages. Current county services include training to help providers move toward state certiﬁcation and technical assistance such as site visits. The combination of training and technical assistance wouldn’t be new, Barnes said. But a program for mentoring, which currently happens as an “offshoot” of other services, would be an addition, she said. Barnes said another change the bill could spark is the county’s ability to reach more unregulated and informal providers. “The main reason we support the bill is not that it’s something that we wouldn’t ever do. It’s because it is what we do, but [the bill is] proposing more of it and in a more intense fashion to meet those providers that need the assistance,” she said. A second bill from Navarro — which the council approved on Tuesday — sought broader changes to how the county uses public facilities. The bill would create a program to help organizations that serve vulnerable youth and low-income families, such as child care providers, use the facilities. Navarro’s and Councilman Hans Riemer’s bills are linked in theme, but are separate efforts. Riemer’s bill would establish the Office of Child Care,

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The county’s overall crime rate dropped to its lowest point in 10 years in 2013, but then started to rise again in 2014, according to recent Police Department statistics. The categories of rape, robbery and burglary dropped from 2013 to 2014 countywide, according to statistics provided by Darryl McSwain, assistant chief of police, during a brieﬁng before the County Council’s Public Safety committee on Monday. However, aggravated assault, homicide and larceny increased, according to McSwain’s report. “Aggravated assaults increased the most,” said McSwain, citing a countywide increase from 584 incidents in 2013 to 964 in 2014. A large part of the increase is due to the fact that choking without injury is now counted as an aggravated assault instead of a simple assault, he said. But even taking into account the shift in reporting categories, aggravated assault rose rela-

tive to simple assault, he said. A simple assault can be punching someone, for example, while aggravated assault involves weapons such as bats or knives. “Forty-six percent of aggravated assaults are domestic related, and the vast majority are [among people] who [know] each other,” McSwain said. Homicides are also up, rising from 8 to 19 victims, he said, noting that in most cases the attacker and victim knew each other. McSwain also said a third of the those charged with homicide also had some kind of mental illness. The county’s Emergency Communications Center, which handles 911 calls, received 823,000 calls for service in 2014, and about 5,500 of them were related to mental illness, McSwain said. Meanwhile, robberies dropped from 763 in 2013 to 646 last year, according to the statistical report. The department’s investigators have beneﬁted from assigning armed robberies of banks, businesses and homes to a central team at police headquarters, leaving investigators of other robberies to each district. This has proven to be the “best model,” McSwain said.

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Part II — Less Serious Crimes Minor Assault Arson Vandalism Weapons Narcotic Drug Laws Family Offense Juvenile Disorderly Conduct All other Part II Criminal DUI All other Part II noncriminal Subtotal Part II

3,495 58 2,798 291 4,387 288 872 929 6,728 3,302 8,107 31,255

3,140 43 2,985 263 4,470 265 582 970 7,161 3,324 9,315 32,518

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The Bethesda owner of a Washington, D.C., pharmacy was indicted on federal charges that he ran a rogue Internet pharmacy, generating about $8.3 million in illegal proceeds. FBI agents on Friday arrested Titilayo Akintomide Akinyoyenu, 47, also known as Tomi, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Nigeria, at his home in Bethesda, according to a Justice Department news release. Akinyoyenu is accused of working with a Florida physician to operate a site that illegally

shipped prescription-required controlled and non-controlled drugs from Washington to more than 38,000 customers in the U.S. Akinyoyenu, also known as Tommy Akin, appeared in U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia and was released on personal recognizance, pending a hearing Friday. Akinyoyenu allegedly ran the website from January 2005 to June 2010 and sent the drugs from Apex Care Pharmacy, his drugstore in Northeast Washington. During that period, sales totaled at least $8.3 million, prosecutors claim. The indictment also charges Alan J. Saltzman, 65, an osteo-

path from Coral Springs, Fla., in the scheme. He received from $3 to $7 per order, according to the indictment. Akinyoyenu allegedly ﬁlled more than 58,000 prescriptions, including reﬁlls, for drugs for customers who ordered them online solely on the basis of their answers to an online medical questionnaire. Among his sales were 9,000 orders for Fioricet, which contains butalbital, a Schedule 3 controlled substance, according to the indictment. All told, he sold more than 100 kinds of drugs, including erectile dysfunction drugs. Both men are charged with four offenses: conspiracy to distribute and dispense controlled

substances, which carries a statutory sentence of up to 10 years and a fine of up to $500,000; conspiracy to distribute controlled drugs over the Internet, which carries a statutory sentence of of up 10 years and a fine of up to $500,000; conspiracy to introduce misbranded drugs into interstate commerce, which carries a statutory sentence of up to five years and a fine of up to $500,000; and conspiracy to engage in mail fraud, which carries a statutory sentence of up to 20 years and a fine of up to $250,000. The indictment also makes a forfeiture allegation for at least $8.3 million. No attorney for Akinyoyenu was listed in online court records.

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Theft from autos also dropped slightly but the crime remains a problem. “Probably 60 to 70 percent are thefts from unlocked cars. ... [Thieves] will go down a residential street at 2 a.m. [checking

Johnson High pianist takes ﬁrst place

On Saturday night the Kentlands was alive with the sound of music. The 12th annual Young Artist Award Concert was held at the Arts Barn, giving 15 of the winners the chance to perform their musical talent in front of family, friends and peers. About 61 students ranging in age from 12 to 18 auditioned in February for ﬁrst, second or third place in the categories of piano, vocal, strings, woodwinds and brass. At the concert, 15 students performed and a handful of others were recognized as honorable mentions. Laurie Levy-Page, the performing arts program coordinator for Arts on the Green, explained that the competition and concert provide student musicians with great experience. “They compete all in one day. We have volunteer judges who are all music teachers or professionals,” Levy-Page said. Judges provide feedback each year to the students who audition, according to LevyPage. “The idea overall behind the competition is to encourage young musicians in their love of music. We hope it’s really fun and a learning process for them, so they get feedback from the judges. Those who don’t win are getting encouragement or learning about the things they could improve and learning about things they are doing well,” LevyPage said. Elie Canetti, who was the host for the evening as well as a judge in the piano category, said he has been volunteering on the Young Artist Award jury since it began. Canetti, who lives in the Kentlands, is always impressed with the talent that comes out each year. Canetti said that the judges had a hard time picking just three winners, especially in the piano category. “There were probably eight

that could have won a prize,” Canetti said. Canetti said that even if those who audition don’t end up placing and receiving a prize, he hopes it helps them in their growth as musicians. “They perform in somewhat of a stressful situation and learn from that. It’s one small step in their journey,” Canetti said. Karina Aliyeva, 15, a sophomore at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, won first place in the piano category and dazzled the audience with “Allegro di Concierto” by Enrique Granados. “I do a lot of piano competitions, it seemed like a great opportunity,” Karina said after her performance. First place vocal winner Ari Goldbloom-Helzner, 16, a junior at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, calms his nerves by looking to the “support system” that is with him on the stage. He said the pianist and the “warm faces and smiles” from the audience make it easier. Goldboloom-Helzner performed “Après un Rêve” by Gabriel Fauré. Goldboloom-Helzner decided to audition to help expand from his musical theater experience. Last year, he placed second in the vocal category. Both Goldboloom-Helzner and Aliyeva aren’t new to competitions and Levy-Page said that’s usually the case with these artists. “Generally they play with their school and they clearly all are studying privately. When you read their bios, their list of accomplishments is very long,” Levy-Page said. The event was cosponsored by the city of Gaithersburg and the Kentlands Community Foundation as well as other area organizations. The trophies were handmade by Tony Glander, the resident glass artist at the Arts Barn. “We hope the kids are as enthusiastic about it as we are about them,” Levy-Page said. sschmieder@gazette.net

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Ruppert Landscape opens D.C. ofﬁce Ruppert Landscape of Laytonsville opened a Washington, D.C., branch office and promoted Charlotte McGehee of Urbana to manage it. P r e viously, McGehee, McGehee who joined Ruppert ﬁve years ago, was a landscape construction division executive assistant, landscape construction purchaser

and project manager. She holds a bachelor’s in international relations from the University of Richmond (Va.). Until the company ﬁnds a permanent location in Washington, it is operating in a Forestville ofﬁce.

Intrexon, Merck strike deal on cancer therapies Intrexon of Germantown is launching a new collaboration with Merck Serono of Darmstadt, Germany, to develop and commercialize cancer therapies that use the body’s immune system to ﬁght tumors. The agreement gives Merck Serono exclusive access to Intrexon’s technologies to engineer T-cells with gene expression, according to a company news release. Intrexon will receive an upfront payment of $115 million, with as much as an additional $826 million paid upon achieving certain development, regulatory and commercial milestones, plus sales royalties.

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from Union College and law degree from Boston College Law School.

Bytegrid Holdings of Silver Spring named Drew Fassett chief revenue ofﬁcer. Previously, Fassett was senior vice president of sales for Peak 10 and brand segFassett ment executive at IBM. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Davidson College.

Washington Property reports new leases

CNSI names general counsel CNSI of Rockville named Arnold Morse general counsel. Previously, Morse was chief legal ofﬁcer and corporate secretary for CACI International, and general counsel and corporate secretary for the Orkand Corp. He holds a bachelor’s degree

Washington Property Co. of Bethesda reported several new ofﬁce leases. At 1390 Piccard Drive in Rockville, ABSG Consulting is leasing 2,200 square feet and Infostructures is leasing 4,850 square feet. At 8757 Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring, Digidoc is leasing 2,434 square feet.

Choice Hotels names new VP for Cambria brand Choice Hotels International of Rockville named Mark Shalala vice president of franchise development for Cambria hotels and suites. Shalala is rejoining Choice Hotels after being senior director of development at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. He

holds a bachelor’s in business and sports management from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Shopping center opens festival to nonproﬁts The Cabin John Shopping Center and Mall will offer community nonprofits the opportunity to get their message out from 1 to 4 p.m. April 26, coinciding with its spring festival. To be eligible, nonprofits must offer services in Montgomery County; cannot use the time to promote a political or religious view; and cannot compete directly with any store or service at the center, according to a news release. A table will be provided and organizations can take donations, collect information for future solicitation and distribute information. Nonprofits that want to participate may contact Hilary Shure at hshure@cmfa.com. The shopping center is at 11325 Seven Locks Road, Potomac.

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Heads up, Gaithersburg! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s — a child on a trampoline? Rockin’ Jump, a trampoline park, plans to open at 18620 Woodﬁeld Road on April 10 for trampoline lovers of all ages to come out for a day of bouncing fun. Steuart Martens, co-owner of the Gaithersburg franchise, recently moved back to the East Coast where he grew up after living for some time in Pleasanton, Calif., where Rockin’ Jump has its headquarters. While living on the West Coast, he became friends with his neighbor who happened to be the franchise owner. “[Rockin’ Jump is] a national franchise, mostly in California, started in Pleasanton and there are four up and running on the East Coast with others under construction,” Martens said. Just over 25,000 square feet, the Gaithersburg trampoline park will offer many of the usual attractions that other parks of its kind feature, including two dodgeball arenas, a free-jump area, basketball hoops and, in lieu of a foam pit, an airbag pit. More unique to the park are a jousting balance beam and a tripwire obstacle course. The free-jump area also has two custom long trampolines for athletes such as gymnasts or cheerleaders to practice routines that require more space. Skateboarders, snowboarders and divers, among other ath-

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Steuart Martens of Rockin’ Jump gives a tour of the new indoor trampoline park to open in Gaithersburg.

“It’s a really healthy form of entertainment and fitness.” Steuart Martens, co-owner of the Gaithersburg franchise letes, can also practice moves and flips into the airbag pit with no risk of danger. Martens said that in addition to being unsanitary, the foam blocks that are usually used in the pits have flame retardant chemicals on them which can be toxic, so he decided to use airbags as an alternative filling.

“Our core values are safety, cleanliness and fun,” Martens said. There will be four massage chairs for parents waiting for children, as well as couches and large TVs. The space will be WiFi equipped so that parents can catch up on work or surf the web while they wait. There will be

lockers and cubbies for jumpers to leave their belongings including their shoes and socks. “It’s not optional to wear trampoline socks, you can’t go barefoot. Trampoline socks are way safer and cleaner,” Martens said, explaining that the front desk will sell the socks, which are reusable and have a special gripped sole. Trampoline socks for the whole guest list are provided for parties. There will also be a small cafe providing healthy food options other than the pizza and soda that usually fuels children’s weekends, according to Martens.

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designing an app they dubbed Marimba for the sound they chose to alert users that a message has arrived. “We started as a daddydaughter project but we [also] took the business end seriously,” Schiebler said. “I really believe there is a need for this.” Perhaps the biggest hurdle was designing an app that would pass federal regulatory muster. Parents must register and be approved before their children can use the Marimba and parents also must approve with whom their children can chat. “It’s an important safety feature,” Schiebler said. “We are designed to stop unsavory folks and kids trying to get in without their parents’ approval.” Marimba also has other features speciﬁc to the 7 to 12 age group it is designed for. For instance, it blocks profanity and emits a marimba sound when it encounters such words. It does not use geo-location or collect the age of the child users, and it has a time setting so the hours of use can be regulated. “As a dad, I’ve learned to never underestimate your children and technology,” Schiebler said. Developing Marimba took the Schieblers about six months. It was approved for Apple’s App Store in December and is free to download. Right now it is available only for Apple mobile devices, but Schiebler said he and Annelise are working on versions for Android and Kindle. Schiebler said there are 22 million 7- to 12-year-olds in the U.S., a potentially huge market for Marimba. That is not what matters most to him however. “This could make no business sense whatsoever,” he said. “But my sweet little daughter wanted to do it.” More information on the app is at marimbachat.com.

The Montgomery County GreenFest took place at Montgomery College’s Takoma Park/ Silver Spring campus and at Jesup Blair Local Park. It was held on Saturday and included musical performances, exhibitors and information about a variety of environmental issues. A festival of ﬁlms with environmental themes was part of the day, too. College spokesman Marcus Rosano did not return multiple phone calls seeking comment. However, he wrote in an email that “all parties’ interests were met.” He also wrote that the college’s fiscal 2016 budget, still undecided by county ofﬁcials, was not a factor in any of the decisions regarding GreenFest. Rosano did not directly respond to questions posed to him about what happened, the college’s response and whether the county’s request was viewed as an attempt at censorship. The series of drawings is about pain and the way in which the body is transformed through trauma, Hron said in a written statement about her work.

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Continued from Page A-1 victims,” Austin Brick, a sophomore at Catonsville High School, said during the meeting. Whitman High School senior Aaron Dane, who visited a different office, said he was excited to share his voice for the first time with the country’s decision makers — “one of the highest levels of political action.” “Overall, when something bad is happening to people, I feel like I should stand up to do something about it,” said Dane, president of the boys chapters in the D.C. Council of BBYO. Before they broke off into groups for the office visits, the students discussed the idea of intervening in situations to prevent sexual assault. Jules said it’s “crucial” for the next generation of male col-

“Whether trauma is physical or emotional it leaves a mark on the body that is healed or left to fester, and makes us who we are. Scars and wounds, rashes, eruptions, bruises and wrinkles real or imagined, seen and unseen evolve over time to create and recreate the landscape of ourselves,” she wrote. In a phone interview Tuesday, Hron described her work as a personal narrative through abstract figures depicting the effects of pain. “It’s the core of the body and I think that is what I was responding to: the pain, the loss that comes to the core of the body — the back, the spine — to our main support system,” she said. According to the college’s website, the exhibit went up March 23 — five days before GreenFest. The exhibit will run through April. Lacefield said county officials became aware of the drawings and felt the exhibit “might not be appropriate for a familyoriented event.” “It’s not that they were nude. It’s not about nudes at all. There are nudes everywhere,” Lacefield said. Rather, he said, the drawings

were of “disembodied human torsos with gashes across and red stuff there or coming out.” Lacefield said the county asked Montgomery College to move the exhibit to a different part of the art gallery, away from families with children visiting the festival. “Not cover up, not take down, not censor,” Lacefield said. “It was not censorship in any way.” Ultimately, the county and the college decided to move GreenFest exhibitors to a different building, Laceﬁeld said. Douglas Weisburger and Ryan Zerbe, who were listed as contacts for GreenFest, could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Hron said it appeared the college handled the situation well. She appreciated that it went to bat for her work and did not close the show. As for children viewing her work, she said that should be up to parents. “Anything that creates discussion, if children ask, that would be something that would be good to talk about,” she added.

lege students to not only be informed about the issue of sexual assault at colleges, but to know “how to take a stand” when they see a situation. “There’s so many ways that we can intervene and having that in your tool belt is going to be so important for when we’re in those situations, so that you’re not scared, so that the party involved isn’t scared, and that you don’t have to worry about confrontation, but you can avoid it in a safe and smart way,” he said. Robin Rubin, manager of advocacy at Jewish Women International, said violence against women on college campuses has grown over the past decade. Jewish Women International’s work includes legislative advocacy and other efforts to end sexual assault on college campuses. “We’re never going to end this epidemic without the help

of our young men,” Rubin said. Friday marked an opportunity for the young men to “lend their voice to the debate” and let members of Congress know they want to see such violence end, she said. Lawmakers have heard from victims of sexual assault. “Now it’s time for them to hear from the boys and the men to hear their story, as well,” she said. Pfeffer said he thinks it’s “refreshing” for a member of Congress to hear from college men who want to “be part of the solution” and make sure women feel safe on campuses. “It’s really promising to see that guys that are a lot younger than me and maybe [have not] seen the things you see in college already care so strongly about the issue,” Pfeffer said.

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Continued from Page A-1 In the current fiscal year, parking fees are providing 64 percent of the the Bethesda district’s $21.8 million in revenues, with 12 percent coming from property taxes. In Silver Spring’s district, however, it’s a more even mix, with parking fees accounting for 51 percent of its $20.6 million in revenues and property taxes constituting 38 percent, according to the report. And whereas 97 percent of the Montgomery Hills district’s budget is spent on operating expenses, only 42 percent of the Bethesda district’s is. This year, 29 percent of the Bethesda district’s spending is on capital projects, including 20 percent earmarked for debt service. “Under current policies and practices, the [Bethesda] fund will annually spend more than it receives in revenues, driving its already precariously low fund balance toward zero,” the report states. But Leggett’s proposed ﬁscal 2016 budget would change how the county handles fund transfers for parking lot districts, said Ken Hartman, the county’s regional director for the Bethesda-

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Continued from Page A-1 removal with the National Park Service so that the full length of the trail is cleared “on the same day.” At least one day this winter, users heading south had clear sailing in Bethesda, only to encounter a few inches of snow on the D.C. portion of the trail. But Tripp praised county crews for usually beginning and ﬁnishing the work quickly and praised parks manager Jeff Devlin and County Councilman Roger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda, who proposed the pilot project, for making it happen. Tyler said the department will work with the council to secure money to continue the program. And he said crews will use the lightest equipment available

Chevy Chase area. The budget proposal eliminates all transfers out of the districts to help fund mass transit, which would instead be supported directly by an already existing transit tax, Hartman said. Currently, money from the fund, mostly from parking ﬁnes, helps pay for RideOn service and the Bethesda Circulator, among other transit programs, he said. The report points out that the county code is “ambiguous” about the legality of such transfers. Last year, the Bethesda district had to borrow money from the Silver Spring district to stay solvent, he said. But Hartman said he thinks Leggett’s budget recommendation will put the Bethesda district on more solid ﬁscal ground. The Bethesda district, with 7,511 spaces, is the second-largest in the county, behind Silver Spring’s 11,648 spaces. Bethesda’s parking fees are the highest among the four districts. Together, the four districts provide 20,758 parking spaces in 19 garages, 21 surface parking lots and 2,388 metered on-street spaces. rmarshall@gazette.net

to clear the trail with minimal impact. Tyler noted, however, that labor costs could increase if next winter brings denser snow. Although this winter had abovenormal snow totals, most of it was powdery and fairly easy to remove, he said. Tyler said comments made to staff, in email and on social media indicated that this year’s effort was much appreciated by trail users. Tripp said the coalition received “no complaints.” Any changes in trail use linked to snow removal are yet to be charted, but automated counters are tallying the numbers to compare through the coming winters, Tyler said. According to a 2006 survey on the coalition’s website, more than 20,000 people use the trail weekly in Bethesda.

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Two new restaurants, Miso Café and Samovar, will open their ﬁrst Maryland locations at Rockville Town Square this summer, according to developer Federal Realty Investment Trust of Rockville. Miso Café, with 2,265 square feet, will feature Korean fusion cuisine at 33-E Maryland Ave. Samovar, with 3,353 square feet, will specialize in primarily Russian cuisine, with an Eastern European and Central Asian inﬂuence. The father-and daughter-owners, Solijon Nasimov and Ika Nasimova, have restaurants in New York, Colorado and their home country of Tajikistan. The restaurant, at 201 N. Washington St., will have live music on the weekends. Peter Chang’s, a Chinese eatery, is expected to open this spring at Rockville Town Square.

RegeneRx receives $500K in licensing deal RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals of Rockville reported receiving an initial payment of $500,000 from ReGenTree, its U.S. joint venture with G-TreeBNT, under a license agreement for its experimental treatment for dry eye syndrome and neurotrophic keratopathy. RegeneRx said it expects to receive a second payment of $500,000 this year after the ﬁrst patient is enrolled in a U.S. clinical trial sponsored by ReGenTree. ReGenTree is planning a phase 3 trial for neurotrophic keratopathy and a phase 2 trial for dry eye syndrome this year. The treatment, RGN-259, is a sterile, preservative-free topical eye drop. Neurotrophic keratopathy is a degenerative condition

ABL wins contract extension worth $2.6M ABL of Rockville won a threeyear, $2.6 million contract extension from the National Cancer Institute to support research on preventing and treating retroviral pathogens and the diseases they cause. The deal will extend the company’s prime management of this program to more than 30 years, according to a company news release. ABL and institute scientists identify and characterize retroviruses, including HIV, to see how they evade the body’s immune system and cause infectious disease and leukemia. ABL researchers also have been researching new vaccines and therapies to prevent and treat infection.

Children’s Health group honors Fitzgerald Jack Fitzgerald, CEO and founder of Fitzgerald Auto Malls of Rockville, was among four recipients of the Champions for Children’s Health award. They were recently honored at a fundraising reception hosted by the Children’s Health Board of Children’s National Health System in Washington. Fitzgerald started the Fitzgerald Child Car Seat Inspection Program in 1999, after learning the dangers of improperly installed child safety seats, according to a news release. Since then, his dealerships, working with county safety personnel, have installed and inspected more than 45,000 seats. Also honored was Rep. Christopher Van Hollen Jr. (D-Dist. 8) of Kensington.

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After trying a few jobs following high school graduation, Victor Goodman started working for a pawn shop in Washington, D.C. The shop was a few blocks from the White House. It was the 1960s. “Anything that was happening in the city was right outside our door,” Goodman said. “There were demonstrations and protest marches going on right outside us. I loved meeting people that came in and being in the middle of things. It was the best job in the world. ... I had found my calling.” Some five decades later, Goodman is still in the business. He has owned G&G Pawnbrokers in a strip center close to Walgreens and 7-Eleven near the corner of New Hampshire Avenue and University Boulevard in Takoma Park for more than three decades. “I’ve seen a little bit of everything,” Goodman said. There has been a letter written by Abraham Lincoln, an Olympic gold medal, a Civil War pocket watch. Someone even brought in a glass eye when he worked at the D.C. shop. “I didn’t know what it was,” Goodman recalled. “Then someone in the back said it was a glass eye.” He didn’t pawn the eye. The gold medal came from a basketball player. “We made him a loan, and he returned to pay us back and pick it up,” Goodman said. The pawn business is simi-

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Victor Goodman, owner of G&G Pawnshop in Takoma Park, with an original RCA Victor oak horn for a gramophone and a reproduction of an old radio.

An original RCA Victor radio for sale at G&G Pawnshop. lar to a bank in lending money, except customers can get funds more quickly and with fewer hassles at his venture, Goodman said. The loans are insured, and the large majority of customers pay back their loans on time. The loan is good for two months and can be extended another couple of months by paying interest. If customers do not pay back the loan within three months or so, pawnbrokers take possession of an item and sell it. “We try to keep our inter-

est rates as low as possible and give our customers the best deal we can,” Goodman said. “If you treat people nice, they will come back.” Customers apparently reciprocate. Last year, readers of Washington City Paper voted G&G as runnerup in the best pawn shops category of that weekly publication’s annual survey. Crown Pawnbrokers in D.C., which dates to 1939, took ﬁrst. About six years ago, Goodman’s business started advertising for vintage stereo systems and equipment. Nestled among items for sale inside the shop — such as tools, jewelry and television sets — are numerous stereo systems dating back decades, some with eight-track tape players. “That’s a passion of mine,” Goodman said. “I’ve always liked vintage equipment. We’ve

become known for taking those types of items. Some people come in here and say they have never seen anything like what we have. We’re almost like a museum.” There is a unique collection of vintage guitars and an old photo showing the shop’s building from when it was a malt shop back in the 1950s. Every item the shop receives is reported electronically to police. Goodman sometimes takes in items he strongly suspects are stolen to help get them back to their owners. “We don’t get many stolen items,” he said. Although he doesn’t normally accept weapons, he did take in a large dagger once. “I wanted to make sure that got off the streets,” Goodman said. kshay@gazette.net

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Montgomery County officials made two decisions last month to help safeguard the public health. Both involve what we breathe — an important human activity, to say the least. In the same week, the county’s Board of Appeals denied Costco Wholesale’s request to build a 16-pump gas station outside its store at Westfield Wheaton mall and extended the county’s ban on where cigarettes can be smoked to include electronic cigarettes. RECENT In the Costco case, RULINGS which the company PROTECT still could appeal in RESIDENTS court, the five-member board agreed with hearing examiner Martin Grossman. He cited the impact of fumes from idling vehicles at the proposed gas station on students at nearby Stephen Knolls School, neighbors and users of the nearby Kenmont Swim & Tennis Club. The school has about 100 special-needs students, some of whom have disabilities that include chronic lung disease and asthma, with some having to use oxygen tanks. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vehicle fumes contain compounds such as carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides. In high concentrations, carbon monoxide can be quickly lethal; in lower concentrations it can irreversibly damage the brain and heart. Nitrogen oxides can irritate the eyes, nose, throat and lungs, and in high levels can cause rapid burning, spasms and swelling of tissues in the throat and upper respiratory tract. It’s not what we want to breathe. Nor are the compounds found in the vapor from e-cigarettes, which deliver nicotine into the bloodstreams of users and bystanders. Despite proponents arguments that “vaping” is a safe and effective way to help smokers quit, e-cigarettes are unregulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That means no one really knows how much nicotine is in them — or what other compounds, and their quantities, are in them. Again, citing the CDC, current research shows that: • Nicotine from e-cigarettes is absorbed by users and bystanders. • Nicotine is highly addictive. • Nicotine is especially a health danger to youth who use e-cigarettes. It may have longterm, negative effects on brain growth. • Nicotine is a health danger for pregnant women and their developing babies. Using an e-cigarette and even being around someone else using an e-cigarette can expose pregnant women to nicotine and other chemicals that may be toxic. • E-cigarette aerosol is not “water vapor.” It contains nicotine and can contain other chemicals. It is not as safe as clean air. • The nicotine solution in e-cigarettes is not harmless “juice.” Children and adults have been poisoned by swallowing, breathing or absorbing the liquid through their skin or eyes. • Additional chemicals that are harmful or may be harmful have been found in some ecigarettes. These substances include traces of metal, volatile organic compounds and nitrosamines. The levels tend to be lower than in regular cigarettes, but there’s no way to know what you’re getting because e-cigarettes are not yet regulated. The County Council wisely banned ecigarettes in public places where tobacco already is banned; it also made it illegal for minors to use e-cigarettes and required the liquid used in e-cigarettes to be sold in childresistant packaging. The ban means that e-cigarettes can’t be used indoors in public places such as restaurants, stores, offices and government buildings, and on county property. “I think this sends an important message to our community and the world at large that Montgomery County is very dedicated to addressing public health,” said Councilwoman Nancy Floreen (D-At Large) of Garrett Park. “And I really do believe that’s one of our primary responsibilities as elected officials.” Indeed it is.

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History would suffer if buildings come down The March 19 ﬁre at Georgia Avenue and Bonifant Street is not only devastating for the owners and employees of the three businesses impacted, but for the historicity of downtown Silver Spring. In the event that the structures are found to be irreparable, the building that Bombay Gaylord/ Quarry House occupies (built in 1927) and Mandarin Restaurant (built in 1937) will probably be demolished. This will bookend with the scheduled demolition of all of the 1920s and 30s structures diagonally across the intersection in the block of Georgia Avenue between Ripley and Bonifant (west side) that will be replaced by a glass ofﬁce building. Downtown Silver Spring’s “Main Street” of early-20th-century structures will then be well on its way to looking like Anywhere, USA. Jerry A. McCoy, Silver Spring

The writer is president of the Silver Spring Historical Society.

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An electrical failure is suspected of starting Thursday’s ﬁre that gutted the Bombay Gaylord restaurant on the corner of Georgia Avenue and Bonifant Street in Silver Spring. Fire ofﬁcials closed the restaurant and the Quarry House Tavern beneath it while repairs are made.

Transit plan would ruin suburbia

I am growing increasingly concerned about our county. Between poor transit and development decisions and damaging decisions about public education, no wonder so many long-time residents are moving out. What is happening to our wonderful suburban community? One of our county’s biggest push is for the Corridor Cities Transitway. The CCT will be absolutely terrible for us. It not only permanently removes any sense of suburbia, but it

paves the way (literally and ﬁguratively) to mass development in our neighborhood. Our nice suburban community will soon become very urban, with business and residence all mixed in together, with two giant bus lanes that go with our current trafﬁc, in addition to having underground lanes and elevated lanes with matching platforms to board the buses. Bye bye, beautiful landscape. Most of the neighborhoods affected by the CCT are against this.

There are petitions against this. Yet, the county seems to ignore our voices. What is going on with our elected ofﬁcials? We need a change in direction. I humbly request that everyone please stay informed and make your voice heard. This is our neighborhood. It’s time to let our leaders know they are not representing us. Let’s get back to loving where we live. Lisa Sontheimer, North Potomac

Interactive play develops sound minds With the spotlight on Silver Spring in the “free-range” parenting debate, it’s worth reiterating that children are built to learn through interactive play. We must do a better job of protecting this endangered playtime in our neighborhoods and at schools. At home and on weekends, unstructured (and yes, unsupervised) play is crucial for child development. It can be many things: Walking home from school. Exploring the woods. Going to the store. Climbing trees. Inventing a game with neighbors. Tak-

ing off on a bike. Catching the bus. These are examples from my Baltimore upbringing that were powerful character-shapers. It was a big deal when I got to do them by myself. If we never let kids be alone, how can they learn the way their brains are wired to learn? At school, kids are constantly supervised, yet at a school that is powered by Playworks, “Junior Coaches” are put in charge of recess. We’ve found kids learn the most when they lead their own play. Healthy play and a high-functioning

recess are proven to reduce bullying, restore productive classroom time, increase physical activity and improve academic outcomes. CEOs regularly report that the top four personnel qualities they look for are collaboration, communication, creativity and ﬂexibility. Let’s train the workforce of tomorrow by giving kids healthy play opportunities today. Susan Comfort, Takoma Park The writer is executive director of Playworks Washington, D.C.

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Hard work went into Churchill’s success As a proud Bulldog parent, I just want to congratulate the remarkable 2014-2015 Churchill High hockey team on an amazing season. During its dominating run to the Maryland state championship, it went 20-1, including 19 straight wins over both public and private schools. It outscored the opposition 162-22 with depth, balance and great teamwork. What most people don’t know is that they wake up at 4:30 a.m. twice a week for 5:30 a.m. practice for four months, then go straight to school. Most of them play travel hockey as well. And they do this while carrying one of the highest GPAs of any team in Maryland. Our captain, Ross Allen, won the Yvon Labre award given to the player in Maryland who accomplished the most on and off the ice. Special recognition should go to coaches Ray McKenzie, Sam Mrvos and Steve Bobys, who demand excellence, both on and off the ice, and give so generously of their time and skill. Congratulations again to this great bunch of kids. Jay M. Weinstein, Bethesda

Through Exelon acquisition, Pepco can improve like BGE did There’s been a lot of discussion about what the merger of Pepco Holdings and Exelon will mean for Montgomery County. Residents and elected officials are naturally wondering whether they will end up better off if the deal goes through. We have a lot of experience with that in Baltimore. In 2012, Exelon acquired Constellation and its Baltimore-based utility, Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE). More than three years later, Exelon has an established track record here, and based on that, we can offer some insight on how this transaction is likely to play out for Montgomery County. Exelon comes with tremendous ﬁnancial strength and strong management with proven results. Since introducing its best practices and management model to BGE, it is a much more efﬁcient, safe and reliable public utility. That’s

based upon recent utility industry peer reviews, which show BGE is performing at the highest level for reliability in its history. Another compelling fact is how Exelon has changed BGE’s culture toward supplier diversity, which includes spending real dollars with women, minority and service disabled veteran-owned businesses. As an advocate for such enabling relationships, I have witnessed ﬁrsthand the mass culture change at BGE. Prior to the acquisition, BGE did little to spend money with deserving disadvantaged companies. Sure, its leadership was composed of great minds and its board represented the Greater Baltimore region’s who’s who. But its culture was risk averse to growing supplier diversity. Its present CEO, Calvin Butler, an African-American, came to Maryland with a plan to improve BGE’s safety, customer satisfac-

tion, reliability and supplier diversity because he knows they all intertwine. Butler created a new program to improve supplier diversity, known as Focus-25, with the intention of recruiting diverse suppliers to educate them on BGE’s core values of safety, customer satisfaction and reliability. He also wants them to understand how to properly formulate bid proposals that can compete with first-tier contractors that maintain present oligopolies with most of the utilities in America, including BGE. Butler’s vision is Exelon’s vision that will extend to Pepco Holdings Inc. It’s no secret that Pepco needs to improve its reliability immediately. This is the Exelon that I have come to know. Exelon has made great strides improving reliability, customer satisfaction, utility

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power safety and doing business with a segment of our population that has been discriminated upon for no other good reason but cultural hang-ups of the past. I, for one, support the acquisition of Pepco Holdings Inc. by Exelon because I have seen what it has done in Baltimore and I see a great amount of improvement coming for Montgomery County. Exelon has shown to date in the Greater Baltimore region that change is good even when it transcends from one monopoly to a much larger monopoly because it’s the only way public utilities will trade. Now, let’s brace ourselves for greater efﬁciency and betterrun utilities, which is something we all can agree upon. Wayne R. Frazier Sr., Baltimore

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There’s no rationale for removing limits on passenger vehicle licenses

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A large number of cab drivers showed up Feb. 27 for a Montgomery County Council meeting about regulating rental rates and other fees for cabs. The meeting had to be moved to a larger room to accommodate the crowd, at the County Council Building in Rockville.

Montgomery County taxicab drivers are facing a double threat to their incomes and livelihood. On one side is the entry of Transportation Network Companies (TNCs), like Uber and Lyft, and on the other side is a proposal to lift the restrictions on the number of Passenger Vehicle Licenses (PVL) issued to taxicab and for-hire drivers. In 2002, Montgomery County was faced with a critical decision about the supply of taxicabs. Too few would create lengthy waits for cab service and sometimes prevent customers from obtaining service at all. Conversely, too many taxicabs would lead to service problems and underpaid drivers. In response, the County Council passed legislation requiring that the total number of for-hire PVLs was not to exceed

1 license for each 1,000 county residents. But with the introduction of TNCs like Uber and Lyft overﬂowing the market with unregulated and unlicensed taxicab services, the County Council is now considering removing limits on the number of PVLs issued to drivers in Montgomery County. This poses an even greater threat to taxicab driver incomes and livelihood. No rationale has yet been offered as to why the existing limitation is no longer viable, except to say that it’s inconvenient for TNCs whose goal is to glut the market and drive the taxicab companies out of business. Indeed, the vast majority of both taxicab operators and drivers believe this formula was designed to achieve a critical balance between the need

Every worker needs a time-off cushion for illness The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that each year roughly 48 million Americans get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of food-borne diseases. Unfortunately, earned sick leave policies are not the norm across our state, and particularly not in food service establishments. That is why I support Montgomery County bill 60-14, Earned Sick and Safe Leave, and the similar legislation pending in the state legislature, the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act (HB385, SB40). These bills call for all workers in the county and the state, respectively, to earn sick leave at a rate of one hour for every 30 hours worked. This would allow them to stay home and recover when illness occurs, rather than spreading germs to food or co-workers. Such legislation has been shown to lead to healthier, more productive workplaces as well as reduced stress for families. As a registered dietitian-nutritionist, my work has focused on not only

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what to eat, but also on how to keep food safe to eat. This has included seven years at a D.C.-based organization that provides home-delivered meals to people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging conditions. My department there monitored food safety, which involved thorough inspections of the kitchen twice a week, and regular reviews of proper hygiene procedures with both new and longtime volunteers. Both staff and volunteers knew not to work in the kitchen when they were ill, in order to prevent contamination. These practices are absolutely necessary when you are feeding people with compromised immune systems. Indeed, such rules should be in place in any food service establishment. Two factors made successful infection control more likely at that organization. First, the kitchen staff were provided with paid sick leave, and, sec-

ond, the volunteers were not under ﬁnancial pressure to come in when they were not feeling well. No one was worried about losing a day’s pay, or their job. All employees need to have that kind of security. Workers need to be able to stay home when they are ill, and keep infectious diseases out of the workplace. Everyone gets sick, so everyone should have the opportunity to earn sick days. Food-borne illness can strike anyone, sometimes with devastating results — the 3,000 deaths a year from food-borne illness are 3,000 deaths that could be prevented. While the Montgomery County Earned Sick and Safe Leave Act and Maryland Healthy Working Families Act cannot eliminate the spread of infections, they are certainly a step in the right direction toward improving public health across the state. Laura Otolski, Takoma Park

for sufﬁcient vehicles to meet demand, and the equally great need for drivers to earn a reasonable living. Even Uber and Lyft drivers are complaining about the oversupply of drivers and how it’s limiting their ability to earn. Let’s look at a similar effort in the city of Minneapolis. In 2006, they eliminated the cap on taxis permitted to operate within city limits. These changes were advocated to “open the market” and dramatically increase the number of licensed cabs, almost the identical argument being considered by the County Council. So have those changes measured up to their promises? Not at all. The Twin Cities ended up with a glut of taxicabs and very frustrated cab drivers. Far from an economic boon for drivers,

swamping the market with new cabs caused drivers to sit twice as long waiting for fares. The resulting decrease in income has forced drivers to hang up their keys and find other employment. This same experience has been borne out in other cities, which have poured new cabs into a market without regard to demand factors. A recent study of San Diego taxicabs showed driver income fell by 30 percent after deregulation. Ultimately, the biggest threat to drivers’ income is too many cars (both legal and illegal) on the road competing for riders, not the regulations created to protect drivers and the customers that they serve. Lee Barnes, Bethesda The writer is the president and CEO of Barwood Taxi.

Students were exemplary as team wore ‘I Can’t Breathe’ shirts Lindsay Powers’s article about the Blake boys varsity basketball team wearing “I Can’t Breathe”-phrased Tshirts (“Players’ shirts spark policy,” March 18) missed some important points that I think need mentioning. My wife and I attended that game to cheer on a Paint Branch cager. In contrast to the “negative feeling” that Principal Berry mentioned, we heard no such comments. I thoroughly expected to hear some when I saw the shirts, but not even an eye batted from anyone. In fact, I emailed the principals of both schools to say “We couldn’t have been more delighted and pleased with the enthusiasm, sportsmanship and comportment of the student supporters. The atmosphere was electric and raucous, but never inappropriate or out of control. The students represented themselves and their schools

in exemplary fashion, and made it a memorable evening.” While that may not be the case at each and every contest or situation, I couldn’t agree more with Mr. Berry’s concluding comments in the story. We as adults need to stop trying to limit and curtail the opportunities for discussion, expression and improvisation by and amongst our youth. The reality is that the wired world plugs them into topics and events that don’t beneﬁt from having guidelines and prohibitions limit their ability to comprehend their meaning or, more importantly, their effect on each individual or the society at large. The school system should be loath to do just that under the guise of determining what can or can’t be worn as part of a uniform. Chris Hester, Olney

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Penn Relays puts some athletes in rush to qualify

Growing old, or reaping rewards? I’ve been working at The Gazette since 2008, and through the years I’ve had the opportunity to cover hundreds of student-athletes, and — from a mostly athletic perspective — watch some of them mature and head off to college. While the vast majority come KENT ZAKOUR and go and blend ASSISTANT SPORTS together in my EDITOR mind, there are a handful who are more memorable. Some I remember for their superior on-field/court success, others are more notable due to their personalities during interviews. This spring, the first group of kids — they are young adults now — that I covered for at least a couple years in high school are set to graduate college. That will make you feel old! Or, as a few of my former teachers have told me, it feels rewarding. Over the past week, I’ve had a chance to catch up with two favorite — for their genuine personalities and thoughtful responses moreso than athletic success — high school athletes I’ve covered. John and Debbie Emerson have attended the majority of the Johns Hopkins University women’s lacrosse team’s games during the past four years to watch their daughter, 2011 Sherwood High School graduate and senior goalie KC Emerson, play. This year, they’ve had the pleasure of watching one of KC’s former high school teammates and good friends, freshman Emily Kenul, also start for the Blue Jays. “In the first opening game this year, when the announcer announced both girls in the starting lineup and said they were from Brookeville, Maryland, that was really cool because that doesn’t happen a lot,” Debbie Emerson said. “... They are doing things in college that happened at Sherwood.” Added Kenul: “It’s really nice to hear [our names], especially because we ended up in the same place. We are trying to represent where we come from.” Both Emerson and Kenul have been key contributors for the 20th-ranked 8-2 Blue Jays this spring. The 5-foot-10 Emerson has started all 10 games and holds a 5.54 goals against average with a .581 saver percentage. Kenul, an engineering major, has scored 15 goals to go along with six assists. And that’s not by accident. After graduating from Sherwood, Kenul was one of the few high school teammates Emerson kept up with. Last fall, they would meet up to shoot around outside of team workouts and they attended winter workouts together, lifting and running together. “I like to joke around that I’m the reason she’s here,” said Emerson, a Dean’s List student who has performed mission work in Uganda and is involved with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. “I’ll never forget in sophomore year of college when she called me and told me she committed. ... Lacrosse is a big credit to our friendship.” “She’s really helped me out a lot,” Kenul said. Hopkins made the NCAA tournament last year for the first time since 2007, and Emerson, who has a real estate banking job in Pittsburgh lined up after graduation, says she hopes her lacrosse career will end with another tournament berth. “There’s two months left to play,” Emerson said. “... Ultimate goal is to win a national championship, but we haven’t done that yet. The immediate goal is to try to take it game by game.” kzakour@gazette.net

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Maggie Howie was passive in the 2012 lacrosse season, and justiﬁably so. Brand new to the sport, she was joining a perennially competitive Walter Johnson High School team. She wanted to step back, and let the already established leaders lead. “I would rather the ball be on a senior’s stick than my stick,” she said.

Three years later, Howie is one of those players who she might have deferred to in her rookie season. But as a leader of a team ﬁlled with talented and experienced freshmen, the senior defender is preaching proactiveness rather than passiveness. She and her teammates want the underclassmen to take initiative, she said. In fact, after one of the mid-March scrimmages, she and Amy Mattingly and Sarah Caggiano — the three co-captains — had a meeting to remind the team that age and grade don’t matter, and that nobody should be afraid to speak up.

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On a blustery, below-freezing Saturday at Central High School, Wise girls track coach Gideon Tinch found a silver lining in having to compete in the Arctic conditions: it could simulate the weather in downtown Philadelphia when the Upper Marlboro school’s relay team travels to Franklin Field to compete in the Penn Relays, which are set to begin April 23. “I’m trying to get them prepared for Penn Relays,” Tinch said, motioning towards a group of Wise runners huddled together. “If Penn Relays is going to be cold, we can run it here and get the feeling.” Though it may seem a tad premature to begin preparing for an event just less than a month away, the reality of the situation is that the preparation for the event, in some cases, begins before the outdoor season even commences. If athletes are not participating in 400-meter relay, which any team can pay to compete in,

they have to hit and submit a certain qualifying time by April 12 — giving them just a few weeks of outdoor practice to get to top form. But for those running yearround, the pressure of getting to a point where they are able to compete with some of the world’s best is less intense than it would be on an athlete who began training in early March. Northwest distance runner Diego Zarate, who runs cross country, indoor track and outdoor track for the Jaguars, said that competing year-round helps control when a runner peaks, as they are always just on the cusp of that form they so desperately desire at Franklin Field. “You never want to peak too early, because then later in the season, towards states and nationals, your body will kind of be falling apart,” Zarate said. “If you do indoor, it helps a lot because you’re already at that point and you can run a qualifying time in indoor. Then, in outdoor, you can start to build yourself up again, that way you don’t peak too early. But if you just start outdoor at the beginning, you’re going to have to

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Clarksburg High School Alexus Pyles competes in the high jump at the Montgomery County indoor track and ﬁeld championship in January. She hopes to compete as an individual event for the ﬁrst time in this year’s Penn Relays.

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Poolesville High School’s Casey Harkins practices with teammates on Friday.

Poolesville High School junior Casey Harkins picked up lacrosse in second grade and has played for school, club and recreation league teams ever since. That has helped her develop into one of the top athletes in the area and get recruited to play for the women’s team at American University. But despite that year-round commitment, Harkins ﬁnds time for other sports. In the winter she plays basketball, and in the fall she turns her

attention to another stick sport: field hockey. Harkins is the norm at Poolesville, a 1,200-student school filled with multi-sport athletes. The Falcons lacrosse players are scattered across the school’s various athletic teams, but in September they’re most likely to be found back on Bermuda grass. Harkins is one of about eight varsity lacrosse players who were part of Poolesville’s 2014 region championship field hockey team. “Both the sports just tend to attract the same type of athlete,” coach Brittany Hilton said. “It’s a lot of hand-eye coordination, a lot of running because of the way the sports are.” Harkins said that field hockey has helped with her conditioning and foot-

work, and also improved chemistry with her teammates. That’s come in handy this spring for the lacrosse team, which is coming off an 11-1-1 season. “It takes a lot of communication and team work in order to be successful,” Harkins said. “It’s not a sport that you can do everything yourself.” At Poolesville, many of the combo athletes prioritize lacrosse, Harkins said. Part of the reason for that is accessibility. Harkins, who has played for the Poolesville Athletic Association and Next Level in Bethesda, said that there are more ways to get involved with lacrosse than ﬁeld hockey. But the lacrosse ﬁrst trend isn’t the case for all Montgomery County schools.

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PRINCE J. GRIMES STAFF WRITER

In an effort to speed up the pace of its games and eliminate dead time this season, Major League Baseball announced the implementation of new rules to its pace of game program in February. While some of the changes, which were phased in during spring training, involve alterations to things only professional players need to worry about — a swift and timed return to game action following commercial breaks in between innings and pitching changes — some of the changes involving the hitters could have a trickle-down effect to other levels of the sport, including high school. In a lot of cases, the changes are unwelcome. “It’s nothing wrong with [the game],” DeMatha High School coach Sean

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Continued from Page B-1 train really hard.” For DeMatha coach Tamlin ‘Buster’ Antoine, it’s the timing of the big event in relation to the end of the season that makes being at top form in April an achievable goal for his athletes. “It all depends on how you plan for it and what you’re planning around it as a coach,” Antoine said. “For us, conference championships are only two weeks after Penn Relays. So we can pretty much plan on having our guys in Penn Relays and still be in top condition and top shape for the conference championship.” As Zarate alluded to, athletes attempting to qualify for an event at the relays can use a time achieved within the last calendar year. Zarate, who as of now will be competing in the one mile, has a slew of acceptable times from different events and seasons he can use to qualify. One of the area’s premier athletes, Clarksburg’s Alexus Pyles, has only ever competed in the event as a member of a relay team. But this year, the defending All-Gazette Indoor Athlete of the Year will be gun-

O’Connor said. “Football games last two and a half hours, baseball games last two and a half hours — if they’re well played. There’s no reason to mess with it. It’s the rules of the game. They’re doing it for TV dollars. They’re not doing it because it’s something wrong with the game.” Most of the changes were deemed necessary after MLB’s 2014 average game time reached a record-high 3 hours, 2 minutes. New MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said the changes were important in terms of providing an entertainment product in line with the society we live in. Since high school baseball is not necessarily an entertainment product the way MLB is, there’s no reason to think the rules will immediately impact high school, but over the years as the changes become normal, players with aspirations to play at the next level may be behooved to adjust sooner rather than later. “Deﬁnitely, as a player and a coach, you like a fast-paced game,” Sherwood coach Sean Davis said, adding that the only thing that slowed down his team’s

ning for an individual spot in the 400 meter hurdles. But Pyles, a year-round track athlete, has hit a bit of a road block in her training. The Coyotes senior was diagnosed with mononucleosis last week, keeping her from participating in outdoor training and complicating the ever-shortening path that lies between the present and April 23. It’s that time between the indoor season and outdoor season — a layoff that was severely shortened by the rescheduling of this year’s indoor state meet — that is often crucial to remaining in top form, Pyles said. But with her unfortunate circumstance of being sidelined for the start of the spring season, Pyles knows just how demanding her ﬁrst few weeks back on the track will have to be to stand a ﬁghting chance in Philadelphia. “Now that I’ve been off longer, it just puts a little more pressure on me because I know when I am allowed to go back, I’m going to have to work that much harder to make sure that I’m ready because the 400 hurdles is a pretty tough event,” Pyles said. “... I’m going to have to be pretty close to my top form.” agutekunst@gazette.net

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Continued from Page B-1 “Don’t wait for a senior,” Howie said. Previous Walter Johnson teams did not have this many experienced freshmen, thirdyear coach Gary Reburn said. There are six on the current roster, including two starters, Izzy McMullen and Sadie Keller. Those additions have helped the Wildcats (1-1) ﬁll the void of the six graduated starters, and they’re likely to play an even larger role come playoff time as the Bethesda school looks to improve on last spring’s 10-5 campaign. Getting the freshmen up to speed has been a challenge, Reburn said. While their skills are just much, if not more developed than that of the seniors, they’re not all accustomed to competing against athletes three years older. They’ve had to adjust to the faster pace and the physically stronger players. “Trying to get freshmen and seniors to gel is the key component,” Reburn said. “... It’s a process but we’re getting there.” In February, several of the players traveled to Pennsylvania for a tournament hosted by Gettysburg College. That

miffed, in a report by Gordon Edes of ESPNBoston.com, by the rule changes and even questioned the direction of the sport. “When you come out of the box, they don’t understand you’re thinking about what the [pitcher] is trying to do. I saw one pitch, I come out, I’m thinking, ‘What is this guy going to try to do to me next?,” Ortiz said. “When you force a hitter to [stay in the box], 70 percent you’re out, because you don’t have time to think. And the only time you have to think about things is that time. So, I don’t know how this baseball game is going to end up.” Batting changes may just be the beginning, though. Minor League Baseball has served as a guinea pig for new rules, and played with the batter’s box rule last season, before the majors. This year, the minor leagues will be playing with a pitch clock, something else the MLB is considering, and something that may receive even more opposition. “I know the players don’t like it,” Quince Orchard coach Jason Gasaway

helped them gain experience against high-level varsity competition, said McMullen, one of several freshmen to attend. But the transition has still been somewhat rocky, as the players are learning to execute the plays, she said. “We’re still not gelling completely together … we feel rushed a lot, but I think we’re coming along,” McMullen said. Howie, who’s joined in the defense by her twin sister Kate Howie, said that the players are catching on quickly. In the season opener, a 6-2 loss to Springbrook, the Wildcats struggled connecting their passes in transition, but they showed significant improvement in the following game, a 16-8 win over Blake on Thursday. “I think we’re only halfway there. I think we could get so much better,” Howie said. Walter Johnson is seeking its ﬁrst region championship since 2009 and its third in the school’s history. The Wildcats were defeated by region champion Whitman, 12-8, in the 2014 Class 4A/3A West semiﬁnals. “It’s going to be a very strong team,” Reburn said. “Not that it isn’t today.” egoldwein@gazette.net

Continued from Page B-1 Walter Johnson coach Gary Reburn said that in prior seasons — with this spring being an exception — the freshmen came onto the varsity team without any lacrosse experience. That includes Anna Rowthorn-Apel (Class of 2014), now a field hockey player at Dartmouth, who had immediate success as a top scorer on the lacrosse team, Reburn said. “I rob from field hockey and basketball. Because basketball makes the best defensive players and field hockey makes the best offense,” Reburn said. “Mix a few soccer players in there and you got a pretty good team.” Jenna Ries, founder of Champions Field House, a multi-sport training facility in Rockville, has coached field hockey and lacrosse at various Montgomery County schools. That includes the perennial powerhouse teams at Holy Cross and the 2006 field hockey state championship team at Quince Orchard. Ries said that most of the Holy Cross players were multi-sport athletes, with the majority of them playing both field hockey and lacrosse, but that Montgomery County’s

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said. “They don’t want to be on the clock. There’s no time limit on the game for a reason. I wish they’d kind of leave it alone a little bit.” This is a divisive issue though, and the batter’s box rule wouldn’t have been passed without some support from the player’s association and others around the game. Speeding up the pace of pitchers has its supporters as well. More changes to the pace of game program may be inevitable on all levels of baseball, even if for different reasons. “As a former catcher, I want the game sped up,” ﬁrst-year Good Counsel coach Tim Park said. “We did a lot of stuff this winter where I made pitchers throw bullpens — they had to throw 15 pitches in under three minutes, under two and a half minutes. ... So I really want our guys to do it because one, the quicker they throw, the more the defense is into the game, the more everyone else is into the game. ... I actually think it’s been too long since they’ve been trying to do that.”

athletes have been trending toward specializing in individual sports. That’s not a good sign, she said, as the combo lacrosse-field hockey players — and other multi-sport athletes — benefit from improved conditioning, hand-eye coordination and stick skills. “I think more importantly than that, it’s really important to play two full-season sports,” Ries said. “Training in the offseason for just one sport isn’t the same.” If that’s the case, then the Falcons are in good shape. Poolesville returns most of its starting lineup after going undefeated in the 2014 regular season and falling in the playoffs to Damascus, 11-10, in triple-overtime. That includes several players — such as senior Amanda Chasin, a Campbell University lacrosse recruit — who were part of the state semifinalist field hockey team. If the lacrosse team make it that far, it’d be a first in the school’s history. “[We have to] play to the potential that I know our team has,” Chasin said, “and be able to challenge our teammates to be able to continue to get better.” egoldwein@gazette.net

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almost two-and-a-half-hour game against Good Counsel on March 23 was the amount of walks they allowed. “A lot of the stuff, if it doesn’t [trickle down] directly, they’ll tweak rules and it’ll trickle down, and they’ll kind of make it their own. So, I wouldn’t be surprised to see something to get the games moving along.” The rules include a rule requiring that all batters keep at least one foot in the box unless the he swings at a pitch, the batter is forced out of the box by a pitch, a member of either team requests and is granted timeout, a defensive player attempts a play on a runner at any base, the batter feints a bunt, a wild pitch or passed ball occurs, the pitcher leaves the dirt area of the pitching mound after receiving the ball, or the catcher leaves the catcher’s box to give defensive signals. Changes to the way pro baseball is traditionally played wasn’t without the expected opposition from within its own ranks. Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz was

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BASKETBALL

PLAYERS OF THE YEAR

COACH OF YEAR

COACH OF YEAR Alani Moore

Abby Meyers

Montrose Christian Junior Guard

Whitman Sophomore Guard

Saved best performances for biggest moments, leading Vikings to a perfect regular season and a region championship. Impacts the game as a scorer, passer and defender.

Pete Kenah

Versatile junior was the motor behind the county’s top team; led the Mustangs in scoring (17.4 ppg) and drew interest from a number Division I programs along the way.

GIRLS’ FIRST TEAM

Whitman 13th year

Sean Tracy

BOYS’ FIRST TEAM

Bethesda-Chevy Chase Third-year coach led his team to the Class 4A state championship game and ﬁnished the season with a 21-6 record. The Barons were 5-19 the previous season.

Guided Vikings to undefeated regular season that included consistent doubledigit wins over county public school competition, and victories against Paint Branch and Good Counsel.

SECOND TEAM Sheri Addison, Wootton, senior, guard Victoria Crawford, Bullis, sophomore, forward Japria Karim-Duvall, Churchill, senior, guard Lindsey Pulliam, Good Counsel, sophomore, guard Hope Randolph, Magruder, senior, guard

Nicole Enabosi

Daisa Harris

Caroline Rowe

Dominique Walker

Anthony Tarke

Joe Hugley

Donovan Walker

Marcus Adkison

Delaware recruit carried Falcons to WCAC ﬁnals and was named the conference’s Player of the Year.

Averaged 20.9 points and 24.5 in playoffs, including dominant 35-point performance in state semiﬁnals victory.

Emerged as a playmaker, and strong defender for one of top teams, averaging 11.9 points, 3.5 assists, 3.3 steals.

Dominant scorer (23 points) teamed up with Danielle Durjan to create county’s best one-two scoring punch.

Ultra-athletic senior ﬁnished the season as county’s leading scorer (26.3 ppg), eclipsing the 30-point mark six times.

Could do it all for the Colonels; averaged a team-high in points (17 ppg), rebounds (9 rpg) and blocks (3.5 bpg).

Ran the offense, balancing between being top scorer (13.5 ppg) and distributor (5.9 apg).

Led the team in scoring (13.4 ppg) and his late-game playmaking helped the Lions capture their ﬁrst MAC title.

Good Counsel Senior Forward

Paint Branch Senior Guard

Holy Child Junior Guard

Watkins Mill Senior Guard

Gaithersburg Senior Forward

Magruder Senior Center

Springbrook Senior Guard

St. Andrew’s Senior Guard

SECOND TEAM Kevin Holston, Junior, Bethesda-Chevy Chase Kyle DePollar, Senior, Montrose Christian Jonathan Mustamu, Sophomore, Kennedy Nick Jackson, Senior, Richard Montgomery Xavier McCants, Senior, Sherwood

Honorable Mention is available online at Gazette.net

B-CC girls lacrosse team seeks balance, consistency B-CC seeks balance, consistency Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School girls lacrosse coach Amanda Arnoult said that consistency was an issue last season. Some games, the Barons would start out strong only to let their lead slip away in the second half. In others, they’d come out ﬂat and then get back in the game after intermission, but fall short in the end. Playing in the competitive 4A/3A South Division, that meant a 3-7 record, an early playoff exit and several close losses to top county teams. The Barons have cut down on some of that inconsistency this spring. They’re off to a 2-0 start through Monday, with dominant wins over Magruder and Einstein as they head into the tough portion of their schedule. Though they graduated 10 seniors from 2014, the Barons have a balanced roster with a mix of underclassmen and upperclassmen. That includes sophomore Katherine Vangaever, Junior Grace Rosen and junior Lexi Hopkins.

LACROSSE NOTEBOOK BY ERIC GOLDWEIN “I think this year we’re playing better from start to ﬁnish, and I think that makes a difference,” Arnoult said.

Northwood ﬁnding identity The Northwood High School boys lacrosse team faced what coach James Potts called the ﬁrst real test on Thursday against Richard Montgomery. It wasn’t just a Montgomery County matchup; it was a game against Steve Puhl, the former coach at the Silver Spring school. The Gladiators didn’t quite ace the test; they struggled to stay out of the penalty box and lost 9-7 to the Rockville school. But it wasn’t a failure either, said Potts, an assistant the last three seasons. “If you have nine minutes of penalties and lose by two goals, you should probably

be happy,” he said. The Gladiators went 6-7 last season and while they’re lacking experience in the midfield, they bring back nine seniors, including Lewis Andrews and Julian Labarca. The goal, Potts said, is to finish above .500 and finish on top of the 4A/3A East Division. “I think we’re just kind of trying to figure out our identity right now,” he said.

Good Counsel coach gets 200th win Good Counsel High School girls lacrosse coach Michael Haight earned his 200th win on Friday, reaching the landmark with a 15-5 over Washington Catholic Athletic Conference rival Holy Cross. Haight has been varsity coach at the Olney private school since 2002. He has this year’s Falcons (6-0 through Monday) ranked 6th in the Nike/LM High School Girls’ Top 25 from March 24. egoldwein@gazette.net

Walter Johnson bounces back The Walter Johnson High School baseball team has rebounded from a rough start to the season with consecutive wins against Blake on March 25, Kennedy on Saturday, and Einstein on Monday. The wins make the Wildcats’ record 3-2 after losing their first two games of the season to two of the county’s premier teams: undefeated Gaithersburg and Quince Orchard by a combined score of 21-0. Perhaps just as encouraging as the bounce back wins by the Wildcats was the fact that they were able to get the bats going. WJ beat Blake 15-8 and Kennedy 11-6. “We’re very young,” first-year coach Steve Sutherland said. “Typically, in our infield we’ll start two freshmen and a sophomore.” He said the team’s pitching is deep and includes Ryan Manning, someone he considers one of the top pitchers in the county. “The first two games, you never want to see Gaithersburg and QO back-to-back,” Sutherland said. “We’re hoping to go into spring break 4-2.”

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

Whitman looking for field competitors Unsurprisingly, the Whitman High School track team has a solid distance core for the upcoming season — an amenity that’s become synonymous with Bethesda area schools over the years. Amir Khagani, just weeks removed from a 10th place finish in the two-mile run at nationals, joins Evan Woods to create one of the great long distance tandems in the area. Khagani has “really improved” after a great cross country season, according to Vikings’ coach Stephen Hayes. But it’s not the distance events Whitman needs to improve to become a true threat in the county. Rather, as Hayes pointed out, it’s the field events that

PREP NOTEBOOK GAZETTE STAFF need not just some work, but competitors. “You’re always looking to find athletes that can throw in those areas, but we have some difficulty finding people for those events,” Hayes said. “You try to look for people around school, but you also got to be sort of lucky, I suppose.”

— ADAM GUTEKUNST

Churchill’s youth shines early Not only is the Churchill High School softball team off to a 3-0 start in 2015 but it has scored 20 or more runs in each of its ﬁrst three games, which includes a 20-17 win over Quince Orchard on Saturday. Coach Sharon Morris said she was pleased with the way her young squad — the Bulldogs graduated six starters last spring — staved off two Cougar comebacks, from 12-0 and 20-10. So far two freshmen have led Churchill’s offensive charge. Fourteen-year-old shortstop Brittany Lew has launched two grand slams, including one on Saturday. Classmate and second baseman Erin Huang connected on two doubles Saturday. Her speed has helped her to an .800 on-base percentage. “I’m proud of [Lew], Quince Orchard has a fence and she didn’t just hit it over the fence, she hit it 10 yards over the fence, against the wind,” Morris said. “I would say [Saturday’s] win was a signature win early. We didn’t get a lot of scrimmages so we’re still working on the lineup, still putting people in position.”

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

HOW THEY RANK

Girls lacrosse

1. Good Counsel 2. Holy Cross 3. Stone Ridge 4. Holy Child 5. Sherwood n Best bet: Poolesville at Damascus, 7 p.m. Thursday; Rematch of last year’s playoffs, a triple-overtime thriller won by the Swarmin’ Hornets.

Boys lacrosse 1. Landon 2. Georgetown Prep

3. Bullis 4. Good Counsel 5. Churchill n Best bet: Landon at Gonzaga, 7 p.m. Thursday; Bears (9-0) look to keep undefeated season going against ﬁvetime defending WCAC champions.

Softball 1. Sherwood 2. Northwest 3. Clarksburg 4. Magruder 5. Blake

n Best bet: Clarksburg at Northwest, 3:30 p.m. Thursday; An intriguing matchup between to up-county programs that have recently established themselves among the county’s best.

Baseball 1. Gaithersburg 2. Quince Orchard 3. Paint Branch 4. Good Counsel 5. Bethesda-Chevy Chase n Best bet: Blair at B-CC, 3 p.m. Thursday;

First division game for last season’s 4A South co-champions as each will attempt to separate from one another.

Track n Best bet: Dunbar Invitational – Saturday, 8:30 a.m.; Two of Montgomery’s strongest competitors, Northwest and Blake, will face an early season test against some of the D.C. and Baltimore area’s top programs.

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Arena Stage will bring 19thcentury Russian author Anton Chekhov’s aesthetic into 21st century America through the Washington, D.C., premiere of “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.” The play, written by Christopher Durang in 2012, is a sendup of some of the themes and characters present in Chekhov’s works exploring the concepts of family and middle age. Siblings Vanya and Sonia lead mundane lives together in Bucks County, Pa., until their sister returns to town with exciting news and a new beau. At the helm is director Aaron Posner of Silver Spring, who is no stranger to Chekhov’s world. Two of his plays, “Stupid [expletive] Bird” and “Life Sucks (Or the Present Ridiculous),” reimagined the writer’s works, and are what Posner suspects led Arena Stage to seek him out to direct this piece. Durang’s canon isn’t new to Posner, either — he had heard of “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” while writing “Stupid [expletive] Bird” and thought it sounded amusing. “I’m a big Christopher Durang fan, I think one of the ﬁrst things I directed in high school was ‘The Actor’s Nightmare,” an old piece of his from the

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(From left) Grace Gonglewski as Masha, Eric Hissom as Vanya, Sherri Edelen as Sonia and Jefferson Farber as Spike appear in “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, opening Friday. ’70s,” he said. “I think he’s a great writer, and I think it’s a really fun world he’s created.” “I’m a Chekhov fan, have

been since I was a college student, when I was really taken with the world he creates,” added Eric Hissom, who plays

Vanya. “I thought Durang did a good job channeling Chekhov in a contemporary American setting, with a good dose of Durangian zaniness.” Posner and Hissom are frequent collaborators on theatrical works, so when Posner became attached to “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” he thought of Hissom almost instantly thanks to his ability to handle nearly anything thrown at him. “He’s someone I’m always interested in working with,” Posner said. “He has a lot of different colors to him, and I knew I wanted someone who could play lots of different things in lots of different ways all at the same time. I wanted more colors.” In the play, Vanya is a middle-aged man who feels like he let life pass him by. He’s been unemployed for quite some time, and while he’s educated, he’s found it hard to break back into the real world. “Every five to 10 years there’s huge change because of the technological progress we make,” Hissom said. “The job market and culture changes so fast that if you step out of it for awhile, you’re really behind, and that’s where Vanya is.” Vanya is presented as a bit of an introvert, but throughout the course of the play his frustration grows until it explodes in the form of a monologue Hissom estimates to last eight minutes — a signiﬁcant time

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Brewers focus in on low-in-alcohol beers

There has been a notable recent proclivity of brewers to make session beers: beers that are relatively low in alcohol so that several can be consumed at one sitting. This may be a reaction to the tendency toward higher and more extreme alcohol beers of the last decade. Drinkers can only drink a few of these extreme brews at a single sitting or ﬁnd themselves staring at the ceiling. Some of these are only brewed as specialty beers and not part of a regular lineup. There are two competing explanations for the term session beers, called various names in other cultures including table beers and worker beers. One relates to the British experience during and after World War I when pubs were only open for two sessions each day to conserve energy and grains, once at lunchtime and once in the evening. With the hours curtailed, workmen had to drink quickly, requiring reduced alcohol levels to keep the laborers sober when returning to work. The other explanation relates to the former British lifestyle of people congregating in pubs and drinking lighter beers throughout the evening. These beers were intended to be consumed for hours at a single session while allowing conversation and without making the discussion about the characteristics of the beer. Lew Bryson, a well known beer and whiskey writer and a one-man advocate

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BREWS BROTHERS STEVEN FRANK AND ARNOLD MELTZER for session beers, avers that such beers should be below 4.5 percent alcohol by volume (ABV), flavorful enough to be interesting, balanced enough to allow for multiple pints, conducive to conversation, and reasonably priced. The latter is so that consumers won’t pay the same price for low alcohol beers as for high alcohol beers. At this time there is no agreement on the upper alcohol bound for session beers. However, the Brewers Association defines a Session Beer for the Great American Beer Festival entries as a lower alcohol version of a classic beer style, balancing the style’s character with the lower alcohol content, with that content being at or below 5 percent ABV. Legendary British beer writer Michael Jackson was the first to use the actual term session beer in 1982 about a German beer and again in 1988 referencing a British beer. Many of the British beer styles, including Bitters and Milds, have low alcohol levels. Other styles that historically have low alcohol levels include Berliner Weisse, Gose, types of Stout such as a Dry Stout, and some American Pale Ales. As more and more consumers try craft beer, trading in light for something with flavor, these can be the gateway to their bigger brewed brothers and sisters. Gold Leaf Lager (4.5 per-

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IN THE ARTS

DANCES Social Ballroom Dance, Tea Dance, April 2; West Coast Swing with Dance Jam Productions, April 3; Hand Dance Night, April 4; 2126 Industrial Highway, Silver Spring, 301-326-1181, hollywoodballroomdc.com. Scottish Country Dancing, 8 to 10 p.m. Mondays, steps and formations taught. No experience, partner necessary, T-39 Building on NIH campus, Wisconsin Avenue and South Drive, Bethesda, 240-505-0339. Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd. Blues, Capital Blues: Thursdays, 8:15

p.m. beginner lesson, 9 to 11:30 p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen Echo Park’s Spanish Ballroom Annex, $8, capitalblues.org. Contra, April 3, Janine Smith calls to Run of Mill String with Palmer Loux, Greg Loux, Paul Sidlick and Mat Clark, 7:30 p.m., $10, fridaynightdance.org. English Country, April 1, Stephanie Smith and Ann Fallon callers; April 8, Rich Galloway caller, 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), fsgw.org. Swing and Lindy, April 11, Seth Kibel Quartet, featuring Lena Seikaly, $18, $12, 17 and younger. Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, flyingfeet.org. Waltz, April 5, Waltz Magic with Alexander Mitchell (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), Barbara Heitz (flute), Liz Donaldson (piano), Ralph Gordon (bass), lesson from 2:45-3:30 p.m., dancing from 3:30-6 p.m., $10, waltztimedances.org. Ring of Kerry Irish Dance class, group meets on Tuesday’s until late May at Ridgeview Middle School. Beginning class starts at 7 p.m., followed by the experienced class at 8:05 p.m. The cost is $50. Ceili and set dances are performed, and no partner is required for the lessons. For information, email Jean at jtmwoods@ gmail.com or visit ringofkerrydancers. org. Dancers must be at least 8 years old to senior. Anyone younger than 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

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Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Ted Efantis, April 1; The Chuck Redd Quar-

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tet with Special Guest Nicki Parrot, April 2; Miss Habesha - Ethiopia and Eritrea Beauty Pageant USA 2015, April 3; Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes, April 4; The Chris Grasso Trio Featuring Sharon Clark, April 8; The Fabulous Thunderbirds featuring Kim Wilson plus The Cathy Ponton King Band, April 9; The Chuck Brown Band, April 10; Mickey Bass and the Manhattan Burn Unit, April 12, call for prices, times, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, bethesdabluesjazz.com. BlackRock Center for the Arts, Salsa and Bachata Dance Party, April 3; Swing Dance Party, April 10; Tie it into my Hand and The Glitter Emergency, April 11; Beijing Guitar Duo, April 12, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-5282260, blackrockcenter.org. Hershey’s At The Grove, Greg Harrison Jazz Band, April 1; Martha Capone, April 3; Bill Mulroney, April 4, call for times, 17030 Oakmont Ave., Gaithersburg. 301-9489893; hersheysatthegrove.com. Fillmore Silver Spring, New Found Glory, April 2; Fillmore Flashback: 80s vs 90s Dance Party hosted by Biz Markie, April 4; LOGIC: Under Pressure World Tour, April 7; Blackberry Smoke, April 10; 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. ﬁllmoresilverspring.com. Strathmore, Air: Marian McLaughlin, April 8; Miranda Cuckson, Violin, April 9; BSO Off the Cuff: Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony, April 10, 12; National Philharmonic: Bach’s St. John Passion, April 11; Songwriting Workshop: In the Style of Roseanne Cash, April 12; Air Workshop: Marian McLaughlin - Those Who Wish To Sing, April 15, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, strathmore.org.

ON STAGE Adventure Theatre-MTC, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” April 3 through May 25, call for prices, times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, adventuretheatre-mtc.org. Imagination Stage, “Sinbad: The Untold Tale,” April 8 through May 29, call for prices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, imaginationstage.org. Olney Theatre Center, “Carousel,” April 15 through May 10, call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, olneytheatre.org. The Puppet Co., “Jack and the Beanstalk,” through May 3; Tiny Tots @ 10, select Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, call for shows and show times, Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s North Arcade Building, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301-634-5380, thepuppetco.org. Rockville Musical Theatre, “Next to Normal,” April 10 through April 26, Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road, 240-258-6394, r-m-t.org.

Round House Theatre, “Uncle Vanya,” April 8 through May 3, call for show times, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. Tickets range in price from $10 to $45 and seating is reserved. 240-644-1100, roundhousetheatre.org. Lumina Studio Theatre, Silver Spring Black Box Theatre, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301-588-8277, luminastudio. org; theatreconsortiumss@gmail.com. Silver Spring Stage, “The Language Archive,” April 10 to May 2, Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, see Web site for show times, ssstage.org. Randolph Road Theater, 4010 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, belcantanti. com, Cafe Muse, Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South Park Ave., Chevy Chase; 301-656-2797.

VISUAL ART Adah Rose Gallery, Randeall Lear, through April 12, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-922-0162, adahrosegallery.com Glenview Mansion, Jorge Bernal, Alexey Zoob and Strings and Things, through April 24, opening reception from 1:30-3:30 p.m. March 29 Rockville Civic Center Park, 503 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. rockvillemd. gov. Marin-Price Galleries, Rosaline (Rosie) Moore, April 4-23; 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, 7022 Wisconsin Ave., 301-7180622, marin-price.com. Montgomery Art Association, James Vissari, March 31 through May 3; opening reception from 1-5 p.m. April 12, Westﬁeld Wheaton Mall, 11160 Viers Mill Road, Wheaton, montgomeryart.org. VisArts, Joel D’Orazio: 1992 Forward, through April 12; Shannon Collis, through April 12; Jeffery Cooper, through April 26; Gibbs Street Gallery, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200, visartsatrockville.org. Washington Printmakers Gallery, Jack Boul, “Monotypes,” April 1-26; opening reception from 3-5 p.m. April 12; artist talk from 3-5 p.m. April 18, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, second ﬂoor, 8230 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, washingtonprintmakers. com. Kentlands Mansion Art Gallery, 320 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg, 301-2586425. Gallery B, “A Quiet Suspension of Time,” April 1 through April 25; 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E, Bethesda, bethesda. org.

ET CETERA The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, writer.org.

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actor as far as memorization, but also in terms of how to present the inner turmoil alongside the outer calm. “Throughout the rest of the play, he’s making nice, trying to keep the peace, trying to be civil,” Hissom said. “But there’s a kind of cauldron bubbling inside him.” The rest of the characters also balance these deeper feelings their respective actors must reconcile with their outward faces. Whereas some plays and films present a oneor two-dimensional approach, in Posner’s opinion, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” includes representations of humans in full threedimensional glory. “I don’t think we’re as simple as we’re often painted to be in movies or art,” he said. “There are times as a society we would like our people to be one way, heroes or villains, for example, and I don’t think it tends to be that simple. As we’ve been rehearsing, there’s been a lot of depth to these characters, a lot of nuance.” In portraying these characters, both as representations of figures and thematic elements explored through Chekhov’s works as well as fullyfledged humans, Arena Stage’s cast

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‘VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE’ n When: Friday to May 3 n Where: Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, 1101 Sixth St., SW, Washington, D.C. n Tickets: $45-$90 n More information: 202-488-3300; ArenaStage.org

and crew hopes to produce a show with as much depth as heart. “There’s a lack of cynicism, a sweetness that is sort of not fashionable, in a way,” said Hissom. “We like irony lately, we’re kind of cynical and jaded in some ways. This has a real snappy, comic feel. There’s a lot of wise-cracking, but ultimately it has a sweet heart.” “I’m a fan of dark and twisty art and tragedy as much as the next fellow, but one of the things theater does well is create a place to laugh and escape a little bit,” added Posner. “I ﬁnd it’s an incredibly hopeful play, and I think that’s more important than celebrating or wallowing in difﬁculties. Pointing toward hope is always worthwhile.” kgroff@gazette.net

Highway 128 (4.2 percent ABV) is a Gose-style beer produced by Anderson Valley Brewing in Boonville, Calif. Highway 128 has an intriguing bouquet of earthiness and lemon. The light tart lemon front grows to medium in the middle. The ﬁnish adds a hint of the style’s traditional salt character. In the aftertaste the salt and lemon are more prominent as the tartness fades. Ratings:8.5/8.5. Coffee Milk Stout (4.2 percent ABV) also is made by Stone Brewing. It has a beguiling nose of roast, coffee and lactose presaging a light sweet and coffee front. The middle adds a moderate roast together with a light bitterness. The roast is more apparent in the ﬁnish joined by a hint of chocolate. These all continue into the light chocolate, bitter, coffee and roast aftertaste and linger. More like a stout than a milk stout. Ratings: 7.5/7.

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STEPHEN ESTRADA

“Sea Paintings: a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Stephen Estrada” will be on view in the BlackRock Center for the Arts’ Kay Gallery April 1-25. The exhibit includes “Brewing Storm,” oil on canvas.

PHOTO BY LAUREN ALEXANDER

Sinbad (Christopher Wilson) is the best porter in the whole city in the Imagination Stage production, “Sinbad: The Untold Tale,” opening April 8 at Imagination Stage’s Annette M. and Theodore N. Lerner Family Theatre in Bethesda.

Fantastic voyage The quest for high adventure leads to Imagination Stage this month, and the debut of “Sinbad: The Untold Tale,” running April 8 through May 29 at the Bethesda theater. Written by Charles Way and directed by Janet Stanford, the Far East-set fable ﬁnds the titular hero, here a porter, and

his unlikely partner Ittifaq embarking on a genie-feuled quest for a magical ﬂower — the only hope for their city of Baghdad, which has fallen under an evil sorceress’ spell. Tickets begin at $10. For more information, including show times, visit imaginationstage.org.

“Sea Paintings: a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Stephen Estrada” will be on view at the BlackRock Center for the Arts’ Kay Gallery from April 1-25. A reception is scheduled from 3 to 5

Sea change p.m. April 19. Both the reception and the exhibit are free and open to the public. Currently living in Silver Spring, Estrada grew up in Southern California where he fostered a connection and

admiration for the ocean and its might. His paintings of places along America’s coastline represent the ever-changing forces of nature. For more information, visit blackrockcenter.org.

The great outdoors Rockville painter James Vissari will be the featured artist of the month throughout April at the MAA Gallery at the Westﬁeld Wheaton Mall, 11160 Veirs Mill Road. Inspired by engineering, physics, color and light, Vissari’s passion for painting outdoors yields works representing nature’s beauty and daily life experience. Vissari is a member

of MAA, the Rockville Art League and the plein air group of Silver Spring. He has painted at intriguing locations across the globe, from the Grand Canyon to the Great Pyramids. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. For more information, visit montgomeryart.org.

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James Vissari is the featured artist of the month of April at The Montgomery Art Association MAA Gallery at the Westﬁeld Wheaton Mall. On display is “Sunﬂowers Early Blooming Field,” oil on canvas.

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Designated Speed Camera Corridors and Speed Camera Locations DICKERSON ROAD CORRIDOR -20800 Block @ Martinsburg Road to -22400 Block @ Mouth of Monocacy Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 21400 Block (North & Southbound) 21600 Block (southbound) 22000 Block (Northbound) 22100 Block (Southbound) 23000 Block (North & Southbound) 22400 Block (Southbound) DUFIEF MILL ROAD CORRIDOR -13800 Block @ Travilah Road to -14900 Block @ Muddy Branch Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 14400 Block (North & Southbound) 14500 Block (North & Southbound) EAST VILLAGE AVENUE CORRIDOR -7800 Block @ Woodfield Road to -8900 Block @ Goshen Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 7800 (East & Westbound) EDNOR ROAD CORRIDOR -6 Block @ Norwood Road to -900 Block @ New Hampshire Avenue -900 Block @ New Hampshire Ave. to -1700 Block @ Rocky Gorge Court Speed Monitoring Device Located 100 Block (East & Westbound) 300 Block (East & Westbound) 400 Block (East & Westbound) 500 Block (East & Westbound) 1200 Block (East & Westbound) 1800 Block (East & Westbound) 1900 Block (East & Westbound) EMORY LANE CORRIDOR -15900 Block @ Muncaster Mill Road to -16600 Block @ Georgia Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located 16200 Block (East & Westbound) 16500 Block (East & Westbound) 16600 Block (Westbound) FATHER HURLEY BLVD CORRIDOR -13100 Block @ Middlebrook Road to -19100 Block @ Germantown Road - 19900 Block @ Wisteria Dr. to - 22000 Block @ Crystal Rock Drive Speed Monitoring Device Located: 18800 Block (Eastbound) 19200 Block (East & Westbound) 19300 Block (East & Westbound) 20100 Block (Westbound) 20300 Block (Eastbound) 20800 Block (East & Westbound) 21400 Block (Eastbound) 22000 Block (Westbound) FOREST GLEN ROAD CORRIDOR -900 Block @ Renfrew Road to -1700 Block @ Admiralty Drive Speed Monitoring Device Located: 1600 Block (Eastbound) GAINSBOROUGH ROAD CORRIDOR -10200 Block @ Democracy Blvd. to -11600 Block @ Seven Locks Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 10800 Block (Southbound) 11500 Block (North & Southbound) GEORGIA AVENUE CORRIDOR -8800 Block @ Spring Street to -9200 Block @ 16th Street Speed Monitoring Device Located: 8900 Block (Southbound) 9000 Block (North & Southbound) 9100 Block (Southbound) GLEN MILL ROAD CORRIDOR -13500 Block @ Pheasant Drive to -14200 Block @Wootton Pkwy. Speed Monitoring Device Located: 13800 Block (Southbound) 14000 Block (Southbound) GLEN ROAD CORRIDOR -9300 Block @ Falls Road to -13300 Block @ Query Mill Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 9600 Block (East & Westbound) 10000 Block (Eastbound) GOLD MINE ROAD CORRIDOR -1500 Block @ James Creek Court to -2900 Block @Georgia Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located: 1700 Block (Westbound) 2300 Block (East & Westbound) GOSHEN ROAD CORRIDOR -19100 Block @ Centerway Road to -21100 Block @ Brink Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 19400 Block (Northbound) 19500 Block (Southbound) 19600 Block (Southbound) 20700 Block (Southbound) GROSVENOR LANE CORRIDOR -5500 Block @ Thornbush Lane to -6100 Block @ Cheshire Drive Speed Monitoring Device Located: 5600 Block (East & Westbound) 5800 Block (East & Westbound) HEWITT AVENUE CORRIDOR -2700 Block @ Rippling Brook Drive to -4500 Block @ Georgia Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located: 3000 (East & Westbound) HINES ROAD CORRIDOR -3600 Block @ Georgia Avenue to -4300 Block @ Cashell Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 3900 Block (East & Westbound) 4000 Block (East & Westbound) 4100 Block (East & Westbound) 4200 Block (East & Westbound) HOMECREST ROAD CORRIDOR -14400 Block @ Bel Pre Road to -15000 Block @ Longmead Crossing Drive Speed Monitoring Device Located: 14500 (North & Southbound) 14600 (North & Southbound) 15000 (Northbound) JONES BRIDGE ROAD CORRIDOR -3900 Block @ Connecticut Avenue to -4700 Block @ Rockville Pike Speed Monitoring Device Located: 4100 Block (East & Westbound)

4200 Block (Eastbound) 4300 Block (Westbound) 4400 Block (Westbound) 4500 Block (Eastbound) KEMP MILL ROAD CORRIDOR -11600 Block @Arcola Avenue to -12600 Block @ Randolph Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 11700 Block (Northbound) KINGSTEAD ROAD CORRIDOR -10800 Block @ Oak Drive to -11800 Block @ Burnt Hill Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 10900 Block (Westbound) 11400 Block (East & Westbound) 11700 Block (East & Westbound) LOCKWOOD ROAD CORRIDOR -10800 Block @ Columbia Pike (Route 29) to -11200 Block @ New Hampshire Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located: 10800 Block (Southbound) 10900 Block (North & Southbound) 11000 Block (North & Southbound) 11100 Block (North & Southbound) 11200 Block (Southbound) MAIN STREET/DAMASCUS ROAD CORRIDOR (MD.ROUTE 108) -9200 Block of Damascus Road/Route 108 to -9700 Block of Main Street @ Woodfield Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 9200 Block Damascus Road (Eastbound) 9600 Block Main Street (East & Westbound) MASSACHUSETTS ROAD CORRIDOR - 5100 Block @ Duvall Drive to - 6000 Block @ Sangamore Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 5600 Block (Westbound) 5700 Block (Eastbound) MONTGOMERY VILLAGE AVENUE CORRIDOR - 18400 Block @ Midcounty Hwy. to - 19100 Block @ Stedwick Road -19400 Block @Club House Road to -20200 Block @ Wightman Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 18700 Block (North & Southbound) 19500 Block (North & Southbound) 19800 Block (North & Southbound) 19900 Block (Northbound) 20000 Block (Southbound) 20200 Block (Southbound) MUNCASTER ROAD CORRIDOR - 17700 Block @ Horizon Terrace to - 19800 Block @ Olney-Laytonsville Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 18600 Block (Northbound) 18800 Block (Southbound) MUNCASTER MILL ROAD CORRIDOR -7200 Block @ Airpark Drive to -7800 Block @ Woodfield Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 7400 Block (Westbound) 7800 Block (Eastbound) OAKVIEW ROAD CORRIDOR -1200 Block @ Hedin Drive to -1600 Block @ New Hampshire Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located 1200 Block (East & Westbound) 1300 Block (East & Westbound) 1400 Block (East & Westbound) 1500 Block (East & Westbound) 1600 Block (East & Westbound) OLNEY-LAYTONSVILLE ROAD CORRIDOR -3400 Block @ Georgia Ave. to -4200 Block @ Olney Mill Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 3400 Block (Westbound) 3500 Block (East & Westbound) 4200 Block (Eastbound) OLNEY-SANDY SPRING ROAD CORRIDOR -1000 Block @ Norwood Road to -1900 Block @ Dr. Bird Road -2700 Block @ Prince Philip Drive to -3000 Block @ Spartan Drive Speed Monitoring Device Located: 1300 Block (Westbound) 1500 Block (Eastbound) 2900 Block (East & Westbound) PARKLAND DRIVE CORRIDOR -12600 Block @ Veirs Mill Road to -13500 Block @ Grenoble Drive Speed Monitoring Device Located: 13000 Block (South & Northbound) 13100 Block (South & Northbound) PLYERS MILL ROAD CORRIDOR -2200 Block @ Georgia Avenue to -3200 Block @ Drumm Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located: 2300 Block (Westbound) 2400 Block (Eastbound) 2600 Block (East & Westbound) 2800 Block (Westbound) 2900 Block (East & Westbound) 3100 Block (Eastbound) POWDER MILL ROAD CORRIDOR -1800 Block @ Green Forest Drive to -2000 Block @ Kinloch Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 2000 Block (East & Westbound) QUAIL VALLEY BOULEVARD CORRIDOR -18500 Block @ Strawberry Knoll Road to -19000 Block @ Strawberry Knoll Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 18700 Block (East & Westbound) QUINCE ORCHARD ROAD CORRIDOR -1000 Block @ Cheyenne Drive to -1000 Block @ McDonald Chapel Drive Speed Monitoring Device Located: 1000 Block (Southbound) RANDOLPH ROAD CORRIDOR -1800 Block @ Kemp Mill Road to -2000 Block @ Glenallan Avenue -2700 Block @ Livingston Street to -3600 Block @ Connecticut Avenue -3700 Block @ Connecticut Avenue to -5000 Block @Putnam Drive Speed Monitoring Device Located: 1800 Block (Westbound) 1900 Block (West & Eastbound) 3200 Block (Eastbound) 3300 Block (East & Westbound)

4600 Block (East & Westbound) 4900 Block (East & Westbound) REDLAND ROAD CORRIDOR -17100 Block @ Founders Mill Drive to -17400 Block @ Roslyn Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located: 17100 Block (North & Southbound) 17300 Block (North & Southbound) RICHTER FARM ROAD CORRIDOR -13300 Block @ Great Seneca Highway to -14500 Block @ Clopper Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 13500 Block (East & Westbound) 14400 Block (East & Westbound) 14500 Block (East & Westbound) RIDGE ROAD CORRIDOR -23400 Block @ Davis Mill Road to -24600 Block @ Sweepstakes Road -25500 Block @ Oak Drive to -26000 Block @ Bethesda Church Road -26500 Block @ High Corner Street to -27500 Block @ Bellison Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 24000 Block (Northbound) 24100 Block (North & Southbound) 25800 Block (North & Southbound) 27000 Block (North & Southbound) 27200 Block (Southbound) 27300 Block (North & Southbound) RIVER ROAD CORRIDOR -9800 Block @ Persimmon Tree Road to -11300 Block @ Piney Meetinghouse Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 9800 Block (Westbound) 10300 Block (West & Eastbound) 10400 Block (Eastbound) 10500 Block (Eastbound) 10600 Block (East & Westbound) 10700 Block (East & Westbound) RUSSETT ROAD CORRIDOR -4900 Block @ Arctic Avenue to -5300 Block @ Bauer Drive Speed Monitoring Device Located: 5100 Block (Westbound) 5200 Block (East & Westbound) SANGAMORE ROAD CORRIDOR -4800 Block @ Sentinel Drive to -5400 Block @ Massachusetts Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located: 4800 Block (North & Southbound) 4900 Block (North & Southbound) 5000 Block (Southbound) SCHAEFFER ROAD CORRIDOR -13700 Block @ Clopper Road to -14500 Block @ Central Park Circle Speed Monitoring Device Located: 13700 Block (Westbound) 13900 Block (East & Westbound) 14000 Block (East & Westbound) 14200 Block (East & Westbound) 14400 Block (Eastbound) 14500 Block (Westbound) SEMINARY ROAD CORRIDOR -2100 Block @ Burket Court to -2500 Block @ Forest Glen Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 2201 Block (Westbound) 2200 Block (East & Westbound) 2300 Block (Eastbound) 2400 Block (East & Westbound) 2500 Block (East & Westbound) SEVEN LOCKS ROAD CORRIDOR -6500 Block @ MacArthur Blvd. to -8400 Block @ River Road -8400 Block @ River Road to -10900 Block @ Bells Mill Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 6700 Block (Northbound) 6900 Block (Southbound) 9800 Block (Southbound) 10700 Block (North & Southbound) 10900 Block (North & Southbound) SKYLARK ROAD CORRIDOR 10800 Block @ Ridge Road to 12000 Block @ Piedmont Road Speed monitoring device located: 11700 Block (East & Westbound) 12000 Block (East & Westbound) STONEBRIDGE VIEW DRIVE CORRIDOR -14300 Block @ Travilah Road to -15000 Block @ Muddy Branch Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 14400 Block (Eastbound) 14500 Block (East & Westbound) 14600 Block (Eastbound) STRATHMORE AVENUE CORRIDOR -4400 Block @ Knowles Avenue to -5200 Block @ Rockville Pike Speed Monitoring Device Located: 4900 Block (East & Westbound) TENBROOK DRIVE CORRIDOR -9900 Block @ Forest Glen Road to -10500 Block @ Whitehall Street Speed Monitoring Device Location 9900 Block (Southbound) 10300 Block (North & Southbound) 10400 Block (North & Southbound) 10500 Block (North & Southbound) TRAVILAH ROAD CORRIDOR -12500 Block @ River Road to -14300 Block @ Darnestown Road Speed Monitoring Device Location 12700 Block (North & Southbound) 12800 Block (Southbound) 13300 Block (North & Southbound) 13500 Block (Northbound) 13600 Block (Southbound) 13800 Block (North & Southbound) 14000 Block (North & Southbound) 14100 Block (North & Southbound) 14200 Block (North & Southbound) 14300 Block (North & Southbound) TUCKERMAN LANE CORRIDOR -8000 Block @ Seven Locks Road to -9000 Block @ Falls Road Speed Monitoring Device Location 8700 Block (Westbound)

WAYNE AVENUE CORRIDOR -100 Block @ Sligo Creek Pkwy. to -700 Block @ Cedar Street Speed Monitoring Device Location 100 Block (Eastbound) 300 Block (Westbound) 600 Block (Eastbound) WILSON LANE CORRIDOR -5700 Block @ Bradley Blvd. to -6700 Block @ River Road -6800 Block @ River Road to -7100 Block @ MacArthur Blvd. Speed Monitoring Device Location 5800 Block (Westbound) 6100 Block (Westbound) 6400 Block (Eastbound) 7000 Block (North & Southbound) 7100 Block (North & Southbound) WISCONSIN AVENUE CORRIDOR -5700 Block @ Oliver Street to -6600 Block @ Bradley Lane Speed Monitoring Device Located: 6000 Block (Southbound) 6300 Block (Southbound) 6400 Block (Southbound) WISTERIA DRIVE CORRIDOR -12000 Block @ Waring Station Road to -12600 Block @ Great Seneca Hwy. Speed Monitoring Device Located: 12500 Block (Eastbound) WOODFIELD ROAD CORRIDOR -23600 Block @ Kimblehunt Drive to -24400 Block @ Low Meadow Drive -25700 Block @ Valley Park Drive to -25900 Block @ Bethesda Church Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 23800 Block (Northbound) 24000 Block (North & Southbound) 24100 Block (North & Southbound) 24200 Block (North & Southbound) 25800 Block (North & Southbound) Speed Camera Locations (Outside of established speed camera corridors) -13500 Block of Arctic Ave (North & Southbound) -18500 Block of Barnesville Road (Eastbound) -16800 Block of Bachellors Forest Road (North & Southbound) -21700 Block of Beallsville Rd. (North and Southbound) -21800 Block of Beallsville Rd. (North and Southbound) -21900 Block of Beallsville Rd. (North and Southbound) -3100 Block of Bel Pre Road (Westbound) -3200 Block of Bel Pre Road (Eastbound) -17100 Block of Bowie Mill Road (East & Westbound) -7700 Block of Brookville Road (North & Southbound) -9200 Block of Brookville Road (Northbound) -9300 Block of Brookville Road (Southbound) -900 Block of Cannon Road (East & Westbound) -11800 Block of Claridge Road (Northbound) -11900 Block of Claridge Road (Southbound) -8000 Block of Connecticut Avenue (Northbound) -8900 Block of Connecticut Avenue (Northbound) -10100 Block of Connecticut Ave (North & Southbound) -11100 Block of Connecticut Ave (Northbound) -11200 Block of Connecticut Ave (Southbound) -1300 Block Dale Drive (East & Westbound) -14000 Block Dufief Mill Road (Southbound) -4300 East-West Highway (Westbound) -19400 Block of Fisher Ave (Southbound) -19500 Block of Fisher Ave (Northbound) -20100 Block of Fisher Ave (Southbound) -3400 Block of Gateshead Manor Road (Northbound) -17700 Block of Georgia Ave (Northbound) -19600 Block of Georgia Ave (Northbound) -15500 Block of Germantown Road (Northbound) -15700 block of Germantown Road (Southbound) -5600 Block of Grosvenor Lane (Eastbound) -8600 Block of Grubb Road (North & Southbound) -3700 Block of Jones Bridge Road (East & Westbound) -13400 Block of Layhill Road (Northbound) -13500 Block of Layhill Road (Southbound) -21400 Block of Laytonsville Road (North & Southbound) -18100 Block of Mateny Road (North & Southbound) -8000 Block of Mid-County Highway (Northbound) -8100 Block of Mid-County Highway (Southbound) -12200 Block of New Hampshire Ave (North & Southbound) -25400 Block of Oak Drive (East & Westbound) -10500 Oaklyn Drive (East & Westbound) -22300 Block of Old Hundred Road (Southbound) -15200 Block of Peach Orchard Road (North & Southbound) -15400 Block of Peach Orchard Road (North & Southbound) -7600 Block of Piney Branch Road (Northbound) -7900 block of Piney Branch Road (Southbound) -15100 Block of Quince Orchard (Southbound) -15300 Block of Quince Orchard (Northbound) -1600 Block of Rainbow Drive (East & Westbound) -15000 Block of Snowden Farm Parkway (North & Southbound) -4900 Block of Strathmore Ave (East & Westbound) -12900 Block of Twinbrook Parkway (Northbound) -12700 Block of West Old Baltimore Road (Westbound) -12800 Block of West Old Baltimore Road (Eastbound) -13400 Block of Wisteria Drive (East & Westbound)) -19400 Block of Woodfield Road (Northbound) -19500 Block of Woodfield Road (Southbound) -21100 Block of Woodfield Road (Route 124) (North & Southbound) -23000 Block of Woodfield Road (Route 124) (North) -24100 Block of Woodfield School Road (East & Westbound) -20200 Block of Wynnfield Drive (East & Westbound)

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16th STREET CORRIDOR -8500 Block @ Spring Street to -9200 Block @ Georgia Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located: 8800 Block (North & Southbound) 8900 Block (Northbound) 9200 Block (Southbound) APPLE RIDGE ROAD CORRIDOR -9700 Block @ Montgomery Village Avenue to -10300 Block @ Watkins Mill Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 9800 Block (East & Westbound) 10100 Block (East & Westbound) ARCOLA AVENUE CORRIDOR -1200 Block @ Lamberton Drive to -2500 Block @ Georgia Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located: 1800 Block (Westbound) 1900 Block (Eastbound) 2000 Block (East & Westbound) ASPEN HILL ROAD CORRIDOR -4400 Block @ Parkland Drive to -5000 Block @ Veirs Mill Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 4600 Block (North & Southbound) BELLS MILL ROAD CORRIDOR -8000 Block @ Seven Locks Road to -9300 Block @ Falls Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 8600 Block (Westbound) 8700 Block (Eastbound) BONIFANT ROAD CORRIDOR -10 Block @ New Hampshire Avenue to -1400 Block @ Alderton Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 300 Block (Westbound) 500 Block (Eastbound) 1300 Block (East & Westbound) 1400 Block (East & Westbound) BRADLEY BLVD CORRIDOR -5300 Block @ Goldsboro Road to -5900 Block @ Huntington Pkwy. Speed Monitoring Device Located: 5400 Block (Northbound) 5500 Block (Northbound) 5600 Block (North & Southbound) 5700 Block (Northbound) 5800 Block (Northbound) 5900 Block (North & Southbound) BRIGGS CHANEY ROAD CORRIDOR 700 Block @ New Hampshire Avenue to -2500 Block @ Fairdale Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 1000 Block (North & Southbound) 1900 Block (North & Southbound) 2000 Block (North & Southbound) 2100 Block (North & Southbound) CALVERTON BLVD CORRIDOR -2800 Block @ Cherry Hill Road to -3000 Block @ Galway Drive Speed Monitoring Device Located: 2900 Block (Eastbound) 3000 Block (East & Westbound) CASHELL ROAD CORRIDOR -16500 Block @ Emory Lane to -18200 Block @ Bowie Mill Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 16700 Block (North & Southbound) 17100 Block (North & Southbound) 17200 Block (North & Southbound) CEDAR LANE CORRIDOR -9100 Block @ Rockville Pike to -10100 Block @ Clearbrook Lane Speed Monitoring Device Located: 9100 Block (East & Westbound) 9200 Block (East &Westbound) 10000 Block (East & Westbound) CENTERWAY ROAD CORRIDOR -8700 Block @ Snouffer School Road to -9900 Block @ Montgomery Village Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located: 9100 Block (Eastbound) 9600 Block (Westbound) 9700 Block (Eastbound) CINNAMON DRIVE CORRIDOR -12900 Block @ Clopper Road to -18500 Block @ Mateny Road to Speed Monitoring Device Located: 18400 Block (Southbound) COLESVILLE ROAD CORRIDOR -9300 Block (North & Southbound) -9300 Block @ Sligo Creek Parkway to -8800 Block @ Spring Street Speed Monitoring Device Located: 8900 Block (North & Southbound) 9000 Block (Northbound) 9200 Block (Southbound) CONNECTICUT AVENUE CORRIDOR -9400 Block @ Culver Street to -9800 Block @ Saul Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 9400 Block (Northbound) 9600 Block (Southbound) 9700 Block (North and Southbound) CRABBS BRANCH WAY CORRIDOR -15900 Block @ Indianola Drive to -16100 Block @ Redland Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 16100 Block (North & Southbound) DARNESTOWN ROAD CORRIDOR -13500 Block @ Haddonfield Lane to -14700 Block @ Germantown Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 13600 Block (Westbound) 13700 Block (Eastbound) 14200 Block (Eastbound) 14300 Block (Eastbound) DEMOCRACY BLVD. CORRIDOR -6200 Block @ Old Georgetown Road to -6500 Block @ Rockledge Road Speed Monitoring Device Located: 6400 Block (East & Westbound) DENNIS AVENUE CORRIDOR -700 Block @ University Blvd. to -2100 Block @ Georgia Avenue Speed Monitoring Device Located: 1400 Block (Westbound) 1700 Block (Eastbound)

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We’re looking for a visual journalist with editing skills: the ideal candidate can handle print and digital platforms, section fronts and graphics, layout and headlines.

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Are needed for all phases of commercial masonry (concrete restoration, caulking, tuckpointing, etc) Jobs are located in NOVA, MD & DC. Transportation & experience is required. Benefits include: health insurance, paid holidays, vacation & 401k. Must pass a drug screen test & background check. E-verification upon employment. To apply: 7000 Tech Circle, Manassas, VA 20109. F o r directions ONLY call 703-369-2550

Medical Receptionist PT/FT-flexible. Downtown Silver Spring. Exp. Required. Fax (301)589-5245 Email: admin@rodman-engelstein.com

EOE

PARTS DRIVER

Must be at least 21 yrs old & possess a clean driving record. We perform background checks. Please call Brady at Harvey W Hottel, Inc.

301-921-9599

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Maintenance & Engineering Department Suburban Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine has several vacancies in the Maintenance and Engineering Dept.This is a busy area that is responsible for the smooth operations of the facility, where patient’s needs are our number 1 priority. Electrician II - Position is responsible for the installation, inspection, maintenance and repairs of all electrical system, apparatus and electrical and electronic components of industrial machinery and equipment. Requirements: Must have a Journeyman’s licensure. 5 years experience in the construction, installation, and maintenance of electrical facilities is required.

HVAC Mechanic: Positon is responsible for all functions required in keeping with safe hospital and industrial standards and practices. 3-5 years HVAC/R experience is required. Hospital experience is a plus. Knowledge of D.D.C controls and HVAC applications is necessary. Universal CFC certification is required Stationary Engineer: Position operates and maintains stationary engines and

mechanical equipment such as central plant refrigeration, steam boilers, air conditions systems, equipment and allied facilities Requirements: one year experience in preventive maintenance is required, hospital experience is a plus. First Class Engineer’s license is required. High School diploma or trade school education is required. Painter: Position will be responsible for maintaining and preserving all interior and exterior painted or similarly finished surfaces of buildings. Requirements: Must have at least 5 years" experience in construction, industrial or commercial painting, including building maintenance services. Education: High School Diploma or GED

Visit us online, find your desired position and apply at www.suburbanhospital.org

The Gazette, a chain of weekly community newspapers in Maryland, is seeking an Web Editor to build our digital audience and oversee our digital content and presentation. Responsibilities include editing stories and related items for optimal web display, determining how information is displayed, formulating strategies for niche publications and special online features, promoting a web-first mentality in the newsroom, and troubleshooting problems on the website and with our content management system. Candidates must have solid print and digital media skills, and strong knowledge of SEO, social media and other digital tools. Duties include supervising a small staff, working with multiple departments on digital projects, tracking analytics, and some editing for the printed publications. Experience dealing with vendors and working with our content management system, Saxotech, is a plus. This position requires working at both our Laurel and Gaithersburg locations. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition reimbursement and 401(k). Send resume, cover letter and salary requirements to Vanessa Harrington: editjobs@gazette.net. No phone calls. EOE Drivers

Outside Sales Associates

Now hiring entry level or experienced. Will train. Base pay and commissions, paid vacation, holidays, training. 401K and Full medical benefits. TruGreen in Gaithersburg is offering: Starting base pay of $600 per week - NO DRAW Call Mike Perkins at 301-337-2992. EOE

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Chevy Chase Club, a prestigious, full service country club, is currently hiring in the following department: µ Swim µ Food Service µ Summer Camp µ Golf Maintenance µ Housekeeping µ Fitness µ Tennis µ Maintenance

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NOW HIRING COMPANIONS FOR SENIORS! Provide non-medical care for seniors in their homes. CNA, GNA, HHA and NON-LICENSED positions available. Flexible scheduling, ongoing training, 24hr support provided. Must have car, 1yr U.S work history, 21+. Home Instead Senior Care. To us it’s personal! 301-588-9708 (Call 10am-4pm Mon-Fri ) µ www.HISC197CG.digbro.com

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