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Ahead of a community meeting with county planners next week, small-business owners say they worry they will be squeezed out by their landlord’s redevelopment plans in Bethesda’s Westbard neighborhood. An executive at Equity One, however, said the company will work to keep tenants that are popular in the neighborhoods surrounding its seven commercial properties.

“We are committed to being totally upfront with them — we don’t know the timing any more than they do,” said Michael Berﬁeld, executive vice president of property owner Equity One of New York City. As Berﬁeld noted during a telephone interview Monday evening, a great deal depends on the Planning Board’s decisions. But he said the properties are due for an update after, in some cases, nearly 50 years. Included in Equity One’s plans for the 22 acres it owns around Westbard Avenue is more housing — roughly 75 townhouses and 450 apartment

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Middle school plan may threaten trees Ofﬁcial: Staff making ‘tweaks’ to meet rules for Kensington project

(Above) Harold and Mimi Jaffe of Potomac enjoy a stroll Monday through the Kenwood neighborhood in Bethesda, with its cherry trees in full bloom. Tuesday’s rain promised to knock down many of the blossoms.

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Montgomery County Public Schools is considering how to preserve more trees on a site where it wants to build a second middle school for the BethesdaChevy Chase cluster. The Montgomery County Planning Board recently told the school system to revise its plan for the Kensington site to save more forest area overall and speciﬁcally some larger trees, both

(Right) As usual, residents and others ﬂocked to the neighborhood to take in the annual display of ﬂora. PHOTOS BY DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE

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Washington may have its cherry blossoms every spring, but the written word will be in full bloom this weekend in Bethesda at the Bethesda Literary Festival. The festival will feature events around Bethesda Friday through Sunday. Since its start in 2000, the festival has hosted a number of prominent authors and journalists, said Stephanie Coppula, a spokeswoman for the Bethesda Urban Partnership, which manages and organizes the festival.

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The festival’s location just outside Washington makes it “ideal for this type of event,” Coppula said. Many of the authors live in Bethesda or the Washington area, and the festival has drawn many White House correspondents and nationally known journalists, she said. For example, Jonathan Allen, who recently became the chief political correspondent for Vox, will be speaking on Saturday at the Residence Inn Bethesda about his book “HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton.” The book, which Allen co-wrote with White House correspondent Amie Parnes of The Hill, chronicles Clinton’s time as secretary of state and the prelude to her presidential campaign.

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KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

About $35 million in state funding for Montgomery County Public Schools remained in limbo Tuesday after the Maryland General Assembly wrapped up its 2015 legislative session. Lawmakers passed a budget Monday that fully funds education according to formulas under state law, including one known as the Geographic Cost of Education Index. The index provides additional money to school systems where the cost of ed-

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in and out of the forest. The school system is now working to meet these and other legal conditions set by the board to earn approval of the project’s forest conservation plan. One school ofﬁcial says the recent efforts will result in minor changes. However, planning board staff, who ultimately will approve the plan, expected more signiﬁcant adjustments to meet the legal requirements. The district hopes to break ground this summer on the project with a $46 million construction budget. With Westland Middle School serving as the cluster’s sole middle school, the new building

ucation is higher. Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. (D-Dist. 18) of Kensington said the index has been fully funded since 2010. But whether the index money reaches local school systems is up to Gov. Larry Hogan. Hogan (R) warned Monday that he might not disperse the funds. The governor and the legislature battled in the closing days of the session over the budget — particularly Hogan’s cuts to education funding to reduce the structural deﬁcit. “In all likelihood, I will have to use the money to ﬁx the problem they created,” he

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State Sen. Cheryl C. Kagan points out her staff in the gallery in the Maryland Senate on Monday.

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Capital City Symphony 2015 Chamber Music Jam, 4-8 p.m., Bethesda Presby-

Kindergarten Orientation, 8:30 a.m., Rock Creek Valley Elementary School, 5121 Russett Road, Rockville, also April 17. For children who will be 5 by Sept. 1. Register for a time and date. Free. 301-460-2195.

terian Church, 7611 Clarendon Road. Socializing, sight-reading, supper. $40 for participating musicians, $25 for dinner and listening. events@capitalcitysymphony.org.

Baltimore Road, Rockville. A four-session workshop to enhance presentation, meeting management and leadership skills. Meets every other Thursday through May 14. $20. robertkatz37@gmail.com.

Holy Child Tiger Trot 5K Run, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Connelly School of the Holy Child, 9029 Bradley Blvd., Potomac. Cash awards for overall winners, prizes in all age divisions and post-race festivities for the family. $25. 301-365-0955. Family Fun in the Park Fest, 10 a.m.noon, Cabin John Regional Park, 7400 Tuckerman Lane, Bethesda. Art projects, face painting, sensory experiences, snacks and drinks. Sponsored by the Maryland Association for the Education of Young Children, Montgomery County Chapter. Free. anniegarland.mdaeyc.moco@gmail.com. Bingo Bash Fundraiser, 1-4:30 p.m., Woman’s Club of Bethesda, 5500 Sonoma Road, Bethesda. To beneﬁt local charities. Ten basket prizes, three $100 jackpot games. 50-50 boards, consolation prizes and a snack bar. $10-$20; $5 for special jackpot games. 301-530-1784.

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

FRIDAY, APRIL 17 Business Plan Fundamentals for Child Care Providers, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.,

Maryland Women’s Business Center, 51 Monroe St., Rockville. Learn the business fundamentals in starting or expanding a child-care business outside of licensing, program and staff requirements. $25. linda@marylandwbc.org. Kids Concert, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Cabin John Mall, 11325 Seven Locks Road, Potomac. A bimonthly concert in the mall atrium. Door-prize giveaway at the end. Free. 240-453-3026. Spring 2015 Wine Tasting-Rockville Sister City Corp., 7-9:30 p.m., Glenview

Mansion, 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. Taste six wines; fancy dress optional. $30. 301-424-2980.

SATURDAY, APRIL 18 Our Lady Of Lourdes 7th Annual Lions’ Roar Kate Truax 5K/1K Run, 8-11 a.m.,

7500 Pearl St., Bethesda. Renamed in 2013 to honor teacher Kate Truax, who died of leukemia in December 2012. Food, music and other activities. $45-$55. smore.com/ sq2xy. C&O Canal Pride Days: Great Falls, 9 a.m.-noon, Historic Great Falls Tavern, 11710 MacArthur Blvd., Potomac. A volunteer event with projects including preserving historic buildings; improving the grounds; and painting buildings, benches and picnic tables. Free. draper@ canaltrust.org. Oral Cancer Awareness Walk and Run in Memory of Peter McGee Hoffman, 9

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a.m.-noon, Meadowbrook Park, 7901 Meadowbrook Lane, Chevy Chase. Participants will enjoy a complimentary breakfast and barbecue lunch, and free oral cancer screenings. $25. hoffman.dc.ocf@gmail.com. Diabetes and Heart Wellness Day, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Rollins Congressional Club, 1621 Martha Terrace, Rockville. Hosted by Young Khalsa Girls. Information on diabetes and heart disease, yoga, games, rafﬂe prizes, a nutritionist and a podiatrist. 301-984-1621.

SUNDAY, APRIL 19

NIH Community Orchestra Presents: European Potpourri, 2 p.m., Bradley Hills

Presbyterian Church, 6601 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda. Timeless orchestral music, including Verdi’s “La forza del destino Overture,” Beethoven’s “Coriolan Overture,” Sibelius’ “Karelia Suite” and selections from Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6. Free; donations accepted for NIH charities. nihco. membership@yahoo.com.

Sunday at the Movies: Montgomery County League of Women Voters Spring Fundraiser, 2-5 p.m., Temple Emanuel,

10101 Connecticut Ave., Kensington. Wine, cheese and a screening of “Chasing Ice,” a documentary about disappearing Arctic glaciers. A panel discussion will follow, focusing on the impact on Maryland of rising sea levels. Gift basket raffle to benefit League Citizen Education Fund. $35-$40. 301-984-9585. “Trial of Labor” Screening, 2:30 p.m., Kadin Family Chiropractic and Wellness Center, 6212 Montrose Road, Rockville. This film follows a group of pregnant women whose previous births have resulted in unplanned surgery and work on trusting themselves and their bodies again. $10. icanofmontcty@yahoo.com. Spring Concert featuring Ezuz, 4-5:30 p.m., Congregation Beth El, 8215 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. Rooted in ancient Jewish texts, the rhythmic music of Ezus encompasses Middle Eastern, American, klezmer, Spanish and South American styles with lyrics in Hebrew,

Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture’s Annual Artist Talk, 2 p.m.,

Glen Echo Park, Ballroom Annex, 7300 MacArthur Blvd. Mick Moloney of New York University will present “If It Wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews: Exploring Irish and Jewish Historic Musical Links and Inﬂuences on Vaudeville and Early Tin Pan Alley.” $5-$10. www.glenechopark.org/ moloney. English, Yiddish, Arabic and Ladino. $10$20. info@bethelmc.org.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21 Joint Pain Lecture, 6-7:30 p.m., Manor Country Club, 14901 Carrolton Road, Rockville. An evening with experts from MedStar Orthopaedic Institute for a light dinner, cocktails and discussion about common orthopedic conditions. Free, registration requested. 301-774-8881. Annual Holocaust Commemoration, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Montgomery College, Theater Arts Arena, 51 Mannakee St., Rockville. Tributes to victims and survivors, a candlelighting ceremony, live music by students and a presentation by Gail Prensky, executive director for the Judische Kulturbund Project, called “Playing for Life: Art Under Tyranny.” Free. 240-567-7417.

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Welcoming and Listening to Diverse Positions about Israel, 7:30 p.m., Temple

(From left) Northwest High School’s Christy Brodrick tries to shake the ball loose Monday from Gaithersburg High School’s Bethany Scott. Go to clicked.Gazette.net.

Shalom, 8401 Grubb Road, Chevy Chase. Sponsored by the Am Kolel Jewish Renewal Community. A forum on how and when to voice criticism of the policies of the Israeli government and how to support Israel while not censoring divergent views about Israel in the American Jewish community. Free. 301-349-2799.

SPORTS Important league games in baseball, softball, lacrosse take place in April. Keep up with the latest in high school sports online.

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Extraordinary Minds in MCPS, 6:30-9 p.m., Earle B. Wood Middle School, 14615 Bauer Drive, Rockville. Seventh annual public forum about public education services and resources to help students on the autism spectrum succeed. Cosponsored by Partnership for Extraordinary Minds and Montgomery County Public Schools’ Department of Special Education. Free. xminds.org.

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Fire Prevention and Safety In Your Home, 7:30-9 p.m., Chevy Chase Village

Hall, 5906 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase. Jim Resnick, program manager of the Senior Outreach and Education program of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, will discuss new smoke alarm laws and county efforts to increase safety from ﬁre or carbon monoxide. Free. 301657-3115.

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CORRECTION An April 8 letter to the editor misspelled the last name of Amber Khan of Silver Spring, who wrote about funding for school upgrades.

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Byron Bloch of Potomac checks out the interior of a 1969 Pontiac Firebird at the Kensington Car Show on Sunday. The show, a fundraiser for the Noyes Library for Young Children in Kensington, drew more than 150 entries and more than 5,000 spectators, raising about $2,500 for the library, according to organizers.

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State group honors music teacher Ann Vaughn, a music teacher at Holton-Arms School in Bethesda for 23 years, recently received the Outstanding Music Teacher Award from the Maryland Music Educators Association. The award recognizes teachers “who establish and sustain strong music programs, as well as advocate the importance of music education,” according to a news release. Vaughn is the private school’s music department chairwoman, conducts the Lower School choruses and teaches Lower and Middle School general music. As chairwoman, she leads the review and development of the music curriculum. She has continued the tradition of global music education established by her predecessor

and mentor, Gerri Wilson, traveling twice to Ghana to study traditional drumming, dancing and singing in a small village in the Volta region, according to the release. She has presented widely on incorporating Ghanaian music into general and choral programs. Vaughn also was a trip leader for the ﬁrst group of Upper School students to travel to Senegal as part of the school’s Global Education Program and Junior Journeys. Holton-Arms Lower School choruses have performed at state, regional and national conferences, most recently at the American Choral Directors Association Eastern Division Conference. Vaughn began her involvement with the association in her first year of teaching in 1992, serving on its executive board and as president in 2003-05. She helped establish its Elementary Demonstration Chorus, which provides honors chorus opportunities for elementary students along with professional development opportunities for their choral

teachers. Vaughn, who plans to retire from the school in June, holds a master’s in music education from Catholic University and a bachelor’s in English literature from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Students win $2,500 Achievement Scholarships Several local students were among the roughly 800 black high school seniors nationwide to win Achievement Scholarship awards totaling more than $2 million through the National Achievement Scholarship Program. The awards are funded by 30 corporate organizations and professional associations, and the National Merit Scholarship Corp. The following students, with their probable career ﬁeld, each won a $2,500 scholarship: • From Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville: Moraa B. Marwanga of Gaithersburg, environmental engineering; Blessed Sheriff of Gaithersburg, medicine;

Dahlia E. Wilson of Gaithersburg, mechanical engineering; Melonee R. Quintanilla of North Potomac, architecture; and Oluwatomisin A. Sontan of Rockville, medicine. • From Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.: Claire E. Thompson of Bethesda, applied mathematics; and Nicole L. Proﬁt of Rockville, business. • From Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School: Sisanmofe Dorsu of Silver Spring, patent law.

Bridge team takes title Blake Schwartzbach of Bethesda and Adam Gann of Washington, D.C., won the President’s Cup North American Pairs Flight C event at the Spring North American Bridge Championships, held March 12-22 in New Orleans. The men have been partners for a year; this was the ﬁrst championship-level title for both. The championships were held by the American Contract Bridge League.

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A new advocacy group is calling for a dramatic shift in how Montgomery County Public Schools serves roughly 45,000 Latino students. Members of the recently formed Montgomery County Latino Advocacy Coalition said at a news conference Monday that the school system needs a new approach for the student group that continues to grow. Diego Uriburu, executive director of Identity Inc. and a coalition member, said the schools have worked hard to meet Latino students’ and families’ needs. “However, those efforts, many of those efforts, are not payingoff,”hesaid.“We’reusing the same strategies that the system has used over the past three decades and expecting different results, and that is not working.” The coalition includes Identity, CASA de Maryland and the Latin American Youth Center’s Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers. Some members are parents and business leaders. Community members have advocated in the past, but through the coalition, they will have an organized group that will help the district, said school board President Patricia O’Neill. “We have long known that there needs to be a uniﬁed voice for advocacy for our Latino population,” she said. Many of the coalition’s priorities, she said, “are already on our radar screen and well underway.” Coalition member Luisa Montero-Diaz is a member of the Maryland State Board of Education and director of Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers. Also a county parent, she said at the conference that the group’smemberscametogether at a “critical inﬂection point.” Some of the county’s Latino students are not reading on grade level, graduating, going to college, or getting “viable” jobs, Montero-Diaz said. She added that some parents do not feel welcome at their schools. Coalition members think the county is progressive, tolerant and “culturally rich,” she said. Comparatively, she said,

the county spends a lot on education and the school district is among the country’s best. “However, we cannot continue to ignore a very harsh reality that in some respects we live in two Montgomery counties,” she said. The group’s call for change includes recommendations for a superintendent who will work with the Latino community to better address the students’ needs. The system is looking for its next permanent superintendent, following the resignation of Joshua P. Starr in February. The coalition is aiming for “transformational change,” Uriburu said. More specifically, he said, the coalition wants increased staff diversity in the school system, an improved understanding of students’ social emotional needs, greater inclusion of Latino voices in decisionmaking, and a “state-of-the-art” career and technical education option for students who will not attend college. “Right now, there are two pathways,” Uriburu said. “One that takes you to college, and the other one that takes you to McDonald’s.” For O’Neill, the idea of a new approach is on target. “We know we can’t continue to do the same thing,” she said after the conference. The district is working on a plan to increase workforce diversity and efforts to improve family engagement, said O’Neill, who noted other efforts. She said the school board will hire a superintendent who can help the district close its achievement gap and prepare students for their futures. Maria del Mar Borrero, who attended the conference, is the youth program coordinator at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility. She said she has worked with some Latino youth who did not finish their education or get the support they needed while in school. Some come to the U.S. as teenagers with interrupted or little education, del Mar Borrero said. Without family or other assistance, she said, “it’s a lot more difficult for them to succeed.” With a new superintendent on the way, she said, the coalition comes at the right time. “This is like the perfect opportunity for our voice to be heard,” she said.

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County to update bike plan

Big continent, big map

Routes will start around Corridor Cities Transitway

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A map of Asia measuring 26 by 35 feet has been at McLean School in Potomac last week and this week as part of National Geographic’s Giant Traveling Maps program, organized by National Geographic Live, the public programming division of the National Geographic Society. Here, Geoff Baker, a seventh-grade geography teacher, talks with students (from left) Kendall Thomas, 13, Karley Alston, 13, Evadne Decruise, 12, and Sydney Lewis, 13, about the placement on the map of an informational card their group determined belonged in Iran.

Montgomery County will begin work this summer to update its decade-old master plan for bikeways, starting near the planned route of the Corridor Cities Transitway. Montgomery’s countywide Bicycle Master Plan dates to the 1970s and was last updated in 2005, said David Anspacher, planning coordinator with the Montgomery County Planning Department. While cycling has not changed dramatically in 10 years, “the whole bicycling world continues to change substantially,” Anspacher said. “In the past 10 years, even in the past ﬁve years, we now have Capital Bikeshare, we have new bicycling facilities, we have a new understanding of who rides and what it takes for them to feel comfortable riding,” he said. “So, it’s a great time.” Planners will kick off their work on the plan with a public meeting Monday in Rockville at the Johns Hopkins campus and a focus on bikeways near the planned Corridor Cities Transitway — a 15.6-mile bus

rapid transit line that will connect Clarksburg to the Shady Grove Metro Station by way of the county’s life sciences hubs. Work on the full plan will begin in July with community meetings, Anspacher said. From April through July, planners will work on developing a bicycle network aimed at providing access to future Corridor Cities Transitway stations and coordinating with the Life Science Center Loop, an off-road trail being designed by the planning department. Anspacher, who is working on the plan, expects the full countywide Bicycle Master Plan update to take at least two years to complete. The plan is updated in parts as other master plans are passed, but has not had a full update since 2005, he said. Greg Billing, advocacy coordinator for the Washington Area Bicyclist Association, said cyclists are excited to see Montgomery County take up the plan and want it to have a strong emphasis on making biking a safe and convenient transportation option. “If people don’t feel safe and comfortable, they won’t do it,” he said of riding. Billing said he hopes the plan incorporates more dedicated bike lanes for cyclists.

IF YOU GO n What: Community meeting on Montgomery County Bicycle Master Plan update process. n When: Monday, 7 to 9 p.m. n Where: Academic and Research Building, Room 106-110, Johns Hopkins Montgomery County Campus, 9601 Medical Center Drive, Rockville.

In traffic, cyclists struggle to keep up with cars, he said, and while on sidewalks, cyclists might endanger pedestrians. Those who ride bicycles feel most comfortable in lanes that are separate from traffic and pedestrians, he said. Billing said Montgomery County has only one such lane — in White Flint, near the Whole Foods Market. Separate bike lanes are the “gold standard” of design, Anspacher said. He said the plan likely will call for more separate bike lanes and have a greater focus on bicycle storage than the current version. Information on the master plan is available at montgomeryplanning.org/transportation/ bikeways. kalexander@gazette.net

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Prom dress giveaway at B-CC High next week Once Upon a Prom will hold its fourth annual prom dress giveaway for high school girls from 2 to 6 p.m. April 22 in the dance studio at BethesdaChevy Chase High School, 4301 East West Highway, Bethesda. The student group’s goal is to provide new or gently worn prom dresses to girls who are unable to buy one on their own. Besides the dress giveaway, there will be a rafﬂe for manicures, pedicures and up-dos. For more information, contact Madison Silver or Rebecca Leggett at bigfam@comcast.net.

Noyes Library to close for two weeks The Noyes Library for Young Children in Kensington will close from Tuesday to May 21 while its exterior is painted as part of a project to eliminate lead-based paint found in the building. “I felt it was important that the painting project be completed as soon as possible and in an environment that was safe and would result in minimal concerns for our users,” county library director Parker Hamilton said in a news release. “So, we decided to close for the two week-period in which the painting will be done in order to ensure that goal.” The lead-based paint was recently found during preparations on work to make some modiﬁcations to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The building dates to 1892. Programs scheduled at the library will be held at nearby Kensington Park Library, 4201 Knowles Ave. Updated information on the programs is at tinyurl.com/qbdsykb or by calling Kensington Park Library at 240-773-9515.

& Debate and CollegeTracks. Adults are the target audience, but mature students are welcome, according to organizers. Registration and other information is available at asenseofcontrol.com/upcoming-events.

5K benefits Holy Child, fire department Connelly School of the Holy Child will hold its annual Tiger Trot 5K run-walk fundraiser at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Prizes, including cash, will be awarded in several categories. A post-race party will feature family activities, including a moon bounce, free food, vendors and raffle prizes. Last year’s race drew more than 500 runners, organizers said. Proceeds will benefit Holy Child’s health and wellness programs, plus the Cabin John Park Volunteer Fire Department. Registration is at holychild.

Fashion show beneﬁts sorority The Xi Sigma Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority will host its 2015 Fashion Show Fundraiser and Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Montgomery County Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda. This year’s theme is Fashions in Bloom 2015. Proceeds benefit the chapter’s college scholarships and community service programs. The show will feature fashions presented by Ida’s Idea of Washington, D.C. More than 25 vendors will be selling clothes, jewelry and accessories, according to a news release. For information, contact Jacqueline Rose at 301-943-8948 or jacqueline.rose@lmco.com.

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Home safety talk is for seniors Chevy Chase At Home will host a home safety presentation by Jim Resnick, the county ﬁre and rescue service’s senior outreach manager, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. April 22 at Chevy Chase Village Hall, 5906 Connecticut Ave. Resnick will discuss the state’s new smoke alarm requirements and other safety regulations. He also will discuss the free, in-home safety inspections offered for seniors. The service includes inspection of current smoke and carbonmonoxide alarms, personalized ﬁre evacuation plans and injury prevention strategies, according to a news release. More information is available at chevychaseathome.org.

Whitman hosts talk on teens, testing and anxiety Two experts will discuss “Stress, Self-Propelled Motivation and the Adolescent Brain” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Whitman High School, 7100 Whittier Blvd., Bethesda. William R. Stixrud is a clinical neuropsychologist in Silver Spring who has been in private practice since 1985. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Children’s National Medical Center and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington School of Medicine. He has been a consultant to the Division of Neuropsychology at the National Institutes of Health and is the author of “Plain Talk About Early Education and Development.” Ned Johnson is the president and founder of PrepMatters, a company that specializes in tutoring, test preparation and educational planning. He said that test performance may depend on motivation, anxiety, sleep deprivation or belief systems as much as knowledge, skills and ability, according to a news release. He is the coauthor “Conquering the SAT: How Parents Can Help Students Overcome the Pressure and Succeed,” which looks at the role anxiety plays in standardized testing. The lecture is free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted for Whitman Speech

org. The Catholic school for girls in sixth through 12 grades is at 9029 Bradley Blvd.

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In the midst of battling a rare form of uterine cancer, gestational trophoblastic neoplasia, Barbara Schoeberl found relief by getting up to dance. About a decade ago, the Silver Spring resident was treated for the aggressive stage 4 cancer — in which she said her symptoms were well beyond the “high risk” category — through surgery, chemotherapy and drugs. She said a drug caused her to have severe neuropathy, and she couldn’t feel her hands or feet. Her balance was off to the point it was hard to walk. “I thought that was a perfect time to strap on dancing shoes,” said Schoeberl, a scientiﬁc “communicator,” which involves being an illustrator, animator, writer, photographer and video editor. “It really did help. ... Dancing makes me feel alive in the moment.” Schoeberl has advanced in ballroom dance and will be among the participants in the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Maryland chapter’s annual Memory Ball “Dancing Stars” gala on Saturday in Baltimore. The event is the organization’s signature fundraiser. ABC2 News anchor Jamie Costello will be the MC of the gala. Others in the fundraiser — in which audience members can vote for their favorite couples — include ﬁlm producer Margo Halle, Johns Hopkins psychiatry professor Cynthia Munro and construction company owners Delbert and Gina Adams. For Schoeberl, the gala holds special meaning. Her mother died in 2009 from complications of de-

mentia. Though she said her mother did not bond with her despite Schoeberl’s attempts to connect, dancing in her mother’s honor is a way she can connect again. As music for the performance with dance partner and instructor Nicholas Gallagher of Annapolis, she chose a melancholy, World War IIera fox trot called “We’ll Meet Again.” The song’s theme of reconnecting with someone lost fits well, she said. “I choose to find comfort in the hope that my mother and I will meet again and get along,” Schoeberl said. More than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s, including some 97,000 in Maryland, according to the association. Schoeberl’s online fundraiser has raised more than her original $10,000 goal, with $11,671 as of Tuesday. She has a new goal of raising $15,000. Schoeberl’s son, Baltimore professional dancer Matt Misroch, participated in the gala in 2013. She supported him then, and that experience led her to participate herself. Schoeberl and Gallagher dance regularly at Capital Ballroom in Bethesda. She finds that that time lifts her emotionally, including through a personal and professional trauma. She cites a 2003 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that found ballroom dancing to be the only physical activity out of nine associated with a lower risk of dementia. She also believes there is a correlation between dementia and toxins in food and the environment, and tries to minimize exposure to harmful chemicals by eating a healthy diet, among other methods. “Dancing is a healing activity to me in many ways,” Schoeberl said. “It’s where I find my joy.”

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An off-duty county police officer working as a security guard at an upscale Chevy Chase shopping district was injured on April 7 after a driver hit him with a car. The incident happened at about 5 p.m. after the officer approached a silver Acura parked on South Park Avenue near Wisconsin Avenue, according to a police department release. The officer thought the car was illegally parked and that its tags were not displayed properly. When the officer put his hand on the car’s roof line, the driver “made eye contact with the officer and turned the vehicle wheel toward the officer,” according to the release. “The driver then accelerated and struck the officer,” according to the release. “The officer’s hand become stuck on the vehicle, and he fell on the roadway as the vehicle sped off.” The officer was taken to a local hospital where he was treated for a concussion and bruises on his arms and legs before being released that night. The car was found unoccupied the next day in Washington. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Montgomery County Police Department at 240-773-6710. vterhune@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.

Sexual offense • Area of Connecticut Avenue and Plyers Mill Road, Bethesda, at 2:15 p.m. March 30. The subject touched the victim inappropriately, mumbled to her and then ﬂed on foot. Strong-arm robbery • 5700 block of Marinelli Road, North Bethesda, at 2:37 p.m. March 24. The subject approached the victim and attempted to grab her purse, and succeeded following a struggle.

Aggravated assault • 4700 block of Bradley Boulevard, Chevy Chase, at 2:33 a.m. March 30. The unknown subject stabbed the victim, who is an acquaintance. Commercial burglary • Garage booth at the Chevy Chase Building, 5530 Wisconsin Ave., Chevy Chase, between 7 p.m. March 25 and 5:50 a.m. March 26. Forced entry, took property. • Healthy Back Store, 6831 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, between 9:30 p.m. March 25 and 9:25 a.m. March 26. No forced entry, took property. • Institute of Asthma and Allergy, 2 Wisconsin Circle, Chevy Chase, at 5:05 p.m. March 26. No forced entry, took property.

Residential burglary • 9600 block of Elrod Road, Kensington, between 3 and 4 p.m. March 26. Forced entry, took nothing. • Sussex House Condos, 4900 block of Battery Lane, Bethesda, at 10:42 p.m. March 27. Forced entry, took nothing. • 7400 block ofWyndale Lane, Chevy Chase, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. March 28. Forced entry, took property. • 4600 block ofWestern Avenue, Bethesda, between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. March 30. Forced entry, took property. Vehicle larceny • Four incidents in Bethesda between March 23 and 27. No forced entry, took property. Affected streets include Newport Avenue, Bradley Boulevard, Gloster Road and Brookdale Road.

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Now that warmer weather has arrived, thieves have begun to appear in Montgomery County parks, watching and waiting to steal valuables left in cars, both locked and unlocked. On Sunday, Park Police received reports about two vehicle break-ins in the Chevy Chase area near Rock Creek Park. Two cars were broken into at about 3 p.m. near Beach Drive and Pinehurst Parkway, Lt. Rick Pelicano, spokesman for the Montgomery County division of the MarylandNational Capital Park Police, wrote in an email. At about 5 p.m., another car was broken into at Beach Drive and Wyndale Road, he wrote. In all cases, the items stolen were a combination of wallets, identiﬁcation cards, credit cards and cash. The best thing to do to prevent thefts is to take all valuables with you, and the second-best thing is to lock them in the trunk, he wrote. “However, if you are being watched, it is possible for a thief to access some trunks through the interior of the car via a folding back seat,” Pelicano wrote. “No valuables should be visible to a thief. This is the time of year when people are out enjoying the park. ... Don’t create an opportunity for [someone] to take your stuff.” In mid-March, Park Police arrested three men and a woman, all from Florida, and charged them with breaking into cars to steal property, according to a police news release. The arrests were based on incidents on March 18 at Quince Orchard Knolls Park in Darnestown and on March 19 at the Cabin John Tennis Facility on Democracy Boulevard in Bethesda. Based on a description of the license plates, police were able to stop a car that had evidence of the thefts and marijuana in plain view, according to the release. The occupants of the car were identiﬁed as part of the Felony Lane Gang, known to law enforcement officers for stealing valuables from cars. Charged in Montgomery County District Court with offenses related to theft, credit card theft and possession of marijuana were Antonio Terrance Marion Jr., 20; Conrad D. Ward, 21; and Nathaniel Dwight Forrest, 24, all of Fort Lauderdale; plus Megan Hope Helms, 23, of Davies and Hollywood, according to online court records. Online records did not indicate if the defendants were represented by attorneys.

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Jerry Dillon (left), who has developmental disabilities, and his residential counselor Brandon Bell unpack in Dillon’s new home in Gaithersburg. He and David Ruch, who also has developmental disabilities, found their new home through the nonproﬁt Jubilee Association of Maryland.

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class and gourmet meal for 10; and a sunset cruise crab feast for eight. County Councilman Craig Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown will be the guest auctioneer. The annual Jubilee Toast is the nonprofit’s primary fundraiser. Proceeds support Jubilee’s work to provide residential services and supports to adults with intellectual and other developmental disabilities in the county. Its clients include people with Down syndrome, autism, spina biﬁda, epilepsy and cerebral palsy. It provides services to 135 clients in 66 locations, according to its website. Services include transportation and dental care, and new initiatives such as its Reaching Out Program autism classes, the Phase II Retiring at Home Program and the Model Housing Partnership to help clients live independently in the community. Ticket and other information is at jubileemd.org.

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Before you even cross the threshold, the townhome of Jerry Dillon and David Ruch offers a glimpse of their personalities and Dillon’s love of Washington’s football team. The Redskins doormat is just one of the themed items Dillon has brought with him to his new home. He also has a Redskins helmet telephone in his bedroom. Dillon, 52, and Ruch, 51, who have developmental disabilities, are able to live independently through the help of Jubilee Association of Maryland. Jubilee is dedicated to providing residential support services to adults with developmental disabilities as a way of allowing them to ﬁnd a place in their communities, encouraging independence while balancing it with supervision, said Tim Wiens, executive director of Jubilee of Maryland. “It’s giving people choices,” Wiens said. “We’re like consultants in the process.” Dillon and Ruch are best friends, they say. They met while working together at Red Wiggler Community Farm in Clarksburg and go back a long way. Ruch has worked on the farm for eight years, and Dillon for 27 years. Most recently, Ruch lived in an apartment in Gaithersburg with Brian Morse, another Jubilee client, who also plans to move into the townhouse. Dillon lived at home with his parents but they retired and moved to Delaware, said Dillon’s sister, Sharon Allison. When they moved he lived with Allison and her family for about 18 months while waiting for a Jubilee placement. Each man will have his own bedroom in the threebedroom townhouse and will share cooking and cleaning duties under the supervision of Brandon Bell, a residential counselor who has rooms in the basement. They will also have support of Jeffrey Orr, a Jubilee program manager. Orr explained that there are house rules, approved by the residents, and meetings for everyone to comment on what needs to be done and who will do it. “We have meetings about what we want to eat,” Orr said. “Everybody gets input into what will be made.” Just talking about cooking has Ruch excited. “I love to cook,” he said. “I’ve been taking cooking classes at St. Luke’s Church in Bethesda.” His favorite thing to cook? “Everything.” Ruch said. Currently Jubilee serves 135 people in Montgomery County at about 60 locations, Wiens said. The clients have individual plans but they all share common goals, he said. In addition to housing, they need food, financial and medical support, and have social needs. Jubilee does not own the home Dillon, Ruch and Morse are renting. The organization, now celebrating its 25th year, provides support for the individuals. “Ultimately it is their house, they sign the lease and pay the rent,” he said. “We’re like consultants in the process, we have the experience.” Dillon was very excited to be moving in with his friends and into a place with all his requirements: a deck and close proximity to restaurants and Starbucks, Allison said. They both agreed it was time for him to move. “He wants his independence and privacy,” Allison said. And she could use the break. “It will be good for me because for the last year and a half I was like a parent,” she said. “Now we will have our brother-sister relationship back.” pmcewan@gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 said. Instead of a surplus, Hogan said, “we have to make up ... $202 million and we have to ﬁnd a way to restore the money from the pension fund, which is a big problem. So we’ll probably have to use some of the fenced-off money to save the state and put us back on better ﬁscal footing.” Hogan was referring to money the legislature earmarked for index funding. Hogan’s initial budget proposed only funding the index by half. A deal he struck Saturday with Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Dist. 27) of Chesapeake Beach and House Speaker Michael E. Busch (DDist. 30) of Annapolis would have provided 75 percent of the index funds. A majority of the legislature wanted all of it and found money in the budget for it, although some Republicans later backed away. Not spending the money lawmakers set aside for the index could be nothing but a political move, said Del. C. William Frick. “It would be an absolute insult to every child, every teacher, every parent in Montgomery County if the governor doesn’t spend the money that’s been fenced-off for this purpose,” said Frick (D-Dist. 16) of Bethesda. Education was Montgomery County’s top priority this session. While lawmakers passed a capital grant to provide another $5.8 million for school construction, and restored other education cuts, the index remained a sticking point. “For me, my No. 1 priority” was the geographic index, said Sen. Nancy J. King, chairwoman of the Montgomery County Senate delegation. The index has not been something the governor must fund.

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Sen. Nancy J. King, here speaking Monday in Annapolis, says school funding was her top priority this session. ToforceHogan’shandonthe index, King (D-Dist. 39) of Montgomery Village championed a bill that forced the governor to choose: spend 100 percent of the money lawmakers earmarked or full funding of the index will become mandatory in the future. In the ﬁnal hours of the session, King’s bill passed both chambers. It is now headed to Hogan for a signature. While Hogan could veto the bill, both Democratic-majority chambers secured enough votes in favor of the measure to override a veto. Whether it’s better for Montgomery schools to get less index money for the coming ﬁscal year, which starts July 1, and know it will get 100 percent every year afterward, or get all of the money now and potentially fight the governor each year for full funding is “a toss-up,” King said. Interim Superintendent Larry Bowers said he didn’t know what the better scenario would be for the district. “Montgomery County strongly believes that [the index] should be funded fully every year,” he said. Bowers said the school district was preparing for the loss of roughly $17.5 million — about

half of the index funding it had expected. Bowers said the “key step” the district has taken to address uncertain funding has been to not allocate about 400 positions to schools for the next academic year. The district has considered other cuts it could make, he said. He said the school system hopes the county will provide more money than has been proposed. County Council President George L. Leventhal said the county would prefer to get the money now and work down the road for future funding. Compromise is how politics works, said Leventhal (D-At Large) of Takoma Park. Any cut to the index could cost Montgomery County Public Schools jobs and increase class sizes for the coming year. Councilman Marc B. Elrich said the county can’t let bad decisions by the state hurt it. “What Hogan does doesn’t change our job,” said Elrich (DAt Large) of Takoma Park. Leventhal said Montgomery County cannot be expected to provide funding that the state cuts. “If the governor does not

fund schools with money the legislature directed to schools, I do not think it’s the County Council’s job to make up that difference,” he said. About 81 percent of the state budget is mandated, leaving the governor little wiggle room to make cuts. If the index also is mandated, it would leave even less room, potentially putting programs like Medicaid rates and health and human services at risk of deeper cuts, opponents of the bill argued. Despite the budget and education funding, King said, she felt Montgomery made out well in the session. Staff writers Ryan Marshall and Lindsay A. Powers contributed to this report. kalexander@gazette.net

Of 23 local bills backed by the Montgomery County delegation this session, which ended Monday night, 15 passed. That includes some bills jointly sponsored with Prince George’s County legislators. On Tuesday, Gov. Larry Hogan (R) signed about 10 of the bills. However, not all the county’s priorities passed. Once again, a bill to give the student member of the Montgomery County Board of Education the power to vote on certain issues failed. A bill that would create a special election process to fill a vacancy on the Board of Education also failed. Both were held hostage in the Senate. With the final seconds ticking away Monday night, Sen. Nancy J. King (D-Dist. 39) of Montgomery Village said, she faced several minutes of questioning on the student member bill from Republicans. As the clock struck midnight, Sen. Michael J. Hough (R-Dist. 4) of Brunswick was speaking on the floor and a vote was never taken, she said. Nothing happens by chance,

said Sen. Roger Manno. “Somebody didn’t like that bill from the beginning, decided they were going to eventually kill it,” said Manno (D-Dist. 19) of Silver Spring. Still, the idea has strong support from some members of the county delegation. “Montgomery County student members of the Board of Education, they’re like badass, they’re great and they’re wonderful and they do a great job,” Manno said. “Why shouldn’t they be able to vote on collective bargaining and contracts?” While 2015 was not the year for the bill, King expects it to be introduced again next session. Among the bills that passed: • A program to help Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission customers with bills. • Repealing a law that prohibited more than two free-play pinball machines, not in storage, to be on the same ﬂoor of a building. • Allowing wine auction permits in the county. • Repealing certain restrictions on alcohol sales in Laytonsville. • Creating a permit for reﬁllable wine containers in Montgomery County. All the bills are at montgomerycountydelegation.com/legislation.html.

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Continued from Page A-1 or condominium units. Planning Board deliberations on changes proposed for Westbard will not get underway until after county planners present the newest ideas to interested community members on April 22, and then to the Planning Board on April 30. Equity One’s Westbard tenants said the company has indicated it wants to keep them, but the uncertainties are unsettling because businesses need to plan so they can keep their customers through whatever changes are coming. “The difﬁculty is this landlord, and most landlords, don’t want to talk to you until six months before the lease ends,” said Darryl Trupp of Fashion Craft Cleaners. Trupp, who has owned and operated Fashion Craft Cleaners with his brother Dale Trupp at Westwood Center since 1979, said many leases

have construction clauses that could push a tenant to relocate before the lease ends. Berfield said Equity One will make sure tenants know the timing so they are not caught having to make a decision at the last minute. And he said the company will work with tenants to help them stay in business, including letting them move, if they want, to one of Equity One’s nearby properties if the company is able to redevelop its parcels in phases. “We stay as long as we can,” said Joe Santini, 79, who with his brother Dominic Santini has operated Westwood Barber at Westwood Center since 1968. “Right now, we can’t tell you much,” Santini said. “You never know, when they start building and people come here no more.” Demolition and construction probably will not begin for three or four years and surely not before the end of 2016, Berﬁeld said. How much their rent in-

creases will determine whether many tenants stay, Trupp said. Equity One has told its small local business tenants that their rent increase will be based on the increase in the Consumer Price Index, Berﬁeld said. New tenants and large chain stores can expect to pay market-based rates, he said. Meanwhile, Trupp said he is considering changing his business model to home pickup and delivery to keep serving his customers even if he has to move his dry cleaning plant out of Bethesda. Redevelopment “deﬁnitely has got us concerned,” said Taylor Green, sales manager at Westwood Pet Center, which his uncle opened in 1979. “Excited and apprehensive,” Green added. The county Planning Department has scheduled its community meeting on the Westbard Sector Plan from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 22 in the cafeteria at Whitman High School, 7100 Whittier Blvd., Bethesda.

on Saul Road would relieve overcrowding at Westland and take in future enrollment growth, said James Song, the director of the school system’s Department of Facilities Management. The system proposed to cut down trees on 2.8 acres of the site’s forest, which is partially in a buffer zone between a stream and the development area. The county’s forest conservation law, upheld by the planning board ofﬁce, requires that “all planning and zoning options” are used to avoid losing certain forest areas — like the one on the site — that help protect the surrounding environment, said Amy Lindsey, a county planning coordinator. “We’re not saying that no forest can be removed,” she said. “We’re saying that you need to try a bunch of different conﬁgurations — you need to demon-

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Continued from Page A-1 Allen is a graduate of Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda and said he immediately accepted the invitation to appear at the Bethesda festival. Although Allen now lives in the District, he said he couldn’t think of anything “cooler” than coming back to the literary festival in his hometown. Convincing Clinton’s famously skeptical staff that he and Parnes were serious about writing a substantive book rather than rehashing old rumors and scandals was the most challenging part of reporting the book, Allen said. Allen said he’d written several stories that involved the Clintons and had several brief interactions with Clinton during her time in the U.S. Senate and her 2008 presidential campaign but had never covered her or President Bill Clinton in any detail. Allen and Parnes interviewed more than 200 people for the book, and Allen said they found that many people close to

strate that you’ve tried a number of different options and methods to avoid removing the forest and individual trees.” Song said the school system was still “tweaking” the plans after a meeting between district and planning board staff. Planning board staff have suggested various changes, he said, but the school system alreadyhaslookedat“many,many different options” to preserve the site as much as possible. In the current design, he said, staff already tried to save trees, minimize environmental impact, and reduce the height and size of retaining walls. Recent efforts may make slight changes to the plan. “I think it’s going to be resulting in minor tweaks,” he said. Lindsey said planning board staff thought the district would need to make significant changes to meet one of the board’s legal conditions: The district must “maximize forest and

tree retention,” partially through minimizing retaining walls. She said, however, that it seemed the school system would make minor changes to its plan. The school district can’t move forward with the project until planning board staff determines the plan follows the forest conservation law. Lindsey said that, in a staff report on the project, she showed several things the school system could have done to preserve more trees. One involved moving the school’s dropoff loop. Another involved structured parking under the building. The project is far into the planning stage, she said, and it would be difﬁcult now to make “major revisions” without shifting the district’s timeline. “We recognize the fact that there’s a very real need here and a schedule they need to meet to open the school on time.”

Clinton had a story about some small act of kindness she had done for them. He was struck by the difference between those stories and the public perception of Clinton as rather cold and aloof. “The distance between those two things is remarkable,” Allen said. Damascus writer Brian Jay Jones will discuss his book “Jim Henson: The Biography” on Friday evening at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda. Growing up mostly in Hyattsville before graduating from Hyattsville’s Northwestern High School and the University of Maryland, Henson got his start in shows on WRC and other local TV stations, Jones said. “Jim cut his teeth on TV right here,” he said. Henson gave his writers and puppeteers time to experiment and explore to get a character just right, part of what made his Muppets seem so lifelike and able to span several generations, Jones said. “The Muppets are family,” he said. Allison Leotta, a writer from Takoma Park, and Neely Tucker,

a Washington Post reporter from Bethesda, will discuss their Washington-based mystery novels on Friday, also at The Writer’s Center. Tucker is working on his third book about journalist Sully Carter, including “Murder D.C.,” expected out this summer, and said his books try to draw on the “mix between high and low D.C.” The decision to follow a recurring character was both a practical and creatively motivated one, he said. He needed something he could do consistently and that would provide a consistent supply of story lines but also let him explore the deeper meanings of what happens to Sully. Leotta, a former federal prosecutor who handled cases including sex crimes, domestic violence and crimes against children, is the author of “Law of Attraction” and “A Good Killing.” “I think I started writing because it was cheaper than therapy,” she said. More information on the festival, including schedules, is at bethesda.org/bethesda/ bethesda-literary-festival.

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Delaney, Sarbanes call for action on transportation funding Authorization for federal highway fund expires at the end of May

“Without the federal support, our transportation priorities will not move forward.”

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

If federal highway funding expires this spring, Montgomery County’s transportation and transit priorities could lose millions of dollars. Federal funding for transportation infrastructure is set to run out on May 31, when the Highway Trust Fund expires. Since the fund was created in 1956, Congress has continually passed laws extending the life of the fund, according to a report by Congressional Research Service. Reps. John K. Delaney and John P. Sarbanes, who both represent the county, met Thursday with county transportation officials, emphasizing the need for federal transportation investment as part of the national Stand Up 4 Transportation Day. “Compared to what prior leaders did, what we’re doing now is an embarrassment. It’s a tragedy. We’re spending about half what we used to spend on infrastructure,” said Delaney (D-Dist. 6) of Potomac. Montgomery County receives direct federal transportation aid for repairing bridges, for pedestrian and bike projects, and for mass transit, spokeswoman Esther Bowring said. The federal government also gives money to the state for transportation projects, some of which is passed down to the county, she said. Federal dollars also support the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which operates Metro service in the county.

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Reps. John K. Delaney (left) and John P. Sarbanes listen to Al Roshdieh, acting director of the Montgomery County Department of Transportation, speak at a Stand Up 4 Transportation event at the Fleet Services building in Rockville on Thursday. . Large regional projects, such as the Purple Line — a $2.45 billion light-rail project planned to connect Bethesda to New Carrollton — require federal dollars to be built. So far, $100 million in federal funding has been earmarked to the light-rail project. In the current six-year capital budget, which runs

through ﬁscal 2020, the county expects to receive $79.95 million in direct federal transportation funding, Bowring said. Of that, the county expects to receive $33.01 million alone for the upcoming ﬁscal year that starts July 1. Federal funding for transportation infrastructure and especially transit is critical to

the county’s success, said Al Roshdieh, the county’s acting transportation director. “Without the federal support, our transportation priorities will not move forward,” he said. “New surface transportation authorization is essential to Montgomery County’s economy, mobility and its safety.”

Delaney and Sarbanes (DDist. 3) of Towson said they are working in Congress to fund transportation infrastructure. Delaney has sponsored a measure known as the In-

frastructure 2.0 Act. His bill would use corporate tax reform to provide $120 billion during the next six years to the trust fund, as well as additional funds for transportation. Historically, the national gas tax has fed the Highway Trust Fund — similar to Maryland’s Transportation Trust Fund, which is funded by the statewide gas tax. Delaney said his bill has broad bipartisan support. Sarbanes agreed that funding transportation is a bipartisan issue that should be able to move, despite Congressional gridlock. However, America can’t invest in transportation “on the cheap,” and eventually Congress will have to ﬁx the problem, not rely on stopgap measures, Sarbanes said. As proposed, Delaney’s legislation also would create a bicameral, bipartisan commission to develop a permanent solution to funding the Highway Trust Fund, according to information from his ofﬁce. kalexander@gazette.net

Obituary Albino “Al” Angelo Pecoraro, 94, died on Jan. 26, 2015, at the Hospice House of North Idaho from a tired heart and kidneys. Al was born to Pasquale Pecoraro and Leonilda Ventura (both from Italy) on Nov. 26, 1920, in New York City. He served stateside in the U.S. Navy during World War II. In 1943, Al married Norma Albertoli and began his career with Upjohn Pharmaceuticals. He started as an elevator operator in the New York branch and retired as Shipping Superintendent at the Washington D.C. branch, where he was presented the Dr. Upjohn Award. Al and Norma lived in Rockville, Md. where they made numerous friends. Al loved sports. He played, coached and umpired baseball. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Golf and Little Theater were among his hobbies. Al was preceded in death by his wife, Norma. He is survived by his daughter, Diane Rutherford (Robert Rutherford); three grandchildren: Rick Rutherford (Sarah Otterstrom), Angie Rutherford (Pete Koson), and Randy Rutherford (JaimeeHardenbrook); six great-grandchildren: Jonas, Elliot, Leona, Vivian, Addison, Aidric and Audrey Rutherford; and many much-loved nieces and nephews. Services will be held at 10AM on Friday, April 24th at St. Mary’s Chapel, 520Viers Mill Rd., Rockville, Md. Donations may be made in Al’s memory to the Hospice of North Idaho, 9493 N. Government Way, Hayden, Idaho, 83835.

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Rockville ﬁrm helps customers grow online presence ‘I love to build brands,’ says founder and CEO

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It’s hard to imagine all but the smallest of businesses getting by without a website, and one Rockville company is helping them maximize their online potential. The website for the Mighty Little Web Shop describes founder and CEO Heather Cox as a serial entrepreneur, and Cox said the company allows her to bring together her three interests: business, design and programming. She’s been doing graphic design for 20 years and estimates that she’s coded more than 100 websites by hand. In 1997, as the Internet was becoming a force in business, Cox was doing print graphic design work at a ﬁrm in Bethesda but knew she wanted to do

Gerres joins Foot and Ankle ofﬁce in Silver Spring Dr. Jennifer A. Gerres has joined the Silver Spring/Fenton Street ofﬁce of Foot and Ankle Specialists of the Mid-Atlantic. Gerres is a 2010 graduate of the Des Moines University College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery in Iowa. She completed a three-year podiatric medicine and surgery residency at Cleveland Clinic.

Vaxin names new CFO Vaxin of Gaithersburg named Elizabeth Adkins Czerepak its CFO. Previously, Czerepak was CFO and chief business ofﬁcer at Isarna Therapeutics BV; CFO and principal accounting ofﬁcer at Cancer Genetics; managing director at JP Morgan and Bear Stearns; and vice president of business development at BASF

more work with computers. She had studied programming in college and liked the intersection of code and design. She quit to launch her own design firm, Parkside Design, in 1997. The company merged with Neal Cox Design in 2002, and then formed MillerCox Design, which provided publication design services to nonprofits and federal agencies, including the Brookings Institution and Georgetown University, according to the company’s website. Cox started the Mighty Little Web Shop last year — it’s a subsidiary of MillerCox Design — with an official opening planned this spring. The company, with five full-time employees and three part-timers, has a home office in Kensington but also has a location on Wilkins Avenue in Rockville. The firm focuses on marketing, search engine optimization, brand design and Web technology, Cox said.

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She and her staff help clients develop a marketing strategy to attract their ideal customer and design a website to help them talk directly to potential customers. They also conduct lots of keyword research to help figure out which terms and phrases are likely to help people searching the Internet find their customer’s site. Right now, the company works mostly with professional services such as law and management consulting firms and physical therapy providers, Cox said. But it’s also working with a lot of smaller, but established, nonprofits, she said. The work lets Cox do what she enjoys — helping companies find their footing online. “I love to build brands,” she said. rmarshall@gazette.net

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Telcare names marketing executive Telcare of Bethesda named Rick O’Connor senior vice president of marketing. Previously, O’Connor was chief marketing officer for the Caremark division of CVS Health, and vice president of product marketing for Aetna.

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Steben & Co. of Gaithersburg named Christopher Maxey senior portfolio manager. Previously, Maxey worked for LPL Financial and was a

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Annual profit inches up at Argan Argan, a Rockville company whose primary business is designing and building energy plants through its Gemma Power Systems subsidiary, reported that its profit last year grew to $43.5 million from $43.3 million in 2013. Revenues rose to $383.1 million from $227.5 million. Its fourth-quarter profit fell to $9.9 million from $10.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2013; revenues rose to $102.3 million from $59.5 million. Gemma’s plants include single and combined cycle natural gas-fired power plants, plus alternative energy facilities such

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Montgomery County has a track record of progressivism that’s continuing with the current County Council. The county has banned trans fats, plastic foam containers in restaurants, and smoking and electronic cigarette use in many public places. A ban on pesticide use for residential property and athletic fields might be next. A new proposal appears to COUNTY be in the SHOULD county’s CONSIDER wheelDIVESTING house: divestment FROM FOSSIL-FUEL by the COMPANIES county’s employee pension fund from fossil-fuel companies. A group called 350 Montgomery County, concerned about climate change, wants the county to divest all holdings from the 200 largest publicly traded fossil-fuel companies within five years. “The business plan of these companies is fundamentally at odds with a stable, healthy climate,” said Jeffrey Weisner, a spokesman for 350 Montgomery County. “It is not moral to continue to seek profit from companies which endanger our future this way.” There’s precedent in Montgomery County for divestment when morality is at stake. In 1986, the county prohibited investment in companies that did business in Namibia and South Africa because they allowed apartheid, a policy of racial segregation and discrimination. Seven years ago, the county divested from companies that supported the government of Sudan, which perpetrated genocide. Certainly, there’s a different moral judgment in play here — oppression or mass murder, vs. concern about the health of the planet. What about the financial factors? Divestment might be no more than a social statement. But pension investment is firm reality, dictating the economic health of workers and their families. United Food and Commercial Workers/Municipal and County Government Employees Organization Local 1994 is lining up behind divestment. Its executive board approved a resolution that says the union has a moral and financial responsibility to protect the right of future generations to have a planet that is “sustainable and capable of producing good jobs and increasing economic opportunities.” 350 Montgomery County says various studies show that divestment will not hurt the value of pension investments — and might even lead to a better return. At the very least, the county should consider the group’s proposal and explain why it is or isn’t feasible. Denying that climate change is real is becoming a fad of the past, as evidence becomes clearer. Fossil fuels are known to contribute to the problem. Having the largest county in Maryland — one of the most populous in the country — take a financial and social step back from fossil-fuel investment would be a powerful progressive statement.

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Full funding for Montgomery College is a safe investment The Tech Council of Maryland is thrilled with County Executive Leggett’s commitment to create 100,000 jobs and build the economy of Montgomery County. But the budget recommendations do not address an important partner in this mission: Montgomery College. Tech companies that drive the life sciences and cybersecurity engines of Montgomery County have long relied on the college to produce high-skilled workers who are ready to fill critical market needs. The college’s diverse and nimble programs have been shown to respond quickly and efficiently to industry needs. In the rapidly evolving high tech world, these qualities allow us to compete with labor abroad, propel innovation and expand businesses. The partnership with Montgomery College is essential to filling those 100,000 jobs. The U.S. Department of Labor and the Department of Commerce recognized this with a grant for the college to lead a consortium of 14 Maryland community colleges and more than 30 employers to prepare Maryland residents for cybersecurity jobs. The Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College Career Training grant will bring

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The Science Center at the Rockville campus of Montgomery College. jobs and further investment to the county and to Maryland. The Tech Council of Maryland, which represents more than 300 member companies, is proud to partner with the college in this effort. A recent report said there were about 23,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs in 2013 in the Washington metro area, for which the college is training

students at this very moment. Recently, the Department of Defense fast-tracked 3,000 cybersecurity jobs, a sign of the urgency of such training for national security. Since Montgomery College graduates tend to stay in the county and many go on to receive four-year degrees at The Universities at Shady Grove, investing in students means we are investing in tax-

Money can influence ‘scientific’ findings Sadly, the decision on the Healthy Lawns Bill 52-14 before the County Council might come down to some council members’ personal beliefs on protecting the status quo in the chemical lawn care business versus the health of the citizenry of our region. On the Environmental Protection Agency: Despite what Jerad Minnick wrote in his letter to the editor (“Pesticide ban ignores progress and innovation,” March 4), the EPA does no testing on pesticides. It relies on the pesticide industry to do it. There’s an impressive piece in the New Yorker magazine in February 2014 that demonstrates how Syngenta, a pesticide company, succeeded in influencing the outcome of a third-party scientists’ laboratory testing, so the EPA accepted its product as safe. On farmers: The bill excludes them. As a farmer, I’m saddened that the Farm Bureau and its members always ally themselves with the interests of chemical companies over that of the

health of families. On science: For over 40 years, “mainstream science” indicated that cigarette smoking was not definitively linked to cancer and that DDT did no harm. Chlordane, Dursban and other pesticides, initially approved by the EPA and federal government, were proven dangerous to humans. Plus, there are scientists that question climate change. Sadly, “science” can often be bought and influenced. Corporations, lobbyists and public relations firms are paid millions of dollars by the pesticide trade associations to mislead the public and cloud our minds. Phrases like “nanny government” and “micromanage” are often used by them to persuade and discourage the public from taking action. Synthetic pesticides are rarely completely safe. We just don’t know yet their long-range impact on humans, especially infants. Homeowners who enjoy perfect

lawns can still have pretty lawns and not use toxic chemical pesticides. Lime, for example, is inexpensive and non-toxic and will help the homeowner have a pretty lawn. They need to know that these pesticides will wash into the sewers, streams and rivers and eventually into the Chesapeake watershed, where all of our drinking water comes from. On the possible loss of jobs: A report by Ecojustice, a Canadian nonproﬁt environmental law organization, says the proportion of households that hired a lawn-care company in Toronto remained stable from 2003 to 2005. Toronto’s pesticide bylaw went into effect in 2004. The question is: Do all our elected representatives on the County Council have the backbone to stand up and act in our families’ and communities’ interests and pass this legislation? Esther Siegel and Michael Tabor, Takoma Park

Approving pesticide bill would be economically unwise As a resident of Montgomery County and licensed applicator of more than 28 years, I strongly oppose the council’s Bill 52-14 to ban the use of pesticides on public and private property. I take pride in providing quality lawn-care service and strive for client satisfaction. Each year, I am required by my employer to complete training, and I make sure to apply products according to label to minimize any potential risks.

I have seen no ill effect on myself or my children as a result of application, nor has there been deﬁnitive proof or research showing that these chemicals are harmful when applied according to the label. From an economic standpoint, the cost of implementation and enforcement of such legislation far outweighs any perceived beneﬁts. Pesticide-free weed removal and pest control is time-, resource- and management-intensive, as well as costly, as there are few viable,

long-term solutions. The Montgomery County Council would have to be able to supply and manage these resources, potentially putting us at a disadvantage when it comes to budget to address other important issues such as rising utility bills and damaged roadways, which can pose a risk to public safety. It’s time the council members listen to those they serve and vote no on Bill 52-14. Robert Olenick, Olney

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payers and homeowners, which further builds the funding base for the county. During this decade, nearly 8 in 10 jobs in the U.S. will require some postsecondary education. If we do not plan now to fill these needs in Montgomery County, the jobs will go elsewhere. Building a high-skilled labor force also benefits a range of programs in the county. Skilled workers generally do not need unemployment benefits or other social services, saving the county millions of dollars. What’s more, residents who use their college education and training obtain better jobs and contribute to the county’s tax base. With outcomes like these, full funding for Montgomery College’s budget request is one of the safest investments the county can make — one with consistent and immediate returns. The Tech Council of Maryland urges the County Council to make the choice that is a win-win-win — for businesses, for residents, and for the future of the county. Philip D. Schiff, Rockville The writer is chief executive officer of the Tech Council of Maryland, an advocate for technology and life sciences.

Don’t be shortsighted about beneﬁts of M-83

As a Montgomery Village resident for nearly a decade now, I am happy to see progress being made to complete the M-83, Montgomery County’s Midcounty Highway extension (“M-83 report moves ahead to permit process,” April 8). I know some residents are unhappy with the idea of the Midcounty Highway extension being “in their backyard,” but let’s face it — that highway’s rights-of-way have been on the books for years, so if you bought near there, you knew it was a possibility of it being built. Options that include expanding Md. 355 near Montgomery Village Avenue, with no Midcounty Highway extension are ludicrous. Just ask the businesses along there, where the SHA was going to get more land along Md. 355 for the rights-of-way. With an Interstate 270 interchange planned at Watkins Mill Road, M-83 option 9-A provides for traffic to flow away from the congested Md. 355/Montgomery Village Avenue intersection toward the new interchange. Just observe how much traffic waits at lights — especially during peak times — at the current Midcounty/Md. 355/Montgomery Village Avenue intersections now. Yes, this development will inconvenience a few residents, but let’s face it — traffic is increasing, and ignoring the inevitability of this is worse than building M-83. The State Highway Administration got it right when they widened Woodfield Road (Md. 124) to East Village Avenue a few years ago. Let’s give them the opportunity to make traffic flow better along Montgomery Village’s main avenue. George Tobin, Montgomery Village

Next superintendent shouldn’t give up on lagging students Only 10 percent of poor — receiving free and reduced-priced meals, or FARM — kids in our high schools are college-ready versus 50 percent of our nonFARM students, according to page 29 of an April 8, 2014, report by the Montgomery County Ofﬁce of Legislative Oversight. Shouldn’t closing the achievement gap be the primary objective of the next superintendent? The gap persists in part because Montgomery County Public Schools still doesn’t have adequate high school strategies. Too many MCPS managers think high school students that lack good foundations in English and math are hopeless:

1. Interventions: Only 18 percent of the interventions program budget goes to high school students. 2. Innovation schools: They include just three of the 11 underperforming high schools, and they have no announced targets or timetables. 3. Published measurements: There aren’t many, and MCPS hides the fact that most FARM kids aren’t doing well. Eligibility data and ACT scores are not published in Schools at a Glance (most FARM kids in consortium and like schools take ACTs, not SATs). But, MCPS proudly proclaims graduation rates have improved — a nationwide trend, not speciﬁc to MCPS. We need strategies to go the ﬁnal mile and can pay

for them by reducing MCPS’ overhead rate, which is a whopping 46 percent. By improving management and doubling high school interventions, the number of college-ready poor kids could double in 10 years. Begin by asking the next superintendent to quickly come up with a concrete plan that closes the gap. Then, independently validate the plan to make sure it reﬂects best practices. Keep hope alive with a good plan, not a Gallup poll. Gordie Brenne, Silver Spring

The writer is vice president of the Montgomery County Taxpayers League.

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Posted online by 8 a.m. the following day. SOFTBALL: Sherwood at Magruder, 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. One of the top pitchers in the county, Magruder’s Fiona Johnson (left), tries to end Sherwood’s 69-game winning streak. BASEBALL: Northwest at Gaithersburg, 4:30 p.m., Friday.

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Bucket hat no Prep sports looking for new referees longer public Lack of younger umpires, ofﬁcials hurts the overall quality of games

When former Forestville Military Academy football coach Charles Harley stepped onto the team bus after a 2005 Amateur Athletic Union basketball game he caused a minor panic with his players. His trademark green bucket hat was missing. “Everybody got off to go look for it,” said Harley, who is now an assistant to the athletic director and associate head football coach at the Landon School in Bethesda. They eventually found it in his backpack. Harley, a 1985 graduate of Central High School, started wearing a bucket hat while serving in the U.S. Marines. He’s worn one to every KEN SAIN SPORTS EDITOR practice and game since he took over the Forestville football program in 2000. The school presented Harley a tan Under Armour bucket hat with a big letter “L” on it when he arrived at the school this year. Soon after football coach Paul Padalino pulling him aside. “I never asked to be the associate head coach,” Harley said. “I didn’t come to this job thinking that I’d wait it out and maybe get the head coaching job. If [Padalino] is the head coach for the next 20 years, I am cool with that.” There are two main reasons why Harley left Forestville and now is at Landon: his sons, ages 14 and 12. They’ve attended Landon for three years, and when Harley was offered a job on the Penn State staff, his sons said they wanted to remain at Landon. The school suggested if he wanted to be with his boys, he could work at the school. “At Forestville, I was everything. I was trainer to a degree, I handled all the laundry, washing clothes, ﬁtting uniforms. I do none of that here. Essentially, you just coach football.” I asked Harley now that he’s left public schools, what would he ﬁx if I made him king of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association? “One of the things we have to look at is to get some equity in eligibility.” Harley said. “We can’t have each county doing their own thing. There needs to be a minimum GPA, start there.” Baltimore City doesn’t have a minimum GPA. Student athletes there, Harley says, can fail up to two classes a semester and remain eligible. “A Baltimore city politician told me that if we had that rule, they’d lose some of these guys. By not giving them a standard, you’re saying, we don’t think they can achieve. I guarantee you, if you go to Baltimore city right now and say come January 2016 you have to have a 2.0, there’d be a lot of guys who don’t make it, but a lot of them will strive to get there. Just to say that if we had that rule we wouldn’t have any teams is garbage. I don’t know how that helps kids.” As for that tan bucket hat, Harley said he’s not so sure about it after a recent trip. “So I go to Penn State a few weeks ago, and [football coach] James Franklin saw my Under Armour bucket hat. He’s in a conversation with some kids, and he stops, and says, ‘Coach, I can’t get into that. It’s hard enough for me getting used to the ‘L,” but that tan hat ain’t the bucket.’ “Irony is, I was starting to give my bucket to a Forestville kid, and once he said that, it stopped me in my tracks. I’m so associated with that hat.” The bucket hat he wore last season is his fourth. He gave away two previous ones. The third “disintegrated.” He’s still deciding on the fate of the fourth hat. Give it away, or wear it next fall? “When I give one away, it’s like a tattoo, it’s on the kid all the time,” Harley said. ksain@gazette.net

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Hardly an athletic event — at any level — can be contested these days without a player, coach or spectator questioning a call or decision made by the ofﬁcials. Longtime area fastpitch softball umpire and 16th-year CASO Umpire Association assignor Al Palmer said that’s among his top selling points when attempting to recruit the next generation of umpires — CASO covers varsity and junior varsity games for all 25 Montgomery County public schools and several private schools. “I’ve always tried to recruit young women to come in who have played softball,” Palmer said. “I say, ‘You know what bugs you the most about umpires, come be one.’“

Officiating seems to be a great way for athletes to stay involved in their respective sports after their competing days are over, especially recent college graduates who might be back home looking for jobs, coaches said. But the reality is Palmer’s pool of umpires doesn’t seem to be getting any bigger, just older. “It does seem to be an aging pool of guys who have been here forever,” said Magruder coach Ed Hendrickson, whose daughter, Laura, graduated from the Rockville school in 2002. While the experience and love for the game these umpires bring to the softball diamond can be major advantages, there is a growing concern about the next generation of officials, or lack thereof. And it is not just limited to softball. Scheduling especially becomes an issue when inclement weather cancels games and leaves teams looking to schedule makeups all on the same days. “There are some guys I see who are still reffing now that were there when I started working in the

county [more than 20 years ago], and they were in their middle 30s to late 40s then, so now we’re talking over 60 years old and still chasing [the players] around,” Churchill girls soccer coach Haroot Hakopian said. “And there are some who can do it with no problem, there are some exceptions to the rule. Girls soccer is naturally slower than the boys but still now from when I started coaching in the county, the girls are so much faster, so much more skilled. There are still refs who cannot keep up with the game.” But Hakopian said he can’t blame the Metropolitan Washington Soccer Referee Association. There is an attempt to recruit younger referees, but for those who even express interest and are good at it, it doesn’t make any sense to stick to the high school level when there is much more money to be made at the college or travel team levels. Coaches

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Whitman High School goalie Colin Hains is one of the best players in the county.

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Colin Hains’ first experience as a lacrosse goalie came in the backyard of his Bethesda home. Without pads or a goalie stick, he’d stand in front of the net as his older brothers ripped shots from pointblank range. At first, he was just a body — someone who could be used for target practice, said Trevor Hains, his older brother — but it soon became apparent that he had a knack for netminding. So for his 10th birthday, Trevor and his stepbrother, Jimmy Wagner, gave Colin a goalie stick, and he’s been in net ever since. Well, for the most part. Colin, a senior at Whitman High School, is now the last line of defense for the Vikings boys lacrosse team. He’s been one of Montgomery County’s top keepers, stopping 86 of 119 shots (72.2 percent) this spring after being selected as a finalist for last year’s Ensign C. Markland Kelley award, honoring Mary-

land’s top player. “He’s always had really quick hands, and, as time went on, and his body developed, he got his feet down,” said Trevor Hains, who played at Whitman (Class of 2012). “When he ﬁnally got his footwork down, that’s when he became a really solid goalie.” Colin said that taking shots against his siblings a decade ago helped him develop into the goalie he is today. “It’s a lot of hand-eye coordination, and I’ve realized that I’m really good at reading shots. Just from having my brother as an attackman and having sort of an attackman background, I realize where people are trying to shoot.” Junior teammate Daniel Fraser said that having Colin in net makes life easier on the defenders. They don’t need to put as much pressure on the outside shooters, and they can take more risks knowing Colin is back there in support. “He can make the big saves when we need it most,” Fraser said. “... It’s just his quickness and his lacrosse IQ. I’ve never met someone with a bet-

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In the 43 years since Title IX passed in 1972, female participation in athletics has skyrocketed. But the percentage of women coaching women at the collegiate level has declined from more than 90 percent in 1974 to 40 percent, according to the most recent numbers revealed by the University of Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sports. The Tucker Center expanded its research to high school sports within the state last school year and found that only 42 percent of girls teams were coached by women. Surprisingly, softball, a predominantly female sport, had one of the lowest percentages at 34.5. In Montgomery County, however, there has been a recent influx of young females — the majority of whom are former county athletes — taking up residence as coaches. The number of male coaches at the varsity level has dropped from 12 to nine in just two years; women now head up 64 percent of the county’s programs. Among them are 2002 Richard Montgomery graduate Ashley Barber-Strunk at Sherwood, Damascus graduate Nicole Wallace at Blake, Magruder graduate Amanda Quay at Damascus, Sherwood graduate Jamie Ahearn at Walter Johnson, Gaithersburg graduate Laura Hamilton at her alma mater and Clarksburg coach Danielle Murray, a New Jersey native who played at the University of Maryland, College Park. There is an additional crop of former county athletes working with junior varsity teams

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who might eventually move up to the varsity level. “I think it’s phenomenal [to have these players coming back], it’s great for the game and it’s great for Montgomery County,” said Magruder coach Ed Hendrickson, who has been around the program for more than 15 years. “They bring experience of what the next step of the game is. I can talk to the girls and they listen to me because they know I care, but I haven’t walked in their shoes.” Softball is commonly referred to as the female version of baseball and the comparison is understandable given the sports’ similarities. But a history in baseball does not necessarily make one equipped to coach the intricacies of softball. Fifteenthyear Blair softball coach Louie Hoelman, who has lifted the Blazers from county doormat to upper echelon program, admits he mistakenly took that attitude when he ﬁrst took over the team. But last year’s Gazette Coach of the Year, like many of the county’s other male coaches, quickly became a student of the game — he said he has attended coaching clinics 10 of the past 15 years. This generation of male coaches in general seems to have a different level of investment in the sport, coaches agreed. “I think as a coach if you realize [you don’t have a background in the sport], you can overcome it,” Hoelman said. “If you end up being a knowit-all or someone who wants to force his own way without knowing the sport, [then you’re in trouble]. If you can admit, ‘Hey, I didn’t play this sport, I need to learn this,’ then it’s ﬁne. But you can’t try to fake it or coach it like you coach baseball.” While the majority of

also said stepping into an officiating capacity can be an intimidating endeavor and ultimately a turn-off. Game times are also an issue, coaches agreed. Softball games are played at 3:30 p.m., and lacrosse and soccer games can be held as early as 5 p.m., which makes it nearly impossible for anyone with a full-time job to even consider becoming an official. In addition to that time commitment, rulebooks for sports are extremely detailed and constantly changing and not everyone is willing to take the time to learn them, coaches said. While umpires and referees are in place to regulate games and not change the outcomes, coaches said the latter is becoming more of an issue, especially in soccer and girls lacrosse where only two officials are responsible for covering the entire field — a third official was added to boys lacrosse this year. “[Having only two refs] gives them each very specific roles, so if one ref sees something, they can’t call it because it’s not their call,” Churchill girls lacrosse coach Jamie Frank said. “There are situations where one ref doesn’t call anything and other one isn’t allowed to.” Hakopian said the same applies to soccer. And there were several instances in the fall where offside calls were made from 10 to 20 yards behind the play. Then, coaches agreed, there is also the important issue of safety and officials’ ability to get out of the way of danger in time, which is becoming more difficult as high school sports continue to evolve. “I’ve seen an umpire get hit in the chest, I’ve seen them fall,” Blair coach Louie Hoelman said. “I do feel like the umpires who have been in it for so long are in it for the right reason, and that’s really nice. But I do feel as far as moving out of the way of the ball, getting in position quick enough, some don’t move as well as they used to, and it’s getting harder. ... I don’t know why there aren’t more people who want to be umpires, if I wasn’t coaching, I’d probably be an umpire.”

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Sherwood High School softball coach Ashley Barber-Strunk is one of the recent group of former players (she played at Richard Montgomery) who have returned as coaches.

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Continued from Page B-1 ter lacrosse IQ.” As the Vikings learned last spring, Colin isn’t just a goalkeeper. He’s conﬁdent with the ball and has strong stick skills — and not just for a goalie, which he demonstrated late last season. With the Vikings in need of scoring, they came up with the unorthodox idea of moving their star

guide their players through their own experiences and are likely more familiar with some truly softball-specific motions, like pitching techniques. That’s why Hoelman said he pursued assistant coach Kristin Werdann’s help — she’s been with the Blazers for 12 years. “I think it’s definitely a beneﬁt [that I played softball]

keeper to offense. It started as a part-time switch; during man-up situations, Colin would leave the net, exchange sticks on the sidelines, and then the head to the attack. Come playoff time, though, he turned into a full-time attacker, recording 10 goals, three assists and 47 ground balls before his team was eliminated by Churchill in the postseason. He is back in net this spring and said he plans on staying there. With the addition of Ben Montemarano, a junior trans-

fer from St. John’s in Washington, D.C., and the return of last year’s top two scorers — senior Alex Hosker (32 goals) and junior Alex Hilsenrath — the Vikings (5-2 as of Monday) have a deeper offense than they had a year ago. That could be the difference as they try to get the school its ﬁrst boys lacrosse region title since 2001. Though Colin said he doesn’t plan on playing in college, there could be some more backyard lacrosse in his future. Last summer, he got back to taking shots

with my girls in a different way because I’ve done it all before. There’s something about high school girls, they need more than just a softball coach. And I’m not saying a male coach can’t do that but I do think it’s helpful, it’s nice that I’ve gone through all the phases they’re going through.” jbeekman@gazette.net

against his Trevor Hains, who wanted to get into lacrosse shape before joining an adult league. It was back to their old child hood days, Trevor Hains said. “Back in the day, I had the edge, but last summer he was deﬁnitely a lot better than me,” Trevor Hains said. “And I didn’t get many shots past him. That’s for sure.” egoldwein@gazette.net

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but I don’t think it’s necessarily a disadvantage [for male coaches] who haven’t played,” Murray said. “Good coaches know what they’re doing, they might not have played it but they’ve adapted to it and are going to coaching clinics and keeping fresh on the new stuff. ...But I feel like because I’ve been there and played at the college level, I can connect

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women coaches said there were advantages to having a female coaching girls, they didn’t find male coaches to be at a disadvantage — many top collegiate coaches are male. And there are men’s professional fastpitch softball leagues, but they aren’t as popular in this area as they once were, Hoelman said. Women coaches can help

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Gaithersburg growing in girls lacrosse

Katie Ledecky scheduled to compete in Arizona

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Stone Ridge senior and 2012 Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky is scheduled to compete in the fourth stop on the Arena Pro Swim Series this week in Arizona. The event is scheduled for April 15-18 in Mesa. Per the psych sheet — seedings — released by USA Swimming Monday, Ledecky will compete in the 1,500-meter freestyle, for which she currently holds the world record (15 minutes, 28.36 seconds), 200 freestyle, 400 individual medley, 400 freestyle (world record 3:58.37), 100 freestyle and 800 freestyle (world record 8:11.00).

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The Gaithersburg High School girls lacrosse team is on pace to improve on its win total for a third consecutive season and finish above .500 for the first time since 2010. But ask coach E.J. Maloney about the Trojans’ (4-1 as of Monday) best performance this spring, and he won’t say it came during any of their four double-digit goal victories. Rather, he’ll say it came during the 16-3 loss to Poolesville. At that March 28 game, the Trojans were winning draws and generating shots (though converting only 16 percent), and while they fell behind big after halftime, they controlled possession during the closing minutes and finished strong against one of Montgomery County’s top teams, Maloney said. They were playing with the sort of confidence — an “in-your face style,” Maloney said — that they lacked during their .500 campaign in 2014 and the preceding seasons. The progression has been gradual. It started in 2012, when Maloney threw his then-underclassmen into the varsity fire in what was a frustrating 2-10 campaign. Morgan Price, now a senior, was one of several freshmen who played significant minutes on that team, getting called up late that season. The Lynchburg College recruit said that at first she thought she was headed for several more two-win seasons with Gaithersburg. But that wasn’t the case. In 2013, the team improved to 4-10. Last season, after winning four of its final six games, it finished 7-7. “That’s when I realized that we had more potential than just being a team that lost a majority of our games,” said Price, who has a teamhigh 28 goals. Bethany Scott, a senior midfielder and Longwood University recruit, also moved up to varsity during her freshman season in 2012. There was a losing expectation back then and “at the time it was really frustrating,” she said. But it wouldn’t stay that way for long. The players started to commit more hours in the offseason, organizing after-school workouts and weight room sessions.

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Morgan Price of Gaithersburg High School girls’ varsity lacrosse contends with Ashley Kim of Northwest in route to the goal on Monday night, April 13, 2015 in Gaithersburg, MD. That started to pay off last spring, particularly with passing, catching and positioning. Whereas before the offense would run through one or two players, now it’s more of a team-wide approach. Scott recalled one possession this spring where the ball traveled all the way down the field and went through nearly half the lineup — from goalie Lainey Selby, to defender Milla Kleyman, to Scott, to Haisel Cruz, to Melissa Shapiro — before finding the back of the net. “It’s really exciting. The team is definitely blending really well this year,” Scott said. “We come out to every game now expecting to win, and we fight for that win.” That winning mentality has helped attract talent to a school not known for lacrosse. Senior Jaime Montgomery, a Palm Beach Atlantic University soccer recruit, joined the team last spring

and has added speed and athleticism to the Trojans midfield. Players like Montgomery have improved their stick skills over the past couple seasons, complementing the more experienced upperclassmen. “This year, I think our whole team realized that we had the potential ... people are working a lot harder,” Montgomery said. The Trojans’ schedule gets more difficult in late-April, with upcoming games against Richard Montgomery, Magruder and Quince Orchard. A strong finish could result in a 4A/3A West Division title, a feat which would have seemed far-fetched not that long ago. “Now that we see that we have the capability to win, we want to,” Price said. egoldwein@gazette.net

Whitman weathers tough early schedule After seven games played this season, the Whitman High School baseball team is 3-4. The Vikings might have more losses than wins, but the ﬁrst part of their schedule was a gauntlet of teams that included the past three teams in the county to go without losses — Gaithersburg and Quince Orchard were both undefeated at the time Whitman played them, and Paint Branch is still undefeated. Whitman coach Joe Cassidy said his team’s biggest issue against the county’s top teams is string-

ing enough hits together to score against top pitchers, but Vikings pitcher/second-baseman Sean Cook has given the Vikings a chance to keep games close. “He did well against Gaithersburg, even though he got the loss,” Cassidy said. “He just dominated when he pitched against Richard Montgomery.”

Northwest winning again The Northwest High School baseball team bounced back from a

BASEBALL NOTEBOOK BY PRINCE J. GRIMES loss to Sherwood on April 7 with a 3-1 win against Wootton on Monday. The Jaguars record is now 5-2. Joseph Brauch got his ﬁrst win of the season against Wootton, pitching six innings, striking out nine, and allowing just one hit. Sophomores Josh Netterville and Mac Adelman tallied three hits apiece for Northwest.

Holton-Arms establishes new identity Holton-Arms School girls lacrosse coach Janet McCormick said she didn’t quite know what to expect heading into this season. The Panthers graduated 12 players and eight starters, including leading scorer Blair Greenwald, from a team that went 7-11. With snow interfering with preseason practices, they went into their Florida spring break trip in March having barely any experience playing together. But that trip, it turned out, was a turning point for the Bethesda school, McCormick said. Playing in 90-plus degree weather, HoltonArms went 3-1-1 against competitive teams from across the country. That momentum carried over when the Panthers returned home, as they’ve since improved to 6-4-1. Balance has been a key to that success, McCormick said. While last season the offense relied on Greenwald’s playmaking, now it’s more of a pass-heavy attack, with seniors Olivia Lee, Caroline Klinedinst, Carlin Pappas and Kristin Bednarek helping lead the charge. “When teams decide to face guard someone, someone else steps up,” McCormick said.

— ERIC GOLDWEIN

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B-CC junior walks away with title While a slew of athletes eagerly awaited the start of Saturday’s Woodward Relays at Georgetown Prep, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School junior Lauren Kronheim’s day got off to a walking start. The Barons athlete took the gold in the girls race walk, an unofﬁcial event that requires competitors to keep one foot on the ground at all times. Kronheim, who said she practiced some this past week, won the girls event with a time of 10 minutes, 21.84 seconds — an improvement upon her previous times she posted the last two seasons at Georgetown Prep’s indoor track event, Last Track to Philly. “Obviously, it isn’t something I normally do,” Kronheim said. “So it’s using different muscles than I’m used to for running. It’s hard on the shins and the hamstrings.”

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Whitman senior enjoys breakout season While the Whitman High School softball team might not pose a threat to Montgomery County’s top teams this spring, senior shortstop Elena Kozak sure does. A stalwart three-year starting third baseman for the Vikings, her range has been on display at shortstop this season. Defense has always been a strength for the Hood College recruit, coach Anne Marie O’Donoghue said, but Kozek is off to the best start, offensively, in her tenure. Kozek has tallied hits in each of Whitman’s ﬁve games and at least two hits against every team but three-time defending state champion Sherwood. She has three home runs, two of which were grand slams, and at least two triples. “Offensively, this has been a breakout year for [Kozek],” O’Donoghue said. “She has always been one of our best players, defensively. But hitting has never been what we expected or what she’s done in travel ball.”

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HOW THEY RANK Boys lacrosse 1. Landon 2. Georgetown Prep 3. Bullis 4. Good Counsel 5. Wootton n Best bet: Wootton at Walter Johnson, 7 p.m. Friday; Perennial powerhouse Patriots look to hold off Wildcats in 4A/3A West matchup.

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4. Holton-Arms 5. Sherwood n Best bet: Springbrook at Blair, 7 p.m. Monday; Game features two of top 4A/3A East Division teams, including reigning champion Blue Devils.

1- and No. 2-ranked teams face off in one of this spring’s most marquee matchups.

Boys track 1. Northwest 2. Paint Branch 3. Gaithersburg

Softball 1. Sherwood 2. Magruder 3. Clarksburg 4. Blake 5. Blair n Best bet: Sherwood at Magruder, 3:30 p.m. Wednesday; The No.

Girls track 1. Clarksburg 2. Northwest 3. Paint Branch n Best bet: Viking Invitational at Whitman, 9:30 a.m., Saturday. Large invitational pits

some of the county’s strongest competitors.

Baseball 1. Gaithersburg 2. Good Counsel 3. Paint Branch 4. Quince Orchard 5. Sherwood n Best bet: Rockville at Poolesville, 3:30 on Thursday; While clearly not as strong as last season, Poolesville is still good. Rockville is improved, and some think this is the year it has a shot to dethrone the Falcons in the 3A/2A Division.

Rockville gets over hump Rockville High School baseball coach Farron Riggs said his team has yet to play its best baseball. The Rams are 3-2, with losses to Clarksburg (3-3) and Magruder (6-2), and Riggs said he’ll take it considering they haven’t reached their potential. “Went through a lot of growing pains,” Riggs said. “Lot of physical and mental mistakes that this year I’m hoping we can move past.”

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Paint Branch High School boys lacrosse coach Greg Jolles didn’t put it lightly: “We knew it was going to be a young team,” he said. The Panthers graduated 20 seniors and don’t return a single starter from last year’s 6-9 team. About 95 percent of the current roster was playing junior varsity at this time a year ago, he said. That’s forced a bunch of inexperienced players into unfamiliar roles, playing at a pace they’re not used to. But six games in, they’ve started to show significant improvement. After dropping their first three games by a combined 46 goals, the Panthers (1-5) played competitively in losses to Northwood (4-6) and Wheaton (4-5) and defeated Wheaton, 5-4, on April 7 to earn their first win of the season. The Burtonsville school also had junior goalie Kevin Tregoning recognized as the 4A/3A East Division Player of the Week by the MCLCA on April 7. “They’re finally starting to be able to play with each other,” Jolles said. “… [They’re] starting to realize they can do it.”

— ERIC GOLDWEIN

Magruder basketball star makes college choice Magruder High School basketball standout Joe Hugley announced Tuesday afternoon that he had committed to play basketball next season at Robert Morris University. The 6-foot-7 center led the Colonels in scoring (17 ppg), rebounds (9 rpg) and blocks (3.5 bpg) this season. “I am very very blessed to say that I have committed to play at Robert Morris next year,” Hugley said in an Instagram post. “It has been a long painful journey to be where I am at but it’s just the beginning and [I] can’t wait to take my game to the next level.”

— ADAM GUTEKUNST

Magruder football player commits to McDaniel Magruder High School linebacker/quarterback Brent Martin announced his commitment to continue playing football next fall at McDaniel College in Westminser. The senior was a do-it-all type of player for the Colonels, leading them in passing yards and tackles, and he was second in rushing. He also enjoyed success on Magruder’s wrestling team.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

Another Gaithersburg pitcher is set for college Gaithersburg High School baseball coach Jeff Rabberman announced that senior pitcher Brendan Deyo will be playing Division III baseball at McDaniel College next fall. Deyo has pitched in ﬁve games for the Trojans this season, the most by any of their pitchers, and has started two of them. He’s 1-0 with a 2.10 earned-run average and 11 strikeouts in 10 innings pitched. He becomes the third player on Gaithersburg’s pitching staff to commit. Junior Anthony Felitti is committed to University of Virginia. Junior Nick Pantos is committed to University of Maryland, College Park.

— PRINCE J. GRIMES

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Going on a musical journey Famed R&B singer to perform for BSU gala

Play takes comedic look at medieval punishments

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Brian McKnight, the soulful Grammy-nominated R&B musician responsible for hits such as “Back at One,” will perform at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center for Bowie State University’s 150th Gala on Saturday. Though McKnight’s career has spanned decades, with over 20 million albums sold, his love for music is still the same as it has been from the beginning. “I know a lot of people do things for a lot of different reasons, but there’s only one reason to do this — because you love it,” McKnight said. His stop at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center will be just one of more than 120 shows McKnight does each year, but he says each performance comes with its own special connection with his audience. “To me, it’s always about the people,” McKnight said. “I’m going to perform the records they’ve loved for years.” Though he’s firmly cemented himself as a musical icon, McKnight admitted when he ﬁrst came into the business, he wanted to be a songwriter, not an artist. “I had several dreams, and this was one of them,” said McKnight. After sending out his demos, record companies began wondering who was doing the singing, playing, writing and producing. McKnight eventually got offered a deal. “I didn’t think that 25 years later we’d be here talking about

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Famed R&B singer Brian McKnight is set to play at the Bowie State University’s 150th Gala on Saturday. shows that I was still having,” McKnight said. “I just kept my head down and kept working.” The New York native’s hard work has earned him 16 Grammy nominations so far, but it’s his expressive, soul-touching lyrics that keep his fans coming back for more. “What people are coming to hear isn’t the music of today. They’re coming for that nostalgia that reminds them of the ﬁrst time they fell in love, when they got married or when they were making their children,” McKnight said. With a career so expansive, his music has had far reach and McKnight says that’s part of the reason he loves to perform. “You have three generations of people that are coming as families to hear this music that they love, that they still come back to,” McKnight said. Though he released an al-

BRIAN MCKNIGHT n When: 6 p.m., Saturday n Where: Gaylord National Resort and Conference Center, National Harbor n Tickets: Individual $150, Table of 10 $1,500 n More information: bowiestate.edu/ 150th/150thgala/

bum, “One Last Time,” in 2013, and has another album in the works, the crux of his work today is performing all over the world. “We kind of have to rely on touring as our career for those of us who made our bones in what I feel is the most popular decade ever in music, which is the ’90s” In 23 years, McKnight says there are few places he hasn’t been, but this year will take him to the Far East and to South Af-

rica for the ﬁrst time in 10 years. “It’s pretty amazing that when you write music that there are people on the other side of the world who don’t speak the language that you speak, that will let you know how big a fan they are because they want you to come across so many miles to see them,” McKnight said. When asked how he’s survived in a music industry that has changed and transformed immensely throughout his career, McKnight said true artistry will always be appreciated. “Every new generation has to take the map from those who came before them,” McKnight said. “I still tend to believe that people are going to buy into something that they truly believe in, that touches them.” Another way he’s kept up is by using technology to keep up with his fans.

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Audiences will get a chance to look to the past in order to reflect on the present after Lumina Studio Theatre’s production of “The Lady’s Not for Burning.” Written in 1948 by Christopher Fry, the play takes place in the Middle Ages. Fry uses the medieval context of witch burnings in order to unpack the atmosphere he encountered following World War II. Unlike many modern, wellknown plays, “The Lady’s Not for Burning” is written entirely in setting-appropriate verse. Director David Minton, who is also the artistic and executive director for Lumina Studio Theatre, was introduced to Fry’s works by his late wife and was hooked. “This has always been one of my very favorite pieces — it is, in my opinion, the finest verse play in the 20th century,” he said. “It’s one of those I’ve read over the years and just fall more in love with it all the time. I find the play and the philosophy behind it moving.” “Everything is worded eloquently,” added actor Zoe DeGrazia, “and when you really listen and read the specific lines, especially between the two main characters, what they’re saying is just profound.” The story takes place in the home of Mayor Hebble Tyson in the small village of Cool Clary. Local woman Jennet has been accused by the town of witchcraft, thought to have turned an old man into a dog. Meanwhile, Thomas is a former soldier who is tired of living and wishes to be hanged.

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The play is, in Minton’s eyes, similar in form and situation to Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” and Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.” Like Miller’s work, “The Lady’s Not for Burning” is set in a time further in the past than when written that explores mass hysteria throughout a community. “I think that’s maybe what he’s trying to make a parable about,” Minton said, “the time he was living in coming off of this horrible, mob-ruled Europe and now trying to pick up the pieces and being hopeful about the future. I would say even today in many ways the play is still relevant. People still have their causes that seem to be less based on logic than superstition.” While Jennet and Thomas are recognized by many as the lead roles of the play, the entire cast of characters encounters their own issues, and each story arc is explored. One involves a young woman Alizon, who has just come from a nunnery and is arranged to be married to the mayor’s nephew Humphrey. Though Humphrey’s brother Nicholas ﬁghts to win her affections instead, Alizon ends up falling for Richard, the mayor’s clerk. “She’s a very sweet girl, doesn’t really know much,” said DeGrazia, who plays Alizon, “but she has a really big heart and sees past a lot of the other people’s negative opinions about Jennet. I like the way she looks at everything with a really positive and forgiving light.” As different townspeople and visitors arrive at the mayor’s house, he becomes overwhelmed with the requests from and problems within the community, turning to prevailing rule for assistance.

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Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, The JQ Experience, Julian Quander Live, April 16; Tito Puente Jr., April 17; The Soul Crackers, April 18; Jr Walkers Allstar Band, April 19; Freda Payne, April 23; call for prices, times, 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, bethesdabluesjazz.com. BlackRock Center for the Arts, Fatoumata Diawara, April 17; Justin Roberts and the Not Ready for Naptime Players,

May 2; Boxcar Lilies, May 16; 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, blackrockcenter.org. Hershey’s At The Grove, Greg Harrison Jazz Band, April 15; V-6, April 17; Apryl Raye and the Bootleggers, April 18, call for times, 17030 Oakmont Ave., Gaithersburg. 301-948-9893; hersheysatthegrove.com. Fillmore Silver Spring, Rare Essence, April 17; Wild Eyes, April 18; 420 Fest, April 20; 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. ﬁllmoresilverspring.com. Kentlands Mansion, Broadway SingAlong, April 26, $10. 320 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg. Strathmore, Air Workshop: Marian McLaughlin - Those Who Wish To Sing, April 15; Engelbert Humperdinck, April 15; Historic Home Tours, April 17; Rosanne Cash, April 17; BSO: Music Box - On Safari (two shows), April 18; BSO: Pictures at an Exhibition, April 18; 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, 301581-5100, strathmore.org. DCFlutes, April 19. A reception to meet the artists will follow the concert. Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, 1 Chevy Chase Circle. 202-363-2202. Music Fest, April 26. Musical entertainment and refreshments. Mt. Carmel United Methodist Church, 22222 Georgia Ave., Brookeville. 301-330-0539.

ON STAGE Adventure Theatre-MTC, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” through May 25, call for prices, times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, adventuretheatre-mtc. org. F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” April 24 through May 3. 603 Edmonston Dr., Rockville. 240314-8681 Imagination Stage, “Sinbad: The Untold Tale,” 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,” through April 26, Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road, 301-258-6394, r-m-t.org. Round House Theatre, “Uncle

Continued from Page B-4 Vanya,” through May 3, call for show times, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. Tickets range in price from $10 to $45 and seating is reserved. 240644-1100, roundhousetheatre.org. Lumina Studio Theatre, “The Lady’s Not for Burning,” April 17 through April 19Silver Spring Black Box Theatre, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301-5888277, luminastudio.org; theatreconsortiumss@gmail.com. Silver Spring Stage, “The Language Archive,” to May 2, Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, see Web site for show times, ssstage.org.

VISUAL ART Adah Rose Gallery, “Motionless,

I Stay and Go: I am a Pause,” April 16 through May 24, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-922-0162, adahrosegallery.com Glenview Mansion, Jorge Bernal, Alexey Zoob and Strings and Things, through April 24, “Straight from the Heart,” by Vatsala Menon through April 26; Rockville Civic Center Park, 503 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. rockvillemd. gov. Marin-Price Galleries, Rosaline (Rosie) Moore, through April 23; 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, 7022 Wisconsin Ave., 301-718-0622, marin-price. com. Montgomery Art Association, James Vissari, through May 3; Westﬁeld Wheaton Mall, 11160 Viers Mill Road, Wheaton, montgomeryart.org. VisArts, Jeffery Cooper, through April 26; Gibbs Street Gallery, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200, visartsatrockville.org. Kentlands Mansion Art Gallery, 320 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg, 301258-6425. Gallery B, “A Quiet Suspension of Time,” through April 25; 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E, Bethesda, bethesda. org. “Green Works,” the new Spring exhibit by the Hyattsville Community Arts Alliance at Franklins Brewery & Restaurant with 35 diverse works by 25 artists will be on display through May 1. A reception is scheduled for April 19 from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. 5123 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville. 301-927-2740, hcaalonline.org. “Spring Break,” the new exhibit at Old Line Wine & Spirits, located at 11011 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, has 35 diverse works by 21 artists of the Hyattsville Community Arts Alliance on display though May 2. 301-937-5999, hcaaonline.org.

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“The greatest thing about social media is you can immediately go to your timeline and people will tell you what they think of you, which can be scary in some respects,” McKnight said. “If I look at my timeline and people are like ‘yeah, don’t come back’ then I’ll decide to do something else but that hasn’t happened yet,” he said with a laugh. Outside of music, McKnight has dabbled in a few other projects, but doesn’t plan to depart from music any time soon.

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Continued from Page B-4 “In some ways, he’s the voice not of reason, but of order and law,” said Ben Lickerman, who plays the mayor. “He anchors the play in that way, where it could have totally taken a different direction if he gave the two main characters what they wanted, but — for better or worse — he’s preventing that from happening by wanting to stick to the codes and to precedent, not wanting to deviate.” Lumina’s mission has been to provide young actors with the chance to perform classic plays — mostly Shakespeare, but including works such as “The Lady’s Not for Burning” that provide challenges with verse and language. For this play in particular, its relatively young age adds additional difficulties for the actors. “It’s so much like Shakespeare that it’s a pretty easy transition from the kinds of shows we’ve traditionally done over the years,” Minton said. “The difficulty is that the thoughts behind it are pretty modern, and although you want to fully express the language and classic nature, you want to direct it in a way that modern audiences can see the other side as well, how it might pertain to our time.” As an ensemble piece outside of the theater’s main stage productions, the play has been researched and worked on since Fall 2014, giving the experienced older actors with the company plenty of time to fully develop their roles and their understanding of the skills needed. “There’s something about the play that seemed to fit the talents of the cast,” Minton said. “All of them have been with Lumina for many years. They’re up to the technical challenges of really making the words sing and expressive.” For almost all of the cast, “The Lady’s Not For Burning” will be the final produc-

“I do some acting, I’ve written a couple of scripts as well, so I’m leaning toward doing more of that,” McKnight said. “But as long as people continue to want to see me, that’s my love, that’s my go-to. It’s my foundation and I’m never going to forsake those folks.” For his upcoming performance, McKnight has a special message for his fans. “I thank them for taking the journey with me musically,” McKnight said. “I am who I am because of the fans I’ve had over the years and it’s not every day that you get to thank those folks who are allowing you to live your dreams.”

‘THE LADY’S NOT FOR BURNING’ n When: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday n Where: Silver Spring Black Box Theater, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring n Tickets: $8-$15 n More information: luminastudio.org; 301-565-2281

tion with Lumina; after this, many will continue on to college, making way for new young actors to join the ensemble. “I’ve pretty much grown up with these kids, and they have made such amazing strides and broken out of their shells in so many different ways,” DeGrazia said. “This production is special because it highlights everyone’s talents; it’s a nice way to wrap up our experience together.” “This is really our moment to shine,” Lickerman added, who will be returning next year. “This is the culmination of our time all together at Lumina. That’s an incredible gift, and I’m glad to be a part of that for so many people.” The deep connections between the cast members after performing together since childhood is sure to help each actor with expressing the emotion at the center of the play. While “The Lady’s Not for Burning” is intended to be a comedic look at a town carried away by the mythmaking also present following World War II, the play also treats each character as a unique personality, providing several windows into the human experience. “You get a deep sense that the play has heart, and that’s kind of the core of what we’re trying to do with the play,” Lickerman said. “Every situation is totally absurd, but, in the end, it’s a study on human emotion and what it can do to people.” kgroff@gazette.net

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What is normal?

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Tally Sessions and Carey Rebecca Brown as Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan star in Olney Theatre Center’s production of “Carousel.”

Round and round we go

Olney Theatre Center celebrates the 70th anniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel” with a reimagined production of the classic musical, running April 15 through May 10. The Helen Hayes Awardnominated team behind last year’s “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” — director Jason Loewith, choreographer Tommy Rapley, and music director Christopher Youstra — reunite for the production, which features an extraordinary team of Broadway performers and Olney Theatre

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Center veterans, backed up by a 12-piece orchestra. After a bank robbery gone wrong, carousel barker Billy Bigelow is given a second chance to make things right for the love-of-his-life Julie Jordan and the child he never got to meet. “Carousel” features some of the form’s bestloved songs: “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” “If I Loved You,” and the seven-minute powerhouse “Soliloquy.” Tickets for the show are $38-$75. For more information, visit olneytheatre.org or call 301-924-4485.

It’s very easy to say what you consider normal might not be what some other people think of as “normal.” For the cast of Rockville Musical Theatre’s production of “Next to Normal,” a lot of day-to-day situations come into question. The musical explores a family as they try to cope with the mother’s bipolar disorder and remaining grief from a trauma 16 years prior. “Next to Normal’s” ﬁrst form developed in 1998 and, following several rounds of workshopping, debuted off-Broadway in 2008. Since then, it has gained traction in regional theaters while winning the 2010 Pulitzer Prize

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Cast members gather in preparation for the opening of Rockville Musical Theatre’s production of “Next to Normal” at the Arts Barn. for Drama. Tickets for the musical, which takes place at the Arts

Barn in Gaithersburg, are $22. For more information, visit r-m-t.org or call 301-258-6394.

Well, if you have to come up with a name... Comedian and actor Eddie Izzard, in his standup show “Dressed to Kill,” spent some time talking about British pop legend Engelbert Humperdinck. “His name is Gerry Dorsey,” Izzard said to the San Francisco crowd. “There are very few Humperdincks in England.” He then proceeds to say what some of the other possible names could have been: Engelbert Zimbleback, Dinglebert Whackteeback, Slutbum Walla, etc. Regardless, Engelbert Humperdinck has been a cultural icon for decades, selling more than 150 million records. At one point, The Carpenters and Jimi Hendrix opened for him. So yeah, there’s that. The performer will bring his songs and stories to the Music Center at Strathmore on Wednesday. He released a duets album last year, working with Elton John, Willie Nelson, Olivia NewtonJohn, Gene Simmons and more. Dorsey ... err ... Humperdinck even sang a song on the ofﬁcial “Beavis and Butthead Do America” soundtrack. Only a pro like Humperdinck could make the

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Famed singer Engelbert Humperdinck is set to perform at the Music Center at Strathmore on Wednesday.

song “Lesbian Seagull” sound so good. Tickets for the show are $38-$88. For more information, visit strathmore.org or call 301-5815100.

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Tito Puente Jr. and his orchestra are set to perform at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club Friday.

Like father, like son

Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club welcomes percussionist Tito Puente Jr. & His Orchestra at 8 p.m. on Friday. The comparison is inevitable. Tito Puente Jr. carries his father, famed percussionist Tito Puente, with him. It’s in his looks, his joy, and his music. The younger Puente is determined to nurture the musical legacy left by his father and refuses to let him become a distant memory. Tito, Jr.’s last album release, “Got Mambo?” is a mixture of the old and the new as he takes a musical departure into some powerful new music he can truly call his own. Guest artists Bobby Cruz and Hansel & Raul helped make this a coming of age project for Puente, Jr. and the album received praise from Tropical and Latin Jazz critics alike. Ticket prices are $25-$55 and can be ordered online or purchased at the door. For more, visit bethesdabluesjazz.com.

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WSSC to Revise Portions of the 2008 Pipeline Design Manual In March 2008, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) approved the WSSC Pipeline Design Manual. WSSC is now proposing to amend the Design Manual by changing portions of Part One, Water Design Guidelines, Sections 4, 7, 9 and 23, Part Two, Sewer Design Guidelines, Sections 3, and Part Three, Common Design Guidelines, Sections 2, 3, 25, 26 and 28 as they relate to the existing PCCP width requirements, references to internal acoustic fiber optic (AFO) cables that are installed in most of the existing PCCP water pipeline, number of connections to existing PCCP water pipelines and tapping PCCP, new requirements for Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) Rail Lines and new requirements from Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). To review proposed Pipeline Design Manual changes, you may visit the WSSC Website at https://www.wsscwater.com/business--construction/regulatory--licensing-services/pipeline-design.html . A limited number of hard copies of the proposed Design Manual changes will be available at the WSSC Office of Communications and Community Relations. WSSC intends to adopt these changes thirty (30) days after advertising this notice. Written comments will be accepted until thirty (30) days after advertising this notice and should be forwarded to: David Venanzi, Civil Engineering Support Unit Coordinator, WSSC Technical Services Group, 14501 Sweitzer Lane, Laurel, MD 20707 or by email to David.Venanzi@wsscwater.com. For more information, please contact: David Venanzi, Civil Engineering Support Unit Coordinator: David.Venanzi@wsscwater.com or 301-206-8556. (4-15, 4-16-15) NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Snouffer School Road North Improvements (CIP #501119)

Project files are available for examination in the offices of the Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Engineering (DTE), 4th Floor, 100 Edison Park Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland. The phone number is 240-777-7220. Written comments for consideration by the Public Hearing Officer may be submitted to Bruce E. Johnston, Chief, Division of Transportation Engineering, 100 Edison Park Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878. Interpreter services will be provided for the deaf or hearing impaired and Spanish-speaking citizens upon request. DEPT: DOT/Division of Transportation Engineering FULL MAIL ADDRESS: 100 Edison Park Drive, 4th Floor, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878; PHONE NUMBER: 240-777-7210. (4-8, 4-15-15) PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, BETHESDA CAMPUS, CHILLED WATER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT The National Institutes of Health will hold a public meeting, on Thursday, April 30, 2015 from 6:00pm to 8:30pm to solicit comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). This meeting will take place on the NIH Campus in Building 50, Room 1227/1233. The purpose of the meeting is to solicit public comments on the DEIS for the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Campus, Chilled Water System Improvements. Comments provided during the meeting, as well as those received during the public comment period will be considered in the Final EIS. This public meeting will be within the 60-day public comment period initiated with the publication of a Notice of Availability of the Draft EIS published in the Federal Register on April 3, 2015. The 60-day comment period begins on April 3, 2015 and will end on June 5, 2015. Comments can be sent to Valerie Nottingham, Division of Environmental Protection, National Institutes of Health, Building 13, Room 2S11, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892 or emailed to nihnepa@mail.nih.gov. Questions regarding the meeting can be directed to Mark Radtke, Environmental Protection Specialist, Division of Environmental Protection, National Institutes of Health, 301-496-7775. Questions about the meeting can also be sent via email to nihnepa@mail.nih.gov. (4-8, 4-15-15) Prayer

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A Residential and Commercial Stone Masonry Contractor has on-going projects in the MD, DC and VA area. Looking to hire immediately for the following positions: Laborers, Stone Masons, Drivers ,Crew Leaders, Brick Masons. Exp & references a plus. EOE. 301-670-6155.

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Applications for Carpenter, Millwright, and Pile Driver apprenticeships will be accepted by Mid-Atlantic Carpenters’ Training Centers on the following dates: April 20 - May 15, 2015. Applications will be accepted from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. only. The test date is Thursday, May 21, 2015. A non-refundable $20 administrative processing fee is required. Money orders only. Anyone interested should call 301-736-1696 for further details. EOE

Congressman John Sarbanes is seeking a high-energy, public serviceminded individual with exceptional judgment skills & attention to detail to handle a community outreach portfolio for Congressman. For more info visit www.sarbanes.house.gov/job.. Applicants should send a resume with a cover letter to: MD03job@mail.house.gov

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Pursuant to Section 49-53 of the Montgomery County Code (2004) as amended, a public hearing will be held before the Director of the Department of Transportation (or his designee) at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, 2015, in the lobby level auditorium of the Executive Office Building at 101 Monroe Street, Rockville, MD 20850 to consider a proposal to improve Snouffer School Road located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Specific Improvements include widening and resurfacing of the roadway between Centerway Road and Turkey Thickett Drive and new signals at Alliston Hollow Way and Turkey Thickett Drive. Provide grading for two northbound lanes, resurfacing two southbound lanes from Turkey Thickett Drive to Alliston Hollow Way.

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Busy multi doctor practice seeking motivated experienced technicians & receptionists. Must be available weeknights and weekends. Generous wages, health benefits and retirement. FAX resume 301-948-0158 or email to laytonsvillevet@aol.com

Stationary Engineer: Mon-Fri, day work. State facility in Rockville seeks stationary engineer with 4 years experience tending oil fired boilers. Knowledge of general facility maintenance helpful. We offer generous paid leave and Md. State benefits. Salary pursuant to experience. Mail Resume to the John L. Gildner RICA, Human Resources, 15000 Broschart Road, Rockville, MD 20850 / or / can be faxed to 301-251-6815; or e-mail to demetra.swarr@maryland.gov EOE

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Concrete Form Carpenters & Carpenter Helpers Miller & Long Concrete Construction Experienced Concrete Form Carpenters. Good Pay and Benefits. Apply in person Monday thru Friday from 9:00am - 12 noon @ 4842 Rugby Avenue, Bethesda MD 20814. EOE/AA/M/F/VET/DISABILITY. We are a drug-free Company.

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CLEARANCE! 2001 VW GOLF GLS

$6,977

2006 CHEVROLET AVEO

$6,977

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2010 FORD F-150

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17,837

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2014 CC SPORT

#5500964, Automactic. Power Windows, Bluetooth Power Locks, Keyless Entry, Backup Camera

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MSRP 23,995 $

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2004 HONDA ACCORD: 214K Miles. Runs well. Good condition. New tires & battery. $3,000. 240-498-6369 Deals and Wheels to advertise call 301.670.7100 or email class@gazette.net

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2008 Suzuki SX4....................V039591B,Orange, 97,532 Miles..............$7,991

2014 Jetta SE...........................V060701A,White, 19,496 Miles................$16,581

2010 Nissan Versa.................V558039B, Red, 71,867 Miles..................$8,991

2012 GLI.....................................V048230A,Gray,45,301 Miles...................$16,991

2010 Ford Focus SEL.............V051211B, Blue, 72,358 Miles..................$10,991

2012 Mini Cooper Cpe..........V243227A,Red,35,499 Miles....................$17,991

2010 Golf TDI.........................V002217A, Silver,97,688 Miles...........$11,993

2013 VW Beetle.......................V801398, Yellow, 16,020 Miles.................$17,991

2012 Jetta Sedan...................V304285A, Gray,18,289 Miles..................$12,591

2014 Golf 4Dr...........................VP0129, White,18,424 Miles.....................$17,991

2011 Toyota Prius...................V283821B, Red, 112,390 Miles................$12,671

2013 GTI Conv..........................V297056A, White, 31,734 Miles................$19,991

2014 Ford Focus....................PR0124, Red, 34,432 Miles.................$12,794

2013 GTI Wolfsburg..............V058760A, Black, 12,059 Miles..........$20,274

2012 Jetta SE Conv................V002565A, Black, 44,071 Miles................$13,891

2013 Passat TDI SE................V033935A, Gray,28,762 Miles..................$20,692

2011 Toyota Camry SE..........V0125A, Black, 61,476 Miles....................$13,991

2013 Jetta Sportwagen TDI.V606905A,Gray,34,916 Miles.............$20,992

2012 Jetta SE PZEZ................V294951A, Grey, 48,300 Miles..................$13,991

2015 Passat..............................V504978A, Fortana Red, 1,651 Miles........$23,675

2013 Jetta SE Conv................V801480A, Gray, 27,513 Miles..................$14,991

2012 Mercedes E350 AWD....V061959A, Silver, 46,366 Miles...........$26,994

2012 Hyundai Sonata Ltd.....VP0127, White, 58,071 Miles..............$15,993

2014 Routan SEL.....................VP0130, Blue, 18,268 Miles......................$27,991

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DARCARS VOLVO OF ROCKVILLE 2006 Nissan 350Z Touring

2014 Mitsubishi Mirage ES

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2013 Kia Optima SX

2010 Camry Hybrid

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5,977

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15,995

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2012 Volvo S60 Turbo

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8,977

20,950

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21,980

2012 BMW X3 28i AWD

2011 Acura RDX Tech AWD

13,977

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29,950

14,977

22,980

2013 Lexus RX 350 AWD

2012 Nissan Sentra 2.0 S

25,980

2012 Hyundai Veloster #E0647A,Nav, Panoramic Roof, Leather, Loaded, Fun to drive

#P9324, ONLY 24K mi!!, Moonroof, Auto, Nav, Leather $

#540002A, CERTIFIED!! 29K Miles, SR Pk, Alloys #526586A, 1-Owner Only 22K mi!!!, Rear view camera, $ Leather

12,977

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2011 Kia Soul Sport Wagon

2012 Honda Civic EX

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6,977

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# 546209A, Automatic, Clean

#G0063,ONLY 54K mi, 2.4L 4cyl,Auto

2001 Nissan Quest GXE

#442076A, Automatic, Gently Driven $ and Priced to Move!

14,977

2006 Nissan 350Z Touring

#538027B, Just in Time For Summer!!! Manual, Premium Sound

15,977

34,950

#N0703, Like New, 1-Owner, Previously $ Certified, Leather, Moonroof, PWR Tailgate, Rear Camera

2011 Volvo C30 Turbo Coupe.............................. $13,995 2011 Volvo XC70 AWD................................................... $19,950 #526588B, Black, Fun to drive, Well maintained inside & out!

# 526603A, Super Clean, Sunroof, Power Tailgate

2014 Nissan Maxima 3.5 S Sedan

2006 Volvo XC90 AWD..................................................... $14,995 2011 Chrysler Town & Country Touring L.........$20.950 #526174A, 4.4 V8, Leather, Low miles

#E0605, Next To New at a Pre-Owned Price, Still Under Warranty

#P9266, 1-Owner, Only 21K Miles, V6, Nav, DVD, Leather Rear View Camera, Pwr Doors & Tailgate

2010 Volvo XC70 AWD Wagon......................... $18,950 2010 Volvo XC60 3.2L...........................$21,980 #526624A, Leather, Heated Seats, Sunroof, Beautifully maintained owned locally,

19,977

2010 Chevy Equinox #532188C, Nav, Leather, Sunroof, Loaded

16,977

#P9277 1-Owner, Leather, Moonroof, Bluetooth.

and serviced here

2010 Volvo XC60 3.2L..................................................... $19,950 2012 BMW 328i AWD....................................................... $25,950 #P9263, 1-Owner, Only 52K Miles! Panormic Moonroof, Well prices and clean!

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2012 Nissan Altima 2.5 SL

15401 Frederick Rd, Rockville, MD

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2012 Nissan Murano

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18,977

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17,977

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015 b

DARCARS NISSAN TWO LOCATIONS

Rockville

College Park

15911 Indianola Drive Rockville, MD 20855 888-797-1831 2015 NISSAN

MSRP: $17,600 Sale Price: $14,995 Nissan Customer Cash: $500 NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

VERSA NOTE SV

$ 4

AT THIS PRICE

ALTIMA 2.5 S

$ 4

MODEL #13115 4 at this price

LEAF S

$ 4

17,995 $

MODEL #17015

MODEL #12115

0 DOWN

219/MO

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

179/MO

AT THIS PRICE

36 MO LEASE 12K MILES/YR

MSRP: $32,295 Sale Price: $27,495 Nissan Rebate: $1,000 S Nissan Bonus Rebate: $1,000 NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

PATHFINDER 4X4

$ 4

AT THIS PRICE

MODEL #25015

MODEL #67115

0 DOWN

239/MO

36 MO LEASE 12K MILES/YR

2015 NISSAN

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

$ 4

AT THIS PRICE

AWD MODEL #22415

2014 NISSAN

AT THIS PRICE

249

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

MSRP: $35,815 Sale Price: $30,995 Nissan Rebate: $4,500 NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

$ Leather, Heated Seats, moonroof MODEL #16214

22,495 OR

MAXIMA 3.5 SV

289

MSRP: $26,970 Sale Price: $23,495 Nissan Customer Cash: $750 NMAC Bonus Cash: $250

ROGUE SV

24,995

17,995 OR

IN STOCK, AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY!

2015 NISSAN

MSRP: $22,070 Sale Price: $19,745 Nissan Customer Cash: $750

2015 MURANOS

24,495 OR

NV200

14,995

189/MO

MSRP: $32,000 Sale Price: $27, 995 NMAC Bonus Cash: $3,500

Complimentary Level 2 Home EV Wall Mount Charging Station $ (installation not included)

SENTRA SV

AT THIS PRICE

2015 NISSAN

MSRP: $19,360 Sale Price: $16,245 Nissan Rebate $1,000 NMAC Bonus Cash: $250

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

2015 NISSAN

AT THIS PRICE

139/MO

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

AT THIS PRICE

MSRP: $24,135 Sale Price: $20,245 Nissan Customer Cash: -$1,250 NMAC Bonus Cash: -$1,000

2015 NISSAN

13,995 OR

w/automatic transmission MODEL #11615

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25,995 OR

299

/MO 39 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

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Prices include all rebates and incentives. DARCARS Nissan DOES NOT Include college grad or military rebates in price! NMAC Bonus Cash require financing through NMAC with approved credit. Prices exclude tax, tags, freight (Cars $810, SUVs and Trucks $860-$1000) and $300 processing charge, Lease payments are calculated with tax, tags, freight, $300 processing charge and first payment due at signing, and are valid with tier one approval through NMAC. Prices and payments valid only at listed VINS. See dealer for details. Offer expires 04/21/2015. G560891

NEW 2015 HIGHLANDER LE 1 AVAILABLE: #563261

27,990

4 CYL., AUTO, 4 DR

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20,890

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179/

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MO**

18,290

4 DR., AUTO, 6 CYL.

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14,690

4 DR., AUTO, 4 CYL., INCL.

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4 CYL., 4 DR., AUTO

2 AVAILABLE: #570341, 570343

$0 DOWN G560920

24,690

AUTO, 4 CYL

2014 SCION XB 2 AVAILABLE: #455044, 455033

NEW 2015 SIENNA L 2 AVAILABLE: #560070, 560102

4 CYL., AUTO

NEW 2015 TACOMA 4X2 XTRACAB

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AFTER TOYOTA $750 REBATE

AFTER $750 REBATE

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4 CYL., AUTO, 4 DR

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4 DR., AUTO, 4 CYL