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Community center coming downtown Church and nonprofit to work on Woodmont Triangle project
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KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER
A Bethesda church and the nonprofit Graceful Growing Together will use state money to help build an integrated church and community center in Woodmont Triangle. Maryland lawmakers approved a $150,000 earmark, known as a bond bill, for the project, which is expected to cost about $24 million to $26 million, according to Barry Lemley, president and executive director of Graceful Growing Together . Since 1938, Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church has owned the down-
town Bethesda property where the community center will be built, Lemley said. Graceful Growing Together is a nonprofit whose sole member is the church, Lemley said. The nonprofit has a 25year lease to manage the center once it is built. The church will own the building and land. Currently, the church has several buildings on its property. The buildings not only provide worship space, but have also housed community programs, a culinary arts incubator and community programs such as some Bethesda Cares’ services. In total, Lemley said, the church has about 14,000 square feet there. “We’ve always been a congregation
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KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER
The historic North Bethesda home of 19th-century abolitionist Josiah Henson will soon be open more
regularly as a historic park, with a museum and interpretive program focusing on Henson’s life and slavery in Montgomery County. State funding is helping that expansion. Maryland lawmakers awarded the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Montgomery County Department of
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Coffee company serves beans roasted in Rockville, brewed in Bethesda BY
Plenty of people start off their day with a cup or two of coffee, but for Carolyn Weinberg and Calvin Dove their whole day revolves around the brew. Weinberg is the CEO and Dove the head roaster for Quartermaine Coffee Roasters, which has two stores in Bethesda and a roasting facility on Wyaconda Road in Rockville. As you pull into the parking lot of the low, squat building in the industrial park that holds the roasting plant, the rich smell of roasting coffee wafts through the air. Inside, the temperature rises as Dove keeps an eye on a batch of French roast in the company’s roaster. A batch of French roast will reach more than 400 degrees, Weinberg said. Each type of roast requires a different time and heat process to create a different flavor, body and acidity that affect its taste, said Dove, who’s been roasting with Quartermaine for about 15 years. Roasters have to carefully gauge the time for each batch, Weinberg said. Too long and the beans are too dark. After they’re roasted, the beans are dumped out into a large, circular cooling tray, where they’re brought from piping hot to room temperature in a matter of minutes. Quartermaine was started by Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker and Zev Seigel, who originally founded the Starbucks chain in the 1970s. After looking around the
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(Above) Graduate Monique Logie hangs onto her cap after getting a big hug from commencement speaker Michael Williams during Friday’s graduation ceremony for Bethesda’s Walter Johnson High School at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington. About 550 seniors graduated. Williams is a former social studies teacher and boys soccer coach at Walter Johnson. (Right) Senior Darien Djourabtchi sings the national anthem at the start of Friday’s graduation exercises. PHOTOS BY DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE
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Jack Barker figured that one day his CPR training might come in handy. He just didn’t know that day would come so soon. Barker, a sophomore at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, was working his parttime job at Griffin Cycle in downtown Bethesda on Sunday when, at about 12:30 p.m., a customer had a medical emergency and fell to the floor, said store manager Alex Pilon on Monday. “We were all working away and customers were shopping and all of the sudden the man collapsed, and I looked over. Everyone looked at him and were just kind of silent,” Pilon said. Some bystanders immediately began dialing 911, but everyone was unsure of what to do, Pilon said. Adam Dolezal, a part-time mechanic at the bike shop, said he searched for the man’s pulse but couldn’t find one. “Adam rushed over to him and said ‘Sir, are you OK? Are you OK?’ There was no response,” said Barker, 16, a salesman. The store was in a “panic,” Barker said. “One of the people yelled, ‘Does anyone know CPR?’” Pilon said. Barker, who recently completed a CPR training course, said he did and began instruct-
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Quartermaine Coffee’s head roaster Calvin Dove at work in the Rockville roasting facility.
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