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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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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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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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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 AARP Smart Driver Course, 12:30-5 p.m., Wheaton Library, 11701 Georgia Ave., Wheaton. Registration required; limited to 25. $15 AARP members, $20 nonmembers. 240-777-0678 or dianne. whitaker@montgomerycountymd.gov. Holiday Park Senior Prom, 5:30-7 p.m., Holiday Park Senior Center, 3950 Ferrara Drive, Wheaton. Light dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. With Night and Day band. 240-7774999 or gayathri.aluvihare@montgomerycountymd.gov.
THURSDAY, JUNE 4 Book signing and discussion, “The Inside
Story: Biblical Personalities” by Rabbi Joseph Friedman, 7:30 p.m., Kensington Row Bookshop, 3786 Howard Ave., Kensington. Storytelling — The Grapevine, 7:30 p.m., Takoma Park Community Center, 7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park. Celebrate the timeless art of the bards with stories of all kinds — truths, myths and everything in between. Featuring stories by Kit Turen and Sheila Arnold Jones. Suggested $10 donation.
Jihad in America/Obama and Iran: Why are Jews Still Democrats?, 6:30-8:30 p.m.,
Ted’s 355 Diner, back room, 895 Rockville Pike, Rockville. The speakers will be: Frank Gaffney, assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan and founder and president of the Center of Security Policy in Washington, D.C.; and Noah Silverman, the congressional affairs director for the Republican Jewish Coalition. $5. 301-417-9256 or katmcgop@gmail.com.
FRIDAY, JUNE 5 Art Walk in the Park, 6-8 p.m., Washington Conservatory at Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. Free. 301.634.2222 or info@glenechopark.org. Art reception, 6-8 p.m., Park View Gallery, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. An exhibition of paintings by John Loverro, who died this year. jcloud@glenechopark. org or 301-634-2222.
SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Grateful Shred, 9 a.m.-noon, Clara Barton Community Center, 7425 MacArthur Blvd., Cabin John. Mobile shredding truck. $5 per box. 240-777-4910 or vdoug4919@ aol.com. Spring Rummage Sale, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., North Bethesda United Methodist Church, 10100 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda.
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A Celebration of Life-Cancer Survivor Day 2015, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Montgomery
County Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda. Educational workshops, beauty tips, health expo. Free transportation and child care. Registration required: cancersurvivorday.org/registration/register. 301-816-7160 or cancersurvivorday@kp.org. A Night in Vegas, 7-11 p.m., 4935 Bar & Kitchen, 4935 Cordell Ave., Bethesda. Vegas-style table games, silent auction, raffles, prizes, cocktails, food. To benefit Nourish Now’s efforts to end food waste and hunger in Montgomery County. $150. 301-330-0222 or brett@nourishnow.org. Music from the African Diaspora, 7-9 p.m., Bethesda United Methodist Church, 8300 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. With Cantigas, a Latino chorus. Guest appearance by the Heritage Signature Chorale. Tickets are $30 (front) and $20 (rear) for general admission, $15 for students, free for children 12 and younger. 301-2301361 or info@cantigas.org. Voices 21: 15th Anniversary Concert, 7:30 p.m., Chevy Chase United Methodist Church, 7001 Connecticut Ave. Music for chamber chorus, piano, flute, and harp. Free; donations accepted. 240-643-6563 or voicesxxi@aol.com. Imagination Bethesda, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Downtown Bethesda, Woodmont Avenue and Elm Street. Activity tents, face painting, live entertainment. Free. 301-2156660 or bomalley@bethesda.org. Singles dinner and movie night, 5 p.m., Tandoori Nights, 7236 Woodmont Ave., Bethesda, followed by movie of choice at either Regal Bethesda 10 or Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema. $30. Sponsored by New Beginnings, a support group for separated or divorced men and women. RSVP: 301-924-4101 or newbeginningsusa.org.
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Episcopal Day School, 9411 Connecticut Ave., Kensington. In memory of Colleen Mitchel, who attended Grace Episcopal Day School in Kensington and Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda and was a sophomore at the University of Michigan. She was born with liver disease and died last year at age 19 while awaiting a liver transplant. $25 per person. 240-446-0268 or colleensba5k@gmail.com. montgomerycountymd.gov. Sunday Afternoon Waltz, 2:45-6 p.m., Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. 45-minute lesson at 2:45 p.m. $10. 202-238-0230 or info@WaltzTimeDances.org. The Apollo Orchestra in Concert, 4 p.m., Church of the Little Flower, 5607 Massachusetts Ave., Bethesda. Free. 301320-4538 or Terry_Eberhardt@hcpss.org.
MONDAY, JUNE 8 Knitting and Spinning, 3-5 p.m., Praisner Library, 14910 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. Learn, practice or work on current projects with others. anne.seiler@ montgomerycountymd.gov.
TUESDAY, JUNE 9 Citizenship Preparation Program, 6 p.m., Westfield South Building, 11002 Veirs Mill Road, suite 306, Wheaton. For legal permanent residents who live in Maryland and are learning English as a second language. Free. 240-567-8839 or izis.weills@montgomerycollege.edu. World Refugee Day 2015, 3-8 p.m., Silver Spring Civic Center, 1 Veterans Place. Food, live entertainment, refugee art. To honor courage, strength and determination of people forced to flee their homes. Free. cuellarj@lssnca.org.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 7 Paul & Celine Silver Memorial 5K, 9 a.m., Tilden Woods Park, 6800 Tilden Lane, North Bethesda. Donations and proceeds support scholarships and internship programs created in the Silvers’ honor. Registration: paulandcelinesilver.org. Information: silver.karen@gmail.com or info@paulandcelinesilver.org. Jane in June, 2-4 p.m., Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road. Part of a lecture series on Jane Austen, her novels and her time. Free. linda.goldsmith@
Open House for New Volunteers, with Senior Connection, 9:30-11 a.m., Holiday Park Senior Center, 3950 Ferrara Drive, Silver Spring. volunteer@seniorconnectionmc.org or 301-942-1049. Open mic night, 7-9 p.m., Mid-County Community Recreation Center, 2004 Queensguard Road, Silver Spring. Part of June meeting of Montgomery County chapter of the Maryland Writers’ Association. Free for members and first-time guests; $5 for others. grcalame@yahoo.com.
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Musicians, storytellers, dancers and craftspeople flocked to Glen Echo Park this weekend for the 35th annual Washington Folk Festival. Here, a group jams on Sunday, with clarinetist Marv Reiz (center) of Rockville singing with other musicians.
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Two Montgomery County assisted and independent living facilities are still being marketed for sale, while most residents have moved, according to an HCR ManorCare spokesman. In February, residents and family members were informed in letters that Springhouse of Silver Spring and Springhouse of Bethesda were closing and being shopped around by the centers’ property owner, HCP Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based health care real estate investment trust. Toledo, Ohio-based HCR ManorCare manages and operates the Silver Spring and
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Most residents have moved from Springhouse of Silver Spring and Springhouse of Bethesda, according to a spokesman for the facilities.
Bethesda facilities, among others. The letters gave June 1 as a closure date, though that was meant only as a target, according to HCR spokesman Rick Rump. “We do not yet have a
buyer for the Bethesda and Silver Spring Springhouses, and there’s no way to have a closing date until that happens,” Rump wrote in an email on Friday. Michael Greenberg, a Silver Spring resident who helped his mother, Edith Greenberg, move into Springhouse last October from Rockville, said she moved to Aspenwood Senior Living Community in the Aspen Hill area in early April. Aspenwood, operated by Newton, Mass.-based Five Star Senior Living, is farther from Greenberg than Springhouse. But the costs and services are roughly the same, he said. “It seems OK so far,” Greenberg said. “A number of my mom’s friends from Springhouse moved [to Aspenwood], so that was a big reason why we chose that facility.” Numerous communities offered incentives to displaced Springhouse residents, creating a bit of a bidder’s market, he
said. Aspenwood paid moving expenses and waived its standard move-in fee, Greenberg said. County officials also lobbied HCR to help displaced residents, which Greenberg figured was a key reason the company refunded his mom’s move-in fees of several thousand dollars to Springhouse from last October. The Silver Spring facility had 42 residents as of February, while the Bethesda one had 53, according to county figures. Last year, about 30 residents of Springhouse of Westwood, another Bethesda assisted living center, moved when that facility closed. The last closure in Montgomery of a similar-sized assisted living facility before Springhouse of Westwood was in 2005, according to county records. kshay@gazette.net
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Two teams from Green Acres School in North Bethesda recently competed in the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals in East Lansing, Mich. Interestingly, the third-grade team placed third, and the fifthgrade team placed fifth. They were among the 800 teams from the U.S. and 16 other countries that competed to solve problems. This was the fourth year that Green Acres has advanced through the regional, state and national competition to reach the world finals, according to a news release from the school. The third-grade team placed third in the “Silent Movie” problem, which challenged students to create and present a performance depicting a director who produces and presents a silent movie featuring a humorous villain who commits three silly acts of “villainy.” The team also was recognized for inventing an organ-type instrument engineered withPVCpipesandwoodenkeys. This recognition was limited to seven teams, with Green Acres the only school in the youngest division so honored. The fifth-graders took fifth placein“RunawayTrain.”Teams designed, built and operated vehicles that traveled on a teamcreated track. The vehicles had to be propelled by different types of energy and propulsion and complete tasks such as jumping a gap, going uphill and towing a flag. The Green Acres team had the highest score in its division for the long-term problem, which makes up the majority of the team scoring.
Innovative students recognized Four Montgomery County students have been recognized fortheirinnovativeideas,according to LearnServe International, an organization that works with high school students. All four participated in the 2015 LearnServe Fellows Program, in which students from public, private and charter schoolsinMaryland,Virginiaand Washington work on projects to benefit their schools and communities. Among them were the following: • Gaia Jinsi of Potomac, a junior at the Holton-Arms in
Bethesda, won an award in the independent schools category. Jinsi’s idea, called GirlsGoLearn, “aims to bring the safety and academic success of an all-girls learning environment to girls who do not have access to it in their schools,” LearnServe’s press release says. Holton-Arms students Caleigh Crawford, Gigi Asemenoah-Mensah and Paris Armstrongalsowereontheteam. • Ryan Hunt of Chevy Chase, a sophomore at Lycée Rochambeau — The French International School in Bethesda, was the runner-up in the independent schools category. Hunt created a smartphone app “to help users assess their blood alcohol content and [let] them know whether it is safe for them to drive.” Nicholas McQuibban, another Lycée Rochambeau student, is co-founder and lead app developer.
Campus congrats Carolyn Connor of Bethesda, who recently graduated with honors from the University of Vermont, will be a tour guide for the Burlington (Vt.) Edible History Tour that showcases early immigrants in Burlington and their food traditions. Connor, a 2011 graduate of Whitman High School in Bethesda, studied history, anthropology and dance at University of Vermont and made the dean’s list all four years. She was awarded scholar honors in the athletic department and received the Senior Award for the dance department. She was a member of Phi Alpha Theta, presented to history students who show outstanding academic dedication, according to a news release. Connor was one of four dancers selected by the dance department to participate in a cultural exchange with the University of Inner Mongolia in Hohhut, China. • Jacob Pine of Bethesda, a graduate of Whitman High School in Bethesda, received a bachelor’s degree from the College of Wooster (Ohio) during commencement exercises May 11. Pine was an English major. • Two students from Chevy Chase graduated with bachelor degrees May 24 from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. Ann E. Lindahl, daughter of Naomi and Richard Lindahl, majored in sociology. • Gretchen L. Walker, daughter of Amy and Jonathan Walker, majored in computer science and graduated magna cum laude.
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Following a Maryland attorney general’s office opinion that a proposed pesticide ban in Montgomery County could be preempted by state law if challenged in court, a councilman is seeking additional advice from the state. Councilman Roger Berliner, chairman of the Transportation Infrastructure Energy and Environment Committee, wrote Thursday to Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) asking for further guidance on the issue — spe-
cifically if the county has the authority to take alternative actions. Council President George L. Leventhal proposed the ban, which would prohibit the use of “non-essential” pesticides on lawns, with some exceptions, such as for golf courses and farms. The ban has broad support among many environmental groups, but the county Farm Bureau is vehemently opposed and sought the attorney general’s office opinion through Del. Kirill Reznik (D-Dist. 39) of Germantown. Assistant Attorney General Kathryn M. Rowe issued an opinion in April that found that a proposed ban on the cosmetic use of pesticide could be preempted by state law because the state already has the
power to regulate the sale, distribution and use of pesticides. County attorneys do not agree. “Our legal staff believes we have authority,” Leventhal said. “My hope is that we can proceed with my bill.” In light of the opinion, Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Bethesda wrote in his letter to Frosh: “I believe it is appropriate and proper for our council to explore the full range of otherwise available legal options that could result in significantly reducing the use of pesticides.” Currently, the bill sits in Berliner’s committee. Specifically, Berliner asked Frosh to consider four alternative approaches and tell the county if any would not be preempted by state law.
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The alternatives he outlined were: • Require those pesticides applicators to report to the county the amount of pesticides they apply each year, for the purpose of establishing a pesticide-reduction goal • Require residents to sign a document that identifies the health risks associated with pesticides, acknowledges organic alternatives exist and directs a lawn-care provider to use integrated pest management practices, which call for using pesticides as a last resort • Require condo and homeowner associations to obtain an affirmative vote of their membership to apply pesticides • Require additional reporting for properties frequented by children, such as playgrounds and day cares. “As our council considers this significant issue, it is obviously important to know the scope of our authority,” Berliner wrote. “Your guidance in this regard is tremendously appreciated.” Berliner was out of the country and not available for comment Thursday, according to his staff. Leventhal said he does not agree with any proposals in Berliner’s letter. “It certainly appears that Chairman Berliner and I are not on the same page on this,” he said. Leventhal (D-At large) of Takoma Park said he expects the environmental community will not care for the proposals either. “He’s proposing reporting, not prohibiting,” Leventhal said. Leventhal said he is open to compromises, but he cannot agree to any of the alternatives for which Berliner is seeking guidance. Leventhal said Berliner didn’t notify him about the letter before he sent it. kalexander@gazette.net
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Darryl Williams, associate superintendent for middle schools for Montgomery County Public Schools, shakes hands with senior Mason Bray, while Principal Karen Lockard congratulates Chelsea Folkes during BethesdaChevy Chase High School’s graduation ceremony Thursday at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington. A total of 390 seniors graduated; the commencement speaker was U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). This was Lockard’s last graduation at B-CC High; she’s retiring after 27 years at the school.
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Children will take to the streets of Bethesda on Saturday — right where they belong. Imagination Bethesda returns to celebrate children and the arts with music, entertainers and more from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Elm Street and Woodmont Avenue downtown. The 21st annual free street festival, organized by the Bethesda Urban Partnership, will host 25 local businesses and arts organizations offering hands-on art and craft activities. Also on tap will be face painters, balloonists, a stilt-walker and giveaways. Food will be on sale from BGR The Burger Joint, HaagenDazs, Mamma Lucia, Noodles & Company and Smoothie King. Organizations and their activities will include the following:
• Adventure Theatre MTC: Make birthday party hats for “Garfield: The Musical with Cattitude.” • Bach to Rock: Musical story time with drums and bells. • Gymboree Play & Music: movement to music, art project, parachute games. • Huntington Learning Center: Build a math puzzle and symmetrical butterfly craft. • Iran Cultural and Educational Center: arts and crafts from Iran, and face painting. • KID Museum: 3-D printed universal construction kit, marble run and zoetrope animation. • Naval Support Activity: Explore military vehicles. • Washington Conservatory of Music: musical instrument crafts and demonstrations. Stage performers will include Bach to Rock, The Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance, Dansez! Dansez! and Uno, Does, Tres con Andres! More information is at bethesda.org or 301-215-6660.
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Montgomery County students will have a lighter state test load next school year. After recent changes, students will take the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers tests during one period in the spring, rather than two. Overall testing time also was cut, as was the number of test portions. The PARCC consortium voted May 20 to make the changes, according to a news release from the Maryland State Department of Education. The consortium involves multiple states, including Maryland and Washington, D.C. “The changes were made in response to feedback from parents, students and educators during the first year of testing and a careful review of test design,” the release said. “Transition is always difficult, but I think this is going to be a very beneficial transition,” said Suzanne Woertz, supervisor of the county school system’s testing unit. “I think [the changes are] going to be better for schools, for students, for anybody who’s involved in administering or taking the PARCC.” The school district fully implemented the tests for the first time this school year. Students in third through eighth grades take math and English language arts tests. High school students studying Algebra 1, Algebra 2 and English 10 take corresponding tests. Woertz said the district now will determine a single 30-day testing period within a larger window the consortium provided from around early April to early June. A district group tasked with deciding that period is trying to find a time when students will have gone through as much of the curriculum as possible, she said. This year, the PARCC tests were divided into two groups. The “performance-based assessments,” which students took in March, were longer and more complicated than the “end-ofyear assessments” taken in April and May. Next year, all students will take three English language arts units and math will involve either three or four units, depending on the grade, Woertz said. Students will take between one and three fewer units compared to this year, also based on grade, according to a PARCC document describing the changes. Testing time will be cut by roughly 90 minutes for all grades. Woertz said school officials heard from teachers, administrators and parents that the tests took too much time away from classroom instruction. Not only will students now spend less time with the tests, so will school testing coordinators, she said. District staff will spend less time on tasks such as setting up the online test sessions and preparing information the district sends to education company Pearson, which offers services connected to PARCC tests. School board President Patricia O’Neill said school officials are “relieved” the PARCC consortium and state schools Superintendent Lillian M. Lowery listened to concerns about the tests, such as the amount of time they involved. “We heard a lot of complaints, not just from parents and [students], but from teachers and administrators about the disruptive nature and the impact on schools and instruction,” she said. Doug Prouty, president of the Montgomery County Education Association, said the changes are welcome among teachers who, at all levels, were concerned about the loss of instructional time. Students did not have enough time to learn the material they needed for either the first or sec-
ond testing windows, Prouty said. The recent changes address one major issue, he said, but others remain. Montgomery County Councilman Marc B. Elrich said that if the consortium decided the tests could be shortened and still be meaningful, he doesn’t have much confidence that it knows what it’s doing. “I think it says a lot ... about how meaningless the tests are,” said Elrich, adding the PARCC tests are part of a larger overemphasis on testing in schools. Mauro Gonzalez, a fifthgrader at Stedwick Elementary School in Montgomery Village, said he thinks one testing window is an improvement, but he saw other problems specifically with the PARCC reading test. During a few experiences with the test, he said, he and his classmates ran into bugs such as different log-in screens. lpowers@gazette.net
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Ana Arriaza, a watershed outreach planner with the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection, talks Saturday with local residents about the county’s recent restoration project of the Donnybrook stream in Chevy Chase. The public was invited to the celebration of the project’s completion. The project occurred along about 2,000 linear feet of the stream and involved the use of natural channel design principles, stream forest buffers, stormwater management facilities and the planting of more than 560 native trees and shrubs.
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Concert to benefit kidney disease foundation A local band, Ten Feet Tall, will host a benefit concert Saturday night in Bethesda to support the Alport Syndrome Foundation. Among those affected by the rare genetic kidney disease is McKenna Onder, a second-grader at Wyngate
Elementary School in Bethesda who was diagnosed with the disease when she was 2. While the early diagnosis and good medical care have helped her kidneys function well, they probably will shut down at some point and McKenna will need a transplant, according to her uncle Adam Zimmerman of Rockville. There is no cure. Among her activities, McKenna is an ice skater with the DC Edge Synchronized Skating team, he said. Saturday’s concert will start at 9 p.m. at Villain & Saint at 7141 Wis-
consin Ave. Tickets cost $10, with half the proceeds going to the Alport Syndrome Foundation, according to the bar’s website. More information is at alportsyndrome.org.
Gallery launches inaugural exhibit at mall The new Oasis Art Gallery in the Macy’s Home Store at Westfield Montgomery mall in Bethesda is featuring in its inaugural exhibit abstract paint-
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 b ings by Elaine Cafritz of Silver Spring. The gallery is a project at the Washington Metropolitan Oasis, offering local artists the chance to exhibit their work in a space dedicated to opportunities for people 50 and older. The art will be rotated on a regular basis. Most of the work featured will be for sale, with 30 percent of the proceeds benefiting Oasis and its programs. Cafritz’s paintings are mostly large works of acrylic and mixed media on canvas. In a news release, she de-
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Italian eatery marks 25th year with donations Il Pizzico, an Italian restaurant in Rockville, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week by donating a portion of its sales to Manna Food Center in Gaithersburg. In addition, Additional it’s raffling off BizBriefs tickets for a trip n Page A-14 for two to Italy, with proceeds benefiting the Literacy Council of Montgomery County, according to a news release. And on Thursday, all customers get a 25 percent discount. The restaurant is at 15209 N. Frederick Road.
Smith communities names new COO Charles E. Smith Life Communities of Rockville named Bruce J. Lederman senior vice president, COO. Previously, Lederman was chief strategy officer of Midwest Administrative Services. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a law degree from DePaul University.
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scribes her work as “emotions I have experienced by traveling through life. Each emotion is implanted in my brain from all the adventures and places I’ve seen.” Her art is on display through July 31, Aan artist reception will be held 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. Oasis is a national nonprofit dedicated to enriching the lives of older Americans through lifelong learning, health and wellness promotion and volunteer opportunities, according to the release. More information is at oasisnet.org/washington.
Federal Realty names three executives Federal Realty Investment Trust of Rockville announced the following appointments. • Jeffrey S. Mooallem was named senior vice president, managing director core shopping center operations. Mooallem previously worked for Equity One and Turnberry Associates. He holds a bachelor’s from Boston University and a law degree from Fordham University. • Jarett L. Parker was named vice president, asset management Metro D.C. region. Previously, Parker was director of asset management at Kimco Realty. He holds a bachelor’s from University of Maryland University College and a master’s from the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business. • Michael R. Linson was named vice president finance for the core shopping center division. Previously, Linson was senior vice president of asset management for Penzance Co. and also worked for Mills Corp. He holds a bachelor’s from Loyola College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Steben & Co. names marketing chief Steben & Co. of Gaithersburg named Peter Weinberg head of investor relations and marketing. Previously, Weinberg was head of investor relations at
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Potomac nonprofit honors business supporters Potomac Community Village honored several business leaders and one business at its birthday celebration May 21. The Potomac honorees were recognized for their financial and other support in helping the volunteer nonprofit grow and meet its mission of helping Potomac residents remain in their homes as they age. Honored were Stacy Holstein of Personal Velocity Fitness; Carol Nerenberg of Berkshire Hathaway PenFed Realty; Deb Shalom of Leila Fine Gifts and Jewels; John Stanton, vice president, Charles Schwab; and the William F. Bolger Center.
KoolSpan names chief commercial officer KoolSpan of Bethesda named Tom Bryant chief commercial officer. Previously, Bryant was senior vice president-global distribution at Digicel and managing director and COO of BrightstarRussia. He also worked for Verizon and Nextel. Bryant was co-inventor of the first solar-powered mobile phone designed for users in emerging markets around the world, according to a news release.
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The next-door neighbor accused of stabbing a Rockville-area couple to death on Mother’s Day was held without bail Monday after police brought him back from Juneau, Alaska, to face murder charges. Scott Tomaszewski, 31, who lives with his parents on Ridge Drive, is accused of killing Richard and Julianne Vilardo and stealing three watches and other items from their house in the early-morning hours of May 10, according to police charging documents. Richard Vilardo was stabbed 42 times, The Washington Post reported, while his wife suffered eight wounds. The Tomaszewski and Vilardo families are next-door neighbors, according to police. “This neighborhood is terrified. ... We can’t imagine what would happen if he were released back into the community again,” said county State’s Attorney John McCarthy, who argued for continued incarceration during Monday’s bail hearing . The stabbings were “quite brutal, quite severe,” McCarthy said during a press conference after the hearing. Investigators think Tomaszewski acted alone, he said. “We continue to investigate but people should not feel anxious,” he said. John Kudel, who represents Tomaszewski, said he met with his client for the first time on Sunday after police brought Tomaszewski back from Alaska. He was arrested there May 16 during a cruise stop with his parents. “I think he’s very much in a state of shock and trying to make sense of everything,” Kudel said Monday. When asked by a television reporter about a defense strategy, Kudel said he will first need to review the evidence. Tomaszewski did not receive a mental health evaluation in Alaska, he said. Reading from a statement, Kudel also said that Tomaszewski’s parents are “devastated” and “deeply saddened” by the death of the Vilardos and by the fact that their son has been charged. Tomaszewski’s parents recently had retired from government jobs, and the cruise Alaska was to celebrate, Kudel said. Investigators arrested Tomaszewski in Juneau after linking him to a burglary on Ridge Drive in early April, during which he stole a class ring that he later pawned in Rockville on April 20, according to police. After arresting Tomaszewski, investigators found cash in his wallet “soaked with what appears to be blood,” according to the documents. “We have video of him pawning [the ring] ... and money was found in his own pocket,” McCarthy said at the hearing.
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.
Commercial burglary • Gold’s Gym, 5520 Randolph Road, Rockville, between 10:14 p.m. on May 15 and 6:45 a.m. on May 16. Forced entry, took property. Residential burglary • 4500 block of Drummond Ave., Chevy Chase, between 6 p.m. on May 12 and 4:22 p.m. on May 13. Forced entry, nothing taken. • 6200 block of Hollins Drive in Bethesda between 5 p.m. on May 12 and 6 p.m. on May 13. Forced entry, took property. • 2700 block of Linden Lane at 9:14 a.m. on May 13. No forced entry, took property. • 6900 block of Persimmon Tree Road in Bethesda between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on May 13. No forced entry, took property. • 9700 block of Kensington Parkway in Kensington between 11 p.m. on May 14 and 5 p.m. on May 17. No forced entry, took property. School burglary • The Woods Academy, 6801 Greentree Road in Bethesda, between 12:42 and 2:47 a.m. on May 17. Forced entry, took property.
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AftergraduatingfromGeorgetown Prep in North Bethesda, Andrew King pursued his higher education differently from many of his peers. King, who was born in a Silver Spring hospital and grew up in Adelphi, attended the University of Maryland, College Park, for a year before he was drawn to the Marine Corps. He discovered he was a natural at foreign languages and earned an associate of arts de-
gree from the Defense Language Institute. He achieved fluency in Persian, or Farsi, with a focus on regional dialects. During his five years as a military senior linguist, he was deployed to Afghanistan twice. Among his duties there was to translate between the Afghan National Army and village civilians to support infrastructure projects. Through a Marine scholar program, King applied to the Columbia University School of General Studies, beginning classes in fall 2012 just two weeks after the end of his service. Officials from the Columbia dean of admissions office regularly fly to Marine bases. On one such trip in late 2011, King interviewed with them. “Columbia makes a strong ef-
fort to recruit veterans,” he said. Many of King’s credits from the Defense Language Institute transferred to Columbia, as some University of Maryland credits transferred to DLI. In three years, he earned a bachelor’s in Middle Eastern, South Asian and African studies, graduating summa cum laude. He was the Class of 2015’s salutatorian, marking the first time a veteran has been either salutatorian or valedictorian in the undergraduate school’s history, according to Anna O’Sullivan, a general studies spokeswoman. “I was pretty surprised,” King said of the honor. “I was very humbled and honored.” He was among the speakers on May 18 during the school’s graduation ceremonies, along
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Autism Ambassadors organizer Whitney Ellenby of Bethesda hugs Victor Chailleux, 9, a friend’s child from Bethesda, during her event Saturday at Bohrer Park in Gaithersburg.
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On Saturday evening, the Waterpark at Bohrer Park was buzzing with excitement and, most importantly, not an ounce of judgement as the Autism Ambassadors took over in Gaithersburg. “I started the events about eight years ago. At the time, I only knew about 15 families of children with autism,” said Whitney Ellenby of Bethesda, the organizer of Autism Ambassadors. She and her husband, Keith Rueben, have a 14-yearold son, Zack Reuben, who has autism, and a 9-year-old daughter, Cassie Reuben, who is “typically developing,” according to Ellenby. Ellenby explained that she
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A parent and some state legislators want Montgomery County Public Schools to publish test data so the community can see how students perform and, in some cases, do worse than their peers. A school official said the district doesn’t plan to change what data it publishes. However, a task force is looking at how the district might change quizzes to be a better fit for English for Speakers of Other Languages students and certain students with disabilities. Katie Spurlock, a parent who taught English in New York, is calling for access to data from countywide tests given to middle or high school students. Some are formative tests, or quizzes, and others are summative tests, such as semester and final exams. As the district takes on an effort to review all testing in its schools, Spurlock said, discussion should include public examination of the results. Spurlock said her request stems from concern about the English tests for middle schoolers, specifically how ESOL and special education students perform compared with peers. She said some of those students take the tests that measure reading and language ability and fail them multiple times a year — “more or less because of who you are and not what you did” in class. “I think we need the data to understand how the students are experiencing the test,” she said. In response to a Public InformationActrequestfromSpurlock, the school system provided data from 2013-14 for formative and summative tests across a number of English courses in different grades and class levels. Data show that ESOL and special education students, compared with other student groups, consistently earned mean scores that were among the lowest. “To me, it’s not a minor thing that a student with a disability or a student who’s an English lan-
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guage learner can look forward to failing all of these uniform tests,” Spurlock said of the English tests. Maria V. Navarro, the district’s chief academic officer, said performance gaps are clear in other data the district does release. The district is not considering publishing formative test results, Navarro said, because quizzes are meant to provide information for staff to figure out instruction and gauge how students are doing at a given time. That data are not “a done deal,” she said. Summative test results, she said, are only a portion of students’ grades. The district would need to pull data from hundreds of courses, she said. Navarro pointed to gaps in a presentation to the school board on high school milestones — certain targets the district uses to assess students at several points in their education. The board will hear about elementary and mid-
dle school milestone data in June. While the data she asked for won’t be published, Spurlock’s advocacy on the issue spurred the district to create a task force looking at formative tests in middle and high schools, Navarro said. State Del. Eric Luedtke (DDist. 14), a county schoolteacher, said formative test results don’t reveal how much a student ends up achieving. However, he supports publishing summative test data broken down by groups. That information can help gauge how the district is serving students with special needs and ESOL students, he said. There’s also a need for broader community discussion, he said. “I think people often draw the wrong assumptions from data, simplistic assumptions from data,” he said.
EXAMPLES OF MCPS TEST DATA The following data are examples of summative (such as midterms or final exams) test results for Montgomery County Public Schools students in 2013-14. Katie Spurlock, a school system parent and former English teacher, obtained these results and others through a Maryland Public Information Act request.
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The show must go on, and it did, despite some protests by animal rights activists. The Kelly Miller Circus returned to MedStar Montgomery Medical Center grounds in Olney on Thursday and Friday, with two shows each day. This marked the 15th year the circus has performed in Olney. American Legion Post 68 sponsors the circus as a fundraiser, although it was originally sponsored by the Olney Rotary Club.
“Thursday was kind of light because it was a school night, but Friday night was probably one of the best crowds we have ever seen,” said Post 68 Cmdr. Halsey Smith. Smith said he was aware of comments posted on the OlneyBrookeville Exchange about cruelty to the animals, plus a few emails sent to the hospital expressing similar concerns. He said one woman came to the grounds and questioned how the tigers were housed and called in a county inspector. “The inspector gave us a clean bill of health,” he said. Smith said there were a handful of protesters in the parking lot with signs opposing
the circus. “They didn’t cause any problems, and they have every right to protest, so there is no point arguing with them,” he said. “Every circus deals with this, but I can say that I have never seen anyone turn around because of them.” Smith said the Kelly Miller Circus organization is great to deal with. “I believe they treat the animals well because it is their livelihood,” he said. Smith said the circus enjoys coming to Olney, and it is one of only a few places where it performs for two evenings. “They also like to shop at the thrift shop, so everyone wins, except for the few people opposed to dealing with animals,” he said. Smith said the final amount raised has not been determined. “We don’t make a huge amount, but we don’t do it just for the money,” he said. “We make enough and the crowds are big enough to make it worthwhile. It’s a great community event, especially for the little kids.” One of the reasons he doesn’t think the Legion will clear as much as last year is higher expenses. “Our costs for the county permits almost doubled,” Smith said. Funds raised by Post 68 remain in the community, and
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Josh Hoffman, 2, leans in for a closer look at the Bengal tigers at the Kelly Miller Circus on Thursday. are applied to scholarships offered to Sherwood High School students, supporting a local American Legion baseball team, sponsoring a local student to attend the Boys State leadership and citizenship program, and sponsoring Boy Scout Troop 264. Post 68 has just under 200 members, with more than half of the members in their 80s and fied right now. If you know what you’re doing, get over here and do it,’” Dolezal said. Barker began performing CPR on the man without hesitation, Dolezal said. After about three sets of 30 chest compressions, the man became responsive, Barker said. “He took one breath. I could see I was almost there, so I went another set and then finally he
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just kind of jolted,” Barker said. “He didn’t really move that much, but his eyes just kind of rolled back, and you could see him let out a big groan and then he started breathing again. Bystanders advised the man not to move until EMTs arrived, about five minutes later. “We told him lay down, stay put, relax, ambulance is on its way,” Dolezal said. After an ambulance arrived, the man got up and onto a stretcher and was taken to a hospital. Paramedics responded from both the Bethesda Fire Department and Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad, said Pete Piringer, a spokesman with the county’s fire and rescue service. He said the man was about 60 years old, but didn’t disclose his name or what hospital he was taken to. Barker had become certified
just three months earlier at the request of his father, who wanted him to be trained in CPR before going on a back-country ski trip. “I’m glad my dad made me take the certification class, because you think you never need to use it, but the fact that I did have that training and needed to use it is pretty cool,” Barker said. Although Barker seemed shaken up after the incident, he was exceptional for responding so quickly at his age, Dolezal said. “[Barker] didn’t wait a second. He jumped right down and started doing chest compressions,” he said. Barker said his hands shook for a couple of hours afterward, but he continued to work at the shop. “I was just kind of at the right place at the right time,” Barker said.
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Continued from Page A-1 country for a place to locate a new company, they settled on the Washington suburbs. The company’s first store was in Washington’s Cleveland Park neighborhood, but its two stores are now on Bethesda Avenue and Old Georgetown Road. Weinberg was working in sales in New York, but was ready for a change in 1991. She took a vacation to Italy, what she calls “the coffee capital of the world.” Weinberg’s mother is French, and coffee has been part of Weinberg’s life for a long time. “I grew up drinking café au lait out of a bowl,” she said. When Weinberg was hired as the company’s second employee, her first job was putting together the roasting facility in Rockville. The first employee hired was the company’s president, Roger Scheumann.
The Graceful Growing Together project hits all of the marks for state support through a bond bill, Korman said. To fund the lion’s share of the project, the church plans to sell about half of its roughly 2-acre site to a developer to build 107 condos, Lemley said. As part of the deal, the developer also will build the new community center at cost, with no markup. The parcel hasn’t been sold, but is under contract, he said. The church and Graceful Growing Together hope to break ground on the project in 2016 and be open by mid-2018, Lemley said. During construction, the church has an agreement with Imagination Stage to use space several blocks away, he said. Once built, he said, the community center will have seven levels and 64,000 square feet. Lemley said that in the next few weeks, the church and Graceful Growing Together will hold public hearings with adjacent homeowners and other neighbors. Lemley said his organization is considering asking the state in future years for more money through bond bills. The group asked for $400,000 toward the project and received $150,000.
Dove keeps close watch on a batch of French roast as it nears completion. For all her years in the coffee business, Weinberg has a friendlier outlook than one might expect on the giant that dominates the U.S. coffee industry. Starbucks has actually done smaller companies a favor by educating the market and changing the industry, she said. It’s created a base of customers who know their café mocha from their mac-
chiato. While the Cleveland Park store closed because of competition from Starbucks and other chains — and they do have the two Bethesda stores — much of Quartermaine’s focus is selling coffee for people to brew at home, Weinberg said, with 40 percent of sales coming from bean sales. rmarshall@gazette.net
Parks, a $100,000 earmark, or bond bill, this past session to help complete the Josiah Henson Park project. According to documents submitted for the bond bill, the project is estimated to cost $9.85 million. Plans call for converting the site into a historic and cultural park and turning the historic house on the property into a museum. The park and museum will have indoor, outdoor and multimedia exhibits; a film; and a research library. The park features the Riley/ Bolton House, where Henson spent most of his youth and was held as a slave. According to the Parks Department, after years of enslavement, Henson escaped to freedom in Canada on the Underground Railroad. He later published his autobiography, “The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave,” which is credited with inspiring Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
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The Parks Department has owned the house since 2006. It’s listed on the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places. It’s also a stop on the service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. In 2010, the Parks Department adopted a master plan for updating the park. Currently, the park is open for guided group tours and special events, such as the upcoming Montgomery County Heritage Days this month. For
Heritage Days this year, the park will be open June 28. Museum Manager Shirl Spicer said the project will allow the park to be open on a regular schedule and offer a more interactive learning experience. She said the project is expected to take several years to complete, but the park will open for tours and special events as the work progresses. To help fund the project, the Montgomery Parks Foundation is running a capital campaign. Nina Aplebaum, the grants manager for the foundation, said the goal is to raise $2 million. The state money will go toward the overall project costs for planning, design, construction, repair and renovation and capital equipping of the park, she said. While the Parks Department sought $275,000 from the state, it received only $100,000. Aplebaum said there are plans to seek additional bond-bill funding in future years. kalexander@gazette.net
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Privately held Virtustream of Bethesda has agreed to be acquired by publicly held EMC of Hopkinton, Mass., for $1.2 billion in cash. The deal is expected to close this summer, according to a news release. Virtustream, founded in 2009 by Rodney Rogers and President and Chief Technology Officer Kevin Reid, will form EMC’s new managed cloud services business. The software company will operate as a separate EMC business, with Rogers reporting to CEO Joe Tucci. Virtustream’s customers include Coca-Cola, Domino Sugar, Heinz, Hess Corp., Kawasaki, Lexmark and Scotts Miracle-Gro.
Irish restaurant coming to Rockville Town Square Finnegan’s Wake Irish Pub will open its first location at Rockville Town Square this summer, according to developer Federal Realty Investment Trust of Rockville. The 2,411-square-foot pub, owned by Terry and Vanessa Laurin, will feature traditional Irish cuisine. Construction will begin this month at 100-F Gibbs St. Finnegan’s is the newest restaurant at Rockville Town Square. Miso Café and Samovar are also expected to open this year, and Peter Chang recently opened.
Health care center opens in Rockville Patient First of Glen Allen, Va., is opening a new medical center Wednesday at 726 Rockville Pike, Rockville.
The center will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Its physicians and support staff will provide urgent care; work, school, camp, sports and travel physicals; occupational health services; and primary care for patients who do not have a primary care physician, according to a news release. It also will offer digital X-ray and on-site lab services, along with some prescriptions. The center accepts most insurance plans. The Rockville facility is the chain’s 57th medical center. Its phone number is 240-238-0411.
HMSHost names VP for business development HMSHost of Bethesda named Kent Vanden Oever vice president of business development. Previously, Vanden Oever was a consultant at AirProjects and manager of airport business services for HNTB Corp. He holds Vanden Oever a bachelor’s in business from Miami University and an MBA in finance and real estate from the University of Cincinnati.
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With the right business plan and the right experience, one lucky entrepreneur will get the opportunity and financial backing to run their very own bar, conveniently and compactly built inside a shipping container, lakeside, at the Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center. The contest is just one of many launched throughout the country by Canvas, a food and drink concept lab by Marriott International of Bethesda to foster the ideas of entrepreneurs in its various locations. “[This is a] new idea that Marriott International has launched that is a vehicle to be able to source local talent with innovative ideas in food and beverage concepts and to be able to tap into that and attract them to our company,” Gaithersburg’s general manager Sara Moore said. Moore explained that local entrepreneurs may not necessarily want to sign on to work at a large chain, but this is a way to draw them in and utilize and cultivate their ideas. She said the winner is not only given the seed money to get their concept off the ground, but they have access to food and beverage experts who will be able to help. Marriott is hoping to have the bar up and running as soon as possible. “People have the idea and think, ‘Gee, if I had the money and could open up my own business, this is what it would be,’” Moore said. Though there are other contests occurring currently, Gaithersburg’s container bar is the only one of its kind. Other
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The container bar premiered at an industry event in Los Angeles. The bar will soon be set up at the Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center, where the contest winner will make the business plan a reality. locations are offering onsite rooms or areas in their hotels, but the container bar is unique. The container, which is 20 feet long by 8 feet wide, has a small, fully equipped bar inside with several beer taps, refrigeration and storage space. The sides of the container can be raised, making it completely accessible, and a surrounding platform with decking is planned for additional seating. More seating could be set up on the surrounding lawn. The bar premiered at an industry event by Marriott in Los Angeles and is now waiting for the exterior decking to be constructed in Gaithersburg. The interior of the bar is decorated already, with industrial accents and hanging overhead lights, but the winner of the contest can change it however they want with the
seed money provided to them by Marriott. The container bar would focus on craft beverages, but food would be available to its customers from onsite restaurant, The Bench. Marriott and its restaurants onsite try to reflect the community that it is located in, according to Moore, with local foods and local beers. She said a common misconception is that hotel restaurants and bars are only open to hotel guests, but Marriott’s are open to the public and the container bar will be as well. Nicole Watkins, the food and beverage director, explained that there are regulars who live in the area that come out to The Bench for dinner and cocktails often, either inside or on the outdoor patio. “Local guests can’t wait for [the bar] to open,” Watkins said.
The contest entries are due by June 9 and Moore said that she’s heard from other Canvas start-ups that entries came in right up until deadline. The contestants will be evaluated by judges, including Moore and Imbibe Magazine’s 2015 bartender of the year Derek Brown who is based out of Washington, D.C. The top three to five picks will be brought in for in-person interviews and drink trials. Once the winner is selected, they will run the bar for several months until mid-fall, because it is an outdoor location. After that, they will be examined for success based on popularity and return on investment. Watkins said it could potentially reopen next season. More information can be found at www.canvas-startup. com. sschmieder@gazette.net
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Garrett Park’s poet laureate, Barbara Shidler, signs books at a May 17 reading and reception to celebrate her first book, “Caught Moon,” a poetic memoir of her 54 years living in the town.
The Gazette is a local paper, whose focus was and should be on daily life in Montgomery County. When I pick up The Gazette, I want to read more about Barbara Shidler of Garrett Park who published her first book of poetry at 88 (“The bard of Garrett Park,” May 20). I would have enjoyed a full-length article about her life in Garrett Park and its changes since 1961, and wished for a glimpse of her poems. Instead, the columns next to her photo were allocated to a Washington Post reporter covering (again) a sensational crime in the county, which no doubt already got its excessive coverage in the Post. I’m at least grateful that the crime story was moved to the inside pages, as opposed to recent headlines on the front of The Gazette about violence. I would rather not see that in our local paper. Publishing Deborah Vollmer’s letter to the editor, however, is just the right Gazette touch. Where else could you read about income inequality leading to unequal treatment in the town of Chevy Chase? That is truly priceless. Anne Murray sang it, and I challenge The Gazette to follow through: “We sure could use a little good news today.” Angie Loomis, Chevy Chase
Not the finest moments for school board
Two articles on the front page of The Gazette on May 20 (“Foes: school plan flawed” and “Board to name interim school superintendent”) raise serious questions about how well the Montgomery County Board of Education is functioning (or not functioning). First, the board apparently approved the construction of a $48 million middle school on a site in Kensington that does not conform to its own standards. As one county official put it, the board is trying to fit “10 pounds
of sugar in a 5-pound sack.” Not only does this sound like a poorly conceived plan, it also seems like a gross waste of taxpayer funds. But this is not the only questionable decision the board has made. On the same front page of The Gazette is an article chronicling the latest saga in the sad story of the superintendent of schools. For some vague reason, the board felt compelled not to retain the services of Joshua Starr and thought it could hire a new
superintendent easily. Now we find that after meeting with the board, its chosen candidate has lost interest in the job. It is not too difficult to understand why. So, the board is going to name an interim superintendent for a year. Do the taxpayers of Montgomery County really deserve a temporary caretaker of the highly prized school system? Something is rotten in the county of Montgomery. Michael Hoxie, Kensington
Benefits of CCT are exaggerated Honestly, to read the May 20 letter to the editor in The Gazette by Shane Robinson, Nancy J. King and Marilyn Balcombe (“Corridor Cities Transitway could be boon for region”), one might think that building the CCT will be the economic boon to Maryland that the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1869 was to the nation. What nonsense. Or more to the point, what are their vested interests? They crow about 100,000 new jobs, billions in annual goods and millions in state tax revenues. Based on what? Oh, they don’t mention that. It’s kind of a “Trust
us — we’re from the government and the chamber of commerce” argument. Remember the promised traffic benefits of the ICC? Whoops. It remains sorely underused. Sorry about that, taxpayers and convulsed residents. What is certain is that building the CCT will convulse and forever divide long-established Gaithersburg communities, just as building the Whitehurst Expressway convulsed and forever divided Georgetown. Do we really need to take a cleaver to Gaithersburg to accommodate the expansionist dreams of Johns Hopkins, Adven-
tist Hospital, multiple chambers of commerce and politicians? I hope not. Bill Fallon, Gaithersburg
Editor’s note: When they submitted their letter, Robinson, King and Balcombe provided, as a source for their facts, a copy of a PowerPoint presentation on the Great Seneca Science Corridor. In the presentation, the figures on jobs, annual goods and services and state tax revenues are attributed to a Sage Policy Group Draft Vision 2030 Economic Impact Analysis from June 2008. The PowerPoint slide can be found on page 12 at tinyurl.com/lkqf2py.
For development and job creation, why wait for transit project? Del. Robinson, Sen. King and Ms. Balcombe ask “How do we increase access to affordable transit and create jobs?” (“Corridor Cities Transitway could be boon for region,” May 20). The answer is not to wait for the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) as though it, somehow, will answer the question. The answer, as demonstrated by the Crown Farm development and its job creations, is to build the science centers and related facilities now,
while at the same time improving the existing transit systems. Why are we waiting? Suppose the developers of Crown Farm — a planned CCT station — had waited for the CCT. Think of how many current and future jobs would have been lost. Currently, there is a Ride-On bus route from all the projected CCT stations that accomplishes the same basic objectives as the CCT. Build on what we have — that is the answer.
What we need to do is take the current $100,000,000 for the CCT design and use it to improve what already exists. Waiting for the CCT, which is years away — if it is ever built — is missing great opportunities to achieve the aims outlined in their letter. We should build on what we have, not hope that a future project will give us all the answers. Alan S. Kaplan, Rockville
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Many reasons to disagree with football reclassification
I have just read the May 13 article “Two football stars want extra year” by Prince J. Grimes. I found it well written and I assume (often a mistake) factually correct. For those who may not wish to read further, my position is: I totally disagree with the concept of an extra year of eligibility for certain students who are reclassified eligible to play a fifth season. There are many reasons for my position, but I will focus on the most obvious reasons against reclassification. I will limit my comments to these young men’s situations. I will try to be brief: 1. The player “didn’t get the college recognition that his accolades would suggest.” The fact that Blake Dove was “named the 4A Defensive Player of the Year by Montgomery County coaches” nullifies this argument. 2. It is not a Maryland high school’s responsibility to provide a venue for school athletes to accumulate “sports accolades” over any number of seasons before or after grades 9 through 12. 3. The Maryland Public Secondary School Athletic Association provides guidelines schools must follow. “High school team members may participate in interscholastic athletic contests in a maximum of four seasons in one sport within the 9th through 12th grades.” He has completed this rule. 4. Riverdale Baptist High School football Coach Caesar Nettles notes that players who may need or want an additional year of eligibility can attend junior colleges and prep schools. 5. Having attended and taught at both prep school and the community college, I was of the belief that the mission of those educational institutions is not to provide facilities and coaches to further develop individual or team athletic skills and/or accolades. 6. Northwest High School football Coach Mike Neubeiser said it well: “It’s not fair, because we’re playing with different rules.” A year older, a year more experienced, a year more mature, etc., “is not fair.” 7. I probably should have listed the following reason as number 1, but I assume that the young man has graduated or completed high school. If so, case closed. If not, it brings up another set of issues which need to be addressed separately. John Pisarra, Gaithersburg
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Cleaning up the PIA
A battle over public information in the town of Chevy Chase could be a good test of progress when it comes to the public’s right to know in Maryland. Action Committee for Transit, a group in favor of the Purple Line light-rail project, is pressing the town for records of its anti-Purple Line advocacy. In multiple requests, the group and activist Benjamin Ross of Bethesda have asked for documents showing how the town has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers, lobbyists and public relations firms to stop the project. The town has replied by saying LEGISLATURE the work of fulfilling the requests HAS IMPROVED PUBLIC RECORDS “has been very time and LAW, BUT THERE’S consuming expensive.” MORE TO FIX In some responses, the town has said it will charge the hourly cost of staff time at $75 for the town manager, $25 for the town clerk and $215 for a town attorney. The tension exemplified here is nothing new. Public information must be made available when it’s requested. But gathering extensive records takes time and costs money. This battle has reached court. ACT and Ross have sued, alleging “unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination” and seeking free copies of records. Both sides are relying on Maryland’s Public Information Act, which is sprinkled with vague, subjective language — although some was improved this year. State and local governments have been allowed to charge a “reasonable fee” to reproduce public records. But that’s a murky standard, and some government bodies have inflated those fees. There’s no sound reason why a photocopy that costs 6 cents at a business store should cost 50 cents (Chevy Chase’s rate) or $10 (from some police agencies), even adjusting for scales of efficiency. The Maryland General Assembly, in this year’s session, made an important improvement by altering the language. For a noncommercial request, the new standard for a fee is to recoup actual costs, rather than a “reasonable fee.” The PIA also has a hazy reference to fee waivers, which may be granted if they’re “in the public interest.” The Maryland Public Information Act Manual says factors can include ability to pay or if the information is for a public purpose. By definition, though, if the public asks for information, it’s “in the public interest.” Ross argued: “[M]y status as a member of the media supports a fee waiver. I frequently write books and articles on issues impacting the public.” Ross also is on ACT’s board. Chevy Chase pounced on this in a rejection letter: “We do not believe this request is being made in your capacity as a member of the media.” Having government decide who is a journalist is problematic. Press organizations resist Congress’ attempts to define a journalist for a possible national shield law, which would let reporters protect confidential sources. Rather, the act of journalism — gathering and presenting information — should be protected, no matter who does it. We got a kick out of Chevy Chase filing its own PIA request to the Maryland Transit Administration for its communications with ACT and other advocacy groups — and asking for a fee waiver. We look forward to another recent PIA change to help sort out disputes like this one in Chevy Chase and all over Maryland. Maryland soon will have a Public Information Act Compliance Board to rule on complaints that a government might have unreasonably charged more than $350. The new law also provides for a public access ombudsman, who can mediate public-records disputes — a lawyer serving a four-year term. As we’ve said before, government is a custodian of records that belong to the public. The goal — sometimes achieved through negotiation — should be how to provide as much information as possible to whoever asks for it, rather than how to put up financial and logistical barriers to keep records hidden away. Rethink the process of retreat and redact. Make records open and accessible as soon as they are created. However the ACT lawsuit turns out, we urge Chevy Chase to post online all of the information it ends up releasing, and much more. It’s in the public interest.
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Einstein opening up new playbook
Goodbye, 3A West Seneca Valley High School’s football team went 15-5 the past two seasons and didn’t make the playoffs. The losses came against three schools: Two-time defending state champion Northwest, Class 3A state finalist Damascus (twice) and Sherwood (once), a program that has won three state titles. Despite tough schedules, 7-3 in 2013 and 8-2 in 2014 wasn’t good enough for the Screaming Eagles to KEN SAIN make the playoffs. Such SPORTS EDITOR is life in the 3A West Region, the state’s toughest to earn a postseason berth. No help is coming for Seneca this year, despite reclassification shuffling up the regions. The Eagles are still grouped with 3A powerhouse programs Damascus, Linganore, Urbana and South Hagerstown — the four teams that made the playoffs last year. But for another group of Montgomery County high schools, this fall represents new life. Teams that have struggled can now see a path to the playoffs that doesn’t require a 9-1 record. Five Montgomery County schools are now part of the 3A South Region. “See you, I’m out,” Watkins Mill coach Kevin Watson said to the 3A West Region with a smile. While Damascus, Seneca Valley and Poolesville are in the 3A West with all those powerhouses from the Frederick area — including Oakdale, which moves up after earning a top seed in 2A last fall — Watkins Mill, Rockville, Wheaton, Blake and Magruder are five of the 11 schools in the 3A South. Joining them are Prince George’s County’s Potomac (9-1 last year) and Oxon Hill (5-5); and four schools from southern Maryland, Huntingtown (7-4), Northern Calvert (4-6), St. Charles (0-10) and Great Mills (2-8). Rockville, which was 7-3 in 2014, makes the playoffs if that would have been the region pairing. In the old 3A West, the Rams weren’t in the conversation. Watkins Mill was one of the surprise teams on Saturday at the passing league tournament held at Blair High School in Silver Spring. The Wolverines went 3-1 in the round-robin portion, defeating Springbrook, Wheaton and Bowie. The loss came to Clarksburg, which entered Saturday undefeated. In the tournament playoffs, the Montgomery Village school defeated Rockville before being eliminated by eventual tournament champion Paint Branch. One reason for the 4-2 day was rising sophomore quarterback Markel Grant. “I’ve seen my game improve a whole bunch in the past year,” Grant said. “If I just keep doing the hard work, stay on top of my things, stay focused ... it should be a good year.” In the Bowie game, the Wolverines trailed when the referee announced there was 30 seconds left to play. Grant went back, looked downfield, then tossed a tight spiral 25-plus yards to Gedeon Elenga to give Watkins Mill a 22-21 victory. He had to deliver the ball in traffic, while a referee was counting down the seconds remaining and knowing the game was on the line. That was a lot of poise to see from a quarterback just finishing his freshman year. “He was like that last year, very poised for a freshman,” Watson said. “He doesn’t seem like he gets rattled, For a freshman, wow, to be able to do something like that.” He is 6-foot-4 — and might still be growing — so colleges are already taking notice. Grant said he’s being invited to college camps, where the true recruiting evaluations take place. Elenga, a rising senior, is one of two receivers who are 6-3 or taller, which is going to make slowing Watkins Mill’s offense a tall order. “Obviously, this is just passing league, you still have to have the big guys up front, they determine everything,” Watson said. “Being in the 3A South, I don’t have to look up at those 3A West teams.” ksain@gazette.net
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Bethesda-Chevy Chase guard Kevin Holston drives to the hoop playing against Meade for the 2015 class 4A state championship March 14 at the University of Maryland, College Park’s Xfinity Center.
Einstein High School football coach Neal Owens said he considers himself “a run-first guy,” but with a couple playmakers — and a new offensive coordinator joining the staff — the Titans coach has a new philosophy for the 2015 season. “I guess I’m moving into the 21st century and throwing the ball a little more,” Owens said. The Titans added two rising junior transfers from Northwood — receiver Christian Greaves and quarterback Jason Maxwell Clingman. They also hired the Gladiators’ offensive coordinator, Bryon Marshall, who will take over play-calling responsibilities. The additions could be key for an Einstein team that managed just 12 points per game and went 2-8 in Owens’ first season on the Kensington school’s sideline last fall. Greaves, a second-team All-Gazette selection, had 12 touchdown receptions and 866 receiving yards in just seven games. That includes two 200-plus yard, three-touchdown performances, as well as a two-touchdown performance against Einstein. Though Thomas Joffray was Northwood’s
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The Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School boys basketball might not have entered the 2014-15 as the favorite to win the Class 4A West Region title, but that certainly didn’t affect Barons’ junior Kevin Holston’s expectations for the season ahead, he said. The B-CC guard said he sensed something new about the team, a refreshing sort of energy that could be felt both on the court and in the locker room. Holston and the Barons had put together a successful offseason against tough competition and were eager to prove their mettle to the county and the state,
he said. But one game — and two broken bones in his left wrist — into the season and Holston found himself a fixture on the B-CC bench. Holston missed the first 10 games of the season, nursing his wrist back to health and said the time away slowed his progression once he was cleared to play. If it did slow him down, however, it was not obvious. Holston was at the head of the Barons’ late-season charge — they staged three consecutive upsets en route to an appearance in the 4A state championship game against Meade, which they ultimately lost, 80-45. It was in that magical run to the season’s final game that the B-CC guard seemed to find his mark, providing a potent scoring option alongside senior guard Justin Carter and causing matchup problems
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As it has every year, Memorial Day Weekend served as the culmination of the spring sports season for high school athletes in Maryland with conclusion of the Maryland Public State Secondary
Athletic Association tournaments. Some of Montgomery County’s best — Sherwood softball, Gaithersburg baseball and Clarksburg girls track and field — celebrated what coaches say is the pinnacle of the high school athletics — winning a team state championship. That’s not the case for tennis teams. Boys and girls tennis are the only two varsity sports offered state-
wide in which a team is not crowned champion. And this spring, for the first time since the tournament’s first installment in 1975, the winning region — all-Montgomery County Region II for the 15th consecutive year — didn’t get a trophy, either. “All season long, we play as a team and then for regionals/states, it becomes individual,” said former longtime Northwest tennis coach Jeff Barnes, who stepped down be-
fore the start of this season for family reasons. “I preached to my teams, it’s not only representing yourself, but the school you play for and that they play for each other. This was the reason I played high school tennis. I asked my team in 25 years when you come back for a reunion, are you going to remember at [U.S. Tennis Association] Mid-Atlantic [Section]
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Wootton High School sophomore No. 1 singles player Miranda Deng’s second straight girls singles state championship was one of two titles won by Wootton at the 2015 MPSSAA state tournament.
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Churchill High School’s Sriya Movva (left) and Katie Gauch won the girls doubles state title May 23 at the University of Maryland, College Park.
practice on March 1. Winning an individual title is a special moment, Whitman boys and girls coach Jasen Gohn said, but ideally the tournament could involve both individual and team champions. Cresham said any opportunity to increase kids’ participation is a good move. “I wish we did have a team state thing, a team championship,” Gohn said. “I know Pennsylvania does and other states do. It’s weird that it comes down to just an individual thing when it comes to the state level. The county tournament, that’s the end of the team aspect. I think it would be fun.” The biggest obstacle, Sullivan said, is logistics. The state
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Continued from Page B-1 quarterback in the Sept. 26 game against the Titans — a 2515 Gladiators victory — most of Greaves’ production came with Clingman under center. Named the starting quarterback in October, the ambidextrous Clingman helped rejuvenate a Northwood offense that struggled against the county’s top teams early in the season. The duo helped the Gladiators score 140 points in the final four games — facing Walter Johnson, Kennedy, Watkins Mill and Wheaton — compared to the 70 Northwood had in the first six. “We get hyped. We gotta take advantage of each touchdown. We just have fun with it,” Greaves said. The new environment could take time to adjust to, though with Marshall running the offense, Greaves and Clingman said they know the playbook. “We’re just helping other people know it as well as I do,” Greaves said. That familiarity with the offense was on display in Saturday’s Battle on the Beltway passing league tournament.
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Einstein High School quarterback Jason Maxwell Clingman plays during Saturday’s passing league tournament at Blair High School in Silver Spring. Clingman and Greaves connected on several long passes to lead the Titans to a 4-2 record — and a win against Northwood — in the 7-on-7 games held at Blair. There were ups and downs Saturday, but Clingman said it’s been “a pretty smooth” transition so far. But the two are still trying to build better chemistry with their new teammates , which Clingman said is what the next few months are for. “It kind of builds the chemistry of the team,” Clingman said. “You get to know what each guy’s strengths [are], and what their likes are. It’s good to get to know the guys a little bit, that’s what the summer is for.” Neither Greaves nor Cling-
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relies on coaches and athletic directors to run the seasonending tournament and that takes a lot of manpower, he said. Court time is also major consideration, he added. Then there is also the matter of format, a variety of which could work. Cresham said the easiest way would likely be the way counties are run. Athletes are divided into position-based brackets — No. 1 singles, No. 2 singles and so on — and each individual match win earns a point toward the team’s total. Sullivan said perhaps it would be wise to split the state’s teams into two regions, two separate tournaments. The Independent School League and Interstate Athletic Conference season-ending championship is played in a dual-match format, which would be similar to how the state tournament works for most other sports. Sullivan said it is likely, however, that tennis will take its cues from other individual sports such as wrestling and swimming. “It’s been this mythical thing, the team champion,” Sullivan said. “So [the state] said, let’s get a work group together to look into how that might be done.”
problems for opposing defenses with his ability to score from anywhere on the court. But perhaps even more important than the points Holston amassed during that run — highlighted by a 21-point game in the state semifinal win over DuVal — was the maturation of the junior’s on-court role as a leader, coach Sean Tracy said. Holston said he’s already assumed that role this offseason with the Barons set to graduate three senior pieces from their 2015 state runnerup squad. “Justin and all those other guys pushed me to be a leader and also pushed me in practice,” Holston said. “Ever since the summer league workouts, I had stepped up to be a leader. ...As one of the primary scorers on our team, that’s sort of one of my jobs.” “He was huge,” Tracy said. “Justin got into a little slump. He started off the season as our leading scorer. Kevin just kind of picked it up where he had left off. Like I said all year, on any given night depending on how well he’s shooting, Kevin can give you 20 points per game.” But next season, 20 points per game might not be what B-CC needs from their newfound leader. The 2014-15 team was remarkably balanced in the backcourt, with senior Livio Caputo taking care of the ball handling duties, opening up more scoring opportunities for Holston and Carter. After losing his backcourt mates to graduation and establishing himself as one of the bet-
ter scorers in the county, Holston will likely be faced with greater defensive pressure in the coming year, forcing him to make just as much impact distributing the ball as he would shooting it. “I’ve been telling him it’s going to be a situation where a lot of opponents are going to be looking to [stop him], and with that comes frustration because it’s just a lot harder,” Tracy said. “But he’s matured a lot over the last couple of years. He’s already stepping up and showing great leadership just in the one, two days we’ve been together. He’s up for the challenge.” For Holston, the challenge has already begun. He has planned two-a-day workouts with a trainer over the summer, he said, as he strives to put on 10-20 pounds of muscle in preparation for his dream of playing college basketball. Holston also mentioned he wants to focus on his quickness on the court and his ball handling with the impending point guard responsibilities that await him. Tracy said Holston will have to do “a little bit of everything.” And while that on-court role will certainly take some getting used to, Holston said he already feels quite at ease with his other new role as a team leader. “I’m comfortable in that position,” Holston said. “Of course, coming down the stretch of games, you’re going to have to take pressure shots that can go one way or another, but that’s something you have to accept when you have that type of role on the team. ... It’s definitely something I can handle.”
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Loyola University recruit headed what coach Jack Duquette called his “best team in 27 years.” Won the IAC tournament with a 67 at Columbia Country Club and set the Bears’ all-time lowest nine-hole scoring average (36.4).
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Twins Peter and Michael James, 10, of Rockville work out during swim practice Friday at the Tilden Woods Swim Club in Rockville.
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In a motivational message to fans on his foundation website last fall, LeBron James, who has made a convincing case for himself as one of the greatest basketball players ever, wrote: “I believe in all of you and all of your dreams and your promise of never giving up, no matter what. You all can be anything you want to be...” Top athletes across the world in all sports often preach to their young fans the importance of aiming high, reaching for the stars and never backing down from a dream. And that is a great message for role models to send the next generation — every elitelevel athlete did start somewhere. But it’s one thing for the inspiration to come from some seemingly untouchable figure and another to hear it from someone who grew up in the neighborhood. To hear if from someone who got their start in the very same place. Say, perhaps, 2012 Olympic gold medalist and the world’s best distance freestyle swimmer, Katie Ledecky. On June 13, the Montgomery County Swim League, which consists of 91 neighborhood pool teams in 15 divisions, is scheduled to kick off its 57th summer with the first of five dual meets — the season also includes a
long course invitational, division championships and individual and relay all-star meets. The historic league encompasses swimmers of all ages, 8-under to 18, and levels — and provides a special opportunity for interaction between the older and younger age groups. “I remember being in the 8-unders and thinking, ‘Wow, I really want to grow up to be like the 15-18 [age group],’” said Elena Spak, Tilden Woods coach and former Walter Johnson standout. “I had a talk with the 15-18s this week telling them about how special they can make the summer for the little ones. They’re kind of like celebrities to the little guys.” The MCSL, which is geared toward friendly competition, can be a time for serious nationalcaliber swimmers to let loose, Bethesda coach Malka Ostchega said, just the same as it is a competitive outlet for seasonal swimmers. There is no denying the MCSL has served as the starting point for some of the country’s and world’s top talent and coaches said there is no question Ledecky’s rise to the top of international swimming has had a positive impact on a new generation. Ledecky began swimming for the MCSL’s Palisades Swim Club when she was 6. “[Ledecky] came back for a meet last year, and it got leaked,” Palisades coach Gerri Diamond said. “Kids on both our team and the other team ... she was never alone on deck. But she is
so grounded, and she’s so passionate about the sport, she just wants to give back to the community. ... Especially after [she won Olympic gold in] 2012, there was much more interest in the sport and an increase in year-round swimmers [from our team]. Kids were inspired.” That seems to be the general consensus among all MCSL coaches. While Diamond said it’s unlikely Ledecky will be around MCSL pool decks much this summer with the FINA World Championships scheduled for July 24 to Aug. 9 in Russia — not to mention the fast approaching 2016 Olympics in Brazil — she and fellow MCSL coaches commended Ledecky’s accessibility whenever she is. Her relatability — the fact that she got her start in the same league in which they compete — makes reaching for Olympic dreams seem more tangible to young swimmers, coaches said. “I think no matter what, any Olympic year, you’re going to build a dream,” Ostchega said. “It gives that opportunity to get that one kid, even if it’s just one kid, who’s like, ‘I’m going to do that, and that’s what I’m going to be.’ I think having someone locally be a part of it has made huge changes. It’s a huge, big deal to have the hometown hero. There is always going to be someone who is looking up to [Ledecky], actively watching every race she swims and wanting to become that.” jbeekman@gazette.net
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Imagine if two-time defending state champion Northwest High School football team, or any other public program in Maryland, had to go through national-caliber private school teams such as Good Counsel, DeMatha or McDonogh to claim a state title. On one hand, it makes sense for a champion to have to win a tournament that included all the top teams in the state, not just from the public schools. And that’s the way it works for most of the states in the country. Virginia private schools are the latest to be given that chance, joining the Virginia High School League, after private school Liberty Christian Academy brought an antitrust lawsuit against the VHSL for not allowing the Lynchburg school to join its league. On May 20, the VHSL reached a settlement to allow Liberty Christian and all nonboarding state private schools to apply for membership. Maryland and Texas are the only states remaining that don’t allow private schools into the public school leagues, and most coaches say they would prefer to keep it that way. The differences in rules and restrictions between public and private schools would give the privates an unfair advantage, coaches said. “We’re not playing with the same rules,” Clarksburg coach Larry Hurd, Jr. said. “How do you make a private school and public schools play each other for a state championship when pri-
vate schools can go around and recruit the best players all over the place. I don’t know what it is in Virginia. We get players from Clarksburg. Good Counsel gets players from out of state. How in the world would that be a fair situation?” In a joint statement released by the VHSL and Liberty Christian, the VHSL said, “Any private school that joins the VHSL must meet the same individual participant eligibility requirements and regulations as public school students currently meet with minor changes and adjustments.” The statement also said, “Member private schools have the option of adopting the public school attendance zone where their campus is located or adding one additional contiguous attendance zone and being subject to a multiplier for the playoffs.” The multiplier would be toward enrollment for classification purposes. The only way it would work in Maryland, Seneca Valley coach Fred Kim said, is if the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association took similar steps in forcing the private schools to play within the same restrictions of the public schools, or lifted some of the restrictions on the latter. “If they played within the same rules as we do, then I don’t think I’d have a problem with that,” Kim said. “We’re not allowed to recruit players. They’re allowed to recruit players. Within their league, they can do different things as far as coaching out of season, facilities, that sort of thing. The programs that put their emphasis into the football program, the schools that do that have a decided advantage in my opinion. For example, a DeMatha or Good Counsel, where they travel beyond and they’re
playing some of these bigger name teams.” It would probably take a lawsuit to force a change in Maryland, but there’s one factor that may discourage that. Many of the private schools compete in leagues that cross state borders. The Interstate Athletic Conference and its classic rivalries between Georgetown Prep, Landon and Bullis has lots of history and tradition. The Washington Catholic Athletic Conference and the almost annual conference championship clashes between DeMatha and Good Counsel, amongst others, would be threatened. “The IAC means a lot to all the schools in the IAC. The WCAC means a lot to them. And same thing with the [Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association],” said Bullis coach Pat Cilento. “There’s a lot of history in all those conferences, so I think it’s going to be difficult. Not saying it can’t be done, there’s benefits to it. It’ll be interesting to see, with this new law in Virginia, what the teams like St. Stephens in the IAC and the schools in the WCAC like Paul VI and O’Connell do. If they stay with the WCAC or follow the Virginia state rules, and play in those tournaments. I think the next few years will tell a lot.” Liberty Christian’s situation is unique in that it’s a private school that was relatively isolated from the other schools in the conference it competed in. Scheduling games within a reasonable distance was difficult and the school found it to be easier if it could play the local public schools. The VSHL denied Liberty Christian membership three times before finally succumbing to the lawsuit. pgrimes@gazette.net
Guided an ultratalented team, which included three sophomores and one freshman, to a dominant, undefeated regular season. The Bears captured the team Interstate Athletic Conference title and brought home their first Metros title in 15 years.
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Metros individual winner was the only player in the 24-person field to shoot under par (-2, 70) at P.B. Dye. A Davidson University recruit.
Cruised to state championship with a 141, the only sub70 round posted; tied for third in county with 9-hole average of 35.50 strokes.
The girls state champion (148) had the county’s second-lowest scoring average (35.25 strokes/nine holes). No. 2 female scorer at districts.
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SportsBriefs Holy Cross alum earns national honor Rhamat Alhassan, a rising sophomore volleyball player at the University of Florida, was named to the Women’s Junior National Team last week. Alhassan, a 2014 graduate of Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, was named the Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year in her first season with the Gators.
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Gaithersburg signing day On May 29, Gaithersburg High School held a signing day for its 16 graduating seniors who plan to play sports in college. From the baseball team, Brendan Deyo signed to McDaniel College and Trey Martinez signed to Towson. For football, Kamonte Carter signed to Penn State, Henry-Emmanuel Yoboue to Marist College, Tyrik Etheridge to West Virginia State University, Zavae Johnson to Reedley College, and Othniel Kpodar to Bethany College. For girls lacrosse, Morgan Price signed to Lynchburg College, and Bethany Scott to Longwood University. For girls soccer, Jaime Montgomery signed to Palm Beach Atlantic, Shannen DeLeon to Shenadoah University, Melissa Krofcheck to Frostburg, and from the boys Christian Reyes signed to Hood College, Tyler Beaudoin to Loyola, and Luc
Durand-Zara to Millersville. Basketball player Anthony Tarke signed with University of Charleston.
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Paint Branch coach earns top honor Paint Branch High School baseball coach Tommy Rey was named the 2015 Coach of the Year by the Montgomery County High School Baseball Coaches Association. The Panthers went 20-3 this season and won the 4A North Section II final against Sherwood before losing in region championship game.
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Springbrook grad getting pro interest Zaid Hearst, a former Montgomery County high school basketball standout and NBA prospect, had a workout with the Philadelphia 76ers last week in preparation of the June 25 NBA Draft. The 6-foot-4 guard played four seasons for Quinnipiac and was named to the MAAC All-Conference team this past season after averaging 18.3 points. Hearst, of Bethesda, played for Bethesda-Chevy Chase then transferred to Springbrook, where he was part of the 2009 Class 4A state championship team. Hearst graduated from Salisbury School in Connecticut in 2011.
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Seneca Valley High School football coach Fred Kim said he was happy with the offensive playmakers the team was expecting to return next season. Receivers Antonio Fox and Donovan Beckett-Simms and running backs Adrian Feliz-Platt and Darius Golston are all threeyear starters, each with different attributes. Kim also said he expected current sophomore Dawayne Kelley Jr. to take on a more prominent role. “We already had five guys that we feel very strongly and confident that can definitely be great wideouts,” Kim said. So, when former Gaithersburg receiver Cortez Ervin transferred to the Germantown school this spring, Kim said the addition was just a bonus. “Bringing Cortez in, obviously the guy is big. He’s strong, extremely difficult to defend,” Kim said. “He can play multiple positions. The guy has incredible hands. Great football moxie, so he understands the game. And he just knows how to get to the football. So you bring a guy like that in, on top of all our guys, we’ll take it.” Ervin, a 6-foot-3-inch, 200-pound mismatch for most defensive backs led the Trojans in touchdown receptions last season. While he doesn’t exactly bring a brand new dimension to Seneca’s offense — Fox is a 6-2 receiver with excellent ball skills — he certainly adds another option that can either catch or serve as a decoy. If teams choose to focus too much attention on any of Seneca’s threats, the expectation is that another player will benefit, Kim said. “[Ervin] brings a good distraction,” said Fox, who isn’t as heavy as Ervin. “Especially at the slot, because he’s a big body and he’s hard to hit in the slot. That’ll get the safety to come up on him and leave the deep ball open.” Seneca is still adjusting to a new coordinator but received tremendous results from its new-look offense in the Battle of the Beltway passing league tournament Saturday at Blair High School, reaching the semifinals. As if talent wasn’t enough to drive Ervin and his new team next season, he received taunts of being called a traitor for opting to spend his senior year at another school after three years at Gaithersburg. He said he transferred because his mom moved closer
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Seneca Valley’s Cortez Ervin catches a pass Saturday at the Battle of the Beltway passing league tournament hosted by Blair High School. to Seneca, but he hasn’t forgotten the grief he was given and said it will be used as motivation. “Got to do what you got to do sometimes,” Ervin said. “I already played with some of these guys from little league. I’m excited. As soon as I came, they accepted me like I was already a part of their family. It’s good vibes here.” Ervin and Fox should also make for an imposing cornerback tandem for the Eagles, as Kim said he expects them to be defensive starters as well. And with rising junior Zach Robinson returning for his sec-
ond season as the starting quarterback, optimism is high at Seneca this summer. “We’re working on chemistry,” Fox said. “Everybody getting the ball. Make sure Zach takes his right reads, make sure our routes are crisp. We got Cortez. He’s a big asset. We’ve got new coaches, so the offense is better than last year. He knows how to use more of our weapons. We get everybody the ball, make sure everybody eats. We still got Adrian. So, we’re going to be pretty good this year. I’m pretty excited.” pgrimes@gazette.net
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On Thursday, the Damascus Post 171 American Legion baseball team opened its season against Wheaton Post 268 in a game that represented the best and worst of Montgomery County teams in terms of last season’s win-loss. Nothing over the course of that game changed the perception of either team’s fate as Damascus won, 9-0, but the Post 171 team fell short of its goal last season despite a dominant regular season. In the county championship, playing for a chance to compete in the state tournament, Damascus lost to Laurel Post 60. Coming back this summer, Damascus has a good blend of new, returning and college players hoping to push it toward a championship. The team, which pulls from Clarksburg, Damascus, Sherwood and some private schools, finished a division-best 25-5 last season. “Motivating factor for this team is we want to go out and try to win every game. Leave it all out on the field,” Post 171 coach Jimmy Stone said. “Last year, we tried to win every game, left it all out on the field, we just lost that one time — at the bad time. That’s it. It just so happens that one time was the worst time to have that one loss.” Wheaton, which pulls from consortium schools and Bethesda-Chevy Chase, doesn’t return a single player from a team that finished winless last season. Second-year Post 268 coach Gabe Medina said he didn’t feel as though players took the opportunity to play Legion baseball seriously enough last summer and sought to change the culture of the team. “My idea behind it is, this might not be the winning season that I’d like to have, but it’s
a growing system. Next year, I’ll have the same guys come back. They’re ready for this level because they played it this year,” Medina said. “I have a really young team, so as far as being aggressive at the plate, that’s something they need to work up to.” With new players, Wheaton could struggle to find wins as the team comes together and gains trust, but it wouldn’t take much to show a marked improvement over last summer’s team and join the ranks of Laurel, Cissel Saxon Post 41 and Sandy Spring Post 68 in the middle of the division. “Everybody can play,” Laurel coach Doug Drewyer said. “The target has always been Damascus because they’re a program. They are consistent year in and year out. Cissel Saxon, they got ball clubs. Last year, Wheaton, I think they won two games or something. They scare the mess out of people.” Laurel, which pulls from Howard County schools, might have won the division championship last summer, but Drewyer said the team has already forgotten last season. This summer, he added, is about getting back to the state tournament and actually winning it this time. “We flush good stuff and bad stuff,” Drewyer said while pointing at a prop toilet sitting in the dugout at Blake High School following a win over Sandy Spring. About half of the Post 60 team are players from last season. Sandy Spring lost Rockville as a school it can pull players from, but added 4A state champion Gaithersburg, which coach Matthew Cangas is excited about. The team will look to secure wins around a solid pitching staff which includes Magruder’s Kyle Cassidy and Churchill’s Ryan O’Carroll. “To take that next step, we just got to get out there and play ball together as a team,” Cangas said. “I think last year, we were in the mix. We were just short on players. This year, we have a pretty decent-sized team.” pgrimes@gazette.net
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Mitchell Brunings takes on the role of Bob Marley in Center Stage’s production of “Marley.”
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Two local residents have scored firstrun ensemble spots in what’s being touted as one of the most anticipated musical premieres this year. Jeff Kirkman III of Beltsville and Bill Hurlbut of Silver Spring are a part of the 10-person ensemble of “Marley,” the first theatrical depiction of the late Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley — played by Internet star Mitchell Brunings. The musical, which will run at Center Stage’s Pearlstone Theatre in Baltimore until June 14, has
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been highlighted as one with potential for success on Broadway in the future. Though a significant amount of the hype comes from the musical’s subject matter itself, it would be a mistake to consider this production a gimmick. The director and writer, Kwame Kwei-Armah, has
inspired a top-notch disciplined and creative dynamic, according to both Kirkman and Hurlbut. Both noted their excitement of being a part of it. “Kwame ... is just a tremendous person to work with, and right from the start he kind of instilled a feeling in the cast that [the environment] was open and loving and friendly,” Hurlbut said. “I had never been hugged by so many people I’d only just gotten to know in my life — it’s been one of those kinds of things. It’s very personal for all of us, to be involved in this.” Some would say that “Marley” comes at an opportune time for a Baltimore community still staggering after the death of
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An aspiring novelist is likely to listen to sage advice from the author of 17 bestsellers. As such, when Sharon Allen Gilder asked the late Tom Clancy about dealing with procrastination and writer’s block, he told her, “Just write the damn book.” Gilder did just that, and it was about time. For about two decades, she had saved a scrap of paper on which she had scribbled some thoughts. With Clancy’s kickstart and just a few alterations, those words evolved Gilder into the first page of “The Rose Beyond,” the historical romance she published with Amazon’s CreateSpace in 2014. From start to finish, the process of researching, writing and editing the book took 14 years. Historical romance has delighted Gilder since she read Kathleen Woodiwiss’ “Ashes in the Wind” at age 22. She believes that the genre keeps “the words and telling of the past from fading” and makes “a connection to the past through the characters — to imagine the voices that came before me and let them be heard.” “The Rose Beyond” focuses on a privileged family, whose lives are disrupted by a letter
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MARLEY
Continued from Page B-5 Freddie Gray. In theory — but not necessarily in reality — the theme of peace that’s ever present in Marley’s music could have redemptive qualities for a city that’s seen more than 40 homicides in the past 30 days. Along these lines, “Marley” found itself at an unusual juncture in late April. Its content, which revolves around a Marley desperately seeking peace in Jamaica at a time at which his country was in deadly turmoil — in the mid-to-late 1970s — was drawing increasingly more similarities to recent unrest in this country. The cast and crew have not shied away from this. On May 2, at the end of a week in Baltimore that will almost certainly hold a place in history, they played a free concert of Marley’s music at North and Pennsylvania avenues. “You get a sense you’re look-
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The title came from A.L. Fink’s poem, “The Rose Still Grows Beyond the Wall,” which Gilder heard a minister read at a funeral. “The poem spoke to me because there is love, loss, mystery and beautiful gardens in ‘The Rose Beyond,” and the poem made me feel more hopeful about the mystery of life after death,” she said. “I thought the message was a good tie-in to my storyline.” In the novel, a character dies in childbirth, and her friend says, “We know it does not end at the grave.” According to Gilder, “[that] is essentially the message in the poem. … There’s also a double meaning in [the] statement because the book is about inevitability ... ultimately, the truth will be told.”
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ON STAGE Adventure Theatre-MTC, “Garfield the Musical,” June 19 through Aug. 23, call for prices, times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-6342270, adventuretheatre-mtc.org. F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. 240314-8681 Imagination Stage, “Double Trouble (aka The Parent Trap),” June 24 through Aug. 14, call for prices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, imaginationstage.org. Olney Theatre Center, “The Price,” through June 21, call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, olneytheatre.org. The Puppet Co., “Cinderella,” through June 21; 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, 301-6345380, thepuppetco.org. Rockville Musical Theatre, “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” July 10 through July 26, Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road, 301-2586394, r-m-t.org. Round House Theatre, “NSFW,” through June 21, call for show times, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. Tickets range in price from $10 to $45 and seating is reserved. 240-644-1100, roundhousetheatre.org. Lumina Studio Theatre, Silver Spring Black Box Theatre, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301588-8277, luminastudio.org; theatreconsortiumss@gmail.com. Silver Spring Stage, “On The Razzle,” through June 20, Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, see Web site for show times, ssstage. org. Randolph Road Theater, 4010 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, belcantanti.com, Cafe Muse, Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South Park Ave., Chevy Chase; 301-656-2797.
VISUAL ART Adah Rose Gallery, Carte Blanche: Alicia, Hannah, Olivia, Nora and Asia: The Interns of Adah Rose Gallery Curate the Summer Show,” June 3 through Aug. 23, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-922-0162, adahrosegallery.com Glenview Mansion, Juliya Ivanilova, Nighat Ahmed, Jo Levine; Rockville Civic Center Park, 503 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. rockvillemd.gov. Marin-Price Galleries, “An Exhibit of New Acquisitions;” 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, Member Show & Sale - Creative Expressions 2015; Westfield Wheaton Mall, 11160 Viers Mill Road, Wheaton, montgomeryart.org. VisArts, Greg Braun: Sharpened, June 3 through July 5; “These Mirrors are Not Boxes,” June 6 through July 12; Rob Hackett, June 12 through July 12; Bobby Coleman: re-build, July 15 through Aug. 16; Gibbs Street Gallery, 155 Gibbs St., Rockville, 301-315-8200, visartsatrockville.org. Kentlands Mansion Art Gallery, 320 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg, 301-258-6425. Gallery B, Bethesda Painting Awards, June 3 through June 27; 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E, Bethesda, bethesda.org. Washington ArtWorks, two gallery exhibition openings, June 5. “Drawing Upon Experience” an exhibition of artwork created by military veterans from their uniforms will open in the Washington School of Photography Gallery while the Urban by Nature Gallery will host, “A Selection of Artists,” a group exhibition of Washington ArtWorks Resident Artists.
ET CETERA The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, writer.org. The NIH Philharmonia, season finale “National Pride,” June 6. The concert is free to the public and will take place at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Rockville. Call 240-8886781 with questions. La Galeria at Ranazul, “Signs of Summer,” featuring creations of 18 artists from Olney Art Association beginning May 31 and running through June 27. There will be a reception open to the public on June 7 to meet the artists. ranazul. us; olneyartassociation.org. Mighty Kelltones and the Encore Singers, 7 p.m. June 7, Salem
United Methodist Church, 12 High St., Brookeville. 301-774-4135. Concert is free. A free-will offering will be collected to benefit the work of the Salem UMC teams who will be working this summer with the Appalachian Service Project in Harlan County, Kentucky. Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, led by A. Scott Wood,
performs music by Gluck, Grieg and Beethoven and from Phantom of the Opera, 2:30 p.m. June 14, at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, 6601 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, 301385-6438, montgomerysymphonyorchestra.com. Free.
ing at a portrait of somebody that wanted to help change the world for the better,” Kirkman said of Marley’s story. “So it’s almost like ... a rubric that people can experience and say, ‘What can I pull from this that will help my community?’ “‘What can I do to help change the world?’” Perhaps the main power of “Marley,” Kirkman said, is its ability to put the past in perspective with the present, especially in regards to police brutality issues. Parallels greater than nominal ones have been noted between Trenchtown, where Marley grew up in Kingston, and Sandtown, where Gray grew up in Baltimore. “The things that people were going through at this time in the ’70s aren’t that much different than what we’re going through now in 2015,” he said. “If you’re a person who’s aware of what is going on in the world ... you say, ‘Oh, I know exactly what this is.’” Hurlbut, who is white, said that working on the production
has been an enriching experience in his life due to the varying viewpoints he’s been exposed to. Because the majority of the cast and crew is black — some of whom have Jamaican lineages — the process has felt like a rejuvenated one, he said, with fresh perspectives fueling the conversation. “Usually, in plays, it’s the other way around,” Hurlbut noted. The coming weeks will likely prove crucial for the future of “Marley,” as potential backers evaluate its marketability as a Broadway production. But the actors don’t seem to be worrying about that. They’re taking it one show at a time. “I really don’t have any idea where it’s going to go,” Kirkman said. “I’m really just trying to make sure this is solid, and we figure out what the show is. And if it goes somewhere it does, but right now we’re just focusing on Center Stage.” Tickets range from $19 to $84 for the remaining shows.
Gilder, who graduated from Wheaton High School and studied home economics education at the University of Maryland, taught child development and gourmet foods at Woodward High School for eight years, and then worked as a teacher and administrator at a private preschool for more than 30. Her propensity for writing stems from early childhood when she produced bound books she still has “somewhere,” often with an “adventurous Pippi Longstocking-type” heroine. Later, as an educator, Gilder wrote food, child development and sexual assault curricula for the Montgomery County Public Schools. A freelance journalist since late 2006, she has written for local media including The Gazette, the Potomac Almanac and The Town Courier. Her subject matter varies, but occasionally features the Brem Foun-
dation to Defeat Breast Cancer and Friends of Montgomery Animals, organizations on whose boards she sits. Gilder writes at her dining room table, without an outline, often out of order; she allows the characters to “take me to places I didn’t know I was going.” She is not sure writing is the solitary pursuit it is “often characterized as … Although I might be alone in a room with my fingers on the keyboard waiting for the next words to flow upon my computer’s screen, the confluence of people, places and events from my past keep me in wonderful company.” A sequel to “The Rose Beyond” is on that table now. Gilder is pleased that there is no need for Clancy’s kick-start this time. “It is moving faster than my debut novel, and hopefully won’t take 14 years to complete!”
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NIH PHILHARMONIA
The NIH Philharmonia presents their season finale “National Pride” on Saturday.
Playing off the stage
As the spring winds down and the summer begins, some area venues begin their transitions — either they’re just starting up for the summer, or they’re putting a bow on their seasons. The NIH Philharmonia in Rockville is that latter,
wrapping up their season with “National Pride,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Rockville. Under the baton of Nancia D’Alimonte, the NIH Philharmonia will take on “Russian Easter Overture” by
Rimsky-Korsakov, “Billy the Kid Suite” by Copland, and “Symphony No. 9 (from the New World)” from Dvorak. Tickets for the concert are free and the even is open to the public. For more information, visit nihphil.org or call 240-888-6781.
Party in the streets The 21st annual Imagination Bethesda, a children’s street festival celebrating children and the arts, is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Musical performances and professional children’s entertainers will light up the stage, while hands-on art & craft activities will line the streets along Elm Street and Woodmont Avenue in downtown Bethesda. Organized and managed by the Bethesda Urban Partnership, the festival will host 25 local businesses and arts organizations that will provide a variety of hands-on art and craft activities to entertain and energize the 12-andunder crowd. Additionally, the festival will feature face painters, balloonists, a stilt-walker, free giveaways and more. Imagination Bethesda is a free event. For more information, visit bethesda.org.
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The 21st annual Imagination Bethesda, a childrenís street festival celebrating children and the arts, is scheduled for Saturday in downtown Bethesda.
Pianist Grace Cho, left, of the New Orchestra of Washington practices with Cantor Rochelle Helzner in advance of a chamber music concert on Sunday at Tikvat Israel Congregation in Rockville.
A living culture
Cantor Rochelle Helzner will be joined by members of the New Orchestra of Washington for “Chai Culture,” a concert of Jewish themes in classical music, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, at Tikvat Israel Congregation in Rockville. This marks the orchestra’s first performance with a cantor, although the New Orchestra of Washington has presented a Jewish-themed program at various venues, including the Strathmore Center for the Performing Arts. The concert program will include the “Divertimento From Gimpel the Fool” for clarinet, violin, cello and piano by David Schiff, and the trio for clarinet, violin and piano by Paul Schoenfield. Tickets are available for $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Teenagers and younger children will be admitted at no charge. To purchase, contact 301-762-7338, concert@tikvatisrael.org or visit tikvatisrael.org/ concert.
Arts on the Green concludes its World Music Series for the season with the concert “Amadou Kouyate: Kora and Percussion,” at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg. As an ambassador of African culture, Kouyate’s main instrument is the kora, a 21-string harp. Born in Washington, D.C., Kouyate is the 150th generation of the Kouyate lineage and has studied and performed Manding traditional West African music since the age of 3. Besides playing the kora, Kouyate is a dynamic djembe and koutiro drummer and is passionate about reconnecting those of the African Diasporas to one another. His repertoire ranges from traditional songs from the 13th century to contemporary original compositions incorporating blues and jazz riffs. Kouyate has received the
Maryland Start Arts Council Governor’s Citation and other artistic awards from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Special Talents and Musical Theatre Scholarships at Howard University and Levine School of Music. He has studied in Mali, Senegal, Guinea and Cote d’Ivoire with master musicians of the Diali tradition including Djimo Kouyate and Toumani Diabate. Prior to pursuing his career as a professional solo artist and collaborator full time, Kouyate served as an Adjunct Lecturer of African Music and Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland and as Artist-In-Residence at Montgomery College. Admission is $25 ($12 for youth 18 and under). For more information, visit gaithersburgmd.gov or call 301-258-6394.
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Arts on the Green concludes its World Music Series for the season with the concert “Amadou Kouyate: Kora and Percussion” on Saturday.
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