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Among his many civic activities, Bruce Adams was instrumental in launching Big Train Baseball and building Shirley Povich Field in Bethesda in 1999.

what Building It’s he does Longtime activist Bruce Adams receives inaugural county award BY

PEGGY MCEWAN STAFF WRITER

From housing, child care and hiker-biker trails to downtown improvements, volunteerism and, yes, even baseball, Bruce Adams has spent his life making Montgomery County a better place to live.

A few weeks ago, it was time for the county to show it has appreciated his efforts.

In a surprise presentation April 28, Adams, director of the Montgomery County Office of Community Partnerships, received the inaugural World of Montgomery Citizen of the Year Award at the Montgomery Serves Awards ceremony.

“They pulled a fast one on me,” Adams said. “It was a great honor.”

Adams, 66, who lives in Bethesda, has been involved in community activities in the county most of his adult life.

He served on the County Council from 1986 to 1994, including president in 1991 and 1992. He started the Lazarus Leadership Fel-

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lows program for students in the BethesdaChevy Chase High School area to get them involved in community projects. He organized Community Service Day, which is now Community Service Week. As a County Council member, he helped organize the original Committee for Montgomery and cosponsored the legislation that established the Montgomery Housing Initiative and Commission on Child Care. And he helped launch the Capital Crescent Trail and Bethesda Urban Partnership, according to the county’s website.

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Voters in Bethesda and Potomac now have a good reason to vote early: golf.

The Tiger Woods Foundation’s Quicken Loans National golf tournament runs the week of June 23 at Congressional Country Club on River Road and primary election day — June 24 — is the day the pros are scheduled to play their practice rounds.

“Most people know what that golf tournament does to traffic,” said Marjorie Roher, spokeswoman for the Montgomery County

Board of Elections.

Roher said the Board of Elections fears the tournament might hurt turnout if voters have trouble reaching the polls near the country club on election day.

It is suggesting area voters consider voting early instead.

Emily Taylor, vice president of communications for the Tiger Woods Foundation, said there is a transportation plan for every day of the tournament — which runs through June 29 — and most of the parking is off site.

“So what is coming near the course are shuttles,” she said. “We do that to help alleviate congestion in and around the course.”

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PEGGY MCEWAN STAFF WRITER

Students at Tilden Middle School in North Bethesda run a mile more than once each year during their physical education classes, but once a year — for 25 years — the entire student body gets together to celebrate running.

It’s called the Mile of Champions, and this year’s

run was Friday on the school track.

“The event was created as a way to recognize kids who put out in the running program and to promote a healthy lifestyle,” said physical education teacher Glenn Young. “We saw the fitness of children going in the wrong direction.”

Young was one of the teachers who started the program a quarter-century ago. He said they students’ mile times are tracked throughout the year and the top 120 — 20 girls and

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Canines and their companions to strut their stuff Bethesda Pup parade raises funds for charity

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IF YOU GO: n What: 9th annual Strut Your Mutt Dog Parade and Festival.

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n When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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The annual Strut Your Mutt Dog Parade and Festival is in downtown Bethesda this weekend.

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Downtown Bethesda is going to the dogs Saturday for the annual Strut Your Mutt Dog Parade and Festival.

The event includes a dog parade, games, a moon bounce, food, canine contests and dogrelated exhibitors. The BethesdaChevy Chase Rotary Club sponsors Strut Your Mutt, and the

n Where: Norfolk Avenue between Woodmont and Cordell avenues in downtown

event raises money for the club’s foundation, which provides grants to service organizations that improve literacy and health, according to a press release.

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Bethesda. n Cost: $25 plus processing fee per dog. Registration closes at 9 p.m. Friday; no refunds. n Information and registration: strutyourmuttbethesda.org.

This year, a portion of the proceeds will go to the Montgomery County Humane Society. Pet adoption and rescue groups also are expected to at-

tend and offer information on training and adoption.

The main attraction, however, is the dog parade. Dogs and their owners can strut their stuff with awards given for best strut, best tail wag and best outfit, among other honors. Canine contest categories include owner-dog look-alike, best kisser, best costume, best trick and best singer.

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Peace Corps volunteer fights for school boards

Teaching nearly 200 elementary and middle school students is challenging enough. But throw in a lack of effective resources and you get an idea of what Zachary LevinEpstein deals with daily.

Levin-Epstein, 23, of North Potomac, is a Peace Corps volunteer. He’s been teaching English to Macedonian students since September 2012, a year after graduating from Arizona State University with a bachelor’s in English. A graduate of Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, he worked in AmeriCorps in the Rockville area before going to Macedonia.

Seeing the stained and shabby 40-year-old blackboards in the schools, Levin-Epstein proposed to the Peace Corps Partnership Program that the students get replacements.

“Blackboards are the most practical and used item in the class, and it is vital that we replace them,” Levin-Epstein said.

The first Peace Corps volunteer to develop and execute this type of project, Levin-Epstein said many of his students have a hard time just understanding what is written on the boards due to years of writing and erasing.

“They often have to leave their desks and come a foot to the board in order to see what is written,” he said. “We have blackboards where nearly nothing at all can be seen after a teacher or student writes on it.”

Municipal officials said they will work with the community to install new boards, he said.

After the blackboards are installed, the Macedonian com-

munity and Levin-Epstein plan to build a new classroom with a Smart Board, an interactive touch screen controlled by either a computer or special pen. The board lets users write in pencil, pen or marker, and design slides.

“I believe the Smart Board will change the way our students view learning English,” Levin-Epstein said. “They will be far more interested when the teacher can show video clips or songs. Imagination will be the limit for the teacher and students as for the first time they will be able to utilize such interactive ways of learning.”

The board will be the first purchased through the school and used in a classroom.

The community has met its goal of paying at least 25 percent of the total project cost, he said.

“It is essential that teachers to have effective teaching tools and equipment, especially those that they use every day for class,” Levin-Epstein said in a Peace Corps press release. “Simply put, new blackboards will make a dramatic difference in the ability of teachers to teach and students to learn.”

Civic group honors residents Danila Sheveiko of Kensington

received the Wayne Goldstein Award for oustanding service to the people of the county from the Montgomery County Civic Federation.

He was nominated by Diane Cameron of the Audubon Naturalists Society and the Stormwater Partners, who cited Sheveiko’s “work and civic leadership on behalf of public interest land use planning, water quality, forest conservation and community quality

EVENTS Bethesda Community Garden Club’s Annual Plant Sale, 7 a.m.-1

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3rd Annual Comedy Charity Benefit for MobileMed, 7-9 p.m., Hyatt

Regency Bethesda Ballroom, 7400 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. $50. www. mobilemedicalcare.org.

FRIDAY, MAY 16 Moms In Prayer Group, times and

locations vary. Email MoCtyMIP@ gmail.com for information. Occurs every first and third Friday through June 6. Meet to pray for children and local schools. Free. www.momsinprayer. org.

of life.”

As a neighbor and president of the Kensington Heights Civic Association, Sheveiko has fought the nearby Costco gas station. He also has volunteered with local nonprofits such as Shepherd’s Table, CASA of Maryland and Habitat for Humanity.

The federation also presented its Sentinel Award to Lyda Astrove, an education advocate who focuses on services for special needs students, and its Star Cup to its retiring president, Carole Ann Barth.

Potomac Community Village to hear walk talk The next general meeting of Potomac Community Village will be held from 7:15 to 8:45 Thursday at the Potomac Community Recreation Center, 11315 Falls Road.

Dan Kuland, an orthopedic surgeon, will discuss “Robust Walking: Making the ‘Best Exercise’ Even Better.” Kuland is former chielf of health promotion for the Air Force and a member of the nonprofit At

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Zachary Levin-Epstein of North Potomac is working to bring new blackboards and a Smart Board to Macedonian schools, where he works as a Peace Corps volunteer.

The Puppet Co. Playhouse, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. $5. 301634-5380.

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24th Annual Strawberry Festival, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Potomac United Methodist Church, 9908 South Glen Road, Potomac. Free admission. 301-299-9383.

Succotash Tales, 11 a.m., Davis Library, 6400 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda. Free. 240-777-0922.

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Appraisal Day, 1-5 p.m., Chevy Chase

Village Hall, 5906 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase. $45. 301-657-3115.

Cabin John Ice Spring Show, 6:30 p.m., Cabin John Ice Rink, 10610 Westlake Drive, Rockville. Free. Mary.

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URBNmarket Bethesda, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Bethesda Chevy Chase Rescue Squad Ballroom, 5020 Battery Lane, Bethesda. www.URBNmarket.com.

C&O Canal History Walk, noon-2 p.m., Lockhouse 10, Clara Barton Parkway, Cabin John. Free. 301-745-8889.

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German study program taps Potomac woman Allison Duh of Potomac has been

selected to participate in the 31st annual Congress-Budenstag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals, a federally funded fellowship program that allows participants to study and work in Germany for a year.

Duh, who studied at Columbia University, is one of 75 participants selected from nearly 700 applicants.

Duh will have the opportunity to discover everyday German life and customs, attend a rigorous two-month German language course and study at a German university or professional school for four months. She will then complete a five-month internship with a German company in her chosen career field, optoelectronics or microelectronic laser sources.

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Israel Fest, 1-5 p.m., Rockville Town Square, 200 East Middle Lane, Rockville. Free. www.jccgw.org/israelfest.

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Candidate Forum: District 16, 4-5:30 p.m., Bethesda Regional Services Center, 4805 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda. Free. 301-657-9752.

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LOCAL Giant skateboard now spins wheels indoors Store owner hopes to get board classified as art n

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ELIZABETH WAIBEL STAFF WRITER

After a brief spin in the spotlight, a giant skateboard has lost its perch atop a downtown Bethesda business.

This may not be the last Bethesda sees of the 78-pound blue board, however.

Kaare Wieneke, who owns Bethesda Scooters and Boards with his business partner Tyson Plumbtree, installed the massive skateboard above the store on Fairmont Avenue about three weeks ago, he said. It had to come down this past weekend, however, after somebody complained that it violated the county’s sign ordinance and the store was threatened with a fine, Wieneke said.

“They call it a sign; I don’t call it a sign,” he said. “I call it a work of art. There’s no letters on it.”

The store already has signs with its name, but Wieneke said everybody likes artwork, particularly in an area with lots of construction cranes to look at.

“Everybody in our town likes the skateboard, and if we like it, we’re the ones who live here,” he said. “I’m tired of the county dictating [on this]. You know, we give them so much money.”

Wieneke said he took down the board on Saturday afternoon, just before he faced “multiple fines of $500 or more.”

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Bethesda Scooters and Boards on Fairmont Avenue in Bethesda on Thursday, before the giant skateboard was taken down. The skateboard was up for only about three weeks.

For now, the board takes up a wall inside the store, and a smaller skateboard is rigged up outside in its place.

Wieneke hopes to put the larger skateboard on tour at other local businesses sometime in the future, though, so people can go out looking for it and mention the location in exchange for a discount.

Ultimately, Wieneke said,

the publicity surrounding the giant skateboard has drawn attention to the fact that Bethesda needs a skatepark.

“The sign has really made people aware of what our plight is,” he said, adding that he’d like to install the giant skateboard at a skatepark one day.

Until then, Wieneke said he plans to try to go through some kind of art permitting process in

hopes of putting the skateboard back on display.

He said he hopes the area can retain its character and individuality, even as it grows.

“We don’t want this side of Bethesda to become all sterile like Bethesda Row ...,” he said.

“It’s a different vibe on this side of town.” ewaibel@gazette.net

Lawsuit: Doctors mocked colonoscopy patient Bethesda medical practices among those sued in Virginia n

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ELIZABETH WAIBEL STAFF WRITER

Several medical practices and physicians, including some in Bethesda, are being sued by a patient who says his doctors defamed him during his colonoscopy last year.

The patient says he has a recording of his physicians mocking him and making jokes about firing a gun up his rectum while he was under anesthesia, ac-

cording to his lawsuit.

The plaintiff, who lives in Vienna, Va., is identified only as D.B. in the two lawsuits he filed, which his attorney expects will be consolidated. He is suing Aisthesis LLC, Safe Sedation LLC and Safe Sedation Management LLC, all of Bethesda, plus Gastrointestinal Medicine Associates of Fairfax, Va., Solomon Shah, a gastroentorologist, and Tiffany Ingham, an anesthesiologist working for Aisthesis.

In his lawsuits, provided to The Gazette by the plaintiff’s attorney, Mike Charnoff, the patient claims he went to his doctor for a colonoscopy in April

2013 in Fairfax. He set his smartphone phone to record before the procedure to make sure he had a record of any post-procedure advice or instructions the doctors gave him after he woke up from anesthesia.

During the procedure, the lawsuit says, the patient’s phone recorded Ingham defaming him by telling the others in the room that a rash on his penis was syphilis or tuberculosis, even though he has neither disease. The suit also claims that she marked hemorrhoids on his post-operative note, even though she didn’t see any.

The suit says the doctors and medical assistants mocked the

patient during his colonoscopy.

Shah said a teaching physician would “eat him for lunch,” the suit says, and Ingham “jokingly discussed a hypothetical of firing a gun up a rectum,” the lawsuit says.

The plaintiff is seeking more than $5 million in damages.

Aisthesis, which is affiliated with Safe Sedation, according to its website, did not return a phone message seeking comment.

A trial is set for December in Fairfax County Circuit Court, according to the plaintiff’s attorney. ewaibel@gazette.net

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New pizzeria coming to Bethesda mall

New market opening Sunday in Bethesda

Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza of Pasadena, Calif., plans to open its first location in the Washington, D.C., region this summer in the Westfield Montgomery mall in Bethesda.

The Bethesda eatery will be operated by Ampal Group, a franchise group led by franchisee Amit Patel.

The 1,900-square-foot restaurant will seat 75-plus and also have an outdoor patio. Pizzas are cooked in its open-flame oven in three minutes, according to a news release.

Blaze Pizza also offers gluten-free dough and vegan cheese, plus wine and craft beer.

URBNmarket Bethesda, which features upscale, handmade and vintage merchandise, is set to open Sunday in downtown Bethesda.

More than 50 vendors will be selling home décor, jewelry, toys, clothes, pet accessories, and bath and beauty products. The market will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the BethesdaChevy Chase Rescue Squad ballroom at 5020 Battery Lane.

URBNmarket Bethesda, co-founded by Debbie Sonnenreich and Julie Greenstein of Bethesda, is free and open to the public. They plan to hold the market on a regular basis, with future dates to be announced.

Also, Linda’s Luncheonette and Scoops2U food trucks will sell food. Party Mania will give free balloons to children.

Free parking is available at the rescue squad and at the Auburn-Del Ray Public Garage, 4910 Auburn Ave. More information is at URBNmarket.com.

JBG recognized for energy savings JBG Cos. of Chevy Chase has been recognized by he Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking Campaign for using an energy-saving lighting system at the National Cancer Institute in Rockville.

The parking garage at the institute’s Shady Grove campus took top honors in two new construction categories: Highest Absolute Annual Savings in a Single Parking Structure, with 532,142 kilowatt-hours; and Highest Percentage Savings in a Single Parking Structure, 84 percent.

JBG developed, owns and manages NCI Shady Grove at 9609 Medical Center Drive. It installed a wireless lighting system in the garage, which is about 627,500 square feet with 2,028 parking spaces and 762 lighting fixtures. The programmable system uses advanced lighting technology and live feedback to automatically adjust light levels as needed, according to a JBG news release.

JBG also installed the system when it built the parking garage at North Bethesda Market. The campaign is organized by the Green Parking Council and several trade groups in partnership with the Department of Energy.

Honest Tea recycling efforts yields results Honest Tea of Bethesda reported that it collected and recycled 108,704 containers at Great Recycle events around the country during Earth Month last month. That was up 212 percent from a year earlier.

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Step back in time on the C&O Canal Boat rides, period music featured at spring festival in Potomac this weekend

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PEGGY MCEWAN STAFF WRITER

There will be music, singing and lots of old-fashioned games and crafts at the C&O Canal Spring Festival, a celebration of life on the canal, on Saturday at the Great Falls Tavern Visitors Center in Potomac. .

Visitors can take a ride on the Charles F. Mercer, a replica of a canal boat that carried people and goods along the canal when it was the water highway linking Georgetown in Washington D.C., and Cumberland.

The one-hour boat ride, powered by mules towing it, includes the experience of going through a lift lock, one of many built on the canal to accommodate the change in elevation.

“You go through a lift lock exactly as when the canal was in operation,” said Geoff Suiter, a park ranger.

Suiter is one of many park rangers and volunteers who will be in period dress for the festival, explaining life on the canal. Construction started on the 184.5-mile waterway in 1828 and the canal operated until 1924, he said.

Entertainment will be provided by the Washington Revels Maritime

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The Charles F. Mercer boat is pulled by mules (out of frame) along the C&O Canal in Potomac during a public ride Thursday.

IF YOU GO: n What: C&O Spring Festival. n When: Saturday; rain date is Sunday. n Where: Great Falls Tavern Visitors

Voices, presenting songs of the canal accompanied by period instruments, and Jubilee Voices, with songs of the blacks who worked the canal or used it to escape to freedom.

The first scheduled activity of

Center, 11710 Mac Arthur Blvd., Potomac. n Cost: Event is free. Boat rides are $8 for general admission, $6 for senior citizens and $5 for children

the day is the 11 a.m. boat ride.

There also will be boat rides at 1:30 and 3 p.m. Each ride takes one hour.

Although the festival is free, the boat rides are $8 for general admission, $6 for senior citizens and $5 for children 4 to 15.

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Minister: ‘Any injustice, any place, is an injustice to all of us’ BY

TIFFANY ARNOLD STAFF WRITER

Montgomery County police have charged two teens in connection with anti-Semitic graffiti in Potomac and Rockville.

Chief J. Thomas Manger said the 16-year-old boys were arrested Thursday and have since been released to the custody of their parents. The hate incidents were reported from April 18 to 21 at these locations: • Montgomery Child Care, 11614 Seven Locks Road, Potomac: A swastika and “All Jews Burn” were drawn on two buses.

• Young Israel of Potomac, 11618 Seven Locks Road, Potomac: A swastika was drawn on the synagogue sign.

• The 11100 block of Old Coach Road, Rockville: “SS” and a swastika were drawn on the windshield of a vehicle.

Manger said evidence from surveillance videos and work by local police school resource officers linked the teens to the acts.

They were arrested on 16 charges apiece, including hate crimes and malicious destruction of property, according to Sgt. Ruben Rosario. The 16 charges include the three alleged hate crimes, plus other acts of vandalism in Potomac and Rockville in April.

The youths were not charged as adults, but Manger said such charges were still a possibility.

Police did not provide the names of the youths because they had not been charged as adults. The Gazette generally does not name juveniles unless they have been charged as adults.

Montgomery County officials said they were troubled that youths could be associated with hate crimes.

“I thought we were better than this,” Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) told reporters outside police headquarters Friday.

In a statement submitted to police, Rabbi Yosef Singer of Congregation Young Israel Ezeras Israel of Potomac thanked police for apprehending the alleged vandals. He said the quick response showed

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that “acts of hatred would not be tolerated.”

Meanwhile, Montgomery County’s interfaith community is standing in solidarity with the congregation.

“Hate crimes are on the rise in this country,” said Hedieh Mirahmadi, founder of the International Cultural Center in Montgomery Village. “We didn’t think it would affect us here in Montgomery County, but obviously it is. It’s something we have to take seriously.”

The Rev. Mansfield Kaseman, the interfaith community liaison for the county’s Office of Community Partnerships, said he hopes the incident could be an educational moment.

“We would hope and pray that while the letter of the law is being enforced the way it needs to be, that there would be an opportunity for them to come to know the depth of the hurt and pain they have brought not just upon Rabbi Singer and his congregation, but upon us all,” Kaseman said. “Because for us in Montgomery County, any injustice, any place is an injustice to all of us.” tarnold@gazette.net

Blaze in Chevy Chase house injures firefighter n

Residents not home when fire began

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ELIZABETH WAIBEL STAFF WRITER

An electrical fire Sunday night

in a Chevy Chase home injured one firefighter and caused $400,000 worth of damage.

Beth Anne Nesselt, a spokeswoman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, said the firefighter was treated for minor injuries at a hospital

and released.

Pete Piringer, another spokesman for the service, posted online that the fire started in the basement of a two-story house on Brooklawn Terrace and spread to the first floor.

The residents were not home when the fire started, he said.

Firefighters were dispatched shortly after 10:30 p.m. Sunday and had most of the fire out by 10:52 p.m., Nesselt said.

Investigators have ruled the fire accidental. ewaibel@gazette.net

Chevy Chase-area election results favor incumbents Town of Chevy Chase elects one newcomer

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ELIZABETH WAIBEL STAFF WRITER

Three Chevy Chase municipalities recently held elections, with voters heavily favoring incumbents.

The town of Chevy Chase on

May 6 elected two incumbents and a newcomer to the Town Council.

Incumbents Al Lang and Kathy Strom were re-elected, while Vicky Taplin will succeed David Lublin, who did not seek re-election.

Taplin is a lawyer and a member of the town’s Climate and Environment Committee, according to candidate statements released by the town. She received 492 votes Tues-

day, the most of any candidate.

Chevy Chase Village on Saturday re-elected three incumbents to its Board of Managers. Michael Denger, Robert Goodwin Jr. and Elissa Leonard were all re-elected, defeating challenger Kimberly Fried.

The village of North Chevy Chase also held an election May 6. Three

incumbents — Adrian Andreassi, Fern Lapidus and Maury Mechanick — ran unchallenged. Dave Albinson was re-elected to the village’s Fire Board.

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CHEVY CHASE TOWN COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS

CHEVY CHASE VILLAGE BOARD OF MANAGERS ELECTION RESULTS

Vote totals:

n Donald Farren: 163

n Vicky Taplin: 492*

n Deborah Vollmer: 74

Vote totals:

n Kimberly Fried: 97

n Kathy Strom: 467*

n Robert Goodwin Jr.: 148*

n Total number of valid ballots: 207

n Al Lang: 400*

n Write-ins: 13 people received one vote each

n Elissa Leonard: 142*

*ELECTED SOURCE: CHEVY CHASE VILLAGE

n Kathie Legg: 390

n Michael Denger: 132*

n Grant Davies: 366

n Total ballots cast: 889 *ELECTED SOURCE: TOWN OF CHEVY CHASE

Cyclists invited to bike to work Friday Montgomery County Commuter Services, Commuter Connections and the Washington Area Bicyclist Association will sponsor Bike to Work Day on Friday.

More than 10,000 area commuters are expected to participate. Montgomery County plans to have 17 pit stops for refreshments and chances to win bikes and other prizes.

Cyclists are encouraged to register at biketoworkmetrodc.org. Free T-shirts will be distributed at pit stops to the first 14,000 registered cyclists.

Montgomery County Commuter Services is sponsoring morning pit stops in Bethesda at Woodmont and Bethesda avenues, National Institutes of Health Building One, Naval Bethesda Support Activity, Rock Springs Business Park and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. There also is a stop planned for Wisconsin Place in Friendship Heights.

In Rockville, pit stops will be at Fallsgrove Village Center, Rockville Town Center, Tower Oaks and Twinbrook.

About 0.5 percent of Montgomery County workers commute by bike, according to census data. But that varies. For example, 4 percent of residents near downtown Bethesda bike to work.

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Six Montgomery County school teachers were honored April 25 for their participation in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Center’s Changing Education Through the Arts program, earning a certificate of study.

The teachers, Cassie Sears of Kensington Parkwood Elementary School Kensington; Joy Bishop, Janet L. Gawler, Paula C. Pappas and Amanda Wilburn of Potomac Elementary School; and Susan J. Schmidt of Wood Acres Elementary School in Bethesda participated in courses and workshops led by expert teaching artists and arts educators to learn how to integrate the arts in their teaching.

Each year, more than 700 teachers participate in about 90 courses and workshops, which are available to any teacher in the Washington metropolitan area. Teachers who complete a combination of courses, workshops and assignments over a two-year period may apply to receive a certificate of study. The awards ceremony was followed by a performance by Capitol Steps.

University of Albany honors alumni The University of Albany in New York has honored three alumni from the Bethesda and Potomac area for outstanding leadership work in their fields.

• Gerd Schwartz of Bethesda received the Distinguished Alumni Award. He is deputy director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund. He earned his master’s in 1987 and Ph.D. in 1989.

• Maryanne R. Lavan of Bethesda received the Excellence in Business Award. She is senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for Lockheed Martin. She received her bachelor’s in 1981.

• Lewis S. Wiener of Potomac was recognized for Excellence in Alumni Service. He is a partner with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan in Washington, D.C., and a former trial lawyer with the Department of Justice. He received his bachelor’s in 1984.

POLICE BLOTTER

Complete report at www.gazette.net 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.

Aggravated Assault and Residential Burglary • On April 26 in the 4700 block of Bradley Boulevard, Bethesda. The subject is known to the victim.

Residential Burglary • 4600 block of Norwood Drive, Chevy Chase, between 9 and 9:15 a.m. April 23. No forced entry, took property.

• 10600 block of Parkwood Drive, Kensington, between 8 a.m. and 2:40 p.m. April 28. No forced entry, took property.

Theft • Between April 25 and 28 in the 10900 block of Connecticut Avenue, Kensington. Took property from behind the building.

• Between April 25 and 28 in the 5500 block of Randolph Road, North Bethesda. Took property from behind a building.

Vehicle Larceny • Seven incidents in garages in Bethesda between April 21 and 29. Took minor items. Affected streets include Wisconsin Avenue, Cheltenham Drive andWoodmont Avenue.

• Three incidents in Bethesda between April 21 and 29. Unlocked doors, took cash, credit cards and clothing.

Affected streets include Chamberlin Avenue, Greenway Drive andWestway Drive.

• Two incidents in the Chevy ChaseVillage area on April 24 or 25. Affected streets include Milford Avenue and EastWest Highway.

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RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

As president of the Montgomery County Council in 2010, Nancy Floreen watched the toll that the country’s economic crisis took on the county.

It seemed as if every week brought another phone call from the state telling her that it would be sending less revenue to the county, Floreen (D-At Large) of Garrett Park said.

The recession was a “very jarring experience” for the council, she said.

But if you’re honest about challenges that need to be confronted, people will accept that, she said.

It was a formative experience for members who served at that time, Floreen said.

Only Council President Craig L. Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown and Councilman Hans Riemer (DAt Large) of Takoma Park, both Floreen elected in 2010, were not on the council then.

Elected officials learn the most about people in hard times, and the council was faced with making deep cuts to many programs that members valued, she said.

Now, as the economy slowly recovers, the council faces a

time when “not so many lines have to be drawn in the sand,” she said.

Floreen said one lesson she took away from the recession was the need to grow the county’s economic base and rely less on federal government jobs to provide work for residents.

Before being elected to the council in 2002, Floreen was the mayor of Garrett Park. She also served on the Maryland-National Park and Planning Commission from 1986 to 1994.

She is one of six Democrats running in the June 24 primary for four spots in the Nov. 4 general election. Four Republicans also are running, along with one Green Party member.

Floreen said she ran for council in 2002 because she was frustrated with county delays in building the Inter-

county Connector highway, an issue she understood because of her background in land use policy.

Floreen said she sees jobs and dealing with the county’s growing diversity as two issues the next council will face.

Improving the economic climate to fill empty office and retail centers around the county needs to be a priority, she said.

Also, the county needs to provide local jobs to keep its tax base sustainable.

Most residents don’t appreciate the depth of the economic and ethnic diversity that has come to the county the past 10 years, Floreen said.

As recently as 10 to 15 years ago, Montgomery used to be “pretty lily-white,” but that has changed, she said.

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Hans Riemer feels like he had a successful first four years on the Montgomery County Council.

Riemer (D-At Large) of Takoma Park, lists his work in helping pass an earned income tax credit to provide help to working families, an open data law to provide residents with raw information from the county’s servers, a cybersecurity tax credit that aims to make the county a major player in the field and his work promoting night life, public transportation and walkable communities as some of the issues he’s worked on most actively during his first term on the council.

Riemer is seeking a second four-year term on the council, where he hopes to continue work on his favorite issues as well as branch out into some new areas.

He’s one of six Democratic candidates running in the June 24 primary for four spots on the ballot in the Nov. 4 general election for the four at-large council seats representing all of Montgomery County’s more than 1 million residents.

Four Republican candidates will also run in the primary.

Serving as an at-large member gives you a chance to learn

about the county in a way few people ever will and focus on big-picture policy issues, Riemer said.

Riemer But the downside is that you get pulled in a lot of directions and can only be in one place at a time, he said.

If he’s re-elected, Riemer said he’d like to make a strong push for universal pre-kindergarten in Montgomery.

The county can do a lot more to make child care affordable and do more for child care providers, including making more space available His oldest son enrolled in kindergarten this year, giving him a new understanding and appreciation of education issues, and making him even more passionate about what the county can do for children, he said.

Riemer joined the council in a troubled time, with a county government “reeling” from the Great Recession, and members had to make some very tough decisions, he said.

He said he thinks the current council works together reasonably well, with a healthy amount of debate as decisions are made.

The council is an interesting institution, a “team of rivals” that has to come together and hash out their differences to get

things done, he said.

He came to the council with an impressive resume of political groups and connections.

From 2003 until 2007, Riemer worked for Rock the Vote, aimed at engaging young people and getting them politically involved.

After that, he served as the Youth Director for President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

Young people respond very powerfully to politicians who ask them to get involved and clearly value their vote, Riemer said.

Through measures such as open data policy and a task force to study how to improve nightlife in the county, Riemer said he would like to see Montgomery become more modern, vital and cutting edge.

The county can be an exciting, diverse place, but suffers from an outdated perception of being stuffy or boring, he said. rmarshall@gazette.net

Johns Hopkins recognizes third-grader for performance Joshua Morrison, a thirdgrader at Wyngate Elementary School in Bethesda, is to be honored Sunday as one of the nation’s brightest young students at a regional awards ceremony for academically advanced children sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth at the university.

Joshua, a participant in the center’s talent search, will be

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Joshua was one of more than 38,000 students from more 120 countries who participated in the talent search. About 30 percent earned an invitation to an awards ceremony.

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the council is to get those new residents involved in the civic process. Constituents probably go to their district council representatives first to deal with a problem, Floreen said.

But even as an at-large member representing an entire county of more than 1 million residents, she said, her office

tries to be responsive to everyone who calls.

She also attends a wide variety of functions to get a feel for the problems residents are dealing with.

“I rack up a lot of miles on my car,” she said. rmarshall@gazette.net

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Montgomery County is moving to tighten its rules for cutting down trees, but one municipality says its laws are just fine as they are, thank you all the same.

The tiny village of Martin’s Additions — with 963 residents as of 2012 — has exempted itself from two county tree laws

intended to keep people from felling trees during construction without replacing them. The village council voted in March to exempt the Chevy Chase-area municipality from the county’s Roadside Tree Protection and Tree Canopy Conservation laws.

The County Council passed two laws, which took effect in March, intended to preserve trees along county roads and on private property. One law requires people to get permits before trimming or removing trees along county roads.

Another law applies to work on private property if a certain amount of land is disturbed.

In those cases, each shade tree that’s removed must be replaced with three more trees, or the person doing the work must pay a fee into a mitigation fund to plant more trees.

“What it meant was the money goes back to the county and not the municipality, and that’s kind of at the heart of it,” said Jean Sperling, village manager, in explaining the village’s move to exempt itself from the laws.

According to minutes from a Village Council meeting in February, there was some confusion when the bills were being considered by county officials over

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not have room for all the trees on their property, the ordinance says. The county law does not, however, require those funds to be used to plant trees in the jurisdiction where the payment was received, the ordinance says.

According to the ordinance, state law allows municipalities to exempt themselves from county legislation. Martin’s Additions has already exempted itself from several sections of the Montgomery County Code.

The county tree laws took effect March 1. ewaibel@gazette.net

such as a bomb threat or an active shooter scenario at a local school — to spur the response of SWAT teams to specific locations. Schools in Maryland, California, Florida, Connecticut and New York were targeted, according to the FBI. The Maryland schools the teen is accused of swatting were in Montgomery County, local authorities said. Montgomery County spokeswoman Angela Cruz said police responded to threats of violence April 29 at Northwest High School in Germantown, Northwood High School in Silver Spring and Rich-

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The council passed an ordinance exempting Martin’s Additions from the tree bills. It says that state and village laws and programs already promote tree canopy conservation within the town, and says the county bills “would create an undue burden on village residents for which there is no counterbalancing benefit to village residents.”

The tree canopy bill, which requires three shade trees to be planted for every one taken down during certain building projects, would force many village residents to pay into a mitigation fund because they would

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whether the regulations would apply to municipalities.

Sperling asked county officials whether they would consider amending the tree canopy bill, which applies to private property, to require reforestation in the municipality where trees were being cut down, according to the council meeting’s minutes. She was told that the law was not going to apply to the town, but in fact, municipalities that do not want the law to apply within their borders must exempt themselves from it, according to a discussion reported in the meeting minutes.

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The increase affects customers of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC),

which provides water and sewer service for nearly 2 million people in the Maryland suburbs.

Under the rate increase, a customer who uses 210 gallons of water daily would pay about $4 more per month, WSSC officials said. The increase, which comes after WSSC rates have soared 50 percent over the past six years, is the lowest since 2007, officials said.

WSSC officials say the $1.3 billion operating and capital budget for fiscal 2015 will focus on financing water and sewer pipe reconstruction and repairing other aging infrastructure.

That includes funding to inspect, repair and replace large valves.

A broken 48-year-old valve led WSSC officials last summer to declare a water emergency for a large swath of Prince George’s County during a heat wave.

Businesses closed and residents scrambled for water for two days before the valve was fixed in time to prevent an outage.

The WSSC’s six-member board of commissioners is expected to formally adopt the budget, including the rate increase, May 21.

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Fatherhood fears from a Takoma Park dad BY

ALINE BARROS STAFF WRITER

A new father transformed his fatherhood fears into a photo series.

Dave Engledow — or the selfproclaimed “World’s Best Father” — wanted to document his daughter’s life, Alice Bee, born in 2010, in a creative way. He began to put together the collection of photos, which got published into a book called Confessions of the World’s Best Father.

“I started taking pictures of Alice literally five minutes after she was born. I’ve known I wanted to do something different for her,” Engledow said.

According to Engledow, the book is a journal written from the perspective from the world’s best father character.

Taking the photos can take from 10 minutes to one hour depending on how interested Alice Bee is during the photoshoot.

Engledow said that sometimes he shoots his and Alice’s parts separately, and will edit them at night while Alice Bee is asleep. Editing each photo can take up to 10 hours, and the more complicated ones from 15 to 20 hours.

The first photo is still Engledow’s favorite one. He is holding Alice Bee while squirting milk from her bottle into the “World’s Best Father” mug featured in every picture.

“There are a couple of reasons why it is my favorite, and I think it really captures what I was feeling. ... I was feeling tired and clueless,” Engledow said.

The 43-year-old Takoma Park man shared some of the photos for friends and family on Facebook and received overwhelmingly positive feedback from people asking if Engledow could make a calendar.

Back in 2011, Engledow printed 100 calendars and sold them primarily to friends. Then in 2012, he created a Kickstarter campaign, an online funding platform for creative projects, to fund the “World’s Best Fa-

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“I did a small calendar in 2011. ... [and] we started to get feedback from people all over the world.”

Dave Engledow ther” first calendar. Engledow received $9,281 for his $1,200 campaign and was able to fund the project. He was able to print closer to 1,000 calendars.

The photos took off when the website chose his campaign as one of the site’s staff picks.

Engledow does not work as a photographer full-time, though he received a photojournalism degree from the University of Texas.

He is deputy director at Working America, a nonprofit that helps people get affordable health care.

“I did a small calendar in 2011. ... [and] we started to get feedback from people all over the world,” he said.

Engledow said his wife also participates in the creative process. Jen, who did not wish to disclose her last name, helps behind the scenes making sure Alice Bee is happy during the photoshoot.

“Jen has been involved in the process from the very beginning. ... She is a real partner in the process,” Engledow said.

The self-proclaimed

“World’s Best Father” said he tries to build up excitement on Alice Bee during the week prior to the photoshoot, which he said takes place only on the weekends and once or twice a month.

“We try to make it fun for her and make it like a game. ...

We will say things like ‘Alice, on Sunday you and daddy will have a tea party.’ We try to get her excited,” he said.

But sometimes he resorts to bribery.

“We will pull up a piece of chocolate,” he added.

The inspiration from each photoshoot comes from different situations ranging from Alice’s stages of development, such as the time she was throwing things in the toilet, or television series such as “Breaking Bad.” Engledow said he hopes Alice Bee will look back and think of the photoshoots as a happy time between father and daughter.

“I hope she just looks back and remember this as fun time.

The two of us had fun together,” he said.

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Dave Engledow, a Takoma Park resident, creates unusual composite family photos featuring him and his daughter, Alice Bee. The photos are in a new book called “Confessions of the World’s Best Father,” where Engledow wrote journal entries on what it’s like to be Alice Bee’s father.

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But school board members are warning that the solution can’t become a regular occurrence.

The council’s Education Committee voted 3-0 Monday to approve a budget recommendation for Montgomery County Public Schools that meets the full amount requested by the Board of Education for fiscal 2015, which begins July 1, but does so by drawing from balances in retirement savings and other funds.

The recommendation is scheduled to be considered by the full council on Wednesday.

The council is scheduled to tentatively agree on a budget on Thursday, with a final vote scheduled for May 22.

The recommendation would fund the school system at $1.476 billion, the amount required by the state’s maintenance of effort law, but then provide an extra $51.7 million

per-pupil funding from year to year.

The funds were well above the level that the bond agencies that oversee the county’s credit rating want to see, and the county has a strategy of maintaining at least 5 percent balances in funds, he said.

Taking the $13.3 million from the retired employees group insurance fund will still leave the fund at more than 6 percent, he said.

Board of Education President Philip Kauffman said in a statement Monday that the council has assured the board that the money taken from the trust funds will be replaced in the fiscal 2016 budget.

If it isn’t, the school system would face a deficit that could only be repaired through substantial budget cuts.

Board Vice President Patricia B. O’Neill said she was glad Rice had found a way to fully fund the budget request.

The funding would allow them to make significant improvements in English for speakers of other languages programs, reduce class size in some high schools and improve professional development for teachers, among other areas, she said.

But O’Neill said there’s a recognition that the maneuver was only for fiscal 2015.

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from other funds to fully fund the Board of Education’s request, Council President Craig L. Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown said Monday.

It would take $11.2 million from the public schools’ general fund balance, $13.3 million from the school system’s Retired Employees Group Insurance Fund balance and $27.2 million from the system’s fund to provide group insurance costs to retired employees, according to a county memorandum.

The council’s approved fiscal plan for FY15-20 will include $27.2 million more for the group insurance costs fund in fiscal 2016 and in future years.

The Education Committee didn’t want the schools to have to pick and choose which budget items to fund or to have to cut corners, said Rice, who chairs the committee.

Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr said in a release Monday that he appreciated Rice’s commitment to making sure the county’s students have the resources they need.

Starr said he looks forward to working with the county executive and council to figure out how they can fund the county’s schools in coming years.

Rice said he isn’t concerned that drawing from the insurance funds will become a regular way for lawmakers to fund the school system while avoiding increasing the amount required by maintenance of effort, which requires counties to provide the same amount of

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Kristin Trible of Gaithersburg said she would bring “a new voice and a new perspective” to the Montgomery County Board of Education with a focus on growing community input, partnerships and school leadership.

After holding a series of PTA positions over the last 15 years, Trible is running against incumbent Judith Docca of Montgomery Village for the board’s District 1 seat to represent the area including Poolesville, Barnsville and Laytonsville.

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Trible was president of the Montgomery County Council of ParentTrible Teacher Associations from 2010 to 2012 — a role she described as being akin to that of a school board member but involving more contact with local PTA leaders.

“I was dealing with all the same issues, but perhaps with a better perspective,” she said.

She is the director of student support services and community engagement for the nonprofit Future Link, which offers academic and career supports to young adults, and is the PTA president at Damascus High School.

She has served as the county

PTA council’s vice president of educational issues and its Damascus cluster coordinator. She has participated in school system work groups and committees, as well.

Trible said the school system’s next steps to improve student achievement should include more community partnerships.

The issue of partnerships is complicated, Trible said, but the school system should go beyond its mission of educating students by working with outside groups to help families who are not accessing services in the county.

“Where MCPS can partner to help with the accessibility of those services, I’m certainly supportive of that, making sure that does happen,” she said.

Trible said the school system also needs to “dive down further” into why students are leaving county high schools unprepared for college or a career.

Speaking on another main goal regarding increased input, Trible said she thinks those in the school system — including board members, staff members and others — should be taking a more proactive approach to reaching out to community stakeholders to inform them about issues and encourage feedback.

“Everybody has a perspective and it is all to be valued,” she said.

The school must be more responsiveness to people who raise issues and concerns and at least explain why a need cannot be accommodated, she said.

“I hate black holes, when issues go into a black hole,” she said.

Trible said schools should improve communication among parents, teachers and administrators and create a welcoming environment where parents feel they can contribute and talk about their children.

“It really lies on the principal’s shoulders to make sure they have a process in place that is respectful of parents’ concerns and responsive,” she said.

Strong leadership teams — including principals and assistant principals — at each school work well together on parent engagement, human resource management, instruction and other tasks, she said.

Trible said she sees “a passion and a desire” in current school board members to do the best they can, but graded the board with a B-minus/C-plus.

The board doesn’t push initiatives quickly enough, which means their effect on students is delayed, she said.

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The mock disaster at the South Germantown Recreational Park on Thursday morning assumed the outdoor stadium was full of spectators watching a soccer tournament.

It also assumed that the nearby indoor Discovery Center was packed with volleyball fans.

In the exercise, responders dealt with 54 volunteer victims and 20 inflatable dummies.

A terrorist triggers four explosions in the stadium stands, inflicting shrapnel injuries and burns on victims, while other people flee into the Discovery Center, where another terrorist has released a nerve gas, creating a lethal bottleneck at the front entrance. “[Having] two scenarios is more difficult to manage,” said Tom Cotter, senior policy analyst with the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, about the two different attacks.

Meanwhile, in Prince George’s County, public safety responders were simultaneously going through a mock exercise at the Six Flags America amusement park in Upper Marlboro.

“I think this is the first time in recent memory where we’ve done simultaneous events [in both counties] at this scale,” said Luke Hodgson, director of the Emergency Response System for the Maryland-National Capital Region in College Park.

“This let it play out in real time, it went as well as you can expect,” said Hodgson, adding that a report will be issued about the results, but not for at least several weeks.

“We’ll evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the responses

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(Above) A Montgomery County firefighter a list of the symptoms and mental status of a “victim” wearing makeup who was part of a disaster drill involving a mock explosion Thursday at the Germantown Soccerplex. Right: A Montgomery County firefighter talks with another “victim” during the disaster drill. and make suggestions for improvement,” Cotter said.

Cotter said the intent of the Germantown exercise was to test the coordination between police, fire and emergency management agencies in Montgomery, Howard and Frederick counties.

It was assumed Prince George’s County couldn’t assist, because it was dealing with its own emergency.

“We can [also] do this or a hurricane or a tornado if we get this coordination down,” Cotter said.

Officials also wanted to evaluate the triage, treatment and transport of victims in a masscasualty situation via ambulance and helicopter to area hospitals and trauma centers.

It was assumed that terrorists had released sarin, a colorless, odorless liquid used in the domestic terrorism attack in a

Tokyo subway that resulted in 13 deaths in 1995.

Those first on the scene in Germantown attached tags to victims with information about their injuries.

“They’d put the name, age, sex and a description of condition,” said Lucille Bauer, spokesperson for the Montgomery County police department.

“Some might be unconscious, or others moaning from a leg injury,” she said.

The tags could be scanned with handheld devices and the data relayed to the Maryland Institute of Emergency Medical Services Systems in Baltimore, which would alert waiting hospitals in the region.

If similar attacks happened for real, the best thing residents and drivers in the area can do is get off the roads or stay in their houses.

“The last thing we’d want is

for people to come here to see the action,” Hodgson said. “It would be chaotic.”

Officials would also begin broadcasting information and guidance over radio and TV and through social media.

“We’d be tweeting out information on a regular basis,” Bauer said.

Officials would also soon set up centers to serve friends and families of the victims asking for information about the victims, she said.

Serving as one of the injured victims was Stephanie Tungpalan of Montgomery Village, who said she regularly volunteers for county events.

Tungpalan was made up with latex and coloring to look as if shrapnel had smashed into her mouth and teeth.

“It was definitely interesting,” she said. “I would never have known the [emergency response] process if I hadn’t done this.” vterhune@gazette.net

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Blintzes, borscht and more on tap in Rockville

Back to the grind

Snack on some knishes and dance the hora as Rockville celebrates Israel’s 66th birthday from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Israel Fest — organized by the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville along with the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington — will feature Capa’im, a New York band that covers Israeli and Jewish hits.

Other entertainment will include a drum circle; sing-alongs with Makela Jewish A Cappella and JewKvox A Cappella; and a local Israeli dance troupe.

Handmade jewelry from Israel will be for sale and there will be children’s activities, too.

Among the food vendors will be Israeli Harvest of South-

IF YOU GO: n What: Israel Fest n When: 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday n Where: Rockville Town Center, 200 E. Middle Lane. n Cost: Free n Information: 301-348-3712

ern Maryland, which supports agriculture in Israel by offering Americans natural and organic Israeli farm products, such as dates and olive oil.

The festival, which is free, will be in Rockville Town Center, 200 E. Middle Lane. For information, call 301-348-3712.

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Eighteen-year-old Eric Rogers of Rockville performs a trick during the 2014 Spring SkateFest at the Bohrer Park Activity Center in Gaithersburg on Saturday.

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fected area.

For those who can’t vote early, the elections board has identified eight precincts that could be affected by the golf tournament, she said. It is suggesting voters in those precincts plan ahead.

Affected precincts include the following: 10-10: River Falls Swim Club 10-09: Our Lady of Mercy School

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thing,’” he said. “I guess I absorbed that.”

And then there’s baseball.

When he coached his son’s baseball team, he realized that many of the playing fields in the are were in horrible condition.

Adams said he came up with the idea of running a summer college baseball team — now Bethesda Big Train Baseball, which competes in a regional wooden-bat league — and use the profits to improve the county’s ballfields for its youngsters.

“We’ve made over a half-

million dollars to put into fields for kids,” he said.

The idea for the World of Montgomery Citizen of the Year Award came from members of the board of Fund for Montgomery, a nonprofit that raises money to implement or continue community-building events. Those include the World of Montgomery celebration each fall, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations and Community Service Week, said Keith Haller, the fund’s chairman.

“It’s something I thought of for a long time,” Haller said

of starting the award. Adams “is someone whose visionary leadership has ensured that Montgomery County is the most welcoming community and he is someone who has championed volunteerism and public service.”

Adams’ spirit will now become part of the award: From now on, the World of Montgomery Citizen of the Year Award will be presented annually as the Bruce Adams World of Montgomery Citizen of the Year Award.

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“In all the things I’ve tried to do, they all involve people in their community rolling up their sleeves and helping their neighbors,” Adams said.

Adams grew up in Potomac but, he said, he was not very political. He just remembers that his parents were part of a group of people who got together and helped each other get what they needed.

“There was a spirit in the 1950s — ‘we’re building some-

the tournament, compared to 40,000 on Saturday last year.

Voters can cast ballots at any of the county’s nine early voting centers from June 12 to June 19 between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.

The Jane E. Lawton Community Recreation Center in Chevy Chase and the County Executive Office Building in Rockville are the two closest early voting centers to the af-

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Eighth-grader Andrew Reznick breaks the tape as he finishes his race in the annual Mile of Champions on Friday at Tilden Middle School in North Bethesda.

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“The prize for the kids is the opportunity to come out and showcase what they have been working on all year,” Young said. “Everybody who runs is a winner.”

Six races were held, with 20 boys and 20 girls from each grade running at a time. The fastest boy was seventh-grader Gilad Weiss at 5 minutes, 34 seconds; he just nipped fellow seventh-grader Justin Bobb by a hundredth of a second. The fastest girl was seventh-grader Sierra Agarwal with 5:43.

As a sixth-grader last year, Sierra broke a longstanding girls record with a time of 5:41 and many thought she would top that this year.

She was clearly disappointed that she did not.

“I felt good,” she said. “But I was feeling a lot of pressure with everyone saying, ‘Are you going to break the record?’ I tried, but I was two seconds off.”

A mile, she said is “somewhat of a struggle” for her because she prefers longer distances, such as 2 or 3 miles.

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many former students who came to cheer on the younger kids. Also on site were the track and cross-country coaches from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, where most Tilden students will go.

“We’re here to encourage the kids to think about joining our cross-country team,” said Tom Martin, Walter Johnson’s head cross-country and track and field coach.

Cara Grant, Montgomery County Public Schools supervisor of health and physical education, also was at the race to support the program.

Obesity is a health problem across the county, she said, and physical education is a big factor in helping students learn to combat it.

“It’s really about teaching [the students] what they can do on their own time,” she said.

“We call it physical literacy.”

Eighth-grader Jacob Sorensen has raced in the Mile of Champions all three years he has been at Tilden. He said he thinks it is a great event.

“I think it brings the school together. Everybody cheers for each other,” Jacob said. “That’s what it is, everybody supporting each other. It feels great to cross the finish line and have the whole school cheer for you.” pmcewan@gazette.net

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LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Surrounded by five of her special education students on Friday, Joanna Linn handed them each a copy of the book “The Meat-Eating Plants Next Door” so they could start the reading lesson.

The students cracked open the books to each read a few sentences aloud.

Linn took a different approach as she followed along — she guided sheets of paper under a camera that magnified the print on a monitor.

Linn has Stargardt’s disease, which causes a loss of central vision and has left her significantly visually impaired.

The 22-year-old from Gaithersburg, however, has not let her disability hold her back.

At The Universities at Shady Grove graduation ceremony on Thursday where 714 students earned their degree, she served as the event’s student speaker and graduated from Towson University’s Elementary Education/Special Education program at the Shady Grove campus with a 4.0 grade point average.

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Joanna Linn is a student teacher at Ronald McNair Elementary School in Germantown. this spring, more than 5,400 students will have received bachelor’s degrees through programs

offered on campus since the Universities at Shady Grove was established in 2000, according

to Joe Bucci, director of marketing and communications for the school.

Linn, who was diagnosed with Stargardt’s disease while in the sixth grade, told her fellow graduates she had once thought college would be “next to impossible.”

At her mom’s prompting, however, Linn met with Montgomery College counselor Harry Zarin, who she said helped convince her she would receive the accommodations and support she needed to pursue a degree.

“I took a step of courage and faith and with the support of my parents, I decided to give the whole college thing a try,” she told the Shady Grove audience.

Linn said her decision to attend college meant continuous hard work, but that she was driven by the goal of becoming a teacher.

Zarin, who worked with Linn during her time at Montgomery College, helped pair her with technology she could use to magnify papers and classroom walls.

Linn had to figure out how to navigate courses and assignments in different ways than her fellow students, Zarin said, and was able to overcome those challenges.

“There was never a mountain that was too high for her to climb,” he said.

From Montgomery College, Linn decided to continue to the Shady Grove campus, where

she continued to work harder than her peers to do the same amount of work.

“We’ve seen her up into all hours of the night just getting school work done,” said her dad Jim Linn. “But she hasn’t given up.”

As part of her program work, Linn has held a student teaching role this past school year at Ronald McNair Elementary School in Germantown, where she has worked with both general education and special education students.

Valerie Sharpe, program director of Towson’s Elementary Education/Special Education Dual Certification Program, described Linn as a creative teacher who intuitively understands different students’ needs.

“She’s a born teacher,” Sharpe said. “She has an innate ability that we can’t teach people.”

After her reading group finished on Friday, Linn said she has been especially drawn to the special education students at the school who she feels she can relate to based on her challenges with her vision.

“I think that the thing that I realized like with this group, [is] whenever it’s challenging, that’s okay. Let’s figure it out together,” she said.

Linn told her fellow graduates on Thursday she saw her disability made students feel more comfortable sharing

their needs with her. It also helped her develop a teaching approach that involves her asking the students to explain and therefore think about what they’re working on rather than just looking over their shoulder, she said.

“My vision did not hold me back at all,” she said. “I realized that my disability was actually a benefit in the classroom environment.”

Christina Sinor, an 11-yearold fifth-grader at Ronald McNair who participates in one of Linn’s reading groups, said she thinks Linn is inspiring and “a really good teacher.”

“When I read the book and everything and I have so many ideas and everything, she always makes it fair and lets each person talk and I always get to talk so I really like that,” she said.

Linn, who hopes to work in Montgomery County Public Schools next school year, said one of her goals is to help her students understand that they can succeed through hard work, dedication and perseverance.

Fifth-grade teacher Channing Newman has co-taught with Linn for a couple months at Ronald McNair and said she has brought ideas into the classroom he plans to continue using.

“I think she’s going to be awesome,” he said. lpowers@gazette.net

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RYAN MARSHALL STAFF WRITER

No one knows when the Silver Spring Transit Center will open, but officials are working on a plan for how to make repairs to the long-delayed structure.

Representatives from KCE, the contracting firm hired by Montgomery County, and Parsons Brinckerhoff, the engineering firm on the project, met Monday to finalize a plan for the project in downtown Silver Spring.

County spokesman Patrick Lacefield said Tuesday that the meeting went well, and the sides are working together on the plan to fix the transit center.

Staff from the county and Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority briefed the

Montgomery County Council on the status of the project Thursday.

The county’s goal is still to have the center ready to be turned over to Metro by the end of the year, County Chief Administrative Officer Timothy L. Firestine told the council.

Meanwhile, Metro reiterated that it will not take control of the transit center from the county until repairs are made to address safety concerns raised in a report commissioned by the county, The report was released in April.

The study by former Lockheed Martin Chairman and CEO Norman Augustine and three other engineering and construction experts found that vertical stress known as shear and twisting stress known as torsion should be fixed by reinforcing some beams and girders inside the transit center. The fixes should be done before the center opens to the public to avoid potential danger to travelers from falling concrete or other

hazards, the report says.

In a May 7 letter to Firestine, A. Robert Troup, Metro’s deputy general manager of operations, wrote that the transit authority wouldn’t accept the transit center until the repair of conditions that “threaten both the safety of the general public and the efficiency of WMATA’s transit operations.”

The repairs would cost more than $7 million and take about eight to 10 months, although they could be done in as soon as five months if crews work multiple shifts and on weekends, the report said. That schedule would be more costly, however.

If the problems are not fixed, the shear and torsion could cause sudden cracking that would reduce the load that the concrete slabs could carry and limit the number of buses on the upper levels of the transit center.

Laying down a coating of concrete mixed with latex to repair other cracks in the transit center’s concrete slabs would take about three months and

cost an estimated $2.5 million.

While some of that work could be done at the same time as the shear and torsion correction, much of it would have to wait until that work is completed.

Failure to fix the cracks could cause concrete to fall onto areas used by pedestrians, the report warned.

Troup’s letter also requests that the county provide a fund to pay for the long-term maintenance that the facility will require.

“At a minimum, the county must agree to provide WMATA with an adequate fund to address the financial burden of substantial lifetime maintenance on a major transportation facility with the [transit center’s] history,” Troup wrote. “Please be advised that WMATA will not accept any agreement that purports to place unreasonable or burdensome terms regarding WMATA access to or withdrawals from a long-term maintenance fund.”

Such a fund has been discussed by Metro since the project began, Lacefield said Thursday.

The county intends to make the necessary repairs so that no maintenance fund will be necessary, he said.

The memorandum of understanding between the county and Metro doesn’t mention a fund, he said.

If a long-term maintenance fund is necessary, the two sides can enter into those discussions, Firestine told the council Thursday.

Councilman Marc Elrich (DAt large) of Takoma Park questioned whether Metro raised questions about the project as it was developing. He said he had a hard time believing that the county would be entirely liable for any unexpected maintenance costs if the county can’t force the responsible parties to make the payments.

The transit center has been a prominent issue in the Democratic race for county executive

among current Executive Isiah Leggett (D), Councilman Philip M. Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg and former County Executive Douglas M. Duncan.

On Thursday, Duncan said the project represented an absence of leadership by Leggett and a failure of its oversight responsibility of the council.

He also worried that despite Leggett’s repeated assurances that county taxpayers would not be liable for extra costs of the project, the county is making assumptions about what a court would decide in the case.

Lacefield said the county is confident it will be successful in having the companies who worked on the project held responsible for the increased costs, including any money for a potential maintenance fund.

“We’re confident on that score and always have been,” he said. rmarshall@gazette.net

School construction study could lead to more state money for county BY

KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

Maryland will study how it funds school construction projects, a step Montgomery County lawmakers hope will send more state dollars its way in the future.

Gov. Martin J. O’Malley (D) signed an executive order May 6 directing the Interagency Committee on School Construction to work with the departments of

Legislative Services, and Budget and Management to study the issue and make on recommendations on increasing funding for public school projects, on creating more reliable revenue streams that could include leveraging funds by counties, on using lease payments or other alternative financing options and on local funding for school construction including how much counties can contribute.

For Montgomery County, which grows by about 2,000 students every year, the state needs to understand the impact of that growth, Sen. Nancy J. King said.

“We have got to bring some

attention to the issue we have here,” said King (D-Dist. 39) of Montgomery Village.

Montgomery lawmakers pitched a variety of legislation in the 2014 session attempting to tackle the issue, including two bills to increase funding to the county. But none gained traction.

In the final hours of the session, lawmakers tried to pass a bill authorizing the study of school construction, but it was trapped in the political wranglings over increasing a tax credit for “House of Cards.”

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O’Malley’s order initiates the study they hoped to create, King said.

But the issue of school construction is bigger than just Montgomery County. Leaders from Baltimore and Prince George’s County were also pushing for a solution during the session.

“It’s a larger issue that super-smart people need to think about,” said Del. Anne R. Kaiser (D-Dist. 14) of Calverton, chairwoman of the county delegation.

According to the governor’s

office, the executive order will lay the groundwork for protecting progress made in funding

school construction projects. kalexander@gazette.net

Obituary Joyce Ann Donaldson Burk, 76, passed away at home

April 27th surrounded by family and friends. She had far exceeded doctors expectations in her extended survival of colon and liver cancer.A native of Laurel, she attended the University of Maryland, was a lifetime member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, and was graduated in 1960. She met her husband, Lt. Col. Thomas K (“T.K.”) Burk, Jr., USMC Ret (1/ 1/31-5/25/99), on the steps of the Olney theater in 1959 through a blind date set up by mutual friends. They were relocated 12 times with the Marine Corps and made lifelong friends around the world. They settled in Ashton where they resided for 35 years. A textiles and design major, her love of the decorative arts and continued study led her into a 35 year career as an Estate Agent and well respected Antiques Dealer.The Captain John Chapter of Questers, were a dear group of friends. She is survived by her daughters Jennifer Hill Burk Robinson and Rebecca Poe Burk Stewart, soninlaw Vincent Dale Stewart, and grandchildren Kent, Jacob, Sean, Emilee, Lillian, and Cameron Stewart and Lacy Ann Roller.

She is also survived by her aunt Gertrude “Trudy” L. Poe.This list does not include the dozens of “kids”Joyce Ann “adopted” over the her lifetime, some stayed in her home a few days, others for years. She believed that sometimes people just needed a little help in the right direction to change the path of their lives.

A memorial service celebrating her life was held Saturday, May 10th at 2 pm at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 16420 S. Westland Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, a reception followed. More information at www.goserve.net.

Charitable Donations may be made to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in support of their Stephens Ministry, please note the Burk Memorial in the information line.

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IF YOU GO Getting there: n •Free Parking and Shuttle Service at Lakeforest Mall Transit Center, located at the Bus Transit Center at the corner of Lost Knife Road and Odendhal Avenue

BY JENN DAVIS STAFF WRITER

With nearly 100 featured authors and more than a dozen interactive workshops in the line-up, the Gaithersburg Book Festival is preparing to write its best chapter yet.

Renowned authors, local writers, poets and other literary artists are expected to converge at the annual festival, which is scheduled to take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 17 on the grounds of City Hall at 31 S. Summit Ave. in Gaithersburg.

Admission is free.

Gaithersburg Book Festival founder and City Councilman Jud Ashman said he’s hoping this year’s event draws the largest crowd in its five-year history — more than 20,000 people. Last year’s attendance was around 18,000, he said.

Featured authors will be on hand to chat with attendees and sign books. In addition to the featured authors, about 50 more will be exhibiting their works.

Fiction writers like Anthony Marra, author of the novel “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,” and Alice McDermott, a National Book Award winner who has authored seven novels, will be in attendance.

Mark Leibovich, who wrote the New York Times best-seller “This Town: Two Parties and a

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Margot Bohan (left) and husband Ned Cyr of Washington Grove chat with Hyattsville novelist David L. Levy, author of “Revolt of the Animals,” at last year’s Gaithersburg Book Festival.

Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America’s Gilded Capital,” as well as famed sports writer John Feinstein, are set to appear.

A new resource for festival attendees this year is an interactive, online schedule that allows them to search and plan in advance which people and activities the want to visit. Details about author presentations, workshops, book signings and

other programs are included.

Visitors can search by time, title, author, genre and location.

“We put it in this interactive schedule so you can really search and look at the program in a number of different ways,” Ashman said. “We think it’s going to make it easier for the attendees to get their arms around all this programming.”

In support of the festival and its book-selling partner Politics

& Prose, event goers have the new option of purchasing books online from the bookstore and picking them up in advance.

Those interested can buy books by going to the author’s biography page on the festival website, gaithersburgbookfestival.org. Books can be picked up at the store in Washington D.C., 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, in the days before the event, or at the bookstore’s tent on the day of.

Sears beginning at 9:30 a.m.

The last shuttle will leave the Festival area at 6:30 p.m.

Parking is free.

n •Limited free parking near the festival at the Activity Center at Bohrer Park, 506 South Frederick Ave. next to Gaithersburg High School. n Times: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. n Where: Grounds of Gaithersburg City Hall, 31 S. Summit Ave.

“Independent booksellers have a really difficult time staying alive in this era of Amazon,” Ashman said. “Here’s a chance to support the local economy and local jobs, and support the festival.”

Members of Split the Rock’s D.C. Youth Poetry Slam Team will show the power of the spoken word with their first-ever appearance at the event. Two poets from the group, which comprises middle and high school-age students, will perform and lead a writing workshop to teach others their style of poetic expression.

“What’s most compelling for me is the idea of using words to bring about social change,” Ashman said. “It’s a really interesting angle. Everyone has a story to tell, and this is a unique sort of modern, hip way of getting the point across.”

The festival’s Children’s Village will feature a sea of authors,

illustrators, poets, singer/songwriters and entertainers. Workshops for children and teens will also be offered, including those that focus on playwriting, book arts, children’s books and college essay writing.

One great children’s presenter to look out for is Tom Angleberger, according to Ashman, because he entertains his young audience in a variety of ways.

Angleberger wrote the Origami Yoda series. “[Angleberger] is an amazing guy to see speak because he can juggle, he tells jokes and he does illustrations in front of the kids,” Ashman said.

The festival is an official event of Children’s Book Week, which runs Monday through Sunday.

For more information about the festival, visit gaithersburgbookfestival.org.

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like himself that he is approaching the task with the utmost sincerity and respect. While his “Origami Yoda” works have parodied the source material, his latest foray into that galaxy far, far away will be no joke. “It’s funny at times, but never at the expense of the story.”

“You know that scene in ‘Return of the Jedi’ where C-3PO tells the story to the Ewoks? There’s what I want,” Angleberger continued. “I want that excitement that I first had when I saw it on the big screen.”

But prior to sail barges, slave Leia and Ewoks, 2014 continues to be a banner year for the author. This month, two of his earlier works — “The Qwikpick Papers” and “Stonewall Hinkleman” — will be re-released with new covers. “It’s a great chance for a lot of these kids who are now at the right age to discover them,” he said. “I hope they’ll

give them a try.”

Then, in August, the circle will become complete for seventh-graders Tommy, Dwight, Kellen and crew with “Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus,” the seventh, and supposedly final, chapter in the “Origami Yoda” series.

“It’s actually the last book,” Angleberger said. “I always put an asterisks beside that. But as far as what happened when Dwight brought Origami Yoda to school — this is the end of that story.”

Then again, both Star Wars film trilogies ended with no inkling of future endeavors.

“A lot of people ask me what would happen next,” Angleberger said. “And I really don’t know.”

Somewhere, a construction paper Jar Jar Binks keeps his fingers crossed.

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Author brings Jedi paper tricks to annual event Angleberger writes ‘Star Wars’-themed books for children

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NATHAN ORAVEC STAFF WRITER

“Origami Yoda” scribe Tom Angleberger spent Star Wars Day (a fan-fueled holiday known in other parts of the galaxy as May 4) in relative solitude.

“I did a little Star Wars Trivial Pursuit,” recalled the rebel responsible for the New York Times bestselling kids’ lit empire.

“I drew some Star Wars pictures.

We put up instructions for an origami Obi Wan Kenobi on my website. Yeah, I had a nice Star Wars Day.” Then again, for Angleberger, the celebration started a long time ago — and has yet to cease.

“Every day is Star Wars Day for me,” he continued. “I am a huge Star Wars fan.”

Such passion is evidenced throughout a hit series of six books, so far. Combining a penchant for folded paper heroes and villains with the ongoing saga of a savvy group of students and Star Wars fanatics at the fictional McQuarrie Middle School, the “Origami Yoda” series has sold more than 3.3 million copies worldwide.

On Saturday, Angleberger will take part in the Gaithersburg Book Festival. Now in its fifth year, the event will cull

more than 100 bestselling and a w a r d winning authors for presentations, workshops and Angleberger activities on the grounds of City Hall.

Angleberger relishes such opportunities to meet-and-greet with like-minded individuals.

Case in point, the day after the Gaithersburg fest he will travel to neighboring Frederick County for an appearance at the Curious Iguana, signing books and handcrafting Sith lords.

“It is so much fun. We have a blast,” he said of mingling with fans. “As you can imagine, I’m kind of a nerdy dude, so to end up with a crowd of nerdy dudes and [nerdy girls] ... you can feel the power of Star Wars. We all make Origami Yodas at the same time and yell ‘May the force be with you!’ It’s amazing.”

Amazing sums up the trajectory of Angleberger’s writing career. Formerly a columnist for the Roanoke News in Roanoke, Va. — a position he says he landed erroneously after applying as a cartoonist — the concept for the “Origami Yoda” series came to him like the disembodied voice of Alec Guinness.

“Some people think I was just looking to cash in, but it hap-

pened so naturally,” Angleberger said. “I saw a picture of an origami Yoda, and I thought, ‘I love Star Wars and I love origami.’ So I made one.”

From there, a story grew; a story inspired, in many parts, by the youthful awe of a 6 year old who first discovered Droids and Imperial Star Destroyers on the big screen, and harbored that love throughout his formative years.

“So much of the book is true,” Angleberger said. “If you would take my middle school years and cut them up into jigsaw pieces, and then put those pieces back together completely wrong, [you would have this story]. I couldn’t make this stuff up. ... The only thing I did was to give it a happy ending, instead of it being a complete disaster.”

But before Angleberger could realize his padawan concept on page, permission to utilize iconic characters would have to be obtained from a planet-sized gatekeeper known throughout the star system as Lucasfilm. And his handlers at Amulet Books had a bad feeling about all of this.

“It was a wild experience,” said Angleberger. “I wrote the book and gave it to my editor and she said, ‘Oh, I don’t know if they’ll say yes to this.’”

Then came the phone call.

Amulet had submitted the manuscript to Lucasfilm. There, it was intercepted by director of publishing Carol Roeder, who

— in turn — took it home to her young son.

“I happened to luck out,” Angleberger recalled. “He was the perfect age, and he liked it.

He [told his mother], ‘You should let him write this book.’”

Angleberger believes a misconception surrounds the house that George Lucas built as being a corporate, money-making monolith. The truth, he said, is that “they’re very creative, [collaborative] people.”

In fact, Disney Publishing Worldwide announced last month that Angleberger would join fellow bestselling authors Tony DiTerlizzi (“The Spiderwick Chronicles”), Adam Gidwitz (“A Tale Dark & Grimm”), and R.J. Palacio (“Wonder”) in penning a series of adaptations for the original Star Wars saga in advance of the December 2015 release of the newest film, “Star Wars: Episode VII.” Angleberger’s contribution, a reinterpretation of “Return of the Jedi,” is slated for release next year.

“If there’s anything better than writing ‘Origami Yoda,’ it’s writing [this adaptation],” Angleberger said. “It is so much fun. I can’t hardly begin to tell you. It’s like you sit down and you say, ‘Today, we’re doing the scene where Jabba throws Luke into the Rancor pit.’ And there are claws and growling ... It’s such a fun thing.”

Angleberger promises fans

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The Purple Line will more significantly improve the job access for residents who live near stations proposed in the largely residential Long Branch community than in a highly commercial area like Bethesda, a researcher said Saturday.

Two Purple Line stations are proposed in Long Branch

— one around Arliss Street near Piney Branch Road, and the other near University Boulevard and Piney Branch.

The growth in the number of jobs accessible to residents there once the rail line is completed will be about five times greater than the growth in job prospects for Bethesda residents, said Ting Ma, a research assistant with the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education in College Park.

“Bethesda already has employment centers,” Ma said during the “Makeover Montgomery 2” conference at the Silver Spring Civic Building.

“Long Branch has a more lim-

ited number of job opportunities in its immediate area.”

The 16-mile light-rail line is proposed to have 21 stations between Bethesda and New Carrollton in Prince George’s County. Besides Long Branch, stations in the Silver Spring/ Takoma Park area are planned at 16th Street, Dale Drive, Manchester Place, the Silver Spring Transit Center, the new Silver Spring Library and the Takoma/Langley Transit Center.

The transit centers and library at Fenton Street and Wayne Avenue are still under construction. Official expect them to open by 2015.

Maryland transit officials hope construction of the $2.4

Agape African Methodist Episcopal Church, 7700 Brink

Road, Gaithersburg, conducts Sunday morning worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday School is at 10 a.m. Communion celebration on first Sundays, men leading worship on second Sundays, youth leading worship on third Sundays. “You’ll Get Through This” Bible Study from 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays. 301-9248640; www.agapeamec.org.

Damascus United Methodist Church, 9700 New Church St.,

Damascus, offers traditional Sunday morning worship services at 8:15 a.m., a youth contemporary worship service at 9:30 a.m. and a service of liturgy and the word at 11 a.m. with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. for all ages during the school year. www.damascusumc.org.

Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 7730 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, offers services at 8:30 and 11 a.m. each Sunday, with Sunday School for all ages scheduled at 10 a.m. Child care is offered from 8:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. A fellowship and coffee hour follows the 8:30 a.m. service. 301365-5733, www.elcbethesda. org.

Hughes United Methodist Church, 10700 Georiga Ave.,

Wheaton, offers an informal Sunday morning worship service at 9 a.m., followed by a traditional worship service at 10:30 a.m. Child care is available from 9 a.m. to noon. Hospitality time is at 9:45 a.m. in the Garden Entrance. El Buen Samaritano offers a Spanish service at Noon. Communion is Celebrated the first Sunday of the month. For more information, call 301-949-8383. Visit www.HughesUMC.org.

Kemptown United Methodist Church, 3716 Kemptown

Church Road, Monrovia, conducts a contemporary service at 8 a.m. followed by a traditional service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday mornings, with children’s

Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and adult Sunday school at 11 a.m.

For more information, call 301-253-1768. Visit www.kemptownumc.org.

Liberty Grove United Methodist Church, 15225 Old

Columbia Pike, Burtonsville, conducts Sunday morning worship services at 8:30, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday school, nursery through adult, is at 9:30 a.m.

301-421-9166. For a schedule of events, visit www.libertygrovechurch.org.

Moms In Prayer Group, times and locations vary, email MoCtyMIP@gmail.com for information, occurs every first and third Friday through June 6. Free. www.momsinprayer. org.

“MOPS,” a faith-based support group for mothers of children, birth through kindergarten, meets from 9-11:30 a.m. the first and third Wednesdays of the month at the Frederick Church of the Brethren, 201 Fairview Drive, Frederick. Child care is provided. For more information call 301-662-1819.

Email mops@fcob.net.

Neelsville Presbyterian Church, 20701 Frederick Road,

Germantown, offers services at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Sunday mornings, with Sunday School for all ages at 9:40 a.m.

Neelsville Presbyterian Church announces a new preschool partnership. Damascus Community Preschool is moving to Neelsville Presbyterian, 20701 Frederick Road, Germantown.

Classes to begin in the fall. For sign-up and other information, www.neelsville.org/#/ preschool-grand-openingProvidence.

Trinity Lutheran Church, 11200 Old Georgetown Road, North Bethesda, conducts services every Sunday, with child care from 8 a.m. to noon and fellowship and a coffee hour following each service. Call 301-881-7275. For a schedule of events, visit www.TrinityELCA. org.

after inspectors found structural cracks in the concrete in 2010. Officials now say it may not be until early next year before it opens.

While the delays may be frustrating, once that center opens, it will be a great asset, said Lee Quill, a founding principal of Washington, D.C.-based Cunningham Quill Architects. “I think it will be everything that it has been advertised to be,” he said.

The conference, coordinated by the Montgomery County Planning Department, the University of Maryland and its smart-growth research center, welcomed some 300 participants, about the same as

the first “Makeover Montgomery” conference in 2011.

The first conference was centered around the need to clarify and update the county’s zoning code, which was outdated and redundant, said Françoise Carrier, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board. The County Council approved the updated code in March.

The new code promotes sustainability while adding more neighborhood protections, Carrier said. “Our goal is to encourage better development,” she said. kshay@gazette.net

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RELIGION CALENDAR ONGOING

billion Purple Line begins in 2015, so the system can open by 2020. The line will provide direct connections to Metrorail’s Red, Orange and Green lines, as well as the MARC trains.

Despite construction problems with its long-delayed transit center, downtown Silver Spring is identified by state planners as having one of the most successful transit-oriented development systems in Maryland. Transit-oriented development is typically centered around a transit station with higher-density residential and commercial development.

The Silver Spring Transit Center has seen opening dates set and delayed several times

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 Caring for the Skin You’re

In, from 1-2 p.m. at Friendship

Heights Community Center, 4433 S. Park Avenue, Chevy Chase.

Changes to your skin are common as you age, but it’s important to stay informed in order to determine when you should see a doctor. Dr. Melissa Abrams will discuss common skin conditions, what to look for between your appointments and steps that can be taken to protect your skin. Free. www.suburbanhospital.org.

Simplify Your Life, from 7-9 p.m. at Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda.

Get a jump start on your spring cleaning! Learn techniques and skills for de-cluttering and destressing your everyday life. Discussion will include more than just cleaning out your cluttered closet. $20. www.suburbanhospital.org.

SATURDAY, MAY 17 CPR and AED, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney.

The Heartsaver class teaches basic CPR, rescue breathing, and relief of choking for adults, infants and children and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) use. After successful completion, the student will receive a Heartsaver AED card from the American Heart Association. This class is for the lay community and is not adequate for individuals who have or will have patient care responsibilities. This class is not designed for healthcare providers. If you are a healthcare provider, please register under BLS and CPR for Healthcare Professionals. Those who have registered for a CPR & AED or BLS for Healthcare Provider course and would like a manual prior to class can arrange to pick up at 18111 Prince Philip Drive, Suite 314, daily until noon. Call 301774-8969. Otherwise, partici-

pants will receive manuals in class. $80. www.medstarhealth. org.

SUNDAY, MAY 18 Childbirth Express at MedStar Montgomery. 1-5 p.m. at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip

Drive, Olney. This condensed version will prepare couples for their labor and birth experience. Class is presented in lecture/video format. To enhance what you learn, hands-on instruction available by taking the Lamaze Techniques class.

Hospital tour included. $75. www.medstarhealth.org.

Body Balance Yoga, from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Mondays to June 22, at the MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, 18101 Prince Philip Drive, Olney. Yoga is an ancient and systematic approach to good health and well-being that helps to reduce stress, improve concentration and develop strength, flexibility and balance. Learn the physical and mental exercise that brings the body and mind together into one harmonious experience. No experience required. $60. 301-774-8881. www.medstarhealth.org.

MONDAY, MAY 19 Prostate Cancer Support Group, from 7-8:30 p.m. at

Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda.

Ongoing, monthly support group is open to all prostate cancer patients, their families and friends and provides an opportunity to gain new knowledge and share common concerns. Guest speakers alternate with informal discussions among participants. Drop-ins welcome; for information call Susan Jacobstein at 301-8966837. Free. www.suburbanhospital.org.

Nutrition and Prostate Cancer: What the Latest Research Means to You, from 7-8:30

p.m. at Suburban Hospital, Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda.

Lynda McIntyre, R.D., L.D., Clinical Dietitian Specialist at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, will discuss the latest research on how diet, nutrition and exercise can improve your immune system, increase energy, and decrease your risk of recurrence after a diagnosis of prostate cancer. This will be a practical talk that will include tips on grocery shopping and food choices. Offered as part of the ongoing Prostate Cancer Support Group. Registration not required; for information call Susan Jacobstein at 301-8966837. Free. www.suburbanhospital.org.

TUESDAY, MAY 20 Health Assessment: Cholesterol Screening and Osteoporosis Screening, from 4-5:45 p.m. at

Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda.

Cholesterol: Finger-stick method for total cholesterol & HDL cholesterol. No fasting required.

Bone Density: A three- to fiveminute quick and easy heel test measures bone mass density to estimate your risk of developing osteoporosis. By appointment only. $35/$30/$60. For a complete listing, visit www.suburbanhospital.org.

Healthy Cooking Series: “Best Deal in Town,” 6-8 p.m.

at Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. The Mediterranean Pantry - Olive oil, fresh herbs, and yogurt are stables in the Mediterranean diet. From appetizers to desserts, explore various recipes from this corner of the world as we demonstrate the versatile uses from the Mediterranean pantry. Savoring Springtime - Springtime offers a selection of fresh vegetables and fruits in a variety of colors and aromatics. Take advantage of local produce and lean creative, light dishes that are delicious, healthy and easy to prepare. www.subur-

banhospital.org.

Eating Well After Cancer Treatment, from 6-8 p.m. at Johns

Hopkins Health Care and Surgery Center, 6420 Rockledge Drive, Suite 1200, Bethesda. After a diagnosis and treatment for cancer, many patients are interested in changing their dietary habits.

Join Rachel Griffin, Clinical Dietician, for tips on better eating and a cooking demonstration.

Be prepared to sample delicious, healthy dishes! Open to cancer survivors, family and friends.

Registration required on line or by phone at 301-896-3939. Free. www.suburbanhospital.org.

THURSDAY, MAY 22 Under Pressure: Relieving Sinusitis, from 1-2 p.m. at the Rock-

ville Senior Center, 1150 Carnation Drive, Rockville. Dr. Murray Ramanathan from the Johns Hopkins Sinus Center describes the differences between chronic and acute sinusitis, treatments available and advises when to seek medical care from a sinus specialist. Free. www. suburbanhospital.org.

MONDAY, MAY 26 6th Annual Jeremy’s Run, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Fair Hill Plaza, 18100 Town Center Drive, Olney. Jeremy’s Run is in loving memory of Jeremy Glass who died at age 20 years young from a drug overdose.

The purpose of this event is to raise awareness to the dangers of substance abuse and to raise money for substance abuse education, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. This year’s proceeds will benefit the Addictions and Mental Health Center at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, a program that has provided behavioral health services to the community for over 40 years. Support Jeremy’s Run by participating in a: 10K run; 5K walk/run; and a 1 mile fun run. For more information, visit www.medstarhealth.org.

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The Gazette endorses

Today, The Gazette continues its endorsements for contested races in the June 24 party primaries.

For County Council District 1 This is a fight between two candidates with strong name recognition. Councilman Roger Berliner and former Councilwoman Duchy Trachtenberg have attacked each others’ campaign contributions and records on development.

Berliner continues to claim to hold Pepco’s feet to the fire when it comes to reliability, but Trachtenberg questions his authenticity, since the utility company is one of his campaign contributors. Meanwhile, Trachtenberg is bolstered by a strong showing from the development community.

In this race, The Gazette’s endorsement goes to Berliner, who has pledged to reduce the energy tax, has a commitment to the underemployed and is pushing for tax relief for senior citizens.

For County Council District 2 Council President Craig Rice has been an effective council president and gets The Gazette’s endorsement. He will be a key player in some large issues the council will face in the next term. He has pushed development in his district, which covers the Germantown/Clarksburg area. He is urging a resolution to the sewer service issue in Clarksburg’s Town Center, while also protecting the Ten Mile Creek watershed with the decision capping permeable surfaces in new development there. He boasts a commitment to the agricultural industry and the preservation of farming.

Rice chairs the council’s education committee, which recently passed a recommendation to fully fund the school board’s requested FY15 operating budget and technology requests through accounting maneuvers that will save taxpayers.

His opponent, Neda Bolourian, has guts. She wants counties to be able to legalize, tax and regulate the sale of marijuana. This new industry, she says, could provide jobs and small business opportunities, as well as revenue for the county. Although a brave stance, it’s unrealistic.

LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR

Bag fee helps reduce litter What is the mark of civilization? The writer who wants to end the 5-cent bag fee in Montgomery County [“End the bag tax,” letter, May 7] thinks civilization means all purchases are automatically packaged for free.

On the contrary, I contend that the true mark of civilization is a clean, healthy, caring, and sustainable community.

The bag fee in Montgomery County has brought us greatly reduced bag litter on streets and in our waterways, benefiting wildlife and our property values. The Surfrider Foundation has researched the harm to wildlife caused by plastic litter: an estimated 100,000 marine mammals and 1 million sea birds die each year after ingesting or being tangled in plastic.

Americans run through about 100 billion plastic bags a year, or 360 per man, woman, and child.

These go somewhere. They float, they travel on air currents even after delivered to a landfill. They do not biodegrade. Instead, they split into ever smaller pieces, which wildlife mistake for food.

For County Council District 3 Rockville City Councilman Tom Moore, Gaithersburg City Councilman Ryan Spiegel and Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney Katz are vying for a seat on the council. Guled Kassim, a Derwood resident, did not return The Gazette’s request for an interview.

Moore has shown a great dedication to making sure his municipal colleagues are held to high ethical standards and touts the Rockville Housing Enterprise’s purchase of the Fireside Apartments as an example of his commitment to affordable housing.

Katz describes himself the voice for small business on the county council. He recently shut down his longtime business in Gaithersburg’s Olde Town.

He’s been mayor since 1998 and certainly a recognizable face and ambassador for the city.

The Gazette endorsement goes to the energetic Spiegel, in part for the work he’s done helping the city’s low-income residents. His Bank On Gaithersburg program established partnerships between nonprofits, banks, and government for financial literacy services and provides programs to help people build savings and improve their credit. He has a pro-business attitude, supporting aid for small businesses. He’s committed to preserving green space in the county and “paperless” meetings.

For County Council District 5 There is a little for everyone in the District 5 candidate pool.

With no incumbent — the seat was Valerie Ervin’s (D) until she resigned to head a nonprofit organization — five candidates ran: school board member Christopher Barclay; Silver Spring activists Evan Glass and Jeffrey Thames; Del. Tom Hucker; and Takoma Park activist Terrill North.

Glass, while green to holding office, is not a newcomer to the community. He has grassroots experience on the transportation, housing and economic needs of the district — a valuable perspective when weighing issues. For this work on the ground floor, he earns The Gazette’s endorsement.

The Gazette Karen Acton, President/Publisher

The writer has perhaps not seen pictures of seabirds that have starved to death with stomachs full of plastic. It is a very painful sight.

I am sorry that the writer chooses to waste time and gas driving outside Montgomery County to avoid the tax.

If she goes to D.C., she will find that the fee there is indeed 5 cents, not 3 as she believes, and applies to both plastic and paper.

Some 500 other jurisdictions around the country now either ban bags or charge a fee. For the purchase she mentioned, a couple of bras, perhaps she could simply have used one of those bags she carries.

In all events, as more jurisdictions decide “enough is enough” and move to either ban plastic bags or tax them, she will find fewer places to go where her purchases are automatically packaged without a bag fee.

Anne Ambler, Silver Spring The writer is the outreach chair of Neighbors of the Northwest Branch.

Bag fee cuts retailers’ costs

A letter writer doesn’t like the Montgomery bag tax for some poorly-explained reason [“End the bag tax,” letter, May 7]. I’ll bet she hasn’t seen Rock Creek Park after the last big rain. Well, some street trash still washes into our streams, but the plastic bags are gone!

There used to be ugly pools of polyethylene behind every washed-out tree and shredded bags hanging from branches at high water like tattered ghosts left left dead after Halloween.

The Chamber of Commerce doesn’t like the tax either. But retailers’ modest costs are actually decreased because customers use fewer bags. No, they complain because the will of the people (read “government”) is restricting retailer’s freedom to make money by degrading the environment.

They are afraid some other law, like taxing poisonous addictive drugs (cigarettes), or cutting taxpayer subsidies for commercial parking, might diminish the portfolio of some billionaire who uses corporate money (read “your money”) to fund the Chamber of Commerce and hundreds of other well-financed anti-regulation lobbies.

Land of Pleasant Dying? holds) than any state in the If you die in Virginia and nation. But a growing body your estate (the net worth of data indicates that wealthy of your home, savings, busiMarylanders are fleeing to ness, investments, vehicles, no-death tax etc.) is less than $5.3 states like Virginia, millions you won’t Florida and the pay any estate tax Carolinas. (“death tax”).

Maryland’s But if you die in net loss of 66,000 Maryland you’ll pay US taxpayers dur16 percent on everying the 2000-2010 thing in your estate decade cost the above $1 million and state a taxable the attorney’s, acincome net loss countant’s, appraisof $5.5 billion. er’s and other costs necessary to file the MY MARYLAND And a new Gallup poll indicates that tax often exceed the BLAIR LEE Maryland in no tax, itself. longer “the land of Is Maryland’s death tax causing wealthy indi- pleasant living” to many of its residents. viduals to flee the state? At first According to Gallup’s nablush it doesn’t seem so, 2010 Census data shows Maryland’s tional survey taken during the population increased 9 percent last half of 2013, 47 percent of Maryland’s residents would (447,066) to 5.7 million during relocate to another state if they that decade. But a closer look could. Only two states (Illinois tells a different story. and Connecticut) had higher All of Maryland’s 9 percent population gain was due to the dissatisfaction rates. Even more shocking were Maryarrival of 321,000 immigrants landers’ responses when asked boosting their share of the if they were “likely (either state’s population from 9.8 extremely, very or somewhat) percent to 14.3 percent, and to leave the state in the next a plus in births over deaths.

12 months.” Seventeen perThese increases masked Marycent of Marylanders answered land’s net “domestic migra“yes.” Only three states (Netion” loss, the movement of vada, Illinois and Arizona) did American citizens between worse. states. During that decade And why are so many 1,401,000 U.S. citizens left Marylanders intent on movMaryland while only 1,335,000 ing? Jobs, work and family U.S. citizens moved in, a net came in first, weather and loss of 66,000. location came in second but “Not to worry,” say Mary“taxes” came in third. Only land’s death tax defenders, in New York did “taxes” rank Maryland still has more higher as the reason for leavmillionaires per capita (7.7 ing. Here’s Gallup’s poll percent of Maryland house-

analysis, “Nevada, Illinois, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York and Connecticut all appear particularly vulnerable to losing population in the coming few years ... taxes are a uniquely important factor in New York, Illinois and Maryland.”

Some Maryland elected officials have finally grown alarmed. The surprise of this year’s General Assembly session was Democrats lining up behind estate tax reform, a perennial Republican measure that the Dems always quashed.

Apparently Senate President Mike Miller cut a political deal, a minimum wage increase to $10.10 per hour in exchange for estate tax reform. Just to be sure, Miller bottled up the minimum wage bill in the Senate until his estate tax reform passed the House.

And Miller’s reason for raising the estate tax exemption to the federal level over the next five years? “We’re having a net loss of revenue to our sister states with regard to people who are being advised by their accountants and estate planners that they can save money for their heirs if they maybe say they live outside the state of Maryland. ... We’re losing to Delaware, were losing to Virginia, North Carolina, were losing to Tennessee. I wish those states hadn’t abolished their estate tax, but they have. We’re in competition to keep our Marylander’s home.”

Miller’a bill drew rebuke from the usual suspects who view wealth as evil: “It’s con-

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servative propaganda to suggest we have to pass this bill to hold onto millionaires,” Del. Heather Mizeur said. “Passage of this measure would be a grave injustice ... helping the very few at the expense of many,” Progressive Maryland said.

Only those folks would call it a “tax break” to forgo taxing someone’s income twice — once when they earn it and, again, when they die. And only liberals would contend that governments, not someone’s heirs, have a greater claim to a deceased person’s estate. This is Maryland’s first meaningful tax cut in nearly 20 years, too bad you have to be dead to enjoy it.

For once, reason prevailed over rhetoric in Annapolis and estate tax reform passed 119 to 14 in the House and 36 to 10 in the Senate. Starting next year, estates below $1.5 million will escape Maryland’s death tax.

In 2016 the exemption rises to $2 million, in 2017 to $3 million, in 2018 to $4 million and in 2019 to the federal level expected to be $5.9 million.

If you plan on living until 2019, stick around. But if you can’t hold on until then, start looking for a less expensive place to die.

Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His past columns are available at www.gazette.net/ blairlee. His email address is blairleeiv@gmail.com.

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LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR

Support for Kagan

Support for Simmons

Your endorsement of Cheryl Kagan for State Senate District 17 correctly cited Kagan’s congeniality and her relationship-building skills, which will benefit Montgomery County, while her opponent has demonstrated the opposite.

In addition to Simmons’ harsh behavior, I believe there are several other important differences between Kagan and Simmons. Until his “election-year conversion,” Simmons has never been an advocate for victims of domestic violence.

Cheryl Kagan has a long history of being a strong advocate for victims of domestic violence and other women’s issues.

He has been singled out for leading the effort to kill much-needed domestic violence legislation. On the other hand, Cheryl Kagan has a long history of being a strong advocate for victims of domestic violence and other women’s issues, as evidenced both by her record and her endorsements (including a strong one by our retiring Senator, Jennie Forehand!). In addition, Kagan has been an effective advocate for passage of important legislation, such as when she worked as a federal lobbyist with Jim and Sarah Brady to pass the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban. I commend the Gazette newspaper for its astute endorsement in this important election.

Rev. John Cooper-Martin, Rockville

I was very disappointed in the Gazette’s endorsement of former Del. Cheryl Kagan over Del. Luiz Simmons for the District 17 Senate seat [“... For D-17 Senate, Kagan ...,” April 30].

It seems that the primary reason that you selected Ms. Kagan over Mr. Simmons is that “Kagan can be far more congenial.”

Montgomery County has a long history of sending “nice … congenial” representatives to the Maryland State Legislature. And what have we gotten from it? Nothing.

The legislature is controlled by the representatives from the People’s Republic of Baltimore, who notoriously, injudiciously waste tax funds — paid in greatest percentage by Mongomery taxpayers — on self-interested programs that disproportionately serve the Baltimore population; Montgomery gets back about 15-17 percent of all the tax revenue it sends to the state.

You are correct in representing Mr. Simmons as an elected official who has a reputation for “using hard-nosed tactics” in his dealings with the wasteful Baltimore political machine in the legislature. You state that “those tactics have given him a reputation of being far too

What we need is someone who is willing to stand up and fight hard for the abused Montgomery taxpayers. Luiz Simmons is that person. harsh.” It is impossible to be “too harsh” when dealing with the bareknuckle, self-interested hacks from Baltimore.

What we need is someone who is willing to stand up and fight hard for the abused Montgomery taxpayers.

Luiz Simmons is that person.

The Miss America Pageant awards a “Miss Congeniality” sash to one of the pageant losers every year. That contestant is never heard from again.

If you want to award the “Miss Congeniality” sash to Ms. Kagan, I am OK with that … but I would prefer that the “State Senator” sash be awarded to Mr. Simmons.

Les Francis, Rockville

Support for Bowser because he supports ‘temporary officiants’ This year’s election for Clerk of the Montgomery County Circuit Court could bring an important change to Maryland’s marriage laws. Alan Bowser, one of the candidates for County Clerk, supports a proposed change to state law that would give couples freedom of choice when it comes to who can marry them.

Mr. Bowser believes that we should permit everyday Marylanders to receive temporary authorization by the Clerk of a Circuit Court to perform a legal marriage ceremony.

Currently, outside of clerks of the court and judges, only clergy are authorized to sign a marriage license in our state. Mr. Bowser believes that the act of signing a marriage license, i.e., acting as an agent of the state for marriages, shouldnotbelimitedoutsideofthecourthouse to only clergy. In fact, this is already the law of the land in California, Massachusetts, Vermont and the District of Columbia.

Why does this matter? There are countless coupleswhosimplydonothaveaclergyperson in their life to officiate their wedding. There are

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There are many couples who simply prefer to have a family member or dear friend officiate their wedding ceremony. others who might choose to marry in Maryland as a destination wedding, far away from their home place of worship. Or perhaps they are an interfaith couple, or a same-gender couple, whose clergyperson is uncomfortable officiating.

There are many couples who simply prefer to have a family member or dear friend officiate their wedding ceremony. In all of these cases, the couple should have theflexibility,the freedom, and the joy of calling on the person of their choosing to solemnize their marriage.

Unfortunately, these couples are now

forced to send their desired officiant into an inane and confusing process of becoming credentialed online as “ministers” in order to have the authority perform the marriage in question.

We can do better. Maryland should facilitate loving, meaningful, inspirational and legal marriages by adopting a law that would grant couples the important freedom to choose who can officiate their marriage and enable the chosen individuals to sign the marriage license.

As a non-clergy person who has joyfully officiated at dozens of weddings, I appreciate that Mr. Bowser has outright stated in his campaign as clerk of the court that he would work with the General Assembly and the judiciary to make “temporary officiants” a reality.

This is a policy change that would foster equality and fairness for our community.

Dan Furmansky, Silver Spring

Lee column went too far I usually enjoy reading what my friend Blair Lee writes, even if I frequently disagree with much of it. But his May 7 column was over the top [“Missing persons report”].

Blair attacks Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown for attending his stepson’s confirmation at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Upper Marlboro instead of participating in a debate sponsored by several Democratic clubs in the county. Blair calls this a “B.S.” excuse and claims the lieutenant governor was “lying” about the reason for the cancellation.

C’mon Blair! The lieutenant governor is raising this young man, whose father, Tony Walker, a Prince George’s police officer, died after sustaining injuries in the line of duty. The young man lives with the lieutenant governor, his stepfather, and his mother, Karmen Walker

Brown, the lieutenant governor’s wife.

In the Catholic Church, confirmation is a major sacramental event in the spiritual life of a young person. Is it when a young Catholic comes of age in the church. So the lieutenant governor should have skipped his stepson’s confirmation to attend a Democratic forum? Really? And by the way, the lieutenant governor has attended every other forum in the county except one held in the days before his father’s death.

Let’s get some perspective here: stepfather and stepson will look back years from now and say they are glad they put family and church first. It’s just not a close call. In fact, I’m sure they already feel that way today, Blair’s column notwithstanding.

Tim Maloney, Silver Spring

Support for Andrews’ public campaign financing plan I chuckled in reading the letter in the April 30 Gazette rejecting County Executive Candidate Phil Andrews’ proposal to support campaigns with public funds that ALL council members endorsed in February 2014 [“Andrews’ public campaign financing proposal is a bad idea”].

Candidate Andrews has consistently refused money from special interests. This allows him to make more objective, financially sound decisions.

He focuses on the longterm costs of budget proposals to keep taxpayers’ monies in their own hands.

I chuckled because it is unrealistic to think that money does not influence a position a politician takes; otherwise, why give the money to the can-

didate in the first place?

In 2006, in the Washington Post, Mr. Duncan’s 2006 budget “reflected major multiyear increases in pay and benefits that he had negotiated for police, firefighters and other county workers.”

In 2013, in the Washington Post, “Leggett[’s budget] negotiated with the county’s police, fire and general employee unions, which call for increases of from 13.5 percent to 19.5 percent during the next two years.”

So that is why I support public funding of candidates running for offices, and why I am supporting Phil Andrews for County Executive.

E. Linda Rafats, Potomac

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New state law places stiffer penalties on home invasions Victims tell harrowing stories of encounters

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For Betty Tubbs, the bad part wasn’t being tied up, gagged and blindfolded in the basement, while an intruder sifted through her belongings.

“The worst part is after it’s all over,” said Tubbs, 83, of Chevy Chase Village. “The suspicion and wondering what I could have done differently.”

In 2007, Tubbs was one of several victims targeted by Jose Garcia-Perlera, who stalked his victims before breaking into their homes and robbing them. The victims lived in Chevy Chase, Bethesda and Potomac.

Garcia-Perlera received a life sentence for beating to death Mary Havenstein.

Tubbs said the conviction brought justice, but it wasn’t quite enough.

At the time, there was no legal distinction between burglary and home invasion — what Tubbs and the other victims endured.

“When you say burglary, people think of property crimes, they think of unoccupied homes,” Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said.

“These women were stalked. ... It was planned that they would be home. That’s a different type of crime. It’s a huge risk to human safety. But for the bravery of Mrs. Tubbs and her own ingenuity she may not be with us here today.”

Lawmakers in Annapolis agreed.

On March 14, Gov. Martin O’Malley signed into law a new measure that will treat home invasions differently, giving them maximum 25-year sentences.

A burglary conviction carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.

The law takes effect Oct. 1.

“We needed to create a new lawthatwouldeffectivelyfightand deter this type of crime and give prosecutors the tools they need,”

said Del. Susan C. Lee (D-Dist. 16) of Bethesda, who tried to get the law passed for four years. She said some lawmakers felt home invasions didn’t need special distinction and it was adequate to classify them as burglaries.

There were 36 home invasions reported in Montgomery County in 2013, according to crime statistics provided by the state’s attorney’s office.

Tubbs and several other Montgomery County home invasion victims testified in Annapolis in support of the law.

On May 7, some of the victims joined Lee; Sen. Jennie M. Forehand (D-Dist. 17) of Rockville, who sponsored the bill in the Senate; and McCarthy in Rockville on to celebrate the bill’s passage.

One victim was a housekeeper who was sexually assaulted by an intruder at a Bethesda residence in 2012. The woman asked to remain anonymous during last week’s event.

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“He timed it right. He knew that I turned off the TV and went to bed at 11:30.”

Betty Tubbs, 83, of Chevy Chase Village name victims of sex crimes.

According to court filings, her assailant placed a gun against her head and forced her inside the home, where the homeowner and her son were. After the intruder took cash and credit cards, he ordered the housekeeper into a bathroom and sexually assaulted her.

Kevin Darnell Ray, 35, of Fort Washington was sentenced to life plus 340 years in connection with the home invasion, according to Ramon Korionoff, a spokesman for the State’s Attorney’s Office.

Ray filed an appeal, which was heard April 11 in the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. An opinion has not yet been issued.

Tubbs said she was alone watching TV during her home invasion on Nov. 27, 2007.

At first, it was just like any other night. It was 11:30 p.m., the evening news had just gone off, and she was about to go to bed.

Then, the lights went black.

“He timed it right,” she said.

“He knew that I turned off the TV and went to bed at 11:30.”

Garcia-Perlera, 39, of Hyattsville, had cut the lights and was waiting in the basement when Tubbs went to check the fuse.

He shoved her to the ground and tied her up, then went off looking for things to steal. Periodically, he returned to the basement, demanding to know where

she kept her money.

“Finally, I thought, well, maybe I can pretend like the old lady who gave up,” Tubbs said.

“So, the next time he came down and said, ‘Where’s the money?,’ I said, ‘Oh, you wore me out. ... Go look. There’s some money in my purse.’”

With $60 from her purse and several of her personal belongings in hand, Garcia-Perlera climbed out a basement window he had broken his way through, leaving Tubbs tied up in the basement with clothes line cord — which she had loosened 10 minutes after he arrived.

“I knew that I couldn’t do any harm if I attacked him, so I was just using it to be able to get loose when he left,” Tubbs said.

One of Garcia-Perlera’s victims wasn’t as lucky. McCarthy said the woman wasn’t discovered for four days at her home in Potomac. Pistol-whipped and beaten, she had been tied up for so long, she lost the use of her hands.

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LINDSAY A. POWERS STAFF WRITER

Some Montgomery County schools community members say the playing field could be evened for private contributions that pay for facility improvements at local schools.

Possible methods, they say, could include a central funding pool or guidance to schools with less fundraising experience and fewer resources.

Three public meetings in early May drew about 50 parentteacher association members, booster club leaders and other people from around the county.

They discussed private contributions that pay for nonessential facility projects and items in Montgomery County Public

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Schools, such as playground equipment, scoreboards and butterfly gardens.

The meetings are part of a larger effort to explore the possible need for school system policy changes. The goal is to see if board action is necessary to make the situation fairer for schools in less affluent areas.

The policy on private contributions for facility improvements includes money from PTAs, booster clubs, businesses and local government agencies.

Large contributions come up once in a while, but more often in the county’s more affluent communities, according to Bruce Crispell, director of the school system’s Division of Long-range Planning.

Contributions under $1,000 were most common from 2011 through 2013, followed by contributions in the $1,000 to $3,000 range.

At all three meetings, participants discussed the potential

use of the Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation, Inc. as a central point for contributions.

The foundation — a nonprofit organization the county school board established to receive money from a variety of sources — could distribute money to facility improvement projects around the county, some said.

Yolanda Johnson Pruitt, the foundation’s executive director, said at the May 7 meeting at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring that the foundation has focused on providing college scholarships and teachers grants.

The organization is “just getting into that area” of facility improvements, Pruitt said, and she thinks it could help schools organize fundraising efforts.

“I think the foundation could take a bigger role,” she said.

Participants at the meetings

discussed whether individuals could put their money toward a general fund and how much schools might be required to contribute.

Jill Ortman-Fouse, a school system parent who is running for a county school board seat, said she has seen others donate to those in need outside their school community.

“There’s a consciousness we have to acknowledge,” she said.

Others voiced concerns about an idea to direct some percentage of money a school raised above a certain amount to the general fund.

Bill Burchett, president of Richard Montgomery’s booster club, described his school’s recent efforts to raise about $20,000 for two scoreboards.

Citing the example of a 15- or 20-percent contribution requirement, he said he thinks donations would drop significantly if his community had to direct that percentage outside

the school, creating more work to raise what it needed for its project.

Some participants from the May 5 meeting at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown supported the idea of contributing to a county pool, but not making it mandatory.

The groups also discussed how to potentially strengthen the ability of some schools to raise money.

Cathy Stocker — vice president of the Friends of Westbrook School Foundation and PTA president at Chevy Chase Elementary School — said she helped raise about $247,000 for improvements to the allpurpose room and courtyard at Westbrook Elementary School in Bethesda.

The lessons she learned could benefit others, she said.

“We can be a tremendous resource to each other,” Stocker said, and “anyone, anywhere” can do what she did.

Another participant at the Springbrook High discussion disgreed that any parent could achieve the same fundraising feat, saying the skills are not “easily transferrable” to parents facing challenges, such as working multiple jobs or language barriers.

“This is the reality of many schools in the county,” she said.

Crispell said participants from the third meeting at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac who had been through the fundraising process described it as “a real learning curve,” but thought there might be a way to transfer their knowledge.

The input from the meetings will go to a steering committee studying the issue. The steering committee will send a report to the county school board’s policy committee, likely by the end of the school year, Crispell said. lpowers@gazette.net

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uring James Franklin’s brief tenure as the football coach at Penn State University he has laid out a recruiting plan to “dominate the state.” That notion, he noted during a speaking tour stop in Baltimore on May 7, doesn’t just include Pennsylvania; Franklin also considers Maryland and New Jersey “in-state.”

And three highly-regarded local junior defensive linemen are buying into what Franklin is selling. Blue-chip tackle recruit and Quince Orchard High School’s Adam McLean (four-star rating according to Rivals.com, No. 1-ranked player in Maryland), Gaithersburg defensive end/linebacker Kamonte Carter (four stars, No. 5) and Bullis defensive end Jon Holland (three stars, No. 11) all verbally committed to attending Penn State. They are part of Rivals. com and 247sports.com’s No. 2-ranked 2015 recruiting class.

“It’s almost like a clean sweep sorts,” said Gaithersburg coach Kreg Kephart, who has attended Penn State’s coaching clinic under the late-Joe Paterno and Franklin. Former Trojan

defensive lineman Sean Stanley also attended Penn State. “I’ve never seen it before. You put your money down and hit on all three of them.

If they pan out and play to the level they are projected are, Penn State is going to have some darn good football players. I mean, it’s pretty uncommon for multiple guys from one area and same position to go to the same program.”

Henry A. Wise High School safety Marcus Allen and DeMatha Catholic running back Mark Allen signed with the Nittany Lions’ 2014 class.

McLean, Carter and Holland all said they were impressed with the school’s atmosphere, campus, rural scenery, academics, chance to play freshman year and the excitement of the coaching staff.

“It’s going to be awesome,” the 6-foot-2, 290-pound McLean said. “We are going to get to rep MoCo and the state of Maryland up in Happy Valley. We all have really good relationships and the chance to all play together on the same defensive line is really, really cool. ...

Hopefully we will cause a lot of havoc.”

The trio have all said the coaching staff has

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Gaithersburg High School’s Kamonte Carter is verbally committed to Penn State.

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Track and field: Indoor 1,600 state champ wins her first county title

BY PRINCE J. GRIMES STAFF WRITER

Walter Johnson High School’s Kiernan Keller is the reigning indoor 1,600 meters Class 4A state champion.

She, however, finished second in the Montgomery County indoor championships — it was one of her first races back from an injury.

So, when the junior earned firstplace at last week’s outdoor county championship, it was her county crown. Not to mention, her time of 4 minutes, 59.28 seconds set a personal record.

She admitted that it was nice to win and establish a new personal best, but said that all of her efforts while running are put towards the bigger goal of try-

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ing to help her team, which finished in seventh place.

“It was pretty cool,” Keller said. “I knew that there were a bunch of other girls that were pretty great competitors in it too, so we really just would all have to run hard and I knew I would have to give my best. But coming through and crossing the line, it was nice because that way I can get my team points.”

Keller also finished in the 3,200.

Her teammates, Emily Murphy and Irina Bukharin, finished third and sixth in that event. Murphy also placed third in the 1,600. They are among the teammates that Keller described as a great group of girls with a lot of talent, that push each other to be better. She said that track is more of a team sport than people realize.

“I think team success is very important. A lot of times I go into things and I think, ‘Alright, how can I do this to help my team? If I can win this and get more points, that’s what I need to do then.’ ... Because position is impor-

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Walter Johnson High School’s Kiernan Keller (right) runs the 3,200-meters May 7 during the county championships.

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When lacrosse was first introduced to Montgomery County as a varsity sport in 1997, coaches’ main concern was filling out full rosters. At that point there was little exposure to the sport at the youth level and since the speed of play and general concept was similar to sports like soccer and field hockey, it began to dip into the pool of athletes that in the past would’ve otherwise filtered into softball during the spring season, coaches agreed.

For a few years, longtime Montgomery Blair High School softball coach Louie Hoelman said, it seemed like interest in softball was waning.

But as the novelty of lacrosse has worn off and popularity at the youth level has made it harder for newcomers to break into starting lineups, softball seems to be coming out the other side of the lacrosse craze just fine.

“Now you have club lacrosse players coming in who are starting to dominate. If you’re not a kid playing year-round lacrosse, you’re not going to have the same opportunities as when the sport was new to the county,” Col. Zadok Magruder softball coach Ed Hendrickson said. “[Softball

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James H. Blake High School freshman pitcher Ellie Smethurst throws to first April 28 to get a Thomas S. Wootton player out.

and lacrosse] are two very different sports. Lacrosse matches up to field hockey and soccer, softball is a very mental sport with explosive power and explosive speed. It’s nothing to insanity in one second. It’s a different type of athlete that’s drawn to it, I think a lot of people are realizing that and coming back to softball.”

What’s happening now, coaches agreed, is that girls are getting earlier exposure to lacrosse due to its rapid growth at the youth level so most are choosing one or the other at an earlier point. Travel softball is also on the rise; numerous new organizations have popped up countywide the past five to eight years, which has helped lift the level of competition in Montgomery County in general.

One major reason is the influx of

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BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

After watching her undefeated freshman No. 2 singles player Kyryl Tsygura close out a 6-4, first-set win in the county tournament semifinals May 6, Thomas S. Wootton High School boys’ tennis coach Nia Cresham moved on to check on some of her other players, confident he was in good position to secure a spot in the final.

“All of a sudden, I wasn’t paying attention to his match anymore, someone came over to me and said, ‘Kyryl is sick,’” Cresham said. “He got so sick, he had stomach [pain]. He lost the second set and he was dragging himself around the court.”

But even in that precarious situation and under a new kind of pressure in his first year as the member of a team, the 15-year-old was poised enough to come up with a plan. And even more impressively, execute it.

“He was very smart,” Cresham said. “Shots where he’d have to expend too much energy to get them he would just let go, shots close enough to get to he would not waste any time, he would just put them away. I was surprised, especially for his age, how poised he was in that situation. A lot of guys would be like, ‘I’m going to get to try and get to every shot and get this over as quick as possible.’ He didn’t let that loss in the second set faze him.”

Tsygura, who is ranked No. 75 nationally in the U.S. Tennis Association

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Thomas S. Wootton High School’s Kyryl Tsygura is one of the top tennis players in the state.

Boys 16s, went on to win the match and the final on Thursday at Paint Branch in straight sets to prevent Walt Whitman from winning county titles in all seven brackets. His maturity in a situation that likely would’ve stricken panic in even the most experienced athletes was remarkable but not necessarily surprising given what he’s been faced with this year, issues well beyond what any young teenager should be dealing with.

Born in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine, Tsygura moved to the United States with his immediate family when he was 18 months old for better opportunities, his mother, Lena Gordiyanko, said. But the rest of his family, his grandparents, uncle and great-grandparents remain in the region at the center of the current Ukranian crisis.

While Tsygura said there has been an ongoing effort to get them out, some are too elderly to travel, Gordiyenko said, complicating matters.

“I try not to think about it that much because when I do, it’s sad,” Tsygura said. “We’re trying to move them but it’s a long process. We never know what’s going to happen, it’s

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A number of things run through Keller’s head, she said, as she tries to establish the best position. To name a few, she said, are her current position,

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Holland and McLean developed a friendship when the

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where everyone else is, how hard she’s going and whether she needs to pick it up. Her focus was one of the first things that Walter Johnson track and field coach, Tom Martin, said he noticed about her.

“One of the things that really has struck me from the very start is she’s a very focused athlete,” Martin said. “She’s willing

to do whatever it takes to make herself faster. She listens, she’s smart, and she’s very easy to coach. The biggest worry you have with her is to make sure she doesn’t do too much.”

“I totally believe in what he wants me to do. What he tells me to do, I do,” Keller said.

Keller said she approaches every event the same, and al-

though she hasn’t celebrated the same level of success in the 3,200 that she has in the 1,600, Martin believes that she will eventually.

“I ultimately think she’s going to be tremendous at 3,200, and probably longer events by the time she gets to college,” Martin said. “Right now, we’re getting her to focus a little bit on

her speed and we’ll see what she can do next year in the 3,200.”

Keller should get an opportunity to compete at the 4A West Region championships, scheduled for Wednesday at Clarksburg, and then the state meet at Morgan State in Baltimore.

It’s no surprise what Keller’s goals are for those events.

“Just do the best I can for my

team,” she said. “Obviously, just run as well as I can, as hard as I can — [because] there are a lot of great girls out there that we compete against and there all going to be giving everything they have, so I’m going to be giving everything I have, and we’ll just see how it plays out.”

latter was exploring options to transfer from Avalon after his freshman year (McLean considered Bullis before opting for Quince Orchard). McLean and Carter have known each other from playing against each other and live “pretty much around the corner” in Gaithersburg.

Carter and Holland were introduced at combines and during

the college recruiting process.

All three encouraged each other to attend Penn State.

“We’re not just like any other committed class that we see each other when we see each other,” said McLean, who committed during the Nittany Lions’ spring game on April 12 and plans to major in communications. “We are all really

good friends already.”

“It just reminds me of Bullis with one big happy family,” said Holland, listed at 6-foot-4 and 235 pounds and committed on May 3. He plans to major in international business. “It felt like home. I had visited 12 to 15 other schools prior to Penn State so I knew what I was looking for.

“I feel like we can do something special over the four years we’re there. It’s a great coaching staff, the people surrounding us and support staff.”

Carter, a 6-foot-4, 235-pound versatile athlete, was recruited by Franklin’s staff when it was at Vanderbilt.

The mutual interest moved on to Penn State and resulted in

Carter committing during Penn State’s junior day in February.

“If you see the blue and white on a football team, you think Penn State,” Carter said.

“Their uniform, logo and ‘We Are’ chants is pretty much like a brand. It doesn’t get much better than that.”

school tenure, Hendrickson said, with the number of games played. With an increase of opportunities to start pursuing fastpitch at the 10-under level, more and more freshmen are arriving on the high school softball scene with national-level experience. Take for instance, Northwest sophomore pitcher

Bridgette Barbour, who led the Jaguars to their first-ever state semifinal appearance last spring as a freshman.

“It’s not like kids are experimenting with these sports anymore like every kid plays soccer when they’re 4 years old,” Hoelman said. “With softball, if you’re starting [club softball] at

that age, there’s a reason you’ve started at that age, you’re taking it seriously. A lot of teams that used to be right in the middle seem to be on the rise right now and I think it’s because younger players are coming in and making an impact right away.”

Coaches also agreed more exposure to the highest level of

fastpitch thanks to increased coverage of NCAA competition by the ESPN networks has helped generate interest in the sport — it is extremely fastpaced and strategic.

Montgomery County is home to the highest profile softball player to come out of Maryland since 2010 Arizona State

graduate and recent Greater Washington Fastpitch Softball Hall of Fame inductee Meghan Elliott in current University of Missouri freshman pitcher Tori Finucane. Finucane, who last week was named Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year, has been on national television three times in the past two weeks alone and county coaches agree her success has had a major impact in the youth and high school softball communities alike.

“You turn on the TV now and softball is pretty prevalent, these girls are getting to see what a neat sport it is and how exciting of a game it is,” Northwest coach Kevin Corpuz said. “There has been a lot of chatter about [Finucane], the players talk, even my son who plays baseball, his coach, you hear parents talking about it. What she’s doing is not going unnoticed, everyone is talking about it. The interest it generates is definitely a positive.”

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Added Cresham: “I can only speak from what I see but I think he definitely sees things differently. Things that some kids would really freak out about, I think he is able to see the big things from the little things.

He doesn’t stress over the little things.”

Just like he didn’t panic when things went awry in his county semifinal. The more aggressive style of play that got Tsygura out of that match was fairly against his type. Though he’s capable of generating some firepower on his groundstrokes — despite his slight, 5-foot-7 frame — it’s his unteachable finesse, the wicked slice and dropshots, his remarkable accuracy, that typically breaks his opponents down. But his ability to alter his game was just another example of how truly dynamic he is and the intelligence behind his versatility — he doesn’t just have the tools, he almost always chooses the right time to use them.

For the third straight year, Wootton will lose its top player next spring but the Patriots should be in good hands with Tsygura atop the lineup; Cresham said he already took on some leadership responsibilities even as a first-year member.

His commitment to the team is not something Cresham takes for granted either, as players of his caliber sometimes opt out of high school tennis — he trains more than 20 hours per week outside of Wootton’s practice and matches. Though the individualistic nature of the sport is what drew Tsygura to choose tennis over soccer three years ago, he said, he’s relished the opportunity to be part of a team.

“It was hectic trying to balance everything but it’s OK, it was fun, I liked it,” Tsygura said.

“I think we did much better than people expected and it was because of leadership from the seniors. I look forward to next year, hopefully I can be a leader and help the team like they helped me this year.” jbeekman@gazette.net

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MPSSAA endorses USA Football’s safety program Heads Up Football to be implemented at Maryland schools

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The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association has become the first state high school association to endorse USA Football’s Heads Up Football, a program designed to reduce head injuries and improve player safety, the MPSSAA announced Monday.

About half of Maryland’s 187 football-playing schools are expected to implement USA Football’s safety program, which was piloted in 35 high schools across 10 states in 2013.

“We realized that what they were doing was a very positive program to help reduce injuries and help to reduce the nature of risk,” MPSSAA Executive Director Ned Sparks said.

Participating schools will designate one staff member, a “player safety coach,” who teaches safer tackling techniques

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A Suitland High School football player is tackled by Northwest Dec. 6 in the Class 4A State championship. that minimize helmet contact.

The appointed coach, certified

by USA Football with an eighthour training session, will conductsafetyclinicsforcoachesand players while acting as a community liaison.

“We’re excited to now be working with the coaches across the state and make sure that we

put in place what we believe is the most comprehensive approach to a better, safer game,” said Scott Hallenbeck, executive director of USA Football.

USA Football — the sport’s national governing body — launched Heads Up Football in 2012 and is using a five-year, $45 million grant from the National

Football League Foundation to expand the program across the country.

Hallenbeck anticipates that between500to1,000highschools will implement Heads Up Football in 2014.

“This is very much the first couple steps in this long journey in terms of how we develop heads up football across the country,” he said.

Robert Cantu, a neurosurgeon and concussion expert at BostonUniversity’sCenterforthe StudyofTraumaticEncephalopathy, said reducing helmet contact is a “positive step,” but cautioned that the Heads Up Football program would not eliminate head injuries.

“You’re going to wind up getting head-to-head contact no matter how you teach the sport,” said Cantu, who recommended children under 14 not play tackle football. “... I don’t think this should be viewed as a step that solves the problem.”

Thomas Hearn, a youth athletics safety advocate, expressed concerns about whether coaches and athletes would comply with the Heads Up Football program.

Hearn, whose son sustained a concussion playing football at Walt Whitman two-and-a-half years ago, said that football players would be exposed to head trauma even with improved tackling techniques.

“It [makes football] less dangerous that this technique is being taught, but there are some questions about whether or not it automatically makes football safe,” Hearn said.

Heads Up Football’s expansion comes as youth football’s participation numbers are on the decline at the national and state level. Participation for Pop Warner, the nation’s largest and most recognized youth football program, dropped 9.5 percent from 2010 to 2012, according to ESPN’s Outside the Lines.

Maryland’s high school football participation (14,632 in 2012-13) has dropped six percent since 2008, after increasing by 20 percent — from 12,932 to 15,561 — in the preceding six seasons, according to data from the National Federation of State High School Associations. egoldwein@gazette.net

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The Col. Zadok Magruder High School boys’ lacrosse team doubled its win total for the second straight season, but ask second-yearcoachStephenBurrowsabout the Colonels’ best game this spring and he won’t mention any of the five victories, or even the three one-goal losses.

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BY ERIC GOLDWEIN Instead, he’ll bring up a 17-8 loss to Sherwood.

“That was really the highlight of our season. As a program, seeing the maturity.

Seeing how we battled against one of these upper-level teams in the county,” Burrows said. “... I don’t think in the past 10 years we’veeverplayedSherwoodwithoutarunning clock.”

After inheriting a 1-12 team, Burrows led the Colonels to a 2-11 record in 2013 then a 5-8 record this spring. The Sherwood loss was a blowout on paper, but a sign of progress for a team that historically

has experienced little success.

“Magruder has had such a long [stretch] of losing and we’re really changing that,” Burrows said.

The Colonels’ season, which ended with an 8-7 overtime loss to Northwest in the first round Class 4A/3A West Region playoffs last week, was a step in the right direction, Burrows said. The team is graduating only three seniors and features a talented group of underclassmen, led by sophomore Ryan Martindell.

The 6-foot-1 attacker scored 40 goals, ranking fourth among all Montgomery County public school players, according to montgomerymdboyslacrosse.org.

Burrows, who coached junior varsity at Gaithersburg before coming to Magruder, said the goal is to win nine games next spring.

“They remember the taste of losing that playoff game and it’s not going to happen again,” he said.

Swarmin’ Hornets surging Damascus sophomore Alexis Townsend has been involved in plenty of clutch goals since she first started playing lacrosse in fourth grade, but none like the one Friday in Poolesville.

In triple overtime, Townsend notched the game-winner to give the Swarmin’

Hornets an 11-10 victory over the Falcons in the 3A/2A West quarterfinal matchup.

“It’s just such a great feeling,” Townsend said. “We wanted to beat them so badly, and we did. I did it for all our seniors and our team and our coaches.”

Freshman Jacque Pino scored eight goals to lead Damascus over the previously undefeated Falcons (11-1-1).

“I can’t even put it into words. This is the biggest win we’ve had,” Damascus coach Marcus Jurado said.

Stags senior recognized DeMatha Catholic senior midfielder Greyson Torain was named Washington Catholic Athletic Player of the Year, the WCAC announced last week. Torain, a Naval Academy recruit, helped lead the Stags 12-0 start and a 16-4 season. DeMatha coach Scott Morrison was named Coach of the Year.

Other DeMatha athletes honored by the WCAC include Matt Brisolari (first team, attack), Johnny Surdick (first team, defense), Nick Ramsey (first team, goalie), TylerNajarian(secondteam,attack),Brady Thompson (second team, midfielder) and Bain Schroeder (second team, defense).

James Jennings, Sean Doyle, Brad Peters and CJ Croxton were honorable mentions.

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KEEPING IT BRIEF Whitman crew wins metro regatta After losing a late-race lead to Bethesda-Chevy Chase’s first varsity eight boat at last weekend’s Maryland State regatta, the Walt Whitman women picked up wins in the first, second and third varsity eight events to earn the Team Points Trophy at Saturday’s Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Rowing Association Championships held on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. B-CC’s girls finished first in the freshman eight and novice eight, Winston Churchill’s girls took the novice four race and Walter Johnson’s boys won the men’s varsity four.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Baseball playoffs wind down The Clarksburg baseball team blanked Magruder, 6-0, as senior pitcher Zach Thompson tossed a nohitter and fanned 12 batters, walking only three. On Monday afternoon, however, Clarksburg (12-5) saw its season come to an end when the Coyotes were upended by Thomas S. Wootton, 8-5, despite the efforts of Taylor Abrahams, who went 4 for 4 with a pair of doubles.

Poolesville continued its bid for a perfect season by edging Winters Mill, 4-1, on Monday. Senior Robbie Metz picked up the win by tossing five scoreless innings and Chris Convers went 3 for 3, scored two runs and drove in two more and retired the last five Winters Mill hitters to collect the save. Poolesville is scheduled to host South Carroll on Wednesday in a 2A West Sectional final.

Two Montgomery County teams are scheduled to meet in the 4A North Region section final on Wednesday when Sherwood travels to Paint Branch. Sherwood edged Howard, 4-2, on Monday, while Paint Branch made quick work of Springbrook, 10-1. Wootton shortstop Matt Hsiung led off the game with a solo homer and later Patriots’ first baseman Noah Kimball hit a three-run home run in the second inning. Matt Ainsworth went six in-

nings to get the win, while Hsiung retired one batter in the seventh with the bases loaded to earn the save.

Several other Montgomery County baseball teams kept their region and state title hopes alive on Monday. Damascus blanked Watkins Mill, 8-0, while Seneca Valley downed Rockville, 11-4. Whitman defeated Bethesda-Chevy Chase, 11-3, Montgomery Blair blanked Richard Montgomery, 4-0, and Gaithersburg upended Northwest, 7-0, as Nick DeCarlo improved to 8-0 on the season by tossing five scoreless innings.

— TED BLACK

Magruder softball advances Col. Zadok Magruder High School junior pitcher Fiona Johnson’s two-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning of Monday’s Class 4A West Region Section II semifinal against Clarksburg started a rally that ended in the Colonels’ 4-3, come-from-behind victory.

Magruder is scheduled to host the section’s No. 2-seeded Northwest Wednesday afternoon for a spot in the region final against Montgomery Blair.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Athletes sign letters of intent Here’s a list of Montgomery County athletes who recently signed National Letters of Intent to continue playing beyond high school.

The list will be updated as new signings are announced: Baseball

Zach Thompson, Clarksburg, Alderson Broaddus University Basketball

Daysha Adams, Kennedy, Hagerstown Community College Dominique Anderson, Northwest, Ohio Valley University Kiara Arnold, Kennedy, St. Vincent College Joseph Bradshaw, Einstein, Mt. Zion Preparatory Abraham Camara, Einstein, Niagara County CC Cedrick McFadden, St. Andrew’s, Concordia College Zjhane West, Kennedy, Hager-

stown Community College Makeda Wright, Kennedy, Christopher Newport Football

Javon Burriss, Seneca Valley, Shepherd University Daequan Brooks, Clarksburg, Stevenson University Austin Herbert, Seneca Valley, Shepherd University Ed Maxwell, Seneca Valley, Bethany College Nobel Mussie, Einstein, Fork Union Military Academy Korey Platt, Seneca Valley, Bethany College Calvin Reighard, Seneca Valley, Shepherd University Joel Rufino, Einstein, Iowa Western (JC) Roy Russell IV, Einstein, Midwest Prep Chrysale Tchako, Clarksburg, Stevenson University Pacom Tsague, Seneca Valley, Frostburg State University Bryan Velasco, Einstein, West Virginia State University Khalil Wilson, Einstein, Fullerton College (JC) Lacrosse

Jaanai Aaron, Clarksburg, Alderson Broaddus University Softball

Laurie Kostecka, Clarksburg, University of Tampa Tanysha Tennassee, Northwest, Coppin State University Track and field

Matthew Adedeji, Clarksburg, Salisbury University Alex Armbruster, St. Andrew’s, Georgetown University Jamee Hood, Einstein, Muhlenburg College Luke Jones, Clarksburg, Roanoke College Jimmy Larkin, Clarksburg, Mt. St. Mary’s University Lauren Logan, Einstein, Stevens Institute of Technology Jack McCloskey, Clarksburg, Montgomery College Luke Simpson, Einstein, Juniata College Carlos Vanzego, Clarksburg, Montgomery College Tiara Wellman, Northwest, James Madison Luke Woodard, Einstein, St. Michael’s College

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Damascus High School’s Dean Echard carries the ball Friday against Poolesville’s Jonathan Hetrick.

tinSmith(firstteam,long-stickmidfielder), Pat Poulos (second team, midfielder), Jack Graham (second team, defense) and Dylan Szot (second team, goalie). Perry Stefanelli, Andrew Venezia, PJ McIntyre and Ryan Lynch were honorable mentions. egoldwein@gazette.net

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Throughout the season, Avalon School baseball coach Patrick Duffy has turned to senior pitchers Billy Lennox and Tommy Sanchez as a one-two punch for the Black Knights, and their talents were instrumental in leading the club to the Old Line Conference championship.

On Friday evening at Kelley Park in Gaithersburg, Avalon made quick work of the NoVa Homeschool Lions to win the Old Line Conference title game 14-2.

Sanchez allowed two runs, one earned, on three hits, four walks and eight strikeouts in five innings to get the victory. One night earlier, he recorded a save when Lennox went six innings to earn a 3-1 victory over St. Maria Goretti in the semifinals.

“I thought my fastball was really working tonight,” Sanchez said. “I was able to get ahead of the hitters with my fastball and then get them out with my curveball.

All season long we have talked about winning two championships, this one and the Maryland Private Schools B Championship.

Our goal is only halfway done.”

Lennox proved to be the ideal leadoff batter for the Black Knights on Friday, going 3 for 4 with three runsscoredandthreemoredriven in. Pearce Howard also collected three RBI on Friday, but it was junior Khalaal Barrett-Ricks, a transfer from Quince Orchard High School, who led the way with four RBI, including a three-run home run in the fourth that secured the 10-run lead necessary for the mercy-rule verdict.

Avalon owned a 6-2 lead heading to the home half of the third. In seasons past, this might have offered more than a hint of trouble for the Black Knights, but the squad proved to be far more resilient this season. Friday evening they added five more runs in the third and then added three more in the fourth on BarrettRicks’ homer.

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Balance guides Good Counsel

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Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s Taylor McDaniels came into the season as an intimidated freshman, hesitant to drive and step inside, as many young players would be on a nationally ranked girls’ lacrosse team.

But thrust into a lineup filled with Division I recruits — 17 of them — it didn’t take long for the first-year attacker to fit in.

McDaniels, who verbally committed to the University of North Carolina in March, recorded a team-high 34 goals and is one of several players that helped fill the 70-goal void left by Caroline Peters (Vanderbilt), the 2013 All-Ga-

zette Player of The Year.

“Coming in I was really nervous, being a freshman and being on a good team, but the girls were really welcoming and I felt at home,” McDaniels said. “[We always] have our heads up for that extra pass and [we’re] playing as a team, not individually.”

The Falcons, who went 15-6 and lost to Bishop Ireton in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference finals, featured a well-balanced offense, deeper and more patient than in past seasons, players said.

“We came out pretty strong and have done a good job of adjusting without [last year’s seniors],” senior Haley Giraldi said. “We kind of relied on [Peters] a lot last year, this year our team has a whole lot of depth. It’s more of a team effort.”

At the heart of the new attack were Giraldi and Paige Graham, Good Counsel’s two

leading point scorers. The seniors combined for 53 goals, but also led the Falcons’ juggernaut offense with their passing.

Graham, a Virginia Tech recruit, used her elite stick skills to record 23 goals and a team-high 27 assists.

“Her passes are straighton, direct,” McDaniels said.

“They’re not soft little lollipop passes. They’re really direct and they get to you.”

One of Graham’s assists went to her younger sister, freshman midfielder Halle Graham.

“Her ability to see the field is really incredible,” Halle Graham said. “She can place the ball in someone’s stick from any angle, any way ... and all they have to do is shoot it. She’s great at that.”

Giraldi, a Princeton recruit, recorded 30 goals to go along with 19 assists.

“This year I’ve been trying to get other people involved,”

Giraldi said. “I like to be the person that makes everybody else look good.”

On a team laden with Division I talent, sharing gets a little easier, Paige Graham said.

“Just because we do have so many great shooters, I really do enjoy feeding. And they can catch the ball obviously. It works out well,” she said.

Good Counsel ranked no. 12 in the May 6 Nike/ US Lacrosse National High School Girls’ Top 25, facing a schedule that featured No. 4 Manhasset, No. 6 St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes, No. 7 Milton, No. 13 Garnet Valley, No. 17 Broadneck and No. 19 Bishop Ireton.

“Especially because this is my senior season, I’m just really proud of the team,” Paige Graham said. egoldwein@gazette.net

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Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s Kendall Welch (center) scored Monday despite being flanked by Bishop Ireton’s Christine Macey and Maggie Lohrer in the WCAC title game.

The thought of entering the Montgomery County boys’ tennis championship without one half of an undefeated No. 1 doubles team would’ve presented most teams with a bit of an issue.

Each match win is worth a point and the prospect of wiping out an entire line of potential points would’ve, as it turns out, been the difference between first and second place in the tournament finals held Thursday at Paint Branch.

But the Vikings didn’t skip a beat when usual No. 4 doubles player Nathaniel Sherman was subbed in — senior David Block was away on a school trip — to compete among the county’s top doubles players. Sherman teamed with Tyler Jacobson to win the No. 1 doubles county title as an unseeded pair.

The victory, a straight-sets win against top-seeded Thomas S. Wootton, was part of Whitman’s near sweep of the county finals. The undefeated Montgomery Division I champion Vikings claimed county titles in six of seven brackets to end fourtime defending champion Wootton’s hold on county boys’ tennis.

Whitman was made to work on the final day of the championship, something senior captain and undefeated No. 4 singles player Lucas Schoch said made the result even more satisfying.

The Vikings entered Thursday’s matches with a one-point lead and six players in the finals to Wootton’s five. Every Whitman player that made it to Thursday’s round, won. Without dropping a set. Wootton freshman No. 2 singles player Kyryl Tsygura capped his undefeated season with a county title to prevent a Whitman sweep.

“It would’ve been anticlimactic if we went into finals knowing we had already won or only had to win one spot,” Schoch said.

“We went in knowing if we didn’t bring our best, Wootton was going to be able to steal it and that gave us an extra push. Obviously any county title on its own is great

but to win [six of seven titles] is special. I feel like that was the perfect culmination to the work we put in this season.”

Whitman’s win at No. 1 doubles Thursday despite a last-minute substitution was symptomatic of the tremendous team depth that made Schoch and longtime coach Jasen Gohn excited about this spring’s prospects since the first day of practice.

“If your No. 2 singles player [from the previous year] is playing No. 4...” Schoch said. “This year felt different in a lot of aspects. I really wanted it more, this being my last year. We all thought we had a good chance, we thought we could make a push. I felt like the attitude was reflected in the way we all pushed ourselves.”

The return of Naval Academy recruit Aries Wong, who won his second No. 1 singles county title Thursday, and Salisbury recruit Sean Ngo (No. 2 singles), to the top of the lineup after spending last spring focusing on their individual U.S. Tennis Association rankings during the college recruitment process, plus the addition of freshman No. 3 singles Jack Welch, pushed everyone down several lineup spots.

“With our doubles, honestly, we had five or six teams that could legitimately play for the one doubles slot and I think that’s rare to have so much depth in doubles where any team could’ve been a contender for the best doubles team in the county,” Schoch said.

Added depth created more productive practices, Schoch said. And the team even invested in working with a trainer three times a week.

With 10 seniors set to graduate, Whitman will certainly lose some of the depth that made this year stand out. But Gohn said he expects Welch, who is already ranked No. 65 of 473 players in the USTA Mid-Atlantic Section Boys 16s, to compete well at the No. 1 position in 2015. Plus, due to the team’s depth this year, there are several players waiting in the wings to make their starting lineup debuts.

“It was great being able to help the team get back to the very top, I know all the seniors, this was their first year being able to do that,” Welch said.

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Free David

Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer finds inspiration from Michelangelo’s masterpiece

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BY WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER

Michael Cartellone is a musician, but he’s also an artist.

He’s known for being the drummer for the platinum-selling supergroup Damn Yankees and the multiplatinum-selling Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, but he’s also made a name for himself as a painter.

So, is Cartellone a painter who is a drummer, or a drummer who paints?

“It depends on who I’m speaking with,” Cartellone laughed. “I consider myself both. What’s really been fun about this whole double career, two-halves-of-a-whole life that I’ve created is some people know me as a drummer who can paint and some people know me as a painter who also plays drums. It’s a beautiful balance.”

Cartellone’s latest work “The Four Davids” will be on display at the Wentworth Gallery in Bethesda from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m., and then from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. in McLean, Va., on Saturday, May 17.

“The Four Davids” represents four different painting styles all capturing the likeness of Michelangelo’s “David.” Each version of the iconic statue is painted on a four foot by four foot canvas.

The idea behind “The Four Davids” came to Cartellone when he and his wife honeymooned in Italy. When they visited the famed Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, they saw the statue of “David.”

“It really is something I think everyone should gift themselves to do because it’s really just overwhelming to see this statue,” Cartellone said. “It’s 17-feet tall and I don’t think a lot of people are even aware of that. When you turn the corner and you see this statue, it takes your breath away.”

Cartellone was so moved by the statue that he knew he had to paint it at some point. After several years of brainstorming, Cartellone couldn’t think of one singular way of painting “David” that would do it justice.

“So I thought, ‘Maybe I should paint this statue more than once,’” Cartellone said. “Then the idea of painting ‘David’ in different styles kind of presented itself one day. I quickly started to think, ‘Well, this could be really interesting. I could show art history utilizing one subject and having the subject move through various styles and various periods of art.’”

Cartellone came up with a list of about 20 different painters. He gradually whittled it down to four and decided to make the paintings a double homage.

“They’re originally Michelangelo’s ‘David’ statue,” Cartellone said. “Then they’re four different painters of inspiration – Van Gogh, Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Each painting is named David and then a year and that is significant to the paintings’ inspirations.”

For example, the Van Gogh inspiration was from 1889, according to Cartellone. So the painting is called “David – 1889.”

“It was a really fascinating endeavor, learning

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Artist/musician Michael Cartellone stands in front of his “The Four Davids.”

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From Bethesda to Silver Spring to Strathmore, musical fun in the sun returns BY

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From open-air jazz concerts and toes-in-the-grass folk shows to child-centered music programming, local residents of all ages have plenty of options for free summer performances from May through September!

Bethesda Thursday evenings this summer, the Bethesda Urban

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May 15: Gary and the Groove (Rock & Oldies) May 22: Squeeze Bayou (Cajun) May 29: Flo Anito (Rock/ Pop/Originals) June 5: Armand Ntep (African) June 12: Levi Stephens (Country Crossover) June 19: Built 4 Comfort (Blues/Classic Rock) June 26: Natty Beaux (Swing) July 3: I and I Riddim (Reggae)

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The Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club will host Montgomery’s Got Talent on Sunday showcasing a selection of the area’s finest senior talent, ranging from singers and dancers to actors.

The county held open auditions in the months leading up to the show for seniors, ages 55 and older, to try out and hopefully be chosen to perform in the final event.

In 2010, Montgomery’s Got Talent was a huge success, but when the hosting Bethesda Theatre went dark and the economy wasn’t at its best, it was not

held for a second time, until now.

“The first event here about five years ago was a fabulous success, 40 groups auditioned and about 13 performed on the day of the event,” said Rick Brown, new owner of the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club. “They decided to do it again.”

Brown said that the winner of the show is given the chance to be the opening act for a future performance at the theater.

While the newly-renovated club has hosted some great acts since it opened a little over a year ago, Brown said that they haven’t had anything quite like this before.

“We’ve had talented performers, but we have not done a seniors talent show,” Brown said. “It’s very exciting and going to be a lot of fun. We like being able to be available for community events.”

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BETHESDA BLUES & JAZZ SUPPER CLUB

In honor of Older Americans Month, the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club will revive the popular Montgomery’s Got Talent contest for area seniors on Sunday at the theater.

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Winning ‘Seasons’ Violinist Sarah Chang will join the National Philharmonic, led by music director and conductor Piotr Gajewski, in a performance of Vivaldi’s legendary “Four Seasons,” at 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda. Composed in 1723, Vivaldi’s set of four violin concertos celebrating nature and meteorology exists among the bestknown works of the Baroque period. The program also is slated to include one of Strauss’ final works, “Metamorphosen,” an adagio for strings written toward the end of World War II and eulogizing the destruction of Munich.

For more information, visit nationalphilharmonic.org or strathmore.org.

Aziza Claudia GibsonHunter’s “Invitation to a Metaphor,” 2013, acrylic paint, colored pencil, graphite, charcoal, plastic produce bag, 58.625 x 63 inches.

AZIZA CLAUDIA GIBSON-HUNTER

The water’s fine

Printmaking, painting, drawing and collage combine in artist Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter’s “Invitation to a Metaphor,” on view to June 7 at the Terrace Gallery at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown. A meet the artist reception is scheduled from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday at the gallery. Mixed media works from Gibson-Hunter’s “SWIM” series, set within an urban swimming pool, explores themes of persistence, resistance and the power of water to cleanse and rejuvenate. Normal gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The gallery is closed on Sunday. Galleries are also open during the evening and weekends when performances and classes are offered at BlackRock. For more information, visit blackrockcenter.org.

The next Page Author Allan Topol will sign his latest Craig Page thriller, “The Argentine Triangle,” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Barnes & Noble in Rockville. Topol is the national bestselling author of international intrigue novels such as “The Spanish Revenge” and “The Russian Endgame.”

For more information, visit allantopol.com or bn.com.

Author Allan Topol.

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Coming into focus PHOTO BY CLIFF WATTS

“Photoworks Forty Years: Here and Now,” and its sister exhibit, “Photoworks Forty Years: Origins,” opened Thursday at the Glen Echo Park gallery.

The exhibits celebrate the organization’s 40th anniversary as a unique learning center offering personalized instruction. Photoworks will be honored during Glen Echo Park’s Gala in the Park on Saturday. The exhibit continues to June 9. For more information, visit glenechophotoworks.org.

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IN THE ARTS DANCES Hollywood Ballroom, May

14, “step of the evening” Waltz mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m. ($16), May 15, 22, Tea Dance from 12:303:30 p.m. ($6); May 16, drop-in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15); May 17, free Waltz lesson at 8 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 9 p.m.; May 18, free Hustle lesson at 7 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m. ($16); May 21, “step of the evening” West Coast mini-lesson at 8:15 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m. ($16), 2126 Industrial Highway, Silver Spring, 301-3261181, www.hollywoodballroomdc. com.

Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd.

Contra, May 16, Joseph Pi-

mentel calls to Goldcrest; May 23, George Marshall and Tim van Egmond with Swallowtail; May 30, Susan Taylor with Raise The Roof, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www.fridaynightdance.org.

Contra & Square, May 18, Joseph Pimentel with Goldcrest, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $12 for general, $9 for members, $5 for students, www. fsgw.org.

English Country, May 14, Caller: Melissa Running; May 21, Caller: Stephanie Smith, 8 p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org.

Waltz, May 25, Swallowtail, lesson from 2:45-3:30 p.m., dancing to live music from 3:30-6 p.m., $10, www.waltztimedances.org.

MUSIC & DANCE Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Side by Side, 7:30 p.m.

May 14; Next Best Thing Presents: Simon & Garfunkel, 8 p.m. May 15; Joel Del Rosario and Surewill “Side by Side Live,” 8 p.m. May 16; Janiva Magness benefit for Child Welfare League of America, 7 p.m.

May 17; Montgomery’s Got Talent Senior Showcase, noon, May 18; A Night to Remember featuring The Intruders and Shawn Allen, 7:30 p.m. May 18; Doors Wide Open, 7:30 p.m. May 21, call for prices,

7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda.

240-330-4500, www.bethesdabluesjazz.com.

BlackRock Center for the Arts, The Crawdaddies – Free Summer Concert, 8 p.m. June 28, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. 301-528-2260, www.blackrockcenter.org.

Carpe Diem Arts, Washington Revels Carpe Diem Sing in Silver Spring, 6:30 p.m. May 21, Washington Revels, 531 Dale Drive, Silver Spring, free, www.carpediemarts.org.

Fillmore Silver Spring, Ghost with King Dude, 8 p.m. May 14; Steel Panther - All You Can Eat Tour, 8 p.m. May 16; Tamar Braxton, 8 p.m. May 22, 25; Ones To Watch with Skype Pres. Eric Hutchinson - Tell The World Tour, 8 p.m. May 23; 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. www.fillmoresilverspring.com.

Strathmore, Afternoon Tea, 1 p.m. May 13-14; AIR: Elijah Jamal Balbed, jazz saxophone, 7:30 p.m. May 14; Aaron Grad & Gus Mercante, 7:30 p.m. May 15; BSO: All That Jazz - A Symphonic Celebration of Kander and Ebb, 8 p.m. May 15; History of Jazz Part III: From Basie To Bossa And From B.B. To Berry, 11 a.m. May 16; Neil Sedaka, 8 p.m. May 16; Professional Development for Musicians: DIY Public Relations, 9:30 a.m. May 17; Professional Development for Musicians: Legal Guide to Writing and Releasing Your Recordings, 10:45 a.m. May 17; Professional Development for Musicians: Launching Your CD, 12:45 p.m. May 17; Professional Development for Musicians: Your Catalog, Your Publishing, and the Rest of Your Life, 2:45 p.m.

May 17; National Philharmonic: Sarah Chang Plays Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, 8 p.m. May 17, 3 p.m. May 18; MCYO: A Moving Ending, 7:30 p.m. May 18; Historic Home Tour, 11 a.m. May 19; International Specialty Tea, 1 p.m. May 20-21; call for venue, Locations: Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda; Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, 301-581-5100, www.strathmore.org.

ON STAGE Adventure Theatre, “The Jungle

Book,” to May 25, call for prices,

times, Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, 301-634-2270, www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org.

Arts Barn, “Woody Allen, Woody Allen,” to May 18; Comedy and Magic Society, 8 p.m. May 23, 311 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg. www.gaithersburgmd.gov.

Imagination Stage, “Cinderella: The Remix:” to May 25, call for prices, times, Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, www. imaginationstage.org.

Kensington Arts Theatre, “Les Mis,” 8:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, to May 24, Kensington Town Hall/Armory, 3710 Mitchell Street, Kensington, contact theater for prices, times, katonline.org.

Montgomery College, “The Monster Who Ate My Peas,” 11 a.m. May 17; The Righteous Brothers’ Bill Medley, 8 p.m. May 23, Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center, Montgomery College, 51 Mannakee Street, Rockville, contact theater for ticket prices, montgomerycollege.edu/PAC. Olney Theatre Center, August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” to June 1, call for prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400, www.olneytheatre. org.

The Puppet Co., “Pinocchio,” to June 8; Tiny Tots @ 10, select Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, call for shows and show times, Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s North Arcade Building, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., $5, 301-634-5380, www.thepuppetco.org.

Round House Theatre, Bethesda, “Ordinary Days,” May 28 to June 22, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. 240-644-1100, www.roundhousetheatre.org.

Round House Theatre, Silver Spring, “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,” May 22 to June 14, call for show times, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, $15 for general admission, $10 for subscribers, patrons 30 and younger and seniors, 244-644-1100, www.roundhousetheatre.org.

Silver Spring Stage, “The Arabian Knights,” May 16 to June 7, Woodmoor Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, see website for show times,

www.ssstage.org.

The Writer’s Center, Ron Capps and Joseph Bathanti, 2 p.m. May 18, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, 301-654-8664, www.writer.org.

VISUAL ART Adah Rose Gallery, “Contemplating the Sweetness of Grass and Startling Brevity of Life,” May 16 to June 18, 3766 Howard Ave., Kensington, 301-922-0162, www. adahrosegallery.com Gallery B, “72 Grams Per Pixel,” to May 24, gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E. www.bethesda.org.

Glenview Mansion, Rockville Art League, to May 23, opening reception from 1:30-3:30 p.m. May 4, Rockville Civic Center Park, 503 Edmonston Drive, Rockville. www. rockvillemd.gov.

Marin-Price Galleries, March Avery, “Works on Paper,” to May 14, Donny Finley, May 24 to June 18, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.

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Rockville Chorus Spring Concert

Sunday, May 18 at 7:30pm

No tickets; $5 suggested donation

Washington Balalaika Society Spring Concert Saturday, May 31 at 8pm Tickets: $25 at the door.

Advance purchase: $20 Adults ; $18 Seniors; $15 Students, children under 12 free with an adult.

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Continued from Page B-5 about each of those painters and studying their techniques,” Cartellone said.

“I purposely chose four styles of painting that were unfamiliar with me with the intention of pushing myself to learn how to paint different styles and widen my parameters.”

Cartellone said it took him a full year to finish all four paintings.

“Each canvas … makes a big statement,” Cartellone laughed. “By far, ‘David-1889,’ which is the Van Goghinspired painting, was easily the hardest. The furthest, stylistically, from my comfort zone – the biggest learning curve. Consequently, it’s also the one that I’m most proud of because it was

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the biggest sense of accomplishment.”

Cartellone said he hopes people seeing “The Four Davids” will gain a deeper appreciation of the four artists he honors.

“At the same time, I then take them somewhere artistically that they’ve never seen.” Cartellone said.

THE FOUR DAVIDS n When: 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. (Bethesda); 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. (McLean, Va.), Saturday n Where: Wentworth Gallery at Westfield Montgomery Mall, 7101 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda; Tysons Galleria, 2001 International Dr., McLean n Tickets: Free n For information: 800-732-6140; wentworthgallery.com

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MUSIC

Hungerford Stage

4 p.m. May 25: South Rail (Americana) – Barn Stage 4:30 p.m. May 25: Lloyd Dobler Effect (Rock, Alternative, Pop) – Maryland Avenue Stage 4:30 p.m. May 25: Kelly Bell Band (Phat blue music) – Beach Stage 6 p.m. May 25: Patty Reese Band (Americana Blues, Soul, Roots Rock) – Barn Stage 6:15 p.m. May 25: NEULORE (Modern folk) – Hungerford Stage 6:30 p.m. May 25: Lionize (Rock ‘n roll) – Beach Stage 6:30 p.m. May 25: American Aquarium (Rock ‘n roll, Alternative country) – Maryland Avenue Stage 8 p.m. May 25: Fighting Jamesons (Irish Rock) – Hungerford Stage 8:30 p.m. May 25: John Brown’s Body (Reggae, Dub, Future Roots) – Beach Stage 8:30 p.m. May 25: The Nighthawks (Blues, Soul, Alt-Country) – Maryland Avenue Stage

Continued from Page B-5 July 10: King Soul (Soul) July 17: Speakers of the

House (Variety Dance) July 24: Texas Chainsaw Horns (Classic R&B/Soul)

Gaithersburg Thursdays are jam-packed with concerts for attendees young and old. Both the 10:30 a.m. Children’s Concerts and 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Evenings in Olde Towne series take place at the City Hall Concert Pavilion at 31 South Summit Ave. Visit gaithersburgmd.gov for more information.

Evenings in Olde Towne

June 5: Seamus Kennedy

(Irish Folk)

June 12: The Sweater Set

(Folk Duo)

June 19: Four Star Combo

(Rockabilly)

June 26: The HepCats (Upbeat Country) July 10: Junkyard Saints (New Orleans Party) July 17: Stacy Brooks Band (Blues) July 24: Bryan Elijah Smith & The Wild Hearts (Alternative Americana) July 31: Olney Big Band (Big Band) Sept. 4: Diamond Alley (Dance/Rock) Sept. 11: Cluster (Jazz/A Cappella) Sept. 18: Rescue Squad (Classic/Top 40 Rock) Sept. 25: Trio Caliente (Latin Trio)

Children’s Series

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June 5: Cantaré (Latin MuJune 12: Jay Mattioli (Magi-

cian)

June 19: Yosi meets Eugene (Music, Puppets) June 26: Eric Energy (Science) July 10: Alden Phelps (Music) July 17: Thirst ‘n’ Howl (Theatre) July 24: Kids on the Block (Puppets & Local Safety Officers) July 31: Uno, Dos, Tres con Andrés (Music, Spanish)

Germantown BlackRock Center for the Arts is hosting a five-concert series for summer at 7 p.m. on Saturdays. The shows are planned for outside the venue but will move indoors at 12901 Town Commons Drive in Germantown in case of inclement weather. Visit www.blackrockcenter.org for more information.

June 28: The Crawdaddies (Cajun, Zydeco) July 5: The US Navy Band “The Commodores” July 12: The Nighthawks (Blues, Rock) July 19: Chopteeth (Funk, World Music) July 26: Tom Principato (Rock, Blues, Jazz)

Olney Fair Hill Shopping Center offers two separate sets of concerts for families this summer.

The Fair Hill Kids Concert Series will take place from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Tuesdays, while the Fair Hill Summer Concert Series occurs from 6-8 p.m. on Thursdays. Both programs take place at 18169 Town Center Dr., in Olney. Call 240453-3000 or visit fairhillshops. com for more information.

Fair Hill Kids Concerts

June 3: Mr. Knick Knack June 10: Mister Don June 17: Oh Susannah!

TALENT

Continued from Page B-5 The show is a collaborative effort between many Montgomery County organizations including Montgomery County Recreation Department for Senior Programs

Silver Spring LINDA PARKER

The soulful sounds of King Soul come to the Bethesda Urban Partnership’s 2014 summer concert series.

June 24: Kidsinger Jim July 1: Mr. Knick Knack July 8: Mister Don July 15: Tony M July 22: Kidsinger Jim July 29: Mister Don Aug. 5: Mr. Knick Knack Aug. 12: Tony M Aug. 19: Tony M Aug. 26: Kidsinger Jim Sept. 2: Mr. Knick Knack Sept. 9: Mister Don Sept. 16: Tony M Sept. 23: Kidsinger Jim Sept. 30: Mr. Knick Knack Fair Hill Summer Concert Series June 5: The Colliders June 12: Hand Painted

Swingers

June 19: Matty Knuckles June 26: Retro Rockets July 3: The Colliders July 10: Levi Stephens July 17: Andrea Pais July 24: Julia Fanning July 31: Lloyd Dobler Effect Aug. 7: The Colliders Aug. 14: Ken Fischer Duo Aug. 21: Matty Knuckles Aug. 28: FarAway Sept. 4: ilyAIMY Sept. 11: The Colliders Sept. 18: Mike Mallick Sept. 25: Jason Masi

RIO Washingtonian Center

May

Swinger

31: Hand Painted

June 6: Diamond Alley June 7: Sam’O Reggae June 13: Apple Core Band

(Beatles Tribute) June 14: Levi Stephens June 20: ThatGuyMike June 21: Rock n Roll Relics June 27: Damon Foreman June 28: New Censation July 4: Holly Montgomery July 5: Debonaire July 11: Diamond Alley July 12: The Sidleys July 18: Rock n Roll Relics July 19: Jason Dean July 25: Rew Smith July 26: Johnny Artis Aug. 1: Josh Burgess Band Aug. 2: Hand Painted Swinger Aug. 8: Levi Stephens Aug. 9: Sons of Pirates Aug. 15: Diamond Alley Aug. 16: Special Occasions Aug. 22: Damon Foreman Aug. 23: The Monster Band Aug. 29: Dance Manifesto Aug. 30: ThatGuyMike Sept. 5: The Sidleys Sept. 6: I and I Riddim Reggae Sept. 12: Cracker Jack Sept. 13: Sons of Pirates Sept. 19: Shag Sept. 20: Diamond Alley Sept. 26: Damon Foreman Sept. 27: Paul Pfau Band

Several sets of concerts will occur this year in the Washingtonian Center area. The RIO Summer Concert Series features performances from 6-9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays near the paddleboats at RIO, 9811 Washingtonian Blvd. in Gaithersburg. Lakefront Live! will feature live music on Friday nights at the plaza between Uncle Julio’s and Joe’s Crab Shack. Nando’s Peri-Peri will also bring their Spicy Saturday Nights series to the area from May 10 to Aug. 30, with artists to be determined. Visit washingtoniancenter.com for more information on all concerts.

May 2: Sticky Wicket May 3: Diamond Alley May 9: Damon Froeman May 10: Shane Gamble Band May 16: The Sidleys May 17: Station 1201 May 23: Shag May 24: I and I Riddim Reggae May 30: Debonaire

May 30: Sons of Pirates Jimmy Buffett (Classic Rock) June 6: Lloyd Dobler Effect (Rock, Pop) June 13: Dixie Power Trio (New Orleans R&B, Dixieland) June 20: Route 66 (Classic Rock) June 27: Ro Cube & Friends (Motown, R&B, Pop) July 4: Motor Driven (Americana, Classic Rock) July 11: King Teddy (New Swing) July 18: Handpainted (Swinger Pop, Classic Rock) July 25: Unity (Reggae Band) Aug. 1: 8 ohms (Funk, R&B) Aug. 8: Fabulous Exaggerations (R&B, Pop, Classic Rock) Aug. 15: Scott Paddock (Funky Jazz) Aug. 22: Crawdaddies (Cajun, Zydeco) Aug. 29: Diamond Alley (Top 40 Motown Rock)

and the Department of Health and Human Services, the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Inspired Event Productions, Bethesda Blues & Jazz and Haba Entertainment Group.

Chuck Kauffman, who works on the Montgomery County Commission on Ag-

ing, helps produce these sorts of events for the seniors in the community voluntarily. He helped plan the original show and is a part of the process again this year.

“Essentially I have a broad background in senior activities,” he said. “I’ve been producing senior events in co-

Lakefront Live!

Rockville Rockville Town Square will play host to a variety of summer events, including the Friday Night Live concert series and Square Kids Night complete with children’s programming.

Both programs start at 6:30 p.m. Visit rockvilletownsquare. com for more information.

Many artists will also perform during Rockville’s Hometown Holidays Event from 2-10 p.m.

May 24-25. Visit rockvillemd. gov/hth for more information.

July 23: Mr. Knick Knack

(Music)

July 30: Silly Bus (Music) Aug. 6: Michael Rosman’s

Magic & Entertainment Show Aug. 13: Family Magician Eric Henning (Magic & Entertainment) Aug. 20: Motion Mayhem (Magic & Entertainment) Hometown Holidays

June 11: Reptiles Alive!

(Reptile Show) June 18: Mad Science (Science Entertainment) June 25: Mutts Gone Nuts (Variety Dog Show) July 2: Rocknoceros (Music) July 9: Oh Susannah (Music) July 16: The Diggity Dudes (Music)

2 p.m. May 24: Mike Surratt and the Continentals (Polka) – Hungerford Stage 2 p.m. May 24: The Sweater Set (Indie Folk/Pop) – Barn Stage 2:30 p.m. May 24: The Shack Band (Progressive, Jazz, Funk, Rock) – Beach Stage 2:30 p.m.

May 24: Elenowen (American, Folk) – Maryland Avenue Stage 4 p.m. May 24: Throwing Wrenches (Rock, Pop, Punk) – Hungerford Stage 4 p.m. May 24: Patuxent Partners (Bluegrass) – Barn Stage 4:30 p.m. May 24: Jah Works (Reggae) – Beach Stage 4:30 p.m. May 24: Morrison Brothers Band (Rock, Country) – Maryland Avenue Stage 6 p.m. May 24: Honor By August (Rock) – Hungerford Stage 6 p.m. May 24: The Woodshedders (American Roots) – Barn Stage 6:30 p.m. May 24: Green River Ordinance (Alternative Pop/Rock with a Southern Twist) – Beach Stage 6:30 p.m. May 24: US Royalty (Rock, Rattle and Roll) – Maryland Avenue Stage 8 p.m. May 24: B Side Shuffle (Funk, Rock, Reggae) – Hungerford Stage 8:30 p.m. May 24: Brothers Osborne (Country) – Beach Stage 8:30 p.m. May 24: La Unica (New American Roots) – Maryland Avenue Stage 2 p.m. May 25: Hillbilly Gypsies (Bluegrass) – Hungerford Stage 2 p.m. May 25: The 19th Street Band (Rock, Country, Celtic, Bluegrass) – Barn Stage 2:30 p.m. May 25: High Five World Wide (Classic cover band) – Beach Stage 2:30 p.m. May 25: DC Casineros (Dance Instruction) – Maryland Avenue Stage 4 p.m. May 25: Ted Garber (Blues, Americana, Rock) –

operation with the county for seven or eight years.”

Kauffman explained that the county had traditionally been orchestrating annual events for seniors, but when the economy sunk the county was unable to provide a budget. This year, however, Kauffman and the various or-

ganizations were able to raise the money for the event themselves with things like program advertising and exhibitor fees.

The show is scheduled from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, but doors open at noon for exhibits and food. Last time, Kauffman said they drew in a crowd of almost 400 people and this year they

Friday Night Live

May 2: Lloyd Dobler Effect (80s & 90s Cover Band) May 9: The Morrison Brothers (Southern Rock) May 16: Dan Haas Band (Pop Rock) May 23: 8 Ohms Band (Funk & Soul) May 30: Daryl Davis Band (Blues & Soul) June 6: Jamison and Double O Soul (Soul and Rock n Roll) June 13: Billy Coulter Band (Roots Rock) June 20: Unity Band (Reggae) June 27: White Ford Bronco (90s Cover Band) July 11: The Nighthawks (Blues) July 18: Rumba Club (Latin) July 25: Sons of Pirates (Key West Rock) Aug. 1: The Shack Band (Southern Funk Rock ‘n’ Roll) Aug. 8: Tom Principato (Blues) Aug. 15: King Teddy (Swing) Aug. 22: Dublin 5 (Irish Rock) Aug. 29: Jeff from Accounting (Rock/Pop Cover Band) Sept. 5: Ruthie & The Wranglers (Americana Country) Sept. 12: The Crawdaddies (Roots Rock and Zydeco) Sept. 19: Dreamstreet (Classic Cover Rock) Sept. 26: TBD

Square Kids Night

The Silver Spring Summer Concert Series returns Thursdays from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. at Veterans Plaza, located at the Silver Spring Civic Building at Ellsworth Drive and Fenton Street. A raffle with prizes for both children and adults will take place during each concert. Discovery Channel and Live Nation are sponsoring this year’s eight performances. Call 240-777-6821 for more information.

June 26: Bruce Ewan the Red Harmonica King, featuring South African blues guitarist Willem Moller (Blues) July 3: Little Red and the Renegades (Zydeco) July 10: ROADDOG(R&B, blues) July 17: Ocho de Bastos (Latin rock) July 24: Moxie Blues Band (Blues) July 31: Second Wind (Rock & roll covers) Aug. 7: Eddie Becker Band (Rock, soul, R&B) Aug. 14: Project Natale (Jazz)

Strathmore In addition to its ticketed summer program, Strathmore will hold a free outdoor concert series on the grounds outside of the Music Center and Mansion. The summer shows will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesdays at the Gudelsky Concert Pavilion. Call 301-581-5100 or visit strathmore.org for more information.

June 25: Ben Sollee (folk, bluegrass, jazz and R&B) July 2: Ester Rada (EthioJazz, Funk, Soul, R&B) July 9: Martha Redbone Roots Project (Indie-Soul) July 16: The Barefoot Movement (Folk) July 23: Conjunto Chappottín (Latin Jazz) July 30: The Chuck Brown All Star Go-Go Band (Go-Go) Aug. 6: Cathy Ponton King (Blues, Swing, Rock & Roll) Aug. 13: Uke Fest (Ukulele) Aug. 20: Dakha Brakha (World) kgroff@gazette.net

hope to do even better. He recently attended a rehearsal for this year’s show and sees the same level of talent as last time.

“We’ve got some fantastically talented seniors,” Kauffman said. “2010 was great, the show was great, it was professional and the acts were entertaining.”

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CREEK Community SaleTrotters Glen Course 60 Elec Golf Club Yard Saturday May 17th, Carts - Mowers- Pro Shop- Clubhouse Rain or 301-948-3937 Look on Auctionzip.com 8AM-1PM Shine!Look for signs #5205 at 118, Riffleford, and

OLNEY:

Fri 5/16, 12pm-5pm, Sat 5/17, 9am-5pm, Sun 5/18, 9am-3pm.

18146 Headwaters Drive, Olney, MD

301-774-7621 LAUREL: Saturday,

to advertise Rentals & for sale by owner 301.670.7100 or email class@gazette.net

Buy It,

HUNT AUCTION

$857/week

to advertise apt, 3Br, 2Ba, LR, DR, Realtors & Agents call GAITHERSBURG: FR & eat-in kit, sep Lrg room w/priv BA & entr & driveway $2200 301.670.2641 inc util 301-983-4783

It’s FREE!

Sunday May 8,10AM at Hunts Place

OC: 140 St. 3br, 2fba

POTOMAC: 1st lvl

Entr. Close to shops, bus & metro. $700 incl utils & int. N/P, N/S. ROCKVILLE/OLNEY Se habla espanol. Single Family House, Lrg rm w/ priv entr, Please email Christian Shrd ba $725/mo, Lrg cvalie1@comcast.net furn rm/ w priv ba $775/mo all util incl shrd Kit N/P, N/S SILVER SPRING: room for rent, close to Available Now! schools. $550 incl util.

301-924-1818 301-547-9290

GAITHERSBURG Outdoor Flea Market

May 17th, 3604 Chase Hills Dr., Laurel, MD, 8 AM to 1 PM. Toys, kids bicycles, clothes, rocking chair, lawn mower, etc.

SILVER SPRING COMMUNITY YARD SALE: Saturday May 17th 9am-12pm.

10000 Woodland Dr, 20902

Monarch Vista Roads Sponsored by Shannon & Jeff RE/MAX Re-alty Group 240938-1963, www.shannonandjeff.com.

ANNUAL MULTIF A M I L Y YARD SALE: YARD 05/18 SUNDAY HUGE!!!

SALE:

Fu r nitur e , Hswres, Clths, Electronics, Toys, Collectibles, Tools, Jewelry & more. 5/17. Sat. 8am-2pm. Rain or Shine!

Info at www.rockvilleunitedchurch.com

Noon-3pm 20+ homes! Montgomery Square and Potomac Woods annual yard sale day.

Maps will be at the corner of Dunster Rd and Stratton Dr (down the street from Ritchie Park ES), at Falls Rd R O C K V I L L E : M a y and Kersey La, at 17, 8-Noon, ComWhites Ford and munity Yard Sale Montrose Rd Rain/Shine.

Various and at Post Oak and addresses around 401 Smoketree Rd S. Horners Lane, follow signs Next to Rockville Metro station DERWOOD: Multifamily 05/17 & 05/18, ROCKVILLE- Yard 8-4: Records, cds & Sale/Bake Sale 05/17 dvds, books tools, 8-4pm Rain or Shine! pic-frames, luggage, First Baptist Church of collectibles. 5813 Wild Rockville 55 Adclare Flower Ct. Rd Rockville 20850

to advertise call 301.670.7100 YARD SALE: Sat or email May, 17th; 9am-3pm. class@gazette.net HH items, books, clothing, sports cards and more!

13502 Grenoble Dr., Rockville, MD 20853

MILESTONE COMMUNITY YARD SALE GERMANTOWN • RAIN OR SHINE

SATURDAY MAY 17 8AM-1PM 2 ENTRANCES NORTH OF MD 27 ON MD 355 5 ENTRANCES NORTH ON OBSERVATION DR.

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

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HUGE COMMUNITY YARD SALE!

Kenwood Forest II Chevy Chase, MD 20815

Sat, May 17th 8 am - 2 pm

On the Corner of Hillandale Rd & Chevy Chase Dr., including Bradley Blvd., Offutt Lane and Willett Pkwy. Rain Date, Sat. May/31st

KING FARM SAT, May 17th * 8am - 12 Noon

Rain Date ** Sun May 18th, 8-NOON at King Farm Park along Trotter Farm Drive

Multi-Family

CHEVY CHASE WEST ANNUAL YARD SALE 30+ Homes May 17 - 8am - 1pm Rain Date May 18 Nottingham Dr. to Drummond Ave. Maps at 4806 Chevy Chase Blvd

Indoor Flea Market

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Saturday, May 17th, 8am-1pm 20021 Aircraft Drive, Germantown, MD

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Furniture, Toys, Baby Items, Art, Collectibles, Etc Many households involved through our large community. Route 355, across from the Milestone Shopping Center, Shakespeare Blvd on the right, north between Route 118 & Father Hurley Blvd.

MADOPTION:M

GROSVENOR HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION The Annual Meeting of the membership of the Grosvenor Homeowners Association, Inc. will be held: DATE: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 TIME: 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

PLACE: Alef Bet Montessori School 5701 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda, MD This notice is given pursuant to Section 5206 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, Corporation and Associations Article. At the meeting, the members present in person or by proxy will constitute a quorum. A majority of the members present in person or by proxy may approve or authorize proposed action at the meeting and may take any other action which could have been taken at the originally scheduled Annual Meeting if a sufficient number of members had been present. For information, please call Vista Management Co. Inc. at 301-6491115 ext. 21.

(5-14-14)

NCCF is currently seeking foster parents. An orientation will be held on May 20, 2014 from 6:00 - 8:00pm at 6301 Greentree Road Bethesda, MD 20817 Please call 240-375-6407 for more information. www.nccf-cares.org.

Daycare Directory

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2 PARKLAWN: burial rights, bronze memorial 24x14 w/vase & granite, value $9485, asking $5k 301-774-2250

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STRATFORD KNOLLS COMMUNITY YARD SALE Sat, May 17, 2014 9am-1pm RAIN DATE SAT, MAY 24, 2014

to advertise Realtors & Agents call MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM CARETAKER Free M ESL & FRENCH CAREGIVER LIVE- NEEDED: 301.670.2641 M TUTOR: Na ti o n a l IN for 6 days Gburg M Board Certified MCPS assist living Experi- room & board, small HAVANESE PUPPIES M salary, responsible Home raised, AKC, M Art Dealer, & TV Executive (will stay-home) M Teacher & Curriculum ence referred Call adult to assist w/ my best health guarantee Writer. 301-633-1224 301-330-0030 husband. Call Carol: to advertise M yearn for 1st Baby to LOVE & ADORE. M noahslittleark.com 301-424-3433 Call: 262-993-0460 Rentals & for sale M M M Expenses Paid M by owner M M to advertise 301.670.7100 M M 1-800-354-2608 or email call 301.670.7100 or email class@gazette.net M M class@gazette.net MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Starfish Children’s Center Potomac

Lic#: 161330

240-876-8552

20854

Children’s Center of Damascus

Lic#: 31453

301-253-6864

20872

Damascus Licensed Family Daycare

Lic#: 139094

301-253-4753

20872

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Lic#: 15127553

301-972-2148

20876

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Lic#: 131042

301-947-8477

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Lic# 160952

301-622-1517

20904

DEADLINE: JUNE 2ND, 2014

Careers 301-670-2500

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Cost Analyst

NURSING ASSISTANT

TRAINING IN JUST 4 WEEKS

Now Enrolling for May 26th Classes Medication Technician Training in Just 4 days. Call for Details.

Prepare cost estimates for restaurant construction projects.

Req’d Master’s deg in Construction mgmt., Archi.

Engr, or Bachelor’s deg plus 5 yrs of exp.

Mail resume: Turntable, LLC., 4862 Cordell Ave. Bethesda, MD 20814

Floorman 3 Floorman needed, DC area, Part Time, Floor Experience requried. Transportation and English a must.

Apply in person Mon- Fri 10am- 2pm at 15940 Derwood RD, Rockville MD 20855

SILVER SPRING CAMPUS

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CARE XPERT ACADEMY 13321 New Hampshire Ave, Suite 205 MORNING & EVENING CLASSES Silver Spring, MD 20904 Call: 301-384-6011 www.cxana.com

HUMAN SERVICES

Abilities Network, is seeking caring & creative individuals for positions, assisting adults w/ developmental disabilities achieve optimum growth & independence in their community &/or locate and maintain employment.

Positions in Charles County & Silver Spring & offices throughout MD. Must have reliable transportation

Please visit www.abilitiesnetwork.org for more details on each position.

Pharmacies/ hospitals now hiring.

No experience?

Job Training & Placement Assistance Available 1-877-240-4524 CTO SCHEV

DRIVER

GAITHERSBURG CAMPUS MORNING STAR ACADEMY 101 Lakeforest Blvd, Suite 402 Gaithersburg, MD 20877 Call: 301-977-7393 www.mstarna.com

Pharmacy/ Phlebotomy Tech Trainees Needed Now

Life Enrichment Coordinator

Long-Term Care facility seeking Full-Time Activity Coordinator.

Must have related experience, effective communication skills, a team player, vibrant personality, can work with minimum supervision. Ability to play musical instruments a Plus!

Fax your resume to (301) 762-3216 or e-mail mseril@potomacvalley.com.

EOE

Post Community Media, LLC offers excellent benefits, including medical and dental coverage, life insurance, 401(k) and tuition reimbursement.

Salary commensurate with experience.

If interested and qualified, send salary history and resume to: mdelia@gazette.net or fax to 240 473 7567. EOE

Facilities Engineer

The Facilities Engineer will report to the Director of Facilities & provide the req. maintenance support for the facilities mech, elec. & plumb. aspects of the bldgs. & campus. Will be responsible for and maint. Wide variety of HVAC needs: chillers, boilers, VAV’s, etc. Excellent oral & written comm. skills required. Knowledge of applicable computer systems and ability to use wide variety of tools and test equip is also req.

We offer a comprehensive benefit package w/a competitive salary. Please send a cover letter and resume to:

EXPERIENCED AUTOMOTIVE A and B TECHNICIANS Ourisman ROCKVILLE Volkswagen and Mazda needs technicians. We don’t care where you work or how much you are currently making,

ATT: Human Resources Holton-Arms School 7303 River Road Bethesda, MD 20817

WE WANT TO MAKE YOU AN OFFER! We are offering signing bonuses for qualified hires.

You can transfer over your vacation time and any earned benefits from your current employer.

Multiple FULL TIME positions available – Complete Benefit Package includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance, 401K, Sick and Vacation leave, Special Bonuses and Incentives.

Ourisman is a premier automotive company in business for over 93 years with the best pay plans in the industry.

Make Ourisman your new home.

Call: BILL DEVINE at 301-424-7800 extension 2494 or Email: Bill.Devine@ourismanautomotive.com

Comprint Printing, a division of Post Community Media, LLC, has an immediate opening for an experienced CDL Licensed Driver. Candidate must possess a clean MVA report, clear criminal background, and pass DOT physical and drug test.

Ideal applicant should have strong communication skills and professionalism.

Perform preconstruction CE work that includes surveying, site design, grading, stormwater mgmt, permitting, analysis & planning. Provide QC oversight of projects & prepare reports. Perform geotechnical instrumentation & monitoring.

Familiar w/AutoCAD Civil3D. Req. Master in Civil Engineering. 40hr/wk. Resume to EMC2, Inc 10110 Molecular Dr Ste 314 Rockville MD 20850 HEALTHCARE

Full-time Intake Coordinator

Meet seniors in their homes to assess care needs. Great office team. Excellent written, verbal, & computer skills req. Aging background pref.

Resume/salary to dwe357@yahoo.com.

Recruiting is now Simple!

Get Connected!

Foster Parents

Treatment Foster Parents Needed Work from home!

Local Companies Local Candidates

û Free training begins soon û Generous monthly tax-free stipend û 24/7 support

Call 301-355-7205 HEALTHCARE

Dental/ Medical Assistant Trainees Needed Now

WE’RE HIRING WEEKEND CNAS, GNAS, AND HHAS!

Dental/Medical Offices now hiring.

No experience?

Job Training & Placement Assistance Available 1-877-234-7706 CTO SCHEV

Provide non-medical care and companionship for seniors in their homes. Personal care, light housework, transportation, meal preparation.

Must be 21+. Must have car and one year professional, volunteer, or personal experience www.homeinsteads.com/197 Home Instead Senior Care To us it’s personal 301/588-9023 Call between 10am-4pm Mon-Fri

Search Jobs

E-mail: recruitment@holton-arms.edu Or Fax: 301-767-2710

Find Career Resources

www.holton-arms.edu

Local companies, Local candidates Get Connected

Gazette.Net GC3297

Civil Engineer

Deputy Assistant Secretary The Office of Environmental Management (EM), U.S. DOE, in D.C., is seeking a motivated and highlyqualified candidate for this exciting FT position for Human Capital and Corporate Services. The mission of this office is to (1) develop and implement the EM enterprise human capital program and IT & cyber security programs, (2) manage human resources liaison services, and (3) ensure infrastructure support in the areas of procurement; records management; executive services; federal purchase cards; foreign travel; permanent change of station; training administration; space and logistics; and executive correspondence. To apply please visit: http://www.usajobs.gov/

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Careers 301-670-2500

class@gazette.net SECURITY

Mobile Application Developers Westat in Rockville, MD is seeking full time Mobile Application Developers (multiple positions) to work in a collaborative environment in which knowledge is shared within and between teams. Develop mobile applications to support self-administered data collection activities from study respondents using mobile web applications, as well as interviewer led data collection activities using native mobile apps. Applications to be developed are for Apple iOS and/or Android mobile devices. Work on other projects as assigned. A bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field followed by two (2) years of experience developing mobile platform applications for Apple iOS and/or Android devices. Experience should include requisite mobile App development skills such as native device development experience, App store deployment experience, HTML5 and CSS experience. Any offer of employment will be contingent upon receipt of acceptable results from a background screening based on the specific position which will include, at a minimum, criminal records history.

Now Hiring Full Time Drivers

Unarmed Security Officers

Bethesda area. Seeking Career-Minded Security Professionals to join our team! 1 yr security exp, Driv Lic w/insurance . min 21 y/o, HS/GED, pass Physical, Drug Screen & Crim check. Excellent pay & benefits. Apply online at Securiguardinc.com. VA Lic #111373. EOE

bill.hennessy@longfoster.com • Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.

To apply, go to www.westat.com/jobs and enter the Job ID 7952BR in the space provided. EOE www.westat.com

Silver Spring

Work with the BEST!

Be trained individually by one of the area’s top offices & one of the area’s best salesman with over 34 years. New & experienced salespeople welcomed.

Must R.S.V.P.

3 01-388-2626 301-388-2626 EOE

MAINTENANCE Technician

For a retirement community in Aspen Hill, MD, with strong chiller, boiler & EMS knowledge. EOE. Send resume & salary reqs. to

office@homecresthouse.org

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Medical Assistant

We are looking for a medical receptionist who has more than 2 years experience in a large medical practice. The ideal candidate must have knowledge of Electronic Medical Record and must have excellent communication as well as customer service skill. Please send your resume to jobs@montgomerymedical.com

CHIEF OF OPERATIONS Salary Range $78,794 to $143,037

Department of Transportation, Division of Transit Services The employee will be responsible for managing the operations of a comprehensive, countywide public transit bus system and overall delivery of bus service provided by Ride On as well as the safety, efficiency and responsiveness of the system to the public. Duties include supervising the activities of all Ride On depots, Central Communications, and Safety and Training; planning, managing and directing the development of policies and procedures; enforcement of standard operating procedures and safety regulations; ensuring sufficient operating personnel and equipment to fulfill bus service requirements for operations; identifying, formulating and recommending budgetary requirements, including personnel, materials, and capital equipment to ensure sufficient resources; directing the development of strategic contingency plans, coordinating emergency procedures and ensuring that personnel are properly trained and appropriate equipment is made available to respond to matters having a potentially adverse impact on bus operations and safety.

Experience: Seven years of progressively responsible professional experience in public transit environment, three years of which were in a supervisory or executive capacity.

Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor’s Degree.

Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.

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To view entire job announcement and apply online visit: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/ohr/staffing/careers.html EOE M/F/H

*Dedicated Customer Hazmat and tanker endor req.

CDL-A w/1 yr. T/T experience

www.ruan.com/jobs Dedicated to Diversity. EOE

Recruiting is now Simple!

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Local Companies Local Candidates

U.S. Census Bureau is hiring locally for temporary positions in selected areas of Washington, D.C., and selected areas of Montgomery Co., MD for the 2014 Census Test. Positions range from $14.00$21.50 per hour. Please call 1-888-480-1639 for more information and to be scheduled for testing. The Census Bureau is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This agency provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Needed for busy doctors office in Rockvllie. Excellent Fax salary and benefits. resume to 301-424-8337

MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST

Great Benefits!

The Department of Commerce

MEDICAL ASSISTANT

CMA needed with cardiology experience for our Rockville/Germantown area.

Must have strong skills.

Fax or Email resume to 240-449-1193 or resumestowork1@gmail.com

Earn up to $75,000 / Year!

800-879-7826

PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Call Bill Hennessy

Real Estate

Great Home Time Based in Providence, RI and Martinsburg, WV

RUAN

Westat in Rockville, MD is seeking a full-time Programmer Analyst to support the development and operations of Java-based applications and components as part of a large enterprise system with domestic and international users. Design, develop, and maintain object-oriented, multi-tiered systems using Java/J2EE and other development platforms. A bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 2 years’ experience with Java/J2EE development platforms, including experience with Object Oriented programming and web services development is required. In the alternative, we will accept a master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (Coursework, internships, and/or thesis must demonstrate knowledge of Java/J2EE development platforms; Object Oriented programming; and web services development). Any offer of employment will be contingent upon receipt of acceptable results from a background screening based on the specific position which will include, at a minimum, criminal records history.

To apply, go to www.westat.com/jobs and enter the Job ID 7952BR in the space provided. EOE www.westat.com

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Driver

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SUMMER CAMP SCHOOL BUS DRIVING

Six weeks of driving, from June 23 to August 1 Class B CDL. "P" and "S" endorsements for experiened PT driver for Bethesda school. Bring references and driving record.

HOURS Mon-Fri 7:30am-10:30am and Mon-Fri. 2:30pm-5:30pm.

EXCELLENT PAY, LOCAL TRIPS. e-mail: recruitment@holton-arms.edu or Fax: 301-767-2710

P & C Sales & Customer Service

Busy, well established Frederick insurance agency looking for an intelligent, dependable individual licensed in P & C. Salary plus generous bonus program.

Fax resume to 301-696-8605 or email connie.davis.bvm8@statefarm.com

Seasonal Food & Beverage Positions

Private golf, swim and tennis club in Germantown offers the following seasonal positions - available immediately. Experience required! Line Cooks, Dishwashers & Summer Camp Chef Must pass a background check.

To Apply please visit gazette.net/jobs.

KENNEL ASSISTANT

Immediate opening for PT Kennel Assistant at Animal Hospital in Silver Spring. Holiday and Weekends required. Experience not required.

Call 301-598-7300 or Email info@layhillanimalhospital.com to advertise call 301.670.7100 or email class@gazette.net

CLUB OPENER

POTOMAC TENNIS & FITNESS CLUB

Seeks a friendly, articulate, service minded person to open the club Monday through Friday mornings 5:30 am to 8:00am.

Club usage benefits included.

Tennis knowledge a plus!

If interested contact Jeff 301-983-1450.

HEALTHCARE

Part-Time RN

In-home assessments for senior home care agency.

Light travel. Must be licensed in MD. 2 days a week; 4-5 hours a day.

Email dwe357@yahoo.com.

Admin/Accounting Assistant

Entry level, seasonal employee to provide office support 2 days per week.

Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and intermediate skills in MS Word, Excel and Outlook.

Accounting experience a+. Weekend availability required. For details and to apply go to gazette.net/careers Part-Time

Work From Home

National Children’s Center Making calls. For more info please call Weekdays between 9a-4p No selling! Sal + bonus + benes.

Call 301-333-1900

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Automotive

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Call 301-670-7100 or email class@gazette.net

P Pre re

Savings Savings

DARCARS VOLVO OF ROCKVILLE 2002 Volvo V70

New 2014 Scion TC $$ #450083,

Magnetic Grey

20,149 1.9% Financing Available

New 2014 Scion FR-S #451013, $$ Manual

25,455

Transmision

1.9% Financing Available

Auto, 33K Miles

14,990

02 Lincoln LS $$

8,990

#378092A, Gray, 5 Speed Auto, Premium Package

Navigation

15,595 1.9% Financing Available

4,980

$

#422051B, 121K Miles

12 Scion TC $$

15,990

10 Toyota RAV4 $$

15,990

#472351A, Automatic, 81k Miles, 1-Owner

14,490

10,980

#327213b

$

14 FordFocusSE $$

#472144A, Auto, 4k Miles, 1-Owner

16,700

14,380

#E0309, 43k Miles

$

2012 Honda Civic EX

11 Nissan Juke S $$

#450094A, CVT Trans, 36K Miles, 1-Owner, Station Wagon

17,995

13 Ford Escape S

19,995

$ #372014A, 6 Speed $

Auto, 8K Miles, 1-Owner

2013 Toyota Corolla LE........ $14,900 $14,900 #E0322, Classic Silver, 1-Owner, 33K Miles

$16,990 2011 Toyota Camry LE......... $16,990 #F0005, 32K Miles, 1 Owner 2008 Audi A4 Convertible....... $16,977 $16,977 #478014A, Red, One Owner, 66K Miles

2011 Toyota Pruis II............ $17,990 $17,990 #N0361, 13K Miles, 1-Owner 2005 Mercedes-Benz SLK Class. #451019A, 70K Miles, 1-Owner

$18,990 $18,990

2012 Toyota Tacoma........... $19,990 $19,990 #464142A, extended cab, 5 speed manual, 51K Miles

13 Hyundai Sonata LTD #470517A, 20K $ $ Miles, 1-Owner

20,990

2011 Nissan Murano........... $23,990 $23,990 #477422A, 55K Miles, CVT transmission

$24,990 2013 Toyota Prius Plug-in..... $24,990 #478000A, 18K Miles, CVT Automatic transmission 2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid...... $25,990 $25,990 #432094A, CVT Transmission, 1-Owner, 13k miles

2013 Toyota Tacoma........... $26,990 $26,990 #R1784, 4WD, Xtra Cab,Automatic transmission, 10K Miles 2012 Toyota Avalon............ $27,990 $27,990 #464105A,Automatic, 23K Miles, 1-Owner 2012 Ford Explorer Limited... $28,990 $28,990 #463062A, 6 SpeedAuto, 57K Miles

TOYOTA/SCION PRE-OWNED P R E - OW N E D 355 355 TOYOTA/SCION

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DARCARS

6,980

$

#429027A, 83k Miles

2007 Toyota Camry XLE

#422059B, 41kMiles

11,980

$

2009 Volvo XC-90

13 Scion XD $$

#N0358, Automatic, 1-Owner, 11K Miles

2012 Honda Civic LX

#R1735A, 6 Speed Auto, 1-Owner, 25K Miles

2007 Mitsubishi Raider LS

New 2014 Scion IQ #457005, $ $ Includes

2008 Ford Escape

13 Toyota Corolla LE #E0322, 4 Speed $ $

2001 Volvo XC70

Or O r Call 240-485-4905 C a l l Syd S y d at at 2 40-485-4905

15625 Frederick Rd (Rte 355) • Rockville, MD | OPEN SUNDAY

V N T HE W VISIT ISIT U US S O ON THE WEB EB A AT T w www.355.com ww.355.com

$

13,980

#P8834, w/Navigation, 106k Miles

14,480

#526902A, 61k Miles

$

2012 Mazda6 I Touring

#E0313, 39k Miles

$

2013 Hyundai Genesis

#E0307, 29k Miles

22,430

$

13,980

$

2010 Ford Escape

14,980

$

2011 Honda CRV EX-L

#422001A, 22k Miles

22,480

$

2013 Mazda3......................................................................$13,480 2012 Volvo S60...............................................................$20,980 #E0306, 34k Miles

#426042A, 22k Miles

#E0313, 39k Miles

#P8884, 40k Miles

#526302A, 61k Miles

#E0315, 26k Miles

#E0312, 43k Miles

#98885, 9k Miles

2012 Mazda I Touring............................................$14,480 2012 Volvo S60................................................................$21,480 2010 Ford Escape......................................................$14,980 2012 Mercedes Benz C250...........................$26,680

2012 Chevy Captiva................................................$15,480 2013 Volvo S6............................................................$29,980

DARCARS

VOLVO

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www.darcarsvolvo.com

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2008 CHEVROLET TAHOE: LTZ, 33,4k mi, black, leather, 4X4, DVD, navig., exc cond $10,900, sema@netscape.co m

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DARCARS NISSAN

2001 FORD CROWN VICTORcond, IA: Great runs good . $3500.

107K miles. Call 202-510-1999

DARCARS

Search Gazette.Net/Autos for economical choices

2007 HONDA ACCORD: V6, 54k mi, sunroof, very clean, power, leather, alumn wheels, $11k Call: 240-595-0857

See what it’s like to love car buying.

MSRP: Sale Price:

2014 NISSAN VERSA NOTE SV

MSRP: Sale Price: NMAC Bonus Cash:

13,995

10,995

2014 NISSAN SENTRA SV $

#12114 2 At This Price: VINS: 234542, 234555

2014 NISSAN ROGUE SELECT AWD

MSRP: Sale Price: Nissan Rebate:

18,995

(301)288-6009

2012 Acura TSX #P8927, Low Miles, Auto, 1-Owner

MSRP: Sale Price: Nissan Rebate: NMAC Bonus Cash:

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$

$23,895 $19,695 -$1,000 -$1,000

17,695

2013 Mini Cooper S

22,977

#P8951, Only 3,800 $ Miles, Pano Roof, Turbocharged, 1-Owner

22,977

$

2011 Nissan Murano SL

24,977

$

#P8928, Leather, Panoramic Rook, AWD, Auto, 1-Owner

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15911 Indianola Drive • Rockville, MD (at Rt. 355 across from King Farm)

BAD CREDIT - NO CREDIT - CALL TODAY!

NEW2 2014 COROLLA LE AVAILABLE: #470573, 470582

GREAT GREAT GGRADUATION RADUATION SSAVINGS! AVINGS!

4 DR., 4 CYL., AUTO

2 AVAILABLE: #472252, 472251

$

15,690

AFTER $500 REBATE

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

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$

4 CYL., AUTO

17,990

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18,977

$

DARCARS NISSAN of ROCKVILLE

NEW 2014.5 CAMRY LE

$

21,977

$

2011 Nissan Maxima

#P8934, Navigation, Loaded, 1-Owner

2 AVAILABLE: #470558, 470562

139/ MO**

2011 Nissan Altima Hybrid #P8925, Low Miles, Auto, 1-Owner

#29014 2 At This Price: VINS: 201061, 201127

2014 NEW COROLLA LE

$

17,977

$

#449563B, 4WD, Automatic, Leather

13,995

Prices include all rebates and incentives. NMAC Bonus Cash requires financing through NMAC with approved credit. Prices exclude tax, tags, freight (cars $810, trucks $845-$995), and $200 processing charge. Sentra Conquest Bonus requires proof of current ownership of any Toyota, Honda, or Hyundai vehicle. Prices valid only on listed VINS. See dealer for details. Offer expires 05/19/2014.

119/ MO**

16,977

$

#P8933, Leather, Sunroof, Low Miles

2014 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5 S

#13114 2 At This Price: VINS: 321191, 279345

$

12,977

$

2012 Ford Escape Limited

$18,470 $15,495 -$500 -$1000

$22,960 $19,995 -$1000

$

INSTANT CASH OFFER

2011 Nissan Altima

2012 Nissan Versa SL #R1826, Auto, 1-Owner, 3K Miles, Navigation

#11614 2 At This Price: VINS: 424852, 424559

MSRP: Sale Price: Nissan Rebate: NMAC Bonus Cash:

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11,977

$

#449000B, 6 Speed Manual, Leather, 1-Owner

$17,135 $14,995 -$500

$

ANY CAR ANY CONDITION

2010 Mazda MAZDA3 S Grand Touring

$12,970 $10,995

$

With Manual Transmission #11154 2 At This Price: VINS: 854836, 855969

FOR CAR !

36

9,977

$

2014 NISSAN VERSA S SEDAN

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2008 Hyundai Sonata GLS #341209A, Auto, 2.4L, 4 Doors

$

4 DR., 4 CYL., AUTO

18,690

AUTO, 4 CYL., 4 DR

AFTER TOYOTA $1,500 REBATE

NEW 22014 RAV4 4X4 LE AVAILABLE: #464182, 464188

NEW 2014 SCION XD 2 AVAILABLE: #453032, 453030 MONTHS+ % 0 FOR 60 On 10 Toyota Models

4 CYL., 4 DR., AUTO

DARCARS

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$

22,590

4 CYL., AUTOMATIC

1-888-831-9671

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169/mo.**

$

PRICES AND PAYMENTS INCLUDE ANY APPLICABLE MANUFACTURE’S REBATES AND EXCLUDE MILITARY ($500) AND COLLEGE GRAD ($500) REBATES, TAX, TAGS, DEALER PROCESSING CHARGE ($200) AND FREIGHT: CARS $795 OR $810, TRUCKS, SPORT UTILITY AND SIENNAS $810, $845 AND $995. *0.9% APR & 0% APR FINANCING UP TO 60 MONTHS TO QUALIFIED BUYERS THRU TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. TOTAL FINANCED CANNOT EXCEED MSRP PLUS OPTIONS, TAX, AND LICENSE FEES. 0% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $16.67 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. 0.9% APR 60 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $17.05 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. APR OFFERS ARE NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER CASH BACK OR LEASE OFFER. NOT ALL BUYERS WILL QUALIFY.**LEASE PAYMENTS BASED ON 36 MONTHS, 12,000 MILES PER YEAR WITH $995 DOWN PLUS $650 ACQUISITION FEE, NO SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED. SEE DEALER FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. 2014 COROLLAU & PRIUS PLUG-IN LEASES ARE FOR 24 MONTHS WITH $995 DOWN. EXPIRES 05/31/2014.

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