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While a number of twohour delays at Prince George’s County Public Schools could quickly add up to a full school day, the instructional hours lost will not have to be made up, according to school officials.

To date, the school system has instituted three two-hour delays, on Jan. 7, Jan. 8 and Jan. 14. One inclement weather closure took place Jan. 6.

School system CEO Kevin Maxwell said Jan. 14 that wet road conditions followed by overnight freezes raised concerns about bus safety in the early morning.

The PGCPS calendar has 184 school days, with four days for inclement weather added to the end of the school calendar.

Maryland law requires at least 180 school days unless a hardship waiver is granted.

By this time last year, the county already had used four inclement weather days.

PGCPS spokeswoman Lynn McCawley said the school system incorporates extra instructional hours into the school year beyond the minimum required by the state.

“This year’s calendar [20142015] has an extra 24.6 instructional hours for elementary and high school students and 233.4 for middle school students,” McCawley said in an email.

McCawley said each day includes instructional time be-

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Daryl Taylor of Temple Hills stands Jan. 12 near piles of trash next to a community Dumpster on Crispus Attucks Boulevard near the Patuxent River in Aquasco. Taylor, who has several family members living in the area, has been advocating for the removal of the Dumpster over aesthetic and environmental concerns.

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After more than six years of complaints, Cedar Haven residents say an eyesore will finally be removed from their prized view of the Patuxent River — a 2.5 ton trash container.

The trash container came to Cedar Haven in 2007, when Prince George’s County placed it at the intersection of Richard Allen Street and Crispus Attucks Boulevard in Aquasco. Outsiders came to dump their waste and the trash container would then overflow with litter, polluting the river, residents said.

“There used to be a pristine water front,” said resident Carmell Weathers. “Why would you deface it by putting a Dumpster there? But that’s what they did.”

On Jan. 8, Angela Angel and Roger Merritt Jr. of the Department of the Environment met with Cedar Haven residents to confirm that the trash container would be permanently removed. They also presented two options for weekly trash collection.

“By removing the container and instituting a residential trash collection service, the residents of Cedar Haven will have their household disposal needs met

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A Largo High School principal at the center of several lawsuits alleging racial harassment and retaliation is no longer employed with the school system, according to school officials.

Lynn McCawley, Prince George’s County Public Schools spokeswoman, said that Angelique Simpson-Marcus, former principal at Largo, is no longer employed with the school system.

McCawley declined to discuss the circumstances of Simpson-Marcus’ departure, citing

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without creating an opportunity for illegal dumping that threatens our land and eventually our waterways,” Angel wrote in an email to The Gazette.

The Prince George’s County Department of the Environment emptied the trash container once a week, but for a while it did not seem often enough, said Daryl Taylor, whose elderly uncles still live in the homes they built in Cedar Haven. When the trash container was full, residents and outsiders would leave household waste and even bulky items like mattresses lying on the ground.

“It used to be clean down here, but that Dumpster brought in a mess,” Taylor said.

Weathers said the trash container, which is 200 feet from her home, brought people to the community that she did not know and the sound of their cars at night startled her.

She said she pleaded with the county in 2008 to remove the trash container to no avail. Taylor and Cedar Haven residents revived the effort and a solution was set in motion last August when Council Chairman Mel Franklin (D-Dist. 9) of Upper Marlboro met with residents and committed to removing the trash container.

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McCawley said Assistant Principal Mark Bickerstaff has been named acting principal of Largo.

“He assumed duties as acting principal on Jan. 15,” McCawley said.

Departing Largo High on Friday afternoon, senior Marcus Battle, 18, of Largo, said Bickerstaff wished the students a good weekend over the announcements before dismissal.

“He’s just a real nice guy,” Battle said of Bickerstaff. “He looks out for the students.”

In July, a U.S. District Court jury awarded $350,000 to former Largo teacher Jon Everhart, 66, in compensatory damages in a suit against the PGCPS school board. Another trial, to determine what back pay, retirement and health benefits Everhart is owed is scheduled to be

Although Bowie will not adopt a new budget for several months, city officials have begun to discuss their priorities for fiscal 2016 — including keeping property taxes at the same rate for the sixth year in a row.

During Tuesday night’s council meeting, city finance director H. Byron Matthews outlined the city’s biggest projects for fiscal 2016 and beyond. Those include the city’s new police call center and an indoor sports facility that will ultimately cost more than $22 million.

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Parents at Ardmore Elementary who have been voicing concerns about the Springdale school’s water quality and asbestos tiles say the county’s promise to put its entire lead remediation budget into Ardmore this year is not enough.

Beverly Thomas, an Ardmore parent with a background in construction, said the $200,000 promised by school system officials to remove lead in Ardmore’s water pipes will only be a Band-Aid on the school’s in-

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held in March, according to court documents.

Everhart, who is white, alleged in his suit that Simpson-Marcus, who is black, used racial profanity and created a hostile work environment for Everhart.

When Everhart filed a complaint, the suit alleges that Simpson-Marcus began giving Everhart unsatisfactory performance reviews, and other retaliatory measures, leading to Everhart being fired in 2010.

Everhart’s attorney, Bryan Chapman, said he feels Simpson-Marcus was not provided the appropriate level of guidance by the school system when she took over as principal of Largo in 2007.

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Parents at Ardmore Elementary School gather Jan. 12 to hear from school system officials about planned renovations to Ardmore’s building.

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JAN. 22 FastPencil for Libraries, 11 a.m., Oxon Hill Library, 6200 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill. FastPencil for Libraries helps you get published. The do-it-yourself online writing service engages new or established authors to develop and edit works, along with the tools needed to get published.

Join the Library’s writing community for a hands-on workshop to get started — or get inspiration — on your own writing projects. Contact 301-839-2400.

Girls Who Code Club, 3:30 TO 5:30 p.m., Bowie Library, 15210 Annapolis Road, Bowie. Girls will enjoy a computer science education and tech industry exposure. This club will work on collaborative curriculum based technology projects.

Registration preference will be given to Bowie residents. Registration required.

Contact 301-262-7000.

JAN. 23 Holy Trinity Episcopal Day School Open House, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Holy

Trinity Episcopal Day School, 13106 Annapolis Road, Bowie. Holy Trinity Episcopal Day School will hold its All School Open House for prospective parents. The Lower School campus, Grades 1 – 4, is located at 13106 Annapolis Road, Bowie, MD 20720.

Preschool/Kindergarten and Grades 5 – 8 are located at 11902 Daisy Lane, Glenn Dale, Maryland 20769. Call 301262-5355 or visit our website at www. htrinity.org.

JAN. 24 Quilting Class, 10 a.m., Spauldings Library, 5811 Old Silver Hill Road, District Heights. Come join us and have fun learning how to hand quilt. We all can learn from each other and make new friends. Come with half a yard of fabrics, 100 percent cotton light and dark colors. Beginner and Intermediate levels. Contact 301-817-3750.

Downloadable Materials, 10:30 a.m., Surratts-Clinton Library, 9400 Piscataway Road, Clinton. Learn about the library’s downloadable resources — books, audiobooks, magazines, music, and videos. Call the Information Desk for details or to register. Contact 301-868-9200.

College Goal Sunday, 11 a.m., Spauldings Library, 5811 Old Silver Hill Road, District Heights. A free event to help students and families complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Register online at CollegeGoalSundayMD.org. Contact 301817-3750.

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Enigma Cracked, 2 p.m., Bowie Library, 15210 Annapolis Road, Bowie. Dr. Vincent Houghton, director of the International Spy Museum, will discuss espionage during World War II. Patrick Weadon of the National Cryptologic Museum will discuss how the British cracked Enigma. Contact 301-262-7000.

Meet The Author: Janet Sims-Wood, 2 p.m., Oxon Hill Library, 6200 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill. Join author Janet SimsWood as she shares insights about her book, “Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University: Building a Legacy of Black History.”

Contact 301-839-2400.

Open House at Highland Park Christian Academy, 3 to 5 p.m., Highland Park Christian Academy, 6801 Sheriff Road, Landover. An Open House Extraordinaire is in the works at the Highland Park Christian Academy. Come see why HPCA is one of the oldest of the 122 private schools in Prince George’s County. Students will showcase their work. The robotics room will be open for interested parents. For more information, call 301-773-4079 or eloutip@gmail. com.

JAN. 25 “Opera … From a Sistah’s Point of View” Concert is Witty and Diverse, 5 to

8 p.m., Bowie Performing Arst Center, 15200 Annapolis Road, Bowie. Soprano Angela M. Brown uses her voice as a vehicle to singlehandedly help audiences of all ages and backgrounds understand that opera can be enjoyed by the masses. From Aida to gospel, soprano Angela Brown aims to dispel myths about opera through her own witty and inspired recital entitled.

Cost is $25. Contact 301-839-1444 or caapa@aol.com.

JAN. 26 Book Discussion: True Crime, Noon at Upper Marlboro Library, 14730 Main St., Upper Marlboro. Call the Upper Marlboro Branch for details.

Contact 301-627-9330.

Introduction to MS Publisher 2010, 6 p.m., Hillcrest Heights Library, 2398 Iverson St., Temple Hills. Learn how to make newsletters, brochures, cards and more. Advance mouse and keyboarding skills required. Registration required. Participants may bring their own personal laptop due to the limit number of equipment available. Contact 301-630-4900.

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Hill Library, 6200 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill. Come join us for our fancy tea party and share not only delicious tea and snacks, but also great stories and activities about the Mad Tea Party from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Ages 4-9. Contact 301839-2400.

MORE INTERACTIVE CALENDAR ITEMS AT WWW.GAZETTE.NET tablet during the holidays? Your library has many downloadable resources and apps available to you for free with your library card. During our Digital Download Night, librarians will show you what apps the library has to offer, including ebooks, magazines, movies, music and more. Staff will also be available to help you download and get started using these great services.

Contact 301-336-4044.

Family Game Night, 7 p.m., Accokeek Library, 15773 Livingston Road, Accokeek. Put on your game face and get ready to compete at Family Game Night. Featuring fun and exciting games such as: Uno, Junior Scrabble, Trouble and many more. The games and light refreshments will be provided. Contact 301-292-2880.

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Meet the EmPOWER Rangers, 3 p.m., New Carrollton Library, 7414 Riverdale Road, New Carrollton. Bring the family and join one of the EmPOWER Rangers for a fun interactive presentation about our energy choices and what we can do today to make our homes and neighborhoods cleaner and greener.

Learn how to reduce your energy use, save money and safeguard the earth at your library. Contact 301-459-6900.

Girls Read: Grades 3, 4 and 5, 4 p.m., Oxon Hill Library, 6200 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill. Find out about the latest books, share your favorites, and practice your reading with games and other fun activities. Contact 301-8392400.

Black Literature Book Discussion, 6:30 p.m., Oxon Hill Library, 6200 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill. Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Getting Mother’s Body.” Contact 301-839-2400.

Book Discussion, 7 p.m., Spauldings Library, 5811 Old Silver Hill Road, District Heights. James McBride’s “The Good Lord Bird.” Contact 301-8173750.

SPORTS Largo’s girls basketball team can take a big step in locking down a berth in the county championship game by defeating upstart Forestville on Friday.

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For one new nonprofit, planting seeds of peace in the Middle East starts with building garden boxes in Prince George’s County.

The Holyland Peace Fellowship Foundation, composed of members from across Prince George’s, led its first unity project Monday, funding and helping to build vegetable gardens for students at Ardmore Elementary School in Springdale.

The Rev. Samford Brown of Oxon Hill founded Holyland in August to help promote a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but said international peace starts at home — with public service projects that bring citizens together.

“In my view, fellowship is the infrastructure we use in promoting peace,” Brown said.

“Today, what I wanted to do was create an atmosphere where grownups, children, multiple cultures came together with one purpose: public service to create harmony in the community.

I wanted to partner with the school to demonstrate what we are trying to do across the sea.”

About 50 community members and volunteers helped build 10 cedar planters for Ardmore students, who will now be able to plant, grow and learn about their own mini gardens, said Ardmore principal Georgette Gregory.

“I thought it would be great if every child had their very own garden. They could really tend it and they could see the life cycle of plants and understand what

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(From left) Nia Lovick, Kensei Tsubata, Marilynn Bland and Michael Gregory volunteer Monday at the Holyland Peace Fellowship Foundation’s first service project at Ardmore Elementary School in Springdale. it takes to start from a seed,” she said. “They would be far more accepting of nutritious eating if they had an appreciation for what it takes to start this whole life cycle with plants and fruits.”

Sixth-grader Aniyah Council, 11, of Springdale said she is not only excited to grow vegetables and fruits at the school this year, but hopes to be involved in other service activities in the future.

“I think it’s great,” she said.

“I would like to help out homeless people so that they can have food for themselves.”

Melvin Haft of Bowie, vice president of Holyland Peace Fellowship Foundation, said peace and unity must start at a personal level — with an individual

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sense of harmony.

“I love the word ‘harmony’ and named my daughter Harmony. What harmony means is a unity between a mind and heart,” he said. “To create peace, one must have personal peace. We are all really meant to be peace-makers. It’s what we naturally want.”

Haft said his organization’s mission closely aligns with the values promoted by Martin Luther King, Jr., so it was fitting the group’s first service project took place on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. “[King] saw service as a way to create peace and harmony.

That in a sense is what our organization is about,” he said.

“Whatever everyone’s religion,

race, faith, we are one family under God.” Marilynn Bland, director of strategic partnerships for HLPFF and a former Prince George’s school board and council member, said she is excited about the traction the nonprofit is gaining in the county.

“It’s going really well. Everywhere we’ve gone in the community, people really want to hear about [our mission],” she said. “We’re trying to get people familiar with peace vs. violence, so that [peace] becomes the norm. We’re going to continue to be involved in the community in any way we can.”

Prince George’s County high school students who are applying to college or preparing for their first job can receive guidance from the sisters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. through a new educational enrichment program.

Achievement, SelfAwareness, Communication, Engagement, Networking and Developmental Skills, or A.S.C.E.N.D., is a six-month mentoring program that begins this month, said Danaeka Spear, president of the Fort Washington-based Upsilon Tau Omega chapter.

Boys and girls who participate in the program can attend free workshops on a variety of topics, such as SAT preparation, presentation skills, college essays, dressing for success and more, Spear

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MaryLouise James Isbell stands in front of a display board in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Oxon Hill Library on Jan. 12. Isbell saw King speak in 1960, when she was a college student in South Carolina.

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When MaryLouise James Isbell, 75, of Forestville saw Martin Luther King Jr. speak at Claflin University in South Carolina, she wasn’t just captivated by the civil rights leader — she said she was motivated to fight injustice wherever she found it, whether it be at a segregated lunch counter or an underserved school library.

“To this day I praise Martin Luther King Jr. and my father for making me always stand up for what I believe in,” Isbell said.

Isbell said she was a junior studying education at South Carolina State College, now South Carolina State University, in Orangeburg, S.C., when King visited nearby Claflin in February 1960. As he explained his philosophy of nonviolence, students from both schools crowded around King, who seemed to tower over them, she said.

“His voice was thunderous,” Isbell said. “He just mesmerized you with how he spoke.”

Students then planned to march from the college to downtown Orangeburg, where an S. H. Kress & Company five and dime store refused to let African Americans sit and eat the food they bought there, Isbell said.

Isbell said she wanted to be

on the front line of the march because of the discrimination she witnessed in her hometown of Kingstree, S.C. Ku Klux Klansmen came to her house and harassed her father for sending his children to college to the point that he considered it dangerous for she and her siblings to come home during breaks, she said.

With heels on, hair done, and arms locked, Isbell marched with 1,000 students on March 15, 1960, to the five and dime where students were stopped by police and blasted by fire hoses three times before they were arrested, Isbell said.

“It took a lot of courage to do what she did,” said Sonja Montague, 66, Brandywine, a friend and former colleague.

“Your parents are sending you to school and you’re off fighting for what you believe in. She’s not a violent person. She’s very nonviolent. It took a lot.”

The county jail did not have enough room for the students, so they were corralled in an outdoor stockade before they were released on bail, Isbell said. She said she and her classmates were treated “like celebrities” when they returned to school.

After graduation, Isbell moved back home and taught world history at a segregated school in Cades, S.C. Her school’s library was not wellbalanced, stocking random numbers of books, she said.

Isbell asked her principal for more copies, but he refused to help, suggesting that she be satisfied with what they had. In-

stead, Isbell went straight to the supervisor of county libraries and asked for the books available at the nearby white school.

“My dad’s philosophy was always to speak up for what you believe in and when I met Martin Luther King it further instilled that belief and I got the books I needed for my library,” Isbell said.

Isbell went on to work as a librarian at Gwynn Park Middle School in Brandywine and retired in 2003 after 26 years of service. She’s actively involved in her community and church and serves as the president of the Friends of Oxon Hill Library.

Elizabeth Redd, 76, of Washington, D.C., worked with Isbell at Gwynn Park and said Isbell is still making sure students have access to books — she collects and donates old books every year, Redd said.

“You don’t find a lot of good people but Mary’s a good person,” Redd said. “I would stand by her and go help her if she needed me to.”

Isbell said sharing her story with young people who never got to meet Martin Luther King Jr. made her realize the importance of her encounter.

“When I was coming along it was more what he taught us to fight for than Martin Luther King Jr. but as I grow older, [it’s] ‘Mary, you actually saw the man. You actually saw this great man,’” Isbell said. kpetersen@gazette.net

Bowie student wins poster contest Madison Green, a student at Benjamin Tasker Middle School, is the winner of the middle school competition for the Martin Luther King, Jr. essay and poster contest sponsored by the Prince George’s County Educators Association, the school announced.

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“This is a huge accomplishment because this was a county-wide competition,” the

statement read. “Madison will be honored at a special ceremony later this month and will receive an award. We would like to say congratulations to Madison Green for her achievement.”

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Adding more than 700 acres of uninhabited land to the Town of Forest Heights may not sound like an economic boon, but town officials and residents say annexing this area could put the town in a prime position to become “the jewel” of Prince George’s County.

Forest Heights Mayor Jacqueline Goodall and the Town Council have proposed two extensions of the town.

The first would encompass 446.88 acres of National Park Service land that includes Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm.

The second is comprised of 289.97 acres of federal, state and county-owned land as well as properties owned by the county Board of Education, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Oxon Hill Methodist Church.

The ultimate goal of annexation is to bring in commercial businesses that can help reduce the tax burden on residents, Goodall said.

“We want to be in the position to grow,” Goodall said.

“Bowie didn’t grow to where it is in one day. However it moved from a very small town

to really one of Prince George County’s shopping areas and economic development areas.

I see the potential of Forest Heights to do the same thing as a municipality.”

Town Attorney Kevin J. Best said if the town annexes these areas, the charter and ordinances of the town can be enforced there. These areas are public lands, meaning no consent is required from the property owner before annexation, Best said.

As part of Forest Heights, a sustainable community that is eligible for state Community Legacy grants, annexed areas can benefit from grant-funded projects, Goodall said.

One project could be pedestrian and bicycle trail improvements near Oxon Run, which could enhance the connection between Forest Heights and Washington, D.C., Goodall said.

Jim Hudnall, a member of the Oxon Hill Bike and Trail Club, said the section of trail closest to Forest Heights is “almost nonexistent” and local pedestrians and cyclists would take advantage of improvements.

“Some people in the club do commute to [Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling Air Force Base] and Naval Research Lab. A park trail improvement would be a big benefit to them,” Hudnall said. “If the Town of Forest Heights worked with the National Park Service, I think

they would have a nice trail connection.”

When annexing land, towns can only extend to areas they “touch,” Goodall said.

By annexing areas that border the town, Forest Heights can reach residential and commercial areas that may want to join the town in the future.

Only 14 businesses currently operate out of the town, Goodall said.

“It needs more, not just residential homes, but businesses to make it a more viable base,” said resident Frank Prather, 66, who has lived in the town since 1961.

Town Administrator Vern Haefele said the Forest Heights community needs to work together if it wants to tap into the town’s potential.

“This town has so much potential, it’s really scary,” Haefele said. “It could be an all-American city, but it takes a lot of work.”

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The chorale is composed of about 100 members, 55-yearsold and older, who practice from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursdays at the Bowie Senior Center, according to a press release from the chorale. The chorale performs four concerts a year, two in the spring and two holiday concerts, according to the release.

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Bowie State student Kevin Hayes is suing his fraternity for physical and emotional abuse.

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Hayes said ing before at pledged Alpha Phi Alpha to be part of the organization’s history of leadership and public service.

Now, the history major said he wants to go to law school and become a criminal prosecutor to fight injustices like the ones he said he suffered.

Raskin (D-Dist. 20) of Takoma Park, who proposed a similar hazing bill last year that passed in the Senate, but was not voted on in the House, said Hayes’ testimony has been valuable in raising awareness and support for his bill.

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A 20-year-old Upper Marlboro student is lobbying for harsher punishments for fraternity and sorority “hazing” after suing fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha for alleged physical and emotional abuse.

Kevin Hayes, a junior at Bowie State University, said he was beaten, harassed and humiliated while pledging for Alpha Phi Alpha during the fall of 2013. The student government association member and former freshman class president said he was hit with wood, trapped in a guarded room and verbally threatened by members of the organization.

The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. did not return requests for comment by press time.

But Hayes is not stopping with his $3 million lawsuit, filed Dec. 29 by attorney Jimmy Bell of Jimmy Bell, LLC. The student has been contacting politicians and social organizations to raise support for Sen. Jamie Raskin’s anti-hazing bill and has proposed an amendment that would impose a mandatory weekend in jail for anyone convicted of hazing.

“Jail, for a college student, is somewhere we do not want to be. It would definitely scare many people off,” Hayes said. “I feel it’s a good place to start. In order for generations after me to not deal with this.”

Hayes has received email responses from several state senators and delegates, including Barbara Frush (D- Dist.21) of Beltsville, who said they will support the bill and amendment this legislative session.

“We’re grown up adults and you don’t beat up on other people,” said Frush, who added that Bowie State lies just outside her district. “Assault is wrong and this is assault.”

Bowie State University has released a statement saying the school is not a named party in the lawsuit and cannot com-

man. Many of the victims we’ve spoken to have been too embarrassed or afraid to go public,” he said. “I think Kevin is a hero for stepping forward to say that this is unacceptable.”

Raskin’s bill would increase the penalty for hazing from $500 to $5,000, which the senator said is a more realistic financial deterrent.

“The problem is the law is too weak,” Raskin said. “This is not your grandfather’s hazing.

This is locking people in dark basements for 20 hours with heavy metal music playing and being pummeled repeatedly.”

Hayes said he is grateful for the support he received from local legislators and organizations that include the Prince George’s County chapter of the NAACP. “It’s an interesting experience because I’m only 20-yearsold and I can’t think of many 20-year-olds who have gotten this much [public] support,” he said. “It has made my drive to [become a prosecutor] even stronger.”

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Born in Old Forge, PA on April 11, 1954, Louis was the son of the late Joseph and Eleanor Cambardella. He graduated from Bowie High School in 1972 and received his Bachelor of Science in Business and Technology Management from the University of Maryland. Having over 25 years of sobriety, Louis helped countless alcoholics in their recovery. He recently retired from NOAA and took pride in tending his 12 acre farm. Louis enjoyed golf, fishing, and was an excellent cook.

Surviving to cherish his memory are his wife of 35 years, Debbie Cambardella, 2 sons, Tony Cambardella of Harpers Ferry, WV and Bobby Cambardella of Odenton, MD; two daughters, Jamie Campbell and her husband Matthew of Rising Sun, MD and Jessica Cambardella of Ephrata, PA; 2 grandchildren, Robert Cambardella and James Campbell; a brother, Bill Cambardella and his wife Michele and 2 sisters, Cindy Cambardella and her partner Janet Hartman and Mary Kamberger and her husband John.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Agnes Catholic Church, 150 S. Queen St., in Rising Sun, MD on Saturday January 24, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. A visitation will be held at R.T. Foard Funeral Home, P.A., 111 S. Queen St., Rising Sun, MD 21911 on Friday evening from 6 – 8:00 p.m. Burial will be private. To send condolences visit www.rtfoard.com.

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Bowie center offers tickets to students The Bowie Center for Performing Arts will host a performance by Metropolitan Opera singer Angela Brown on Sunday and is offering free admission to students under 18 years old.

Brown’s performance, entitled “Opera...From a Sistah’s Point of View,” will be presented by the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts and will include contributions by alum and vocal students from Prince

George’s County public schools, according to a statement from the BCPA. “Opera...From a Sistah’s Point of View” seeks to make opera and classical vocal performance relatable to a diverse audience and dispel common myths about the art form, according to the BCPA. “Our organization targets all audiences with a focus on Prince George’s County youth and residents,” said Pamela Simonson, board chair for the

Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts, in a statement. “It is our hope and responsibility to give students choices in music and the performing arts. Angela will help us do that in a fun, creative and different way.”

The concert will begin at 5 p.m. at the BCPA, located at 15200 Annapolis Road in Bowie. Visit www.4caapa.org or call 301-839-1444.

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Drifting tricycles, motorized bikes and even street-legal race cars — all custom-built and created with a 3-D printer — could be cruising around National Harbor in the next year, following the launch of technology company Local Motor’s first East Coast location.

Jon Peterson, principal of Fairfax-based Peterson Cos., which developed National Harbor, announced the partnership with Phoenix-based Local Motors on Jan. 12 by riding onto the National Plaza’s stage in a Rally Fighter, a car designed with the help of 7,000 people crowdsourced online.

National Harbor visitors will be able to customize all aspects of a car, ranging from the vinyl exterior to the type of motor, and drive it out the door within 24 hours, said Justin Fishkin, the chief strategy officer for Local Motors.

The Strati, a car with a 3-D printed frame, exterior and some interior components, ranges from $18,000 to $30,000, Fishkin said.

Although an exact location has not been determined, Local Motors will operate three distinct spaces in a 45,000-square-foot facility — a 15,000-square-foot showroom and retail space, a

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Jon Peterson, principal of The Peterson Cos., shows off the custom-printed Rally Fighter at a Jan. 12 announcement at National Harbor. Local Motors will open its first East Coast location at National Harbor.

10,000-square-foot build floor and a 20,000-square-foot open lab, where car enthusiasts and designers alike can collaborate on a vehicular vision.

“Theoretically you can do anything you want,” Fishkin said. “Our power to innovate is only limited by our community members.”

The National Harbor facility will be the first location in the world to roll out a fleet of 3-D printed cars, Peterson said.

With 3-D printing, Local Motors can produce the entire body of a car as a single, unified piece, then “snap on” non-printed mechanical components, such as the wiring, suspension, motor and tires, Fishkin said.

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to Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, said Local Motors could enhance National Harbor’s global appeal.

“I think this is an exciting expansion of everything National Harbor brings to the entertainment and retail community,” Iannucci said. “It could really bring people from around the world to see what’s being done.”

The launch will create 100 jobs, opportunities that Iannucci said could keep University of Maryland, College Park, graduates in Prince George’s County.

“That educated, skilled, motivated workforce is a resource to be tapped,” Iannucci said. “There are clearly students from the University of Maryland whose skill areas are a perfect match for this.”

Fishkin said Local Motors is hoping to make connections with universities in the area, but also to give back to the communities in its backyard.

Ida Bailey, 36, of National Harbor said county residents would be interested in creating their own custom cars.

“I think it’s cool. I like the idea,” Bailey said.

Peterson said he’s confident that the National Harbor location can be operational in the next 12 months. kpetersen@gazette.net

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POLICE BLOTTER This activity report is provided by the Prince George’s County Police Department as a public service to the community and is not a complete listing of all events and crime reported.

District 2 Headquarters, Bowie, 301390-2100 Glenn Dale, Kettering, Lanham, Largo, Seabrook, Woodmore, Lake Arbor, Mitchellville and Upper Marlboro.

JAN. 12 Vehicle stolen, 2900 block Citrus Lane, 3:34 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9600 block Cedarhollow Lane, 9:43 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2400 block Lemontree Lane, 10:23 a.m.

Residential break-in, 16100 block Penn Manor Lane, 12:01 p.m.

Assault, 300 block Prairie Court, 12:58 p.m.

Robbery on commercial property, 16700 block Governors

Bridge Road, 8:42 p.m.

JAN. 13 Theft from vehicle, 4800 block King John Way, 4:09 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10000 block Greenbelt Road, 6:09 a.m.

Theft, 16700 block Governors Bridge Road, 12:37 p.m.

Theft, 3100 block Saffron Walden Way, 2:30 p.m.

Theft, 3300 block Crain Highway Nw, 6:42 p.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

1600 block Monarch Birch Way, 9:29 p.m.

JAN. 14 Theft from vehicle, 800 block Largo Center Drive, 12:31 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10300 block Bald Hill Road, 3:49 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9300 block Darcy Road, 9:12 p.m.

Robbery, 4100 block Enterprise Road, 9:33 p.m.

Robbery, unit block of Castleton Drive, 10:10 p.m.

JAN. 15 Theft from vehicle, 14100

block Spring Branch Drive, 3:24

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Theft from vehicle, 12400 block Fairwood Pky, 6:33 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10200 block Lake Arbor Way, 7:17 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1200 block Mercantile Lane, 11:13 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 1000 block Largo Center Drive, 1:59 p.m.

Residential break-in, 9200 block Morley Road, 2:49 p.m.

Theft, 9400 block Lanham Severn Road, 2:57 p.m.

Residential break-in, 13100 block 11th St., 3:16 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4200 block Bar Harbor Place, 3:29 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 12200 block Open View Lane, 4:02 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3300 block Heidi Lane, 4:57 p.m.

Theft, 1100 block Shoppers Way, 5:01 p.m.

Theft, 800 block Largo Center Drive, 5:02 p.m.

Theft, 14700 block Governor Oden Bowie Drive, 5:28 p.m.

Theft, 15500 block Annapolis Road, 6:04 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10500 block Martin Luther King Highway, 10:50 p.m.

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Shoppers Way, 11:13 p.m.

JAN. 17 Residential break-in, 9700 block Good Luck Road, 1:41 a.m.

Theft, 600 block Crain Highway Sw, 1:16 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 700 block Castlewood Place, 3:47 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8600 block Greenbelt Road, 4:49 p.m.

Robbery, 12600 block Marleigh Drive, 9:32 p.m.

JAN. 18 Assault with a weapon, 11400 block Glen Dale Ridge Road, 12:50 a.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

Race Track Road/Old Chapel Road, 1:10 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4900 block Collingtons Bounty Drive, 1:23 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 14600 block Debenham Way, 9:30 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 14800 block Debenham Way, 9:52 a.m.

Theft, 2200 block Amber Meadows Drive, 11:18 a.m.

Theft, 10200 block Lake Arbor Way, 2:59 p.m.

Assault, unit block of Herrington Drive, 3:46 p.m.

Theft, 3100 block Pyles Drive, 4:33 p.m.

JAN. 16 Theft from vehicle, 10900

block Sebago Court, 2:59 a.m.

Residential break-in, 12100 block Whitehall Drive, 7:53 a.m.

Theft, 1700 block Bay Berry Terrace, 8:58 a.m.

Residential break-in, 1700 block Bay Berry Terrace, 9:44 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11400 block Honeysuckle Court, 2:43 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9700 block Good Luck Road, 3:24 p.m.

Assault with a weapon, 5400 block Barker Place, 3:52 p.m.

Residential break-in, 9700 block Good Luck Road, 11:12 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 800 block

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District 4 Headquarters, Oxon Hill, 301-749-4900. Temple Hills, Hillcrest Heights, Camp Springs, Suitland, Morningside, Oxon Hill, Fort Washington, Forest Heights, Friendly, Accokeek and Windbrook (subdivision in Clinton).

JAN. 12 Residential break-in, 6700 block Stoneridge Court, 12:01 p.m.

Robbery on commercial property, 4400 block 23rd Pky, 1:05

p.m.

Theft, 11400 block Hickory Drive, 1:54 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6900 block Dudley Ave, 2:35 p.m.

frastructure problems.

Thomas said she independently enlisted the help of a contractor to assess the cost of overhauling the school — including pipe replacement, asbestos abatement and blacktop repair — and received the estimate of $22 million to $25 million.

“We ask you to take this baseline budget back and find the money for us,” Thomas told school officials and legislators at a Jan. 12 PTA meeting. “This school is a high-performing school. Get us $25 million.”

Ardmore’s building, which is more than 60-years-old, isn’t the only one in the county with lead, asbestos and other hazards, but Ardmore parents began voicing concerns late last year after children were allegedly injured on broken blacktop and a water test was conducted and confirmed lead toxins, Thomas said.

Carl Belcher, director of building services for PGCPS, said there are “several” schools in the county dealing with issues similar to Ardmore’s, but a complete list was not available by press time.

While lead was first discovered at the school 10 years ago and students have been drinking from bottled water for several years, parents questioned why they didn’t know about it sooner.

Belcher said the school system made public its plans to replace water pipes this summer and systematically repair asbestos tiles at the school.

“I don’t really have a good answer for why it took so long for parents to be notified, but it is a matter of public record,” he said. “There was no intent to hide any facts from anyone.”

Keith Olive, another Ardmore parent, said he and his wife were unsatisfied with the school system’s response to parent concerns and are attempting to transfer their two children out of Ardmore.

“I’m well beyond upset and disappointed in the school system,” Olive said. “The county funded football fields but left

“I’m well beyond upset and disappointed in the school system.”

Keith Olive, Ardmore parent only $200 [thousand] for repairs to aging schools.”

New turf athletic fields like the one installed at Oxon Hill High School last year can cost between $700,000 and $1 million, The Gazette reported in April.

Belcher said $200,000 is unlikely to cover the entire cost of the lead remediation at Ardmore, but PGCPS environmental officer William Dallas noted that the system is limited by funding.

“I can only move as fast as my funding,” Dallas said. “I understand. I’m a parent. My kids go to Prince George’s County schools too.”

Thomas said her construction company works on school renovation projects in Washington, D.C., that are often completed in eight weeks. She said it would be possible to overhaul Ardmore over the summer, it’s just a matter of finding the fund-

ing.

“We have to develop a plan of action to solicit the Prince George’s County Council and our school board official to make Ardmore E.S. a priority for a full renovation,” she said.

Tanisha Baker, Ardmore’s PTA president, said many parents are interested in petitioning for a complete overhaul of the school, but that she wouldn’t be surprised if some parents gave up and transferred out.

“It does make you feel horrific that you would send your children to a school that is in great need of maintenance. It’s disconcerting to say the least,” Baker said. “We know other schools got funding to do [a complete renovation] and we don’t want to hear the same answers about standard process and procedures.” eshaughnessy@gazette.net

In Memoriam In Memory of Patricia Faye Burgess Patty Faye, it has been a year since you left us, and the Diamond Girls think of you every day. Each time we crack a joke, we’d think of how you would respond. You made every experience an adventure, and each adventure a memory. As one of the founding members of the Diamond Girls, each time we meet, we feel you with us; see your funny expressions and hear your voice assign your signature “Troll” label to each of us with every comment we make. We were just starting to have fun when you departed. When next we meet, we’ll pick up where we left off; hugs and kisses all around and off we’ll go into our next adventure!

Love, The Diamond Girls.

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Continued from Page A-1 been avoidable,” Chapman said. “I don’t blame Ms. Simpson-Marcus. I hold the school system and the school board accountable.”

Other cases against Simpson-Marcus and the school system are pending, Chapman said.

Largo High sophomore Abdul Kaba, 15, of Largo said he

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Arthur W. Turner, the president of the Cedar Haven Civic Association, said he was pleased with the responsiveness of county officials.

“Everything we have asked

was surprised Simpson-Marcus was still at the school after the lawsuits.

“As an adult you shouldn’t even bully kids. You shouldn’t abuse your people or treat your people wrong,” Kaba said. “I felt she should go.”

In September, the president of the Prince George’s County chapter of the NAACP, Robert “Bob” Ross, called for Simpson-Marcus’ departure.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a white person or a black person,

if someone is engaging in that type of racial harassment, and costing the school system that much money, they need to go,” Ross said. “I think [the school system] finally took the right action and relieved her of her duties.”

No number was publicly listed for Simpson-Marcus and attempts to reach her via email were unsuccessful.

them to do, they have done,” Turner said, Residents can choose between county or private trash collection. County trash collection would add $275 in property taxes yearly for all residents, while collection through Aquasco-based contractor Amber’s Disposal, LLC

would only cost $228 annually for residents who opt in.

Turner said he would survey Cedar Haven residents this week and notify the county of their choice this week. Trash collection could begin as early as February, Angel said.

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PGCPS increased its middle school hours significantly beyond the state requirement in an effort to boost student achievement, said Bill Cappe, education specialist for the Maryland State Department of Education.

Gina Bowler of Upper Marlboro, whose daughter attends the Spanish immersion program at Overlook Elementary in Temple Hills, said she was glad the school system called for the delays.

“For me, I felt less anxious about the safety of my children.

I was more worried about the icy road conditions, so for me, it was a relief,” Bowler said.

A two-hour delay was originally called on Jan. 6, but was later changed to a school closure.

Valerie White of Largo, president of the Largo High School PTSA, said that announcement, dated at 7:27 a.m., should have been made sooner.

“It was very last minute, especially for teachers who had already arrived at school,” White said.

McCawley said there is no deadline for announcements, but that the school system tries to make a decision by 5 a.m. in order to get it in to the morning news.

White said the other announcements were made in a timely manner, and Bowler said the school system did a good job of sending email and text alerts in a timely manner.

T. Carter Ross of Hyattsville, parent of two students at Hyattsville Elementary, said the school system’s alert system worked well, and that his daughters keep a close eye on school closure announcements.

Ross said he prefers the twohour delays.

“It’s disruptive, but not as disruptive as a full-day closure,” Ross said. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

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Bowie’s highway user tax revenue, which helps fund street maintenance, is supplemented this year by the State Highway Administration and allows the city to fund additional roadway projects, Matthews said. Next year, the fund will likely drop back down from about $1.4 million to less than $500,000, which means fewer roads will be addressed, he said.

“We have a program that indicates we [repair] so many miles per year — about 18 miles,” Matthews said. “In those years in which we receive additional money from SHA, we will do more streets.”

Matthews also projected a five percent rate increase in water and sewer to help compensate for declining user consumption.

Despite several multimillion dollar projects coming down the pike, Bowie Mayor G. Frederick Robinson said he does not want to raise property taxes as a source of revenue.

“I think I can say with some degree of confidence is that council is totally in support of keeping the tax rates low,” Robinson said.

Councilman H. L. Dufour Woolfley Jr. (at-large), who was sworn in Monday, said he is eager to take part in budget discussions over the coming months.

“That’s where we drive the business end of the city so it’s a good place to get a better understanding of what everyone’s working on,” he said.

Woolfley said he participated in an advisory group that helped form the city’s current strategic priorities and is therefore familiar with Bowie’s budget philosophies.

Councilman Dennis Brady (at-large) said he would be interested in the council reviewing and possibly revising the city’s strategic plan, which lays down overarching goals that guide budget decisions.

“We keep citing the strategic plan, and strategic plans only have a value if they are current or fresh. And it was adopted in [2007],” he said. “You don’t want them to go too long because then they become stale, and they become words on pages and lose their meaning. ” 152634G

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‘Moving in the right direction’ Too often, small glimmers of hope are overshadowed by the many larger tasks at hand in the Prince George’s County school system. Such is the case with the recently released pass rates for county ninth-graders.

Preliminary figures from the Maryland State Department of Education indicate a 5.9 percentage point increase in ninth-grade pass rates. To put it in perspective, the increase means that 81.4 percent of county freshmen — arguably one of the most difficult years for students — moved on to the 10th grade in 2014 (up from 75.5 percent the previous year).

Research shows that the ninth grade is the most likely INCREASE IN to be repeated in high school; it has long been a concern of NINTH-GRADE Prince George’s school leadPROMOTIONS IS ers.

PROMISING SIGN And the improvement didn’t come easily. Education officials worked to give students more opportunities to make up for failed classes, and used an Early Warning Indicator Report to identify and help students likely to struggle in the ninth grade.

For example, before the school year even started, administrators at Charles H. Flowers High School in Upper Marlboro contacted families of students identified in the report to coordinate strategies for helping them succeed.

Flowers’ ninth-grade promotion rate rose from 75.9 percent in 2013 to 93.2 percent in 2014.

At Potomac High School in Oxon Hill — where the pass rate rose from 66.2 percent in 2013 to 84.6 percent last year — a strong focus is placed on ninth-graders, to include housing them in a separate building.

Clearly, the hard work is paying off.

By comparison, the statewide average increased by one-half of a percentage point, to 86.8 percent. Granted, the county average still lags behind the state, but the fact that the gap is closing is a positive sign.

“Are we 100 percent where we need to be yet? I’d say no, but we are moving in the right direction,” schools CEO Kevin Maxwell said of the pass rates.

He’s right. There is more work to be done — but this is an enormous step forward, and educators, parents and student should take a moment to bask in the achievement.

Community involvement makes a difference “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’” — Martin Luther King Jr. Just a few days ago, Prince Georgians and others across the nation celebrated the life and legacy of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Many honored his memory by taking time Monday to participate in volunteer projects, an annual effort intended to commemorate King’s emphasis on the importance of community service. It’s a great tribute to his memory and a wonderful contribution to our communities.

As we remember King, who would have been 86 this year, it’s also important to remember the many other messages he shared during his lifetime — many of which remain at the forefront today as we deal with ongoing crises over religious conflicts, political differences, clashes between communities and police, educational inequities and more.

King put his life on the line for freedom, tolerance, justice, nonviolence — issues that we are still struggling to achieve more than four decades after his death.

There were many opportunities this week to contribute to King’s goal of getting residents to lend a hand to each other, and a large number of Prince Georgians were involved.

Beyond this week, however, there are important issues that need to be addressed in our communities, challenges that simply can’t be resolved in one day.

For example, while Prince George’s County police have come an enormously long way toward building trust in the community (and kudos to police officials for their positive outreach efforts in the wake of protests nationwide), there is still more work to be done. For residents and officials, what can be done to continue the progress?

In schools, what can be done to ensure students are receiving the resources they need? In our neighborhoods and businesses, what can be done to embrace differences?

In our government, what can be done to foster better community outreach and cooperation among officials?

The importance of community involvement cannot be understated, and the many volunteers Monday who lent a hand should be commended. Their dedication to helping others should not only be celebrated for the day, but it should serve as inspiration to others for additional community-fueled initiatives in the county.

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LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR

Don’t lower the voting age

The current population of American adult voters is among the least read and the least informed of all the voters in this era of technology and computers. Voters should be mature enough to know what it means to earn a living, pay taxes and be capable of understanding the cost of living and astute enough to understand what is expected of elected officials and bureaucrats.

Sixteen-year-old girls and boys, who have recently emerged from the bonds of puberty and are certain to make whimsical and spontaneous (detrimental) decisions, would be more dangerous than the current majority of uneducated, adult voters. Majority rule by ignoramuses and other imbeciles poses almost insurmountable threats to any so-called democracy. Truly, extending the franchise

This proposal has to be the most ridiculous, harebrained idea presented to a political body in the past 100 years. to children who are still under the care and guidance of their parents or guardians will doubtlessly produce disastrous solutions to elementary problems if for no other reason than ignorance and their woeful lack of life’s experiences. This

proposal has to be the most ridiculous, harebrained idea presented to a political body in the past 100 years.

I can think of almost nothing in a democratic society than is more frightening than to be ruled by an ignorant, whimsical majority who believe no matter what, “the majority is always right!”

To question and challenge the errant majority in Nazi Germany (and other historical empires) almost always meant certain death.

As an afterthought, I ask: Has service in some levels of municipal government become so unappealing and such an abhorrent to adult citizens that they have to call on minors (children) to establish policy and rule?

Carl C.K. Bronner, Laurel

Insight gained from citizens police academy Concerning the news media reports of police prejudice against blacks, I can relate my first-hand experiences of the Prince George’s County Police Department. You see, I recently graduated in Session

#32 from the P.G. Citizens Police Academy with actual black, Asian and Hispanic instructors who gave freely of their time to show us some of the thorough behind-the-scenes training of recruits.

Other cities in the country, such as New York, come to study our innovative and successful programs.

It seems to me that if the police are left to do their job and not threatened, which only

can escalate violence, that resolution can come soon enough when the facts are presented to a judge who can weigh the evidence.

Kathryn Fuller, Hyattsville

Most important investment: our children

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Not much has changed since the ’60s.

Annually, this nation continues to spend on defense more than the next six most militarized COMMENTARY nations, combined.

Congress has alKENNETH HAINES located $1.5 trillion for the F-35, alone. This fighter jet may never be safe to fly and its gunnery may not be fired prior to 2019 while awaiting software fixes, but the merchants-of-

death-from-above are doing quite well, thank you!

We could likely end world hunger by allocating $1.5 trillion to that effort.

Which program would generate more goodwill and likely promote world peace?

In the meantime, too many of our own veterans end up sleeping on vents and under bridges; too many of our families can be bankrupted by one health crisis; too many of our workers toil too hard for too little reward; too many of our children still attend schools that are poorly resourced.

How can this happen in the country that, overall, boasts the “highest” quality of life ever attained?

The answer is simple: too many of the powerful and privileged have chosen personal profit over the public welfare, and we, caught up in our daily struggle to thrive, have allowed acquired wealth to

consolidate tremendous political power in the hands of a far too greedy few.

In his last book, “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” Dr. King offered us a different vision when he wrote, “The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the assurance that his income is stable and certain, and when he knows that he has the means to seek self-improvement.”

What is the first step toward achieving dignity for all and ending intergenerational inequity? We must ensure the effective education of all children lest another generation become fodder for the weapons of war.

Kenneth B. Haines is the president of the Prince George’s County Educators’ Association.

Everyone can fight for a healthy environment As more people awaken to the connection between the production of toxins (over 3 billion pounds annually) and the cancers and developmental diseases that slowly and insidiously permeate our communities, many are asking what they can do to help. Joining a community of concerned citizens is probably your first step.

The state of New York just banned fracking for its devastating impacts on communities. It can be done.

On a personal level, the only way to move a mountain is stop supporting it.

No. 1, be healthy. Drink a tall glass of water before every meal and walk briskly 25 to 40 minutes a day. If you feel great about yourself, you will rely less on the world’s synthetic novelties to do it for you, and you will lessen the toxic byproducts in our environment.

Care for yourself in order to care for others.

No. 2, change your perception. For all the centuries of battling the arrogance of geocentricity, then slavery, then equality for women, we have reached the final epiphany ... that we are not superior to, but rather a product of, our environment. That we do not have Dominion to abuse our lands and waters without harming ourselves. The truth is, trees can live without humans, but not vice versa. Do not confuse the successful who serve our community with the sell-outs.

Men of profit have always screamed the sky will fall when their power was threatened.

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University Park Church uses solar energy from panels mounted on the roof.

Yet it is safer now more than ever because of egalitarianism.

No. 3, care ... for the living.

Water a tree that bears fruit. A family can feed itself for free (as long as they do not use GMO seeds) with the smallest of yards. Differentiate crops with neighbors and share. Play cards with friends. Frolic with children. Explore the forests and waters that sustain you.

No. 4, fight. Put the onus where it belongs. Do not take your frustrations out on your families. You may not have the time or the adventurous spirit to chain yourself in protest, but you can call the [county leaders] and police department who said they are here to protect you. Poisoning is a criminal act. Call often. Five times a day, every day. An annoying bit of shame is more grace than they deserve thus far for their failure to keep mil-

lions of pounds of toxins away from you.

No. 5, choose to invest in alternative energy. If you have money earning a meager 1 percent interest in a bank, you can keep more of your money by purchasing solar power from the local company. My family’s return on investment has been 600 percent greater annually in what we do not sacrifice in energy costs. Solar City offers free panels for those with no up-

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front money. A 40-mpg vehicle can save you thousands in gas dollars every year and keep additional allergens, carcinogens, and particulate matter out of our children’s air ... a win-win.

No. 6, dream. Start and support real local businesses Homegrown is simply more energy efficient and has fewer human rights violations. We are lucky to have permaculture and organic farms in our area, but just a handful of restaurants use them to prepare pesticide- and herbicide-free food.

We need real fresh (chemical and preservative-free) bread, wine, and cheese makers now more than ever.

No. 7, know your greatness.

Do not perceive yourself as lesser than. Surely, any single mother has superior budget balancing skills compared to economists and politicians who earn six figures for their perpetual failures. You are brilliant, strong and imaginative.

Or, if you are simply average like me, you can Google it. A world of genius is at your fingertips.

Brenda Songy, Leonardtown

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GIRLS BASKETBALL: Largo at Forestville, 7 pm Friday.

It looks like the County 3A/2A/1A League title will come down to these two teams. Largo won the first game.

BOYS BASKETBALL: Montrose Christian at Pallotti, 7 pm Thursday.

BOWIE | LARGO | UPPER MARLBORO | CLINTON

SWIMMING: Roosevelt vs. Bowie, 3 pm Saturday.

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Wise junior goes the distance

No place like home

The memory is a bit hazy — it has been a few decades — but when I was in fourth grade I recall throwing a bit of a tantrum KEN SAIN so that I could SPORTS EDITOR switch homeroom teachers at Ocotillo Elementary School in Phoenix.

I can’t remember why I didn’t like my teacher or my classmates.

I do recall that the classroom I wanted to transfer to had a younger teacher and she seemed to be nice.

Certainly it had to be better over there, right?

It must have been some kind of tantrum — how did my parents put up with me — because I switched homerooms with only a couple of months left in the school year.

Where the memory doesn’t fade is that I regretted it almost immediately. The younger teacher wasn’t any nicer than my previous one (thank goodness), still making demands of me. I was the new guy now in a room filled with kids with established friendships. I should have stayed put.

That thought came to me on Friday after watching senior shooting guard Kaine Wilson playing once again with Parkdale’s boys basketball team.

Wilson averaged double-figure scoring as a sophomore and junior and developed a reputation for being a four-point shot expert. This season, however, was going to be a challenge because Parkdale had no other starters returning.

Potomac, however, had just won a state basketball title and had the best point guard in the county back in Randall Broddie and a terrific post player in Anthony Smith coming back.

So Wilson started this season there. He said all the right things, the transfer wasn’t about basketball. He wanted to live with his dad, who lives in Potomac’s district.

But things didn’t go well at Potomac.

“I tore a ligament in my ankle early in the season, it kind of slowed me down,” Wilson said.

Then, that terrific post player, Smith, suffered a season-ending injury. Potomac went from a Class 3A contender to a rebuilding team real quick.

Wilson averaged only five points per game at Potomac.

“There were some family issues, and I moved back in with my mom,” Wilson said. “I’m happy I’m back, this is like home.”

He wasn’t the only mid-season transfer at Parkdale. Senior guard Joseph Adedayo joined the Panthers a week into the season after helping Theodore Roosevelt (Washington, D.C.) win a championship last year.

The two of them, friends who play on the same Amateur Athletic Union team, have bolstered Parkdale’s postseason hopes for this season. The Panthers (5-7) upset defending state champion Wise by 10 points in Wilson’s first game back.

“I love my team, we’re getting better every day,” Adedayo said.

Wilson is back to averaging double digits (17.5 ppg) and Parkdale won’t be a pushover in the playoffs. Problem is, neither is the rest of the loaded 4A South Region.

Coach Tremaine Price said he is just happy to have his team whole again.

“He just walked through the door,” Price said. “Both of them were Parkdale kids to start with, so with them knowing the other kids, it hasn’t been that big an adjustment.”

Thomas Wolfe was wrong. You can go home again. And maybe, as I learned in the fourth grade, the best move to make is no move. ksain@gazette.net

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Gwynn Park High School graduate and New England Patriots defensive back Kyle Arrington is set to play in the Super Bowl Feb. 1.

From alligator arms to the Super Bowl

Wise High School junior Gabrielle Glasco said she never really considered herself a distance runner, but she certainly has Prince George’s County opponents fooled.

Back home in South Carolina — she moved with her family to Maryland just before the start of the 2014-15 school year — Glasco kept mostly to the 400 meters, 800 meters and relays. On occasion, she ran the mile though it was far from her favorite, she said.

There has been a big gaping hole in the distance events for the otherwise hugely competitive Pumas track program and Wise girls coach Gideon Tinch said it was quite clear when Glasco came out for the cross country season this fall that she was exactly

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Gwynn Park graduate leads New England into championship game BY

ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

Kyle Arrington was a basketball player first, and when he did start playing football at Gwynn Park High School, he suffered from a bad case of alligator arms. The then-sophomore defensive back would keep his arms stiff as he backpedaled, and his coach, Danny Hayes, kept trying to correct him.

“That drove me nuts at one point,” Hayes said.

Arrington, of Accoceek, didn’t break that habit immediately. But alligator arms and all, he still became one

of the best cornerbacks in the area.

To this day, Hayes keeps an eye on Arrington’s defensive form, but now he gets to do so on a television screen rather than at the Brandywine field, as Arrington and the New England Patriots take on the Seattle Seahawks Feb. 1 in Super Bowl XLIX. “Every time I watch him I look for the alligator arms, and I don’t see them anymore,” Hayes said.

Arrington, 28, is in his sixth NFL season and has established himself as a veteran cornerback. In Sunday’s AFC championship victory against the Indianapolis Colts, he locked down Indianapolis receiver T.Y. Hilton and

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played all 56 defensive snaps.

At the start of his NFL career, he was simply trying to earn a roster spot. Arrington played college football at Hofstra University, graduating in 2008. He went undrafted, and then signed with the Philadelphia Eagles but was waived before he played an NFL down. Eventually, he made it on the field.

Arrington appeared in the 2009 season opener with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, becoming Hayes’ first former player to play in the NFL. But after just one game with Tampa Bay,

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Wise High School distance runner Gabrielle Glasco (right) competes in the 3,200-meter relay during the Prince George’s County track championships on Jan. 15.

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Now in his 10th year as boys basketball coach at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Brendan O’Connell said he could certainly use a break every once in a while. O’Connell, widely considered one of the best coaches in the area, has guided the Raiders through the grueling 4A South Region to the state tournament six times. And this season, Roosevelt is poised for another run with an 11-2 record.

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Northwestern High School’s Saquan Jamison goes to the basket against visiting Parkdale during a Dec. 9 basketball game in Hyattsville. The experienced Wildcats are a contender in the 4A South Region this year.

Moments after raising his hands and flashing a toothy smile to the fans at Douglass High School on Dec. 12, Largo senior Abdulai Bundu and his teammates were pulled into a hallway of the Upper Marlboro school, barely escaping a skirmish amongst fans that had started at the corner of the court.

The 6-foot-7 Lions’ star had lifted his foulridden team from the jaws of an early-season defeat with a 47-point, 17-rebound effort and stood with a stone-cold serious look on his face as he announced to a reporter what many in the stands had already figured out.

“This is my house,” Bundu said after the 70-66 win.

Tuesday evening, Bundu and company will have to defend their home court against a surging Douglass team that has come quite a ways from the Dec. 12 meeting. The Eagles have gone 9-2 since, defeating the likes of Clinton Christian (73-62 on Dec. 20) and North Point (68-65 on Jan. 7) along the way.

Inexperience, something that has proven to be an non-issue recently, was what ultimately proved to be the Eagles downfall against Largo in their first meeting. Douglass took a 42-31 lead into halftime. But the Lions, led by Bundu’s effort, slowly chipped away at it.

But the collapse is in the past, according to coach Tyrone Massenburg. The Eagles have a renewed sense of confidence heading into the highly-anticipated rematch.

The scoring balance tells enough of the story. Massenburg’s top five scorers average between 12.4 and 8.1 points per game, a distribution of wealth that makes the Eagles a matchup nightmare.

“It creates a problem — we talk about that,” Massenburg said. “We always say what would another team do against us and who would they key on. It’s kind of tough to key on one player because you can look up and that

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player might not be in the game. There could be a whole different five and everything could still be running on the same accord.”

On any given night Douglass will go 12deep, diving into their bench to keep Massenburg’s up-and-down style running at full steam. Three times in the past five games the Eagles have featured a different scoring leader.

On the other side of the ball, Largo’s offensive talent is not a secret. Bundu has continued his scoring tear, averaging a county-best 31.3 points per game and dominating the glass.

And, as Largo coach Lewis Howard pointed out, the Lions would be remiss to stop pounding the ball into the paint despite the extra attention their standout center receives.

“Pound for pound, no one in our league

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It’s hard to find a sport where contests between traditional rivals Bowie and Roosevelt high schools aren’t marquee matchups, and swimming is no different. The two programs account for the sport’s biggest rivalry and Saturday’s meet between the two undefeated teams, scheduled for 3 p.m. at Prince George’s Community College, will have major postseason implications.

In fact, there’s likely a lot more to learn from this year’s meeting than in years past.

Roosevelt, especially on the 15time defending Prince George’s County champion girls side, has been nearly untouchable in almost two decades — the four-time defending county champion boys have won 10 county titles since 2002. And while Roosevelt has shown no signs of giving up its position atop the county yet, there’s no question the area’s depth chart has increased, allowing the next group of teams — historically led by Bowie — to chip away at the Raiders’ advantage. “[Saturday] will definitely be a good gauge, I’m not sure where Roosevelt is,” Bowie coach Maggie Fletcher said.

“I’m not sure where we stand [against them].”

The Raider boys return their top 3 scorers — Christian Dixon, Michael Stevens and Nathan Donoghue — from a team that won counties by 33 points last winter and four of their top 5.

That, coupled with a group of freshmen that’s already making an impact, puts Roosevelt ahead of the game. Bowie also returned several leading scorers, including sophomores Jon Bendana and Noah Louisy, but the Bulldogs will also have to find ways to make up for the loss of two major scorers.

That’s what Saturday’s meet is about, though, Fletcher and first-year Roosevelt coach Alexis Donoghue said, findingthe right combinations and prosperous head-to-head matchups.

On the opposite end of the gender spectrum, Roosevelt graduated three of its top 5 scorers, including multiple-time Gazette Swimmer of the Year, Jennifer Clune. Clune was in a three-way tie atop the individual scoring list at last year’s county meet that included current Bowie sophomore DeAngela Fobbs.

In fact, the Bulldogs, who have already defeated the two-time defending county runner-up Flowers team that knocked them out of their perennial second-place position, returned their top 6 swimmers.

So, if there was ever a chance for Bowie to make an impression against its rival, this year might be the year — it sure won’t be easy, though. jbeekman@gazette.net

BASKETBALL HOW THEY RANK Boys

Girls

Rank School

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Rank School

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1. DeMatha 2. National Christian 3. Largo 4. McNamara 5. Capitol Christian 6. Douglass 7. Pallotti 8. Roosevelt 9. Bowie 10. DuVal

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1. Roosevelt 2. McNamara 3. Riverdale Baptist 4. Largo 5. Parkdale 6. National Christian 7. Forestville 8. Flowers 8. Gwynn Park 10. Grace Brethren

10-1 13-4 13-8 9-3 9-1 13-6 9-3 8-4 8-4 9-2

60 54 44 38 36 32 23 22 12 7

60 51 47 41 30 26 24 8 8 6

Also receiving votes: Seton, 5; Douglass, 1.

Also receiving votes: Crossland 2.

BEST BET

BEST BET

n Douglass at Largo, 7 p.m. Tuesday: A rematch of Largo’s dramatic win in Upper Marlboro where Abdulai Bundu had 47 points and 17 rebounds.

n Largo at Forestville, 7 p.m. Friday: The veteran Lions take on the up-and-coming Knights in game that might decide who plays for county title.

LEADING SCORERS

LEADING SCORERS

Player, school Games Points Abdulai Bundu, Largo 14 431 Christian Matthews, Nat. Christian 15 348 Kevin Dorsey, Clinton Christian 16 349 Michael Speight, Wise 14 296 Shawn Moss, Oxon Hill 7 146 Edward Polite, DuVal 14 291 Kavon Sclaffod, Fairmont Heights 7 142 Randall Broddie, Potomac 11 222 Kirk Hawkins, Laurel 13 259 David Belle, Northwestern 13 243 Michael Middleton, Crossland 6 112

Avg. 30.8 23.2 21.8 21.1 20.9 20.8 20.3 20.2 19.9 18.7 18.7

Player, school Briel Palmer, Northwestern De’Janae Boykin, Flowers Dami Oloyede, High Point Charnise Tyler, Suitland Ariana Romney, G. Brethren Imani Quinn, Fairmont Heights Drew Calhoun, Parkdale Destinee McQueen, DuVal Kaila Charles, Eleanor Roosevelt Raven Fox, Seton Damoni Wells, Potomac

Games Points Avg. 11 293 26.6 6 129 21.5 11 209 19.0 9 171 19.0 12 220 18.3 7 119 17.0 12 203 16.9 10 169 16.9 7 113 16.1 19 296 15.6 13 202 15.5

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is stronger than Abdulai,” Howard said.

“We’re still going to power the ball inside and allow him to showcase his talent. ...

We’re 11-2 right now and I’d be a fool to draw up anything other than the blueprint of what we’ve done to this point.”

When it comes to guarding Bundu, Massenburg said his undersized Eagles will simply have to make the 6-foot-7 center work harder for his points. Bundu’s 47 points in the Dec. 12 matchup came on 17-of-21 shooting.

“He’s very tough, he’s very ferocious going for the ball,” Massenburg said. “He sees the ball and he goes to get it. ... Our goal is to try to box him out a little more and pretty much play our game. Even though he scored a lot of points, we still had opportunities to win the game.

“This next game is going to mean a lot for us. But I anticipate maybe seeing them again [in the playoffs].”

what he needed to fill it. “[Tinch] was like, ‘I need you to be my distance person,’” Glasco said. “He was like, ‘We’ve never had someone cover the distance part.’ I knew there would be a lot of pressure on me [to do well] but I like it, it feels good to play my part for the team.”

Glasco ran all the distance events in Thursday’s Prince George’s County championship meet, finishing sixth in the 1,600 meters and fourth in the 3,200 meters — the first time she ever contested it — and was the second leg of the Pumas’ fourth-place 3,200-meter relay.

In one of the last events of the evening, a tired Glasco still finished 13th in the 800 meters.

Though Wise finished third in the county on Thursday behind Bowie and Flowers, the same spot it was a year ago, the Pumas were 12 points closer to breaking into the top 2 this time around, and on another day, probably could

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have. Moving forward toward the region and state meets, Tinch said doing so is completely in the realm of possibility.

“When I look at the state and the region, it’s still wide open,” Tinch said.

“The sprints are balanced, the distance is balanced, the field is balanced, it’s whoever shows up. ... [Glasco] has made a huge impact for us. We’ve always had the sprints and the field events but now our team is more balanced than ever.”

And Glasco is only bound to get better as this season progresses. Given her results, it’s hard to believe, but this year is the first time she’s ever run cross country — and she posted the county’s eighth-best time (22 minutes, 6.5 seconds), per athletic.net — or indoor track.

In South Carolina there was only an outdoor track season, she said. And running indoors is a whole lot different.

For example, on the smaller surface, the races consist of twice as many laps.

Though distances don’t change, running a four-lap 800 is more of a mental burden for someone used to running two laps, let alone the eight laps of the 1,600 and 16 in the 3,200. There’s also

But if the veteran coach is looking for a break, he won’t be finding in this year’s County 4A League, where a handful of teams have staked their claim as contenders at the season’s midway point.

“Rightnow,we’reinfirstand the only ones without a loss,” O’Connell said. “But I feel like every Tuesday or Friday we’re playing a tight game against a team that could beat us.”

Here’s how things are looking at the mid-way point:

Favorites Eleanor Roosevelt (11-2): After four-year guard Larry McCan moved to California following the Raiders’ first game, Roosevelt was left with one returning starter. But that hasn’t slowed the Raiders, who have been the lone mark of consistency in a wild 4A League. Oludoyin Fadojutimi (13.4 points per game) leads a balanced scoring attack.

Northwestern (10-3): The Wildcats have something a lot of 4A teams desire: experience.

Northwestern’s starting lineup is comprised of four seniors and 6-foot-5 junior big man Saiquan Jamison. Pair that with the talented backcourt of 5-foot-4 point guard Mike White and 6-foot-4 combo guard David Belle, and there’s a contender in Hyattsville.

DuVal (11-3): After playing defending 4A state champion Wise tough in the 4A South Region final last season, the Tigers needed no motivation coming into this winter. DuVal, led by Radford University recruit Ed Polite (21.1 ppg) and talented point guard Kevin Simpson (18.5), recorded 11 consecutive wins after dropping the season opener to Wise.

Contenders Flowers (10-4): The Jaguars came out of the gates strong with an 8-1 start, but it wasn’t until their Jan. 9 overtime win over Northwestern that Flowers established themselves as a threat.

A five-point Jan. 13 loss at Roosevelt might actually bolster the confidence of the team.

Bowie (9-4): The Bulldogs may finally be capturing that same magic they showed during their early season run of upsets.

In the midst of their two-game, mid-December losing slide, coach Cedric Holbrook mentioned his team would have to refocus.

much less space to work with when trying to make a move, Glasco said, which can be hazardous.

“It took me two or three meets to get used to it,” Glasco said. “My coach just kept telling me not to think about [the extra laps]. He was like, it’s the same thing inside as outside.”

Glasco might not have come to Wise expecting to run two-mile races but she said she has enjoyed finding her niche in the longer distances. As a cerebral runner — she is a thinker, sometimes to a fault, on the track — with an unwavering will that can’t be taught, Tinch said, these events fit her style. Glasco said she appreciates the time in the longer races to strategize and make adjustments. “[Having Glasco] takes a lot of pressure off the other girls, knowing there’s someone in the distance events,” Tinch said. “Now we know we have balance.

We go into meets a lot more comfortable. Everyone carries their own load, we depend on everyone.”

Darkhorse Wise (8-6): While the Pumas are certainly not the team they were a year ago, a pair of sophomores has the defending state champions right in the thick of things midway through the season. Guard Mike Speight (21.0) and 6-foot-5 forward Darron Barnes (18.5) have provided a spark for a team still without the services of senior big man Trevor Brown (knee injury). If Wise can establish any kind of consistency, they’re as much a player as anyone else.

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he was cut again.

That was probably for the best. Later in the 2009 season, the Patriots added Arrington to their practice squad and eventually promoted him to their 53man roster, where he remains today. In his six-season tenure, he has registered 48 pass deflections, nine interceptions, five forced fumbles and 283 tackles.

Listed at 5-foot-10 and 190 pounds, Arrington’s physicality is part of what makes him an effective defensive back. That’s been a strength of his since he was an upperclassman at Gwynn Park, according to Rafiq Gunthorpe (Class of 2004), who played alongside Arrington in the Yellow Jackets secondary.

“Did he have a shot at the NFL? Yes, I thought he did,” Gunthorpe said. “Now, would I have predicted that five, six years later he’d have gone from an undrafted free agent to where he is today? I don’t know if I’d actually seen that.”

Arrington appeared in the Super Bowl in 2012, when the Patriots lost to the New York Giants. This year, he’s trying to become Hayes’ first player to win it.

“I try to remember what he used to be in high school. I try to sit back and enjoy it,” Hayes said. egoldwein@gazette.net

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While there are a lot of plays that focus on the struggles individuals have with the environment around them, one play coming to Prince George’s County focuses on the struggles of a community to people.

The Greenbelt Arts Center presents “Clybourne Park,” a sequel to the 1959 play “A Raisin in the Sun,” which focuses on the perspective of the community rather than the perspective of the family.

The play deals with racial tension and changing community dynamics over the course of 50 years.

According to director Bob Kleinberg, the play is divided into two acts: the first act, a black family moves into an allwhite neighborhood. The second act takes place in the same neighborhood 50 years in the future, but it involves a white family moving into a black neighborhood.

“As the cast and I were reading it we all started to notice these parallels showing up through the play,” said Kleinberg. “There are the obvious

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Ted Culler (Russ/Dan) and Susan Harper (Bev/Kathy) star in “Clybourne Park,” at the Greenbelt Arts Center. ones, but then there are even simple ones like the church bell ringing at 4 o’clock in both acts to signify something happening at four.”

Kleinberg compared the material of the play to real life situations, specifically to areas

in Washington D.C. “The actual material itself is fascinating,” said Kleinberg.

“My stepson lives in D.C. near the Verizon Center and he’s watching the 14th Street area change into an up-and-coming place, so it applies all over.”

“Clybourne Park” refers to a neighborhood in Chicago and follows the story of two families and one house. In the first act middle-class white couple Bev and Russ are selling their home

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The question “Who wrote the book of love?” has been posed in song repeatedly since The Monotones released the pop single in 1958.

Earlier this month, the definitive answer to that query materialized. “The Book of Love” was published and the author identified. Roger Rosenblatt, 74-year-old Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Rosenblatt Stony Brook University and New York Times best-selling author with a multitude of impressive credentials, wrote the book. And he did so while living in Bethesda. In fact, the native New Yorker who has since returned to live in the Empire State, wrote his last five books during his seven years in Montgomery County.

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The Clarice, 32nd annual Choreographers’ Showcase (two shows), Jan. 24; Macbeth, Jan 30; Macbeth (two shows), Jan. 31; Maryland Masti 9, Jan. 31; University of Maryland, College Park, theclarice. umd.edu.

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work, writing, art and nature. His poetic language and the lines he references from well-known love songs bring to mind Pete Hamill’s comment about a previous novel in the New York Times Book Review: “Rosenblatt writes the way a great jazz musician plays, moving from one emotion to another playing some with a dose of irony, others with joy, and a few with pain and melancholy...”

Rosenblatt acknowledged perpetuating the style of his previous four books. “It has become very comfortable “[to write] section after section with no demarcation.” The format, he pointed out, “simulates a poetry collection, this book more closely than the others.” Rosenblatt started out wanting to be a poet, but didn’t have “the patience to see if I had the stamina or the talent. But the rhythms of poetry stayed with me; it’s the way my mind works.” He likened the process to his piano playing. “I write a book by ear, too. It starts with the thought of a song, the lyrics play a part, and it builds up, and covers the subject.”

The book is “dedicated to the one I love,” Ginny, his wife of 52 years. The couple met in high school, Friends Seminary, a small Quaker school in Manhattan, dated on and off until they married in their early

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20s. “The story I have to tell is of you,” he wrote. “Of others, too. Other people, other things. But mainly of you. It begins and ends with you. It always comes back to you.”

The author does not claim to be an authority on what makes a successful marriage. “I wouldn’t presume to offer a formula, but I think it has a lot to do with remembering that you love someone. People get into trouble when they forget,” he said.

Rosenblatt earned his undergraduate degree at New York University and his doctorate at Harvard, where he also taught. He has served as literary editor and columnist for The New Republic, columnist for the Washington Post, and multiple prize-winning essayist for the NewsHour on PBS and Time magazine. His Time cover essay, “A Letter to the Year 2086” was chosen for the time capsule placed inside the Statue of Liberty at its centennial. He has written 17 books, which have been published in 14 languages, six off-Broadway plays, including a comic one-man show, “Free Speech in America” the New York Times named among the 10 best plays of 1991.

Rosenblatt gave up journalism to write books in 2006. Two years later, upon the death of their daughter Amy, he and his wife moved to Bethesda to help their son-in-law bring up their three young grandchildren.

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to the Youngers, the family “A Raisin in the Sun” follows. In act two, the community is all black and experiencing gentrification, and a white couple is trying to buy a house and expand it.

Both families feel pressure from the community to not sell their house or buy into the community.

“50 years apart and the pressures are still there,” said Kleinberg. “The change doesn’t actually change.”

The original play premiered OffBroadway in 2010 for a month. It reopened 6 months later in the Royal Court Theatre in London under the direction of Dominic Cooke featuring names such as Martin Freeman (of “The Hobbit” fame) and Olivier Award winner Sophie Thompson. From there it has had several runs all over the U.S., winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.

n Where: Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt n Tickets: $12-$20 n More information: greenbeltartscenter.org; 301-441-8770

Ted Culler, the actor portraying Russ in the first act and Dan in the second, said the play will relate a message of racism to the audience.

“The audience will take a simple message that racism is alive and well in America and shows itself in ways other than violence and overt hatred,” said Culler. “But although racism is a theme that runs through the entire play, selfishness, insensitivity, lack of empathy and lack of more than personal are also big elements.”

Russ, according to Culler, is a

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He affectionately recalled his granddaughter Jessie’s introducing him to her fourth-grade class at Burning Tree Elementary School. She said, “This is my grandfather Boppo.

He lives in the basement and does nothing.”

Now back home since the summer, living in Quogue on Long Island and teaching writing at Stony Brook’s Southampton campus, Rosenblatt has completed a new novel, due out in a year, and is deep into writing another. Both are serious, he said, in contrast to his previous two, which were satiric. The writing, he said, doesn’t take him long; he spends far more time in the preparatory “brooding over the subject,” which frequently occurs while he is writing its predecessor.

He particularly relishes “the artistic freedom of being able to just make it up,” he quipped. “I have a knack for lying through my teeth.”

Roger Rosenblatt will be in town for a book signing at 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, DC. mid-level executive living in white middle-class Chicago struggling with suppressed anger due to a tragic event that happened more than two years ago.

“The most challenging thing about playing Russ is having to dig in my own emotions and experiences to find the Russ in me,” said Culler. “It’s not that there isn’t a lot of Russ in me, it’s just that it is a very uncomfortable exploration.”

Culler said his character in the second act, Dan, is the contractor helping the new family remodel their house and is a “bull in a china shop.” In the process of digging up the backyard he discovers a footlocker and a letter that gives a whole new outlook on the footlocker.

The idea of perspectives runs underlying throughout the play, and Culler said this will be something the audience will pick up on the most.

“It’s all about perspective and not necessarily your own,” said Culler.

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All prices exclude tax, tags, title, freight and $300 processing fee. Cannot be combined with any previous advertised or internet special. Pictures are for illustrative purposes only.

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17,977

$

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$

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$

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13,977

$

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17,977

$

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20,977

$

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21,977

$

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2015 COROLLA LE

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36

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

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AFTER $750 REBATE

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PRICES AND PAYMENTS INCLUDE ANY APPLICABLE MANUFACTURE’S REBATES AND EXCLUDE MILITARY ($500) AND COLLEGE GRAD ($500) REBATES, TAX, TAGS, DEALER PROCESSING CHARGE ($300) AND FREIGHT: CARS $795 OR $810, TRUCKS, SPORT UTILITY AND SIENNAS $810, $845 AND $995. *0.0% 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 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 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. LEASES FOR COROLLA AND CAMRY ARE 24 MONTHS WITH $0 DOWN PLUS TAX, TAGS, FREIGHT, PROCESSING AND $650 ACQUISITION FEE. SEE DEALER FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. EXPIRES 1/27/2015.

DARCARS NISSAN TWO LOCATIONS

Rockville

College Park

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

VERSA NOTE S+ CVT

VERSA S+ CVT

MSRP: $14,995 Sale Price: $12,995

$ AT THIS PRICE

12,995

$

0

2015 NISSAN

$

39 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

$

0

LEAF S

AT THIS PRICE

$

$

0

0

$

239/MO

39 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

SENTRA SV

$

159/MO

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

IN STOCK, AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY!

2014 NISSAN

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

MAXIMA 3.5 SV

$ 4

AT THIS PRICE

Leather, Heated Seats, moonroof MODEL #16214

AT THIS PRICE

$

MODEL #12114

0

2015 NISSAN

MSRP: $27,180 Sale Price: $23,995 Nissan Rebate: $500 NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

ROGUE SV

$ 4

AT THIS PRICE

0

$

299/MO

39 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

0

$

2015 NISSAN

$

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

26,495

OR

MODEL #25015

269

$

MSRP: $32,430 Sale Price: $27,995 Nissan Rebate: $1,000 NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

PATHFINDER 4X4 S

AT THIS PRICE

22,995 OR

AWD MODEL #22415

4

159

$

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

$

25,995 OR

13,995

OR

4

2015 MURANOS

24,995 OR

$

AT THIS PRICE

$

OR

179/MO

MSRP: $32,000 Sale Price: $28,495 NMAC Bonus Cash: $3,500

$ w/Charger Pkg MODEL #17015

w/automatic transmission MODEL #11515

4

MSRP: $18,545 Sale Price: $15,495 Nissan Rebate: $1,000 NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

13,995

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

2015 NISSAN

4

$

MSRP: $16,435 Sale Price: $14,495 NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

17,495 OR

4

MODEL #13115

199/MO

MSRP: $23,845 Sale Price: $19,745 Nissan Rebate: -$1,250 NMAC Bonus Cash: -$1,000

ALTIMA 2.5 S

AT THIS PRICE

$

OR

w/automatic transmission MODEL #11125

2014 NISSAN

2015 NISSAN

2015 NISSAN

4

9330 Baltimore Ave College Park, MD 20740 888-693-8037

0

$

279

$

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

SEE WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LOVE CAR BUYING

DARCARS NISSAN OF ROCKVILLE

DARCARS NISSAN OF COLLEGE PARK

www.DARCARSnissan.com

www.DARCARSnissanofcollegepark.com

Prices include all rebates and incentives. DARCARS Nissan DOES NOT Include college grad or military rebates in price! NMAC Bonus Cash require financing through NMAC with approved credit. Prices exclude tax, tags, freight (Cars $810, SUVs and Trucks $860-$1000) and $300 processing charge, Lease payments are calculated with tax, tags, freight, $300 processing charge and first payment due at signing, and are valid with tier one approval through NMAC. Prices and payments valid only at listed VINS. See dealer for details. Offer expires 01/26/2015.

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