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Mitch Ramirez of Bowie mounts a pony at the Belair Stables in Bowie on Saturday during Bowie Heritage Day with the help of Rachel Geddings of Pasadena and Shay Meany of Severna Park.

Hundreds flock to Bowie Heritage Day Event organizers pursue ‘fun and free’ strategy to lure next generation of history buffs

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More than 330 Bowie and Prince George’s County residents descended on Belair Stables and Belair Mansion Sunday on Tulip Grove Drive to celebrate this year’s “Bowie Heritage Day,” according to event organizers.

Pamela Williams, Bowie’s historical properties manager, said event organizers made an active effort this year to expand

the annual program and feature events and activities in all the Belair properties.

The mansion held regular tours alongside a packed house for Blue Sky Puppet Theater’s version of the modern classic “The Three (Not So) Little Pigs,” featuring a vegetarian Big Bad Wolf. The Railroad Museum featured Lego train sets and NTrack train modelers from Baltimore. The stables set aside dueling spaces for petting and riding ponies, arranged by Big Purple Barn, a horse rescue organization based in Bowie.

Indoors, residents learned the basics of how Bowie lived and operated in the eras before electricity and other modern conveniences.

“We do things that kids can relate to and help with, chores that people used to

do,” Said Diane Haeger, who demonstrated how to churn butter for visitors at Belair Stables.

All events were free, something Williams said was by design. Making the day fun for children and free for parents is part of a strategy that the museum hopes will ensure long-term interest in Bowie’s historical character.

“We’re more interested in outreach than making a million dollars,” Williams said. “We particularly like to gear things toward kids, because they’re the future of the past.”

Along that vein, most of the activities were designed to feature animals and a

Prince George’s County Council members are still weighing a proposal to increase property taxes 15.6 percent to fund education improvements, but some say the recent loss of $20.2 million in anticipated state funding will be a factor in their deliberations.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) announced May 14 that he was withholding Geographic Cost of Education Index funds.

The discretionary funding formula provides additional funding to large, urban school districts, and Prince George’s County receives the largest portion with over $40 million.

Hogan’s budget funded the GCEI at 50 percent in his proposed budget. The Gen-

eral Assembly found additional funding for the GCEI, but the governor announced last week that he would not release those funds.

Hogan said the money should instead be used for the state employee pension fund.

“It’s unclear what the impact will be on the council’s budget discussions going on now, but what is clear is that it will impact the children and families of Prince George’s County,” said County Council Chairman Mel Franklin (D-Dist. 9) of Upper Marlboro.

In March, County Executive Rushern L. Baker (D) proposed a budget that includes a 15.6 percent increase in the property tax and a 50 percent increase in the telecommunications tax, which would, under state law, go to the county school system. The tax increases are estimated to bring in an additional $133 million, but requires approval from the Prince George’s County Council.

The County Council is

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The developer, Karington LLC, is seeking subsidies in the form of tax increment financing or an abatement of real property tax liability from the city as an incentive to incorporate into the city. According to a city memo, the move could generate $2.1 million in additional tax revenue.

Councilwoman Diane Polangin (Dist. 2) said she supports the move and that the council is waiting for city attorneys to examine the legal documents be-

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After approving a $50.8 million operating budget and a $9 million capital improvement program for fiscal 2016, the Bowie City Council took preliminary steps Monday to annex an undeveloped 362-acre plot of land on the southwest corner of Crain Highway and

fore moving forward with the agreement over the summer.

“If we don’t support the annexation, people will build there anyway and all we’ll get is the traffic,” Polangin said. “If we support it then at least we’ll get the tax money.”

Bowie may wind up needing that money after a bit of late developing news caught the council off guard. Earlier that same day, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Maryland in a case dealing with double taxation, just hours before the

council met to approve its latest budget. The ruling specified that Maryland cannot doubletax income that is earned out of state, and the decision will cost Prince George’s County governments about $1.3 million in tax refunds or deductions from future revenue, according to the Maryland Association of Counties. City Manager David Deutsch said his staff was still attempting to determine how much of that total will come

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Bowie Volunteer Fire Department president David Parker Sr. (center) and fire chief Jonathan Howard thank Kawana Cohen-Hopkins of Bowie from the Bowie/Mitchellville chapter of the National Council of Negro Women during a Saturday meeting where the council donated $1,000 in kitchen equipment to the Pointer Ridge Station on Pointer Ridge Drive.

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Pay-per-ray: Program kicks off in Bowie Solar panel installation in city begins this week

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Bowie homeowners are seeing savings in seeking the sun. That’s because a wave of homeowners will be installing solar panels after starting a cooperative purchasing program last year sponsored by the city and Maryland Sun, a renewable energy non profit organization.

Thus far 13 residents have signed con-

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tracts, 18 more are considering proposals and 12 have site visits scheduled, according to Maryland Sun program director Corey Ramsden. His organization has 27 similar co-ops running in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia and West Virginia. At 157 committed members (including 140 within city limits), Ramsden said Bowie is the largest collective they have ever done in the state of Maryland, narrowly beating out the program set up with the University of Maryland, College Park, last year, which had 150 members.

“Solar is a very local phenomenon. Your neighbor sees it, it’s a very natural thing to

feed word of mouth,” Ramsden said.

According to Bowie sustainability planner Kristin Larson, as of January, the city had 375 residents using solar panels to power their homes. The Bowie co-op is expected to add to those numbers, though it is unclear how many of the 140 will actually follow through and purchase the panels.

Participants are given a detailed proposal laying out the costs and feasibility for installing panels in their home before committing to a purchase. Larson said that she knew there was outsized interest for solar

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ATHLETIC RENAISSANCE New coaches help Crossland High School’s sports teams make a big turnaround in recent years.

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When David Parker Sr., president of the Bowie Volunteer Fire Department, received a call from the National Council of Negro Women asking if there was anything his firefighters lacked, he knew exactly what to request.

“Bottom line: our [kitchen supplies] get worn out quickly,” Parker said.

That exchange led to a small ceremony Saturday morning

where the council donated approximately $1,000 worth of Farberware pots, pans, bowls, Tupperware and utensils to the department’s station on Pointer Ridge Drive.

Parker estimates that his men make approximately 900 meals a year while manning their posts. Each crew will often take their own set of cookware, dishes and utensils with them when they rotate to other stations, leaving empty cabinets for the next shift.

Parker said the station kitchen can often resemble a college dorm, with volunteers scrounging up whatever they can find or even manufacturing

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MAY 21 Free Domestic Violence Support Group for Men and Women, Noon to 2

p.m., Bladensburg Community Center, 4500 57th, Bladensburg. The domestic support group is here to help stop the silence, against abuse. Intervention, encouragement, self awareness and self-love is trained in this very positive environment. Contact 301-277-3775 or bargivens@yahoo.com.

MAY 22 The Subdivision and Development Review Committee (SDRC) Meeting, 9:30

a.m., Room 4085—4th Floor Boardroom, County Administration Building, 14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro. This meeting is open to the public but is not a public hearing. The SDRC is a coordination and interagency meeting early in the development review process with the applicant and M-NCPPC staff, where the public can be invited to speak.

Contact 301-952-3520, TTY 301-952-4366.

MAY 23 All Thoroughbred Horse Show, 8 a.m., The Show Place Arena, 14900 Pennsylvania Ave., Upper Marlboro. The Prince George’s Equestrian Center will host the All Thoroughbred Horse Show. Contact 301-952-7900; TTY 301-952-7998.

Shop N’ Sell, 8 a.m. to noon at Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington. Find hidden treasures from your neighbors’ basements and attics. This annual event attracts many people from the Greater Fort Washington area. Space is limited to the first 45 vendors who sign up. Vendors can set-up at 7 am. Residents: $20; NonResidents: $24. Contact 301-203-6040; TTY 301-203-6030.

Prince George’s Book Festival, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wayne Curry Sports & Learning Center, 8001 Sheriff Road, Landover. Book lovers of all ages — Come and enjoy a day of fun including an Author Expo and other literary activities and performances. This indoor event — a celebration of the written word — will feature presentations and signings by authors, workshops, literary exhibitors, books sales, children’s activities and more. Contact 301-332-2158.

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

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friends. Come with half yard of fabrics, 100 percent cotton light and dark colors.

Beginner and Intermediate levels. Contact 301-817-3750.

Saturday Family Fun: Edgar’s Birthday, 1 to 2 p.m., Accokeek Foundation

at Piscataway Park, 3400 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek. Join us in wishing happy birthday to Edgar — the farm’s rescue box turtle — for World Turtle Day. This familyfun activity will feature a children’s story, upcycled crafts, and birthday cake as we learn about turtles. Bring your own lunch and enjoy a picnic in the park. Contact 301-283-2113.

Mother and Daughter Tea, 2 p.m., Spauldings Library, 5811 Old Silver Hill Road, District Heights. Mothers and daughters, it’s Tea Time. Come spend a lovely afternoon together in celebration of Mother’s Day. Enjoy teas and desserts from around the world. Please visit the Information Desk or call the Spauldings Branch Library at 301-817-3750 to register. Ages 8-10. Contact 301-817-3750.

Art for Preschoolers, 3 p.m., Accokeek Library, 15773 Livingston Road, Accokeek.

Children will learn to appreciate art by listening to an interactive story and then creating a craft related to the theme. Ages 3-5. Contact 301-292-2880.

MAY 25 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.

MAY 26 Yoga in the Parks at Watkins Regional Park, 9 to 10 a.m., Watkins Regional Park,

301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro.

Did you know yoga can be modified to suit all levels of fitness and has the ability to lower blood pressure, increase strength and flexibility, energize your body? Join us for free outdoor yoga classes in the parks.

Learn basic yoga techniques and how to free your mind, body, and spirit in this popular fitness activity for all ages. Contact 301-446-6800; TTY 301-446-6802.

Protect Your Trademarks and Copyrights, 10 to 11:30 a.m., Maryland Wom-

en’s Business Center, 14000 Jericho Park Road, Bowie. Trademarks and copyrights are valuable assets. Learn how to protect those assets. Fee: $20. Contact 301-383-

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City of Bowie Memorial Day Parade, 11

a.m. to 1:15 p.m. on Belair Drive, Sussex Lane and Stonybrook Drive in Bowie. The Memorial Day Parade is a chance for you to join with your family, friends and neighbors to make this a big Bowie salute to the many unsung heroes from right here in Bowie who have served throughout our Nation’s history. Contact 301809-3078 or mcorley@cityofbowie. org.

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Teen Gaming Night, 6 p.m., SurrattsClinton Library, 9400 Piscataway Road, Clinton. Contact 301-868-9200.

Yoga in the Parks, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Tucker Road Community Center, 1771 Tucker Road, Fort Washington. Learn basic yoga techniques and how to free your mind, body, and spirit in this popular fitness activity for all ages. Contact 301-4466800; TTY 301-446-6802.

Book Discussion, 7 p.m., Spauldings Library, 5811 Old Silver Hill Road, District Heights. Natalie Baszile’s “Queen Sugar.”

Contact 301-817-3750.

MAY 27 Sing, Sign and Play, 10:30 a.m., South Bowie Library, 15301 Hall Road, Bowie.

This special storytime is an opportunity for social engagement with songs, books and signs to encourage peer interaction and communication between toddlers and their families. Call the South Bowie Branch for details. Presented by Prince George’s County Infant and Toddlers.

Contact 301-850-0475.

Read to Rover, 4 p.m., Baden Library, 13803 Baden-Westwood Road, Brandywine. Build your child’s confidence in reading. Bring a favorite book or choose one from the library and Read to Rover. A specially trained therapy dog will be glad to listen. Registration required. Ages 5-12.

Call Baden Branch for details at 301-8881152.

The 5 Most Important Things You Must Do to Create a Lasting Marriage,

7:30 to 9 p.m., New Hope Learning Center, 4801 Telsa Drive, Bowie. Improve your marriage — even if you tried before, Strengthen your marriage for the future — while so many are splitting up, discover a community of couples working on their marriages. Special Presentation: PrepareEnrich Marriage Relationship program.

Contact 301-806-0510 or hgschauff@ gmail.com.

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DEREK JOHNSON STAFF WRITER

Mary Navies of Fort Washington said her first thought when an electrical fire broke out last year in the basement of her McDonald’s restaurant on Allentown Road was the safety of her staff and crew.

Her second was that if she was going to rebuild, she wanted the local community she had served for the past 24 years to play a part.

She found a willing partner across the street in Crossland High School in Temple Hills. Navies’ restaurant has been a hot spot for student traffic before and after class for the past 20 years, according to Navies and school officials.

Over the years, Navies had donated money to the school for scholarships and hired graduates to help with their college tuition costs, so she said she wanted the new store to reflect the longstanding relationship she had with Crossland.

“In my mind I wanted to make a partnership with the community,” Navies said. “I wanted to make them stakeholders.”

During the rebuild, Navies invited the school’s senior masonry class to the site of the construction in March to meet with the project manager, ask questions and learn about the process of how a building goes from a design on a set of blueprints to brick and mortar reality.

Masonry instructor Demetrius Chew said his class was in the midst of a chapter on project management and interpreting plans, so the field trip across the street wound up being timely and relevant.

“They had their cell phones out, they were taking pictures of everything,” Chew said. “For some of these students this was the first time they had actually been to a construction site.”

Senior Tamia Pardlow of Fort Washington said the visit was an opportunity to get hands-on knowledge about

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Oxon Hill senior Katherine Medina of Temple Hills sits at her computer during computer graphics class while teacher Marcus Young looks on. Medina will attend the University of Maryland, College Park, next year after receiving $1.3 million in scholarship offers from more than 20 schools.

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Before Oxon Hill High School senior Katherine Medina, 18, of Temple Hills was an academic superstar, she was a frustrated child who couldn’t understand why her mother and father kept her on such a short leash.

Until she accepted a fullride scholarship at the University of Maryland, College Park, she was the lesser known Medina sibling who didn’t get into Sidwell Friends. The one living in the shadow of her big brother’s achievements.

“I always felt like I had to show [my family] that I was up to par,” Medina said.

After racking up more than $1.3 million in scholarship offers from 20 universities, Medina is now crafting her own legacy.

Officials at Oxon Hill said they continue to be amazed at Medina’s versatility and time management skills.

In addition to her duties as a student and her post at the National Honor Society, she is also vice president of the school’s Filipino American Youth Asso-

ciation, treasurer for the Math Honor Society and a member of the National English Honor Society. She also spends time tutoring other students and coordinates charity work for some of the clubs.

“We use the term ‘scholar elite’ a lot. Katherine is the definition of that term,” said school counselor Tiffany Jamison of North Brentwood.

Medina ascribes her diligent study habits to the strict upbringing she received from her parents, who gave her little leeway to socialize as a child if it meant keeping her from her studies. Sleepovers were not allowed, and if she wanted to go to a movie with her friends, she had to be prepared for a family member to tag along and keep a watchful eye.

Agnes Medina, Katherine’s mother, said the way she raised Katherine wasn’t meant to be punitive.

She saw her own parents neglect their children because their lack of formal education forced them to work nonstop in order to provide.

Agnes Medina said she regrets not going to college herself and having to work two lowpaying jobs to make ends meet.

Her choices as a parent were to prevent Katherine from falling

into the same trap.

“I didn’t blame my parents for not having time for my brothers and sisters because they worked so hard to survive. I don’t want that to happen to my kids,” Agnes Medina said.

Reaching her goal of attaining a full scholarship has made Katherine Medina has given her a new appreciation for her parents actions.

“I guess now is the only time that I understand why she did that for me,” Medina said. “I used to cry because I thought she was mad at me or something, but now I see she was helping me out.”

In-state tuition and other fees at the University of Maryland clock in at $24,352 annually, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine.

Medina will not need to worry about that, and can instead focus on the summer break, her internship and getting ready to attend college with her brother, Kurt Kevin, in the fall. Jackson State also offered a full scholarship.

“It’s very flattering but I don’t think I really accepted everything that’s happened yet,” Medina said. I’m sort of like ‘are you sure that’s for me?’” dejohnson@gazette.net

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Mary Navies of Fort Washington stands in front of a mural designed by Crossland High School arts instructor Valerie Johnson at her McDonald’s restaurant located on Allentown Road. a field of work she wants to pursue from established professionals.

“They talked about construction management, that’s what really caught my eye because I would want to do that,” Pardlow said.

In addition to involving the masonry class, Navies reached out to the school’s art department to request a lifesized mural for the new store.

Arts instructor Valerie Johnson of Hyattsville developed a design for the mural featuring a line of silhouetted children standing before a half-sun, half-moon with buildings featuring the classic McDonald’s golden arch dotting the landscape.

“Anybody can see themselves as a person on the mural,” Johnson said, explaining the meaning behind the use of silhouettes.

Navies said the design perfectly captured the sense of community she was hoping for when the piece was commissioned.

Navies will be hosting a grand reopening Saturday featuring a ribbon cutting ceremony with Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D).

In the lead up to the event Navies has been holding a series of events, including an all day Christmas in April fundraiser on May 12 and a game truck party in the restaurant parking lot from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Friday. dejohnson@gazette.net

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Reducing College Costs One of the less talked about items in the County Executive’s budget is funding the Prince George’s Community College’s, in collaboration with the County School System, middle college program.

This program, which currently has over 300 students, provides an amazing opportunity for high school students to receive a joint degree.

After four years of intense high school, students can receive both a diploma and associate’s degree. .

The middle college program warrants serious review. Financially, college is becoming more and more out and reach.

The cost for private schools are at a staggering 50 – 60 thousand per year and state schools can go between 20 -40 thousand.

Graduating with an associate’s degree, a household can save between 40 and 100 thousand making college more affordable and providing an upper hand to students entering the workforce. Our regional partners: Montgomery, Howard, Arlington and Fairfax counties do not have this program; making middle college unique to Prince George’s County.

The Chamber fully supports this program and hopes it can be scaled to increase student enrollment.

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Bowie dance company takes flight for latest performance Spirit Wings group approaches three decades of performing n

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Spirit Wings Dance Company & Studio marks 29 years of performance starting Saturday at the Bowie State University Fine and Performing Arts Center. “The Mind — let it be renewed,” features 30 dancers, including 10 company members.

“Every year we have a different theme. Last year it was the heart, this year it’s the mind,” said Rian Matthews, a dancer in the show. “It puts things into perspective. Very relevant when you think of what is going on in society. Like the riots in Baltimore.”

Matthews, of Washington, D.C., started attending the Spirit Wings studios in Bowie and Upper Marlboro when she was in kindergarten.

Now, at 20, she is a com-

munications major and dance minor at Denison University in Ohio. Matthews attributed her success to being part of the company.

“How I have dealt with being at college — as a college student you need to be disciplined and focused and I can trace that back to my time at Spirit Wings,” Matthews said.

Sandra Mitchell, 57, of Laurel is the founding artistic director of Spirit Wings.

“I always believe that you can find what you’re meant to do,” Mitchell said. “I was a cheerleader, dancer in the band at college, but never received training until college. It ignited a love I have for dance.”

After graduating from Howard University in the District, Mitchell completed a master’s degree at American University.

Mitchell said it is dance that has balanced her life and it is through this creative outlet that she is inspired to help others.

Matthew Williams, a former county resident, is one of the performers in the show.

Williams also serves as the

assistant artistic director for the Dance Company. He describes Spirit Wings as a “lifeline” for him.

In 2001, Williams was a dancer in New York City; he also was very unhappy.

A weekend trip to Maryland and a short stay at the Mitchells’ home turned into a five-year stay.

“They helped me out spiritually, emotionally — the way they live their life is inspiring to me. I am always looking to them for guidance and inspiration,” said Williams, 36, who is married and lives in Chicago.

To most doctoral students taking a week off is not an option, but for the Spirit Wings performance that’s exactly what Mari-Ashli Foy, 24, a veterinary medical student from Odenton, is doing.

“I am an only child. Spirit Wings is a family, where I could go every Saturday,” Foy said. “I could do dance and learn about God at the same time. It is where I got my discipline and a way to stay connected to people.”

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Chandini Darby, a member of Spirit Wings Dance Company & Studio, performs at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

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WASHINGTON — A new website and smartphone app, on which a group of Marylandarea recreational anglers worked for months, is expected to enhance the quality of a federally run program that tracks and manages recreational fisheries.

According to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Chesapeake Catch, launched late last year, will be used to monitor Atlantic croaker, red drum, spotted sea trout, shad, spot fish, striped bass and yellow perch.

“The MD Fisheries Service (a division of the Department of Natural Resources) worked with the Chesapeake Catch team for over a year to develop this phone app with useful features for both recreational anglers and fisheries managers,” Linda Barker, chief research statistician for the DNR Fisheries Service, wrote in an email.

States have monitored recreational fisheries with surveys designed by the fishery division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But those methods did not always provide the best estimations.

“The app came from the idea that the best way to deal with the dissatisfaction about federal data was to add more data from more sources. And the best source would be the most direct source, which would be the people who actually fish,” Greg Schildwachter, a member of a working group that helped tailor the app for fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay, said.

Chesapeake Catch is designed to create a network of anglers who report their own data.

“The idea is just as useful in North Carolina or Georgia or Florida or the Gulf Coast as it is in Maryland — to add more data that fishery managers can use,” said Schildwachter, who is also a consultant at Watershed Results, a firm engaged in environmental advocacy and conservation.

A tool developed by anglers and for anglers collects firsthand data showing whether a boat was used or whether the fishing was done from the bank. It also can record whether an angler fished with the help of a guide.

The app keeps track of the species caught and the date, time and location of the catch.

“You can photograph the fish, put your phone in your pocket, finish handling the fish and go back and fill in length, weight, the status [whether you released the fish or kept it], the condition [whether the fish swam straight away or flowed], where you hooked it and which part of the body it was hooked in,” Schildwachter said.

Anglers who have created an account through the app or on its website at www.chesapeakecatch.com can log catches.

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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, 301-3902100 Glenn Dale, Kettering, Lanham, Largo, Seabrook, Woodmore, Lake Arbor, Mitchellville and Upper Marlboro.

MAY 11 Residential break-in, 8600 block Greenbelt Road, 3:41 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 10000 block Lindley Court, 11:10 a.m.

Theft, 9000 block Brightlea Court, 2:00 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8600 block Greenbelt Road, 4:37 p.m.

Residential break-in, 2700 block Bartlett Lane, 4:47 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 12100 block Sutton Lane, 6:07 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7200 block Greenspring Lane, 6:38 p.m.

MAY 12 Theft from vehicle, 9000 block Good Luck Road, 6:13 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8700 block Brae Brooke Drive, 8:57 a.m.

Theft, 9700 block Summit Cir, 10:24 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 700 block Etna Drive, 1:59 p.m.

Theft, 10900 block Kencrest Drive, 2:00 p.m.

Residential break-in, 7000 block Dolphin Road, 9:05 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 15300 block Hall Road, 10:26 p.m.

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Crain Highway Sw, 3:14 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, Wb Arena Drive/Apollo Drive, 3:38 p.m.

Theft, 10400 block Campus Way, 8:43 p.m.

MAY 17 Theft, 7100 block Hanover Pky, 12:03 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4200 block Duchess Court, 9:43 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 9400 block Gumtree Park St., 10:35 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3400 block Manderes Place, 11:12 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 600 block Crain Highway Sw, 12:51 p.m.

Theft, 11300 block White House Road, 2:07 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 15400 block Hall Road, 5:08 p.m.

Theft, 600 block Mount Lubentia Court W, 10:46 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 12500 block Gable Lane, 11:19 a.m.

Residential break-in, 7100 block Abbington Drive, 1:15 p.m.

Theft, 1100 block Kennebec St., 1:25 p.m.

Theft, 5100 block Martin Drive, 3:50 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 600 block Audrey Lane, 5:16 p.m.

Assault, 400 block Winslow Road, 5:33 p.m.

Residential break-in, 6800 block Marianne Drive, 5:56 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6800 block Oxon Hill Road, 6:39 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3900 block Branch Ave, 7:36 p.m.

Robbery, 3400 block 24th Ave, 8:50 p.m.

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wick Ave, 6:54 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4300 block

Lakeview Drive, 7:00 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5100 block Auth Road, 9:14 a.m.

Residential break-in, 2900

block Brinkley Road, 6:52 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 2600 block Keating St., 12:56 p.m.

Break-in, 5600 block Fargo Ave, 1:13 p.m.

Assault, 6800 block Bock Road, 3:05 p.m.

Theft, 3700 block Branch Ave, 3:31 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 3500 block Silver Park Drive, 3:55 p.m.

Assault, 5100 block Indian Head Highway, 4:07 p.m.

Theft, 6100 block Livingston Road, 4:44 p.m.

Assault, 1300 block Birchwood Drive, 4:46 p.m.

Residential break-in, 13300 block Harrison Ave, 5:30 p.m.

Residential break-in, 5400 block Auth Road, 5:52 p.m.

Theft, 6800 block Oxon Hill Road, 6:08 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2300 block Olson St., 6:44 p.m.

Theft, 4400 block Wheeler Road, 7:09 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4200 block Farmer Place, 7:15 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4500 block Reamy Drive, 9:22 p.m.

MAY 13 Theft from vehicle, 6200 block Allen Court, 8:20 a.m.

Theft, 5400 block Indian Head Highway, 8:30 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 3600 block Old Silver Hill Road, 8:58 a.m.

Theft, 4300 block John St., 11:34 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 800 block Irvington St., 12:50 p.m.

Residential break-in, 13100 block Strawberry Hill Place, 1:20 p.m.

Theft, 5100 block Indian Head Highway, 2:03 p.m.

Robbery, 6700 block Northam Road, 4:25 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6700 block Oxon Hill Road, 4:29 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4400 block Telfair Blvd, 5:48 p.m.

Theft, 2700 block Lime St., 6:59 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4000 block

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Theft from vehicle, 10400

MAY 14 Vehicle stolen and recovered,

10200 block Prince Place, 12:00 a.m.

Commercial property break-in,

1200 block Caraway Court, 6:12 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 9800 block Good Luck Road,

7:09 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10900

block Sebago Court, 9:33 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 16600 block Governors Bridge Road, 9:58 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9600 block Lottsford Court, 2:03 p.m.

Theft, 15900 block Excalibur Road, 3:48 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 12700 block Sholton St., 4:43 p.m.

Theft, 15900 block Excalibur Road, 4:50 p.m.

Theft, 15700 block Pointer Ridge Drive, 5:04 p.m.

Sexual assault, 7100 block Cipriano Springs Drive, 10:26 p.m.

Residential break-in, 7000 block Dolphin Road, 10:36 p.m.

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Elkins Ave, 7:39 p.m.

Theft, 300 block Brockton Road, 9:12 p.m.

Theft, 6800 block Oxon Hill Road, 9:39 p.m.

MAY 14 Theft from vehicle, 2700 block Kingsway Road, 5:43 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2400 block Henson Valley Way, 5:48 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6500 block Bock Terrace, 6:59 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4300 block Ridgecrest Drive, 8:41 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 3400 block Curtis Drive, 10:23 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1800 block West Perimeter Road, 11:17 a.m.

562V, 2100 block Accokeek Road, 11:24 a.m.

Residential break-in, 4900 block Wealding Way, 12:05 p.m.

Residential break-in, 8300 block Indian Head Highway, 2:08 p.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

4700 block Clifton Road, 2:20 p.m.

Theft, 6200 block Oxon Hill Road, 3:27 p.m.

Residential break-in, 13300 block Harrison Ave, 6:48 p.m.

Residential break-in, 2500 block Corning Ave, 10:46 p.m.

MAY 15 Theft from vehicle, 1200 block Teresa Drive, 5:37 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3300 block Huntley Square Drive, 7:57 a.m.

Commercial property break-in,

12900 block Indian Head Highway, 8:10 a.m.

Residential break-in, 5700 block Leon St., 9:59 a.m.

Theft, 3200 block Brinkley Road, 10:29 a.m.

Residential break-in, 3200 block Curtis Drive, 12:06 p.m.

Robbery, 3700 block Branch Ave, 12:18 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4300 block Branch Ave, 1:29 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 1400 block Iverson St., 1:47 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3700 block Branch Ave, 2:24 p.m.

Theft, 6800 block Oxon Hill Road, 4:45 p.m.

Residential break-in, 3200 block Curtis Drive, 9:15 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 6700 block Bock Road, 9:44 p.m.

Homicide, 700 block Audrey Lane, 11:55 p.m.

MAY 16 Vehicle stolen, 4500 block Rena Road, 1:51 a.m.

Theft, 6100 block Oxon Hill Road, 3:49 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2000 block Alice Ave, 8:27 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 300 block Kimberly Woods Court, 12:41 p.m.

Assault, 2600 block Brinkley Road, 3:49 p.m.

Theft, 15800 block Blackburn St., 4:32 p.m.

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Theft, 901-F Capital Center Blvd, 2:13 p.m.

Theft, 3300 block Crain Highway Nw, 2:49 p.m.

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Theft from vehicle, 10700 block Kitchener Court, 6:56 a.m.

Sexual assault, 13100 block Brussels Way, 11:08 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9600 block Lottsford Court, 1:31 p.m.

Theft, 9300 block Wellington St., 2:06 p.m.

Theft, 5600 block Whitfield Chapel Road, 5:13 p.m.

Theft, 15700 block Easthaven Court, 5:22 p.m.

Theft, 3400 block Manderes Place, 7:09 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4000 block 92nd Ave, 9:55 p.m.

Robbery, Major Lansdale Drive/Northview Drive, 10:28 p.m.

Theft, 15500 block Annapolis Road, 10:28 p.m.

Robbery, 10000 block Gold Coast Court, 11:22 p.m.

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Theft from vehicle, 800 block Largo Center Drive, 1:17 p.m.

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The bride carried a bouquet of flowers to the altar; the groom carried a guitar.

Joseph Harris and Hillary Gottemoeller of Greenbelt were married Saturday in the middle of the 15th Annual Crazy Quilt Music Festival, a free live music event that takes place every spring in Greenbelt’s Roosevelt Center shopping plaza.

“This year, I thought well, why don’t we, since we play music, as part of the festival we’ll also get married,” Harris said.

For the past seven years, Harris has been event organizer for the festival, which is sponsored by the Greenbelt New Deal Cafe.

Harris and Gottemoeller have been performing as a duo, “The Bachelor and the

Bad Actress,” since 2009, after meeting through an online dating service.

The wedding — like the music festival — was open to the public, and approximately 300 people attended.

“This community has done so much for us over the years, and it’s such a special community, that we wanted to celebrate our union within the context of Greenbelt as a community,” Harris said.

Greenbelt Mayor Emmett Jordan said the wedding appeared to be a first for the Roosevelt Center.

“To the best of my knowledge, we’ve never had a wedding at Roosevelt [Center],” Jordan said. “I think it’s really special the way they’ve synched it with the Crazy Quilt Festival.”

The duo provided musical accompaniment to their own wedding, performing an original song, “The Marrying Song” before the ceremony started.

Amethyst Dwyer of Greenbelt, music coordinator for the New Deal Cafe, officiated the

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Hillary Gottemoeller and Joseph Harris perform “The Church of You and Me” just after their wedding Saturday in Greenbelt’s Roosevelt Center during the Crazy Quilt Festival. wedding.

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culties getting him ordained,” Dwyer laughed, referring to the half-man half-goat creature of urban legend said to haunt Greenbelt’s woods.

Following the close of the ceremony, Harris and Gottemoeller performed several more songs for the audience.

Attendees were invited to add their artistic contributions to a public mural with a marriage theme.

“It’s sort of a crowd-sourced mural,” Harris said.

Gottemoeller said she knew that in marrying Harris, she was also marrying Greenbelt in a sense.

“Joe loves Greenbelt, and when we started talking about getting married, there was no other way to do this than right here,” Gottemoeller said.

The wedding had one setback. The night before the wedding, someone cut down all the decorations the couple had carefully strung up around the stage in an apparent act of vandalism, Harris said.

However, Harris said that many members of the community volunteered to come out to restring the decorations.

“My belief in the community is because of things like that,” Harris said.

Gottemoeller said they don’t know if they’ll still go by “The Bachelor and the Bad Actress” now that they’re married.

“We’ve been trying to come up with new names, but we really haven’t thought of anything better yet,” Gottemoeller said. janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

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KATE S. ALEXANDER STAFF WRITER

Maryland utility regulators have given the OK for Exelon to acquire Pepco, as long as conditions are met, including better reliability.

In a 3-2 decision Friday, the Public Service Commission agreed to the proposed deal, detailing 46 conditions the companies must meet.

Exelon Corp. of Chicago, parent of Baltimore Gas and Electric, plans to acquire Pepco Holdings for $6.83 billion in cash. The sale would bring together Exelon’s three electric and gas utilities — BGE, ComEd and PECO — with Pepco Holdings’ three utilities, Atlantic City Electric, Delmarva Power and Pepco, cementing Exelon’s hold on the mid-Atlantic market.

Maryland is one of several jurisdictions that must approve Exelon’s acquisition for it to go through.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Virginia and New Jersey also have approved it. Delaware and Washington, D.C., have not taken action yet.

Among the conditions in Maryland are strict benchmarks for reducing the frequency and duration of power outages, with penalties for failure. Exelon also was ordered to provide each Pepco customer with a $100 rate credit — a total of $48.6 million in residential rate credits — and $31.5 million for energy efficiency initiatives, 20 percent of which must be dedicated to limited-income programs.

The PSC also required Exelon to provide $14.4 million in Green Sustainability Funds for Prince George’s and Montgomery counties and provide for the building of 20 megawatts of renewable energy sources, 10 megawatts of which must be in Pepco’s Maryland service territory.

The order detailed conditions for Delmarva Power, too.

Commission Chairman W. Kevin Hughes and Commissioners Lawrence Brenner and Kelly Speakes-Backman formed the three-vote majority.

In a joint statement, Pepco and Exelon expressed pleasure with the decision, but said the companies must study the order to understand the conditions imposed by the PSC. Opponents criticized the approval.

“I am deeply disappointed with the decision of the Maryland Public Service Commission to approve the Pepco-Exelon merger,” Montgomery County Councilman Roger Berliner said in a written statement.

Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, said in a written statement that the commission made a “grave error” approving the deal.

“This approval, with no meaningful conditions added by the commissioners, threatens to negatively affect Marylanders for decades to come,” Tidwell wrote. “The PSC has totally failed in its responsibility to protect the ratepayers from exactly the sort of monopolistic harm that they have now ushered in.”

Tyson Slocum, the director of the Public Citizen’s Energy Program, condemned the decision in a written statement.

“The commission should have stopped this power grab.

Instead, it facilitated it,” Slocum wrote.

Public Citizen, Chesapeake Climate Action Network and Berliner all were party to the case. Berliner is part of the Coalition for Utility Reform.

Maryland law required Exelon and Pepco to prove the deal was in the public interest. dissenting opinion stated.

“The merger undermines competition for both ideas and utility services at a transformative time in the electricity industry.” kalexander@gazette.net

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BY JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAU STAFF WRITER

Two Prince George’s County Department of Parks and Recreation sites have been recognized as 2015 Maryland Green Centers by the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education, or MAEOE. Patuxent River Park in Upper Marlboro was recertified, but 2015 marked the first time that the Clearwater Nature Center in Clinton received certification honors, according to a Parks and Recreation news release.

The two county sites were among 16 organizations that were awarded in 2015. Besides Clearwater Nature Center, two other sites received the designation for the first time, according to the MAEOE website.

The Maryland Green Center Award recognizes public facilities’ efforts in environmental education, best management practices and community engagement, according to the MAEOE website.

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In addition to the organizations, 52 Maryland schools were awarded Maryland Green School status.

The Green Schools program began in 1999 and now there are over 480 , or nearly 20 oercent of all state schools, that have received the designation, according to the MAEOE website.

The certification is valid for four years and may then be renewed, according to the MAEOE website.

“This recognition reiterates our endeavor to be a leader in sustainability efforts in the county,” Kyle Lowe, acting division chief of the Natural and Historic Resources division, said in a statement. “Part of the mission of the MarylandNational Capital Park and Planning commission is to educate the public on the importance of the environment and to preserve green space for future generations.

The staffs at Patuxent River Park and Clearwater Nature Center are setting an exceptional example in these areas with their amazing public program offerings and beautiful sites.” janfensoncomeau@ gazette.net

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Victoria Bradford (left) waves to friends and family in the audience Tuesday as graduates of Frederick Douglass High School enter The Show Place Arena for their commencement ceremony.

Largo students win in Scholastic Olympics Students from Charles H. Flowers High School in Springdale and Largo High School took top honors in the 2015 Scholastic Olympics, held May 2 at the College Park Aviation Museum.

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“To our knowledge, this is the only one-day competition in Prince George’s County with

four contests: oratory/speech, spelling, U.S. history and math.

It’s an academic quadrathlon,” said Tamara Cooke Henry, one of the organizers for the event.

The prize for first place is $500, second place is $300 and third place is $200.

Winners are as followed: American History — First place: Jeffry Ongeador, Charles H. Flowers. Second place: Sahr Marrah, Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt. Third place: Aisha Babaji, Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in Upper Marlboro.

Spelling — First place: Edick Glanz Nuesca, Charles H. Flowers. Second place: Jieldan Cunanan, Oxon Hill High School.

Third place: Briana Chambers, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Speech/Oratory — First place: Beverly Anaele, Charles H. Flowers. Second place: Victor Njemanze, Charles H. Flowers.

Third place: Daniella Moijueh, Charles H. Flowers.

Math — First place: Esther Abatan, Largo High School.

Second place: Linda Uzoma, Charles H. Flowers. Third place: Jared Butler, Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Prince George’s teams attend Destination Imagination finals Bond Mill third-graders compete for first time in global contest

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Third graders from Bond Mill Elementary School didn’t need to travel back in time when their Destination Imagination performance went awry — a perfect response to an “instant challenge” propelled the team to its second-place victory, qualifying it for this week’s Global Finals.

“Even a week after the performance we were still stunned about it,” said team member Trevor Bateman, 9, of Laurel.

Destination Imagination encourages creativity and innovation through project-based challenges. Donna Albrecht, the Laurel school’s DI coordinator, said seven Bond Mill teams have competed at the Global Finals, but this is the first time a third grade team has represented the school. Third grade is the first year students can compete in DI

contests.

“It’s pretty exciting for them.

They’ve worked hard,” Albrecht said.

The team took on the scientific challenge, “Making Waves,” which requires students to design and construct a machine that produces two different sounds, create two visual displays of sound waves and present a story told at a fast and slow narrative pace.

Members devised a story about a trip to the past that goes amiss when scientists are sent into the future. But when the set pieces fell apart and the sound machine did not work during the April 18 contest in Baltimore, they feared they had no chance at the Global Finals.

If it had not earned the full 100 points on the instant challenge, the team would not have placed second, Albrecht said.

In the instant challenge, teams receive a surprise task and are instructed to build or accomplish something in five to eight minutes.

“They came together quite flawlessly and they wowed me,” said Cheri Hautala-Bateman,

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a parent volunteer who has worked with the team since October. “I was tearing up watching them work together as a team.”

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could be disqualified if they share details, Albrecht said — Carolyn Appleby, 9, of Laurel said teamwork was the key to their success.

“We were really focused and we knew what we were doing,” Carolyn said.

As a top three team at the elementary school level, Bond Mill qualified for the Global Finals, which began Wednesday and concludes Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn. For the global contest, the team modified the set pieces by using thicker cardboard and adding more color to the designs. Members also worked on creating additional technology for the set, such as a scrolling calendar operated by a hand crank.

“I think it’s going to be fun but I’m also nervous about it because I don’t know how it will go,” Trevor said.

No matter the outcome of

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Kisakye Kirabo, 8, of Laurel paints a set piece May 12 that his team will use when it competes in the Destination Imagination global competition. the global contest, team members said they do Destination Imagination “to work as a team, have fun and learn a lot.”

Stacie Vernor, a third grade teacher at Bond Mill and mother to team member Nolan, 9, of Laurel, said when she started working with the team in Octo-

ber, it was just a group of seven individuals with their own ideas.

“Now you see kind of how they feed off each other and listen to each other’s ideas,” Vernor said. “It’s incredible to watch them.” kpetersen@gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 from Bowie.

“There will need to be refunds going back several years,” Deutsch said. “At this point we are unable to estimate the impact on the city.”

Bowie’s budget finalizes $23 million in capital spending for a new indoor sports facility, increases the police department’s budget by $1.4 million and earmarks up to $70,000 for police body cameras.

Council members unanimously passed the budget this year while praising staff and noting that the city was able to continue core services without

BUDGET

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“I think we need to consider everyone’s situation right now, and it’s very difficult to say if we can meet everyone’s needs given the governor’s decision to withhold school funds,” said Councilwoman Deni Taveras (D-Dist. 2) of Hyattsville. “It’s a very difficult dilemma.”

Councilman Todd Turner (D-Dist. 3) of Bowie said the governor’s decision will definitely have an impact on the council’s budget discussions moving forward.

Turner said the County Council and school system have recently agreed to conduct a performance audit of the school system.

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Continued from Page A-1 equipment on the scene. What little they did have was in bad shape from overuse.

The Bowie/Mitchellville chapter of the National Council of Negro Women has been hosting events or partnering with local fire departments for the last 15 years, said chapter president Ricarda Mason of Temple Hills. The organization partnered with the Bowie Volunteer Fire Department

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raising property taxes.

“This is probably one of the smoothest budgets we’ve had,” said Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Isaac Trouth (Dist. 4).

Additionally, the council granted its formal blessing for Berman Enterprises, the company redeveloping Marketplace Shopping Center on Main Street, to seek county authority for mixed residential and multi-family development. Berman Enterprises partner Brian Berman said the amendment was necessary to complete the retail portion by September 2016 and the residential portion by 2017.

“This effectively is the only path we see that allows us to

do [the redevelopment] within that timeline,” Berman said.

The vote to support Berman’s request was unanimous, and the company now will seek formal authority from Prince George’s County, which maintains zoning authority within city limits.

Councilman Henri Gardner (Dist. 3) praised Berman for his communication with and inclusion of existing Marketplace businesses during the redevelopment process.

“It’s great to know that during times of improvement that these businesses will still be recognized,” Gardner said.

“That will be part and parcel of any discussion we have on the budget,” Turner said.

Franklin said the council continues to weigh its options in regards to the county executive’s budget, and will take into account public opinions as it decides whether or not to approve County Executive Rushern L. Baker’s proposed property and telecommunications tax increases.

“I definitely will take strongly into account the opinions I’ve heard on both sides of the issue,” Franklin said.

A town hall meeting hosted

by Franklin was held May 14 for the purpose of soliciting public opinion. Approximately 30 people spoke during the event.

“It was a great exchange of ideas, and it got heated at times, but that’s the way de-

mocracy should be,” Franklin said.

Preston Mears of Upper Marlboro said at the forum that more funding is needed to improve the school system.

“People say money doesn’t solve problems,” Mears said.

“Well, in my 75 years, I can say I’ve never seen less money solve problems.”

Cole Clark of Upper Marlboro said the governor’s decision not to fund the GCEI at 100 percent was a call for greater fiscal responsibility and the elimination of waste in government, not increased taxes.

“He is challenging us to find that $20 million, and we can do it. We’re smart enough,” Clark said.

last year for the charity event Christmas in April and wanted to do something to say thank you to organization for its service.

“We realize what a risk it is and how you’re away from your families all the time,” said council member Josephine Wadley of Lanham during the ceremony.

Mason said the donations were purchased by individual members and were meant to make station life a little easier.

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Parker said the department relies on a mixture of Prince George’s County and state funding as well as a handful of periodic fundraisers for its operating budget, so he is grateful for any donations that may come to the volunteers.

“We’re not usually on the receiving end of kindness,” Parker said. dejohnson@gazette.net

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Bowie museum aide Diane Haeger (right) pours out cream Saturday during a butter churning demonstration for Bowie residents Matt First, 5, and his mother, Meghan First.

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Continued from Page A-1 hands-on philosophy. In addition to areas for petting and riding ponies, the stables featured the first “official” appearance by Ruby, the famous chicken.

Big Purple Barn program director Tara Guevara of Bowie said she brought Ruby, the toeless chicken along so she wouldn’t feel lonely. Even though she wasn’t part of the petting program, her friendli-

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Continued from Page A-1 in the community when the city held an informational meeting about the co-op last year and had to move to a larger room to accommodate the number of interested residents.

“I didn’t know how many sign ups we’d get. I knew people were very interested in renewable energy, especially solar because we’d received a lot of calls about it,” Larson said. “It’s more than being green, you’re also going to save money. Its’s a good investment.”

One of the most commonly asked questions that Larson and Ramsden say they hear around

ness and interest in playing with the children made her one of the most popular attractions of the day, according to event organizers. This year, she was officially part of the festivities and garnered some of the highest interest. After a particularly hard winter two years ago, Ruby lost all her toes to frostbite. Guevara said at a farm that has sheltered horses with no ears, no eyes and two with melanoma, the hen fit right in.

“We’re kind of like a little band of misfits in a way,” Gue-

vara said. “We have horses that are a little bit different and Ruby is in that same vein.”

Because horses feature prominently in the activities, organizers scheduled the day for the Sunday after The Preakness, the second leg of the Triple Crown horse race run at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The Belair Stable has housed two Triple Crown winners in its history: Gallant Fox in 1930 and his son, Omaha in 1935.

going solar is the cost savings: how much do you save and how long does it take to offset the hefty up front costs? While the price of solar panels depend on many factors, it is not uncommon for the cost of hardware, installation and other features to exceed $20,000, they said. Discounts up front from the co-op and tax incentives like the Solar Investment Tax Credit from federal and state government shave thousands of dollars off the total cost. Still, it can typically take about 10 years to pay off the initial investment, according to The Energy Informative. Most solar panels come with 25 year warranties.

Annellen Moore lives on Manvel Lane in Bowie and has

had solar panels on her roof for the past three years that produces about 95 percent of her home energy needs. Moore does not own or lease her panels, having opted instead to pay an upfront cost for 20 years worth of electricity at a fixed rate of $7.50 per month. Moore said she is more than happy with her arrangement, but still believes that buying or leasing panels is a good long-term investment.

“Absolutely it’s worth it, because one of our goals and something we hope others would share is the opportunity to participate in alternative energy sources,” Said Moore.

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Body cameras are a good measure of accountability “Smile, you’re on Candid Camera.”

Those of us who are middle-aged or beyond remember that catch phrase from Allen Funt’s TV show. It was a time when hidden cameras were best known for pranks and inane interactions, for an audience’s entertainment.

Now, surveillance cameras are trained on us as we shop, drive and walk along city streets. Every person with a smartphone is potentially filming.

Footage is having a profound effect on our culture, social interaction and even criminal justice.

Ray Rice might have been just another football star with a court date until we — and the NFL — saw a vicious assault as it actually happened.

Several deaths of people while in police custody or pursuit have become vivid and explosive because society has become a witness.

We saw it again recently in Baltimore, where outrage over the death of Freddie Gray

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built and bubbled from video clips of officers dragging him into a transport van.

If a video camera were recording the inside of the van, we’d know so much more about the involvement of six officers now charged in connection with his death.

We’re on the cusp of a sweeping movement to have police officers equipped with body cameras, too.

The Bowie Police Department is working to get funding for the cameras, and Hyattsville police are seeking more durable cameras after recently completing a 15-month pilot of body cameras. Prince George’s officials are also considering cameras but do not have a timeline as to when they would be purchased.

The Laurel and New Carrollton police departments have been using them since 2012, and Cheverly police have been wearing the de-

vices since 2013.

We support these agencies and their steps toward a system that ideally protects the public from abuses and officers from false allegations, in much the same way car-mounted cameras have provided more accountability and transparency.

Supporters point to studies showing that complaints against officers, particularly for use of force, plummet in communities where officers wear cameras on their bodies.

The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced a $20 million pilot program in which local and tribal law enforcement organizations will get competitive grants to buy body-worn cameras.

The Justice Department says President Barack Obama hopes to spend $75 million in a three-year period on 50,000 cameras for law enforcement agencies.

The modern debate is no longer about surveillance, but about mechanics. When should cameras be filming and when should

officers turn them off?

The General Assembly passed a bill this session making sound recording by a police body camera legal. The exception is similar to one in place for cameras mounted on patrol cars. Otherwise, Maryland law requires consent for audio recording. Gov. Larry Hogan signed the bill into law last week.

To us, access to footage is a high concern.

One benefit that the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services lists for body-worn cameras is: “Improving agency transparency by allowing the public to see video evidence of police activities and encounters.”

Yet, the mayor of Washington, D.C., has proposed making footage from police body cameras exempt from public information laws.

That mostly defeats the purpose of having the cameras. Trust is won through transparency.

LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR

Tax increase is a bad idea

Unfortunately, for many of our Prince George’s County residents with lower incomes and seniors living on a fixed Social Security annuity, the past seven years have been a real struggle for them to keep their homes, and many have actually lost their homes through foreclosure and tax sales. Now, a proposed property tax rate increase for education (which was overwhelmingly voted down three years ago) is again threatening many of them.

Even for a modest small home or townhouse worth, say $250,000, which currently requires a property tax of approximately $4,000, a property tax rate increase of 15 percent means an additional $600 a year or $50 per month.

This will force many lower-income residents and seniors to lose their homes, because they just don’t have additional financial resources to meet the proposed property tax increase.

Even tenants renting an apartment will

see increases in their rent as the actual property owners pass on the increase to them. So, do we really want to force many of our Prince George’s residents to lose their homes and apartment residents to have increased rents or do we want to raise the per-child education spending (from kindergarten through high school seniors) from nearly $14,000 per year to over $15,000 per year (especially when our students are achieving higher scores with the current property tax rate)?

I’m hoping the County Council will reject any increase in the property tax rate. As we continue out of the recession, property values will increase and additional tax money will be raised without having to increase the property tax rates. Let’s protect all our Prince George’s County residents from the “backdoor” laws of our elected officials.

Richard Strafella, Bowie

‘Where is all the money going?’

I would like to tag on to Mr. Noblett’s message “No more taxes” [“Simple message: No more taxes,” Letters to the Editor, May 14].

When taxes are raised so high seniors cannot afford to pay taxes for their homes and become homeless, then what? The expense of locating homes or housing for them will be another expense. Does anyone out there reading this

agree that a 15 percent increase is a fair amount for anyone to pay for property taxes no matter what you are trying to fund? Who has gotten a 15 percent raise in their pay over the past 20 years? Where is all the money going taken in by traffic light cameras, casinos, not to mention the Maryland Lottery? Give us a break.

Lena Lee, Temple Hills

Questioning tax hike benefits Reasons for opposing the tax increase: (1) I thought the casinos were allowed in Maryland to bring revenue into the county for schools, attract upscale businesses (such as Cheesecake Factory, Lord and Taylor, etc.), more law enforcement, firemen, etc. — where is this revenue going?; (2) a lot of the services we used to receive as residents have been cut, for example street sweeping and leaf removal from our curbs; (3) recreational activities for the young people (this is a way of reducing potential crime); (4) services for seniors.

Will the tax increase ensure health care for all citizens of P.G.? Will training programs be

available for all citizens to get a meaningful job and become productive P.G. residents? Will a tax increase provide sensitivity training for law enforcement officers and hire more qualified police, fire and teachers?

For an increase of that size all at once will strain a lot of family budgets. If you must increase property taxes then grandfather it in over time. Homeowners should not bear the burden alone. Business owners, developers and others should share in the burden. Citizens are constantly taxed and receive no real benefit from tax increases.

Carolyn Hardy, Upper Marlboro

Thanking EMS providers During the week of May 17-23, Maryland joins the rest of the nation in celebrating National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week. We commend the Maryland EMS providers who respond every day of every month to emergency situations, making our Statewide EMS and Trauma System a national model for life-saving care. With Gov. Larry Hogan’s commitment to public safety and the well-being of all Maryland’s citizens, he has recognized the accomplishments of EMS providers by designating Emergency Medical Services Week in Maryland.

Maryland’s EMS system includes thousands of trained and licensed, volunteer and career emergency medical dispatchers, emergency medical responders, emergency medical technicians, cardiac rescue technicians and paramedics, as well as hospital personnel. As with any organization, it is the people that make the system work. What is extraordinary about Maryland’s EMS system is that over half of those people are volunteers. Both career and volunteer personnel engage in thousands of

Gazette-Star Vanessa Harrington, Senior Editor Jeffrey Lyles, Managing Editor Glen C. Cullen, Senior Editor, Copy/Design Jessica Loder, Managing Editor, Internet

hours of specialized training and continuing education to enhance their life-saving skills. We applaud these men and women whose efforts save lives and minimize the disabling effects of injury in Maryland.

Even with all these highly trained EMS personnel, we need all Maryland citizens to do their part as a vital link in this EMS system.

By calling 9-1-1 when they see an emergency and learning CPR, they become a part of the team. The earlier the response, the greater the chances are of survival. We challenge everyone to become involved and be the one to make a difference in helping save a life.

The citizens of Maryland should be proud of their emergency medical services system and its EMS providers, and join me in congratulating them on a job well done.

Kevin G. Seaman, Severna Park Seaman is executive director of the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems.

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Concerns have been raised that a proposed increase in Prince George’s County property taxes could negatively affect homeowners and homebuyers.

Higher taxes would hurt homeowners, economy Recently, County Executive Rushern Baker released his budget proposal for fiscal 2016. We applaud Mr. Baker’s commitment to education and the youth of Prince George’s County; however, as a representative of the trade association representing over 2,800 Prince George’s County real estate professionals, and the only voice for the homeowners they serve, we as Realtors have grave concerns about this budget’s negative affect on housing.

The FY 2016 County Budget proposes a 15.6 percent real property tax increase. This double-digit hit is a “big ask” of our citizen homeowners!

Owners can expect a $447 annual property tax increase on a $300,000 assessment. As in years past, this budget is deeply reliant upon housing sector taxes to the amount of almost 55 percent of county revenue sources.

Realtors are not opposed to advancing the quality of public education. Investment is necessary to move our county forward. Altering the composition of the school board and appointing Dr. Maxwell are examples of progress. While these efforts are at their beginning stages, the modest increase in graduation rates is evidence that the county is on the right path. There is no question that homebuyers do consider school system achievement in their decision to buy houses. Our concern is, are they willing to buy in the highest taxed jurisdiction in the metro region? If not, we fear that home values and assessments will stagnate or worse … decline.

Prince George’s already leads the Maryland D.C. metro

area in property taxes, besting our neighbors, Montgomery County and Calvert County, by approximately 27 percent and 39 percent respectively on a $300,000 home.

As we’ve pointed out before, upfront buyer closing costs including property tax escrows, recordation fees, transfer taxes, down payments and lender fees are the largest impediment to homeownership. Much to our dismay, Prince George’s already leads the Maryland D.C. metro area in closing costs. In a statewide comparison, Prince George’s ranks second in closing cost expense, leading 22 other Maryland counties. Obviously, this disparity increases when factoring in the potential 15 cents as proposed in the Baker budget. In another “first,” Prince George’s ranks number one statewide in transfer tax burden at 1.4 percent of the selling price.

We believe that efforts to attract big and small businesses as well as federal and state agencies to Prince George’s County will be at a severe disadvantage in property tax and settlement cost comparisons with our neighboring jurisdictions.

Prince George’s County is experiencing an upward swing in property values. The average

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sale price in 2012 was up 5 percent over 2011, up 11 percent in 2013 and up 11 percent in 2014. These are encouraging reports. There is wind in our sails.

However, the number of units sold in 2014 was down over 6 percent compared to 2013. This tells us that fewer buyers are entering the marketplace. We fear that this trend will increase as the buying public recognizes the disparity in real estate taxes in Prince George’s verses our neighboring jurisdictions. Ultimately, fewer buyers equates to stagnant appreciation of home values and less wind to propel us forward.

Real estate can lead our economy, and we are poised to do that as our market stabilizes.

Increasing housing costs, however, is counterproductive to building our local economy and a barrier to stabilizing our local real estate market. We encourage our government leaders to help strengthen our local market and incentivize buyer investment in Prince George’s County.

We urge County Executive Baker to rethink this proposal.

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TRACK: State championships, Thursday through Saturday at Morgan State University. Douglass’ Rico Gomez (left) and the county’s other top athletes pursue state titles this weekend in Baltimore.

TENNIS: State championships, Friday and Saturday at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Elite no longer need prep sports Editor’s note: Ned Sparks, who has been executive director of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association since 1981, is retiring effective Aug. 1. This is the last of three columns looking at his tenure and the big issues facing high school sports today.

It was 1975 when Ned Sparks began his head coaching tenure in high school sports. Still in his 20s, Sparks was promoted from an assistant role and tasked with leading Howard High School’s football team.

The Lions were the defending Class B state champions and had an active winning streak of 36 games when he took the helm.

No pressure there.

KEN SAIN “Maybe I was SPORTS EDITOR too young to even think too much about it,” Sparks said.

Howard, with Sparks in charge, won 11 straight, sending the Lions back to the state title game and extending its state record for consecutive football victories to 47 games. They lost that title game to Paint Branch, ending their streak. Urbana would break that record in 2001, winning 50 consecutive games.

“Some things in life ... losing that game really hurt,” Sparks said. “It’s a good experience for a young person to go through, I wouldn’t recommend it, but it stayed with me awhile. That was a bitter, bitter loss.”

Back then, high school sports were basically the only option for elite athletes. All the best athletes played prep sports if they wanted to get noticed by colleges and earn a scholarship.

One change since Sparks became executive director of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association in 1981 is that elite athletes no longer need high school sports. In fact, in some cases, they are penalized for playing for their schools.

“Those few kids that are at the top of the food chain, well, maybe we’re not for them,” Sparks said.

If you’re a tennis player and want to earn a scholarship, you better be competing on the junior circuit because that’s where the college coaches are. They want to know your rank, not how many state titles you’ve won.

College basketball coaches rarely come to high school games anymore, unless it’s to seal the deal in recruiting.

Most evaluation takes place during Amateur Athletic Union games.

The top boys soccer players actually have to choose: Do they play for their Academy team against the best competition, or for their high school team with their friends? Academy rules won’t allow them to play for both.

Even in football, where college coaches still pay attention, most of the recruiting today starts off-campus.

If you’re not going to college camps, then it will be very hard to get noticed.

In sport after sport, for the elite athletes, how you perform outside of high school now matters more than what you do for your high school team. Sparks, who announced he is retiring effective Aug. 1, says that despite that, high school sports still have a value in educating young people.

“Unfortunately, [recruiting of elite athletes] gets all the attention,” Sparks said. “Those are just for a few kids. We have 113,000 student athletes who participate in our state this year. How many of those kids are going on to college? How many will make it to the pros? A tiny fraction.

“We still got the vast majority of all those kids who are ... going pro in something else. They’re going to be the people who sell insurance, the people who teach school, are [information technology] people, and professionals who become doctors, and lawyers.

“Hopefully, we’re nurturing and developing that group of people who become the citizens of tomorrow.” ksain@gazette.net Listen to my interview with Ned Sparks at Gazette.net.

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PRINCE J. GRIMES STAFF WRITER

The Gaithersburg High School baseball team defeated Wise 16-0 in the Class 4A state semifinals on Tuesday at University of Maryland, College Park to advance to the state championship game for the first time since 1997.

Nick Pantos started at pitcher for the Trojans and although he wasn’t at his best, he allowed just one hit before being pulled in the second inning with a 4-0 lead. In 1 2/3 innings of relief, Brendan Deyo earned the win for Gaithersburg. He struck out two and didn’t allow a hit.

Gaithersburg stretched its lead to 10-0 before he was replaced with Andy Kwiatkowski in the fourth.

“It feels great,” Gaithersburg coach Jeff Rabberman said. “I can’t wipe the smile from my face honestly. This is the third time we’ve been here since 2011, since I’ve been

here. We’ve lost both times we’ve been here, especially last year, just excruciating fashion. So, to get back here and to win this game and to give ourselves an opportunity to win a state championship, as a coach there’s really nothing you can ask for.”

The Trojans only needed five hits to get the job done on Tuesday. Wise starting pitcher T.J. Young walked 10 batters and allowed 12 earned runs in 4 1/3 innings.

Gaithersburg scored three of its first four runs in the first two innings on wild pitches by Young. The other run was drove in by designated hitter Timmy Traynor on a sacrifice fly.

Pantos reached base each of his four plate appearances with a single, double and two walks. He scored each time, including in the fourth inning when he was intentionally walked with a 8-0 lead, one out and runners on second and third. Catcher Trey Martinez made the Pumas pay with a two-RBI single to put Gaithersburg up by enough to win by the mercy rule. The game ended in five innings after the Trojans added another six runs in the

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Potomac High School defensive end Jeffrey Keene rushes Friendly High quarterback Reicardo Smith during a football game last fall.

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and cheerleading. Only wrestling and tennis have stayed the same, he said.

Why? Because high school coaches should be in it to help the kids, to be mentors and role models, to care about putting extra time and effort into making their teams better rather than the bonus paycheck, Knight said.

“There were coaches who were there from the first day of practice until the last game and that was it,” Knight said. “You want to see some hours, some dedication to running a year-round program.”

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Though school is still in session, Reicardo Smith’s summer weekends are already booked. The Friendly High School rising senior plans on traveling to six different colleges, traveling with his family to attend one-day football camps up and down the east coast.

The goal, he said, is to get noticed.

While game film and highlight videos may catch a coach’s attention, it’s often the impressive combine performance that can lock down scholarship offers.

“Run the fastest 40,” Smith said, “or just be one of those guys who are just out there, making the coaches say, ‘Who’s that kid?’”

Smith is one of the many Prince George’s County football players relying on summer football camps to get on the recruiting map. Between camp (about $50-100) and travel expenses, each trip can cost hundreds of dollars to the families and coaches subsidizing the athletes.

The time commitment is significant; the trips can require 4 a.m. wake-ups, long early-morning drives, and then highpressure individual and team workouts.

If all goes right, the athletes return home with a scholarship offer. “It’s the way you get exposure nowadays,” Smith said.

But exposure comes at a price, and the increasing role of one-day camps in the recruiting process can be problematic, particularly for the low-income students.

Charles Harley, a first-year coach at Landon who led Forestville the previous 15 seasons, said that schools frequently send out invitations to under-qualified athletes who they don’t intend on offering scholarships. Harley said he’d talk to coaches to gauge their interest — if the coaches weren’t, Harley would tell the athletes not to bother. “We can’t be wasting time just to go see X, Y and Z school,” Harley said.

But even when that’s addressed, economic disparities still lead to an uneven recruiting playing field. If two athletes are equally talented, the one that gets in front

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Crossland High School coaches (from left) John Perry, boys basketball; Andre Ferguson, boys soccer; Greg Aiken, baseball; Bobbie Yates, Sr., tennis; Eric Knight, athletic director; Vernon Kwiatkowski and Ron Linder, softball; Selina Smith, volleyball and girls basketball.

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There was a time in the not too distant past when it would be a rarity to see anyone walking around Crossland High School wearing a Cavaliers athletics shirt, the school’s baseball coach Gregory Aiken said. But these days, being an athlete at Crossland is no longer synonymous with enduring lopsided losses the way it once was, seven or eight years ago.

There’s been a renaissance in the Temple Hills school’s athletic department recently. With the exception of a winless football season, this year has seen some of the best Cavalier teams in a decade or more but the upward trend began when Crossland Athletic Director Eric Knight took over in 2008.

Upon his arrival, the former Potomac football coach who was 125-42 with two state titles from 1993-2007 and athletic director basically wiped Crossland’s coaching staff clean. In his time at Crossland, Knight has hired new coaches in boys and girls soccer, boys and girls basketball, indoor and outdoor track and cross country, baseball, softball

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When Prince George’s County softball teams have taken on programs from neighboring Montgomery County in the state tournament, sixthyear Eleanor Roosevelt High School coach Delton Fuller said, it’s been like Hampton University men’s basketball getting dominated by perennial NCAA power Kentucky.

But in Tuesday’s state semifinal against Northwest, held at Bachman Sports Complex in Glen Burnie, Roosevelt’s Hampton kept right with the Jaguars’ Kentucky. In fact, the Class 4A South Region champion for the second time in three years, Roosevelt held a 1-0 lead through three in-

nings before ultimately falling, 6-2.

“We hung with them for four innings,” Fuller said. “Then one of our top players went down.”

In the third inning, after smacking a hit to right field off one of Montgomery County’s top pitchers in junior Bridgette Barbour, Howard University recruit and star shortstop Alannah Baiyina jammed her foot at first base. Unable to walk at first Fuller faced a difficult decision: Who would fill in at shortstop?

Pitcher Joya Grillo, who is set to join her friend at Howard in 2015-16, was the only other person on the roster who has played shortstop this year, Fuller said, so he moved her there and brought in his No. 2 pitcher, junior Renee Rogers.

Rogers entered the circle with an 8-0 record and 1.30 earned-run average but Northwest was able to connect with her more off-speed pitches.

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Roosevelt High School’s softball team lost to Northwest during Tuesday’s semifinals in Glen Burnie.

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The last of Washington, D.C. area boxers remaining in the Golden Gloves national tournament, Burtonsville’s Tavon Body and Waldorf’s Jordan White, were eliminated on May 14. They outlasted any other area fighter but were eventually ousted in the quarterfinals.

From Prince George’s County, Keeshawn Williams (Capitol Heights) and Justin Bell (District Heights) were both eliminated one round earlier. This marks the first time in six years that an area boxer failed to win a national championship, according to boxingalongthebeltway.blogspot.com.

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The spring high school sports season ends this weekend, which means football is not far behind.

Memorial Day is the final day before teams can compete in passing leagues.

Not many starting jobs are decided during 7-on-7 games, but players can definitely start to make a case for themselves. Coaches use this time to teach but also to evaluate receivers, defensive backs, linebackers and quarterbacks. The final depth chart for the opening week of the fall begins to take shape during this time.

“You just want kids to work on timing,” Suitland High School coach Ed Shields said. “Get their routes down, understanding where they need to get, how they need to work a zone, how to work man. Getting some of those things done ahead of time.”

Suitland’s starting quarterback from last season, Marlon Brown, is returning, but even that position can be won Shields said.

“When we were 13-1, all jobs were open. So you know when we’re 6-5, they’re open,” he said.

Suitland will first compete in the Prince George’s County Coaches Association passing league, which includes about 40 teams, from June 13-14. Almost every county team plans to participate with some from Montgomery County.

All but four Montgomery teams, and a few from Prince George’s, plan to kick off the summer on May 30 in the Blair passing league hosted by Blazers coach Andrew Fields.

“Our league kind of represents the beginning of football season,” Fields said. Sophomore Desmond Colby is penciled in to return as the starting quarterback for Blair in his junior season. Fields said passing leagues can help speed Colby’s progress, along with his teammates, but agreed that players can lose starting jobs during this time of year. “That doesn’t mean they won’t win it or lose it again at some point. Everybody’s got a depth chart going into August, and that thing ebbs and flows over the course of the summer time.”

Wise coach DaLawn Parrish also returns his quarterback from last season, Jabari Laws. The Pumas are known for running the football, but

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passing league offers a different dynamic. Parrish, who played quarterback in high school, said he always wants to pass more, but his personnel has to convince him they’re capable of handling it.

“I want to throw the ball all the time,” he said. “But if you’re not built towards that, I don’t think you force people to do something that they’re not used to doing.

“Basically, [passing league] is just about having good work for the quarterback. Seeing if he can make all the throws, things of that nature.

Seeing if the wide receivers can remember their route combinations.

Seeing who can cover defensively.”

Gaithersburg coach Kreg Kephart said there’s some value in 7-on-7 although limited because the big guys up front aren’t involved. During this time, offensive and defensive lineman usually go to camps and do individual workouts.

“It has some value. It’s not a cure all. The five most important people in the game aren’t in the game,” he said. Kephart also mentioned tim-

ing between the quarterback and receivers as one of the key impacts of passing league. “For a team that’s going to throw the ball 50, 60 times a game, it probably has a lot of value to them.”

Most coaches agreed that the main objective of passing tournaments is to make sure players are doing things the right way and progressing toward being ready for the season, not necessarily winning.

Essentially, these games are like a shell of a practice. This time of year, teams are only allowed to practice once for each 7-on-7 game they’re scheduled to play. Passing leagues afford players more opportunity to work on coverage techniques, routes, and anything else involving a pass catcher and a defender. It’s also a good time for players to get familiar with plays and schemes, especially for teams with new coaches. Jason Lomax is the new coach at Springbrook and he’s known to air the ball out. This is where his players become familiar with his style, and with a graduating

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Roosevelt High School’s Joya Grillo is ruled safe as Northwest’s Karlie Stanford gets the ball at second base during Tuesday’s semifinals in Glen Burnie.

Continued from Page B-1 After a line out back to Rogers to start the inning, two singles and a walk loaded the bases for Jaguars junior catcher Sydney Salgado’s three-run triple deep to right field. Salgado then scored on a single from Taylor Lawhorn before Fuller pulled Grillo back into the circle — and she retired the next two batters.

Baiyina is a fighter, Fuller said, and willed her way back into the game. But the Raiders were in too deep a hole to dig out of against a team — and pitcher – the caliber of Northwest and Barbour.

“The problem with our league is we had not seen this quality of pitching before,” Fuller said. “The girl from Laurel can throw pretty hard but all she throws is fastballs. This girl was throwing changeups, she had a riseball and a curveball. We haven’t seen anything like this all season long. ... [When Baiyina went down] I was thinking, ‘What can we do?’ I’ll be kicking myself, thinking I should’ve left Joya in. But the only other person who’s played shortstop was Joya. And Renee has been throwing well. She pitched well [Tuesday], just had a couple bad

— ERIC GOLDWEIN

Suitland High School quarterback Marlon Brown carries the ball during a game against Flowers last year. Brown returns next season, but his coach says no returning starter is guaranteed to keep his position.

CROSSLAND

SOFTBALL

The Washington Catholic Athletic Conference announced its all conference teams for boys and girls lacrosse, with several Prince George’s County athletes garnering recogntion. The female athletes include: Mackenzie Jackson, Seton, third team; Laura Johnson, McNamara, third team; Maddie Dougherty, McNamara, honorable mention; Dana Phillips, Seton, honorable mention.

The male athletes, all from DeMatha, include: Gavin Lavat, first team; Mitchell Howell, second team; Zach Taylor, second team; Ricky Koehler, third team; Colin Kasner, third team; Dylan Stein; honorable mention.

Jenny Staines from Good Counsel was named the girls All-WCAC Player of the Year while Gonzaga’s Timmy Monahan was named boys Player of the Year.

breaks.”

The Raiders (21-1) took a 1-0 lead in the second inning Tuesday after Grillo reached on an error off a hard hit to third base.

Roosevelt added another run in the seventh inning, which Rogers led off with a triple. Junior third baseman/pitcher Nora Snider drove her home with a single.

The Raiders had their sights on Tuesday’s appearance at Bachman since their upset loss to rival Bowie in last year’s region tournament as the top seed. But making just making it to states wasn’t enough for Roosevelt this spring, they wanted to prove they could truly hang with some of the state’s best teams. And they did that Tuesday.

Roosevelt will graduate five seniors, including two Division I recruits in Grillo and Baiyina.

But the Raiders are set to return two capable pitchers and a slew of others capable of keeping the program at the top of Prince George’s next spring, Fuller said.

“It was Bachman or bust this year,” Fuller said. “If we didn’t reach Bachman, it was a bust. ... We lose five seniors, two big ones. But I think we will be fine next year.” jbeekman@gazette.net

the win column, also heeds more interest among potential student-athletes, Knight said. And that is important for a small school with a student enrollment of 986, per Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association numbers.

In two years, Aiken has lifted a baseball program that hadn’t won more than two games in five seasons to a 6-11 record in 2014 and 12-7 this spring. Crossland softball has improved in each of the three years since Vernon Kwiatskowski took over and this spring won the Prince George’s South Division to reach the county championship game.

Selina Smith and John Perry have turned Crossland’s boys and girls basketball programs into small schools contenders — both now perennially finish well above .500. Andre Ferguson has taken a solid boys soccer program to new heights — the Cavaliers were 12-2 in the fall.

And Smith, who Knight convinced to take over the girls volleyball team three years ago without any knowledge of the sport, has turned a previous county door mat into two-time defending county runner-up.

“When I first came in there was no volleyball coach,” Knight said. “The team was zero, one, maybe two wins at most, a season. When I hired Selina for girls basketball, I saw her discipline and her year-round contact with her players. I saw she was one of those coaches who was technique-oriented, she was a hard worker. I said, ‘Selina, we need to get better at volleyball.’ She said, ‘I don’t know anything about the sport, but I’ll try.’ And through discipline and hard work, we went from no wins, to eight wins, to the county championship [game]

senior at quarterback, this is where the competition to start begins.

“From the kind of offense I run, passing league’s kind of important in terms of getting all your base passing concepts in, then getting the timing of the routes down,” Lomax said.

“I’ve tried to simplify it as much as I can so they can have as much success year-one as possible. A lot of people assume first-year coaches coming in, it’s a rebuilding process.

I looked all my seniors in the face and said we’re not rebuilding, we’re reloading, because you guys deserve to have the same kind of effort that I would put in any other year.”

Teams will be participating in passing leagues until July, in and out of the state, gaining experience and showcasing their abilities for scouts.

Players want to get noticed on the trail, but they want to also make sure the guy sitting behind them on the depth chart doesn’t take their place. pgrimes@gazette.net

the past two years.”

When Aiken took over the baseball team in 2014, he said Knight warned him, “I don’t know what you have or what you’ll get.” But that didn’t scare off the former Division II athlete. Rather it was a welcomed challenge for a guy who thrives on dealing with kids who might not have as much as peers in other areas of the county or state.

“I like the working with kids who just want to see someone who cares,” Aiken said. “I teach them about growing up and being a gentleman and striving to go to college. I have one kid who has an opportunity to walk on to a college team. I’m proud to say we have seven seniors and five are going to college.”

Passion for a sport, commitment to and pride in a team, comes from the top, Knight said. A school the size of Crossland can be a kind of throwback to time when kids played every sport rather than honing in on one for 25 hours a week. There is a lot of crossover between sports, Smith and Aiken said, and a camaraderie between coaches to share their athletes in an effort to bolster the athletics department in general, they said.

While there are still a few weak spots to work on — football and girls soccer continue to struggle — there is definitely a lot for Crossland athletes to take pride in. And there has been an overall change in the culture within the school’s hallways, Knight said.

“Our last game was on prom,” Aiken said. “It was a playoff game against Westlake, it was high level baseball and we knew we were in for a tough game. We had about 50 students at our game. When I first got here, I didn’t see a kid wear a Cavalier shirt, now, it’s, ‘Hey coach, we have to get better apparel.” jbeekman@gazette.net

Seton, DeMatha repeat as WCAC Champions It took a bit of a late push from the relays, but the DeMatha Catholic boys track team captured its fourth straight Washington Catholic Athletic Conference title on Saturday, edging out St. John’s College, 145-130. On the girls side, Elizabeth Seton cruised to its ninth straight conference title, dominating the competition by earning 196.5 points.

— ADAM GUTEKUNST

Divas stay undefeated The Prince George’s-based D.C. Divas women’s professional tackle football team improved to 5-0 with Saturday’s 60-0 win over the visiting Columbus Comets. In rainy conditions, the Divas kept the ball on the ground and rushed for seven touchdowns. They also converted on opportunities gained by recovering five lost fumbles by their opponent.

The Divas, who jumped out to a 33-0 halftime lead Saturday, are off this week before closing out the regular season with three games in as many weeks. They will next travel to the Atlanta Phoenix May 30; the Divas’ next home game will be against the Cleveland Fusion on June 6.

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Continued from Page B-1 of more coaches may have a better chance at landing the offer, Harley said. At Landon, a Bethesda private school, students have more flexibility about their camp selections. Not only can many of them afford more camps, but their academic reputation gives them a larger college pool to choose from.

“If you’re a football-first player at Landon, the world is your oyster,” Harley said.

That’s not the case for most Prince George’s County athletes. Smith, with the support of his family, plans to attend camps at Temple, Wake Forest, Ohio State, Robert Morris, Towson and Davidson. If he could, he’d go to even more one-day sessions, “almost every one,” he said.

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“I like hitting, so bases are loaded for me and I come up, I like it,” Martinez said.

“It feels really good. We’ve been wanting to make it to the state finals since the beginning of the season, and we knew we could do it. It’s just about putting it all together and we put it all together today and won the state final.”

Wise got four hits during the game but committed five errors in the field. Pumas coach Andrew Gilliam said intangibles behind the plate with a sophomore catcher, Jason Aldred, versus an preseason all-state senior such as Martinez made a difference. Martinez threw out two runners.

“The catcher, he did a remarkable job,” Gilliam said.

“They out-hit us by one. ...

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

But instead he limited his selections to schools where he could get an offer, either from the host coaches or other coaches in attendance.

“I need to know if I ball out, I’m going to get an offer,” Smith said.

Largo coach Derron Thomas said that the majority of his players attend at least one one-day camp — often times he’ll drive them himself. He said it can turn into a fundraiser for some of these colleges, but that doesn’t change the reality, that camps, now more than ever, are a crucial part of the recruiting process.

“If you don’t already have multiple scholarship offers and you’re not going to camps,” Thomas said. “… you are kind of handicapping yourself.” egoldwein@gazette.net He had a game today. He’s the one.

“It wasn’t the outing or the showing that we wanted, but we had a great season.

You learn. You got a sophomore catcher versus a senior catcher. You learn some things about yourself.”

Gaithersburg reached the state semifinal game in 2011 and 2014, losing both times.

Rabberman said the team didn’t focus on those appearances leading up to the game, but they were talked about.

“We brought [2014] up a couple times,” Martinez said.

“But, I don’t think we really needed to bring it up because we really wanted this year, and I knew we could get it.”

Gaithersburg is scheduled to play Severna Park for the Class 4A state championship at 7:30 p.m. on Friday at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen. pgrimes@gazette.net

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ERIC GOLDWEIN STAFF WRITER

The first set wasn’t easy on Fairmont Heights High School’s Eden Gregory. The Hornets senior went back and forth with Suitland’s Yasmin Eubanks, and even after breaking her opponent to win the opener, 7-5, it looked like she might be in for a three-set marathon.

It didn’t quite come down to that, as Gregory took the second set, 6-1, two win her second consecutive girls singles title in Friday’s Prince George’s County Region III coed tennis championship. But even that set wasn’t easy on Gregory. Rallies regularly lasted 10-plus shots, with both players running down tough balls while dealing with the heat at Watkins Regional Park in Upper Marlboro.

The difference for Gregory in the second set, though, was that she said she came out with a plan: calm down and settle in.

After struggling with consistency in the first set, the Grinnell College recruit — heading to the Iowa school as a Posse Scholar — started to keep more balls in play, cutting down on her unforced errors while running Eubanks left and right.

“It’s concentrating harder, because I think sometimes I want to hit the ball, just bang it,” said Gregory, who maintained her perfect county record. “Just

adjusting my shots so that I hit it in, not going there and getting too excited and whacking at the ball, but thinking while you’re doing it.”

While Fairmont Heights took the girls singles title, Northwestern sophomore Desire Johnson defeated Bowie’s Nolan Jones in two sets (6-0, 6-2), preserving his perfect county record.

Roosevelt, meanwhile, dominated the doubles en route to its 11th straight region title. In first girls doubles, Kristin Watson and Jasmine Jack defeated Raider teammates Sarika Walia and Nana Essilfie-Mensah in straight sets (6-2, 6-3). The boys doubles finals also consisted of two teams from the Greenbelt school. Bruno To and Lance Jewell defeated Shaan Singh and Mitchell Moore in straight sets (6-2, 6-0), despite dropping the first two games of the match. The region champions and runner-ups both qualify for the state tournament, meaning all four Roosevelt doubles teams qualified.

“We had to adapt to it,” To said.

“We had to get used to it,” Jewell added, “and then once we picked [it up].”

Bowie’s mixed doubles pair of freshman Neerav Ganjoo and senior Laura Hyre defeated Douglass’ Ross Olexa and Jamie Hartnett (6-4, 6-4). For Douglass, it was a tough match in what was an otherwise strong season. The Eagles were undefeated for a second straight year, but this time, unlike last spring, they’ll have players — Olexa and Hartnett — at the state tournament.

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Fairmont Heights High School’s Eden Gregory competes in the girls singles final at the Prince George’s County Region III tennis championships Friday at Watkins Regional Park in Upper Marlboro. tennis,” Olexa said. “It’s the biggest accomplishment I’ve had so far.”

“We’re a 2A school from the south, which is I guess not considered the ten-

nis region,” coach Reggie Stout said. “... We had nine players come into the [regional tournament], and these guys went to the finals, and almost made it,

they’re going to state. This is as good as it gets.” egoldwein@gazette.net

Flowers sweepts 4A South Region boys, girls track championships Boys edge Bowie, Oxon Hill; girls dominate once again

(25.46) in the 200 meters behind Bowie’s Taylor Williams (24.79) — a competitor who Mayo had edged out in qualifying.

“I don’t try to stick with anybody, I just run my race,” Mayo said. “My coach tells me where to breathe, where to go faster at and that’s all I try to do. I don’t try to

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A wide-eyed Brian Brown walked across the scorching turf at Oxon Hill High School Saturday afternoon after his Flowers High School 1,600-meter relay had just rallied for the tightest of victories to close out the day’s slate of events at the 4A South Region meet.

“So what happened,” Brown said, looking around. “We won?”

While there was still a triple jump and a re-run 800-meter heat left in what turned out to be a sweltering Saturday, the Jaguars had indeed secured the regional crown, beating out Bowie and Oxon Hill for the title.

The win helped the Springdale school sweep, as the girls program coasted comfortably to the team title after capturing the county crown on the same field last week. The boys, who finished third last week, simply were just more tuned in this week, as Brown said.

“People didn’t qualify and make finals [at counties],” Brown said. “I think they focused this week and we just had people make finals.”

Flowers rode strong showings from sprinter Brian Nelson, who finished second to Bowie’s Maxwell Willis in the 100-meter (11.09) and the 200-meter (22.17), NanaKofi Appiah, whose discus throw of 141-07 was more than 15 feet further than that of the second-place finisher, and their relay teams, which picked up points across the board, including the 1,600-meter win (3:21.32).

Willis’ day was yet another astounding short-distance display, as the Bowie junior swept the 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meter for the second straight week. But even the pile of points Willis amassed couldn’t put the Bulldogs over the edge, as the absence of senior Antonio Coleman hurt Bowie’s point-earning chances in a number of mid-distance and relay events.

“I mean it is a little pressure because when [Antonio] is running, he pushes me,” Willis said.

“But other than that, no.”

Willis certainly looked like a man with no worries, cruising to an easier win in the 400 meters (47.74) after barely edging out the competition last Saturday.

“I really didn’t get out [well] but last meet I was using my arms too much,” Willis said. “So I just maintained my arms and used it the last 100 meters.”

While Willis certainly isn’t a stranger to the state meet that will take place at Morgan State University starting Thursday, Northwestern sophomore Estifanos Asfaw will be making his first appearance at the track championships on Friday after winning the boys 1,600 meters

and to win. I’ve been going since my freshman year but I’ve never won an individual state event.

So it’s more of a challenge than an honor… This is my last high school meet so I want to make it count.” agutekunst@gazette.net

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(4:29.36). Asfaw, a native Ethiopian who moved into the Hyattsville area last year, had lost two tight races in the 3,200 meters to High Point’s Johnathon Avila in the past two weeks, but credited a healthy dose of recent speed work to his first regional title.

“Last time … we didn’t do any speed work,” Asfaw said.

“Now I’m in real good shape and

the coach let me do long speed work like 300 [meters] and 400 [meters].”

While Wise junior Aleya Mayo won’t be a total newcomer to the state’s biggest stage come Friday, it will be her first time competing as an individual, as the Pumas star took the gold in the 100 meters (12.59) and the high jump (5-02.00) and grabbed second

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Friday, the teammates will once again represent their school on the state’s biggest stage.

“It’s an honor, but at the same time, it’s my senior year,” Onwukwe said. “It’s more like another chance to push myself

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A post-apocalyptic world of poetry and questions will come to life when young playwright Cecelia Raker’s play “dry bones rising” premieres at the Venus Theatre this weekend under the direction of Deborah Randall. “dry bones rising” follows the journey of two children who survive a post-apocalyptic event, try to pick up the pieces, learn to get along and figure things out, with the help and hindrance of a golem they’ve built out of mud and brought to life.

“I love the world of Yiddish theater, and there are some plays in a similar vein,” Raker said.

She said the idea for the play was sparked by the Jewish fast day Tisha B’Av, which commemorates the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem, and subsequent holiday Tu B’Av, which is celebrated as a holiday of love.

“It made me think, ‘How do you go from the emotional experience of utter destruction and pain, to connection, joy and love in that short of a period of time?’” Raker said. “I got into exploring that journey of how we pick up the pieces of destruction.”

Though derived from a specific cultural reference, Raker said the resulting work is completely universal.

“It’s a play that tackles a lot of questions about God and death and play and childhood —

See APOCALYPSE, Page B-6

Rick Campbell is proud of beating the odds. When the retired U.S. Navy officer considered writing a book, with zero writing classes, training or experience, he “figured a snowball had a better chance in hell than me picking up a pen and beating out hundreds of thousands of writers with years of experience.”

Until his 20th class reunion, Campbell felt unable to commit to investing “the thousands of hours it would take to learn how to write and then write the book, when it would most likely

BY ELLYN WEXLER be a wasted effort.” The “futuristic sci-fi story rolling around sult, “The Trident Deception” in my head” for some 20 years (2014), is a “submarine warfare was destined to remain there. novel at its core. It’s also an His perspective changed intriguing espionage tale,” he when a speaker asked the assaid. Booklist called it “the best sembled alumni “What would submarine novel since Tom you do if you weren’t Clancy’s classic — afraid?” “I felt like he ‘The Hunt for Red was talking directly October.’” A sequel, to me, and I decided “Empire Rising,” was right then that I’d released in February. write my book,” he To augment his recalled. “It took a few writing skills, Campyears to get around to bell read espionage it, but I finally buckled and military thrillers, down and wrote it.” even though science Campbell That book, which fiction and fantasy turned out to be a “paranormal are his favorite genres. He military science fiction novel,” credits the “major espionage has not yet made it to publicawriters” — Daniel Silva, Vince tion. The author refers to it as Flynn and Brad Thor as well “Book 0.” as writer Andrew Britton — as After sending the manuheavy influences on his style. script to more than 40 agents, An agent he worked with gave Campbell realized the futility of him a reading list of espionage writing what you love when no books, although he had written one else loves it. Thus thwarted, a military thriller. “As a result,” he opted to switch gears and See DEEP, Page B-6 write what he knows. The re-

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THEATER & STAGE Bowie Community Theatre, “Whose Wives Are They Anyway?” July 17 through Aug. 2, call for prices, times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Dr., Bowie, 301-805-0219, bctheatre.com.

The Clarice, National Festival Orchestra: Your Classical Favorites, May 30; Artist Faculty Chamber Recital, June 5; National Festival Chamber Orchestra, June 6; Chamber Music Showcases (two shows), June 7; University of Maryland, College Park, theclarice. umd.edu.

Hard Bargain Players, “Down the Road,” June 12-June 27, Theater in the Woods, 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, 240-766-8830, hbplayers.org.

Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-203-6070, arts.pgparks. com.

Greenbelt Arts Center, “A Raisin in the Sun,” May 15 through June 6; call for prices, times, Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, 301-441-8770, greenbeltartscenter.org.

Joe’s Movement Emporium, Preposition: A Circus Between the Times, May 23; 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, 301-699-1819, joesmovement.org.

Laurel Mill Playhouse, “The Temptest,” May 29 through June 12; “The Miss Firecracker Contest,” June 26 through July 12, call for ticket prices, times; Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel, 301-452-2557, laurelmillplayhouse.org.

Montpelier Arts Center; 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301-377-7800, arts.pgparks.com.

NASA’S Music And Drama club (MAD), Barney & Bea Recreation Center, 10000 Good Luck Road, Bowie. For ticket sales and additional information, call 240-475-8800 or visit madtheater.org.

Prince George’s Little Theatre, “Once Upon a Mattress,” Sept. 11 through Sept. 26, call for tickets and show times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-937-7458, pglt.org.

Publick Playhouse, Samba Workshop, May 21; Hardway Connection, June 19; 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly, 301-277-1710, arts.pgparks.com.

2nd Star Productions, “Kiss Me, Kate,” May 29 through June 27; Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Dr., Bowie, call for prices, times, 410-7575700, 301-832-4819, 2ndstarproductions.com.

Tantallon Community Players, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” May 22 through June 7; Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-262-5201, tantallonstage.com.

Venus Theatre, “Dry Bones Rising,” May 21 through June 14, 21 C Street, Laurel. venustheatre.org.

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Old Bowie Town Grill, Wednesday Night Classic Jam, 8 p.m. every Wednesday, sign-ups start at 7:30 p.m., 8604 Chestnut Ave., Bowie, 301-464-8800, oldbowietowngrille.com.

DANCING Ballroom dance and lesson with instructor Dave Malek at 7 p.m. every Thursday. A beginner’s lesson precedes the dance, which starts at 8 p.m. Cost is $10.

This dance is located at the Bowie Elks Lodge, 1506 Defense Highway, Gambrills. Contact Dancin’ Dave at 410-370 8438 or email dancindave@loive.com.

OUTDOORS Dinosaur Park, Dinosaur Park programs, noon to 4 p.m. first and third Saturdays, join paleontologists and volunteers in interpreting fossil deposits, 13200 block Mid-Atlantic Blvd., Laurel, 301-627-7755.

Mount Rainier Nature Center, Toddler Time: hands-on treasures, crafts, stories and soft play, 11 a.m. to noon Thursdays, age 5 and younger free, 4701 31st Place, Mount Rainier, 301-927-2163.

Prince George’s Audubon Society, Bird Walks, 7:30 a.m. first Saturdays, Fran Uhler Natural Area, meets at end of Lemon Bridge Road, north of Bowie State University, option to bird nearby WB&A Trail afterward; 7:30 a.m. third Saturdays, Governor Bridge Natural Area, Governor Bridge Road, Bowie, meet in parking lot; for migrating and resident woodland and field birds, and waterfowl. For beginners and experts.

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Women’s Chamber Choir Auditions, by appointment for the concert season of women’s chamber choir Voix de Femmes, 7:45-9:30 p.m. Thursdays, 402 Compton Ave., Laurel, 301-520-8921, annickkanter@ gmail.com.

Theater Project Beltsville presents “Two Across,” Fridays and Saturdays, through May 23 at 8 p.m. and Sundays May 10 and May 17 at 3 p.m., at Abiding Presence Lutheran Church, 10774 Rhode Island Ave. in Beltsville. There is limited seating and reservations are encouraged by contacting producing director Franklin Akers at frankakers@comcast.net. Payment may be made at the door. Tickets are $10, $8 for seniors and students.

A reception will be held at Franklins Brewery and Restaurant on June 7 for “Kaleidoscope,” the

new exhibit by the Hyattsville Community Arts Alliance. More than 30 works by HCAA artists in a variety of media and technique will be on display.

5123 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville. Contact Denise at denise76marie@gmail.com, hcaaonline.org, or 301927-2740.

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Continued from Page B-5 ridiculous, huge questions that we’re not capable of answering,” Raker said.

Though she has been writing for quite some time, this will be Raker’s first full-length professional production. The process, she says, was entirely enthusing and surprising.

“When you write a play, you have questions in your mind you’re trying to answer,” Raker said. “But when it gets into the hands of these other amazing artists, it turns out to be more than you realized.”

While she came at the play interested in the question of how humans — but especially children — bounce back, Raker soon discovered the play had elements she hadn’t even uncovered.

“In the process of development and rehearsal, I also discovered it was about giving voice to the mud,” Raker said.

“Earth has been destroyed in this apocalyptic event just as much as the people have. What would the mud say about that? It kind of became an environmental piece, too.”

The new revelations were thanks, in part, to the artistic direction of Randall, who is also

DEEP

Continued from Page B-5 he said, “my books are a blend of military thriller plot written in an espionage style.”

For the most part, Campbell bases his books on his first career. “I was a submarine officer for 28 years, and I write military thrillers that have strong submarine plot elements. There are a few actual experiences in the book, but 99 percent is fiction, using my background to get the authentic details correct.”

Campbell said it takes him about 1,000 hours to write a book, including about an hour per page for the first draft, several hundred hours of research before starting and interspersed during writing, plus multiple re-

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‘DRY BONES RISING’ n When: 8 p.m. Thursday–Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, May 21–June 14. n Where: The Venus Theatre Play Shack, 21 C St., Laurel n Tickets: $20 n More information: venustheatre.org; 202-236-4078

the founder of Venus Theatre.

Venus, which aims to produce works by women, centered on women and children, receives about 200 submissions for consideration each year, from which Randall picks four to run. “dry bones rising” is the 51st piece and, according to Randall, something completely fresh.

“It’s like Mary Shelley meets E.E. Cummings,” Randall said.

“I thought it was genius, so I wanted to give it a shot.”

Randall said she tries not to produce the same script twice, and found “dry bones rising” fascinating.

“It’s an epic poem,” she said.

She was also thrilled to work with a new playwright.

“I’m coming from an older playwright who’s run her own company, into Cecelia who is very new to all this and very brilliant, so it’s been great. It’s been a process of building trust,” Randall said.

Though Raker’s script had a girl, a boy and the androgynous

golem, Randall took an interesting direction in casting three women. One of those women is Ann Fraistat, who Randall immediately envisioned in a role after reading the script.

Fraistat, who marks her seventh production with Venus in “dry bones rising,” said she loved the new take on the apocalypse story.

“When you hear apocalypse, you think doom and gloomy,” Fraistat said, “but this one is not all about death and destruction.

It’s about new hope. It’s about finding love and joy and connection in spite of everything.”

Fraistat said the poetic language served as a guiding post for her while they were developing the play.

“It asks a very simple question in the end, which is, ‘What kind of world are we leaving our children?’” Fraistat said. “I love that. It’s where innocence meets violence.”

visions on his end and two by his editor. He writes in an upstairs office in his Germantown home, “where I can close the door and work in silence. Sounds really distract me when I’m writing, and I need complete silence or it breaks my concentration.”

As a child, Campbell had no intention of being a writer.

“Early on,” he said, I wanted to be a doctor, policeman and football player — simultaneously.

I figured I could be a doctor during the day, a policeman at night and a football player on the weekends.” Although he was a good student, graduating second in his high school class in Cocoa, Fla., math and science were his strengths. He read fantasy and science fiction “voraciously” but remembers hating English and the liberal arts.

The military was always a career option, Campbell said, because his father was retired from the Air Force. “When it came time to go to college, my parents had no money set aside and weren’t making a lot of money — mom was a waitress and dad worked at a regional K-Martstyle department store — so I knew I had to get a scholarship.”

Campbell is optimistic about his second career. “We’ll see what the future holds when I come up for another contract next year. So far, my books have ‘met or exceeded expectations,’ so it’s likely additional contracts will follow, and I figure I’ll be writing military thrillers for the foreseeable future,” he said.

“Book 0 will have to wait a few more years.” Hopefully, the odds will be in his favor once more.

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LAUREL MILL PLAYHOUSE

The Shakespeare Teen Theatre at Laurel Mill Playhouse is set to perform “The Tempest” starting May 29.

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“The Tempest” is one of William Shakespeare’s later plays.

That doesn’t make it any less interesting, though.

The Shakespeare Teen Theatre at Laurel Mill Playhouse is set to perform the show starting Friday, May 29.

“The Tempest” follows Prospero, who is on a remote

island. As the rightful Duke of Milan, he sets in motion a plan to restore his daughter, Miranda, to her rightful place. Of course, Prospero has to use a bit of illusion and “magic” to make that happen.

He ends up luring his brother Antonio, who has usurped Prospero’s position,

and Alonso, the king of Naples, to the island.

From there, lots of things happen, but you’ll have to go check out the show to find out what occurs.

Tickets for the show are $15$20. For more information, visit laurelmillplayhouse.org or call 301-617-9906.

Doing the best with good intentions Even though the play debuted on Broadway in 1959, “A Raisin in the Sun” still has a powerful message today involving family and racial issues.

The Greenbelt Arts Center is playing host to the award-winning play now through May 31.

“A Raisin in the Sun” follows the story of the Youngers, a black family struggling in 1950s Chicago to hold its spot in a world that hands them steep adversity and the consistent weight of racial prejudice.

The Youngers are living in poverty on the south side of Chicago. After the death of Walter Younger’s father, Mama Younger is expecting a $10,000 life insurance check. Walter has plans for the money, but Mama decides to put some of the money down on a new house in an allwhite neighborhood. Tensions within the family flair when Walter squanders the remainder of the money Mama has set aside for her granddaughter’s education.

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“A Raisin in the Sun” runs through June 6 at the Greenbelt Arts Center.

Tickets for the show are $12-$20. For more information, visit greenbeltartscenter.org or call 301-441-8770.

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2012 Nissan Leaf SL NAV Hatchback

#P9327, ONLY 12K MILES!!

Certified, Auto, Looks New!

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14,777

$

2011 Volvo S80 3.2L

2008 Nissan Xterra S 4WD

$

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

$16,995 #541214A, 1-OWNER, Only 74K Miles, Well kept!!

#G0061, Only 62K mi!!,Leather, Panoramic moonroof, Alloys

12,977

$

$

#P9276A, Auto, Locally Owned and Well Maintained,

#541149A, Auto, Sunroof, Alloys

525586B, ONLY 77k Miles!!

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2014 Chevrolet Sonic LS

#442078A, Only 5K Miles!!!, Automatic, Why Buy New?

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

16,777

$

2011 Mazda CX-7 #547519A, 1-Owner, Beautiful Inside & Out, Well Maintained

15,977

$

2011 Mini Cooper S........................................................... $14,995 2012 Volvo S60 T5 Turbo......................$19,980 #P9243B, 1-Owner, Turbo, Auto, Leather, Well Maintained #P9315, CERTIFIED!! Only 30K Miles, Leather, Sunroof, Homelink

2010 Volvo XC60 3.2L..................................................... $17,950 2012 Volvo XC90 Premier Plus...........$25,980 #P9263, 1-Owner, Only 52K Miles! Panormic Moonroof, Well prices and clean!

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2011 Kia Sorento SX

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15401 Frederick Rd, Rockville, MD

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16,977

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DARCARS NISSAN of ROCKVILLE 15911 Indianola Drive • Rockville, MD (at Rt. 355 across from King Farm)

888.805.8235 • www.DARCARSNISSAN.com

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DARCARS NISSAN TWO LOCATIONS

Rockville

College Park

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

2015 NISSAN

Versa S Sedan

MSRP: $14,685 Nissan Rebate $400 Sale Price: $11,395

$ 4

automatic transmission MODEL #11115

AT THIS PRICE

$

0

ALTIMA 2.5 S

$

39 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

16,995

OR

AT THIS PRICE

MODEL #13115 4 at this price

$

$

159/MO

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

0

2015 NISSAN

LEAF S

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

$ with charger package MODEL #17015

AT THIS PRICE

AT THIS PRICE

MODEL #11615

$

$

13,995 OR

4

$

169/MO

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

0

$

0

$

149

$

OR

4

AT THIS PRICE

MODEL #12115

0

$

NV200

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

AVAILABLE ON BRAND NEW: 2015 ALTIMAS, 2015 SENTRAS, 2015 ARMADAS, 2015 TITANS, 2015 LEAFS! 2015 NISSAN

MSRP: $32,455 Sale Price: $27,995 Nissan Rebate: $1,500 NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

PATHFINDER 4X4 S

$ 4

AT THIS PRICE

MODEL #25015

$

0

AT THIS PRICE

$

269/MO

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

17,495 279

$

OR

4

MODEL #67115

0

$

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

2015 NISSAN

MURANO S AWD MSRP: $33,045 Sale Price: $28,495

25,995

OR

MSRP: $22,045 Sale Price: $18,245 Nissan Customer Cash: $750

$

0% APR X 72 MONTHS

229/MO

36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

14,495

2015 NISSAN

24,495 OR

4

169/MO

$

MSRP: $19,305 Sale Price: $15,745 Nissan Rebate $1,000 NMAC Bonus Cash: $250

SENTRA SV

MSRP: $23,935 Sale Price: $19,495 Nissan Customer Cash: -$1,000 Altima Bonus Cash: -$500 NMAC Bonus Cash: -$1000

2015 NISSAN

4

$

OR

2015 NISSAN

MSRP: $17,600 Sale Price: $14,895 Nissan Customer Cash: $400 NMAC Bonus Cash: $500

VERSA NOTE SV

10,995

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

$

OR

4

AT THIS PRICE

28,495

MODEL #23015

0

$

339

$

/MO 36 MO LEASE DOWN 12K MILES/YR

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DARCARS NISSAN OF COLLEGE PARK

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Prices include all rebates and incentives. DARCARS Nissan DOES NOT Include college grad or military rebates in price! NMAC Bonus Cash require financing through NMAC with approved credit. Prices exclude tax, tags, freight (Cars $810, SUVs and Trucks $860-$1000) and $300 processing charge, Lease payments are calculated with tax, tags, freight, $300 processing charge and first payment due at signing, and are valid with tier one approval through NMAC. Prices and payments valid only at listed VINS. See dealer for details. Offer expires 05/25/2015.

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NEW 2015 HIGHLANDER LE 1 AVAILABLE: #563287

28,390

$

4 CYL., AUTO, 4 DR

NEW22015 RAV4 4X2 LE AVAILABLE: #564399, 564398

20,890

$

4 CYL., AUTOMATIC

2015 PRIUS C II

355 TOYOTA

2 AVAILABLE: #577511, 577476

MEMORIAL DAY 149/MO** $

SPECIALS

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NEW 2015 CAMRY LE

3 AVAILABLE: #572183, 572187, 572081

$

159/

MO**

18,990

NEW 2015 TACOMA 4X2 XTRACAB 2 AVAILABLE: #567184, 567181

$0 DOWN

$

AUTO, 4 CYL., 4 DR

18,890

3 DR. H/BK, MANUAL TRANS

AFTER TOYOTA $1,000 REBATE

NEW 2015 COROLLA L 2 AVAILABLE: #570717, 570731

14,590

$

4 DR., AUTO, 4 CYL. INCL.

AFTER $750 REBATE

MONTHS+ % 0 FOR 60 On 10 Toyota Models

1-888-831-9671

$0 DOWN

$

149/MO**

2015 COROLLA LE

15625 Frederick Rd (Rte 355) • Rockville, MD OPEN SUNDAY VISIT US ON THE WEB AT www.355Toyota.com 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 5/26/2015.

4 CYL., 4 DR., AUTO

2 AVAILABLE: #570375, 570343

$0 DOWN G560907

13,590

MANUAL, 4 CYL

2014 SCION XB 2 AVAILABLE: #455033, 455044

NEW 2015 YARIS #577009

$

4 CYL., AUTO

AFTER TOYOTA $750 REBATE

NEW 2015 CAMRY LE

$

4 CYL., AUTO, 4 DR

AFTER TOYOTA $750 REBATE

AFTER $750 REBATE

2 AVAILABLE: #572152, 572074

$0 DOWN

$

139/MO**

4 DR., AUTO, 4 CYL