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Council overturns county exec veto of tax increase Baker to make decision on rest of budget by next week

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By a unanimous vote, the Prince George’s County Council overturned the county executive’s veto of a 5 percent property tax increase to go toward the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.

“With all due respect to our county executive ... this veto is disappointing and irresponsible,” County Council Chairman Mel Franklin (D-Dist. 9) of Upper Marlboro said prior to the vote Tuesday afternoon. Franklin said the tax increase, from 27.9 cents to 29.4 cents per $100 of assessed value, was needed to address the department’s structural deﬁcit and to avoid signiﬁcantly higher tax increases further down the road or drastic cuts to youth programs.

“These programs are not luxuries or extra; they are essential to building stronger and healthy youth and communities,” Franklin said. The vote marks the first time the council has overturned a Baker veto. Baker’s only other veto, of a 2011 bill that would have created a special mediation process for disputes involving common ownership facilities, failed to get more than one vote to overturn, according to media reports at the time. Baker said in a statement following

the vote that he was disappointed in the council’s decision. “While I’m not surprised at the County Council’s decision, it is certainly unfortunate that they chose to raise people’s taxes for more parks and recreation, something we don’t need at this time. We already have world class facilities and programs for our youth and our community. I know that we need the same level of investment to achieve a world class education system for our students,” Baker said in a statement.

The council moved quickly to overturn Baker’s veto. Baker vetoed the bill Monday during a press conference, saying that the priority of any tax increase should be toward the county school system. Baker had originally proposed a 15.6 percent property tax increase to go toward the school system, which Baker said would help move the school system from next to the last on state standardized tests

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Residents line up for the fourth annual rib eating contest sponsored by Texas Roadhouse on High Bridge Road on Saturday. Event organizers expected approximately 10,000 attendees at the festival.

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Residents comment on additions, role of festival in city’s history BY

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Thousands of Bowie-area residents descended upon Allen Pond Park on Saturday for this year’s Bowiefest, the massive annual festival bringing residents, city staff, local businesses and groups together for music, food and fun. Before the event, city organizers were expecting up to 10,000 attendees.

Matt Corely, special events coordinator for Bowie, said this year’s gathering featured a full slate of offerings, with 15 musical performances, more than 120 booths staffed by local groups and organizations, and dozens of food vendors. Chrissey Wilkison of Bowie said she’s been coming to Bowiefest for years. Wilkison said the sense of community created by the event is something she hopes is passed on to future generations, like her daughter, who just turned 1. “I saw my real estate agent in the expo. I’ve known the face-painter for years. Now I’m doing it all over again with my daugh-

ter,” Wilkison said. Katherine Chapman of Bowie said she enjoyed having two different stages for entertainment this year and that she appreciated the identiﬁcation registry program hosted by Collington Masonic Lodge 230, which ﬁngerprinted her children in case they ever are abducted. “For my family that really, really helps out,” Chapman said. For local vendors and groups, the event can help drive publicity and recruitment for their cause. Tony Begenwald of Bowie

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The Catholic community at St. Mary’s in Piscataway has seen its share of history, which will be celebrated later this month. European colonists and Native Americans have been worshipping together on a small plot of land along the southern border of Prince George’s County since 1640, said Bill Keimig of Piscataway, director of religious education at St. Mary’s. On July 5 of that year, Piscataway Tayac or “Chief” Kitta-

County ﬁre personnel simulate blaze at large commercial building

Plaintiff alleges he was ﬁred for same-sex marriage

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Bowie residents were told not to be alarmed if they saw smoke and ﬁre wafting their way on Annapolis Road on June 3. It was just the Prince

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City Councilman Dennis Brady of Bowie was in attendance and said the burn was a long time coming. “I’ve been waiting more than 20 years for this moment,” Brady said. The event was a rare training opportunity, according to fire officials and allowed approximately 40 to 50 fire department personnel to simulate a large-scale ﬁre in a commercial building and test their ability to put the blaze out.

Alan Doubleday, the county department’s assistant fire chief, said that the vast majority of fires the department experiences are single family homes, which are more predictable and easier to contain. The exercise will be valuable in the event county fire fighters run into a commercial blaze in the future. Commercial building fires can be less predictable, Doubleday said.

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Bowie Councilman Henri Gardner (Dist. 3) is being sued for wrongful termination by the former executive director of the Williams Life Center in Greenbelt. According to Prince George’s County Circuit Court documents, Cleveland Williams of Columbia claims that Gardner and the center ﬁred him in 2013 as a result of his sexuality and same-sex marriage. According to the complaint for the suit,

Williams is seeking $343,749 in damages from the center, Gardner — who served as presiGardner dent of the board of directors until 2014 — and board member Gwendolyn Kimbrough of Chevy Chase. The complaint alleges that in August 2013, Williams informed board members for the center of his plans to marry another man. Gardner, referenced

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George’s County Fire Department performing a “slow burn” on the old bank at the demolished Marketplace on Annapolis Road as part of a training exercise. County firefighters removed stray debris and carved out smoke holes in the upper floor using chainsaws before placing fiber excelsior pallets inside and lighting the interior of the building on fire four times between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

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maquund was ﬁrst baptized by Catholic leaders and converted to Christianity. This July 5, the Catholic community at St. Mary’s will mark the 375th anniversary of that baptism with a series of events designed to celebrate and display the intertwined histories of the church and the local Piscataway tribal community. The ceremony will be open to the public and will consist of three separate events: a Mass at noon, followed by a dedication ceremony by the Washington, D.C., Archdiocese of the new unborn children’s cemetery in front of the chapel and a Native American festival in the afternoon. “We’re expecting a big turnout. We’re dedicating our new

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BestBet FBCG Health Expo, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., FBCG Worship Center, 600 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro. First Baptist Church of Glenarden presents its 22nd Annual Health Expo, featuring Yolanda Adams. “It’s All About You: Balancing Mind, Body & Soul,” is a free family event. It features free screenings, exhibits, prizes, giveaways, games, a farmers market, a Children’s Zone, a Seniors’ Suite, a Man Cave and more than 100 health organizations. Contact 301-773-3600 or fbcginfo@ fbcglenarden.org.

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JUNE 11 Connect the Dots Dance Company, 4 p.m., South Bowie Library, 15301 Hall Road, Bowie. Connect the Dots Dance Company (Ballet) presents an interactive performance of excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty.” Enjoy beautiful costumes and music as we explore ballet at the library. Contact 301850-0475.

JUNE 13 Best Horse Show Series, 8 a.m., The

Show Place Arena, 14900 Pennsylvania Ave., Upper Marlboro. The Prince George’s Equestrian Center will host the best Horse Show Series. Contact 301-9527900; TTY 301-952-7998. Tenth Annual Juneteenth Seminar, “Footprints and Roots,” 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., North Forestville Community Center, 2311 Ritchie Road, Forestville. Bring a picnic basket, blanket and lawn chair and participate in live entertainment, guest speakers, games, arts and crafts, food, and fun All the activities are free and open to the public. Contact 301-292-2751. Indoor Flea Market, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Pin Oak Village Sr. Apts, 16010 Excalibur Road, Bowie. For table space call: 301464-2787 or 240-837-3582. High Bridge Community Day, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., High Bridge Elementary School, 7011 Highbridge Road, Bowie. There will be food, games, vendors, pony rides and more. A fun event for all. Contact 301-8052690. The 4th Annual Bowie Gardens for Wildlife Habitat Tour, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30

p.m. in Bowie. Four homes and one community site are open, at designated times, for visitors to see ﬁrst-hand how these habitat owners provide food, water, shelter and cover—and use sustainable gardening practices—to improve the environment for wildlife and for humans. For a complete listing of tour sites and times, visit www.cityofbowie.org/habitat. Celebrating the Potomac, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Accokeek Foundation at Piscataway Park, 3400 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek. Returning for its third year at Piscataway Park, Celebrating the Potomac is a familyfriendly day of music, food, and activities highlighting the cultural and environmental importance of our nation’s river. Cost is $5. Contact 301-283-2113.

Spirit of Faith Bible Institute Commencement Ceremony, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.,

Spirit of Faith Christian Center, 14107

Gibbons Church Road, Brandywine. Commencement Speaker Spirit of Faith Christian Center Assistant Pastor Dwayne Freeman. Come out celebrate all SOFBI students on their academic accomplishments. Register for SOFBI 2015-206 academic year online at www.sofbi.org. Contact 301-630-3733 or sofbimobile@ sofbi.org . Juneteenth Celebration, 1 to 5 p.m., Walker Mill Regional Park, 8001 Walker Mill Road, District Heights. Join us for the Juneteenth celebration of culture, freedom and history. Bring a picnic basket, blanket or lawn chair for a joyous day of live entertainment, interactive children’s activities, genealogy workshops, chess and checkers, art and food vendors, and more. Contact 301-446-3232; TTY 301446-6802. Colonial Festival & Picnic, 1 to 4 p.m., Darnall’s Chance House Museum, 14800 Governor Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro. Festival features colonial reenactors and demonstrations, 18th century entertainers, the Chesapeake Caledonian Pipes and Drums, farm animals, hands-on activities, walk-thru tours of the historic house and more. Bring a picnic lunch or purchase a food ticket for southern barbeque. General Admission: $4/person; free for ages 4 & under general admission and food ticket: $20/person. Contact 301952-8010; TTY 301-699-2544. Book Discussion, 3 p.m., Hillcrest Heights Library, 2398 Iverson St., Temple Hills. Carl Weber’s “The Man in 3-B.” Contact 301-630-4900. Adult Line Dance Social, 8 p.m. to midnight at Potomac Landing Community Center, 12500 Fort Washington Road, Fort Washington. Bring your dancing shoes and learn the latest line dances, while listening to the hottest tunes. Light refreshments will be sold. Contact 301-292-9191; TTY 301-203-6030.

JUNE 15 True Crime Book Discussion, Noon at the Upper Marlboro Library, 14730 Main St., Upper Marlboro. Adults. Call branch for details at 301-627-9330. Book Discussion, 2 p.m., the Beltsville Library, 4319 Sellman Road, Beltsville. Solomon Northup’s “Twelve Years a Slave.” Adults. Contact 301-937-0294. Father’s Day Crafts, 3 p.m., Largo Library, 9601 Capital Lane, Largo. Join us for a fun day of crafts honoring fathers. Contact 301-336-4044. STEM for Families, 7 p.m., Accokeek

MORE INTERACTIVE CALENDAR ITEMS AT WWW.GAZETTE.NET Library, 15773 Livingston Road, Accokeek. Ages 5-12 and their families. Join us as we explore science, technology, engineering and math. Contact 301-292-2880.

JUNE 16 Trails Master Plan Open House, 6 to 8 p.m., Lake Arbor Community Center, 10100 Lake Arbor Way, Mitchellville. The Trails Master Plan will guide the development of the countywide park trail system that supports recreation opportunities and connectivity while balancing resources (staff/funding) to maintain and expand the system. Contact 301-699-2522; TTY 301-699-2544. Black Literature Book Discussion, 6:30 p.m., Surratts-Clinton Library, 9400 Piscataway Road, Clinton. Pearl Cleage’s “Things I Should Have Told My Daughter; Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs.” Contact 301868-9200.

JUNE 17 Science Behind Trash, 4 p.m., Hillcrest Heights Library, 2398 Iverson St., Temple Hills. Join us for an exciting six-week, STEM-based program focusing on environmental science. Kids will engage in fun activities to help them learn about the Potomac watershed, pollution, litter prevention in order to rethink, reduce, reuse and recycle to help protect our community. Ages 5-12. Contact 301-630-4900. Girls Who Code Club, 4 to 6 p.m., Bowie Library, 15210 Annapolis Road, Bowie. Girls Who Code Club offers computer science education and tech industry exposure to girls in Grades 6-12. The club works on collaborative curriculum-based technology projects. Registration preference is for Bowie residents. Call branch for details: 301-262-7000.

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Rene Hofﬂer of Upper Marlboro, owner of Ballet, Tap and All that Jazz Dance and Fitness Studio in Hyattsville, purchases bacon June 2 from Cabin Creek Heritage Farm owner Lori Hill during the opening day of the Hyattsville Farmers Market.

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New vendors, a new time and new vendors are all on the menu for the Hyattsville Farmers Market, which premiered at its new location at 3799 EastWest Highway on June 2. “We have a lot of new and exciting surprises this year,” said Ellarose Preston, Hyattsville administrative aide and market manager.

The Hyattsville Farmers Market is now in its 24th season, but only its second year under city management, Preston said. Preston said that in spring 2014, the city received word that the long-time market manager, Peggy Campanella of Lothien-based Harris Orchards, was retiring. “The City Council decided that this was a valuable resource for the community and didn’t want to lose it, so they decided the city would take it over,” Preston said. This year, the market moved from the old BB&T Bank property, which the city is in the early stages of converting into a

new police station. “We wanted a more visible location. Before it was hidden behind the building, but here we’re at the corner of a very busy intersection, so we thought that would help the market grow,” Preston said. City Administrator Tracey Nicholson said the new location, in the parking lot of Lutheran Redeemer Church, is more visible. In addition, the hours were pushed back to 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. to take advantage of the evening commute. “It’s the right place and time so people on their way home from work or just passing by can catch up on some veggies or fruit on the way home,” Nichol-

son said. Preston said the market has six new, local vendors this year, and is looking to attract more. One of the new vendors is Hope Honey Farm, a Hyattsville-based apiary, or bee farm, owned by resident Maggie Mills. Mills said her business is the only certiﬁed naturally grown apiary inside the Beltway. Mills said she started keeping bees four years ago, mostly out of curiosity, and has now expanded to maintaining more than 30 hives. On June 16, Mills is planning to bring an observation hive and talk about beekeeping at the Farmers Market. Also premiering at the Farm-

ers Market this year is Cabin Creek Heritage Farm of Upper Marlboro, a pasture-based, sustainable, family-based livestock farm. Lori Hill, owner of Cabin Creek, said customers can place orders by email and have them delivered to the Farmers Market. “I’ve had some of my regular customers who live here, and are really excited that we’re here now, because it’s more convenient,” Hill said. “So we’re real excited to be here. It’s a great little market.” janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

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if they enter a drawing at the county’s Housing Fair. The fair will be hosted by the county’s Department of Housing and Community Development from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Sports and Learning Complex, 8001 Sheriff Road in Landover. Alexis Yeoman, a spokes-

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The Little Washington Civic Association awarded $15,000 in scholarships to six area students June 3. Andrea Brown, vice president of the association, said each student was given $2,500 to continue their education past high school. The money can be applied to a wide variety of institutions, from four-year universities to community colleges, vocational schools, technical schools and other forms of career training. According to Brown, the winning students were selected based on letters of recommendation from respected figures of public authority and an essay that detailed how the student would put the money to use in furthering his education. “We look for that essay that stands out,” Brown said. “Sometimes it’s the grades. Sometimes it’s the hardship. Sometimes it’s the experience as well as the person themselves.” Brown said that top grades can mark a student as worthy, but is not a prerequisite to winning. “Your grade point average doesn’t have to be a 4.0,” Brown said. “We’ve taken some [students] that are much less than that.” Brown said the scholarships are offered to children in the Greater Washington area. She said the scholarships didn’t have a single funding source, but were funded by a combination of member dues at $20 per person and various donations from residents and local businesses. “We started out having picnics in the park. We gave out $50 in scholarships and we’ve really grown since then,” Brown said. “It’s quite a lot when you look at it.” The winners are: Kennedy Cymone Bell of Suitland High School in Forestville; Sarah Elizabeth Bellamny of Fairmount Heights High School in Capitol Heights; Imani Braxton-Allen of Central High School in Capitol Heights; Carlos E. Diaz of the Academy of Health Sciences at Prince George’s Community College; Brandon DeVon Jackson of Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in Upper Marlboro; Tenaja Briel Jennings also of Wise.

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After a year of surveillance and undercover work, law enforcement officers arrested 17 people in the predawn hours Monday for conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, according to authorities. The operation backed by search warrants began about 4:30 a.m. and netted 11 handguns, an unspecified amount of drugs and more than $70,000 in cash as of Monday afternoon, said Montgomery County police Chief Thomas Manger during a news conference hosted by the FBI in Rockville. The blitz of arrests based on indictments by a federal grand jury effectively breaks up a drug ring operating in Silver Spring, which had been working with a smaller operation in Forestville, according to federal indictments. “They’re no longer there — they’ve been taken out of the neighborhood,” said Stephen Vogt, a special FBI agent who coordinated the arrests, at the news conference. “This slows the potential for violence [in neighborhoods] ... and sends a message [to drug distributors] that you could be next,” Vogt said. On June 3, a federal grand jury charged in two indictments a total of 18 people, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland, which is prosecuting the case. Seventeen of the 18 indicted defendants were arrested Monday, wrote Vickie LeDuc, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s office for Maryland, in an email. Officers also detained five additional people who were arrested during the course of exercising search warrants of locations associated with the indicted defendants, said Capt. Dinesh Patil, director of Montgomery County police department’s special investigations division. The nature of the charges against the five arrestees was not immediately available Tuesday. Contact information for

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any attorneys who are representing the defendants and who could comment about the cases was also not immediately available Tuesday. Some defendants were distributing and storing drugs in the Bel Pre Square area of Montgomery County, not far east of the Leisure World Retirement Center on Georgia Avenue. The Bel Pre operation was headed by George Earl Gee, 30, of Beltsville, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Ofﬁce. “Gee directs and/or supplies several local drug distributors operating in the Bel Pre Square and conducts hand-tohand drug transactions with local distributors,” according to search warrant documents. The Prince George’s County operation was headed by Anthony Niles, 36, of Bowie, who worked out of the Crooked House Entertainment music studio on Cryden Way in the Forest Center Industrial Park in Forestville, according to search warrant documents. The federal indictments seek forfeitures totaling $680,000 from those involved, according to the release. “Heroin and crack cocaine are extraordinarily dangerous,” said U.S. Attorney for Maryland Rod Rosenstein at the news conference. “The number of overdoses and death continue to increase in Maryland and throughout the country. ... [Dealers] bring in drugs [to a community], get people addicted and create lifelong horror,” he said. The 18 indicted defendants include seven from Montgomery County: • Amir Bey-Jones, aka “Meano,” 41, of Silver Spring. • William T. Fergerson, aka “Fats,” 42, of Silver Spring. • Keenan Jones, 54, of Silver Spring. • Brandon Richardson, 30, of Silver Spring. • Frederick J. Davis, 31, of Gaithersburg. • Sonya Darby Thomas, aka “Peaches,” 37, of Gaithersburg. • Tiki Harmon, 42, of Burtonsville. Six defendants were indicted from Prince George’s County: • George Earl Gee, 37, of Beltsville. • Sierra Lynch, 37, of Beltsville. • Anthony Niles, 36, of

Bowie. • Abdul Hakim Sauda, 30, of Laurel. • Ryan Snowden, 30, of Laurel. • Vincent Collins, 36, of Oxon Hill. Five others were indicted from elsewhere in Maryland and New Jersey: • Joseph Miles, 62, of Westernport, Md. • Rayvon Walls, 25, of Indian Head, Md. • Jovan Brian Lancaster, aka “Juvie,” 30, of Maryland. • Alfonso Salazar, 38, of Maryland. • Greg Milden, 40, of Cliffside, N.J. Manger said the multiagency investigation began about a year ago based on numerous and ongoing complaints from residents of the Bel Pre Square townhouse complex about open-air drug dealing. Some residents were “too intimidated to go to police ... because of fear of retaliation,” Manger said. Seven residents in the area, however, participated in the drug operation, he said. Manger said his department will take steps to ensure that another operation doesn’t move to replace those indicted by increasing the number of patrols in the neighborhood and boosting the police proﬁle in the Bel Pre Square area. The investigation involved the court-approved tapping of cellphone conversations, as well as the use of undercover agents who bought drugs from the dealer, according to search warrant documents. In one instance an agent was provided with $700 to buy 500 grams of heroin, according to the documents. Defendants appeared before a federal judge in Greenbelt for bond hearings Monday. They face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison on drug conspiracy charges, Rosenstein said. Seven of them also face charges of distributing drugs, according to the release. vterhune@gazette.net

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Prince George’s County police have arrested a suspect in connection with the homicide of Bowie resident Devante Marcus King, 18. According to a Bowie Police Department report, at approximately 1:10 a.m. June 4, Bowie police responded to the 13000 block of Sixth Street in Bowie and found the victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The victim was treated at the scene and transported to Prince George’s County Hospital in Cheverly, where he was pronounced dead a short time later, according to police. Three suspects were seen ﬂeeing the scene, according to police. The investigation was handed over to the Prince

George’s County evidence and homicide units. On June 5, investigators identified Robert Anthony Myers, 22, of Bowie as a suspect and arrested him at his home, according to police. According to police, investigators believe the shooting was the result of a dispute between King and Myers. Myers has been charged with first degree murder. At this time, police are not releasing information on the nature of the crime, where the victim was shot or what kind of weapon or weapons were used in the shooting. According to the Prince George’s County Police blog, detectives do not believe this was a random act. Bowie police officers were the first responders to the scene. Deputy Police Chief Dwayne Preston of Bowie confirmed that the department had held a community outreach meeting on June 2 in the Old Town Bowie area. Preston said the meeting is

one of several outreach efforts the department has held in the community and was ﬁelded in response to complaints they had received from the area about various illegal issues such as gangs of youths riding speed bikes and ATV’S, and drug activity. Preston said that police don’t have any evidence that the murder was related to those issues at this time. “Unfortunately you had a homicide that occurred that shines a light on some of these activities,” Preston said. Officer Harry Bond, a county police spokesman, said additional information would be released in the coming days as police continue their investigation. A $25,000 reward is being offered for any information leading to an arrest and indictment. Bond advised interested parties to monitor the department’s Twitter handle, @PGPD News and their blog, www.PGPolice.blogspot.com. dejohnson@gazette.net

Three county teachers earn master’s Three Prince George’s County Public Schools teachers received their master’s degrees in school librarianship May 23 from McDaniel College in Westminster. The teachers were part of a group of 11 Maryland teachers from underserved regions throughout the state who received full scholarships through the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant program, which McDaniel College received in 2012, and their degrees were re-

ceived through online study, said Cheryl Knauer, director of media relations for McDaniel College. PGCPS teachers receiving their degrees were Donna Dick of Largo High School, Jacob Gerding of Magnolia Elementary School in Lanham and Kimberly Long of Barack Obama Elementary School in Upper Marlboro. — JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAU

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The Millwood-Waterford Citizens Association is offering scholarships to qualifying Prince George’s County graduates who have been accepted to college or vocational school. Valeria Wood, vice president of the citizens association, said the group is offering a number of scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,000 to 2015 high school graduates, as well as past recipients of the award.

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“The money raised will go to help the various needs that the nonprofits may have,” AllenHerring said. Carroll said the nonprofit sent 21 volunteers to the event. SHABACH! Ministries operates an emergency food pantry, a

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Applicants must demonstrate two years of community service and complete an essay on community service involvement, Wood said. More information and additional application requirements can be found on the citizens association website, www.millwood-waterford. org/scholarship.html. The application deadline is June 30. — JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAU

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JUNE 1 Theft, 11700 block Annapolis Road, 5:48 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 1100 block Andean Goose Way, 6:42 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 9600 block Lottsford Court, 12:52 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 9600 block Lottsford Court, 1:08 p.m. Residential break-in, 700 block Harry S Truman Drive, 7:37 p.m. Vehicle stolen, 2100 block Woodvale Lane, 9:50 p.m.

JUNE 2 Theft from vehicle, 11400 block Abbotswood Court, 5:52 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 1300 block Caraway Court, 6:35 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 1000 block Kings Tree Drive, 7:11 a.m. Theft, 10100 block Ellard Drive, 10:46 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 4400 block Nicole Drive, 1:02 p.m. Theft, 3800 block Enfield Chase Court, 7:39 p.m. Vehicle stolen, 16500 block Governors Bridge Road, 8:23 p.m.

JUNE 3 Theft from vehicle, 7900 block

Penn Randall Place, 8:00 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 9900 block Greenspire Way, 9:04 a.m. Theft, 15400 block Chrysler Drive, 11:16 a.m. Assault, 1300 block Mccormick Drive, 11:45 a.m. Residential break-in, 1500 block Silverado Court, 12:36 p.m. Theft, 13300 block Burleigh St., 12:54 p.m. Residential break-in, 11000 block Old York Road, 1:02 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 1400 block Robert Lewis Ave, 1:35 p.m. Residential break-in, 9000 block Taylor St., 1:55 p.m. Theft, 3300 block Waterford Mill Road, 2:23 p.m. Residential break-in, 8800 block Lottsford Road, 3:06 p.m. Theft, 12300 block Sir Lancelot Drive, 3:32 p.m. Residential break-in, 6300 block Gradys Walk, 4:19 p.m. Residential break-in, 9200 block Lottsford Road, 7:33 p.m. Residential break-in, 9200 block Lottsford Road, 11:20 p.m.

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JUNE 5 Theft, 4500 block Forbes Blvd, 10:12 a.m. Theft, 500 block Largo Road, 10:50 a.m. Theft, 9400 block Annapolis Road, 1:13 p.m. Vehicle stolen, 9700 block Summit Cir, 1:18 p.m. Residential break-in, 14200 block Macfarlane Green Court, 2:14 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 9400 block Annapolis Road, 3:26 p.m. Theft, 3000 block Belair Drive, 4:20 p.m. Residential break-in, 16500 block Governors Bridge Road, 9:33 p.m.

JUNE 6 Theft from vehicle, 900 block Lake Overlook Drive, 6:16 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 11200 block Lake Vista Lane, 6:20 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 10500 block Water Point Way, 7:08 a.m. Residential break-in, 9900 block Greenbelt Road, 7:12 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 900 block Lake Overlook Drive, 9:50 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 1600 block Doral Drive, 10:33 a.m. Theft from vehicle, 10200 block Prince Place, 12:15 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 10000 block Greenbelt Road, 2:52 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 9700 block Annapolis Road, 3:05 p.m. Theft from vehicle, 6900 block Laurel Bowie Road, 3:50 p.m. Theft, 8800 block Greenbelt Road, 4:29 p.m. Theft, 13700 block Central Ave, 4:46 p.m.

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Bill Keimig, director of religious education at St. Mary’s of Piscataway, stands in front a mural depicting Kittamaquund’s baptism with Markita Gray, a Piscataway native. 2014, St. Mary’s commissioned a large mural depicting the famous baptism to adorn the entrance to the chapel. Rico Newman of University Park is a former spokesman for the Choptico band of Piscataway Indians and claims direct descent from Tayac Kittamaquund. He said the upcoming anniversary, like many aspects of American history, is conﬂicting and bittersweet for Piscataway Indians. While he and other members of his family remain Catholic, Newman said there is ﬁerce debate among members about whether to celebrate Kittamaquund’s conversion or mourn it as the beginning of the end for Native American culture. Keimig said he largely agreed with that feeling of ambivalence, calling the history of European-Indian relations a “horrid stain,” but stressed that

there is no evidence that Kittamquund’s baptism was coerced and reflected a genuine desire to convert on his part. Newman said he struggles with the tension between embracing his faith with the overall effect that colonization had on his people, but that he plans on attending the ceremony and hopes that it can spur a dialogue to flesh out a mutually beneficial relationship between the church and the larger Piscataway community. “We are where we are. You can’t change the past, you can only use it to determine how we go forward,” Newman said. “I don’t think anybody’s going back home. So we’re here, they’re here and we need to make the best of the situation in spite of history.”

and planning property tax to go into effect without our citizens’ input in the tax increase and the increases in fees,” Baker said. Franklin responded to the county executive’s criticism saying that the budget hearings were open to the public and available online. Councilwoman Mary Lehman (D-Dist. 1) of Laurel, who had been the sole “nay” vote against the M-NCPPC budget, but voted with her colleagues in overriding the veto, said the council needs to examine ways to cut costs in M-NCPPC and look at ways to further open the budget discussions with the public. “The process we have now

doesn’t allow for what I think would be the ideal circumstances for the understanding and the information to be out there in a transparent way for our residents to react,” Lehman said. Baker’s chief budget ofﬁcer Thomas Himler said Monday that Baker is currently reviewing the rest of the budget, and has until June 16 to decide whether to exercise a line-item veto or approve the budget. “We’re still continuing that assessment for the next week,” Himler said. “Next week there will be a decision.”

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Centenarian’s razor-sharp recollections dispensed with humor BY JAMIE ANFENSON-COMEAU STAFF WRITER

Sitting back in a chair at Arbor Terrace Assisted Living in Lanham, Robert Cox said he never expected to see his 100th birthday. “I never dreamed I would reach this day, 100 years, but I’m here,” said Cox, who reached the century mark June 4. “I thank God Almighty for his patience with me.” There are approximately 17 centenarians per 100,000 people in the United States, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. The vast majority, over 82 percent, are women, so Cox has beaten the odds in a number of ways. Cox said his vision is failing, he uses a walker and he has

trouble hearing out of his right ear, but his mind is still sharp as he recalls details from his life over half a century ago. Roxanne Bowers, who works in the Engagement Department at Arbor Terrace, said she met Cox when he ﬁrst came to the assisted living facility in 2012. “I was just so amazed, for him to be 97 at that time, and to still have such a great memory,” Bowers said, adding that Cox would share stories about growing up in rural Florida and working on the farm. “I really enjoy visiting with him and talking to him, and we’ve become very good friends.” The oldest of ﬁve children, Cox said he went from school into the grocery business, and in 1938 married Lorraine Walton, but the attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 8, 1941, changed the direction of his life. “Good old Uncle Sam said one Sunday morning, with this new bride I had, that we were now at war,” Cox recalled. “After he made that announce-

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Robert L. Cox of Lanham and his niece, Shirley Cox Marshall, of New Jersey, celebrate his 100th birthday Saturday at the Arbor Terrace Assisted Living Community in Greenbelt. ment, six months later, I was in uniform.” Cox said he served with the Sixth Army on the Paciﬁc front

during World War II, later taking part in the occupation of Japan and the Korean War, before serving stateside in Alaska

and San Francisco. “Like any other soldier, I took my assignment, and I did what I had to do,” Cox said. Cox said he left the Army in July 1962, after a 20-year career, at the rank of master sergeant. Cox then found work in shipping and receiving with a department store in Los Angeles and worked for that company and the company that bought it out until he retired in 1980. Cox and his wife did not have any children, and his wife died, he said, at “0900 hours Oct. 22, 2003,” after 65 years of marriage. Cox said the secret to a long marriage is to never forget why you fell in love with your wife in the ﬁrst place. “You treat your woman as your sweetheart. You treat her well, all the time,” Cox said. “That’s what gets you 65 years.” Cox lived alone for several years after his wife’s death, but as his vision and mobility declined, he looked into assisted

Community work taken into account

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A woman who provided ﬁnancial literacy lessons in Prince George’s County and served on the housing committee of the county NAACP has been sentenced to over four years in prison for her part in a mortgage fraud scheme. Carmen Johnson, 48, of Gambrils, was sentenced to 57 months incarceration followed by ﬁve years of supervised release June 3 by Judge George

Hazel at the U.S. District Courthouse in Greenbelt. Hazel also ordered Johnson to pay $2.3 million in restitution to ﬁnancial lending institutions for their losses on 10 foreclosed properties. Johnson was convicted of four counts of Conspiracy and Wire Fraud last February. According to prosecutors, in 2007 and 2008, she used her Lanhambased businesses, CJ Lending and Able Estate and Company, to create false credit histories that were then used to convince mortgage lenders to grant loans. “It looked like people had a credit history and paid on loans for a number of years, so that it looked like they had a credit history that would allow them to

qualify for mortgage loans,” said Kristi O’Malley, assistant U.S. attorney. Johnson’s attorney, Robert Bonsib, said his client was a good woman who became a victim of a larger conspiracy. Bonsib said Johnson charged $1,500 to $2,000 for “credit repair,” which she was not licensed to perform. Hazel said he also took into consideration Johnson’s work in the community and the testimony of those who asked for leniency. In addition to providing ﬁnancial literacy training through her nonproﬁt Katie Able Foundation and her work with the NAACP, Johnson advocated for individuals in danger of losing

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living options, and in 2012 came to Arbor Terrace. Bowers said Cox has a younger sister living in Florida and a niece in New Jersey, but no other relatives in the area. Diane Monroe, a friend who visits Cox and assists him with reading, said she has enjoyed the bits of wisdom he has shared with her over the past few years she’s known him. “He’s just amazing,” Monroe said. “He has a great sense of humor, and he’s really helped me develop my sense of humor, and he’s given me lots of marriage advice.” Cox said he attributes his longevity to God, and said he doesn’t think the Lord is finished with him yet. “I feel like I’ve got a pretty long ways yet to go,” Cox said, laughing. A birthday party for Cox is set for Saturday at Arbor Terrace.

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their homes due to foreclosure. “We were very disappointed with the length of the sentence in light of all the good work Carmen Johnson has done in the community over the course of several years,” Bonsib said afterward. Bob Ross, president of the Prince George’s NAACP, said he met Johnson ﬁve years ago, through her financial literacy work in the schools. “In those years as housing chair, she helped 840 people keep their homes,” Ross said. “She worked from sunset to sunrise on issues to make sure people were taken care of.” janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 manned a tent for Free State Marine Detachment 544 on Laurel-Bowie Road during the event. He said Bowiefest gives his organization a chance to get much-needed face time with other Bowie residents about his organization, which supports honorably discharged Marines and holds monthly meetings for local veterans. Begenwald said the event is as much about

raising awareness among Bowie Marines as it is about the general population. “For some reason a lot of local Marines here don’t know we exist,” Begenwald said. Corely said a recent sponsorship agreement with Anne Arundel Medical Center allowed the city to book LCB, which features former lead singers from The Temptations, The Platters and The Drifters. “We have a major state sponsor this year, and as a result

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we were able to bring in a name act,” Corely said. Several attendees with ties to the city mentioned that in recent years Bowiefest has become more inclusive. Michelle Nedd of Upper Marlboro said she has been coming to Bowiefest for decades. She said that in earlier years, the festival mostly appealed to the city’s white, elderly population. Nedd said this year the event’s attendance was more interracial and that organizers

poured out of the top of the building, three ﬁre teams descended upon the building in separate trucks. Simulating the speed and urgency of a real emergency, the primary team parked in front to conduct search and rescue operations while putting the blaze out using 500 gallons of water stored inside the truck. The secondary team’s responsibility was to locate a separate hydrant. The third team ran the ladder truck and conducted forced entry at the top of the building to help rescue any victims who might be trapped on the top ﬂoor. Though a light rain threatened to put a damper on the exercise, Doubleday said his personnel worry more about smoke and wind conditions when planning an exercise like this.

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have done a better job of offering a wider variety of entertainment that appeals to different cultures. Gary R. Johnson said he grew up in the city and graduated from Bowie High School before moving to Upper Marlboro. When his family ﬁrst moved to Bowie in 1972, Johnson said they were one of the only black families in the neighborhood and largely felt they needed to adapt to the culture around them. He said at a time when division and

“It’s the smoke itself that’s going to cause the fire to flash up,” Doubleday said. Most of the Marketplace area was demolished in April to make room for a new outdoor shopping complex scheduled to be completed next year. The old bank, which also held a dry cleaners and florist was one of the last remaining structures still standing on the site. According to Doubleday, the makeup of the building is a “mutt” and very unique, with metal, concrete, heavy timbers, wood framing and heavy gage support structures all present. It’s a combination of building structures that I have never seen,” he said. dejohnson@gazette.net

racial strife dominate the media, events like Bowiefest offer a real-life opportunity to bring residents of different colors and ethnicities together. “As the world grows, as diversity grows, we’re going to have [protests like those in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore]. At the end of the day, events like this help us come together and are about us making this a better community,” Johnson said. dejohnson@gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 as Defendant Two, allegedly told Williams that “the board did not desire to have an openly gay man serving as its executive director because of potential damage to its public image” and asked him to reconsider his plans or hold a private ceremony without releasing photos to the public. The suit alleges that Williams was married in a public ceremony Sept. 20, 2013, and when he returned from his honeymoon on Oct. 10, 2013, he was suspended and subsequently terminated from his position on Nov. 1, 2013. Separate documents submitted by Gardner’s attorneys specify that Gardner was the best man at Williams’ wedding prior to his termination. Williams’ lawyer, E. Christopher Amos, said his client is not arguing that Gardner has a personal animus toward homosexuals, but rather that he feared having an openly gay man as the face of the center would damage its image. Gardner said he was not able to discuss the case in detail because it is an ongoing legal matter, but he maintained he had done nothing wrong. “I want to stress that I operated completely as president of the board within the law,” Gardner said. Gardner’s attorney, Brianna Clark, said her team submitted evidence showing financial malfeasance on the part of Williams that would justify his dismissal. “There are scores of documents in the record detailing [financial improprieties],” Clark said. In a motion for summary judgment, the defendants allege that Williams’ termination was the result of “grossly negligent” financial management of center finances. The motion accuses Williams of failing to properly register the center as a nonprofit with the State of Maryland, incurring unpaid tax liabilities and using Williams Life Center accounts to make payments for personal expenses. The motion details an Oct. 31, 2013, meeting of the board where it voted to terminate Williams, stating “Over the past three years you have compromised the safety, security and well-being of the clients served as your employees. In addition, the board finds your stewardship over the finances and accounting of the organization to be grossly negligent and concluded that you could never hold any position associated with the accounting or finances of the organization.” According to attorneys on both sides, the Williams Life Center is no longer in business. The phone number listed for the center on its website leads to an automated voicemail offering to help callers identify other similar organizations in the area. Amos said his client had nothing to do with any financial mismanagement and that he kept board members informed of all pending financial matters during his tenure as executive director. Amos said the charges of negligence on Williams were a pretext devised by the defendants after they made the decision to fire him. “[Williams] gave constant information, constant feedback to the board,” on all financial matters, Amos said. Williams’ lawsuit also accuses Gardner and Kimbrough of violating the center’s bylaws and firing him without a full vote from the board, refusing to pay him his final month of wages, improperly applying for a loan in Williams’ name after his termination and defaming his character with untrue allegations of financial improprieties. In addition to compensation for damages, Williams is asking the court to restore him to his former position, that Gardner and Kimbrough be removed from their positions on the board and that the center issue a written retraction of its allegations that he conducted financial improprieties. John Fitzwater, assistant city manager and liaison to the ethics committee, said there are no regulations or restrictions in the city’s charter or its ethics rules that would apply to a candidate running for office while the subject of a civil suit. Gardner is running for re-election to at AtLarge seat on the City Council. The case is currently scheduled to go to trial on Sept. 30, approximately a month before voters head to the polls. dejohnson@gazette.net

Gazette-Star Kudos to Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III for vetoing a County Councilapproved tax increase that TAX DEBATES would beneﬁt HIGHLIGHT the MarylandCOMMUNITY National Capital CONCERNS Park and Planning Commission. While the parks system is valuable, priorities should dictate that additional revenue go to county schools, which are much more in need of resources. That’s where the pat on the back ends, however. While Baker’s rationale for the veto

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makes sense, his criticism of the council’s actions spotlights concerns that exist in his own office, as well. In a letter to council Chairman Mel Franklin, Baker explains that the council did not “sufficiently inform the public” about the increase. Franklin says the budget meeting was open to the public and a video of the meeting was online, but Baker is right. The council should have made a more significant effort to alert residents about plans to raise the tax and sought their input. It’s the same criticism Baker faced when he decided to overhaul the school board in 2013, with only a few weeks

left in the legislative session and little opportunity for input from residents. Sufﬁcient time must be allotted for community involvement in such important decisions, whether they are made by the council or the county executive. Baker’s letter also mentions that the council’s lack of public engagement prevented discussions on the “propriety of such an increase.” He mentions that the council didn’t extend the “same courtesy” he provided to residents by hosting community forums as he sought to increase property taxes by 15.6 percent. What Baker fails to mention, however, is that the increase he was seeking was a slap in the face to county residents who felt blind-

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sided by his proposal. The county has a decades-old, voter-imposed tax cap that Baker circumvented using a fairly recent state law that allows him to override county rules if the tax hike beneﬁts schools. The county tax cap did not apply to M-NCPPC’s funding. So while it’s wonderful that Baker took a community approach to his proposed tax hike, many questioned the “propriety” and “courtesy” of his efforts, as well. The only thing that appears clear in this taxing mess is that county leaders clearly aren’t on the same page regarding priorities, and both branches need to work harder to ensure taxpayers — those footing the bill for such major decisions — become a critical part of the process on a consistent basis.

LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR

A school budget that treads water will move us nowhere The public discourse regarding the Board of Education Proposed 2015-2016 Budget yielded a host of justiﬁcations for not increasing resources for the public schools. A number of our neighbors objected to spending more money on the schools since they had no children in the school system. First, does not the conscience demand that we pay forward the education that our elders maintained for our beneﬁt? Second, if the children of today leave school ill-prepared to replace our aging workforce COMMENTARY now achieving retirement age, KENNETH HAINES where will that leave us as a civilized society? Many an opponent trotted out the conservative sound bite that concerns in education are seldom resolved by showering them with money. Unfortu-

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nately, the facts do not seem to support that argument in Maryland. The enactment of the Bridge to Excellence Act in 2013 brought increased state funding to Maryland’s schools, and the improvement in student achievement has been steady, if incremental, ever since. Added resources have made a difference, and the gap between the highest- and lowest-performing schools has steadily closed. Yes, statewide, the relative ranking remains unchanged for our schools, because the rising tide of Thornton funding lifted all boats. However, additional resources have clearly contributed to our well-documented improvements in Prince George’s, and those improvements helped Maryland maintain a No. 1 ranking for a number of consecutive years. Some of our parents objected to a tax hike on the grounds that the increase could impede their personal ability to fund private school for their children. Former NEA President Bob Chase responded to that argument nearly 20 years ago, “If your neighborhood

school is not good enough for your child, it is not good enough for anyone’s child!” All children need age-appropriate pre-K; all children need the arts; all children need less-crowded classrooms. All these needs have cost implications. The proposed four-cent tax hike raises just enough money to meet two mandated responsibilities: the required contribution to the State Retirement Agency and “Maintenance of Effort” funding. When will we regard Maintenance of Effort as the ﬂoor for new education spending and not the ceiling? So, we are treading water, once again, as we prepare to endure harsh budget reconciliation and making systemic decisions that are tantamount to educational triage.

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

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FOOTBALL: Largo High School is one of 40 teams scheduled to compete this weekend in the Prince George’s County 7-on-7 passing league. Lions are doing well this summer.

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ADAM GUTEKUNST STAFF WRITER

Most teams would have thrown in the towel if they sat where the Douglass High School boys basketball team did on March 9. Ten straight points by Oakland Mills, the host of the Class 2A South Region ﬁnal, had pushed the Eagles deﬁcit to 17 points midway through the third quarter. The sweltering hot gym vibrated with the echoes of cheers from the capacity crowd as a young Douglass team gathered near the sideline. Giving up would have been easy. But, as coach Tyrone Massenburg said, that

wouldn’t have been “Douglass basketball.” The Eagles methodically clawed their way back into the contest, a rally that culminated with a buzzer-beating, coast-to-coast layup by senior Trevor Johnson to send the game into an improbable extra period. It was during that ﬁnal frame that the Douglass rally fell short. Three days after the 73-70 overtime loss to the eventual state champions ended their season, a collection of Eagles players made their way back into the gym, issuing in an important offseason for a team many consider to be among the county’s — and state’s — best. “I knew we had a lot of people coming back and a lot of talent,” returning leading scorer Cameron Hayes said. “We even

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Flowers High School’s Don Brazelton swims for Takoma Park in the Prince-Mont summer swimming league.

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Douglass High School’s Cameron Hayes (right) returns as the Eagles’ leading scorer. The Upper Marlboro school returns most of its players from a 20-5 boys basketball team.

Hundreds at the pool for the summer Theresa Banks favorites to win ﬁfth straight Division A Prince-Mont title

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN STAFF WRITER

DeMatha Catholic High School rising junior Sterling Smith experienced his first Prince-Mont Swim League season last summer — he moved to Maryland with his family from New Jersey just before his freshman year. And it was a rather good one. Smith won the boys 15-18 50-meter breaststroke at the Division A championship meet and was runner-up in the event at the season-ending individual all-star meet. And his team, Theresa Banks Swim Club, won its fourth consecutive title in the league’s top group. “The teams I was with in New Jersey, we never came out on top,” Smith said. “To be part of a team out there winning first in [so many races], that was the first time I’ve been on a team that has done that well, and it was awesome.” Prince-Mont, which has been the starting point for many of Prince George’s County’s top swimmers, is scheduled to kick off its 56th summer season on June 20 with the first of five weeks of dual meets. The league is comprised of 40 teams of kids ages 6 to 18 — spread throughout six counties in Maryland — competing in seven divisions. Theresa Banks won last year’s Division

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Ryan Selmer, a Riverdale Baptist School graduate, pitches for the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Riverdale grads help Terps feel Super Riverdale Baptist graduates help Maryland reach Super Regionals

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Had it been a regular season game, University of Maryland, College Park’s, baseball coach might have considered letting right-handed pitcher Ryan Selmer remain in the game he started against University of California, Los Angeles on May 31. Selmer, a 2013 graduate of Riverdale Baptist High School, was one of Maryland’s top pitchers this past season with a 2.18 earned run average, in 31 appearances — four more than any other

Terp. But it wasn’t a regular season game, the Terps were on the brink of reaching the NCAA Baseball Tournament’s Super Regionals for the second season in a row, and the redshirt freshman Selmer had allowed eight hits and three runs through 2.2 innings, so he was pulled to preserve a shot at winning. Ultimately, the Terps would still lose the game 4-2, but in the two-loss elimination round of the NCAA Regionals, they lived to see another game. UCLA, which Maryland had defeated a day earlier, survived only to see another former Crusader. Taylor Bloom, a true freshman, and a teammate of Selmer’s from their days together at Riverdale Baptist, saw less than half the amount of appearances as Selmer (15) this season, but he received the start in the elimination game of the

Regionals at Jackie Robinson Stadium in Los Angeles. Bloom delivered the performance of his life. “It’s definitely the biggest game I’ve ever pitched in,” Bloom said. He called the six inning, one hit, one run performance, the best of his career. “Just to get the opportunity to do that was pretty amazing.” Bloom was groomed for the moment from the time he was ﬁrst given a baseball, through his time at Riverdale Baptist where he faced some of the best high school competition. And from his earliest recollections at the Upper Marlboro private school, he and Selmer became close friends. In stature, the two couldn’t be farther apart, although not many people can match Selmer’s now

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Parents form travel baseball team for county Friendly High-based team looking to compete for the second-straight summer

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Through some of his baseball teammates at Friendly High School, rising senior Chandler Mays heard about a travel baseball team that was being coordinated last summer and was invited to tryout. The team started for a plethora of reasons, but amongst them was the opportunity to participate in the Metropolitan Junior Baseball League tournament in Richmond, Va. Mays made the team, comprised mostly from a combination of players from Prince George’s County and Washington, D.C., schools, and they reached the semiﬁnals of the MJBL

tournament, an experience Mays said helped him tremendously this past high school season. “It was actually a really good experience. Just to be able to travel and play baseball,” Mays said. “During that tournament, I got to see a lot of different pitching. Got to see the different skill levels of different people from different areas. I also got to see what I have to look forward to if I want to play baseball on the next level.” As it turns out, the team was coordinated by a combination of baseball parents and people from the community. They wanted to give their kids an opportunity to play high-level baseball for a local team, but the genesis of the program came from outside of the county. Ronald Hines, a Prince George’s resident who ran an RBI (Reviving

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Taylor Bloom, a Riverdale Baptist School graduate, pitches for the University of Maryland, College Park.

After a historic 3-0 start, the Central High School football team’s 2014 campaign took a turn for the worse. Injuries — which coincided with the tough portion of the schedule — contributed to five straight shutout losses, and a season filled with promise ended with the Falcons once again outside the playoffs. But there was a silver lining to the 3-7 season. And it wasn’t just that the Capitol Heights school improved its record for a third straight year. With the offense shorthanded — and often playing from behind — players were forced into new and unfamiliar roles. Receivers, such as Gavarius Twilley, climbed up the depth chart. The quarterback, rising junior Damarii Sumpter, shouldered a heavier load after running back Deion Peterson (Class of 2015) went down with a foot injury. The offense was taking on a new shape, and while that didn’t pay dividends last fall — the Falcons managed 13 points the final

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per game in her senior season at the Riverdale Park school.

GOLFER OF THE YEAR

— ERIC GOLDWEIN

Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie Clark, of College Park, will have a chance to compete for a spot in the main draw of the 2015 US Open in New York later this summer after winning the US Open National Playoffs USTA Mid-Atlantic Sectional Qualifying Tournament Monday at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park. Clark, who teamed with Lizzie Baker, 16, of Washington, D.C., to win the doubles bracket of the sectional qualiﬁer, became the youngest-ever winner of a US Open sectional playoff. Clark and Baker, who train together at the JTCC, move on to the US Open National Playoffs, scheduled for mid-August in New Haven, Conn.

— JENNIFER BEEKMAN

Parkdale guard commits to New Brunswick Parkdale High School graduate Nailah Jones (Class of 2015) committed to playing women’s basketball at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. Jones played a key role in the backcourt this past winter, helping the Panthers reach the region ﬁnals. The 5-foot-4 point guard averaged 6.7 points

DeMatha star moves up Rising DeMatha Catholic High School senior Markelle Fultz received quite the ratings boost in ESPN’s latest installment of the 2016 Top 100 boys basketball rankings. Fultz, the only player from the state of Maryland on the list, received a ﬁve-star rating and was ranked as the country’s No. 21 prospect in next year’s class. Fultz already holds offers from a number of highlevel Division I schools.

— ADAM GUTEKUNST

Evan Santa DeMatha Senior

Stags senior ﬁnished second at the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship with a score of 75. Penn State recruit helped lead a young DeMatha team to a fourth-place ﬁnish in the league.

Lanham natives joins national team Lanham native Randall Harris is joining the 2015 U.S. Men’s National Team, assembled by USA Football to compete in the International Federation of American Football World Championships being held July 9-18 in Canton, Ohio. Harris, an offensive lineman is one of 45 members to make the U.S. team. They will compete in a seven team tournament which has been held every four years since 1999. The U.S. has won its previous two appearances in 2007 and 2011.

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FOOTBALL

Dan Spotts

DeMatha Spotts coached a relatively young team to a fourth-place ﬁnish at the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference Championship, ﬁnishing just one stroke behind Paul VI.

Continued from Page B-1 seven games — that could help Central as it opens up its passing game this upcoming season. “It made us make sure to try to coach up the twos,” Central coach Ken Amaker said. “Try to get the twos almost where the ones are, so the dropoff is not as great.” Central’s new-look offense and added depth was on display in Saturday’s King of the Jungle 7-on-7 tournament. There — at both Catholic University and Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C. — the Falcons put together an impressive win against Eleanor Roosevelt (Greenbelt) and ﬁnished 2-3 in the passing league competitions. Sumpter showed off his strong arm, connecting with his receivers on several long touchdown passes. Twilley, who hadn’t played offense prior to last season, was a beneﬁciary of the new passing game, using his speed and soft hands to pull down multiple touchdown receptions. Carlos Martins, a transfer from McNamara (Upper Marlboro), was also one of Sumpter’s top targets, running crisp routes and giving the Central offense another deep threat. “We’re growing more as

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COACH OF THE YEAR

Morgan Miner

Andrew Hung

Patrick McKinney

Clippers sophomore won county regional crown (81), besting the ﬁeld by at least three strokes. Miner had to pull out of states midway through the ﬁrst round with a knee injury.

The four-year player led a smaller Raiders team this year, ﬁnishing his tenure with an 84 at the regional championship, which was good enough for a share of second place.

McKinney headed DeMatha’s youthful attack, shooting an 83 at the WCAC championship; averaged an impressive 40.01 strokes per nine hole average in his ﬁrst varsity season.

Senior Eleanor Roosevelt

Oxon Hill Sophomore

DeMatha Freshman

Second Team is online at Gazette.net

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Central High School’s Kenneth Dorsey (left) and Gavarius Twilley set up on line during Saturday’s 7 on 7 football game in Washington, D.C. a team. We’re getting more comfortable with each other,” Sumpter said. “... We feel each other out and we know what we both want.” Sumpter, a starter since midway through his freshman season, is responsible for a lot of that growth. The quarterback’s powerful arm and strong grasp of the playbook makes his receivers threats to score from any distance. “His arm strength, his footwork. His composure in the pocket,” tight end and linebacker Kenneth Dorsey said. “He’s comfortable back there. He’s on his game. He’s working harder to keep developing.” Dorsey, entering his fourth varsity season, was part of the 0-10 campaign in 2012 and the

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Continued from Page B-1 Baseball in Inner Cities) team in Washington, D.C., was looking to revive that RBI team for the Southeast D.C. kids that played for him. The team fell became victim of a corruption scandal. Parents such as Eric Woodard Sr., Dr. Rick Bryson and Duane Hughley, of county baseball players, decided to help Hines fund a new program, and a travel team was developed. “I was looking for a place for my son [Blake Bryson] to play at a higher level. ... Someone referred me to [Hines],” Rick Bryson said. “Our thing was, let’s try to keep this program going regardless of the obstacle that we are faced with.” Last summer, the team was organized in Lanham. Players such as Northwestern graduate Kevin Ramirez, Friendly graduate Khaleel Todd, who’s attending Delaware State University, and Bowie’s Diallo Adams all came out for the team. Players from Gwynn Park, Largo and DuVal also made the team. Not only were players getting a chance to travel and play baseball during the summer, they were being prepared for life after high school. “We had an academic component that we partnered with a local church so the kids could get an SAT Prep,” Rick Bryson said. Blake Bryson is attending Morehouse College. “It was like a 12 week SAT Prep. It was probably second to none in the county.” This summer, the MJBL travel team is being formed again, this time with practices being held at Friendly. If enough players come out, organizers would like to have a 19-under and 16-under

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Continued from Page B-1 A meet, 363-230.5, over Washington, D.C.’s Takoma Park — a team that features two of Prince George’s County’s highest scorers in Flowers graduate Sidney Horton and rising senior Don Brazelton. The two, along with Yugi Kacapor and Jared Miller, set a Belair Swim and Racquet pool record (1 minute, 55.40 seconds) en route to winning the 200 medley relay at the all-star meet. Theresa Banks only joined PrinceMont in 1990 and started at the bottom, club president Michelle Jordan said. But with Jordan a head coach at the Prince George’s Sport and Learn-

2-8 campaign in 2013. The rising senior said that the team’s chemistry is as good as it’s ever been. “We have more togetherness than we did in past years,” Dorsey said. “We have more people on the same page.” Whether that’ll lead to a playoff appearance, Central won’t know for a few more months. But until then, the plan is to continue working hard through the remainder of the summer and 7-on-7 competitions, Dorsey said. “[We’re] trying to push through the tough days and tough battles — getting people to want to come back after the tough losses,” Dorsey said. egoldwein@gazette.net

team, like last year. So far, however, there have only been enough players for a 19-U team this summer, and coaches want to have the roster ﬁnalized before this weekend is over. The team is partially named after the league it participated in last summer, the MJBL Titans. They plan to participate in the MJBL tournament once again this summer, being held in Florida, but the team will also join the Nationals Youth Academy where it will play several games. Mays’ dad, James Mays, was an assisting parent last season for the 16-U team his son played on. This summer, James Mays is stepping into a role he’s been familiar with in his son’s entire life as a baseball player, coaching as an assistant to head coach Duane Hughley. Parent participation is what got this program running and is what will keep it going. Mays said it was formed out of necessity. “The biggest thing is providing kids an avenue, who wants to play baseball, where they don’t have one,” Mays said. “There’s nothing in the summer time, which is when you play baseball, in P.G. County, especially in the southern part, where kids can go and play. Because once boys and girls club is over with during the school season, they’re done again.” “When I started looking for better competition, I found that so many of the parents of kids that could play were taking there kids to Charles County, and Anne Arundel County to play on travel teams based in those areas,” Rick Bryson lamented. “We brought travel baseball to Prince George’s County for kids who either didn’t have it, or typically went outside of the county to play.” pgrimes@gazette.net

ing Complex training site of the Nation’s Capital Swim Club — the same club for which 2012 Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky swims — the summer team has arguably the league’s highest population of yearround swimmers and is again favored to dominate the league. But, while neighborhood pride is on the line, the focus of summer swimming is not solely on winning championships. “[The Prince-Mont season] is everything that swimming should be for these guys,” said DeMatha swim coach Tom Krawczewicz, who swam in the league for more than a decade and then coached for six years. “In what other sport do you have kids 6 years old up to 18 working together?”

consider to be among the county’s — and state’s — best. “I knew we had a lot of people coming back and a lot of talent,” returning leading scorer Cameron Hayes said. “We even have some young guys coming up that are going to be good ... The focus restarted that week.” Leaving the 2014-15 season in the past would be no easy task for the Eagles, who at 20-5 had their best season “in a long, long time” according to Massenburg. Graduation was set to claim three starters, a trio of dynamic guards in Anthony Byrd (4.3 ppg), Johnson (8.6 ppg) and Kyle Green (9.3 ppg). But forgetting the standard those players set was never part of the plan, according to the Eagles coach. “I think this year is just a whole new year,” Massenburg said. “There’s going to be different players with us ... The culture has always been established with our program. There will deﬁnitely be new faces, but it will be the same Douglass team.” The Eagles are set to feature a big frontcourt, as they will return Zion Cousins (6.5 ppg) and Dalton Smith (3.8 ppg), who along with Hayes (15.7 ppg) will comprise a 6-foot-6, 6-foot-6 and 6-foot-5 front line, respectively. But most eyes — and defenses — will key on Hayes, the versatile rising senior who established himself as a leader on and off the court during last year’s playoff run. “I think Cameron, he was a leader last year,”

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Continued from Page B-1 6-foot-8 frame, but they were very much alike in attitude. “Both of those guys are extremely hard workers,” Riverdale Baptist coach Ryan Terrill said. “Can’t say I was stunned when Taylor beat UCLA, because I watched him since he was a freshman at our place. Pretty much our No. 1 from the minute he started with our program. ... Always had poise, always had composure, and had that innerbelief and had that makeup that you can’t quite coach, that you know what it takes to get it done at a high level. Both of those guys, Ryan and Taylor, had that early on at Riverdale.” Bloom, Terrill said, has the ability to use any pitch in any count. The righty has a great changeup, and the arm-speed on it looks similar to his fastball. He was 2-3 in ﬁve starts this season with a 4.01 ERA. Bloom said the biggest adjustment he had to make in the college game was slowing things down.

That, Smith said, is one of the best parts of the league. Not only is he able to act as a role model — something he said he relishes — but he himself said he has older swimmers to look up to as well. The interaction between the older and younger age groups, Jordan said, can be monumental. Summer, coaches agreed, is also a good time for swimmers to step outside their comfort zones. Krawczewicz said summer swimming can, in that regard, help prevent burnout. “If you’re doing 100 breast, 100 free, every meet, it gives them something else to swim,” he said. “It helps, especially when people are plateauing in their main events. It gives them something else to think about. It’s a distraction from the main focus. And

the Douglass coach said. “He has great leadership skills ... He works hard. He’s not one you ever have to ask to put work in — he does work. He works on his skill on his own — first one in the gym, last one to leave. He’s definitely set a great example for the team.” This upcoming season, the Eagles will look to Hayes as they learn to handle the pressure of being a favorite, something they never dealt with last season. Playing under the shadow of league rival Largo, who dominated the regular season behind All-Gazette Player of the Year Abdulai Bundu, Douglass flew under the radar for many. But that certainly won’t be the case this year, as Hayes and company are already finding out. “I was actually talking to Coach Massenburg a few days ago,” Hayes said. “We were talking about how people were saying we’re going to run through the league. But honestly, I think every night it’s going to be really, really tough for us. Just like how Potomac was with Dion Wiley, [Randall] Broddie and Quadree [Smith] and all them; that’s how teams are going to come at us. Everybody went at them really hard and they’re going to come at us hard.” Between their summer league contests at Wise and Riverdale Baptist, the Eagles have already gotten a taste of what life is like as favorites. Teams that they’re not used to facing, such as St. Stephen’s St. Agnes and Flint Hill, have already given Douglass their best shot. “Teams we would never play in the regular season are coming at us like we’re league rivals,” Hayes said. “We’ve got to be ready for it.” agutekunst@gazette.net

“The jump from high school to college is way different,” Bloom said. “The game really speeds up, but I think I handled it pretty well. When I ﬁrst started, I think it really hit me how fast the game really is. But the more experience I got through the season, the more I just slowed it down to normal speed.” Selmer used his imposing size on the mound and a mean sinker to accumulate a 3-1 record in four starts, though, like Bloom, he was used mostly in relief. Selmer’s ﬁnal start came in the team’s last game of the season, the Super Regionals elimination game against Virginia on June 6 in Charlottesville, Va. Selmer didn’t get the loss, but in just 0.1 innings pitched, he allowed four hits and two earned runs. The Terps still led 4-2 through 8 ½ innings, but the save was blown in the bottom of the ninth. It wasn’t the ideal way for a fantastic freshman season to come to an end. “To be honest, I think he was a little jacked up in the moment. And when you throw a sinker and you overthrow it, it doesn’t sink as much as you like. ... UVA

there’s motivation just from experiencing success in another event.” Smith is likely to compete in events other than the breaststroke this summer because that’s what this season is about, but he is far from plateauing. Two years ago, before he set out to compete among some of the nation’s fastest high school swimmers in the Washington Metropolitan Prep Schools Swimming and Diving League, Smith’s father showed him some of the times from the 2013 Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships. “I saw the winner of the 100 breaststroke went a 54 [seconds], and that was crazy. At the time, my best was 1 [minute], 16 [seconds],” Smith

responded well,” Terrill said. “The great thing about [Selmer] is even after he got pulled out, as disappointed as he was in himself, he went right to the bench and was a great teammate and a clubhouse guy, which I think speaks volumes about the kind of kid Ryan is for sure.” Even though Bloom is a year younger than Selmer, he committed to Maryland first, as a sophomore. Selmer didn’t follow suit until he graduated, but it was during that time that Bloom envisioned the two becoming major contributors for the Terps. Even then, he couldn’t imagine the way this spring turned out. “We definitely knew we would be playing together, but we definitely didn’t know we would end up pitching backto-back games in the regionals and end up winning it. That was pretty special,” Bloom said. “We’ve been best friends since we got to Riverdale, so it’s been really nice to go on this ride with him for ﬁve years now. It’s been great.” pgrimes@gazette.net

said. “Coming to this state, times were a lot faster than I was used to.” By the end of his freshman season, he was swimming a 1:07.90 in the 100 breaststroke. Within the next year, he told Krawczewicz, he intended to break the one-minute mark. This winter he ﬁnished sixth in the 100 breaststroke and eighth in the 50 freestyle at the WMPSSDL championship. “[Smith] is one of those guys who says those types of things knowing that he’s going to put the work in or knowing ahead of time what it takes,” Krawczewicz said. “I think what kind of sets him apart is that he doesn’t just say it, he puts in the dedication to get what he wants done, done.” jbeekman@gazette.net

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Brews for ye salty dogs Nautical-themed beers are just the tickets for would-be pirates

PHOTOS FROM 2ND STAR PRODUCTIONS

“Kiss Me, Kate” is now running at 2nd Star Productions.

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STEVEN FRANK AND ARNOLD MELTZER Avast, ye landlubbers. Baltimore’s Clipper City Brewing, now known under its Heavy Seas Beer label, is the second largest brewery in Maryland and will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in December. Heavy Seas, and its founder/owner and Captain, Maryland beer pioneer and visionary Hugh Sisson, has sailed through some rough waters and heavy storms to achieve their current success. Clipper City Brewing changed the names of its beers to Heavy Seas with the growing popularity of the adventuresome Heavy Seas lines. Sisson was instrumental in getting state legislation passed that allowed for brewpubs in Maryland, and opened the ﬁrst brewpub in the state in 1989, leaving it to start the predecessor to

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Porter musical touches on life behind, in front of curtain BY JOSHUA

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lays within a play are a well-worn theater trope, but few are as celebrated as Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate.”

The ambitious musical, which chronicles the dramatic lives of actors trying to put on a musical version of William Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew,” won the ﬁrst-ever Tony Award for Best Musical in 1949. A new version of “Kiss Me,

Kate” is currently playing at Bowie Playhouse through June 27. The show is a few performances in, so the performers have already gotten into their respective grooves.

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IN THE ARTS For a free listing, please submit complete information to wfranklin@gazette.net at least 10 days in advance of desired publication date. High-resolution color images (500KB minimum) in jpg format should be submitted when available. 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, CAFE End-of-Year Extravaganza, June 13; National Festival Orchestra, June 13; Open Rehearsal: National Festival Orchestra, June 19; National Festival Orchestra, June 20; Make a Mask! (two events), June 21; National Orchestral Institute (two shows), June 21; University of Maryland, College Park, theclarice.umd.edu. Hard Bargain Players, “Down the Road,” through June 27, Theater in the Woods, 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, 240-766-8830, hbplayers.org. Harmony Hall Regional Center, Ssuuna, June 24; Christylez Bacon, July 1; 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-203-6070, arts. pgparks.com. Greenbelt Arts Center, “Spider’s Web,” June 19 through June 28; call for prices, times, Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, 301-441-8770, greenbeltartscenter. org. Joe’s Movement Emporium, “Rock with You,” June 14; Around the World in Dance, June 21; 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, 301-699-1819, joesmovement.org. Laurel Mill Playhouse, “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-

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Center, 10000 Good Luck Road, Bowie. For ticket sales and additional information, call 240-4758800 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, Hardway Connection, June 19; 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly, 301-277-1710, arts.pgparks.com. 2nd Star Productions, “Kiss Me, Kate,” through June 27; Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Dr., Bowie, call for prices, times, 410757-5700, 301-832-4819, 2ndstarproductions.com. Tantallon Community Players, “Company,” October 2015; Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-262-5201, tantallonstage.com. Venus Theatre, “dry bones rising,” through June 14, 21 C Street, Laurel. venustheatre.org.

NIGHTLIFE New Deal Café, One Tribe, June

12; Crimestoppers, June 13; Little Leslie and the Bloodshots, June 14; 113 Centerway Road, 301-474-5642, newdealcafe.com. 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

Continued from Page B-3 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. Waterproof footwear and binoculars suggested. Free. 410-765-6482.

ET CETERA College Park Aviation Museum, Peter Pan Club, 10:30-11:30 a.m. second and fourth Thursdays of every month, activities for preschoolers, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2-18, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park, 301-864-6029, collegeparkaviationmuseum.com. Women’s Chamber Choir Auditions, by appointment for the con-

cert 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.

A reception sponsored by the Hyattsville Community Arts Alliance will be held at the Prince George’s Plaza Community Center for Delia Mychajluk’s exhibition, “Exotic

Earth,” from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. on June 13. The exhibition will continue through July 3. 6600 Adelphi Road, Hyattsville, 301-864-1611, hcaaonline.org, or contact Denise for more information at 301-6991148, denise76marie@gmail.com.

“APPLAUSE...the piano concert” will take place at 7 p.m. on June 20 followed by a reception at the John Addison Concert Hall, 10701

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“It was a lot of fun — kind of a mad house,” said Brian Binney on opening weekend. “I think everyone had a great time. First weekends, there are always a few things to iron out. There’s a lot of energy, and it’s a pretty exciting time.” “Kiss Me, Kate” is based on the professional and romantic relationship between 1930s stage actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The show’s protagonists, Fred Graham (Binney) and Lilli Vanessi (Brenda Parker), have a similarly volatile relationship that, naturally, spills into their stagework. “There are strong parallels between Fred and Lilli and Kate and Petruchio [their Shakespearean characters],” Binney said. “The main one is that each of them has annoying character quirks that the other one has to learn to live with. I think that’s the connection. They both have to deal with the shortcomings of the other person.” In addition to handling its larger-than-life leads, “Kiss Me, Kate” skewers the theater world

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in instantly recognizable ways for anyone with experience on a musical set. “This play is wonderful because it has all the stereotypical type of people,” director Roy Hammond said. “We all know these people. The gruff old stage doorman, the dressers who grin and bear it with the people they’re working for, the diva stars. The writers drew upon everyone they know.” Hammond was drawn to “Kiss Me, Kate” both because of its dissection of the theater and the fact it’s an old-school show that he wanted to bring back into the spotlight. “It’s hardly ever done,” he said. “Everyone nowadays is doing ‘The Addams Family’ and

modern plays, and this one is hardly ever done. There ain’t a song in it you don’t remember.” Hammond is a huge fan of Cole Porter’s songwriting prowess. He called Porter a “master of rhyming” and compared “Kiss Me, Kate” to the work of Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber, saying that though he respects their works, he finds Porter’s shows better in terms of pure entertainment. Binney has the unenviable task of bringing humanity to both Fred and Fred playing Petruchio in the play within a play. “The challenge is, they’ve obviously been rehearsing their musical version,” he said. “You had to have a vision of what that was going to be.” Put all of this together, and you have an extremely meta musical about theater being put on by theater-lovers who have made it their goals to make this version of “Kiss Me, Kate” special. “It’s extremely energetic, great dancers and singers,” Binney said. “The staging is gorgeous. We have several different sets, and the colors and everything are just amazing. I don’t know what’s not to like.”

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In the past decade, I’ve visited New York two or three times a year for various reasons, mostly to play the role of tourist. I thought I had the parking thing down until a recent visit. I’d ignore the garages with their $11.95 per half-hour specials and find a gem of a space on a side street that would have made George Costanza envious. In all my previous visits, my system had only resulted in one parking ticket when I returned to a metered space a few minutes too late. So on a visit in late May to the Big Apple in which I took my daughter, McKenna, to her first Broadway show, I was as confident as ever in my ability to beat the New York parking system. We made it to the Neil Simon Theatre two hours before the show and parked temporarily in front of the venue on West 52nd Street. There was a “No standing except commercial vehicles” sign, but other noncommercial cars were parked there with people running in to purchase tickets. Besides, we weren’t “standing;” we were temporarily parking. We scored some discount “rush” tickets on the third row for a mere $35 each. When I returned, I didn’t see one of those parking ticket experts in sight, so I became bold enough to suggest walking a block to the Ed Sullivan Theater. David Letterman had given his final performance three days before, and I read stories where crews placed most of his dismantled set into dumpsters on West 53rd Street, with people taking home pieces of history from the “Late Show.” Sure enough, workers were still there, placing various metallic and wooden pieces into large dumpsters. They were blocked off

with yellow tape and orange cones, as if that was going to keep people from approaching. I walked up to one worker and asked if I could take home a souvenir. He seemed a bit flustered and said they were busy. I spied one specific metallic piece about 6 feet long that looked like it could have been part of a bridge. “How ’bout that one?” I asked. “Is that part of a bridge?” He realized he wouldn’t get rid of me so easily and handed me the piece. “It could be. But it’s probably from Paul Shaffer’s orchestra set,” he said. After having McKenna take a photo of me near the dumpster and then in front of the Letterman sign with the piece to help verify its authenticity, we started walking back to the car. We passed near Rupert Jee’s Hello Deli, and I couldn’t resist a slight detour. But as I started to enter the deli, some guy in shades and a tight T-shirt — who could have been a Letterman crew union manager, Mafia boss or just some Joe from the street — yelled at me to stop. “What are doing with that?” he asked, pointing at my 6-foot-long souvenir. “You need to get out of here with that or hand it over. If my boss sees you walking around with it, I can get in big trouble.” I agreed to leave. Our car had been fortunate enough to not get ticketed, so we drove around looking for a better parking spot. We almost had one on 55th Street, but our vehicle would have blocked part of a driveway. I was experienced enough to know that parking in front of a driveway in New York is the ultimate sin. So we ventured all the way to 60th Street, finding a few open spaces near Columbus Avenue. Parking signs in New York are designed to be as ambiguous and confusing as possible. They have stumped better people with more magical interpretative powers than me. Few of them state what times permits are good for, so you have to assume if they don’t state times, they are effective 24-7. Even if they

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aren’t. I knew that as our showtime approached. I didn’t see any large “No standing” or “No parking” signs on that street next to the Church of St. Paul the Apostle. So I parked there, ﬁguring I would return in a few hours after the performance and move it. As I walked down the block, I looked at other vehicles to see if any had special permits. I couldn’t ﬁnd any, so that was good enough for me. It was a Saturday afternoon, and surely the parking czars would be more lenient than on a weekday, right? “Gigi” was an enjoyable show — McKenna grew up watching “High School Musical,” and Vanessa Hudgens is among her favorite actresses. She was thrilled to see the action live from the third row. Afterward, we were hungry, so we walked through Times Square and ate at Planet Hollywood. It was a good time until we walked back to retrieve our car. Problem was it was nowhere to be found. I spied a city tow truck down the street and asked the driver if he knew the whereabouts of my car. He pointed to a small

sign partially-hidden by trees, reading “Doctors parking only.” He told me my car was likely in the tow pound. I knew enough not to argue with him about that sign being all but hidden down the street from where I parked, not stating the times it was effective and how few other vehicles parking on that street actually had permits. He was just a puppet of the New York Towing Machine, which involves Mayor Bill de Blasio, city budget and transportation chiefs, the unions, the Maﬁa and the remains of Jimmy Hoffa supposedly buried under the old Giants Stadium in New Jersey that was conveniently demolished in 2010. I asked the driver if he had a phone number for the pound, and he gave me one and the address. At no time did he tell me to call 311 or check a city website where you can actually discover if your car was impounded. That would have been extremely helpful. There should have been signs up mentioning such a website or telling visitors to call 311 if their car is missing. But this is New York, remember? At the only other time in my considerable number of years of driving that my car was towed, there were actually signs on the Bethesda street with phone numbers on them. And when I called, a human answered and told me my car was towed, not stolen. The driver even drove it back to me, releasing it after I paid the $200 fee and ﬁne. I tried calling the tow pound number several times and only got lost in recording hell. I didn’t have much cash left for a cab ride, so McKenna and I walked about 2 miles to the pound. Not only did I not want to give anyone in that city more money than I had to at that point, but I needed a long walk to cool my anger. As we walked, I could only hope my car was at that pound and not another, or it had not been stolen. By the time I entered the tow

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2014 Nissan Versa.................V309714A, Gray, 7,485 Miles.....................$13,772

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2013 Nissan Altima...............V303606A, Silver, 49,926 Miles..................$15,871

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