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Bowie’s only laser tag business might shut down unless the city exempts it from a Prince George’s County law requiring the owner to add nearly 100 more parking spaces — even though she said there’s no room to build.

Cherie Hope, 54, of Silver Spring owns a 28,000-square-foot building at 14201 Woodcliff Court, where she runs Castle Laser Tag and Silver Stars Gymnastics center. Hope has operated the laser tag business since 2008; however, she said the county redesignated her business last year as an “amusement center,” meaning the estimated 8,000-square-foot portion of the property that houses the business needs 136 parking spaces.

The business currently has 37 spaces, and there’s no room to build more, she said, adding that no neighboring property is up for sale and she can’t afford to buy more property if it were available.

“To buy more land and build a parking lot is not something I could entertain. I’m barely hanging on here,” she said.

Hope said even though Castle Laser Tag grosses about $500,000 per year and Silver Star Gymnastics brings in $300,000, she is just now close to breaking even. Profits from Hope’s only other Silver Stars Gymnastics center in Silver Spring have been supporting both her businesses in Bowie, which employ a total of 30 people, she said.

“I’ll possibly lose my whole business, including the gymnastics [center] because laser tag is really way more profitable ... . Without both of them, I won’t be able to pay my mortgage,” Hope said.

Two recent crashes near Freeway Airport have some Bowie residents concerned that a plane could land on someone’s house or lawn.

Around 3:40 p.m. Monday, a single-engine plane from the airport crashed on the westbound side of Route 50.

Three people — a male pilot and a male and female passenger — were in the plane, said Prince George’s County Fire Department assistant fire chief Alicia Francis.

Maryland State Police identified the three as owner/pilot Alireza Tivay, 58, of Washington, D.C., and passengers Seth Sharpe, 45, of Laurel and Deborah Tucker, 48, of Alexandria, Va. Tivay and Sharper were listed in critical condition and Tucker was listed in serious condition after receiving initial medical attention, Francis said.

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Avery Larue, 11 months old, of Bowie waves flags during “Salute to America,” the final concert in the Sunday Summer Concert Series at Allen Pond Park in Bowie. The concert was dedicated to remembering Sept. 11, 2001, and the victims of the terrorist attacks that day.

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Cherie Hope, owner of Castle Laser Tag in Bowie, might have to close her business unless city officials waive a Prince George’s County zoning ordinance that would require her to provide about 100 additional parking spaces.

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Pigs will race, babies will be judged and a chainsaw artist plans to cut up, and it all starts at 4 p.m. today in Upper Marlboro at the kickoff of the Prince George’s County Fair.

The fair lasts through Sunday at The Show Place Arena and Prince George’s Equestrian Center, 14900 Pennsylva-

nia Ave. This is one of the oldest fairs in Maryland, said Doris Case, Prince George’s County Fair Association first vice president. The fair started in 1842.

There are plenty of events calling back to the fair’s old days such as traditional livestock competitions between county residents, giving people the opportunity to participate in history, she said.

“It’s the tradition of coming to the county fair,” Case said. “It is being part of what the county evolved from.”

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The fair’s hours are from 4 to 10 p.m. Thursday; 5 to 11 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, according to the fair’s schedule.

Last year’s event included pig and duck races and carnival games.

Some of this year’s fair highlights include live bands such as The Fabulous Hubcaps, carnival rides such as a Ferris Wheel and the livestock competitions, Case said.

A list of the events and their times can be found online at the fair’s website.

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Dead Prince George’s County residents apparently still care about who is president and came out in droves to vote in last year’s election, according to the findings of a Maryland nonprofit group that tracks state voting registrations.

The volunteer-driven Election Integrity Maryland, which has 169 members, found 2,400 out of 3,500 voter records had “irregularities” — mainly dead people voting and people voting under invalid addresses, said Cathy Kelleher, president of the statewidebased nonprofit.

State and county officials said they looked into the findings and could not confirm all the irregularities.

She said not keeping voter lists “clean” is a violation of the National Voter Registration Act that requires states to maintain timely and accurate voter registration lists for federal elections.

Dead people registering to vote or casting votes is considered voter fraud and cases are sent to the Office of the Maryland State Prosecutor. Violators can face jail time, state election officials said.

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Susan Harper as Lily Garland and Oscar Jaffe as Jeff Landou perform a scene from the Prince George’s Little Theatre production of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s “Twentieth Century.” The show runs through Sept. 15 at the Bowie Playhouse. For more information, visit www.pglt.org.

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Library, 2398 Iverson St., Temple Hills. Learn basic computer terms, how to use a mouse and keyboard and work with Windows. Registration required. Contact 301-6304900.

Bowie State University’s English Composition Lecture Series,

11 a.m., Bowie State University, Center for Learning and Technology, Room 102, 14000 Jericho Park Road, Bowie. The Department of English and Modern Languages invites you to join Monique Akassi, assistant professor at Bowie State University and author of “Postcolonial Composition Pedagogy: Using the Culture of Marginalized Students to Teach Writing,” for a lecture, question-and-answer session and book signing. Contact makassi@bowiestate.edu.

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Campfire, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Watkins Nature Center, 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro. Enjoy roasting marshmallows, stories and a live animal show. Reservations required. Cost: $3 per resident, $4 per non-resident. Contact 301-218-6702; TTY 301-699-2544.

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a.m. to 1 p.m., Gaylord National Harbor Resort and Convention Center, 201 Waterfront St., Fort Washington. Honoring firefighters who made the ultimate sacrifice on Sept. 11, 2001. Contact bhinton@firehero.org.

Intro to Microsoft PowerPoint,

10:30 a.m., Hillcrest Heights Library, 2398 Iverson St., Temple Hills. Learn the basic features of creating a dynamic slide show presentation. Registration required.

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Debbi Morgan: The Monkey on My Back, 8 p.m., Publick

Playhouse, 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly. TV actress Debbi Morgan presents a personal memoir of her journey through a legacy of fear and abuse, which spanned three generations of women, beginning with her grandmother.

This program is recommended for mature audiences, as it contains adult themes and strong language.

Cost: $30-$45. Contact 301-2771710 or jenna.ward@pgparks.com.

SEPT. 9 With Pen in Hand, 7 p.m., Bowie Branch Library, 15210 Annapolis Road, Bowie. The Bowie Branch Writer’s Group invites authors of all genres, published or not, to join in writing and critiquing members’ works. Contact 301262-7000.

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Center, 14900 Health Center Drive, Bowie. Alzheimer’s Association support groups provide a place for people with Alzheimer’s, their caregivers, family members and friends to share valuable information. Contact 301-262-5082.

SEPT. 11 Stroke Support Group, 1 to 3 p.m., Doctors Community Hospital, 8116 Good Luck Road, Lanham. Join stroke survivors and caregivers to explore resources as well as learn about stroke prevention, healthy lifestyles and empowerment. For more information, contact Maher Kharma at 301-552-8144 or mkharma@ dchweb.org.

Book Discussion, 7:15 p.m., Bowie Branch Library, 15210 Annapolis Road, Bowie. Michael Shaara’s “The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War.” Contact 301-262-7000.

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Weed Warrior volunteers needed to help Bowie fight invasive ivy Upper Marlboro, Largo nonprofits receive grants

Volunteers are needed once again to help rescue Bowie’s trees from invasive ivy during the Bowie Green Team’s monthly Weed Warrior event from 2 to 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 15 at Whitemarsh Park.

Many people think the English ivy they see growing on trees is meant to be there, said Tiffany Wright, Bowie’s watershed manager and Green Team member.

But it’s an invasive and destructive species native to Europe that sucks nutrients from trees, weighs them down so they fall more easily during storms and can strangle them to death, she said.

“It can take down a forest,” she said.

The last two Weed Warrior events drew about 10 volunteers, she said, which are desperately needed.

“We simply can’t do it alone. We don’t have the numbers of people required to tackle a forest,” Wright said.

“And we find that [volunteers] really enjoy themselves ... I find it really rewarding.”

But the ivy does grow back quickly, and volunteers are needed each month to cut it away, she said.

At the event, volunteers are trained on removing the ivy and are provided tools, she said.

Volunteers must register to participate and should contact Wright at 301-809-3042 or e-mail her at twright@ cityofbowie.org.

The Walmart Foundation announced it will give $175,000 in grants to three Prince George’s County nonprofits, according to a company news release.

The nonprofits are the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Clagett Farm in Upper Marlboro, Prince George’s Child Resource Center in Largo and The Training Source Inc. in Seat Pleasant, which received the largest grant of $100,000, the release stated.

The Training Source provides job training for unemployed and at-risk adults and youth, said the nonprofit’s founder Kim Rhim.

“It is the largest corporate grant we’ve ever received in our 20 years of existence,” Rhim said. “It will support all of our community-based programs, particularly those that prepare youth and adults for productive participation in the workforce, which allows them to be Walmart employees, customers and neighbors. It’s a win-win for Walmart, The Training Source, Prince George’s County, its citizens and the region.”

County libraries going cashless The Prince George’s County Memorial Library System will no longer accept cash starting Oct. 1.

Bowie State hosts art exhibit Bowie State University will host the works of sculptor Ayokunle Odeleye from Sept. 12 through Oct. 31 at the university’s Fine and Performing Arts Center, said Damita Chambers, the university’s assistant director of communications.

The exhibit, “Ayokunle Odeleye: 32 Years of Public Art,” will feature miniature models of Odeleye’s largescale public sculptures made of bronze, stainless steel and wood that can be seen across the nation, including in Prince George’s County.

Over the past 30 years, the Washington, D.C., native has completed more than 20 public art commissions, including “The Three Guardians,” three stainless-steel sculptures that resemble human forms placed at the entrance of the Bunker Hill Fire

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United States Naval Academy midshipmen Kassandra G. Harriott and Dionnah Moore, both of Upper Marlboro, successfully completed “plebe summer.”

The effort is a grueling, sevenweek training program that prepares new midshipmen, or plebes, for their four years at the academy, said Colleen Roy, spokesperson for the Naval Academy, which is based in Annapolis.

Harriott is a 2012 graduate of Frederick Douglass High School in Upper Marlboro.

Moore is a 2012 graduate of Dr. Henry A. Wise High School in Upper

Law firm donates supplies to county schools Two Prince George’s County schools — William Paca Elementary in Landover and Glassmanor Elementary in Oxon Hill — were among four schools that received donated school supplies from a Washington, D.C., law firm.

Hogan Lovells donated a total of 500 backpacks, filled with notebooks, folders, scissors, crayons, pencils and other supplies, to the four schools, according to a news release.

“The students, staff, and parents of William Paca Elementary School are extremely grateful for Hogan Lovells’ generous school supply donations,” Principal Dorothy Clowers said in the release. “It pleases us greatly to know that there are individuals in our community that value the importance of education and are willing to help others.”

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The exhibit will also feature drawings and photographs chronicling Odeleye’s artistic process step by step, Chambers said.

“The public arts arena is a difficult one to break into and continue to be successful in. Odeleye has shown that he’s very successful and skillful in this arena,” Chambers said. “We wanted to give our students that exposure and introduce the public to public art and how important it is in building communities.”

Odeleye will speak at an opening reception Sept. 17 at the gallery, she said.

Kathleen Teaze, director of the library system, said the decision was made to improve security and efficiency.

“The cash at every branch is really starting to be a worry and we want to make sure that people know we don’t have it around,” Teaze said.

Accepting credit cards and debit cards, instead of cash, will reduce work required for cash reporting and accounting, Teaze said.

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Above, Avalon Elementary School students, staff and parents commemorate the 50th anniversary of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech by marching from the school in Fort Washington to Webster Lane Park, where a student recited King’s famous speech. Below, first-graders (from left) Ashley Diaz, 6, and Nayla Baker, 6, both of Fort Washington, hold a sign they made that reads, “I am a woman” as they march.

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As thousands commemorated the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28 in Washington, D.C., students at Avalon Elementary School held their own march for freedom in Fort Washington.

“It was amazing. They made me shed a tear,” said Leslie Holston, the school’s psychologist. “This is what the march is about — these kids.”

The entire student body, 375 K-6 students, took the three-minute walk from Avalon Elementary to Webster Lane Park as teachers chanted, “What do we want?” and students responded, “Freedom!”

At the park, sixth-grader Vernon Wade, 11, of Fort Washington recited King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech to the crowd of students, teachers and parents.

“I wanted to give the class some advice to stay good in school, and how Martin Luther King did well for them and died for them. ... He loved to give freedom,” Vernon said.

Students made signs, paper crowns and necklaces bearing messages of freedom, peace and equality. “[The march] was special to me because my greatgreat-grandparents had to sneak their wedding because my great-great-grandfather was white and my great-greatgrandmother was black,” said third-grader Brooklyn Exum, 8, of Fort Washington.

Brooklyn’s best friend, Shannon Egan, 8, of Fort Washington, said if it weren’t for King, she couldn’t be friends with Brooklyn because she’s white and Brooklyn is black.

“I wouldn’t like that,” Brooklyn said.

“Me either,” Shannon said.

“I have friends of all different races, so if Martin Luther King didn’t do all this, I wouldn’t be able to be friends with any of my best friends.”

Holston said the majority of Avalon Elementary students are black and Hispanic.

She said the children loved the experience of the march and the chanting, and they know who King is through what they’ve learned at school and from their parents.

“They’ll really get the meaning as they get older,” she said.

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of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and discussed what King meant to people 50 years ago and what he means today, said Ashley Knight, a fourthgrade social studies teacher at the school.

“[The march] is very informational so the children know to live the legacy their ancestors set up for them ... and make their parents proud,” she said. spetit@gazette.net

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Approximately 120 University of Maryland, College Park, students turned out along a stretch of road in north Laurel to do battle against an invasive species of vine threatening trees along the Patuxent River.

“The kudzu is really prevalent here, so we’re trying to get rid of it,” said sophomore

Lindsey Ganey as she stood on a steep embankment pulling kudzu off a tree.

“It’s pretty hard work,” said Ganey, 19, of College Park.

“There’s so much of it, but it’s not good for the trees.”

The students, dubbed “kudzu crusaders” by Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission community outreach manager Kimberly Knox, spent much of Aug. 29 pulling kudzu vines along the Patuxent’s north bank.

Kudzu is an ornamental vine native to Japan that has gotten out of control in parts

Prince George’s County Board of Education member Donna Hathaway-Beck announced Wednesday that she is resigning her District 9 seat effective Sept. 6, citing personal reasons.

Beck, 57, an Upper Marlboro resident, said she has struggled to balance her role on the school board with her role as grandmother to four young children.

“It’s very hard for me, when one of my grandchildren is coming to visit me, and I have to go to a three-hour long committee meeting,” Beck said. “I’ve really struggled with providing the type of constituent services I used to provide.”

School governance structure changes have shifted the board’s focus, she said.

“The role of the board member has morphed into community engagement and building families within the system,” Beck said. “I know at least 10 people in my district who would be phenomenal at this type of parental engagement work.”

Beck has served on the board since being elected as an at-large representative in 2006, following the dissolution of an appointed board.

Beck said she feels the school system will be in very capable hands with the appointment of Dr. Kevin Maxwell as school system leader, having known him for several years.

Beck said her resignation on

Sept. 6 will give her time to close out her affairs.

“I don’t want to give anyone the impression that I’m leaving in a huff or that kind of thing,” Beck said. Her current term would have ended December 2014.

A former president of the Upper Marlboro-based Frederick Douglass High School’s Parent Teacher Student Association, Beck has served on numerous education task forces, committees and PTAs, and said she had perfect attendance at board of education meetings for nine years prior to her election.

Board Vice Chairwoman Carolyn Boston (Dist. 6) described Beck as a tireless advocate for education.

“She really held our feet to the fire when it came to certain budget issues,” said Boston, citing Beck’s opposition in 2011 to then-Superintendent William Hite’s budget, which would have closed the William S. Schmidt Outdoor Education Center, “known as Camp Schmidt,” in Brandywine.

Beck is the second board member to resign this summer.

District 7 representative Carletta Fellows resigned abruptly July 11, citing personal reasons.

Education activist David Cahn, co-chairman of “Citizens for an Elected Board,” said he was “fantastically disappointed” to learn of Beck’s resignation.

“Donna will be sorely missed, not just because it means another appointment by Baker to the board, but because of her expertise on budget and capital improvement matters, and because she was always willing to go up against the powers-that-be,” Cahn said.

of the United States, covering trees and shrubs in ropy vines, leeching nutrients from the soil and blocking the trees’ access to sunlight, Knox said.

“That’s why its important to make sure trees can thrive even in winter, and they can’t do that if they’re covered in all this kudzu,” Knox said.

Knox said healthy trees and shrubs serve to cool river temperatures by providing shade, allowing the river to hold more oxygen for river life.

The kudzu is piled up and left to decompose, Knox said.

Sophomore Julian Gooch of

Accokeek, pulled kudzu vines from sickly trees with few leaves despite the summer season.

“It’s important to me because I want my community to look good,” Gooch said. “I don’t want to live in a community overrun by invasive plants.”

Ashley Heard, 19, a UMD junior, said she hoped the project raises environmental awareness.

“A lot of times, we just don’t think about the Patuxent, or trees and nature and whatnot, so I do think it is important that we serve the community in this way,” said the Clinton resident.

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Keith Washington, a former Prince George’s County homeland security official and county police officer, was denied a retrial Tuesday for his 2008 trial, in which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, said John Erzen, spokesman for the Prince George’s County Office of the State’s Attorney.

Washington, 53, requested a new trial claiming he was misrepresented by his original, privately hired lawyer, and his new attorney alleged multiple errors in the case, Erzen said.

“We opposed [Washington] getting a new trial ... . There wasn’t anything we found in terms of misrepresentation,” Erzen said.

Washington was sentenced to 45 years in prison for shooting two furniture deliverymen in 2007 at his Fort Washington home, killing one and wounding the other, Erzen said.

Washington claimed selfdefense but was convicted in

2008 of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of first-degree assault and two counts of use of a handgun while carrying out a violent crime, according to a county state’s attorney’s news release.

The judge allowed Washington to request a three-judge panel to review his sentence, which everyone is entitled to after sentencing, Erzen said.

Due to a paperwork-filing error, Washington did not receive the option to file for the panel review after he was initially sentenced, Erzen said.

“That was something he should have been able to do the first time around,” Erzen said.

“Something happened in the court system that wasn’t done properly.”

If Washington and his new attorney file a panel-review request, the panel can either increase, decrease or leave Washington’s sentence the same, Erzen said.

Washington’s attorney handling the request for retrial, Daniel Ginsburg, based in Rockville, did not return calls for comment by press time. spetit@gazette.net

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Thomas G. Pullen Creative and Performing Arts School gets a top grade for its curriculum, but a failing grade for the appearance of part of its property, according to some parents.

The school, at 700 Brightseat Road in Landover, is converting a front fenced-off area into a parking lot. Parents described the vacant lot as an “eyesore” and said that the construction — which began in 2011 — needs to be completed soon to improve traffic at the school.

Clemont Jacobs of Bowie said the lot, owned by Prince George’s County Schools, is unkept, with grass growing out of control. It has geese and rodents, he said.

“If it doesn’t look good, I’m not going to feel good about being in there,” Jacobs said.

His daughter, a third-grader at the school, has noticed the problem, he said.

Max Pugh, a school system spokesman, said he expects the parking lot to be completed by the end of November. Pugh said the project was delayed because of an issue with a past contractor.

Principal Pamela Lucas said

that about 10 additional buses are transporting students this school year, and have clogged carpool lanes.

ShaVon McConnell, a Prince George’s County Schools spokeswoman, said bus routes were added throughout the district in order to increase transportation efficiency.

Parents said some cars have been backed into Brightseat Road as a result of the added school buses, but the situation has improved since the first day of school, which was Aug. 19.

Lucas said a completed parking lot will clear traffic congestion by freeing space for cars and buses.

“With the way it looks, parents are frustrated. It’ll get better,” Lucas said.

Betty Sawyer, the parent of an 8-year-old student at the school, said she was impressed by the school’s teachers and staff members, but the vacant parking lot made the school appear unattractive to an outsider.

If she was not familiar with the school’s academic reputation, she said, she would not send her daughter there.

“First appearances are everything,” Sawyer said.

On the Maryland State Assessment — a test given to students in grades 3 through 8 — 92 percent of the Pullen students scored proficient or advanced in reading and 84.7 scored proficient or advanced in math.

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A Fort Washington man was sentenced Aug. 29 to more than nine years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a June 2012 armored car robbery in Rockville.

John Bernard Williams, 48, will spend 112 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for planning and robbing an armored car in front of the Navy Federal Credit Union in the 12000 block of Rockville Pike and for possession of a firearm connected to a violent crime, according to a news release from the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Williams planned the robbery with four other men and carried out the crime — steal-

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Parents of students attending Thomas G. Pullen Creative and Performing Arts School in Landover say the school’s parking lot, which is under construction, is an inconvenience and an “eyesore.” over, a parent of a Thomas Pullen second-grader, said the lot and transportation issues were a minor inconvenience.

“Looks can be deceiving. It’s a great school,” Dunnigan said.

Melanie Johnson, whose daughter recently enrolled in kindergarten at the school, said

aesthetics were secondary to the education.

“That doesn’t really interest me,” Johnson said of the vacant lot. “What I’m concerned about is what’s happening behind those doors.”

ing $220,000 — on June 13, 2012, according to the plea agreement. Kai Holt, 38, of Waldorf and Marcus Brooks, 21 of Lanham approached the armored car, and Holt drew a gun, causing the employee to drop the money and flee, according to the plea agreement, and the men divvied up the money.

Officials believe some of the money was spent but didn’t have any other details on the stolen cash, said Special Agent Rich Wolf, Baltimore Division FBI spokesman.

Holt and Brooks, as well as Carmen Camacho, 31, of Fort Washington, all have pleaded guilty and await sentencing, according to the news release.

Deangelo Williams, 20, of Fort Washington also pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison. ccook@gazette.net

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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY’S ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR For a free listing, please submit complete information to noravec@gazette.net at least 10 days in advance of desired publication date. High-resolution color images (500KB minimum) in jpeg format should be submitted when available.

THEATER & STAGE Bowie Community Theatre, “The Cover of Life,” coming in November, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-805-0219, www.bctheatre. com.

Bowie State University, TBA, Fine and Performing Arts Center, Bowie State University, 14000 Jericho Park Road, Bowie, 301-8603717, www.bowiestate.edu.

Busboys & Poets, Hyattsville, TBA, 5331 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, 301-779-2787 (ARTS), www.busboysandpoets.com.

Harmony Hall Regional Center, Afternoon Tea: Jeremy Koch, 2 p.m. Sept. 11; Kids Day Out: Andre’s Salguero, 10:30 a.m. Sept. 18, call for prices, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-2036070, arts.pgparks.com.

Greenbelt Arts Center, TBA, call for prices, times, Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, 301-441-8770, www. greenbeltartscenter.org.

Hard Bargain Players, “A Soldier’s Story,” weekends, to Sept.

7; “Evil Dead: The Musical,” coming in October, 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, www.hbplayers. org.

Joe’s Movement Emporium, TBA, 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, 301-699-1819, www.joesmovement.org.

Laurel Mill Playhouse, 2013 One Act Festival, Sept. 6-22, call for ticket prices, Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel, 301-452-2557, www.laurelmillplayhouse.org.

Montpelier Arts Center, Joseph Arthur, Alternative Rock, 8 p.m.

Sept. 6; Tizer Quartet, World/ Jazz Fusion, 8 p.m. Sept. 13, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301-3777800, arts.pgparks.com.

National Harbor, Cavalia’s “Odysseo,” Oct. 16, White Big Top, National Harbor, Maryland. Tickets on sale now. www.cavalia.net, 1-866-999-8111.

Prince George’s Little Theatre, “Twentieth Century,” to Sept. 15, call for tickets and show times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White

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Publick Playhouse, Debbi Morgan, 8 p.m. Sept. 7; Jim West’s Dinosaurs, 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

Sept. 12; Free Platinum Movie: “Lilies of the Field,” 11 a.m. Sept.

17, 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly, 301-277-1710, arts.pgparks.com.

2nd Star Productions, “Little Shop of Horrors,” coming in September, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, call for prices, times, 410-757-5700, 301-832-4819, www.2ndstarproductions.com.

Tantallon Community Players, “Quartet,” coming in October, Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-262-5201, www.tantallonstage.com.

VISUAL ARTS Brentwood Arts Exchange, “Her Words,” Sept. 9 to Oct. 19, opening reception scheduled for 5-8 p.m. Sept. 14, 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood, 301-2772863, arts.pgparks.com.

Harmony Hall Regional Center, Passages Revisited - Paintings by Tinam Valk, to Oct. 11, gallery hours from 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Monday through Friday, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-203-6070. arts.pgparks.com.

Montpelier Arts Center, “Hiroshima Schoolyard,” Nov. 4 to Dec. 1, reception scheduled for 3-5 p.m.

Nov. 10, gallery open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301-377-7800, arts.pgparks.com.

University of Maryland University College, TBA, call for prices

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and venue, 3501 University Blvd., Adelphi, 301-985-7937, www. umuc.edu/art.

OLD HOLLYWOOD Jeff Landou as Oscar Jaffe and Susan Harper as Lily Garland in the Prince George’s Little Theatre production of “Twentieth Century,” to Sept. 15 at the Bowie Playhouse. For more information, visit www.pglt.org.

NIGHTLIFE Hand Dancing with D.C. Hand Dance Club, free lesson from 4 to

5 p.m., dancing from 5 to 9 p.m.

Sundays at the Coco Cabana, 2031-A University Blvd. E., Hyattsville, $10 cover, www.dchanddanceclub.com.

New Deal Café, Mid-day melo-

dies with Amy C. Kraft, noon, Sept.

5, 12, 19, 26; Open Mic with Paige Powell, 7 p.m. Sept. 5; John Guernsey, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, 27-28; The 8-Balls, 8 p.m.

Sept. 6; The TV John Show, 11 a.m.

Sept. 7; Bruce Kritt, 4 p.m. Sept.

7, 14, 21; Buck & The Bucktones, 8 p.m. Sept. 7; Jazz Guitar with Jann Knutson, 12:30 p.m. Sept. 8; Brendan Pelan and Chick Hall, 5 p.m. Sept. 8; Melissa Sites, 7 p.m.

Sept. 10; Walls and Vino, 7 p.m.

Sept. 11; Open Mic with James and Martha, 7 p.m. Sept. 12; Gina DeSimone & the Moaners, 8 p.m.

Sept. 13; Greenbelt Blues Festival 2013, 1-8 p.m. Sept. 14; Not2Cool Jazz Trio, 11 a.m. Sept. 15; Kids’ Open Mic, 1:30 p.m. Sept. 15; Fez Tones Hafla, 6 p.m. Sept. 15; Real and Meal at the New Deal, 7 p.m.

Sept. 16; Open Mic with Joe Harris, 7 p.m. Sept. 19; Fast Eddie and the Slowpokes, 8 p.m. Sept. 20; Black Muddy River Band, 8 p.m.

Sept. 21; Rattlesnake Hill, 5 p.m.

Sept. 22; Steve Haug, 7 p.m. Sept.

24; Cajun Music Jam, 7 p.m. Sept.

25; Songwriter’s Association of Washington, 7 p.m. Sept. 26; The Roustabouts, 8 p.m. Sept. 27; Greg

Meyer, 1 p.m. Sept. 28; Cold Hard Cash, 8 p.m. Sept. 28, 113 Centerway Road, 301-474-5642, www. 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, www.oldbowietowngrille.com.

OUTDOORS Dinosaur Park, Dinosaur Park

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

Mount Rainier Nature Center, Toddler Time: hands-on treasures, crafts, stories and soft play, 10:30 a.m.-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 Sat-

urdays, 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.

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REC CENTERS Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex, Senior Days at

the Sportsplex, 8 a.m.-noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, seniors allowed free use of the fitness center and pool, age 60 and up, 8001 Sheriff Road, Landover, 301-583-2400.

Seat Pleasant Activity Center, Line Dancing, 6:30-8 p.m.

Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Saturdays, $40 series, $6 drop-ins, age 18 and up, 5720 Addison Road, Seat Pleasant, 301-773-6685.

ET CETERA College Park Aviation Museum, Peter Pan Club, 10:30-11:30 a.m. second and fourth Thursdays of every month, activities for pre-schoolers, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2-18; Afternoon Aviators, 2-4:30 p.m. Fridays, hands-on aviation-themed activities for age 5 and up, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2-18, events free with admission, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park, 301-8646029, www.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.

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

District 2 Headquarters, Bowie, 301-3902100 Glenn Dale, Kettering, Lanham, Largo, Seabrook, Woodmore, Lake Arbor, Mitchellville and Upper Marlboro.

AUG. 26 Commercial property break-in,

4500 block Mitchellville Road, 3:07 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 800 block Commerce Drive, 8:13 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 13700 block Central Ave., 9:31 a.m.

Theft, 11100 block Lake Victoria Lane, 9:51 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3000 block Ladova Way, 10:18 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 12500 block Saber Lane, 12:06 p.m.

Theft, 13700 block Central Ave., 1:09 p.m.

Assault, 15200 block Annapolis Road, 1:16 p.m.

Theft, 15500 block Annapolis Road, 3:13 p.m.

Theft, 13700 block Primrose Court, 4:25 p.m.

Theft, 4800 block Wild Horse Court, 4:52 p.m.

Theft, 700 block Haack Place, 4:54 p.m.

Theft, 4600 block Mitchellville Road, 5:52 p.m.

Theft, 800 block Capital Center Blvd., 6:19 p.m.

Theft, 12000 block Partello Road, 6:40 p.m.

Theft, 10000 block Franklin Ave. E, 8:51 p.m.

AUG. 27 Vehicle stolen and recovered,

Kings Valley Drive/Kings Manor Drive, 4:57 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4700 block Ridgeline Terrace, 8:10 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 100 block Azalea Court, 8:52 a.m.

Theft, 13600 block United Lane, 9:54 a.m.

Residential break-in, 11800 block Shadystone Terrace, 9:57 a.m.

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Residential break-in, 100 block Weymouth St., 12:13 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11200 block Westport Drive, 12:40 p.m.

Theft, 9200 block Alcona St., 1:09 p.m.

Residential break-in, 9700 block Good Luck Road, 4:22 p.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

4300 block Holmehurst Way W, 4:49 p.m.

Theft, 400 block Bloomfield Lane, 4:58 p.m.

Theft, 7100 block Forbes Blvd., 5:06 p.m.

Residential break-in, 10700 block Kitchener Court, 7:22 p.m.

Theft, 4900 block Marlborough Grove, 7:58 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8900 block Hickory Hill Ave., 10:10 p.m.

562V, 12500 block Annapolis Road, 11:10 p.m.

AUG. 28 Theft from vehicle, 10100 block Martin Ave., 7:12 a.m.

Residential break-in, 12900 block Victoria Heights Drive, 7:19 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, Boston Way/ Forbes Blvd., 7:25 a.m.

Residential break-in, 9000 block Stevens Lane, 7:33 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8400 block Old Marlboro Pike, 7:49 a.m.

Commercial property break-in,

16000 block Queens Court, 8:25 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7100 block Glen Pine St., 8:49 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10100 block Dolby Ave., 9:07 a.m.

Theft, 9800 block Good Luck Road, 9:28 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10000 block Broadleaf St., 1:28 p.m.

Theft, 15100 block Dunleigh Drive, 2:00 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9400 block Largo Drive W, 2:36 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4900 block Ashford Drive, 2:43 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 900 block Largo Center Drive, 4:16 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8900 block Annapolis Road, 4:39 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8900 block Annapolis Road, 4:46 p.m.

Theft, 15000 block Nancy Gibbons Terrace, 5:39 p.m.

Theft, 300 block Largo Road, 5:40 p.m.

Theft, 100 block White Marsh Park Drive, 7:12 p.m.

Robbery, 600 block Harry S Truman Drive, 10:30 p.m.

AUG. 29 Vehicle stolen and recovered,

12600 block Brooke Lane, 5:25 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1700 block Golf Course Drive, 8:04 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1400 block Fairlakes Place, 9:22 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3600 block Violetwood Place, 9:39 a.m.

Residential break-in, 1900 block Wetherbourne Court, 10:31 a.m.

Theft, 900 block Pleasant Hill Lane, 10:34 a.m.

Sexual assault, 6300 block Block Naval Ave., 2:19 p.m.

Theft, 4000 block Town Center Blvd., 5:01 p.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

12800 block Whiteholm Drive, 6:13 p.m.

Theft, 12800 block Whiteholm Drive, 7:04 p.m.

Residential break-in, 13200 block Burleigh St., 9:27 p.m.

AUG. 30 Robbery, 500 block Largo Center Drive, 1:52 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 7000 block Hanover Parkway, 4:24 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2400 block Jumper Lane, 5:52 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 12700 block Heidi Marie Court, 6:12 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 800 block Jackson Valley Court, 6:15 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 10500 block Greenbelt Road,

6:51 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11400 block Lake Arbor Way, 6:55 a.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

900 block St. Michaels Drive, 7:07 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11400 block Lake Arbor Way, 7:58 a.m.

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BLOTTER

Continued from Page A-6 Commercial property breakin, 200 block Commerce Drive,

8:22 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8600 block Greenbelt Road, 8:46 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 13700 block Central Ave.,

9:49 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2400 block Nicol Cir, 10:16 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, unit block of Harry S Truman Drive, 10:46 a.m.

Theft, 9500 block New Orchard Drive, 12:31 p.m.

Theft, 300 block Largo Road, 2:03 p.m.

Residential break-in, 100 block Joyceton Terrace, 2:18 p.m.

Theft, 3700 block Town Center Blvd., 4:00 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 9500 block Dogwood Park St., 5:15 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3600 block Violetwood Place, 5:58 p.m.

Residential break-in, 12100 block Open View Lane, 7:33 p.m.

Theft, 100 block Joyceton Terrace, 8:52 p.m.

AUG. 31 Robbery, Lottsford Road/

Picard Lane, 12:01 a.m.

Theft, 900 block Millponds Court, 7:00 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3000 block Belair Drive, 8:04 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 9700 block Linwood Ave., 8:12 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 10100 block Prince Place, 9:24 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10000 block Campus Way S, 10:04 a.m.

Theft, unit block of Herrington Drive, 10:25 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9700 block Annapolis Road, 12:09 p.m.

Theft, 10600 block Martin Luther King Jr Highway, 12:39 p.m.

Theft, 15600 block Annapolis Road, 1:16 p.m.

Theft, 10600 block Martin Luther King Highway, 5:06 p.m.

Robbery, Lottsford Road/ Grand Blvd., 8:55 p.m.

Assault, 3400 block Manderes Place, 9:54 p.m.

SEPT. 1 Robbery, 11000 block Belton St., 12:37 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 10400 block Birdie Lane, 7:45 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 700 block Harry S Truman Drive, 9:19 a.m.

Assault, 8100 block Good Luck Road, 9:24 a.m.

Sexual assault, 14000 block Jericho Park Road, 9:52 a.m.

Theft, 8600 block Greenbelt Road, 10:45 a.m.

Theft, 800 block Capital Center Blvd., 2:39 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 15200 block Marlboro Pike, 5:15 p.m.

Theft, 900 block Largo Center Drive, 6:04 p.m.

Theft, 8800 block Greenbelt Road, 6:10 p.m.

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

AUG. 26 Theft from vehicle, 1100 block Palmer Road, 4:00 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8300 block Indian Head Highway, 5:16 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8300 block Indian Head Highway, 5:55 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1100 block Palmer Road, 6:58 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1200 block Palmer Road, 7:28 a.m.

Theft, 13600 block Chestnut Oak Lane, 7:49 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, Curtis Drive/Nb Branch Ave., 8:21 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 500 block Wilson Bridge Drive, 8:48 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3800 block St. Barnabas Road, 9:43 a.m.

Theft, 4300 block St. Barnabas Road, 10:34 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2400 block Mary Place, 10:55 a.m.

Theft, 5200 block Boydell Ave., 11:54 a.m.

Theft, 3200 block Brinkley Road, 12:19 p.m.

Theft, 5700 block Allentown Road, 12:37 p.m.

Theft, 5000 block Braymer Ave., 1:12 p.m.

Theft, 6200 block Oxon Hill Road, 1:37 p.m.

Theft, 5200 block St. Barnabas Road, 2:09 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4000 block Meadowview Drive, 2:57 p.m.

Robbery, Gaither St./25th Ave., 3:40 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 400 block Manning Road, 4:25 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 100 block South Huron Drive, 5:40 p.m.

Residential break-in, 6200 block Oxon Hill Road, 6:37 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 15700 block Livingston Road, 6:42 p.m.

Theft, 5100 block Indian Head Highway, 9:39 p.m.

AUG. 27 Residential break-in, 11800 block Tregiovo Place, 8:40 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4500 block Rena Road, 8:49 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5100 block Indian Head Highway, 10:03 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 5000 block Auth Way, 11:46 a.m.

Residential break-in, 4500 block Dallas Place, 2:18 p.m.

Theft, 1600 block Old Piscataway Road, 2:43 p.m.

Residential break-in, 4000 block 23rd Parkway, 5:48 p.m.

AUG. 28 Sexual assault, 1100 block Block Dumfries St., 12:51 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7200 block Tarboro Place, 6:07 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4000 block 23rd Parkway, 6:37 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 5900 block Fisher Road, 6:57

a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1000 block Kennebec St., 7:22 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 200 block Kerby Hill Road, 7:30 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7900 block Claudia Drive, 8:12 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 4900 block Allentown Road,

9:48 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 1400 block Southview Drive, 12:01 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3800 block St. Barnabas Road, 12:13 p.m.

Assault, 100 block Waterfront St., 12:19 p.m.

Residential break-in, 1100 block Kennebec St., 12:28 p.m.

Robbery, 9400 block Livingston Road, 1:54 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1000 block Marcy Ave., 2:15 p.m.

Residential break-in, 2400 block Corning Ave., 3:18 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3700 block Branch Ave., 3:25 p.m.

Residential break-in, 3500 block Silver Park Drive, 4:30 p.m.

Theft, 6200 block Oxon Hill Road, 4:37 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 2800 block Melisa Drive, 8:28 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3100 block Marilyn Drive, 8:34 p.m.

Residential break-in, 12400 block Parkton St., 11:19 p.m.

AUG. 31 Assault, 11700 block Livingston Road, 2:24 a.m.

Theft, 6100 block Oxon Hill Road, 4:00 a.m.

Residential break-in, 3700 block Silver Park Court, 4:46 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 5900 block Fisher Road, 8:55 a.m.

Theft, 5100 block Indian Head Highway, 10:22 a.m.

Theft, 12300 block Chado Court, 11:31 a.m.

Theft, 6300 block Livingston Road, 2:52 p.m.

Theft, 100 block American Way, 11:18 p.m.

Residential break-in, 100 block Farmington Road W, 11:36 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7200 block Crafford Place, 11:55 p.m.

8:18 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6300 block Maxwell Drive, 9:48 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4400 block Branch Ave., 9:54 a.m.

Theft, 10600 block Old Fort Road S, 10:01 a.m.

Theft, 2400 block Mary Place, 10:19 a.m.

Theft, 200 block Waterfront St., 11:57 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 13200 block Lenfant Drive, 12:13 p.m.

Sexual assault, 3600 block Block Silver Park Drive, 1:19 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1100 block Southview Drive, 2:34 p.m.

Residential break-in, 100 block North Huron Drive, 5:07 p.m.

Residential break-in, 1400 block Southern Ave., 6:34 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3900 block Branch Ave., 7:10 p.m.

Theft, 6700 block Marianne Drive, 7:43 p.m.

Carjacking, 4800 block Snowower Blvd., 8:42 p.m.

Robbery, 4500 block Rena Road, 10:10 p.m.

AUGUST 29 Vehicle stolen and recovered,

Oxon Hill Road/Livingston Road, 2:43 a.m.

Residential break-in, 2300 block Oxon Run Drive, 5:13 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 500 block Moat Way, 6:45 a.m.

Break-in, 13100 block Clarion Court, 7:21 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5400 block Woodland Blvd., 10:31 a.m.

Robbery on commercial property, 4600 block Old Branch

Ave., 11:15 a.m.

Robbery, 2900 block St. Clair Drive, 1:31 p.m.

Theft, 3500 block Branch Ave., 2:51 p.m.

Residential break-in, 4200 block Wandering Court, 3:06 p.m.

Theft, 6200 block Oxon Hill Road, 3:57 p.m.

Theft, 3200 block Brinkley Road, 4:36 p.m.

Assault, 6000 block Oxon Hill Road, 5:16 p.m.

Assault, 10800 block Indian Head Highway, 5:55 p.m.

Theft, 900 block East Swan Creek Road, 6:06 p.m.

Residential break-in, 5500 block Livingston Terrace, 7:52 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5600 block Shawnee Drive, 7:55 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6200 block Dimrill Court, 8:34 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8800 block Fran Del Drive, 9:46 p.m.

AUG. 30 Theft from vehicle, 700 block Irvington St., 5:25 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 3300 block Curtis Drive, 5:46 a.m.

Robbery on commercial property, 6200 block Suitland Road,

SEPT. 1 Theft from vehicle, 4100 block Applegate Court, 12:25 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, Glen Way/Mike Road, 5:49 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 6000 block Elmendorf Drive, 5:58 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2900 block St. Clair Drive, 8:55 a.m.

Theft, 12400 block Asbury Drive, 11:22 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 1300 block Iverson St., 11:43 a.m.

Residential break-in, 4900 block Glassmanor Drive, 12:43 p.m.

Theft, 100 block Waterfront St., 3:57 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2300 block Olson St., 4:58 p.m.

District 5 Headquarters, Clinton, 301856-3130. Temple Hills, Accokeek, Fort Washington, Upper Marlboro, Croom, Marlton, Baden, Clinton, Eagle Harbor, Brandywine, Cheltenham and Aquasco.

AUG. 26 Theft from vehicle, 5800 block Kirby Road, 10:24 a.m.

Theft, 13500 block Baden Westwood Road, 12:09 p.m.

Robbery, 3700 block Stonesboro Road, 2:25 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7500 block Surratts Road, 5:31 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7700 block Matapeake Business Drive, 6:36 p.m.

AUG. 27 Theft from vehicle, 7400 block Surratts Road, 10:10 a.m.

Theft, 11000 block Thrift Road, 10:19 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 8400 block Branchwood Cir, 4:03 p.m.

Theft, 9600 block Hale Drive, 6:12 p.m.

Robbery on commercial property, 8900 block Woodyard

Road, 9:09 p.m.

AUG. 28 Theft from vehicle, 8800 block Fairhaven Ave., 5:40 a.m.

Commercial property break-

9600 block Marlboro Pike, 6:34 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6700 block Robinia Road, 6:36 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10100 block Goldfinch Court, 6:58 a.m. in,

Commercial property breakin, 6400 block Old Branch Ave.,

7:13 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 7600 block Serenade Cir, 8:03 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 12600 block Monarch Court, 8:58 a.m.

Theft, 6700 block Crafton Lane, 9:34 a.m.

Theft, 9800 block Piscataway Road, 11:01 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9400 block Caliph St., 11:04 a.m.

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BY KRISTA BRICK STAFF WRITER

An Upper Marlboro man died Sunday when the car he was driving struck a tree off of New Hampshire Avenue near Greenbridge Road in Brookeville.

Gerald Anthony Veney, 54 of Upper Marlboro, was driving his car south on New Hampshire Avenue when police say his car crossed the northbound lane, left the roadway, struck a tree and overturned about 1:45 a.m.

Sunday.

Veney was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a Montgomery County Police release.

Attempts to contact Veney’s family were unsuccessful.

The accident remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Collision Reconstruction Unit at 240-773-6620. Callers may remain anonymous.

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Continued from Page A-1 Since the watchdog group’s creation in 2011, it has filed challenges with the Maryland Board of Elections regarding Prince George’s voter list in May and July of 2012, Kelleher said.

“The [state] board did what they always do, and they did nothing,” she said, referring to the group’s first two filings. “We do not feel they have adequately demonstrated they’ve been looking into these matters ... If we do get a response, it’s a partial response.”

Mary Cramer Wagner, director of the Maryland Board of Elections’ voter registration and petition division, said she received the group’s reports and, following protocol, turned them over to the county, which constantly audits county lists.

“List maintenance is an ongoing daily process,” Wagner said.

Maryland is a member of ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center, a nonprofit data center that offers member states access to a technology software that allows them to cross-examine voter rolls with state drivers license registration records to verify information is up-to-date, Wagner said.

Maryland is one of seven states to initially join ERIC, which launched in 2012.

Prince George’s Board of Elections sent Kelleher a letter on Sept. 12, 2012 — which she acknowledged receiving — that summarized the county’s findings after it reviewed the voter rolls in question, said Daneen Banks, deputy administrator for the county board of elections.

Banks said the county looked at the thousands of potentially deceased voters or those with potentially wrong addresses the group cited, including 1,026 records of people who might have moved homes.

“We found some, but we could not confirm all of the irregularities [the group] reported because they used sources we cannot by law use,” she said.

“We cannot haphazardly remove someone from the voter rolls based on a Facebook status.”

For example, an obituary is not proof a voter is dead. Confirmation must come from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Banks said.

If a voter record is thought to be inaccurate, the state or county board will send a confirmation letter to the address on the record. If no one replies and the voter does not vote for two consecutive election cycles, the voter is labeled “inactive” and then removed from the list.

“We responded and actually went through the process of reviewing and handling this,” Banks said. “We took it very seriously.”

Kelleher said the county did not review nearly enough records and will not allow for follow-up questions. “[Integrity groups] are having the exact same issues across the country,” she said. spetit@gazette.net

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Continued from Page A-1 The county is withholding Hope’s use-and-occupancy permit for the laser tag center until she complies with the parking requirement. In the spring, a judge granted Hope’s request to keep the center open while she attempts to get a new permit, said Hope’s attorney, Arthur Horne Jr. Previously, the laser tag business had been designated a “private school for artistic instruction“ in conjunction with the gymnastics center. When a laser tag customer called the county with concerns about the facility, county inspectors realized Hope had opened the laser tag business without getting the proper permit and issued a violation, said Susan Hubbard, a spokesperson for the county Department of Permitting, Inspections and Enforcement.

“They had opened up this laser tag business that we had no idea about and would not have known about,” Hubbard said.

Hope, however, said Castle Laser Tag passed county inspections when it opened under the same permit as the gymnastics center and said the county’s change of mind is due to an unhappy customer’s complaints.

Hope has asked Bowie to waive the county’s parking-

AIRPORT

Continued from Page A-1 and the cause of the accident is under investigation, said National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Eric Weiss.

Most aviation accidents that occur in a given year typically happen with general aviation flights, which are all civilian flights except scheduled passenger airlines, such as the recently crashed Freeway Airport plane, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

There were 1,471 general aviation accidents recorded in 2012 in the U.S. and there is an average of about 1,500 a year,

space requirement.

While the city has no municipal planning or zoning power, it does have authority over the development of parking spaces, said Frank Stevens, the city’s senior planner.

Stevens said Bowie officials deal with cases like this about once a year. Last year, the city exempted an office building on Superior Lane from having to provide more parking spaces, he said.

Bowie’s Department of Planning and Economic Development is holding a public hearing on Hope’s request Sept.

10, Stevens said.

Hope’s attorney said adding more parking spaces is unnecessary, he said, since laser tag facilities target a younger audience and don’t need much parking since parents usually drop children off and teenagers drive there in groups, Horne said.

“We’ve never had a problem with parking. We’ve never had a complaint,” Hope said.

“We have so much parking, it’s unbelievable. Never has the parking lot been full.”

Prince George’s only other laser tag facility, XP Laser Sport, is located in a shopping center in Laurel, the county’s only municipality with full planning and zoning power. Laurel requires one parking space for every 80 square feet of “commercial recreation” property, said Karl Brendle, director of the Laurel according to a NTSB safety report.

The airport has been in Bowie since 1947.

Matt Lindquist, Freeway Airport’s chief pilot, said he hasn’t seen many crash instances since starting at the airport in 1999 and estimated there had been no more than five.

“Our concern is for the pilot and his well-being; that’s our focus,” he said. “This is just one of those rare things that happen. Most of the incidents have just been localized to the airport grounds and airport property.”

Lindquist said in the instances when something occurs

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Castle Laser Tag might have to close unless Bowie officials waive a Prince George’s County zoning ordinance that would require owner Cherie Hope to provide about 100 additional parking spaces. Hope said there are no neighboring properties up for sale to expand the lot and she can’t afford to buy property if it were available.

Department of Community Planning and Business Services.

However, Laurel officials don’t apply blanket regulations to establishments that aren’t specified in the law, like laser tag centers, Brendle said. Officials would interview the busi-

ness owner to get a sense of how much parking is needed, he said.

In this case, XP Laser Sport’s parking requirements were lumped into the overall shopping center’s requirements, Brendle said.

“If the city doesn’t approve the [exemption], it’s not by any means over. We’ll look at other alternatives. Hopefully, we won’t have to cross that bridge,” Hope’s attorney said.

outside the airport boundary, it’s due to poor weather or pilot error.

“I get why people would be concerned, but these kinds of incidents unfortunately tend to be in takeoff or landing within the airport boundary.” he said.

The incident marked the second crash from Freeway in less than a month.

“They need to make sure the planes are properly maintained and they should alert the community to what they are doing about the crashes,” said Ray Dent of Bowie.

Freeway officials said in the event of minor incidents, NTSB is alerted and the incident is recorded in the log books, but

the community is not alerted unless people are injured or a plane is severely damaged.

Dent lives on Old State Road, an area about couple of miles from the airport.

“It could have landed on a home,” Dent said. “It could have been more a catastrophe than it was.”

Modupe Owo, who owns a grocery store near the airport, said officials should consider moving the airport now that so many people live in the area.

“We are talking about safety,” said Owo of Bowie. “It is too close to homes and too close to the freeway.”

A small, single-engine plane crashed into a corn field outside

Bowie during landing on Aug. 24, according to a Maryland State Police news release. The four passengers were not severely injured and walked away from the plane, which flipped upside down, according to the release. Freeway officials said the crash was due to pilot error.

Owo said she hears the planes often and with recent events, whenever she hears planes approaching closely, she gets concerned.

“I pray nothing is going to happen,” Owo said.

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Staff Writer Jeffrey Lyles contributed to this report. ccook@gazette.net

Three Maryland men who were convicted of drug trafficking were sentenced Aug. 27 to federal prison terms.

Omar Steele, 43, of Upper Marlboro received a 16-year prison sentence. Francisco Barahona, 35, of Gaithersburg received an 11-year sentence.

Noe Farid Medrano, 42, of Adamstown received a 10-year sentence.

They were convicted in April in federal court for distributing heroin and cocaine, online court records show.

The men had been accused of obtaining as much as 15 kilograms of heroin and as much as 50 kilograms of cocaine.

Steele had been charged with conspiring to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin and five kilograms of cocaine and other counts.

Steele obtained the drugs and Medrano and Barahona moved them from Montgomery County to places as far as Connecticut, and brought drugs to the area from suppliers in Texas and Georgia, according to a statement detailing the sentencing issued by the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland.

Kira Anne West, who represents Omar Steele, disagreed with the sentence.

“The problem with the district of Maryland is that federal prosecutors don’t exercise judgement in what they charge,” she said. “Someone who’s a nonviolent offender doesn’t need to go to prison for 16 years.”

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Prince George’s County school board member Carletta Fellows (Dist. 7) listens during the first school board meeting in June under chairman Segun Eubanks, who was appointed by County Executive Rushern L. Baker III. Fellows resigned in July, and Baker has appointed a member to fill her seat.

Don’t replace elected members with appointees

It’s tempting to refer to the Prince George’s County school board as Baker’s board, after all — due to two recent resignations — five of the board’s 13 members will have been appointed by County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D).

Under a new state law that took effect June 1, the county executive was allowed to appoint three members to the nine-member elected school board, and the County Council was allowed to appoint one member. In addition, the county executive was given power to TWEAK STATE LAW appoint members to any vacant seats — and two elected members have SO RESIDENTS resigned since the law was impleCAN KEEP VOICE mented.

IN SCHOOL For critics who opposed the plan BOARD EFFORTS to put appointees on the board, this is a nightmare. Part of the reason so many were willing to accept the new law was because elected members would still dominate the group and be answerable to constituents.

It’s extremely rare for elected members to leave before the end of their terms, so when Carletta Fellows (Dist. 7) resigned July 11 and Donna Hathaway-Beck (Dist. 9) announced her resignation last week (effective Sept. 6), it raised a question that many hadn’t foreseen: Could Baker’s picks somehow become the dominant voice on the board?

The answer, unfortunately, is yes.

Is it the best plan? No. The new structure of the school board is helpful in that it allows the county executive and council to put education experts on the board who can provide some continuity, depth of knowledge and guidance for elected members, who often are not well-versed in school, budgetary and political processes.

The structure also allows residents to have representatives to hold accountable for education efforts. When the county had only appointed board members from 2002 to 2006, residents seemed to lose their power as school leaders could make decisions without fear of being booted from office.

Having Baker fill empty slots threatens a return to such a situation.

Granted, having two board members quit is an anomaly. Hathaway-Beck, who was a well-known education advocate well before she was first elected in 2006, said she wants to spend more time with her four grandchildren and didn’t want that family time to come at the expense of her constituents.

Fellows, whose board-issued credit card was suspended for unauthorized charges just months before her resignation, had been a contentious figure on the board, garnering criticism for her “brain trust” approach to decision-making (relying on a group of experts she assembled to advice her on county matters) and her questioning of budget decisions and procedures.

Neither situation was predicted, but they both reveal a need for a change in the state law: Elected positions should remain elected positions.

Sure, not having to go through two special elections keeps the county from spending money, but residents shouldn’t lose their voice — regardless of the savings.

And while residents of District 9, the southern portion of the county, will only have an appointed member until the next election in November 2014, those in District 7 — in the south central part of the county — will have to wait until 2016 to regain an elected representative because of Fellows’ departure.

In Baker’s defense, he’s selecting strong members with experience that will surely benefit the board, but he must remember that allowing the public to choose representatives is important, too.

Given the longstanding performance problems the Prince George’s school system has endured, Baker’s aggressive approach in getting the General Assembly to allow him to be more hands-on regarding education is understandable.

Hopefully, as time reveals weaknesses in the new state law — such as the rule allowing the county executive to fill elected vacancies with appointed members — Baker will be equally charged to improve the legislation.

Gazette-Star Douglas S. Hayes, Associate Publisher

We people take our lives for granted and tend to be disabled when we are not.

I wouldn’t want to claim being handicapped when I’m not. I would feel as though I’m jinxing myself. However, to get a closer parking space, I used to think about it.

I watch people every day at grocery stores, shopping malls, etc., parking in handicap parking spaces, get out of their cars — seemingly to be in good health — put a handicap sticker on their vehicle mirror, and walk with no limp, no walking chair, no nothing. They have taken up space for someone who is truly handicapped.

Where are the cops to see this, to issue these inconsiderate people tickets?

Parking a little ways from the mall won’t hurt you at all. Besides, of the people I see doing this, some are obese and some are just plain lazy — but they will walk a mile to see a Redskins game. I don’t know about you, but I am thankful I don’t need a handicap sticker, and to the perpetrators, you should be as well.

I think stickers should only apply to people who can’t walk at all, and for those who can walk just a little, don’t give it to them. You are hindering their health to do better. Make them walk so they won’t be dependent; that probably will cut out

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Renee Ferebee, Temple Hills

New federal regs could threaten local farms Each week at farm stands in the Maryland area, we try to explain a peculiar situation to our customers. On the one hand, they want to buy our fresh fruit and vegetables. However, I tell them, that in a few years, these will all be illegal to sell.

Why? Because they have some degree of dirt and bacteria on them. The strawberries, for instance, have some trace amount of straw and soil on them. As do the tomatoes, beans and cucumbers. We rinse them before leaving the farm — but we won’t put them through a disinfectant bath nor pack them in antiseptic plastic containers and put “PLU” labels on them. That’s not what consumers want at a farm market — nor is it something we’ll be able to do.

Regulations for a new food law — FSMA, the Food Safety Modernization Act — administered by the FDA are currently in the process of being finalized. Although the act originally had protections for family farmers like myself, we see those being ignored or phased out over time.

Common sense and following the data of recent food safety scares lead us to a very strong conclusion: the further the food travels from the farm to the consumer, the more opportunities it has to become a food safety problem.

This is one reason why 20 million consumers come to farmers markets like ours and want fresh produce from our fields — preferably grown without pesticides,

herbicides or GMO seeds. And sadly, protecting consumers from these synthetic perils is not addressed by FSMA. Nor does the FDA address what is common sense to many scientists, doctors and parents: our bodies are dependent on the good germs and bacteria. If anything, rather than developing the antiseptic globalized industrial-style food system FSMA seeks, we should be searching for ways to increase the amount of good bacteria in our bodies.

So, why is this bad science becoming the law of the land?

First, it is partially due to corporate profit. Corporations depend on a global supply chain, and in doing so they are finding it increasingly difficult to deliver safe food. At the same time, they are losing market share to the local food systems that customers are demanding.

To avoid legal liability, the corporations want to legitimize an industrial approach to sterilizing everything, without regard to the unnecessary and costly burden placed on local farmers.

Second, there is the misguided advocacy of the consumer organizations, like Center for Science in the Public Interest. They mean well, but they think that throwing regulatory words and paperwork burden at a problem will solve it. This approach is overly legalistic, and it ignores the realities of nature and the practical fact that over-regulating a sector that is

not causing a problem — small farmers — cannot possibly lead to safer food.

And, finally, there is this administration’s commitment to the biotech industry. It’s no accident that FDA’s deputy commissioner responsible for food safety, Michael R. Taylor, is a former Monsanto vice president. That partially explains why the “safe food” mandate does nothing to protect us from genetically engineered food and the harsh chemicals that are necessarily paired with it. It will, however, put many of us farmers, who are committed to fresh, healthy and sustainably grown food, out of business.

We can all see the future. It is those antiseptic, theoretically bacteria-free plastic containers that will soon become the only way we will be able to shop for all of our produce.

And that should be an issue of public outrage.

Michael Tabor, Takoma Park Nick Maravell, Potomac Michael Tabor has been farming for 41 years and supplies Baltimore-area universities and colleges with GMO-free, sustainably grown produce.

Nick Maravell serves as a farmer representative on the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board and has farmed organically since 1979, raising grain, livestock and vegetables.

Dear Blair’s advice column Editor, We were very disturbed by Blair Lee’s recent column (“2014 Is About Race and Place”) about Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown launching his campaign for governor. It’s clear that rather than attending, reading and watching the speech of Brown’s announcement, Mr. Lee presented his own distorted world view as fact and resorted to what is essentially race baiting.

— SEN. ROB GARAGIOLA — SEN. NANCY KING Dear Senators, I was upset when I first read your letter because I thought you might be serious.

But, then, when you offered no examples of my alleged “race baiting,” I realized you were simply currying favor with the administration, the Montgomery delegation’s customary pastime in AnMY MARYLAND napolis.

BLAIR LEE Actually, I watched a tape of Brown’s announcement speech and drew the same conclusions as Washington Post reporter John Wagner and Attorney General Doug Gansler — Brown’s “disparities” pitch is aimed at his fellow African-American voters.

Why is telling that obvious truth “race baiting”?

When political columnist Josh Kurtz recently wrote, “It’s tough being a white male in Democratic politics these days. ...

Is that a real trend, something (governor) O’Malley ... and white males everywhere need to worry about at every level of Democratic politics?”, was that “race baiting”?

Did you write Kurtz a nasty letter?

When Rev. Jesse Jackson said this week that, “The Tea Party is the resurrection of the Confederacy” was that “race baiting”? Did you write Jackson, too?

When The Baltimore Sun editorialized that Bob Ehrlich’s running mate, Mike Steele, “brings nothing to the ticket but the color of his skin,” was that “race

baiting”? Did you write the Sun? And when the Race Baiter In Chief, Barack Obama, recklessly injected race into an ongoing murder jury trial, saying, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon Martin,” did you drop him a nasty note?

Of course not. Your selective outrage is pure politics posing as righteous indignation.

— BLAIR Mr. Lee, Thank you for stating the obvious in Friday’s Gazette. As I talk to those in my community, I get the impression they are fearful of uttering the word “race,” afraid they will be labeled a racist, persecuted and totally destroyed by the liberal media.

— MATTHEW QUINN Mr. Quinn, Yes, I know what you mean (see above).

— BLAIR Editor, I’m responding to Blair Lee’s column [“Maryland’s Environmental Austerity”], but first I would like to state that I am a scientist in the field of atmospheric sciences. I have dealt with weather and climate issues for over 30 years.

Climate change is an established fact.

Global warming also is an established fact.

The problem with the so-called “green environmentalists” is that they would like to give credit to carbon dioxide as the cause.

(But) changes in carbon dioxide amounts in the atmosphere FOLLOW changes in temperature, not the other way around.

So, what are the drivers of global climate change? In order, energy output of the sun, variations of the earth’s orbit around the sun and the tilt of the earth’s axis. When the earth’s axis tilt increases to near 24 degrees, it increases the amount of solar radiation reaching the Arctic and Antarctic ice masses, along with the glaciers in between.

When the earth’s orbit moves farther from the sun, cooling will increase (followed by a decrease in CO2 levels despite increased use of fossil fuels).

But what about the government’s

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a whole lot of stickers being issued out to these perpetrators.

The world today is just relying on everything that is quick and easy — quick weight loss, hair weave, fast food, carryouts — nobody wants to put forth an effort on anything anymore.

Be thankful that you can walk on your own, because when I see people that are less fortunate than myself, I give thanks to the Almighty, because that very same person who I am looking at could have very well been me.

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plans to control energy production? They are based on political science, not physical science, and they will have no measurable effect on climate change.

These programs tend to be wealth transfer programs. They will take wealth from all, but will have the greatest detrimental effect on the poor, who will have to pay higher costs for energy. This allows the government to raid wealthier taxpayers on the guise of helping the poor.

Forcing the poor and middle class to give energy grants for systems that are too expensive amounts to a “war on the poor.”

— MD CONTINENTAL Dear MD Continental, Thanks for the fascinating email, but you are ruining a perfectly good national panic attack. Don’t you realize that most scientists agree that the world is doomed?

Of course, it wasn’t that many centuries ago that most scientists also agreed that the world was flat.

— BLAIR Hi Blair, I just wanted to share something with you. Over the years, Kathy and I have supported certain charities which we feel really, truly help those in need. One of our favorites has been the food pantry at St. Clement Mary Hofbauer Catholic Church in Rosedale, Md. This parish does incredible things to help the poorest of the poor. Well, they just found out that the new “rain tax” is going to really hurt. Here are the figures: FY2014: sewer service, $5,115; Bay restoration, $720; stormwater fee, $1,691. Total: $7,526. This $5,366 increase will hurt a lot of people in real need.

— TOM BALDWIN Tom, Tough luck. Reducing Bay pollution is our top priority no matter how much it costs or how many people it hurts. Consider yourself lucky that we don’t shut down your impervious surfaced church and turn it into a rain garden.

Stop being so selfish and get with the program.

— BLAIR

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DeMatha 2-0 Stags 60 pts Wise 0-0 Pumas 54 pts Douglass 0-0 Eagles 48 pts Eleanor Roosevelt 0-0 Raiders 40 pts Suitland 0-0 Rams 38 pts Flowers 0-0 Jaguars 26 pts Gwynn Park 0-0 Yellow Jackets 26 pts DuVal 0-0 Tigers 13 pts McNamara 1-0 Mustangs 13 pts Friendly 0-0 Patriots 9 pts

Also receiving votes: Bowie 2; Potomac 1.

STANDINGS Central Crossland Douglass Fairmont Hghts Forestville Friendly Gwynn Park Largo Potomac Surrattsville

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Avg. TDs 5.9 2 7.0 1 13.7 2 6.6 3

Top passers

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3-7 69 1 2 B. Hart, Pall.

5-9 34 1 0 Rec. Yards Avg. TDs J. Crockett, McN. 10 211 21.1 3 C. Phillips, DeM. 3 196 24.5 2 C. Murray, McN. 9 76 8.4 1 J. Hightower, R.B. 3 69 23.0 2

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Which is stronger in football, the Prince George’s County 4A League or 3A/2A/1A League?

When asked that question, Henry A. Wise High School coach DaLawn Parrish paused and then broke out laughing.

“Of course, I’m going to be biased, because I’m in the 4A League,” Parrish said. “So, I’m going to say the 4A League.

“On paper, I don’t think it’s close. But again, you wouldn’t know until you play.”

Then, Parrish resisted further inquiries into the difference between the leagues.

“No coach wants to say something where they can put it on their bulletin board,” he said.

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Parrish is concerned because his team plays Frederick Douglass, a 2A team at 7:30 p.m. Saturday as part of the Prince George’s Pigskins Classic, an event that also pits 4A Eleanor Roosevelt against 2A Gwynn Park (7:30 p.m. Friday) and 4A Suitland against 2A Potomac (4:30 p.m. Saturday).

The opening weekend of high school football also features 4A Bladensburg at 2A Largo, 1A Central at 4A High Point, 2A Friendly at 4A Parkdale and 4A Laurel at 1A Surrattsville.

Since Prince George’s County allowed for more flexibility in non-conference scheduling two years ago, 4A teams have played 3A/2A/1A teams to a 2-2 draw. In 2012, 6-5 Flowers beat 7-4 Largo and 3-7 Crossland beat 0-10 Parkdale. In 2011, 9-4 Flowers beat 3-7 Largo and 4-6 Crossland beat 2-8 Parkdale.

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Eileen Lloyd and the Eleanor Roosevelt High School girls’ volleyball team received quite a “treat” this year — and by “treat,” Lloyd means acquiring the most fundamental piece of volleyball equipment there is: a gymnasium.

Last season, the Raiders were swept in three sets in the state semifinals by Arundel after a 17-0 regular season. Roosevelt achieved all of its success without a single home match, save for a few in the postseason. They practiced occasionally at High Point and Parkdale before finally settling in at Greenbelt Middle, where the nets sagged and the lights were dim.

Now, with the renovations to Roosevelt completed, the Raiders finally have a place to call home.

“That certainly has been a treat,” Lloyd said of not having to travel for every game and practice.

“Not having to get on a bus everyday and unload equipment. That’ll be a switch. Some of them on

Bowie High School junior forward Anna Huddelston tallied 22 goals and 10 assists for the Class 4A South Region champion Bulldogs last fall and wasn’t even the team’s leading scorer.

Though Bowie lost a bit of its scoring power from last year’s fourth region title run in five years, Huddelston’s ability to find the net — and she will take on a more prominent scoring role in 2013 — leaves this fall’s squad that lost eight seniors in good hands.

Coach Aaron Hankey said he is confident in a talented young crop of players coming in to build around Huddelston and a good core of six returning starters, which includes talented goalkeeper Ellen Anderson, to help the Bulldogs defend last year’s region title.

Bowie typically implements some possession style soccer and traditionally thrives off its ability to connect passes and move the ball forward efficiently

The 2013 graduating class at DeMatha Catholic High School never lost a soccer match in four years — that is if one considers the final game they played a draw, with Gonzaga besting the Stags in penalty kicks last November to win the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference title.

That’s quite the remarkable feat: 62 matches and not a single loss, never on the wrong side of PKs until their last match.

That presents a daunting task for this year’s seniors as they attempt to step into the leadership roles of what was one of the more dominant classes of soccer players to ever play for coach Dafydd Evans.

DeMatha will be led by three senior captains, goalkeeper Brendan Burke (a three-year starter), center back A.J. Read and fullback Joseph Conti. Senior forwards Julian Dove and Arion Sobers-Assue

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Continued from Page A-11 this year’s team never played in the gym before. It’s been nice.”

It removes one step for Lloyd in the rebuilding process after she lost all but three players from last year’s 4A South Region championship team, including Player of the Year Meya Ngundam, an outside hitter who averaged 2.1 kills per set. Returning for Lloyd and the Raiders, is first-team All-Gazette junior outside hitter Kristin Watson, who will help ease the transition of filling in for Ngundam.

“She’s been an integral part of our team since she came in as a freshman,” Lloyd said of Watson.

“We’re totally starting from scratch so everything is in flux right now.”

Currently in flux are even the positions of some of her players. Lloyd couldn’t pin down a spot she wanted to stick Amidat Sonekan and was hesitant to label Alesia Richardson as a middle hitter, but as she would point out, it’s very early, and her team is very young.

“We lost a lot of seniors last year so we’re certainly rebuilding,” she said.

Others currently amidst the rebuilding process are Largo

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Continued from Page A-11 and it will be important for the new pieces to mesh quickly, Hankey said. That’s what the preseason and early schedule will revolve around.

“I think we’ll still do well,” Hankey said. “We’re building, we just need time to get together as a team to distribute passes and work together. That’s what we do and it’s coming together.”

The 3A/2A/1A League team most like to reach the county championship game is Frederick Douglass. After opening its 2012 regular season series against rival Gwynn Park with a dismal 9-1 loss, Douglass defeated the 2011 county runnerup Yellow Jackets the second time around to share in the division title. While perennial 2A power Gwynn Park lost the majority of its starting lineup — senior playmaker Tashina Cardwell will be back to control the middle — Douglass returns most of its playmakers.

Among them is two-time leading scorer and junior forward Kianna Hart (21 goals). Senior Troiah McCorkle will drop back from the team’s front line to lead the defense and control the game from the back alongside classmate Domonique Thompson, first-year coach Sarah Chapman said. Senior Alex Desmones will act as a major connector in the midfield.

The team most likely to prevent Bowie’s region title defense is rival Eleanor Roosevelt. The only blemish on Bowie’s region tournament record since 2008 was a close loss to the Raiders in 2011. As always, the historic rivals will top the list of the

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and Surrattsville, which returns just two players from last year’s varsity team and is operating under new coach Jeff Williams. He voiced his excitement over a junior trio in setter Vanessa Pollard, Alexis Smith, and Faith Taylor.

“We have something to build on so we’re just teaching the girls and they have a large learning curve,” he said. “I have a couple of girls I think could move onto the next level. It’s been a smooth transition since most of the players were on [junior varsity] last year.”

Largo, meanwhile, brings back four, a slight increase from Roosevelt and Surrattsville, but not by much.

“We’re slowly but surely making process,” Largo coach James Jackson said, before adding the line that seems to be the theme of the county this year.

“We’re pretty young.”

Lloyd said she expects the usual suspects — Bowie, Charles H. Flowers, High Point and Parkdale — to be back somewhere around the top, especially the Panthers, who return eight players from last year.

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The Raiders will have to deal with their own list of graduation casualties as well as a firstyear coach, but Roosevelt is a traditionally skilled team that perennially boasts some of the county’s top talent.

The team most likely to test the top teams is Henry A. Wise, which played several games in 2012, including its region quarterfinal loss to Parkdale, down a player. Current second-year coach Nydia Velando had only 11 on the roster and the Pumas struggled to fill the scoring void left behind by the graduation of the program’s all-time leading scorer Christen Blair, who become the first female athlete from Wise to accept an NCAA Division I scholarship (Southern University in Baton Rouge, La.) in May 2012. Still Wise managed a 7-4 record.

This year the Pumas’ roster increased to 19 athletes and that includes six returning seniors.

Among them is last year’s leading scorer Sydney Mitchell (17), Kayla Truesdel in the midfield and sweeper Ebone Baker.

Velando said Wise’s biggest strength is its camaraderie since learning to play together postBlair.

The best team no one talks about is Forestville, which returns seven starters from a 9-2-1 team, including leading scorer Tierra Hawkins (16). Hawkins can push forward comfortably knowing that the defense will hold with returners Asia Butler and goalkeeper Layah Mannigan supporting the backline.

The team that lost the most is Charles H. Flowers. One year removed from its first region final in a long while, Flower will have to reload in 2013.

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Riverdale Baptist at St. John’s Catholic Oxon Hill at Bell Multicultural (D.C.) Fairmont Heights at Southern Senior McNamara at Georgetown Prep Eleanor Roosevelt vs. Gwynn Park Flowers at McKinley Tech Central at High Point Forestville at Manchester Valley Bladensburg at Largo Severn vs. Pallotti Capitol Christian at Cardozo Laurel at Surrattsville DuVal at Woodrow Wilson (D.C.) Northeast at Crossland Friendly at Parkdale Suitland vs. Potomac DeMatha at St. Joseph (N.J.) Bowie at Westlake Douglass vs. Wise Northwestern at Sussex Central (Del.)

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Continued from Page A-11 But the leagues haven’t matched up in a schedule like this before, both sides in clear contrast and seeking any extra motivation.

Parrish need not worry much. Many 3A/2A/1A coaches agreed that the larger schools have an advantage, though one disagreed on the record.

The Gazette asked the county’s 22 public-school coaches which league is stronger, and 16 responded.

Overall: 11 chose 4A, one chose 3A/2A/1A, four abstained.

Of the 4A coaches: Seven chose 4A, none chose 3A/2A/1A, zero abstained. Of the 3A/2A/1A coaches: Four chose 4A, one chose 3A/2A/1A, four abstained.

Perhaps that poll wasn’t representative of many coaches’ true feelings. Frederick Douglass

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“The seniors, obviously, they need to figure that out quite quickly their role leading this team,” Evans said. “When you have played under a significant senior class like the one that graduated, it will take some time to realize they’re not there.”

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coach J.C. Pinkney, Gwynn Park coach Danny Hayes and Friendly coach Peter Quaweay — who oversee 3A/2A/1A’s highestranked teams — were among the abstainers.

“The stronger teams in the 3A/2A/1A don’t have a problem playing a 4A,” said Potomac coach Ronnie Crump, who cast the only vote for the 3A/2A/1A. “You can come to our meetings and find that out.”

Said Parrish: “We have a tight coaches’ association, so I know everybody in there is competitive, and you want to say your league is better.”

For the 4A, the advantage is simple. The schools are larger — between 34 percent and 236 percent bigger — than 3A/2A/1A schools. That means a larger pool ofpotentialplayersfromwhichto pick.

Many 3A/2A/1A coaches say that the 11 players on the field, not the population of their

schools, matter. A couple cited Douglass, a 3A/2A/1A team that spent the 2005 season in the 4A. That team went 12-0 against its county 4A competitors and beat them by an average score of 36-6, including a pair of playoff wins to win the region.

Pinkney said his 2005 team was the most talented he ever had, perhaps not making it the best example of 3A/2A/1A superiority.

“It would be premature for me to assume that it would be like that no matter what year we were up in the 4A or so on,” Pinkney said. “I just think, that year, we had a lot of good things going for us.”

Still, Pinkney said many doubted his team’s ability to competeintheupperleague,and he relished proving them wrong.

So did Crump.

“There’s this theory out here in the county that because you’re a bigger school, you think

you can beat a smaller school,” Crump said. “I don’t think that’s true in this area. I think that’s true somewhere else in most cases, but in this case, in this county, I don’t think that’s true.”

Parrish and Crump said they were rooting for their league to win the other games of the Pigskin Classic besides their own.

Pinkney said, on one hand, he’d root for league-mates Potomac and Gwynn Park. On the other hand, Douglass is competing with those teams for playoff berths.

Hayes didn’t state a preference for the Classic, which has a format suggested by the county’s coaches.

“We’re just doing things to get everything riled up,” Hayes said. “But basically, I don’t even look at it in that aspect of competition. We’re all Prince George’s County.”

Gonzaga again figures to challenge DeMatha every step of the way, while Our Lady of Good Counsel, Bishop O’Connell and Paul VI all could be in the mix for a title. The Purple Eagles and DeMatha are scheduled to play at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 17 at Heurich Field in Hyattsville.

“I’d say we’re reasonably well-balanced across the board,” Evans said. “Talent at the back and the midfield with options up front. We’re reasonably deep in most areas and this year, more than any, it will have to be a complete effort. We hope they’ll all progress in a uniform fashion and all push each other to a better level.”

Among Prince George’s County public schools, meanwhile, the field appears to be wide open. With a number of competitive schools losing talented players — Northwestern (Jose Ceballo, Samuel Kahsai), High Point (Edwin Claros, Albert Granados), Bowie (Moises Lazo, Brady Mazzei) — a new crop of playmakers must fill the void.

Northwestern, last year’s 4A South Region champions, should be strong once again, but only if many newcomers to Nigel Trim’s club are able to adjust quickly to the team’s style of play.

“I was honest with them, I said that based on what last year’s team did, everyone’s go-

ing to want to throw you guys under the bus,” said Trim, who returns four starters, including captain Elfried Sarabria. “They don’t differentiate between this year’s Northwestern and last year’s Northwestern.”

And while it’s true Northwestern may be the club with the most recent target on its back, Bowie and Eleanor Roosevelt have long been the 4A powerhouses. Bowie coach Richard Kirkland will enter his 25th season at the helm two seasons removed from a state championship while Roosevelt coach George Kallas said renewed depth could help his club greatly this season.

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Starting Friday, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center will present a two-day symposium, “Civil War to Civil Rights: The Well-being of a Nation.”

The program, a partnership with the university’s school of public health and public policy, is the launch of a larger endeavor, the National Civil War Project and Center, a multi-city, multi-year collaboration between four universities and five performing arts organizations commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. ANDREW MULINGE The Civil War to Civil Rights sympoThe co-president of the sium specifically observes the 50th anstudent group Community niversary of the March on Washington, Roots, Andrew Mulinge will be the 150th anniversary of the Emancipaa part of a panel discussion on tion Proclamation, and examines the Friday about carrying the torch state of our nation today. The program features a long list of keynote speakof the Civil Rights Movement. ers, including activists Julian Bond and Marian Wright Edelman, and a series of discussions and performances. Below are some of the highlights of the two-day event.

‘And the March Continues’ Senior government and politics major Andrew Mulinge will join three other University of Maryland student activists on Friday afternoon for a discussion entitled

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Jazz musician Christian McBride will kick off the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s 2013-2014 season on Friday with a performance of “The Movement Revisited.”

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Puppeteer Jim West and two of his friends converse during West’s show, “Dinosaurs,” coming on Sept. 12 to the Publick Playhouse in Cheverly.

During the performance, West also shows children how to make dinosaur puppets.

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Children who like to play with dinosaurs can learn to make their own by watching puppeteer Jim West.

West is bringing his “Dinosaurs” show from New York to the Publick Playhouse in Cheverly for two morning performances on Sept. 12.

“We show them how to do it using art, music and a short story line,” said West.

A puppeteer for more than 20 years, West developed and performed the shadow puppets for the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Manon”

by Jules Massenet.

He and puppeteer Marshall Izen also wrote “The Dog Who Sang at the Opera,” a true story about a dog in the cast of “Manon” who unexpectedly decided to sing along with one of the arias.

In his “Dinosaurs” show, recommended for ages 4 through 12, West shows kids how to make puppets, something, he says, that sets him apart from other shows.

Also different is the accompanying classical

JIM WEST’S DINOSAURS n When: 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., Sept. 12 n Where: Publick Playhouse, 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly n Tickets: $4 per person n For information: 301-277-1710; jimwestpuppets.com; arts.pgparks.com

music by the likes of Mahler, Prokofiev, Strauss and Stravinsky.

“We try to be unique and entertaining,” West said.

Hosting the show is Fossil, a little blue dinosaur who chats with West about dinosaur facts and his own identity as a dinosaur.

Taking into account the sometimes short attention spans of young fans, West splits the show into four parts highlighting four different dinosaurs.

In one section, West creates a Tyrannosaurus rex out of a cardboard box accompanied by mu-

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Best known for her role as Dr. Angie Hubbard on the ABC soap opera “All My Children,” actress Debbi Morgan is now working on her latest project, a one-woman show based on her soon-to-be released personal memoir, “The Monkey on My Back.”

The show, which debuted at Ashford & Simpsons Sugar Bar in New York City on July 19, reveals Morgan’s struggle with a cycle of fear and abuse affecting three generations of the women in her family. Here, she talks to A&E about her struggle to write the memoir and the return of “All My Children.”

“THE MONKEY ON MY BACK” WITH DEBBI MORGAN n When: 8 p.m. Saturday n Where: 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly n Tickets: $30-45 n For information: 301-277-1710, arts.pgparks.com

A&E: How did the concept for “The Monkey on My Back” first come about?

end of the speaking engagement, this woman came up to me and ... her eyes just welled up with tears. She said, ‘I have two teenage girls and, for years, they’ve been watching their father beat me and physically abuse me and, after listening to you tonight, that’s it. I see what damage I’m doing to my girls, not just to myself but to my girls. And that’s it, I’m leaving.’ And it was at that point that I decided I also wanted to do it as a one woman show.

A&E: Why were you hesitant?

A&E: You’ve performed the show twice now for a live audience, first at Ashford & Simpsons Sugar Bar in New York and then again at the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston Salem, N.C. What have been the biggest adjustments you’ve had to make in taking the story from the book to the stage?

Morgan: It’s based on my personal memoir, which is going through editing now. Hopefully we’ll get a publishing deal by the end of the year.

I started writing the book 7 to 10 years ago. I would write and then I would put it away and I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to do it or if I should do it.

Morgan: I hadn’t really come fullcircle at that time. I ended up going to therapy and I had to do a lot of work on myself ... I wanted people to continue to think I was someone who always had it all together and I just didn’t know if I was really ready to let people know ... that just wasn’t necessarily the case.

A&E: What finally convinced you to finish the book?

Morgan: I realized it was something that was going to be so cathartic for me and after going to therapy and doing a lot of work on myself, I realized that I needed to get out that last bit of residue because it was like the final release of all that toxicity.

A&E: And how did the memoir evolve into the one-woman show?

Morgan: I did a speaking engagement for this organization called Girls Inc. down in Hampton, Va., last year.

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Morgan: The biggest difference, being an actress, I’m very descriptive in my writing ... my writing is very lyrical and it has a flow to it. And the difference between that and doing a stage performance is that I’m not reading a piece, it’s like I’m talking to my audience members ... A lot of things that I have in the book, even though I love them, I had to change because I write in a very poetic fashion.

A&E: You’ve made a career out of playing other people, but what is it like to get up on stage and have to be yourself?

Morgan: It was very scary. The first night I was at the Sugar Bar I was terrified. And everybody was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, you’ve been acting for years and you’re a wonderful actor, why would you be afraid?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, but I have a script and it’s pretend, so that’s easy. This is all about me.’ I’m not used to being on stage all alone. All of the responsibility is

on me to make sure I keep the connection with the audience and keep them involved and hopefully no one’s sitting there looking at their watch, going, ‘When is this going to be over?’

A&E: Were you nervous about exposing such personal and painful details about your past?

Morgan: It was very intimidating because I reveal a lot and I really expose myself. But I remember my director said one day during rehearsal she could feel me holding back, and she said to me, ‘Debbi, if you’re going to tell this, I mean if you’re really going to tell your story, you’re going to have to stick your butt out the window and pull your pants down.

Or else there’s really no point of you telling it.’

A&E: It’s been almost two years since “All My Children” went off the air, but in April, the show returned in an online format. What has it been like to go back to being Dr. Angie Hubbard?

Morgan: I felt, on a personal level — I mean, the character is so close to my heart. I’ve been afforded the opportunity to do a lot of things outside of “All My Children” and playing Angie, but it was like stepping back into an old pair of slippers. It was like it was just yesterday. It was wonderful to be able to make so many fans happy who had felt slighted you know, by the show being taken off the air ... A show like that was generational. [People] would come home and their grandmother was watching it, then their mother and then they were watching it. It was so wonderful that their outcry was finally heard and they finally got their show back.

A&E: What’s the biggest difference in shooting a show for online versus TV?

Morgan: I actually like doing this online version even more than when we were on television because it just allows us to have so much more creativity ... We have a lot more freedom.

We’re not working 52 weeks a year. I probably wouldn’t even have time to be touring and doing my show if we were still on television ... It’s kind of nice to be involved in something that is groundbreaking and for it to be a success and for us to be a part of the first time doing this is wonderful. chedgepeth@gazette.net

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Actress Debbi Morgan, best known for her role as Dr. Angie Hubbard on the ABC soap opera “All My Children,” will perform her one-woman show, “The Monkey on My Back,” at the Publick Playhouse this weekend.

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The Washington, D.C., band Black Alley will perform at the Taste Prince George’s Food and Wine Festival on Saturday at Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro.

From left are Eric (lead guitar), Hope (keys), Kacey (lead vocalist), Josh (bass), Mack (keys), Animal (drums) and Bo Beedy (percussion).

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A lot of the 30-somethings in Prince George’s County have money to spend on food, drink and entertainment, but many journey into Washington, D.C., to enjoy a night out instead of looking closer to home.

“Prince George’s is a very vibrant ‘foodie’ county,” said Quianne Perrin of Largo, who owns a marketing agency and also is a member of the Prince George’s County Chamber of Commerce.

A self-described “foodie”

herself, Perrin worked with restaurants, officials and a host of entertainers to organize the Taste Prince George’s Food and Wine Festival on Saturday at the Six Flags theme park in Upper Marlboro.

Performers scheduled to appear include R&B singer Reesa Renee, rock-techno group Bonnie Rash, the female group Bela Dona, jazz keyboardist Marcus Johnson, gospel groups Soul Messengerz and 7 Sons of Soul, and Black Alley, a Washington, D.C., group eager to meet new fans in the county.

“We’re very excited to be part of this event,” said Josh Hartzog, who plays bass guitar for Black Alley.

R&B singer Reesa Renee will perform at the Taste Prince George’s Food and Wine Festival on Saturday at Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro. The event is to let local “foodies” who spend their money in Washington, D.C., know that there are also good restaurants closer to home in Prince George’s County.

For $25 per person in advance, visitors have access to rides and parking at Six Flags, as well as access to the Gotham City section of the park, where restaurants and wineries will offer tastings for $3 each.

Participating wine organizations include Flo Wines, Romano and Port of Leonardtown.

There will also be a Cocktail Concoction Lounge, offering specialty cocktails, hookahs and hand-rolled cigars, along with cooking demonstrations by local chefs featuring celebrity couples and competitive eating challenges.

“This is a way to create some exposure for the restaurant community in the county,”

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“There’s a clientele that wants to be served and needs to be served.”

Also participating will be more than dozen entertainers on several stages.

“It’s a chance for local artists to really shine on a larger platform,” Perrin said.

Black Alley’s bass guitarist Josh Hartzog, known as Josh on Bass, described the band’s music as “soul garage,” an allusion to a garage as a place full of different things.

“We infuse rock with hiphop, with funk, with soul and touch of go-go,” he said. “We’ve got R&B, jazz, calypso — everything.”

“Basically we release emotion,” said Hartzog. “If you’ve had a bad day, you can dance it out, or if you’re happy, you can celebrate.”

Formed five years ago, Black Alley has released three CDs, “Soul, Swagger, Rock, Sneakers;” a live version of the album, “Live from the RNR Hotel,” recorded at the Rock & Roll Hotel on H Street in the District; and “Recycle Bin,” a CD of fan favorites.

“We care about our fans,” Hartzog said. “We love them and think about them.”

A Richmond native, Hartzog, 27, said he started playing the drums as a boy in church and later switched to bass guitar. He said he wants to perform for the rest of his life like Chuck Brown did.

The band was lucky enough to spend time with Brown on his last birthday. Known as the “Godfather of Go-go,” he died in May 2012 at age 75.

“He inspired me so much,” Hartzog said. “He actually did this [playing and performing] until the day he died.

Hartzog said the band performs regularly in Washington, D.C., on Thursdays and Fridays and has also traveled out of the region to Boston and other cities around the country.

The next step is to become known around the country and one way to do that would be to audition for “America’s Got Talent,” something the band is considering, he said.

“We want to take the soul garage movement nationwide,” said Hartzog, adding that everyone in the band is on the same page.

“We see the goal — we’re this close to it,” he said. vterhune@gazette.net

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Continued from Page B-1 “And the March Continues.”

The conversation, facilitated

by Truman scholar and fellow University of Maryland student Mohammad Zia, focuses on the new era of civil rights activism.

“There are so many issues that are going on today in society ... it may not be being called an inflammatory name to your face or being in a situation where you couldn’t drink out of a certain fountain, but there’s definitely a lot of problems that exist in the African American community and here in America,” Mulinge said. “ ... We live in a bubble being at a state university and doing our thing in college we forget that there are still a lot of people in our community that are still victims to the institutionalized systems that oppress us.”

Mulinge, a Montgomery County native and graduate of Clarksburg High School, is the copresident of Community Roots, a student activist group dedicated to promoting social change.

“What Maryland prides itself on is its diversity,” Mulinge said.

“So we take that to our advantage and we use our different cultures, backgrounds and beliefs in order to promote social change and social action ...”

“And the March Continues” will examine the younger gen-

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eration’s dealings with issues of race and how the Civil Rights era

has affected them.

“The Civil Rights era has had a huge impact on me personally and academically,” Mulinge said. “My supporting sequence is in African American studies.

And I say that because I didn’t major in it, but after taking an African American Studies course, I learned so much that it actually supplemented a lot of what I learned in my government classes. And through that, I took profound interest in discovering how impactful the Civil Rights Movement was.”

Mulinge had an opportunity to explore that interest even further this summer through The Institute for Responsible Citizenship, a group aimed at the career development of young black males. This summer, students with the institute had the opportunity to meet and speak with congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis.

“We were able to ask him as many questions as we wanted and how his experience with the Civil Rights era impacted him ...” Mulinge said. “That meeting with John Lewis changed my life.”

Mulinge said he’ll use the conversation with Lewis as a jumping-off point for Friday’s panel discussion.

“I can use the Internet, I can use books and everything, but actually being able to hear from [Lewis] and ask about [Mar-

tin Luther] King ... being able to hear from someone who actually marched with him, who was very personal with him, that’s very rare,” Mulinge said. “I’ll bring that experience and that torch that he handed down to us to this event.”

‘The Movement Revisited’ The symposium culminates Friday evening when jazz bassist and composer Christian McBride kicks off the center’s 2013-2014 season with a performance of his jazz chorale piece, “The Movement Revisited.”

McBride will lead his Big Band and Washington, D.C.’s Heritage Signature Chorale in the five-movement piece, featuring narration from special guests saye Barnwell, Dion Graham, Scot Reese and activist and artist Harry Belafonte.

“I feel very, very fortunate to have known and have worked with Mr. Belafonte a number of times over the last 18 years,” McBride said. “The fact that he agreed to do this, is just hard to fathom ... You talk about the movement revisited, he’s one of the last people from the move-

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Assistant Robb Barnard and puppeteer Jim West take flight with one of West’s creations. West’s “Dinosaurs” come to the Publick Playhouse in Cheverly on Sept. 12. During the performance, West also shows children how to make dinosaur puppets.

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West joked that sometimes the on-stage building project falls apart.

“You hope the Velcro holds,” he said, laughing.

If it doesn’t, such interruptions become teachable moments about the value of persisting despite obstacles, he said.

In another section, West uses a shadow puppet behind a screen to tell the story of the rehabilitated public image of the oviraptor — a big dinosaur with a beak that looked like “a giant chicken,” he said.

Scientists once believed that all dinosaurs were related to lizards and considered the oviraptor a predator and an “egg thief” that robbed nests of their treasures.

But today, scientists think that dinosaurs preceded birds and that oviraptors were actually quite family minded.

“They were very domestic,” said West. “They sat on their own nests.”

Scientific conclusions aren’t set in stone, and science is really more about making “educated guesses,” he said.

“We don’t really know how [dinosaurs] used their tail or horns – the scientists weren’t there,” said West.

Also part of the show is a rod-puppet scene about a little

plant-eating brachiosaurus with a long neck who encounters a big sleeping dinosaur and gets into a bit of trouble.

Then it’s back to building for the finale, with Mahler’s First Symphony in the background.

This time, the task is to assemble an apatosaurus, another big plant eater that some people also call a brontosaurus.

West starts with a grocery store bag for a head, then adds eyes and a long neck, a body and a tail, ending up with a creature six feet long on stage.

“They see all the bits come together,” West said.

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McBride wrote “The Movement Revisited” in 1998 after he was commissioned by the Portland Art Society to write a piece for Black History Month.

The original composition featured four movements or chapters based on four major players in the Civil Rights Era: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. McBride since has added a fifth movement to commemorate the election of President Barack Obama.

“It’s not written for Barack Obama, the man,” McBride said. “It’s written for the events during the Civil Rights Movement that made it possible for a black man to be president of the United States.”

The sound and rhythm of each movement or chapter is meant to reflect the nature of each influential figure. For example, McBride said he tried to capture the “quiet sophistication and soft-spokenness” of Rosa Parks.

“Malcolm X ... his words carry so much weight, I try to capture that in his movement,” McBride said. “And Muhammad Ali ... he’s brash, loud, exciting, but all of his brashness and loudness meant something.

Underneath all of that volume was a very wise soul.”

King’s movement is actually divided into two parts: “Soldiers” and “A View from the Mountaintop.” “‘Soldiers,’ I guess it’s a play on the March on Washington or all of the different marches he coordinated and led ...” McBride said. “The second part is ‘A View from the Mountaintop” and I try to capture the feel of his final speech ...”

McBride said he is honored by the university’s request to play “The Movement Revisited” as a part of the symposium.

“I don’t get to perform that piece very often because it’s pretty large with the Big Band and the choir and the narrator,” McBride said. “When someone requests it, they automatically go on my “I love” list.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

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RELIGION CALENDAR To submit a calendar item online, go to calendar.gazette. net and click on the submit button in the lower left-hand corner. To find an item, go to The Gazette home page at www. gazette.net. You can mail them to The Gazette, 13501 Virginia Manor Road, Laurel, MD 20707; fax, 240-473-7501. Items must be received by Wednesday to appear the following week.

SEPT. 7 Art Show on Social Justice, 3 to 10 p.m., Wallace Presbyterian Church, 3725 Metzerott Road, College Park. The House at the Crossroads on the campus of Wallace Presbyterian Church will hold

an art show with Stefan Eicher, an artist based in India whose art explores issues of social justice. The event begins with a family event geared toward youth and children.

At 8 p.m., Eicher will share his work and stories of the social justice issues surrounding these pieces. The event is free. Contact 301-935-5900 or info@wallacepca.org.

Community Fest, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church, 14900 Annapolis Road, Bowie. Enjoy games, live entertainment and community outreach services. C.H.I.P. Child Identification Programs, flu shots, food, hot dogs, popcorn and cotton candy will be available. Contact 301-262-1408 or webmaster@ stmatthews-bowie.org.

Emancipation Day 2013, 11 a.m., St. Mark’s United Methodist

Church, 601 8th St., Laurel. Emancipation Day 2013: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Freedom — “Reclaiming, Remembering, Relating.” Food, live DJ, games, face painting moon bounce, vendors and more. Contact 301-5269435 or Jackie1character@aol.com.

SEPT. 8 HOPE Support Group, 3 to 5

p.m., St. John’s Parish Education Center, 8912 Old Branch Ave., Clinton. For people suffering from depressive illnesses. Contact 301868-6180.

Welcome picnic and children’s moon bounce, 10 a.m., at Univer-

sity United Methodist Church, 3621 Campus Drive, College Park.

Welcome picnic and children’s moon bounce immediately follow-

ing 10 a.m. worship service at University United Methodist Church.

Great food and fellowship, many children’s activities. Adult and children’s Sunday School at 8:30 a.m. Contact 301-422-1400 or uumc.office@verizon.net.

UPCOMING EVENTS Computer classes, Sept. 23, Mount Ennon Baptist Church, 9832 Piscataway Road, Clinton.

Registration open until Sept. 15.

The Mount Ennon Information Technology Training Center is offering instructor-led courses in computer basics, QWERTY keyboarding and Microsoft 2010 programs. Day and evening classes available. $50 registration. Contact 301-238-4980 or ITregistrar@ mtennon.org.

ONGOING Women’s Bible Study, 9 to 11 a.m. every Thursday, Berwyn Baptist Church, 4720 Cherokee St., College Park. Come and study the book of Romans. Women of all ages are invited. Cost of $6.50 is the textbook fee. Contact 301-4747117 or secretary @berwynbaptist. org.

Mount Rainier Christian Church will conduct Praisercise, a Chris-

tian exercise group meeting at 10:30 a.m. Saturdays at the church, 4001 33rd St., Mount Rainier. The exercise group will have exercise education about nutrition and more. Professional instruction from University Of Maryland, College Park kinesiology students and the program. Open to people of all ages and fitness levels. Free. Call

301-864-3869 or visit www.facebook.com/groups/praisercise/ or email brianpadamusus @yahoo. com.

Largo Community Church is revising its fitness program, Mon-

days and Wednesdays, to include Latin-infused dance. Classes start at 7 p.m. and the fee is $5. The church is at 1701 Enterprise Road in Mitchellville. E-mail justfit4life @yahoo.com.

Body and Soul Fitness presents “I’m All In,” Bethany Com-

munity Church, 15720 Riding Stable Road in Laurel. Sessions start with cardio/strength classes from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday with a co-ed session from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. For more information, call Abby Dixson at 301-549-1877, email abbyfitness@aol.com or visit www. bodyandsoul.org.

Touch of Love Bible Church, conducts weekly support group meetings for people who are separated or divorced, 11 a.m. every Saturday at the church, 13503 Baltimore Ave. in Laurel. Call 301210-3170.

Ladies Bible Study Class on the book of Esther, Maryland City

Baptist Church, 1:45 p.m. Tuesday afternoons at the church, 326 Brock Bridge Road in Laurel. Free nursery. Call Tammie Marshall at 301-498-3224 or visit mdcitybaptist @yahoo.com.

Free First Place 4 Health series, 7 p.m. Tuesdays at Berwyn

Baptist Church, 4720 Cherokee St. in College Park. Call 240-601-1640.

Anti-domestic violence and stalking support group meetings,

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Saturday. Abigail Ministries offers the meetings in Hyattsville. Call 301277-3775 for exact location.

Maryland Family Christian Center’s Praise Dance Ministry, 7

p.m. Tuesdays at North Forestville Elementary School, 2311 Ritchie Road in Forestville. Ministry teaches people to dance. Call 240392-2633.

New Creation Church Bible study meetings, 7 p.m. Wednes-

days at the Bladensburg High School auditorium, 4200 57th Ave. in Bladensburg. Sunday services are at 10 and 11 a.m.

New Broken Vessels Ministry Women’s Bible Study and Discussions, 9 a.m. every Friday at It’s

God’s Choice Christian Bookstore, 1454 Addison Road South in Capitol Heights. Call 301-499-5799 for information.

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Vocalists/singers needed to harmonize “Inspirational Music,”

every Saturday at 8221 Cryden Way in Forestville. Call 301-5990932 or 301-219-4350.

Baha’i devotions, 10 to 11:30 a.m., first and third Sunday of every month. Breakfast served at 10 a.m. All are welcome. The devotions are at 14200 Livingston Road in Clinton. Call 703-380-7267.

Urgent call for 50 prayer warriors, noon to 1 p.m. Monday

through Friday. Christian Outreach International Center calls for prayer warriors in intercessory prayer with Bishop Janie Carr at the church, 3709 Hamilton St. in Hyattsville. Call 301-927-1684.

Hidden Strengths Support Ministry Inc. Phone Line Prayer Ministry, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. every

Wednesday. E-mail requests to hssministryinc@aol.com. Call 202372-7716.

Victory Church International prayer services, 6 to 8 a.m. daily at

the church, 9308 Allentown Road in Fort Washington. Call 301-4497706.

Heavens Best Healing and Deliverance Baptist Church revival services, 8 p.m. Monday through

Friday and at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Sundays at the church, 8311 Old Branch Ave. in Clinton. Call 301877-7702.

Church on the Hill “School of Healing,” 3 to 5 p.m. the first

and third Sunday of each month at the A.D. Headen Chapel, Refreshing Spring Church, 6200 Riverdale Road in Riverdale. For registration information, call 301333-0499.

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AT THE MOVIES

Sofia’s choice in ‘Getaway’ BY

MICHAEL PHILLIPS CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“Getaway” will never be mistaken for a “Fast & Furious” sequel. It’s more like “Taken … for a Ride!” Terrible but, in its squealing way, sporadically fun-terrible, it features a glowering Ethan Hawke as a former professional race car driver named Brent Magna … or Brock Magma … or Frack Slaterock … or something like that. Let’s call him Magma.

Magma and his wife (Rebecca Budig, seen mostly in black-and-white, those-werethe-days flashbacks) live in Sofia, Bulgaria, allowing the producers to film in a city willing to let visitors mess up traffic for a spell.

Mrs. Magma is abducted on Christmas and held in a warehouse, so that a criminal mastermind listed in the film’s credits as The Voice (Jon Voight, more or less German this time) can blackmail Hawke’s character into “a series of tasks” behind the wheel of a custom Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake.

These include a high-speed assault on a crowded ice rink and several rounds of police pursuits and evasions. Selena Gomez takes the passenger seat.

In one of the weirdest character introductions in the history of any medium, her character, the least-madcap heiress around, known only as The Kid, attempts

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to steal back the car belonging to her. So. You have Magma, The Voice and The Kid. This movie is The Dumb.

As steered with more enthusiasm than skill by “An American Haunting” director Courtney Solomon, the takeaway on “Getaway” goes this-a-way: Is there anything a filmmaker can’t do in Sofia, Bulgaria? With Los Angeles and environs suffering millions in lost revenue thanks to runaway film production, “Getaway” serves handily as Exhibit A. Certain shots and the most head-banging stunts on view suggest that you can happily murder all sorts of extras if you film there. The action in “Getaway” is hacked up into messily edited bits, run through what are supposed to be a dozen different surveillance cameras recording the action inside and outside the death car. With Voight’s voice on the car’s GPS saying things like “Smash everything you can,” the movie makes its intentions clear.

Hawke’s character spends

Ethan Hawke as Brent Magna in Warner Bros. Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment’s action thriller “Getaway.” most of the film not knowing why The Voice is making him do the things he does. Magma and The Kid trade cross-generational barbs (“Stop almost killing us!” she whines at one point) and develop a grudging mutual respect, although if you look up the word “chemistry” in the dictionary, you won’t find a picture of these two actors together. The repeated close-ups of Hawke’s foot slamming the clutch are more expressive. The movie requires little acting; it requires screeching — of tires.

I will say this: It’s perversely

satisfying to see the Bulgarian capital roughed up by a movie crew in this way, even by second-raters. And near the end there’s an extended shot, taken with a car-mounted camera,

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Popular artist to play songs from new CD

BY

WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER

Musician Joseph Arthur is a man of many talents. A poet and a painter, he uses his artwork throughout each of his album covers. As a poet, he uses his words to create a wide array of music.

Something must be going right for Arthur. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Packaging for his 1999 album “Vacancy.” His songs have been used in hit TV shows such as “Scrubs,” “True Blood,” “House,” and “The L Word,” and in the movies “Shrek 2,” “The Bourne Identity,” “American Pie 3,” and “Shallow Hal.” The multi-talented performer will be showcasing his abilities at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Montpelier Arts Center. Arthur will play songs off his new album, “The Ballad of Boogie Christ.”

Putting together “Boogie Christ” was a little different for Arthur. This time around, he went with crowdfunding PledgeMusic — an online direct-to-fan music platform — to support the project.

“I had been resisting using crowdsourcing and crowdfunding for a long time because of pride,” Arthur said. “But I started to see that it was a really good way for an independent artist to promote that they have an album out. Kind of announcing it, in a way. Sort of a marketing avenue as well as a way to raise funds.”

Arthur said what appealed to him the most was the fact that contributors were given items in return for their dona-

Growlers brewmaster Eric Gleason.

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Indie musician Joseph Arthur is set to perform Friday at the Montpelier Arts Center. tions.

“It’s not just asking for money,” Arthur said. “You’re basically selling stuff. It became a creative endeavor of getting incentives together. Through the Pledge campaign, we launched a live album, we launched a poetry book, we launched a DVD, we sold paintings. I mean, it became, in and of itself, a really creative endeavor.”

The idea behind “Boogie Christ” was something Arthur had for a while.

“I wrote this poem called ‘The Ballad of Boogie Christ,’ and I thought that was a pretty interesting character,” Arthur said. “The idea just kind of hit me about a guy who’s on a spiritual journey who’s caught between enlightenment and insanity. I just thought it was fertile, creative ground for spinning a bunch of yarns, aka songs.”

Arthur said he had a lot of poems sitting around, so he decided to make this a poetry-

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based album. “[I thought] let’s make this a sort of words-first album,” Arthur said. “The songs sort of became the way to serve the words.”

In the pipeline is a second album to “Boogie Christ,” which will be out in the United States and Canada on Nov. 29.

There is a part three, but Arthur isn’t in a rush to push that one out the door.

“There is a part three, but I just don’t know if I want to

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go right in to releasing it or if I want to move on and do something else for a little while,” Arthur said. “That’ll be like two years of ‘Boogie Christ,’ and I don’t know if I could deal with that. I’ll need to take a ‘Boogie Christ’ break! I could release an act three right away. I have something done, but I might let it sit for a minute and maybe revisit it 10 years down the road or something.”

Whereas Arthur is a man of many talents, he does want fans and audio lovers in general to know that his heart will always belong to music.

“My whole life has been rooted around music,” Arthur said. “The friends I have, the relationships I’ve made, have all come from music. I don’t really know anything else. … I wouldn’t want to really live any other way than to live how I’ve lived. It’s been a really incredible journey.” wfranklin@gazette.net

The oldest brewpub in Montgomery County, located in downtown Gaithersburg (also called Olde Towne), was reborn

BREWS BROTHERS STEVEN FRANK AND ARNOLD MELTZER in 2006 as Growlers. Originally started as the Olde Towne Tavern and Brewing Company, it then became Summit Station, and finally Growlers. It has been under new management since February 2011. Growlers is at 227 East Diamond Avenue, located in the historic John A. Belt Building which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

As one enters the brewpub there is a long bar on the left side with 12 beer taps, with the remaining first floor space allocated to restaurant seating.

There also are a mezzanine with seating for twenty, an upstairs room with a separate bar and additional dining tables plus an outside balcony for seasonal

dining or smoking. The upstairs also features entertainment Wednesdays through Saturdays.

Happy hours are 4 p.m.-7 p.m. each day and all Thursday. Total seating is about 120.

Growler’s menu carries 10 appetizers, with salads, pizza, numerous special sandwiches, and a variety of entrees, including, but not limited to, cajun rigatoni, steak frites, grilled salmon or chicken, and slow roasted prime rib.

New brewer Eric Gleason was the assistant brewer for two years before assuming the brewing reins. Growlers beers include six standards: Kingpin Kolsch, Trainwreck IPA, Seneca Pale Ale, Alleyway Amber, Yorkshire Porter, and Broken Shovel Stout.

In addition there is a rotation of six to seven beers from a broad range of interesting and creative seasonal beers. These seasonal beers include Sergeant Schultz Rauchbier, Chopped Tank Oyster Stout, Franque et Tanque Tripel, Saison du Jasmine and some beers aged in bourbon barrels.

The best selling beers, in order, are Trainwreck IPA, followed by Kingpin Kolsch, Seneca Pale Ale and Alleyway Amber. Not surprisingly, the beers are available to take out in growlers.

A pilot brewery was installed in 2011 to experiment with styles and make “no holds barred” unusual beers. Brewer Gleason describes it as “the place where all those crazy what if questions get answered. like, ‘What does a 100% wheat stout taste like?’ Or, ‘Can you brew a beer that tastes like Thai food?’” These often are on tap one or two at a time and listed on the chalkboard above the bar.

Kingpin Kolsch (5 percent alcohol by volume, ABV) has a nose bespeaking pepper, floral notes and sweet malt. The light sweet front is joined in the middle by tinges of pepper, apple and peach. The pepper increases in the finish with all continuing into the aftertaste where a hint of floral hops emerges.

Ratings: 8/7.5.

Seneca Pale Ale (6.2 percent ABV) is an American pale ale that comes close to being an India Pale Ale with its 60 IBUs (International Bittering Units).

Seneca Pale Ale has a bouquet of grapefruit derived from its use of Cascade hops. Its muted grapefruit front persists in the smooth middle, merging with muted bitter hops. The grapefruit character increases to moderate in the finish and fades in the aftertaste as the bitter hops grow slightly.

Ratings: 8/8.5.

Trainwreck IPA (7.2 percent ABV, 75 IBUs) has a fruit compote aroma with an abundance of grapefruit and a whiff of pine.

The front shows restrained grapefruit and sweet malt. The sweet malt modestly increases in the middle followed by a finish of obvious grapefruit and mixed other fruits including apricot and peach. In the teasing dry aftertaste the medium hops come to the forefront integrating with a trace of pine as the sweetness wanes. Ratings: 7.5/7.5.

Broken Shovel Stout (6.7 percent ABV) has the prototypical medium roast nose but adds a soupcon of dark chocolate.

The soft roast front increases in the middle merging with a rich dark chocolate, both of which meld into the finish mixed with a splash of prune and continue through the aftertaste. Ratings: 8/8.5.

Franque and Tanque Tripel

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(7.4 percent ABV) has a sweet, floral aroma with apricot and mango. The modest sweet mango front blends into the mixed fruit compote middle with a prominent apricot. These extend into the finish and aftertaste where there is a subdued almond. Ratings: 7.5/7.5.

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