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LEXI D’ORSANEO Bowie

LINDSEY JANOSKIE Paint Branch

NICOLE WARREN James H. Blake

Prince George’s County elementary school math and reading scores are down compared to last year, ending a positive fouryear streak on state tests, and officials say next year may not be much better.

A change in how special education students are tested on the Maryland State Assessment, which tests the reading and math abilities of public school students in grades 3 through 8, and the transition to Common Core State Standards, a national education initiative to bring school systems in line with a common curriculum, is believed to have contributed to the county’s decline on test scores — which mirrored an overall statewide decline.

Overall, county elementary schools saw a decline in both elementary and math scores;

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In the search for a college athletic scholarship, parents have endless opportunities to spend money, including youth teams, camps run by college coaches, top equipment, and online recruiting sites that market athletes. The trend has led to children specializing in sports at earlier ages, which has led to more serious injuries, youth giving up free time to chase their athletic ambitions, and in some cases burnout. Another trend is that many top athletes are being forced to choose between their club and high school teams.

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NICK CAMMAROTA STAFF WRITER

Anthony Mazzei and his son Brady both played goalkeeper for Bowie High School’s boys soccer team.

They both won a state championship (the elder won two, in fact, in 1982-83), both served as the Bulldogs’ captain for two seasons.

With Brady, who just finished his senior year, recently committing to play for Liberty University, soon the Mazzeis will be able to say they’ve both played Division I soccer as well.

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oth Taylor Bloom and his mother, Lisa, used the word “exhausting” when describing the summer of 2012.

Bloom, a homeschooled rising senior and pitcher at Riverdale Baptist School in Upper Marlboro, and his mother said they were advised by various sources that the summer between his sophomore and junior seasons — when Taylor was 16 years old — was a crucial period if the standout right-hander hoped to earn a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college scholarship.

So the Blooms traveled to Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee and nearly every state along the East Coast. Taylor pitched for the Evoshield Canes, a tournament team that recruits from Maryland, Virginia, North and

Children nationwide (18 to 5) who participate in youth sports each year.

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Children nationwide under 14 who receive medical treatment for a sports injury in a year.

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South Carolina that was created specifically to allow players to be seen by as many college coaches and professional scouts as possible.

He also participated in showcases that provide an opportunity for players to be evaluated by Major League Baseball scouts and college coaches.

“Driving all over the place trying to get colleges to watch me, it has definitely been a struggle with our schedule,” Taylor said.

The quest for athletic scholarships is becoming increasingly difficult, parents and coaches said, often requiring efforts outside of the high school season. With the recruiting culture rapidly changing, parents with a lim-

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Students who receive either partial or full athletic scholarships.

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Children who drop out of youth sports by age 13. Reasons cited are adults, coaches and parents.

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AMBER LARKINS STAFF WRITER

After averting a possible five-day loss of water service during a heat wave, southern Prince George’s County residents and businesses who suffered financially from the expected shutoff are demanding answers from the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission.

The WSSC announced July 16 that maintenance work on a section of a failing 54inch concrete pipe would require a three- to five-day shutoff that would impact at least 100,000 people in Oxon Hill, Forest Heights, Joint Base Andrews, National Harbor, Morningside, Temple Hills, Hillcrest Heights and Camp Springs. Later that day, WSSC found a valve replacement for another pipe that could provide water for the communities while the failing pipe was fixed, canceling what county officials said would have been “the equivalent of a natural disaster hitting the county.”

Kent Digby, senior vice president of The Peterson Cos., which owns most of the 95 businesses that make up National Harbor, said the fiscal effect of the water scare was “substantial,” and business has remained slow as people think the businesses are closed or have no water.

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SOURCES: MARK HYMAN, BALTIMORE-BASED AUTHOR OF ‘THE MOST EXPENSIVE GAME IN TOWN’; NCAA; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION; SAFE KIDS (CHILDREN’S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER)

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JULY 25 Concerts in the Park: “Natty Beaux,” 7 to 8:30 p.m., On the Green at Watkins Regional Park, 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro.

Enjoy lively music. Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Refreshments available for purchase.

Tonight’s performance: “Natty Beaux” — big band, swing. Contact 301-218-6700; TTY 301218-6768.

Art of memory

TWA Tribe 7 Ceremony (Rites of Passage),

3:15 to 4:30 p.m., Watkins Park Nature Center Auditorium, 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro. A ceremony for the TWA Middle School Male Mentoring Program. Contact 301537-5429 or tenderwarrioracw@yahoo.com.

Safe Summer: Open Mic, 10 p.m. to midnight, Good Luck Community Center, 8601 Good Luck Road, Lanham. We’ll supply the sound system, house band and headliner, you provide the talent. Contact 301-552-1093; TTY 301-445-4512.

crest Community Center, 1300 Capitol Heights Blvd., Capitol Heights. Join us for a day of community basketball. Youth (11 to 13 and 14 to 17) are free. Adults (18 and older), $60 per team.

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Young Dems “Help 4 Shepherd’s Cove,” 10 a.m. to noon, Shepherd’s Cove Women & Children’s Shelter, 1400 Doewood Lane, Capitol Heights. Second annual donation drive for the United Communities Against Poverty Inc. home of Shepherd’s Cove Shelter for Homeless Women and Children. Contact 301-357-9608 or VPofPrograms@pgcyd.com.

Nature Craft, 10 to 11 a.m., Watkins Nature Center, 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro. Enjoy a story, meet a live animal and make a craft. Reservations required. Cost: $2 per resident, $3 per non-resident. Contact 301218-6702; TTY 301-699-2544.

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Artist Si Jae Byun’s piece, “Relationship 3,” will be on display at the Brentwood Art Exchange through Aug. 24 as a part of the “Nostalgia Structures” exhibit. The exhibit features the work of four artists whose showcased works are centered on the theme of memory. For more information, visit www.arts.pgparks.com.

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Tonight’s performer: “The Crawdaddies” — Louisiana’s Cajun, zydeco, blues and rock.

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Dear Southern P.G. Families with Elementary Students, World View Academy professional Board have taken the best of the Maryland State Comprehensive Curriculum (including Magnet, STEM, a Performing Arts, Tag, etc.) and developed an approach that blends this enrichment into healthy academic program for our youth. Furthermore, as we are progressing toward gaining approval and opening a Public Charter School with grades K -12TH (projected for August, 2015); We have developed a comprehensive fundraising program that will allow World View Academy (under the licensed corporate name of World View Christian Center) to operate a school with grades K - 6th to offer this fall, (and middle school grades the following year leading into our proposed charter). Parents will be able to receive Before/After Care and our enriching school for the price of public school before/after care plus $100 per month and a signed commitment to our fundraising programs. Time will be managed effectively to ensure no one’s time is wasted and most tasks and/or talks will be done via email and/or phone conferencing.

There will be an “Open House” on Friday, August 9, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. with a formal program from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Clinton location at 6701 Clinton Manor Drive, Clinton, MD 20735 and child care will be available. Please invite a friend or neighbor. please RSVP by the above email, fax info below or by calling 301-372-0053. Seats are limited!!! Fax info below.

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Safe Summer: Step, 10 p.m. to midnight, Good Luck Community Center, 8601 Good Luck Road, Lanham. Know how to step? Want to learn or practice? Show moves and learn new ones. Contact 301-552-1093; TTY 301-445-4512.

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Bowie gets in step with Revolutionary War march re-enactment Residents will have a chance to witness a re-enactment of French general Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau’s army, which helped George Washington defeat the British in the Revolutionary War, march through Bowie on Aug. 24, said Pamela Williams , historic properties manager for the city.

Rochambeau’s army traveled through Bowie in September 1781 en route to Annapolis to transport supplies by ship to Yorktown, Va., camping overnight at Sacred Heart Church and passing Belair Mansion, said Kurt Lewis, museum facilities specialist for Bowie.

There will be actors playing American and British soldiers who will participate in small skirmishes for entertainment rather than historical accuracy and will set campsites where Rochambeau’s army might have rested, Williams said.

Historically accurate clothing, jewelry and groceries will be for sale, Williams said.

“We want to give the public a better sense of the history that happened right in our communities,” Williams said. “We may not have had battles happen in Bowie, but we stood witness to a lot of things that came through this area.”

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Summer reading program continues The summer reading program at Prince George’s County libraries is well under way and still accepting readers for the program that asks children and adults to log their reading in exchange for prizes of gift certificates and small toys. Kathleen Teaze, county library director, said there are about 9,000 students and between 500 and 700 adults participating in the program.

“Kids who read in the summer do better when they return to school in the fall,” Teaze said .

This year’s summer reading theme is “Dig In,” which means many of the special events at the libraries and books they recommend are related to topics related to digging, such as archaeology.

Teaze said students and adults can continue to sign up for the reading logs through August and special events through the rest of July.

(Above) Runners get started in the 5K race Sunday at the Merrell Down & Dirty Obstacle Race at Prince George’s Stadium in Bowie. The event raised money for Operation Gratitude, a charity that sends personalized care packages to military personnel stationed overseas. The competition featured 5K and 10K off-road courses filled with obstacles, cargo climbs, wild water crossings and mud. (At right) A competitor emerges from the mud. More than 2,500 competitors from several states took part in the events.

Upper Marlboro hosts young men’s ceremony A program aimed at helping young boys develop into men is holding a Rites of Passage ceremony Sunday.

The Tender Warrior Association Middle School Male Mentoring Program event will be held from 3:07 to 3:47 p.m. at Watkins Regional Park, 301 Watkins Park Drive in Upper Marlboro, said program director Anita Washington.

The program helps mentor middle school-aged young men by facilitating and guiding them on their journey to manhood, Washington said.

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center’s hip-hop dance director.

The center holds four sessions of hip-hop dance camp throughout the summer.

Participants designed their own sets, costumes and makeup for performances, Bushrod said.

“The camp is a great way to empower our young girls to learn about other forms of dance than what they see on music videos and TV,” Bushrod said. “The show is really showcasing what the kids have learned during camp. Some kids even choreograph their own dances.”

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dividual Rites of Passage Ceremony near the beginning of the program, Washington said.

The ceremonies are held about once per month, with the goal of celebrating a young man by surrounding him with a “tribe” of male mentors, such as coaches, Washington said.

In addition to meetings and Rites of Passage, the program has an Ivy League college tour, Washington said. So far, the 30 to 40 young men in the program have had the opportunity to visit Princeton and Harvard, she said.

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Mitchellville dance camp puts on a show The Lake Arbor Community Center is hosting a hip-hop dance recital at 5 p.m. Friday featuring children from the center’s two-week long camp.

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Theresa Meadows of Bowie said she despises English ivy so much, she gave up her Saturday morning to kill it.

“We lost a couple pine trees,” Meadows said of the damage caused by the nonnative, invasive plant species.

“This is my way to get back at the ivy.”

Meadows was one of eight to take on the task Saturday as part of the city’s first meeting of the Weed Warriors, volunteers organized by Bowie’s Green Team and Environmental Advisory Committee to remove the plant. The Green Team, a committee charged with educating the community and developing environmental programs, decided to make cutting English ivy a volunteer opportunity for the community.

“Once it’s established, it’s horrible to get rid of. It just crowds out everything else,” Meadows said of the plant, which attaches itself to trees and can eventually bring trees down with its weight.

The warriors’ mission Saturday was carried out in White Marsh Park. Many of the trees at the edge of the forest were covered in ivy.

Former Bowie Mayor Gary Allen, chairman of the city’s Environmental Advisory Committee, estimated the ivy had been growing on the trees for at least a decade.

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Gary Allen, former Bowie mayor and current chairman of Bowie’s Environmental Advisory Committee, cuts English ivy from a tree. He said the ivy is hurting native plants in the area. explaining that many people use the plant for landscaping.

“It’s a mess that we created.”

Allen said a city study in March found that it would cost more than $1 million to have a company remove 328 acres of ivy from forested areas at White Marsh Park, Tanglewood Park and other city property.

Tiffany Wright, watershed manager for the city, said this was the first meeting of the Weekend Warriors, but there would be many more.

“This stuff is so hardcore,” Wright said of English

ivy. “It’ll take a year or two before we really make a dent in it.”

Though there are about 11 other invasive species in White Marsh Park, Wright said the group will focus on English ivy for now, because removing too many kinds of plants at once could cause erosion.

Jamie Vivra, leader of Saturday’s Weed Warriors and a member of the Green Team, said she hopes to expand the program to 50 volunteers who can enjoy getting to know other members of the community while helping native

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Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper hit 24 home runs at the MLB All-Star Home Run Derby on July 15 in New York City, and one of them could have turned into a souvenir for 12-year-old Jaydon Whitehead of Upper Marlboro.

Jaydon, the winner of a Major League Baseball-sponsored Breaking Barriers essay contest, was allowed on Citi Field during the competition. When Harper’s home run landed into the bullpen, Jaydon grabbed the baseball and gave it to an 8-year-old boy he met earlier that night.

Why? “Because he asked for it,” Jaydon said. “I did want it, but he seemed like he really wanted it.”

MLB Senior Coordinator Katie Ringel said the 8-year-old was also on the field as a contest winner. He was scared to be there without his mother until he met Jaydon, Ringel said.

“He took him under his wing completely,” she said.

Those who know Jaydon said they weren’t surprised at the selfless gesture.

“That’s just like him,” said Jessica Alvear, Jaydon’s teacher at Imagine Foundations at Leeland Public Charter School in Upper Marlboro.

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“I have the courage to do anything anyone taller can do. One thing people know about me is that I am willing to try.”

Jaydon Whitehead, in excerpt from Breaking Barriers essay “He cares more about how people feel and that type of stuff,” said Anthony Whitehead, Jaydon’s father.

Jaydon, who is 4-feet-8inches tall, wrote about the challenges he faces as an undersized baseball player in his award-winning essay.

“I have the courage to do anything anyone taller can do.

One thing people know about me is that I am always willing to try,” he wrote.

Ringel said Jaydon’s essay won first place out of the 96 contestants because of the advice it offered to others.

“His demeanor, when we actually got to talk to him, it just kind of nailed the point home,” Ringel said.

What Jaydon lacks in height, he makes up for in leadership, Alvear said.

“He’s just a sweet kid. A quiet leader, but he leads by example,” she said. “He’s not one of those kids that has to be loud about his leadership abilities and capabilities.”

Alvear said he was a calming influence in the sixth-grade classroom.

“If there was tension between students, he would crack a quick joke, and it would be over,” she said.

While in New York, Jaydon participated in a tournament with his Prince George’s County RBI team, which consists of baseball players from Prince George’s County.

“He’s the youngest guy on the team, he’s the shortest guy on the team, but he’s one of the hardest working guys on the team,” said Calvin Massie, Prince George’s RBI coach.

Jaydon said he enjoyed meeting baseball players from around the country, but being on Citi Field was his favorite part of the trip.

“I wish I could have kept the ball, but I’m still happy that I gave it to him,” he said. egoldwein@gazette.net

plants.

“This is pleasure with a purpose,” she said.

The next Weed Warriors volunteer opportunities are Aug. 10 and Sept. 15. Those interested should call Wright at 301-809-3043.

Meadows said she will remember the trees she helped whenever she walks by the stretch of forest where she worked Saturday.

“My tree,” she said, wrapping her arms around a white pine. alarkins@gazette.net

Prince George’s County farmers and homeowners are bracing themselves for the arrival of a small insect known to cause a lot of crop destruction — and take up residence in homes during the winter.

The kudzu bug, an insect native to Southeast Asia, was first detected in 2009 in the United States in Georgia on fast-growing kudzu vines. In 2011, the insect — described as a small, brownspotted flying bug with a short, wide rear end — destroyed 47 percent of soybean crops at a Georgia research center, when only two bugs had been seen at the center the prior year, according to the Maryland Department of Agriculture. The bug has crept up the East Coast and has been found in Prince George’s County, as well as St. Mary’s, Charles and Calvert counties, according to the department.

Soybean farmer Roger Chappelear of Aquasco said it would be devastating if the kudzu bugs got to the 600 acres of soybeans on his 900-acre family farm.

“It’d be like your employer taking half your paycheck away,” Chappelear said of kudzu bugs eating his crops.

Kudzu bugs migrated from kudzu vines to soybean plants, which trailed corn and hay as the county’s top crop acreage in the county at 2,758 acres, according to the 2007 Agricultural Census

for Prince George’s.

Adam Leslie, a doctoral candidate studying entomology at the University of Maryland, College Park, made the first Maryland finding of the bug on kudzu vines early this summer.

“In Prince George’s County, we’ve only found it in southern Prince George’s County — in Fort Washington and Brandywine,” Leslie said.

Leslie is part of a UM group studying to find a native species that will keep the kudzu insect under control, such as a parasitic wasp. Leslie said the only other solution was pesticides. He said the most kudzu insects he found in one area was three, and that the bugs were limited to the kudzu vine.

In Georgia, entomologists sweep a net in a field of soybeans and get hundreds of kudzu bugs in one sweep, he said.

Kimberly Rice, an entomologist for the Maryland Department of Agriculture, said farmers who find the insect on their crops can contact the integrated pest management program and get pesticides to combat the insect.

Homeowners should be aware of the kudzu insect as well, as it can emit a stink bug smell when disturbed and often goes into people’s houses in winter, Rice said. The agriculture department is warning Maryland soybean farmers to be on the lookout for the insect, so they have time to spray for the bugs before they multiply and become destructive. alarkins@gazette.net

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After 36 years in Silver Spring, a well-known school for children with learning disabilities has moved to Hyattsville, a change officials said allows the school to be located where demand has been the greatest: Prince George’s County.

Chelsea School, a nonpublic school that serves grades 5 through 12, consists mostly of publicly funded students — children whose tuition is paid by their local school system because they need more specialized help than a public school can provide, according to Head of School Kate Fedalen. Nonpublic schools, which are approved by the Maryland State Department of Education, are independent from the school system, but provide some publicly funded services.

Enrollment at the school has declined over the years — the school has about 70 students now compared to 100 about a decade ago — and the students are now predominantly from Prince George’s County, Chelsea officials said.

Prince George’s funded tuition

for 33 students at the school last year, while Montgomery funded three, according to school data.

“The move will enable the school system to work closely with the Chelsea School to align curriculum demands and foster efforts to return students to their neighborhood schools, as ready,” said ShaVon McConnell, a Prince George’s County schools spokeswoman.

The shift coincides with the expansion of special education programs in Montgomery and Prince George’s County public schools.

Montgomery increased its special education budget from $182 million in 2004 to $279 million in 2013, said Brian Edwards, chief of communications for the Montgomery County school system. Last year, Montgomery funded 513 nonpublic students — down from 657 in 2004.

“We’ve become much better over the last 10 years in being able to meet a broader array of needs of our students,” he said, explaining the decrease in the number of students who get funding for private schools.

Similarly, Prince George’s has increased its special education budget while reducing nonpublic enrollment by about 300 students in the last five years, to approximately 900 students, said Mary Bell,

a coordinating supervisor of special education for Prince George’s County public schools.

“We try to build and sustain as many students as we can in their neighborhood schools,” she said.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires schools to provide specialeducation students a free and appropriate education. Under Maryland law, parents must prove the school system cannot provide appropriate education in order to receive county funding for use at a private school.

Nancy Doumchick of Greenbelt, who has a son with a language-based learning disorder at Chelsea School, said her child was underserved in the Prince George’s school system, but the county would not provide reimbursement.

“It’s a very frustrating process, and I understand why some people don’t want to through with it,” she said.

Chelsea School’s new building is located at 2970 Belcrest Center Drive.

“We’re using this as an opportunity to make upgrades to what has been a pretty archaic wireless and technology system,” said Frank Mills, director of education. egoldwein@gazette.net

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Above, Prince George’s County police officers remove police cadets pretending to be injured students during a mock school shooting Friday at High Point High School in Beltsville. County police hosted the joint exercise with other first responders, including Montgomery County and state police. At right, police escort cadets posing as students out of the school.

Alexander said.

PGPD and other agencies began holding annual active shooter drills following the 1999 mass school shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, Alexander said.

Friday’s scenario marked the first time emergency responders collaborated on a joint communications system, Person said.

PGPD, the Prince George’s Fire Department, Maryland State Police and other agencies all took part in the drill.

Prince George’s County Fire Chief Marc Bashoor said Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the Century movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo. that left 12 dead and 70 injured.

Bashoor said during past disasters such as the Columbine shooting and the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center attack, agencies operated with little

cooperation, but now are more closely integrated.

“We now share tactical radio channels, we now have EMTs embedded with our SWAT teams, and the county police have investigators imbedded with our fire marshal,” he said.

“That level of cooperation has never existed before.”

High Point Principal Sandy

Jimenez watched cadets covered in fake blood being brought out of the school on stretchers.

“I’m just glad it’s not my own kids, even if it is just a drill,” she said.

Jimenez said it was a great opportunity to learn what an emergency response at her school would look like.

“The more you understand

how the process works, the better prepared you are to work in coordination and to fulfill the safety of the students, because the response is the same

whether it’s a tornado, an earthquake, a hurricane or whether its an active threat scenario,” Jimenez said.

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First responders drilled for a scenario at High Point High School that they hope never actually occurs.

Four Prince George’s Police Department officers, posing as “bad guys” armed with rifles, smoke grenades and in one case, a bullet-proof vest, entered the Beltsville school Friday morning as part of an active shooter simulation.

The scenario was developed based on research regarding prior school shootings and taken to a worst-case scenario, said Maj. Mark Person, commander of the PGPD Training and Education Division.

The shooters entered the school and began firing paint pellets at about 40 Prince George’s police cadets, posing as students, who either fled from the scene or were shot.

Within 17 minutes, all four of the shooters had been killed or captured, Person said.

“It went very well. I am extremely happy with what I witnessed these officers do,” Person said. “I’m sure there are things we need to work on, but overall, I am extremely happy about the response.”

Lt. Bill Alexander, assistant commander of the PGPD media relations division, said there was no set time to complete the scenario at the 36,000-square-foot, four-floor school.

“Their mindset is as quickly as possible to engage the shooters and neutralize the threat,”

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POLICE BLOTTER This activity report is provided by the Prince George’s is not a complete listing of all events and crime reported.

District 2

Headquarters, Bowie, 301-390-

2100 Glenn Dale, Kettering, Lanham, Largo, Seabrook, Woodmore, Lake Arbor, Mitchellville and Upper Marlboro.

JULY 15 Commercial property break-

in, 8400 block Westphalia Road,

OBITUARY Thomas J. Opalski “Happy”, 53, of Lanham, MD, entered eternal life on July 1, 2013 at home surrounded by his family. He was born to John J. and Angelina M. (Dalmas), on May 21, 1960, in Berwick, PA. Tom is survived by his mother of Lanham, MD; two daughters and a son, Kristina M. Richter, Toni Michele Opalski and Andrew T. Opalski, all of Arnold, MD; three grandchildren, Emanuel, Aubrie and Travis; one brother, two sisters, one brother-in-law, a host of family and friends. Grandpop “PopPop” Tom was excitingly awaiting the birth of his next grandchild which is due in October. Tom donated his body to the Maryland State Anatomy Board for the advancement of medical science.

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Funeral service was held on Monday, July 22, 2013 at Saint Paul Community Christian Church, 414 Tennessee Ave, NE, Washington, DC 20002. Interment Washington National Cemetery, Suitland, MD. 1859520

7:03 a.m.

Theft, 4400 block Nicole

Drive, 11:34 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8900 block Darcy Road, 11:40 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1000 block Shoppers Way, 4:53 p.m.

Residential break-in, 9800 block Good Luck Road, 5:04 p.m.

Residential break-in, 9900 block Greenbelt Road, 5:48 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 10000 block Howell Drive, 6:21 p.m.

Theft, 5600 block Westgate Road, 6:26 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8400 block Westphalia Road, 6:57 p.m.

Theft, 13700 block Central Ave, 6:58 p.m.

Residential break-in, 9900 block Good Luck Road, 7:09 p.m.

Assault, 5300 block Brittwell Court, 7:22 p.m.

Theft, 11500 block Bennington Drive, 8:40 p.m.

Robbery, 9700 block Woodberry St., 10:33 p.m.

JULY 16 Robbery, Naval Ave. & Mag-

nolia Ave., 12:18 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10900 block Potomac St., 1:02 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9500 block Reiker Drive, 2:50 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 16500 block Governors Bridge Road, 7:11 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2000 block Saint Georges Way, 9:59 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 9100 block Ardwick Ardmore Road, 10:07 a.m.

Robbery, 4800 block Colonel Ashton Place, 10:41 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 16700 block Governors Bridge Road, 11:44 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8700 block Armstrong Lane, 12:17 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3300 block Crain Highway Nw, 1:14 p.m.

JULY 17 Vehicle stolen, 10500 block Forestgrove Lane, 5:01 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9700 block Good Luck Road, 6:07 a.m.

Commercial property break-in,

3300 block Superior Lane, 10:20 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 10900 block Maiden Drive, 1:51 p.m.

Residential break-in, 14200 block Macfarlane Green Court, 2:23 p.m.

Assault with a weapon, 9100 block Lincoln Ave, 3:41 p.m.

Theft, 12700 block Heidi Marie Court, 5:02 p.m.

Assault, 13700 block Central Ave, 5:33 p.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

6500 block Blk Woodstream Drive, 8:16 p.m.

Robbery, 9500 block Tuckerman St., 9:10 p.m.

Robbery on commercial property, 10200 block Lake Arbor

Way, 10:02 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 10900 block Maiden Drive, 10:05 p.m.

JULY 18 Commercial property break-

in, 13600 block Old Annapolis Road, 12:02 a.m.

Commercial property break-

in, 13600 block Old Annapolis Road, 12:49 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4800 block Parkmont Lane, 8:23 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11100 block Marisa Court, 9:05 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11100 block Marisa Court, 10:10 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11100 block Marisa Court, 10:11 a.m.

Break-in, 12700 block Midwood Lane, 10:40 a.m.

Theft, 14000 block Dawn Whistle Way, 11:08 a.m.

Theft, 13700 block Central Ave, 11:19 a.m.

Theft, 10300 block Broom Lane, 11:30 a.m.

Theft, 12500 block Scarlet Lane, 12:24 p.m.

Residential break-in, 4800 block King John Way, 1:55 p.m.

Theft, 9100 block South Cherry Lane, 1:55 p.m.

Theft, 15200 block Major Lansdale Blvd, 2:56 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6200 block Gothic Lane, 3:03 p.m.

Theft, 15500 block Annapolis Road, 5:21 p.m.

Theft, 600 block Crain Highway Sw, 5:54 p.m.

Theft, 12000 block Fairway Court, 6:54 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 13700 block Central Ave, 8:24 p.m.

Residential break-in, 11600 block Duckettown Road, 9:25 p.m.

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JULY 19 Residential break-in, 5000 block Patuxent Riding Lane, 1:06 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4900 block Ashford Drive, 6:31 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 9400 block Smith Ave, 8:08

a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 3800 block Enfield Chase Court, 8:08 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11300 block Joyceton Drive, 9:54 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4500 block Kinmount Road, 11:24 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 10100 block Worrell Place, 1:00 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9400 block Smith Ave, 1:17 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9400 block Smith Ave, 1:17 p.m.

Theft, 15600 block Emerald Way, 2:57 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 10600 block Woodlawn Blvd, 3:33 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9600 block Lottsford Court, 5:19 p.m.

Theft, 13000 block Viewpoint Lane, 6:19 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 11300 block Joyceton Drive, 8:20 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 13700 block Central Ave, 9:08 p.m.

JULY 20 Theft, 6000 block Haversham Drive, 8:32 a.m.

Theft, 12400 block Fairwood Pky, 1:59 p.m.

Theft, 15500 block Annapolis Road, 2:03 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 16300 block Village Drive W, 2:15 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 8900 block Hilton Hill Drive, 4:09 p.m.

Theft, 12100 block Central Ave, 5:25 p.m.

Assault, 3300 block Crain Highway Nw, 6:24 p.m.

Theft, 9100 block Basil Court, 9:39 p.m.

Residential break-in, 200 block Harry S Truman Drive, 10:31 p.m.

JULY 21 Residential break-in, 4800 block Glenn Dale Road, 11:08 a.m.

Carjacking, 9400 block Annapolis Road, 12:49 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 13200

block Falling Water Court, 12:51 p.m.

Theft, 2500 block Baikal Loop, 3:25 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5300 block Derby Manor Lane, 4:50 p.m.

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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).

JULY 15 Vehicle stolen, 4800 block St. Barnabas Road, 5:07 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 5100 block Indian Head Highway, 6:14 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2500 block Southern Ave, 7:33 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 7900 block Winnsboro Drive, 7:48 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 200 block Waterfront St., 9:00

a.m.

Theft, 13600 block King Charles Terrace, 10:01 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2000 block Alice Ave, 11:16 a.m.

Theft, 16000 block Indian Head Highway, 11:29 a.m.

Assault, 900 block Marcy Ave, 11:49 a.m.

Commercial property break-in,

5900 block Old Branch Ave, 1:31 p.m.

Theft, 6300 block Davis Blvd, 1:52 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2900 block Rose Valley Drive, 2:32 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 9100 block Allentown Road, 3:25 p.m.

Robbery, 4000 block 23rd Pky, 5:36 p.m.

Theft, 3700 block Branch Ave, 5:51 p.m.

Theft, 5100 block Indian Head Highway, 8:04 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 6900 block Bitternut Court, 9:34 p.m.

JULY 16 Vehicle stolen, 4000 block

28th Ave, 4:28 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6700 block Allentown Road, 5:53 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6900 block Mackson Drive, 6:02 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 4500 block Akron St., 7:14 a.m.

Residential break-in, 1600 block Accokeek Road W, 7:24 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4800 block St. Barnabas Road, 7:26 a.m.

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Elyce Walker-George of Upper Marlboro listens to Monica Charmok of Kaiser Permante explain how to use a pedometer to measure how much she walks each day Saturday at the 12th annual Kettering/Largo/Mitchellville Family Community Day and Health Fair at Largo High School.

SCORES

Continued from Page A-1 79.4 percent of elementary students scored proficient or advanced in reading, a drop of 2.5 percentage points over last year, while 75.5 percent scored proficient or advanced in math, a drop of 3.6 percentage points over last year.

County middle schools saw a 2.4 percentage point improvement in reading compared to last year, with 75.7 percent of students scoring proficient or advanced, but declined 2.6 percentage points in math, with only 60.1 percent scoring proficient or advanced.

Similarly, statewide, only middle school reading scores showed improvement, with 83.4 percent of students scoring proficient or advanced, a 1.3 percentage point increase over 2012.

Statewide, 86.4 percent of students scored at least pro-

ficient in elementary reading, and 83.9 percent scored at least proficient in elementary math, a drop of 1.8 and 3.8 percentage points respectively. Statewide middle school math scores also declined, with only 72.2 percent scoring at least proficient, a 4 percentage point drop over last year.

Based on the MSA results, Prince George’s ranks 22nd out of Maryland’s 24 school districts, outperforming only Dorchester County Public Schools and Baltimore City Public Schools, for elementary school math and reading, and middle school reading.

In middle school math scores, Prince George’s lags more than 12 percentage points below the state average and ranks next to last, followed only

by Baltimore city.

The drop in Prince George’s scores are most significant in fifth-grade math proficiency, which dropped from 75.5 percent in 2012 to 68.2 percent in

2013, and sixth-grade math, which dropped from 76.4 percent in 2012 to 71.1 percent in 2013.

Prior to the 2013 results, math scores in fifth and sixth grades had been on a steady rise for four years.

The biggest gains were in seventh grade reading, which increased from 71.0 percent in 2012 to 77.1 in 2013. Eighth grade reading scores increased 1.8 percentage points and eighth grade math increased 1.4 percentage points between 2012 and 2013.

“We have been really focusing on our middle schools,” said A. Duane Arbogast, chief academic officer for Prince George’s County Public Schools. “We’ve been getting better at analyzing the data and implementing the appropriate instructional response.”

Arbogast said the drop in reading and math scores is likely due to changes in the way the test is administered to special education students.

“Several years ago, the state

“I see less and less, but I still noticeably see some people calling [to see if we are open],” Digby said, estimating that Peterson loses $500,000 per day when National Harbor is not operational.

County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D) announced plans to discuss WSSC’s handling of the potential water service loss and whether there are other county valves in need of repairs, said Baker spokesman Scott Peterson. No date has been set as of yet for that meeting, Peterson said.

“I want to make sure we have all the options available to us when we announce it,” Baker said at a July 17 news conference. “We realize that this event had a significant impact on our economy. People were inconvenienced and businesses lost money, but we did what we had to do to prepare for the anticipated loss of water service.”

WSSC officials explained that they wanted residents to be prepared in case repairs required shutting off water service.

WSSC spokesman Jerry Irvine said it is the responsibility of the company to let the public know when there is a crisis.

“Even if it doesn’t hit, people need to be prepared,” Irvine said. “We were looking at an emergency situation for those customers and we had to make customers aware of that fact and pre-

decided to create a modified MSA for special education students, attempting to mitigate the effects on the MSA results,” Arbogast said, referring to tests that accounted for students’ special needs. “In 2013, the administrators got rid of the Mod MSA.” Arbogast said another reason for the drop could be the transition to Common Core State Standards.

Marylandpublicschoolsbeganimplementing the standards last year, Arbogast said, but the assessment basedonCommonCorestandards will not be fully implemented until the 2014-15 school year.

“This misalignment will certainly affect our scores this year and next,” Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Lillian Lowery said in a news release.

“Even though we did not see those gains this year, we believe we have systems in place to encourage higher student achievement through quality teacher development, student support programs and a systemic com-

pare for it.”

Irvine said when pipes as large as this one fail, they do a significant amount of damage, and the company would be just as active in warning the community if a similar situation arose in the future.

Chris Alexander of National Harbor said he questioned why WSSC didn’t explore its options before telling everyone that water loss was imminent and he would have liked to know there was an alternate plan.

“Coming from a contingency background — I spent 20 years in the Coast Guard — you expect they’ve done all their homework, and it’s a last resort,” Alexander said.

Irvine said it would not have been responsible to notify the public about the possibility of a valve replacement.

“We did not have confidence that the valve could be fixed and to talk about that with the pubilc could have misled folks,” Irvine said.

Ben Grimwood of National Harbor said he spent about three hours July 16 waiting in line at a Home Depot in Oxon Hill to buy items in preparation for the shutoff, including the last six trash cans available to fill with water.

“I spent about $500,” Grimwood said. “They wouldn’t take returns.” alarkins@gazette.net

mitment to providing an excellent education,” Alvin L. Crawley, interim superintendent of schools for PGCPS, said in an email to The Gazette.

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Youth athletes are struggling to keep their sports fresh

BY JORDAN

COYNE

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE

Prevalent

Charles H. Flowers High School rising junior Diamond Douglas works on her recovery from a torn anterior cruciate ligament Saturday at her Brandywine home.

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laying for the Charles H. Flowers girls summer league basketball team, Diamond Douglas tried to avoid a collision with one of her teammates. Instead, Douglas fell on top of her and limped off the court when she stood up. She went to the bench and wanted to re-enter, but assistant coach Makia Staves told her to stay put. It could be serious. Staves was right.

Douglas had a torn anterior cruciate ligament, putting her on the sideline for at least six months.

“In the end, everything will be OK,” Douglas said. “I’ll be back on the court as soon as everything is good.”

According to a 2008 study by the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine, around 150,000 ACL injuries occur nationwide per year.

Girls are two to eight times more likely to suffer the injury.

Dr. Paul Davis of KURE Pain Management said the injuries are the result of repeated trauma to the same joints.

If an athlete specializes in one

ATHLETES

Continued from Page A-1 How they reached that point, however, is substantially different.

“When my dad was in high school, he talked about All-Met and All-State and how that was such a huge part of being recruited,” said Brady, who plays club soccer for the Annandale Knights. “He talked about how big the game you play in when you make All-State was in how he got recruited for college.

Nowadays, I feel like college coaches pay way more attention to the club level. They still attend the high school stuff, but it’s not as important as club.”

The club soccer scene (which fields teams across the country where players can pay to receive additional coaching and play additional matches in a competitive environment), as well as the U.S. Soccer Development Academy — the top tier of youth soccer in the United States which features youth clubs from Major League Soccer, North American Soccer League and the United Soccer Leagues — are quickly changing the landscape of soccer in America.

Similar opportunities are available in nearly every other sport, too, whether it’s the United States Tennis Association, basketball’s Amateur

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sport, playing it all year round and only putting pressure on a certain group of muscles, they are more likely to have an injury.

Playing multiple sports helps avoid such injuries, Davis said.

“It means you’re going to develop different physical and mental skill sets, and you’re avoiding repetitive trauma,” he said.

Davis centers his studies around joint and spine damage.

He said he rarely sees children younger than 12 come in the for treatment, but after 13 they can start having serious injuries. He said the sports vary, but the two most common in his office are wrestling and football.

“I think some of it is genetics, that can cause a tendency towards some of the problem they have,” Davis said.

“Then of course whatever sport they’re doing. Some of it is repetitive trauma.”

When looking at athletes younger than 18, more than 5 million suffer sports-related injuries every year and about half of these cases are from

Athletic Union, Junior Golf tournaments and lacrosse and baseball showcases. As these various organizations continue to attract top-level players, athletes could potentially be faced with a difficult decision: play for a club team or play for their high school.

“I heard somebody say this, and it’s not something I believe because it’s the worst of the worst, but I could see every sport at the high school level except football going away,” said DeMatha Catholic baseball coach Sean O’Connor. “Look at the cost of the public schools.

They’re charging kids to play anyway. If a kid has a choice to pay $50 to play high school basketball or pay $200 and play club basketball and they travel all around the country, what are they going to choose?”

While the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association allows studentathletes to play the same sport outside of the school while that sport is in season, they forbid those commitments to conflict with high school practices and competitions. According to Mazzei, the demands of abiding by those rules were very taxing physically and required some adept scheduling.

One notable exemption to that rule is the soccer Academy. Founded in 2007, last year the Academy mandated that

overuse, according to the Center for Disease Control.

Around 3.5 million children younger than 14 receive medical treatment for sports injuries each year, according the Sports Trauma and Overuse Prevention website, which was started by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. Children ages 5 to 14 suffer nearly 40 percent of sports-related injuries treated in hospitals.

For baseball and softball players, the amount of serious shoulder and elbow injuries in young athletes has increased fivefold.

Dr. James Kunec of Orthopedic Solutions LLP in Laurel said the majority of cases he sees are for pulled muscles, sprained ankles and, more recently, for arthritis as athletes he was treating 30 years ago return for treatment.

He has noticed an increase in more serious injuries and said it’s because players don’t look like they did in the past.

“The players are bigger these days

than they were 30, 40 years ago when I was in high school and college,” he said. “And I think with bigger players, there’s sometimes more force absorbed when these guys hit each other, so I think torn ACLs have become more prevalent.”

Kunec said varying sports isn’t essential, but is most important for baseball pitchers.

Still, Kunec said many prevention methods for injuries haven’t changed.

“I think some of the things we learned in high school are still valid: stretching, good warmup techniques, and then in the summer, hydration,” Kunec said.

When Douglas was 10, she started playing basketball, and has done so year-round since eighth grade.

It’s her only sport and she doesn’t plan on missing out on any games. In early July, she accompanied her AAU team, Team Takeover, to Florida for the AAU Super Showcase.

She isn’t planning on letting this setback put her behind.

“As long as I learn from other people’s mistakes, and just learn the game, when I come back I’ll be prepared,” she said. cstevens@gazette.net

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Bowie High School’s Bonoventure Akinlosotu (left) encourages teammate Brady Mazzei during the first day of boys soccer practice last year at Foxhill Park in Bowie.

Academy players could not also play for their high school team.

Bowie lost players to the rule, as did Eleanor Roosevelt, High Point and even national soccer powerhouse DeMatha Catholic.

Longtime Eleanor Roosevelt soccer coach George Kallas has watched the culture shift firsthand. One of the school’s better players is enrolled with D.C. United’s Academy program, which costs $1,500 per player, and doesn’t play for the Raiders. Kallas said another of his former students, who played at Stevenson University, received the opportunity because Stevenson dealt directly with his

At the age of 7, Matt Daronco began swimming on a quest to acquire a trophy as big as his older sister’s highpoint award. Gifted with a natural talent and a thirst for competition, he found his niche (and trophy) the next summer at Glenwood Recreation Club.

During his sophomore year at DeMatha High School, Daronco became overwhelmed by a combined eight practices a week regiment for his club and school teams, and said he quickly fell out of love with the sport.

“I lost sight of the fact that it was a sport, and it got to the point where it felt like a chore,” he said.

His junior year, Daronco decided not to send his times to colleges, although his coach, Tom Krawczewicz, was sure he was fast enough to compete at the next level. He also decided to stop swimming for his winter club team.

“Once I stopped, I had a lot of energy to do other things,” he said. “It was the best decision of my life.”

This recent trend of young, talented athletes burning out and quitting is caused by earlier specialization, according to Robert Price, a sports psychologist and owner of Elite Minds LLC. “Athletes are choosing one sport to focus on at a much earlier age,” he said.

“When you do that, either you start to lose the love of just playing or it being fun much earlier.”

Price, who has been in practice for 13 years, noted that a decade ago, most children wouldn’t be soccer specific, for instance, until the age of 13 or 14 right at the beginning of high school.

But now, that same specialization is occurring at the age of 7 or 8.

“It’s become a big challenge for athletes to keep it fresh and to find things about [their sport] that they do love,” he said. “It’s become more of a job.”

Henry A. Wise football coach DaLawn Parrish, who played collegiately at Wake Forest University, said he embeds in his players the notion that a collegiate athletic career dominates all aspects of your life, social and academic, and truly does become a job.

“I have a lot of players who like it, but not to the extent that they can control my life,” he said. “You have to really love it.”

Daronco reached his peak early on and knew he couldn’t dedicate his life to such a rigorous schedule. “[Swimmers aren’t] as talkative or outgoing because they leave all their energy in the pool,” he said. “I realized that wasn’t the type of life I want to live.”

Before taking an athletic career to the next level, it is crucial that athletes remind themselves why they are committing the better part of their time to their sport, Price said.

“If you’re not really doing it for you, you need to take a good look at it,” he said.

club coach, not Kallas.

“If you’re going to get seen, you get seen by club because that’s when the college coaches can see you,” Kallas said. “I very seldom have had a college coach come to a high school game because our teams play at the same time.”

Avinash Chandran, the boys soccer coach at Bladensburg High School, previously worked for D.C. United’s youth Academy program and said he believes kids are feeling less and less happy with their return on investment.

“None of my kids can afford to play Academy,” Chandran

said. “They can’t afford to shell out $2,000 a year when their parents can barely put food on the table. The fact that [my top player] Michael [Johnson] can’t afford that, then it makes him a lesser player in the eyes of college coaches.”

So, is that the case? With so many kids participating in club sports and paying for the opportunity to be noticed by college coaches, are the college coaches really paying that much more attention to club competition?

“I think one of our major missions is to try and get the best local players. The best thing about local players is you know the kids and the parents and everything,” Loyola University assistant men’s soccer coach Matt Dwyer said. “We’ve got good relationships with the high school coaches. A lot of times we’ll see them more than the club coaches because sometimes club coaches become agents for these kids and push them everywhere. The high school coaches, a lot of times, will tell you what kind of character they have and they’re not getting paid by the parents.”

Dwyer also explained that when he and his staff go out to watch high school games, it’s because they know the coach and they’ve made contact ahead of time. He hasn’t seen the passion for high school sports wane as much as one might be led to

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believe.

“Some of the better players at the moment are still wanting to play high school because of the Academy rule,” Dwyer said.

“So you might find them on a club team. And that’s like finding a diamond in the rough.”

As players such as Mazzei continue to find value in club sports — especially if they believe it helps them to play Division I — the future of how top athletes participate in high school sports should be interesting to watch.

“We’re an immediate gratification society,” O’Connor said. “And in the high school environment, as opposed to the showcase world, there might be a senior in front of you and you might have to wait your turn.

You’ve taken away all the arguments that the [high school] coach used to have about why this is more important than summer ball.

“And the only argument we have standing is tradition.

That you’re going to remember these games for the rest of your life. That the college coach still wants to hear from the high school coach about your work ethic and they’re close to you and know you well. They’re all the things we know are right and good, but it’s getting harder and harder to sell.” ncammarota@gazette.net

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When Tommy Park was a senior at DeMatha Catholic High School in 2003, there was little he didn’t participate in, and rarely was there a day after school that he strayed far from the Hyattsville campus.

A current Stags’ varsity soccer assistant, Parks was a three-sport varsity athlete, participating in soccer, wresting and lacrosse. If that didn’t keep him busy enough, playing euphonium in the wind ensemble would have pushed him over the edge. He also participated in the school government.

Such a busy schedule kept him from focusing all his time on one sport, or one instrument.

But Park still played soccer and lacrosse at the University of Mary Washington, despite not focusing all his time specializing in one field.

“I sympathize with parents and players because they’re told that there’s only one way to do it,” Park said. “They hear if he or she doesn’t practice three days a week and go to eight tournaments a year, they’re not going to have opportunities in high school, or have opportunities after high school.

And that’s not true.”

Pressure for athletes to commit to a sport and work towards a college athletic scholarship seem to be increasing. Students as young as 13 are verbally committing to colleges. In 2010 13-year-old David Sills of Bear, Del., committed to the University of Southern California. But area coaches say that students, and parents, don’t have to go to great lengths to specialize in one sport at an early age for an athletic scholarship to come.

When Charles H. Flowers point guard Diamond Douglas was 10 years old, her mother signed her up for the local boys and girls club basketball league. Basketball wasn’t necessarily her choice, it just ended up being the sport to play that season.

Since then, Douglas hasn’t played another sport, focusing her efforts year-round on basketball.

In eighth grade, she started playing Amateur Athletic Union basketball with the Lady Clippers of Southern Maryland and her sophomore year she joined Team Takeover.

Playing on the AAU circuit introduced her to other area players from schools such as St. Vincent Pallotti, Elizabeth Seton and St. John’s Catholic High, which makes seeing them on the other side during other league games more interesting.

Douglas said her only break is in August right before school starts. She’s working towards a college scholarship and feels the time is worth it.

“If you love the game, you’ll play as much as you can,” said Douglas, who tore her anterior cruciate ligament this summer.

With the heavy load her athletes take on, Flowers coach Patrice Frazier-Watson said she makes sure they don’t lose sight of their purpose at Flowers: to get an education.

The 13th-year coach won’t let players on the floor if their grades aren’t right. She also helped organize a ceremony at Flow-

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UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON

DeMatha Catholic High School graduate Tommy Park has been heavily involved in soccer from a young age, through his college days playing for the University of Mary Washington and now as an adult, running youth soccer programs. ers recognizing student-athletes’ academic achievements.

“The one thing you have control over is academics,” Frazier-Watson said. “The whole thing is the athletic things you’ve done will pay off in the end, but you can’t guarantee it. The piece you can guarantee is having the course work done and really having an idea of what you want to study when you get to school. Then you make yourself more marketable to a coach when they’re comparing you with other kids.”

Brendan O’Connell, coach of Class 4A boys basketball state champion Eleanor Roosevelt, sang the same tune as Frazier-Watson.

He said most of his incoming players don’t enter with much experience outside of local boys and girls clubs.

Players with work ethic and talent can overcome a steep learning curve.

“Ninth and 10th graders, in my opinion, the kids should just be developing as basketball players, making sure they get better and taking care of their grades,” he said. “They shouldn’t be marketing themselves to college when they’re in ninth grade. We also haven’t had any players getting that attention that early.”

But he’s had players go on to Division-1 scholarships.

From last year’s team, Malachi Alexander and Emanuel Matey signed with Holy Cross and Morgan State, respectively.

O’Connell said when Alexander came to Roosevelt, he played on junior varsity team his first two seasons and was moved up to varsity during his sophomore season. His senior year, he averaged 12 points per game while leading the Raiders to the state title.

“The kids that do the best with us are just the kids that come in in ninth grade

with a work ethic and are just willing to be coached with a good attitude,” O’Connell said.

Rising senior Brendan Burke, captain goalkeeper of DeMatha’s soccer team, grew up playing soccer, baseball and basketball but started focusing solely on soccer when he joined a U-10 team.

His focus on soccer earned him a spot on the Naval Academy’s team next fall. Despite playing 10 months a year and devoting so much time to the sport, Burke said he wouldn’t change anything.

“I mean there are some days, especially now during the summer when I think about hanging out with friends or going to the beach. But all the stuff I do, it makes winning possible and playing in all these tournaments — I definitely don’t regret anything,” Burke said.

Burke will be joining fellow DeMatha graduate Michael Parker on the Naval Academy’s soccer team. At DeMatha, Parker also played varsity lacrosse for three seasons and still managed to play college soccer. Tommy Park also said several Stag soccer players play for the wind ensemble and take part in other school events, yet still earn scholarships.

Park, who is the executive and technical director of the Alexandria Soccer Association, said while it may seem like kids have to focus all their efforts toward athletics to get a scholarship, they can still have a well-rounded high school experience without losing their childhood, and still earn the chance to play in college.

“I sympathize with parents, but there’s not one way to skin a cat,” Park said. cstevens@gazette.net

As high school athletes gear up to battle the long and trying recruitment period, their strongest allies tend to be their coaches. “[My parents] participated on the emotional end … but as for traveling and stuff, my coaches handled all of that,” said Northwestern High School football player John Johnson, who just graduated.

Johnson is committed to play for Boston College next year as a safety. His high school coach, Brian Pierre, is adamant about ensuring all of his players receive exposure online and on the field.

“The best way to get your kids seen is to take them to the colleges … ” he said. “The process is really changing with technology.”

During his recruitment regiment, Pierre consistently uses Hudl.com, a website that allows coaches to break down film and create highlight clips for each player. Although this particular website saves him both time and money, when compared to previous methods of mailing out DVDs, he is not fond of all recruitment websites, especially those such as Rivals.com, which rank players on a five star scale.

“Most of the people that work at these websites didn’t actually see the kids playing,” Pierre said.

“Those websites are a little unfair and a little biased sometimes.”

Another website, BeRecruited.com, hosts pages for each team where players can create profiles. Although all of the information on these pages is correct, Pierre finds it vague and invaluable. Jovany Joya, one of Pierre’s rising seniors, created a profile, but realizes that page alone won’t secure him a scholarship.

“Anytime, any coach can come look at you and look at what you’ve done,” he said. “But it really depends on how a player does in a game.”

University of Tulsa women’s rowing coach Kevin Harris says that for well over half of the athletes on his team, Tulsa recruiters used BeRecruited to reach them.

“It’s really important for us to use these services because getting people to pay attention to a rowing school in Oklahoma is tough,” Harris said. “Truthfully, everybody uses it, I just don’t know if they use it as much as we do.”

Salisbury University softball

Jacob Bogage contributed to this story. jcoyne@gazette.net

ADDING IT UP

SCHOLARSHIPS

Continued from Page A-1 ited budget are increasingly unable to send their children to premiere events that showcase their talents.

The major colleges compete in Division I. Division II schools, such as Bowie State University, offer fewer athletic scholarships than the Division I schools (That varies by sport). Division III schools do not offer athletic scholarships.

Taylor, who has received a full scholarship from the University of Maryland, College Park, attended nearly 25 events while also maintaining his high school schedule.

“We like to joke that for all the money we’ve spent, it would have paid for maybe a year or two of tuition,” Lisa said. “But it was definitely worth it.”

The Blooms paid a $2,000 signup fee for Taylor to join the Canes. Individual showcases can run up to $500 per player.

None of that includes equipment (highend gloves and bats are roughly $300 each), hotel, gas, airfare or food.

“It’s basically making baseball a country club sport where you’re forcing out people that don’t have money,” said Sean O’Connor, baseball coach at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville. “Every time a kid wants exposure to a specific school, he’s got to outlay cash.

Whereas, I don’t think it’s changed a lot that if a kid is talented, he’s going to be found no matter where he plays.”

According to the NCAA, 2 percent of high school athletes receive athletic scholarships and the average scholarship is worth less than $11,000 per year. In lieu of full athletics scholarships, colleges will offer academic scholarships and needbased aid, such as federal Pell Grants, to entice students. The NCAA places a cap on the number of athletic scholarships available per sport, but there is no limit on academic scholarships.

Colleges’ preference for academic

coach Margie Knight says she fears too many student-athletes are using recruiting websites to do the work for them. Marketing is a two-way street, she says, and just as athletes like the personal touches coaches put on recruiting tips, coaches like it too.

“A student-athlete sill has to be the one to market themselves,” Knight said. “If I’m just getting blasts from BeRecruited, I delete them. It’s not the student-athlete who’s interested, it’s the corporation.”

This summer, Joya, along with other players from Northwestern, attended one-day recruitment camps at colleges all over the country.

Similarly, Isiah Martin, a rising senior at Gwynn Park, has been attending basketball camps along the East Coast.

His coach, Mike Glick, aids his team by blasting out emails and game tapes. He also helps mentally prepare them for their July season on their summer teams, which is the peak of the basketball recruitment period.

Members of his team will play anywhere from 20 to 30 games during July, and will be seen by hundreds of college scouts.

“For a lot of these players, basketball is what’s going to get them into college,” Glick said during the first week of July.

“The next three weeks will make or break them.”

Glick shares similar sentiments as Pierre in regards to recruitment websites, saying this: “They’re meaningless, the only thing they will do is garner interest from colleges. I have not had a person in my 21 years of coaching get a scholarship without being seen by a coach.”

Both Glick and Pierre are firm believers in developing strong professional relationships with other coaches in order to boost exposure for their players.

“I’m very proud of our coaches’ association, we do a lot to support each others kids,” Pierre said. At their monthly meetings, he said they often set aside time to discuss each school’s top players so that when a college scout should stop by and ask about local competition, they can legitimately vouch for each other’s kids.

“The NCAA has rules about talking to kids, but that doesn’t apply to coaches,” Pierre said.

“Prince George’s County doesn’t have spring football … so we rely on high school coaches to talk with them and show footage.”

Cost of buying youth sports equipment adds up quickly

FIELD HOCKEY n Sticks: $50 to $350 n Goggles: $40 to $80 n Gloves: $15 to $30 n Balls: $6 to $10 n Shin guards: $20 to $50 n Bags: $30 to $80 n Total: $161 to $600 for field players n Goalie sticks: $50 to $110 n Goalie protection: $500 to $565 (includes mask, body guard, leg guards, foam hand protectors, girdle, throat protector)

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates about 30 million United States children participate in youth sports each year, costing parents an estimated $5 billion annually. For some, it’s the start of what might lead to a college athletic scholarship. scholarships adds another dimension to the complicated recruiting puzzle: the student’s performance in school.

J.C. Pinkney, football coach at Frederick Douglass High School in Upper Marlboro, said he has noticed a rise in the number of showcases and camps available to his players, but he said college coaches still like to visit schools and find out how athletes are doing overall.

“College coaches are old-school.

They come out to the building, evaluating kids and film,” Pinkney said. “They’re not concerned as much with the showcases and how they perform there. They want to make sure the grades, the SAT scores and how the kids do in school are all good. I just wish that the kids and the parents put a little more emphasis on the academic scene. The reason a kid might not get to go to the school he wants isn’t because he can’t play football, but because of academics.”

Pinkney also noted that a showcase event or camp at a college campus sometimes can prove detrimental to an athlete’s scholarship chances.

“If you go there and don’t perform well, you’re taken off their radar,” Pinkney said.

Riverdale Baptist basketball coach Lou Wilson has observed an increasing number of college coaches lurking outside the high school environment, though plenty still reach out to him.

“During the live period, you’ll have just about every college coach in America at a camp or at some type of AAU [Amateur Athletic Union] event observing and monitoring the students they’d like to recruit,” Wilson said.

At Eleanor Roosevelt High School, basketball coach Brendan O’Connell brings select players to the Hoop Group Elite showcase in Pennsylvania after the season, where the entrance fee is $595

per player. That’s another expense.

“I think finances are the biggest obstacle,” O’Connell said, “It’s something that I start telling our kids about in the middle of the season. ‘Hey, if you want to do that this summer, you’ve got to start telling your parents now because you’re not going to be able to tell them a week ahead of time that I need $600.’

And some kids just can’t do it.”

While many debate whether showcase events and tournaments bring results, most agree that the desire for scholarships is likely to keep people paying to participate in hopes of increasing their odds.

“It works for some people. It doesn’t work for others,” O’Connor said. “And unfortunately, in the process, it’s costing a lot of people a lot of money to figure it out.” ncammarota@gazette.net

n Goalie total: $550 to $675

ICE HOCKEY n Helmets: $50 to $250 n Gloves: $35 to $190 n Shoulder pads: $40 to $170 n Hockey pants: $50 to $170 n Shin guards: $30 to $150 n Cup and supporter: $30 to $80 n Neck guard: $13 to $20 n Mouth guards: $10 to $30 n Total: $258 to $1,060 n Basketball: $18 to $70 n Baseball: $5 to $15 individually n Football: $20 to $100 n Tennis racquet: $40 to $200 n Golf clubs: $200 to $500 SOURCE: DICK’S SPORTING GOODS

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When the latest smartphone is released, it’s not that surprising to see a long line of customers waiting to be among the first to get their hands on the newest technology. For many, the price of having the most up-to-date features is worth paying whatever price is asked.

Chances are not too many Prince George’s County residents were as eager to find that the county spent HALF MILLION nearly half a million dollars upgrading the county’s WOULD HAVE website, however. After BEEN BETTER all, spending personal savSPENT ON OTHER ings on a luxury item can PRIORITIES be justified, but spending taxpayers’ money on an extravagance during tough economic times simply doesn’t make sense.

Granted, the $448,827 upgrade resulted in a much more colorful website. The county’s old site looked outdated compared to other jurisdictions’ websites, said Vennard Wright, the county’s chief information officer and director of the county’s Office of Information Technology.

In addition to the new look of the site, officials said the setup is easier to navigate and they will add searchable databases on items such as service requests made to the county government’s non-emergency call system and county police.

The site hadn’t undergone any massive upgrades since a 2006 revamp that cost $1.5 million, and the upgrade should be completed by the end of the month, according to county officials.

While the motives behind the upgrade are commendable, the timing is horrific.

At the peak of budget season in March, the county faced an anticipated $152 million budget deficit for fiscal 2014. In County Executive Rushern L. Baker’s budget proposal, he called for offering early retirement packages to about 500 of the county’s 6,000 employees and up to five days of unpaid leave.

Baker staff members said they expected 250 of the eligible employees to take the buyouts and only 197 did, which will require additional adjustments in September.

Fortunately, the County Council approved a plan that made other cuts — such as a $2 million school board request to hire additional staff members — to avoid the furloughs.

The budget also reduced the size of two police classes.

While overall crime dropped by seven percent last year, surely the website money would have been better spent aiding public safety to help maintain the progress.

County libraries have long struggled with budget cuts, as well. For fiscal 2014, the library management structure was changed by having most libraries share a floating manager who splits time between multiple branches.

Fortunately, $500,000 was used to restore Sunday hours at three county libraries — but with 18 libraries in the county and residents stressing the need for increased access to look for jobs and do research, there is clearly more to be done.

In the county’s defense, a fresher, easier-to-use website with improved functionality due to department leaders being able to constantly update their agency’s information allows for better customer service and increased government transparency, and provides a more modern impression of the county for outsiders and prospective businesses that visit the site. However, there are other, more cost-efficient ways to go about achieving some of those goals, such as simply adding databases to the old format.

From January to July, the county site had 5,022,486 page views compared to 18,447,115 in Montgomery County in January to July and 16,301,882 from January to June in Baltimore County. Given the significantly lower web traffic in Prince George’s, it’s clear something wasn’t right — but it’s worth finding out what drives residents to visit government sites rather than jumping to the conclusion that the site needs to be overhualed.

Wright said the soft launch of the website has received mostly positive remarks, although users are still learning where to find information and some portions of the site are still being changed. Wright said the site would be updated constantly to address technical issues.

Commendably, county officials did keep the money within the county by partnering with Greenbelt-based Ingenium Corp. to develop the site.

Overall, half a million dollars may not seem like much in a $1.6 billion county budget. However, in a county fighting to make gains while dealing with limited resources, it’s clear the county missed an opportunity to better benefit residents.

Douglas S. Hayes, Associate Publisher

Thursday, July 25, 2013

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Latino leadership gap due to school system’s lack of effort I have to agree with the “Failing grade on Latino leadership in schools” [editorial] in the July 11 Forum. I am a Latina in the PGCPS system that graduated from Bowie High School in 1975, and a teacher in the county for the last 20 years. I have been an involved parent for my son who attended county schools and graduated from Bowie High School in 2012.

I disagree with the conclusion, however, when it comes to the solutions. Translating at school meetings or sharing information about important events is only a superficial fix.

“School leaders should also make a point of identifying education issues that directly impact the Latino community, such as funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes, which may help get residents more engaged.”

You failed to identify that the ESOL department’s leadership is also non-Latino. A little investigative reporting would have uncovered the fact that there are no Latinos in the cen-

tral office of the ESOL department in our county.

This is also not due to the fact that there are no qualified Latinos in our county, but because of the lack of willingness of the county to hire Latinos in those positions. One of the statistics you fail to address is the exodus of Latino talent to other neighboring counties.

Two percent of teachers in the county are Latino, but you failed to mention that this is a figure that has decreased in the last 15 years at the same time that our Latino student population has increased to 23 percent.

I am, you can say, part of the 2 percent of Hispanic teachers in the county who has refused to leave when opportunities to advance have found a culture of self-promotion among the African-American leadership in the county.

The lack of Latino leadership in county schools is not due to the lack of Latino parental involvement. It is due to lack of an effort of our school system to nurture and promote

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Del. Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D-Dist. 21) of College Park speaks June 21 at a news conference calling for an increase in Latino leaders in the Prince George’s County school system. “We shouldn’t be an afterthought,” PeñaMelnyk said. those that it already has. Unless things change at various levels in our school system, we may see that 2 percent decrease further.

I am looking forward to

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changes under the leadership of Kevin Maxwell, our new CEO. I don’t think he will fumble the ball.

Cela Gomez-Showell, Bowie

Make a clean sweep of Congress I awakened one recent morning at about 3. I could not sleep because of a picture that I saw in a major Sunday paper of a little boy from the hills of Tennessee. He was eating a slice of dry bread. The little fellow was enjoying it to his heart’s content. It was all he had to eat.

This sight brought tears to my eyes. And when I opened the paper to read the continuation of the story, I was ap-

palled at the many boys and girls, as well as some elderly people, who were in the same plight.

Thank God that some people or an organization had bought four used school buses for about $4,000 apiece to travel the more than 66-mile route in the hills of Neville, Tenn., to bring some meals for the children in the hills and valleys of Tennessee.

Folks, we live in the richest

country in the Western world, and this should not be happening in our country.

We have a Congress up on Capitol Hill doing nothing but playing games with amendments and other foolishness rather than taking care of the business of the people.

They would rather see the little people and the old people starve than see an African-American president resolve the problems. Presi-

dent Obama has the answer, for it is so simple, but they do not care.

Their days are coming, but we don’t have to worry about them. God will take care of them.

We will live to see a clean sweep of Congress.

Someone had to write the truth, so at my age, 93, I can afford it.

Lemon H. Moses Jr., Waldorf

The Laura Neuman Story Last week’s column pointed out that, despite its ultra-liberal impulses, Maryland has yet to elect a woman governor.

Twenty-six other states, including unenlightened Alabama, Arizona, Utah, South Carolina and Louisiana, have done so, and the nation may elect a woman president long before Maryland elects a woman governor.

Maryland Republicans should take note. In order to win a statewide race in Maryland the GOP needs a pair of lightning strikes. First, the Democrats need to screw up and, second, the Republicans need a legitimate “crossover” candidate who can attract dissident Democratic voters.

Next year’s governor’s race could well see a Democratic train wreck. Anthony Brown wants to be Maryland’s first MY MARYLAND black governor, BLAIR LEE Doug Gansler wants to be Maryland’s first governor elected from Montgomery County and Heather Mizeur wants to be Maryland’s first lesbian governor. And none of them is from Baltimore.

In its wake, the Democratic primary is bound to leave hard feelings and disappointed followers. But how can the GOP exploit such a possibility? How about running a woman reform candidate from Baltimore who has a compelling life story?

Looks good on paper; does one exist?

Yes, she’s Anne Arundel’s new reform county executive, Laura Neuman, whose predecessor went to prison for misconduct in office.

Neuman was born poor in east Baltimore to a troubled household. She survived the city’s 1968 race riots and walked to school with a nickel in one hand and a quarter in the other, hoping to surrender only the nickel to the neighborhood hoodlums.

Here’s the rest of her story: “My first job was helping my older brother with his paper route. I eventually

took over the route and I still remember a man giving me a fifty-cent coin, my first real money.”

Next she worked as a lifeguard, a waitress and a cashier. At 17, she dropped out of high school and then left home.

“I moved out the day I turned 18, staying on the floor of a friend’s house for a couple of months. I was always the kid taken in by friends, from Pikesville to Edgewood. I was like a nomad trying to find a safe place to land. Finally I rented an apartment in Baltimore with a co-worker. I was working at Chi-Chi’s.”

When the state raised the drinking age to 21, Neuman lost her Chi-Chi’s waitress job because she was too young to serve liquor.

“The night I lost my job, I came home crying. In my sleep I remember hearing a shuffling sound and muffled noises, but assumed I was dreaming. I was awakened with a pillow over my face and a gun touching my right temple. I was raped; the details of the crime are still vivid.”

Neither the police nor her family believed her. Later, at age 23, she roomed with a successful businesswoman who inspired her to apply herself. Responding to a want ad, she landed a customer service job answering phones at T. Rowe Price for $7 an hour, no benefits.

Thanks to her knack for business, she moved up at Price, while working other jobs, got her GED and bought her first new car. After a romantic disappointment, she moved to Annapolis, where a friend advised her to go into high tech.

“I applied to hundreds of companies.

In 1996 I secured my first technology position in sales with Digex. It was modest but it was a start.”

Encouraged to apply to Loyola’s Executive MBA program despite no college degree, she was admitted and graduated.

Meanwhile, she moved up to an Internet company where, as head of sales, she helped put together a billion-dollar IPO. Another tech company offered her a $450,000 salary that Neuman rejected because the offer included no ownership.

Instead she went with a struggling startup company, Matrics, which offered her eq-

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“I decided to bet on myself. I cashed in my savings and my 401(k) so I could survive until I raised enough money to get paid. I built the company, hiring smart people, building a product and negotiating deals.”

Meanwhile, she attended Stanford Business School, commuting coast-tocoast. Then, thanks to her financial positioning, Matrics sold for $230 million, cash, making Neuman financially secure for life.

“After Matrics, I went on a personal mission. I wanted my rape case investigated. I called anyone and everyone related to the Baltimore Police Department.

Finally, Bernie Holthaus took my case.

After 19 years, my rape case was solved in three days.”

The investigation revealed that the defendant was guilty of multiple unsolved rapes. Neuman’s case became a 48 Hours TV episode and she started a foundation for rape victims.

Married with two young kids, Neuman next was asked to become Howard County’s economic development chief. Then, when Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold went to jail, Neuman quietly but furiously lobbied to fill the vacancy.

“I called each councilman and asked for a meeting. My entire effort was focused on them getting to know me and me getting to know them. I laid low with the press.”

It worked. And now Neuman wants to continue by running for a full term next year. True, it’s a safer option than running for governor. But history is littered with failed politicians whom time passed by as they “waited their turn.”

Laura Neuman’s life story is one of courageous risk-taking and betting on herself. Perhaps she should do so one more time.

Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His column appears Fridays in the Business Gazette. His past columns are available at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His email address is blair@leedg.com.

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County rugby players find their niche Despite a small availability at the youth level, sport still has an intimate following

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Driving down the curvy, tree-lined Brock Bridge Road in Laurel, it can be easy miss Maryland City Park, where for two hours, two nights a week, one of the Rocky Gorge Rugby Club, speeds around the outfield of an overgrown baseball field.

Rugby players say it’s the best sport out there. The physicality mirrors football, but the absence of pads gives it a throwback feel. With little foundation at the youth and high school levels, the sport can often be a hidden gem until college, where the sport has a rabid following, according to several players.

That was the case for Kevin Jackson.

Jackson, a 2005 Parkdale High School graduate, played football, wrestled and ran track prior to college and said he had never heard of rugby. That changed when he arrived at Penn State, Erie.

“I saw this sport that was like football without equipment — we always played football out in the park when we were young — so the contact was cool,” Jackson said. “If you like to hit, you like to run and you like physicality, it’s a good sport to play. It’s a good challenge.”

Will Miller had the same experience when he was at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He found

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Frederick Douglass High School football coach J.C. Pinkney gives directions to his team during the 2011 Class 2A state championship game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

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ooking at Henry A. Wise High School’s football program, which has established itself as a perennial state championship contender and won its first Class 4A state title last season, it can be easy to forget that 10 years ago the Upper Marlboro school didn’t exist.

When coach DaLawn Parrish was hired eight years ago, there were no seniors, students were coming from various other high schools, and the product on the field was hardly a semblance of the unit that has played in three of the past four state title games.

Parrish said he knows being located in the football hotbed of Upper Marlboro has helped the program grow from obscurity to dominance quickly. But while competing with other private schools for talent, consistently producing winning seasons sells the program by itself.

Now, kids want to come to Wise, evident by at least eight transfers students scheduled to enroll this fall.

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Henry A. Wise High School football coach DaLawn Parrish says his first goal is to help as many of his players get into college as possible.

“We’re in a good area, and of course, the more you win — it’s the same for [Frederick] Douglass — you get more kids,” Parrish said.

“The privates are doing their jobs getting kids to play for them, but more kids are deciding to

stay in public school and play for their home audience.”

When J.C. Pinkney took over the Douglass program 12 years ago, he was a mere 27 years old and in charge of a team with an established history of success after reaching the state quarterfinals or better six times in the 1990s.

He wasn’t afraid to make changes, though, including mandatory offseason workouts and demanding more accountability.

The approach rubbed some players the wrong way and Pinkney said he was forced to cut some talented kids from the program.

But he says the approach created long-term success. The Eagles have played in the Class 2A state finals the past two years, losing both times, and haven’t missed the playoffs in 10 years.

Last year’s team featured Paul Harris and Demory Monroe, two DeMatha Catholic transfers, and Tre’ Gibbons Hall, who came from Archbishop Carroll (D.C.).

While he welcomes the transfers, Pinkney said his main goal is getting kids to come in as freshmen to play their full tenure at one school. A prime example would be promising

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NICK CAMMAROTA STAFF WRITER

Ricky Adams founded the Prince George’s County Black Barons in 2005 as his son, Jeremy, was becoming increasingly good at baseball.

The team, as opposed to staying in the same league or competing in the same age bracket, has progressively climbed the ladder of competition as Jeremy has aged. Next week, Jeremy (a graduate of El-

eanor Roosevelt High School) will play in his final games in a Black Barons’ uniform.

The Barons, who participate in an under-22-years-old age group, are a member of the Eddie Brooks League, which is part of the Maryland State Baseball Association. They previously competed in the Maryland Collegiate Baseball League, but Ricky — the team’s general manager — said the schedule was too demanding because so many of his players needed to work in the summer as well.

The switch has worked out well for the Barons, who

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Henry A. Wise High School rising senior Paris Vaughan works out last week at the Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex in Landover.

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Third baseman Jeremy Adams, an Eleanor Roosevelt High School graduate, fields a ball for the Maryland Black Barons during a 2011 game. He is expected to play in his final game with the organization sometime next week.

Henry A. Wise High School rising senior Paris Vaughn said he desperately needed a getaway in the spring of 2011. He said he could not bear to run one more 1,600-meter race, the monotony of circling around the track for a race he didn’t enjoy. The hurdles, he said he remembered thinking one day, looked fun.

So he gave it a try.

“I had no form, I had no experience whatsoever,” he said. Even with his legs flying all over, arms doing likewise, he still crossed the finish line first in that first practice race. “I figured, if I really worked at it, I could be pretty good and my coaches thought the same thing.”

Thus far, pretty good has proven an understatement. Vaughn recently returned from Illinois, site of the World Youth Track & Field Trials, where he finished seventh in the 110 and 300 hurdles. Earlier in the year, during the high school season, he swept the county and region championships in each, claimed silver in the 300 at the Class 4A state championships and bronze in the 110. In an event hyper-focused on technique, where a centimeter too low into a hurdle can send the runner crashing to the ground but an inch too high can mean the split-second difference between first and fourth,

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Continued from Page A-11 rising sophomore quarterback Devin Butler, who has Division 1 potential.

“We want to retain kids; to have the kids zone for Douglass to go to Douglass,” Pinkney said.

“We recruit kids to stay and put a product on the field that the kids feel comfortable with and the parents, they want their kids to

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Continued from Page A-11 out about the sport when a classmate approached him.

It was his sophomore year, he hadn’t played football in a year and wanted an athletic outlet.

“He just said, ‘You’re big.

You should play,’” Miller said.

Eleanor Roosevelt is the only public high school in Prince George’s County that offers the sport. DeMatha Catholic also has a program.

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“He’s stronger,” Wise coach Fardan Carter said. “He was thrown into the fire as a freshman — I said ‘Hey, you’re going to get thrown into the fire a little bit.’ That was a lot of pressure. He was just coming in as a freshman, bright-eyed, didn’t really know what was going on, and he responded. And now he’s one of the leaders on the team.”

Vaughn is one of the few who returned from the Pumas’ 2012 outdoor state championship run. He could compete in everything from the long and short hurdles, pole vault — the only one in the county to do so — any number of relays ranging from the 800 to the 3,200, and any open race from the 1,600 and down, though with

be a part of our program. Our talent in the Upper Marlboro area, we just want those kids to stay, rather than go to privates or any other options they may have.”

In establishing the Wise program, Parrish describes a progression.

His primary focus is sending his players to college. After that, he said he wants wins with the third goal being a state championship.

“I’ve always felt as though,

if kids go to college, kids recognize that,” Parrish said. “The more kids you send to college, the more people recognize that, and you win more. Then, if you get lucky, you win a state title. If you win a state title, more kids want to stay at home.”

And plenty of kids want to play for the Pumas.

Nearly 60 kids have been attending varsity offseason workouts, with an additional 35 working with the junior varsity.

As far as the transfers, Parrish said more players not only adds depth but fosters more competition.

“I’m excited about the additions, but I’m excited about what we already had,” Parrish said.

“Hopefully things work themselves out and the cream will rise tothetop,andeveryonewillwork toward the same goal and that’s winning a state championship.”

lison Beers started the Roosevelt club team, which has a boys’ and a girls’ program, in 2006.

Eisenberg said he consistently has around 30 kids come out for the boys’ team.

“You know how people view football, that seems to be the American sports. They get onto a false misconception that football is safe and rugby is dangerous,” said Eisenberg, who played at Frostburg State and for Rocky Gorge. “You don’t wear pads, but you teach proper technique.

There are two styles of

rugby: Rugby union (15 players) and rugby sevens (seven players).

Rugby sevens, a faster version of the game suited to smaller and quicker players, will make its Olympic debut in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“Sevens is higher scoring, a lot faster pace and a lot more fun to watch, and to be a part of,” Rocky Gorge’s Sam Ausden said.

The Rocky Gorge Rugby Club plays sevens during the summer and union during the fall and spring.

In 2012, Rocky Gorge won the USA Rugby Division II National Championship in union play. This past spring, it reached the quarterfinals of the national tournament.

As a firmly entrenched organization in the rugby landscape, Rocky Gorge coach Chuck Moore hopes that the sport continues to grow in the area.

“You just fall in love with it immediately,” Moore said.

“This is a fantastic sport. Even if you’re not good at it.”

his strong distaste for distance, Vaughn argued his case to remain in the shorter events.

“He could do every event,” Carter said. “If we wanted to put him in the shot put, he’d probably finish top eight in the county.”

Carter is also well aware that “his bread and butter is the hurdles,” he said. “Paris is very capable of pulling off 14 feet [in the pole vault] if he just worked to concentrate on that one event. It’s always just making sure he does every single event to make sure he has a mark so the college coaches can see it.”

At the moment, his marks in the hurdles, namely the 300, his stronger suit, are the main attraction for the college suitors. Miami of Ohio, Bucknell, Rider, Morgan State, Howard and a few others have all expressed interest in Vaughn, and many more can be expected to be calling before next indoor season is out.

His somewhat upstart success his junior year even caught Vaughn a little aback. Coming off a hip injury he suffered during the 2012 state championships after tripping up on a hurdle, Vaughn couldn’t walk on his own for two weeks. His summer track circuit obviously cut short, Vaughn focused solely on getting back to the speed that he was running before the injury, not necessarily improving it. Before long, he was breaking 15 seconds in the 110 hurdles, going sub 39 seconds in the 300 hurdles, and falling just .02 seconds shy of his first individual state gold medal.

“I was very surprised,” he said. “I didn’t think I could do that well coming off an injury.”

Now with a full plate of summer track ahead of him, nixing football for the first time in his life to concentrate on track in the fall, and two more seasons of high school track

ahead, both coach and pupil are understandably eager to see what he can do when he’s not coming off an injury.

“With him, I get the leadership you’d expect out of a kid that’s been in the program for four years,” Carter said. “You get that fire. He’s definitely a character kid. We don’t have to worry about his character, we don’t have to worry about him doing what he needs to be doing, whether I’m there or not there.”

For now, Vaughn is just happy Carter has given up assigning him distance events, though curiosity sometimes gets the better of him.

“I like the fact that I made that decision, but sometimes I think about what would have happened if I didn’t try the hurdles,” Vaughn said. “Would I be a distance runner? Would I be good at it?”

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After Dennis Murphy was named the new boys basketball coach at St. Vincent Pallotti High School, he scheduled a meeting with U.S. Naval Academy men’s basketball coach Ed DeChellis.

And among the many meetings that Murphy has attended in the previous few weeks — with parents, players, school administration and potential staff members — his chat with DeChellis sticks out the most to him.

“He said, ‘Don’t take shortcuts. When you’re driving and you go a different way that appears to be shorter, you get lost and it takes you twice as long to get there,’” Murphy said.

“I agree with that, I believe that and I think getting a good staff, getting students that are on board with your vision and working hard, that’s, to me, as simple as it is.”

Murphy takes over for Shae Johnson, who resigned after seven seasons with the school.

The Panthers won the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association Conference B title last year and likely will depend on returning seniors Tariq Owens and Marquise Reed this winter.

Murphy was selected among 45 applicants for his first head coaching job by Principal Jeff Palumbo and Athletic Director Rick Diggs.

“You want to surround yourself with people that share your vision,” Murphy said. “With people that are hungry, that are passionate and that are going to do thing the right way.”

After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1999, Murphy, 48, has served as an assistant coach at St. John’s College High School, Catholic University and Bishop O’Connell. He grew up in Philadelphia and attended West Catholic High School. He said his background in Catholic education was one of his motivating factors in applying for the position.

“Spending 22 years in the Marine Corps growing up in Philly, you know I’m competitive,” Murphy said. “I’m not going to be somebody’s homecoming game every year where they can blow us out. But it’s a process. You’ve got to get the foundation going.”

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“We went there last year and for some of these guys, it was the first time getting this experience under their belt,” Ricky said. “[Coach] Shawn Proctor wanted to go back because we left there knowing we should have gone further. It’s important to let them know that this is what it’s going to take for us to get back again.”

The Barons already have tournament experience beating a team from Ohio this season as they won the third annual Mid-Atlantic 22U Baseball Bash held at Bowie Baysox Stadium in early July, downing a club from Columbus in the process.

“We won four in a row after losing the first two games at the July 4 tournament,” Jeremy said.

“That’s probably been one of the highlights of our season so far.”

The Michigan Bulls won last year’s NABF U-22 World Series while the Barons lost three consecutive games and didn’t advance beyond pool play. This year, Jeremy, who plays first base and recently graduated from Gallaudet University, expects the Barons to have a better showing.

“We know what to expect from the competition. We want to build off what we’ve been do-

with his returning players.

“The initial thing is there’s no pressure to win this year other than the pressure I’m going to put on myself to win,” he said. “I think we can win as long as we have kids who are willing to be part of something bigger than themselves.”

Pallotti also made a hire on the girls’ side, tabbing Rod Hairston as their new coach. Hairston spent last season at Bullis in Montgomery County before stepping down to accept a position with the Panthers. It will be Hairston’s sixth school in as many seasons after he spent a dominant five-year run at Eleanor Roosevelt, where his teams won five consecutive Class 4A state championships. He takes over for Josh Pratt, who spent four years as Pallotti’s coach.

“I’m definitely excited for the opportunity to take over at Pallotti. I think it’s a special opportunity that at this stage in my career I couldn’t pass up,” Hairston said. “Coming from Bullis, it was difficult, but I feel like Pallotti just met more of my personal career goals and aspirations.”

As the athletics landscape at Pallotti continues to evolve, Hairston noted his excitement to work with Palumbo and Diggs as a motivating factor, as well as the shorter driving distance to Pallotti from his house as compared to Bullis. Despite winning a conference championship with Bullis last season and leading a team that went 21-5, Hairston said yet another move was the right one for him.

“I feel like they have the confidence in my abilities to build a program and they can give me the administrative support necessary to try to build a winning program at Pallotti,” Hairston said.

In addition to Roosevelt, Bullis and Pallotti, he’s also coached at Bishop McNamara, Northwestern, and Henry A. Wise (assistant coach) in the previous six seasons.

The Panthers went 19-16 last year in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland’s A Division.

“It’s a senior-laden team. I think that they have the talent and skill athletically to be able to compete for a championship this year. I just hope I don’t screw it up,” Hairston said with a laugh. “I think there’s a lot of room to grow. The players that come in this season and the next season will have an immediate impact on the program. I think it’s a good opportunity for everyone.” ncammarota@gazette.net

ing,” he said. “We didn’t do too well last year. Once you go and know what to expect, you can go back and be prepared. Our team improved a lot this year.

We have a lot of good players in positions that you need good players, so that really helps us out.”

One such player is another who has been with Ricky since the program’s inception: Jayson Barnes. An outfielder, Barnes recently graduated from Salem International University and is from Fort Washington. A number of athletes on the Barons are recruited from Prince George’s County Community College, but others come from Charles and Calvert and surrounding counties.

“We have a good relationship with Prince George’s Community College and I think it helps their players get more experience using wood bats in the summer,” Ricky said. “That’s a team that’s getting a lot better as well and it’s nice to have so many of their players.”

As the Adams’ — father and son — prepare for their final tournament of summer baseball together, Jeremy put things in perspective.

“It’s just how you look at it,” he said. “I can look back and see all the good times. It’s not really bittersweet for me, but it’s time for things to change, time to move on. After graduating college, that’s what things are about really. Summer ball’s kind of the least of my worries. I’ve got to find a job, find some means of income and go on from there.” ncammarota@gazette.net

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Thomas DiSalvo, Dillon DiSalvo, Marian Donahue and Patrick Gorirossi in The Parlor Room Theater Company’s 2011 production of “The Ghost Train.”

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fter Frank DiSalvo, his brothers, Thomas and Dillon, and some of their high school friends produced the murder mystery parody, “The Butler Did It,” in 2006, they thought that was a wrap.

“We didn’t plan to do it forever,” said Frank. “And then the next year we were like, ‘Let’s do it again.’”

Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” opening Thursday at the Bishop McNamara High School

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CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER

THE MOUSETRAP Thomas DiSalvo, Jackie Schiff and Nick Arbin in “On the Lam,” an original play by Frank DiSalvo Jr.

n When: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, July 25 to Aug. 3; 2 p.m. Sunday; 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4 n Where: Bishop McNamara High School Fine Arts Theater, 6800 Marlboro Pike, Forestville n Tickets: $10 n For information: 202-340-8623, parlorroomtheater.com

Fine Arts Theater, will be the eighth show from DiSalvo and his team, now known as the Parlor Room Theater.

DiSalvo, a graduate of Bishop McNamara, said the idea for the theater company came to him during his freshman year at The Catholic University of America in an introduction to playwriting class.

“I thought how cool it would be to be able to do one of the plays [the class] was reading about,” DiSalvo said. “Then I thought, ‘Why can’t I do it?’”

In the summer of 2006, with the help of his brothers and former classmates, DiSalvo produced “The Butler Did It,” Parlor Room’s first play.

“The cast we had together was basically all the people who had done plays together in high school,” said DiSalvo, who is directing the “The Mousetrap.” “The majority of the people over the years have been alumni of McNamara.”

Dillon DiSalvo, Chris Hogue (in background), Frank DiSalvo, Steven Barroga, Daniel Barroga, Sean Poppert, Lonnie Simmons and Marian Donahue in The Parlor Room Theater Company’s 2011 production of “The Ghost Train.”

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Keyboardist and composer David Bach kicks off Beltsville’s Jazz Under the Stars Summer Concert Series Saturday at the Beltsville Community Center. The series’ second and final concert on Aug. 10 will feature Project Natale, a jazz quartet that performs throughout the Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia area.

The outdoor concert will feature Bach and his band, The David Bach Consort, a group of Washington, D.C., and Baltimorebased musicians.

“I’ve gone through many incarnations with the band, Bach said. “We have numerous people at every position because the good players, they stay busy.”

For Saturday’s concert, the band will be a five-piece ensemble. According to Bach, the band’s rotating cast of musicians means the music The David Bach Consort plays is always fresh.

“The band changes, but for the audience, and for me, it’s refreshing because I can play the same thing and it can sound completely different,” Bach said.

Because the Jazz Under the Stars series is typically widely attended by families, Bach said the performance will feature more covers and less of the musician’s original music.

“For outdoor events, I’ll sort of look at the crowd,” Bach said. “They really respond

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JAZZ UNDER THE STARS SUMMER CONCERT SERIES n When: 7 p.m. Saturday and Aug. 10 n Where: Beltsville Community Center, 3900 Sellman Rd., Beltsville n Tickets: Free n For information: 301-937-6613, pgparks.com

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The amalgam of Dr. Seuss stories and characters from the Broadway musical “Seussical” were already familiar to the young Laurel Mill Playhouse cast, but mastering the music was more of a challenge, said director Jocelyn Knazk.

“There are some complex harmonies and some strange vocal parts,” said Knazk. “[But] I don’t think you give up on something just because they’re children.“ “They’re capable of getting it. It just takes a little more time,” she said about Laurel Mill’s summer youth production, which begins Friday and

SEUSSICAL n When: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays (except 2 p.m. Aug. 17) , 2 p.m.

Sundays, July 26 to Aug. 17; 8 p.m.

Thursdays, Aug. 1, 8, 15 n Where: 508 Main St., Laurel n Tickets: $15-$18 n For information: 301-617-9906, press 2, laurelmillplayhouse.org

runs to Aug. 17.

“They’re excited to see it come to life on the stage,” said Knazk, who, like her cast, grew up reading about Horton the elephant and the Cat and the Hat in the children’s books written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel, who died in 1991.

The musical “Seussical” is about Horton, an elephant who hears sounds coming from a speck of dust and discovers that living on the speck are the microscopic Whos.

Horton spirits the tiny creatures out of harm’s way by putting the speck on a clover and then becomes friends with Jo Jo, a Who child who is sent military school for thinking too many “thinks” that distract from his school work and annoy his teachers.

The kind-hearted Horton also takes on the job of guarding an egg abandoned by Mayzie La Bird, who flies off and leaves him with her unhatched progeny.

In the meantime, Gertrude McFuzz, a shy bird with only one tail feather, falls for Horton because of

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The Laurel Mill Playhouse presents “Seussical the Musical” with a young adult cast, July 26 to Aug. 17. From left are Elizabeth Steele, Allison Thompson and Alexis Thompson as The Birdgirls.

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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, “Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,” to July 27, 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, 301-860-3717, www.bowiestate.edu.

Busboys & Poets, Hyattsville, TBA, 5331 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, 301779-2787 (ARTS), www.busboysandpoets. com.

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

Greenbelt Arts Center, “Tis Pity She’s a Whore,” Aug. 16-31, call for prices, times, Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, 301-441-8770, www.greenbeltartscenter.org.

Hard Bargain Players, “Blackbird,” to Aug. 3, 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, www.hbplayers.org.

Joe’s Movement Emporium, Thad Wilson in Concert, 7 p..m July 25, “Carolina,” 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. Aug. 2, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Aug. 3-4, 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, 301-699-1819, www. joesmovement.org.

Laurel Mill Playhouse, “Seussical,” July 26 to Aug. 18, call for ticket prices, Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel, 301452-2557, www.laurelmillplayhouse.org.

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

Prince George’s Little Theatre, TBA, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-957-7458, www.pglt.org.

Publick Playhouse, TBA, 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 September, Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-262-5201, www.tantallonstage.com.

VISUAL ARTS Brentwood Arts Exchange, “Nostalgia

Structures,” to Aug. 24, opening reception from 5-8 p.m. July 20, 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood, 301-277-2863, arts.pg-

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parks.com.

Harmony Hall Regional Center, TBA, 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, Jonathan West, installation/sculpture, to Aug. 18, Library Gallery, gallery open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301377-7800, arts.pgparks.com.

University of Maryland University College, TBA, call for prices and venue, 3501

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

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 melodies with Amy C. Kraft, noon, July 25; Songwriters’ Association of Washington (S.A.W.), 7 p.m. July 25; John Guernsey, 6:30 p.m.

July 26-27; D’Vibe and Conga, 8 p.m. July 26; Jazz Jam with Greg Meyer, 1 p.m. July 27; Unruly Blues Band, 8 p.m. July 27; The Nighthawks, 5 p.m. July 28; An Acoustic Evening with the Scrub Pines, 7 p.m. July 30; Mark Glass and Joe Harris, 7 p.m. July 31, 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 Saturdays, Fran Uhler Natural Area, meets at end of Lemon Bridge Road, north of Bowie State University, option to bird nearby WB&A Trail afterward; 7:30 a.m. third Saturdays, Governor Bridge Natural Area, Governor Bridge Road, Bowie, meet in parking lot; for migrating and resident woodland and field birds, and waterfowl. For beginners and experts. Waterproof footwear and binoculars suggested. Free. 410-765-6482.

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His first show with Parlor Room was 2010’s “Frankenstein.”

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Seat Pleasant Activity Center, Line Dancing, 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays, $40 series, $6 dropins, age 18 and up, 5720 Addison Road, Seat Pleasant, 301-773-6685.

involved with Parlor Room before and he kind of [brought] me along to the audition.”

A Bowie resident, Gorirossi is now studying theater at Anne Arundel Community College and is active in many community theaters in the Washington, D.C., area. He said Parlor Room’s style is an ideal one for an actor.

“My first impression of the whole thing was how relaxed and free it was,” Gorirossi said.

“I love the environment they’ve created. It’s a very comfortable environment to try new things ... I much prefer this style because it’s much more free for an actor.”

In “The Mousetrap,” a murder mystery about a group of strangers snowed in together at Monkswell Manor, Gorirossi

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plays Christopher, a 22-year-old running away from his past and bringing a lot of baggage along with him.

“The Mousetrap” is a change of pace from the Parlor Room’s 2012 production, “On the Lam,” a comedy thriller about the Waler family, whose house is invaded by three escaped prisoners. The show was written by DiSalvo.

“We like to put on plays that appeal to a wide range of people,” DiSalvo said.

Though DiSalvo and friends started the theater company when they were just students, Parlor Room is not intended to be an amateur group.

“It’s for people who want to do theater for a living,” said DiSalvo, who works as a freelance theater artist doing sound

events free with admission, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park, 301-864-6029, www.collegeparkaviationmuseum.com.

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

“My first impression of the whole thing was how relaxed and free it was. I love the environment they’ve created. It’s a very comfortable environment to try new things ...”

Patrick Gorirossi, actor design and working to get his own plays produced. “Many of the people in our company have started to work professionally in local theaters.”

Gorirossi said Parlor Room’s loose structure is great for young actors looking to break into the

local theater scene.

“You’re able to have equal say in what you think your character would do,” Gorirossi said.

“Which is excellent, especially for new actors. They have free range to explore.”

Now, Parlor Room produces one show a year, but DiSalvo said the company is looking to expand and establish itself as a prominent theater company in Prince George’s County.

“What we’re trying to do, there is not a lot of theater in Prince George’s County,” DiSalvo said. “When you hear about theater in the area, it’s in Bowie, so we’re trying to keep this area more of a theater-going area.”

Part of Parlor Room’s expansion plan includes auditioning actors from other places besides Bishop McNamara.

“Our aim is to work with people that we don’t know,” DiSalvo said. “We have grown over the last few years although most of our actors come from the high school; all are alumni ... except for a few people.”

According to Gorirossi, if DiSalvo continues to balance efficiency and creativity, Parlor Room will have no trouble recruiting other actors.

“It’s the same level of seriousness and professionalism [as other companies].” Gorirossi said. “But at the same time, I feel like I’m much more a part of Parlor Room.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

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WILL C. FRANKLIN STAFF WRITER

What do Broadway star Sutton Foster, country music legend Travis Tritt, blue-collar comedy alum Bill Engvall, actress Olympia Dukakis and THE Michael Bolton have in common? They’re all scheduled to perform this season at Strathmore.

Tickets went on sale to the public July 18 for the 2013-2014 season at Strathmore.

Shelley Brown, artistic director at Strathmore, said it’s exciting to see the venue come into its own.

“I think that we really are hitting our stride,” Brown said.

“We’re finding out what we do well and we’re doing more of it. I think, in the area of Broadway, Sutton Foster I think is one of the biggest names out there who’s doing performances.

We’re delighted to have her featured here in the fall. Also Diane Reeves, who’s coming out with a big, new album. It’s nice that we’ve become a venue with the reputation that sometimes these artists are seeking us out, in the case of these two.

Going into planning with a sense of balance was paramount for Brown. It was important to everyone at Strathmore to have the right mix of dancers, singers and performers.

“When I start to present – or to outline – a season, we do try to have a balance both in terms of the dates throughout the year from September through June and we do try to have a balance of performances from different constituencies,” Brown said. “This year there was a big change. We did a big thematic festival in the summer – that’s going on right now – it’s called ‘Puppets Take Strathmore.’ The big thematic event in years past have happened in the Music Center or in the Mansion. This one is taking place in the new blackbox theater … in the Education Center.”

According to Brown, the puppets really started the new season for Strathmore.

“It’s a marvelous way to begin a season because it’s creative, it’s interdisciplinary, it’s surprising, it’s artistic and some of it’s a little naughty with little adult puppets,” Brown said. “So I’m really happy with how that sets the tone for the season.”

With dance groups popping up regionally, Brown said it was important to try to get performers local dancers could come and see.

“We try to have dance in every season,” Brown said. “We’ve got ‘Forever Tango’ coming up, we’ve got Pilobolus here in February, which I’m delighted because I’ve been trying to get Pilobolus here since we first opened. …

I’m working really hard to keep dance on the stage here. ... I think that we have a growing market for dance in Montgomery County with [American Dance Institute]’s great success and with CityDance’s school growing like crazy, I want to have product for them to come see at the Music Center.”

Also featured in the growth of the season is the inclusion of more country acts. Again, the dynamic of the surrounding area played a big part.

“This year we do have more country music,” Brown said.

“I’m really trying to move into that area because I think, well, number one, because of WMZQ right here, we have a great country radio station. We don’t have that with all formats of music, but we have a good way to speak to audiences who like that music. We also have a whole new group of neighbors at the NIH at the Walter Reed Center and country music is one that that age group likes. So I’m trying to adjust our concerts in response to changes going on in our community.”

Big name acts aside, there are plenty of other events and acts coming to Strathmore that audiences will find intriguing.

Strathmore continues its artists-in-residence program and a comic book exhibit will make its way there in mid-April. For Brown, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

“You know, the Mansion at Strathmore, we have a 100-seat music room,” Brown said. “This year, we have created a new cabaret series and we have Nellie McKay coming and others. But Nellie, I think, is one of the just

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brightest rising stars in music.

She has performed in the Music Center before and some 100 lucky people are going to get to see her there. So that’s one that I think is quite wonderful.

“The other one is we’re working on a residency program with Jayme Stone and his Lomax Project. Alan Lomax was an im-

portant recorder of music for the Smithsonian and went all over the country to record sounds and music and this will be looking at that archive, which is available in the public domain to use. We’ll be looking at what’s there and using that as a teaching tool. [Stone] will be working with Julian Lage, who’s amazing, and Bruce Molsky, who’s from the area and brilliant, and Margaret Glaspy. …

This is giving us an opportunity to present fantastic concerts but also do some school outreach, some education stuff, education events in conjunction with the concerts that I think will have some real impact.” wfranklin@gazette.net

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Spooky film ‘The Conjuring’ is haunting in all the best ways BY

MICHAEL PHILLIPS

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Haunted house movies only work if the people in the house are worth scaring. Sounds stupid, but it’s true, although let’s be honest: Real estate is inherently frightening. You put all that money in and only Satan knows if it’ll turn out to be a decent investment, or if you’ll be able to afford what it takes to repair any undisclosed matters of basement seepage. The quirks and creaks of an old house are always good for gallows humor or a cold shot of dread. As I write this the fridge in our new/old

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When a really good new horror film comes out — something more about creative intelligence than executing the next grisly kill shot — it’s something of a miracle in this eviscerating post-“Saw” era. Old-school and supremely confident in its attack, “The Conjuring” is this year’s miracle — an “Amityville Horror” for a new century (and a far better movie than that 1979 hit), yet firmly rooted, without being slavish or self-conscious,

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in the visual language of 1970s filmmaking.

Also like “The Amityville Horror,” “The Conjuring” derives from an alleged true-life haunting, this one in rural Rhode Island, at an old house where terrible things happened and are happening still. The relative restraint of “The Conjuring” is a surprise given that the director, James Wan, made the first of the “Saw” films. A more apt reference point is Wan’s recent, slow-simmer horror outing “Insidious,” which, like “The Conjuring,” took its time in establishing the ground rules.

The script by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes blends the tales of two families under extreme duress. Demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, the reallife ghost hunters played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, investigate the strange goingson in the riverside farmhouse owned by a family of seven (two parents, five daughters) headed

by Roger (Ron Livingston) and Carolyn (Lili Taylor). Warning signs and troubling details abound, but subtly, in the opening sequences. The family dog won’t go inside. The clocks stop every night at 3:07 a.m. Unexplained bruises appear on the mother’s body, and one of the daughters complains of someone tugging at her feet in bed.

Then the ghost of a long-dead child appears to one of the girls in a mirror. The miserably outof-tune piano found in the cellar plays … itself.

Before all that, though, “The Conjuring” begins with a bait-and-switch and an entirely different story set three years earlier, that of a devil doll in 1968

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(From left) John Brotherton as Brad, Vera Farmiga as Lorraine Warren, Patrick Wilson as Ed Warren and Ron Livingston as Roger Perron in New Line Cinema’s supernatural thriller “The Conjuring,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (the year of “Rosemary’s Baby”!) terrorizing nurses in Manhattan.

The doll ends up in the possession of the paranormal investigators played by Wilson and Farmiga. They have a young daughter of their own, who’s no less vulnerable to demons and such than the Rhode Island girls living by the river.

Shooting digitally but with great attention to practical and postproduction lighting and color effects, Wan and his cinematographer, John R. Leonetti, keep the “gotchas!” coming.

Near the end, when the full-on possession is underway, “The Conjuring” starts to feel more familiar, and there’s less downtime between thrills. (Wan’s technique grows more obviously hysterical as the characters do.)

Wilson, a solid actor, brings to the material a stalwart leadingman aura that’s more serviceable than compelling on its own.

But the movie belongs to the women, for once, and “The Conjuring” doesn’t exploit or mangle the female characters in

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A scene from New Line Cinema’s supernatural thriller “The Conjuring.” the usual ways. Farmiga, playing a true believer, makes every spectral sighting and human response matter; Taylor is equally fine, and when she’s playing a “hide-and-clap” blindfold game with her girls, she’s like a kid herself, about to get the jolt of her life.

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like a Robert Altman film, slipsliding around the interior or the exterior of the old dark house in a series of slow zooms and gratifyingly complex extended takes.

Might this movie actually be too good, in a slightly square way, to find the audience it deserves among under-20-somethings?

Maybe. Maybe not. I hope not.

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Helen Mirren Stars in “RED 2.”

Despite a few laughs, ‘RED 2’ more fury than fun BY

MICHAEL PHILLIPS CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“RED 2,” the in-one-eye, out-the-other sequel starring Bruce Willis, received a PG-13 for its “pervasive action and violence” and “frenetic gunplay,” according to the Motion Picture Association of America’s rating description.

I love that they went out of their way to add the adjective “frenetic.” For the record the best bit in the picture involves no automatic weaponry of any kind, nor that drooling, hollow cliche, recycled here, of ridiculous numbers of empty shell casings hitting the ground in slow motion. No. My favorite thing in the movie is the way co-star and Korean action icon Byung Hun Lee uses his feet of fury to hoist a paint can and send it flying.

Footwork beats fusillades every time in this follow-up to the 2010 “RED.” Willis returns as Frank Moses, the retired CIA assassin whose relationship with a nice Kansas oddball (Mary-Louise Parker, mugging up an enjoyable storm) is tested by Frank getting pulled back into the script’s notion of morally justifiable homicide.

Also from the first “RED,”

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we have Frank’s spy pals Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren, who gets to shoot pistols in two directions simultaneously out of a spinning car). Brian Cox is back, briefly, as the roguish Russian arms dealer with a thing for women of a certain age who look like Helen Mirren.

Without much in the way of style, director Dean Parisot (“Galaxy Quest,” the “Fun With Dick and Jane” remake) fulfills his medium-budget assignment, trying to make it look as if “RED 2” were filmed extensively (as opposed to minimally) in cities such as Paris, London and Moscow. The plot has something to do with a doomsday device threatening Moscow’s existence and the daffy Cold

War-era scientist (Anthony Hopkins, who seems rightly perplexed at the film’s jocular way of piling up corpses) who holds the key to the resolution.

The resolution in question is capped by a major character uttering a variation on the line “I didn’t see that coming,” although most in the audience will have, in fact, seen it coming.

“RED 2” isn’t a slovenly mess, the way the most recent “Die Hard” sequel was. Parker and Malkovich wring some laughs out of wisecracks that meet but do not exceed expectations. The movie’s adequate.

That’s not much. And I admit to some uneasiness regarding the jokes referring to the guncraziness of American culture and its most conspicuous exports, “RED 2” being the latest.

In animation shorthand, “Turbo” is “Cars” with snails.

It’s light on the jokes, but cute, with animation so vivid it looks photo-real.

It’s another “impossible dream” tale, this time of a motor head mollusk who has a need for “terrifying, blinding speed.” Theo (Ryan Reynolds) is an auto-racing obsessed garden snail who longs to escape his colony of tomato-munchers.

The occasional terror by a Big Wheel-riding tyke nicknamed “Shell Crusher” and the odd assault by crows is the only excitement in this overorganized, limited world.

He watches races on TV and works hard to improve his time over the measured yard — 17 minutes is a personal best.

Speed? “It’s in me,” declares Theo, who prefers the nickname Turbo. “It’s not,” says his brother Chet (Paul Giamatti), who knows what he’s talking about. “Not every dream is meant to come true.”

Turbo is constantly taking risks that are sure to shorten his life, and sometimes even he can see that. Dejected, he slimes his way to the dry bed of the Los Angeles River, where he’s caught up in some drag-racing and is sucked into the turbocharger of a nitrous oxide-boosted Camaro.

Darned if he isn’t transformed into the World’s Fastest Snail, sliming a literal blue streak down LA streets and up LA walls.

Darned if a taco-maker (Michael Pena) doesn’t enter Turbo in his rundown strip mall’s nightly snail races. Darned if

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Turbo doesn’t chew up the souped-up local snails, led by Whiplash (Samuel L. Jackson) but including Smoove Move (Snoop Dogg).

And darned if that doesn’t have the taco-maker and his fellow failing small business owners (Ken Jeong of “The Hangover” voices a nail parlor operator, Richard Jenkins a hobby-shop owner and Michelle Rodriguez an auto body shop operator) thinking “Indianapo-

lis 500.”

The first big laughs arrive when Jackson’s character purrs that Turbo has “clearly got the skills to pay the bills … if snails had bills.” Bill Hader vamps up the French Indy car champ who inspires Turbo but who could not bear to lose to a snail in The Brickyard.

The situations are more amusing than the dialogue and shrieking Jeong one-liners. And as vivid as the race scenes are — zooming over, through and under Indy cars — if we want to watch photo-real auto-racing we can turn on the TV. So although small children may be enchanted by this little gastropod that could, adults will be more sorely tested. For all the horsepower the “Turbo” boasts about, the movie tends toward the sluggish — as in “slow as a slug.”

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RELIGION CALENDAR Movie Night: “An Incredible Diet: Healthy from the Inside Out,

Part 5” 6:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Hyattsville Seventh-day Adventist Church, 4807 42nd Place, Hyattsville. Find out about radiation that you can’t live without. Should sunlight be embraced or avoided?

Discover the answer in this lecture

by Jeanie Davis. Contact 240-6876006 or TheChiDoctor@aol.com.

Healing Hearts & Homes, 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Hillandale Baptist Church, 2601 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi. Church revival with guest speaker, Ron Herrod of Herrod Evangelism Ministries Association.

Herrod’s ministry has included national television, crusades and mission projects in more than 30 countries throughout the world, an international tape/CD ministry, and the writing of seven books.

A dynamic speaker and a strong Christian believer. Contact 301434-6033 or siwilli@yahoo.com.

“HOPE” Support Group, 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at St. John’s Parish Education Center, 8912 Old Branch Ave., Clinton. For people

suffering from depressive illnesses.

Contact 301-868-6180.

Annual Ministry of Evangelism day of Celebration, 3 p.m. Sunday,

First Baptist Church of College Park, 5018 Lakeland Road, College Park.

Pastor James Terrell of Second Baptist Church of Washington, D.C., will be our guest speaker. There will be gospel singing provided by the choir of Second Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. There will also be a free will offering. Contact 301-474-3995.

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 Christian 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 the University Of Maryland 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 Community

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 301-5491877, 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.

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

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The David Bach Consort will perform at the Beltsville Summer Concert Series on Saturday.

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Growing up, Bach’s father was in the Air Force, meaning the family moved around frequently. Bach said the constant relocation helped expose him to different styles of music.

“It was great to be able to hear different music,” Bach said. “It gave me different sounds and music to draw from.”

By virtue of his last name, Bach said the first genre he ever played was classical music. He eventually transitioned to jazz, and in 2001, Bach

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submitted a video to Black Entertainment Television for their Jazz Discovery Showcase. Bach’s video was selected as the winner and still runs occasionally in syndication.

Bach has released four albums: “LIVE at Baker Park,” A Deep Breath,” “5thousand Words” and “Window on the West.” His latest album, “Other Words,” will be released in the next month.

Though Bach and his band play both public concert and private events in the area regularly, this will be the groups first time playing in Beltsville.

“It’s always great to play for a new audience,” Bach said. “You see how people, they just honestly react to the music.”

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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 301-333-0499.

The Laurel Mill Playhouse presents “Seussical the Musical” with a young adult cast starting Friday and running to Aug. 17. Actor Noah Wright plays the Cat in the Hat.

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“It’s a fun show,” said Knazk.

“It’s about imagination and about being a kid.”

Playing the character of Horton is Dexter Warren, 18, of Bowie, who graduated in June from the Bullis School in Potomac.

Warren will be going to New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development in the fall to pursue his interest in theater, movies and TV. “This has been very fun, because I always enjoyed the Dr. Seuss books as a child, but I hadn’t read about Horton,” Warren said. “I got to explore a new character.”

On stage since elementary school, Warren has performed in shows such as “The Children of Eden,” “A Funny Thing Hap-

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pened on the Way to the Forum” and Laurel Mills’ production of “Les Miserables” in 2011.

New for him in “Seussical” was performing what little dialogue he speaks in rhythmic patterns.

“I was talking in rhythm, saying it in time,” he said.

Warren also sings a duet with Jo Jo called “Alone in the Universe,” which he first heard when he auditioned for “Les Mis” at Laurel Mill.

“I fell in love with the song,”

he said, glad to now be singing it himself.

Warren said the complexity of the harmonies in “Seussical,” some of them four-part, was a challenge for everyone.

“You expect it to be a kids’ show, simple, like a child’s understanding of the book,” he said. “[But] the music for this requires more work and focus from the cast and requires that everyone be on their game at all times.” vterhune@gazette.net

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TREATING HEARING LOSS

Can you hear me now?

By Chelle Cordero According to the National Institutes of Health, an estimated one-third of the people in the United States between 65 and 75 and close to one-half of those older than 75 have some degree of hearing loss. This gradual and common form of hearing loss is called presbycusis. Exposure to loud noises, viral infections, some

medications, chemotherapy and radiation, heredity, head and inner ear trauma, and ruptured eardrums can contribute to hearing loss.

Hearing loss is generally not reversible. High fevers, large doses of aspirin or antimalarial drugs can cause tinnitus, an often temporary ringing in the ears, and changes to the inner ear. Common symptoms of hearing loss

include difficulty with comprehension, needing a high volume on the TV, not hearing conversations on the telephone, confusing words, and having difficulty with select pitches and sounds.

If there is pain, bleeding, dizziness, sudden or fluctuating hearing loss, or some form of head trauma, medical attention should be sought immediately.

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lems may not be the same for everyone. There are three primary types of hearing loss: -Conductive hearing loss involves volume rather than the ability to understand.

-Sensorineural hearing loss affects understanding ability.

-Mixed hearing loss is a combination of the two.

Untreated hearing loss may lead to depression, as well as isolation and the inability to handle everyday functions, including earning potential. Advances in hearing aid technology can help bring back enjoyment and quality of life.

Many people may ignore or try to hide hearing-loss symptoms, thinking erroneously that it’s something to be embarrassed about. Family members and friends who show concern and point out the suspected hearing problems may be greeted with anger and denial. Demands that the person go for a hearing test may often be ignored, especially if they seem to be self-centered, such as complaints about the noise level of the TV. Appealing to emotions may have a much more positive effect. Try a call for action, such as reminding your grandmother that she missed her grandson’s one stage line to emphasize her need, and not yours, to seek treatment.

Depending on the results of hearing tests, the doctor may remove wax buildup, put in a cochlear implant to replace a damaged part of the ear or rec-

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There are a variety of styles available in hearing aids, depending on the user’s needs and expectations. ommend a hearing aid. A hearing aid can help by making sounds stronger and easier to hear. Hearing aid styles now include those that are completely in the canal and nearly invisible, in the ear and visible, or behind the ear.

Today’s hearing aids may feature Bluetooth interfaces, digital noise reduction and instruments that learn based on changes made by the wearer. You may need to try more than one device to find one that works well for you.

AARP offers these tips when choosing a hearing aid: -Bring along a friend to help make sure you are hearing and understanding the options offered.

-Know your provider’s skills and reputation. Audiologists hold degrees in audiology.

-Know what you want from the hearing aid—whether you want it for normal conversation, watching TV or being outdoors.

-Have your hearing tested so that the audiologist or hearing aid specialist knows what type of hearing loss you have.

-Try before you buy. The provider should be able to give you a real demonstration of the device.

-Ask about add-ons. Every add-on comes with a price, so choose only what you will realistically need.

-After you buy your hearing aid, don’t leave the office without checking if it fits, and does it do what you want it to do?

-Get it in writing. Get a signed copy of a contract with the model and make of hearing aid, the price, any nonrefundable fees, the warranty, and a specified trial period.

-Ask your audiologist about aural education and rehabilitation. Some auditory training can be done at home with a personal computer or through group sessions.

-The average hearing aid can cost between $1,200 and $3,700, and is usually not covered by Medicare or insurance companies. Don’t be afraid to negotiate.

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Stay safe in hot weather Summer often brings excessive heat, which can lead to heat-related problems caused by hyperthermia, an abnormally high body temperature.

Older adults and people with chronic medical conditions are particularly susceptible to hyperthermia and are at high risk for heat-related death. The National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, has some tips to help older people avoid the hazards of hot weather.

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with chronic medical conditions, should stay indoors on hot and humid days, especially when an air pollution alert is in effect.

People without air conditioners should go to places that do have air conditioning, such as senior centers, shopping malls, movie theaters and libraries. Cooling centers, which may be set up by local public health agencies, religious groups and social service organizations in many communities, are another option.

-National Institute on Aging

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