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Three companies vying to build Prince George’s County’s first casino have made their presentations and now await selection of the winner, which is expected by the end of the year by the Maryland Video Lottery Facility Location Commission.

The presentations wrapped up with MGM Resorts International holding the final meeting Friday at Friendly High School in Fort Washington. Rosecroft Raceway owner Penn National Gaming held its meeting Oct. 21 and Pennsylvania Parx Casino operator Greenwood Racing presented Oct. 23. Each meeting featured a visit to the company’s proposed site, a public unveiling of casino plans and an opportunity for the public to provide testimony regarding the placement of the casinos.

Donald C. Fry, commission chairman, said the meetings were an opportunity for the commission to get specific information from the casinos in a public setting and to gather feedback from the public right after the presentations. The commission’s role is to be an unbiased, transparent entity that will make the best decision for the county based on the casino license’s statutes, Fry said. Even though the presentations are over, the commission will be able to contact casino staff

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arcus Bushrod, 16, of Largo never thought of himself as unhealthy, and it wasn’t until his aunt took him for a routine physical that health concerns surfaced.

“He had high blood pressure,” said Marcus’ aunt and guardian, Irene Hymon of Largo. “I knew he needed more exercise. ... He would come home after school and go straight upstairs to play his game or watch TV.” Marcus’ story is not unique in Prince George’s County. In 2010 — the most recent data available — 34.7 percent of county youths aged 12 to 19 were overweight or obese, according to Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Prince George’s has the fifth highest rate of overweight or obese youths in the 12 to 19 age range in the state.

Somerset County ranks No. 1, with 38.5 percent.

Obesity is determined by a person’s body mass index, which is calculated for children by factoring in height, weight, age and gender, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. BMI often correlates with the amount of body fat a person has and can be used to identify healthy weight ranges and whether excessive body fat exists that could lead to health problems.

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Kenilworth Elementary School students spent an hour Tuesday dancing and talking with the Washington Redskins linebacker.

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Just a few years ago, Edward Burroughs III said being a vegetarian meant there were some days he wouldn’t be able to eat what was served in the school cafeteria.

Now the 21-year-old Prince George’s County school board member said he is pleased with the steps the school system has taken to provide healthier dining options, and he has received positive feedback from students and faculty.

“In several schools that I’ve visited, the students are actually requesting more healthy options,” Burroughs said. “The student gov-

Let’s Move!, a national initiative launched by first lady Michelle Obama to end childhood obesity, offers the following tips to help children adapt healthier lifestyles:

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Marcus Bushrod (left), 16, stands with his aunt, Irene Hymon, and uncle, Wilbert Hymon, at their home in Largo. Irene Hymon said she purchases healthier snacks and urges Marcus to play outside to encourage a healthy lifestyle.

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FOR PARENTS 1. Keep fresh fruit in a bowl within your child’s reach to grab as a quick snack.

2. Take a walk with your family after dinner.

3. Plan a menu for the week. Get children involved in planning and cooking.

4. Turn off the TV during meals and share some family time.

5. Talk to the principal about organizing a school health team.

ernment at Oxon Hill High School wants to have the salad bar expanded.”

About 35 percent of Prince George’s County youth ages 12 to 19 are obese or overweight, according to 2010 Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Services data, the latest information available. County schools have been trying to change those numbers by instituting the Healthy Schools Program — started in 2009 — which is run in partnership with Alliance for a Healthier Generation, nonprofit focused on improving children’s health, said Briana Webster, the program’s sustainability manager. Schools are using the program to promote physical activity and get healthy food options into schools, Webster said.

FOR CHILDREN 1. Move every day 2. Try new fruits and vegetables 3. Drink a lot of water 4. Do jumping jacks to break up TV time 5. Help make dinner

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A fire at a Bowie home spurred neighbors to urge city police and leaders to learn from what they described as a “known drug house.”

“It’s like a beehive. The beehive is gone and the bees are looking for somewhere to go,” said John Atler, 51, who lives on Spark Lane, not far from the Sandal Lane home that burned last week, at a public meeting Tuesday. “Everyone can tell you about the drug house. The day of the fire, 30 to 40 people pulled up to the house, and they didn’t know where to go.”

About 40 residents from the neighborhood gathered Tuesday night at the Kenhill Center to meet with city officials, including Police Chief John K. Nesky; Cpl. Bennie Henderson; Steve Roberts, head of code compliance; City Councilwoman Diane Polangin, who lives in the neighborhood; and City Manager David Deutsch.

Residents and officials spoke for two hours about what will happen to the property and how to ensure it doesn’t return as a hub for drug activity.

Roberts said the house is in foreclosure proceedings. If the house is left in its current condition, he said, the city will issue fines for failing to maintain the property and get approval to either demolish the remains or rebuild, which could take up to 18 months.

The two-story, single-family home at 12418 Sandal Lane was destroyed in an alleged arson Oct. 23, said Mark E. Brady, a spokesman for the Prince George’s County Fire Department. No one was injured in the fire.

According to deed records, Ilona Ruth Lee, 41, and

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SAT Workshop for high school students, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Dr. Henry A. Wise High School, 12650 Brooke Lane, Upper Marlboro. There will be games, prizes and more. To register, students should send their name, email address and phone number to scholarship@pgcacdst.org.

Story Time from Greece, 11 a.m., Upper Marlboro Library, 14730 Main St., Upper Marlboro. A craft and story time from Greece. Contact 301-627-9330.

Gymnastics Workshop, 6 to 7 p.m., Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex, 8001 Sheriff Road, Landover. Workshops are open play time for your children to explore gymnastics in a safe and fun environment. They are not structured classes, but open play. Spaces available on a first-come, firstserved basis. Registration begins one-half hour prior to start of all workshops (maximum three children to one adult). Parents required to be on the floor with the children. Contact 301-583-2400; TTY 301-5832483.

Christian McBride in Concert, 7 p.m., Suitland High School, 5200 Silver Hill Road, Forestville.

Suitland High School to host Christian McBride in concert featuring PGCPS All Star Jazz Band students.

Cost: $25. Contact 301-817-0500.

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The University of Maryland Wind Orchestra will present “Fairy Tales and Legends” at 8 p.m. Nov. 8. The orchestra blends video with music during this whimsical, storytelling program that features Stravinsky’s “Circus Polka,” Ades’ “Living Toys” and Lambert’s “Mr. Bear Squash-you-all-flat.” The concert will end with Handel’s “Music for Royal Fireworks.” For more information, visit claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.

MORE INTERACTIVE CALENDAR ITEMS AT WWW.GAZETTE.NET OCT. 31 Spooky Stories and Tales of Transylvania, 4 p.m.,

Glenarden Library, 8724 Glenarden Parkway, Glenarden. For ages 7 to 12. Contact 301-772-5477.

Halloween Bash, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Southern Regional Technology and Recreation Complex, 7007 Bock Road, Fort Washington. Enjoy Halloween without the screams. We’ll have a treasure hunt, costume contest, face painting, games and lots of candy. Contact 301-749-4160; TTY 301-203-6030.

Halloween Costume Party, 7 to 9 p.m., Peppermill Community Center, 610 Hill Road, Landover. Prizes will be awarded. Cost: $5 per resident; $6 per nonresident. Contact 301-350-8410; TTY 301-218-6768.

NOV. 1 Lady Lifesavers Workshop, 7 to 9:30 p.m., Wayne

K. Curry Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex, 8001 Sheriff Road, Landover. During this workshop, participants will meet with real-life “Lady Lifesavers” working in the Department of Parks and Recreation, and learn about their career paths and current posi-

tions. Participants will also learn how to become involved in the G.E.A.R. (Girls Excited About Recreation) Lady Lifesavers Series of water safety programs and training. Participants should arrive to this workshop prepared to swim. For ages 11 to 18. Contact 301-446-6836 or PG-Aquatics@pgparks.com.

NOV. 2 Fourth annual Strengthening Families Curbing Obesity Free Health Clinic, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Oakcrest

Community Center, 1300 Capitol Heights Blvd., Capitol Heights. Free health and dental care for all ages from certified doctors, dentists and nurses. Contact 301-383-1690 or dbarnes@menaiminghigher.org.

CSA 23 Thanksgiving Food Drive, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 9304A D’Arcy Road, Upper Marlboro. The Community Service Area 23 Leadership Council is hosting a food drive to help Central Union Mission feed the hungry. Contact 301-452-2680.

Fall Colors Hike, 10 to 11 a.m., Watkins Nature Center, 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro.

Take a hike with a naturalist and learn to identify trees. Reservations required for all participants. Cost:

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SPORTS The high school football playoffs loom and this weekend’s games are vital to many schools’ postseason hopes. Check online for coverage of the top games, including DuVal vs. Flowers and Surrattsville vs. Friendly.

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NOV. 4 Stories from Denmark, 6:15 p.m., Spaulding Library, 5811 Old Silver Hill Road, District Heights.

Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, an activity and treat. Ages 6 to 11. Contact 301-817-3750.

Stories from Spain, 7 p.m., Hillcrest Heights Library, 2398 Iverson St., Temple Hills. Crafts, snacks and stories from Spain for ages 2 to 7. Contact 301630-4900.

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NOV. 6 Prince George’s County Police District III Coffee Circle, 9 to 11 a.m., Wegmans in Woodmore Towne

Centre, Largo. A public forum for all citizens, business owners, organizations and public officials who share our goal. Meetings focus on common concerns expressed by residents of District 3. Contact belindaq9@aol.com.

A Merrie Olde Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Baden Branch Library, 13603 Baden-Westwood Road, Brandywine. Stories, activities and crafts celebrating the British Isles. For ages 2 to 5. Contact 301-888-1152.

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Bowie’s leaf collection program gets underway Monday Bowie begins its curbside leaf collection program Monday, which runs through Dec. 19.

Every single-family residence in the city, as well as some town homes, will receive two visits from leaf-collection crews over the six-week period, according to an announcement from the city’s public works department.

The following neighborhoods will receive leaf-collection visits the first week: • Nov. 4: Saddlebrook, Belair Town 2, Yorktown, Rockledge and Overbrook.

• Nov. 5: Remaining parts of Overbrook not visited Monday, Belair Town 1 and Meadowbrook.

• Nov. 6: Remaining parts of Meadowbrook not visited Tuesday, Belair Green, Idlewild and Northview.

• Nov. 7: Heather Hills, Enfield (excluding town homes), Amber Meadows, Peach Preserve, Glen Allen, Mitchellville East and Covington Manor.

• Nov. 8: No collection.

The full schedule can be found on the city’s website at www.cityofbowie. org.

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Outlet mall officially opens Nov. 22 The Tanger Outlet Mall at National Harbor will open Nov. 22.

The new mall will feature high-end retail stores that include Coach and Ralph Lauren, and will bring in about 900 new jobs, according to a Tanger Outlet news release.

Construction for the mall began in November and, with the mall’s opening Nov. 22, will be completed on time.

Graduates earn college scholarships Seven Prince George’s high school graduates were awarded scholarships this month to attend Prince George’s Community College in Largo by the Apartment and Office Building Association in Washington, D.C., said association spokesperson Marie Tibor.

Bryan Assan from Charles H. Flowers High in Bowie, Shawntel Collins from Parkdale High in Riverdale, Dominique Curtis from Largo High, Jasmin Moran-Isales from Northwest-

Fort Washington woman receives fellowship

Bowie mentoring group collecting food

Brie Henry of Fort Washington has been selected for a diversity fellowship that will award her with a six- to 12-month paid position at FleishmanHillard, a communications firm headquartered in St. Louis.

The Alfred Fleishman Diversity Fellowship was awarded to Henry after she applied for the position and met the criteria of interest in public relations, academic achievement and demonstrated leadership, among other things, according to a FleishmanHillard news release. Henry received her master’s degree in public relations from Georgetown University in Washington D.C., this year, maintaining a 4.0 grade point average and handling a full-time job, according to the news release.

Henry is one of 19 fellows selected to work in 11 different offices around the country, according to the release.

FleishmanHillard is a communications firm that specializes in public relations, public affairs, marketing and social content, according to the release.

Men Aiming Higher, a Bowie-based nonprofit that mentors youth, is collecting donations for its third annual Thanksgiving Basket drive, an event that collects food and money for families in need.

“It is something dear to my heart as we try to help those who cannot help themselves,” said Darryl Barnes, Men Aiming Higher president.

Those wishing to donate are asked to give a minimum of $12 or give Thanksgiving food items such as canned cranberry sauce or cornbread mix, according to a Men Aiming Higher news release. Whole turkeys and chickens can be donated as well, but Barnes asked for those items to be donated on the final day of the drive, Nov. 21.

Donations are being accepted every Monday until Nov. 21 at the Men Aiming Higher office at 10201 Martin Luther King Jr. Highway, Suite 270, in Bowie.

The organization hopes to raise enough food and money to help 1,400 families, according to the news release.

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Coleen Cummins, 8, of Bowie paints a face on her pumpkin Sunday at the Bowie Farmers’ Market in the parking lot of the Bowie Library. Seasonal activities at the market also included making scarecrows. ern High in Hyattsville, Angelique Payne from Bishop McNamara High, a private school in Hyattsville, Janne Milcah Policarpio from Bowie High and Iesha Reid from Bladensburg High applied for and received scholarships of up to $6,000 this summer and are now attending Prince George’s Community College, Tibor said.

The students all graduated from high school earlier this year.

The association represents the interests of commercial and multi-family

real estate owners throughout the District and surrounding areas, Tibor said, adding the organization launched the scholarship program 17 years ago. “[Our members] felt this was one of the most direct ways they could give back to the community,” she said.

“Many of [the recipients] continue on from the community college to other colleges, and many have been hired by our member companies over the years.”

Glenn Dale Elementary students, wearing pink items from head to toe, walked to raise awareness about breast cancer at their school Oct. 25.

“They went from the front of the school and around the block to the back of the school, and we made an announcement before and after the walk so they understood why they were doing this,” said Principal Jacqueline Marshall Hall.

The school’s 545 kindergarten through fifth-grade students made pink breast cancer awareness posters and crowns in class, while some wore uniforms accessorized with pink socks, shoelaces and belts, she said.

“I told my students, you know, many of you are our future doctors and scientists ... You can make a difference,” she said, adding the walk was in remembrance of all those who have survived the disease and those who have lost their lives to it, including staff faculty and students’ family members.

Heroes Bowl aims to raise funds for toys Residents are invited to the third annual Hyattsville Heroes Bowl, a flag football game between the Hyattsville Fraternal Order of Police and the Hyattsville Volunteer Fire Department at 3 p.m. Nov. 9. The fundraiser, held at Magruder Park at 3911 Hamilton St. in Hyattsville, will benefit The Sonny Frazier Toy Drive, a nonprofit that provides toys for underprivileged and disabled children.

Attendees are asked to bring new toys or monetary donations.

“It’s a great family event for a great cause, and we encourage people to come out and enjoy themselves,” said Abby Sandel, Hyattsville’s community services director.

Sonny Frazier was a Hyattsville resident who passed away in 2002. The nonprofit continues his efforts in helping children, said his wife, Ruth Ann Frazier.

“He would be so proud today,” she said.

Visit www.sonnyfraziertoydrive. com or call 301-779-5428.

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Washington Redskin linebacker Darryl Tapp dances with students at Kenilworth Elementary School in Bowie to encourage them to eat well and play at least 60 minutes each day.

NFL star, Bowie students kick off program

BY SOPHIE PETIT STAFF WRITER

Students at Kenilworth Elementary School in Bowie spent Tuesday morning a little differently than most. Instead of going to their classrooms, they spent an hour dancing and talking with Washington Redskins linebacker Darryl Tapp as part of a national campaign to get students more active.

“The dancing was the most funnest part,” said fifth-grader Kyra Harrison, 10, of Bowie, adding she spends school recess playing soccer or running around with her friends. “If you [aren’t active] you’re just going to gain weight and be depressed.”

The Make Your Move Campaign launched Tuesday under the nation’s largest in-school healthy-lifestyle program, Fuel Up to Play 60, founded by the National Dairy Council and the National Football League five years ago.

Fuel Up to Play 60 encourages students to make healthy changes in their daily lives at school, like choosing healthier snacks.

The new Make Your Move Campaign offers tips to get children moving for at least an hour a day, said Dawn Clausing, a dietician

with the Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association, a local arm of the National Dairy Council.

“I know a lot of you probably like video games, but that’s not where the fun is.

The fun is outside,” Tapp, 29, said to the school’s 323 kindergarten through fifthgrade students.

Kenilworth Elementary was chosen as a launch site since it’s one of three Fuel Up to Play 60 “touchdown” schools in Prince George’s County, Clausing said, meaning the school reached the program’s goals within the last school year.

To qualify, Kenilworth staff kept logs of students’ daily meals, exercise and play at the school as well as gave students healthoriented projects, such as an after-school smoothie contest held last year where students made their own smoothies and shared the recipes at home, said Principal Rodney Henderson.

Henderson said NFL players visited the school for the first time last year under the program, which the school has been a part of for the past three years.

“In this area, the Redskins are idolized,” Henderson said. “When [the students] see Redskins players visit the school and say, ‘Hey, eating healthy and being active is im-

portant,’ it’s very impactful.”

In 2010, the most recent data available for the state, 34.7 percent of county youths aged 12 to 19 were overweight or obese, according to Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

According to Prince George’s health department data, 48 percent of all county children 18 and younger are overweight and at risk for obesity.

Bonnie Razler, a fourth-grade teacher at the school, said her class started a walking club last year in which students walk one mile up to three days per week.

“We have done a really good job in the past two years of increasing the amount of activities at school,” Razler said, adding she also makes sure to carry a bottle of water with her as a good example to students.

Tapp, who lives in Virginia with his wife and one-year-old daughter, said he has worked with Fuel Up to Play 60 for several years now and was glad to be invited to launch the program’s new campaign at Kenilworth Elementary.

“I just love working with kids and having a difference in their lives,” Tapp said. spetit@gazette.net

Protestors decry proposed store’s location Residents continue battle against Wal-Mart site near schools in Oxon Hill

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They’ve been fighting a Wal-Mart coming to their neighborhood for two-and-ahalf years, and parents of Oxon Hill High School students came together again Oct. 24 to reinforce their message regarding the proposed department store: Build somewhere else.

The store’s proposed site is in between John Hanson Montessori School and Oxon Hill High School, which parents say would bring in more traffic and pose safety challenges for students.

“There is a lot of land in Prince George’s County,” said Accokeek resident Nicole Nelson, vice president of the John Hanson Montessori School Parent Teacher Student Association. “They can build it somewhere else.”

Nelson joined about 20 other parents and students holding signs on the sidewalk in front of Hanson Montessori, chanting in

opposition to the store. She said the protestors have been fighting the Wal-Mart since 2011 and will continue to do so until the proposed site is changed.

The Peterson Cos. is the developer partnering with Wal-Mart in hopes of building a Super Wal-Mart on the land. The store site is still under the review process with the county, and the company has revised its plans to satisfy county requirements, Andre Gingles, Peterson Cos. attorney, said in an email to The Gazette.

“In our conversations with members of the surrounding communities, we have found overwhelming support for the expanded retail and job opportunities that this project would bring,” he said in the email. “We look forward to the successful completion of the planning process and the development of quality retail at this location.”

Gingles did not directly respond regarding the protestors’ complaints by press time.

Amanda Henneberg, Wal-Mart spokeswoman, said in an email to The Gazette that one of the changes to the proposal is putting a 50-foot landscape buffer between the store and Hanson Montessori School.

“The safety and security of our customers in the area is a top priority for us, and we have further improved these elements in our site redesign,” she said in the email.

Some of the land is designated for a fire station, and there wouldn’t be any fences between the schools and the Wal-Mart location, Nelson said.

Bowie resident Paulette Brown, student government association adviser at Oxon Hill High School, was protesting because she said a Wal-Mart would bring in too much traffic. There are children who walk to school, and the increased traffic would make it more dangerous, Brown said.

“Oxon Hill Road is very busy,” Brown said. “Just imagine Wal-Mart there with its large trucks.”

Marcel Adams, 17, Oxon High School Student Government Association president, said he was protesting because the company promises to bring jobs, but he said there wasn’t a guarantee that highpaying jobs would be for county residents.

“Why do we want some more lowpaying jobs?” Adams said. “We don’t want Wal-Mart.” ccook@gazette.net

By an 11-to-1 vote, the Prince George’s County school board gave final approval Oct. 24 to begin using two new textbooks — however, the books had already been purchased and distributed to students at the beginning of the school year.

The two textbooks, Algebra II and Geometry, had been approved by the school system’s textbook committees last spring, but were not brought to the board at that time.

“The procedures for the school system were not followed adequately in the case of the ...

Algebra II and geometry textbook adoption,” said school system CEO Kevin Maxwell. “They were approved [by the textbook committee] back in the spring, but there was a delay in bringing them to the board.”

Maxwell said the purchasing department ordered the books and delivered them to the schools in advance of final board approval.

The school system’s Administrative Procedure 6180.1 states that textbook selections are to be presented to the school board for approval by the end of March and prior to purchasing.

The procedural lapse occurred prior to the Aug. 1 start of Maxwell’s tenure.

The cost of the textbooks,

$1.3 million, had already been budgeted into the current year budget. Chief Academics Officer A. Duane Arbogast said the new textbooks are needed as they are aligned more closely with the Common Core education standards being adopted by Maryland.

“We felt that our old books were so far off the mark from where we needed to be with Common Core, we just needed to replace them,” Arbogast said.

Arbogast said that normally the school system replaces textbooks every eight to 10 years, and the previous Algebra II and geometry books should have been replaced a few years ago, but hadn’t been due to school system budget cuts.

Education activist David Cahn said he didn’t question the need for the new books, but the way in which it was done.

“I’m not knocking the textbooks, it’s the way we’re going about purchasing them with very little knowledge on the part of the school board and very little knowledge on the part of the public,” he said. “I think there’s a problem getting enough information in a timely fashion to the board and to the public.”

School board member Verjeana Jacobs (Dist. 5) cast the sole “nay” vote in final approval of the textbooks.

“My ‘no’ vote was not about the textbooks necessarily,” Jacobs said. “It was really more about how we’ve got to do a better job following protocol and processes.” janfenson-comeau@ gazette.net

Former Glenn Dale aide sentenced for sex abuse of a child Ex-elementary employee gets 10 years in prison, lifetime supervision

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A former Glenn Dale Elementary School employee was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison followed by lifetime supervision for sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl on school grounds when he worked at the school.

Jason Jamar Howard, 30, of Riverdale was working at the school as a first-grade teacher’s aide when he was charged with 11 counts of sexual abuse and one count of assault after a teacher reported seeing Howard inappropriately touch a girl in the school cafeteria, which prompted an investigation, Erzen said.

Howard pleaded guilty to one count of sexual abuse of a minor and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, with all but 10 years suspended, based on the cafeteria incident, Erzen said.

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ard faces five years supervised probation, must register as a sex offender and faces lifetime supervision, an “extra step” based on the gravity of the case, Erzen said.

“Even after his probation is done, he has lifetime supervision, so however parole and probation sets it up, he’ll have to check in with them,” Erzen said. “This is somebody who was abusing a young child and doing it in front of everybody.

We believe it happened on more than one occasion. ... This case was one that was particularly egregious.”

Glenn Dale Elementary Principal Jacqueline Marshall Hall said she is working within the school and the Prince George’s County school system to make sure something like this never happens again by ensuring all future hires undergo a “thorough investigation.”

Howard is being held at the Prince George’s County Detention Center in Upper Marlboro, Erzen said. His attorney, Michael E. Marr, based in Baltimore, was unavailable for comment. spetit@gazette.net

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Brandywine Elementary heads to Science Bowl semifinals In a game that was closer than the final score, Brandywine Elementary defeated Melwood Elementary 235 to 170 and will advance to the semifinals of the 28th Science Bowl competition.

“We feel successful,” said Brandywine Elementary fifth-grader Serenity Smith, 10, of Brandywine. “We tried our hardest and didn’t give up.”

Brandywine Elementary defeated Melwood Elementary in a close-fought game featuring several lead changes and both teams vying to take big leads by answering valuable questions. Brandywine will move on to face University Park Elementary, which was the Science Bowl champion of the 2011-2012 school year.

The Science Bowl is played similar to the game show “Jeopardy!” with contestants selecting questions from different topics for a varying number of points. The teams buzz in to answer the questions.

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Belinda Queen of Capitol Heights took the opportunity Monday night to tell elected leaders that quality development is needed, saying to Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D): “Enough is enough.”

“We need a better shopping center, better restaurants and better stores. Stop bringing lowincome stores with poor service in here,” Queen said.

Queen and other residents shared their concerns with Baker, state Sen. Doug Peters (D-Dist. 23) of Bowie, Del. Jolene Ivy (D-Dist. 47) of Cheverly, and about 115 county residents and officials who gathered at the Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex in Landover for Baker’s first “listening session” of the year.

Listening sessions are public forums where residents share concerns and ideas with elected officials seeking input to help form legislation before the Maryland General Assembly gears up in Annapolis in January, said Baker spokesperson Scott Peterson.

Monday’s forum was one of three sessions scheduled this year, said Baker spokesperson Barry Hudson, who mediated the forum. Common threads among speakers, however, were concerns over the derelict former Landover Mall and education.

“I don’t know how this happened. Most people wanted the [hospital] in Landover,” said Sherry Strothers of Landover, referring to the former mall site that has stood vacant for more than a decade and was bypassed this year as the site for a new $645 million hospital.

Erica McKinney of Landover, a former county public schools teacher, spoke about students graduating high school with less than 2.0 gradepoint averages, urging officials

to focus on raising graduates’ scores, not just graduation rates.

“Graduating from what to what? Where’re [they] going to go with that?” she said.

Baker, Peters and Ivy, a candidate for lieutenant governor, remained silent during most of the session, which allows time for residents to speak, not officials. However, they drew some residents aside afterward to privately address issues they had raised.

Ivy reminded residents that last year’s sessions directly resulted in the county’s school governance bill that gave Baker power to appoint the school superintendent and three school board members.

“It was very powerful to see you come and hear you think that the county executive should have more power [within the schools],” Ivy said. “So we passed a bill that would give him more of that power.”

The next two listening sessions will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 6 at Eleanor Roosevelt High in Greenbelt and from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 13 at Potomac High in Oxon Hill, Peterson said.

“If anyone can’t make a listening session, we encourage residents to email us or contact the county executive’s office,” he said. spetit@gazette.net

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“It prompts them to look at the news,” Zahren said. “We are producing better citizens if we have kids that are conversant in science.”

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dents near the end of the game when the Melwood team buzzed early for a couple of questions before host David Zahren was finished saying the entire question, resulting in the team missing out on some points. Brandywine capitalized on those questions, gaining a bigger lead late in the game.

“We did a great job,” said Jelan Harwell, 10, Brandywine Elementary fifthgrader and team alternate. “But we still gotta do work and not get cocky.”

Of the three games played Tuesday, two of them were close, with Brandywine’s 235-170 over Melwood and Melwood’s 160-135 victory over Barnaby Manor.

“It was thrilling,” said John Trinidad, 11, Melwood Elementary sixthgrader and Upper Marlboro resident.

Brandywine’s victory against Waldon Woods Elementary had a score of 330 to 130.

Brandywine’s coach, Gina Losey, said her team’s success was possible because of the hard work the children put in during their training at lunch time and at home. Losey is a fifth-grade science, social studies and health teacher at Brandywine.

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

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

OCT. 21 Assault, 10200 block Prince Place, 1:40 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 9300 block Tuckerman St., 2:09 a.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

9800 block Good Luck Road, 6:41 a.m.

Break-in, 200 block Commerce Drive, 8:14 a.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

9700 block Good Luck Road, 8:43 a.m.

Theft, 900 block Largo Center Drive, 10:19 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, Wb Central Ave/Church Road, 10:19 a.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

14800 block Leeland Road, 11:01 a.m.

Assault, 600 block Crain Highway Sw, 11:12 a.m.

Robbery, Twisting Lane/ Twin Cedar Lane, 12:38 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5200 block Galveston Road, 1:08 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 600 block Crain Highway Sw, 1:12 p.m.

Theft, 4200 block Mitchellville Road, 2:58 p.m.

Theft, 3500 block Brown Station Road, 3:33 p.m.

Residential break-in, 9200 block Morley Road, 3:48 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10200 block Prince Place, 3:52 p.m.

Assault, 15000 block Health Center Drive, 9:07 p.m.

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Robbery, 6500 block 99th Place, 3:15 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 14200 block Macfarlane Green Court, 4:10 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 13800 block Farnsworth Lane, 5:49 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 14200 block Farnsworth Lane, 6:22 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 10300 block Westridge Drive, 7:12 a.m.

ONLINE For additional police blotters, visit www.gazette.net Theft from vehicle, 10300 block Foxdale Court, 7:37 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9700 block Summit Cir, 7:39 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 13900 block Bishops Bequest Road, 7:53 a.m.

Theft, 3000 block North Dale Court, 9:14 a.m.

Theft, 8800 block Maple Ave, 10:36 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1000 block Kings Tree Drive, 10:45 a.m.

Theft, 300 block Largo Road, 10:49 a.m.

Theft, 14300 block Gallant Fox Lane, 11:20 a.m.

Theft, 9700 block Apollo Drive, 11:22 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 12500 block Guinevere Road, 12:41 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9000 block Lanham Severn Road, 1:34 p.m.

Theft, 3400 block Woodridge Court, 1:38 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 2200 block Arctic Fox Drive, 5:11 p.m.

Assault with a weapon, 10400 block Pookey Way, 6:36 p.m.

Theft, 3900 block Town Center Blvd, 7:30 p.m.

Theft, 15800 block Commerce Court, 10:27 p.m.

OCT. 23 Theft from vehicle, 300 block Hidden Gate Court, 5:40 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 14500 block Dolbrook Lane, 7:40 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 3800 block Winchester Lane, 7:41 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, unit block of Joyceton Terrace, 7:41 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1400 block Danube Court, 8:17 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 300 block Radiant Court, 8:40 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4700 block Boston Way, 10:19 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 9100 block Ardwick Ardmore Road, 10:25 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, Nb Campus Way S/College Station Drive, 11:05 a.m.

Break-in, 10500 block Campus Way, 11:58 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 14400 block Dolbrook Lane, 12:40 p.m.

Vehicle stolen, 13100 block 5th St., 12:52 p.m.

Residential break-in, 12200

block James Madison Lane, 12:58 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1100 block Shoppers Way, 1:12 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10400 block Campus Way, 1:28 p.m.

Assault, Grand Blvd/Nb Lottsford Road, 2:38 p.m.

Theft, 15900 block Excalibur Road, 4:02 p.m.

Residential break-in, 1400 block Danube Court, 4:09 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8800 block Annapolis Road, 4:10 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 14100 block Jones Bridge Road, 4:39 p.m.

Break-in, 18400 block Clagett Landing Road, 5:25 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 12500 block Fairwood Pkwy, 6:55 p.m.

Theft, 14600 block London Lane, 9:03 p.m.

OCT. 24 Vehicle stolen, 5600 block Whitfield Chapel Road, 1:10 a.m.

Vehicle stolen and recovered,

12800 block Water Fowl Way, 6:59 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 100 block Colton St., 7:20 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 1800 block Robert Lewis Ave, 7:25 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, Fairwood Pky/Eb Annapolis Road, 8:30 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11400 block Chantilly Lane, 9:49 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, 2400 block Newmoor Way, 10:15 a.m.

Theft, 14500 block Governor Sprigg Place, 10:29 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9400 block Lanham Severn Road, 10:43 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 10400 block Fox Lake Drive, 11:40 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 12700 block Bermuda Lane, 12:54 p.m.

Commercial property break-in,

15800 block Commerce Court, 8:16 p.m.

OCT. 25 Theft from vehicle, 13800 block Gullivers Trl, 7:46 a.m.

Commercial property breakin, 16500 block Old Central Ave,

8:07 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9800 block Lottsford Road, 8:31 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1700 block Whistling Duck Drive, 8:33 a.m.

Theft, 5600 block Whitfield Chapel Road, 8:59 a.m.

Theft, 4900 block Collingtons Bounty Drive, 9:12 a.m.

Assault, 600 block Crain Highway Sw, 10:45 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 15100 block Marlboro Pike, 11:35 a.m.

Residential break-in, 100 block Stan Fey Drive, 11:38 a.m.

Theft, 16000 block Excalibur Road, 12:41 p.m.

Residential break-in, 800 block Palantine Place, 1:29 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 4700 block Colonel Dent Court, 1:58 p.m.

Theft, 1000 block Largo Center Drive, 2:41 p.m.

Robbery, 1000 block Kings Heather Drive, 4:28 p.m.

Robbery, 12600 block Quoting Poet Court, 4:47 p.m.

Theft, 5100 block Aldershot Drive, 5:03 p.m.

Theft, 9700 block Harbor Ave, 7:29 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 6300 block Barrs Lane, 8:24 p.m.

OCT. 26 Theft, 10400 block Martin Luther King Highway, 9:51 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5600 block Whitfield Chapel Road, 10:37 a.m.

Vehicle stolen, unit block of Joyceton Terrace, 10:48 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 9000 block Annapolis Road, 11:02 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, Carter Ave/Worrell Ave, 12:01 p.m.

Theft, 15300 block Pine Tree Way, 2:10 p.m.

Theft from vehicle, 5100 block Brown Station Road, 4:12 p.m.

Residential break-in, 2000 block Woodshade Court, 4:57 p.m.

Theft, 3200 block Enterprise Road, 5:57 p.m.

Assault, 13700 block Central Ave, 11:12 p.m.

OCT. 27 Theft, 1400 block Kings Manor Drive, 12:44 a.m.

Robbery, 5800 block Ellerbie St., 2:13 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 11500 block Trillum St., 4:33 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 1700 block Albert Terrace, 5:38 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8900 block Brae Brooke Drive, 6:59 a.m.

Commercial property break-in,

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5800 block Woodcliff Road, 8:42 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, Albert Court/Albert Drive, 8:44 a.m.

Theft from vehicle, 8800 block Lottsford Road, 9:27 a.m.

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BY CHASE COOK STAFF WRITER

Prince George’s County environmental officials say there is treasure in the community’s trash. They are piloting a program to make the trash even better.

The Prince George’s County Department of Environmental Resources’ Waste Management Division has unveiled a new food scrap composting program. The department said it will increase the quality of county-sold fertilizer made from compost material and decrease the amount of waste in county landfills.

The new program uses GORE Cover technology to compost food scraps with yard waste for the first time, said Adam Ortiz, Prince George’s County Department of Environmental Resources director.

With the ability to compost food scraps, the county can decrease the amount of food waste thrown into county landfills and create better-quality fertilizer at faster rates, Ortiz said. The county had been composting only yard waste to create fertilizer before initiating the pilot program in May, he said.

“Instead of it sitting around, it is back on the store shelf in a couple of months and in a garden by the spring,” he said, referring to compost sold by the county.

The cover technology changes the way composting typically happens by taking food scraps and yard waste, packing them into a 250-ton heap and encapsulating it into a closed system with a semi-permeable tarp that lets air and water vapor pass through it, said Scott Woods, founder and CEO of

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(From left) Ben Fischler of Greenbelt, Suchitra Balachandran of College Park and Luisa Robles, a sustainability coordinator for Greenbelt, look at 250-ton piles of food scraps and yard waste turning into mulch.

Sustainable Generation, a Delaware-based company that sells GORE Covers.

Then, air is blown into the tarp to create a hot, oxygenated environment, exciting bacteria and insects to break down the food at a faster rate, Woods said.

It also makes the heap hotter, which kills deadly bacteria that can be found in decomposing food waste, he said.

“It speeds up Mother Nature’s process,” Woods said. “If Mother Nature does it in about a year, we have reduced that time down to about eight weeks.”

GORE Covers are created by W.L. Gore and Associates Inc., which is responsible for GoreTex, a water-resistant material used in athletic clothing, according to the company’s website.

The yearlong pilot program should compost about 4,500 tons of food scraps, according to a county news release. The program is collecting scraps from University Park; the University of Maryland, College Park, and waste management companies Apple Valley and Progressive, according to the release.

The county currently handles composting by building

rows of piled yard waste that are set in the open air for about eight months, turning them every so often to let the waste decompose, said Steven Birchfield, pilot program manager. The county couldn’t use food scraps in its compost before because rotting food smells and has bacteria. The covers remove those issues because they generate so much heat and prevent odor from escaping, he said.

Sarah Mosley, a University Park resident, represented her town at the ribbon cutting for the project Oct. 23. She said University Park started its composting on a small scale of about 50 homes, but since has expanded to 156 homes when it joined the Department of Environmental Resources Food Scrap Composting Pilot Program.

She said she hopes the program continues, allowing more people across the county to contribute food waste because it helps the environment.

“After putting out the compost, you walk back in the house and say, ‘I did something good,’” Mosley said. ccook@gazette.net

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Walking together to fight breast cancer

embers of the Upper Marlboro Beechtree Community participated in the location’s first breast cancer awareness walk to raise money for research and support for women with breast cancer.

Alisha Rollins-Taylor and her mother Sarah Rollins, both of Upper Marlboro, organized the walk. The women said they put the event together to help bring their community together while doing something good. Their goal was to raise $5,000 for Maryland women with breast cancer, donating the money to a Maryland affiliate of Susan G. Komen, a nonprofit organization that collects millions of dollars each year for breast cancer research, prevention and financial support for women with breast cancer.

The amount of money raised by the walk was not immediately known.

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FIRE

Continued from Page A-1 her husband, Richard K. Lee Sr., 48, bought the home in 2003.

Ilona Lee is being held at the Prince George’s County Detention Center in Upper Marlboro on $2,000 bail and will face trial Oct. 31 on drug possession charges at the Prince George’s County Courthouse in Upper Marlboro, court and inmate records show. No lawyer was listed on her case as of press time.

Her husband, Richard Lee, was released from prison in Prince George’s about a year ago, after serving about five months for violating probation and posting a $45,000 bond. He was arrested while completing an outpatient, court-ordered drug rehabilitation program in

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Jerome Parker warms up with his daughter, Kennedy Parker, 3, both of Upper Marlboro, before the Beechtree community breast cancer awareness walk in Upper Marlboro on Saturday.

Calvert County as part of a previous sentence for burglary, said Prince George’s County Department of Corrections officials.

He faces trial in January on drug paraphernalia charges in Anne Arundel County.

He could not be located for comment by press time.

City officials said they have reached out to the Lees, but haven’t received a direct response. They are communicating through the Lees’ 17-year-old daughter, who, they said, is relaying information to her father.

From May 2011 to October 2013, city police responded to 50 calls at the house, including reports of drug use, drug sales, domestic abuse and loud noise, Nesky said.

The house has been subject to three police raids, the most recent on Sept. 26, in which il-

legal drugs allegedly were found and arrests made. Last October, an 18-year-old from Silver Spring overdosed on heroin inside the house, Nesky said.

Before the fire, he said, police were building a case against the homeowners to present to the Prince George’s County state’s attorney’s office. The effort to build that case is on hold, he said.

“You have to have a lot of data, a lot of solid things for the state’s attorney to even take a look at it. I can’t go too deep into things,” Nesky said. “If we find out the folks at the house are trying to go back, we’ll get to the state’s attorney, so we’ll have paperwork waiting for them.”

Residents voiced concern that former “drug customers” would relocate nearby or start squatting on the property, continuing to use and sell drugs in the neigh-

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Continued from Page A-1 if they have follow-up questions.

“We will have an opportunity to review what they provided,” Fry said. “We will have ample time for questions.”

Each casino presented what it said would be the best decision for the county with varying numbers of investment dollars, jobs created and potential revenues.

Penn National Gaming wants to revamp the Fort Washington located Rosecroft Raceway into a new $700 million facility, the Hollywood Casino Resort, that will have 3,000 slot machines; 100 live gaming tables; a 13-story hotel; and an event center that seats 2,500 people, and will continue the raceway’s current harness racing, according to the company’s presentation. The new facility would create about 1,600 jobs, according to the presentation.

“We think this market is very strong and very deep,” said Tim Wilmott, Penn National Gaming president and chief operating officer.

Greenwood unveiled plans for a $761 million casino, which would feature 4,750 slot machines; 170 table games, including 50 for poker; a 250-room hotel; and a 3,000-seat theater. The company claimed the casino would create about 5,700 permanent jobs. The Parx Casino, Hotel and Spa would be built at

borhood. They also said they feared more arson fires or getting caught in the middle of a conflict between drug dealers.

Nesky responded by promising residents an increased police presence and focus in the area.

“They’re going to find a new place to land. It’s just a matter of where,” he said. “We’re going to put the house on an aggressive area check to deter squatters. ... If you see the guys sniffing around, call us.”

Julian Martin Massiah, 21, of Bowie was charged with arson Oct. 24 in connection with the fire and was being held Wednesday at the county detention center on a $150,000 bond, county fire/EMS officials said. Massiah could not be reached for comment, and no lawyer was listed on his case as of press time.

“He was known to the

house,” Nesky said, adding that Massiah was present at the house during the latest police raid in September.

The case is pending investigation by the state’s attorney’s office, Brady said.

During the September raid, police seized heroin, marijuana and various drug paraphernalia

the intersection of Indian Head Highway and Old Fort Road in Fort Washington.

“We will deliver on our promises, we will conduct ourselves in a manner that will make you proud,” said Tony Ricci, CEO of Greenwood Racing, during the presentation.

MGM Resorts International proposed a $925 million casino at National Harbor that would feature 3,600 slots, 140 live gaming tables including poker, a 300-room hotel, restaurants, retail and meeting space.

Presenters said this location would create 4,000 mostly full-time jobs.

“We demand excellence in everything we do,” said Jim Murren, MGM chairman and chief executive officer. “We are about making good on our promises. We do what we say we do; we don’t overpromise and under deliver.”

Both MGM Resorts International and Greenwood Racing have requested more slots than the approved referendum allows, which sets a limit at 3,000 slots. However, a letter from the commission’s attorney counsel states wording in the referendum allows the commission to award more than 3,000 slots — up to 4,750 — if market factors and the public interest warrant that decision.

The casino will be the sixth in Maryland. Anyone wanting to submit a written testimony to the commission can still do so through email at vlflc.comments@maryland.gov. ccook@gazette.net from the house while also arresting Ilona Lee and charging her with drug possession, according to a Bowie police report.

“We will take every legal step we can to clean this up as soon as possible,” Deutsch said. “We ask for your patience.” spetit@gazette.net

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IN PRINCE GEORGE’S

‘Garbage in, garbage out’

Percentage of Maryland youths ages 12 to 19 who are overweight or obese.*

OVERWEIGHT

OBESE

The county’s high numbers can be traced to several issues, according to Dr. Ernest Carter, Prince George’s County Health Department’s deputy health officer. One of the top reasons, he said, is that the county is a food desert, an area deemed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to have low access to healthy foods. Additionally, 71 percent of the county’s restaurants are fast-food chains, according to a 2012 report by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.

Children eat what their parents give them, and if the parents can’t buy healthy food or order nutritious meals, the children will inevitably be unhealthy, Carter said. The problem is evident in adults, too, Carter said.

About 74 percent of county adults are obese or overweight, the third highest rate in the state behind Cecil and Somerset Counties, according to state health department data.

“We don’t have a lot of fresh foods or healthy restaurants,” Carter said. “If everyone in the household is eating the wrong diet, the children tend to follow what the adults are doing. They don’t go out and do the shopping.”

Cultural decisions are likely a factor as well, said Dr. Donald Shell, director of the Cancer and Chronic Disease Bureau at the state Department of Health and Mental Services.

About 65 percent of county residents are black, a minority group that tends to have high rates of obesity due in part to dietary habits, he said.

Poor dining choices have a severe impact on children’s health, prompting adult-onset diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, which will follow youths into adulthood if not treated, he said. Unhealthy, inactive lifestyles also impact schoolwork since they make students sluggish, causing them to perform poorly on tests and assignments, he said.

“Nutrition impacts everything,” Shell said. “Garbage in, garbage out. It is like going to the gas station, if you have a diesel engine, you can’t put in regular gas. You gotta put in the right fuel.”

TOTAL

1. SOMERSET

38.5

2. BALTIMORE CITY

37

3. DORCHESTER

36

4. KENT

35.5

5. PRINCE GEORGE’S

34.7

6. GARRETT

31.9

7. WICOMICO

31

8. ALLEGANY

29.8

9. CAROLINE

29.7

10. CHARLES

29.4

11. BALTIMORE COUNTY

28

12. CECIL

27.8

13. WORCESTER

27.5

14. ST. MARY’S

27.3

15. WASHINGTON

27.2

16. CALVERT

Path to good health There is no “magic bullet” to solve youths’ weight problems, said Dr. Renee Fox, executive director for the Institute for Healthiest Maryland, a state agency that focuses on obesity prevention, tobacco prevention, and management of high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Good starting points are structuring neighborhoods to make them more friendly to walkers and bikers, and informing people about the dangers of poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyles, Fox said.

“We as a people, state and as a county need to be mobilized about this,” she said. “We are eating much differently than we did many years ago.”

Some areas in Prince George’s have been targeted for safer recreation improvements as part of the

27.1

17. TALBOT

24.8

18. ANNE ARUNDEL

24.7

19. CARROLL

ON-THE-GO ALTERNATIVES

23.6

20. HARFORD

23.6

21. QUEEN ANNE’S

23.5

22. FREDERICK

23.1

23. MONTGOMERY

The American Heart Association advises packing healthy snacks when planning to be away from home for a long period of time or preparing meals that can be reheated during busy periods. The association also makes the following suggestions for parents when ordering fast food for their children: n Skip the sides: Eating a burger or sandwich by itself is often filling. n Choose fruit and vegetables over fries: Many fast food restaurants offer fruit cups or side salad as a healthy alternative.

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n If you must have fries, split the size: Try splitting an order between the two of you. If you have more than one child, find a size you can split among several people so no one gets all the fat, sodium and calories of the oversized serving.

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Prince George’s has the fifth highest rate of overweight or obese youths in the 12 to 19 age range in the state.

Safe Routes to Play initiative by the Institute for Public Health Innovation, which is partnering with county officials and community groups to identify safety issues, said Evelyn Kelly, the institute’s Community Transformation Grants program manager. The initiative focuses on improving neighborhood health, such as focusing on violent crimes and pedestrian deaths/ injuries, according to the initiative’s goal.

“If you have sidewalks and recreation centers, it doesn’t matter if it isn’t safe,” Kelly said.

Prince George’s has made steps to curb childhood obesity with programs funded through the federal Community Transformation Grant, money targeted to populations inside the Capital Beltway that face higher levels poverty and unemployment. Poverty is a big indicator to unhealthy living as people may not be able to afford or have access to healthy food, or access to information to make better decisions, Carter said.

“One of our primary services is to promote healthy literacy,” Carter said.

“That’s one of the biggest barriers to healthy eating is just not knowing.”

Battle against the bulge Some municipalities are taking steps to address the problem as well, such as the Port Towns Community Health Partnership, which focuses on lowering childhood obesity in Bladensburg, Colmar Manor, Cottage City and Edmonston.

Marcus, the Largo teen, chose a unique approach to get healthy. This summer, he signed up for “Camp Fit,” a televised reality show airing on DirecTV that challenges youths to lose weight. The 6-foot-tall junior at Largo High School has lost 12 pounds, and now weighs 203 pounds. He hopes to get down to 180 pounds.

“I still get tired, but not as quickly,” Marcus said. “I feel good.”

His aunt said she does her part by purchasing healthier snacks, limiting soda, baking instead of frying and pushing Marcus to play outside. These decisions have helped Hymon and her husband, Wilbert Hymon, who also eat healthier.

“Because we love him so much, we would buy him what he likes and we didn’t realize we were hurting him and us,” Irene Hymon said. “We have to be better with our children. Just be the parent.”

Staff Writer Vanessa Harrington contributed to this report. ccook@gazette.net

like sour cream, cheese, bacon and butter that are added, the less healthy it becomes. Find a compromise with children by asking them to choose just one topping. n Go for the grilled: Poultry without skin is much leaner than the meats most fast-food companies use in their burgers, and it may be less processed. The chicken nuggets common in children’s meals often have just as much fat and sodium as an adult-size burger. Choose a grilled skinless chicken sandwich, split it between your children or save half for later. n Ask for a wheat bun: Some places offer a wheat alternative. n Skip the “kids meal”: Often, the toys can be purchased separately. n Pass on the “value size”: The size of your fries and drink isn’t the only thing that gets bigger. n Drink water, 100 percent juice or low-fat milk: Sodas are loaded with sugars, which have calories children don’t need. Nearly all fast food restaurants offer alternatives, including water.

SOURCE: AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION

SOURCE: MARYLAND YOUTH TOBACCO SURVEY 2010 * STATISTICS ARE FROM 2010, THE MOST RECENT DATA AVAILABLE.

STUDENTS

Continued from Page A-1 “[The schools] have really embraced our program and made some really great changes,” she said.

The change hasn’t been so easy for all students, however.

Former school board member Donna Hathaway Beck said several student government associations complained about the healthier options, so in 2010, she joined students from High Point High School in Beltsville for lunch.

“I found the students were bypassing the healthy products,” she said. “... I had a salad with freshly grated cheese and an order of green beans. I told them my tray is full of

color and your tray is full of gray and beige. That should give you a clue you’re not eating healthy food like salads, fruits and vegetables.”

Beck said she told the students they shouldn’t bypass healthy options for tater tots and hot dogs.

“Ketchup is no longer a vegetable,” she said.

Some groups are urging schools to increase the amount of active time for children, such as through physical education classes.

Bill Reinhard, spokesman for Maryland State Department of Education, said the state requires school systems to have some form of physical education, but doesn’t have a minimum requirement.

“It could be once a week or it could be several times a week,” he said.

“The state board hasn’t seen a need to [set up a minimum requirement] because most are providing a substantial amount of physical education. They all have it at least on a weekly basis.”

Carly Braxton, senior manager of advocacy for the Reston, Va.-based American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, argues that once a week isn’t enough as students should receive at least 30 minutes per day of physical education.

“Not only does quality physical education help to build lifetime healthy habits by encouraging children to be active, but national studies show it leads to higher test scores, increased attention spans, lower rates of absenteeism and lower rates of disciplinary actions,” Braxton said.

Braxton attributes the lack of fo-

cus on physical education to the “burden” of academic testing mandates.

“Physical education is an unfunded mandate so it falls low on the totem pole,” Braxton said. “But what we’re seeing now is that kids under 10 years old are projected to live five years less than their parents. That’s attributed to obesity-related illnesses.”

County students also take part in Fitnessgram, a countywide assessment given to students. Tom Bubonovich, a physical education teacher at Indian Queen Elementary in Fort Washington, said he has seen the test motivate students. The students count how many pushups, crunches and other exercises they can do at the beginning of the year, and are tested again later, so students want to do better, Bubonovich said.

Indian Queen also takes an indi-

vidual approach to making children healthier. Principal Aundrea McCall said she instituted the “jam a minute” session last year, in which students exercise for a minute before schools starts, and she allows children arriving early at the school a chance to play outside before breakfast.

School officials stressed that healthy lifestyles outside of school are also critical to children’s health and said in-school efforts could provide valuable lessons to share at home.

“We have that responsibility as a school district,” Burroughs said. “If we can teach students to kind of acclimate them to make healthier options when they’re home or with their parents in the grocery store, it will benefit them for the rest of their lives.” ccook@gazette.net

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More than one-third of children between the ages of 12 and 19 in Prince George’s County are overweight or obese. At 34.7 percent, the county has the fifth highest rate in the state. County adults are doing even worse: About 74 percent are overweight or obese.

Before chastising parents for the childhood obesity rate, however, it’s important to note that in many Prince A LOT OF WORK George’s communities, it’s NEEDED TO GET much easier to be — put COUNTY YOUTHS quite simply — fat.

High crime rates in some ON HEALTHIER neighborhoods make it diffiTRACKS cult for children to play outdoors, limiting simple games that keep youths active, like tossing a football or playing tag.

Of the county’s restaurants, 71 percent are fast-food establishments. And opting to eat healthy at home can be challenging too. The county has been categorized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a “food desert,” an area where healthy food isn’t easily accessed.

Making matters worse, unhealthy dining options often come at a much more affordable price than the healthier alternatives.

On the positive side, officials are addressing the roadblocks to creating a healthier community.

Crime is at its lowest in years, and county leaders are partnering with organizations to provide safer recreation options. A new program, PhotoVoice, was launched to encourage teens to take photos of challenges that hinder access to community centers in hopes of finding ways to address the problems. Some teens wasted no time in taking pictures of pedestrian safety concerns and signs of criminal activity.

Health department leaders are working to inform residents about the health risks involved with being overweight and provide advice on how to get on the right track.

“One of our primary services is to promote healthy literacy,” said Dr. Ernest Carter, deputy health officer for the Prince George’s County Health Department. “That’s one of the biggest barriers to healthy eating is just not knowing.”

Community groups and municipalities are pitching in, as are schools, which switched to healthier menu options in 2009. Needless to say, many students balked when presented with additional fresh fruits and vegetables early on, but the foods have grown on them over time. Oxon Hill High School, which has a salad bar, is actually asking to have the bar expanded.

There is still a lot of work to do, however.

Maryland schools are only required to provide physical education at least once a week for 30 minutes — even though most health organizations say children should get a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise each day.

Although recess is generally offered daily to younger children, that time isn’t always spent on physical activity.

Carly Braxton, senior manager of advocacy for the Reston, Va.-based American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, points out studies showing that a good physical education program leads to better attention spans, lower absenteeism and disciplinary problems, and higher test scores — an issue that would benefit county students, whose test scores rank among the lowest in the state.

Clearly, the overall community plays a large role in children’s health, but the most important factor is what is being taught at home.

The seven hours or so children spend at school every day is no match for the knowledge — and habits — they pick up from their families.

It’s critical that parents instill good eating habits and active lifestyles while their children are young. For adults who haven’t led healthy lives themselves, information is available via the county health department, community and other government organizations, and healthfocused websites.

Parents must take the time to educate themselves and encourage their families to live healthier lifestyles.

Hopefully, working to make children healthier will change the habits of entire families, as well.

Yes, the county has its share of challenges to overcome, but obesity is not an issue that can afford a lot of excuses.

The many risks associated with obesity — overweight children are more likely to have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, breathing problems and joint problems, to name a few — should be enough to get parents focused on getting their children healthier.

Parents must act now, or their children will pay the price.

Douglas S. Hayes, Associate Publisher

Thursday, October 31, 2013

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Do the right thing: Nation needs to unite, Rename the Redskins embrace differences

I had been hearing that the controversy over the Redskins name change has been surfacing at a new time high this year.

There have been multiple interviews conducted and many campaigns designed to inform the public why this name needs to be changed. The issue had always been seeping through conversations year after year, but no action had been taken in changing it. During this time, we need to make a decision and officially change the NFL name.

The Oneida Indian Nation is the main advocate group trying to change the name. They have been heated that this issue has been looked over repeatedly.

Even though they are not Washingtonians, they are directly impacted by this racial slur. They have a reservation located in central New York. This is where they had devised the campaign, “Change the Mascot.”

Adults teach children that it’s not nice to call other children mean names. If a child does call another child a bad name, they are taught to apologize. In the same idea, adults abstain from calling each other offensive names. But when it comes to Americans realizing that they have named a football team using an offensive name, they do not correct the mistake.

Why is it taking more than eight decades for people to understand that it is not right to

name a football team that offends a specific group of people?

[Team owner Dan] Snyder released a letter where the tone suggested that there was not going to be any name change.

I feel that as an American we are too stubborn to realize when we have wrongfully, not intentionally, hurt someone and do not take responsibility for our actions.

As adults, we have to resort back to childhood teachings and set the example for the next generation that we should still not call people names that hurt their feelings. It’s behavior that still needs to be pushed upon later on in age apparently because some adults still cannot grasp the concept.

Is this honestly how we are going to set the example for generations to come?

At the end of the day, it is a moral dilemma that Snyder is faced with, and hopefully the next owner of the Washington Redskins will not have to deal with the issue because the name would already have been changed.

We already have so many issues dealing with other countries, and having to extend an argument such as a name change should not be something that divides our nation.

Anna Higgins, Brentwood

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I was born and raised in America, but still am, and always will be, a descendant of both Pakistani and Afghanistani roots. I used to believe America was different, that they were the best — I still do, but to a limit. I believed they were the only nation that could do a 180-degree turn, from having slavery to total acceptance of every person out there. But I was wrong and learned, through a bitter experience, that no one is perfect and not everyone is ready for total acceptance.

I was in the car with my mother and grandmother.

I just had an amazing day with my grandmother.

She taught me to sew baby dresses, cooked my favorite south Asian dish and taught me about my roots. We stopped at a red light, and I noticed a white man with a beard standing on the side of the road. I saw a sign in his hands: “homeless.” I wanted to give him money, but I had none. So, being 7 [at the time], I was about to pray for God to give him money until I saw that he caught eyes with my mother’s car. His face is one I’ll never forget; it looked like a vicious animal, crunched at the middle, like he could have been growling.

Then he speed-walked over.

My grandmother said, “Yashi, don’t make eye contact.” My mother spoke as though she was talking to herself. “He has to be joking.

Forget us, there is a child in the car. At least think about the child.”

The guy was outside our window screaming, “Terrorists, go burn in hell! America is protected by Jesus and

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God. We help children. You corrupt them! We should just kill you all.” Then he turned to me and continued, “As they say, ‘Kill it when it’s young, so it won’t grow and spread.’” Those words hurt me, scarred me and changed me. That day seemed to cause a ripple effect because I have been getting more and more hateful replies because of my faith.

It is stupid for a man to be judged based on his faith.

Muslims in Pakistan wish Christians a merry Christmas; we don’t discriminate against them. The idea that all Muslims are terrorists needs to stop; religions are perfect, while people are not.

You don’t see Muslims judge Christians based on Hitler, nor do you see them judge the Jewish religion because of Zionism. America needs to amend the hate between its people. We are all American, and we are all proud.

Nina Davuluri, the new Miss America, is of Indian heritage. I was so happy for her, but again there are the minority who cannot accept equality. Several people commented and condemned Nina’s coronation by taking to Twitter and saying hateful comments. One user stated, “This is Miss America, not Miss Muslim.”

We, as a whole, find reasons to separate ourselves. It is about time for the American people to really join hand-in-hand and change the way the entire nation acts to one another. Don’t let small things like one’s appearance or one’s belief divide who we are as a whole.

Yasmin Khan, Greenbelt

Intel from Gonzales As Maryland’s state elections begin warming up we’re entering the phony opinion survey season when candidates release so-called “polls” they’ve commissioned showing “political momentum.”

Such polls should be taken with large grains of salt.

That’s why it’s helpful when a legitimate, independent polling service like Gonzales Research and Marketing gives us some reliable insight into the voters’ mood.

Last week Gonzales released its poll taken during the first two weeks of October surveying a cross section of voters demographically weighted to reflect who shows up on Election Day. MY MARYLAND Here are the highBLAIR LEE lights: Most people are not yet paying attention to a primary election that’s still eight months away.

When asked to judge the two Democratic front-runners for governor, 56 percent of Democratic voters were either “neutral” or didn’t recognize Anthony Brown and 72 percent were the same about Doug Gansler. A third candidate, Heather Mizeur, was unknown to 79 percent of Maryland Democrats.

Conversely, Maryland voters widely recognize Gov. Martin O’Malley and have no reluctance judging his job performance.

Among all voters, O’Malley’s favorable is 47.7 percent, his unfavorable is 48.1 percent, his worst rating since January 2008 (49 percent), just after he engineered the biggest tax hike in state history. O’Malley’s rating is far behind President Obama, who gets a 58 percent favorable, 40 percent unfavorable in the same poll.

Compared to a January 2013 Gonzales poll, O’Malley’s positives are down 6 points while his negatives are up 7 points among all voters. But the big story is the intensity of O’Malley’s negatives.

Only 19 percent of Maryland voters

“strongly approve” of O’Malley, while 34 percent “strongly disapprove” (compared to 25 percent strong approval and 24 percent strong disapproval in January 2013).

The intensity shift is dramatic among independent voters: “strong approval” dropped from 25 percent to 15 percent while “strong disapproval” increased from 23 percent to 29 percent over the past eight months. And it’s even more pronounced among African-American voters, where, between January and October, “strong approval” dropped from 47 percent to 28 percent and “strong disapproval” hiked from 4 percent to 17 percent.

So what’s driving O’Malley’s bad showing, and how does it impact this election, where O’Malley is not a candidate but where both the primary and general elections will likely be referendums on the O’Malley record?

Patrick Gonzales thinks O’Malley’s problem is the same as back in 2008 — taxes. According to the poll, the 83 percent gas tax hike O’Malley pushed through the legislature remains vastly unpopular: 22 percent favorable, 76 percent unfavorable (with 59 percent “strongly opposed”).

And you wonder why Gansler is running against the gas tax?

Add to this the infamous “rain tax” and O’Malley’s 38 other taxes and fees, which amount to $3.1 billion a year in new taxes since O’Malley became governor.

O’Malley’s quixotic White House bid appears unpopular as well. When Gonzales asked Maryland voters back in January if O’Malley should run for president, only 25 percent said “yes,” while 58 percent said “no.” O’Malley ignored them, and now, apparently, many jilted Marylanders believe O’Malley cares more about his career than about them.

So, does this bode poorly for Brown, O’Malley’s lieutenant governor, who is running as O’Malley’s protege against Gansler, the O’Malley/Brown alternative?

No, because only Democratic voters will decide the Brown vs. Gansler primary and, among Dems, O’Malley remains popular (favorable 67 percent, unfavorable 29 percent). True, among Democratic voters

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O’Malley’s favorable is down 6 points and his unfavorable is up 9 points, but running against the O’Malley record in a Democratic primary is uphill for Gansler.

Things might be different for Brown in the general election against an attractive Republican. But this is where Brown’s race — African American — becomes such a huge factor.

In 2002, Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend had everything going for her: first woman governor, uncontested primary, overwhelming party and media support. But her campaign lapses and, more importantly, voter animosity against Parris Glendening, the incumbent governor, cost her the election.

Like KKT, Brown is battling voter fatigue, his boss’s declining popularity and, in addition, a strong primary opponent.

But running as Maryland’s first AfricanAmerican governor in a state that’s 30 percent African American is Brown’s ace in the hole. Or, put it this way; if Brown was white, his prospects would look a whole lot more like KKT’s.

One possible game changer in this nascent governor’s race is Obamacare.

O’Malley put Brown in charge of designing and masterminding Maryland’s Obamacare program. It’s Brown’s signature accomplishment as lieutenant governor, and if it implodes, so does Brown.

The Gonzales poll, taken during the first days of the Obamacare rollout, shows wide popularity: 57 percent favorable, 39 percent unfavorable. But will these numbers change if the “glitches caused by the website’s early popularity” prove systemic and if the entire program goes into a “death spiral”?

As Maryland’s elections unfold we’ll depend on Gonzales to keep us up to date on who’s happy, who’s angry and why.

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 blairleeiv@gmail.com.

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HOW THEY RANK Football

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DeMatha Stags Gwynn Park Yellow Jackets Suitland Rams DuVal Tigers Flowers Jaguars Douglass Eagles Bowie Bulldogs Wise Pumas Surrattsville Hornets McNamara Mustangs

8-1 60 pts 8-0 53 pts 8-0 49 pts 7-1 42 pts 7-1 36 pts 6-2 25 pts 4-4 25 pts 5-3 17 pts 7-1 12 pts 5-4 6 pts

Also receiving votes: Forestville 5.

STANDINGS Prince George’s 3A/2A/1A League

Team

All Div.

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

8-0 7-1 6-2 6-2 4-4 4-4 2-6 2-6 1-7 0-8

6-0 5-1 5-1 4-2 4-2 3-3 2-5 1-5 1-6 0-6

Prince George’s 4A League Team

All Div.

Suitland Flowers DuVal Wise Bowie E. Roosevelt Oxon Hill Laurel Northwestern Parkdale Bladensburg High Point

8-0 7-1 7-1 5-3 4-4 4-4 4-4 2-6 2-6 2-6 2-6 2-6

Private schools Team

Riverdale Baptist Capitol Christian DeMatha McNamara Pallotti National Christian

PF PA

322 75 241 119 257 116 278 114 230 162 242 198 88 223 110 273 76 284 86 346

PF PA

7-0 6-1 6-1 4-3 4-3 4-3 3-4 2-5 2-5 2-5 1-6 1-6

266 75 268 55 196 74 161 83 188 128 213 84 152 160 137 338 70 210 118 213 90 280 100 201

All

PF

9-0 5-0 8-1 5-4 5-4 2-5

316 142 293 257 185 128

PA

105 71 164 240 176 211

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Bishop McNamara High School senior Damian Prince, Maryland’s top-rated recruit, leads running back Alfred Bannister during a football game this season.

expectations

MCNAMARA LINEMAN TRIES TO LIVE UP TO THE ACCOLADES WHILE PUTTING HIS FAMILY FIRST

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Last week’s scores

St. John’s Cath. Prep 26, Pallotti 20 Oxon Hill 36, High Point 0 Chavez 32, National Christian 0 Wise 49, Laurel 0 Bowie 26, Parkdale 12 DuVal 32, Northwestern 2 E. Roosevelt 54, Bladensburg 6 Gwynn Park 49, Central 0 Potomac 52, Fairmont Heights 8 Douglass 41, Largo 0 Forestville 38, Friendly 34 Surrattsville 24, Crossland 6 R. Baptist def. MD Christian, forfeit Gonzaga 28, Bishop McNamara 13 Suitland 27, Flowers 6

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illie Prince, oldest of 13 children, worked on farms and mills during his teens to support his family. After high school, he said he joined the military to make money to send back home.

Damian Prince, a Bishop McNamara High School senior, works on offensive and defensive lines at the same age to support his family. After high school, he’ll go to a top college to play football to save his family tuition.

Many, (Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Maryland, Ohio State, Rutgers, South Carolina, Tennessee

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and Vanderbilt) have offered.

Damian, who was raised by his great grandfather Willie and great grandmother Jean, knows his situation is different than his elder’s and appreciates how his involves football rather than manual labor. But Damian Prince said he is similarly driven to help his family however he can.

“I definitely feel like that this was what my grandfather wanted for me, for me to go on and get an education and to do something with my life, whether that be pros or whether that just be having a job,” Prince said. “He just wanted me to be able not only to support myself, but to help support my family members. He was really big on, if you can help somebody else

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BEST BET DuVal vs. Flowers, 6:15 p.m.

Friday. Flowers will be playing its second straight night game at the Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex, but hoping for a better result after losing to Suitland. If DuVal wins, it clinches a top-two seed in the 4A South. Flowers would clinch a top-three seed, and avoid a first-round re-match with undefeated Suitland, with a win.

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Oxon Hill High School’s Morgan Miner watches her ball after teeing off at the Prince George’s County golf championships held at Enterprise Golf Club in Mitchellville last week.

LEADERS Top rushers A. Major, Surratts.

J. Baynes, R. Bapt.

K. Strong, Potom.

T. Deal, DeM. A. Brooks, DuVal A. Gillis, Wise R. Williams, McN.

Carries 130 105 73 132 89 99 110

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Yards Avg. TDs 1224 9.4 14 1175 11.1 13 1049 14.4 17 966 7.3 12 733 8.2 11 721 7.2 11 690 6.3 7

Charles H. Flowers High School’s Juwan McCants prevents a pass completion during Saturday’s game against Suitland.

Flowers cornerback speaks through his actions

Top passers

Cmp-Att. Yards Int. TDs R. Wllms, McN. 132-230 2302 10 23 J. Green, Bowie 81-179 1544 3 14 M. Duckett, Lau. 88-192 1500 9 16 W. Wolfolk, Suit. 63-109 1328 5 14 A. Brooks, DuVal 62-104 1076 2 11 J. Lovett, DeM. 63-108 927 0 9 J. Adams, G.Park 42-82 845 4 5

Top receivers J. Crockett, McN. C. Murray, McN. C. Phillips, DeM. M. Roberts, Bowie C. Walker, Lau. M. Phillips, Bowie L. Hightower, RB

Rec. 52 55 34 23 24 16 21

Yards 1156 738 610 598 462 412 371

Avg. 22.2 13.4 17.9 26.0 19.3 25.8 17.7

TDs 17 8 9 5 5 2 7

McCants rebounds from lost season to lead team in interceptions, catches

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DAN FELDMAN STAFF WRITER

The Charles H. Flowers High School football team’s defense had bent, but not broken.

Suitland had just completed a long pass to get a first down at the Flowers’ 12-yard line, and during a stoppage following the play, a teammate called to Flowers defensive back Juwan

McCants.

“Juwan, let them know that, even though they’re down there, they didn’t get in yet,” the teammate said, wanting McCants to encourage the other defenders on the field.

McCants nodded and took his position.

Then, without saying a word, McCants watched Suitland run the ball up the middle on first down and then nearly intercepted a pass in the end zone on second down to help Flowers make a defensive stand and preserve a scoreless

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Girls are taking over county golf scene Oxon Hill freshman leads a talented group of young female players n

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TRAVIS MEWHIRTER STAFF WRITER

Oct. 8 was not Marianne DelaCuesta’s best day on a golf course, but it was everything the Bowie High School sophomore, and Prince George’s County, needed. Her 96 set no personal or county records at the regional tournament, but it was just enough to qualify for the state championships — which finished up Wednesday at the University of Maryland — extending the total number of girls from the county mak-

ing the trip to College Park to three.

It was a sign that portends a bright future for Prince George’s girls and one that brought Charles H. Flowers coach Levelle Green back to 2005, when Prince George’s had arguably more female talent than it did male.

Back then, Green said he was blessed with three talents in Airielle Dawson and sisters Nicole and Dionne West, all “players who could shoot, for the most part, mid-70s or better,” Green said.

Mid-70s are still a few swing changes away for DelaCuesta, who still has two more years to develop into the

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Making time in life BY

NICK CAMMAROTA

Prince George’s County record All games

STAFF WRITER

As a child, Terrell Green didn’t know how to ride a bike.

It’s a slightly embarrassing admission for anyone given that the moment when an adult lets go of the seat for the first time as the bike wobbles down a neighborhood street is practically a required rite of passage for gaining childhood independence.

But the fact that he couldn’t hack it on two wheels didn’t stop Green, now a senior at Frederick Douglass High School, from going places with his friends.

“I always used to run behind everybody [on their bikes] getting everywhere,” Green said with a laugh. “I feel like that had something to do with it.”

The “it” in this case being Green’s love for running.

On Oct. 23 at Fort Washington National Park, Green finished second in the Prince George’s County cross country championships with a time of 16 minutes, 49 seconds. He said he’s run the course between 10-15 times and felt better than normal in finishing 47 seconds behind the leader, Bowie’s Josh Wilkins.

Track and field has played a vital role in Green’s four years at Douglass but it wasn’t until

GOLF

Continued from Page A-12 next Dawson or West. Such is not the case for Morgan Miner, a quiet girl with a booming drive and a “sky is the limit” future.

Several weeks ago, Eleanor Roosevelt coach Troy Bradbury called his former pupil, Caroline Sweet, the “highlight of Prince George’s County golf of the past 20 years.” The lofty praise makes sense. Sweet is a state champion and former record-holder of the one- and two-day totals for the state tournament. And it took just four weeks for Miner to come within a misread putt or stray drive of accomplishing something Sweet never had on her resume: a county title.

Miner shot a 78 last week at Enterprise Golf Club to take Ishmail Jabbie and Jahmar Selt-

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“He’s a very quiet kid, doesn’t say much,” Flowers coach Mike Mayo said. “He just goes about his business.”

The senior’s next order of business: helping No. 5 Flowers top No. 4 DuVal at 6:15 p.m. game Saturday at the Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex. With a win, Flowers would clinch a top-three seed in the 4A South and avoid a firstround rematch with undefeated Suitland.

It’s the type of matchup McCants and his teammates desired when, as he fondly recalls, they shared stories of their biggest youth-league games before the season. They agreed: They were ready for premier match-

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Damian — a five-star recruit ranked 11th nationally, according to Rivals — had plenty of offers entering his senior year, but he said his great grandparents raised him not to be arrogant.

So, he worked harder and ate better during the offseason, losing 35 pounds.

“I had to defend all the accolades that I have now,” Prince said.

Said Bishop McNamara coach Keith Goganious: “He doesn’t lose focus on what he’s really trying to do and how he’s trying to be. And that is a lot of pressure on a kid to live up to those expectations. You can take that going into a game, because you’re going to have a mark on you when you go and

FEARLESS FORECASTS The Gazette sports staff picks the winners for this week’s games involving Prince George’s football teams.

Here are this week’s selections:

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his sophomore season when he began running cross country.

During his freshman campaign, competing in the mile in an outdoor track meet, Green finished 17th out of 19 entrants. That’s when he knew something had to change.

“I talked to everybody who beat me after that and they all said they ran cross country,” Green said. “So I quit football and started running cross country the next year. Cross country’s a necessary evil.”

Three years later, Green is one of the better distance runners in the area and a contender to win a state title in the Class 2A Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association’s state meet on Nov. 9 at McDaniel College.

“He’s usually a little bit closer to being in first place, actually,” said first-year Eagles coach Danny Wilbur. “He’s fairly new to cross country, but doing very well.”

As he’s running the area’s various cross country courses, Green isn’t simply fine-tuning his form and getting a great cardiovascular workout, he’s also writing music. A poet, wrapper and composer in his free time, Green often dreams up bars in

his head while on the move. As soon as the race is over, he’ll run a bit more — to find his phone or a notebook and write them down.

“I just think of it and I keep reciting it,” said Green, who has performed a handful of shows in Washington, D.C., He doesn’t remember the names of the venues because he was so nervous.

“It actually keeps my mind off the pain a lot.”

Green, who feigned surprise

when he accepted his secondplace medal at the county championship awards ceremony, also does well in school.

He’s taking several Advanced Placement classes, including literature, calculus, statistics and biology and is waiting to hear back from a number of colleges, among them the University of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.

“I’m extremely proud of my team. Most of them are firstyear cross country runners and we go hard six days a week,” Green said. “For them to stick in there and hang tough the whole season, it really does make me proud because we’re going to be great during the track season and, in my opinion, we’ve already done something great in cross country.”

zer to extra holes in the county championship. After watching Seltzer bury a 20-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole, there would have been few to judge the freshman for wilting under pressure. But she canned hers too, eventually taking it to three holes where Seltzer edged her out.

“Now Morgan Miner,” Green said. “She’s a sight for sore eyes. She has a heart of a lion and you know what? She has game. The girl has game. I haven’t seen anyone, male or female, bring this many attributes as a freshman. This young lady seems like she came out of the woodwork. She just walked right in and established herself as elite.”

It’s odd that talent in the girls’ ranks seems to come in waves for the county. Green enjoyed his trio of Dawson and the

West sisters — who, according to the coach, averaged between 36 and 38 for nine holes — from 2005-2009, and their careers coincided with Sweet’s. Now it’s Miner, DelaCuesta, and teammate Sumayah Arcusa, another freshman, at the helm, with eight combined years left between them.

“It’s going to be good,” Miner said. “The three of us can help other females a lot, spread the word a little bit.”

Spreading the word was something that nearly kept Miner off a golf course this entire season. She wanted to play for Oxon Hill, but she had coach Pua Ponafala’s wrong email address, and her inquisitions about practice and tryouts kept bouncing back. It took her until the fifth tournament to finally join the team and play in a tournament, and even then “I didn’t

know anything about her,” Ponafala said. “I didn’t take her seriously. She said she had been playing for nine years and I thought ‘Yea, OK. She’ll have to prove it.’”

In Miner’s first tournament, she shot a 90, better than both Arcusa, DelaCuesta, and Flowers sophomore Allison Ambrose, another with an abundance of potential. After Miner’s score went up, a coach approached Ponafala and said “’Hey, Pua, what do you have over there?’’

To which Ponafala replied mischievously, “‘I don’t know anything. I don’t know what you’re talking about.’”

Well, the secret’s out now.

Miner and her hot-pink hair have made their mark on the county golf scene, as have the rest of the girls following in her wake.

“It’s very special, what she can do,” Ponafala said. “Now that she’s under my tutelage, I don’t know. I don’t know if there’s anything that can stop

her. I’ve never seen a freshman with that kind of focus, determination. They’re just very rare.”

As Seltzer was walking back to the clubhouse, his championship in hand after finally topping Miner in the third playoff hole, he pondered the future that awaits the freshman Clipper.

“It’s amazing,” he said.

“When her senior year comes she’s going to be destroying everybody.”

ups like that in high school.

However, McCants didn’t talk of his previous glory.

“I was the quiet one that stood in the back just listening,” McCants said.

That sure beat McCants’ experience at that point last year.

He fractured his hand before the season began, and he missed all but Flowers’ final game of the season — and even that quick of a return took devoted effort.

McCants, not wanting anyone or anything to bump his splinted hand, kept a safe distance from people, even his friends.

“They thought I was being mean or trying to be a loner,” McCants said. “… I tried to explain, but they didn’t want to listen.”

McCants is sparse with his words now in a way that should get people to listen when he

speaks.

“I step up when the coaches ask me to step up,” McCants said. “Other than that, I don’t do a lot of talking.”

His production has said plenty. McCants — who claims interest from Howard, Morgan State and Hampton — leads Flowers in interceptions and catches.

He said he’s better on defense but prefers offense. On either side of the ball, though, he acts the same.

“He just maintains a contentment,” Mayo said. “He’s on an even keel all the time.

“All-around good kid who’s a team player, but a humble kid. Despite having a good year so far, it’s no big deal. He just continues to go about his business.”

play against guys, because guys have heard so much about your reputation.”

Damian knows his reputation, and he cherishes it, viewing every honor and each bit of praise as a blessing. He’s even used his platform as a football player to honor Willie, who died in November 2011. (Jean died when Damian was in fourth grade.)

Willie would have turned 79 on Aug. 24, the date of Bishop McNamara’s first game of the 2012 season. So, Prince wore No. 79 rather than his usual No. 55 for that game — the first of his life Willie wasn’t attending — and helped Bishop McNamara to its first season-opening win since he’d been at the school.

Damian now lives in Oxon Hill with his grandparents, Gloria and Dana Prince. Sometimes, Damian stays with his mom, Lakeyia Chappell, whom he’s grown closer with since his

great grandparents’ deaths.

“It wasn’t like she wasn’t around a lot, but she kind of played a backseat role and just kind of supported everything that they have done,” Prince said. “She’s really made an effort to try to be there for me as much as she possibly can. She didn’t make any excuses about she didn’t have this or she didn’t have that. She always just tried to get me everything that she possibly could. So, I love my mom a lot.”

No matter which family member he’s talking about, Damian’s passion shines through.

“I’m not playing football just because I love it,” Prince said.

“I do really love it, but people would be surprised if they found out what really motivates me to do what I do.

“It’s family and where I came from. It’s from my great grandfather down.”

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The Gazette’s Guide to

Arts & Entertainment

MOVIE REVIEW

COLD ‘COUNSELOR’

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NEW YORK-BASED COMPANY PRESENTS “COME, AND BACK AGAIN” n

Backed by a soundtrack featuring the music of punk rockers Benjamin Smoke and Patti Smith, David Dorfman Dance will take to the stage with “Come, and Back Again” at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on Friday and Saturday.

Based in New York City, artistic director David Dorfman founded the company in 1985. The group has performed extensively in New York City and throughout North and South America, and Europe, working to make dance theater acDAVID cessible to a wide range of audiences.

DORFMAN DANCE “Our goal in making the n When: 8 p.m. Friday and evening of dance theater is Saturday that there’s a new take on delivering information to n Where: Clarice Smith the audience,” Dorfman Performing Arts Center, said. “Hopefully we do it in intersection of Stadium Drive a different way than they’ve and Md. 193, College Park seen before ...” n Tickets: $10-$35 Like most of the company’s pieces, Dorfman n For information: said the starting point of 301-405-2787, inspiration for “Come, and claricesmithcenter.umd.edu Back Again” is not where the dance ended up. The artistic director said the performance began with the music.

“I went back to some other musical roots and looked at the more poetic rock and roll that emerged from the late 1960s and 1970s and it influenced me a lot,” Dorfman said. “Patti Smith was one person I looked to immediately ... There was this one song, ‘Gloria’ that I listened to as a little kid ... and it just really

See DANCE, Page B-8

Kendra Portier, Karl Rogers, Whitney Tucker and Raja Kelly during a performance at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in March.

PHOTO BY ADAM CAMPOS

Cowboy Bites at the Cadillac Ranch at the National Harbor.

CADILLAC RANCH

W

hen you see

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really fit in. After all, among other country and

an old Cadillac perched above a

BY ALEXANDRA GREELEY

vintage Cadillac propped overhead with tail-

restaurant entry plus the words

out a bar, an alfresco, or a dining-area seat and

“ranch”

settle in for a convivial meal.

and

ranchy trappings, you’ll spot a second flashy fins, looking ready to take off at warp speed.

Should the weather cooperate, choose to eat alfresco. The restaurant has a front porch

“barbecue,” the

By the way, if you sit near the back in what

encircled by an iron grating and offering peo-

appeal is too much to ignore. That’s Cadillac

looks like a corral shortly after 9 p.m. you can

ple-watching up close and personal. You can

Ranch restaurant in National Harbor, a block

take a ride on the mechanical bull — yes, it

from the waterfront and the Gaylord National

also opt to cozy up in one of the several out-

really does exist — while your group watches

Resort and Convention Center. You may not

one of many overhead TVs. It’s a roll-up-the-

door loungers for pre- or post-dinner libations.

have Potomac River views, but you can pick

sleeves kind of place where posh clothes don’t

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CADILLAC RANCH, THE GREAT ALL-AMERICAN BAR & GRILL n 186 Fleet Street, National Harbor, Oxon Hill, Md. n 301-839-1100 n Hours: 11 a.m. to midnight (bar 1 a.m.), Sunday to Thursday; 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday (bar 2 a.m.) n Entrées: $11.99 to $36.99 n www.cadillacranchgroup.com

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Complete calendar online at www.gazette.net

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY’S ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR

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A CLOSER LOOK MERRY GO ’ROUND

THEATER & STAGE Bowie Community Theatre, “The Cover of Life,” Nov. 8-24, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-8050219, www.bctheatre.com.

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

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

An acrobat performs on “Odysseo’s” massive carousel which hangs from the ceiling of the 125-foot big top.

The phenomenon continues weekends and select Thursdays to Nov. 17 at the National Harbor. Visit nationalharbor. com.

Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, 2013 UMSO Concerto

Competition Finals, 7 p.m. Nov. 1; David Dorfman Dance: Come, and Back Again, 8 p.m. Nov. 1-2; Faculty Artist Recital: Trios, 2 p.m.

Nov. 2; Graduate Movement Concert: Farfán, Miracle and Kaplan, 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2; Graduate Movement Concert: Farfán, Miracle and Kaplan, 3 p.m. Nov. 3; TEMPO, 8 p.m. Nov. 4; UMD Chamber Jazz, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5-6; 12th Annual High School Choir Invitational, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6; Masterclass with Lluis Claret, Cello, noon, Nov. 8; Molière Impromptu, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10; Mavis Staples, 8 p.m.

Nov. 8; UMD Wind Orchestra: Fairy Tales and Legends, 8 p.m.

Nov. 8; Recital: Lluis Claret, cello, 8 p.m. Nov. 8; UMD Symphony Orchestra: Ginastera’s Harp, 4 p.m. Nov. 10; Faculty Artist Recital: Robert DiLutis, clarinet, 8 p.m.

Nov. 10; University of Maryland, College Park, claricesmithcenter. umd.edu.

Harmony Hall Regional Center, Kids Day Out: Synetic Theater, 10:30 a.m. Nov. 6; AFTERNOON TEA: Pam Parker, 2 p.m. Nov. 6; AFTERNOON TEA: Maribeth & Bradford Gowen, 2 p.m. Nov. 20; call for prices, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-2036070, arts.pgparks.com.

Greenbelt Arts Center, “See How They Run,” Nov. 8-30, call for prices, times, Greenbelt Arts Center, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, 301-441-8770, www.greenbeltartscenter.org.

Hard Bargain Players, TBA, 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, www.hbplayers.org.

Joe’s Movement Emporium, “Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” 8 p.m. Nov. 4; The Arts and Experience Auction, 7 p.m. Nov. 2, 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier, 301-699-1819, www.joesmovement.org.

Laurel Mill Playhouse, “The Lieutenant of Inishmore,” Nov. 8-24, call for ticket prices, Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., Laurel, 301-452-2557, www.laurelmillplayhouse.org.

Montpelier Arts Center, The Montpelier Classic Recital Series, Sharon Cheng, soprano, 3 p.m.

Nov. 17, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, 301-377-7800, arts.pgparks.com.

National Harbor, Cavalia’s “Odysseo,” weekends and select Thursdays, to Nov. 17, National Harbor, Maryland. Tickets on sale now. www.cavalia.net, 1-866-999-8111.

Prince George’s Little Theatre, TBA, call for tickets and show times, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, 301-957-7458, www.pglt.org.

Publick Playhouse, “Cinderella,” 10:15 a.m. and noon, Nov. 1; “Aesop’s Fables,” 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Nov. 7, 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly, 301-277-1710, arts.pgparks.com.

2nd Star Productions, “Funny Money,” coming in January, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, call for prices, times, 410-757-5700, 301-8324819, www.2ndstarproductions. com.

Tantallon Community Players, “Miracle on 34th Street,” Dec. 6-15; Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington, 301-262-5201, www. tantallonstage.com.

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Harmony Hall Regional Center, “It Happened One Night,” Paper Collage by Ronnie Spiewak, Nov. 4 to Dec. 27, reception from 3-5 p.m. Nov. 9; 2nd Annual Prince George’s Parks and Recreation Employee Visual and Performing Arts Exhibition, Nov. 4 to Dec. 27, reception from 3-5 p.m. Nov. 9, 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.

David C. Driskell Center, “Still...” by sculptor Allison Saar, to Dec. 13, University of Maryland, College Park. www.driskellcenter. umd.edu.

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

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

University of Maryland University College, TBA, call for prices

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, Oct. 31; Greentop Ramblers’ Halloween Show, 7 p.m. Oct. 31; John Guernsey, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 1-2; Bumper Jacksons, 8 p.m. Nov. 1; The TV John Show, 11 a.m. Nov. 2; Built 4 Comfort, 8 p.m. Nov. 2; Lonesome Pine Bluegrass Band, 5 p.m.

Nov. 3; Ruthie and the Wranglers, 5 p.m. Nov. 5; izzy and the catastrophes, 5 p.m. Nov. 6; open mic with Paige Powell, 7 p.m. Nov. 7; Bud Skeleton, 8 p.m. Nov. 8; Bruce Kritt, 4 p.m. Nov. 9; The Joy Bodycomb Band, 8 p.m. Nov. 9; Drum Melody, 7 p.m. Nov. 12; Caroline Ferrante and the Whole Magila, 7 p.m. Nov. 13; Open mic with James and Martha, 7 p.m. Nov. 14; The Bad Weather Boyz Band, 8 p.m. Nov. 15; Jaqui MacMillan, drum circle, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16; Akoma Drummers, 8:30 p.m. Nov. 16; Djesben, 10 p.m. Nov. 16; 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, 301627-7755.

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. 410765-6482.

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

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

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

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

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

ET CETERA College Park Aviation Museum, Peter Pan Club, 10:30-11:30 a.m. second and fourth Thursdays of every month, activities for pre-schoolers, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2-18; Afternoon Aviators, 2-4:30 p.m. Fridays, hands-on aviation-themed activities for age 5 and up, $4, $3 seniors, $2 ages 2-18, events free with admission, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Drive, College Park, 301-864-6029, www. collegeparkaviationmuseum.com.

Women’s Chamber Choir Auditions, by appointment for the con-

cert season of women’s chamber choir Voix de Femmes, 7:45-9:30 p.m. Thursdays, 402 Compton Ave., Laurel, 301-520-8921, annickkanter@gmail.com.

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RONNIE SPIEWAK

The Harmony Hall Regional Center in Fort Washington is exhibiting 40 works by collage artist Ronnie Spiewak of Cheverly from Nov. 4 to Dec. 27. Inspired by nature, her collage “Edge of Spring” captures the feeling of changing temperatures as winter ends and spring begins.

RONNIE SPIEWAK

Spiewak’s collage “Compression” began as a way to work through a temporary artist’s block.

Right now, collage artist Ronnie Spiewak shares space with other artists in the Passageways Studio in Riverdale.

But when she first decided to get back to creating art after retiring from the U.S. National Park Service in 2008, she worked at her kitchen table in Cheverly.

“It was glorious — I had all these pent-up ideas,” said Spiewak about finally having the time to focus on her collages.

“I love to work with circles and ovals,” she said. “I’d start with a white piece of paper and some shapes and start putting them together in unusual ways.”

“Collage is just a very pleasing way for me to work,” said Spiewak, who earned a bachelor’s degree from the Corcoran School of Art in 1982.

She will be exhibiting and offering for sale 40 of her pieces from Nov. 4 to Dec. 27 at the Harmony Hall Regional Center in Fort Washington.

The name of the exhibit, “It Happened One Night,” refers to a 7-foot by 10-foot mural of leaves being blown about on a windy night as the wind begins to subside.

“It’s the energy of shapes and leaves and twigs, the energy of things flying into space,” she said. “The wind is pushing it all around. It’s calmer now, but it was a windy event that happened.”

“She went really, really large from her usual work,” said Stuart Diekmeyer, assistant director at Harmony Hall, about the mural.

“We don’t have the superstrict rules of other galleries,” said Diekmeyer, who encour-

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT n Paper Collage by Ronnie Spiewak n When: Nov. 4 to Dec. 27; public reception from 3-5 p.m. Nov. 9 n Where: Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Road, Fort Washington n Tickets: Free n For information: 301-203-6040, arts.pgparks.com, passagewaysstudio.com

ages artists to experiment.

Spiewak said she enjoyed the opportunity to “work outside the box.”

“The scale now has changed things,” she said. “Wow, this is so much fun, working large — it’s so exhilarating.”

The other pieces in Spiewak’s exhibit are smaller works that incorporate photos and print from newspapers, magazines and books, including images from comics, cartoons and pop culture.

Spiewak said in her more recent collages, she continues to use varieties of paper but also incorporates painted patches of muted colors, with more of a focus on abstract representations of the natural world than on culture.

“I’m very inspired by nature,” said Spiewak. “I see leaves no one ever dreams of seeing.”

Spiewak said she typically starts a collage by sketching a rough outline of the main structures before she begins to cut up everything from glossy magazine pages to simple brown paper.

“The scissors and the XACTO blade are my paintbrushes,” she said in her artist’s statement. “They help create line and shape quickly and crisply.”

She also tears from foreign newspapers, especially those from Israel, to partly reflect her heritage and also for visual reasons.

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Cuttings from newspapers serve as “chatter” in her collages, a sort of background noise that reflects her interests in travel, people and cultures, she said.

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And for the painted shapes, Spiewak said she mixes her own shades.

“It’s usually something in my mind, memories of a color,” she said.

Spiewak worked for the U.S. Park Service for 35 years, first in public affairs, then in administration, before she expanded into programming at Glen Echo Park and the nearby Clara Barton National Historic Site.

But just because she’s no longer employed in Glen Echo doesn’t mean she’s no longer working.

“Art has been my passion for a million years,” she said. “There was no question what I’d do after my retirement.” vterhune@gazette.net

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Charles Belfoure believes more folks should “take a crack at fiction.”

“Most books are written by literary types, people with MFAs. It’s intimidating,” the 59-yearold architect-author acknowledged. “But even late in life, people who don’t necessarily have training in writing can apply their backgrounds to telling stories. If [it turns out] they have a knack for writing, it may open up a whole new avenue.”

Belfoure speaks from experience. The Baltimore-bred son of an immigrant single mother said he had no literary influences while growing up. Even now, he rarely reads fiction; notable exceptions include Baltimorebased novelist Anne Tyler’s body of work, and a few legal thrillers by John Grisham, who provided the model for applying his profession to fiction.

Despite his background, Belfoure’s debut novel, “The Paris Architect,” a World War II story about an architect hired to design spaces in which Jews could hide from the Gestapo, was released Oct. 8. The author co-opted the idea of priest holes, hiding places built into manor houses so clerics could celebrate Mass during the 16th century when English law persecuted Catholics.

Architecture was Belfoure’s second career choice. He started off studying illustration,

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but switched gears as a result of a visit to a modern architecture exhibit fortuitously titled “Transformations” at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. “I hadn’t given much thought to architecture before.

I paid no attention to it [while growing up] in Baltimore, but at MOMA, I was struck by the wonderful forms,” he recalled.

Belfoure pursued the new field at Pratt Institute and Columbia University, while reveling in the craftsmanship and detailing of the city’s historic architecture. His master’s thesis also led him to recognize he enjoyed the research and writing process.

During the ensuing years, Belfoure developed a practice focused on historic preservation, and now works as an architect as well as a historic preservation consultant with a specialty in historic tax credit consulting.

The Westminster, Md., resident has several current projects in Baltimore.

Before taking on the novel, Belfoure wrote nonfiction in his field, co-authoring the books “The Baltimore Rowhouse” and “Niernsee & Neilson, Architects of Baltimore,” and going solo on “Edmund G. Lind: Anglo-American Architect of Baltimore and the South,” “Dying by Design” and “Monuments to Money: The Architecture of American Banks.”

He also has contributed freelance pieces to The Baltimore Sun and The New York Times.

There is method to Belfoure’s fiction. He begins with a basic one- or two- sentence outline, defines the protagonist and starts with “a chapter to draw the reader in. … [Then] I write as I go, discovering different plotlines and characters while I

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write.”

The fledgling novelist has advice for the non-writers he encourages to follow in his footsteps.

“If you haven’t done something before, you need to buy all the equipment and you need someone with experience to give you brutally honest advice,” he said. That person, he added, should be qualified to offer opinions on whether the book has potential as well as whether a chapter should be moved or a character more fully delineated.

Belfoure hired a freelance editor for feedback on his first go-round, because he felt the manuscript must be “as polished and professional as possible.”

Still, he said, writing is not the biggest challenge for a new author.

“The economics of selling and marketing are far more daunting,” Belfoure said.

“There’s the hard reality of finding an agent, and a publisher who has to really like the book.”

So far, it appears that Belfoure’s strategy is working.

Publishers Weekly called his characters “well-rounded and intricate,” and noted that “heart, reluctant heroism, and art blend together in this spine-chilling page-turner.” And Booklist praised his “unadorned, zippy style and broad-brush characters” and compared him to “an up-and-coming Ken Follett.”

Belfoure said that the book has been sold in Italy, Israel and Brazil, Random House bought the audio rights, and film companies have initiated contact.

He has written a rough draft of a second novel, a crimethriller with an architect as protagonist. And because of delays in financing on his architectural projects, he has ample time to adhere to a five-day-a-week schedule of writing five to six hours a day.

As for the future, Belfoure said he has one or two other stories to tell. He took a crack, and it seems he has the knack.

Charles Belfoure will read and sign books at 7 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Alexandria Library, Beatley Branch|Alexandria, 5005 Duke St., Alexandria, Va. Call 703-746-1702.

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CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER

British hard rock band Heaven’s Basement will play the Fillmore Silver Spring on Sunday as a part of their eightweek-long North American tour. The band is opening for American rockers The Pretty Reckless.

Heaven’s Basement — made up of vocalist Aaron Buchanan, guitarist Sid Glover, bass player Rob Ellershaw and drummer Chris Rivers — recently wrapped a headlining tour of the U.K. Once their U.S. run ends in December, Heaven’s Basement will head right back out on the road in 2014 with stops in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

“That’s the best way for bands to do it,” Rivers said.

“Touring.”

But while many bands tour,

Heaven’s Basement has had the unique opportunity to cover multiple continents in the span of just a few months.

“A lot of bands have focused on one area before focusing on another but we’re doing Europe, Canada and the U.S. at the same time,” Rivers said.

From their inception in 2008, Heaven’s Basement, who is now signed with Red Bull Records, has always spent time out on the road. The band gained a reputation for playing underground venues and then working their way up to larger stages. But no matter the size of the crowd, Rivers said he and the other members of Heaven’s Basement have always loved performing live.

“It was quite hard to get shows in big cities so we’d play smaller places in the southeast [of England] and eventually started heading over to places like Germany,” Rivers said.

“Anywhere that would have us.”

Rivers and Glover are the only original members of the

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band remaining. Rivers said other musicians have come and gone over the years but it was a matter of “meeting people with the same ambition.”

That ambition was to play great music, at any cost.

Other than a fleeting desire to drive a tractor at age 3, Rivers said he’s never considered another career path.

“It was about discovering what you’re into and sticking with it,” he said. “We never balanced the band with having other jobs and stuff. We just wanted to be a band right away.”

And the one-track mindset has started to pay off. Heaven’s Basement’s single “Fire, Fire” from their debut album, “Filthy Empire,” released in February, has been climbing the U.S. Active Rock Chart, recently reaching No. 11.

But it’s not the record sales that drive the members of Heaven’s Basement. It’s the need they feel to fill a void on the music scene.

“You have an indie scene and stuff like that and we’ve never fit into any of that,” Rivers said. “We’ve just been doing our own thing and hope that it sparks something.”

As for their own influences, Rivers said the members of the band aren’t too picky.

“We’re fans of music and anyone who has stuff to say,” he said. “We’ll listen to anything from the heaviest music to the softest music. It ranges from old-school bands to new bands.”

However, Rivers does name some old-school bands, including The Beatles, Metallica and Led Zeppelin, as favorites.

For Heaven’s Basement fans waiting on the release of the band’s second album, Rivers said they could be waiting a while.

“We’re touring all of next year as well, through 2015,” Rivers said. “It’s going to be a while before we do the next album.”

But that’s the way Rivers and his band members like things.

“We’re always up for going places,” Rivers said. “There’s a whole world still to go and tour.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

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DR. SEUSS ENTERPRISES, L.P.

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), sports one of the hundreds of hats that he kept in a closet in his house in La Jolla, Calif., before he died in 1991. The hat was the inspiration for one his drawings called “Raising Money for the Arts” featuring ladies as a tea party bedecked in hats.

Salute to Seuss Whimsical hats inspired children’s classics BY

VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER

Ever wonder what inspired many of the wild and whimsical hats worn by the characters in the Dr. Seuss books?

It was the real-life hat collection owned by the author and illustrator of the books, Theodor Seuss Geisel.

“He started in the early 1920s, and at one point, he had 500 hats,” said Bill Dreyer, curator of the Art of Dr. Seuss collection managed by Chase Art Companies of Chicago.

Dreyer will be giving a free talk about 26 of the hats – on tour for the first time, along with information about Geisel’s prints, paintings and sculpture – on Saturday, Nov. 2, at the P&C Art Gallery in Alexandria.

“It’s a rare chance to see some of the original hat collection,” said Dreyer, about Geisel’s cache of headware that he kept in a closet in his house in La Jolla, Calif.

Visitors on Saturday are invited to wear a Dr. Seuss-inspired hat, and there will be a drawing for a Seuss piece in the gallery, said Deneice Mazziotta, a consultant with P&C Art Gallery, currently the only gallery authorized to sell Dr. Seuss reproductions.

The traveling hat exhibit, which debuted at the New York Public Library in February, will run through Nov. 17 at P&C. Geisel graduated from Dartmouth College in 1925 and also studied English at the University of Oxford in England. He worked in advertising for many years and also did some editorial cartooning before writing his first children’s book in the late 1930s and later serving in World War II. Geisel is credited with coining the word “nerd” in his 1950 book, “If I Ran the Zoo,” which was followed by classics such as “The Cat in the Hat” (wearing his distinctive red-and-white striped stovepipe), “Green Eggs and Ham,” “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Horton Hears a Who” and “The Sneetches and Other Stories.”

After Geisel’s death in 1991 at the age of 87, his widow, Audrey Geisel, authorized the sale of copies of his work, said Dreyer. Geisel’s originals are housed at the University of California at San Diego or will be going to designated museums, he said.

Available at the P&C Art Gallery will be prints made from drawings from a dozen of Geisel’s 44 children books.

Prices for the prints start at $255, said Mazziotta.

Also available will be paintings that Geisel did for his own enjoyment called his “secret art,” which was rarely exhibited.

HATS OFF TO DR. SEUSS! n When: Nov. 2-17; Opening event from 4-9 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 2, with talk by curator Bill Dreyer at 7 p.m..

Please RSVP. n Where: P&C Art Gallery, 212 King St., Alexandria n Tickets: Free n For information, RSVP: 703-549-2525, drseussart. com, pcart.com/galleries. html

“This is the unknown side of his artistic legacy,” said Dreyer.

Prices for “secret art” start at $1,000 for unframed pieces, $1,600 with frames, said Mazziotta.

In addition, Geisel also created mixed-media sculptures of fanciful animals called the “unorthodox taxidermy” collection.

Prices start at $1,800, she said.

“His appeal is so broad,” said Mazziotta about the Dr. Seuss books. “He’s been translated into 20 languages around the world.”

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

OCT. 31 Harvest Time Celebration, 5 to 8 p.m., First Baptist Church of Suitland, 5400 Silver Hill Road, Forestville. Game booths, fun, food and fellowship for everyone. Contact 301-735-6111.

Trunk or Treat, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Camp Springs Community Church, 8040 Woodyard Road, Clinton. Lots of candy, snacks and hot drinks will be available, as well as games, face painting, crafts and more. Contact 301743-3408 lrkfoltz@yahoo.com.

Operation Safe Kids Event, 7 to 9 p.m. at The Soul Factory, 7702 Marlboro Pike, Forestville. Instead of celebrating Halloween, celebrate child safety. Event helps provide parents with information ID cards with their child’s photo and profile; fingerprints; safety tips for children; free food and fun games. Contact 301-556-3677 or edtaiya@yahoo. com.

NOV. 1 Alzheimer’s Association Support Group, 12:15 to 1:45 p.m.,

St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 4512 College Ave., College Park.

Alzheimer’s Association support groups provide a place for people with Alzheimer’s, their caregivers, family members and friends to share valuable information. Please call the Alzheimer’s Association 24/7 Helpline at 800-272-3900 before attending a group for the first time to verify meeting information.

Contact 301-613-6087.

Fish Fry, 4 to 7 p.m., Trinity Church Upper Marlboro, 14515 Church St., Upper Marlboro.

Cost: $10 for adults; $8 for seniors; $5 for children 11 and younger. Contact 301-627-2636 or trinityec@verizon.net.

NOV. 2 Mt. Ennon Baptist Church 10th College Fair, 8:30 a.m. to 1

p.m., Mt. Ennon Baptist Church, 9832 Piscataway Road, Clinton.

Free community event designed to assist students, parents and guardians with the essential information about choosing a college for their son/daughter.

Contact 301-856-2170.

St. Mary’s annual OldFashioned Christmas Bazaar, 9

a.m. to 5 p.m., St. Mary’s Church and School of Piscataway, 13401 Piscataway Road, Clinton. Vendors, crafters, book nook, treasure cove, games, Mrs. Claus’s Kitchen, silent auction and much more. Contact 301-2920527 or maxwellml@aol.com.

Yard Sale Extravaganza, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Jubilee United Church of Christ, 9721 Good Luck Road, Lanham. Find that item you have been looking for or a little piece of treasure. If you are interested in a space to sell your items, please contact us at 301-577-7700 or info@jubileeucc.org to secure your space.

Slavic Food Festival, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., St. Gregory of Nyssa Byzantine Catholic Church, 12420 Old Gunpowder Road Spur, Beltsville. Popular Eastern European foods, a bake sale and raffle. Free admission and parking. Contact 301-552-2434 or wwwstgregoryofnyssa.net.

A Cappella Concert featuring Rak Shalom, Kol Sasson

and Mezumenet, 8:30 p.m., University of Maryland Memorial Chapel, 7600 Baltimore Ave., College Park. Join Maryland Hillel as UMD’s premiere Jewish a cappella groups perform, along with guest groups. Contact sfinkelstein@marylandhillel.org.

NOV. 3 Teens and Breaking the Stress, 1:15 to 3 p.m., First United

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Workshop is designed to help teens, young adults and their parents recognize stress risk factors, especially as related to suicide and suicide attempts, and how to cope effectively. The workshop will be led by an expert suicide prevention expert and a renowned clinical psychologist. Contact 301-927-6133 or carterwilli54@yahoo.com.

Annual Fall Revival Service, 4 to 6 p.m., Hemingway Memorial AME Church, 6330 Gateway Blvd., District Heights. “Disciples Advancing the Kingdom through Word, Worship, Work and Witness” is the theme of the 2013 Fall Revival of Hemingway Memorial AME Church. The kick-off service will have the Rev. Dana Porter Ashton as the revivalist accompanied by her church’s choir. Contact 301568-9127 or hemingwayoffice1@ verizon.net.

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CADILLAC

Continued from Page B-1 As the website declares, the food here is an all-American mix of just about anything you might wish, though oddly enough, not as many steak or cowboy-type eats (franks and beans, chuckwagon-style steaks, and loads of barbecue choices are not featured). True, you’ll find a small selection of Tex-Mex offerings — from Cowboy Bites (mini hamburgers) and Texas wings to mini-taco appetizers.

But if you yearn for a Western cowboy experience, tamper your whims and settle for mini-tacos and a platter of barbecue ribs. Or perhaps select one of the hefty burgers ranging from Angus beef steak with cheese, chiles, or mushrooms.

Of the mini-tacos, choices include spicy shrimp, chicken, fish, barbacoa and carnitas. The last are savory bites of shredded pork sparked with diced

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Continued from Page B-1 moved me ... That led us to this great music from a great underground band from the ’90s from Atlanta called Smoke.”

Smith is a singer/songwriter and poet who became popular in the New York City punk rock scene in the 1970s, while Benjamin Smoke was the frontman of Atlanta band Smoke.

Once Dorfman decided on

jalapeños and red onions, adding just the right snap for a Tex-Mex mouthful.

A small portion of salsa comes alongside, but the meat has enough flavor on its own.

The baby back ribs are tender, but if you are the type who likes to pick up the ribs and gnaw on the bones, you will find these a bit messy. Yes, the flavor is there, but the kitchen overloads each portion with a swabbing of barbecue sauce, which may leave you wishing for a hot bath after you eat.

Accompaniments include coleslaw and fries, sort of typical rib-affiliated eats.

Assorted flatbread pizzas, salads, pasta and seafood dishes and several steak entrées fill out the menu. You may also want something sweet for dessert, but the offerings are limited to a cheesecake or a brownie, unless you opt for their mini-desserts, which include crème brûlée, sorbet and seasonal cobblers. Note that Cadillac Ranch beers are on tap at this location.

the music, much of the piece’s movement came from company members.

“We work as a collaborative,” said dancer Karl Rogers. “[David] is really interested in hiring people who are artists and choreographers in their own right.”

Rogers, who began dancing with David Dorfman Dance in 2005, is the artistic director of his own company, Red Dirt Dance, and an assistant professor of dance at the College of Brockport in New York. Rogers

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met Dorfman in the late 1990s in Chicago when he was trying to make it as an actor. The two crossed paths several times over the next few years before Dorfman asked him to be a member of the company.

“This piece started when David brought to the table the music of Patti Smith,” Rogers said. “He brings the CD in and says, ‘Listen to it and come in with ideas.’”

Dorfman and his dancers began forming ideas around the concept of the “messiness of daily life.”

“Benjamin Smoke himself,

he basically grew [up] in rural Atlanta,” Rogers said. “He was really poor and he ultimately died of AIDS and much of his music and lyrics ... dealt with the difficulty of his existence.”

Dorfman and company work to reflect these notions in “Come, and Back Again.”

“There’s a lot about morality and making the most of life while we’re here on earth,” Dorfman said.

“Sometimes life is hard but there’s still a pleasure,” Rogers added. “I feel like Benjamin Smoke’s music does that and we try to honor that.”

Beyond honoring Smoke’s legacy, Dorfman said he also hopes, as with any David Dorfman production, to strike a chord with audiences.

“You don’t have to know this experience in your own life ... everyone can enter at their own particular place and everyone can get something out of the questions we ask or the stories we tell,” Dorfman said. “We’re not trying to be prescriptive or moralistic.

We’re not trying to say, ‘This is a good life, this is what you should do.’ We never like to do that.”

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ences to the work and allow them to form their own interpretation.

“I like being available to the public,” Dorfman said. “ ... I don’t find accessible art a dirty word or a bad thing ... My theme or theory is that someone who comes in and is curious about our show, they don’t need to know everything about dance, specifically, physical theater, or about us. They can just literally come and say, ‘Oh, that interests me or my friend brought me.

And we will kind of escort you through the events.” chedgepeth@gazette.net

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Michael Fassbender star in director Ridley Scott’s thriller, “The Counselor.”

‘The Counselor’: Shiny cast, silly story BY

MICHAEL PHILLIPS CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Set along the Texas/Mexico border but photographed largely in Spain, “The Counselor” is novelist Cormac McCarthy’s first original screenplay

THE COUNSELOR n 2 stars n R; 117 minutes n Cast: Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz n Directed by Ridley Scott

to make it before the cameras. It concerns a self-deluding and financially challenged Texan who takes a chance involving some cocaine cartel money to dig himself out of a financial hole.

Drugs; greed; malice; ridiculous lifestyle excess, signified by the chief sociopath’s pet cheetahs: “The Counselor” offers all sorts of pulpy theoretical interest. As a bonus, the violence showcases not one but two really nasty ways to die via beheading, which is one more exotic method of killing than we got with the cattle stun-gun as deployed in the Oscar-winning “No Country for

Old Men,” taken from a McCarthy novel.

“The Counselor” is packed with cartel goons with bad teeth (just like the unsavory Mexicans of Hollywood’s ethnically sensitive past), surrounding a cast directed by Ridley Scott including Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. All that — and yet, dull. Why? For one thing, McCarthy’s story zigs and zags, but in slow motion. The character relationships lack the spark and juice of enjoyable trash. McCarthy’s dialogue suffers from an excess of capital-W Writing that doesn’t sound like speakable human expression, even flamboyant, proudly artificial human expression. When someone accuses the Diaz character of being “cold,” she fixes her opponent with a glare and replies: “Truth has no temperature.” There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who will admire that line, quite apart from the leaden way Diaz delivers it, and those who won’t.

Fassbender’s character, whose twang carries a touch of the Old Sod, needs dough to finance, among other commodities, a monster engagement ring for his intended (Cruz). She does

not know about her man’s deal with the cartel devils. Reiner, Bardem’s character, dominated by fright-wig hair in a permanent state of excitation, is the sometime associate of the counselor and has brought the lawyer

(Fassbender) in on a new nightclub project. Diaz portrays Reiner’s inhumanly tough mistress, the cheetah wrangler, resident sexual fuh-REAK and apparent string-puller of half the globe’s nefarious business interests.

The narrative twists itself into pretzels trying to stay ahead of the audience. Fassbender’s reactive patsy of a character exists to express shock at what his newfound colleagues will do in the name of frontier jus-

tice. Director Scott lends “The Counselor” a solid, shiny level of craftsmanship. But even if we’ve never personally done these sorts of deals ourselves, at least lately, we’ve all been here before.

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